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πποΈ An ancient curse. A vengeful spirit. A house full of secrets.
Step into the eerie world of early horror with House of Mystery (1934), a suspenseful tale of supernatural revenge and Eastern mysticism β wrapped in a classic whodunit.
πΏ When an unscrupulous archaeologist desecrates a sacred Indian temple and steals a priceless idol, he returns to America haunted by a deadly curse. Years later, strange events plague his mansion, and guests begin dying mysteriously. Is it the work of a killer in disguise, or has the Hindu god Kali returned to exact revenge?
π¬ Directed by William Nigh, this pre-Code horror mystery blends exotic intrigue, gothic atmosphere, and ghost story elements into a lean, chilling thriller. With its vintage charm and cult appeal, House of Mystery is a forgotten gem from the early days of Hollywood horror.
π§ββοΈ Expect secret passages, shadowy corridors, and a looming sense of dread β all under the shadow of an ancient curse that refuses to die.
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Step into the eerie world of early horror with House of Mystery (1934), a suspenseful tale of supernatural revenge and Eastern mysticism β wrapped in a classic whodunit.
πΏ When an unscrupulous archaeologist desecrates a sacred Indian temple and steals a priceless idol, he returns to America haunted by a deadly curse. Years later, strange events plague his mansion, and guests begin dying mysteriously. Is it the work of a killer in disguise, or has the Hindu god Kali returned to exact revenge?
π¬ Directed by William Nigh, this pre-Code horror mystery blends exotic intrigue, gothic atmosphere, and ghost story elements into a lean, chilling thriller. With its vintage charm and cult appeal, House of Mystery is a forgotten gem from the early days of Hollywood horror.
π§ββοΈ Expect secret passages, shadowy corridors, and a looming sense of dread β all under the shadow of an ancient curse that refuses to die.
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00:00:30THE END
00:01:00Hi. What do I want? Brandy, sir.
00:01:26Right.
00:01:30Well, what's the matter? Do I look funny or something? Might it not be well for you to cut down on the drink a little?
00:01:44Am I bothering you?
00:01:47Not particularly.
00:01:48Where are you going? See that notch dancer again?
00:01:55Now, wait a minute. Don't start telling me my business. You're taking a big chance, Vandergast.
00:02:03Those temple notch dancers are high caste Hindu girls. And attention from anyone outside their own caste is apt to result in his disappearance some dark night.
00:02:12You mind your own business and keep out of my affairs. Come on, old fellow. Let's be toddling along.
00:02:17Hey, take your hand off me. Who are you pulling?
00:02:20Just run home and sleep it off. There's a good chap.
00:02:22Say, just for that, I'm going to have another one.
00:02:25You've had more than you can carry. Getting drunk in this country is a good way to get into trouble.
00:02:30Yeah?
00:02:31Yeah, what?
00:02:32Don't you call me.
00:02:45Say, why don't you look where you're going?
00:02:49He's supposed to be an archaeologist, but the only thing he's discovered so far is the dancer Shandu over at the Kela Temple.
00:03:02He's supposed to be an archaeologist, but the only thing he's discovered so far is the dancer Shandu over at the Kela Temple.
00:03:32Kela Temple is an archaeologist.
00:04:02Why hast thou slain one of Kailai's little ones?
00:04:27I didn't mean to kill the little beast.
00:04:29He jumped on my shoulder as I came into the temple, and I struck him with my crop.
00:04:33Why camest thou here to defile our temple by thy presence?
00:04:36Well, the temple's open, isn't it?
00:04:38Take your hands off me, you blind!
00:04:40Silence!
00:04:41Thy speech is as profane as thine act.
00:04:45That's it.
00:04:46Tell my fortune,
00:04:48and find out what these dogs will suffer when the governor hears about this.
00:04:53Through the sacred eyes of Kailai,
00:04:55I see the sahib has been sent by learned men to our country
00:05:00to wrest from our monuments and temples
00:05:03the history of our wisdom and the history of her past.
00:05:10The sahib has deceived those who sent him.
00:05:14He seeks not the wise men, but their gold.
00:05:18Ere he leaves Asia, his pocket shall be sealed to overflowing with bright gold.
00:05:25The gold shall not be his, but he will not scruple to take it,
00:05:30knowing that on every rupee shall be written the curse of Kailai.
00:05:35The devil's sahib, we may not punish thee,
00:05:41but Kailai will not forget.
00:05:43Sometime, somehow, somewhere,
00:05:47Kailai will mete out justice.
00:05:50It is said,
00:05:51I'll show you what I think of you and your curse.
00:06:10and I'll show you what I think of you and your curse.
00:06:37What?
00:06:37They might have killed you sahib, and they will kill me when they find you.
00:06:56Well, they shan't find you, Shanda.
00:06:59How did you happen to be in the temple?
00:07:01I had departed from the temple after the dancing ceremony, but when I knew the sahib was in
00:07:05danger, I went back to help him.
00:07:07How did you know that I was in danger?
00:07:10My people feel the trouble for those they love.
00:07:28That's very interesting.
00:07:30It was almost 20 years ago, Mr. Ellis.
00:07:34Proceed, Professor Potter.
00:07:35My colleagues here and in England financed this expedition.
00:07:45I, that is, Mrs. Potter, and I put this Prendergast in charge.
00:07:51He understood that the backers were to share in the glory or the profit that might result.
00:08:02Oh, come to the point.
00:08:04Horatia, don't be so long-winded.
00:08:07Hyacinth, control yourself.
00:08:09You know, I, I can't see a thing without my glasses.
00:08:12Well, why don't you put them on?
00:08:14Oh, I'm afraid I, I left them at home.
00:08:18Oh, they're in your pocket.
00:08:19Stupid.
00:08:19Don't be a third, Hyacinth, sir.
00:08:24And you want me to find this, uh, Prendergast, is that it?
00:08:28I have found, uh, that is, Mrs. Potter and I have found this Prendergast.
00:08:33Uh, it seems that I was out shopping one day last week, and my attention was attracted to
00:08:38a Hindu woman who gave her name to the clerk as Mrs. Prane.
00:08:42Now, I put two and two together and did a little snooping.
00:08:46Mrs. Potter means investigating.
00:08:48I said snooping, and I certainly mean snooping.
00:08:52And what did you snoop?
00:08:54I mean, find out.
00:08:55Uh, that this, uh, Mrs. Prane and her husband live on a big estate in the suburbs.
00:09:00This Mr. Prane is an invalid in a wheelchair, and he's attended by an English nurse.
00:09:06Do you believe this Mr. Prane really is Prendergast?
00:09:10I know it.
00:09:11Any man would need more than 20 years and a pair of paralyzed legs to fool me.
00:09:17And you both want to share in this Hindu treasure, is that it?
00:09:20Certainly.
00:09:21Well, naturally, it would strengthen our position if I were to act as attorney for all the investors.
00:09:27Have you the names and addresses of these people by any chance?
00:09:31Ah, I have it.
00:09:33You're crazy.
00:09:34I have it.
00:09:36The cranial fissure on Homo neanderthal is an endemic aberration.
00:09:42I can do well find it if I kept on.
00:09:45Oh, no, it's out this way.
00:09:47That's the absent-minded creature that I've been living with for 35 years.
00:09:54And now he'll spend the day in the museum among the mummies.
00:09:57And when he comes home tonight, he'll tell me he lost something.
00:10:00And if he does, I'll crown the numbskull with a poker.
00:10:04Here is the, uh, the list of the investors.
00:10:08It is correct, except that some of them have died.
00:10:10But, uh, you get in touch with all of them, except the dead ones.
00:10:15Goodbye.
00:10:16Goodbye.
00:10:16Goodbye.
00:10:38Before we begin, I should like to check over this list
00:10:41and see if the remaining investors or heirs are all present.
00:10:45Mrs. Potter and Professor Potter, I know.
00:10:48Mr. John Armstrong.
00:10:49Right.
00:10:50I'd like to get this over with as soon as possible.
00:10:52I'm in the insurance business,
00:10:54and I have a couple of hot prospects for this afternoon.
00:10:56But we shan't keep you long, Mr. Armstrong.
00:10:59Mrs. Geraldine Carfax.
00:11:01Yes, I'm here.
00:11:02Although I did have to get off of my deathbed to get here.
00:11:05You see, I suffer so from indigestion,
00:11:08and my blood pressure is so low that I just...
00:11:11Oh, I'm in the insurance business.
00:11:13Won't you read over our new policy?
00:11:15We have a new disability clause.
00:11:17No one will ever be able to cure you but the spirit.
00:11:21No.
00:11:21I beg your pardon,
00:11:24but I don't believe I've had the pleasure.
00:11:27Stella is my companion,
00:11:29and I never go anywhere without her.
00:11:32You see, I have painting spells
00:11:34due to my operation.
00:11:36Let's get on to business.
00:11:41Mr. David Feld.
00:11:43I'm here.
00:11:44Say, maybe I can interview you with a...
00:11:47No.
00:11:47Thank you very much.
00:11:49Now, you ladies and gentlemen represent the remaining investors
00:11:52or heirs of the investors
00:11:54of the Prendergast Archaeological Expedition.
00:11:57I... I should like to know...
00:11:59That is, Mrs. Potter and I should like to know...
00:12:02What became of the English investors?
00:12:05There were but two of them.
00:12:07And they died six months ago.
00:12:09Suddenly and very mysteriously.
00:12:12Mysteriously?
00:12:13They were murdered.
00:12:16Scotland Yard is still investigating the case.
00:12:19That's neither here nor there.
00:12:21Have you seen this Pern person?
00:12:22Yes, Mrs. Potter, I have.
00:12:24He admitted his identity
00:12:25and explained that he changed his name to Pern
00:12:27for personal reasons.
00:12:29He informed me that he would be very glad to see
00:12:31and meet the investors
00:12:32and discuss the settlement
00:12:34on certain conditions.
00:12:36And what conditions?
00:12:38Mr. Pern will explain all the conditions tomorrow night.
00:12:41He wants to have you all at his home
00:12:42at 8.30.
00:12:44Well, if you meet me here in my office at 7.30,
00:12:47we can all go out together.
00:12:49Okay, I'll be here.
00:12:51And incidentally, while I'm gone,
00:12:52I wish you'd look this policy over.
00:12:54I shan't be able to go, my dear.
00:12:57I must be at the museum.
00:12:59They're going to unwrap the mummy of Ramesses IV.
00:13:02Listen, you worm.
00:13:04You'll be at Mr. Pern's house tomorrow night
00:13:07and forget all about the Ramesses IV
00:13:09or I'll make a mummy out of Potter the first.
00:13:12Ha, ha, Ramesses.
00:13:13I used to smoke him.
00:13:15Well, I beg your pardon, Professor.
00:13:17I'll keep my hat if you don't mind.
00:13:19Here, take your own hat.
00:13:19Although I ridiculed the whole thing
00:13:30as an ancient superstition,
00:13:32I came to know that the priest was right.
00:13:39Suddenly in the dead of the night,
00:13:41I hear the soft poundings of the tom-toms.
00:13:47Grotesque shadows appear on the walls.
00:13:49Great hairy hands
00:13:53press on my throat,
00:13:57strangling,
00:14:00straining.
00:14:07My health has been destroyed
00:14:09and as you see, I'm a helpless cripple.
00:14:14All these years, I've wandered over the globe
00:14:21seeking someplace where I could find peace.
00:14:26But nowhere in this world
00:14:31can you escape the curse of Kali.
00:14:39Finally,
00:14:40I went back.
00:14:43I wanted to return the treasure to the temple,
00:14:48but the priests wouldn't take it.
00:14:51They said it was a curse.
00:14:52I've often thought of the original investors
00:15:02in the expedition,
00:15:03and I wanted to give them what was rightfully theirs.
00:15:07I was afraid
00:15:09that the curse would be carried on
00:15:13to anyone
00:15:13who had any part of the treasure.
00:15:20Finally,
00:15:21I went to England
00:15:24and gave two of them their share.
00:15:30Within a month,
00:15:32both of these people had been found murdered.
00:15:35Then I knew I was right
00:15:40that the curse of Kali
00:15:43would extend on to anyone
00:15:47who possessed any part of the treasure.
00:15:57I realized my days were numbered,
00:16:01so I came home
00:16:06back to the United States
00:16:10to spend my last days
00:16:15in the country of my birth.
00:16:20Fantastic!
00:16:22Fiddlesticks!
00:16:23If you're so afraid of apes and monkeys,
00:16:25Mr. Prenn,
00:16:27what have you got that one for?
00:16:28I had an obsession several years ago
00:16:32that I might conciliate Kali
00:16:34by being good to the animals
00:16:37that were sacred to him.
00:16:40I made large endowments
00:16:41to zoological gardens
00:16:43for the care of monkeys,
00:16:45and that one
00:16:47I raised and kept with me
00:16:50until he died.
00:16:53There was no use.
00:16:56Kali would not be appeased.
00:16:58This is all very interesting, Mr. Prenn,
00:17:00but I should like to know
00:17:02when we are going to get our money.
00:17:04When you've learned to appreciate
00:17:06the curse that goes with it.
00:17:08Just what do you mean by that?
00:17:11I'll give you all your shares
00:17:13on one condition,
00:17:16that you come here
00:17:17and live in this house with me for a week
00:17:20and learn what happens to the possessor of it.
00:17:24Why, this is absurd.
00:17:26It's just a scheme
00:17:27to cheat us out of our money.
00:17:29Pay me my share immediately
00:17:31or go to court about it.
00:17:33Mr. Fels,
00:17:34it will take you much longer than a week
00:17:37to get the money by litigation.
00:17:38My terms are really quite easy.
00:17:42Shander is an excellent cook
00:17:44and I've engaged a new maid.
00:17:50I suppose you're going to tell us
00:17:51that's one of your eight ghosts.
00:17:55No, the phenomena I've been describing
00:17:57is not as easily explained
00:18:00as what you've just heard.
00:18:01That's a plumber
00:18:03putting in a new heating system.
00:18:06I consider Mr. Prenn's conditions
00:18:07very reasonable
00:18:08and as your attorney,
00:18:10I suggest that you comply with it.
00:18:12Well, I sincerely hope
00:18:14that you'll take Mr. Ellis' advice
00:18:16and if you do,
00:18:19I'll expect you anytime tomorrow.
00:18:22Wait a minute, Mr. Prenn.
00:18:24We have a right to know
00:18:25where that money is.
00:18:27It's here,
00:18:28in this house.
00:18:29Over two million dollars
00:18:32in gold and jewels.
00:18:33Two million dollars?
00:18:35I'll stay.
00:18:36I'll stay.
00:18:38Try and get me out of here.
00:18:40Just try and get me out.
00:18:44Are you satisfied?
00:18:46Well, I still have time
00:18:48to see Ramesses unwrapped.
00:18:50Oh, forget about Ramesses
00:18:51and try remembering
00:18:53where you put your hat.
00:18:59Oh, dear.
00:19:16I feel terrible.
00:19:18You know, all this excitement
00:19:19has brought my nervous
00:19:20indigestion again.
00:19:22Well, they say
00:19:23that's the beginning
00:19:24of the end.
00:19:25Oh, don't be silly, Stella.
00:19:28Well, my grandmother
00:19:29felt just like that
00:19:30five minutes before she died.
00:19:33Well, don't be looking there.
00:19:35The money isn't hidden in here.
00:19:37Oh, I've read in stories
00:19:38that the best way
00:19:39to hide anything
00:19:39is to put it
00:19:40in the most obvious place.
00:19:41It's probably locked up
00:19:42in the safe
00:19:43down his room.
00:19:44I know one thing.
00:19:46Tonight,
00:19:46I'm going to have a seance.
00:19:48Seance?
00:19:50Pocahontas can tell me
00:19:51where the money is.
00:19:52Mm-hmm.
00:20:22Hello.
00:20:39Let me speak
00:20:39to Mr. Gage, please.
00:20:40This is Gage.
00:20:42This is Felt.
00:20:43Listen, old man.
00:20:45You'll have to give me
00:20:46another day.
00:20:47Yeah, and that's
00:20:47all you'll get.
00:20:49Nobody watches
00:20:50in the game with me
00:20:51than does me
00:20:51out of five grand.
00:20:53Yeah, and have
00:20:54that door tomorrow
00:20:55or else.
00:20:56All right.
00:20:58I'll get it somehow.
00:21:08Why, uh,
00:21:09I got into
00:21:10Mr. Prenn's room
00:21:11by mistake.
00:21:12How did you know
00:21:13it was Mr. Prenn's room?
00:21:21Thank you, Mr. Armstrong.
00:21:44That's quite all right,
00:21:45Miss Browning.
00:21:46It is Miss,
00:21:47not Mrs.
00:21:48No, it's Miss.
00:21:49Good.
00:21:50I'm suffering with
00:21:51heart trouble
00:21:52and dizzy spells.
00:21:53Oh, how long
00:21:54has this been going on?
00:21:56Ever since I first met you.
00:21:58Well, then it's
00:21:58probably temporary.
00:22:00You'll get over it.
00:22:01Oh, no.
00:22:01If you promise
00:22:02to take my case, doctor,
00:22:04I'll never get over it.
00:22:06Your nerves
00:22:06seem to be very good.
00:22:08Ah, in my business,
00:22:09you need nerve.
00:22:10I'm in the insurance business.
00:22:12Can I interest you
00:22:12in a policy?
00:22:13I have a policy.
00:22:14Really?
00:22:15Yes.
00:22:16My policy is never
00:22:18to get intimate
00:22:18with strangers.
00:22:20Good.
00:22:21Ha-ha.
00:22:22Now that we're
00:22:23practically engaged,
00:22:25tell me,
00:22:27how did you come
00:22:27to get mixed up
00:22:28with the Prenns,
00:22:29the Hindus,
00:22:29and the apes?
00:22:31Well, I was engaged
00:22:32as a private nurse
00:22:33in London
00:22:33by Mr. Prenn.
00:22:34Oh, so you're English.
00:22:36Oh, I'm so happy.
00:22:38I always wanted
00:22:38to marry an English girl
00:22:40so I could have crumpets
00:22:41and tea for breakfast.
00:22:42Then I'm afraid
00:22:43you're going
00:22:44to be disappointed.
00:22:45Oh, don't tell me
00:22:46you can't make crumpets.
00:22:47No.
00:22:48No, I can't make crumpets.
00:22:49I don't like tea
00:22:51and I'm not thinking
00:22:52of getting married.
00:22:54Tell me,
00:22:55what do you make
00:22:55of all this ape business?
00:22:58I don't know.
00:23:03I...
00:23:03At night,
00:23:04I hear strange noises,
00:23:08tom-toms,
00:23:09and footsteps
00:23:10on the stairs.
00:23:12I've often had
00:23:13to give Mr. Prenn
00:23:14first aid treatment
00:23:15when he's been
00:23:15nearly frightened to death.
00:23:21Aw,
00:23:22you're scared, aren't you?
00:23:24Yes, but jobs are scarce,
00:23:26and Mr. Prenn
00:23:27pays me twice as much
00:23:28as I could get
00:23:28anywhere else.
00:23:31Did it ever occur
00:23:32to you
00:23:32that this whole thing
00:23:33might be a fake,
00:23:34a hoax,
00:23:35on Prenn's part?
00:23:36Oh, that couldn't be, Jack.
00:23:38Why, the thing
00:23:39is gradually killing
00:23:39Mr. Prenn.
00:23:45That woman
00:23:46gives me the creeps.
00:23:48Chandra is a strange person.
00:23:51Person?
00:23:52What?
00:23:52She looks more like
00:23:53Gandy's ghost.
00:24:09The, uh,
00:24:11frontal osteology
00:24:13is egregiously recessive.
00:24:14Yes.
00:24:16I suppose you know
00:24:17that's caused
00:24:18by the malconjunction
00:24:19of the prenatal hiatus.
00:24:20Quite right.
00:24:22I guess if that guy
00:24:23got a stranglehold
00:24:24on your throat,
00:24:25it'd be just too bad, eh?
00:24:26Yes, his gargantuan
00:24:28prehensility
00:24:29would be titanic.
00:24:32You don't say so.
00:24:33I'm sorry.
00:24:40Good.
00:24:41Oh, Mr. Ellis.
00:24:43Yes?
00:24:44Here's something
00:24:44might interest you.
00:24:46A book on the law.
00:24:48Oh.
00:24:49Well, goodbye.
00:24:50Oh.
00:24:51Oh, don't forget,
00:24:51I have a patient
00:24:52to take care of.
00:24:53But, uh,
00:24:54I'm about to have
00:24:55a heart attack.
00:24:57Save it till later.
00:24:58Time for your medicine,
00:25:03Mr. Plance.
00:25:04I was wondering
00:25:05where you were.
00:25:06I was out in the garden
00:25:07with Mr. Armstrong.
00:25:09You know,
00:25:09he's really a very
00:25:10likable person.
00:25:12Aren't you afraid
00:25:12I'll get jealous?
00:25:14You couldn't be anything
00:25:15but your nice old self.
00:25:18Now, come on.
00:25:19Come on.
00:25:24Please.
00:25:28It's very interesting.
00:25:35Let's take a walk
00:25:36in the garden, Professor.
00:25:37Well, I, uh,
00:25:39all right.
00:25:40A little fresh air
00:25:41might do me good.
00:25:53Professor,
00:25:54I want to show you this.
00:25:56Oh, there you are.
00:25:58You idiot.
00:25:59Professor,
00:26:00what did you do
00:26:01with your clothes?
00:26:02Why,
00:26:03I packed them
00:26:04in a suitcase.
00:26:05Oh, you did?
00:26:06You're quite sure of that.
00:26:08Yes, my dear,
00:26:08I remember
00:26:09because at the same time
00:26:11I packed the dismembered bones
00:26:12of Ptolemy III
00:26:13and sent them
00:26:14to the museum.
00:26:15You numbskull.
00:26:16You sent your clothes
00:26:17to the museum
00:26:18and packed Ptolemy III
00:26:19in your suitcase.
00:26:20Well, in a higher sense,
00:26:21I can hardly realize...
00:26:23Yes, you did.
00:26:24Now you get Ptolemy III
00:26:25off of my bed
00:26:26or he'll spend
00:26:27the rest of his days
00:26:28of the garbage can.
00:26:29I beg your pardon,
00:26:30Mrs. Potter.
00:26:32There's something
00:26:32important I want to show you
00:26:33and the professor.
00:26:34It came to my office
00:26:35this morning.
00:26:37Do not permit
00:26:38your clients
00:26:38to remain
00:26:39in the Prenn house.
00:26:40They will be killed
00:26:41one by one.
00:26:44Scotland Yard.
00:26:45I've never been to a seance.
00:26:52I've heard they're
00:26:53lots of fun.
00:26:54The only spirits
00:26:55I know anything about
00:26:56of a hundred proofs kind.
00:26:58Mr. Armstrong,
00:26:59this is no time
00:27:00for levity.
00:27:02We may all learn
00:27:03something of vital interest
00:27:04to all of us.
00:27:05Professor Potter,
00:27:06what are your ideas
00:27:07on psychical phenomena?
00:27:08I don't believe anything
00:27:10I can't see.
00:27:11Anything you can't see,
00:27:12while you're
00:27:13as near-sighted
00:27:14as a bat.
00:27:15Now I ascend.
00:27:16Push up, Horatio.
00:27:18We shall now
00:27:20all place
00:27:21our hands
00:27:22upon the table.
00:27:25Place your left hand
00:27:28over your neighbor's right.
00:27:30We shall now
00:27:37concentrate.
00:27:40What's the matter
00:27:40with you?
00:27:41You look foolish.
00:27:45We must have
00:27:47all the light out.
00:28:00You who have gone
00:28:04beyond the borders
00:28:05of time and place,
00:28:08here are free
00:28:09for enlightenment.
00:28:11Did she have to sing it?
00:28:13Shh.
00:28:18Pocahontas,
00:28:20is it thee?
00:28:23Speak to me.
00:28:25Tell me
00:28:26what force of evil
00:28:28afflicteth
00:28:29this household.
00:28:33What is that
00:28:35which afflicts
00:28:36our nostrils
00:28:37and enervates
00:28:39our senses?
00:28:48It is I.
00:28:54Pocahontas
00:28:55will
00:28:57answer
00:28:58thee.
00:29:02This night
00:29:03one of you
00:29:06will pass
00:29:08beyond
00:29:10the veil.
00:29:11Beware
00:29:13the vapor
00:29:16of death
00:29:18surrounds
00:29:20all of you.
00:29:23you.
00:29:24Look!
00:29:26It's a reflection
00:29:26of that.
00:29:27Oh, don't be
00:29:28absurd.
00:29:29It's moving.
00:29:31Turn up the light.
00:29:32Where's the switch?
00:29:32Over by the door.
00:29:34What is it?
00:29:36What's the matter?
00:29:37This is your last.
00:29:44She's dead.
00:29:45Maybe we could revive her.
00:29:47I don't think so.
00:29:48Her neck is broken.
00:29:49This is the kind
00:29:50of thing
00:29:50that's haunted
00:29:51me for years.
00:29:53And it will end
00:29:54only when I'm
00:29:55in my grave.
00:29:56Oh, what do you
00:29:57think we should do,
00:29:58Horatia?
00:29:59Get Polly
00:29:59the third
00:30:00and get out
00:30:00of here.
00:30:01Pocahontas
00:30:02was right.
00:30:03Wait a minute.
00:30:11Where did you
00:30:11come from?
00:30:12Outside.
00:30:13What are you
00:30:13doing in here?
00:30:15Same as
00:30:15everybody else,
00:30:16I guess.
00:30:16Well, what were
00:30:17you doing outside?
00:30:18Looking inside.
00:30:20No.
00:30:20Why were you
00:30:21outside looking
00:30:22inside?
00:30:23I was trying
00:30:24to get a line
00:30:24on the thief.
00:30:26What thief?
00:30:27The guy that
00:30:28stole my monkey
00:30:28wrench.
00:30:29I think this
00:30:30is a bug house.
00:30:31The house is
00:30:32all right.
00:30:32It's the people
00:30:33that are in it.
00:30:34You're right.
00:30:34The first thing
00:30:35to do is to
00:30:36send for the
00:30:36police.
00:30:37What can
00:30:38the police do?
00:30:39Maybe they
00:30:40could find
00:30:40my monkey
00:30:41wrench.
00:30:43Nobody can
00:30:44solve this
00:30:44mystery but
00:30:45Pocahontas.
00:30:47never heard
00:30:47of them.
00:30:49Say, this
00:30:49Pocahontas
00:30:50is the one
00:30:50that caused
00:30:51all this
00:30:51trouble.
00:30:52As far as
00:30:52I'm concerned,
00:30:53you can take
00:30:53her right back
00:30:54and sit her
00:30:54down in
00:30:55her wigwam.
00:30:56Oh, that
00:30:58woman.
00:31:03There you
00:31:04are, folks.
00:31:04Now you
00:31:05can see what
00:31:05confronts us.
00:31:06Death is just
00:31:07around the
00:31:08corner.
00:31:08Have
00:31:08yourself insured.
00:31:10Take out
00:31:10one of our
00:31:10new $20,000
00:31:11policies.
00:31:12Easy
00:31:13payment.
00:31:13Don't let
00:31:25nobody in
00:31:26or out.
00:31:56That is Prohibition.
00:32:23There's been a murder committed here.
00:32:26Who did it?
00:32:28That's your business.
00:32:31Listen, lady.
00:32:32Inspector Pickens with a homicide squad.
00:32:34Don't take no lip from nobody.
00:32:36Oh, Horatio.
00:32:37I'm being insulted.
00:32:38Sir, I'll have you know this is my wife.
00:32:41All right.
00:32:42Your apologies accepted.
00:32:44Who owns this joint?
00:32:46My home.
00:32:48These people are my guests.
00:32:50My housekeeper.
00:32:51My name is Prenn.
00:32:53All right, Prenn.
00:32:54How did it happen?
00:32:56We were having a say on.
00:32:58When Miss Carfax...
00:33:00was strangled by the ape.
00:33:04The ape?
00:33:05Well, not this one.
00:33:07This is a stuffed ape.
00:33:08Stuffed what?
00:33:09Stuffed ape.
00:33:15Hey, you.
00:33:16Where are you going?
00:33:18Get a drink of water.
00:33:20Don't try to leave the house.
00:33:23And that goes for everybody here.
00:33:25Well?
00:33:27It's a long story, officer.
00:33:29Well, make it a short story and...
00:33:31Now, officer.
00:33:35You know as much about it as we do.
00:33:38Hindus.
00:33:40Tom-toms.
00:33:41Apes.
00:33:42Haunted houses.
00:33:44Say.
00:33:45Are you sure this seance wasn't a sleigh ride?
00:33:48I'm sure I don't understand you.
00:33:51I've got it.
00:33:52All right, what do you got?
00:33:54The Prenn.
00:33:54The Prenn.
00:33:54The Prenn.
00:33:55Connected with the frontal development of the orang-a-tang
00:33:57must be indigenous to all the anthropoids.
00:34:02Gosh, you have got it.
00:34:04Wait a minute.
00:34:05Where are you going?
00:34:06To the zoo.
00:34:08Well, sit down.
00:34:09You're in one right now.
00:34:10Sit down, Horisha.
00:34:12Pipe down.
00:34:12I've given the orders around here.
00:34:15Boyer.
00:34:16Yeah.
00:34:17You go out and search for the house on the grounds.
00:34:19If you see any apes or anything that looks like monkey brindes,
00:34:21bring it in here.
00:34:21Okay.
00:34:22You go out and watch the back door.
00:34:23Don't let nobody out.
00:34:31Don't do that.
00:34:41Is the coroner going yet?
00:34:42Yeah.
00:34:42He took the body with him.
00:34:44No apes?
00:34:45No apes.
00:34:46No apes.
00:34:47No apes.
00:34:49They talked to the servants.
00:34:50That Hindu woman does all the cooking and housekeeping.
00:34:52She don't know nothing.
00:34:54You know what?
00:34:54No.
00:34:55What?
00:34:56Something funny going on around here.
00:34:58I don't think that guy in the wheelchair is crippled.
00:35:01Struck me he might be phony.
00:35:03It struck me, too.
00:35:04Me, too.
00:35:04You go down and find out whether he's really paralyzed or not.
00:35:07Be clever about it.
00:35:08Use your being.
00:35:09Be subtle.
00:35:09Be subtle.
00:35:10Subtile.
00:35:13Thank you, my dear.
00:35:16There.
00:35:17How's that?
00:35:17Is that comfortable?
00:35:19My dear, I don't know what I'd do without you.
00:35:21I really think you owe it to yourself to take out a policy
00:35:24the way things are now.
00:35:26We don't know when one of us are going to be murdered.
00:35:31But who would I make the beneficiary?
00:35:34Now that Mrs. Carfax is gone,
00:35:37I have no one left but Pocahontas.
00:35:39Well, leave it to Pocahontas.
00:35:41One thing, she won't squander it.
00:35:43I do hope all this excitement doesn't affect you, Mr. Prenn.
00:35:47I think I'll live through it.
00:35:50No, no, that's quite all right.
00:35:54Any clues yet, officer?
00:35:57No, but I'm on the tailor one right now.
00:36:01No!
00:36:04Why, how dare you?
00:36:05Why did you do that?
00:36:07I beg your pardon, me foot slipped.
00:36:10I don't want anybody to leave the room.
00:36:14What's the idea?
00:36:15I lost my bit.
00:36:18What bit?
00:36:19Just a little bit.
00:36:20Are you sure you lost it in here?
00:36:22No, I think I lost it in the garage.
00:36:24Why don't you go out there and look for it?
00:36:25It's warmer in here.
00:36:28What's the use?
00:36:34What did you find out?
00:36:35I found out it's paralyzed, all right.
00:36:37Then let anybody know what you were after.
00:36:38Did you think I'm done?
00:36:40Huh?
00:36:40I was subtle, just like you said.
00:36:42Ah.
00:37:01There it is again.
00:37:02What in it?
00:37:03The town town.
00:37:03Ah!
00:37:06Oh, no!
00:37:07Look there!
00:37:08What is this?
00:37:08It's in there!
00:37:16Clancy!
00:37:19Hey!
00:37:20Let me hit that giant!
00:37:26Ah.
00:37:27That's the end of the ape.
00:37:29Hey, get a dose of his own medicine.
00:37:31The strangest looking ape I ever saw.
00:37:35Why?
00:37:36Oh!
00:37:37It's not an ape.
00:37:39It's a man.
00:37:41Oh, my goodness.
00:37:47Fells!
00:37:47Fells!
00:37:49So Fells was a murderer.
00:37:51Oh, no, it can't be.
00:37:53It has to be.
00:37:54You people saw an ape, and here it is.
00:37:56Yes, but Fells was at the table when we saw the ape's hands.
00:37:58When Mrs. Carfax was killed.
00:38:00Ah, you were seeing things.
00:38:02What's that smell?
00:38:04Incense!
00:38:05Now that I remember, incense was burning in a bowl behind Mrs. Carfax.
00:38:18So what?
00:38:18We've caught the ape to kill Carfax.
00:38:20You forget one thing, Inspector.
00:38:22Yeah, what?
00:38:22Who killed Fells?
00:38:24Yeah, I never thought of that.
00:38:25Fells' neck was broken just like Mrs. Carfax's.
00:38:27So what?
00:38:28A creature's superhuman strength did to kill him.
00:38:31Yeah?
00:38:31Well, if it was an ape, how did he...
00:38:33Ah.
00:38:37Ah, so this is the way you got in and out.
00:38:40Listen, you mugs.
00:38:41You go and find that ape, or you'll be pounding the beat.
00:38:42Oh, Chief, we looked all over the joint.
00:38:44There's a sign of it anywhere.
00:38:45How about the garage?
00:38:46Search the ground, search everything, and find that TomTom gadget.
00:38:49No son of an ape's going to make a monkey out of me.
00:38:51Come on now, get going.
00:38:53Don't come back without some information.
00:38:55Come on, I'll fight everybody.
00:39:05Poor Fells.
00:39:06I can't understand it.
00:39:11What I can't comprehend is the reason for the monkey suit.
00:39:14I think the explanation for that is relatively easy.
00:39:17Fells was heavily in debt.
00:39:19He knew the money was in the house and made up his mind to get it.
00:39:22No doubt he got that gorilla suit when he went to town this afternoon.
00:39:26He thought that if anyone of us saw him prowling around the house,
00:39:28he'd have time to get back to his room during the excitement.
00:39:31Poor devil.
00:39:33If he'd only believed in the curse on the treasure.
00:39:37We'll all be killed one by one, just like rats in a trap.
00:39:43And for what?
00:39:43Just a few paltry dollars.
00:39:46I, for what, am leaving this house a million things.
00:39:48Horatia, get my coat.
00:39:50Nobody's leaving this joint until I solve this murder.
00:39:54Horatia, are you going to allow this Bulgarian to brownbeat me?
00:39:58Sit down.
00:39:59Now, see here, my man.
00:40:00Sit down.
00:40:01Oh, if I were only married to a man, instead of a dictionary.
00:40:09Now, listen.
00:40:11Nobody's putting nothing over on me about this ape business.
00:40:14There's a murderer in this house, and I'm going to find you.
00:40:16Yes, and while you're trying to find the murderer, we'll all be killed.
00:40:21Oh, no, you won't.
00:40:22I'll keep my eye on every one of you.
00:40:25I won't turn my back for a minute.
00:40:38Give me police headquarters.
00:40:41This is Pickens.
00:40:42Let me talk the corner.
00:40:43Hello, bud.
00:40:46Come on on.
00:40:47Get another body.
00:40:49Yeah, somebody croaked him when I turned my back.
00:40:52Oh, don't worry.
00:40:54With Ned Pickens on the job, there'll be no more murder.
00:41:10Wait a minute.
00:41:11Who's out of this room?
00:41:12Oh, Armstrong, the insurance guy.
00:41:14He's the one I suspect at all.
00:41:16Let go.
00:41:17Help.
00:41:18Quick.
00:41:19Help.
00:41:21Help.
00:41:27It's in here.
00:41:28Huh?
00:41:28Here.
00:41:30Armstrong.
00:41:31Quick.
00:41:32Quick, the ape.
00:41:33It went out that window.
00:41:34All right.
00:41:34What do you want to do?
00:41:35Let it get away?
00:41:35All right.
00:41:37Let's hear what happened.
00:41:38Well, after I left Fels' room, I came in here for a handkerchief.
00:41:41The incense was burning.
00:41:43Then all of a sudden, I heard the tom-toms.
00:41:45And the ape climbed in through that window.
00:41:46I suppose you expect us to believe that, Hoey.
00:41:49Well, what do you mean?
00:41:50Find the apes?
00:41:51Nope.
00:41:52No apes.
00:41:53What about the garage?
00:41:54Nothing there.
00:41:54Do you hear that?
00:41:56We've combed this house and grounds from end to end.
00:41:59And there's no apes around.
00:42:00You're the guy that called our attention to this incense before.
00:42:04You know what I think?
00:42:05What?
00:42:05I think you're the murderer.
00:42:07And this last gag of yours is just a stunt that throws suspicion away from yourself.
00:42:11Why, that's absurd.
00:42:12I've been listening to some of your talk.
00:42:14And I know what your purpose is.
00:42:16You're crazy.
00:42:17Yeah.
00:42:18Crazy like a fox.
00:42:19You cook up this whole thing for one reason.
00:42:21Well, what's that?
00:42:22So you could sell a lot of insurance.
00:42:24I've never heard anything so ridiculous in my life.
00:42:26Boy, you're a cranky.
00:42:27Put him under arrest.
00:42:28And then he won't be any more in murders.
00:42:51Water.
00:42:52She's dead.
00:42:58That Poco spirit sure let her down.
00:43:04How's he?
00:43:05He'll be all right.
00:43:15What happened?
00:43:18It was terrible.
00:43:20Miss Walker felt faint.
00:43:25She started towards the French window to get some air.
00:43:31Suddenly the tom-toms began.
00:43:33The ape came through the window.
00:43:39She screamed.
00:43:42He grabbed her.
00:43:46That's all I remember.
00:43:51I must have fainted.
00:43:52Well, Mr. Big shot, I guess that lets me out.
00:43:56You can save yourself the trouble, Inspector.
00:44:10I assure you that the ape is quite dead.
00:44:13It's ridiculous keeping us cooped up here like this.
00:44:16Three people have been killed already.
00:44:18The house has bewitched.
00:44:21Mr. Ellis, you are our attorney.
00:44:23I insist, that is, Mrs. Potter insists, that you take means to get us out of here.
00:44:29My clients are perfectly justified in wishing to leave here, Inspector.
00:44:33You have no right to make them stay here, to become victims of whatever's going on in this house.
00:44:37You're no closer to the solution of this mystery than you were after the first murder.
00:44:41Boy, you ought to get a medal for the way you gum this case up.
00:44:45This isn't the case.
00:44:46It's an epidemic.
00:44:48Telephone.
00:44:49Telephone.
00:44:49Phone.
00:44:56Hello.
00:44:58Oh, hello, bud.
00:45:00Yeah, I'm up to my neck in apes.
00:45:03Come on out.
00:45:03We've got two bodies for you now.
00:45:05By the time you get here, it'll probably be an even half dozen.
00:45:15We'll wait for the coroner, and then we'll call it a night.
00:45:20Cigarette.
00:45:21Cigarette.
00:45:26When the coroner gets here, why, we'll take a statement from each of you as to what you did and saw last night.
00:45:34And then we'll all meet at the district attorney's office tomorrow.
00:45:40Boyer!
00:45:41Nancy!
00:45:42Cover that door!
00:45:43Cover everything!
00:45:45Look!
00:45:45Look there!
00:45:48If it looks suspicious, let him have it.
00:45:55Well, hello.
00:45:58What do you mean, hello?
00:45:59Oh, gush, hello.
00:46:01Where have you been for the last half hour?
00:46:03Oh, here and there.
00:46:05Yeah, well, just what have you been doing here and there?
00:46:08Oh, this and that.
00:46:10Do you know anything about this Tom Tom?
00:46:13What's his last name?
00:46:15Say, listen, you.
00:46:16Pop out with a good alibi or I'll pinch you for murder.
00:46:19The only way that you can prove that you're not a murderer around here is to get yourself killed.
00:46:23What did she say?
00:46:25She thinks I should go out into the garden and get some air.
00:46:34Well, all right.
00:46:36Don't try to make a getaway.
00:46:37There's a cop out there.
00:46:38Who's that?
00:46:45Where?
00:46:46At the door.
00:46:49Oh, fire!
00:46:50They got me!
00:46:52Turn off the lights!
00:46:53Where's Horatio?
00:46:58Be calm, everybody.
00:46:59Be calm.
00:47:00Who's dead or missing?
00:47:01Smith.
00:47:02Where's Smith?
00:47:03He's gone.
00:47:03Yeah, I figured that out, too.
00:47:05Where are you going?
00:47:06I'm going to find Mr. Prim.
00:47:08He may be hurt.
00:47:09All right.
00:47:10Inspector.
00:47:10What?
00:47:11Read this.
00:47:11What do you make of it?
00:47:28This is the second note I've had like this.
00:47:30The man who writes some evidence, he knows what he's writing about.
00:47:32And I suggest that we follow his instructions.
00:47:34Well, I should say so.
00:47:35If you don't value your lives, I value mine.
00:47:38Say, remember, this is a frame-up of yours.
00:47:40Pickens will be right with you.
00:47:42Clancy.
00:47:43Go out and find Fred on that Hindu woman.
00:47:44Then tell him I want him at the district attorney's office tomorrow.
00:47:47And make it emphatic tomorrow.
00:47:49Emphatic.
00:47:49Wait a minute.
00:47:50What about Ella?
00:47:51Uh, Miss Browning.
00:47:52We can't go out and leave her here alone.
00:47:53Oh, fiddlesticks.
00:47:55She's lived here long enough without getting into trouble.
00:47:57Let's get out of here.
00:47:58Yeah, I want to meet this Scotland Yard guy and get the lowdown.
00:48:02Maybe it's an EnglishΓ©.
00:48:06And the district attorney wants to see us as soon as we get through here.
00:48:09Well, there's almost time for Scotland Yard to put in an appearance.
00:48:13I bet this is all just a scheme to get us away from the print house.
00:48:17I've been doing some thinking.
00:48:19And it's going to take more than an old coot of an ape
00:48:21to make me give up my share of that money.
00:48:23It's too bad that ape to death at me.
00:48:26Yes, it is too bad.
00:48:28What's that?
00:48:29If he had, I have no doubt of what the outcome would have been.
00:48:53Why, Ella, dear, where are you going?
00:49:10I'm leaving, Mr. Prince.
00:49:12Leaving?
00:49:13What for?
00:49:14I'm afraid of what's going on in this house.
00:49:18There might be more murders.
00:49:20I don't think so, my dear.
00:49:22Now those other people are gone.
00:49:25Why, you think they had something to do with the murders?
00:49:29One of them did.
00:49:31I'm quite sure of that, my dear.
00:49:33But what about the ape?
00:49:34I've come to believe that the ape was an obsession of mine.
00:49:40Brought on by brooding for years over that foolish curse.
00:49:44Please don't leave me.
00:49:48I don't know what to say, Mr. Prince.
00:49:50You know, there's...
00:49:51There's something I've wanted to talk to you about for days.
00:49:56But I hesitated because...
00:50:00Ella, darling, I wanted to ask you to be my wife.
00:50:04I found her.
00:50:07Why, no, dear.
00:50:08She's just my housekeeper.
00:50:10You know, she's been brooding a great deal lately.
00:50:13And I think she's terribly homesick.
00:50:17And I think I'll let her go back.
00:50:20There's no hurry.
00:50:22Take your time and think it over.
00:50:26Well, uh...
00:50:27In the meantime, please don't leave me.
00:50:30And after all, my dear,
00:50:32a brave little nurse doesn't run away from her duty.
00:50:37All right, Mr. Prince.
00:50:39I'll stay.
00:50:41I think I'll go to bed now.
00:50:43My dear.
00:50:44Good night.
00:50:48Scotland Yard.
00:50:49Oh, well...
00:50:50The plumber.
00:50:54You, the man from Scotland Yard?
00:50:57Yep, I've seen him before.
00:50:59He's the McCoy, all right.
00:51:00Scotland Yard.
00:51:02Incredible.
00:51:03Scotland Yard first became interested in the case
00:51:05when two people were killed in Prenn's house in London.
00:51:08The case baffled the Yard officers in London,
00:51:11and they came to believe implicitly
00:51:13that the Hindu curse was behind the murder.
00:51:16Nonsense.
00:51:17That's what I thought.
00:51:18And when I was assigned to the case,
00:51:19I found out that Mr. Prenn
00:51:20was having a new water system installed in his house.
00:51:24That's how I became the dumb plumber.
00:51:26Have you solved this mystery yet?
00:51:27I have.
00:51:28Then why didn't you tell us about it last night
00:51:29and prevent the murders?
00:51:30But I didn't solve it until after the murders.
00:51:33As a matter of fact,
00:51:34we haven't any actionable evidence yet.
00:51:36We must trap the ape and whoever's behind him.
00:51:39That's why I asked you to meet me here.
00:51:42All right, let's hear the story.
00:51:44Well, we're not all here yet.
00:51:45We must wait for Miss Ella Browning.
00:51:46But you didn't say anything about her in your note.
00:51:49She wasn't in the room when I left.
00:51:51One of you would have had to tell her,
00:51:52and the walls at the Prenn house have ears.
00:51:55I left a note in her room.
00:51:56She should be here any minute.
00:51:58Why didn't you tell me?
00:51:59I'd have gotten her out of there.
00:52:01I don't care for this whole setup.
00:52:13Uh, Sander.
00:52:15You know, I don't think you've been looking at all well lately.
00:52:19You think so, Sahid?
00:52:21Yes, I was thinking that, uh,
00:52:23an ocean voyage might do you good.
00:52:25Uh, how, how do you think you'd like a trip back home?
00:52:30Well, they saw here to go with me.
00:52:33Well, no.
00:52:35No, you, you see, Sander,
00:52:37I, uh, I have a lot of important things to attend to here.
00:52:40Do you wish me to go alone?
00:52:42Yes.
00:52:43Uh, well, that is, uh, you can go on ahead,
00:52:45and, uh, as soon as I clear things up, I'll join you.
00:52:49Very well.
00:52:51That's a good girl.
00:52:52And, uh,
00:53:18Not bad for a cripple, eh?
00:53:27My people have thought they saw him in a threat.
00:53:31You know, I have to laugh when I think how we fooled all those saps with the curse of K-Li.
00:53:39K-Li, old kid.
00:53:42You're all right.
00:53:44Come on, Shanda.
00:53:46Drink a toast to K-Li.
00:53:48K-Li, my pal.
00:53:54Here you are to K-Li, who knows nothing.
00:53:59And here's to K-Li, who knows everything.
00:54:03Well, here's to both of them.
00:54:05All stick to them, long may they wave.
00:54:13Yes, sir, K-Li.
00:54:14We certainly fooled them, didn't we?
00:54:16Well, that old priest of yours spouted all that junk about a curse.
00:54:21He didn't know I'd have a chance to make good use of it someday, did he?
00:54:25Did he?
00:54:31Well, there.
00:54:32You...
00:54:36You...
00:54:37K-Li, K-Li!
00:54:54It's a tum-tum.
00:55:23It's a tum-tum.
00:55:24Another murder.
00:55:25Ella!
00:55:26If anything happens to that girl...
00:55:29Oh, Sandra, it's the tum-tums again.
00:55:32I know, but it's gone now.
00:55:35Where's Mr. Prim?
00:55:37He is asleep.
00:55:38Poor man, he's tired.
00:55:40The tum-tums didn't even awaken him.
00:55:42Are you sure he's asleep?
00:55:44He's asleep.
00:55:46But ma'am Syed must also be tired.
00:55:49Why does she not go to rest?
00:55:51Oh, that's what I was trying to do when those darn tum-tums started again.
00:55:56It is done, O'Killai.
00:55:57Revenge is thine.
00:56:01It is done, O'Killai.
00:56:02Revenge is thine.
00:56:06It is done, O'Killai.
00:56:07Revenge is thine.
00:56:08It is done, O'Killai.
00:56:09Revenge is thine.
00:56:13It is done, O'Killai.
00:56:14It is done, O'Killai.
00:56:15Revenge is thine.
00:56:16It is done, O'Killai.
00:56:17Revenge is thine.
00:56:18Revenge is thine.
00:56:19Revenge is thine.
00:56:23.
00:57:55That's her room.
00:58:49What are you trying to do?
00:58:51I want to see who it is.
00:58:54Why, his head won't come off.
00:58:56Huh?
00:58:56Why, this is a thrill of a car.
00:59:01This whole thing is so obvious, folks.
00:59:08This man, Prenn, was a self-centered miser.
00:59:10And when the investors in the old expedition insisted on a showdown, he'd prefer to kill
00:59:15them rather than give up the money.
00:59:17Is that clear?
00:59:18The only thing that's clear to me is that we're not going to get any of that money.
00:59:24Now, this Shonda, the Hindu woman, was also a priestess of Kali and could train an ape.
00:59:29Where did they get the ape?
00:59:31Six months ago, an ape was stolen from the Metropolitan Zoo.
00:59:35The same thing happened in London a year ago.
00:59:38Mr. Smith, what we'd really like to know is how the murders were committed.
00:59:45Yeah.
00:59:45Very simple, my dear, Mr. Ticken, very simple.
00:59:49The ape was trained to go immediately to the incense when it heard the tom-tom and break
00:59:53the neck of the first person it met.
01:00:01Mr. Browning, I hope you've recovered from the shock.
01:00:05Thank you very much.
01:00:07You have?
01:00:08Where did they hide the ape?
01:00:10In the secret panel of that bookcase.
01:00:14Ah.
01:00:16But Prenn was paralyzed.
01:00:18Clancy proved that.
01:00:20That's what he thought.
01:00:21But a man of Prenn's willpower could easily fail to react to a tick in the shin.
01:00:28If Prenn was the murderer, how come he got croaked?
01:00:30Yeah.
01:00:32Shonda was jealous of Miss Browning, the nurse, and had the ape killed Prenn.
01:00:37She also tried to have the ape kill Miss Browning.
01:00:39Shonda, while we're standing here gassing, she's getting away.
01:00:43Boyer, Prenn, don't worry.
01:00:45She won't get far.
01:00:46I've attended to that.
01:00:47It looks like everybody is handling this case but me.
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