Researcher James Lee Wong is on the scene as archaeologist Dr. John Benton, recently returned from an expedition in China where a valuable ancient scroll was recovered, is murdered while giving a lecture on the expedition.
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00:06:04Thanks.
00:06:08Oh, my God.
00:06:50Oh, my God.
00:07:13Oh, my God.
00:07:37Oh, my God.
00:07:38Oh, my fault, sir.
00:07:39Did you find anything?
00:07:40Yes, yes, the Ciclophagus.
00:07:41In there.
00:07:42Louise, Tommy, Frasier.
00:07:44What is it, father?
00:07:46I found it, the Ciclophagus.
00:07:47In where?
00:07:48In here.
00:07:48Come on.
00:07:52Artoni's bar has warned us of a curse on the two.
00:07:54I can't say as to that.
00:07:55I only know that our troubles began from that moment.
00:08:05We all worked hard to combat the elements,
00:08:08buoyed by the success of our expedition.
00:08:11Mason, our co-pilot, seemed very much moved.
00:08:15He started out to revisit the tomb,
00:08:18but he must have got lost in the treacherous storm.
00:08:20But by morning, he had not returned.
00:08:23The wind increased in violence.
00:08:28The searching party returned without Mason.
00:08:31I would like to take this opportunity to pay tribute to Mason,
00:08:35this gallant member of our party
00:08:36who did so much to help achieve our success.
00:08:40Our Chinese barrels became fear-stricken
00:08:42as the storm grew worse.
00:08:47I was faced with a horrible decision
00:08:51to wait and endanger the lives of our whole party or press on.
00:08:56I decided on the latter course.
00:09:13It was only when I began the difficult task
00:09:16of translating the scroll
00:09:17that I really found out the magnitude of our discovery.
00:09:23The more I studied its contents,
00:09:29the more I realized that I...
00:09:38that I...
00:09:41Turn on the lights!
00:09:53What happened? Did he pay?
00:09:54It looks like it.
00:10:12What's wrong, Louise?
00:10:13I don't know, Jimmy.
00:10:14Something's happened to Father.
00:10:15Something's happened to Father.
00:10:16I don't remember, Jimmy.
00:10:27I'm sorry you didn't hear and see what there was at the lecture, Jimmy. Father will be disappointed.
00:10:32My only excuse is that I misunderstood the time. Perhaps we can run the pictures again.
00:10:37I hope so. Jimmy was one of Dad's favorite pupils.
00:10:40I never could get much interested in archaeology.
00:10:42But you can fly a plane. And after all, there are many reasons for wanting to go on an archaeological
00:10:47trip to China.
00:10:50Here's the complete camera report. I've arranged to store the film and...
00:10:54Are you listening to me? Yes, yes, of course. Thank you.
00:10:59I wish they'd hurry. The doctor's been up there a long time.
00:11:03No, don't worry. Your dad's been under a strain.
00:11:06The work and study preparing for the lecture's been too much for him.
00:11:12Miss Louise? Yes, Jonas?
00:11:14Yeah, I want it upstairs.
00:11:16Of course. Excuse me.
00:11:37The police. Police.
00:11:50Police. This way, sir. See if nobody leaves here, Grady.
00:11:59What's all the excitement about?
00:12:01I don't know, but it must be serious.
00:12:02That was Captain Street of the Homicide Squad.
00:12:04Homicide?
00:12:05Yes.
00:12:06That means a Dr. Benton?
00:12:07I'm afraid so.
00:12:09Oh.
00:12:16You can't keep murder out of the newspapers.
00:12:19We have no proof that he was murdered.
00:12:21Your own doctor says he was poisoned.
00:12:22You tell me he was stricken during a lecture.
00:12:24Doesn't look like suicide to me.
00:12:27What I want to know is who had the brilliant idea of removing a body?
00:12:30I did.
00:12:31It wasn't a body.
00:12:32It was my very dear friend, Dr. Benton.
00:12:35We all supposed that he'd collapse from overwork.
00:12:38It would have been inhuman to have left him on the floor.
00:12:40Yeah, but it might have helped me a little.
00:12:42I'm supposed to photograph a body at the scene of the crime.
00:12:44I've got work to do.
00:12:45Prints, clues, routine to go through.
00:12:47Perhaps this wasn't a routine crime.
00:12:50Who are you?
00:12:51My name is Wong.
00:12:52James Lee Wong.
00:12:53How do you fit into this?
00:12:54Dr. Benton had just returned from the interior of China.
00:12:57I'm Chinese.
00:12:58Are you Chinese, too?
00:12:59Yes, sir.
00:13:00Two of you work together?
00:13:01I never saw her until an hour ago.
00:13:05You're sending it for me, sir.
00:13:07Oh, yeah.
00:13:08What did Dr. Benton have for lunch?
00:13:09Uh, des hors d'oeuvres, filet meunier,
00:13:12des pommes de terre julienne, des petits pois et du café.
00:13:15That's fine.
00:13:16Everybody else have the same thing?
00:13:18Everybody, except Miss Winland.
00:13:21What's she have?
00:13:22Chopped soy?
00:13:23No, sir.
00:13:24She had a cup of coffee and a piece of apple pie.
00:13:27She has had the same lunch every day for a month.
00:13:31You mean she eats here all the time?
00:13:32She lives here.
00:13:33Winland is, or I should say was, Dr. Benton's secretary.
00:13:37Oh, all right, all right, all right.
00:13:39What did the rest of you do?
00:13:40I was airplane pilot on the expedition.
00:13:42And I was the cameraman.
00:13:44I ran the projection machine at the lecture.
00:13:47What's your racket?
00:13:48Research.
00:13:51Who else was with him at the lecture?
00:13:53The doctor's daughter, whom you met upstairs,
00:13:55the trustees of the university, and a few friends.
00:13:57Who was with him when he died?
00:13:58Jonas and I.
00:13:59Did he say anything?
00:14:01Research.
00:14:02Oh, as a matter of fact, he did.
00:14:04Of course, I didn't mention it before
00:14:06because it didn't make sense.
00:14:08Well, come on, what'd he say?
00:14:09Well, we could hardly hear him.
00:14:11It was something about eternal fire
00:14:13and that Winland will...
00:14:15What do you know about this?
00:14:16Why, nothing at all.
00:14:17I have no idea what the doctor meant.
00:14:19When Dr. Benton phoned me,
00:14:20he hinted at something important he had found.
00:14:23There was the scroll.
00:14:24Did you help him translate it?
00:14:26No, Dr. Benton wouldn't let anyone see it.
00:14:28Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute.
00:14:29A scroll, eternal fire, translate, what is all this?
00:14:31Well, the doctor was telling us
00:14:32about finding an ancient scroll
00:14:34in the tomb of the Ming emperor.
00:14:35Where is it now?
00:14:36In the safe.
00:14:37Who has the combination?
00:14:39Dr. Benton and Dr. Wilkes.
00:14:40Of course.
00:14:41Being president of the college,
00:14:42I have the combinations of every safe on the campus.
00:14:45Well, come on, come on, let's open it.
00:14:46All right.
00:14:59Why, there's nothing in there.
00:15:00The scroll's gone?
00:15:01Yes.
00:15:02Yeah, and so's my patience.
00:15:03Now listen.
00:15:04I'm sick of scrolls, translations, eternal fires.
00:15:07I'm going to have just a slight dash of murder mystery.
00:15:15Police headquarters.
00:15:19Homicide.
00:15:21Hello, this street's speaking.
00:15:22I want you to send some men up to room number four,
00:15:25lecture room number four at the Southern University.
00:15:27That's right, Doc Benton's place.
00:15:29Yeah.
00:15:30You know, prints, photographs, the works.
00:15:33Yeah.
00:15:42Chinese exchange, please.
00:15:45Chinese exchange?
00:15:46Woh-lang-tan.
00:15:48Woh-lang-tan?
00:16:01Yes?
00:16:06Torino.
00:16:07Yeah?
00:16:08That was Jonas.
00:16:09He says there's a Chinese name Wong sticking his nose in.
00:16:12Jonas must have been scared.
00:16:14The house is full of cops, and he takes a chance on phoning us.
00:16:17Well, I only hope our Jonas doesn't turn out to be our Jonah.
00:16:19Yeah.
00:16:20Certain people would give a lot to know
00:16:21that you didn't die in that Chinese desert.
00:16:25Wong, eh?
00:16:27I wonder who he's working for.
00:16:29Well, you figure that out.
00:16:40Good evening, fool.
00:16:41Late again, huh?
00:16:42You late.
00:16:43Me no late.
00:16:44You always late.
00:16:47Fixed breakfast?
00:16:48No breakfast.
00:16:49Fixed lunch?
00:16:49You no lunch?
00:16:50How you expect find killer?
00:16:52You no can find whom?
00:16:53How you know I look all a semi-killer?
00:16:55You go, Dr. Benton.
00:16:57Dr. Benton died.
00:16:58I laid tape paper.
00:17:00Nice going.
00:17:02Maybe I ought to let you hunt killer while I stay home and cook.
00:17:06You cook?
00:17:19Phui.
00:17:20My name not Phui.
00:17:22Name Phu.
00:17:24Well, it may be Phu in China, but in America, it's Phui.
00:17:28Huh.
00:17:30How'd Dr. Benton kill?
00:17:31Poison.
00:17:33What kind poison?
00:17:34Nobody knows until the police surgeon performs an autopsy.
00:17:38Sure.
00:17:40Maybe Dr. Benton hurt bad cook.
00:17:52What's the matter?
00:17:53You play games?
00:17:54No.
00:17:55There's something wrong with these pictures.
00:17:57There's nothing wrong with soup.
00:17:58You eat them.
00:18:00Phu!
00:18:01That's it.
00:18:02I've got it.
00:18:03You've got what?
00:18:04I've got what's wrong with the pictures.
00:18:06The water picture.
00:18:07Look.
00:18:08See this picture?
00:18:09Dr. Benton as he started the lecture?
00:18:11See the water picture on the table?
00:18:13See this picture of the lecture room after Dr. Benton's collapse?
00:18:16Where's the water picture?
00:18:17Not this one.
00:18:18We have a tantrum here.
00:18:20You've ought to bling him.
00:18:21Why didn't I think of that before?
00:18:26Everybody crazy.
00:18:27Let's see.
00:19:26Let's see.
00:19:33A thousand fingerprints.
00:19:34Twenty-five suspects.
00:19:36Chinese temples.
00:19:37A missing scroll.
00:19:38An eternal fire.
00:19:39What a case.
00:19:44Hello.
00:19:46Yeah, Doc.
00:19:48Yeah, okay, thanks.
00:19:50And now some kind of an alcohol oil poison nobody knows anything about.
00:20:03Hey, Grady, come here.
00:20:07What do you think that is?
00:20:09Maybe it's the eternal fire.
00:20:18Not the dark.
00:20:19Can't you two find any other place than Nick?
00:20:21He's hurt.
00:20:22Hurt?
00:20:23I'll say he is.
00:20:24Out like a red lantern.
00:20:26Wong.
00:20:27Wong, snap out of it a boy.
00:20:28What happened?
00:20:29Oh, I was searching the grounds and something hit me.
00:20:33Did you see who hit you?
00:20:34No.
00:20:35What were you looking for?
00:20:37This.
00:20:49I don't know how you're mixed up in all of this, but maybe you got something.
00:20:52You figure the poison was in the drinking water all the time, right?
00:20:55Right.
00:20:56And in the excitement following Dr. Benton's collapse, the murderer threw the water pitcher and glass out the window.
00:21:02The window was open during the lecture.
00:21:04How do you know?
00:21:05I opened it.
00:21:05Dr. Benton asked me to.
00:21:07Whoever hit you on the head was probably looking for pieces of this, huh?
00:21:11Yes.
00:21:11He probably found the pitcher.
00:21:13Being heavy, it didn't break.
00:21:15Luckily, I held that piece of the glass in my hand.
00:21:17Luckily for you, it didn't cut your hand off.
00:21:20Yeah.
00:21:21You sure you didn't hear or see anyone?
00:21:23Not exactly.
00:21:24I did see what appeared to be a flashlight in the shrubbery.
00:21:28Now it's your turn.
00:21:30I too saw light in the shrubbery.
00:21:32He hurried over and found Mr. Wong lying on the ground.
00:21:35I was doing my best to revive him when you arrived.
00:21:37Sure you didn't hit him on the head in the first place?
00:21:39Positive.
00:21:40But I did hear someone running away.
00:21:43Oh.
00:21:44A mysterious character shrouded in darkness.
00:21:46What were you doing snooping around the grounds?
00:21:49I wasn't snooping.
00:21:51I was on my way here.
00:21:52You asked me to come.
00:21:53Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:21:54That's right, I did.
00:21:56In the habit of carrying a flashlight?
00:21:58Why, no.
00:21:59No, of course not.
00:22:00It's too simply simple.
00:22:02How do we even know that's the glass Dr. Benton drank out of?
00:22:04We don't.
00:22:05But a simple laboratory did.
00:22:07I know all about that.
00:22:08All right, you two, run along.
00:22:10Thank you, Captain.
00:22:11Coming?
00:22:15Grady.
00:22:16Take that down at the laboratory and have it tested for poison.
00:22:19Yeah.
00:22:19Where will you be?
00:22:20I'll check with you later at the station.
00:22:22Feed it.
00:22:22Yes, sir.
00:22:30Can I take you somewhere?
00:22:31No, thanks.
00:22:32I'm due at Dr. Benton's.
00:22:35Well, that's good.
00:22:36You'll have no trouble reaching there.
00:22:38However, if you're not going to Dr. Benton's, be careful.
00:22:40You're going to be followed.
00:22:45Are you sure I'm going to be followed?
00:22:47We're going to be followed.
00:22:48Is that better?
00:22:49Much.
00:23:20Feel like talking?
00:23:21Of course.
00:23:23What shall we talk about?
00:23:24Scrolls.
00:23:25Ancient ones from Chinese temples.
00:23:29What was on it?
00:23:31I don't know.
00:23:33Usually these scrolls are merely a detailed survey of all the Emperor's possessions.
00:23:36Dr. Benton hinted of something important.
00:23:39Did he tell you what it was?
00:23:41No.
00:23:42He said the lecture was the time and place to reveal it.
00:23:45Then his discovery may have been the reason for the murder and the theft.
00:23:49I don't know.
00:23:51Merely as a museum piece, the scroll was very valuable.
00:23:54Granted.
00:23:54But why couldn't it have indicated the location of some hidden treasure?
00:23:59Mr. Wong, I believe you've been reading too many detective stories.
00:24:11He's following all right.
00:24:14I've got to get away.
00:24:15Will you help me?
00:24:17That depends.
00:24:18I'm not running out.
00:24:20But there's something I must do.
00:24:22I can't explain.
00:24:24You've got to trust me.
00:24:31You've got to trust me.
00:24:32Hang on.
00:25:08Yes.
00:25:09You're welcome.
00:25:14I'm on the right side.
00:25:19I'm not running out.
00:25:19I'm on the right side.
00:25:19OK, not really.
00:25:24I'm on the wrong side.
00:25:24All right.
00:25:25I'm on the right side.
00:25:25The girl?
00:25:26Yeah, you know.
00:25:27You left the lecture hall with it.
00:25:28Win-Lin.
00:25:29Why, Captain, have you been following me?
00:25:31Now, cut out the clown and where is she?
00:25:34She must have disappeared.
00:25:35All right, wise guy.
00:25:36I got the number of that cab and I'm going to have her picked up.
00:25:53Police headquarters.
00:25:56Hello, give me Homicide.
00:25:59It's a street speaking.
00:26:01Send out an order to have a taxi cab picked up.
00:26:04Number 5U-7511.
00:26:07Yeah, that Chinese girl got away.
00:26:09Win-Lin.
00:26:10I want her picked up.
00:26:12Who?
00:26:12Put them on.
00:26:16Hello, Grady.
00:26:17Yeah?
00:26:20Yeah?
00:26:22Thanks.
00:26:22Okay, say listen.
00:26:26Hold the phone a minute.
00:26:40Get this.
00:26:41I'm with this Wong fella.
00:26:43His address is on Grant Avenue.
00:26:46I want you to check it.
00:26:47Send a good man up there to go over his place with a fine-tooth comb.
00:26:51Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:26:52I'll keep him busy for an hour.
00:26:54Okay.
00:27:01Well, you were right.
00:27:03They found poison on that glass.
00:27:05Corresponds with the poison in Doc Bennett's stomach.
00:27:07Sure must have been potent.
00:27:08Probably an oriental vegetable poison.
00:27:11Win-Lin would know about that, wouldn't she?
00:27:13Yes.
00:27:13Or any of the other members of the expedition.
00:27:16They were all in China.
00:27:17Yeah, yeah.
00:27:18You better take a little ride with me.
00:27:20Are you taking me in?
00:27:21Why?
00:27:21What have you been doing?
00:27:22Nothing that you don't know about.
00:27:24No.
00:27:25No, as a matter of fact, I want a little help.
00:27:27I'll have one of my boys pick your car.
00:27:29Come on.
00:27:29How much?
00:27:30$2 even, sir.
00:27:31Thank you very much.
00:27:43You know, I'm pretty much of a down-to-earth cop.
00:27:46Chinese temples, eternal fires, manuscripts.
00:27:49A little out of my line.
00:27:51But you're Chinese.
00:27:52What do you think of it?
00:27:53My countrymen dress ordinary things in fanciful language.
00:27:57Eternal fire may be something down-to-earth.
00:27:59Well, maybe.
00:28:01Let's see.
00:28:01There's Wynne-Lynn.
00:28:03Then there's Louise Benton, although I don't think she'd poison her own father.
00:28:07Then there's that Tommy, what's-his-name, the aviator.
00:28:10And Frazier, the cameraman.
00:28:12I think you and I better get a complete list of that expedition, don't you?
00:28:15It would help.
00:28:16Also, a list of the people at the lecture.
00:28:18Whoever poisoned the water was at the lecture.
00:28:21He couldn't very well take a chance on that water being tasted by someone else.
00:28:24He or she, you mean.
00:28:26I'm not forgetting Wynne-Lynn.
00:28:28Whoever did it sneaked up there in the dark during the lecture
00:28:30and put the poison in the water.
00:28:32Possibly.
00:28:33Though you'd think Wynne-Lynn would have seen that
00:28:34if she was facing away from the screen.
00:28:37It's more likely that-
00:28:38It's more likely that Wynne-Lynn fixed the whole thing.
00:28:40Except for one thing.
00:28:42What's that?
00:28:43Well, in all the murder mysteries I've read and seen,
00:28:46the person they throw all the suspicion on is never the murderer.
00:28:50Maybe this is one time they'll cross up the formula.
00:28:53Oh, that's too much to hope for.
00:28:54By the way, where's the film that they ran this afternoon?
00:28:58Frasier, that cameraman has it.
00:29:00Why?
00:29:02Everybody has one advantage on us.
00:29:03They've heard the lecture and seen the pictures.
00:29:05Why don't we take a look?
00:29:07If nothing else happens, at least we'll be even with the rest of them.
00:29:10Well, that's a good idea.
00:29:11I got an hour to spare.
00:29:12Might as well spend it at the movies.
00:29:25Please.
00:29:27Hello.
00:29:29Yes, speaking.
00:29:32Where?
00:29:33The Green Dragon.
00:29:34Well, who is this?
00:29:37Hello.
00:29:38Hello.
00:29:47Hello.
00:30:20Hello.
00:30:44Hello.
00:31:15Hello.
00:31:44It doesn't look like anybody's home.
00:31:46No.
00:31:58Hey, look in there.
00:32:00Hit that light.
00:32:05Well, Frasier.
00:32:06Oh.
00:32:07Hello.
00:32:09Here, take this.
00:32:11Hmm.
00:32:12Oh.
00:32:16What happened?
00:32:18Why, I...
00:32:19I got a phone call asking me to meet Winland at the Green Dragon.
00:32:25I started out and got suspicious, turned around, came home, and the roof fell in on me.
00:32:33Was it Winland on the phone?
00:32:35I thought it was.
00:32:40Have a drink?
00:32:41No, thanks.
00:32:42Didn't you see anyone when you came in?
00:32:44No, it was dark.
00:32:51Somebody's searching the place.
00:32:53They must have heard us coming.
00:32:54Got any idea what they were looking for?
00:32:56No, there's nothing worth taking except...
00:33:06Well, thanks to you fellas, they didn't have time to do much damage in here.
00:33:10Where's the film of the expedition?
00:33:12Well, I have it right here on this machine.
00:33:14I've been working on it.
00:33:15Well, that's what we came to see.
00:33:16And my projection machine is still at the university.
00:33:19However, I can run it through this movieola for you.
00:33:22We use this for cutting.
00:33:24Stop and start as you please.
00:33:25That's fine, if you don't mind.
00:33:27Oh, not at all.
00:33:36You cut this film yourself?
00:33:38Oh, sure.
00:33:39It's a one-man job.
00:33:44You photographed the interior of the tomb?
00:33:47Why, yes.
00:33:49There it is.
00:34:00Where's the scene of Dr. Benton finding the scroll?
00:34:03Well, I never got that.
00:34:04In fact, I didn't know anything about the scroll until today at the lecture.
00:34:08We were all kind of excited,
00:34:09and when Dr. Benton yelled that he had found the sarcophagus,
00:34:12why, I left the camera and ran with the others.
00:34:15And you and the others didn't see anything.
00:34:34So you gave me the duck,
00:34:35put in a phony call to Frazier,
00:34:36and then broke into his house.
00:34:37That isn't true.
00:34:38I never telephoned.
00:34:40Then what are you doing here?
00:34:42I called for some enlargements that Dr. Wilkes wanted.
00:34:46When I arrived, the door was open.
00:34:48It was someone sitting at the desk.
00:34:50As I came in, he turned around with a gun in his hand.
00:34:53Yeah.
00:34:54Tied you up and put you in the closet.
00:34:56Why don't you tell us what happened?
00:34:57You were searching the place,
00:34:58Frazier caught you, and you conked him.
00:35:00Then tied herself up and put herself in the closet?
00:35:03Well, Frazier didn't tie her up and put her in the closet
00:35:05and then knock himself out, did you?
00:35:08Where is he?
00:35:08Hey, Frazier!
00:35:13Oh.
00:35:14What are you doing here?
00:35:15I thought I heard somebody outside.
00:35:17Yeah, I know.
00:35:18The mysterious stranger again, eh?
00:35:26Police headquarters.
00:35:34Homicide.
00:35:38Hello, this street's speaking.
00:35:40Send a crew up to Frazier's house.
00:35:42Photographs, fingerprints.
00:35:43Footprints, too.
00:35:44There may be a mysterious stranger at that.
00:35:47That's all.
00:35:47Come on.
00:35:57There was somebody.
00:35:58Listen.
00:35:59Listen.
00:36:00Listen.
00:36:21Listen.
00:36:22Listen.
00:36:22Listen.
00:36:25Listen.
00:36:26Listen.
00:36:26Listen.
00:36:29Listen.
00:36:57I think we can make it.
00:37:17I got the license number, but it's probably a stolen car.
00:37:20Yeah, we better get out of here before somebody calls a cop.
00:37:25Well, it looks like we got the murderer right where he wants us.
00:37:28Haven't accomplished much, have we?
00:37:30We sure haven't.
00:37:31We were doing all right till when Lynn gave you the slip.
00:37:35She kind of put one over on you, didn't she?
00:37:37Yeah, looks like it.
00:37:39Yeah, it's quite a story she told.
00:37:41I wonder what her angle is.
00:37:42I don't know, but come on up to my apartment and I'll try to find out.
00:37:46It's too late to find out anything tonight.
00:37:48Come on up anyway, I'll make you a cup of tea.
00:37:51What have I got to lose?
00:38:03What's the matter, fool?
00:38:06Wait a minute.
00:38:08Calm down.
00:38:08Speak English.
00:38:09This is Captain Street.
00:38:11Excuse me.
00:38:13Man looks the house.
00:38:15I catch him.
00:38:16What does he look like?
00:38:17Big man.
00:38:19Big feet.
00:38:19Where is he now?
00:38:21Let me show you.
00:38:31See?
00:38:38I, I, I.
00:38:40Get out of here, you mutton head.
00:38:42Get out.
00:38:45One of your men, Captain?
00:38:46Not as of tomorrow.
00:38:48Oh, I see.
00:38:50Good work.
00:38:52Now make us some tea, fool.
00:38:54Come on, Captain.
00:38:59Sorry about having to send that man up here, Jimmy, but you've been so close-mouthed.
00:39:03Hey, what is your angle on this case, anyway?
00:39:06A group of influential Chinese think the secret of eternal fire is vital to the defense of China.
00:39:11You mean that this eternal fire is really on the level?
00:39:14Decidedly.
00:39:15Excuse me.
00:39:21Chinatown Exchange, please.
00:39:23Uh, this is James Lee Wong.
00:39:26Revered elder, please.
00:39:29Greetings.
00:39:31Only the eyebrows of youth would have the temerity to call the beard of age at such an hour.
00:39:36How great a blessing.
00:39:38It's clear perception.
00:39:39Welcome, James Lee.
00:39:41The eternal fire is safe?
00:39:43Not until Dr. Benton's murder is solved.
00:39:46A daughter of the moonflower named Win Lin is concerned.
00:39:50Is she known to the friends of China?
00:39:58You have added to my already heavy load of obligation.
00:40:02The eyes of the blind need no ointment.
00:40:05The sight of the temple is in the hands of China's enemies.
00:40:08It is your duty to see that the secret of eternal fire is not used against her.
00:40:13Health, happiness, and enduring spring.
00:40:16The sun is to mourn at your grave.
00:40:19Look, I've got troubles enough.
00:40:21Without having to worry about figuring out Chinese problems.
00:40:24What about Win Lin?
00:40:25Now, Captain, just relax.
00:40:27We're going to have a little tea.
00:40:28And then, if you'll pick me up in the morning,
00:40:31I think we can get Win Lin to talk.
00:40:33Why wait till morning?
00:40:34She won't be going anywhere.
00:40:36All right, all right.
00:40:37Bring on the tea.
00:40:46What's all this?
00:40:47The sarcophagus from the Chinese tomb, sir.
00:40:49That once contained the body of a Ming emperor.
00:40:52They tell me that a Chinese archaeological expedition
00:40:54is digging up the body of George Washington in exchange.
00:40:58Sir.
00:40:58Well, that gives you a rough idea.
00:41:00Is Win Lin home?
00:41:02In the library.
00:41:08Good morning.
00:41:10Hello, Jimmy.
00:41:11Tommy and I were just leaving.
00:41:12Any news?
00:41:13Nothing definite.
00:41:14You met Captain Street?
00:41:15Yes, hello, Captain.
00:41:16How do you do?
00:41:17You remember Tommy Dean?
00:41:18Yeah, how are you, Dean?
00:41:20We haven't wanted to bother you, Miss Benton,
00:41:21but have you thought of anything that might help us?
00:41:24No.
00:41:24No, I've racked my brain, gone over and over the whole expedition.
00:41:27How about you, Dean?
00:41:29This co-pilot Mason, for instance, can you tell us anything about him?
00:41:33Well, he was a peculiar sort of a duck.
00:41:35However, Frazier might be able to help you.
00:41:37He was a very good friend of Mason's.
00:41:40Well, if either of you think of anything, let us know.
00:41:42We will.
00:41:44You gentlemen are out early this morning.
00:41:46Never mind that.
00:41:47Let's get out of business.
00:41:48Have you a few moments?
00:41:49Of course.
00:41:50There are a few things I'd like to discuss with you.
00:41:52But I've already told you everything I know.
00:41:54As Dr. Penson's secretary, perhaps,
00:41:56but we hope you talk in your official capacity.
00:41:58Hey, wait a minute.
00:42:00Remember me?
00:42:01Winland works for the Chinese government.
00:42:04What?
00:42:07Is that true?
00:42:08Yes.
00:42:09You'd better tell us all you know.
00:42:11I'm sure your country, as well as mine, must want the scroll recovered.
00:42:14Naturally, my sympathies follow my heritage,
00:42:16but after all, I am an American.
00:42:18The secret must not be used against either country.
00:42:21What is this, a spy plot?
00:42:23Could very easily be.
00:42:24The scroll contained a clue to the Temple of Eternal Fire.
00:42:28There was a shrine where, according to Chinese legend,
00:42:31there burned an undying column of fire.
00:42:33For centuries, this location was never known.
00:42:35But one thing was clear from all the stories.
00:42:37Oil replenished the flame.
00:42:39Oil seeping through the Earth's surface.
00:42:41There was no doubt that if this shrine really existed,
00:42:44it must be the largest oil deposit in the world.
00:42:47Why, if that's true, that scroll is worth a fortune.
00:42:50That's why my government assigned me to Dr. Benton.
00:42:53But I failed.
00:42:55The thief was too clever for me.
00:42:56Of course, it's too late to prevent Dr. Benton's death.
00:42:59But working together, we still may retrieve the scroll
00:43:02and save other lives.
00:43:03I'll do all that I can to help.
00:43:06If that's true, what about that hocus-pocus at Frazier's last night?
00:43:09I don't know.
00:43:10Honestly, I didn't telephone him.
00:43:12Well, who did?
00:43:13Frazier said the call was in Chinese.
00:43:15Probably from Chinatown.
00:43:17Wait a minute.
00:43:18If it was, it can be traced.
00:43:20The Chinatown Exchange lists subscribers by name.
00:43:23After all, all we have to do is find the operator
00:43:25to call Frazier's house.
00:43:26Yes, it's all very simple.
00:43:28Well, come on.
00:43:29Let's get busy.
00:43:36That's all, May.
00:43:38We handle many phone calls each night.
00:43:40But since we know the approximate time,
00:43:42it is possible that one of the girls will remember.
00:43:47Rose Petal, you were on duty last night?
00:43:49From 8 until 12.
00:43:51This is Mr. Wong.
00:43:52Hello, Jimmy.
00:43:54Jimmy's brother and I went to high school together.
00:43:57Then perhaps we'd better let Mr. Wong explain what we want.
00:44:00Rose, this is Win Lynn,
00:44:02and this gentleman is Captain Street of the San Francisco Police.
00:44:05We are trying to trace a call to a Mr. Frazier,
00:44:08who lives at the old Cavern of Peace.
00:44:10You know the place?
00:44:11Yes, it is at the upper left-hand corner of my board.
00:44:14Rose means that the phone plugs in there on the board
00:44:17as she sits facing it.
00:44:18Good.
00:44:19Do you remember plugging in a call for there
00:44:21at approximately 8 o'clock last night?
00:44:23We'd better let Rose face the board.
00:44:25She might remember.
00:44:27Fine.
00:44:30Yes, there was a call from Mr. Frazier.
00:44:33Where did it come from?
00:44:34I'm sorry.
00:44:35I can't locate it exactly for you.
00:44:37The best I can do is be sure it came from this section.
00:44:40Oh, that's fine, Rose.
00:44:41At least you've narrowed it down.
00:44:43Thank you so much.
00:44:44You can furnish us a list of the subscribers
00:44:46whose names are in this area.
00:44:47Of course.
00:44:48That's a waterfront.
00:44:49Sure.
00:44:50Then all we've got to do is check them all
00:44:51and find out which one called Frazier last night.
00:44:54There are only 12 names.
00:44:5612 names.
00:44:57And three of them are female subscribers.
00:45:00Suppose we leave them to Winland.
00:45:01You and I can track down the others.
00:45:06Oh, this is crazy.
00:45:07Just because your friend Rose Petal has a brainwave,
00:45:10we have to check up on every Chinese laundry in town.
00:45:12The next one's a chop sui parlor.
00:45:14Maybe you'll feel better after a little lunch.
00:45:16I'll wait for Joe's Steakhouse.
00:45:18Here we are.
00:45:18Charlie One.
00:45:25Welcome, please.
00:45:26You like chop sui?
00:45:27No, just looking around.
00:45:28Charming?
00:45:29No?
00:45:30No, thanks.
00:45:30You here alone?
00:45:31Yes, please.
00:45:32Alone.
00:45:33Very hard on one man.
00:45:43A wise man understands the seven virtues of peace.
00:45:47What is one more stone to an overloaded donkey?
00:45:49Come on.
00:45:50There's no harm in this man.
00:45:51Donkey.
00:45:52May I use your phone?
00:45:54Sorry.
00:45:54No phone.
00:45:56What?
00:45:58No phone.
00:45:58I happen to know there's a phone in here.
00:46:00Where is it?
00:46:00Show it to me.
00:46:01Chop, chop.
00:46:02No phone.
00:46:02No phone.
00:46:03Wait a minute.
00:46:03Wait a minute.
00:46:04See that?
00:46:04It's pretty, isn't it?
00:46:05That's me.
00:46:06I'm the law.
00:46:07If you don't tell me where that phone is,
00:46:08you're going to get in plenty of trouble.
00:46:09Let me talk to him.
00:46:17Wait a minute.
00:46:18What is all this?
00:46:18I saw him press that button and trace the wire to that closet.
00:46:22It looks suspicious.
00:46:23Yeah.
00:46:25Where's the phone?
00:46:26Please, no phone.
00:46:27Charlie want no trouble.
00:46:28You're going to get in plenty of trouble.
00:46:30Come on.
00:46:34See the flyer?
00:46:35Yeah.
00:46:36My best clothes.
00:46:37Oh, shut up.
00:46:44Looks like a panel.
00:46:46Yeah.
00:46:46How do you open that, Charlie?
00:46:47I don't know.
00:46:48Go on, blast it, Jimmy.
00:47:01Wait a minute, Jimmy.
00:47:03After you, Charlie.
00:47:04No.
00:47:04Get in there.
00:47:05There you are.
00:47:24That's a fine set up.
00:47:26There goes our killer.
00:47:27Do you see that knife?
00:47:29Charlie won.
00:47:37Hey, you.
00:47:46Going someplace, Charlie?
00:47:52Nice work, Jimmy.
00:47:53I was held up.
00:47:54Come on, you and me is going to have a little talk.
00:47:56Come on.
00:47:58Never mind the double talk.
00:47:59Come on.
00:48:06Well, your friend Charlie won finally talked.
00:48:09Hey, what did you put in that note you sent to him?
00:48:11A little Chinese threat about the bones of his ancestors.
00:48:14Hey, sure worked.
00:48:16He didn't even want me to leave.
00:48:17I'll see you, too.
00:48:19Oh, let him wait a while.
00:48:20What did he have to say?
00:48:21Who were the two men?
00:48:22Said he didn't know their names.
00:48:24Only knew them as number one and number four.
00:48:26I showed him every picture in the place, but he didn't recognize any of them.
00:48:30Too bad.
00:48:31Yeah.
00:48:32You know, it's a funny thing.
00:48:35But this knife looks exactly like the one they threw at you the other night.
00:48:40Well, doesn't it?
00:48:42Yes.
00:48:44Might be the same knife.
00:48:50I beg your pardon, what is that thing?
00:48:52A little trinket you men found when they searched the hideout.
00:48:55Do you mind laying it down long enough to listen to me?
00:48:59Oh, of course not.
00:49:00I didn't mean to be rude.
00:49:02It's an interesting piece, and I was trying to trace it.
00:49:04I'm sorry.
00:49:05Oh, that's all right.
00:49:07Only Charlie dropped a bombshell.
00:49:09And I wanted to watch your face when they sprang it on you.
00:49:11I'm all face and ears.
00:49:13Well, he claims you didn't know the two men in the hideout.
00:49:16But he did describe a frequent visitor.
00:49:18Who was it?
00:49:19Jonas.
00:49:20Jonas?
00:49:21The Benton butler?
00:49:22That's right.
00:49:24Let's get going.
00:49:29Oh, good evening.
00:49:31Good evening.
00:49:32Where's Jonas?
00:49:33I don't know.
00:49:34Come to think of it, I haven't seen him for several hours.
00:49:36He's probably in his room reading.
00:49:38He spends a lot of time there.
00:49:39Look over the house.
00:49:40I want to check his room.
00:49:47Have any success this afternoon?
00:49:49Yes, that's why we want Jonas.
00:49:51Ever see anything like that before?
00:49:53Why, that son you helped the God of Vengeance.
00:49:54I haven't seen him since we were in China.
00:49:56Where did you get him?
00:49:58In a room that...
00:50:01How long since you've seen Jonas?
00:50:03He was here at lunch.
00:50:05All right, did you find him?
00:50:06No, so no sign of me.
00:50:07Oh, so he's scrammed, eh?
00:50:09Okay.
00:50:10Send out a description on the radio and have him picked up.
00:50:13That settles it.
00:50:13You mean that Jonas killed Dr. Benton?
00:50:15Sure, but he won't get far away.
00:50:17Jonas.
00:50:18I can't believe it.
00:50:23Look!
00:50:33Jonas!
00:50:33Yes.
00:50:37Not a fingerprint or anything.
00:50:41I still can't understand how they stuffed them in there without you knowing about it.
00:50:44I'm sorry, Captain, but my duties take me all over the house.
00:50:47Besides, I was working on those phone subscribers until dinner time.
00:50:50Yeah, yeah, I know.
00:50:51I'm just making noises.
00:50:52This case has got me daffy.
00:50:55Daggers, fingerprints, scrolls, poison.
00:51:01Hello.
00:51:04Yeah, Doc.
00:51:06What?
00:51:08You don't say.
00:51:10All right, you do say then.
00:51:12Okay, thanks.
00:51:14How do you like that?
00:51:16This was stuck in Jonas after he died.
00:51:19And what killed him?
00:51:20The same poison that killed Doc Benton.
00:51:23Well, we're getting no place fast.
00:51:27Well, what do you say, mastermind?
00:51:28I'm going crazy and you're playing with a doll.
00:51:31I guess we're both going crazy.
00:51:33We were talking about this God of Vengeance, you called it?
00:51:36Yes.
00:51:37He's a local deity found among the nomad tribes of the Kobe Desert.
00:51:40In the same district as the Emperor's Tomb?
00:51:42Yes.
00:51:43As far as I know, that's the only place.
00:51:45Now, wait a minute, children.
00:51:46I don't want to hear any more about Oriental Hocus Pocus.
00:51:49All I want to know is who killed Doc Benton and who killed Jonas.
00:51:52I think maybe we're getting warm.
00:51:55Any report on the two men in the motorboat?
00:51:57No.
00:51:58The Harbor Patrol hasn't turned up a thing.
00:52:00Are you desperate?
00:52:01Am I desperate?
00:52:03You're looking at a man who's got five newspapers,
00:52:05a police commissioner, and the whole town around his neck.
00:52:07And he asked me, am I desperate?
00:52:08I mean desperate enough to try a long shot.
00:52:11Sure, I'll try anything.
00:52:12What is it?
00:52:16Get me the Tribune.
00:52:19Mr. Miles.
00:52:21Jimmy Wong calling.
00:52:41Following the startling announcement that Mason, the missing pilot of the Benton expedition, had been found and a diagnosis of
00:52:47his condition,
00:52:48it was announced that he has been taken to St. Christopher's Hospital and is shortly expected to regain consciousness.
00:52:53The police confidently expect that as soon as he does so, they will obtain valuable information in the Benton murder
00:52:58investigation.
00:53:03All right, run this wire through the wind and connect it up.
00:53:05If I'm right, the killer will try to prevent Mason from talking.
00:53:08And for tonight, I'm going to be Mason.
00:53:10But, Jimmy, how can you be sure that Mason's alive?
00:53:12I can't.
00:53:13But I'm banking on the killer not being sure either.
00:53:16Then Mason might even be the killer.
00:53:18That's right.
00:53:19But, Jimmy.
00:53:20Oh, there's nothing to worry about.
00:53:21All we're trying to do is get these people out in the open.
00:53:24This microphone will pick up the slightest noise.
00:53:27You and Grady and I will be listening in, and if any trouble starts, we'll know it as soon as
00:53:30Jimmy.
00:53:31Come on, let's let him get to bed.
00:53:32Promise to yell if anything happens.
00:53:35I promise.
00:53:36Then good luck.
00:53:45Oh, snap out of it.
00:53:47Nothing's going to happen.
00:53:48The grounds are knee-deep in cops.
00:53:50Nice detail, eh?
00:53:51Yeah, the street must be off his nut, us patrolling a joint like this.
00:53:56Sure, I've never seen one of these stakeouts work yet.
00:54:00Nah.
00:54:12Okay.
00:54:13Everything okay?
00:54:13Yeah, listen.
00:54:16This is Station W-O-N-G signing off.
00:54:20We'll be back later with some interesting disclosures, I hope.
00:54:24That's good.
00:54:24Keep it tuned, Bear.
00:54:29Jay.
00:54:56Hey, Grady.
00:54:57Yeah, yeah.
00:54:57Come on, come on.
00:54:58Stay awake.
00:54:59What time is it?
00:55:01Yeah, it's 2.30.
00:55:03You heard anything?
00:55:04No, no, not a peep.
00:55:07You heard anything, won't it?
00:55:30You hear anything, you heard it?
00:55:33No, no, no, not a peep.
00:55:36You'd better give me a couple minutes.
00:55:38All right.
00:55:51What's the matter?
00:55:53Oh, I'm worried.
00:55:55There's nothing to worry about.
00:56:07I don't know.
00:57:01Come on, Rich.
00:57:15There's something I think will interest you.
00:57:23So, Fraser, it was you who threw the knife at me.
00:57:25Sure, we were watching from the garden.
00:57:28It's awfully nice of you to arrange this little party, Mr. Wong.
00:57:31Perhaps I'd better introduce myself.
00:57:33I'm Mason.
00:57:35Whom you so rashly decided to impersonate.
00:57:37I was hoping you'd turn up.
00:57:39Particularly after we found the God of Vengeance in your hideout back of Charlie One's.
00:57:44Then you can see this gives me a chance to satisfy the little fellow.
00:57:47You and Fraser were partners, huh?
00:57:49That's right.
00:57:50But Fraser decided to double-cross me.
00:57:53Tried to kill me and left me for dead in the desert.
00:57:55Fortunately, a wandering tribe picked me up and nursed me back to help.
00:57:59That's where you got the God of Vengeance.
00:58:02That's why you broke into Fraser's house and searched for the scroll.
00:58:05You knew he had it.
00:58:06It's a lie.
00:58:06Oh, no, it isn't, Fraser.
00:58:08And we're going to take you someplace where we can make you talk.
00:58:11I'd have finished him that night, but you interrupted me.
00:58:14Since then, he's been in hiding.
00:58:16But I thought this little trick of yours would smoke him out.
00:58:19I'm afraid you're going to have a little trouble getting away.
00:58:22I don't think so.
00:58:23Torino, there's our intern.
00:58:25We have an ambulance waiting downstairs.
00:58:28Hey, Grady.
00:58:29Yeah.
00:58:29Haven't you heard anything on that thing?
00:58:31No, nothing.
00:58:32A few minutes ago, there was just a little click, and then there's a...
00:58:35A click?
00:58:35Yeah.
00:58:36Give me that.
00:58:36Yes, sir.
00:58:38Take Fraser out.
00:58:39I'll keep Wong busy until you get started.
00:58:41Come on, Fraser, get moving.
00:58:42You can't bluff me.
00:58:44This is no bluff.
00:58:45Move.
00:58:50Why, it's dead.
00:58:51Something's happened to the wire.
00:58:52What do you mean it's dead?
00:58:52I wouldn't have fixed the thing that was all ready when we...
00:59:11All right, break it up.
00:59:12Come on, then, relax.
00:59:13Come on, get up.
00:59:14Nice work, Jimmy.
00:59:17Well, Fraser, you'd better talk now.
00:59:19As soon as I saw the film of the expedition, I felt sure that you had cut it and that
00:59:23the
00:59:23camera had photographed more than you admitted.
00:59:25Yeah.
00:59:26The reason you killed Doc Benton is because you didn't want him to tell about the oil.
00:59:29What about Jonas?
00:59:30He knew that Fraser had stolen the scroll and was working with Mason to try to get it back.
00:59:34Fraser killed him, too.
00:59:35You were very clever, Mr. Wong, but you still haven't got the scroll.
00:59:39And what's more, you'll never get it.
00:59:41You see, I destroyed it.
00:59:42Oddly enough, I believe you, Fraser.
00:59:44But you didn't destroy it without photographing it.
00:59:47The scroll itself would have been difficult to dispose of.
00:59:49Besides, the contents are the most important thing.
00:59:52Search him, Captain.
00:59:53Come on.
00:59:55What am I looking for?
00:59:57Film.
01:00:08Well, that's probably it.
01:00:10What's that?
01:00:11That's too small.
01:00:12The picture's inside.
01:00:13Open it.
01:00:19May I?
01:00:23This is part of China.
01:00:24I think we can trust you to see that it remains so.
01:00:27What do you think, Captain?
01:00:28Well, I think you're right.
01:00:30Except that I think someone should go along to help.
01:00:32That is, someone who understands the language and, well, the customs.
01:00:37That is, somebody like yourself.
01:00:40It's a wise man who understands a nod.
01:00:52Well, come on, come on.