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00:01:07You sure about the address, miss?
00:01:09Yes, this is the place.
00:01:11You'll be sure and wait for me now, won't you?
00:01:14Sure, I'll wait.
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00:01:53Come on.
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00:02:15That's funny.
00:02:39Number, please.
00:02:41Oh, I'm at 122 Old Mill Road.
00:02:44This house hasn't 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.
00:02:52I could connect you with a night supervisor,
00:02:54but she'd have to wait until the business office opens in the morning.
00:02:57I'm sorry.
00:03:14Oh!
00:03:24Hmm.
00:03:26All the modern improvements.
00:03:30You might have cleaned the place up a bit.
00:04:00Okay.
00:04:44Oh, yes, of course.
00:04:56Dad sat there.
00:05:01I sat next to him.
00:05:06Mr. Barksdale sat next to me.
00:05:11Aunt Lucille.
00:05:15Uncle John.
00:05:22Harold.
00:05:27Mother.
00:05:31Thor.
00:05:36Marjorie.
00:05:40Uncle Dick.
00:05:44Aunt Joan.
00:05:49Uncle Wayne.
00:05:54And...
00:06:08Mr. Barksdale?
00:06:12Mr. Barksdale, is that you?
00:06:19Mr. Barksdale?
00:06:23Mr. Barksdale?
00:06:26Mr. Barksdale?
00:06:28Police station.
00:06:54Captain Ryan speaking.
00:06:56Yeah?
00:06:57The old Morgan place?
00:06:59He says he drove a youngster out there about 30 minutes ago.
00:07:03Hold the driver. I'll be right over.
00:07:05Okay.
00:07:11Wake up, you dumb-ass muscle, and get going.
00:07:18Come on.
00:07:21Where do we go?
00:07:28Get her in a mackerel.
00:07:30All right.
00:07:37Give me Stuyvesant 9600.
00:07:43You can go.
00:07:45Leave your address. We'll want you later.
00:07:47Yes, sir.
00:07:50What?
00:07:51Well, keep ringing him.
00:08:02Hello?
00:08:03Hello, Phil?
00:08:05This is Ryan.
00:08:06Listen, we've got a swell case down here.
00:08:10I'm not interested.
00:08:24Give me Stuyvesant 9600.
00:08:36When you hear the tone of the gong, it will be exactly 12 o'clock and six split seconds.
00:08:49Ring that number again.
00:08:52Hello, hello, you.
00:08:54Say, what's the idea of putting that name on the phone? I know what time it is.
00:08:57What time is it?
00:08:58Shut up.
00:08:59No, no, no, I don't mean you.
00:09:01Don't hang up.
00:09:02I want you to get over here right away.
00:09:04There's been a murder.
00:09:07I know, but this is a good murder.
00:09:10Listen, 13 years ago, a guy invited all his relatives to dinner.
00:09:16The sap deserved to die.
00:09:21Well, arrest the mother-in-law and don't bother me anymore.
00:09:26Oh, all right, but make it snappy.
00:09:29All right, there was 12 people there.
00:09:31The table was set for 13.
00:09:33The 13th guest never got there.
00:09:35That was 13 years ago.
00:09:37And now tonight we find a day murdered and she's sitting at the table in the 13th chair.
00:09:44Huh?
00:09:45I counted them.
00:09:47She was sitting in the 13th chair.
00:09:49You dumb flatfoot.
00:09:50Who told you where to start counting?
00:09:54Well, go back and count the girls' chair first and let me know how you come out.
00:09:58And give my love to Aunt Sarah.
00:10:09Ring that number again and keep ringing it.
00:10:12And then tell the next supervisor I want to know who had a couple of phones installed at 122 Old Mill Road.
00:10:18If you have to get the whole Bell family out of bed.
00:10:24Yes, sir.
00:10:45I'm Winston, private investigator.
00:10:48Captain Ryan sent for me.
00:10:49Yes, sir.
00:10:50Go right in.
00:10:51And have fun, huh?
00:10:54Yeah.
00:10:59Call up headquarters and tell Clarence I'm sending those prints.
00:11:02Yes, sir.
00:11:03Oh, what's the number?
00:11:05Central 5...
00:11:06You dumb idiot, don't you even know that?
00:11:09Get out and look it up.
00:11:10This will do you good.
00:11:12Yes, sir.
00:11:15Hello, Mr. Winston.
00:11:16We got a swell murder here.
00:11:18Good.
00:11:19And the number you want is Central 5-5000.
00:11:23Huh?
00:11:25Oh, yeah.
00:11:265-5000.
00:11:28Central 5-5000.
00:11:34Well, you certainly took your time.
00:11:37I was busy.
00:11:38Yeah, sure.
00:11:40When you hear the gong, the time will be 12 o'clock and six split seconds.
00:11:47Have a look at this and then I'll introduce you to the lady.
00:11:51This house has been unoccupied for 13 years,
00:11:54yet the phone's installed and the electricity turned on.
00:11:58I'm tracing that.
00:12:01Those books are on the floor.
00:12:10That's all in here.
00:12:11Now come on and have a look at the banquet.
00:12:31The kid sure holds still a little, right?
00:12:33Same old joke.
00:12:35If I had a day off, I'd take up a new one.
00:12:39You can have her now, Doc.
00:12:40Just a minute.
00:12:41I want Winston to have a look.
00:12:43Oh, will you take care of that, Jerry, please?
00:12:44Okay.
00:12:51Too bad, pretty girl.
00:12:53You wouldn't notice that.
00:12:55Seen enough?
00:12:56Yeah.
00:13:00Okay, Doc.
00:13:07Say, how did you know about that dinner party 13 years ago?
00:13:11Oh, every man and his dog knows that story around here.
00:13:15Morgan Sr. dropped dead just after they all sat down at the table.
00:13:21The old lady, she was young then,
00:13:24must have been a little bit cracked herself.
00:13:26She wouldn't allow a thing to be touched.
00:13:29Just closed up the house and moved out, and that's that.
00:13:36And all these guys have been waiting for the dinner ever since.
00:13:41Gives me the willies every time I think of it.
00:13:43Well, don't think then.
00:13:45Do you know who the girl is?
00:13:47Sure.
00:13:48The daughter of Marie Morgan.
00:13:50Had her whole life's history in her handbag, but no address.
00:13:54The 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?
00:14:00No, on the corner.
00:14:02We've been checking up on the apartment house around there now.
00:14:07How was she killed?
00:14:08Hmm.
00:14:09Wait till you hear.
00:14:10The doc hasn't said for sure yet,
00:14:12but it looks like she was electrocuted.
00:14:15Electrocuted?
00:14:16Hmm.
00:14:23I thought of that too.
00:14:25Not a wire on it.
00:14:27That 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...
00:14:42I'll get it.
00:14:49Well, what about that light in the living room?
00:14:52It ain't on.
00:14:53I tried this globe in every socket in the room and it don't work.
00:14:57Oh, maybe the globe's burned out.
00:15:01Never thought of that.
00:15:03Anyway, I don't think I'd go around trying light sockets
00:15:06if I were you.
00:15:08Why?
00:15:09Didn't it occur to you that a young lady was electrocuted here tonight
00:15:13and that she might have been trying light sockets?
00:15:28Hello, operator.
00:15:29See if you can trace that call and ring me back.
00:15:32Make it snappy.
00:15:34Yes, darling.
00:15:35There's been a murder.
00:15:37You can read all about it in the morning papers.
00:15:40She listened in on all the other calls.
00:15:42Why the devil didn't she listen in on that one?
00:15:44What was it?
00:15:45I don't know.
00:15:46I just heard the receiver going up after I answered.
00:15:50Hello, Captain Ryan speaking.
00:15:52Sound Hotel?
00:15:54Thank you, sister.
00:15:56Oh, grunt!
00:15:57Yes, sir.
00:15:59Feed it over to the Sound Hotel and see if you can trace that call.
00:16:02Make a list of all the guests and all the telephone calls after midnight.
00:16:05And don't muff it.
00:16:07And don't go to sleep.
00:16:09Yes, sir.
00:16:10Oh, well, how am I going to get there?
00:16:12You can drive a car, can't you, sweetheart?
00:16:15Take mine and feed it.
00:16:16Yes, sir.
00:16:21Oh, if that guy's uncle don't die soon, I'll be a nervous wreck.
00:16:25Who's the uncle?
00:16:27Just the big boss in the city, that's all.
00:16:29Oh, so that's why he's on the force.
00:16:31You don't suppose because he got any brains?
00:16:33Hey, Cap, come here.
00:16:35Come here a minute.
00:16:36Oh.
00:16:41Come here, Cap.
00:16:43What's the matter now?
00:16:45The car, look at it.
00:16:46It ain't fair.
00:16:48Well, I'll be a son of a...
00:16:50What are you laughing at?
00:16:52Nothing.
00:16:53I just think it's funny.
00:16:55I'm glad you invited me down.
00:16:57Yeah.
00:17:02Come in, boys.
00:17:04Yeah.
00:17:05OK.
00:17:06Sit down.
00:17:08I'll see you in a few minutes.
00:17:10Did they identify the body?
00:17:11Yes, sir.
00:17:13Which one of you is the brother?
00:17:15I am.
00:17:16Friend of yours?
00:17:17Yes.
00:17:18And of my sister.
00:17:21All right, boys, I won't keep you long.
00:17:24Either of you know him?
00:17:25No, sir.
00:17:26No, sir.
00:17:27Yes, we both do.
00:17:29He was my father's lawyer.
00:17:31Is he still handling the estate?
00:17:33Yes.
00:17:34Why?
00:17:35We'll ask the questions if you don't mind, son.
00:17:37Wasn't your father's will a little unusual?
00:17:40It was quite unusual.
00:17:42He provided for my mother, for Marie, and me,
00:17:45and left the bulk of the estate to the 13th guest.
00:17:48Who was that?
00:17:49We don't know.
00:17:51The 13th guest was a young man.
00:17:54Who was that?
00:17:55We don't know.
00:17:56The 13th guest never arrived.
00:17:59Scrooge.
00:18:01Anything else about this guest?
00:18:03No.
00:18:04Except that we always supposed that he'd come forward
00:18:06or be named when we became of age.
00:18:08Well, when will that be?
00:18:10Well...
00:18:12Why, do you suppose that might have had something to do with it?
00:18:15Marie was 21 yesterday.
00:18:17What?
00:18:18Yes.
00:18:19We boxed her collar the other day and told her to...
00:18:21I'm not interested in that.
00:18:22Well, I am.
00:18:23All right. Be interested.
00:18:25Wait a minute. Where are you going?
00:18:27Out. I'll see you later.
00:18:28Say, but...
00:18:29Oh...
00:18:33I suppose you were at that dinner party your father gave?
00:18:35Yes.
00:18:41Where'd your sister sit that night?
00:18:44Why?
00:18:45Beside my father. She always sat there.
00:18:47Which side?
00:18:49On his right.
00:18:53Will you draw me a diagram of that table?
00:18:55Name the people in the seating arrangement.
00:18:57And 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.
00:19:03Well, put down their addresses and leave it with the captain here.
00:19:06Thanks.
00:19:10Do you remember how we sat that night?
00:19:14Yes, I think so.
00:19:16Were you there?
00:19:18Oh, I was visiting there.
00:19:20We were just kids then.
00:19:21But it isn't easy to forget a thing like that dinner party.
00:19:23I suppose not.
00:19:25I'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...
00:19:34Barksdale called her a few days ago and...
00:19:36gave us some instructions.
00:19:38Something she was supposed to do on her 21st birthday.
00:19:41And you don't remember what they were?
00:19:43I know. She wouldn't tell me.
00:19:45And we're supposed to find the answer.
00:19:48Does 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?
00:19:56Why, try and calm down.
00:19:59Take these boys to the next office and give them some paper and pencils.
00:20:02And send Carter in.
00:20:04Yes, sir.
00:20:05You boys better stick around. We might want you.
00:20:07It's too bad, son.
00:20:09Take care of yourself.
00:20:11And what do you mean?
00:20:13Nothing much.
00:20:14You mean, they might go after me?
00:20:16They might.
00:20:18I don't think I'd care if they did.
00:20:20Well, we would.
00:20:21It'd cost the department a lot of dough to investigate a murder.
00:20:24Well, in that case, I'll be careful.
00:20:27Thanks.
00:20:28You've been very considerate today.
00:20:30That's all right, son.
00:20:40Well, what do you think?
00:20:42I can't think. I'm numb.
00:20:45Why the devil does a man have to go through all that hocus-pocus just to leave a will?
00:20:49It burns me up.
00:20:51Well, stop burning.
00:20:52Carter will make you happy.
00:20:53Yeah.
00:20:54Hey, Carter.
00:20:59Let's see what you got.
00:21:00Yes, sir.
00:21:04Here are the deposit slips of the telephones and lights.
00:21:06Ordered by one John Barksdale.
00:21:08Barksdale.
00:21:09So that's where you got it, huh?
00:21:11Feel better now?
00:21:12I'll say.
00:21:13Wait till I lay my hands on this guy.
00:21:16Also, a man answering to Barksdale's description
00:21:18registered at the Sound Hotel last night about 9.30
00:21:21under the name of Perry
00:21:22and at 1.22 put in a call to Douglas and 968
00:21:26then checked out of his hotel immediately after.
00:21:28Now, he hasn't been home since
00:21:30and he hasn't shown up in his office yet
00:21:32and his folks are beginning to worry.
00:21:34Well, now, isn't that too bad?
00:21:36Tell them they can see him on Visitor's Day.
00:21:39Let's go.
00:21:40Pardon me, sir.
00:21:41I managed to dig this up out of the Daily Herald files.
00:21:45That's Barksdale.
00:21:47Swell.
00:21:48Let's send that out at once.
00:21:50Okay.
00:21:51Put a couple of the boys and those two kids in there.
00:21:53They may be all right and, again, they may not.
00:21:55Yes, sir.
00:21:56Anything else for me, sir?
00:21:57No, but stick around.
00:21:58Okay.
00:22:04Calling all cars.
00:22:05Calling all cars.
00:22:07Stand by for a description of one John Barksdale.
00:22:10Wanted for questioning on the Morgan murder case.
00:22:13Last seen on Long Island driving a Packard Touring.
00:22:16License unknown.
00:22:18Description.
00:22:19Fifty years.
00:22:21Six feet.
00:22:22Gray hair.
00:22:23Eyes brown.
00:22:25That is all.
00:22:40All right.
00:23:10All right.
00:23:41Hello?
00:23:44Hello!
00:23:46Ring the doorbell, John.
00:23:52Hello?
00:23:58I will be back soon.
00:24:02All right.
00:24:05, Very good.
00:24:07All right.
00:24:08All right.
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00:26:07What was that?
00:26:08Oh!
00:26:24So I'd like to know who put all them books there.
00:26:27So would I.
00:26:30Did 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.
00:26:45You come here.
00:26:46Where are you?
00:26:47In the dining room.
00:26:49Oh.
00:27:02Is he dead?
00:27:05It's Barksdale.
00:27:07Can you beat that?
00:27:10Search the 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.
00:27:31Yeah.
00:27:34Here's the diagram young Morgan drew today.
00:27:38Take a look at the seating arrangement.
00:27:41First we find the girl's body in the chair that she sat in that night.
00:27:45And now this.
00:27:49Are you beginning to get the idea?
00:27:52Gee, yes.
00:27:54Yes.
00:27:57Be gods, Phil.
00:27:59Are they going to line this table with stiffs?
00:28:02That's the way it looks unless we do something.
00:28:05But...
00:28:06But that's crazy.
00:28:08It very nearly confirms one thing though.
00:28:11The person doing it was at the table that night.
00:28:24I'll get it, boss.
00:28:41Cap!
00:28:43Phil! Cap! Cap!
00:28:45What's the matter now?
00:28:47No.
00:28:55No.
00:29:02How did you get out of the morgue?
00:29:05I haven't been in any morgue.
00:29:21Take your hands off me.
00:29:23Be nice.
00:29:24I won't. Let 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?
00:29:43I asked this child here if she were Marie Morgan.
00:29:45I'm no child.
00:29:46Will you shut up?
00:29:47And she said yes. And she said yes.
00:29:50I don't know. Maybe it's something I ate.
00:29:52And this is the nightmare.
00:29:54Where did you pick her up?
00:29:56I found her riding around in your car.
00:29:58In my...
00:29:59I was on my way to the police station.
00:30:00Yes, and baby, you're still on your way to the police station.
00:30:03Take her down and lock her up.
00:30:04I've got some things I want to ask her about.
00:30:06You can't arrest me.
00:30:07Oh, can't I?
00:30:08That's what they all say.
00:30:10Maybe it's all a mistake.
00:30:12And 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.
00:30:16All right, baby.
00:30:18Come and see your lawyer.
00:30:23Let's hope for a good look.
00:30:34Murdered?
00:30:35That's right. Do you know anything about it?
00:30:37No.
00:30:38No, of course not.
00:30:42What can this mean?
00:30:44That's what we're going to find out.
00:30:46Take her and lock her in the library until 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...
00:31:11Why did you ask that girl if she was Marie Morgan?
00:31:14I think she is.
00:31:16What about the other day?
00:31:17There are no twins.
00:31:18No.
00:31:19But 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.
00:31:27I 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.
00:31:40And you beat it back to the morgue to have another look.
00:31:43That's right.
00:31:44And took a good plastic surgeon with me.
00:31:46She hadn't had her face lifted.
00:31:48She'd had it completely made over.
00:31:50Well, I'll be...
00:31:53Now that commences to make sense.
00:31:57Barksdale made an appointment with the real Marie Morgan to meet him here.
00:32:03They planned to kill her and substitute the other girl, huh?
00:32:06Who planned to kill her?
00:32:08Huh?
00:32:10Barksdale made the appointment?
00:32:12Yes.
00:32:13But if Barksdale was in on it, which he may have been,
00:32:16who killed the gentleman on your right?
00:32:20Little Bo Peep.
00:32:39Operating.
00:33:10I wouldn't do that if I were you.
00:33:12The police might not like it.
00:33:14I was only trying to call my brother.
00:33:16We'll call him later.
00:33:18You're going to take a ride with me.
00:33:21Where to?
00:33:22To my apartment.
00:33:24She'd be safer in jail.
00:33:27Don't worry, she won't get away.
00:33:29I didn't mean that.
00:33:30I said she'd be safer in jail.
00:33:33And you may go to the devil.
00:33:36And you may go to the devil.
00:33:49Mr. Adams, Mr. Winston.
00:33:54Why, my dear child.
00:33:57Why, I'm almost afraid to touch you.
00:34:00What 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? I'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? Scotch and soda?
00:34:19Sprinted, thanks. Easy on the soda.
00:34:32There you are.
00:34:35If you want my opinion, it's Uncle Adams who's been committing all the murders.
00:34:39All the murders?
00:34:42Mr. Boxdale was murdered today in the old house.
00:34:46Boxdale? My word.
00:34:49Not that I ever liked the old devil, you understand, but...
00:34:52But murders?
00:34:54What's the meaning of it, Mr. Winston?
00:34:56You're investigating the case, I suppose?
00:34:58Unofficially. I'm a friend of Captain Ryan.
00:35:00Yes, yes, of course. I've heard of you.
00:35:02Do you have any clues? Don't you call them any ideas?
00:35:05No, but he has a laugh for you.
00:35:09Really? Well, let's have it.
00:35:11You're next.
00:35:12What?
00:35:14According to Mr. Winston's theory, you're next on the list.
00:35:18Unless, of course, you've been doing the murders yourself.
00:35:22Really, Marie, you boys have the most peculiar sense of humor.
00:35:28Let's be some more of the family.
00:35:31I'm doing the resurrection act.
00:35:34And enjoying it fairly, if I know you.
00:35:37You certainly startled me.
00:35:40Did I?
00:35:43Mr. and Mrs. Thornton, Mr. Winston and Mrs. Thornton.
00:35:46How do you do? How do you do?
00:35:48If you'll explain your reasons.
00:35:50Well, for heaven's sake, I thought you were dead.
00:35:53Disappointed?
00:35:55Well, why be a hypocrite? You know I've always hated your margin.
00:35:58If you say that word again, I'll disown you.
00:36:01What a loss.
00:36:07Is this for private use only? I suppose you're Winston.
00:36:11At your service.
00:36:13I may take you up on that.
00:36:18If this is another one of your jokes, Marie, I must say it's in bad taste.
00:36:22I've been simply prostrated all day.
00:36:25What do you have?
00:36:26Bridge always tires mother.
00:36:28Marjorie.
00:36:33May I answer it?
00:36:34Certainly.
00:36:37Let me search it in here.
00:36:42Bud!
00:36:49Marie, it is you.
00:36:52Oh, my dear.
00:36:54They tried to kill me.
00:36:57Are you glad I'm alive?
00:36:59Am I glad?
00:37:01I think you are.
00:37:04But 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.
00:37:23That's just as good.
00:37:27Come on in.
00:37:28Mr. Winston has the whole family here.
00:37:30He says one of them is the murderer.
00:37:32I'm giving odds on Uncle Adams.
00:37:34Uncle Adams?
00:37:35He's too lazy to commit a murder.
00:37:38But tell me, darling, what happened to you?
00:37:40I'll tell you later.
00:37:44Well, here we are.
00:37:46Just one big happy family.
00:37:49Oh, hello, Thor.
00:37:50Who was that blonde I saw you with the other night?
00:37:53There was no blonde, and you know it.
00:37:55Oh, well.
00:37:56Dear Marjorie, your soul must look like the inside of a vinegar bottle.
00:38:01By Jove, it's a good idea.
00:38:03I wish I had thought of it myself.
00:38:04What's that?
00:38:05Killing off a family.
00:38:06It must be some poor soul that had the misfortune to dine with us when we were all together.
00:38:10I think you're right.
00:38:11Someone who dined with you 13 years ago.
00:38:14Really?
00:38:16Oh, you mean the night that John read that stupid will.
00:38:20And then died.
00:38:23Well, mercy, don't ogle me.
00:38:25I didn't kill him.
00:38:27No one killed him, as far as we know.
00:38:31Does anyone here know the present whereabouts of Wayne Seymour?
00:38:37The last time I saw him, I got an impression that he was going to spend the rest of his days at Number 9, Yokohama.
00:38:44Do you know your Yokohama, Mr. Winston?
00:38:46I've traveled a bit.
00:38:48With the exception of Wayne Seymour, you people were the only guests at that dinner who are still alive.
00:38:54Well, and we're dead from the neck up.
00:38:56Speak for yourself, John.
00:38:58I'll speak if you don't mind.
00:39:00Go 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.
00:39:07I'm afraid this isn't a joking matter.
00:39:09It 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?
00:39:18Yes, a girl mistaken for Miss Morgan and John Barksdale.
00:39:23Mr. Barksdale 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.
00:39:33And as Captain Ryan so elegantly describes it, the murderer intends to line the table with stips.
00:39:40Oh, how vulgar.
00:39:42Well, thank goodness I was under the table most of the time.
00:39:46Yes, pinching me.
00:39:48Oh, I was a cute youngster, always full of fun.
00:39:51Someday I'll look at your baby pictures, but just now we're discussing murder.
00:39:55Which automatically makes one think of Marjorie.
00:39:58Speak for yourself, John.
00:40:00Shall we go on with this, or just turn it into a family reunion?
00:40:04Well, why not have a blindfold test?
00:40:06Wouldn't matter which one you picked.
00:40:08We'd all cut each other's throats for a dime.
00:40:10Why a dime?
00:40:12I'd cut yours for fun.
00:40:20Give me police headquarters.
00:40:22Detective Bureau, Captain Brown's office.
00:40:24Well, it isn't every day you get a chance to see a mastermind at work.
00:40:28Hello. Who's this speaking?
00:40:30Oh, this is Winston.
00:40:33Send the wagon to my apartment.
00:40:35And issue...
00:40:39Four John Doe and three Jane Doe warrants.
00:40:43Material witnesses in the Morgan case.
00:40:46Right.
00:40:47I've got them here.
00:40:51Really, 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.
00:41:09Now then, do you want to stop trying to be clever, or do you want to spend the night in jail?
00:41:14Well, really, do the men have separate wards from the women?
00:41:18I think you've settled it then, young lady.
00:41:20Night in jail may make you people see that murder isn't amusing.
00:41:28This 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.
00:41:39He doesn't like it.
00:41:40Don't be a lot of fools. He 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.
00:41:50Yes.
00:41:51Yes, all signed and in order.
00:41:53All right.
00:41:54Take these people down and lock them up.
00:41:56Yes, sir.
00:41:57All right, step lively.
00:41:58I 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.
00:42:12Good night.
00:42:19Mr. Winston, please.
00:42:20Good night, my dear, and sweet dreams.
00:42:39Darn.
00:42:43Hello.
00:42:44Come on down, dearie.
00:42:46We've got another corpse.
00:42:49What?
00:42:50But the family's all locked up.
00:42:52Yeah, sure.
00:42:53You're a smart guy.
00:42:58I don't know.
00:42:59I'm not over yet.
00:43:00You coming down?
00:43:02Okay.
00:43:13Get me the police station.
00:43:17Hello.
00:43:18Give me the desk sergeant, the city jail.
00:43:20Yeah.
00:43:23Hello.
00:43:24This is Winston, private investigator on the Morgan case.
00:43:28I sent down seven of the upper crust for you.
00:43:31Will you send somebody in and see if they're all there?
00:43:33Yes, sir.
00:43:35Hey, Mike.
00:43:36Take a look at the 400 and see if they're all there.
00:43:39Okay, Sergeant.
00:43:43Okay.
00:44:03What's the matter with her?
00:44:05Who cares?
00:44:13Don't touch her, Marjorie.
00:44:16Hey.
00:44:17What's the matter?
00:44:23What?
00:44:26What?
00:44:29She says that you remind her of her mother.
00:44:32Oh.
00:44:36What?
00:44:37Mike down.
00:44:38You can't do this.
00:44:43I demand...
00:44:44Yes, I know.
00:44:45You're going to write a letter to the commissioner.
00:44:47I won't stay in here another moment.
00:44:53Say, what are you trying to do?
00:44:54Rip me?
00:44:55Dear me, no.
00:44:56Say, if you guys don't dump me up, there's going to be a murder.
00:44:59Well, that's what we're here for.
00:45:01Two murders.
00:45:02He did them.
00:45:03What?
00:45:04Hey, pipe down.
00:45:05Yeah, officer.
00:45:06I demand...
00:45:07Oh, go read your ticker.
00:45:08I want to know what Steele's doing.
00:45:12All there, sergeant.
00:45:14Okay.
00:45:16All there, Mr. Winston.
00:45:18Okay, thanks.
00:45:19Oh, wait a minute.
00:45:21Turn them all loose, but put a man on each one of them.
00:45:24Now, I'll be responsible.
00:45:32I'll be responsible.
00:45:34I'll be responsible.
00:45:36I'll be responsible.
00:45:38I'll be responsible.
00:45:40I'll be responsible.
00:46:11Over here.
00:46:13Then goes no place at all.
00:46:15I've scoured the whole house.
00:46:17Now, the 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.
00:46:27All right, Bill.
00:46:29Make it snappy.
00:46:30Yeah, cut it right there.
00:46:41What do you make of that, huh?
00:46:45I wonder.
00:47:11Steel.
00:47:13Great guns.
00:47:15Nothing rubber about that.
00:47:19Come on, let us get out of here.
00:47:26I've seen sights, but that way.
00:47:31Rather a neat way of doing it, though, huh?
00:47:34I don't think it's neat.
00:47:37Rather a neat way of doing it, though, huh?
00:47:39I don't think it's neat.
00:47:41As fiendish as the devil.
00:47:43Do 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, he 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.
00:48:03Which are the most likely?
00:48:04Well, the odds are about even.
00:48:06There'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 an old devil as I've ever seen.
00:48:18But Thornton's deep.
00:48:19You know, the big businessman who'd stop at nothing.
00:48:22What about the brother and his boyfriend?
00:48:25I think they're all right.
00:48:27Jensen's in love with the girl, and her brother seems genuinely fond of her.
00:48:31And what's the girl's story?
00:48:33She says someone shot at her in the dark.
00:48:35She ran upstairs and hid.
00:48:36And by the way, she 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.
00:48:46And what else did she do besides steal my car?
00:48:50Well, she said she came back down, was about to beat it out the front door
00:48:54when 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.
00:49:16Foxdale asked her out here?
00:49:18Yes.
00:49:19And what they were all after, I think,
00:49:21was a slip of paper that she'd got that day at the bank.
00:49:24Which doesn't make much sense, of course, unless it's a safe combination.
00:49:28What was it?
00:49:29Thirteen, thirteen, thirteen.
00:49:31Thirteen.
00:49:35I'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.
00:49:53Though 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.
00:50:02I've got a hunch it's the missing uncle.
00:50:05I'm going to call Miss Morgan.
00:50:07Call the coroner too, will you?
00:50:09I'm kind of ashamed of him because
00:50:11I've bothered him so much lately.
00:50:17If this is the kind of service I'm going to get, I'm going to get killed every day.
00:50:21I'll get it.
00:50:25Hello.
00:50:27Mr. Blaine's apartment.
00:50:29How'd you like our city jail?
00:50:34Listen, child.
00:50:36I want you to destroy that strip of paper at once.
00:50:39And don't tell anyone what was written on it.
00:50:41Not even your brother.
00:50:43But...
00:50:45But...
00:50:47No one's accusing your brother.
00:50:50Say, listen, don't you get too smart.
00:50:53You know there's a distinct prejudice in the police department
00:50:56against little girls who go around stealing police cards.
00:51:01Oh, you're not?
00:51:03Well, 21's a mere drop in the bucket.
00:51:10Say, will you shut up and let me talk?
00:51:13Now listen, don't tell anyone those numbers.
00:51:16And if anyone tries to get them out of you, let me know immediately.
00:51:19Will you do that?
00:51:21Like a sweet little girl.
00:51:24That was the great sleuth, Winston.
00:51:26Yeah, what did he want?
00:51:28He told me not to tell anybody the numbers on that slip of paper.
00:51:32What numbers?
00:51:3413, 13, 13.
00:51:38Oh, gosh.
00:51:40Trust a woman.
00:51:42Oh, well, for goodness sake, don't tell him I told you.
00:51:45All right, we won't.
00:51:53Let's go.
00:52:24Shame on you, looking at those things.
00:52:27Huh?
00:52:29Why don't you have luncheon with me?
00:52:31It'll be more comfortable than standing out here.
00:52:34How'd you know I was following you?
00:52:36Have you ever been to the zoo?
00:52:38Sure.
00:52:40Did you see the elephants?
00:52:42Yeah.
00:52:44Well, that's how you know I've been to the zoo.
00:52:46Well, that's how you know I've been to the zoo.
00:52:49Sure.
00:52:51Did you see the elephants?
00:52:53Yeah.
00:52:55Well, that's how I know.
00:52:57Huh?
00:52:59I'm afraid you're not very bright,
00:53:01but you may come in handy.
00:53:03I'm about to go calling.
00:53:05Would you like to come along?
00:53:07I gotta go wherever you go.
00:53:09Is that a theme song
00:53:11or just your quaint way of saying things?
00:53:13Oh, well, I...
00:53:15You'd better ride with me.
00:53:17I'm looking back at you.
00:53:19Come on.
00:53:23Of course,
00:53:25just looking at you may give me a pain in the neck.
00:53:28Ha.
00:53:30Get in.
00:53:41Okay, 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
00:53:50with Grump.
00:53:52Grump? He's tailing the Thornton girl.
00:53:54Tailing her? He's riding in the limousine with her.
00:53:56What?
00:54:00I'd give a hundred bucks to see that.
00:54:04Come in.
00:54:06There's a Dr. Sherwood outside.
00:54:08Says he has some information on the Morgan case.
00:54:11Dr. Sherwood?
00:54:13Yes, sir. Send him in.
00:54:15I hope he's our man.
00:54:18Hi, Doctor.
00:54:19Captain Brown?
00:54:20How do you do?
00:54:21Won't you sit down?
00:54:22Here you are.
00:54:24I hope you're a plastic surgeon.
00:54:26I see you're ahead of me.
00:54:28I am, as a matter of fact.
00:54:30And 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
00:54:36that the wrong girl had been killed.
00:54:38When did you operate on her?
00:54:39Several months ago.
00:54:41Three, as a matter of fact.
00:54:43She and her brother came to me.
00:54:44What?
00:54:46Well, she said he was her brother.
00:54:48What name did they give?
00:54:50Morgan.
00:54:51Morgan.
00:54:53May I take Dr. Sherwood over to Miss Morgan's apartment?
00:54:55Okay.
00:54:56You could identify the brother, couldn't you?
00:54:58Oh, certainly. He came to me twice.
00:55:00Fine. Let's go.
00:55:02Goodbye, Captain Brown.
00:55:03Goodbye, Doctor, and thank you.
00:55:14Oh, hello.
00:55:16Come in, Doctor.
00:55:21That your man?
00:55:23No.
00:55:25Say, 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 have a 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?
00:55:41Why, no.
00:55:42You didn't call her?
00:55:43No, I tell you. What's it all about?
00:55:47I just got in. She left this.
00:56:08What is it?
00:56:10Oh, get a picture of Jensen. Show it to the doctor, will you please?
00:56:15Hello, operator.
00:56:16Get me Douglas and 968. Hurry it.
00:56:24That's the one.
00:56:26Hurry with that call.
00:56:40Hello.
00:57:04Hello.
00:57:10Hello.
00:57:31Hello.
00:57:33Oh, yes.
00:57:34Now listen, child.
00:57:36Don't get in a panic, but get out of the house as quick as you can.
00:57:39Is an officer guarding it?
00:57:40Yes.
00:57:41He 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.
00:57:48Just get the officer to drive you to the Douglas and police station and wait for me there.
00:57:52Now beat it.
00:57:53All right.
00:58:06Where's Miss Morgan?
00:58:07Hasn't she been here?
00:58:08No, no one's been here.
00:58:10You come with me. I may need you.
00:58:12No, wait. Stay here.
00:58:13Tell Ryan to beat it over to the Morgan house as soon as he gets here.
00:58:16Yes, sir.
00:58:25Isn't she there?
00:58:26No.
00:58:39He'll come around, all right.
00:58:41Come on.
00:58:42Go quietly.
00:59:08Come on.
00:59:38Please.
00:59:54Look out.
00:59:57Come on, here.
00:59:58Cut it out.
00:59:59Cut it out.
01:00:00Come on.
01:00:01Kill her.
01:00:02Kill them all.
01:00:03Come on.
01:00:04Cut it out.
01:00:06What did you do with my sister?
01:00:07Here, cut it out.
01:00:08Come on.
01:00:09Get up.
01:00:12Go let him in.
01:00:17Now then.
01:00:18What have you done with Miss Morgan?
01:00:20Come on now.
01:00:21Make a snappy.
01:00:22Miss Morgan?
01:00:23I don't know.
01:00:24Where is she?
01:00:25What's this?
01:00:26Just a swell species of skunk.
01:00:27Now, come on.
01:00:28Tell me.
01:00:29What have you done with her?
01:00:30I tell you, I...
01:00:31Did you call her and tell her to meet me here?
01:00:33No, I swear I didn't.
01:00:34We know all about Sherwood and the other girls,
01:00:36so you may as well tell us the rest.
01:00:38Who was in on this with you?
01:00:43Barksdale.
01:00:44So you killed her and then Barksdale,
01:00:46so you wouldn't have to split, huh?
01:00:47No, I don't know who killed them.
01:00:48I swear it.
01:00:50Pick up that phone.
01:00:53No, no.
01:00:54Why not?
01:00:56Because that's the way Lela got it.
01:00:58You were there that night.
01:00:59Did you kill her?
01:01:00No, I saw her after...
01:01:01After shooting at Miss Morgan?
01:01:05No, no.
01:01:06I didn't.
01:01:07Now you're a liar.
01:01:09Go on.
01:01:10Take him down and lock him up.
01:01:12Come on.
01:01:16But Phil...
01:01:17I tell you, Ryan, it doesn't make good sense.
01:01:19Why go to all the trouble to impersonate someone
01:01:21and then kill the impersonator?
01:01:23Jensen tried to kill Miss Morgan,
01:01:25but somebody else killed the girl
01:01:27thinking it was Miss Morgan.
01:01:28Jensen knew the difference.
01:01:30There have been two different factions
01:01:32working in this against each other.
01:01:35What?
01:01:36But where's...
01:01:37Exactly.
01:01:42Get an axe.
01:01:43Break that wall in.
01:01:44Right.
01:01:45And son,
01:01:46you'd better go on back to the station.
01:01:48Why?
01:01:49Because I don't think your sister's going to be alive
01:01:51when we find her.
01:01:55I don't know!
01:01:56Tell me!
01:01:58No!
01:01:59Do you know what they are?
01:02:00Do you know what they are?
01:02:02Tell me!
01:02:03Tell me!
01:02:06I know, but...
01:02:08If you kill me, you'll never know!
01:02:10You little fool!
01:02:11Don't you know that I'll kill you anyway?
01:02:19Tell me!
01:02:21Stop!
01:02:22All right!
01:02:24Thirteen, thirteen...
01:02:28You'd better not be lying!
01:02:30No!
01:03:00Come on!
01:03:18Come on!
01:03:20Come on!
01:03:21Smash it!
01:03:30Come on!
01:03:35Here, give me that axe, will you?
01:03:38Come on, boy.
01:03:39That's it.
01:04:01He's not going to save!
01:04:02He's not going to save!
01:04:04He's not going to save!
01:04:06He's not going to save!
01:04:08I'm not going to save!
01:04:10It's not funny!
01:04:15It's a swell joke.
01:04:17Come on!
01:04:18Come on!
01:04:19Get out of here!
01:04:20Come on!
01:04:30Come on!
01:04:41Got a patent on that little electrical device of yours, Adams?
01:04:44No, I'm sorry to say.
01:04:46I haven't.
01:04:47Well, I wouldn't worry about it if I were you.
01:04:51The state's got something that works along the same lines.
01:04:55And we're going to give you an exclusive demonstration.
01:04:58Take him out!
01:04:59Come on, move!
01:05:03Won't they let you into that safety deposit box?
01:05:05Sure.
01:05:06What did you find?
01:05:07Only a million dollars in securities for her.
01:05:09A million?
01:05:11How 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.
01:05:27Can you imagine that?
01:05:28I was it all the time.
01:05:43The poor lamb.
01:05:46Read it.
01:05:47Allowed?
01:05:48Why, yes.
01:05:49Why, 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,
01:05:59it 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.
01:06:14It's sad, but it's also darn good advice.
01:06:18What?
01:06:19Not to marry into a screwy family.
01:06:28How are you?
01:06:36Tell me where you've been.
01:06:39Well, first I went...
01:06:47Well, you told me to tailor.
01:07:17Hello?
01:07:33Hello.
01:07:34Hello, Phil. This is Ryan.
01:07:37Listen, I've got another swell...
01:07:40I'm not interested.
01:07:47When you hear the tone of the gong, it will be exactly twelve o'clock and six split seconds.
01:08:04When you hear the tone of the gong, it will be exactly twelve o'clock and six split seconds.
01:08:18Hello?
01:08:20Ring Stuyvesant 9600 and keep ringing it.
01:08:25And when you've done that, well...
01:08:28well, ring it some more.
01:08:47The End