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Universal presents "Gangbusters".

Calling the police.

Calling the G-Men.

Calling all Americans to war on the underworld.

"Gangbusters", with the cooperation

of law enforcement officers of the United States,

presents a picture of the endless war

of the police on the underworld.

Illustrating the clever operation

of law enforcement officers in the work

of protecting our citizens.

The all-American crusade against crime.

The police know Professor Mortis and his gang

are behind this reign of terror.

Why haven't they been arrested?

They have to be found before

they can be arrested, Mayor Hansen.

Well, if your man Bannister can't find them,

get rid of him,

and put someone on the case that can get results.

Better leave Bannister in charge, your honor,

he's on the hottest lead we've had to date.

Mike Taboni, the man who killed his brother.

Get going!

Take off, I'll take care of this one.

Tim, look out!

Hop in the car!

Just my luck.

Get a spare on there while I call headquarters.

Car 4-O calling police headquarters.

Car 40 calling police headquarters.

And they made a getaway in a black coupe.

Old but plenty fast.

They're heading back to town on the Harbor Highway.

I'm on three wheels and can't following them.

Calling cars 45 and 68.

Cars 4-5 and 6-8.

Murder car heading east on Harbor Highway.

Black coupe, old but fast.

Proceed with caution.

Occupants armed and dangerous.

You'd better slow down.

That cop can't follow us.

I put his car out of commission.

Yeah, but he can radio police headquarters

and have us stopped if we don't get to side road first.

Bannister calling police headquarters.

Bannister calling police headquarters,

come in, headquarters.

He's done it.

He's got Taboni.

I hope.

Bannister calling police headquarters.

Come in headquarters.

Headquarters answering Bannister, come in, please.

I've captured Taboni.

Am heading for municipal airport in plane.

Pilot dead, landing gear damaged.

Will need help to land.

I didn't know Bill could fly.

He can't.

Yeah, but he said he was--

Anyone can keep a plane in the air.

Bill couldn't land one with two wheels.

What's he gonna do with only one?

Hop in the car.

Circle and come in from the east.

When I tell you to cut your motor, do it,

and bear left on your rudder.

Here, let me have that.

Don't try to land, Bill.

Bail out!

I can't.

I've got Taboni and only one chute.

He says he can't bail out.

He's got Taboni and only one chute.

Well, never mind Taboni.

Sorry.

Not so fast, not so fast.

That's better.

Now, bear left on your rudder.

Harder!

Now, level off easy.

On your feet, Taboni,

this is the end of the line for you.

I never thought you'd make it, Bill.

Neither did I.

Let me be the first to congratulate you!

How about an exclusive story?

Now, hold everything.

Did his pal get away?

Don't know yet.

Well, let's find out, c'mon.

Just got time to make it.

I assume everything went as I planned it.

Yeah, we got Taboni off on the plane for Newgate

all right but at the--

There's no answer, Mr. Grub,

and thank you.

Yes, sir.

You said everything worked out as I planned it.

This note says otherwise.

We hadn't finished reporting when Grubby interrupted.

Bannister boarded the plane with Mr. Taboni.

He may have arrested him.

If so, you have bungled.

And no one in my employ ever bungles twice.

Even if he does arrest him,

we still haven't bungled.

How so?

You were shipping him to Newgate

so that he could be found dead there

and join the League of Murdered Men.

And if he's arrested, we'll see that he's found dead

in jail here and he can still join us.

That is what must be done.

Mr. Taboni has been arrested.

Tonight at nine o'clock he must be found dead in his cell.

We shall follow our usual procedure.

Mr. Barnard, you will act as his nearest relative,

as Mr. Halliger did for you when you

were found dead in your cell.

Mr. Halliger and Mr. Mason will arrange

for the removal of the remains.

It's time you called on Taboni.

You'll be followed when you leave the jail.

Lead them to this address,

I'll have someone there to verify your story.

It says here they kept a guy awake five days

and six nights before he went completely goofy.

That's a long time, ain't it Mike?

Yeah.

Why don't you guys give up?

I won't break.

I ain't gonna open my clam, see?

What good would it do me to talk?

All you guys would do is turn me loose, and then what?

I wouldn't get around the corner before

the League of Murdered Men would be hot on my trail.

I couldn't get away from them.

They'd, they'd...

Oh, take him back to the cell.

Kind of turns my stomach to see a grown man snivel.

C'mon, lug.

Hey Bannister, this man wants to talk with Taboni.

Says his name is Horton.

Who told you Taboni was here?

You an attorney, Mr. Horton?

No, I married Mike's sister.

I don't like to get mixed up in the mess

but she thought we ought to see if there

was something we could do for him.

You know how sisters are.

I guess it's all right, sarge.

Ed, take this man to see Taboni.

C'mon.

When he comes out, tail him.

Find out anything from him?

No, just more dribble about the League of Murdered Men.

Then, arresting Taboni hasn't meant a thing, has it?

Not to you, I suppose,

but after all, he is the man who murdered my brother.

You pick up anything on the car

they left at the airport, chief?

Only it was a stolen car with phony license plates.

There goes our last chance to find out anything.

Not quite, I've got great hopes for that old black coupe.

There's a million like it in town.

Not just like this one.

It's a hopped-up job that any mechanic

would remember if he'd ever worked on it.

Did you put a detail on it?

Yes, sir,

and Tim and I going out on our own.

Not a word of this in the paper

till we give you the go signal.

What's the idea of giving these reporters

the run of your office?

Just paying back for some turns they've done us.

Well, let's be the first to congratulate us.

Now, if you'll excuse us, your honor.

Hello, Mike.

Your sister sent me down.

My sister?

Oh yeah, yeah.

Everything's set for tonight at nine.

Have you got the run-out powder the professor gave you?

Yeah.

But I don't know.

It takes a lot of nerve to commit suicide.

It takes a lot of nerve to go to the hot seat,

and that's permanent.

Yeah, but why do I have to hang myself?

You pretend to, stupid.

So they won't hold an autopsy.

Okay, it's a deal.

Tonight at nine.

But remember no slip-ups.

All right, let's go.

I think I know the car you're after.

It belongs somewhere in this neighborhood.

How do you know?

It comes in here pretty regular for service.

What makes you think it's a mob car?

Well, there's so many different guys driving it.

Thanks, mind if we use your phone?

Sure.

Hello, chief.

I think I got a lead on that black coupe.

Call my detail out in the sticks,

and have them start at 5th and Main

and cover every garage within 10 blocks.

All right, okay.

Hey, captain.

What time is it?

What do you care?

You're not going anywhere.

Oh that's stale coffee, c'mon what time is it?

Nine o'clock.

You've been in here often enough

to know what time the douse the lights.

Oh sergeant, is it too late for me to see Taboni again?

It is.

Oh, would you do me a favor?

What is it?

Get him to sign this power of attorney

so my wife can draw on his bank account

to hire lawyer for him?

If it was me, I'd let him hang,

but she's his sister.

Hey Ed, see if Taboni wants to sign this.

Yes, sir.

No, sir, no luck yet.

I got a hunch we're getting pretty hot,

I'll keep you posted.

Okay.

Yeah.

Dead?

Desk calling.

Send a doctor down to block four.

Taboni just hung himself.

You mean that Mike is--

With his own necktie.

Well, I don't suppose I should say this,

but to tell you the truth it's a relief.

Well, it might not be such a relief.

Your name is Horton?

Yes, why?

He left a note saying you're

to take care of the remains.

Well, if I have to, I have to.

Can I borrow your phone book?

Sure.

I wonder if you'd call the undertaker for me.

I don't know much about such things.

It's Colfax 4-3-7-9.

Colfax 4-3-7-9.

Cloverdale Mortuary, central police headquarters.

Yes, we'll send a car right over.

What's the name again?

Michael Taboni.

All right, thank you, goodbye.

C'mon, minutes count now.

Hey, listen, don't let anything happen to this heap.

It'll cost me my job.

Don't worry.

Somehow, it grows more and more painful

coming back to this old place.

It used to be my home.

When I think what they've done to me,

stripped me of honor and self-respect.

Threw me aside like an animal!

They've arrived.

Is there anything else to prepare?

No, no, thank you, Wilkinson,

everything is in readiness.

Right here, please.

Did you have any trouble?

Not a bit, he's hardly cold.

Good, good.

Yeah?

This is Grub.

I just found out that Bannister's casing

garages for the black coupe.

Yeah?

Yeah, they're getting hot.

All right, thanks.

Slight pulse.

Grubby says the coppers are casing

the garages for the black coupe.

Wilkinson, I wish you would learn to speak more clearly.

Who is doing what?

The police are searching the garages for the black coupe.

Naturally.

And where is the coupe?

We left it at the Target garage.

We'll pick it up when we return the dead wagon.

No, borrow a car on the street.

Any car but one of ours.

Drive to the garage and get the coupe

before the police find it.

Ferguson, you take the dead wagon

to some lonely place and wreck it.

It's unsafe to return it now.

You done it, professor.

Yes, Mr. Taboni, I've brought you back

to life as I promised.

You are now, officially, dead

and a true member of League of Murdered Men.

Yeah.

C'mon, let's have it.

You got me all wrong, fella.

I just work here.

I don't know nothing, honest I don't.

Take him downstairs to the garage superintendent.

Check his record and have him held as a material witness.

Okay, are you staying here?

Till someone calls for this hack.

C'mon.

Hello, chief?

Bannister calling.

Just wanted to tell you we located that coupe and...

What?!

Taboni committed suicide?!

Well, that's one way of cheating the law.

Open that door!

Let me out of here!

Take it easy!

It wouldn't be so good to get picked up

for speeding in a borrowed car.

Yeah, and it won't be so good

getting to the garage after the cops

have found that coupe either.

Hello?

Hello, Bill?

That mechanic gave me the slip,

locked me in the foreman's office.

Sounds like he left on a motorcycle.

Get after him!

Right.

See "Murder Blockade!" Chapter three

of "Gangbusters" at this theater next week.