The Devil's Mask is a 1946 American crime film directed by Henry Levin and starring Anita Louise, Jim Bannon and Michael Duane. The film was the second of three B pictures based on the popular radio series I Love a Mystery. As well as its crime theme, the film also incorporates elements of horror. It was preceded by I Love a Mystery, and followed by The Unknown.
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00:00:30Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry,
00:01:00I'm sorry.
00:01:04This is a museum.
00:01:07Here are gathered the things which linked man
00:01:10with his past.
00:01:13Some of these things he likes to remember.
00:01:16Some, he would rather forget.
00:01:19For here are relics of civilization, and peace,
00:01:23of war and savagery.
00:01:28Here is an idol from the jungles of Central America.
00:01:32Hundreds of years ago, whole tribes of people worshipped at its feet.
00:01:38An Aztec altar, for human sacrifices.
00:01:41Its smooth stone still stained with the blood of its uncounted victims.
00:01:46These are blowguns.
00:01:47They look harmless, yet they're the principal weapons of some of the native tribes of South
00:01:51America.
00:01:52At short range, accurate and deadly as a rifle.
00:01:56Accurate, deadly, and silent.
00:02:03These are human heads, masterpieces of the headhunter's art.
00:02:07Shrunken and preserved with the care a jeweler gives to the polishing of some priceless gem.
00:02:12Truly a museum houses many things, both strange and weird.
00:02:15Here adventure and death walk hand in hand with mystery, and I love a mystery.
00:02:25The representative is here, Mr. Willard.
00:02:42Come in, Senor Mendoza.
00:02:43Ah, Mr. Willard.
00:02:45The accident.
00:02:46Most regrettable.
00:02:47Yes, most regrettable.
00:02:49These are the salvage items which were consigned to your country.
00:02:51All right, Frank, let's examine the first one.
00:02:54There is no way of telling to whom they were going?
00:02:56The addresses were all burned or badly scorched.
00:02:59These few packages remain unclaimed and uncalled for.
00:03:03I see.
00:03:09What is it, Frank?
00:03:10Why, I think it's a head, a shrunken head.
00:03:18It looks like the work of headhunting Hebrew Indians of my country, but nothing like this
00:03:23has been done for years.
00:03:25Granted all that, how about the direction?
00:03:27What would this one be doing going back to your country?
00:03:29This I do not understand, but I know the practice has long since been stamped out, and all traffic
00:03:34in these heads was forbidden by my country many years ago.
00:03:38I believe your government has a law about it also.
00:03:41In that case, we'd better call the police.
00:03:46A what?
00:03:51A shrunken Indian head?
00:03:53Are you trying to kid me?
00:03:54Who is this?
00:03:55This is Willard of Airlines Express.
00:03:58Airlines Express?
00:03:59Oh, Mr. Willard.
00:04:00Aren't you interested?
00:04:01Yes, of course I'm interested.
00:04:03But why don't you take it over to the museum?
00:04:05That's the only place I know that has such things.
00:04:07But Captain, there's a law against handling shrunken heads.
00:04:10We want police protection on this.
00:04:11All right, I'll have it picked up right away and checked with the Cordova Museum.
00:04:18Well, this baby looks like an orphan, and if it isn't yours, Mr. Halliday, I don't know
00:04:23who it could belong to.
00:04:24Well, I'm sure the museum's collection is intact, but come along, Captain.
00:04:27I want you to check for yourself.
00:04:30Well, by all that's unholy.
00:04:37Hello, Quinn.
00:04:40This is Jack Packett and Doc Long, Mr. Halliday, very private detectives.
00:04:44You haven't hired them as housemen for the museum, have you?
00:04:47How do you do?
00:04:48Hello.
00:04:49No, I can't say that I have.
00:04:50All right.
00:04:51We've got us a kind of a date, Captain.
00:04:52We're waiting for a gal.
00:04:53In the museum?
00:04:54Of course, you wouldn't be working on a case.
00:04:57I can't answer that.
00:04:59It ain't ethical.
00:05:00Besides that, we don't know yet.
00:05:01Did it have anything to do with a head?
00:05:03A head?
00:05:04Yeah.
00:05:05They found this head and don't know who it belongs to.
00:05:08A real, genuine human head, Captain?
00:05:11Yeah, shrunken and preserved.
00:05:13They pulled it out of the wreckage of a plane that crashed.
00:05:16Know anything about it?
00:05:17Oh, no, no.
00:05:18We ain't interested in no human head, shrunk, preserved, pickled or otherwise.
00:05:22Always some.
00:05:23Oh.
00:05:24Not that I know of.
00:05:25Here you are, Captain.
00:05:29Five heads is all we've ever had, and as you can see, they're all here.
00:05:33And the case is locked.
00:05:35What'll I do with the blame thing now?
00:05:36Why don't you leave it here, Captain?
00:05:38And I'll call in Leon Hartman to examine it more carefully.
00:05:42Who's Hartman?
00:05:43An expert.
00:05:44I might say a genius.
00:05:46He mounted the heads in the case, and he also handled all of Mr. Mitchell's taxidermy work.
00:05:50He arranged the other taxidermy exhibits for the museum, too.
00:05:53Say, is there any way of determining the age of this?
00:05:56Its age would be difficult, if not impossible, to tell, because the shrinking process also acts as a perfect preservative.
00:06:02But I'm certain that's a genuine Hevero Indian head, and they stopped doing that work many years ago.
00:06:08Well, that removes it from the province of the Homicide Bureau.
00:06:11Okay, Mr. Halliday, you hang onto it for a while.
00:06:13And if you discover anything interesting, get in touch with me.
00:06:15Say, if that date of yours turns out to be an Indian with her head missing, let me know, will you?
00:06:20Gentlemen, ten minutes to closing.
00:06:24Ten minutes to closing.
00:06:26Hey, you know, son, that shrinking business would be a darn good way to get rid of your bookie.
00:06:31Yeah.
00:06:32Ten minutes to closing.
00:06:34Imagine an old, tired orphan head running around in an airplane looking for its body.
00:06:39Well, Doc, it looks like we've been stood up.
00:06:42Yeah, ain't that just like a woman?
00:06:44She couldn't meet us in our office, why?
00:06:46Gotta meet us in a museum, why?
00:06:48Bet she ain't even pretty.
00:06:50Oh, she sounded pretty.
00:06:51She did?
00:06:52Well, pretty scared.
00:06:54Say, maybe that's our client coming now.
00:06:59Oh, son, this is worth waiting for.
00:07:05Mrs. Mitchell?
00:07:06Mr. Packard?
00:07:07Yes, this is my partner, Doc Long.
00:07:09Oh, how do you do?
00:07:10Well, I'm pleased to meet you.
00:07:12Sorry to be late, but I'm being followed.
00:07:15That's why I didn't want to meet you in your office.
00:07:17I knew he was going to follow me, and I thought that here we might...
00:07:20It's like killing two birds with one stone, huh?
00:07:23Please don't talk about killing, Mr. Long.
00:07:26Oh, I'm sorry.
00:07:27This is your husband's collection, isn't it, Mrs. Mitchell?
00:07:30Yes, he was at one time a director of the museum.
00:07:33Quentin Mitchell.
00:07:34I remember reading about him.
00:07:36He got lost in the jungles of South America, wasn't he?
00:07:38Yes.
00:07:39I'm afraid he's dead.
00:07:42You must help me, Mr. Packard.
00:07:43No matter what your fee is, I'll pay it.
00:07:45Helping folks is our business.
00:07:47Well, we have to know what's bothering you first.
00:07:49This man that you say is following you.
00:07:55There he is now.
00:07:57Where?
00:07:58In the phone booth.
00:08:02Someone you know?
00:08:03Yes.
00:08:04Yes, his name is Rex Kennedy.
00:08:07I think he's been hired to kill me.
00:08:10Do you want us to pick him up?
00:08:11No, no, no.
00:08:12There mustn't be any publicity.
00:08:13That's why I haven't called in the police.
00:08:14You see, he's, um...
00:08:16He's a friend of my stepdaughter's.
00:08:19Let's get this straight, Mrs. Mitchell.
00:08:21Do you think your stepdaughter hired this man to kill you?
00:08:24Oh, I don't know what to think, really.
00:08:26I know they're conspiring.
00:08:28Your beloved stepmother's here in the museum.
00:08:30Right amongst your father's trophies, Janet.
00:08:32You mean she has the nerve to meet Professor Logan there?
00:08:35No, she's not with the professor, sweetheart.
00:08:38A couple of new faces have been added.
00:08:41Looks like a pair of Market Street canaries.
00:08:43Private detectives to you.
00:08:46Private detectives?
00:08:48I wonder what she's up to now.
00:08:50I don't know.
00:08:51Whatever it is, I don't look forward to tangling with these boys.
00:08:53They're smart and lucky.
00:08:55Oh, Rex, darling, we have nothing to be afraid of.
00:08:58You're not going to let me down, are you?
00:09:00Well, what do I get out of the deal?
00:09:02Oh, Rex.
00:09:05What about tonight?
00:09:06Pick me up in front of the house at 7 o'clock.
00:09:09And then I want you to meet someone.
00:09:11Who?
00:09:12Father's closest friend, Uncle Leon.
00:09:14Oh, who's Uncle Leon?
00:09:16You know your relatives don't like me.
00:09:18This one will, because I do.
00:09:21Besides, he's not a real relative.
00:09:24Okay.
00:09:25Look, I gotta go now.
00:09:27One canary's getting too close.
00:09:29Goodbye.
00:09:32Hey, what is this?
00:09:34Oh, excuse me.
00:09:35It's that dad's dumb leg.
00:09:37Sometimes it goes right out from under me.
00:09:39And by a crutch.
00:09:40Is that a nice way to talk?
00:09:45Everybody out, please.
00:09:47We can't talk here any longer.
00:09:49There's a mighty clumsy boy at Kennedy.
00:09:51He wasn't packing no pistols, son.
00:09:53This is my home address.
00:09:54Please come this evening.
00:09:56I'm sorry.
00:09:58This is my home address.
00:09:59Please come this evening.
00:10:02Jack, what is this merry-go-round all about?
00:10:04Do you mind telling me?
00:10:05We'll find out tonight when we get to Mrs. Mitchell's home and put our heads together.
00:10:09I wish you hadn't said that, son.
00:10:11There's a bunch of boys with their heads together.
00:10:13I hate to think of us ending up that-a-way.
00:10:24He prayeth well, who loveth well,
00:10:26both man and bird and beast.
00:10:29He prayeth best, who loveth best,
00:10:32all things both great and small.
00:10:35For the dear God, who loveth us,
00:10:37he made and loveth all.
00:10:40Uncle Leon write that?
00:10:42That's from the Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner.
00:10:45But it expresses Uncle Leon's philosophy exactly.
00:10:48He's probably back in his workshop.
00:10:51Quite a circus he's got here.
00:10:54Boy, am I glad he's dead.
00:10:56Don't let Uncle Leon hear you call them dead animals.
00:10:59He likes to think that they're still alive
00:11:01so that they can enjoy the paradise that he's created for them.
00:11:05Yeah? Your uncle sounds like he's slightly off his rock.
00:11:12Hey, what gives?
00:11:13I thought-I thought your uncle stopped all of his little playmates.
00:11:16That's just Diablo.
00:11:17Father sent him to Uncle Leon from India.
00:11:19He's been raised right here in the studio.
00:11:24Diablo, behave yourself.
00:11:26Uncle Leon, Diablo startled us.
00:11:28Oh, I'm sorry, my dear.
00:11:30But he really isn't dangerous,
00:11:32as long as you show no fear before him.
00:11:34I'm not scared. I shake like this all the time.
00:11:37This is Rex Kennedy.
00:11:38I told you about him, Uncle.
00:11:40How do you do?
00:11:41I don't think that cute little kitten of yours likes me.
00:11:44You know, I'd say hello if he'd just quit looking at me
00:11:46like I was a walking beefsteak.
00:11:48Diablo is only playing.
00:11:50I should warn you that it isn't necessarily what he sees
00:11:53that would arouse him to violence.
00:11:55He can sense when one is afraid of him.
00:11:57Fear has a definite odor to animals.
00:12:00The smell of it goads them into a fury.
00:12:04Stop that, you rascal.
00:12:06Stop it, I say.
00:12:10Bring Mr. Kennedy alone to the workshop, Janet.
00:12:17I hope he really didn't frighten you.
00:12:20Why, he's so tame that at times
00:12:22I allow him to run around loose in my jungle.
00:12:24He enjoys it so.
00:12:25Well, he may be tame,
00:12:26but I'd hate to meet him face to face
00:12:27walking down Market Street.
00:12:29Rex is a city boy.
00:12:30A tree and a blade of grass make him nervous.
00:12:32Oh, I don't know.
00:12:33I was brought up in a kind of a jungle too,
00:12:35called South of the Slot.
00:12:37Dog eat dog, kill or be killed,
00:12:38survival of the fittest.
00:12:40Just like your animals.
00:12:41No, not like animals, Mr. Kennedy.
00:12:43Man is the only animal that kills
00:12:45for the sheer love of killing.
00:12:47You could see that for yourself out there.
00:12:49All those beautiful jungle creatures
00:12:51slaughtered by men,
00:12:53not for food, but for sport.
00:12:55Darling, Rex is only kidding.
00:12:57Oh, of course.
00:12:58Forgive me.
00:12:59And are you and Louise getting along any better?
00:13:02No.
00:13:03I hate her and detest her.
00:13:05I wish I could do something about Louise and you.
00:13:08And he was still spying on her.
00:13:10Yes, spying, watching, following, anything.
00:13:14Before I get through with Louise and Arthur Logan,
00:13:16I'll show them up for what they really are.
00:13:18You're too quick to jump to conclusions.
00:13:21The trouble with you, darling,
00:13:22is that you see only the good in everybody.
00:13:25Maybe you are the one who is too trustful, Jetman.
00:13:28What do you mean by that?
00:13:30This child is very dear to me.
00:13:32Knowing the evil in the world,
00:13:33I resent her trusting anyone,
00:13:36even you, sir.
00:13:38Rex,
00:13:40please wait for me in the car.
00:13:42Okay.
00:13:44If I get lost in your jungle,
00:13:45send out a searching party, will you?
00:13:49You don't approve, do you, darling?
00:13:51Well, he's really not your kind.
00:13:53But do you love him?
00:13:54And is he the man you want to marry?
00:13:56I don't know.
00:13:57He's exciting, like Diablo.
00:13:59Tame on the surface and yet underneath.
00:14:01You're a great deal like your father, my dear.
00:14:04You've always been ruled by your emotions.
00:14:06You like playing with fire because it's dangerous.
00:14:08I'll take my chances.
00:14:10Where did you meet him?
00:14:11At a cocktail party.
00:14:12I let him pick me up.
00:14:14Why not?
00:14:16Why not?
00:14:17At the moment, he's useful to me.
00:14:19I'm looking for something.
00:14:21Something about father's disappearance.
00:14:24And when I find it...
00:14:27Uncle Leon,
00:14:28the jungle doesn't exist that father could be lost in,
00:14:31unless he was betrayed by someone he loved and trusted.
00:14:34Surely you can't believe.
00:14:36I do believe it.
00:14:37Father failed return from South America
00:14:39not because he was lost,
00:14:41but because he was murdered.
00:14:46I think I ought to stick around for a while.
00:14:48Sure you don't want me to, baby?
00:14:49You better not, Rex.
00:14:50Louise is suspicious enough as it is.
00:14:52Okay.
00:14:53Perhaps you're right.
00:14:55Maybe we can accomplish more
00:14:57if she doesn't see us together too often.
00:14:59But you call me at the hotel if you want me.
00:15:01Thank you, Rex.
00:15:02Good night.
00:15:03Good night.
00:15:04Good night.
00:15:05Good night.
00:15:06Good night.
00:15:07Good night.
00:15:08Good night.
00:15:09Good night.
00:15:10Good night.
00:15:11Good night.
00:15:12Good night.
00:15:13Good night.
00:15:14Good night, Rex.
00:15:15Good night.
00:15:16Good night.
00:15:36Just a minute, fellas.
00:15:37This meeting of yours is getting to be a habit.
00:15:39I was wondering if we couldn't get together on this deal.
00:15:42Meaning what?
00:15:43Old double crock.
00:15:44Now, look.
00:15:45You're in business.
00:15:46You don't have any personal interest in this case.
00:15:48I do.
00:15:49So why don't we join forces and stop tailing each other?
00:15:52I can do you some good.
00:15:54Maybe you can do me some good.
00:15:55You're talking like a crazy man.
00:15:57Now, you lay off me.
00:15:58Now, I'm only trying to help Janet Mitchell.
00:16:00Now, I know you boys are trying to help Mrs. Mitchell.
00:16:03So it's all in the family.
00:16:05Maybe by working together we can make everybody happy.
00:16:08Now, that's an angle.
00:16:09Why, sure it is.
00:16:11I'll play it my way and we'll all come out on top.
00:16:13Only we're not playing it your way.
00:16:15But you people don't seem to understand.
00:16:17We understand you, Bob.
00:16:18That's enough.
00:16:19Okay.
00:16:20Then it's no holds barred.
00:16:22Kennedy, if you're an innocent man with a clean slate,
00:16:24it seems to me you're going to a lot of trouble to cover up something.
00:16:26Yeah, my advice to you, Kennedy...
00:16:28Just keep your advice and keep your distance.
00:16:35You know something, son?
00:16:36I don't think that Kennedy character likes us a deck him being.
00:16:40Well, I think we're all going to get a little better acquainted before this job is done.
00:16:52You see, Mr. Packard, the root of this whole tragic situation is that Janet believes I killed her father.
00:16:58That's a serious charge, Mrs. Mitchell.
00:17:00Well, when I married Quinton, it made Janet unreasonably unhappy.
00:17:04Caused, in my opinion, by a father fixation.
00:17:07There has always been a very close association between the two.
00:17:10Naturally, she resented anyone who disturbed that relationship.
00:17:13Yes, but, uh, resent is hardly the word.
00:17:16She... she actually hates me.
00:17:19That was one reason we organized the expedition at that time.
00:17:22We hoped that while we were away, she'd become reconciled to our marriage.
00:17:25And it was on this expedition that your husband was lost.
00:17:28Yes.
00:17:29He simply disappeared.
00:17:32We remained and searched for almost two weeks.
00:17:35At every possibility, the local authorities did everything they could, but...
00:17:42Hey, is that all one dog?
00:17:46Boy, tangling with that hound would be just like riding a cyclone without no spurs.
00:17:51I feel much safer at night with him on guard.
00:17:53He makes a terrible fuss when strangers approach the house.
00:17:56And in view of what's happened...
00:17:57Just what has happened, Mrs. Mitchell?
00:17:59Oh, nothing tangible.
00:18:01I just feel I'm being watched everywhere I go.
00:18:03My mail and Arthur's is pampered with.
00:18:05Arthur?
00:18:06Professor Logan. He was my husband's associate on the trip.
00:18:09This terrific animosity of Janet's has become impossible.
00:18:13Everything she does is a threat, a challenge, an accusation.
00:18:16And you believe your life actually is in danger?
00:18:18Yes.
00:18:21Expecting someone?
00:18:22Yes, I asked Professor Logan to come over.
00:18:25Excuse me, I'll let him in.
00:18:30It's all right, John. I'll get it.
00:18:34Are they here?
00:18:35Yes.
00:18:36Do they know?
00:18:37No.
00:18:38Louise, do you think it's wise?
00:18:39Wise? We need help, Arthur.
00:18:41We must do something. I just can't go on like this any longer.
00:18:44All right, Louise, all right.
00:18:45But my coming here is bound to cause more gossip.
00:18:47It's important that they see the pictures we took on the trip.
00:18:50I hope you know what you're doing.
00:18:58This is Mr. Long, a Mr. Packard.
00:19:00Professor Logan.
00:19:01How do you do?
00:19:02How are you?
00:19:03Professor Logan.
00:19:04Good evening.
00:19:05Gentlemen, I'm not in sympathy with this notion of Mrs. Mitchell's to hire private investigators.
00:19:09But I hope whatever must be done can be done quietly.
00:19:12Notoriety wouldn't help Mrs. Mitchell, and at the same time, it would be disastrous to me.
00:19:15In what way?
00:19:16I'm a professor at the university.
00:19:18Naturally, the Board of Trustees won't tolerate any scandal.
00:19:21Oh, Chuck, Professor, you don't need to worry none about that.
00:19:25Me and Jackie is paid to keep secrets.
00:19:27I wish not.
00:19:28Yes.
00:19:29Is Janet home?
00:19:30Yes, she's upstairs in her room.
00:19:32We had the usual scene when she came in tonight.
00:19:35Just what was the usual scene?
00:19:37Oh, name-calling, threats, tears.
00:19:40She knows I've engaged you.
00:19:42Kennedy did phone her.
00:19:43Yes, I'm sure he knows.
00:19:45Well, let's get on with the showing of the pictures.
00:20:00These views were taken when we were on our way back to the base.
00:20:03They'll show that Mr. Mitchell was completely happy and in excellent health.
00:20:06Yeah, I heard tell a fella can get mighty darn unhealthy down in them jungles, but quick.
00:20:12I don't see Mrs. Mitchell.
00:20:14I was taking the picture.
00:20:15It was the day after this that Quentin disappeared.
00:20:19What's in that box those natives are carrying?
00:20:21The five shrunken heads we brought back for the museum.
00:20:24Heads?
00:20:25Yes.
00:20:27The five shrunken heads we brought back for the museum.
00:20:29Heads?
00:20:30Ain't they a law against messing around with them things?
00:20:33Well, not if they're being brought in for a scientific exhibit.
00:20:38Those are Jivero Indians, aren't they?
00:20:39That's right.
00:20:41And look carefully, Mr. Packard.
00:20:43You can see how happy Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell are together.
00:20:49And that's a blowgun.
00:20:51The Jiveros impregnated the tips of the darts with a deadly poison.
00:20:55Isn't it possible those Indians killed Mitchell?
00:20:57After all, they are headhunters.
00:20:59No, the Indians have abandoned that practice.
00:21:02Of course, the authorities considered that possibility.
00:21:04They couldn't find a trace of evidence.
00:21:06Quentin Mitchell simply vanished into thin air.
00:21:09The authorities were satisfied that you and Mrs. Mitchell had nothing to do with his disappearance.
00:21:13You can tell from the slides, Mr. Packard, the happy relationship that existed between us.
00:21:18The pictures don't lie.
00:21:21If they don't lie, Mr. Mitchell certainly seems at home with that thing.
00:21:24He became as skillful as the Navy.
00:21:26He even reached the point where he could bring down a bird in flight with a blowgun.
00:21:40Something struck the wall over there.
00:21:43Don't touch it.
00:21:44There's probably enough poison on that thing to kill all of us.
00:21:47It's one of them darts just like them Indians use.
00:21:49Where did it come from?
00:21:51Stop! You there!
00:21:54Stop!
00:21:56You!
00:21:57No!
00:22:16He must have died instantly.
00:22:18I don't know who's messing around with them darts, but it ain't Cupid.
00:22:25Hmm.
00:22:31Hmm.
00:22:32One of them overgrown bean shooters, eh?
00:22:35At least he can't shoot none of his little old poison do-jiggers at us now.
00:22:41Looks like we're up against a killer with a rather fancy bag of tricks.
00:22:44He's got himself a darn good disappearing trick in any case.
00:22:47Hey.
00:22:52Janet, my darling little girl.
00:22:55There's something very special and wonderful in being 18.
00:22:59My little girl has grown to womanhood.
00:23:01I remember all of your 18 years.
00:23:04You probably remember most of them.
00:23:06And most of the fine times we had together.
00:23:10On 18th birthdays, most fathers and daughters have long heart-to-heart talks.
00:23:15This, although one-sided, is to be ours.
00:23:18A talk that will never grow old, never disappear into the mists of yesterday.
00:23:23That's why I'm putting my talk on a record.
00:23:26I want you to be able to hear my voice long after I'm gone.
00:23:34Who is it?
00:23:35Jack Packard. I'd like to talk to you.
00:23:37Packard? You're one of the detectives.
00:23:40Yes, you'll find me easier to talk to than the police.
00:23:43Police?
00:23:46May I come in?
00:23:50They'll be all over this place in a few minutes.
00:23:52Didn't Rex Kennedy drive you home tonight just before we arrived?
00:23:58What if he did?
00:24:00Why do you ask?
00:24:02Sure you don't suspect him?
00:24:04Could be.
00:24:05What were you both talking about out in the car?
00:24:08Anything you want to know about me, you'll have to find out for yourself.
00:24:11Anything about Rex?
00:24:12Well, he's old enough to speak for himself.
00:24:14Mr. Packard, why don't you ask him?
00:24:16He'll be questioned all right when he's found.
00:24:18About what?
00:24:19He couldn't have any possible reason.
00:24:21When you play with that kind of fire, it sometimes gets out of hand.
00:24:24I know Rex has been in trouble before, but surely you don't think...
00:24:27I don't think anything yet.
00:24:28I only know that the murderer just missed killing Mrs. Mitchell.
00:24:31Or perhaps he intended to get the professor first.
00:24:34If I were positive they murdered my father, I'd be glad to see them both dead.
00:24:37Why do you hold them responsible?
00:24:39I have love letters that Logan wrote Louise.
00:24:41I'm sure they wanted my father out of the way.
00:24:43May I see the letters?
00:24:45Certainly not.
00:24:48Just as you screamed when you were downstairs, you could easily have seen someone outside the window.
00:24:53I didn't.
00:24:54Not even a shadow you might have recognized?
00:24:57No.
00:24:58That's the answer I expected.
00:25:00You'll swear you don't know who made that good old college try tonight.
00:25:03Yes, I'll swear it.
00:25:05Will you believe it?
00:25:06No, because you do know somebody.
00:25:08A good person, at least, who might do that just for you.
00:25:11Just to make your life happier.
00:25:13Rex?
00:25:14Maybe.
00:25:15His record's not any too good.
00:25:17How many dear friends do you have who know how to use a deadly blowgun?
00:25:23Like the one your father was using in the picture when you screamed.
00:25:27What makes you think Rex did it?
00:25:29I haven't said I think Rex did it.
00:25:31He's simply a logical suspect.
00:25:33Why?
00:25:34Why should he murder John?
00:25:35I guess there's no accounting for some people in this world.
00:25:38When the boys in blue arrive, I'd suggest you tell them the truth.
00:25:57Macy Hotel.
00:25:58Connect me with Mr. Kennedy's room.
00:26:00Mr. Rex Kennedy.
00:26:06I'm sorry, Mr. Kennedy doesn't answer.
00:26:08Well, he must be there.
00:26:10Are you sure?
00:26:11Sorry, he isn't in.
00:26:12Any message?
00:26:14No.
00:26:16No, I'll call later.
00:26:25Kennedy, where did you go last night?
00:26:27Packard and Long said they left you parked in front of the Mitchell home just before the slides were shown.
00:26:32How long did you stay there?
00:26:33I left right away.
00:26:35Then I got into a card game and it didn't break up till early this morning.
00:26:39When I heard you were paging me, I came in, didn't I?
00:26:42Keep on talking, Kennedy.
00:26:44I still would like to know why your shoes fit this set of prints we found in front of the Mitchell window.
00:26:48I called for Janet a couple of nights ago and looked for her through the window.
00:26:53What does that make me?
00:26:54A peep in Kennedy.
00:26:55Why didn't you ring the doorbell?
00:26:56Because they don't like me inside the house.
00:26:59Say, what are these two kibitzers doing here? I don't have to listen to them.
00:27:01When they have anything to say, you listen.
00:27:03And when you have anything to say, they listen.
00:27:05Packard and Doc worked with the police.
00:27:08Kennedy, those footprints were fresh.
00:27:10I've already explained that.
00:27:11I suppose my fingerprints are all over that blowgun, too.
00:27:14I don't know one end of a blowgun from the other.
00:27:16You know, that poker session alibi doesn't mean a thing.
00:27:19You had plenty of time to get to that game after the butler was murdered.
00:27:22And after you made us that interesting proposition.
00:27:26What proposition?
00:27:28Nothing much.
00:27:29He just wanted to help us with our job, that's all.
00:27:31Oh, rubbish.
00:27:33Send Miss Mitchell in here, will you?
00:27:44Miss Mitchell, Kennedy says he left you at your door last night, shortly before the murder.
00:27:49Did you see him drive away?
00:27:53No, I did not.
00:27:54Did you make any arrangement for him to stay around your home after you went inside?
00:27:59No.
00:28:00Did you see him later, through the living room window?
00:28:04No.
00:28:05But he could have been there.
00:28:09Yes, he... he might have been there.
00:28:13Janet, you wouldn't be throwing me to the wolves, would you?
00:28:16You're not in Miss Mitchell's league, Kennedy.
00:28:19She made a mistake playing around with you, and I think she knows it now.
00:28:23You're a gambler, a promoter and a chiseler.
00:28:26You picked on this girl for an easy touch.
00:28:28You kept cunning her for what you could get out of it, but something went wrong.
00:28:32No woman likes to be taken for a sucker.
00:28:34Janet...
00:28:35Save that for later.
00:28:36We're holding you on a vagrancy charge until your time is accounted for last night.
00:28:40Davis, that'll be all, Miss Mitchell. Thank you.
00:28:44Get that out right away, will you, and make an extra copy of it.
00:28:59You!
00:29:03What are you doing here?
00:29:04I thought you were in...
00:29:05Yeah? Haven't you ever heard of the magic word, bail?
00:29:08You know you're not welcome in this house.
00:29:09Not by you, but this isn't all your house yet.
00:29:12I'll leave after I've seen Janet.
00:29:14Where is she?
00:29:16I don't know.
00:29:17She's in the bedroom.
00:29:18She's in the bedroom?
00:29:19She's in the bedroom.
00:29:20She's in the bedroom?
00:29:21She's in the bedroom.
00:29:22She's in the bedroom.
00:29:23She's in the bedroom.
00:29:24She's in the bedroom.
00:29:25She's in the bedroom.
00:29:26She's in the bedroom.
00:29:27Where is she?
00:29:28I don't believe...
00:29:30Janet!
00:29:31Rex, what have you done?
00:29:32I've got to see you.
00:29:34I'm afraid.
00:29:35More afraid than I was before.
00:29:37Of me?
00:29:38Well, why are you afraid of me?
00:29:39I don't know.
00:29:40I just don't know.
00:29:42If your father were here, he'd put a stop to this.
00:29:45How dare you speak of my father?
00:29:48I'll be with you in a minute.
00:29:49I've just got to know.
00:29:58There's nothing I like better than a nice, fast double-cross.
00:30:03You asked me to help you.
00:30:04Now you're afraid of me.
00:30:06There's been a murder committed.
00:30:07Now look, I've been snooping for you, running your errands and everything else.
00:30:10But I don't murder.
00:30:11Not even for you.
00:30:13Oh, Rex, I'm so mixed up.
00:30:28Yeah.
00:30:31Ah, it's this way.
00:30:33I thought I was doing all right with you.
00:30:36Up until those two private dicks waltzed in.
00:30:39And suddenly they make me a murderer.
00:30:41A little circumstantial evidence, and then suddenly I'm a killer?
00:30:45Captain Quinn told me that...
00:30:46Okay, Quinn told you what he told me.
00:30:49What did you think I was, a pantywaist?
00:30:52Is that why you picked up with me?
00:30:54Rex, things have changed since last night.
00:30:57There's something else that...
00:30:59Something else?
00:31:01Yes.
00:31:03You see that...
00:31:09Hey, what gives here? What's the matter?
00:31:12I can't tell you.
00:31:14You don't know, I...
00:31:16I just can't tell you.
00:31:17Look, Janet, I'm playing on your side.
00:31:21I wish I could believe you.
00:31:23I'm so confused.
00:31:25Yeah, you're in pretty bad shape.
00:31:29If...
00:31:31If you didn't commit the murder, then...
00:31:34Then it must have...
00:31:37It can't be.
00:31:38What is it?
00:31:39It just can't be.
00:31:40What do you know? Tell me.
00:31:41I can't tell you.
00:31:43Look, Janet, you've got to get a hold of yourself, or you'll go completely off the beam.
00:31:47Oh, Rex, I don't know what to do.
00:31:50I need help, and I need it badly.
00:31:52Yeah, yeah, I can see that.
00:31:55You'll get help, Janet.
00:31:59You'll get help, all right.
00:32:14Sleep.
00:32:17Sleep.
00:32:22Just relax and float away.
00:32:28Rest.
00:32:31You're tired.
00:32:34So weary.
00:32:39You are going to rest now.
00:32:42Sleep.
00:32:44And rest.
00:32:47And sleep.
00:32:50And rest.
00:32:53Relax.
00:32:56Relax.
00:33:00Rest.
00:33:05That does it.
00:33:08Wait in my office, please, until I finish.
00:33:17I'm your friend, Miss Mitchell.
00:33:20You're here to gain release from your problems.
00:33:24I'm here to help you.
00:33:26Speak, Miss Mitchell.
00:33:31Father?
00:33:34Father?
00:33:37Janet, my darling little girl.
00:33:42I want you to be able to hear my voice long after I'm gone.
00:33:47Father?
00:33:50Where are you?
00:33:51But your father is dead, Miss Mitchell.
00:33:56Yes.
00:33:58He must be dead.
00:34:01But I don't worry.
00:34:03Not even for you.
00:34:05How many dear friends do you have who know how to use a deadly blowgun?
00:34:09Like the one your father was using in the picture when you sprang?
00:34:12No.
00:34:13Father couldn't have had anything to do with it.
00:34:16I won't believe it.
00:34:18He's dead.
00:34:20They killed him.
00:34:21Are you sure he's dead, Miss Mitchell?
00:34:24Is there no uncertainty in your mind?
00:34:29Achilles.
00:34:33Achilles, you didn't bark.
00:34:36You didn't bark.
00:34:38What does it mean, Miss Mitchell?
00:34:40The dog didn't bark.
00:34:44Achilles...
00:34:47He...
00:34:50Achilles is my father's dog.
00:35:06Father, stop!
00:35:08Stop, it's John!
00:35:16Ah!
00:35:19Father!
00:35:21Father, you killed him!
00:35:26I'll find you.
00:35:28I'll help you.
00:35:33All right, Miss Mitchell.
00:35:36All right.
00:35:39There's nothing to be frightened of.
00:35:43Nurse.
00:35:44The lights, please.
00:35:54What happened?
00:35:55Nothing.
00:35:56Nothing, Miss Mitchell.
00:35:58You just slept for a while.
00:36:00Don't you feel better?
00:36:02Yes.
00:36:03Somehow I do feel relieved.
00:36:05Of course.
00:36:06Now wait here a minute, I'll be right back.
00:36:14Someone's in the outer office.
00:36:17See who it is and get rid of them.
00:36:19But first give the patient a sedative.
00:36:21Yes, Doctor.
00:36:44Drink this, please.
00:36:46What is it?
00:36:47A myosedative for your nerves.
00:36:49Drink it.
00:36:50It's the best without a care in the world.
00:36:54When I was asleep...
00:36:56Did I say anything? Did I speak at all?
00:36:58You'll have to ask the doctor.
00:37:00Lie down for a little and I'll leave you alone now while you rest.
00:37:04There's a definite father fixation.
00:37:06Do you think this caused the hysteria?
00:37:08I don't know.
00:37:09I don't know. She thinks her father may still be alive.
00:37:13Then she said something like, the dog didn't bark.
00:37:16Oh, that's her father's dog.
00:37:18And do you think he's still alive?
00:37:21I don't know.
00:37:22I don't know.
00:37:23I don't know.
00:37:24I don't know.
00:37:25I don't know.
00:37:26I don't know.
00:37:27I don't know.
00:37:28I don't know.
00:37:29I don't know.
00:37:30I don't know.
00:37:31I don't know.
00:37:32Do you think she really believes that her father's still alive?
00:37:36Butler's murder?
00:37:38She thinks her father and mother killed him.
00:37:40Killed him?
00:37:50Janet!
00:37:52Don't come near me!
00:37:53Where are you going?
00:37:54Home! Let me go!
00:37:55You're in no condition to go out alone.
00:37:57Are you trying to tell me that I'm not responsible? That I'm crazy?
00:37:59What were you two talking about out there?
00:38:01Nothing. Nothing important.
00:38:02What were you plotting behind my back?
00:38:04Miss Mitchell, I was only explaining your condition to Mr. Kennedy.
00:38:09We want to help you, if we can.
00:38:12I don't believe you.
00:38:14You brought me here to pry secrets from me.
00:38:15Let me go! Keep away from me!
00:38:17I should have known better than to trust you.
00:38:19I've been warned against you often enough.
00:38:24Well, doggone, look who's here.
00:38:27Hello, Miss Mitchell.
00:38:28Kennedy.
00:38:29What are you doing here?
00:38:30You sound kind of flustered, bud. We're just waiting for you.
00:38:33Taylor, I think, could call it.
00:38:35They're detectives.
00:38:36I'm sorry, doctor. They said they made an appointment with you.
00:38:39Please take me home.
00:38:40They're trying to keep me here.
00:38:41The lady seems to want to go home, doctor.
00:38:44Miss Mitchell is in a highly excitable state.
00:38:47Hate and distrust are the normal reactions of the patient to the psychiatrist,
00:38:50during and after the first few treatments.
00:38:53Then you're a psychiatrist, doctor.
00:38:55A neurologist.
00:38:56But I use psychotherapy to a great extent in my work.
00:38:59They put me to sleep.
00:39:00They tried to drug me.
00:39:03My dear Miss Mitchell,
00:39:04you were brought to me in a state of hysteria, bordering on shock.
00:39:08Now, if let alone,
00:39:10such a condition might easily result in a severe psychoneurosis.
00:39:14You needed help immediately.
00:39:15You used hypnosis?
00:39:16Yes.
00:39:17Hypnotic catharsis.
00:39:18It's a recognized form of treatment.
00:39:20But hardly a cure.
00:39:22No.
00:39:24It's a kind of safety valve.
00:39:26Or may I say,
00:39:27release from mounting pressure,
00:39:29though only a temporary measure.
00:39:32I'm impressed by your knowledge.
00:39:34But as this is strictly a professional matter,
00:39:36between my patient and myself,
00:39:39I do not care to discuss it with you any further.
00:39:42Miss Mitchell,
00:39:43I'd advise you to get some rest.
00:39:47And now, if you'll excuse me, please.
00:39:51Just a minute, doctor.
00:39:52Yes?
00:40:07You didn't, by any chance,
00:40:08make a recording of Miss Mitchell's statements while she was asleep.
00:40:12Will you leave,
00:40:14or shall I call the police?
00:40:16That's a good idea.
00:40:18Yes, doctor, why don't you call the police?
00:40:28Well, doggone, ain't that pretty?
00:40:30And just freshly cut.
00:40:31That's a confidential recording for my files.
00:40:33Give it to me!
00:40:34It's mine!
00:40:35You have every right to demand
00:40:36that Dr. Karger turn it over to you, Miss Mitchell,
00:40:38especially as it was taken without your consent.
00:40:41It might be very unpleasant
00:40:42if it got into the wrong hands.
00:40:44What are you trying to tell her?
00:40:46This setup, the rather odd hours the doctor keeps.
00:40:48Blackmail is an ugly word.
00:40:50Blackmail?
00:40:51I'd advise you to be careful
00:40:53making slanderous insinuations like that.
00:40:55Slander?
00:40:56Isn't it a fact that you were disowned
00:40:57by your profession in several eastern states?
00:40:59Well, what of it?
00:41:00Karger knows his stuff.
00:41:01Certainly.
00:41:02Otherwise, he'd never be able to attract a clientele.
00:41:05How he got a license to operate here
00:41:06is something of a mystery.
00:41:08He's wanted back east
00:41:09on charges of extortion and blackmail.
00:41:12The police are only waiting
00:41:13for the extradition papers to arrive.
00:41:15He's been crooked so darn long
00:41:16he could use a corkscrew for a yardstick.
00:41:19You keep him out of strange company, Mr. Kennedy.
00:41:22That's why you brought me here.
00:41:23You were planning to blackmail me.
00:41:25I brought you here because you needed help
00:41:26and you needed it bad.
00:41:27I knew Karger could straighten you out.
00:41:29He did it for me once.
00:41:31You? The tough guy?
00:41:32I didn't think you had nerves.
00:41:35You're working together.
00:41:36This record.
00:41:43Wait for me, please.
00:41:44Please.
00:41:55Janet.
00:41:56Uncle Leon, I...
00:41:58Have you seen Father?
00:41:59What?
00:42:00He's here in San Francisco hiding.
00:42:02And I thought surely if he'd come in secretly
00:42:03he would have come to you.
00:42:05Secretly hiding?
00:42:06I'm sure of it.
00:42:07Why, if that's his state of mind
00:42:08he'd go almost anywhere, do almost anything.
00:42:11He has done it.
00:42:12You mean...
00:42:13Yes.
00:42:14Murder?
00:42:15John must have recognized him, the dog too.
00:42:17The dog didn't bark, that's why I'm so sure of it.
00:42:20My child, this is terrible.
00:42:38I don't know, I can't be sure.
00:42:40Oh, it's too horrible.
00:42:42It looked like Quentin.
00:42:44It's big, built the same way.
00:42:46No scars, but...
00:42:48I just don't know.
00:42:49That'll be all, I guess.
00:42:51You can go now.
00:42:59The only way to prove that's Quentin Mitchell in there
00:43:01is to get positive identification.
00:43:04I guess we'd better try Mitchell's daughter again.
00:43:06I wouldn't advise that, the condition she's in now.
00:43:08But there is one other way.
00:43:12Quentin.
00:43:43Boy.
00:43:45Graveyard ain't no spookiness, you're all alone from neighborhood.
00:43:48What if Hartman ain't here, son?
00:43:50Maybe you shouldn't let that cab go.
00:43:52Oh, we won't need it, someone's coming.
00:44:05We'd like to talk to you for a moment, Mr. Hartman.
00:44:07I telephoned you, remember?
00:44:09Oh, yes, yes, come in, come in.
00:44:13I keep the lights off here at night.
00:44:15I don't want to disturb the sleep of my pets.
00:44:43Hey.
00:44:44That wasn't no stuffed owl I just heard.
00:44:47It's only my pet, a beautiful leopard you saw on the way in.
00:44:50But don't be alarmed, lad.
00:44:52The cage is locked.
00:44:53Yeah.
00:44:54And now, gentlemen, I'd be glad to help you in any way I can.
00:44:57Mr. Hartman, the curator at the museum, told us you existed.
00:45:00Yes, I did.
00:45:01But I'm afraid I can't help you.
00:45:03I'm afraid I can't help you.
00:45:05I'm afraid I can't help you.
00:45:07I'm afraid I can't help you.
00:45:09I'm afraid I can't help you.
00:45:10I'm afraid I can't help you.
00:45:11The curator at the museum told us you examined the shrunken head that was found in that airplane crash
00:45:15and believe it to be a genuine native head.
00:45:17Are you positive?
00:45:18Oh, yes, it was definitely a native head, Mr. Packard.
00:45:21I realize that you're an expert in such matters,
00:45:23but wouldn't it be a little difficult to tell if it was a white man's head or a native's after the shrinking process?
00:45:28Not really.
00:45:29Of course, the skin of both would be dyed with a dark stain, which acts as a preservative.
00:45:34But the hair would be different.
00:45:36A native hair is long and coarse, much like horse hair.
00:45:40Quentin Mitchell's hair was red, wasn't it?
00:45:43Quentin Mitchell?
00:45:44Heavens, man, what a horrible thought.
00:45:46Yes, it is horrible, but there's a headless body in the morgue.
00:45:49And that shrinking business might just be a good way of getting rid of any old decapitated heads you had laying around.
00:45:54But Quentin Mitchell is alive.
00:45:56He must be.
00:45:57Have you seen him?
00:45:58No, but Janet thinks that perhaps...
00:46:01Besides, it takes days to shrink a human head,
00:46:04and I doubt if the process were known to anyone but the Haveros.
00:46:08Them and my laundry, them babies can shrink anything.
00:46:12The man in the morgue may be Mitchell, and he was dead for almost two weeks before the body was found.
00:46:17That should be time enough to shrink his head.
00:46:20I'm afraid you're on the wrong track, Mr. Packett.
00:46:23Didn't they learn who tried to send that head out of the country?
00:46:26There was no way of doing that.
00:46:27The rapids were so burned that there wasn't no way to trace anything.
00:46:30Come on, Doc.
00:46:31Are we going somewhere? Am I too young to know about such things?
00:46:35Yeah, we're going someplace, all right.
00:46:37If you had Mitchell's head on your hands, where would you hide it?
00:46:39Well, not in my Aunt Sophie's icebox. She wouldn't like it.
00:46:43How about you, Mr. Hartman?
00:46:45I have no idea.
00:46:47But isn't this a matter for the police?
00:46:49Why let it worry you, Mr. Packett?
00:46:51Six heads when there should be five.
00:46:55I think I know where we're going to find the answer to this.
00:47:07♪♪
00:47:36Where's the lights at around here?
00:47:38Keep your hands off any switches.
00:47:40♪♪
00:47:51Well, they're all still here.
00:47:53Pretty little old peewee pinheads, ain't they?
00:47:56♪♪
00:48:03I arranged with Mr. Halliday, the curator of the museum, to meet us here.
00:48:06Why don't somebody tell me these things?
00:48:09I understood we were to meet outside the museum.
00:48:12The door was unlocked.
00:48:13I found it open, too.
00:48:15Very irregular.
00:48:16What could have happened to the night watchman?
00:48:18Ropey!
00:48:22Get out of here!
00:48:27Ropey, what happened?
00:48:30Why, I don't know, Mr. Halliday.
00:48:32I heard someone outside.
00:48:34They were hollering for help.
00:48:36So I opened the door to investigate, and...
00:48:40Blooey!
00:48:41That's all I remember till I woke up in there.
00:48:44Boy, I had a feeling.
00:48:45You better report this to the police, Mr. Halliday.
00:48:47In the meantime, we'd like to examine all the heads in the case.
00:48:50I guess we arrived just in time.
00:48:52Well, you can use the phone in my office, Ropey.
00:48:54The first aid kit's there, too.
00:48:55And bring me the key to the case of heads.
00:48:57Yes, sir.
00:48:59Let's go.
00:49:16Yes, the hair on this one is false.
00:49:19Glued on, like a wig.
00:49:21Must be horse hair.
00:49:24And the real hair underneath is red.
00:49:29I bet you Mr. Mitchell never did intend to end up on display in a museum.
00:49:34You still have the other one.
00:49:35The head someone tried to send back to South America.
00:49:38Oh, yes, yes. It's over there in its box.
00:49:47This head belongs to the museum.
00:49:49It's one of the original five you had on display.
00:49:52Someone took it and replaced it with that one.
00:49:54Only Arthur Logan and myself have legitimate access to that case.
00:49:58Where do you keep your key?
00:49:59In here, in my desk.
00:50:01I...
00:50:03I must tell you something about Professor Logan that I've withheld until now.
00:50:07I... I didn't want to involve him unnecessarily, but this places a different light on the matter.
00:50:13Yes?
00:50:14Mr. Mitchell wrote me and asked to have Professor Logan recalled from the expedition shortly before he disappeared.
00:50:21Then you think that Logan might have...
00:50:24I... I don't know.
00:50:29You know, whoever murdered Mitchell put his head on display for a reason.
00:50:32But you can't identify a thing like that as Mitchell.
00:50:35Maybe not, but I'm convinced that is his head.
00:50:38You see, years ago, the Hebrews in sewing the lips used the stitching as a code, identifying the man's native village.
00:50:44Look at the marks on the cords sewn into those lips.
00:50:48I'm convinced they mean something.
00:50:52Yeah?
00:50:54It's Doc Long.
00:50:56Good.
00:50:57That's fine.
00:51:00All right, hold him there. I'll be right over.
00:51:02Well, maybe this is the break we've been waiting for.
00:51:05Professor Logan just walked into the stakeout I had set over at the museum.
00:51:09They caught him at the case where the heads were kept on display.
00:51:12He claims he figured out just what happened to Mitchell's head and he came there to check to make sure.
00:51:18Sounds like guilty knowledge to me.
00:51:20Oh, I don't know. Maybe he's telling the truth.
00:51:23I think I'll stick around here for a while.
00:51:25After all, you know, Logan couldn't have killed the butler.
00:51:28Maybe, but he could have been working with someone else.
00:51:31You can stay here and work on your clues if you want to. I want some action.
00:53:20When Captain Quinn comes back, tell him to come immediately to Leon Hartman's studio.
00:53:23Tell him I'll be there.
00:53:24Yes, sir. Leon Hartman's.
00:53:25That's right.
00:53:36I'm afraid it's too late for jokes, Mr. Kennedy.
00:53:40I'm tired.
00:53:42Good night.
00:53:43This is no joke.
00:53:45I'm selling information about one Quentin Mitchell.
00:53:49Lately deceased.
00:53:52Information about Quentin?
00:53:54Yeah.
00:53:56I figure it's worth plenty.
00:53:58To whom?
00:53:59To the murderer.
00:54:02You're telling me you know who killed my friend?
00:54:05Yeah, don't you?
00:54:07Mitchell came back to San Francisco on the QT to spy on his wife.
00:54:13Maybe to kill her and Professor Logan.
00:54:17He knew there was one safe and friendly place where he could hide.
00:54:21But what he didn't know was that his friend, who in reality wasn't his friend,
00:54:27was waiting for just such a perfect setup to knock him off.
00:54:34I'm afraid what you're saying, Mr. Kennedy, sounds rather ridiculous.
00:54:39Unless you have proof.
00:54:43You're contemptible, Rex.
00:54:45I heard every word.
00:54:47You were planning to blackmail my father, and now that you think he's dead,
00:54:49you're trying to blackmail Uncle Leon.
00:54:51Janet.
00:54:52What are you doing here, child?
00:54:53I haven't anywhere else to turn.
00:54:55They tell me father's down in the morgue.
00:54:57If he is, I'm to blame.
00:54:59I killed him.
00:55:01There, there. You mustn't torture yourself so.
00:55:04There's a fate that arranges such things, if it's true.
00:55:08Janet, you don't know what you're doing.
00:55:10I don't believe in that kind of fate.
00:55:11If I hadn't sent him copies of those letters, why...
00:55:14Oh, it's all my fault.
00:55:16Janet, get out of here.
00:55:17This man killed your father.
00:55:19He killed your butler, too.
00:55:21Don't you understand?
00:55:22He tried to make everyone believe that your father was still alive
00:55:24so as to divert suspicion from himself.
00:55:27Only the butler saw and recognized...
00:55:28Why should I believe you?
00:55:30I heard you trying to blackmail him,
00:55:32as you planned to blackmail me when you took me to that, that quack psychiatrist.
00:55:35Dr. Carger turned out to be a quack.
00:55:37I made a mistake in trusting him.
00:55:38But I was only trying to help you then, and I'm trying to help you now.
00:55:41Nothing you can say will convince me or turn me against Uncle Leon.
00:55:44Thank you, my dear.
00:55:46And now, Mr. Kennedy, I think you'd better go.
00:55:50And peddle your blackmail someplace else.
00:55:52And leave you alone with this creep?
00:55:54No.
00:55:56If I go, you come with me, baby.
00:55:58I want to talk to Uncle Leon alone.
00:55:59Not anymore.
00:56:01We'll both stay till the cops get here.
00:56:04I think they might like to know why,
00:56:06when Packard and Doc Long left here earlier tonight,
00:56:09Hartman followed them out
00:56:11got to the museum first and knocked out the night watchman.
00:56:14You were here?
00:56:16What do you think?
00:56:34Uncle Leon!
00:56:37Yes, my dear.
00:56:39Now you know.
00:56:42You couldn't.
00:56:44You loved my father.
00:56:47I hated him.
00:56:50He was a ruthless butcher,
00:56:52murdering the innocent.
00:56:57That's why I killed him.
00:56:59Oh, no!
00:57:00This guy's a boss, he's a buffalo.
00:57:02Get out of here.
00:57:03I'll hold him till you get some help.
00:57:05I thought you were trying to blackmail me.
00:57:07I was only bluffing him because I didn't have any proof.
00:57:09Don't you see?
00:57:10I had to get him into a corner,
00:57:12make him fight back and tip his hand if he was the murderer.
00:57:14Now go on, get out.
00:57:15Janet, don't go.
00:57:17Try to understand.
00:57:19Listen to me.
00:57:20Get out of here.
00:57:21Janet, go!
00:57:24What's that?
00:57:25The front door.
00:57:26Good.
00:57:27It's unlocked, isn't it?
00:57:28It was, but I bolted it when I came in.
00:57:30Okay, answer it.
00:57:31Let him in.
00:57:32Don't open that door.
00:57:33Run, Janet!
00:57:35Run!
00:57:39Rex!
00:58:04Rex!
00:58:34Rex!
00:58:59What happened?
00:59:01You fainted, my dear.
00:59:03I had hoped you would remain unconscious
00:59:05until I'd finish what I have to do here.
00:59:09I hope to spare you this.
00:59:12Rex.
00:59:16He's alive.
00:59:18Yes, but he's got to die.
00:59:21Oh, no, Uncle Leon, no.
00:59:23Do you think I want to do it?
00:59:25Can you know what it means for a man who hates killing
00:59:29to have to kill?
00:59:30But, Uncle Leon, I know as much as Rex does.
00:59:33You can't.
00:59:35You too, Janet.
00:59:38Listen to Diablo out there.
00:59:41Screaming like a wild thing.
00:59:45Something's wrong.
00:59:55Quiet, Diablo.
01:00:00Quiet.
01:00:06Mr. Packard.
01:00:11Where is he, Diablo?
01:00:13You shouldn't have left me alone, Hartman.
01:00:16I'm afraid I've spoiled your plans.
01:00:23No, Mr. Packard.
01:00:26You haven't spoiled my plans.
01:00:30You've merely caused me to change them.
01:00:43Come, Diablo.
01:00:45Find him, boy.
01:01:01No!
01:01:11No!
01:01:28No!
01:01:30No!
01:01:38Open that door, Packard.
01:01:40Now you're out there alone with him, Hartman.
01:01:42How do you like it?
01:01:44Diablo.
01:01:49Diablo.
01:01:51You're not frightened, are you, Hartman?
01:01:53You know what it does to show fear before a wild animal?
01:01:56You're afraid, Hartman.
01:01:58You're afraid.
01:02:00Come on, Hunter.
01:02:07He's a killer, Hartman.
01:02:09Diablo, get back in your cage.
01:02:14He never disobeyed you before, did he?
01:02:17He's not your tame pet anymore.
01:02:19How does it feel, Hartman, to have something you love and trust to turn on you?
01:02:23How do you suppose Mitchell felt?
01:02:26He's afraid of you, Diablo.
01:02:28Can't you sense it?
01:02:30Look at him, Diablo. He's sweating fear.
01:02:33No, Diablo.
01:02:35I'm not afraid.
01:02:37Let me in.
01:02:39Let me in.
01:02:44I can't leave him out there.
01:02:46I'll be just as guilty of murder as he is.
01:02:48No, Diablo.
01:02:50Get back.
01:02:52No, Diablo!
01:02:54No, Diablo!
01:02:56No, Diablo!
01:03:00No, Diablo!
01:03:21But how did you know it was Hartman?
01:03:23The lines you found on those strings that were sewn to the lips of that head aren't here on this.
01:03:28No, but they're both from the same source.
01:03:30The Mariner.
01:03:32And when that connection was established, everything else fitted in together.
01:03:34Screwy little guy.
01:03:36Got himself all mixed up.
01:03:38Yeah, them mixed up little guys can sure cause a mess of trouble sometime.
01:03:42I can understand why he wanted to send that native head back to where it belonged.
01:03:47But why did he switch heads in the first place?
01:03:49Why put Mitchell's head on display in the museum?
01:03:52Well, I think it was his mad idea of poetic justice.
01:03:55You see, Hartman had been putting Mitchell's animals in the museum for a good many years and hating it.
01:03:58This was sort of a revenge.
01:04:00I guess he wanted to have Mitchell's head where he could see it and gloat over it.
01:04:03And, as you say, he was a mixed up little guy.
01:04:06You know, I sure did have that fella Kennedy figured wrong.
01:04:09Yeah, we're going over and pay that young man an apology we owe.
01:04:13See you again, Captain.
01:04:15Goodbye, Kevin.
01:04:17Here you are, Professor.
01:04:19Janet wants you to have them.
01:04:21Now, we were way off the beam about you and Mrs. Mitchell.
01:04:23Thanks, Rex.
01:04:25I'll take them.
01:04:26I realize now I misjudged you too, Rex.
01:04:29Janet, I do hope you'll forgive me.
01:04:32Darling, I was so blindly stupid.
01:04:34It was all my fault.
01:04:36Well, how were you to know?
01:04:38The letters were written before I married your father.
01:04:40I'm really sorry now that they weren't dated.
01:04:42It may sound silly, but when I wrote them to Louise, I never dated them because I thought it made them timeless.
01:04:47Well, that's all past now.
01:04:49Let's all try and forget about it.
01:04:53Come on, Arthur.
01:04:54Goodbye.
01:04:56Goodbye.
01:04:58You know, Rex, there's just one thing that still puzzles me about you.
01:05:02Yeah?
01:05:04You and Dr. Carger.
01:05:06You said he straightened you out once.
01:05:08Yeah, he did.
01:05:10Dr. Carger has a streak of larceny in his soul, but he helped me.
01:05:13What was the matter?
01:05:15I had an inferiority complex.
01:05:17Inferiority... you?
01:05:19Yeah, that's how I got my bad reputation.
01:05:20I'd go around acting like I was a tough guy because I wanted to prove to others that I was better than they were.
01:05:27I don't think he helped you one bit.
01:05:29Okay, baby.
01:05:31From now on, you're the doctor.
01:05:33You mean you'll do anything I say?
01:05:35Uh-huh. I'll even go to work for a living.
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