Black Magic, later retitled Meeting at Midnight for television, is a 1944 mystery film directed by Phil Rosen and starring Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan.
It was the third Charlie Chan film made by Toler at Monogram Pictures.
Plot
Charlie postpones his trip home from service with the government to Honolulu to help with the investigation of murder involving Number One Daughter (Frances Chan) and an easily spooked chauffeur (Mantan Moreland).
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It was the third Charlie Chan film made by Toler at Monogram Pictures.
Plot
Charlie postpones his trip home from service with the government to Honolulu to help with the investigation of murder involving Number One Daughter (Frances Chan) and an easily spooked chauffeur (Mantan Moreland).
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00:01:00Oh, I'm so excited!
00:01:02I'm so excited!
00:01:03I'm so excited!
00:01:05Stop.
00:01:06Stop!
00:01:17I'm just too excited for you.
00:01:20Oh, you are so crazy.
00:01:23I'm so nervous.
00:01:25Oh, I'm so excited.
00:01:27Mr. Bonner's inner self is nearing the other world.
00:01:32Tonight we will try to contact the spirit of Mrs. Edward.
00:01:58What kept you so long? I didn't expect you for hours.
00:02:01I had to finish my old job first.
00:02:04You know, Mr. Johnson, I sure do appreciate you letting me have your job yet.
00:02:07The appreciation's all mine, Mr. Brown.
00:02:10You said something about some seances, was you? What is them?
00:02:13You don't know what a seance? No, what is it?
00:02:15All men and women just sit around a table in the dark and hold hands.
00:02:18Does that make them happy, hold hands? Sort of raises the spirit some.
00:02:21Oh, yeah? Oh, oh.
00:02:24What was that? Oh, it's just someone moaning.
00:02:27Moaning? Moaning about the income tax, I mean.
00:02:31Good night, Mr. Brown. Good night, Mr. Johnson.
00:02:35I won't need this now.
00:02:38How to disappear.
00:02:41Mr. Johnson, does this book really tell you how to disappear?
00:02:44Guaranteed to make you go from where you is so you ain't where you was in a flash.
00:02:48Can you do it? I'm about to vanish right now.
00:02:51All I have to do is say the magic word and snap my finger like this,
00:02:54abracadabra, I'm gone.
00:02:57Oh, anybody could do this.
00:03:01Are we in a flash? He win.
00:03:07We are fortunate tonight.
00:03:10A spirit is about to join us.
00:03:21Who called me?
00:03:24Who wants me here?
00:03:27Is that you, Gert? Gertrude?
00:03:30My husband. Is that you, Mr. Edward?
00:03:33That's her, my wife.
00:03:36My wife, Gertrude.
00:03:39Gertrude.
00:03:42Gertrude.
00:03:45Gertrude.
00:03:48Is that you, Mr. Edward?
00:03:51That's her, my wife.
00:03:54She always called me Mr. Edward.
00:04:06But you're dead, aren't you?
00:04:09I've been buried, but I'm not dead.
00:04:12Oh.
00:04:16Abracadabra.
00:04:19Still here, but not for long.
00:04:33Those with prepared questions
00:04:36will nod their heads.
00:04:45Miss Green.
00:04:51Mr. Hamlin.
00:04:58Miss Wood.
00:05:05Mr. Edwards.
00:05:09Now for the questions
00:05:12while Mr. Bonner is still in contact with the spirit world.
00:05:15What happened in London the night of October 5th, 1935?
00:05:24What was the question?
00:05:27What happened in London the night of October 5th, 1935?
00:05:31What happened in London the night of October 5th, 1935?
00:05:35What happened in London the night of October 5th, 1935?
00:05:39Who asked that question? Answer me.
00:05:42Who spoke then? Who asked that question?
00:05:45What is wrong, Miss Green?
00:05:48He's hurting my hand. He won't let go.
00:05:51He's hurting my hand, too.
00:05:54Mr. Bonner. Wait a minute.
00:06:01Don't touch him while he's in his trance.
00:06:06He won't come out of this trance. He's dead.
00:06:09Dead? I thought only spirits were dead around here.
00:06:15Mr. Bonner has been shot.
00:06:18Shot? He's been murdered.
00:06:21Murdered? It certainly looks like it.
00:06:24Murder? I simply won't have it.
00:06:27Oh, murder. Oh, dear.
00:06:30Bonner murdered? What do we do, Tom?
00:06:33First we get dressed. And then skip town?
00:06:36And leave all our equipment here and up in that séance room. Not much.
00:06:39I wonder who killed him. Would you like me to bring back his ghost and ask him?
00:06:42Get dressed.
00:06:46Operator. Operator, get me the police.
00:06:52Matthew's talking. Yeah.
00:06:55Yeah? Where?
00:06:58349 Dexter Street. On my way.
00:07:03Get Smith and McCarthy. Homicide. Homicide.
00:07:06Homicide? Well, why didn't you say so?
00:07:15Well, we all searched each other. There was no gun.
00:07:18Thank you very much, ladies. In there, please.
00:07:25My dear sir, my lecture tour cannot be disrupted.
00:07:29Listen, I do all the lecturing here until this case is finished.
00:07:44Ouch! Abracadabra.
00:07:47Abracadabra.
00:07:50Oh, you ain't no spook. What do you mean?
00:07:53Oh, mister, this place is creeping with ghosts.
00:07:56Well, I just seen a dead woman floating around right in there.
00:08:01Uh-oh. There she is, still floating.
00:08:04What are you talking about? That's the murdered man.
00:08:07Have you got a gun? A whip?
00:08:10Stop it. Take it away, Smith.
00:08:13Have you found that gun yet? There's no gun in here, sir.
00:08:16Well, keep searching. Yes, sir.
00:08:19Ah, the thousands of unfortunate people who will be prevented from hearing my lecture.
00:08:24Cigar, Mr. Everett? Oh, thank you.
00:08:27Well, you're all going to headquarters. Everyone.
00:08:30I simply must have a lawyer.
00:08:33All right, folks, if you please.
00:08:55You go, too, young lady. But I wanted to tell you...
00:08:58You can tell me everything at headquarters. Go along.
00:09:02Uh-oh. What is your pop gonna say?
00:09:05I don't know, but I sure need pop.
00:09:07I need pop, too. I mean your pop.
00:09:10Will you two stop popping and get going?
00:09:12You don't understand, sir. I don't understand.
00:09:15I don't understand. I don't understand.
00:09:18I don't understand. I don't understand.
00:09:21Will you two stop popping and get going?
00:09:23You don't understand, sergeant. I've been trying to tell you my pop is Charlie Chan.
00:09:27I don't care if your pop is...
00:09:29Huh? Charlie Chan?
00:09:31The detective? From Honolulu?
00:09:34Where is he staying? At the Chateau Hotel.
00:09:36Rafferty. Here, Sarge. Get him.
00:09:52Come.
00:10:01Are you Mr. Charlie Chan?
00:10:03Yes.
00:10:07Are you sure?
00:10:11Oh, these toys.
00:10:14They are toys for my numerous family in Hawaii.
00:10:18I'm sure my arrival of humble self in Honolulu will be noisy success.
00:10:32Oh. You wish to speak with me?
00:10:36You're wanted at headquarters, Mr. Chan.
00:10:38We got a case of homicide and your daughter Frances.
00:10:41My daughter involved in murder?
00:10:43Well, I don't know, Mr. Chan, but Sergeant Matthews...
00:10:45Oh. Suggest we travel quickly.
00:10:48Please. Come.
00:10:52They tell the truth, Sergeant.
00:10:54Because I am leaving tomorrow for Hawaii...
00:10:57Birmingham got new job this afternoon.
00:10:59Got a new job this afternoon and quit tonight.
00:11:02When Birmingham told me that they held seances at his new place...
00:11:05naturally, I was interested.
00:11:07But you both got there in time to be in on a murder.
00:11:09Oh. Could happen.
00:11:11You stop nodding, Rafferty.
00:11:16Yeah.
00:11:18Huh?
00:11:20Sure?
00:11:22Okay.
00:11:25Smith says there's no gun to be found anywhere in the Bonner house.
00:11:32Yeah.
00:11:34What?
00:11:36Yeah.
00:11:39What?
00:11:41Man, you're crazy.
00:11:43Yes, but... but...
00:11:48Oh, all right.
00:11:51Bonner was killed by a bullet that entered his heart...
00:11:54but didn't pass entirely through his body.
00:11:56But there was no gun found on anyone present.
00:11:59No gun was found in the house.
00:12:01And now the coroner calls and says that there's no bullet in the body.
00:12:06Now, how are you going to shoot a guy with a bullet without using a bullet?
00:12:09Spooks. Spooks!
00:12:13Perhaps, uh, invisible bullet.
00:12:16Invisible bullet.
00:12:18That's dying novel stuff.
00:12:24How about you helping us on this case, Chan?
00:12:26Oh, no.
00:12:28Uh, must refuse gracious offer.
00:12:31Am on brief vacation from government work.
00:12:34Well, that's that.
00:12:37You can go, Charlie.
00:12:39But, of course, your daughter stays.
00:12:41Don't forget she's involved in a murder.
00:12:44Oh, Pop, do I really have to stay here?
00:12:49Not for long.
00:12:51Okay, I take case.
00:12:53Good.
00:12:55This is a tough proposition, Charlie.
00:12:57Murder at a seance.
00:12:59Unexplainable things happen at seances.
00:13:02Yes.
00:13:04Uh, may use the other office for a few moments?
00:13:07Sure, sure.
00:13:09Thank you so much.
00:13:17Give me the coroner's office.
00:13:20Peters? Matthews.
00:13:22Say, has anybody invented an invisible bullet yet?
00:13:29Oh, all right, all right.
00:13:31I didn't think so, either.
00:13:36Hey, Colonel Knight.
00:13:38Hmm? Brown?
00:13:40You've been involved in three murder cases already.
00:13:42It ain't my fault, mister. It's the laws.
00:13:44Always somebody taking me down the hall.
00:13:46Then something goes clang.
00:13:48Then I'm in jail again.
00:13:50Uh, but by mistake.
00:13:52Mistake? Maybe the other cases were mistakes.
00:13:55But what about this Bonner murder?
00:13:57Commissioner, that was a strictly private murder...
00:13:59to which I was not invited.
00:14:08Sergeant, you say many strange things happen at seance.
00:14:13Without crystal ball, I can say you wear size 9 1⁄2 shoe.
00:14:18You should wear 11, but you prefer big corns to big shoes.
00:14:24Also, you changed your barber last week.
00:14:27Old barber cut your hair too short.
00:14:31Also, no, you think law too lenient in criminal cases today...
00:14:37especially district attorney's office.
00:14:42You wish me to continue, Sergeant?
00:14:44No. I mean, how do you know what I think?
00:14:48Very simple.
00:14:50I am psychic.
00:14:57Do you see what I see?
00:15:00Can even produce spirit wrappings.
00:15:09Do you hear what I hear?
00:15:13But that personal information about me.
00:15:15Oh, merely telephone your wife in next room.
00:15:19Oh, she talks too much.
00:15:22You, uh, question all suspects?
00:15:25Yes.
00:15:26Good. We'll examine their statements tomorrow.
00:15:29Birmingham, you must, uh, go back to Bonner House.
00:15:33Oh, Mr. Chan, I'd rather stay in jail.
00:15:36No, I wish you for inside man, for police.
00:15:39But what about them spooks?
00:15:41Oh, if spooks bother you, Sergeant will arrest them.
00:15:44Oh, well, that's all right. I'm just...
00:15:56Evidence insufficient to arrest anyone, Sergeant...
00:16:00but would like interview with young lady...
00:16:03who calls herself Nancy Wood.
00:16:06Calls herself Nancy Wood?
00:16:09Get me the Brockton Apartments.
00:16:11You mean that's not her real name?
00:16:14Uh, Brockton Apartments, I want to speak with Miss Nancy Wood.
00:16:18Huh?
00:16:20Just a minute. There's no one there by that name.
00:16:25This is Police Department speaking.
00:16:28You have young lady living there whose initials are M.D.?
00:16:34Yes. Oh, yes.
00:16:37Uh, thank you so much.
00:16:42M.D.?
00:16:43Initials of young lady's real name.
00:16:46Norma Duncan.
00:16:48How did you know that when you didn't even see her?
00:16:51I saw the initials on young lady's bag...
00:16:54right under your nose all the time.
00:16:56I saw them and told Pop.
00:16:59Beauty of Chan family also have brains.
00:17:02Very fine combination.
00:17:05Well, I have very busy day ahead...
00:17:08so must be going.
00:17:10You remain here at hotel.
00:17:12Oh, Pop, you say I have brains...
00:17:14that make me sit around and twiddle my thumb.
00:17:17Twiddling thumbs at hotel keep pretty nose out of trouble.
00:17:20Pop, you have to have one of your children along...
00:17:22when you're on a case.
00:17:24I have 14 children. They all try to boss me.
00:17:27No.
00:17:33You still twiddle at hotel.
00:17:41Abacadabra.
00:17:45Abacadabra.
00:17:51Hello.
00:17:52Where's Mr. Chan?
00:17:54Busy on this case, and so am I.
00:17:58Who do you think killed Mr. Bonner?
00:18:00Spooks.
00:18:01Silly. They can't hurt anyone.
00:18:03No. Well, how come you're scaring me to death?
00:18:08Miss Duncan, will you please explain...
00:18:11why you gave us a false name?
00:18:13Justine Bonner and the others knew me as Nancy Wood.
00:18:17I was afraid to give my true name.
00:18:19Why, please?
00:18:20Because William Bonner had just been killed.
00:18:23And if anyone had a motive for killing him, I had.
00:18:26My father was Charles Duncan, civil engineer.
00:18:29He committed suicide a year ago.
00:18:33After Mother died, Father started attending the Bonner seances.
00:18:37Quite understandable.
00:18:39At that time, Father was in sole charge of the financial figures...
00:18:42for a tremendous project.
00:18:44Those figures turned up in the hands of a rival company.
00:18:47Dad's firm was nearly ruined.
00:18:49He felt disgraced.
00:18:53He shot himself.
00:18:55The Bonners got those figures from Dad.
00:18:57They caused his death.
00:18:59But why you attend seances?
00:19:02Well, I...
00:19:04I hope to learn enough to put them both in prison.
00:19:08You find anything?
00:19:11No.
00:19:14Well, my mind is made up.
00:19:16Young lady, you're going to...
00:19:18To return to your home, Miss Duncan, for the present...
00:19:22and try to forget the past.
00:19:34But, Charlie, that's not what I was going to say.
00:19:36I know, I know. Relax, relax.
00:19:39You know, I got gremlins galloping around here.
00:19:42I got gremlins galloping up and down my spine.
00:19:44We've got to look around.
00:20:06Yes?
00:20:08Are you both there?
00:20:11Yes, you want to see us?
00:20:13No. Stay where you are until I need you.
00:20:15That's up. We want to get away.
00:20:17Get away? Why?
00:20:19We're not mixed up in Bonner's murder.
00:20:22You will stay.
00:20:24Both of you were in this room when Bonner was shot.
00:20:26We both scram if you feel that way.
00:20:28Yeah, and I'll hurry, too.
00:20:30No, I didn't mean it. I'm...
00:20:32I'm upset, worried.
00:20:34She's alone in there.
00:20:36Who's she talking to?
00:20:38I may have to disappear.
00:20:40I'll need your help.
00:20:43How do you like that?
00:20:45She's really scared, Tom.
00:20:47Yeah. I wonder why.
00:20:49I've got to hide this gun.
00:20:51Hide it? Why?
00:20:53Just in case she talks too much.
00:20:57You heard it. She's going to scram with a couple of spooks.
00:21:00I've got to tell Pop.
00:21:02Me, too.
00:21:04No, Pop wants you to stay here.
00:21:07Oh, my goodness.
00:21:10Abracadabra.
00:21:12Pop, my finger. Abracadabra.
00:21:20Come on. Get a hold of yourself, man.
00:21:23A scrambled egg has got more spirit than you.
00:21:26Spirit?
00:21:28Spook.
00:21:37What are you doing up there?
00:21:39I hid my gun.
00:21:41Now let her try and get me in trouble.
00:21:55Now I'm hearing things, and there ain't nothing to hear.
00:22:01On second thought, there ain't nobody here.
00:22:07I never heard of such.
00:22:09She's got enough trouble without your doing that.
00:22:13I just got to make that way.
00:22:15Abracadabra.
00:22:17Oh, shut up.
00:22:19Yes, sir.
00:22:22That did it.
00:22:25You are about to leave?
00:22:27Mr. Chan, I've been about to leave ever since I arrived here.
00:22:30Birmingham. You know, Pop doesn't believe that.
00:22:32We heard Justine talking to spooks.
00:22:34That's the truth, Mr. Chan.
00:22:36And now the spooks is talking to me.
00:22:38You do not like being legal bloodhound?
00:22:40I just can't be one, Mr. Chan.
00:22:42I'm too anemic. I'm practically pale.
00:22:44That's me.
00:22:46I don't like it.
00:22:48I don't like it.
00:22:50I don't like it.
00:22:52I'm practically pale. That's me.
00:22:54Mrs. Bonner at home?
00:22:56No, sir.
00:22:57Good. We'll take a look around.
00:23:00You know, after being here,
00:23:02I can have an elegant time in the cemetery,
00:23:05reading tombstones at midnight.
00:23:07Pop says spooks can't hurt you
00:23:09if you cross your fingers and your eyes.
00:23:12Cross your fingers and your eyes.
00:23:14Fingers and your eyes.
00:23:16Where'd you get that at, cross your fingers and your eyes?
00:23:19I'm gonna try that, cross your fingers and your eyes.
00:23:22I'm gonna cross time. That's what I'm gonna do.
00:23:24I'm gonna cross your fingers and your eyes.
00:23:34Remain here on watch.
00:23:42Why am I going so fast and ain't going nowhere?
00:23:45I'm gonna be scared stiff when I get there.
00:23:47Shh.
00:24:17Shh.
00:24:47Shh.
00:25:05Suppose spirit of Mrs. Edwards first appear where?
00:25:09From that cabinet.
00:25:18You care for a visit to spirit world?
00:25:21Step inside.
00:25:35Gosh, Pop, how'd you figure this out?
00:25:38I've had past experience with seance room cabinets.
00:25:48Pop!
00:25:49What's the matter?
00:25:50That spirit's got too much spirit. It chased me.
00:25:54We'll chase him right back again.
00:26:04Look, Pop, it's Mrs. Edwards.
00:26:08Very low spirits in bonner seance room cabinets.
00:26:12Mrs. Edwards.
00:26:15Very low spirits in bonner seances.
00:26:18All come from basement.
00:26:22Mr. Chan?
00:26:23Better not stay in there too long.
00:26:32Mr. Chan, you...
00:26:40Spook's got him.
00:26:41Oh, most modern spooks.
00:26:43They converse with Mrs. Bonner by microphone.
00:26:56Speaking from here, I am spook.
00:26:59You are? Hmm?
00:27:01Oh, Birmingham. We'll be right back.
00:27:04Mr. Chan, if you is there, stay wherever you are.
00:27:12You two disappeared from inside,
00:27:14and I did you say abracadabra or snap your fingers?
00:27:17No, merely use head.
00:27:21We are here uninvited guests.
00:27:23Keep watch for return of hostess.
00:27:41Here she comes.
00:27:42Yeah, go.
00:27:43Don't, Pop. She's back.
00:28:11She's back.
00:28:31Chasing murderers is exciting, isn't it?
00:28:33It's the easiest way of being scared to death that I know of.
00:28:38Excellent deduction, Birmingham.
00:28:40There are spirits here.
00:28:46Hmm. Where am I going next?
00:28:51Abracadabra.
00:28:53Abracadabra.
00:28:55Abraca...
00:29:05I'm gonna close my eyes.
00:29:08Spirits cannot kill.
00:29:10Mr. Bonner shot by someone at seance table.
00:29:14No, no one could have.
00:29:16No?
00:29:17You need hands to shoot,
00:29:19and we were all holding each other's hands when Mr. Bonner was shot.
00:29:22That's the truth.
00:29:24No, it isn't. Justine's a fake.
00:29:26She had her hands free to work the lights.
00:29:28She could have used a gun.
00:29:30I will not have my husband and my profession insulted.
00:29:32Please, please.
00:29:34Shady business do not make for sunny life.
00:29:37I believe time for everyone to cool off.
00:29:42Anyone here know who owned this fan?
00:29:46Let me see that fan.
00:29:50It's just like one of mine.
00:29:52Yours?
00:29:53Yes. You know, I make fans, trick fans, and magician supplies.
00:29:58You not make this one.
00:30:00Let me have a look at that.
00:30:02I don't see what this fan's got to do with it.
00:30:05You recognize fan, Mrs. Bonner?
00:30:07No, no.
00:30:09I find same underneath seance table.
00:30:15Then I'm stumped.
00:30:16For a moment, I'm in similar position.
00:30:19One murder, too many suspects.
00:30:22Too many people have motive.
00:30:24Mr. Hamlin have motive.
00:30:26Mr. Bonner tried to blackmail him.
00:30:28So I wasn't the only fool to be blackmailed.
00:30:31Miss Green.
00:30:32Mr. Bonner making love to Miss Green.
00:30:35Yes, and I fell for it and later got blackmailed.
00:30:38You, Mrs. Bonner.
00:30:40You threatened bodily harm to your husband...
00:30:43if he not cease his attentions to Miss Green.
00:30:46That's not true.
00:30:47It is. I heard you.
00:30:48So did I.
00:30:49Your daughter was there. What about her?
00:30:51Beauty of Chan family, merely innocent bystander.
00:30:55So was I.
00:30:58Magic.
00:30:59Black magic kill William Bonner.
00:31:02Seems most strange...
00:31:05that you, Mr. Edwards, are maker of magician's supplies.
00:31:10That will be all for moment.
00:31:17Mr. Chan.
00:31:18Yes?
00:31:19At the seance, someone asked a question about London.
00:31:22What happened on night of October 5th, 1935?
00:31:25Yes.
00:31:26Well, I was in London then.
00:31:28You know answer to strange question?
00:31:31No, but the voice that asked it seemed familiar somehow.
00:31:34There's a name connected with that voice...
00:31:36right on the tip of my tongue, but I...
00:31:38I simply can't remember it.
00:31:40Most important clue.
00:31:42Try, please, remember as soon as possible.
00:31:49Say, Charlie.
00:31:51How did you figure this out?
00:31:53You forget I am psychic.
00:31:59Excuse, please.
00:32:02Go on, I dare you to laugh.
00:32:15What are you looking for, Mr. Chan?
00:32:18Searching for bullet that killed Bonner.
00:32:21Searching for bullet that killed Bonner.
00:32:30All we can do now, Mr. Chan, is wait for reactions.
00:32:32Then we'll make the final test.
00:32:34Tomorrow?
00:32:35By tomorrow, we should know if your theory...
00:32:37concerning a bullet which kills and then disappears is correct.
00:32:40Thank you so much, Mr. Dawson.
00:32:42It's been a pleasure working with you, sir.
00:32:45Oh, Pop, I just called the hotel and the clerk said...
00:32:48Miss Duncan is waiting to see you.
00:32:56Seems we arrived too late. Miss Duncan already gone.
00:32:59But the clerk said it was important that she see you.
00:33:04Turn on lights.
00:33:07Is she dead, Pop?
00:33:09No.
00:33:10She's not asleep, is she?
00:33:11Impossible sleep in this...
00:33:21What's it all about, Pop?
00:33:23Seems we arrived in time after all.
00:33:26Miss Duncan supposed to be dead when we get here.
00:33:30What happened?
00:33:32Get out.
00:33:50Get out.
00:34:08There's no one in the hall.
00:34:09The elevators are way down on the lower floor.
00:34:11No one on fire escape, no.
00:34:13Hard door open to make us look that way.
00:34:16Pop, you mean to say the murderer was in the bedroom all the time?
00:34:20Sure is old trick a magician who never let you follow what he is doing.
00:34:28She's like someone in a trance.
00:34:30Miss Duncan, wake up.
00:34:33Wake.
00:34:41Why, Mr. Chan, what a surprise.
00:34:45What am I doing here?
00:34:47You came to see me, Miss Duncan.
00:34:49No, I didn't.
00:34:50But the clerk said you did.
00:34:51You told him you wanted to see Pop.
00:34:53But I didn't.
00:34:57You don't believe me.
00:34:59Oh, I believe you, Miss Duncan.
00:35:01Tell me, you remember anything more about strange question concerning London?
00:35:07Question?
00:35:08London?
00:35:11I can't remember anything right now.
00:35:14Never mind.
00:35:15You will return home with Mr. Rafferty.
00:35:18Why should he accompany me?
00:35:20To see that you get home safely.
00:35:28Don't let her out of your sight.
00:35:31What do we do now?
00:35:33You go to bed.
00:35:35I must send cablegram to Scotland Yard.
00:35:37Good night.
00:35:39Good night, Pop.
00:35:43Mr. Barnard's bank statement showed no evidence that he blackmailed you people.
00:35:46That's what you say.
00:35:47Very well, Mrs. Barnard.
00:35:48You leave us no recourse with the law.
00:35:50Oh, all right.
00:35:51Meet me at the Berkeley building tomorrow at 11 o'clock.
00:35:54I'll see...
00:35:57Excuse, Mrs. Barnard.
00:35:59I would like to ask you a few questions.
00:36:02Oh, surprised to see you, Miss Green and Mr. Hamlin.
00:36:06We are here on business alone, I assure you.
00:36:09Yes, we were just going.
00:36:11Oh, so sorry.
00:36:18Mrs. Barnard.
00:36:20On night of fatal seance,
00:36:22someone asked what happened in London on night of October 5th, 1935.
00:36:29Do you know meaning of question?
00:36:31No, I have no idea what it meant.
00:36:34Why are you so nervous?
00:36:36I'm not nervous, I'm just upset.
00:36:39That voice was like one from the dead.
00:36:41You can explain?
00:36:43No, no, I mean I can't.
00:36:45Mr. Chan, those people upset me.
00:36:47Please, Mr. Chan, excuse me.
00:36:49Certainly.
00:37:05Mr. Chan sure scared her, didn't he?
00:37:07She's got something on her conscience and pops after it.
00:37:12Uh-oh.
00:37:16Let's go.
00:37:30I'm going out to do something very important to me and to you and Vera.
00:37:34Yeah? What do you mean?
00:37:36When I return, I'm making a getaway.
00:37:38Go on, we're listening.
00:37:40You've got to help me. You'll be well paid.
00:37:43You hear that?
00:37:44I'm going to lose again.
00:37:45That's all for now. I'll be back soon.
00:37:48Uh-oh.
00:37:55Tom, what do you think she's up to?
00:37:56I think I'll take a walk.
00:37:57What are you going to do?
00:37:58Now, dry up on the dramatics, Vera.
00:38:00You stay here and I'll be back real soon.
00:38:03Come on. We've got to follow her.
00:38:05Oh, no. Where trouble's gone, I ain't chasing it.
00:38:08Stay here then, with a spook.
00:38:09Oh, wait a minute. Wait till I get under my hat.
00:38:14Trouble, trouble and more trouble.
00:38:16Where is my vitamins?
00:38:19Let me get some of my vitamins.
00:38:22I'll be back soon.
00:38:23I'll be back soon.
00:38:24I'll be back soon.
00:38:25I'll be back soon.
00:38:26I'll be back soon.
00:38:27I'll be back soon.
00:38:28I'll be back soon.
00:38:29I'll be back soon.
00:38:30I'll be back soon.
00:38:31I'll be back soon.
00:38:39Now, let them spooks come on.
00:38:42Shut my mouth.
00:38:44If y'all heard me, I was only kidding.
00:39:01I'll be back soon.
00:39:17Excuse.
00:39:23Good news, Mr. Chan?
00:39:24Excellent news.
00:39:26All right. What's going on now?
00:39:28Merely discover what kind of bullet killed Mr. Barnard.
00:39:31What?
00:39:34Will someone explain what's going on?
00:39:36This doesn't tell what kind of a bullet it was.
00:39:40Yeah.
00:39:41Huh?
00:39:43Say that again.
00:39:44And I just saw Mr. Edwards. He was acting very strangely.
00:39:47Oh, yes.
00:39:48Yes, thanks.
00:39:49We'll attend to it.
00:39:51That was Norma Duncan.
00:39:53She says that Edwards is on the seventh floor of the Berkeley building, acting strangely.
00:39:56Let's go.
00:39:59Charlie.
00:40:01About that bullet.
00:40:03You can keep secret?
00:40:04Of course.
00:40:06So can I.
00:40:29Down, please.
00:40:38Well, she ain't on the slope.
00:40:39Thank goodness.
00:40:41Oh, oh.
00:40:43Oh, oh.
00:40:44Oh, oh.
00:40:45Oh, oh.
00:40:46Oh, oh.
00:40:47Oh, oh.
00:40:48Oh, oh.
00:40:49Oh, oh.
00:40:50Oh, oh.
00:40:51Oh, oh.
00:40:53Oh, oh.
00:40:55Oh, oh.
00:40:56Oh, oh.
00:40:57Uh-oh.
00:40:58Charlie, that's funny.
00:40:59Miss Duncan phones and says that Edwards is here acting strangely.
00:41:02Then why should his secretary say that he hasn't been here all morning?
00:41:05You think Miss Duncan can tell untruth?
00:41:07Why, I...
00:41:08Pop!
00:41:09We followed Mrs. Bonner to this building and lost her.
00:41:12Oh, Pop, one moment.
00:41:18Pop, that's Mrs. Bonner's glove.
00:41:27Pop!
00:41:55Not there now.
00:41:56Pop, she said she was making a getaway when she got back.
00:41:59With the spooks.
00:42:09Come forward, Mrs. Bonner.
00:42:17Hey there, hey there, foxes!
00:42:22Hey, look!
00:42:24Come a little closer.
00:42:26Come a little closer, Mrs. Bonner.
00:42:31More this way.
00:42:35Just a little more, Mrs. Bonner.
00:42:40I think she's gonna jump!
00:42:42Don't jump!
00:42:47Pop!
00:42:48Those clothes!
00:42:49That's Mrs. Bonner's!
00:42:53All right, keep moving!
00:42:54Get out of here, everybody!
00:42:55Go on, all of you!
00:42:56Go on, keep moving!
00:42:58Everybody out!
00:42:59Everybody out!
00:43:00Go ahead!
00:43:01Get out of here!
00:43:02Go ahead!
00:43:08Well, I guess that closes the Bonner case.
00:43:11Wish ladies coat removed immediately.
00:43:14What for?
00:43:15Large stain on seam must be analyzed at once.
00:43:18All right, Rafferty.
00:43:26See you later.
00:43:50It's what we figured, Mr. Chan.
00:43:52Ménage du Rhum.
00:43:53Absolutely.
00:43:54It's a derivative of the powerful shock drug.
00:43:56I've never heard of antidote for such drug.
00:43:59Oh, there is one.
00:44:01Just a moment.
00:44:11One of these pills will reduce the effects of Ménage du Rhum to impotency.
00:44:15How long it take antidote to work?
00:44:18I haven't had a chance to make any tests, but I...
00:44:20I should say it would work within 10 to 15 minutes.
00:44:23What is effect of this new drug?
00:44:26A few minutes after taking it, there would seem to be no effects whatever.
00:44:29But actually, the drug leaves a person with no mental or physical resistance.
00:44:33Such person could be easily hypnotized?
00:44:36I should say such a person would be the most easily controlled subject a hypnotist ever had.
00:44:41A normal person can resist any hypnotist.
00:44:44But after taking Ménage du Rhum, they haven't a chance.
00:44:48Thank you so much, Mr. Dawson.
00:44:56Hello, Charlie.
00:44:57Hello.
00:44:58You questioned Mr. Hamlin, Mr. Edwards and Miss Green?
00:45:02Yes, and they all had solid alibis.
00:45:05Anyway, this case is ended without any of your fancy detecting.
00:45:08Case ended?
00:45:09Sure.
00:45:10Mrs. Bonner killed her husband.
00:45:12And then when she found that I... we were getting too close, she committed suicide.
00:45:17So sorry.
00:45:19Your suicide most excellent case of murder.
00:45:22Murder?
00:45:23Mrs. Bonner killed by same person who killed her husband.
00:45:26What?
00:45:31Well, Pop, I went shopping this afternoon.
00:45:35Wait till the folks back home see me. I'll knock their eyes out.
00:45:38You are perhaps pugilist?
00:45:40Silly, I mean my clothes.
00:45:42I bought a crownless hat and a backless dress and some toeless shoes.
00:45:47Stores have no clothes which are complete?
00:45:50That's the style.
00:45:51Just wait till the boys see me.
00:45:53Can you imagine what happened?
00:45:57Why, Pop, what was that?
00:46:00New toot out of old horn.
00:46:06What are you taking pills for?
00:46:08Oh, bring same by mistake from police station.
00:46:12Should have left in laboratory.
00:46:15Will you get me police station, please?
00:46:18You know, Pop, I got an idea about this Bonner case.
00:46:22Water on brain not leaking, huh?
00:46:25Hello, this Charlie Chan speaking.
00:46:28Have cable gram arrived for me from Scotland Yard?
00:46:32No?
00:46:34Thank you very much. Good night.
00:46:38Good night.
00:47:08Good night.
00:48:08Good night.
00:48:28Okay, Mr. Dawson, thanks.
00:48:30Pop not at the laboratory?
00:48:32No, and he's nowhere in the building.
00:48:34I know he's not with Matthews or out at the Bonner place.
00:48:36I'm scared. We've got to find him.
00:48:38Well, I'll help, but where can we go?
00:48:40Wait a minute.
00:48:42When Mr. Chan was here, he said something about hypnotism.
00:48:44Does that mean anything?
00:48:46Said something about going to where she started from.
00:48:49Who is she?
00:48:50Mrs. Bonner. Maybe Pop that's office she went to.
00:48:54Come on.
00:48:59Relax, Mr. Chan. Relax.
00:49:03My heart fell.
00:49:06You have the pill, Mr. Chan?
00:49:11Doctor.
00:49:13You may take the pill, Mr. Chan, but do not try anything foolish.
00:49:19There is water at your hand.
00:49:37There was mesmeral in that water.
00:49:53Now we can go to work, Mr. Chan.
00:50:07Relax, Mr. Chan.
00:50:09Remember nothing but what you have been told.
00:50:14Remember.
00:50:15You go to the roof of the Chalmott building.
00:50:21And when you hear my voice, you know what you are to do.
00:50:27I'm going to the roof of the Chalmott building.
00:50:31And when you hear my voice, you know what you are to do.
00:50:37Come forward.
00:50:40To you.
00:50:45Have no fear, Mr. Chan.
00:50:47No one will touch you.
00:50:49You will start on your journey now.
00:50:57Your hat, Mr. Chan.
00:51:06Your hat, Mr. Chan.
00:51:17It was so fast, Ms. Chan. It's only 10.30.
00:51:22It's open.
00:51:28Someone has been here, but I don't think Mr. Chan did this.
00:51:37Down, please.
00:51:41I guess Pop didn't come here.
00:51:45Look.
00:51:48Pop was here.
00:51:49Come on, we'll check with the elevator operators.
00:52:07Get out of here.
00:52:23Did you see a Chinese man lately?
00:52:25Just now, he was funny, like he was sleeping.
00:52:27That woman who killed herself, threw me down.
00:52:30Down, quickly.
00:52:36Come forward, Mr. Chan.
00:52:41On the way up, police.
00:52:46More this way, Mr. Chan.
00:52:51Come a little closer, Mr. Chan.
00:52:56Quietly.
00:53:06Oh, Pop!
00:53:11Get back.
00:53:16Murderer on roof.
00:53:21We leave too late now to catch killer.
00:53:26Oh, Pop!
00:53:31Must remember to tell Dawson his timing for antidote all wrong.
00:53:36Come.
00:53:41Looks like a magician has this place.
00:53:46Could look for fingerprints, but I'm afraid magician-killer too smart to leave any.
00:54:01What do we do next?
00:54:06Oh, Mr. Chan, I almost forgot. This came this morning.
00:54:11Oh, perhaps cablegram report from Scotland Yard.
00:54:16Tonight, Charlie Chan holds seance.
00:54:21You, Pop?
00:54:26Come.
00:54:31I knew we'd get in bad hanging around here.
00:54:36Now, sit on your blood pressure and keep it down. Don't let the cops in Justine's place worry you.
00:54:41In her place? Tom is a cop on our front steps and we're in the back too. What are we going to do?
00:54:46Take it easy, Vera. Get into your outfit.
00:54:51We'll slip through the seance room and hide in Justine's place right under their noses. Come on.
00:54:56Here.
00:55:01Sergeant, you will sit there, please.
00:55:06Special seance about to proceed. Will be very short.
00:55:11What's the meaning of all this foolishness?
00:55:16Spirits are a long time coming, Mr. Chan.
00:55:21Spirits always have a very long way to come.
00:55:46What do we do now?
00:55:51I heard Rafferty. Huh?
00:55:56Is that you, Sarge?
00:56:01You find any spirits, Mr. Rafferty? Not at home now, Mr. Chan.
00:56:06Remain where you are a few moments longer.
00:56:11Excuse me, please.
00:56:23Oh, no, you don't.
00:56:28Come out.
00:56:33You.
00:56:38Outside.
00:56:43No, please.
00:56:48Wow!
00:56:53Wish to converse with elusive spooks.
00:56:58Remove hoods, please.
00:57:03Officer, the spooks has done stopped knocking, and now they're going to come all the way in.
00:57:08No one goes out.
00:57:13It's just got to work this time.
00:57:18Disappear.
00:57:23You can't make anything disappear by snapping your fingers.
00:57:28Well, how come every time I snap my fingers and say, come seven, all my money disappears?
00:57:33You are Vera and Tom Stockty.
00:57:38That's the truth, Mr. Chan.
00:57:43Know any people in this room?
00:57:48That's the truth.
00:57:53Stand there, please.
00:57:58Mr. Rafferty may leave now.
00:58:03Mr. Chan?
00:58:08No, that don't work.
00:58:13Come seven.
00:58:18I made it!
00:58:23Where did I go?
00:58:33Ow!
00:58:38Abba, abba, abba, abba. Oh, my goodness, I haven't forgot the magic word.
00:58:43Birmingham.
00:58:48Oh, Mr. Chan, you sure did lose some weight.
00:58:53Birmingham, remain still and silent.
00:58:58Seance begin with word association test.
00:59:03When you hear me speak word, person addressed will reply with first word which comes to mind.
00:59:08Person upon whom light falls will speak.
00:59:13Magician.
00:59:18Supplies.
00:59:23Honor.
00:59:28Revenge.
00:59:33Magician.
00:59:38Month.
00:59:43City.
00:59:48Cigar.
00:59:53Cold. Case.
00:59:58Charlie, what is all this?
01:00:03Almost solved. Killer made slip.
01:00:08Something wrong with lights.
01:00:13But bullet did not go entirely through, chair.
01:00:18You work lights very well.
01:00:23For helping me illuminate dark mystery, I now make you junior member of the firm.
01:00:28Motive for murder is explained in this cablegram which I received from Scott and Yard.
01:00:33During automobile accident which occurred in London on night of October 5th, 1935,
01:00:38famous magician known as Shardow the Great is horribly injured.
01:00:43Shardow, that was the name of the voice.
01:00:48Exactly. He tried to kill you because he fear you remember his name.
01:00:53Shardow was pursuing you.
01:00:58Shardow was pursuing his wife, Justine, who was running away with his assistant, William Bonner.
01:01:03Then accident occurred.
01:01:08Shardow remained in hospital for over a year.
01:01:13I heard he died, Mr. Chan.
01:01:18No, Shardow recovered. But now through plastic surgery, he is utterly unrecognizable.
01:01:23So he determined to find and kill Justine and William Bonner.
01:01:28And Shardow succeeded.
01:01:33Look, Charlie. Now there's blood on the chair.
01:01:38Explanation of why no bullet found in body of William Bonner.
01:01:43Bullet made of frozen blood.
01:01:48Shardow was very clever.
01:01:53He was magician, ventriloquist, actor and hypnotist.
01:01:58But he could hardly expect to fool the police forever.
01:02:03Could he, Mr. Hamlin?
01:02:08How should I know?
01:02:13It is unavoidable, Shardow.
01:02:18Look out, Charlie.
01:02:23Cigar case contains spring gun.
01:02:28I carry it in an insulated pocket.
01:02:33Take him away, Sergeant.
01:02:38Thank you so much for your patience.
01:02:43Thank goodness.
01:02:48Seance over. All may depart.
01:02:53What about me?
01:02:58Oh, Birmingham. You may come up now.
01:03:03Charlie, if Shardow or Hamlin was holding hands at the seance, how did he shoot Bonner?
01:03:09All trick of third hand. One moment, I show you.
01:03:21You see?
01:03:26Hamlin let other person hold this hand, while he have one hand free now to fire strange gun.
01:03:31Then to get rid of it, he just hung it on the drape.
01:03:36Exactly. Like magician, he make it disappear before your very eyes.
01:03:41Where am I now?
01:03:46Oh, excuse, please.
01:03:51Is the police gone now?
01:03:56Yes.
01:04:01What's the matter, Birmingham? Don't you feel good?
01:04:06Oh, I feel fine now. I took some of my vitamin pill.
01:04:11What vitamin pill?
01:04:16You eat those pills and still feel good?
01:04:21I don't hear the spooks rapid no more.
01:04:31You are fooling me. You are not psychic at all.
01:04:36You are sure?
01:04:41Charlie, there is another one.
01:04:46With the brain.