Jim Hanvey is a genial but top-notch detective who has retired to his country home. An insurance company hires him to find a missing emerald so they won't have to pay out the $100,000 for which the jewel is insured. It doesn't take him long to find the emerald.
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01:24I've been shooting in the wrong direction
01:25You keep that gun away, Harry
01:27No siree
01:27If I can't get me a rabbit
01:29I'm going to bag me a vice president of the Continental Insurance Company
01:32I don't aim to go home empty-handed
01:34But we just had to see you, Jim
01:35You wouldn't answer our wire
01:38What's all this fuss about a string full of emeralds?
01:40You can't eat them
01:41They don't keep you warm
01:42They're the frost emeralds
01:44They've been stolen
01:45We've insured them for $100,000
01:47How long have they been gone?
01:49Since last night
01:51Well, the way I figured out
01:52Something ought to be done about it
01:53Well, that's why we're here
01:54What do you say?
01:56Well, if I was head of the investigating department
01:58of the insurance company like you are, Davis
02:01You know what I'd do?
02:01You know what?
02:03I'd get me a detective
02:23May we come in?
02:25Not unless you go out again and knock
02:28Our car broke down
02:30Yes, at the crossroads
02:31There's a telephone
02:33Oh, yes, of course, thanks
02:36Well, what are you standing there for?
02:38Just watching you make lunch
02:40Coffee sure smells good
02:41I might give you some
02:42If you wasn't such a pair of liars
02:46The road between here and the crossroads
02:48Is awful muddy
02:53We cut across the field
02:54Yes, we were in a hurry
02:58Sitting in my barn
02:59Must have slowed you down
03:02Now, don't waste your time trying to fool me
03:04I got bacon and eggs
03:07Well, Mr. Henry
03:13I guess you found us out
03:15And we're going to tell you just why we're here
03:16We brought you one of the biggest cases you've ever had
03:20Sit down
03:21Oh, thanks
03:22My name's Don Terry
03:23Oh, a great writer, Mr. Henry
03:24Great, great
03:25One of America's greatest
03:27You don't say
03:28Well, let's do away with false modesty
03:31Of course, at the moment, I'm forced to write a newspaper column
03:34On the care and feeding of fish
03:36Just think of it
03:36He has to write that sort of thing
03:38Just to support himself
03:39And that's why you have to take the Frost case
03:42And who might you be?
03:43I'm Joan Frost
03:44I'm going to marry that man
03:46Darling
03:48Sweetheart
03:51Dom's writing the greatest book this country's ever seen
03:53Well, wait a minute, Joan
03:54Let me tell him about it
03:55Oh, but you always make such a mess of it
03:56Well, it's my book, isn't it?
03:58Look, it's going to be in five volumes
04:00I've got the first ten pages written already
04:01Slow and sure
04:03That's it, son
04:04Do you hear that, Joan?
04:06Slow and sure
04:07That's the kind of stuff I want in my book
04:09You, Henry
04:10This room
04:11All of America
04:13That bacon from Iowa
04:15I've got it in me, Henry
04:17I've got it in me
04:18You sure have
04:19And that bread from the wheat fields of Nebraska
04:23The Chicago streets
04:25Dark at night
04:26The Seattle waterfront
04:28All those things are going to be in my book, Mr. Henry
04:30That's why you've got to take the Frost case
04:33Why are you so interested in them emeralds?
04:35Why, I stole them
04:39Well, of all the nervy, thieving critters I ever saw
04:42Hey, now, don't get us wrong, Mr. Henry
04:44I had to do it, Mr. Henry
04:45I couldn't let those two fellas make a sap out of me
04:47You had two men with you?
04:49No, they were against him
04:50They bet me a hundred dollars
04:51I wasn't as good a cracksman as Raffles
04:53Oh, and you bet that you were, huh?
04:55Well, I had a couple of drinks
04:57Oh, it was at my coming out party
04:58Everybody had a couple of drinks
05:00My honor and a hundred bucks was at stake
05:02Now, what was I going to do?
05:03I cracked the safe
05:04Now, just a minute
05:05You mean to tell me you actually cracked the Frost safe?
05:08Well, Joan helped a little
05:10She knew the combination
05:11Well, that probably came in handy
05:12I had the jewels
05:13And I was on my way back to the club
05:15To collect the bet
05:15When all of a sudden, bangle
05:17Bangle
05:18That's when it all started
05:19What do you mean, bangle?
05:21Well, it was morning
05:22And I was in my bed
05:23And I was all dressed
05:24And the emeralds were gone
05:25Well, that's one for your book
05:27And you're going to find them for us, Mr. Handy
05:29I'll pay you a fee of $50
05:31All right, if you're going to haggle, $60
05:34$65, $75
05:36The way you talk about money, miss
05:37You'd think you was a government
05:39Don't tell me what I think
05:40What are you going to do?
05:42I aim to get me some preserves
05:43And finish my dinner
05:44Don't take this case
05:45I'm sunk
05:46They'll put the police on it
05:47And everything will come out
05:48Those two fellas knew
05:49I'd plan to take the emeralds
05:51And I'll go to jail
05:53Well, jail's the most peaceable place
05:55I know of to write
05:56This side of the cemetery
05:57Yes, and my father and mother
05:58Will see that Terry gets life
06:00Well, you've just got to take this case
06:01I wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot pole
06:04No, you neither
06:05You're just honor enough
06:06To live off of this girl's money
06:07We didn't come down here for a sermon
06:10No, you came down here
06:12Thinking you could buy all this
06:13Well, there ain't enough good common sense
06:15Between you to hold yourselves down
06:16Who do you think you are?
06:18You can't talk to us like that
06:19Come on, scat
06:20Get out of here
06:21Scat
06:26Stubborn old fool
06:27We better go back to town
06:29And take our medicine
06:30We can't
06:38Hey, what is this?
06:40You don't think he was skipping town
06:41With those emeralds
06:41Without us following?
06:42What emeralds?
06:43You leave him alone
06:44I tell you
06:45I haven't got him
06:46Cut it out
06:46You're keeping quiet
06:48Get the idea?
06:49I tell you
06:49Oh, give me that
06:50What do you think we came out here for?
06:52Hello, Romo
06:55Did you come up for the shooting?
06:57Oh, hello, Hamby
06:58Who's the hayseed?
06:59He's all right
07:00Save me for doing a rap three years ago
07:01Yeah, I thought I reformed you that time, Romo
07:04You did?
07:05I ain't a pickpocket no more
07:06High-class jewelry
07:07That's my line now
07:08Yeah
07:10Well, if you're looking for them frost jewels
07:12They're not on these two wraps
07:14Can I take that for a guaranteed statement?
07:16Don't let him catch you
07:17Maybe Grandpa's carrying you around himself
07:19Stay
07:20You're fixing to get yourself massacred, young fella
07:22We farmers around here
07:23Don't hold no truck with gangsters
07:26What was that?
07:29Why, that was just a
07:32That just means that I put one over on you two fellers
07:34What are you giving us?
07:35You saw me wave that straw, didn't you?
07:37Yeah
07:37Well, so did my hound dog, Bud
07:39He was watching me right through that window
07:41Train to the straw, Bud is
07:43What's that mean?
07:44That signal sent Bud high-tailing down the road to Twitchell's
07:49There's Twitchell now, blowing his ram's horn
07:52This place will be swarming with vigilantes and shotguns in three minutes
07:56One time they made it in two
07:58Well, if Envy says they ain't got the emeralds, I guess they ain't
08:01Yeah, but what'll the boy say?
08:03Well, there ain't no point in staying
08:04Them vigilantes will be mighty hungry when they do get here
08:13I don't know how to thank you
08:14Hush
08:17Come on
08:18We're going to town
08:19You mean you've changed your mind about us?
08:21You're everything I said you was
08:23The only decent thing about you is the way you love each other
08:25Maybe something will come of that
08:27But I'll take the case
08:28You mean you'll help us?
08:29I'd help a mangy cat if two gunmen like Ramon Smith was on his tail
08:32You're in deep trouble now
08:34Harry, telephone those fellows you went with to be at your place in town when we get there
08:38You mean we're on our way?
08:40Bango
08:47These call-in cards nowadays are pretty in all get-out
08:50W.B. Elwood, member of the New York Stock
08:53Say, it must cost quite a bit of money to buy a seat on that exchange
08:55Hey, Mr. Elwood
08:56Well, more than a hundred thousand
08:58Well, I hope it's comfortable
09:01Important and exporting
09:03Say, you're some pumpkins too, Mr. Dunn
09:05Oh, in a small way, perhaps
09:06Small way nothing
09:08Why, you are two mighty important gentlemen
09:10I don't mind telling you I'm mighty proud meeting up with both of you
09:14It's a real occasion
09:15Well, we're glad to meet you, Mr. Hanley
09:17You're important yourself in your own way, Mr. Hanley
09:19Yes, but you men are crooks
09:22What did you say?
09:23What's the meaning of this?
09:24Now, stop cackling
09:25You're not even good honors crooks
09:26Why, you take these two brainless harem, scaram
09:29What?
09:30And send them after the Frost Jewels
09:31And what happens?
09:32Such a mess of double-crossing I never heard tell of
09:35Why the...
09:36You fucking boss absurd
09:41No
09:42Now, Terry was jumped on his way from the club last night
09:44Only one of you two who was in on that bet could have arranged that
09:47And only the other one could have tipped off Romo and Smith today
09:51Terry, I hold you responsible for this
09:53Well, I can't help you
09:54Why you took this poor half-baked critter and used him
09:56And that crazy girl, too
09:57You stop insulting us
09:59The truth's insulting, I can't help it
10:01But I'm not gonna have these men sending every thug and dip and gunman and talent after you
10:05Now, one of you fess up or I'll take you both to the police
10:07Now, look here, you...
10:09Look here, folks
10:09Will your please go away? Can't you see we're busy?
10:13Nobody ordered a taxi
10:14But, Mr. Terry, I'm the guy who picked you out of the gutter night before last
10:18Oh, yeah, well, that's fine
10:20Wait a minute
10:21Let him be
10:22What gutter are you talking about?
10:24The one Mr. Terry was sleeping in
10:25I taxied him here, tossed him in bed, and then took a dollar for the fare
10:28Is that all you took?
10:29Well, I did slip a ten-cent tip out of his pocket
10:32Yeah, well, that's all right, thank you very much
10:34Well, that's not all
10:49What's the matter, don't you want him?
10:50We want him
10:51Don, we're safe
10:53Well, Mr. Hanvey, I think apologies are in order
10:56Well, now, maybe I did fly off the handle
10:58But I think apologies should start with this man
11:01I suggest the bet that Terry won be given to him
11:06Now, we mustn't let the Frost know anything about this
11:09See ya
11:12I've forgotten more off the list
11:14Thanks
11:14Good night
11:15Good night
11:16Good night
11:16Now, you know I'm powerful, sorry, for barking up the wrong tree the way I did
11:20Well, no hard feelings
11:22Well, that's mighty handsome of you, gentlemen
11:24Good night, thanks
11:25Good night
11:25Good night
11:29I wouldn't trust either one of them as far as I could throw a barn
11:31Well, why? They didn't have...
11:33Now, come on
11:33You've got to get those jewels back in that safe immediately
11:35Get your clothes on
11:36Okay
11:36Get on, hurry up, we've got to get out of here
11:47Terry has them this time
11:48Tail them and...
11:50Okay, boss
12:07No one's home
12:08Good
12:09I'll stay out here and see that no one gets in to pester you
12:20There they are
12:21I'll get into the house through the back, keep the motor running
12:25Good night
12:27Good night
12:51Come on
12:53door
12:57Here's Mr. Hanvey.
12:59How you doing, Mrs. Frost?
13:00What are you doing here, Jim?
13:01Why, Mr. Davis said you refused him flatly.
13:04Well, reconsidering, I thought I'd come down, look the ground over, and take the case.
13:08Great.
13:08I'll report to the office that it's in your hands from now on.
13:11Sure.
13:11It'll be a week before I can go quail hunting.
13:13My goodness.
13:14Somebody lose a quail?
13:16Adelaide.
13:16What?
13:17Come right in, Mr. Hanvey.
13:34What's the matter?
13:35Oh, this city air.
13:36My throat's wrung dry.
13:38My emeralds were taken out of the library right over here.
13:48Oh.
13:50Oh, I'm powerful, sorry.
13:52I hope it wasn't new.
13:54Oh, no.
13:56Very old.
13:57Only 2,000 years.
14:00Oh, that's good.
14:02Maybe a little glue.
14:04Oh, do come on.
14:11Now, the safe is in here.
14:20Joan.
14:21Hello.
14:22Good evening.
14:23Joan.
14:24What have I told you about sitting in the dark with him?
14:27Haven't I asked you not to see?
14:28Herbert, Herbert.
14:29Uh, this is my daughter, Mr. Hanvey.
14:31And this is, uh, Joan.
14:34What do you call him?
14:35Darling.
14:36Uh, Mr. Darling.
14:37Oh, what's that?
14:38The name's Terry.
14:39Don Terry, Mr. Hanvey.
14:41Terry.
14:42Terry.
14:44I had a cousin by that name.
14:45He was awful lucky, too.
14:48How's your luck been, son?
14:49Awful.
14:50Um, Mr. Hanvey, uh, tell us, uh, tell us who is the thief and, uh, where are my emeralds?
14:56Adelaide.
14:57Give him time.
14:58I don't need it.
14:58When I go into action, I'm greased lightning.
15:01Now, folks, this here mystery of the missing emeralds looks like it's going to be, uh, mighty simple.
15:07The fact of the matter is, uh, uh, I've got a theory already.
15:10What sort of theory?
15:11Well, it's a sort of a kind of a, a clue.
15:15Where is it?
15:25Here.
15:26You know what that is?
15:27Yeah, it's a blot.
15:29It's a fingerprint.
15:30Oh, you're crazy.
15:31I've been told that before.
15:33You see that hangnail there?
15:34Yes.
15:35Well, that's all the evidence I need.
15:39Mrs. Frost, you're going to get your emeralds by breakfast.
15:42Oh, Mr. Hanvey, I wouldn't think of wearing them for breakfast.
15:46Well, suit yourself, ma'am.
15:47Come on, Davis.
15:49I've got to clear the decks for action.
15:54Who are you trying to kid, Jed?
15:57I've got to put on a show for these slickers.
15:59But I know what I'm talking about.
16:01Now, you'll be on hand the first thing in the morning to open up that safe.
16:03They'll be there.
16:04What have you got in mind?
16:05Keep going.
16:06I've got to empty this room.
16:11Won't you stay away?
16:13Why do I have to have you and burglars and...
16:16I beg your pardon?
16:17What do you want?
16:19Well, there was one question I missed asking.
16:21What is it?
16:22Well, how was your hair fixed the night of the party?
16:24What difference does it make?
16:26You've been tearing the blotters, breaking my vowsers, and now...
16:29Well, I've had enough of all this.
16:31I'm going.
16:31You come too, Joan.
16:32I want to have a talk with you.
16:34Better go take care of your maw, young lady.
16:41Well, is there anything else?
16:42Why, yes.
16:43If you could point out to me how the guests were spread out the night of the party, it would
16:46be a big help.
16:47Why, certainly.
16:48They're all in the drawing room.
16:50Right over here.
16:55Well, this is where they were.
16:57By the way, didn't you say something about your throat being dry when you came in?
17:01Oh, don't be bothered.
17:02Well, that's all right.
17:03I'll have Ellis fix up something for us.
17:31Well, that's all right.
17:48I didn't do it.
17:49Honestly, I didn't.
17:50There was...
17:50The lights went out, and there was a voice, and then a shot.
17:53Don't talk now.
17:55Don't talk, get.
17:57Wait a minute, Mr. Hanvey.
17:58You said you believed me.
17:59Ah!
18:00Don't call the police.
18:02I didn't do it.
18:03Let me go, Mr. Hanvey.
18:0514 East State Street.
18:06Hit me and get going.
18:08Oh!
18:09That's me.
18:09Oh, no.
18:10Don't, don't, don't.
18:11Don't let me get away.
18:12That's the car.
18:13Ah!
18:14He's gone away.
18:15Oh, my God.
18:16Police?
18:17This is H.L. Frost.
18:18The butler's been shot.
18:19Oh, I need smelling sauce.
18:21Yeah, we need smelling sauce.
18:23Yeah, tell them the pink kind, Abbott.
18:24How about a little butter?
18:26Have you got enough for breakfast?
18:32Give me Inspector Garrett in a hurry.
18:38But, but he couldn't.
18:40He's too dependable.
18:41He knew I was giving a dinner tomorrow night.
18:46Oh!
18:47If that's the cook.
18:49If it is.
18:50Call headquarters.
18:51It's called.
18:52Did you get him?
18:53Did you shoot him?
18:54Ah, I missed him.
18:58Am I all here?
18:59Yes.
18:59Then they missed me.
19:00Rush.
19:07I saw him running out the back alley.
19:10But he went out the front, down the street.
19:11Hold your horses.
19:13Can you show me?
19:13Sure.
19:14How do you get out the back, missus?
19:15My butler will show you.
19:17Ah!
19:19Ah!
19:20Oh!
19:20Oh, mother, please.
19:22There there, there.
19:23Ah!
19:25Oh!
19:26Oh, mother.
19:32THE END
20:00THE END
20:33THE END
20:33Hey, cut it out, you folks up there.
20:35What's the matter? What happened?
20:36Oh, don't bother with them. Come on, let's retreat.
21:04What happened, Henfie? Where are the police? Come on, talk man. Can't you speak?
21:08No, I'm deflated. Go ahead. You talk first.
21:14I don't know what happened except, well, I opened the safe and somebody stuck a gun on my back and
21:19took the necklace.
21:19Then I heard Ellis say, who's there? There was a shot and, well, I grabbed her, but there was nothing.
21:25Tell me, does Joan believe I did it?
21:27She upped and run away.
21:29Run away? Where'd she go?
21:30I don't know and I don't care. She's decoying the police away from you.
21:34Well, I'm not going to have her involved in this. I'll give myself up.
21:38Then we'll sell your hash.
21:40You're so hogtied with circumstantial evidence now, it'll take an electric chair to untangle you.
21:45Well, I can't stay here.
21:47Why not? Pete, the fella that owns this place, is an old friend of mine.
21:51Been buying my hay for 30 years. Running now.
21:55This is the perfect spot for you. It's quiet. No one will bother you.
21:59No one will even ever find you.
22:01Yoo-hoo!
22:02Joan!
22:03Darling!
22:05How'd you find me?
22:05I found Mr. Handman here.
22:07Suffering cats. The police are following you.
22:09Come on, McAdally.
22:12Here. Get in there.
22:14All right, you.
22:15Here.
22:16Drive past that stable and keep going for a dollar's worth.
22:19Hey, what's the idea?
22:20Hurry.
22:42Hey, Handman!
22:45Open up.
22:47Get in there.
22:52Get out of here.
22:56You ain't told me where you're going.
22:58Don't know myself yet.
23:00I was hiding in your stable.
23:01It was spoiled by a couple of cooing doves.
23:05If you don't know what to do, don't blame us.
23:07Oh, but I do, though.
23:09When I sort out the owner of this timepiece, I'll have the murder.
23:14What's eating you?
23:15Why, this is my watch.
23:18When do you recollect having it last?
23:20Well, I was looking at it when those two fellas jumped at me at your farm.
23:25Dang that, Romo.
23:26A watch just naturally sticks to his fingers.
23:30Praise be, that's our man.
23:32He followed you clear to the frost home.
23:36What's the matter, honey?
23:38Joan!
23:49You're leaving the police right back to him.
23:51I am not.
23:52You hiker giving that cab driver one dollar.
23:55I slipped him a plane.
23:56He's heading for Yonkers wide open with the police after him.
23:59Still buying your way along.
24:01Any objections?
24:01It gets me places.
24:03He'll get you a darn good spanking.
24:05I only could find some place to hide you.
24:09Pete.
24:12Right.
24:14Maybe I can do both at the same time.
24:17Whoa!
24:23Good night, Pete.
24:24Good night, Jim.
24:25Come on.
24:26Get up.
24:52Please, will you call back some other time?
24:55I understand, ma'am, but if you could give me just a minute.
25:01Wait here.
25:02Are we going to stay here?
25:04And take the kind of use he's been giving us?
25:06Or leave.
25:07Why don't we take a chance and fight it out our own way?
25:10Let's.
25:12Let's.
25:17Let's go.
25:18Let's go.
25:26Let's go.
25:28Let's go.
25:28Let's go.
25:29Let's go.
25:30Let's go.
25:30Let's go.
25:30Let's go.
25:31Let's go.
25:31Let's go.
25:32Let's go.
25:34Let's go.
25:36Let's go.
25:41Let's go.
25:43Come on, get your duds off.
25:44The lady here ain't got no heart for housekeeping just now.
25:47Well, what do you expect us to do?
25:49Well, she could use a hired girl.
25:50Well, go and get them on.
25:51I have. You.
25:53So start readying up the dishes.
25:55You expect Joan to wash and wipe dishes?
25:58No, just wash.
26:00You'll wipe.
26:02Petty revenge, that's what it is.
26:04He's just trying to take advantage of us because of the fix we're in.
26:07Well, I won't stand for it.
26:08No matter what's happened, I'm still Joan Frost.
26:12It's all right now. The baby's asleep.
26:14These are the two.
26:16You're Miss Joan.
26:18Think of your coming way down here just to help me.
26:22Wait a minute. There must be some misunderstanding.
26:25Oh, no. I understand.
26:27You're Mr. Terry.
26:29You two are going to be married.
26:31Only the other night he said,
26:33that boy loves Miss Joan.
26:35Just like I love you.
26:38They're going to make a go of it.
26:41Tom.
26:42I could see things clear.
26:44Tom.
26:46Oh, I forgot.
26:48You always called him Ellis, didn't you?
26:51Oh, I never thought.
26:53I never thought of Ellis even having a first name.
26:57You're Mrs. Ellis?
26:59Oh, don't you know I'm suspected of...
27:02Oh, you didn't do it.
27:04Mr. Hanvey told me.
27:05And I'm sure he's right.
27:07You can stay here.
27:09You're safe.
27:10Yeah, she's right.
27:12They'd ever think of looking for you in the home of the man you was accused of shooting...
27:15Oh, stop it!
27:17Well, I guess I'd better tidy up.
27:25Oh, but no.
27:27No.
27:27Oh, but I want to.
27:36Maybe you'll miss him too.
27:40That is, if he was a good butler...
27:43He was a swell butler.
28:00Mrs. Ellis says the police have come and gone, so you can rest here easy for a spell.
28:03Why?
28:04Can't we take the watch that you found down to headquarters?
28:07Definitely proves Romo was at the frost.
28:09Only to us.
28:10That was your watch.
28:11And to the police, that clue's a homing pigeon.
28:13Comes right back to you.
28:14Well, I've got to do something.
28:16I'll take care of Romo and find out who he's working for.
28:19I'm the detective.
28:21You're supposed to be a writer, ain't you?
28:23Sure, there's my book.
28:25Now, you're going to forget all those highfalutin ideas about that five-volume book.
28:29You're going to write yourself an honest-to-goodness newspaper story.
28:32It's got to be good enough.
28:33It's got to catch the murder of that woman's husband.
28:35And good enough to save your own life, you understand?
28:37Well, you're going to write this to the Globe.
28:41Now, listen.
28:42Mr. Editor, they let me in when I told them how important it was.
28:46What's important?
28:47Who are you?
28:48How did you get in here?
28:50It's very important that I know if your final edition comes out exactly at 9.30.
28:54Exactly at 9.30?
28:56On the dot for the last 20 years?
28:58Who are you?
28:59I'm the man that's bringing you Don Terry's column on the care and feeding of fish.
29:07There ain't nothing there about the fish.
29:11It's about the murder.
29:12Get that guy back.
29:14Hold the final edition.
29:15Can, it's on its way.
29:16Then follow up with an extra as quick as you can.
29:18Why, what's he got?
29:19What did Richard Harding Davis have when he covered the sinking of the maine?
29:23He's got a great story here, great writing, great journalism.
29:26Great gods.
29:51What's that?
29:55Mr.
30:03You Romo or a Smith?
30:04Romo.
30:05And this is for Smith.
30:13Watch that guy.
30:14Dressed like this?
30:15What do you need to watch him?
30:16A tuxedo?
30:18Oh, you mean Trudelinda?
30:25Mr. Dunn?
30:26What's the idea of this note?
30:28This note?
30:29Come to my office immediately.
30:31I got the tip you were spotted at the Frost last night.
30:33And it signed to boss.
30:35I don't write notes.
30:36I don't sign myself for boss.
30:39You know that.
30:40Then there must be a phony.
30:41Someone must have spotted us.
30:46Hey, that buggy driver's talking to that hick dick, Handley.
30:49It's Handley.
30:51Of all the sap layouts.
30:52He framed this note so he'd come dashing down to you.
30:55So he could follow us.
30:56Well, we're going to stay right here.
30:58Oh, no, you're not.
31:00He knows too much already.
31:02Come on down here.
31:04Let him follow you.
31:06We'll take care of him.
31:08Get on your clothes.
31:09We're going to work and kill him here.
31:13Why, Mr. Dunn.
31:15I said you were some pumpkins.
31:17I didn't want to see him.
31:18He found this behind a Frost house.
31:20He's got his all disclosed.
31:22I'm willing to trade you a 30-hour start on the police for a signed confession and Mrs. Frost's fancy
31:28necklace.
31:29Now, what do you say?
31:29You can fool these two stooges, Handley.
31:31Not me.
31:33You can't hang anything on us with this watch.
31:35You're kind of poaching on my preserves, ain't you, Mr. Dunn?
31:38I'm supposed to be the sleuth.
31:40Yes.
31:40And no one knows what you just found out.
31:43No.
31:44Not yet, they don't.
31:45They're not going to get a chance to.
31:48Don't let me keep you, boys.
31:50Come on.
31:50Now, wait a minute.
31:51Wait a minute.
31:53Well, five minutes.
31:55You kibitzed your way into this, Handley.
31:57You're going out our way.
31:59At exactly 9.30, the final edition of the Globe is going to be out.
32:04300,000 people will be reading it then.
32:07Reading what?
32:08All about you.
32:09About you two killing Ellis.
32:11What are you giving us?
32:12About you being accused of putting them up to it.
32:15Now, you can shoot me, but what are you going to do about the other 300,000?
32:18It's a stall.
32:25What are you going to do, Mr. Dunn?
32:27I'm going to headquarters to see Garrett establish my alibi.
32:30I spent a very pleasant evening at the club last night.
32:33Well, how about us?
32:34We ain't got no alibi, all right?
32:36Mr. Handley put you on the spot.
32:38Let him get you off.
32:39Whoa, there.
32:41We was talking over a trade.
32:43Say, what's got into him?
32:44I was fixing you guys to start on the police for them emeralds.
32:47We ain't got no emeralds, and we didn't kill nobody.
32:50No, not last night.
32:51You got us into a lot of undesirable publicity.
32:53You can tell that to the police,
32:55but you can't pull the wool over the eyes of James Wilford Handley.
32:58That's just who we can't tell it to,
33:00because we were up there last night trying to hijack Terry.
33:03Funny we didn't get near him.
33:05Do you expect me to believe that you were innocent, huh?
33:08Clean as the shite on a line.
33:14It's Mr. Handley.
33:16Did you get Romo and Smith?
33:17No, they got me.
33:19You murderer!
33:22Get that gun!
33:24Quiet!
33:25Get away from that phone.
33:27Here you are, Romo.
33:28I thought you had me, didn't you?
33:29Get back, squater,
33:31I'll penalize you six feet under the clipping.
33:33Why didn't you keep that gun?
33:34I don't need no firearms to handle them two.
33:36What are they doing here?
33:38Nothing.
33:38Now, don't be afraid.
33:39I'm not afraid.
33:40They can't do anything more to me.
33:42Listen, lady, you don't want to...
33:43It wasn't them, Mrs. Ellis.
33:44They didn't kill your husband.
33:45And he's going to prove it,
33:47providing that gun don't go off.
33:49Now, listen, you.
33:50Don't you start telling us our decorum.
33:51We're the ones that are still doing
33:52the pushing around around here.
33:53Stop it!
33:54This is my house.
33:55You can't stay here and quarrel among yourselves.
33:57You're all in the same fix.
33:59With a little more leeway,
34:01we've got to have a chance
34:02of getting out of this.
34:05Did you find something?
34:06You wait on me,
34:07asked for leeway spread out.
34:09Now, I was snooping through
34:10that closet up at the frost,
34:12and I run across quite a stack of papers.
34:14These two was on top.
34:16Someone had shoved them on the floor.
34:18Maybe it was that dirty murderer.
34:20Maybe it was.
34:21They'd slid off in the last 24 hours.
34:24Because the paper on top of the pile now
34:26don't carry a bit of dust.
34:27None whatsoever.
34:28Lay off the buildup.
34:29Some guy hid in the closet.
34:31All right.
34:31Who was it?
34:32Now, that'll take quite a bit of calculating.
34:34You got a ruler, Mrs. Ellis?
34:36Yes.
34:37He was standing on this paper
34:38for quite a while fidgeting.
34:41An amateur he was,
34:42because no professional
34:44would burgle with leather heels.
34:46Oh, Terry,
34:47you'd better take down
34:47some of these items.
34:51Ten and a half shoe,
34:54indicating a height of 5 foot 11.
34:57Soles worn on the outside,
35:00meaning a quite heavy man.
35:02Hmm, I should say a man
35:04about 210 pounds
35:06for that height.
35:09215 maybe.
35:10Wait a minute.
35:11Give me that paper.
35:13No professional.
35:15Good condition.
35:16Five feet 11.
35:19Heavy.
35:22Why, you flat foot of double cross, huh?
35:25What's up?
35:25That's a cockeyed good description
35:26of Jim Handley, that's what.
35:27You were in that house, alone.
35:29You had as good a chance as any.
35:31Yeah, you've got to then
35:32get yourself out of this
35:33or I'll throw you back
35:33to the chickens.
35:34Now, don't get buckety with me.
35:36Oh, you men are insane,
35:38thinking Mr. Handley
35:38could harm my husband.
35:40Now, if you fellas
35:41don't stop hampering me,
35:42you're going to have to
35:42get out of this thing alone.
35:44Well, I still say
35:44it looks suspicious.
35:46Oh, don't blame us.
35:47Only thing is,
35:47you haven't spotted anybody else.
35:48Oh, but I have, though.
35:50I've got a fairly good notion
35:52who went into that closet,
35:53took those emeralds,
35:54and killed Mr. Ellis.
35:56And there's only one way
35:57to trap him.
35:57Well, come on,
35:58we're listening.
35:59Bait, the $30,000
36:01the insurance company's
36:02offering for that necklace.
36:03Oh, he wouldn't dare
36:04try to get that money now.
36:05There's a murder charge.
36:06Yeah, but that's hanging on you.
36:07As long as the police
36:09suspect Don Terry,
36:10the real criminal can operate
36:11without showing his hand.
36:13Now, if you was in jail...
36:15In jail?
36:16Mm-hmm.
36:17The real criminal
36:18couldn't take him
36:19for that $30,000
36:20without tipping to the police
36:21that they had
36:22jugged the wrong man.
36:24Oh, what do you want me
36:25to do, Mr. Henry?
36:27Force that scalawag
36:28to show his hand.
36:29Now, you're going to write
36:30to that globe
36:31that you're giving yourself
36:32up at the Central Street
36:32Police Station
36:33tomorrow at midnight.
36:35You mean you really want
36:36him to go through with it?
36:37Well, it'll force that man
36:37into the open,
36:38and we'll have him
36:39by the time you're arrested.
36:40Suppose you don't.
36:41Well, then,
36:42we'll have to find
36:43some other way
36:43of saving him
36:44from the chair.
36:46It's our last chance, June.
36:47It's too big a chance.
36:49Mr. Henry,
36:49once I wanted
36:50everything money could buy,
36:52he wanted to write
36:52a crazy book.
36:53Now we just want
36:54each other.
36:55And to do what you ask,
36:56why, we might even
36:57lose that.
36:58Mm-hmm, you might.
36:59Well, how about it, son?
37:04We can't miss, Joan.
37:05We just can't miss.
37:09All right, Terry.
37:12Come on, son.
37:13Start writing.
37:14Hurry up.
37:15Come on.
37:16You heard him.
37:16You got a pencil?
37:17Start writing.
37:18Now leave him alone.
37:19All right.
37:25Extra!
37:25Extra!
37:26Don Terry gives us a bite.
37:28Read all about it.
37:31Well, the town's got
37:31himself a first-class sensation.
37:33The police are going
37:34to get the murder,
37:35Henry's gone to sleep
37:36in a haystack,
37:37and we're going
37:37to pay the bill.
37:38Oh, give Hanby a break.
37:40The old bird
37:40generally comes through.
37:41Yeah, we're through.
37:43As far as the
37:43Frost account's concerned,
37:44we're out $100,000.
37:49Yeah?
37:50Hanby?
37:51Put him on.
37:56Now look here, Hanby.
37:57We hired you
37:58to find those jewels,
37:59and we've been spending
38:00all our time
38:01trying to find you.
38:02We, uh, what?
38:03What's that?
38:04What?
38:05I'm going to get
38:06your emeralds.
38:07Now sometime
38:08before midnight,
38:09the thief is going
38:09to get in touch
38:10with you.
38:11I want you to tell him
38:12that I'm handling
38:13the case for the company.
38:14Yeah, but Hanby,
38:15look, I...
38:16Hanby!
38:18Hanby!
38:22He wants $30,000.
38:24Then you better
38:24give it to him.
38:25I told you
38:26he generally comes through.
38:28All right.
38:35Yes, sir.
38:36If I could tell the cashier
38:37to get $30,000, cash.
38:39Yes, sir.
38:40Goes to that address.
38:56Wait, wait!
39:01Is Mr. Hanby here?
39:03It's for you, Mr. Hanby.
39:14Is it the word
39:15you've been waiting for?
39:16No.
39:17It's the insurance money.
39:25Say, you ain't so dumb
39:27promoting yourself
39:28$30,000.
39:29Why, if we was to quit
39:30right now
39:31and divvy up,
39:32that'll be $10,000
39:32for you,
39:33$10,000 for me,
39:33and $10,000...
39:39Now, that'll be
39:40$14,900 for you
39:42and the same for me.
39:44That's right.
39:46Hanby,
39:46I've got a proposition
39:47for you.
39:48How would you like
39:49to make $200 clear?
39:51Don't let temptation
39:52blind you.
39:53This here's salvation money.
39:55Don't dunk that bill
39:56it'll shrink!
40:09You've turned this
40:11into a Roman holiday.
40:12All I printed was news.
40:15Besides,
40:15I wanted to give the boy
40:16a chance to save himself.
40:18Yeah,
40:18if I'm letting him
40:19accuse everybody
40:19but the Statue of Liberty.
40:21Now,
40:21they'll all be down here
40:22tonight to protect
40:23their interests
40:23if Terry doesn't show up.
40:25That's the end
40:26of your globe.
40:29He's still got
40:30more than an hour
40:30and a half.
40:31It's not even
40:3210.30.
40:35Only an hour
40:35and a half left.
40:37We'll hear from that man.
40:39Hanby's sure of it.
40:40He's not sure of it.
40:41He thought it was
40:41only a chance.
40:42I know, darling,
40:43but you...
40:43I won't let you take it.
40:45Don't, Joan.
40:46Can't you see?
40:48Look.
40:51What is it?
40:52It's for him.
40:52Hanby.
40:55Mr. Hanby.
41:07This is it.
41:12Where are you going?
41:13We're going to give you
41:14our own personal, uh,
41:15convoy.
41:17You ignoramuses,
41:18can't you read?
41:19It says I gotta act alone.
41:21That $30,000
41:22can take you a long way.
41:24How do we know
41:24you're not walking out on us?
41:26For the first time
41:26in your lives,
41:27you two are gonna
41:27trust someone.
41:29Keep that apartment, son.
41:30I won't cave in on you.
41:31Yes, sir.
41:31Thanks for the hospitality,
41:33Mrs. Ellis.
41:37Come on,
41:37that door can take
41:38us a long way, too.
41:39Hey, you can't follow him.
41:42He's right.
41:43How do you know, sucker?
41:44All you see him do
41:44is walk out that door.
41:46But you're confusing
41:47yourself with delusions.
41:48If you ain't coming,
41:49I'm gonna follow
41:49that smart guy myself.
41:51Oh, no, you don't.
41:52I'm gonna see
41:53that he don't get hurt
41:53by you and nobody else.
42:20Would you be interested
42:21in knowing my name's Hanvey?
42:23Not particularly, no.
42:25I'm a H.
42:25Atwood of Portland.
42:27Here, thank you.
42:36Hello.
42:37Yes, this is Hanvey.
42:40Sure, I'll repeat after you.
42:43I'm to come to number 13,
42:44Mark Place,
42:45apartment 1.
42:47I'm to make sure
42:48no one's following me.
42:50If I'm followed,
42:51you'll kill me.
42:53Well, that sounds reasonable.
42:56I'm to come to number 13,
42:57I'm to come to number 13,
43:01I'm to come to number 13,
43:01I'm to come to number 13,
43:04I'm to come to number 13,
43:08I'm to come to number 13,
43:09I'm to come to number 13,
43:10I'm to come to number 13,
43:11I'm to come to number 13,
43:11I'm to come to number 13,
43:12I'm to come to number 13,
43:12I'm to come to number 13,
43:13I'm to come to number 13,
43:13I'm to come to number 13,
43:14I'm to come to number 13,
43:14I'm to come to number 13,
43:14I'm to come to number 13,
43:16I'm to come to number 13,
43:17I'm to come to number 13,
43:19I'm to come to number 13,
43:22I'm to come to number 13,
43:33What's up that quarter just heard that Romo and Smith are in this vicinity we're throwing
43:37a net around four square blocks yeah come on let's get going and he called the cops
43:43from that phone booth Smith you're demented let's get out of here
43:57I'm
44:01I'm
44:06I'm
44:07I'm
44:13I'm
44:14I'm
44:14I'm
44:14I'm
44:14I'm
44:21I'm
44:27I'm
44:37I'm
44:39I'm
44:39I'm
44:40I'm
44:40I'm
44:40I'm
44:40I'm
44:40I'm
44:42I'm
44:42I
44:51I'm
44:56I'm
45:08I'm
45:10I'm
45:10I'm
45:32This is the house he wanted it get about him we gotta keep going he knifed us I'm gonna get
45:37that
45:37hey to be for the cops get me
46:07I'm
46:17I'm
46:21I'm
46:30I'm
46:34I'm
46:58I'm
46:59I'm
46:59I'm
46:59I'm
47:04I'm
47:11I'm
47:15I'm
47:17I'm
47:28I'm
47:30I'm
47:34I
47:36I'm
47:36scared oh darling read in the paper about you going to the police station
47:45tonight you and me is here to haul you thanks citizen Pete thanks for bringing
47:51the tumbril change no trouble glad to do it come on along
48:23the press use of the murder of one Thomas Ellis and the theft of the frost necklace we
48:29accused Romo and Smith where are they picking him up downtown Terry's the one to answer these
48:34questions if he dare show up he will he will you know if this fiesta is a failure I have
48:50your autograph
49:07please have you been with that scoundrel yes and I'm gonna stick with him for the rest of my life
49:12how you feeling boy well I feel sorry hold it save an excuse for the globe from now on you
49:19can write
49:19what you want including your own ticket pick any job on the globe it's yours where's Jim
49:23Handy forget Handy you can speak for yourself in that smoke screen you wrote for the newspaper you
49:30didn't give one fact one bit of evidence that stood up please just a moment the only thing we do
49:38know
49:38is that you were seen standing over the body with a gun now what have you got to say nothing
49:44until I
49:45see Jim Handy take him away oh now wait a minute wait that's all right I know I'm pretty don't
49:51cut here never mind
49:51Handy keep that cigar away from me I'll explode like a gas balloon where have you been what's the
49:57matter with you I'm plum pecan did you get the emeralds yes but I nearly died of doing it if
50:06it hadn't been for two no
50:07good scoundrels that would rather see me shot than suffocated I wouldn't be here now what are you talking
50:12about Romo and Smith like jumping out of the frying pan into the fire it was I certainly had to
50:18talk
50:18fast but you still haven't shown us the emeralds Jim Handy you promised us you'd know I promised that
50:24when I got them emeralds I'd have me the murderer and here they are and that's the least of it
50:29Ellis
50:30is dead and the man who killed him knew those emeralds was going to be put back that man got
50:35into the
50:36house he waited in that closet until Terry was alone at the safe that man killed Ellis to make his
50:41getaway
50:42that man is in this room right now who is he I'm gonna give him a chance to tell that
50:47himself they
50:48say confession is good for the soul everybody reach we had a foliar to a police station handy but we're
50:56gonna get what we're after okay the lights them lighted hands is the murder of all games man let me
51:06go
51:06Romo stop it you don't know we're all but that's the right man
51:16Davis why this man's made so many mistakes yes and they all led to you now when I took you
51:21to the door
51:22that night you didn't leave the house you snuck into that closet you those jewels is going to be put
51:26back and this is how you come to get yourself caught them bills was treated with swamp fire that's the
51:32solution of phosphorus and there's only two people in the whole wide world that touched them you and
51:37me search him when it comes to the honor friskin I could save you a lot of time all right
51:42go ahead
51:43pardon me boys you get that you get that and you get this what that must be my money you're
51:50right
51:50that's our man take him away congratulations Jim a slam but that really isn't your money you were
51:59going to pay that for the return of the jewels and as mrs. Ellis has lost more than any of
52:04us I think
52:05she ought to have part of it that's an idea Jim and a very good one you know all you
52:11people are a lot
52:11nicer than I thought when I first met up with you oh mr. Henry I've definitely made up our mind
52:17that I'm
52:17going to announce the engagement of my daughter Joan to that darling boy and I'm going to give
52:22us tremendous party tomorrow and I want you to be the guest of honor I'm sorry ma'am but I
52:27can't
52:27make it I got to start chasing something real a losing that old cottontail rabbit well goodbye
52:33everybody well good luck to you two thanks Mr. Henry did you drop this oh that does look like mine
52:42you're gonna have it son oh thanks uh will you autograph it for me there's my teeth marks thanks