A murder during a game of charades at a society party leads the police to begin the hunt through the guest list for a motive and culprit.
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00:02:43Surprised?
00:02:44This is not your wife's fault, Kennedy. I can explain.
00:02:46You try to explain this?
00:02:48You've got to listen to me, Jim. I've been in love with Duncan for months.
00:02:54What are you going to do?
00:02:58Mr. Channing is not going to destroy the happiness of another man's home.
00:03:12You killed him. And he was my ideal.
00:03:16Well, there he lies.
00:03:34That's a clever charade I've ever seen.
00:03:37Isn't Kennedy the old Barrymore, though?
00:03:39I wonder how much of this is on the level.
00:03:44Hey!
00:03:46Can't anybody guess this word?
00:03:51I'll leave, isn't it?
00:03:53Yes, you'll leave.
00:04:01Well, I'll concede you a trick in hearts.
00:04:08Well, what's the use of playing with a criminologist? He knows everything.
00:04:14Montrose, some professional advice.
00:04:16Ah, a client.
00:04:18Walter's sister and her husband are playing charades.
00:04:21Jim just caught Channing chideling with Esme and shot him.
00:04:24Well, what did Esme say?
00:04:27She said, dunk is her ideal.
00:04:30What about dunk?
00:04:31Well, he's still lying on the floor.
00:04:34Ideal? Lies.
00:04:36Well, that's pretty obvious. Idealize.
00:04:39My hat for the brain. Idealize. I guessed it.
00:04:44Thank you so much. I'll win the prize.
00:04:47Esme should have gone on the stage. She's a good actress.
00:04:50Yes, she is.
00:04:52Hey!
00:04:53Do you dumbbells want us to do the whole thing again?
00:04:56Well, we're doing the best we can.
00:04:59Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
00:05:01I figured the whole thing out by myself.
00:05:03The word, the word, it is idealize.
00:05:08Well, allow me to be the last to congratulate you.
00:05:10Thank you, thank you.
00:05:15Come on down. You can get up now. It's all over.
00:05:17What?
00:05:22Jump. Jump.
00:05:28Get him!
00:05:30He's there!
00:05:31Come on.
00:05:49Get upstairs where you belong.
00:06:03Well, you don't think that I...
00:06:06I loaded the gun myself.
00:06:09You were there, Colton. You saw me load the gun with blanks.
00:06:21Yes.
00:06:23I was there.
00:06:25But these are lovely chairs.
00:06:26What?
00:06:29This thing's impossible.
00:06:32Come upstairs, Jim.
00:06:33But, Colton, I...
00:06:34Come on.
00:06:35Come on.
00:06:39See, I'm in the dummy, yes.
00:06:40There we are.
00:06:41Come on.
00:06:44What is it, Lawrence?
00:06:46Beg pardon, Miss Julia.
00:06:48Mr. Kennedy just shot his secretary.
00:06:51Yes, we know that.
00:06:52They were playing a charade game.
00:06:54But Mr. Channing is dead.
00:06:56What?
00:07:03Lawrence, are you quite sure?
00:07:07Quite sure, sir.
00:07:17Come on.
00:07:18Now, Jim, this is serious.
00:07:21It's...
00:07:22Homicide.
00:07:23Let me tell them, Colton.
00:07:25Somebody put real bullets in this gun.
00:07:27No.
00:07:29I'm your lawyer.
00:07:30And I don't want you to talk to anyone
00:07:33until I find out what this is all about.
00:07:39He died instantly.
00:07:41Oh.
00:07:48I'll take Mrs. Kennedy to her room.
00:07:50That's right.
00:07:51Don't let anyone touch the body
00:07:52until the police arrive.
00:07:58It's lucky Montrose is here, isn't it?
00:08:02Why, what do you mean?
00:08:04Well, he solved the brown murder.
00:08:07Murder?
00:08:11Why, you don't think that this is...
00:08:13This whole thing looks very fishy to me.
00:08:18Now, folks.
00:08:20I'm going to call the police.
00:08:22This is just...
00:08:23Just a regrettable accident.
00:08:25It must be considered only as such.
00:08:27You understand.
00:08:28Yes, we understand, Mr. Colton.
00:08:30Well, that's right.
00:08:30Just a bit.
00:08:32Just a bit.
00:08:36Millie, get some smelling salts.
00:08:38There's some in Miss Julie's room.
00:08:40Good.
00:09:01Come on, open this door.
00:09:11I'm Inspector Taylor.
00:09:13Yes, sir.
00:09:15Where's the body?
00:09:17Over there.
00:09:25Hi.
00:09:26Hi, Mr. Kennedy's lawyer.
00:09:29The...
00:09:30The accident we shot Mr. Duncan Channing, his second.
00:09:34Where's Mr. Kennedy now?
00:09:39Upstairs, the room.
00:09:41Waiting to give you his statement.
00:10:01Well?
00:10:02A bullseye, Chief.
00:10:05Right through the pump, huh?
00:10:06Yeah.
00:10:08How did this happen?
00:10:10It was an accident, Mr. Policeman.
00:10:12Inspector.
00:10:14Well, anyway.
00:10:16I am Junior Kennedy.
00:10:17Mr. Kennedy's aunt.
00:10:19Hiya.
00:10:21And?
00:10:22They were acting a charade.
00:10:24You know.
00:10:25You guessed the word.
00:10:27I guessed the word?
00:10:28Yes.
00:10:29No.
00:10:30I mean everyone has to guess the word.
00:10:33Was it an accident?
00:10:35Certainly it was an accident.
00:10:37No, that's not what I mean.
00:10:39It was...
00:10:39Idealized.
00:10:40Idealized.
00:10:41That's the word.
00:10:43Are you trying to make me confused?
00:10:45You're confused already.
00:10:48Where were you when this game was being played?
00:10:52I was upstairs playing bridge.
00:10:54Then how did you know what the word was?
00:10:56They told me beforehand.
00:10:58Oh.
00:10:59You knew this thing was going to happen before it happened, eh?
00:11:02And who was they?
00:11:04Mr. Channing and Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy.
00:11:06Oh, Mrs. Kennedy's in this too, is she?
00:11:09Where is she?
00:11:10She fainted.
00:11:12Mr. Montrose helped her upstairs to her room.
00:11:14Oh.
00:11:16Is Philip Montrose here?
00:11:17Yes, he is.
00:11:19Thank heaven.
00:11:19Thank heaven is right.
00:11:21He'll at least be able to give us a sensible account of what happened.
00:11:37Where's the other body?
00:11:38Oh.
00:11:39Other body?
00:11:40Isn't one body enough?
00:11:42There isn't any other body.
00:11:44At 11.30 tonight, someone phoned headquarters that a murder had been committed in this house and the two people
00:11:50were dead.
00:11:54It's 10 minutes past 12 and it just happened. You're crazy.
00:12:02It's 11.40 and you're crazy and your clock is cuckoo.
00:12:06Why, that clock was correct at 11.30.
00:12:09To find out who changed the clock, we'll find out what this is all about.
00:12:12I'm sorry.
00:12:12Make your pardon, sir.
00:12:15I changed the clock, sir.
00:12:18You changed the clock, Lawrence?
00:12:20Yes, Miss Julia.
00:12:21Mr. Kennedy wanted the little playlist to begin right on the stroke of 12.
00:12:26Then you phoned for the police.
00:12:28No, sir, I did not.
00:12:30Well, who did?
00:12:31I don't know, sir.
00:12:33Who used the phone in the last half hour?
00:12:39We're getting no place fast.
00:12:42Who was here when the shot was fired?
00:12:44Who was here?
00:12:46I was sitting within 20 feet of them, Inspector.
00:12:49You go ahead.
00:12:50Well, we were all sitting in the darkness when suddenly we saw the shadow of a man outside the door.
00:12:58What door?
00:12:59The front door, of course.
00:13:01Oh, that door.
00:13:03Quite.
00:13:05You see, now, where was I?
00:13:07We were at the front door.
00:13:10Oh, yes, yes, yes.
00:13:12Dear me, as I was saying, we were all sitting in the darkness when suddenly we saw the shadow of
00:13:18a man outside the door.
00:13:41I might have known it was you.
00:13:44One bullet was for Channing, and you thought I'd use the other on myself.
00:13:50But you're not going to get away with it.
00:13:53I've left a letter telling of the previous attempt on my life and pointing to you as the one who
00:13:59seeks my death.
00:14:00And then, Mr. Kennedy saw his wife as Mr. Channing, and he pointed his gun at him, and, oh, so
00:14:07sorry, and he fired.
00:14:09Oh, my God.
00:14:11There's the other body.
00:14:16Keep the crowd down here.
00:14:17This is my house.
00:14:19I can go if I want to, I guess.
00:14:20Well, guess again, sister.
00:14:22This time the word is no.
00:14:24Keep her down here.
00:14:26Why, you wouldn't.
00:14:27Why, you wouldn't.
00:14:28Why, you wouldn't.
00:14:44This looks like it.
00:14:48Please.
00:14:51Who fired that shot?
00:14:53I don't know.
00:14:54I didn't hear any shot.
00:14:56I had been out of this room all evening.
00:14:58I'm not asking you for an alibi.
00:15:01Yet.
00:15:02I don't know a thing.
00:15:04You haven't got anything on me.
00:15:05And even I don't know right to talk to me that way.
00:15:07Inspector Taylor.
00:15:10Hello, Mr. Montrose.
00:15:12Did you hear that shot?
00:15:14Yes.
00:15:15I thought it came from this end of the hall.
00:15:17It did not.
00:15:18Hey, listen, you're not going to pin this on me.
00:15:21Now, Walter, no one's trying to pin anything on you.
00:15:25We're all unnerved by this terrible accident.
00:15:41I was with Mrs. Kennedy in her room.
00:15:44Aunt Julie's room is at the end of the hall.
00:15:48That is Walter Grayson's.
00:15:53This is Mr. Kennedy's room.
00:15:55Kennedy?
00:15:56I want to see him.
00:15:58Well, Kennedy's downstairs.
00:15:59Oh, no.
00:16:00His lawyer told me he was waiting in his room to see me.
00:16:04Then maybe that shot...
00:16:25Dad.
00:17:03It looks like an open and shut case to me. Murder and suicide.
00:17:11It's all very puzzling.
00:17:18But I tell you, there's no reason for it, Inspector.
00:17:21Channing and Mr. Kennedy were the best of friends, so far as I know.
00:17:27Oh, come in, Lawrence.
00:17:33Mr. Kennedy is dead, sir?
00:17:36Yes.
00:17:37That's terrible.
00:17:40Poor Mrs. Kennedy.
00:17:42Lawrence, as a matter of fact, Channing and Mr. Kennedy were on the best of terms, weren't they?
00:17:51No, sir, they were not.
00:17:54They were sore at each other?
00:17:57They had a violent quarrel in the library this morning, sir.
00:18:00And Mr. Channing told me at lunchtime that he'd handed in his resignation to Mr. Kennedy.
00:18:05What did they quarrel about?
00:18:08I don't know, sir.
00:18:11Does Mrs. Kennedy know about this?
00:18:14I doubt it, sir.
00:18:17Well, that's all. You can go.
00:18:31What did I tell you?
00:18:33Murder and suicide.
00:18:35Now, here's the case of a nutshell.
00:18:37A quarrel.
00:18:38Anomotivism.
00:18:39A sudden impulse to murder.
00:18:42Murder, as a revulsion of stealing, can't face the consequences.
00:18:47And takes the easiest way out.
00:18:49But a suicide generally needs a note.
00:18:52Well, this one didn't.
00:18:54Probably didn't have time.
00:18:59Downtown mystery.
00:19:01Read all about it.
00:19:01Second edition.
00:19:02Read all about it.
00:19:04Read all about the big murder.
00:19:06Great birds.
00:19:07Great birds.
00:19:08Channing murder.
00:19:09Downtown.
00:19:10Channing murder.
00:19:11Read all about it.
00:19:12Read all about it, folks.
00:19:14Read all about it.
00:19:42All of you might have been in South America, for all you seem to know about this murder.
00:19:45I haven't been able to get a single bit of information out of any of you.
00:19:49Don't think you're fooling me.
00:19:51The murderer is in this room right now.
00:19:55Take care of me, sir.
00:19:58Mrs. Kennedy will see you now, sir.
00:20:01Oh, she will.
00:20:02We'll see.
00:20:03Mr. Montrose, shall we go up?
00:20:11You stay where you are, Grayson.
00:20:13You better do as a policeman says, Walter.
00:20:16We can get along without you, too, sister.
00:20:20I don't want anyone to leave this room until I come back.
00:20:31I think this is an absolute imposition.
00:20:33Well, I think it's quite thrilling.
00:20:35Don't you realize that one of us is a murderer?
00:20:38Will you color?
00:20:39Hello?
00:20:42Wonderful.
00:20:51Wonderful.
00:21:00Hello?
00:21:00So?
00:21:12Inspector Taylor, madam.
00:21:25I'm sorry to trouble you, Esme.
00:21:27But there are some questions which must be answered.
00:21:30I understand.
00:21:32Mrs. Kennedy, who do you think killed your husband?
00:21:36I don't know.
00:21:39He didn't have an enemy in the world, as far as I know.
00:21:42Did you see your husband when you went upstairs?
00:21:45No, I didn't.
00:21:46Did you see anything out of the ordinary as you went up the hall?
00:21:50Will I...
00:21:50Inspector, I'm afraid Mrs. Kennedy wasn't in a position to see anything.
00:21:55She collapsed.
00:21:56And I had to send her maid to Aunt Julia's room to get the smelling salts.
00:21:59Mrs. Kennedy's house.
00:22:01Millie Scripps.
00:22:11Did you see anyone in the hallway?
00:22:14No one, sir.
00:22:16And you went direct to Miss Julia's room and returned immediately?
00:22:20Yes, sir.
00:22:21She's lying, Inspector.
00:22:24Inspector.
00:22:29I saw her standing outside the card room door at the other end of the hall.
00:22:36How do you explain that?
00:22:38Well, I forgot about that, sir.
00:22:42I went down to talk to Mr. Grayson.
00:22:46Did you talk to him?
00:22:47No, sir.
00:22:48He wasn't there.
00:22:49How did you know he wasn't there?
00:22:50Because I rapped three times.
00:22:53Mr. Grayson has testified that he didn't leave the card room all evening.
00:22:56Did you go in?
00:22:58No, sir.
00:22:59I didn't.
00:23:00I rapped down the door and called Mr. Grayson.
00:23:03Mr. Grayson.
00:23:05And, uh, got no answer.
00:23:08Millie, you came into this room after the shot was fired.
00:23:12Where were you when you heard the report?
00:23:15Well, I heard it while I was standing in front of the card room door, sir.
00:23:21But you said you didn't hear the report.
00:23:24There was no report while she was at the card room door, sir.
00:23:30I want to talk to you later.
00:23:32Uh, we'll go down now and talk to Grayson.
00:23:38You'll excuse us, won't you, as I may?
00:23:56For heaven's sake, Walter, pull yourself together.
00:23:59Your actions are absolutely ridiculous.
00:24:01Keep quiet, will you?
00:24:06Grayson, you testified that you never left the card room all evening.
00:24:12Yes?
00:24:12Millie Scripps has just told me that she could get no answer when she rapped on the door.
00:24:18Yes.
00:24:19That's right.
00:24:21I heard her, but, well, I didn't want to talk to her.
00:24:23How many times did she rapp?
00:24:26Three times.
00:24:29Well, that's a good guess.
00:24:32What are you trying to do, make me the goat?
00:24:34Now, Walter.
00:24:34Well, why doesn't he leave me alone?
00:24:36I never quarreled with him, you know that.
00:24:38Why doesn't he question Colton?
00:24:40Colton quarreled with him all that afternoon.
00:24:42All right, Mr. Colton.
00:24:50I, I forgot about that, Inspector, I...
00:24:54And nobody knew anything about this murder, eh?
00:24:58I wouldn't be surprised to find another body you've all forgotten about.
00:25:03Oh, my goodness, indeed.
00:25:06Now, uh, what did you and Kennedy quarrel about?
00:25:11I, I didn't approve of the new will he had drawn up.
00:25:16Why?
00:25:17Because, uh, because Mrs. Kennedy was disinherited in the new will.
00:25:23My nephew made a will, disinheriting his wife, and I didn't know anything about it.
00:25:28Pretty preposterous.
00:25:32Yeah.
00:25:33Did, uh, Kennedy sign that will?
00:25:36Yes.
00:25:37He gave it me on the evening of the party.
00:25:40Together with a, with a sealed letter.
00:25:44What was in that letter?
00:25:47I don't know.
00:25:48Oh, Kennedy gave you a letter, and you don't know what was in it?
00:25:52It was...
00:25:53It was...
00:25:54It was opened only in case of...
00:25:56He's dead.
00:25:57Well, have you opened it?
00:25:59No.
00:26:00He stole it from my coat.
00:26:02In this house.
00:26:03On the night of the murder.
00:26:05You forgot to tell us that also.
00:26:09Mr. Colton.
00:26:10Did Mr. Kennedy change the executor in the new will?
00:26:15Yes.
00:26:22I, I was the executor in the old will.
00:26:26Miss Julia is the executor of the, the latest one.
00:26:32I can quite understand why you should object to the changing of the will, Mr. Colton.
00:26:39Is there anything else you've, uh, forgotten, Mr. Colton?
00:26:44No.
00:26:45It's everything.
00:26:46I have an important engagement, if, if I may go.
00:26:50All right.
00:26:59All of you can go now.
00:27:11There are several angles I'd like to talk over with you, Mr. Montrose.
00:27:15Well, come over to my house.
00:27:16It's just a short distance.
00:27:18Oh, Philip.
00:27:19Yes.
00:27:20He's sending everybody away.
00:27:21Now, don't you worry, Aunt Julia.
00:27:23Inspector Taylor is stationing a policeman on guard on every floor, day and night, until
00:27:28he makes an arrest.
00:27:29Well, isn't somebody going to be arrested now?
00:27:32Well, uh, whom do you suggest?
00:27:34Why, Colton, of course.
00:27:36That lawyer knows what's in the letter and where the will is.
00:27:39Everybody knows that, except that policeman.
00:28:02Have a few peanuts, dear?
00:28:04No, thank you.
00:28:21Thanks, Dave.
00:28:52Hey, you been out of the house?
00:28:55No, I've been downstairs.
00:28:58Yeah?
00:29:01Sure a lot of mud down in that parlor.
00:29:05Well, what of it?
00:29:13What are you doing in my room?
00:29:15The police left instructions that all windows are to be locked tonight.
00:29:37I've had the cook prepare a little midnight lunch in the kitchen.
00:29:41Thanks, Dave.
00:29:42I'm sure hungry.
00:29:44I'm hungry.
00:29:57Hey, the deacon says there's some chow in the kitchen for us.
00:30:01Come on.
00:30:02Yeah?
00:30:03But Taylor told us not to leave this spot.
00:30:05I'll wait until you come back.
00:30:07Thanks, Dave.
00:30:17Well, well.
00:30:22Well, this certainly is a break.
00:30:32Well, this certainly is a break.
00:30:53Why didn't you come in the back way?
00:30:56What to tell you?
00:30:57I have a good mind to...
00:30:59You wouldn't dare.
00:31:11Hey, them salami and eggs were great.
00:31:14They sure were.
00:31:16Say, is that cook married?
00:31:17I don't know, but I'll make inquiries.
00:31:21Got a cigar?
00:31:23There's a whole humidor full over here.
00:31:25A what?
00:31:26A box.
00:31:28Oh.
00:31:46Police headquarters, please.
00:31:53Hello.
00:31:56Hello?
00:31:57Inspector Taylor.
00:31:59He's not?
00:32:01Oh, this is Millie Scripps, the maid at the Kennedy home.
00:32:05Tell Inspector Taylor if he will be here tomorrow morning at 9.
00:32:09I may have something important to tell him.
00:32:40No, I tell you, Mr. Montrose, everything points to young Grace.
00:32:44He had every motive.
00:32:45His sister who supported him suddenly disinherited.
00:32:49I know, Inspector, but we have just as much reason to suspect the lawyer or the butler or Millie Scripps.
00:32:57Millie Scripps?
00:32:58Yeah.
00:32:59There's a dame hasn't told everything she knows by a long shot.
00:33:03I'm going to haul her down to headquarters in the morning and sweat it out of her.
00:33:08Excuse me.
00:33:11Hello?
00:33:13Just a minute.
00:33:15Sergeant Brush wants to talk to you.
00:33:21Hello, Sarge.
00:33:23Yeah.
00:33:26She did?
00:33:28Where?
00:33:30Yeah.
00:33:31Nine o'clock.
00:33:33Okay, Sergeant.
00:33:36There you are.
00:33:38Millie Scripps is going to tell us something in the Kennedy home tomorrow morning at nine o'clock.
00:33:45Gosh, it's getting late.
00:33:46I've got to be going.
00:34:15I've got to be going.
00:34:16I'm going to hang on.
00:34:18I'm going to have to go.
00:34:35And you're going to go.
00:35:14Good morning, Insect.
00:35:15All right.
00:35:20Are the strips down yet?
00:35:22This is her day off.
00:35:23I don't think she is.
00:35:25Well, bring her down here.
00:35:35Lawrence.
00:35:37Come in here.
00:35:45What do they want Millie's scripts for?
00:35:47I don't know, sir.
00:35:48Oh, yes, you do.
00:35:49You stick them on to her.
00:35:51You always have disliked her.
00:35:53You even dismissed her.
00:35:55Because she was here under false pretenses.
00:35:58Her references were forged.
00:36:00Well, my sister hired her back, didn't she?
00:36:02And for a very good reason, I imagine, Mr. Walter.
00:36:06Listen, Lawrence.
00:36:07If you're insinuating that Millie has anything on my sister, you're all wrong.
00:36:11It's me she threatened.
00:36:13Understand that?
00:36:14Me!
00:36:15So Millie's scripts threatened you, huh?
00:36:20What were you afraid she'd tell?
00:36:23I don't know.
00:36:24What do you mean, you don't know?
00:36:25That's what I said.
00:36:26I don't know.
00:36:29She told me if I didn't marry her, she'd go to you with information that would wreck this
00:36:33house from top to bottom.
00:36:35In other words, she knows who committed the murder.
00:36:38Well, that's what she intimated.
00:36:39Who did it?
00:36:40I don't know.
00:36:43Well, Millie's scripts knows, and we'll soon find out.
00:36:47Get Millie's scripts.
00:36:50Why didn't you come through with this before?
00:36:52Why should I?
00:36:52This is my own private affair.
00:36:55Murder isn't anyone's private affair.
00:36:57When I get through with this girl, I'm going to know plenty about you.
00:37:13You weren't thinking about going away anywhere, were you?
00:37:16No, of course not.
00:37:26Well, why not?
00:37:27There's no reason why I should stay here, is there?
00:37:29I'll tell you better after I've talked with Millie's scripts.
00:37:33Beg pardon, sir.
00:37:34Millie's scripts is dead.
00:37:37Millie?
00:37:38Dead?
00:37:41Grayson, you come with us.
00:38:07She's been dead for hours, chief.
00:38:10Yeah, she never knew what hit her.
00:38:18Say, it looks like a struggle.
00:38:20No.
00:38:22Somebody's searching for the letter.
00:38:23Someone who knew she had it.
00:38:28Or thought she had it.
00:38:33Get the medical examiner and post a man here.
00:38:57Good morning, Inspector.
00:38:58Good morning.
00:38:59Have you talked to Millie's scripts?
00:39:01We're a little late.
00:39:03Millie's scripts is dead.
00:39:06Dead?
00:39:07Yeah.
00:39:08She was killed during the night.
00:39:09I'm arresting young Grayson for the murder.
00:39:13Walter?
00:39:17Congratulations, Inspector.
00:39:19I'm glad you've solved the mystery.
00:39:23I'll just bet you are, Colton.
00:39:29All right, Grayson.
00:39:46Oh, Mr. Muttles?
00:39:49Too bad.
00:39:51Yes.
00:39:53Too bad.
00:39:55Too bad.
00:40:00Too bad.
00:40:11Too bad.
00:40:12Too bad.
00:40:15Too bad.
00:40:17OK.
00:41:23I thought you'd gone.
00:41:25Why, I was just going.
00:41:29Lawrence, aren't you afraid to stay here all by yourself?
00:41:33I'm afraid of nothing.
00:41:34Well, I am not so brave.
00:42:04You have to eat those things all the time.
00:42:06Stop it, will you? Stop it!
00:42:14I've told you before, he'll stop when you get ready to talk.
00:42:18I tell you, I don't know anything.
00:42:20What did you do with the will and the letter, Grayson?
00:42:23I don't know anything about any will or letter.
00:42:25I didn't even know they existed to let old fool cope and mention them to you.
00:42:29You're lying, Grayson.
00:42:30You killed Millie Scripps to get that letter.
00:42:32I tell you, I don't know anything about her letter.
00:42:34But you did kill Millie Scripps.
00:42:36You murdered your sweetie because you thought she was going to tell her...
00:42:39I didn't touch her, I tell you, I didn't touch her.
00:42:42Did she have the letter?
00:42:43How should I know?
00:42:44Don't lie to me, Grayson.
00:42:45I know you've got it.
00:42:46You don't know anything of the story.
00:42:48You're just bluffing me.
00:43:17You're just bluffing me.
00:43:26What's that sound like to you, Grayson?
00:43:31High voltage?
00:43:32What?
00:43:35Electricity?
00:43:37Oh, no, you don't.
00:43:38You can't scram me.
00:43:41I'm not trying to scare you, Walter.
00:43:44I can make it a lot easier for you if you come through.
00:43:52You think it over.
00:43:59Hello?
00:44:00Yes, Lawrence.
00:44:02Inspector, I've got it.
00:44:04I found the letter and the will.
00:44:07You did?
00:44:08Wait a minute.
00:44:10Lawrence says he found the letter and the will where you hid him.
00:44:13Oh, that's a lot of bunk.
00:44:15I don't even believe it's Lawrence on the wire.
00:44:18All right, Lawrence, let's have it.
00:44:20I'm alone in the house, sir.
00:44:22But I've hidden it.
00:44:25Hello?
00:44:27Hello?
00:44:32Mike, get that Kennedy house back again.
00:44:38What?
00:44:40You can't get him.
00:44:43Something's happened at the Kennedy house.
00:44:45Come on.
00:44:48Keep Grayson here while I get back.
00:44:49Keep Grayson here while I get back.
00:45:22Try a window.
00:45:23Force it if you have to.
00:45:24Okay, Chief.
00:45:39You've forgotten your bag, Mrs. Kennedy.
00:45:46Good afternoon, Inspector.
00:45:48How do you do, Mrs. Kennedy?
00:45:50You're not surprised to see me here?
00:45:52I saw your car in the driveway.
00:45:56Doesn't seem to be anybody at home.
00:45:58Here is the seventh day off.
00:46:01You got a key?
00:46:03Certainly.
00:46:11Thank you, Mrs. Kennedy.
00:46:20Anything wrong?
00:46:22No, I just thought I'd make another try for that letter.
00:46:25In that case, I'm afraid I can't be of any help to you.
00:46:28So if you want me, I'll be in my room.
00:46:52They got him.
00:46:54Where is it?
00:47:18Is he dead?
00:47:22No.
00:47:25It's his day off.
00:47:38Well, Peanuts, are you the new butler?
00:47:42No, but they need one.
00:47:44Now, what do you mean?
00:47:45Well, somebody just handed the butler his ticket.
00:48:00There's the latest development.
00:48:02How did it happen?
00:48:03I don't know.
00:48:05I was talking to the butler on the phone.
00:48:07He told me he'd found the will and the letter.
00:48:10He was just going to tell me where he'd put them when we were cut off.
00:48:13Oh, Carter, will you trace those telephone wires down?
00:48:26That's heavy.
00:48:28Too heavy.
00:48:31Inspector, when you were cut off, what did you do?
00:48:35I took a hook.
00:48:36I took a hook.
00:48:37Precisely.
00:48:39That's what Lawrence did.
00:48:42That's what killed him.
00:48:44How do you mean?
00:48:45This is the same device that was used in the Thorgerson case.
00:48:50When Lawrence first jiggled the hook, it broke the contact.
00:48:55The second jiggle released a spring, which drove a needle into the base of the brain.
00:49:04Death was instantaneous.
00:49:11Right through the air.
00:49:13That's why we couldn't find any mark on it.
00:49:16The wires had been cut right outside that window.
00:49:19Someone in this house loaded that phone.
00:49:22Who's in the house?
00:49:23Nobody.
00:49:24Mrs. Kennedy drove up right after we got here.
00:49:28Let's have Mrs. Kennedy down here.
00:49:31Right.
00:49:32Get Mrs. Kennedy.
00:49:33Carter, get to a phone.
00:49:35Report this to headquarters.
00:49:37Let's get the body out of the way.
00:49:43Well, who got it this time?
00:49:44The butler.
00:49:45Take me to the nearest phone.
00:49:46Okay.
00:49:55Mrs. Kennedy, chief.
00:50:06Oh, hello, Philip.
00:50:08Oh, hello.
00:50:10Inspector Taylor is anxious to know where all the members of the family were this afternoon.
00:50:15Definitely.
00:50:16We all know where my brother is.
00:50:19I've been to the dressmaker, and Aunt Julia's over at the cartelite.
00:50:23Would you mind phoning to see if she's still there?
00:50:26Certainly, ma'am.
00:50:32That's funny.
00:50:33I've forgotten the cartelite number.
00:50:36The number is Hillside.
00:50:395606.
00:50:39I've forgotten the cartelite number.
00:50:40Oh, yes, of course.
00:50:47Hello?
00:50:50Hello?
00:50:57Phone's dead.
00:51:00So's the butler.
00:51:03Lawrence?
00:51:05Oh, yes.
00:51:10Now, Inspector, you've got to release my brother.
00:51:13He couldn't possibly have done it.
00:51:15Oh, this should definitely eliminate him from the case.
00:51:17Even you must see that.
00:51:18Well, I arrested your brother for the murder of Millie Scripps, and he killed her.
00:51:22Don't forget that.
00:51:24But this does eliminate young Grayson.
00:51:26It does not.
00:51:27He could have loaded that phone before he was arrested.
00:51:30He knew the butler always used it.
00:51:31But, Inspector, who cut the telephone wires while you were phoning?
00:51:37Huh?
00:51:39Young Grayson was in jail, you know.
00:51:41Of course.
00:51:46This isn't a murder case.
00:51:49It's an epidemic.
00:52:06It's a murder case.
00:52:08It's a murder case.
00:52:32Why, Julie, what's the trouble?
00:52:35It's my gun.
00:52:36Somebody took the bullets out and loaded it with blanks.
00:52:41Don't you see what it means?
00:52:43I'm going to be the next one.
00:52:45Now, don't you tell a soul about this.
00:52:48When you go back to your bedroom, reload it with real ones.
00:52:52But...
00:52:52Now, now.
00:53:06Come in.
00:53:12Sorry, Mrs. Kennedy.
00:53:13Your room is next.
00:53:14That's certainly all right.
00:53:16Go right ahead.
00:53:17Yeah.
00:53:30Oh.
00:53:34Any luck, Inspector?
00:53:35No.
00:53:37But I tell you, that letter's right here in this house.
00:53:40It's got to be.
00:53:41You're crazy.
00:53:42That letter isn't in this house.
00:53:44Everybody knows that somebody's got it.
00:53:47I think you're right.
00:53:50Somebody has got it.
00:53:52Who?
00:53:54You.
00:53:55You.
00:54:11Ella.
00:54:14Ella, shut that darn thing off.
00:54:21Yeah?
00:54:24Ella.
00:54:24Why did Lawrence stay in yesterday afternoon?
00:54:28He said he was going to stay home and vacuum the hallway.
00:54:31That peanut nibbler was here the day before.
00:54:34The vacuum?
00:54:36Yeah.
00:54:39Oh.
00:54:51Ella.
00:54:52Ella.
00:54:58Ella, these flowers are all wilted.
00:55:01I want you to change them.
00:55:03Ach, but Miss Julia, I should cut them fresh this very morning.
00:55:06That doesn't make any difference.
00:55:08I want them changed.
00:55:09I don't like them.
00:55:10Ach, but hurry up.
00:55:11Go on.
00:55:11I don't like them.
00:55:13I don't like them.
00:55:22Yep.
00:55:54Esme!
00:55:58I've got them.
00:55:59I've found the will and the letter.
00:56:02Well, what are you going to do with them?
00:56:03What am I going to do with them?
00:56:05I'm going to turn them over to police.
00:56:13Please don't, Julia.
00:56:14Destroy the letter at any rate.
00:56:16Hasn't there been enough tragedy around here already?
00:56:18Esme, Kennedy, have you gone clear out of your mind?
00:56:21Do you mean to say that you don't want to see the murderer of your own husband punished?
00:56:27You seem to forget one thing.
00:56:29Whoever has touched those papers has died.
00:56:31You're not safe, not for a minute.
00:56:33I'm not afraid.
00:56:34I'm going to take these right down to the police.
00:56:40Oh.
00:56:42Oh.
00:56:46Roses.
00:56:47Ella, you know how I loathe roses.
00:56:49Please get me something else.
00:56:57Maybe I'd better phone the inspector.
00:57:01Have you forgotten what happened along?
00:57:04That's right.
00:57:06I won't take them to the police.
00:57:08I'll take them to Philip.
00:57:10Philip Montrose?
00:57:11Yes.
00:57:12Don't tell a soul.
00:57:14I'll run through the back lanes.
00:57:17Don't tell a soul.
00:57:25Bye-bye.
00:57:27We'll run through the bridge.
00:57:28Alice, we will run through the king.
00:57:30Bye-bye.
00:57:30Bye-bye.
00:57:32Bye-bye.
00:57:35Bye-bye.
00:57:38Bye-bye.
00:57:39Bye-bye.
00:57:41Bye-bye.
00:57:41Bye-bye.
00:57:43Bye-bye.
00:57:44Bye-bye.
00:58:00Did you want the car, Miss Julie?
00:58:03No.
00:58:05No, I was...
00:58:06I was just going for a walk.
00:58:28Morningside, 4-4-1-2.
00:58:40Hello, darling.
00:58:41Did you get the passport?
00:58:44Yes.
00:58:46It's happened.
00:58:48Aunt Julia.
00:58:50She found them in the back end, so her lines hid them.
00:59:13No.
00:59:14She just left here.
01:00:22Now, Tony.
01:00:23Now, never mind the telephone.
01:00:25You can leave for today.
01:00:27It was my day office Tuesday, sir.
01:00:29I know, but I'm going out.
01:00:30Run along now.
01:00:31Thank you, sir.
01:00:32Thank you, sir.
01:00:58I came the back way.
01:01:00Tony, is anybody here with you?
01:01:03Why, no.
01:01:05Good.
01:01:15What on earth has happened?
01:01:18I've got it.
01:01:20Got it?
01:01:21Got what?
01:01:23I've got the will and the letter.
01:01:29Have you opened it?
01:01:30No, not yet.
01:01:33Good.
01:01:33Give it to me.
01:01:34I'll turn it over to the police.
01:01:36If we give it to that bungling inspector unopened, he'll probably make a mess of this as usual.
01:01:41I'll do nothing of the kind.
01:01:43Julia, remember that everyone who's known the contents of that letter has died.
01:01:52That's why I hurried over here.
01:01:55I know I'm in no danger when I'm with you.
01:01:57Of course not.
01:01:59Look here, Philip.
01:02:02I'm going to open this letter myself.
01:02:04After all, who found it?
01:02:05I'd like to know.
01:02:06I did.
01:02:08No.
01:02:08Give it to me.
01:02:09I'll give it to Inspector Taylor.
01:02:14I warn you.
01:02:16I've had enough of this nonsense.
01:02:18I'm going to open the letter.
01:02:32Hello?
01:02:34Just a minute.
01:02:37Did anyone know you were coming here?
01:02:41No one.
01:02:43That is, except Esme.
01:02:46Strange.
01:02:51Inspector Taylor wants to talk to you on the phone.
01:02:54Yes, and I've got something to say to him, too.
01:03:02Well, Inspector, we've certainly got a surprise for you.
01:03:05After you spent the entire day tearing our house to pieces, I found the will and the letter.
01:03:12Hello?
01:03:13Hello?
01:03:15Father Rachel.
01:03:16Go ahead, sister.
01:03:17I'm listening.
01:03:22Inspector.
01:03:25I don't understand.
01:03:28The funniest telephone call, Mr. Montrose, said you were on the line.
01:03:33I have been on the line.
01:03:36I was sure I wasn't mistaken, Inspector.
01:03:45Let me have that letter.
01:03:47I know.
01:03:59I know.
01:04:06I know.
01:04:11I know.
01:04:13I know.
01:04:15I know.
01:04:37I'll answer that.
01:04:49Montrose, I'm afraid this call is for you.
01:05:00Thanks, Inspector.
01:05:10Hello.
01:05:20Hello.
01:05:27Oh, Inspector, what?
01:05:31He's dead.
01:05:33Montrose was the murderer.
01:05:36His death is a confession.
01:05:38He took the same route he sent Lawrence.
01:05:41Oh, and if you'd clicked the hook, you'd have been dead.
01:05:47Or you.
01:05:51Well, I can't say he didn't warn me.
01:06:03The police department could have used a brain like that.
01:06:07The police department could use any brain.
01:06:16Well, uh...
01:06:16Well, uh...
01:06:17had the brains bị disowned the spider
01:06:20And they couldn't figure it out of court.
01:06:24Hey, fifth girl.
01:06:24Yes.