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00:04:29Well I told you what Dawson would do
00:04:39Yes but you didn't tell me that you were going to flop over to his side
00:04:43I agree with Flint absolutely
00:04:45On the record
00:04:47I want it to appear in the minutes that way
00:04:50I have a check
00:04:52For the amount I mentioned two weeks ago
00:04:55But remember before I close this deal I want the rest of the money and a written agreement as to the stock
00:05:06All right
00:05:07All right
00:05:08All right
00:05:08All right
00:05:08You'll hear from me shortly
00:05:10That's what I want
00:05:20Yes sir
00:05:22What got this a late plan?
00:05:24I had one of these up in the director's room
00:05:26Hard boiled
00:05:27I bet you swallowed him whole
00:05:30I bet you swallowed him whole
00:05:30I bet you swallowed him whole
00:05:30Bad egg
00:05:32Good afternoon
00:05:37Yeah
00:05:37Yes?
00:05:38Yes?
00:05:47Vivian?
00:05:48Oh this is Jim
00:05:49Did you talk to Flint?
00:05:51Yes I told him I couldn't stay here any longer
00:05:54This gloomy house and those terrible mills in the city with Jim, I'll go mad.
00:06:00It's Flint's chance to make a fortune.
00:06:02You can have everything.
00:06:04Live where you like, travel.
00:06:05Steel is in his blood.
00:06:07Flint is steel.
00:06:09But I'm not.
00:06:11Talk to him again this afternoon.
00:06:13Put it to him squarely.
00:06:15It's all so hopeless, Jim.
00:06:17But drop in tonight and we'll talk things over.
00:06:20All right.
00:06:21Goodbye.
00:06:24Have Joe Swan report to my office at once.
00:06:31What did you want?
00:06:32A sponsor, one of the crane men on the night shift.
00:06:34They offered you a million to sell out.
00:06:36You ought to take it.
00:06:38Now, I have plans of my own.
00:06:41The time you boys have finished paying for the stock you're buying,
00:06:44is it going to be the biggest steel mill in the country.
00:06:46In the meantime, these dinner bails are going to remain full.
00:06:51Come on, boys.
00:06:52Time to get back to work.
00:06:54But you were drunk again last night.
00:06:59Who said I was drunk?
00:07:00Flint?
00:07:03I had a drink, but I wasn't drunk.
00:07:06I handled the crane all right, didn't I?
00:07:08Yes, but supposing you were to pull the wrong lever.
00:07:11You might drop a ladle of metal onto some man walking on the floor below.
00:07:17Flint himself is on the floor a lot of the time.
00:07:19Maybe he'd give me another chance.
00:07:22Flint?
00:07:24And he's against a man as that man's finish.
00:07:29I'm running that crane tonight, ain't I?
00:07:30And it's your last night.
00:07:34And it's your last night.
00:07:35End of summer.
00:07:35And it's your last night.
00:09:39Look out!
00:09:48Look out!
00:09:54Look out!
00:09:58Look out!
00:09:59Look out!
00:10:00Look out!
00:10:02My God!
00:10:06Leg.
00:10:36A contract should have come in for six 48-ton girders.
00:10:58Yes, it came to the office yesterday.
00:11:01Oh.
00:11:03Good.
00:11:06Uh, these, uh, government contracts, Jim, give them precedence over everything.
00:11:12Now, use the finest steel.
00:11:14It may mean the lives of men.
00:11:16Yes, John, I understand.
00:11:20I must get back to the middle.
00:11:22The quickest way for you to get well is to stop thinking about these things.
00:11:26Yes, it's good advice, but hard to follow.
00:11:30You can rely upon the men at the mill.
00:11:32You yourself trained them.
00:11:34And Vivian, she's proving quite a businesswoman.
00:11:37Well, you and, you and Joe Wilson take care of her, hmm?
00:11:42She's more capable than you think.
00:11:45I've had part of attorney drawn up so that she can sign papers that require your signature.
00:11:51Oh, oh.
00:11:52It would be excellent training for her.
00:11:54Good, yes.
00:11:56Oh, it would help to distract her mind and give her a deeper interest in my affairs.
00:12:06Mr. Marley, this won't do at all.
00:12:08The hospital isn't the place for iron and steel any more than the steel mill is the place for rest and quiet.
00:12:13You're quite right, Doctor.
00:12:14I'm sorry.
00:12:15I'll have to be responsible for his condition if this keeps up.
00:12:19Safety's temperature, please.
00:12:26Goodbye, John.
00:12:27Well, then.
00:12:33Oh, Doctor.
00:12:34I suggest you give orders that he's to attend to no business whatsoever and seize no one, with the possible exception of Mrs. Dawson.
00:12:45Yes, yes.
00:12:52When will I be out of here?
00:12:54If you obey orders and forget all business worries, we'll have you back in your own home before the New Year.
00:12:59So you're beginning to face facts.
00:13:22Flint thinks more of his mill than he does of you.
00:13:26I'd like to take you away from here.
00:13:27You don't know what you're saying, Jim.
00:13:30But I love you.
00:13:31If he doesn't love you enough to take you away, then...
00:13:34Will you come with me?
00:13:39To go away with you?
00:13:43No.
00:13:44No, it's impossible, Jim.
00:13:53If Flint were the only reason, Jim.
00:13:56But there's another.
00:13:57It's all so hopeless.
00:13:59But I love you.
00:14:00Please.
00:14:00Please.
00:14:01Please.
00:14:01Please.
00:14:14Mrs. Dawson has called to take me home?
00:14:28I'm sure she'll be here a little later.
00:14:30But remember, another month in bed after you go home, the doctor's orders.
00:14:36Oh, I suppose so, I suppose so.
00:14:38Oh, Mr. Enright has gotten permission from the doctor to see you.
00:14:42Huh? Enright?
00:14:43Oh, yes, yes, yes. Show him in, please, nurse.
00:14:55Now, hello, Enright.
00:14:57Oh, I am.
00:14:58Sit down.
00:14:59Oh, thank you.
00:15:00Last time I saw you was the day this happened.
00:15:04Today I'm being moved to my home, and in a month's time I'll be at my desk.
00:15:09Well, the matter I've come to see you about is urgent.
00:15:11Well, if it's about that merger, my answer's the same today as it was three months ago.
00:15:15The merger was put through six days ago.
00:15:18What?
00:15:19Impossible.
00:15:21My proxies, my own stock.
00:15:23Your proxies were revoked a week ago, and your stock purchased by my client.
00:15:27In October, you executed a general power of attorney.
00:15:31Yes, to my wife.
00:15:32Well, no doubt she acted for your best interests in selling your stock.
00:15:36That is, I assume you will never again be able to attend the business.
00:15:40Your assumption is wrong.
00:15:41Well, I'm not here to argue.
00:15:42The check paid for your stock was endorsed by your wife and deposited in her account.
00:15:49If there's any irregularity connected with this, I shall, of course, at once take steps to protect my client.
00:15:54What steps?
00:15:55If necessary, the detention of Mrs. Dorff.
00:15:57Detention?
00:15:58Ridiculous.
00:15:59Why, she's calling for me here today.
00:16:02Well, I've been informed she's sailing for England today.
00:16:04Oh, nurse, please telephone my home to see if Mrs. Dawson has left to the hospital.
00:16:26Yes, sir.
00:16:28For the protection of my clients, I prepared a general release.
00:16:33If you care to sign it, otherwise I shall be forced to take steps against Mrs. Dawson.
00:16:45Well, can you tell me where we can locate Mrs. Dawson?
00:16:53Goodbye.
00:17:03Has Mrs. Dawson left for the hospital?
00:17:14Mrs. Dawson left the city last night with your daughter for England.
00:17:33My wife has been tricked into this.
00:17:49I'll settle with whoever is responsible.
00:17:52Oh, yes, of course.
00:17:53Of course.
00:17:53It may interest you to know that we propose following James Marley's plan for a gradual expansion of the Dawson mills.
00:18:07Sorry the industry has lost you.
00:18:10Good day.
00:18:11She couldn't have known what she was doing.
00:18:23She was very young.
00:18:26Younger than I by 15 years.
00:18:30Come in, Joe.
00:18:44Glad you're here.
00:18:47Why haven't I seen you in the past two months, hmm?
00:18:49Mr. Marley said that no one was to see you, sir.
00:18:52Doctor's orders.
00:18:55Huh.
00:18:55Do you know about the merger?
00:19:01We just heard about it this morning.
00:19:04Last week we gave our proxies to Mr. Marley.
00:19:07We thought, or he made it appear, there was to be a fight.
00:19:11That he was going to act as you would have acted.
00:19:14Jim Marley.
00:19:17Is Marley at the mill?
00:19:19I understand he's sailing for England.
00:19:22As soon as I heard this, I went to the bank.
00:19:24I took the liberty of checking things up, sir.
00:19:27Yes, sir.
00:19:30There isn't much left, sir.
00:19:37I see that everything's paid.
00:19:40Yes, of course.
00:19:42We had a meeting this morning.
00:19:44All the men at the mill.
00:19:46And we want you to know that...
00:19:49Well, that...
00:19:50You'll always be provided for.
00:20:00Don't repartime it, Scrippled Joe.
00:20:02Plenty left so I can take care of myself.
00:20:05Yes, sir.
00:20:05Of course.
00:20:06Oh, nurse.
00:20:17Oh, nurse.
00:20:19Would you have the order to come in here, please?
00:20:22I'm giving up this room.
00:20:25But, Mr. Dawson, you can't.
00:20:27Some years ago, I...
00:20:28I endowed a ward.
00:20:29I want to be moved in there.
00:20:33You see,
00:20:34I...
00:20:34I want people to talk to.
00:20:45The boys won't let you do that.
00:20:46Move my bed a little, Joe.
00:20:48So I can see out that window.
00:20:51Yes, sir.
00:20:51That's right.
00:21:08Now,
00:21:09you remember the plans we talked over together?
00:21:14For gradual expansion of the mill?
00:21:17And Marley stole them, too.
00:21:19For the new corporation that's carrying them out.
00:21:26Look out there.
00:21:28I...
00:21:28I can't see the mill.
00:21:30For the snow.
00:21:33I can.
00:21:35I can see it.
00:21:37Not as it is now.
00:21:39But as it will be,
00:21:4010 or 15 years from now.
00:21:44When my plans are carried out,
00:21:47its capacity will be doubled.
00:21:49You're mistaken, my friend.
00:21:55Soliciting arms is one of the oldest and most honorable professions.
00:21:59I live well.
00:22:00I save money.
00:22:01I get more out of life than most men.
00:22:04Well,
00:22:05you seem to have something which people with eyes seldom find.
00:22:09Happiness.
00:22:09People with eyes see very little.
00:22:13I know all that goes on around me
00:22:16through my other senses.
00:22:19I offer you a partnership.
00:22:21I'll furnish the locomotion,
00:22:23and you furnish the vision.
00:22:26Interesting.
00:22:28But for me, impossible.
00:22:29I have two serious purposes in life, Marshal.
00:22:35One is to find a woman and a child.
00:22:38To see they never want for anything.
00:22:39The other
00:22:41has to do with a man.
00:22:45Ah, but how will you accomplish these things?
00:22:47To take time.
00:22:49Ah, exactly.
00:22:50Throw in your lock with mine,
00:22:52and we'll wander
00:22:53until we find this woman and child
00:22:55and the man.
00:22:57Is it a bargain?
00:22:57I assure you, my friend,
00:23:00you'll never have a dull baby.
00:23:03John Flint Dawson?
00:23:06A beggar?
00:23:09Huh.
00:23:10Unthinkable.
00:23:11Hmm.
00:23:27Thank you, madam.
00:23:33If you are blind,
00:23:34how did you know I was a woman?
00:23:36By the sound of your footsteps.
00:23:38Also a faint fragrance.
00:23:40If we lose one sense,
00:23:42nature generously
00:23:43sharpens the other four.
00:23:45Oh, I see.
00:23:57steel, copper, iron, coal.
00:24:08You carry quite a list.
00:24:10Who publishes these little volumes?
00:24:12I write them and have them printed.
00:24:14Hmm.
00:24:15How interesting.
00:24:57What do these crowds remind you of, John?
00:25:03Hmm?
00:25:05Oh.
00:25:06Yes.
00:25:14Hmm.
00:25:15Hmm.
00:25:16Hmm.
00:25:16Hmm.
00:25:27Hmm.
00:25:30Stay where you are.
00:25:32Hmm.
00:25:33Hmm.
00:25:45Hmm.
00:25:46Hmm.
00:25:47Sure, and what kind of beggars are you, refusing a reward?
00:25:51Well, I have something else in mind.
00:25:53During the past two years,
00:25:55Martian and I have come in contact with nearly 2,000 beggars.
00:25:59We have a plan of organization that will give them self-respect,
00:26:03do away with fakers, and be of some service to the public.
00:26:07Oh, how far have you got along with this organization?
00:26:10We have several hundred members.
00:26:11We have selected members.
00:26:13Ah, wait a minute, wait a minute.
00:26:14Megan's against the law.
00:26:17But our members operate under peddler's licenses.
00:26:20I sell sheep music.
00:26:23The point is that someday this organization will have 5,000 pairs of eyes, ears, or both.
00:26:32In every city we're in direct contact with the underworld.
00:26:35We could be of great service in apprehending criminals.
00:26:39Oh, sounds interesting.
00:26:42I'd better take you into the chief.
00:26:44Come on.
00:26:54Things have worked out well, Gus.
00:26:56We now have 680 members.
00:26:59And we want you to join us.
00:27:01An organization in every city, a comfortable place to live.
00:27:04How much do you take in each day, Milken?
00:27:14I average pretty well.
00:27:16Three or four dollars.
00:27:18How much do you save?
00:27:20Never saved a penny in my life.
00:27:21Ha-ha.
00:27:22That's the point.
00:27:24Now, this is the proposition.
00:27:26Our organization is actually firm.
00:27:28It didn't be.
00:27:29This is what we hope to do.
00:27:35You are a good business here, Sam.
00:27:38I'd like to have you on our finance committee.
00:27:40Well, take it over, John.
00:27:42How many members have you got lined up?
00:27:45Oh, over 1,100 in two years.
00:27:47With savings averaging around 270 a day each.
00:27:50That's $3,000 a day to be invested.
00:27:54More than a million dollars a year.
00:27:57It's getting into big business.
00:27:59You bet.
00:28:01The men who join us will someday live in comfort.
00:28:05They'll share in big enterprises.
00:28:09Gentlemen, are there any questions you wish to ask?
00:28:13Yeah.
00:28:14Say, what's the catch anyway?
00:28:17Ha!
00:28:17Sounds phony to me.
00:28:19What does this John Daniels get out of it?
00:28:22None of the money that you put in.
00:28:24No?
00:28:25But for organizing and overhead expenses,
00:28:28he will receive 10% of the profits he will make for you
00:28:31by investing your money.
00:28:33Oh.
00:28:34Well, gentlemen,
00:28:36I think Mr. Daniels can explain this better than I.
00:28:39All right.
00:28:40Now, in the first place,
00:28:43I want you to understand
00:28:45that not all of you will be allowed to join this organization.
00:28:49No.
00:28:51Those of you who are physically fit to earn their living in other ways
00:28:54won't even be considered.
00:28:58There are now 2,000 members
00:29:00who are saving about $3 a day each.
00:29:04Last year, these savings amounted to more than $2 million.
00:29:08Within 10 years, I estimate there will be about 5,000 members.
00:29:16And, well, you can figure it out for yourselves.
00:29:19That will mean a total investment of between $40 and $50 million.
00:29:23He can, at any time, draw up both principal and profits.
00:29:30The benefits include club rooms,
00:29:34a decent place to sleep in,
00:29:36food at cost,
00:29:37medical care,
00:29:39legal services,
00:29:40the purchase of wholesale prices of the wares you peddle,
00:29:43the license fees, etc., etc.
00:29:47Now, to you other men,
00:29:49I've time to say very little.
00:29:52Except that we have an employment agency.
00:29:54If you want to work.
00:29:56Oh, I see.
00:29:57How do we know our money?
00:29:58I always come here.
00:29:59I'll explain everything to you.
00:30:00It's really on the principle of the...
00:30:02I'll explain everything to you.
00:30:32We'll get him in the center.
00:30:40New director's meeting.
00:30:42Big doings.
00:30:43With Jim Marley in control, this mill will soon be going full blast.
00:30:47Say, who is this Jim Marley?
00:30:49Uncle Joe, ain't Jim Marley the man that put this mill and the steel combined
00:30:54about 10 or 12 years ago?
00:30:5615 years ago.
00:30:58I thought so.
00:30:59He saved it from the snap heap, didn't he?
00:31:01Young fellow, this was the best independent steel mill in America.
00:31:05And that was when Flint Dawson was general manager.
00:31:08Something for you, Uncle Joe.
00:31:15Whatever happened to this Flint Dawson?
00:31:18He got hurt in a bad accident at the mill.
00:31:21After that, I heard he was killed somewhere in a train wreck.
00:31:31Hmm.
00:31:33Well?
00:31:34Looks like all us old timers have been thrown on the scrap piles.
00:31:37Well?
00:31:38Looks like all us old timers have been thrown on the scrap pile.
00:31:41Well, looks like all us old-timers have been thrown on the scrap pile.
00:32:01You can't put new wine into old bottles.
00:32:04Those old employees were trained by Flint Dawson.
00:32:07They know how to make steel.
00:32:08He's right.
00:32:08But this is not a charitable institution.
00:32:12And if any of the directors are not in sympathy with my policies,
00:32:15they have, of course, the privilege of tendering their resignations.
00:32:22Gentlemen, I move we adjourn for the day.
00:32:25Second the motion.
00:32:31We're with you, Jim.
00:32:32All the way.
00:32:33Thanks.
00:32:35Good work, Jim.
00:32:37Oh, Wilson.
00:32:38My nephew, Lee Marley, is arriving today from New York.
00:32:41Should be here now.
00:32:42Have him shown up to my office.
00:32:43Yes, Mr. Marley.
00:32:49Marley, you're skating on thin ice.
00:32:52How so?
00:32:53Davis tells me that you and the crowd are unloading the stock that gave you control of this corporation.
00:32:57We'll buy it back at a lower figure.
00:33:00Thin ice.
00:33:01Another point.
00:33:03There are still three or four hundred old employees who through the years have been buying stock.
00:33:08Voting stock.
00:33:10Dynamite.
00:33:10When combined stock has been sufficiently depreciated, we'll form a syndicate and buy them out.
00:33:15They'd rather sell their right arm.
00:33:18If they're out of work, they won't be able to make the payments.
00:33:23They'll have to sell out.
00:33:31Come in.
00:33:32Well, Mr. Marley, I hope you're out this policy of discharging the older men.
00:33:45My own notice came as somewhat of a surprise.
00:33:51Personally, I'm well fixed.
00:33:54I'm thinking of the old laborers.
00:33:56That policy's already gone into effect.
00:33:59Before you leave, check up on the stock being purchased by the employees.
00:34:04Where'd you keep the certificate?
00:34:05In the company safe.
00:34:06Well, bring me the stock books.
00:34:07I'll go through them with you.
00:34:09Very well.
00:34:15Come on.
00:34:25I want you to be my uncle.
00:34:27A natural woman hit her, but wait till he sees you.
00:34:30Not now.
00:34:30I'm going to steal your car.
00:34:32Come on.
00:34:32I'll come and get you after I've seen my attending.
00:34:34This is going to be the most exciting day of my life.
00:34:37You know, Lee, what I'd like?
00:34:38What is it?
00:34:39I'd like one of those little cottages we just packed.
00:34:41I could put up your lunch every day.
00:34:43Cottage cheese and cottage pudding.
00:34:45And you cook?
00:34:46Certainly.
00:34:48Are you sure?
00:34:49Well, not too sure.
00:34:50I never tried.
00:34:51Are you willing to try?
00:34:52Of course.
00:34:53And you promised to marry me.
00:34:55You want to marry me just for my thing?
00:35:01Well, a dyspeptic old man at 25.
00:35:06Now, listen, don't you forget to call for me.
00:35:08I won't.
00:35:09All right.
00:35:09Bye, dear.
00:35:11I'm going to make you secretary of this corporation.
00:35:13But you don't mean secretary of combined steel.
00:35:17In fact, what I do mean, I'm putting in young, vigorous men.
00:35:20Wait.
00:35:21I'll work day and night.
00:35:24Secretary of combined steel.
00:35:26Well, there's a certain party that will be mighty glad when she hears this.
00:35:31Yeah?
00:35:32Mm-hmm.
00:35:33Well, this position, Lee, is one of great responsibility.
00:35:36You'll have to forget about women.
00:35:37But you see, Uncle Lizzie, this is different.
00:35:43Why, we're going to settle down even to the workman's cottage.
00:35:47That is, if she'll marry me.
00:35:52Pull up a chair and I'll tell you about your new duties as secretary of combined steel.
00:35:56Oh.
00:35:56I don't know.
00:36:03That's the only answer I can make to your questions, Joyce.
00:36:05But you do know, Scotty.
00:36:07You're the wisest man in the world.
00:36:09Joyce, darling.
00:36:10I'm your father and your mother and your brother.
00:36:13I raised you.
00:36:14And there isn't anything I wouldn't tell you.
00:36:16All right.
00:36:17Then just answer me one question.
00:36:18Who is John Daniels?
00:36:21John Daniels is as much of a mystery to me as he is to you.
00:36:26More so.
00:36:28I hear from him three or four times a year.
00:36:30I receive sums of money for your support.
00:36:32I keep detailed accounts.
00:36:34Yet you've never seen the man?
00:36:36Twelve years ago, a man came into my office with a letter from John Daniels.
00:36:41I was to go abroad to an institution in Liverpool
00:36:43and arrange for the adoption of a six-year-old child.
00:36:46Her name was Joy McLaughlin.
00:36:48Since that time...
00:36:49Yes, I know.
00:36:51Well, that's all I know.
00:37:06All right.
00:37:06If you can't tell me anything, I'm going to tell you something.
00:37:09I'm in love.
00:37:11This time it's the real thing.
00:37:12You're sure it's the real thing?
00:37:14Mm-hmm.
00:37:15We met on the boat just before it sailed from Buenos Aires.
00:37:18We were together every evening.
00:37:21Well, who is he?
00:37:22And when am I going to meet him?
00:37:26A letter, Mr. Target.
00:37:28It's marked important for immediate delivery.
00:37:31Will you see her, Grant?
00:37:32Sure.
00:37:32Well, for the first time after all these years, I'm going to meet John Daniels.
00:37:50What?
00:37:50Good night.
00:37:51I'm going to meet John Daniels.
00:37:53I'm going to meet John Daniels.
00:37:53I'm going to meet John Daniels.
00:37:54I'm going to meet John Daniels.
00:37:55I'm going to meet John Daniels.
00:37:55I'm going to meet John Daniels.
00:37:56I'm going to meet John Daniels.
00:37:57I'm going to meet John Daniels.
00:37:57I'm going to meet John Daniels.
00:37:57I'm going to meet John Daniels.
00:37:58I'm going to meet John Daniels.
00:37:59I'm going to meet John Daniels.
00:37:59I'm going to meet John Daniels.
00:38:00I'm going to meet John Daniels.
00:38:01I'm going to meet John Daniels.
00:38:01I'm going to meet John Daniels.
00:38:02I'm going to meet John Daniels.
00:38:03I'm going to meet John Daniels.
00:38:04I'm going to meet John Daniels.
00:38:05I'm going to meet John Daniels.
00:38:05My name is Marsant. Mr. Tigat, how do you do? Mr. Daniels is waiting to see you.
00:38:27Mr. Tigat is here, John. Mr. Dawson. Coming, Scott. Glad to see you. Lots of things to talk about.
00:38:47How are you? What do you do? I read in the papers you were killed in a railroad accident.
00:38:56Fifteen years ago. Oh, I had some baggage on that train. The incident served a purpose.
00:39:01Helped to conceal my identity. Sit down. Thank you.
00:39:06The last time I talked to you was the time I advised you to take up the study of law.
00:39:09The time you made it possible for me to study law. Well, I figured that an honest office boy would make an honest lawyer.
00:39:14You proved I was right. Also, I liked your lack of inquisitiveness.
00:39:18I haven't been from a lack of curiosity. A strange story, Scott.
00:39:24Possibly you remember a man named Jim Marley. Yes. Yes, he was secretary and treasurer of the old Dawson company at the time of your accident.
00:39:33It wasn't an accident. On the day I learned what Marley's done, I insisted for me move her to the hospital wound down for the destitute.
00:39:42There I came to know a blind man named Marta.
00:39:45An amazing story I've ever heard.
00:39:48Well, my estimate, through fortunate investments, we've almost doubled their savings for it.
00:39:53Financially, this must be one of the strongest paternal organizations in the world.
00:39:57It is. You...
00:40:00You haven't mentioned your daughter.
00:40:02Do you mind telling me how you found her?
00:40:07Marshal and I found Joyce in England.
00:40:10Just twelve years ago.
00:40:30We also found Joyce's mother on the morning of that day.
00:40:45According to this letter from Gypsy Jones, this is the street.
00:40:50We turn in this corner.
00:40:52Was the little girl with her?
00:40:54Yes, they were together.
00:40:55He followed them.
00:40:56Gives a number of the house.
00:41:00Why don't we go there?
00:41:02Well, this is not the kind of street she'd live in.
00:41:14Officers have been in and out all day.
00:41:16Miss Berger found a body she did early this morning.
00:41:19Suicide.
00:41:20That's what they say.
00:41:21But how do they know?
00:41:22A man came up to see her last night.
00:41:24Didn't anybody hear the shot?
00:41:25Woke me up.
00:41:26Then a truck went rumbling by.
00:41:28And I say to Mr. Jones...
00:41:29Here they come.
00:41:31This is horrible to me.
00:41:35It's horrible to me.
00:41:37It's horrible to me.
00:41:38Isn't it horrible?
00:41:40I wonder what horrible to me.
00:41:42They were way ahead of me before.
00:41:44Goodbye.
00:41:45Goodbye.
00:41:46That night we found Joyce in a small institution where her mother had placed her.
00:41:57You haven't seen Joyce since then?
00:41:59I've seen her at least twice a year.
00:42:02In order not to humiliate her, I've always remained in the shadows.
00:42:07As to Marley, I've bided my time.
00:42:13Now that time has come.
00:42:16These are your instructions, Scott.
00:42:18Preliminary to the time when I shall confront Marley personally.
00:42:21He's exceeded in placing himself at the head of Combined Steel.
00:42:24Then he'll depress the stock by selling it short.
00:42:27With the idea of buying it back at a lower figure for personal crooked profit.
00:42:31My idea and plan is to buy that stock quickly.
00:42:35I'll go over these instructions tonight.
00:42:37Use E.J. Curry and company for your brokers.
00:42:40Marley tried to ruin Curry.
00:42:42And I want you to buy 10,000 shares outright.
00:42:45Give them to Joyce.
00:42:47So as I'm beaten, she won't have to suffer.
00:42:50Start buying tomorrow at noon.
00:42:52I'll follow your orders to the letter.
00:42:55Good night, Scott.
00:42:56Good night, sir.
00:42:57How far will meet you at night?
00:42:59I wasn't given the word to the letter of the letter of the letter of the letter.
00:43:03Go, sir.
00:43:21My name is Charlie Putu,
00:43:21depending on the level of the letter of the letter,
00:43:24you have to find the letter of the letter.
00:43:26Mr. Marley, your old enemy E.J. Curry is buying combine in 5,000 share lots.
00:43:43Curry's back in the market, Mr. Marley.
00:43:46Yes.
00:43:49Traley must have learned you're short on combined steel.
00:43:51He's out to get you.
00:43:53Splendid.
00:43:54Sell from my account 5,000 shares each time the stock goes up half a point.
00:43:58But you're already short 15,000 shares.
00:44:01I'm going 40,000 shares short.
00:44:04I'll bring in the security before the market opens tomorrow morning.
00:44:07All right, goodbye.
00:44:12Now, Lee, yes, sir, call a special meeting of directors tomorrow morning.
00:44:16You'll only have to notify these men.
00:44:19Anything wrong?
00:44:19Oh, no, an old enemy of mine named Curry has apparently secured considerable backing and is trying to get stock control of combine.
00:44:26Any chance of it succeeding?
00:44:29I'll have my heel on his neck within 24 hours.
00:44:32For another matter, there are 400 stock certificates representing 40,000 shares of combined that Wilson fails to prepare for issues.
00:44:41This evening, I'll help you go through them.
00:44:43You'll have to sign each certificate as secretary of the corporation.
00:44:46Yes, sir.
00:44:48I did have an appointment this evening, but I can break it.
00:44:51Oh, that's all right.
00:44:51Be back here at 9.30.
00:44:53That'll be time enough.
00:44:54Well, what now?
00:45:05Well, now I'll tell you why we're here.
00:45:07Scott Taggart lives in that apartment house over there.
00:45:10And this afternoon, he told me I must never see you again.
00:45:13Oh, yeah?
00:45:14Well, I'll talk to him about that.
00:45:15Now, listen, Lee.
00:45:16I have an idea it had something to do with my guardian.
00:45:19All my life, I felt a force.
00:45:22It sounds silly, but it's there.
00:45:23It's invisible, but it has a name.
00:45:27John Daniel.
00:45:28Oh, is that your guardian's name?
00:45:29Yes.
00:45:29And tonight, I'm going to see him, and you're going with me.
00:45:32That's why we're here.
00:45:33Scotty made an appointment to see him.
00:45:35I found that out.
00:45:36And we're going to follow him.
00:45:37Oh, now, listen, I'm no good as a detective.
00:45:40Shh.
00:45:40There's Scotty now.
00:45:50Hurry, before he gets out of sight.
00:45:53Did you see that?
00:46:09The man that let Scotty in locked the gate.
00:46:12Well, what's our next move, Miss Sherlock Holmes?
00:46:15Have you got the nerve to go through with it?
00:46:17Bet I have.
00:46:17Well, we can't go in the front way.
00:46:20Well, how about the back?
00:46:22I could put on a long gray beard.
00:46:24Have you got one with you?
00:46:25I'll grow one.
00:46:28Let's go over the top.
00:46:29Of what?
00:46:31Of that wall.
00:46:32And through the garden.
00:46:33Oh, I can just see myself dangling by the seat of the pants from one of those spikes.
00:46:37Yeah, and you laughing.
00:46:38I promise not to laugh if you won't look when I climb.
00:46:41Hold everything.
00:46:43I've got an idea.
00:46:44Hold on.
00:46:55Come on.
00:46:56I'll go first.
00:46:57Catch her if you fall.
00:47:05Come on.
00:47:08Oh, no.
00:47:09Careful now.
00:47:10There you are.
00:47:21Well, here goes nothing.
00:47:23Look in the eye.
00:47:44Which eye?
00:47:48Do you think you'll bite?
00:47:49I'll see.
00:47:51Nice doggy.
00:47:51Now, say, here's a watchdog.
00:47:55He's a committee of welcome.
00:47:57Nice boy.
00:47:59Come on.
00:47:59Come on.
00:47:59I'll catch you.
00:48:00Yeah, and if I miss, he'll catch you.
00:48:02You hold him.
00:48:03I'll get down there by myself.
00:48:06I hold.
00:48:10Oh, dear.
00:48:11Do you need help?
00:48:13Come on, I'll help you.
00:48:15There.
00:48:15There we are.
00:48:16Go on.
00:48:38Marley's in over his head.
00:48:3940,000 shares short.
00:48:41And about a night I'll make a pauper of him.
00:48:44A beggar in a street corner.
00:48:47That's all in the beginning.
00:48:49I have several accounts to settle.
00:48:51This is but one of them.
00:49:00He hasn't any legs.
00:49:02Oh, did you see the hate in his face?
00:49:04It frightens me.
00:49:05I'm not going to do any more of this eavesdropping.
00:49:07I'm going in there right now.
00:49:08No, you're not.
00:49:09I want to hear what they're saying.
00:49:13What I'm doing is in no way connected with this organization.
00:49:17I waited all these years to be able to handle it personally.
00:49:20Tonight I'm resigning as head of this union.
00:49:22There's one thing to consider, Mr. Dawson.
00:49:24Not only are you going to crush James Marley,
00:49:26but others who are connecting me.
00:49:28They're all over the same stripe.
00:49:30I didn't mind Marley's nephew, Lee Marley.
00:49:33Your daughter Joyce is in love with you.
00:49:36What?
00:49:42Lee!
00:49:43That man's my father.
00:49:45You can promise me something.
00:49:47Anything, dear.
00:49:48I promise you won't say anything to your uncle to laugh,
00:49:50but I've had a chance to talk to Scott.
00:49:52I've seen him the first thing in the morning.
00:49:54I've had a chance to think things out.
00:49:56You'll see how that has a main knowledge.
00:50:03You'll see how that has a main knowledge.
00:50:26Who are these men?
00:50:28Well, some have retired,
00:50:30but all either are or have been beggars.
00:50:34There's been a marvelous education that says
00:50:36the millions you've ever made to your nation
00:50:38out of James.
00:50:40And the Englishman has committed to this country
00:50:42for the science of rare accomplishment.
00:50:44The policy of your provision will testify to the rest of it.
00:50:48Marshal.
00:50:53This is Scott Taggart.
00:50:55I met Mr. Taggart when he came last night.
00:50:58We welcome you.
00:50:59The first outsider to enter this room.
00:51:03I have an announcement to make.
00:51:05I want you and Taggart by my side on the platform.
00:51:32My friends.
00:51:35Fifteen years ago,
00:51:37I spoke to some of you on street corners
00:51:40and in the rooming houses of different cities.
00:51:43All that we planned at that time
00:51:46has come to pass.
00:51:50Three years ago, against some opposition,
00:51:52your finance committee
00:51:54wisely invested all funds in government and state
00:51:58on which you can draw
00:52:01to the full amount of your savings and profits.
00:52:04my own fortune has come through you
00:52:09and what is left at my death
00:52:11will be returned as an endowment to this institution.
00:52:16I have fulfilled my part of the bargain
00:52:19but now it has come necessary for me to devote my time
00:52:22to personal matters.
00:52:23Tonight, I am resigning as head of this organization.
00:52:32We won't let you resign.
00:52:34Don't walk out now, John.
00:52:35But you can't do that, John.
00:52:36No!
00:52:37No!
00:52:38No!
00:52:39No!
00:52:40I wouldn't leave you
00:52:42if there was not a man to take my place.
00:52:45He has been with me from the beginning.
00:52:47And I know no man of greater foresight.
00:52:50I suggest as my successor, not the blind Marchant, but Marchant the man of superhuman vision.
00:52:58But we need both you and Marchant.
00:53:00We need you very much.
00:53:11Say a word to the Marchant.
00:53:13I can't. I can't make a speech, but I can play something lively.
00:53:21That's right. Anything.
00:53:27We're going to play, boys.
00:53:43Come on. More, boys.
00:53:49More.
00:55:09Oh, Wilson, what are we going to do?
00:55:13I advise you to appoint a committee to see James Marley.
00:55:16Oh, next on the committee.
00:55:17Let's all go in and see him.
00:55:18That's right.
00:55:20I don't believe I do that.
00:55:22All you want to know is that your stock is safe.
00:55:25It has been taken from the company's vaults, but perhaps Marley has transferred it for some good reason.
00:55:30Now, get this straight.
00:55:32I left those stock certificates at your office merely as collateral security.
00:55:35There won't be any necessity for selling a single share.
00:55:38Before noon, there'll be a break in the market.
00:55:41Yes, yes, the directors are meeting now.
00:55:44No.
00:55:45Well, gentlemen, unless a miracle happens, Combine will be up several more points at the opening.
00:55:51That's what they said, eh?
00:55:52That's what my broker said.
00:55:53Uh-huh.
00:55:53Good morning, gentlemen.
00:56:09Good morning.
00:56:10Good morning.
00:56:10I'm by an open four points up from yesterday's closing.
00:56:13Well, that about wipes me out.
00:56:15I can't hold out much longer.
00:56:16We're all in the same boat.
00:56:18We're licked.
00:56:18Currie and his crowd have outsmarted you.
00:56:21Well, what are we going to do?
00:56:22What do you suggest?
00:56:23Cover as quickly as we can.
00:56:24You turn tail.
00:56:25I see you take plenty of medicine.
00:56:26But, Jim, we can't hold out much longer.
00:56:28You can hold out for a couple of hours, can't you?
00:56:30Then what?
00:56:30Combine, we'll then break five, ten, possibly fifteen points.
00:56:33Currie and his crowd will run to cover.
00:56:34How are you going to break the market?
00:56:36There's a quarter of directors' presence.
00:56:38Several have failed to show up.
00:56:41We can proceed without them.
00:56:43Everything will be regular on the minutes.
00:56:45And after that?
00:56:48For the first time since combined steel was organized sixteen years ago,
00:56:52it has become necessary to pass the quarterly dividend.
00:56:55Oh!
00:56:58Fine!
00:56:59I have to hand it to you, Jim.
00:57:01You certainly have outsmarted Currie.
00:57:03You certainly have.
00:57:05Gentlemen, let's get busy.
00:57:08All right.
00:57:37Goodbye.
00:57:40Combine has dropped two more points.
00:57:42I think it's fifty-seven and an eight.
00:57:50Well, John.
00:57:51As I pointed out some fifteen years ago,
00:57:54soliciting arms is both an ancient and honorable profession.
00:58:00Well...
00:58:00I'm glad I'm alone in this.
00:58:04But you are not.
00:58:05Huh?
00:58:07We are together, as we've been in everything else.
00:58:10What do you mean, Marshal?
00:58:11For the first time in my life,
00:58:13I bought stock, combined steel, on margin.
00:58:16Marshal and I are in the same position.
00:58:20Everything we have, Mr. Dawson, came through you.
00:58:23You too, Taggart?
00:58:24I bought combined yesterday at sixty-three.
00:58:26Well, you'd better both sell out quickly.
00:58:28Put in your orders.
00:58:29We'll put in our orders to sell when you put in yours.
00:58:31Well, they'll wipe you out!
00:58:33Marshal and this crowd are selling short the stock of a corporation they themselves control.
00:58:37Now they've passed a quarterly dividend for no other reason but to still further depress that stock.
00:58:42Marshal personally has gone further.
00:58:44Last night, he stole a lot of other stocks from the company's vaults.
00:58:48This morning before the market opened, he put it up as security.
00:58:50That stock didn't belong to him.
00:58:53It's being purchased by the employees of the corporation.
00:58:55Marshal, he'll be sent to the penitentiary for that.
00:58:58I have another thought in mind.
00:59:00I'm going out to Marshal's office.
00:59:02What is it, Mike?
00:59:10Joyce!
00:59:12Joyce!
00:59:13I just heard what happened.
00:59:15Lee Marley telephoned me that his uncle's gotten the best of you.
00:59:18I came to tell you that I helped him.
00:59:20I didn't tell Scotty, but I sent the stock that you gave me to Mr. Marley this morning before I understood it all.
00:59:26You mustn't worry.
00:59:27I'll see that you never want for anything.
00:59:29But that isn't what I came here for.
00:59:32I'm sorry.
00:59:33I've been so ungrateful after all you've done for me.
00:59:37I'm so sorry.
00:59:38Now, now, now.
00:59:38Come, come, now.
00:59:39I don't mind being poor.
00:59:41I don't mind anything now.
00:59:42I don't mind anything now.
01:00:03Hello?
01:00:06What?
01:00:09Are you sure?
01:00:13A miracle has happened!
01:00:14Combined is going up.
01:00:16Orders are coming in from all parts of the United States.
01:00:19What does this mean, Marshal?
01:00:21I haven't any idea.
01:00:23Have you been using the funds of the organization to help me in a personal fight?
01:00:26Why, no, John. Certainly not.
01:00:28What did you do after I left the club room last night?
01:00:31I telegraphed to the local headquarters in every city that you had resigned.
01:00:36Yes.
01:00:38And what else did you say?
01:00:41That you were going to be the head of Combined Steel Corporation.
01:00:45What? You old fox!
01:00:47You old scoundrel!
01:00:49Say, we've got to get down to headquarters.
01:00:51What doing?
01:00:52John Daniels has been made a head of Combined Steel.
01:00:55Everybody's buying it. Come on.
01:00:57Hey, we all about it.
01:01:00Here, kid. Let me see that paper.
01:01:03Keep the change. I'll be rich before the day is over.
01:01:06Thanks.
01:01:10Hey, Joe. Come here.
01:01:14What's the trouble?
01:01:15Come on down to headquarters.
01:01:16John Daniels has been made head of Combined Steel.
01:01:18Chance to clean up if we buy the stock quick.
01:01:20George?
01:01:22Sad Sam.
01:01:24Yes.
01:01:25Yeah, I just heard.
01:01:27Buy me a thousand shares.
01:01:28After market.
01:01:30Get up, all of you!
01:01:32John Daniels has resigned.
01:01:33He's head of a steel company.
01:01:35Get down to headquarters.
01:01:36Everybody's buying stock.
01:01:38Here, I got to go buy ammo.
01:01:40Much in that way.
01:01:42It's incredible.
01:01:44We cut all quarterly dividends.
01:01:46And people all over the country flood the brokerage houses with buying orders.
01:01:51Oh, boy!
01:01:52Did you hit that with me?
01:02:11What do you want?
01:02:12There's a committee of workmen waiting downstairs.
01:02:14I haven't time for any workmen.
01:02:16But it's about some stock being held for them by the corporation.
01:02:18What?
01:02:20Oh.
01:02:23Yes, I'll...
01:02:25I'll have to see about that.
01:02:42Clint Dawson.
01:02:44Dawson?
01:02:45Dawson.
01:02:46Dawson?
01:02:46Sit down, Marley.
01:02:52You may tell the committee of workmen your uncle has stolen the stock they were buying.
01:02:57Oh, that's a lie.
01:02:59You can tell the committee that the stock will be issued when the workmen finish paying for it.
01:03:04Mr. Wilson offered to pay the amount owing on his stock, but the head bookkeeper couldn't find the certificates in the safe.
01:03:10Ah.
01:03:11Gentlemen, that's all you need to know.
01:03:13Except that before the market closes today, the control of combined steam will have changed hands.
01:03:19The dividends will be paid as usual.
01:03:21Now you may go.
01:03:23You may go.
01:03:24But, er...
01:03:25You may go.
01:03:28You may go.
01:03:31Let's go!
01:03:47Your nephew may stay.
01:03:49If you want him.
01:03:51Wait outside for me.
01:03:57Sit down.
01:04:01Did you ever see that revolver before?
01:04:22Why, no.
01:04:24You bought it in Liverpool three days before Vivian was killed.
01:04:28It was found on the floor beside her.
01:04:29I sailed two days before she killed herself.
01:04:33You sailed several days after her death.
01:04:36But the records of the steamship company.
01:04:38The records of the company show that you booked passage.
01:04:41But the Purser's report showed you did not sail on that boat.
01:04:44You killed her.
01:04:46I didn't.
01:04:47I didn't kill her.
01:04:49She took her own life.
01:04:51I had no idea.
01:04:54John, I swear.
01:04:55That's what we're going to find out.
01:04:56If I turned you over to them, you'd be buried with a lot of metal into which they would throw you.
01:05:11Perhaps you'd rather die that way.
01:05:15The way you tried to kill me.
01:05:17Or, I'll see if you leave here safely and go to England to be tried for murder.
01:05:26I'll give you five minutes to think things over.
01:05:32The point is, Marley,
01:05:34that you have nothing to fear from a trial
01:05:36if you didn't kill Vivian.
01:05:38I'll do a thing longer.
01:05:56I know.
01:05:58I'll do a thingε¬.
01:05:59I'll do a thingolarly.
01:06:00I'll do a thing at all.
01:06:01I'll do some other things to keep you in the way.
01:06:02I've had to tell you about another fool.
01:06:04I've had to tell you that you didn't kill me now.
01:06:05You can't go in there, buddy.
01:06:28Is my uncle still in there?
01:06:30When the stock we issued to the workman was stolen, I'm as guilty as he.
01:06:38I signed the certificates.
01:06:40Your crime is one of ignorance.
01:06:42To have learned the steel business, young man, you should have started at the bottom, not at the top.
01:07:00Man, listen.
01:07:07What's ever happened to your stock?
01:07:09It's my fault.
01:07:10And I'm gonna see that you don't lose a dime of your money.
01:07:12We don't care what you got to say.
01:07:14We want Jim Molly.
01:07:15Yeah, we want to see Molly.
01:07:16Go away!
01:07:17What are you doing here?
01:07:32What's happening?
01:07:33Oh, it's all right here.
01:07:34Don't worry.
01:07:47Don't worry.
01:07:48What are your items looking?
01:07:49Why are your items looking at this office?
01:07:57No.
01:07:58Where are your toys?
01:08:00No.
01:08:02No!
01:08:03Suck it off.
01:08:09oreai.
01:08:09They're the colors.
01:08:11No.
01:08:12What are your consciences λͺ¨οΏ½ Cincotta?
01:08:13Who'sΰΈΰΈ³?
01:08:14Fire!
01:08:15It's Flint!
01:08:41Flint Dawson has come back!
01:08:43It's him, all right.
01:08:44Old Flint Dawson himself.
01:08:52The mill will be closed until next Monday.
01:08:54All former employees will then return to work.
01:08:58Your stock will be issued to you.
01:09:01Paid for in full.
01:09:13Now you're starting right at the bottom.
01:09:22That's the way to learn the steel business, young man.
01:09:26Here comes the chief!
01:09:30My first day and no dinner fail.
01:09:33I have lunch all ready for you at our cottage.
01:09:35Cottage cheese and cottage pudding.
01:09:37Come on.
01:09:38Great!
01:09:39Well, Steve, that's a nice piece of pie.
01:09:56Well, Steve, that's a nice piece of pie.
01:10:05He's supposed to be a nut.
01:10:06There was a nice piece of pie.
01:10:10He was a nut.
01:10:11He was a nut.
01:10:12But didn't I try?
01:10:13Well, I can't catch him yet.
01:10:14I might never miss him.
01:10:15I'm not sure.
01:10:16I'm not sure.
01:10:17I'm not sure.
01:10:18I'm not sure.
01:10:19But I should.
01:10:20To the next piece of pie was a hot sauce.
01:10:22I'm not sure.
01:10:23You guys are a hot sauce.
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