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01:09.200 News and views in the world of art. 01:09.200 --> 01:13.320 Yesterday at the Dovel Galleries, a record-breaking crowd attended one of the most sensational 01:13.320 --> 01:15.400 exhibitions of recent years. 01:15.400 --> 01:20.960 Masterpiece of the show is a portrait by James Dorrance titled The Name of the Beast. 01:20.960 --> 01:25.800 This is savagely candid work, a face from which violence has shattered the last vestige 01:25.800 --> 01:27.400 of humanity. 01:27.400 --> 01:31.840 The tragic circumstances of the artist's death are too well known to review here. 01:31.840 --> 01:37.920 But at the same time, one cannot help speculating upon the essential mystery surrounding this 01:37.920 --> 01:40.240 remarkable canvas. 01:40.240 --> 01:50.720 What is The Name of the Beast? 01:50.720 --> 01:54.240 The name of the beast was Krebs, Elmer Krebs. 01:54.240 --> 01:58.760 I found him in an evil waterfront dive, took him to my studio and made the first sketch 01:58.760 --> 02:00.640 for the portrait that night. 02:00.640 --> 02:04.200 I gave him money and he promised to return the next day. 02:04.200 --> 02:06.640 When he didn't show up, I went in search of him. 02:06.640 --> 02:08.400 It wasn't hard to trace. 02:08.400 --> 02:15.400 My search came to an end in a squalid room of a waterfront hotel. 02:15.400 --> 02:19.520 He didn't look up when I entered the room, but continued to sit there on the sagging, 02:19.520 --> 02:24.680 dingy bedstead, holding his head in his hands and gently moaning. 02:24.680 --> 02:30.600 I crossed the room and raised the blind to let in the daylight. 02:30.600 --> 02:32.040 Then I saw it. 02:32.040 --> 02:36.400 Blood on his hands, on his shirt front, in his hair and beard. 02:36.400 --> 02:44.800 A horrible, sticky mass of blood. 02:44.800 --> 02:47.960 You didn't show up for our appointment today. 02:47.960 --> 02:49.880 I'm the painter you met last night. 02:49.880 --> 02:50.880 Remember? 02:50.880 --> 02:51.880 You were going to sit for a portrait. 02:51.880 --> 02:52.880 What do you want? 02:52.880 --> 02:54.720 You want your money back? 02:54.720 --> 02:55.720 Certainly not. 02:55.720 --> 02:56.720 I want to finish my painting. 02:56.720 --> 02:58.000 I want you to come back to the studio. 02:58.000 --> 02:59.360 That must be crazy. 02:59.360 --> 03:02.200 Look here, it's very important for me to finish that painting. 03:02.200 --> 03:03.760 I'll make it worth your while. 03:03.760 --> 03:04.760 Money? 03:04.760 --> 03:06.480 I don't need money. 03:06.480 --> 03:08.320 Not anymore. 03:08.320 --> 03:10.280 Maybe I can help you in some other way. 03:10.280 --> 03:12.240 You're in some kind of trouble, that's obvious. 03:12.240 --> 03:13.920 What business is that of yours? 03:13.920 --> 03:15.320 You better wake up and pull yourself together. 03:15.320 --> 03:18.160 We'll have to get rid of those clothes some way or other. 03:18.160 --> 03:19.880 Hell, I'll think of some way. 03:19.880 --> 03:20.880 What happened? 03:20.880 --> 03:21.880 I told you it's none of your business. 03:21.880 --> 03:24.400 Why don't you leave me alone? 03:24.400 --> 03:27.600 I'm sick, all that blood. 03:27.600 --> 03:31.440 The first thing we must do is clean up this mess here and get those clothes off. 03:31.440 --> 03:33.000 And the shoes too. 03:33.000 --> 03:36.560 I'll make a parcel out of them and dump them in the river after dark. 03:36.560 --> 03:37.880 You better shave off that beard too. 03:37.880 --> 03:40.120 They'll be looking for a man with a beard, you know. 03:40.120 --> 03:41.120 Who will? 03:41.120 --> 03:42.120 By the police, of course. 03:42.120 --> 03:43.880 What makes you so sure of that? 03:43.880 --> 03:46.320 I know more about you than you think I do. 03:46.320 --> 03:47.560 You're bluffing. 03:47.560 --> 03:49.120 Maybe, maybe not. 03:49.120 --> 03:51.880 But you're in no position to take chances. 03:51.880 --> 03:53.920 For all you know, I might be a witness. 03:53.920 --> 03:55.120 I might have seen you kill... 03:55.120 --> 03:56.120 Shut up! 03:56.120 --> 03:57.120 Temper, temper. 03:57.120 --> 03:58.120 I told you I'm sick. 03:58.120 --> 04:01.120 I'm liable to do anything. 04:01.120 --> 04:04.160 It wouldn't be smart for you to do anything to me, Elmer. 04:04.160 --> 04:06.480 I'm your only hope, you know that, don't you? 04:06.480 --> 04:08.240 You lost your head, you were clumsy. 04:08.240 --> 04:10.800 To get away with murder, you need a clear head. 04:10.800 --> 04:12.940 Look at the mistakes you've made already. 04:12.940 --> 04:13.940 Not all over you. 04:13.940 --> 04:16.080 As good as a rope around your neck. 04:16.080 --> 04:19.200 Where did you hide the loot? 04:19.200 --> 04:20.200 That's what you're after. 04:20.200 --> 04:21.760 Then it was robbery. 04:21.760 --> 04:22.760 Somewhere close by too. 04:22.760 --> 04:26.640 Couldn't have gone far with all that blood on you without attracting attention. 04:26.640 --> 04:27.640 Well? 04:27.640 --> 04:30.200 It was in a shop, I imagine. 04:30.200 --> 04:32.560 That means they probably won't find the body till Monday morning. 04:32.560 --> 04:33.560 What's all this third degree? 04:33.560 --> 04:34.560 You with the police? 04:34.560 --> 04:35.560 On the contrary, Elmer. 04:35.560 --> 04:38.080 I'm going to save you from the police. 04:38.080 --> 04:39.080 Hmm? 04:39.080 --> 04:40.660 I told you. 04:40.660 --> 04:43.360 I want to finish painting that portrait of you. 04:43.360 --> 04:45.720 It don't make sense. 04:45.720 --> 04:47.320 All it's just to paint some crazy picture. 04:47.320 --> 04:49.520 Ah, but what a picture, Elmer. 04:49.520 --> 04:52.600 I've waited 20 years to paint this picture. 04:52.600 --> 04:55.840 Everything I've ever painted has been merely the preparation for this. 04:55.840 --> 04:57.640 I've worked alone. 04:57.640 --> 05:00.200 Never exhibited a single canvas. 05:00.200 --> 05:01.920 Do you know what it is to work alone? 05:01.920 --> 05:03.680 Yeah, I know. 05:03.680 --> 05:08.200 Nobody knows your name, but one day quite suddenly a masterpiece explodes in the face 05:08.200 --> 05:09.920 of a jaded world. 05:09.920 --> 05:11.520 Like your murder, Elmer. 05:11.520 --> 05:15.600 After a life of petty crime, at last an act of yours really means something. 05:15.600 --> 05:16.720 Newspapers will headline it. 05:16.720 --> 05:19.680 The whole world will be clamoring to know your name. 05:19.680 --> 05:21.040 Exciting, isn't it? 05:21.040 --> 05:22.040 Exciting? 05:22.040 --> 05:23.800 Well, that's the way I feel about this portrait. 05:23.800 --> 05:24.800 I must finish the job. 05:24.800 --> 05:25.800 Just a two-hour to finish. 05:25.800 --> 05:29.000 How do I know you won't take those clothes to the cops instead of dumping them? 05:29.000 --> 05:32.640 I'm taking a terrible chance walking out of here with a bundle of blood-stained clothes, 05:32.640 --> 05:33.640 as it is. 05:33.640 --> 05:36.800 They'd fit me about as well as they fit you. 05:36.800 --> 05:39.720 Okay, that's fair enough. 05:39.720 --> 05:42.840 By the way, where did it happen? 05:42.840 --> 05:45.980 A hawk shop, number 23, next to the alley. 05:45.980 --> 05:46.980 Was it necessary to... 05:46.980 --> 05:49.400 An old man came in and started firing a revolver right off. 05:49.400 --> 05:50.760 I don't pack no rod. 05:50.760 --> 05:52.880 There was nothing else to do. 05:52.880 --> 05:55.520 I grabbed the fire axe off the wall. 05:55.520 --> 05:56.520 Oh, my. 05:56.520 --> 06:00.120 And I suppose the police have your fingerprints on file? 06:00.120 --> 06:02.240 Yeah, I'd done time once. 06:02.240 --> 06:03.560 What did you do with the axe? 06:03.560 --> 06:05.000 Just dropped it there. 06:05.000 --> 06:06.600 I was sick, all that blood. 06:06.600 --> 06:09.640 I suppose you left nice red fingerprints all over the place. 06:09.640 --> 06:11.920 I didn't touch nothing. 06:11.920 --> 06:13.640 Maybe the windowsill going out. 06:13.640 --> 06:15.080 That's the first place they'll look. 06:15.080 --> 06:17.520 And you're obviously in no condition to go back there now. 06:17.520 --> 06:18.960 What are you trying to do? 06:18.960 --> 06:21.020 Buy yourself a nice murder rap? 06:21.020 --> 06:25.680 My dear fellow, any intelligent man can get away with murder if he keeps his wits about 06:25.680 --> 06:26.680 him. 06:26.680 --> 06:29.340 You ought to be very grateful to me, Elmer. 06:29.340 --> 06:45.780 I'm going to take your clumsy crime and make it into a work of art. 06:45.780 --> 06:50.880 For Suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you as star Vincent Price in The Name of the Beast 06:50.880 --> 06:52.440 by Robert Tolman. 06:52.440 --> 07:05.400 Roma Wines presentation tonight in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 07:05.400 --> 07:09.680 Between the acts of suspense, this is Truman Bradley for Roma Wines. 07:09.680 --> 07:14.600 Yesterday, a happily married friend told me one of his favorite 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counters to the rear of the shop. 09:07.080 --> 09:11.200 A pair of dusty portheads provided it from the back room. 09:11.200 --> 09:15.160 I pulled them two behind me and snapped on my flashlight. 09:15.160 --> 09:20.800 The body, or what was left of it, lay in a heap in the center of the room. 09:20.800 --> 09:24.680 The floor, well, it was lucky I hadn't worn my own shoes. 09:24.680 --> 09:28.800 There would be tracks out of that place, red tracks. 09:28.800 --> 09:31.660 The axe lay near the old man's head. 09:31.660 --> 09:34.400 I picked up the axe and carried it over to the sink. 09:34.400 --> 09:39.200 I washed off what I could and smeared out the prints with cotton gloves on my hands. 09:39.200 --> 09:43.360 Then I made a quick circuit of the room, taking in every surface. 09:43.360 --> 09:48.080 With the wet gloves, I smeared the prints on the safe handle, the windowsill, and the 09:48.080 --> 09:51.440 jimmy the murderer had so stupidly left behind him. 09:51.440 --> 09:54.800 Then I dropped the cotton gloves on the floor and left them there. 09:54.800 --> 09:58.320 No way to trace a pair of cheap cotton gloves. 09:58.320 --> 10:04.440 Now there was only one last thing to do, walk around the block to dry the soles of those 10:04.440 --> 10:09.360 shoes and burn them in the stove when I got back to my studio. 10:09.360 --> 10:17.320 The handiwork of the beast would remain, but the name of the beast had been expunged. 10:17.320 --> 10:26.920 But I didn't burn the shoes, nor did I throw that bundle of clothing into the river as 10:26.920 --> 10:29.520 I had first planned to do that night. 10:29.520 --> 10:31.760 No, no. 10:31.760 --> 10:46.600 This would be an authentic portrait of a murderer in the very bloodstained garments of his crime. 10:46.600 --> 10:47.960 That will be all for today, Elmer. 10:47.960 --> 10:50.040 How much longer is this going on? 10:50.040 --> 10:51.480 Until the painting is finished. 10:51.480 --> 10:57.440 You can't set a time limit on the completion of a masterpiece, you know. 10:57.440 --> 11:01.280 Don't look much like me. 11:01.280 --> 11:02.280 You've forgotten. 11:02.280 --> 11:04.760 I made the first sketch before you shaved off your beard. 11:04.760 --> 11:05.760 I don't like this picture. 11:05.760 --> 11:08.400 Did you have to paint in all that blood? 11:08.400 --> 11:11.880 My dear fellow, no one in the world would ever recognize you as the man with the beard 11:11.880 --> 11:12.880 in this painting. 11:12.880 --> 11:13.880 I don't like this picture. 11:13.880 --> 11:15.520 I don't like staying here. 11:15.520 --> 11:16.640 Look, what about that stuff? 11:16.640 --> 11:17.960 When can I start cashing in on it? 11:17.960 --> 11:20.160 I should have thought I was paying you enough to live on. 11:20.160 --> 11:22.280 I suppose I want to get married. 11:22.280 --> 11:23.280 Well, the... 11:23.280 --> 11:24.280 What? 11:24.280 --> 11:25.280 Oh, good Lord, man. 11:25.280 --> 11:26.360 You mustn't even consider it. 11:26.360 --> 11:28.680 In the first place, I can't afford to support another person. 11:28.680 --> 11:30.800 Who's asking you to support anybody? 11:30.800 --> 11:31.800 I got that stuff, haven't I? 11:31.800 --> 11:32.800 Well, I'm going to cash it in. 11:32.800 --> 11:33.800 That's all. 11:33.800 --> 11:34.860 Listen to me, Elmer. 11:34.860 --> 11:38.960 If you try to unload as much as one piece of that loot, the police will be on your tail 11:38.960 --> 11:39.960 so fast. 11:39.960 --> 11:41.640 Oh, no, my friend. 11:41.640 --> 11:44.080 That stuff has got to stay where it is for some time to come. 11:44.080 --> 11:49.240 You're just saying that so I'll have to depend on you so you can paint that lousy picture. 11:49.240 --> 11:50.240 Really? 11:50.240 --> 11:56.120 Oh, by the way, Elmer, I've never said anything about it before, but you never told me exactly 11:56.120 --> 11:57.800 what you did do with the loot. 11:57.800 --> 11:59.160 The suitcase, I told you. 11:59.160 --> 12:05.400 Yes, I know, in a locker at Grand Central, but where's the ticket? 12:05.400 --> 12:06.400 That's one secret I'm keeping. 12:06.400 --> 12:07.400 Well, all right. 12:07.400 --> 12:11.680 But you will promise me not to unload those jewels. 12:11.680 --> 12:12.680 Not for a while yet. 12:12.680 --> 12:13.680 She keeps asking me, when are we going to get married? 12:13.680 --> 12:14.920 What am I going to tell her? 12:14.920 --> 12:17.480 Oh, by the way, who is the lucky lady? 12:17.480 --> 12:18.480 Jeannie. 12:18.480 --> 12:19.480 Her name's Jeannie Baker. 12:19.480 --> 12:22.160 Hey, wait a minute, though. 12:22.160 --> 12:23.840 She don't know anything about me. 12:23.840 --> 12:24.840 Not anything. 12:24.840 --> 12:32.000 If I ever catch you talking to her, so help me, I'll kill you. 12:32.000 --> 12:40.880 You say you're a friend of Elmer's? 12:40.880 --> 12:43.440 Well, not a friend exactly. 12:43.440 --> 12:46.600 I'm afraid this will be rather a shock to you. 12:46.600 --> 12:48.720 You're very close to Mr. Krebs. 12:48.720 --> 12:51.080 We're engaged to be married. 12:51.080 --> 12:52.080 What is it? 12:52.080 --> 12:54.280 Is he in some kind of trouble? 12:54.280 --> 12:55.280 Are you a detective? 12:55.280 --> 12:56.280 Well, not exactly. 12:56.280 --> 12:59.040 You see, I represent the insurance company. 12:59.040 --> 13:00.040 What insurance company? 13:00.040 --> 13:01.040 State indemnity. 13:01.040 --> 13:04.160 Our policy holder doesn't want to prosecute, but at the same time... 13:04.160 --> 13:05.160 Prosecute? 13:05.160 --> 13:08.960 Well, after all, the jewels were of considerable value. 13:08.960 --> 13:09.960 What jewels? 13:09.960 --> 13:13.080 Why, the jewels in the suitcase, in the locker at Grand Central. 13:13.080 --> 13:14.960 He did leave the ticket with you, didn't he? 13:14.960 --> 13:17.600 Well, yes, but I mean, he didn't tell me that... 13:17.600 --> 13:21.720 Well, he did say it was valuable and he didn't want to risk losing the ticket, but... 13:21.720 --> 13:23.800 How did you know about it? 13:23.800 --> 13:29.040 My dear Miss Baker, we insurance investigators have ways of finding out these things. 13:29.040 --> 13:33.720 Now then, if you're a sensible young woman, and I can see that you're not only a sensible 13:33.720 --> 13:36.800 young woman, but a very beautiful one as well. 13:36.800 --> 13:38.320 Mr. Dorrance, what has he done? 13:38.320 --> 13:44.320 Well, I don't think he regarded it as a theft exactly, more of a loan in all probability. 13:44.320 --> 13:46.680 After all, his aunt was a very old lady and... 13:46.680 --> 13:49.880 You mean he stole this jewelry from his aunt? 13:49.880 --> 13:53.840 Well, I wanted to spare you those exact words if I could. 13:53.840 --> 13:59.560 Actually, the lady would prefer not to prosecute, but of course, if we can secure the return 13:59.560 --> 14:01.080 of the property in no other way... 14:01.080 --> 14:05.120 I suppose I'd be arrested too as an accessory or something. 14:05.120 --> 14:10.200 I must say it was rather thoughtless of him to have involved you in this manner. 14:10.200 --> 14:12.040 How do I know you're what you say you are? 14:12.040 --> 14:17.680 I have credentials, of course, but I would rather take care of this unofficially, especially 14:17.680 --> 14:23.120 since this little talk with you, you're much too fine a person to be involved in a sordid 14:23.120 --> 14:24.800 affair like this. 14:24.800 --> 14:28.360 I don't even know that suitcase has any jewels in it. 14:28.360 --> 14:44.360 Then supposing we go there together and get it, Jeannie? 14:44.360 --> 14:46.920 Well now, now let's have a look. 14:46.920 --> 14:47.920 How are we going to... 14:47.920 --> 14:51.880 Well, I think I have a key here that'll open it. 14:51.880 --> 14:52.880 There. 14:52.880 --> 14:53.880 What? 14:53.880 --> 14:56.520 Those must be worth a fortune. 14:56.520 --> 14:59.040 Yes, they are, Miss Baker. 14:59.040 --> 15:01.040 You understand our concern? 15:01.040 --> 15:02.040 Yes. 15:02.040 --> 15:03.640 Close it up. 15:03.640 --> 15:05.160 I don't want to look at it anymore. 15:05.160 --> 15:07.140 I'd like to have spared you this. 15:07.140 --> 15:11.960 You understand, of course, that I wouldn't dream of prosecuting, not now that I've met 15:11.960 --> 15:12.960 you. 15:12.960 --> 15:15.660 I don't know how to thank you, Mr. Dorrance. 15:15.660 --> 15:17.160 This is such a shock to me. 15:17.160 --> 15:18.160 How could he? 15:18.160 --> 15:19.160 How could he? 15:19.160 --> 15:20.160 There, there. 15:20.160 --> 15:26.300 You're not the first innocent girl to be deceived by an unscrupulous fellow like that. 15:26.300 --> 15:30.320 How did you happen to become involved with him in the first place? 15:30.320 --> 15:31.320 I was lonely. 15:31.320 --> 15:34.140 I have no friends here, and he came into the cafe where I wait- 15:34.140 --> 15:35.140 Oh, there, there now. 15:35.140 --> 15:38.240 You won't let anything happen to me. 15:38.240 --> 15:52.080 I promise you I'll do anything to keep you from knowing another moment's unhappiness. 15:52.080 --> 15:55.080 That night I worked feverishly like a man possessed. 15:55.080 --> 16:00.080 But as I worked, an uncanny change came over the man in the portrait. 16:00.080 --> 16:04.400 There was something about it, something that terrified and at the same time fascinated 16:04.400 --> 16:05.400 me. 16:05.400 --> 16:09.280 Yet the more I tried to make it come right, the less it really looked like Krebs. 16:09.280 --> 16:15.000 I began to regret I had had him shave his beard in spite of the risk involved. 16:15.000 --> 16:18.360 Being clean-shaven altered a man's appearance more than I thought. 16:18.360 --> 16:20.920 But that wasn't the real difficulty. 16:20.920 --> 16:25.400 The real trouble was Jeannie Baker. 16:25.400 --> 16:28.320 How could she ever have loved a beast like Krebs? 16:28.320 --> 16:31.560 A girl so gentle, so lovely. 16:31.560 --> 16:36.560 I tried not to think of her, but the image of Jeannie stood between me and the canvas, 16:36.560 --> 16:40.240 and the painting just would not come right. 16:40.240 --> 16:44.440 This Krebs sat there suddenly posing for me, his eyes began to grow more and more cunning 16:44.440 --> 16:48.080 and suspicious, as though he could actually read my thoughts. 16:48.080 --> 16:52.880 He would jump up every time I laid down my brush and circled the portrait like an infuriated 16:52.880 --> 17:00.240 animal, until finally, around four in the morning, he dropped off to snoring. 17:00.240 --> 17:01.800 I let him stay there. 17:01.800 --> 17:06.800 In the dawn light, I looked at the picture for the last time and draped the easel to 17:06.800 --> 17:09.220 shut it out of my sight. 17:09.220 --> 17:15.400 My masterpiece, for which I had become accessory after the fact of one murder and sowed the 17:15.400 --> 17:21.680 seeds of a second, was, I knew it now deep in my heart, a failure. 17:21.680 --> 17:26.840 I was obsessed now with only one resolve, to prevent the second murder, which by some 17:26.840 --> 17:30.080 instinct I knew was in Krebs' mind. 17:30.080 --> 17:44.600 At whatever cost to myself, no harm must come to Jeannie. 17:44.600 --> 17:48.840 Mr. Dorrance, I've been told that artists are full of romantic notions and the Bureau 17:48.840 --> 17:52.080 has dealt with a number of them in this neighborhood, as you can well imagine. 17:52.080 --> 17:56.520 But I must say that of all the pipe dreams that have been brought to me, yours is the 17:56.520 --> 17:57.520 most fantastic. 17:57.520 --> 18:01.200 Oh, but listen, Inspector, you've got to believe me, that girl's life is in danger. 18:01.200 --> 18:03.000 Yeah, we're checking on that. 18:03.000 --> 18:06.400 Now, let's check on a few other things, Mr. Dorrance. 18:06.400 --> 18:10.440 You say that on the night of the 12th, you met this man Krebs at a place called Louis. 18:10.440 --> 18:11.440 Yes, sir. 18:11.440 --> 18:14.840 You went with him to your studio and made a sketch of him for a portrait. 18:14.840 --> 18:16.520 All right, so far so good. 18:16.520 --> 18:19.320 He promised to return the following day and sit again for the painting. 18:19.320 --> 18:23.320 He failed to show up, so you sought him out at his hotel. 18:23.320 --> 18:25.720 Now the story really becomes incredible. 18:25.720 --> 18:28.240 He tells you he's committed a ghastly murder. 18:28.240 --> 18:29.800 He's covered in blood. 18:29.800 --> 18:32.840 You offered to help him get away with the murder in order to finish the portrait. 18:32.840 --> 18:37.880 Oh, now really, Mr. Dorrance, you painters need publicity as bad as all that. 18:37.880 --> 18:40.040 But Inspector, I tell you, I have all the evidence. 18:40.040 --> 18:41.040 Where? 18:41.040 --> 18:42.040 In the studio. 18:42.040 --> 18:43.040 Where's this man Krebs? 18:43.040 --> 18:45.080 Except for the portrait, you say you painted of him. 18:45.080 --> 18:47.280 I can't find a shred of evidence that he exists. 18:47.280 --> 18:48.280 Oh, just a minute. 18:48.280 --> 18:49.280 Yes, Sergeant. 18:49.280 --> 18:50.280 They've picked up the girl. 18:50.280 --> 18:51.280 Good. 18:51.280 --> 18:52.280 Send her in. 18:52.280 --> 18:53.280 She'll tell you. 18:53.280 --> 18:55.280 She'll tell you who Krebs is. 18:55.280 --> 18:59.080 Oh, come in, Miss Baker. 18:59.080 --> 19:00.640 We won't detain you long. 19:00.640 --> 19:04.560 Miss Baker, do you know this man? 19:04.560 --> 19:06.200 I say, do you know this man? 19:06.200 --> 19:07.200 It's all right, my dear. 19:07.200 --> 19:08.200 Speak up. 19:08.200 --> 19:09.200 Yes. 19:09.200 --> 19:11.280 He's a man. 19:11.280 --> 19:14.920 His name is Elmer Krebs. 19:14.920 --> 19:22.200 A few minutes later, they let me go, dismissing me as a harmless crackpot. 19:22.200 --> 19:26.760 Jeannie walked out of the station with me, clinging to my arm with solicitude as one 19:26.760 --> 19:32.840 might act towards a beloved and mentally ill relative. 19:32.840 --> 19:33.840 Why did you do it? 19:33.840 --> 19:35.480 Elmer came to my apartment last night. 19:35.480 --> 19:36.480 He told me the whole story. 19:36.480 --> 19:37.480 But then why? 19:37.480 --> 19:40.640 He was boasting, boasting about how he's pinned the crime on you. 19:40.640 --> 19:42.080 Don't you see? 19:42.080 --> 19:46.120 Everything you've done to save him has incriminated you, the bloodstained clothes, even the loot. 19:46.120 --> 19:47.120 Oh, I'm tired. 19:47.120 --> 19:48.120 I don't know. 19:48.120 --> 19:49.120 Listen to me. 19:49.120 --> 19:52.520 He'll always be a threat to us, to our happiness. 19:52.520 --> 19:53.520 He's safe. 19:53.520 --> 19:54.680 The police don't even know he exists. 19:54.680 --> 19:55.960 They don't even know what he looks like. 19:55.960 --> 19:57.280 There's still the portrait. 19:57.280 --> 20:00.640 It's not a masterpiece, but they can identify him from it. 20:00.640 --> 20:02.680 I see. 20:02.680 --> 20:07.240 Darling, you didn't mind my rechristening you? 20:07.240 --> 20:09.940 You once loved a man named Krebs. 20:09.940 --> 20:12.260 And I still love a man named Krebs. 20:12.260 --> 20:13.260 And it's all right. 20:13.260 --> 20:14.880 For that, I'd do anything. 20:14.880 --> 20:17.320 Put this in your overcoat pocket. 20:17.320 --> 20:18.320 It'll keep you safe, darling. 20:18.320 --> 20:19.320 What? 20:19.320 --> 20:20.320 Oh, no, no. 20:20.320 --> 20:27.880 It'll keep you safe, darling. 20:27.880 --> 20:31.600 He was there in my studio when I got in that evening, waiting for me. 20:31.600 --> 20:33.640 I had more or less expected it. 20:33.640 --> 20:37.440 I hadn't expected to find him in such a cheerful frame of mind. 20:37.440 --> 20:42.260 He had pulled the drape off of the painting and was walking around it, viewing it from 20:42.260 --> 20:43.260 every angle. 20:43.260 --> 20:44.260 Hi, Dorrance. 20:44.260 --> 20:45.260 How did you get in here? 20:45.260 --> 20:46.260 Through the door. 20:46.260 --> 20:48.260 No more window jobs for me, Dorrance. 20:48.260 --> 20:49.260 The picture. 20:49.260 --> 20:50.260 How about that? 20:50.260 --> 20:51.760 Got a new model, huh? 20:51.760 --> 20:52.760 What? 20:52.760 --> 20:53.760 The picture? 20:53.760 --> 20:55.500 Oh, it's no good. 20:55.500 --> 20:56.680 By the way, it's finished now. 20:56.680 --> 20:57.680 You won't need to come here anymore. 20:57.680 --> 20:58.680 You say. 20:58.680 --> 21:00.160 I'll get you the suitcase. 21:00.160 --> 21:02.720 I suppose it'll be safe for you to cash that stuff in by this time. 21:02.720 --> 21:04.600 I already found the suitcase, Dorrance. 21:04.600 --> 21:05.600 Oh? 21:05.600 --> 21:06.600 Well, take it along with you, then. 21:06.600 --> 21:07.600 It's over there on the table. 21:07.600 --> 21:08.600 I opened it up. 21:08.600 --> 21:09.600 Well? 21:09.600 --> 21:11.640 Did you think I'd take it without checking on the contents? 21:11.640 --> 21:12.640 What are you talking about? 21:12.640 --> 21:13.640 What'd you do with the rocks, Dorrance? 21:13.640 --> 21:14.640 Rocks! 21:14.640 --> 21:15.640 You took the rocks, the jewelry. 21:15.640 --> 21:17.280 There's nothing left there but the settings, a pile of junk. 21:17.280 --> 21:21.200 Listen, Krebs, I swear I never opened that suitcase but once, just after we took it out 21:21.200 --> 21:22.200 of the locker. 21:22.200 --> 21:23.200 We? 21:23.200 --> 21:24.200 She's in it with you. 21:24.200 --> 21:28.680 Listen, Krebs, you can think whatever you want to about me, but keep Jeannie out of 21:28.680 --> 21:29.680 it. 21:29.680 --> 21:30.680 I keep Jeannie out of it? 21:30.680 --> 21:31.680 That's a lass. 21:31.680 --> 21:32.680 Listen to what I say. 21:32.680 --> 21:33.680 Krebs, where are you going? 21:33.680 --> 21:34.680 To her place. 21:34.680 --> 21:36.680 If she has those rocks, I'm gonna get her. 21:36.680 --> 21:37.680 Krebs, come back here. 21:37.680 --> 21:38.680 I've got a job to do. 21:38.680 --> 21:41.680 Krebs, if you go out of that door, I warn you. 21:41.680 --> 21:42.680 All right. 21:42.680 --> 21:47.680 You're out of your mind! 21:47.680 --> 21:54.520 I dragged his body inside the door and left it there. 21:54.520 --> 21:59.320 Then I dropped the revolver Jeannie had given me back in my overcoat pocket and left my 21:59.320 --> 22:03.080 studio for the last time. 22:03.080 --> 22:08.360 As I closed the door on the room, it seemed that the face in the portrait was grinning 22:08.360 --> 22:10.360 at me in hideous mockery. 22:10.360 --> 22:16.960 I had meant to go straight to the police and give myself up, but I must have known in my 22:16.960 --> 22:18.760 heart that I wouldn't. 22:18.760 --> 22:25.320 Instead, I walked and my feet took me almost against my will to the house on Grove Street, 22:25.320 --> 22:28.480 the house where Jeannie lived. 22:28.480 --> 22:33.200 I had roused her from sleep and she seemed rather cross. 22:33.200 --> 22:36.000 What's the big idea barging in here this time of night? 22:36.000 --> 22:38.000 I had to see you, Jeannie. 22:38.000 --> 22:39.000 Well? 22:39.000 --> 22:41.800 That was an unlucky name you gave me, Jeannie. 22:41.800 --> 22:42.800 What's happened? 22:42.800 --> 22:44.600 I shot him. 22:44.600 --> 22:48.680 You gave me a murderer's name and now I am a murderer. 22:48.680 --> 22:50.200 So you really did it. 22:50.200 --> 22:51.720 I wondered if you'd have the guts. 22:51.720 --> 22:52.720 Jeannie! 22:52.720 --> 22:53.720 Oh, Jeannie! 22:53.720 --> 22:56.400 What do you want me to do, put on black and cry myself to death? 22:56.400 --> 22:57.400 You loved him once. 22:57.400 --> 22:58.400 Who said so? 22:58.400 --> 22:59.840 You were going to marry him. 22:59.840 --> 23:00.840 Maybe. 23:00.840 --> 23:02.680 I thought he was smart once. 23:02.680 --> 23:05.000 I said I'd marry him if he pulled a really big job. 23:05.000 --> 23:07.880 I might have kept my word, but he bungled it. 23:07.880 --> 23:08.920 What's worse, he involved me. 23:08.920 --> 23:10.680 When I found out he'd planted that stuff on me. 23:10.680 --> 23:11.680 You knew. 23:11.680 --> 23:12.680 You knew all the time. 23:12.680 --> 23:13.680 Oh, so what? 23:13.680 --> 23:14.680 So what? 23:14.680 --> 23:15.680 You'll get your cut. 23:15.680 --> 23:17.960 Oh, Krebs was right. 23:17.960 --> 23:24.160 You did take those stones and I killed a man for you, to save you. 23:24.160 --> 23:25.160 What did you do with the gun? 23:25.160 --> 23:26.840 It's in my overcoat pocket. 23:26.840 --> 23:27.840 I was going to the police. 23:27.840 --> 23:28.840 Oh, you sap. 23:28.840 --> 23:31.160 Why didn't you leave the gun there? 23:31.160 --> 23:32.160 Make it look like suicide. 23:32.160 --> 23:35.800 It was, in a way, wasn't it, Jeannie? 23:35.800 --> 23:37.480 I'm Krebs now. 23:37.480 --> 23:38.480 Dorrance is dead. 23:38.480 --> 23:40.520 You planned it very nicely. 23:40.520 --> 23:41.520 Oh, stop. 23:41.520 --> 23:42.520 Stop trying to be deep. 23:42.520 --> 23:44.400 It doesn't matter what your name is. 23:44.400 --> 23:46.480 Either way, you've messed it up. 23:46.480 --> 23:47.480 Anybody have a key to your place? 23:47.480 --> 23:48.480 No. 23:48.480 --> 23:49.480 And we still have time. 23:49.480 --> 23:50.480 Time for what? 23:50.480 --> 23:51.480 The body. 23:51.480 --> 23:55.080 Any intelligent person can get away with murder if he keeps his wits about him. 23:55.080 --> 23:56.080 You told Elmer that. 23:56.080 --> 23:57.960 Yes, I told Elmer that. 23:57.960 --> 24:00.040 You're scared to go back there, aren't you? 24:00.040 --> 24:01.960 Do you want me to do it for you? 24:01.960 --> 24:02.960 No. 24:02.960 --> 24:03.960 No, I'll do it. 24:03.960 --> 24:04.960 I must do it. 24:04.960 --> 24:05.960 Here. 24:05.960 --> 24:06.960 You mustn't forget your overcoat. 24:06.960 --> 24:07.960 No. 24:07.960 --> 24:12.120 No, I mustn't forget my overcoat. 24:12.120 --> 24:13.120 It'll keep me... 24:13.120 --> 24:16.120 It'll keep me safe. 24:16.120 --> 24:29.280 Goodbye, Jeannie. 24:29.280 --> 24:30.280 Two stiffs. 24:30.280 --> 24:31.280 What a shambles. 24:31.280 --> 24:34.800 Looks as if he chopped this guy and then bumped himself off. 24:34.800 --> 24:35.800 Who are they? 24:35.800 --> 24:36.800 I don't know the other one. 24:36.800 --> 24:38.560 This is the guy that came in the headquarters Saturday. 24:38.560 --> 24:39.560 You know, the artist. 24:39.560 --> 24:40.560 Huh? 24:40.560 --> 24:44.480 Boy, that must have been something to his story after all. 24:44.480 --> 24:45.480 Here's a note he left. 24:45.480 --> 24:50.040 Hey, dear Inspector, the portrait I told you about is standing on the easel facing the 24:50.040 --> 24:51.520 window so you can see it in the light. 24:51.520 --> 24:52.520 James Dorrance. 24:52.520 --> 24:54.440 I guess this must be it here. 24:54.440 --> 24:56.560 He said it'd identify the murderer. 24:56.560 --> 24:57.560 Is it a good likeness? 24:57.560 --> 24:59.720 Gee, I don't know. 24:59.720 --> 25:00.720 You look at it. 25:00.720 --> 25:01.720 Ah. 25:01.720 --> 25:02.720 Why, it's a woman. 25:02.720 --> 25:06.600 Yeah, it's that dame we picked up. 25:06.600 --> 25:07.600 The little waitress. 25:07.600 --> 25:11.520 Hey, but look, it's got men's clothes on. 25:11.520 --> 25:12.520 Bloody. 25:12.520 --> 25:16.360 And the way he's made the face all twisted and ugly. 25:16.360 --> 25:17.360 She was a good looking kid. 25:17.360 --> 25:18.360 Yeah, she was. 25:18.360 --> 25:19.360 He must have been cracked. 25:19.360 --> 25:20.360 I guess he must have been. 25:20.360 --> 25:23.760 A thing like that makes you wonder, don't it? 25:23.760 --> 25:35.720 Yeah, a thing like that makes you wonder. 25:35.720 --> 25:41.160 The discerning art lover will recognize Dorrance's painting as more than a mere portrait. 25:41.160 --> 25:46.920 It's the human soul stripped naked and 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