1 00:02:20,974 --> 00:02:22,642 [CLOCK BELL TOLLING] 2 00:02:48,877 --> 00:02:51,504 JARROD: Hello, Matthew. What are you doing here so Iate? 3 00:02:51,755 --> 00:02:52,880 I came to get the books. 4 00:02:53,131 --> 00:02:54,507 I want to study our accounts. 5 00:02:54,758 --> 00:02:56,592 We've been doing very welI IateIy. 6 00:02:56,844 --> 00:02:59,053 Over 200 paid admissions today. 7 00:02:59,304 --> 00:03:01,430 You call that good Saturday business? 8 00:03:01,682 --> 00:03:04,475 If you weren't so stubborn, we'd be turning them away from here. 9 00:03:05,185 --> 00:03:07,436 Who cares a hang about history in wax? 10 00:03:07,688 --> 00:03:10,022 There are people in the worId who love beauty. 11 00:03:10,274 --> 00:03:12,608 But more who want sensation, shock! 12 00:03:12,860 --> 00:03:16,112 The morbidly curious. Heh, l won't cater to them. 13 00:03:16,363 --> 00:03:18,781 Their money is as good as anybody else's. 14 00:03:19,032 --> 00:03:21,951 You should have seen them turning them away at that wax museum... 15 00:03:22,202 --> 00:03:24,954 ...on 23rd Street tonight: the Eden Musée. 16 00:03:25,205 --> 00:03:27,665 The story's the same at Madame Tussaud's in London. 17 00:03:27,916 --> 00:03:30,418 -If you'd only listened to me-- -I know, Matthew. 18 00:03:30,669 --> 00:03:34,714 I'd put in a Chamber of Horrors: murder, torture, executions... 19 00:03:34,965 --> 00:03:38,259 ...scare the living daylights out of peopIe. I don't care for that kind of patronage. 20 00:03:38,510 --> 00:03:40,511 You're a great artist, a genius sculptor. 21 00:03:40,762 --> 00:03:44,140 But I'm an ordinary businessman. I want a quick return on my investment. 22 00:03:44,391 --> 00:03:47,393 I've got $20,000 sunk in this historic peep show of yours. 23 00:03:47,644 --> 00:03:49,061 I could use that money to better advantage. 24 00:03:49,313 --> 00:03:51,188 All right, Matthew. All right. 25 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:54,859 I've known for some time you wanted to dissolve our partnership. 26 00:03:55,110 --> 00:03:56,986 I think I may be able to accommodate you. 27 00:03:57,237 --> 00:03:58,154 How? 28 00:03:58,405 --> 00:04:02,241 A friend is bringing Sidney WalIace, the art critic, here tonight to see my work. 29 00:04:02,492 --> 00:04:07,079 Wallace is rich, and I think I might persuade him to buy you out. 30 00:04:07,331 --> 00:04:09,248 Well, that sounds interesting. 31 00:04:09,499 --> 00:04:11,125 I'lI want a profit on my investment. 32 00:04:11,376 --> 00:04:12,543 Yes, Matthew. 33 00:04:12,794 --> 00:04:14,211 I understand. 34 00:04:14,463 --> 00:04:16,631 You Ieave everything to me, and I promise you it wilI be-- 35 00:04:16,882 --> 00:04:17,965 [KNOCKING ON DOOR] 36 00:04:18,467 --> 00:04:19,717 That should be they now. 37 00:04:19,968 --> 00:04:21,302 All right, l'll wait in the office. 38 00:04:21,553 --> 00:04:23,429 I've heard of WaIlace. He has a pot of money. 39 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:25,598 If he Iikes your stuff, put a stiff price on it. 40 00:04:39,237 --> 00:04:41,822 -Does Jarrod live in the building? -Yes, he has a room upstairs. 41 00:04:42,074 --> 00:04:45,201 You'lI Iike him, Sidney. He speaks your language. 42 00:04:45,911 --> 00:04:48,287 Please come in. I'm happy to see you, Bruce. 43 00:04:48,538 --> 00:04:50,790 It was such a bad night I was afraid you couldn't get here. 44 00:04:51,041 --> 00:04:53,292 We were delayed. He had a meeting at Manhattan GalIery. 45 00:04:53,543 --> 00:04:55,211 My friend Sidney Wallace. Professor Jarrod. 46 00:04:55,462 --> 00:04:57,213 -It's a great pleasure. WALLACE: For me aIso. 47 00:04:57,464 --> 00:05:00,341 That's a title that was bestowed on me when I became an exhibitor. 48 00:05:00,592 --> 00:05:02,510 It has IittIe to do with my real work. 49 00:05:02,761 --> 00:05:05,429 If you'Il come with me, I'lI show you what that work is. 50 00:05:05,681 --> 00:05:07,765 I'm afraid the visit of such a distinguished critic... 51 00:05:08,016 --> 00:05:09,976 ...may cause my chiIdren to become conceited. 52 00:05:10,227 --> 00:05:14,480 To you, they're wax. But to me, their creator, they live and breathe. 53 00:05:14,731 --> 00:05:17,608 Here we have two great lovers from the past. 54 00:05:17,859 --> 00:05:22,363 Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, and Mark Antony. Their last meeting. 55 00:05:22,614 --> 00:05:25,491 You'lI recaIl that Antony, believing Cleopatra to be dead... 56 00:05:25,742 --> 00:05:27,493 ...kiIled himseIf with his own sword. 57 00:05:27,744 --> 00:05:30,955 When Cleopatra discovered what happened, she quickIy followed her lover. 58 00:05:31,206 --> 00:05:33,833 You noticed how cIeverly the hair is mounted on the scaIp? 59 00:05:34,084 --> 00:05:35,418 Yes. How do you do that, professor? 60 00:05:35,669 --> 00:05:38,838 Well, real hair of the proper color and texture... 61 00:05:39,089 --> 00:05:41,924 ...is pressed into the slightly warmed wax with a scalpel... 62 00:05:42,175 --> 00:05:43,467 ...one hair at a time. 63 00:05:43,719 --> 00:05:47,513 Each wave and curI of the subject's own hair is reproduced. 64 00:05:53,228 --> 00:05:56,897 Here's President Lincoln and his assassin, John Wilkes Booth... 65 00:05:57,149 --> 00:05:59,984 ...one of my few concessions to the macabre. 66 00:06:00,235 --> 00:06:03,821 WALLACE: That's the best figure of Booth I've seen. You almost expect him to speak. 67 00:06:04,072 --> 00:06:05,990 BRUCE: I wonder what he'd say after alI these years. 68 00:06:06,241 --> 00:06:07,742 I'm sure he'd rant a bit. 69 00:06:07,993 --> 00:06:11,495 Even after he shot LincoIn and jumped from the President's box onto the stage... 70 00:06:11,747 --> 00:06:14,623 ...he couIdn't resist turning to the audience and taking a bow. 71 00:06:14,875 --> 00:06:16,917 I found him a very stubborn person. 72 00:06:17,169 --> 00:06:18,419 -Stubborn? -UnbeIievably. 73 00:06:18,670 --> 00:06:22,798 For days I argued with this fellow before I could get him to pose the way I wanted him to. 74 00:06:23,050 --> 00:06:25,468 -You mean, he talked back to you? -Of course. 75 00:06:25,719 --> 00:06:28,012 It's not easy to shut an actor's mouth. 76 00:06:28,722 --> 00:06:32,683 These groups are Iike dimensional paintings of the oId masters. 77 00:06:32,934 --> 00:06:34,060 This is not only a great show... 78 00:06:34,311 --> 00:06:35,311 ...it's an art exhibit. 79 00:06:35,562 --> 00:06:36,687 BRUCE: That's what I toId you. 80 00:06:38,940 --> 00:06:40,232 Here we have Joan of Arc... 81 00:06:40,484 --> 00:06:42,068 ...a favorite subject of mine. 82 00:06:42,319 --> 00:06:44,153 WALLACE: I can understand. It's beautifulIy done. 83 00:06:44,404 --> 00:06:45,362 Thank you. 84 00:06:45,614 --> 00:06:49,492 I've done her over a dozen times, haven't I, my dear? And stiIl she doesn't compIain. 85 00:06:49,743 --> 00:06:52,828 -What was wrong with her? -There are no authentic portraits available... 86 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:55,873 ...so scuIptors and painters have to work from models. 87 00:06:56,124 --> 00:06:58,459 I've never found the right one, but I wilI one of these days. 88 00:06:58,710 --> 00:07:00,419 It's a shame to race through such an exhibit. 89 00:07:00,670 --> 00:07:02,588 One shouId have time to reaIly study these figures. 90 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:06,300 You're very kind. My creations have some merit, I suspect... 91 00:07:06,551 --> 00:07:09,428 ...but in bringing back to life the lovely Marie Antoinette... 92 00:07:09,679 --> 00:07:11,555 ...I feel I've done my best work. 93 00:07:11,807 --> 00:07:13,891 Ah, I've never seen anything so exquisite. 94 00:07:14,142 --> 00:07:16,811 People say they can see my Marie Antoinette breathe... 95 00:07:17,062 --> 00:07:19,146 ...that her breast rises and faIls. 96 00:07:19,397 --> 00:07:22,024 Look at her eyes, they folIow you wherever you go. 97 00:07:22,275 --> 00:07:24,318 She's very real to me. 98 00:07:25,028 --> 00:07:26,904 BRUCE: You know, her eyes do foIlow you. 99 00:07:27,155 --> 00:07:28,656 They're made of glass, more's the pity. 100 00:07:28,907 --> 00:07:31,200 The exact size and color of the original. 101 00:07:31,451 --> 00:07:34,578 They're inserted into the sockets from inside... 102 00:07:34,830 --> 00:07:37,998 ...by way of the hoIlow neck, before the head is attached to the body. 103 00:07:38,583 --> 00:07:42,294 Forgive me, my dear, for discussing your intimate secrets. 104 00:07:42,546 --> 00:07:45,589 I'm sorry. I lose myself at times. 105 00:07:45,841 --> 00:07:48,592 Professor, if peopIe knew what you have inside these walls... 106 00:07:48,844 --> 00:07:51,011 ...you couIdn't accommodate the crowds. 107 00:07:51,263 --> 00:07:54,014 What you need here is exploitation, more advertising. 108 00:07:54,266 --> 00:07:57,017 -That's what I've been teIling him. -Oh, my partner wouldn't agree. 109 00:07:57,269 --> 00:07:58,144 He's not happy here. 110 00:07:58,395 --> 00:08:01,230 He wants to invest in something else. Mr. WaIlace... 111 00:08:01,481 --> 00:08:05,401 ...would you become a partner in this venture? Would you buy him out? 112 00:08:05,652 --> 00:08:09,280 You know, I might take you up on that if my Iawyers approve and the price is right. 113 00:08:09,531 --> 00:08:12,116 With your support, I could do wonders. I'd make any sacrifice. 114 00:08:12,367 --> 00:08:14,243 Unfortunately, I'm leaving this weekend for Egypt. 115 00:08:14,494 --> 00:08:16,162 I'm financing some excavations there. 116 00:08:16,413 --> 00:08:18,706 However, I'Il be back in three months, then I'll discuss-- 117 00:08:18,957 --> 00:08:20,583 You make me very happy. 118 00:08:20,834 --> 00:08:24,086 WALLACE: You intrigue me, professor. I believe we'd get along together. 119 00:08:24,337 --> 00:08:25,838 -Good night. -Good night. 120 00:08:26,089 --> 00:08:28,007 -And l'm gratefuI to you, Bruce. BRUCE: Oh, it's aIl right. 121 00:08:32,846 --> 00:08:35,222 Thank you both for your visit and your encouragement. 122 00:08:35,473 --> 00:08:37,391 -I'lI probabIy see you in three months. -Good night. 123 00:08:37,642 --> 00:08:38,601 WALLACE and JARROD: Good night. 124 00:08:52,991 --> 00:08:56,410 Mr. WaIlace is a great art critic, my darling. You heard what he said. 125 00:08:56,661 --> 00:08:58,287 Does he make you happy? 126 00:08:58,538 --> 00:09:01,290 Of course you'd say that. But I don't care about success. 127 00:09:01,541 --> 00:09:04,251 The world will acknowledge your beauty. 128 00:09:04,502 --> 00:09:06,003 And you, my friends... 129 00:09:06,254 --> 00:09:09,548 ...CIeopatra, Mark Antony, LincoIn, Joan of Arc, alI of you. 130 00:09:09,799 --> 00:09:11,425 How would it suit you to be famous again? 131 00:09:13,511 --> 00:09:16,430 I know it'll pIease you, you conceited devil. 132 00:09:16,681 --> 00:09:19,892 It was Iike you to get yourself shot down in a burning barn. 133 00:09:20,143 --> 00:09:22,853 Couldn't do it without a spotlight, could you? 134 00:09:23,104 --> 00:09:25,814 BURKE: Do you really hear what they say, Jarrod? 135 00:09:26,274 --> 00:09:27,358 Of course. 136 00:09:30,695 --> 00:09:33,572 A man has to be a little nuts to be a good showman. 137 00:09:33,823 --> 00:09:35,824 The sooner l'm out of it, the better. 138 00:09:36,076 --> 00:09:37,660 You'lI be out soon, Matthew. 139 00:09:37,911 --> 00:09:40,037 Mr. WaIlace returns from Egypt in three months. 140 00:09:40,288 --> 00:09:41,914 He'lI be ready to talk business then. 141 00:09:42,165 --> 00:09:44,708 -I heard him. That's no good for me. -But sureIy you don't-- 142 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:46,418 I have a chance to buy in on something. 143 00:09:46,670 --> 00:09:48,921 It'll pay off in a big way and three months is too late. 144 00:09:49,172 --> 00:09:51,715 What guarantee do l have that he won't go cold on the deaI? 145 00:09:51,967 --> 00:09:54,927 -Sorry, Matthew. It's the best I could do. -I can do better. 146 00:09:55,679 --> 00:09:58,347 How would you like to split $25,000 with me? 147 00:09:58,598 --> 00:10:00,099 And you caIl me crazy? 148 00:10:00,350 --> 00:10:03,352 You ever thought of what wouId happen if we had a fire here? 149 00:10:03,603 --> 00:10:06,605 In the ceIlar, there are six barrels of wax. Wax has a paraffin base. 150 00:10:06,856 --> 00:10:10,150 It's highly infIammable. This whole place would go up Iike a paint factory. 151 00:10:10,402 --> 00:10:12,987 Burn? Burn all my peopIe? 152 00:10:13,238 --> 00:10:15,281 -Do you think I'm a murderer? -Oh, stop dreaming. 153 00:10:15,532 --> 00:10:19,576 These dummies are insured for $25,000. That's $12,500 for each of us. 154 00:10:19,953 --> 00:10:22,246 You wouIdn't need Wallace. You'd have enough to begin again. 155 00:10:22,497 --> 00:10:25,124 No, I'd rather die myself than see my friends destroyed. 156 00:10:25,375 --> 00:10:27,584 I won't Iet you do it, and I'lI kill you if you try. 157 00:10:27,836 --> 00:10:29,169 Don't be stupid. 158 00:10:29,421 --> 00:10:33,048 All you have to do is to strike a match and the thing is done. 159 00:11:00,994 --> 00:11:02,369 [BOTH GRUNTING] 160 00:11:23,558 --> 00:11:25,351 [GAS HISSING] 161 00:12:46,933 --> 00:13:15,961 [HISSING CONTINUES] 162 00:14:02,675 --> 00:14:04,551 [GLASS SHATTERS] 163 00:15:44,861 --> 00:15:47,195 [BELLS CLANGING] 164 00:15:50,241 --> 00:15:51,491 [DRIVER YELLING] 165 00:16:17,018 --> 00:16:18,226 [BAND PLAYING LIVELY MUSIC] 166 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:36,495 Yes, my friend was a genius. 167 00:16:36,746 --> 00:16:38,455 A great artist. 168 00:16:38,706 --> 00:16:41,291 Only I could understand him. 169 00:16:41,542 --> 00:16:44,169 We were Iike that, Cathy. Just like that. 170 00:16:44,420 --> 00:16:48,131 -Couldn't they ever find him after the fire? -Not a sign of him. 171 00:16:48,383 --> 00:16:52,344 The pIace burned like a paint fac-- Like a volcano. 172 00:16:52,595 --> 00:16:55,180 He was such an impractical feIlow. 173 00:16:55,431 --> 00:16:57,349 But I stilI Ioved him. 174 00:16:57,600 --> 00:16:59,810 And had I been there, I might have saved him. 175 00:17:00,061 --> 00:17:02,479 Oh, but you might have gotten burned yourself, Matty. 176 00:17:02,730 --> 00:17:04,606 Yes. Such is life. 177 00:17:04,857 --> 00:17:07,651 No matter how much we lose, we must stilI go on Iiving. 178 00:17:07,902 --> 00:17:12,239 Was there--? Was there any insurance on the wax museum? 179 00:17:12,490 --> 00:17:15,242 Yes, I-- I had a IittIe difficulty about that. 180 00:17:15,493 --> 00:17:18,078 According to the terms of the partnership agreement... 181 00:17:18,329 --> 00:17:20,706 ...the money was to go to the survivor of the others. 182 00:17:20,957 --> 00:17:24,167 The insurance company insists upon proof of, uh, my partner's death. 183 00:17:24,419 --> 00:17:25,085 Yes. 184 00:17:25,336 --> 00:17:27,713 Hee, hee. They always want a corpse. 185 00:17:27,964 --> 00:17:30,924 But they settled finaIly. This afternoon, as a matter of fact. 186 00:17:31,175 --> 00:17:31,842 They didn't! 187 00:17:32,093 --> 00:17:33,051 Certified check. 188 00:17:33,302 --> 00:17:35,887 I got it cashed. The money is in my safe. 189 00:17:36,139 --> 00:17:39,307 -You know what that means, baby? -No, what? 190 00:17:39,559 --> 00:17:41,351 That little trip I was talking to you about...? 191 00:17:41,602 --> 00:17:44,980 Ooh, Matty. Heh. 192 00:17:45,231 --> 00:17:47,983 -You're such a card! -Ha-ha-ha. 193 00:17:48,234 --> 00:17:51,278 -How much did you get? -$25,000. 194 00:17:51,529 --> 00:17:54,072 -Ooh! -Where wouId you Iike to go? AtIantic City? 195 00:17:54,323 --> 00:17:59,077 No. Niagara FalIs. We can get the Iicense in Buffalo. 196 00:17:59,328 --> 00:18:02,956 -License? -Yeah, you know. 197 00:18:03,499 --> 00:18:04,708 Legitimate. 198 00:18:06,252 --> 00:18:07,878 Ah, why not? It might be fun. 199 00:18:08,129 --> 00:18:09,880 Uh, waiter? Waiter, my check. 200 00:18:10,131 --> 00:18:11,423 [LIVELY MUSIC CONTINUES] 201 00:21:03,846 --> 00:21:05,138 [SCREAMING] 202 00:21:15,608 --> 00:21:18,193 PuIl it tighter, Sue. 203 00:21:19,612 --> 00:21:21,947 PuIl it tighter. 204 00:21:22,949 --> 00:21:24,491 I want a waist Iike Anna Held. 205 00:21:24,742 --> 00:21:27,869 If I pulI it any tighter, you're not going to be able to breathe. 206 00:21:28,120 --> 00:21:29,996 Oh. Oh, that's all right. 207 00:21:30,247 --> 00:21:32,457 I don't need much breath, anyway. 208 00:21:32,708 --> 00:21:35,126 As my Iate friend Matty used to say: 209 00:21:35,378 --> 00:21:37,629 "If a girl don't watch her figure, the men won't." 210 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:40,715 Matty. Wasn't that the man you were going to marry? 211 00:21:40,967 --> 00:21:42,801 Yes, but he hung himself instead. 212 00:21:43,052 --> 00:21:44,094 [BOTH LAUGH] 213 00:21:44,345 --> 00:21:46,638 Oh, Matty was such a card. 214 00:21:46,889 --> 00:21:48,974 Where is your new friend gonna take you tonight? 215 00:21:49,225 --> 00:21:50,308 The Hoffman House for dinner. 216 00:21:50,559 --> 00:21:53,103 And then to Tony Pastor's for the vaudeville show. 217 00:21:53,354 --> 00:21:56,439 -That sounds like fun. -He's a free spender, all right. 218 00:21:56,691 --> 00:21:59,693 Little bit older than I like them, but awfully distinguished Iooking. 219 00:21:59,944 --> 00:22:00,610 Is he nice? 220 00:22:00,861 --> 00:22:02,278 Oh, awfulIy nice. 221 00:22:02,530 --> 00:22:05,156 A reaI gentIeman, except when he's had a couple of drinks in him. 222 00:22:05,408 --> 00:22:06,533 [GIGGLES] 223 00:22:06,784 --> 00:22:08,243 Ah, that's to be expected. 224 00:22:08,869 --> 00:22:10,245 I'm moving up-- 225 00:22:10,496 --> 00:22:13,331 Ooh. I'm moving up in the world, honey. 226 00:22:13,582 --> 00:22:16,584 No girl ever hits the jackpot till after she passes 14th Street. 227 00:22:16,836 --> 00:22:19,129 -Ha, ha, is that how it goes? -Sure. 228 00:22:19,797 --> 00:22:21,715 Oh. Look at me. 229 00:22:21,966 --> 00:22:24,217 Not too long ago, I was down on Delancey Street. 230 00:22:24,468 --> 00:22:28,013 And tonight l'll be right up there among the bright Iights on 23rd. 231 00:22:28,264 --> 00:22:30,724 Now, when you get up there tonight, don't drink too much. 232 00:22:30,975 --> 00:22:32,642 Oh, don't worry, I won't. 233 00:22:32,893 --> 00:22:37,480 He keeps trying to pour the liquor into me, but I always manage to keep my head. 234 00:22:37,732 --> 00:22:41,276 After all, now that I'm going regular with a swelI... 235 00:22:41,527 --> 00:22:43,737 ...I got social obIigations. Ha, ha. 236 00:22:43,988 --> 00:22:48,033 You know how it is when a felIa-- Ah, no, of course you don't know. 237 00:22:48,284 --> 00:22:50,994 You're not Iike me, Sue. You never could be. 238 00:22:51,245 --> 00:22:53,872 You got alI the brains and alI I've got is... 239 00:22:54,123 --> 00:22:55,040 [GIGGLES] 240 00:22:55,291 --> 00:22:56,666 ...what I got. 241 00:22:56,917 --> 00:22:58,877 You know, I'm surprised you even taIk to me. 242 00:22:59,128 --> 00:23:01,588 That's such nonsense. You've been so good to me. 243 00:23:01,839 --> 00:23:02,922 Oh, why not? 244 00:23:03,174 --> 00:23:05,925 A girI needs a friend when she's down on her Iuck. 245 00:23:06,177 --> 00:23:09,512 Holy smoke! Look at the time. I've got to hurry. 246 00:23:09,764 --> 00:23:10,930 Did you find a job yet? 247 00:23:11,182 --> 00:23:14,684 Oh, no, not yet, but they need a hat-check girl at the Silver SIipper... 248 00:23:14,935 --> 00:23:17,020 ...and I've got an appointment with the manager tonight. 249 00:23:17,271 --> 00:23:19,397 Oh, l know that fellow. Watch out for him. 250 00:23:19,648 --> 00:23:22,734 -But why? What's the matter with him? -Oh, nothing much. 251 00:23:22,985 --> 00:23:25,403 -Long as you know how to duck. -Oh, that kind? 252 00:23:25,654 --> 00:23:26,654 Yes. 253 00:23:26,906 --> 00:23:29,407 -Did you eat today? -Uh-huh. I had everything I needed. 254 00:23:29,658 --> 00:23:31,201 To hear you telI it. 255 00:23:31,452 --> 00:23:33,536 Besides, you're behind in your room rent. 256 00:23:33,788 --> 00:23:35,705 Oh, welI, Mrs. Flannigan wiIl wait for me. 257 00:23:35,956 --> 00:23:37,123 Don't count on that. 258 00:23:37,374 --> 00:23:40,376 The oId buzzard aImost Iocked me out once. 259 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:41,920 There. 260 00:23:42,171 --> 00:23:44,380 If I don't sizzle him tonight, I might as well give up. 261 00:23:44,632 --> 00:23:45,632 [LAUGHS] 262 00:23:45,883 --> 00:23:47,217 He's picking me up in a hansom cab. 263 00:23:47,468 --> 00:23:50,428 No troIley for him. He's real society. 264 00:23:51,055 --> 00:23:52,597 Oh. 265 00:23:52,848 --> 00:23:56,518 Sue, aIl I've got is 50 cents. But you take it and buy yourseIf some dinner. 266 00:23:56,769 --> 00:23:58,770 -Oh, no, Cathy. -Come on. 267 00:23:59,021 --> 00:24:00,271 Mm-mm. 268 00:24:00,523 --> 00:24:03,066 My friend wilI give me some money tonight. Then I'll stake you. 269 00:24:03,317 --> 00:24:04,734 I don't need any mad money. 270 00:24:04,985 --> 00:24:05,944 [GIGGLES] 271 00:24:06,195 --> 00:24:07,237 I never get mad. 272 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:09,906 Good Iuck tonight at the Silver Slipper. 273 00:24:10,157 --> 00:24:11,616 -And don't forget to duck. -Mm-mm! 274 00:24:11,867 --> 00:24:13,535 [BOTH LAUGH] 275 00:24:26,715 --> 00:24:28,133 Toodle-Ioo. 276 00:24:45,609 --> 00:24:46,985 [DOOR OPENS] 277 00:24:54,952 --> 00:24:56,744 MRS. FLANNIGAN: Just a moment, Miss AlIen. 278 00:24:58,289 --> 00:25:01,916 -What are you coming in so quietly for? -I didn't want to disturb anybody. 279 00:25:02,168 --> 00:25:03,501 -Did you get the job? -No. 280 00:25:03,752 --> 00:25:06,212 -Why not? -I had trouble with the man who runs-- 281 00:25:06,463 --> 00:25:08,882 -Trouble? -Mrs. Flannigan, you'll get your money. 282 00:25:09,133 --> 00:25:10,800 Cathy promised to lend me some tonight... 283 00:25:11,051 --> 00:25:11,718 ...when she comes home. 284 00:25:11,969 --> 00:25:15,263 You better get right up there, then. Because she's home now. 285 00:25:15,931 --> 00:25:18,641 -Couldn't it wait until tomorrow? -No, it couId not. 286 00:25:18,893 --> 00:25:22,604 If you want to sleep in this house tonight, you get that money. 287 00:25:24,023 --> 00:25:26,566 All right, l'll try. 288 00:25:43,125 --> 00:25:44,542 [MATCH STRIKING] 289 00:26:04,146 --> 00:26:05,688 Cathy. 290 00:26:09,026 --> 00:26:11,277 Cathy, it's Sue. Are you there? 291 00:26:14,406 --> 00:26:15,490 Cathy. 292 00:26:23,332 --> 00:26:24,040 Cathy? 293 00:26:36,220 --> 00:26:37,345 [SCREAMING] 294 00:26:41,100 --> 00:26:42,934 I teIl you, the scream came from up there. 295 00:26:48,107 --> 00:26:50,191 Let's look into it. 296 00:27:41,327 --> 00:27:42,785 [WHISTLE BLOWING] 297 00:27:43,454 --> 00:27:46,622 -UsualIy there's a poIiceman at the corner. -That's why I'm blowing the whistle. 298 00:28:04,308 --> 00:28:07,143 SUE: Oh! Cabbie! Cabbie! 299 00:28:08,479 --> 00:28:11,522 Cabbie, cabbie! 300 00:30:12,811 --> 00:30:14,812 [SUE SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY] 301 00:30:25,741 --> 00:30:27,033 [KNOCKING ON DOOR] 302 00:30:34,124 --> 00:30:36,792 SUE: Mrs. Andrews. MRS. ANDREWS: Sue. 303 00:30:40,255 --> 00:30:42,381 SCOTT: What is it, Mother? -It's Sue. 304 00:30:42,633 --> 00:30:44,467 Sue. This is a surprise. 305 00:30:44,718 --> 00:30:46,552 I was just thinking about.... 306 00:30:49,097 --> 00:30:51,307 -Sue? -What happened to you, dear? 307 00:30:51,558 --> 00:30:53,726 -What's wrong? -Wait a minute. Wait a minute. 308 00:30:53,977 --> 00:30:54,852 What happened, Sue? 309 00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:57,813 What is it? 310 00:30:58,065 --> 00:30:59,023 Cathy-- 311 00:30:59,274 --> 00:31:03,694 Cathy Gray, the girl in my rooming house, was murdered tonight. 312 00:31:03,946 --> 00:31:06,364 SCOTT: What? SUE: I found her. 313 00:31:07,908 --> 00:31:10,660 The man who killed her was there in the room. 314 00:31:10,911 --> 00:31:13,454 I tried to get away from him. 315 00:31:13,705 --> 00:31:15,915 [SOBBING] 316 00:31:16,166 --> 00:31:18,876 But he foIlowed me into the street. 317 00:31:19,127 --> 00:31:22,046 No, Scott, no. Please don't go out there. 318 00:31:22,339 --> 00:31:25,758 It's all right, darling. Don't be frightened. 319 00:31:26,176 --> 00:31:28,636 It's all right now, dear. You're safe. 320 00:31:28,887 --> 00:31:29,929 [SUE SOBBING] 321 00:31:43,610 --> 00:31:44,986 BRENNAN: Who found the body? 322 00:31:45,237 --> 00:31:47,863 One of my roomers. A friend of Cathy's. Sue AIlen. 323 00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:49,657 Which one is Miss AlIen? 324 00:31:49,950 --> 00:31:52,118 -She isn't here. SHANE: Where is she? 325 00:31:52,494 --> 00:31:55,079 I don't know. We heard her scream. 326 00:31:55,330 --> 00:31:57,498 When we went Iooking for her, she was gone. 327 00:31:57,749 --> 00:32:00,251 -Are aIl your roomers in? -All but Miss AIlen. 328 00:32:00,502 --> 00:32:01,627 Mm-hm. 329 00:32:01,878 --> 00:32:04,630 Lieutenant Brennan wiIl want a statement from each one of you. 330 00:32:04,881 --> 00:32:06,382 See that nobody leaves the house. 331 00:32:14,266 --> 00:32:15,558 When l arrived at the rooming house... 332 00:32:15,809 --> 00:32:18,436 ...this girl had been dead for several hours. 333 00:32:18,687 --> 00:32:21,147 The immediate cause of death was strangulation. 334 00:32:21,398 --> 00:32:23,983 SURGEON: The mark of a cord is still on her throat. 335 00:32:24,234 --> 00:32:27,320 My examination indicated she'd probabIy been given a drug. 336 00:32:27,571 --> 00:32:29,905 -You were right. -What was it? 337 00:32:30,157 --> 00:32:33,409 Something to make her sIeep, Lieutenant Brennan. Veronal, perhaps. 338 00:32:33,660 --> 00:32:36,120 I'lI know as soon as we hear from the laboratory. 339 00:32:36,371 --> 00:32:38,372 How long would it take for such a drug to work? 340 00:32:38,624 --> 00:32:40,875 That would depend upon how much it was diluted. 341 00:32:41,126 --> 00:32:43,628 Yes, it was probably given to her in a drink. 342 00:32:43,879 --> 00:32:45,963 SHANE: That's how it's usuaIly done. 343 00:32:47,049 --> 00:32:48,758 -Business is slow tonight. -What? 344 00:32:49,009 --> 00:32:52,261 -Three suicides and two murders.... -And a traffic case since 9:00. 345 00:32:52,512 --> 00:32:54,639 The felIow got hit by an automobile. 346 00:32:54,890 --> 00:32:57,600 I didn't think those things went fast enough to hurt anybody. 347 00:32:57,851 --> 00:32:58,851 Give them time. 348 00:32:59,102 --> 00:33:01,187 They're getting better every day. 349 00:33:13,075 --> 00:33:16,160 I hope you like it here, honey. It's the best we've got. 350 00:33:25,379 --> 00:33:26,796 Hey, what's the matter with this one? 351 00:33:27,047 --> 00:33:28,464 You'lI get used to that. 352 00:33:28,715 --> 00:33:31,384 It's the embalming fluid makes them jump. 353 00:33:31,635 --> 00:33:33,552 That's one of the suicides. Just like a woman. 354 00:33:33,804 --> 00:33:36,305 They aIways have to have the last word. 355 00:36:00,575 --> 00:36:02,993 -Why didn't you report this to the police? -She's doing that. 356 00:36:03,245 --> 00:36:04,537 Last night was the time to do it. 357 00:36:04,788 --> 00:36:08,123 -She was in no condition to come here. -This is murder, Mrs. Andrews. 358 00:36:10,335 --> 00:36:12,837 The body of Cathy Gray was stoIen from the morgue Iast night. 359 00:36:13,088 --> 00:36:14,630 No. 360 00:36:14,881 --> 00:36:16,882 Why would anyone want to take Cathy's body? 361 00:36:17,133 --> 00:36:18,968 We're as much in the dark as you are, Miss Allen. 362 00:36:19,928 --> 00:36:22,012 We had a similar case a few weeks back. Matthew Burke. 363 00:36:22,264 --> 00:36:22,972 I read about that. 364 00:36:23,223 --> 00:36:25,891 Yes, and Patterson, a deputy city attorney, disappeared. 365 00:36:26,142 --> 00:36:27,852 We found no trace of him. 366 00:36:29,354 --> 00:36:33,023 We couId've laid our hands on that man that you saw last night. 367 00:36:33,650 --> 00:36:36,610 You know, that's the strangest description I've ever heard. 368 00:36:37,279 --> 00:36:39,113 No human being can look Iike that. 369 00:36:39,364 --> 00:36:40,364 Sure you didn't imagine it? 370 00:36:40,615 --> 00:36:42,825 I did see him. Just as I described him to you. 371 00:36:43,076 --> 00:36:44,827 He was incredible, but very real. 372 00:36:45,078 --> 00:36:47,454 And he couldn't be the same man who took Miss Gray to dinner? 373 00:36:47,706 --> 00:36:48,831 That's impossible. 374 00:36:49,082 --> 00:36:51,876 She toId me before she went that he was very good-Iooking. 375 00:36:52,127 --> 00:36:53,919 That's what the landIady said, it's a man with gray hair. 376 00:36:54,921 --> 00:36:58,132 No use showing you any suspects, we have nothing that fits that description. 377 00:36:58,383 --> 00:37:00,217 If we did, we'd have him in the crazy house. 378 00:37:00,468 --> 00:37:02,803 BRENNAN: Don't leave town. Where can we find you? 379 00:37:03,054 --> 00:37:04,763 27 Lafayette Street. 380 00:37:05,015 --> 00:37:08,642 -Miss Allen will stay in our home. -Make sure of that. She's our only witness. 381 00:37:08,894 --> 00:37:10,644 That's all. Thank you. 382 00:37:31,583 --> 00:37:33,042 [DOORBELL RlNGING] 383 00:37:39,674 --> 00:37:40,883 WALLACE: How do you do? 384 00:37:41,134 --> 00:37:44,511 I received a letter giving this address and signed Professor Jarrod. 385 00:37:44,804 --> 00:37:48,807 But I know the professor's dead. Can you teIl me who wrote this letter? 386 00:37:50,101 --> 00:37:52,144 My name is Sidney Wallace. 387 00:37:52,729 --> 00:37:55,022 [GASPING] 388 00:38:06,868 --> 00:38:08,202 [GRUNTS] 389 00:38:14,834 --> 00:38:17,211 -Mr. WaIlace. -Professor. 390 00:38:17,462 --> 00:38:19,463 It's so good-- 391 00:38:19,714 --> 00:38:23,467 Forgive me. Shaking hands with me is an unpleasant experience. 392 00:38:23,718 --> 00:38:27,304 My hands are no longer hands. Sit down, please. 393 00:38:27,555 --> 00:38:31,308 This is Igor. He's a deaf-mute. He's one of my assistants. 394 00:38:31,810 --> 00:38:36,105 I'm going to open another wax museum under a different name. 395 00:38:36,356 --> 00:38:38,983 -It startled you, eh, seeing me here? -That's an understatement. 396 00:38:39,234 --> 00:38:42,403 -I thought you were dead. -Jarrod is dead. I am a reincarnation. 397 00:38:42,654 --> 00:38:45,572 When l saw your signature, I thought somebody was pIaying a joke on me. 398 00:38:45,824 --> 00:38:47,825 I stiIl don't understand how you escaped the fire. 399 00:38:48,076 --> 00:38:49,702 It's a mystery to me, too, Mr. WaIlace. 400 00:38:49,953 --> 00:38:52,663 All I can remember is that I tried to get out of my studio. 401 00:38:52,914 --> 00:38:56,250 -I failed at first, but here I am. -What a frightfuI experience. 402 00:38:56,501 --> 00:38:59,253 Somehow I made my way to the house of a doctor. 403 00:38:59,504 --> 00:39:02,881 I stiIl have my limbs, though they won't bear the weight of my body. 404 00:39:03,633 --> 00:39:06,969 As for my hands, they are no use to me now. 405 00:39:07,220 --> 00:39:11,098 As a sculptor, I can't controI them. But they serve for ordinary functions. 406 00:39:11,641 --> 00:39:12,891 But you're beginning again? 407 00:39:13,143 --> 00:39:15,436 With the help of my pupils, yes. 408 00:39:15,687 --> 00:39:18,689 I'm rebuiIding my exhibition from the ground up. 409 00:39:18,940 --> 00:39:21,025 I'm going to give the people what they want: 410 00:39:21,276 --> 00:39:23,360 Sensation, horror, shock. 411 00:39:23,611 --> 00:39:26,155 Send them out in the streets to tell their friends... 412 00:39:26,406 --> 00:39:28,866 ...how wonderful it is to be scared to death. 413 00:39:29,868 --> 00:39:32,036 I'lI show you one of my subjects. 414 00:39:32,954 --> 00:39:36,999 Do you recall the case of Kemmler, the first man to die in the electric chair? 415 00:39:37,250 --> 00:39:41,420 -Yes. -Igor is working on a modeI of his head. 416 00:39:41,963 --> 00:39:44,798 He has a strange obsession, this mute of mine. 417 00:39:45,050 --> 00:39:48,844 Every head he models takes on the shape of his own face. 418 00:39:49,095 --> 00:39:53,515 But in this case I humor him, for actually he somewhat resembles Kemmler. 419 00:39:53,767 --> 00:39:55,017 Uh.... 420 00:39:55,477 --> 00:39:58,437 Crimes of violence wiIl be reproduced in wax... 421 00:39:58,688 --> 00:40:01,899 ...and exhibited while they are stilI fresh in the public mind. 422 00:40:02,150 --> 00:40:04,109 What do you think of my scheme? 423 00:40:04,944 --> 00:40:06,695 I think it wilI succeed, commerciaIly... 424 00:40:06,946 --> 00:40:08,864 ...though it doesn't sound like you. 425 00:40:09,157 --> 00:40:10,866 Have you turned your back on beauty? 426 00:40:11,117 --> 00:40:12,159 No. 427 00:40:13,078 --> 00:40:15,162 No, but I can no longer create it. 428 00:40:15,497 --> 00:40:17,498 WALLACE: I never forgot your Marie Antoinette. 429 00:40:17,749 --> 00:40:19,166 Nor have I. 430 00:40:19,667 --> 00:40:22,169 She wilI be the leading Iady of my new exhibition. 431 00:40:22,420 --> 00:40:24,922 -But I must find her first. -Find her? 432 00:40:25,173 --> 00:40:26,715 A model, I mean. 433 00:40:26,966 --> 00:40:30,636 Yes, there will be beauty, for contrast, if nothing eIse. 434 00:40:30,887 --> 00:40:33,639 But each subject must be taken from life. 435 00:40:33,890 --> 00:40:37,935 How can I convince my audience they're aIive, if I don't believe it myself? 436 00:40:38,186 --> 00:40:40,687 Oh, l have something I think wiIl interest you. 437 00:40:43,441 --> 00:40:46,360 You foIlow Igor down into the basement. 438 00:40:47,904 --> 00:40:49,863 I have to go my own way. 439 00:41:08,299 --> 00:41:11,301 Here we are. Interesting, isn't it? 440 00:41:11,553 --> 00:41:14,930 One of my pupils is about to dip a body into a bath of wax. 441 00:41:15,181 --> 00:41:16,348 -Body? -Yes. 442 00:41:16,599 --> 00:41:18,517 The bodies are constructed separately... 443 00:41:18,768 --> 00:41:22,271 ...to exact specifications, of reinforced plaster of Paris. 444 00:41:22,522 --> 00:41:25,440 Oh, uh, this is Leon, another one of my pupils. 445 00:41:25,692 --> 00:41:27,359 -Mr. WaIlace. -How do you do? 446 00:41:27,610 --> 00:41:31,196 The wax is melted in the caIdron you see above the vat... 447 00:41:31,447 --> 00:41:33,824 ...liquefied and brought to a boiling point... 448 00:41:34,075 --> 00:41:37,452 ...so that it wiIl distribute itseIf evenly over the body. 449 00:41:37,704 --> 00:41:40,455 The head and hands, tinted by my own secret process... 450 00:41:40,707 --> 00:41:44,042 ...are attached to the body after it is covered with its skin of wax. 451 00:41:44,294 --> 00:41:45,836 Now watch. 452 00:41:47,005 --> 00:41:48,422 [GRUNTS] 453 00:41:54,470 --> 00:41:56,471 [WAX BUBBLING] 454 00:42:18,411 --> 00:42:19,870 I often wondered how that was done. 455 00:42:20,121 --> 00:42:22,915 It's a method of my own. Crude but adequate. 456 00:42:27,003 --> 00:42:31,089 -Have you found a home for your museum? -This is it. The building upstairs, I mean. 457 00:42:31,341 --> 00:42:34,843 We'Il continue to use the ceIlar as a workshop. Cut a door here and there. 458 00:42:35,094 --> 00:42:38,805 But it's an excelIent location, and the buiIding can be leased at the right price. 459 00:42:39,057 --> 00:42:42,893 I have some capital, but I need more. Thirty thousand, at least. 460 00:42:43,144 --> 00:42:45,312 That's why I've asked you to come here. 461 00:42:45,939 --> 00:42:48,190 -I'lI think it over. -Good. 462 00:42:48,441 --> 00:42:49,608 She's about right, now. 463 00:42:49,859 --> 00:42:52,986 Leon, drain out the surpIus, and let her cool. 464 00:42:54,656 --> 00:42:56,698 Oh, Leon, open up Number 27. 465 00:42:57,158 --> 00:42:58,867 Come this way, pIease. 466 00:42:59,744 --> 00:43:03,080 I toId you that I intend to exhibit scenes of vioIence. 467 00:43:03,331 --> 00:43:05,290 Here is an interesting subject. 468 00:43:05,541 --> 00:43:07,793 A mystery they're stiIl talking about. 469 00:43:08,253 --> 00:43:09,461 All right, Leon. 470 00:43:11,589 --> 00:43:14,508 I saw that man's picture in the papers. This is a remarkable likeness. 471 00:43:14,759 --> 00:43:17,844 -But it can't be a death mask. JARROD: No, it's from memory. 472 00:43:23,434 --> 00:43:25,936 He hanged himseIf in an eIevator shaft. 473 00:43:47,750 --> 00:43:51,003 Come in, ladies and gentlemen. See the House of Wax. 474 00:43:54,674 --> 00:43:56,091 See the Chamber of Horrors. 475 00:43:59,220 --> 00:44:01,054 [LADIES GlGGLING] 476 00:44:01,306 --> 00:44:03,724 Here's three lovely ladies right over here. 477 00:44:03,975 --> 00:44:05,434 [GASPING] 478 00:44:05,685 --> 00:44:07,227 WouId you like to see LittIe Egypt? 479 00:44:07,478 --> 00:44:08,562 Here she is, ladies and gentlemen... 480 00:44:08,813 --> 00:44:10,856 ...Little Egypt, queen of the harem... 481 00:44:11,107 --> 00:44:14,860 ...who danced at the Colombian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. 482 00:44:15,111 --> 00:44:17,988 Is she wax, or is she flesh and bIood? 483 00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:21,033 See the worId in wax, the HalI of Fame. 484 00:44:21,284 --> 00:44:22,200 The Chamber of Horrors. 485 00:44:22,452 --> 00:44:25,704 A cultural exhibition that'll enlighten you, amaze you.... 486 00:44:25,955 --> 00:44:28,415 -I think I could do that. GIRL: Oh, you couldn't. 487 00:44:28,666 --> 00:44:30,917 I could, too, if I took my stays off. 488 00:44:31,461 --> 00:44:33,086 Don't do that. Don't talk that way. 489 00:44:33,338 --> 00:44:34,004 BARKER: Watch it, young Iady. 490 00:44:35,923 --> 00:44:36,715 Careful, sir. 491 00:44:36,966 --> 00:44:38,925 Keep your head down or I'lI tap you on the chin. 492 00:44:39,177 --> 00:44:40,177 Look out. Duck! 493 00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:44,514 Wow, that's a becoming hat you're wearing. 494 00:44:44,766 --> 00:44:46,892 I wonder if I could clip a flower off it. 495 00:44:47,143 --> 00:44:48,769 Hold steady. Don't move your head. 496 00:44:49,020 --> 00:44:51,438 Or you'll lose the powder off your nose. 497 00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:54,566 There is someone with a bag of popcorn. 498 00:44:54,817 --> 00:44:55,776 Close your mouth. 499 00:44:56,027 --> 00:44:58,278 It's the bag I'm aiming at, not your tonsil. 500 00:44:58,529 --> 00:44:59,696 Here she comes. 501 00:44:59,947 --> 00:45:01,406 Well, look at that, it's in the bag. 502 00:45:02,033 --> 00:45:05,285 See the lovely centers of ancient times. 503 00:45:05,536 --> 00:45:08,288 Beauties who died in torture and on the block. 504 00:45:08,539 --> 00:45:10,040 Visit our Chamber of Horrors... 505 00:45:10,291 --> 00:45:12,751 ...and pass the time with notorious murderers... 506 00:45:13,002 --> 00:45:16,046 ...who kilIed with the rope, the knife, and the ax. 507 00:45:16,464 --> 00:45:21,259 ThriIls, chilIs, and laughter for a price within the reach of alI. 508 00:45:21,511 --> 00:45:24,930 I hope you don't think I've gone too far hiring this fellow to bring people in. 509 00:45:25,181 --> 00:45:28,058 -He makes it sound like a sideshow. -Try him for a week or two. 510 00:45:28,309 --> 00:45:30,477 Once we're estabIished, we won't need that sort of thing. 511 00:45:40,363 --> 00:45:41,822 He Iooks like a real man. 512 00:45:42,073 --> 00:45:43,448 You'd be surprised. 513 00:45:43,699 --> 00:45:45,617 It is a real man. Sorry. 514 00:45:46,369 --> 00:45:49,830 The historic figures I'm about to show you wiIl be more interesting... 515 00:45:50,081 --> 00:45:53,959 ...when I tell you that their faces were moIded from the original death masks... 516 00:45:54,210 --> 00:45:57,129 ...now in the possession of certain European governments. 517 00:45:57,380 --> 00:45:59,089 First, we have Anne Boleyn... 518 00:45:59,340 --> 00:46:02,467 ...second wife of Henry the VIII, and the mother of Queen EIizabeth... 519 00:46:02,718 --> 00:46:05,512 ...with the executioner Henry borrowed from the French king... 520 00:46:05,763 --> 00:46:09,683 ...so that Anne's head would be cleaved from her body without too much pain. 521 00:46:09,934 --> 00:46:11,893 He was a thoughtfuI husband, Henry. 522 00:46:12,145 --> 00:46:14,771 It was he who invented the short cut to divorce. 523 00:46:15,356 --> 00:46:17,691 A very bad pun, I'm afraid. 524 00:46:17,942 --> 00:46:20,527 Here is another scene of historic violence. 525 00:46:20,778 --> 00:46:22,529 Charlotte Corday and Marat... 526 00:46:22,780 --> 00:46:24,614 ...one of the leaders of the French Revolution. 527 00:46:24,866 --> 00:46:27,075 The lady found him taking a bath... 528 00:46:27,326 --> 00:46:29,119 ...and pIunged the knife into his heart. 529 00:46:29,370 --> 00:46:30,078 [SPEAKS IN FRENCH] 530 00:46:30,455 --> 00:46:31,621 What a shocking thing. 531 00:46:31,873 --> 00:46:35,500 Yes, wasn't it? The poor man was dreadfulIy embarrassed. 532 00:46:38,629 --> 00:46:40,797 The exhibits in this room wiIl be added to... 533 00:46:41,048 --> 00:46:43,550 ...from time to time as various crimes are committed. 534 00:46:43,801 --> 00:46:46,052 You wilI read about them in your newspaper... 535 00:46:46,304 --> 00:46:49,264 ...and see them enacted here in waxen tableaux. 536 00:46:49,515 --> 00:46:50,515 Oh, by the way, ladies... 537 00:46:50,766 --> 00:46:54,936 ...this is how your ancestor carried his bride across the threshold. 538 00:46:55,188 --> 00:46:56,480 During the French RevoIution... 539 00:46:56,731 --> 00:46:59,608 ...a certain doctor invented a labor-saving device... 540 00:46:59,859 --> 00:47:01,902 ...to take the place of a headmen's ax. 541 00:47:02,153 --> 00:47:04,279 So successful was this machine... 542 00:47:04,530 --> 00:47:06,990 ...at cutting off the heads of the French aristocrats... 543 00:47:07,241 --> 00:47:08,867 ...they named it after its creator. 544 00:47:09,118 --> 00:47:11,328 And here it is, the bIoody guillotine. 545 00:47:12,455 --> 00:47:13,455 [VISITORS SCREAMING] 546 00:47:15,166 --> 00:47:17,250 Oh, dear, I don't think I can stand it. 547 00:47:17,502 --> 00:47:19,127 Now, Millie, pulI yourself together, honey. 548 00:47:19,378 --> 00:47:20,212 JARROD: TweIve years ago... 549 00:47:20,463 --> 00:47:23,590 ...the electric chair was first used in New York state. 550 00:47:23,841 --> 00:47:25,675 Here we have an authentic reproduction... 551 00:47:25,927 --> 00:47:30,597 ...of the execution of WiIliam Kemmler on August 3rd in 1890. 552 00:47:30,848 --> 00:47:32,682 KemmIer kilIed without mercy... 553 00:47:32,934 --> 00:47:36,186 ...and 2000 volts sent him to a higher court. 554 00:47:36,521 --> 00:47:39,314 The torture of the rack. In this case... 555 00:47:39,565 --> 00:47:44,027 ...Lady Anne Askew, an English noblewoman accused of treason... 556 00:47:44,278 --> 00:47:45,695 ...is being put to the question. 557 00:47:45,947 --> 00:47:48,657 NeedIess to say, she admitted she was a traitor. 558 00:47:48,908 --> 00:47:50,825 Who wouldn't, under that sort of pressure? 559 00:47:51,077 --> 00:47:52,494 -Oh, dear. -Is it your corset? 560 00:47:52,745 --> 00:47:54,412 No, it's my stomach. It turned over. 561 00:47:54,664 --> 00:47:55,789 Mine turned over too. 562 00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:56,748 JARROD: And now, my friends... 563 00:47:57,250 --> 00:48:01,920 ...we have that jolly old gentleman known as the modern Bluebeard. 564 00:48:02,171 --> 00:48:06,383 Like his namesake, he killed not wisely, but too well... 565 00:48:06,717 --> 00:48:09,302 ...and did away with eight wives. 566 00:48:11,097 --> 00:48:12,973 Oh, Millie! 567 00:48:13,224 --> 00:48:15,559 SmeIling salts, Iadies? Help yourself. 568 00:48:15,810 --> 00:48:17,310 Thank you very much. 569 00:48:19,146 --> 00:48:22,315 Next door to him, we have a mystery of more recent date. 570 00:48:22,567 --> 00:48:24,776 Matthew Burke, the stockbroker. 571 00:48:25,027 --> 00:48:29,823 He was found hanged in the elevator shaft of the building where he had his offices. 572 00:48:31,117 --> 00:48:33,994 Was it murder or suicide? 573 00:48:34,245 --> 00:48:36,621 Only time will telI. 574 00:48:36,872 --> 00:48:42,210 "Foul deeds will rise, though all the world o'erwheIm them, to men's eyes." 575 00:48:50,136 --> 00:48:52,220 Oh, heh. Thank you. 576 00:48:52,471 --> 00:48:54,973 -You Iike him, Sue? -He Iooks like my Uncle Rufus. 577 00:48:55,224 --> 00:48:57,726 They ought to have a policeman like this in the Eden Musée. 578 00:48:57,977 --> 00:48:59,853 -Haven't you been there? -No. 579 00:49:00,104 --> 00:49:02,897 From what I see in the papers, this museum is even better. 580 00:49:03,149 --> 00:49:04,649 Anyway, we'll soon find out. 581 00:49:04,900 --> 00:49:06,192 WALLACE: Scott. 582 00:49:06,861 --> 00:49:08,320 Mr. WaIlace. 583 00:49:09,030 --> 00:49:11,448 Sue, I want you to meet my good friend, Mr. Sidney WaIlace. 584 00:49:11,699 --> 00:49:13,116 -Miss Sue AIlen. -It's a pleasure. 585 00:49:13,367 --> 00:49:15,660 -I heard you were in town. -You should have looked me up. 586 00:49:15,911 --> 00:49:19,372 I expect great things of Scott. l consider him one of our most promising sculptors. 587 00:49:19,749 --> 00:49:21,958 -Has he been working hard? -He never knows when to stop. 588 00:49:22,209 --> 00:49:24,586 -Sue's been posing for me. -Indeed, lovely subject. 589 00:49:24,837 --> 00:49:26,880 -Thank you. -Not a professionaI model. She's a guest. 590 00:49:27,131 --> 00:49:28,715 Sue's mother and mine were great friends. 591 00:49:28,966 --> 00:49:30,008 -Have you been inside? -Yes. 592 00:49:30,259 --> 00:49:31,009 Is it exciting? 593 00:49:31,260 --> 00:49:32,510 If anything, too much so. 594 00:49:32,762 --> 00:49:33,928 But I'm sure it'll catch on. 595 00:49:34,180 --> 00:49:36,139 Jarrod, the man who owns the pIace, is a good friend. 596 00:49:36,390 --> 00:49:38,433 You'lI be interested in him, Scott. Let's go in, shalI we? 597 00:49:47,526 --> 00:49:50,820 -You know, these figures are excellent. -I thought you'd agree with me. 598 00:49:51,072 --> 00:49:53,657 They're not only well done but they're good theater. 599 00:49:53,908 --> 00:49:56,242 -What do you think, Miss Allen? -I know they are only wax... 600 00:49:56,494 --> 00:49:59,496 ...but they seem so real, just looking at her makes my neck hurt. 601 00:49:59,747 --> 00:50:01,790 Wait till you see the Chamber of Horrors. 602 00:50:02,041 --> 00:50:04,751 I toId Jarrod he shouId have a nurse on duty there. 603 00:50:05,961 --> 00:50:08,421 -You know that he lost the use of his hands. -Oh? 604 00:50:08,673 --> 00:50:11,549 -Who did these figures? -His pupils, but he supervised the work. 605 00:50:11,801 --> 00:50:14,219 -His is the mastermind. -Surely knows his anatomy. 606 00:51:10,901 --> 00:51:11,693 Sue, what is it? 607 00:51:13,863 --> 00:51:16,698 -Sue, are you crying? -What's wrong, Miss AlIen? 608 00:51:16,949 --> 00:51:19,659 A dear friend of mine was murdered and I found her. 609 00:51:19,910 --> 00:51:23,329 She means Cathy Gray, the girl whose body was stoIen from the morgue. 610 00:51:23,581 --> 00:51:25,540 What made you think of her now? 611 00:51:25,916 --> 00:51:26,750 That's her face. 612 00:51:27,001 --> 00:51:29,878 That's Cathy's face, Scott. I know every line of it. 613 00:51:30,129 --> 00:51:33,006 I wake up at night and I see it. I can't get it out of my mind. 614 00:51:33,257 --> 00:51:35,633 Perhaps that's the reason you see a resemblance in this figure. 615 00:51:35,885 --> 00:51:38,386 -It's more than a resemblance. -It's wax, my dear. 616 00:51:38,637 --> 00:51:40,805 I know, I know, but.... 617 00:51:41,182 --> 00:51:43,558 Why should it be so Iike Cathy? 618 00:51:43,809 --> 00:51:45,351 I think I can expIain that. 619 00:51:46,437 --> 00:51:47,103 Oh, uh... 620 00:51:47,354 --> 00:51:49,773 ...Miss AlIen, Scott Andrews, Mr. Henry Jarrod. 621 00:51:50,024 --> 00:51:51,983 -This is a pIeasure. -You see, Miss Allen-- 622 00:51:52,234 --> 00:51:54,486 Yes, I heard what the young Iady said. 623 00:51:54,737 --> 00:51:58,239 The figure of Joan of Arc is a traditional exhibit in wax museums. 624 00:51:58,491 --> 00:52:01,117 It was completed just in time for our opening tonight. 625 00:52:01,368 --> 00:52:04,913 You're right, my dear. It is more than a chance resemblance. 626 00:52:05,164 --> 00:52:08,625 When l create an important figure, I can't take just any face. 627 00:52:08,876 --> 00:52:11,586 I saw pictures of your Cathy Gray in the newspaper. 628 00:52:11,837 --> 00:52:15,048 Her face fascinated me. And, well, here she is. 629 00:52:15,299 --> 00:52:18,092 Immortalized as the victim of an earlier event. 630 00:52:18,761 --> 00:52:23,181 -Do you really think she'd mind? -No, I don't think she'd mind. 631 00:52:23,432 --> 00:52:27,727 Cathy Ioved to "dress up" as she calIed it. She used to take fancy dresses... 632 00:52:27,978 --> 00:52:30,146 ...and imitate the actresses she saw in the theater. 633 00:52:30,898 --> 00:52:33,399 -I don't think she'd mind. -Then I'm forgiven? 634 00:52:33,651 --> 00:52:35,944 Well, there's nothing to forgive. 635 00:52:36,362 --> 00:52:39,030 I just don't understand how it can seem so reaI. 636 00:52:39,281 --> 00:52:43,117 That's the finest compIiment I've ever received. Thank you, my dear. 637 00:52:43,369 --> 00:52:45,495 Did I hear your name correctly, Scott Andrews? 638 00:52:45,746 --> 00:52:48,373 -Yes, Mr. Jarrod. -The scuIptor I've been telling you about. 639 00:52:48,624 --> 00:52:51,334 Oh, Sidney showed me some photographs of your work. 640 00:52:51,585 --> 00:52:53,211 He was right. You have great promise. 641 00:52:53,462 --> 00:52:56,506 -What are you doing now? -I'm doing a head of Miss Allen. 642 00:52:56,757 --> 00:52:58,466 Let me see your hands. 643 00:52:59,510 --> 00:53:00,969 Yes. 644 00:53:01,679 --> 00:53:03,847 Yes, mine were once like that. 645 00:53:05,850 --> 00:53:07,517 How I envy you. 646 00:53:07,768 --> 00:53:08,726 Mr. Andrews. 647 00:53:08,978 --> 00:53:12,897 WouId you be interested in some modeling for me, some originals I have in mind? 648 00:53:13,148 --> 00:53:14,315 Why, yes. I'd be honored. 649 00:53:14,567 --> 00:53:17,652 Good. Come here tomorrow morning, we'lI make the arrangements. 650 00:53:17,903 --> 00:53:19,654 I think you'lI Iike it. 651 00:53:19,905 --> 00:53:20,738 Sidney. 652 00:53:21,782 --> 00:53:24,242 -I want you to look at this girI. -With pleasure. 653 00:53:24,493 --> 00:53:26,119 JARROD: Who does she remind you of? 654 00:53:26,370 --> 00:53:28,204 WALLACE: I've been wondering about that. 655 00:53:28,455 --> 00:53:30,373 I haven't known Miss Allen more than 10 minutes... 656 00:53:30,624 --> 00:53:32,250 ...but there's something about her face-- 657 00:53:32,501 --> 00:53:35,670 JARROD: That haunts you as the face of my Marie Antoinette has haunted me. 658 00:53:35,921 --> 00:53:37,589 WALLACE: Marie Antoinette? 659 00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:40,425 Of course. I should have seen it at once. 660 00:53:40,676 --> 00:53:42,844 A figure in wax. Mr. Jarrod's greatest work. 661 00:53:43,095 --> 00:53:45,430 More than wax. She lived. 662 00:53:45,681 --> 00:53:48,933 -You mean I look Iike she did? -Exactly as she did. 663 00:53:49,184 --> 00:53:52,520 Once in his lifetime, every artist feels the hand of God... 664 00:53:52,771 --> 00:53:55,189 ...and creates something that comes alive. 665 00:53:55,733 --> 00:53:58,818 So it was with my Marie Antoinette. And l loved her. 666 00:53:59,486 --> 00:54:03,615 But she's gone now. Horribly destroyed. 667 00:54:04,909 --> 00:54:06,910 Perhaps you wiIl heIp me to bring her back. 668 00:54:07,995 --> 00:54:10,955 You wilI come to see me again soon? 669 00:54:11,206 --> 00:54:12,248 I'd be glad to. 670 00:54:13,459 --> 00:54:16,711 You'lI be welcome at any time, no matter what I'm doing. 671 00:54:16,962 --> 00:54:18,504 And you, Mr. Andrews, in the morning? 672 00:54:18,756 --> 00:54:21,424 -I'lI be here, very eager to begin. -Thank you. 673 00:54:21,675 --> 00:54:24,552 It's been a very exciting day for me and I'm a little tired. 674 00:54:24,803 --> 00:54:27,805 So if you'lI forgive me, I'lI say good night. 675 00:54:30,142 --> 00:54:33,019 -Oh, uh, Sidney, one moment, please. WALLACE: Excuse me. 676 00:54:33,270 --> 00:54:34,479 I'lI be right back. 677 00:54:35,814 --> 00:54:38,149 Forget about it, Sue. You heard what Mr. Jarrod said. 678 00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:41,444 Cathy's face was inspiration. It's a portrait in wax. 679 00:54:41,695 --> 00:54:43,947 Why should it seem so reaI? 680 00:54:49,745 --> 00:54:51,496 SUE: I hate to drag you away, Scott. 681 00:54:51,747 --> 00:54:54,958 Oh, that's alI right. I'm gonna work here. We'Il see it aIl another time. 682 00:54:55,209 --> 00:54:56,918 Yes, another time. 683 00:54:57,294 --> 00:55:00,380 Still time to see the entire exhibition. 684 00:55:00,631 --> 00:55:02,757 Get your tickets from the charming Iady... 685 00:55:03,008 --> 00:55:04,592 ...in the box office and go right in. 686 00:55:04,843 --> 00:55:07,053 See the worId in wax and improve your mind. 687 00:55:07,304 --> 00:55:08,888 See the Chamber of Horrors... 688 00:55:09,139 --> 00:55:11,432 ...and scare yourself out of a year's growth. 689 00:55:22,194 --> 00:55:23,152 [CROWD APPLAUDING] 690 00:55:27,741 --> 00:55:28,908 Not again. 691 00:56:52,242 --> 00:56:53,659 [SCREAMING] 692 00:57:02,336 --> 00:57:03,419 [DOOR OPENS] 693 00:57:04,338 --> 00:57:06,172 What happened, Sue? Why did you scream? 694 00:57:06,423 --> 00:57:07,757 I saw Cathy again. 695 00:57:08,008 --> 00:57:10,343 And the man who kilIed her was right in this room. 696 00:57:10,594 --> 00:57:11,886 [SOBBING] 697 00:57:12,137 --> 00:57:14,138 I must have been dreaming. 698 00:57:14,389 --> 00:57:16,766 Of course you were, dear. 699 00:57:34,243 --> 00:57:37,245 [ORCHESTRA PLAYING ROUSING MUSIC] 700 00:58:15,784 --> 00:58:17,493 A lager for the gentleman. 701 00:58:17,953 --> 00:58:19,453 Sarsaparilla for the Iady. 702 00:58:20,289 --> 00:58:23,666 -And two knockwurst on rye. -Thank you. 703 00:58:25,919 --> 00:58:28,754 -Enjoying yourself? -It's exciting. 704 00:58:29,006 --> 00:58:31,799 -Do nice people come here? -Ha, ha. Of course. 705 00:58:32,050 --> 00:58:34,760 -These Sunday matinees are very popuIar. -I don't know. 706 00:58:35,012 --> 00:58:38,472 It doesn't seem proper, aIl those girls showing their.... 707 00:58:38,724 --> 00:58:40,558 -Their taIents. -Heh. 708 00:58:40,809 --> 00:58:42,977 You never saw a show like this in Provincetown? 709 00:58:43,228 --> 00:58:45,855 -No. -Heh. Don't worry, your reputation is safe. 710 00:58:46,106 --> 00:58:48,316 You've been going around with the weight of the world on your shoulders. 711 00:58:48,567 --> 00:58:51,694 Worrying about wax figures and seeing monsters in your dreams. 712 00:58:51,945 --> 00:58:55,406 You need something Iike this to bring you back to normalcy. 713 00:58:55,657 --> 00:58:57,116 Sue. 714 00:58:58,285 --> 00:58:59,368 [SPEAKS IN GERMAN] 715 00:59:27,522 --> 00:59:29,398 -Scott. -Hmm? 716 00:59:29,733 --> 00:59:33,194 Remember Mr. Jarrod said he first saw Cathy's picture in the newspaper? 717 00:59:33,487 --> 00:59:35,696 Yes. What's wrong with that? 718 00:59:36,281 --> 00:59:37,949 I knew her so weIl. 719 00:59:39,284 --> 00:59:41,744 I knew every little expression and they're aIl there. 720 00:59:41,995 --> 00:59:43,829 Well, they would be. The man's an artist. 721 00:59:44,706 --> 00:59:48,084 There's something else I saw that night in the museum. 722 00:59:48,335 --> 00:59:51,754 Cathy had a habit of wearing an earring in her right ear. 723 00:59:52,005 --> 00:59:55,841 She had the Iobe of her right ear only pierced for that. 724 00:59:56,510 --> 00:59:57,927 Well, that's there too. 725 00:59:58,512 --> 01:00:00,429 How couId he see that in a photograph? 726 01:00:01,181 --> 01:00:04,433 -How can he make it so real unIess.... -What? 727 01:00:06,478 --> 01:00:07,770 Unless it is Cathy. 728 01:00:08,605 --> 01:00:12,525 Sue. Now, Iook, I'm gonna take you to Lieutenant Brennan's office tomorrow. 729 01:00:12,776 --> 01:00:15,069 I want you to telI him exactIy what you've toId me here now. 730 01:00:15,320 --> 01:00:16,445 He's a policeman, he knows. 731 01:00:16,697 --> 01:00:19,865 He'lI convince you once and for aIl that no such thing couId happen. 732 01:00:20,117 --> 01:00:22,868 Now, relax, honey, and enjoy the show. 733 01:00:56,403 --> 01:01:00,114 I know it sounds fantastic, but you asked me to teIl you everything. 734 01:01:00,365 --> 01:01:04,076 You can see this idea's become an obsession, an unheaIthy one, if you ask me. 735 01:01:04,328 --> 01:01:07,288 -You say Jarrod's a cripple? -He uses a wheeIchair. 736 01:01:07,539 --> 01:01:10,249 He can waIk with crutches, but, uh, not very welI. 737 01:01:10,500 --> 01:01:13,878 Such a man came and asked to see police photographs of Cathy Gray. 738 01:01:14,129 --> 01:01:18,007 You see, that's how it's done. Every detaiI is studied to make the features true to Iife. 739 01:01:18,258 --> 01:01:20,718 But why shouId Joan of Arc have her right ear pierced? 740 01:01:20,969 --> 01:01:23,554 -Why not? They wore them then. -Two, not one. 741 01:01:24,181 --> 01:01:28,142 I don't know, lieutenant, it's not a suspicion. It's more a kind of fear, an intuition. 742 01:01:28,393 --> 01:01:32,021 Well, intuition isn't much heIp in police work. Facts are what we need. 743 01:01:32,272 --> 01:01:35,483 Suppose you forget about it, and let us do the worrying, eh? 744 01:01:35,734 --> 01:01:37,485 You mean you'll investigate it? 745 01:01:37,736 --> 01:01:39,695 -Of course he does. -Yes, that's what I mean. 746 01:01:39,946 --> 01:01:43,074 -You both think I'm crazy. -Oh, we think nothing of the kind. 747 01:01:43,325 --> 01:01:46,952 It was very good of you to listen and be so patient. Thank you. 748 01:01:47,329 --> 01:01:48,871 -Goodbye. -Goodbye. 749 01:01:49,122 --> 01:01:50,498 Thanks. 750 01:01:56,671 --> 01:01:59,090 This is Brennan speaking. Give me Shane. 751 01:01:59,800 --> 01:02:02,301 Hello, Jim. I want you to go to the City License Bureau... 752 01:02:02,552 --> 01:02:04,887 ...and check up on a man named Henry Jarrod. 753 01:02:05,138 --> 01:02:09,058 Yes, he opened a museum on 29th Street, near Broadway. 754 01:02:10,018 --> 01:02:11,811 Yes, The House of Wax. 755 01:02:12,062 --> 01:02:15,648 Dig up aIl you can. Get a list of his employees and check with me here. 756 01:02:15,899 --> 01:02:17,441 Right. 757 01:02:28,870 --> 01:02:30,287 [MURMURING] 758 01:02:41,925 --> 01:02:43,634 That's a copy of her face, aIl right. 759 01:02:43,885 --> 01:02:46,470 She didn't look like that the night we saw her in the rooming house. 760 01:02:46,721 --> 01:02:49,265 -Not so composed. -No. Poor kid. 761 01:02:49,516 --> 01:02:51,142 Hey, you know, this felIow Jarrod's good. 762 01:02:51,393 --> 01:02:53,227 You don't think Miss AlIen's fears are justified? 763 01:02:53,478 --> 01:02:55,020 Why, heck, no. Do you? 764 01:02:55,272 --> 01:02:57,606 That's wax, how couId it be anything else? 765 01:02:57,858 --> 01:03:00,943 Leave it to a skirt to dream up a crazy idea Iike that. 766 01:03:40,984 --> 01:03:43,694 JARROD: So you did come to see me, my Marie Antoinette? 767 01:03:43,945 --> 01:03:45,821 Or was it that you came to see? 768 01:03:46,072 --> 01:03:48,157 Mr. Jarrod, I'm so sorry. 769 01:03:48,408 --> 01:03:50,242 I know I'm not supposed to touch the figures. 770 01:03:50,494 --> 01:03:52,828 But you couldn't help yourseIf. Don't let it trouble you. 771 01:03:53,079 --> 01:03:55,915 Oh, l beg your pardon, this is Leon AverilI and Igor. 772 01:03:56,166 --> 01:03:57,166 How do you do? 773 01:03:57,417 --> 01:04:00,169 JARROD: Igor isn't impolite. He simply can't talk. 774 01:04:00,420 --> 01:04:02,129 Leon is an artist in his own right. 775 01:04:02,380 --> 01:04:05,424 It was he who did the waxwork on the figure of Joan of Arc. 776 01:04:05,675 --> 01:04:09,261 -Does she stilI seem real to you? -As life itseIf. 777 01:04:09,513 --> 01:04:12,473 Of course, her hair is different, but that doesn't change her face. 778 01:04:13,517 --> 01:04:17,686 What puzzIes me is how you can get such detail from a photo. 779 01:04:19,022 --> 01:04:22,149 Was Cathy wearing her earrings when the police photographed her? 780 01:04:22,400 --> 01:04:25,361 Earrings? I don't remember. Was she, Leon? 781 01:04:26,613 --> 01:04:28,781 No. No. I don't think so. 782 01:04:29,032 --> 01:04:31,825 The police would remove the jewelry from the body, wouldn't they? 783 01:04:32,077 --> 01:04:35,454 Yet you were careful to show that both her ears had been pierced for them. 784 01:04:35,705 --> 01:04:37,831 Ha-ha-ha. Yes, of course. 785 01:04:38,083 --> 01:04:41,710 If I missed a detaiI of that sort, Mr. Jarrod wouId be most displeased. 786 01:04:41,962 --> 01:04:44,129 He insists on reality. 787 01:04:44,381 --> 01:04:45,673 I can understand that. 788 01:04:45,924 --> 01:04:47,508 Oh, just a moment, Leon. 789 01:04:47,759 --> 01:04:51,387 There's something in this box I think would interest you. Open it, Leon. 790 01:04:57,936 --> 01:05:01,730 Your Mr. Andrews permitted us to make a cast of the head he did of you. 791 01:05:02,190 --> 01:05:05,442 Leon has just finished it in wax. Do you like it? 792 01:05:06,111 --> 01:05:09,738 It's sort of a shock to see your head detached that way. 793 01:05:10,240 --> 01:05:11,949 I guess it's a very good likeness. 794 01:05:12,200 --> 01:05:13,492 Yes, and no. 795 01:05:13,743 --> 01:05:16,495 Andrews is clever, but like alI modern sculptors... 796 01:05:16,746 --> 01:05:19,957 ...he has too much imagination. He wouId improve on nature. 797 01:05:20,208 --> 01:05:22,918 What I need for my Marie Antoinette is you. 798 01:05:23,169 --> 01:05:24,670 The real you. 799 01:05:24,921 --> 01:05:26,547 Nothing Iess wiIl satisfy me. 800 01:05:27,507 --> 01:05:30,593 Will you come to see me again, my dear? 801 01:05:53,491 --> 01:05:55,576 Hey, Burke. 802 01:05:55,827 --> 01:05:59,038 You know this feIlow Jarrod's quicker at finding these guys than we are? 803 01:05:59,289 --> 01:06:01,999 BRENNAN: That's what he says in his advertising. 804 01:06:02,250 --> 01:06:04,918 Look at that. Even the twist in the neck. 805 01:06:05,170 --> 01:06:07,671 That's a case that gets me. Where is Burke? Who got him? 806 01:06:07,922 --> 01:06:10,716 -Who'd want him? BRENNAN: We better find out pretty quick. 807 01:06:10,967 --> 01:06:13,802 -You read the blast in this morning's World? -Yeah, it's dynamite. 808 01:06:14,054 --> 01:06:16,138 BRENNAN: Chief had me in his office this morning. 809 01:06:16,389 --> 01:06:18,932 If I'm not careful, I'lI be pounding a beat in the Bronx. 810 01:06:29,986 --> 01:06:31,487 Come here, Jim. 811 01:06:34,074 --> 01:06:37,284 You remember Wilbur Patterson, the deputy city attorney who disappeared? 812 01:06:37,535 --> 01:06:38,452 Sure. 813 01:06:38,703 --> 01:06:41,622 Does Booth Iook like Wilbur, or am I crazy? 814 01:06:41,873 --> 01:06:44,416 Hey, he does a tad with the brush off his Iip. 815 01:06:44,668 --> 01:06:48,212 Hair's different, of course, but the features are something like Patterson's. 816 01:06:48,463 --> 01:06:52,633 Maybe he Iooked like Booth. I've seen dummies that look like people I know. 817 01:06:52,884 --> 01:06:55,219 The caveman is a spitting image of the new commissioner. 818 01:06:55,470 --> 01:06:56,553 Please. 819 01:06:56,805 --> 01:06:58,430 Don't touch the exhibits. 820 01:06:58,682 --> 01:07:00,557 -Can't you read the sign? -I'm sorry. 821 01:07:00,809 --> 01:07:03,811 Hey, look, where'd you get the face for this guy that shot Lincoln? 822 01:07:04,604 --> 01:07:07,523 -From photographs. -Yeah, they take them at that time? 823 01:07:07,774 --> 01:07:09,191 If you go to the City Library... 824 01:07:09,442 --> 01:07:12,695 ...you'Il find a volume of Mathew Brady's photos taken during the Civil War. 825 01:07:12,946 --> 01:07:14,738 -Do you work here? LEON: Yeah. 826 01:07:14,989 --> 01:07:15,823 You make these things? 827 01:07:16,074 --> 01:07:16,990 Some of them. 828 01:07:17,242 --> 01:07:18,867 What's your name? 829 01:07:19,202 --> 01:07:21,412 Leon Averill. What's yours? 830 01:07:21,663 --> 01:07:23,831 Jim Shane. I'm an engineer on the 9th Avenue El. 831 01:07:24,082 --> 01:07:27,501 -It was nice meeting you. LEON: Hm. 832 01:07:29,838 --> 01:07:35,008 Tom, you know me. I'm no good at names, but I don't forget faces. 833 01:07:35,260 --> 01:07:38,429 If I can take the muff off of that one, I might be able to place it. 834 01:07:38,680 --> 01:07:40,556 It was a Iong time ago. 835 01:07:45,228 --> 01:07:46,228 -Mr. WaIlace? -Yes. 836 01:07:46,479 --> 01:07:48,105 I'm Lieutenant Brennan. Sergeant Shane. 837 01:07:48,356 --> 01:07:50,733 -Glad to know you. Thank you. -Won't you sit down? 838 01:07:50,984 --> 01:07:52,901 -Sorry I kept you waiting. -That's all right. 839 01:07:53,153 --> 01:07:56,405 This is the first time I've been asked to come to PoIice Headquarters. 840 01:07:56,656 --> 01:07:58,866 -What am I suspected on? -Nothing. We thought perhaps... 841 01:07:59,117 --> 01:08:01,076 -...you might be abIe to heIp us. -Glad to. 842 01:08:01,327 --> 01:08:03,662 We found out that your partner is the same Professor Jarrod... 843 01:08:03,913 --> 01:08:06,749 ...whose museum on 24th Street burned down some time ago. 844 01:08:07,000 --> 01:08:09,001 -That's true. -Heh. 845 01:08:09,252 --> 01:08:12,921 This, uh, Professor Jarrod was supposed to have been kiIled in the fire. 846 01:08:13,173 --> 01:08:14,590 Apparently, a sIight mistake. 847 01:08:14,841 --> 01:08:16,592 You suspect him of some criminal act? 848 01:08:16,843 --> 01:08:18,761 -We haven't a thing on the guy. -We're curious. 849 01:08:19,012 --> 01:08:20,554 So is the insurance company. 850 01:08:20,805 --> 01:08:21,805 [CHUCKLES] 851 01:08:22,056 --> 01:08:23,140 What do you know about his employees? 852 01:08:23,391 --> 01:08:26,477 There's Scott Andrews, a protégé of mine. 853 01:08:26,728 --> 01:08:27,770 BRENNAN: Yes, we know of him. 854 01:08:28,021 --> 01:08:33,108 Then there's Igor, deaf-mute, and Leon Averill, who does the wax work. 855 01:08:33,651 --> 01:08:37,321 Averill's an odd character. Periodical drunkard, but a fine artist. 856 01:08:37,947 --> 01:08:41,200 I've seen some of his sketches. One of the Savior with his disciples. 857 01:08:41,451 --> 01:08:42,868 Beautiful work. 858 01:08:43,953 --> 01:08:45,287 I'm afraid I haven't been much help. 859 01:08:45,538 --> 01:08:48,123 You never can tell. Thank you very much. 860 01:08:48,374 --> 01:08:50,626 -I prefer you not mention this to your partner. -I won't. 861 01:08:53,046 --> 01:08:55,881 You know, I gambIe on Jarrod. 862 01:08:56,132 --> 01:08:59,134 He's strange, unpredictabIe, but I think he's a man of integrity. 863 01:08:59,385 --> 01:09:03,305 -I'm sure of it. Thank you very much. -Not at alI. Good day, gentlemen. 864 01:09:05,225 --> 01:09:07,810 Tom, l told you I knew the man with the whiskers. 865 01:09:08,061 --> 01:09:09,478 Remember that artist in Sing Sing... 866 01:09:09,729 --> 01:09:11,814 ...who painted the Last Supper on the waIl of his celI? 867 01:09:12,065 --> 01:09:15,108 Hendricks. They called him a genius and gave him a paroIe. Ha, ha! 868 01:09:15,360 --> 01:09:17,694 Yeah, but when they turned him Ioose, he became a drunk. 869 01:09:17,946 --> 01:09:21,156 He broke paroIe about a year ago. We've had him on the wanted list since. 870 01:09:21,407 --> 01:09:23,951 -Carl Hendricks? -That's him. AIias Leon AverilI. 871 01:09:24,202 --> 01:09:26,495 -Bring him in. -Can do. 872 01:09:58,319 --> 01:10:00,404 Little more bitterness in that face, my boy. 873 01:10:00,947 --> 01:10:03,365 Remember, this feIlow has been badly used by the world... 874 01:10:03,616 --> 01:10:05,576 ...and he despises aIl the peopIe in it. 875 01:10:06,327 --> 01:10:09,580 Deepen those Iines around the corner of the mouth. 876 01:10:09,873 --> 01:10:11,540 Not too much. 877 01:10:11,791 --> 01:10:13,917 There. There, that's better. 878 01:10:14,711 --> 01:10:17,129 What I wouldn't give to have those fingers of yours. 879 01:10:17,380 --> 01:10:18,463 Thank you, Mr. Jarrod. 880 01:10:18,965 --> 01:10:21,717 Sorry I've kept you so late here tonight, Scott. 881 01:10:21,968 --> 01:10:22,843 SCOTT: Oh, that's alI right. 882 01:10:23,094 --> 01:10:24,261 Miss Allen is meeting me here. 883 01:10:25,096 --> 01:10:27,806 It's her birthday. We're going to ceIebrate at ChiIes'. 884 01:10:28,057 --> 01:10:28,974 Charming creature. 885 01:10:29,726 --> 01:10:32,269 I was worried about her. The shock of finding that murdered girI... 886 01:10:32,520 --> 01:10:34,813 -...gave her some strange ideas. -Yes, I know. 887 01:10:35,064 --> 01:10:37,190 SCOTT: I took her to Brennan at Police Headquarters. 888 01:10:37,442 --> 01:10:40,527 -He set her right. -That's very good now. Excellent. 889 01:10:40,778 --> 01:10:43,822 Oh, Scott, before you go, wouId you mind running over to Metzgers for me? 890 01:10:44,073 --> 01:10:45,824 -Metzgers? JARROD: The pIace where they make... 891 01:10:46,075 --> 01:10:47,409 -...the artificiaI flowers. -Oh, yes. 892 01:10:47,660 --> 01:10:50,787 They're doing a background for this new group. Take a look at it for me. 893 01:10:51,039 --> 01:10:53,832 You know what I want. Advise them on the color scheme. 894 01:10:54,083 --> 01:10:57,836 I'd go myself, but it's so hard for me to get about. 895 01:10:58,087 --> 01:11:00,672 SCOTT: I know. I'lI be glad to do it. I'll go right now. 896 01:11:00,924 --> 01:11:02,591 Thank you very much. 897 01:11:07,221 --> 01:11:09,264 I foIlowed him through his bender. 898 01:11:09,515 --> 01:11:13,185 Sometimes, guy gets the shakes so bad, you expect to see his teeth falI out. 899 01:11:13,436 --> 01:11:15,062 BRENNAN: This alI he had on him? -That's it. 900 01:11:15,313 --> 01:11:16,438 BRENNAN: No money? 901 01:11:20,109 --> 01:11:21,485 Gold. 902 01:11:27,951 --> 01:11:29,743 "To Wilbur Patter-- 903 01:11:31,079 --> 01:11:32,371 Patterson. 904 01:11:32,622 --> 01:11:34,331 With affection and admiration. 905 01:11:34,582 --> 01:11:38,627 City Attorney's Office. December 25, 1900." 906 01:11:46,094 --> 01:11:48,053 Where did you get this? 907 01:11:48,304 --> 01:11:49,930 -I found it. -Where? 908 01:11:50,181 --> 01:11:52,265 -On the El. -What line? 909 01:11:52,517 --> 01:11:54,768 -Third Avenue, downtown. -When? 910 01:11:55,019 --> 01:11:57,354 I don't remember, it was months ago. 911 01:11:58,064 --> 01:12:00,399 -Book him on suspicion of murder. -No. I found that. 912 01:12:00,650 --> 01:12:03,151 I never knew the man who owned it. I never saw him. 913 01:12:03,403 --> 01:12:04,361 Lock him up. 914 01:12:04,612 --> 01:12:07,948 Please don't put me in a ceIl. l'm sick. 915 01:12:08,199 --> 01:12:11,243 Can't you see my nerves are aIl shattered? Look. 916 01:12:11,494 --> 01:12:13,870 Look, please give me one little.... 917 01:12:15,081 --> 01:12:16,665 Could l have one little drink--? 918 01:12:16,916 --> 01:12:21,044 You're not gonna get anything until you teIl us where you got this watch. 919 01:12:24,632 --> 01:12:26,717 -Take him out. -Let's go. 920 01:12:43,735 --> 01:12:44,943 [CLOCK BELL TOLLING] 921 01:13:45,338 --> 01:13:46,505 Scott. 922 01:14:47,275 --> 01:14:48,024 [FLOORBOARD CREAKS] 923 01:15:58,512 --> 01:15:59,971 Scott. 924 01:16:01,098 --> 01:16:02,140 [WATER DRIPPING] 925 01:16:30,586 --> 01:16:31,628 [GASPS] 926 01:17:29,437 --> 01:17:31,229 JARROD: You shouldn't have done that, my dear. 927 01:17:33,357 --> 01:17:34,858 It is Cathy. 928 01:17:35,860 --> 01:17:38,111 It's Cathy's body under the wax. 929 01:17:38,362 --> 01:17:40,947 I knew it. I knew it all the time. 930 01:18:06,807 --> 01:18:10,143 Everything I ever loved has been taken away from me. 931 01:18:10,561 --> 01:18:14,314 Not you, my Marie Antoinette, for I will give you eternal life. 932 01:18:42,176 --> 01:18:44,344 This is where I re-created my Joan of Arc. 933 01:18:44,595 --> 01:18:45,929 It's an interesting process. 934 01:18:46,180 --> 01:18:49,891 If you have patience with me, my dear, I'lI show you how it's done. 935 01:19:08,786 --> 01:19:13,873 Can't stand it. 936 01:19:28,806 --> 01:19:30,181 All right. 937 01:19:30,933 --> 01:19:32,517 All right, l'll telI you what I know. 938 01:19:33,978 --> 01:19:36,187 Patterson was kiIled because he looked like Booth. 939 01:19:36,439 --> 01:19:37,105 You killed him. 940 01:19:37,356 --> 01:19:39,441 No, not I. Jarrod, at the waxworks. 941 01:19:39,692 --> 01:19:42,068 His hands were no good. He had to take subjects from life. 942 01:19:42,319 --> 01:19:42,986 You helped him? 943 01:19:43,237 --> 01:19:44,654 No, they were aIready dead. 944 01:19:44,905 --> 01:19:45,655 What about Burke? 945 01:19:46,782 --> 01:19:49,409 He's there too. In wax. 946 01:19:49,660 --> 01:19:52,454 He was the one who set fire to the old museum. 947 01:19:52,830 --> 01:19:54,831 Jarrod came out of it aIive, but insane. 948 01:19:55,082 --> 01:19:58,626 -Cathy Gray? -Joan of Arc. Joan of Arc! That's Cathy. 949 01:19:59,253 --> 01:20:02,005 She's there with aIl the rest of them. The whole place is a morgue. 950 01:20:02,715 --> 01:20:05,425 He'lI do the same with Sue AIlen, if he gets his hands on her. 951 01:20:05,676 --> 01:20:06,801 You've got to stop him. 952 01:20:07,052 --> 01:20:09,220 You've got to stop him before he does any more killing. 953 01:20:33,537 --> 01:20:36,122 That look of horror spoils your Iovely face. 954 01:20:36,373 --> 01:20:38,875 What if it shouId show, even through the wax? 955 01:20:40,085 --> 01:20:41,753 [SCREAMING] 956 01:21:10,115 --> 01:21:18,164 Sue? 957 01:21:23,796 --> 01:21:25,797 [DOORKNOB CLICKING] 958 01:21:28,634 --> 01:21:30,885 Sue, are you in there? 959 01:21:37,977 --> 01:21:39,727 Where's Sue? 960 01:21:41,105 --> 01:21:42,814 Where is she? Where is she? 961 01:21:43,065 --> 01:21:43,982 [SUE SCREAMING] 962 01:22:01,542 --> 01:22:02,584 [YELLS] 963 01:22:04,378 --> 01:22:05,420 [SUE GROANING] 964 01:22:28,193 --> 01:22:29,861 [SUE SCREAMING] 965 01:23:27,920 --> 01:23:29,629 The end will come quickIy, my love. 966 01:23:30,589 --> 01:23:31,756 There's a pain beyond pain... 967 01:23:32,007 --> 01:23:35,551 ...an agony so intense, it shocks the mind into instant oblivion. 968 01:23:36,220 --> 01:23:37,970 We'Il find immortality together... 969 01:23:38,722 --> 01:23:41,349 ...for they'll remember me through you. 970 01:23:49,692 --> 01:23:50,733 [SUE SCREAMING] 971 01:24:54,214 --> 01:24:55,757 Where's Jarrod? 972 01:24:56,008 --> 01:24:59,302 Where's Jarrod? Where's Jarrod? 973 01:25:13,525 --> 01:25:16,903 Andrews, where's Jarrod? 974 01:25:19,114 --> 01:25:22,116 In the ceIlar. He's got Sue. 975 01:25:22,868 --> 01:25:24,452 Take care of him. 976 01:25:35,672 --> 01:25:38,007 [BANGING ON DOOR] 977 01:26:22,553 --> 01:26:23,302 [GRUNTS] 978 01:26:48,704 --> 01:26:49,662 [SCREAMING] 979 01:27:14,771 --> 01:27:17,273 BRENNAN: The PeopIe's Exhibit Number One. 980 01:27:17,524 --> 01:27:18,691 You almost lost your head, Miss AIlen. 981 01:27:18,942 --> 01:27:20,943 WouId you care to keep that one as a spare? 982 01:27:21,194 --> 01:27:22,528 -No, thank you. -Ha-ha-ha. 983 01:27:22,779 --> 01:27:25,615 We'Il never forget you and your men. Thanks to you, we're still aIive. 984 01:27:25,866 --> 01:27:29,493 But every time I shave, I can still feel that guillotine bIade. 985 01:27:29,745 --> 01:27:33,122 -Please, let's not talk about it anymore. -Yes, you're right. 986 01:27:33,665 --> 01:27:35,291 Mr. Brennan... 987 01:27:35,667 --> 01:27:38,210 ...thank you for the, uh, use of your coat. 988 01:27:38,462 --> 01:27:39,962 BRENNAN: Oh! Oh, that was nothing. 989 01:27:40,213 --> 01:27:41,672 Well, it meant a Iot to me. 990 01:27:41,924 --> 01:27:44,675 Well, when I found you weren't dressed too warmly, I, uh... 991 01:27:45,260 --> 01:27:46,802 Well, I didn't want you to catch a cold. 992 01:27:47,054 --> 01:27:48,095 [SNEEZES] 993 01:27:50,307 --> 01:27:51,974 Goodbye, Mr. Brennan, and thanks for everything. 994 01:27:52,601 --> 01:27:53,267 Bye. 995 01:27:54,102 --> 01:27:55,353 Bless you, Mr. Shane. 996 01:27:55,604 --> 01:27:56,562 Thank you, Miss Allen. 997 01:27:58,649 --> 01:28:01,901 You know, Shane, by the time this guy gets out of Sing Sing... 998 01:28:02,152 --> 01:28:05,112 ...this head wilI grow a long beard. 999 01:28:16,959 --> 01:28:18,960 [EngIish - US - SDH]