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00:00:00THE END
00:00:30Listen, let me be wrong for once. Write a new head.
00:00:52Hey, boy.
00:00:55Yes, sir?
00:00:56Did you find Tracy yet?
00:00:57No, sir. He's still out.
00:00:58When you find Mr. Tracy, would you ask him if he would condescend to undertake a little
00:01:02repertorial chore for me this afternoon, if you don't mind?
00:01:07Oh, no, sir. I don't mind.
00:01:08Don't stand there like an imbecile round him up.
00:01:11Yes, sir.
00:01:13Well, they're here, Mr. Boswick.
00:01:14Who's here?
00:01:15The students.
00:01:16What are they doing here?
00:01:18Mr. Boswick, don't you remember?
00:01:20It was a promotion tie-up to increase circulation.
00:01:22And what did I promise them?
00:01:24Well, they would have worked for you for three days as real reporters.
00:01:28And the one who submits the best story during that time was to receive $50.
00:01:33And a gold medal.
00:01:34Oh, I might have guessed it.
00:01:36I don't know why I let you talk me into these things.
00:01:39Last week you had the place filled with a lot of champion potato pickers.
00:01:42And now the place is going to be overcrowded with a lot of crazy cubs.
00:01:45I won't see them.
00:01:46Mr. Boswick, they're right beside you.
00:01:47Oh, Mr. Boswick, these are the young people you've been so anxious to meet.
00:01:54Miss Nancy Drew from the Brinwood School for Young Ladies.
00:01:57I'm very pleased to meet you.
00:01:59Miss Phyllis Kimble of...
00:02:01How are you?
00:02:02How are you?
00:02:03Oh, Mr. Boswick, are we really going to have real assignments just like real reporters?
00:02:07Can I cover a scandal?
00:02:11Girls, boys.
00:02:13Mr. Boswick, won't you say a few words to the contestants?
00:02:15Yeah, very sure.
00:02:18Why, anyone is simple-minded enough to want to work on a newspaper?
00:02:21I've never been able to find out.
00:02:23Why, Mr. Boswick, journalism is a very noble and glorious career.
00:02:27With all the adventure and romance and everything, I should think you just love it.
00:02:31I do love it.
00:02:32I love every minute of it.
00:02:34I love my employees, too.
00:02:36Here, take one.
00:02:38All right.
00:02:39I won't look.
00:02:39What did you get?
00:02:46I've got to write a story about a squirrel in the park.
00:02:49Where does the mayor live?
00:02:50Why?
00:02:50I've got to find out how many babies he kissed last week.
00:02:52A human interest story about a goldfish?
00:02:55Ladies' amateur poetry club.
00:02:57Cozy Nook Tea Room, 1 p.m.
00:02:59All right, now.
00:02:59Come on, get going.
00:03:00All right, children.
00:03:01Come on.
00:03:02Come on.
00:03:03And if it isn't news, you needn't bother coming back.
00:03:05Clever idea, isn't it?
00:03:06We'll go into that later.
00:03:07Mr. Boswick, I don't believe you take us seriously.
00:03:10My dear Miss, who is this?
00:03:11In regard to your supposition, I see you're not without perspicacity.
00:03:18I still haven't been able to find Mr. Tracy.
00:03:21Every time I depend upon a reporter, I'm double-crossed.
00:03:24Oh, all right.
00:03:25Leave a memo on his desk.
00:03:26Tell him to hurry over to the courthouse right away.
00:03:28They're holding an inquest on that Lambert woman.
00:03:30Yes, sir.
00:03:30Yes, sir.
00:03:31In the Sioux School of Children.
00:03:36Are you satisfied with your assignment, Ms. Drew?
00:04:01Oh, I think it'll do.
00:04:03For a start.
00:04:04Dr. Carey, please.
00:04:17Raise your right hand.
00:04:19You swear the testimony you're about to give will be the truth.
00:04:21The whole truth is nothing but the truth.
00:04:22I'll be God.
00:04:23I do.
00:04:24Dr. Carey, as autopsy surgeon, you examined the body of Kate Lambert?
00:04:29I did.
00:04:30And what did you find?
00:04:31That Ms. Lambert's death was not caused by heart failure, as Dr. Hibbert certified.
00:04:37Her death was caused by a poison, sodium farinide.
00:04:41What is sodium farinide?
00:04:43It's a chemical used in photography.
00:04:45Is such a chemical easily obtained?
00:04:47Oh, no.
00:04:48Only on special order from the manufacturer.
00:04:50It's a new agent, not yet on the open market.
00:04:52In fact, only those who are well-advanced in photography know anything about it.
00:04:56Miles Lambert.
00:05:02Mr. Lambert, you were the first to suspect your aunt had not met a natural death?
00:05:06I was.
00:05:08What aroused your suspicions?
00:05:10Well, for years, Dr. Hibbert had assured me that my aunt's heart condition was nothing
00:05:16to worry about.
00:05:17And when she died so suddenly, I was naturally very shocked and surprised.
00:05:21But even so, I didn't suspect anything until I happened to run across a scientific magazine
00:05:26in my aunt's library.
00:05:28There was an article in that magazine which had a great deal of significance to me in view
00:05:31of the circumstances.
00:05:32The article was about sodium farinide, and the portions of it dealing with the chemical's
00:05:38poisonous properties had been carefully marked in pencil.
00:05:44To whom does this magazine belong?
00:05:46It's addressed to Eula Denning.
00:05:49Did you mark this article, Miss Denning?
00:05:50Well, I...
00:05:51I must have.
00:05:53Why?
00:05:54I keep a file of all chemicals I work with, especially poisonous ones, and their antidotes.
00:06:00Then you are interested in photography.
00:06:01Uh...
00:06:02Yes.
00:06:04How familiar are you with sodium farinide?
00:06:06Well, I...
00:06:07I know something about it.
00:06:10Miss Denning, what was your relationship to Kate Lambert?
00:06:13My mother was her companion for many years.
00:06:16After Mother died, Miss Lambert took care of me.
00:06:20Isn't it true that under the terms of Miss Lambert's will, you were the sole beneficiary?
00:06:24Yes, but...
00:06:26Oh...
00:06:26But I didn't kill her.
00:06:29Why, Kate Lambert was the best friend I ever had.
00:06:32She put me through school, treated me as her own child.
00:06:35And yet you coerced her into making a will, leaving all her property to you.
00:06:38No.
00:06:39A will that was made less than a week before her death.
00:06:41No.
00:06:42I didn't do it.
00:06:44Someone must have taken the poison from the darkroom.
00:06:46Mr. Garrett, if you had the chemical tinned, that would prove I was innocent.
00:06:50How?
00:06:51Well, the murderer's fingerprints would be on it.
00:06:53Not if they'd been removed?
00:06:54But they couldn't be removed.
00:06:56If anyone touched that chemical, the farinii would etch the prints into the metal.
00:07:00A search has been made for the poison container, Miss Denning.
00:07:03It's missing.
00:07:04But it must be in the house somewhere.
00:07:06Miss Denning, you were the only person connected with the Lambert household with a knowledge of
00:07:10sodium farinii.
00:07:11You were the only one who had access to Miss Lambert's room the night she died.
00:07:15And you were the only one who had motive to commit murder.
00:07:18I didn't kill her, I tell you.
00:07:19I didn't.
00:07:19I didn't kill her, I tell you.
00:07:21That's all.
00:07:25What's the verdict?
00:07:25The Denning girl's being held for trial.
00:07:27Murder.
00:07:35What's up, baby?
00:07:36Something we didn't figure on.
00:07:38I gotta get out to Lambert, join up on a tin can.
00:07:44Here!
00:07:45Here!
00:07:45Oh, my heavens!
00:07:48Come back here!
00:07:50Oh!
00:07:50It's gone away, it's gone away.
00:07:53Knock the bumper over.
00:08:00What's all this about a tin can?
00:08:02There's fingerprints on it.
00:08:03If the cops find it first, we're gonna be in a jam.
00:08:06A jam?
00:08:07How?
00:08:08Never mind how.
00:08:09If your Denning isn't sent up, she'll get all that old lady's dough.
00:08:12Oh, I see.
00:08:13And if she is sent up, the money goes to Miles Lambert.
00:08:17Not bad.
00:08:19How much do you get?
00:08:20Oh, Lambert take care of me.
00:08:23Looks like I'll have to start being nice to Mr. Lambert.
00:08:25Don't you be nice to nobody but me, Lambert Pie.
00:08:27Oh!
00:08:28It's on the way.
00:08:32It's on the road.
00:08:33It's on the way.
00:08:42It's on the test.
00:08:46It's on the way.
00:08:47Oh, my God.
00:09:17Be careful, baby.
00:09:30Officer, did a man come in here?
00:09:32The DA scrolled up this joint, miss.
00:09:34No one can get in here without a port order.
00:09:36I'm here to see to that.
00:09:38Oh, well, a man bumped into my fender and ran away and...
00:09:40Oh, a hit-and-runner, eh?
00:09:42Yes, he must be around here someplace.
00:09:45It's the only place he could have gone.
00:09:46Well, in that case, miss, you and I'll just take a look around.
00:09:49Oh, well, maybe you'd better go on that side of the house,
00:09:51and I'll go on this one so he can't escape.
00:09:53Good idea.
00:09:53And if you spot him, yell.
00:09:55I'll come a-runner.
00:10:02Hey, what are you doing there?
00:10:05Why, I'm here to read the gas meter.
00:10:08That's the man, officer.
00:10:09He's the one who smashed my fender.
00:10:10Oh, a run-and-hitter, eh?
00:10:12Yes, but I will prefer charges if you'll pay to have it fixed.
00:10:16Well?
00:10:20Hello, Squares.
00:10:21It'll only cost me three-and-a-half to have my fender fixed
00:10:24and about 50 cents for the gasoline I wasted coming out here,
00:10:27so here's a dollar back.
00:10:29All right, get along with you.
00:10:33Thanks a lot, officer.
00:10:34He had an awful lot of money for a gas meter, ain't he?
00:10:38Maybe I'm in the wrong branch of the service.
00:10:41Did he say he was from the gas company?
00:10:43Yeah.
00:10:44Gee, that's kind of funny.
00:10:48I got it, Mr. Bostwick, all about the Lambert inquest.
00:10:51I was a little delayed on account of a man ran into my fender, and I had...
00:10:54So it was you, huh?
00:10:55You switched those assignment slips, didn't you?
00:10:58Well, I thought reporters always did things like that.
00:11:00At least they do in the movies.
00:11:02And besides, it says right in my textbook on journalism
00:11:04that a newspaper man or woman must stop at nothing to get news.
00:11:06And if she ever intends to impress the editor,
00:11:08she must be willing to do much more than just what the assignment calls for.
00:11:11So there.
00:11:12A thing like this would happen to me.
00:11:15I have it.
00:11:16Every word.
00:11:17Oh, it's sensational.
00:11:18I bet you 2380, you never thought I could do it.
00:11:20Miss Drew, the story of the Lambert inquest was on the street a half hour ago.
00:11:25But that's impossible.
00:11:27I have it right here.
00:11:28I have it.
00:11:31We were lucky enough to get it from the DA's office.
00:11:40Oh, dear.
00:11:42I was so sure I had a scoop and you'd have to stop the presses.
00:11:46Stop the presses?
00:11:47Or something.
00:11:48My dear little girlie, will you please take pity on a poor, tired old man?
00:11:52If another thing like this happens to me today, I'll lose my mind.
00:11:56I'll lose my mind.
00:11:56Good morning, Dad.
00:12:05Good morning, Pet.
00:12:07Well, how's the Star reported this morning?
00:12:09Don't mention it.
00:12:11You watch.
00:12:11I'll show that Mr. Bostitch or whatever his name is.
00:12:14I'll get a story yet.
00:12:15That's the spirit.
00:12:16Good morning, Miss Nancy.
00:12:18Good morning, Nancy.
00:12:19Oh, doesn't that look good?
00:12:20Effie, you're an artist.
00:12:22Boy, oh, boy.
00:12:22What cuisine?
00:12:23Oh, shucks, Miss Nancy.
00:12:25That's just plain old cereal.
00:12:33Dad, I have a favor I want to ask of you.
00:12:35Go right ahead, darling.
00:12:37I'm in a very receptive mood this morning.
00:12:38Go right ahead.
00:12:40Well, Eula Denning needs a good lawyer.
00:12:42And I want you to defend her.
00:12:43No, I wouldn't want that case, Nancy.
00:12:45I've been reading about it, and I'm afraid the girl's guilty.
00:12:47There's not one bit of extenuating evidence.
00:12:49Just the same.
00:12:50I'll bet she didn't do it.
00:12:51What makes you think that?
00:12:52I don't know.
00:12:53I guess maybe it's just my woman's intuition.
00:12:55But she doesn't look like the type would poison anybody.
00:12:57Can't go by type, Nancy.
00:12:59One of the most charming women in history was a murderess,
00:13:01and she committed her crimes for far less than the Lambert estate.
00:13:04That's where the man with the funny ear came in.
00:13:06Funny ear?
00:13:07What are you talking about?
00:13:09This man sat next to me during the inquest,
00:13:10and afterwards got in the car with a woman and ran into my fender.
00:13:13Nancy, I'm going to take that car away from you if you start having accidents.
00:13:16But it wasn't my fault.
00:13:17I wasn't even in the car.
00:13:19That's why I followed him.
00:13:20I made him pay for that fender, too.
00:13:22Guess what, Dad?
00:13:22He went right out to that Lambert estate and tried to get in.
00:13:25Probably another reporter.
00:13:26Oh, I don't think so.
00:13:27He didn't look smart enough.
00:13:28He acted awfully suspicious.
00:13:30Well, I wouldn't concern myself about it too much.
00:13:32Oh, no!
00:13:32You want it?
00:13:33Certainly.
00:13:34I'm saving it for last.
00:13:35Oh.
00:13:37Goodbye, darling.
00:13:37Bye-bye, Dad.
00:13:38Bye-bye, Dad.
00:14:08I'm in the garage.
00:14:10What do you want?
00:14:12Come here, ladies.
00:14:13What's that we're hiding for?
00:14:15I'm busy.
00:14:28Well, where are you?
00:14:31what's the matter what are you hiding for somebody tried to blow up my car
00:14:39oh stop it will you it's nothing to get excited over
00:14:43nothing to get excited over how can you say a thing like that
00:14:49well i might have been blown to bits right before my very eyes
00:14:52it's just a game a whistle bomb
00:14:57you mean it's just a practical joke sure it blows off when you press the starter
00:15:03and boy did you go into a tailspin ted nickerson i'll bet you put that thing in there oh don't
00:15:09be an infant i got better things to do fine thing it's time to be a menace to civilization
00:15:16anyone who deliberately do a trick like that or pipe down
00:15:19look they got a load up they're not mine they're killers killer perkins you'll grow up to be a
00:15:35fiend but it was mary's idea it certainly was mary nickerson you ought to be a shanker ted aren't you
00:15:42going to speak to your sister that gangster she's out of my control oh you're just jealous because
00:15:47you didn't think of at first give me those hey those belong to my big brother they don't now
00:15:52now go on get out of here before i lose control of myself go on get out of here
00:15:57you you thugs i'm no i bet jordan don't you dare come in
00:16:01nice going nancy the very idea
00:16:15just a nice quiet morning at the drew's well so long i'll be seeing you where you going
00:16:19now where do you think i'd be going with this tennis racket to shovel call
00:16:23i'll tell you where he's going for 10 cents
00:16:27i wouldn't pay you a penny i'm not that interested
00:16:29then what are you asking for you get in the house
00:16:33i'll tell you anyway he's got a date with a beautiful girl oh are you going to play tennis
00:16:41again with that that woman what do you mean woman she's only two years older than you are
00:16:46well she'd rather play tennis why all right but i was sort of depending on you to help me
00:16:51oh of course my getting the best story for the paper isn't really so important
00:16:54but you know how it is the honor and everything would be nice
00:16:57oh gosh nancy no it's all right go right ahead don't mind me i just
00:17:00oh by the way i have something for you oh you have
00:17:04well what is it oh it's nothing really just a little birthday present
00:17:08i spent the four bucks i had to fix the fender
00:17:12well gee nancy thanks
00:17:15but my birthday isn't for two months yet
00:17:18is that so
00:17:19oh well now that you've seen it you might as well keep it
00:17:23well gee thanks i i don't oh gosh thanks
00:17:32you're welcome wait a minute nancy look i might postpone my tennis date if you really need me
00:17:38oh don't bother don't bother i was just going down to jail to interview eula denning and uh
00:17:43i wanted you to take your camera along so far she hasn't allowed anyone to take her picture
00:17:47well then how do you expect me to get one
00:17:49oh oh i think of a way
00:17:51then you don't really need me
00:17:54well reporters always take staff photographers when they're when they're on important assignments and
00:17:59besides dad doesn't like the idea of my going to a jail alone
00:18:02i'll go with you
00:18:03a jail is no place for children mary nickerson
00:18:06oh let her go maybe they'll lock her up
00:18:08i should say not
00:18:09now go on change your clothes and wear your new hat
00:18:11all right
00:18:12i'll get your camera for you ted
00:18:14hurry now i want to make the noon edition
00:18:18and besides maybe you'll have time to fix my fender
00:18:20here
00:18:21duped again
00:18:27no cameras
00:18:29well you see i i
00:18:30you're the lady your camera ted
00:18:32huh
00:18:33well okay
00:18:34all right over there
00:18:37well that's that you should have known you couldn't get a camera in this place
00:18:44i did
00:18:46what was in the case i took out the camera and put in a block of wood i think you've done something like this
00:18:52now look you don't expect me to take a picture in here after what she said
00:18:55of course silly
00:18:56and if they catch us we'll stay here
00:18:58oh stop your worry
00:18:59put your hat on
00:19:00inside
00:19:01of course you never saw a real newspaper man without his hat on did you
00:19:04ah they even eat in them
00:19:05oh no no not like that looks awful
00:19:11for gosh sakes what are you doing you just gave it to me
00:19:17It looks awful.
00:19:19For gosh sakes, what are you doing?
00:19:21You just gave it to me.
00:19:22No, no, no.
00:19:23Now, let me fix it.
00:19:33Fix it is right.
00:19:37Oh, you ruined it.
00:19:45There.
00:19:46I know you look like a real reporter, not a store window dummy.
00:19:58Yes?
00:19:59Miss Denning?
00:20:00I'm Nancy Drew of the Tribune, and this is Mr. Nickerson, my photographer.
00:20:03Oh, a reporter.
00:20:05You seem so young.
00:20:07I guess I better explain.
00:20:08We're not real reporters.
00:20:10I just want to win a prize in journalism, and that's why I wanted an interview.
00:20:13What did you say your name was?
00:20:15Nancy Drew.
00:20:16Are you related to Carson Drew, the attorney?
00:20:19He's her father.
00:20:20Oh, I see.
00:20:22Miss Denning, do you know a man with a funny ear?
00:20:25It's all sort of folded up like.
00:20:27No, I don't.
00:20:28What do you ask?
00:20:30Well, there was one at the inquest, and I was wondering if he was a friend of yours.
00:20:34I don't know who he could be.
00:20:35Miss Denning, I don't think you did anything.
00:20:38That is, I mean, I think you're innocent.
00:20:41If it's all right with you, I'm going to ask my father to come and see you.
00:20:44Oh, if he only would.
00:20:46You see, there's...
00:20:47Well, there's so much evidence against me.
00:20:50Why, it's even worse now than it was yesterday.
00:20:53Did they find something else?
00:20:55Police checked with the manufacturers and learned the only sale of sodium Fahrenheit made in this part of the country was to me.
00:21:01Uh-oh.
00:21:02Gee.
00:21:03Oh, if you only had that tin can, the one the poison came in.
00:21:08You know, you told about it at the inquest yesterday.
00:21:10It disappeared.
00:21:11Someone probably stole it.
00:21:12I saw it just beyond the day when I was cleaning out the darkroom.
00:21:15I can't understand why they didn't find it.
00:21:18It was...
00:21:19What's the matter?
00:21:20The tin was empty, but I didn't throw it away.
00:21:24I wanted to save it because the manufacturer's address was on it.
00:21:28Gee, think hard.
00:21:29Maybe you can remember what you did with it.
00:21:31I put some empty bottles and things in the basement in an old cupboard.
00:21:37That container must have been with them.
00:21:39Maybe it's still there.
00:21:40Yeah.
00:21:41You just leave it to me.
00:21:43And please don't tell anyone.
00:21:44Oh, I almost forgot.
00:21:46Miss Denny, may we take a picture of you?
00:21:48I don't mind.
00:21:49Hurry up, Ted.
00:21:51Thanks a lot, Miss Denny, and we'll let you know what happens.
00:21:59A little bit to your right.
00:22:04It looks sad now.
00:22:05Hold it.
00:22:11Here, what's the big idea?
00:22:12What's going on out here?
00:22:13We're taking the telephone to port them with the porn fabric.
00:22:15Am, scray, am, scray.
00:22:16Is the gentleman the prisoner?
00:22:17Ted, I think we'd better be leaving.
00:22:18Well, what if you can't get in?
00:22:34It's still illegal.
00:22:35Not for a reporter.
00:22:37A reporter has the right to do things an ordinary person shouldn't.
00:22:39Ah, fool.
00:22:40Now go ahead, and do just exactly as I told you.
00:22:43Okay.
00:22:44But if anything happens, don't blame me.
00:22:54Hello.
00:22:55Well?
00:22:56You don't want to subscribe to any magazines, do you?
00:22:59No.
00:23:00I didn't think you did.
00:23:02Are you watching this place?
00:23:03Yep.
00:23:04Well, I guess you get kind of lonesomer on here all by yourself, huh?
00:23:09Sometimes.
00:23:10I'm not very busy right now.
00:23:11If you like, I could play a little game of rummy or something.
00:23:14Say, that's an idea, son.
00:23:15Draw up a chair.
00:23:16Swell.
00:23:17Uh, look, do you mind me?
00:23:19I don't mind me.
00:23:20I don't mind me.
00:23:21I don't mind me.
00:23:22I don't mind me.
00:23:23I don't mind me.
00:23:24I don't mind me.
00:23:25I don't mind me.
00:23:26I don't mind me.
00:23:27I don't mind me.
00:23:28I don't mind me.
00:23:29I don't mind me.
00:23:30I don't mind me.
00:23:31Look, do you mind if I sit over there?
00:23:33I'm kind of superstitious.
00:23:35Oh, sure.
00:23:36Sure.
00:23:45We ought to have something to shoot at, son.
00:23:47Say, uh, penny a point?
00:23:49A penny a point.
00:23:50Yeah, that'll be fine.
00:23:53I'll keep score.
00:23:55For you.
00:23:56Yeah.
00:23:57Don't do that.
00:23:59It puts me off of my game.
00:24:00Oh, I-I-I'm sorry.
00:24:01Da da da da.
00:24:04Hurry, Nancy.
00:24:08Hurry, the opkays get my own day.
00:24:11Hey, don't do that.
00:24:13It puts me off of my game.
00:24:15Oh, I'm sorry.
00:24:31Why don't you run away?
00:24:35I'm sorry.
00:24:38I'm sorry.
00:24:43I'm sorry.
00:24:50I'm sorry.
00:24:52I'm sorry.
00:24:56I'm sorry.
00:24:58What was that noise?
00:25:22What noise?
00:25:23I'd better investigate.
00:25:24Well, you were just hearing, please.
00:25:28Well, maybe so.
00:25:48Ed?
00:25:49Your mother wants you to come home, right away.
00:25:52Oh, hello.
00:25:52Glad to see you again.
00:25:55Well, I guess I'll have to be gone.
00:25:58How do we stand?
00:26:00I'll figure it out.
00:26:07You got me in a fine mess.
00:26:09I lost my whole week's allowance to that rummy shark.
00:26:12Well, it was worth it.
00:26:13I found the tin can.
00:26:14Yeah?
00:26:14Uh-huh.
00:26:15And Ted, that man with a funny ear was there.
00:26:17He chased me out of the basement.
00:26:19Gosh, Nancy.
00:26:20We took an awful chance.
00:26:23Maybe we shouldn't have done it.
00:26:24We'd better get this tin right down to the police station
00:26:26and see if Captain Tweedy can find any fingerprints on it.
00:26:29We'll get to it.
00:26:51Suffering.
00:26:51Cats, look at the time.
00:26:52My tennis date was at 3.
00:26:54Oh, but this is much more important than tennis.
00:26:56If I pass her up this time, she'll never play with me again.
00:26:58But don't you want to go to the playstation?
00:26:59You don't need me. You can tell me about it later.
00:27:01Goodbye.
00:27:03Where?
00:27:20Ah!
00:27:21Ah!
00:27:21Ah!
00:27:24Ah!
00:27:28Look out!
00:27:29It's a piece!
00:27:30It's a piece!
00:27:32It's a piece!
00:27:33Caffer!
00:27:34Caffer, get away!
00:27:47Oh!
00:27:47Captain Tweety, of all people, it would have to be you.
00:27:58Well, wait a stair now. Come on, get away. Break it up.
00:28:07Hi, Dad.
00:28:08Hello, Pat.
00:28:09Gee, I'm glad you're home.
00:28:10You are.
00:28:12What are you doing up so late?
00:28:13You get back to sleep.
00:28:15Good night.
00:28:16Oh, but, Dad, I can't go to sleep.
00:28:19What's the matter?
00:28:20Nothing.
00:28:22No?
00:28:23Come on in. Tell me all about it.
00:28:29Now.
00:28:30Dad, you've always taught me to do right, haven't you?
00:28:33I've tried to, Nancy.
00:28:35Dad, if I believed in something I knew was right, I should always live up to it.
00:28:40More than that. Don't back down an inch.
00:28:43Supposing you made a promise that you knew was right, I bet you you'd keep it.
00:28:48Certainly.
00:28:49The person who fails to live up to his promise is a weakening.
00:28:52And you'd never want me to break a promise, would you?
00:28:55Of course not, Nancy.
00:28:57If you make a promise in good faith, I'd expect you to live up to it, no matter what it cost you.
00:29:02And you'd help me live up to it?
00:29:04Certainly.
00:29:05What kind of a father do you think I am?
00:29:07Well, then, you're going to defend Eula Denning because I promised her you would.
00:29:11What?
00:29:12Now, Dad, you just said you'd help me keep a promise.
00:29:14Nancy, you tricked me into this.
00:29:16You're always doing that to me.
00:29:17Now, I won't have...
00:29:20Well, all right.
00:29:21If you can give me any reason to believe that Eula Denning is innocent, I'll take her case.
00:29:26Oh, Dad!
00:29:27I knew you would!
00:29:29Well, Ted and I went out to that Lambert house this afternoon.
00:29:32I sneaked in and found that tin of sodium paranoid.
00:29:34The one that Miss Denning claims could have had fingerprints on it.
00:29:36You two went out there alone?
00:29:38Uh-huh.
00:29:39And I know it was important evidence because that man with the funny ear chased me out of the basement.
00:29:42Dad, that's not the worst of it.
00:29:44When I was taking that tin down to the police, a woman stole it from me.
00:29:48So that proves other people are mixed up in it.
00:29:50You should have gone to the police in the first place.
00:29:52Oh, I know it.
00:29:53Everything's gone wrong.
00:29:55I've failed all around.
00:29:56Maybe I'm just not intelligent.
00:29:58That's right.
00:29:59Dad!
00:30:00Oh, I mean, darling, everybody makes mistakes.
00:30:06Don't you see, Dad?
00:30:07If Eula Denning's convicted, it'll be my fault.
00:30:10Because I was foolish and lost the only evidence that could maybe save her.
00:30:13I'm responsible.
00:30:14Well, don't worry, Nancy.
00:30:16I'll see Eula Denning first thing in the morning.
00:30:18Oh, Dad!
00:30:19Honestly, I feel ten years younger.
00:30:21Don't be too enthusiastic.
00:30:23So far, there isn't a stick of evidence we could take into court.
00:30:26There will be if you can get hold of that man with the funny ear.
00:30:29You think you'd know him again if you saw him?
00:30:31With that ear?
00:30:32I'll say.
00:30:33It looked like one of Evie's top over there.
00:30:34Oh, cauliflower ear.
00:30:35What?
00:30:36I thought of cauliflower a little less.
00:30:37What did you say?
00:30:38I can't understand you, Nancy.
00:30:40Well, how can you expect you splashing around like a seal after a fish?
00:30:44That's no way to talk to your father.
00:30:46Oh, Dad, they're sucking!
00:30:47Oh, why don't you take them out of here?
00:30:49Here, here's a towel.
00:30:50Oh, dear.
00:30:51Now I'll have to start all over again.
00:30:53I said that that man's ear looked like one of Evie's popovers.
00:30:56I said it was probably a cauliflower ear.
00:30:59That might indicate that he was a boxer or a wrestler.
00:31:02Really?
00:31:03But what connection such a man could have with this case is more than I can see.
00:31:06Dad, I felt all along that that man with a funny ear was a clue.
00:31:09I think you ought to do something about him.
00:31:12I'm going to do something about a girl with a funny face.
00:31:14Come on, baby.
00:31:15You're going to bed.
00:31:16Oh, Dad, don't be down.
00:31:17I'm no baby.
00:31:18You'll always be your daddy's baby.
00:31:19I won't be anybody's baby.
00:31:21Everybody loves a baby.
00:31:23That's why I'm in love with you.
00:31:25Pretty baby, baby.
00:31:26Oh, Tress.
00:31:27Pretty baby.
00:31:28Dad, don't be so silly.
00:31:30Good night, baby.
00:31:34Good night, baby.
00:31:36Good night, baby.
00:31:38I'm going to leave you now.
00:31:40Oh, Dad, we've got to talk this thing over.
00:31:42In the morning, the morning.
00:31:44The bright and early morning.
00:31:46The morning.
00:31:56Hello.
00:31:57I'm Nancy Drew.
00:31:59Charm, I'm sure.
00:32:00Draw up a chair.
00:32:04No, thank you.
00:32:05I've been standing all day.
00:32:06Do you keep pictures of all kinds of prize fighters and people like that?
00:32:09You should meet some of my wife's folks.
00:32:11But you came to the right place, sister.
00:32:13I know them all personally.
00:32:14What's your guy look like?
00:32:16Oh, you'll know him in a minute.
00:32:18He has a cauliflower ear.
00:32:29Here.
00:32:30If you recognize him, let me know.
00:32:32Here.
00:32:33If you recognize him, let me know.
00:32:34Here.
00:32:35Here.
00:32:36Here.
00:32:37Here.
00:32:38Here.
00:32:39Here.
00:32:40Here.
00:32:41Here.
00:32:42Here.
00:32:43Here.
00:32:44Here.
00:32:45Here.
00:32:46Here.
00:32:47Here.
00:32:48What do you want?
00:33:04Don't make me yell.
00:33:05Come here.
00:33:07Excuse me a second, Helen.
00:33:15How did you find me here?
00:33:16Hello, it's Ted.
00:33:17Oh, I get it.
00:33:19Where would one expect to find you these days?
00:33:21Ted's got a girlfriend.
00:33:23Ted's got a girlfriend.
00:33:24Quiet, small fry.
00:33:25She's not so pretty.
00:33:26I bet Ted thinks so.
00:33:28Look, what's on your monitor?
00:33:29Look at this clipping I found.
00:33:31Let me see.
00:33:33Soxy Anthens.
00:33:34Who's that?
00:33:35He's the man I saw at the Lambert plays.
00:33:37He used to be a boxer.
00:33:38And right now, he's at Maxie's Gymnasium on First Street.
00:33:40How do you know?
00:33:41Yeah, how do you know?
00:33:42Well, I just asked myself where I'd go if I were a prize fighter
00:33:45and decided it would be to a gymnasium.
00:33:47So I called up all the places in town
00:33:48and pretended I was Mr. Anthens' girlfriend.
00:33:50And pretty soon I found out he was at Maxie's.
00:33:52Then I hung up.
00:33:53Yeah.
00:33:54Well, it was nice of you to tell me about it.
00:33:56I...
00:33:56I gotta get back.
00:33:58Goodbye, big shot.
00:33:59Certainly.
00:34:00I don't want to keep you.
00:34:01I just thought I'd let you know where I'll be
00:34:02in case Dad asks you.
00:34:03You're not going down to that gym alone.
00:34:05Of course I am.
00:34:06Something has to be done about Soxy right away.
00:34:08He's important evidence.
00:34:09So you came over here to tell me about it,
00:34:11so I'll get in a jam with your father for letting you go there.
00:34:13I did no such thing.
00:34:15You're not responsible for me.
00:34:16We'll go with you, Nancy.
00:34:17We did slump fights, don't we, killer?
00:34:19I hope to kiss a polecat.
00:34:21You two will not go.
00:34:22Why not?
00:34:23Why?
00:34:24Never mind.
00:34:24Oh, darn it, Nancy.
00:34:25Now you got me worried.
00:34:26Maybe I'd better go alone.
00:34:27Oh, I don't think you ought to, Ted.
00:34:29It's a pretty tough place.
00:34:30I can take care of myself, and you too.
00:34:32Well, if you insist...
00:34:34Here.
00:34:35What's this?
00:34:36Your costume.
00:34:37You'll pose as another boxer by the name of One Round Lugan.
00:34:40Gain Soxy's confidence, and who knows,
00:34:42maybe he'll incriminate himself.
00:34:43Say, you had this all figured out, didn't you?
00:34:45Why, Ted Nickerson, I did not.
00:34:54Ten samples.
00:35:17This is an awful joint.
00:35:19Ted, there he is.
00:35:20Ted, I'm positive that woman that stole the tin can from me yesterday
00:35:26is Soxy's girlfriend.
00:35:27So now all you have to do is get him to tell you her name
00:35:29and where she lives.
00:35:30Maybe you'd like to know if she's got any bridge work.
00:35:33How'll that help?
00:35:34Do you remember Captain Tweedy always said,
00:35:36Cherchez la fin, find the woman.
00:35:38Very smart thing he ever did say.
00:35:39Yeah, and he stole that.
00:35:41But it's true.
00:35:42You can always get information from women.
00:35:43They just love to talk.
00:35:45Yeah, I've noticed that.
00:35:47Go ahead now.
00:35:47I'll wait out here for you.
00:35:50Gosh, he doesn't look very friendly, does he?
00:35:54Remember, you're one-round Lugan.
00:36:02Wait a minute.
00:36:04What's the name?
00:36:05One-round Lugan.
00:36:06All right, champ.
00:36:07You don't get so long as you can, right?
00:36:14Hiya, champ.
00:36:16I ain't no champ.
00:36:17You sure train like one.
00:36:19I'm kind of new around this place.
00:36:22Yeah, but I've been putting the boys on a canvas up in Frisco.
00:36:25Yeah?
00:36:26I'll be enough of that.
00:36:28Say, didn't I see you at a nice-looking dame the other night?
00:36:30What's your name?
00:36:31Oh, one-round Lugan.
00:36:32I'll bet that baby...
00:36:33One-round Lugan.
00:36:34Never heard of you.
00:36:35Well, I ain't very well known around here yet.
00:36:39How about spying a few hours?
00:36:40That'll get you some attention.
00:36:41Oh, I ain't gonna do any training today.
00:36:46You're a fattier in training all the time.
00:36:48Well, I didn't bring my clothes.
00:36:51It's all right.
00:36:52I'll get you some.
00:36:53Hey, Jake.
00:36:54Yeah?
00:36:55Give me a pair of trunks.
00:36:57He's gonna show me how to do things out in Frisco.
00:36:59Oh, sure.
00:36:59Well, come on.
00:37:00But I'd really rather not.
00:37:02I want some gum, please.
00:37:32Max's gym.
00:37:50This is Soxie Anthon's girlfriend speaking.
00:37:52Will you have him call me back as soon as he can?
00:37:54Wait a minute.
00:37:55He's right here.
00:37:55Hello?
00:37:59Hey, Soxie!
00:38:01Your girlfriend wants you to call her right away.
00:38:03Okay.
00:38:31Come on.
00:38:33No, no, not there.
00:38:34Come on.
00:38:35Through here.
00:38:35Hey!
00:38:37Get in there, will you?
00:38:38In you go.
00:38:41All right, Soxie.
00:38:42Warm up a little bit.
00:38:44A little.
00:38:45That's it.
00:38:51Ha-ha.
00:38:52No dames.
00:38:53Oh, but I've got to go in there.
00:38:54I'm, I'm his manager.
00:38:56His manager?
00:38:59Well.
00:39:00Ted, what are you doing?
00:39:02Oh, gee, Nancy.
00:39:03I'm an awful mess.
00:39:05Well, I just learned something that might be an important clue.
00:39:07Come on.
00:39:07I want to go.
00:39:08So do I.
00:39:09But I can't.
00:39:10I've got to fight him.
00:39:12Fight him?
00:39:14Oh, Ted, you mustn't.
00:39:16I'll get mobbed or something if I don't.
00:39:18Oh, dear.
00:39:20Oh, look.
00:39:20Maybe he's out of condition.
00:39:22Yeah.
00:39:23Like an ox.
00:39:25Okay, one round.
00:39:26Let's go.
00:39:26Ready, Jake?
00:39:27All set.
00:39:31Well, goodbye, Nancy.
00:39:35Now, folks, we're going to have a little excitement.
00:39:37Three-round boxing exhibition between Soxie Ampers of Chicago,
00:39:41who we all know.
00:39:41And one round, Lugan, the Frisco flag.
00:39:51All right, boys, go to your corners and come out fighting.
00:39:55Why, one round.
00:39:56Your gum's untied.
00:39:58Here, let me fix it for you.
00:39:59Hmm?
00:40:04Nancy, you're a genius.
00:40:09Now, if I can only tag you.
00:40:11Come on, Lugan.
00:40:14Come on.
00:40:15Come on.
00:40:16Come again, kid.
00:40:17I mean, Lugan.
00:40:19Come on, Lugan.
00:40:20Come on, Lugan.
00:40:22Come on.
00:40:22Come on.
00:40:24Hang him on a whisker, Soxie.
00:40:26Ah, the kid ain't got no whiskers yet.
00:40:29He has, too.
00:40:31Whoa.
00:40:35Chalk one up.
00:40:36Oh, take this for a change.
00:40:45How much time left?
00:40:47Mountain, don't be so nice to him.
00:40:52Hit him again.
00:40:53Hit him again.
00:40:54Hit him again.
00:40:55Come on.
00:40:56Come on.
00:40:57Come on.
00:40:58Hit him.
00:40:58Hit him.
00:40:59Hit him.
00:41:00Hit him.
00:41:00Hit him.
00:41:00Come on, boy.
00:41:01Hit him.
00:41:01You got to.
00:41:02Ted!
00:41:06Ted!
00:41:08Ted!
00:41:10Ted, speak to me.
00:41:12Speak to me.
00:41:13Ted, what happened?
00:41:15That's what I was just about to ask you.
00:41:19Try a 3-5-2-4-4-9.
00:41:23Gee, I wonder what they're doing.
00:41:26I don't know who they are.
00:41:27Maybe they're both insane.
00:41:28Hello, this is Soxy Anthens.
00:41:33Is my girlfriend there?
00:41:38No soap.
00:41:40Dear, there's only one more we can call.
00:41:43And that just has to be it.
00:41:44If you got the rest of them right.
00:41:46Oh, I'm sure I have.
00:41:47Yeah.
00:41:48Oh, look at me, I'm ruined.
00:41:52I won't even dare show up for my tennis lessons now.
00:41:55Tennis lessons?
00:41:56Ted, is that girl you've been playing with a tennis teacher?
00:41:59Sure, it's Helen Winfield, a champ.
00:42:02Those lessons cost me $1.50 a copy.
00:42:04Tennis teacher?
00:42:05Oh, that's wonderful.
00:42:07I mean, I'm sorry about your lessons, but...
00:42:09Hey, what's the matter with you?
00:42:11Nothing, nothing.
00:42:12Now try that other number, 352440.
00:42:15Maybe you ought to be psychoanalyzed.
00:42:18Oh, I'm going home and get me a cookie.
00:42:21Get me one, too.
00:42:22I'm going to stay here and find out what it's all about.
00:42:24Okay, pal.
00:42:25Room clerk, Beldenberger Hotel.
00:42:33This is Mr. Soxie Anthons.
00:42:36I, I'm calling my girlfriend.
00:42:38Well, she isn't here just now, Mr. Anthons.
00:42:40It's the place.
00:42:42How will I get her name?
00:42:43Be strategic.
00:42:44Yeah, yeah.
00:42:46Uh, do you know where Miss Fultz went?
00:42:49No, I don't, but I'll see if she left a message in your box.
00:42:52Soxie lives there, too.
00:42:53Really?
00:42:56No, there's no message, Mr. Anthons.
00:42:58Shall I tell her you called?
00:43:00Just a moment.
00:43:01Well, Joe, did Miss Lucas take your cab?
00:43:03Yes.
00:43:04Why?
00:43:05Her name's Lucas.
00:43:06Yeah.
00:43:07She went to the Mandarin Cafe, Mr. Anthons.
00:43:10Well, thank you very...
00:43:11Uh, thank you very much.
00:43:14Mandarin Cafe.
00:43:15Do you want any money?
00:43:26Well, not to brag about it.
00:43:28Neither have I.
00:43:29Don't eat too much.
00:43:30Oh, boy, a Chinese place.
00:43:35Mary Nickerson.
00:43:36We just love Chinese places, don't we, killer?
00:43:38Yeah.
00:43:38Oh, for God's sakes, where did you hoodlums come from?
00:43:41Thought you'd get away from us, didn't you?
00:43:43Yeah.
00:43:44You're going home.
00:43:45We are not.
00:43:46We might get lost.
00:43:47We're going with you.
00:43:48Over my dead body.
00:43:49Mine, too.
00:43:50Well, I guess I'll just have to call up Nancy's father then.
00:43:55Oh, all right, all right.
00:43:56I suppose we'll have to do it.
00:43:58But on one condition.
00:43:59When the waiter takes your order, you say, I'm not hungry.
00:44:02But I am.
00:44:03How about you, killer?
00:44:04I'm stuck.
00:44:05We haven't enough money.
00:44:06Are you going to cooperate with us or not?
00:44:08How about it, killer?
00:44:09Sure, we'll play ball.
00:44:11Okay, let's go.
00:44:12Wait a minute.
00:44:13Let's just try this once.
00:44:14Now, I'm the waiter.
00:44:16What'll you have, Tess?
00:44:18Tess?
00:44:18Tess?
00:44:18No, no.
00:44:20Look, we're broke.
00:44:22We can't buy you any food.
00:44:24And would you settle for a glass of milk?
00:44:26Well, we might go that far.
00:44:28Okay, it's a deal.
00:44:31Ted, why do you have to have a sister?
00:44:33Ask more.
00:44:43Oh, I'm afraid this is a little too close to the orchestra.
00:44:52Yes, Kelly.
00:44:54This will be fine.
00:44:55Thank you very much.
00:44:58Ted, did you see?
00:44:59She's right in the next booth.
00:45:01It's Miles Lambert.
00:45:02She is?
00:45:03Come on.
00:45:04Something's funny.
00:45:06I'd positive that Soxie's girl, and think she's stepping out with Mr. Lambert.
00:45:10Do you suppose Soxie knows Lambert?
00:45:12I don't mind.
00:45:14Then be out.
00:45:15What for?
00:45:15Never mind.
00:45:16Never mind.
00:45:16Never mind, Beth.
00:45:24Come on.
00:45:31Max's gym.
00:45:32Soxie!
00:45:33Hello?
00:45:40Mr. Anson's?
00:45:41This is a friend.
00:45:43Would you be interested in knowing that Miss Lucas is dining with Miles Lambert at the Mandarin
00:45:48Cafe?
00:45:49Who's talking?
00:46:06Who'd you call?
00:46:07I phoned Soxie about Lambert and Miss Lucas.
00:46:09And was he mad?
00:46:11Suffering cats.
00:46:12We need to learn something important.
00:46:14Because when he gets here, something's sure to happen.
00:46:16Yeah.
00:46:17Probably a tall one.
00:46:19What are you other, please?
00:46:21Oh, I'll have some egg food young.
00:46:24And you?
00:46:25Uh, just tea.
00:46:27And you two, please?
00:46:28A glass of milk.
00:46:35And chopped suey.
00:46:37Yeah, yeah.
00:46:52Hey, look.
00:46:58Soxie.
00:47:09You cheap little...
00:47:10Take it easy, Soxie.
00:47:11Sit down.
00:47:13You've been planning to run out on me ever since you found out Lambert is moving in on
00:47:17that old lady's dough.
00:47:18Shut up, Soxie.
00:47:19As for you, wise guy, you want this damn, she's yours.
00:47:22But the military or her try and break, you're going to get her surprise.
00:47:25I took up the tin can with fingerprints on it.
00:47:29I don't know what to do with it.
00:47:31Why, gee.
00:47:34Dusty, Dusty, Dusty!
00:47:36Hey, hey, hey, hey.
00:47:37Will you come?
00:47:38Hey, will you come?
00:47:40I don't want to please.
00:47:42No, no, don't do that.
00:47:44Black, okay.
00:47:45We don't want any publicity.
00:47:48Come on, Dolly.
00:47:51Where are the other men at?
00:47:52Get the checks.
00:47:53I've got to call Danny.
00:47:53Sure.
00:47:55Yes?
00:48:03Your daughter's on the phone, Mr. Drew.
00:48:06Hello, Nancy.
00:48:08Dad, what happens to the Lambert estate if Euler-Denning is convicted?
00:48:11It goes to Miss Lambert's nearest relative, Miles Lambert.
00:48:14Why do you ask?
00:48:14Oh, I was just wondering.
00:48:16Thanks, Dad.
00:48:21Come on, Dad, hurry up.
00:48:22Give me some dough.
00:48:23I'm short.
00:48:23That's all I have.
00:48:28Sixty-five cents more, please.
00:48:30Look, mister, that's all we got.
00:48:33Maybe you'll trust us, huh?
00:48:34Oh, sure, sure.
00:48:36You nice people.
00:48:37I trust you.
00:48:37Oh, thank you very much.
00:48:39Come on, Ted.
00:48:39We've got to hurry.
00:48:40Sixty-five cents.
00:48:41But you just said you trust us.
00:48:44You see, mister, we've got to go home and get the money from our folks.
00:48:47We'll come back.
00:48:49Sixty-five cents.
00:48:52Now look what you got us into.
00:48:54We don't know nothing about it, do we, killer?
00:48:56No, they invited us.
00:48:59Look, mister, we haven't got sixty-five cents.
00:49:02Cut check, no sixty-five cents?
00:49:05Yeah, that's right.
00:49:07We got a duck.
00:49:11You wash dishes all day, maybe two, three days.
00:49:22Hey, where do you go?
00:49:24Kitchen that way.
00:49:25No, find a room.
00:49:25Kitchen that way.
00:49:26Now look.
00:49:26Oh, I don't want to wash dishes.
00:49:30I'm awful tired, but I can supervise.
00:49:32You're going to wash dishes, both of you, and it'll serve you right, too.
00:49:35Oh, mister, maybe she could entertain.
00:49:38Entertain?
00:49:39Yeah, she's a famous singer.
00:49:41I thought she was my pal.
00:49:42What are you trying to do?
00:49:43You must be winging.
00:49:45I'm sure she's sung all over the world.
00:49:47All right.
00:49:48You sing nice, American song.
00:49:50No good.
00:49:51Wash-y-dish-y.
00:49:52Come on, quick.
00:49:56What do they sing?
00:49:57Anything.
00:49:58Little Bo Peep.
00:50:00Oh, dear.
00:50:03We'll be in for life after this.
00:50:04Yeah, we'll do it.
00:50:06Hey, mister, can't you help her out?
00:50:10Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep.
00:50:15But she knows just where to find them.
00:50:20For they'll stand around the band, wagging their tails behind them.
00:50:30I diddle, diddle, diddle, the cat has fizzled, the cow is beginning to prune.
00:50:35Oh, little dog laughs, laughs, laughs, because they're never in tune.
00:50:40Mary had a little lamb, little lamb, little lamb.
00:50:45Mary had a little lamb.
00:50:48He said, I'll see you later.
00:50:49He went off to hear them jam, hear them jam, hear them jam.
00:50:55Mary had a little lamb, now he's an alligator.
00:51:00Oaks, peas, beans, and barley grow.
00:51:02Oaks, peas, beans, and barley grow.
00:51:05Can you or I or anyone know how Oaks, peas, beans, and barley grow?
00:51:09Grab yourself a partner, grab yourself a partner.
00:51:15Open the ring and choose one in while we all gaily laugh and sing.
00:51:19Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are.
00:51:24Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky.
00:51:29Twinkle, twinkle, little star, what you are.
00:51:33What you say?
00:51:34Twinkle, twinkle, little star, what you are so.
00:51:37I can't do it.
00:51:38I can't do it.
00:51:39I can't do it.
00:51:40Go fast.
00:51:41Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle.
00:51:46Ah!
00:51:46Fuck.
00:51:47Rock-a-bye, baby, in the treetop.
00:51:53When the wind blows, the crater will rock.
00:51:58When the bow breaks, the cradle will fall, and down will come, baby, cradle and all.
00:52:10Rock it, my baby, we all love music, so don't you count and rock it, my baby.
00:52:28Rock my baby, rock my baby, rock it, my baby, this Tuesdays you see, rock it on down.
00:52:43Ah, Miss Drew, we're all present. Now, here's the $50 and the medal.
00:52:49And now, if Mr. Bostwick has chosen the best news story submitted by our charming...
00:52:54Give the prize to this one, about the humane worker who invented a nutcracker for toothless squirrel.
00:53:00That's me. I won. I won.
00:53:04It is with breakfast.
00:53:05Unless Miss Drew has a better story.
00:53:07Oh, I have a story, Mr. Bostwick, but it's very confidential.
00:53:11You see, my father...
00:53:14Well, what is it?
00:53:17The fact is, Mr. Bostwick, some strange man called my father and said he had the missing tin of sodium Fahrenheit with fingerprints on it that would prove Eula Denning is innocent.
00:53:31It would show up the real murderer of Kate Lambert.
00:53:34Is this true?
00:53:35Why, Mr. Bostwick, you know my father's reputation, and I wouldn't tell a lie.
00:53:41Go on. Go on.
00:53:42Furthermore, the man is bringing the tin to my father's office this evening.
00:53:48Terrific.
00:53:51Hey, Charlie, stop the presses.
00:53:52You're wonderful, Miss Drew.
00:53:53Paul Page, one for replay.
00:53:55Out of story yet?
00:53:56Hey, rewrite!
00:53:57Don't stand there like a halfwit.
00:53:59Give her the money.
00:54:00She won.
00:54:01Congratulations.
00:54:02And now, Miss Drew, I take great pleasure in presenting you the check and the medal.
00:54:07Oh, well, give the check to the others, and I'll just take the medal.
00:54:11Come on, Ted, we're in a hurry.
00:54:27Remarkable.
00:54:29Remarkable.
00:54:29Isn't it a whopper?
00:54:31So the Soxie Anthem's going to spill the beans, eh?
00:54:34Well, well.
00:54:35You don't understand, Sergeant Entwistle.
00:54:37That story isn't true.
00:54:39Must be true.
00:54:39It's printed in the paper.
00:54:40Nancy just made it up.
00:54:42But the printed for it isn't true.
00:54:44That's the trouble with the newspapers these days.
00:54:46Well, it wasn't their fault.
00:54:47I made the editor think the story was on the level.
00:54:49Why?
00:54:51Oh, dear.
00:54:52Sergeant Entwistle, are you sure Captain Tweedy won't be back?
00:54:55Sure, I'm sure.
00:54:56He's in Chicago on a radio interview on how to avoid crime.
00:54:59He's done it, all right.
00:55:00Just the same.
00:55:01I'll bet he'd understand.
00:55:02Yeah.
00:55:03What's Captain Tweedy got that I haven't got?
00:55:05Well, for one thing...
00:55:06Look, Sergeant, I put that story in the paper so the police could trap the real murderer of Kate Lambert.
00:55:13Well, that's different.
00:55:14How?
00:55:15Don't you see?
00:55:16That paper will be on the street any minute.
00:55:18And if Lambert is really the murderer, he'll go to Soxie's room after that tin can the minute he reads the story.
00:55:22He'll think Soxie's going to double-cross him or something.
00:55:25Miss Drew, I'm sort of influenced to think you've got something.
00:55:28Of course I have.
00:55:29Now, all you have to do is be at Soxie's place when Lambert arrives and arrest them both with the evidence.
00:55:33Where's this guy Soxie live?
00:55:35Room 815 Beldenberg Hotel.
00:55:36We'll go along and help you identify them.
00:55:38No, you kids can't come along.
00:55:39Oh, but I've got to go along.
00:55:40I want to get an eyewitness news story about how you handle the case.
00:55:43When they read what I write, you'll probably be promoted.
00:55:46Yeah?
00:55:46I see what you mean.
00:55:48All right, you kids got to promise to keep out of trouble.
00:55:50Oh, sure, we promise.
00:55:51This is Sergeant Entwistle.
00:55:54Send up a couple squad cars.
00:55:55Oh, no, you mustn't do that.
00:55:57If those men see police around, they'll run away.
00:55:59Or at least get rid of that tin.
00:56:01Yeah, so see what you mean.
00:56:02All right, I'll go along.
00:56:03Capture them a single hand.
00:56:04That'll be much better, but if they even see you, then...
00:56:08Oh, don't worry about that.
00:56:09They'll never know me.
00:56:10I'll wear that disguise I wore on the Cullen case.
00:56:12Here it is, Sergeant.
00:56:14Oh, thanks.
00:56:27Oh, careful.
00:56:29Grandma's medicine.
00:56:30Clumsy.
00:56:33Good evening, young man.
00:56:34Good evening, madam.
00:56:35Will you register, Arthur?
00:56:36Huh?
00:56:37Oh, sure.
00:56:38Grandma.
00:56:39Grandmother would like the same room she had the last time she was here.
00:56:42What was it, Grandma?
00:56:43Why, let's see.
00:56:44My memory ate what it used to be.
00:56:46Was it 8.15?
00:56:48Well, 8.15 is occupied, Mrs. Plopper, but I can give you the one right next to it.
00:56:53Oh, that'd be wonderful.
00:56:54Yes, that'll have to do.
00:56:56You see, I'll have to be up high on the count of my asthma.
00:56:59I see.
00:57:01Show Mrs. Plopper to 8.17.
00:57:03Come, children.
00:57:05How don't they make these doors bigger?
00:57:08Careful, Arthur.
00:57:09Yes, Grandma.
00:57:18Anything else, madam?
00:57:27No, thanks.
00:57:29There you are.
00:57:34Get those bags open.
00:57:37Did I tell you about my skies?
00:57:39About here, sergeant.
00:57:41Okay.
00:57:42Did I fool them?
00:57:43Did I fool them?
00:57:44Anything happens, I'll give you the signal.
00:57:47Right.
00:57:47Right.
00:58:14Let me do that, will you, Nancy?
00:58:30Yeah.
00:58:38This one goes on the wall.
00:58:39Pull that wire through, will you, Nancy?
00:58:47Sure.
00:58:53Here.
00:58:53Okay.
00:58:56I don't like this business, Nancy.
00:58:58It gives me the wham-whams.
00:58:59I know, me too.
00:59:03I'll sit here.
00:59:04If you don't hear me, let me know.
00:59:06I can hear them.
00:59:07Yeah?
00:59:08I can hear you.
00:59:09Come here.
00:59:35I can hear you.
00:59:37Oh, why, I, I'm so, I'm so sorry, why, I, I guess I must be in the wrong, the wrong
00:59:55room.
00:59:59What's your name?
01:00:01Why, maybe Mrs. Plopper.
01:00:02Help, help, help, get the wagon, send them off.
01:00:07Help.
01:00:08Josh.
01:00:09Oh, do something.
01:00:10Oh.
01:00:11Come on.
01:00:12Drop that phone.
01:00:13We weren't doing anything.
01:00:14Honestly, we weren't.
01:00:15No, no, we were merely trying to.
01:00:16Shut up.
01:00:17Come on, get up, you.
01:00:18All right, get out of here.
01:00:19Come on.
01:00:20Upstairs.
01:00:21All right, hurry it up.
01:00:22All right, hurry it up.
01:00:23Come on.
01:00:24Come on.
01:00:25Come on.
01:00:26Come on.
01:00:27Come on.
01:00:28Come on.
01:00:29Come on.
01:00:30Come on.
01:00:31Upstairs.
01:00:32All right, hurry it up.
01:00:34Come on.
01:00:35Come on.
01:00:36Come on.
01:00:37Come on.
01:00:39Come on.
01:00:40Come on.
01:00:42Come on.
01:00:43Come on.
01:00:44Come on.
01:00:47All right, hurry it up.
01:00:53Come on.
01:01:03Mister, what are you going to do to it?
01:01:11All right, in here.
01:01:16I wonder what they did to Sergeant Entwitzel.
01:01:29Gosh, I don't know.
01:01:40We've got to get out.
01:01:41Yeah, I know.
01:01:42Oh, it's no use, Nancy.
01:01:47Let's yell.
01:01:48Yeah, together.
01:01:50Help!
01:01:51Help!
01:01:52Somebody like...
01:01:54Gee, I hope they've got machine guns, Miss Stitcher.
01:01:56So do I.
01:01:57Say, look.
01:02:03Nancy's car.
01:02:05This took the air out of the tires.
01:02:07We ought to do something.
01:02:09Say, I just remembered.
01:02:11Hey, those are mine.
01:02:24Let's put them all on.
01:02:26Oh, boy.
01:02:28Oh, somebody.
01:02:31There's not a chance, Nancy.
01:02:33Not a chance.
01:02:34With hundreds of people right under our seat,
01:02:36there must be some way out.
01:02:38What's that?
01:02:40Oh, it's just a fuse box.
01:02:43Say.
01:02:44Those are the fuses to the electric side.
01:02:47If we turned that off, we'd get some attention.
01:02:49Well, they wouldn't notice it for hours, maybe.
01:02:51By that time, it'll be too late.
01:02:53Bell, little...
01:02:54Wait a minute.
01:02:57I've got an idea.
01:02:58There.
01:03:10There.
01:03:11That ought to create a sensation.
01:03:12And this will help.
01:03:20Look.
01:03:21Get the engineer to fix it right away.
01:03:40Somebody's coming.
01:04:08Hurry up!
01:04:09Oh, mister.
01:04:13Downstairs, a criminal.
01:04:14We've got to catch him.
01:04:15Follow me.
01:04:27Where are you at?
01:04:28I don't have to cross me.
01:04:31Mister, please, quick.
01:04:32All right.
01:04:34Give me that.
01:04:35That'll hold him.
01:04:46Ted, hurry up.
01:04:47Right.
01:04:52You're a punchy, Laffert.
01:04:53That story in the paper was a phony.
01:04:55Yeah?
01:04:55Well, you're still hanging under that tin can, aren't you?
01:04:57Sure.
01:04:58In case I have to prove you killed the old dame.
01:05:00I don't trust you.
01:05:01You'll get your dough as soon as they convict you or dame.
01:05:03If I were going to double cross you, you don't think I'd tie up the law here, do you?
01:05:07Where'd he come from?
01:05:09He was looking for that tin can.
01:05:11Say, this is a frame.
01:05:12They're getting away.
01:05:37Look.
01:05:38Look.
01:05:38Come on, let's try this.
01:06:02I'm getting away in my daughter's car.
01:06:08Hey! Hey!
01:06:14Hey! Hey!
01:06:16Hey!
01:06:18Hey!
01:06:20After the man!
01:06:38Ah!
01:06:40Nancy, get off that car!
01:06:44Stop, you idiot!
01:06:46That's the car I'm safe!
01:06:48Come on!
01:06:50Come on!
01:06:52What's this all about?
01:06:54That's him!
01:06:56That's the man to poison the Lambert woman!
01:06:58And here's the proof!
01:07:00is all about that's him that's the man that poisoned the lambert woman and here's the proof
01:07:05hi dad nancy how many times have i told you not sergeant how dare you allow my daughter
01:07:10calling car 21 calling car 2-1 proceed to gem movie theater apprehend two kids boy and girl
01:07:25about 13 didn't like picture set off whistle bomb that is all
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