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Hey, what did you order, Five?

Doggone, I know what I'm gonna order when it's my turn.

Here you are, it's nice and hot.

Eat it, Five. You'll feel better.

- How long now? - About three hours.

- Priest wired the Governor? - Yes, he did, Five.

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How do you tell the time? It hasn't got any hands.

Play that phonograph of yours, take his mind off of it.

Yeah, sure.

Why don't you tell us how you got here, Five?

Talk, boy, it'll make you feel better.

Man 1: Yeah, talk boy. Talk to us.

Nothin' helps better than talkin' when you're up close.

Man 2: You talk, boy. Tell us.

How did I get here? Still seems like a dream.

They'll take me to the chair in a little while,

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I guess it started that night I was waiting for Ann.

I remember it was a hot July night in New York.

I always got the heebie-jeebies when she was late.

Thought of all those creeps that took dancing lessons

from her, ballroom dancing and rhumba.

But the dancing school was closed by now.

I turned on the phonograph.

Anything to get my mind off the fact that Ann wasn't home.

But that wasn't any good. Nothing was.

When you wait for a woman, you get knots inside your stomach.

Man 3: I am a milkman. I have to get up at 5 AM!

You want me to come up there and kill ya?

This is your last warnin'.

Well, listen, Kip...

Where have you been'?

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Yeah, that's very funny.

Now tell me where you've been.

Are we going to go through that again?

I've got the right to know, haven't I?

Yes, darling.

I've been dying here.

- Where did you get that? - A customer.

He wanted to sit and talk to me after the place closed.

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I don't know, I call him Santa Claus.

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Other one of those creeps, huh? What is that place?

A dancing academy or a Lonely Hearts Club?

I guess for some of the creeps it's a little of both.

What a rotten way to make a living!

We'll get on again as a team?

Tom Quinn: Yeah, sure.

Oh, we always do, don't we?

Sure, but when do we hit regular?

Dance teams works eight weeks in a year and starves in between.

Big time. We can't even hit small-time anymore.

Ann: You're a great dancer, Tom.

Maybe I should spend my time dancing for you then.

We ever get to California, things'll be different.

Hey, you're stealing my line.

Somewhere else things are always gonna be better.

They've got real clubs out there.

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That's where we'll end up juggling trays.

Unh-unh. We'll end up at a big studio, you'll see.

I wonder if we keep saying and believing it

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I am beginning to think New York's run out.

It's as dead as Wall Street on a Saturday night.

Well, I better get some sleep if I'm gonna start

making the rounds in the morning.

Don't worry, darling. We'll get our pot of gold yet.

I think I'll put it an order with your patron saint.

I wouldn't care if it came from the opposite of a saint.

I'm sorry I yelled at you.

I'm always losing my temper like that.

Oh, that's ahight.

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How do you get to sleep with that going on?

I'll fix them for good.

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What did you do? Throw your shoes out?

Ah, it's just that old worn-out pair.

Oh, no, they weren't. I got rid of those yesterday.

You thrown out your one and only pair of shoes.

I'll get 'em in the morning.

You'll get them right now before

a janitor or somebody picks them up.

What are you gonna do? Walk around New York barefooted?

I used to call 'em my magic shoes with those built-in taps.

Can't even hit cats with them.

Oh, when I get down there, I'm gonna strangle

both those cats with my bare hands.

- I couldn't find them. - Oh, what?

I don't know where they went. Maybe into somebody's window.

Every window in New York's open tonight.

Fine! The barefooted tap dancer.

Is that supposed to be funny?

You'd better find them first thing in the morning.

- I'll find them. - Ask around, you know.

Ask? I'll start a manhunt.

Ah, what makes me do things like that?

You're just a little impulsive

and pretty jumpy when you're sleepy.

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Oh, I hope you find them.

What, honey? The cats?

No, silly, your shoes.

- That's a joke. - Yes, I know. Goodnight.

- Tom... - Uh?

- Here they are. - What?

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Hey, where did they come from?

They were in the hall, right outside our door.

But they weren't there when you went out?

- I didn't see them. - But who put them there?

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knew they were mine and brought them up.

Oh, a lot of people would know they were yours by the taps.

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Restores my faith in humanity.

If somebody would only restore my faith in theatrical managers,

- Where are you going today? - Ah, the clubs.

I'm asking if anybody wants a good cheap dance team.

Ann: Well, uh, get a shine, will you?

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You ought to see me more often, Mr. Quinn.

I would, except for the high cost of living.

These new hard times, Tony.

You ain't kidding-

You know, these were once expensive shoes.

Yeah, I know. For dancing.

What do you do? You use them all the time?

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when he might have to go into a dance.

- That's right. - Hey, uh...

- What's going on over there? - I don't know.

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That's the trouble with this town.

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- So long, Tony. - Thanks, Mr. Quinn.

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Ah, living in a place like this is asking for it, I'd say.

Oh, so that's him, huh?

I'm only surprised it didn't happen long ago.

He only left the place once a month.

That was to buy canned goods, he never left it outside of that.

Well, he's gonna leave it now

and it won't be to buy canned goods.

How'd they get in, whoever it was?

Oh, they must've busted in the door.

How does it look to you?

Well, it looks to me like the murderer

got what he came after, inspector.

Are you sure there was money here?

Must have been, and since the old boy didn't live on air.

And besides, the storekeeper tells me

that's where he bought his groceries.

He says the old guy never showed up there

with anything smaller than a $20 bill.

All the bills are of a large old-fashioned type

that aren't in circulation anymore.

- What about the storekeeper? - Well, he's okay at first look.

As a matter of fact, he's the one that notified us.

You see, Old Wontner has been buying groceries from him

for so long that he knew just which day to expect him in, see.

So when he didn't show up and today being the day,

came over and knocked, thinkin' maybe

the old guy was sick and in need of help.

He got no answer, so he tipped off a cop.

It happened last night, the examiner tells me.

Yeah, somewhere within the past 24 hours.

Yeah, well, I guess he got the money, alright?

We'll keep the news about the hoard of old bills

out of the newspapers.

And we'll watch for any sudden signs

of mysterious prosperity in the neighborhood.

Breaking out in a new suit, or dolling up his wife,

or moving to a new flat all of a sudden or anything.

Who is that out there? Clinton Judd?

Oh, yeah, he's out there digging for worms, I guess.

You know, these kind of cases are his meat.

He's cracked more of then than anybody I can remember.

Just in time, inspector. I've got a beauty out here.

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- That's far enough. - Well, what is it?

Right here, my own private Venus de Milo.

The water pipe dripping keeps the ground damp.

Look, right in the middle. What more could you ask for?

Yeah. Looks like the thing is over before it's even begun.

Harry, phone the lab.

Get some men up here with the moulage,

By the time they get through, we'll know what he looks like

and everything about him. It's better than a photograph.

Well, whoever he is, his luck's run out.

Come on, Joe.

Inspector Stevens: How's it coming?

Well, here's the mold and it's a sweetheart.

And this is the sketch of the man we reconstructed from it.

Well, that's fine, I'll have it photographed

and pass it around.

Well, now, here's a few other details.

The man you want is, uh, six feet tall,

The shoes have taps on 'em and are built in half arch.

Now that should narrow it down a little.

The firms that sell those shoes usually keep

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But I believe he uses his shoes for normal use.

If he bought them here in the city,

you should be able to get his identity

and his address within the next 24 hours.

- What's the matter? - Don't talk, not yet.

What is it? You act as if you've committed a crime or something.

I came here to wait for you as usual, and then...

Never mind, I'll tell you later.

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I'll tell you when we get home.

Come on, here's the bus.

Feel my heart and see if it's still beating.

I think I got heart failure.

- Where did you get that? - I found it.

- But... - I found it, I tell you.

Right besides the weighing machine,

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I planned on to get my fortune told,

like I do every day and before I could even get my penny back,

I saw it lying there on the sidewalk.

I kept thinking s0mebody'd miss it and begin to yell.

I expected a hand to drop on my shoulder any minute.

- What's in it? - Just a bunch of bills.

I looked at it before you came down.

Like we used to have years ago.

- You mean it's real? - Yeah.

You don't see many of them anymore.

- Who do they belong to? - I don't know.

There was no driver's license,

identification card papers or anything.

- I looked for it right away. - Then we can keep it.

No, I figured that way at first too, but...

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I thought it over and...

Well, it was nice having it for a little while,

and anyway, it made me feel important.

I wanted to show it to you before

I turned it over to the police.

Well, this is a fine time to be law abiding.

Two thousand and twenty...

I know, but that isn't what I mean.

Look, Tom, you found that money

and gosh, it's enough to take us

to the coast First Class on the Constellation.

Now, look honey, this money belongs to somebody,

we can't just glom on to it.

- Why can't we? - We could.

But it might be somebody's life savings.

What were you supposed to do'?

Leave this lying next to the weighing machine?

I don't say that, but spending it is another matter.

Since there's no identification in here,

how could you notify the owner, even if you wanted to?

- That's up to the police. - The police!

Look, honey, if they don't find the owner,

we'll get the money back, it'll be rightfully ours.

If you do that, there's no telling when you'll see it.

Oh, Tom, I need so many things. We both need a break.

Don't you see, darling, this is it.

There's all kinds of money, honey,

good luck money and bad luck money.

There you go with your superstitions.

Broken mirrors, black cats, two-dollar bills...

Okay. Okay, I tell you what we'll do.

We'll keep the money here with us intact, say for a week.

We'll keep watching the "Lost and Found" ads in the papers.

If there's no mention made in the "Lost... ".

Now you're making sense. That's more than fair.

And if nobody advertises, the money is ours, okay?

Yeah. Good, put it away.

I'll put it in your shoe box in the closet.

Oh, darling, this is our lucky day.

I got him, inspector.

Third place on my list, "Supporter Footwear."

They stock a line of theatrical shoes as well as corrective.

Of the shape of the foot of each customer.

The graph matches our print.

- No possibility of error? Detective Joe: None.

The salesman can almost identify him

by the sketch we got there.

Alright, let's hear it.

"Thomas J. Quinn, 28 years old."

"Height: 6 feet. Weight: 170."

"Occupation: Night club entertainer."

Lives in a rooming house on the street

where the murder took place.

He lives even closer than I expected.

Close enough to soak up a lot of gossip.

Yeah, and the temptation to get his hands on it

was too much for him. Good work, Harry.

I'll call in the rest of them, in the meantime,

you get over there as quick as you can.

If he's let out already,

you report it to me and we'll send on an alarm.

But if he's still there, you keep your eye on him.

- But inspector... - No.

I'm not pulling him in just yet.

I want to keep him under observation for a while

and see if some of that money doesn't show up.

We've got him now and there's no need to hurry.

The stranger we make our case now,

the less work we'll have in the end.

But, just you keep him in sight all the time.

- Find anything? - No, not a thing.

Well, that's the first day scratched off.

If it isn't in the first day, chances are

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And if it isn't in the second,

we'll keep the money and throw the wallet away.

They don't advertise, I'm gonna do my Christmas shopping early.

All the things I never bought you.

What I'd like most is getting out of this neighborhood.

I went to the store twice today

and some man followed me there and back both times.

- No kidding. - Yeah.

It's getting terrible when a girl can't go anywhere

without some man following her.

You shouldn't be so pretty.

- Then you wouldn't like me. - Yeah, never thought of that.

Hey, the chops are burning.

- Oh, hello, Miss Finkelstein. - Hello, Tom.

You are buying all these papers, Tom?

Well, the show opened last night, Miss Finkelstein.

And the night before last, another show also open?

I did buy all the papers last night, didn't I?

Well, the, uh, the review is today instead.

Oh, are you in the show, Tom? It's nice that you're working.

No, I'm not in the show. A friend...

Who knows? Lots of people look if you come in.

It's enough. Good customers like you.

I've got a bag of your favorite candy.

A dime more, is that right?

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If I would let them, they would buy me all out.

Thanks, Miss Finkelstein, I'll see you soon.

It's a pleasure, I'm sure.

Three days now and he hasn't spent mare than a dollar or two.

He may have that money hidden out somewhere.

If we arrest him now, we'll never find it.

He'll break loose of it pretty quick.

If they don't advertise in half a week, they never will.

What's the sense of waiting anymore?

Okay. We've waited. We played fair.

I've read these "Lost and Found" columns till I'm blind.

- You mean the money is ours? - All ours.

Look, to begin with I'll take 200 bucks and you take $200.

We will each go our own way and we meet here at 6:00.

Mr. Quinn, I shall be delighted.

I've got a million things to buy.

Oh, you're wonderful.

I didn't know you cared, Mrs. Quinn.

Oh, you didn't, well...

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Looks like you brought up the store.

- Uh-huh. - And a new radio, too.

Yeah, that was the first thing lbought.

- Oh, that's a good-looking hat. - Oh, thank you, sir.

Come on, I'll show you the rest.

Wait a minute, you'd better add this to it.

This is the present I didn't buy you last Christmas.

Oh, Tom, I didn't buy you anything.

- Skip it. - Anyway...

I'll save it until next Christmas.

- Yeah, have a heart. - Oh.

- Somebody is knocking. - I didn't hear anything.

- We better answer, huh? - Okay, okay, I'm coming.

- Who's he? - Santa Claus.

- From the dancing? - From the $5 tips.

- I didn't know... - Didn't know what?

- You're Thomas J. Quinn, are... - Yeah.

I haven't murdered anybody since I played Newark.

Go ahead, make jokes, chump. You're coming too, lady.

No, wait a minute, you guys aren't serious.

What are you, a couple of actors out of work?

You don't even look like detectives.

- Some joker this fellow. - Don't mind.

Just tell us what you did with the rest of the money.

It'll make it easier for you.

What money? I don't know what you're talking about.

Look, Quinn, Old Man Wontner had a lot more than this.

- Where are you hiding it? - Who's Wontner?

Who's Wontner, eh, if you don't know who Wontner is,

why did you buy a copy of every single.

New York newspaper three-nights running,

so you could follow the developments of the case?

I do remember something about it, just a few paragraphs

on the second or third page of the paper.

Didn't say anything about money and old-fashioned bills.

No, you bet your life it didn't because if it had

you wouldn't have spent the money, and we wanted you to.

We don't tell the papers everything, Quinn.

Not when we got a trap setup

and you walked right into the trap, Quinn,

just like we figured you would.

Quinn, why don't you to sign this confession like a good boy,

it'll make it easier for you all the way around.

Look, I've been telling I didn't kill anybody.

Alright, so you didn't kill him.

So he ran into a clothesline and strangled himself.

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what did you do with the rest of the money?

We have it on good authority that the old man

had $60-$70,000. Now, where is it?

Hey, look, I've told you this is all there is.

I told you how I found it.

Yeah, you expect us to believe that?

Why, a 12-year-old kid could think.

You found it beside a weighing machine, huh?

Alright, if you did, why didn't you turn it over to us?

And if you did, where's the wallet

that you said you found it in?

- I took the wallet... - Listen to me, Quinn.

I've been on the police force for 25 years.

I've turned in some honeys for indictment,

but never in all that time have I had such an unbeatable,

airtight case as I've got against you.

Why, the very box we found the money in

is a sort of poetic justice? Your shoes betrayed you.

Now we find some of the money in the box they came.

Hey, look, you keep talking about shoes.

- What's that got to do... - Yes, your shoes, Quinn.

He knew my wife, he'll tell you.

He wants a character reference from you, Clint.

- I never saw him before. - You knew Ann!

Sure, why not?

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with the price of a dancing lesson can meet her.

No use wasting any more time on him. Take him out!

What about the girl Ann, inspector?

I don't know. She is a problem.

You're gonna hold her as an accessory?

But, frankly, if I could avoid it, I'd rather not.

If there's any one thing that'll weaken our case against him,

it's to put her up on trial with him.

She'd draw sympathy and he'd automatically benefit from it.

Meanwhile, they still have the rest

of that money hidden somewhere.

- Yes. - Why don't you let her go?

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You know, Clint, sometimes you get a good idea.

Go ahead, arrange the release order.

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Are you following me?

Sure. Is there a law against it?

- Yes, there is. - Why don't you call a cop?

What do you want'?

There's a little diner down the street.

Come on, we'll have a cup of coffee and I'll tell you.

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- What'll be, folks? - Coffee.

I want to help you.

I can imagine.

Why didn't you tell me you were married?

And as long as the $5 bills held out,

you weren't volunteering the information, huh?

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I didn't take you that seriously.

- It mattered to me. - I didn't know.

What did you think, I went there to learn the waltz?

Look, I didn't encourage you.

No, you took me for a chump.

Do I look like the type that has to give a girl

a $5 bill just to get her to talk to me?

You said you wanted to help me.

Is this your idea of a beginning?

Sure, I do wanna help you,

but there's nothing I can do for him.

- He's guilty. - How do you know he's guilty?

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Well, you'll never prove it, see, not if there's any justice.

Now don't you go talking about justice. Why didn't...

Look, let's leave the dancing school nut of this.

That's over and past. Now, forget it, the issue is closed.

I don't wanna forget it.

You've just run out of time, Santa Claus.

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Man on radio: Remember the name "Supporter,"

“Supporter Footwear.“

At Tombs Prison the coroner's jury, today,

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of first-degree murder in the brutal slaying

of Ottis Wontner, aged miser.

Meanwhile, a large part of Wontner's hoard,

amounting to thousands of dollars is still missing.

And police are of the theory,

Quinn has it hidden somewhere within the city.

With the State asking the supreme penalty,

Quinn will go on trial for his life a week from today.

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I remember the trial as though through a fog,

just words and faces.

All the time that song was in my head.

And a blinding toothache that never went away.

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Funny how the realest things in your life always seem that way.

They said the District Attorney was intrigued

by the legal aspects of the case.

He called it a circumstantial case without a peer.

That meant if he handled it right, my conviction

would make good reading for years to come

in the law journals.

As though he'd stepped in a splatch of mud?

Yes, sir.

Prosecutor: Can you remember anything else about his shoes

on the day in question, outside of the fact

that they needed polishing badly.

Yeah, they were tap shoes, steal-tipped.

Yes, sir, he used to come in once a month.

He always paid with old-fashioned bills,

you know, the big ones.

We made an impression of the defendant's shoes

the night he was arrested.

It was identical with the mold made at the scene of the crime.

The judge was impressed.

A toothache kept bothering me and that song never went away.

It stayed like songs do sometimes for no reason.

Ann sat through it all.

I wanted to take her and run away.

I guess the lawyer the city furnished me meant well,

but... there was just too much evidence.

Prosecutor: You examined the defendant's shoes?

Yes, sir.

Does the measurement of the defendant's shoe

fit the shoeprint the police found at the scene of crime?

Yes, sir. Exactly.

I found the footprint in a patch of mud

outside the window where Wontner was killed.

Quinn had some cock-and-bull story

about throwing his shoes though a window at a cat.

He used to call them his magic shoes.

He did throw them out of the window that night, I saw him!

It's all my fault about the money.

I told him we could spend it.

He was wearing the shoes the night we picked him up.

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Shoes... Shoes... Shoes... Shoes... Shoes...

Shoes! Shoes! Shoes! Shoes! Shoes! Shoes!

Shoes! Shoes! Shoes! Shoes! Shoes! Shoes!

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If there's anything you can think up to save you, son,

you'd better think of it now.

Tomorrow at this time, it'll be all over.

I've been trying to think. What about the money?

They claimed there was a lot more than the $2000 I found.

If we can only prove that I haven't got it...

But we can't prove that, as a matter of fact,

they can't prove that over $2000 ever actually existed.

That's why it hasn't come up.

- There must be something. - Maybe the wallet.

I'll harp on that tomorrow in the hope

that whoever lost it, will read about it in the papers

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- If that would happen... - It won't, it's too late.

At least we can try.

Think, son, think hard.

Remember, it's, it's your life.

I will. Goodnight. Thanks, Mr. Lake.

Somebody that owns a candy store sent this to you.

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Judge: Has the jury reached a verdict?

- We have, Your Honor. Judge: What is your verdict?

Jury Foreman: The defendant is guilty as charged.

Judge: Prisoner, step forward.

You have been found guilty as charged by a jury of your peers.

Therefore, it is the duty of this court to sentence you

to be executed in the electric chair in the State Penitentiary,

on the first Tuesday after Christmas.

Court adfloumed.

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I did the best I knew how, son.

Thanks, Mr. Lake.

Come see me, baby, huh?

Man 4: Come on, Quinn.

- Here, have a heart. Man 4: No, you don't, Quinn.

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Ann! How are you?

I ain't seen you in a long time.

Gee! You look great. How's Tam and what's he doing?

- Is he working? - No, he...

You see, I just gut back from the coast.

I was booked solid all the way through.

Made all my jumps hitchhiking.

Now, when you see Tom, be sure and give him my regards.

And if I don't see you tomorrow,

Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas.

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- How am I doing? - You're improving.

Oh, I'm gonna need a lot lessons.

What do you want for Christmas, baby?

Do you really want to know?

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It's all my fault.

I'll do anything, only please, don't let him die.

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Annie! Annie! Come here.

- Come here. - Hello.

- Hello, Mrs. Finkelstein. - Hello, how are you?

It would be a shame if this was wasted.

Oh, I, I really wasn't planning to have it.

Oh, last year Tom came in and he said,

"Happy Rosh Hashanah, Mrs. Finkelstein."

That's New Year's, you know.

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I wanted this year to say, "Merry Christmas, Tom."

I'm glad tomorrow's Christmas.

One day more I couldn't stand, I've sold out my whole stock.

Even the momma dolls that could not behave.

Proper diapers I had to get for them yet.

- Well, thank you very much. - Oh, you welcome.

- Bye. - Goodbye.

Man on radio: Tonight as countless children

throughout the land hang their stockings

and anxiously await the sound of reindeer,

and the coming of Santa Claus,

we dedicate our next Christmas Carol

to the old Santa Claus himself.

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You sound almost as if you're glad to see me.

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And ask me to come to this place on Christmas Eve?

What do you expect to find in this house?

But I do know we've gut to help him,

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Even if I wanted to help him, and I couldn't,

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That's why we've got to do something.

You're a detective, you tell me.

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At least, you can try.

What for? What could we accomplish?

If we don't try, we'll never know.

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I'm crying.

It's Christmas Eve and I'm lonesome and afraid.

You are lonesome, too, aren't you, Santa Claus?

You don't have to be, Santa Claus.

I asked you once before, don't call me that.

You're a nice guy.

I'll find a girl that can really fall in love with you.

I don't want just any girl.

If you set him free, and if you want it that way,

I'll marry you myself.

- I don't believe it. - I would.

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I wouldn't want you that way.

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All this is terribly unimportant right now.

But, Ann, what could I do to get him released?

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- Please, believe me. - But...

A Christmas gift, Santa Claus.

Do you remember anything else that happened

the night he threw the shoes out the window?

No, just he couldn't find them that night

and the next morning they were in the hall, outside our dour.

And you don't have any idea who put them there.

No, I've asked everyone in the house.

They could have landed in somebody's open window.

Anything could've happened to them, don't you see?

And whoever returned them, probably is the guilty one.

It's a tiny loop for what was otherwise

an airtight case. Maybe Tarn is innocent.

The whole case was built on circumstantial evidence.

Maybe this will shoot holes in it.

Don't worry. I won't waste any.

You're as good as your word, aren't you? You will help him.

Yeah. This makes things different.

You've given me an angle to work on.

I'll meet you the day after he's released.

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Look, I'm not gonna hold you to your promise.

You don't have to see me then if you don't want to.

Why bother me at a time like this?

- That makes two of us. - Huh?

- Hello, Clint. - Good evening, Mrs. Stevens.

- Where do these go, Steve? - Oh, right over here.

- Isn't it beautiful? - Yes, it certainly is.

Inspector, you know that money in that Quinn case?

That $60,000 or so he was supposed to have hidden.

It's never turned up.

- Did you say the Quinn case? - Yeah.

Well, take the money angle, I checked on Quinn's wife.

If she knew where it was, she'd have gotten it by now.

That's easy. Quinn hasn't told her where it is.

Hand me that bat, will you?

Alright, but there's something else.

The night of the murder, Quinn threw his shoes

through the window, the next morning, they were returned.

Yes, I know. He told us that. Only he couldn't prove it.

Of course not, but don't you see,

if it was true about the shoes, that changes everything.

- No. I don't agree with you. - Why nut?

If the shoes were out of his possession that night,

the mainspring of it it's gone.

The least you can do is ask the DA to petition

a stay for him, till I've got a chance to investigate.

Inspector Stevens: Listen, Clint,

if there was any new evidence,

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But you're just raking over dead coals as it is.

The evidence we had convicted him

and there wasn't only the shoes, there was a lot of other things.

A lot of other things, no matter how you look at it.

It's nothing but a loosely connected.

You don't mind if I look into it, do you?

No, that's the way you want to spend Christmas.

Oh, I'll take those for you.

- Right over here. - You've done a wonderful job.

Inspector Stevens: Oh, you did very well yourself.

Mrs. Stevens: I'm kind of proud of you, you know?

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- Yes? Clint: It's me. You up?

I'm sorry to wake you. Just show me which window...

- You mean the one that... - Yeah.

Oh, from here, huh?

- Did he throw them hard? Ann: I don't know.

Ann: You can see the fence the cats were on.

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- Do you think... - I don't know.

Just keep your fingers crossed.

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Well, what do you want? Do you know what time it is?

In two hours it's daylight.

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Well, what do you want with me?

Your two back apartments, Three and Two,

how long have the people been living in Three?

McGee's. Oh, two years in April.

- Now, Two. - Oh, that's Mrs. Alvin.

She's been in the house five years.

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- You're McGee, aren't you? - Yes.

Boy 1: Is it Santa Claus? Is it, mom, huh?

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- They always sleep there? - Ever since we moved in.

- Goodnight, McGee. - Goodnight.

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Can't get any sleep at all in this house.

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No, it's the law, is it?

Now, just what is the law doing prowling around at this hour?

Askin' questions. Is that your room?

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A very respectable young lady. A librarian she is.

How long has she occupied it?

Since two weeks before Labor Day.

That'd be about the middle of August, huh?

You might as well sit down, Mrs. Alvin,

this is gonna take some time.

I wanna know who had that room before she had it.

Why, a young man, uh... a Mr. Knsloff.

Kosloff, huh? What was his first name?

John L., when did he give it up?

I refuse to answer any more questions

until you tell me what this is about!

He's under suspicion of murder.

When did he give up the room?

Well, a week or two before she came.

You'll have to do better than that.

Don't you keep any records?

Well, I can tell by my bank book, I think.

Go get it.

Well, I just can't believe that Mr. Kosloff would...

He, he was such a quiet young man.

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I get ten dollars a week for that back room

and I always deposit each room rent as soon as I get it.

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Now, the last entry here before she came in

is July 26th, in advance.

That it paid him up till August the 2nd.

- Did he stay the whole week? - No.

I remember now, a day or two after,

he never came back anymore.

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Say, you're doin' swell!

Now, think carefully, what did he look like?

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About as tall as you are and the same build.

Yeah, of course. Two of them.

I mean, brown.

Was he working while he stayed here?

No, but he kept trying. He just couldn't seem to locate.

He, uh, didn't leave a forwarding address?

Not a word. He just up and went.

A letter came for him the day after the man took the bag.

I kept it around for some time

thinking maybe he'd be around after it.

Well, where is it? Do you still have it?

Oh, I had it for weeks, but finally threw it out.

Well, where was it from? What was the postmark on it?

Well, do you think that I would look at...

Come on, now you're a landlady. Don't kid me.

Well, can anybody get in trouble for opening other people's mail?

Why, of course not. Not if it's left aver 30 days.

Well, I didn't like to say anything,

but I wanted to see if the letter was important enough

for me to keep any longer, so I, I steamed it open.

It was just a mushy letter from some girl in...

Now, let me see, Pitts... Pitts...

- Pittsburg? - No.

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Hey, what's this all about?

Let's get away from the house before she looks nut

the window again and sees you.

Hey, but I'm having Christmas dinner here.

No, Kosloff, you've got a date in New York.

- Murder? - Alright, let's go, let's go.

But whatever it is, don't wreck my life, will you?

I told you I was gonna ask that girl to marry me tonight.

I've got a diamond ring in my pocket

right now, I was taking it to her.

I know, you paid $515 for it,

I've been checking on you all day.

Where did all the money come from, you've been spending

since you got here last August?

You didn't have a nickel when you were down in the city.

Well, my mother died right after I got back.

That's right, she did die,

but not until after you got back.

You already had money when you got off the train.

You've been buying presents, making a big supply.

I did that on my last few bucks.

I knew she was going, and...

Well, I wanted her to think I was a success before she died.

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I've been checking with the executive of your state,

your mother left you exactly $500.

- Clint: Why, your car alone... - $500 was all she had banked.

She kept it in the house, in the wall safe.

Can you prove that?

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No, sh... she never let anyone

know that the money was in the house.

But can you prove that I got it from this guy.

Are you gonna do this to me?

This is a rotten business I'm in. Come on.

- Campana! - Yes, sir.

Take off your hat.

Can you identify this man?

Look at him good. Did you ever seen him before?

Sure, sure.

He was in the other day Wontner bought groceries.

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Why, I even told the detectives about him

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He was in the store the last time Wontner was here?

Sure, that's right.

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some customer, they began to talk about him.

Mr. Kosloff seems very interested.

Oh, interested in the rumor that Old Wontner

had a lat of cash, huh?

Yes, sir. Mr. Kosloff began to ask questions.

Well, why not? I was curious. Who wouldn't be?

And I wasn't the only one who knew

about that hidden money, either.

Dozens of people in the neighborhood did.

Sure, Kosmfi, sure.

But dozens of people in the neighborhood didn't have a room

across from Tom Quinn where they could get hold of his shoes

and put them on, and go out and commit a murder.

Those shoes must've come sailing right through the window

and hit you on the head, and gave you the idea.

Great idea, wasn't it?

Why, of course not!

That's all, Campana, thanks. Come on.

Bring the pflsoner ' .

Please, be seated, Mrs. Quinn.

Thank you.

I sent for you because we have arrested a man

that we think very possibly may have killed Ottis Wontner.

I intend to phone the DA about him

just as soon as he leaves this office,

but I wanted you to see him first.

I want you to study his face, as I question him.

You may have seen him before somewhere.

You may possibly be able to add some little thing

that will help us to build our case against him.

Each little detail, anything you may remember is important.

Inspector, I can't thank you enough, I...

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What's your full name?

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- What's your occupation? - None.

Were you recently operated on for appendicitis?

- Yes, sir. Inspector Stevens: On what date?

Oh, I, I don't remember exactly.

It was sometime in July.

The hospital record shows that you underwent

an emergency operation on July 27th.

Kosloff: Oh, yeah, yeah, that's right.

I got an attack in a friend's house.

They sent for an ambulance.

Couple of days later a fellow went to the rooming house

I was staying in and got my bag for me with my clothes in it.

The following week I was released from the hospital

and then I took a train directly to... Pittsfield.

What day was Wontner murdered on?

Inspector Kosloff: You may return to Pittsfield,

Mr. Kosloff. I'm very sorry that you were detained.

That's alright. Thank you.

But, uh...

If he's innocent, what about the...

Coincidence, a whole series of coincidences,

just like you said the other night.

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That's how you convicted my husband.

It isn't right a man should die

on circumstantial evidence alone.

Can't you say anything?

Our hands are tied, Mrs. Quinn.

All you are interested in is killing somebody.

You don't care who it is, just as long as you kill somebody.

Well, it'll be on your conscience, you hear!

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You know, today, I was, uh, I was thinking about Memphis.

We played that whole State of Delaware, remember?

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Gee, I'm glad I had a wife like you.

You've been a wonderful husband, darling.

I'd marry you over again a million times.

- You would? - Sure.

You know, maybe, maybe I,

I shouldn't have added jokes to our act.

Maybe that's what killed it. My jokes are always so bad.

Ann: No, they weren't. I laughed at them.

I want you to go to the dancing school tonight.

I don't want you to think about anything.

You know the old formula we used to have

when things were bad, you just don't think about it.

Don't worry about me.

Yeah, but I do.

It's funny what a guy really worries about.

I'll feel better if you promise.

Ann: I'll do anything you ask.

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I will, Tom.

I'm gonna miss you.

It was a silly thing to say.

Why, if, if we'd ever gotten to the coast,

we'd have killed them. Ceros.

Ceros, without jokes. Just straight dancing.

They're always calling time on you around here.

I had so many things I wanted to tell you.

Things are never right for us.

Ann, I don't wanna go. I don't wanna go.

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That's the whole thing up to now.

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I guess it'll be like a dream when they come and get me.

It could happen to anybody what happened to me.

Well, boys, I, I reckon Five ain't gonna tell us.

Hey, One, ain't none of your business, anyway.

He was just trying to help him.

Listen here to me, every man's gotta die his own way.

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You got a couple of hours yet.

- Shall I get the priest? - No, not yet.

- Want a cigarette, Five? - Yeah, Four, I do.

Thanks, Four.

When m» you 9°?

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I'll see you then.

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Tom Quinn: That's a pretty tune, Three.

Would you like to hear it again?

That's Chopin.

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I know how you feel, Ann.

But you've got to get your mind off the clock.

I did everything I could-

It wasn't enough.

Oh, Ann, have a heart.

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A little-candy one somebody gave me once.

I didn't want you to be alone when, when he, uh...

After tonight I won't be here anymore.

- I'm leaving town. - Why?

Oh, no, you can't!

Why can't |?

You have to have somewhere to turn.

I want to help you.

All yesterday I was racking my mind trying to think how I could

and today, I did something about it.

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I've got an apartment for you, Ann.

Facing on the East River, 7, Tracy Square.

You don't have to go away.

I was gonna wait and sort of save it as a surprise, but...

Don't look at me like that. It's all yours.

The things in it for you, closet full of things.

It's all fixed up.

I spent nearly every cent I ever saved on it.

And that later on, if you'll have me, it'll be our place.

I want you to come over with me and see it tonight.

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How can you say that? I'm only thinking of you.

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I did everything I could to carry out my end of it.

Please, don't go on with that.

Well, naturally, you're upset.

If you'd only go over and look at it,

and forget about the clock, come out with me

and have a drink some place.

I don't ever intend to see that place.

- Ann... - I mean it.

Now, get that idea out of your head.

I don't understand you.

You don't think I kissed you that night

because I loved you, do you?

Oh, just playing me for a Santa Claus, huh?

Maybe the tips haven't been coming off and enough.

Well, here...

You never let it be said I was cheap when you get over this.

You know where I am. Come and see me.

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- What's the matter now? - I've changed my mind.

- Yeah? - I'd like to go with you.

Any place you wanna go.

I... I think I could use a drink.

I'll run and get my coat. You will wait, won't you?

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How about the Green AngeV?

Okay, the Green angel.

The Green Angel.

Clint, I've, uh, changed my mind

about going to the apartment with you.

Oh, what's the matter? You looked surprised.

Oh, I'll get over that.

Driver, make it 7, Tracy Square.

You're changing your mind about a lot of things

tonight, aren't you?

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You sent for me, Tom?

Yeah, I, uh, guess it's about time, father.

Sit down, Tom.

Make it seem easy. Make it, so I'm not so scared.

Take my hand, Tom, and repeat after me.

"The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want."

"The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want."

"He maketh me to lie down in green pastures."

Tom Quinn: "He maketh me to lie down in green pastures."

Priest: "He leadeth me beside the still waters."

Tom Quinn: "He leadeth me beside the still waters.

He restoreth my soul."

Old fires up awful tight, boy.

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They're comin'. I hear them comin'!

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Let me show you the rest of it.

- Do you like it? - Oh, yes. It's beautiful.

The window here faces the river.

All your favorite shades and perfumes.

- How did you know? - Oh, I know all about you.

Come on, you haven't half seen the living room yet.

I knew how you love music. The best piano money could buy.

I didn't furnish this place yesterday.

I've been working on it for months.

And if we ever get tired of it, we can go anyplace you want.

You really knew all about me, didn't you?

Sure. On my vacation I went back to Ohio, to your hometown.

I saw the house you lived in, the school you went to.

Why, I even saw the books that you used,

the scrapbook you'd gotten together when you were ten,

an album with tintypes from pigtails

to the dress you wore to your first prom.

I even talked to people who knew you.

But why? Why did you do it?

I didn't want there to be anything about you.

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I loved you before you ever saw me.

I used to go up to that dancing school at night

because I was lonesome, and one night I saw you.

I knew right away, but I watched you a long time.

Nights, I couldn't get you out of my mind.

It took all the nerve I had to ask you to dance the first time.

You didn't even notice, but...

always the next day I could still smell your perfume,

your face powder on my shoulder.

Then I made plans for us.

And they've come true.

So you knew I was married.

Sure, I knew.

Even when you wouldn't give me a tumble, I didn't care.

- You knew everything about me. - Yeah.

Where I lived, all my habits.

You must have hung around outside, nights, like a creep,

waiting for a chance to frame him.

And you knew about Wontner's money.

You even put that wallet by the weighing machine,

where you knew Tom would find it.

And you've got the $60,000 that they think Tom has.

You're crazy!

Who could have framed it any better?

I tried to get your husband off.

Sure! So you could be a big hero in my eyes.

The only reason I kissed you was because

I was desperate for any help I could get.

And the only reason you agreed to help,

was because you thought you'd have me.

- That's not true. - Yes, it is.

Kosloff was no stranger who suddenly turned up.

He was a suspect at the time of the murder.

All you did, was locate him

and rub in a little circumstantial evidence.

Only, in your hurry, you forgot to check his hospital record.

You were in a hurry at the school tonight, too.

You fumbled in your pocket for a bill.

You didn't see what bill you gave me.

This bill, it's just like the bill

that was in the wallet Tom found.

You killed him, didn't you?

He was no use to anybody.

I wanted you to have everything in the world,

don't you understand?

What difference does that make now?

I love you.

Inspector Stevens: Alright, Judd.

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Get on that phone there, Harry. It's alright.

We opened a line and put the Governor on stand by

after you phoned from the dancing school.

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