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Based on the long-running radio program created by Philips H. Lord, the film opens with a radio commentator blasting the U. S. government for the manner in which a certain foreign power has obtained secret information during WWII. The commentator is brought to the secret headquarters of "David Harding, Counterspy" where he learns that the story was deliberately planted with the commentator to fool the enemy. Harding them tells, in flashback, a specific story to illustrate how counter-espionage works. Jerry Baldwin, a U.S. Navy officer is brought to a city where torpedoes are manufactured for the Navy, and his assignment is to find out information is leaking out to the enemy.
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00:00:00The End
00:00:42There are many historic old houses in Washington, D.C., the names of which figure constantly in the news.
00:00:49But for years, this one has been deliberately cloaked in obscurity.
00:00:54Day and night, an armed guard sees to it that no one enters or leaves without proper identification.
00:01:00The men and women who carry such identification are few and scattered through every corner of the world.
00:01:07They call this place headquarters.
00:01:10They take their orders from David Harding, counter-spy.
00:01:17A man dedicated in service to the defense of the nation against its enemies, at home and abroad.
00:01:32Kingston's on the air, Mr. Harding. He'll get to us in a few seconds.
00:01:35I've lit something, Peters, besides my pipe.
00:01:59Mr. Harding.
00:02:01Modern research was stolen dealing with nuclear fission.
00:02:05It contained the basic elements of every improvement our scientists have made on our original atomic discoveries.
00:02:13Think of it. At this very minute, scientists of a foreign nation may be reaping the benefits of our atomic
00:02:21research.
00:02:21Ladies and gentlemen, we have the right to demand that proper steps be taken to protect the work of our
00:02:29scientists from the espionage of foreign powers.
00:02:33Is this a cold war, a hot war, or merely a stupid war?
00:02:38The stupidity initialed with a capital S for our own Uncle Sam.
00:02:43And now...
00:02:44Did you make arrangements to pick him up?
00:02:47He's already picked.
00:03:13Mysterious house.
00:03:15Armed guards in the dead of night.
00:03:18I suppose I ought to take my last look at this world as I knew it.
00:03:21After you, Mr. Kingston.
00:03:26I'll be late, honey.
00:03:28We'll just leave some sandwiches in the icebox.
00:03:30Oh, I don't care. Ham on rye.
00:03:32Or I'll even settle for salami.
00:03:35All right.
00:03:36If you'll take this one call, Mr. Harding, it's Latimer at Le Bourget.
00:03:39Okay. Then give me ten minutes with Mr. Kingston. Sit down, Kingston.
00:03:43You'll find whiskey in that cabinet.
00:03:44A condemned man got treated in style, eh, Harding?
00:03:47Glad I caught you, Latimer.
00:03:49You can skip Madrid.
00:03:50I want you to go directly to Algiers.
00:03:52There, our man in the travel agency, will have a complete report on yesterday's theft of certain information from the
00:03:57Institute of Special Studies.
00:03:59That information must be in the hands of Agent Y in Samarkand late this week.
00:04:03Everything depends upon it.
00:04:05It's the final and most important step in a plan we've been formulating for nearly a year.
00:04:09Yes. Life and death.
00:04:12Right.
00:04:14Good whiskey, Harding.
00:04:15Well, shall we get on with the hanging?
00:04:17Shouldn't it not be just about, uh, here?
00:04:21I brought you here to apologize, Kingston.
00:04:23Why should I apologize?
00:04:25For what?
00:04:26You misunderstand.
00:04:27I want to apologize to you.
00:04:29It's about that janitor at the Institute who sold you that story you broadcast tonight.
00:04:33I promised that man protection. He's not to be brought into this.
00:04:36Okay, maybe this will simplify things.
00:04:44Let's see the janitor.
00:04:50Mr. Kingston, meet the janitor.
00:04:52I've been very sorry, Mr. Kingston.
00:04:54Next time, the Smurgasbur will be on Ole Olson.
00:05:01He was working on orders, Kingston.
00:05:03I should have introduced you fondly.
00:05:05He's Frank Reynolds, one of my assistants.
00:05:07I like this very much.
00:05:09I like every bit of it.
00:05:11We couldn't have taken you in on it.
00:05:12Your story wouldn't have rung true.
00:05:14If I've been sold a bill of goods...
00:05:16That's entirely unimportant.
00:05:17What is important is that phone call.
00:05:19Latimer to get to Samarkand,
00:05:21so an agent of mine will be in possession of certain facts.
00:05:23Oh, I'd give it all to me.
00:05:24I've got a right to know.
00:05:26Start the story from the beginning.
00:05:28Sorry, not until I have an ending.
00:05:31However, I'll give you a similar story,
00:05:32and you can yap your head off about it if you want to.
00:05:35Sit down.
00:05:39From the secret files of David Harding, counter-spy.
00:05:43That's me, Kingston.
00:05:45I want you to hear this so you'll know how we work
00:05:47and why you must be patient.
00:05:49The year was 1943.
00:05:52The place was Molina.
00:05:54That's where the Navy made torpedoes for our submarines.
00:05:57Pretty peaceful, you'd say.
00:05:59But the same war was raging there
00:06:01that was being fought elsewhere on land and sea.
00:06:04Not so openly at Molina,
00:06:06but equally for keeps.
00:06:09We'd already contacted Commander Phil Iverson,
00:06:11naval observer at the Molina plant,
00:06:13to tell him that there was sabotage there.
00:06:17That was June 16th,
00:06:19the last day Phil Iverson was seen alive.
00:06:23Betty Iverson, Phil's wife,
00:06:25was an employee at the Molina plants.
00:06:27She'd been away, Los Angeles, on a shopping spree.
00:06:30She returned on the 17th.
00:06:33She'd phoned the plant,
00:06:34and they'd told her that Phil hadn't turned up that day.
00:06:36So she figured he'd taken the day off
00:06:38for some well-deserved rest.
00:06:46She hurried on up to the apartment.
00:06:49The door was locked.
00:06:51Reaching for the key,
00:06:52she smelled something burning.
00:06:54In a panic,
00:06:54she managed to unlock the door.
00:06:56The room was airless,
00:06:58thick with suffocating smoke.
00:07:04Phil was lying on the bed, motionless.
00:07:07Betty tried to drag him outside.
00:07:09The smoke pouring out into the hall
00:07:10brought the neighbors,
00:07:11and one of them helped get Phil out of the apartment.
00:07:14others put in a call for an ambulance.
00:07:17But it was too late.
00:07:20Accidental death by asphyxiation.
00:07:22Small ring fire started by a cigarette.
00:07:25That was the verdict of the coroner's jury.
00:07:29Only it wasn't an accident.
00:07:31It was deliberate murder.
00:07:36How did you know it was murder?
00:07:37I'll get to that.
00:07:39We were fighting the clock.
00:07:40Our torpedoes had to be right
00:07:41for the Navy's big push to Tokyo.
00:07:43Every minute counted.
00:07:45We dug up everything we could on Iverson.
00:07:48His personal story was very interesting.
00:07:50Led us all the way to Honolulu
00:07:51and to his best friend,
00:07:53his classmate in Annapolis.
00:07:55Commander Jerry Baldwin.
00:07:57We held a conference with top Navy brass,
00:07:59and before young Commander Baldwin
00:08:01knew how or why,
00:08:02he was traveling back to the States
00:08:03with a top priority rating,
00:08:05under secret orders to report to me without delay.
00:08:13I soon learned, however,
00:08:14that he was tough, stubborn, and egotistic.
00:08:18Count a spy.
00:08:19Sounds like a job watching shoplifters
00:08:21in the department store.
00:08:22This is all very funny, Mr. Hardy.
00:08:24But if so happens,
00:08:24you've hit right into the heart
00:08:25of my personal life.
00:08:26I'd love Betty Iverson.
00:08:28For that matter, I still do.
00:08:29And you lost her to your best friend.
00:08:31What did you say if I told you
00:08:32Phil Iverson was murdered?
00:08:35Phil Iverson murdered?
00:08:36Does Betty know?
00:08:37The verdict of the coroner's jury
00:08:39was accepted by everyone,
00:08:41but me.
00:08:42I say you should take the job,
00:08:44if only to snap the girl
00:08:45out of the mental state
00:08:46she's been in since the death
00:08:47of her husband.
00:08:48Don't you think Phil Iverson
00:08:50would have done as much for you?
00:08:51But I'm a submarine, man.
00:08:52A torpedo expert.
00:08:53Torpedo expert?
00:08:55Too many of our fighting men
00:08:56are waiting for us
00:08:56to send the torpedoes
00:08:57that'll do the job
00:08:58they were designed to do.
00:09:00Phil Iverson learned something
00:09:01while working at Molino.
00:09:02Something he would have told us
00:09:03if he hadn't been murdered.
00:09:04You're going to take his place
00:09:05and find out what that something was.
00:09:07Yeah.
00:09:07Perhaps wind up as he did.
00:09:09Perhaps.
00:09:10Now, if you still don't want the job,
00:09:11say so,
00:09:11and we'll send you back to Pearl.
00:09:13I'll get somebody else to do it.
00:09:15I'll go to Molino.
00:09:16Good.
00:09:18Via Los Angeles
00:09:19and Betty Iverson.
00:09:21During the next hour,
00:09:22Peters will brief you
00:09:23on what you're to do,
00:09:23say, and think
00:09:24for the next 30 days.
00:09:27I don't think
00:09:28I'm going to like you,
00:09:29Mr. Harley.
00:09:29My boy,
00:09:31you'll find very few
00:09:32human beings who do.
00:09:46So what if we gambled
00:09:47the life of one young man?
00:09:49We were gambling
00:09:50with human lives.
00:09:53At that very moment,
00:09:54other boys,
00:09:55as personable as Jerry Baldwin,
00:09:56were being ordered out
00:09:57on night machine gun attacks.
00:09:59There was no difference.
00:10:01For Jerry Baldwin, too,
00:10:03would be fighting in the dark.
00:10:13If I hadn't gotten your wire,
00:10:15I'd be in Mexico City.
00:10:16Now, I know you can't
00:10:17really run away from things, Jerry,
00:10:19but I've been trying.
00:10:21Tell me about you.
00:10:23I thought you were in the
00:10:23South Pacific
00:10:24with a native girl
00:10:25on each knee.
00:10:26Well, it doesn't like that
00:10:27in the South Pacific, Betty,
00:10:28I'm sorry to say,
00:10:29but don't get the idea...
00:10:30Don't say it, Jerry.
00:10:32I gave you
00:10:33a pretty rough deal,
00:10:34didn't I?
00:10:35I'm sorry.
00:10:37But you still haven't told me
00:10:38what you're doing stateside.
00:10:40I'm going to Molino.
00:10:41I'm taking over Phil's old job.
00:10:43Jerry.
00:10:44Well, what's so surprising
00:10:45about that?
00:10:46Ordnance qualifications
00:10:47identical,
00:10:47ever since the Annapolis days.
00:10:50Betty,
00:10:50I'm going to need
00:10:51help on Molino.
00:10:52You were Phil's secretary,
00:10:54and who can I trust
00:10:55as I can trust you?
00:10:58No, Jerry,
00:10:58I couldn't do it.
00:11:00You didn't know
00:11:00Terry Brantley.
00:11:01He was a classmate
00:11:02of Phil's and mine.
00:11:03He went down
00:11:04with the Arizona
00:11:05the same morning
00:11:06that his wife gave birth
00:11:07to a baby boy
00:11:08who died exactly
00:11:09five minutes later.
00:11:11One week later,
00:11:12Mary Brantley
00:11:13applied for a job
00:11:14to the Douglas aircraft
00:11:15in Santa Monica
00:11:16and got it.
00:11:17She's still there
00:11:18making plane parts.
00:11:20I've always admired
00:11:21Mary Brantley.
00:11:23In other words,
00:11:25I'm a coward.
00:11:28Could it be
00:11:29that you still
00:11:29like me, Commander?
00:11:31Like is a mild word.
00:11:32I'm not exactly
00:11:33a mild guy.
00:11:35I loved you
00:11:36since the day
00:11:36Phil first set eyes
00:11:37on you.
00:11:39Jerry, I...
00:11:41All right,
00:11:41the subject is closed.
00:11:42You're going to Mexico
00:11:43and I'm going to Molino.
00:11:45But don't think
00:11:46I'll wind up
00:11:47the way Phil did.
00:11:50Jerry,
00:11:50what are you driving at?
00:11:52Oh, nothing except
00:11:53that one of the first
00:11:53things you learn
00:11:54when you go to sea
00:11:54is that you don't
00:11:56smoke in the sack.
00:11:59Are you trying
00:11:59to tell me that
00:12:00Phil's death
00:12:00was no accident?
00:12:02What I said now
00:12:03is that I was
00:12:04going to Molino.
00:12:11When do we leave?
00:12:13There it was,
00:12:14the Molino torpedo plant,
00:12:16where we were losing
00:12:17a battle comparable
00:12:17to our first reverses
00:12:18in Africa.
00:12:20Every day lost
00:12:21was a feather
00:12:22in Hitler's war bonnet.
00:12:23And at the moment
00:12:24he was wearing
00:12:25the headdress
00:12:25of an Apache chief.
00:12:27It was a vast plant,
00:12:28the Molino installation,
00:12:29with complicated
00:12:30personnel problems
00:12:31consuming thousands
00:12:32of man hours.
00:12:34Robert Barrington
00:12:35was in charge
00:12:36of that department.
00:12:37A day and night worker
00:12:39on a day and night job.
00:12:41For every soul of Molino
00:12:43had to stand
00:12:43the test of loyalty.
00:12:44Their personal histories
00:12:45had to check.
00:12:47You know what one
00:12:48bad apple can do
00:12:48to a barrel.
00:12:50Every worker at Molino
00:12:51was required
00:12:52to take a physical.
00:12:53So health was a problem
00:12:55of Dr. George Vickers,
00:12:57who'd given up
00:12:58a lucrative private practice
00:12:59in Seattle
00:13:00to do his share
00:13:01for the war effort.
00:13:02The only pharmacy
00:13:03in town that can fill
00:13:04that prescription
00:13:04is the ABC
00:13:05on Carson Street.
00:13:09Well, who's next, nurse?
00:13:10Mrs. Iverson, doctor.
00:13:12Why, if it isn't
00:13:13Mrs. Iverson.
00:13:14I heard you were back,
00:13:15my dear.
00:13:15I'm with 10 million
00:13:16flu germs, doctor.
00:13:18Oh, come in.
00:13:19I'm glad to see you, Betty.
00:13:21Name, please.
00:13:23R.E.L. Schiller.
00:13:25Draftsman.
00:13:25No, R.
00:13:27R.E.L.
00:13:28That stands for
00:13:29Robert E. Lee.
00:13:30I'm a transfer
00:13:31from the Duval plant
00:13:32in Fort Worth.
00:13:33My home is in
00:13:35Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
00:13:38I'm a southerner, ma'am.
00:13:40You'd never guess it.
00:13:43No, commander.
00:13:44All sketches
00:13:44of new designs
00:13:45clear through me.
00:13:46The ones that have
00:13:47anything,
00:13:47I forward along
00:13:48this line to OSRD.
00:13:50Oh, Officer Scientific
00:13:50Research and Development.
00:13:52That's right.
00:13:53Well, hello, Mrs. Iverson.
00:13:55Hello, Mr. Hopkins.
00:14:00That'll be all, Hopkins.
00:14:01We'll get together tomorrow.
00:14:02Okay.
00:14:05Oh, Hopkins.
00:14:06Give me a hand, will you?
00:14:07I'd like to move this desk.
00:14:09Sure thing.
00:14:09Where do you want?
00:14:10Uh, over there.
00:14:16All right.
00:14:17All right.
00:14:17Let's put it over here.
00:14:20Put the couch down there.
00:14:22Okay.
00:14:25I'm sorry.
00:14:31How's that, commander?
00:14:31More to your taste?
00:14:33That's fine, Hopkins.
00:14:34Thanks again.
00:14:34Okay, commander.
00:14:35Goodbye, Mrs. Iverson.
00:14:36Goodbye, Mr. Hopkins.
00:14:38Jerry.
00:14:40Jerry, what's the idea
00:14:41of the desk moving routine?
00:14:42Now, skip it.
00:14:44Here's your book.
00:14:45I've got a report to write
00:14:46on acoustic problems
00:14:47and compressible fluids.
00:14:48Ready, Mrs. Iverson?
00:14:50Jerry.
00:14:51Jerry, what is this
00:14:52about the desk?
00:14:53It has something
00:14:54to do with me
00:14:54and I know it.
00:14:57Okay.
00:15:00I could see it
00:15:00in your eyes.
00:15:02He looks just like Phil
00:15:03sitting there
00:15:03on that desk.
00:15:05That's what you were saying.
00:15:07It was written
00:15:07all over your face.
00:15:10I love Phil.
00:15:11I wish he was sitting
00:15:12there where that sap is.
00:15:15Now, we're going
00:15:15to get the work off.
00:15:17What does the doctor say?
00:15:19Well, little temperature,
00:15:21sore throat.
00:15:22Nothing serious.
00:15:23Then you better go home.
00:15:24I can call Steno
00:15:24and get another girl
00:15:25to help me today.
00:15:26Oh, no.
00:15:27The name is Mary Brantley.
00:15:28She can make plain parts.
00:15:30I can take shorthand.
00:15:32Okay, Mary Brantley.
00:15:35Commander Baldwin
00:15:36to OSRD.
00:15:37Report 44.
00:15:39Subject,
00:15:39order 3002.
00:15:41Molino installations
00:15:42have begun study
00:15:43at once of rotating
00:15:44channels of water
00:15:45as them passing
00:15:45the blaze of a propeller
00:15:46or impeller.
00:15:47Object to learn exactly
00:15:48the way a fluid operates
00:15:51in the turbulence
00:15:52of being driven.
00:15:57Yeah.
00:15:57I'm sorry, Betty.
00:15:58You know I love you.
00:16:00But this is the last time
00:16:01I'll ever mention it.
00:16:03If the subject
00:16:03is ever brought up again,
00:16:05you'll have to do the bringing.
00:16:07I'll remember that, Jerry.
00:16:10Object to learn exactly
00:16:11how a fluid operates
00:16:13in the turbulence
00:16:13of being driven.
00:16:14Yeah.
00:16:16Well,
00:16:17getting back
00:16:18to the Molino installation.
00:16:37Bill Iverson's widow
00:16:38out with every Tom,
00:16:39Dick, and Jerry.
00:16:40That's what they're saying.
00:16:41And what are you saying,
00:16:42Commander?
00:16:43Life is a jest
00:16:44and all things show it.
00:16:45I thought so once,
00:16:46but now I know it.
00:16:48The Epitop of John Gay,
00:16:49written by himself.
00:16:511685, 1732,
00:16:52English poet.
00:16:53Jerry, you're an idiot.
00:17:08Something wrong, Jerry?
00:17:09Oh, nothing, honey.
00:17:10I have a thirst
00:17:11that even the camel
00:17:12might envy.
00:17:13You get such a strange
00:17:14look on their face
00:17:15every now and then.
00:17:17Spore one to thinker.
00:17:19Come on, Betty,
00:17:19I'm thirsty.
00:17:25Oh, hello, Mrs. Iverson.
00:17:26I thought you were
00:17:27interested in getting
00:17:28a temperature down,
00:17:29not up.
00:17:30Well, what are you to do
00:17:31when the Navy orders,
00:17:32Doctor?
00:17:32Have you met
00:17:33Commander Baldwin,
00:17:34Dr. Vickers?
00:17:34No, and from the looks
00:17:35of him,
00:17:36I'm not liable
00:17:36so professionally.
00:17:38How do you do, Doctor?
00:17:38How about a drink?
00:17:39No, thank you.
00:17:40My motto is
00:17:41sleep ye in the shade
00:17:43of the vine,
00:17:43but partake ye
00:17:44not of his juice.
00:17:46Thanks.
00:17:46Just the same, Commander.
00:17:47Good night.
00:17:48See you later, Doctor.
00:17:49Good night.
00:17:58Two old-fashioned, please.
00:18:00Oh, and throw away
00:18:01your eyedropper this time,
00:18:02will you?
00:18:02No one else is complaining
00:18:03about the amount of whiskey
00:18:04I put in my drinks.
00:18:05Oh, I'm not complaining
00:18:06about the amount of whiskey
00:18:07you put in your drinks.
00:18:08I'm complaining about
00:18:09the amount of whiskey
00:18:09you put in my drinks.
00:18:11The Navy.
00:18:22How's that one, Admiral?
00:18:23Strong enough for you?
00:18:28Thanks for the promotion.
00:18:29But I still say
00:18:30as a bartender,
00:18:30you serve fine-colored water.
00:18:33Come on, Betty.
00:18:55Extra, extra.
00:18:57Navy loses big ship
00:18:59off the Solomons.
00:19:00Cruiser Helena goes down.
00:19:02Extra.
00:19:04Do you want to pay for Jerry?
00:19:05Go pay for Betty.
00:19:07Extra, extra.
00:19:08Cruiser goes down.
00:19:10Extra.
00:19:12Walde Jones
00:19:13was navigating
00:19:14over to the Helena.
00:19:16He was in our class, too.
00:19:33Would you like to come in
00:19:33for a minute, Jerry?
00:19:34No, thanks, Sonny G.
00:19:36I'd love to,
00:19:36but I'm afraid
00:19:37to be alone with you
00:19:38on a night like this.
00:19:39Well, I just couldn't
00:19:40control myself.
00:19:42That's awful big of you, Jerry.
00:19:43You know, in some ways
00:19:44I like you a lot.
00:19:47Good night, Betty.
00:19:48Good night, Jerry.
00:20:14Good night, Jerry.
00:20:33Oh, officer.
00:20:34Yes, Commander.
00:20:35There's a drunken beggar back there.
00:20:36I think he's passed out by now,
00:20:37but he should be locked up.
00:20:38Oh, uh,
00:20:39isn't there any law and order, Melino?
00:20:40I'll take care of him, Commander.
00:21:02Well, good evening, gentlemen.
00:21:04I, uh, can't say
00:21:05this is entirely unexpected,
00:21:07what with the, uh,
00:21:08shortage of sleeping combinations
00:21:09since due to the war.
00:21:10However, I-
00:21:10Shut up and get moving.
00:21:11Oh, sure.
00:21:12Sure.
00:21:15After you, gentlemen.
00:21:16After you, champ.
00:21:17None of that rough stuff
00:21:18you pull on Edwards.
00:21:20Oh, uh,
00:21:20friends of the drunken beggar, huh?
00:21:22Well, it looks like
00:21:23I'm in for it, doesn't it?
00:21:32Well, I suppose it's better
00:21:35than being taken to the cleaners.
00:21:37Say, as, uh,
00:21:37one old laundromant to another,
00:21:39couldn't we, uh,
00:21:40iron this out peacefully?
00:21:41Shut up.
00:21:42No gopher sauce, though, huh?
00:21:43Rough dry as a Bower Alley,
00:21:44Baldwin.
00:21:45Come on.
00:21:45Well, at least you know my name
00:21:46if I ever lose a shirt.
00:22:07There's the door.
00:22:08Go on in.
00:22:09Yeah.
00:22:10The next stop, the mango.
00:22:12Any rates for dying?
00:22:19In there.
00:22:24They said in there.
00:22:31Turn the lights on.
00:22:36Baldwin.
00:22:37Will you please tell me
00:22:38what you're trying to do?
00:22:40Annihilate my entire field staff?
00:22:42Oh, so this caricature's
00:22:44worked for you.
00:22:45Why don't they identify themselves?
00:22:47I'm easy to approach.
00:22:48Now, wait a minute, Baldwin.
00:22:49Edwards here is part of my outfit.
00:22:50We were giving you protection,
00:22:51that's all.
00:22:52Protection for me?
00:22:53Who's protecting Edwards?
00:22:55Ever since I came to Molino,
00:22:56I've been doing the job
00:22:57I'm supposed to do.
00:22:58When anyone starts throwing
00:22:59mystery at me,
00:22:59I start throwing punches.
00:23:00Take it easy.
00:23:02I'm surprised I got you away
00:23:03from the Navy as easily as I did.
00:23:04I must be prolonging the war
00:23:05by at least 10 years.
00:23:07Introduction can wait till we eat.
00:23:09Peters, keep taking the calls.
00:23:10Yes, sir.
00:23:11This is field headquarters, Baldwin.
00:23:13What we're projecting on that screen
00:23:14is the result of a month's
00:23:15photographing of day-to-day activity
00:23:17at the Molino plant.
00:23:18We're looking for leads,
00:23:19understand?
00:23:20Our situation hasn't improved
00:23:22in precious mounting.
00:23:23But sit down,
00:23:24we can get up later.
00:23:25Let's go, Burton.
00:23:32We have 55 cameras
00:23:34planted about the plant.
00:23:35So far,
00:23:36now the thing has turned up a value.
00:23:42How are you getting along?
00:23:44I told you,
00:23:44just doing my job.
00:23:46Get Jimmy with Iverson's
00:23:47former friends.
00:23:49Go to every bar,
00:23:50restaurant,
00:23:51drugstore,
00:23:51anywhere Iverson might have gone.
00:23:59Hold it!
00:24:03Rerun that last 10 feet.
00:24:07Lip reader ready?
00:24:09Ready, sir.
00:24:10Projection ready, sir.
00:24:11Here we go.
00:24:23Got it, Brown?
00:24:25Yes, sir.
00:24:26I don't think it's exactly
00:24:27what we're looking for, sir.
00:24:29The fellow on the left
00:24:30is naming some girl
00:24:31on the assembly line.
00:24:33Says she goes for guys
00:24:34just like him.
00:24:35Can you get her name?
00:24:37Yes, sir,
00:24:37but he says he can't
00:24:38personally recommend her, sir.
00:24:41Save your humor
00:24:42until the war is won, Brown.
00:24:43Go ahead, run on.
00:24:56Hold it!
00:24:59Re-run that film.
00:25:07Ready, sir?
00:25:08Ready.
00:25:09Go ahead.
00:25:15Lights!
00:25:24What do you make
00:25:25of that draftsman?
00:25:26Who is he?
00:25:27Hopkins.
00:25:28Chief draftsman.
00:25:28Contact with OSRD.
00:25:30He evaluates new design
00:25:31before sending on
00:25:32worthwhile information
00:25:33to OSRD.
00:25:34I want to know
00:25:35everything about him.
00:25:36Where he came from,
00:25:37who his parents were.
00:25:41where he came from,
00:25:44how long he's used it.
00:25:45Yes, sir.
00:25:45The plant doctor
00:25:46gave him a prescription
00:25:47today to be filled
00:25:48at the ABC pharmacy
00:25:49on Carson Street.
00:25:50Good boy.
00:25:52Burton,
00:25:53get a hold of that
00:25:53prescription.
00:25:54Substitute knockout drops.
00:25:56Give you time
00:25:57to examine that hearing aid.
00:25:58telephone, Mr. Harding.
00:26:00Thought I told you
00:26:00to handle all calls.
00:26:01It's Washington, sir.
00:26:02Navy department.
00:26:04Oh.
00:26:09Harding speaking.
00:26:11Yes, I read about it.
00:26:12The Helena.
00:26:13Fine ship.
00:26:15I know you're
00:26:15depending on us.
00:26:17We've got the whole plant
00:26:18actually jumping
00:26:19with agents.
00:26:20Give me another
00:26:21ten days.
00:26:22I promise you
00:26:23I'll crack this case.
00:26:25Right.
00:26:30Well,
00:26:32I guess you can figure out
00:26:33what that was.
00:26:36I want to know
00:26:37why the only clue
00:26:38after all our digging
00:26:39is a measly hearing aid
00:26:41that may be a camera.
00:26:42Well, it looked to me
00:26:43like the man just had
00:26:43a crack on his neck.
00:26:44But can we afford
00:26:45to take a chance?
00:26:47Blueprints are being altered.
00:26:48Sometimes no more than
00:26:49a millionth of an inch.
00:26:50But enough to make
00:26:51the finished product
00:26:51effective.
00:26:52There may be dozens
00:26:53of enemy agents
00:26:54working here in Molino.
00:26:56If we can smoke out one
00:26:57the rest will follow.
00:26:59Burton,
00:27:00follow through
00:27:01on that hearing aid.
00:27:02Very well, sir.
00:27:04Ten days.
00:27:07I promise to do this
00:27:09in ten days.
00:27:11Still no comment?
00:27:12All right, let's eat.
00:27:18Maybe you want to
00:27:19pour this churn.
00:27:20That's it.
00:27:21Ham on a ride.
00:27:24And salami.
00:27:25I might as well be home.
00:27:26How's the romance going?
00:27:29Romance?
00:27:30Say, why did you bring me
00:27:31all the way from Honolulu,
00:27:32Mr. Harding?
00:27:33One reason I always
00:27:34wear a coat is that
00:27:35when I'm in my shirt sleeves,
00:27:36my cubits wings show.
00:27:41I don't know.
00:27:41Well, there was Molino
00:27:42in July of 43.
00:27:44It was like a kitchen
00:27:45in which the cook
00:27:46is about to bake a cake.
00:27:47All the ingredients
00:27:48were there.
00:27:49Milk, eggs, flour,
00:27:50everything.
00:27:52It is almost ready
00:27:53for the mixing bowl.
00:27:54But much too early
00:27:54to think about
00:27:55what kind of frosting.
00:27:56Or even the shape
00:27:57we'd bake it in.
00:27:58No, at the moment
00:28:00we were just getting
00:28:00the oven hot.
00:28:05The Navy was in a spot
00:28:06and time was running out.
00:28:08Our organization
00:28:09was young in those days,
00:28:11still on trial.
00:28:12And everything bad
00:28:14that could happen,
00:28:15happened.
00:28:26Come on, I'm shaking,
00:28:27son of a bitch.
00:28:28If I...
00:28:28I hate her.
00:28:31Say, what is this?
00:28:33Some bookie joint
00:28:33or something?
00:28:35No wonder three days
00:28:36in a row
00:28:36I get this shirt
00:28:37by mistake.
00:28:38I'm taking a trip.
00:28:39I'll say you're taking a trip.
00:28:40Are you a resident
00:28:41here in Molino?
00:28:43Not a worker at the plant?
00:28:44I'm very sorry, sir.
00:28:46But for security reasons,
00:28:47you're going bye-bye
00:28:48for ten days.
00:28:49All expenses paid.
00:28:50Take care of it, Peters.
00:28:51Right this way, my friend.
00:28:52You're disappearing.
00:28:52I don't want to go bye-bye.
00:28:53I got friends
00:28:54in the police department.
00:28:55You'll hear about this.
00:28:56I mean that.
00:28:58I'm sorry, Mr. Hardy.
00:28:59I tried to keep him out.
00:29:00Carry on.
00:29:01Yes, sir.
00:29:06Well, our crick in the neck
00:29:07is no crook in the dark,
00:29:08Mr. Hardy.
00:29:08I had to practically
00:29:09marry the landlady
00:29:10to get a room next to his.
00:29:12I thought he'd never
00:29:12get a sleeping pill
00:29:13down his gullet.
00:29:15Well, our hearing aid
00:29:16is a hearing aid.
00:29:16It ain't no camera.
00:29:19Here's Hopkins
00:29:20and his family tree
00:29:20back to the Boston tea party.
00:29:22If you can find a blemish,
00:29:23I'm Benedict Arnold.
00:29:26All right.
00:29:26Maybe I'm wrong.
00:29:29Now, listen.
00:29:31In the morning,
00:29:32we're taking over
00:29:33operation of the
00:29:33Molino National Bank.
00:29:35We've had the plant itself
00:29:36put on a cash payroll basis.
00:29:38At this very moment,
00:29:39they're listing the serial numbers
00:29:40of every dollar
00:29:40that goes into
00:29:41Morris Payon groups.
00:29:43If any employee
00:29:44goes more often than normal
00:29:45to any laundry,
00:29:46movie, drugstore,
00:29:47shoe shop, etc.,
00:29:48we'll know it
00:29:49when those places
00:29:49bank their receipts.
00:29:52There's a contact spot
00:29:53somewhere in this town
00:29:54for unloading information.
00:29:55And we're gonna find it.
00:29:57Bolton,
00:29:58I thought you promised
00:29:59your girl
00:30:00you're taking to the movies.
00:30:02Well,
00:30:04here's a report you wanted.
00:30:05What time's the showing?
00:30:071 a.m.,
00:30:07if the lab keeps his promise.
00:30:09That's way past
00:30:09my bedtime, Buttercup,
00:30:10but I'll be here.
00:30:13Molino 24.
00:30:15Molino 24
00:30:16calling Naval Intelligence
00:30:17San Diego.
00:30:19Okay, Washington,
00:30:20you can talk to Mr. Harden now.
00:30:24Crick in the neck, eh?
00:30:28And a hole at Palboa
00:30:29once the war is over,
00:30:31a sailboat that two can handle,
00:30:32a shiny convertible.
00:30:34Don't forget
00:30:34the season football tickets
00:30:35in the opera first nights,
00:30:37too, please.
00:30:42Well,
00:30:43I'll tell you what I'll do.
00:30:44If I can get it right now,
00:30:46I'll settle for a box of popcorn.
00:30:48Oh, not popcorn,
00:30:49my pill.
00:30:51Okay.
00:30:53Could we have
00:30:54one box of popcorn, please?
00:30:57I don't know how anyone
00:30:57can eat that, Stada.
00:30:59I guess she doesn't care
00:30:59about a waistline.
00:31:02Oh, uh,
00:31:03how about the last row
00:31:04in the balcony?
00:31:05There, I can really function.
00:31:07Um, that's why
00:31:08we're sitting on the main floor.
00:31:36What's the matter?
00:31:37Dropped my purse.
00:31:39Oh, you're dating.
00:31:41Give me some popcorn.
00:31:43You don't like it.
00:31:45Besides,
00:31:45think of your waistline.
00:31:47I want some popcorn.
00:31:49Jerry,
00:31:49you don't like popcorn.
00:31:51Now,
00:31:51what is that gallop?
00:31:52What's I going to think
00:31:52when I start climbing over you?
00:31:54Now,
00:31:54give me some popcorn.
00:31:59It's gone.
00:31:59I had it right here
00:32:00on the seat beside me
00:32:01and I can't find it.
00:32:02Gone?
00:32:03I was going to steal popcorn.
00:32:06Sit down,
00:32:07will you?
00:32:07Sit down, Jerry.
00:32:09This is going to be
00:32:10a trapeze act.
00:32:11Let's all get in it.
00:32:13Sounds like a criminal.
00:32:15I bet he took it.
00:32:15I'll bet he didn't.
00:32:17It was the guy
00:32:17that was sitting right there
00:32:18that took your popcorn.
00:32:20Now,
00:32:20will you shut up
00:32:20and look at the movie?
00:32:22Okay, friend.
00:32:22Okay, okay.
00:32:31How was the movie?
00:32:33Like all the others,
00:32:34boy gets girl.
00:32:36That always happens.
00:32:37Does it?
00:32:38Oh, now,
00:32:39devious David Harding.
00:32:41What are you driving at?
00:32:50Hold that burden.
00:32:51Hold that on the screen.
00:32:56A crick in the neck, eh?
00:32:59I thought if I could
00:33:00ring a camera
00:33:00on the other side
00:33:01of this guy,
00:33:01we'd have something.
00:33:02What's his left hand doing?
00:33:04It's clicking
00:33:05the shutter of a camera.
00:33:06lights.
00:33:07Turn on the lights.
00:33:12Where's Benedict Arnold?
00:33:13Here, sir.
00:33:17Traced his family tree
00:33:18all the way back
00:33:19to the Boston tea party, eh?
00:33:21I ought to get you a cup of tea
00:33:22and let you read the leaves.
00:33:23That's the kind of deduction
00:33:24you've been giving me.
00:33:26And you, Burton,
00:33:27our crick in the neck
00:33:28is no crick in the dark, eh?
00:33:30So the hearing aid
00:33:31is a hearing aid,
00:33:32not a camera.
00:33:33Sorry, Mr. Harding.
00:33:34The hearing aid you examined
00:33:36was a hearing aid,
00:33:37all right.
00:33:37It's the one Hopkins
00:33:38wears to and from the plant.
00:33:40But the one he wears
00:33:40at the plant
00:33:41works on sight,
00:33:42not sound.
00:33:43Someone at the plant
00:33:44is the go-between.
00:33:46Someone at the plant
00:33:47takes the pictures
00:33:48Hopkins makes
00:33:49and has found
00:33:50some clever way
00:33:51to deliver them
00:33:51somewhere in town.
00:33:52We've got to find
00:33:54who that go-between is.
00:33:56McCullough,
00:33:57what would you do
00:33:58if you were in my spot?
00:34:00I'd dock us all
00:34:01six months' pay.
00:34:02Oh, no, you wouldn't.
00:34:04You do exactly
00:34:04what I'm going to do.
00:34:05Sit tight.
00:34:06We'll do nothing
00:34:07about Hopkins for the present
00:34:08because we want
00:34:08to get them all.
00:34:10Hopkins will lead us to them.
00:34:12Keep your eyes open,
00:34:13all of you.
00:34:15Now, this is the way
00:34:16to look at things.
00:34:19We're all in the same boat.
00:34:21Until two minutes ago,
00:34:23we had no oars.
00:34:25Hopkins has given us oars.
00:34:41I'll see you later.
00:34:45Oh, sorry to keep you waiting, Doctor.
00:34:47Oh, I don't mind, Commander.
00:34:49I hope I'm not out of order
00:34:51in approaching you,
00:34:52but you know how many people
00:34:53I see every day.
00:34:54And people will tell things
00:34:56to a doctor
00:34:56that they'll tell
00:34:57to no one else.
00:34:58Oh, I'm sorry, Commander.
00:35:00I didn't know you were busy.
00:35:01Excuse me, Doctor.
00:35:02That's all right, Betty.
00:35:05Oh, I'm sorry, Doctor.
00:35:06Go on.
00:35:06Well, it's just that I heard
00:35:08there were espionage agents
00:35:09at work here
00:35:10that the planter's
00:35:10being investigated.
00:35:12And I thought
00:35:12if there was any way
00:35:13I could help.
00:35:14Why, just the other day
00:35:16I got me a Southerner.
00:35:17Robert E. Lee Schiller,
00:35:19no less.
00:35:20He thinks I'm the greatest
00:35:21thing since ice cream.
00:35:22He's smart.
00:35:24If I could tell him
00:35:25what to look for,
00:35:26I'd have a one-man
00:35:27counter-espionage unit
00:35:28from which I could
00:35:29promise results.
00:35:32Oh, that's fine, Doctor.
00:35:33But if there's any espionage
00:35:35or counter-espionage
00:35:36in Molino,
00:35:37I know nothing of it.
00:35:38Well,
00:35:39maybe it's just a rumor.
00:35:41But I'll be very glad
00:35:42to do anything I can.
00:35:52Betty.
00:35:56Read this over and see
00:35:57if you can make
00:35:58any sense out of it.
00:36:22How's the romance going?
00:36:24Romance?
00:36:25Say, why did you bring me
00:36:27all the way from Honolulu
00:36:27to Mr. Harding?
00:36:30It was the guy
00:36:31that was sitting right there
00:36:31that took your popcorn.
00:36:40Jerry, this is a wonderful report.
00:36:42Much better than Phil
00:36:42could have done.
00:36:45I'm sorry.
00:36:46But I haven't mentioned
00:36:47his name in ages.
00:36:48It's a good report, Jerry.
00:36:50Will you take it down
00:36:51to OSRD,
00:36:51and when you come back,
00:36:52we'll go over
00:36:52the Hopkins memorandum.
00:36:53Sure.
00:37:14Jerry,
00:37:15Jerry,
00:37:16that big shop
00:37:16from OSRD
00:37:17was going by,
00:37:18and I gave it to him
00:37:18personally.
00:37:20Jerry,
00:37:21what are you looking for?
00:37:22Oh,
00:37:23cigarettes.
00:37:23I just ran out of them.
00:37:24Oh, help yourself.
00:37:26Hopkins gave them to me.
00:37:27He borrowed a pack
00:37:28from me last week,
00:37:29and like an honest man,
00:37:29returned them today.
00:37:31Where are those
00:37:32Hopkins papers?
00:37:33Find them, Adam,
00:37:33and you win a shiny new refrigerator.
00:37:35Give me the clue again.
00:37:38Oh.
00:37:41Here we are,
00:37:42Mr. Quizmaster.
00:37:43Say,
00:37:44have you seen
00:37:44that new girl down in...
00:37:49Jerry?
00:37:52Yeah.
00:37:54What were you looking for?
00:37:56I told you,
00:37:57cigarettes.
00:37:59What are these?
00:38:02Well,
00:38:03I'll be...
00:38:04Say,
00:38:04I'd better go and see Vickers
00:38:05and get my eyes examined.
00:38:08All set,
00:38:09Commander.
00:38:10The Hopkins memorandum.
00:38:18Report 2476.
00:38:19Commander Baldwin's
00:38:20Naval Ordnance.
00:38:21Subject?
00:38:24He suspects me.
00:38:25I'm through here.
00:38:26I've got to get out.
00:38:27We still have a job to do.
00:38:29Phil Iverson suspected you too,
00:38:30remember?
00:38:31But I don't want the same thing
00:38:32to happen to Jerry Baldwin.
00:38:33Phil meant nothing to me.
00:38:35And Jerry?
00:38:36I just want all of us
00:38:38to stay alive a little longer,
00:38:39that's all.
00:38:40I'm glad you said us.
00:38:43It's Jerry now.
00:38:44He said he'd drop by for me.
00:38:49How much is he in love with you?
00:38:51He's had it pretty bad,
00:38:52I think.
00:38:53And what are you worried about?
00:38:55You know what to do.
00:38:57I can't.
00:38:59Sure you can.
00:39:09Get going, girl.
00:39:13And good luck.
00:39:22Jerry.
00:39:23Yeah?
00:39:25Do you remember
00:39:26that night at the movie?
00:39:27Yeah.
00:39:28I mean,
00:39:29when you talked about
00:39:30the home at Balboa
00:39:31after the war
00:39:32and a sailboat?
00:39:34Yeah.
00:39:36Oh, that leads me
00:39:37to something else.
00:39:39I think it was shortly
00:39:40after we started working together
00:39:42here in Molino.
00:39:44The scene was your office.
00:39:48Your words went something like this.
00:39:51You know I love you,
00:39:53but it's the last time
00:39:54I'll ever mention it.
00:39:55If the subject's ever brought up again,
00:39:58you'll have to do the bringing.
00:40:01I remember, Betty.
00:40:04I'm ready to do the bringing, Jerry.
00:40:08Betty.
00:40:10It's so strange.
00:40:11I feel like a child
00:40:12standing in front of a blackboard
00:40:14who just begins to see
00:40:16that the column she's added
00:40:18hasn't added up correctly.
00:40:20So she has her eraser in her hand
00:40:23ready to wipe out everything
00:40:24and stir it over again.
00:40:27Jerry, if it can be erased,
00:40:28let her figure the best way to do it.
00:40:30Just for a little while.
00:40:32Anything you say, honey.
00:40:36I know it's early,
00:40:37but take me home, will you?
00:40:38Sure.
00:40:39Miss,
00:40:41check, please.
00:40:41Come on.
00:40:43Go.
00:40:47Come on.
00:40:52Come on.
00:40:55Come on.
00:40:58Come on.
00:41:02Come on.
00:41:24They just left the jade.
00:41:29For a man that's just been proposed to, you're awfully quiet.
00:41:32I'm the kind of a guy that sings at funerals and cries at weddings.
00:41:43I know.
00:41:45Even though you're a fast worker, you think that what I said tonight came a little too fast.
00:41:50No, Betty, it isn't that. I'm a stupid guy.
00:41:53I have no exaggerated opinion of myself.
00:41:56I'm just a guy like Phil was and a hundred others I could name.
00:42:00But I do have one saving grace.
00:42:02If we ever do get together, there's always one thing you can depend upon.
00:42:06I'll never double-cross you.
00:42:09There's one thing you can depend on too, Jerry.
00:42:12If we ever get together, I'll never double-cross you.
00:42:22Good night, darling. I love you.
00:42:27Good night, Jerry.
00:42:35Curtain.
00:42:38Curtain! If I didn't know you so well, I'd say you were the world's finest actress.
00:42:43You wanted me to make him think I loved him, didn't you?
00:42:46You are in love with him, honey.
00:42:48That performance was a little too good.
00:42:51That's why I stayed here, to make sure.
00:42:53He trusts me now. That's all that matters.
00:42:56That I don't trust you while he's around.
00:42:58I thought it over while you were gone.
00:43:00I got in touch with Grady.
00:43:02No.
00:43:05Nothing must happen to him. Do you hear me?
00:43:07Go ahead. Say the rest of it.
00:43:08You love him. You never love Phil.
00:43:10Nothing must happen to Jerry Baldwin.
00:43:12Well, it's happened.
00:43:13Or it will happen when he gets home, just as it did to Phil.
00:43:16No!
00:43:17You're going to have a little time to think this over.
00:43:55You're a little too guilty.
00:43:57You're a little too late.
00:43:58No, you're a little too late.
00:43:59Let's fall in love.
00:44:02No, you're a little too late.
00:44:08I'm Jordyn.
00:44:13I'm Linda.
00:44:16I'm Linda.
00:44:17Let's go.
00:44:46Oh, oh, oh.
00:45:16Oh, oh, oh.
00:45:46Oh, oh, oh.
00:46:22Oh.
00:46:52No, no, I told you, I don't want to.
00:46:53I don't know the address.
00:46:55You can get it from the plant.
00:46:57Yes, it's Commander Baldwin in his apartment.
00:47:00And hurry!
00:47:26Let's go.
00:47:28Let's go.
00:48:00Let's go.
00:48:02Let's go home a half hour before it happened.
00:48:03Besides, she has her own phone.
00:48:05She wouldn't be using a pay phone.
00:48:07I know it's pretty hard to arrive at some decisions in life.
00:48:10Especially when they have to do with someone you love.
00:48:13But are you sure you've told me everything you know?
00:48:16That depends upon what you know, Mr. Harding.
00:48:18I don't know anything for sure.
00:48:20In this work, nobody does.
00:48:22Everything is guesswork.
00:48:24With some guesses better than others, that's all.
00:48:27And your guessing is along what line?
00:48:29Some of it goes this way, maybe.
00:48:31Our opponents may have thought you were in this alone.
00:48:33That you were on the track of something.
00:48:35If you weren't alone, they'd soon know that too.
00:48:38So?
00:48:39So they're soon gonna know.
00:48:40We're seeing to it.
00:48:42They may be able to gamble for time.
00:48:44We can't afford to.
00:48:45One by one tonight, we're starting to smoke them out.
00:48:48Oh, please.
00:48:49Not that phrase.
00:48:50Not with me.
00:48:51You know, things have happened, Mr. Harding,
00:48:53but nothing that can't be labeled as confused thinking.
00:48:57If I were positive about anything, I'd tell you.
00:49:00And the rest of my guessing, well, is just guessing.
00:49:03If I were positive, I'd lay it all out for you.
00:49:07But you will admit, there was some reason for sending for you.
00:49:10All the way to Honolulu.
00:49:19The smoking out process had to start with Hopkins, our only lead.
00:49:23I had him tailed, praying for a break.
00:49:29Frank Edwards was on him,
00:49:31sticking closer to him than his own skin.
00:49:37I'm sorry.
00:49:44I know you don't need that, all right.
00:49:50I know you don't need that.
00:49:56But he had to go with me.
00:49:56No, no, no, no, no.
00:49:56Not good at all.
00:49:57I don't know what a kid.
00:49:59No, no.
00:50:00No, no, no.
00:50:21Hopkins must have gotten careless. He's being followed.
00:50:24Yes, he's walking home. He'll cut across from Carson Street and head down Cordova.
00:50:29Tell Baker and Grady to meet me near Cordova and 3rd.
00:50:45Let's go.
00:51:25I beg your pardon, sir. I wonder if you could tell me where number 34 would be.
00:51:41It is sheer stupidity. Following a man means following him. Not stopping to phone anyone.
00:51:45I only thought... You only thought! Maybe if you'd stop thinking we'd get somewhere.
00:51:52I thought I just left you in bed.
00:51:54Well, I wanted to be in on that smokey-out deal.
00:51:56Peters? They struck fast. We've got to make the next move equally fast.
00:52:01They've had Edwards for 10 minutes. They probably still haven't contacted Hopkins.
00:52:05Get him before they reach him. We'll send them a Hopkins of our own.
00:52:09Right. Come on, Burton.
00:52:15Did you come directly here?
00:52:17No. I stopped at Betty's.
00:52:19And?
00:52:19She was in bed.
00:52:20So?
00:52:21So I called the switchboard, found out you were here and came over.
00:52:24You called from her phone?
00:52:25Sure.
00:52:26What's wrong with that?
00:52:27Nothing.
00:52:28Was she all right?
00:52:30Sure. Why shouldn't you be?
00:52:32Oh, she struck her head on the bathroom door, but she was awful glad to see me,
00:52:35even though I awakened her in the middle of the night.
00:52:38Struck her head, eh?
00:52:41Listen, everybody.
00:52:42This is the first roll of the dice.
00:52:45We're gambling everything on one big move.
00:52:48Saturday afternoon, a plane is flying in torpedo plans to be locked in the vault until they go into work
00:52:52on Monday.
00:52:53I want to be sure that everyone in Molino knows those plans are coming on Saturday.
00:52:58Navy plans, sir?
00:53:00Our plans, Reynolds.
00:53:03After all, I need my rest.
00:53:05Isn't this something that could have waited until tomorrow?
00:53:07Read any good books lately, Hopkins?
00:53:10Answer my question.
00:53:11Maybe you'd better get ready to answer a few.
00:53:14Give me all the dope on our board of air patrols, schedules, etc.
00:53:17Yes, sir.
00:53:17Reynolds, you and Baldwin come with me.
00:53:19Right this way, Mr. Hopkins.
00:53:20I demand...
00:53:20You're through demanding, Hopkins.
00:53:23Mr. Hopkins, meet Mr. Hopkins.
00:53:28Well, I...
00:53:28Shut up, you.
00:53:29I just thought I'd save time.
00:53:30Reynolds, line up alongside this yokel.
00:53:34So far, so good.
00:53:36Take your clothes off, Hopkins.
00:53:37I will not.
00:53:38You heard him.
00:53:38He said take your clothes off.
00:53:40Switch with him, Reynolds, and you know the rest.
00:53:42I'll be right back.
00:53:43Come on, Baldwin.
00:53:48Now that we're alone, dearie, hurry up and get your clothes off.
00:53:55You say Betty struck her head colliding with the bathroom door?
00:53:57That's right.
00:53:59I don't suppose you noticed whether the awning below her window was torn or not.
00:54:02As though a body had fallen under before it landed on the street.
00:54:05So now I'm in awning, Inspector, too, huh?
00:54:08Look, Harding, all those little cracks you've been making about that girl are beginning to snowball.
00:54:12Now, if you know something, tell me.
00:54:13I told you earlier tonight I was just guessing.
00:54:15And that if I was positive, I'd lay it all out for you.
00:54:18We're ready, Mr. Harding.
00:54:20Coming, Reynolds.
00:54:21And I'll do just that, Baldwin.
00:54:24You have my word.
00:54:28Morning, Inspector.
00:54:31Okay, Reynolds, go ahead.
00:54:33All right, Hopkins.
00:54:34Like I told you, word for word.
00:54:38Well, come on, come on.
00:54:41Hello, Hopkins speaking.
00:54:43Glad you called.
00:54:45They picked me up.
00:54:48No, just routine questioning.
00:54:49They don't know a thing.
00:54:50All right, now laugh.
00:54:51Oh, I want to hear that laugh.
00:54:53Oh, no, no.
00:54:54Come on, now laugh.
00:54:55Laugh like you usually laugh.
00:54:59All right, that's better.
00:55:00Now go ahead.
00:55:01So what do we do now?
00:55:03Say, who is this?
00:55:04Where are you calling from?
00:55:05Okay.
00:55:06All right, that's all right.
00:55:08Hello.
00:55:09Hopkins speaking.
00:55:11Glad you called.
00:55:13They picked me up.
00:55:14No, just routine questioning.
00:55:16They don't know a thing.
00:55:20So what do we do now?
00:55:21Say, who is this?
00:55:22Where are you calling from?
00:55:24Okay, you could fool me.
00:55:26That's a pretty tight fit.
00:55:28You think you could still get a bulletproof vest under it?
00:55:30Oh, yes, sir.
00:55:31I think so, sir.
00:55:32Then do so.
00:55:33You may need it.
00:55:33Meet me at the car.
00:55:34Come on, Baldwin.
00:55:36You'll excuse us, Mr. Hopkins?
00:55:38I see that you're not lonesome while we're away.
00:55:40Peters?
00:55:41Yes, sir.
00:55:42Play some photograph records for Mr. Hopkins.
00:55:44Perhaps some compositions by Bach or Franz Liszt.
00:55:47I think if sufficiently inspired, Mr. Hopkins may be persuaded to sing.
00:55:54You know, you look to me like a fellow that could carry a tune real good.
00:56:04This is always the hardest part, the waiting.
00:56:07If they're concentrating on Edwards, they may skip Hopkins tonight.
00:56:10On the other hand, they know we're tailing him.
00:56:12So they may try to knock him off.
00:56:14If they phone him?
00:56:15We may learn something.
00:56:16Or they may just be having him stand still as a target.
00:56:19What do you call that thing?
00:56:21That's an infrared electronic viewer.
00:56:23Look over there.
00:56:28In 30 seconds, those spots we snapped on.
00:56:30You'll see no light except through the viewer.
00:56:34It's about time.
00:56:36Look.
00:56:37Reynolds has snapped on Hopkins' lights.
00:56:42I still don't get it.
00:56:44This is the same principle as the snooper scope used on Jap snipers.
00:56:47Sometimes called a sniper scope.
00:56:49Keeps a completely dark area spotlighted at night with nobody the wiser.
00:56:52Watch in here.
00:57:02Everything looks okay over there.
00:57:04We'll light up the second area.
00:57:16Are you on the phone, McCullough?
00:57:22All set, sir.
00:57:27Now for light number three.
00:57:28And we'll have all possible areas covered.
00:57:35What's that?
00:57:36On the building over there.
00:57:37I thought I saw something move.
00:57:39Uh-huh.
00:57:39Let this be a lesson to you.
00:57:41Never buy a suit without a bulletproof vest.
00:57:43Your target for tonight, Burton.
00:57:45And be sure your sniper scope is on.
00:57:50You got them all right?
00:57:52Right in the crosshairs.
00:57:54Our friend up there doesn't know it.
00:57:56But he's just as visible through Burton's sniper scope as he is on this viewer.
00:57:59You don't miss any bets, do you, Buttercup?
00:58:13Hello, Hopkins speaking.
00:58:18They've called Hopkins' number.
00:58:20Now we're a cozy threesome.
00:58:24He's going to fire. Break in, hurry!
00:58:26Reynolds, duck!
00:58:33Get over there, quick!
00:58:43Looks like the Jade Club is going to need a new bartender.
00:58:46Couldn't get a thing on them, sir.
00:58:48They're way ahead of us.
00:58:49Tomorrow we'll be neck and neck.
00:58:51Let's get back to the laundry.
00:58:51We've got things to do.
00:58:58We were set for the kill.
00:59:00Exactly the same set-up you broadcast regarding the theft of the atomic secrets.
00:59:04Plans were being flown in from Washington due to arrive Saturday.
00:59:08Every person in Molino had to know that fact.
00:59:10We flooded that town with rumors.
00:59:13Within 24 hours, those rumors had spread like wildfire.
00:59:17So that by Saturday, every soul in town knew that something of military importance was arriving from Washington.
00:59:23But whether we were going to be able to flush them from cover was something else again.
00:59:27We were waiting.
00:59:28Waiting for our phony plans to arrive.
00:59:32It was only 30 minutes before closing time when we got the news we were waiting for.
00:59:39Commander Baldwin's office.
00:59:42Yes.
00:59:44It's a tower at the airport.
00:59:45Van Dyck's plane is due to land in three minutes.
00:59:47Good. I'll take a jeep and meet him.
00:59:49That material he's bringing in from Washington has to be kept on the vault till Monday.
00:59:52Finish the report, will you, Betty?
00:59:54Aye, aye, Commander.
01:00:02Personnel.
01:00:04Mr. Barrington, please.
01:00:06Yes, Doctor.
01:00:08Oh, yes.
01:00:08Right away.
01:00:24The Falls.
01:00:25Right away, as we discussed.
01:00:29Betty, your job is done.
01:00:30But I can't stay here.
01:00:32Yes, I understand that.
01:00:33Go out to the community airport and wait for us there.
01:00:47We had fuel pump trouble.
01:00:48For an hour or so, I thought we were really behind the eight ball.
01:00:51Commander Baldwin, Lieutenant Van Dyck.
01:00:53Yes, sir, Commander.
01:01:00Stand against the wall.
01:01:07Ring when you're ready to come out, sir.
01:01:09Okay, Chief.
01:01:11Now, let's see, where was we when we was interrupted?
01:01:14He was just about to kiss the dame.
01:01:15Yeah.
01:01:16Well, what happened?
01:01:17We was interrupted.
01:01:20No, don't.
01:01:21Come on.
01:01:22They couldn't hear it outside.
01:01:23Why, take the chance.
01:01:33Hey, what do you want, Sugarfoot?
01:01:36Sugarfoot?
01:01:37Well, I'll settle for one Commander and one Lieutenant of the United States Navy.
01:01:41In the ball, playing gin rummy.
01:01:43Be out shortly.
01:01:44Bye.
01:01:45Bye.
01:02:07Open up that ball.
01:02:22Good, McCullough.
01:02:24Vickers has just left the plant.
01:02:26I'm after him.
01:02:27Down San Juan Boulevard.
01:02:29Over.
01:02:30Good, McCullough.
01:02:30Peters will take over any time you say.
01:02:32Reynolds and the plant, sir.
01:02:34It's urgent.
01:02:35Yes, Reynolds.
01:02:36What?
01:02:37Yes, I know that.
01:02:38We've got a tail on them.
01:02:40What about Baldwin and Van Dyck?
01:02:42Good.
01:02:43Get Baldwin down here as fast as you can.
01:02:46Vickers and Farrington.
01:02:48Peter, sir, from San Juan Boulevard and Hernandez Street.
01:02:50Hello, Peters.
01:02:51Ready.
01:02:51Over.
01:02:52They've taken the road to the old community airport.
01:02:54The airstrip's unused, and it's at the end of a one-way road, Mr. Harding.
01:02:59Over.
01:03:00Oh-ho.
01:03:01So the pigeons want to fly the coupe, eh?
01:03:03Well, who are we to clip their wings?
01:03:04Keep after them, but don't let them get wise.
01:03:06San Diego Naval Air, sir.
01:03:08Hello, San Diego.
01:03:09Harding.
01:03:10I want that report on our Mexican border air patrol.
01:03:13And hurry it up, sailor.
01:03:14We're expecting visitors.
01:03:15Roger, Mr. Harding.
01:03:16The old community airport.
01:03:24What do you think they hit you with, Baldwin?
01:03:26Oh, I don't know, but it felt like the Empire State Building.
01:03:28And I'm not so sure it wasn't.
01:03:30Here's your micro-analysis, sir.
01:03:32The lint found previously at the vault at the plant is identical with the specimens taken from the clothing of
01:03:36Barrington and Fickers.
01:03:37And the other two?
01:03:38Well, one is Grady.
01:03:40He's an expert mechanic in plant maintenance, undoubtedly the same man who rigged the entrance to the vault.
01:03:44The other is Baker, Vickers strong-armed man.
01:03:47It all checks, sir, with the serial numbers via the bank imposits.
01:03:50Grady, Barrington, and Vickers spent money as often as three times each to see the same movie at the Molino
01:03:54Theater.
01:03:55And played the devil with the popcorn trade, eh?
01:03:57Aren't they the cute ones?
01:04:00Peter's McCuller closing in on the old community airport. Let's go.
01:04:08We're riding alone for a reason, Jerry.
01:04:10I'm beginning to see what it is, Mr. Harding.
01:04:12That last popcorn crack you made is one that began to break the ball went back.
01:04:16I'm sorry.
01:04:17It wasn't until late this afternoon that I knew for sure.
01:04:21An agent of mine abroad has found the final link.
01:04:24Betty Iverson, formerly Betty LeBrucciere, is the daughter of an enemy agent.
01:04:30At present, using the alias of George Vickers.
01:04:33Vickers' daughter?
01:04:34You might say that Betty was sort of born to her job.
01:04:37She was planted in this country before Pearl Harbor.
01:04:41Her instructions were to marry a naval officer.
01:04:45Yeah.
01:04:46Phil Iverson discovered a secret and died for knowing it.
01:04:50That's about the size of it.
01:04:53What does that mean for her, Mr. Harding?
01:04:55In war time, there's only one penalty for espionage.
01:05:07Are you nearly done?
01:05:08Just about.
01:05:09When this switch is thrown, we'll have five minutes to clear out.
01:05:12What's blowing up the place gonna gain us?
01:05:14If we were followed here, we'll leave the switch on for the next visitor.
01:05:21These pigeons were ready for anything.
01:05:23They've got the place mined.
01:05:24I found these wires when I was setting up the mic.
01:05:27Well, what do you know?
01:05:28I know if they want that little booby trap to go boom,
01:05:31it's going to disappoint them.
01:05:40Put that out, Baker.
01:05:42Thanks, I'll show any lights.
01:05:45What are we gonna do, George?
01:05:46What's the plan?
01:05:48We're lucky.
01:05:50We're very lucky.
01:05:51We're all in the clear, Barrington, except you.
01:05:54You will take the plans through while the rest of us go back to our jobs.
01:05:58You're the espionage agent they were looking for.
01:06:00But you will have made your escape.
01:06:02After you land across the border, you'll be met by Turner.
01:06:05He'll give you the setup for getting you out of Mexico.
01:06:08But why me?
01:06:09Why not one of the others?
01:06:10I'm sorry, Barrington, but you're also a murderer.
01:06:13It would be safer for you to leave.
01:06:16A murderer?
01:06:17I didn't kill anyone.
01:06:19I think you'll find that rather difficult to prove, Barrington.
01:06:22But this afternoon, Baker here left the body of Frank Edwards in your apartment.
01:06:27It wasn't in my schedule to do away with the man.
01:06:30But Baker filled him so full of happy talkie shots,
01:06:32he looked like a tattooed man in the circus.
01:06:35We could get nothing out of him.
01:06:37The equipment we used, Baker left in your place too.
01:06:40So you see, Barrington, discretion suggests departure.
01:06:48Frank Edwards.
01:06:51Look.
01:07:01San Diego, Naval Air, sir.
01:07:03Hello, San Diego. Come in, please.
01:07:05Hello, Mr. Harding.
01:07:06As you requested, we let that suspicious aircraft through.
01:07:09It was last sighted heading north by east, and it should be there any minute.
01:07:12Good.
01:07:13Get this carefully, San Diego.
01:07:14On its return trip, that plane must get away.
01:07:17Take some shots at it, but be sure you miss.
01:07:19Thanks.
01:07:20Reynolds, are the lights ready?
01:07:21The men are rigging him up right now, sir.
01:07:23Good.
01:07:35When we leave the airport, we'll separate.
01:07:37You haven't told me yet what I'm to do.
01:07:39That is, there's a bus leaving the Molino Depot in two hours.
01:07:43You'll be on it with a ticket to Los Angeles.
01:07:45Register at the Midtown Hotel under the name of Clayton.
01:07:48An agent will get in touch with you and give you a new assignment.
01:07:51There it is.
01:08:11Pretty landing, Baldwin.
01:08:13Hand me that microphone.
01:08:15Get a move on, Barrington.
01:08:16Safe delivery of those plans are to get you a medal.
01:08:47Well, there's that.
01:08:48Turn the lights on.
01:08:49Yes, sir.
01:08:56You're welcome.
01:08:57This is David Harding speaking.
01:08:58We have you surrounded.
01:08:59Come out of that building with your hands up.
01:09:02I repeat, come out with your hands up.
01:09:05They haven't anything on us for sure.
01:09:06We can bluff our way out of this.
01:09:08Baker, you and Grady were the first to suspect Barrington.
01:09:11We followed him here and...
01:09:12The microphone.
01:09:14They've heard everything we've said.
01:09:16That's right, Vickers.
01:09:17It's a little late to try a bluff now.
01:09:20I want to thank you for sending those plans to your superiors.
01:09:22I hope they prove worthwhile.
01:09:24Worthwhile for us, that is.
01:09:26Now, come out quickly with your hands up.
01:09:29Jerry.
01:09:30Jerry, if you're there, get back.
01:09:32Jerry, go back.
01:09:33It's mine.
01:09:34Did you hear me, Jerry?
01:09:40All right, Reynolds.
01:09:53We got them all but the one we deliberately allowed to escape.
01:09:57And we know a lot of time was wasted on those foamy plans.
01:10:01So you see, Kingston, we sometimes go to a great deal of trouble
01:10:04to get misinformation into the hands of unfriendly powers.
01:10:07As was the case yesterday at the Institute of Special Studies.
01:10:10I refer to the story you featured on your broadcast tonight.
01:10:12I feel like a fool, Hardy.
01:10:15It's a pity about that Iverson girl.
01:10:17Baldwin really loved her, apparently.
01:10:19Yes.
01:10:20And love being no respecter of wars and nations,
01:10:22I think he still loves her.
01:10:23But that's neither here nor there.
01:10:26I just thought you should know that we don't initial the S in Uncle Sam
01:10:29the same as we do in stupidity.