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03:46.040 --> 03:47.040 Sure. 03:47.040 --> 03:50.360 It's just that I still don't quite believe it. 03:50.360 --> 03:51.360 It's official, Tasker. 03:51.360 --> 03:53.360 Here are your papers. 03:53.360 --> 03:54.480 Papers? 03:54.480 --> 03:57.720 That'll make everything easy, won't it, warden? 03:57.720 --> 03:59.960 Passport to a brilliant future, ex-con. 03:59.960 --> 04:05.440 Robert, I know it's going to be a little hard to adjust at first, but there's a job in my 04:05.440 --> 04:06.440 office. 04:06.440 --> 04:09.120 Thanks, Mr. Krieger, but I don't want charity, even from you. 04:09.120 --> 04:11.000 Oh, it isn't charity, Robert. 04:11.000 --> 04:14.480 I need a clerk in my office or I wouldn't have offered you the job. 04:14.480 --> 04:18.360 You don't have to stay if you don't want to, but you'll be doing me a great favor if you 04:18.360 --> 04:19.360 try it. 04:19.360 --> 04:22.040 Well, I guess I owe you at least one favor. 04:22.040 --> 04:24.400 Well, Tasker, goodbye and good luck. 04:24.400 --> 04:27.360 Just remember that what's happened up here is water over the dam. 04:27.360 --> 04:28.360 Don't hold any grudges. 04:28.360 --> 04:30.400 I don't hold any grudges, warden. 04:30.400 --> 04:32.480 There's one man I hate, that's all. 04:32.480 --> 04:34.720 A man you hate, Robert? 04:34.720 --> 04:36.880 His name is Arthur Hines and I hate him. 04:36.880 --> 04:38.040 It's simple as that. 04:38.040 --> 04:39.200 Forget it, son. 04:39.200 --> 04:40.200 Hines was D.A. then. 04:40.200 --> 04:41.520 He was just doing a job, that's all. 04:41.520 --> 04:42.800 He had nothing against you. 04:42.800 --> 04:44.640 He was doing a job, all right. 04:44.640 --> 04:46.960 Robert, you mustn't feel that way. 04:46.960 --> 04:49.400 You'll get along with Hines, all right. 04:49.400 --> 04:50.400 Get along with him? 04:50.400 --> 04:51.400 In the office. 04:51.400 --> 04:53.520 Didn't I tell you? 04:53.520 --> 04:57.320 Arthur Hines is my new partner. 04:57.320 --> 05:03.620 Well, it certainly threw me for a second to hear I was going to be working side by side 05:03.620 --> 05:08.600 with Hines, but well, I made up my mind to play ball. 05:08.600 --> 05:12.120 The work wasn't hard and I was able to do some writing on the side. 05:12.120 --> 05:16.400 Mr. Krager always encouraged me in that and Peggy helped me a lot too. 05:16.400 --> 05:19.480 She helped me to believe in myself. 05:19.480 --> 05:21.760 All that time I never saw Mr. Hines. 05:21.760 --> 05:25.680 He was out of town or something and then one day he came back. 05:25.680 --> 05:28.160 I was nervous at the idea of seeing him. 05:28.160 --> 05:29.520 He was in his office with someone. 05:29.520 --> 05:31.360 He'd come in the private entrance. 05:31.360 --> 05:34.320 Mr. Krager was in that day too in his own office. 05:34.320 --> 05:38.720 I was out in the anteroom with Peggy by the switchboard. 05:38.720 --> 05:40.480 Krager and Hines. 05:40.480 --> 05:42.280 I'm sorry Mr. Hines is in conference now. 05:42.280 --> 05:44.080 Can you call back later? 05:44.080 --> 05:45.080 About half an hour. 05:45.080 --> 05:46.080 Thank you. 05:46.080 --> 05:47.760 But what's he really like, Peggy? 05:47.760 --> 05:50.800 I've never seen him except that time in court. 05:50.800 --> 05:51.800 He's all right, I guess. 05:51.800 --> 05:53.720 How do you mean all right? 05:53.720 --> 05:54.720 How do I know what he's like? 05:54.720 --> 05:55.720 I just work here. 05:55.720 --> 05:56.720 I'm not married to the man. 05:56.720 --> 05:57.720 Okay, okay. 05:57.720 --> 05:58.720 I'm sorry, Robert. 05:58.720 --> 06:02.840 I guess I'm kind of jumpy today. 06:02.840 --> 06:03.840 What's the matter, Peggy? 06:03.840 --> 06:05.480 Isn't anything, nerves? 06:05.480 --> 06:08.240 You've been that way ever since Hines came in. 06:08.240 --> 06:10.520 Mr. Hines, how could he have anything to do with it? 06:10.520 --> 06:11.520 I don't know. 06:11.520 --> 06:12.520 You don't understand the English language? 06:12.520 --> 06:13.520 No. 06:13.520 --> 06:14.520 Now get out. 06:14.520 --> 06:15.520 Don't give me that, Hines. 06:15.520 --> 06:16.520 You'll be the gutter. 06:16.520 --> 06:17.520 You know who has. 06:17.520 --> 06:19.440 I don't know anything about it and I don't want to know. 06:19.440 --> 06:22.280 Don't you think I've got enough trouble nowadays keeping mugs like you out of the pen without 06:22.280 --> 06:24.560 being a fence for what you stole? 06:24.560 --> 06:26.120 Now get out of this office and stay out. 06:26.120 --> 06:27.120 Okay. 06:27.120 --> 06:28.120 But I'll be back. 06:28.120 --> 06:31.120 $50,000 is a lot of money. 06:31.120 --> 06:33.400 Well, what do you want? 06:33.400 --> 06:34.400 Why, I... 06:34.400 --> 06:36.400 Robert works here, Mr. Hines. 06:36.400 --> 06:38.440 My name's Robert Tasker, didn't Mr. Craig... 06:38.440 --> 06:39.920 I knew I'd seen you before. 06:39.920 --> 06:41.760 You're that punk kid I sent up to San Quentin. 06:41.760 --> 06:43.360 It was for 10 years. 06:43.360 --> 06:45.440 What do you mean you're working here? 06:45.440 --> 06:47.080 Mr. Craig got me out. 06:47.080 --> 06:48.080 He gave me a job. 06:48.080 --> 06:49.080 A job of what? 06:49.080 --> 06:50.080 Snooping outside my office? 06:50.080 --> 06:51.080 I wasn't... 06:51.080 --> 06:53.080 Don't talk back to me, you dirty little jail rat. 06:53.080 --> 06:54.080 Why, you... 06:54.080 --> 06:55.080 Robert, don't. 06:55.080 --> 06:56.080 Let go. 06:56.080 --> 06:57.080 Leave me alone. 06:57.080 --> 06:58.080 Let me go. 06:58.080 --> 07:00.240 Okay, both of you. 07:00.240 --> 07:01.240 Calm down. 07:01.240 --> 07:02.800 What's the matter? 07:02.800 --> 07:06.040 What's the idea of bringing this ex-con into the office of ex? 07:06.040 --> 07:08.160 Isn't it bad enough to have to work with criminals all day? 07:08.160 --> 07:09.600 Robert is not a criminal. 07:09.600 --> 07:12.240 He's here because I want him to be here. 07:12.240 --> 07:13.520 Because I believe in him and trust him. 07:13.520 --> 07:17.040 Well, I don't like anyone hanging around outside my door when I'm having a private conference, 07:17.040 --> 07:18.040 that's all. 07:18.040 --> 07:22.200 Now look, Robert Tasker's one of the finest, most gifted young persons I've ever known. 07:22.200 --> 07:24.440 I want him to get along here. 07:24.440 --> 07:26.400 And I want him to get along with you too, Arthur. 07:26.400 --> 07:27.400 You understand? 07:27.400 --> 07:28.600 I can get along with anyone. 07:28.600 --> 07:31.280 Well, sure you can. 07:31.280 --> 07:33.080 Everything forgotten now, eh? 07:33.080 --> 07:35.520 Start right off with a clean slate, eh? 07:35.520 --> 07:36.520 Sure. 07:36.520 --> 07:39.800 Well, I'll see you later in the afternoon, Max. 07:39.800 --> 07:45.120 Well, Robert, come into my office for a minute, will you? 07:45.120 --> 07:46.120 Sure. 07:46.120 --> 07:51.920 My boy, I'm terribly sorry. 07:51.920 --> 07:53.960 I don't know how to begin to apologize. 07:53.960 --> 07:55.360 Why should you apologize? 07:55.360 --> 07:56.880 I just don't like him. 07:56.880 --> 07:57.880 He doesn't like me. 07:57.880 --> 07:59.800 No, no, Robert, you're wrong there. 07:59.800 --> 08:02.680 It's just that things have been happening lately to upset him. 08:02.680 --> 08:04.640 Like this fellow Marvin and his $50,000. 08:04.640 --> 08:06.920 Yeah, what's that all about? 08:06.920 --> 08:12.000 Well, there's a poor fellow who's been in prison for the last five years. 08:12.000 --> 08:15.240 He claims he had quite a lot of money when he went in. 08:15.240 --> 08:17.320 He thinks Heinz hijacked it on him, huh? 08:17.320 --> 08:22.080 Well, he says he left it with a pal of his, and later the pal was killed in a gunfight. 08:22.080 --> 08:23.800 Galucci, you remember the case? 08:23.800 --> 08:25.400 Yeah, I remember something about it. 08:25.400 --> 08:29.960 Well, anyway, just before he died, Galucci told somebody he'd left the money with Heinz. 08:29.960 --> 08:32.280 That's how the story goes, anyway. 08:32.280 --> 08:34.600 But you know how these things travel on the grapevine? 08:34.600 --> 08:36.400 It's all nonsense, of course. 08:36.400 --> 08:38.680 That guy meant business, just the same. 08:38.680 --> 08:40.480 That probably explains the whole thing. 08:40.480 --> 08:43.680 Heinz was a little scared. 08:43.680 --> 08:45.400 Don't let it worry you, Robert. 08:45.400 --> 08:47.280 You will stay, won't you? 08:47.280 --> 08:49.880 Well, believe me, it's for the best. 08:49.880 --> 08:52.280 Well, okay. 08:52.280 --> 08:53.660 That's the spirit. 08:53.660 --> 08:56.760 And any other little troubles, you just bring them to me, will you? 08:56.760 --> 08:57.760 Thanks. 08:57.760 --> 09:00.280 Well, I guess I'd better relieve Peggy on the board. 09:00.280 --> 09:01.280 Keep your chin up, son. 09:01.280 --> 09:02.280 Sure. 09:02.280 --> 09:05.280 I'm sorry I kept you waiting, Peggy. 09:05.280 --> 09:06.280 That's all right. 09:06.280 --> 09:07.280 What's the matter? 09:07.280 --> 09:08.280 Please don't say anything. 09:08.280 --> 09:09.280 Peggy, what is it? 09:09.280 --> 09:10.280 Robert, I'm scared. 09:10.280 --> 09:11.280 Scared of what? 09:11.280 --> 09:12.280 Heinz? 09:12.280 --> 09:13.280 Don't be silly. 09:13.280 --> 09:14.280 No, no, it's not him. 09:14.280 --> 09:15.280 Well, what is it? 09:15.280 --> 09:16.280 I shouldn't, but I have got to tell someone. 09:16.280 --> 09:17.280 Sure you have, but take it easy now. 09:17.280 --> 09:18.280 What is it? 09:18.280 --> 09:19.280 I've never told anyone before. 09:19.280 --> 09:20.280 I'm afraid you'll be afraid. 09:20.280 --> 09:21.280 I'm afraid you'll be afraid. 09:21.280 --> 09:22.280 I'm afraid you'll be afraid. 09:22.280 --> 09:24.040 I've never told anyone before. 09:24.040 --> 09:25.040 Neither Mr. Heinz nor Mr. Craig would know. 09:25.040 --> 09:26.040 I'd die if they did. 09:26.040 --> 09:27.040 You wouldn't tell anyone, would you? 09:27.040 --> 09:28.040 Of course I won't. 09:28.040 --> 09:30.040 Come on, spill it. 09:30.040 --> 09:33.200 You saw that man who was in here who was arguing with Mr. Heinz about the $50,000? 09:33.200 --> 09:34.200 Yeah, yeah. 09:34.200 --> 09:35.200 Well, it's true. 09:35.200 --> 09:36.200 There is $50,000 somewhere. 09:36.200 --> 09:37.200 Yeah? 09:37.200 --> 09:38.800 Well, how do you know all this? 09:38.800 --> 09:40.800 I know, and I'm scared. 09:40.800 --> 09:43.040 Robert, he's a killer. 09:43.040 --> 09:44.040 That guy? 09:44.040 --> 09:46.280 Well, I wouldn't be surprised, but how do you know? 09:46.280 --> 09:47.280 Of course. 09:47.280 --> 09:48.280 He's my brother. 09:48.280 --> 09:59.960 I had a hunch to lay him out of there right then. 09:59.960 --> 10:03.720 I knew something was going to happen, but I hated to run out on Peggy when she was in 10:03.720 --> 10:08.400 a jam and might need help, and I didn't want to let Mr. Craig get down either. 10:08.400 --> 10:11.280 I promised I'd stay until I could get sort of a start on my own. 10:11.280 --> 10:16.560 He was the only man in all my life who ever treated me like a person instead of a thing, 10:16.560 --> 10:17.560 so I stayed. 10:17.560 --> 10:20.080 I didn't have any more trouble with Heinz. 10:20.080 --> 10:21.400 We didn't speak to each other much. 10:21.400 --> 10:26.820 There wasn't any need to, and he was out of town most of the time anyway. 10:26.820 --> 10:36.360 He was out of town until that day, the day that he died. 10:36.360 --> 10:39.000 Craig and Heinz, I'm sorry he's out of town. 10:39.000 --> 10:41.000 You might try later this afternoon. 10:41.000 --> 10:43.080 Yes, I'll tell Mr. Heinz. 10:43.080 --> 10:44.080 Say, Peggy. 10:44.080 --> 10:45.080 Uh-huh? 10:45.080 --> 10:46.440 Do you know where Mr. Craig will be in? 10:46.440 --> 10:47.440 He didn't say. 10:47.440 --> 10:48.440 He's still open. 10:48.440 --> 10:49.440 Who? 10:49.440 --> 10:50.440 Harry. 10:50.440 --> 10:51.440 Where is he? 10:51.440 --> 10:52.440 Who? 10:52.440 --> 10:53.440 You know who? 10:53.440 --> 10:54.440 Heinz. 10:54.440 --> 10:56.440 Oh, Harry, I told you not to come. 10:56.440 --> 10:57.440 I begged you not to. 10:57.440 --> 10:58.440 Sure, sure. 10:58.440 --> 10:59.440 Always a little pal, always a little... 10:59.440 --> 11:00.440 Hey, wait a minute. 11:00.440 --> 11:01.440 What does this guy know? 11:01.440 --> 11:05.440 I told him that you were my brother, but nobody else? 11:05.440 --> 11:06.440 Yeah, sure. 11:06.440 --> 11:07.440 Okay, what do I care? 11:07.440 --> 11:08.440 I only care about one thing. 11:08.440 --> 11:09.440 Harry, you promised me you wouldn't come up here. 11:09.440 --> 11:10.440 Where's Heinz? 11:10.440 --> 11:11.440 I don't know. 11:11.440 --> 11:12.440 He's out. 11:12.440 --> 11:13.440 I'll wait till he comes back. 11:13.440 --> 11:14.440 Harry, you mustn't. 11:14.440 --> 11:15.440 I'm staying. 11:15.440 --> 11:17.440 I'll get it out of him. 11:17.440 --> 11:20.440 Harry, your sister says you should leave. 11:20.440 --> 11:22.440 You keep out of this punk. 11:22.440 --> 11:23.440 I don't like that word, pal. 11:23.440 --> 11:26.440 Robert, listen, will you watch the board for a few minutes? 11:26.440 --> 11:27.440 Sure. 11:27.440 --> 11:28.440 It's lunchtime anyway. 11:28.440 --> 11:30.440 Harry, Harry, I've got some things I want to talk over with you privately. 11:30.440 --> 11:31.440 What things? 11:31.440 --> 11:35.440 About Heinz and, you know, come on, we'll go downstairs, the girl in the lobby. 11:35.440 --> 11:37.440 You wouldn't be trying to ease me out of here, would you? 11:37.440 --> 11:40.440 No, no, honest, I've got to talk to you, Harry. 11:40.440 --> 11:41.440 Come on. 11:41.440 --> 11:42.440 Okay. 11:42.440 --> 11:43.440 Now, you listen, pal. 11:43.440 --> 11:44.440 Yeah? 11:44.440 --> 11:47.440 If Mr. Heinz comes in, you tell him I was here, 11:47.440 --> 11:50.440 and you tell him he better come across or else. 11:50.440 --> 11:51.440 Is that all? 11:51.440 --> 11:52.440 That's enough, isn't it? 11:52.440 --> 11:54.440 He'll know what I mean. 11:54.440 --> 11:55.440 Sure. 12:00.440 --> 12:04.440 After they left, I just sat there with this guy, Harry, feeling the way he did, 12:04.440 --> 12:08.440 even if he was a screwball with a jackpot like $50,000 kicking around somewhere, 12:08.440 --> 12:12.440 no matter who had it, I knew it was a cinch, there was going to be a blow-off. 12:12.440 --> 12:14.440 And I knew I was going to be right in the middle of it. 12:14.440 --> 12:17.440 I didn't know how then, but I knew I was. 12:17.440 --> 12:19.440 A guy with a record always is. 12:19.440 --> 12:22.440 And there wasn't a thing I could do about it. 12:22.440 --> 12:26.440 So I just sat there waiting for trouble to happen. 12:33.440 --> 12:34.440 Kroeger and Heinz. 12:34.440 --> 12:35.440 Hello, Robert, this is Max Kroeger. 12:35.440 --> 12:36.440 Oh, yes, Mr. Kroeger. 12:36.440 --> 12:38.440 Are you there alone? Peggy out to lunch? 12:38.440 --> 12:40.440 Yes, yes, she is. 12:40.440 --> 12:42.440 Well, it can't be helped, I'm in a hurry. 12:42.440 --> 12:43.440 I'll tell you what I want you to do. 12:43.440 --> 12:44.440 Yes, sir. 12:44.440 --> 12:47.440 I'm across the street in the courthouse, Judge Andrews Court, the Ellsworth case. 12:47.440 --> 12:49.440 There are some notes I've got to have over here right away. 12:49.440 --> 12:52.440 They're in my own handwriting, pencil, and clearly marked Ellsworth. 12:52.440 --> 12:53.440 Yes, sir. 12:53.440 --> 12:54.440 You'll find them in Mr. Heinz's office. 12:54.440 --> 12:56.440 The pages all clipped together. 12:56.440 --> 13:00.440 I don't know exactly where in his office, but keep looking, keep looking until you find them. 13:00.440 --> 13:01.440 All right, sir. 13:01.440 --> 13:03.440 Then bring them over to me right away. Got it? 13:03.440 --> 13:04.440 Yes, sir. 13:04.440 --> 13:05.440 I'll be waiting for you. 13:06.440 --> 13:09.440 I left the switchboard and went into Mr. Heinz's office. 13:09.440 --> 13:11.440 I started looking around for the notes. 13:11.440 --> 13:12.440 I looked everywhere. 13:12.440 --> 13:16.440 I looked on top of the desk first, and then I looked in all the drawers. 13:16.440 --> 13:18.440 Then I looked in the filing cabinet. 13:18.440 --> 13:20.440 I even tried to look in the safe, but it was locked. 13:20.440 --> 13:24.440 Then I stopped and sort of looked around the room to see if there was anything I'd missed. 13:24.440 --> 13:27.440 And I noticed some yellow papers on top of the bookcase. 13:27.440 --> 13:29.440 I reached up and took them down. 13:29.440 --> 13:34.440 I was standing there with my back to the private entrance, looking the papers over to be sure they were the right ones. 13:34.440 --> 13:36.440 What are you doing in here? 13:36.440 --> 13:38.440 Mr. Craig wanted some papers, Mr. Heinz. 13:38.440 --> 13:40.440 I thought I told you to stay away from my office. 13:40.440 --> 13:41.440 What are you snooping around here for? 13:41.440 --> 13:43.440 Mr. Craig had told me to look in here for the... 13:43.440 --> 13:45.440 Yeah, there's something mighty funny going on around this office. 13:45.440 --> 13:47.440 There's nothing funny. Mr. Craig had told me... 13:47.440 --> 13:48.440 I say there is. 13:48.440 --> 13:52.440 What's the switchboard girl doing sneaking around the lobby with Harry Marvin? 13:52.440 --> 13:54.440 They tried to avoid me, but I saw them. 13:54.440 --> 13:58.440 First the switchboard girl turns out to have a crazy ex-convict for a boyfriend, and now... 13:58.440 --> 14:00.440 That's a lie. He's her brother. 14:00.440 --> 14:04.440 Her brother? Oh, so that's it. 14:04.440 --> 14:07.440 Oh, I shouldn't have said that, Mr. Heinz. I don't know anything about it. 14:07.440 --> 14:09.440 Oh, you don't? Well, I do. I get it now. 14:09.440 --> 14:11.440 I knew there was something, and all of a sudden I get it. 14:11.440 --> 14:13.440 Mr. Heinz, there's nothing to get... 14:13.440 --> 14:16.440 So the girl and her brother go down to the lobby and set themselves an alibi... 14:16.440 --> 14:21.440 because they know I'll suspect them and get you to do their dirty work for a nice fat cut. 14:21.440 --> 14:22.440 Please, Mr. Heinz, don't talk that way. 14:22.440 --> 14:24.440 Well, you didn't find it, did you, and you won't. 14:24.440 --> 14:26.440 Now you get out of here, you little punk. 14:26.440 --> 14:27.440 I said don't talk that way. 14:27.440 --> 14:29.440 You dirty, thieving little... 14:29.440 --> 14:34.440 I told you not to talk that way. 14:39.440 --> 14:42.440 We fell and just lay there. For a minute I didn't know what to do. 14:42.440 --> 14:44.440 Then I knew I'd have to tell Mr. Kramer. 14:44.440 --> 14:46.440 I knew I was all washed up there anyway. 14:46.440 --> 14:51.440 I couldn't very well expect even a man like Mr. Kramer to choose between his law partner and me. 14:51.440 --> 14:55.440 And I couldn't stay in the same office with Mr. Heinz after what had happened. 14:55.440 --> 14:59.440 Somehow I wanted to tell Mr. Kramer myself before anyone else did. 14:59.440 --> 15:03.440 I went out to the switchboard and dialed the courthouse number. 15:10.440 --> 15:12.440 Judge Andrews, Gort Johnson speaking. 15:12.440 --> 15:15.440 I want to speak to Mr. Max Kramer. This is his office calling. 15:15.440 --> 15:18.440 Well, I don't see him around here right now. The court's in recess. 15:18.440 --> 15:21.440 I know, but try to locate him, will you? 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Robert, you still there? 18:06.440 --> 18:08.440 Mr. Craig, I... 18:08.440 --> 18:10.440 Where are those notes? Haven't you found them yet? 18:10.440 --> 18:12.440 Yes, I found them all right. 18:12.440 --> 18:14.440 Well, bring them over here. I need them right away. 18:14.440 --> 18:16.440 Mr. Craig, I... 18:16.440 --> 18:19.440 Robert, what's the matter with you? 18:19.440 --> 18:21.440 I just killed Mr. Hines. 18:26.440 --> 18:29.440 Pretty soon the police came. I called them myself. 18:29.440 --> 18:32.440 Mr. Craig said it was the only thing to do, and I knew he was right. 18:32.440 --> 18:35.440 He said he'd be in touch with me as soon as he was through at court. 18:35.440 --> 18:37.440 I didn't know what he could do. 18:37.440 --> 18:39.440 I didn't think there was much he'd want to do. 18:39.440 --> 18:41.440 But it made me feel better to have him talk that way. 18:41.440 --> 18:44.440 The police took me across town in a squad car. 18:44.440 --> 18:46.440 I knew what I was in for. 18:46.440 --> 18:48.440 The police don't like ex-convicts, 18:48.440 --> 18:51.440 particularly one that they think has been mixed up with murder. 18:55.440 --> 18:58.440 Well, you're just making it hard for yourself, Tasker. 18:58.440 --> 19:00.440 I told you what happened. 19:00.440 --> 19:01.440 Inner pig's eye you have. 19:01.440 --> 19:03.440 I don't have to talk if I don't want to. 19:03.440 --> 19:04.440 No? 19:04.440 --> 19:06.440 I'm waiting for Mr. Craig. I told you that. 19:06.440 --> 19:08.440 Craig? What do you think he's going to do for you? 19:08.440 --> 19:10.440 I don't know, but he told me he'd come down. 19:10.440 --> 19:13.440 Oh, sure, of course he'll come down to give evidence against you. 19:13.440 --> 19:16.440 Oh, now, listen, Tasker, if you give a full confession, 19:16.440 --> 19:18.440 we may be able to get a break for you. 19:18.440 --> 19:20.440 Gavin, Mr. Craig is outside. He wants to see you. 19:20.440 --> 19:22.440 Oh, yeah? Okay, send him in. 19:22.440 --> 19:23.440 All right, boys. 19:23.440 --> 19:24.440 Hi. 19:24.440 --> 19:25.440 Hello, Robert. 19:25.440 --> 19:26.440 Hello, Mr. Craig. 19:26.440 --> 19:27.440 They've been treating you all right? 19:27.440 --> 19:30.440 Fine. I don't like to have people get rough with my clients. 19:30.440 --> 19:31.440 Your what? 19:31.440 --> 19:32.440 You heard me, Captain. 19:32.440 --> 19:35.440 While you're at it, you might as well take those handcuffs off him 19:35.440 --> 19:37.440 because from this moment, he's out and out and bond, 19:37.440 --> 19:39.440 released in my custody. 19:39.440 --> 19:40.440 I got the papers right here. 19:40.440 --> 19:41.440 Say, are you crazy? 19:41.440 --> 19:42.440 Certainly not. 19:42.440 --> 19:44.440 I simply don't believe the boy did it, that's all. 19:44.440 --> 19:48.440 Look, Craig, why try to kid us? It's an open and shut case. 19:48.440 --> 19:50.440 Tasker's the only person who had the opportunity, 19:50.440 --> 19:52.440 the only one who had a motive. 19:52.440 --> 19:53.440 Uh-uh. 19:53.440 --> 19:55.440 Well, not to speak ill of the dead, Captain, 19:55.440 --> 19:58.440 and although Arthur Hines was my law partner, 19:58.440 --> 20:00.440 it's unfortunately true that quite a number of people 20:00.440 --> 20:02.440 at least thought they had a motive. 20:02.440 --> 20:05.440 Oh, sure, so maybe this other ex-con, Harry Marvin, 20:05.440 --> 20:06.440 had a motive. 20:06.440 --> 20:08.440 Maybe even the dame on the switchboard had a motive, 20:08.440 --> 20:09.440 for all I know. 20:09.440 --> 20:10.440 But they couldn't have done it. 20:10.440 --> 20:12.440 Fifty people saw him together downstairs 20:12.440 --> 20:13.440 in the lobby of the building 20:13.440 --> 20:14.440 at the time the murder was committed. 20:14.440 --> 20:16.440 No, you've talked to them, have you? 20:16.440 --> 20:18.440 Listen, this kid admits he had a quarrel with Hines. 20:18.440 --> 20:20.440 He always hit him anyway. 20:20.440 --> 20:21.440 He admits he hit him. 20:21.440 --> 20:23.440 So he picks the paperweight off the desk, 20:23.440 --> 20:24.440 smashes him over the head. 20:24.440 --> 20:25.440 Wait a minute. 20:25.440 --> 20:27.440 You didn't say anything about that, Robert. 20:27.440 --> 20:29.440 Oh, I didn't even know about it before. 20:29.440 --> 20:30.440 I didn't hit him with any paperweight. 20:30.440 --> 20:32.440 Oh, stop it, Willard. 20:32.440 --> 20:33.440 The back of the man's head was bashed in 20:33.440 --> 20:34.440 with that paperweight, 20:34.440 --> 20:36.440 and this kid's fingerprints were all over it. 20:36.440 --> 20:38.440 Well, what's so funny? 20:38.440 --> 20:39.440 This is murder, mister. 20:39.440 --> 20:40.440 I'm sorry. 20:40.440 --> 20:43.440 But you'll find out if you ever try to bring this boy 20:43.440 --> 20:45.440 to trial for killing Arthur Hines with a paperweight. 20:45.440 --> 20:48.440 Listen, Craig, you're not going to make a chump out of me. 20:48.440 --> 20:51.440 This boy is going to be indicted for murder. 20:51.440 --> 20:53.440 He's going to be convicted of murder, 20:53.440 --> 20:55.440 and he's going to burn for murder. 21:03.440 --> 21:05.440 Indicted, convicted, burned. 21:05.440 --> 21:07.440 Three promises. 21:07.440 --> 21:09.440 And the first one's already happened. 21:09.440 --> 21:10.440 The second one? 21:10.440 --> 21:13.440 Well, even I can see we don't stand much chance. 21:13.440 --> 21:15.440 And the third one, I... 21:15.440 --> 21:17.440 just try not to think about. 21:17.440 --> 21:20.440 But there is Mr. Craig Europe before that jury, 21:20.440 --> 21:22.440 acting as though it was an absolute certainty 21:22.440 --> 21:24.440 that I'd be cleared, pleading for me 21:24.440 --> 21:26.440 as though I were the only guy in the world 21:26.440 --> 21:30.440 because, well, that's the kind of a guy he is. 21:38.440 --> 21:42.440 Ladies and gentlemen, it is my firm conviction 21:42.440 --> 21:45.440 that when you have heard this boy's story from his own lips 21:45.440 --> 21:47.440 and gained an insight as I have 21:47.440 --> 21:50.440 into the depth and integrity of his character and spirit, 21:50.440 --> 21:53.440 you will also believe him innocent. 21:53.440 --> 21:56.440 He is innocent. 21:57.440 --> 22:00.440 Now, Robert, I'll ask you to take the stand, please. 22:02.440 --> 22:04.440 Raise your right hand, please. 22:04.440 --> 22:06.440 You swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, 22:06.440 --> 22:08.440 nothing but the truth, sir, hope you've got? 22:08.440 --> 22:09.440 I do. 22:09.440 --> 22:11.440 Please be seated. 22:11.440 --> 22:14.440 Now, Robert, just for the record, 22:14.440 --> 22:16.440 will you tell the court your full name? 22:16.440 --> 22:18.440 Robert Loring Tasker. 22:18.440 --> 22:19.440 Your age? 22:19.440 --> 22:20.440 24. 22:20.440 --> 22:21.440 Your mother and father are dead. 22:21.440 --> 22:22.440 You have no living relatives? 22:22.440 --> 22:24.440 No, no one. 22:24.440 --> 22:26.440 Now, before you begin your story, 22:26.440 --> 22:28.440 there are one or two extremely important points 22:28.440 --> 22:32.440 that I particularly wish to emphasize to the court. 22:32.440 --> 22:35.440 Now, tell me, Robert, how long was it 22:35.440 --> 22:38.440 between the time you quarreled with Mr. Hines 22:38.440 --> 22:41.440 and the time you went back into his office 22:41.440 --> 22:42.440 and found him dead? 22:42.440 --> 22:45.440 Not long. Six or seven minutes, perhaps. 22:45.440 --> 22:47.440 Six or seven minutes, eh? 22:47.440 --> 22:49.440 Long enough for someone to have entered Mr. Hines' office 22:49.440 --> 22:52.440 by the back entrance, struck him, and left again. 22:52.440 --> 22:56.440 Now, concerning this famous paperweight 22:56.440 --> 22:59.440 the prosecution has talked so much about, 22:59.440 --> 23:01.440 I have it here. 23:01.440 --> 23:03.440 Do you recognize it? 23:03.440 --> 23:06.440 Yes, it was always on Mr. Hines' desk. 23:06.440 --> 23:10.440 Now, tell me, when you went in his office at my order 23:10.440 --> 23:12.440 to look for certain papers, 23:12.440 --> 23:14.440 you touched this paperweight, did you not? 23:14.440 --> 23:17.440 Yes, I touched just about everything on the desk. 23:17.440 --> 23:20.440 Exactly. In other words, your fingerprints 23:20.440 --> 23:22.440 would be found not only on this paperweight, 23:22.440 --> 23:24.440 but on practically everything else in the room. 23:24.440 --> 23:25.440 Yes, they would. 23:25.440 --> 23:28.440 In due course, Your Honor, we shall demonstrate 23:28.440 --> 23:31.440 that such is in fact precisely the case. 23:31.440 --> 23:36.440 Now, Robert, when Mr. Hines found you in his room, 23:36.440 --> 23:39.440 he was irate and highly suspicious, was he not? 23:39.440 --> 23:40.440 Yes, he was. 23:40.440 --> 23:43.440 In fact, he even suspected that there was some plot against him. 23:43.440 --> 23:45.440 Involving Peggy, the switchboard girl, 23:45.440 --> 23:48.440 and a client of his named Harry Marvin. 23:48.440 --> 23:49.440 Yes, he did. 23:49.440 --> 23:52.440 You denied this, saying that in fact they were brother and sister. 23:52.440 --> 23:53.440 Yes. 23:53.440 --> 23:55.440 A house? 23:55.440 --> 23:56.440 Yes, that's right. 23:56.440 --> 23:58.440 You denied the charge of a plot saying that Peggy 23:58.440 --> 24:00.440 and Harry Marvin were brother and sister. 24:00.440 --> 24:03.440 Then Mr. Hines went so far as to accuse you of stealing. 24:03.440 --> 24:04.440 Your Honor. 24:04.440 --> 24:05.440 Yes? 24:05.440 --> 24:07.440 Your Honor, there's something I've just thought about, 24:07.440 --> 24:08.440 some new evidence. 24:08.440 --> 24:10.440 I'd like a few minutes alone with my lawyer. 24:10.440 --> 24:12.440 The counsel has no objection. 24:12.440 --> 24:13.440 Robert, what is it? 24:13.440 --> 24:16.440 It's just something that I think I ought to tell you in private. 24:16.440 --> 24:17.440 Very well. 24:17.440 --> 24:18.440 If Your Honor please then. 24:18.440 --> 24:19.440 By all means. 24:19.440 --> 24:21.440 Perhaps you'd like to use my chamber. 24:21.440 --> 24:22.440 Thank you, Your Honor. 24:22.440 --> 24:23.440 Come along, Robert. 24:30.440 --> 24:32.440 You didn't have to lock the door, Robert. 24:32.440 --> 24:33.440 I want it to be private. 24:33.440 --> 24:34.440 All right. 24:34.440 --> 24:36.440 But Robert, you mustn't worry like this. 24:36.440 --> 24:38.440 Let me do the worrying. 24:38.440 --> 24:39.440 They can't convict you. 24:39.440 --> 24:41.440 If there's a reasonable doubt, that's the law. 24:41.440 --> 24:43.440 And there is a reasonable doubt. 24:43.440 --> 24:46.440 Someone did come in and hit Hines in those six or seven minutes. 24:46.440 --> 24:47.440 It must have been that way. 24:47.440 --> 24:48.440 Yes, I know. 24:48.440 --> 24:49.440 Of course you do. 24:49.440 --> 24:51.440 We've been over the whole thing. 24:51.440 --> 24:53.440 Now let's go back into the courtroom. 24:53.440 --> 24:55.440 Mr. Krager, there's something I haven't told you. 24:55.440 --> 24:57.440 Something you haven't told me? What? 24:57.440 --> 24:59.440 It's a little thing, but it's kind of important 24:59.440 --> 25:03.440 because it's something I never told anyone except a dead man. 25:03.440 --> 25:04.440 Well, what is it? 25:04.440 --> 25:07.440 I never told anyone that Peggy was Harry Marvin's sister 25:07.440 --> 25:08.440 except Mr. Hines. 25:08.440 --> 25:11.440 Now, Robert, don't you think that's a little trivial? 25:11.440 --> 25:13.440 No, because you know about it. 25:13.440 --> 25:14.440 You just said so in the courtroom. 25:14.440 --> 25:15.440 Well, I... 25:15.440 --> 25:17.440 And there's only one way you could have found out. 25:17.440 --> 25:19.440 You must have been in your office when I had the fight with Hines 25:19.440 --> 25:20.440 and heard me tell them. 25:20.440 --> 25:21.440 Well, Robert, that's ridiculous. 25:21.440 --> 25:23.440 Oh, no, it isn't because you're right. 25:23.440 --> 25:26.440 Somebody did come in in those six or seven minutes and kill Hines. 25:26.440 --> 25:27.440 You did. 25:27.440 --> 25:28.440 You're crazy. 25:28.440 --> 25:30.440 It must have been for that $50,000. 25:30.440 --> 25:31.440 You hijacked the hijacker. 25:31.440 --> 25:33.440 And you knew they'd pin it on me with my record. 25:33.440 --> 25:35.440 I'm not going to stay here and listen to any such nonsense. 25:35.440 --> 25:37.440 Oh, yes you are because I'm going to get the truth out of you. 25:37.440 --> 25:39.440 You planned it that way, didn't you? 25:39.440 --> 25:42.440 You sent me into Hines' office that day and you probably sent him. 25:42.440 --> 25:43.440 Robert, I... 25:43.440 --> 25:44.440 And you figured you were such a hot lawyer 25:44.440 --> 25:46.440 you might even get me off of 20 years or so 25:46.440 --> 25:48.440 to ease your dirty conscience, didn't you? 25:48.440 --> 25:50.440 Talk, Craig. 25:50.440 --> 25:53.440 You won't get anywhere using violence with me. 25:53.440 --> 25:54.440 No. 25:54.440 --> 25:55.440 Talk. 25:55.440 --> 25:56.440 Now, wait a minute. 25:56.440 --> 25:58.440 Even if I did confess, it wouldn't hold up as evidence. 25:58.440 --> 25:59.440 Talk. 25:59.440 --> 26:01.440 Listen, we'll postpone the trial. 26:01.440 --> 26:02.440 I can get you out of the country. 26:02.440 --> 26:03.440 I'll give you money. 26:03.440 --> 26:04.440 That's all I wanted to know. 26:04.440 --> 26:05.440 Talk. 26:05.440 --> 26:06.440 You did it, didn't you? 26:06.440 --> 26:07.440 You killed him. 26:07.440 --> 26:08.440 Stop. 26:08.440 --> 26:09.440 Talk. 26:09.440 --> 26:10.440 Stop it. 26:10.440 --> 26:11.440 Stop it. 26:11.440 --> 26:12.440 That's where you were when I phoned you at the office. 26:12.440 --> 26:13.440 I couldn't find you, weren't you? 26:13.440 --> 26:15.440 You were killing Hines, weren't you? 26:15.440 --> 26:16.440 Stop it. 26:16.440 --> 26:17.440 Stop it. 26:17.440 --> 26:18.440 Yes. 26:18.440 --> 26:20.440 Yes, I did it. 26:20.440 --> 26:21.440 I killed him. 26:21.440 --> 26:23.440 I guess we can unlock the door now. 26:25.440 --> 26:26.440 What's going on here? 26:26.440 --> 26:27.440 Grab him, Your Honor. 26:27.440 --> 26:28.440 He's crazy. 26:28.440 --> 26:29.440 He attacked me. 26:29.440 --> 26:30.440 So I gather. 26:30.440 --> 26:31.440 He even accused me of murder. 26:31.440 --> 26:32.440 Yes, we heard him. 26:32.440 --> 26:35.440 Tell me, Craig, where were you when this boy phoned you? 26:35.440 --> 26:36.440 When this boy phoned you here at court? 26:36.440 --> 26:38.440 When they couldn't find you? 26:38.440 --> 26:42.440 Why, Your Honor, as a matter of fact, I was right here. 26:42.440 --> 26:43.440 Right in this very courtroom. 26:43.440 --> 26:44.440 I had some work to do. 26:44.440 --> 26:46.440 I wanted privacy. 26:46.440 --> 26:47.440 Your court was in recess. 26:47.440 --> 26:48.440 You were out of town. 26:48.440 --> 26:50.440 Yes, I know. 26:50.440 --> 26:52.440 You say you were right here in this room. 26:52.440 --> 26:53.440 Yes, that's right. 26:53.440 --> 26:56.440 Then, Craig, there's something you don't know. 26:56.440 --> 26:57.440 What? 26:57.440 --> 27:01.440 On the day of the murder, the floor of this room was being repainted. 27:01.440 --> 27:04.440 And the paint, Mr. Craig, was quite wet. 27:04.440 --> 27:07.440 Your Honor, the defense rests. 27:20.440 --> 27:23.440 Suspense presented by Auto Light. 27:23.440 --> 27:25.440 Tonight's star, Van Johnson. 27:25.440 --> 27:27.440 Ever do crossword puzzles, Harlow? 27:27.440 --> 27:29.440 Sure, Hap. 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