WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:10.000 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Suspense. 00:10.000 --> 00:18.800 Tonight, Auto Light brings you Miss Claire Trevor in Angel Face, a suspense play produced 00:18.800 --> 00:25.720 and edited by William Spear. 00:25.720 --> 00:27.400 The flowers are blooming this spring. 00:27.400 --> 00:33.440 Hey, you better save that for the bathtub, where consult a voice expert. 00:33.440 --> 00:36.440 Seems to be an expert for everything these days, Wilcox. 00:36.440 --> 00:39.160 Everything from voices to spark plugs. 00:39.160 --> 00:41.000 Take Auto Light spark plugs, for instance. 00:41.000 --> 00:43.760 They're designed by Auto Light ignition engineers. 00:43.760 --> 00:48.600 The men who engineer spark plugs, just as they engineer coils, distributors, wire, and 00:48.600 --> 00:53.120 all the other important parts of the ignition system, work together as a perfect team. 00:53.120 --> 00:57.080 Why the skill of these ignition engineers has made Auto Light spark plugs world famous 00:57.080 --> 00:59.440 for their quality and dependability. 00:59.440 --> 01:01.920 Ignition engineered Auto Light spark plugs, you might say. 01:01.920 --> 01:02.920 Yes, sir. 01:02.920 --> 01:06.760 And these same Auto Light engineers developed the famous Auto Light resistor spark plug, 01:06.760 --> 01:11.680 one of the greatest advances in spark plug design for automotive use in the past 20 years. 01:11.680 --> 01:13.280 Real experts, eh, Wilcox? 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02:08.560 --> 02:09.680 Wheeler. 02:09.680 --> 02:21.640 I had caught Ruby Rose Redding, the noted burlesque queen at breakfast time, hers not 02:21.640 --> 02:25.240 mine, quarter to three in the afternoon. 02:25.240 --> 02:29.840 Breakfast was a tomato and lettuce, untouched, and a glass of bromo salsa. 02:29.840 --> 02:34.340 She banged her cigarette to death against an ashtray and looked me up and down like 02:34.340 --> 02:36.880 auditioning me for her chorus line. 02:36.880 --> 02:37.880 Wheeler. 02:37.880 --> 02:38.880 What's it supposed to mean? 02:38.880 --> 02:39.880 Are you his mother? 02:39.880 --> 02:45.280 I'm a little young for the part, but I'm the only one he's ever had. 02:45.280 --> 02:46.760 Oh, now I get it. 02:46.760 --> 02:48.320 The big sister act. 02:48.320 --> 02:51.440 Okay, run through it once and get out of here. 02:51.440 --> 02:52.440 Sure. 02:52.440 --> 02:55.240 I don't mind coming right out with it in front of your maid if you don't. 02:55.240 --> 02:56.240 Yeah. 02:56.240 --> 02:57.240 Suzette. 02:57.240 --> 03:00.240 Take Fufu around the block a couple of times. 03:00.240 --> 03:02.240 Madame, I've seen him once already. 03:02.240 --> 03:03.240 Well, take him again. 03:03.240 --> 03:04.240 Maybe you can get him tomorrow already. 03:04.240 --> 03:05.240 But Madame. 03:05.240 --> 03:06.240 Get out of here. 03:06.240 --> 03:07.240 Where's Madame? 03:07.240 --> 03:09.240 Madame, come on, fool. 03:09.240 --> 03:12.240 You're done with him. 03:12.240 --> 03:15.480 Well, I'll give it to you short. 03:15.480 --> 03:17.600 I want you to lay off my brother. 03:17.600 --> 03:18.600 Your brother? 03:18.600 --> 03:19.600 Now let's see. 03:19.600 --> 03:21.600 What am I supposed to have done to him? 03:21.600 --> 03:24.000 He's been spending money like wild. 03:24.000 --> 03:26.080 Money that doesn't come out of his salary. 03:26.080 --> 03:27.240 And another thing. 03:27.240 --> 03:31.200 He started wearing a gun about two weeks after you started wearing him. 03:31.200 --> 03:33.120 Did I teach him to shoot at two? 03:33.120 --> 03:35.480 No, but I think some of your friends may have. 03:35.480 --> 03:37.520 Oh, you've been reading the gossip columns. 03:37.520 --> 03:39.520 Well, I read them too. 03:39.520 --> 03:42.600 Some big gun from Philly is supposed to be paying my rent. 03:42.600 --> 03:43.720 Forget it, honey. 03:43.720 --> 03:44.720 That's my publicity. 03:44.720 --> 03:48.240 Now will you get out of here and let me get my massage? 03:48.240 --> 03:49.600 Look. 03:49.600 --> 03:51.960 Give him a break, will you? 03:51.960 --> 03:53.440 Pick on someone your own size. 03:53.440 --> 03:55.000 Well, I'll bother. 03:55.000 --> 03:59.040 Hey, I've heard of wives pulling this bit and even mothers. 03:59.040 --> 04:01.520 And once in a picture it was the old man. 04:01.520 --> 04:02.520 Now it's his sister. 04:02.520 --> 04:05.520 Well send grandma around tomorrow. 04:05.520 --> 04:07.520 I'll beat it. 04:09.520 --> 04:11.520 I walked out past her. 04:11.520 --> 04:15.520 If she'd touched me, I think I'd have murdered her. 04:25.520 --> 04:27.520 Oh, it's this. 04:27.520 --> 04:28.520 Where you been? 04:28.520 --> 04:30.520 Oh, I went for a walk. 04:30.520 --> 04:31.520 Why aren't you at work? 04:31.520 --> 04:33.520 I quit my job. 04:33.520 --> 04:35.520 You did? 04:35.520 --> 04:39.520 Chick, you aren't going to Chicago with that dame, are you? 04:39.520 --> 04:40.520 Why Chicago? 04:40.520 --> 04:41.520 Well, it's in variety. 04:41.520 --> 04:43.520 Ruby Rose is opening a club there. 04:43.520 --> 04:47.520 It also says a big shot gangster from Philly is backing it. 04:47.520 --> 04:48.520 Oh, what? 04:48.520 --> 04:49.520 Well, does he know about you? 04:49.520 --> 04:51.520 What are you trying to do, scare me off? 04:51.520 --> 04:52.520 Oh, no. 04:52.520 --> 04:53.520 You're such a big shot. 04:53.520 --> 04:54.520 That wouldn't work. 04:54.520 --> 04:56.520 All that about that guy. 04:56.520 --> 04:58.520 That's nothing but publicity. 04:58.520 --> 04:59.520 Ruby told me all about it. 04:59.520 --> 05:00.520 Oh, yeah, sure. 05:00.520 --> 05:03.520 Oh, look, sis, you don't know her like I do. 05:03.520 --> 05:05.520 Oh, Chick, I'm not going to let you get mixed up with this. 05:05.520 --> 05:06.520 No, no cracks, Jerry. 05:06.520 --> 05:09.520 Look, Ruby Rose Redding makes good money, all right, 05:09.520 --> 05:12.520 but the rent on that plush line grap trap she lives in, 05:12.520 --> 05:15.520 if you can call it living, is around $3,000 a month. 05:15.520 --> 05:17.520 Now, somebody's paying those bills and... 05:17.520 --> 05:18.520 Oh, nuts. 05:18.520 --> 05:19.520 What do you really know about her? 05:19.520 --> 05:20.520 More than you ever will. 05:20.520 --> 05:21.520 Oh, please. 05:21.520 --> 05:22.520 I'm in show business, too, you know. 05:22.520 --> 05:23.520 All lay off, will you? 05:23.520 --> 05:25.520 Chick, wait. Listen. 05:25.520 --> 05:26.520 I heard enough. 05:26.520 --> 05:27.520 Chick, please. 05:27.520 --> 05:29.520 Get away from the door, Jerry. 05:29.520 --> 05:32.520 I never raised a hand to you in my life, and I don't want to now. 05:32.520 --> 05:33.520 I won't let you go, Chick. 05:33.520 --> 05:37.520 Not for her, not for something that ought to be washed out of your hair with gasoline. 05:37.520 --> 05:38.520 Get out of my way, Jerry. 05:38.520 --> 05:39.520 Oh, don't go, Chick. 05:39.520 --> 05:42.520 You're heading straight for the eight ball. 05:42.520 --> 05:43.520 Chick. 05:43.520 --> 05:44.520 Chick. 05:44.520 --> 05:46.520 Don't go to her. 05:52.520 --> 05:58.520 Dissolved two girls sitting at kitchen table playing very solitary solitaire 05:58.520 --> 06:02.520 About four that morning, I was looking for an aspirin. 06:03.520 --> 06:06.520 When the doorbell buzzed, Chick, I... 06:06.520 --> 06:08.520 Chick, I... 06:10.520 --> 06:12.520 You're Jerry Wheeler, aren't you? 06:14.520 --> 06:16.520 He was nice. 06:16.520 --> 06:18.520 I found out his name later. 06:18.520 --> 06:20.520 Lieutenant Nick Burns. 06:20.520 --> 06:26.520 The other one had a face like one of those cobblestones they dug out of Eighth Avenue when they tore up the trolley tracks. 06:26.520 --> 06:29.520 Your brother. What time do you leave here this evening? 06:29.520 --> 06:33.520 I really couldn't say. My clock's out of order. 06:33.520 --> 06:38.520 Miss Wheeler, your brother was going to Chicago with Ruby Rose Redding, the dancer. You knew that, didn't you? 06:38.520 --> 06:42.520 Oh, now why would he go anywhere with anyone with a name like that? 06:42.520 --> 06:47.520 Your brother went to the Alcazar Apartments at 8.15 tonight and beat up this Redding dame. 06:47.520 --> 06:48.520 What? 06:48.520 --> 06:52.520 Then he put his two big thumbs on her throat and throttled her until she was dead. 06:52.520 --> 06:59.520 You're just saying that. He's just saying that, isn't he? 06:59.520 --> 07:01.520 That's the way it is, Angel Face. 07:01.520 --> 07:05.520 Well, he didn't do it. Please, please, he didn't do it. 07:05.520 --> 07:11.520 All right, I did know about him and Ruby Rose, but he couldn't have done that. 07:11.520 --> 07:17.520 I've been on the squad eight years, Angel Face, and we never in all that time caught a guy as dead to rights as your brother. 07:17.520 --> 07:22.520 He showed up with his valise in the foyer of the Alcazar at exactly 12 minutes past eight tonight. 07:22.520 --> 07:27.520 He said to the doorman, what time is it that Miss Redding sent her baggage down yet? We've got to make a train. 07:27.520 --> 07:32.520 Well, she had sent her baggage down and then she changed her mind. She had it all taken back upstairs again. 07:32.520 --> 07:34.520 There's your motive right there. 07:34.520 --> 07:36.520 Well, that doesn't prove anything. She might... 07:36.520 --> 07:43.520 The doorman rang her apartment and said through the intercom, Mr. Wheeler's here, and she gave a dirty laugh and sang out, I can hardly wait. 07:43.520 --> 07:45.520 I don't see that. So what? 07:45.520 --> 07:50.520 So she was alive at 13 minutes past eight. The doorman went out for coffee at 815. 07:50.520 --> 07:54.520 At 820, Ruby Rose asked the operator to give her the police. She was shrieking with fear. 07:54.520 --> 07:59.520 At 832, I arrived. Your brother was crouched over, shaking her, and she was dead. 07:59.520 --> 08:00.520 Oh, no. 08:00.520 --> 08:05.520 There were two thumb prints on her neck as well as the marks of a big signet ring where she'd been pummeled. 08:05.520 --> 08:11.520 The initial, W, for Wheeler. Is that a case or isn't it? 08:11.520 --> 08:15.520 Was... was Chick wearing that ring when you arrested him? 08:15.520 --> 08:21.520 No, but there's a ring mark on his right third finger where he got rid of a ring he'd been wearing a long time. 08:21.520 --> 08:23.520 He pawned it. He needed money. 08:23.520 --> 08:25.520 So thus he lost it. 08:25.520 --> 08:34.520 Well, even if he did hit her, how do you know somebody else wasn't in that apartment just before Chick showed up? Where was that French maid of hers? 08:34.520 --> 08:39.520 Discharged. Got her notice in two weeks' pay and left around six story checks. 08:39.520 --> 08:40.520 Did Chick confess? 08:40.520 --> 08:45.520 Oh, no, no. He was crouched over, shaking her, trying to restore her, he said. 08:45.520 --> 08:50.520 All right. All right. I'll tell you everything. Write it down. 08:50.520 --> 08:51.520 That's more like it. 08:51.520 --> 08:57.520 I went there this afternoon and told her if she didn't lay off my brother, I'd kill her. 08:57.520 --> 09:04.520 I came back home, found Chick packed up, ready to leave. I... I tried to stop him. He hit me. 09:04.520 --> 09:09.520 Asked the neighbors. They heard his rowing. He struck me and I couldn't stand it. 09:09.520 --> 09:18.520 I beat it up to her place in a taxi, got there first, went in the back way and... and gave her one last chance to leave him alone. 09:18.520 --> 09:28.520 She wouldn't take it. She was all soft and... and squashy and I... I just grabbed her by the neck and pushed hard. 09:28.520 --> 09:31.520 I've got big thumbs, too. 09:31.520 --> 09:34.520 Mm-hmm. Got all that, Kohler? 09:34.520 --> 09:36.520 Uh... yup. 09:36.520 --> 09:39.520 Well, that about puts a lid on it. Let's go. 09:39.520 --> 09:40.520 Yeah, let's. 09:40.520 --> 09:41.520 Hey, wait a minute. 09:41.520 --> 09:43.520 Yeah, Angel Faith? 09:43.520 --> 09:44.520 Aren't you going to take me? 09:44.520 --> 09:46.520 Who wants you? 09:46.520 --> 09:53.520 Oh, you think this is one of those phony confessions? Well, maybe the newspapers won't think so and they'll be right. 09:53.520 --> 09:57.520 Maybe you did do it at that. Maybe I'm underestimating you. 09:57.520 --> 09:58.520 What was she wearing? 09:58.520 --> 09:59.520 Pajamas. 09:59.520 --> 10:09.520 You're right. That was a good guess. See you later, Angel Faith. 10:09.520 --> 10:15.520 The way he said it, I couldn't tell whether it was a threat or a promise. 10:15.520 --> 10:33.520 I never saw him again until after the jury had found my brother guilty of murder in the first degree. 10:33.520 --> 10:48.520 Auto Light is bringing you Miss Claire Trevor in Angel Face, tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 10:48.520 --> 10:49.520 Harlow, speaking of experts... 10:49.520 --> 10:56.520 Experts, did you say? That reminds me of Auto Light Ignition Engineers, the men who design and build complete ignition systems, 10:56.520 --> 11:00.520 used as original factory equipment on many makes of America's finest cars. 11:00.520 --> 11:08.520 They're ignition experts, so naturally they know how to build Auto Light spark plugs so they'll work as a perfect team with all the other important parts of the ignition system. 11:08.520 --> 11:14.520 That means they know how to build into spark plugs the best in quick starting, smooth performance and gas mileage, Harlow. 11:14.520 --> 11:25.520 Righto, and say it's the skill of these same Auto Light engineers that made possible the development of the Auto Light Resistor spark plug, one of the greatest advances in spark plug design for automotive use in the past 20 years. 11:25.520 --> 11:26.520 Edgewise. 11:26.520 --> 11:27.520 How's that again, Harlow? 11:27.520 --> 11:30.520 I'm just trying to get a word in, Edgewise, Harlow. 11:30.520 --> 11:39.520 Well, here's the last word, Hap. See your friendly Auto Light spark plug dealer tomorrow. Have him replace worn out spark plugs with Ignition Engineered Auto Light spark plugs. 11:39.520 --> 11:45.520 Whether you choose the resistor type or the regular type, you'll be right, because you're always right with Auto Light. 11:45.520 --> 11:54.520 And now Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage our star, Claire Trevor in Angel Face, a tale well calculated to keep you in... 11:54.520 --> 11:59.520 Suspense! 11:59.520 --> 12:05.520 I was coming out of the courtroom in a wet hen frame of mind and guess who had an umbrella? 12:05.520 --> 12:06.520 Hello, Angel Face. 12:06.520 --> 12:08.520 Get away from me, you butcher. 12:08.520 --> 12:10.520 That girl feeling better already, huh? 12:10.520 --> 12:11.520 Just keep out of my way. 12:11.520 --> 12:13.520 Wait a minute, Angel Face. 12:13.520 --> 12:14.520 Let go of me. 12:14.520 --> 12:16.520 You need help, baby. I'm trying to give it to you. 12:16.520 --> 12:19.520 All right. Tell me the name of the little man who wasn't there. 12:19.520 --> 12:20.520 Wasn't where? 12:20.520 --> 12:27.520 In that courtroom, standing trial for her murder in place of Chick. Can't you see it's got to be another... 12:27.520 --> 12:29.520 Oh, what's the use of trying to sell you? 12:29.520 --> 12:34.520 Oh, go on. Sell me. Convince me your brother didn't do it and I'm with you up to it. 12:34.520 --> 12:36.520 Well, why did you wait till now to say that? 12:36.520 --> 12:40.520 You didn't give me anything to go on. Nothing but that phony confession of yours. 12:40.520 --> 12:44.520 Well, it was better than the purgid testimony of that doorman and that phony French maid. 12:44.520 --> 12:48.520 And you, you sat up there with your face hanging out and put in your two cents worth. 12:48.520 --> 12:53.520 Look, Angel Face, I was sent by my superiors in answer to the patrolman's call that night. 12:53.520 --> 12:56.520 Question Chick and put him under arrest. Don't hold that against me. 12:56.520 --> 12:59.520 Why do you care whether I hold it against you? 12:59.520 --> 13:00.520 You really don't know? 13:00.520 --> 13:01.520 No. 13:01.520 --> 13:04.520 Look in the mirror sometime and find out. 13:11.520 --> 13:15.520 Right then I decided to stop holding it against him that he was a detective. 13:15.520 --> 13:22.520 I kind of liked the guy and maybe, just maybe he could find a way to help clear my brother. 13:22.520 --> 13:27.520 And over a couple of Manhattans in a cheery little bar I told him so. 13:27.520 --> 13:32.520 Uh-huh. Well, you got a planned Angel Face or are you going into it blind? 13:32.520 --> 13:34.520 I think I'll start with that French maid. 13:34.520 --> 13:37.520 Why her? She left two hours before the murder. That's level. 13:37.520 --> 13:42.520 Yeah, maybe so, but she was greased plenty to soft pedal the one right name that belongs in this case. 13:42.520 --> 13:46.520 She may not have been there, but she knew who to expect around. 13:46.520 --> 13:50.520 She may even have tipped him that Ruby Rose was throwing him over for Chick. 13:50.520 --> 13:54.520 But if she's been paid off enough to commit perjury, what makes you think she'll tell you anything? 13:54.520 --> 13:56.520 I'll club it out of her if I have to. 13:56.520 --> 14:01.520 One second, here. Try this first. Use a little intimidation with it. It may work. 14:01.520 --> 14:07.520 A hundred and fifty bucks? Hey, aren't you married or anything? 14:07.520 --> 14:15.520 Not yet, Angel Face. Now here's her address. Suzette LeBlanc, real name Susie White, 435 West 54. 14:15.520 --> 14:29.520 The street had been roped off and there was a block party or something going on. 14:29.520 --> 14:36.520 Anyway, it was noisy. I elbowed my way up the steps of 435 and found Susie White's name on the bell panel. 14:36.520 --> 14:43.520 I broke my best fingernail on the button. No response. I pushed into the hall past the drunk falling out. 14:43.520 --> 14:45.520 Oh, pardon me. 14:45.520 --> 14:50.520 Then fought my way through the fumes to the stairway. Her door was standing open. 14:50.520 --> 14:54.520 The lock was broken and the molding was a mess of splinters. 14:54.520 --> 14:58.520 This was the point where the private eye always finds the dead body, but I didn't find anything. 14:58.520 --> 15:08.520 Somebody had taken the room apart. I wondered if they had found what they were looking for. 15:08.520 --> 15:14.520 When I hit the street again, the ugly-faced drunk I had passed coming in was standing by the front steps. 15:14.520 --> 15:18.520 And there was a fresh wood splinter clinging to the elbow of his coat. 15:18.520 --> 15:25.520 I remembered the splinters on the broken door upstairs. I stopped next to him and made like straightening my seams. 15:25.520 --> 15:30.520 I looked good that way. Then I started walking. Fast. So did he. 15:30.520 --> 15:36.520 I paused in some steps leading down to a basement apartment and waited for him. 15:36.520 --> 15:38.520 Hello, beautiful. 15:38.520 --> 15:40.520 Well, how are you? 15:40.520 --> 15:42.520 Just fine. Is this your house? 15:42.520 --> 15:44.520 Yes, indeed. 15:44.520 --> 15:48.520 I'll buy a little drink, baby. You'll fight me in. 15:48.520 --> 15:59.520 Sure. You go first. 15:59.520 --> 16:04.520 He hit the unrailing with his head on the way down and the paving stones at the bottom to the rest. 16:04.520 --> 16:09.520 It was right there in the first pocket I looked in behind his wallet. 16:09.520 --> 16:14.520 A letter addressed to Ruby Rose Redding and postmarked Philadelphia. 16:14.520 --> 16:25.520 Nick, here I am, over here. 16:25.520 --> 16:31.520 Hello, angel face. I know, I know you didn't find her. I may as well tell you why. She doesn't live there anymore. 16:31.520 --> 16:32.520 What? Nick? 16:32.520 --> 16:35.520 They fished her body out of the Hudson about a half hour ago. 16:35.520 --> 16:39.520 Oh. Well, what are you smart detectives calling it? Suicide? 16:39.520 --> 16:41.520 It might as well. 16:41.520 --> 16:45.520 Listen, she was being paid off to keep quiet about a certain friend of Ruby Rose's. 16:45.520 --> 16:49.520 He must have decided he didn't dare leave any bets uncovered. 16:49.520 --> 16:51.520 What certain friend, for instance? 16:51.520 --> 16:56.520 This certain friend, for instance. 16:56.520 --> 17:00.520 I watched his face as he read it. I knew every word of it by heart. 17:00.520 --> 17:04.520 It said, Dear Ruby, I hear you've been running around with some punk. 17:04.520 --> 17:07.520 I don't believe a word of it, but you better get rid of him before I hit town. 17:07.520 --> 17:13.520 We'll be in New York Friday night. Milt. P.S. The Chicago deal is off. 17:13.520 --> 17:16.520 I'm giving you featured spot at the Calcutta instead. 17:16.520 --> 17:20.520 About that punk, drop him or I drop you. 17:20.520 --> 17:27.520 Milt? So that's her missing name. Milt Meletus. Plays rough, too. Runs a Calcutta club. 17:27.520 --> 17:31.520 And Friday night, Nick. The night she was killed. Meletus. 17:31.520 --> 17:35.520 The initial on that ring could have been M as well as W. 17:35.520 --> 17:39.520 I never thought of that. But Meletus spells real dough, baby. 17:39.520 --> 17:41.520 Your brother wasn't even car-fair to Ruby Rose. 17:41.520 --> 17:45.520 Oh, maybe she was scared of Meletus. And maybe she wanted out. 17:45.520 --> 17:49.520 Could be. He could sell me, but I can convince easy from you, baby. 17:49.520 --> 17:51.520 You're not selling it to the grand jury. 17:51.520 --> 17:56.520 She had something on Meletus, and that's why he couldn't afford to lose control of her. 17:56.520 --> 18:01.520 Well, what Ruby Rose Redding could squeeze out of a man, I can. 18:01.520 --> 18:06.520 Yeah, what he squeezed out of her, he could also squeeze out of you. Namely, your breath. 18:06.520 --> 18:09.520 Oh, yes, but I have a friend on the force. 18:09.520 --> 18:12.520 Well, maybe Ruby Rose had a friend on the force, too. 18:12.520 --> 18:14.520 Why do you say that? 18:14.520 --> 18:16.520 If she didn't, it would be the only department she missed. 18:16.520 --> 18:18.520 Well, what now? 18:18.520 --> 18:31.520 Come and catch my act at the Calcutta Club. 18:31.520 --> 18:33.520 Go on, lift them a little higher. Don't be coy. 18:33.520 --> 18:36.520 Look, I sing and dance, and that's all. 18:36.520 --> 18:37.520 Got any numbers with you? 18:37.520 --> 18:42.520 Numbers? Look, what are we wasting time for? Let's meet the guy who does the hiring. 18:42.520 --> 18:44.520 Hey, wait a minute. Mr. Meletus wants you. 18:44.520 --> 18:46.520 Where? 18:46.520 --> 18:48.520 She says she wants to meet you, Mr. Meletus. 18:48.520 --> 18:50.520 Sure, why not? 18:50.520 --> 18:52.520 Well, hello. 18:52.520 --> 18:53.520 Hello yourself. 18:53.520 --> 18:58.520 Oh, Mr. Meletus, you know, I've always wanted to work for you. 18:58.520 --> 19:03.520 Oh, okay. We start in Calcutta tomorrow night. 19:03.520 --> 19:05.520 Oh, thank you. 19:05.520 --> 19:18.520 Buy yourself some up-to-date lyrics, get yourself a dress. Mack will tell you the kind I like. 19:18.520 --> 19:22.520 The silver dress they put on me fit like a wet compress. 19:22.520 --> 19:26.520 I wore it for two nights, and Milton Meletus sat at its table. 19:26.520 --> 19:34.520 On the third night, after my last spot, after the orchestra had gone away, I got the message from Garcia. 19:34.520 --> 19:38.520 Hello, baby. 19:38.520 --> 19:39.520 Hello. 19:39.520 --> 19:41.520 Angel face, huh? 19:41.520 --> 19:47.520 Yeah, mm-hmm. My name is Faye Angel, so I call myself Angel Face. 19:47.520 --> 19:50.520 Good, thanks. Sit down, Angel Face. 19:50.520 --> 19:58.520 I gave him my warmest high-voltage smile and took out my compact. 19:58.520 --> 20:04.520 I saw my eyes in the mirror, and in each iris there was a little electric chair with chicks strapped in it. 20:04.520 --> 20:08.520 That made it a lot easier to keep the high voltage running through Milton Meletus. 20:08.520 --> 20:14.520 He was good-looking in a swarthy, loose-lipped sort of way, nothing that tagged him as a gangster except his name 20:14.520 --> 20:19.520 and a habit of keeping his right hand in his coat pocket all the time as if he were holding a gun. 20:19.520 --> 20:23.520 We talked through the bottle of champagne, and he ordered another. 20:23.520 --> 20:28.520 I kept smiling because somehow I had to get into his apartment. 20:28.520 --> 20:31.520 We went back to what we'd been talking about, and I said, 20:31.520 --> 20:37.520 Well, some night I might just feel like changing the scenery around me. 20:37.520 --> 20:42.520 Yay! 20:42.520 --> 20:48.520 Dissolve to girl entering the Meletus apartment on Park Avenue. 20:48.520 --> 20:55.520 It was a duplex with a two-story living room and a bedroom opening off a balcony. 20:55.520 --> 21:00.520 I decided to start at the top and work down in case I needed to get out of there fast. 21:00.520 --> 21:03.520 I gave his bedroom the suspicious wife treatment. 21:03.520 --> 21:09.520 In the night table I found the nine letters to Ruby Rose and a bunch of treasury certificates, 21:09.520 --> 21:12.520 the kind doctors have to make out to get narcotics. 21:12.520 --> 21:20.520 In a box containing studs, cufflinks, and 132 caliber bullet, I found what I was really looking for 21:20.520 --> 21:30.520 and never really expected to find, a signet ring with the initial M on it. 21:30.520 --> 21:32.520 And I got the bell, I thought, fast. 21:32.520 --> 21:36.520 If Meletus was out of town, everybody who knew his private number would know better than to ring it. 21:36.520 --> 21:40.520 If he was checking up on me, I had nothing to lose, so... 21:40.520 --> 21:42.520 Hello? Angel Face? 21:42.520 --> 21:45.520 Oh, Nick. Oh, what a scare you gave me. 21:45.520 --> 21:49.520 Listen, I've got all I need, some dope certificates, the rest of the letters, 21:49.520 --> 21:53.520 and best of all, a signet ring with his initial. How am I doing? 21:53.520 --> 21:55.520 Not so good. Meletus just got back. 21:55.520 --> 21:59.520 Sore as the devil, over a phony wire somebody sent her would decoy him out of town. 21:59.520 --> 22:02.520 Well, that was me. Only I thought he'd stay overnight at least. 22:02.520 --> 22:04.520 How did you know I was here? 22:04.520 --> 22:07.520 Angel Face, did you really think I'd let you go into this alone? 22:07.520 --> 22:09.520 I'm downstairs now. I've been watching every minute. 22:09.520 --> 22:12.520 Oh, I wish I'd known. I wouldn't have been so scared. 22:12.520 --> 22:15.520 He ought to be scared. He left the club five minutes ago. Must be half. 22:15.520 --> 22:16.520 Oh, all right, Nick. 22:16.520 --> 22:18.520 Now, look, Angel Face, if you... 22:18.520 --> 22:20.520 Nick, someone just came in. 22:20.520 --> 22:23.520 Take it easy, baby. Sergeant Colleen, I'll be right up. 22:27.520 --> 22:31.520 I went out onto the balcony that overlooked the living room. 22:31.520 --> 22:35.520 Meletus was there. He looked surprised and pleased when he saw me. 22:35.520 --> 22:40.520 Then the man with him looked up and I... I nearly plunged over the rail. 22:40.520 --> 22:44.520 It was Ugly Face, the masher I had kicked down the flight of stairs. 22:44.520 --> 22:46.520 Meletus turned to him. 22:46.520 --> 22:48.520 Get up, Rockall. Can't you see I have company? 22:48.520 --> 22:51.520 Wait a minute, that's her. The dame I was telling you about. 22:51.520 --> 22:54.520 Don't be calling my lady friend dame. 22:54.520 --> 22:56.520 I'm trying to tell you, Mel. 22:56.520 --> 22:59.520 Come here, Angel Face. Come on down. Don't be scared. 22:59.520 --> 23:03.520 Oh, sure, Mel. Why should I be afraid of you? 23:03.520 --> 23:07.520 At last, huh? Finally, you wanted a change of scenery. 23:07.520 --> 23:08.520 Hey, look, boss. 23:08.520 --> 23:10.520 Get out, Rockall. 23:10.520 --> 23:11.520 Yeah, but... 23:11.520 --> 23:12.520 Get out! 23:12.520 --> 23:14.520 Okay, Mel. It's your party. 23:16.520 --> 23:18.520 Come here, Angel Face. 23:18.520 --> 23:20.520 Now, now, now, wait a minute. 23:20.520 --> 23:21.520 What for? 23:21.520 --> 23:26.520 Well, a girl likes some soft lights and a little sweet music, you know. 23:26.520 --> 23:31.520 Okay, I'll go mix us a drink. 23:35.520 --> 23:41.520 He came back from the bar on tiptoe with a drink, looking like a cat stalking a bowl of cream. 23:41.520 --> 23:46.520 I threw up my first line of defense. I picked up my purse and made like making up my face. 23:46.520 --> 23:48.520 Well, honey, what's the big idea? 23:48.520 --> 23:49.520 I'm just putting on my face. 23:49.520 --> 23:51.520 Oh, you don't need it. 23:51.520 --> 23:53.520 My purse. 23:53.520 --> 23:54.520 Leave it there. 23:54.520 --> 23:57.520 Oh, I will not. Those are my things. You haven't any right... 23:57.520 --> 23:58.520 Hey, hey, hey, what's that? 23:58.520 --> 24:00.520 Just things of mine, some letters. 24:00.520 --> 24:01.520 Let me see, though. 24:01.520 --> 24:02.520 No! 24:02.520 --> 24:03.520 Let me see. 24:03.520 --> 24:08.520 Oh, ho, ho. What else did you lift out of my room? 24:08.520 --> 24:11.520 I... I was jealous. Her letters. 24:11.520 --> 24:12.520 Sit down. 24:14.520 --> 24:19.520 You are plenty jealous. Jealous of the whole United States Treasury. 24:19.520 --> 24:21.520 Mel! Mel! Open up! 24:21.520 --> 24:24.520 Stay where you are. 24:24.520 --> 24:25.520 What's up, Rocko? 24:25.520 --> 24:28.520 I tried to tell you about the dame she's trying to frame you. She's Wheeler's sister. 24:28.520 --> 24:30.520 You weren't at the trial. You weren't filled. 24:30.520 --> 24:32.520 Shut up about Wheeler. What's got you so excited? 24:32.520 --> 24:35.520 There's cops all around the building. Two detectives coming up. 24:35.520 --> 24:38.520 Okay, Rocko. Cheap little... 24:38.520 --> 24:41.520 I'll fix you. Even if they get me, I'll fix you. 24:41.520 --> 24:45.520 You're wrong, Milt. I took those things because I knew they were coming here. I did it for you. 24:45.520 --> 24:46.520 Oh, for me, she says. 24:46.520 --> 24:51.520 No! No! 24:58.520 --> 25:02.520 I looked up at Meletus. There was blood running down the part of his hair. 25:02.520 --> 25:07.520 He dropped down to his knees beside me like he wanted to apologize, but he didn't say anything. 25:07.520 --> 25:11.520 Then he fell over on his side and didn't get up anymore. 25:11.520 --> 25:17.520 His right hand, the one he always held in his coat pocket, was grabbing at the rug. 25:17.520 --> 25:20.520 There wasn't any thumb on it. 25:20.520 --> 25:24.520 And there'd been two big thumb marks on Ruby's throat. 25:29.520 --> 25:34.520 Hey, that wasn't necessary, Nick. You didn't have to kill him. 25:34.520 --> 25:36.520 He let go of her when we came in. 25:36.520 --> 25:43.520 I know I shouldn't have, but he had that right hand in his pocket always. I thought he had a gun in there. 25:43.520 --> 25:48.520 Anyway, I saved the state some money. You got that stuff, Angel Face? 25:48.520 --> 25:50.520 It's over there in my purse. 25:50.520 --> 25:51.520 Good. 25:51.520 --> 25:59.520 Nick, Ruby Rose was throttled by a man with big hands. Two big thumb marks on her neck. 25:59.520 --> 26:03.520 Look at Meletus. No right thumb. 26:03.520 --> 26:06.520 Yeah, that's bad, Angel Face. I... 26:06.520 --> 26:07.520 Nick. 26:07.520 --> 26:09.520 What? 26:09.520 --> 26:14.520 This ring here. Isn't this your fraternity ring? 26:14.520 --> 26:16.520 Don't move, Nick. 26:16.520 --> 26:22.520 Yeah. Yeah, I guess it is. Do we have to mention all this, Coley? 26:22.520 --> 26:34.520 Yeah, Nick. I think we'd better. 26:34.520 --> 26:36.520 So that's about it, Captain. 26:36.520 --> 26:42.520 Uh-huh. And as you know, sir, Nick met Ruby Rose while he was doing undercover work on Milton Meletus. 26:42.520 --> 26:46.520 Yeah, but I didn't know he'd gone on seeing her after he left the assignment. 26:46.520 --> 26:48.520 I guess nobody did, except me. 26:48.520 --> 26:52.520 Yes, and Sergeant Coley clinched the whole thing with that ring. 26:52.520 --> 26:57.520 Well, Miss Wheeler, the ring clinched the case, all right, but not against Meletus. 26:57.520 --> 27:03.520 An M upside down, see, is a W. But an M sideways is a Greek letter. 27:03.520 --> 27:08.520 And Nick planted it in Meletus' apartment for me to find, huh? It was Nick's fraternity ring. 27:08.520 --> 27:09.520 Yeah, that's right. 27:09.520 --> 27:14.520 He was probably afraid you were digging too deep to find the real killer, so he killed Meletus to make you drop the case. 27:14.520 --> 27:17.520 Oh, his plan might have worked without Coley here. 27:17.520 --> 27:23.520 Well, Miss Wheeler, this isn't exactly good news, but thank you for filling in some of the blanks. 27:23.520 --> 27:24.520 Oh, Captain. 27:24.520 --> 27:25.520 Yeah? 27:25.520 --> 27:27.520 When will Chick be free? 27:27.520 --> 27:33.520 It takes a little time, but he'll be home. I guess he learned about women the hard way, huh? 27:33.520 --> 27:54.520 Oh, he hasn't learned anything yet. That kid brother of mine, just wait till I get him home. 27:54.520 --> 27:59.520 Suspense presented by Auto Light. 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