Passed | 1h 11min | Crime , Drama , Film-Noir, Thriller | January 1954 (USA)
Wrongly accused of killing a bar-girl he was seen with earlier, a Korean War vet flees from the police in the company of a woman photographer and her young female model.
Director: Nathan Juran
Writers: Herb Meadow (screenplay), Jerome Odlum (screenplay)
Stars: Richard Conte, Joan Bennett, Wanda Hendrix
Wrongly accused of killing a bar-girl he was seen with earlier, a Korean War vet flees from the police in the company of a woman photographer and her young female model.
Director: Nathan Juran
Writers: Herb Meadow (screenplay), Jerome Odlum (screenplay)
Stars: Richard Conte, Joan Bennett, Wanda Hendrix
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00:02:00Seat taken?
00:02:01Reserved.
00:02:02For whom?
00:02:04A guy who smiles.
00:02:05How's this?
00:02:08It's been a long time between smiles, hasn't it, mister?
00:02:11Where I come from, a million laughs a day.
00:02:13Beer.
00:02:15Freshen that up.
00:02:16I'm not here for that.
00:02:18Just rental for the stool.
00:02:21Okay, Danny.
00:02:25What's your line, mister?
00:02:27Real estate.
00:02:28Around here?
00:02:29Korea.
00:02:31Things are booming there.
00:02:33Like I said, it's a long time between smiles.
00:02:37Are you out?
00:02:38Separated last week.
00:02:41What are you going to do?
00:02:42Oh, I don't know.
00:02:44I can make a lot of noise with a bazooka.
00:02:47Me and the flamethrower are real close friends.
00:02:49Salary reasonable, we'll travel.
00:02:52You live around here?
00:02:54Yeah, in my suitcase.
00:02:57Doesn't it get a little lonely in there?
00:03:01Sometimes.
00:03:03What do you do?
00:03:05I collect.
00:03:07These.
00:03:09Combat medals, huh?
00:03:10Bravery in action.
00:03:12If I didn't have a date tonight, I'd be right here.
00:03:18You know you do well.
00:03:20I always do well.
00:03:21I was once the highest-paid fashion model in New York.
00:03:24Fashion model?
00:03:25You bet.
00:03:26There's my picture on the wall when I was modeling.
00:03:31You were really beautiful then.
00:03:35What do you mean, then?
00:03:37I'm sorry, I didn't mean it that way.
00:03:39I don't like cracks like that.
00:03:45Okay.
00:03:49I've met punks like you before.
00:03:55Think you can insult a lady?
00:03:57Look, sister, I said I was sorry.
00:04:03Stop it.
00:04:04Everybody's looking at you.
00:04:05They don't look at me.
00:05:06All right, keep that one where it is and get the other hand up with it.
00:05:11What's the big idea?
00:05:13Now walk over to the hood of the car and put your arms across it.
00:05:16What is this?
00:05:17Move, fella.
00:05:28It's hot.
00:05:29Yeah, and it's gonna get hotter, Al.
00:05:34Look, I want to know what this is all about.
00:05:36I don't get it.
00:05:37It's clean.
00:05:38Hold out your hands.
00:05:41I want to know what this is all about, I said.
00:05:43Look, do you want to do this the easy way or the hard way, fella?
00:05:53All right, now get in.
00:05:56We ought to play this game again sometime.
00:06:02Come on.
00:06:27If I'm gonna ride ten miles down the road, cool as a breeze.
00:06:31I was going someplace.
00:06:32That against the law?
00:06:33No.
00:06:35Then why the pickup?
00:06:36You the boss here?
00:06:38Yeah.
00:06:40Joe White Eagle.
00:06:41Lieutenant, Las Vegas Police.
00:06:43Well, these characters act like I'm a secret weapon.
00:06:45I don't like being pushed around.
00:06:46Mind letting me see your papers, Sergeant?
00:06:49Why the pickup, Lieutenant?
00:06:50And why the cuffs?
00:06:51Papers, please.
00:06:53I'm not Houdini.
00:06:56Ben?
00:07:05Thanks.
00:07:13Henry, James Henry.
00:07:15Separated last week.
00:07:17Silver star, bronze star with a cluster.
00:07:21Very good record.
00:07:22That's got nothing to do with this.
00:07:24You hauling everybody to pass us through this lousy town?
00:07:29Not a very good likeness, is it?
00:07:32You know, I was a Marine myself.
00:07:34This reminds me of Iwo, only they say this one's a lot tougher.
00:07:37Why the pinch, Lieutenant?
00:07:40Great branch, the Marines.
00:07:42Well, you're not pinched, James.
00:07:43Just thought you could help us.
00:07:45Got a funny way of asking for help.
00:07:48Mind answering a few questions?
00:07:50Let's get it over with.
00:07:51I'm in a hurry.
00:07:52Where were you at 3 this morning?
00:07:54In Vegas with a friend.
00:08:01We found your friend.
00:08:10Why did you kill her?
00:08:11Huh?
00:08:14I didn't kill her.
00:08:15I didn't even know her.
00:08:16A bartender and 15 witnesses say you did.
00:08:18So I walk into a bar and sit down on a stool next to her.
00:08:21You picked her up.
00:08:22You drank with her.
00:08:23You made a pass.
00:08:24She got mad.
00:08:25I didn't make a pass.
00:08:26She was loaded.
00:08:27I shut her up.
00:08:28You shut her up, all right, with a strap around her throat.
00:08:34She's not going to pin a murder rap on me.
00:08:37I didn't kill her and I can prove it.
00:08:38How?
00:08:40I already told you.
00:08:42I was in Vegas last night with a friend.
00:08:44Who?
00:08:45Paul Bartlett, Army captain.
00:08:47We had a date in town.
00:08:48Why?
00:08:50He's a buddy, that's why.
00:08:52We were together from midnight till 6 this morning.
00:08:54Where?
00:08:55The Sunset Hotel.
00:08:57Why don't you check it?
00:08:59Ben?
00:09:06I got a problem.
00:09:07He was helping me with it.
00:09:11You've got a problem, all right.
00:09:1545.
00:09:16Service automatic.
00:09:17Government property.
00:09:19Loaded.
00:09:21It's a souvenir, so all right, I'll pay the fine.
00:09:28So the shirt's got blood stains on it.
00:09:30I fell in the bushes getting off a truck.
00:09:34One khaki service shirt.
00:09:36Fifth and sixth buttons missing.
00:09:38Lieutenant, Sunset Hotel.
00:09:43Yes?
00:09:44Oh, yes.
00:09:46Bartlett.
00:09:48Paul C.
00:09:50Paul C. Bartlett.
00:09:53Captain.
00:09:55Yes, Army captain.
00:10:00Yes.
00:10:03Yes, thank you.
00:10:09Satisfied?
00:10:12Both sleeves torn.
00:10:14Blood on left sleeve.
00:10:18What about the call?
00:10:21You should have burned the shirt.
00:10:24What about Captain Bartlett?
00:10:26There was nobody by that name registered, lieside.
00:10:31Of course, why didn't I think of it?
00:10:33He's not using his own name.
00:10:34He's on some security thing, classified.
00:10:37What name was he using?
00:10:41I don't know.
00:10:43Where can we reach him?
00:10:45We can't reach him right now.
00:10:47I'm going to meet him before nine in the morning.
00:10:49Why don't you stop lying?
00:10:51You didn't owe the girl a lie.
00:10:52You didn't fight with her a lie.
00:10:53You tore your shirt in the bushes a lie.
00:10:55You spent the night with a buddy a lie.
00:10:57It's the truth, I did.
00:10:59Then why did we find this bracelet in her bedroom under her body?
00:11:03Yeah, it's yours.
00:11:07Cuff him.
00:11:09Now, just a minute.
00:11:17Put your hands against the wall.
00:11:24You too.
00:11:30Get those feet out.
00:11:44First guy that moves gets a gun full of lead.
00:11:50No dead heroes, Ben.
00:11:57Hold it, Ben, not yet.
00:12:05All right.
00:12:35All right.
00:12:55All right.
00:13:15All right.
00:13:39Of all the fool luck,
00:13:41we could have found the trouble by now.
00:13:45Maybe I should adjust the carburetor.
00:13:47Good, do it.
00:13:50I don't know which one of these gadgets it is.
00:13:52Susan, we've got to get this car started.
00:13:55I'm sorry, Mrs. Cummings,
00:13:56but I don't know anything about these things.
00:13:58Maybe we should thumb a ride back to Las Vegas.
00:14:00I told you before, we're not going back to Las Vegas.
00:14:02We haven't the time.
00:14:09Tiger, Tiger, stop it.
00:14:11Tiger?
00:14:14Turn on the charm, make him helpless.
00:14:18Don't try to get away or I'll shoot.
00:14:24Do you know anything about motors?
00:14:26We've been here for hours.
00:14:33What's the matter?
00:14:34Nothing.
00:14:36Oh, the grease.
00:14:38I knew it looks good.
00:14:40I'm going to take it off anyway.
00:14:49I better take a look at the engine.
00:14:57Say, did you people see a police car go by here fast?
00:14:59No, officer, we haven't.
00:15:01How long have you been here?
00:15:02Oh, about two hours.
00:15:03We'd still be stuck here if this...
00:15:04Somebody step on the starter.
00:15:06It looks as though he finally might be moving.
00:15:08Okay, thanks.
00:15:09You better get a leash on that dog.
00:15:19Do I start the car now?
00:15:21Just a second.
00:15:25The officer's right, Mrs. Cummings.
00:15:26We should have Tiger on a leash.
00:15:28Do you have it?
00:15:29That's why I thought you did.
00:15:39Okay, now start her up.
00:15:44Susan, I'm sure he's going to ask us for a ride.
00:15:46I hope.
00:15:47I don't think it's a good idea.
00:15:52That should do it.
00:15:58Where do you want me?
00:15:59Front or back?
00:16:00You've been very kind, but we...
00:16:01Would this crowd you too much?
00:16:03We're very grateful for what you've done, but you see, we...
00:16:07Tiger!
00:16:10Tiger! Tiger!
00:16:13Let me take care of him.
00:16:42We're on our way to Apple Valley to take pictures of the hotel.
00:16:46Oh?
00:16:47You're a professional photographer?
00:16:49No, no, not me, Mrs. Cummings.
00:16:52I'm just her model.
00:16:54You mean like in Vogue and Harper's?
00:16:56All the top slicks.
00:17:00It wouldn't have happened if Tiger had been on his leash.
00:17:02I can't imagine what happened to him.
00:17:04Don't talk about it.
00:17:05It's too late now.
00:17:08But I keep thinking maybe I lost it somewhere.
00:17:12Was I the last one to...
00:17:14No.
00:17:15No, you took him walking last time.
00:17:16I don't want to hear any more about it.
00:17:18I asked you to stop it, so stop it.
00:17:21I'm sorry, Susan.
00:17:26That's all we can find on him.
00:17:29That's all we need.
00:17:35Dog tags, ribbons, keys, and more clothes.
00:17:39Mr. Dick.
00:17:41Ben, get the snap out on the wires and make sure it gets out to the papers.
00:17:44All right.
00:17:49Do you think he made the state line?
00:17:51He didn't get these for stubbing his toe.
00:17:54Better call the border stations anyway.
00:17:56Right.
00:18:00Unit 14F3 to Control One.
00:18:03Oh, break it up, Ben.
00:18:04We've got everything we need.
00:18:05Check.
00:18:06Go ahead, 14F3.
00:18:08White Eagle, I got the serial number on James Henry.
00:18:128-9-1-4-6-3.
00:18:158-9-1-4-6-3.
00:18:17Right.
00:18:18Put it out on a teletype to the Navy Department.
00:18:21I'll drive this car back to town.
00:18:23You better call your wife when you get home.
00:18:25What's up?
00:18:26Trip to California.
00:18:29Teletype Barstow.
00:18:30Tell him we're on hot pursuit.
00:18:31Might need their help.
00:18:42Why don't we stop somewhere and get a bite to eat?
00:18:48We didn't even get any breakfast.
00:18:49We left so early.
00:19:18Sit anywhere, folks.
00:19:23The service is quicker at the counter.
00:19:25We'll sit here.
00:19:36I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.
00:19:39So am I.
00:19:46She must be pretty upset about the dog, huh?
00:19:48That's only part of it.
00:19:50She lost her husband last year.
00:19:52The circumstances were rather shocking.
00:19:54What'll it be, folks?
00:19:56Hiya, boys.
00:19:57Hello, Sally.
00:19:58Hey, why the work clothes?
00:19:59I thought you were both off.
00:20:01Yeah, we're all for rockers to be out in heat like this.
00:20:03Right, Harry?
00:20:06You know, they called us in from a fishing trip up at Mead.
00:20:08How come?
00:20:10Just to keep tabs on you, baby.
00:20:13It'll take a couple of smarter cops than you to do that.
00:20:17Have you decided yet?
00:20:19Hamburgers, three.
00:20:21Maybe I don't want a hamburger.
00:20:25Hey, fella, you don't want a hamburger either.
00:20:29Why not?
00:20:30Heartburn.
00:20:33What do you mean, heartburn?
00:20:35I ate one of her hamburgers two years ago.
00:20:38Never been the same since.
00:20:40Oh, a good burger would fit him.
00:20:42Besides, he's just peed because they called him back to work.
00:20:44Well, wouldn't you be out chasing some character in this 120-degree heat?
00:20:48Serves you right.
00:20:50I wish I knew who it was.
00:20:51I'd warn him.
00:20:52This boy don't warn Sally.
00:20:54All he can understand is a gun.
00:20:57May we have the hamburgers, please?
00:20:59Okay.
00:21:00Three horses on the slab.
00:21:06Mrs. Cummings, your hamburger.
00:21:10Worried about her.
00:21:12Maybe we'd better go.
00:21:14I'm starved.
00:21:16Could you wrap those hamburgers, miss?
00:21:18We'll eat them on the road.
00:21:19Okay, mister.
00:21:22What are you guys gonna have?
00:21:24I'll make it burgers.
00:21:25Hurry it up, will you?
00:21:26We gotta check with the watch commander.
00:21:28Say, just why did they call you guys back from leave?
00:21:31They got a one-out.
00:21:32Some guy murdered a dame up in Vegas and escaped.
00:21:35Heading this way?
00:21:36Who knows?
00:21:37The only sure way he's headed is to the morgue.
00:21:40Don't let that be a lesson to you.
00:21:42You're gonna teach me a lesson?
00:21:43Ha!
00:21:44Just don't be picking up any hitchhikers on your day off, you understand?
00:21:48That's what this dame did and got a strap around her neck.
00:21:52Maybe I'd better go and see if Mrs. Cummings is all right.
00:22:05How are you feeling?
00:22:06Oh, I'm all right.
00:22:07Sorry to have been such a nuisance.
00:22:08I want to talk to you alone.
00:22:09Is anything wrong?
00:22:11The police are looking for someone from Las Vegas.
00:22:14They are?
00:22:15Someone strangled a woman with a strap.
00:22:19They said it was a hitchhiker.
00:22:21Jim's a hitchhiker.
00:22:24Why don't we leave him here?
00:22:26What about his bag?
00:22:28I'll take it to him.
00:22:30Keep the change.
00:22:32I want to talk to you for a minute.
00:22:34What about?
00:22:36Harry and I have been playing it kind of light so as not to scare the ladies.
00:22:39This is pretty serious.
00:22:41I wouldn't pick up any hitchhikers if I were you, especially if it's a marine.
00:22:46I'll watch it.
00:22:47Been driving long?
00:22:49Chicago.
00:22:50Chicago?
00:22:51Hey, Harry, he's from Chicago.
00:22:54You should have brought Sally some of that good eastern beef.
00:22:58I don't know what to tell him.
00:23:00For heaven's sake, Susan.
00:23:01He'll be out in a minute.
00:23:02This is no time to get sentimental.
00:23:04It's not that.
00:23:05I just...
00:23:06Oh, he'll find it.
00:23:07Here, put it down.
00:23:08Get in the car, quick.
00:23:18You looking for these?
00:23:20You looking for these?
00:23:50I told you this was my sister's car.
00:24:10Open the back end.
00:24:11Look, all you got to do is call her.
00:24:13We will.
00:24:14Open the back end, will you, please?
00:24:16Oh, brother.
00:24:19Great.
00:24:25Any fruits, plants, or seeds?
00:24:27No.
00:24:28Would you mind putting that on the rack and open the trunk for me?
00:24:41Your car?
00:24:43No, Mrs. Cummings.
00:24:45We'll have to check the certificate of ownership, ma'am.
00:24:47Would you mind taking it in the office?
00:24:48Of course not, officer.
00:24:50I've never had to show the certificate of ownership before.
00:24:54It's the strap killer, Mrs. Cummings.
00:24:56Oh, I'd almost forgot.
00:25:10What's all this Marine stuff doing in here?
00:25:12I'll take it from here.
00:25:13Right.
00:25:15What are you doing with the Marine uniforms?
00:25:17I am a Marine.
00:25:18The general gets awful mad when I don't wear them.
00:25:20What are you doing in civvies, then?
00:25:22When I'm off duty, he don't mind.
00:25:24Where'd you spend last night?
00:25:25What is this, Mac, a quiz program?
00:25:27Answer the question.
00:25:28In Vegas with a lady friend, and I got an empty wallet to prove it.
00:25:31Was your lady friend alive when you left her?
00:25:33She wasn't even alive when I was with her.
00:25:35Hey, Steve, Vegas police on the phone.
00:25:38Better come along.
00:25:40Now, wait a minute, Mac.
00:25:41I'm due back at Pendleton.
00:25:42The general's gonna be awful sore if I don't show up.
00:25:44Come on.
00:25:45No.
00:25:52This is okay.
00:25:54You put the stuff away.
00:26:03Yeah, I'll be right with you.
00:26:05Yeah, we're checking on the Marine now.
00:26:07Tell him I gotta get back to Pendleton.
00:26:09Doesn't look like it.
00:26:10They found the car.
00:26:11Well, what did they say?
00:26:13I'll talk to you in a minute.
00:26:14May I see your driver's license, please?
00:26:16Hey, what's that again?
00:26:18About the pictures.
00:26:19Yeah.
00:26:21Yeah, get them down to as fast as you can.
00:26:23The description we got could fit a million guys.
00:26:26I'll let you know, all right.
00:26:28I still can't find it.
00:26:30I know it's somewhere in my purse.
00:26:32Well, there's only one thing to do.
00:26:35When you're traveling, it seems everything winds up in your pocket.
00:26:38When you're traveling, it seems everything winds up in your purse.
00:26:41Yes, ma'am.
00:26:42I wasn't expecting this.
00:26:44I've never shown my car certificate before.
00:26:45Is this something new?
00:26:46No, ma'am.
00:26:47Vegas police are looking for someone.
00:26:48Thought they might try to cross the state line.
00:26:50Well, I don't see how they could with all you officers around.
00:26:53It's been done.
00:26:54We're human.
00:26:55We make mistakes, ma'am.
00:26:56Here they are.
00:26:57You're Mrs. H.J. Cummings?
00:26:59Yes.
00:27:00Who are the other occupants of your car?
00:27:02Miss Susan Wilton.
00:27:03She works for me.
00:27:04And the gentleman?
00:27:05James Johnson.
00:27:06Does he work for you, too?
00:27:07Look, Mac, I'm in a hurry.
00:27:08Who isn't?
00:27:09I gotta get back to Camp Pendleton.
00:27:11Take it easy.
00:27:12Nobody crosses the state line until we're satisfied with their identification.
00:27:18That'll be all, Mrs. Cummings.
00:27:19Thank you very much.
00:27:21Look, Mac, what about me?
00:27:25Yeah?
00:27:26Yeah?
00:27:27What's that?
00:27:38Yeah.
00:27:39Yeah.
00:27:40Look, I'll call you right back.
00:27:45Hold that car!
00:27:50You could get in a lot of trouble without this.
00:27:52It's your California visitor's permit.
00:27:54If you stay in the state over 30 days, you have to buy California plates.
00:27:57With all this confusion, I'd forgotten about it.
00:27:59Sorry.
00:28:00Forget it.
00:28:02I just got a call from Vegas on that want.
00:28:04He might have gotten this far.
00:28:06Well, if he hasn't been carrying contaminated food, that's your problem, not mine.
00:28:10I don't know.
00:28:12Ever get contaminated by a .45?
00:28:22I'm sorry, sir.
00:28:23I'm sorry.
00:28:24I'm sorry.
00:28:25I'm sorry.
00:28:26I'm sorry.
00:28:27I'm sorry.
00:28:28I'm sorry.
00:28:29I'm sorry.
00:28:30I'm sorry.
00:28:34Do you remember when you came out of the lunch room,
00:28:36you found your bag outside the car?
00:28:39Yes.
00:28:41You know why it was there?
00:28:43No.
00:28:45Because you were the strap killer,
00:28:47and we were trying to get away.
00:28:49What made you change your mind?
00:28:51Well, you couldn't be guilty and possibly get passed all those officers, could you?
00:28:56I'm sorry.
00:28:58You play tennis?
00:29:00Tennis?
00:29:01Yes, there's a tennis court and a swimming pool at the hotel.
00:29:03I thought maybe you'd like to join us.
00:29:06Thanks, but I've got a very important date in the morning.
00:29:08Sounds like a matter of life and death.
00:29:12You're still mad.
00:29:15No, I'm not.
00:29:16Yes, you are.
00:29:18But I'm still gonna try to change your mind and we'll get to the end.
00:29:30Is that a man driving?
00:29:34Looks like a man and two women to me.
00:30:00Thanks for the lift, Mrs. Cummings.
00:30:22That's quite all right.
00:30:24Sorry I couldn't convince you.
00:30:26Are you sure you won't stay?
00:30:28Well, maybe for an hour or so.
00:30:31Maybe I can dream up a few more convincers
00:30:33and change that hour or so to a day or so.
00:30:35I'm afraid not, but thanks anyway.
00:30:38Well, eight for effort.
00:30:40Oh, Susan.
00:30:41I'll be there in a minute.
00:30:43I'll see you later at the pool.
00:30:52Well, two more to set up.
00:30:53I'll meet you back in Victorville in a few minutes.
00:30:58Who's in the truck?
00:30:59He delivers the papers. I know him.
00:31:00Right off the press.
00:31:06I guess I'll go up the inn before I go and check that man out with two women.
00:31:20Oh, boy.
00:31:22A paper to Mrs. Cummings' cottage, number 23.
00:31:24Now, hurry, hurry.
00:31:27Here, let me help you.
00:31:58A for effort.
00:32:01Did you say something, Susan?
00:32:06Ankles trim.
00:32:08Legs, hmm.
00:32:10Waist, 20.
00:32:13Bust, 34.
00:32:17What does a girl have to have?
00:32:19What are you muttering about?
00:32:21I'm just taking in good things.
00:32:23I'm just taking in good things.
00:32:25Not bad.
00:32:27I'm just taking inventory.
00:32:29Inventory of what?
00:32:43Inventory of what?
00:32:45Susan, you're as white as a sheet.
00:32:47What's the matter?
00:32:56You haven't read the whole story.
00:32:58The one that was murdered was Terry Smith.
00:33:00The same Terry Smith.
00:33:02The same little tramp that Harold killed himself over.
00:33:04You've got to call the police.
00:33:06Susan, you're not listening.
00:33:09Don't you know what that would mean?
00:33:11They'd find out about my husband and Terry.
00:33:13After all, I went through to keep it quiet.
00:33:15The whole filthy mess would come out in the open...
00:33:18just because of that little tramp.
00:33:20Whoever killed that creature deserves a medal.
00:33:24But if we don't call the police, he might murder someone else.
00:33:27Have you thought about me, Susan?
00:33:29I was in Las Vegas last night.
00:33:31I had every reason to wish that woman dead.
00:33:34If this whole thing comes out, I...
00:33:36I just couldn't stand it.
00:33:38I couldn't face it. I couldn't.
00:33:40They might even try to connect me with the killing.
00:33:44But they couldn't possibly believe a thing like that of you.
00:33:47There's no telling what people will think when things like this come out.
00:33:50This doesn't have to come out.
00:33:52You're the only one besides yourself who knows about Mr. Cummings and Terry.
00:33:55You're right, Susan.
00:33:57I'm the only one who could connect you with her now.
00:34:00Yes, you are, aren't you?
00:34:02And I promise you that I won't mention it to anyone.
00:34:05You won't?
00:34:07Of course not. I know you didn't kill Terry...
00:34:09and the rest of it is none of their business.
00:34:12All right, Susan.
00:34:14We'll call the police.
00:34:16Hang up that phone.
00:34:23I'm sorry. I have to get you in deeper.
00:34:25The police have set up a roadblock.
00:34:27I'll have to stay here for a while.
00:34:29Please go away.
00:34:31I'll leave as soon as I can.
00:34:33Just a minute.
00:34:35We shouldn't have done that.
00:34:38Mrs. Cummings.
00:34:40Mr. Cummings.
00:34:42Mrs. Cummings, I know.
00:34:44I know you want to see me.
00:34:46You want to see me, don't you?
00:34:48You have to see me, trust me.
00:34:50You see me.
00:34:52I did it when you were gone.
00:34:54Do you remember?
00:34:56Will you please come out?
00:34:59Come out, I said.
00:35:01Will you please come out?
00:35:03Come out, I said.
00:35:05Come out, I said.
00:35:07Mrs. Cummings, guess what?
00:35:09I just received this wire from Trip Magazine.
00:35:11They'll take our picture and lay out, and we can get it to them by next week.
00:35:13You do think you can make it in time, don't you?
00:35:15Sure.
00:35:16Oh, good, good. Now, all we got...
00:35:19Oh, I don't think we've met.
00:35:21Jim Johnson, Mrs. Cummings' assistant.
00:35:23How do you do, Jim?
00:35:24Now, everything is all set up out of the pool.
00:35:27Isn't it wonderful about Trip Magazine?
00:35:29Could we start right away?
00:35:30We're ready.
00:35:31No, we're not.
00:35:33We have several things to check, Mrs. Cummings.
00:35:35What things, Jim?
00:35:37We have some holders to fill, Mrs. Cummings.
00:35:39I filled them all before you came.
00:35:41Did you check the flash guns, too, Mrs. Cummings?
00:35:43Of course she did. I helped her.
00:35:45You better check them again.
00:35:47Guns are funny.
00:35:49Sometimes they go off.
00:35:53Now, would you mind helping us with some of this equipment?
00:35:55Oh, sure, sure. Be glad to. Glad to.
00:35:57I'll see you at the pool.
00:35:59Yeah. I, uh...
00:36:00Hmm. Strap killer, huh?
00:36:02Well, he certainly looks like a criminal.
00:36:04I can spot him like that.
00:36:06You know, you've sure got beautiful equipment.
00:36:09Mr. Carson.
00:36:12Oh, you forgot your telegram.
00:36:14Oh, yes. Thanks. Thanks.
00:36:15I'll see you outside the pool.
00:36:21Don't ever try anything like that again.
00:36:26You've trapped yourself, haven't you?
00:36:29I don't know.
00:36:30You can't stay here now, and you don't dare go to the pool.
00:36:33Well, what are you going to do?
00:36:36I'm going to take a chance and shoot pictures.
00:36:39I hope that's all I shoot.
00:36:52Mr. Carson?
00:36:53Yes?
00:36:55Sergeant Barnett, Las Vegas Police.
00:36:58Working with the California Police Special Case.
00:37:00What can I do for you, Sergeant?
00:37:01Put the three Ford convertible drove in here a while ago.
00:37:03Two women, man driving.
00:37:05Oh, yes. That was Mrs. Cummings, our photographer,
00:37:07and a couple of people that worked with her.
00:37:08You'll vouch for them?
00:37:09Certainly.
00:37:12Ever see him before?
00:37:15I see.
00:37:19Of course. Now I remember.
00:37:22He's the strap killer.
00:37:23You've seen him?
00:37:24Yes.
00:37:25Where?
00:37:26In the afternoon paper. His picture's on the front page.
00:37:28I haven't had time to read it.
00:37:30Say, wait a minute.
00:37:31You don't think you'll find him around here, do you?
00:37:33I don't know. I'm not familiar with the habits of a strap killer.
00:37:36Well, anything we can do to help, we'll be too happy to cooperate.
00:37:40I'd like to check your hotel register on the way out.
00:37:42Then I'll be on my way.
00:37:43Oh, by all means. Come along. I'll, uh...
00:37:48Uh-oh.
00:37:49Here comes our photographer.
00:37:51We've got to take some very important pictures.
00:37:53I wonder if you'd mind.
00:37:54The boy in the office will help you out.
00:37:55Sure thing. Thanks a lot, Mr. Carson.
00:37:57Sure.
00:38:01Now, I hope you don't think I'm trying to tell you your business, Mrs. Cummings.
00:38:04But for our purpose, I do think that the first shot will be from right around here.
00:38:08Now, you come over here, honey.
00:38:09Come over here to the diving board.
00:38:11I've got a swell spot for you.
00:38:12Get right out here and sit down and face this way.
00:38:16Turn your head over this way and smile.
00:38:18Now, that's it.
00:38:19Over this way, a little farther.
00:38:20Isn't this a wonderful shot, Mrs. Cummings?
00:38:21I think it's just wonderful.
00:38:22Smile a little more. A little more. That's it.
00:38:24This is no funeral, you know.
00:38:25Come on. Bigger smile. That's it.
00:38:27Oh, I completely forgot.
00:38:29The life preserver.
00:38:30I had it repainted especially for you.
00:38:32Publicity, you know.
00:38:33It's in the office.
00:38:34Oh, say, this is just wonderful.
00:38:36Wonderful.
00:38:37This might even make the front cover.
00:38:39If you don't mind, may I?
00:38:41I'm a camera bug, too, you know.
00:38:42Of course, I haven't got the kind of equipment that you have.
00:38:45Would you like to use one of my cameras, Mr. Carson?
00:38:47You know, I was kind of hoping you'd ask me that.
00:38:49Jim, get a 4x5 holder out of the case for Mr. Carson.
00:38:53There are no 4x5s here.
00:38:55Well, then, Mr. Carson can use this one.
00:38:58Just a minute.
00:39:02Just wanted to make sure you had the right film.
00:39:04Certainly wonderful to work with professionals.
00:39:08Now, now. Now, let's see.
00:39:10Now, don't tell me. Don't tell me.
00:39:12Now, now, now.
00:39:13Now, now, now, now.
00:39:14Now, now, now, now.
00:39:15Now, now, now, now.
00:39:16Now, now, now, now.
00:39:17Now, now, now, now.
00:39:18Now, now, now, now.
00:39:19Now, now, now, now.
00:39:20Now, now, now, now.
00:39:21Now, don't tell me. Don't tell me.
00:39:22Don't forget to pull the slide, Mr. Carson.
00:39:24Oh, yes, I know. I know. I know.
00:39:25I know. I know.
00:39:26You have to pull the slide to get the picture.
00:39:34Is anything the matter, Mr. Carson?
00:39:36I don't think I can hold this pose much longer.
00:39:41Would you hurry it up? We've got a lot to do.
00:39:43Did you pull the slide, Mr. Carson?
00:39:46You forgot the life preserver.
00:39:48You know, the one you had specially painted.
00:39:50With the name of the hotel on it and your office.
00:39:53Office?
00:39:54Oh, yes, office.
00:39:56That just reminds me. I've got to go to the office.
00:40:08Operator, please hurry.
00:40:10This is a matter of life and death.
00:40:16Thanks.
00:40:21Lieutenant White Eagle.
00:40:23This is Mr. Carson at the inn.
00:40:25The Strap Killer. He's here.
00:40:28A little louder, please, Mr. Carson.
00:40:30The Strap Killer. He's here.
00:40:33Cut in on this.
00:40:34Yes, yes.
00:40:37Put this on the air to roadblock two.
00:40:40Now, just keep calm, Mr. Carson.
00:40:42Now, just keep calm, Mr. Carson.
00:40:44Do exactly as I tell you and no one will be hurt.
00:40:46Hold it just a moment.
00:40:48Tell the boys on roadblock two to put a barrier across the hotel entrance and hold it until we get there.
00:40:53Now, hello, Mr. Carson.
00:40:55Now, just listen carefully.
00:40:57The man is armed and dangerous.
00:40:59If you can warn your guests without arousing his suspicions, do so.
00:41:03If he attempts to leave and you can delay him without endangering yourself, do that.
00:41:07But under no circumstances take any chances.
00:41:10Yes. Yes, we'll be there very quickly, Mr. Carson.
00:41:20The Strap Killer. He's out at the pool.
00:41:22The Strap Killer.
00:41:23Now, please, please, don't get excited.
00:41:24Everything's under control.
00:41:25I've called the police and they'll be here soon.
00:41:27The Strap Killer. He...
00:41:28Mr. Straps!
00:41:30Oh, please.
00:41:31Get up. Come on.
00:41:40Come on.
00:42:11Get up.
00:42:13Come on. Over there.
00:42:16Over there.
00:42:41Come on.
00:42:47Put your faces against the back of the seat.
00:42:49Wait a minute. He's got two of them.
00:43:04The radios are shot.
00:43:05Get up to the hotel and use their phone.
00:43:10Come on.
00:43:26Face through.
00:43:28Frank's got it on the phone.
00:43:30Frank!
00:43:35Hello, Pasto.
00:43:36This is Special Unit 14-F-3.
00:43:40Suspect just crashed Roadblock 2,
00:43:43heading south on Highway 1-8.
00:43:47Notify all units.
00:43:49Alert Roadblock 4.
00:43:51Repeat, alert Roadblock 4 to intercept suspect.
00:43:57Warning.
00:43:58Suspect has two female hostages riding with him.
00:44:27Fill it up and hurry.
00:44:29Buenos dias, senor.
00:44:31Hey, some bad wreck.
00:44:33I do wood repair work.
00:44:35I just want some gas. Hurry it up.
00:44:37I make a special deal for you.
00:44:39I said hurry it up.
00:44:57Can't you make it any faster?
00:45:01Not with my old friend.
00:45:03But after tomorrow, she'll rest.
00:45:06Tomorrow morning, new pumps.
00:45:08She'll rest.
00:45:09Tomorrow morning, new pumps.
00:45:32Hey, hurry it up. Come on.
00:45:38Come on.
00:45:58That's enough.
00:45:59But, senor, he would take some more.
00:46:01I said it's enough.
00:46:02Hey, get that truck out of my way.
00:46:04Relax, buddy.
00:46:05Hey, Pete, what do I owe you for last week?
00:46:08I said move it over.
00:46:11Okay, buddy.
00:46:27Now lay that rig across the road.
00:46:36Okay.
00:47:00He shot out my tires.
00:47:06Come on.
00:47:25What are you going to do?
00:47:27I'm going to put some water in the radiator.
00:47:29But we only have a little water left.
00:47:35I'll get it.
00:47:52Don't let the motor die.
00:47:53If you use that water in the car, what about us?
00:47:55Right now the car is more important.
00:47:59Susan, we've got to do something.
00:48:01What can we do?
00:48:02Keep your foot on the accelerator
00:48:08Don't let the motor die
00:48:12Uses the water we might die out here. Don't you understand?
00:48:17This car has no gear shift, don't you understand? All you have to do is pull it down and step on the gas
00:48:25Before I move running down. Yes
00:48:28What do you think he's going to do to us? Come on. Hurry don't
00:48:32Stop me
00:48:48It's cooling off
00:49:02I
00:49:11Hasn't passed roadblock for he hasn't come back this way. So
00:49:16He must have left the road somewhere between this point and roadblock for
00:49:21And the space of five miles he's vanished and into thin air
00:49:25into the desert
00:49:27Drove off in one of those washes behind you check tonight. We can wait if we don't get him the desert will
00:49:58You
00:50:14We're stuck I need some help I said I need some help get out
00:50:22Please mrs. Cummings
00:50:24Aren't you proud of yourself? Nothing will happen to her. Come on
00:50:37When I say rocket rocket, yeah like this
00:50:46Okay
00:50:48Okay
00:50:59Rocket hotter rocket hotter
00:51:18I
00:51:27Got some brush and put it under the wheels might we catch our breath first
00:51:48That's enough you get the wheel
00:52:04You get up on the side
00:52:11Okay, let her go
00:52:18Oh
00:52:48Still a human being and you just can't take a human life. What do you think that I don't care about a human life. Why'd you say that?
00:52:55Please mrs. Cummings. You're upset. You're in love with him, aren't you? No, I
00:52:58I don't know. I'm confused
00:53:00Maybe Jim didn't kill Terry. You read the papers. They can sometimes be wrong
00:53:04He was there. So were we I was there. That's what you're really thinking, isn't it?
00:53:09And that I had a motive and it was a motive to kill Terry
00:53:11I don't know. I don't know. I don't know
00:53:13I don't know. I don't know
00:53:16That I had a motive and if we ever get away from here you'll tell the police to help save him
00:53:20That's what you're thinking, isn't it? I don't know what to think
00:53:26We've been through a lot I am upset I can't think maybe if I could rest why don't you go to the car I am
00:53:36I'll be there in a minute
00:53:45Mrs. Cummings!
00:54:16Why did you let her take the car?
00:54:20I could ring her neck
00:54:22Why? Have you gone out of straps?
00:54:24I don't blame her for doing what she did. The poor woman's hysterical you treating her the way you did
00:54:28She doesn't know what she's doing. I had any sense I'd have gone with her
00:54:31Why didn't you? Because I happen to be trying to help you. I guess I'm supposed to say I'm sorry
00:54:36Sorry for what? For being a kidnapper? A murderer? For bringing us out here in the desert to die?
00:54:41What are you gonna do? We gotta get that car. Come on
00:54:45Let's go
00:55:45Mrs. Cummings! Mrs. Cummings!
00:56:00Mrs. Cummings! Mrs. Cummings!
00:56:06What about Mrs. Cummings? What about her?
00:56:09We've got to find her. She can't be very far. Look, it's getting dark. We've got to get this car fixed and get out of here
00:56:16And leave her?
00:56:18I thought you said anybody this far out in the desert alone would die. She knew that before she took the car
00:56:25You better leave the both of us here cuz I'm gonna find her
00:56:36There's only one way we can find her
00:56:46She'll be able to see this from wherever she is. Can't do any more
00:56:54It's warmer up here
00:56:57You
00:57:14Yeah, uh-huh, give me that location again, will you
00:57:22W-9
00:57:26I got it. Yeah, right. I'll let you know and thanks
00:57:31Something hot yeah fire right out in the middle of the desert the fire
00:57:36You'd be crazy a lot of fire out there. It's like signaling send a helicopter out there. Will you been?
00:57:42I
00:57:56Didn't kill her Susan I
00:57:58Didn't even know her
00:58:01All I did was buy her a drink one drink
00:58:05And for 65 cents, I bought a martini mixed with dynamite
00:58:09The cops dragged me in
00:58:12Had all the questions and answers
00:58:15I can usually figure two and two make four but their arithmetic scared me
00:58:20That dynamite went off and I got panicky
00:58:24I had the same feeling once before I was in a foxhole
00:58:31The whole world seemed to explode I had to get out
00:58:37I got a medal for fighting my way out of that one. I can fight my way out of this one, too
00:58:42I
00:58:43Didn't kill her and I can prove it. I
00:58:47Spent the night in Vegas with a friend Paul Bartlett army engineer
00:58:52Into wonders with the slide room
00:58:55You see I own a home pretty nice place overlooks the salt and sea from any room in the house
00:59:02The only trouble is it's setting in four feet of water
00:59:06Mama used to say we own a five-room house seven when the tides out
00:59:09Paul thinks he might be able to save it
00:59:12Something about lifting the foundation
00:59:16I'm supposed to meet him at the house in the morning
00:59:20He's on some kind of secret duty
00:59:23Can't even use his own name
00:59:26That's why the police couldn't check me out in Vegas
00:59:30If I miss him
00:59:32I'll be in a lot of trouble before I can prove anything
00:59:35You know when a mortar shell hits a target you don't have to look twice to know it
00:59:42I guess falling in love the same thing
00:59:45You don't have to look twice
01:00:04Yes, I better get the car fixed have it running in a few minutes
01:00:34Oh
01:00:56Mrs. Cummings Susan, I'm so terribly sorry for what I did running away and leaving you
01:01:02You don't seem particularly glad to see me Susan it's not that I
01:01:07I'm just a little bit surprised. That's all is he here?
01:01:11Yes, he sticks in the car
01:01:15So worried you alone with
01:01:21Murderer
01:01:22Nothing's happened to me. I'll never forgive myself
01:01:26It's been horrible out here alone thinking of what I'd done to you
01:01:31Hope you understand. I I never would have left you. It's only that
01:01:35Jim had the car ready
01:01:37When I saw the fire, I didn't know whether to come back or not
01:01:42After what I did to Jim, I know what he might do to me. It was Jim who made the fire mrs. Cummings
01:01:56Yeah
01:01:58Yeah
01:02:00Sure thing copter pilot it is, huh?
01:02:05No, no, no. Thanks. That won't be necessary
01:02:09Okay
01:02:10Did he land?
01:02:11Yeah, fire still burning. Nobody's there tire tracks indicate a car heading west who knows tire tracks heading west, huh?
01:02:20Spot that fire again
01:02:22You
01:02:27Nine and where did he leave the highway?
01:02:31Right here now extend the line west through those two points
01:02:35Where do you come out?
01:02:37Salton Sea
01:02:39What are you getting at? Well, the Navy Department report on sergeant James Henry gives his last known address as the Salton Sea
01:02:47Hmm, maybe he's making his way home. Maybe we can catch him there. Could I see that address, please?
01:02:55The only thing you'll find here is fish the place is flooded out
01:03:17You
01:03:38This is as far as I go you can pick up the main highway by going back about a mile and turning left
01:03:43It'll take you right back to the hotel
01:03:47There's a sheriff's office in Mecca
01:04:17I
01:04:47I
01:04:54Yeah
01:05:17I
01:05:39This is the kitchen I'm gonna get any cooking done you better stay out of it
01:05:48Well, there's a stove it looks pretty rusty right now I can do something about that
01:05:53We've probably got some fish in the icebox already
01:05:59What's that
01:06:17What is it Jim it's like I got up on the wrong side of the world
01:06:32You're under arrest hold your hands where I could see him
01:06:35Got a gun miss a 45 automatic. Does he still have it?
01:06:39Yeah, I still got it
01:06:41Without stepping between us miss take his gun from him and put it on the sink
01:06:45But officer I can prove that he's innocent
01:06:52Do as he says
01:07:00But you gotta listen to me I know more about this than either of you we'll talk after the guns on the sink
01:07:15You
01:07:22Where's the other lady that's what I wanted to tell you about her husband and the dead woman
01:07:30I
01:07:42Drowned after he shot you both resisting arrest. Oh, what else can I do?
01:07:59I
01:08:30You killed that it's you
01:08:34You kill that it's you
01:08:43Yes, I did it I killed her
01:08:46When did you kill her that night in Las Vegas in her bedroom?
01:08:50Wow
01:08:51With the leash the dog's leash. I killed him with Tiger's leash. My husband shot himself because of what she did
01:09:00So you picked on me
01:09:04You figured if they found me dead you'd be free
01:09:09You can't go down any further there's concrete underneath
01:09:14Withdrawing the homicide charges sergeants. We heard a confession a couple of other minor items like kidnapping grand theft auto
01:09:23That's the government property among other things
01:09:28I'd get in the car you two
01:09:31I
01:09:33I
01:09:35I
01:09:37I
01:09:39I
01:09:41Get in the car you two
01:09:48So that guy's got a list of felonies against him a mile long
01:09:52We're gonna lose our principal witness, man
01:09:55My wife can't testify against her husband a wife
01:10:05You know Joe
01:10:07Some days I get awful tired of being a cop
01:10:11Yeah
01:10:15You know things may be a little tough before we get the place fixed up how tough can they be with the swimming pool in every
01:10:22room
01:10:24You