- 6/22/2025
When a notorious criminal is gunned down and his body mysteriously vanishes, a thrilling chase unfolds in the shadows of the city. City Shadows – Midnight Manhunt (1945 Classic) brings you a gripping blend of crime, suspense, and classic film noir style.
Journalists, detectives, and criminals collide in a midnight race to uncover the truth. This fast-paced 1940s classic delivers sharp dialogue, intense moments, and the unforgettable charm of old Hollywood.
Journalists, detectives, and criminals collide in a midnight race to uncover the truth. This fast-paced 1940s classic delivers sharp dialogue, intense moments, and the unforgettable charm of old Hollywood.
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00:04:24Dead? Why, sure he's dead.
00:04:26Shot with a gun.
00:04:28Oh, don't give me that.
00:04:29He's laying right out here in an alley now.
00:04:32And stop giving me arguments.
00:04:34Give me Max Hurley.
00:04:40Max, I got Joe Wells.
00:04:43Oh, yeah? What you been drinking?
00:04:45Joe Wells has been a concrete block
00:04:47holding up a bridge somewhere for the past five years.
00:04:50Ah, wise guy, ain't you?
00:04:51We just don't like making calls
00:04:53to a little man that ain't there.
00:04:55All right, all right. Hang on now.
00:04:57I'm going to go out and take another look.
00:04:58Now make sure it is Joe Wells.
00:05:09Poor Murphy.
00:05:11He's about ready for the old cop's home.
00:05:13I think he's having optical delusions.
00:05:17$20.72
00:05:19and standing on my feet all day.
00:05:22Oh, you're just mercenary.
00:05:23Mm-hmm.
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00:05:51Miggsy, you are now scanning at the masterpiece of a master.
00:05:57You are now perusing the produce of pure genius.
00:06:01In fact, you are now gazing upon the nucleus of a neurotic.
00:06:05Quite a more...
00:06:06No, no, this is all very nice, Clutch, but I'm tired.
00:06:10I'd like to go home.
00:06:12What a lack of depreciation.
00:06:14Mr. Miggs, if you'll give me your attention for just a moment,
00:06:17I'll endeavor to explain the intricacies of this chair.
00:06:19Now, this is all very nice, Clutch, but I'm tired.
00:06:24So you're tired. So what?
00:06:26So you ought to thank me.
00:06:27I'm only trying to fix it so the customers can get the proper enumeration for their money.
00:06:31Now, get a gander at this.
00:06:41Gave myself a hot foot, didn't I?
00:06:43I've got to fix that.
00:06:44No, no, no, no, no. Please, Clutch, not now.
00:06:47Come on, come on, Clutch.
00:06:49You double-crosser.
00:07:02I don't know what I'm going to do.
00:07:04My life hasn't been the same since my brother-in-law had to die and leave me this place.
00:07:10Wish he'd left it to me.
00:07:11Yeah, but you weren't retired.
00:07:14You hadn't worked hard all your life like me.
00:07:17I'm an old man.
00:07:19What do you think I am, kindergarten stock?
00:07:24Harley! Harley!
00:07:27Hey, Harley, he's gone!
00:07:29The body's gone!
00:07:30Disappeared! It's vamoosed!
00:07:32Listen, Max, I ain't blind, and I know Joe Wells when I see him.
00:07:37Hmm.
00:07:37Murphy's really at it tonight.
00:07:39I think something bit him.
00:07:41Maybe we'd better go see.
00:07:44And I tell you, it was him!
00:07:46Ah, sure, I'm sure.
00:07:49Say, what is it?
00:07:50What night? I'll wait for you.
00:07:51It's just too bad.
00:07:57Murphy, I'd advise you to see an optimist.
00:07:59Very funny.
00:08:00You go home, Miggs.
00:08:01I'll lock up after you.
00:08:03I wouldn't trust him, Miggs.
00:08:04Not in his condition.
00:08:05I don't mind waiting.
00:08:07Is there anything I can do?
00:08:08No, I just gotta wait around here till Lieutenant Hurley shows up,
00:08:10and we'll be out of here in a couple of minutes.
00:08:12It's broken down, Rubber Hill.
00:08:14Why don't they detach him off the force?
00:08:16Why don't you shut up?
00:08:18Well, I hope you'll all be out of here soon.
00:08:20And I'm very tired.
00:08:22What do you think I am?
00:08:24I'll bite.
00:08:25What are you?
00:08:26Well, if it ain't your typewriter herself.
00:08:31Oh, Miss Gallagher, there's been some kind of trouble.
00:08:34Hey, Gallagher, give me a match, will you?
00:08:36A twerp like you smoking that.
00:08:39Big things sometimes come in little packages.
00:08:41You'll keep on, they'll make you a moron.
00:08:43Junior grade.
00:08:44Think you can afford this?
00:08:47What's the trouble?
00:08:48I really don't know.
00:08:49How'd you do today?
00:08:50Any better?
00:08:51Any better?
00:08:53Imagine.
00:08:54Just because I lost my expense account in a crap game,
00:08:57they put me on a leg job in some corny police station out in the sticks.
00:09:01Who?
00:09:01My paper.
00:09:03For crying out loud, aren't you listening?
00:09:05Oh, this is Miss Gallagher, Mr. Murphy.
00:09:07She lives upstairs over the exhibit.
00:09:09A fleabag renovated into an apartment.
00:09:11Hey, got that a match?
00:09:13Just when you give me this damage.
00:09:14Beat it.
00:09:14I think it's a nice little place you've got upstairs.
00:09:18As places go.
00:09:20Oh, don't mind me tonight, Mr. Miggs.
00:09:22I'm just mad at the world.
00:09:23She's a reporter.
00:09:25But you wouldn't know it.
00:09:27You're a disgrace to the Chronicle, they said.
00:09:29We're going to teach you a lesson, they said.
00:09:31Get that for you.
00:09:32They're going to teach me a lesson.
00:09:33Me, the one who covered the gardener Stanley hanging.
00:09:36And how about the Kingman fire?
00:09:38I even had the news, boys, crying.
00:09:41I wasn't crying.
00:09:42You.
00:09:43Give me the news bulletin, Pete Willis, any day.
00:09:45There's a reporter for you.
00:09:46Pete Willis.
00:09:47That double-crossing snake?
00:09:49Double-crossing snake?
00:09:51He got my father in a clear after being sent up for that murder rap, didn't he?
00:09:54He found the guy that really done it and pinned it on him, didn't he?
00:09:56That took brains.
00:09:58And fight him while you wasn't calling him a snake about a month ago,
00:10:01while you two was lollygagging around together.
00:10:03Should have seen him, Mip.
00:10:04It was really a panic.
00:10:05I wish you'd quit rattling your head.
00:10:07I got all I can do worrying about what happens with Joe Willis.
00:10:10Joe Willis?
00:10:12What about him?
00:10:13I find him murdered, then he disappears again.
00:10:16Yeah?
00:10:17Ha!
00:10:17I'd give my IT for an exclusive on it, if it really happened.
00:10:23Gee.
00:10:24If it only was Joe Willis,
00:10:26maybe then I could make that rag I work on take me out of the doghouse.
00:10:30I knew a doghouse looks good.
00:10:32Oh, quiet.
00:10:33Is he very important, this Joe Willis?
00:10:36You never heard of Joe Willis?
00:10:38Now, there's total ignorance for you.
00:10:40Do you not never read no newspapers?
00:10:43Joe Willis was just the biggest noise in the rackets, that's all.
00:10:46Why, Joe had so many notches on his Tommy gun, it looked like a buzzsaw.
00:10:49And Fledamore, I'll tell you something.
00:10:51He disappeared about five years ago, and everybody thought his own boy's done it.
00:10:54I still think so.
00:10:55Well, I'm still thinking about that reward.
00:10:58Five grand for the guy to find him, and I had him.
00:11:01Sure, sure you did, Murphy.
00:11:03But stop making it worse for yourself thinking about that five grand.
00:11:07How are you going to stop thinking about five grand?
00:11:10Well, I'm going to bed.
00:11:11Good night.
00:11:13Happy nightmares.
00:11:14Say, Murphy, just between you and me, was that really Joe Willis you had?
00:11:23Look, kid, I'm the guy that put the pinch on him that time at the World's Fair, ain't I?
00:11:28Well, I'd know him, wouldn't I?
00:11:30Joe Willis.
00:11:48Joe Willis.
00:12:00Too hot in here, I'm going to wait outside for the lieutenant.
00:12:15Yeah, I guess I could use some fresh air, too.
00:13:00Can you give me a number, please?
00:13:23Yeah, at W-I-L-L-R, yeah.
00:13:27Well, I had your number, but I must have displaced it.
00:13:31I wonder if it'd be complimentary enough to give it to me.
00:13:33Huh?
00:13:34Yeah, I'll wait, but make it snappy, will you?
00:13:36Oh, Pete, this is Clutch.
00:13:54Clutch, Clutch, Clutch, you know.
00:13:56Oh, Clutch.
00:13:57What do you know?
00:13:57What's new at the waxworks?
00:13:58Come on, let's...
00:13:59Come on, throw.
00:14:00Yeah?
00:14:01Yeah?
00:14:02Yeah?
00:14:03You tell the kid to go to a picture show and call back later.
00:14:05I've got to get home, and I'm out two bucks already.
00:14:08Yeah, come on, will you?
00:14:09Go ahead, Clutch.
00:14:10Nobody's listening.
00:14:12Look, there's a cop over here by the name of Murphy.
00:14:14Claims he found the body of Joe Wells.
00:14:17Uh-huh.
00:14:18I don't know.
00:14:19Out in an alley someplace.
00:14:20You say Murphy found him?
00:14:22Here's my cabbage.
00:14:23Will you shoot again?
00:14:24Oh, what's he use?
00:14:25He always wins anyway.
00:14:26And Gallagher knows, huh?
00:14:27Okay, sweetheart.
00:14:28I'll be over in five minutes.
00:14:29Hey, where are you going?
00:14:30What about our dough?
00:14:31You don't have to leave, fellas.
00:14:32You can spend the rest of the evening in this joint.
00:14:35What are we going to do for money?
00:14:37You've won it all.
00:14:37And don't break the glassware, will you?
00:14:39I only live here.
00:14:40Oh.
00:14:41This will be much safer in the car.
00:14:43Well, how do you like that?
00:14:44I've got a quarter.
00:14:51I've got a quarter.
00:15:21I've got a quarter.
00:15:51What a lucky stiff.
00:15:59Stop telling me that, Murphy.
00:16:01So you think you had Joe Wells.
00:16:02So you think he got away.
00:16:03So what?
00:16:03So I think I'm telling you that, Joe.
00:16:05Oh.
00:16:05Well, I think you're daft here, and I'm daft here to come down here and listen to you.
00:16:19Gentlemen, I wonder...
00:16:20Just a minute, Joe.
00:16:21But please remember...
00:16:22Hey, who is this guy?
00:16:23Oh, that's Migs.
00:16:24He owns the joint.
00:16:25He wants to close up.
00:16:26Oh.
00:16:27Well, we'll be out here in a couple of minutes.
00:16:29Well, I hope so.
00:16:30I'm so tired.
00:16:32Start right at the beginning.
00:16:33Chronicle?
00:16:50Extension 13.
00:16:52Hello, that you, Marty?
00:16:54Gallagher.
00:16:55Look, get over to my place quickly, will you?
00:16:57And bring that camera, pal.
00:16:59Yeah, yeah, it's hot.
00:17:00Now get over here before it boils over.
00:17:02I'll give you a buzz.
00:17:15I didn't know if anything was up.
00:17:16It's worth investigating, Clutch.
00:17:18Hey, Pete, you got a match?
00:17:19I thought I told you about picking those things up out of the street.
00:17:21Out of the street?
00:17:22Lobby at a Biltmore.
00:17:24What do you mean out of the street?
00:17:25Hello, Mr. Willis.
00:17:26Haven't seen you around lately.
00:17:27Yeah, that's right.
00:17:28What happened with you and Gallagher?
00:17:29Did the milk of romance slightly curdled?
00:17:31Well, shall we say temporarily sour, old boy?
00:17:35She thinks I shoot craps with loaded dice.
00:17:38Has it got anything to do with that Washington assignment you and her went on last week?
00:17:41Where she lost her expense account?
00:17:42Her expense account?
00:17:44Where is she now?
00:17:45Upstairs.
00:17:47Let's go in here and see what's going on.
00:17:48Right.
00:17:49And another thing, Murphy.
00:17:51I don't believe...
00:17:53Hey, what is this?
00:17:55Who called you in, Willis?
00:17:56I have little birdies working for me, Max.
00:17:58Little birdies with golden wings.
00:18:00Oh, yeah?
00:18:01Someday I'm going to clip them golden wings for your good.
00:18:05I don't believe a word of your whole story.
00:18:07Why don't you start clipping?
00:18:08How about give me a match?
00:18:10Joe Wells is deader than a mackerel.
00:18:11He's been...
00:18:12And he's been that way for a long time.
00:18:15Boy, you never can tell.
00:18:17You say you saw him, Murph?
00:18:18Uh...
00:18:19So what are you suggesting?
00:18:22That we conduct a house-to-house canvas in search of the body?
00:18:25And on this kind of evidence?
00:18:26I don't care what you do from now on.
00:18:29You're not letting this thing upset you, are you, Murph?
00:18:30Tell me more about it, Murph.
00:18:32Where is it where I grabbed the shots?
00:18:33What shots?
00:18:35Hey, what is this?
00:18:36What are you trying to pull, Willis?
00:18:37I don't know him.
00:18:38He's not my boy.
00:18:39Well, Gallagher called me.
00:18:40That's all I know.
00:18:41She was all excited about something she had and wanted me to take some pictures.
00:18:45Gallagher?
00:18:45Who the place is this Gallagher?
00:18:46Ah, she's some gal who lives upstairs.
00:18:48That's something to do with the newspapers.
00:18:50Well, go on home.
00:18:51We ain't got nothing to photograph.
00:18:52The dame had fleas in her bonnet.
00:18:54I don't know.
00:18:54Maybe I ought to...
00:18:55I knew that, pal.
00:18:56She's gone to bed.
00:18:56Yeah, she's retarded for the evening.
00:18:58She called downstairs a few minutes ago and told me to tell you that it was all a mistake.
00:19:02A mistake?
00:19:02Yeah.
00:19:03No, no, that ain't like Gallagher.
00:19:04She don't play hunches.
00:19:05Oh, believe me, pal.
00:19:06She'd be highly insulted if you ever spoiled her sleep.
00:19:09In fact, she'd be inflamed.
00:19:10Yeah.
00:19:10That's the last.
00:19:12Spoiled her sleep?
00:19:13Oh, sorry, old boy.
00:19:14Goodbye.
00:19:15Goodbye.
00:19:19What are you figuring, Pete?
00:19:21See you later.
00:19:22Well, let me go with you.
00:19:23Maybe I can help you.
00:19:24I said later.
00:19:25All right.
00:19:26I'll be around.
00:19:27Here, pack it on.
00:19:27It's like I'm back.
00:19:29Ah, thanks, Pete.
00:19:31Mucho gratis.
00:19:51That you, Marty?
00:19:52Dolly, don't you know my knock anymore?
00:19:56You stick your nose in here, Pete Willis, and I'll throw my typewriter at your head.
00:20:00Baby, can't you talk without screaming?
00:20:03This is business.
00:20:05Go away, Mr. Willis.
00:20:07I'm very busy.
00:20:08You're busy?
00:20:09You don't think looking for Joe Wells is any fun, do you?
00:20:14You're not still sore about that crap game, are you, honey?
00:20:17That's one thing I'm not talking about.
00:20:19That's the kitchenette.
00:20:20Mm-hmm.
00:20:21You know, they weren't my dice.
00:20:23They belonged to Charlie Baker.
00:20:24That's the closet.
00:20:26Yeah.
00:20:27Besides, they weren't crooked.
00:20:29I just ran into a streak of luck, that's just all.
00:20:31Is that what you call it?
00:20:32Uh-huh.
00:20:33Excuse me.
00:20:33If you're looking for dirt, it's not there.
00:20:42And Joe Wells, either.
00:20:43I didn't think you were that dumb, honey.
00:20:45But you never know.
00:20:46Oh, look, Peter, I'm really not mad anymore.
00:20:49I mean about the crap game.
00:20:51But I'm busy.
00:20:53No kidding.
00:20:54I think I've looked the first act of that play I told you about.
00:20:56I was just playing around with the idea when you knocked.
00:20:59Oh, did I tell you you were gorgeous tonight, honey?
00:21:03Such a wonderful liar.
00:21:05Writing a play, huh?
00:21:07While Detective Lieutenant Hurley's plainclothesman stalked through New York Street,
00:21:11searching apartments and alleyways,
00:21:13creating terror in the hearts of innocent bystanders,
00:21:16the body of Joe Wells was lying in...
00:21:18Lying where?
00:21:19You're so good.
00:21:20Why don't you finish it?
00:21:21You know, this is really horrible.
00:21:23You should go back to writing love long columns.
00:21:25Yeah, well, it's a lot more exciting than that stuff they print under your name.
00:21:28All right, baby.
00:21:28I want to help you.
00:21:29Where have you got it?
00:21:30Got what?
00:21:31That is just in case it's found.
00:21:33Oh, I'm sure.
00:21:35If you don't get out of here, I'll call the cops.
00:21:37Yes, you will.
00:21:41What are you going to do?
00:21:43Nothing.
00:21:44I'm going to let you finish the play.
00:21:46But I'm afraid you're going to write the last act in jail.
00:21:48Let's go.
00:21:48Let's go.
00:22:18Let's go.
00:22:49Murphy, I can't give this thing any more of my time.
00:22:51Will you quit shoving my chair around?
00:22:53Why don't you get out of here?
00:22:54Why should I?
00:22:55I told you that this happens to be my place of employment.
00:23:00I'll send over a couple of boys and you can scout around.
00:23:02Maybe you'll find something.
00:23:03Or maybe you won't.
00:23:04Oh, I just got a hurry call and look into a shooting a couple of blocks away.
00:23:08You want to go?
00:23:09No, thanks.
00:23:09I'm going home.
00:23:10You know, early to bed, early to rise.
00:23:12Well, any way you want it.
00:23:13Uh-huh.
00:23:15Now, you wait around outside.
00:23:16The prowl car will pick you up.
00:23:17Any new developments?
00:23:23I don't know yet.
00:23:24Well, thanks for calling, Clutch.
00:23:26I'll see you around.
00:23:27Right.
00:23:28Good night, Mr. May.
00:23:28Good night, Mr. Willis.
00:23:30Take care of yourself, Pete.
00:23:31I'll go put on the night light in the back.
00:23:34You'll be ready now.
00:23:46Oh, wait.
00:24:01Take care of that, Gwendolyn.
00:24:14Don't let the smoke get in your eyes.
00:24:25Oh!
00:24:28Why, Migs, what's the matter?
00:24:30What are you so dissipated about?
00:24:31You look like you fell in a barrel of flour.
00:24:33Out there.
00:24:34Out there.
00:24:35Sitting out there.
00:24:36Who's sitting out there?
00:24:38There's a corpse out there playing cards.
00:24:41What?
00:24:41What?
00:24:41He's really dead.
00:25:06What do you think you're doing?
00:25:08You shouldn't have done that, Clutch.
00:25:10I'm just telephoning the police.
00:25:12What do you want to do to get us in trouble?
00:25:13We got something on our midst.
00:25:15That stiff is really rigor mortis.
00:25:16But I got to telephone the police.
00:25:18What are you doing?
00:25:19Using last year's brains?
00:25:20You know what'll happen if you're calling the cops?
00:25:22They'll throw bright lights in your eyes.
00:25:23They'll give you the rubber hose treatment.
00:25:25They'll break you down.
00:25:26Break me down?
00:25:27For what?
00:25:28For what?
00:25:29Now, there's a clever injection.
00:25:30For killing that guy out there.
00:25:32That's for what?
00:25:32Oh, I didn't kill him.
00:25:34He got in here by mistake.
00:25:36You try to tell the cops that.
00:25:38You seen what happened to my old man, didn't you?
00:25:39Don't think you had a motive.
00:25:41You'll be a felony.
00:25:43What we got to do is get rid of that body.
00:25:45Oh, get easy about it.
00:25:47You mean hide out in the street behind some hash cans?
00:25:50Is that what you mean?
00:25:51Have it bounce back on you in the morning?
00:25:52No, no.
00:25:53Got to get it out of the neighborhood.
00:25:54Way out.
00:25:55Oh, my goodness.
00:25:56Out of the neighborhood.
00:25:56But how?
00:25:57Well, we'll take the cops and put it in your car
00:26:01and deposit it someplace far away from this vicinity.
00:26:03Yeah, yeah.
00:26:03Come on.
00:26:04Let's get your car.
00:26:04Get the car.
00:26:05Get the car.
00:26:06Oh, my hat.
00:26:09Yeah, my cigar.
00:26:12Oh, my God.
00:26:42Get the car.
00:27:12It's so long.
00:27:13I'm at it, yes.
00:27:16I'm fine.
00:27:18I'm fine.
00:27:19I'm fine.
00:27:23I'm fine.
00:27:25I'm fine.
00:27:26I'm fine, exactly?
00:27:29I guess I'll run away today, Detective.
00:27:34I guess I'll run away now.
00:27:37Don't you?
00:27:38I guess I'll run away now.
00:27:41Who are you?
00:27:42I think you and I have a little business to transact.
00:27:45Business?
00:27:47If my price isn't right, it won't make any difference.
00:27:52That's the body of Joe Wells.
00:27:57Lucky I swept up yesterday, isn't it?
00:27:59Your levity fails to impress me, Miss...
00:28:02Gallagher.
00:28:03Sue Gallagher.
00:28:11Will you stop scaring me with that gun?
00:28:16If this is a gag and Pete Willis sent you...
00:28:19Let's not get away from the subject, Miss Gallagher.
00:28:22If you haven't got the body of Joe Wells in this apartment,
00:28:25I'm convinced that you know where it is.
00:28:28You see, I followed the blood spots in the Empress Hotel
00:28:30across the alleyway to your staircase.
00:28:33And now this.
00:28:36I know he was shot, and I know that he couldn't have dragged himself much further.
00:28:39Where is he?
00:28:42All right, what's the use?
00:28:44The body's downstairs in the exhibit.
00:28:47Ah, now we're getting somewhere.
00:28:49I don't imagine you want to meet the cops who are down there.
00:28:53Oh, now, Miss Gallagher, let's be honest with each other.
00:28:57We both heard the police car drive away a few minutes ago.
00:29:01That's too bad.
00:29:03I'll follow you.
00:29:11Miss Gallagher?
00:29:19Is that you, Miss Gallagher?
00:29:21Yes, Mr. Mix.
00:29:23Who's that?
00:29:24He owns the place.
00:29:26I guess he's closing up.
00:29:27You'll go back and wait.
00:29:41She's gone upstairs again.
00:29:43Let's perambulate.
00:29:44Well, let me rest a minute, please, Clutch.
00:29:48That's all I need.
00:29:49Miss Gallagher, catch him doing this.
00:29:53I just happen to remember, the top on your car is down.
00:29:55We've got to put it up.
00:29:56Do we have to do that?
00:29:59Now, Mr. Mix, you wouldn't want to risk your social standing by being seen chauffeured
00:30:02in a demolished gangster through the streets, would you?
00:30:05All right, never mind.
00:30:07You sit there and rest.
00:30:08I'll put the top up.
00:30:23I don't know.
00:30:24I don't get it.
00:30:26What's your angle?
00:30:28Where are you heading?
00:30:31What in the world do you want with that corpse?
00:30:34Let's say it's a collector's item.
00:30:39Well, as long as we have to wait, I'd like to get the story on paper.
00:30:42You'll be wasting your time.
00:30:43You won't have the body to prove it.
00:30:46After you're through with it, it'll turn up somewhere.
00:30:48That is a moot question.
00:30:56Answer it, but be careful what you say.
00:30:58Hello?
00:31:04Hello?
00:31:05Oh, McAndrews.
00:31:07Hey, listen, lame brain.
00:31:08What do you mean getting Marty out on a wild brains out for nothing, huh?
00:31:12The night editor, he's upset.
00:31:15All right, so I called Marty.
00:31:17So it was a mistake.
00:31:18What about it?
00:31:20Well, I said it was a mistake.
00:31:22What do you want me to do?
00:31:23Cut my throat?
00:31:24Well, that's not a bad idea.
00:31:26Or better still, go back to school and learn how to write.
00:31:29And don't you tell me anything about writing stories.
00:31:32I'll be getting bylines when you've ended up on a copy desk, a gray head...
00:31:36Oh, you're disappointed in something.
00:31:39Oh, you're disappointed in something.
00:31:39Get who Hos da.
00:31:46I'll be getting there.
00:31:49Well.
00:31:49Mary, we're getting there.
00:31:50Very good.
00:31:50Good night.
00:31:51Your God have here...
00:31:52Oh, I got there.
00:31:54Oh.
00:31:55Thank you, world!
00:31:56Oh, I got there.
00:31:57You got there.
00:31:57Oh.
00:31:58Oh, I'll be...
00:31:58Oh, God.
00:31:59Oh, God.
00:32:01Oh, God have there.
00:32:02Say, enjoy.
00:32:02Oh, hello.
00:32:21Wrong apartment, I guess.
00:32:22What are you doing here?
00:32:23Well, you know how a fella can make a mistake.
00:32:26Where'd you get this?
00:32:27Nothing in there.
00:32:29Well, what happened?
00:32:29I'm just the manager of the place.
00:32:31Heard a shot about an hour ago and called the station.
00:32:34I couldn't help it if you guys didn't get here in time.
00:32:36What else?
00:32:37Well, when I come in to see, the door was open and...
00:32:40Like you see it now, nobody around.
00:32:42That's fine.
00:32:43What about the guy that rented the joint?
00:32:44I don't know.
00:32:44I don't know nothing about him.
00:32:46He'd just been living here in the place a week.
00:32:48Never showed his face.
00:32:49It was just a mug.
00:32:51Yeah, like what?
00:32:52Well, little rat-faced guy with a pinhead like a carp.
00:32:56That was Joe Wells.
00:32:57You can tell by the...
00:32:58Shut up.
00:32:58I make the discoveries around here.
00:33:00I guess I know Joe Wells when I hear him.
00:33:02Now, what do you know about it anyway, Hawkshaw?
00:33:05Where did you get the key to this room?
00:33:07Back at Miggs's.
00:33:07That's where Joe Wells is now.
00:33:09The girls got him.
00:33:10What girls?
00:33:11Gallagher.
00:33:12Gallagher?
00:33:12Yeah, you know, the reporter that lives upstairs.
00:33:14Everybody knows everything around here but me.
00:33:15I'm just a detective.
00:33:17Come on, let's get back to Miggs.
00:33:18Come on.
00:33:21Oh, my God.
00:33:22Everything's all set.
00:33:31Let's grab him and hit the gravel.
00:33:32I hope we're doing right, Clutch.
00:33:35Of course we're doing right.
00:33:36I figured this whole thing out by the process of mental reduction.
00:33:38Oh.
00:33:39Well, you got to drive, Clutch.
00:33:41I'm too nervous.
00:33:42Okay, if I'll make you feel any better.
00:33:44I'm too nervous.
00:34:14Your friends are leaving, Miss Gallagher.
00:34:20Now I'll relieve you of that body.
00:34:24Wait.
00:34:35Open up.
00:34:36It's the police.
00:34:38Come on.
00:34:39Open up in there.
00:34:40Visitors in the alley.
00:34:41It's too bad.
00:34:46It's going to change your plan.
00:34:48I don't think so, Miss Gallagher.
00:34:50They're only yours.
00:34:51I don't think so, Miss Gallagher.
00:34:52I'll see what I can do with this lock.
00:35:07I don't think so, Miss Gallagher.
00:35:10No.
00:35:11Passkey won't work.
00:35:13Let's try around front.
00:35:14I don't think so, Miss Gallagher.
00:35:21THE END
00:35:51You're right through the back door there. I'm going to phone my paper. I'll be right up.
00:36:10All right. Make it snap.
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00:38:13well what'd you find nothing she's staggering around her apartment with a lump on her head
00:38:20the size of an egg trying to find some ice cubes to put on it she said some goony guy clunked her
00:38:24on the noggin maybe i'm crazy i've never been on a case like this before trying to find a corpse
00:38:29somebody stole somebody stole it where have you been the dame says she stole the corpse then some
00:38:36guy stole it from her now can you figure that out uh-huh uh-uh oh in the blazes would want a corpse
00:38:42in the first place
00:38:43all right sweetheart now where is it
00:39:00now look
00:39:03you don't think you're going to get away with this for long do you you almost got yourself killed and
00:39:09now the cops are on your trail let me take over you're talking to papa i told hurley who took it
00:39:15will you stop bothering me i've had enough for one night it's killed your party angel somebody's got
00:39:21the corpse and it's not the guy who conked you well the way you talk it sounds like you know more about
00:39:27this thing than i do i do i saw the creep just before he got away the way you're handling things
00:39:33you're going to wind up in the morning instead of joe well please don't be so cute how do you figure in on
00:39:40this i told him i had the body i wanted to help you out oh sure sure you mean you'd like to wheedle it
00:39:47out of me with that sweet talk and hog the story for yourself baby you know there's enough story in
00:39:54this for both of us i told you i haven't got it stop kidding papa we have to produce a corpse
00:40:00in an hour so come on i told you i didn't have it there you go leaving me holding the bag
00:40:07all right lady get your coat on you're going to jail jail for what stealing corpses but
00:40:14what was stolen from me that's tough on you lady you started this game of foot and take what about
00:40:19him he said he told the guy that sucked me a figment of her imagination max i've told you
00:40:24everything i'm i'm merely an innocent bystander yeah what are you trying to do drag him down to
00:40:28your level yeah come on i'll phone your relatives honey
00:40:49oh clutch pete boy am i glad i found you home
00:41:06you alone yeah yeah we got me who had the cops well that's too bad but look clutch i'm expecting
00:41:11a very important visit oh this is more important we took the body of joe wilson's back in the freight
00:41:14car and the cops chase us what yeah we found the body in exhibit we figured we better do something
00:41:19with it why didn't you call me there wasn't no time and besides i don't want gallagher busting it so
00:41:22i figured i'd take the body and hide it and then tell you and you'd get an exclusive with no interference
00:41:26all right all right then what happened we got the body hit in the freight car right when the yard
00:41:29bolts fires just as we're lambing so we got scared so you ran so we run oh that's just dandy wasn't
00:41:35so dandy for miggs he got caught what about the corpse i don't guess they know nothing about that yet
00:41:40poor old miggs you got a bunch of fish and they trust us and prohibit it or something have you
00:41:44any idea where you put it who makes no the cops well certainly well what are we standing here beating
00:41:49our gums for let's go get it right gallagher what now if it's that kidney foot hurley again you tell
00:41:57him for me stop racing your motor somebody just put up your bail bail who that ain't my department better
00:42:04ask out front although i said miracles never happen yeah you better get here right away harley
00:42:12something just broke on the wells story that's right a guy named miggs complete confession
00:42:19snatching bodies i didn't confess anything i just said you said you stuck the corpse of joe
00:42:25wells in a freight car didn't you mr miggs what did you do oh miss gallagher i'm so glad to see you
00:42:35oh don't tell me they think you're the guy oh it was horrible just like a nightmare
00:42:39i had no idea i was going to get in trouble like this that's what they all say this ought to be good
00:42:45for murder what are you trying to do crucify him where did you put it in a box car in the freight yards
00:42:53oh ohio and western car i think near a water tower at the end of the yard we'll get you out of this
00:43:00in no time mr mason none of your funny business now you keep waiting in french yards see who's going
00:43:06near the freight yard i just want enough time to get to my paper take it easy with my story on page one
00:43:14in the morning you'll be exonerated in full i hope so i'm so tired you're waiting for somebody i guess
00:43:29it's you lady take me to the chronicle okay and step on right holy cow you look steady make that 1140
00:43:41regent plays forget the chronicle then you're the guy that bailed me out and for this just in case mr
00:43:52willis pulls the double cross your safety might convince him and better not mr willis says he has
00:43:59the body we're going over to get it listen pete willis hasn't got anything but gold whatever he told
00:44:07you i know he hasn't got it you and mr willis come up with the most amazing stories why should i believe
00:44:13you look you've got to believe me he's never even seen the body of wells miggs stole it while you and
00:44:23i were playing footsy-footy upstairs in my apartment and stop shaking your head i know that sounds fantastic
00:44:32but the cops caught miggs 20 minutes ago in the freight yard where he hid the body in a boxcar and
00:44:37that's where it is now you're sure they didn't know a corpse was mixed up in it till he sweated it out of
00:44:44him at the station where are the police now how do i know going after the body i guess you're sure you're
00:44:53not uh stringing me along miss gallagher stop handing me that good life will you do i look
00:44:59crazy enough to stick my neck out when you've got the advantage change that last address to the freight
00:45:06jars and hurry
00:45:19what's the matter you long uh-huh it's down that way by the end of the yards let's go
00:45:23this is it i think yeah yeah that's it ohio and west it's good thing you learn to read you know
00:45:41i'm very illiterate
00:45:42leave him in there nice and comfortable like come on up you go
00:45:54give me a hand you get his feet what are we going to do with him let's get him out of
00:45:57here before anybody else finds him then we can worry what to do it
00:46:02something's coming quick open the other door
00:46:12ohio and western that's what makes it
00:46:30i don't see it it's probably back there in the dark if this is another of your tricks miss gallagher
00:46:35look all i want to do is turn this thing over to you
00:46:42it's not here i'm positive this is a car you know that corpse certainly gets around
00:47:04some crazy thing that's what i call it why didn't you call the cops when you found it well i was so
00:47:10nervous i thought you thought what do people pay taxes for to have a police force i know officer
00:47:16i'm completely to blame hold on this is this where we left here we left it right here right
00:47:22right there they're not far from the door well it ain't here now if you maybe they'll go away
00:47:32oh my goodness somebody must have stolen it that again who do you think you're trying to
00:47:38get a kid that's the same story the dame gave me i'm telling you the truth officer i'm lying to you
00:47:42yeah what are you standing around for start looking sure sure mr hung we just didn't know you didn't
00:47:47know who knows anything anymore not there inside maybe it got up and moved out of the draft
00:47:54i don't know you didn't know you didn't know you didn't know you didn't know you didn't know you
00:47:59did you see anything perfect mr can i go home now yeah peter you're no help to me thank you
00:48:17you you know i'm awful tired me too of you but i'm in a jam mr mcandrews the chronicle's got to help me
00:48:39but i stole it for the chronicle holy cow can't you understand that shut up i know you're in a jam
00:48:47so does the chronicle for letting you represent it say who do you think you are stealing a body
00:48:52off the street and then losing it
00:48:57i know that the da's office and the police department and max hurling are all on my neck
00:49:02we don't want any part of it but you've got to keep me from the law until i find it again and i've
00:49:07got an idea pete willis ah that's what i get for hiring a half-baked woman reporter
00:49:13a screwball daffy budinsky you're fired you can't fire me i quit this isn't a newspaper story it's a
00:49:20career and you're barely aching because some cop's been complaining well you go soak your head you
00:49:25ungrateful ain't go soak your head
00:49:37okay you oversized quiz kit what did you do with it why angel how did you find out i guess you and
00:49:44that creep following me or get any gray hairs well why'd you get out of the clay didn't you like it
00:49:48there they tell me with a new paint job there's a lot they don't care if you'd kept your big nose out of
00:49:53my business instead of bringing the cops back to my apartment i'd never have landed in jail oh
00:49:57that's a fine way to talk to someone who's been trying to save a story for you for me yes why you
00:50:02fix me up so with the police i don't know which end is up oh baby stop trying to talk me into something
00:50:08there you go always be little relax will you sure relax along with everything else mcandrews
00:50:15just can me well you've been asking for that for a long time i know but it did it so good to tell
00:50:21that stupid old where to head in but that's not what i'm worried about now oh look pete for crying
00:50:27out loud what'd you do with the body the body all i want to do is give it back to the cops and get out
00:50:31of this mess i don't want the story anymore i just want to live stop beating your brains out what we've
00:50:37got to get you a better job than the one you've lost what good will it do me with a lily in my hand
00:50:42oh here what's that read it
00:50:47ain't no monavideo uruguay it's got a government stamp on it i took it out of wells's pocket
00:50:53south america uh-huh so that's where he's been all these years under an assumed name peter burnett
00:50:58well uh where does the creep fit in on this i don't know i don't read spanish that's why we're
00:51:03waiting for the gentleman and he's coming here any minute pete he's dangerous yeah i know
00:51:07how about a drink in the meantime make mine bourbon you're not sorry anymore are you baby just don't
00:51:17pull any fast ones on me darling that's all here we are try this one for size huh just to keep you
00:51:26honest trusting soul aren't you we go together don't we huh mm-hmm even with that joe citizen
00:51:32appearance of yours i still know you're a hobgoblin underneath oh but you still love me don't you
00:51:37baby mm-hmm there he is now watch yourself
00:51:50hello come in we've been waiting for you i'm usually more punctual but i was delayed
00:51:54i can't say i'm too surprised at seeing you here miss gallagher well sit down make yourself at home
00:52:02mr uh say uh i can't be calling my guests hey you all the time my name is jokey i must say that i
00:52:11admire the perspicacity of the american press once they smell a story they stop at nothing till they get
00:52:16it well we can dispense with the compliments we want facts you're not going to get the body until you
00:52:23answer a few questions and that depends mr willis that depends entirely upon the questions well uh
00:52:32how's this for a starter
00:52:38that's interesting i see that you and i are beginning to understand each other
00:52:43you don't want a story at all you want the diamonds
00:52:45how'd you guess a junkie catches on quick doesn't he honey like a bird dog now let's not waste any time
00:52:56shall we
00:52:59holy cow those stones represent a quarter of a million dollars a part of them go to both of you
00:53:07when i get the body well that's just dandy but uh as long as we're going to be partners uh you'll have
00:53:15to tell us more yeah you know just in case of trouble through our stories job oh i don't mind
00:53:22i represent a group of diamond merchants from whom these stones were stolen in south america
00:53:27the robbery was very cleverly done by one peter burnett otherwise wells joe wells
00:53:35the uruguayan government offered reward for his capture but he escaped and uh you trailed him here
00:53:41precisely in fact i was here before mr wells arrived but uh why do you want the corp when you already
00:53:47have the diamond well let's go into that shall we after you have carried out your end of the bargain
00:53:53now mr willis where's the body oh that's easy the corpse is riding around central park in a taxi
00:54:01waiting to be picked up shall we join him
00:54:15we'll be there in a few minutes but a body in a cab mr willis is that quite safe
00:54:25i tell him a hacky he was a friend of mine too drunk to take home
00:54:29an hour spent around the park and i'd pick him up in good condition that was clever
00:54:34well who'd know a drunk from a stiff i had him propped up in the corner just as nice as you
00:54:38please you mean if he doesn't start sliding think i'm nuts i had him pinned to the cushion amazing
00:54:47all right driver start through the park
00:54:59here you are got a little foggy didn't it
00:55:09hey driver oh it's you i thought you'd never get here everything okay sure he hasn't even blinked an
00:55:15eye hey what's this guy been drinking embalming fluid he will be for long now let's get in and
00:55:21settle this thing you too well don't you think it'll be a little crowded for all four of us we'll manage
00:55:27all right
00:55:27in somewhat of a hurry aren't you i want to get this thing over with i can understand that
00:55:41what are you worrying about there's only one joe wells do you want to sit next to him thank you
00:55:49never mind drive us to the ferry just a minute don't you trust me mr willis that's where i relieve you
00:55:56the body of the body and pay off
00:56:09i thought we were leaving you after we got on the boat a short trip across the water can
00:56:31hardly matter now miss gallagher especially as we shall be seeing each other any more often tonight
00:56:38well we're almost across how about the split let's stretch our legs and finish our business at the same
00:56:44time
00:56:57how come joe wasn't walking around with all that men and i thought he was dead when i left his room at
00:57:02the embers hotel i went down to get a cab to carry away the body but when i got back he was gone he must
00:57:08have had just enough life left to drag himself to my family junkie why do you want to carry the body
00:57:13away if you're only interested in getting the diamonds back to your bosses oh pardon me i was
00:57:17only interested in getting those diamonds for myself the old double cross the guys that hired him to get
00:57:22the diamonds get nothing that was the general idea of this character cute isn't he steals the body
00:57:28destroys it then tells the diamond owners to go chase themselves you couldn't lose precisely joe wells
00:57:34was not to be found that's all i'll tell them and in a few years i'll sell those diamonds at a slight loss
00:57:41some loss you're going to take what about the cops well they'll believe what they believe for five
00:57:46years i sure put mr wells at the bottom of the river well they think he is anyhow yeah but there'll
00:57:55be questions after tonight whom will they question oh me miss gallagher and you think you will be
00:58:02available for questioning mr willis i figured you'd spell when you thought you'd have it in the spot
00:58:09it's your own calcet
00:58:32on your feet little man look at the bank and i brought home where's clutch what's he got to do
00:58:47with this annie oakley finished it herself didn't he get out of the cab are you conscious there's no
00:58:53one in the cab but the stiff no lady that's no stiff that was clutch clutch come on come on jokey
00:59:03and you mean all the time clutch was doubling for the body of joe wells sure i figured junkie
00:59:09would try to knock us off clutch was supposed to cover us with his gun oh no wonder you were so brave
00:59:14he's back there hey clutch clutch wake up well where is he which way to go i'll get him i'll get
00:59:24him with my heater take it easy i thought you were going to follow us oh murder i must have fell asleep
00:59:31oh that's just fine i hope you had a nice nap all right jokey get in
00:59:38don't pull no calisthenics bud
00:59:44well this better be on the level that's all i got to say you say this guy's a murderer or a
00:59:52reasonable facsimile hello give me morrison and who's this character with the zoot haircut
00:59:58the name is clutch tracy and my racket happens to be impersonating electrocutions well if you don't
01:00:04believe us now that'll resent you well what are you waiting on for him in the cell
01:00:09you mean you gotta give him the third degree sure then we're gonna scalp him and hang him up by his
01:00:17toes this i gotta see hey sarge give me a match will you thanks hey you better keep a couple of
01:00:25these in case you run short hello marston hold on to your pants wait for what the nerve of him he's
01:00:34on another phone this story ought to be good for you cheer up honey say sarge you better get a hold
01:00:39of lieutenant max hurley lieutenant hurley he's out on the cruise car the only way i can reach him
01:00:43is by radio you better get him i've got something he wants very badly well this better be on the
01:00:48level that's all pearson talk my mic in the radio circuit connected sergeant calling car 27 what calling
01:00:57car 27 come in lieutenant hurley calling car 27 calling car 27 lieutenant matt hurley come in that
01:01:05theory what kind of lame brain tom foolery goes on in that hello max this is beat willis why you
01:01:11wink spattered imbecile what do you think your temper temper willis if you don't tell me what you did
01:01:17with joe wells i'll personally take you apart like a like an artichoke you've been riding around with
01:01:22them all night ever since you left the freight yard riding around are you nuts he's right behind
01:01:27you max in your trunk isn't it he's there i put him there that is all stop it pull it get stop hey oh
01:01:42hello marston now shut up it didn't hurt you to wait for a little vignette you might be able to
01:01:47use on page one here it is joe wells supposedly dead for five years was found murdered tonight is
01:01:54oh wait a minute the credit line on this story is by pete willis and sue gallagher well she's working
01:02:01for you now you don't get the yarn yeah okay pete darling oh wait wait a minute honey honey this is
01:02:09important you remember the time when they found the guy in the well this is important
01:02:17so
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