Charlie Chan's The Scarlet Clue is a 1945 American mystery film directed by Phil Rosen. The story follows Charlie Chan as he investigates the theft of government radar secrets. The trail leads him to a radio station located in the same building as a radar research facility. With the help of his son Tommy and his comedic sidekick Birmingham Brown, Chan uncovers a web of espionage, murder, and betrayal. The film features clever twists, humorous moments, and a suspenseful plot, making it a classic entry in the Charlie Chan series.
Credits:
Director: Phil Rosen
Producer: James S. Burkett
Starring: Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Benson Fong, Virginia Brissac
Screenplay: George Callahan
Cinematography: William A. Sickner
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Credits:
Director: Phil Rosen
Producer: James S. Burkett
Starring: Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Benson Fong, Virginia Brissac
Screenplay: George Callahan
Cinematography: William A. Sickner
#CharlieChansTheScarletClue1945 #SidneyToler #ClassicHollywood #MysteryFilm
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00:02:59You stay here.
00:03:01I'm going to telephone.
00:03:02Right.
00:03:32I'm very happy to meet old friend.
00:03:35You work fast as usual.
00:03:36I'm in town only an hour.
00:03:38And yet already you have telephoned me.
00:03:40Boy, the minute I got your telegram, I started watching all trains.
00:03:43You contact mysterious Mr. Roush?
00:03:46Sure.
00:03:47Picked him up the minute he got off the train.
00:03:49And Hodge, that's one of my men over there.
00:03:50He and I have trailed him for seven hours.
00:03:54Roush know you follow him?
00:03:56He couldn't help it.
00:03:57I figured you were about to make an important arrest, so we've kept close to him.
00:04:00He's on that tug over there now.
00:04:02I did not want to arrest him yet.
00:04:07I did not want to arrest him yet.
00:04:08You, you didn't.
00:04:11Roush's agent, in pay of someone trying to steal radar secrets from our government.
00:04:17Merely wanted you to locate him so I could observe him myself.
00:04:21Oh, so you could trail him to the head of the gang who's trying to steal the radar, eh?
00:04:27Oh, gee, I'm, I'm awful sorry, Charlie.
00:04:31Oh, no matter, no matter.
00:04:34Perhaps we arrest him anyhow.
00:04:37Then we put him someplace where you not be sorry anymore.
00:04:41Oh, thanks.
00:04:49Roush, use this car.
00:04:51Oh, no.
00:04:52No, that was parked when we got here.
00:04:58He's still on the boat.
00:05:00All right, let's go.
00:05:21Oh, there's no one in there.
00:05:38Blood on the floor.
00:05:52It's Roush.
00:06:16He's dead. Stabbed within the last 20 minutes.
00:06:22Here, Prince. Someone stepped in blood. Leave, Prince.
00:06:29I'm afraid, Captain. Murderer arrive and depart in car on dock, which just leave.
00:06:37And I didn't even look at the light.
00:06:41I'm afraid, Captain.
00:06:44Murderer arrive and depart in car on dock, which just leave.
00:06:49And I didn't even look at the license plate.
00:06:53I look.
00:06:58Get me the coroner.
00:07:01Hello, Doc. This is Flynn talking.
00:07:04We just brought in the homicide. Get me a quick report, will you?
00:07:07Thanks. Sit down, Charlie.
00:07:09Come on. Give me the radio room.
00:07:13This is Flynn talking.
00:07:16Check on a stolen car number...
00:07:18Huh?
00:07:199B2X54.
00:07:209B2X54.
00:07:21Yeah?
00:07:25Huh.
00:07:26That car's been reported stolen by Miss Diane Hall.
00:07:31A radio actress of the Cosmo Radio Center.
00:07:34Cosmo Radio Center.
00:07:36They broadcast by television.
00:07:38Yeah, their offices are on the 10th floor.
00:07:4110th floor.
00:07:43Same floor as Hamilton Research Laboratory.
00:07:45Yeah.
00:07:46And say, doesn't that fellow Hamilton experiment in radar?
00:07:50Radar.
00:07:51Radio.
00:07:53Believe we'll soon meet Miss Diane Hall.
00:07:57Tonight.
00:07:58If he ain't a black market man, my name ain't Birmingham.
00:08:00And I can prove it is.
00:08:02He's right.
00:08:03That man's business is as dark as a...
00:08:04It ain't exactly that dark.
00:08:06Can you identify him from a picture?
00:08:07Yes, sir.
00:08:08As mad as I am with that man, I hate to think of what I think of him.
00:08:11It makes me blush.
00:08:13Here.
00:08:15Look through this.
00:08:16If it's in here, I'll sure find it.
00:08:18And I hope it's in there, too.
00:08:20Now, let me see.
00:08:21No.
00:08:22No.
00:08:23That's a funny little character, ain't it?
00:08:26No.
00:08:27No.
00:08:28Uncle Nicodemus.
00:08:30I wonder what he's doing.
00:08:32Look at that zoo suit he got on.
00:08:33That's killing him, ain't it?
00:08:34Yes.
00:08:35Big house sure makes some funny suits.
00:08:37There he is.
00:08:38Mm-hmm.
00:08:39Now.
00:08:40Let's see.
00:08:41Right along here.
00:08:42Here.
00:08:43There.
00:08:44Mm-hmm.
00:08:45Let's see.
00:08:46Now, no.
00:08:47That ain't him.
00:08:48It's right over here.
00:08:49Why did you turn that page over so quick?
00:08:50Oh, that page?
00:08:51Oh, that's a desperate character.
00:08:52You don't want to see that.
00:08:53Come on.
00:08:54We want to look over here.
00:08:55Now, right here.
00:08:56He's right over here.
00:08:57Oh, I want to look at it.
00:08:58All right.
00:08:59Uh-oh.
00:09:00Uh-oh.
00:09:03Well, what do you know about that?
00:09:05What do you know about that?
00:09:06Well, you see, it's a little, uh...
00:09:08I mean, it's a little error.
00:09:10You see, I had that suit made for a masquerade.
00:09:13I went to a ball, you know, and I win the contest.
00:09:15And you should have seen me dance.
00:09:17I jumped up.
00:09:18Here's the step I did.
00:09:19You expect us to believe that?
00:09:24Well, uh, it could be.
00:09:26Are you two trying to kid us?
00:09:28I'm gonna run you both in.
00:09:29No, wait a minute.
00:09:30You can't do that to us.
00:09:31I came here looking for Pop.
00:09:32You don't know who he is!
00:09:33Hey, hey, hey.
00:09:34Wait a minute.
00:09:35What's going on here?
00:09:36Who are these two?
00:09:37He says he's Charlie Chan's son.
00:09:38Well, I'm so sorry.
00:09:40I must apologize, Captain.
00:09:41What he say is true.
00:09:43This is number three son, Tommy.
00:09:45And this one is Second Assistant.
00:09:48assistant, Birmingham Brown, both at times often feeble-minded.
00:09:53All right, boys.
00:09:56Now, you two are supposed to take baggage to a hotel.
00:09:59We did, Pops, then we came looking for you.
00:10:01You know we have to look after you.
00:10:03You look after me until I'm out of sight.
00:10:05Oh, Pops, you know we're a big help to you.
00:10:08Your worries are our worries.
00:10:09In fact, no trouble is too big for us.
00:10:11Some of your trouble too big for me.
00:10:14Come, we must investigate slight case of murder.
00:10:17Murder? Well, here I come.
00:10:20Here I go.
00:10:25Uh-oh. The end of the line.
00:10:27Now, she can't do that to me.
00:10:29I paid her my alimony this morning. She can't do that to me.
00:10:32Mr. Chan! Mr. Chan, come get me out, please.
00:10:35I done changed my mind. Mr. Chan!
00:10:47Mr. Brett, the manager is coming right out, Mr. Chan.
00:10:56I'm Mr. Brett, Mr. Chan.
00:10:58So happy to meet you.
00:10:59I'm sorry to keep you waiting, but we've just finished the broadcast.
00:11:02Now, why do you wish to see Miss Hall?
00:11:05Is she in trouble?
00:11:06I wish to speak to Miss Hall regarding her automobile.
00:11:10Oh. Oh, well, right this way, sir.
00:11:17I mop and mop and mop, so why you walk on the floor till my nerves go yingle yangle?
00:11:22Well, we haven't learned to walk on the ceiling yet.
00:11:24I speak serious stuff, and you speak York's.
00:11:27Who are you? What do you want here?
00:11:29I'm Tommy Chan. This is Birmingham Brown.
00:11:31We're assistant to Charlie Chan, the world-famous detective.
00:11:33Hold her. Miss Swenson.
00:11:35Oh, you're benemony. Sorry, Mr. Brett.
00:11:38Right this way, Mrs. Chan.
00:11:42They told me to advertise on the air.
00:11:45Well, any program that smells like the one you people just put on needs the air.
00:11:49And you think I'm going to continue paying you?
00:11:51Well, this is radio.
00:11:56I try to put on a program, and the manager himself lets in tourists to gape at us like goldfish.
00:12:02Mrs. Marsh.
00:12:03Herbert.
00:12:04Herbert Sinclair.
00:12:06You were supposed to definitely inform the management that I wanted no sightseers in the studio
00:12:11while my actors were either rehearsing or broadcasting.
00:12:13Quiet!
00:12:14Never mind making excuses.
00:12:16Mrs. Marsh, these people are not tourists.
00:12:19This gentleman is here because, well, it's something I'm sure won't happen again.
00:12:24You've said that before. And so have you. Don't talk back to me.
00:12:29Well, what do you want?
00:12:31Really wish private conversation with Miss Diane Hall.
00:12:35You wish to see me?
00:12:37You are Miss Hall?
00:12:38Yes.
00:12:39Permit me to introduce myself.
00:12:41Permit me to depart. Breaking into conferences that I'm paying for.
00:12:46Come, Herbert.
00:12:51I am Charlie Chan, representative of federal government.
00:12:55Federal government?
00:12:56The law?
00:12:57Oh, well, when the law arrives, Willie ran depart.
00:12:59To Lulu.
00:13:08Miss Hall, tonight you report car stolen.
00:13:11Oh, that. But it wasn't stolen. It was merely borrowed.
00:13:15By whom, please?
00:13:16Well, I... I don't know.
00:13:19You see, Gloria and I...
00:13:21Oh, excuse me. This is Gloria Bain, Mr. Chan.
00:13:24After rehearsal tonight, Gloria and I went out to the parking lot.
00:13:28And Diane's car was gone.
00:13:29So I, uh, telephoned police.
00:13:31Then we went to a restaurant.
00:13:33Ate, talked with some friends, and came back up here.
00:13:36And there was Diane's car right back in the parking lot.
00:13:38Your car missing about 8.30 tonight?
00:13:41That's right.
00:13:42But how did you know?
00:13:43And why should the federal government be interested in a stolen car that wasn't completely stolen?
00:13:48That is all.
00:13:49And most fortunate to have met such charming radio ladies.
00:13:53Hope to meet you again.
00:13:55Very soon, perhaps.
00:13:57Oh, I beg your pardon.
00:14:11Sir, to meet a gentleman who apologizes for bumping you in these days is a rare thing indeed.
00:14:18He is either a coward or a gentleman.
00:14:21I give you credit for the lack.
00:14:23Uh, Mr. Chan.
00:14:25This is Mr. Horace Carlos, the Shakespearean actor.
00:14:28Now of motion pictures and radio.
00:14:30And television, Mr. Brett.
00:14:32Of course.
00:14:33Yes, once the foremost Shakespearean actor of my time, but now, char.
00:14:39Now I am known only for the mask behind which I hide when I play the mad monster.
00:14:46On radio, screen, and television.
00:14:50Still, it is a living.
00:14:53And so, good night to you.
00:14:55One and all.
00:15:02Carlos acts on and off the stage.
00:15:05Did you learn everything that you came to see this all about?
00:15:08Yes, thanks for our kind assistance.
00:15:10Well, good.
00:15:11Now, if you will, excuse me.
00:15:13Certainly.
00:15:14Pop, I don't get it.
00:15:16We came all the way from New York City following a man named Roush.
00:15:20Roush was murdered.
00:15:21Who killed him?
00:15:22Same person who leave that heel print on floor.
00:15:26Right shoe.
00:15:28Print is duplicate of one found in cabinet scene of Roush murder.
00:15:34Killer, someone who walked here recently.
00:15:40Perhaps someone we all see.
00:15:43Most interesting place.
00:15:47We'll visit here tomorrow.
00:16:04Manager, please.
00:16:18Where's Carl?
00:16:19This is Brett.
00:16:20Roush was contacted.
00:16:22He was scared.
00:16:23Said the police were after him.
00:16:25He was ready to blab because Charlie Chan was after him too.
00:16:29But he can't talk now.
00:16:31He's dead.
00:16:33I borrowed Diana's car last night to go meet Roush.
00:17:03On the wall, change your sindves.
00:17:06Just come on in a place.
00:17:08ances by lighting.
00:17:10Win technical.
00:17:11MinοΏ½.'
00:17:13Information?
00:17:17I want the address of the telephone number, Harding 2535.
00:17:21Yes, I know, but this isn't for sharks.
00:17:24Warning is perfect.
00:17:25igger, that is out for you.
00:17:27That is for sure.
00:17:28Mr. Nobodyished John, I would go ahead and get him.
00:17:30Yes, I know. But this is Inspector Grady. Freezing station, 27th.
00:17:41Where? Office 211.
00:17:45Algon Building? Thank you.
00:18:00Next on list, please.
00:18:05Uh, that's Gloria Bain, radio actress, small time,
00:18:08until she made a hit on Mrs. Marsh's program.
00:18:11Seems to be a gold digger, but she's a hard worker. No records.
00:18:15Diane Hall, radio actress from legitimate states in New York,
00:18:18came here two months ago. Nothing definite on her,
00:18:21except that she lives with Gloria Bain.
00:18:23Well, thank you so very much, Captain,
00:18:25for your excellent report on my list of suspects.
00:18:29Charlie, you mean to tell me that you really think
00:18:32that one of these people here is a murderer?
00:18:34Not only thinks so, but firmly believes so.
00:18:38But which one?
00:18:40We'll go now to try and find out which one is guilty person.
00:18:45That's easy, Pop. The murderer will be the one with the guilty look.
00:18:48Number three son have excellent head.
00:18:52Question have always been what it contain.
00:18:59Well, if it ain't, uh...
00:19:02Ben Carter is my name.
00:19:03Benjamin Carter, yeah.
00:19:05Boy, it's been a long time. I haven't seen you since...
00:19:07Longer than that.
00:19:08Yeah?
00:19:09The last time I saw you, you was living over...
00:19:11Oh, I moved from there.
00:19:12Yeah?
00:19:13Sure, I moved over to, uh...
00:19:14How can you live in that neighborhood?
00:19:16I don't know.
00:19:17Now, where I'm living, I only pay...
00:19:18It ain't that cheap, is it?
00:19:19Sure it is.
00:19:20Hey, look at you.
00:19:21What?
00:19:22Is you still married?
00:19:23No, I divorced her.
00:19:24Yeah?
00:19:25Sure.
00:19:26I know you have lots of...
00:19:27You got me wrong.
00:19:28You got me wrong.
00:19:29I got married again.
00:19:30No kidding.
00:19:31I sure did.
00:19:32Yeah?
00:19:33Say, not changing the subject.
00:19:34Have you got a...
00:19:35No, I don't smoke.
00:19:36No.
00:19:37Hey, look again.
00:19:38Wasn't you in the...
00:19:39Yeah, but I got an honorable discharge.
00:19:41You did?
00:19:42I sure did.
00:19:43What was the matter?
00:19:44Well, I developed a kind of...
00:19:45Oh, that's a terrible thing.
00:19:46Yeah.
00:19:47Yeah, it starts right along...
00:19:48No, more in the back.
00:19:49Yeah?
00:19:50Mm-hmm.
00:19:51I was taking some...
00:19:52Don't take them, Ben.
00:19:53They'll make you sleep.
00:19:54Yeah?
00:19:55Sure.
00:19:56Now, what you should've taken...
00:19:57I did.
00:19:58You know what?
00:19:59What?
00:20:00That's how come I like to talk to you.
00:20:01Yeah?
00:20:02Cause me and you seem to agree with each other.
00:20:03We sure do know it.
00:20:04Yeah!
00:20:11I wonder...
00:20:12Oh, it's about...
00:20:13Is it that late?
00:20:14It sure is.
00:20:15Well, thank you.
00:20:16I'll be sitting here, huh?
00:20:17Au revoir.
00:20:18Au revoir.
00:20:20Who's your friend?
00:20:21Uh, he didn't say it.
00:20:22Huh?
00:20:23No, he didn't say it!
00:20:29Hey, you know, Pop, I've got an idea about this case.
00:20:32Yes, well?
00:20:33Well, I had an idea, but it's gone now.
00:20:36Possibly could not stay in solitary confinement.
00:20:42Quiet, please.
00:20:43We go now to watch studio rehearsal.
00:20:49No, Walter.
00:20:50You've broken your promise to me.
00:20:52Just when the landlord has broken our leaves,
00:20:54and Grandmama has broken her leg.
00:20:57Oh, Grandmama, what are we to do?
00:21:00Well, tears are all right to wash out your eyes,
00:21:03but they used up too many haggages.
00:21:05So face the future with a smile, my children,
00:21:08for tomorrow is bound to be another day.
00:21:10It is just bound to be.
00:21:16What does the future hold in store for Jean
00:21:19and her so lovable family?
00:21:22Have you tried a Marsha's mellow mixed waffle
00:21:25covered with just oodles and oodles of melted butter and...
00:21:28Shut up!
00:21:29You two.
00:21:30Oodles and oodles of butter.
00:21:32Was butter ration so strictly?
00:21:34Who wrote that in?
00:21:35Well, I thought it sounded nice.
00:21:36You thought?
00:21:38That's a lie.
00:21:39The whole program sounds as stupid as you.
00:21:41I should cancel my contract here
00:21:43and give my account to some other network.
00:21:45Mrs. Marsh, if that's how you feel about it, why don't you...
00:21:47Why don't I...
00:21:48What, Mr. Brett?
00:21:50Let us change the script and the announcement.
00:21:52Then do it instead of talking about it.
00:21:54And you, learn how to talk like a human instead of a gloop,
00:21:57or I'll change announcers too.
00:21:59Also, I...
00:22:03Sorry to interrupt again.
00:22:05Huh.
00:22:06You're sorry.
00:22:07If you want to speak to Miss Hall again,
00:22:08you'll wait till we are finished.
00:22:10So sorry.
00:22:11Must speak to everyone present.
00:22:14All of us?
00:22:15But why?
00:22:16Regarding a murder.
00:22:18Murder?
00:22:19But yesterday, you said you were investigating my stolen car.
00:22:22Person who steal your car commit murder.
00:22:25But who was killed?
00:22:26Hey, Mr. Roush.
00:22:28I never heard of him.
00:22:30Thank goodness.
00:22:31You know what, Tobey?
00:22:33I'd like to get on the radio sometime.
00:22:35If I could get on...
00:22:36Oh, excuse me.
00:22:42Tommy!
00:22:45What's the matter?
00:22:46I got an urge that I want to leave, but my legs won't cooperate with me.
00:22:50You want to leave for where?
00:22:52I just saw something going there.
00:22:54It's a combination between Dracula and a zombie.
00:22:58Just fresh out of a graveyard.
00:22:59A graveyard?
00:23:00Mm-hmm.
00:23:01But an old one.
00:23:02Well, that I got to see.
00:23:03Well, go ahead.
00:23:04I ain't no hope.
00:23:05What is thou wish, laddie?
00:23:07Oh, nothing, sir.
00:23:08Excuse me.
00:23:09A friend of mine was seeing things.
00:23:11Did you see it?
00:23:12Yeah, it's hanging right on the door.
00:23:13It's hanging?
00:23:14It ain't not your left door.
00:23:15One moment.
00:23:16Here we go.
00:23:17Tenth floor.
00:23:18Come.
00:23:19It ain't not your left door.
00:23:20One moment.
00:23:21Here we go.
00:23:22Tenth floor.
00:23:23Come.
00:23:49Tenth floor.
00:23:50Tenth floor.
00:23:51Tenth floor.
00:23:52Tenth floor.
00:23:53Tenth floor.
00:23:54Tenth floor.
00:23:55Charlie Chan.
00:23:56It's good to see you again.
00:23:58I'm most happy to see you, Mr. Hamilton.
00:24:00This is number three son, Tommy.
00:24:02How are you?
00:24:03And Birmingham Brown.
00:24:04These boys are second team assistants.
00:24:07You, uh, receive my telegram and follow instructions?
00:24:11Immediately.
00:24:12All of my radar equipment has been taken away by the government.
00:24:15What about record of experiments?
00:24:17And copies of secret patents.
00:24:20The government has the originals.
00:24:21I have my own copies in the safe.
00:24:24Contents of safe only secure so long as someone outside watching safe.
00:24:30You know, since receiving your wire, I've found evidence of several attempts to break in here.
00:24:35Do you think I ought to hire special guards?
00:24:37No.
00:24:38Now that I am present, contents of safe becomes trapped.
00:24:42And papers inside are only bait with which to catch enemy rat.
00:24:48Sure a lot of gadgets in here.
00:24:50Yes.
00:24:51Useful gadgets too.
00:24:52Right here we began the work that today allows our night fighters to hunt down and destroy enemy airplanes without even seeing them.
00:24:59Gosh.
00:25:00That sounds spooky.
00:25:02Nearly radar.
00:25:03Radar?
00:25:04Radar?
00:25:05Radar?
00:25:06What is radar?
00:25:07Well, radar is, um, well, it's sort of, um, uh, Birmingham, don't you know anything?
00:25:15I know as much about radar as you do.
00:25:18Well, do I know anything.
00:25:20Now, he ought to know I studied radar.
00:25:22What is that?
00:25:23A temperature or a climatic tunnel.
00:25:26You make weather in tunnel?
00:25:29Yes.
00:25:30That is, the extremes of heat and cold.
00:25:32To test the reliability of radar and television in all sorts of climatic conditions.
00:25:37The tunnel has two compartments, one for heat and one for cold.
00:25:40That light works flashing whenever there's a foreign body in the tunnel, no matter what the weather in there.
00:25:45Now, this is a funny thing, you know.
00:25:47What is this?
00:25:48Help!
00:25:49Mr. Smith.
00:25:50Help!
00:25:51Mr. Smith.
00:25:52Help!
00:25:53There's light in this wagon all the way.
00:25:55Help!
00:25:56Mr. Chance!
00:25:57Good, quick, Mr.
00:25:58Help!
00:25:59Mr. Chance!
00:26:00Help!
00:26:01Help!
00:26:02Mr. Chance!
00:26:03Help!
00:26:04Help!
00:26:05Help!
00:26:11Mr. Chance!
00:26:12Birmingham.
00:26:14When in strange laboratories, do not poke nose into strange machines like this.
00:26:19Also, keep finger out of safe.
00:26:21Good-bye.
00:26:22Good-bye, Charlie.
00:26:23Thank you for coming in.
00:26:24Good-bye.
00:26:25Good-bye, Charlie.
00:26:26Thank you for coming in.
00:26:27Good-bye.
00:26:28Good-bye, Matthew.
00:26:29Hope to see you some more.
00:26:30Good-bye.
00:26:31Good-bye, gentlemen.
00:26:32Come in.
00:26:34May I speak to you for a moment, Mr. Brett?
00:26:36Mr. Brett?
00:26:37Why all the formality, Gloria?
00:26:38I'm here on business.
00:26:39I want better parts and more money.
00:26:41Starting tomorrow.
00:26:42You say that as if you were ordering me to give them to you.
00:26:43I am.
00:26:44Now, look here, young lady.
00:26:45Instead of getting more parts, you're liable to lose those you already have.
00:26:46I wouldn't be so hasty, Mr. Brett.
00:26:47You'd better let me finish it.
00:26:48Please, Gloria.
00:26:49I'm busy.
00:26:50I'm busy.
00:26:51I'm busy.
00:26:52You're busy.
00:26:53I don't know.
00:26:54I'm busy.
00:26:55I'm busy.
00:26:56Remember these.
00:26:57Remember these, Lord?
00:26:58I'm busy.
00:26:59Yes, you know.
00:27:00Yes, I'm busy.
00:27:01I'll be busy.
00:27:02I'm busy.
00:27:03I'll be busy.
00:27:04You're busy.
00:27:05I'm busy.
00:27:06I'm busy.
00:27:07I'm busy.
00:27:08You're busy.
00:27:09I'm busy.
00:27:10You're busy.
00:27:11Please, I'm busy.
00:27:12Remember them? What do you mean?
00:27:16That's the last pack of my private matches, Mr. Brett.
00:27:19And I gave them to you yesterday morning in this building.
00:27:22Well, does that entitle you to order me to give you better jobs?
00:27:27Diane's car was stolen last night.
00:27:29I found these later in the seat.
00:27:38Is this blackmail?
00:27:40Oh, that's bad, isn't it?
00:27:43Perhaps I'd just better give these to Mr. Chan and see what he says.
00:27:46Oh, wait.
00:27:48I'll see that you get better jobs.
00:27:51Thank you so much, Mr. Brett.
00:28:08The manager, please.
00:28:09Where's the car here?
00:28:10This is Brett talking.
00:28:14Listen.
00:28:15Gloria Bain, an actress here, knows that I used Diana Hall's car last night.
00:28:19She's blackmailing me.
00:28:20What'll I do?
00:28:21What'll I do?
00:28:35Personally, I think the program needs an entire change of personnel.
00:28:38However, I'll listen from my office, and then I'll decide.
00:28:41What did you say?
00:28:42Then don't say it.
00:28:43Come along.
00:28:48Pop, how can we solve a case just by watching people through a class?
00:28:51What detective needs is great patience.
00:28:54Oh, I know that.
00:28:55When it comes to detective work, I know my Ps and Qs.
00:28:58But are you familiar with rest of alphabet?
00:29:04Oh, Walter, to drink when your wife's in trouble.
00:29:06To say nothing of my broken leg.
00:29:09Drink?
00:29:10It seems as though I've heard that word before.
00:29:13What are we to do?
00:29:15Trouble.
00:29:16Nothing but trouble staring us in the face.
00:29:19We must move by the first of the month, and we've no place to go.
00:29:24Why can't we settle down and be like other people?
00:29:29Now keep your chin up, Mary, and look on the brighter side.
00:29:35Of course, Grandmama, you're always right.
00:29:38Always.
00:29:39I've never had such a sudden headache in my life.
00:29:44I was all set to do some fancy ad-libbing myself.
00:29:47Uh-oh.
00:29:48The battle acts.
00:29:50Well, it wasn't bad.
00:29:52That is, not as bad as usual.
00:29:54You sounded poorly toward the end.
00:29:56Better stop gadding about.
00:29:57Come along.
00:29:58You want to stand here talking all night?
00:30:02Can I get you anything, Gloria?
00:30:04A cigarette might help.
00:30:05Oh.
00:30:09Will you give me a light, Mr. Brett?
00:30:11Why, of course.
00:30:21Oh, that's better.
00:30:32Gloria, what happened?
00:30:34Get young lady to dressing room.
00:30:36Quick, hurry.
00:30:37Bring her in here.
00:30:53I beg your pardon?
00:30:54Yes, please.
00:30:55Why is it that whenever anything happens around here, you're always on hand?
00:31:00That's what they always tellin' me down at the office.
00:31:07Hey, Tommy.
00:31:08I know the cigarette shortage is tough, but that ain't no reason why you should snitch a cigarette butt from that old lady.
00:31:13You know I don't smoke, but what other people try to grab often turn out to be valuable clues.
00:31:18Clue to what?
00:31:19Well, uh, that's what we'll have to find out.
00:31:22You just include me out.
00:31:24Did anybody call her doctor?
00:31:26Doctor no use now.
00:31:28Young lady already dead.
00:31:30Dead?
00:31:32The corner was right, sir.
00:31:35Well, he said Miss Bain was poisoned.
00:31:37Toxic reaction proved she was.
00:31:39But I don't know what type poison was used.
00:31:41I've never run into it before.
00:31:43Say, do you suspect any of the people who were present when she died?
00:31:48Suspect everyone on general principle.
00:31:51But to assistance, already watching person who interests me most.
00:31:56Thank you so much, doctor.
00:31:58Good night.
00:31:59Good night.
00:32:01Good night.
00:32:26Well, what do you want?
00:32:28Why, Cooper.
00:32:31Brought?
00:32:32How are you?
00:32:34Not Brought now.
00:32:36It's Britt.
00:32:37Come on in.
00:32:38Brought, huh?
00:32:39It was Britt when we worked in France together, remember?
00:32:41Seems like we're working together again.
00:32:43Hmm.
00:32:44Thought I recognized your voice on my phone.
00:32:45Asking for the manager, please.
00:32:46Oh, so you're the manager.
00:32:47The head man of the party, huh?
00:32:48The head man of the party, huh?
00:32:49Not me.
00:32:50I just answered the phone.
00:32:51Someone else.
00:32:52Someone unknown.
00:32:53Someone else.
00:32:54Someone unknown to me.
00:32:55listens in.
00:32:56And if the caller is okay, the caller is switched away from this line.
00:32:58I see.
00:32:59I see.
00:33:01What do you care if we don't know who our boss is?
00:33:04We've worked that way before.
00:33:05I've got to know Cooper.
00:33:06I've got to know Cooper.
00:33:07I've got to know Cooper.
00:33:08What do you care if we don't know who our boss is?
00:33:09We've worked that way before.
00:33:10I've got to know Cooper.
00:33:11What do you care if we don't know who our boss is?
00:33:14There's been two murders on this job already.
00:33:15Two murders?
00:33:16Yeah.
00:33:17I see what you mean by him.
00:33:18I see what you mean by him.
00:33:19He trained me and I just answered the phone.
00:33:20Someone else, someone unknown to me.
00:33:21And if the caller is okay, the call is switched away from this line.
00:33:25I see.
00:33:28What do you care if we don't know who our boss is?
00:33:31We've worked that way before.
00:33:33I've got to know Cooper.
00:33:34There's been two murders on this job already.
00:33:37Two murders?
00:33:38Yeah.
00:33:42I see what you mean.
00:33:44We should know the name of our boss to protect ourselves.
00:33:49Listen.
00:33:53Hello? Who's calling?
00:33:55Manager, please.
00:34:02See how it works?
00:34:04Yeah, I see.
00:34:06Well, if you learn anything, let me know.
00:34:10We'll need a lot of information.
00:34:13We have to squeal.
00:34:18What's the matter?
00:34:19Someone's coming. I'm going.
00:34:29You hear nothing which is said inside strange office?
00:34:33Just a mumble and a jumble, Mr. Chan.
00:34:35But outside in the hall, you overhear Mr. Cooper
00:34:38call Mr. Brett Mr. Brought.
00:34:41That's right, Pop.
00:34:42Mean anything to you, Charlie?
00:34:44British intelligence-seeking espionage agent
00:34:47named Ralph Brought.
00:34:49Ralph Brought.
00:34:50Oh, and the radio station manager calls himself Ralph Brought.
00:34:55Nothing in office except table chair and telephone, huh?
00:34:59Yes, sir. It must have been a race book at office,
00:35:01because it was just as clean as I is when I make a bet.
00:35:07Captain, please detail man to check all people coming
00:35:09and going from office 211 Algaard building.
00:35:13Right.
00:35:15Believe we make Mr. Brett surprise visit.
00:35:18Tom.
00:35:19Boy, here we go again. Surprise visit.
00:35:20Don't surprise me.
00:35:22Brett absent downstairs, also here.
00:35:34Do you think he's run away, Pop?
00:35:42Is that the heel print you're looking for?
00:35:44The person who wear this shoe killed Roush.
00:35:49Oh gosh, you mean Brett murdered this fellow Roush?
00:36:08Must locate Mr. Brett at once.
00:36:14Puppy.
00:36:15Oh, ladies.
00:36:16Let's go.
00:36:17Let's go.
00:36:20After big.
00:36:21Let's get the first.
00:36:22Can you please.
00:36:23I'll take a second before.
00:36:24You better go.
00:36:26Please, please.
00:36:27Please.
00:36:28Oh, so, please.
00:36:29It's your feet.
00:36:30Please stay.
00:36:31If I can, please.
00:36:32Please stay.
00:36:34This.
00:36:36It's my feet.
00:36:37You better go.
00:36:38Please.
00:36:39Please stay.
00:36:40Please stay.
00:36:41Please stay.
00:36:42Okay.
00:36:43Manager, please.
00:36:44Where's Carly?
00:36:45Fred.
00:36:46Listen.
00:36:47Charlie Chan knows all about the Roush murder.
00:36:48He's after me.
00:36:49You've got to protect me.
00:36:50What'll I do?
00:36:51What'll I do?
00:36:52What'll I do?
00:36:53I don't know.
00:36:54I don't know.
00:36:55What'll I do?
00:36:56Wait.
00:36:57What'll I do?
00:36:58What'll I do?
00:36:59Listen.
00:37:00Charlie Chan knows all about the Roush murder.
00:37:02He's after me.
00:37:03You've got to protect me.
00:37:04What'll I do?
00:37:05What'll I do?
00:37:06Hmm.
00:37:07Good.
00:37:08Good.
00:37:09Good.
00:37:10Good.
00:37:11Good.
00:37:12Good.
00:37:13Good.
00:37:14Good.
00:37:15Good.
00:37:16Good.
00:37:17Good.
00:37:18Good.
00:37:19Good.
00:37:20Right here in this building.
00:37:50Doormans say Mr. Brett's still here. Has not left building.
00:38:00Mr. Ryan. Yeah.
00:38:02You see Mr. Brett lately?
00:38:05I saw him eavesdropping outside of his own office.
00:38:08As if there were a couple of ex-wives in there waiting to collect alimony.
00:38:12Not funny, huh?
00:38:14When you see this,
00:38:16About 20 minutes ago.
00:38:18Pop, that's when we were in there.
00:38:20Must ask police to guard all doors.
00:38:22Police? Why?
00:38:24Because Brett is a murderer.
00:38:26Brett a murderer? That kills me.
00:38:28Nice people I'm working for.
00:38:30Birmingham, we've got to find Brett.
00:38:32Well, what's the right?
00:38:34Because he's a killer.
00:38:36Yeah, it'll just be my luck to catch up with it.
00:38:38Come on.
00:38:40Say, it's eight hours since Brett has been seen, you know.
00:38:42How are you?
00:38:44He must have a hideout somewhere in this building.
00:38:46You have man posted at every exit?
00:38:48Sure. He can't get by them.
00:38:50Think we'll take a look on various floors.
00:38:52Good.
00:38:54Gotta change the water before I'm cleaning some more.
00:38:58You know, Birmingham,
00:39:00Everywhere we go,
00:39:02You know, Birmingham,
00:39:04Everywhere we go,
00:39:06You know, Birmingham,
00:39:08We bump into that woman.
00:39:10Oh, don't be so suspicious, Tommy.
00:39:11After a while,
00:39:12You'll be telling me I did the murder.
00:39:14Look here.
00:39:16Did you see...
00:39:17Not in the last ten minutes.
00:39:18No.
00:39:19No, but there was a fella here.
00:39:20Him?
00:39:21Yeah.
00:39:22Oh, he ain't the one.
00:39:23No.
00:39:24No, the fella I'm looking for is...
00:39:25I didn't see him.
00:39:26But if you wait until I...
00:39:27I ain't got time.
00:39:28No.
00:39:29But maybe if you could...
00:39:30I'm busy that night.
00:39:31Oh, sure now.
00:39:32Yeah.
00:39:33Say, look again.
00:39:34Do you think that, uh...
00:39:35Ah, no, it's getting late.
00:39:36Yeah.
00:39:37Why don't you go...
00:39:38I ain't got a phone.
00:39:39No.
00:39:40But I could if you were...
00:39:41Well, my car's in the shop.
00:39:42Oh, yes?
00:39:43Well, I'll see you then.
00:39:44I'll be seeing you call me, huh?
00:39:45Okay.
00:39:46Okay, so long.
00:39:47All right, goodbye.
00:39:48Do you know that he...
00:39:49He can't be that bad.
00:39:50Look, the laboratory is in the shop.
00:39:52No.
00:39:53No.
00:39:54No.
00:39:55No.
00:39:56No.
00:39:57No.
00:39:58Look, the laboratory door is open.
00:39:59Yeah.
00:40:00Do you suppose Brett's in here?
00:40:01Well, if he is, let him stay in there.
00:40:03I'm tired of tangling with them gadgets.
00:40:07Well, it ain't no use to being this lonesome.
00:40:10Uh, nobody home.
00:40:12Let's go.
00:40:13Wait.
00:40:14Oh!
00:40:15What's the matter?
00:40:17Look, the safe bin robber.
00:40:19Perhaps the robber is still in here.
00:40:20Robbers and murderers.
00:40:21Why, this is a regular cleaning and dying place.
00:40:24Let's get out of here.
00:40:25Come, come.
00:40:28Could have been a little light around here.
00:40:31Shh.
00:40:32Mm.
00:40:33Uh-oh.
00:40:34I'm surrounded.
00:40:35Come.
00:40:39Say, this looks like a good hiding place.
00:40:41Let's take a look.
00:40:42Let's take a look.
00:40:43And nothing will do him to go in and take a look.
00:40:47Uh, you know what, Tommy?
00:40:49When you're hunting a killer, you're supposed to have a guard on the outside just in case.
00:40:53In case of what?
00:40:54That the killer's in here.
00:40:55Oh, you stay with me.
00:40:56All right.
00:40:57Gosh, it's dark in here.
00:40:58It sure is.
00:40:59Wait.
00:41:00I'll turn on the light.
00:41:01Huuh.
00:41:02Hey, boy.
00:41:03Hey, boy.
00:41:04You stand up the light and I get a la...
00:41:05I'm not going to have a guard.
00:41:06It's not going to have a guard.
00:41:07Let's do it!
00:41:08That's why, Stuart.
00:41:09Hey, boy.
00:41:12Hey.
00:41:13Hey, boy.
00:41:14Woo, hoo, hoo!
00:41:16Hey.
00:41:17Hey, you're fucking.
00:41:18Help me.
00:41:19Hold me.
00:41:20Help me.
00:41:21Help me.
00:41:22Help me.
00:41:23Hold me.
00:41:24Hey.
00:41:25How you doing?
00:41:26Hey, boy.
00:41:27Hey!
00:41:29Hey, who turned off the heat?
00:41:31Who turned on this coal?
00:41:33Ain't this something?
00:41:35Oh.
00:41:37Hey!
00:41:39I sure wish I had some snow juice.
00:41:41I wish I had a lot of underwear.
00:41:43Boy, Eskimos is crazy!
00:41:45Hey!
00:41:47Hey!
00:41:49I sure wish I had some snow juice.
00:41:51I wish I had a lot of underwear.
00:41:53Boy, Eskimos is crazy!
00:41:55Boy, Eskimos is crazy to live in this kind of stuff.
00:42:03Hey, it looks like the place has been robbed.
00:42:05Looks, in this case, not deceiving.
00:42:14Blashing light indicates someone in tunnel.
00:42:25Hey!
00:42:27Hey!
00:42:37Hello!
00:42:39Someone in here?
00:42:41Is that someone going?
00:42:43I guess...
00:42:45Yes!
00:42:47Well?
00:42:48Well?
00:42:51What a little tunnel, Pop!
00:42:53It ain't a place to get a...
00:42:55a suntan.
00:42:57What you two do in here?
00:42:59Anybody else in tunnel?
00:43:01Hmm.
00:43:02Go away, Pop.
00:43:03Was Spricker like working when you come in here?
00:43:07Should we call again?
00:43:09Well...
00:43:10Nothing now in there.
00:43:11I tell you, Pop, there's no one else in here.
00:43:13But the papers are missing from Hamilton State.
00:43:15Someone besides assistance, is it proof?
00:43:17I tell you, Pop, there's no one else in here.
00:43:19But the papers are missing from Hamilton State.
00:43:23Someone besides assistance, is it proof?
00:43:47We've got Brett, but he's dead!
00:43:55The coroner's just finished, Charlie.
00:43:57He says Brett wasn't poisoned.
00:43:59He died of a fall from a great height.
00:44:03Brett last seen alive on second floor of Cosmo building.
00:44:08Later, he found dead on tenth floor.
00:44:13Someone would have us believe victim fall eight stories.
00:44:17Up.
00:44:29Hello.
00:44:30I'll look at the telephone now.
00:44:31No one sent for you.
00:44:32Isn't the name Cooper?
00:44:34Why, yes.
00:44:40Go on with work.
00:44:43Mr. Cooper.
00:44:44Alias Copper.
00:44:46Charlie Chan.
00:44:49I remember you since last time I arrested you.
00:44:53Six years ago in Singapore.
00:44:55Remember?
00:44:56Yeah.
00:44:57I remember.
00:44:58Very great pleasure to arrest you again, Mr. Cooper.
00:45:04For whom you work now.
00:45:07I'm not talking.
00:45:08You talked with your friend Mr. Brett yesterday.
00:45:11Now he is murdered.
00:45:14Brett?
00:45:15Murdered?
00:45:16I had nothing to do with it.
00:45:18I don't know who I work for.
00:45:19I only answer the phone.
00:45:20Someone else switches the calls.
00:45:21I never hear a thing.
00:45:24What did you find out?
00:45:25There's a cut in relay installed here, Mr. Chan.
00:45:26Calls can be switched.
00:45:27Can you locate place where calls switch to?
00:45:28Yeah, but it might take a couple of days.
00:45:29Keep working.
00:45:30You gentlemen will remain with Mr. Cooper.
00:45:32He will continue to answer phone calls as usual.
00:45:35I'll do it.
00:45:36I'm not getting mixed up in murder.
00:45:37Good.
00:45:38I'll do it.
00:45:39I'm not getting mixed up in murder.
00:45:40Good.
00:45:41I'll do it.
00:45:42I'll do it.
00:45:43I'm not getting mixed up in murder.
00:45:44Good.
00:45:45You're dead.
00:45:46You gentlemen will remain with Mr. Cooper.
00:45:49He will continue to answer phone calls as usual.
00:45:53I'll do it.
00:45:54I'm not getting mixed up in murder.
00:45:56Good.
00:45:58Mr. Dixon.
00:45:59Yes.
00:46:01The radio impersonator.
00:46:02Glad to meet you, Mr. Chan.
00:46:05Radio impersonator.
00:46:07Good.
00:46:08You know what you are to do?
00:46:10Death of Mr. Brett,
00:46:12Not yet made public. Wish to try experiment.
00:46:15I'm ready, sir.
00:46:32Hello?
00:46:35Who's calling?
00:46:36This is Brett calling. Hurry it up.
00:46:39Brett, Brett, I've got to see you.
00:46:46He hung up.
00:46:50Dead.
00:47:00Use service elevator.
00:47:03Come seventh floor.
00:47:06If I not there, come tenth floor.
00:47:14It's the unknown leader, Charlie.
00:47:16The one you're after. To kill her, Pop.
00:47:18Thank you so much. Please say nothing of this to anyone.
00:47:21I understand.
00:47:23No one's in sight, Pop.
00:47:32We go tenth floor.
00:47:40Wait.
00:47:41We go tenth floor by stairs.
00:47:43Uh, you go and elevate her.
00:47:45That way we have killer between us.
00:47:54There's a little walking.
00:47:56Ha, ha, ha.
00:47:57Cause I'll never say...
00:47:58Ha!
00:48:00Hmm, there's a long way down.
00:48:04Ah! Oh, goodness!
00:48:05Help! Come here, somebody!
00:48:07Help!
00:48:08Help!
00:48:14Elevator already arrived.
00:48:18Birmingham, come out of there.
00:48:19Is that you, Mr. Chan?
00:48:21For heaven's sakes, come get me out of here.
00:48:23Well, well, get down, get down yourself. Get down.
00:48:26Oh, not without a parachute.
00:48:27One drop of this is certain death.
00:48:29Birmingham, what are you talking about?
00:48:31Mr. Chan, what is you standing on?
00:48:32On the floor.
00:48:33The floor?
00:48:34Get down.
00:48:35Where did that floor come from?
00:48:41Well, what do you mean, what floor come from?
00:48:43Mr. Chan, when I was down on the seventh floor,
00:48:45that elevator floor went out from under me
00:48:47and left me standing on nothing.
00:48:49You can sure imagine things, Birmingham.
00:48:51Imagine.
00:48:52No, I ain't, Mr. Chan.
00:48:53When I went in that elevator, the elevator door closed.
00:48:55That floor went out from under me just like a trap door
00:48:57and left me hanging on my fingernail.
00:48:59I was looking out eight or nine floors straight down.
00:49:02You mean to say bottom of elevator fall out?
00:49:06Yes, sir.
00:49:12Perhaps Mr. Brett receives same message we get.
00:49:15You mean come to the seventh floor, then to the tenth, Pop?
00:49:17Believe fate save us from dying same way Mr. Brett died.
00:49:22He was killed by fall from great height.
00:49:25We descend to basement.
00:49:26Yes, Pop.
00:49:27No.
00:49:28Not by elevator.
00:49:29Come.
00:49:30Blood stains on floor of Chan.
00:49:31This is where Mr. Brett fall to death.
00:49:32You're getting to be a habit.
00:49:33Coming in here and interrupting my program rehearsals.
00:49:34It's an outrage.
00:49:35Murder also outrage.
00:49:36Do you know what I pay for my programs?
00:49:37I'm interested only that murderer shall pay for killing of Miss Bain and Mr. Brett.
00:49:46You are present when Miss Bain die.
00:49:47You're stupid thinking these people would murder anyone.
00:49:48They're too busy murdering the English language.
00:49:49Testimony is, Miss Bain say she expect more of the murder.
00:49:51That's right.
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00:50:43promised her a lot more work.
00:50:45I was surprised because I knew he liked her no better
00:50:48than she liked him.
00:50:49Wait, Gloria, you did say something like that.
00:50:51Something about, about, oh.
00:50:55Did she say what, Mr. Rand?
00:50:57Oh, I don't recall.
00:50:59You see, I gab a lot and other people gab back at me.
00:51:03I can't remember half of the things I hear.
00:51:05Please try to remember.
00:51:07Might be most important clue.
00:51:09Yeah, surely, it'll come back to me.
00:51:11And when it does, I'll tell you right away, sir.
00:51:15That is all.
00:51:15Thank you so much.
00:51:16Thanks, indeed.
00:51:17Come, Herbert.
00:51:23Well, what do you make of it, Charlie?
00:51:25So many fish in fish market.
00:51:28Even flowers smell same.
00:51:32Much confusion.
00:51:39We go on in 20 seconds.
00:51:41This is television experimental station, WXK-9X, presenting
00:51:48Willie Rand, ace comedian, and his own conception of
00:51:51the dance of the spirit.
00:51:52wife and grandfather do everything.
00:52:13What should you do here?
00:52:14Pop, we were just about to go out to look for you.
00:52:15So it seems.
00:52:16Honest, pop.
00:52:17Mr. Rand said he remember something important.
00:52:18Oh, real flowers.
00:52:48I made a fever and didn't ask for it.
00:53:02Now, ladies and gentlemen, we transfer you to tele-studio number two, where Miguel Moreno
00:53:06and his marimba band carry on during the second portion of the program.
00:53:10Willie, what happened to your closing speech?
00:53:13Did you forget it?
00:53:14Yes, Willie, what happened?
00:53:15I...
00:53:16I don't know what happened.
00:53:17You got a cigarette?
00:53:19Thanks, Uncle.
00:53:24Mr. Rand, number three son, Tommy, tell me you remember something you wish to tell me.
00:53:34Now I remember what Gloria told me.
00:53:36And I've got a lot of other good information for you, too.
00:53:39Yes, yes.
00:53:40This afternoon, when I was up on the seventh floor, I saw...
00:53:44I...
00:53:46Come on.
00:53:47Come on.
00:53:48Come on.
00:53:49What trouble, Mr. Rand?
00:53:51Charlie, he's dead.
00:53:53Dead?
00:53:54Get cigarette.
00:53:55He smoked.
00:53:56That same analyzed quickly.
00:53:57Mr. Chester, you come with me.
00:54:01Mr. Chan, my office is never locked.
00:54:08The people on television and radio are in and out of here at all hours.
00:54:16Mr. Chan, I've never seen that thing before in my life.
00:54:31One moment, please.
00:54:33This is obviously control switch for mysterious trap door and service elevator.
00:54:40Mr. Chester, we visit police headquarters.
00:54:46Rand was poisoned by the same stuff that killed Miss Bain.
00:54:49But there is no poison in the cigarette he smoked.
00:54:52They said Miss Bain smoked the cigarette just before she died, Pop.
00:54:55Yes.
00:54:56Also given her by Mr. Chester.
00:54:58That janitress.
00:54:59She picked this up right where Miss Bain fell.
00:55:00I took it away from her.
00:55:01This is cigarette smoked by Miss Bain?
00:55:04Yes.
00:55:05Tested.
00:55:06Why have you not mentioned this before?
00:55:08Guess it slipped my mind, Pop.
00:55:10Oh, slipped mind.
00:55:15There's no poison in this either.
00:55:17Release, Mr. Chester.
00:55:18Oh, but Charlie, the gadget that worked the elevator, is in his office.
00:55:22Sure, he must be the unknown espionage leader we're after, Pop.
00:55:25The person who sent messages to Mr. Brett on teletype machine
00:55:29must have similar machine at other end of line.
00:55:32There is no teletype instrument in Mr. Chester's office.
00:55:37Release him.
00:55:46What are we to do?
00:55:47Trouble?
00:55:48Nothing but trouble staring at his face.
00:55:53Why, this program is strictly slush.
00:55:56It is transcription of last program made by Miss Bain
00:55:59when she dies so strangely.
00:56:02Only wish to hear end of program.
00:56:05We must move by the first of the month,
00:56:07and we've no place to go.
00:56:09Why can't we...
00:56:11Hey, she must have stepped nearer the microphone.
00:56:13She did.
00:56:14Please, turn up volume.
00:56:16Now listen very quietly.
00:56:18Down.
00:56:20And be like...
00:56:22You hear strange noise?
00:56:26Yes, a popping noise when she was sobbing.
00:56:30We hear same noise on record of Mr. Rand's voice made
00:56:34during television broadcast.
00:56:36Believe now, know how both Miss Bain and Mr. Rand were killed.
00:56:41We'll need assistance of radio technician to prove it.
00:56:46Please?
00:56:47Right away.
00:56:48Hey, those look like bits of glass.
00:57:03Or gelatin used in making capsule.
00:57:07We have only part of proof.
00:57:10Now we visit Studio C downstairs.
00:57:13Murderer ready to do more business.
00:57:23This is what we look for.
00:57:25Thank you so much.
00:57:28Doc, my radio man said that the studio microphones
00:57:32were rigged so that a short wave radio beam
00:57:35sent from some part of the building,
00:57:37it would explode those capsules.
00:57:40There is some sort of colorless gas in the capsule, Mr. Chan.
00:57:47But it certainly is not poison.
00:57:49Uh, cigarette please, doctor.
00:57:52When did you start smoking, Pop?
00:57:54Quiet.
00:57:55Would you kindly light same, please?
00:58:04Now you will blow some smoke into the beaker.
00:58:08Now just, what is it, Pop?
00:58:24Well, that's it, Mr. Chan.
00:58:26Alone, either the gas or the cigarette is harmless.
00:58:29But if someone first inhaled gas
00:58:31and then pretty soon smoked cigarette.
00:58:33The combination of gas and nicotine becomes a poison
00:58:36and kills instantly.
00:58:38Thank you so much, doctor.
00:58:39That is exactly what I wanted to know.
00:58:42My men are at every exit with orders not to let
00:58:46any of our people leave the building.
00:58:48Good.
00:58:49Mrs. Marsh, Mr. Sinclair, and Miss Hall already here.
00:58:56Well?
00:58:57Chester, Nelson, and Carlos are in the building, Pop.
00:58:59Even that wacky janitor's.
00:59:01Good.
00:59:02All suspects on hand.
00:59:04Come.
00:59:12Believe leader of enemy agents and killer of Roush
00:59:16have office somewhere on this floor.
00:59:18Office containing teletype machine.
00:59:20Okay.
00:59:21We'll soon find out.
00:59:28Birmingham, you take another office.
00:59:30Alone, not me.
00:59:31I like company.
00:59:39Look.
00:59:40Pop!
00:59:41Captain Flynn!
00:59:42We found one.
00:59:51You suppose this is the machine we want?
00:59:53Could be.
01:00:07Here is a shortwave radio set used to explode death capsule.
01:00:20You?
01:00:21You?
01:00:22You?
01:00:23Yes, sir.
01:00:25Yes, sir.
01:00:26You?
01:00:27You?
01:00:28Yes, sir.
01:00:29Yes, sir?
01:00:30Sir?
01:00:32You?
01:00:33Yes, sir.
01:00:35Yes, sir.
01:00:37That's it.
01:00:38You?
01:00:39I let you?
01:00:40I'll be right back.
01:00:42Let me see you.
01:00:43Let's see you.
01:00:44The people are here.
01:00:45Come.
01:00:46Let's see you.
01:00:47I am the one.
01:00:48Pop, he's going up the stairs.
01:00:51Warn guards at exits.
01:01:04I go other end of tunnel.
01:01:06We catch murderer between us.
01:01:08Yes, Pop.
01:01:10We'll catch the guy while Pop's waiting for him.
01:01:12Come with me.
01:01:13Sure.
01:01:14Whoa.
01:01:15I think I'll stick with Mr. Chan.
01:01:17Now, listen, Birmingham.
01:01:19When we see him, I'll hit him high, you hit him low.
01:01:22Understand, Birmingham?
01:01:29Birmingham!
01:01:31Birmingham!
01:01:33I wonder what happened to him.
01:01:35Ah!
01:01:36Ah!
01:01:37Ah!
01:01:38Ah!
01:01:39Ah!
01:01:40Ah!
01:01:41Ah!
01:01:45Ah!
01:01:46Ah!
01:01:47Ah!
01:01:49Ah!
01:01:54Okay, son?
01:01:55Sure, Pop.
01:01:56The guy couldn't hit the side of a body even if he was inside of it.
01:01:58Mm-hmm.
01:01:59Come.
01:02:00Hurry.
01:02:13The elevator is at the first floor, Pop.
01:02:15He must have gone down.
01:02:16Come on down.
01:02:33Hey, Charlie.
01:02:34He tried to come down the stairs as I went up.
01:02:36I fired, and he came back this way.
01:02:47Again, we just escaped death by elevator.
01:02:50Pop, there's someone in Office 703.
01:02:51The door's open.
01:02:52Go.
01:02:53Quick.
01:02:54Let's get out.
01:03:01Murderer now travel without costume disguise.
01:03:04Come.
01:03:05Hold on.
01:03:20Killer caught in the own trap.
01:03:24We find murderer in basement.
01:03:26Come.
01:03:27Then you're not a Swedish janitor at all.
01:03:29This is Miss Janet Carter, government investigator.
01:03:32I came here a month ago at Mr. Chan's orders.
01:03:35To keep eye on people coming and going from radar laboratory.
01:03:39No one suspected the janitors of being a government operative.
01:03:43You are a very great assistance, Janet.
01:03:47No, please.
01:03:48Do not look at her.
01:03:49Her?
01:03:51Mrs. Marsh.
01:03:52No, I'd never have believed it.
01:03:54Hey, Pop, what about the stolen radar papers?
01:03:57Papers she stole are worthless.
01:03:59Real radar secrets removed some time ago at my suggestion.
01:04:04Oh, what's the matter?
01:04:05What's wrong, Charlie?
01:04:06As usual, at end of case, I have discovered everything
01:04:10except whereabouts of my second assistant, Birmingham Brown.
01:04:14Yeah, where did he go?
01:04:15Hey.
01:04:16Which way is out?
01:04:17I want to get away from these faces.
01:04:18They're scaring people.
01:04:19Oh, right out this way.
01:04:20Whoo!
01:04:21Good gracious.
01:04:22Huh?
01:04:23Huh?
01:04:24Come here.
01:04:25Oh, that's mean.
01:04:26Let me see this thing.
01:04:28I think I'd rather take this one.
01:04:29Goodbye.
01:04:31Ha!
01:04:32Ha!
01:04:33Ha!
01:04:34Ha!
01:04:35Come here.
01:04:36Oh, that's mean.
01:04:37Let me see this thing.
01:04:41I think I'd rather take this one.
01:04:42Goodbye.
01:04:43Goodbye.