WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:02.000 Would you hand me that, please? 00:02.000 --> 00:04.000 Thank you. 00:04.000 --> 00:06.000 Now, let's see. 00:06.000 --> 00:08.000 Survey, survive, 00:08.000 --> 00:10.000 Susanna, suspect. 00:10.000 --> 00:12.000 Ah, here we are. 00:12.000 --> 00:14.000 Suspense, 00:14.000 --> 00:16.000 meaning held in doubt, 00:16.000 --> 00:18.000 expressing doubt, the state of being 00:18.000 --> 00:20.000 uncertain, undecided, or insecure. 00:20.000 --> 00:22.000 State of anxious 00:22.000 --> 00:24.000 expectation, or waiting for information, 00:24.000 --> 00:26.000 such as 00:26.000 --> 00:28.000 to keep one in suspense, 00:28.000 --> 00:30.000 therefore delay acquainting him 00:30.000 --> 00:32.000 with what he is eager to know. 00:32.000 --> 00:34.000 Suspense! 00:40.000 --> 00:42.000 An hour of suspense now, 00:42.000 --> 00:44.000 a full sixty minutes at this time, 00:44.000 --> 00:46.000 and with the distinguished actor-director 00:46.000 --> 00:48.000 Robert Montgomery as your host. 00:48.000 --> 00:50.000 Tonight our star is Howard Duff, 00:50.000 --> 00:52.000 famous wherever radio is heard 00:52.000 --> 00:54.000 as Sam Spade, detective. 00:54.000 --> 00:56.000 And as Spade, he will appear 00:56.000 --> 00:58.000 in The Candy Tooth, 00:58.000 --> 01:00.000 a suspense play produced, edited, 01:00.000 --> 01:02.000 and directed by William Spear. 01:06.000 --> 01:08.000 This is Robert Montgomery. 01:08.000 --> 01:10.000 My pleasure and privilege it is 01:10.000 --> 01:12.000 to be here during this hour each week 01:12.000 --> 01:14.000 as a sort of guide, 01:14.000 --> 01:16.000 philosopher, and fiend. 01:16.000 --> 01:18.000 An accessory before and after the facts 01:18.000 --> 01:20.000 of crime and punishment, which calculatedly 01:20.000 --> 01:22.000 fill our minutes with suspense. 01:22.000 --> 01:24.000 This evening, before we chat a little 01:24.000 --> 01:26.000 about the private life of America's 01:26.000 --> 01:28.000 favorite private eye, let me on 01:28.000 --> 01:30.000 behalf of Mr. Spear and all of us, thank you 01:30.000 --> 01:32.000 sincerely for your wonderful letters and telegrams, 01:32.000 --> 01:34.000 expressing appreciation and 01:34.000 --> 01:36.000 interest in this new full hour 01:36.000 --> 01:38.000 presentation. It's wonderful 01:38.000 --> 01:40.000 fun to have sixty minutes to play with in 01:40.000 --> 01:42.000 radio drama. In our new double 01:42.000 --> 01:44.000 strength king-size format, 01:44.000 --> 01:46.000 we plan to bring you radio plays based 01:46.000 --> 01:48.000 on complete novels and on theatrical productions 01:48.000 --> 01:50.000 and pictures. Many of the 01:50.000 --> 01:52.000 best writers of this literature, James M. 01:52.000 --> 01:54.000 Kane, Dashiell Hammett, 01:54.000 --> 01:56.000 Raymond Chandler, Graham Greene, 01:56.000 --> 01:58.000 Eric Ambler, and Agatha Christie, have 01:58.000 --> 02:00.000 been happiest with a more spacious canvas 02:00.000 --> 02:02.000 upon which to display their characters 02:02.000 --> 02:04.000 of passion and purpose. 02:04.000 --> 02:06.000 With a full hour for our theater of thrills, 02:06.000 --> 02:08.000 we can give these authors a full stage 02:08.000 --> 02:10.000 on which to have their people play out 02:10.000 --> 02:12.000 their lusts and desires, their 02:12.000 --> 02:14.000 temptations and frustrations, 02:14.000 --> 02:16.000 their frantic fears and villainous triumphs, 02:16.000 --> 02:18.000 their descent into black 02:18.000 --> 02:20.000 and terror-laden bewilderment. 02:20.000 --> 02:22.000 Sometimes we find ourselves 02:22.000 --> 02:24.000 locked in the tortured brain of the 02:24.000 --> 02:26.000 scheming criminal. At other times, 02:26.000 --> 02:28.000 we know the dread of the hunted 02:28.000 --> 02:30.000 and hapless victim. But always 02:30.000 --> 02:32.000 the basic ingredient of suspense 02:32.000 --> 02:34.000 is not mechanical gadgetry, 02:34.000 --> 02:36.000 not the detectable piecing out 02:36.000 --> 02:38.000 of fingerprints and convenient clues. 02:38.000 --> 02:40.000 But always the basic ingredient 02:40.000 --> 02:42.000 is people, 02:42.000 --> 02:44.000 for people give us emotion, 02:44.000 --> 02:46.000 and emotion marks the high drama 02:46.000 --> 02:48.000 that cold logic can never achieve. 02:48.000 --> 02:50.000 Nowhere will you find 02:50.000 --> 02:52.000 stranger people, motives and situations 02:52.000 --> 02:54.000 than those that pass through the door 02:54.000 --> 02:56.000 of a little office in San Francisco's 02:56.000 --> 02:58.000 Post Street. The lettering on the 02:58.000 --> 03:00.000 door reads, Samuel Spade, 03:00.000 --> 03:02.000 Private Investigations. 03:02.000 --> 03:04.000 Once it read Spade and Archer, 03:04.000 --> 03:06.000 but that was before Miles Archer stopped 03:06.000 --> 03:08.000 a bullet and plunged Sam Spade 03:08.000 --> 03:10.000 into the greatest detective adventure of modern 03:10.000 --> 03:12.000 times, the search for the Maltese 03:12.000 --> 03:14.000 Falcon. It was literally a 03:14.000 --> 03:16.000 shot heard round the world, for it 03:16.000 --> 03:18.000 brought into prominence the name of Dashiell Hammett 03:18.000 --> 03:20.000 and the so-called Hardboiled 03:20.000 --> 03:22.000 School of Crime Detection. 03:22.000 --> 03:24.000 Since then, the fictional private eye 03:24.000 --> 03:26.000 has become a national institution. 03:26.000 --> 03:28.000 But Sam Spade still rules the roost. 03:28.000 --> 03:30.000 In book sales, in motion pictures, 03:30.000 --> 03:32.000 the Maltese Falcon has been filmed 03:32.000 --> 03:34.000 four times now. And now 03:34.000 --> 03:36.000 on the air, every Sunday night, 03:36.000 --> 03:38.000 in the adventures of Sam Spade, 03:38.000 --> 03:40.000 starring Howard Duff and produced 03:40.000 --> 03:42.000 by our very own Bill Spear. 03:42.000 --> 03:44.000 It's a great pleasure for me to introduce 03:44.000 --> 03:46.000 to our suspense audience now 03:46.000 --> 03:48.000 a young star from my home lot, 03:48.000 --> 03:50.000 Universal International, in the 03:50.000 --> 03:52.000 role with which he has become so closely 03:52.000 --> 03:54.000 identified that most of his fan mail 03:54.000 --> 03:56.000 is addressed to Sam Spade. 03:56.000 --> 03:58.000 Howard Duff. Thanks, Bob. 03:58.000 --> 04:00.000 I'd like to go on record right now as saying 04:00.000 --> 04:02.000 that any checks I may sign with the name 04:02.000 --> 04:04.000 Sam Spade will be accepted at your own risk. 04:04.000 --> 04:06.000 The detective business has been 04:06.000 --> 04:08.000 pretty good lately, I hear. How much 04:08.000 --> 04:10.000 did Sam make during 1947? 04:10.000 --> 04:12.000 Uh, F he would know. 04:12.000 --> 04:14.000 But no matter how much it was, it won't change 04:14.000 --> 04:16.000 Sam. He'll still do business 04:16.000 --> 04:18.000 at the same old stand in a rickety 04:18.000 --> 04:20.000 office building on Post Strait where the 04:20.000 --> 04:22.000 elevator seldom ever works and the janitor 04:22.000 --> 04:24.000 never ever works. As a matter of fact, 04:24.000 --> 04:26.000 I got into my Philip Marlowe pants this morning 04:26.000 --> 04:28.000 and did little Spade work on Spade myself. 04:28.000 --> 04:30.000 Don't stop me if I'm wrong, but 04:30.000 --> 04:32.000 here are some of the facts. F-A-X, 04:32.000 --> 04:34.000 facts. The way I dug them up. 04:34.000 --> 04:36.000 Age? Nobody talked. 04:36.000 --> 04:38.000 History? 04:38.000 --> 04:40.000 Mysterious, but was probably a Pinkerton man 04:40.000 --> 04:42.000 to start with. Height? 04:42.000 --> 04:44.000 Six feet in a small chunk. Weight? 04:44.000 --> 04:46.000 Enough muscle to go with his height. Hair? 04:46.000 --> 04:48.000 Dim out blonde. Eyes? 04:48.000 --> 04:50.000 Yellow gray. Unmarried. 04:50.000 --> 04:52.000 Lives alone in a small 04:52.000 --> 04:54.000 furnished apartment within walking distance 04:54.000 --> 04:56.000 of his office. Is economical to the point 04:56.000 --> 04:58.000 of, uh, well never takes a cab 04:58.000 --> 05:00.000 where street cars can get and has been 05:00.000 --> 05:02.000 known to walk where they can't get. 05:02.000 --> 05:04.000 Secretary? F.E. Perrine. 05:04.000 --> 05:06.000 The only person who really knows what makes 05:06.000 --> 05:08.000 Sam tick when he wants her to. 05:08.000 --> 05:10.000 Otherwise he's a lonely man 05:10.000 --> 05:12.000 who trusts no one, lives alone, 05:12.000 --> 05:14.000 and loves alone, and expects others 05:14.000 --> 05:16.000 to like it. Have I left anything out? 05:16.000 --> 05:18.000 Well, nothing you left out, Bob. 05:18.000 --> 05:20.000 Something you put in. It's not true that I 05:20.000 --> 05:22.000 don't trust anybody. I trust everybody. 05:22.000 --> 05:24.000 All my clients are honest until I prove 05:24.000 --> 05:26.000 otherwise. Maybe that's what's kept you in the private 05:26.000 --> 05:28.000 eye business all these years. That and 05:28.000 --> 05:30.000 the strong hatred that I have. Hatred? 05:30.000 --> 05:32.000 Yeah, for time clocks and the hours 05:32.000 --> 05:34.000 between nine and five. That's why I went 05:34.000 --> 05:36.000 into business for myself and that's what keeps me there. 05:36.000 --> 05:38.000 Then you regard it as a business, Sam, 05:38.000 --> 05:40.000 and not as an adventure. Well, when you break an arm 05:40.000 --> 05:42.000 in an adventure, the cost of setting it is not 05:42.000 --> 05:44.000 tax deductible. In a business it is. 05:44.000 --> 05:46.000 Yes, I see. 05:46.000 --> 05:48.000 How many cases have you had? And do you think 05:48.000 --> 05:50.000 all private dicks are clever? 05:50.000 --> 05:52.000 Well, I've had so many cases I can't 05:52.000 --> 05:54.000 remember them all. About 05:54.000 --> 05:56.000 being clever, I once knew an operative who 05:56.000 --> 05:58.000 was looking for pickpockets at 05:58.000 --> 06:00.000 Santa Anita race track had his wallet stolen. 06:00.000 --> 06:02.000 He later became a lieutenant 06:02.000 --> 06:04.000 at the Techers in Glendale. Sam, tell me, what was 06:04.000 --> 06:06.000 the most surprising thing that ever happened to you? 06:06.000 --> 06:08.000 The most surprising thing that ever happened 06:08.000 --> 06:10.000 to me was in 1936 in 06:10.000 --> 06:12.000 Washington, D.C. I met a young 06:12.000 --> 06:14.000 lady on a bus who did not remark that my 06:14.000 --> 06:16.000 work must be very interesting. Well, that's very 06:16.000 --> 06:18.000 interesting. Thanks a lot. 06:18.000 --> 06:20.000 But I guess my most 06:20.000 --> 06:22.000 exciting caper since the Maltese 06:22.000 --> 06:24.000 Falcon was the hugger-mugger 06:24.000 --> 06:26.000 over the candy tooth. 06:26.000 --> 06:28.000 Usually when I wind a caper I call 06:28.000 --> 06:30.000 Effie just to let her know I'm okay 06:30.000 --> 06:32.000 before I hustle down to the office to dictate my 06:32.000 --> 06:34.000 report to the client. But this time 06:34.000 --> 06:36.000 it was 4.30 in the morning before I could 06:36.000 --> 06:38.000 get to her phone. The reason was 06:38.000 --> 06:40.000 that I was in jail. 06:40.000 --> 06:42.000 Music 06:42.000 --> 06:44.000 Music 06:44.000 --> 06:46.000 Music 06:46.000 --> 06:48.000 Music 06:48.000 --> 06:50.000 Music 06:50.000 --> 06:52.000 Music 06:52.000 --> 06:54.000 Sounds Bay Detective Agency. Wake 06:54.000 --> 06:56.000 up, Angel. You're home in bed, not at the office. 06:56.000 --> 06:58.000 Huh? 06:58.000 --> 07:00.000 Sam, is that you, Sam? Mm-hmm. 07:00.000 --> 07:02.000 What time is it? 07:02.000 --> 07:04.000 4.30 in the morning. Are you up already? 07:04.000 --> 07:06.000 Effie, pull yourself together. Get dressed. 07:06.000 --> 07:08.000 Hustle down to the city jail. 07:08.000 --> 07:10.000 Sam, what happened? Well, that's what I gotta get on the record 07:10.000 --> 07:12.000 now while I'm still alive to do it. 07:12.000 --> 07:14.000 Grab a taxi and hustle on down. Bring a book, 07:14.000 --> 07:16.000 pencils, the encyclopedia that has the 07:16.000 --> 07:18.000 letter K in it and any old $20,000 07:18.000 --> 07:20.000 you got laying around. Sam, 07:20.000 --> 07:30.000 where am I gonna get pencils at this hour? 07:30.000 --> 07:32.000 Oh, Sam. 07:32.000 --> 07:34.000 Sam, I hurried just as fast as I could. 07:34.000 --> 07:36.000 There was no taxi around. 07:36.000 --> 07:38.000 What are you doing in jail? My apartment 07:38.000 --> 07:40.000 is being redecorated. Did you bring your book? 07:40.000 --> 07:42.000 Of course I did. And pencils, too. 07:42.000 --> 07:44.000 But you're here on a murder chart, Sam. 07:44.000 --> 07:46.000 Whatever could have happened to you. Take it down, Effie. 07:46.000 --> 07:48.000 But Sam, what did you do? The San Francisco Homicide 07:48.000 --> 07:50.000 Bureau, attention Detective Lieutenant Dundee. 07:50.000 --> 07:52.000 Date, uh, fill it in. 07:52.000 --> 07:54.000 From Samuel Spade, license number 07:54.000 --> 07:56.000 137596. Subject, 07:56.000 --> 07:58.000 the Candy Tooth Caper. 07:58.000 --> 08:00.000 Dear Dundee, 08:00.000 --> 08:02.000 I don't know all the answers, not yet. 08:02.000 --> 08:04.000 What I do know is going down on paper 08:04.000 --> 08:06.000 while I'm still alive to get it there. 08:06.000 --> 08:08.000 Oh, Sam. The scenario runs 08:08.000 --> 08:10.000 something like this. This morning 08:10.000 --> 08:12.000 a telegram came to my office. 08:12.000 --> 08:14.000 It was addressed to Samuel Spade 08:14.000 --> 08:16.000 Esquire and it was signed 08:16.000 --> 08:18.000 Casper Gutman. 08:18.000 --> 08:20.000 Gutman, the Fat Man. 08:26.000 --> 08:28.000 So far as I knew, Dundee, when you closed 08:28.000 --> 08:30.000 your books on the Maltese Falcon Capers 08:30.000 --> 08:32.000 seven years ago, Gutman was ended as dead. 08:32.000 --> 08:34.000 First I 08:34.000 --> 08:36.000 thought the telegram was somebody's idea of a joke. 08:36.000 --> 08:38.000 But when I read it through 08:38.000 --> 08:40.000 the second time, I knew it was no joke. 08:40.000 --> 08:42.000 There's nobody else who thinks 08:42.000 --> 08:44.000 or talks or writes like Casper 08:44.000 --> 08:46.000 Gutman. My dear Mr. Spade, 08:46.000 --> 08:48.000 you will no doubt receive 08:48.000 --> 08:50.000 with mixed emotions the news of my 08:50.000 --> 08:52.000 imminent reappearance in the city of the Golden Gate. 08:52.000 --> 08:54.000 Hence the companion dispatch 08:54.000 --> 08:56.000 of a telegraphic draft and the amount of 08:56.000 --> 08:58.000 one thousand dollars, which you are 08:58.000 --> 09:00.000 free to convert into coin of the realm. 09:00.000 --> 09:02.000 This trifling sum, sir, is merely 09:02.000 --> 09:04.000 a token of my esteem for a man of many 09:04.000 --> 09:06.000 resources and nice judgments. 09:06.000 --> 09:08.000 And for it I do not require 09:08.000 --> 09:10.000 any specific service. 09:10.000 --> 09:12.000 However, if you feel so disposed, sir, 09:12.000 --> 09:14.000 you are free to accept my considered advice 09:14.000 --> 09:16.000 in the matter of an invidious pair 09:16.000 --> 09:18.000 of rogues. To wit, 09:18.000 --> 09:20.000 one Lawrence Laverne, DDS, 09:20.000 --> 09:22.000 and or Hope Laverne, 09:22.000 --> 09:24.000 whose charms and aliases 09:24.000 --> 09:26.000 are far too myriad to enumerate in this 09:26.000 --> 09:28.000 necessarily abbreviated communication. 09:28.000 --> 09:30.000 Should either or both of these persons 09:30.000 --> 09:32.000 approach you, beware the 09:32.000 --> 09:34.000 hidden tooth. Believe me, sir, 09:34.000 --> 09:36.000 they are untruthful, unreliable 09:36.000 --> 09:38.000 and totally devoid of all moral sensibilities. 09:38.000 --> 09:40.000 I count upon you to make 09:40.000 --> 09:42.000 no commitments to them or anyone else 09:42.000 --> 09:44.000 until you have heard my proposition. 09:44.000 --> 09:46.000 This I hope to lay before you when I 09:46.000 --> 09:48.000 arrive in San Francisco this very 09:48.000 --> 09:50.000 evening. Dear Joel, sense 09:50.000 --> 09:52.000 regards. I remain your obedient servant 09:52.000 --> 09:54.000 Caspar Gutman. 09:54.000 --> 09:56.000 Caspar 09:56.000 --> 09:58.000 Gutman 09:58.000 --> 10:00.000 The Fat Man 10:00.000 --> 10:02.000 Caspar Gutman, the Fat Man. 10:02.000 --> 10:04.000 I know, Dundee, you figured 10:04.000 --> 10:06.000 I didn't get hurt much the last time I 10:06.000 --> 10:08.000 tangled with Gutman over the Maltese Falcon. 10:08.000 --> 10:10.000 But that's because you didn't know Bridget 10:10.000 --> 10:12.000 O'Shaughnessy as well as I did, as 10:12.000 --> 10:14.000 well or as warmly. 10:14.000 --> 10:16.000 Well, I figured if Gutman was still in the 10:16.000 --> 10:18.000 land of the living, let him come. 10:18.000 --> 10:20.000 This time I wasn't going to get hurt in 10:20.000 --> 10:22.000 any way. There couldn't be two Bridgets. 10:22.000 --> 10:24.000 Nevertheless, I ate 10:24.000 --> 10:26.000 a can of spinach, which I found on Effie's desk, 10:26.000 --> 10:28.000 then I sat down again, facing the 10:28.000 --> 10:30.000 door. Nothing much happened 10:30.000 --> 10:32.000 for almost ten minutes. 10:32.000 --> 10:34.000 I was still trying to dig the meaning out of 10:34.000 --> 10:36.000 Gutman's double talk, and I'd gotten about as far 10:36.000 --> 10:38.000 as his warning about a hidden tooth 10:38.000 --> 10:40.000 when Effie ushered a man 10:40.000 --> 10:42.000 into my office. Mr. Spade! 10:42.000 --> 10:44.000 Well, 10:44.000 --> 10:46.000 well I must say that you are indeed a pleasant 10:46.000 --> 10:48.000 surprise, but pleasant. 10:48.000 --> 10:50.000 You've said it, what can I do for you? My name 10:50.000 --> 10:52.000 is Laverne, Lowry 10:52.000 --> 10:54.000 Lawrence Laverne. How do you do? 10:54.000 --> 10:56.000 I shall spare you the tasks and details 10:56.000 --> 10:58.000 and plunge right into the problem. 10:58.000 --> 11:00.000 Oh dear. 11:00.000 --> 11:02.000 At the Hotel Royal George, there 11:02.000 --> 11:04.000 is a mildewed creedoon, but 11:04.000 --> 11:06.000 mildewed, registered as Mr. 11:06.000 --> 11:08.000 Herman Julius. Oh, 11:08.000 --> 11:10.000 a really frightful person. Very frightful, huh? 11:10.000 --> 11:12.000 Oh, the kiss of death department. 11:12.000 --> 11:14.000 The only thing about this creature that has 11:14.000 --> 11:16.000 any charm is a 11:16.000 --> 11:18.000 four toothed lower bridge in his right jaw. 11:18.000 --> 11:20.000 Now Mr. Spade, 11:20.000 --> 11:22.000 I want you to get that bridge for me. 11:22.000 --> 11:24.000 I'm sorry, it sounds as though you're saying 11:24.000 --> 11:26.000 I want you to get that bridge for me. Precisely. 11:26.000 --> 11:28.000 Why? 11:28.000 --> 11:30.000 Because he refuses to pay me for it. 11:30.000 --> 11:32.000 You're a dentist? 11:32.000 --> 11:34.000 I prefer to regard myself as a 11:34.000 --> 11:36.000 dentist sculpturer. I 11:36.000 --> 11:38.000 created this bridge for Mr. Julius with 11:38.000 --> 11:40.000 infinite pains, and now 11:40.000 --> 11:42.000 he refuses to pay me. 11:42.000 --> 11:44.000 I ask payment and he accuses me of acting 11:44.000 --> 11:46.000 without charm. Mr. Julius wouldn't happen 11:46.000 --> 11:48.000 to be a very large, fat man. 11:48.000 --> 11:50.000 Oh, contraire. 11:50.000 --> 11:52.000 Skin and bones. 11:52.000 --> 11:54.000 Well, Mr. Spade? 11:54.000 --> 11:56.000 I'm afraid you've come to the wrong man, Mr. Laverne. 11:56.000 --> 11:58.000 What you want is a lawyer to sue him. 11:58.000 --> 12:00.000 Sue him? Months 12:00.000 --> 12:02.000 of legal wrangling? Oh, no. 12:02.000 --> 12:04.000 Oh, no, no, no, no. I intend 12:04.000 --> 12:06.000 to be vindictive about this. I am by 12:06.000 --> 12:08.000 nature a very gracious and charming person. 12:08.000 --> 12:10.000 But now, now 12:10.000 --> 12:12.000 let him beware. I 12:12.000 --> 12:14.000 shall have that bridge from Herman Julius 12:14.000 --> 12:16.000 even if you must knock him down and 12:16.000 --> 12:18.000 wrench it from his jaw. Uh-huh. You tried 12:18.000 --> 12:20.000 knocking him down yourself? Oh, I 12:20.000 --> 12:22.000 could never even bring myself to 12:22.000 --> 12:24.000 perform extractions. I always 12:24.000 --> 12:26.000 send those patients to less sensitive 12:26.000 --> 12:28.000 dentists. Yeah, well, I'm afraid you'll have to find 12:28.000 --> 12:30.000 yourself a less sensitive private detective. 12:30.000 --> 12:32.000 Oh, oh dear. 12:32.000 --> 12:34.000 Well, Mr. Spade, what would you advise me to do? 12:34.000 --> 12:36.000 I, uh... Mr. Laverne, I would advise you 12:36.000 --> 12:38.000 to get out of California before Walt 12:38.000 --> 12:40.000 Disney sees you. 12:40.000 --> 12:42.000 Well, well, good day, sir. 12:42.000 --> 12:44.000 Hmm. I would like 12:44.000 --> 12:46.000 very much to have you in my chair some 12:46.000 --> 12:48.000 day. Oh, 12:48.000 --> 12:50.000 might teach you some manners. 12:50.000 --> 12:52.000 Hmm-hmm. 12:52.000 --> 12:54.000 Hmm-hmm. 12:54.000 --> 12:56.000 Beware of the hidden truth. 12:56.000 --> 12:58.000 Hmm-hmm. 12:58.000 --> 13:00.000 Hello. 13:00.000 --> 13:02.000 Hello. 13:02.000 --> 13:04.000 Please sit down, Miss... 13:04.000 --> 13:06.000 Thank you. Laverne. 13:06.000 --> 13:08.000 Hope Laverne. Miss Laverne? 13:08.000 --> 13:10.000 Yes. 13:10.000 --> 13:12.000 What can I do for you? 13:12.000 --> 13:14.000 Well, I'm, uh, 13:14.000 --> 13:16.000 I'm looking for my brother. 13:16.000 --> 13:18.000 Missing? Well, yes, yes, and no. 13:18.000 --> 13:20.000 I mean, he's been gone since yesterday and I'm 13:20.000 --> 13:22.000 terribly afraid he'll get into trouble. 13:22.000 --> 13:24.000 Oh? What kind of trouble? 13:24.000 --> 13:26.000 Well, you see, it, it... 13:26.000 --> 13:28.000 Well, it just isn't easy for me to talk about this, 13:28.000 --> 13:30.000 Mr. Spade. Well, now, Miss Laverne, suppose 13:30.000 --> 13:32.000 you just lean back in that chair, close your 13:32.000 --> 13:34.000 eyes, and... Yes, thank you. 13:34.000 --> 13:36.000 Yes, it's... 13:36.000 --> 13:38.000 It's easier like this. Hmm-hmm. What's it like? 13:38.000 --> 13:40.000 My brother's name is, uh, Lawrence. He's a man 13:40.000 --> 13:42.000 of 52. He's, uh, he's not well. 13:42.000 --> 13:44.000 I mean, he gets spells and he acts 13:44.000 --> 13:46.000 peculiarly. He suffered a nervous 13:46.000 --> 13:48.000 breakdown some years ago and he spent most of his 13:48.000 --> 13:50.000 life in sanitariums. Where are you from, Miss 13:50.000 --> 13:52.000 Laverne? Kansas City. During the past 13:52.000 --> 13:54.000 year, uh, Larry was in a rest home 13:54.000 --> 13:56.000 in Palo Alto and I 13:56.000 --> 13:58.000 arrived two days ago to take him home 13:58.000 --> 14:00.000 yesterday morning. He... 14:00.000 --> 14:02.000 Well, I don't know how it happened, but he's gone. 14:02.000 --> 14:04.000 These, uh, spells you 14:04.000 --> 14:06.000 mentioned, what are they like? Oh, well, 14:06.000 --> 14:08.000 he assumes different personalities. 14:08.000 --> 14:10.000 His favorite seems to be that of a dentist. 14:10.000 --> 14:12.000 He becomes obsessed by the thought that 14:12.000 --> 14:14.000 he's done some work, a bridge or something, 14:14.000 --> 14:16.000 for someone who refuses to pay him. 14:16.000 --> 14:18.000 He'll walk up to a perfect 14:18.000 --> 14:20.000 stranger and create a scene. 14:20.000 --> 14:22.000 He's been arrested a few times, nothing serious, public 14:22.000 --> 14:24.000 nuisance. Mr. Spade, 14:24.000 --> 14:26.000 I'm afraid that he'll be, he'll be put away 14:26.000 --> 14:28.000 if he's arrested once more. I see, 14:28.000 --> 14:30.000 and you want me to look for him. 14:30.000 --> 14:32.000 Then he hasn't been here. Why 14:32.000 --> 14:34.000 did you think he'd come here? Oh, that's 14:34.000 --> 14:36.000 another one of his tactics. He goes to a private detective, 14:36.000 --> 14:38.000 hires him to either follow a 14:38.000 --> 14:40.000 man or get back the work he thinks he's done. 14:40.000 --> 14:42.000 Dental work, you know. 14:42.000 --> 14:44.000 But what made you think he'd come to me? 14:44.000 --> 14:46.000 Oh, well, not you, particularly. But since yesterday, 14:46.000 --> 14:48.000 I've tried almost every private detective 14:48.000 --> 14:50.000 in San Francisco. No one has seen him. 14:50.000 --> 14:52.000 Who'd you talk to? 14:52.000 --> 14:54.000 I beg your pardon? These private detectives, 14:54.000 --> 14:56.000 who'd you see? Oh, 14:56.000 --> 14:58.000 well, 14:58.000 --> 15:00.000 there was a man named Graham 15:00.000 --> 15:02.000 and one named Marlow, 15:02.000 --> 15:04.000 Philip Marlow. Excuse me. 15:04.000 --> 15:06.000 Would you like a drink? 15:06.000 --> 15:08.000 No. 15:08.000 --> 15:10.000 Thank you. 15:10.000 --> 15:12.000 Marlow speaking. 15:12.000 --> 15:14.000 That's Spade, Phil. 15:14.000 --> 15:16.000 Hiya, Sam. Phil, you got 15:16.000 --> 15:18.000 a rumble on a missing brother named 15:18.000 --> 15:20.000 Larry Laverne? Yeah, yeah. 15:20.000 --> 15:22.000 Gal was in early this morning. 15:22.000 --> 15:24.000 Brother's some kind of a screwball. 15:24.000 --> 15:26.000 You meet him? No, no, hasn't been 15:26.000 --> 15:28.000 around yet. Ah, thanks, 15:28.000 --> 15:30.000 Phil. See ya. 15:30.000 --> 15:32.000 Why did you do that, Mr. Spade? 15:32.000 --> 15:34.000 It's doing things like that that 15:34.000 --> 15:36.000 kept me alive and in business all these 15:36.000 --> 15:38.000 years. That was Marlow. 15:38.000 --> 15:40.000 Your brother hasn't been to him. 15:40.000 --> 15:42.000 I told you that. But your brother has been here. 15:42.000 --> 15:44.000 When? A few minutes 15:44.000 --> 15:46.000 before you came in. Can't see 15:46.000 --> 15:48.000 how you missed him. What did he tell you, Mr. Spade? 15:48.000 --> 15:50.000 Pretty much as you outlined it. About the dental 15:50.000 --> 15:52.000 work and some man owing him money. 15:52.000 --> 15:54.000 Yeah, some man named Julius. 15:54.000 --> 15:56.000 Herman Julius, he said. You know him? 15:56.000 --> 15:58.000 I never heard of him. He's 15:58.000 --> 16:00.000 probably just another figment of Larry's imagination. 16:00.000 --> 16:02.000 Mr. Spade, I'm 16:02.000 --> 16:04.000 terribly worried about Larry. I got that 16:04.000 --> 16:06.000 impression. Will you try to find 16:06.000 --> 16:08.000 him for me? Can you give me any idea 16:08.000 --> 16:10.000 where I might start looking? Well, I 16:10.000 --> 16:12.000 think I know how Larry's mind 16:12.000 --> 16:14.000 works when he's in the midst of one of these spells. 16:14.000 --> 16:16.000 If you find this Mr. 16:16.000 --> 16:18.000 Julius, you'll probably find Larry 16:18.000 --> 16:20.000 close by. So you want me to 16:20.000 --> 16:22.000 find Mr. Julius first? Oh, well I 16:22.000 --> 16:24.000 only thought it would be simpler checking on this Mr. Julius 16:24.000 --> 16:26.000 movements than on Larry's 16:26.000 --> 16:28.000 unpredictable whims, you see. 16:28.000 --> 16:30.000 I... 16:30.000 --> 16:32.000 Don't you think that makes 16:32.000 --> 16:34.000 good sense, Mr. Spade? 16:34.000 --> 16:36.000 Mr. 16:36.000 --> 16:38.000 Julius 16:38.000 --> 16:40.000 Mr. 16:40.000 --> 16:42.000 Spade 16:42.000 --> 16:44.000 Mr. 16:44.000 --> 16:46.000 Julius 16:46.000 --> 16:48.000 Mr. 16:48.000 --> 16:50.000 Julius 16:50.000 --> 16:52.000 Mr. 16:52.000 --> 16:54.000 Spade 16:54.000 --> 16:56.000 Mr. 16:56.000 --> 16:58.000 Julius 16:58.000 --> 17:00.000 Mr. 17:00.000 --> 17:02.000 Spade 17:02.000 --> 17:04.000 Mr. 17:04.000 --> 17:06.000 Julius 17:06.000 --> 17:08.000 Mr. 17:08.000 --> 17:10.000 Spade 17:10.000 --> 17:12.000 Mr. 17:12.000 --> 17:14.000 Julius 17:14.000 --> 17:16.000 Mr. 17:16.000 --> 17:18.000 Spade 17:18.000 --> 17:20.000 Mr. 17:20.000 --> 17:22.000 Julius 17:22.000 --> 17:24.000 Mr. 17:24.000 --> 17:26.000 Julius 17:26.000 --> 17:28.000 Mr. 17:28.000 --> 17:30.000 Mr. 17:30.000 --> 17:32.000 Mr. 17:32.000 --> 17:34.000 Julius 17:34.000 --> 17:36.000 Mr. 17:36.000 --> 17:38.000 Spade 17:38.000 --> 17:40.000 Mr. 17:40.000 --> 17:42.000 Julius 17:42.000 --> 17:44.000 Mr. 17:44.000 --> 17:46.000 Julius 17:46.000 --> 17:48.000 Mr. 17:48.000 --> 17:50.000 Mr. 17:50.000 --> 17:52.000 Mr. 17:52.000 --> 17:54.000 Mr. 17:54.000 --> 17:56.000 Mr. 17:56.000 --> 17:58.000 Mr. 17:58.000 --> 18:00.000 Julius 18:00.000 --> 18:02.000 Mr. 18:02.000 --> 18:04.000 Jesus 18:04.000 --> 18:06.000 Jesus 18:08.000 --> 18:10.000 Jesus 18:10.000 --> 18:12.000 Jesus 18:12.000 --> 18:14.000 Jesus 18:14.000 --> 18:16.000 Jesus 18:16.000 --> 18:18.000 Jesus 18:18.000 --> 18:20.000 Jesus 18:20.000 --> 18:22.000 Jesse 18:22.000 --> 18:24.000 Jesse 18:24.000 --> 18:26.000 Jesus 18:26.000 --> 18:12.000 Jesus 18:12.000 --> 18:15.000 Here's his room. 18:15.000 --> 18:18.000 Mr. Julius! 18:18.000 --> 18:20.000 Mr. Julius! 18:20.000 --> 18:23.000 Mr. Julius, you sick in there? 18:23.000 --> 18:25.000 They drink some of them. 18:25.000 --> 18:27.000 Then they don't cook in their rooms. 18:27.000 --> 18:30.000 They drink, get DT's some of them. 18:30.000 --> 18:32.000 I'll go on in and get him. 18:32.000 --> 18:34.000 I don't want no part of it. 18:34.000 --> 18:36.000 Oh, they stink. 18:38.000 --> 18:41.000 I didn't see who it was right away. 18:41.000 --> 18:45.000 His face was the color and consistency of crushed strawberries. 18:45.000 --> 18:48.000 I helped him up and over to the wash basin in the corner of the room. 18:48.000 --> 18:52.000 With his face washed, he looked a little better, but he still looked like Larry Laverne. 18:52.000 --> 18:55.000 Oh, am I ever glad to see you. 18:55.000 --> 18:57.000 I thought it was them coming back to kill me. 18:57.000 --> 18:58.000 Did you find Julius? 18:58.000 --> 19:00.000 No, no. Got away with the wretch. 19:00.000 --> 19:02.000 Down the fire escape as I came in. 19:02.000 --> 19:04.000 Who did this to you? A big fat man? 19:04.000 --> 19:07.000 To tell the honest truth, Mr. Spade, I never even got a good look at him. 19:07.000 --> 19:09.000 He was all over me before I even had a... 19:09.000 --> 19:11.000 Who's Julius? What's in his bridge work? 19:11.000 --> 19:17.000 Oh, I'll tell you everything, everything, but please, first, let's get out of this horrid room. 19:17.000 --> 19:20.000 Ugh, it smells like cavy. 19:24.000 --> 19:26.000 Larry Laverne was tougher than he looked. 19:26.000 --> 19:30.000 After the going over he'd gotten, you or I would have been hospital bound, Dundee. 19:30.000 --> 19:32.000 But he did a late take. 19:32.000 --> 19:35.000 We were on the way back to his hotel, walking toward market. 19:35.000 --> 19:37.000 When he crumpled in the middle like a sack of flour, 19:37.000 --> 19:41.000 I grabbed him and held him upright, looked wildly around for somewhere to park him. 19:41.000 --> 19:43.000 We were standing in front of a newsreel theater. 19:43.000 --> 19:46.000 I bought two tickets and piloted him inside. 19:46.000 --> 19:48.000 We sat down. 19:48.000 --> 19:51.000 I undid his clutch in my arm and concentrated on the screen. 19:51.000 --> 19:56.000 The subject that followed the football game was some big Oriental celebration somewhere in India or someplace. 19:56.000 --> 19:59.000 A very fancy parade with white elephants, lark, and all the rest of the world. 19:59.000 --> 20:01.000 Oh, no. 20:01.000 --> 20:03.000 Oh, no. 20:16.000 --> 20:18.000 Oh, please. 20:18.000 --> 20:27.000 I can't stand this. 20:36.000 --> 20:38.000 Help me. Take me out of here. 20:38.000 --> 20:41.000 I can't stand it, Uncle Mel. I tell you, sock-raping men. 20:41.000 --> 20:43.000 Take it easy. You're annoying the customers. 20:43.000 --> 20:46.000 You brought me in here on purpose. You're trying to drive me crazy, but crazy. 20:46.000 --> 20:49.000 Listen to me. If one more elephant walks across that screen... 20:49.000 --> 20:52.000 If that man says that one word, can he just once more? 20:52.000 --> 20:56.000 I won't be responsible. I tell you, I won't be responsible. 20:56.000 --> 20:59.000 All right, Larry. This is the end, but the end. 20:59.000 --> 21:01.000 Oh, you got me to it. Come on, let's get out of here. 21:01.000 --> 21:03.000 An impressive ceremony, indeed. 21:06.000 --> 21:11.000 I promise you, Mr. Spade, all I need is just one night's sleep and I'll be a new man. 21:11.000 --> 21:12.000 Yeah. 21:12.000 --> 21:18.000 I haven't even dared to take 40 winks since I arrived in this town for fear those monsters might murder me in my bed. 21:18.000 --> 21:20.000 Yeah, yeah, I know. It's tough. 21:20.000 --> 21:22.000 Sit down. 21:22.000 --> 21:24.000 So this is your apartment? 21:24.000 --> 21:27.000 That's what I laughingly call it. Living room, bedroom, ice box. 21:27.000 --> 21:29.000 Here, have a drink. Me, too. 21:29.000 --> 21:31.000 Oh, thanks. 21:31.000 --> 21:35.000 Oh. Oh, did I ever need that. 21:36.000 --> 21:37.000 Drop yourself to the bottle. 21:37.000 --> 21:41.000 I don't touch alcohol as a rule, but after what I've been through... 21:41.000 --> 21:43.000 Well, now drink all you like. You deserve it. 21:43.000 --> 21:45.000 Oh, thank you. 21:46.000 --> 21:50.000 Well, I hardly know where to begin. It's all so strange. 21:51.000 --> 21:57.000 And there I was in Lisbon, Mr. Spade, the only English-speaking Dennis worthy of the name in the entire diplomatic colony. 21:57.000 --> 22:04.000 Well, you must have read in the papers about Dom Constantino's tomb being violated. It was the scandal of the season. 22:04.000 --> 22:07.000 Oh, it's all so horrible, Mr. Spade. I just can't talk about it. 22:07.000 --> 22:10.000 Here, here, here. Try a little more of this. Settles the nerves. 22:10.000 --> 22:14.000 Oh, I just don't know how I can ever thank you. 22:15.000 --> 22:18.000 Ever since I hit this burg, I've been feeling like the forgotten... 22:18.000 --> 22:21.000 Pardon. Man. 22:21.000 --> 22:24.000 Yeah, you were saying something about a tomb being broken into. In Portugal, this was? 22:24.000 --> 22:27.000 Yes. Well, you know, the draft board just took one look at me. 22:27.000 --> 22:28.000 I know what you mean. 22:28.000 --> 22:34.000 So I just stayed on in Lisbon. Well, you know how people gossip, having patience of all nationalities and all that. 22:34.000 --> 22:37.000 Yeah, yeah, I get it. Between the Nazis and the Allies, you were quite a social lion. 22:37.000 --> 22:40.000 Oh, now, wait a minute. Don't get the idea I was a spy. Oh, no. 22:40.000 --> 22:46.000 But sometimes people had things that could be hidden in a hollow tooth and like that, you know, bridge work, you know. 22:46.000 --> 22:50.000 I think I told you I'm not so much a dentist as a dental artist. 22:50.000 --> 22:51.000 Mm-hmm. 22:51.000 --> 22:54.000 Well, that fat Mr. Gutman brought me this tooth, you see. 22:54.000 --> 22:55.000 Gutman? 22:55.000 --> 22:59.000 Yes, yes. Mr. G and that Joel Cairo person that was with him. 22:59.000 --> 23:05.000 Well, they brought me this tooth. Oh, a horrid yellow old thing. Practically a fang. 23:05.000 --> 23:11.000 They wanted to put in Mr. Julius Bridge. Paid me a thousand pounds. Can you imagine? 23:11.000 --> 23:15.000 Then when I learned what they had done, well, it made me positively ill. 23:15.000 --> 23:22.000 This practically sacred old tomb in the cathedral they'd broken in and literally torn out a piece of his job on. 23:22.000 --> 23:23.000 Whose? 23:23.000 --> 23:25.000 Why, Dom Constantino's. 23:25.000 --> 23:26.000 And who's Dom Constantino? 23:26.000 --> 23:32.000 Ah, the Portuguese viceroy. It didn't hurt him any. He's been dead 500 years if he stayed a day. 23:32.000 --> 23:40.000 Oh dear. I'm as tired as a tick. This liquor is getting to me. 23:46.000 --> 23:50.000 And it was. I thought he'd open up some more, but I overplayed the bourbon. 23:50.000 --> 23:56.000 Half a bottle later, he passed out. I flopped on the sofa and tried to get some sleep for myself. 23:56.000 --> 24:02.000 But my dreams kept getting in the way. I had newsreel dreams in Technicolor. 24:05.000 --> 24:11.000 I dreamed that a white elephant with a face like Casper Gutman was leading a parade down Market Street. 24:11.000 --> 24:15.000 The howdah that was strapped to his back looked like a dentist's chair. 24:15.000 --> 24:19.000 Herman Julius was sitting in it, but this face seemed to be blanked out. 24:19.000 --> 24:24.000 Joel Cairo wearing a surgeon's gown and a turban was drilling Julius' tooth. 24:24.000 --> 24:31.000 The crowds were throwing diamonds and rubies from the peanut bags they were carrying, and Gutman vacuumed them up with his trunk. 24:31.000 --> 24:37.000 That was when the bells started ringing in the Buddhist temple that had been built on top of the Mark Hopkins. 24:46.000 --> 24:47.000 Yeah. 24:47.000 --> 24:48.000 Mr. Spade. 24:48.000 --> 24:49.000 Yeah? 24:49.000 --> 24:50.000 Mr. Spade, I need your help. 24:50.000 --> 24:51.000 Who's this? 24:51.000 --> 24:54.000 Hope Laverne, please, Mr. Spade. I'm terrified. 24:54.000 --> 24:55.000 Where are you? 24:55.000 --> 24:57.000 I'm in a drugstore at 5th and Mission. 24:57.000 --> 24:58.000 You're the bus depot? 24:58.000 --> 24:59.000 Yes, please. Come at once, Mr. Spade. 24:59.000 --> 25:00.000 But can't you come here? 25:00.000 --> 25:02.000 I can't. I don't dare go into the streets. 25:02.000 --> 25:04.000 All right. Wait there. I'm on my way. 25:09.000 --> 25:14.000 I took a quick gander at Laverne, saw he was still out cold, slipped into my topcoat and left the apartment. 25:14.000 --> 25:17.000 I figured it would take me 11 minutes to hustle over to 5th and Mission. 25:17.000 --> 25:20.000 But I never got any further than 50 yards from the front of my building. 25:20.000 --> 25:26.000 I sensed him behind me, wheeled suddenly, bumped him into a doorway, held the thumbs of his hands, gripped tightly in my fist. 25:26.000 --> 25:28.000 Stand still or I'll tear him off. 25:28.000 --> 25:30.000 Let go. I'll kill you. 25:30.000 --> 25:31.000 Don't move and it won't hurt. 25:31.000 --> 25:33.000 You filthy beast. 25:36.000 --> 25:41.000 The boy twisted suddenly and violently and I heard the crack of his left thumb breaking. 25:42.000 --> 25:45.000 He swallowed his scream, dashed onto the deserted street. 25:45.000 --> 25:50.000 I went after him, turned to the alley and caught the butt of a gun behind my right ear. 26:00.000 --> 26:06.000 I don't know how long I was out, but I do know I came to at least 3 hours too soon. 26:06.000 --> 26:08.000 I needed much more rest. 26:08.000 --> 26:15.000 I opened my eyes, steady the swaying ceiling and then I heard his voice. 26:15.000 --> 26:19.000 Well sir, this is indeed a jolly reunion. 26:27.000 --> 26:29.000 It couldn't be, but it was. 26:29.000 --> 26:33.000 Casper Gutman, the fat man of the Maltese Falcon Caper. 26:33.000 --> 26:41.000 Looking at the unholy trio there in the room, Joel Cairo, the little Leventine, still as oily and smiling as ever and still fragrant. 26:41.000 --> 26:47.000 Marvin, a sullen, white-faced, hollow-eyed youth as near Wilmer's double as anyone will ever see. 26:47.000 --> 26:55.000 And Gutman, spruces ever in his black cutaway coat, black vest and gray stripe trousers. 26:55.000 --> 26:59.000 You'd have thought nothing had happened since then, not even the war. 26:59.000 --> 27:04.000 The grayness at Cairo's temples only made his baby face look more babyish. 27:04.000 --> 27:07.000 And about Gutman, nothing was different except his watch chain. 27:07.000 --> 27:12.000 A curious jewel-encrusted ornament dangled from it, shaped like a claw. 27:12.000 --> 27:21.000 You seem surprised to see me, sir. No wonder. It's always disconcerting to encounter a ghost, especially such a substantial ghost. 27:23.000 --> 27:26.000 A lot of water has gone under the bridge since last we met, eh? 27:26.000 --> 27:28.000 Under the bridge? 27:28.000 --> 27:31.000 Yes, which brings us to the subject at hand, the bridge. 27:31.000 --> 27:33.000 My headaches. What about the bridge? 27:33.000 --> 27:39.000 First we'll talk a bit. After all, this is quite an occasion, sir. Reunion of old friends, eh, Mr. Spade? 27:39.000 --> 27:43.000 Yeah. Tell me, did you ever find the falcon, if you'll excuse the expression? 27:43.000 --> 27:47.000 Oh. Your eyes are resting on all that remains of that fabulous bird, sir. 27:47.000 --> 27:52.000 Yes, that trinket on his watch chain, all the remains of the Maltese falcon. 27:52.000 --> 27:55.000 Well, mark you, sir, what part of it survived, the claw. 27:55.000 --> 27:59.000 You believe in omens? Right now I'm ready to believe almost anything. 27:59.000 --> 28:04.000 Indeed, sir. Well, no need for dissembling. We're old and wise, I trust, and in the days of the falcon. 28:04.000 --> 28:13.000 Suffice it to say, the unsavory and bloated object which the police dredged up from San Francisco Bay and identified as myself was some other poor soul. 28:13.000 --> 28:21.000 Wilmer, I am happy to say, remembered the debt of gratitude he owed me, and at the last moment agreed to be a party to the very necessary little deception. 28:21.000 --> 28:28.000 That is, since they had him cold, as you detectives say, for the other killings, he might as well confess to murdering me. 28:28.000 --> 28:36.000 He did so in exchange for my agreement to take care of his family in a financial way. An investment, by the way, which has paid rich dividends. 28:36.000 --> 28:41.000 How's that? Oh, indeed. Well, thanks to it, I now have Marvin, Wilmer's younger brother. 28:41.000 --> 28:44.000 I thought I noticed a family resembling him. Oh, shut up! 28:44.000 --> 28:48.000 Oh, yes, yes, poor Wilmer. He was like a son to me, like a son. 28:48.000 --> 28:55.000 It didn't stop you from making him a patsy. I detest killing Mr. Spade. I cautioned Wilmer time and again. He was so headstrong. Oh, mere boy. 28:55.000 --> 28:58.000 You'd better caution this punk or he won't last to take any raps for you. 28:58.000 --> 29:00.000 Oh, break his head, Wilmer. No, Marvin, Marvin. 29:00.000 --> 29:02.000 That dirty shamus lays another hand on me. I'll kill him. 29:02.000 --> 29:08.000 No, no, Marvin, Marvin. Take Marvin to the other room. Explain to him that Mr. Spade and I are very old friends. 29:08.000 --> 29:11.000 Casper knows best, Marvin. Come, we know. And now, no nonsense, you two now. 29:11.000 --> 29:15.000 Someday I'll kill him. I'll kill him. Casper will be angry. 29:15.000 --> 29:18.000 Oh, dear. Hot-headed runs in that family. 29:18.000 --> 29:22.000 Yeah. Well, let's have it, Gutman. What are you after this time? 29:22.000 --> 29:28.000 My dear boy, you misjudged me. It's true I had Marvin check up on you, but only because of your association with Miss Laverne. 29:28.000 --> 29:34.000 Oh, no, no, no, no matter now. I'm weary of the chase. All the way from Candy, I... 29:35.000 --> 29:37.000 What did the girl tell you? 29:37.000 --> 29:40.000 She asked me to find her brother, a dentist named Laverne. 29:40.000 --> 29:42.000 You believed her story? No. 29:42.000 --> 29:46.000 Most unscrupulous woman. No veracity, no regard for truth whatsoever. 29:46.000 --> 29:51.000 Her true motive? Merely to make trouble for me and my friends because of her association with Kemedov. 29:51.000 --> 29:54.000 Aye, the Russian's hand again, Mr. Spade. 29:54.000 --> 29:57.000 Kemedov? Did I ever meet Kemedov? 29:57.000 --> 30:00.000 You would hardly forget if you had. In short, here is my proposition. 30:00.000 --> 30:06.000 Another thousand dollars, coin of the realm, sir, for which you will refund whatever money Miss Laverne gave you and send her packing. 30:06.000 --> 30:08.000 The bidding starts at 10,000. 30:08.000 --> 30:14.000 Oh, you drive a hard bargain, Mr. Spade. Very well. I'll meet your turn. 30:14.000 --> 30:16.000 I told you the bidding starts there. 30:16.000 --> 30:17.000 And where does it stop? 30:17.000 --> 30:21.000 Half or whatever the caper nets you. I deliver Julius, you do the rest. 30:21.000 --> 30:25.000 Between you and me, Mr. Spade, I'm not as air-fluent as I once was. 30:25.000 --> 30:28.000 The Falcon pretty well wiped me out financially. 30:28.000 --> 30:32.000 Considering the time and money I've already invested in trying to track down the weasel of Julius... 30:32.000 --> 30:34.000 What's in Julius' bridge work? 30:34.000 --> 30:37.000 And if I don't choose to tell you? 30:37.000 --> 30:39.000 Then it's no dice. 30:39.000 --> 30:45.000 Take it over, Gutman. Either I'm in all the way for half or I deliver Julius to the other outfit. 30:45.000 --> 30:47.000 And that is your final dictum, sir? 30:47.000 --> 30:50.000 Take it or leave it. Either you're in or you're out. 30:50.000 --> 30:58.000 Good night, Mr. Spade. I trust you will call me on the telephone when you reach your dig-ins and tell me that you've changed your mind. 30:58.000 --> 31:07.000 No heart-feelings. 31:07.000 --> 31:13.000 The fog was clearing and only a few white wisps of it were clinging to Twin Peaks when I walked home that morning. 31:13.000 --> 31:16.000 It was too late to worry about hope. 31:16.000 --> 31:21.000 I heard a chief phone for Gutman to decoy me out so that I started walking faster. 31:21.000 --> 31:24.000 As I climbed the stairs to my apartment, I heard a door open on the landing... 31:24.000 --> 31:28.000 and the slot of light that stabbed out from it showed me it was my door. 31:28.000 --> 31:33.000 The light came from behind whoever had opened it and I couldn't see who it was at first, only that it was not Larry Laverne. 31:33.000 --> 31:38.000 I took the last flight four steps at a time. 31:38.000 --> 31:39.000 Hello, Sam. 31:39.000 --> 31:41.000 Dundee. What's happened? 31:41.000 --> 31:48.000 Come in and see for yourself. 31:48.000 --> 31:52.000 When I saw for myself, I wished somebody else had seen for me. 31:52.000 --> 31:56.000 Hysterical Larry was lying on his back on my bedroom floor. 31:56.000 --> 31:59.000 His eyes were wide open and he had a crooked grin on his face. 31:59.000 --> 32:01.000 A very crooked grin. 32:01.000 --> 32:04.000 Whoever had killed him had wrenched his jaw out of place. 32:04.000 --> 32:07.000 I'm not saying you killed him, Sam. I'm only asking you who did. 32:07.000 --> 32:08.000 Don't be a child, Dundee. 32:08.000 --> 32:09.000 Why was he killed? 32:09.000 --> 32:10.000 No statement. 32:10.000 --> 32:11.000 What was he doing here? Who was he? 32:11.000 --> 32:14.000 The name he gave was Laverne. I let him flop here because he was afraid to go home. 32:14.000 --> 32:16.000 Afraid of who? 32:16.000 --> 32:17.000 A man named Caspar Gutman. 32:17.000 --> 32:18.000 What? 32:18.000 --> 32:19.000 Yeah, Gutman. 32:19.000 --> 32:22.000 Quit stalling, Sam. Gutman's dead and you know it. 32:22.000 --> 32:24.000 You bury him, Dundee? 32:24.000 --> 32:26.000 I believe you mean it. 32:26.000 --> 32:28.000 Where Gutman's concerned, it doesn't pay to kid around. 32:28.000 --> 32:30.000 What's the after now? 32:30.000 --> 32:33.000 The bridge work out of a man's mouth. The man's name is Julius. 32:33.000 --> 32:36.000 What's in this Julius bridge work? Maltese Falcon? 32:36.000 --> 32:38.000 Something like that. 32:38.000 --> 32:47.000 I'm sorry, Sam. It's not good enough. I'll have to take you in. 32:47.000 --> 32:49.000 So you took me and you booked me. 32:49.000 --> 32:53.000 The bail was set at $20,000. You saw to that. 32:53.000 --> 32:58.000 You figure there's only one operator who'd put up that kind of money to spring me, and that's Caspar Gutman. 32:58.000 --> 33:03.000 I hope you're right. Period. And the first part, at least, of sob story. 33:03.000 --> 33:07.000 But Sam, what is in Herman Julius' bridge work? 33:07.000 --> 33:11.000 Well, Laverne told me it was a tooth Gutman stole out of a skeleton in an old Portuguese catacomb. 33:11.000 --> 33:13.000 What's so valuable about that? 33:13.000 --> 33:14.000 I don't know. 33:14.000 --> 33:15.000 Could be a jewel inside of it? 33:15.000 --> 33:17.000 It's not Gutman's kind of game. 33:17.000 --> 33:22.000 Besides, the thing that made poor Laverne blow his top in that newsreel theater was something more like an elephant tusk. 33:22.000 --> 33:24.000 Where's that encyclopedia? Did you bring it? 33:24.000 --> 33:27.000 Oh, yes, I did, Sam. Yes, I did. Wasn't I smart? 33:27.000 --> 33:28.000 Look it up. 33:28.000 --> 33:29.000 Look what up? 33:29.000 --> 33:30.000 Candy with a K. 33:30.000 --> 33:37.000 Oh, um, K, ca, pan. Oh, here it is. Candy. K. Isn't that funny? 33:37.000 --> 33:43.000 City. Capital of central province of Ceylon, located near the center of the island north of... 33:43.000 --> 33:44.000 Spare me the geography. 33:44.000 --> 33:49.000 Well, the railroad from Colombo, noted for its waterfalls and stuff and stuff and stuff. 33:49.000 --> 33:50.000 Yeah, yeah. 33:50.000 --> 34:00.000 That is, the city surrounds an artificial lake and is sacred to Buddhas for its temple of Maligawa, which enshrines the tooth of Buddha, brought according to legend... 34:00.000 --> 34:01.000 What? Let me see that. 34:01.000 --> 34:02.000 Don't grab. 34:02.000 --> 34:08.000 Let me see. It's sacred to the Buddhas for its temple of Maligawa, which enshrines it. 34:08.000 --> 34:09.000 Effie. 34:09.000 --> 34:10.000 What's the matter, Sam? 34:10.000 --> 34:11.000 The tooth of Buddha. 34:11.000 --> 34:14.000 Sam, you don't think that's what's in Herman Julius' bridge work? 34:14.000 --> 34:16.000 If it was, Gutman would be after him. 34:16.000 --> 34:18.000 But how did he get to Portugal? 34:18.000 --> 34:21.000 If it did, Gutman's the man that could track it down. 34:21.000 --> 34:22.000 Sam, you sure of that? 34:22.000 --> 34:32.000 No, Angel. No. The only thing I am sure of is this. When the Maltese Falcon laid an egg, it hatched a flock of vultures and they're all circling right around my head. 34:32.000 --> 34:36.000 Well, cheer up, Sam. You won't be in jail long. I'll bring you a cake with a file in it. 34:36.000 --> 34:37.000 Angel. 34:37.000 --> 34:41.000 No. Devil food. 34:47.000 --> 34:57.000 In tonight's full hour of suspense, Howard Duff, our star, appears as Sam Spade with Joseph Kearns as Casper Gutman in William Spear's production of The Candy Tooth. 34:57.000 --> 35:08.000 Tonight's study in suspense. 35:08.000 --> 35:12.000 In just a moment, we will return with the second half of The Candy Tooth. 35:12.000 --> 35:20.000 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System. 35:20.000 --> 35:25.000 And now, back to our Hollywood soundstage and Robert Montgomery. 35:25.000 --> 35:30.000 At the point at which we interrupted Sam Spade's narrative just now, things were at a pretty pass. 35:30.000 --> 35:31.000 A pretty pass, indeed. 35:31.000 --> 35:39.000 A pretty pass. Sam wound up with the body of the dentist, Larry Laverne, in his apartment. The girl, Hope, waiting for him in the bus station. 35:39.000 --> 35:46.000 Casper Gutman, the fat man, waiting for an answer to his ultimatum that Spade produce the tooth or else. 35:46.000 --> 35:55.000 Me in city prison under $20,000 bail and the fabulous Candy Tooth still chomping on two-bit hamburgers in the bridge work of a very elusive man named Herman Julius. 35:55.000 --> 35:57.000 Yes. And? 35:57.000 --> 36:05.000 Well, after I dictated my report to Effie on what had happened until then, she left and I laid down to think. 36:05.000 --> 36:08.000 Lieutenant Dundee and I had agreed that I should spend the night in the pokey. 36:08.000 --> 36:15.000 He figured that the 20-g bail would draw only one man to put up that much mule out of spring me, Casper Gutman. 36:15.000 --> 36:21.000 Along about nine in the a.m., the turnkey unlocked the door on my cell. I followed him out to the desk. 36:21.000 --> 36:30.000 The 20,000 bucks were there, but no sign of benefactor, benefactress, or samaritan of any type. The bond was in my name. 36:30.000 --> 36:33.000 I signed my release and walked out. 36:33.000 --> 36:39.000 Across the street was parked a long black limousine with a curtain strong. I started for it when a voice at my elbow checked me. 36:39.000 --> 36:41.000 You're St. George Spade? 36:41.000 --> 36:42.000 Si. 36:42.000 --> 36:48.000 I'm Don Constantino de Braganza, his eye who had put up the 20,000 dollar. 36:48.000 --> 36:53.000 Is that so? Well, thank you. Now, why? 36:53.000 --> 36:57.000 I desire a service. My card's in her. 36:57.000 --> 37:01.000 Don Constantino de... Wait a minute. 37:01.000 --> 37:03.000 She seems to know the name. 37:03.000 --> 37:07.000 Yeah, yeah. For a guy who's been dead 500 years, you don't look too bad. 37:07.000 --> 37:17.000 Thank you. You are referring, of course, to my illustrious ancestor, Don Constantino, the first Portuguese viceroy of India, who indeed had been dead since the 16th century. 37:17.000 --> 37:20.000 It is on his behalf I speak to you now. 37:20.000 --> 37:22.000 What can I do for him? 37:22.000 --> 37:28.000 Restore the tooth which was wrenched from his skull by a pack of unspeakable ghouls who violated his tomb in Lisboa. 37:28.000 --> 37:29.000 You think they're in San Francisco? 37:29.000 --> 37:37.000 Let us not be naive, senor. The contemptible little dentist, Laverne, was killed in your apartment. Therefore, you must know the whereabouts of the other ghouls. 37:37.000 --> 37:40.000 I know so many ghouls, senor. You'll have to be more specific. 37:40.000 --> 37:51.000 I refer to a fat pig named C. Gutman and an odorous little camel named J. Cairo, and most especially to a woman of the female sex by name H. Laverne. 37:51.000 --> 37:52.000 You want them or the tooth? 37:52.000 --> 37:54.000 Both. Not one without the other. 37:54.000 --> 37:56.000 Then it'll take a little time. They haven't got the tooth. 37:56.000 --> 37:57.000 You know who it is? 37:57.000 --> 37:59.000 In the bridge work of a man named Julius. 37:59.000 --> 38:06.000 Oh. That then explains the dentist and the diabolical manner which they employed in smuggling the tooth out of Lisboa. 38:06.000 --> 38:10.000 Now, you go on home and you stay there until I call you, huh? 38:10.000 --> 38:13.000 Senor, I respect your judgment. 38:13.000 --> 38:14.000 Thank you. 38:14.000 --> 38:21.000 You will find me at the Hotel San Rafael, and for your retainer you may consider the $20,000 bond as yours. 38:21.000 --> 38:22.000 Wow. 38:22.000 --> 38:23.000 Adios, senor. 38:23.000 --> 38:26.000 Adios. Be careful crossing streets. 38:26.000 --> 38:27.000 Adios. 38:27.000 --> 38:28.000 Adios. 38:28.000 --> 38:29.000 Adios. 38:29.000 --> 38:30.000 Adios, Tom Constantine. 38:30.000 --> 38:31.000 Adios. 38:31.000 --> 38:32.000 Yeah, adios. 38:32.000 --> 38:33.000 Adios. 38:33.000 --> 38:34.000 Adios. 38:34.000 --> 38:39.000 Mr. Spade. Sam, get in. 38:42.000 --> 38:44.000 You got a hack license, Miss Laverne? 38:44.000 --> 38:49.000 Oh, please don't, Sam. I know this car's ridiculous, but I don't dare use taxis or be seen on the street. What did that man tell you? 38:49.000 --> 38:52.000 What happened last night when you called me from the bus station in such a panic? 38:52.000 --> 38:53.000 Why didn't you come? 38:53.000 --> 38:55.000 I went to see the fat man. 38:55.000 --> 38:58.000 You saw Gutman? Did he mention me? 38:58.000 --> 39:02.000 You didn't make that call last night to get me out of the apartment so that somebody could get in and kill Laverne. 39:02.000 --> 39:04.000 Oh, Sam. 39:04.000 --> 39:05.000 Then why did you call? 39:05.000 --> 39:10.000 Because I found Herman Julius, and I'm driving you there now. 39:13.000 --> 39:22.000 We didn't do any talking after that. She sat very close to me. There was plenty to talk about, but we didn't do any talking after that. 39:22.000 --> 39:28.000 I was vaguely aware that we were driving across to Oakland, and a few minutes later we pulled up in front of an apartment building. 39:28.000 --> 39:32.000 We took the elevator up to the ninth floor. 39:32.000 --> 39:35.000 This is it, Sam. 9B. 39:41.000 --> 39:42.000 Nobody home. 39:42.000 --> 39:44.000 No, he's in there, Sam. I know he is. 39:44.000 --> 39:48.000 Mr. Julius. Mr. Julius. 39:48.000 --> 39:50.000 Go in. There's no Julius here. 39:50.000 --> 39:51.000 That's his voice. 39:51.000 --> 39:56.000 Mr. Julius, I've got to talk to you. It's very important. If you don't open the door, I'll have to... 39:56.000 --> 39:58.000 I'll kill myself. I'll kill myself. 39:58.000 --> 40:02.000 He will, Sam. He will. You've got to stop him. 40:03.000 --> 40:04.000 Go away. 40:04.000 --> 40:06.000 Julius, wait a minute. Wait. Don't. 40:06.000 --> 40:07.000 No, Sam. 40:15.000 --> 40:17.000 It was the ninth floor he started from. 40:17.000 --> 40:20.000 Poor, frightened little Herman Julius was dead on arrival. 40:20.000 --> 40:23.000 By the time we made it downstairs, the street was cluttered with cops. 40:23.000 --> 40:28.000 I grabbed hope by the arm, hustled her around the corner to a rented limousine, and told her I'd call her later. 40:28.000 --> 40:31.000 My next stop was the fat man himself. 40:36.000 --> 40:40.000 Well, sir. So you've reconsidered. You found Julius. 40:40.000 --> 40:41.000 I know where he is. 40:41.000 --> 40:43.000 And your terms, sir. What are your terms? 40:43.000 --> 40:45.000 A hundred thousand. Cash on the line. 40:45.000 --> 40:47.000 How did the question, Mr. Spade? 40:47.000 --> 40:49.000 No cash, no tooth. 40:49.000 --> 40:50.000 You found another buyer? 40:50.000 --> 40:56.000 Yeah. A man named Constantino de Braganza says the tooth belongs in the head of his ancestor by a previous marriage. 40:57.000 --> 41:01.000 Oh, oh, oh. A quink conceits our very role. And what else did he say to you? 41:01.000 --> 41:03.000 That he'd double any bid that you made on the tooth. 41:03.000 --> 41:08.000 My dear fellow, have you any inkling, any remote idea of the value of that tooth? 41:08.000 --> 41:13.000 No? Well, I'll tell you, sir. But let me warn you. If I tell you, and you do not then produce the tooth... 41:13.000 --> 41:15.000 Yeah, yeah. Let's get on with it, Godwin. 41:15.000 --> 41:17.000 Yes. Well, sit down, sir. 41:19.000 --> 41:22.000 How much do you know of the 16th century history of the Orient? 41:22.000 --> 41:24.000 Well, enough to fill that tooth with. 41:24.000 --> 41:30.000 Capital joke, sir. I shall give you a little more. Enough, say, to fill an elephant tusk. 41:30.000 --> 41:31.000 I'm listening. 41:34.000 --> 41:40.000 Well, sir. When the Portuguese invaded India in the 16th century and established the city of Goa, 41:40.000 --> 41:44.000 there were three main empires in the Orient, namely China, India, and Burma. 41:44.000 --> 41:47.000 And the rulers of all three empires sought to rule the world. 41:47.000 --> 41:51.000 Now, legend had it that in order to become lord of the world, 41:51.000 --> 41:54.000 a monarch had first to be the possessor of seven gems. 41:54.000 --> 41:57.000 That's gems spelled with a J, sir. Yes, gems. 41:57.000 --> 42:01.000 This is no fantasy, I'm telling you, Mr. Spade. This is actual history. Seven gems. 42:01.000 --> 42:03.000 And what were those seven gems? 42:03.000 --> 42:04.000 You tell me. 42:04.000 --> 42:06.000 The first six do not concern us, Mr. Spade. 42:06.000 --> 42:10.000 A golden wheel, a white elephant, all easy to come by for an Oriental monarch. 42:10.000 --> 42:13.000 But the seventh. Ah, Mr. Spade, the seventh. 42:13.000 --> 42:14.000 What was that, the tooth? 42:14.000 --> 42:17.000 The tooth, Mr. Spade, the tooth. 42:17.000 --> 42:20.000 The sacred tooth of the great lord Buddha himself. 42:20.000 --> 42:24.000 That remained in the temple of Maligawa at Kandy on the island of Ceylon. 42:24.000 --> 42:29.000 Now, many kings and armies to capture it, but all were defeated by the fierce Brahmins 42:29.000 --> 42:31.000 who stood guard at the temple gates. 42:31.000 --> 42:34.000 And so we come to the year 1552. 42:34.000 --> 42:36.000 That's about time. 42:36.000 --> 42:40.000 Now, in that year, the Portuguese viceroy, Dom Constantino de Briganza, 42:40.000 --> 42:47.000 landed near Jaffna with a force of 1,220 men and defeated the king's legions in a savage battle. 42:47.000 --> 42:53.000 He returned to Goa with his victorious army and the tooth, which he retained as his personal pride. 42:53.000 --> 42:59.000 It was not long before the Burmese king, by name, sent an emissary to Dom Constantino, 42:59.000 --> 43:04.000 offering the modern equivalent of a million pounds sterling as ransom for the tooth. 43:04.000 --> 43:05.000 How did you get to Portugal? 43:05.000 --> 43:07.000 Hear me out, sir. Hear me out. Hear me out. 43:07.000 --> 43:08.000 All right. 43:08.000 --> 43:13.000 Well, before the transaction could be consummated, the Portuguese archbishop called on Dom Constantino 43:13.000 --> 43:17.000 and in the name of the Inquisition demanded the tooth. 43:17.000 --> 43:22.000 After some delay, Dom Constantino, under threat of torture, delivered a tooth into the archbishop's hand. 43:22.000 --> 43:25.000 And that tooth was publicly destroyed. 43:25.000 --> 43:30.000 The archbishop grinding it into powder with mortar and pestle and scattering the residue upon a fire. 43:30.000 --> 43:33.000 That the tooth might be utterly consumed. 43:33.000 --> 43:38.000 Shortly after this, Dom Constantino's personal physician, after drawing a tooth, now mind you, a tooth, 43:38.000 --> 43:43.000 from the viceroy's head, died under very mysterious circumstances. 43:43.000 --> 43:48.000 We may safely infer that the substitute tooth, which he drove into the viceroy's jawbone 43:48.000 --> 43:52.000 after the primitive fashions of dentistry in those days, was the candy tooth, 43:52.000 --> 43:58.000 put there for safekeeping until Dom Constantino could resume negotiations with Bijnang's emissary. 43:58.000 --> 43:59.000 Yeah, but... 43:59.000 --> 44:03.000 But, but, but, before that could be accomplished, Dom Constantino was stricken with the plague, 44:03.000 --> 44:07.000 carried aboard ship, and home to Portugal where he died. 44:07.000 --> 44:10.000 He was entombed with a candy tooth still in his head. 44:10.000 --> 44:14.000 Now, the manuscript which fell into the possession of the Russian Kemidov and later into mind, 44:14.000 --> 44:20.000 but I shall not go into unnecessary detail, was Dom Constantino's deathbed confession, 44:20.000 --> 44:25.000 proving beyond the shadow of a doubt that the real candy tooth had reposed for more than four centuries, 44:25.000 --> 44:29.000 not in the great temple at Candy in Ceylon, but in a Portuguese tooth. 44:29.000 --> 44:32.000 Yeah, well, I think I can take it from there. 44:32.000 --> 44:34.000 You still haven't told me what my percentage is. 44:34.000 --> 44:40.000 Well, my dear boy, if your percentage were one-tenth of one percent of what can be realized on that tooth, 44:40.000 --> 44:45.000 you could retire to a life of sloth and luxury for the rest of your days. 44:45.000 --> 44:50.000 For the restoration of the true relic, there is no limit to what the Buddhist world could and would pay. 44:50.000 --> 44:55.000 Gifts and tribute paid to one temple alone exceed eleven million dollars a year. 44:55.000 --> 44:59.000 Now, my boy, you begin to comprehend something of its value? 44:59.000 --> 45:01.000 I'm still subtle for cash. 45:01.000 --> 45:04.000 Very well, then. Ten thousand dollars. 45:04.000 --> 45:05.000 It's a deal. 45:05.000 --> 45:10.000 You understand, Mr. Spade, now that you have my secret, the affair must be gotten over quickly, for good and all. 45:10.000 --> 45:15.000 If it is not, believe me, this time I shall not bargain with you for my life. 45:15.000 --> 45:18.000 You shall bargain with me for yours. 45:24.000 --> 45:31.000 After I left Gutman, I called you, Dundee, and found out by a clever ruse where Herman Julius's body had been sent, you told me. 45:31.000 --> 45:34.000 Then I hustled on over to the mortuary. 45:34.000 --> 45:39.000 As I walked in, a hushed young man wearing a hushed cutaway and a hushed expression greeted me. 45:39.000 --> 45:43.000 Good evening, sir. I'm Converse Etheridge. Can I be of service? 45:43.000 --> 45:50.000 Thank you. I've come to pay my last respects to an old friend. I, uh, can I be alone with him for a few minutes? 45:50.000 --> 45:51.000 His name? 45:51.000 --> 45:54.000 Uh, Julius. Herman Julius. 45:54.000 --> 45:57.000 Oh, yes, yes. His widow is here, sir. Mrs. Julius. 45:57.000 --> 45:58.000 His widow, huh? 45:58.000 --> 46:00.000 Yes, she's inconsolable. 46:00.000 --> 46:06.000 Uh, perhaps, as a dear friend of the departed, you might give her words of comfort. Please go in. 46:06.000 --> 46:07.000 Thank you. 46:07.000 --> 46:13.000 A little woman in black was sobbing quietly to herself. She turned around when she heard me come in. 46:13.000 --> 46:17.000 Her eyes lit up with hatred, and suddenly she grabbed something from her pocketbook and held it at me. 46:17.000 --> 46:19.000 It was a.45, and her hand was shaking. 46:19.000 --> 46:21.000 Yeah, this time I will do it. 46:21.000 --> 46:30.000 Always before, I didn't have the heart. Always hating bloodshed. But this time, yeah, this time... 46:30.000 --> 46:33.000 Nick, Nick, Frau Julius. Freund, Freund. 46:33.000 --> 46:38.000 You, you are not one of them. 46:38.000 --> 46:43.000 No, no, I'm a detective. I, I want to punish the people responsible for your husband's death. 46:43.000 --> 46:56.000 Yeah, yeah, I believe you. This gun, I was going to follow poor Herman. There didn't seem to be any reason for going on. 46:56.000 --> 47:00.000 Now, tell me something about yourself and your husband, Mrs. Julius. 47:00.000 --> 47:04.000 Ah, it's an old story now. 47:04.000 --> 47:12.000 Years of separation in different concentration camps. 47:12.000 --> 47:20.000 Bribery, bribery. Then my children and I, we were finally released. 47:20.000 --> 47:26.000 Came to this country. After two years, Herman brought us from Lisbon. 47:26.000 --> 47:34.000 We knew soon he would be with us. But even though the war was finished, they had lost. 47:34.000 --> 47:40.000 Still they went after Herman Julius. He knew the Nazis were behind him all the time. 47:40.000 --> 47:47.000 And even here, in this country, he did not dare come to me. 47:47.000 --> 47:53.000 Mrs. Julius, you see, those people that followed your husband this time weren't Nazis. 47:53.000 --> 47:57.000 They weren't even after him. They were after something he was carrying. 47:57.000 --> 48:01.000 In Lisbon, didn't he go to a dentist named Laverne? 48:01.000 --> 48:03.000 Yeah, yeah, that's... 48:03.000 --> 48:07.000 Didn't Laverne put an odd-shaped tooth, kind of yellow, into his bridgework? 48:07.000 --> 48:08.000 Yeah. 48:08.000 --> 48:13.000 So he smuggled the candy tooth out of Portugal and then he never even knew it. 48:13.000 --> 48:19.000 Oh, well, it does not matter now. Poor Herman is dead. 48:19.000 --> 48:24.000 Surely you... they will leave his poor broken body in peace. 48:24.000 --> 48:26.000 I doubt it very much, Mrs. Julius. 48:26.000 --> 48:28.000 No, no, surely they will... 48:28.000 --> 48:30.000 That's why I want to make a request of you. 48:30.000 --> 48:33.000 You see, others have died besides your husband because of this thing. 48:33.000 --> 48:36.000 More will die unless you do as I ask you. 48:36.000 --> 48:53.000 Oh, to stop terror, any terror, I will do anything, Mr. Spade, anything you say. 48:53.000 --> 48:56.000 I told her what I wanted done and she agreed to do it. 48:56.000 --> 48:58.000 Then I started on my part of it. 48:58.000 --> 49:02.000 I called Gutman on the St. Mark and told him 11 at my apartment. 49:02.000 --> 49:05.000 Then I called Dom Constantino at the San Rafael, 49:05.000 --> 49:09.000 hoping I got there around 10.30. 49:09.000 --> 49:12.000 Go on in, Angel. 49:12.000 --> 49:15.000 Wow. This is where you live, Sam? 49:15.000 --> 49:17.000 Where I sleep. 49:17.000 --> 49:19.000 Must be lonely for you. 49:19.000 --> 49:20.000 Sorry, no vacancy. 49:20.000 --> 49:23.000 Sam, listen, there's so much I want to tell you about myself. 49:23.000 --> 49:24.000 I'm listening. 49:24.000 --> 49:29.000 Well, listen, just before the war started, I was engaged to marry a man named Kemedov in London. 49:29.000 --> 49:32.000 The Russian, yeah. Gutman mentioned him, something about an old manuscript. 49:32.000 --> 49:35.000 Yeah, Kemedov had stolen it in India. It was very old. 49:35.000 --> 49:38.000 And Kemedov said that the information in it made it worth more than the Maltese Balkan. 49:38.000 --> 49:40.000 It was in Latin. 49:40.000 --> 49:46.000 How'd the fat man get this manuscript away from Kemedov? 49:46.000 --> 49:49.000 So you double-crossed Kemedov and took the manuscript to Gutman. 49:49.000 --> 49:54.000 Sam, before they get here, I've got to tell you something. 49:54.000 --> 49:56.000 No matter what happens, I want you to know this. 49:56.000 --> 50:00.000 Sure, sure, I know. Say it, Angel. 50:00.000 --> 50:02.000 Don't torture me, Sam. 50:02.000 --> 50:04.000 I'd like to hear it, Angel. 50:04.000 --> 50:09.000 Oh, Sam, I love you so much it feels like hate. It feels like I... 50:09.000 --> 50:12.000 Go on, go on. Hate me, Angel. 50:12.000 --> 50:16.000 Darling. 50:20.000 --> 50:24.000 No. No, don't answer it, Sam. 50:24.000 --> 50:27.000 Relax, Angel. You'll be okay. 50:27.000 --> 50:29.000 Sam? 50:29.000 --> 50:30.000 Yeah? 50:30.000 --> 50:34.000 Only you, Sam. All I want are... 50:34.000 --> 50:36.000 only you. 50:36.000 --> 50:41.000 Just stay on third, Angel. I'll bat you home safe. 50:44.000 --> 50:46.000 Ah, you see, sir, I'm a punctual man. 50:46.000 --> 50:48.000 Come on in, Gutman. 50:48.000 --> 50:52.000 Look, the same apartment, the same colors, everything the same. 50:52.000 --> 50:54.000 Yeah, the same rat race, Cairo. 50:54.000 --> 50:56.000 Hello, Marvin. Killed anybody since lunch? 50:56.000 --> 50:57.000 You want me to give it to your shamans? 50:57.000 --> 51:00.000 Oh, please, please, Marvin. No unpleasant talk. 51:00.000 --> 51:02.000 Mr. Gutman, please tell Marvin... 51:02.000 --> 51:03.000 In here, gentlemen. 51:03.000 --> 51:04.000 Yes, yes, yes, Marvin. 51:04.000 --> 51:07.000 Mr. Spade, I'm sure regrets the unfortunate. 51:07.000 --> 51:09.000 Where and what have we here? 51:09.000 --> 51:10.000 You all know the lady? 51:10.000 --> 51:12.000 You see, Mr. Gutman, you see, I told you. 51:12.000 --> 51:14.000 Now he's dealing with her. Oh, this is so... 51:14.000 --> 51:16.000 Shut up, you hear me? Shut up. 51:16.000 --> 51:19.000 Don't talk just like that. I'm jumpy. 51:19.000 --> 51:21.000 I don't feel good. I don't know why... 51:21.000 --> 51:22.000 You shut up, too. 51:22.000 --> 51:26.000 Always fighting violence on prisoners. 51:26.000 --> 51:28.000 I'm getting too old for this. 51:28.000 --> 51:30.000 Now, Mr. Spade, to the business at hand. 51:30.000 --> 51:31.000 You have the truth. 51:31.000 --> 51:33.000 I want some answers first. 51:33.000 --> 51:35.000 Did you have our dentist friend Laverne killed? 51:35.000 --> 51:36.000 No. 51:36.000 --> 51:37.000 Did Marvin kill Laverne? 51:37.000 --> 51:38.000 No. 51:38.000 --> 51:39.000 Cairo? 51:38.000 --> 51:39.000 No. 51:39.000 --> 51:42.000 Nobody killed Laverne. He died of old age. 51:42.000 --> 51:45.000 Have you asked the little lady there? 51:45.000 --> 51:47.000 Sam. 51:47.000 --> 51:48.000 I gotta ask you, baby. 51:48.000 --> 51:49.000 Oh, Sam, how could you? 51:49.000 --> 51:51.000 Answer me. 51:51.000 --> 51:53.000 No, Sam, you know I didn't. 51:53.000 --> 51:55.000 Well, it doesn't matter. 51:55.000 --> 51:57.000 I'll take my pigeon pick to take the fall. 51:57.000 --> 51:58.000 I don't feel so good. 51:58.000 --> 52:00.000 Now, Marvin, retain yourself. No violence. 52:00.000 --> 52:01.000 Well, Sam... 52:01.000 --> 52:03.000 That's it. 52:03.000 --> 52:05.000 Sit still. 52:07.000 --> 52:10.000 I have a package from the Avalon Mortuary for Mr. Spade. 52:10.000 --> 52:12.000 Oh, hello, sir. 52:12.000 --> 52:13.000 Yeah, let's have it. 52:13.000 --> 52:15.000 Mrs. Julia said to tell you... 52:15.000 --> 52:17.000 Yeah, yeah, thanks. 52:18.000 --> 52:21.000 Well, Gutman, this is it. 52:21.000 --> 52:22.000 This little package. 52:22.000 --> 52:23.000 The candy tooth. 52:23.000 --> 52:25.000 The tooth, at last. Give it to me, sir. Give it to me. 52:25.000 --> 52:28.000 Oh, Mr. Gutman, it's all over. We've got it. We've got it. 52:28.000 --> 52:30.000 We have. Come, sir, no more teasing. 52:30.000 --> 52:33.000 Uh-uh, uh-uh. Put those fat lunch hooks down before I chop them off. 52:33.000 --> 52:36.000 Oh, I rather thought this was no. What now, sir? 52:36.000 --> 52:38.000 I told you there was another bidder. 52:38.000 --> 52:40.000 And here he is. 52:42.000 --> 52:45.000 I would advise you not to reach for your gun, Mr. Spade. 52:45.000 --> 52:49.000 You're pointing that gun at the wrong belly. The fat man's inside. 52:49.000 --> 52:51.000 Mr. Gutman, Mr. Cairo... 52:51.000 --> 52:54.000 Don Constantino de Braganza of Portugal. 52:54.000 --> 52:56.000 Portugal, indeed. It's the Russians. 52:56.000 --> 52:57.000 Come it off. 52:57.000 --> 52:59.000 Do not be so formal, my darling. 52:59.000 --> 53:01.000 You may call me Sergei Ivanovich. 53:01.000 --> 53:03.000 All right, let's get off the copac. We're all here. 53:03.000 --> 53:04.000 You see? You see? 53:04.000 --> 53:06.000 Mr. Spade, you are an unmitigated cancer. 53:06.000 --> 53:08.000 You knew all along this man was an imposter. 53:08.000 --> 53:09.000 That was the name he gave me. 53:09.000 --> 53:11.000 Well, what matter? There's enough for all. 53:11.000 --> 53:14.000 Fatshah, old murzhik, Mr. Spade, you'll please give me that package. 53:14.000 --> 53:16.000 Now, Marvin, now! 53:16.000 --> 53:17.000 Oh! 53:20.000 --> 53:23.000 They both had their guns into each other at once, practically. 53:23.000 --> 53:25.000 Kamidov fired first, but Marvin didn't fall. 53:25.000 --> 53:27.000 He spit out his chewing gum... 53:27.000 --> 53:30.000 Then he squeezed the trigger of his.45. 53:30.000 --> 53:33.000 They both looked more surprised than anything else. 53:33.000 --> 53:36.000 But they were both very dead before they fell down. 53:36.000 --> 53:37.000 Marvin! 53:37.000 --> 53:40.000 Marvin...dead. 53:40.000 --> 53:43.000 As dead as Kamidov. 53:43.000 --> 53:45.000 Oh, well, it was worth it. 53:45.000 --> 53:48.000 You know, of course, it was he who killed Laverne. 53:48.000 --> 53:50.000 I told you I had my pigeon picked for the fall. 53:50.000 --> 53:52.000 Pike Admin, you are a winner. 53:52.000 --> 53:55.000 Poor Marvin. He looks so dead. 53:55.000 --> 53:57.000 You can have the package now. 53:57.000 --> 53:59.000 Oh, yes, yes, yes. The truth is the truth, sir. 54:01.000 --> 54:03.000 He seized the package with his fat little fingers. 54:03.000 --> 54:06.000 They were trembling so he could hardly undo the strings. 54:06.000 --> 54:10.000 He tore the outer wrappings, exposed a small metal jar. 54:10.000 --> 54:13.000 He looked at me and wrenched the lid off of it. 54:13.000 --> 54:15.000 He dumped the contents onto the table. 54:15.000 --> 54:17.000 The tooth, what is it? There's nothing here. 54:17.000 --> 54:19.000 Ashes. Ashes, sir, ashes. 54:19.000 --> 54:21.000 That's it, Guttman, ashes. 54:21.000 --> 54:24.000 The tooth is there, along with the rest of Herman Julius. 54:24.000 --> 54:26.000 He was cremated this afternoon. 54:26.000 --> 54:28.000 Cremated? The tooth, it was cremated! 54:28.000 --> 54:30.000 No, it cannot be, no! 54:30.000 --> 54:32.000 But it is! It is the truth! 54:32.000 --> 54:35.000 Oh, you idiot! Again you are the idiot! 54:35.000 --> 54:39.000 Why do I stay with him? Why? Why? 54:39.000 --> 54:41.000 Well, well. 54:41.000 --> 54:43.000 Well, come, come, come, Joel. 54:43.000 --> 54:46.000 Shall we stand here weeping and bemoaning a curious quirk of fate? 54:46.000 --> 54:49.000 Or shall we defy all fates? 54:49.000 --> 54:52.000 Were we not well underway to finding the Romanov scepter 54:52.000 --> 54:55.000 when this charming lady detoured us with her romantic notions? 54:55.000 --> 54:57.000 Come, come. What say you, Joel, eh? 54:57.000 --> 55:00.000 You mean we go to... Yes, yes, Joel, to Samarkand. 55:00.000 --> 55:03.000 Mr. Guttman, do not say it. He is listening. 55:03.000 --> 55:06.000 Yes, a wise precaution. Then we go, eh? 55:06.000 --> 55:08.000 Yes, Mr. Guttman, yes, we go. 55:08.000 --> 55:11.000 Ah, adieu, Mr. Spade. 55:11.000 --> 55:13.000 Oh, sound. 55:13.000 --> 55:16.000 It is like the stage of the old Vic at the final curtain of Hamlet. 55:16.000 --> 55:21.000 Alas, poor Marvin. I knew him well. 55:21.000 --> 55:25.000 Oh, well, many slip, twix the cup and the tooth. 55:25.000 --> 55:28.000 Ha, ha, ha, ha. 55:36.000 --> 55:38.000 Now, let him go, Mr. Montgomery. 55:38.000 --> 55:42.000 I knew there was nothing on him that Dundee's boys could make stick. 55:42.000 --> 55:45.000 I thought twice before I let Dundee take Hope Laverne, 55:45.000 --> 55:48.000 but we both agreed it was the smart thing to do. 55:48.000 --> 55:52.000 And what do you suppose Effie said when I said period and a report? 55:52.000 --> 55:56.000 Oh, Sam, for once you came out of hand. 55:56.000 --> 55:58.000 Twenty thousand dollars. 55:58.000 --> 56:00.000 Oh, just think of the things we can do. 56:00.000 --> 56:03.000 Pay all the bills, the years rent on the office, 56:03.000 --> 56:05.000 have that awful old leather chair reupholstered 56:05.000 --> 56:07.000 and a new ribbon for my typewriter. 56:07.000 --> 56:09.000 Effie, uh, bunt that typewriter ribbon. 56:09.000 --> 56:11.000 Well, maybe I can get along on this one for a while, 56:11.000 --> 56:15.000 but Sam, I do think we should get my mother's earrings out of Morsh's pawn shop. 56:15.000 --> 56:17.000 Effie, I know this is going to be a terrible blow to you, but... 56:17.000 --> 56:21.000 Sam, what did you do with the $20,000? 56:21.000 --> 56:23.000 I put it up for bail. 56:23.000 --> 56:24.000 Bail? 56:24.000 --> 56:25.000 Yeah. 56:25.000 --> 56:26.000 That was the $20,000? 56:26.000 --> 56:28.000 And you're released or you get the money? 56:28.000 --> 56:31.000 It's very simple, Sam. You just go down and ask them for it. 56:31.000 --> 56:33.000 Effie, you see, you don't understand these things. 56:33.000 --> 56:36.000 Now, bail is a very complex legal technicality. 56:36.000 --> 56:38.000 You see, you put up a bond and then you... 56:38.000 --> 56:41.000 Sam, how much was the bail for Hope Laverne? 56:41.000 --> 56:43.000 Yeah, that's what I mean, Angel. 56:43.000 --> 56:45.000 Oh, Sam, you're such a child. 56:45.000 --> 56:49.000 You'll never see her again. She was just... just using you. 56:49.000 --> 56:52.000 I'll take it, Effie. Hello? 56:52.000 --> 56:53.000 Angel. 56:53.000 --> 56:54.000 Hello, Kitten. 56:54.000 --> 56:57.000 Sam, I'm free. Shall I come over? 56:57.000 --> 56:59.000 I'll always be waiting for you, Kitten. 56:59.000 --> 57:01.000 Me too, Sam. 57:01.000 --> 57:03.000 Kitten, indeed. 57:03.000 --> 57:05.000 D-A-D. Kitten. 57:05.000 --> 57:06.000 What's that, Angel? 57:06.000 --> 57:08.000 Oh, forget it, Sam. I just get carried away. 57:08.000 --> 57:09.000 Can't figure me out, eh, Angel? 57:09.000 --> 57:13.000 Well, I'll tell you. I've lived without faith and I've lived without charity, 57:13.000 --> 57:15.000 but I've just got to have... 57:15.000 --> 57:19.000 About here is where I say, oh, good night, Sam. 57:19.000 --> 57:21.000 Good night, sweetheart. 57:21.000 --> 57:23.000 MUSIC 57:33.000 --> 57:35.000 This is Robert Montgomery. 57:35.000 --> 57:39.000 I'm sure our suspense audience agrees with me when I say that whenever it is, 57:39.000 --> 57:42.000 it can't be too soon to have Sam Spade back with us again 57:42.000 --> 57:46.000 in a full-hour adventure on radio's outstanding theatre of thrills. 57:46.000 --> 57:51.000 Incidentally, our producer, editor, director on these weekly full hours of suspense, 57:51.000 --> 57:54.000 Bill Spear, joins hands with Dashiell Hammett 57:54.000 --> 57:58.000 to bring you the adventures of Sam Spade each Sunday night on this network. 57:58.000 --> 58:00.000 Thanks for the plug, Bob. I have a basket full of thanks 58:00.000 --> 58:04.000 to my friend Howard Sam Duff, the kind of actor a director lights candles for, 58:04.000 --> 58:06.000 and the wonderful Lorraine Tuttle who plays Effie each week, 58:06.000 --> 58:09.000 and the Joseph Kearns who is the Casper Guttman of them all. 58:09.000 --> 58:12.000 And to all you other ornaments to your profession, 58:12.000 --> 58:15.000 Kathy Lewis, Wally Mayer, Jane Avello, Janet Nolan, Jack Edwards Jr., 58:15.000 --> 58:18.000 Sydney Miller, Hans Conrad, and Bill Johnston. 58:18.000 --> 58:20.000 And of course, as always, to our musical director and conductor, 58:20.000 --> 58:23.000 Led Gluskin, and to the composer of our original scores, Lucian Morrowick. 58:23.000 --> 58:27.000 And our special thanks to Bob Torman and Jason James, who wrote The Candy Tooth, 58:27.000 --> 58:30.000 and who were voted by their fellow mystery writers of America, 58:30.000 --> 58:35.000 the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Sam Spade, the best detective show on the air. 58:35.000 --> 58:38.000 And to The Wild Root Company, our gracious sponsor of same, 58:38.000 --> 58:41.000 for this courtesy and cooperation in making tonight's spaderie available. 58:41.000 --> 58:43.000 Now tell about next week, Bob. 58:43.000 --> 58:46.000 Next week we will bring you another great American master of suspense, 58:46.000 --> 58:51.000 the author of The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity, James M. Kane. 58:51.000 --> 58:57.000 It's a full hour of Mr. Kane's very wonderful novel, Love's Lovely Counterfeit. 58:57.000 --> 59:00.000 This is Robert Montgomery who will welcome you once again next week 59:00.000 --> 59:04.000 to radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 59:04.000 --> 59:09.000 Don't forget next week at this same time, a full hour of Suspense. 59:09.000 --> 59:36.000 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.