Episode aired Sep 13, 1960
Stars: Leslie Nielsen • George Grizzard • Natalie Trundy • Dianne Foster
Business executive Alan Patterson's life takes a surreal turn when two mentally disturbed people independently wind up with fixations on his life. One wants to marry him, and the other wants to be him.
Stars: Leslie Nielsen • George Grizzard • Natalie Trundy • Dianne Foster
Business executive Alan Patterson's life takes a surreal turn when two mentally disturbed people independently wind up with fixations on his life. One wants to marry him, and the other wants to be him.
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00:00 Her eyes.
00:01 They were often upon him.
00:07 Candid, admiring, possessive.
00:12 Her eyes.
00:15 Her extraordinary eyes.
00:20 Helen Patterson was aware of her eyes.
00:27 At the newsstand, at the lunch counter, in the elevator.
00:34 He was aware of them for almost a month.
00:38 And they were to lead him into guilt and terror and murder,
00:42 as sure as my name is, Boris Garlop.
00:46 Our story is about the watcher and the watched,
00:51 and a not so innocent bystander.
00:54 There's an outsider too, Alan's wife.
01:00 Four pairs of anxious eyes,
01:04 but no one could foresee the shattering effect of the twisted image.
01:10 That's the name of our story.
01:12 Our principal players are Mr. Leslie Nielsen,
01:17 Mr. George Grizzard,
01:20 Miss Natalie Trundy, and Miss Diane Foster.
01:26 Well, I'll say no more, but I promise you one thing.
01:32 This is a thriller.
01:35 Good morning, Mr. Patterson.
01:37 Good morning, Mary.
01:38 Good morning, Mr. Patterson.
01:39 Good morning, Mary.
01:40 Good morning, Mr. Patterson.
01:41 Good morning, Mary.
01:42 Good morning, Mr. Patterson.
01:43 Good morning, Mary.
01:44 Good morning, Mr. Patterson.
01:45 Good morning, Mr. Patterson.
01:46 Good morning, Mary.
01:47 Good morning, Mr. Patterson.
01:48 Good morning, Mary.
01:49 Good morning, Mr. Patterson.
01:50 Good morning, Mary.
01:51 Good morning, Mr. Patterson.
01:52 Good morning, Mary.
01:53 Good morning, Mr. Patterson.
01:54 Good morning, Mary.
01:55 Good morning, Mr. Patterson.
01:56 Good morning, Mary.
01:57 Good morning, Mr. Patterson.
01:58 Good morning, Mary.
01:59 Good morning, Mary.
02:00 Good morning, Mr. Patterson.
02:02 Good morning, Mr. Patterson.
02:03 Good morning, Mary.
02:04 Merle, I'd like to speak with you.
02:11 Yes, ma'am.
02:12 Merle, this is not your entrance.
02:14 You're to use the staff door down the hall, the same as everyone else.
02:17 I always forget. I'm sorry.
02:19 Apparently, you also forget. You're due in at 9 o'clock, not 9.20.
02:23 You may think you're an executive, Merle. You're not.
02:26 I'm sorry. There was a tie-up on the subway this morning.
02:28 No one can say you don't have a variety of excuses.
02:31 Mr. McKibb will be in at 9.30, Mr. Nicholson at 10, and you have a board meeting at 11.
02:36 I'll start with this first.
02:38 Alan?
02:40 Hello, Marge.
02:41 What's the matter?
02:43 I just had a run-in with one of the boys in the mailroom, Merle Jenkins.
02:47 Oh, what's the trouble?
02:49 He is never on time.
02:51 And ever since he's been here, little things have been missing.
02:54 What sort of things?
02:55 Stamps, for instance.
02:57 Pens, small change.
02:59 Any proof?
03:00 No, nothing concrete.
03:02 Well, I don't like to fire anyone just on suspicion.
03:07 Why don't we give him another week or so and see what happens?
03:09 Here's Stamps.
03:11 What's he look like?
03:12 Oh, Alan, for heaven's sake. He's in and out of your office four times a day with the mail.
03:17 Young, with blonde hair.
03:19 Kind of a smudged-up, carbon copy of you.
03:21 As a matter of fact, he acts as though he thought he were you.
03:24 Well, I guess I hadn't noticed.
03:27 Yes?
03:29 Mr. Prudy's on three.
03:30 Right, thank you.
03:31 Marge, we'll talk about this after lunch.
03:32 Yes, sure.
03:33 Have a very full morning.
03:34 Of course.
03:35 Hello, Bill. How are you?
03:38 Fine. How about lunch one day next week?
03:40 I'm sorry, Bill. I've given up your kind of lunches. I'm on a diet.
03:43 Who are you kidding?
03:44 No, I'm in it.
03:45 I've been eating in the drugstore in the building here for the past week.
03:48 May I share your table?
03:49 Would you mind telling me something? Why do you stare at me all the time?
03:51 I don't mind at all.
03:52 I'm not going to tell you.
03:53 I'm not going to tell you.
03:54 I'm not going to tell you.
03:55 I'm not going to tell you.
03:56 I'm not going to tell you.
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04:55 Yes, I do.
04:56 I like it very much.
04:57 It's my first job.
04:58 Well, that must be exciting.
04:59 Oh, it is, and it's such a nice job.
05:01 We only work from 9 to 5, and we have every Saturday off.
05:04 I wish I could say the same.
05:06 You have to work on Saturday?
05:08 Well, just this Saturday.
05:09 Nice meeting you, Miss Hanson.
05:10 Goodbye.
05:11 It's not goodbye, Alan.
05:23 And I'll wait to hear from you before making any decision, cordially yours, etc.
05:29 You want this one to go airmail special, too?
05:31 Yes.
05:32 Look, it's after 12.
05:33 Why don't you type that stuff up, and I'll go for lunch.
05:34 It won't be long, and then you can go when I get back.
05:36 Well, I brought a sandwich with me.
05:37 So many places are closed on Saturday.
05:39 Yes, well, I'll find some place.
05:40 You don't have to rush.
05:41 I have enough work to keep me busy for a couple of hours.
05:43 Oh, I have enough trouble staying on this diet without all that extra time.
05:52 Hello, I thought I'd come and keep you company for lunch.
05:55 You thought you could...
05:56 Mr. Patterson, I just remembered...
05:57 Oh, I'm sorry.
05:58 Oh, that's all right, Miss Radley.
05:59 I was just going to say that Pierre's is open on Saturday.
06:02 Thank you.
06:04 Oh, yes, Pierre's sounds lovely.
06:06 Such a wonderful lunch.
06:20 I've never been in a restaurant like this before in my whole life.
06:23 Oh, haven't you?
06:24 It must be wonderful to be able to eat in places like this all the time.
06:28 Well, someday you'll be able to.
06:30 Sometime you'll marry a nice young man.
06:32 Oh, no, I won't.
06:33 Marry a young man, I mean.
06:35 You can't depend on them.
06:37 Well, then, let's say you'll marry someone.
06:40 Yes.
06:41 Because I have a plan.
06:43 I do everything by plan.
06:45 I read an article once that said it's the only way to make things come out the way you want them to.
06:50 You're a very dedicated young lady, Lily.
06:52 Where are you from? You're not a New Yorker, are you?
06:54 I'm from Elmira.
06:56 Oh, it was awful. I stayed for two years to get to New York.
07:00 Aren't you lonely without your family?
07:02 Yes, but it doesn't bother me because I know it's just for now until my plan works out.
07:07 Well, that must be quite a plan.
07:09 I have to get back to the office. I have work to finish.
07:11 Oh, Alan, not yet. It's so nice just to sit here with you.
07:14 Alan.
07:15 Why, Bill, how are you?
07:18 Fine, fine, but I thought you'd given up lunches like this.
07:21 Well, you know, Saturday.
07:23 Oh, I'm sorry. Mr. Purdy, Miss Hanson.
07:28 How do you do?
07:29 Pleased to meet you.
07:31 Would you care to join us, Bill?
07:33 Oh, no thanks. I've had lunch.
07:35 Darling, can't Mr. Purdy at least sit and have a drink with us?
07:39 I do so want to meet all of your friends.
07:41 Well, I've got to catch a train.
07:44 So long, Alan.
07:45 Nice to have met you, Miss Hanson.
07:48 Darling, please don't be angry with me.
07:54 Lily, this is not a scene from a movie or some love story magazine.
08:00 I can't stand it when you talk to me that way.
08:02 Good Lord, don't cry.
08:05 I thought for bringing you here in the first place.
08:07 Get up. I'll call a cab.
08:09 Alan, will I see you on Monday?
08:14 No, I'll be very busy on Monday.
08:16 And every day.
08:18 Hi, handsome.
08:29 You've got a visitor in your room. A woman.
08:33 Why?
08:34 I saw the landlady let her in.
08:36 She said she was your sister.
08:38 My sister?
08:40 Well, that's what she said.
08:43 I'm sorry.
08:45 Hello, Merrill.
08:52 Surprised to see me?
08:54 What are you doing here?
08:57 I came to New York on business.
08:59 How did you find out where I live?
09:01 I called your office.
09:03 Naturally, I couldn't leave without seeing my own brother.
09:10 Besides, everyone was so impressed with your letters about how successful you are.
09:16 I was curious to see for myself.
09:18 Well, I haven't always lived here. This is just a temporary setback.
09:23 What a liar you are, Merrill.
09:26 And you always were.
09:28 Better close the door.
09:31 We don't want the neighbors in on our family discussion.
09:36 I suppose you're going to tell them now, all of them.
09:39 Now, why would I do anything like that?
09:42 Because you hate me.
09:45 You always have.
09:47 You made that up because I disciplined you.
09:50 Someone had to try at least to save you from being completely spoiled by mother.
09:54 She didn't spoil me. She tried to help me make something of myself.
09:57 Make you what?
09:59 Speech lessons, dramatic lessons, buying you more clothes than you knew what to do with?
10:08 Anybody think you were a girl, the way she treated you?
10:12 Is that why you always punished me when she wasn't around?
10:15 You wanted them for yourself?
10:17 I had better things to do with myself even then.
10:20 I failed pretty badly with you.
10:25 But I did try.
10:27 You didn't fail.
10:29 You succeeded in making me so afraid of...
10:32 of so many things I shouldn't be afraid of.
10:34 You said I'd never do anything, I'd never get anywhere.
10:37 It took me years to get over you.
10:40 But now you have, hmm?
10:42 Yes, now I have.
10:44 You're vice president of your firm, aren't you?
10:47 Or so you said in your letter.
10:49 I never said I was vice president.
10:51 Liar.
10:53 I said I was going to be vice president and I am going to be.
10:56 You can't steal jobs the way you steal things, brother dear.
11:02 You still do steal, don't you, Merle?
11:05 Shut up.
11:07 You're still afraid of me.
11:13 A full-grown man and still afraid of his sister.
11:20 You get out.
11:23 With pleasure.
11:25 You know, it's a pity that you look the way you do.
11:28 Such a pretty boy.
11:30 You'll never become a man because it's all on the outside.
11:34 What a waste.
11:37 Get out, Louise.
11:40 Any messages for the folks back home?
11:49 No?
11:51 I'm afraid I have to go.
11:53 I'm afraid I have to go.
11:55 No?
11:57 Well then, I'll just fill them in on your activities.
12:01 In the mail room.
12:03 Bye.
12:06 What's the matter with you tonight?
12:17 Nothing.
12:19 Except I love you.
12:21 Very, very much.
12:23 [snoring]
12:26 The call came for you just before you got home.
12:31 From Miss Hanson.
12:33 Hanson?
12:35 You don't look very pleased.
12:38 No.
12:40 That's all pretty silly, but I suppose I should tell you about it.
12:45 You like?
12:47 Actually, it's very little to tell.
12:49 She's a crazy kid.
12:51 Works down in our building.
12:53 She's not in your office.
12:56 No, but she eats at the same drugstore.
12:59 Yesterday, she sat down at my table, so I talked to her.
13:04 There must be more to it than that, or you wouldn't be so embarrassed.
13:07 Yes, well, there is a little more.
13:10 Today she showed up.
13:12 Drugstore was closed, so, uh...
13:15 Well, I took her to Pierre's.
13:17 But don't ask me why, because I don't know.
13:19 It just seemed like the simplest thing to do at the time.
13:21 And now you're scared to death.
13:23 No, it's just a little annoying, that's all.
13:25 And a little bit flattering.
13:28 However, I think you'd better make the situation quite clear to her on Monday
13:32 before you get in over your head.
13:34 Yes, I suppose I have to.
13:37 Better hurry or we'll be late.
13:39 Right.
13:41 You think because somebody's young, they're not lonely.
13:46 Lily, if you're lonely, I'm sorry, but there's nothing I can do about that.
13:50 I'm a married man who loves his wife and family very much.
13:54 Now, you're coming to the office and calling my home.
13:57 It's very embarrassing. It's got to stop.
13:59 You mean we'll never see each other again?
14:02 Of course we'll see one another.
14:04 Work in the same building,
14:06 bound to run into one another occasionally.
14:09 Oh, Alan, isn't there some way?
14:13 No.
14:15 I'll finish your lunch.
14:17 I only have one thing to say and then I'll leave.
14:23 I love you.
14:26 And I always will.
14:31 (APPLAUSE)
14:34 (MUSIC)
14:38 (MUSIC)
14:42 (MUSIC)
14:45 (MUSIC)
14:58 (MUSIC)
15:01 What is it, Melvin?
15:17 It's a telegram, Mr. Patterson.
15:19 Yes.
15:20 Miss Hanson is on one.
15:23 I don't want to talk to her. Get rid of her.
15:25 And come in here for a minute, will you?
15:28 Alan, I wish you'd stop. That is very annoying.
15:39 Oh, I'm sorry.
15:43 A little nervous tonight.
15:45 We both are.
15:47 I'm not at all nervous.
15:49 Well, something's the matter.
15:51 You have been trying to pick a quarrel with me all evening.
15:54 Alan, you did explain to your little friend, didn't you?
15:57 Yes.
15:59 Has something happened today you haven't told me about?
16:02 Mommy?
16:04 Darling, what are you doing up?
16:08 I woke up and I got lonesome and I need someone.
16:12 Oh, cry of the world.
16:15 Come on, darling, I'll take you back to bed and stay until you fall asleep.
16:19 You promise?
16:21 I promise. Will you say goodnight to your father?
16:24 Goodnight, Daddy.
16:26 Goodnight, sweetie.
16:28 [Music]
16:32 [Music]
16:36 [Music]
16:39 [Music]
16:42 [Music]
16:46 [Music]
16:50 [Music]
16:54 [Music]
16:58 [Music]
17:02 [Music]
17:07 [Music]
17:10 Hi.
17:24 Good evening.
17:25 Did you take on an extra job waiting tables or something?
17:28 That's not funny.
17:29 Well, I just want to know what you're all dressed up like that for.
17:32 I'm all dressed up like this, as you put it, so I can go somewhere I can breathe.
17:36 Somewhere I belong.
17:38 Oh, excuse me.
17:42 [Phone ringing]
17:48 Hello.
17:54 It's me, Lily. I'm calling from outside, but I'm going right home. You must come.
17:59 Wrong number.
18:03 Oh.
18:05 [Phone ringing]
18:08 You better answer it. You wouldn't want to keep Miss Hansen waiting.
18:15 Hello.
18:22 Alan, don't hang up on me. I must see you tonight.
18:25 I don't live very far away. It's 539 East 59th Street.
18:29 I'm calling from outside, but I'm going right home. You must come.
18:31 I have no intention of seeing you tonight or any other night.
18:59 Miss Hansen? Miss Hansen?
19:02 It is Miss Hansen, isn't it?
19:04 Who are you?
19:05 I'm Merle Jenkins.
19:07 We work in the same building, remember?
19:11 Oh, yes. I guess I've seen you in the elevator.
19:14 But how do you know my name?
19:16 Well, Alan, Mr. Patterson, that is, has mentioned you several times.
19:19 Alan?
19:21 Are you a friend of Alan's?
19:23 Yes, we work for the same firm.
19:25 Oh, I've got to talk to you.
19:26 Oh, it'd be a pleasure.
19:28 You've been crying. What's the matter?
19:31 That's what I'd like to talk to you about.
19:34 All right.
19:35 Why don't I go and get a bottle of wine?
19:37 No, champagne.
19:39 You can't drink champagne and cry. They just don't go together.
19:41 I don't want any.
19:42 Why don't I go and get it and bring it up to your apartment?
19:45 My plans have fallen through for the evening.
19:47 I've got plenty of time. You can tell me all your troubles.
19:50 You've been drinking already, haven't you?
19:53 Why, just a few martinis before dinner.
19:56 Now you run along and I'll get the champagne and I'll be right with you.
19:59 We can talk about Alan.
20:01 It's 5.39, just down the block.
20:04 Fine, I won't be a minute.
20:06 Good evening, sir. Can I help you?
20:22 Yes, I'd like a bottle of champagne, please.
20:23 All right, sir. Imported or domestic?
20:25 Well, how do they run?
20:27 Well, the imported run you eight and a half up, the domestic four bucks.
20:32 Oh.
20:34 Come to think of it, it's foolish to get champagne.
20:37 The girl I'm taking it to has got no palate at all.
20:41 Just run you a buck and a half.
20:43 Well, I wish you'd say something.
20:49 You're still telephoning, so obviously you didn't make your position very clear today.
20:53 Judy, I have told you there's no such thing as making anything clear to this girl.
20:56 Yes, you told me.
20:57 But one lunch, even two, doesn't give any woman a claim to a man if that's all there is to it.
21:01 Yes, well, I thought we'd get to that.
21:03 How could we not?
21:04 If I give you my solemn word that what I told you is the absolute truth, will you believe me?
21:09 Well, Alan, I want to. You don't know how desperately I want to.
21:13 But you can't.
21:15 Well, you did last night.
21:16 So something has happened today to change your mind.
21:18 Something besides those telephone calls.
21:21 Alan, I have been thinking about it all day, asking myself what would happen if it were true.
21:28 If you were having an affair with her, how much would I care?
21:32 Well, did you come up with any answers or are you still trying to make up your mind?
21:36 The answer is I would care very much.
21:39 I know now I couldn't bear it.
21:42 If you have been thinking about this all day, then something has happened.
21:45 Now, what is it?
21:50 I think you're lying to me.
21:52 Mostly for music, the Willie Elkram show.
22:03 Continuing with a new item, pretty and polite, you name it.
22:06 Here we are.
22:08 Especially imported from France for your pleasure, madame.
22:11 They didn't have any champagne iced and you can't drink it warm, so I brought burgundy instead.
22:15 It doesn't really matter. I didn't want any.
22:17 Oh, nonsense. A little glass of wine is going to cheer you right up.
22:20 Where are the glasses?
22:22 Over there in the kitchen.
22:24 They're not wine glasses, but it doesn't matter.
22:30 Where's the corkscrew?
22:32 You don't need one. With this kind, you just turn the top.
22:35 Oh.
22:36 Here we are.
22:42 (liquid pouring)
22:44 Skol.
22:50 It's bitter.
22:56 Well, you're just not used to it, that's all.
23:00 You're pretty.
23:04 You're very pretty, did you know that?
23:06 Not tonight, I look terrible.
23:08 No, you've just been crying, that's all.
23:11 Why don't you tell me all about it?
23:15 What's the problem?
23:18 Did you and Alan have a little misunderstanding?
23:20 Yes, but that's all it was. If I could only talk to him, I know we could straighten it out.
23:24 I'm sure you could.
23:26 You're his girlfriend, aren't you?
23:29 Yes, I am.
23:31 (soft music)
23:33 Dear Mrs. Patterson,
23:46 I think there are some things about Alan and me you ought to know.
23:50 Would you write me and let me know when I can come and see you?
23:54 Sincerely yours,
23:56 Miss Lily Hansen.
24:00 You have to plan things the way I did.
24:03 I even picked out the building where I wanted to work.
24:07 I did that first and then I got a job there.
24:10 I wanted a building where a lot of old established firms had their offices.
24:15 And then I just waited.
24:18 I watched the men who worked there.
24:21 And one day I saw Alan.
24:24 And I knew right away he was the one I'd been looking for.
24:28 (knocking)
24:30 How'd you get to know him?
24:32 I just kept staring at him until he spoke to me.
24:35 I knew you would.
24:37 Just as I know he didn't mean it when he said he'll never see me anymore.
24:42 Once he leaves his wife...
24:44 Oh, come on. He's not gonna leave his wife.
24:46 I can't help it that she called. The number's in the book. Anybody who can read can look it up.
24:50 I thought you'd given it to her.
24:52 I don't know what to say to you.
24:54 What you have to say is not to me, it's to Miss Hansen.
24:57 And I suggest that you say it as soon as possible and say it so that she finally knows you mean it.
25:01 And what would you have me say to her that I haven't already said?
25:05 That she is not to call here again under any circumstances.
25:08 This is my house and I won't stand for it.
25:10 You can find some other way to keep in contact with her.
25:13 Judy! I have had just about enough.
25:16 I quite agree with you.
25:18 I don't find this discussion about your squalid little affair very interesting.
25:21 As a matter of fact, I find it and you disgusting.
25:26 Alan! Oh, Alan, no! Alan, I...
25:30 She's beautiful.
25:35 And she's a lady, a real lady.
25:38 Just the same, he's going to leave her.
25:41 I wrote her a letter and I'm going to see her to explain how much we love one another.
25:45 And when she knows that, she'll let him go.
25:47 And he'll come to see me.
25:49 He won't have any other place to go.
25:51 You're dreaming.
25:53 I just don't talk about Alan anymore.
25:56 He's not here.
25:59 I am.
26:02 I'm in love with Alan.
26:08 Then you could be in love with me.
26:10 I'm just as good looking as he is.
26:12 I got twice as much brains and one day I'm going to have his job.
26:15 I'll bet.
26:17 Look at me, Lily.
26:19 Who do I look like?
26:21 Who do I remind you of?
26:23 Don't you see how much I look like Alan Patterson?
26:28 Like Alan?
26:30 That's the funniest thing I've ever heard.
26:33 Stop it.
26:36 You don't look like anybody.
26:38 Don't say that.
26:40 And you're drunk and if you don't get out of here, I'm going to call the police.
26:44 You sit there and you listen to me.
26:46 It's very late. I have to get up.
26:48 It's seven in the morning.
26:49 It's not late. It's just a few minutes after ten, see?
26:52 I know, but I'm very tired. I think...
26:55 Look at the watch.
26:57 See those buttons there on the side?
27:00 Push those and it turns into a stopwatch.
27:03 I bet you never saw a watch like that before.
27:06 It's very nice.
27:09 Alan's got one too.
27:11 Well, this is not Alan's. It's mine.
27:13 I've had it for a long time. My mother gave it to me.
27:16 I've had it for a long time. My mother gave it to me when I was 21.
27:19 So don't go saying it belongs to Alan Patterson.
27:22 I didn't.
27:24 Why should I say a thing like that?
27:27 Please go home now. I have to go to work in the morning.
27:31 Not if you don't want to.
27:33 Alan's got plenty of money.
27:35 You ought to get you a real nice apartment somewhere and give your money so you wouldn't have to work.
27:39 That's what I'd do if I was him.
27:45 If I was him...
27:48 I'd have a wonderful apartment on the river.
27:52 And a wife like her.
27:55 A real lady.
27:58 And I'd be where I belong.
28:02 Where are you going?
28:06 Don't...
28:09 Don't touch me. Please.
28:11 I'm not going to hurt you.
28:12 If you come any closer I'll scream. I swear I will.
28:15 You don't scream when Alan touches you. Why should you scream now?
28:19 Don't. Don't. Nobody's going to hurt you.
28:25 Just like Louise. You're just like her.
28:30 She was always hurting me too.
28:33 (Music)
29:01 I wonder why I ever thought you were pretty.
29:04 Who are you looking for? Most of them bells don't work.
29:13 A Miss Hanson.
29:14 Oh, she's in all right. I heard her radio blast. Didn't think she was deaf or something.
29:18 I guess you might just want to just climb up and knock.
29:22 Yes, I guess I'd better. Thank you.
29:25 (Music)
29:41 Miss Hanson?
29:44 It's me, Alan.
29:49 Miss Hanson?
29:52 (Music)
30:02 Encore for Oligar. It's our peak of the week. Runaway Riff.
30:07 (Music)
30:17 You're not so high and mighty now, are you?
30:22 You and your big job.
30:25 Your apartment, your wife.
30:29 That big gunboat of a car.
30:33 Things have changed, haven't they?
30:42 You don't look so grand now.
30:48 Not any better than she does.
30:51 (Music)
31:14 Thanks for the raise.
31:17 (Music)
31:23 (Phone rings)
31:26 Hello?
31:28 No, you have the wrong number.
31:46 (Music)
32:15 (Music)
32:21 (Music)
32:44 (Music)
33:07 Miss Hanson?
33:11 Miss Hanson, are you all right?
33:14 Miss Hanson, are you all right?
33:21 Take it easy. I'm coming. I'm...
33:33 Oh, another bottle?
33:35 I'd like a bottle of your best champagne, please.
33:38 That's 15 bucks.
33:40 That's quite all right.
33:42 Just as you say.
33:44 That'll be 15.45, please.
33:47 Keep the change.
33:50 I told you I'm playing poker and I'm playing poker.
33:53 Hello, Marge. Thank God I got you at home.
33:55 Listen, do you by any chance know where this Merle Jenkins lives?
33:57 You're giving me a hand right now.
33:59 Well, where downtown?
34:01 Yes, I was afraid you wouldn't know exactly where.
34:02 Now lay off.
34:03 It's that far down. I'll have to get the car.
34:04 You know I wouldn't kid you.
34:05 Yes, yes, there's trouble.
34:07 Got to find him.
34:08 I'll have to go to the office and get his address.
34:10 No, no, no, Marge. Listen, I can't explain now.
34:12 Just stand by. I may need you.
34:14 Well, so long. I'll talk to you later.
34:17 [car engine]
34:19 [car engine]
34:21 [music]
34:35 Oh!
34:49 [laughs]
34:51 Merle! Merle! Merle!
35:12 Oh, goodness.
35:16 [music]
35:19 [music]
35:46 You want to dance?
35:48 Sure. Why not?
35:50 You know something? You're cute.
36:10 My name's Sue.
36:12 Mine's Alan. Alan Patterson.
36:15 Merle? Merle? Merle? Merle?
36:22 Hey, you! You want to wake up the whole house? The guy's not there.
36:26 Have you seen him?
36:30 He went out a couple hours ago. He's all dressed up, ready for a big night.
36:33 Has he been back since?
36:35 I ain't heard anybody come in in the last hour or so.
36:38 Yeah. Yeah, well, I'll wait outside for him.
36:42 You can do anything you like so long as you do it quiet.
36:45 [music]
36:56 [music]
36:58 [chatter]
37:14 [chatter]
37:16 What happened? The girl was killed. She was murdered.
37:28 I saw the guy that killed her.
37:30 So did I. He went right by me. He was a tall guy with blonde hair wearing one of them tuxedos.
37:34 No, he wasn't wearing no tuxedo. He was tall, he had blonde hair, and he had a little scar on his cheek like a bullet nicked him or something.
37:42 But he was wearing a regular suit.
37:44 What's the matter? Are you all right?
37:46 I'm fine, thank you.
37:48 Did you know her?
37:49 No, no. It's just such an awful thing.
37:52 [music]
37:54 I'd like to have a bottle of champagne, please.
38:07 Beer or nothing, buddy. That's all we sell.
38:10 If that's all you sell, not much I can do about it, is there?
38:15 Not a thing.
38:17 What kind of place is this? All they sell is beer.
38:26 What do you want? Champagne?
38:28 As a matter of fact, yes. It's my favorite drink.
38:31 Lucky you.
38:33 Yes, I suppose I have been lucky.
38:36 I've gone pretty far for somebody my age.
38:39 That's nice.
38:40 Listen, why don't we get out of here and go somewhere we can get something fit to drink?
38:44 Uh-uh, it's against the rules. I work here. That is, I'm a hostess.
38:49 You're too beautiful to work in a place like this.
38:53 You ought to have a lovely apartment uptown. Somebody to take care of you properly.
39:01 Who'd you have in mind? You?
39:05 Why not? I can afford it.
39:09 I'm vice president of my firm now. The man who used to be.
39:13 A man named Merle Jenkins got into some rather nasty trouble with a girl and he lost his job and I got it.
39:18 You know what I think? I think you're a big phony.
39:22 Don't say that.
39:24 Why not? You bought me two beers. No privileges go with them, Buster.
39:28 I can spot a phony a mile away. Let alone sitting across the table from one.
39:34 You little tramp.
39:36 Bert! Bert!
39:39 Come on! Come on!
39:43 Hello? Judy.
39:45 Alan, where are you? I've been worried sick.
39:48 No, I'm all right. There's nothing to worry about. I'll be home soon.
39:51 Alan, I know all about it. I went there.
39:55 Where? To that girl's apartment.
39:57 The police were there and a man described you. They think you killed her.
40:02 I think you killed her.
40:05 I think you killed her.
40:08 (Suspenseful music)
40:11 (Suspenseful music)
40:39 Alan, it's all my fault. Forgive me.
40:42 Now, there's nothing to forgive, dear. I know who did it. Merle Jenkins.
40:45 He's a mail clerk at our office. I'm waiting for him now.
40:48 Why can't you call the police?
40:50 Judy, you don't understand. I can't go into details. Now, just take it easy.
40:54 I'll call you back as soon as I can.
40:56 Bert!
40:59 (Suspenseful music)
41:02 Did you see anyone drive away in a dark gray car that was parked here?
41:14 Yeah, a guy all dressed up.
41:17 He looked a little like you, only a little shorter. He came out of there.
41:21 Is the dance hall? Thanks, Duke.
41:24 (Suspenseful music)
41:27 Alan!
41:44 Hello, darling.
41:47 Don't do that, darling. It's just me.
41:53 Come home.
41:56 Sue, come over here a minute, will you?
41:59 What's the matter now?
42:02 That kook you were with tonight snatched the car. This guy's looking for him.
42:05 He wants to know his name.
42:07 His name is Alan Patterson.
42:10 Do you have a phone?
42:14 Yeah, there's one right over there on the wall.
42:16 Thank you.
42:21 (Suspenseful music)
42:24 (Phone ringing)
42:35 (Phone ringing)
42:41 (Phone ringing)
42:50 (Phone ringing)
42:53 Don't be afraid, Judy. I'm not going to hurt you.
43:03 I wouldn't hurt you for the world.
43:07 Now, won't you sit down and listen?
43:10 All right.
43:13 (Suspenseful music)
43:17 (Suspenseful music)
43:20 I'm listening.
43:23 What do you want?
43:26 What do I want?
43:29 A man comes home, he expects...
43:32 He has a right.
43:35 To what? A right to what?
43:38 Why do you say you've come home?
43:41 Because.
43:43 Because this is my home.
43:46 Don't go away. I'm not going away.
43:50 I just think that we should talk this over and...
43:52 Why don't you sit there and...
43:54 I'll make you a drink.
43:57 Yes, a drink. That's what I need.
44:01 What would you like? Scotch?
44:04 Anything you say, darling.
44:08 I need some ice.
44:11 I'll be right back.
44:40 Why is all the noise?
44:43 Who are you?
44:47 Don't you know me either?
44:50 I'm your daddy.
44:52 You are not.
44:55 (Drumming)
44:58 Leticia! Leticia!
45:01 (Screaming)
45:04 Go ahead!
45:08 Judy, where is he? He's got Leticia.
45:10 Where? Where? In the kitchen.
45:13 He's gone down to the service elevator. Call the police. I'll use the stairs.
45:22 Go on, Alan. Hurry, hurry.
45:25 (Whistling)
45:29 (Whistling)
45:32 (Whistling)
45:36 (Whistling)
45:39 (Whistling)
46:02 (Whistling)
46:05 (Knocking)
46:08 (Whistling)
46:35 (Crying)
46:38 Merle? Merle?
46:46 The police are on the way.
46:49 Let the child go.
46:52 Merle.
46:58 Merle, the only way out of here is the way you came in.
47:01 Now, the police will have that blocked any minute.
47:04 I won't stop you, Merle. Just leave the child and go.
47:08 Merle.
47:15 (Bell ringing)
47:19 (Door opening)
47:22 (Crying)
47:35 (Bell ringing)
47:48 (Bell ringing)
47:51 (Gunshot)
47:56 Leticia.
47:59 Leticia.
48:05 Leticia.
48:08 Are you all right? Are you all right, dear?
48:11 (Groaning)
48:14 (Groaning)
48:17 (Whistling)
48:34 (Whistling)
48:38 (Sobbing)
48:42 (Siren wailing)
48:46 (Siren wailing)
48:50 (Drumming)
48:53 (Drumming)
48:56 (Drumming)
48:59 (Drumming)
49:02 (Drumming)
49:31 (Gunshot)
49:34 (car engine revving)