- 7/8/2025
The Power of the Whistler is a 1945 film noir thriller film based on the radio drama The Whistler. Directed by Lew Landers, the production features Richard Dix. It is the third of Columbia Pictures' eight "Whistler" films produced in the 1940s, seven starring Dix.
Plot: A man (Richard Dix, Cimarron) loses his memory after being hit by a car. Wandering the streets, he walks into a diner and meets Jean Lang (Janis Carter, Flying Leathernecks), a woman who reads people's fortunes and sees danger in his immediate future. As Jean tries to help the man figure out his identity, new information appears that shows he might not be the kind man he seems.
Plot: A man (Richard Dix, Cimarron) loses his memory after being hit by a car. Wandering the streets, he walks into a diner and meets Jean Lang (Janis Carter, Flying Leathernecks), a woman who reads people's fortunes and sees danger in his immediate future. As Jean tries to help the man figure out his identity, new information appears that shows he might not be the kind man he seems.
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00:00:00The End
00:00:30THE END
00:01:00I am the Whistler, and I know many strange tales,
00:01:10many secrets hidden in the hearts of men and women
00:01:12who have stepped into the shadows.
00:01:14Tonight, I am keeping a strange rendezvous.
00:01:19Here is a strange man,
00:01:21formed in God's image according to the Bible.
00:01:24But how far is image from mirage?
00:01:27The two words sound alike.
00:01:28This man looks like all others,
00:01:31but what separates him from his fellows?
00:01:33It cannot be seen by the naked eye.
00:01:35It cannot be seen by the naked eye.
00:01:37His name is William Everest,
00:01:41and he is a man with a ghastly mission.
00:01:43His name is William Everest,
00:01:49and he is a man with a ghastly mission,
00:02:07which will not let him rest until it is successfully accomplished.
00:02:11But the best laid plans, which men sometimes make,
00:02:14have a habit of going astray,
00:02:16whether in this case for good or evil,
00:02:19only the events of this night can foretell.
00:02:22Is this a man with a31?
00:02:24It must have been yeet?
00:02:27Hue?
00:02:29Heard, you missed him?
00:02:30Did he hit you, bud?
00:02:31I seen it.
00:02:32Just missed him.
00:02:33It must have already passed his head on his lamppost or something.
00:02:35Shall we call an ambulance?
00:02:37No, no, no, don't call. I'm all right.
00:02:39You must have given yourself a heck of a whack there, fella.
00:02:41Oh, something, something.
00:02:42Are you sure you're all right?
00:02:43Oh, quite.
00:02:44I've seen half the license number, mister.
00:02:46Maybe you want to sue him or something.
00:02:47It was 2B6.
00:02:48It's all right, thank you, thank you.
00:02:50Well, I never.
00:02:51Well, put yourself out for some people and you don't even write a thank you.
00:02:54Oh, maybe he's still punch drunk with that bump on the head he gave himself or something.
00:03:00He hesitated.
00:03:01A thought must have run through his mind.
00:03:03It took no longer than a second or two.
00:03:06Yet whose destiny may have been changed by this sudden impulse
00:03:09which took William Everest through the door of this little cafe
00:03:12down here in Greenwich Village.
00:03:14And how will the fate of William Everest himself be affected?
00:03:21Good evening.
00:03:23Able, sir.
00:03:33Gin.
00:03:37Gin?
00:03:38Oh, Gin's just good because the girls play for their lunches down the store every day.
00:03:42She gets all that practice.
00:03:44Haven't had to buy lunch for two weeks.
00:03:46You'll be sorry when all that free food starts showing itself around the hips.
00:03:50Fourteen.
00:03:54Two-fifty.
00:03:55Play another?
00:03:55Uh-uh.
00:03:56We ought to get going.
00:03:58Let me tell your fortune.
00:03:59No, thank you.
00:04:00I like to come up on mine gradually.
00:04:02Makes it that much more interesting.
00:04:04How about you, Charlie?
00:04:06Save it.
00:04:07I know my fortune already.
00:04:15I think I'll tell his.
00:04:17Whose?
00:04:18The good-looking man over at the bar.
00:04:21Know him?
00:04:23Never saw him before in my life.
00:04:30Mm, that doesn't look so good.
00:04:32Death.
00:04:36What does it say?
00:04:37Within 24 hours.
00:04:50There's that cart again.
00:04:53Within 24 hours.
00:04:59Ah, come on.
00:05:00Let's go to a movie.
00:05:01What shall I do?
00:05:02Oh, don't be ridiculous, darling.
00:05:04You're not taking this little parlor game seriously.
00:05:07Oh, I know it's silly, but...
00:05:08It's not only silly, it's childish.
00:05:15He's going.
00:05:16Only to another bar.
00:05:17I'll bet you on that.
00:05:19Well, where are you going?
00:05:20Somebody should tell him something.
00:05:22Oh, for heaven's sakes, Gene, you're acting like a school kid.
00:05:25Somebody should tell him something.
00:05:26He'd think you were crazy.
00:05:27Or just trying to pick up an acquaintance who wouldn't be ladylike.
00:05:30I know, but the cards...
00:05:31Oh, forget it.
00:05:32He's going out of that door and out of our lives.
00:05:34He never even came in before.
00:05:36Gene, don't be a fool.
00:05:37Come back here.
00:05:38What do you know?
00:05:40She sure takes her cards seriously.
00:05:42She's got too much imagination for her own good.
00:05:45Oh, don't worry about it.
00:05:46So she tells him he thinks she's a first-class screwball, and then it's all over.
00:05:49Please, sir, I, uh, well, I beg your pardon, but two times the same thing happened.
00:06:12I just had to...
00:06:12I beg your pardon?
00:06:13Well, it was the cards.
00:06:14Both times the cards are the same thing.
00:06:15Well, you think I'm ridiculous.
00:06:17Well, let's say instead original.
00:06:19If you think I'm trying to make your acquaintance, you're very much mistaken.
00:06:22Well, I'm disappointed.
00:06:24Well, I felt I had to tell you for your own good.
00:06:27Well, I'd be very grateful for your concern if I knew the reason for it.
00:06:31Oh, I told you.
00:06:32Well, so you did.
00:06:34But what?
00:06:34The cards.
00:06:36Cards?
00:06:36What cards?
00:06:38You're laughing at me.
00:06:39I don't blame you, but you see, I was telling your fortune in that cafe.
00:06:43Oh, playing cards.
00:06:45I see.
00:06:47Did my fortune amuse you?
00:06:50It frightened me.
00:06:52Why?
00:06:53Well, I thought I should tell you.
00:06:55What did the cards say?
00:06:57Well, they said...
00:06:58What did they say?
00:07:00That you're in very great danger for the next 24 hours.
00:07:02Two times, one after the other, it said the same thing.
00:07:05And I shoveled the cards very well, too.
00:07:08Does that suggest something to you or warn you of someone, perhaps?
00:07:12It suggests nothing and warns me of absolutely no one.
00:07:18Well, please, just the same, take care of yourself for the next 24 hours.
00:07:23Maybe, uh, maybe you will be kind enough to help me.
00:07:27Aren't you well?
00:07:28I, uh, I'm sorry.
00:07:31I had a little accident, and I, I'm all right.
00:07:34It's just I'm kind of dizzy.
00:07:35Oh, well, come on over here and sit down.
00:07:37The owner of this car won't object, I'm sure.
00:07:39Let's go in here.
00:07:40Feel any better?
00:07:49Oh, I'm all right.
00:07:51Still a little shaky.
00:07:53A little.
00:07:54Would a doctor?
00:07:55No, no.
00:07:57It's just that...
00:07:59Well, I'm ashamed to admit it, but...
00:08:02I don't seem to be able to remember my name.
00:08:06Stupid of me, isn't it?
00:08:08I hope you're not injured more than you're willing to admit.
00:08:11No, it's outside of a little density.
00:08:14I feel as well as I ever have.
00:08:16I stopped in that bar over there for a drink
00:08:18and thought it would sort of clear my head, but...
00:08:20And it failed?
00:08:22I'm afraid so.
00:08:23You remember nothing about yourself at all?
00:08:27Well, only that I had someone to see
00:08:30and something very important to do,
00:08:32but who and what...
00:08:35Maybe you have something in your pockets
00:08:36that would tell us who you are.
00:08:38Oh, I doubt it or I'd have known it by now.
00:08:41Well, let's look at them.
00:08:44Come on, please.
00:08:46Very well.
00:08:49Gee, I wonder what's taking Gene so long.
00:08:51Oh, he's a pretty good-looking guy.
00:08:53Maybe Gene's gone into details.
00:08:55You better get the check, Charlie.
00:08:57Waitress.
00:09:00Well, that's the latch.
00:09:01Cigarette lighter, doctor's prescription,
00:09:06and an order for a birthday cake.
00:09:09Receipt for two dozen American beauty roses.
00:09:12A Canadian dollar with a license number penciled in.
00:09:16Key.
00:09:17And a railroad schedule with Woodville checked off.
00:09:21It doesn't mean very much, does it?
00:09:26Oh.
00:09:28Well, there's a name on this one.
00:09:30Yes?
00:09:31Two dozen American beauty roses to...
00:09:34Constantina...
00:09:35Constantina Ivanesca Civic Theater.
00:09:37Why, that's marvelous.
00:09:39It is?
00:09:40Well, of course, don't you see?
00:09:41You must have sent these roses,
00:09:43and the lady's probably a friend of yours,
00:09:45and all we have to do is visit her,
00:09:46and it'll all be straightened out in no time.
00:09:48I'd have thought of that myself.
00:09:50I'd have my wits about me.
00:09:51Each one of these probably tell us something about you.
00:09:53All we have to do is track them down.
00:09:55You know, you're as ingenious as you are,
00:09:57beautiful and kind.
00:09:58What?
00:10:03Oh, well, I hope you don't mind.
00:10:04My friend was ill, and we came in here to rest.
00:10:07Oh, okay.
00:10:08Can I drop you some, please?
00:10:09Well, Civic Theater?
00:10:11I'm going right past there.
00:10:12Oh, thank you.
00:10:13Right, sir.
00:10:28We'll go out the stage door, George.
00:10:48Why do you call me that?
00:10:49I don't have to do until we find out what your real name is.
00:10:58Wait a minute.
00:11:09You can't go in there.
00:11:10Well, we'd like to see...
00:11:10Let me handle this.
00:11:12We must see Konstantina Ivanesca.
00:11:14She's on the stage.
00:11:15We'll wait inside.
00:11:15Not so fast, young lady.
00:11:18Are you friends with Miss Ivanesca?
00:11:20Oh, but the best.
00:11:22She didn't say nothing about expecting you.
00:11:24Oh, we wanted to surprise her.
00:11:26Yes, I'm sure she would get a kick out of it.
00:11:32Well, you certainly know your way around.
00:11:34You can't live in New York long.
00:11:36In ignorance.
00:11:38There you go.
00:11:45Who would you like to see?
00:11:46Oh, we're friends of Konstantina's.
00:11:48Yes, ma'am.
00:11:49Miss Konstantina's on the stage right now,
00:11:51but she'll be coming along very soon.
00:11:53Well, we'll wait inside.
00:11:54Yes, ma'am.
00:11:56Yes, ma'am.
00:12:02Remember this place at all, George?
00:12:04George?
00:12:05What?
00:12:06Do you remember this place at all?
00:12:07I don't think so.
00:12:09Well, Miss Ivanesca will be here in a minute.
00:12:11I hear she's very beautiful.
00:12:13Is she?
00:12:13I'm sure you remember her.
00:12:15I don't see how many men could forget.
00:12:19Flotilde!
00:12:21Who are you?
00:12:23What can I do for you?
00:12:24Are you Konstantina Ivanesca?
00:12:26Yes.
00:12:26Well, here's a friend of yours.
00:12:30What is this?
00:12:31A joke?
00:12:31You don't know him?
00:12:33No.
00:12:35Are you playing a game?
00:12:38Don't you recognize her, George?
00:12:39Mm-hmm.
00:12:41Will you please explain this extraordinary conduct?
00:12:44How did you get by the doorman?
00:12:46Bribery.
00:12:47But why?
00:12:48My friend thought I knew you.
00:12:51The more you explain, the less I understand.
00:12:54Well, you see, George had an accident and well...
00:12:57Oh, now I understand.
00:12:58I'm sorry, but I cannot be of any help to you.
00:13:03I'm positive that this gentleman and I do not know each other.
00:13:06Flotilde, where have you been?
00:13:07I've been fixing the flowers.
00:13:09Well, help me dress.
00:13:10Those roses, who sent them?
00:13:13Young lady, you're becoming tiresome.
00:13:15They were sent to me by my fiancée.
00:13:18And now, if you'll forgive me, I must dress.
00:13:20Good night.
00:13:21Thank you for your kindness.
00:13:23Good evening, Mr. Reynolds.
00:13:52Missy Vinesca is in her dressing room.
00:13:54I'm sure she'll be out very shortly.
00:13:57George.
00:13:58Yes?
00:13:58Are you sure, very sure you don't remember that woman?
00:14:03Believe me, I'm not trying to be funny.
00:14:05I'm more anxious to find out who I am than you are.
00:14:07I know, but...
00:14:08But what?
00:14:10I guess we'll just have to try running down one of the other articles.
00:14:17My doctor's prescription.
00:14:19It hasn't any patient's name on it.
00:14:20It has my doctor's name and address.
00:14:22Perhaps we should have tried that first.
00:14:24It might have saved us a lot of trouble.
00:14:26It might have.
00:14:33Taxi.
00:14:37Where to?
00:14:37What is that address?
00:14:3829 Nexter Street.
00:14:39Got it?
00:14:40Okay.
00:14:52They overshot the place, Missy.
00:15:02I'll back up if you want me to.
00:15:03Just wait here, please.
00:15:04Oh, there it is.
00:15:13Hello, little lady.
00:15:15My, what a pretty kitten.
00:15:16Her name is Fwitzy.
00:15:17It's number 29, all right, but there's no doctor's office there.
00:15:20Well, maybe the owner can tell us.
00:15:22Shall I go with you?
00:15:23Don't bother.
00:15:24I see you've been charmed away from me.
00:15:25I'll be back in a second.
00:15:38Anybody here?
00:15:41Anybody here?
00:15:42Good evening.
00:15:51Oh, good evening.
00:15:54Could you tell me where I might find a Dr. Noel J. Hendricks?
00:15:58In this building or in the neighborhood?
00:16:00There is no doctor in this building or within a radius of four blocks from here.
00:16:04Are you certain?
00:16:06I have been in business here for 15 years.
00:16:09The neighborhood is poor, and to the poor, doctors are a luxury.
00:16:13Well, I have a prescription here that was issued to a friend of mine by a Dr. Hendricks at this address.
00:16:19Isn't your friend able to say exactly where he got it?
00:16:21Well, his memory was affected by an accident.
00:16:24He's right out here.
00:16:30I know little girls like ice cream.
00:16:34Oh, thank you.
00:16:35Will you look after Footsie, please?
00:16:37I'll take good care of her.
00:16:43Yes, I remember very well.
00:16:46I have a phenomenal memory for faces.
00:16:49He was in here last week.
00:16:51Oh, you know him then?
00:16:52No, he just came in looking for a book.
00:16:55Did he buy one?
00:16:57No, just thumbed through it.
00:16:58Interested in research, I think he said.
00:17:01Oh.
00:17:02Great many people come in here just to browse around.
00:17:06Do you recall the title of the book?
00:17:08It happens to be a great favorite of mine.
00:17:19Noel J. Hendricks, M.D.
00:17:22Well, that's the same name that's printed on this prescription.
00:17:23Well, thank you for your trouble.
00:17:25Well, thank you for your trouble.
00:17:36Any luck?
00:17:36That looks so simple at the beginning.
00:17:54Well, come on.
00:17:54The taxi's waiting.
00:17:55Where to now, mister?
00:18:08Just drive.
00:18:09Okay.
00:18:10I'm going to the ice cream cone, mister.
00:18:16Misty!
00:18:16Oh, Misty!
00:18:18You've tired yourself too much on my account.
00:18:29That's all right.
00:18:29Maybe we should go home and try again in the morning.
00:18:32It's a good idea.
00:18:33But I don't remember where I lived.
00:18:36I could go to the police.
00:18:37Oh, no.
00:18:38I feel too responsible for you.
00:18:39But, uh...
00:18:40I have room for you at home.
00:18:43Well, that's very kind.
00:18:45Would it be proper?
00:18:46Quite all right.
00:18:47I share the apartment with my sister.
00:18:49What's the address?
00:18:50I'll tell the driver.
00:19:01Oh, my goodness.
00:19:03It's about time I've been worried.
00:19:05Well, I've been out with Mr. George.
00:19:08Francie, I'd like to have you meet George.
00:19:10How do you do?
00:19:11What have you been up to, anyway?
00:19:13Well, it's all my fault your sister's late in getting home, Miss Lang.
00:19:16She took compassion on a poor wayfarer and tried to help him find himself.
00:19:20George is the one at the bar who's fortune, I told.
00:19:23Yes, I know.
00:19:24Did it take you half the night to tell him about it?
00:19:26I should have known you'd worry, but I was worried, too.
00:19:29I'm glad you were at least that considerate of me.
00:19:31Oh, worried about George, I mean.
00:19:33Why, he looks as if he can take care of himself.
00:19:35Well, that's just it.
00:19:36He can't.
00:19:37Well, then it's about time he learned.
00:19:39Well, your sister means I seem to have forgotten who I am.
00:19:43Forgotten?
00:19:44Then who's George?
00:19:46Well, that's what I call him.
00:19:47You see, he was in an accident and it left him kind of dazed.
00:19:50I've been trying to help him find out who he is.
00:19:52We didn't realize the time passed so quickly.
00:19:55If I'd known you were going to be worried, I wouldn't have let her stay out so late.
00:19:59Oh, it's all right now that you're here.
00:20:02But you see, Jean means a lot to me.
00:20:04It's very understandable.
00:20:06Then you really don't know who you are?
00:20:08No.
00:20:10I've asked George to spend the night here.
00:20:13Well, you couldn't let a little dog wander around the street all night, could you?
00:20:17I suggested to your sister I could go to the police.
00:20:19Oh, I wouldn't hear of it.
00:20:20Oh, you're welcome to stay, Mr.
00:20:23George, I guess it'll have to be for the time being.
00:20:26But I'm afraid you'll have to sleep on the couch.
00:20:28Well, that's very kind. Thank you.
00:20:30Please sit down now and make yourself comfortable.
00:20:32I've got some coffee on the stove.
00:20:37Francie didn't mean to be rude. She's really very nice.
00:20:40She's your sister, isn't she?
00:20:42You do say nice things.
00:20:44Well, you provoked him.
00:20:47That lighter, a few papers, and some money was all he had in his pockets.
00:20:50Must be pretty expensive if the diamonds are real.
00:20:53Of course they're real.
00:20:54How do you know?
00:20:55Well, you're not the sort of person to pretend.
00:20:57You do say nice things.
00:20:59Hey, there's something engraved on the bottom. Initials.
00:21:02Let's see.
00:21:05Well, they don't mean a thing.
00:21:09C.C. to J.C.
00:21:12Why, that's more of a clue than we've had all evening.
00:21:14Here, I've been calling you George, and your name's probably Jim or Jack Joe.
00:21:19Is it?
00:21:20I wouldn't know.
00:21:21I'm going to bed.
00:21:23Coming, Jean.
00:21:24I want to get a blanket and a pillow for George.
00:21:27I'll take care of the dishes.
00:21:28Oh, thank you.
00:21:30Time to go to sleep, Bonnie.
00:21:35Night.
00:21:39Night, George.
00:21:42Kitchen?
00:21:43Oh, yes, in the sink, if you please.
00:21:45And thank you.
00:21:47Good night.
00:21:47Night.
00:21:47Night.
00:21:47Oh, I didn't hear you come back.
00:22:15I'm sorry, I struggled.
00:22:17I hope you sleep comfortably.
00:22:19I'm sure I shall.
00:22:21Don't bother with that.
00:22:23Well, good night.
00:22:25Pleasant dreams, Miss Lane.
00:22:27If I call you George, you call me Jean.
00:22:31It's a privilege.
00:22:33Good night, Jean.
00:22:35Good night, George.
00:22:45Jean!
00:22:46Jean, Charlie asked me to marry him tonight.
00:22:50Did you say something, Francie?
00:22:51Charlie proposed.
00:22:54Oh, darling.
00:22:55When are you going to be married?
00:22:57Oh, well, I...
00:22:58Francie, you accepted.
00:22:59Charlie's a wonderful boy.
00:23:00He sure is.
00:23:01But I couldn't leave you alone.
00:23:03Oh, don't be a goose.
00:23:05Besides, maybe I have plans of my own.
00:23:08Jean, you won't do anything foolish.
00:23:10Of course not.
00:23:11Why, you hardly know him.
00:23:15Who?
00:23:17I know you better than you do yourself.
00:23:20Marriage isn't to be taken lightly.
00:23:22Yes, teacher.
00:23:23But he is charming, isn't he?
00:23:25Yes.
00:23:26And good looking.
00:23:27Yes, but that isn't everything.
00:23:30It's what a man is more than how he looks.
00:23:33I know.
00:23:35What happened tonight?
00:23:36It was very exciting.
00:23:38Where'd you go?
00:23:39Well, first of all...
00:23:41Now, we came home.
00:24:07Francie?
00:24:08Mm-hmm?
00:24:08Would you help me?
00:24:09About George?
00:24:11Uh-huh.
00:24:13I mean, take the day off tomorrow.
00:24:14It's Saturday and a half day anyway.
00:24:16What can I do?
00:24:18Those things George had in his pockets.
00:24:20You could take some of them and track them down.
00:24:22The cigarette lighter, the doctor's prescription,
00:24:25and the order for the birthday cake.
00:24:27Oh, you bring home the strangest people.
00:24:29Oh, George isn't strange.
00:24:31He's very nice.
00:24:32How would you feel if you suddenly lost your memory?
00:24:35Pretty strange, I bet.
00:24:37All right, dear.
00:24:38And then we could meet someplace in the afternoon
00:24:41and compare notes.
00:24:44Francie?
00:24:45Francie?
00:24:45Francie?
00:24:45Francie?
00:24:45Francie?
00:24:45Francie?
00:24:56Yeah.
00:24:59Francie?
00:25:06Francie?
00:25:08Francie?
00:25:08Francie?
00:25:08Let's go.
00:25:38Well, who are you going out to meet?
00:25:42Clark Gable?
00:25:43I should be so lucky.
00:25:44Come on, I'm hungry.
00:25:46George looks too intelligent to expect a girl to be so beautiful at 9 o'clock in the morning.
00:25:57Well, now.
00:25:59Smells good.
00:26:01Maybe you've got something in that guy after all.
00:26:04Good morning.
00:26:05After walking about half the night and waiting, I figured you'd both be terribly hungry.
00:26:13I hope you'll forgive the liberty I've taken.
00:26:16Gee, you make me feel awfully guilty for leaving those dishes in the sink last night.
00:26:19They're all taken care of.
00:26:20I told you he was nice.
00:26:22Nice? He's miraculous.
00:26:23Mary?
00:26:25Well, Pollyon, what are we waiting for?
00:26:35Our Father in heaven, we thank Thee for this repast.
00:26:40May we enjoy Thy benefits all the days of our years.
00:26:43Amen.
00:26:43Well, I made these eggs according to my own taste, sunny side up.
00:26:48Hope you like them that way.
00:26:49To have somebody serve me, I'd like them standing on edge.
00:26:52Coffee?
00:26:53Please, thank you.
00:26:54Oh, I forgot to feed Bonnie.
00:26:56Excuse me.
00:26:59Francie's very fond of Bonnie.
00:27:00Her fiancé gave them to her.
00:27:02Gee!
00:27:03What's the matter, Francie?
00:27:04What's wrong, Francie?
00:27:13There's something the matter with Bonnie.
00:27:15What do you suppose happened?
00:27:16I don't know.
00:27:17He was all right last night singing his little head off.
00:27:20Oh, the poor little creature.
00:27:22Doesn't take very much to...
00:27:29Here you are, 16J.
00:27:31Say, you were here the other day asking about this man's license number and address.
00:27:38I was?
00:27:39Sure.
00:27:39I gave you that information myself.
00:27:41You even wrote the license plate's number on this Canadian buck.
00:27:45I'm sorry, I forgot.
00:27:46What is the address again?
00:27:47522 Harris Street.
00:27:50522.
00:27:58Are you able to tell me where I can find the owner of this building?
00:28:01The Metropolitan Bank owns it, brother.
00:28:14522 Harris Street.
00:28:15Judge Nesbitt.
00:28:17We foreclosed that property some time ago.
00:28:19At the time, Judge Nesbitt was living at the Forest Apartments.
00:28:23Is there a Mr. Nesbitt living here?
00:28:28He used to.
00:28:29He checked out.
00:28:30No forwarding address.
00:28:34It's a bright day in the park.
00:28:36All nature seems in harmony.
00:28:38Yet why should one man seated on this bench provide the sole tumultuous exception?
00:28:43Does he himself realize the brash discord?
00:28:47Do you, William Everest?
00:28:48What cells, what tissues in that pounding brain of yours have now come back to life?
00:28:53Or have they?
00:28:54What is it you feel, William Everest?
00:28:56Or do you feel?
00:29:19Sorry, lady.
00:29:20Maybe this is a skeleton key.
00:29:22Skeleton?
00:29:22That's how they're known to the trade.
00:29:24Detectives carry them.
00:29:25Trucks, too.
00:29:27That's all you can tell me about them.
00:29:28Skeleton keys are kind of secret keys, lady.
00:29:30They don't tell much.
00:29:33You're welcome.
00:29:34You've been waiting long.
00:29:59No.
00:30:00Well, you've hurt your hand.
00:30:02What happened to it?
00:30:05Oh, a splinter of an revenge.
00:30:10Why do you sigh?
00:30:13Discouraged.
00:30:14About me?
00:30:15Yes.
00:30:18Then you haven't been able to find out anything about me at all?
00:30:20Nothing.
00:30:21I've tried everything possible in the last 24 hours.
00:30:25Have we been together that long?
00:30:27Don't tell me you're forgetting that, too, George.
00:30:29George?
00:30:30Why do you call me George?
00:30:31What else do you want me to call you?
00:30:32Because I don't know who you are.
00:30:35Aren't you feeling well?
00:30:39If I don't sound normal, you're to blame.
00:30:46I?
00:30:46I've never been in love before.
00:30:49Don't say anything.
00:30:51Your mere kindness is more than I ever hoped for.
00:30:54Even if it remains just that, I'm contented and very grateful.
00:31:02Shall we walk?
00:31:03Look.
00:31:04Poor little thing.
00:31:13Isn't it beautiful?
00:31:18Uh, these people you've been seeing, they brought nothing to light about me?
00:31:27Nothing?
00:31:28They might just have been born, for all anybody seems to know.
00:31:31And you?
00:31:32Have you formed any conclusions on your own?
00:31:34How could I?
00:31:35How could I?
00:31:35On what?
00:31:36Are you...
00:31:37Are you a detective?
00:31:39Why do you ask?
00:31:41Well, that key you had on you.
00:31:42I was told that only detectives carry them, or...
00:31:45Or?
00:31:46Or?
00:31:46Well, her crooks.
00:31:51Oh.
00:31:52Well, neither.
00:31:54Didn't have to tell me.
00:31:55Well, whatever my talents are, you can rest assured they don't run in those channels.
00:32:01I'm sure I had a lighter.
00:32:03Oh, I gave it to Francie this morning to try to trace down, remember?
00:32:07What else did you give her?
00:32:08Oh, the prescription and the bakery order.
00:32:11Oh, that's mine too, isn't it?
00:32:14Yes, the railroad schedule.
00:32:15I haven't been able to think yet how it might help us.
00:32:19It's getting very warm.
00:32:21Probably storm before night.
00:32:24Let's get out of the sun, shall we?
00:32:28Please, I...
00:32:29Speak to me, miss.
00:32:30Oh, she was talking to me, you are.
00:32:31Pardon me, sir.
00:32:33What do you want to say to him?
00:32:35I just wanted to ask the time.
00:32:36We're supposed to meet Francie.
00:32:38Well, it's early.
00:32:40My, you have a strong grip.
00:32:41You must have been an athlete.
00:32:43I didn't mean to hurt you.
00:32:45What if you acted so you were frightened of that policeman?
00:32:48For a moment, I thought you were going to ask him to help us, because you were scurries
00:32:51about me.
00:32:54Jean.
00:32:55Yes, George?
00:32:57Promise me that you'll see this thing through with me.
00:33:00That you won't give me up for a bad job.
00:33:02Of course I'll see it through, George.
00:33:03And promise me too that anything that you may find out about me, it'll be our secret alone.
00:33:09Certainly.
00:33:10What could we possibly find out that would be so necessary to keep a secret?
00:33:13Nothing.
00:33:15Nothing at all.
00:33:15It's just that your...
00:33:16Well, your kindness has meant so much to me.
00:33:20I couldn't get along without you now.
00:33:23You don't know what it means to wander through the darkness alone.
00:33:27We will see this thing through together, won't we?
00:33:30Yes, George.
00:33:30Together.
00:33:31Yes, we did this job.
00:33:36I remember now.
00:33:37You see, this is a business district, and we don't have any medical printing trade here.
00:33:41But about a week ago, a fellow came in and had a few of these printed up for him.
00:33:44He paid me above the market price for it.
00:33:46Oh, you don't know his name.
00:33:48No, he didn't say.
00:33:49He just waited here for her.
00:33:50But, uh, look.
00:33:52The fellow across the street in that cut-rate drugstore might be able to tell you his name.
00:33:56Because this fellow went in there after you left my shop.
00:33:58Oh, thank you.
00:33:58I saw him through that window.
00:34:00Glad to be of service.
00:34:09Hello.
00:34:10Oh, do you want something?
00:34:12Yes.
00:34:12Did, uh, you fill this?
00:34:15Where'd you get this?
00:34:16Well, it belongs to a friend of mine.
00:34:17Did you fill it?
00:34:18Well, maybe.
00:34:20Why?
00:34:20I'd just like to know.
00:34:22Are you from the Pure Foods and Drug Office?
00:34:24Oh, no.
00:34:25I'd just like this information for myself.
00:34:27Yeah, I reckon I did.
00:34:32Do you remember the man who gave it to you?
00:34:35Yeah.
00:34:35His name, too?
00:34:36No, I just remember him by this prescription.
00:34:39Why?
00:34:39Is it so unusual?
00:34:41Look, why are you asking me all these questions?
00:34:43I run a perfectly respectable place here.
00:34:45Yes, I know you do.
00:34:45It's just that, well, it means a lot to me to get this information.
00:34:50Could you tell me what's in it?
00:34:51Uh, I'm sure you have nothing to hide.
00:34:56Oh, of course not.
00:34:58Uh, poison.
00:35:00What did you say?
00:35:01I said poison.
00:35:04What kind of poison?
00:35:06Look, lady, you wouldn't know if I told you.
00:35:08Poison is poison.
00:35:09Now, just let it go at that.
00:35:11And this man bought it?
00:35:12Yes, he bought it.
00:35:15Is it a common poison?
00:35:17Well, not exactly.
00:35:19It's high-powered stuff.
00:35:20It's kind of scarce.
00:35:22There's not much call for it.
00:35:23I guess it must be very expensive.
00:35:25Yeah, kind of.
00:35:27You can't sell it without a doctor's prescription, can you?
00:35:30What do you call this, a billy-do?
00:35:32Well, isn't it supposed to have the patient's name on it as well as the doctor's?
00:35:35Look, lady, I've told you everything I know.
00:35:38Now, this shop isn't a question-and-answer box.
00:35:41If you don't care to buy anything, uh, good day.
00:35:50Hey, hey, mister, please stop!
00:36:07Oh, mister, oh, I'd like to ask you something.
00:36:11Sure, lady, step into my parlor.
00:36:12Cozy, ain't it?
00:36:18Oh, now, look, I just want to ask you one or two questions.
00:36:21Shoot, baby.
00:36:22Look, have you ever seen this before?
00:36:26Sure, that's one of our order forms.
00:36:28Well, what do you know, a five-pound birthday cake.
00:36:30Deliver this one myself.
00:36:32Where to?
00:36:33Railway Express.
00:36:34What were they doing, celebrating an anniversary?
00:36:37That's what this guy ordered and delivered after he brought it back to the shop.
00:36:39I don't get it.
00:36:41Well, this bird orders a cake and pays for it.
00:36:43He hauls it off himself.
00:36:45Back he comes the same day and says, uh, ship it through the Railway Express.
00:36:48Oh, ship it to where?
00:36:49Please try to remember.
00:36:50Oh, I ain't forgot, miss.
00:36:52It seems sort of a funny place to be sending a birthday cake.
00:36:54Funny?
00:36:55Peculiar-like.
00:36:56I don't know why I thought it should have been, but I did.
00:36:59Uh, guy gets funny notions sometimes, you know what I mean.
00:37:01And I figured right then and then maybe the one who was getting it wasn't a regular.
00:37:05Well, what do you mean?
00:37:06The place it was sent to.
00:37:07What place?
00:37:07The, uh, one upstate, the, uh, Hudson Mental Institution.
00:37:12Hudson Mental?
00:37:13Never had a ship of cake to a place like that before.
00:37:15Guy's name was, uh, Crawford.
00:37:17Yeah, John Crawford.
00:37:18That's what it was.
00:37:19Oh, thank you very much.
00:37:21You've helped me a lot.
00:37:22Okay, lady.
00:37:22Hope you found out what you wanted.
00:37:24Yes, I did.
00:37:25Say, uh, what's your name?
00:37:26Joe Blaney, what's yours?
00:37:28Thank you, Mr. Blaney.
00:37:29You're welcome.
00:37:32Bye.
00:37:33Bye.
00:37:33Bye.
00:37:33John Crawford.
00:37:37John Crawford.
00:37:40J.C.
00:37:43C.C. to J.C.
00:37:48C.C. to, to John Crawford.
00:37:53Yes, a table at the Fountain Cafe at Rockefeller Center is a cool and pleasant place, just as
00:38:09delightful as the park where William Everest was taking his ease before, and where he suddenly
00:38:14recalled who he was as he sat on that bench so kindly feeding the little squirrel.
00:38:20But why doesn't he tell Gene Lang he knows who he is?
00:38:23Why doesn't he say, my name is not George, it's William, William Everest?
00:38:29Why does he go on pretending?
00:38:31It is because he knows what he has at stake.
00:38:34Jane, I remember a name.
00:38:37Your name?
00:38:38Yours?
00:38:39The name of a man I know.
00:38:41Friend?
00:38:41It's the first actual name I've been able to remember.
00:38:45Must have been someone very close to me.
00:38:47Does he live in New York?
00:38:50Woodville.
00:38:51Well, that's the place you have marked on the railroad schedule.
00:38:53Yes.
00:38:54What's the name?
00:38:56Edward Nesbitt.
00:38:59That's all you can remember?
00:39:00It's all I need to know right now.
00:39:03We must get there as soon as possible.
00:39:04There's a train leaving at 6 o'clock.
00:39:06It's in there at 8.10.
00:39:07We'll just have time to make it.
00:39:08We?
00:39:12Well, of course you're going with me.
00:39:15I want you with me more than anyone else at my rebirth.
00:39:20Well, I know, but...
00:39:21Oh, it would mean so much to me.
00:39:24All right, George.
00:39:27Here, I've just gotten used to calling you George.
00:39:29Well, if that doesn't turn out to be my name, my real name, I'll adopt it.
00:39:33I'll call Francie and let her know.
00:39:35She'll worry.
00:39:35Oh, I think you exaggerate her anxieties.
00:39:38Oh, you don't know Francie.
00:39:39I'll just be a moment.
00:39:40There's a phone right inside.
00:39:52Waiter.
00:39:59Haggage for Mr. John Crawford.
00:40:00Mary, Mary!
00:40:02What is it, Henry?
00:40:05Another pigeon for Daddy.
00:40:06Oh, good.
00:40:08Sorry, here, please.
00:40:09Hold it, dear.
00:40:13Thank you very much.
00:40:14Come on, darling.
00:40:15Let's open it.
00:40:16Oh, wait a minute.
00:40:17Don't get impatient.
00:40:18Take it in the kitchen.
00:40:20That's it.
00:40:20Isn't it lovely?
00:40:34Oh, boy!
00:40:36Well, your ma didn't forget it was your daddy's birthday, even though she is in the city visiting
00:40:40your grandparents.
00:40:41Let me take it.
00:40:42Now?
00:40:42It's your daddy's cake.
00:40:43He's got to cut the first slice.
00:40:45You just wait till he gets home.
00:40:47Oh, Mary, please.
00:40:48Oh, no.
00:40:50Try again, operator.
00:40:52Jean.
00:40:54I'm waiting.
00:40:56Did you speak to Francie?
00:40:58She doesn't answer.
00:40:59Well, you can call her later.
00:41:17You can call her for Woodville.
00:41:42Oh, don't let it disturb you.
00:41:44She knows you're in good hands.
00:41:46It's wonderful how you suddenly remembered that man's name.
00:41:48I wasn't even making an effort to think.
00:41:50Picked up the schedule.
00:41:52Just came to me.
00:41:53I'm so happy about it.
00:41:55Woodville, Edward Nesbeth.
00:41:57I couldn't think of one without the other.
00:42:00The one man who can tell me all I want to know about myself.
00:42:03It's thrilling.
00:42:05There's no telling who you may discover you are after you see that man.
00:42:08No telling.
00:42:11Did you hear that?
00:42:12What?
00:42:12Distant thunder.
00:42:14Looks like the storm you prophesied's coming true.
00:42:18Oh, here we are at Weehawken.
00:42:21We've only got a couple of minutes to make the train.
00:42:23Hello, Mrs. Cassidy.
00:42:25This is Frances Lang.
00:42:26Is Charlie there?
00:42:28Five minutes ago?
00:42:31Oh, well, did he say where he was going?
00:42:34Oh, thank you.
00:42:37Oh, who is it?
00:42:57Oh, Charlie, I'm so glad.
00:43:01Say, I didn't mean to scare you, honey.
00:43:03The janitor let me in.
00:43:05What's wrong?
00:43:06I don't know.
00:43:07Well, let's sit on.
00:43:08What gives with the weeps?
00:43:10I've been trying to get you.
00:43:12It's about Jean.
00:43:13I'm scared.
00:43:15Jean?
00:43:15What's...
00:43:16She's been out all day with that man.
00:43:18She was supposed to meet me this afternoon, and she didn't show up.
00:43:21What man?
00:43:23Last night at the salt shaker, that man at the bar.
00:43:26She brought him home.
00:43:28He spent the night here?
00:43:29Yes, he had some kind of an accident.
00:43:32He couldn't remember who he was.
00:43:34Jean felt sorry for him, and she left with him early this morning trying to find out something about him.
00:43:40What's there to be scared about?
00:43:42Charlie, there's... there's something horrible about him.
00:43:45Oh, he looked okay to me.
00:43:47I've been out on my own all day trying to help them, and...
00:43:50You found out something?
00:43:52What?
00:43:54I don't exactly know.
00:43:56I don't get it.
00:43:57These are some of the things he had in his pocket.
00:44:02Cigarette lighter?
00:44:05Doctor's prescription?
00:44:06It's for poison.
00:44:07This prescription?
00:44:08A deadly poison.
00:44:10What's wrong with that?
00:44:11Maybe you want to get rid of a few roaches, or maybe...
00:44:13Oh, Charlie.
00:44:14Look, honey, maybe you better tell me all about it right from the beginning.
00:44:20Yes, they are on the train, and the destination is Woodville.
00:44:23What does no twinge of unrest, faint as it may be,
00:44:25stir Jean Lang's consciousness as she trustingly confides herself to the care of William Everest?
00:44:32And that cake was sent to the same person whose initials are on this cigarette lighter.
00:44:36You're going to the police, young lady.
00:44:38Oh, come with me, Charlie, please.
00:44:39No, I can't.
00:44:40But...
00:44:41There wouldn't be time.
00:44:42Maybe this is something we're just building up in our imagination,
00:44:45but Jean means too much to the both of us to take any chances.
00:44:48But what are you going to do?
00:44:50Well, the police may need some convincing.
00:44:52This isn't just a little pipe dream.
00:44:54I'll meet you at headquarters with all the evidence I can collect.
00:44:56Let's get going.
00:44:57All right.
00:44:58Man, I haven't got wings.
00:45:09Why do you treat that bell that way?
00:45:11Is Missy Vinesca in?
00:45:13Yes, who shall I say is called?
00:45:14Never mind names.
00:45:15Is she in?
00:45:15She's fixing to go out.
00:45:17Flotilda, who is it?
00:45:19The gentleman here says, are you in?
00:45:21I told him you was fixing to go out.
00:45:23Miss Konstantini Vinesca?
00:45:25Yes.
00:45:25Come with me.
00:45:26What is the meaning of this?
00:45:29I ain't never seen nothing like that in Georgia.
00:45:32What's the meaning of this?
00:45:33Are you crazy?
00:45:34Let me go.
00:45:35I'll explain this to you.
00:45:35I'm very sorry, Miss Konstantini.
00:45:45You'll pay dearly for this outrage.
00:45:48Stop the car and let me go.
00:45:50Who are you?
00:45:51Well, I was kind of fretted about being took from right over a swell dish of roast chicken, too,
00:45:55but from what this young fellow tells me, why, I ain't complaining now.
00:45:59Explain it to her, Mr. Richards.
00:46:00Yeah, you see, you and me, ma'am, are being invited to stop a murder.
00:46:04A murder?
00:46:05Maybe more than one.
00:46:06Mm-hmm.
00:46:06Mm-hmm.
00:46:12Leaves at 6, 10 p.m., arrives at 8 p.m.
00:46:15That's what the railroad schedule states in cold print.
00:46:18But it means far more than that to William Everest.
00:46:21It means far more than that to Jean Lang, too.
00:46:23But she does not know.
00:46:25And there lies the tragedy.
00:46:26I was told Joe Blaney would be here.
00:46:33That's all right, bud.
00:46:34Hey, Joe, there's a fellow out here to see you.
00:46:36Yeah.
00:46:37That him?
00:46:37Yes, sir.
00:46:39Hey, wait a minute, bud.
00:46:40Where you going?
00:46:40You'll find the other.
00:46:41Hey, this is a series of...
00:46:42This is kidnapping.
00:46:47That's a very unusual story you've just told me, Miss Lang.
00:46:50You will help me.
00:46:52But the question is, where does fact end and fiction begin?
00:46:56I know it's true.
00:46:57I just feel that Jean's in danger.
00:47:00We actually don't have one cold fact to go on.
00:47:03It's all supposition.
00:47:04Oh, granted, it sounds feasible the way you tell it.
00:47:08On the other hand, it could be just mere coincidence.
00:47:10Well, we've got to take that chance, Captain.
00:47:12Miss Lang, I can't set into motion police machinery on mere assumption.
00:47:18I understand your anxiety.
00:47:19But aren't you exaggerating the situation?
00:47:22What if something does happen and you'd had a chance to prevent it?
00:47:26I'd be equally embarrassed if this whole thing turned out to be a wild goose chase set in motion by an aesthetical young woman.
00:47:40Here we are, everybody.
00:47:41But you've got to help me.
00:47:49That's what the police are for.
00:47:51If we had just one clear fact to go...
00:47:53Clear five clear facts.
00:47:54Oh, Charlie.
00:47:56What does this mean?
00:47:57Did you tell him the story, honey?
00:47:58He says I'm imagining it.
00:48:00Miss Ivinesca, tell the captain the story you told me.
00:48:03I knew this man you're all talking about.
00:48:05Then why did you deny it last night when my sister called on you at the theater?
00:48:09I had my reasons.
00:48:10I met this man a few years ago at the home of Judge Nesbitt.
00:48:14He paid a lot of attention to me and said he was in love with me.
00:48:17You weren't in love with him?
00:48:18I liked him.
00:48:19He was charming and good-looking.
00:48:20But even then he showed signs of...
00:48:23Go on, please.
00:48:24Well, of that condition which eventually put him in the Hudson Mental Hospital.
00:48:27That's the place where I told you he sent the birthday cake.
00:48:30Yeah, that's right.
00:48:30I shipped it for him.
00:48:31Who are you?
00:48:33I work for the Elite Bakery.
00:48:34That's where he bought the cake.
00:48:36His name is William Everest.
00:48:38You mentioned a Judge Nesbitt.
00:48:40Is that the same man who retired a few years ago?
00:48:43Yes.
00:48:44He was in very poor health and had lost a lot of money in bad investments.
00:48:48It was he who signed the papers committing Everest to the asylum.
00:48:52Why didn't you tell my sister that last night?
00:48:55I'm about to marry.
00:48:58My fiancé comes from a very conventional family and he's jealous, too.
00:49:02When your sister brought that man to me last night, he didn't recognize me.
00:49:06So I pretended I didn't know him either.
00:49:08All the short of before, he'd send me a bunch of roses in an effort to renew our old friendship.
00:49:13Then you believe that this man is up to some mischief.
00:49:15That's putting it rather mildly.
00:49:17He's an escaped maniac.
00:49:20He sent that birthday cake to somebody named Crawford at the institution.
00:49:23It was filled with poison.
00:49:25And here's the man who sold it to him from a prescription this gentleman printed by order.
00:49:29That must be why he came into my shop and asked for that book on poisons.
00:49:34Who is John Crawford?
00:49:35He's the warden of the Hudson Mental Hospital.
00:49:38He must have incurred Everest's hastery for some fancied wrong.
00:49:41Everest already had promised to kill the judge.
00:49:43Kill the judge?
00:49:44Yes.
00:49:45He swore he'd do it when the judge signed the commitment papers.
00:49:48Oh, Gene.
00:49:50Gene.
00:49:52Get me the Hudson Mental Hospital.
00:49:54Upstate.
00:49:55Make it fast.
00:49:57Hudson Mental Hospital?
00:49:59Mr. Crawford's gone home.
00:50:01It's his birthday.
00:50:02He left early.
00:50:03You can reach him at Hudson 421.
00:50:05Hello?
00:50:13Hello?
00:50:14Hello?
00:50:19Now, Henry, you behave yourself.
00:50:21That was someone calling your daddy from New York.
00:50:23I guess the wires must have gone down.
00:50:25Ah, Mary.
00:50:27You wait.
00:50:30The phone's cut off.
00:50:32Where's Judge Nesbitt living now?
00:50:34Woodville.
00:50:34Woodville?
00:50:35That's the place that was marked in the railroad schedule that man had.
00:50:40Get me Judge Nesbitt in Woodville.
00:50:42He has no telephone.
00:50:43He has shut himself off from the world.
00:50:45Lieutenant, contact the police at Hudson on the teletype.
00:50:49Request them to go without delay to Crawford's home and seize a poisoned birthday cake.
00:50:54Tell them to order a doctor and ambulance to stand by.
00:50:57Also, contact the State Patrol Division at Woodville and instruct them to...
00:51:00the police at Hudson 421.
00:51:20It's lonely out here, isn't it?
00:51:23My friend likes it here. He's a recluse.
00:51:26Hope he doesn't mind our bursting in on him like this.
00:51:29I guarantee he won't say a word.
00:51:32Let's see if I can get a cab.
00:51:39What do you think?
00:51:41Good evening, folks.
00:51:43I wonder if there's any chance of getting a car.
00:51:45No. Where are you going?
00:51:47Up to Edward Nesra's place.
00:51:49Oh. Old Judge Nesra? You a friend of his?
00:51:52Yes.
00:51:53It's quite a spell up there.
00:51:55Well, I wonder if we could, uh...
00:51:57No. No chance.
00:51:59Unless you want to take my car.
00:52:01Well, I'd be very glad to pay you.
00:52:03Oh, no. We don't take money for favors around here.
00:52:05You're welcome to the car. It's parked right there.
00:52:08Just tell the old judge's service to bring it down in the morning
00:52:11when it comes down for the judge's newspaper.
00:52:13Well, thank you. You're very kind.
00:52:15Keys are in the car.
00:52:17All right. We'll join you in a second, George.
00:52:19I want to send a wire to Francie.
00:52:20She'll be more at ease if she knows who I am.
00:52:22I'll wait the car.
00:52:23All right.
00:52:24And now for news on the national scene.
00:52:25A police dragnet has been laid across the entire length and breadth of Markless County in the state of New Jersey,
00:52:31in an effort to capture a dangerous homicidal maniac, William Everest,
00:52:33who escaped a week ago from the Hudson Mental Hospital in New York State.
00:52:37Known to be accompanying the madman, but unsuspecting of his real identity, is Gene Lang, 25-year-old department store buyer,
00:52:44who had befriended the man after he met with a slight accident in New York City last night.
00:52:47Searchers have been instructed to shoot to kill the fugitive, as he is said to be extremely dangerous.
00:52:48It is thought that...
00:52:49It is thought that...
00:52:50Black man, it'sимics.
00:52:51Hard man, he is elderly man, man in the maximum number of cars,
00:52:52but we know that he is looking at the same존.
00:52:53But he sees a force into the city of the moron.
00:52:54The girl is very likely to get him out of the directamente of the front desk.
00:52:55We know how the police volunteer lapsed us, as he goes into the middle of the men.
00:52:56We know how the police will make him make him take a good thing.
00:52:57A police officer is dead.
00:52:58The police officer says he's dead.
00:52:59We're in the middle of the city.
00:53:00We know that police officer is dead.
00:53:01All right.
00:53:02Our firefighters is dead.
00:53:03We know that it's dead.
00:53:04We're getting out of the night.
00:53:05We know that it's dead.
00:53:06We know that we're being injured, like this guy.
00:53:07Yes, we know that this guy is dead.
00:53:09Searchers have been instructed to shoot to kill the fugitive as he is said to be extremely dangerous.
00:53:14It is thought that...
00:53:37Thank you, Mary.
00:53:40Somebody's gonna get soppin' wet.
00:53:45Now, Daddy, now?
00:53:47Yes, Henry.
00:53:50Mary's told me what a patient little boy you've been.
00:53:53She ain't birthday swell.
00:53:56Mr. Crawford! Mr. Crawford!
00:53:58Oh, no! Henry! Henry!
00:54:01Mary, what's the matter?
00:54:03Are you sure we're on the right road?
00:54:05Yes.
00:54:07Gene?
00:54:09Yes?
00:54:10I know I can trust you.
00:54:12Why, yes, George.
00:54:14I need a friend with sympathy and understanding.
00:54:17You'll soon know who you are, and everything will be fine.
00:54:20That's right.
00:54:22Nothing must stop me from reaching Edward Nesbitt.
00:54:25Nothing will.
00:54:27Yet I'm worried.
00:54:28Why?
00:54:29Suppose I do find out who I am, and I don't like it.
00:54:33I mean that ever since the accident I've been someone else.
00:54:36Suppose before it happened I had done something I shouldn't.
00:54:39You mean like a crime?
00:54:43Well, anything.
00:54:45Will you believe me when I tell you that since I've known you that my whole life has changed?
00:54:50Do you trust me enough to give me a chance to prove it?
00:54:53Yes, George.
00:54:54Yes, George.
00:54:59And it just came over the teletype from New York.
00:55:01This cake is filled with enough poison to kill a dozen men.
00:55:04I tried to get you on the phone.
00:55:06All the wires were down.
00:55:07Are there any clues to his whereabouts?
00:55:10They think he's around Woodville over in Jersey.
00:55:13Hmm.
00:55:14Judge Nesbitt's living there.
00:55:17Hope they've warned the old fellow.
00:55:19Oh, you can count on that.
00:55:20All the roads are blocked off and every state cop in the county is out.
00:55:24By the way, why didn't you report it when he first broke out of the hospital?
00:55:29Well, he'd shown such improvement that we'd made him a trustee.
00:55:32Doctors thought his condition was quite good.
00:55:35We'd been searching for him ourselves, but as yet we hadn't informed the police.
00:55:39Do you think he was acting normal just to get the trustee job so he could break out easier?
00:55:44Oh, that's likely.
00:55:46Certainly fooled us all with his madman's cunning.
00:55:48We found his uniform under the porch outside.
00:55:51He'd sneaked in here and stolen one of my suits of clothes.
00:55:54Well, I'm sure glad I got here on time, Warden.
00:55:57You're glad.
00:56:00How do you think I feel?
00:56:09Good evening.
00:56:10What's your name?
00:56:11Where are you going?
00:56:12Crawford.
00:56:13John Crawford.
00:56:14I'm glad you men came along.
00:56:15I'm afraid I'm lost.
00:56:16Yeah?
00:56:17From what?
00:56:18Why, I'm looking for the state police division station.
00:56:19What for?
00:56:20Well, I was asked to help in the search of one of my patients.
00:56:21Oh.
00:56:22Oh.
00:56:23You're Mr. Crawford?
00:56:24Yes.
00:56:25From Mrs. Carol, one of my nurses.
00:56:26Sorry to trouble you, Mr. Crawford.
00:56:27I'm looking for the state police division station.
00:56:28What for?
00:56:29Well, I was asked to help in the search of one of my patients.
00:56:30Oh.
00:56:31You're Mr. Crawford?
00:56:32Yes.
00:56:33From Mrs. Carol, one of my nurses.
00:56:34Sorry to trouble you, Mr. Crawford.
00:56:35I'm looking for the state police division station.
00:56:36What for?
00:56:37Well, I was asked to help in the search of one of my patients.
00:56:38Oh.
00:56:39You're Mr. Crawford?
00:56:40Yes.
00:56:41From Mrs. Carol, one of my nurses.
00:56:42Sorry to trouble you, Mr. Crawford.
00:56:43But, uh, have you any identification?
00:56:44Oh, no trouble.
00:56:45Of course.
00:56:46I...
00:56:47Oh, here.
00:56:48It's as good as anything.
00:56:49Okay, Mr. Crawford.
00:56:50Sorry to bother you.
00:56:51It's quite all right.
00:56:52The station's about five miles down the road.
00:56:54Oh, no trouble.
00:56:55It's not a problem.
00:56:56You're a Mr. Crawford?
00:56:57Yes.
00:56:58From, uh...
00:56:59Mr. Carol, one of my nurses.
00:57:00Sorry to trouble you, Mr. Crawford.
00:57:01But, uh, have you any identification?
00:57:02Oh, no trouble.
00:57:03Of course.
00:57:04I...
00:57:05I...
00:57:06Oh, here.
00:57:07It's as good as anything.
00:57:08Okay, Mr. Crawford.
00:57:09Sorry to bother you.
00:57:10It's quite all right.
00:57:11The station's about five miles down the road.
00:57:14It's quite all right.
00:57:15It's quite all right.
00:57:16The station's about five miles down the road.
00:57:18You're off the track on this side road.
00:57:20Turn left at the next crossroad.
00:57:21That'll take you on to 66.
00:57:22Then just go straight ahead.
00:57:25Thank you, General.
00:57:26Okay, sir.
00:57:27Good night, Mr. Carol.
00:57:36My name isn't Carol, and I'm not a nurse.
00:57:39Nothing is going to stop me from reaching Edward Nesbitt.
00:57:43What do you suppose those policemen wanted?
00:57:46Doesn't really matter as long as we weren't too late.
00:57:49That label in your pocket...
00:57:52Who is John Crawford?
00:57:54Just the name.
00:57:56Is that his suit you're wearing?
00:57:58I wouldn't know, rightly.
00:58:00It's his identification label in the pocket.
00:58:02It must belong to him.
00:58:05Possibly.
00:58:07Where did you get it?
00:58:08I don't remember, darling.
00:58:10You know, there are so many things that I don't remember.
00:58:13I happened to glance at it this morning.
00:58:16How I got it.
00:58:18Where I got it.
00:58:19Who the man is.
00:58:20I don't remember.
00:58:21You showed great presence of mind in giving that name to the policeman.
00:58:25Found it in the tip of my tongue.
00:58:27It sounded almost rehearsed.
00:58:30Oh, you're letting your imagination run away with you, my dear.
00:58:34The policeman acted as though he knew the man whose name you gave.
00:58:39That's not at all probable.
00:58:42When you said your name was John Crawford, he acted as though he knew who John Crawford was.
00:58:47There's nothing strange and common name arousing a familiar memory in a man, is there?
00:58:52You gave the feeling also that you expected him to know who John Crawford was.
00:58:56Oh, this is childish conjecture.
00:59:00You think I'm lying to you?
00:59:02We mustn't let any little misunderstanding come between us, darling.
00:59:08We've come to mean too much to each other for that.
00:59:11Isn't that so?
00:59:17Yep.
00:59:18That telegram was filed here about 30 minutes ago, Sheriff.
00:59:21Here's a copy of it.
00:59:23Was there a man with her?
00:59:24Yeah.
00:59:25Mm-hmm.
00:59:26Nice, easy-speaking fellow.
00:59:27I lent him my car to go up to Judge Nesbitt's place.
00:59:30Him and that girl.
00:59:32Well, it's them all right.
00:59:34How'd you let him get through?
00:59:35Said he was Warden Crawford of the Hudson Mental Hospital.
00:59:38Showed identification, too.
00:59:40We'd better get down to the judge's place fast.
00:59:42And you, too.
00:59:51Here's the house.
00:59:52Our troubles will all be over soon.
00:59:56All over?
00:59:57What are you thinking?
00:59:58Things will all be changed in a few minutes.
01:00:00You'll know all about yourself, and I'll know all about you.
01:00:05Why are we waiting here?
01:00:06This moment is set apart from time.
01:00:07I want to prolong it.
01:00:08You know all about yourself now, and you don't know what you may be after you see Mr. Nesbitt.
01:00:11Is that it, George?
01:00:41Hudson Mental Hospital.
01:00:44You're hurting my throat, George.
01:00:46A wonderful throat.
01:00:48A wonderful channel through which the inmost secrets of the soul find freedom to the world.
01:00:53George!
01:00:54Let it live, and it can tell the world too much.
01:00:57Destroy it, and its secrets are locked forever from the ears of man.
01:01:00George!
01:01:11Mr. M. Jason's car, all right?
01:01:32All right.
01:01:33They must be around here.
01:01:34Spread out and beat around.
01:01:35Now, blow your whistles if you come upon anything.
01:01:41Let's go.
01:02:11Mr. Garand roll them up again.
01:02:13Mr. thisiously came here.
01:02:14Be careful.
01:02:15Mr. Garand roll them up again.
01:02:16Mr. Garand roll them up again.
01:02:17Mr. Garand roll' your tie.
01:02:18Mr. 30, fine.
01:02:19Mr. Garand roll' your tie.
01:02:20Mr. Garand roll's gotten a little bit incident.
01:02:21Mr. Garand roll, I'll look at your tie.
01:02:23See?
01:02:24Yes, sir, Sam.
01:02:25Mr. Garand roll the cable.
01:02:30I'll do it for gambling nonsense.
01:02:31Mr. Garand...
01:02:32Mr. Garand roll out of the cart nighttime.
01:02:33Mr. Garand roll had a face out of anyone.
01:02:34Mr. Garand roll out a
01:02:39Come on.
01:03:09Come on.
01:03:39Come on.
01:04:09Come on.
01:04:11Come on.
01:04:13Come on.
01:04:16There won't be any pain, my dear.
01:04:21One quick cut and it'll be over.
01:04:26And your throat will be quiet forevermore.
01:04:29Oh, I'm very expert.
01:04:34This knife is very sharp.
01:04:37I'll be doing you a great favor.
01:04:40Look at it like that.
01:04:42Oh, you'll be spared so much of life's torments.
01:04:46Come down, my darling.
01:05:00Don't prolong your agony.
01:05:02I'll take you where it's calm and peaceful.
01:05:04Why do you want to kill me?
01:05:06I was your one friend.
01:05:07I gave you shelter.
01:05:08And I will return your kindness
01:05:09and give you shelter from the things which will destroy you.
01:05:15I will keep you forever young.
01:05:17Time and life are your enemies.
01:05:19I am your friend.
01:05:21Come on.
01:05:22You're welcome.
01:05:24Come on.
01:05:25Come on.
01:05:27Come on.
01:05:28Come on.
01:05:29Come on.
01:05:30Come on.
01:05:30In a city full of strange adventures, this, which happened to Jean Lang, has been one of the most amazing.
01:05:50Protected by the resilience of youth, Jean Lang will carry no scars on her soul from her encounter with William Everest.
01:05:56And as time passes, even the nightmare memory will not disturb her innocent sleep.
01:06:02She will marry in time the man destined for her and live long and happily in the fullness of her years.
01:06:08I know, because I am the whistler.
01:06:26I know, because I am the whistler.
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