1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:20,200 The fence! 2 00:00:50,200 --> 00:01:02,040 This is the Man in Black, here again to introduce Columbia's program, Suspense. 3 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:07,220 If you have been with us on these Tuesday nights, you will know that suspense is compounded 4 00:01:07,220 --> 00:01:12,320 of mystery and suspicion and dangerous adventure. 5 00:01:12,320 --> 00:01:18,500 In this series, our tales are calculated to intrigue you, stir your nerves, to offer you 6 00:01:18,500 --> 00:01:24,680 a precarious situation, and then withhold a solution until the last possible moment. 7 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:29,760 And so with five canaries in the room, and the performances of Ona Munson as Anita, Osa 8 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:34,480 Massen as Seife, and with Lee Bowman as Ronald Denham, who tells the story, we again hope 9 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:49,960 to keep you in suspense. 10 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:52,800 The trouble was, you see, that a whole apartment vanished. 11 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:53,800 It's true. 12 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:59,760 A flat disappeared straight out of that apartment house, and the dead man disappeared with it. 13 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:01,520 No, I'm not crazy. 14 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:05,880 And in spite of what they said, I hadn't taken too many drinks. 15 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:10,200 You see, I was getting married to Anita in another two weeks, and Jimmy Westlake gave 16 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:11,840 a bachelor party for me. 17 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:15,960 Well, hang it, it's a situation that might have happened to you. 18 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:21,440 The party was at the old Cap and Bell's Club on Lower Fifth Avenue, and it wasn't a brawl. 19 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:26,400 Jimmy Westlake was in the chair, I admit, but nothing could have been more quiet, more 20 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:27,400 dignified. 21 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:34,400 Oh, mademoiselle from armadillo, parley boo. 22 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:37,400 Mademoiselle from armadillo, parley boo. 23 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:40,400 Oh, mademoiselle from armadillo. 24 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:43,400 Quiet, you fellas, quiet! 25 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:44,400 Quiet down, can't you? 26 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:47,400 Wait a minute, the chairman wants to say something. 27 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:49,640 Gentlemen, gentlemen, this is a solemn occasion. 28 00:02:49,640 --> 00:02:53,400 If those dopes over there will kindly get away from the piano and sit down at the table, 29 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:55,400 I have another toast to propose. 30 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:58,400 Excuse me, Mr. Westlake, excuse me, please. 31 00:02:58,400 --> 00:02:59,400 Yes, Uncle Kato, what is it? 32 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:04,400 Excuse me, Mr. Westlake, but you ain't got to bust the glasses on this toast, yes? 33 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:06,000 Why shouldn't we bust the glasses, Uncle Kato? 34 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:07,000 Why shouldn't we bust the glasses? 35 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:11,900 Oh, but Mr. Westlake, if you keep on busting the glasses, there ain't going to be no glasses 36 00:03:11,900 --> 00:03:12,900 left. 37 00:03:12,900 --> 00:03:16,400 Well, from that sad eventuality, Uncle Kato, we will simply start busting the plates. 38 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:19,400 Isn't that fair enough, boys? 39 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:29,400 Oh, look, Jimmy, don't you think you'd better tone the gang down a little? 40 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:31,400 Be quiet, Ron, you're only the group. 41 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:32,400 Yeah, I know, Jimmy, but... 42 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:37,400 Gentlemen, I regret to tell you this, but the protesting voice you just heard was that 43 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:39,400 of our guest of honor, Ronald Denham. 44 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:47,400 Now, we all know Ron and we all like him, but I am sorry to say he is not himself. 45 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:51,400 Where now is the terror of nightclubs, the chorus girl's friend? 46 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:55,400 I say it to his face, he is sober. 47 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:57,400 But we like him just the same. 48 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:01,400 Friends, guests, and bachelors, I give you the groove. 49 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:12,400 Oh, please, please, gentlemen, don't bust the glasses. 50 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:14,400 Hey, come on, Ron, come on, say a few words. 51 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:16,400 That's right, Ron, get up. 52 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:20,400 Now, look, boys, I thank you for all the good words, and I don't want to be a wet blanket 53 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:25,400 on the party, but it's nearly midnight and I've got to get home early. 54 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:28,400 Don't you understand, boys, I'm a reformed character. 55 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:30,400 Yeah, how's Fifi Latour? 56 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:31,400 I haven't seen Fifi for over a year. 57 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:33,400 She doesn't mean anything to me anymore. 58 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:35,400 Me thinks he does protest too much. 59 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:40,400 Now, look, I'm marrying the sweetest girl in the world, but Anita's a little, well, 60 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:41,400 straight lace. 61 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:42,400 You know how it is. 62 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:49,400 What's more, there's my Uncle Rufus. 63 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:50,400 Quiet! 64 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:53,400 Anita and Uncle Rufus. 65 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:57,400 Anita and Uncle Rufus have apartments in the same building as I have. 66 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:00,400 What's more, they're on the same floor, and that's not all. 67 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:02,400 Tom Evans, the fellow I share my flat with. 68 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:04,400 Hey, wait a minute, where is Tom Evans tonight? 69 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:05,400 What's the matter with him? 70 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:08,400 Tom works for Uncle Rufus and he doesn't drink. 71 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:11,400 Hey, hey, fellas, fellas. 72 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:14,400 Oh, wait a minute. 73 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:15,400 Quiet, you baboons. 74 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:16,400 Quiet. 75 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:20,400 He's a morning coffee broker and he never ends his ink. 76 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:21,400 Now, wait a minute. 77 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:24,400 Will you put yourselves in my place? 78 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:28,400 My girl and my uncle and my best friend Tom Evans are all expecting me to come home from 79 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:30,400 this party in an ash cart. 80 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:32,400 And I'm going to fool them. 81 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:35,400 Oh, and I have a heart, can't you? 82 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:37,400 This Uncle Rufus must be a pretty tough egg, isn't he? 83 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:40,400 Oh, he's all right, but after his first million dollars, it went to his head. 84 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:42,400 Has he got any human weaknesses? 85 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:44,400 Yes, he keeps canaries. 86 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:46,400 Oh, no, not the kind of canaries you're thinking. 87 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:49,400 I mean the kind that go tweet, tweet in cages. 88 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:51,400 Oh, what's the use? 89 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:53,400 What do you say, gentlemen? 90 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:56,400 Shall we allow this pure and heart to wind his way home? 91 00:05:56,400 --> 00:05:58,400 He's got a drink for the bride, Joe. 92 00:05:58,400 --> 00:05:59,400 That's right, Ron. 93 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:02,400 Can you, as a chivalrous gentleman, refuse to drink to the bride? 94 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:04,400 You can't and you know you can't. 95 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:05,400 Uncle Cato. 96 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:06,400 Yes, sir, Mr. Westlake. 97 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:08,400 Get a beer mug from the sideboard there. 98 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:09,400 Fill it with champagne. 99 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:10,400 Oh, now, wait a minute, Jim. 100 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:12,400 One more drink won't hurt you, surely. 101 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:13,400 Just one little drink? 102 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:14,400 Well, no, I suppose not. 103 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:16,400 Fill it up, Uncle Cato. 104 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:19,400 All right, I'll have one more drink, just in honor of the occasion. 105 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:20,400 But that's all, do you understand? 106 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:45,400 That's absolutely all. 107 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:46,400 Here you are, sir. 108 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:49,400 098 Park Avenue. 109 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:51,400 Hey, hey, hey, mister, mister. 110 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:54,400 Come on, wake up. 111 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:55,400 What's wrong? 112 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:56,400 You're home, mister. 113 00:06:56,400 --> 00:06:57,400 This is the apartment house. 114 00:06:57,400 --> 00:06:58,400 Oh, yeah. 115 00:06:58,400 --> 00:06:59,400 Yes, of course. 116 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:00,400 Thanks. 117 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:01,400 Off we go. 118 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:02,400 Easy now. 119 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:04,400 Are you sure you're all right? 120 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:07,400 Yes, I'm all right. 121 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:09,400 I have been to a bachelor party. 122 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:10,400 Yeah, sure, I know. 123 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:12,400 Well, take it easy now. 124 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:14,400 I can't see straight. 125 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:16,400 The whole street's going around. 126 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:19,400 The funny part is, I only had a couple of drinks. 127 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:22,400 They must have put something in that last one. 128 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:26,400 Well, it's none of my business, mister, but I wouldn't tell that to the missus if I was you. 129 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:27,400 It's absolutely true. 130 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:28,400 Sure, sure, I know. 131 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:31,400 And I haven't got a missus, not yet. 132 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:33,400 In my word of honor, I'm a reformed character. 133 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:35,400 I have nothing to do with any woman except... 134 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:37,400 Ronald Denham. 135 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:40,400 As I live and breathe, it is Ronald Denham. 136 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:41,400 Fifi Latour. 137 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:43,400 Oh, sure, how good it is to see you. 138 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:45,400 I look everywhere for you. 139 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:48,400 I cry my eyes out, but I don't find you. 140 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:50,400 What are you doing here? 141 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:52,400 I live here, Fifi, I moved. 142 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:54,400 Oh, you try to get away from me, yes? 143 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:55,400 Yes. 144 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:58,400 No, no, I mean, here's your money, driver. 145 00:07:58,400 --> 00:07:59,400 Good night. 146 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:00,400 Good night, sir. 147 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:01,400 It's one of yours, lady. 148 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:03,400 You better take care of him. 149 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:04,400 I'd take care of him. 150 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:06,400 Yes, you bet you. 151 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:08,400 My poor Ron. 152 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:13,400 I forgive you this time, because you've been under wrassled-assled, 153 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:15,400 and you need someone to take care of you. 154 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:17,400 You live in this building, yes? 155 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:19,400 Yes, fifth floor, I... 156 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:21,400 Oh, good, I take you to your apartment. 157 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:23,400 No, no, no. 158 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:25,400 You say no, eh? And why not? 159 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:27,400 Because you mustn't go in there. 160 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:29,400 Oh, oh, there's an hour of woman, oh, yes? 161 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:33,400 Well, yes, the fact is, Fifi, I'm going to get married. 162 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:35,400 Married? 163 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:37,400 For heaven's sake, Fifi, don't make a scene in the middle of the street. 164 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:39,400 Oh, you break my heart, eh? 165 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:42,400 Right in the middle of Park Avenue, you take my heart and you break it bang, bang. 166 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:43,400 Fifi, please. 167 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:45,400 Now I tell you what you do. 168 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:47,400 You will take me to your apartment this very minute. 169 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:48,400 No, definitely no. 170 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:50,400 You will give me one cigarette and one brandy. 171 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:52,400 You will tell me what this means. 172 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:56,400 Oh, I warn you, by golly, I start screaming so they can hear me at City Hall. 173 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:57,400 I can't do it, Fifi. 174 00:08:57,400 --> 00:08:59,400 All right, then I start screaming. 175 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:00,400 No, wait a minute. 176 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:03,400 Oh, of all the times in the world you had to pick this. 177 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:06,400 Do I go along, Cherie? Yes or no? 178 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:09,400 Well, if I do take you, Fifi, will you promise to be good? 179 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:11,400 Cherie, I am always good. 180 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:14,400 You won't kick up a row or start banging at doors. 181 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:16,400 Oh, if Anita heard of this. 182 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:17,400 Anita? And who is she? 183 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:20,400 Oh, never mind. I'm too groggy to argue. 184 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:21,400 Come on. 185 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:29,400 I remember going into that building. 186 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:35,400 Dim religious light, deep carpets, an automatic elevator that you work yourself. 187 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:38,400 I remember stepping into that elevator because the floor creaked. 188 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:41,400 I remember pressing the button for the fifth floor. 189 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:47,400 I took Fifi with me and I took her into what the champagne told me was my own flat. 190 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:52,400 Maybe you think that's funny, but it won't be funny much longer. 191 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:56,400 Either the door of the flat was unlocked or my key fitted it. 192 00:09:56,400 --> 00:10:00,400 Anyway, I remember stumbling through the little hall inside, 193 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:03,400 getting a light on and into the living room. 194 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:08,400 I remember sitting back in an easy chair thanking the Lord I was home. 195 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:12,400 You don't mind if I take my coat off, Cherie? 196 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:14,400 Look, Fifi, couldn't you just go home? 197 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:20,400 I want to talk to you, Cherie. And this is one very nice flat. I like it. 198 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:21,400 Thanks a lot. 199 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:25,400 You and Tom Evans, you have good taste in furniture. 200 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:27,400 We didn't choose the furniture, Fifi. 201 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:29,400 This girl of yours chooses it, I suppose? 202 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:31,400 No, it comes with the flat. 203 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:32,400 Oh, you mean? 204 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:35,400 Well, these are furnished flats. They're all furnished exactly alike, 205 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:38,400 except for the personal things you bring yourself. 206 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:41,400 I've got a picture on the wall behind me. 207 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:43,400 What picture, Cherie? 208 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:45,400 The painting of the clipper ship over there. 209 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:50,400 But Cherie, your eyes are funny and you cannot see straight. 210 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:53,400 There's no picture on that wall. 211 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:54,400 Wait a minute. 212 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:56,400 What's wrong? Why do you jump up? 213 00:10:56,400 --> 00:11:01,400 We don't own any bronze bookends. And the lampshades are different. 214 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:04,400 And, Fifi, we're in the wrong flat. 215 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:06,400 Well, then that explains everything. 216 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:07,400 Explains what? 217 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:09,400 It explains about the canary birds. 218 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:10,400 What canary birds? 219 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:14,400 When we first come in here, I think I hear a lot of birds sing. 220 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:18,400 And I think, oh, la, la, this is a funny taste for one denim and Tom Evans. 221 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:21,400 Uncle Rufus, Great Scott, Uncle Rufus. 222 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:24,400 This uncle of yours, he keep canary birds? 223 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:26,400 Yes, five of them. But this isn't his flat. 224 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:28,400 I know his flat as well as I know my own. 225 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:30,400 Where did you hear this singing? 226 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:32,400 Behind that door over there, where I point. 227 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:35,400 That ought to be the door to the dining room. But... 228 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:36,400 What was that? 229 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:38,400 Oh, it is a car backfire. Maybe yes. 230 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:40,400 Maybe no, unless they keep cars in dining rooms. 231 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:41,400 That was a gun. 232 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:43,400 It came from the dining room. 233 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:44,400 Yeah, I think so. 234 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:45,400 Quick, let's get out of here. 235 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:46,400 Oh, no, we don't. 236 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:48,400 I've been pushed around tonight till I'm good and mad. 237 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:51,400 And I'm just about crazy enough to find out what this is all about. 238 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:53,400 You're not going to open that door. 239 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:56,400 You just watch me. There's a light in that room anyway. 240 00:11:56,400 --> 00:11:57,400 How you know? 241 00:11:57,400 --> 00:12:00,400 Look under the sill of the door. 242 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:02,400 Not a very bright light, but... 243 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:03,400 Don't do it. 244 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:06,400 Stand back now, while I get the door open. 245 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:10,400 Dining room. 246 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:12,400 Not Uncle Rupert's. 247 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:15,400 Five canary birds. 248 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:20,400 Five canaries in cages, all in a line. 249 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:22,400 Where in Satan's name are we? 250 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:24,400 Oh, sure, I don't know. 251 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:26,400 Whose flat is this? 252 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:29,400 Who except Uncle Rufus would keep five canaries? 253 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:32,400 I tell you one thing, though. 254 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:34,400 And then I go out of here. 255 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:35,400 Well? 256 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:37,400 There's somebody watching us. 257 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:39,400 Where? 258 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:42,400 That swing door to the kitchen's party open. 259 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:43,400 But don't look. 260 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:45,400 How the devil can I see it if I don't look? 261 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:48,400 There's somebody standing behind it. 262 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:50,400 I see the light shine on his eye. 263 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:52,400 Quiet, Fifi. 264 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:54,400 Hello there. 265 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:56,400 The door moved a little more. 266 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:57,400 He's pushing it. 267 00:12:58,400 --> 00:12:59,400 Excuse me, sir. 268 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:01,400 We didn't mean to barge in here. 269 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:03,400 We're not burglars or anything like that. 270 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:06,400 We got into the wrong flat, that's all. 271 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:08,400 I want to apologize if we... 272 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:14,400 ...straight out through the door, back on his pace. 273 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:15,400 What's the matter with him? 274 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:17,400 Why don't he move? 275 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:19,400 I've got an idea, Fifi. 276 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:24,400 It's because he's dead. 277 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:35,400 He was a little fat man with eyeglasses and a spade-shaped beard. 278 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:38,400 He looked foreign somehow. 279 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:41,400 And there was a bullet hole over his heart. 280 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:46,400 You ask me what happened then? 281 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:47,400 I don't know. 282 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:49,400 Fifi turned and ran. 283 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:51,400 At least I think she did. 284 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:54,400 I bent over the man to make sure he was dead. 285 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:56,400 And then something hit me. 286 00:13:56,400 --> 00:13:59,400 As though it hadn't been enough of a nightmare already, 287 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:03,400 I could hear that blackjack strike the back of my skull. 288 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:06,400 And everything exploded. 289 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:07,400 I couldn't get my breath. 290 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:10,400 And I seemed to be swimming in dark water. 291 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:13,400 The next voice I heard wasn't Fifi's at all. 292 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:14,400 It was Anita's. 293 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:17,400 Wrong. Wrong denim. 294 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:19,400 Oh, my head. 295 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:22,400 Oh, Lord, my head. 296 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:24,400 Well, I'm not at all surprised. 297 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:26,400 What's that, Anita? 298 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:27,400 I can't hear you. 299 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:29,400 I said I'm not at all surprised 300 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:33,400 of all the disgraceful, dissolute objects I ever saw. 301 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:36,400 Anita, where am I? 302 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:39,400 Oh, darling, as though you didn't know. 303 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:41,400 But I don't know. 304 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:45,400 My head feels like a printing press in full blast. 305 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:48,400 Well, you're out in the main hall, dear, on the fifth floor, 306 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:51,400 sitting on the stairs beside the elevator shaft. 307 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:53,400 That's true. 308 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:55,400 But how did I get here? 309 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:57,400 Oh, now really, Ron. 310 00:14:57,400 --> 00:14:59,400 I must have been carried here. 311 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:00,400 That's it. 312 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:02,400 By your drunken friends at the club? 313 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:04,400 Well, I don't doubt it, at least. 314 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:07,400 No, Anita, no, you don't understand. 315 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:09,400 I left that party early on. 316 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:14,400 I was cold sober, but the low hounds wanted to see me come home in bad shape. 317 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:17,400 So they could... so they put something in my glass. 318 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:19,400 Oh, naturally, Ron. 319 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:20,400 Whiskey or champagne? 320 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:23,400 Oh, no, Anita, I mean a drug of some kind. 321 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:25,400 I was dizzy when I got here. 322 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:28,400 Just as I was getting out of the taxi, I met... 323 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:30,400 Well, go on, dear. 324 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:32,400 Whom did you meet? 325 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:35,400 Nobody, Anita, nobody at all. 326 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:38,400 I came up here to what I thought was a good place. 327 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:42,400 I came up here to what I thought was my own flat, but it wasn't my flat. 328 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:44,400 It was somebody else's. 329 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:49,400 There were a lot of canaries singing and a dead man with a bullet hole in his chest. 330 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:51,400 And... 331 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:53,400 Well, this sounds pretty crazy, doesn't it? 332 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:55,400 Yes, dear, it certainly does. 333 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:57,400 But it's true. 334 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:00,400 Oh, Ron, I suppose I've got to forgive you. 335 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:02,400 I always do forgive you. 336 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:04,400 Now run along like a good boy and sleep it off, hmm? 337 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:08,400 Listen, Anita, there's a dead man in one of these flats. 338 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:10,400 A dead man? 339 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:12,400 In which flat? 340 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:14,400 Well, that's just it. I don't know. 341 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:16,400 You're not saying it's on this floor. 342 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:19,400 Yes, I definitely remember pressing the button for the fifth floor. 343 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:21,400 Suppose you listen to me, dear. 344 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:24,400 Now, don't make faces and rumple your hair. Just listen. 345 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:27,400 There are only two other apartments on this floor. 346 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:28,400 One is your uncle's. 347 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:29,400 It wasn't his. I'll swear to that. 348 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:31,400 Well, then the other is mine. 349 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:33,400 You don't think I'm hiding a dead man. 350 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:34,400 It wasn't your flat either. 351 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:36,400 Well, then where is it, darling? 352 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:40,400 A whole flat can't vanish and take the dead man along, can it? 353 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:43,400 No. But I'll tell you something else, Anita. 354 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:45,400 I've seen that man's face somewhere before. 355 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:46,400 Well, whose face? 356 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:47,400 The dead man's. 357 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:52,400 Thick eyeglasses, square black beard, something foreign about it. 358 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:55,400 I've seen him or I've seen his picture or... 359 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:56,400 Oh, Ron, please. 360 00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:57,400 What's wrong? 361 00:16:57,400 --> 00:16:59,400 It's the elevator. Somebody's coming up. 362 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:01,400 Please don't let people see you. 363 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:03,400 You've got your cats smashed in and your ties untied. 364 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:05,400 You look like nothing on earth. 365 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:06,400 Well, look here, Anita. 366 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:09,400 If it comes to that, what are you doing out in the hall in negligee and pajamas? 367 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:12,400 Well, I wanted to make sure you got home safely. 368 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:15,400 Ron, the elevator. It's Tom Evans and your Uncle Rufus. 369 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:16,400 All right. I can take it. 370 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:17,400 But your Uncle Kat. 371 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:20,400 Now, don't say anything to him about this dead man. Promise me. 372 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:22,400 Hold on. I've got it. 373 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:23,400 Pierre Duroc. 374 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:24,400 Who? 375 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:28,400 Pierre Duroc. That's the dead man's name. He... 376 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:34,400 And furthermore, Evans, you may expect to me that in this year of 1938, 377 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:40,400 the prospect of a European war is so remote as not to be worth serious consideration. 378 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:42,400 Excuse me, sir, but isn't that a little strong? 379 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:44,400 Now, don't argue with me, Evans. 380 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:45,400 No, sir. 381 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:49,400 You may tell my secretary to look here. What's this? 382 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:50,400 Well, now look, Uncle Rufus. 383 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:52,400 Oh, I can't stand any more of this. I'm fed up. 384 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:54,400 Well, I don't blame you, my dear. 385 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:56,400 Hasn't a view of mine been annoying you again? 386 00:17:56,400 --> 00:18:01,400 No, of course not. But please don't pay any attention to him. He's... 387 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:02,400 He's drunk. 388 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:05,400 For the last time, I am not drunk. 389 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:08,400 I just want to ask Uncle Rufus before I go completely nuts 390 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:09,400 whether he hasn't heard of Pierre Duroc. 391 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:11,400 What is that, Ronald? What did you say? 392 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:13,400 Pierre Duroc, the French millionaire. 393 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:14,400 Well, what about him? 394 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:17,400 He's the man who always deals in cash on the line. 395 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:19,400 Spot cash, even if it's a million. 396 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:20,400 I saw his picture in the paper. 397 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:22,400 He's in New York to put through a business deal with you, isn't he? 398 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:24,400 Oh, indeed, Ronald. 399 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:27,400 You show a commendable interest in my affairs. 400 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:29,400 That's what you want me to do, isn't it? 401 00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:32,400 Well, I believe Duroc does want to buy some property I own, 402 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:35,400 but he hasn't approached me and I haven't approached him. 403 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:37,400 It's a bad business. 404 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:41,400 Why have you developed this sudden interest in Duroc? 405 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:43,400 Because he's dead. 406 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:44,400 Dead? 407 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:47,400 Somebody shot him in a room full of canaries and then slugged me over the head. 408 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:49,400 Do you believe me, Evans? 409 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:53,400 If your uncle will excuse me, old man, I don't see any reason not to believe you. 410 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:54,400 Where's the body? 411 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:55,400 Well, that's the trouble. 412 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:59,400 Ron claims he found it in a flat that doesn't exist. 413 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:02,400 Listen, what's that? 414 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:05,400 It sounded like somebody running upstairs in a devil of a hurry. 415 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:06,400 Maybe it's the dead man. 416 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:07,400 As a matter of fact, it's the night porter. 417 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:08,400 He's the one who can tell us. 418 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:09,400 Tell us what? 419 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:11,400 Well, maybe I did get off at a different floor, 420 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:14,400 but that flat's got to be somewhere in this building. 421 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:15,400 Pearson! 422 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:16,400 Just a minute, Pearson! 423 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:19,400 I'm very sorry, sir, but I can't stop now. 424 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:20,400 Please stand aside. 425 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:21,400 I've got to go upstairs and get the manager. 426 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:22,400 Why, Pearson? 427 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:23,400 Is anything wrong? 428 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:24,400 Well, Mr. Evans... 429 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:25,400 Speak up, man. 430 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:26,400 Is anything wrong? 431 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:27,400 It's the police, sir. 432 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:29,400 We found a dead man in the palm garden downstairs. 433 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:33,400 Now do you believe me? 434 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:38,400 You will oblige me, all of you, if you remain quiet and allow me to deal with this. 435 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:41,400 What does this man look like, Pearson? 436 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:43,400 He's a foreign-looking gentleman, sir. 437 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:44,400 Never saw him before. 438 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:45,400 He doesn't live in the building. 439 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:47,400 Well, then how did he get to the palm garden? 440 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:49,400 Well, sir, that's what we don't know. 441 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:51,400 He certainly wasn't there when I looked in half an hour ago, 442 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:53,400 but I went back to the palm garden just by chance, 443 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:58,400 and there he was in a wicker chair with singing birds in cages all around him. 444 00:19:58,400 --> 00:19:59,400 Birds again? 445 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:00,400 Oh, be quiet, Ronald. 446 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:01,400 He'd been shot, sir. 447 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:06,400 The police think he was brought down in the service elevator from somewhere upstairs. 448 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:07,400 Why do they think that? 449 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:09,400 Well, of course, they found a revolver in that elevator 450 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:13,400 and a little paper band of the kind that goes around banknotes. 451 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:15,400 If they could tell where the dead man came from... 452 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:16,400 You can tell us where he came from. 453 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:17,400 Huh? 454 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:18,400 I can, sir. 455 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:21,400 Yes, you've been in most of the flats in this building, haven't you? 456 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:23,400 I've been inside all of them, sir. 457 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:24,400 Why? 458 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:27,400 Well, would you recognize any given flat if I described it? 459 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:30,400 Well, yes, sir, certainly, but... 460 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:32,400 Well, then for the love of Mike, think. 461 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:35,400 Who lives in a flat with five canary cages in the dining room? 462 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:37,400 Ronald, are you out of your mind? 463 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:41,400 In case you don't happen to remember, you're describing my place. 464 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:44,400 No, it was like your place, but it wasn't at all the same. 465 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:46,400 Oriental prints on the walls. 466 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:50,400 In the living room, bronze bookends and bronze lamps. 467 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:52,400 Dragon patterns on the lampshades. 468 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:55,400 There was a queer kind of clock on the mantelpiece, 469 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:57,400 shaped like a figure of Father Time. 470 00:20:57,400 --> 00:21:00,400 And what's the matter with you, Pearson? 471 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:04,400 Nothing, sir, but you're sure you saw all that? 472 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:06,400 Yes, of course I'm sure. Why not? 473 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:10,400 Because I'm sorry, sir, but you couldn't have seen it. 474 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:12,400 What do you mean, I couldn't have seen it? I did see it. 475 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:14,400 Who lives in the blasted place? 476 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:15,400 Nobody. 477 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:17,400 Well, you mean the flat's vacant? 478 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:22,400 No, sir. I mean, there's no such flat in the whole building. 479 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:38,400 And that's the position I was in when the police took us down to that palm garden to see the body. 480 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:41,400 I never did like the palm garden much. 481 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:44,400 It's a big dimly lighted hollow of a place. 482 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:49,400 Bird cages beside the palms and an artificial goldfish pond in the middle. 483 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:55,400 I liked it even less at three o'clock in the morning with a dead man looking at me from his chair. 484 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:57,400 They sent us in one at a time. 485 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:01,400 I was first to see the homicide squad officer. 486 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:07,400 And there was Inspector Braddock, a big sleepy looking hulk with a hat like a pirate, 487 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:10,400 sitting on a bench throwing pebbles at that pond. 488 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:14,400 Back would go his arm and a pebble would hit the water. 489 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:18,400 Back would go his arm and a pebble would hit the water. 490 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:23,400 And that's all you've got to tell me, Mr. Dunham? 491 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:26,400 That's all, Inspector. It happens to be true. 492 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:29,400 Oh, I believe you. After all, son, we've got corroboration. 493 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:30,400 Corroboration from whom? 494 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:33,400 From your other girlfriend, Fifi Latour. 495 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:37,400 Fifi's not here. She ran out of here as soon as Duroc's body fell through that door. 496 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:41,400 Yes, but she didn't run far. A cop wondered why she was running and brought her back. 497 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:42,400 Where's Fifi now? 498 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:45,400 In that room there, talking to your official girlfriend. 499 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:50,400 Oh, that's fine. That's beautiful. The one thing I didn't tell Anita. 500 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:51,400 Why don't you wake up? 501 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:53,400 Wake up? How? 502 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:55,400 This isn't post office any longer. It's murder. 503 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:58,400 And one of that gang out there shot Pierre Duroc. 504 00:22:58,400 --> 00:22:59,400 Are you serious? 505 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:01,400 Serious. Sure I'm serious. 506 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:05,400 This is as clever and slick and mean a trick as ever went on the blotter. 507 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:08,400 Pierre Duroc was one of the goats. You were the other. 508 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:10,400 This uncle of yours is a fairly important guy, isn't he? 509 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:12,400 Wait a minute. Just exactly what are you saying about the old boy? 510 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:15,400 I'm saying he gets lots of publicity. 511 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:18,400 This hobby of his, keeping dicky birds, must be pretty well known. 512 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:20,400 Yes, I suppose so. 513 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:22,400 All right. So if Duroc came to visit your uncle tonight... 514 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:25,400 You say if Duroc came to visit my uncle. 515 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:28,400 What you're forgetting, son, is that Duroc's an important man too. 516 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:30,400 He's a visiting foreigner. Capital letters. 517 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:32,400 And the department's caught to keep an eye on him. 518 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:35,400 Duroc did go to visit your uncle tonight. 519 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:37,400 And he was carrying $20,000 in cash. 520 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:39,400 What are you animating? Murder. 521 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:41,400 Inspector Braddock. Yes, Sergeant. 522 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:44,400 That crowd out there is raising cane, especially the old man and the French gal. 523 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:48,400 Shall I let them in? Yeah, you can let them in now. 524 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:52,400 No. No, more than an hour. 525 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,400 Sitting in an ante room without even hearing why we're here. 526 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:58,400 I tell you, the evidence is intolerable. 527 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:00,400 It's all right, sir. They probably know what they're doing. 528 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:04,400 You think so, my friend? But I still don't know why I'm here. 529 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:08,400 How very interesting, Miss Latour. Such extreme absent-mindedness. 530 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:10,400 Perhaps Ron could tell you why you're here. 531 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:12,400 Listen, Anita, I can explain everything. 532 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:15,400 Can you explain the disappearing apartment? 533 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:18,400 That's better. 534 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:21,400 I'd like, if you don't mind, to have a little quiet here. 535 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:23,400 Which one of you is Mr. Rufus Denham? 536 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:27,400 I am Rufus Denham, sir. Rufus Denham of Denham and Company. 537 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:30,400 Can there be any doubt whatever about that? 538 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:32,400 No, but I thought I'd ask. 539 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:36,400 I was just telling your nephew, Mr. Denham, that Pierre Duroc came here tonight to see you. 540 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:39,400 To see me, Inspector? That's right. 541 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:43,400 I can only characterize that statement, sir, as a flat and downright lie. 542 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:45,400 I've never met that man. 543 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:48,400 I didn't say you met him. I said he came here to see you. 544 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:50,400 Duroc wanted to buy some property from you, didn't he? 545 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:52,400 Well, I suppose he did. 546 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:55,400 And Duroc always paid spot cash, didn't he? 547 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:57,400 Yes, I believe so. 548 00:24:57,400 --> 00:24:59,400 Just one more question. 549 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:01,400 I imagine you've got a secretary. 550 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:03,400 Yes, naturally I've got a secretary. 551 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:05,400 Miss Helen Gardner. What about her? 552 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:10,400 Somebody posing as your secretary telephoned Duroc at Metropolis Hotel 553 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:13,400 and spoke to him in very good French. 554 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:16,400 Well, Inspector, don't stop there. Go on. 555 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:19,400 This person, pretending to represent Rufus Denham, 556 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:21,400 asked Duroc to come here with the money 557 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:23,400 and said they could settle the deal immediately. 558 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:25,400 Don't you see the trick now? 559 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:27,400 Don't you see Duroc was lured into a dummy apartment? 560 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:30,400 A dummy apartment? What does this man mean? 561 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:32,400 I'll tell you. 562 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:35,400 All the flats are furnished exactly alike except for personal things. 563 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:39,400 Pictures, books, lampshades, ornaments. Is that correct? 564 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:40,400 Yes, of course it is. 565 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,400 The murderer didn't dare use Rufus Denham's real flat. 566 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:46,400 But the murderer could always decorate an imitation flat 567 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:49,400 so that Pierre Duroc would be deceived when he saw... 568 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:50,400 Five canary birds. 569 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:51,400 That's it, son. 570 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:53,400 But what was the idea? 571 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:56,400 A very neat swindle. Look at Duroc's body now. 572 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:58,400 Oh, I can't look at it. 573 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:01,400 Look at his thick glasses. The man was half blind. 574 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:05,400 The so-called secretary disguised would meet Duroc in an imitation flat. 575 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:09,400 Duroc would hand over the money and get forged title deeds in return. 576 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:14,400 When Duroc had gone, the flat could be put right again and no evidence left. 577 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:16,400 But something went wrong. 578 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:19,400 That's right. Something went wrong. Duroc suspected. 579 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:20,400 It had to be killed. 580 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:22,400 But what happened right again? 581 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:24,400 Inspector Braddock, who is the murderer? 582 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:26,400 Can't you guess? 583 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:29,400 Grignan, I think I know how it all happened. 584 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:32,400 Do you, Miss Latour? That's very smart of you. 585 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:36,400 This poor run-in of mine, he is at a bachelor party. 586 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:39,400 They do not think that he will be home until daylight. 587 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:42,400 But he get reformed and come home early. 588 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:45,400 He blunders straight into that flat in time to interrupt... 589 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:47,400 In time to interrupt the murder, yes. 590 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:50,400 Afterwards, when you were supposed to run away... 591 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:51,400 But I did run away. 592 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:53,400 Sure, Miss Latour. I'm admitting you did. 593 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:55,400 Then why do you look at me as though I didn't? 594 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:58,400 Afterwards, as I was saying, the murderer had to hit Ronald Denham over the head... 595 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:00,400 and drag him out in the hall. 596 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:03,400 Duroc's body was brought down here along with the canary cages... 597 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:06,400 that had been borrowed from here. And the dummy flat was set right again. 598 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:09,400 Just one moment, Inspector Braddock. 599 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:12,400 I'm not disputing anything you say, but... 600 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:13,400 Well, sir, what's on your mind? 601 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:14,400 The murderer. 602 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:15,400 What about the murderer? 603 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:17,400 Well, all this. 604 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:20,400 Wouldn't it have been much too heavy a job for a woman? 605 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:22,400 Who said the murderer was a woman? 606 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:23,400 Well, didn't you? 607 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:24,400 I don't think I did. 608 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:27,400 I said the murderer was somebody who planned to swindle. 609 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:31,400 And you still don't see it, any of you, because you can't find the dummy flat. 610 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:33,400 No, and I can't find it myself. 611 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:35,400 That's one question you've got to answer here and now. 612 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:37,400 Where in Satan's name did I go? 613 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:38,400 Whose flat was I in? 614 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:39,400 Your own. 615 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:40,400 What? 616 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:41,400 My own? 617 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:42,400 Naturally. 618 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,400 If you'd been cold sober, you might have made a mistake. 619 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:48,400 But your instinct brought you home to your own flat. 620 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:51,400 And the only possible murderer is the man who shares that flat with you. 621 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:54,400 The man who thought you'd be away until daylight. 622 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:58,400 The man who knows enough about Denham's business affairs to plan this swindle against Duroc. 623 00:27:58,400 --> 00:27:59,400 Look out, Inspector Braddock! 624 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:00,400 Grab him, Sergeant! 625 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:01,400 Oh, damn it! 626 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:07,400 Thomas Evans, I arrest you for the murder of Pierre Duroc. 627 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:09,400 Good Lord! 628 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:12,400 Evans! 629 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,400 Well, that's about all there is to the story. 630 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:22,400 Anita and I were married last week. 631 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:24,400 She's a wonderful girl. 632 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:27,400 I tried to talk her into our staying on in my old flat, 633 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:33,400 but she said she just had to have an apartment which didn't have such a habit of disappearing. 634 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:34,400 But we're very happy. 635 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:37,400 We agree about everything, don't we, dear? 636 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:39,400 We agree about practically everything, darling. 637 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:44,400 But I still don't think it was cute of Pheephee to send up three dozen canaries for a wedding present. 638 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:03,400 And so closes Five Canaries in the Room, starring Ona Munson, Lee Bowman, and Osa Masson. 639 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:05,400 Tonight's tale of... 640 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:06,400 ...suspense. 641 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:14,400 This is your narrator, the man in black, who conveys to you Columbia's invitation to spend this half hour in suspense with us again next Tuesday, 642 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:19,400 when our suspence play will be Last Night by Cornell Woolrich, 643 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,400 and will star more of your Hollywood favorites. 644 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:26,400 The producer of these broadcasts is William Spear, 645 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:31,400 who with Ted Bliss, the director, Lud Gluskin, and Lucian Marwick, conductor and composer, 646 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:37,400 and John Dixon Carr, the author, collaborated on tonight's suspense. 647 00:29:37,400 --> 00:30:05,400 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.