1 00:00:18,591 --> 00:00:20,591 Willman's Wax Museum. 2 00:00:49,197 --> 00:00:51,026 You approve, Mr. Axford? 3 00:00:51,050 --> 00:00:53,993 Pretty good for someone who's never seen The Green Hornet, Mr. Willman. 4 00:00:54,018 --> 00:00:57,363 I have your descriptions in the /Sentinel note/ thank for that. 5 00:00:57,388 --> 00:00:58,372 Paul. 6 00:00:58,396 --> 00:00:59,570 Yes, Mr. Willman. 7 00:00:59,595 --> 00:01:02,046 My assistant Paul Garrett, Mr. Axford. 8 00:01:02,070 --> 00:01:02,860 How do you do. Hi. 9 00:01:02,884 --> 00:01:05,404 I think we could get a better effect with the lighting. 10 00:01:05,428 --> 00:01:06,261 Yes sir. 11 00:01:06,285 --> 00:01:09,054 This way gentlemen and lady. 12 00:01:09,457 --> 00:01:13,526 They've all been stars of the Chamber of Evil at one time or another. 13 00:01:13,551 --> 00:01:17,277 And most of them of deathrow, I might add. 14 00:01:20,242 --> 00:01:21,948 Colonel Stano Blaine. 15 00:01:22,098 --> 00:01:23,932 He never was a colonel. 16 00:01:24,377 --> 00:01:30,114 /And were founded for him milk was/ the most effective means of feeding arsenic to half a dozen wealthy widows. 17 00:01:32,789 --> 00:01:38,835 Jake Wragge. /resisted/ he killed on the instruction the little people suggest they'd be hanged instead of him. 18 00:01:40,086 --> 00:01:42,689 James Rancourt, Mr. Axford. 19 00:01:42,713 --> 00:01:45,149 My partner and historian. 20 00:01:45,173 --> 00:01:48,260 He knows more about those figures than the authorities. 21 00:01:48,284 --> 00:01:50,165 Jimmy the Gun. 22 00:01:50,189 --> 00:01:51,774 The Yellow Gang's executioner. 23 00:01:51,798 --> 00:01:54,690 By police estimate he killed over 100 gangsters, 24 00:01:54,714 --> 00:01:59,500 and the yellow kids battle with linear white for control of illicit whiskey and beer. 25 00:01:59,524 --> 00:02:02,008 Lenny and the Kid made their peace. 26 00:02:02,032 --> 00:02:04,933 Jimmy the Gun was out of work, so he killed them both. 27 00:02:08,125 --> 00:02:09,509 The Scarf. 28 00:02:10,889 --> 00:02:12,739 Identity unknown. 29 00:02:13,826 --> 00:02:16,866 For years before the arrival of the Green Hornet, 30 00:02:17,282 --> 00:02:19,683 the star of the Chamber of Evil. 31 00:02:20,415 --> 00:02:22,637 Urbane, ruthless, 32 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:24,764 contemptuous of the police, 33 00:02:24,788 --> 00:02:27,867 He killed by using a white scarf as a garrote. 34 00:02:27,891 --> 00:02:29,505 He was never captured. 35 00:02:29,529 --> 00:02:33,080 And then, all more than 20 years ago he simply vanished. 36 00:02:33,104 --> 00:02:33,890 Right. 37 00:02:33,914 --> 00:02:36,218 Even the greatest can be replaced 38 00:02:36,242 --> 00:02:39,180 as will the Green Hornet himself one day. 39 00:02:39,204 --> 00:02:42,414 Now if you'd like to take your photographs. 40 00:02:42,438 --> 00:02:44,953 I'll be at the library pretty late, Peter. 41 00:02:44,977 --> 00:02:49,101 I'm revising my lecture notes considerably to... 42 00:02:49,125 --> 00:02:51,665 relate our guests to our new star. 43 00:02:51,689 --> 00:02:54,088 I may still be here when you get back, James. 44 00:02:54,112 --> 00:02:56,260 My workroom needs tidying. 45 00:02:56,685 --> 00:03:01,122 Paul will let you gentlemen out and lock up when he leaves. 46 00:03:01,146 --> 00:03:02,586 Thank you all. 47 00:04:38,585 --> 00:04:41,272 Another challenge for the Green Hornet, 48 00:04:41,296 --> 00:04:45,267 his aide Kato and their rolling arsenal the Black Beauty. 49 00:04:45,292 --> 00:04:47,995 On police records a wanted criminal, 50 00:04:48,019 --> 00:04:50,567 the Green Hornet is really Britt Reid, 51 00:04:50,591 --> 00:04:52,900 owner publisher of the Daily Sentinel. 52 00:04:52,924 --> 00:04:56,219 His dual identity known only to his secretary 53 00:04:56,244 --> 00:04:57,900 and to the district attorney. 54 00:04:57,925 --> 00:05:05,431 And now, to protect the rights and lives of decent citizens rides the Green Hornet. 55 00:06:55,488 --> 00:06:57,056 He was about 56 00:06:57,080 --> 00:06:59,519 4 or 5 feet away from me. 57 00:06:59,913 --> 00:07:03,330 And then he started coming at me with this scarf. 58 00:07:04,790 --> 00:07:09,488 He walked kind of strange and funny stiff-like and... 59 00:07:10,109 --> 00:07:12,421 And his face. What I remember of his face. 60 00:07:12,445 --> 00:07:16,482 What I could see if it was kind of glassy-like. 61 00:07:16,506 --> 00:07:18,240 Like wax, you mean. 62 00:07:18,265 --> 00:07:19,840 Yes. Yes, it was... 63 00:07:19,864 --> 00:07:21,991 kind of shiny like that. 64 00:07:22,015 --> 00:07:24,170 Yes. Well, thank you, miss. 65 00:07:24,194 --> 00:07:26,759 Mr. Gram here will take you to the photo gallery. 66 00:07:27,142 --> 00:07:29,249 I'll have a reporter take your story. 67 00:07:29,735 --> 00:07:31,063 Thank you. 68 00:07:38,765 --> 00:07:40,644 It's impossible, Mike. 69 00:07:40,952 --> 00:07:42,581 Not to Peter Willman. 70 00:07:42,605 --> 00:07:44,628 He isn't given much of a chance to live. 71 00:07:44,970 --> 00:07:47,016 She could have made that story up. 72 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:51,413 I was in the squad room at the 21st pass in the time of evening with sergeant Doyle when she came in... 73 00:07:51,437 --> 00:07:55,678 Mike, the desk wants you. A park policeman has spotted a bearded man. 74 00:07:55,703 --> 00:08:00,600 He lost him in the fog, but he found a dead man lying beside a park bench. 75 00:08:00,624 --> 00:08:02,643 He said he'd been strangled. 76 00:08:09,256 --> 00:08:12,126 194 in, 194 in. 77 00:08:12,158 --> 00:08:14,256 Another sighting, Grove and Maple. 78 00:08:14,281 --> 00:08:16,147 Swing that way, 194. 79 00:08:16,172 --> 00:08:17,689 Right. Moving which way? 80 00:08:17,713 --> 00:08:19,578 South on Maple. Right. 81 00:08:19,608 --> 00:08:20,741 Let's go. 82 00:09:33,805 --> 00:09:35,683 Hi, Frank. /Did you heard?/ 83 00:09:38,230 --> 00:09:39,960 Mr. Reid's residence. 84 00:09:41,401 --> 00:09:42,365 It's Miss Case. 85 00:09:42,389 --> 00:09:43,345 Thanks, Kato. 86 00:09:44,052 --> 00:09:45,264 Yes, Miss Case. 87 00:09:45,288 --> 00:09:50,191 Mike just called from police headquarters. The Scarf was just interrupted during an attack. 88 00:09:50,215 --> 00:09:52,643 One of the officers thinks he might have wounded him, 89 00:09:52,667 --> 00:09:56,757 probably in the left shoulder and then they lost him in the fog. 90 00:09:56,781 --> 00:09:57,599 Thanks. 91 00:09:57,624 --> 00:09:59,176 How are you coming with that research? 92 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:01,345 Well, there isn't very much so far. 93 00:10:01,369 --> 00:10:03,715 Do you still want me to come by after I finished? 94 00:10:03,739 --> 00:10:06,084 Since the man's still at large, yes. 95 00:10:08,172 --> 00:10:09,499 Still at large. 96 00:10:10,450 --> 00:10:12,370 Police made contact with him, shot at him. 97 00:10:12,395 --> 00:10:14,985 They lost him in the fog, but they think they wounded him. 98 00:10:15,014 --> 00:10:16,647 Well, that should ease the panic, 99 00:10:16,671 --> 00:10:20,085 convince people that there isn't no wax and dummy running around wild. 100 00:10:20,109 --> 00:10:23,359 What is running around wild, Frank, and why? 101 00:10:23,946 --> 00:10:25,868 That's a good question. 102 00:10:25,892 --> 00:10:28,537 The first person attacked was Peter Willman. 103 00:10:28,562 --> 00:10:30,139 What does that do for us? 104 00:10:32,685 --> 00:10:34,407 That gives us a direction. 105 00:10:46,347 --> 00:10:48,088 Mr. Reid's office. 106 00:10:48,112 --> 00:10:49,120 Yes, sir. 107 00:10:49,144 --> 00:10:51,905 What's the latest report on the condition of Peter Willman? 108 00:10:51,929 --> 00:10:54,072 Critical, he's still unconscious. 109 00:10:54,096 --> 00:10:55,231 Anything else? 110 00:10:55,255 --> 00:10:58,676 A man named James Rancourt wanted to reach Mike. 111 00:10:58,700 --> 00:11:02,089 He said that he heard the news when he left the library earlier. 112 00:11:02,113 --> 00:11:03,730 He was Willman's partner. 113 00:11:03,754 --> 00:11:06,301 I referred him to police headquarters. 114 00:11:06,325 --> 00:11:07,778 Thanks, Miss Case. 115 00:11:09,294 --> 00:11:11,750 It's got to be an answer somewhere. 116 00:11:11,782 --> 00:11:14,457 Well, it started in Willman's Museum. 117 00:11:15,322 --> 00:11:17,386 Yeah, maybe that's where it will end. 118 00:11:28,725 --> 00:11:30,738 See if you can locate the light switch. 119 00:12:03,396 --> 00:12:04,344 A bullet? 120 00:12:04,368 --> 00:12:05,404 Yes. 121 00:12:05,429 --> 00:12:07,332 And the clothes are damp. 122 00:12:07,940 --> 00:12:11,219 There are many legendary figures of evil in the Orient. 123 00:12:11,512 --> 00:12:15,481 Some people say they are often driven back to action by their own malevolence. 124 00:13:45,587 --> 00:13:48,457 Who is this James Rancourt who wrote this? 125 00:13:48,481 --> 00:13:50,446 He's Willman's partner in the museum, 126 00:13:50,470 --> 00:13:52,874 does research and lectures on the tours. 127 00:13:52,898 --> 00:13:55,337 There's one piece of information in there that interests me. 128 00:13:55,362 --> 00:13:58,819 Veena Rose, the burlesque queen that the Scarf used to date. 129 00:13:58,844 --> 00:14:02,411 Finding a stripper who worked this town 10 or 15 years ago is like finding a... 130 00:14:02,435 --> 00:14:04,561 wide-open back entrance to Fort Knox. 131 00:14:04,586 --> 00:14:06,403 Yeah, but I found her. 132 00:14:06,931 --> 00:14:09,360 Our entertainment editor called a booking agent. 133 00:14:09,384 --> 00:14:10,711 He remembered her. 134 00:14:10,743 --> 00:14:14,757 Her real name is Hazel Schmidt, she lives in a small apartment at Chelsea district. 135 00:14:20,631 --> 00:14:22,723 What you want to talk to me about? 136 00:14:22,747 --> 00:14:24,429 Who is the Scarf? 137 00:14:25,181 --> 00:14:26,756 What was his real name? 138 00:14:27,692 --> 00:14:29,168 I don't know. 139 00:14:30,617 --> 00:14:32,813 You see, he always just sort of... 140 00:14:32,837 --> 00:14:34,361 showed up. 141 00:14:34,385 --> 00:14:36,694 And he never made no passes. 142 00:14:36,718 --> 00:14:38,543 Then why did he keep coming back? 143 00:14:39,567 --> 00:14:40,902 Beats me. 144 00:14:43,584 --> 00:14:44,654 Unless... 145 00:14:46,722 --> 00:14:49,758 Maybe it was 'cause I was a good listener, 146 00:14:49,782 --> 00:14:50,614 you know. 147 00:14:52,119 --> 00:14:54,300 I used to walk into my room, see 148 00:14:55,043 --> 00:14:57,132 and here he'd be. 149 00:14:57,157 --> 00:14:59,065 just sitting in the dark. 150 00:14:59,089 --> 00:15:05,393 He had a great big bottle of cold champagne and caviar. 151 00:15:05,418 --> 00:15:11,673 Just as black as the inside of your pocket and and those little tiny crispy crackers. 152 00:15:12,913 --> 00:15:15,263 And then he'd start to talk. 153 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:23,182 I tell you, he could just talk your arm right off the shoulder, and you loved it. 154 00:15:23,215 --> 00:15:25,966 About completely ruthless murders. 155 00:15:26,788 --> 00:15:27,629 No. 156 00:15:28,367 --> 00:15:29,498 No, never we. 157 00:15:29,530 --> 00:15:33,359 We never talked about that and I never believed he did any of them things. 158 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:37,335 He always treated me just like a queen. 159 00:15:37,368 --> 00:15:39,825 He was a murderer once, he could be again. 160 00:15:39,849 --> 00:15:40,840 No. 161 00:15:41,697 --> 00:15:43,139 No, in anyway I... 162 00:15:43,163 --> 00:15:45,438 I know he's dead. I know it. 163 00:15:45,462 --> 00:15:49,507 Well, he would have come to see me again if he hadn't been dead and... 164 00:15:49,531 --> 00:15:51,547 and he never did. 165 00:15:51,571 --> 00:15:54,846 Have you ever been to the wax museum and seen the figure they have of him there? 166 00:15:54,870 --> 00:15:55,502 No. 167 00:15:56,110 --> 00:15:58,250 No, I couldn't have standed it. 168 00:16:01,162 --> 00:16:03,174 When was the last time that you saw him? 169 00:16:07,476 --> 00:16:08,405 Well, 170 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:11,424 I was... 171 00:16:11,448 --> 00:16:15,752 I was leaving the Burley House and I was gonna go to a hamburger joint 172 00:16:15,777 --> 00:16:17,258 to get a hamburger. 173 00:16:17,282 --> 00:16:19,881 It was after the midnight show, so it was late. 174 00:16:19,906 --> 00:16:22,354 It always was late when I seen him. 175 00:16:23,663 --> 00:16:26,579 And when I come out of the stage door, 176 00:16:26,603 --> 00:16:29,595 there he was, he was outside. 177 00:16:29,619 --> 00:16:31,812 Outside in a car, waiting for me. 178 00:16:32,818 --> 00:16:34,963 He said he was going away 179 00:16:35,929 --> 00:16:38,130 'cause he was gonna be immortal. 180 00:16:39,015 --> 00:16:42,799 So people would never forget him all those years. 181 00:16:42,823 --> 00:16:46,095 That's what he wanted, he said. 182 00:16:47,407 --> 00:16:48,150 Then he... 183 00:16:48,174 --> 00:16:50,942 he dropped me by the hamburger joint and... 184 00:16:51,407 --> 00:16:52,531 Well, that was it. 185 00:16:52,555 --> 00:16:55,883 And you still couldn't believe about the robberies and the murders? 186 00:16:57,442 --> 00:17:01,605 I tell you he treated me like a queen! Like a queen! 187 00:17:04,387 --> 00:17:05,472 Mr. Reid? 188 00:17:05,974 --> 00:17:06,694 That's right. 189 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:07,919 I'm James Rancourt. 190 00:17:07,943 --> 00:17:09,186 Mr. Rancourt. 191 00:17:09,210 --> 00:17:10,380 Have a seat. 192 00:17:16,204 --> 00:17:18,606 /How is you/ like to make a $1,000 193 00:17:18,631 --> 00:17:20,141 for a day or two's work? 194 00:17:21,070 --> 00:17:23,752 I'd like to make a $1000, Mr. Reid, but... 195 00:17:23,777 --> 00:17:26,627 I'm not aware of anything I could do to earn it. 196 00:17:28,336 --> 00:17:31,818 Mr. Axford tells me that you're the researcher for the Willman Museum. 197 00:17:32,404 --> 00:17:34,191 Yes, and his partner. 198 00:17:34,216 --> 00:17:36,937 It had been a long and fruitful association. 199 00:17:37,371 --> 00:17:39,356 And you had made a thorough study of the Scarf. 200 00:17:39,388 --> 00:17:40,314 Yes. 201 00:17:40,338 --> 00:17:42,513 I had hoped publish a book on the man. 202 00:17:42,537 --> 00:17:44,259 I found him fascinating. 203 00:17:44,283 --> 00:17:47,156 He was quite peculiar in his invincibility. 204 00:17:47,180 --> 00:17:49,645 How do you feel about the Scarf being at large tonight. 205 00:17:49,669 --> 00:17:51,260 Oh, I shudder. 206 00:17:51,284 --> 00:17:54,266 But I fear we shouldn't have to accept what people have seen. 207 00:17:54,290 --> 00:17:57,027 Good. Make that the tone of your article. 208 00:17:57,517 --> 00:17:59,841 Is your research material readily accessible? 209 00:17:59,865 --> 00:18:01,790 The main body of it is at the Museum. 210 00:18:01,814 --> 00:18:02,814 Fine. 211 00:18:02,838 --> 00:18:07,205 I'd like for you to go through the Sentinel's files and select some pictures to go with your article. 212 00:18:07,229 --> 00:18:09,094 Then you can pick up your research material. 213 00:18:09,660 --> 00:18:12,979 It's always good to give photographic proof to your readers. 214 00:18:13,620 --> 00:18:14,850 Mr. Reid, 215 00:18:14,874 --> 00:18:17,802 unfortunately I'm not a very fast typist. 216 00:18:18,500 --> 00:18:22,357 Mr. Rancourt, we have a lot more typist here than we have researchers. 217 00:20:33,646 --> 00:20:35,590 What are you doing here? 218 00:20:35,857 --> 00:20:38,471 They told me he come to life tonight. 219 00:20:39,876 --> 00:20:42,257 I wanted to see if it was true. 220 00:20:43,825 --> 00:20:45,846 If he remembered. 221 00:20:46,116 --> 00:20:47,984 But he don't remember. 222 00:20:49,818 --> 00:20:53,306 He ain't immortal like he... like he promised. 223 00:20:53,876 --> 00:20:56,308 He's just made of wax. 224 00:21:00,803 --> 00:21:02,196 Guess I'll go now. 225 00:21:02,220 --> 00:21:03,508 No, stay. 226 00:21:07,167 --> 00:21:08,694 You remembered. 227 00:21:09,616 --> 00:21:11,416 That's what's important. 228 00:21:12,214 --> 00:21:16,345 For a part of immortality is that one is remembered. 229 00:21:18,158 --> 00:21:20,100 Don't you see that, my dear? 230 00:21:20,983 --> 00:21:22,214 I don't know. 231 00:21:22,247 --> 00:21:24,377 /I tell her the hundreds/ immortal. 232 00:21:24,883 --> 00:21:26,146 Jack the Ripper 233 00:21:26,171 --> 00:21:27,246 Bluebeard 234 00:21:27,270 --> 00:21:28,919 Captain Kidd 235 00:21:28,943 --> 00:21:34,391 The great intellects wrestle with the problem, but what impel them to their greatness. 236 00:21:34,415 --> 00:21:35,931 And now, Veena, 237 00:21:35,955 --> 00:21:39,774 the Scarf joins that exalted company. 238 00:21:40,867 --> 00:21:42,435 You're the Scarf. 239 00:21:42,459 --> 00:21:43,785 No. 240 00:21:43,809 --> 00:21:45,777 That is the Scarf. 241 00:21:45,801 --> 00:21:48,412 I am the vessel of his immortality. 242 00:21:48,436 --> 00:21:50,947 The /bus road to his Johnson./ 243 00:21:51,666 --> 00:21:53,955 You called me Veena. 244 00:21:55,860 --> 00:21:58,633 You wouldn't known who I was if you wasn't. 245 00:21:59,428 --> 00:22:01,578 I can hear it in your voice. 246 00:22:01,602 --> 00:22:03,520 I can see it in your eyes. 247 00:22:04,218 --> 00:22:06,111 You're the Scarf. 248 00:22:06,937 --> 00:22:10,897 Now you have gained a sort of immortality of your own 249 00:22:10,921 --> 00:22:14,281 because you will be his last victim. 250 00:22:16,073 --> 00:22:17,531 In a few weeks, 251 00:22:17,556 --> 00:22:21,973 when we have put in place the new scene based upon what the police will find here tomorrow 252 00:22:22,006 --> 00:22:24,636 you will not appear as you do now, 253 00:22:24,660 --> 00:22:26,962 but as I recall you then. 254 00:22:26,986 --> 00:22:29,307 I promise it, Veena. 255 00:22:39,562 --> 00:22:40,614 It can't be. 256 00:22:40,979 --> 00:22:42,305 It mustn't be. 257 00:22:42,693 --> 00:22:44,124 Only the Scarf is immortal. 258 00:22:44,156 --> 00:22:45,916 Only the Scarf! 259 00:22:59,639 --> 00:23:03,535 Since you have refused the services of a lawyer for this interrogation 260 00:23:03,559 --> 00:23:07,186 Mr. Daniels here has been appointed to protect your interests. 261 00:23:08,789 --> 00:23:11,432 I no longer have any interest, sir. 262 00:23:12,905 --> 00:23:15,412 My department however has a... 263 00:23:15,436 --> 00:23:17,555 great many interests. 264 00:23:20,791 --> 00:23:22,798 You wish to make a statement? 265 00:23:23,420 --> 00:23:24,632 It's in a book. 266 00:23:25,492 --> 00:23:26,954 I wrote it. 267 00:23:26,979 --> 00:23:30,354 I will attest to its authenticity, but... 268 00:23:31,452 --> 00:23:33,174 I don't know where it is. 269 00:23:33,198 --> 00:23:35,285 I think it'll turn up. 270 00:23:36,392 --> 00:23:37,484 Mr. Scanlon. 271 00:23:37,508 --> 00:23:38,420 Yes. 272 00:23:39,266 --> 00:23:41,068 When the police found me 273 00:23:41,460 --> 00:23:43,485 was there a woman there? 274 00:23:43,509 --> 00:23:45,145 Rather pretty one. 275 00:23:46,136 --> 00:23:47,795 There was no woman. 276 00:23:51,716 --> 00:23:53,498 Then it was a dream. 277 00:23:57,825 --> 00:24:00,293 One of the cops told me that when Rancourt came to, 278 00:24:00,318 --> 00:24:04,848 he insisted he'd been attacked by the wax figures of the Green Hornet and his man. 279 00:24:04,873 --> 00:24:06,702 That could have been a dream too. 280 00:24:06,727 --> 00:24:07,778 Maybe. 281 00:24:08,099 --> 00:24:09,889 When the police searched the museum, 282 00:24:09,914 --> 00:24:15,008 they found those 2 wax figures sitting in chairs in a studio workroom.