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Anne Baxter and Richard Conte star in Fritz Lang’s classic film noir about a woman caught in a deadly web of murder, suspicion, and betrayal.
Directed by legendary filmmaker Fritz Lang, The Blue Gardenia (1953) is a gripping film noir starring Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern, and Raymond Burr.
When lonely telephone operator Norah Larkin (Anne Baxter) goes on a date with playboy columnist Harry Prebble (Raymond Burr), the evening turns dark after unwanted advances and a drunken blackout. The next morning, Harry is found murdered—and Norah becomes the prime suspect. With a relentless reporter (Richard Conte) chasing the truth, Norah must uncover what really happened before it’s too late.
Filled with shadows, tension, and Lang’s signature noir style, The Blue Gardenia is a powerful crime drama about vulnerability, guilt, and survival in the city at night.
Directed by legendary filmmaker Fritz Lang, The Blue Gardenia (1953) is a gripping film noir starring Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern, and Raymond Burr.
When lonely telephone operator Norah Larkin (Anne Baxter) goes on a date with playboy columnist Harry Prebble (Raymond Burr), the evening turns dark after unwanted advances and a drunken blackout. The next morning, Harry is found murdered—and Norah becomes the prime suspect. With a relentless reporter (Richard Conte) chasing the truth, Norah must uncover what really happened before it’s too late.
Filled with shadows, tension, and Lang’s signature noir style, The Blue Gardenia is a powerful crime drama about vulnerability, guilt, and survival in the city at night.
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00:01:30Hey, Sleepy, pick me up here at one o'clock.
00:01:36Pick you up here at one o'clock.
00:01:41Where?
00:01:41Age?
00:01:47Age?
00:01:48Middle, uh, twenties.
00:02:05Nationality, Chicago.
00:02:07My phone number is Granite 1466.
00:02:10I'll check with my numerologist before I call.
00:02:17What is it about you newspaper men?
00:02:19I've been trying to get her phone number for a week.
00:02:21You didn't even have to ask for it.
00:02:23It's all yours.
00:02:25Granite 1466.
00:02:26You're not going to put it in your column, are you?
00:02:29I'd be swamped with calls.
00:02:31What's wrong with that?
00:02:33Yeah, what is wrong with that?
00:02:35It's the lunch break, Mr. Mayor.
00:02:36Would you like to see the switchboard?
00:02:38Oh, sure.
00:02:39Thanks, Miss Carpenter.
00:02:40See you in a favor.
00:02:42See you, Crystal.
00:02:43All the long-distance calls for the downtown Los Angeles area come through this room.
00:02:50Los Angeles.
00:02:53Uh-oh, my roommates.
00:02:55Art class is over.
00:02:57Oh, be a good girl and give me another minute, will you?
00:02:59Well, I've heard that before.
00:03:01Sorry, no posing overtime.
00:03:02Try me some night.
00:03:03With pleasure.
00:03:06That's not what I meant.
00:03:08Crystal, it looks just like you.
00:03:10Oh, is that good?
00:03:11Would you like to see some more of my work?
00:03:13You're wasting your time, Rembrandt.
00:03:15She's got a boyfriend in Korea.
00:03:17A long way off Korea.
00:03:18Yes, a long way off.
00:03:20But he wouldn't want you to get too lonely, would he?
00:03:23He wouldn't want you to get too friendly, either.
00:03:30Sally.
00:03:32Sally!
00:03:35Oh!
00:03:42All finished with Granite 1466?
00:03:45Or do you still get a busy signal?
00:03:46Mr. Trevo, call for you in the office.
00:03:49A girl.
00:03:49Thanks.
00:03:51I've got more numbers than the phone company.
00:03:56How's the wolf been doing with all the little red riding hoods?
00:03:59Great.
00:04:00If you ask him.
00:04:00I've told you not to call me here.
00:04:09I was busy last night working.
00:04:17I don't believe you, Harry.
00:04:19You haven't worked three nights in a row in your life.
00:04:22I've got to see you and talk to you.
00:04:24Rose, I'm tied up now.
00:04:26Call me later at home.
00:04:28How can I?
00:04:29You changed your number, and I can't get her from the operator.
00:04:31You have to help me, Harry.
00:04:35I just can't talk now.
00:04:38Take it easy.
00:04:39I'll be seeing him.
00:04:39Mackey?
00:04:52Isn't it wonderful?
00:04:53I'm glad you got black.
00:04:55It'll look good on any of us.
00:04:56You don't mind if I wear it first for one night?
00:05:00Aren't you ever going to open that letter?
00:05:02Right after the champagne.
00:05:04Champagne? You bought champagne for yourself?
00:05:07No, not for myself.
00:05:09You don't understand, Sally.
00:05:11I know. It's your birthday, and that's fine.
00:05:14Every girl ought to have birthdays, up to a certain point.
00:05:17The flowers.
00:05:19Well, will you tell Crystal to clean up the bathroom,
00:05:21and I'll take her turn ironing tomorrow.
00:05:23It'll wind up like it always does, with me doing everything.
00:05:26Oh, I'm so sorry. Did I hurt you?
00:05:30Oh, I think my secret iliac shifted two points south.
00:05:35Oh, Crystal.
00:05:37Which may be an improvement.
00:05:41I'll get it.
00:05:46My cigarette.
00:05:47Just a minute. I'm coming.
00:05:54Hello?
00:05:56If that's for me, I'm in. No matter who it is.
00:06:00It's for you.
00:06:02Yeah?
00:06:05A man.
00:06:09Hello.
00:06:09Yes, this is Sally Ellis.
00:06:13Tonight?
00:06:14Oh, of course.
00:06:16Well, you don't know how I've waited for this.
00:06:18I'll be right over. Bye.
00:06:20Sally.
00:06:22There's no way to talk to a man.
00:06:25And it was a man.
00:06:26It was the rental library down at the drugstore.
00:06:29They just got in the new Mickey Mallet mystery.
00:06:31Oh, it's all about a beautiful, red-haired debutante who gets hit in the head, stabbed in the back, shot in the stomach.
00:06:41Pow!
00:06:42Pretty badly hurt.
00:06:44She staggers down the stairs.
00:06:45I know all that.
00:06:45You haven't even read it yet.
00:06:46Oh, but that's what they're all about.
00:06:50Lucky girl.
00:06:52Living a life of passion and violence.
00:06:55Now me, I've got my life with Homer.
00:06:58Drive-in dinner, drive-in movie, and afterwards we go for a drive.
00:07:02It's still better than a dime-store novel, Crystal.
00:07:04Eh.
00:07:05You know, you don't appreciate Homer.
00:07:08I don't know what exactly they are, but he has a lot of good qualities.
00:07:13I never could understand why you two broke up.
00:07:18Homer's so affectionate.
00:07:19Well, I didn't think so when we were married.
00:07:22But now that we're divorced, I'm beginning to like the big lug.
00:07:25Homer always had a husband's faults.
00:07:28But now he has a boyfriend's virtues.
00:07:31Yeah?
00:07:31Oh, you.
00:07:37If you've been listening, just forget what you heard.
00:07:41Okay.
00:07:42Hello.
00:07:46Happy birthday.
00:07:47Thank you, Homer.
00:07:53Oh, that's sweet of you.
00:07:55Thanks.
00:07:56Well, aren't you going to open it?
00:07:58Why?
00:07:59Don't you know what's in it?
00:08:00The roast!
00:08:01Oh!
00:08:15That's a roast?
00:08:17It shrunk.
00:08:19It's big enough for two.
00:08:21Are you still playing games?
00:08:23Now, look, Homer.
00:08:24You have Crystal here.
00:08:25But like someone said today, career's a long way off.
00:08:29And if I can't have him here, I can pretend I have him.
00:08:32It's none of my business, Nora, but why stay in night after night, eating your heart out for some guy who...
00:08:37He isn't some guy who.
00:08:39He's one of a couple of hundred thousand.
00:08:42And I happen to love him.
00:08:43It's fun for me to...
00:08:44To let yourself go to seed?
00:08:46There are lots of guys who take you out for laughs.
00:08:49No monkey business.
00:08:50I would myself if it wasn't for...
00:08:51What?
00:08:52Oh, Crystal, I was just...
00:08:54Come on, Homer.
00:08:55Leave her alone.
00:08:56Let's go.
00:08:57That horse I could eat is getting cold.
00:09:01You sure you won't go with it, honey?
00:09:03This isn't much of a birthday.
00:09:05I told you, Crystal.
00:09:06It's the way I want it.
00:09:07Have a good time.
00:09:08Happy birthday again.
00:09:09Thanks.
00:09:10Happy birthday, darling.
00:09:11Did you get paid today?
00:09:15Yeah.
00:09:15Oh, well, come on, darling.
00:09:19Bye.
00:09:19Toodle-oo.
00:09:20Bye-bye.
00:09:21Have fun.
00:09:21Bye-bye.
00:09:51Bye-bye.
00:10:21Hello, darling.
00:10:39Hello, darling.
00:10:51Dear Nora, you've probably learned by now that I'm not so hot as a letter writer.
00:11:03I remember when we were kids in Bakersfield and I worked vacations in San Joaquin Valley.
00:11:08You used to bawl me out for not writing.
00:11:10Well, I guess I've gotten worse.
00:11:14But that doesn't mean I haven't been thinking about you a lot and also thinking about someone else, Nora.
00:11:20Angela, a nurse I met in Tokyo when I took a load of Kami Shwakno with me.
00:11:27Angela, that's her name, supplied the strength and the courage and everything else to pull me through.
00:11:33I didn't want it to happen, but there's nothing a guy can do about the real McCoy, and that's what this is.
00:11:40We're in love, and when I get out, we're going to be married.
00:11:43That's the story, Nora.
00:11:48I guess there's nothing else to say except I hope you'll understand.
00:11:54With affection, always, and best wishes for your future.
00:11:59Best wishes for your future.
00:12:17Yours very sincerely.
00:12:21Yours very truly.
00:12:29Hello?
00:12:53Hiya, honey.
00:12:54At dinner yet?
00:12:57No.
00:12:59Who is this?
00:13:00Harry Preble.
00:13:02I'm taking you up on the suggestion you made this morning.
00:13:06Suggestion?
00:13:07What suggestion?
00:13:09When you were posing for me, remember?
00:13:12How about slipping into something comfortable like a few drinks and some Chinese food?
00:13:17I'm sorry, Mr. Preble.
00:13:19I think you made a mistake.
00:13:21We'll discuss my mistakes over those cocktails.
00:13:24What do you say?
00:13:26Hop in a cab and meet me at the Blue Gardenia.
00:13:29All right.
00:13:32I will.
00:13:34Yes.
00:13:36The Blue Gardenia.
00:13:38On Vine, right off Hollywood.
00:13:39You got it?
00:13:40I've got it.
00:13:41You've got what?
00:13:44Just someone on the phone.
00:13:46So I gathered.
00:13:47How'd the dashing lieutenant like the dinner he didn't eat?
00:13:51Fine.
00:13:52It's in the kitchen.
00:13:53I'm going out.
00:13:55Out?
00:13:55Where?
00:13:57I've got a date.
00:13:58With a man?
00:13:59With a man.
00:14:01The one on the phone?
00:14:02The one on the phone.
00:14:04Nora, I love mysteries.
00:14:05Look, Sally, I haven't got time to talk about it now.
00:14:07I'll tell you tomorrow.
00:14:08Night.
00:14:10Good night.
00:14:11Good night.
00:14:11Good night.
00:14:41Good night.
00:14:44Men.
00:14:47Chinese peas, fried rice, and lobster Cantonese.
00:14:51Now, that's the dinner.
00:14:52On the drinks, Polynesian pearl diapers.
00:14:55And don't spare the rum.
00:14:56I'll tell the bar.
00:14:57Hello, Mr. Preble.
00:15:24Hi, Joe.
00:15:25Hello.
00:15:26Well, hi.
00:15:27Check, please, Joe.
00:15:29Alone?
00:15:32Granted, one four six six.
00:15:36Well, whoever she is, happy hunting.
00:15:38Thanks.
00:15:39Same to you.
00:15:43Here's a very fancy man with the ladies.
00:15:45Mr. Preble.
00:15:47Jealous, Joe?
00:15:48Oh, no, no.
00:15:49I fancy men myself.
00:15:52How you do with little black bull?
00:15:54Yes and no.
00:15:56I've got to do a little research right now.
00:15:57Yes, madame?
00:16:15Oh, uh, Mr. Preble's table, please.
00:16:17Oh, yes, of course.
00:16:19Boy?
00:16:20How about my life?
00:16:21Table 14, coral room.
00:16:23Well, that feels more than I would do.
00:16:26One moment, please.
00:16:30Hello, Mr. Preble.
00:16:35Hello.
00:16:36This is a coincidence.
00:16:38I was just talking to your friend, Crystal.
00:16:40You didn't talk to her.
00:16:42You talked to me.
00:16:44That was you?
00:16:45I tried to tell you it was a mistake,
00:16:47but you wouldn't listen.
00:16:49You see, Crystal and I lived together,
00:16:51and she wasn't home, so...
00:16:54Well, even if you were wrong about the girl,
00:16:57you were right about...
00:16:59I mean, I was alone,
00:17:01and I hadn't eaten, so...
00:17:05I probably shouldn't have come.
00:17:07It was a silly impulse.
00:17:08Impulses aren't always silly.
00:17:12Here, see that.
00:17:13Please.
00:17:29Never see a Polynesian pearl diver before?
00:17:32Not served as a drink.
00:17:35These aren't really drinks.
00:17:36They're trade winds across cool lagoons.
00:17:40They're the southern cross above coral reefs.
00:17:43They're a lovely maiden bathing at the foot of a waterfall.
00:17:46Oh, it's pretty.
00:17:47Doesn't make much sense, but it's pretty.
00:17:49Did you make it up?
00:17:50Oh, I memorized it.
00:17:52Do you know what a mermaid's downfall is?
00:17:55To achieve a mermaid's downfall,
00:18:02we begin with a seductive rum
00:18:04that insidiously lulls the senses...
00:18:06I think I'll stick to pearl divers.
00:18:13It's good.
00:18:14It's strong.
00:18:26Mainly ice and pineapple juice.
00:18:30Can I get high on one of these?
00:18:33Do you want to?
00:18:35I don't know.
00:18:37I'm not sure what I want.
00:18:39I only know one thing.
00:18:41I'd like to forget the early part of this evening.
00:18:43Okay.
00:18:44Tonight begins as of now.
00:18:48To us.
00:18:50To us.
00:18:56Good evening, sir.
00:18:58Would you like a blue gardenia for the lady?
00:19:00It's a specialty of the house.
00:19:03Aren't they pretty?
00:19:04Oh, they're lovely.
00:19:06The lady would like one, May.
00:19:07Oh, it's you, Mr. Prev.
00:19:09Nice to hear your voice.
00:19:10How are you tonight, sir?
00:19:12Never better.
00:19:15Yes, you are, Miss.
00:19:16Thank you, sir.
00:19:19Thank you, Mr. Prev.
00:19:21Blue gardenia, now I'm alone with you.
00:19:37And I am also blue.
00:19:40She has tossed us aside.
00:19:47And like you, gardenia, once I was near her heart, after the teardrop star.
00:20:05Where are teardropes too high?
00:20:14Later.
00:20:15Two more.
00:20:15I live for an hour.
00:20:20What more can I tell?
00:20:24Love bloomed like a flower, then the petals fell.
00:20:37Blue gardenia, thrown to a passing breeze.
00:20:50But pressed in my book of men.
00:21:04I live for an hour.
00:21:09What more can I tell?
00:21:13Love bloomed like a flower, then the petals fell.
00:21:24Blue gardenia, thrown to a passing breeze.
00:21:38But pressed in my book of memory.
00:21:45not more food these were just the appetizers then we ought to have another round of pollen
00:22:13polynesia there i got it south sea pod drivers
00:22:20way to bring us another two will you
00:22:26you know what we ought to do we ought to order four more now so we wouldn't keep that poor man
00:22:39running backwards and forwards backwards are you trying to get me drunk oh that's the trouble
00:22:46with you modern men you can't hold your liquor even with many trade wins over lagoons
00:22:54mr breville harry mr harry
00:23:08how do you feel like a lovely maiden bathing at the foot of the southern ground
00:23:22perfect wonderful and just right that's good i wouldn't want you to have had one too many
00:23:29oh i think i've had several too many
00:23:37where are we going
00:23:40to my apartment i've invited a few friends here oh good every girl should have a party
00:23:47on her birthday is this your birthday all day california do oh
00:24:09i've been working on that for quite a while i have to finish it tonight if
00:24:13i want the money i've been promised
00:24:17tonight i have to but i'm not going to
00:24:20the night is still young your birthday party is just beginning
00:24:27that's not the way i feel right now a glass of champagne and you'll feel fine
00:24:31oh no no i couldn't possibly have another drink oh so you had a few one glass won't hurt you
00:24:37oh oh oh see it's dangerous even before you drink it
00:24:52oh it's nothing
00:24:53oh
00:25:16just a moment
00:25:17i think i better have some coffee quick
00:25:36To the blue garden.
00:25:40Oh, I'm sorry.
00:25:43I think I better have some coffee, quick.
00:25:46Should be perking in a minute.
00:25:49I think I better lie down.
00:25:54Thank you, Mr. Prepper.
00:25:58Harry.
00:26:06I'll get the coffee.
00:26:14Where our teardrops too high.
00:26:24I live for an hour.
00:26:30What more can I tell?
00:26:36I've bloomed like a flower.
00:26:42Then the petals fell.
00:26:48Hey.
00:26:52Coffee time.
00:26:56What happened?
00:26:58You fell asleep.
00:27:00Oh, no, no.
00:27:01I just closed my eyes for a minute.
00:27:03Here.
00:27:06Well, that's delicious.
00:27:14I live for an hour.
00:27:23No.
00:27:25Nothing like that.
00:27:30Uh-huh.
00:27:31You're very tall.
00:27:40No shoes.
00:27:42Women always surprise me when they take off their shoes.
00:27:49Oh.
00:27:51I don't think the dancing was such a good idea.
00:27:54Here.
00:27:55Here.
00:28:08How's that?
00:28:10Fine.
00:28:11Happy birthday, you know, huh?
00:28:31Happy birthday, you know, huh?
00:28:37Happy birthday, you know, huh?
00:28:39Why did you have to write that letter?
00:29:02Letter?
00:29:03Why did you have to meet that nurse?
00:29:08That must have been quite a letter.
00:29:23No.
00:29:24Don't.
00:29:26Don't.
00:29:27I'm all confused.
00:29:29I'm going to go home.
00:29:30I'm going to wear my hat.
00:29:32Wait.
00:29:33My hat.
00:29:35Wait.
00:29:35What's your hurry, Nora?
00:29:37No.
00:29:44No.
00:29:55No.
00:29:56Oh, my God.
00:30:26Oh, my God.
00:30:56Oh, my God.
00:31:26Oh, my God.
00:31:56Oh, my God.
00:31:57Oh, my God.
00:31:59Oh, my God.
00:32:02Oh, my God.
00:32:08Oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:32:10It's Thursday.
00:32:11I get the bathroom first.
00:32:12You make the orange juice.
00:32:28Nora, you're on toast and coffee today.
00:32:33Nora?
00:32:36Nora?
00:32:38She's dead.
00:32:43Dead!
00:32:44Come on, honey.
00:32:45The lady's here with another bright new morning.
00:32:48Oh, no.
00:32:50Oh.
00:32:51My hat.
00:32:53It's right where you left it.
00:32:55Hey, what happened to your nightgown?
00:32:57What?
00:32:58Oh, I didn't wear one.
00:33:00I just fell into bed the way I was.
00:33:02The way you were when you came home?
00:33:04I don't remember coming home.
00:33:06I don't remember much of anything.
00:33:09I know I had a couple of drinks.
00:33:11A couple?
00:33:12The rest of the evening's a complete blank.
00:33:16Here's your vitamin C.
00:33:17Oh, thanks.
00:33:18Oh.
00:33:19Oh.
00:33:20Here's your vitamin C.
00:33:21Oh, thanks.
00:33:22Oh.
00:33:23Oh.
00:33:24Oh.
00:33:25Oh.
00:33:26Oh.
00:33:27Oh.
00:33:28Oh.
00:33:29Oh.
00:33:30Here.
00:33:31Hold on to this.
00:33:32The arms go into the sleeves.
00:33:34Oh.
00:33:35Don't worry.
00:33:36It'll wear off by noon.
00:33:37And if it doesn't, there's always aspirin, raw eggs in Worcestershire sauce, sauerkraut juice, or milk and bourbon.
00:33:52All right, Nora.
00:33:53Give.
00:33:54What happened?
00:33:55Oh.
00:33:56Nothing happened.
00:33:57At least nothing I can remember.
00:33:59Well, I don't blame you, whatever it was.
00:34:00You had plenty of reason.
00:34:01Oh.
00:34:02I read your letter, Nora.
00:34:03I know I shouldn't have, but I did.
00:34:04Oh.
00:34:05It's all right, Sally.
00:34:06Don't take it so hard.
00:34:07No man's worth it.
00:34:08Not 6,000 miles away, that is.
00:34:11Oh.
00:34:12Oh.
00:34:13Oh.
00:34:14Oh.
00:34:15Oh.
00:34:16Oh.
00:34:17Oh.
00:34:18Oh.
00:34:19Oh.
00:34:20Oh.
00:34:21Oh.
00:34:22Oh.
00:34:23Oh.
00:34:24Oh.
00:34:25Oh.
00:34:26Oh.
00:34:27Oh.
00:34:28Oh.
00:34:29Oh.
00:34:30Oh.
00:34:31Oh.
00:34:32Oh.
00:34:33Oh.
00:34:34Oh.
00:34:35Oh.
00:34:36Oh.
00:34:37Oh.
00:34:38Oh.
00:34:39Oh.
00:34:40Oh.
00:34:45They were probably struggling when she backed into the fireplace and grabbed the poker.
00:34:50She must have raised it over her head like this, smashed the mirror and let him have it.
00:34:55Take it easy, both of you.
00:34:56Now then, you wiped the fingerprints off the poker, huh?
00:35:00I didn't see any fingerprints.
00:35:02I picked it up and put it in its place like I'm supposed to.
00:35:05I see.
00:35:06And the coffee cup, you washed that, huh?
00:35:09That's what I'm paid for, not finding dead bodies.
00:35:12Captain.
00:35:13Yeah.
00:35:14Excuse me.
00:35:17A pair of women's shoes in the hall closet.
00:35:19Suede pumps, five and a half.
00:35:21Mm-hmm.
00:35:22I put them there.
00:35:23They were in front of the couch.
00:35:25You're very helpful.
00:35:27They're not the first pair of women's shoes I've found in front of that couch.
00:35:32Add them to the collection.
00:35:38Hey, do you mind?
00:35:40He ain't very photogenic today.
00:35:42Pardon us.
00:35:43How about another one, just for good luck?
00:35:50Hello, Casey.
00:35:51Hello, Sam.
00:35:52Got another cigarette?
00:35:54What are you doing on a routine murder case?
00:35:56Sleepy heard it on the car radio.
00:35:58He wanted a peek at the day of the potter before the other boys beat him to it.
00:36:01Anything special, Captain?
00:36:03Not much.
00:36:04Artist.
00:36:06Got murdered to music.
00:36:08What key?
00:36:14Grab what you need, Al, and let's get out of here.
00:36:16I've got a lot of work to do.
00:36:17Work?
00:36:18You call writing a column work?
00:36:33The cleaning woman said this was still playing this morning.
00:36:35Not much of a clue.
00:36:36We've got a few.
00:36:37A lace handkerchief with blood stains.
00:36:39A pair of suede pump size five and a half.
00:36:42And a blue gardenia broken off at the stamp.
00:36:46If you want to improve your mind.
00:36:49I'll take mine in the flesh.
00:36:50That's how Preble got his.
00:36:53Preble?
00:36:54Harry Preble?
00:36:55Yeah, you know him?
00:36:58Yeah, I knew him.
00:37:00Slightly.
00:37:03It's quite a list.
00:37:06He was quite a man with the ladies.
00:37:09Are you sure that one of our girls is involved?
00:37:11All I'm sure of is he got killed.
00:37:12Who's next?
00:37:13New York.
00:37:14Seven.
00:37:15Seven.
00:37:16Seven.
00:37:17Seven.
00:37:18Seven.
00:37:19Seven.
00:37:20Seven.
00:37:21Seven.
00:37:22Seven.
00:37:23Seven.
00:37:24Seven.
00:37:25Seven.
00:37:26Seven.
00:37:27Seven.
00:37:28Seven.
00:37:29Seven.
00:37:30Seven.
00:37:31Seven.
00:37:32Seven.
00:37:33Eight.
00:37:34Three.
00:37:35Seven.
00:37:36Seven.
00:37:37Seven.
00:37:38Seven.
00:37:39Seven.
00:37:40Azel.
00:37:41You posed for Mr. Preble didn't you?
00:37:42Yeah.
00:37:43They want you in the Public Relations office.
00:37:45I'll take your bullet.
00:37:46Ouch!
00:37:47Achoo!
00:37:53There go the next seven years.
00:37:55The janitor will get it, Hazel.
00:37:57What's the matter, Nora? Don't you feel well?
00:38:12What?
00:38:14I'm all right.
00:38:17Here we are. A blue gardenia. Just like the one I saw to Mr. Prettle last night.
00:38:32And the girl with her, can't you remember anything about her? Her perfume, maybe?
00:38:39No. And that's usually the first thing I...
00:38:43Oh, yes. Her dress. Taffeta.
00:38:48Taffeta has a voice of its own. It rustles like no other material.
00:38:54Taffeta.
00:38:56Probably black. That's the fashion this season.
00:38:59And I remember her voice, too. It was a friendly voice. Friendly and quiet.
00:39:08Cam said one, two, three, four.
00:39:12Whoo! I feel like I've been put through a wringer.
00:39:15Well, it didn't take long.
00:39:19Here's your party.
00:39:22What's it all about?
00:39:24They told us not to talk.
00:39:26They?
00:39:27The cops.
00:39:28The cops.
00:39:29And what question?
00:39:30Asked if I was out in the rain last night without my shoes on.
00:39:33Just because I have a little cold.
00:39:36Tombstone, Arizona.
00:39:38One moment, please.
00:39:40In the rain without your shoes on?
00:39:42Mm-hmm.
00:39:44Miss Stanley?
00:39:46Miss Stanley, would you take my board? I feel dizzy.
00:39:47Miss Stanley?
00:39:49Miss Stanley?
00:39:50Miss Stanley, would you take my board? I feel dizzy.
00:39:52Miss Stanley?
00:39:53They're afternoon papers. Have they come in yet?
00:39:54No, not yet, honey.
00:39:55Oh.
00:39:56Thanks.
00:39:57the afternoon papers have they come in yet no not yet honey thanks
00:40:13good evening tribune watch it here you are miss
00:40:43got him with a poker old-fashioned here you are miss
00:40:55going up
00:41:08how is it not bad if you want to read about murder everybody wants to read about murder even when
00:41:35an unknown doll kills a guy nobody ever heard of before sudden death sells papers son lesson
00:41:41number one in modern journalism lesson number two now the element of sex beautiful blonde
00:41:50defending her virtue what makes you think she's a blonde the chinese boy who's short of the
00:41:55prevels table to an oriental all-american women are beautiful blondes i don't dig your code
00:42:02system what are three exclamation points after a girl's name me hey that's private stock i can dream
00:42:08can't i mr mayo how do you know this this blue gardenia girl's beautiful they're always beautiful
00:42:14what did you call her blue gardenia
00:42:20so here's a bit of information about the blue gardenia for my good friend captain haynes of the
00:42:29homicide detail the murderess you're looking for captain
00:42:33was wearing a taffeta dress probably black probably black probably bright red that type of girl never
00:42:43wears black what type of a girl he's almost as good as mickey mallet and i know a few other facts of
00:42:51special interest to the girl who done the who done it her voice was quiet and friendly as she drank half a
00:42:58half a dozen polynesian pearl divers in the blue gardenia cafe last night but if i know the kind of
00:43:09high voltage dolls the late and unlamented harry preble went for she was just a flashy blonde putting
00:43:16on an act as a lady maybe she was fighting for her honor nor a girl would go out with a guy like
00:43:22preble never heard of that word yeah that's what i told the cop this afternoon maybe she was lonely
00:43:27and bewildered well she sure had to be plenty bewildered to go up to that wolf's apartment
00:43:31maybe she wanted some excitement well she sure got it when she gave him that fast right with the poker
00:43:37maybe he deserved it honey if a girl killed every man who got fresh with her how much of the male
00:43:43population do you think there'd be left i didn't like preble when he was alive
00:43:49but now that he's been murdered that always makes a man so romantic
00:43:55don't be such an idiot sally me an idiot
00:44:03don't pay any attention it's just that letter from korea
00:44:09now i always give a man the air before he gives it to me
00:44:14did you have a good time with homer last night
00:44:16i must have he called twice to apologize let's turn in
00:44:23oh man
00:44:41oh man
00:44:45oh man
00:44:51the clue of the black taffet address uncovered by ace columnist casey mayo
00:45:02is believed to be the most important single piece of evidence brought to light in the blue gardenia murder case
00:45:07which the police say should be solved in a matter of hours
00:45:11now here's one
00:45:13the united press
00:45:14uh
00:45:25uh
00:45:27uh
00:45:29Come on.
00:45:59Come on.
00:46:29Come on.
00:46:59Come on.
00:47:29Come on.
00:47:31I guess it's too late now, but don't let it happen again.
00:47:34No, I won't.
00:47:35No, I won't.
00:47:36No, I won't.
00:47:37No, I won't.
00:47:38No, I won't.
00:47:39No, I won't.
00:47:40No, I won't.
00:47:44No, I won't.
00:47:45No, I won't.
00:47:46No, I won't.
00:47:47No, I won't.
00:47:48No, I won't.
00:47:49No, I won't.
00:47:51No, I won't.
00:47:52No, I won't.
00:47:56No, I won't.
00:47:57I won't.
00:47:58No, I won't.
00:47:59I won't.
00:48:00I won't.
00:48:01No, I won't.
00:48:02No, I won't.
00:48:03No, I won't.
00:48:04No, I won't.
00:48:05No, I won't.
00:48:06No, I won't.
00:48:07All right.
00:48:08No, I won't.
00:48:09No, I won't.
00:48:10I won't.
00:48:11No, I won't.
00:48:12She's one out of a hundred murder cases that broke all the wire services.
00:48:15So what happens if she comes in here and throws herself on your tender mercies?
00:48:19If she's guilty, she might get off with one of ten years for manslaughter.
00:48:22If she's guilty? You don't think he hit himself with a poker, do you?
00:48:25No, I don't. I'll turn her over to Haynes with best wishes for our future.
00:48:29After you get your story, of course.
00:48:31But what do you want me to do?
00:48:32Hide her in a desk until this whole thing blows over?
00:48:34I'm a newspaper man. I live on headlines.
00:48:36I want to be the guy to nail her.
00:48:38I don't hear the cheerful sound of busy little typewriter, Keith.
00:48:41Hiya, Chief. I was just lying there, too.
00:48:43I know, I know.
00:48:43Hiya, Mac. Aren't you on the wrong side of the tracks?
00:48:46Oh, my heart's still down here in the city room, Casey.
00:48:48You leave in two days.
00:48:50Passport, plane tickets, government clearance.
00:48:53Front row seated, the next H-bomb blast. On the house.
00:48:57That's quite an assignment.
00:48:59But what about my girlfriend, the blue gardenia?
00:49:01You've left dames before.
00:49:03Write her a letter.
00:49:05At ease.
00:49:11Casey.
00:49:20You.
00:49:21Hey, Casey.
00:49:23Casey!
00:49:26Well, what do you know?
00:49:28Even a managing editor can have an idea.
00:49:30A letter.
00:49:31A letter to an unknown murderess.
00:49:40Well, what do you know?
00:49:49Oh, yes.
00:49:50Oh, yes.
00:49:51Oh, yes.
00:49:51Oh, yes.
00:49:51Oh, yes.
00:49:53Oh, no.
00:49:55Oh, yes.
00:50:09Oh, yes.
00:50:09dear blue gardenia any day now any hour any minute the police are going to catch up with you
00:50:32but all they want is a quick confession
00:50:34i want to help you when i say i that means my newspaper and me to us you're a story
00:50:42a big story if we get it first we'll go all out for you
00:50:51you can trust me and i promise not to print a line without your permission
00:51:04by now you must be frightened out of your wits you don't know which way to turn there's no place
00:51:11to hide nowhere to run except to me so take my advice blue gardenia go to the nearest phone booth
00:51:18and invest a dime on the rest of your life dial madison 60025 and ask for yours very earnestly casey
00:51:27mail
00:51:40you can make it stop ringing by taking the receiver off the hook i'm sorry i'll get it
00:51:55you can make it stop ringing by now
00:52:08hello is this the blue gardenia
00:52:17who was it nobody it was wrong number
00:52:25well nobody just dialed the wrong number again
00:52:30hello oh homer
00:52:36wow i don't get it i said what makes
00:52:42i asked if this was the blue gardenia
00:52:44some joke well you're trying to amuse
00:52:47i can't hear you homer huh
00:52:53what are you doing norah i'm going for a walk but dinner's ready i don't want any dinner
00:52:58norah what's gotten into you nothing call me back homer we're having a little domestic crisis
00:53:06where you going norah what business is it of yours well none none at all i'm i'm just concerned
00:53:10when i see you get so upset who's upset we're just concerned about you that's all you haven't been
00:53:16yourself the last couple of days now and last night what about last night well i heard you in the
00:53:22kitchen and then when you went back to bed you were tossing around and talking in your sleep
00:53:26what were you doing lying awake all night spying on me both of you why should we spy on you norah
00:53:32i don't know why oh leave me alone sorry if i startled you miss where could i find a manager
00:53:51two doors down 7b thank you
00:54:02i'm sorry i lost my temper don't wait up for me
00:54:13lady if you were the blue gardenia you'd know what size shoes you wear
00:54:16she's all set mr mail thanks steve
00:54:24just a minute please hello yes this is casey mail would you hold on a second please
00:54:33sorry to keep you waiting miss but if you want your picture in the paper you'll have to go out and
00:54:36kill somebody first
00:54:40all right now tell me just how you murdered harry preble you know how i killed him
00:54:48do you want to know why because i loved him with a passion that was bigger than both of us
00:54:54the size of the passion is important lady but tell me first what size shoe do you wear shoe
00:55:02eight and a half c
00:55:06i could wear eight it's just that eight and a half's more comfortable
00:55:10sorry lady but your feet's too big
00:55:14what have we got
00:55:15two dozen eagle hello hello yes this is casey mail mr mayo how how sincere were you in your column
00:55:31tonight about about wanting to help the blue gardenia very sincere and you don't think i should go to the
00:55:40police
00:55:41not a few of the blue gardenia you'll be black and blue before they got through with you
00:55:47is that so
00:55:50who is this your good friend captain haynes of the homicide detail oh
00:55:55oh hello sam i read your ad in the paper if you'll just tell me what size police badge you wear
00:56:05i'll come over and pin it in your chest by the way has the little lady turned herself into you yet
00:56:11it's not yet well in case she does do me a favor will you and give her our number michigan
00:56:20five two one one got it five two one one will be most happy to hear from her bye now
00:56:27heynes and his pixie sense of humor didn't seem to take my letter seriously
00:56:37hello yes this is casey mayo hello
00:56:45hello hello hello
00:56:50my voice is muffled like he's talking through a handkerchief
00:57:00well how can i be sure that you're the blue gardenia
00:57:03the newspaper said they found her shoes
00:57:08weren't they suede shoes size five and a half b
00:57:11and wasn't the rubber heel loose on the left one trace this call we've hit the jackpot
00:57:20i want to take you up on your suggestion mr mayo
00:57:24meet you someplace where are you now i'm i'm at
00:57:41where's the washroom
00:57:57are you still there gardenia gardenia who's this officer mcmanus sir who
00:58:05officer mcmanus where's the girl i was just talking to there's no girl here now sir but she
00:58:17she dropped her handkerchief lace edge officer this is casey mayo on the chronicle
00:58:23get that handkerchief right down to the police lab i'll call captain haynes and tell him you're on the way
00:58:27i traced it to a gas station near the santa monica pier a cop frightened her away
00:58:39you think she'll call again i don't know why don't you two go home i'll hang around here a while
00:59:00yeah congratulations casey the handkerchiefs match
00:59:28well what happens next i don't know sam i just a minute
00:59:39hello this is about the call that was interrupted earlier this evening
00:59:46hold the line a minute please
00:59:47another phony sam sure i'll let you know if she calls again
00:59:56look lady i've had a couple of dozen phone calls tonight unless you're the one that was
01:00:00interrupted by the arrival of the cops i'm just not interested but that's the one i mean
01:00:05the one about the shoes remember size five and a half b with a loose heel on the left shoe
01:00:13you didn't make that call it's not the same voice or did you lose a handkerchief you had over the mouthpiece
01:00:25no i i didn't make that call but i know who did if you could uh if you could meet me someplace
01:00:35well where are you a block from your office come up here it's as good as any place there's a self-service
01:00:42elevator on the olive street side come up to the city room on the second floor it's right opposite the
01:00:47elevator no one will see you i promise all right i'll be there
01:01:02so
01:01:06so
01:01:12so
01:01:14so
01:01:18so
01:01:58Hello.
01:02:05I'm sorry.
01:02:07I didn't mean to frighten you.
01:02:11Please come into my office.
01:02:22Would you sit down, please?
01:02:35Cigarette?
01:02:37Thanks.
01:02:43Still foggy outside?
01:02:45Very.
01:02:49I've been cooped up here since noon.
01:02:59Los Angeles girl?
01:03:01No, I live here, but it's not my home.
01:03:04I don't know where I'm from.
01:03:06My father was a mick from Boston.
01:03:08That's where I got the Casey.
01:03:09My mother was Italian.
01:03:11He met her in Naples during the First World War.
01:03:13I was born on a Greyhound bus somewhere between Tucson and Los Angeles.
01:03:19I've lived here all my life.
01:03:24Fog seems to be lifting.
01:03:31Feel like talking yet?
01:03:32Where would you like me to begin?
01:03:38Let's start with your friend meeting Harry Preble.
01:03:43Maybe I'd better explain first why she didn't call you back.
01:03:47Yes, why didn't she?
01:03:49She was frightened.
01:03:51So she dragged you into this?
01:03:53She didn't know whether she could trust you.
01:03:55Look.
01:03:59I don't want to sell myself to you or to your friend.
01:04:02I told you.
01:04:04I mean her.
01:04:06The truth in my letter.
01:04:08My paper and I want an exclusive story.
01:04:10We'll pay for it with the best criminal lawyer in town.
01:04:13If she plays ball with us.
01:04:16Otherwise, the police may not be so generous.
01:04:19Will you tell that to your friend?
01:04:21I'll tell her.
01:04:27Where'd she meet Preble?
01:04:29At the phone company?
01:04:31The phone company?
01:04:35Why there?
01:04:38Preble was trying to make time with a lot of the operators.
01:04:42I thought she might be one of them.
01:04:44No, she never told me where they met.
01:04:46She knew him intimately?
01:04:48No.
01:04:48But well enough to go along with him to his apartment and get drunk, didn't she?
01:04:52He said there'd be other people.
01:04:55You want me to believe that?
01:04:56I believed it.
01:04:58And I...
01:04:58I only know what she told me.
01:05:01What did she tell you?
01:05:03Everything.
01:05:05Everything up to...
01:05:08Mr. Mayo.
01:05:10Do you think it's possible for a girl to kill a man and not remember?
01:05:16She doesn't remember killing him?
01:05:18No.
01:05:22A lot of murderers forget what they don't want to remember.
01:05:25They call it killer amnesia.
01:05:28A smart DA sees to her that it's only temporary.
01:05:32Why couldn't something else have happened?
01:05:35It's doubtful that a man would hit himself over the head with a poker.
01:05:39You must believe me.
01:05:40She wants to remember, but she just can't.
01:05:45Her mind's a blank for most of that evening.
01:05:49Oh, I'm sorry.
01:05:50Here, use my handkerchief.
01:05:52If I can find one.
01:05:55I have one.
01:05:56There's a trick to reading one of these things, but I've never learned it.
01:06:13Do that again.
01:06:21What?
01:06:22Laugh.
01:06:24It's the first time since you walked into my office.
01:06:25The first time since I found out about that night.
01:06:31Doesn't seem to me you found out very much.
01:06:35It's clear up until the time she went to his apartment.
01:06:38The rum drinks, the flower he bought.
01:06:41Even after that, when he put on that King Cole record to celebrate their first date.
01:06:46The Blue Cardenia.
01:06:47Yes, that's what she said it was.
01:07:17It's a pretty song.
01:07:24Too bad it was a background for murder.
01:07:30Go on.
01:07:33He gave her some coffee.
01:07:38It only made her groggier.
01:07:40Then he kissed him.
01:07:42She thinks she kissed him back.
01:07:44After that...
01:07:48She can't recall struggling with him?
01:07:51No.
01:07:52Only vaguely.
01:07:53It's all mixed up in her mind.
01:07:57She just can't remember.
01:07:59Well, tell her to remember this.
01:08:01She hasn't much time.
01:08:03The police are putting a lot of clues together.
01:08:05They know where she bought her shoes.
01:08:06They've got two of her handkerchiefs.
01:08:08And they're looking for fingerprints on that phone she used tonight.
01:08:14What if, um, what if I got her to call you?
01:08:18Oh, no.
01:08:19No more phone calls.
01:08:21I want to see her.
01:08:22Tell her to meet me here at 3.40 tomorrow afternoon.
01:08:25Why 3.40?
01:08:28I'm still a newspaper man.
01:08:32I've got to have time to make the sunset edition.
01:08:33You know, I'm kind of disappointed that you're not the Blue Gardenia.
01:08:43Disappointed?
01:08:44In a relieved way, of course.
01:08:46When I heard your voice on the phone, I made a mental picture of you.
01:08:50Was I wrong?
01:08:54What did you expect?
01:08:56Oh, no.
01:08:57Not till I know you better.
01:08:58But you were a big surprise.
01:09:03Now with those dry tears at the edges of your eyes and that mustard on your nose.
01:09:06I have not.
01:09:09I am.
01:09:12I see I can trust you, Mr. Mayle.
01:09:15That's what I want you to tell your friend.
01:09:19Certainly what she needs.
01:09:23Someone she can believe in.
01:09:24Bill, what do we owe you?
01:09:35It's two hamburgers and five coffees.
01:09:38Three for you and two for the lady.
01:09:40It's $1.40, Mr. Mayle.
01:09:43Which way is home?
01:09:45I'd, uh, I'd rather not say.
01:09:48I'm meeting my friend and, uh...
01:09:50I understand.
01:09:51I understand.
01:09:54I'm...
01:09:54I'm a billionaire.
01:09:55I understand.
01:10:05Hi, Casey.
01:10:06Hi.
01:10:06Did you catch your gardenia yet?
01:10:08Hi, boy.
01:10:08Say, how about a piece?
01:10:10Hey, look.
01:10:10Oh, you're too proud to have a drink with a couple of sober reporters, huh?
01:10:14Now look, fellas, I got a date.
01:10:17I had a date.
01:10:18I had a date.
01:10:19aren't you working that community key all the time I'm fighting a cold the flower girl call
01:10:46back no but she sent a friend female very she go in the little black book wrong type I didn't know
01:10:58there was one I bought her a hamburger and then like an all-good mystery story she vanished into
01:11:05the fog it's too bad we were making beautiful jukebox music together on the level I had a
01:11:12feeling I could go for it why don't you go on to bed and sleep it off that's what I do with all my
01:11:18girls noble thought you don't meet a girl like that very often at least I don't
01:11:42yeah
01:11:47yeah
01:11:49yeah
01:11:52yeah
01:11:54yeah
01:11:56yeah
01:11:59I asked you not to wait up for me.
01:12:07I'm sorry about the fight.
01:12:10I know.
01:12:13I didn't wait up for you.
01:12:15I just got home.
01:12:17I'm sorry about the fight.
01:12:20I know.
01:12:22I didn't wait up for you.
01:12:24I just got home.
01:12:26Homer took me to the Blue Gardenia tonight.
01:12:29What a mob.
01:12:31Everybody wanted to sit with a murderer, Seth,
01:12:33and everybody thinks he did.
01:12:35Want some milk?
01:12:37No, I had a hamburger and coffee.
01:12:39Good night.
01:12:40Nora.
01:12:43After Homer phoned,
01:12:45I wanted to borrow your new black-tapped address.
01:12:47I couldn't find it.
01:12:50And then I asked you,
01:12:52your pumps were gone.
01:12:54The black suede ones.
01:12:57I know I'm a little slow, Nora.
01:12:59I was a late baby.
01:13:01But that big blind date,
01:13:02you've kept such a mystery.
01:13:04And your jitters all the time about everything.
01:13:08Nora.
01:13:10Oh, Seth.
01:13:13Oh, Seth.
01:13:15Oh, Seth.
01:13:17Oh, Seth.
01:13:18Oh, Seth.
01:13:19Oh, Seth.
01:13:20Oh, Seth.
01:13:21Oh, Seth.
01:13:22Oh, Seth.
01:13:24Oh, Seth.
01:13:25Oh, Seth.
01:13:26Oh, Seth.
01:13:43Oh, of the girls?
01:13:45Hello, Mr. Mayo.
01:13:53Granite 1466.
01:13:58I might have known.
01:14:00In fact, I suspected.
01:14:03But you look like you could have gotten rid of him in some other way.
01:14:06Oh, I could have.
01:14:09It just so happens I'm not the girl who did it.
01:14:12I hate gardenias. I'm allergic to them any color.
01:14:15And why are you here?
01:14:20Because the real girl is ready to give herself up to you.
01:14:23Because she believes what you told her last night.
01:14:28Last night?
01:14:29I hope you meant what you said in your letter, Mr. Mayo.
01:14:34Yes.
01:14:35Where is she?
01:14:45Now you know.
01:14:57Now you know.
01:14:57Bill, take care of the school.
01:15:13Yes.
01:15:15Now I know.
01:15:18Bill, some coffee.
01:15:20Coming up.
01:15:21So you see, Mr. Mayo, I'm just a girl in love with a guy who fell in love with someone else.
01:15:40I know I'm not the only person this has ever happened to.
01:15:43I know I'm not the only girl to get a letter like that, but...
01:15:46Well, anyway, that's how it started.
01:15:53When Harry Preble called, I made the date.
01:15:57Crystal's date.
01:15:59So Nora Larkin from Bakersfield winds up killing a man she's never even been out with before.
01:16:08Not much of a story.
01:16:11Just the truth.
01:16:16But last night you said your friend, I mean you, weren't sure you killed him.
01:16:20There isn't any other explanation.
01:16:35Mr. Mayo, I guess I should have told you last night, but I just couldn't.
01:16:39I had to have more time to think.
01:16:44I had to be sure I could trust you.
01:16:49Are you sure now?
01:16:53I'm sure.
01:17:00What do we do?
01:17:05I...
01:17:06I don't know.
01:17:07You don't know.
01:17:12After everything you promised in your letter, and to me, last night?
01:17:18I hadn't expected you'd be the girl.
01:17:21But what's that got to do with it?
01:17:24Didn't you mean what you said?
01:17:31Frankly, no.
01:17:33And you weren't telling the truth?
01:17:34You promised I wasn't just to be a, a story for the sunset edition.
01:17:41I know, but can't you understand that things can be so different this afternoon from what they were last night?
01:17:47No, no, I can't.
01:17:48Nora.
01:17:50It's not things.
01:17:53It's you.
01:17:55Last night I didn't know that you and the blue god Dean, you were the same girl.
01:17:58You always meant to turn her over to the police.
01:18:00You were lying all the time.
01:18:02Now, wait a minute.
01:18:03Nora!
01:18:03Come on, Crystal.
01:18:04I made another mistake.
01:18:06You checked, miss.
01:18:07Nora, wait.
01:18:12Thanks, Casey.
01:18:16You better go along, miss.
01:18:17Hold it, Sam.
01:18:28Why?
01:18:29You've done a thorough job and we appreciate it.
01:18:32No.
01:18:34It was a trap, Crystal.
01:18:36A dirty trap.
01:18:38You've made a mistake, Sam.
01:18:47You made the mistake.
01:18:48You got a cigarette?
01:18:50Well, you underestimated me.
01:18:52Well, I may not have been ahead of you, but I'm here right now and that's what counts.
01:18:58There's a penalty and a stiff one for aiding and abetting a criminal.
01:19:01I'm glad it didn't come to that.
01:19:03You can have credit for finding her, even if you didn't get that exclusive you wanted.
01:19:13Bill?
01:19:14Thanks for keeping your ears open.
01:19:19Oh.
01:19:22Thanks.
01:19:22Thanks.
01:19:22Thanks.
01:19:30Come on, Mac.
01:19:58We got deadlines to make.
01:19:59Okay.
01:20:00She's all yours.
01:20:06Read all about it.
01:20:08Blue Gardenian police trap.
01:20:09Casey Mayo captures Blue Gardenian.
01:20:12Read all about it.
01:20:14Blue Gardenian police trap.
01:20:16Paper?
01:20:17Paper, sir?
01:20:19No, thanks.
01:20:20Beautiful murderers caught by columnists.
01:20:22No sale.
01:20:23Scoot.
01:20:24Paper?
01:20:24I was wrong, Al.
01:20:32She can't mean that much to you.
01:20:34She might have.
01:20:37You sense those things from the first time you meet a girl.
01:20:39What's that?
01:20:50Music.
01:20:51Canned.
01:20:52They can everything these days.
01:20:57Al.
01:20:58That's the record that was on Preble's phonograph when the cleaning woman discovered his body.
01:21:02So what?
01:21:03But it isn't the record that was playing when Nora blacked out.
01:21:13Where do we go from here?
01:21:19Melrose Music Shop.
01:21:20That's not much to go on, Casey.
01:21:21You want the real murderers, don't you?
01:21:23I've already got one that's confessed and all the evidence I need to convict her.
01:21:26Look, Sam, stay with me a little while longer.
01:21:27This can be your headline.
01:21:28Haynes, Homicide.
01:21:36Yes, sir.
01:21:37Ever hear of Harry Preble?
01:21:39Who hasn't?
01:21:39Good customer of ours, or worse.
01:21:41I've heard anything about this album he bought here.
01:21:47Miss Miller handle his account.
01:21:48I'll get it for you.
01:21:49Do there.
01:21:54There's a cop outside to see you who wants to ask some questions about Preble.
01:21:58I'll be right out.
01:22:02I'll tell him.
01:22:03I'll tell him.
01:22:03Well, I'll tell him.
01:22:20The End
01:22:50This is a wild goose chase, Casey.
01:23:03We aren't going to learn anything here.
01:23:13I've been walking around all evening in a daze.
01:23:18I even forgot to take a hat.
01:23:20Or a coat or a purse.
01:23:24It started to rain when I passed by his apartment, Billy.
01:23:29The third or the fourth time.
01:23:32There was a lock in his window.
01:23:33Go on, Miss.
01:23:49I knew he was home.
01:23:53I could hear him moving around.
01:23:56So I kept knocking, knocking and knocking.
01:24:00Finally, he opened the door.
01:24:06He seemed disturbed about something.
01:24:09He didn't want to let me in, but he did.
01:24:12The lights were turned down.
01:24:19I was too upset to see anything.
01:24:21Even the poker in his hand.
01:24:26I was working on the fire.
01:24:28Look, I haven't got much time.
01:24:30I've got to finish this job tonight.
01:24:31There's a lot of money involved.
01:24:32I can't go through with this alone, Harry.
01:24:35That's why I'm here.
01:24:37You've got to give me your word.
01:24:38Tonight.
01:24:39Don't control yourself.
01:24:41We have a glass of champagne.
01:24:42I didn't come here to drink.
01:24:44Are you or aren't you going to marry me?
01:24:50You heard me, Harry.
01:24:51Answer me.
01:24:52Don't get so excited.
01:24:55It'll be all right.
01:24:58Remember the afternoon I bought these?
01:25:01We came back here.
01:25:04Let's listen to this.
01:25:06Then you ought to go home.
01:25:07I have to finish that painting.
01:25:09He turned to put the record on.
01:25:11The one he bought the first day I met him.
01:25:15The one he was using to get rid of me.
01:25:21Then I saw another woman's handkerchief.
01:25:25How he was trying to hide it.
01:25:29And I knew what I was going to do.
01:25:37The record was playing.
01:25:44And he didn't hear me.
01:25:45It's going to die.
01:25:47I knew what I was going to do.
01:25:48The Jornada.
01:25:49I knew what I was about him.
01:25:50I knew what I was doing.
01:25:51I knew what I was done.
01:25:52I knew how he was trying to hide it.
01:25:54I knew what I was going to get.
01:25:54See you.
01:25:55I knew how he was punching found.
01:25:57The last time they put my picture in the paper, I had to get bitten by a dog.
01:26:27I'll take a dozen of each, boys. Mother keeps asking for a picture.
01:26:32How about a big sigh of relief, Miss Larkin?
01:26:36How's this?
01:26:39That's perfect. Now give the boys a nice smile.
01:26:48Excuse me.
01:26:51Excuse me, too.
01:26:55Didn't Captain Haynes explain?
01:26:56Oh, sure, he explains. But you know women, the stubborn sex.
01:27:04But take a tip from information, honey.
01:27:06The phone number is...
01:27:09Granite?
01:27:111466?
01:27:13Yeah.
01:27:19Crystal, I did what you told me.
01:27:21I played hard to get.
01:27:23Yes, but don't be too eager when he calls you tonight.
01:27:26Yes, ma'am.
01:27:27How you doing?
01:27:37You can read all about it in the Chronicle.
01:27:39Wow.
01:27:55Oh, brother.
01:28:00Oh, brother.
01:28:00THE END
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