- 09/05/2025
‘Behind Green Lights’ is a 1946 American crime film directed by Otto Brower. The story begins when police lieutenant Sam Carson discovers the bullet-ridden corpse of Walter Bard in a car parked outside the police station. As Carson investigates, he uncovers a tangled web of blackmail, political corruption, and deception. Janet Bradley, a woman linked to Bard, becomes a suspect, while a corrupt medical examiner attempts to manipulate the case for a powerful newspaper owner. The film blends suspense, intrigue, and classic noir elements, making it a compelling entry in the genre.
Credits:
Director: Otto Brower
Producer: Robert Bassler
Starring: Carole Landis, William Gargan, Mary Anderson, John Ireland
Screenplay: Scott Darling, Charles G. Booth
Cinematography: Joseph MacDonald
#BehindGreenLights1946 #FilmNoir #ClassicHollywood #CrimeMystery
Credits:
Director: Otto Brower
Producer: Robert Bassler
Starring: Carole Landis, William Gargan, Mary Anderson, John Ireland
Screenplay: Scott Darling, Charles G. Booth
Cinematography: Joseph MacDonald
#BehindGreenLights1946 #FilmNoir #ClassicHollywood #CrimeMystery
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00:00:00.
00:01:29Come in, Miss Bradley.
00:01:31I'll make sure those negatives are in here, too.
00:01:33Come in, Miss Bradley.
00:02:03That's community property.
00:02:05Yeah, I know, Chief, but she done took it out of the community.
00:02:11Come on, Johnny. I want you to meet the lieutenant.
00:02:13He's a good egg.
00:02:14What do you like to do?
00:02:17Dance?
00:02:18Harry James?
00:02:19Sure.
00:02:20Or why don't you turn on the radio in one of your homes?
00:02:23Fix yourself some donuts and coffee and stuff.
00:02:26Hang out in a joint like the one Carrie pulled you out of.
00:02:28It'll buy you nothing but trouble.
00:02:31Carrie, see if these two girls get home, will you?
00:02:32Yes, sir.
00:02:33Hiya, Sam.
00:02:37Hello, Oppenheimer.
00:02:38Hi.
00:02:38Meet Johnny Williams, the herald's gift to the police department.
00:02:40This is Lieutenant Carson, Sergeant Oppenheimer.
00:02:42Hi, young fellow.
00:02:43It's sure nice to meet you guys.
00:02:45You love him when you get to know him better.
00:02:47Johnny's fixing to clean up the department.
00:02:48I thought you ought to look him over.
00:02:50Oh, cut it out, Ames.
00:02:51The herald's a good paper, Johnny.
00:02:52That's the best paper in town, Lieutenant.
00:02:54The herald has ideals.
00:02:55Only the truth is fit to print.
00:02:56I wish I could say as much for that rag of yours, Ames.
00:02:59Thanks, Lieutenant.
00:03:00Is this your first day on the police run, Johnny?
00:03:02Yeah.
00:03:03Gosh, I hope I don't pull any boners.
00:03:05You won't.
00:03:06Drop around and see me anytime you feel like it.
00:03:08Maybe I'll come up with a scoop one of these days
00:03:10just to keep Ames and the rest of those pelicans in line.
00:03:12Yeah, that'd be great, Lieutenant.
00:03:14Gee, I sure need one.
00:03:15Come on, Johnny. Meet the rest of the game.
00:03:16Okay, I'll see you later.
00:03:17All right.
00:03:17Bye.
00:03:20That's a tough assignment for that nice kid.
00:03:22Oh, it won't hurt him.
00:03:23Won't do us any harm, either.
00:03:25I'll go down to the Dutchman's for an exam.
00:03:26I'll go along with you.
00:03:57Come on, you take all day.
00:03:59Come on, we'll be there.
00:04:00Hurry.
00:04:01Boys, meet Johnny Williams of the Herald.
00:04:03I'm going to ask you to use Burris, Sergeant.
00:04:05Don't get up, gentlemen.
00:04:10What is this, a gag?
00:04:11It's Walter Bard.
00:04:29Runs a private detective agency in the Equitable building.
00:04:32They picked a fine spot to dump him.
00:04:34Looks like somebody's trying to give the department a business.
00:04:36Get going up, Mama.
00:04:37Yeah.
00:04:48Precious things alive.
00:04:49It's Mr. Bard.
00:04:51Do you know anything about this?
00:04:53Not me.
00:04:53Not me.
00:04:55I just sell him flowers.
00:04:57Take this into the desk.
00:05:06Right.
00:05:08Hey, Sam.
00:05:10What have you got?
00:05:11What do you think?
00:05:12Hey, Sam Carson's frisking a stiff on the sidewalk in front of the station.
00:05:16That's the name of the game, gin.
00:05:18Don't forget you owe me two bits.
00:05:20Check this gun with ballistics as soon as you can.
00:05:24Then have the car gone over for fingerprints.
00:05:25Hey, Sam, who's the...
00:05:26Hey, it's Walter Bard.
00:05:27Dumped right in front of the station.
00:05:29Couldn't get any closer.
00:05:30Boy, there's going to be a stink about this.
00:05:32That was mixed up in politics, wasn't it?
00:05:34He was mixed up in everything.
00:05:36He's been asking for something like this for a long time.
00:05:39What's the matter, Johnny?
00:05:40I never saw a dead man before.
00:05:45Come on, fellas.
00:05:46Give me Charlie to make a snack.
00:05:48Hold on to your wig, Charlie.
00:05:50Walter Bard, the private eye, was just found shot to death in his car,
00:05:52right at the front door of the joint.
00:05:54Evidently a definite slap of the prison administration.
00:05:57You can call it a culmination of the hoodlum war that's been going on.
00:06:00Yeah.
00:06:01Say that it's gangland's despairing reply to the vigilance of the police.
00:06:05Huh?
00:06:06Sure, play it up big.
00:06:07Lay it on thick.
00:06:08Everybody's going to be taking pot shots at the administration over this little deal,
00:06:11and the Express is its only friend.
00:06:15Oppenheimer, go up to Bard's apartment.
00:06:17Bring back any letters or photographs that might look hot.
00:06:21Yes, sir.
00:06:21See if you can get Bard's wife on the phone.
00:06:24Talk to the janitor and neighbors.
00:06:25Get a line on any recent visitors.
00:06:27Okay, lieutenant.
00:06:28Harper, you chase up to Bard's office in the equitable building.
00:06:31Go through his desk and files.
00:06:32Check his appointment calendar.
00:06:34Yes.
00:06:34Well, lieutenant, I just happened to think.
00:06:36Bard used to hang out at Tony's on 2nd Street quite a lot.
00:06:39Good idea.
00:06:40Say, Wilson, go over there and ask Tony if Bard met anyone there tonight.
00:06:43Then give Oppenheimer a hand if he needs to.
00:06:45Right.
00:06:45Yes?
00:06:48Mrs. Bard doesn't answer, lieutenant.
00:06:50She's probably sleeping.
00:06:51Keep on trying.
00:06:52Okay.
00:06:59Hey, Dan.
00:07:00Johnny, this is Daniel Boone Wintergreen.
00:07:02He covers police for the sun.
00:07:04Also has the poesy corner on the side.
00:07:06Meet Johnny Williams of the Herald.
00:07:07Pleasure to meet you, my boy.
00:07:08I can see that you'll be a welcome contrast to the riffraff that infests this mortuary.
00:07:13When are you going to get rid of that Morth-eating trophy you got on?
00:07:16Sir, this buffalo coat belonged to my grandfather, Daniel Boone Wintergreen,
00:07:21noted Indian fighter.
00:07:22Nothing would persuade me to part with it,
00:07:24except a temporary shortage of funds.
00:07:26Are you in need of a good overcoat, Mr. Williams?
00:07:28Hey, lay off him, Wintergreen.
00:07:29On a hot day, that coat gets higher than the stockyards in the south wind.
00:07:38Come in, Doc.
00:07:42Well, here it is, Sam.
00:07:43The bullet went clean through him, smashed the fifth rib.
00:07:46Have you boys found it yet?
00:07:47In the front seat up Hole Street.
00:07:49Discharge from the gun that was in the car?
00:07:50Mm-hmm. His own.
00:07:52There were plenty of powder burns, Sam.
00:07:54Could have been suicide.
00:07:55Not a chance, Doc.
00:07:57The boys at the desk would have heard the shot.
00:07:59The body was driven there in Bard's car and left there.
00:08:01Oh, I'm sure you're right, Sam.
00:08:02Do you think someone's trying to discredit us in the administration?
00:08:06Could be.
00:08:08Holy mackerel.
00:08:14That girl couldn't be mixed up in this case.
00:08:17Well, this is very interesting.
00:08:19The daughter of Luther Bradley, the reform candidate for mayor.
00:08:22Boy, what the express will do with this.
00:08:25Send Brewer in.
00:08:27Must be some other Bradley.
00:08:28Somehow, I don't think it is.
00:08:30Why?
00:08:31The famous Calvert Luck, my boy.
00:08:33Brewer, you and Robbins go out to the Luther Bradley house on Carlisle.
00:08:37I asked for Miss Janet Bradley.
00:08:39Tell her you'd appreciate it if she'd come back with you.
00:08:41We want to ask her a few questions.
00:08:43Okay.
00:08:43Handle her carefully.
00:08:45All we want is her cooperation.
00:08:46Stress that, Brewer.
00:08:48Yes?
00:08:49Mrs. Byers 2 doesn't answer.
00:08:51Keep trying.
00:08:55Express, I want to speak to Mr. Calvert.
00:08:58Very important.
00:08:59It's Dr. Yeager talking.
00:09:01Hello.
00:09:03Yeah, this is Calvert.
00:09:05Oh, hello, Doc.
00:09:06What's on your mind?
00:09:08Walter Bard.
00:09:09Sure I know him.
00:09:12Well, who shot him?
00:09:13I don't know.
00:09:14But his body was found in his own car right in front of the police station here.
00:09:18That's right.
00:09:19The police station.
00:09:20And get this, Mr. Calvert.
00:09:22There was a notation in Bard's memorandum book that he had an appointment with Janet Bradley this evening.
00:09:27Luther Bradley's daughter?
00:09:29Are you sure?
00:09:33Oh, this is beautiful.
00:09:38Look, Doc.
00:09:39You stay there and keep your eyes open.
00:09:40I'll keep in touch with you.
00:09:42Oh, I'll be right here, Mr. Calvert.
00:09:43You can count on me.
00:09:45Goodbye.
00:09:46Goodbye.
00:09:47Goodbye.
00:09:48Goodbye.
00:09:49Goodbye.
00:09:50Goodbye.
00:09:51Goodbye.
00:10:04This is Miss Bradley, Lieutenant.
00:10:05Lieutenant Carson.
00:10:06How do you do?
00:10:08Sorry we had to bring you out this hour of the night, Miss Bradley.
00:10:11Sit down, please.
00:10:16What do you know about a man named Walter Bard?
00:10:19You knew him?
00:10:20I knew him.
00:10:22He was murdered this evening.
00:10:25Oh.
00:10:26In his own car.
00:10:27Shot.
00:10:29I found him about 11.45 in front of this police station.
00:10:32You did know him?
00:10:34Yes, I knew him.
00:10:36Seen him recently?
00:10:38This evening.
00:10:39I had an appointment with him at his apartment.
00:10:42Were you a friend of his, Miss Bradley?
00:10:44No.
00:10:45Suppose you tell me why you went to see him.
00:10:49I'm sorry I can't.
00:10:51Private?
00:10:55That's not so good.
00:10:59Is your father still in Washington?
00:11:02Yes, he'll be back on Monday in time for the election.
00:11:05This murder could prove very embarrassing for your father, Miss Bradley.
00:11:07A dead body on your doorstep could prove very embarrassing for the department, too, Lieutenant Carson.
00:11:14Maybe.
00:11:15Do you mind very much if we take your fingerprints?
00:11:18Is that necessary?
00:11:19Well, it's a routine we follow, but of course if you'd rather not.
00:11:23Very well.
00:11:25This way, please.
00:11:28Now, the right hand.
00:11:33That's fine.
00:11:35You can wipe off your hands with this.
00:11:37Oh, thank you.
00:11:39My photograph next, Lieutenant?
00:11:42Sitting's by appointment only.
00:11:44That's all there is to it.
00:11:51I'll be classified, I'll come.
00:11:54It will take a few minutes to make comparisons.
00:11:58You don't mind waiting.
00:11:59Of course not.
00:12:00Right in there.
00:12:03You're being swell about this.
00:12:12Yes?
00:12:13Max covered to see you, Lieutenant.
00:12:15Send him in.
00:12:16Thanks, Sam.
00:12:19I just thought I'd drop in and say hello.
00:12:21I figured you'd be around.
00:12:22Well, I don't wonder.
00:12:23You're sore, Sam.
00:12:25Someone giving the police department the business, huh?
00:12:27The administration, too.
00:12:29The administration's your problem.
00:12:31Oh, no, that's not the attitude to take, Sam.
00:12:34Don't forget, we got an election coming up next Tuesday.
00:12:37I'm a policeman, not a politician.
00:12:39I know, but a politician sometimes could do an awful lot for a policeman, Sam.
00:12:44I understand you got the Bradley girl down here.
00:12:46So you know all about that, huh?
00:12:49Well, people usually cooperate with me, Sam.
00:12:52She was with Bard this evening, wasn't she?
00:12:55I'm not making any statements.
00:12:56And when I do, the Express will get it, along with the other papers.
00:12:59Well, you're not letting a pretty face affect your better judgment, are you, Sam?
00:13:02I'm not letting that tabloid of yours spare that girl's reputation so you can stop Luther Bradley on Tuesday.
00:13:07Well, the public has the right to know the facts.
00:13:09Express, Princeton.
00:13:10Yeah.
00:13:11Anything for a nickel.
00:13:15Look, Sam, how long have you had this job?
00:13:18Long enough.
00:13:20When you first came into this department, I was still on the police run for the Express.
00:13:25Now, I own it.
00:13:27While we're looking around, look at Mike Shea there.
00:13:30Now, Mike was your type of copier, and he never played ball.
00:13:33So what did it get him?
00:13:35A load of lead in the belly.
00:13:37Ah, you ought to be smart, Sam.
00:13:41Look, is Bradley anything to you?
00:13:47No.
00:13:48Well, Jordan's on his way out.
00:13:50How'd you like to be chief?
00:13:53I'd like it.
00:13:54You know that, Calvert.
00:13:55Could be arranged.
00:13:57How?
00:13:58Well, if this Bradley girl were booked, it might please some very important people very much.
00:14:03And they might be willing to do a lot for you.
00:14:05There isn't a particle of evidence against her.
00:14:08Well, no one would criticize you if you'd book her anyway.
00:14:11Not suspicion or material witness.
00:14:13Anything you like.
00:14:14Until after the election.
00:14:16Then let her go.
00:14:17She'd be all right.
00:14:19Do that, and you'd have a grand jury investigation right in your lap.
00:14:22Oh, Sam.
00:14:23Now, don't look at it that way.
00:14:25Why, a week after the election, the whole thing will be completely forgotten.
00:14:30Think it over.
00:14:31Don't forget, Sam.
00:14:35It always pays to cooperate.
00:14:38Always pays.
00:14:39Great guy.
00:15:00I wasn't here one time.
00:15:02He sure was.
00:15:03I guess he was just about the greatest cop the city ever had.
00:15:06Yeah.
00:15:06I wanted to get him.
00:15:07Lieutenant, I got something to show you.
00:15:09See you, with him.
00:15:14What'd you find at Bard's apartment?
00:15:16Cigarette butts in the ashtray with two different shades of lipstick.
00:15:19Two glasses with prints on both.
00:15:22Prints on the gun.
00:15:24On one of the glasses.
00:15:25And Miss Bradley's fingerprints.
00:15:27All check.
00:15:31Looks like an open and shut case, Lieutenant.
00:15:36Bring Miss Bradley in, Sergeant.
00:15:42Well, Lieutenant would like to see you, Miss Bradley.
00:15:51All right, Oppenheimer.
00:15:53Miss Bradley, we found your fingerprints on a highball glass in Bard's apartment.
00:15:59Oh, yes.
00:16:00He poured a drink for me, but I set it down without tasting it.
00:16:03We also found your fingerprints on the gun with which Bard was shot.
00:16:09All right.
00:16:10I'll tell you exactly what did happen.
00:16:18I went to see Bard on behalf of someone who was very close to me.
00:16:22Someone whom he was trying to blackmail.
00:16:26He made a business of buying and selling information about people.
00:16:30Especially about those who had built honest lives after making a bad start.
00:16:34Problem with people.
00:16:36He had come to me with certain information.
00:16:39He wanted $20,000 for it, but I'd been able to raise only $10,000.
00:16:44Well, come in, Miss Bradley.
00:17:02Won't you sit down?
00:17:03I'll fix you a drink.
00:17:04Oh, I really don't care for one.
00:17:06I have some very nice bourbon here.
00:17:08I have some very nice drink.
00:17:26Cigarette?
00:17:27Oh, thank you.
00:17:32Well?
00:17:32Well, I simply haven't been able to raise that much money, Mr. Bart.
00:17:37How much have you raised?
00:17:38$10,000.
00:17:40And I said $20.
00:17:42Well, that settles up.
00:17:44Oh, please.
00:17:45Won't you give me a little more time?
00:17:46Look, Miss Bradley, you're stalling.
00:17:48You either haven't got the money or you won't go to the one who has got it.
00:17:51Now, I'm holding a powerhouse.
00:17:53Newspaper clippings, letters, affidavits, photographs.
00:17:56Enough dynamite to blow the lid a mile high.
00:17:59And I've got a cash customer who'll pay $20,000 in the morning.
00:18:03I suppose it'd be useless to appeal to your sense of decency.
00:18:07Oh, completely.
00:18:08You see, I haven't any.
00:18:09Not since I put on long pants.
00:18:11And I've been called all the names, Miss Bradley.
00:18:14I can believe that.
00:18:15But I do know when a girl needs a drink.
00:18:18Take it.
00:18:20You look shaky.
00:18:26Now, give me that arm.
00:18:32You'll find them all there.
00:18:38Don't move.
00:18:40I'd rather enjoy putting an end to your activities.
00:18:47Stay where you are.
00:18:48He was very much alive when I left him, Lieutenant.
00:18:55Miss Bradley, do you expect me to believe that chisel lets you take those papers away from him?
00:19:00But I've told you the exact truth.
00:19:03What happened to the gun?
00:19:03I threw it in this car when I left.
00:19:06What'd you do with the envelope?
00:19:07Burned it as soon as I got home.
00:19:09What was in it?
00:19:10I can't possibly tell you.
00:19:12It must have been hot if Bard wanted that kind of dough for her.
00:19:15Holding back now won't do you a bit of good.
00:19:17What was it about?
00:19:18Your father?
00:19:18It's no use asking me.
00:19:21What was in it?
00:19:22Dirt Bard had dug up?
00:19:24Something Calvert could use?
00:19:27Let me help you.
00:19:28You couldn't make a deal with him.
00:19:30He said he'd take you home.
00:19:30It was raining.
00:19:32You go down to his car.
00:19:33He makes a pass at you.
00:19:34You grab his gun, let him have it, and scram with the envelope.
00:19:36The brakes in the car come loose, and the car starts rolling.
00:19:39Lieutenant, you...
00:19:40You sound as if you want to believe I killed Walter Bard.
00:19:46Your prints are on the gun.
00:19:47You have motive.
00:19:49Plenty of it.
00:19:50What do you expect me to believe?
00:19:53I guess it does look pretty bad.
00:19:57What are you going to do with me?
00:20:00I ought to book you.
00:20:02You know what that will do to my father on Tuesday.
00:20:09I realize the pressure you're under, Lieutenant.
00:20:12I've learned a great deal about the police department from Father.
00:20:15Max Calvert could do a lot to help you if you could learn to do things his way.
00:20:19Leave Calvert out of this.
00:20:21I'm a policeman, not a politician.
00:20:24I'm glad.
00:20:25I've always liked policemen.
00:20:26I should book you.
00:20:31Otherwise, I can't hold you.
00:20:32If you don't mind waiting a little longer,
00:20:35well, something may turn up.
00:20:39You mean you may see things a little more clearly?
00:20:41Put it anywhere you like.
00:20:45In here, please.
00:20:45You guys mind if I want a hand?
00:20:57Nope.
00:20:58Hello, Doc.
00:21:01Anything new on the board, Kelly?
00:21:03Well, he was shot with his own gun that was found in the car.
00:21:05Now, then we know all about that.
00:21:07Yeah, but what you don't know is that Janet Bradley,
00:21:09Luther's daughter, is mixed up in the case.
00:21:11No.
00:21:12That's right.
00:21:13Carson has her downstairs now.
00:21:14She had a date with Bard in his apartment this evening.
00:21:17Regular little mine of information, aren't you, Doc?
00:21:20Well, I just thought the boys should know.
00:21:22That's nice of you.
00:21:23But I'm still running the night shift around here,
00:21:25and I'll give out the information.
00:21:27The express already has it.
00:21:28I don't need to tell you how they got it.
00:21:29So you boys might as well have it, too.
00:21:31Just Bradley is involved.
00:21:33To what extent, we don't know yet.
00:21:34She was in Bard's apartment this evening,
00:21:36but she gives a perfectly logical reason for being there.
00:21:38Well, that's good enough for the front page.
00:21:39I'd go slow on any insinuations if I were you fellas.
00:21:42Did you get that jolly?
00:21:43That was cost no sense.
00:21:44I'll give it in, Mr. Jones.
00:21:45Here's the latest dope on the Bard case.
00:21:47Miss Janet Bradley, junior league, active in everything.
00:21:50Oh, yes, Mr. Jones.
00:21:51I'm sticking right on the job.
00:21:53I just wormed it out of the lieutenant this minute.
00:21:55Janet Bradley, daughter of the Marilty candidate,
00:21:57is being questioned with regard to the Bard murder.
00:22:00Yes.
00:22:01And you'll leave those two tickets for the fellow Monica...
00:22:03You boys won't forget who gave you the original tip.
00:22:05We won't forget.
00:22:06Dr. G.F. Yeager?
00:22:07Now, which one of you has taken my scissors?
00:22:16I stuck them in your buffalo coat for safekeeping.
00:22:21If you mooches insist on playing childish pranks with my scissors,
00:22:25I'll be forced to do something drastic.
00:22:30Well, it's about time.
00:22:33Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Calvert.
00:22:35I'm glad I didn't know you were here.
00:22:36I hope you haven't been waiting long.
00:22:37Long enough.
00:22:38Where have you been?
00:22:39Oh, all over.
00:22:40It's been a very busy night.
00:22:41Has Carson booked the Bradley girl yet?
00:22:43Not yet.
00:22:44He's stalling, Mr. Calvert.
00:22:45I don't trust Carson.
00:22:46He's never played along with us the way he should.
00:22:49Why, he just bawled me out for tipping off the press room
00:22:50that he'd been questioning the girl.
00:22:52I want her charged with murder,
00:22:53and I want it spread all over the front page of every paper in town.
00:22:56Sooner, the better.
00:22:57Oh, thank you.
00:22:59I'll save this one later.
00:23:00I'm going to give this murder the biggest coverage any local papers had in years.
00:23:05I'll run the Bradley girl's picture every day.
00:23:08Diagrams of the street where the body was found.
00:23:10Diagrams of Bard's apartment.
00:23:12Pictures of the murder car.
00:23:14I'll have a sob sister covering her appearance at the inquest.
00:23:17Every appearance in court.
00:23:19I'll do a half column devoted to her costume alone.
00:23:21How she looks.
00:23:23With the inference that she's frightened,
00:23:25that she's hiding something, that her back's against the wall.
00:23:28Yes, but the only hitch, Mr. Calvert,
00:23:29is that Walter Bard didn't die of a gunshot wound.
00:23:34What did you say?
00:23:36He was poisoned before he was shot.
00:23:38Who did it?
00:23:39I don't know.
00:23:39You cut him open?
00:23:41I didn't have to.
00:23:42I found traces of poison in his mouth.
00:23:45Well, have you told Carson?
00:23:46Not yet.
00:23:47Well, don't.
00:23:49The trouble is,
00:23:50if Carson ever takes a good look at the body,
00:23:51he'll notice that there was practically no bleeding.
00:23:54And he'll know what that means.
00:23:56Yeah, we've got to get rid of the body.
00:23:57Get it out of here fast, tonight.
00:23:59Before the inquest, I can't.
00:24:01You can and you're going to.
00:24:03But, Mr. Calvert,
00:24:04you can't just pick up a body and drag it out of the morgue
00:24:06before the chief medical examiner has had a whack at it.
00:24:10Look, have you got any John Doe's in the icebox?
00:24:13One that you can ship out to the crematorium in a hurry?
00:24:16Well, there's a floater that we fished out of the bay a couple of weeks ago.
00:24:19All right, now, you go down to the morgue
00:24:21and switch Walter Bard's body to the John Doe slab.
00:24:23Then make out commitment papers for John Doe.
00:24:26Cremation.
00:24:27And ship it out tonight.
00:24:28But it's sure to be found out sooner or later.
00:24:30If you have to,
00:24:31make the morgue attend to the fall guy.
00:24:33V. Squawks, you send him to me, you understand?
00:24:36Well, I'll do my best, Mr. Calvert.
00:24:38Your best is to get that body out of here, fast.
00:24:53Yes?
00:24:54Mrs. Bard on the wire now, Lieutenant.
00:24:56Mrs. Bard on the wire now, Mr. Calvert.
00:25:01Hello?
00:25:02Is this Mrs. Walter Bard?
00:25:05Yes, this is Mrs. Bard.
00:25:07You've been ringing for some time, haven't you?
00:25:08I'm sorry.
00:25:10I was sound asleep.
00:25:12I'm afraid I have some bad news for you.
00:25:16That is impossible.
00:25:18He wasn't at...
00:25:18I'm afraid he was, Mrs. Bard.
00:25:20And we don't know yet.
00:25:24I'll have to ask you to come down here.
00:25:26I know it'll be difficult,
00:25:27but you may be able to help us.
00:25:30Of course, but...
00:25:31But I haven't seen Walter for several weeks.
00:25:34We haven't been living together.
00:25:37Yes.
00:25:40As soon as I've dressed.
00:25:50Yes?
00:25:59Arthur, something dreadful has happened.
00:26:01It's Walter.
00:26:02Did the police say how it happened, Nora?
00:26:04Or where?
00:26:05No, Arthur.
00:26:07No.
00:26:08They've asked me to come down to the station.
00:26:10Now.
00:26:12Remember, you haven't been out all evening.
00:26:16I'll go with you.
00:26:18Certainly, I'm your lawyer.
00:26:19Don't worry, darling.
00:26:22Everything will be all right.
00:26:24Yes.
00:26:25Pick me up on your way down to the station.
00:26:27In about 20 minutes.
00:26:29It won't take me long to dress.
00:26:35Here's the lab report on the lipstick
00:26:36and the cigarette stuff.
00:26:39Any calls?
00:26:39No, sir.
00:26:41One of them is Janet Bradley's.
00:26:42The other is a shade called Rochelle,
00:26:43used mostly by brunettes.
00:26:45Mrs. Bard is here, Lieutenant.
00:26:46Oh, send her in.
00:26:47Will you come in, please?
00:26:49Sorry you had to come down here tonight, Mrs. Bard.
00:26:52I understand, Lieutenant.
00:26:53This is Mr. Templeton, my attorney.
00:26:56Walter Bard and I would have been divorced.
00:26:58I'm handling all of Mrs. Bard's business affairs.
00:27:00So I asked Mr. Templeton to come with me.
00:27:02Sit down, please.
00:27:07You told Mrs. Bard very little on the telephone, Lieutenant.
00:27:10Bard was shot through the heart.
00:27:12We found his car parked in front of this building,
00:27:14his body in it.
00:27:14But that's fantastic.
00:27:16Who did it?
00:27:17Well, we're not prepared to say it yet.
00:27:20Mrs. Bard, I think you told me that you and Bard hadn't lived together for quite some time.
00:27:24Not for over a year.
00:27:25Have you seen him recently?
00:27:27I saw him in a nightclub one evening several weeks ago.
00:27:30I was with Mr. Templeton.
00:27:32We want to be frank with you, Lieutenant.
00:27:35Well, I hope you will be.
00:27:36Nora and I are going to be married.
00:27:38We've been waiting for her divorce from Bard.
00:27:39Had the proceedings begun?
00:27:42No.
00:27:42The papers were ready, but they hadn't been served yet.
00:27:44Did Bard refuse to accept service on these papers?
00:27:49Repeatedly.
00:27:49He was my husband, and even though he's dead...
00:27:51Nora.
00:27:52I'm going to say it, Arthur.
00:27:53He was mean and cruel.
00:27:54He liked to hate people.
00:27:56He did it deliberately.
00:27:57I studied for two years.
00:28:00Mrs. Bard has had a very difficult time, Lieutenant.
00:28:02Yes, I know.
00:28:05Mrs. Bard, you were home all evening?
00:28:08Yes.
00:28:08I was asleep when you telephoned.
00:28:12You weren't in Bard's apartment at any time during the course of the evening.
00:28:15Mrs. Bard has already answered that question twice before, Carson.
00:28:18I don't mind answering Lieutenant Carson's question a third time, Arthur.
00:28:22I was not in Walter's apartment this evening, Lieutenant.
00:28:26Were you?
00:28:28No.
00:28:31I suppose you know I'll have to ask Mrs. Bard to identify the remains.
00:28:34Naturally.
00:28:36Oppenheim, will you take care of that?
00:28:37Yes, sure.
00:28:38This way, please.
00:28:42Listen, pal.
00:28:43I didn't bust that mirror.
00:28:45Somebody else tossed the bottle into the glassware.
00:28:47Name?
00:28:48I'm Zachary, the Philadelphia Phantom.
00:28:50Never heard of you.
00:28:51What's your address?
00:28:53You can't book me, copper.
00:28:54I'm fighting at the Elks tonight.
00:28:56The annual smoker, see?
00:28:58I go on at one o'clock.
00:29:00What's your address?
00:29:02But what about the Elks?
00:29:03You ain't going to let the Elks down, are you?
00:29:06I'm an odd fellow.
00:29:08The address, Zachary.
00:29:09You can't do it to me, pal.
00:29:11It's my professional reputation.
00:29:13This is at the Benjamin Hotel, Lieutenant.
00:29:14Give the Phantom one of our private suites.
00:29:16You'll see the judge in the morning.
00:29:18But I've got to go on at 1 a.m.
00:29:20I'll come back.
00:29:21Honest, I will.
00:29:22Take him away.
00:29:23But...
00:29:53I'll come back.
00:30:23I vote for Louis.
00:30:31He has the best beard.
00:30:32What's the best dish in the joint?
00:30:33The blonde behind the counter.
00:30:53The blonde behind the counter.
00:31:04Smith, by the Smiths...
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00:34:44Yes?
00:34:45Sam, a John Doe
00:34:46that was being transported
00:34:47to the Woodbury crematorium
00:34:48has disappeared from the ambulance.
00:34:50What do you mean disappeared?
00:34:52The boys say that they loaded it into the ambulance
00:34:54and when they got there it was gone.
00:34:56Well what am I supposed to do?
00:34:57Pull your rabbits out of my hat?
00:34:58The doors must have fallen open.
00:35:00Tell Riley to send a patrol car over the route the ambulance took.
00:35:03I've already told the crew to retrace their route.
00:35:05Well find that body before the papers find it for you.
00:35:20Holy smoke!
00:35:26Hello?
00:35:27Hello, this is Johnny Williams.
00:35:28Let me speak to Mr. Jones, quick.
00:35:32I'll call you right back.
00:35:33You're new around here, ain't you?
00:35:35What's your name?
00:35:36Williams, the Herald.
00:35:37And I'm pretty busy.
00:35:38Sure you're busy.
00:35:39You bricklayers is always busy.
00:35:41Unless it's a bouquet you're wanting on the cuff until Saturday night.
00:35:45And then it's Flossie, my darling.
00:35:47Flossie, be a pal.
00:35:49And give us a kiss, Flossie.
00:35:51But I'm on to your banana oil.
00:35:53Look, Flossie.
00:35:54I gotta phone my paper, there's been a murder.
00:35:57Sure there's been a murder.
00:35:58Didn't he get himself killed with one of me carnations in his buttonhole?
00:36:02And owing me a dollar six bits.
00:36:04Seven of them he died owing me for.
00:36:06Oh, that's a shame, Flossie.
00:36:08But you'll get your money back.
00:36:09And when I ask the cops for me due, what do I get?
00:36:12Birdseed.
00:36:13I'll tell you what you do, Flossie.
00:36:15You go down to the desk.
00:36:17When all I want is me dollar six bits out of the money he died in his pants with.
00:36:22I've been to the desk.
00:36:24And what do I get?
00:36:25Birdseed, sure.
00:36:26But this time you tell a lieutenant that I sent you.
00:36:28Johnny Williams of the Herald.
00:36:29Tell him to give you your dollar six bits and the Herald will pay it.
00:36:32Tell him I personally guarantee it.
00:36:37Hello, give me Mr. Jones.
00:36:40Wait.
00:36:41Birdseed.
00:36:42Hello, Mr. Jones.
00:36:45Williams.
00:36:47I got a Lulu on that Walter Bard killing.
00:36:49An exclusive.
00:36:50Yeah.
00:36:51In the press room clothes closet.
00:36:54Hey, wait a minute.
00:36:57I'll call you back, Mr. Jones.
00:37:02Now, where are my scissors?
00:37:04I never seem to be able to find them.
00:37:08Last time I found them in my overcoat pocket.
00:37:11Here they are, Mr. Wintergreen.
00:37:17Oh.
00:37:18I'm awfully sorry, Mr. Wintergreen.
00:37:20I wish people would leave my scissors alone.
00:37:24This time, I'll nail them down.
00:37:26Milk!
00:37:27How many, you guys?
00:37:28That's Mr. Ruszynski.
00:37:29Get a bottle for me, will you?
00:37:30Yeah.
00:37:31Make it one for Wintergreen.
00:37:33Hey, is Wintergreen up there?
00:37:34Yeah.
00:37:35He's here.
00:37:36Tell him I want to buy his buffalo coat.
00:37:37I'll be right up.
00:37:38Hey, no dice.
00:37:39He doesn't want to sell.
00:37:40I never heard of such impertinence.
00:37:41As if I didn't have the right to dispose of my own property.
00:37:42Look, Mr. Wintergreen.
00:37:43You can't sell that overcoat.
00:37:44Look, Mr. Wintergreen.
00:37:45You can't sell that overcoat.
00:37:46I hoped you'd bring a chastening influence to this menagerie.
00:37:48Why, it'd be an insult to your Grandfather,
00:37:49and to the menagerie,
00:37:51if I couldn't have the right to dispose of their property.
00:37:54Mr. Wintergreen,
00:37:55you can't sell that overcoat.
00:37:58I'd be the people who Andrew White would come to sell his wife.
00:38:01You should do it with him.
00:38:02If you're to his wife,
00:38:03Mr. Wintergreen is one for Wintergreen.
00:38:05to dispose of my own property look mr winterbury you can't sell that overcoat i hoped you'd bring
00:38:12a chastening influence to this menagerie why it'd be an insult to your grandfather and to the grand
00:38:17old name of boom it'd be unpatriotic i'm dreadfully disappointed in you williams why that overcoat's
00:38:21made history it's practically a national monument you can't have a big lug like braczynski delivering
00:38:26milk in it why don't you get wise to what you've got why that overcoat ought to be in the smithsonian
00:38:31institute they pay real dough for it smithsonian huh but do you really think no williams no my mind is
00:38:40made up oh give me mr jones quick
00:38:53sure mr jones that's what i said walter bard's body in the press room clothes closet hey there's
00:39:03somebody in there i know it sounds crazy mr jones and i'm not drunk it's true there's a guy in there
00:39:08i tell you listen to him holler his head off yeah and i'm the only one that knows except wintergreen
00:39:12i got him spiked absolutely mr johnson oh my oh my yes mr haggarty city editor of the herald lieutenant
00:39:32hello haggarty
00:39:33what did you say in the press room here what as soon as i've nailed the guy that sold you that one
00:39:45i'll be over personally to tell you what kind of a joint i'm running around here one of those toss
00:39:50pot reporters phone haggarty and said that bard's body is hanging in the press room clothes closet
00:39:54say you don't think he was talking about the john doe that jaeger lost there's only one way to find out
00:40:08that's what i said you dope all wrapped up in somebody's overcoat in the press room closet my
00:40:12overcoat please credit where credit is due hey look you guys a perfect fit hey what goes on i found
00:40:18barn all wrapped up in wintergreen's overcoat in the clothes closet now harold's printing it so relax
00:40:22fellas and save paper give me a rewrite sweetheart hurry up i think he was right it is barred
00:40:32hey this guy didn't believe much yeah you could say anything about that not to me
00:40:38i haven't taken back sergeant
00:40:43mr jones again okay you'll get it
00:40:47lieutenant carson's examining the body now yeah
00:40:49that's the john doe we fished out of the bay the one doc jagger committed tonight for cremation
00:41:10how'd it get in there i don't know lieutenant i put him on number seven myself there's been a switch
00:41:14here's doc jagger now what's this all about sam it looks as if someone went outside as that john doe
00:41:19you lost only it wasn't john doe it was walter bard john doe is here in bard's place
00:41:25well this is absurd sam a lot of things are tonight you signed a commitment paper didn't you yes for john
00:41:30doe well bard's body must have been picked up by mistake that's the only way it could have happened
00:41:36well so long as it turned out all right well mali get that john doe out of here put bard back in the
00:41:41right place and see that he stays there until the chief medical examiner is through with him yes sir
00:41:54is this mrs bard hello mrs bard this is ames of the express express
00:42:01oh i haven't the slightest idea of what connection miss bradley has with the case
00:42:09in fact i didn't know she was even acquainted with my husband
00:42:14you're welcome what was it a report on express the police have found out john
00:42:19it bradley was in walter's apartment tonight
00:42:21arthur we've got to go to the police station and tell them the truth no we've got to sit tight if
00:42:31we do we'd never trust each other again arthur there'd always be that doubt it'd grow and keep
00:42:36on growing in the end it'd break us apart we'd distrust each other for the rest of our lives
00:42:41at this moment arthur there's a voice inside me saying i'm not sure of him do you really mean that
00:42:50nora yes i do and maybe there's a voice inside you saying i'm not sure of her don't you see how right
00:42:58i am arthur we couldn't live together like that you ought to be the lawyer nora we'll go down to
00:43:05carson's office right now jolly hello yes i'd like somebody to come down here and perform an autopsy
00:43:21sure i know i got jaeger i want someone else uh bard for a very particular reason or how about doc
00:43:28hastings as soon as you can get him down here
00:43:31i'll see mrs bard now
00:43:41we've come to make certain orations in our statement lieutenant what's happening
00:43:47we told you we weren't at bar's apartment this evening well we were nora was there when
00:43:52bard died i was there later go on i didn't tell off i was going but i went to ask walter once more to
00:44:01give me a divorce there's no use being angry with me nora pick off your fingers and stay a while
00:44:08have a drink it's a rainy evening that's finished walter i'm in love with arthur templeton we want to
00:44:15get married so you can make it legitimate you have no right to say that you've absolutely no grounds
00:44:19whatsoever perhaps but i'm not going to turn you loose so tempered them to put you on his income tax
00:44:25besides this arrangement suits me fine so long as i married no woman can make a sucker out of me
00:44:30but walter
00:44:32don't worry go into the bedroom
00:44:35i'll talk with you as soon as i'm through with this party
00:44:46well well come in miss bradley did you listen i heard a little walter seemed to have some papers that
00:44:52miss bradley wanted to buy but he was holding out for more money and then then there was some sort
00:44:57of scuffle i don't know what happened then miss bradley demanded the papers i got the impression she
00:45:03was covering walter with a gun then a door slammed yes i waited a few minutes then i went in
00:45:09the water had just taken a drink he took a step toward me i'll never forget the way he looked
00:45:19the muscles of his face were all drawn up as if they were knotted then he fell into a chair when
00:45:24i got to him he was dead i was terrified i rushed out of the place why didn't you call the police
00:45:31i was afraid to
00:45:35did you take a drink with bard no
00:45:40do you remember if bard's gun was still in the holster
00:45:44i'm sure it wasn't but i do remember seeing it there when i first went in
00:45:48then who shot bard i shot pod
00:45:55i went to see bar for the same reason nora did i thought perhaps i could get him to change his mind
00:45:59about the divorce i just pulled up with a curb opposite his apartment house door opened
00:46:03nora came running out she looked frightened before i could get around to calling after her she had
00:46:07jumped into her car and started off i noticed that the car in front of the apartment was barred's
00:46:13i'd asked her never to go to bard's apartment again the more i thought about nora being there the less i
00:46:17i liked it
00:46:25shhh
00:46:26shhh
00:46:28shhh
00:46:30shhh
00:46:38shhh
00:46:40shhh
00:46:42shhh
00:46:44shhh
00:46:47the notion that bard's callousness had driven nora to killing him took hold of me
00:46:51that would be murdered
00:46:56looked like poison to me
00:46:59all i could think of was that nora might be traced to the apartment
00:47:02there was only one thing to do get the body out of the place
00:47:05i knew the risk i was running but i had to do it
00:47:19there was only one thing to do
00:47:24someone was coming up
00:47:27i didn't dare go back and wait
00:47:29i'd have to carry him down
00:47:31he was taking a big chance
00:47:33but it was late and luck was with me no one saw me
00:47:49i saw the gun
00:48:01if i could fake a suicide
00:48:02nora's fingerprints wouldn't be on the gun it would swing suspicion away from her
00:48:17nora's fingerprints wouldn't be on the gun it would swing suspicion away from her
00:48:22i held the gun close to him to muffle the shot
00:48:26it occurred to me then if bard's body was found as far as possible from his apartment house
00:48:31nora's danger would be still less
00:48:32i released the brake
00:48:38started the car rolling down the hill away from the apartment house
00:48:44and that's our story nora's and mine
00:48:49templeton do you believe mrs bard's story yes i do
00:48:52and you believe his of course i do
00:48:57you really came down here to convince each other that you were each telling the truth didn't you
00:49:00partly we had to speak for johnny bradley too lieutenant
00:49:05i'll need a detailed statement from both of you later certainly lieutenant you can wait in the outer office
00:49:09i'm sorry flossy but you'll have to see lieutenant carson see the lieutenant he says a dollar six bits
00:49:23that's stiff dino in me and he tells me to see the lieutenant listen i will see the lieutenant and the chief
00:49:33and the mayor and the governor if i have to i'll have me dollar six bits if i have to see the president himself
00:49:41sure flossy sure you're right i don't blame your bit okay my lawyer bird seed what have you got
00:50:03no thanks we've turned up some new evidence
00:50:31it helps me no
00:50:38what is it bar didn't die of a gunshot he was poisoned
00:50:43really someone slipped the stuff in his whiskey decanter
00:50:48oh wait a minute you don't think i put the poison in his decanter
00:50:54why didn't you drink your highball well i i didn't want it
00:50:58how do you think that'll sound in court
00:51:03any way you want it to sound i suppose
00:51:06are you going to book me
00:51:09if you could give me just one solid reason why i shouldn't
00:51:14i'm sorry for you lieutenant carson i'm in a bad spot but so are you
00:51:19you have to decide whether i'm guilty because i really am guilty or because i'm luther bradley's daughter
00:51:26if you book me now you'll never be sure whether you did it because you really believe i killed walter
00:51:31god or or because max calvert told you to
00:51:36that's one of the things i'm trying to get straight in my mind
00:51:39if calvert wasn't turning on the heat
00:51:42and another reason
00:51:45it would have been easy i'd have booked you but fast
00:51:48what other reason
00:51:49it wouldn't make sense to you or to anyone else in my kind of job your reasons have got to make sense
00:51:59i suppose so
00:52:01and that means i'll have to book you the way things stand
00:52:14so
00:52:25it
00:52:31so
00:52:44Yes, sir.
00:53:00Say, is that nutty woman that sells flowers still in the building?
00:53:03In the building? She's practically in my lap.
00:53:06But don't worry, Lieutenant. I'll get rid of her.
00:53:08Don't get rid of her. I want to see her. Send her in.
00:53:11Then see if you can locate Oppenheimer.
00:53:13Okay, Lieutenant.
00:53:14All right, Flossie. The Lieutenant will see you now.
00:53:18Maybe now I'll get me dollar six bits.
00:53:22Sit down, darling.
00:53:23None of that. All I want is the money that Stiff owes me.
00:53:26You mean Bard?
00:53:27He must have died with some assets in his pants, Lieutenant.
00:53:31Don't worry about that. You'll get your dollar six bits.
00:53:34Tell me, did you sell this to Bard?
00:53:36Sure I did.
00:53:37When?
00:53:38Six o'clock this evening, just as he was coming out of Simi's bail bond office.
00:53:42Didn't he pay you for it?
00:53:43He did not. He never pays you.
00:53:46You've always got to chase him.
00:53:48Up to the present moment, that slicker owes me a dollar six bits.
00:53:52Did you see him after that?
00:53:53I went to his apartment to collect, but I didn't see him.
00:53:56He must have been out to dinner. So I stuck around.
00:53:58Did you see anyone else when you were up there?
00:54:00Nobody but Doc Jaeger.
00:54:01Do I get my money or don't I?
00:54:04Jaeger? He was up there?
00:54:06Bard was out to the both of us.
00:54:08What time was this?
00:54:09Oh, I don't know. A past eight, maybe.
00:54:12I knocked on Bard's door and he didn't answer.
00:54:14So I stuck around in the corridor.
00:54:17It was raining out and I was wet to my pelt.
00:54:19Then Doc Jaeger came.
00:54:20Did Jaeger see you?
00:54:21No, he never seen me, but he was there. You ask him.
00:54:24Tell me about Jaeger. What happened?
00:54:26I was drying myself with the radiator on the stairway landing.
00:54:30I was down half a flight, so he didn't see me.
00:54:40Never seen a man so scared.
00:54:41The way he kept looking around.
00:54:42He could hardly find the keyhole. His hand was shaking, so.
00:54:59I don't know how many keys he tried before he got the one that fit it.
00:55:03He shut the door behind him so quiet I could hardly hear it.
00:55:17He couldn't have been in there more than a minute
00:55:18and he still acted like he was scared of his own shadow.
00:55:22He never seen me, but he was there. You ask him.
00:55:37Doc, come into my office again, will you?
00:55:39Okay.
00:55:40And now do I get my financial reimbursement?
00:55:44There you are.
00:55:45You can always tell a gentleman by the way he treats a lady.
00:55:48Just a minute. I want you to wait in here.
00:56:07Come in, Doc.
00:56:11You don't look well, Doc. Sit down.
00:56:13Oh, I'm all right. Tired, that's all.
00:56:16Too much night work, I guess.
00:56:18I'm not as young as I was.
00:56:20What's up, Sam?
00:56:22Bard's death is a lucky break for you, isn't it, Doc?
00:56:25I don't get you.
00:56:26This malpractice case the grand jury's got on you.
00:56:29Bard did some investigating for the medical association, didn't he?
00:56:32Oh, he's got nothing on me.
00:56:34I wonder what happened to the evidence he dug out.
00:56:37It isn't in either his apartment or his office.
00:56:39Because there never was any.
00:56:40I heard different.
00:56:42Funny how it disappeared, isn't it, Doc?
00:56:45Oh, you're not insinuating that I...
00:56:47That you got a hold of it?
00:56:49Yes, I am, Doc.
00:56:50Boy, that's ridiculous.
00:56:52I haven't been out of the building since the body was found.
00:56:55Maybe you were out before it was found.
00:56:57I was not.
00:56:59You weren't in Bard's apartment early this evening?
00:57:01Certainly not.
00:57:02Along about 8.30?
00:57:04No.
00:57:04Suppose I told you you were seen going into Bard's apartment with one of your keys.
00:57:09You stayed there a few minutes, then left, locking the door after you.
00:57:11Whoever said that's a liar?
00:57:13Who's calling me a liar?
00:57:15It's yourself that's the liar.
00:57:17I seen you.
00:57:18A-sneaking into the poor murdered boy's apartment and sneaking out again.
00:57:22With the mark of can all over your face.
00:57:24And that's how the poison got in Bard's whiskey.
00:57:27Help!
00:57:28Help!
00:57:29Help!
00:57:30Help!
00:57:31Police!
00:57:32Police!
00:57:33Help!
00:57:44I'm a hammer!
00:58:01There it is, Mavis!
00:58:25Where did they get him?
00:58:31Take him away.
00:58:41God, come on.
00:58:42Thanks.
00:58:43Who are you?
00:58:44I'm Zachary.
00:58:45Hey, that's the guy broke jail.
00:58:46Yeah, the Philadelphia Phantom.
00:58:48I won my fight by a knockout, so now I'm back.
00:58:51You got back just in time.
00:58:53Well, I guess this ought to wash things up, eh?
00:58:55Not exactly.
00:58:56You're still under arrest.
00:58:57Well, if that ain't gratitude.
00:58:59Don't worry, Zachary.
00:58:59I'll be in your corner when your case comes up.
00:59:01Thanks, pal.
00:59:04You can count on both of us.
00:59:06I think Yeager's confession will be sufficient.
00:59:08Much obliged, Lieutenant.
00:59:10There's still a misdemeanor charge against you, Mr. Templeton,
00:59:12but I don't think it will interfere with your wedding plans.
00:59:15You're invited to our wedding, Lieutenant.
00:59:17Fine.
00:59:17I'll be there to kiss the bride.
00:59:20Good luck to both of you.
00:59:26Now, why couldn't something like that happen to me?
00:59:29Oh, nobody loves her copper.
00:59:31Why don't you ask her?
00:59:33Ask her?
00:59:34Ask who?
00:59:37What?
00:59:38Yeah, ask her out to breakfast with you shortly.
00:59:39Pretty hungry by now.
00:59:40You're nuts.
00:59:41It's been done.
00:59:43After the going over I gave her?
00:59:45I still say it's been done.
00:59:50Maybe you got something there.
00:59:51You're free to go now.
00:59:57We have the confession of a Dr. Yeager.
00:59:59Oh.
01:00:00I'm glad you didn't touch that drink.
01:00:02So am I.
01:00:03I've just had the pleasure of telephoning Max Calvert
01:00:06and informing him that his stooge murdered Walter Bard,
01:00:09which, of course, ruins his front page on Janet Bradley.
01:00:13And that's about all.
01:00:15Unless you want to tell me what you took away from Bard.
01:00:18Between ourselves, of course.
01:00:20I feel I can tell you now.
01:00:22I didn't trust you before.
01:00:24You didn't seem to be yourself.
01:00:26But now you do.
01:00:27Thanks.
01:00:28It's quite a story.
01:00:30Suppose I tell you about it some evening.
01:00:32Soon.
01:00:35Suppose you do.
01:00:40Yes, the lieutenant was very complimentary, Mr. Jones.
01:00:43He said if I hadn't found the body in the clothes closet,
01:00:45the case might never have been solved.
01:00:47Hey, fellas.
01:00:48Look at this.
01:00:50I'll call you back.
01:01:05I'll call you back.
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