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00:02:40I told you there was none, Miss Petrie. None at all.
00:02:58Why were you in the dining room?
00:03:01I came in the back way, as usual.
00:03:04Who are those two men in there?
00:03:06That is my business, Mr. Johnson.
00:03:08Oh, yes. Yes, of course.
00:03:23Oh, I'm sorry. I thought my father had returned.
00:03:30Oh, why don't you stop?
00:03:32Hiya, gorgeous.
00:03:33Oh, he's selling a lot.
00:03:34Not me, Miss Evans, on a swell trip, but I'm glad to get back to where I'm sure of seeing good-looking girls.
00:03:39How are you, June?
00:03:40Yes, sir, it's grand to get back to all you beautiful girls.
00:03:44Uh-oh. Oh, well, we can't all look good.
00:03:47Your laugh, Mr. Danvers, splits more eardrums than a mule's hee-haw.
00:03:52Oh, I'm sorry. From now on, I'll laugh up my sleeve.
00:03:54And probably blow out an elbow.
00:03:56Always giving me the needles. She puts me in stitches.
00:03:59Dad, excuse me, please.
00:04:02Hello, darling.
00:04:05Well, what's your excuse?
00:04:07Here I pass up a heavy date to have dinner with my father, and he shows up four hours late.
00:04:11Oh, I'm sorry, June, but I couldn't...
00:04:13Thomas Harley.
00:04:14Yes, why?
00:04:15Let's go.
00:04:16What do you want me for?
00:04:18For robbing the Citizen State Bank and murdering a guard less than an hour ago.
00:04:21No, you're lying. Dad!
00:04:23Gentlemen, I can prove that you're wrong.
00:04:25Of course.
00:04:26I don't see how, with your fingerprints in the bank vault and beside the murdered man.
00:04:29They can't be my fingerprints.
00:04:31For the last four hours, I've been locked up in the Carey Theatrical Warehouse.
00:04:34Locked up? How?
00:04:35I don't know. I got in all right, but there's nobody there.
00:04:38I started out, but the only door was locked.
00:04:40For four hours? You could have telephoned.
00:04:43I tried to use the telephone, but it was out of order.
00:04:45I can prove what I say.
00:04:47Read this.
00:04:55It's no good, Harley.
00:04:57Get Dave Wyatt. He can prove my innocence.
00:04:59We can't get Wyatt. He's been dead eight years.
00:05:02Wyatt dead?
00:05:04Yeah.
00:05:05When did you know him?
00:05:06When you were both convicts in state prison 20 years ago?
00:05:09Dad!
00:05:11Tell them you were never in prison.
00:05:13It's true, June, but don't worry.
00:05:16It's all a mistake, as these men will soon learn. I'll be back quickly.
00:05:28I'm glad you dropped in, Charlie.
00:05:30But you never stay long enough.
00:05:32Only come to say goodbye.
00:05:34Government work keep me hopping like dissatisfied flea from dog to dog.
00:05:39Even now, automobile and assistance outside.
00:05:42I've got to get back to work.
00:05:44I've got to get back to work.
00:05:46I've got to get back to work.
00:05:48I've got to get back to work.
00:05:50I've got to get back to work.
00:05:52I've got to get back to work.
00:05:54Even now, automobile and assistance outside.
00:05:57Loaded for trip to distant city.
00:06:00Automobile loaded, not assistance.
00:06:03Tony, dad's final appeal has been denied.
00:06:05Why didn't you tell me? Why did you let me learn it from the newspapers?
00:06:08June, dear, I phoned you several times. You were out.
00:06:11We've got to keep trying.
00:06:13June, I know the strain you're under, but breaking down won't help.
00:06:16Dad has only nine days to live.
00:06:18You know that he's innocent.
00:06:20I've always believed that.
00:06:21Or as public defender, I'd never have carried the case so far.
00:06:24If dad dies, the law will have killed an innocent man.
00:06:27The law convicts only on evidence of guilt.
00:06:30June, this is an old friend of mine, Charlie Chan.
00:06:32Miss Harley.
00:06:33Miss Harley. Oh, I followed Thomas Harley case all through trial.
00:06:36What did you think of the case against Mr. Harley?
00:06:38Case seemed quite perfect. Almost too perfect.
00:06:41Dad is innocent, no matter what anyone says.
00:06:43June, dear.
00:06:44We have only a few days left. We've got to do something.
00:06:46Where can I get a good private detective?
00:06:48That idea's useless.
00:06:49Charlie, if you won't give me the name of a detective, I'll find one myself.
00:06:52June, we haven't a chance.
00:06:53My entire staff tracked down every bit of evidence that might help.
00:06:56It was no use.
00:06:58I'm sorrier than you'll ever know it, I have to say it, but there's nothing we can do.
00:07:02One thing can be done.
00:07:04What's that, Charlie?
00:07:05Give young lady name of detective.
00:07:07Who would you suggest?
00:07:08Young fellow whom Mr. Morgan recommend.
00:07:11Call on detective tonight.
00:07:12Charlie, what can one man do against the entire legal force of the state?
00:07:16The ancient proverbs say, one small wind can raise much dust.
00:07:20Excuse, please.
00:07:23What name did he give you?
00:07:24Whoever the man is, he hasn't the ghost of a chance.
00:07:27Then I admire him for trying to do the impossible.
00:07:29All packed, Mr. Chan.
00:07:46Tidied it two-thirds of the tooth.
00:07:47We worked four long hours at it, Pop.
00:07:49Excellent, excellent.
00:07:50It is finest job of packing you have ever done.
00:07:53Thank you, Pop, thank you.
00:07:54Car okay?
00:07:55Oh, yes, all oil and grease.
00:07:57Yes, and the tank full of gas.
00:07:58Good.
00:07:59Now we will go back to hotel.
00:08:01What for?
00:08:02To unpack baggage.
00:08:06I will sit in car while you two enjoy nervous breakdown.
00:08:10Oh.
00:08:13Now, ain't that something?
00:08:15After we packed the bags, better than we ever packed them before.
00:08:18Now, that's what your Pop said.
00:08:19Yep.
00:08:20Then we had to unpack everything.
00:08:21It took us four hours of hard work.
00:08:23Yeah.
00:08:24You know what told me?
00:08:25I got a headache.
00:08:26A headache?
00:08:27Mm-hmm.
00:08:28I don't know where I got it, but I got one.
00:08:29Always sitting.
00:08:32Wish you would wear out brains instead of cedar pants.
00:08:35Pop, we have been thinking.
00:08:36Most impossible.
00:08:37Oh, yes, Mr. Chan, we've been thinking.
00:08:39And now you have a headache.
00:08:43Hey, how did he know that?
00:08:45Now, in a case like this, what would confusion say?
00:08:49It's not confusion, it's Confucius.
00:08:51Every time you open your mouth, it's confusion to me.
00:08:54Hey, you hear that one brain knocking?
00:08:57That's you.
00:08:58That's the door.
00:08:59Uh-oh, that's me.
00:09:04Mr. Chan.
00:09:05Right over that way, ma'am.
00:09:11Good evening, Miss Harley.
00:09:13Mr. Chan, I don't know how to thank you.
00:09:15I feel the same way, Mr. Chan.
00:09:17Please, you must not mention thanks until I have done something useful.
00:09:21Mr.
00:09:22Oh, this is Hugh Kenzie, Mr. Chan.
00:09:24I phoned him at the prison immediately after you took the case.
00:09:27I'm a sergeant guard at the state prison.
00:09:29I drove to town as soon as possible to congratulate June on obtaining your services.
00:09:33I wanted Hugh to tell Dad.
00:09:35Mr. Harley feels that he has a chance with you on his side.
00:09:38I'm detective, not magician.
00:09:40You must not expect too much on short notice.
00:09:43But we have only nine days.
00:09:45Honorable grandmother always say,
00:09:47do not think of future, it come too soon.
00:09:51Police report on Harley case show very little upon which to work.
00:09:55You mean there's nothing you can do?
00:09:57Merely mean we must look somewhere else.
00:09:59But where?
00:10:00Place where you live.
00:10:02Why look there?
00:10:03Mr. Harley taken from there.
00:10:05He is like tooth which has been pulled.
00:10:08Tooth is missing, but gap remain.
00:10:11From gap, we may deduce why tooth is gone.
00:10:16We go now to Foss Hotel.
00:10:20Sitting assistants.
00:10:22Please get back containing exhibits and follow me.
00:10:25Okay, Pop.
00:10:26Boy, a murder case.
00:10:27Come on, let's hurry.
00:10:28Hurry?
00:10:29Why do you always have to hurry to a murder?
00:10:32Why do not you just go down to one?
00:10:35I've never seen anyone.
00:10:36Every time they start, they have to hurry to a murder.
00:10:42I told you, that's all I know.
00:10:44I'm sorry, but urgently I have to go.
00:10:48I have a few more questions.
00:10:50Being a detective is an ugly trade.
00:10:52Ugliest trades sometimes have a moment of joy.
00:10:55Even a grave digger knows some people
00:10:58for whom he would do his work with extreme pleasure.
00:11:02I'm sorry I said that.
00:11:03It just slipped out.
00:11:04Many such slips may solve mysteries.
00:11:07Please continue.
00:11:08That's all I have to say.
00:11:10That's what women always say.
00:11:12Yet, go right on talking.
00:11:14Are you a social worker?
00:11:16Yes.
00:11:17Do you sometimes take in Lodger, who is an ex-convict
00:11:21hoping to rehabilitate Sam?
00:11:23Often.
00:11:24What's wrong with that?
00:11:25Nothing.
00:11:26Very fine civic duty.
00:11:28Mr. Harley lived in this house for 15 years.
00:11:31So you must have known he was an ex-convict
00:11:34when he first entered this house.
00:11:36I did.
00:11:37I tried to help him.
00:11:38You tried to help him by informing police
00:11:40he is an ex-convict.
00:11:42He betrayed my trust in him
00:11:43by committing robbery and murder
00:11:45after he said he meant to go straight.
00:11:4715 years after.
00:11:50What about note which Mr. Harley received
00:11:53asking him to go to Cary Theatrical Warehouse?
00:11:56Same was written on your typewriter, Mrs. Foss.
00:11:59It was, but Tom Harley borrowed my typewriter
00:12:02two days before the bank robbery.
00:12:04Even so, you could have written note before crime occurred.
00:12:08So could anyone else in this house.
00:12:11Thank you so much.
00:12:13Mr. Kinsey, you will please ask all others to come inside.
00:12:17You have no other ex-convict living in this hotel?
00:12:21No, I have not.
00:12:29You work for a social foundation, Miss Bakery?
00:12:33Afternoons is the title.
00:12:35Strange note received by Mr. Harley
00:12:37asking him to come to Cary Theatrical Warehouse
00:12:40was written by someone who was excellent typist.
00:12:44Oh, go on.
00:12:45Leave her alone, mister.
00:12:46She uses a sequined sock system.
00:12:48I've seen her practicing.
00:12:49On Mrs. Foss' typewriter?
00:12:52You make much money as typist?
00:12:54No?
00:12:55Yet you wear most expensive clothes.
00:12:58Most of my clothes are given to me by people.
00:13:03Most of my clothes are given to me by people at the foundation.
00:13:13Mr. Johnson, you are a public accountant?
00:13:16Yes.
00:13:17You have own business?
00:13:18Yes, I do all the bookkeeping for several small business firms.
00:13:22One of your business firms is Cary Theatrical Warehouse?
00:13:27But the police knew that.
00:13:29They proved that when Harley was in the Cary place,
00:13:31I was across the city working for another client.
00:13:37Now, Mr. Danvers,
00:13:39you were in both cities of Lamont and Rodden
00:13:42shortly before banks were robbed there.
00:13:47You had me worried for a minute, but you're right.
00:13:49I was in both cities, often.
00:13:51You also visit banks which were robbed,
00:13:53including Citizen State Bank here.
00:13:56I visit banks all over the state on business.
00:14:00The police got those for me during the Harley trial.
00:14:03You sell tear gas bombs and burglar alarm equipment to banks?
00:14:06Yes, sir. It's my job to protect banks.
00:14:09With your knowledge of banks,
00:14:11could you not be a very great assistance
00:14:14to someone wishing to rob same?
00:14:16Now, wait a minute.
00:14:18If you're trying to accuse me...
00:14:19Merely suggest what you could do,
00:14:22if dishonest.
00:14:26Speaking of clothes, Miss Evans...
00:14:28Listen, I buy my own clothes.
00:14:30Nobody gives me anything.
00:14:32Of course, if somebody was to offer me a mink coat,
00:14:35I wouldn't refuse it.
00:14:37During an investigation of Cary Warehouse,
00:14:40a dress with your name on it was found there.
00:14:43Huh? A dress of mine?
00:14:45A very small dress, consisting of a few feathers.
00:14:49Oh, yeah, I remember.
00:14:51Oh, mister, you should have seen me in that outfit.
00:14:55But I had nothing to do with Harley.
00:14:57I wore that costume in frivolous follies.
00:15:00But the show finally flopped.
00:15:02Cary's must have bought the props, scenery,
00:15:04and all the costumes for junk.
00:15:06But your show plays Cities of Lamont and Rawdon
00:15:09at same time banks were robbed there
00:15:11in identical manner
00:15:13which Citizen State Bank robbed here.
00:15:15Listen, are you trying to pin something on me?
00:15:18No, merely at moment trying to figure
00:15:20how you pin upon yourself such very few feathers.
00:15:24Oh, very cute.
00:15:26That will be sufficient for present.
00:15:28All may go now.
00:15:35Did you learn anything that will help, Mr. Chan?
00:15:37No, tomorrow we'll visit prison and interview your father.
00:15:41Tell him not to worry,
00:15:42and tell him we're doing everything for him.
00:15:44I said all may go, which include you, Miss Evans.
00:15:47I heard you the first time.
00:15:50Are you going to leave now, Mr. Chan?
00:15:57Invitation to depart also include you, Mrs. Foss.
00:16:01This is my house, and I'll do as I like.
00:16:05Mr. Chan, if I can be of any help,
00:16:07I'll get a leave of absence from my job and come down here.
00:16:09No, Hugh, you can't afford to do that.
00:16:11Miss Harley is right.
00:16:12You return to job.
00:16:13I send for you when I need you.
00:16:15Mr. Chan, I'm scared.
00:16:16We only have nine days.
00:16:17Take it easy, dear, please.
00:16:19Excellent advice.
00:16:21Remember old saying,
00:16:23but sand upon which rock stood,
00:16:25still right there in same old place.
00:16:28You relax, and you survive great ordeal.
00:16:37Mr. Chan, is this the shortest way to prison?
00:16:40No, shortest way is to commit crime.
00:16:43Well, I'll have to try that sometime.
00:16:45What am I saying?
00:16:46You surprised yourself, huh?
00:16:49Usually, you surprise me.
00:16:57Did you see that B come through here with that jet job motor?
00:17:02Someone's shooting at us, Pop.
00:17:04Where's Birmingham?
00:17:05The car's going by itself.
00:17:06No, it ain't.
00:17:07I was steering by remote control.
00:17:08Do you know who was shooting at us, Pop?
00:17:10Only persons know we come this way
00:17:12are people living at Foss Hotel.
00:17:14This is going to be very, very dangerous.
00:17:17This is going to be very, very dangerous.
00:17:44I'm awfully glad to see you, Charlie.
00:17:46As old friend Warden Cameron, you think what?
00:17:49You're throwing away your reputation.
00:17:51I mean it.
00:17:52You haven't a chance in breaking this case.
00:17:54But if I fail, Mr. Harley will die.
00:17:56What is my reputation compared to man's life?
00:17:59Oh, I know how you feel,
00:18:00but I still think you're being foolish.
00:18:02Then why someone shoot at me on way here?
00:18:05Because they think I'm on right track.
00:18:08Perhaps I am not so foolish.
00:18:11Oh, this is Guard Kenzie, Mr. Chan.
00:18:13Oh, I've already met Mr. Kenzie.
00:18:15Mr. Harley's anxious to see you, sir.
00:18:17Harley should get resigned to the fact
00:18:19that he hasn't got a chance.
00:18:21He'll sit in.
00:18:23Sit again.
00:18:24Remain where you are.
00:18:26Oh, Warden.
00:18:29Mr. Barker wanted the print files
00:18:31on that new batch that just came in, sir.
00:18:33Oh, yes, in my office.
00:18:35Go right ahead, Kenzie.
00:18:36One moment.
00:18:37I have seen you before?
00:18:39I don't know, but I've seen you.
00:18:42You're Charlie Chan.
00:18:43And you are...
00:18:44Number 8251.
00:18:48He's Jimmy Slade, a forger.
00:18:50He's a trustee in the fingerprint file room now.
00:18:53Did you see that man give Pop the eye?
00:18:55You mean that tough guy?
00:18:56Yeah.
00:18:57Oh, you mean the convict?
00:18:58Mm-hmm.
00:18:59No.
00:19:00Well, Birmingham Brown.
00:19:01Well, look at old Benjamin.
00:19:05What do you say, boy?
00:19:06Not much.
00:19:07Man, it's sure good to see a new face around here.
00:19:09Yeah, but this face ain't staying.
00:19:10Neither is mine.
00:19:13Mr. Chan to see you, Mr. Harley.
00:19:18I've been waiting to see you, Mr. Chan.
00:19:20Sorry to see you here, Mr. Harley,
00:19:22but great pleasure to meet you anywhere.
00:19:25I don't know what I'm going to say.
00:19:27Please, sit down.
00:19:29Yeah!
00:19:30Birmingham, you're always late,
00:19:31even coming to see me.
00:19:33Don't you ever do anything on time?
00:19:34Sure, I bought a car once.
00:19:36How?
00:19:37On time.
00:19:38You know what made me late, Benjamin?
00:19:39What?
00:19:40I had to take my girl over to...
00:19:41No beauty shop can help her.
00:19:42No.
00:19:43Why, no.
00:19:44Why, she got a face that old...
00:19:45Not that bad.
00:19:46The lady at the beauty parlor said that she was going to...
00:19:48They can't recap them wrinkles.
00:19:50No?
00:19:51No.
00:19:52Now, what they should do is...
00:19:53They did.
00:19:54And while we was over there,
00:19:55do you know what...
00:19:56I know, I know.
00:19:57Now, look.
00:19:58Hmm?
00:19:59Is that the same gal you...
00:20:00No, she don't weigh that much now.
00:20:01No?
00:20:02No, all she weighs now is...
00:20:03That's still too heavy.
00:20:04Why don't you get her to go on the same diet my gal used?
00:20:08Get her to take two...
00:20:09Oh, they don't make that stuff anymore.
00:20:10No?
00:20:11No.
00:20:12Now, what I want to give her is something...
00:20:13That'll give her hay fever.
00:20:14Yeah?
00:20:15Why, sure.
00:20:16Listen.
00:20:17Hmm?
00:20:18In that case, why don't you take her over to...
00:20:19I did.
00:20:20And you know who I saw over there?
00:20:21Who?
00:20:22I saw old...
00:20:23Is he still out there?
00:20:24Yeah.
00:20:25I thought he was...
00:20:26He was, but he got out.
00:20:27Is that so?
00:20:28Yeah.
00:20:29He's staying over with Mr...
00:20:30Is that so?
00:20:31Mm-hmm.
00:20:32They must be charging him.
00:20:33No, not that much.
00:20:34No?
00:20:35No, all he's paying is...
00:20:36That's a fair price.
00:20:37Yeah?
00:20:38Yeah.
00:20:39Well, look here.
00:20:40I got to go now.
00:20:41I'll be over to see you.
00:20:42I'll be working then.
00:20:43Oh, well, I'll be seeing you.
00:20:44I'll be looking for you now.
00:20:45Okay, sure.
00:20:46Look me up now.
00:20:47I'll do that.
00:20:48Okay.
00:20:49Who is that man?
00:20:50Oh, he's a fellow who used to hang around my house.
00:20:51That's my brother, Ben.
00:20:52Oh, you're...
00:20:53Your wife died while you were in prison 20 years ago?
00:20:59When June was born.
00:21:01I never told June because I...
00:21:03I meant to go straight.
00:21:05And I have, Mr. Chan.
00:21:06But your fingerprint's found in bank vault.
00:21:09Yes, I know.
00:21:10I saw the photographs in court.
00:21:12They were my prints, but I was never in that bank in my life.
00:21:19You don't believe me.
00:21:21Well, I'm beginning to think that maybe I did commit the crimes
00:21:24they sentenced me for.
00:21:25Never believe nightmare, no matter how real it may seem.
00:21:30When you're here 20 years ago,
00:21:32was Warden Cameron here also?
00:21:35Yes, he was.
00:21:37Ready to go, Mr. Chan?
00:21:38Yes, please.
00:21:39Don't you worry, Mr. Harley.
00:21:41Mr. Chan, do you think there's any hope?
00:21:44There is possibility you may suffer for someone else's crime.
00:21:48But if someone else committed the crime, then Mr. Chan...
00:21:52What are you going to do?
00:21:54At moment, I'm like man trying to set clock by guess.
00:21:58And as time does not stand still,
00:22:00perhaps better not stand still myself.
00:22:04Are you sure you know what you're talking about?
00:22:07When he says,
00:22:08now let's turn to one corner and you says another.
00:22:11I don't...
00:22:12I wonder where this parade is going.
00:22:14I don't know. Let's follow it and see.
00:22:16No, we better not.
00:22:18Hey, Punchy.
00:22:19You know what I heard through the grapevine?
00:22:21Don't be always interrupting me, Punchy.
00:22:23Charlie Chan is here.
00:22:24You know what I'm going to do when I see that Chan?
00:22:28Did you hear what that man said about Pop?
00:22:30I ain't deaf.
00:22:31I think we better follow them.
00:22:32What did you say just a while ago when I said let's follow them?
00:22:34Come on.
00:22:35No, that ain't what you said.
00:22:37Watch this way, man.
00:22:47They went in here.
00:22:48Come on.
00:22:49Hey, you don't want to go in there, do you?
00:22:50Look, you heard what they said about Pop.
00:22:52We got to find out what they're up to.
00:22:53Okay, okay.
00:22:59There they are. See them?
00:23:01Yeah.
00:23:15The men we were following are hiding behind these bales.
00:23:18Maybe we better hide to keep them from following us.
00:23:20We'll sneak up on them.
00:23:22There you go. We'll sneak up again.
00:23:24Punchy, how many times do I got to tell you
00:23:26that ain't the way to do it?
00:23:27You slash once when you want to finish something.
00:23:30Now, do you want to know how to do it?
00:23:32Don't interrupt.
00:23:34You take the stabber like this.
00:23:36Once the job is done and it's neat.
00:23:41Do you hear me, Punchy?
00:23:43That's the way you do it.
00:23:44One slash.
00:23:48They are planning a murder.
00:23:49We got to find out who he's going to kill.
00:23:51We going to find out.
00:23:52You going to find out.
00:23:54Wait a minute.
00:24:04Good grief.
00:24:05They got to knock off.
00:24:11They're still coming.
00:24:12They're right behind us.
00:24:13Yeah, they're in that crowd.
00:24:14We can't see them.
00:24:15Let's go.
00:24:17Good grief.
00:24:18The gang is from all sides.
00:24:25Look, here they come now.
00:24:26Do you see them?
00:24:27Yeah.
00:24:28No, let's go this way.
00:24:29Down the hall.
00:24:30Come on, let's go.
00:24:31Oh, please.
00:24:32Let's get out of here.
00:24:33Here they come again.
00:24:34Good grief.
00:24:45Boiglers.
00:24:46You better count your money.
00:24:47Don't be always interrupted, Punchy.
00:24:49Count it.
00:24:50Come on, you guys.
00:24:51Come on.
00:24:52Come on.
00:24:53I used two guys following me.
00:24:55No, sir.
00:24:56We got you first, but you can have it.
00:24:57Listen, mister, it's all a mistake.
00:24:58What do you mean a mistake?
00:24:59I'm not telling you.
00:25:00Hey, look here.
00:25:01There's doors locked.
00:25:02Hey, how can we get out of here?
00:25:03Hey, fellas, there's a visitor here,
00:25:05and he wants to know how we can get out.
00:25:08Oh, this ain't that funny.
00:25:09Mr. Champ.
00:25:10Hey, Pop.
00:25:11Mr. Champ.
00:25:12Let him have one of your keys.
00:25:14Then you're not quitting the case.
00:25:16No.
00:25:17After talk with Mr. Harley, I'm convinced the man is innocent.
00:25:20But, Charlie, the law doesn't frame men.
00:25:23Accidents can happen if planned that way.
00:25:26But Harley's fingerprints were found in the bank.
00:25:28My theory is fingerprints were forged
00:25:31and placed at scene of crime.
00:25:33Oh, no, Charlie.
00:25:34That's impossible.
00:25:35Nothing is impossible.
00:25:37Forgery is only solution.
00:25:39Must find out how same is done before too late
00:25:42for Mr. Harley.
00:25:44Pardon me, Charlie.
00:25:46Karen, what's up?
00:25:47A riot.
00:25:48What started the rioting?
00:25:50Just a reception to some strangers
00:25:52who got in the wrong cell.
00:25:54What strangers?
00:25:55Pop.
00:25:56Pop.
00:25:57Mr. Champ.
00:25:58Mr. Champ.
00:25:59Oh.
00:26:00Oh, which way?
00:26:01Which way?
00:26:02Cell block four.
00:26:07Mr. Champ.
00:26:08Mr. Champ.
00:26:09Mr. Champ.
00:26:10Mr. Champ.
00:26:11Mr. Champ.
00:26:12Mr. Champ.
00:26:13Mr. Champ.
00:26:14Oh, you can't get up in there.
00:26:15Mr. Champ.
00:26:27Right this way, Warnky.
00:26:33Ha, ha, ha.
00:26:34He wants to get out.
00:26:35Ha, ha, ha.
00:26:36No, he doesn't.
00:26:37Pop, I'm sure glad to see you.
00:26:38Who's that, Mr. Champ?
00:26:39Yep.
00:26:40So, even in prison you've caused trouble.
00:26:43But it wasn't our fault, Pop.
00:26:44Mr. Champ, we followed the wrong parade.
00:26:46First time I hear cuckoos outside of clock.
00:26:49But, Pop, we heard them talking about you.
00:26:51Oh, Charlie, I heard you was here.
00:26:52When I saw you, I wanted to shake your hand.
00:26:54Mr. Foggy, why, a very great pleasure to see you again.
00:26:57Thanks.
00:26:58I trust you are enjoying vacation?
00:27:00Oh, sure.
00:27:01He put me in here.
00:27:02It took one of the greatest detectives
00:27:03in the world to do it.
00:27:04Oh, Mr. Champ, I want you to meet me pal, Punchy.
00:27:07Mr. Champ, this is undoubtedly the most supreme moment
00:27:12of my entire life.
00:27:13I stand here humbly...
00:27:15Hey, Punchy, you're...
00:27:17Don't interrupt.
00:27:18Thank you, Mr. Champ.
00:27:20What are we going to do now, Pop?
00:27:21You will get out of here before they put you
00:27:23in garments suitable to your personality.
00:27:26What kind of garments is that?
00:27:27Straight jackets.
00:27:28Mm-mm, that did it.
00:27:30Punchy, you've been going in for a literature.
00:27:35Your Mr. Thompson in this department
00:27:37has been most kind and helpful.
00:27:39Well, I'm glad, Charlie.
00:27:40We're proud of our staff.
00:27:41Mm-mm.
00:27:50Hello.
00:27:51How you come with experiments so far, Mr. Thompson?
00:27:54No luck yet, Mr. Champ.
00:27:56I was afraid it couldn't be done.
00:27:58Well, the forging of fingerprints
00:27:59has been tried before, but it's never worked.
00:28:01However, Mr. Champ's theory of how it might be done
00:28:03has possibilities.
00:28:05I cut some rough ridges and whirls in these rubber pads,
00:28:08but...
00:28:12Same thing, no distinguishable fingerprints.
00:28:14No oil.
00:28:15That's right, sir.
00:28:16What do you mean, oil?
00:28:17There is always natural oil in hands.
00:28:20And that oil is what causes a fingerprint to remain
00:28:22after the hand touches the surface.
00:28:24I tried using regular fingerprint ink,
00:28:26but the lack of oil caused a blurring of the ink.
00:28:28No one would take that for a fingerprint.
00:28:30Perhaps if we obtain oil more like natural oil.
00:28:33Well, I tried using a thin mixture of olive oil,
00:28:35but the oil ran and smeared,
00:28:37and the result was no fingerprints.
00:28:39Looks like we're up against a stone wall, Charlie.
00:28:41I don't promise anything, but I'm going to keep on trying.
00:28:43No man can do more.
00:28:45I have more work to do yet in your department.
00:28:48Afraid it's no use, Charlie, but what do you want done?
00:28:50Please, have police quietly check back
00:28:5210 to 15 years on all fingerprints.
00:28:55Quietly check back 10 to 15 years
00:28:57on all persons now living at Boss Hotel.
00:29:00Okay, but why?
00:29:02Skeletons in closets always speak loudest to police.
00:29:09I've been thinking.
00:29:10Tommy, you are wrong.
00:29:11You mean you are.
00:29:12You don't even know what a lawsuit is.
00:29:14Sure I do.
00:29:15It's something that the police wear.
00:29:16Are you kidding?
00:29:17But, Tommy.
00:29:19This is the last one, Pop.
00:29:21No more.
00:29:22Today's the 14th, and Harley's scheduled to die at the 17th.
00:29:24What can you do reading all this stuff, Pop?
00:29:26Police reports show three banks robbed in the past two years.
00:29:30Do you think Harley robbed all three of them, Pop?
00:29:33Son Tommy is noisy woodpecker on family tree.
00:29:36Woodpecker.
00:29:37I've got to remember that.
00:29:39Rodden Bank robbed, and man named Stanley Gray convicted.
00:29:43Lamont Bank robbed, man named Stephen Briggs imprisoned.
00:29:48Harley was set up for the bank job in this city.
00:29:50And all three banks robbed in identical manner.
00:29:53And no money was ever recovered.
00:29:55Also curious coincidence is each man arrested in each case
00:30:00swear he leave no fingerprints in bank because he never there.
00:30:05Do you think Harley was in with the gang, Pop?
00:30:07Oh, he finish school now he try to finish me.
00:30:11But, Pop.
00:30:12Mocho.
00:30:14Also in each case, each man have former prison record.
00:30:18Yes, Harley had been in state prison.
00:30:20Gray and Briggs.
00:30:22Also former convicts there.
00:30:24It is only prison where all three men served time.
00:30:27Want a good suggestion, Pop?
00:30:29Yes, but let me make suggestion first.
00:30:32Keep quiet.
00:30:33Oh, sure, Pop.
00:30:35But if I do, I won't be able to give you my suggestion.
00:30:37That is idea.
00:30:39Very good idea.
00:30:41I believe there is some connection
00:30:43between bank robberies, fingerprints, and the state's prison.
00:30:48What about your idea of forging fingerprints?
00:30:50Oh, for time my nurse theory.
00:30:53Very excellent theory.
00:30:55But now instead of nurse, I fear theory need undertaker.
00:31:02Hello.
00:31:04For you, Charlie.
00:31:06Charlie Chan speaking.
00:31:07We have that information you asked for.
00:31:09Do you wish to take it now?
00:31:11Yes, go ahead.
00:31:12Miss Petrie is actually the wife of Jimmy Slade,
00:31:15a convict trustee employed in the fingerprint bureau at the state prison.
00:31:20She has been visiting him there every month.
00:31:22Thank you, thank you.
00:31:24Instead of undertaker, doctor arrived,
00:31:27and theory now very healthy again.
00:31:32I see.
00:31:34Another thing, Miss Petrie, why you lie about clothes?
00:31:37I didn't. They were given to me.
00:31:39I learned different.
00:31:41Where you obtain money to buy fine garments?
00:31:43I've done nothing wrong.
00:31:45Please, where you get money?
00:31:47Just because my husband's in prison, you...
00:31:50I'm not going to say another word.
00:31:52You will talk at police headquarters.
00:31:54Get your hat and coat.
00:31:55Miss Harley, you go with her.
00:32:00You think she's mixed up in this?
00:32:02We soon find out.
00:32:04Mrs. Foss, why you lie when I ask you
00:32:07if any other convict live in this house?
00:32:09I didn't. Miss Petrie's never been in prison.
00:32:12You didn't ask me about her husband.
00:32:14When young lady bear title miss,
00:32:17she usually have no husband to be mentioned.
00:32:21I've seen Miss Petrie often. She's timid and shy.
00:32:25That's June.
00:32:35What happened?
00:32:36Someone choked me.
00:32:38Miss Petrie?
00:32:39I don't know. I don't know who it was.
00:32:41It was someone in that room.
00:32:44I'll go and see.
00:32:51Clothing undisturbed?
00:32:57What have you there?
00:32:58Nothing, Pop. Just some old telephone numbers.
00:33:04Name of Carey Theatrical Warehouse
00:33:06appear often in this case.
00:33:08Find anything, Mr. Chan?
00:33:09Mr. Kenzie, you will ask police to locate Miss Petrie.
00:33:13I will try warehouse.
00:33:29Must be a woman driver, Pop.
00:33:31Woman too sweet and gentle for that.
00:33:34No license plates.
00:33:44Perhaps Miss Petrie arrived already.
00:33:47Take a look around. Quietly.
00:33:52Come with me.
00:33:57Didn't you hear what Pop said?
00:33:58Sure. Your Pop said, look around quietly.
00:34:01And that's just what I'm going to do.
00:34:02Look around quietly. Right here in the light.
00:34:04See, there ain't no harm to that.
00:34:06Always want to go in the dark.
00:34:07See, I'm going to look right around here in the light.
00:34:09See that? Ain't nothing to that.
00:34:17Tommy, see? Go ahead.
00:34:19Go in the dark and get lost.
00:34:21I don't care. I'm going to stay out here in the light.
00:34:23Always running around.
00:34:29That ain't real.
00:34:30Oh, boy. Oh, boy, that ain't real.
00:34:33But if anything happens, I want you to stay with me.
00:34:36Hey, Tommy.
00:34:38Tommy!
00:34:40Tommy!
00:35:07Oh, boy. Oh, boy.
00:35:09Don't get excited now.
00:35:13He ain't real.
00:35:15He was real.
00:35:17Don't get excited now.
00:35:18He's in the trance, not us.
00:35:20Just stay with me and I'll let you know when to go.
00:35:31Hey, Tommy.
00:35:34I never heard of this old boy.
00:35:36Now, you don't have to worry now.
00:35:37Everything's all right.
00:35:38Just stay with me.
00:35:39I never see...
00:35:40They ought to have a cage or something
00:35:41for them lions around here.
00:35:43This house shorting is terrible.
00:35:45I ain't never...
00:35:46Whoa.
00:35:47Mmm.
00:35:48I heal a monster.
00:35:50This place is getting crowded.
00:35:52Brother, will you just move over just a little bit?
00:35:54Just over that little bit.
00:35:55Thank you. That's plenty.
00:35:57Whoa.
00:35:59I ain't never seen nothing like this before in my life.
00:36:02Tommy.
00:36:04Give me my hat.
00:36:06Tommy, is that you got in my hat?
00:36:10Tommy, please say yes.
00:36:12You got in my hat.
00:36:30Mmm.
00:36:32It ain't no kidding, either.
00:36:36Well, all of this warehouse you ain't seen,
00:36:39get together, cause I'm gonna show it to you.
00:36:46Yeah.
00:36:47Now, let them come.
00:36:49I got them now where they can't get me.
00:36:51Mmm.
00:36:52Now, ain't this all right?
00:36:54Wish I could have found this place a long time ago.
00:36:57Here it is.
00:36:59Now, good evening.
00:37:01Well, ain't this nice?
00:37:03Looks all right.
00:37:13Good gracious.
00:37:14Tommy.
00:37:15Tommy.
00:37:17Mr. Doorman.
00:37:18Mr. Doorman.
00:37:20You better open that door.
00:37:21If you don't, you're gonna lose it.
00:37:23Good gracious.
00:37:24Oh, my goodness.
00:37:26Good gracious.
00:37:28Mr. Chan.
00:37:32Good gracious.
00:37:44Tommy.
00:37:45Tommy.
00:37:46Mr. Chan.
00:37:47Tommy.
00:37:48Good gracious.
00:37:49Tommy.
00:37:50Be quiet.
00:37:51Here I am.
00:37:52Oh, Tommy.
00:37:53How did it happen?
00:37:54How did what happen?
00:37:55You get cold, don't you?
00:37:56Don't you get cold?
00:37:57Birmingham.
00:37:58Good gracious.
00:37:59Tommy, don't do that without you saying something.
00:38:01Hey, is this you or is this you?
00:38:02Who is you?
00:38:03This is me.
00:38:04Be quiet.
00:38:05Oh, that's you?
00:38:06I just can't help it, Tommy.
00:38:07I'm all upset.
00:38:08Good gracious.
00:38:09I never...
00:38:10I'm nervous.
00:38:11I just got to sit down.
00:38:12I'm telling you, I'm just...
00:38:13Ow!
00:38:14God!
00:38:15A snake.
00:38:16Mr. Chan.
00:38:17Mr. Chan.
00:38:18Please, please.
00:38:19Didn't I tell you to look around quietly?
00:38:20I mean quietly.
00:38:22Go watch door.
00:38:24That's the best thing I heard you say.
00:38:54Mr. Johnson.
00:39:12Mr. Johnson.
00:39:13Hey, Pop.
00:39:14Hey, Pop.
00:39:15Oh, here you are, Pop.
00:39:20I didn't hear you come in.
00:39:22Strange you not hear us.
00:39:23My assistant make very much noise.
00:39:25Sorry, I didn't hear what you said.
00:39:27I have sinus trouble.
00:39:29At times, like tonight, it affects my hearing.
00:39:32Makes me slightly deaf.
00:39:34You not hear assistants make noise in warehouse?
00:39:37No, I didn't.
00:39:38I couldn't.
00:39:40I'm very sorry for...
00:39:41I say I'm very sorry for your affliction.
00:39:44Oh, thank you.
00:39:46If you'll excuse me, I have a bit of work to finish.
00:39:58Your deafness too convenient, Mr. Johnson.
00:40:01Good idea, huh, Pop?
00:40:03Yes.
00:40:04Your idea, my dollar.
00:40:06Give.
00:40:08Miss Petrie arrive here yet?
00:40:10Miss Petrie?
00:40:11I know she's never been here.
00:40:13Well, we expect her very soon.
00:40:16Mr. Chan, come quick.
00:40:17Mr. Chan.
00:40:24Mr. Chan, come here quick.
00:40:30That truck just went around and had come back again.
00:40:32Miss Petrie.
00:40:33Hey, look out.
00:40:35Miss Petrie is dead.
00:40:36Call the police.
00:40:37Yes, sir.
00:40:38Here's her purse, Pop.
00:40:39No.
00:40:40Wish only police to examine lady's purse.
00:40:44No, Mr. Chan.
00:40:45She didn't have her purse when she left.
00:40:48Well, no one went by me into her room.
00:40:51Now, I won't say anything.
00:40:53Goodbye.
00:40:55Goodbye.
00:40:56Goodbye.
00:40:57Goodbye.
00:40:58Goodbye.
00:40:59Goodbye.
00:41:00Goodbye.
00:41:01Goodbye.
00:41:02Goodbye.
00:41:03Goodbye.
00:41:04Goodbye.
00:41:05Goodbye.
00:41:06Goodbye.
00:41:07I was right.
00:41:08Miss Petrie not have purse when she leave hotel.
00:41:09You mean she was murdered?
00:41:10By same truck which earlier tried to run down myself at assistance.
00:41:14But Charlie, why was the purse left at the scene?
00:41:16To leave fingerprints and provide police with convenient murderer.
00:41:20Mr. Chan.
00:41:21Yes.
00:41:22I thought I recognized these prints.
00:41:23They were in my file.
00:41:24They belong to Lewis Mack, ex-convict.
00:41:26Lewis Mack, convict.
00:41:27Where?
00:41:28He served two sentences at state prison.
00:41:31I'll have the police send out a call on him.
00:41:33No, not necessary.
00:41:34Instead, I, myself, will go to State's prison early tomorrow morning.
00:41:38What for?
00:41:40To prove someone there is helping to forge prints which convict innocent men.
00:41:43I will telephone you.
00:41:57Here are the cards you wanted from the fingerprint files, Mr. Chan.
00:42:01Four of them?
00:42:08Yes, the cards of Stanley Gray, Steve Briggs, Thomas Harley, and Lewis Mack.
00:42:13Was not expecting card on Lewis Mack today.
00:42:16Why not?
00:42:18I got the cards on Gray and Briggs from the dead file, and day after tomorrow, Harley's
00:42:22card goes into that file.
00:42:23Believe Mr. Harley, we'll live longer than you think.
00:42:26You got something, Charlie?
00:42:28Dead men leave marks wherever they go.
00:42:31You will please have all of these cards examined for fingerprints other than those photographed
00:42:36here.
00:42:37Oh, there won't be anybody but mine, and maybe a couple of the trustee, Jimmy Slade.
00:42:41And mine, perhaps.
00:42:43Can examine cards quickly?
00:42:45Right away.
00:42:46But Charlie, this business of forging fingerprints can't be done.
00:42:50Believe same has already been done through use of these cards to wrongly convict three
00:42:56innocent men, Briggs, Gray, and Harley.
00:42:59Gray went out of his head.
00:43:00He died in the cycle war here.
00:43:02And Briggs was in bad health when he was sentenced.
00:43:04Two months here finished him.
00:43:05I learned both men died protesting innocence.
00:43:08They swear fingerprints found in banks at Lamont and Rodden not placed there by themselves.
00:43:14And now, Mr. Harley says...
00:43:16But Charlie, our prison cards couldn't be used to frame these men.
00:43:20We'll see as soon as Mr. Barker finishes his examination.
00:43:25Okay, okay.
00:43:26This looks okay, huh?
00:43:27Let's sit down.
00:43:28Yeah, let's stay right here and keep out of trouble and wait for Miss Chan.
00:43:32Well, Birmingham Brown.
00:43:33Oh, no.
00:43:34Not again.
00:43:35Well, look at old Bidgey.
00:43:36Hi, boy.
00:43:37Hi, how are you?
00:43:38I'm sure glad to see you.
00:43:39Yeah?
00:43:40Yeah.
00:43:41Look at you.
00:43:42Is you still in?
00:43:43Is you still out?
00:43:44Oh, sure.
00:43:45Say, while you were out, did you run into him?
00:43:46Oh, yeah.
00:43:47I went over and I saw him.
00:43:48You see, nobody introduced him, so I walked up to him and I said...
00:43:49That's the wrong approach.
00:43:50Yeah?
00:43:51Sure.
00:43:52Why didn't you ask him that?
00:43:53I did.
00:43:54And we killed it.
00:43:55No.
00:43:56So I tried to borrow his...
00:43:57I thought the finance company got that.
00:43:58Oh, they did, but he got another one.
00:43:59Oh, I see.
00:44:00Mm-hmm.
00:44:01Say, is he still going...
00:44:02No, I'm keeping company with her.
00:44:03No.
00:44:04Yeah.
00:44:05I thought all the time you...
00:44:06Oh, she's married.
00:44:07No.
00:44:08Yeah, she married a fellow by the name of...
00:44:09He's a nice fellow.
00:44:10Oh, he is?
00:44:11He is.
00:44:12Wait a minute.
00:44:13Hmm?
00:44:14Let me tell you something.
00:44:15What's that?
00:44:16You know what I heard?
00:44:17What?
00:44:18That you and Miss Chan are getting married.
00:44:19What?
00:44:20Yes.
00:44:21You know what I heard?
00:44:22What?
00:44:23I heard...
00:44:24Not until Christmas.
00:44:25No.
00:44:26No.
00:44:27I never did believe that...
00:44:28I don't believe anything he says either.
00:44:29No.
00:44:30In fact, I don't believe that he...
00:44:31Who?
00:44:32He.
00:44:33He?
00:44:34Who?
00:44:35Who's he?
00:44:36Whatchamacallit.
00:44:37Oh, him.
00:44:38Sure.
00:44:39Oh, I didn't know who you was talking about.
00:44:40No.
00:44:41No.
00:44:42I never did know him.
00:44:43I don't know him myself.
00:44:44We've been strangers for years.
00:44:45Yeah?
00:44:46You know what, Benjamin?
00:44:47What?
00:44:48That's why I like to talk to you.
00:44:49Yeah.
00:44:51You sure you're all right, partner?
00:44:53Absolutely.
00:44:54Our file cards have been tampered with.
00:44:56This one has been wiped clean.
00:44:57And this one...
00:44:58That's Louis Mack's card.
00:45:00Yes, sir.
00:45:01And on it are a thumb and index print made by someone not in this prison.
00:45:05Preserve this card.
00:45:06It is proof that someone tried to falsely accuse Louis Mack of Miss Petrie murder.
00:45:11When Kenzie gets back here with Slade, I'll get to the bottom of this.
00:45:14If I have to make...
00:45:15Warden, the guards can't locate Slade.
00:45:16He must know why we want him.
00:45:18Well, I'll find him.
00:45:19I'll call a general lock-up.
00:45:20Damn it!
00:45:21Uh-oh.
00:45:22Gotta go.
00:45:23Can't be late in this school.
00:45:24No.
00:45:25Well, so long, Ben.
00:45:26Be good.
00:45:27Sure a lot of bells.
00:45:28Yeah.
00:45:29I wonder what they're celebrating.
00:45:30I don't know.
00:45:31Maybe there's another one in Paris.
00:45:32This is one we're going to stay out of.
00:45:33That's the best thing that I heard you say yet.
00:45:34Look, let's play jankenpon.
00:45:35Jankenpon?
00:45:36Ya-ee-zow.
00:45:37Ya-ee-zow?
00:45:38Yeah.
00:45:39Okay.
00:45:40Ya-ee-zow.
00:45:41Ya-ee-zow.
00:45:42Ya-ee-zow.
00:45:43Ya-ee-zow.
00:45:44Ya-ee-zow.
00:45:45Ya-ee-zow.
00:45:47I got you that time.
00:45:58Ya-ee-zow.
00:45:59Oh, no.
00:46:00Ya-ee-zow.
00:46:04A lot of sirens.
00:46:05Yeah.
00:46:06We must stay right here.
00:46:13Sergeant!
00:46:14Slade missing?
00:46:15Yes, sir.
00:46:16We're checking to see if any of the others are.
00:46:18Warden, guards have located Slade.
00:46:19He's heading for the bailing shed.
00:46:20Come on.
00:46:45Sorry.
00:46:47The siren's stopped.
00:46:48Yeah.
00:46:49We better go and find Pop.
00:46:50Let's do that.
00:46:51Let's find Pop.
00:46:52Come on.
00:47:15Watch out, Warden.
00:47:21He's up on the bail.
00:47:31Hold your fire, boys.
00:47:35Slade, you better give up.
00:47:38You haven't got a chance.
00:47:41Yeah?
00:47:42Come and get me.
00:47:49He's hit.
00:47:54He still may be able to talk.
00:48:08You're not going to make me take the rap for all this.
00:48:23Slade is dead.
00:48:27Just as well for him.
00:48:31Gun barrel plugged.
00:48:34Gun explode.
00:48:35He killed South.
00:48:37Hiya, Pop.
00:48:38Did something happen?
00:48:39A dead man.
00:48:40I guess something did happen.
00:48:41Yeah, we better go before something happened to us.
00:48:48It is too bad.
00:48:49Mr. Slade was only one who could tell us how prison cards used in fingerprint forgeries.
00:48:55But if there was something wrong...
00:48:56State's attorney demand absolute proof.
00:48:59At present, I have no proof at all.
00:49:01You mean there's nothing more you can do?
00:49:04Only convincing proof now would be real murderer.
00:49:07What do you want now?
00:49:09Your fingerprints, please.
00:49:10Why?
00:49:11I'm looking for a murderer.
00:49:13Well, that lets me out.
00:49:14One moment, Miss Evans.
00:49:16I desire your fingerprints also.
00:49:18Look, mister, I never let policemen hold my hand.
00:49:21Have you got a warrant?
00:49:22No, but...
00:49:23Are you going to book me for something?
00:49:25No.
00:49:26Okay, then I'm standing on my rights and not giving you my prints.
00:49:29Excuse, please.
00:49:33So you work for the government.
00:49:34Who doesn't these days?
00:49:36You should see my withholding tax.
00:49:39Okay, toots.
00:49:40When you get a warrant, give me a buzz.
00:49:42Ta-ta.
00:49:45Miss Evans too smart for her own good.
00:49:48I have her fingerprints now.
00:49:50Here.
00:49:52I desire fingerprints of everyone else in this house.
00:49:55Everyone else is out.
00:49:56No matter.
00:49:57This gentleman is expert at finding fingerprints in rooms.
00:50:01We go upstairs, please.
00:50:08You too not afraid?
00:50:10Afraid of what, Pop?
00:50:11That you sit down so often you get concussion of brain.
00:50:15Pop, I got a swell idea.
00:50:16Good.
00:50:17Save it for old age.
00:50:20Look, I'll save one for me too.
00:50:32Any luck?
00:50:33Not yet, sir.
00:50:35Has anything been heard from Foss Hotel yet?
00:50:38Nothing.
00:50:39The prints on Louis Mack's prison card were those of Johnson,
00:50:41but he hasn't shown up at the hotel yet.
00:50:43Excuse, please.
00:50:50Hello.
00:50:51Oh, Mr. Chan.
00:50:53No, Mr. Johnson hasn't come back yet.
00:50:56Why, Mrs. Foss said Danvers went away on one of his regular trips.
00:51:00But I'm worried it's getting...
00:51:01Please, please, you must not worry.
00:51:03Everything now in lap of God.
00:51:05Very soon I give very hearty shove.
00:51:08Perhaps clue fall off of laps.
00:51:11Your idea is partly right, Mr. Chan.
00:51:13As you suggested, I photographed and engraved a set of fingerprints on these pads.
00:51:18Those are genuine fingerprints.
00:51:20But when pressed against an object, they still leave no print mark.
00:51:22That's right.
00:51:23A lack of oil, huh?
00:51:25I tried using vegetable oil and mineral oil.
00:51:28And if this test doesn't work, I'm afraid the experiment has failed, sir.
00:51:31No experiment is failure until last experiment is success.
00:51:37Now, this is a combination of animal oil.
00:51:48Now, if the print remains after the powder is blown off...
00:51:59Now, those are forged fingerprints.
00:52:01But any expert, not knowing what we did, would swear that they were the real thing.
00:52:04Then we can clear Harley.
00:52:05No, no.
00:52:06We make successful experiment.
00:52:08But this is no proof that Mr. Harley was convicted through forgery.
00:52:12But, Pop, if the detective at the false hotel arrest Johnson...
00:52:15I fear Mr. Johnson gone by this time.
00:52:18This engraving and photography on rubber, you do all of that here?
00:52:23No, sir.
00:52:24I use my own hands.
00:52:25I had to have cameras, engraving tools, and several vats for the acid.
00:52:28Such things could not be hidden in small space.
00:52:31No, sir.
00:52:32They'd have to be stored in a pretty large place.
00:52:34Large place.
00:52:35Large place.
00:52:36You remain here and try contact governor of state.
00:52:40If detectives at false hotel arrest Mr. Johnson,
00:52:43telephone me to Cary Warehouse.
00:52:45Cary's?
00:52:46What are you going out there for?
00:52:47To try and prove Mr. Harley's fingerprints were forged.
00:52:51Exactly as we do tonight.
00:52:53Thanks to Mr. Thompson.
00:52:54Very fine job.
00:52:56You know, Pop, believe it or not, that's the same idea I had.
00:53:02Tommy, now I've heard everything.
00:53:11Pop, that's the truck that almost ran over us.
00:53:13Shrewd observation.
00:53:14This is truck which killed Miss Petrie.
00:53:16Look inside.
00:53:17Four big cameras.
00:53:18Hey, what are them tubs doing in there?
00:53:20That is paraphernalia used in forging fingerprints.
00:53:23You two remain here on watch.
00:53:25If I call, come quickly.
00:53:27Yes, sir.
00:53:30You know, I think Pop's got someone.
00:53:32There must be some clues around here.
00:53:33Let us do some investigating on our own.
00:53:35Come on.
00:53:36Let us you go and let us me stay here.
00:53:38I'm going to wait right here.
00:53:39You're always talking about let us do something.
00:53:41Let us do something.
00:53:42Let us do something.
00:53:44I'm going to wait right here.
00:53:45You're always talking about let us do some investigating.
00:53:48Second thought, I think I'll follow Mr. Chan.
00:53:51It's safer.
00:54:15Birmingham.
00:54:16It's me.
00:54:45I wonder where Pop is.
00:54:47Hey, Pop!
00:54:48Hey, Pop!
00:54:53Uh-uh.
00:54:54No, I know you ain't real.
00:54:56Couldn't be real.
00:54:58Uh-uh.
00:55:04I know you ain't real.
00:55:06Couldn't be real.
00:55:07Uh-uh.
00:55:08I know you ain't real.
00:55:10Couldn't be real.
00:55:11Uh-uh.
00:55:14Oh, boy.
00:55:15Not now.
00:55:16But when I ask you to make your departure,
00:55:18do not leave me here.
00:55:20Birmingham!
00:55:21Uh-uh.
00:55:22Now, this is exactly what I need,
00:55:24a removable foxhole.
00:55:26It's real.
00:55:45Now is the time.
00:55:50Oh, my goodness!
00:55:51It can't be.
00:55:52I know it ain't true.
00:55:53Don't nobody believe it.
00:55:54I don't believe it.
00:55:55Moss, you'll talk.
00:55:58I see what the bullets are coming for.
00:56:00Follow them.
00:56:01Follow them.
00:56:02Follow them.
00:56:03Follow them.
00:56:04Follow them.
00:56:07It can't be.
00:56:08It can't be.
00:56:09It can't be.
00:56:10It can't be.
00:56:11It can't be.
00:56:12Why can't I see?
00:56:13I see where the bullets are coming from.
00:56:14Yeah, but I don't want to look no bullets in the eye.
00:56:16Look, in the truck.
00:56:17I got an idea.
00:56:18Good idea.
00:56:19Good idea.
00:56:21Quick, come on.
00:56:22Good idea, Tom.
00:56:22Come on.
00:56:26That's right, Tom.
00:56:27Back it out.
00:56:27Right straight through that door.
00:56:31We're going to run down that killer.
00:56:32That's what we do.
00:56:33What?
00:56:36Get him, Tommy.
00:56:38Don't miss him, Tommy.
00:56:44I'll get him.
00:56:45What am I saying?
00:56:47Good gracious of me.
00:56:55You are a traveling salesman.
00:56:57This time, no sale.
00:57:00Assistants do a very fine job.
00:57:02Thanks, Pop.
00:57:03Yeah.
00:57:04You put murderer right in my hands.
00:57:08I guess we're pretty good, huh?
00:57:09Yeah.
00:57:11But how do we do it?
00:57:18Hello?
00:57:20Charlie, where have you been?
00:57:22Yes, I'll send the police right over.
00:57:23It'll be only a couple of hours.
00:57:25What about Harley?
00:57:26Yes, sir.
00:57:27Mr. Morgan, please telephone warden.
00:57:29I have complete evidence to exonerate Mr. Harley.
00:57:32When police arrive, we'll drive to prison, pick you up on way.
00:57:37OK.
00:57:39Fast-talking salesman, unusually quiet.
00:57:42I'll talk plenty.
00:57:43You killed Mr. Johnson to prevent him from talking.
00:57:47This way, please.
00:57:51So that is why I slightly detained last night.
00:57:54Mr. Harley, you'll be out of here the moment
00:57:56the state's attorney's papers arrive.
00:57:58Oh, Dad.
00:57:59Everything's all right, June.
00:58:00Your dad's free.
00:58:01Oh, you were wonderful to us, Hugh.
00:58:03Well, it's over.
00:58:04I'm glad you settled it, Charlie.
00:58:06Oh, case not settled yet.
00:58:08Why?
00:58:09Why did you arrest the guilty man?
00:58:10Convict Slade is one who steal fingerprint
00:58:13cards from prison files.
00:58:14And he sent them to Johnson, who photographed
00:58:16and engraved them on rubber.
00:58:17And Danvers cased each bank before the robberies.
00:58:20But all worked for third man who is missing,
00:58:22man responsible for most of crimes.
00:58:25How was Slade able to get fingerprint cards out of prison
00:58:30and back again so easily?
00:58:32Good question, warden.
00:58:35It is.
00:58:37You got any more?
00:58:39Yes.
00:58:39Who gives Slade gun?
00:58:41Who fixed gun so it explode when fired and murder Slade?
00:58:46Man who do all these things is third missing man.
00:58:49Must be someone inside prison.
00:58:53Correct, warden?
00:58:55You may be right.
00:58:56Many contemptible persons in prison.
00:58:59But worst of all is you, Mr. Kenzie.
00:59:04You're accusing me?
00:59:05Conviction is confirmed after talk with Mr. Danvers.
00:59:08We got your cover.
00:59:12Thank you, Charlie.
00:59:17Excellent.
00:59:18Excellent.
00:59:20You will put weapons back in pockets.
00:59:23I guess we are good, huh?
00:59:24I don't know how we did it that time.
00:59:27Charlie, I at least thought Kenzie loved you.
00:59:31Oh, he egomaniac.
00:59:32He think only of self.
00:59:35He want money, so he steal it.
00:59:37He try to get rid of you because you oppose
00:59:40daughter's marriage to him.
00:59:41How did you find that out?
00:59:43I talk with chorus girl, Miss Evans.
00:59:45Well, Charlie, next time you're in town, drop in and see us.
00:59:50See us?
00:59:51Oh.
00:59:53Oh.
00:59:56We sure fooled them, didn't we?
00:59:57Yeah, you pups, you got a great sense of humor.
01:00:00You should know that by now.
01:00:01Yeah.
01:00:02Well, Birmingham Brown.
01:00:05Oh, no, this is too much.
01:00:07Well, hello there, Benjamin.
01:00:09Hello, Birmingham.
01:00:10Yeah, I just been figuring.
01:00:12Do you know you owe me?
01:00:13I don't owe you nothing.
01:00:15All I owe you is.
01:00:16Oh, no.
01:00:17You forgetting the time that I.
01:00:18Lying.
01:00:19Do you know I had to spend around.
01:00:21You ain't never spent that much in your life.
01:00:23Look, my uncle wrote and told me that.
01:00:25No, no, no, Birmingham not do that.
01:00:28He go see landlady and she tell him.
01:00:30She lied.
01:00:31I don't know her scent.
01:00:32Listen, Mr. Chan, did you know her.
01:00:35Yeah, I met him last time, you know.
01:00:37That's right, Mr. Chan.
01:00:38That's the time that I took it over.
01:00:39Took what over to where?
01:00:41Oh, the check to the tailor.
01:00:42Oh, that's what after that suit I never got to wear.
01:00:45Yeah, Birmingham go out in rain.
01:00:46Suit shrink.
01:00:47Tailor refuse same.
01:00:48So Birmingham must pay for suit.
01:00:50Well, where's the suit now?
01:00:52It's still shrinking.
01:00:53My little nephew got on his teddy bear.
01:00:55You know, that's why I like meet you boys.
01:00:57We understand each other so well.
01:01:00Oh, Mr. Chan, he killed me.
01:01:02Pop, I don't get it.
01:01:04I never get that kind of a talk.
01:01:05How do you do it?
01:01:07You are familiar with pidgin English?
01:01:09Oh, sure.
01:01:10Same difference.