An escaped convicted murderer hides out at a New York wax museum where he hopes to get plastic surgery, which will help him revenge himself on Charlie Chan.
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00:01:00For a most brutal murder instigated by robbery,
00:01:03a murder whereof you, Stephen McBurney,
00:01:06stand convicted after a fair trial by jury,
00:01:09it is the judgment of this court
00:01:11that you are hereby sentenced to the punishment of death,
00:01:15to be executed upon you at Sing Sing Prison
00:01:19during the week of December 9th.
00:01:21December 9th.
00:01:22Thanks, Judge.
00:01:23I won't have to do any Christmas shopping.
00:01:30And thank you, Mr. Chan, for what his honor just handed me.
00:01:33Your evidence sticks me in the death house,
00:01:36and I won't forget it while I'm alive.
00:01:39Come on, Mac.
00:01:40Threats won't help your appeal.
00:01:51Well, Charlie, you put him where he belongs.
00:01:53I hope you don't let his threats keep you awake.
00:01:56On contrary.
00:01:57Conviction of most dangerous public enemy.
00:02:00Bring more peaceful sleep.
00:02:10What's that shooting?
00:02:11McBurney. Grab the deputy's gun.
00:02:13Shooting his way out.
00:02:27Bang! Bang!
00:02:29Bang!
00:02:44You gonna stay here all night?
00:02:46Take it easy.
00:02:49Bus leaving right away.
00:02:51Next stop, Chinatown.
00:02:53Come on, everybody. Step smart.
00:02:55Bus leaving right away.
00:02:57Next stop, Chinatown.
00:02:59The mysterious orient in the heart of New York.
00:03:01Shake a leg, folks.
00:03:03Step right this way, folks. Step fast.
00:03:05And you'll see Chinatown before she goes to bed.
00:03:08Let's go, Bill.
00:03:10Let's go.
00:03:25You've got an awful nerve asking me to marry you in that chamber of horrors.
00:03:29What do you think marriage is, anyway?
00:03:40Can't you read? We're closed for the night.
00:03:42Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. Well, where is he?
00:03:44He's busy. Says he don't want to be bothered.
00:03:49That's only a dummy, you dummy.
00:03:52Come on.
00:04:01You can't go in there.
00:04:03Watch this carefully.
00:04:05This is a difficult but brilliant move.
00:04:09You can't beat it.
00:04:22What a splendid. Suburb.
00:04:25I was not prepared for that.
00:04:27But watch this one.
00:04:29Hey, is he playing chess with that dummy or am I crazy?
00:04:39Wait. Let's checkmate.
00:04:42You've got me.
00:04:46Max.
00:04:47Hello, Doc.
00:04:49What's the idea?
00:04:50Oh, a little less than a strategy.
00:04:52I was coaching my protégé.
00:04:56So you're the Wakes.
00:04:58A mechanical woman.
00:05:00Gentlemen, my assistant, Miss Latimer.
00:05:05I'm glad to know you, babe.
00:05:06Well, Lily, my dear.
00:05:08Don't you recognize Steve McBurney?
00:05:12He's been with us for a long time.
00:05:14He's been with us for a long time.
00:05:16He's been with us for a long time.
00:05:18He's been with us for a long time.
00:05:20He's been with us for a long time.
00:05:22He's been with us for a long time.
00:05:24He's been with us for years.
00:05:28The little boy from New York's Hell's Kitchen
00:05:30who went out west and made good in Chicago.
00:05:32Gee, Mac, it's you.
00:05:34Yeah.
00:05:35And Butcher Dagan.
00:05:37He wasn't that beautiful when they fished him out of Lake Michigan
00:05:40with the 13 bullets you pumped into him.
00:05:48Hope you never double-cross me, Doc.
00:05:50Well, Mac, I'm no fool.
00:05:51That's what I hear.
00:05:55Well, you got a great racket.
00:05:58A wax museum on top of the sweetest hideout
00:06:01the mobs ever had.
00:06:03No wonder the cops never bothered you.
00:06:09You know, Granik, that Doc is smart.
00:06:12He makes faces behind their backs.
00:06:15Do you ever see the faces he makes?
00:06:17Oh, this wax stuff is okay.
00:06:19No, no.
00:06:20Before he operated on the law,
00:06:21he was the best facial surgeon in the country.
00:06:24A face doctor?
00:06:25Sure.
00:06:29Well, Doc,
00:06:31it's my turn now.
00:06:33Change this map.
00:06:35Fix it so no cop will ever know me.
00:06:37Well, that would be easy, Mac.
00:06:39But why not come back in a month
00:06:41when this getaway is blown over?
00:06:43Oh, no.
00:06:44You start the job now.
00:06:46Tonight.
00:06:47Tonight.
00:06:50Lily, you'd better go downstairs
00:06:52and prepare things for an operation.
00:06:57Hey, what's her angle?
00:06:59She's my assistant in surgery, too.
00:07:04Follow me.
00:07:08Of course, you realize that you'll have to hang out here
00:07:11for two or three weeks after the surgery.
00:07:13Well, swell. I can use the rest.
00:07:18You know them, Joe?
00:07:20That was Steve McBurney just come in.
00:07:22He...
00:07:28Joe.
00:07:30I'm forgetting lately.
00:07:32Steve's your pal.
00:07:34Sure, didn't he knock off Butcher Dagan for framing you?
00:07:37I remember.
00:07:39That's what I call a real pal, Joe.
00:07:48So this is the Chamber of Horrors.
00:07:50Spooky joint. I sure hate to be found dead here.
00:07:59Is this where you operate, Doc?
00:08:01Oh, no. Just an exhibit in there.
00:08:08That's a genuine electric chair.
00:08:12Still in use two years ago.
00:08:15Still in use two years ago.
00:08:17109 murders. Met death on it.
00:08:19Yeah, I had a date with his brother, thanks to Charlie Chan.
00:08:23Hey, Mac, get a load. The real thing.
00:08:26Careful. That's a switchboard for the museum.
00:08:28Serves as atmosphere here.
00:08:30But it's practical.
00:08:32Say, Doc, you're the one practical thing around here for me.
00:08:36I want the best face you ever made.
00:08:38Just so as I can walk up to Chan and say,
00:08:41Hiya, Charlie, before I let him have it.
00:08:44Yeah, and won't that copper be surprised?
00:08:54Charlie, do you mean to tell me you've never been surprised in your life?
00:08:58Only one occasion, Inspector.
00:09:01When honorable wife announce arrival of 13th offspring.
00:09:06Always prefer to utilize element of surprise.
00:09:10Never to be victim.
00:09:12Well, I wish I could say that.
00:09:14Haven't gotten over McBarney's little courtroom surprise yet.
00:09:18Three weeks ago yesterday.
00:09:20He must have gotten out of town or we'd have him.
00:09:23Only very foolish mouse make nest in cat's ear.
00:09:27Hello, Pop. Inspector.
00:09:29Hope I'm not interrupting.
00:09:31Hello, Mary. Who let you in?
00:09:33That's Jimmy. He's our scout leader.
00:09:35Mary Bolton, reporter at PES, Daily Record.
00:09:37How do you do, Mr. Chan?
00:09:40Hi, Doctor. Inspector.
00:09:42Charlie, this is Dr. Cream of the Cream Crime Museum.
00:09:46I'm very happy to meet you, Mr. Chan.
00:09:50Oh, Inspector, this is Dr. Bun.
00:09:53Von Bram.
00:09:55Dr. Otto Von Bram.
00:09:57Formerly with the Berlin Police Department.
00:09:59Today I specialize in the psycho-criminology.
00:10:02Well, there's one cop to another, Doctor.
00:10:05What's that?
00:10:06A detective who uses microscope instead of common sense.
00:10:09Please, allow parent to make Confucius saying.
00:10:13So, Mr. Chan,
00:10:15you do not believe in the scientific methods for apprehending criminals, eh?
00:10:19Any powder that kills flea is good powder.
00:10:23Now, can law student explain crime of playing hooky?
00:10:27Well, I didn't mean to cut classes, Pop,
00:10:30but they, Miss Bolton and Dr. Cream,
00:10:32came up to college with a great idea.
00:10:34Pop, you're going into radio,
00:10:36on the Crime League broadcast from the Museum of Crime.
00:10:38This is all Dr. Cream's idea, and a swell yarn for me.
00:10:41But you confer first with chip off old chopstick.
00:10:44Well, only because I remembered where to find Jimmy
00:10:46when we couldn't locate you today.
00:10:48You see, each week we have a famous detective
00:10:51who tries to unravel some old unsolved crime.
00:10:54On tonight's broadcast, we had hoped that you and Dr. Von Bram
00:10:57might throw some new light on the Rock case.
00:11:00Yeah, isn't that a swell idea?
00:11:03Let honor of advertising museum go to scientific detective.
00:11:08Tomorrow, parent depart for Honolulu.
00:11:11Tonight, same prefer good dinner to ancient crime.
00:11:15Excuse, please.
00:11:18But, Mr. Chan, this is your favorite unsolved crime.
00:11:23Do you recognize this man?
00:11:26Likeness of Joseph Rock.
00:11:28Innocent man hanged for crime he did not commit.
00:11:31Real murderer never caught.
00:11:33This is an insult to my ability.
00:11:35Once before you made such a statement.
00:11:38Joe Rock was convicted on my scientific evidence.
00:11:42How dare you insinuate?
00:11:44Now, boys, don't get violent.
00:11:46People have been arguing for years
00:11:47over whether Joe Rock fired that poison dart.
00:11:49Well, you could settle it tonight on my broadcast.
00:11:51Sorry, must decline.
00:11:53Ah, surely you're not afraid
00:11:55to cross the wits with my logic and science.
00:11:58Perhaps you leave the town
00:11:59because of Steve McBurney's threats, yeah?
00:12:02My pop don't run away from anybody.
00:12:05But it might look that way
00:12:06if you don't accept this challenge.
00:12:08What will I tell the fellows in my class?
00:12:10Challenge?
00:12:12Dr. Cream make same in presence of offspring's classmates?
00:12:16Yeah, and I accept it for you.
00:12:19I'm sorry you're turning us down, Mr. Chan.
00:12:21Would be an unusual experience for you.
00:12:24You most anxious for humble presence
00:12:26at broadcast tonight?
00:12:28It's a question of showmanship.
00:12:30I know what the public wants.
00:12:33We'll imitate woman and change mind.
00:12:36Most happy to accept unusual radio invitation.
00:12:40Splendid, Mr. Chan.
00:12:41This is news.
00:12:42Thank you, Mr. Chan.
00:12:43You'll be there at 8 o'clock.
00:12:45We go on at 8.15.
00:12:46I'll be there.
00:12:47So long.
00:12:48I'll be there too, Pop, in case you need any help.
00:12:51Contradiction, please.
00:12:53At 8 o'clock, young legal sprout
00:12:55have date for lecture on old Roman law.
00:12:58No hooky.
00:13:00Okay, no hooky.
00:13:02Say, Charlie,
00:13:03you certainly changed your mind in a hurry.
00:13:06I'd have given odds
00:13:07you wouldn't go for that phony challenge.
00:13:09Correction, please.
00:13:10Challenge may solve more than rock case tonight.
00:13:14Dr. Cream, once famous surgeon,
00:13:17now friend of many criminals,
00:13:19like Steve McBurney.
00:13:21What's on your mind, Pop?
00:13:22Yeah, come clean.
00:13:24Possible McBurney visit doctor for perfect disguise.
00:13:29Underworld once whispered his former partner,
00:13:32Butcher Dagon,
00:13:34received same from Dr. Cream.
00:13:37A new face.
00:13:38Well, he wasn't wearing it when they found his body.
00:13:41Say, what are you driving at?
00:13:43Perhaps wrong man found and buried.
00:13:46Perhaps wrong man found and buried.
00:13:49Faceless body in water three months.
00:13:52Have long suspected Butcher Dagon,
00:13:55ruthless killer, not dead, but still alive.
00:13:58And hiding behind face created by Dr. Cream.
00:14:02Perhaps where the doctor
00:14:04have secret purpose behind challenge tonight.
00:14:08You think Cream's coming here
00:14:09has something to do with McBurney?
00:14:11A trap.
00:14:12Knowledge only gained through curiosity.
00:14:15I think I'll catch your act tonight, Charlie.
00:14:18In fact, I'll go with you.
00:14:19No, please.
00:14:21Mice only play when cat supposed to be in bed.
00:14:46The mother, the son,
00:14:49and the music teacher.
00:14:52Correctly seated at the fatal breakfast table
00:14:54that sent Joe Rock to the gallows.
00:14:56We'll be seated that way tonight.
00:14:58My pal.
00:15:01And he sits right there.
00:15:06Hey, you.
00:15:07Don't touch that, you'll get burned to a crisp.
00:15:11Dr. Cream, I didn't do this.
00:15:13I wouldn't.
00:15:14It's dangerous.
00:15:15Shut up and get out of here.
00:15:16Come on, get out.
00:15:17Mac.
00:15:19Don't go through with this insane plan.
00:15:20It'll ruin me.
00:15:21No, it can't.
00:15:23It's all part of a gag that goes wrong.
00:15:26Crazy Willie there rigs up an electric chair.
00:15:28He puts too much heat on and someone gets hurt.
00:15:31No cop will ever believe that one.
00:15:33Well, what are you gonna do about it?
00:15:35You queer this and you're both through.
00:15:37Don't get excited.
00:15:38We're all in it with you.
00:15:40No choice.
00:15:41It's about time Granica got down off that pole.
00:15:55You know, listening to the broadcast week after week
00:15:59give me the idea.
00:16:02Von Braun, the old Rock case.
00:16:06The one case Chan would go for.
00:16:09That phony challenge got him.
00:16:12Now, all we have to do is to wait for Chan to be seated comfortably.
00:16:17Then...
00:16:20Okay.
00:16:22Yeah, she's hooked up to the switchboard now.
00:16:24Just tap 2,300 volts from that high tension.
00:16:26Now, it can't fail.
00:16:27Not a chance.
00:16:28If you will please excuse me.
00:16:33You can't go through with this.
00:16:34It'll ruin everything.
00:16:35This place, your racket.
00:16:36What can I do?
00:16:37It may turn out the way he says.
00:16:38You know it can't.
00:16:39My throat, it's very dry.
00:17:06Am I too late?
00:17:07We're closed up, ma'am.
00:17:08But you said you'd let me in.
00:17:10You told me Dr. Von Braun was coming.
00:17:12Oh, I forget.
00:17:14I thought you were Joe Rock's friend.
00:17:16I am.
00:17:17I am.
00:17:18He's my pal.
00:17:19Then give him this.
00:17:22Oh, no, no.
00:17:23I never touch those things.
00:17:24You know he needs protection tonight.
00:17:26He's in great danger.
00:17:28Yeah, that's right.
00:17:29You can't let Joe down.
00:17:32You take it to him.
00:17:37Not that way.
00:17:38This way.
00:17:43Use the upstairs way.
00:17:44And then go right home.
00:17:46I understand.
00:17:49I'll make my rounds and break my clock.
00:18:03Bad night, eh, Frank?
00:18:08Yeah.
00:18:11You know, I feel like a little sick.
00:18:13Of course.
00:18:14It's okay.
00:18:20It's okay, Frank.
00:18:33No difference.
00:26:24Testing.
00:26:25One, two, three, four.
00:26:26Testing.
00:26:28One, two, three, four.
00:26:32We're ready downtown.
00:26:33We go in two minutes.
00:26:40I can't tell Tan I have business here.
00:26:42Yeah, You can't break in here
00:26:44like this, can I?
00:26:45I tell you, I've got to see, Dr Creed.
00:26:47I'm Dr Creed.
00:26:48What is it?
00:26:49My name is Lane.
00:26:50Connor Lane, representing Mrs. Rock.
00:26:51Joe Rock's wife?
00:26:52Yes. Is she here?
00:26:54Why would she come here?
00:26:55We heard about the broadcast and it must not be made.
00:26:58She doesn't want this Rock case discussed.
00:27:00Why not? What is she afraid of?
00:27:01Humiliation and rather painful memories.
00:27:04He can't stop us.
00:27:05We are within our rights, Mr. Lane.
00:27:07The suit for damages will determine that.
00:27:09Don't let him scare you.
00:27:11He's afraid of what Dr. Von Braun and Mr. Chan have turned up.
00:27:14What do you mean?
00:27:15It is imperative the broadcast is made.
00:27:18One clue I did not understand tonight.
00:27:21She's clear.
00:27:22I will tell everything about Joe Rock.
00:27:25Sensations.
00:27:27To the radio. I will tell the police where to find the real murderer.
00:27:31That's why Mr. Lane is here.
00:27:32To prevent you from telling.
00:27:34I know you're very beautiful, but you're just a little crazy.
00:27:38Stand by, everybody.
00:27:39Take your places, please.
00:27:41We are seated as the family was gathered at the fatal breakfast table.
00:27:45Mary, you sit down there.
00:27:48Lily, you sit there.
00:27:50Mr. Chan?
00:27:51Uh, I sit here.
00:27:54Mr. Chan sits here.
00:27:59Dr. Kramer, is this correct?
00:28:02Little Otto wants a seat of honor, too?
00:28:05Truth speak from any chair.
00:28:14We're on now. Quiet, please.
00:28:17Crime is always punished.
00:28:20Good evening, folks.
00:28:21This is Tom Agnew bringing you the Crime League.
00:28:24To the courtesy of the Murphy Arms Company.
00:28:26We are gathered for our 13th weekly broadcast in Dr. Cream's Extraordinary Museum of Crime.
00:28:32An educational institution.
00:28:36Hey, there he is now.
00:28:38All right. Tell him exactly what I told you.
00:28:43Hey, what are you doing in here?
00:28:45Hello, Willie. Don't you know me? I'm the new warden.
00:28:48Oh, I'm sorry, warden. For a second, I didn't place you.
00:28:52Oh, by the way, do you believe in capital punishment?
00:28:55You mean killing murderers?
00:28:57Sure. Fine, fine.
00:28:59Would you be willing to save the state in executing a criminal?
00:29:02Would I? You bet.
00:29:03Good. Then I hereby appoint you chief executioner of this prison.
00:29:08You mean I can hang the Reno kid and guillotine the Bluebeard of Paris?
00:29:11Sure, sure. But first, you gotta begin with an electrocution.
00:29:14I'll do my duty. You know how to wake this thing?
00:29:16Yeah. When you get a signal, you push up.
00:29:18Well, never mind the signal. You see that clock?
00:29:22At 820. At exactly 820, I want you to throw that switch and electrocute that man.
00:29:31Yes, sir. Okay.
00:29:44Sorry to see you go, pal.
00:29:49And now, Dr. Otto von Brom, the famous criminologist, and Charlie Chan...
00:29:53...will attempt to prove the innocence or guilt of Joe Rock.
00:29:58We were seated at the breakfast table June the 9th, 1929, as demonstrated in court.
00:30:03It was a happy family gathering.
00:30:05Gentlemen, this seating is incorrect. I should sit there in that chair.
00:30:09No, no, doctor. But I insist.
00:30:11As you please, doctor. Every bird seek its own tree.
00:30:16Never tree the bird.
00:30:18Excuse.
00:30:20Stop it, quick.
00:30:26Who turned the lights off?
00:30:28Something burning behind Dr. von Brom's chair.
00:30:32Stand by, folks. The storm seems to have taken the light off our mystery.
00:30:36I tell you, there's a fire. Yes, I see it.
00:30:42Doctor! Dr. von Brom!
00:30:45What is it, doctor?
00:30:51He's fainted!
00:30:53Gentlemen, carry him over here, please.
00:31:02Right here.
00:31:12He's dead.
00:31:13There's a wire connected to that chair.
00:31:15That's what caused the flash. The doctor was electrocuted.
00:31:18Contradiction, please.
00:31:22Wire too sharp previously severed by wire cutters.
00:31:26Dr. von Brom not electrocuted.
00:31:29Heart failure, perhaps.
00:31:31I'm not doctor. You make diagnosis?
00:31:34Well, no. I...
00:31:36Excuse me.
00:31:37Because of an unfortunate accident,
00:31:39the Crime League broadcast will be discontinued at once.
00:31:41Oh, Tom, no.
00:31:42I'm now returning you to our main studios where you will hear a musical program.
00:31:45You're an awful reporter. Tell them what happened.
00:31:48It's a great story, Tom. No, Mary, no.
00:31:54Criminologist was murdered.
00:31:56Murder?
00:31:57You're crazy.
00:31:59I'm not crazy.
00:32:01I'm not crazy.
00:32:03Criminologist was murdered.
00:32:05Murder?
00:32:06You're crazy.
00:32:07But how?
00:32:09Observe small puncture on back of neck.
00:32:11I see.
00:32:12Note peculiar discoloration.
00:32:15Can be caused by Tonga,
00:32:18poison used by Dayak headhunters of Borneo.
00:32:23Found on doctor's coat collar close to wound.
00:32:27Small bamboo dart projected by blowgun
00:32:31served as poison carrier.
00:32:33What do you mean, Mr. Chan?
00:32:35Lethal dart was propelled by sharp breath towards dead man
00:32:39during seconds of darkness.
00:32:41By one of us. It's the only logical explanation.
00:32:44But the wound's on the back of his neck.
00:32:46Dart aimed at face.
00:32:48But doctor, attracted by electrical display behind chair,
00:32:52turned head, was struck here.
00:32:55Well, whoever has a blowgun
00:32:58can certainly save us all a lot of trouble
00:33:00by giving himself up now.
00:33:02The Dayak blowgun. The museum has one.
00:33:05May I examine, please?
00:33:06Why, certainly. This way.
00:33:14Here we are.
00:33:18It hasn't been touched.
00:33:22Killer used similar tube-like implement.
00:33:25You going to search everybody for something as big as that?
00:33:28No.
00:33:30So big.
00:33:54You knew chair designed to electrocute occupant.
00:33:57You're still crazy.
00:33:58Observe wire cutters.
00:34:00That figured in the Wilden auto murder.
00:34:02It was used by the killer.
00:34:03This young woman used same to sever lethal cable.
00:34:07You're all wrong.
00:34:08Injured finger produced by act of untwisting wire
00:34:12which held implement to shelf.
00:34:16Received identical wound just now doing same.
00:34:20It's a mighty impressive deduction, Mr. Chan.
00:34:22But you couldn't sell it to a jury.
00:34:24I'm not ready for jury.
00:34:27Please, can explain presence here
00:34:30instead of on chair when light returned?
00:34:33Why, of course. I got up to see what caused the flash.
00:34:36Nobody else bothered to.
00:34:38Mind you, I'm not making any accusations.
00:34:40But in the darkness, Mr. Lane seemed to lean past me
00:34:43toward Dr. Van Brom.
00:34:44That's right.
00:34:45The killer had to lean forward to take aim.
00:34:47Oh, now you couldn't mean me by any chance, could you?
00:34:52That looks like a toothpick.
00:34:53Please, do not touch possible evidence.
00:34:57Mr. Chan! Mr. Chan!
00:35:02There's someone inside!
00:35:11Step out, please.
00:35:13Don't shoot, Pop.
00:35:17Well, please explain presence.
00:35:20Well, please explain presence of one dummy inside another dummy.
00:35:24Well, I couldn't stay away.
00:35:26And I didn't want to bother you,
00:35:28so I got into this fella to watch.
00:35:30Why, ain't chessmen did offspring make use of own eyes?
00:35:34You bet I did.
00:35:35What you see?
00:35:36Well, nothing suspicious.
00:35:37That toothpick. It's gone.
00:35:43Valuable clue lost because offspring imitate dummy.
00:35:46One of us took it when all eyes were on the chess player.
00:35:48Hollow toothpick made from goose quill.
00:35:50Possible blowgun.
00:35:52Let's search everybody.
00:35:53No use. Small object easily destroyed.
00:35:56Well, all you have to do now is find out who uses that kind of toothpick.
00:36:00Let's preserve any possible fingerprints where the toothpick was discovered.
00:36:03I'll cover it.
00:36:07There's your quill toothpick.
00:36:08Gee, Pop.
00:36:10Number two son must have been shoplifting at Auto-Map.
00:36:14We got nothing broadcast to do. We better be going.
00:36:17Contradiction, please.
00:36:19No one may leave without permission of police.
00:36:22But I've got to phone my city desk.
00:36:24Must wait.
00:36:25Suggest all gather in office of Dr. Green.
00:36:28This way, please.
00:36:42Do not recall presence of woman in black
00:36:45at murder of Broadway Butterfly?
00:36:48Why, I've never seen her before.
00:36:50Why, she's alive.
00:36:55Can't explain presence here.
00:36:59I must have fallen asleep.
00:37:01Are visiting hours over?
00:37:04Have been here long?
00:37:06I don't remember.
00:37:08You witnessed events leading up to murder?
00:37:11Murder?
00:37:12I heard nothing.
00:37:14A man has been killed.
00:37:16Oh, yes.
00:37:18But that was long ago.
00:37:20Ten years ago.
00:37:22How could I forget?
00:37:24I still wear black for him.
00:37:26He was killed.
00:37:28Murdered.
00:37:30Please.
00:37:31Would mind joining others in office?
00:37:45Mrs. Rock.
00:37:47Mrs. Joe Rock.
00:37:48Are you sure?
00:37:49Ought to be.
00:37:50She's a client of mine.
00:37:51How long has she been here?
00:37:52We don't know.
00:37:53Gee, Dr. Von Brum sent her husband to...
00:37:55Wait a minute.
00:37:56Police calls come first.
00:37:57Okay, Pop?
00:37:58Well, did you find a blowgun on her?
00:38:02Man murdered tonight was Dr. Von Brum.
00:38:05Careful, Mr. Chan.
00:38:06She's easily upset.
00:38:08Police headquarters?
00:38:09I want to report a murder.
00:38:11I'll connect you with the Homicide Bureau.
00:38:13It's Jimmy Chan calling the cops.
00:38:17Homicide Bureau.
00:38:18Lieutenant Leslie speaking.
00:38:20Yeah, yeah.
00:38:22Mm-hmm.
00:38:23Von Brum.
00:38:25Somebody got him with a poison dart.
00:38:27Shot from a quill toothpick.
00:38:29What'll I tell the kid?
00:38:32Tell him the cops are coming.
00:38:34We'll be right over, Mr. Chan.
00:38:36Don't let anybody leave the building
00:38:38and don't touch anything.
00:38:40You don't have to tell me, Lieutenant.
00:38:42I've handled a case before.
00:38:44Okay.
00:38:45They're on their way.
00:38:46Good.
00:38:47Everyone remain here
00:38:48and possible clues at scene of crime
00:38:50will not be disturbed.
00:38:52You mean it's easier to keep an eye on us this way?
00:38:54Please, Doctor.
00:38:55Desire to see electric switchboard.
00:38:57Oh, certainly.
00:38:58I was just going to suggest that.
00:39:00You wait here with other witnesses.
00:39:02Okay, Pop.
00:39:03I get it.
00:39:04These suspects won't get away from me.
00:39:06Suspicion is only toy of fools.
00:39:10Come.
00:39:13Oh, I...
00:39:14I didn't mean...
00:39:16I hope I haven't offended anybody.
00:39:18Oh, that's all right.
00:39:20We all know that one of us is a murderer.
00:39:22Sure.
00:39:23No.
00:39:25Say,
00:39:26I'm not so sure about that.
00:39:28Pop!
00:39:30Oh, Pop!
00:39:33Pop!
00:39:34I forgot to tell you.
00:39:35There's somebody else in this museum.
00:39:37He disappeared into a cell.
00:39:39I saw him when I came in.
00:39:41Say, Pop,
00:39:42don't you feel well?
00:39:45Don't you know a wax dummy when you see one?
00:39:51Say,
00:39:52you're not supposed to be out here.
00:39:53Get back in the office.
00:39:54Who's telling me?
00:39:57All right.
00:40:12What did you do with that gun?
00:40:13You mind your own business.
00:40:14Let me handle this.
00:40:15Look, will you please go home?
00:40:17No.
00:40:18Dagan's here.
00:40:19I'm gonna settle with him, too.
00:40:20Dagan?
00:40:21How do you know?
00:40:22Never mind.
00:40:23But I know.
00:40:28You people had no right to sneak away.
00:40:31Well, I thought the body ought to be covered.
00:40:33It looked like you were going through his pockets when I came in.
00:40:35No, no.
00:40:36I was just arranging the sheet.
00:40:38Get back in the office.
00:40:40Please.
00:40:41Okay, Mr. Chan.
00:40:43Dagan?
00:41:08Boo!
00:41:09Don't do that!
00:41:10Oh, Jimmy, I'm so sorry.
00:41:12What are you doing here?
00:41:14Believe it or not, I'm looking for a telephone.
00:41:16Oh.
00:41:21Most odd that owner of museum
00:41:23cannot explain wedding of electricity
00:41:26with chair reserved for humble self.
00:41:29I assure you, I don't know how it happened.
00:41:33Say, Pop.
00:41:34Please, will you not remain with others?
00:41:37Well, there's something I forgot to tell you.
00:41:39I saw...
00:41:43Willie.
00:41:45Gentlemen, I pronounce this man dead.
00:41:48Please remove the body for autopsy.
00:41:51My night watchman, perfectly harmless.
00:41:54It's the swellest execution I ever made.
00:41:57Even the lights went out.
00:42:00You threw a switch?
00:42:02Sure, the warden himself.
00:42:04He came right in here, and he made me head executioner.
00:42:07Please, description of warden.
00:42:09There isn't any one.
00:42:11He imagines all this.
00:42:13That's what he thinks.
00:42:16Can recall, warden?
00:42:18Sure.
00:42:19About so high, and dark, and smooth face,
00:42:23and look like an evil choir boy.
00:42:26Just imagination.
00:42:28Pop, I've got a theory.
00:42:29Quiet, please.
00:42:31Tell me exactly what you do.
00:42:34At 8.20, just like the warden told me,
00:42:38I pushed the switch and electrocuted Red Maddox.
00:42:42Where is warden now?
00:42:46I don't know.
00:42:47He went out that way.
00:42:49There is no warden.
00:42:54May examine room, please?
00:42:56Certainly.
00:43:01Pop, listen.
00:43:03Like busy mosquito, offspring keep chasing parents.
00:43:07Why?
00:43:08There's something I've got to tell you.
00:43:09None of those people in there are guilty.
00:43:11There's another man in this building.
00:43:13You see him?
00:43:14Yeah, he disappeared into that cell.
00:43:16And then when I looked, he wasn't there.
00:43:22I swear he came in here.
00:43:24This gentleman you observed?
00:43:26No, it was a man.
00:43:28And there was a dummy in here with its head all bandaged up.
00:43:30Right here where I'm standing.
00:43:32And now it's gone too.
00:43:34Bandaged dummy part of exhibit?
00:43:37Well, yes, it must have been changed temporarily.
00:43:39Shall we move on?
00:43:41One moment, please.
00:43:43Marks on floor indicate prison bed move.
00:43:47That.
00:43:49A trap door!
00:43:50Oh, just a storeroom.
00:43:52If storeroom innocent, we'll apologize.
00:43:55Lead way, please.
00:44:00Yes.
00:44:12This gentleman is my workshop, my studio.
00:44:15Here I create and wax the photographic likeness of famous criminals.
00:44:19My work, purely educational.
00:44:21Endorsed by schools and colleges.
00:44:23My theme is crime does not pay.
00:44:26The end of the evil trail is prison or death.
00:44:29Please, please.
00:44:32Sculpture was my hobby. It is now my profession.
00:44:35There is an artist in everyone if you look for him.
00:44:38Don't you agree with me, Mr. Chan?
00:44:41Most unusual form of art?
00:44:45I do that when I'm nervous.
00:44:47Tearing pieces of paper, you know.
00:44:49Exact duplicate of Steve McBurney's signature.
00:44:52First observed in courtroom.
00:44:55Nonsense.
00:44:56I don't even know McBurney.
00:44:59Say, pop up it.
00:45:01Hey!
00:45:03A hidden room.
00:45:06Oh, boy!
00:45:08Doctor.
00:45:14Most interesting.
00:45:16This where you operate on your dummies, Dr. Cream?
00:45:18No. This is surgical birthplace of new faces.
00:45:21But, Mr. Chan...
00:45:22Evidence betrays museum to be hideout for hunted criminals...
00:45:25who change faces to cheat law.
00:45:27So they could carry on the rackets.
00:45:29Pop, you've discovered a big thing.
00:45:31Now I understand why Miss Latimer cut wires to chair.
00:45:34She did not want murder to expose museum's most profitable business.
00:45:39One moment.
00:45:41You answer telephone.
00:45:45Hello. What is it?
00:45:47Hello. Give me Walker.
00:45:49Then give me the city desk.
00:45:52What?
00:45:53Who?
00:45:55Jimmy Chan.
00:45:56Uh-huh. You're talking to the seller.
00:46:00Oh, pop!
00:46:02Miss Bolton. She dialed her office and got me.
00:46:10Telephone obviously operated upon so outside world cannot be reached.
00:46:14Then I didn't talk to the police. They're not coming.
00:46:17McBurney. He didn't tell me about that phone.
00:46:21And now they know that Von Brom died instead of you.
00:46:24Here's where I settle with Chan.
00:46:27I thought they'd gone. That was the plan.
00:46:30But if they know that you're alive, well, then they're still here.
00:46:33And they'll kill you and they'll kill me, like they killed Dr. Von Brom.
00:46:36Correction, please.
00:46:38Criminologist not killed by McBurney.
00:46:40Murderer was Butcher Dagan.
00:46:43Dagan? How do you mean?
00:46:45Three clues spell Dagan.
00:46:48Quill toothpick, bamboo dart, and poison called Tonga.
00:46:53Get that Chinaman before he gets us.
00:46:55No. First we let him spot Dagan. Then we get them both.
00:46:58Dagan send another man to meet McBurney's bullets.
00:47:02Officially dead, Dagan vanish into new identity
00:47:06until recognized tonight by Dr. Von Brom.
00:47:09And threat of exposure cost criminologist his life.
00:47:13Dagan kill to prevent exposure of new face.
00:47:18Dr. Cream, which one Dagan?
00:47:22I tell you, I don't know.
00:47:24With the new face, he could be a woman. I mean, posing as a woman.
00:47:27You give to Butcher Dagan living disguise.
00:47:30Dr. Cream!
00:47:32Doctor, you've got to tell us who Dagan is.
00:47:34Well, I'm afraid I can't help you. I never met Dagan.
00:47:36You're covering up. Mr. Chan knows what he's talking about.
00:47:39We're all in danger here with the killer loose.
00:47:41Mr. Agnew quite right.
00:47:43We'll send offspring outside the building immediately to telephone police.
00:47:47Okay, Pop.
00:48:03Mr. Agnew, you will please lock front door after son's departure.
00:48:08If you'll excuse me, I have something to attend to.
00:48:11Oh, no, you don't. Let me go.
00:48:13Try to make a getaway, huh?
00:48:15Now, how you make getaway to summon police?
00:48:19Gee, Pop, I forgot. Where's the key?
00:48:22I don't know, you idiot.
00:48:26Perhaps radio control box connected by telephone to broadcast studio
00:48:30will summon police.
00:48:32Right. I never thought of that.
00:48:34Edwards, put me through to the studio.
00:48:36No connection. They sign us off.
00:48:38Say, Pop, when I was in the lobby, that...
00:48:40Please. Too many theories.
00:48:42Let no one leave this room. We'll try to fix office telephone.
00:48:57You fool. Don't try another double-cross.
00:48:59What'd you say?
00:49:01Oh, I said it looks as though you're the boss.
00:49:04Oh.
00:49:06Didn't sound that way to me.
00:49:08Mr. Lane, why were you spying on Mr. Agnew and Mr. Chen?
00:49:12Spying? What's this?
00:49:15I want to know what's going on.
00:49:17You see, I came here to prevent a murder.
00:49:19Dr. von Braun's murder.
00:49:21What? Who wanted to kill him?
00:49:23My client, Mrs. Rock.
00:49:25The death of her husband left her embittered.
00:49:27She believed that von Braun persecuted Joe Rock to make his evidence stick.
00:49:32Tonight at her apartment, she threatened to shoot von Braun...
00:49:34if he wouldn't exonerate her husband.
00:49:36I begged her to let me handle the matter, but...
00:49:38she lost her temper and ran out with a gun.
00:49:41That's why I came here.
00:49:45And now I'm convinced that she couldn't have killed von Braun.
00:49:48Mrs. Rock, is this true?
00:49:51Do you know this man?
00:49:55Then he isn't your lawyer.
00:49:58She's under a very great emotional strain.
00:50:04I think Mr. Chen should know about this.
00:50:06That's your business.
00:50:09Who did that? Put those lights on!
00:50:11Don't move. There's a killer among us.
00:50:13I hope this isn't somebody's idea of a joke.
00:50:15Where's the light switch?
00:50:18Please. Inspector O'Matthews?
00:50:20Yes. Telephone field much better.
00:50:23Desire inspector at once.
00:50:28Regret to report murder at Museum of Crime.
00:50:31Killer Butcher Dagan still in building.
00:50:34Witnesses to crime in great danger and...
00:50:40I'm sorry.
00:50:42I'm sorry.
00:50:44In great danger and...
00:50:47Why doesn't someone speak?
00:50:49Tom! Mr. Lane!
00:50:52Maybe Dagan's sneaking up on us.
00:50:56Somebody just touched me.
00:50:58I did. How many times do I have to ask?
00:51:01Where's the light switch?
00:51:02The corner on the right.
00:51:06Oh, sorry.
00:51:08What's going on here?
00:51:10Which one of you put those lights out?
00:51:13Hey!
00:51:15Where's Dr. Green?
00:51:17I knew I had the right man. He got away in the dark.
00:51:20You! You work with him.
00:51:22You put the lights out for his getaway.
00:51:24Prove it!
00:51:25Pop! Pop!
00:51:28Pop!
00:51:31Pop!
00:51:33Pop!
00:51:36Pop!
00:51:40Knifed!
00:51:42Got him from the other door.
00:51:44Question, please.
00:51:50I hear no killer use other door.
00:51:53Well, Mary was outside this door and...
00:51:56no one could come in this way.
00:51:58Gee, Pop, it's really you.
00:52:04For a minute, I thought that...
00:52:06Tell your grief honorable music to ancient hearts.
00:52:09I get it. You set a trap to catch the killer.
00:52:12I'm most grateful to wax twin for deceiving same,
00:52:15but knife-thrower escape in darkness.
00:52:18Oh, the knife.
00:52:19No. Do not touch.
00:52:21Fingerprints may have message.
00:52:24Oh, Dr. Cream. He's gone.
00:52:26Do likewise. Go for police.
00:52:29Each moment of delay dangerous to all here.
00:52:34I'll have a general alarm sent out for Dr. Cream.
00:52:37He's Dagan. I got it all figured out.
00:52:39There wasn't any Dr. Cream.
00:52:41Dagan killed him and had somebody give him Cream's face.
00:52:44He wouldn't run away if he wasn't guilty.
00:52:46Unless doctor desired to escape offspring's theories.
00:52:50And there was something else.
00:52:52Just before the lights went out, I saw...
00:52:55Sometimes better to see and not tell.
00:52:58Dr. Von Broom proved that.
00:53:00Once more, hurry for police.
00:53:02Okay, Pop. I won't let you down this time.
00:53:05Please, everyone assume position held before darkness came.
00:53:10All right.
00:53:33Pop!
00:53:35Pop!
00:53:36Hurry up!
00:53:39There's a dead man here.
00:53:42Pop.
00:53:45The bandage dummy I saw. He's dead.
00:53:49Who?
00:53:50He's dead.
00:53:51Dead?
00:53:52Dead.
00:53:53Dead.
00:53:54Dead.
00:53:55Dead.
00:53:56Dead.
00:53:57Dead.
00:53:58Dead.
00:53:59Dead.
00:54:00Who is it?
00:54:02Removal of bandages necessary for identification.
00:54:09What happened?
00:54:10He's all right.
00:54:11Oh, that bandage dummy.
00:54:13It was a man.
00:54:15He's dead.
00:54:18Face, touch nothing.
00:54:20Fingerprints will prove dead man was Steve McBurney.
00:54:24Are you sure that was McBurney?
00:54:26Egg and strike again.
00:54:29Wound in dead man's back indicate mortal blow with knife.
00:54:36Say, what were those five crisscross scars in the back of his neck?
00:54:40Fresh scars.
00:54:41Signature of Dr. Cream.
00:54:43Incisions made in facial surgery to tighten and alter contour of face skin.
00:55:29Play the game?
00:55:39Inspector, I thought you were the killer.
00:55:42Where's your dad?
00:55:50Please, inspector, must apologize for reception committee.
00:55:55Well, that's okay, Charlie.
00:55:56When your broadcast was cut off, I figured I'd better come over and see what was going on.
00:56:00Oh, can you let my men in?
00:56:02The front door's locked.
00:56:03Jimmy.
00:56:05Say, we picked up Doc Cream outside.
00:56:08Is it true what he tells me about Von Braun?
00:56:10Quite true.
00:56:11Steve McBurney also murdered by Butcher Dagan.
00:56:15Dagan?
00:56:16Contrary to opinion, Butcher Dagan still alive.
00:56:20Dagan here?
00:56:22Which one is he?
00:56:23Have you spotted him yet?
00:56:26Killer will be identified when fingerprint expert arrive.
00:56:31That's right.
00:56:33Sure, Dagan's prints are on file.
00:56:35Oh, but he must have thought of that.
00:56:37But he could have changed them.
00:56:39Von Operation.
00:56:40Oh, you sound like Jimmy Chan.
00:56:43Oh, no.
00:56:44I wasn't trying to escape.
00:56:45I was just going out to ask for some help.
00:56:48You certainly tried to avoid my squad car.
00:56:50Pete, call headquarters.
00:56:51Get homicide over here.
00:56:53Burns, get on the front door.
00:56:54Nobody leaves.
00:56:56Now, Cream, which one is Dagan?
00:56:59You know we can't protect a man who won't name his enemy.
00:57:02Well, perhaps the doctor doesn't consider Dagan his enemy.
00:57:05I swear I don't know him, and I never did know him.
00:57:08Please, suggest others remain here.
00:57:10You come with me.
00:57:12Mike, go in that back room and see that no one gets out of that window.
00:57:15Casey, you come with us.
00:57:18Now, what'd you see just before lights go off?
00:57:22Mr. Lane.
00:57:23He made a funny move towards that wall.
00:57:25Then lights go off?
00:57:26Yeah.
00:57:48Observe, please.
00:57:50Secret light switch concealed in door to curio case.
00:57:54I get it.
00:57:55Lane plunged us into darkness and grabbed a knife from here.
00:57:58See, it's missing.
00:57:59Say, Charlie, if Lane is Dagan, why didn't he try a getaway?
00:58:02Killer evidently made attempt to escape in moments of darkness,
00:58:06but met obstacle up front door,
00:58:09which I had previously locked.
00:58:11Then he saw McBurney and knifed him.
00:58:13Correct.
00:58:14Cream knows who Dagan is.
00:58:16Why won't he talk?
00:58:17Fear is cruel padlock.
00:58:19Well, we'll get him with fingerprints.
00:58:21He can't get out of here.
00:58:23Hey!
00:58:29Come out of there.
00:58:32Please.
00:58:34We've got Dagan.
00:58:36Contradiction, please.
00:58:38Prisoner is Grenock, bodyguard to Steve McBurney.
00:58:41Don't let Dagan get me.
00:58:42He killed Mac and now he wants me.
00:58:44If you're McBurney's man, you know Dagan.
00:58:46Where is he?
00:58:47I don't know.
00:58:48We're waiting for Chan to spot him.
00:58:50There!
00:58:51She's Dagan.
00:58:52Why, I thought he was Dagan.
00:58:55Dr. Cream's surgery not create Mrs. Rock.
00:58:59Take him out.
00:59:01You came here to kill Dr. Von Braun.
00:59:03No, only to confront him,
00:59:05to beg him to reconsider the evidence that convicted my husband.
00:59:08He would never see me.
00:59:10Say, Pop, she doesn't sound insane.
00:59:13I didn't pretend that after I guessed the way you did
00:59:16that Dagan was here.
00:59:18I wanted to stay to avenge Joe.
00:59:21No weapon in handbag earlier.
00:59:23When the lights went out during the broadcast,
00:59:25I was suddenly afraid, so I hid the gun.
00:59:27I didn't want it found on me.
00:59:29But now you use sin.
00:59:31Yes, and no jury would convict me for killing Dagan.
00:59:34He framed my husband, sent him to the gallows.
00:59:37Mock insanity not always safe alibi.
00:59:41Mrs. Rock, how did you get into this museum?
00:59:43The watchman feels sorry for me.
00:59:46He thinks I come here to talk to my husband.
00:59:49I'm sure he didn't throw the knife at Mr. Chan.
00:59:52I'm also positive.
00:59:54Say, Pop, Dagan must have brought Bernie's gun.
00:59:57I don't see why he doesn't shoot his way out.
01:00:00May be contemplating same,
01:00:02if unable to remain invisible,
01:00:05or may strike from darkness with blowgun.
01:00:09Please, hold valuable evidence.
01:00:12Antidote for Tonga, poison used on bamboo dart.
01:00:16Where did you get it?
01:00:18From Dr. Cream's office.
01:00:20Observe.
01:00:22Duplicate of blowgun used by Butcher Dagan.
01:00:25That's a toothpick from the automat.
01:00:27Yes.
01:00:28Are you trying to tell me
01:00:29that Von Braun was killed with a toothpick?
01:00:31No.
01:00:32Small bamboo dart,
01:00:34containing original poison.
01:00:37Dagan blew it into the doctor's neck.
01:00:39A mere scratch is fatal.
01:00:40That's silly, I don't believe it.
01:00:42Go on, Pop, show him.
01:00:44Son, read parent's thought.
01:00:52Tom Agnew, you fool.
01:00:54Give me that antidote.
01:00:55Don't waste time, this is quick.
01:00:57You killed Dr. Von Braun?
01:00:58Yes.
01:00:59Also Steve McBernie?
01:01:00Yes, I had to.
01:01:01You framed Joe Rock, innocent man.
01:01:02Yes, yes, but hurry, give me that stuff.
01:01:05The only broken matchstick.
01:01:07Original needle of death still in pocket.
01:01:10Your prisoner.
01:01:12Casey.
01:01:14Take him out.
01:01:16My boss.
01:01:18Clubbed me with a feather.
01:01:22Mr. Chan,
01:01:24you've cleared my husband's name.
01:01:26I'm deeply grateful.
01:01:27How can I ever thank you?
01:01:29Justice, like virtue,
01:01:31brings its own reward.
01:01:34Well, Mr. Chan, you win the radio debate.
01:01:36You solved the Rock case all right.
01:01:38Charlie, how long have you known this?
01:01:40Knowledge short, suspicion long.
01:01:42I might have known.
01:01:44Any other radio man would have stayed on the air
01:01:46to broadcast Von Braun's murder.
01:01:48Small nose for news in radio man.
01:01:51First aroma of suspicion.
01:01:53You knew he was there all the time?
01:01:55Hiding place discovered
01:01:57when Mike's figure suddenly developed
01:01:59tell-tale scars on back of neck,
01:02:01like Steve McBernie.
01:02:02Gee, McBernie gave you the clue to spot Dagan.
01:02:05And we might have cleared out of here
01:02:06and left him to a clean getaway.
01:02:08What about Dr. Cream?
01:02:10Oh, he'll get five years for lifting mugs maps.
01:02:15Supper?
01:02:16I've got a whale of a story to phone.
01:02:18Well, after you phone him.
01:02:20Mr. Lane,
01:02:21I'm awfully sorry I suspected you.
01:02:23Oh, that's all right. Forget it.
01:02:25It kept me on Mary's mind.
01:02:29Hey!
01:02:32I've been watching you.
01:02:34You can't get away with museum property.
01:02:38Let that be a lesson to you.
01:02:40Yes, sir.
01:02:45Say, Pop,
01:02:46what was Dr. Cream doing with an antidote
01:02:48for blowgun poison?
01:02:49That was a bluff, Jimmy.
01:02:51Just a bottle of toothache painkiller.
01:02:53Boy, you sure pulled a fast one.
01:02:57I'm getting sick and tired of all these dummies around here.
01:03:00Ah!
01:03:01Ha!
01:03:03Ha!
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