- 1/22/2016
Black Widow (1951)
62 min | Crime, Drama | 22 October 1951 (UK)
A woman and her lover plan the second death of her husband after their first attempt fails.
Director: Vernon Sewell
Writers: Allan MacKinnon (screenplay) (as Alan MacKinnon), Lester Powell (radio serial Return From Darkness)
Stars: Christine Norden, Robert Ayres, Jennifer Jayne
62 min | Crime, Drama | 22 October 1951 (UK)
A woman and her lover plan the second death of her husband after their first attempt fails.
Director: Vernon Sewell
Writers: Allan MacKinnon (screenplay) (as Alan MacKinnon), Lester Powell (radio serial Return From Darkness)
Stars: Christine Norden, Robert Ayres, Jennifer Jayne
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01:21I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you.
01:51I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you
02:21I'm going to kill you
02:51Sheila, you had better phone Dr. Wallace
03:21Good morning Sheila
03:47Good morning Doctor
03:49How is the patient
03:50Well he seems to be more or less all right, except he's no idea who he is, he's lost his memory
03:54Oh he has has he, dearie dearie me
03:58I told him it would probably be all right, you know, trying to cheer him up, but will it mean he'll have to see a specialist
04:03Specialist, what am I for
04:05Well I thought, you know, a lost memory, maybe a psychiatrist
04:08Sheila Kemp, a psychiatrist indeed, you'll be suggesting an astrologer next, since when have I been calling in psychiatrists
04:14I'm terribly sorry
04:15I'm sorry you should be, well I'll weigh up and see him now
04:19Would you like me to take you up
04:20No thank you, I'll see him by myself
04:30Well young fellow, I'm Dr. Wallace
04:32How are you Doc
04:33How are you is much more to the point, Sheila tells me that you've lost your memory
04:37Yeah I guess so, kind of stupid isn't it
04:39Maybe it is and maybe it isn't, we don't know the reason yet
04:44First thing I want to have a look at your eyes
04:46My eyes, what's wrong with them
04:48Nothing that I know of, but if a doctor can find himself looking at things there was something wrong with, he'd not get very far
04:55Very well, out of the bed and come and sit in this chair here
04:58Okay Doc
05:02That's it
05:06Now then, I just want you to look at my right ear
05:12That's it, pay no attention to this wee light
05:17Now look at the left ear
05:24Aye, well that looks all right from here
05:28Next thing is to have a look and see how that crack on the head is progressing
05:51Healing nicely
05:54Yes, the best thing for that from now on will be fresh air, we can dispense with the bandages
05:59I guess this is how I lost my memory, huh
06:02Maybe so, but that's only the excuse, it's not the reason
06:06What do you mean Doc
06:07Outside the penny novelettes people don't go losing their memories just for a crack in the head
06:11No, no it's usually cerebral senility, pardoning the utterance
06:15Now have a good look at your eyes, it's certainly not that
06:18So the trouble seems to be psychological
06:21You sound like a psychiatrist
06:22When you call me that Smylo, I'm no psychiatrist Malek
06:25I'm sorry Doc
06:27A psychiatrist is usually a medical man trying to forget his medical training
06:30I am a doctor, my field includes everything from mental illness to malaria or mumps, anything but mumps anyway
06:36There must be something
06:38Aye, just so
06:41Your trouble seems to be retrograde amnesia, pure and simple
06:44I hope it's pure Doc, but it's certainly not simple
06:47What do you mean
06:48Well, mind you this is not my final diagnosis
06:51But it seems to me that when you got hit by whatever hit you, you were in a highly neurotic state
06:56You understand
06:57You were probably running away from something
06:59The police haven't heard about me or so I'm told
07:02The police aren't the only thing you ran away from
07:04My guess is that you had such a load on your mind that your mind just wouldn't wear it
07:08So when you got that clip in the head, your subconscious mind just took the opportunity of running away
07:14All of which may not sound like the right jargon for a psychiatrist
07:18Would you like me to call one in
07:20Thank you, no
07:21Good, that proves your mind's not affected anyway
07:24Is my head badly hurt Doc, I mean apart from the loss of memory
07:28No, as far as that goes you'll be alright in a couple of days
07:31Here, there's a way we might get at something
07:35Last night when you were a bit delirious, you seemed to be having some sort of a dream
07:39Do you remember anything about it
07:42Was that when I was calling for Christine
07:45Uh-huh
07:46Oh, I'm sorry Doc, I don't remember the dream at all
07:49Would you mind if we tried to recapture that dream
07:52What would that involve
07:53Just an injection and a few questions, that's all
07:56If it's likely to help in restoring my memory, that's okay with me
07:59Right laddie, back onto the bed
08:01Okay Doc
08:06Oh hello there, any word from Weatherby's
08:09Yes, the letter's on your desk there
08:11Where
08:12In the kitchen
08:14Where
08:15In the kitchen
08:18I saw Doctor Wallace's car outside, I suppose he's come to see that young chap
08:22How is he, have you seen him
08:24Yes, I took him up some tea, he seems alright, he's lost his memory
08:28Good Lord, has he
08:30What's the doctor say
08:31I don't know yet, he's still up there
08:35I'm not saying that this will get us anywhere at all
08:38But it might just help us to find out what this dream is of yours that you can't remember
08:43And that might help us to find out even more
08:48Are you ready
08:49Sure
08:51Right, I just want you to close your eyes
08:55And just relax completely
09:13Now this dream of yours, have you had it often
09:19I wouldn't know
09:21You wouldn't?
09:23Try and tell me about it
09:26There's a woman in it, isn't there
09:28A woman called Christine
09:32It's just when you're dozing off, you start to remember
09:36I don't remember
09:38I don't remember
09:40It's just when you're dozing off to sleep that it comes, isn't it
09:45Just when you're waking up
09:48Come on
09:50Try and tell me
09:53I don't know what it is
09:57The trees
10:00They're all bare
10:05I'm walking up the aisles
10:10I don't want to walk up
10:14But I have to
10:17There's a house
10:20At the top
10:24I can't see it
10:27But I know it's there
10:31If I go on
10:35I'll come to it
10:39And then
10:43There's Christine
10:47She's waiting
10:51Waiting for me
10:55At the top of the avenue
11:00She's in a house, I think
11:06Christine
11:09Christine
11:11As soon as I see the house
11:15Christine
11:20That's when the dream ends
11:29I don't wake up
11:33I just
11:40I don't know
11:44It's all worries
11:48All right
11:49All right, you have a nice quiet sleep now
11:53You'll be all right
11:56There was only one road accident reported last night in this area
12:00And that was 40 miles away, near York
12:02A car overturned and caught fire
12:04It wasn't in that, I can assure you
12:06One thing, he's not burned
12:07For another, he couldn't have walked four miles in that condition
12:10That's a long 40
12:13How is he now, doctor?
12:14No, he's asleep just now
12:15I've just given him an injection
12:16He'll likely stay asleep for a wee while
12:18Kemp, you'll have to keep him here for a few days
12:20Unless you want to send him down to the hospital
12:22Oh, we don't want to do that
12:24Oh, don't we?
12:25Well, I mean
12:27Well, it wouldn't be very kind, would it, doctor?
12:29What is it these yanks have that the others haven't got?
12:32And who's going to nurse him?
12:33He won't take very much nursing
12:35He won't take very much nursing, will he?
12:36No, no, no, just rest and fresh air
12:39There's not very much wrong with him just now, but
12:41You never can tell with these head injuries
12:43I want to keep my eye on him
12:45I'll be round again the same time tomorrow
12:47Don't worry, Sheila, I know my own way out
12:49Goodbye, everybody
12:50Goodbye
12:51Hello
12:52I thought the doctor said you weren't supposed to get up till later on today
12:55He said I could get up later, but he didn't say how much later
12:57So here I am
12:58Are you sure you feel all right?
12:59I feel fine
13:00Why shouldn't I?
13:01For the past three days, I've done nothing but eat and sleep
13:03So now you feel like a little mild exercise
13:05Why not?
13:06All right, let's go for a walk
13:07I'll show you around the place
13:08Fine
13:16You must have a lot of fun living here, Sheila
13:18I do
13:19Yeah, I think I could too
13:21Plenty of space, nothing to worry about
13:23You can do just as you please
13:25There is a certain amount of work to be done
13:26Sure, sure there is
13:28Hard work never worried me
13:29How do you know?
13:30Are you beginning to remember?
13:31No, I'm beginning to wonder
13:32Wonder what?
13:33What kind of friends I have
13:34Here I've been missing from home for three full days
13:37Nobody's reported it to the police
13:39Looks like I can't matter very much to anyone
13:43Come on, let's walk some more
13:44Sure
13:50I don't know
14:01All right, take a bet
14:08Hello, how are you feeling?
14:09Fine, thanks
14:10Sheila been showing you around?
14:11Yeah, she certainly has
14:12Nice place you have here, Mr. Kim
14:14Nice horse place too
14:15Aye, not bad, some of them
14:17I noticed the big gelling in the paddock back there
14:19It doesn't look too good to me
14:20Yeah, is that Rufus?
14:21Why, what do you think's wrong with him?
14:23Oh, I don't know
14:24But I guess I'd say curb
14:26You're right
14:27But you'd have to know quite a bit about horses to spot that
14:29Would I?
14:30You know, it's funny
14:31I think maybe I do know something about horses
14:33Maybe he was brought up on a ranch
14:34Could be
14:35Well, let's go back to the stables and find out what you don't know
14:37Sure, let's do that
14:43Ah, there you are
14:44You think I've handled horses before?
14:46I know you have
14:47Could you do with a job?
14:48Huh?
14:49Well, I'm not looking for a new groom
14:50But I could do with someone to help me run the place
14:52Take some of the paperwork off me, Anne
14:53What he really means is
14:54He'd give him more time for drawing and painting
14:56But it's a grand idea
14:57Now, why shouldn't I draw and paint?
14:59Well, there's no reason at all
15:00You're jolly good
15:01Do you know Daddy did all those heads in the living room?
15:03No kidding
15:04They're pretty good
15:05If you took on this job
15:06It'd give him time to do dozens more
15:08How about it?
15:09Oh
15:10I'm very grateful to both of you for what you've done already
15:13But you know how it is, Mr. Kemp
15:15Until I know who I am or what I am
15:17I understand
15:18Well, don't make up your mind right away
15:19But if you want the job, it's yours
15:20Well, thanks a lot
15:21Come on, Sheila
15:26More tea, Daddy?
15:27No, thanks, dear
15:28Would you like a cake?
15:29No, thank you
15:30You've been feeding me too well as it is
15:32Oh, would you like a little exercise now?
15:34Let's take a walk in the park
15:35Why? Is it something special?
15:36That's very lovely
15:37We could take falcon with us
15:39Fine, I'll go and get your coat
15:40I don't need a coat
15:41Yes, you do
15:42It's quite a cold wind
15:43You heard what your father said
15:48How's it coming?
15:49Not bad, look
15:51Looks a little sinister, doesn't it?
15:52I wouldn't say that
15:53I don't like the chin line, though
15:55Still, perhaps I'd better stick to horses
15:59You're not falling for that chap, are you?
16:01Daddy, I hardly know him
16:03You can't kid me
16:04You watch your step
16:06He might be a married man with six kids
16:08Oh, Daddy, don't be silly
16:15I found this raincoat
16:16Can I take it?
16:17It's yours, you came in it
16:18I did?
16:19Anything in the pockets?
16:20We couldn't find anything
16:23Hey
16:24What's the matter?
16:25Nothing
16:27Hey, what's this?
16:30A movie still
16:33Rialto Cinema, happy
16:36Where's that?
16:37A small town in Essex
16:39Does that convey anything?
16:44No, I'm afraid not
16:47I wonder what I was doing there
16:49Seeing a picture, I suppose
16:51Yeah, I guess so
16:54Come on, let's take that walk, huh?
16:55Let's do it
16:56Come on
17:26What's this nonsense Ellen's telling me?
17:28Nothing
17:29I better tell him about the gentleman going away
17:31Oh
17:32It's sheer criminal lunacy
17:34Where's your father?
17:35Well, he's over there
17:36Daddy
17:39I'll go
17:40Oh, thank you, Miss Sheila
17:42Morning, Doc
17:43What's the trouble?
17:44Why on earth have you let that fellow go away by himself?
17:46Well, he wanted to
17:47He thinks he lives with Debbie
17:48And naturally, he's anxious to find out
17:50Of course he's anxious to find out
17:51But that's no excuse for letting a sick girl go away
17:53But he's not sick now, Doctor
17:54His head's healed
17:55He's sick in his mind
17:56It's one thing to wander about here
17:58Where nobody knows him
17:59But it's quite another to let him go off on his own
18:01Where he might be heaven knows what
18:03What do you mean, Doctor?
18:04I mean that if that thing does turn out to be his home
18:06And he goes crashing back into things there suddenly
18:08His mind might receive any sort of a shock
18:10Oh, I don't say he shouldn't go back there at all
18:13But at least somebody might have gone with him
18:15Somebody he knows and trusts
18:16We could look after him
18:17In case anything went wrong
18:18Aye, it's you and me
18:19It's you and me
18:20It's you and me
18:21In case anything went wrong
18:22Aye, I see what you mean
18:24But it's too late now
18:25He's caught the night train for London
18:26I know he has
18:27And why yourself or Sheila didn't catch him with him
18:29Oh
18:30Doctor, would it help any if I went after him?
18:32Do you know where he'll be?
18:33No, I don't
18:34But Epping isn't a very big place
18:35And there can't be many hotels
18:37I could take that sketch, the one that Daddy did
18:39That might help me find him
18:40Well, it's certainly a chance
18:42And at all events, it's better than doing nothing
18:44I think you ought to go, Sheila
18:46Yes, and the sooner the better
18:48May I, Daddy?
18:49All right, dear, you go
18:50And now I'm late for my run
19:02Haven't I cast that wrong, Lupe?
19:04Very well, sir
19:07Harold, have a look at Mum's car I sent round, will you?
19:11Dinner all right, Mr. Smith?
19:13Fine, thanks
19:14I've asked them to send my coffee in here
19:16Yes, it's brighter than the dining room
19:18You don't sound as though you came from this part of the country
19:20No, I come from Lancashire
19:22I've only been here three months
19:23I see
19:24There have been some changes in staff?
19:26Oh, yes
19:27Two-thirds of the staff are new
19:28You see, this hotel was a family concern
19:30And when it was taken over, well, most of the old staff went
19:33Yeah, of course
19:34I was wondering
19:36I thought maybe somebody might recognize me
19:38Oh, you've been here before me
19:40I'm not exactly a stranger around here
19:42But if the staff were all new
19:44Well, that would explain it, wouldn't it?
19:46Yes
19:49Yes
19:55Pardon me, do you know where that is?
19:59Oh, yes
20:00That's the drive up to Tor House
20:02A big house out on the Cambridge Road, about three miles from here
20:05You don't happen to know a woman, do you?
20:07Oh, dear, let me think
20:09I have heard the name
20:11Sheridan, could it be? Something like that
20:14Sheridan
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20:21Could it be Mark Sheridan?
20:22Oh, I suppose it could be, sir
20:24He's a Canadian gentleman, I believe
20:26Canadian, of course
20:28How do I get there?
20:29You get a number eight bus outside here
20:31It goes right past it
20:32The conductor will tell you where to get off
20:33Oh, fine
20:34I'll cancel my coffee, do you mind?
20:36Very well
20:37Thanks a lot
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22:42Ahhhh
22:48Christine
22:50What's the matter darling?
22:51Christine
22:53Oh
22:54It's alright honey
22:55I'm not a ghost
22:57Oh
22:58You're real
23:00I don't understand
23:01Of course I'm real
23:03I don't know who's in there in that coffin
23:05But it's certainly not me
23:07Come on honey
23:11Come on
23:29But it was your body they found in the car
23:31They said so
23:32They found your luggage and the number plates
23:35That's how they knew it was you
23:37That's how they thought it was me
23:38But then what happened?
23:39Half an hour back I couldn't have told you
23:41But now I remember it all, everything
23:43Some guy stopped my car and knocked me out
23:45He must have pinched it and got killed I guess
23:48I lost my memory
23:49Some people took care of me but
23:51Now it's come back and here I am
23:54These people?
23:55They brought you back?
23:56No, nobody knows I'm here
23:57Apart from you and the servants
23:59Where are the servants anyway?
24:01Oh I sent them away
24:02I meant to close up the house
24:04That's why the furniture's like this
24:06I just couldn't stand being here without you
24:13Oh Mark, this room is horrible
24:16We've had it there
24:17Let's go somewhere else
24:19Sure, let's
24:31Oh, you're awake
24:33You're an early bird, aren't you?
24:35Well, when you haven't any servants
24:36Somebody has to make the tea
24:37Well, this is wonderful
24:38Where's yours?
24:39Oh, I had mine an hour ago
24:41Since then I've made five phone calls
24:42No, six
24:43Six? What in heaven's name, two?
24:45Well, I called the police
24:46And I told them what had happened
24:47They said they'd call up Yorkshire
24:48And explain that the identification was wrong
24:50Well, then I called the hotel
24:51To say that you wouldn't be back
24:52Good, how did they take it?
24:53They weren't worried
24:54I didn't think you'd pay in advance
24:55Yeah, that's right
24:56On account of I didn't have any baggage
24:57Who else did you call?
24:58Oh, I called the vicar
25:00To say that he wouldn't be burying you today
25:02And also the undertaker
25:03To come and take a look at you, you know
25:04Yeah, the house will be a little more chill
25:06Without that
25:07Yes, well, then I called Paul
25:08Of course, he wanted to come right round and see you
25:10I persuaded him not to
25:11He could wake up tonight
25:12But why?
25:13I'd like to see Paul again
25:14Yes, but I talked to the doctor
25:15And he said that after a shock like this
25:16That you're to sleep
25:17Take down my pills
25:18And he'd come round this afternoon and see you
25:20Honey, I've just had ten solid hours of sleep
25:22I don't want any more
25:23I know, darling
25:24But under the circumstances
25:25I think he'll want you
25:26So please, Mark, for my sake, will you?
25:28Well, well
25:31I ought to ride to the camps
25:33You know, people who took care of me in Yorkshire
25:35Well, you don't have to do that today
25:37I'll be wondering what's happened to me
25:39And besides, I owe them money
25:40Well, do they know you're here?
25:42They know I came to Epping
25:43Oh, well, I sent them a telegram
25:45And the letter follows
25:46What's the address?
25:47Camp Training Establishment, Gorhamford
25:49Any Christian name?
25:50Yes, she...
25:53No, just put Camp
25:55Oh, so there was a girl
25:57Well, I'm not surprised
25:58You're quite an attractive man, you know
25:59So I hope she didn't take you too seriously
26:01I don't suppose she would in a week
26:03Now, darling, I have an awful lot to do
26:05So please be a good boy and take the pills
26:07I'll leave you in peace till the doctor comes
26:28Hello
26:29I'd like to send a telegram, please
26:32Telegram?
26:33Yes, this is 2244
26:35Telegram to Camp
26:37K-E-M-P
26:39Yes
26:40Training Establishment
26:42Gorhamford
26:44Yorkshire
26:45Yes
26:46Yes, the message reads...
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28:00As we have pleased almighty God
28:03Of his great mercy to take unto himself
28:05The soul of our dear brother Mark
28:07Our dear departed
28:09We therefore commit his body to the ground
28:12Earth to earth
28:14Ashes to ashes
28:16Dust to dust
28:19Oh, Camp
28:22You have the very deep sympathy of us all
28:24Mr. Sherman, our great fellow
28:26May you have strength and power
28:28Yes, madam
28:33Oh, madam, what a beautiful sight
28:35How the master would have liked it
28:37If only he could have been here to see it
28:39Very nice of you to come along
28:40None of us started dreaming of staying away
28:43We were all very devoted to the master, madam
28:46If only he could have been here himself to see it
28:49But who knows?
28:51Perhaps he did see it from wherever he is
28:53Thank you
28:58Take me back to the hotel
28:59I want to tell you something
29:29It must have been a horrible shock to you
29:31When I came back alive
29:33And yet, you carried it off beautifully
29:40I wonder what you and Paul are cooking up for the night
29:48I want the map, Chris
29:50And the map
29:51And the map
29:52And the map
29:53And the map
29:54And the map
29:55And the map
29:56And the map
29:57Come on, Chris
29:58You're not really upset about Mark, are you?
30:01I'm more upset about Mark than I've ever been
30:04Paul
30:06He's not dead
30:08What?
30:09That was some tramp we buried today
30:11Mark arrived home last night
30:13But why on earth did you...
30:14Just give me a chance, I'll explain
30:16But this is fantastic
30:18Where is he now?
30:19He's in bed
30:20I made up a story about the doctor wanting him to sleep
30:22And then I gave him two strong sleeping pills
30:24What else could I do?
30:26Why on earth did you go through with the funeral?
30:28What is this?
30:29If everyone knows he's alive...
30:30Listen, Paul
30:31Only two people on earth know he's alive
30:34You and I
30:35Well, that can't be true
30:36Paul
30:37Mark had an accident
30:38He lost his memory
30:40Some people in Yorkshire looked after him
30:42They know nothing about him
30:43Except that he came here to regain his memory
30:45He stayed here at a hotel
30:47They think his name is Smith
30:48Yes, but when the people in Yorkshire find out...
30:49No, no, I fixed it
30:51I sent them a telegram
30:52I said his name was McCarthy
30:53And he'd gone back to Ireland
30:55This is nonsense
30:56If they don't know now, they damn soon will
30:58And besides, what about Mark himself?
31:00What's he going to say about it?
31:01How soon will all this happen, Paul?
31:03From finding out, I mean
31:05Well, tonight probably
31:06Tomorrow certainly
31:07As soon as he sticks his nose outside the house
31:10But supposing he never leaves the house, Paul?
31:13Supposing he never leaves the house again, alive?
31:26It's murder
31:28Is it murder?
31:29To kill someone who's already dead and buried?
31:32Of course it is
31:34But it's a murder that we're pretty sure of getting away with
31:37I must say, I don't particularly like the idea of murdering my best friend
31:41No?
31:42But you do know that I'm a murderer
31:44Yes, I do
31:45I mean, I'm not a murderer
31:47I'm a murderer
31:48I'm a murderer
31:49I'm a murderer
31:50I'm a murderer
31:51I'm a murderer
31:52I'm a murderer
31:53I'm a murderer
31:54But you don't mind having an affair with his wife?
31:57That's different
31:59Okay, couldn't we get Mark to give you a divorce?
32:03What do we use for money?
32:05Wouldn't he give you some alimony?
32:07As a reward for double-crossing him?
32:09I doubt it
32:10Look, Paul, let's be logical
32:12If you and I had thought we could be happy on your money, it would have gone away months ago
32:16We didn't
32:17We waited for something to happen
32:19And last week we thought it had
32:22Yesterday, I was a wealthy widow
32:24Today, I'm not
32:26There's no reason why I shouldn't be tonight
32:30Oh, darling, don't you see it only means one unpleasant evening
32:34Then we can have the rest of our lives together
32:36Can't you see, it's just that difference between misery and happiness
32:40I feel sorry for Mark, but what kind of a future do you think he'd have?
32:44Tied for the rest of his life to a woman who's in love with somebody else
32:49You are still in love with me, Paul, aren't you?
32:56What do you think?
33:05Darling
33:08I think you'd better take me home
33:10I'll explain on the way
33:18Good night
33:41Christine, supposing somebody has some
33:43Don't be a fool. We're the only people who know he's alive
33:49Yeah, miss
33:50I don't know him from Adam
33:51I'm not quite sure. He's never left overnight
33:54We only had three stay here last night, miss
33:56That was, uh, Mr. Mullins of stables
33:58Mr. Thompson of carvers
33:59And Mr. Harvey of imperial chemicals
34:01You see, we get mostly commercial, gentlemen, yeah, miss?
34:04Why don't you try the Clifford or the Queens?
34:06Thank you, I will
34:08You see, I think you'd better take me home
34:11I'm sorry, dear
34:12I don't know him from Adam
34:13I'm not quite sure
34:14You see, we get mostly commercial, gentlemen, yeah, miss?
34:17Why don't you try the Clifford or the Queens?
34:19Thank you, I will
35:37Mark, Danny, come on, let's go to bed.
36:07Good heavens, have I slept all day?
36:09Mm, the pills did you good.
36:11Yeah, they did, didn't they?
36:13No sign of the doctor, I guess.
36:15No, that's what I came to tell you, he won't be along today, tomorrow.
36:17Well, he doesn't expect me to stay in bed until then, does he?
36:19No, of course not, you can get up, providing you take it easy.
36:21Good, one of the things I can take easy is a drink.
36:24Well, you can have one when you come downstairs, help me get ready for the party.
36:26Party?
36:27I told you Paul was coming along tonight to celebrate your return to life.
36:30Yeah, of course.
36:31So will you hurry up, Danny, come downstairs, help me open some tins?
36:33Right, give me ten minutes.
36:36All right.
36:45Hello there.
36:46Sorry I've been so long.
36:48I thought I'd better have a shave while I was about it.
36:50Oh, that's all right, I'm managing fine by myself.
36:52Oh, would you like to bring some champagne up?
36:54Sure.
37:36I see Forresters have delivered that quick lane.
38:04Oh, yes, it arrived last week.
38:06Useful stuff, quick lane.
38:08So many things you can do with it.
38:10Everything from bagging birds to burying bodies.
38:15Will that be enough?
38:17What did you say?
38:18I said, will that be enough champagne or shall I bring up another bottle?
38:21Oh, yes, another bottle.
38:22Right.
38:34You nearly ready, Christine?
38:40Five minutes.
38:41Okay.
38:42I'll go down in case Paul's early.
38:47Paul went out for me, too.
38:49Sure, I'll do that.
39:04Give it to me, please.
39:12Hello?
39:13Exchange.
39:30Paul.
39:31Come in.
39:35Oh, this is wonderful, Mark.
39:40I didn't expect to see you again.
39:41You ought to know, I always walk away from crashes.
39:44I guess that old saying is right, you know.
39:47Some guys are born to be hanged.
39:51Put your hat down there.
39:52Christine will be down in a minute.
39:54She tells me you had rather a bad time with it.
39:57Yeah, I met up with one of your strong arm men, Bob.
40:04Hello, Paul.
40:06Why aren't we drinking?
40:09Christine tells me you were a great help when the bad news came through, Paul.
40:12Well, I did what I could.
40:14I'm glad I happened to be in England at the time.
40:16When are you going out east again?
40:17Oh, I'm out.
40:18They've suspended that service.
40:19I'll probably go on one of the shorter routes near home.
40:21Good.
40:22We may be seeing quite a lot of you, huh?
40:23I certainly hope so.
40:26India gets you down after a bit.
40:28I'll bet it does.
40:30It's certainly no place to take a woman.
40:33What?
40:34I said it's certainly no place to take a woman.
40:38I don't quite get what you mean.
40:40You know, it's funny somehow to think of you two falling in love.
40:43What are you talking about, Mark?
40:44You and Paul.
40:45What?
40:46What on earth makes you think we're in love?
40:47Again, you and Paul.
40:49Oh, you hide it much better than he does, but it's still pretty obvious just the same.
40:53How long did you plan on being in mourning for me before you got married again, honey?
40:56Mark, you're crazy and very insulting.
40:58Insulting maybe, but crazy never.
41:00Hurry up, Paul.
41:01Drink up and have another drink.
41:03No, thank you.
41:05Christine?
41:06No, thank you.
41:07No, neither will I.
41:10Come on, let's open up the real stuff.
41:14You know, Paul, I think I saved you from something through turning up again.
41:18Christine's not really your type.
41:20I've known you both long enough to be pretty sure about that.
41:23Of course, having an affair with her might be fun,
41:26but once she got you firmly fixed in wedlock, she'd give you a hell of a life.
41:30How much longer are you going on talking like this, Mark?
41:32I find it very obnoxious.
41:34It must be extremely embarrassing for Paul.
41:36Yeah, I guess it may be at that.
41:38I'm sorry, Paul.
41:40It's just that...
41:41Well, you know, the etiquette books don't teach you how to behave
41:44when you're having a drink with your wife and her lover.
41:46Look, if you want another sound, enjoy your...
41:48Why don't you put some music on, will you, and relieve the tension?
41:54I could scarcely believe my ears when she said we had to go.
41:57And only a month's wages, too, after eight years.
41:59Eight years I've been with the van.
42:01Yes, it's terrible for you,
42:02but I'm afraid there's no vacancy for a housekeeper here now.
42:05You see, I'm very experienced in hotel work.
42:07Why, before I went to Tor House, you know, I...
42:09Excuse me just a minute.
42:11Good evening.
42:12Good evening.
42:13I wondered if he might be here.
42:14Yes, ma'am.
42:17Hey, that's Mr. Smith to the left.
42:19Then he is here.
42:20No, not now, but he looked in last night,
42:22and then he went out after dinner and he didn't come back.
42:24A lady phoned up this morning to say he was staying with friends.
42:27Did she say who she was?
42:29No, she didn't.
42:30I see.
42:31You've no idea where he was going to when he left here, have you?
42:33Yes, I have.
42:34He was going to Tor House.
42:35Is that near here?
42:36I mean, can I get there easily?
42:37Oh, very easily.
42:38You take the number eight bus outside here going that way,
42:40and it'll put you right down at the gates.
42:41Thank you very much.
42:44Begging your pardon, madam, if I may make a suggestion,
42:46I don't think you should go to Tor House tonight.
42:48Oh, why not?
42:49The master's just died, and they buried him today.
42:52I see.
42:53Then, of course, I won't intrude.
42:54Thank you very much for telling me.
42:55Thank you, madam.
42:56Why, that is the poor gentleman himself.
42:59Poor Mr. Sherwin's was buried today.
43:01But that's impossible.
43:02Oh, pardon me, madam, but I was at the funeral.
43:04Beautiful service it was.
43:06I mean, it's impossible that that should be Mr.
43:08What did you say his name was, Sherwin?
43:09Mr. Mark Sherwin, and it is him.
43:11I should know, madam, I was his housekeeper for eight years.
43:14Eight years?
43:15But how did Mr. Sherwin die?
43:17Killed in a car accident in Yorkshire a week ago, madam.
43:21I see.
43:23Thank you very much.
43:25Feeling less embarrassed, Paul?
43:27Well...
43:28Good.
43:29Then let's talk business.
43:30How much do you want?
43:32I don't understand you.
43:33You want to marry Christine, and she wants to marry you.
43:36But if I know Christine, she's not going to let me divorce her
43:38unless I make a pretty satisfactory financial settlement first.
43:42I'm asking you, how much do you want?
43:44Are you offering me my freedom, plus a second?
43:47I am.
43:48Why?
43:49Because all things considered, I'd rather live than die.
43:51Just what does that mean?
43:52It means that I know Paul came here tonight to kill me.
43:55Frankly, I'd rather he didn't.
43:57That's ridiculous.
43:58Yeah?
43:59Why did the pair of you go through with that funeral?
44:02Oh, so you know about that.
44:03Sure.
44:04I was there.
44:05I thought you gave a very moving performance, Christine.
44:08And even though you think we intended to murder you,
44:11you're still willing to give me money?
44:12I am.
44:13I don't believe you.
44:14Why should you?
44:15I'll be perfectly honest with you, honey.
44:17It's because you outsmarted me.
44:20Oh, this isn't the way I plan things at all.
44:23When I discovered that you'd pinched my gun and cut the telephone wires,
44:26I realized I was in a spot.
44:28So I'm prepared to do a deal.
44:31You get your freedom and 5,000 pounds.
44:33I keep my life.
44:34How's about it, sweetheart?
44:35Do you think that's a very generous offer?
44:37If you stay dead, I get much more than 5,000.
44:40That's true.
44:41But you also run the risk of having that pretty neck of yours stretched.
44:43Oh, I know.
44:44I realized that you were lying on the quick line.
44:47But murder has a funny way of coming out.
44:50Maybe you're not scared.
44:52But I'll bet Paul doesn't want to take that 8 o'clock walk in the morning.
44:56It isn't a pleasant death, Paul.
44:58Hanging.
45:01Well?
45:02Is it a deal?
45:09Christine?
45:11Do you swear you'll abide by that?
45:13I do.
45:14It's a deal.
45:15Good.
45:17I think we'll have a drink on that.
45:19I need one.
45:20I'd like a brandy, Mark.
45:22I'll have to go get some.
45:24I'll be right back.
45:34Thank heaven for that.
45:35Quick, go after him.
45:37Why?
45:38Oh, you fool, you don't believe that?
45:39The first thing he'll do is go to the police.
45:41What for?
45:42Are you mad?
45:43We faked a funeral.
45:44We planned a murder.
45:45We're for it.
45:46We've got to go through with it.
45:47Now?
45:48If you haven't got the guts, I have.
45:51All right.
46:19All right.
46:39Good evening.
47:01I'd like to see Mr. Mark Sherwin, please.
47:03He said he was buried today.
47:05I don't think so.
47:06In any case, this isn't his house.
47:07Oh, isn't it?
47:08No, I...
47:09Don't you think we'd be having a party if we had Beth in the house?
47:11It's about half a mile up the road.
47:13Tall house.
47:14You can't miss it.
47:15All right, thank you very much.
47:18That was a shot.
47:19No, it wasn't.
47:20He is here.
47:21I know he is.
47:22And you're Christine.
47:23Sheila.
47:24Why did you kill Paul?
47:25It was either him or me.
47:26It turned out to be him.
47:27Get out.
47:28I want to talk to Miss Kennedy.
47:29I certainly will not.
47:30If you know what's good for you, you'll do what I say.
47:33Mom, what's been happening?
47:34Honey, I can't explain right now, but I want you to do something for me.
47:37Of course.
47:38Will you go down to the main road?
47:39Turn left until you come to the telephone box.
47:41It's about 50 yards down.
47:42Call the police.
47:43Tell them there's been some shooting here and I want them up here.
47:45Fast.
47:46I mean fast.
47:47Wait!
47:48Where are you staying?
47:49The Clifford Hotel.
47:50Good.
47:51I'll call you up later.
47:52Will you wait up for me?
47:53I will.
47:54Swaddle.
48:08Shut up and listen to me.
48:09We've got some straight talking to do.
48:10If there's any talking to do, you'll have to do it.
48:12Because you killed Paul and I swear I saw you kill him.
48:15That wouldn't do you any good.
48:17I killed Paul in self-defense.
48:18It was his gun and it has his fingerprints on it as well as mine.
48:22It's you that's in the spot, not me.
48:24I don't think so.
48:25Then how are you going to laugh off that funeral?
48:27Just for that you could get seven years.
48:29Seven years, Christine.
48:30That's a long time.
48:31You're going to be quite an old woman by the time you come out.
48:34A long years with no pretty dresses, no nylons, no perfume and no bath salts.
48:39Just coarse barn sackcloth and hard work.
48:41I'm not going anywhere.
48:45You don't know much about firearms, do you, honey?
48:47Enough.
48:48The safety catch is still on.
48:56Who's that?
48:57Police, I guess.
48:58Sheila was going to call them.
49:00Mark, you can't mean it.
49:02Mark, you're not serious.
49:03It wasn't my fault.
49:04It was Paul.
49:05I didn't know what was happening.
49:06Mark, listen to me.
49:07I'm your wife.
49:08You can't leave him, Mark.
49:28Good evening, Sergeant.
49:29You're just too late.
49:31Thank God.
49:33Come on in.
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