All language subtitles for Alfred Hitchcock s03e27 Disappearing Trick

Good evening, fellow athletes.

I believe that everyone owes it to his
well -being to indulge in some sport.

My favorite pastime, as you can see, is
the filching loving cups.

Naturally, I never steal too much at a
time for fear of losing my amateur

standing. But the people from whom I
take the cups don't mind, I'm sure.

After all, it isn't who wins that
counts.

It's how you play the game.

By the way, I'm inventing a device that
should make tennis much more enjoyable.

It suddenly raises the net half a foot
just as the victor leaps over to offer

condolences to the loser.

Through it, I hope to add what is
lacking in tennis.

Laughs.

Before viewing tonight's chronicle, we
must identify the party who is footing

the bill.

I must apologize for the brevity of this
announcement, but this is one of the

conditions laid down by our modest
sponsor.

That's $10 across.

All right, and the first is Anna Nita.

Hi, Joe.

Hi.

Hello?

Who?

Oh, sure, Barney.

Misty Day, the 6th at Hialeah.

Across the board, huh?

Yeah. Yeah, there's plenty of time.

All right, Barney, you're on.

All right, lady, I got you. That's brown
jug and a second at Santa need anyone.

Two dollars to show.

Okay.

That's a real plumber.

Take care of this for me, will you?

Hello. Sure, why not? I work here.

Yeah, Charlie.

How are things with the tennis crowd?

Well, they ask about you all the time.

Did you ever figure out how you made out
with those rich ladies over at the

club?

I've got a lot of charm.

And they can afford it.

Oh, Regis was asking for you.

Good. Yeah, Charlie, I'm listening.

Okay.

Hi, boss.

Oh, I thought you'd be in La Jolla by
now.

You know, I couldn't leave without
saying goodbye.

Oh, yeah, yeah, I know. I get all choked
up, too.

There.

That'll make us both feel better, huh?

Mm -hmm.

Anytime I can ever do anything for you,
you're doing it.

That is expense money.

You mean I'm working this weekend?

A little bit.

Between sets.

Herbert Guild.

You've probably taken calls from him.
He's been a real nice bettor over the

few years.

Nice steady winner, too.

Conservative. Not a plunger, but a real
nice client.

He live in La Jolla?

He did. Or does.

I don't know.

But three months ago, it says there he
stopped calling in. Now, I don't like to

lose a real nice client, Walden.

So, uh, here.

You'll get in touch with him, huh?

Good address.

Best apartment hotel in La Jolla. Oh,
nothing but class.

But that's your kind of business, so buy
him a drink.

Get to talk his language.

Maybe even play a little tennis with
him.

But get Mr. Herbert Gill back on our
books, huh?

But, um...

Maybe he's got a daughter Okay, maybe
he's got a daughter

Thank you have a happy weekend

Yes?

Is this Mr. Herbert Guild's apartment?

Mm -hmm.

Who are you?

My name is Richmond, but I don't think
that would mean Mr. Mr. Guild.

I don't think it would either.

Would you like to come in, Mr. Richmond?

If you don't mind.

I'm Mrs. Guild.

Hello.

Won't you sit down?

Thank you.

Are you from out of town, Mr. Richmond?

Los Angeles. I didn't think I'd seen you
around.

Is your husband home, Mrs. Guild?

Do you expect him, son?

No. Well, then.

Have you ever met my husband, Mr.
Richmond?

No, I never have.

If you could tell me when you expect
him, perhaps I could call later.

Well, I don't expect him.

My husband is dead, Mr. Richmond.

Oh, I'm sorry, Mrs. Guild. I didn't
know.

Well, he's been dead for six months.

You like a drink?

Well, I don't want to trouble you.

Well, I'll tell you when it's trouble.

Okay?

Okay.

You look like scotch and water, right?

Right.

A bit like sherry.

You know what I mean?

Uh -huh.

That's Herbert on the coffee table.

Surprise.

Should I be?

Everyone else was, including Herbert.

Cheers, Mr. Richmond.

Cheers, Mrs. Gill.

He does look like Sherry, doesn't he?

He looks, um, nice.

Well, he what?

Very nice.

I can tell a lot about a person just
looking.

Like what?

Well, not everything, of course, but a
lot.

Take you.

The way you dress, the way you cut your
hair.

I can tell you a particular.

You like nice things.

I like nice things.

The way you move, the way you carry
yourself.

As if you're sure.

No, it's nothing more than that.

Are you some kind of athlete?

Well, I play a lot of tennis.

See?

I can tell a lot.

Just looking.

But not everything.

Well, who can tell everything?

Did I tell you Herbert drowned?

No, you didn't tell me how he died.

He always said he didn't like sailing.

One day he took a sailboat out from
Mission Bay.

I found what was left of it on the rocks
by the ocean.

It was a shock, I tell you.

I'm sure it was.

You never said why you wanted to see my
husband.

My boss asked me to look him up.

Said he hadn't heard from him for a
while.

Just a friendly visit.

Just a friendly visit.

I was hoping it was money.

He looks like money, doesn't he?

There wasn't much.

Just a little insurance.

Sorry.

Well, I've got to be going.

Thanks for the drink, Mrs. Gilder.

I don't usually talk so much.

Does your work bring you down to La
Jolla very often, Mr. Richmond?

It's beginning to look like it will.

Goodbye, Mrs. Gilder.

It's just that I don't like to close a
file on a good customer, Walter.

Of course, when they die, it's... Well,
it's not like losing them to another

bookie. You're all hard, Regis.

It's not like I knew Herbert Gill. It's
just that we made a little money

together, that's all.

Looks to me like he did all right for
himself.

Well, like I said, conservative.

Not a big plunger, but a good steady
client.

He placed his last bet with us three
months ago. The 10th of December.

Mm -hmm.

Made almost $600 in a two -horse parlay.

Where'd you get him?

Hmm?

You can't take it with you, Walter.

You're a philosopher, boss.

No luck, huh?

Not yet.

Pity.

Look, look, are you sure that it would
be in the papers what you're looking

It ought to be.

Uh -huh.

Well, uh, well, are you sure it was last
September, are you?

That's September six months ago, isn't
it?

Well, let me see it. Yeah, yeah, six
months it is.

Here it is.

Herbert. Herbert Guild!

Well, why didn't you say so?

Look, I'd like to read this.

Well, I can tell you the whole thing.

I know him for years.

Anything you want to know about Herbert
Guild, I can tell you.

I just want to make sure it was
September when he died.

Drowned.

All right, drowned.

Pizoon drowned.

Oh, haven't you got that far yet?

Presumed drowned?

Yeah. They had to presume.

They never found hide in the hell of his
body.

Well, Mr.

Richmond.

You're not surprised, Mrs. Gilbert.

Did I say I was?

Did your boss send you back?

You know he didn't.

Well, questions are more fun when you
know the answers.

So, I brush my hair.

Very pretty hair.

Shiny and very soft.

How do you know it?

Soft.

I can tell a lot by looking.

I brush it.

A hundred strokes a night.

Must take a lot of time.

I'm loaded with time.

My name's Laura.

Walter.

I've leveled with you, Walter.

There's no money.

Just me.

I believe you.

Are you disappointed?

I was.

Just a little insurance, isn't that what
you said?

Mm -hmm.

It's a nice view.

Must cost a lot of money.

It's Herbert's view.

Five -year lease paid in advance.

It's La Jolla.

It's what I wanted.

It's what I got.

Who doesn't want La Jolla?

From the wrong side of the San Diego
Navy Yard, it looks like.

Paradise.

Just five miles down that road.

How do you get there?

Herbert?

He was nice.

He was sweet.

I liked him.

And his money.

His money I could have loved.

Enough of it.

But it was a fair fight. We both got
cheated a little.

Do you think Herbert knew?

He was cheating?

Well, he wasn't dumb.

You never told me they never found his
body.

You never asked me.

Maybe he isn't dead.

I saw the boat.

He's dead.

What a crazy thing to say.

I've got an inventive mind.

Like what?

Like suppose Herbert knew he was
cheated.

Like suppose he wanted to get out.

So he drowns?

Disappears.

Fakes it.

The boat on the rocks.

He fakes it so well, everyone's willing
to say he's drowned.

Even though they can't find his body.

You want me to ask why?

So he can go away.

Take up a new life.

Take a new name.

And lived like a nice old man should.

Without a young wife he can't hold.

I can't use it.

No?

Well, like you said.

It was a crazy thing to say.

That was a good volley. You're all
right.

I'll catch my breath in a week or two.

Oh, really? You play a better game than
I thought.

Well, I play other games besides tennis.

Tennis is for kids.

This kid is thirsty.

Always come to me with small problems. I
can solve them.

How are you on big problems?

Try me.

I want to go away.

I thought you liked the Hoyer.

I need a change.

Let's go someplace.

Tomorrow.

Don't make that a big problem.

You? Where do you want us to go?

Oh, anywhere.

Mountains?

Desert?

City? Anywhere.

You're easy to please. Not a bit.

You care where we go?

No. I'll try to run into your husband.

So, skin diving is out.

Seriously, didn't he ever take you
anywhere?

Oh, just Del Mar and Tijuana.

Herbert was a great one for horse
racing.

He could drive 15 miles just to see a
race.

Well, how about it?

Well, I need a day or so.

Now, look, lady, I got to work sometime,
you know.

And I don't think I can make it
tomorrow.

Only weekends at Caliente.

I've got it.

Ten dollars across the board on no
taxes.

I hope so, too. Adios.

Wall of Richmond.

Long time no see.

Long time, Julio. Long time.

Well, how's business?

Poco a poco.

Ah.

You still in Los Angeles with Regis?
Yeah.

And it's a poco a poco, too.

What brings you to Tijuana? Did a horse
run out on you?

No, a man, maybe. A client.

I thought you might know about him.

Maybe he's my client now.

If he is, you can keep him as a client.

Herbert Guild.

Herbert Guild.

Huh? He'd be a fool to use his own name,
Julio.

He's an old guy.

Gray hair, kind of a... kind of a soft
look about him.

Well, this is most old guys, Waller.
You're right.

This Herbert Guild, uh, he's in trouble?

He's, uh, supposed to be dead.

Old clients I've got, but dead ones, no.

Thing is, I don't think he's dead.

They found a sailboat he'd rented
cracked up on the rocks outside of San

But they never found his body.

Well, it's a big ocean.

Thing is, he was given up for dead six
months ago.

September.

But he called his last bed in Deregis on
the 10th of December.

That's not easy, Walter.

You think he came to Tijuana?

Easiest place to disappear.

Over an international border and racing
at Caliente every weekend.

Well, that's logical.

Miss Herbert Gill, do you have a picture
of him? It would help, you know.

I can get one.

I won't be long, darling.

Fix yourself a drink.

Don't worry about me. Just take your
time.

I've got a surprise for you.

Oh?

What's that?

I thought it was a surprise.

You'll see in a minute.

Look, I don't know.

Now, I thought you could tell a lot by
looking.

Not everything.

I don't like to be kept waiting.

I've been waiting for you all day.

This is to say, I didn't like it either.

Remind me to keep you waiting more
often.

It pays off.

I have no need for insurance, Mr.
Richmond.

But a man of your age, Mr. Fielding,
it'd be a value. No family, no

Now you'd be wasting your time.

I never waste time, Mr. Guild.

How did you find out?

I'm an insurance investigator, Mr.
Guild.

When a case looks phony, we pay up, but
we don't give up.

Especially if we can't find the body. I
see.

Does my wife know about this?

No.

No? Nobody knows but you and me.

What about your office?

I never make out a report unless I have
something to say.

You've done very well at the track
recently, Mr. Guild.

Yes.

I shouldn't have been able to live
without it. Or die, either, for that

I don't regret it, though. I've been
quite happy, really.

May I offer you a hearing?

No, thanks.

Tell me, Mr. Richmond.

I don't suppose I could repay the
insurance company the amount they...

Paid off on my policy.

Pay off an insurance company, Mr. Guild?

No, I suppose not.

I understand you have my sympathies, but
a company is just a machine.

No pity, no heart.

You're a young man, Mr. Richmond. Surely
you must have a heart.

Oh, yes.

Would $10 ,000 give you a poor memory?

Are you bribing me, Mr. Guild?

Well, if I've offended you, you only
have to turn in your report.

Fifteen thousand.

Ten thousand cash.

That's the end of it, Mr. Ritzman.

Don't ever come back for more.

I've always wanted to retire early in
life, Mr. Gill.

Lie on the beach and play tennis.

Yes, that's a young man's game.

And I mean it, Mr. Richmond. Don't ever
come back for more.

Mr. Fielding?

It's like I'm in the driver's seat,
doesn't it, Walter?

I haven't been giving you enough credit,
dear.

No, but you'll learn to, darling.

Don't you trust me?

Not for a moment.

How'd you know I was here?

Had you followed all weekend?

Do you want to give me the keys, or
shall I call my husband?

Look at it this way, darling.

Now you'll be able to buy all the new
tires you need.

Keen.

How much did Herbert give you?

Five thousand.

Walter, learn to be honest with me.

All right, ten thousand.

There'll be no more.

Ridiculous. Ten thousand won't keep you
in tennis ball.

There'll be more.

Next time, I'll go to see Herbert.

Darling, don't look so worried.

We'll be happy.

We deserve each other.

You do it that, my dear.

Herbert, I'm not sure I would have
recognized you.

How'd you get here so fast?

You seemed to be having tire trouble
when I passed you.

Look, you paid me off. I'm not going to
bother you anymore.

I might have believed that.

Just like I might have believed you're
the only one who knew about me.

Until I saw you wearing my cufflinks.

Laura's the only one who could have
given them to you?

Oh, what are you going to do about it,
Herbert? Call the police?

He's not dead, is he?

No, he's all right.

Oh, darling.

Don't worry, I know a doctor.

I'll take you to him. Easy.

Easy now. You'll be all right.

May I see Mrs. Gilden, Doctor?

Your friend's out in the waiting room.
Would you bring her in, please?

Now, easy.

That's right.

She seems to have stepped out.

I thought I'd bring you Jack.

About that shoulder, it'll heal all
right in time.

Though I'm afraid it'll...

Always be stiff.

But that's not too tough.

Unless you happen to be a tennis player.

Since tonight's story was an allegory, I
offer this footnote to make everything

clear. Walter represented youthful
innocence.

Mrs. Guild was unrequited love, and of
course Mr.

Guild symbolized Mrs.

Guild's husband.

The following item could use many
things, but a footnote is not one of

When it is over, I shall flip back.

Since this program is on film, and will
probably be shown for many years to

come, I should like to address... My
next remarks to those of you who are

watching the show in the year 2000,
please write in at once and tell us what

life is like.

I'm quite curious.

Until next week, good night.