Approved | 1h 4min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 15 February 1946 (USA)
Police lieutenant Sam Carson investigates a political murder after the victim is dumped at the door of police headquarters
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Director: Otto Brower
Writers: Scott Darling, Charles G. Booth
Stars: Carole Landis, William Gargan, Richard Crane
Police lieutenant Sam Carson investigates a political murder after the victim is dumped at the door of police headquarters
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Director: Otto Brower
Writers: Scott Darling, Charles G. Booth
Stars: Carole Landis, William Gargan, Richard Crane
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00:02:11Come on, Johnny. I want you to meet the lieutenant.
00:02:13He's a good egg.
00:02:15What do you like to do? Dance?
00:02:18Harry James?
00:02:19Sure.
00:02:20Well, why don't you turn on the radio in one of your homes?
00:02:23Fix yourself some donuts and coffee and stuff.
00:02:26Hang it out in a joint like the one Carrie pulled you out of.
00:02:28It'll buy you nothing but trouble.
00:02:30Carrie, see that these two girls get home, will you?
00:02:32Yes, sir.
00:02:36Hiya, Sam.
00:02:37Hello, Oppenheimer.
00:02:38Meet Johnny Williams, the Herald's gift to the police department.
00:02:41This is Lieutenant Carson, Sergeant Oppenheimer.
00:02:43Hiya, young fella.
00:02:44It's sure nice to meet you guys.
00:02:45You love them when you get to know them better.
00:02:47Johnny's fixing to clean up the department.
00:02:49I thought you ought to look him over.
00:02:50Oh, cut it out, Ames.
00:02:51The Herald's a good paper, Johnny.
00:02:52That's the best paper in town, Lieutenant.
00:02:54The Herald has ideals.
00:02:55Only the truth is fit to print.
00:02:57I wish I could say as much for that rag of yours, Ames.
00:02:59Thanks, Lieutenant.
00:03:00It's your first day on the police run, Johnny?
00:03:02Yeah.
00:03:03Gosh, I hope I don't pull any boners.
00:03:05You won't.
00:03:06Drop around and see me any time you feel like it.
00:03:08Maybe I'll come up with a scoop order these days
00:03:10just to keep Ames and the rest of those pelicans in line.
00:03:13That'd be great, Lieutenant.
00:03:14Gee, I sure need one.
00:03:15Come on, Johnny.
00:03:16Meet the rest of the gang.
00:03:17Okay, I'll see you later.
00:03:18Bye.
00:03:20That's a tough assignment for that nice kid.
00:03:22Oh, it won't hurt him.
00:03:23Won't do us any harm, either.
00:03:25I'm going down to Dutchman's for an egg sandwich.
00:03:27I'll go along with you.
00:03:36You take all day.
00:03:37Come on, will ya?
00:03:38Yeah, hurry.
00:03:39Boys, meet Johnny Williams of the Herald.
00:03:41This is Mr. Taylor.
00:03:42I've got city news for you, Sergeant.
00:03:44Don't get up, gentlemen.
00:03:45Come on.
00:03:46Come on.
00:03:47Come on.
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00:04:05Don't get up, gentlemen.
00:04:10What is this, a gag?
00:04:27It's Walter Bard.
00:04:29Runs a private detective agency in the Ecuador building.
00:04:32I picked a fine spot to dump him.
00:04:34Looks like somebody's trying to give the department a business.
00:04:36Get going out there.
00:04:37Yeah.
00:04:48Precious thinks alive.
00:04:50It's Mr. Bard.
00:04:51Do you know anything about this?
00:04:53Not me.
00:04:54Not me.
00:04:55I just sell him flowers.
00:05:05Take this into the desk.
00:05:06Right.
00:05:09Hey, Sam.
00:05:10What have you got?
00:05:11What do you think?
00:05:13Hey, Sam Carson's first gonna step on the sidewalk in front of the station.
00:05:16That's the name of the game, gin.
00:05:19Don't forget you owe me two bits.
00:05:22Check this guy with ballistics as soon as you can,
00:05:24then have the car gone over before you.
00:05:25Hey, Sam, who's this?
00:05:26Hey, it's Walter Bard.
00:05:27Dumped right in front of the station.
00:05:29Couldn't get any closer.
00:05:30Boy, there's gonna be a stink about this.
00:05:32He was mixed up in politics, wasn't he?
00:05:34He was mixed up in everything.
00:05:36He's been asking for something like this for a long time.
00:05:39What's the matter, Johnny?
00:05:40I never saw a dead man before.
00:05:45Come on, fellas.
00:05:46Give me Charlie to make a snack.
00:05:48Hold on to your wig, Charlie.
00:05:50Walter Bard, the private eye, was just found shot to death in his car,
00:05:52right at the front door of the joint.
00:05:54Evidently a definite slap at the present administration.
00:05:57You can call it a culmination of the hoodlum war that's been going on.
00:06:00Yeah.
00:06:01Say that it's gangland's despairing reply to the vigilance of the police.
00:06:05Huh?
00:06:06Sure, play it up big.
00:06:07Lay it on thick.
00:06:08Everybody's gonna be taking pot shots at the administration over this little deal,
00:06:11and the express is its only friend.
00:06:15Oppenheimer, go up to Walter Bard's apartment.
00:06:17Bring back any letters or photographs that might look hot.
00:06:20Yes, sir.
00:06:21See if you can get Bard's wife on the phone.
00:06:23Talk to the janitor and neighbors.
00:06:25Get a line on any recent visitors.
00:06:27Okay, lieutenant.
00:06:28Hopper, you chase up to Bard's office in the Eckerdorff building.
00:06:31Go through his desk and files.
00:06:33Check his appointment calendar.
00:06:34Yes, sir.
00:06:35Lieutenant, I just happened to think.
00:06:37Bard used to hang out at Tony's on 2nd Street quite a lot.
00:06:39Good idea.
00:06:40Say, Wilson, go over there and ask Tony if Bard met anyone there tonight.
00:06:44Then give Oppenheimer a hand if he needs you.
00:06:46Right.
00:06:48Yes?
00:06:49Mrs. Bard doesn't answer, lieutenant.
00:06:50She's probably sleeping.
00:06:51Keep on trying.
00:06:52Okay.
00:06:59Hey, Dan.
00:07:00Johnny, this is Daniel Boone-Wintergreen.
00:07:02He covers police for the son.
00:07:04Also has the policy corner on the side.
00:07:06Meet Johnny Williams of the Herald.
00:07:07Pleasure to meet you, my boy.
00:07:09I can see that you'll be a welcome contrast to the riffraff that infests this mortuary.
00:07:13When are you going to get rid of that Moore-Thiefen trophy you got on?
00:07:16Sir, this buffalo coat belonged to my grandfather, Daniel Boone-Wintergreen.
00:07:20Not an Indian fighter.
00:07:22Nothing would persuade me to partner with it, except a temporary shortage of funds.
00:07:26Are you in need of a good overcoat, Mr. Williams?
00:07:27Hey, lay off him, Wintergreen.
00:07:29On a hot day, that coat gets higher than the stockyards in the south wind.
00:07:40Come in, Doc.
00:07:41Well, here it is, Sam.
00:07:43The bullet went clean through and smashed the fifth rib.
00:07:45Have your boys found it yet?
00:07:47In the front seat of Holstreet.
00:07:48Discharged from the gun that was in the car?
00:07:50Mm-hmm. His own.
00:07:52There were plenty of powder burns, Sam. Could have been suicide.
00:07:55Not a chance, Doc. The boys at the desk would have heard the shot.
00:07:58The body was driven there and Bart's car and left there.
00:08:00Oh, I'm sure you're right, Sam.
00:08:02Do you think someone's trying to discredit us in the administration?
00:08:05Could be.
00:08:08Holy mackerel.
00:08:14That girl couldn't be mixed up in this case.
00:08:16Well, this is very interesting.
00:08:19The daughter of Luther Bradley, the reformed candidate for mayor.
00:08:22Boy, what the express will do with this.
00:08:24Send Brewer in.
00:08:26Must be someone of Bradley.
00:08:27Somehow I don't think it is.
00:08:29Why?
00:08:30The famous Calvert Luck, my boy.
00:08:32Brewer, you and Robbins go out to the Luther Bradley house on Carlisle.
00:08:36Ask for Miss Janet Bradley.
00:08:38Tell her you'd appreciate it if she'd come back with you.
00:08:40We want to ask her a few questions.
00:08:42Okay.
00:08:43Handle her carefully.
00:08:44All we want is her cooperation.
00:08:45Stress that, Brewer.
00:08:47Yes?
00:08:48Mrs. Barrett still doesn't answer.
00:08:50Keep trying.
00:08:53Express, I want to speak to Mr. Calvert.
00:08:55Very important.
00:08:56It's Dr. Yeager talking.
00:08:59Hello?
00:09:00Yeah, this is Calvert.
00:09:02Oh, hello, Doc.
00:09:03What's on your mind?
00:09:05Walter Barrett.
00:09:07Sure I know him.
00:09:09Well, who shot him?
00:09:10I don't know.
00:09:11But his body was found in his own car right in front of the police station here.
00:09:15That's right.
00:09:16The police station.
00:09:17And get this, Mr. Calvert.
00:09:19There was a notation in Barrett's memorandum book
00:09:21that he had an appointment with Janet Bradley this evening.
00:09:24Luther Bradley's daughter?
00:09:26Are you sure?
00:09:31Oh, this is beautiful.
00:09:35Look, Doc.
00:09:36You stay there and keep your eyes open.
00:09:38I'll keep in touch with you.
00:09:39Oh, I'll be right here, Mr. Calvert.
00:09:41You can count on me.
00:09:42Goodbye.
00:09:45Take a look.
00:10:01This is Miss Bradley, Lieutenant.
00:10:02Lieutenant Carson.
00:10:03How do you do?
00:10:04Sorry we had to bring you out this hour of the night, Miss Bradley.
00:10:07Sit down, please.
00:10:09What do you know about a man named Walter Barrett?
00:10:12You knew him?
00:10:14Knew him?
00:10:16He was murdered this evening.
00:10:18Oh.
00:10:20In his own car.
00:10:21Shot.
00:10:22I found him about 11.45 in front of this police station.
00:10:26You did know him?
00:10:28Yes, I knew him.
00:10:30Seen him recently?
00:10:33This morning.
00:10:35I knew him.
00:10:36Seen him recently?
00:10:39This evening.
00:10:40I had an appointment with him at his apartment.
00:10:42Were you a friend of his, Miss Bradley?
00:10:44No.
00:10:46Suppose you tell me why you went to see him.
00:10:49I'm sorry, I can't.
00:10:51Private?
00:10:56That's not so good.
00:11:00Is your father still in Washington?
00:11:02Yes, he'll be back on Monday in time for the election.
00:11:05This murder could prove very embarrassing for your father, Miss Bradley.
00:11:09A dead body on your doorstep could prove very embarrassing for the department, too, Lieutenant Carson.
00:11:14Maybe.
00:11:16Do you mind very much if we take your fingerprints?
00:11:18Is that necessary?
00:11:19Well, it's a routine we follow, but of course, if you'd rather not.
00:11:23Very well.
00:11:26This way, please.
00:11:29The other right hand.
00:11:33That's fine.
00:11:35You can wipe off your hands with this.
00:11:37Oh, thank you.
00:11:39My photograph next, Lieutenant?
00:11:42Sittings by appointment only.
00:11:44That's all there is to it.
00:11:51Have these classified up, ma'am.
00:11:56It will take a few minutes to make comparisons.
00:11:58You don't mind waiting?
00:12:00Of course not.
00:12:01Right in there.
00:12:03You're being swell about this.
00:12:12Yes?
00:12:13Max Calvert to see you, Lieutenant.
00:12:15Send him in.
00:12:17Thanks, Sam.
00:12:19I just thought I'd drop in and say hello.
00:12:21I figured you'd be around.
00:12:23I don't wonder you're sore, Sam.
00:12:25Someone giving the police department the business, huh?
00:12:28The administration, too.
00:12:30The administration's your problem.
00:12:32Now, that's not the attitude to take, Sam.
00:12:34Don't forget, we got an election coming up next Tuesday.
00:12:37I'm a policeman, not a politician.
00:12:39I know, but a politician sometimes can do an awful lot for a policeman, Sam.
00:12:44I understand you got the Bradley girl down here.
00:12:48So you know all about that, huh?
00:12:50Well, people usually cooperate with me, Sam.
00:12:53She was with Bard this evening, wasn't she?
00:12:55I'm not making any statements.
00:12:56And when I do, the Express will get it, along with the other papers.
00:12:59Well, you're not letting a pretty face affect your better judgment, are you, Sam?
00:13:03I'm not letting that tabloid of yours smear that girl's reputation so you can stop Luther Bradley on Tuesday.
00:13:07Well, the public has a right to know the facts, Express prints them.
00:13:10Yeah.
00:13:11Anything for a nickel.
00:13:16Look, Sam.
00:13:17How long have you had this job?
00:13:19Long enough.
00:13:21When I first came into this department, I was still on the police run for the Express.
00:13:25Now, I own it.
00:13:27While we're looking around, look at Mike Shea there.
00:13:30Now, Mike was your type of cop here.
00:13:32He never played ball.
00:13:34So what did it get him?
00:13:36A load of lead in the belly.
00:13:38You ought to be smart, Sam.
00:13:43Look, is Bradley anything to you?
00:13:47No.
00:13:48Well, Jordan's on his way out.
00:13:51How'd you like to be chief?
00:13:53I'd like it.
00:13:54You know that, Calvert.
00:13:56Could be arranged.
00:13:57How?
00:13:58Well, if this Bradley girl were booked, it might please some very important people very much.
00:14:03And they might be willing to do a lot for you.
00:14:06There isn't a particle of evidence against her.
00:14:08Well, no one would criticize you if you'd book her anyway.
00:14:11Not suspicion or a material witness, anything you like.
00:14:14Until after the election.
00:14:16Then let her go.
00:14:18She'll be all right.
00:14:20Do that and you'll have a grand jury investigation right in your lap.
00:14:23Oh, Sam.
00:14:24Now, don't look at it that way.
00:14:26Why, a week after the election, the whole thing will be completely forgotten.
00:14:30Think it over.
00:14:34Don't forget, Sam, it always pays to cooperate.
00:14:38Always pays.
00:14:49Great guy, wasn't he, Lieutenant?
00:14:51He sure was.
00:14:52I guess he was just about the greatest cop this city ever had.
00:14:55Yeah.
00:14:56Wanted to get him.
00:14:57Lieutenant, I got something to show you.
00:14:59See you later.
00:15:04What'd you find in Bard's apartment?
00:15:06Cigarette butts in the ashtray with two different shapes on them.
00:15:09I don't know what they were.
00:15:11I don't know either.
00:15:12I don't know either.
00:15:14What'd you find in Bard's apartment?
00:15:16Cigarette butts in the ashtray with two different shades of lipstick.
00:15:19Two glasses with prints on both.
00:15:22Prints on the gun.
00:15:24On one of the glasses.
00:15:26And Miss Bradley's fingerprints, all check.
00:15:31Looks like an open and shut case, Lieutenant.
00:15:37Bring Miss Bradley in, Sergeant.
00:15:40Well, Lieutenant would like to see you, Miss Bradley.
00:15:48All right, Oppenheimer.
00:15:53Miss Bradley, we found your fingerprints on a highball glass in Bard's apartment.
00:15:57Oh, yes, he poured a drink for me, but I set it down without tasting it.
00:16:01We also found your fingerprints on the gun with which Bard was shot.
00:16:09All right. I'll tell you exactly what did happen.
00:16:18I went to see Bard on behalf of someone who was very close to me.
00:16:22Someone whom he was trying to blackmail.
00:16:25He made a business of buying and selling information about people.
00:16:29Especially about those who had built honest lives after making a bad start.
00:16:33Problem people.
00:16:36He had come to me with certain information.
00:16:39He wanted $20,000 for it, but I'd been able to raise only $10,000.
00:16:53Well, come in, Miss Bradley.
00:17:02Won't you sit down? I'll fix you a drink.
00:17:04Oh, I really don't care for one. Thank you.
00:17:06I have some very nice bourbon here.
00:17:26Cigarette?
00:17:27Oh, thank you.
00:17:30Well?
00:17:32I simply haven't been able to raise that much money, Mr. Bard.
00:17:35How much have you raised?
00:17:37$10,000.
00:17:38And I said $20,000.
00:17:40Well, that settles that.
00:17:42Oh, please. Won't you give me a little more time?
00:17:44Look, Miss Bradley, you're stalling.
00:17:46You either haven't got the money or you won't go to the one who has got it.
00:17:49Now, I'm holding a powerhouse.
00:17:51Newspaper clippings, letters, affidavits, photographs.
00:17:54Enough dynamite to blow the lid a mile high.
00:17:57And I've got a cash customer who'll pay $20,000 in the morning.
00:18:01I suppose it'd be useless to appeal to your sense of decency.
00:18:04Oh, completely.
00:18:05You see, I haven't any.
00:18:07Not since I put on long pants.
00:18:09And I've been called all the names, Miss Bradley.
00:18:11I can believe that.
00:18:13But I do know when a girl needs a drink.
00:18:16Take it.
00:18:17You look shaky.
00:18:20Now, give me that envelope.
00:18:31You'll find them all there.
00:18:32Don't be rude.
00:18:34I'd rather enjoy putting an end to your activities.
00:18:41Stay where you are.
00:18:43I'll be back.
00:18:50He was very much alive when I left him, Lieutenant.
00:18:54Miss Bradley.
00:18:55Do you expect me to believe that chisel let you take those papers away from him?
00:18:59But I've told you the exact truth.
00:19:02What happened to the gun?
00:19:03I threw it in his car when I left.
00:19:05What did you do with the envelope?
00:19:06Burned it as soon as I got home.
00:19:08What was in it?
00:19:09I can't possibly tell you.
00:19:11It must have been hot if Bard wanted that kind of dough for it.
00:19:14Holding back now won't do you a bit of good.
00:19:16What was it about? Your father?
00:19:18It's no use asking me.
00:19:19What was in it?
00:19:20Dirt Bard had dug up?
00:19:22Something Calvert could use?
00:19:25Let me help you.
00:19:26You couldn't make a deal with him.
00:19:28He said he'd take you home. It was raining.
00:19:30You go down to his car.
00:19:31He makes a pass at you.
00:19:32You grab his gun, let him have it, and scram with the envelope.
00:19:35The brakes on the car come loose and the car starts rolling.
00:19:37Lieutenant, you...
00:19:40You sound as if you want to believe I killed Walter Bard.
00:19:44Your prints are on the gun.
00:19:46Your prints are on the gun.
00:19:48You have motive. Plenty of it.
00:19:50What do you expect me to believe?
00:19:54I guess it does look pretty bad.
00:19:58What are you going to do with me?
00:20:00I ought to book you.
00:20:03You know what that will do to my father on Tuesday.
00:20:10I realize the pressure you're under, Lieutenant.
00:20:12I've learned a great deal about the police department from Father.
00:20:15Max Calvert could do a lot to help you if you could learn to do things his way.
00:20:19Leave Calvert out of this.
00:20:21I'm a policeman, not a politician.
00:20:24I'm glad.
00:20:25I've always liked policemen.
00:20:29I should book you.
00:20:31Otherwise, I can't hold you.
00:20:33If you don't mind waiting a little longer,
00:20:36something may turn up.
00:20:39You mean you may see things a little more clearly?
00:20:41Put it anywhere you like.
00:20:45In here, please.
00:20:56Do you guys mind if I want a hand?
00:20:57No.
00:21:00Hello, Doc.
00:21:01Anything new on the Bard killing?
00:21:03Well, he was shot with his own gun that was found in the car.
00:21:05How do we know all about that?
00:21:07Yeah, but what you don't know is that Janet Bradley, Luther's daughter,
00:21:10is mixed up in the case.
00:21:11No.
00:21:12That's right. Carson has her downstairs now.
00:21:14She had a date with Bard in his apartment this evening.
00:21:17Regular little mine of information, aren't you, Doc?
00:21:19Well, I just thought the boys should know.
00:21:21That's nice of you.
00:21:23But I'm still running the night shift around here, and I'll give out the information.
00:21:26The Express already has it. I don't need to tell you how they got it.
00:21:29You boys might as well have it, too.
00:21:31Because Bradley is involved.
00:21:32To what extent, we don't know yet.
00:21:34She was in Bard's apartment this evening,
00:21:36but she gives a perfectly logical reason for being there.
00:21:38That's good enough for the front page.
00:21:39I'd go slow on any insinuations if I were you, fellas.
00:21:42Did you get that, Charlie?
00:21:44Here's the latest dope on the Bard case.
00:21:46Miss Janet Bradley, junior league, active in everything.
00:21:49Oh, yes, Mr. Jones. I'm sticking right on the job.
00:21:52I just wormed it out of the lieutenant this minute.
00:21:54Janet Bradley, daughter of the Maryland decandidate,
00:21:57is being questioned with regard to the Bard murder.
00:21:59Yes.
00:22:00And you leave those two tickets for the Philharmonic.
00:22:02You boys won't forget who gave you the original tip.
00:22:04We won't forget.
00:22:05Dr. G.F. Yeager?
00:22:08Now, which one of you has taken my scissors?
00:22:10I stuck them in your buffalo coat for safekeeping.
00:22:16If you moochers insist on playing childish pranks with my scissors,
00:22:19I'll be forced to do something drastic.
00:22:25Well.
00:22:27It's about time.
00:22:28Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Calvert. I didn't know you were here.
00:22:30I hope you haven't been waiting long.
00:22:32Well, it's about time.
00:22:34I'm sorry, Mr. Calvert. I didn't know you were here.
00:22:36I hope you haven't been waiting long.
00:22:38Long enough. Where have you been?
00:22:39Oh, all over. It's been a very busy night.
00:22:41Has Carson booked the Bradley girl yet?
00:22:43Not yet.
00:22:44He's stalling, Mr. Calvert.
00:22:45I don't trust Carson.
00:22:46He's never played along with us the way he should.
00:22:48Why, he just bawled me out for tipping off the press room
00:22:50that he'd been questioning the girl.
00:22:52I want her charged with murder,
00:22:53and I want it spread all over the front page of every paper in town.
00:22:56Sooner the better.
00:22:57Oh, thank you.
00:22:59I'll save this for later.
00:23:01I'm going to give this murder the biggest coverage
00:23:03any local paper's had in years.
00:23:05I'll run the Bradley girl's picture every day.
00:23:08Diagrams of the street where the body was found.
00:23:10Diagrams of Bard's apartment.
00:23:12Pictures of the murder car.
00:23:14I'll have a sob sister covering her appearance at the inquest.
00:23:17Every appearance in court.
00:23:19I'll do a half column devoted to her costume alone.
00:23:22How she looks.
00:23:23With the inference that she's frightened,
00:23:25that she's hiding something that her back's against the wall.
00:23:28Yes, but the only hitch, Mr. Calvert,
00:23:30is that Walter Bard didn't die of a gunshot wound.
00:23:35What did you say?
00:23:36He was poisoned before he was shot.
00:23:38Who did it?
00:23:39I don't know.
00:23:40You cut him open?
00:23:41I didn't have to.
00:23:42I found traces of poison in his mouth.
00:23:45Well, have you told Carson?
00:23:47Not yet.
00:23:48Well, don't.
00:23:49The trouble is, if Carson ever takes a good look at the body,
00:23:52he'll notice that there was practically no bleeding.
00:23:54And he'll know what that means.
00:23:56Then we've got to get rid of the body.
00:23:58We've got to get out of here fast tonight.
00:24:00Before the inquest, I can't.
00:24:02You can and you're going to.
00:24:04But, Mr. Calvert, you can't just pick up a body
00:24:06and drag it out of the morgue
00:24:07before the chief medical examiner has had a whack at it.
00:24:11Look, have you got any John Doe's in the icebox?
00:24:14One that you can ship out to the crematorium in a hurry?
00:24:17Well, there's a floater that we fished out of the bay a couple of weeks ago.
00:24:20All right, now you go down to the morgue
00:24:21and switch Walter Bard's body to the John Doe slab.
00:24:24Then make out commitment papers for John Doe.
00:24:26Cremation.
00:24:27And ship it out tonight.
00:24:28But is it sure to be found out sooner or later?
00:24:30If you have to, make the morgue attend to the fall guy.
00:24:33These squawks, you send them to me, you understand?
00:24:36Well, I'll do my best, Mr. Calvert.
00:24:38Your best is to get that body out of here fast.
00:24:53Yes?
00:24:54Mrs. Bard on the wire now, Lieutenant.
00:25:01Hello?
00:25:03Is this Mrs. Walter Bard?
00:25:05Yes, this is Mrs. Bard.
00:25:07You've been ringing for some time, haven't you? I'm sorry.
00:25:10I was sound asleep.
00:25:12I'm afraid I have some bad news for you.
00:25:16That is impossible.
00:25:18He wasn't at...
00:25:19I'm afraid he was, Mrs. Bard.
00:25:22We don't know yet.
00:25:24I'll have to ask you to come down here.
00:25:26I know it'll be difficult, but you may be able to help us.
00:25:30Of course, but...
00:25:31But I haven't seen Walter for several weeks.
00:25:33We haven't been living together.
00:25:37Yes.
00:25:39As soon as I've dressed.
00:25:52Yes?
00:25:53Arthur, something dreadful has happened.
00:25:55It's Walter.
00:25:57Did the police say how it happened, Nora? Or where?
00:26:00No, Arthur.
00:26:02No.
00:26:03They've asked me to come down to the station.
00:26:05No.
00:26:07Remember, you haven't been out all evening.
00:26:11I'll go with you.
00:26:13Certainly, I'm your lawyer.
00:26:16I'll go with you.
00:26:18Certainly, I'm your lawyer.
00:26:21Don't worry, darling. Everything will be all right.
00:26:24Yes.
00:26:25Pick me up on your way down to the station.
00:26:27In about 20 minutes.
00:26:29It won't take me long to dress.
00:26:35Here's the lab report on the lipstick and the cigarette stuff.
00:26:39Any calls?
00:26:40No, sir.
00:26:41One of them is Janet Bradley's.
00:26:42The other is a shade called Rochelle, used mostly by brunettes.
00:26:45Mrs. Bard is here, Lieutenant.
00:26:47Send her in.
00:26:48Will you come in, please?
00:26:50Sorry you had to come down here tonight, Mrs. Bard.
00:26:52I understand, Lieutenant.
00:26:54This is Mr. Templeton, my attorney.
00:26:56Walter Bard and I would have been divorced.
00:26:58I'm handling all of Mrs. Bard's business affairs.
00:27:00So I asked Mr. Templeton to come with me.
00:27:02Sit down, please.
00:27:08You told Mrs. Bard very little on the telephone, Lieutenant.
00:27:10Bard was shot through the heart.
00:27:12We found his car parked in front of this building, his body in it.
00:27:15But that's fantastic.
00:27:16Who did it?
00:27:17Well, we're not prepared to say it yet.
00:27:19Mrs. Bard, I think you told me that you and Bard hadn't lived together for quite some time.
00:27:23Not for over a year.
00:27:25Have you seen him recently?
00:27:27I saw him in a nightclub one evening several weeks ago.
00:27:30I was with Mr. Templeton.
00:27:32We want to be frank with you, Lieutenant.
00:27:34Well, I hope you will be.
00:27:36Nora and I are going to be married.
00:27:38We've been waiting for her divorce from Bard.
00:27:40Had the proceedings begun?
00:27:42No. The papers were ready, but they hadn't been served yet.
00:27:44Did Bard refuse to accept service on these papers?
00:27:48Repeatedly.
00:27:49He was my husband, and even though he's dead...
00:27:51Nora.
00:27:52I'm going to say it all.
00:27:53He was mean and cruel.
00:27:54He liked to hurt people.
00:27:56He did it deliberately.
00:27:57I studied for two years.
00:28:00Mrs. Bard has had a very difficult time, Lieutenant.
00:28:02Yes, I know.
00:28:05Mrs. Bard, you were home all evening?
00:28:07Yes.
00:28:09I was asleep when you telephoned.
00:28:12You weren't in Bard's apartment at any time during the course of the evening?
00:28:15Mrs. Bard has already answered that question twice before, Carson.
00:28:18I don't mind answering Lieutenant Carson's question a third time, Arthur.
00:28:22I was not in Walter's apartment this evening, Lieutenant.
00:28:26Were you?
00:28:28No.
00:28:31I suppose you know I'll have to ask Mrs. Bard to identify the remains.
00:28:34Naturally.
00:28:35Oppenheim, will you take care of that?
00:28:37Yes, sure.
00:28:38This way, please.
00:28:42Listen, pal.
00:28:43I didn't bust that mirror.
00:28:45Somebody else tossed the bottle into the glassware.
00:28:47Name?
00:28:48I'm Zachary, the Philadelphia Phantom.
00:28:50Never heard of you.
00:28:51What's your address?
00:28:52You can't book me, copper.
00:28:54I'm fighting at the Elks tonight.
00:28:56The annual smoker, see?
00:28:57I go on at one o'clock.
00:28:59What's your address?
00:29:01But what about the Elks?
00:29:03You ain't going to let the Elks down, are you?
00:29:06I'm an odd fellow.
00:29:07The address, Zachary.
00:29:09You can't do it to me, pal.
00:29:11It's my professional reputation.
00:29:12It's at the Benjamin Hotel, Lieutenant.
00:29:14Give the Phantom one of our private suites.
00:29:16He'll see the judge in the morning.
00:29:18But I gotta go on at 1 a.m.
00:29:20I'll come back.
00:29:21Honest, I will.
00:29:22Take him away.
00:29:39I'm sorry.
00:29:40I'm sorry.
00:29:41I'm sorry.
00:29:42I'm sorry.
00:29:43I'm sorry.
00:29:44I'm sorry.
00:29:45I'm sorry.
00:29:46I'm sorry.
00:29:47I'm sorry.
00:29:48I'm sorry.
00:29:49I'm sorry.
00:29:50I'm sorry.
00:29:51I'm sorry.
00:29:52I'm sorry.
00:29:53I'm sorry.
00:29:54I'm sorry.
00:29:55I'm sorry.
00:29:56I'm sorry.
00:29:57I'm sorry.
00:29:58I'm sorry.
00:29:59I'm sorry.
00:30:00I'm sorry.
00:30:01I'm sorry.
00:30:02I'm sorry.
00:30:03I'm sorry.
00:30:04I'm sorry.
00:30:05I'm sorry.
00:30:06I'm sorry.
00:30:07I'm sorry.
00:30:08I'm sorry.
00:30:09I'm sorry.
00:30:30I vote for Lewis.
00:30:31He has the best beard.
00:30:32What's the best dish in the joint?
00:30:35The blonde behind the counter.
00:31:38♪♪
00:32:07♪♪
00:32:36Yeah, that's all you need. Now get going.
00:32:38♪♪
00:33:04Woodbury crematorium. This one burns, huh?
00:33:07Yep. Give him an easy ride. It's his last one.
00:33:35The stiff's gone.
00:33:37Are you sure you ever had one?
00:33:39Gosh, Bill, I put him in there myself.
00:33:41Let me use your phone.
00:33:43Yeah, doc. The body must have walked right out of the ambulance.
00:33:48Well, go back over your route. Keep your eyes open and your trap shut.
00:33:51If you can't find the body, report to me as soon as you get here.
00:33:54Well...
00:34:01Hello.
00:34:04What?
00:34:08Oh, so somebody else wants Bard's body, huh?
00:34:13Ah, that crew must be double-crossing you.
00:34:15They must know how that body was taken out of the ambulance.
00:34:18Well, I don't believe it.
00:34:20You make them cough up the truth.
00:34:22I want to know who else wants that body.
00:34:24Listen, Yeager, this is a pretty serious matter.
00:34:27Both for the administration and for the police department, and incidentally for you.
00:34:31But I did everything I could, Mr. Calvert.
00:34:34Everything you asked me to.
00:34:36You find that body and get rid of it.
00:34:44Yes?
00:34:46Sam, a John Doe that was being transported to the Woodbury crematorium has disappeared from the ambulance.
00:34:51What do you mean, disappeared?
00:34:53The boys said that they loaded it into the ambulance, and when they got there, it was gone.
00:34:57What am I supposed to do, pull your rabbits out of my head?
00:34:59The doors must have fallen open.
00:35:01Tell Riley to send a patrol car over the route the ambulance took.
00:35:04I've already told the crew to retrace their route.
00:35:06Well, find that body before the papers find it for you.
00:35:21Holy smoke!
00:35:27Hello? Hello, this is Johnny Williams.
00:35:29Let me speak to Mr. Jones, quick.
00:35:33I'll call you right back.
00:35:34You're new around here, ain't you?
00:35:36What's your name?
00:35:37Williams, the Herald.
00:35:38I'm pretty busy.
00:35:39Sure you're busy.
00:35:41You bricklayers is always busy.
00:35:43Unless it's a bouquet you're wanting on the cuff until Saturday night.
00:35:46And then it's, Flossie, my darling.
00:35:49Flossie, be a pal.
00:35:51And give us a kiss, Flossie.
00:35:53But I'm on to your banana oil.
00:35:55Look, Flossie, I gotta phone my paper.
00:35:57There's been a murder.
00:35:58Sure there's been a murder.
00:35:59Didn't he get himself killed with one of me carnations in his buttonhole?
00:36:03And owe me a dollar six bits.
00:36:05Seven of them he died owing me.
00:36:07Oh, that's a shame, Flossie.
00:36:09But you'll get your money back.
00:36:10And when I ask the cops for me due, what do I get?
00:36:14Bird seed.
00:36:15I'll tell you what you do, Flossie.
00:36:17You go down to the desk.
00:36:18When all I want is me dollar six bits out of the money he died in his pants with.
00:36:23I've been to the desk.
00:36:24And what do I get?
00:36:25Bird seed, sure.
00:36:26But this time you tell the lieutenant that I sent you.
00:36:28Johnny Williams of the Herald.
00:36:29Tell him to give you your dollar six bits and the Herald will pay it.
00:36:32Tell him I personally guarantee it.
00:36:38Hello, give me Mr. Jones.
00:36:40Wait.
00:36:41Bird seed.
00:36:44Hello.
00:36:45Mr. Jones.
00:36:46Williams.
00:36:48I got a lulo on that Walter Bard killing.
00:36:50An exclusive.
00:36:51Yeah.
00:36:52In the press room clothes closet.
00:36:55Hey, wait a minute.
00:36:58I'll call you back, Mr. Jones.
00:37:03Where are my scissors?
00:37:05I never seem to be able to find them.
00:37:09Last time I found them in my overcoat pocket.
00:37:14Here they are, Mr. Wintergreen.
00:37:17Oh.
00:37:18I'm awfully sorry, Mr. Wintergreen.
00:37:20I wish people would leave my scissors alone.
00:37:24This time I'll nail them down.
00:37:36Milk!
00:37:38How many, you guys?
00:37:39That's Mr. Rosinski.
00:37:40Get a bottle for me, will you?
00:37:42Yeah.
00:37:43Make it one for Wintergreen.
00:37:47Hey, is Wintergreen up there?
00:37:49Yeah, he's here.
00:37:51Tell him I want to buy his buffalo coat.
00:37:53I'll be right up.
00:37:54Hey, no dice.
00:37:55He doesn't want to sell.
00:37:57I never heard of such impertinence.
00:37:59As if I didn't have the right to dispose of my own property.
00:38:03Look, Mr. Wintergreen.
00:38:04You can't sell that overcoat.
00:38:06I hoped you'd bring a chaser.
00:38:08I don't want to sell it.
00:38:09Mr. Wintergreen.
00:38:10You can't sell that overcoat.
00:38:11I hoped you'd bring a chastening influence to this menagerie.
00:38:14Why, it'd be an insult to your grandfather and to the grand old name of Boone.
00:38:17It'd be unpatriotic.
00:38:18I am dreadfully disappointed in you, Williams.
00:38:20Why, that overcoat's made history.
00:38:22It's practically a national monument.
00:38:23You can't have a big lug like Rosinski delivering milk in it.
00:38:27Why don't you get wise to what you've got?
00:38:28Why, that overcoat ought to be in the Smithsonian Institute.
00:38:31They'd pay real dough for it.
00:38:33Smithsonian?
00:38:34Uh-huh.
00:38:35But do you really think...
00:38:37No, Williams.
00:38:39No, my mind is made up.
00:38:43Oh!
00:38:44Oh!
00:38:45Oh!
00:38:46Get out of here!
00:38:47Get out of here!
00:38:48Get out of here!
00:38:49Get out of here!
00:38:51Get out of here!
00:38:52Give me Mr. Jones.
00:38:53Quick!
00:38:58Sure, Mr. Jones.
00:38:59That's what I said.
00:39:00Walter Bard's body in a press room clothes closet.
00:39:02Hey, there's somebody in there.
00:39:03I know it sounds crazy, Mr. Jones, and I'm not drunk.
00:39:06It's true.
00:39:07There's a guy in there, I tell you.
00:39:08Listen to him holler his head off.
00:39:10Yeah, and I'm the only one who knows except Wintergreen.
00:39:12I got him spiked.
00:39:13Absolutely, Mr. Jones.
00:39:22Oh, my.
00:39:23Oh, my.
00:39:27Yes?
00:39:28Mr. Haggerty.
00:39:29City editor of the Herald, Lieutenant.
00:39:30Right.
00:39:32Hello, Haggerty.
00:39:34What did you say?
00:39:36In the press room?
00:39:37Here?
00:39:39What?
00:39:41As soon as I've nailed the guy that sold you that one,
00:39:43I'll be over personally to tell you what kind of a joint I'm running around here.
00:39:47One of those tosspot reporters phoned Haggerty
00:39:49and said that Bard's body is hanging in the press room clothes closet.
00:39:55Say, you don't think he was talking about the John Doe that Jaeger lost?
00:40:00There's only one way to find out.
00:40:02There's only one way to find out.
00:40:09That's what I said, you dope.
00:40:10All wrapped up in somebody's overcoat in the press room closet.
00:40:12My overcoat, please.
00:40:13Credit where credit is due.
00:40:14Hey, look, you guys.
00:40:15A perfect fit.
00:40:16Hey, what goes on?
00:40:17I found Bard.
00:40:18All wrapped up in Wintergreen's overcoat in the clothes closet.
00:40:21The Herald's printing it, so relax, fellas, and save paper.
00:40:27Give me a rewrite, sweetheart.
00:40:28Hurry up.
00:40:29Haggerty was right.
00:40:30It is Bard.
00:40:32Hey, this guy didn't bleed much.
00:40:35Jaeger say anything about that?
00:40:36Not to me.
00:40:38I haven't taken back, Sergeant.
00:40:44Mr. Jones again.
00:40:47Lieutenant Carson, examine the body now.
00:40:49Yeah.
00:40:52Thirty years, Lieutenant.
00:40:53I've been putting him on ice.
00:40:54Nobody ever done this to me before.
00:40:56Where was he?
00:40:57In here.
00:40:58Pull it out.
00:41:03That's the John Doe we fished out of the bay.
00:41:05The one Doc Jaeger committed tonight for cremation.
00:41:08How'd it get in there?
00:41:09I don't know, Lieutenant.
00:41:10I put him on number seven myself.
00:41:11There's been a switch.
00:41:12Here's Doc Jaeger now.
00:41:13What's this all about, Sam?
00:41:15It looks as if someone went outside as that John Doe you lost.
00:41:18Only it wasn't John Doe.
00:41:19It was Walter Bard.
00:41:20John Doe is here in Bard's place.
00:41:22Boy, this is absurd, Sam.
00:41:24A lot of things are tonight.
00:41:25You signed a commitment paper, didn't you?
00:41:27Yes, for John Doe.
00:41:29Well, Bard's body must have been picked up by mistake.
00:41:31That's the only way it could have happened.
00:41:33Well, so long as it turned out all right.
00:41:35Well, Mallory, get that John Doe out of here.
00:41:37Put Bard back in the right place.
00:41:39And see that he stays there
00:41:40until the chief medical examiner is through with him.
00:41:42Yes, sir.
00:41:51Is this Mrs. Bard?
00:41:54Hello, Mrs. Bard.
00:41:55This is Ames of the Exploration.
00:41:57Hello, Mrs. Bard.
00:41:58This is Ames of the Express.
00:42:00The Express?
00:42:03Oh, I haven't the slightest idea
00:42:05what connection Miss Bradley has with the case.
00:42:07Shh.
00:42:09In fact, I didn't know she was even acquainted with my husband.
00:42:14You're welcome.
00:42:15What was it, Mallory?
00:42:16A report on Express.
00:42:18The police have found out
00:42:19Janet Bradley was in Walter's apartment tonight.
00:42:22Come on.
00:42:27Arthur, we've got to go to the police station
00:42:28and tell them the truth.
00:42:30No, we've got to sit tight.
00:42:31If we do, we'd never trust each other again, Arthur.
00:42:34There'd always be that doubt.
00:42:35It'd grow and keep on growing.
00:42:37In the end, it'd break us apart.
00:42:39We'd distrust each other for the rest of our lives.
00:42:43At this moment, Arthur,
00:42:44there's a voice inside me saying,
00:42:47I'm not sure of him.
00:42:49Do you really mean that, Nora?
00:42:51Yes, I do.
00:42:52And maybe there's a voice inside you saying,
00:42:54I'm not sure of her.
00:42:57Don't you see how right I am, Arthur?
00:42:59We couldn't live together like that.
00:43:03You ought to be the lawyer, Nora.
00:43:05We'll go down to Carson's office right now.
00:43:07Darling.
00:43:14Hello.
00:43:16Yes.
00:43:17I'd like somebody to come down here and perform an autopsy.
00:43:21Sure, I know I got Jaeger.
00:43:22I want someone else.
00:43:24Uh, Bard.
00:43:26For a very particular reason.
00:43:27Or how about Doc Hastings?
00:43:30As soon as you can get him down here.
00:43:35I'll see Mrs. Bard now.
00:43:42We've come to make certain alterations
00:43:43in our statement, Lieutenant.
00:43:45What's that?
00:43:47We told you we wanted Bard's apartment this evening.
00:43:50Well, we were.
00:43:51Nora was there when Bard died.
00:43:53I was there later.
00:43:55Go on.
00:43:57I didn't tell Arthur I was going,
00:43:59but I went to ask Walter once more to give me a divorce.
00:44:04There's no use being angry with me, Nora.
00:44:06Take off your things and stay a while.
00:44:08Have a drink?
00:44:10It's a rainy evening.
00:44:11That's finished, Walter.
00:44:13I'm in love with Arthur Templeton.
00:44:14We want to get married.
00:44:15So you can make it legitimate, huh?
00:44:16You have no right to say that.
00:44:17You have absolutely no grounds whatsoever.
00:44:20Perhaps.
00:44:21But I'm not going to turn you loose
00:44:22so Templeton can put you on his income tax.
00:44:24Besides, this arrangement suits me fine.
00:44:26So long as I'm married,
00:44:27no woman can make a sucker out of me.
00:44:29But Walter...
00:44:30Shh.
00:44:31Don't worry.
00:44:32Go into the bedroom.
00:44:34I'll talk with you as soon as I'm through with this party.
00:44:38Well, well.
00:44:39Come in, Miss Bradley.
00:44:41Did you listen?
00:44:42I heard a little.
00:44:43Walter seemed to have some papers
00:44:44that Miss Bradley wanted to buy,
00:44:46but he was holding out for more money.
00:44:48And then?
00:44:49Then there was some sort of scuffle.
00:44:51I don't know what happened.
00:44:52Then Miss Bradley demanded the papers.
00:44:54I got the impression she was covering Walter with a gun.
00:44:57Then a door slammed.
00:44:59Yes?
00:45:00I don't know what happened.
00:45:01I don't know what happened.
00:45:02I don't know what happened.
00:45:03I don't know what happened.
00:45:04I don't know what happened.
00:45:05Then a door slammed.
00:45:07Yes?
00:45:08I waited a few minutes, then I went in.
00:45:13Walter had just taken a drink.
00:45:14He took a step toward me.
00:45:17I'll never forget the way he looked.
00:45:19The muscles of his face were all drawn up
00:45:21as if they were knotted.
00:45:23Then he fell into a chair.
00:45:24When I got to him, he was dead.
00:45:26I was terrified.
00:45:27I rushed out of the place.
00:45:29Why didn't you call the police?
00:45:31I was afraid to.
00:45:35Did you take a drink with Bard?
00:45:37No.
00:45:40Do you remember if Bard's gun was still in the holster?
00:45:43I'm sure it wasn't.
00:45:45But I do remember seeing it there when I first went in.
00:45:48Then who shot Bard?
00:45:50I shot Bard.
00:45:55I went to see Bard for the same reason Nora did.
00:45:57I thought perhaps I could get him to change his mind about the divorce.
00:46:00I just pulled up to the curb opposite his apartment house.
00:46:02The door opened, and Nora came running out.
00:46:05She looked frightened.
00:46:06Before I could get around to calling after her,
00:46:08she had jumped into her car and started off.
00:46:10I noticed that the car in front of the apartment was Bard's.
00:46:13I'd asked her never to go to Bard's apartment again.
00:46:16The more I thought about Nora being there, the less I liked it.
00:46:32The notion that Bard's callousness had driven Nora to killing him took hold of me.
00:46:51That would be murder.
00:46:56It looked like poison to me.
00:46:58All I could think of was that Nora might be traced to the apartment.
00:47:01There was only one thing to do.
00:47:03Get the body out of the place.
00:47:05I knew the risk I was running, but I had to do it.
00:47:24Someone was coming up.
00:47:26I didn't dare go back and wait.
00:47:29I'd have to carry him down.
00:47:31He was taking a big chance, but it was late and luck was with me.
00:47:34No one saw me.
00:48:00No one saw me.
00:48:13Then I saw the gun.
00:48:15If I could fake a suicide, Nora's fingerprints wouldn't be on the gun.
00:48:19It would swing suspicion away from her.
00:48:22I held the gun close to him to muffle the shot.
00:48:26It occurred to me then, if Bard's body was found as far as possible from his apartment house,
00:48:31Nora's danger would be still less.
00:48:33I released the brake.
00:48:38I started the car rolling down the hill away from the apartment house.
00:48:44And that's our story.
00:48:46Nora's and mine.
00:48:49Templeton, do you believe Mrs. Bard's story?
00:48:52Yes, I do.
00:48:53And you believe his?
00:48:55Yes, I do.
00:48:57You really came down here to convince each other that you were each telling the truth, didn't you?
00:49:01Partly.
00:49:02We had to speak for Johnnie and Bradley too, Lieutenant.
00:49:05I'll need a detailed statement from both of you later.
00:49:08Certainly, Lieutenant.
00:49:09You can wait in the outer office.
00:49:16I'm sorry, Flossie, but you'll have to see Lieutenant Carson.
00:49:20See the lieutenant, he says.
00:49:22A dollar six bits.
00:49:23That stiff-dyed Owen me, and he tells me to see the lieutenant.
00:49:28Listen.
00:49:30I will see the lieutenant, and the chief, and the mayor, and the governor if I have to.
00:49:35I'll have me dollar six bits if I have to see the president himself.
00:49:41Sure, Flossie, sure.
00:49:43You're right.
00:49:44I don't blame you a bit.
00:49:47Okay, Malloy.
00:49:49Urgency.
00:49:50What have you got?
00:50:21Smoke?
00:50:23No, thanks.
00:50:25We've turned up some new evidence.
00:50:28Does it help me?
00:50:30No.
00:50:31Oh.
00:50:34What is it?
00:50:35Bard didn't die of a gunshot.
00:50:37He was poisoned.
00:50:38Really?
00:50:39Someone slipped the stuff in his whiskey decanter.
00:50:43Oh, wait a minute.
00:50:45You don't think I put the poison in his decanter.
00:50:48Why didn't you drink your highball?
00:50:50Well, I didn't want it.
00:50:53How do you think that'll sound in court?
00:50:57Any way you want it to sound, I suppose.
00:51:01Are you going to book me?
00:51:03If you could give me just one solid reason why I shouldn't.
00:51:08I'm sorry for you.
00:51:10Just one solid reason why I shouldn't.
00:51:14I'm sorry for you, Lieutenant Carson.
00:51:17I'm in a bad spot, but so are you.
00:51:20You have to decide whether I'm guilty because I really am guilty...
00:51:24or because I'm Luther Bradley's daughter.
00:51:27If you book me now, you'll never be sure whether you did it because you really believe I killed Walter Bard...
00:51:31or because Max Calvert told you to.
00:51:36That's one of the things I'm trying to get straight in my mind.
00:51:40Calvert wasn't turning on the heat.
00:51:43And another reason...
00:51:45It would have been easy. I'd have booked you, but fast.
00:51:48What other reason?
00:51:52It wouldn't make sense to you or to anyone else.
00:51:55In my kind of job, your reasons have got to make sense.
00:51:59I suppose so.
00:52:02And that means?
00:52:04I'll have to book you the way things stand.
00:52:10All right.
00:52:40Yes, sir.
00:52:59Yes, sir.
00:53:00Say, is that nutty woman that sells flowers still in the building?
00:53:03In the building? She's practically in my lap.
00:53:06But don't worry, Lieutenant. I'll get rid of her.
00:53:08Don't get rid of her. I want to see her. Send her in.
00:53:10Then see if you can locate Oppenheimer.
00:53:12Okay, Lieutenant.
00:53:14All right, Flossie. The Lieutenant will see you now.
00:53:18Maybe now I'll get me dollar six bits.
00:53:21Sit down, darling.
00:53:22None of that. All I want is the money that Stiff owes me.
00:53:26You mean Bard?
00:53:27He must have died with some assets in his pants, Lieutenant.
00:53:31Don't worry about that. You'll get your dollar six bits.
00:53:34Tell me, did you sell this to Bard?
00:53:36Sure, I did.
00:53:37When?
00:53:38Six o'clock this evening, just as he was coming out of Simi's bail bond office.
00:53:41Didn't he pay you for it?
00:53:43He did not. He never pays you.
00:53:45You've always got to chase him.
00:53:47Up to the present moment, that slicker owes me a dollar six bits.
00:53:51Did you see him after that?
00:53:53I went to his apartment to collect, but I didn't see him.
00:53:55He must have been out to dinner, so I stuck around.
00:53:58Did you see anyone else when you were up there?
00:54:00Nobody but Doc Yeager.
00:54:01Do I get my money or don't I?
00:54:03Yeager? He was up there?
00:54:05Bard was out to the both of us.
00:54:07What time was this?
00:54:08Oh, I don't know. Half past eight, maybe.
00:54:11I knocked on Bard's door and he didn't answer, so I stuck around in the corridor.
00:54:16It was raining out and I was wet to my pelt.
00:54:18Then Doc Yeager came up.
00:54:19Did Yeager see you?
00:54:20No, he never seen me, but he was there, you ask him.
00:54:23Tell me about Yeager. What happened?
00:54:25I was drying myself with the radiator on the stairway landing.
00:54:29I was down half a flight, so he didn't see me.
00:54:33Never seen a man so scared.
00:54:35The way he kept looking around.
00:54:48He could hardly find the keyhole. His hand was shaking so.
00:54:53I don't know how many keys he tried before he got there.
00:54:58I don't know how many keys he tried before he got the one that fit it.
00:55:10He shut the door behind him so quiet I could hardly hear it.
00:55:15He couldn't have been in there more than a minute and he still acted like he was scared of his own shadow.
00:55:28He never seen me, but he was there, you ask him.
00:55:35Doc, come into my office again, will you?
00:55:37Okay.
00:55:38And now do I get my financial reimbursement?
00:55:41There you are.
00:55:43You can always tell a gentleman by the way he treats a lady.
00:55:47Just a minute. I want you to wait in here.
00:55:58Come in, Doc.
00:56:02You don't look well, Doc. Sit down.
00:56:04Oh, I'm all right. Tired, that's all.
00:56:07Too much night work, I guess. I'm not as young as I was.
00:56:11What's up, Sam?
00:56:13Bard's death is a lucky break for you, isn't it, Doc?
00:56:16I don't get you.
00:56:17This Malverde guy, he's got a lot on his plate.
00:56:20He's got a lot on his plate.
00:56:22Bard's death is a lucky break for you, isn't it, Doc?
00:56:25I don't get you.
00:56:26This malpractice case, the grand jury's got on you.
00:56:29Bard did some investigating for the medical association, didn't he?
00:56:32Oh, he's got nothing on me.
00:56:34I wonder what happened to the evidence he dug up.
00:56:37It isn't in either his apartment or his office.
00:56:39Because there never was any.
00:56:41I heard different.
00:56:43Funny how it disappeared, isn't it, Doc?
00:56:45Oh, you're not insinuating that I...
00:56:47That you got a hold of it?
00:56:49Yes, I am, Doc.
00:56:51That's ridiculous.
00:56:52I haven't been out of the building since the body was found.
00:56:55Maybe you were out before it was found.
00:56:57I was not.
00:56:59You weren't in Bard's apartment earlier this evening?
00:57:01Certainly not.
00:57:02Along about 8.30?
00:57:03No.
00:57:05Suppose I told you you were seen going into Bard's apartment with one of your keys.
00:57:09You stayed there a few minutes, then left, locking the door after you.
00:57:11Whoever said that's a liar?
00:57:13Who's calling me a liar?
00:57:15It's yourself that's the liar.
00:57:17I seen ya.
00:57:18A-sneaking into the poor, murdered boy's apartment and sneaking out again.
00:57:22With the mark of can all over your face.
00:57:24And that's how the poison got in Bard's whiskey.
00:57:28Help! Help!
00:57:29Help! Help!
00:57:31Police! Police!
00:57:33Help!
00:57:44Stop him, Hamlet!
00:57:47Stop him!
00:58:18Stop him!
00:58:24There he is!
00:58:25Stop him!
00:58:40Take him away.
00:58:41Come on.
00:58:42Thanks.
00:58:43Who are you?
00:58:44I'm Zachary.
00:58:45Hey, that's the guy who broke jail.
00:58:46Yeah, the Philadelphia Phantom.
00:58:48I won my fight by a knockout, so now I'm back.
00:58:51You got back just in time.
00:58:53Well, I guess this ought to wash things up, eh?
00:58:55Not exactly. You're still under arrest.
00:58:57Well, if that ain't gratitude.
00:58:59Don't worry, Zachary. I'll be in your corner when the case comes up.
00:59:01Thanks, pal.
00:59:04You can count on both of us.
00:59:06I think Yeager's confession will be sufficient.
00:59:08Much obliged, Lieutenant.
00:59:10There's still a misdemeanor charge against you, Mr. Templeton.
00:59:12But I don't think it will interfere with your wedding plans.
00:59:15You're invited to our wedding, Lieutenant.
00:59:17Fine. I'll be there to kiss the bride.
00:59:20Good luck to both of you.
00:59:26Now, why couldn't something like that happen to me?
00:59:29Oh, nobody loves a copper.
00:59:31Why don't you ask her?
00:59:33Ask her?
00:59:34Ask who?
00:59:37What?
00:59:38Yeah, ask her out to breakfast with you.
00:59:39She ought to be pretty hungry by now.
00:59:40You're nuts.
00:59:41It's been done.
00:59:43After the going over I gave her?
00:59:45I still say it's been done.
00:59:50Maybe you got something there.
00:59:55You're free to go now.
00:59:57We have the confession of a Dr. Yeager.
00:59:59Oh.
01:00:00I'm glad you didn't touch that drink.
01:00:02So am I.
01:00:03I've just had the pleasure of telephoning Max Calvert...
01:00:06...and informing him that his stooge murdered Walla Bard...
01:00:09...which, of course, ruins his front page on Janet Bradley.
01:00:13And that's about all...
01:00:15...unless you want to tell me what you took away from Bard...
01:00:17...between ourselves, of course.
01:00:19I feel I can tell you now.
01:00:22I didn't trust you before.
01:00:24You didn't seem to be yourself, but now you do.
01:00:27Thanks.
01:00:28It's quite a story.
01:00:30Suppose I tell you about it some evening, soon.
01:00:34Suppose you do.
01:00:39Yes, the lieutenant was very complimentary, Mr. Jones.
01:00:42He said if I hadn't found the body in the clothes closet...
01:00:45...the case might never have been solved.
01:00:47Hey, fellas.
01:00:48Look at this.
01:00:49I'll call you back.
01:01:06Bye.