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00:01:00You sure about the address, miss?
00:01:09Yes, this is the place.
00:01:12You'll be sure and wait for me now, won't you?
00:01:14Sure, I'll wait.
00:01:30Come on.
00:01:53Come on.
00:02:23Come on.
00:02:28That's funny.
00:02:39Number, please.
00:02:41Oh, I'm at 122 Old Mill Road.
00:02:43This house has been occupied for 13 years and yet there's a telephone in it.
00:02:47Can you tell me who had it installed?
00:02:49I wouldn't have that information, madam.
00:02:51I could connect you with a night supervisor, but she'd have to wait until the business office opens in the morning.
00:02:57I'm sorry.
00:02:58I'm sorry.
00:02:58I'm sorry.
00:02:59I'm sorry.
00:03:02I'm sorry.
00:03:02I'm sorry.
00:03:03All of them are an improvement.
00:03:26They might have cleaned the place up a bit.
00:03:33They might have cleaned the place up a bit.
00:03:40They might have cleaned the place up a bit.
00:03:48They might have cleaned the place up a bit.
00:03:55They might have cleaned the place up a bit.
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00:04:17They might have cleaned the place up a bit.
00:04:21They might have cleaned the place up a bit.
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00:04:44They might have cleaned the place up a bit.
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00:04:56They might have cleaned the place up a bit.
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00:05:14Uncle John
00:05:21Harold
00:05:26Mother
00:05:31Thor
00:05:36Marjorie
00:05:39Uncle Dick
00:05:43Aunt Joan
00:05:48Uncle Wayne
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00:06:07Mr. Boxtail?
00:06:12Mr. Boxtail, is that you?
00:06:19Mr. Boxtail?
00:06:23Mr. Boxtail?
00:06:27Mr. Boxtail for
00:06:54yeah
00:06:56the old Morgan place
00:06:58he says he drove a youngster out there
00:07:00about 30 minutes ago
00:07:02hold the driver I'll be right over
00:07:04okay
00:07:05wake up you dumbass muscle
00:07:12and get going
00:07:12come on
00:07:18where are we going?
00:07:24better than a mackerel
00:07:28alright
00:07:30give me Stuyvesant
00:07:389600
00:07:40you can go
00:07:43leave your address we'll want you later
00:07:46yes
00:07:47what?
00:07:51well keep ringing them
00:07:54hello
00:08:02hello Phil
00:08:04this is Ryan
00:08:05listen
00:08:06we've got a swell case down here
00:08:09I'm not interested
00:08:11give me Stuyvesant
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00:08:26when you hear the tone of the gun
00:08:37it will be exactly 12 o'clock and 6 split seconds
00:08:40ring that number again
00:08:50hello
00:08:51hello you
00:08:52say what's the idea of putting that dame on the phone
00:08:55I know what time it is
00:08:56what time is it?
00:08:57shut up
00:08:58no no no
00:08:59I don't mean you
00:09:00don't hang up
00:09:01I want you to get over here right away
00:09:03there's been a murder
00:09:05I know
00:09:07but this is a good murder
00:09:09listen
00:09:1013 years ago
00:09:12a guy invited all his relatives to dinner
00:09:15the sap deserved to die
00:09:17well arrest the mother-in-law and don't bother me anymore
00:09:23oh all right
00:09:27but make it snappy
00:09:28all right
00:09:29there was 12 people there
00:09:31the table was set for 13
00:09:32the 13th guest never got there
00:09:34that was 13 years ago
00:09:36and now tonight we find a dame murdered
00:09:39and she's sitting at the table in the 13th chair
00:09:42huh?
00:09:45I counted them
00:09:46she was sitting in the 13th chair
00:09:48you dumb flatfoot
00:09:50who told you where to start counting?
00:09:54well go back and count the girl's chair first
00:09:56and let me know how you come out
00:09:57and give my love to Aunt Sarah
00:09:59ring that number again and keep ringing it
00:10:11and then tell the night supervisor
00:10:13I want to know
00:10:14I had a couple of phones installed
00:10:15at 122 Old Mill Road
00:10:17if you have to get the whole Bell family out of bed
00:10:20I am Winston
00:10:46the private investigator
00:10:47Captain Ryan sent for me
00:10:49yes sir
00:10:49go right in
00:10:50and have fun huh?
00:10:58call up headquarters
00:10:59and tell Clarence I'm sending those prints
00:11:01yes sir
00:11:02well what's the number?
00:11:04central bu...
00:11:05you dumb idiot
00:11:07don't you even know that?
00:11:09get out and look it up
00:11:10for this one will do you good
00:11:11yes sir
00:11:12hello Mr. Winston
00:11:15we got a swell murder here
00:11:17good
00:11:18and the number you want is
00:11:20central 5-5-thousand
00:11:22huh?
00:11:24oh yeah
00:11:255-5-thousand
00:11:26central 5-5-thousand
00:11:29well you certainly took your time
00:11:36I was busy
00:11:37yeah sure
00:11:39when you hear the gong
00:11:41the time will be 12 o'clock
00:11:43and 6 split seconds
00:11:45yeah
00:11:45have a look at this
00:11:47and then I'll introduce you to the lady
00:11:49this house has been unoccupied
00:11:53for 13 years
00:11:54yet the phone's installed
00:11:56and the electricity turned on
00:11:58I'm tracing that
00:11:59those books are on the floor
00:12:02that's all in here
00:12:11now come on and have a look
00:12:13at the banquet
00:12:13it gets your home still a little right
00:12:32same old joke
00:12:33if I have a day off
00:12:35I think up a new one
00:12:36you can have her now Doc
00:12:39just a minute
00:12:40I want Winston to have a look
00:12:41oh will you take care of that Jerry please
00:12:43okay
00:12:44too bad
00:12:51pretty girl
00:12:52you wouldn't notice that
00:12:53seen enough
00:12:55yeah
00:12:56okay Doc
00:13:00say
00:13:07how did you know about that dinner party 13 years ago
00:13:10oh every man and his dog knows that story around here
00:13:13Morgan senior
00:13:16dropped dead just after they all sat down to the table
00:13:20the old lady
00:13:22she was young then
00:13:23must have been a little bit cracked herself
00:13:25she wouldn't allow a thing to be touched
00:13:28just closed up the house and moved out
00:13:31and that's that
00:13:32and all these guys have been waiting for the dinner ever since
00:13:38gives me the willies every time I think of it
00:13:43well don't think then
00:13:44do you know who the girl is?
00:13:47sure
00:13:48daughter Marie Morgan
00:13:49had her whole life's history in her handbag
00:13:52but no address
00:13:53the driver that brought her out here
00:13:56said he picked her up on the corner of 59th and Park
00:13:59the apartment house?
00:14:01no
00:14:01on the corner
00:14:02we've been checking up on the apartment house around there now
00:14:05how was she killed?
00:14:08hmm
00:14:09wait till you hear
00:14:10the doc hasn't said for sure yet
00:14:13but it looks like she was electrocuted
00:14:15electrocuted?
00:14:17hmm
00:14:17I thought of that too
00:14:26not a wire on it
00:14:28that was it
00:14:29electricity
00:14:31enough to kill her but not to burn the body
00:14:34I wonder where she got it
00:14:38say that light in the living room
00:14:40I'll get it
00:14:43well uh
00:14:49what about that light in the living room?
00:14:52it ain't on
00:14:52I've tried this globe in every socket in the room that don't work
00:14:57oh maybe the globe's burned out
00:14:59never thought of that
00:15:02anyway I don't think I'd go around trying light sockets if I were you
00:15:07why?
00:15:09didn't it occur to you that a young lady was electrocuted here tonight
00:15:12and that she might have been trying light sockets?
00:15:27hello operator
00:15:28see if you can trace that call
00:15:30and ring me back
00:15:32make it snappy
00:15:33yes darling
00:15:35there's been a murder
00:15:36you can read all about it in the morning papers
00:15:38she listened in on all the other calls
00:15:41why the devil didn't she listen in on that one?
00:15:44what was it?
00:15:44I don't know
00:15:45I just heard the receiver going up after I answered
00:15:47hello
00:15:50Captain Ryan speaking
00:15:51sound hotel?
00:15:54thank you sister
00:15:55oh
00:15:56yes sir
00:15:57feed it over to the sound hotel
00:16:00and see if you can trace that call
00:16:01get a list of all the guests
00:16:02and all the telephone calls
00:16:03after midnight
00:16:04and don't
00:16:05mump it
00:16:06don't
00:16:06and don't
00:16:07go to sleep
00:16:08yes sir
00:16:09oh well how am I going to get there?
00:16:12you can drive a car
00:16:13can't you sweetheart?
00:16:14take mine and beat it
00:16:15yes sir
00:16:17if that guy's uncle don't die soon
00:16:23I'll be a nervous wreck
00:16:24who's the uncle?
00:16:26just the big boss in the city
00:16:28that's all
00:16:29oh so that's why he's on the force
00:16:30you don't suppose because he got any brains
00:16:32hey cap
00:16:34come here
00:16:34come here
00:16:35come here
00:16:35come here
00:16:37come here cap
00:16:41what's the matter now?
00:16:45it's a car
00:16:45look at it
00:16:46it ain't fair
00:16:47well I'll be a son of a
00:16:50what are you laughing at?
00:16:52nothing
00:16:52I just think it's funny
00:16:54I'm glad you invited me down
00:16:56yeah
00:16:57come in boys
00:17:09yeah
00:17:11okay
00:17:12sit down
00:17:12I'll see you in a few minutes
00:17:15do they identify the body?
00:17:18yes sir
00:17:18which one of you is the brother?
00:17:21I am
00:17:22friend of yours?
00:17:24yes
00:17:24and of
00:17:25my sister
00:17:27alright boys
00:17:27I won't keep you long
00:17:28either of you know a man named Barksdale?
00:17:33yes
00:17:33we both do
00:17:35he was my father's lawyer
00:17:36is he still handling the estate?
00:17:39yes
00:17:39why?
00:17:40we'll ask the questions if you don't mind son
00:17:42wasn't your father's will a little unusual?
00:17:46it was quite unusual
00:17:47he provided for my mother
00:17:49for Marie and me
00:17:50and left the bulk of the estate to the 13th guest
00:17:53who was that?
00:17:54we don't know
00:17:55the 13th guest never arrived
00:17:58screwy
00:17:59anything else about this guest?
00:18:03no
00:18:03except that we always supposed that he'd come forward or be named when we became of age
00:18:08well when'll that be?
00:18:09well
00:18:10why
00:18:12do you suppose that might have had something to do with it?
00:18:15Marie was 21 yesterday
00:18:16what?
00:18:18yes
00:18:18and Barksdale called her the other day and told her to
00:18:21oh I'm not interested in that
00:18:22well I am
00:18:22alright be interested
00:18:24wait a minute where are you going?
00:18:27out
00:18:27I'll see you later
00:18:28say but
00:18:28oh
00:18:30I suppose you were at that dinner party your father gave?
00:18:35yes
00:18:36where'd your sister sit that night?
00:18:44why
00:18:44beside my father
00:18:45she always sat there
00:18:47which side?
00:18:49on his right
00:18:50will you draw me a diagram of that table?
00:18:55name the people in the seating arrangement
00:18:56and if any of them have died since make a note of it
00:18:59have you kept in touch with the family?
00:19:01when we couldn't avoid it
00:19:02well
00:19:03put down their addresses and leave it with the captain here
00:19:05thanks
00:19:06do you remember how we sat that night?
00:19:13yes I think so
00:19:15were you there?
00:19:17well I was visiting there
00:19:19we were just kids then
00:19:20but it isn't easy to forget a thing like that dinner party
00:19:23I suppose not
00:19:24I've got a hunch I'll be thinking about it for some time myself
00:19:28let us hear about that phone call from Barksdale and I'll let you go
00:19:31well there isn't much to it except that Barksdale called her a few days ago and gave us some instructions
00:19:37something she was supposed to do on her 21st birthday
00:19:40and you don't remember what they were I know she wouldn't tell me and we're supposed to find the answer
00:19:47does anybody know anything?
00:19:50what's the matter with the old man besides being nuts?
00:19:53are you sure this dinner wasn't held in an insane asylum?
00:19:56what?
00:19:57try and calm down
00:19:58take these boys to the next office and give them some paper and pencils
00:20:01and send Carter in
00:20:04yes sir
00:20:04you boys better stick around
00:20:05we might want you
00:20:07it's too bad son
00:20:08take care of yourself
00:20:10and what do you mean?
00:20:12nothing much
00:20:13you mean
00:20:14they might go after me?
00:20:16they might
00:20:16I don't think I'd care if they did
00:20:20well we would
00:20:21it cost the department a lot of dough to investigate a murder
00:20:23well in that case
00:20:25I'll be careful
00:20:26thanks
00:20:27you've been very considerate today
00:20:30that's alright son
00:20:30well
00:20:40what do you think?
00:20:41I can't think
00:20:43I'm numb
00:20:43why the devil does a man have to go through all that hocus pocus just to leave a will?
00:20:49it burns me up
00:20:50well stop burning
00:20:51Carter will make you happy
00:20:52yeah
00:20:53hey Carter
00:20:54let's see what you got
00:20:59yes sir
00:21:00here are the deposit slips of the telephones and lights ordered by one John Barksdale
00:21:07Barksdale
00:21:08so that's where you got it at
00:21:10feel better now?
00:21:11I'll say
00:21:12wait till I lay my hands on this guy
00:21:15also a man answering to Barksdale's description
00:21:18registered at the Sound Hotel last night about 9.30
00:21:20under the name of Perry
00:21:22and at 1.22 put in a call to Douglas and 968
00:21:25then checked out of his hotel immediately after
00:21:28now he hasn't been home since and he hasn't shown up in his office yet
00:21:31and these folks are beginning to worry
00:21:33well now isn't that too bad
00:21:35tell them they can see him on visitor's day
00:21:38let's go
00:21:39pardon me sir
00:21:40I managed to dig this up out of the Daily Herald files
00:21:44with bottle steel
00:21:46swell
00:21:47let's send that out at once
00:21:49okay
00:21:50put a couple of the boys and those two kids in there
00:21:52they may be alright and again they may not
00:21:55yes sir
00:21:55anything else for me sir?
00:21:56no but stick around
00:21:57okay
00:21:58calling all cars
00:22:05calling all cars
00:22:06stand by for a description of one John Barksdale
00:22:10wanted for questioning on the Morgan murder case
00:22:12last seen on Long Island driving a Packard Touring
00:22:16license unknown
00:22:17description
00:22:1850 years
00:22:206 feet
00:22:21gray hair
00:22:23eyes brown
00:22:24that is all
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00:24:25Well, I don't care.
00:24:44You can call me all the names you want.
00:24:47I've run out of names to call you.
00:24:50I don't care.
00:24:51Mr. Whiston, if you'd have heard it, you'd...
00:24:53What did it sound like, Grump?
00:24:56Well, it sounded like a person.
00:24:58A person.
00:25:00And the devil and a couple of heinies strode in.
00:25:04Well, could you give me an idea of what it sounded like?
00:25:09Well, yeah.
00:25:10It started kind of...
00:25:12It started kind of up, like...
00:25:14Yeah!
00:25:15Yeah!
00:25:15Yeah!
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00:25:23That ain't just it, Jerry.
00:25:25He's kind of like it.
00:25:27He's...
00:25:27Well, perhaps if you tried it again, Grump.
00:25:31Yeah, well, he's...
00:25:33He's...
00:25:34He's...
00:25:34He's...
00:25:34You dumb idiot!
00:25:37Don't you know when you're being ribbed?
00:25:40Shut up!
00:25:42Well, I was only trying to...
00:25:44Shut up!
00:25:44Get out!
00:25:47Get out!
00:25:47Get out!
00:25:47Get out!
00:26:05What is that?
00:26:07Sir, I don't know who put all them books there.
00:26:26So would I.
00:26:29Did you go to sleep today?
00:26:33I don't think so.
00:26:35You don't think so?
00:26:37Get out of my sight before I kill you.
00:26:40Yeah.
00:26:43Hey, Phil, come here.
00:26:44You come here.
00:26:46Where are you?
00:26:47In the dining room.
00:26:48Oh.
00:27:01Is he dead?
00:27:02It's Barksdale.
00:27:07Can you beat that?
00:27:10A certain house upstairs and down.
00:27:12Yes, sir.
00:27:15Not that it'll do much good.
00:27:21Phil, what's the answer?
00:27:23It's got me worried plenty.
00:27:26Me too.
00:27:27But I'm beginning to be glad that I wasn't invited to that dinner party years ago.
00:27:32Yeah.
00:27:34Here's the diagram young Morgan drew today.
00:27:38Take a look at the seating arrangement.
00:27:42First, we find the girl's body in the chair that she sat in that night.
00:27:45And now this.
00:27:50Are you beginning to get the idea?
00:27:53Gee, yes.
00:27:56Ye gods, Phil.
00:27:58Are they going to line this table with stiffs?
00:28:00That's the way it looks, unless we do something.
00:28:05But, but that's crazy.
00:28:07It very nearly confirms one thing, though.
00:28:10The person doing it was at the table that night.
00:28:23I'll get it, boss.
00:28:25What's the matter now?
00:28:46No.
00:28:47I'll just...
00:28:48How did you get out of the morgue?
00:29:04I haven't been in any morgue.
00:29:18Take your hands off me.
00:29:23Shh.
00:29:23Be nice.
00:29:24I won't.
00:29:25Let me alone.
00:29:26Do you want me to spank you?
00:29:28Hold still.
00:29:34That's a good little girl.
00:29:36What's your name?
00:29:38Marie Morgan?
00:29:40Yes.
00:29:41What did you say?
00:29:42I asked this child here if she were Marie Morgan.
00:29:45I'm no child.
00:29:46Will you shut up?
00:29:46And she said yes.
00:29:48And she said yes.
00:29:50I don't know.
00:29:50Maybe it's something I ate.
00:29:52And this is the nightmare.
00:29:54Where'd you pick her up?
00:29:55I found her riding around in your car.
00:29:57In my...
00:29:58I was on my way to the police station.
00:29:59Yes, Aunt Baby, you're still on your way to the police station.
00:30:02Take her down and lock her up.
00:30:03I've got some things I want to ask her about.
00:30:05You can't arrest me.
00:30:06Oh, can't I?
00:30:07That's what they all say.
00:30:09Maybe it's all a mistake.
00:30:11And maybe you can explain everything.
00:30:13And I'll bet you won't say a word until you see your lawyer.
00:30:15Well, I won't.
00:30:15All right, baby.
00:30:17Come and see your lawyer.
00:30:23Let's help do a good look.
00:30:33Murdered?
00:30:34That's right.
00:30:35Do you know anything about it?
00:30:36No.
00:30:38No, of course not.
00:30:39What can this mean?
00:30:43That's what we're going to find out.
00:30:46Take her to lock her in the library and we get through here.
00:30:53Was she headed for police station?
00:30:55She was going in that direction.
00:30:57Call up city headquarters and report this.
00:31:00Call the coroner.
00:31:01Then stick around outside.
00:31:03Yes, sir.
00:31:09Now, why did you ask that girl if she was Marie Morgan?
00:31:14I think she is.
00:31:15What about the other dame?
00:31:17There are no twins.
00:31:18No.
00:31:18But the other girl had several small scars around her face.
00:31:22Didn't you notice them?
00:31:23Yes, but I didn't think anything about it.
00:31:25Well, I did.
00:31:26I thought she'd had her face lifted.
00:31:29Well, what a blasted idiot I've been.
00:31:33That's why you were so surprised when her brother told you she was 21.
00:31:36Certainly.
00:31:37No kid that age is going to have her face lifted.
00:31:39And you beat it back to the morgue to have another look.
00:31:42Right.
00:31:43And took a good plastic surgeon with me.
00:31:45She hadn't had her face lifted.
00:31:47She'd had it completely made over.
00:31:49Well, I'll be...
00:31:52Now, that commences to make sense.
00:31:56Barksdale made an appointment with the real Marie Morgan to meet him here.
00:32:02They planned to kill her and substitute the other girl, huh?
00:32:05Who planned to kill her?
00:32:07Huh?
00:32:11Barksdale made the appointment.
00:32:12Yes.
00:32:13But if Barksdale was in on it, which she may have been,
00:32:16who killed the gentleman on your right?
00:32:21Little Bo Peep.
00:32:35What?
00:32:45Hey.
00:32:46Hey.
00:32:47Operating.
00:33:12I wouldn't do that if I were you.
00:33:14The police might not like it.
00:33:16I was only trying to call my brother.
00:33:18We'll call him later.
00:33:21You're going to take a ride with me.
00:33:23Where to?
00:33:24To my apartment.
00:33:26She'd be safer in jail.
00:33:29Don't worry, she won't get away.
00:33:31I didn't mean that.
00:33:32I said she'd be safer in jail.
00:33:35And you may go to the devil.
00:33:46Mr. Adams.
00:33:50Mr. Winston.
00:33:50Why, my dear child.
00:33:56Why, I'm almost afraid to touch you.
00:33:59What is the meaning of all this?
00:34:02Why, I'll have to send back that cutaway I ordered for your funeral.
00:34:05You wear those to weddings, not funerals.
00:34:07This is Uncle Adams, the worst old reprobate who ever lived.
00:34:10My dear, you're covering quite a lot of territory.
00:34:12How do you do, Mr. Winston?
00:34:13I'm delighted.
00:34:14How do you do?
00:34:15If you give him a drink, I think he may keep still.
00:34:18What'll it be, Scots and soda?
00:34:19Sprinted, thanks.
00:34:20Easy on the soda.
00:34:32There you are.
00:34:34If you want my opinion, it's Uncle Adams who's been committing all the murders.
00:34:39All the murders?
00:34:40Mr. Boxtel was murdered today in the old house.
00:34:46Boxtel?
00:34:47My word.
00:34:48Not that I ever like the old devil, you understand, but...
00:34:51But murdered?
00:34:53What's the meaning of it, Mr. Winston?
00:34:55You're investigating the case, I suppose?
00:34:57Unofficially.
00:34:58I'm a friend of Captain Ryan.
00:34:59Yes, yes, of course.
00:35:00I've heard of you.
00:35:01Well, have you any clues?
00:35:03Don't you call them?
00:35:03Any ideas?
00:35:05No.
00:35:06But he has a laugh for you.
00:35:08Really?
00:35:09Well, let's have it.
00:35:10You're next.
00:35:11What?
00:35:13According to Mr. Winston's theory, you're next on the list.
00:35:17Unless, of course, you've been doing the murders yourself.
00:35:21Really, Marie, you boys have the most peculiar sense of humor.
00:35:28Must be some more of the family.
00:35:30I'm doing the Resurrection Act.
00:35:34And enjoying it thoroughly, if I know you.
00:35:36You certainly startled me.
00:35:38Did I?
00:35:43Mr. and Mrs. Thornton, Mr. Winston and Mrs. Thornton.
00:35:46How do you do?
00:35:47How do you do?
00:35:48If you'll explain your reasons.
00:35:49Well, for heaven's sake.
00:35:51I thought you were dead.
00:35:53Disappointed?
00:35:54Well, why be a hypocrite?
00:35:55You know I've always hated your...
00:35:57Marjorie!
00:35:58If you say that word again, I'll disown you.
00:36:00What a loss.
00:36:01Is this for a private use only?
00:36:08I suppose you're a Winston.
00:36:11At your service.
00:36:12I may take you up on that.
00:36:15Hmm?
00:36:15Mm-hmm.
00:36:17If this is another one of your jokes, Marie, I must say it's in bad taste.
00:36:21I've been simply prostrated all day.
00:36:24I'll bet you have.
00:36:25Bridge always tires mother.
00:36:28Marjorie.
00:36:30May I answer it?
00:36:33Yes.
00:36:33Let me search it in here.
00:36:41Bud!
00:36:44Oh, Marie!
00:36:50It is you!
00:36:52Oh, my dear!
00:36:53They tried to kill me.
00:36:56Are you glad I'm alive?
00:36:59Am I glad?
00:37:01I think you are.
00:37:02But what does it mean, sis?
00:37:06They made us go down and look at that other girl.
00:37:10We thought it was you.
00:37:12Did you cry?
00:37:15Well, to tell you the truth, honey, we both went home and got potted.
00:37:22That's just as good.
00:37:26Come on in.
00:37:27Mr. Winston has a whole family here.
00:37:29He says one of them is the murderer.
00:37:30I'm giving odds on Uncle Adams.
00:37:33Uncle Adams?
00:37:34He's too lazy to commit a murder.
00:37:37But tell me, darling, what happened to you?
00:37:39I'll tell you later.
00:37:43Well, here we are.
00:37:45Just one big happy family.
00:37:48Oh, hello, Thor.
00:37:49Who was that blonde I saw you with the other night?
00:37:52There was no blonde and you know it.
00:37:54Oh, well.
00:37:56Dear Marjorie,
00:37:58your soul must look like the inside of a vinegar bottle.
00:38:01By Jove, it's a good idea.
00:38:02I wish I had thought of it myself.
00:38:04What's that?
00:38:04Killing off the family.
00:38:06It must be some poor soul that had a misfortune to dine with us when we were all together.
00:38:09I think you're right.
00:38:11Someone who dined with you 13 years ago.
00:38:13Oh, really?
00:38:15Oh, you mean the night that John read that stupid will?
00:38:19And then died.
00:38:22Well, mercy, don't ogle me.
00:38:24I didn't kill him.
00:38:25No one killed him as far as we know.
00:38:30Does anyone here know the present whereabouts of, um, Wayne Seymour?
00:38:37The last time I saw him, I got an impression that he was going to spend the rest of his
00:38:40days at number nine, Yokohama.
00:38:42I see you know you're Yokohama, Mr. Winston.
00:38:46I've traveled a bit.
00:38:48With the exception of Wayne Seymour,
00:38:50you people were the only guests at that dinner who are still alive.
00:38:53Well, and we're dead from the neck up.
00:38:56Speak for yourself, John.
00:38:57I'll speak if you don't mind.
00:38:59Go ahead, but a few snappy jokes injected here and there would make a world of difference.
00:39:04You see, we're accustomed to public speaking.
00:39:06I'm afraid this isn't a joking matter.
00:39:08It looks as if someone is determined to kill every person who attended that dinner 13 years ago.
00:39:14They've already killed two people.
00:39:16Two?
00:39:17Two?
00:39:18Yes.
00:39:19A girl mistaken for Miss Morgan and John Barksdale.
00:39:22Mr. Barksdale?
00:39:24Barksdale murdered.
00:39:25Very much so.
00:39:27And in both cases, the bodies were found in the chairs occupied by that person at the dinner.
00:39:32And as Captain Ryan so elegantly describes it,
00:39:36the murderer intends to line the table with stiffs.
00:39:39Oh, how vulgar.
00:39:41Well, thank goodness I was under the table most of the time.
00:39:45Yes, pinching me.
00:39:47Oh, I was a cute youngster.
00:39:48Always full of fun.
00:39:50Someday I'll look at your baby pictures, but just now we're discussing murder.
00:39:54Which automatically makes one think of the Marjorie.
00:39:57Speak for yourself, John.
00:40:00Shall we go on with this or just turn it into a family reunion?
00:40:03Well, why not have a blindfold test?
00:40:05Wouldn't matter which one you picked.
00:40:07We'd all cut each other's throats for a dime.
00:40:10Why a dime?
00:40:12I'll cut yours for fun.
00:40:19Give me police headquarters.
00:40:22Detective Bureau.
00:40:22Captain Brown's office.
00:40:24Well, it isn't every day you get a chance to see a mastermind at work.
00:40:28Hello.
00:40:28Who's this speaking?
00:40:29Oh, well, this is Winston.
00:40:32Send the wagon to my apartment and issue four John Doe and three Jane Doe warrants.
00:40:43Material witnesses in the Morgan case.
00:40:45Right.
00:40:47I've got them here.
00:40:50Really, you're quite amusing, Mr. Winston.
00:40:55You'll like the matron in the city jail, too.
00:40:58She's one of the Philadelphia Smiths.
00:41:05Perhaps by this time you're beginning to see that I mean business.
00:41:08Now then, do you want to stop trying to be clever or do you want to spend the night in jail?
00:41:13Well, Willie, do the men have separate wards from the women?
00:41:17I think you've settled it then, young lady.
00:41:20Night in jail may make you people see that murder isn't amusing.
00:41:24This is an outrage.
00:41:29So is murder.
00:41:30Why, you can't do this.
00:41:31Wait and see.
00:41:32I'll break you for this.
00:41:33The governor is a personal friend of mine.
00:41:35And of mine.
00:41:36And I happen to know that he's a little funny when it comes to murder.
00:41:38He doesn't like it.
00:41:40Don't be a lot of fools.
00:41:41He doesn't intend to send us.
00:41:43The police, Mr. Winston.
00:41:45Yes, yes, so I see.
00:41:46Good evening, Sergeant.
00:41:47Good evening, sir.
00:41:48Have you the warrants?
00:41:49Yes, sir.
00:41:49Yes.
00:41:50Yes, all signed and in order.
00:41:52All right, take these people down and lock them up.
00:41:56Yes, sir.
00:41:56All right, step live.
00:41:57I demand to see my lawyer.
00:41:59Miss Morgan saw her lawyer today and I don't think she enjoyed it.
00:42:02You'll be sorry for this.
00:42:10Good night, Winnie dear.
00:42:11Mr. Winston, please.
00:42:19Good night, my dear, and sweet dreams.
00:42:37Oh, darn.
00:42:39Oh, come on down, dearie.
00:42:48We've got another corpse.
00:42:51What?
00:42:52What?
00:42:53What, the family's all locked up?
00:42:55Yeah, sure.
00:42:56You're a smart guy.
00:42:58I don't know.
00:43:01I'm not over yet.
00:43:03You coming down?
00:43:03Okay.
00:43:05Okay.
00:43:12Get me the police station.
00:43:16Hello.
00:43:17Give me the desk sergeant at the city jail.
00:43:20Yeah.
00:43:22Hello.
00:43:24This is Winston, private investigator on the Morgan case.
00:43:27I sent down seven of the upper crust for you.
00:43:30Will you send somebody in and see if they're all there?
00:43:32Yes, sir.
00:43:35Hey, Mike.
00:43:36Take a look at the 400 and see if they're all there.
00:43:39Okay, sergeant.
00:43:40Okay.
00:43:40Okay, sergeant.
00:43:42What's the matter with her?
00:44:05Who cares?
00:44:05Don't touch her, Marjorie.
00:44:16Hey, what's the matter?
00:44:22What?
00:44:26What?
00:44:28She says that you remind her of her mother.
00:44:31Oh, no.
00:44:37Pipe down.
00:44:38You can't do this.
00:44:44I demand it.
00:44:45Yes, I know.
00:44:46You're going to write a letter to the commissioner.
00:44:48I won't stay in here another moment.
00:44:54Say, what are you trying to do?
00:44:55Rip me?
00:44:56Dear me, no.
00:44:57Say, if you guys don't dummy up, there's going to be a murder.
00:45:00Well, that's what we're here for.
00:45:02Two murders.
00:45:03He did them.
00:45:04What?
00:45:05Hey, pipe down here.
00:45:06Yeah, officer.
00:45:07Hide them out.
00:45:07Oh, go read your ticker.
00:45:09I want to know what Steele's doing.
00:45:22All there, sergeant.
00:45:24Okay.
00:45:26All there, Mr. Winston.
00:45:28Okay, thanks.
00:45:29Oh, wait a minute.
00:45:31Turn them all loose, but put a man on each one of them.
00:45:34Yeah, I'll be responsible.
00:45:39I'll be responsible.
00:46:09wire runs
00:46:11over here
00:46:12then goes no place at all
00:46:15I've scoured the whole house
00:46:17the only answer is there must be a closet or a room somewhere
00:46:20that we don't know anything about
00:46:22I don't want to know anything about it
00:46:27alright Bill
00:46:29make it snappy
00:46:30uh... cut it right there
00:46:39what do you make of that, huh?
00:46:46I wonder
00:47:09steel
00:47:18great guns
00:47:21nothing rubber about that
00:47:24come on let's get out of here
00:47:31I've seen sights but that one
00:47:36rather a neat way of doing it though, huh?
00:47:39I don't think it's neat
00:47:41fiendish as the devil
00:47:42do you realize that the murderer left that switch on not caring who got killed?
00:47:47and while he's asleep in the county jail
00:47:49he commits another murder
00:47:52but he wasn't here to turn off the switch and bring the body in here
00:47:56I think that cinches it
00:47:59but which one?
00:48:01well you saw them
00:48:02which are the most likely?
00:48:04well the odds are about even
00:48:05there's a cousin Marjorie who'd commit murder just for the fun of it
00:48:09and her mother'd kill anything that stood in her way
00:48:12but I think it stands between the two uncles
00:48:15Adams is as smooth and old devil as I've ever seen
00:48:17but Thornton's deep
00:48:19you know the big business man who'd stop at nothing
00:48:22what about the brother and his boyfriend?
00:48:24I think they're alright
00:48:26Jensen's in love with the girl and her brother seems genuinely fond of her
00:48:30and what's the girl's story?
00:48:33she said someone shot at her in the dark
00:48:35she ran upstairs and hid
00:48:36and by the way
00:48:37she heard that same cry that Grump heard
00:48:40and according to her it wasn't particularly pleasant
00:48:43just the same I'd like to hear it
00:48:46then what else did she do besides
00:48:49steal my car?
00:48:51well
00:48:51she said she came back down
00:48:52was about to beat it out the front door when she heard a car and motorcycle drive up
00:48:56said by that time she didn't know where to turn
00:48:58and when she came in here and saw her double sitting cold and stiff at the table
00:49:02she did go nuts
00:49:04got scared of the police as well as the rest
00:49:06hid in the cellar and then stole the car
00:49:08she hid out all the next day
00:49:10thought better of it and was on her way to the station when they picked her up
00:49:14it's logical
00:49:16Barksdale ask her out here?
00:49:17yes
00:49:18and what they were all after I think
00:49:20was a slip of paper that she'd got that day at the bank
00:49:23which doesn't make much sense of course unless it's a safe combination
00:49:28what was it?
00:49:29thirteen thirteen thirteen
00:49:31I'd like to get old man Morgan alone for about ten minutes
00:49:39I'd teach the old buzzard how to write a will
00:49:42well
00:49:44we get the family down here and try and sweat it out of them
00:49:47or should we put a close watch on them and see who comes down here?
00:49:51well I'm in favor of the last
00:49:53now our friend may get curious and come down to see if he's had another killing
00:49:57then we keep this last one quiet huh?
00:50:00that's right
00:50:01I've got a hunch it's the missing uncle
00:50:05I want to call Miss Morgan
00:50:06call the coroner too will ya?
00:50:08I'm kind of ashamed of her because
00:50:10I've bothered him so much lately
00:50:12thank you
00:50:15well if this is the kind of service I'm gonna get I'm gonna get killed every day
00:50:20I'll get it
00:50:21I'll get it
00:50:22hello
00:50:25Miss Morgan's apartment
00:50:27how'd you like our city jail?
00:50:30listen child
00:50:35I want you to destroy that strip of paper at once
00:50:37and don't tell anyone what was written on it
00:50:40not even your brother
00:50:41but
00:50:43but
00:50:45no one's accusing your brother
00:50:48say listen don't you get too smart
00:50:51you know there's a distinct prejudice in the police department
00:50:54against little girls who go around stealing police cars
00:50:57oh you're not
00:51:02well 21's a mere drop in the bucket
00:51:05uh
00:51:06what
00:51:08say will you shut up and let me talk
00:51:11now listen
00:51:12don't tell anyone those numbers
00:51:14and if anyone tries to get them out of you let me know immediately
00:51:17will you do that?
00:51:19like a sweet little girl
00:51:21that was the great sleuth Wednesday
00:51:26yeah
00:51:27what did he want?
00:51:29he told me not to tell anybody the numbers on that slip of paper
00:51:33what numbers?
00:51:34thirteen thirteen thirteen
00:51:36oh gosh
00:51:40just a woman
00:51:42oh well
00:51:43for gonna sake don't tell him I told you
00:51:45alright we won't
00:51:47he did he want
00:51:48oh
00:51:49thank you
00:51:50he
00:51:51he
00:51:52he
00:51:53he
00:51:54he
00:51:56he
00:51:57he
00:51:58he
00:52:30Shame on you, looking at those things.
00:52:38Huh?
00:52:39Why don't you have luncheon with me?
00:52:41It'll be more comfortable than standing out here.
00:52:44How'd you know I'd fall on you?
00:52:46Have you ever been to the zoo?
00:52:49Sure.
00:52:49Did you see the elephants?
00:52:51Yeah.
00:52:52Well, that's how I know.
00:52:55Huh?
00:52:57I'm afraid you're not very bright.
00:52:59But you may come in handy.
00:53:01I'm about to go calling.
00:53:02Would you like to come along?
00:53:04I've got to go wherever you go.
00:53:07Is that a theme song?
00:53:08Or just your quaint way of saying things?
00:53:12Oh, well, I...
00:53:13You'd better ride with me.
00:53:15You know I'm getting a pain in the neck from looking back at you.
00:53:18Come on.
00:53:18Of course, just looking at you may give me a pain in the neck.
00:53:27Huh.
00:53:30Get in.
00:53:30Okay, stay there until you're relieved.
00:53:44That was Bentley, detailed to watch Adams.
00:53:46He says Adams hasn't left the house all day.
00:53:48But some dame just came up in the limousine with Grump.
00:53:51Grump?
00:53:52He's tailing the Thornton girl.
00:53:53Tailing her?
00:53:54He's riding in the limousine with her.
00:53:56What?
00:53:59I'd give a hundred bucks to see that.
00:54:04Come in.
00:54:06There's a Dr. Sherwood outside.
00:54:09Says he has some information on the Morgan case.
00:54:11Dr. Sherwood?
00:54:12Yes, sir.
00:54:12Send him in.
00:54:14I hope he's our man.
00:54:17Hi, doctor.
00:54:19Captain Brown?
00:54:20How do you do?
00:54:21Won't you sit down?
00:54:22Yeah.
00:54:24I hope you're a plastic surgeon.
00:54:26I see you're ahead of me.
00:54:27I am, as a matter of fact.
00:54:29And I operated on the young lady who was killed.
00:54:32I only saw your notice in the paper this morning.
00:54:34Yeah, well, we didn't know until last night that the wrong girl had been killed.
00:54:37But when did you operate on her?
00:54:39Several months ago.
00:54:41Three, as a matter of fact.
00:54:42She and her brother came to me.
00:54:44What?
00:54:45Well, she said he was her brother.
00:54:48What name did they give?
00:54:49Morgan.
00:54:50Morgan.
00:54:51May I take Dr. Sherwood over to Miss Morgan's apartment?
00:54:55Okay.
00:54:55You could identify the brother, couldn't you?
00:54:57Oh, certainly.
00:54:58He came to me twice.
00:54:59Fine.
00:55:00Let's go.
00:55:01Goodbye, Captain Brown.
00:55:02Goodbye, doctor.
00:55:13Oh.
00:55:14Hello.
00:55:15Come in, doctor.
00:55:16That your man?
00:55:23No.
00:55:24Say, why aren't you down at the old house?
00:55:27Well, I'm rather tired of being there so much.
00:55:30Do you picture of your friend Jensen around?
00:55:33Yes, I think so.
00:55:35But look here, Mr. Winston.
00:55:37Marie's gone down to the old house to meet you.
00:55:39What?
00:55:40Didn't you call her?
00:55:40Well, no.
00:55:41You didn't call her?
00:55:42No, I tell you.
00:55:43What's it all about?
00:55:46I just got in.
00:55:47She left this.
00:55:48Where's it?
00:56:08Oh, get a picture of Jensen.
00:56:11Show it to the doctor, will you, please?
00:56:14Hello, operator.
00:56:15Get me Douglas in 968.
00:56:17Hurry up.
00:56:24That's the one.
00:56:26Hurry with that call.
00:56:27Call.
00:56:45Hello.
00:57:05Hello.
00:57:12Hello.
00:57:13Hello.
00:57:14Hello? Oh, yes. Now listen child, don't get in a panic, but get out of the house as quick as you can.
00:57:38Is there an officer guarding it? Yes. He let me in when I told him you.
00:57:44Mr. Winston, didn't you call me?
00:57:46Now, now, don't get in a panic. Just get the officer to drive you to the Douglasson police station and wait for me there. Now beat it.
00:57:53All right.
00:58:06Where's Miss Morgan? Hasn't she been here?
00:58:08No. No one's been here.
00:58:10You come with me. I may need you. No wait.
00:58:12Stay here. Tell Ryan to beat it over to the Morgan house as soon as he gets here.
00:58:15Yes, sir.
00:58:25Isn't she there? No.
00:58:26No.
00:58:44He'll come around all right. Come on. Go quiet.
00:58:47Go quiet.
00:59:17Sometimes.
00:59:18There's nothing.
00:59:19Plan that.
00:59:20Don't you need me.
00:59:21illä
00:59:47You son of a...
00:59:50Look out!
00:59:57Come on. Here. Cut it out.
00:59:59Cut it out. Come on.
01:00:00Kill her. Kill her.
01:00:02Cut it out.
01:00:05What did you do with my sister?
01:00:07Here. Cut it out.
01:00:08Come on. Get up.
01:00:12Go let him in.
01:00:17Now then
01:00:18Have you done with Miss Morgan? Come on. I'll make a snappy Miss Morgan. I don't know where is she?
01:00:25Just a swell species of skunk. Oh come on. Tell me. What are you done with her? I
01:00:29Tell you I did you call her and tell her to meet me here?
01:00:32No, I swear I didn't we know all about Sherwood and the other girls, so you may as well tell us the rest
01:00:38Who was in on this with you?
01:00:40Barksdale. So you killed her and then Barksdale so you wouldn't have to split, huh? No, I don't know who killed them. I swear it
01:00:50Pick up that phone
01:00:53No, no, why not?
01:00:56Because that's the way Leela got us. You were there that night. Did you kill her? No, I saw her after after shooting at Miss Morgan
01:01:03No, no, I didn't I a liar go on take him down and lock him up
01:01:17But Phil I tell you Ryan it doesn't make good sense
01:01:20Why go to all the trouble to impersonate someone and then kill the impersonator?
01:01:25Jensen tried to kill Miss Morgan, but somebody else killed the girl thinking it was Miss Morgan
01:01:29Jensen knew the difference there have been two different factions working in this against each other
01:01:35Why that?
01:01:36But where's exactly?
01:01:42Get an axe break that wall in
01:01:44All right and son
01:01:46You'd better go on back to the station why because I don't think your sister is going to be alive when we find her
01:01:55I don't know
01:01:59You know what they are
01:02:05I know but you kill me you'll never know
01:02:09You little fool don't you know that I'll kill you anyway
01:02:18Tell me
01:02:20Stop, all right
01:02:23Thirteen, thirteen, thirteen
01:02:25You dare not be lying
01:02:27You dare not be lying
01:02:55Come on in
01:03:20Come on smash.
01:03:21Come here, give me that axe, please.
01:03:36Come here, that's it.
01:03:51He's locked in the safe, he's locked in the safe, he's locked in the safe, he's locked
01:04:06in the safe, I'm locked in the safe, isn't that funny?
01:04:13Yeah, it's a swell joke.
01:04:17Come on, come on, get out of here.
01:04:19Come on, come on.
01:04:40Got a patent on that little electrical device of yours, Adams?
01:04:43No, I'm sorry to say, I haven't.
01:04:46Well, I wouldn't worry about it if I were you.
01:04:49The state's got something that works along the same lines.
01:04:53And we're going to give you an exclusive demonstration.
01:04:57Take him out.
01:04:59Come on, move.
01:05:00Will they let you into that safety deposit box?
01:05:05Sure.
01:05:06What did you find?
01:05:07Only a million dollars with securities for her.
01:05:09A million?
01:05:10How disgusting.
01:05:12I hope it isn't U.S. steel.
01:05:14Don't worry, it isn't.
01:05:16I left the securities there, of course, but this letter was on top and I thought you'd want it.
01:05:23To Marie, the 13th guest.
01:05:25Can you imagine that?
01:05:27I was it all the time.
01:05:36My...
01:05:43The poor lamb.
01:05:46Read it.
01:05:47Allowed?
01:05:48Why, yes.
01:05:51My dear child, I am making a rather melodramatic attempt to protect your fortune.
01:05:56But if I am right about the other members of the family, it is almost certain to reveal them to you in their true light,
01:06:02so that you will not make the same mistake I made when I married into it.
01:06:06Bless you, my dear, and may they have killed each other off by the time you receive this.
01:06:11Your father.
01:06:13It's sad, but it's also darn good advice.
01:06:17What?
01:06:18Not to marry into a screwy family.
01:06:28How are ya?
01:06:36Tell me where you've been?
01:06:37Well, first I went...
01:06:39Well, first I went...
01:06:41Well, you told me to tailor...
01:06:42Well, you told me to tailor...
01:06:43Well, you told me to tailor...
01:06:44Well, you told me to tailor...
01:06:45Well, you told me to tailor...
01:06:46Well, you told me to tailor...
01:06:47Well, you told me to tailor...
01:06:48Well, you told me to tailor...
01:06:53Well, you told me to tailor...
01:07:00Well, you told me to tailor...
01:07:03Well, you told me to tailor...
01:07:08Hello.
01:07:33Hello, Phil.
01:07:35This is Ryan.
01:07:36Listen, I've got another swell I'm not interested.
01:07:41When you hear the tone of the gong, it will be exactly twelve o'clock and six split seconds.
01:08:08Hello.
01:08:15Ring Stuyvesant nine six hundred and keep ringing it.
01:08:23And when you've done that, well, well, ring it some more.
01:08:30Ring Stuyvesant three four four four four four four four three.
01:08:35Did it.
01:08:37Ring Stuyvesant three five four four four four four four four.
01:08:39The big one.
01:08:41The big one.
01:08:43You play the big one.
01:08:45You
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