All language subtitles for Just Before Dawn (1946)

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so

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so

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hello cancer

come in

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i don't see why i couldn't use my car to

get here you follow instructions i had

to walk a mile from that bus line

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it's safer to travel by bus with what

you're going to take back

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if there should be an accident on the

bus or should you be stopped by anyone

get rid of it

it's not what it says on the label

if it was i could have got it at any

corner drugstore

can go this way

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dr ordway i'm mrs travis we bought the

wheeler home across the street oh yes

we're having a house party and one of

our guests was taken ill i couldn't

reach our doctor i wonder if you yes

i'll go across with you and see what i

can do that's awfully good of you

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um

this is doctor ordway the crime doctor

will you ask everyone to leave the room

please surely this is mr foster's sister

doctor how do you do how do you do it

how long has your brother been

unconscious oh not more than five

minutes

my brother's a diabetic doctor

hmm has he been drinking he hardly ever

does but he did have a few cocktails

this evening i'm afraid he's not taking

his insulin shot

doesn't he carry his insulin with him

yes always it must be in his overcoat

will you have someone get it mr travis

please certainly

almond

you know mr foster's overcoat would you

please see if there's a medicine in it

yes madam it'll be in a small case

i think it'd be all right as soon as he

gets his insulin oh it's probably our

fault for not serving dinner earlier

walter usually takes his medicine just

before meals doesn't he clear always oh

harriet i'm afraid we spoiled your party

oh nonsense claire fault is all right

nothing else matters

this is my husband doctor

adios how do you do here it is thank you

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there you are

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thanks

i should have used the insulin

sorry i messed up your party oh forget

it

come and meet our friends doctor thank

you you just lie there for a couple

minutes you'll be all right

would you put this back in uh mr

foster's overcoat please yes ellie

this is dr ordway mr gerard how do you

know shotgun glad to meet you doctor we

have mr gerard to thank for having you

as our neighbor oh he found this house

for us so you're in the real estate

business yes i handle downtown

properties large office buildings

long-term ground leases and so forth but

clyde and harry had asked me to find a

house for them and i heard about this

one huh i uh i thought psychiatry was

your field dr ordway this is jack swain

doctor holly lima swain how do you do

yes i am a psychiatrist but of course

i'm also a physician well maybe you have

something in common with jack doctor you

renovate run down minds and he renovates

rundown bodies

eric's telling you about my gymnasium i

operate the swain institute of health oh

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i have given you

one

face

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mr foster is dead

will someone please call the police

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good morning inspector how are you

doctor

call the medical examiner's office and

ask dr steiner to come up

i want you to hear what steiner has to

say firsthand well while we're waiting

for him you can tell me if uh walter

foster died from natural causes

no you were right about that he was

poisoned

and so you are more or less responsible

for his death

morning hardware

almost honor

how much she told you

well only the foster was poisoned yes

death was practically instantaneous once

the poison reached the heart which was a

few moments after you injected it so you

found poison in his insulin

well in that case it could either be

murder or suicide no there's no

possibility of suicide in this instance

uh right steiner right

there was no poison in foster's kit

but there was poison and the injection

you gave him

oh

you mean

someone removed his bottle of insulin

and replaced it with one containing

poison

and then after i used it switched the

bottles back again huh exactly the

murderer made you the instrument of his

crime or to put it more plainly somebody

has made a fine sucker out of you

i uh hope you're not going to let them

get away with it

oh i get it

you want me to do your job for you huh

oh no but under the circumstances

inspector burns thought you might like

to help

and living across the street from the

scene of the crime it makes it easier

for me to investigate than you

all right

well have you done anything at all or do

i carry the ball on every play no we

have the servant armon morel under

surveillance and also some of the others

inspector burns couldn't make it

arrested this time uh unless he took you

uh

tell me is armand a permanent employee

of the traverse no he was just hired for

the party now here's a list of everyone

who was there with their names addresses

occupations and whatever information we

had time together who's this alan tobin

attorney i don't remember meeting him no

he left early

is he the driver's attorney no no he's

the administrator for the foster estate

and you haven't questioned him yet well

there hasn't been time

all right if i get any ideas i'll call

you sorry all right thanks doctor

goodbye good luck

hi i'm dr odway uh miss foster is

expecting me yes sir would you come in

please

no i'll just be here a minute

excuse me please

good morning dr hardway good morning i

am sorry to intrude on you today don't

feel you're intruding i i'm glad to have

a chance to talk with you

would you sit down please thank you

i called uh particularly to ask you

about something that your brother said

before he passed away well i knew he

said something but i didn't hear quite

what it was guess his voice was was weak

and a little incoherent but i'm pretty

sure he said i've given you one face

does that mean anything to you

no well it sounds like a quotation of

some sort but i don't know from what did

you ever hear him quote those words

before hath given you one face

no but

they stir something in my memory

pardon me

alec

i just stopped by to express my

condolences claire and to see if there's

anything i can do and that's awfully

good of you but mr tobin is taking care

of everything

you remember dr audrey yes of course how

are you doctor i'm fine thanks miss

foster and i were just talking about

something a brother said at the last uh

it's an incomplete quotation i have

given you one face do you know what

that's from

i believe it's from the bible perhaps

it's the text of a sermon that impressed

walter do you recall the verses from

no i don't at the moment oh well

if either one of you think of it would

you let me know please thank you

thank you dr artery goodbye

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alright

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oh no no remember the hole i showed you

mr witherspoon here

that's right

well don't flap around like a confused

chicken use those arms

that's better that's right

oh watch that with a spoon

danny get him a little higher

what's watch those arms

no no no that

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oh

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oh dr ordway looks like i got here just

in time oh we don't worry about him

doctor a few smacks with a wet towel and

he'll be as good as new what is he here

professional wrestler certainly not he's

a client i'm conditioning him

conditioning him for what the morgue

huh oh

you know you should take a course in

judo yourself doctor

it'd be a pleasure for me to train you

personally well that's why they're nice

of you but the idea doesn't happen to

appeal to me well it might come in

awfully handy someday you must meet a

lot of screwy characters in your line of

work

i don't think my patients are as crazy

as yours

someplace we can talk for a minute oh

certainly in my office

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oh

that's a nice picture of miss foster

yes and there's not another one like it

in the whole world claire just had that

one print made for me

i came to you because of your uh

relationship to claire foster you know i

thought perhaps it might be best if

what if you told her that her brother

was murdered

the police are sometimes callous about

those things

well what do you know about that

so walter was murdered huh

well he had it coming to him what are

you doing with the hands is is that a

nervous habit

oh no no it's just uh exercise oh you

ought to try it yourself at odd times

during the day when you're not doing

anything else it's uh it's good for you

you were saying that walter only got

what he deserved yeah

uh

you mind explaining that

well

there's really nothing to explain doctor

but if you nail the killer

would you mind doing me a favor what's

that

give him my hearty congratulations

no thanks what did foster ever do to you

he was blocking my marriage declare

we'd have been married a year ago for

binocular and me well did he object to

you personally or just the idea of his

sister getting married that's it as long

as she was unmarried he figured he had a

chance to squeeze her out of a sizable

chunk of money how did he uh persuade

her to stay single oh we sold her on the

idea that she was keeping him straight

that if she ever withdrew her support

he'd go to pieces

well i suppose i should congratulate you

on the removal of the obstacle to your

marriage thanks

and i'll um

i'll tell claire about her brother

although i have a feeling it's going to

spoil my evening

well you'll be lucky if it doesn't spoil

your romance

what are you driving at

well it's just a little peculiarity of

human nature that if someone you love or

someone near to you is

murdered you can't rest until the

killer's brought to justice

oh i'm afraid claire won't be thinking

of marriage for quite a while

i think you've got something there

doctor and of course she's going to

realize that it must have been someone

at the traverse party who substituted

poison for insulin

well

that's why uh she'll seem a little

peculiar to you

and uh of course you do seem to be the

one who benefits most by her brother's

death

all right doctor

you're gonna get what you came for

i believe that either clyde or harriet

travers killed him

how do you prove that

well no not exactly but

well harriet was interested in walter

but he was bleeding her for money

maybe she killed him because she

couldn't give him any more without her

husband getting wise or maybe he was

wise and killed walter himself

thanks

don't forget to tell claire will you yes

all right i'll tell her

can you uh find your way out all right

well i think so goodbye goodbye

have given you one face hath given you

one face no i've never heard it before

i disagree with mr gerard however i'm

quite sure it's not from the bible quite

i i'm a great student of the book doctor

ordway well thanks very much mr tong uh

by the way i understand you're the

foster family lawyer oh yes i've

handled their affairs for many years

their father was the late to charles

foster you know yes well then i suppose

uh walter foster was financially

independent on the contrary he was

dependent on his sister on other women

or anyone else for that matter

well didn't he get any of his father's

money

uh i'm the administrator of charles

foster's estate as the children claire

and walter under the terms of the will

were to have a monthly allowance until

they reached the age of 21. then walter

received his full half of the estate

well uh what did he do with it

he received 250 000 and in three years

was destitute uh

am i keeping you by any chance no no i'm

waiting waiting excuse me

i begged him to leave the principal

intact in my hands but he thought he

could do better with it than i could and

then when his money was gone he wanted

claire to take her inheritance in cash

so he could dissipate that uh did she

refuse

oh

she left her money with me and in

consequences enjoying an income of a

thousand dollars a month

well well

i'm waiting

it's three minutes out before you're

late

yes i know but a fuse blew out as i was

burling the water

okay

mr tobin

you'd better buy some new fuses

that fellow has the most ingenious

excuses for being late with my tea i

just bought fuses

really

you said that uh walter foster was

dependent on his sister

but only for 102 now and again

of course he tried to wheedle more out

of her

5 000 for this 10 000 for that always

promising to double the money overnight

but uh claire didn't fall for it she

knew her brother

of course she was fond of him in spite

of his weakness but you weren't

is pretense necessary walder was a

waster he's better off dead

and in spite of water's persuasions

claire never touched any of her

principle even though it was available

to her at any time of course it was

always available to her

and as a matter of fact once she did

draw 10 000 in cash

she wanted it to invest in her

sweethearts business a health institute

seemed like a foolish investment but

it's uh turning out all right of course

i wouldn't ordinarily discuss claire's

affairs

why did you really hate walter foster

did he embarrass you by wanting his

money in cash

be careful dr hardway now you'll find

yourself defending a suit for slander

goodbye mr towin

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dr ordway this is claire foster

yes i just found it a moment ago can you

come over right away yes i'll be glad to

uh what about the quotation well we

didn't find it at first because we

looked under the wrong initial in the

index

well what is it

god hath given you one face and you make

yourselves another

it's from hamlet

that's right

yes i have an idea of what he meant but

it's too long a story to go into over

the phone

please come over right away all right

i'll be over right away

goodbye

who's there

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oh almond well good afternoon dr hardway

mr travis is not home do you wish to see

them at him yes please i shall inform

her that you're here won't you come in

thank you

will you please wait i go

dr odwig is calling hello

make some cocktails please alvin yes

ma'am i'm so glad to see you

have you heard anything about claire no

she seems to have disappeared but the

police are doing all they can it's so

unlikely to go away without telling any

of her friends yes that's what everyone

says

do you go in the sitting room go

walter's death was a terrible shock

doubly tragic to us since it happened in

our home

mr travis and i were both very fond of

him yes i i knew you were

but it rather surprises me to learn that

mr travis was also fond of him

frankly doctors rather surprised me too

oh you'll join me in a cocktail won't

you

yes i'd enjoy one very much

thank you

i thought he was an extra servant

we found him very efficient and decided

to keep him

oh

you know i was surprised to see that

your house is up for sale

well we didn't feel much like living

here after what happened to walter

i can understand that

as it turned out you practically bought

the house for the murder

do you think i killed walter oh no don't

let that worry you i'm a long way from

proving it

funny

my husband insinuated as much right

after walter died

before the police said it was murder

yes

of course he didn't really believe such

a thing

no

no he thought it would stop me from

accusing him

dr odway i'm frightened

i feel as if walls are closing in on me

are you afraid you'll be arrested and

charged with walter's murder i don't

know

i don't know i just have a premonition

of danger

that's why i've told you things i

wouldn't dare tell the police

hello harriet

good afternoon dr aubry good afternoon

mrs travis and i were just discussing

how the insulin could have been switched

somebody's made me their cat's paw and i

rather resent it oh i wouldn't take that

as a personal affront if i were you

you're being summoned here was one of

those unpredictable accidents frequently

upset the best laid plans of a murderer

isn't that so dear

yes

he or she

expected walter to administer his own

legal bill tell me mr travis do you

recall noticing anyone come in or go out

of this room during the party well we

used this room as a men's cloakroom

there were lots of people in and out i

was in here once myself yeah unless i

recall it

the coats were on a long table that

you'd place near that window so the

exchange of insulin could have been

managed from the outside that's right of

course it may not mean anything at all

except that it proves it was possible

for someone who wasn't at your party to

have murdered water but hardly likely no

one who wasn't very close to walter

would know where he kept his medicine

and how could anyone who wasn't at the

party know in which room the men's coats

were kept

well i think i'd better be going

good-bye mrs travis oh we'll see you to

the door

i'm dr ordway i'd like to see mr gerard

if he's in please pardon me

dr odway is here to see you i'll have

him come right in

thank you

oh hello dr odway how are you fine

thanks

i called your office just a few minutes

ago to see if you heard any news of

claire no

no not a thing what are the police doing

all the routine things there was nothing

to indicate violence when i arrived at

her home so

the police considered it a disappearance

at least for the time being but you

don't oh

i certainly don't believe she went away

voluntarily no neither do i

oh i talked to her not more than 15

minutes before i reached her home

she discovered the source of water

foster's last words and she wanted to

see me oh does the quotation have any

bearing on foster's death and claire's

disappearance no i'm afraid not it's

just a line from hamlet uh i dropped in

to see you because i'm rather curious

about the for sale sign on the travis

home

i was nothing less than amazed when

travis telephoned me and told me to put

the house up for sale

as they told me they didn't feel like

living there because walter died in the

house but

i can't exactly believe that

they're selling the house because

they're separating

oh well that decision must have been

arrived at very recently that's right

were they getting along all right until

mrs travis became friendly with walter

and that would seem to give trevors a

motive but really i think you can count

them out they're both too intelligent to

commit a murder in their own home mm-hmm

does anyone else have a motive

that's hard for me to say they're all my

friends

mm-hmm

let's see now uh

as far as swain is concerned his motive

doesn't seem to be strong enough well

then measuring the strength of a motive

you have to consider the mind and

emotions of the suspect

me trying to give you a lesson in

psychology oh it's all right

tell me uh were there any hard feelings

between foster and tobin

now that you mentioned it i always had

the feeling that tobin was afraid of

foster it seemed that foster had

something on tobin or tobin thought he

had

what about armand

he'd be merely a tool for somebody

outside the house someone who wasn't at

the party

i like him best for the job oh you do

why because by suspecting him i

automatically removed my friends from

suspicion besides he had the best chance

to get in and out of the cloakroom

unobserved

is there anything else i can tell you oh

no no thank you very much please let me

know at once if you hear anything of

claire yes i will goodbye mr rod

dr broadway is expecting me yes sir

mr travis is here good evening it's

travis come on evening

sit down thank you

ever since you left our house something

has been running through my mind

yes i may as well tell you first of all

that my wife and i have quarreled rather

seriously over walter foster yes yes

i've heard rumors to that effect when we

were married i gave my wife a

substantial block of stocks for a

present

recently i noticed they were missing

from the safe deposit box

she admitted selling them to establish

foster in a business

was that your first quarrel over him

well it was the first serious one

she became angry and announced she was

going to leave me did you try to

dissuade her oh i told her she was

making a fool of herself that fostered

played that game with more than one

woman yeah well of course she she didn't

believe that not until i gave her the

name of the woman he was running around

with at the party she upgraded him and

demanded to know what he had done with

the money

he claimed to have lost it at the races

and admitted being in love with the

other woman

you realize what you just told me

gives your wife a pretty strong motive

for killing walter

is that what you intended well certainly

not

i

i told you because it occurred to me

that you might have been right about the

insulin being switched by someone

outside the house

who's this other woman her name is

connie day i believe she works for a

mortician you know her dresser the name

of the band she works for

no

well i'll try and locate her thanks very

much mr travis

thank you good night

good night

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uh does a miss connie day work there

oh i'm sorry yeah i have the wrong

number

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thank you

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there's a miss connie day work there

please

oh

may i speak to her please

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you're rather than a telephone

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hello

hello miss day

this is dr ardway

who

but i don't know you

oh no

it's impossible we

we have an early morning funeral and i'm

working tonight well then i'll uh i'll

drop out there and see you

oh no no you mustn't do that

i'll be through about nine i can see you

shortly after that

no

you'd better come to my place

2314 albany road

apartment 7.

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do

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mr gans

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mr gans

mr gibbs

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okay

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ah

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come in

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where's the doctor getting ready you'll

be right in

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oh mr gibbs forgot i was working

and locked me in

i've been really crazy

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he didn't forget you

none of us just forgot you

foster was your boyfriend

you told him to blackmail a doctor

didn't you

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i didn't tell him anything

i don't know anything

you're gonna get just what he got

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but don't worry

you'll have a beautiful funeral

with flowers and everything

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yeah she skipped without leaving so much

as a handkerchief i waited around until

after 11 last night and she hadn't

arrived home then you're certainly

having bad luck with your phone calls

you talk to claire foster and she

disappeared and you phoned this girl and

frightened her away maybe she wasn't

frightened away

has it ever occurred to you that whoever

is responsible for claire's

disappearance might also be responsible

for connie days

you sure you didn't hear her moving out

during the night i certainly did not or

i would have had a word with her she was

supposed to give me 30 days notice

before moving oh there's no one on duty

in the lobby here at night well you see

we don't have a switchboard each

apartment has its own phone i talked to

her employer he said she left there at

nine o'clock they were both working late

because of an early funeral this morning

you know anything about any of her

friends

no but there was one young man i know

about i think they called him uh walter

well thank you very much yes thanks

you're welcome

this is a place louie

hi mr casper i phoned a while ago for an

appointment well dr ordway should be

here in a few minutes

in the meantime you can fill in your

name address and phone number on this

card

my brother's a patient well then put

down his name there's a pen on that desk

don't put nothing down

he'll send me away

take it easy louie

dr odd way won't send you away

don't be scared i wouldn't take you to a

man who'd lock you up come on over let

the doc help

you you the patient

yeah i want you to help him he's afraid

he's gonna be locked up

uh i'd like to hear louie answer my

questions if you don't mind certainly

doctor

you understand louie i can't help you

now you got to work things out yourself

come on over and sit down boy

louie

i made a mistake

he's a man who wants to lock you up

you crazy fool

my brother shot him

i'll call the police

we knew of course the name he used in

your office would be assumed but we made

a nationwide search and check on it just

the same no results well what about the

uh fella that he brought with him he's

been in and out of institutions all his

life there were no friends or relatives

on his record so we couldn't get a lead

to casper through identifying him

well when new pacers come in the office

ms white always has them write their

names and addresses on a on a filing

card i'm all right thanks yes i know she

she gave us casper's card but there were

no fingerprints on it except her own and

yours well how could casper handle the

card without leaving a finger

miss wife

what about that uh girl that worked for

the undertaker connie day yeah she

hasn't been heard of since she moved out

of her apartment i don't think she moved

out any more than claire foster did

someone cleaned out her place to make

you think she'd skipped well if you're

suggesting that they've both been killed

and what's become of their bodies i

don't know but i'm convinced they're

both dead

whoever killed wall or foster thought

they knew too much and the attempt all

my life was

sorry it's just a lamp don't bother

except on my life was made for the same

reason too miss white yes yes yes dr

ordway oh yes you recall exactly how

casper took the identification card when

you gave it to him

just like anybody else well wait wait a

minute uh

yeah here we are now show me

now according to miss white he took it

with his forefinger and his thumb oh

well then he had to leave a fingerprint

on it and unless it was mishandled and

smudged off in some way no no if it'd

been smudged it had shown up in the

laboratory here now you better sit down

wow there you are take it easy

all right

no i tell you the card was clean except

for miss white's prince and your own

and we're looking for a criminal who has

deliberately had his fingerprints

removed

god hath given you one face and you'll

make yourself another now i know what

was in walter foster's mind when he when

he quoted that line from hamlet what are

you driving at if a criminal is wanted

badly enough to have his fingerprints

removed

wouldn't he also like a bit of plastic

surgery

a man's face becomes dangerous to him so

he gets himself another

you know i was just thinking about a

letter that we received recently from

washington they asked us to investigate

reports that a plastic surgeon was

operating on wanted criminals from all

parts of the country

oh i think that's dr evans now uh this

is a day inspector well then i better

get going no no no you stick around

because if the news is bad i'll want

some moral support dr evans is here oh

hello hello oh you feel old man oh all

right well if you'd rather be alone i'm

sure inspector burns will understand oh

no no no i i want him to stay i'll be

not keeping suspense

uh in a glancing bullet wound of this

kind that injures the optic nerve we

have no way of judging

whether the nerve will write itself

quickly or not at all uh

miss white will you draw the curtain

please

we call to see dr broadway won't you go

in please

uh just a moment please i'll tell the

nurse excuse me

if dr oddway is blind do you think he'll

give up his practice i should think he'd

give up helping the police if that's

what you mean oh how do you do miss

wayne

how do you do how is dr ordway we've

been terribly worried about him well the

bandages were removed this afternoon dr

ordway is blind oh god isn't there any

hulk i'm afraid not for a long time

perhaps an operation may be attempted

later oh we better go dear he may not

want call us today no please don't leave

he heard the doorbell and i think he'd

feel hurt if you left without seeing him

when you do go in try to be perfectly

natural express your sympathy once if

you wish but after that whatever you do

don't refer to his blindness no of

course not

mr and mrs travers have come to see you

dr orlando oh come in come in this is

thomas you're inspector hello please

don't worry doctor

i'm terribly sorry oh so minor let's not

talk about it now come on sit down

awfully glad you dropped in

i'm especially glad that you came

together our calling on you together

really means something the for sale sign

is down again

do you mean the separation plans are off

well we didn't find a buyer for the

house right away so we

just had to live in it

harriet is kidding we decided to forget

the past and make a new start oh i'm

awfully glad to hear that i'm

i wish you the best of luck too

cigarette uh yes please all right

thank you

now you've been drawing it

i'm afraid we're tiring dr ordway clyde

oh no no don't don't guys we just

stopped by to see how you were yes

well they'll come back again soon won't

you yes we will and if there's anything

we can do i call out thank you very much

bye doctor goodbye goodbye doctor bye mr

travis

i don't like this deception i know but

if it serves to catch a murderer it's

justified and i don't think travers and

his wife will lose much time spreading

the news the attempt to kill me at the

office wasn't a sudden outbreak of

violence by a paranoid no no his

pretended brother had primed him to kill

you all right yes and the shooting

followed very closely on the round of

visits i paid the various people who are

at the traverse party somebody resented

the interest you were taking in the

walter foster case and hired casper to

put you out of the way well that's

somebody i think i'm just as harmless

blind as dead well now that you've got

the bandages off your eyes why don't you

come down to headquarters and look at

pictures maybe we've got a record of

casper oh casper had his face remodeled

when his fingerprints were removed an

old picture won't mean anything but

there's another means of identification

he may have overlooked

turn the catch on the lock will you dr

hardway

thanks

i had the files brought up

i thought you'd have more privacy here

oh splendid let me have that card with

it card yeah the the card the casper

wrote on my office there's no prints on

it no i know that i want to check the

handwriting

i'll have the handwriting experted but

i'm sure you're right the c's e's p's

and r's and both names are the same

there's no question but what casper and

carcelo are the same men

he was released two years ago after

serving seven years for robbery well you

got a good look at him in your office uh

did he look like any of those old

pictures

no no and i don't think he's gonna be

easy to find i'm not so sure of that

there may be a quick and easy way to get

our hands on him through armond the

butler

you think he and corcello were working

together well somebody in the traverse

house must have been and i can't see any

of travers friends getting mixed up with

a man like corcello oh i i don't think

that armin's guilty but if he should be

involved the minute you'll arrest him

corcello's gonna run i'll have to take

that chance

look here

if you should be right and armin does

give you a lead to corsella will you do

me a favor don't arrest him right away

don't arrest armond and now don't arrest

corcello

that's like asking the hound to let the

fox go

well i'm convinced there's someone more

important more dangerous than corcello

behind all this

well maybe you're right but as a police

officer if i get my hands on carcelo i

have no choice but to arrest him at once

well i'm glad that little mishap of

yours wasn't as serious as we thought

thanks cummings

you know what occurred to inspector

burns in me that there well there might

be certain advantages in pretending to

be blind for a while naturally iran

image would feel that you were just as

harmless as if you had been killed yes

but there's someone else who can

identify the man who calls himself

casper

i mean my nurse florence white oh is

that why you called up the agency yes i

want you to follow miss white and be

ready to protect her every minute she's

out of doors well you don't need a

private detective for that the police

department would assign a man to her and

it wouldn't cost you dire so i know i

know that but a crook can usually spot a

police detective a mile away besides

i've got another reason for one of the

agency to handle it i don't want an

arrest

if you see anyone following miss white

find out who he is where he lives now

i'm beginning to get the idea away don't

get the idea now or jump to the

conclusion that miss white is bait

i'm engaging her first of all to protect

her does she know about me

no i don't think it's occurred to her

that she might be in danger but

i don't want to frighten her well i'll

try not let her see me okay

looks as though we were in for a night

of this well he'll be along in a little

while he goes under the name of marx and

he lives alone so he's not have to cook

dinner in his apartment well maybe he

saw you following him went out the back

door there is no back door the service

entrance is on the side

i don't think he knows i'm telling him

anyway

he's coming out now

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well there's no one around

but i won't bother with the glasses how

about your friend inside did you take

him into your confidence yes i had to

but he's all right his wife's a patient

about it

do you want me to win with you shall i

wait in the car no you don't have to

wait take a cab home though will you and

let me use your car or i'm gonna

take care of yourself okay

good evening dr arnold good evening i

appreciate you coming down to see me so

late it's a pleasure but tell me what's

this about wanting to be made up to look

like someone else

can you make me look like that man

yes i think so

you're up to something doctor but you

don't need to explain anything to me uh

who is this man his name is pete

hastings the police want him for holding

up a bank and killing a guard in indiana

you realize you become the target of

every policeman

don't you worry about that well when you

telephoned me you said you wanted me to

do you a favor this i consider an injury

but have it your way oh yeah

okay

let me see oh yes

we'll try this one for size oh fine

who is it pete hastings

i want to see gypsy carcelo

come in

shut the door

what do you want

lefty lightning told me to look you up

where'd you see lefty

a few days before he come east

yeah

yeah

like they told me if i ever got in the

jam to look you up

how's lefty making out

lefty's dead

oh

that's tough

he was a great guy

how did it happen a couple of fly cops

were picking him lefty shouted out with

him

come in here

pull on the shade

sit down

what was it i read about you in the

paper the other day

yeah

i believe my name was mentioned in

connection with the industrial bank of

indianapolis

boys a couple of drinks

i said a couple of drinks i never use it

yeah

that's right

lefty told me like to work with you

because you never touched liquor

bank guard was killed in that job you

pulled

that makes you plenty hot

smoke

no i never use them

steady nerves huh yeah and i'm trying to

keep them that way too

why didn't you send for me maybe

somebody followed you here

now i don't know anybody in town

you don't have to worry i i was plenty

careful

yeah

what do you want me to do for you

i'm living on bar time

as long as i carry this kisser around

with me and

and these

lefty told me if i ever needed it done

you'd arrange things

this isn't an easy job it costs plenty

yeah it's cheap at any price got the

money

you ain't heard that the industrial bank

got back any of that 50 grand have you

got a car

yeah

remember this address don't write it

down

karl gantz

105

18

roma road

karl gass

105 18 rumor wrote

right

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yes

my name is hastings

i've been expecting you

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sure you see how it i understand you

aren't the first to come here

can you pay

jen crashell i'll tell you

you brought the money with you sure how

long will it take

perhaps a week

that long

beyond butchers mr hastings

we do our job well but we can't hurry

nature's healing processes

now let me see

keep your hands here yourself

an intensive manhunt ended tonight when

police shot and killed pete hastings in

indianapolis the killer bandit was

machine gunned when he elected to fight

it out after being cornered in a local

barber shop or further

you'll be quite comfortable

we have good facilities and all

conveniences

for which of course you must be prepared

to pay

when can you start

early in the morning all right

against mortuary mr gans speaking this

is corcello the guy sent you get there

yes

everything is being taken care of you've

taken in a stool pigeon or a cop

i know i said it was hastings but i was

wrong

i just heard on the radio that hastings

is dead

well let's splendid isn't it

i see oh yes

everything will be ready

i'm sorry for the interruption

that's okay

lie down on the table

i thought you said you'd do the job in

the morning

that's for the main job

but we can begin the preliminaries now

every day counts for you doesn't it i

think i'll wait till morning

assure you it's unnecessary to wait

i'll wait anyway i must insist that you

leave everything to my judgment mr

hastings

come not on the table

roll up your sleeve

there will be absolutely no pain

this is just a harmless preparation okay

that's the way you want it

give me inspector burns please

all right then captain moral who

hello moore this is ordway talking

i'm out at the gantt's mortuary

can you come out here right away got

something interesting to show you bring

a couple of men with you too

okay

i wouldn't be surprised that if we

looked into some of your recent funerals

we might find connie

and probably claire foster occupying

graves under some other names

there he is that's probably your friend

corcello

i suppose you realize you might have

been killed last night and then i'd have

been blamed for it would have been funny

if i'd had to perform an autopsy on you

you could at least have taken us into

your confidence so we could cover you

tell me uh have you made uh gants and

casper talk yet

no not yet

dr steiner's been having a field day or

i should say night

ganza's records indicate that he only

had three funerals this week one was

okay the burial orders and the other two

didn't look good so we exhumed the

coffee and found the bodies of claire

foster and connie day i've just finished

the autopsies they were both killed by

an injection of the same poison that

killed walter foster incidentally

the hypo gans was going to give you was

filled with the same poison hmm they're

certainly poison minded well murderers

follow patterns like everybody else what

are you doing for lunch tanner well i've

got another autopsy in appearance before

a car in his jewelry but i think i can

make it fine i'd like to have a little

chat with you about toxicology and to be

charming come on

oh uh

are you any objections to releasing arm

on now not at all

you can take him with you if you like

all right see you later

dr ordway mr tobin has arrived oh thank

you oh good evening mrs tobin i want to

thank you for accepting my invitation

invitation it sounded more like a

summons to me i had a special reason for

asking you as you will discover in a

moment will you just make yourself at

home please thank you mayor

may i have your attention

i want to thank you all for for coming

here tonight a little unusual but

i had a special reason for asking you

tonight

it's uh it's something of a of a

celebration

i know each one of you is haunted by the

belief that among your circle of friends

there is a murderer

but tonight you can

you can vanish that thought

the case of walter foster is closed

yes the gilly men are in jail and

well you're all removed from suspicion

that's really what i want to tell you

thank you very much

dr odway yes mrs travis

i don't know how to thank you for what

you've done uh can anyone hear me no

we haven't actually solved the case yet

there's someone else involved someone

more important than casper and gas but

don't believe that now to a soul

no i won't

i enjoyed our little private chat and

drink yo you're quite a character dr

ordway

you know for a while i i thought you

suspected me oh

uh

i'd like to take you into my confidence

mr tobin yes

i didn't tell those people the truth

uh that was just a little trick to allow

someone to sleep actually someone in

this house is the killer

but i don't want him to suspect that i

know it

ah

that's in the strictness of confidence

now i stand

i only told you this because i

well i know i can trust you

yes of course i won't even mention it to

my wife thank you

oh

yes i understand it

it's a privilege to share your

confidence doctor i'll not violate it

thank you

i um

i've been trying to get a word with you

all evening

how can you call this case closed what

about claire

she wasn't involved with men like

corcello and gans

whoever is responsible for her murder is

right here in this house laughing at you

i know that's what i came up to tell you

huh

yes closer please it's gerard dr rodwing

oh oh come in come in mr truck

my boy found a pair of glasses in the

living room were they yours by any

chance i hope so i mislaid mine

somewhere this evening oh well stay

around for a while it

gives us an excuse to have a night cap

good i'll take you up from there

although i'm sorry i had to come all the

way back for them

uh they're in here in the living room

i think they're on the little table

thereby they decounted oh yes those are

mine

uh porous eats a drink will you i'll be

delighted to

thank you

don't make mine too heavy will you

i think you'll find this just right

here we are doctor oh thank you

well here's still your gerard good

health here's to you ordway

aiko

the crime doctor

the man who always solves his case

i have a little confession to make that

i think will interest and surprise you

what's that

i killed walter foster

and i arranged to have claire and connie

day removed

unfortunately oddway

you won't live long enough to make use

of my confession what are you saying i

won't live long what it wasn't enough

that you were blinded was it no you

still have to poke and pry into

everyone's private affairs

and even blind you're a little too

dangerous to have around

so i've given you a little dose of the

medicine the other's got do you mean

you've poisoned my drink yes but you

still have a few minutes to live

you see i was a doctor once myself until

i lost my license some years ago

so it was you who performed the

operation on casper then some hundred

others it's a very profitable little

business i had with gants and casper to

assist me

and you spoiled it i'd never known of

your existence if you hadn't killed

walter foster why'd you do that

he tried to blackmail me

he got some information from connie day

i see so that's why you killed her yes

walter

claire

connie

and now you

as for my real estate business it was

just a blind oh yes

well i think i played this little game

with you long enough gerard oh you're

surprised huh better get ready inspector

he said his piece i'll hurry him back

here so i can get that stuff out of him

well i've got another surprise for you

i'm also immune to your poison at least

for time

i've had my stomach lined with a heavy

emulsion of chalk

all right murphy take care

come on hurry up broadway steiner's

waiting for you

hurry up i'll take out that poison but

leave me the drink

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