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Silence. Be upstanding in court.

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All persons who have anything
to do before my lords,

3
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the queen's justices of oyer and
terminer and general jail delivery

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for the jurisdiction of the
Central Criminal Court

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draw near and give your attendance.
God save the queen.

6
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What a beautiful day. I've been hoping
for a bit of sun for our homecoming.

7
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It's worth having the fog just to appreciate
the sunshine. Is there a draught?

8
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- Shall I roll up the window?
- Roll up your mouth. You talk too much.

9
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If I'd known how much you talked
I'd never have come out of my coma.

10
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- This thing weighs a ton.
- Now, now.

11
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We've been flat on our back for two
months, we'd better be careful.

12
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Lovely, lovely. It must be perfectly lovely
to live and work in the Inns of Court.

13
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How lucky you lawyers are.

14
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I almost married a lawyer. I was
in attendance for his appendectomy

15
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and we became engaged as
soon as he could sit up.

16
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And then peritonitis set
in and he went like that.

17
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He certainly was a lucky lawyer.

18
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Teeny-weeny steps, now. Remember
we had a teeny-weeny heart attack.

19
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Oh, shut up!

20
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Williams, my cane.

21
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Here he comes!

22
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Good afternoon. Thank you very
much. Everybody back to work.

23
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Sir Wilfrid, if you don't mind, I'd like
to read you a poem to welcome you back.

24
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Very touching. You can recite it
after office hours in your own time.

25
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Now back to work.
What's the matter with you?

26
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Nothing. I'm just happy that
you're your old self again.

27
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Any more sentimentality around here,
I shall go back to the hospital!

28
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They won't take him back. He wasn't
really discharged, you know,

29
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he was expelled for conduct
unbecoming a cardiac patient.

30
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Put these in water, blabbermouth!
Come on in, Carter.

31
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Look at this room.
It's ugly, old and musty.

32
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But I never knew I could
miss anything so much.

33
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- Missed you too, you musty old buzzard.
- Oh, thank you, sir.

34
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I'm not a religious man, but when they
carted you off, I went out and lit a candle.

35
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- Why, thank you, Carter.
- Actually, sir, I was lighting it for myself.

36
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If anything happened to you, what
would happen to me, after 37 years?

37
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37 years!
Has it been all that long?

38
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Yes, sir. This is 1952, that was in October
1915. The Shepherd's Bush murder.

39
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The chemist accused of putting
cyanide in his uncle's toothpaste.

40
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My first murder trial. I was more
frightened than the defendant.

41
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First time I rose to make an objection,
my wig fell off. Where's my wig?

42
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Right here.

43
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- I've guarded it with me life.
- I hope it still fits.

44
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I lost 30lbs in that
wretched hospital.

45
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Still, I suppose my
head isn't any smaller.

46
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What's all this?

47
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- We've put it in mothballs.
- Mothballs? Am I not to practice again?

48
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Of course. The solicitors have
been breaking down our doors.

49
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- I've got some interesting briefs for you.
- That's better.

50
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Divorce case, a tax appeal, and an
important marine insurance claim.

51
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- Nice smooth matters with excellent fees.
- No, Carter.

52
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I'm sorry, but you're not to undertake
any criminal cases. Your doctors have...

53
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Doctors! They've deprived me of
alcohol, tobacco, female companionship.

54
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If only they'd let me do
something worthwhile!

55
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Sorry, sir.

56
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Might as well get a bigger box,
more mothballs, put me away too.

57
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- 2:30, Sir Wilfrid. Time for our little nap!
- Oh, get out!

58
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Beddy-bye. We'd better go upstairs
now, get undressed and lie down.

59
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- We? What a nauseating prospect.
- Upstairs, please.

60
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Are you aware that,
while on my sickbed,

61
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I seriously considered strangling you
with one of your own rubber tubes.

62
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I would then have admitted the crime,
retained myself for the defense.

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My lord, members of the jury, I hereby
enter a plea of justifiable homicide.

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For four months this alleged angel
of mercy has pored, probed,

65
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punctured, pillaged and
plundered my helpless body

66
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while tormenting my mind with
a steady drip of baby talk.

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Come along now,
like a good boy. Oh, no.

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Take your hands off me,
or I'll strike you with my cane.

69
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- You wouldn't, it might break your cigars.
- What cigars?

70
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- The ones you're smuggling in your cane.
- Cane?

71
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You could be jailed for this.
You had no search warrant.

72
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In hospital he'd hide cigars
and brandy all over the place.

73
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We called him Wilfrid the fox.

74
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- I'm confiscating these.
- Can't I have just one?

75
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No. Upstairs.

76
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A few puffs after meals? Please.

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I'll do it. Some dark night when her back
is turned, I'll snatch her thermometer

78
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and plunge it between her shoulder
blades. So help me, I will.

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Oh, no, sir. You mustn't walk up. We've
installed something for you here. It's a lift.

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A lift? I'm sick of this plot
to make me a helpless invalid.

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I think it's a splendid idea.
Let's try it, shall we?

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Out of there. I'll try it. It's my
lift because it was my heart attack.

83
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Here you are. Simply press this
button for up and this one for down.

84
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Carter, I warn you, if this
contraption should collapse,

85
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if the barrister should
fall off the bannister...

86
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Remarkable. Smoothest
flight I've had in years.

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- Upsy-daisy!
- Once more to get the feel of the controls.

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Good afternoon. Is it
possible to see Sir Wilfrid?

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I didn't make an appointment,
but this is urgent.

90
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If it's about a brief, I'm sorry, but we're
full. Sir Wilfrid has all that he can handle.

91
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I'm sure he'll want this brief.

92
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Serious criminal matter.

93
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Absolutely not, Mr. Mayhew.
Sir Wilfrid is still convalescent.

94
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He can't accept anything of
an overstimulating nature.

95
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Put me on a diet of bland
civil suits. Hello, Mayhew.

96
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Hello. Distressing news
about your health.

97
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It's tragic. You'd better get
a man with younger arteries.

98
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If you could just give us a few minutes.
This is Mr. Leonard Vole.

99
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- He's in rather a ghastly mess, I'm afraid.
- How do you do, Mr. Vole?

100
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Well, according to Mr. Mayhew,
I'm not doing at all well.

101
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Sir Wilfrid! Sir Wilfrid!

102
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- You're dawdling again!
- Oh, shut up!

103
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Sorry, Mayhew. Try me again when
you've something not too stimulating.

104
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Like a postman bitten
by a stray dog.

105
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I wish you could help us, Wilfrid, but I
quite understand. Take care of yourself.

106
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Mayhew! Mayhew!

107
00:10:01,730 --> 00:10:04,381
Oh, no. Sir Wilfrid, please.

108
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Don't worry, we won't take the
brief, but an old friend needs help.

109
00:10:08,278 --> 00:10:11,009
Surely I can give him
a word of advice.

110
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Come on, I'll give you five minutes.
No, no, I don't want you, just Mayhew.

111
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Our nap! Sir Wilfrid! Our nap!

112
00:10:18,163 --> 00:10:20,769
You go ahead. Start it without me.

113
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This is your fault. You
should not have permitted it.

114
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It is not my fault. I distinctly
told Sir Wilfrid no criminal cases.

115
00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:31,208
Well, if it's anyone's fault,
I expect it's mine.

116
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Seems silly to me, but Mr.
Mayhew thinks it's very urgent.

117
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- He thinks I may be arrested any minute.
- Arrested for what?

118
00:10:38,851 --> 00:10:40,899
Well, for murder.

119
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Oh!

120
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It's the case of Emily French. You've
probably seen reports in the press.

121
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Middle-aged widow, well-off, living
with a housekeeper at Hampstead.

122
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Mr. Vole had been with her earlier.

123
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When the housekeeper returned,
she found her dead,

124
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struck on the back of
the head and killed.

125
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Vole seems caught in a web
of circumstantial evidence.

126
00:11:01,624 --> 00:11:05,345
Perhaps if I gave you the details you'd
suggest the strongest line of defense.

127
00:11:05,628 --> 00:11:09,075
- I'd probably think better with a cigar.
- Of course.

128
00:11:09,340 --> 00:11:13,265
No previous convictions. He's of good
character with an excellent war record.

129
00:11:13,552 --> 00:11:17,682
- You'd like him a lot.
- They've confiscated the matches. A light.

130
00:11:17,974 --> 00:11:22,024
The defense may tum on establishing
an alibi for the night of the murder.

131
00:11:22,311 --> 00:11:26,873
- I haven't got any. Let me get you some.
- Lord, no! You don't know Miss Plimsoll.

132
00:11:27,191 --> 00:11:29,762
This will take all our cunning.

133
00:11:34,657 --> 00:11:36,546
Young man!

134
00:11:36,742 --> 00:11:38,551
Come here, please.

135
00:11:38,744 --> 00:11:42,874
Your solicitor and I feel you may be able
to enlighten me on an important point.

136
00:11:43,165 --> 00:11:45,213
- Yes. Thank you.
- Sir Wilfrid!

137
00:11:45,418 --> 00:11:48,388
You're not in bed yet? Upstairs!

138
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- Give me a match.
- Sorry, I never carry them.

139
00:11:54,385 --> 00:11:57,229
- What? You said I'd like him.
- But I do have a lighter.

140
00:11:57,471 --> 00:12:00,759
You're quite right, Mayhew,
I do like him. Thank you.

141
00:12:01,017 --> 00:12:05,341
Can you imagine Miss Plimsoll's
face if she saw me now?

142
00:12:05,646 --> 00:12:09,810
Then let's make absolutely
sure that she doesn't.

143
00:12:10,109 --> 00:12:14,001
Splendid. All the instincts
of a skilled criminal.

144
00:12:14,281 --> 00:12:17,046
- Thank you, sir.
- Here.

145
00:12:21,622 --> 00:12:24,023
Whether or not you murdered
a middle-aged widow,

146
00:12:24,249 --> 00:12:27,890
you certainly saved the life
of an elderly barrister.

147
00:12:28,170 --> 00:12:30,332
I haven't murdered anybody.
It's absurd.

148
00:12:30,547 --> 00:12:34,518
Christine, that's my wife, she thought
I may be implicated and needed a lawyer.

149
00:12:34,801 --> 00:12:37,930
That's why I went to see Mr. Mayhew.
Now he thinks he needs a lawyer

150
00:12:38,180 --> 00:12:40,660
and now I have two lawyers.
It's rather silly.

151
00:12:40,891 --> 00:12:43,053
I am a solicitor.
Sir Wilfrid is a barrister.

152
00:12:43,268 --> 00:12:46,272
Only a barrister can actually
plead a case in court.

153
00:12:46,521 --> 00:12:50,446
- Oh, I see.
- She shall not even find the ashes.

154
00:12:53,612 --> 00:12:56,422
- Sit down.
- Thank you.

155
00:12:56,657 --> 00:13:00,503
I saw in the paper that Mrs. French had
been found dead with her head bashed in.

156
00:13:00,786 --> 00:13:05,508
It also said the police were anxious to
interview me since I visited that evening.

157
00:13:05,832 --> 00:13:09,598
- Naturally, I went to the police station.
- Did they caution you?

158
00:13:09,878 --> 00:13:13,360
I don't quite know. They asked
if I'd like to make a statement

159
00:13:13,632 --> 00:13:17,876
and said they'd write it down and it might
be used against me. Is that a caution?

160
00:13:18,178 --> 00:13:20,260
Well, it can't be helped now.

161
00:13:20,472 --> 00:13:24,716
- They seemed quite satisfied.
- They seemed satisfied, Mr. Vole.

162
00:13:25,018 --> 00:13:28,704
He thinks that he made a statement and
that's the end of it. Isn't it obvious

163
00:13:28,981 --> 00:13:33,669
that you will be regarded as the principal
suspect? I'm afraid you'll be arrested.

164
00:13:33,986 --> 00:13:36,227
I've done nothing!
Why should I be arrested?

165
00:13:36,446 --> 00:13:40,531
This is England! You don't get arrested
or convicted for crimes you haven't done.

166
00:13:40,826 --> 00:13:43,352
We try not to make a habit of it.

167
00:13:44,288 --> 00:13:47,053
But it does happen,
though, doesn't it?

168
00:13:47,291 --> 00:13:51,740
Of course. There was that case of that
fellow, whatshisname, Adolph Beck.

169
00:13:52,045 --> 00:13:55,208
In jail for years and they suddenly
found it was another chap.

170
00:13:55,465 --> 00:13:58,948
- He'd been innocent!
- Unfortunate, but restitution was made.

171
00:13:59,220 --> 00:14:03,350
He received a pardon, a bounty from the
crown, and was restored to normal life.

172
00:14:03,641 --> 00:14:07,282
That's all right for him. What if it
had been murder? What if he'd hanged?

173
00:14:07,562 --> 00:14:10,645
How would they have restored
him to his normal life then?

174
00:14:10,898 --> 00:14:15,108
Mr. Vole, you must not take
such a morbid point of view.

175
00:14:15,403 --> 00:14:19,294
It's just when you say these things are
closing in on me, it's like a nightmare.

176
00:14:19,574 --> 00:14:24,102
Relax. You're in the hands of the finest,
most experienced barrister in London.

177
00:14:24,412 --> 00:14:27,859
Let's get this straight. I may have
done something highly unethical.

178
00:14:28,124 --> 00:14:31,606
I've taken your cigar but I'm
not taking your case. I can't.

179
00:14:31,878 --> 00:14:36,805
I'm forbidden. My doctors would never
allow it. I'm truly sorry, young man.

180
00:14:37,133 --> 00:14:39,943
But if you'd like the case
handled by these chambers,

181
00:14:40,178 --> 00:14:43,864
- I'd recommend Mr. Brogan-Moore.
- Yes. A very able man.

182
00:14:44,140 --> 00:14:49,510
- I second Sir Wilfrid's recommendation.
- All right, sir, if you say so.

183
00:14:52,941 --> 00:14:54,909
Hold this.

184
00:14:58,279 --> 00:14:59,440
Carter?

185
00:14:59,614 --> 00:15:03,380
I would like to see Brogan-Moore here
as soon as he comes in from court.

186
00:15:03,660 --> 00:15:06,470
Sir Wilfrid, I have never
known such insubordination.

187
00:15:06,704 --> 00:15:08,945
Not even as a nurse during the war.

188
00:15:09,165 --> 00:15:12,806
What war was that?
The Crimean War, no doubt.

189
00:15:13,962 --> 00:15:17,284
You'll like Brogan-Moore, he's had
excellent training. Under me.

190
00:15:17,548 --> 00:15:21,348
This morning I had no lawyers at
all and now suddenly I have three.

191
00:15:21,636 --> 00:15:24,287
We should explain that I
have very little money.

192
00:15:24,514 --> 00:15:26,755
I shan't be able to pay
all the costs and fees.

193
00:15:26,975 --> 00:15:29,182
We'll get a fourth
lawyer to sue you.

194
00:15:29,394 --> 00:15:32,398
He won't get very much.
I haven't had a job in four months.

195
00:15:32,647 --> 00:15:35,571
- What sort of work do you do?
- Well, uh...

196
00:15:35,817 --> 00:15:41,062
My last job was as a mechanic. The
foreman kept riding me all the time.

197
00:15:41,406 --> 00:15:44,616
- I took it as long as I could, then I quit.
- And before that?

198
00:15:44,868 --> 00:15:48,998
I worked in a department store, in toys,
demonstrating children's building sets.

199
00:15:49,290 --> 00:15:54,012
Of course, it lasted only during Christmas.
Before that I tested electric blankets.

200
00:15:54,336 --> 00:15:58,898
- Electric blankets?
- I suppose you think I'm a bit of a drifter.

201
00:15:59,216 --> 00:16:01,696
It's true, in a way,
but I'm really not like that.

202
00:16:01,927 --> 00:16:06,296
My army service unsettled me. That and
living abroad. I was stationed in Germany.

203
00:16:06,599 --> 00:16:09,205
It was fine there, though.
That's where I met my wife.

204
00:16:09,435 --> 00:16:13,884
She was an actress, and a good one.
She's a wonderful wife to me, too.

205
00:16:14,189 --> 00:16:16,795
But I haven't been much of
a provider, I'm afraid.

206
00:16:17,026 --> 00:16:21,429
Somehow, I just don't seem able to settle
down now I've come back to this country.

207
00:16:21,739 --> 00:16:25,664
- If I could just put my eggbeater across.
- Eggbeater?

208
00:16:26,410 --> 00:16:31,416
Yes, sir. I, uh, I'm a bit of an inventor.
Nothing big, just little household things.

209
00:16:31,749 --> 00:16:34,798
Pocket pencil sharpeners,
key chain flashlights.

210
00:16:35,044 --> 00:16:37,251
But my best is really
this eggbeater.

211
00:16:37,463 --> 00:16:40,785
It not only beats, it also
separates the yolk from the white.

212
00:16:41,050 --> 00:16:43,371
Is that really desirable?

213
00:16:43,594 --> 00:16:46,040
If you were a housewife,
you'd see it right away.

214
00:16:46,263 --> 00:16:49,392
The trouble is, I need money for
manufacturing and promotion.

215
00:16:49,642 --> 00:16:53,533
I was really hoping that's what Mrs.
French might do for me after I met her.

216
00:16:53,812 --> 00:16:58,978
- Exactly how did you meet Mrs. French?
- That's rather funny in itself.

217
00:16:59,318 --> 00:17:02,959
It was 3 September. I remember
because it's my wife's birthday.

218
00:17:03,238 --> 00:17:05,969
I was window-shopping
in Oxford Street,

219
00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:10,967
daydreaming about what I'd buy
for her, if I had any money.

220
00:17:58,169 --> 00:18:00,171
- You really like this one?
- Very much.

221
00:18:00,380 --> 00:18:02,826
- You don't think it's too mad?
- Mad?

222
00:18:03,049 --> 00:18:07,338
Not at all. Daring, perhaps. I wouldn't
recommend it to every woman. But you?

223
00:18:07,637 --> 00:18:10,402
- Why shouldn't you attract attention?
- You think so?

224
00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:13,928
Absolutely. But if I could
suggest one little thing.

225
00:18:14,185 --> 00:18:18,349
Perhaps we could tip it and bring it back
a bit like that. Show more of your face.

226
00:18:19,941 --> 00:18:22,672
- My bus. Goodbye.
- Good...

227
00:18:23,862 --> 00:18:26,308
You buy that hat. I insist.

228
00:18:27,324 --> 00:18:31,886
Actually, it was a ridiculous sort of hat-
a silly thing with ribbons and flowers.

229
00:18:32,203 --> 00:18:36,492
I'm constantly surprised that women's
hats do not provoke more murders.

230
00:18:36,791 --> 00:18:38,077
Go on, please.

231
00:18:38,251 --> 00:18:40,731
I was only trying to be nice
to make her feel good.

232
00:18:40,962 --> 00:18:43,169
I never dreamed I'd see
her again. Or the hat.

233
00:18:43,381 --> 00:18:45,543
- But you did?
- Yes, a few weeks later.

234
00:18:45,759 --> 00:18:51,209
Again, by accident. I was peddling my
eggbeaters and business was a little slow.

235
00:19:14,914 --> 00:19:17,838
Would you mind, madam? Your hat.

236
00:19:18,084 --> 00:19:20,371
- Oh, it's you!
- Hello!

237
00:19:20,586 --> 00:19:23,829
It's your fault, you know.
You chose it yourself.

238
00:19:24,090 --> 00:19:26,252
- May I?
- Sure, if you like.

239
00:19:30,221 --> 00:19:34,704
Thank you. It's such a bother taking
it off and putting it back on again.

240
00:19:35,017 --> 00:19:39,864
That chap is Jesse James. They've led
him into an ambush. It's not at all cricket.

241
00:19:40,189 --> 00:19:42,590
- Don't worry, he shoots his way out.
- He does?

242
00:19:42,817 --> 00:19:45,502
- I've seen it. I got to the movies a lot.
- You do?

243
00:19:45,736 --> 00:19:50,867
I get restless so I go out. Then I find
I've no place to go so I go to the movies.

244
00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:55,250
Sometimes I see the same one
two or three times. Ooh.

245
00:19:55,538 --> 00:19:58,064
- Toffee?
- Oh, yes, please.

246
00:19:58,291 --> 00:20:01,181
At this time you had no idea
that Mrs. French was well-off?

247
00:20:01,419 --> 00:20:04,468
No. Absolutely not. We were
sitting in the cheap seats.

248
00:20:04,714 --> 00:20:08,400
All I knew was she seemed to be very
lonely, had no friends whatsoever.

249
00:20:08,676 --> 00:20:11,361
She and her husband lived
abroad in British Nigeria.

250
00:20:11,596 --> 00:20:15,999
He was in the colonial service.
He died in '45, of a heart attack.

251
00:20:16,309 --> 00:20:19,472
Please, Mayhew, not when
I'm smoking. Go on, young man.

252
00:20:19,729 --> 00:20:22,812
Well, they finally
polished off Jesse James,

253
00:20:23,065 --> 00:20:26,387
and after we left the movie she
invited me to her house for tea.

254
00:20:30,448 --> 00:20:34,248
I think it's the most fascinating thing
I've ever seen. Janet, come and look.

255
00:20:34,535 --> 00:20:36,503
I've seen eggbeaters before, ma'am.

256
00:20:36,704 --> 00:20:39,674
But this beats so quickly
and it separates too!

257
00:20:39,915 --> 00:20:42,839
It must be cen-trifugal or
centrifugal, which is it?

258
00:20:43,085 --> 00:20:45,611
It's specific gravity,
but it whips cream too.

259
00:20:45,838 --> 00:20:48,842
Did you hear that, Janet?
It whips cream too.

260
00:20:49,091 --> 00:20:51,492
We must have one. Is it expensive?

261
00:20:51,719 --> 00:20:55,041
Compliments of the inventor,
manufacturer and sole distributor.

262
00:20:55,306 --> 00:20:59,153
Thank you. We'll use it constantly,
won't we, Janet?

263
00:20:59,436 --> 00:21:03,885
Come, we'd better get out of here.
Janet doesn't like visitors in her kitchen.

264
00:21:10,906 --> 00:21:12,476
Ha!

265
00:21:14,534 --> 00:21:17,663
It's a bit chilly in here, isn't it?
Shall we have a fire?

266
00:21:17,913 --> 00:21:19,881
Why not?

267
00:21:20,082 --> 00:21:22,653
This is a charming room.

268
00:21:22,876 --> 00:21:27,006
Hubert and I collected all these
things when we lived in Africa.

269
00:21:27,297 --> 00:21:29,459
Hubert was my husband.

270
00:21:30,634 --> 00:21:33,285
Well, now, there's a lovable chap.

271
00:21:33,512 --> 00:21:35,913
That's the mask of
the witch doctor.

272
00:21:36,139 --> 00:21:38,540
He wore it when he pulled
our servants' teeth.

273
00:21:38,767 --> 00:21:42,374
So Hubert used to call
him a witch dentist.

274
00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:46,689
- Hubert was so witty.
- Yes, I can see that.

275
00:21:46,942 --> 00:21:49,070
Oh, here's tea.

276
00:21:51,571 --> 00:21:56,133
- Let's use our good silver and china.
- Oh, no, don't bother, Mrs. French.

277
00:21:56,451 --> 00:21:59,341
- This is perfectly all right.
- Lemon or milk, please?

278
00:21:59,579 --> 00:22:01,946
- I don't really care.
- Would you prefer sherry?

279
00:22:02,165 --> 00:22:04,133
- That'd be fine.
- We've no' got any.

280
00:22:04,334 --> 00:22:08,498
Oh, but we have. There's that bottle,
the one we bought last Christmas.

281
00:22:08,797 --> 00:22:13,598
If you care for an eggnog there's a wasted
egg in the kitchen ready and separated.

282
00:22:13,927 --> 00:22:18,615
Do sit down. Don't mind Janet, Mr. Vole.
It's just that she's terribly Scotch.

283
00:22:18,932 --> 00:22:22,334
Oh, is she? I thought she
came with the collection.

284
00:22:23,562 --> 00:22:27,362
You know, maybe I'll take
a glass of sherry myself.

285
00:22:27,649 --> 00:22:30,334
I feel like Christmas, somehow.

286
00:22:31,653 --> 00:22:36,136
After that I saw her once or twice a week.
She always kept a bottle of sherry for me.

287
00:22:36,450 --> 00:22:39,374
We'd talk, play canasta,
listen to gramophone records,

288
00:22:39,620 --> 00:22:41,748
Gilbert and Sullivan mostly.

289
00:22:41,955 --> 00:22:46,120
It's so weird to think of her now,
lying in that living room, murdered.

290
00:22:46,419 --> 00:22:50,788
I assure you she's been moved by now.
To leave her would be unfeeling, unlawful,

291
00:22:51,090 --> 00:22:53,058
and unsanitary.

292
00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:58,326
Tell Sir Wilfrid about the
evening of the murder.

293
00:22:59,182 --> 00:23:01,708
I went around to see her
about eight o'clock.

294
00:23:01,935 --> 00:23:04,779
She fixed a sandwich,
we talked, listened to The Mikado.

295
00:23:05,021 --> 00:23:08,946
I left about nine. I walked home.
I got there about half past.

296
00:23:09,233 --> 00:23:13,204
I can prove that. I can swear to it, in or out
of court, in the witness box, anywhere!

297
00:23:13,488 --> 00:23:16,059
How much money did you
get from Mrs. French?

298
00:23:16,282 --> 00:23:18,284
- Nothing.
- The truth. How much?

299
00:23:18,493 --> 00:23:22,100
- Why should she give me any money?
- Because she was in love with you.

300
00:23:22,372 --> 00:23:24,340
That's ridiculous. She liked me.

301
00:23:24,540 --> 00:23:27,464
She pampered me like an aunt.
But that's all, I swear.

302
00:23:27,710 --> 00:23:30,361
- Why didn't you tell her you had a wife?
- I did!

303
00:23:30,588 --> 00:23:33,797
But you never took your wife along
when you went there. Why not?

304
00:23:34,050 --> 00:23:35,814
- Because...
- Because what?

305
00:23:36,010 --> 00:23:39,457
Because she was under the impression
we didn't get along too well.

306
00:23:39,722 --> 00:23:42,043
- Is that true?
- No! We love each other.

307
00:23:42,267 --> 00:23:46,067
- Then how did she get that impression?
- She just seemed to want to believe it.

308
00:23:46,354 --> 00:23:49,642
- You never corrected her. Why?
- I was afraid she'd lose interest.

309
00:23:49,899 --> 00:23:53,142
Because she was rich, and
you were after her money.

310
00:23:53,403 --> 00:23:55,405
Well, yes, in a way.

311
00:23:56,114 --> 00:24:00,756
I was hoping for a loan for my new
invention. Just a few hundred pounds.

312
00:24:01,077 --> 00:24:04,240
An honest business proposition,
that's all. Is that so wicked?

313
00:24:04,497 --> 00:24:06,579
You knew it was the
housekeeper's day off?

314
00:24:06,791 --> 00:24:09,397
- Well, yes.
- You went there because she'd be alone?

315
00:24:09,627 --> 00:24:12,073
No, because I thought
she might be lonely.

316
00:24:12,297 --> 00:24:15,938
All right, lonely. You and the rich
lonely widow all alone in that house

317
00:24:16,217 --> 00:24:18,982
with a gramophone
blaring The Mikado.

318
00:24:19,220 --> 00:24:21,791
Perhaps you turned up the
volume to drown her cries.

319
00:24:22,015 --> 00:24:26,464
- When I left her she was alive!
- When Janet came back she was dead.

320
00:24:26,769 --> 00:24:30,570
The house had been ransacked! It said
in the papers. It must've been a burglar.

321
00:24:30,858 --> 00:24:34,067
I didn't do it. No matter how bad
things look, I didn't do it!

322
00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:38,484
You must believe me.
You do believe me, don't you?

323
00:24:39,658 --> 00:24:41,706
I do now, but I wasn't sure.

324
00:24:41,910 --> 00:24:45,278
That's why I subjected your eyes
and my arteries to that ordeal.

325
00:24:45,539 --> 00:24:47,746
- I'm sorry.
- That's all right.

326
00:24:47,958 --> 00:24:51,724
As for things looking bad, they don't
look bad, Mr. Vole, they look terrible.

327
00:24:52,004 --> 00:24:56,168
- Apparently you've no alibi at all.
- But I have. I left Mrs. French's at nine.

328
00:24:56,467 --> 00:24:59,676
- By bus or underground?
- No, I walked. It was a fine night.

329
00:24:59,929 --> 00:25:02,853
- Did anyone see you?
- Christine saw me when I got home.

330
00:25:03,098 --> 00:25:08,059
It was 9.26. I know because I went right to
work on a clock I've been tinkering with.

331
00:25:08,395 --> 00:25:11,046
- My wife will tell you.
- Your wife loves you, yes?

332
00:25:11,273 --> 00:25:13,514
Very much. We're
devoted to each other.

333
00:25:13,734 --> 00:25:18,774
You realize, Mr. Vole, the testimony of a
devoted wife does not carry much weight.

334
00:25:19,114 --> 00:25:21,765
People might think Christine
would lie on my account?

335
00:25:21,992 --> 00:25:25,792
It has been known, Mr. Vole.
Blood is thicker than evidence.

336
00:25:27,164 --> 00:25:31,772
- Ah, Brogan-Moore. Come in, come in.
- So good to have you out of hospital.

337
00:25:32,086 --> 00:25:36,774
I didn't get a full pardon, I'm out on
parole. You know Mr. Mayhew, I believe.

338
00:25:37,091 --> 00:25:39,776
- This is his client, Mr. Leonard Vole.
- How do you do?

339
00:25:40,010 --> 00:25:42,297
- How do you do?
- The Emily French murder.

340
00:25:42,513 --> 00:25:44,800
- Oh, how do you do?
- Badly, thank you.

341
00:25:45,015 --> 00:25:48,906
A mass of circumstantial evidence.
No alibi whatsoever. It's a hot potato.

342
00:25:49,186 --> 00:25:51,427
- Tossing it into your lap.
- Much obliged.

343
00:25:51,647 --> 00:25:54,651
Your line of defense,
however, will be lack of motive.

344
00:25:54,900 --> 00:25:57,904
You will agree that we can rule
out a crime of passion, hm?

345
00:25:58,153 --> 00:26:00,838
That leaves us with a
murder for profit.

346
00:26:01,073 --> 00:26:05,044
If Mr. Vole had been sponging off Mrs.
French, why cut off the source of supply?

347
00:26:05,327 --> 00:26:09,776
Or, if he'd been hoping for a golden egg,
why kill the goose before it was laid?

348
00:26:10,082 --> 00:26:13,007
No motive. No motive whatsoever.

349
00:26:14,671 --> 00:26:19,472
- You find some flaw in this reasoning?
- No, no, it's very sound as far as it goes.

350
00:26:19,801 --> 00:26:24,011
Well, it's all yours. You'll find Mr. Vole
very responsive and quite candid.

351
00:26:24,306 --> 00:26:27,549
So candid, he's already told me
we'll have to sue him for our fees.

352
00:26:27,809 --> 00:26:31,495
Oh, we'll simply put a
lean on Mr. Vole's £80,000.

353
00:26:31,771 --> 00:26:36,015
- What £80,000?
- The £80,000 Mrs. French left you.

354
00:26:36,318 --> 00:26:37,444
Left me?

355
00:26:37,611 --> 00:26:42,572
They opened Mrs. French's bank
vault today and found her will.

356
00:26:43,617 --> 00:26:47,781
- Congratulations.
- £80,000!

357
00:26:48,079 --> 00:26:51,526
And I was worried about a couple of
hundred for that silly eggbeater.

358
00:26:51,791 --> 00:26:53,759
I must call Christine.

359
00:26:57,923 --> 00:26:59,368
Oh.

360
00:26:59,549 --> 00:27:02,439
This doesn't make things look
any better for me, does it?

361
00:27:02,677 --> 00:27:05,999
- No. I wouldn't think so.
- So now they'll say I did have a motive.

362
00:27:06,264 --> 00:27:11,589
They will indeed. £80,000 makes
for a very handsome motive.

363
00:27:11,937 --> 00:27:14,508
I thought you were crazy but
now they will arrest me!

364
00:27:14,731 --> 00:27:16,699
It's not unlikely.

365
00:27:24,115 --> 00:27:27,403
As a matter of fact, it's quite likely.
They're on their way up now.

366
00:27:27,661 --> 00:27:32,030
I knew nothing about that will. I'd no idea
she'd any intention of leaving me money.

367
00:27:32,332 --> 00:27:36,576
- If I didn't know, how can it be a motive?
- We'll certainly bring that out in court.

368
00:27:36,878 --> 00:27:41,247
- It's our old friend Inspector Hearne.
- Chief Inspector as of last month.

369
00:27:41,549 --> 00:27:45,076
Chief Inspector? They must think
a lot of you at Scotland Yard.

370
00:27:45,345 --> 00:27:47,916
You're getting the
deluxe treatment.

371
00:27:48,139 --> 00:27:53,305
- Oh, in here, Chief Inspector.
- Sorry to disturb you in your chambers.

372
00:27:53,645 --> 00:27:57,253
That's perfectly all right. I never
object to the actions of the police

373
00:27:57,525 --> 00:28:01,211
- except once in a great while in court.
- Yes, sir, I still have the scars.

374
00:28:01,487 --> 00:28:03,854
You know Mr. Mayhew,
Mr. Brogan-Moore.

375
00:28:04,073 --> 00:28:08,476
This is Leonard Vole. You'd better search
him, he may be armed with an eggbeater.

376
00:28:08,786 --> 00:28:11,357
- Is your name Leonard Vole?
- Yes, it is.

377
00:28:11,580 --> 00:28:17,064
I have a warrant for your arrest on
the charge of murdering Emily French.

378
00:28:17,420 --> 00:28:22,221
I must warn you that anything you say
may be taken down and used in evidence.

379
00:28:22,550 --> 00:28:25,394
Well, I'm ready.
Must I be handcuffed?

380
00:28:25,636 --> 00:28:28,037
That won't be necessary, sir.

381
00:28:28,264 --> 00:28:31,666
I've never been arrested before,
not even for walking a dog off a lead

382
00:28:31,934 --> 00:28:35,620
- or having a beer after hours.
- There's no disgrace in being arrested.

383
00:28:35,896 --> 00:28:41,062
Kings, prime ministers, archbishops,
even barristers have stood in the dock.

384
00:28:45,740 --> 00:28:49,586
- Somebody better call my wife.
- I will, don't worry.

385
00:28:49,869 --> 00:28:51,997
I'll go too, see you're
properly charged.

386
00:28:52,204 --> 00:28:55,014
- You will see to it that he is well-treated?
- We will.

387
00:28:55,249 --> 00:28:58,890
Would you like a cigar? Pardon me.

388
00:29:00,129 --> 00:29:04,896
- That's very kind of you, Sir Wilfrid.
- I'd better not. It would constitute a bribe.

389
00:29:06,719 --> 00:29:08,687
We ought to be going, Mr. Vole.

390
00:29:13,059 --> 00:29:16,905
One thing I've learned for sure, never
look in a window with women's hats.

391
00:29:17,188 --> 00:29:19,156
Good day, sir.

392
00:29:21,192 --> 00:29:23,399
Makes a very nice
impression, doesn't he?

393
00:29:23,611 --> 00:29:27,741
- Yes, rather. Give him the monocle test?
- Passed with flying colors.

394
00:29:28,032 --> 00:29:31,434
I hope he does as well in the dock.
This is sticky, you know.

395
00:29:31,702 --> 00:29:35,388
Of course. The prosecution will blast
in with their heaviest artillery.

396
00:29:35,665 --> 00:29:40,034
All you'll have is one little popgun,
an alibi furnished by his wife.

397
00:29:40,336 --> 00:29:42,339
Isn't that an intriguing challenge?

398
00:29:42,547 --> 00:29:46,393
I think I'd like it more if it was less
of a challenge and less intriguing.

399
00:29:47,427 --> 00:29:52,388
Miss Plimsoll has issued an ultimatum.
In bed in one minute or she'll resign.

400
00:29:52,724 --> 00:29:55,967
Splendid. Give her a month's pay
and kick her down the stairs.

401
00:29:56,228 --> 00:29:59,232
Either you take care of yourself
or I, too, shall resign.

402
00:29:59,481 --> 00:30:01,961
This is blackmail.
But you're quite right.

403
00:30:02,192 --> 00:30:06,163
For my first day this has already been
rather hectic. I should be in bed.

404
00:30:10,367 --> 00:30:14,133
I'd better get in touch with Mrs. Vole
and have her come over. Will you sit in?

405
00:30:14,413 --> 00:30:20,375
Thank you, no. I'm in no condition to cope
with emotional wives drenched in tears.

406
00:30:21,628 --> 00:30:26,668
Miss Plimsoll, how alluring you look,
waiting like a hangman on the scaffold.

407
00:30:27,009 --> 00:30:29,171
Take me, I'm yours.

408
00:30:31,430 --> 00:30:31,999
Oh!

409
00:30:32,139 --> 00:30:36,542
About Mrs. Vole. Handle her gently,
especially when you tell her of the arrest.

410
00:30:36,852 --> 00:30:41,414
Bear in mind she's a foreigner, so prepare
for hysterics, even a fainting spell.

411
00:30:41,732 --> 00:30:45,737
Better have smelling salts ready,
box of tissues and a nip of brandy.

412
00:30:46,028 --> 00:30:49,430
I do not think
that will be necessary.

413
00:30:52,618 --> 00:30:55,098
I never faint in case
I don't fall gracefully,

414
00:30:55,329 --> 00:30:59,015
and I never use smelling salts
because they puff up the eyes.

415
00:30:59,291 --> 00:31:01,692
I'm Christine Vole.

416
00:31:01,918 --> 00:31:04,444
How do you do?
This is Mr. Brogan-Moore.

417
00:31:04,671 --> 00:31:06,639
How do you do?

418
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:09,764
- I am Wilfrid Robarts.
- How do you do?

419
00:31:10,010 --> 00:31:12,820
My dear Mrs. Vole, I'm afraid
we have bad news for you.

420
00:31:13,055 --> 00:31:17,856
- Don't be afraid, I'm quite disciplined.
- There's nothing to be alarmed about yet.

421
00:31:18,185 --> 00:31:21,632
Leonard has been arrested and
charged with murder. Is that it?

422
00:31:21,897 --> 00:31:25,219
- Yes.
- I knew he would be, I told him so.

423
00:31:25,484 --> 00:31:28,011
I'm glad you're showing
such fortitude.

424
00:31:28,237 --> 00:31:31,207
Call it what you like.
What is the next step?

425
00:31:31,908 --> 00:31:34,434
Your husband will have to
stand trial, I'm afraid.

426
00:31:34,661 --> 00:31:39,667
Will you explain the procedure?
Mr. Brogan-Moore will lead the defense.

427
00:31:39,999 --> 00:31:41,330
Oh?

428
00:31:41,501 --> 00:31:44,232
- You will not defend Leonard?
- Regrettably not.

429
00:31:44,462 --> 00:31:46,942
My health, or, rather,
the lack of it, forbids me.

430
00:31:47,173 --> 00:31:52,418
It is regrettable. Mr. Mayhew described
you as champion of the hopeless cause.

431
00:31:55,807 --> 00:31:59,607
Is it, perhaps, that this
cause is too hopeless?

432
00:32:06,818 --> 00:32:11,619
I'll have a serious talk with Dr. Harrison.
It was a mistake to let you come back here.

433
00:32:11,948 --> 00:32:14,474
I should have taken you to
a rest-home or a resort.

434
00:32:14,701 --> 00:32:17,068
Some place quiet,
far off, like Bermuda.

435
00:32:17,287 --> 00:32:20,131
Shut up. You just want to see
me in those nasty shorts.

436
00:32:20,373 --> 00:32:23,536
Come now, Sir Wilfrid,
you must not think of it.

437
00:32:23,793 --> 00:32:27,639
You must get ready for sleep,
think beautiful thoughts.

438
00:32:28,673 --> 00:32:33,918
Now, let's get undressed. Put these on,
tops and bottoms, while I make your bed.

439
00:32:34,262 --> 00:32:37,186
After your rest we'll
have a nice cup of cocoa.

440
00:32:37,432 --> 00:32:40,402
Then perhaps we'll have a
walk around the square.

441
00:32:40,643 --> 00:32:43,214
You know, I feel sorry
for that nice Mr. Vole.

442
00:32:43,438 --> 00:32:47,807
And not just because he was arrested,
but that wife of his. She must be German.

443
00:32:48,109 --> 00:32:52,592
That's what happens when we let our
boys cross the Channel. They go crazy.

444
00:32:52,905 --> 00:32:57,308
The government should do something
about foreign wives. Like an embargo.

445
00:32:57,619 --> 00:33:01,385
How else can we take care of our own
surplus. Don't you agree, Sir Wilfrid?

446
00:33:01,664 --> 00:33:03,985
All right. Hop in!

447
00:33:05,168 --> 00:33:07,489
Sir Wilfrid?

448
00:33:10,381 --> 00:33:12,066
Sir Wilfrid!

449
00:33:12,259 --> 00:33:13,988
Come back!

450
00:33:14,428 --> 00:33:18,990
Yes, of course I knew that Leonard had
been seeing Mrs. French quite frequently.

451
00:33:19,308 --> 00:33:20,434
Go on.

452
00:33:20,601 --> 00:33:24,208
I knew when he came home with a pair
of green socks she'd knitted for him.

453
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:27,563
That's quite natural. I'm sure
a jury will find it endearing.

454
00:33:27,816 --> 00:33:31,662
Leonard can be very endearing.
He hates that particular shade of green

455
00:33:31,946 --> 00:33:34,028
and the socks were
two sizes too large,

456
00:33:34,239 --> 00:33:36,845
but he wore them just the
same to give her pleasure.

457
00:33:37,076 --> 00:33:39,044
Leonard has a way with women.

458
00:33:39,244 --> 00:33:44,808
I only hope he has an all-woman jury.
They will carry him from court in triumph.

459
00:33:45,167 --> 00:33:50,014
A simple acquittal will do. Now, you know
Mrs. French left your husband money?

460
00:33:50,339 --> 00:33:52,341
Yes. A lot of money.

461
00:33:52,549 --> 00:33:57,237
Of course, your husband had no
previous knowledge of this bequest?

462
00:33:57,554 --> 00:33:59,716
Is that what he told you?

463
00:33:59,932 --> 00:34:02,333
Surely you're not
suggesting different?

464
00:34:02,559 --> 00:34:06,450
Oh, no, no. I do not
suggest anything.

465
00:34:06,730 --> 00:34:12,373
Clearly, she had come to look upon your
husband as a son or favorite nephew.

466
00:34:13,237 --> 00:34:16,923
You think Mrs. French looked upon
Leonard as a son? Or a nephew?

467
00:34:17,199 --> 00:34:20,726
I do. An entirely natural and
understandable relationship.

468
00:34:20,995 --> 00:34:24,238
What hypocrites you
are in this country.

469
00:34:26,166 --> 00:34:28,453
Pardon me, Brogan-Moore.

470
00:34:28,669 --> 00:34:33,118
- Do you mind if I ask you a question?
- Go right ahead, Sir Wilfrid.

471
00:34:33,424 --> 00:34:37,315
You realize your husband's entire
defense rests on his word and yours?

472
00:34:37,595 --> 00:34:40,883
- I realize that.
- And that the jury will be quite skeptical

473
00:34:41,140 --> 00:34:45,111
of the word of a man accused of murder
when supported only by that of his wife?

474
00:34:45,394 --> 00:34:48,125
- I realize that too.
- Let us, then, at least make sure

475
00:34:48,355 --> 00:34:52,041
- the two are not in conflict.
- By all means, let's.

476
00:34:52,318 --> 00:34:54,889
I assume you want to
help your husband?

477
00:34:55,112 --> 00:35:00,563
Of course I want to help Leonard. I want
to help Mr. Brogan-Moore and to help you.

478
00:35:00,910 --> 00:35:04,881
There. Isn't that more
comfortable for you?

479
00:35:05,665 --> 00:35:08,828
Now, Mrs. Vole.
This is very important.

480
00:35:09,085 --> 00:35:12,851
On the night of the murder your husband
came home before 9:30. Correct?

481
00:35:13,131 --> 00:35:16,419
Precisely. Isn't that
what he wants me to say?

482
00:35:16,676 --> 00:35:18,565
Isn't it the truth?

483
00:35:18,762 --> 00:35:20,571
Of course.

484
00:35:20,764 --> 00:35:23,574
But when I told the police,
I do not think they believed me.

485
00:35:23,808 --> 00:35:26,891
Maybe I didn't say it well.
Maybe because of my accent.

486
00:35:27,145 --> 00:35:29,352
My dear Mrs. Vole, in our courts

487
00:35:29,564 --> 00:35:32,727
we accept the evidence of witnesses
who speak only Bulgarian

488
00:35:32,984 --> 00:35:35,510
and who must have an interpreter.

489
00:35:35,737 --> 00:35:38,900
We accept the evidence of
deaf-mutes who cannot speak at all,

490
00:35:39,157 --> 00:35:41,444
as long as they tell the truth.

491
00:35:41,660 --> 00:35:44,903
You're aware that when you're in
the witness box you will be sworn

492
00:35:45,163 --> 00:35:48,133
- and you will testify under oath?
- Yes.

493
00:35:48,375 --> 00:35:52,096
Leonard came home at 9.26 precisely
and did not go out again.

494
00:35:52,379 --> 00:35:57,340
The truth, the whole truth and nothing
but the truth. Is that better?

495
00:35:59,052 --> 00:36:04,013
- Mrs. Vole, do you love your husband?
- Leonard thinks I do.

496
00:36:04,349 --> 00:36:07,956
- Well, do you?
- Am I already under oath?

497
00:36:08,228 --> 00:36:11,437
Whatever your gambit may be,
do you know that, under British law,

498
00:36:11,690 --> 00:36:15,581
you cannot be called to give
testimony damaging to your husband?

499
00:36:15,860 --> 00:36:17,988
How very convenient.

500
00:36:18,196 --> 00:36:20,278
We are dealing with
a capital crime.

501
00:36:20,490 --> 00:36:24,131
The prosecution will try
to hang your husband.

502
00:36:25,370 --> 00:36:27,941
He is not my husband.

503
00:36:34,379 --> 00:36:36,780
Leonard and I went through
a form of marriage,

504
00:36:37,007 --> 00:36:40,774
but I had a husband living somewhere
in East Germany, in the Russian zone.

505
00:36:41,053 --> 00:36:44,853
- Did you tell Leonard?
- I did not. It would have been stupid.

506
00:36:45,141 --> 00:36:49,112
He would not have married me and I'd
have been left to starve in the rubble.

507
00:36:49,395 --> 00:36:51,921
But he did marry you and
brought you safely here.

508
00:36:52,148 --> 00:36:54,355
Don't you think you
should be grateful?

509
00:36:54,567 --> 00:36:56,615
One can get very
tired of gratitude.

510
00:36:56,819 --> 00:36:59,425
Your husband loves you
very much, does he not?

511
00:36:59,655 --> 00:37:02,818
Leonard? He worships
the ground I walk on.

512
00:37:03,075 --> 00:37:05,203
And you?

513
00:37:05,411 --> 00:37:07,698
You want to know too much.

514
00:37:07,913 --> 00:37:10,280
Auf Wiedersehen, gentlemen.

515
00:37:11,459 --> 00:37:16,670
Thank you for coming in, Mrs. Vole.
Your visit has been most reassuring.

516
00:37:17,006 --> 00:37:21,534
Do not worry, Sir Wilfrid. I will give him
an alibi and I shall be very convincing.

517
00:37:21,844 --> 00:37:26,645
There will be tears in my eyes when I say
"Leonard came home at 9.26 precisely."

518
00:37:26,974 --> 00:37:30,695
You're a very remarkable
woman, Mrs. Vole.

519
00:37:31,938 --> 00:37:34,305
And you're satisfied, I hope?

520
00:37:35,733 --> 00:37:41,137
- I'm damned if I'm satisfied!
- Care for a whiff of those smelling salts?

521
00:37:41,489 --> 00:37:43,935
That woman's up to something.
But what?

522
00:37:44,158 --> 00:37:48,049
The prosecution will break her down in
no time when she's in the witness box.

523
00:37:48,329 --> 00:37:51,697
This case is going to be rather like
the charge of the Light Brigade

524
00:37:51,958 --> 00:37:55,599
or one of those Japanese
suicide pilots. Quite one-sided.

525
00:37:55,878 --> 00:37:58,199
With the odds all
on the other side.

526
00:37:58,422 --> 00:38:00,868
I haven't got much
to go on, have I?

527
00:38:01,092 --> 00:38:03,572
The fact is, I've got nothing.

528
00:38:04,762 --> 00:38:06,890
Let me ask you something.

529
00:38:07,098 --> 00:38:10,466
Do you believe Leonard
Vole is innocent?

530
00:38:13,562 --> 00:38:15,530
Do you?

531
00:38:16,983 --> 00:38:19,304
Do you?

532
00:38:19,527 --> 00:38:21,495
I'm not sure.

533
00:38:21,696 --> 00:38:25,143
Oh, I'm sorry, Wilfrid.
Of course, I'll do my best.

534
00:38:25,408 --> 00:38:28,094
It's all right, Brogan-Moore.

535
00:38:28,328 --> 00:38:30,899
I'll take it from here.

536
00:38:32,291 --> 00:38:37,138
I have called Dr. Harrison and given him
a report on your shocking behavior.

537
00:38:37,462 --> 00:38:39,829
- Give me a match, Miss Plimsoll.
- Sir Wilfrid!

538
00:38:40,048 --> 00:38:42,972
Did you hear me? A match!

539
00:39:14,875 --> 00:39:20,644
Mr. Mayhew. Sir Wilfrid. I'm told you are
going to represent me. I'm very grateful.

540
00:39:21,006 --> 00:39:26,172
I struck a bargain with my doctors. They
exile me to Bermuda as soon as we finish.

541
00:39:26,511 --> 00:39:29,037
- Thank you.
- There's hope that we'll both survive.

542
00:39:29,264 --> 00:39:31,426
- Get into these. We need a photograph.
- Why?

543
00:39:31,642 --> 00:39:33,610
This is what you were
wearing that night.

544
00:39:33,810 --> 00:39:37,576
We'll circulate a photo on the chance
that someone saw you on your way home.

545
00:39:37,856 --> 00:39:40,223
Over here against the wall, please.

546
00:39:42,819 --> 00:39:45,584
Hold it. One more
in profile, please.

547
00:39:45,822 --> 00:39:49,224
Do we really need this? My wife knows
what time I came home that night.

548
00:39:49,493 --> 00:39:52,099
A disinterested witness
may be of more value.

549
00:39:52,329 --> 00:39:55,094
Yes, of course, Christine
is an interested witness.

550
00:39:55,332 --> 00:39:57,539
I'll pick up the negatives later.
Thank you.

551
00:39:57,751 --> 00:40:01,722
I don't understand it.
Why hasn't she come to see me?

552
00:40:03,048 --> 00:40:06,450
Won't they let her see me?
I mean, it's been two weeks now.

553
00:40:06,718 --> 00:40:09,244
Mayhew, give me the reports.

554
00:40:09,471 --> 00:40:12,521
Have you been talking to her?
Is there something the matter?

555
00:40:12,767 --> 00:40:17,694
I want to read a portion of the evidence
of Janet McKenzie, the housekeeper.

556
00:40:21,943 --> 00:40:25,390
"Mr. Vole helped Mrs. French
with her business affairs,

557
00:40:25,655 --> 00:40:27,703
particularly her
income tax returns."

558
00:40:27,907 --> 00:40:30,717
Oh, yes, I did. Some of those
forms are very complicated.

559
00:40:30,952 --> 00:40:34,115
There's also a hint you may have
helped her draft her new will.

560
00:40:34,372 --> 00:40:37,262
Well, that's not true!
If Janet said that she's lying.

561
00:40:37,500 --> 00:40:40,106
She was always against me,
I don't know why!

562
00:40:40,336 --> 00:40:46,298
It's obvious. You threw an eggbeater into
the wheels of her Victorian household.

563
00:40:46,676 --> 00:40:50,283
Now, this cut in your wrist. You
say you cut yourself with a knife?

564
00:40:50,555 --> 00:40:54,116
Well, that's true, I did. I was
cutting bread and the knife slipped.

565
00:40:54,392 --> 00:41:00,843
But that was two days after. Christine
was there. She'll tell them in her evidence.

566
00:41:02,358 --> 00:41:06,363
Are you keeping something from me?
Is she ill? Was she shocked?

567
00:41:06,654 --> 00:41:10,545
All things considered, she took it well.
Though that may be only on the surface.

568
00:41:10,825 --> 00:41:14,193
Wives are often profoundly
disturbed at such a time.

569
00:41:14,454 --> 00:41:17,344
Yes, it must be hard. We've
never been separated before.

570
00:41:17,582 --> 00:41:21,746
- Not since our first meeting.
- How did you meet your wife, Mr. Vole?

571
00:41:22,045 --> 00:41:24,013
In Germany in 1945.

572
00:41:25,214 --> 00:41:30,664
It's rather funny. The very first time
I saw her, the ceiling fell right in on me.

573
00:41:31,012 --> 00:41:34,619
<i>I was stationed outside Hamburg,
with an RAF maintenance unit.</i>

574
00:41:34,891 --> 00:41:40,216
<i>I'd just installed a shower in the officers'
billet, so they gave me a weekend pass.</i>

575
00:41:43,858 --> 00:41:44,825
Come on!

576
00:41:44,984 --> 00:41:46,474
<i>♪ Join the party ♪</i>

577
00:41:46,653 --> 00:41:49,623
<i>♪ Have a hearty glass of rum ♪</i>

578
00:41:49,864 --> 00:41:53,346
<i>♪ Don't ever think about tomorrow ♪</i>

579
00:41:53,618 --> 00:41:56,589
<i>♪ For tomorrow may never come ♪</i>

580
00:41:57,873 --> 00:42:01,036
<i>♪ When I find me a happy place ♪</i>

581
00:42:01,293 --> 00:42:04,217
<i>♪ That's where I wanna stay ♪</i>

582
00:42:04,463 --> 00:42:11,073
<i>♪ Time is nothing as long as
I'm living it up this way ♪</i>

583
00:42:11,470 --> 00:42:16,112
<i>♪ I may never go home any more ♪</i>

584
00:42:16,433 --> 00:42:19,721
<i>♪ Dim the lights and
start locking the door ♪</i>

585
00:42:19,979 --> 00:42:23,142
<i>♪ Give your arms to me
Give your charms to me ♪</i>

586
00:42:23,399 --> 00:42:26,846
<i>♪ After all that's
what sailors are for ♪</i>

587
00:42:27,111 --> 00:42:31,912
<i>♪ I've got kisses and kisses galore ♪</i>

588
00:42:32,241 --> 00:42:35,404
<i>♪ That have never
been tasted before ♪</i>

589
00:42:35,661 --> 00:42:38,790
<i>♪ if you treat me right
This could be the night ♪</i>

590
00:42:39,039 --> 00:42:40,529
<i>♪ I may never go home ♪</i>

591
00:42:40,833 --> 00:42:42,278
<i>♪ I may never go home ♪</i>

592
00:42:42,584 --> 00:42:44,188
<i>♪ I may never go home ♪</i>

593
00:42:44,503 --> 00:42:45,948
<i>♪ I may never go home ♪</i>

594
00:42:46,130 --> 00:42:49,498
<i>♪ I may never go home any more ♪</i>

595
00:42:53,554 --> 00:42:58,082
<i>♪ I may never go home any more ♪</i>

596
00:42:58,392 --> 00:43:01,441
Hey, Fräulein, show us some legs.

597
00:43:01,687 --> 00:43:05,658
They rob you blind and then
throw you a ruddy sailor!

598
00:43:05,941 --> 00:43:09,343
- Come on, let's see 'em.
- We want legs!

599
00:43:10,237 --> 00:43:13,320
Come help the cabaret
out of her trousers!

600
00:43:13,574 --> 00:43:16,783
All right, Fräulein, if you
won't show 'em, I will.

601
00:43:43,772 --> 00:43:47,936
All right, outside, everybody.
Come on, let's go.

602
00:44:01,873 --> 00:44:02,920
Come on.

603
00:44:04,834 --> 00:44:07,599
Bring him round to the other truck.

604
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:14,724
We'll be back, baby! We'll be back!

605
00:44:52,257 --> 00:44:54,225
Gesundheit.

606
00:45:01,141 --> 00:45:03,792
- What are you looking for?
- My accordion.

607
00:45:04,019 --> 00:45:06,021
Oh, let me help you.

608
00:45:09,357 --> 00:45:13,203
- I think I found it.
- Step on it again, it's still breathing.

609
00:45:15,071 --> 00:45:17,392
I'm terribly sorry.

610
00:45:17,616 --> 00:45:19,823
You better go. We've
had trouble enough.

611
00:45:20,035 --> 00:45:23,926
Well, it's your own fault. That costume
in the picture gave the boys ideas

612
00:45:24,205 --> 00:45:28,416
- then those trousers let them down hard.
- That costume went in the first raid.

613
00:45:28,711 --> 00:45:32,113
Then raid by raid, my other dresses,
and now you've bombed my trousers.

614
00:45:32,381 --> 00:45:34,349
Cigarette? Gum?

615
00:45:43,392 --> 00:45:45,599
You're burning my nose.

616
00:45:45,811 --> 00:45:48,212
- Oh, I'm sorry.
- That's all right.

617
00:45:48,439 --> 00:45:50,885
How about a cup of coffee?
I've got a tin of coffee.

618
00:45:51,108 --> 00:45:52,598
How much?

619
00:45:52,777 --> 00:45:54,859
I don't know. What's
the rate of exchange?

620
00:45:55,071 --> 00:45:58,871
- Depends whether it's fresh or powdered.
- It's instant coffee.

621
00:45:59,158 --> 00:46:01,126
Got any hot water at your place?

622
00:46:01,327 --> 00:46:04,615
- Sometimes.
- Let's take a chance. Where do you live?

623
00:46:04,872 --> 00:46:06,442
Nearby.

624
00:46:07,375 --> 00:46:09,139
Come.

625
00:46:15,591 --> 00:46:17,639
Sorry, it's the maid's night off.

626
00:46:17,843 --> 00:46:21,325
This is pretty horrible.
In a gemütlich sort of way.

627
00:46:21,597 --> 00:46:25,044
Oh, it's fine now. I used to
have a roommate. A dancer.

628
00:46:25,309 --> 00:46:28,552
She had luck, she married a Canadian.
She now lives in Toronto.

629
00:46:28,813 --> 00:46:31,464
She has a Ford automobile.

630
00:46:31,691 --> 00:46:34,661
Make yourself comfortable,
the stove is slow these days.

631
00:46:34,902 --> 00:46:38,031
That's all right,
I've got a weekend pass.

632
00:46:38,281 --> 00:46:41,763
No, not that chair. It holds up the
beam and that holds up the ceiling.

633
00:46:42,034 --> 00:46:44,321
You'd better sit down on the cot.

634
00:46:44,537 --> 00:46:46,187
The cot?

635
00:46:46,372 --> 00:46:49,774
Getting more gemütlich all
the time. Are you married?

636
00:46:50,042 --> 00:46:51,885
- Why?
- Well, the, um...

637
00:46:52,086 --> 00:46:54,612
Oh, that. No, no, I'm not married.

638
00:46:54,839 --> 00:46:58,605
I just wear it when I'm working. Gives
a little protection with all the men.

639
00:46:58,884 --> 00:47:03,446
- Didn't work too well tonight, did it?
- No, tonight was bad.

640
00:47:03,764 --> 00:47:05,926
But it's getting better.

641
00:47:09,730 --> 00:47:12,779
- Where's the coffee?
- Ah, coffee, ja voll.

642
00:47:13,025 --> 00:47:15,126
The finest Brazilian blend.

643
00:47:15,156 --> 00:47:18,987
The same brand that Field
Marshal Montgomery drinks.

644
00:47:35,964 --> 00:47:38,365
Is that a fair rate of exchange?

645
00:47:38,592 --> 00:47:40,560
Very fair.

646
00:47:41,553 --> 00:47:45,683
Would you be interested
in having the whole tin?

647
00:47:45,974 --> 00:47:47,942
I would.

648
00:47:57,027 --> 00:48:00,827
- How are you fixed for sugar?
- I could use some.

649
00:48:01,114 --> 00:48:02,798
Milk?

650
00:48:02,991 --> 00:48:04,755
Sure.

651
00:48:06,578 --> 00:48:08,740
Milk. Sugar.

652
00:48:09,998 --> 00:48:12,319
It's a pleasure to do
business with you.

653
00:48:12,542 --> 00:48:14,306
Yeah.

654
00:48:19,466 --> 00:48:23,312
I also carry biscuits,
powdered eggs,

655
00:48:23,595 --> 00:48:27,964
- bacon, marmalade.
- I don't know if I can afford it.

656
00:48:28,267 --> 00:48:32,238
Don't worry, we'll work out
something, like an installment plan.

657
00:48:32,521 --> 00:48:35,889
<i>♪ I may never go home any more ♪</i>

658
00:48:42,155 --> 00:48:45,045
I'm terribly sorry.
Now you have no ceiling.

659
00:48:45,284 --> 00:48:49,050
- Maybe I can fix it, I'm good at it.
- Why fix it? It's not raining.

660
00:48:49,329 --> 00:48:50,615
Ooh.

661
00:48:50,789 --> 00:48:53,759
- Are you all right?
- I think so. My head aches a little.

662
00:48:54,001 --> 00:48:56,209
Maybe I can fix it.

663
00:48:56,421 --> 00:48:58,389
I'm good at it.

664
00:49:04,596 --> 00:49:07,406
I had a weekend pass,
a month's pay in my pocket.

665
00:49:07,640 --> 00:49:11,326
- And she already had a wedding ring.
- Yes, that's right.

666
00:49:11,603 --> 00:49:14,766
We got married. When I got out
of the service I brought her here.

667
00:49:15,023 --> 00:49:18,744
It was wonderful. I rented
a little flat, Edgware Road.

668
00:49:19,027 --> 00:49:22,395
First time she saw it, she was so
happy she broke down and cried.

669
00:49:22,655 --> 00:49:27,183
Naturally. She had a solid roof over
her head and a British passport.

670
00:49:27,493 --> 00:49:32,863
You don't know her, how she feels about
me. You will when she gives evidence.

671
00:49:33,207 --> 00:49:37,929
Mr. Vole, I must tell you I am not
putting her in the witness box.

672
00:49:39,088 --> 00:49:41,011
You're not? Why not?

673
00:49:41,215 --> 00:49:44,822
She's a foreigner, unfamiliar with
the subtleties of our language.

674
00:49:45,094 --> 00:49:47,415
The prosecution could
easily trip her up.

675
00:49:47,639 --> 00:49:50,643
I hear it may be Mr. Myers for the
crown. We can't take chances.

676
00:49:50,892 --> 00:49:54,942
Quite. We'd better be going. Miss Plimsoll
is waiting in the car with her pills

677
00:49:55,229 --> 00:49:58,597
- and a Thermos of lukewarm cocoa.
- Officer.

678
00:49:58,858 --> 00:50:03,341
- But Christine must give evidence.
- Mr. Vole, you must learn to trust me.

679
00:50:03,655 --> 00:50:08,297
For no other reason than I'm a mean,
ill-tempered old man who hates to lose.

680
00:50:08,618 --> 00:50:11,189
Let us wish each other luck.

681
00:50:16,626 --> 00:50:22,190
Look, I can't face this without Christine.
I tell you, I need her. Without her I'm sunk.

682
00:50:23,758 --> 00:50:27,126
Touching, isn't it? The way
he counts on his wife.

683
00:50:27,387 --> 00:50:32,154
Yes. Like a drowning man
clutching at a razor blade.

684
00:50:47,700 --> 00:50:52,866
Leonard Stephen Vole, you are
charged on indictment for that you,

685
00:50:53,205 --> 00:50:57,176
on the 14th day of October,
in the county of London,

686
00:50:57,459 --> 00:51:00,269
murdered Emily Jane French.

687
00:51:00,504 --> 00:51:03,110
How say you, Leonard Stephen Vole?

688
00:51:03,340 --> 00:51:06,310
Are you guilty or not guilty?

689
00:51:08,596 --> 00:51:10,007
Not guilty.

690
00:51:12,016 --> 00:51:14,064
Members of the jury,

691
00:51:14,268 --> 00:51:18,876
the prisoner stands indicted for
that he, on the 14th day of October,

692
00:51:19,189 --> 00:51:21,954
murdered Emily Jane French.

693
00:51:22,192 --> 00:51:25,799
To this indictment he
has pleaded not guilty.

694
00:51:26,071 --> 00:51:29,712
And it is your charge to say,
having heard the evidence,

695
00:51:29,992 --> 00:51:32,882
whether he be guilty or not.

696
00:51:37,249 --> 00:51:40,492
Members of the jury, by the
oath which you have just taken,

697
00:51:40,753 --> 00:51:44,155
you have sworn to try this
case on the evidence.

698
00:51:44,423 --> 00:51:46,949
You must shut out from
your minds everything

699
00:51:47,176 --> 00:51:50,623
except what will take
place in this court.

700
00:51:50,888 --> 00:51:54,290
You may proceed for the
prosecution, Mr. Myers.

701
00:51:54,558 --> 00:51:57,960
May it please you, my lord.
Members of the jury,

702
00:51:58,228 --> 00:52:02,790
I appear in this case with my learned
friend, Mr. Barton, for the prosecution.

703
00:52:03,108 --> 00:52:06,874
And my learned friends Sir Wilfrid
Robarts and Mr. Brogan-Moore

704
00:52:07,154 --> 00:52:09,122
appear for the defense.

705
00:52:13,202 --> 00:52:15,443
I trust we are not to be deprived

706
00:52:15,663 --> 00:52:18,473
of the learned and stimulating
presence of Sir Wilfrid?

707
00:52:18,707 --> 00:52:22,871
My lord, may I assure my learned friend
that Sir Wilfrid is in the Old Bailey.

708
00:52:23,170 --> 00:52:26,254
He's slightly incapacitated,
but will be in his seat presently.

709
00:52:26,508 --> 00:52:31,469
My lord, may I express my regret that Sir
Wilfrid is even slightly incapacitated.

710
00:52:31,805 --> 00:52:37,016
You may, Mr. Myers. You may also proceed
with the case for the prosecution.

711
00:52:37,352 --> 00:52:39,514
Thank you, my lord.

712
00:52:39,729 --> 00:52:43,529
The facts in this case are simple
and, to a point, not in dispute.

713
00:52:43,817 --> 00:52:47,788
You will hear how the prisoner made
the acquaintance of Mrs. Emily French,

714
00:52:48,071 --> 00:52:49,596
a woman of 56.

715
00:52:49,781 --> 00:52:54,025
How he was treated by her with
kindness and even affection.

716
00:52:54,327 --> 00:52:56,807
On the night of October 14 last,

717
00:52:57,038 --> 00:53:00,884
between 9:30 and 10,
Mrs. French was murdered.

718
00:53:02,127 --> 00:53:04,573
Medical testimony will
be introduced to prove

719
00:53:04,796 --> 00:53:08,005
that death was caused by a blow
from a blunt and heavy instrument,

720
00:53:08,258 --> 00:53:10,784
and it is the case
for the prosecution

721
00:53:11,011 --> 00:53:14,094
that the blow was dealt by
the prisoner, Leonard Vole.

722
00:53:14,347 --> 00:53:16,315
That's not true! I didn't do it!

723
00:53:19,060 --> 00:53:21,711
Among the witnesses,
you will hear police evidence,

724
00:53:21,938 --> 00:53:25,624
also the evidence of Mrs. French's
housekeeper, Janet McKenzie,

725
00:53:25,900 --> 00:53:28,585
and from the medical and
laboratory experts,

726
00:53:28,820 --> 00:53:34,270
and the evidence of the murdered woman's
solicitor, who drew her final will.

727
00:53:34,618 --> 00:53:38,259
I now call Chief Inspector Hearne,
Criminal Investigation Department,

728
00:53:38,538 --> 00:53:41,269
- New Scotland Yard.
- Chief Inspector Hearne.

729
00:53:41,499 --> 00:53:44,469
- Chief Inspector Hearne.
- Chief Inspector Hearne.

730
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:07,003
This is ridiculous. Just nervous heartburn.
I always get it the first day of a trial.

731
00:54:07,317 --> 00:54:09,889
240 above 130. You
shouldn't be here at all.

732
00:54:10,112 --> 00:54:13,116
- I should be in court, the trial's begun.
- Syringe, please.

733
00:54:13,366 --> 00:54:15,687
Be a good, brave boy, Sir Wilfrid.

734
00:54:15,910 --> 00:54:19,596
It may interest you to know that I
am descended from a warrior family

735
00:54:19,872 --> 00:54:25,038
which traces its brave past back
to Richard the Lion-Hearted.

736
00:54:27,630 --> 00:54:29,758
You're to have a calcium
injection daily,

737
00:54:29,966 --> 00:54:33,687
- tranquilizing pill every hour.
- I'll set my wristwatch alarm.

738
00:54:33,970 --> 00:54:37,816
Any pain or shortness of breath, pop
one of these nitroglycerin tablets

739
00:54:38,099 --> 00:54:40,750
under your tongue. Oh, and
I'll leave you some...

740
00:54:40,977 --> 00:54:45,062
That's enough, Doctor. The judge
will be asking for a saliva test.

741
00:54:45,356 --> 00:54:49,759
Carter, I'd better take that
Thermos of cocoa with me.

742
00:54:50,069 --> 00:54:52,800
- Helps me wash down the pills.
- Let me see it, please.

743
00:54:53,030 --> 00:54:58,196
My learned patient is not above
substituting brandy for cocoa.

744
00:54:58,536 --> 00:55:00,982
It is cocoa. So sorry.

745
00:55:01,205 --> 00:55:04,129
If you were a woman, Miss Plimsoll,
I would strike you.

746
00:55:04,375 --> 00:55:06,946
Take care of this, Carter.

747
00:55:08,713 --> 00:55:12,240
Now, Sir Wilfrid, in the courtroom,
you must avoid overexcitement.

748
00:55:12,508 --> 00:55:13,873
Yes, Doctor, yes, yes.

749
00:55:14,051 --> 00:55:16,657
Watch your temper. Keep
your blood pressure down.

750
00:55:16,887 --> 00:55:21,256
Thank you, Doctor, I shall be quite safe,
what with the pills and the cocoa.

751
00:55:21,559 --> 00:55:23,527
Come along, Carter.

752
00:55:24,770 --> 00:55:27,660
From the body temperature
and other factors,

753
00:55:27,898 --> 00:55:31,505
we placed the time of death
at between 9:30 and 10 p.m.,

754
00:55:31,777 --> 00:55:37,068
approximately 30 minutes before Janet
McKenzie returned home and called us.

755
00:55:37,908 --> 00:55:43,312
Death was instantaneous, caused by one
blow from a heavy and blunt instrument.

756
00:55:43,664 --> 00:55:45,746
Were there any signs of a struggle?

757
00:55:45,958 --> 00:55:48,199
None. Just the one blow.

758
00:55:48,419 --> 00:55:52,219
Would that indicate that the murderer
had taken Mrs. French by surprise?

759
00:55:52,506 --> 00:55:55,670
My lord, I must object.

760
00:55:56,637 --> 00:56:00,164
My learned friend refers to the
assailant as "the murderer".

761
00:56:00,432 --> 00:56:03,879
We have not yet determined whether
the assailant was a man or a woman.

762
00:56:04,144 --> 00:56:06,988
It could quite conceivably
have been "the murderess".

763
00:56:07,230 --> 00:56:12,953
Mr. Myers, Sir Wilfrid has joined us just in
time to catch you on a point of grammar.

764
00:56:13,320 --> 00:56:15,402
Please rephrase your question.

765
00:56:15,614 --> 00:56:21,417
Yes, my lord. Inspector, is it
your opinion that the assailant,

766
00:56:21,787 --> 00:56:25,792
whether he, she or it, had
taken Mrs. French by surprise?

767
00:56:26,083 --> 00:56:28,211
My lord, I am taken by surprise

768
00:56:28,418 --> 00:56:33,106
that my learned friend should try to solicit
from the witness an opinion, not a fact.

769
00:56:33,423 --> 00:56:36,233
Quite so. You'll have to do
better than that, Mr. Myers.

770
00:56:36,468 --> 00:56:38,709
My lord, I withdraw the
question entirely.

771
00:56:38,929 --> 00:56:41,500
- Is that better?
- That's much better.

772
00:56:47,437 --> 00:56:49,246
Silence! Silence!

773
00:56:52,609 --> 00:56:55,419
Very well, Inspector, let
us proceed with the facts.

774
00:56:55,654 --> 00:56:59,898
After establishing the cause and the
time of death, what did you then do?

775
00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:03,886
A search was made, photographs were
taken and the premises fingerprinted.

776
00:57:04,162 --> 00:57:08,167
- What fingerprints did you discover?
- I found the fingerprints of Mrs. French,

777
00:57:08,458 --> 00:57:12,747
those of Janet McKenzie, and some which
later proved to be those of Leonard Vole.

778
00:57:13,046 --> 00:57:15,174
- No others?
- No others.

779
00:57:15,382 --> 00:57:19,990
Did you say the room had the appearance
that a robbery had been committed?

780
00:57:20,304 --> 00:57:25,470
Yes. Things were strewn about and the
window had been broken near the catch.

781
00:57:25,809 --> 00:57:29,655
There was glass on the floor,
and fragments were found outside.

782
00:57:29,938 --> 00:57:35,183
The glass outside was not consistent with
the window being forced from the outside.

783
00:57:35,527 --> 00:57:41,979
You're saying that someone made it look as
if it had been forced from the outside?

784
00:57:42,368 --> 00:57:46,578
My lord, I must object. My learned friend
is putting words in the witness' mouth.

785
00:57:46,873 --> 00:57:49,683
After all, if he insists on
answering his own questions,

786
00:57:49,917 --> 00:57:53,205
the presence of the witness
would seem superfluous.

787
00:57:53,463 --> 00:57:55,830
Quite. Don't you
think so, Mr. Myers?

788
00:57:56,049 --> 00:57:58,017
Yes, my lord.

789
00:57:59,218 --> 00:58:00,583
Inspector,

790
00:58:00,762 --> 00:58:04,244
did you ascertain if any of the
murdered woman's property was missing?

791
00:58:04,515 --> 00:58:07,485
According to the housekeeper,
nothing was missing.

792
00:58:07,727 --> 00:58:13,131
In your experience, Inspector,
when burglars or burglaresses

793
00:58:13,483 --> 00:58:17,249
break into a house, do they
leave without taking anything?

794
00:58:17,528 --> 00:58:18,609
No, sir.

795
00:58:18,780 --> 00:58:21,590
- Do you produce a jacket, Inspector?
- Yes, sir.

796
00:58:21,824 --> 00:58:23,986
Is that the jacket?

797
00:58:27,288 --> 00:58:30,974
- Yes, sir.
- That is exhibit P1, my lord.

798
00:58:31,250 --> 00:58:33,218
Where did you find this, Inspector?

799
00:58:33,419 --> 00:58:35,899
That is the jacket found
in the prisoner's flat,

800
00:58:36,130 --> 00:58:38,531
which I handed to our lab
to test for bloodstains.

801
00:58:38,758 --> 00:58:41,125
- And did you find any bloodstains?
- Yes.

802
00:58:41,344 --> 00:58:43,824
Though an attempt had been
made to wash them out.

803
00:58:44,055 --> 00:58:45,864
What tests were made?

804
00:58:46,057 --> 00:58:50,107
First to determine if the
stains were human blood,

805
00:58:50,395 --> 00:58:52,716
then to classify it
by group or type.

806
00:58:52,939 --> 00:58:55,510
And was the blood of a
particular group or type?

807
00:58:55,733 --> 00:58:58,543
Yes, sir. It is type O.

808
00:58:58,778 --> 00:59:01,941
And did you subsequently test
the blood of the dead woman?

809
00:59:02,198 --> 00:59:04,439
- Yes, sir.
- What type was that?

810
00:59:05,952 --> 00:59:08,273
The same. Type O.

811
00:59:08,496 --> 00:59:12,137
Thank you, Inspector.
No further questions.

812
00:59:12,417 --> 00:59:17,264
Inspector, you say the only fingerprints
you found were those of Mrs. French,

813
00:59:17,588 --> 00:59:19,909
Janet McKenzie and Leonard Vole.

814
00:59:20,133 --> 00:59:24,901
In your experience, when a burglar breaks
in, does he usually leave fingerprints

815
00:59:25,222 --> 00:59:27,509
- or does he wear gloves?
- He wears gloves.

816
00:59:27,725 --> 00:59:29,966
So the absence of
fingerprints in a robbery

817
00:59:30,185 --> 00:59:32,313
- would hardly surprise you?
- No, sir.

818
00:59:32,521 --> 00:59:36,367
Can't we surmise the burglar might
have entered a presumably empty house,

819
00:59:36,650 --> 00:59:39,256
suddenly encountered Mrs.
French and struck her,

820
00:59:39,486 --> 00:59:42,695
then, realizing she was dead,
fled without taking anything?

821
00:59:42,948 --> 00:59:45,428
I submit, my lord, that
it is entirely impossible

822
00:59:45,659 --> 00:59:50,062
to guess what went on in the mind
of some entirely imaginary burglar.

823
00:59:50,372 --> 00:59:52,534
With or without gloves.

824
00:59:52,750 --> 00:59:56,516
Let us not surmise, Sir Wilfrid,
but confine ourselves to facts.

825
00:59:59,006 --> 01:00:03,091
Inspector, when you questioned the
prisoner as to the stains on his jacket,

826
01:00:03,385 --> 01:00:07,276
did he not show you a
recently-healed scar on his wrist,

827
01:00:07,556 --> 01:00:12,118
- saying he had cut himself slicing bread?
- Yes, sir, that is what he said.

828
01:00:12,436 --> 01:00:15,087
And were you not told the
same thing by his wife?

829
01:00:15,314 --> 01:00:19,035
- Yes, sir. But afterwards...
- Just a simple yes or no, please.

830
01:00:19,318 --> 01:00:21,605
Did the prisoner's
wife show you a knife

831
01:00:21,820 --> 01:00:25,711
and tell you that her husband had
cut his wrist while slicing bread?

832
01:00:25,991 --> 01:00:30,440
- Yes, sir.
- I will ask you to examine this knife.

833
01:00:34,833 --> 01:00:38,360
Just test the edge of it
with your finger. Carefully!

834
01:00:38,629 --> 01:00:42,475
You agree that the point and the
cutting edge are razor-sharp?

835
01:00:42,758 --> 01:00:45,125
- Yes, sir.
- Now, if such a knife were to slip,

836
01:00:45,344 --> 01:00:48,268
might it not inflict a cut
that would bleed profusely?

837
01:00:48,514 --> 01:00:49,675
Yes, sir, it might.

838
01:00:49,848 --> 01:00:54,775
Inspector, you stated that the bloodstains
on the prisoner's jacket were analyzed,

839
01:00:55,104 --> 01:00:59,871
as was the blood of Mrs. French, and
they were both found to be of group O.

840
01:01:00,192 --> 01:01:02,559
- That is correct.
- However,

841
01:01:02,778 --> 01:01:06,100
if the prisoner's blood were
also of this same group,

842
01:01:06,365 --> 01:01:08,972
then the stains on his jacket
may well have resulted

843
01:01:09,202 --> 01:01:11,808
from the household accident
he described to you.

844
01:01:12,038 --> 01:01:14,359
Yes, sir.

845
01:01:14,582 --> 01:01:18,223
Did you examine the
prisoner's blood, Inspector?

846
01:01:18,503 --> 01:01:19,993
No, sir.

847
01:01:21,756 --> 01:01:24,521
I have here a certificate

848
01:01:24,759 --> 01:01:28,889
stating that Leonard Stephen
Vole is a blood donor

849
01:01:29,180 --> 01:01:31,387
at the North London Hospital.

850
01:01:31,600 --> 01:01:34,888
And that his blood is group O.

851
01:01:39,691 --> 01:01:42,058
Thank you, Inspector.

852
01:01:45,113 --> 01:01:49,641
Inspector, granted that the cut on
the wrist was caused by that knife,

853
01:01:49,951 --> 01:01:52,921
is there anything to show
whether it was an accident

854
01:01:53,163 --> 01:01:57,088
or done deliberately after the murder
to account for the bloodstains?

855
01:01:57,375 --> 01:02:00,060
- Oh, really, my lord!
- I withdraw the question.

856
01:02:00,295 --> 01:02:01,660
You may stand down.

857
01:02:04,591 --> 01:02:07,481
- Call Janet McKenzie.
- Janet McKenzie.

858
01:02:07,719 --> 01:02:10,484
- Janet McKenzie.
- Janet McKenzie.

859
01:02:33,912 --> 01:02:36,597
I swear by Almighty God
that the evidence...

860
01:02:39,209 --> 01:02:42,452
...the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth.

861
01:02:42,712 --> 01:02:45,795
Carter. Carter. Pill. Pill.

862
01:02:46,049 --> 01:02:49,417
- Your name is Janet McKenzie?
- Aye, that's my name.

863
01:02:49,678 --> 01:02:54,480
- When did you first come to London?
- That was many years ago. 28 years ago.

864
01:02:54,809 --> 01:02:59,133
- Where do you live?
- Now that Mrs. French, poor soul, is dead,

865
01:02:59,438 --> 01:03:03,045
I've moved in with my niece
at 19 Glenister Road.

866
01:03:03,317 --> 01:03:06,446
You were companion-housekeeper
to the late Mrs. Emily French?

867
01:03:06,696 --> 01:03:09,745
I was her housekeeper!
I've no opinion of companions,

868
01:03:09,991 --> 01:03:13,154
poor feckless bodies, afraid of
a bit of honest domestic work.

869
01:03:13,411 --> 01:03:18,417
I meant you were on friendly terms, not
altogether those of mistress and servant.

870
01:03:18,749 --> 01:03:21,753
Aye. Ten years I was with
her and looked after her.

871
01:03:22,003 --> 01:03:24,574
She knew me and she trusted me.

872
01:03:24,797 --> 01:03:27,562
Many's the time I prevented
her doing a foolish thing.

873
01:03:27,800 --> 01:03:32,488
Please tell us, in your own words, about
the events of the evening of October 14.

874
01:03:33,389 --> 01:03:37,280
It was a Friday and my night out. I was
going to see my niece at Glenister Road,

875
01:03:37,560 --> 01:03:41,849
which is about five minutes' walk.
I left the house at half past seven.

876
01:03:42,148 --> 01:03:46,233
I promised to take her a dress
pattern that she admired.

877
01:03:46,527 --> 01:03:50,009
- Och, is this thing necessary?
- An excellent question.

878
01:03:50,281 --> 01:03:54,525
However, it has been installed at
considerable expense to the taxpayers,

879
01:03:54,827 --> 01:03:58,354
so let us take advantage of it.
Please continue.

880
01:03:58,623 --> 01:04:02,264
Well, when I got to my niece's,
I found I'd left the pattern behind.

881
01:04:02,543 --> 01:04:05,831
So after supper I slipped back
to get it as it was no distance.

882
01:04:06,088 --> 01:04:09,251
I got back to the
house at 25 past 9.

883
01:04:09,508 --> 01:04:11,749
I let myself in and went
upstairs to my room.

884
01:04:11,969 --> 01:04:16,975
As I passed the sitting room, I heard the
prisoner in there, talking to Mrs. French.

885
01:04:17,308 --> 01:04:21,279
No, it wasn't me! It wasn't my voice!

886
01:04:21,562 --> 01:04:23,530
Talking and laughing they were.

887
01:04:23,731 --> 01:04:27,133
But it was no business of mine, so I
went upstairs to fetch my pattern.

888
01:04:27,401 --> 01:04:30,689
Now, let us be very
exact as to the time.

889
01:04:30,947 --> 01:04:34,713
You say that you re-entered
the house at 25 past 9?

890
01:04:34,992 --> 01:04:39,237
Aye. The pattern was on a shelf in my
room next to my clock so I saw the time.

891
01:04:39,539 --> 01:04:43,828
- And it was 25 past 9.
- Go on, please.

892
01:04:44,127 --> 01:04:49,896
I went back to my niece. Och, she was
delighted with the pattern. Si...

893
01:04:52,010 --> 01:04:58,097
Simply delighted. I stayed until 20 to 11,
then I said good night and I come home.

894
01:04:58,475 --> 01:05:02,116
I went into the sitting room to see
if the mistress wanted anything

895
01:05:02,396 --> 01:05:04,364
before she went to bed.

896
01:05:04,564 --> 01:05:08,933
And there she was, dead. And
everything tossed hither and thither.

897
01:05:09,236 --> 01:05:12,046
Did you really think that a
burglary had been committed?

898
01:05:12,281 --> 01:05:14,249
My lord, I must protest!

899
01:05:14,449 --> 01:05:18,454
I will not allow that question
to be answered, Mr. Myers.

900
01:05:18,745 --> 01:05:22,511
Miss McKenzie, were you aware that
Leonard Vole was a married man?

901
01:05:22,791 --> 01:05:25,556
No, indeed. And neither
was the mistress.

902
01:05:25,794 --> 01:05:27,762
- Janet!
- My lord, I must object.

903
01:05:27,963 --> 01:05:32,730
What Mrs. French knew or did not know is
pure conjecture on Janet McKenzie's part.

904
01:05:34,428 --> 01:05:36,715
Let me put it this way.
You formed the opinion

905
01:05:36,930 --> 01:05:40,298
that Mrs. French thought Leonard
Vole was a single man?

906
01:05:40,559 --> 01:05:43,927
- Have you any facts to support this?
- The books that she ordered.

907
01:05:44,187 --> 01:05:48,875
A life of the Baroness Burdett-Coutts,
and the one about Disraeli and his wife.

908
01:05:49,192 --> 01:05:53,083
Both of them about women that married
men years younger than themselves. Oh!

909
01:05:53,363 --> 01:05:56,890
- I knew what she was thinking.
- I'm afraid we cannot admit that.

910
01:05:57,159 --> 01:05:59,685
Why?

911
01:05:59,911 --> 01:06:04,917
Members of the jury, it is possible for
a woman to read The Life of Disraeli

912
01:06:05,250 --> 01:06:09,221
without contemplating marriage
with a man younger than herself.

913
01:06:11,798 --> 01:06:16,929
Were you aware of the arrangements Mrs.
French made to dispose of her money?

914
01:06:17,262 --> 01:06:20,630
She had her old will revoked
and a new one drawn up.

915
01:06:20,891 --> 01:06:23,213
I heard her calling Mr. Stokes,
her solicitor.

916
01:06:23,436 --> 01:06:26,280
He was there at the time.
The prisoner, I mean.

917
01:06:26,898 --> 01:06:30,220
You heard Mrs. French and the
prisoner discussing her new will?

918
01:06:30,485 --> 01:06:33,216
Yes. He was to have all
her money, she told him,

919
01:06:33,446 --> 01:06:37,690
as she had no near relations nor
anybody that meant to her what he did.

920
01:06:37,992 --> 01:06:41,280
- When did this take place?
- On October 8.

921
01:06:41,537 --> 01:06:44,700
One week to the day
before she was murdered.

922
01:06:44,958 --> 01:06:48,087
Thank you. That concludes
my examination.

923
01:06:49,128 --> 01:06:51,699
Not just yet, Miss McKenzie.

924
01:06:52,882 --> 01:06:55,931
Would you...? Thank you.

925
01:06:56,177 --> 01:07:00,387
Miss McKenzie, you have given
evidence about two wills.

926
01:07:00,682 --> 01:07:02,650
In the old will, that
which was revoked,

927
01:07:02,850 --> 01:07:06,536
were you not to receive the
bulk of Mrs. French's estate?

928
01:07:06,813 --> 01:07:07,974
That's so.

929
01:07:08,147 --> 01:07:12,277
Whereas in the new will, except for a
bequest to you of a small annuity,

930
01:07:12,568 --> 01:07:16,095
the principal beneficiary is
the prisoner, Leonard Vole.

931
01:07:16,364 --> 01:07:20,005
It'll be a wicked injustice if he
ever touches a penny of that money.

932
01:07:20,285 --> 01:07:24,449
It is entirely understandable that you
are antagonistic to the prisoner.

933
01:07:24,747 --> 01:07:27,227
I'm not antagonistic to him.

934
01:07:27,458 --> 01:07:31,304
He's a shiftless, scheming rascal.
But I'm not antagonistic to him.

935
01:07:32,505 --> 01:07:34,473
I suggest you formed this opinion

936
01:07:34,674 --> 01:07:38,315
because his friendship with Mrs. French
cost you the bulk of her estate.

937
01:07:38,595 --> 01:07:42,600
- I've never liked him.
- Your candor is refreshing.

938
01:07:42,890 --> 01:07:45,496
Now. On the night of October 14

939
01:07:45,727 --> 01:07:48,890
you say you heard the prisoner
and Mrs. French talking together.

940
01:07:49,147 --> 01:07:52,469
- What did you hear them say?
- I didn't hear what they actually said.

941
01:07:52,734 --> 01:07:55,180
You mean you only heard the voices?

942
01:07:55,403 --> 01:07:58,134
- The murmur of voices?
- They were laughing.

943
01:07:58,364 --> 01:08:01,368
What makes you say the man's
voice was Leonard Vole's?

944
01:08:01,618 --> 01:08:05,828
- I know his voice well enough.
- The door was closed, was it not?

945
01:08:06,122 --> 01:08:09,445
- Aye, that's so.
- You were in a hurry to get the pattern

946
01:08:09,710 --> 01:08:12,520
so you probably walked quickly
past the closed door,

947
01:08:12,755 --> 01:08:15,361
yet you are sure you heard
Leonard Vole's voice?

948
01:08:15,591 --> 01:08:18,276
I was there long enough
to hear what I heard.

949
01:08:18,510 --> 01:08:24,472
Come, I'm sure you don't wish to suggest
to the jury that you were eavesdropping.

950
01:08:24,850 --> 01:08:27,296
It was him in there.
Who else could it have been?

951
01:08:27,519 --> 01:08:31,649
What you mean is that you wanted it to
be him. That's the way your mind worked.

952
01:08:31,941 --> 01:08:35,866
Now, tell me, did Mrs. French sometimes
watch television in the evening?

953
01:08:36,153 --> 01:08:39,043
Yes. She was fond of a
talk or a good play.

954
01:08:39,281 --> 01:08:42,410
Wasn't it possible when you
returned home and passed the door,

955
01:08:42,660 --> 01:08:44,742
what you really heard
was the television

956
01:08:44,954 --> 01:08:47,434
and a man and woman's
voices and laughter?

957
01:08:47,665 --> 01:08:51,954
There was a play called Lover's
Leap on the television that night.

958
01:08:53,295 --> 01:08:57,539
- It was not the television.
- Oh, why not?

959
01:08:57,841 --> 01:09:02,688
Because the television was away being
repaired that week, that's why.

960
01:09:13,524 --> 01:09:15,333
Silence! Silence!

961
01:09:17,111 --> 01:09:20,115
Odd. It's not time yet.

962
01:09:20,364 --> 01:09:23,288
If my learned friend has no
further questions, I'd like...

963
01:09:23,534 --> 01:09:26,504
I have not quite finished.

964
01:09:26,745 --> 01:09:31,194
You are registered, are you not, under
the National Health Insurance Act?

965
01:09:31,500 --> 01:09:35,107
Aye, that's so. Four and
sixpence I pay out every week.

966
01:09:35,379 --> 01:09:38,303
That's a terrible lot of money
for a working woman to pay.

967
01:09:38,549 --> 01:09:41,359
I am sure that many agree with you.

968
01:09:41,594 --> 01:09:47,761
Miss McKenzie, did you recently apply
to the National Health Insurance for...

969
01:09:48,142 --> 01:09:51,624
- ...a hearing aid?
- For... for what?

970
01:09:51,896 --> 01:09:54,786
I protest against the way in
which this question was put!

971
01:09:55,025 --> 01:09:57,995
I will repeat the
question, my lord.

972
01:09:58,236 --> 01:10:03,959
I asked you in a normal tone of voice,
audible to everyone in open court,

973
01:10:04,326 --> 01:10:09,014
did you apply to the National
Health Insurance for a hearing aid?

974
01:10:09,331 --> 01:10:10,332
Yes, I did.

975
01:10:10,498 --> 01:10:12,819
- Did you get it?
- Not yet.

976
01:10:13,043 --> 01:10:18,129
However, you state that you walked past
a door, which is four inches of solid oak,

977
01:10:18,465 --> 01:10:21,548
you heard voices,
and you are willing to swear

978
01:10:21,801 --> 01:10:24,771
that you could distinguish
the voice of...

979
01:10:25,013 --> 01:10:27,141
...the prisoner, Leonard Vole.

980
01:10:27,349 --> 01:10:29,317
Who? Who?

981
01:10:30,602 --> 01:10:32,570
No further questions.

982
01:10:35,023 --> 01:10:37,310
Och, maybe you could
help me, Your Lordship.

983
01:10:37,525 --> 01:10:41,450
Six months ago I applied for my hearing
aid, and I'm still waiting for it.

984
01:10:41,738 --> 01:10:46,505
My dear Miss McKenzie, considering the
rubbish that is being talked nowadays,

985
01:10:46,826 --> 01:10:49,670
you are missing very little.
You may stand down now.

986
01:10:52,457 --> 01:10:55,586
Call Police Constable Jeffries.

987
01:10:55,835 --> 01:10:59,965
- Police Constable Jeffries.
- Police Constable Jeffries.

988
01:11:10,684 --> 01:11:13,415
I swear by Almighty God that
the evidence I shall give

989
01:11:13,645 --> 01:11:18,526
shall be the truth, the whole
truth and nothing but the truth.

990
01:11:31,997 --> 01:11:34,762
Mr. Myers, does that
conclude your case?

991
01:11:35,000 --> 01:11:39,802
No, my lord. I now call the final witness
for the prosecution, Christine Helm.

992
01:11:40,506 --> 01:11:43,794
- Christine Helm!
- Christine Helm.

993
01:11:55,563 --> 01:11:57,531
Christine.

994
01:12:08,451 --> 01:12:11,057
I swear by Almighty God that
the evidence I shall give

995
01:12:11,287 --> 01:12:14,769
shall be the truth, the whole
truth and nothing but the truth.

996
01:12:15,041 --> 01:12:17,567
My lord, I have the
most serious objection

997
01:12:17,793 --> 01:12:21,718
to this witness being summoned,
as she is the wife of the prisoner.

998
01:12:22,006 --> 01:12:24,008
I call my learned
friend's attention

999
01:12:24,216 --> 01:12:28,585
to the fact that I summoned
not Mrs. Vole, but Mrs. Helm.

1000
01:12:28,888 --> 01:12:32,813
- Your name, in fact, is Christine Helm?
- Yes. Christine Helm.

1001
01:12:33,100 --> 01:12:36,582
And you have been living as the
wife of the prisoner, Leonard Vole?

1002
01:12:36,854 --> 01:12:39,425
- Yes.
- Are you actually his wife?

1003
01:12:40,066 --> 01:12:41,556
No.

1004
01:12:41,734 --> 01:12:46,058
I went through a marriage ceremony
with him, but I already had a husband.

1005
01:12:46,364 --> 01:12:48,890
- He's still alive.
- Christine, that's not true!

1006
01:12:49,116 --> 01:12:52,438
There is proof of a marriage between
the witness and the prisoner,

1007
01:12:52,703 --> 01:12:55,547
but is there any proof of a
so-called previous marriage?

1008
01:12:55,790 --> 01:13:01,194
My lord, the so-called previous
marriage is, in fact, well-documented.

1009
01:13:01,545 --> 01:13:07,314
Mrs. Helm, is this a certificate of marriage
between yourself and Otto Ludwig Helm,

1010
01:13:07,677 --> 01:13:12,205
the ceremony having taken place
in Breslau on 18 April 1942?

1011
01:13:12,515 --> 01:13:15,246
Yes, that is the paper
of my marriage.

1012
01:13:15,476 --> 01:13:21,165
I don't see any reason why this witness
should not be qualified to give evidence.

1013
01:13:25,612 --> 01:13:29,981
You're willing to give evidence against
the man you've been calling your husband?

1014
01:13:30,284 --> 01:13:31,695
Yes.

1015
01:13:32,411 --> 01:13:36,018
You stated to the police that on the
night that Mrs. French was murdered,

1016
01:13:36,290 --> 01:13:41,330
Leonard Vole left the house at 7:30
and returned at 25 minutes past 9.

1017
01:13:41,670 --> 01:13:44,196
Did he, in fact,
return at 25 past 9?

1018
01:13:45,966 --> 01:13:49,015
No. He returned at ten
minutes past ten.

1019
01:13:49,261 --> 01:13:53,744
Christine, what are you saying?
It's not true. You know it's not true!

1020
01:13:57,519 --> 01:13:59,567
Silence!

1021
01:13:59,771 --> 01:14:01,739
I must have silence.

1022
01:14:03,233 --> 01:14:06,123
As your counsel will tell you,
Vole, you will very shortly

1023
01:14:06,361 --> 01:14:09,205
have an opportunity of
speaking in your own defense.

1024
01:14:09,448 --> 01:14:13,419
Leonard Vole returned, you say,
at ten minutes past ten.

1025
01:14:13,702 --> 01:14:17,104
- And what happened next?
- He was breathing hard, very excited.

1026
01:14:17,372 --> 01:14:19,978
He threw off his coat and
examined the sleeves.

1027
01:14:20,208 --> 01:14:22,336
Then he told me to wash the cuffs.

1028
01:14:22,544 --> 01:14:24,626
- They had blood on them.
- Go on.

1029
01:14:24,838 --> 01:14:27,728
- I said "What have you done?"
- What did the prisoner say?

1030
01:14:27,966 --> 01:14:30,128
He said "I've killed her."

1031
01:14:30,344 --> 01:14:34,668
Christine! Why are you lying?
Why are you saying these things?

1032
01:14:34,973 --> 01:14:38,978
- What an awful woman.
- She's evil. I've known it all along.

1033
01:14:42,397 --> 01:14:45,719
If the defense so desires,
I will adjourn for a short time

1034
01:14:45,984 --> 01:14:49,033
so that the prisoner may
gain control of himself.

1035
01:14:49,279 --> 01:14:52,886
My lord is most gracious, but
pray let the witness continue.

1036
01:14:53,158 --> 01:14:57,243
We are all of us caught up in the
suspense of this horror fiction.

1037
01:14:57,537 --> 01:15:01,258
To have to hear it in installments
might prove unendurable.

1038
01:15:01,541 --> 01:15:04,351
- Proceed, Mr. Myers.
- Mrs. Helm,

1039
01:15:04,586 --> 01:15:09,195
when the prisoner said "I have killed her",
did you know to whom he referred?

1040
01:15:09,509 --> 01:15:12,240
It was that woman he had
been seeing so often.

1041
01:15:12,470 --> 01:15:17,032
When questioned by the police, you told
them that the prisoner returned at 9.25.

1042
01:15:17,350 --> 01:15:19,637
Yes. Because Leonard
asked me to say that.

1043
01:15:19,852 --> 01:15:21,854
But you've changed
your story now. Why?

1044
01:15:22,063 --> 01:15:24,191
I cannot go on lying to save him.

1045
01:15:24,399 --> 01:15:27,608
I said to the police what he wanted
because I'm grateful to him.

1046
01:15:27,860 --> 01:15:30,511
He married me and brought
me to this country.

1047
01:15:30,738 --> 01:15:33,662
What he has asked me to do I
have because I was grateful.

1048
01:15:33,908 --> 01:15:36,832
It was not because he was your
husband and you loved him?

1049
01:15:37,078 --> 01:15:39,046
I never loved him.

1050
01:15:39,622 --> 01:15:42,671
It was gratitude, then, that
prompted you to give him an alibi

1051
01:15:42,917 --> 01:15:46,285
- in your statement to the police?
- That is it. Exactly.

1052
01:15:46,546 --> 01:15:49,948
- But now you think it was wrong to do so.
- Because it is murder.

1053
01:15:50,216 --> 01:15:52,264
That woman, she was a
harmless old fool,

1054
01:15:52,468 --> 01:15:54,914
and he makes of me an
accomplice to the murder.

1055
01:15:55,138 --> 01:15:58,984
I cannot come into court and swear that
he was with me at the time it was done.

1056
01:15:59,267 --> 01:16:01,838
I cannot do it! I cannot do it!

1057
01:16:02,061 --> 01:16:04,223
Then this is the truth?

1058
01:16:04,439 --> 01:16:07,841
That Leonard Vole returned that
night at ten minutes past ten,

1059
01:16:08,109 --> 01:16:10,111
he had blood on the
sleeves of his coat,

1060
01:16:10,320 --> 01:16:14,291
and that he said to you
"I have killed her"?

1061
01:16:16,117 --> 01:16:17,801
That is the truth.

1062
01:16:17,994 --> 01:16:21,043
That is the truth, before God?

1063
01:16:21,289 --> 01:16:23,337
That is the truth.

1064
01:16:23,916 --> 01:16:25,884
Thank you.

1065
01:16:31,174 --> 01:16:34,576
Mrs. Vole, or Mrs. Helm, which
do you prefer to be called?

1066
01:16:34,844 --> 01:16:36,812
- It does not matter.
- Does it not?

1067
01:16:37,013 --> 01:16:40,904
In this country we are inclined to take
a rather more serious view of marriage.

1068
01:16:41,184 --> 01:16:46,190
However, it would appear that when you
first met the prisoner in Hamburg

1069
01:16:46,522 --> 01:16:50,847
- you lied to him about your marital status.
- I wanted to get out of Germany, so...

1070
01:16:51,153 --> 01:16:54,123
You lied, did you not?
Just yes or no, please.

1071
01:16:54,365 --> 01:16:56,333
- Yes.
- Thank you.

1072
01:16:56,533 --> 01:16:59,503
And in arranging the marriage,
you lied to the authorities?

1073
01:16:59,745 --> 01:17:02,555
I, um, did not tell the
truth to the authorities.

1074
01:17:02,790 --> 01:17:04,952
- You lied to them?
- Yes.

1075
01:17:05,167 --> 01:17:09,377
And in the ceremony, when you swore to
love, honor and cherish your husband,

1076
01:17:09,672 --> 01:17:12,073
- that too was a lie?
- Yes.

1077
01:17:12,299 --> 01:17:15,428
And when the police questioned
you about this wretched man

1078
01:17:15,678 --> 01:17:17,999
who believed himself
married and loved,

1079
01:17:18,222 --> 01:17:20,623
- you told them...
- I told them what he wanted me to.

1080
01:17:20,849 --> 01:17:24,535
You told them that he was at home
with you at 25 minutes past 9,

1081
01:17:24,812 --> 01:17:28,942
- and now you say that that was a lie?
- Yes, a lie!

1082
01:17:29,233 --> 01:17:33,443
And when you said that he had accidentally
cut his wrist, again, you lied?

1083
01:17:33,737 --> 01:17:38,425
- Yes!
- And today you told a new story entirely.

1084
01:17:38,742 --> 01:17:42,144
The question is, Frau Helm, were
you lying then, are you lying now?

1085
01:17:42,413 --> 01:17:46,020
Or are you not, in fact,
a chronic and habitual liar?!

1086
01:17:49,837 --> 01:17:54,001
Carter, Carter! The other
pill. Under the tongue.

1087
01:17:54,300 --> 01:17:58,464
My lord, is my learned friend to be
allowed to bully and insult the witness?

1088
01:17:58,762 --> 01:18:02,812
Mr. Myers, this is a capital charge
and, within the bounds of reason,

1089
01:18:03,100 --> 01:18:07,071
I should like the defense
to have every latitude.

1090
01:18:10,399 --> 01:18:12,879
My lord, may I also
remind my learned friend

1091
01:18:13,110 --> 01:18:16,876
that his witness, by her own admission,
has already violated so many oaths

1092
01:18:17,156 --> 01:18:20,922
that I am surprised the Testament
did not leap from her hand

1093
01:18:21,201 --> 01:18:23,772
when she was sworn here today.

1094
01:18:23,996 --> 01:18:28,126
I doubt if anything is to be gained
by questioning you any further.

1095
01:18:28,417 --> 01:18:30,465
That will be all, Frau Helm.

1096
01:18:35,507 --> 01:18:39,797
Mrs. Helm, I presume you know the
meaning of the English word "perjury"?

1097
01:18:40,096 --> 01:18:43,578
- In German, the word is Meineid.
- Yes. Meineid.

1098
01:18:43,850 --> 01:18:45,852
It means to swear
falsely under oath.

1099
01:18:46,061 --> 01:18:47,790
And are you aware, Mrs. Helm,

1100
01:18:47,979 --> 01:18:52,746
that the penalty in this country for
perjury is a heavy term of imprisonment?

1101
01:18:53,068 --> 01:18:55,435
<i>Yes, I'm aware.</i>

1102
01:18:55,654 --> 01:19:00,216
Mindful of this fact, I ask you once more,
is the evidence that you have given

1103
01:19:00,533 --> 01:19:04,015
the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth?

1104
01:19:04,287 --> 01:19:06,176
So help me, God.

1105
01:19:07,415 --> 01:19:11,659
Then that, my lord, is the
case for the prosecution.

1106
01:19:29,604 --> 01:19:33,290
- Want a tissue?
- Yes, thanks.

1107
01:19:33,566 --> 01:19:38,094
It's the first murder trial
I've ever been to. It's terrible.

1108
01:19:38,405 --> 01:19:39,327
Silence.

1109
01:19:41,616 --> 01:19:45,177
Sir Wilfrid. Are you
ready for the defense?

1110
01:19:47,497 --> 01:19:51,138
My lord, members of the jury,

1111
01:19:51,418 --> 01:19:56,379
the prosecution has very ably presented
against the prisoner, Leonard Vole,

1112
01:19:56,715 --> 01:20:00,925
a case with the most overwhelming
circumstantial evidence.

1113
01:20:01,219 --> 01:20:04,621
Among the witnesses you have
heard Chief Inspector Hearne,

1114
01:20:04,889 --> 01:20:09,770
who has given his testimony in a fair and
impartial manner, as he always does.

1115
01:20:10,103 --> 01:20:14,825
He has put before you a clever theory
of how this crime was committed.

1116
01:20:15,150 --> 01:20:18,950
Whether it is theory or
actual fact, however,

1117
01:20:19,237 --> 01:20:21,684
you will decide for yourselves.

1118
01:20:22,825 --> 01:20:25,829
And then you have heard the
evidence of Janet McKenzie,

1119
01:20:26,078 --> 01:20:30,083
a worthy and devoted housekeeper who
has suffered two most grievous losses.

1120
01:20:30,374 --> 01:20:32,615
One, the death of her
beloved mistress

1121
01:20:32,835 --> 01:20:38,285
and, second, in being deprived
of an inheritance of £80,000,

1122
01:20:38,633 --> 01:20:41,318
which she'd fully
expected to receive.

1123
01:20:41,552 --> 01:20:45,238
I will not comment
further on her evidence,

1124
01:20:46,432 --> 01:20:50,278
but will express only my
deepest sympathy for her

1125
01:20:50,561 --> 01:20:53,326
in both these... mishaps.

1126
01:20:54,398 --> 01:20:59,882
And most damaging of all, the prosecution
has produced a surprise witness,

1127
01:21:00,237 --> 01:21:04,720
one Christine Helm, whom the prisoner
brought from the rubble of her homeland

1128
01:21:05,034 --> 01:21:09,562
to the safety of this country, giving her
his love and the protection of his name.

1129
01:21:09,872 --> 01:21:13,479
I objected to her testimony because
a wife cannot give evidence

1130
01:21:13,751 --> 01:21:16,152
harmful to her husband.

1131
01:21:16,379 --> 01:21:22,785
But it has been proven that her marriage
to Mr. Vole was fraudulent and bigamous.

1132
01:21:23,177 --> 01:21:29,105
Therefore, her evidence must be
admitted and you must consider it.

1133
01:21:29,475 --> 01:21:32,240
For what it is worth.

1134
01:21:33,980 --> 01:21:38,224
Such is the prosecution's case.
Now it is the tum of the defense.

1135
01:21:38,526 --> 01:21:42,451
We could present, on behalf of the
prisoner, witnesses to his character,

1136
01:21:42,738 --> 01:21:46,538
his war record, the lack of criminal
or evil association in his past.

1137
01:21:46,826 --> 01:21:52,310
However, only one witness
can shed new light

1138
01:21:52,665 --> 01:21:55,430
on this tragic riddle.

1139
01:21:56,627 --> 01:21:58,595
The prisoner himself.

1140
01:22:00,131 --> 01:22:02,213
Members of the jury,

1141
01:22:02,425 --> 01:22:05,873
I call Leonard Stephen Vole.

1142
01:22:25,282 --> 01:22:28,491
I swear by Almighty God that the
evidence I give will be the truth,

1143
01:22:28,744 --> 01:22:31,793
- the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
- No.

1144
01:22:33,123 --> 01:22:37,128
- Is your name Leonard Stephen Vole?
- It is.

1145
01:22:37,419 --> 01:22:40,389
- Where do live?
- 620 Edgware Road.

1146
01:22:40,631 --> 01:22:45,717
Leonard Stephen Vole, did you or did you
not on the night of October 14 last,

1147
01:22:46,053 --> 01:22:48,215
murder Emily Jane French?

1148
01:22:48,889 --> 01:22:52,655
- I did not.
- Thank you, that will be all.

1149
01:22:54,978 --> 01:22:59,267
Have you, in fact, concluded your
examination of the prisoner, Sir Wilfrid?

1150
01:22:59,566 --> 01:23:04,652
The prisoner has endured three days
of profound mental agony and shock.

1151
01:23:04,988 --> 01:23:07,389
The defense feels his
faculties should be spared

1152
01:23:07,616 --> 01:23:11,063
for the cross-examination by my
learned friend for the prosecution.

1153
01:23:11,328 --> 01:23:14,093
This is not a plea
for any indulgence.

1154
01:23:14,331 --> 01:23:17,255
I am confident that no matter
how searching this may be,

1155
01:23:17,501 --> 01:23:20,266
the prisoner will withstand it.

1156
01:23:21,880 --> 01:23:25,407
At the time you made the acquaintance
of Mrs. French, were you employed?

1157
01:23:25,676 --> 01:23:27,644
- No, sir.
- How much money did you have?

1158
01:23:27,844 --> 01:23:29,846
- A few pounds.
- Did she give you any?

1159
01:23:30,055 --> 01:23:30,817
No.

1160
01:23:30,973 --> 01:23:33,101
- Did you expect to receive any?
- No, sir.

1161
01:23:33,308 --> 01:23:38,030
Did you know that in her new will,
you were the beneficiary of £80,000?

1162
01:23:38,355 --> 01:23:39,516
No, I didn't.

1163
01:23:39,690 --> 01:23:44,378
Now, Mr. Vole, when you went to visit
Mrs. French for the last time,

1164
01:23:44,695 --> 01:23:47,858
did you wear a trench
coat and a brown hat?

1165
01:23:48,949 --> 01:23:52,477
- Yes, I did.
- Was it this coat and hat?

1166
01:23:54,289 --> 01:23:55,256
Yes, sir.

1167
01:23:55,415 --> 01:24:00,421
My lord, the defense, in its efforts
to establish an alibi for the prisoner,

1168
01:24:00,753 --> 01:24:03,882
circulated this photograph,
hoping to bring forth a witness

1169
01:24:04,132 --> 01:24:07,215
who had seen him leaving Mrs.
French's house or entering his own

1170
01:24:07,468 --> 01:24:09,948
at the times that he has stated.

1171
01:24:10,179 --> 01:24:13,501
Apparently, this splendid
effort was without results.

1172
01:24:13,766 --> 01:24:16,053
However, the defense
will be pleased to learn

1173
01:24:16,269 --> 01:24:19,352
that, at the last moment,
a witness has come forward,

1174
01:24:19,606 --> 01:24:24,089
and that the prisoner had been seen
wearing this coat and this hat.

1175
01:24:24,402 --> 01:24:29,613
Lamentably, he had not been seen on the
night of the murder but one week before.

1176
01:24:29,949 --> 01:24:34,079
On the afternoon of October 8, were you
not in a travel agency in Regent Street?

1177
01:24:34,370 --> 01:24:38,261
And did you not make inquiries about
prices and schedules of foreign cruises?

1178
01:24:38,541 --> 01:24:41,704
Supposing I did?
It's not a crime, is it?

1179
01:24:41,961 --> 01:24:45,932
Not at all. Many people go on a cruise
when they can afford to pay for it.

1180
01:24:46,215 --> 01:24:51,062
- But you couldn't pay for it, could you?
- Well, I was hard up. I told you that.

1181
01:24:51,387 --> 01:24:56,427
And yet you came to this particular
travel agency with a clinging brunette?

1182
01:24:56,768 --> 01:24:59,089
A clinging brunette, Mr. Myers?

1183
01:24:59,979 --> 01:25:01,981
My lord, the lady was
so described to me.

1184
01:25:02,190 --> 01:25:06,479
She was very affectionate with the
prisoner, constantly clinging to his arm.

1185
01:25:06,778 --> 01:25:08,667
Oh.

1186
01:25:09,489 --> 01:25:13,892
You then admit that you made inquiries
about expensive and luxurious cruises?

1187
01:25:14,202 --> 01:25:16,284
How did you expect to
pay for such a thing?

1188
01:25:16,496 --> 01:25:19,625
- I don't know. It was...
- If you don't know, perhaps I can help.

1189
01:25:19,874 --> 01:25:24,084
On the morning of the very same day,
you heard Mrs. French change her will,

1190
01:25:24,379 --> 01:25:26,666
- leaving you the bulk of her money.
- I didn't!

1191
01:25:26,881 --> 01:25:29,851
And in the afternoon, you
started plans to dispose of it.

1192
01:25:30,093 --> 01:25:32,221
No! It was nothing of the kind.

1193
01:25:32,428 --> 01:25:35,478
I was in a pub and I met a girl.
I don't even remember her name.

1194
01:25:35,724 --> 01:25:37,772
We had a drink and
walked out together.

1195
01:25:37,977 --> 01:25:43,780
We passed the window and saw the fancy
posters, all blue seas and palm trees.

1196
01:25:44,149 --> 01:25:49,235
The Grecian isles or somewhere. We went
in for fun and I started asking for folders.

1197
01:25:49,571 --> 01:25:53,292
Well, the man gave me a funny look
because I did look a bit shabby.

1198
01:25:53,575 --> 01:25:56,863
Anyway, it irritated me, so I kept
asking for the swankiest tours,

1199
01:25:57,121 --> 01:26:00,489
all deluxe and cabin on the boat
deck, but it was just an act!

1200
01:26:00,749 --> 01:26:04,754
An act? You knew that in a week
you were going to inherit £80,000!

1201
01:26:05,045 --> 01:26:09,414
No! It wasn't that way at all. It was
make-believe and childish but...

1202
01:26:09,717 --> 01:26:13,961
it was fun and I enjoyed it. I never thought
of killing anyone or inheriting any money.

1203
01:26:14,263 --> 01:26:18,063
It's just a coincidence that Mrs. French
should be killed only one week later?

1204
01:26:18,350 --> 01:26:20,717
I told you! I didn't kill her!

1205
01:26:21,437 --> 01:26:25,362
Do you know any reason why Christine
Helm should give the evidence she has

1206
01:26:25,649 --> 01:26:29,335
- if it were not true?
- No. I don't know why my wife...

1207
01:26:30,195 --> 01:26:35,235
I don't know why I still call her my wife.
She must be lying or out of her mind.

1208
01:26:35,576 --> 01:26:38,102
She seemed remarkably
sane and self-possessed.

1209
01:26:38,329 --> 01:26:42,653
- But insanity is all you can suggest?
- I don't understand it.

1210
01:26:42,958 --> 01:26:45,404
Oh, God! What's happened?
What's changed her?

1211
01:26:45,628 --> 01:26:49,553
Very effective, I'm sure. But in
this court we deal with fact.

1212
01:26:49,840 --> 01:26:52,650
And the fact, Mr. Vole, is that
we've only your word for it.

1213
01:26:52,885 --> 01:26:55,695
That you left Mrs. French's
house at the time you say,

1214
01:26:55,930 --> 01:27:00,538
that you came home at 5 and 20 minutes
past 9, and that you did not go out again!

1215
01:27:00,851 --> 01:27:03,900
Somebody must have seen me in the
street or going in the house!

1216
01:27:04,146 --> 01:27:08,356
One would think so. But the only person
who did see you come home that night

1217
01:27:08,651 --> 01:27:11,814
says it was ten past ten and that
you had blood on your hands.

1218
01:27:12,071 --> 01:27:14,961
- I cut my wrist!
- You cut your wrist deliberately!

1219
01:27:15,199 --> 01:27:17,167
No, I didn't! I didn't do anything.

1220
01:27:17,368 --> 01:27:20,179
But you make it sound as though
I did. I can hear it myself.

1221
01:27:20,413 --> 01:27:22,541
You came home at ten past ten!

1222
01:27:22,749 --> 01:27:26,959
No, I didn't! You've got to believe me.
You've got to believe me!

1223
01:27:27,253 --> 01:27:29,381
You killed Emily French!

1224
01:27:29,589 --> 01:27:31,830
No, I didn't! I didn't do it!

1225
01:27:32,050 --> 01:27:35,771
I didn't kill her!
I never killed anybody!

1226
01:27:36,054 --> 01:27:40,457
God, it's like a nightmare.
Some ghastly, horrible dream.

1227
01:27:46,314 --> 01:27:48,681
Good evening, Sir Wilfrid.
How did it go today?

1228
01:27:48,900 --> 01:27:51,062
Oh, Sir Wilfrid.

1229
01:27:51,278 --> 01:27:56,409
I'm from Hawks and Hill, sir, and I've
brought your Bermuda shorts for a fitting.

1230
01:27:57,659 --> 01:27:58,626
What?

1231
01:27:58,785 --> 01:28:03,154
- You'd better slip these on, Sir Wilfrid.
- I'm in the middle of a murder trial.

1232
01:28:03,456 --> 01:28:07,347
It'll all be over by the afternoon, and
the boat train doesn't go until 9.40.

1233
01:28:07,627 --> 01:28:10,915
You work it out. You know my shape,
you've stabbed it often enough.

1234
01:28:11,172 --> 01:28:15,541
Upstairs. You need a lukewarm
bath and your calcium injection.

1235
01:28:15,844 --> 01:28:18,688
And there's a lot more
packing to be done.

1236
01:28:19,764 --> 01:28:24,406
It's ridiculous having boat reservations.
The jury may be out for days.

1237
01:28:24,728 --> 01:28:28,892
Not on this case, I'm afraid.
It seems too open-and-shut.

1238
01:28:31,109 --> 01:28:34,591
I watched when Frau Helm was on
the stand. They didn't like her.

1239
01:28:34,863 --> 01:28:38,948
No, but they believed her. They liked
Leonard Vole but they didn't believe him.

1240
01:28:39,242 --> 01:28:42,371
And that travel agency business
doesn't help either. Cigar?

1241
01:28:42,621 --> 01:28:43,429
No.

1242
01:28:43,580 --> 01:28:46,265
- Wilfrid, do you think she lied?
- Well, don't you?

1243
01:28:46,499 --> 01:28:47,785
I don't know, I'm not sure.

1244
01:28:47,959 --> 01:28:51,566
I am. She lied. Whether she calls
it Meineid or perjury, she lied.

1245
01:28:51,838 --> 01:28:56,685
The only question is why. What's
her game? What is she up to? What?

1246
01:28:57,469 --> 01:29:02,430
I hope that in your final speech you
won't become too emotionally involved.

1247
01:29:02,766 --> 01:29:05,577
- You must think of your condition.
- He's right.

1248
01:29:05,811 --> 01:29:09,213
I want to see you save yourself.
This isn't going to be your last case.

1249
01:29:09,482 --> 01:29:13,089
Yes, it is. But until it's over,
I'm still a barrister.

1250
01:29:13,361 --> 01:29:17,047
My client's life is at stake.
That's all that matters... his life.

1251
01:29:17,323 --> 01:29:20,088
He's entitled to the
best that I can do.

1252
01:29:20,326 --> 01:29:24,217
If I can't stand up to make my final
appeal for him, I'll make it sitting down.

1253
01:29:24,497 --> 01:29:28,661
If I become short of breath I'll take a pill,
or two pills, or all of them and the box too.

1254
01:29:36,717 --> 01:29:39,687
- Yes?
- This Sir Wilfrid Robarts' place?

1255
01:29:39,929 --> 01:29:43,217
- Well, yes, it is.
- Let me talk to the old geezer.

1256
01:29:43,474 --> 01:29:47,684
- Who is this speaking, please?
- Never you mind. Let me talk to 'im.

1257
01:29:47,979 --> 01:29:51,381
I'm afraid that's impossible. What
is the nature of your business?

1258
01:29:51,649 --> 01:29:54,812
It's business all right. I've got
something to sell 'im, I 'ave.

1259
01:29:55,069 --> 01:29:56,275
<i>Well, really, madam!</i>

1260
01:29:56,445 --> 01:29:59,335
And what I want to sell 'im,
believe me, 'e'll want to buy.

1261
01:29:59,573 --> 01:30:03,134
- It's got to do with that Leonard Vole.
- Leonard Vole?

1262
01:30:03,411 --> 01:30:05,573
<i>It's about that German wife.</i>

1263
01:30:05,788 --> 01:30:09,190
<i>I've got the goods on
her and it's for sale.</i>

1264
01:30:11,127 --> 01:30:14,893
This is Wilfrid Robarts speaking.
Now, what is this all about?

1265
01:30:15,172 --> 01:30:17,413
<i>Well, hello, ducky.</i>

1266
01:30:17,633 --> 01:30:20,443
What is this you said
about Mrs. Leonard Vole?

1267
01:30:20,678 --> 01:30:24,399
<i>I'm not just saying.
I've got it in black and white.</i>

1268
01:30:24,682 --> 01:30:27,526
- You've got what?
- Listen to this carefully, ducks.

1269
01:30:27,768 --> 01:30:31,136
I'm at the buffet at Euston Station
at the far end of the bar.

1270
01:30:31,397 --> 01:30:34,685
I'll be here for 30 minutes because
that's when me train leaves.

1271
01:30:34,942 --> 01:30:38,105
If you want the lowdown on that
German bag, get yourself here.

1272
01:30:38,362 --> 01:30:40,808
What lowdown?
What do you know about her?

1273
01:30:41,032 --> 01:30:43,114
Uh-uh. Not on the phone.

1274
01:30:43,326 --> 01:30:47,411
You'd better get on over here,
and bring plenty of money.

1275
01:30:48,205 --> 01:30:51,415
Now, just a moment! Hello? Hello?

1276
01:30:53,420 --> 01:30:58,984
That's... bilge. Some drunken crank.
You get those in every murder trial.

1277
01:30:59,343 --> 01:31:03,712
Giving me an ultimatum, Euston Station in
30 minutes. Got the lowdown on Mrs. Vole.

1278
01:31:04,014 --> 01:31:05,778
Balderdash.

1279
01:31:05,974 --> 01:31:11,219
I'm too old and too sick to
go on a wild-goose chase.

1280
01:31:11,563 --> 01:31:14,328
- Come on, Mayhew.
- Where to, Sir Wilfrid?

1281
01:31:14,566 --> 01:31:17,536
Euston Station, where do you think?

1282
01:31:19,279 --> 01:31:21,202
Now, sir?

1283
01:31:21,406 --> 01:31:23,170
Shortly.

1284
01:31:24,159 --> 01:31:25,649
Cigar!

1285
01:31:26,620 --> 01:31:28,588
Sir Wilfrid, where are you going?

1286
01:31:28,789 --> 01:31:33,317
Your bath, your massage,
your dinner, your injection!

1287
01:31:33,627 --> 01:31:35,595
Thank you, Miss Plimsoll.

1288
01:32:01,655 --> 01:32:04,579
- You wouldn't be Sir Wilfrid, would you?
- I would.

1289
01:32:04,825 --> 01:32:09,387
Didn't recognize you without your wig.
Lovely you all look in them wigs.

1290
01:32:09,705 --> 01:32:11,946
Two o' yer? I'm not
talking to two o' yer.

1291
01:32:12,165 --> 01:32:14,611
This is Mr. Mayhew,
Leonard Vole's solicitor.

1292
01:32:14,835 --> 01:32:17,759
- Well, that's all right, then.
- And your name, please?

1293
01:32:18,005 --> 01:32:23,250
No need for mine. If did give you a name
it mightn't be the right one, might it?

1294
01:32:23,593 --> 01:32:27,678
'Ave a drink, boys. Two whiskeys
for me gen'lmen friends.

1295
01:32:27,973 --> 01:32:30,453
Now what is this information
you allegedly have?

1296
01:32:30,684 --> 01:32:34,974
You realize that you're duty-bound to
give any evidence that you might have?

1297
01:32:35,273 --> 01:32:39,722
- Come off it. Did you bring any money?
- What is it you have, madam?

1298
01:32:40,028 --> 01:32:44,352
Letters. Letters that German wife
of 'is wrote. That's what I've got.

1299
01:32:44,657 --> 01:32:49,299
- Letters written to the prisoner?
- To the prisoner? Don't make me laugh.

1300
01:32:49,621 --> 01:32:53,387
Poor bleeder, he's been took in by 'er
all right. And these letters prove it.

1301
01:32:53,666 --> 01:32:58,627
If we could see these letters, we could
advise you as to how pertinent they are.

1302
01:32:58,963 --> 01:33:01,614
Well, I don't expect you...

1303
01:33:04,927 --> 01:33:08,818
Well, as I say, I don't expect you to
buy without seeing, but fair's fair.

1304
01:33:09,098 --> 01:33:13,467
If these letters get the boy off,
it's £100 for me, right?

1305
01:33:13,770 --> 01:33:18,458
If these letters contain information useful
to the defense, I'm prepared to offer £10.

1306
01:33:18,775 --> 01:33:22,063
What? Ten bleeding pounds
for letters like these?

1307
01:33:22,320 --> 01:33:25,051
Take that piece of glass
out o' yer eye. Good night.

1308
01:33:25,281 --> 01:33:27,329
If these help prove my
client's innocence,

1309
01:33:27,533 --> 01:33:30,935
£20 should, I think, not be an
unreasonable sum for your expenses.

1310
01:33:31,204 --> 01:33:34,128
50 and it's a bargain. That's
if you're satisfied with 'em.

1311
01:33:34,374 --> 01:33:36,661
- £40.
- All right, blast yer.

1312
01:33:36,876 --> 01:33:39,641
'Ere, take 'em.
Nice little lot there.

1313
01:33:39,879 --> 01:33:41,847
How do we know these
are from Mrs. Vole?

1314
01:33:42,048 --> 01:33:46,212
Oh, she wrote 'em all right.
It's all fair an' square.

1315
01:33:48,972 --> 01:33:51,737
I 'ope they fix 'er
good and proper.

1316
01:33:53,726 --> 01:33:57,447
I've had messages from Mrs. Vole.
It looks like her handwriting.

1317
01:33:57,730 --> 01:34:00,097
Good heavens, look at this.

1318
01:34:02,777 --> 01:34:04,745
Juicy, ain't they?

1319
01:34:04,946 --> 01:34:08,746
- There's one that's even better.
- How did you get hold of these?

1320
01:34:09,033 --> 01:34:12,003
What's the difference so long
as she gets what's coming?

1321
01:34:12,245 --> 01:34:15,294
- What have you got against her?
- Ha!

1322
01:34:15,540 --> 01:34:18,829
I'll give you something
to dream about, mister.

1323
01:34:20,045 --> 01:34:22,412
Want to kiss me, ducky?

1324
01:34:26,176 --> 01:34:26,938
Ha!

1325
01:34:27,094 --> 01:34:30,894
- I didn't suppose you would.
- Christine Vole did that to you?

1326
01:34:31,181 --> 01:34:35,948
Not 'er, the chap I was going with. He was
a bit younger than me but I loved 'im.

1327
01:34:36,270 --> 01:34:41,071
Then she come along, started seeing 'im
on the sly. Then one day he cleared out.

1328
01:34:41,400 --> 01:34:46,611
I found 'em together. I said what I thought
of 'er and he cut me face up proper.

1329
01:34:46,947 --> 01:34:51,157
- Did you go to the police about it?
- Who, me? Not likely.

1330
01:34:51,452 --> 01:34:56,982
It wasn't 'is fault. It was all 'ers, gettin'
'im away from me, turnin' 'im against me.

1331
01:34:57,333 --> 01:35:02,055
But I waited me time to pay
'er back. And it's come now.

1332
01:35:02,379 --> 01:35:07,465
I'm deeply sorry, deeply sorry. We'll
make it another £5 for the letters.

1333
01:35:07,801 --> 01:35:11,965
'Olding out on me, were yer?
I knew I was being soft with yer.

1334
01:35:12,264 --> 01:35:15,711
Cold-blooded vindictiveness.
Read this one.

1335
01:35:17,811 --> 01:35:20,291
Unbelievable.

1336
01:35:20,522 --> 01:35:24,652
We'd better have the full name of the man
to whom these were addressed, Miss...

1337
01:35:24,944 --> 01:35:26,867
Miss, um...

1338
01:35:27,071 --> 01:35:28,880
Where is she?

1339
01:35:34,954 --> 01:35:40,518
On that train, I should think. Doesn't want
her other cheek slashed. Can't blame her.

1340
01:35:43,128 --> 01:35:45,130
- Care for another, sir?
- Hm?

1341
01:35:45,339 --> 01:35:47,307
Good idea.

1342
01:35:56,392 --> 01:35:57,837
Silence!

1343
01:35:58,018 --> 01:36:00,066
Be upstanding in court.

1344
01:36:01,188 --> 01:36:03,795
All persons who have anything
to do before my lords,

1345
01:36:04,025 --> 01:36:06,073
the queen's justices
of oyer and terminer

1346
01:36:06,278 --> 01:36:10,124
and general jail delivery for the
jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Court,

1347
01:36:10,407 --> 01:36:14,571
draw near and give your attendance.
God save the queen.

1348
01:36:28,591 --> 01:36:31,754
Since the defense has called
but one witness, the prisoner,

1349
01:36:32,012 --> 01:36:34,333
it has the right to be heard last.

1350
01:36:34,556 --> 01:36:40,598
Mr. Myers, if you are ready, let us have
the final address for the prosecution.

1351
01:36:40,979 --> 01:36:45,189
My lord, members of the jury,
I will be brief in my final speech

1352
01:36:45,483 --> 01:36:50,011
because I think we've proved so obvious
a case of murder against Leonard Vole,

1353
01:36:50,322 --> 01:36:53,610
that a verdict of guilty must be
the only possible conclusion.

1354
01:36:54,367 --> 01:36:57,928
I will briefly summarize these facts...

1355
01:37:03,835 --> 01:37:06,042
You'd better begin again, Mr. Myers.

1356
01:37:06,713 --> 01:37:10,843
That is, if Sir Wilfrid is at all
interested in our proceedings.

1357
01:37:11,134 --> 01:37:15,423
I am, indeed, my lord. The speech for
the crown, however, is premature.

1358
01:37:15,722 --> 01:37:20,523
I ask that the case for the defense be
reopened. And that a witness be recalled.

1359
01:37:20,852 --> 01:37:24,573
I most strenuously object to the case
being reopened at this final stage.

1360
01:37:24,856 --> 01:37:27,985
Evidence of a startling nature
has come into my possession.

1361
01:37:28,234 --> 01:37:31,522
The course my learned friend
proposes is quite unprecedented.

1362
01:37:31,780 --> 01:37:35,421
I have anticipated this objection and
can meet it with ample precedent.

1363
01:37:35,700 --> 01:37:41,264
There is the king vs Stillman, reported
in the criminal appeal reports of 1926

1364
01:37:41,623 --> 01:37:43,944
at page 463.

1365
01:37:44,167 --> 01:37:48,252
Also, the king vs Porter in volume one
of the king's bench division reports,

1366
01:37:48,547 --> 01:37:51,835
1942 at page 153.

1367
01:37:52,093 --> 01:37:54,858
And lastly there is the case
of the king vs Sullivan

1368
01:37:55,096 --> 01:37:59,021
in which this issue was raised, which
I'm sure Your Lordship will remember,

1369
01:37:59,308 --> 01:38:01,788
since you appeared
for the prosecution.

1370
01:38:02,019 --> 01:38:06,547
I did? Oh, yes, before
Mr. Justice Swindon.

1371
01:38:06,857 --> 01:38:09,019
What is this new
evidence, Sir Wilfrid?

1372
01:38:09,235 --> 01:38:11,237
Letters, my lord.

1373
01:38:11,445 --> 01:38:14,415
Letters written by Christine Helm.

1374
01:38:16,867 --> 01:38:20,314
My lord, the prosecution
continues its objection.

1375
01:38:20,579 --> 01:38:23,981
If my memory serves me well,
Your Lordship's similar objection

1376
01:38:24,250 --> 01:38:27,857
in the king against
Sullivan was sustained.

1377
01:38:29,880 --> 01:38:33,327
Your memory, for once,
serves you ill, Mr. Myers.

1378
01:38:33,592 --> 01:38:37,961
My objection then was overruled
by Mr. Justice Swindon.

1379
01:38:38,264 --> 01:38:41,313
As yours is now, by me.

1380
01:38:47,815 --> 01:38:49,943
Call Christine Helm.

1381
01:38:50,818 --> 01:38:52,422
Christine Helm.

1382
01:38:52,612 --> 01:38:55,297
- Christine Helm.
- Christine Helm.

1383
01:39:12,006 --> 01:39:16,807
If you still have doubts about Mr. Vole, I
wouldn't mind betting you a box of cigars.

1384
01:39:17,136 --> 01:39:20,982
Mrs. Helm, you appreciate
you are still under oath?

1385
01:39:21,265 --> 01:39:22,426
Yes.

1386
01:39:22,600 --> 01:39:28,084
- Do you know a man named Max?
- I don't know what you mean.

1387
01:39:28,439 --> 01:39:32,285
It's a simple question. Do you or
do you not know a man called Max?

1388
01:39:32,568 --> 01:39:34,776
Max? Certainly not.

1389
01:39:34,988 --> 01:39:38,674
It's a fairly common name and yet
you've never known a man named Max?

1390
01:39:38,951 --> 01:39:41,352
In Germany, perhaps,
but a long time ago.

1391
01:39:41,578 --> 01:39:48,188
I shall not ask you to go back that far.
Just a few weeks, to... October 20 last.

1392
01:39:50,087 --> 01:39:52,931
- What have you got there?
- A letter.

1393
01:39:53,173 --> 01:39:55,414
I suggest that on October 20

1394
01:39:55,634 --> 01:39:58,843
- you wrote a letter...
- I don't know what you're talking about.

1395
01:39:59,096 --> 01:40:02,464
- ...Addressed to a man named Max.
- I did nothing of the sort.

1396
01:40:02,724 --> 01:40:06,649
The letter was but one of a
series written to the same man.

1397
01:40:07,646 --> 01:40:09,694
Lies! All lies!

1398
01:40:09,898 --> 01:40:13,869
You seem to have been, well, let us
say, on intimate terms with this man.

1399
01:40:14,152 --> 01:40:16,803
How dare you say a thing like that?
It isn't true!

1400
01:40:17,030 --> 01:40:22,321
I'm not concerned with the general trend
of this correspondence, only one letter.

1401
01:40:22,661 --> 01:40:27,349
"My beloved Max, an extraordinary
thing has happened."

1402
01:40:27,666 --> 01:40:30,510
"I believe all our
difficulties may be ended."

1403
01:40:30,752 --> 01:40:33,232
I will not stand here and
listen to a pack of lies!

1404
01:40:33,463 --> 01:40:37,149
That letter's a forgery.
It isn't even my letter paper!

1405
01:40:37,426 --> 01:40:39,633
- It isn't?
- No!

1406
01:40:39,845 --> 01:40:43,133
I write my letters on small blue
paper with my initials on it.

1407
01:40:47,352 --> 01:40:48,842
Like this?

1408
01:40:51,607 --> 01:40:56,738
This is a bill from my tailor for a pair
of extremely becoming Bermuda shorts.

1409
01:40:58,530 --> 01:41:02,819
Wilfrid the fox! That's what we
call him and that's what he is.

1410
01:41:03,118 --> 01:41:07,282
Now, Mrs. Helm, you've been kind
enough to identify your letter paper.

1411
01:41:07,581 --> 01:41:12,303
Now, if you like, I can have an
expert identify your handwriting.

1412
01:41:12,628 --> 01:41:14,437
Damn you!

1413
01:41:15,005 --> 01:41:17,896
- Damn you!
- Leave her alone!

1414
01:41:18,134 --> 01:41:20,262
- Damn you!
- Mrs. Helm!

1415
01:41:20,470 --> 01:41:23,838
Let me go! Let me get
out of here! Let me go!

1416
01:41:24,098 --> 01:41:25,463
- Mrs. Helm!
- Let me go!

1417
01:41:25,642 --> 01:41:28,248
Usher, get the witness a chair.

1418
01:41:34,651 --> 01:41:40,613
Sir Wilfrid, will you now read the letter
in question so that the jury may hear it?

1419
01:41:45,912 --> 01:41:50,998
"My beloved Max, an extraordinary
thing has happened."

1420
01:41:51,334 --> 01:41:54,861
"All our difficulties
may soon be solved."

1421
01:41:55,129 --> 01:42:00,010
"Leonard is suspected of murdering
the old lady I told you about."

1422
01:42:00,343 --> 01:42:05,952
"His only hope of an alibi
depends on me and me alone."

1423
01:42:07,225 --> 01:42:13,232
"Suppose I testify that he was not at
home with me at the time of the murder,

1424
01:42:13,606 --> 01:42:17,327
that he came home with
blood on his sleeves,

1425
01:42:17,610 --> 01:42:21,376
and that he even admitted to
me that he'd killed her?"

1426
01:42:21,656 --> 01:42:24,978
"Strange that he always said he
would never let me leave him."

1427
01:42:25,243 --> 01:42:28,725
"But now, if this succeeds,
he will be leaving me

1428
01:42:28,997 --> 01:42:32,718
because they will
take him away forever

1429
01:42:33,001 --> 01:42:37,563
and I shall be free and
yours, my beloved."

1430
01:42:37,880 --> 01:42:42,522
"I count the hours until we
are together. Christine."

1431
01:42:45,763 --> 01:42:49,563
Mrs. Helm? Will you go
back to the witness box?

1432
01:42:59,902 --> 01:43:04,943
I now ask you again, Christine
Helm, did you write this letter?

1433
01:43:05,284 --> 01:43:08,413
Christine, tell him you didn't
write it. I know you didn't.

1434
01:43:08,662 --> 01:43:12,633
Please answer my question.
Did you write this letter?

1435
01:43:12,916 --> 01:43:14,645
Before answering, Mrs. Helm,

1436
01:43:14,835 --> 01:43:20,001
I wish to warn you that the law regarding
perjury in this country is very severe.

1437
01:43:20,341 --> 01:43:23,788
If you have already committed
perjury in this courtroom,

1438
01:43:24,053 --> 01:43:27,535
I strongly advise you not
to add to your crime.

1439
01:43:27,806 --> 01:43:31,413
But, if this letter has
not been written by you,

1440
01:43:31,685 --> 01:43:35,246
then now is the time
to state this fact.

1441
01:43:37,900 --> 01:43:39,982
I wrote the letter.

1442
01:43:42,571 --> 01:43:46,337
And that, my lord, is the
case for the defense.

1443
01:43:54,333 --> 01:43:57,621
I keep asking which is harder,
your head or your arteries?

1444
01:43:57,878 --> 01:43:59,960
Stop pressing your luck,
you're overdue.

1445
01:44:00,172 --> 01:44:04,143
We're all packed and ready. I hope
the jury won't take all afternoon.

1446
01:44:04,426 --> 01:44:05,587
I concede.

1447
01:44:05,761 --> 01:44:08,844
- Congratulations, here are your cigars.
- Not yet.

1448
01:44:09,098 --> 01:44:12,466
Come on, it's all over,
wrapped up neat and tidy.

1449
01:44:12,726 --> 01:44:16,014
- What's wrong?
- It's a little too neat, too tidy,

1450
01:44:16,272 --> 01:44:20,243
and altogether too symmetrical,
that's what's wrong with it.

1451
01:44:20,526 --> 01:44:23,655
- The jury is back.
- You're not worried about the verdict?

1452
01:44:23,904 --> 01:44:27,909
It's not their judgment
that worries me, it's mine.

1453
01:44:28,284 --> 01:44:30,048
Come along.

1454
01:44:31,078 --> 01:44:33,046
Where's my Wig?

1455
01:45:02,068 --> 01:45:04,435
The prisoner will stand up.

1456
01:45:07,073 --> 01:45:11,840
Members of the jury, are you
all agreed upon your verdict?

1457
01:45:13,580 --> 01:45:14,786
We are.

1458
01:45:14,956 --> 01:45:19,041
Do you find the prisoner at the
bar, Leonard Stephen Vole,

1459
01:45:19,336 --> 01:45:23,705
guilty or not guilty of the
murder of Emily Jane French?

1460
01:45:27,802 --> 01:45:29,167
Not guilty, m'lord.

1461
01:45:49,240 --> 01:45:50,526
Silence!

1462
01:45:50,825 --> 01:45:52,509
Silence!

1463
01:45:55,497 --> 01:45:59,138
Leonard Stephen Vole, you
have been found not guilty

1464
01:45:59,417 --> 01:46:03,820
of the murder of Emily
Jane French on October 14.

1465
01:46:04,130 --> 01:46:08,454
You are hereby discharged and
are free to leave the court.

1466
01:46:19,521 --> 01:46:22,730
Persons with anything more to
do before the queen's justices

1467
01:46:22,983 --> 01:46:25,145
of oyer and terminer
and jail delivery

1468
01:46:25,360 --> 01:46:30,127
for the jurisdiction of the Central
Criminal Court may depart the area.

1469
01:46:39,041 --> 01:46:42,602
Thank you. Yes, we'll talk later.
Thank you, Mr. Mayhew.

1470
01:46:42,878 --> 01:46:45,279
Thank you, Mr. Brogan-Moore. Carter.

1471
01:46:45,506 --> 01:46:48,794
Thank you, Sir Wilfrid, for everything.
You were wonderful.

1472
01:46:49,051 --> 01:46:52,737
- I'd say we were lucky all around.
- Yeah.

1473
01:46:53,014 --> 01:46:56,700
I have your belongings. Sign the receipt,
Mr. Vole, and we can release you.

1474
01:46:56,976 --> 01:46:59,980
"Mr. Vole." They didn't call
me Mr. when they charged me.

1475
01:47:00,229 --> 01:47:05,190
- I'll go with you, I have your hat and coat.
- Let's go before they change their mind!

1476
01:47:14,869 --> 01:47:17,998
Chipper, isn't he? An hour ago,
he had one foot on the gallows

1477
01:47:18,247 --> 01:47:20,295
and the other on a banana peel.

1478
01:47:20,499 --> 01:47:23,582
You ought to be very proud,
Wilfrid. Aren't you?

1479
01:47:23,836 --> 01:47:26,726
Not yet. We've disposed
of the gallows,

1480
01:47:26,964 --> 01:47:30,889
but there's still that banana peel
somewhere, under somebody's foot.

1481
01:47:44,649 --> 01:47:49,132
- Every word you said was a lie!
- You ought to be locked up! Liar!

1482
01:47:49,445 --> 01:47:52,654
You'd better wait here until we
get rid of that crowd, madam.

1483
01:47:52,907 --> 01:47:54,875
Thank you.

1484
01:47:58,704 --> 01:48:01,867
Ready, sir?
Miss Plimsoll will be waiting.

1485
01:48:02,124 --> 01:48:07,449
Let me finish the last of the cocoa while
I'm still beyond her jurisdiction.

1486
01:48:07,797 --> 01:48:12,007
Would you excuse me,
Brogan-Moore, Carter? Thank you.

1487
01:48:39,121 --> 01:48:43,046
I never thought you British could get
so emotional. Especially in public.

1488
01:48:43,333 --> 01:48:45,779
- I apologise for my compatriots.
- It's all right.

1489
01:48:46,003 --> 01:48:49,769
I don't mind being called names or pushed
around or even kicked in the shin.

1490
01:48:50,048 --> 01:48:52,289
But I have a ladder in
my last pair of nylons.

1491
01:48:52,509 --> 01:48:56,639
In case you are not familiar with our
prison regulations, no silk stockings.

1492
01:48:56,930 --> 01:48:59,058
Prison? Will I go to prison?

1493
01:48:59,266 --> 01:49:02,748
You heard the judge. You will
certainly be charged with perjury,

1494
01:49:03,020 --> 01:49:07,184
- tried for it, and to prison you shall go.
- Well, it won't be for life, will it?

1495
01:49:07,482 --> 01:49:10,964
If I were appearing for the
prosecution, it would be.

1496
01:49:11,236 --> 01:49:15,082
You loathe me, don't you?
Like the people outside.

1497
01:49:15,365 --> 01:49:18,369
What a wicked woman I am,
and how brilliantly you exposed me

1498
01:49:18,619 --> 01:49:23,147
and saved Leonard's life. The great
Sir Wilfrid Robarts did it again.

1499
01:49:23,457 --> 01:49:28,987
Well, let me tell you something.
You didn't do it alone. You had help.

1500
01:49:30,297 --> 01:49:31,947
What are you driving at?

1501
01:49:32,132 --> 01:49:34,976
I'm not driving at anything.
Leonard is free and we did it.

1502
01:49:35,218 --> 01:49:36,583
- We?
- Remember?

1503
01:49:36,762 --> 01:49:40,289
When you said that no jury would believe
an alibi given by a loving wife,

1504
01:49:40,557 --> 01:49:44,482
no matter how much she swore he was
innocent? That gave me the idea.

1505
01:49:44,770 --> 01:49:46,295
What idea?

1506
01:49:46,480 --> 01:49:50,804
The idea that I should be a witness, not
for my husband, but for the prosecution.

1507
01:49:51,109 --> 01:49:54,909
That I should swear Leonard was guilty
and that you should expose me as a liar

1508
01:49:55,197 --> 01:49:59,282
because only then would they
believe Leonard was innocent.

1509
01:49:59,576 --> 01:50:03,138
So now you know the whole
story, Sir Wilfrid.

1510
01:50:08,586 --> 01:50:12,636
I'll give yer something
to dream about, mister.

1511
01:50:12,924 --> 01:50:15,495
Want to kiss me, ducky?

1512
01:50:19,347 --> 01:50:23,272
I suspected something,
but not that.

1513
01:50:23,559 --> 01:50:26,449
- Never that!
- Thank you for the compliment.

1514
01:50:26,688 --> 01:50:30,295
It's been a long time since I acted
and I never played such a vital role.

1515
01:50:30,566 --> 01:50:33,331
All those blue letters!

1516
01:50:33,569 --> 01:50:37,051
It took me hours to write them,
to invent Max. There never was a Max.

1517
01:50:37,323 --> 01:50:39,690
There's never been
anyone but Leonard.

1518
01:50:39,909 --> 01:50:42,071
My dear, could you
not have trusted me,

1519
01:50:42,287 --> 01:50:46,087
worked with me truthfully and
honorably? We would have won.

1520
01:50:46,374 --> 01:50:49,184
I could not run that risk.
You thought he was innocent.

1521
01:50:49,419 --> 01:50:52,468
And you knew he was innocent.
I understand.

1522
01:50:52,714 --> 01:50:55,877
No, Sir Wilfrid, you do
not understand at all.

1523
01:50:56,134 --> 01:50:58,501
I knew he was guilty.

1524
01:51:02,015 --> 01:51:04,859
That can't be true! No!

1525
01:51:06,185 --> 01:51:08,506
Listen to me, once and for all.

1526
01:51:08,730 --> 01:51:11,336
He came home after ten,
he had blood on his sleeves,

1527
01:51:11,566 --> 01:51:14,888
he said he had killed the woman,
only I could save him. He pleaded.

1528
01:51:15,153 --> 01:51:18,157
And you saved him? A murderer?

1529
01:51:18,406 --> 01:51:20,454
Again, you don't understand.

1530
01:51:20,658 --> 01:51:22,626
I love him.

1531
01:51:28,499 --> 01:51:30,786
I told you she was an actress.
And a good one.

1532
01:51:31,002 --> 01:51:32,572
Leonard!

1533
01:51:32,754 --> 01:51:35,803
I knew she'd do something,
but I just didn't know what or how.

1534
01:51:36,049 --> 01:51:38,017
Leonard, Leonard.

1535
01:51:40,136 --> 01:51:45,427
- Fooled you completely, didn't she?
- It was you, Vole, who fooled me.

1536
01:51:45,767 --> 01:51:51,218
Oh, easy. Easy. We both got out of
this alive, let's stay this way.

1537
01:51:51,565 --> 01:51:54,933
- Where are your pills?
- You've made a mockery of English law.

1538
01:51:55,194 --> 01:51:58,323
Who did? You got me off and
I can't be tried again for this.

1539
01:51:58,572 --> 01:52:02,975
- That's English law too, isn't it?
- You can't touch him now. Nobody can.

1540
01:52:03,285 --> 01:52:05,891
The scales of justice may
tip one way or another,

1541
01:52:06,121 --> 01:52:09,125
but ultimately they balance out.
You'll pay for this.

1542
01:52:09,375 --> 01:52:13,380
Ultimately's a long way off. I'd rather pay
for it as soon as possible and in cash.

1543
01:52:13,671 --> 01:52:18,040
Suppose we double your fee? There'll be
lots of money once the will goes through.

1544
01:52:18,342 --> 01:52:21,186
I'm not cheap, I want everybody
to get something out of it.

1545
01:52:21,428 --> 01:52:24,875
There's Janet McKenzie.
We'll get her that new hearing aid.

1546
01:52:25,140 --> 01:52:29,941
And we'll get you a new one of these.
18-carat gold if they make them.

1547
01:52:30,271 --> 01:52:33,832
And when they try you for perjury
there'll be £5,000 for the defense.

1548
01:52:34,108 --> 01:52:38,670
I don't care, just so we'll be together.
You don't know what I've been through.

1549
01:52:38,988 --> 01:52:43,755
Standing in the witness box, having to
face you, saying I never loved you.

1550
01:52:44,076 --> 01:52:45,237
What is it, Leonard?

1551
01:52:45,411 --> 01:52:49,132
The luggage is in the car and we've only
20 minutes to catch the boat train.

1552
01:52:49,415 --> 01:52:51,895
This is a nice young lady
I met during the trial.

1553
01:52:52,126 --> 01:52:53,412
Len!

1554
01:52:53,585 --> 01:52:55,189
Oh, Len!

1555
01:52:55,379 --> 01:52:56,949
Len...

1556
01:52:58,632 --> 01:53:02,193
Oh, Len, they've been trying to keep
me away. It's had me nearly crazy.

1557
01:53:02,469 --> 01:53:04,870
Leonard, who's this girl?

1558
01:53:05,097 --> 01:53:07,703
I'm not this girl, I'm his girl.

1559
01:53:07,933 --> 01:53:09,697
Tell her, Len.

1560
01:53:09,893 --> 01:53:13,261
Leonard, is this the girl who was
with you in the travel bureau?

1561
01:53:13,522 --> 01:53:16,571
The girl you said you hardly knew,
didn't even know her name?

1562
01:53:16,817 --> 01:53:21,300
That's right. That's who I am and I know
all about you. You're not his wife.

1563
01:53:21,614 --> 01:53:25,744
Never have been. You're years older than
he is. We've been together for months

1564
01:53:26,035 --> 01:53:31,725
and we're going away on a cruise, just
like they said in court. Tell her, Len.

1565
01:53:32,083 --> 01:53:36,884
- Yes, Len, tell me yourself.
- All right, Diana, come along.

1566
01:53:37,213 --> 01:53:39,819
You can't, not after what
I've done. I won't let you.

1567
01:53:40,050 --> 01:53:42,894
I saved your life getting
you out of Germany,

1568
01:53:43,136 --> 01:53:46,219
you got me out of this mess,
so we're even. It's over now.

1569
01:53:46,473 --> 01:53:50,842
Don't, Leonard! Don't leave me!
Don't, Leonard! Don't!

1570
01:53:51,144 --> 01:53:53,909
Full yourself together. They'll
have you up for perjury.

1571
01:53:54,147 --> 01:53:58,550
Don't make it worse or they'll
try you as an accessory.

1572
01:53:58,860 --> 01:54:01,067
And you know what that means.

1573
01:54:01,279 --> 01:54:05,762
I don't care. Let them. Let them try me
for perjury, or an accessory, or...

1574
01:54:06,952 --> 01:54:09,523
- Ready?
- Or better yet...

1575
01:54:09,746 --> 01:54:11,669
let them try me for...!

1576
01:54:11,873 --> 01:54:13,637
Argh!

1577
01:54:35,272 --> 01:54:39,641
- Call a doctor.
- It's no use. No doctor can help now.

1578
01:54:40,860 --> 01:54:43,181
- What happened?
- She killed him.

1579
01:54:43,405 --> 01:54:45,328
Killed him?

1580
01:54:45,532 --> 01:54:47,694
She executed him.

1581
01:54:49,411 --> 01:54:51,891
Carter, what have you
done with the luggage?

1582
01:54:52,122 --> 01:54:57,606
I sent it on ahead to the station,
and I've got a cab waiting outside.

1583
01:55:04,384 --> 01:55:08,184
- A remarkable woman.
- You can just barely catch the boat train.

1584
01:55:08,471 --> 01:55:12,112
Better bring the luggage back,
and you can dismiss the cab.

1585
01:55:12,392 --> 01:55:15,362
We are not going yet, are we?

1586
01:55:17,898 --> 01:55:20,663
Thank you, Miss Plimsoll.

1587
01:55:20,901 --> 01:55:23,472
Get Brogan-Moore to my
chambers, and Mayhew too.

1588
01:55:23,696 --> 01:55:27,826
We're appearing for the defense
in the trial of Christine Vole.

1589
01:55:28,117 --> 01:55:29,881
Sir Wilfrid?

1590
01:55:30,077 --> 01:55:32,648
You've forgotten your brandy.

1591
01:55:55,436 --> 01:55:57,279
<i>The management of
this theater suggests</i>

1592
01:55:57,480 --> 01:56:01,565
<i>that for the greater entertainment of
friends who have not yet seen the picture,</i>

1593
01:56:01,859 --> 01:56:04,908
<i>you will not divulge to anyone
the secret of the ending</i>

1594
01:56:05,154 --> 01:56:07,805
<i>of "Witness For The Prosecution".</i>