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00:00:00The court will now come to order.
00:00:19Silence. Silence in the courtroom.
00:00:30Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, have you arrived at a verdict?
00:00:36Yes, Your Honor.
00:00:57The defendant will rise and...
00:00:59The jury, after due and careful consideration,
00:01:07find the defendant, Dr. Robert Cromwell,
00:01:10not guilty of the crime with which he is charged.
00:01:20The court feels that it is the high office of physicians and surgeons
00:01:24to preserve life,
00:01:27not to take it.
00:01:32Defendant dismissed.
00:01:33Now, where will this lead?
00:01:58Are doctors going to be allowed to take the lives of incurable invalids?
00:02:03You know, as I take it,
00:02:05this verdict is a surgeon, a legal right
00:02:07to perform an operation that he knows will be fatal.
00:02:11Now, that's a clever way of committing murder.
00:02:14He might do it for experimental purposes
00:02:17or for utter sentimental reasons,
00:02:20or to make...
00:02:21and get away with it.
00:02:23Them doctors steals bodies from the graveyard,
00:02:26don't they, sir?
00:02:27They sure does, sir.
00:02:29Yes?
00:02:29Get hold of Miss Porter.
00:02:31She's interviewing Jacob Turner's widow at the Turner home.
00:02:33See if she's back.
00:02:35All right.
00:02:35To get down to brass tacks,
00:02:38we guessed this verdict wrong.
00:02:40Personally, I'm glad Cromwell is free.
00:02:43Well, Judge Lewis doesn't agree with you.
00:02:45And the public certainly doesn't.
00:02:47The verdict should have been guilty.
00:02:49Cromwell murdered Jacob Turner.
00:02:52If I'd been Turner,
00:02:53I'd welcome the chance to be cured or killed.
00:02:55But there wasn't any chance.
00:02:57That's just not my point.
00:02:58Yes?
00:03:03Miss Porter to speak to Mr. Burke.
00:03:05Put her on.
00:03:07Hello?
00:03:08Did you get to Mrs. Turner?
00:03:09Yes, Mr. Burke.
00:03:11She denies that she's in love with Dr. Cromwell.
00:03:13But I got her to admit that she admires him.
00:03:16Good girl.
00:03:17Now I want you to interview Cromwell.
00:03:20But he won't talk.
00:03:21That's why I'm sending you.
00:03:23Make him talk.
00:03:25Everyone else fails.
00:03:26Find out why he performed this operation.
00:03:28The real reason.
00:03:29All about it.
00:03:30Hop to it.
00:03:41I hope Dr. Cromwell comes in before Dr. Lucas.
00:03:44I'm dying to see him.
00:03:46Morbid curiosity, my dear.
00:03:51Ever been operated on?
00:03:52No.
00:03:53Never.
00:03:54I've been operated on times.
00:03:56Really?
00:03:5612 stitches each time.
00:04:02What do you think about that?
00:04:04I think I put in a zipper.
00:04:07Come on.
00:04:10Good afternoon, Doctor.
00:04:11Good afternoon.
00:04:12Good afternoon.
00:04:12Has Cromwell come in?
00:04:28No, Doctor.
00:04:29That's strange.
00:04:31I left him at the medical association more than an hour ago.
00:04:36What is the association going to do about it, Doctor?
00:04:39Hard to say.
00:04:41Did you appear before the committee?
00:04:44Yes.
00:04:44Yes.
00:04:46I brought up the point that no one is wise enough to say that because this operation never has been successfully performed,
00:04:53it never will be.
00:04:55Finally, that Cromwell is one of the most brilliant of our young surgeons and his services should not be lost because of this public hue and cry.
00:05:06However, a doctor shouldn't take such a long chance when the patient is as prominent as Jacob Turner.
00:05:11You remember I advised Cromwell against operating.
00:05:19Send Miss Johnson in.
00:05:21Very well.
00:05:26You may come in now, Miss Johnson.
00:05:28Oh, Miss.
00:05:38Can you tell me when Doctor Cromwell will come in?
00:05:41I'm sorry, but I can't.
00:05:43He's at a meeting of the medical association.
00:05:47Why are all these people ahead of me?
00:05:50To see Doctor Cromwell.
00:05:52Oh.
00:05:52I wonder if there's a private phone that I could use.
00:06:00May I use the one in here?
00:06:01Why, yes, certainly.
00:06:05Hello, Mr. Burke.
00:06:28I'm in Doctor Cromwell's office, his private office.
00:06:31Well, here we are, baby.
00:06:35You don't have to see the old doctor, man.
00:06:38I do.
00:06:39Don't I, Nancy?
00:06:41Do you wish to see Doctor Cromwell or Doctor Lucas?
00:06:43Oh, Doctor Lucas, of course.
00:06:45I want to be cured, don't I, Queenie?
00:06:48And not killed.
00:06:49What are you doing, what are you doing, baby?
00:06:53Good morning.
00:06:58Good afternoon, Doctor.
00:06:59Oh, uh, Miss Johnson.
00:07:01Yes, I know.
00:07:08You're a very nice nurse that I might use this phone.
00:07:12Quite all right.
00:07:19How did you hurt your arm?
00:07:21I fell.
00:07:23I was getting out of my car.
00:07:25I see.
00:07:37Donald Evans, your instructor, phoned from the airport to congratulate you on the verdict.
00:07:42Also, he wants to arrange for your final test.
00:07:45I'll telephone him later.
00:07:46I'm awfully happy about the verdict.
00:07:52Thank you, Miss Fielding.
00:07:59Have you had an x-ray taken of your arm, Miss, uh, Miss Porter?
00:08:03No, I haven't.
00:08:04But I'm sure it isn't broken.
00:08:06Well, suppose I look at it.
00:08:09Oh, I wonder if you'd wait a minute.
00:08:11I feel a little faint.
00:08:12Certainly.
00:08:13Oh, silly of me.
00:08:15Would you like a drink of water?
00:08:16Oh, I'll be all right in a few minutes.
00:08:25Doctor.
00:08:28You seem awfully upset.
00:08:32May I prescribe for you before you prescribe for me?
00:08:37Well, what would you prescribe?
00:08:40Well, when I'm worried, I get rid of it by talking it out of myself.
00:08:47Of course, I know why you're worried.
00:08:50I've been reading the things they've said about you in the newspapers.
00:08:53They aren't true, are they, Doctor?
00:08:55No, not all of them.
00:08:57The newspapers inferred that you performed this operation on Jacob Turner because you were in love with Mrs. Turner.
00:09:04I've never been in love.
00:09:08I performed the operation because I believed that it would prove successful.
00:09:11Now you know you're wrong.
00:09:13Oh, the operation was a success.
00:09:16But the patient died.
00:09:17Yes, if you wish to phrase it that way.
00:09:20Well, how is it?
00:09:22Very simply.
00:09:24It was something like this.
00:09:26His left arm was paralyzed.
00:09:29Certain nerves of his face were affected, causing his right eyelid to droop.
00:09:34His condition was caused by a tumor on that part of the brain, known as the pons.
00:09:42And it was the opinion of the physicians who had attended him that such a tumor cannot be removed.
00:09:47That is, the respiratory, that which makes us breathe, centers back here.
00:09:51And therefore, under the knife, the patient stops breathing.
00:09:55The result is immediate death.
00:09:57That was and is their contention.
00:09:59But Turner didn't die under the knife.
00:10:02That's my point.
00:10:02But he didn't die until five hours after the operation had been performed.
00:10:07The tumor was successfully removed.
00:10:10Further, I say the operation was a success because before his death,
00:10:14the nerves of his face showed signs of recovery.
00:10:17And the paralysis was partly relieved.
00:10:20I think I see what you mean.
00:10:22But why did he die?
00:10:24I contend that he died because his vitality had been drained by the length of his illness.
00:10:29Had this operation been performed six months or a year ago,
00:10:32I'm sure he would have lived.
00:10:35I think I understand.
00:10:37Someday, someone will perform a similar operation.
00:10:41He'll save a human life.
00:10:43That will be my vindication.
00:10:45I hope so.
00:10:48But I'm wondering...
00:10:51Suppose the relation between you and Turner have been closer than patient and doctor.
00:10:59Would you have taken the chance?
00:11:01That's a question I can't answer.
00:11:04No one can say how far his judgment may be swayed by his emotions.
00:11:07Oh, shall I have a look at your arm now?
00:11:17Oh, I'm terribly sorry.
00:11:20Why?
00:11:21Well, there's nothing the matter with your arm.
00:11:23No.
00:11:24Oh, I hope you believe me.
00:11:26I'd rather have it broken than confess.
00:11:28I was sent here to interview you.
00:11:35Oh, I'm so sorry.
00:11:37You wouldn't give out any interviews.
00:11:39No.
00:11:40No.
00:11:40No.
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00:11:55No.
00:11:56Are there any patients waiting to see me?
00:12:16No, doctor.
00:12:17Didn't I have some appointments?
00:12:20Mrs. Brooks and Mrs. Taylor canceled their appointments.
00:12:24I see.
00:12:26Mrs. Fielding, I'm giving up this office.
00:12:32Please have my name taken from the door.
00:12:36The doctor, the medical association, hasn't passed on the case.
00:12:40Won't you wait?
00:12:42There's hardly any use waiting.
00:12:45The practice of a physician is based on public confidence.
00:12:49Apparently, I've lost that.
00:12:50You, uh, please see if you can get Donald Evans on the telephone.
00:12:57Very well.
00:14:29Yes.
00:14:30That's right.
00:14:55Well, we've been doing a lot of work with this baby.
00:14:58Gosh, she's running fine.
00:14:59Looks fine, Don.
00:15:00What do you have done to it?
00:15:02Oh, give her a complete overhaul.
00:15:04I'm going to do something with her.
00:15:06Another nonstop record, huh?
00:15:08No, no, no.
00:15:09It's something bigger.
00:15:10Then you won't want me washing out your landing gear.
00:15:12Oh, no chance, Doc.
00:15:14Your nerves are okay.
00:15:18Don, your face is coming along all right.
00:15:20Oh, it's pretty good.
00:15:22I'll be glad when I get some teeth so I can talk like a human being again.
00:15:26You talk fine.
00:15:28Yeah, I'm glad you think so.
00:15:31Say, Don, who owns that old crate over there?
00:15:34Oh, that.
00:15:35That belongs to the airport.
00:15:36You know, that used to be Nungus' old ship.
00:15:40Really?
00:15:41Yeah.
00:15:41You know, sometimes when the fellas get too many under them and don't care what happens to them,
00:15:47they take it up for a hop.
00:15:49Yeah?
00:15:51I never noticed it before.
00:15:52Let's take a look at it.
00:15:53All right.
00:16:02You know, I'd like to try her out.
00:16:04Whatever gave you that notion, Doc?
00:16:07What's that?
00:16:08I mean, whatever gave you the idea of taking this old can out.
00:16:11Well, I'm going to be a pilot.
00:16:13I should be able to fly any ship, shouldn't I?
00:16:17Say, uh...
00:16:20Things that bad, Don?
00:16:22What do you mean, Don?
00:16:23I mean it's so bad that you want to take this up and fly the wings off of it.
00:16:27Now, you look here.
00:16:31I've been in the same sort of a fix you're in.
00:16:34I sort of understand the way you feel about it.
00:16:37You know, I was stunning for a flying circus, and I killed a man.
00:16:40They were going to take my license away.
00:16:43Then I jumped into another ship, went up, and broke the existing speed record at that time.
00:16:49Then instead of taking away my license, they were pinning medals on me.
00:16:52You get what I'm driving at, Doc?
00:16:55No, I'm afraid I don't, Don.
00:16:57Just this.
00:16:58Doc, people soon forget.
00:17:00You know, the public's awful fickle.
00:17:02They forget right away.
00:17:04You want to give them something new to think about.
00:17:08Of course, if you want to flush it, it's all right.
00:17:13But I've got a better proposition.
00:17:15I've been thinking about it for a year.
00:17:18I've been working on it for the last four or five months.
00:17:21Now I'm about set to go.
00:17:24In fact, I'll be shoving off in about a week or so.
00:17:27Look here.
00:17:27Take a look at this map.
00:17:30It's a Tokyo flight.
00:17:33See, we start from here,
00:17:35up, across here, into Alaska,
00:17:38and then follow this line
00:17:40right down the Aleutian Islands into Japan.
00:17:44I've got to have somebody go along with me.
00:17:47How about it, Doc?
00:17:50Right, George, I'll go.
00:17:52A new land.
00:17:53It'll be a chance to start all over again.
00:17:55Great.
00:17:56You've taken enough navigation under me.
00:17:58You can help me out on the navigation, you see?
00:18:00Now...
00:18:08done.
00:18:17Look at this.
00:18:19This means I'll have to find a new land
00:18:21and start all over.
00:18:22Some send-off, pal.
00:18:44You'll wake.
00:18:45Tomorrow, they'll wake up and find your name
00:18:48written clear across the sky
00:18:50all the way from the USA to Japan.
00:18:55They'll feel just as cheap as I did once
00:18:57when I was in Paris during the war.
00:18:59A Frenchman tried to get into a cab
00:19:01that I just hailed in the curb,
00:19:03but I beat him to it,
00:19:04and I got in first.
00:19:06Then I give him the raspberry.
00:19:08You know?
00:19:09You know?
00:19:10The next day I was presented to him
00:19:13for the chronic air.
00:19:15He was the president of France!
00:19:17Worrying me, John?
00:19:29First is,
00:19:30what new land are you going to?
00:19:32I haven't decided yet.
00:19:34What else is worrying you?
00:19:36What's in that black bag
00:19:37that you brought along back there?
00:19:40Well, what would you guess?
00:19:41I'd guess two dress suits
00:19:43for us to wear
00:19:44at the ambassador's dinner
00:19:45tomorrow night in Tokyo.
00:19:47Gosh, John,
00:19:54it's getting
00:19:57thick as a devil.
00:19:59I can't seem to get out of this.
00:20:04Do you see any good place
00:20:05to land down there?
00:20:08Well, I've seen better
00:20:09landing fields.
00:20:17What's the matter, Don?
00:20:27Ice.
00:20:28See, it's getting on the wings.
00:20:32If we don't get out of this,
00:20:33we'll be forced down, sure.
00:20:34I can't seem to hold her up.
00:20:38I can't seem to hold her up.
00:20:54She's just squashing like everything.
00:21:02Hey, if we don't get out of this
00:21:04pretty soon,
00:21:05we'll both be going to a new land
00:21:06and trying to start over.
00:21:10Well, I wouldn't ask
00:21:12for a better company, Don.
00:21:16Well,
00:21:17we're going to have to lay in.
00:21:19Brace yourself, Doc.
00:21:20Heavens.
00:21:32Are you all right?
00:21:50Heavens.
00:21:51Heavens.
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00:24:46Tom Ross is bringing in a frozen man.
00:24:48You better get a room ready.
00:24:51Bring him in here for you.
00:24:53Yes, it's warm in here.
00:24:54Be careful.
00:24:55Don't go.
00:24:55Don't go.
00:24:57Yes.
00:25:01Watch your step there.
00:25:02Watch your step.
00:25:03You think he's dead?
00:25:05Take him right in.
00:25:08Bring him in here.
00:25:14Where'd you get him, Tom?
00:25:15I'm out of the snow, Jimmy.
00:25:17You do that, boy.
00:25:25Just a minute, boys.
00:25:26Don't come in, please.
00:25:27I wonder who he is.
00:25:36Don't you think you'd better rub him with some snow, Seth?
00:25:39He's not frozen.
00:25:41He's hurt.
00:25:42Get him out of his clothes and in the bed.
00:25:44Yes.
00:25:44Oh, Tom, you'd better organize a searching party.
00:25:47There might have been somebody else with him.
00:25:48That's a good idea.
00:25:52Sadie.
00:26:03Gee, Jim, I didn't mean to neglect you so today, but I've been kind of busy and worried.
00:26:07Well, young man, it's getting pretty late.
00:26:119.30.
00:26:13And Tom isn't back with the boys yet.
00:26:16Gosh, I hope nothing's happened to them.
00:26:19Pretty bad out, Klondike?
00:26:21Yes, it is.
00:26:22I'm afraid we're going to be snowed in all right.
00:26:27Where did that man come from?
00:26:29I don't know.
00:26:31That's what the men are trying to find out.
00:26:33I'll ask him if he ever wakes up.
00:26:37Feeling all right?
00:26:38Mm-hmm.
00:26:39I'll go and get Mark.
00:26:48Mark, it's Jim's bedtime.
00:26:52Mark.
00:26:53Well, I'd hate to be sick and depend upon you to stay awake.
00:26:57What time is it?
00:26:58It's 9.30.
00:27:00I wonder I went to sleep.
00:27:03You've always come back yet?
00:27:05No, and I'm worried.
00:27:06You'd better go and put Jim to bed if you can get him to go before the news item comes on.
00:27:10I'll stay and watch.
00:27:28It's all right.
00:27:29You're at Armstrong's trading post.
00:27:31Where's that?
00:27:35In the Klondike.
00:27:37Klondike?
00:27:38And that's my name, too.
00:27:40Oh.
00:27:42Who are you and where did you come from?
00:27:44We have a special news item concerning the Tokyo Flyers.
00:27:48Donal Evans and Dr. Robert Cromwell, who are now several hours overdue at Seward, Alaska.
00:27:53Their plane was last seen flying low over Vancouver at 9 o'clock this morning.
00:27:58Due to prevailing winds, it is feared they may have been blown off their course toward the interior.
00:28:04Interest has been heightened in this flight because of the fact that Evans' co-pilot, Dr. Cromwell,
00:28:08a surgeon of this city, was acquitted recently after a sensational trial
00:28:13which centered around the death of Jacob Turner, a wealthy and incurable invalid.
00:28:17You're one of those men, aren't you?
00:28:24Yes.
00:28:25You're Donald Evans.
00:28:29Why do you think I'm Evans?
00:28:32Because I don't think you'd kill a man.
00:28:36We listened to that trial because we were interested on account of Jim.
00:28:40Jim?
00:28:41Yes, Jim Armstrong.
00:28:42He's afflicted the same way that old man Jacob Turner was, who was killed by that doctor.
00:28:54Oh, they're coming back.
00:28:56Who?
00:28:57The searching party.
00:28:58How come?
00:28:59Found an airplane smashed to pieces, half buried in the snow.
00:29:02There was a man in it, dead.
00:29:04We did what was necessary.
00:29:06No need of bringing him in.
00:29:07There were two of them.
00:29:09One was Donald Evans.
00:29:10He's the one's in there.
00:29:12The other, Dr. Cromwell.
00:29:15I'm glad.
00:29:16I'm glad he's dead.
00:29:19He killed that old man and now he's dead.
00:29:27Good night, Jim.
00:29:28And the president has agreed to meet the Senate committee Monday at 2 p.m. from San Francisco.
00:29:42All hope has been given up for the Tokyo Flyers, six days having elapsed since they were last seen flying low over Vancouver.
00:29:51The next news broadcast will be at 9.30 p.m.
00:29:55You know, it isn't a creep to hear those news items.
00:29:59And with no way of letting the world know that you're here and Dr. Cromwell's dead.
00:30:04Yes, I know.
00:30:05I just heard the radio.
00:30:07How long will it be before we can get word through?
00:30:11Oh, maybe a week or two.
00:30:13You know, six days of sleep and snow.
00:30:16I guess you brought it with you.
00:30:20Thanks.
00:30:20There you are.
00:30:25Won't, uh, won't you sit down?
00:30:27No, I haven't had a chance to talk to you really yet.
00:30:31All right.
00:30:38Will you have some toast with me?
00:30:40Oh, no, thanks.
00:30:41I've finished.
00:30:43What do you do with yourself through the long winters up here?
00:30:46Oh, I help Mark with the store and the cooking, but he's a much better cook than I am.
00:30:52Then I teach school, and, of course, there's always Jim to look after.
00:30:56Tom Rose tells me that you and Jim were to be married.
00:31:00Yes, Jim and I have been engaged ever since I can remember.
00:31:04We were going to get married and go down to the States.
00:31:07He had an awfully good job offered him down there.
00:31:10You know, he's really a genius.
00:31:12He can make anything electrical.
00:31:14Well, he made that radio off there, and it picks up stations from all over this part of the country.
00:31:22We were going away that summer.
00:31:26Two summers ago.
00:31:29Then he was taken ill.
00:31:34Well, tell me, were you born up here?
00:31:37Oh, yes, we were both born up here.
00:31:40Our fathers were partners, so we were practically raised together.
00:31:50Oh, come on.
00:31:51Well, shall we start another game?
00:32:19Not a game.
00:32:22You haven't beaten me yet.
00:32:24I'm going to jump two of your men right now.
00:32:27Oh, I suppose that'll end it.
00:32:30Certainly it will.
00:32:34Why, isn't that wonderful?
00:32:37Well, how do you like the looks of this?
00:32:38Say, that is not fair.
00:32:46Oh, why don't you use your eyes?
00:32:49And you're the little girl that always wanted to go to the States, eh?
00:32:53Oh, I wanted to go until Jim took sick.
00:32:56But what is where, of course, I wouldn't leave him.
00:32:58Suppose he were cured.
00:33:03Why, then we'd get married.
00:33:06Oh, I see.
00:33:07How about this nice lollipop?
00:33:10Well, haven't you got any six for a penny?
00:33:12Well, we've got this kind.
00:33:17Now, what do you want six for a penny for?
00:33:21Well, one for Jane and one for Mama Claudette.
00:33:25Uh-huh.
00:33:26That makes two.
00:33:29One for Jane and one for Papa Claudette.
00:33:33That makes four.
00:33:37There.
00:33:38One for Jane and one for you.
00:33:41Oh, dear.
00:33:49This was Jim's workshop.
00:33:51I want you to see it.
00:33:52I want to talk to you about Jim.
00:33:54All right, Mark.
00:33:59Dust.
00:34:01Just as he left it last time he was down here,
00:34:04two years ago this summer.
00:34:05Those are his books.
00:34:09He studied too hard.
00:34:12Maybe that's what's the matter.
00:34:14He always was smart.
00:34:17When he was just a boy and first heard of Mark Coney's experiments,
00:34:21he turned right in and built a radio.
00:34:24The first in this part of the country.
00:34:27You're proud of him, aren't you, Mark?
00:34:29Yes, I am proud of him.
00:34:31I'd give the trading post.
00:34:33First, I'd give my own life to make him well like he was.
00:34:39And that's what I want to talk to you about.
00:34:43I listened to that trial over the radio.
00:34:47And I believed what that jury must have believed
00:34:49when they said you weren't guilty.
00:34:51I felt that you must have believed there was a chance
00:34:57to save that old man's life.
00:35:00And what I want to ask is,
00:35:02is there any chance to save Jim's life?
00:35:07The chance is very slight, Mark.
00:35:10But there is a chance.
00:35:13Yes.
00:35:14If the operation is performed soon enough.
00:35:17But I can't perform it.
00:35:19The boy isn't any good to himself.
00:35:23And he's fast-growing worse.
00:35:26And I've got to see him day after day,
00:35:29dying,
00:35:30in front of my own eyes.
00:35:33And you are a doctor.
00:35:35And won't do anything about it.
00:35:38Don't you see,
00:35:39I haven't any right to practice here or any place else.
00:35:42I'm Jim's father.
00:35:49And I ask you to do it.
00:35:51I'll stand the consequences.
00:35:54Mark,
00:35:54you don't understand.
00:35:56You can't stand the consequences.
00:35:59If I should operate on Jim,
00:36:00and he should die,
00:36:02I'd be a murderer.
00:36:04I haven't any right to operate on anyone.
00:36:08He wouldn't die.
00:36:09You know you could cure him.
00:36:12I can read it in your eyes.
00:36:16Yes, Mark,
00:36:17I believe I could.
00:36:19But my hands are tied.
00:36:21I don't know how to say things except straight.
00:36:27You refuse to operate.
00:36:29And I'll tell you why.
00:36:33I've been watching you
00:36:34day after day with Klondike.
00:36:37And if Jim was cured,
00:36:40she'd marry him.
00:36:42Ain't that the real reason you won't operate?
00:36:48No, Mark.
00:36:49That has nothing to do with it.
00:36:53I think it's got a lot to do with it.
00:36:57Think it over.
00:36:59Why, Sadie?
00:37:16Well, are you...
00:37:17Well, do you look grand?
00:37:20Oh, no.
00:37:22I don't like it.
00:37:23Why, what's the matter?
00:37:26I came to see that doctor.
00:37:27I've got a terrible throat.
00:37:32I can scarcely talk about a whisper.
00:37:34Oh, now, that's too bad.
00:37:37Let me see.
00:37:38Gene's in there now,
00:37:39having his leg attended to.
00:37:41But you can just wait
00:37:42and go right in
00:37:43in a minute or two.
00:37:46Hey, Ma.
00:37:48Can I have a piece of candy?
00:37:50Didn't I tell you
00:37:51not to follow me over here?
00:37:52But I just wanted
00:37:53one piece of candy.
00:37:58Ma.
00:37:59Can I have a...
00:38:00Aren't you going to wait, Sadie?
00:38:07What's the matter, Mark?
00:38:11I've been telling that doctor
00:38:13he's got to cure Jim.
00:38:15Cure him?
00:38:16How?
00:38:17By operating,
00:38:18like he did on that man
00:38:19in the States.
00:38:21But, Mark,
00:38:22that man in the States
00:38:23died.
00:38:26Dr. Cromwell
00:38:26isn't going to operate
00:38:27on Jim.
00:38:31You're not in love
00:38:32with Dr. Cromwell,
00:38:33are you, Klondike?
00:38:37Why, Mark,
00:38:38what do you mean?
00:38:40Suppose Jim was cured.
00:38:42You'd feel you'd have
00:38:43to marry him,
00:38:44wouldn't you?
00:38:44Why,
00:38:47I'd give anything
00:38:48in the world
00:38:48to see Jim well again.
00:38:50Then you'll do
00:38:51what I ask.
00:38:52If he isn't cured,
00:38:53it won't be your fault
00:38:54nor his.
00:38:56And Jim
00:38:57would be better off.
00:38:59What do you want
00:39:00me to do?
00:39:02I want you
00:39:02to get him
00:39:03to operate.
00:39:05But, Mark,
00:39:06you don't know
00:39:06what you're asking.
00:39:08Supposing Jim dies...
00:39:09He won't die.
00:39:11He'll get well.
00:39:14All right.
00:39:16I'll talk
00:39:16to Dr. Cromwell.
00:39:18When?
00:39:20Oh, when I get
00:39:20a chance.
00:39:21Maybe tonight.
00:39:23All right.
00:39:26I don't believe
00:39:28he can possibly
00:39:29live six months.
00:39:32Maybe a year
00:39:32at the longest.
00:39:34But just suppose
00:39:35you cured him.
00:39:38Suppose I did
00:39:39cure him.
00:39:42Klondike,
00:39:42do you love Jim?
00:39:48Yes.
00:39:49I love him
00:39:50as I've always loved him.
00:39:52And if I cured him,
00:39:54you'd marry him?
00:39:56Yes.
00:39:57Suppose I failed.
00:39:59Oh, but I don't
00:40:00believe you'd fail.
00:40:01I wouldn't ask you.
00:40:04No.
00:40:05No, I wouldn't fail.
00:40:07Not if that's
00:40:08what you want.
00:40:09Well,
00:40:28the sooner I operate,
00:40:30the better of Jim's
00:40:31chances of recovery.
00:40:32And you are
00:40:36going to operate?
00:40:38Yes.
00:40:39Tonight.
00:40:40Tonight.
00:40:40Tonight.
00:41:49Mark, you'd better sit down.
00:41:55They can take care of him.
00:43:49Mark, you'd better go in the other room.
00:45:10One thing is certain.
00:45:18The greatest danger has passed.
00:45:21Due to Jim's remarkable vitality, the respiratory action didn't stop during the operation.
00:45:25What does that mean, Doc?
00:45:27He didn't stop breathing.
00:45:30Oh.
00:45:31The effect of the anesthetist, the anesthetist, the anesthetist has worn off.
00:45:43The medic is worn off.
00:45:44He's breathing normally.
00:45:47The temperature has gone down.
00:45:51Is he going to get well, Doctor?
00:45:52There's no reason why he shouldn't.
00:45:54Look.
00:45:54His hand seems to be relaxed already.
00:45:59Oh, it's wonderful.
00:46:02No.
00:46:03No, it just proves that an operation like this can be performed successfully.
00:46:08Mark.
00:46:09Mark.
00:46:10Mark, Jim's going to get well.
00:46:13Well?
00:46:13Yes.
00:46:14Jim, well?
00:46:20Jim?
00:46:21Shh, quiet.
00:46:23Everything's going to be all right, Mark.
00:46:25Supposing you come and get a little rest now.
00:46:27He's cured, Doctor.
00:46:28Yes, Mark.
00:46:31I guess you're pretty tired, Doc.
00:46:40I want to tell you I never seen a man in a harder spot than you was last night.
00:46:45One slip of the knife and you'd have had what I reckon you want more than all the gold in the Klondike.
00:46:51What do you mean, Tom?
00:46:52Oh, I ain't blind, Doc.
00:46:54And there ain't no man that's ever seen Klondike that could blame you.
00:46:57What I admire you for most is the way you handle them tools and her standing beside you.
00:47:04Well, I can see you now by the table.
00:47:06Working to save Jim's life when, if I know what's what, you're mighty deep in love with Klondike.
00:47:13You're a shrewd observer, Tom.
00:47:17Oh, I take notice.
00:47:20Of course, Doc, a feller like you would never fight for a woman against a sick man.
00:47:26It kind of looks now like Jim's going to get well.
00:47:29Well, did it occur to you that when it does get well, you have every right to try to win the girl?
00:47:41You're a good friend, Tom.
00:47:43Well, fair enough.
00:47:45May the best man win.
00:47:51Jim, you're awake.
00:47:53Doctor.
00:47:56Well, how do you feel?
00:47:59Jim, you're going to get well.
00:48:08Don't you recognize me?
00:48:19Jim, speak to me.
00:48:21Say something.
00:48:22Jim, speak to me.
00:48:23Say something.
00:48:29Oh, Jim.
00:48:36Try to talk.
00:48:38Say something.
00:48:44Oh, Doctor.
00:48:46He tried to talk, but he can't.
00:48:49This is something I don't understand.
00:48:51Part of the brain I operated on has nothing to do with the power of speech.
00:48:57Well, Judge, it is $14 short.
00:49:11$14?
00:49:11Mm-hmm.
00:49:19Well, that's great and I've got.
00:49:21I reckon, Plondike, you'll just have to take back those blankets over there.
00:49:27Yeah.
00:49:28You'll be needing all the blankets you've got.
00:49:31I'll just charge it to you.
00:49:32Well, now, thanks.
00:49:34I...
00:49:35I, uh...
00:49:36I don't like to do that, but I'll be back.
00:49:39I'll be back next winter and I'll have this boat just filled with nuggets.
00:49:43Big ones, too.
00:49:44Okay, Judge.
00:49:45Good luck to you.
00:49:46Goodbye.
00:49:47Goodbye.
00:49:47Goodbye.
00:49:57Where's Mark?
00:49:58It's stupid bedtime.
00:49:59Why, he's in the kitchen.
00:50:00I'll be leaving for you.
00:50:13I'll take him in, Plondike.
00:50:36All right.
00:50:37Good night, Jim.
00:50:38I hope you sleep well.
00:50:39Goodbye.
00:50:43I hope you sleep well.
00:50:53Hmm.
00:50:55I wonder who unfashioned that door.
00:51:07Say, why is the doctor in such a hurry to get back to the States?
00:51:10Oh, it's about something that came over the radio last night.
00:51:15That Turner woman's been arrested and charged with murder.
00:51:19Who is she?
00:51:20Oh, she's Turner's wife.
00:51:22The man that the doctor operated on when he was down in the States before he came up here.
00:51:26You remember, he died.
00:51:28Hmm.
00:51:29Yeah, that's mighty bad.
00:51:32Did you hear any more about it this afternoon?
00:51:35Uh-uh.
00:51:36Well, not a word, just some weather reports and news items and...
00:51:40You know, Doc, it'll be tough sledding tomorrow.
00:51:46But I'll get you through somehow.
00:51:47That is, if you feel you must go.
00:51:50Right.
00:51:50Oh, why don't you stay a while?
00:51:52There must be some mistake.
00:51:54I know, but...
00:51:55But don't you see, to stay here would only look like I'm in hiding.
00:51:58I've got an idea.
00:52:03Yeah.
00:52:03We'll put your name on a shingle and hang it out on the porch,
00:52:06and that'll show them that you're not in hiding.
00:52:08Yes, I know, but...
00:52:09Oh, come on.
00:52:10Well, I...
00:52:11Now, you stay here and I'll get the stamping up.
00:52:14All right.
00:52:15Here, peek the board, now.
00:52:17Board.
00:52:19Oh, here it is.
00:52:21Oh, that'll do.
00:52:21Well, I guess I'll be turning in, folks.
00:52:35See you tomorrow morning.
00:52:37All right.
00:52:38Good night, now.
00:52:41C-R-R-R...
00:52:43Ah, there.
00:52:48R-C-C-C-C...
00:52:49Well, say, what about a period after the R?
00:52:52Oh, now, didn't you think I knew enough to put a period down there?
00:52:56Let me see.
00:52:57Let me see.
00:52:58I guess we'd better have Robert.
00:52:59Bob wouldn't sound dignified.
00:53:01No, I'm afraid not.
00:53:02No, not for a doctor.
00:53:03I-R-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C.
00:53:19Here's a C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-
00:53:50Now, turn that upside down and have the W.
00:53:52Oh, I see.
00:53:54Um, well, W.
00:53:57E, E, Sarah, just looking right at you.
00:54:02Oh, dear, this isn't very straight.
00:54:04We can make a new one.
00:54:07L.
00:54:07L.
00:54:09What can happen to the L?
00:54:13Here it is.
00:54:13There, I'll let you face it.
00:54:20All right.
00:54:24There, it just about made it.
00:54:26A little bit crooked, but not bad.
00:54:30It's fine.
00:54:32See, I hope you don't have to go.
00:54:34I don't want to go.
00:54:38Well, I guess we'd better hang it up anyway, huh?
00:54:41Yes, yes, I guess we'd better.
00:54:42We have a special news item about the sensational Turner case.
00:54:48Jane Turner, who was arrested yesterday,
00:54:51confessed to having conspired with Dr. Robert Cromwell
00:54:54to put her husband out of his misery by killing him.
00:54:57Although it has been believed that Dr. Cromwell was lost
00:55:00during an attempted flight to Tokyo,
00:55:03the authorities have learned that the flyers crashed in Alaska
00:55:06and that the doctor is there in hiding.
00:55:09We return you now to your local stations.
00:55:12It's a lie.
00:55:15Why, you couldn't have conspired to kill anyone.
00:55:17That Turner woman must have gone mad.
00:55:20I'd have to get back to the States as soon as possible.
00:55:22Why, how do they know that you're here?
00:55:24Not even the mail is gone now.
00:55:26Such things always leak through some way.
00:55:28I must leave the first thing in the morning.
00:55:29Why, I don't suppose we'll ever see each other again.
00:55:38If I had cured Jim, things might have been different.
00:55:41I could have told you then that I loved you.
00:55:43You could have chosen between.
00:55:45You know, Cromwell, I've never loved another one.
00:55:50You're the first, and I think you'll be the last.
00:55:55Goodbye, Cromwell.
00:55:56Goodbye, Cromwell.
00:55:57Goodbye, Cromwell.
00:55:58Goodbye, Cromwell.
00:55:59Goodbye, Cromwell.
00:56:00Goodbye, Cromwell.
00:56:01Goodbye, Cromwell.
00:56:02Goodbye, Cromwell.
00:56:03Goodbye, Cromwell.
00:56:04Goodbye, Cromwell.
00:56:05Goodbye, Cromwell.
00:56:06Goodbye, Cromwell.
00:56:07Goodbye, Cromwell.
00:56:08Goodbye, Cromwell.
00:56:09Goodbye, Cromwell.
00:56:10Goodbye, Cromwell.
00:56:11Goodbye, Cromwell.
00:56:12Goodbye, Cromwell.
00:56:13Goodbye, Cromwell.
00:56:14Goodbye, Cromwell.
00:56:15Goodbye, Cromwell.
00:56:16Goodbye, Cromwell.
00:56:17Goodbye, Cromwell.
00:56:18Goodbye, Cromwell.
00:56:19Goodbye, Cromwell.
00:56:20Goodbye, Cromwell.
00:56:21Goodbye, Cromwell.
00:58:22What are you doing down here?
00:58:24What?
00:58:25Why?
00:58:26Why, you can walk.
00:58:29Here, let me see you.
00:58:31Why, you look fine.
00:58:33I got eyes.
00:58:34Yeah, yeah, I can walk and I can talk, too.
00:58:38I've been doing a lot of talking lately over that microphone there.
00:58:42What?
00:58:43I don't understand.
00:58:49I wanted to get rid of you.
00:58:51Came near working, too.
00:58:53Tomorrow, you'd have been gone.
00:58:56You mean to tell me that you've been faking all this time?
00:58:58Sit down.
00:58:59Well, and I'll explain it to you.
00:59:00Yeah, read that.
00:59:07No, but read it out loud.
00:59:09See if it doesn't sound familiar.
00:59:10We have a special news item about the sensational Turner case.
00:59:21Why?
00:59:21Why, that came over the radio tonight.
00:59:23Oh, no.
00:59:24You just thought it did.
00:59:25I broadcasted it over that microphone there.
00:59:30I cut it in on the loudspeaker upstairs.
00:59:33Of course, I disguised my voice.
00:59:36I used that switch right there.
00:59:41Simple enough.
00:59:43What?
00:59:44What, Jim, do you mean to tell me that you do...
00:59:46No.
00:59:55There are only two ways of your getting Klondike.
01:00:03One was killing me.
01:00:06You didn't dare do that.
01:00:08It hung you for murder.
01:00:10The other was to cure me.
01:00:12And then win her.
01:00:14So you cured me.
01:00:17It wasn't for me that you did it.
01:00:19It was so that you could take her away from me.
01:00:21I give you fair warning to get out.
01:00:24I didn't give you enough juice that time to hurt you.
01:00:29Just a good jolt.
01:00:54Nobody can hear us down here.
01:01:07They can't even hear this dynamo.
01:01:11But maybe I'd better tie this over your mouth.
01:01:13Don't you think we're gonna try it all?
01:01:23No.
01:01:24There's no surprise.
01:01:24There's no surprise.
01:01:29I'd better get it.
01:01:31Josh.
01:01:31So...
01:01:32Everybody can hear us.
01:01:32Are you still up, Doctor?
01:02:02Mark, is Dr. Cromwell up there?
01:02:18What's that, Klondike?
01:02:20I said, is Dr. Cromwell up there?
01:02:22No.
01:02:24Well, I was sure I heard someone talking.
01:02:27It must have been on the radio. It's been going all night.
01:02:30Better turn it off.
01:02:31All right.
01:02:38When they find you, I'll be in bed.
01:02:41Not able to walk.
01:02:43Not even able to talk.
01:02:46I'll get well gradually.
01:02:49They'll think you came down here to my workshop and accidentally electrocuted yourself.
01:02:55This is a better way of killing a man than operating on him, Doc.
01:03:05You like to experiment on people.
01:03:11Now I'm going to experiment on you.
01:03:13Jim, open this door.
01:03:23Jim, open this door, I tell you.
01:03:26Jim, open this door, I tell you.
01:03:29I know what you're doing.
01:03:30I hate you.
01:03:31Jim.
01:03:35Jim.
01:03:36Jim.
01:03:36Jim, open this door.
01:03:39Well, I guess you outsmarted me, Donna Rumpa.
01:03:41Jim.
01:03:42Jim.
01:03:45Oh, Jim, please open the door.
01:03:49Jim.
01:03:51Open this door.
01:03:53Jim.
01:03:54Jim, have you gone mad?
01:04:06Jim.
01:04:07You can walk.
01:04:10Jim can walk, Doctor.
01:04:11You've cured him.
01:04:18Yes.
01:04:20He's all right now, Mark.
01:04:22Both his body and his mind will soon be what they used to be.
01:04:27I'm as happy as you are, Mark.
01:04:37I'm happy, too.
01:04:38I'm happy, too.
01:04:41Come in.
01:04:55I wouldn't believe it was broken even if you showed me an x-ray.
01:05:00I want a story and I want to congratulate you.
01:05:03Oh, it was splendid the way you put it before the medical association.
01:05:07I was there.
01:05:08A triumph.
01:05:10Do you remember?
01:05:10It was exactly the way we spoke about it.
01:05:13And you did it.
01:05:15You proved it by that operation of Jim Armstrong.
01:05:19Do you know, Doctor?
01:05:20You're the first man I've ever known that came out of Alaska with fame rather than riches.
01:05:26You're wrong again.
01:05:27I came back with more riches than fame.
01:05:30Really?
01:05:31Yes.
01:05:34Yes?
01:05:35Oh.
01:05:36Well, ask her to come in.
01:05:37Yes, Miss Porter?
01:05:41I found gold.
01:05:43Gold?
01:05:46Oh, I'm sorry, dear.
01:05:48I just dropped in to see how you were.
01:05:50Come in, my dear.
01:05:55Pure gold, Miss Porter.
01:05:57I want you to meet her.
01:05:59Mrs. Cromwell.
01:06:01How do you do?
01:06:01How do you do?
01:06:02That gives me a lead for my story.
01:06:08And it starts like this.
01:06:10Gold, gold, precious gold.
01:06:13Hard to get.
01:06:13But not hard to hold.
01:06:15I'm sorry, dear.
01:06:15I'm sorry.
01:06:15I'm sorry.
01:06:16Oh, oh, oh, oh.