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The Dark Hour (1936)

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411 shots over 1:08:36, read from the Internet Archive copy The.Dark.Hour (The_Dark_Hour.mp4, 640×480, 24.19 fps). Shot boundaries by PySceneDetect's adaptive detector; each frame links to the Archive's player at that second. Registry dossier: The Dark Hour No renewal found. JSON

Measurements: black-and-white film on its keyframes (0 of 411 shots judged colour), average shot 10.0s long, a frontal face detected in 51% of keyframes. Shots are detected automatically and each is represented by its midpoint frame.

Released 1936 (Internet Archive).

170 beats in sequences, cut automatically at shot boundaries scored on picture change, pauses in speech, topic shifts, on-screen text and cutting rhythm (each beat says why it starts where it does). Each is annotated by a vision-language model from four sampled frames and the transcript lines in it, as observations with evidence; anything the frames and lines do not support is left null. Machine annotation (Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct), checked automatically: quotes must be verbatim, names must be spoken, "visible" events are sampled to a second model.

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Passages cut at shot boundaries and annotated by a machine from four sampled frames and the transcript lines in them. Each beat says why it starts where it does and what was checked; sequences are visual groups, not scenes.

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Model synopsis: The opening title card displays the film's title, production company, producer, and classification notice. No people, actions, or settings are depicted beyond the text.

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2. Beat 2

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Model synopsis: The frames show the opening credits of a 1936 film, listing crew roles and the source novel. No people, actions, or settings are depicted beyond the text on screen.

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Model synopsis: No visible action or identifiable location is present in the single frame for this beat; the frame is almost entirely black with no discernible objects or people. No transcript lines are provided for this segment.

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4. Living room

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Model synopsis: A man is warned away from a window while another man speaks with him indoors; a woman is seen outside near a fence. The dialogue suggests concern for safety and a reference to a neighbor.

  • A woman is seen walking outside near a fence. [frame:2]

3 people observed.

“Henry, please keep away from that window. Don't take chances if you think we're in danger. Yes, sir.” 1:07 · “She's going to see that man next door again.” 1:13

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5. Private office

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Model synopsis: A man in a suit stands by a door while another man in glasses sits at a desk reviewing papers; dialogue indicates someone has gone next door. The setting is an interior room with furniture and papers, and the conversation suggests an inquiry or report.

  • A man stands by a door while another sits at a desk. [frame:1]
  • A man in glasses speaks while holding papers. [frame:2]
  • A man in a suit speaks while standing. [frame:3]
  • 1 more under Evidence and details.

2 people observed.

“She's gone next door again.” 1:37 · “I know it. I saw her.” 1:39

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6. Private office

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Model synopsis: A woman enters a room and greets two men, one of whom is addressed as Mr. Benaut. She is told to sit down, and a comment is made about introducing her to someone named Landis.

  • A woman enters a room and greets two men. [frame:1]

Named: Elta (t:1:50), Mr. Herkney (t:1:49), Mr. Benaut (t:1:50), Landis (t:1:58). 4 people observed.

“Good afternoon, Mr. Herkney. How are you doing? Fine, Miss Carson. Thank you for asking. Go right in.” 1:49 · “Hello, Mr. Benaut. Hello, Elta. Sit down, please.” 1:50

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7. Living room

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Model synopsis: A woman and an older man sit in a living room with tea, discussing marriage and a neighbor named Mrs. Carlman. The man mentions detectives shouldn't marry until retirement and suggests meeting Landis at his uncle's home.

2 people observed.

“What do you mean? Did you come over just to have a tea with an old man? No.” 2:03 · “Well, Landis is a fine chap, all right, but detectives shouldn't get married.” 2:14

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8. Living room

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Model synopsis: A woman named Elsa speaks with a man identified as Mr. Bernard in a room with tea service; she expresses unease about her uncles' behavior and mentions neighborhood mysteries. A maid is briefly visible in the background.

  • A maid stands behind Mr. Bernard and Elsa. [frame:1]
  • Elsa pours tea from a silver pot. [frame:2]
  • Mr. Bernard holds a teacup while speaking to Elsa. [frame:3]
  • 1 more under Evidence and details.

Named: Elsa (t:2:46), Mr. Bernard (t:2:41). 3 people observed.

“Say, if you get any more crazy notions about me, you can meet Landis in your uncle's home instead of my garden.” 2:29 · “I don't feel that everything is right with my uncles.” 2:43

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Model synopsis: A woman and an older man sit in a room with patterned wallpaper and furniture; the man drinks from a cup while the woman looks at him. The transcript mentions threats after a discharge, a comment on danger, and a preference for digging.

  • The man drinks from a cup while seated. [frame:2]

2 people observed.

“He shouted all sorts of threats when Uncle Henry discharged him.” 3:22 · “I don't think he'd do anything really dangerous, though.” 3:26

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Transcript

Machine transcription of the Archive copy's audio with Whisper large-v3-turbo (temperature 0); the model heard it as en. 1115 segments kept, 336 dropped as the kind of hallucination the model produces over music and silence. Each timestamp links to the Archive's player at that second. This has not been checked against the film and can be wrong.

  1. 1:07 Henry, please keep away from that window. Don't take chances if you think we're in danger. Yes, sir.
  2. 1:13 She's going to see that man next door again.
  3. 1:15 I don't like it. Oh, I don't worry about her.
  4. 1:18 It's all right, dear brother.
  5. 1:20 Just...
  6. 1:21 Don't take unnecessary risks.
  7. 1:37 She's gone next door again.
  8. 1:39 I know it. I saw her.
  9. 1:41 Yes, sir.
  10. 1:43 What you'd like to know, that's all.
  11. 1:49 Good afternoon, Mr. Herkney. How are you doing? Fine, Miss Carson. Thank you for asking. Go right in. Hello, Mr. Benaut. Hello, Elta. Sit down, please.
  12. 1:57 Ugh.
  13. 1:58 I must have started something when I introduced you to Landis.
  14. 2:02 Why?
  15. 2:03 What do you mean? Did you come over just to have a tea with an old man? No.
  16. 2:07 Where is someone else coming?
  17. 2:09 I don't know.
  18. 2:10 Of course, the gym drops in.
  19. 2:12 Oh, criminalist.
  20. 2:14 Well, Landis is a fine chap, all right, but detectives shouldn't get married.
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  1. 2:18 Not until they retire.
  2. 2:20 What do you mean?
  3. 2:21 How about that lady who lives next door to us?
  4. 2:24 Mrs. Carlman?
  5. 2:25 Why, your aunt and I are just old friends. So I've noticed.
  6. 2:29 Say, if you get any more crazy notions about me, you can meet Landis in your uncle's home instead of my garden.
  7. 2:36 If you knew how I've hated my uncle's house...
  8. 2:38 And now it's even worse.
  9. 2:41 I wanted to talk to you about this, Mr. Bernard.
  10. 2:43 I don't feel that everything is right with my uncles. Financially?
  11. 2:46 Oh, no, it isn't that. It's just little things I noticed. Well, tell me some of the things, Elsa. Well, none of them seems anything by itself.
  12. 2:54 Oh, I suppose it's natural enough for two elderly men not to venture out of the house after dark.
  13. 2:59 Anyone might hate to sit in a lighted room unless the blinds were drawn. Anyone might be nervous of burglars or fly into a rage at the mere mention of peddlers. Well, how long have they seen her?
  14. 3:09 I noticed it about two weeks ago.
  15. 3:11 Have you any idea what makes them so nervous?
  16. 3:14 There are the mysteries in the neighborhood, you know.
  17. 3:17 I wondered about Deegan.
  18. 3:19 Who's Dick?
  19. 3:20 He was the last man we had.
  20. 3:22 He shouted all sorts of threats when Uncle Henry discharged him.
  21. 3:26 I don't think he'd do anything really dangerous, though.
  22. 3:29 I like digging.
  23. 3:30 Much better, in fact, than our present man thought.
  24. 3:41 Good afternoon, Mr. Bernard. Hello, Alza. Sit down. I'll pour you some tea.
  25. 3:46 Are you over? Yep. I have my man in jail and my work here is finished. I'm going to town tonight.
  26. 3:51 Give my regards to all the gang at headquarters. I surely will sir.
  27. 3:55 But don't think for a moment you're forgotten.
  28. 3:56 The old timers all hauled you up as a shining example to me.
  29. 4:00 They call me Sherlock Junior. Well, the old ways have certain merits. Don't disregard them entirely.
  30. 4:07 You're not finished already. What a hurry. I was going to take you for a little drive. It's the last chance I'll have for a while.
  31. 4:12 Don't mind me. I'll go for a stroll.
  32. 4:14 Sit down.
  33. 4:15 We have nothing to say that can't be said before you. Oh, haven't we?
  34. 4:19 Hello, everybody. Having a little tea party?
  35. 4:21 Mr. Landis?
  36. 4:22 - This is Mr. Blake. - How are you?
  37. 4:24 Mr. Blake is my, uh, paying guest.
  38. 4:27 Calls himself the cameras.
  39. 4:29 and of making horrible stents as any criterion...
  40. 4:32 He is. I'll surprise you one of these days and make Dr. Milliken take a back seat. I'll bet he's one of them. - Is this a break-in? - Oh, excuse me.
  41. 4:41 What is it, sir?
  42. 4:43 Excuse me, please. I want some carbon tetrachloride.
  43. 4:46 What do you know about carbon tetrachloride?
  44. 4:49 Me one time a terror. Oh, yeah?
  45. 4:56 Let's go before Blake gets back. Oh, he's not as bad as all that. Remember, this is my last day here. All right, run along then.
  46. 5:02 I'll be seeing you again soon, sir. You don't have to tell me that.
  47. 5:10 What a glorious thing you this.
  48. 5:13 Pity it's wasted on the young.
  49. 5:16 I beg your pardon, sir?
  50. 5:17 Oh, nothing, nothing. Aren't you going to let Mr. Blake absentee?
  51. 5:21 What's the matter, Blake?
  52. 5:22 Oh, nothing. Is Miss Carson gone? Has your hated rival kidnapped her?
  53. 5:27 Who is he?
  54. 5:28 No youngster who got on the detective bus through political bull.
  55. 5:32 Then upset all predictions by making good.
  56. 5:35 I should think she's better than that.
  57. 5:37 She'll inherit all her uncle's money, won't she? Yes, and the old misers are quite wealthy too.
  58. 5:44 You said you'd see the way was clear for me, and you haven't kept your bargain. Keep a civil tongue in your head, you pup.
  59. 5:52 You better talk to her or... Or what?
  60. 5:55 You'll find out...
  61. 5:57 Any more of this double crossing and I'll wring that scrawny old neck of yours.
  62. 6:13 Won't you please say, yes, dear? Yes.
  63. 6:16 I can't now.
  64. 6:17 Oh, it's no use pretending I love my uncles. I don't.
  65. 6:20 They wouldn't let me when my mother and father were killed and I first came to live with them.
  66. 6:24 But they need me, Jim.
  67. 6:33 I saw you, you rake.
  68. 6:35 Under my very nose.
  69. 6:37 Now get into the house, you package. Hold on, sir. You must be crazy. I'll show you a load of buckshot how crazy I am.
  70. 6:43 Get out of here. Wait, Elsa.
  71. 6:49 I'm going to marry your niece whether you like it or not. Over my dead body. That may be a prophecy. What's that? Excitement is dangerous to a man of your age.
  72. 7:01 *thud*
  73. 7:04 I'm glad to see you all again, Mrs. Tomlin. Oh, that's very nice of you to say so.
  74. 7:08 For two reasons.
  75. 7:10 Have you seen Elsa's uncles lately?
  76. 7:13 I'm as welcome in that house as a polecat of the garden party. I only moved here to be close to Elfra.
  77. 7:19 Oh, you're not there, Sister Ellen? Heaven forbid!
  78. 7:23 But Elsa's mother was.
  79. 7:24 They wanted her to marry a scoundrel, but my brother stole her right under their very noses.
  80. 7:29 They have never forgotten it.
  81. 7:34 Yes?
  82. 7:36 Mr. Randish to see Mr. Bonnard.
  83. 7:39 Hello.
  84. 7:41 Pardon me.
  85. 7:42 I was next door and saw you come in here. You know Mr. Lanzer's Mrs. Dahlman.
  86. 7:46 So you're the young man Elsa wrote about.
  87. 7:49 What's the matter, boy?
  88. 7:50 Elsa's uncle.
  89. 7:51 I'm not going to have us object to those insults. What insults?
  90. 7:55 What did he do? A couple of things that I won't stand for, and said that I would marry her only over his dead body.
  91. 8:01 Not a bad idea.
  92. 8:04 What have they got against me?
  93. 8:06 Perhaps they don't like detectives. What do you mean by that? Nothing but they won't even speak to me and I'm retired.
  94. 8:13 I've decided not to leave tonight.
  95. 8:26 Henry!
  96. 8:27 There's a man speaking about the garden. What did you tell me about keeping away from the window? What are you trying to do, make a target of yourself?
  97. 8:36 But whom are you afraid of, Henry?
  98. 8:39 You'll know soon enough if you're not more careful.
  99. 8:51 *Bell rings*
  100. 8:55 *sad music*
  101. 9:00 Hello?
  102. 9:01 Hello.
  103. 9:03 Who is it?
  104. 9:04 Well, sir. Please come over. Something terrible has happened. I'll be over as soon as I get rest.
  105. 9:14 Please, Mr. Bernard, tell me what to do. There, there, now, dear, keep cool.
  106. 9:18 Now tell me what's happened.
  107. 9:20 Uncle Henry.
  108. 9:21 In there.
  109. 9:29 Oh, no, no. I can't go in there again.
  110. 9:55 Hello, Doctor.
  111. 9:57 Henry Carson is in there in the library, stabbed in the back.
  112. 10:00 Great Scott.
  113. 10:01 Murdered?
  114. 10:15 Good.
  115. 10:16 This is the one time I didn't expect to see you as if you stepped out of a van box. Did you think I'd be wearing an old flannel night shirt?
  116. 10:29 There, there. It was a dreadful shock, wasn't it?
  117. 10:32 - Oh.
  118. 10:37 Come in and stay at the door, Jim.
  119. 10:40 I'm glad you're on this case, young fellow. Thanks.
  120. 10:42 The body's in the library.
  121. 10:44 There's Foote who first found it.
  122. 10:46 Well, Mr. Landis all you know, will you put unless you'd rather look in the library first anything you suggest. I suppose you'll take charge. Oh, no.
  123. 10:52 I'm on the shelf, but I'll help you if you want me to.
  124. 10:57 What do you know about it?
  125. 10:59 I woke about 2 o'clock, sir.
  126. 11:00 Very warm, so I got up and...
  127. 11:02 Open the window.
  128. 11:04 I saw the light from the library shining on the lawn.
  129. 11:06 Like him downstairs.
  130. 11:08 I thought Mr. Henry was asleep.
  131. 11:10 I shook him very gently.
  132. 11:12 He wasn't asleep.
  133. 11:14 That's right.
  134. 11:15 Called Miss Elsa.
  135. 11:19 Elsa, were you awake when the bottle are wrapped on your door?
  136. 11:22 Yes.
  137. 11:23 I mean, no, I don't think so.
  138. 11:28 Did you hear anything unusual before he rapped?
  139. 11:31 No, I...
  140. 11:33 I didn't.
  141. 11:35 I see.
  142. 11:36 And now may I be permitted to suggest that Mrs. Tallman take Miss Carson up to her room?
  143. 11:41 You don't have to. I was going to do it anyway.
  144. 11:44 On your way, young lady.
  145. 11:47 Oh, Uncle Charles, don't come down, please.
  146. 11:51 Why not?
  147. 11:53 What's the matter?
  148. 11:56 We hope to break it to you gently, Charles.
  149. 11:58 But you'll have to know it sooner or later.
  150. 12:00 What is it?
  151. 12:01 Why don't you tell me?
  152. 12:04 It's Uncle Henry.
  153. 12:05 He's dead.
  154. 12:08 Do it.
  155. 12:10 Henry.
  156. 12:12 I knew it.
  157. 12:14 My poor brother.
  158. 12:17 I'll go next.
  159. 12:24 Do you think the stab in the back was the cause of death naturally
  160. 12:28 But this was done with a fine instrument.
  161. 12:30 Which accounts for so little superficial bleeding.
  162. 12:34 There was none.
  163. 12:36 The edges of the cut in his shirt and undershirt were bloodstained. Yet if the instrument reached the heart, there would be blood on it when it was withdrawn.
  164. 12:46 If it reached the heart.
  165. 12:49 Young man.
  166. 12:50 I'm short of sleep.
  167. 12:52 Good night.
  168. 12:53 If it reached the heart.
  169. 13:01 Seems annoyed, doesn't it? Well, naturally...
  170. 13:04 First you doubt the wound as the cause of death.
  171. 13:06 You talk about it having reached the heart. That's right.
  172. 13:10 I think I'll be saying goodnight too.
  173. 13:12 Now listen.
  174. 13:13 I don't want to bother you if you're not interested.
  175. 13:15 But I'd be mighty grateful for your advice and assistance.
  176. 13:18 Will you help?
  177. 13:20 Well, if you put it that way, I'll do what I can.
  178. 13:22 Okay would you prefer to work independently or shall we compare notes as we go along. Well we make notes as we go along and then draw our own conclusions. What.
  179. 13:31 Now, if you don't mind...
  180. 13:32 I'll start with this room.
  181. 13:35 All right, young fellow, go ahead. I'll follow you.
  182. 13:44 I'm going to go.
  183. 13:49 Evidently the murderer didn't come in by the window. There's no sign of a struggle.
  184. 13:53 Carson will stand without warning as he sat at his desk.
  185. 13:55 Not move to that position afterwards.
  186. 13:58 I'm with you on that.
  187. 14:05 Hey, look here a minute.
  188. 14:08 How do you suppose that blood got there? Did you expect to find it?
  189. 14:11 No, just noticed it.
  190. 14:13 What do you make of it?
  191. 14:15 I don't make anything of it unless someone cut himself accidentally.
  192. 14:18 Carson's wound never bled like that.
  193. 14:20 Look, there's a little mark here, too, in line with these spots.
  194. 14:25 For a sharp point scratch the shellac.
  195. 14:27 That's interesting. Someone dropped a sharp instrument here.
  196. 14:31 that had blood on it.
  197. 14:33 And the blood dripped a little.
  198. 14:35 Well, for the present, that explanation ought to serve.
  199. 14:40 Where's the weapon?
  200. 14:43 I haven't seen a sign of any possible weapon, bloodstained or not.
  201. 14:46 What's that on the little table by the sofa?
  202. 14:55 An empty scabbard.
  203. 14:58 Doesn't look as though it would fit the weapon that inflicted the wound. Possibly not. That's interesting too.
  204. 15:04 But where's the weapon that belongs to it?
  205. 15:06 Might be worth finding out. Well, we'll look into that tomorrow.
  206. 15:10 Meanwhile is there anything more you want to do tonight. I don't want to keep you up but I'd like to sleep on this with as much information as I can get.
  207. 15:18 You know more about the household and you were here first.
  208. 15:20 All right, come over to my house and I'll give you 15 minutes.
  209. 15:43 Only got to know Elsa through her aunt, Mrs. Tallman. Well, that about covers everyone.
  210. 15:48 I'll accept Peter Blake, my lodger.
  211. 15:50 What has he to do with it?
  212. 15:51 Well, probably nothing.
  213. 15:53 He's had his eye on Elsa for some time and he knows she'll inherit her uncle's fortune.
  214. 15:57 As far as that goes, I could be suspected myself. Or Mrs. Tallman. You remember what she said.
  215. 16:02 Well, now there's something else.
  216. 16:04 Elsa was very agitated, of course.
  217. 16:06 But wouldn't let me send for the police, which struck me as...
  218. 16:09 Well, unusual.
  219. 16:10 She naturally wants to have the murderer punished.
  220. 16:14 Yet when I understood that she sent for her aunt, she stammered a very poor excuse.
  221. 16:19 But you did send for oil.
  222. 16:20 Now, don't misunderstand me. I don't for a moment suspect either one of these two women.
  223. 16:25 But there's something peculiar at the back of Elsa's attitude.
  224. 16:28 She's fond of a rant, isn't she? Oh, devoted to her.
  225. 16:31 Well, I guess that's all.
  226. 16:33 Well...
  227. 16:35 Let me show you what I found.
  228. 16:40 I found it beneath the dead man's hand.
  229. 16:47 Interesting.
  230. 16:48 What else?
  231. 16:54 A dead mouse.
  232. 16:56 That's interesting too.
  233. 16:58 It's prime effacy evidence against the housemaid, but it's not just the kind of evidence we're looking for, is it?
  234. 17:03 Maybe not.
  235. 17:04 Who knows?
  236. 17:10 Good morning, dear.
  237. 17:13 I wanted a moment with you alone before Bernard arrives.
  238. 17:17 Let's go to the sitting room.
  239. 17:18 I'm afraid I have no washout this morning.
  240. 17:20 I hardly slept all night.
  241. 17:22 I know the shock must have been terrible.
  242. 17:30 Jim, I'm terribly upset. There, there, don't worry. We found a number of clues.
  243. 17:38 Mr. Bernard.
  244. 17:42 Just wait outside for it.
  245. 17:44 - Well, good morning, dear. - Good morning.
  246. 17:47 Any inspirations in the night? No, but I've arranged for the autopsy and had a look over the ground.
  247. 17:52 I was just going to ask about this man Deacon.
  248. 17:56 Do you think he had anything to do with last night's tragedy?
  249. 18:00 I don't think so.
  250. 18:02 I don't know.
  251. 18:04 Of course not.
  252. 18:05 Else it.
  253. 18:06 Were your uncles still engaged in business?
  254. 18:09 I believe Uncle Henry wasn't away. They seldom went out, but Uncle Henry wrote a good many letters. It was he who handled the details then.
  255. 18:16 I suppose so.
  256. 18:19 But you know nothing of the nature of their business.
  257. 18:22 They never talked much of it.
  258. 18:24 Some real estate investments, I think.
  259. 18:26 You never overheard them mentioning to me?
  260. 18:28 No, I never have.
  261. 18:30 Would it be possible for us to see your Uncle Charles for a moment? Oh, no, you mustn't.
  262. 18:35 Please, don't disturb him now.
  263. 18:42 You know what he meant when he said...
  264. 18:45 I knew it.
  265. 18:47 Only that...
  266. 18:48 He's been afraid of something for weeks. You know of any quarrels your uncles may have had with anyone? Anyone at all recently?
  267. 18:56 Who don't mind me?
  268. 18:57 I'm guilty, I'll kill myself.
  269. 18:58 Ahem.
  270. 19:00 Did anyone else call it the house yesterday or last night?
  271. 19:04 Well, what was that?
  272. 19:06 Did anyone else call yesterday or last night?
  273. 19:10 I...
  274. 19:10 I don't think so.
  275. 19:12 Won't you let me go now?
  276. 19:14 Before you go.
  277. 19:16 May I ask you one more question?
  278. 19:18 What is it? I just want to know whether you saw anyone other than the regular household about the place.
  279. 19:23 Last night before the tragedy.
  280. 19:26 No.
  281. 19:28 I did not.
  282. 19:39 Come in, Fudd.
  283. 19:45 Sit down.
  284. 19:52 I have a few questions to ask you. This is unlocked, Fort. Did you lock it last night? No, sir.
  285. 19:57 Miss Ilse is in the habit of doing that before she retires.
  286. 20:00 But you locked up the rest of the house.
  287. 20:01 Yes, sir.
  288. 20:04 When I retired,
  289. 20:05 The cook was reading in the kitchen.
  290. 20:07 Mr. Henry was in the library...
  291. 20:09 And Miss Elsa was in her room.
  292. 20:11 I believe.
  293. 20:12 Is there anyone else in the household? A housemaid.
  294. 20:15 Helen Smith.
  295. 20:16 Thanks, that's all. Send the cook in to us.
  296. 20:19 Oh, wait.
  297. 20:22 Did you see or hear anyone last night?
  298. 20:24 Not exactly.
  299. 20:26 What do you mean by that?
  300. 20:28 Nothing, sir.
  301. 20:30 Okay, send the cook in.
  302. 20:35 Little experiment in psychology.
  303. 20:37 Foot knows that we know he's holding something back.
  304. 20:40 You'll have a good alibi.
  305. 20:41 All the better. We'll check it and place him in the case one way or another.
  306. 20:46 Come in.
  307. 20:52 I'm afraid I don't know your name.
  308. 20:53 Miss Dubbin, sir.
  309. 20:55 Now, Mr. Devin, I want you to tell me what happened last night.
  310. 20:58 Sit down with me.
  311. 21:02 Well?
  312. 21:03 It was after dinner.
  313. 21:04 when the dishes was washed up,
  314. 21:06 With the help of Helen Smith.
  315. 21:07 who is always neat and helpful with a quiet tongue and tidy ways.
  316. 21:13 Not like that Mr. Foote who thinks he owns the house. Skip that.
  317. 21:16 Go ahead.
  318. 21:17 Mr. Foot had some silver to polish in the pantry.
  319. 21:21 So I settled down to read a book called Passions in the Purple.
  320. 21:25 And sir, well, I don't go much for princes or princesses in a room.
  321. 21:29 I must say, those two was as deserving a pair of young lovers as you could ever hope to find. Exactly.
  322. 21:37 And after you've read about them for a while...
  323. 21:39 You went to bed.
  324. 21:40 Uh, yes, sir.
  325. 21:41 But it was quite late.
  326. 21:43 And then I had such a fright.
  327. 21:45 What frightened you?
  328. 21:47 It was nearly midnight.
  329. 21:49 When suddenly I looked up from the book page, as if some power outside myself had drawn my eyes to the window.
  330. 21:57 And there was a man's face.
  331. 21:59 Right up against the glass.
  332. 22:01 I nearly fell off at the chair.
  333. 22:03 because in the book the prince has been captured. Did you recognize the face? No, sir. I was much too scared. Did you warn Mr. Henry? Me warn Mr. Henry?
  334. 22:13 With his terrible temper?
  335. 22:15 No, sir.
  336. 22:16 But I told Mr. Foot this morning. Quite right. We won't detain you any longer, amigo.
  337. 22:26 Well, that's that.
  338. 22:28 What do you make of it?
  339. 22:29 I think I'd like to have a few more words with our friend Foot.
  340. 22:38 What?
  341. 22:44 We have a few more questions to ask you. Yes, sir.
  342. 22:46 Have you put down any poison against rats or mice lately?
  343. 22:50 No, sir.
  344. 22:51 I didn't know of any having been put down.
  345. 22:54 Same other way.
  346. 22:55 Why didn't you tell us about the face at the window last night?
  347. 22:59 Slip my memories.
  348. 23:01 A few minutes ago, I asked you whether you saw or heard anyone last night.
  349. 23:05 You answered.
  350. 23:05 Not exactly.
  351. 23:07 Well, sir.
  352. 23:09 I told you...
  353. 23:10 But I woke up shortly before two o'clock.
  354. 23:13 I woke before that.
  355. 23:15 Around midnight, I believe.
  356. 23:17 I was awakened by voices.
  357. 23:21 A voice, anyway.
  358. 23:22 Did you recognize the boys?
  359. 23:24 Did you recall any words?
  360. 23:25 No, sir.
  361. 23:27 I felt sure I'd been awakened by a voice. Did you get up?
  362. 23:30 Yourself.
  363. 23:32 Why did the murdered man fire Deacon?
  364. 23:34 Sure, I don't do. What hold did you have on Henry Carson?
  365. 23:38 We make a fire a good man without cause just to make a place for you.
  366. 23:42 Excuse me, sir.
  367. 23:43 I don't know what you're talking about.
  368. 23:46 You ever hear of Poxy, Wilder?
  369. 23:49 Those...
  370. 23:51 That's all. Send in Miss Smith.
  371. 23:58 What was all that about?
  372. 23:59 Shot in the dark with his own.
  373. 24:01 - Did you see what ticket? - I did. Who is the man?
  374. 24:04 Roger, that I haven't seen for 15 years or so.
  375. 24:06 He was arrested twice but wiggled out of both convictions.
  376. 24:09 We have his fingerprints, though.
  377. 24:10 And I'm practically certain
  378. 24:12 He's the center.
  379. 24:13 The idea that he might have had a hold on Carson on the past is interesting.
  380. 24:17 Yes, very interesting.
  381. 24:24 Take a seat, Miss.
  382. 24:28 I know nothing about the murder of Henry Costas.
  383. 24:31 I was in bed and asleep by 10 o'clock. Yes ma'am.
  384. 24:35 You sweep the library this morning. I did not.
  385. 24:38 It was swept the day before.
  386. 24:39 Did you dust the little table by the couch? Of course I did. Did you see the dagger there in its scabbard? Of course. To whom does the dagger belong? To...
  387. 24:49 What we're asking to hold us back along I haven't any idea that you belong to me Seltzer if you're trying to accuse that poor innocent guys belong to myself say I have the faintest idea
  388. 25:19 Now look here, you don't imagine that. I imagine nothing.
  389. 25:22 There's a lot of things I want to know.
  390. 25:30 Hello, what's up?
  391. 25:34 Who?
  392. 25:35 Henry Carson. He was a friend of yours, I believe.
  393. 25:39 Well, I just knew him, sir.
  394. 25:43 What are you, uh...
  395. 25:44 Mr. Blake.
  396. 25:46 Oh, just experimenting.
  397. 25:53 You have a lot of poison gas, I see.
  398. 25:55 Why, yes.
  399. 25:57 Oh, no, not exactly.
  400. 25:59 But say, Mr. Landis, I wouldn't think of killing old Carson. Oh, of course not.
  401. 26:03 We'll be ready in a few minutes.
  402. 26:05 Why, I'm going out to lunch. I have an engagement.
  403. 26:08 Going far.
  404. 26:09 Oh, no, just around here.
  405. 26:21 Hello! Well, you've just missed lunch.
  406. 26:24 What's the bag for? Uncle Charles insisted I come to stay with you.
  407. 26:28 Well, wonders never cease.
  408. 26:30 Well, you're welcome, my dear. Take any room you like upstairs and make yourself at home.
  409. 26:35 Are you acting as convoys? Well, we just met outside.
  410. 26:38 Landers wanted to call on you, so I came to take care of him.
  411. 26:41 Well, a lot of help you'd be.
  412. 26:43 Step into the drawing room.
  413. 26:44 John.
  414. 26:45 Take Miss Elsa's bag upstairs.
  415. 26:48 Just see what they want.
  416. 26:52 Sit down.
  417. 26:58 You want to talk to me?
  418. 27:01 Did I or did I not kill Henry Carson?
  419. 27:04 That'll do for a start.
  420. 27:05 Well...
  421. 27:06 What do you think, you're in, detective?
  422. 27:08 You'd be surprised at the number of charming looking women... ...that permit themselves the luxury of murder.
  423. 27:13 You know, I'm beginning tonight, you.
  424. 27:15 But you haven't answered my question.
  425. 27:17 I'm not going to, young man. Find out for yourself.
  426. 27:20 I'll admit I once shot a man. But it was a very poor shot and I was terribly ashamed of it.
  427. 27:26 Carson's death was no great grief to you, was it?
  428. 27:29 No.
  429. 27:30 I'm a good hater, as anyone who is unkind to Elsa will find out.
  430. 27:34 Have you been in touch with the Carson house lately?
  431. 27:37 Let's.
  432. 27:38 - Let's see. - We talked it over last night.
  433. 27:41 But we couldn't imagine who might have done it.
  434. 27:44 I mean, were you in touch with the Carson House, Mrs. Tallman?
  435. 27:48 Why, I haven't seen Aunt Marion for days.
  436. 27:51 But you talked to her.
  437. 27:54 After we found Uncle Henry...
  438. 27:56 Aunt Barren came over again.
  439. 27:58 Don't be silly, child.
  440. 28:00 You telephoned me last night about 10 o'clock and asked me to come over.
  441. 28:05 Why didn't you tell us that, Elsa?
  442. 28:07 What is telephoning my aunt to do with a murder? It might have a lot to do with it.
  443. 28:11 Did you go?
  444. 28:12 No.
  445. 28:13 I knew that a row with her uncle would just make matters worse for her.
  446. 28:17 Was it because of the incident between your Uncle Henry and me?
  447. 28:20 Yes, he was much worse after you left.
  448. 28:23 You mustn't let our visit upset either. Oh, certainly not.
  449. 28:26 But on the other hand, Mrs. Tallman, I must ask you not to attempt to leave town.
  450. 28:30 I have no intentions of leaving town.
  451. 28:32 You'll find it very hard to arrest me while Chong is still with me.
  452. 28:37 Good afternoon, gentlemen.
  453. 28:49 I'll inform Mr. Carson that you're here, sir.
  454. 28:56 Say, Foote seems like cocky.
  455. 28:58 Did you notice the change?
  456. 29:06 What's the matter?
  457. 29:07 Ever gonna speak to me again?
  458. 29:08 Look here, young fellow.
  459. 29:10 What is the idea of that last crack you missed out?
  460. 29:12 Too bad if it turns out to be her.
  461. 29:16 You go chase yourself.
  462. 29:19 Well, gentlemen.
  463. 29:21 Here I am.
  464. 29:25 Be seated, gentlemen, please.
  465. 29:38 It's very kind of you to give us this interview.
  466. 29:41 We have no definite clue as yet, so we've been forced to come to you for help.
  467. 29:45 I'm afraid there's little help.
  468. 29:47 But I can afford you.
  469. 29:50 You see,
  470. 29:52 My brother was a good man.
  471. 29:54 But he had a violent temper.
  472. 29:56 Which made him many enemies. Cause for your nervousness of late. Figure...
  473. 30:01 sneaking about the grounds.
  474. 30:03 Yeah.
  475. 30:03 And at what time?
  476. 30:05 I was reading...
  477. 30:06 In my room.
  478. 30:07 Late night.
  479. 30:09 Now when I put out the light and open the window, I'll have a figure
  480. 30:12 There, by the hedge.
  481. 30:15 You describe the man at all?
  482. 30:16 No, it's too dark.
  483. 30:19 Did you hear anything last night?
  484. 30:21 I was very tired and I didn't wake up until Foot called me.
  485. 30:24 I'm sorry I can be your little assistance.
  486. 30:27 But I'm here. You've experienced yourself lately, haven't you?
  487. 30:29 You said something about being the next to go. Yes.
  488. 30:33 I regretted those words the moment I had spoken to them.
  489. 30:36 I had Mr. Frighten...
  490. 30:38 Elsa more than she'd been frightened already by the tragic fate of others.
  491. 30:42 All right.
  492. 30:44 Mr. Carson.
  493. 30:46 What do you know about Foote, your butler?
  494. 30:49 Why?
  495. 30:50 Almost nothing.
  496. 30:52 My brother hired him, I think, because of a letter that he wrote asking
  497. 30:56 for a position.
  498. 30:57 Foot is a friend out of the past.
  499. 31:02 Yes.
  500. 31:03 I suppose so, Mr. Barnard.
  501. 31:06 I felt that sometimes he presumed upon it a little.
  502. 31:13 Mr. Carson.
  503. 31:16 I have one more question to ask.
  504. 31:19 We found no trace of the weapon yet.
  505. 31:20 Which the house?
  506. 31:21 Of course, gentlemen.
  507. 31:23 Search wherever you will.
  508. 31:37 No use looking in there. If it were hidden among her clothes, she'd have found it herself.
  509. 31:55 Curious?
  510. 31:57 Look at it.
  511. 31:58 What about it?
  512. 32:00 Why, look at her. She never wore a dress like that in her life.
  513. 32:02 Well, maybe it belonged to a mother.
  514. 32:04 Take a good look, will you, Landis?
  515. 32:06 This dress has been worn recently.
  516. 32:08 Look, the bottom of the skirt is muddy.
  517. 32:10 The mud isn't quite dry, see?
  518. 32:12 You're right.
  519. 32:14 Mother I'll say.
  520. 32:15 for that cut.
  521. 32:17 Singed.
  522. 32:18 Quite recent, too.
  523. 32:20 Elsa must have been doing some cooking.
  524. 32:21 Yes, and put her whole arm in the stove.
  525. 32:24 Look at the length of that skirt.
  526. 32:26 And another thing that's too big for her. Looks more like a dress Mrs. Tolman might wear.
  527. 32:30 I believe it had fit her.
  528. 32:32 I'm going to have a look at that stove.
  529. 32:34 Meet you downstairs.
  530. 32:57 Excuse me, John.
  531. 32:58 Oh, no, no.
  532. 33:15 I thought Fett was there.
  533. 33:25 What?
  534. 33:27 Do you remember anything more about the voice that awakens you earlier in the evening?
  535. 33:31 I really don't remember anything more than I told you so.
  536. 33:35 Well, do me a favor and try hard to remember now, will you?
  537. 33:38 I'll try it out.
  538. 33:44 It's no good tone. I really can't remember.
  539. 33:47 And I don't want to lie about it.
  540. 33:49 All right keep on trying.
  541. 33:51 I'll do that with pleasure, sir.
  542. 33:58 No, I can't say that I noticed anything peculiar about the library chandelier.
  543. 34:03 Well, I did.
  544. 34:04 When we were waiting in there for Charles Carson,
  545. 34:07 I happened to look up at it.
  546. 34:08 One of the gas jets was fully open and parallel with the pipe.
  547. 34:11 Greg Scott, man, we would have smelled it.
  548. 34:13 Oh, no, we wouldn't.
  549. 34:15 The crook tells me that Henry Carson had had a scrap with the gas company, and it was shut off all over the house.
  550. 34:20 She uses a cold stove. That's how I found out about it.
  551. 34:22 What harm could it do then if it were open?
  552. 34:26 When I went in to speak to Foot...
  553. 34:28 It was closed again.
  554. 34:30 But who would have touched him?
  555. 34:33 It was put in there long enough to have turned it off.
  556. 34:35 Hold quiet.
  557. 34:37 What on earth has that got to do with the case? You don't see the connection?
  558. 34:39 Thank you, I don't.
  559. 34:42 Well, possibly not.
  560. 34:44 It was just a crazy idea I had about Blake.
  561. 34:46 Uh-huh.
  562. 34:47 I don't take much stock in this affected humility of yours, young fella.
  563. 34:51 Come on now, watch the connection.
  564. 34:54 We'll see.
  565. 34:56 Oh, the facts out of the cook that the man at the window look like a foreigner.
  566. 35:00 Wore a cap...
  567. 35:01 had gray or blue eyes...
  568. 35:03 an unshaven face,
  569. 35:05 and a black mustache.
  570. 35:07 Complete description.
  571. 35:08 Either she was lying in the first place or she's made it all up.
  572. 35:11 No, she didn't know she knew it.
  573. 35:13 And we'll have no difficulty in finding him.
  574. 35:14 Want me to do it?
  575. 35:16 I'd be glad if you would.
  576. 35:20 Now, before I leave...
  577. 35:21 I think I'll pay Mr. Blake another little biscuit.
  578. 35:32 Look here, what do you want to know all this for?
  579. 35:35 You prefer not to answer?
  580. 35:36 No, I don't mind. I was only joking.
  581. 35:39 The fact is I'm working on a new infallible gas disinfectant in rooms where people have had contagious diseases.
  582. 35:44 You have a number of gas containers here. What are they?
  583. 35:47 Why, there's natural gas, there's... And in those car boys? Ether, ammonia and chloroform.
  584. 35:55 Is this the company that supplies you, Barr Chemical Company?
  585. 36:05 Anyone come in here?
  586. 36:07 Well, there was Chong, you know.
  587. 36:09 But wait, that fellow Foot from over at Carson's was in here one day. What did he want?
  588. 36:14 Oh, I promised Elsa a good cleaning fluid for her gloves and...
  589. 36:17 She sent foot over for it. That was three days ago.
  590. 36:21 What time did you go to bed last night?
  591. 36:24 About 20 minutes after 11:00, I think.
  592. 36:27 You didn't go out?
  593. 36:29 No, of course not.
  594. 36:30 You're lying, you know.
  595. 36:32 What makes you think so?
  596. 36:33 What time did you go out?
  597. 36:38 About 10:30, I guess.
  598. 36:40 No harm in going out for a breath of air.
  599. 36:42 Where'd you go?
  600. 36:44 Look here, you haven't any right to come here and find a third degree me. You don't care to answer? No, I don't.
  601. 36:49 Very well.
  602. 36:50 Wait a minute.
  603. 36:51 What are you gonna do about it?
  604. 36:52 Nothing for the moment.
  605. 36:53 But when you get ready to tell me what you were doing on the night of the murder.
  606. 36:57 Let me know.
  607. 37:08 Good morning. Good morning. You're an early bird.
  608. 37:11 Where haven't you been to bed?
  609. 37:12 You realize this is the third day now and we're just about where we started. Oh, I wouldn't say that.
  610. 37:17 Well, I'm anxious to hear what you found out yesterday.
  611. 37:20 Good. Sit down, then.
  612. 37:21 Over the way, I checked on Deegan.
  613. 37:24 People on fly him we're giving a party that night and he was on duty until four in the morning.
  614. 37:28 So that eliminates him.
  615. 37:29 Well, I had better luck.
  616. 37:31 I expect to produce the face of the window today.
  617. 37:34 How?
  618. 37:35 Through breaks. The man Henry Carson was writing to.
  619. 37:38 He's their real estate agent and none too honest, I fear.
  620. 37:42 I find out through Briggs the Carson's on a number of tenements.
  621. 37:45 that he bought for them under an assumed name.
  622. 37:48 He also admitted that there have been a number of fires in those buildings lately.
  623. 37:52 Obviously, Sapphire Mountain.
  624. 37:54 The building's heavily insured. Yes, but that doesn't seem to be the end.
  625. 37:58 In fact Henry Carson told Briggs to take steps to stop the fire.
  626. 38:02 Briggs engaged the private detective, but the fires didn't stop.
  627. 38:06 There was an attempt at firing one of the buildings on the very night Carson was murdered.
  628. 38:09 What time?
  629. 38:10 Little before midnight.
  630. 38:12 Well, then the same man couldn't have killed Henry Carson. Yes, he'd have had time, only it wasn't a man.
  631. 38:18 Woman?
  632. 38:19 The private detective described as being tall.
  633. 38:21 Dress of some dark material, small hat and a veil.
  634. 38:25 She moved with a free swinging stride.
  635. 38:28 Like a woman who'd been used to an outdoor life.
  636. 38:32 But that's extraordinary.
  637. 38:35 The description fits Mrs. Tornan.
  638. 38:43 I knew you'd say that.
  639. 38:46 I asked Charles Carson
  640. 38:49 If he had any clue to the firebuck.
  641. 38:51 He's got someone in the back of his mind, but he wouldn't say.
  642. 38:54 Though he hinted that the fireback and the murderer might be the same person.
  643. 38:58 You think Mrs. Tallman couldn't have done it?
  644. 39:01 That dress in Elsa's room.
  645. 39:03 Well...
  646. 39:05 If she had just escaped arrest...
  647. 39:08 I thought somebody was following.
  648. 39:10 Instead of making for our own home she made for the Carson's.
  649. 39:13 Henry Carson admitted her.
  650. 39:15 and swore at her for disturbing him.
  651. 39:17 His boy's or hers woke foot.
  652. 39:20 In the heat of the moment she picked up the dagger, stabbed Carson...
  653. 39:23 Then hurry to the hall.
  654. 39:26 Now let's say that by that time, Elsa had come out into the upper hall and...
  655. 39:29 So Mrs. Tallman pulled herself together...
  656. 39:32 went upstairs to the girl and borrowed another dress to go home in.
  657. 39:35 Leaving hers.
  658. 39:37 with a sensed cuff.
  659. 39:38 So you figure that you put two and two together, eh? That attitude?
  660. 39:41 Yes, but it wouldn't explain the face of the kitchen window.
  661. 39:45 which is an exemption of one of Carson's and our tenants.
  662. 39:48 The man who lost his wife and child in one of the fires.
  663. 39:52 Let's go see what.
  664. 39:56 Morning doctor. Yes and I was here very late last night.
  665. 40:00 - Carson's in pretty bad shape.
  666. 40:02 Now what's the matter with those servants? I've rung three times.
  667. 40:07 Oh, good morning.
  668. 40:11 Takes you a long time to answer that bell. It's my job to open the door first.
  669. 40:15 Will you send foot to us please Miss Matt. Yes sir.
  670. 40:19 Will you wait in the library?
  671. 40:43 What the matter?
  672. 40:44 What happened? Foot! Foot! For Mr. Landis. What's the matter? Foot isn't here, sir. What? The fact is, Mr. Carson, Foot has been injured. What? How could it be? She had no business living in the house of this all today. Foot's dead.
  673. 41:01 Ted?
  674. 41:03 Food? Oh, nonsense. Now, don't get excited, Mr. Carson.
  675. 41:07 -Foot was killed last night. -Murdered?
  676. 41:11 Was he killed here? Mr. Lemmonds, was he killed here? That's right.
  677. 41:16 What does it mean?
  678. 41:33 Look here, Landis.
  679. 41:34 What do you make of this?
  680. 41:37 Looks as if some very muddy article was dragged across the sill.
  681. 41:43 - See that out there? - Yes.
  682. 41:46 Larabette is covered with footprints that have been carefully trodden out.
  683. 41:52 Did you look at...
  684. 41:58 Oh, the phrase is amazing.
  685. 42:00 Your eyes are better than mine, young fellow.
  686. 42:03 He must have dropped his dagger in the mud.
  687. 42:05 I buried it after the first murder and dug it up again for this one.
  688. 42:09 Another murder, all right. Exactly.
  689. 42:12 He's been dead probably seven or eight hours. He died instantly.
  690. 42:16 Or very nearly so.
  691. 42:18 The wounds are very similar and were probably made with the same instrument with which Henry Carson was stabbed. Just a minute, where you going?
  692. 42:26 Let me go. Keep your hands off me, Jimbrough.
  693. 42:29 What do you mean poking your nose into other people's business?
  694. 42:31 Ask me where I'm going and see... - Stop that noise!
  695. 42:34 You want Mr. Carson down here again?
  696. 42:36 Well, I'm not going to stay in this house to be murdered, too. Go back to the kitchen. If you try to leave this house before I give you permission, I'll put you in jail.
  697. 42:53 Helen Smith is gone and there's only the cook so I had to come back. Yes dear we let her go home.
  698. 42:59 I've questioned both of them and they can't throw any light on the case.
  699. 43:03 I...
  700. 43:03 I want you to trust me, young sir.
  701. 43:06 I don't trust you Mr. Bernard. I want you to tell me how you knew that your aunt came here at late hour the night your uncle died.
  702. 43:17 I can't.
  703. 43:18 You'll tell Jim and he already suspect that Marian. She told me so.
  704. 43:22 Now, my dear, you've asked me to help you, but you won't help me.
  705. 43:25 I want to prove a record is clear.
  706. 43:27 But I can't do it unless I know everything.
  707. 43:31 I suppose I ought to trust you.
  708. 43:33 I know you wouldn't say that, just find out. No, no, I wouldn't.
  709. 43:38 All right.
  710. 43:40 I got up to get a drink of water and...
  711. 43:42 I heard the library door close and look downstairs. What time is it?
  712. 43:46 A little after one in the morning. What did you see?
  713. 43:50 It seems so treacherous.
  714. 43:53 I saw my aunt. Was there a light down? A dim night light.
  715. 43:56 But I called out Aunt Marion. Yes, what did you say?
  716. 44:00 She didn't say anything.
  717. 44:02 She put her fingers to her lips.
  718. 44:04 Then she waved me a kiss and hurried out the front door.
  719. 44:06 What sort of clothes was she wearing?
  720. 44:09 Something dark.
  721. 44:10 A dark brown or green dress and a small hat.
  722. 44:12 Could you see her face?
  723. 44:14 Not clearly.
  724. 44:15 There was very little light and her face was in shadow. Could it have been the figure of the housemaid?
  725. 44:20 I suppose it might.
  726. 44:22 Oh, no, it couldn't.
  727. 44:23 Aunt Marion waved a kiss to me. Helen would never do that. Could it have been to cook? No.
  728. 44:30 Oh, Mr. Bernard, do you suppose it wasn't my aunt after all?
  729. 44:33 She didn't speak. One might have the presence of mind when you called out Aunt Marion.
  730. 44:38 To play the part of your answer.
  731. 44:39 I hope you're right.
  732. 44:41 I couldn't believe Aunt Marion would do anything so horrible. Neither could I.
  733. 44:46 But in the meantime, don't say anything about it to anyone, especially Mrs. Tolman.
  734. 44:50 And don't worry.
  735. 44:52 You are a comfortable.
  736. 44:53 And a darling.
  737. 44:59 I want you to promise me she won't arrest Mrs. Talman for two or three days. I'll call her to hunt if you like.
  738. 45:05 All right, sir, I'll take a chance in your judgment.
  739. 45:07 What do we hear? I'm going to have another look at that dress.
  740. 45:17 Come on.
  741. 45:18 Gone.
  742. 45:19 I'll have a chat with Elsa about it.
  743. 45:30 There's an answer.
  744. 45:36 Is this the man you saw at the window? It's the very man, sir.
  745. 45:41 We have a few questions to ask you. Come in here.
  746. 45:52 Sit down.
  747. 46:02 Honest gentleman, I don't know nothing about it. Don't worry about that now. Sit down.
  748. 46:07 We haven't accused you of anything yet, you know.
  749. 46:11 Now you tell us your story in your own way.
  750. 46:15 Well...
  751. 46:16 It was like this.
  752. 46:19 A month ago, I was a contentment man with a wife and...
  753. 46:22 A baby.
  754. 46:23 He was as pretty a kid as...
  755. 46:28 Well, I'd been working one night and I was getting home late.
  756. 46:30 I saw a lot of people running towards my street, sir.
  757. 46:33 So I run two.
  758. 46:51 Back there. But my wife and kids, they're in fire.
  759. 46:54 Everybody's out.
  760. 46:55 My wife and kid are all safe. There was a woman and kid, but they took them to the hospital.
  761. 47:04 Hospital.
  762. 47:11 Hmm.
  763. 47:13 Hmm.
  764. 47:15 Excuse me, gentlemen.
  765. 47:17 I ain't been the same since that night.
  766. 47:20 Well...
  767. 47:24 I rushed over to the hospital...
  768. 47:27 And there was Alice and little Bill.
  769. 47:29 Lying in the bed together.
  770. 47:32 Oh, the shirt pulled over their faces.
  771. 47:35 You set out to find the owner of the building.
  772. 47:38 Yeah.
  773. 47:38 That's it, sir.
  774. 47:39 All I was asking was the price of it too, so like Alice had wanted, that's all.
  775. 47:43 Mr. Briggs?
  776. 47:45 He wouldn't tell me.
  777. 47:46 So a friend of mine in the fire department, he made them stole the names of the owners and their address.
  778. 47:53 So you came out here. That's right, sir. But I couldn't get here till late because I got mixed up finding the place.
  779. 48:01 Must have been about half past 11:00 by the time I got here.
  780. 48:06 What did you do after you got to the house?
  781. 48:08 Well, uh...
  782. 48:10 I looked in the back window.
  783. 48:12 There was a woman there sitting and reading.
  784. 48:14 Well, she let out a yell, so I don't.
  785. 48:17 You mean you went home? No, sir. I wanted my rights.
  786. 48:21 I came round this window here.
  787. 48:23 But all of a sudden, the lights upstairs went out. So I ducked. Scared somebody might look down and see me. That's just what happened. You were seen. I'll come clean. Sir, help me. I'm telling the truth.
  788. 48:36 Well, after a while, I...
  789. 48:37 Cripped back and looked under the shade.
  790. 48:40 At this desk here, there was an old man.
  791. 48:42 Looking over some papers.
  792. 48:44 Did you rap on the window?
  793. 48:46 Not me, Sarah.
  794. 48:47 I wasn't looking for trouble.
  795. 48:49 I just walked along the house to...
  796. 48:51 to see what gun of a car they had.
  797. 48:53 to see if they was rich.
  798. 48:55 The garage was empty, sure.
  799. 48:57 So I went home.
  800. 48:59 Is that all?
  801. 49:01 I guess that's all.
  802. 49:03 But I did murder the old man.
  803. 49:07 You better tell us everything now.
  804. 49:08 Oh, that's serious. You wouldn't believe it.
  805. 49:12 Why don't you try?
  806. 49:17 Huh?
  807. 49:19 It was like this, sir.
  808. 49:21 The garage was all dark inside...
  809. 49:25 But I carry a torch and just as I took it out, something... something hissed at me from the back of the garage.
  810. 49:31 - His statue? - Yes, sir, I swear to it.
  811. 49:34 It scared me so bad that I ducked again.
  812. 49:36 And how did you know there was no car there? Well, after a while I came back and pressed on the torch and...
  813. 49:43 In that time I saw it. Well, what was it?
  814. 49:46 I said you wouldn't believe me, but I'll take my oath it was a snake, wiggling away toward the back. You sure it wasn't a long red herring? I'll take my oath it was a snake.
  815. 49:55 So you went home? Yes, sir. I went straight home as fast as I could. You're never near this place more. Well, I never found out the address till the day before. How can I come? You came again? I never did, sir. I never came near that place again. You came here last night, prepped him, stabbed another man at that desk, just as you stabbed in the castle. I didn't, sir. I didn't. I swear. I didn't. Where were you last night up to midnight? Well, I wasn't a bitch or so. Anybody wish you to prove it? No, sir.
  816. 50:20 I went alone.
  817. 50:22 I'm gonna send this fellow home now, but don't lose track of him for a few days.
  818. 50:29 All right, Val. You can go home now.
  819. 50:31 Home?
  820. 50:33 I'm going to see what I can do about raising the price of that tombstone.
  821. 50:39 Thank you. Thank you, sir.
  822. 50:43 Well, what do you make of it? Well, that was a shot in the dark that didn't strike home.
  823. 50:49 Let's see else about that dress. I'm convinced that dress was worn by the woman she mistook for her aunt.
  824. 50:54 Do you really think it possible that it was Helen Smith or the cook? I didn't take the Helen Smith. She showed a vicious temper and is quite careless of leaving Elsa alone. And for a good cook,
  825. 51:05 Miss Devon strikes me as being unconvincingly brainless.
  826. 51:10 She told the truth about the man at the window. Yes. And she was the only person in the household... ...that was up late the night that Henry Carson met his death.
  827. 51:20 And so far as we know, she was alone downstairs with Foot last night when he died.
  828. 51:25 Mm-mm.
  829. 51:33 Where are you going with this? To the kitchen, sir.
  830. 51:36 And the incinerator, I suppose.
  831. 51:38 No, sir, Miss Elsie thought I might be able to wear it.
  832. 51:42 Elsa!
  833. 51:49 - Did you give this dress to the cook? - Why, yes.
  834. 51:52 I found it at the bottom of foot's trunk.
  835. 51:54 What?
  836. 51:57 Well, the foot must have planted that dress in here.
  837. 52:00 And it would be the logical place room to hide anything else. While Elsa was away...
  838. 52:50 You found it. Yes, Elsa, where you hid it? Oh, I know I shouldn't have done it, but it lay there. Where?
  839. 52:58 It lay on the floor of the library.
  840. 52:59 Foot hadn't seen it, so I sent him for water.
  841. 53:02 Then I ran upstairs and threw it in my wardrobe.
  842. 53:04 That's why you called Mr. Bernard from upstairs, but why did you hide the dagger out, sir?
  843. 53:08 Oh, don't you understand?
  844. 53:10 I thought I had seen Aunt Marion leaving the library.
  845. 53:13 When I saw that dagger...
  846. 53:15 Covered with blood. Then you washed it and later hid it in the drawer. You did a very foolish and dangerous thing. Oh, it wasn't as bad as all that, dear.
  847. 53:22 There are other clues, you know.
  848. 53:24 I'm sorry.
  849. 53:26 But I'm not frightened anymore.
  850. 53:38 Excuse us, Jeff.
  851. 53:44 What did you see, Blake? No, I didn't. What new theory is this? It's not a theory.
  852. 53:48 I had the chemical company send out Mr. Watson here to examine Blake's laboratory.
  853. 53:53 What did you find, Mr. Watson?
  854. 53:54 The pressure is good in all the gas tanks except the carbon monoxide. Which means?
  855. 53:59 that most of the gas has been drawn off.
  856. 54:02 Well, could it have leaked out?
  857. 54:03 Our tanks don't leak.
  858. 54:05 Somebody might have left the tap open a little, but if he did, he'd be lying around there somewhere.
  859. 54:10 Well, that's all I wanted to know.
  860. 54:12 I'm glad to help you if I can.
  861. 54:16 - You've been holding out on me, huh? - Not on facts.
  862. 54:19 Only theory.
  863. 54:21 Carson's wound didn't bleed.
  864. 54:23 That's why I made such a point.
  865. 54:24 of whether it reached the heart or not.
  866. 54:26 My idea was that when Henry Carson was stabbed,
  867. 54:28 He was already dead.
  868. 54:30 The autopsy showed the scarcity of oxygen in the lungs.
  869. 54:32 In that case, the wound wouldn't bleed at all.
  870. 54:34 I didn't.
  871. 54:36 Let's take the evidence in order.
  872. 54:37 First, there's the mouse.
  873. 54:39 The little beggars never die out in the open unless they've been poisoned.
  874. 54:42 But nobody had put down any poison. Where's the connection?
  875. 54:45 Suppose that Henry Carson had been sitting quietly at his desk... and Mr. Mouse ventured into the middle of the room.
  876. 54:50 Then let's suppose a death suddenly gathered both man and mouse
  877. 54:53 At the same instant.
  878. 54:55 Carbon monoxide.
  879. 54:57 Suppose we see if your lodge was in.
  880. 55:05 Well, it looks like he skipped. I'll broadcast his description. We'll soon pick him up.
  881. 55:10 I say, Landers.
  882. 55:12 How do you figure the gas got in the library?
  883. 55:16 From the gas jet and the chandelier. Blake tapped the pipe and let in the carbon monoxide from the tank.
  884. 55:21 That sounds interesting, but I'm inclined to think it's all moonshine and coincidence.
  885. 55:26 Now how that hookup with the stabbing of Henry Carson, and the stabbing of foot, and the dagger, and the disappearing dress,
  886. 55:31 And the woman in the hallway.
  887. 55:33 Were they all in the plot together?
  888. 55:37 We're not even sure that Foot and Carson were stabbed with the same dagger.
  889. 55:42 We're sure they weren't.
  890. 55:43 Elsa hit it long before Foot was murdered.
  891. 55:46 Oh, quite so.
  892. 55:47 That doesn't prove that both men will not stand with one in the same dagger.
  893. 55:50 In the love of Mike, man, you don't suspect Elsa.
  894. 55:53 I don't think Henry Carson stabbed with a dagger at all.
  895. 55:56 It was planted there.
  896. 55:57 On the evidence of Elsa...
  897. 55:59 The dagger was covered with blood, gripped on the floor.
  898. 56:02 And yet the womb did not bleed.
  899. 56:05 Whatever blood was on the weapon...
  900. 56:07 came off on the clothes when it was withdrawn.
  901. 56:10 That's right.
  902. 56:11 Well, then we can eliminate the runs both Arthur Bell and Peter Blake.
  903. 56:14 Well, neither of them had the intelligence to conceive such well-planned crimes. Well, I'm not eliminating Blake, and I'm not eliminating Mrs. Tallman.
  904. 56:21 All right.
  905. 56:22 But there's an experiment I'd like to try.
  906. 56:26 - Here's your experiment. - Yeah, that's quite simple. All I ask is that you place yourself at my disposal tonight, and possibly tomorrow.
  907. 56:32 Okay.
  908. 56:35 If you still have a man watching Mrs. Tolman, I want you to call him off. And let me convey to Mrs. Tolman in a roundabout way that you've done so.
  909. 56:43 You agree?
  910. 56:44 I do.
  911. 57:00 Hello, Elsa. I think I have some good...
  912. 57:03 - Landis has agreed to remove the man who's watching this stop. - And he doesn't suspect her anymore?
  913. 57:08 Oh, may I tell her so?
  914. 57:10 Oh, I don't see why you shouldn't tell her.
  915. 57:12 I don't think there's any secret about it.
  916. 57:17 Well, I wouldn't be surprised if we had the real culprit any time now.
  917. 57:21 Oh, it's a pleasure.
  918. 57:23 All right, I'll call off my man. What next?
  919. 57:26 I want you to go back to your hotel.
  920. 57:28 And stay there quite openly.
  921. 57:30 About 11:00 tonight, slip out.
  922. 57:32 Creep up to my back door without letting anyone see.
  923. 57:35 Anyone at all.
  924. 57:37 Can you do it?
  925. 57:37 I think so.
  926. 57:39 All right, then. I'll take it.
  927. 57:48 I'm going to want brett's. You wait here until I come out again.
  928. 58:57 See, what's the idea?
  929. 58:59 That's the experiment.
  930. 59:01 Don't talk, not sound.
  931. 59:24 *Bang*
  932. 59:53 That's safe. Come on.
  933. 59:56 - Are you hurt, Pat? - No, just raise me. Hurry me. We must catch it.
  934. 1:00:02 Where the do you see you going?
  935. 1:00:07 - What is all this? - This is my show, Landis.
  936. 1:00:10 Bruce here is the detective working for me.
  937. 1:00:12 You identify the firebug, Bruce? All by the dresser. Same height, carriage and walk. Uh-huh.
  938. 1:00:22 Mr. Landis.
  939. 1:00:23 I know that I've done wrong.
  940. 1:00:24 Would you tell me, please?
  941. 1:00:26 If I'm to be incarcerated tonight,
  942. 1:00:28 Or permitted.
  943. 1:00:29 To sleep here.
  944. 1:00:30 What do you think we're going to charge you? Well, dressing as a woman, I know it's illegal.
  945. 1:00:33 But I wanted to find the murderer of my brother.
  946. 1:00:37 We're saving you the trouble. We're charging you with the murder of your brother and the murder of foot.
  947. 1:00:42 Setting fire to your tenements.
  948. 1:00:44 And the consequent death of Martha Bell's wife and child. Ridiculous.
  949. 1:00:48 You know that I was in my room.
  950. 1:00:50 And at what hour I put out my lights. Yes, I found the clockwork arrangement that put out your lights.
  951. 1:00:54 Now I'm going to find the dagger with which you stabbed your victims.
  952. 1:00:58 That was a smart idea of yours planting the dagger smeared with your own blood.
  953. 1:01:02 See, I saw the first morning that you had adhesive tape
  954. 1:01:05 On one of your fiends. Lies. Lies.
  955. 1:01:07 Mr. Van Dess.
  956. 1:01:08 How long is this farce to continue until you confess?
  957. 1:01:12 Come on, Landis. Let's find that dagger.
  958. 1:01:14 I think I know where to look. One moment, gentlemen, please.
  959. 1:01:19 I admit I'm the firebird.
  960. 1:01:20 Unfortunately, I'm the miserable victim
  961. 1:01:23 of a pathological mania.
  962. 1:01:25 But I know nothing about the murder of my brother or a foot.
  963. 1:01:29 That woman next door did it.
  964. 1:01:31 You murdered them both.
  965. 1:01:33 You fired your buildings for the insurance. Then you came home that night...
  966. 1:01:36 and found your brother as you thought asleep.
  967. 1:01:38 With him out of the way, you would possess his fortune
  968. 1:01:40 Let's finish your own.
  969. 1:01:42 You saw the letter he was writing to Briggs.
  970. 1:01:44 and you stabbed him to put an end to him and his interference. You're mad.
  971. 1:01:48 Delta's cry awakened foot who came down and found you in famine in the tire.
  972. 1:01:52 He proceeded to blackmail.
  973. 1:01:53 You lured him into the library where you stabbed him as you did your brother. Pray tell me.
  974. 1:01:58 Where is the weapon with which you imagine I killed my poor brother in foot?
  975. 1:02:02 It isn't in the house.
  976. 1:02:03 So it must be somewhere in your course between the front door and the side door where you re-entered the house.
  977. 1:02:08 Come on, Landis. We'll look the round over again.
  978. 1:02:10 Right.
  979. 1:02:11 Oh, uh, you got your flashlight?
  980. 1:02:13 Well, we'll take Carson along.
  981. 1:02:29 Look at that.
  982. 1:02:31 Doesn't it seem strange that such a tall plant should be tied to such a short state?
  983. 1:02:36 That steak?
  984. 1:02:37 That wouldn't help it any.
  985. 1:02:40 Bruce, pull it up and let's have a look at it.
  986. 1:02:48 That accounts for the mud on Foots back.
  987. 1:02:52 You win, Bernard.
  988. 1:02:54 But it took you a year to do it.
  989. 1:02:58 I got you.
  990. 1:02:59 In the last trap.
  991. 1:03:01 Okay, Bruce.
  992. 1:03:10 Ah, ha, ha! Cleared as last and you're foiled again, Jack Dalton. - I'm sorry, Mr. Dollar. - Oh, forget it. I suppose you want to talk to the mastermind.
  993. 1:03:19 Yes, but I wondered...
  994. 1:03:21 Oh, I know what you're wondering. I'll just see if she's presentable.
  995. 1:03:24 She's had quite a shock, you know. Yes, she must have had.
  996. 1:03:27 You'll find Sherlock in there. Thank you.
  997. 1:03:32 Good morning.
  998. 1:03:33 - Oh, good morning. - Don't get up.
  999. 1:03:35 See, now that it's all over, do you mind telling me how you happen to suspect Carson?
  1000. 1:03:39 Not at all.
  1001. 1:03:40 You took it for granted that Carson wouldn't murder his own brother, and you never looked his way.
  1002. 1:03:45 I didn't empty. That's all.
  1003. 1:03:48 Well, that's not all by a long shot, but I believe congratulations are in order.
  1004. 1:03:52 But don't forget, you must congratulate me too.
  1005. 1:03:54 For what?
  1006. 1:03:55 Because I've got the man who really killed Carson.
  1007. 1:03:58 Blake?
  1008. 1:03:59 Yes, again.
  1009. 1:04:00 What is this, a game?
  1010. 1:04:02 Where is the real murderer?
  1011. 1:04:04 I have him by the hand.
  1012. 1:04:05 Are you kidding me?
  1013. 1:04:07 I'm not kidding.
  1014. 1:04:09 You killed Henry Carson.
  1015. 1:04:12 I never could figure why Foots had turned back that gas jet in the library. It didn't make sense. But you were there too. It was easy for you to enter the library while I was talking to the cook.
  1016. 1:04:20 Go ahead.
  1017. 1:04:21 Carson's last words when he was caught, implied that you had known each other before, but you were certainly not old friends.
  1018. 1:04:26 So you must have been enemies. You on the side of the law.
  1019. 1:04:29 He against it.
  1020. 1:04:30 So far you're right.
  1021. 1:04:32 Not once could I get evidence to justify an arrest.
  1022. 1:04:35 What else, your brother?
  1023. 1:04:37 It was Arthur Bell on the hiss of the snake.
  1024. 1:04:40 I took another look at the Carson garage this afternoon. In the back wall, behind the firewood,
  1025. 1:04:45 is a small hole recently bored
  1026. 1:04:47 leading to your garage. And there were yards of rubber tubing in the back seat of your car.
  1027. 1:04:52 Naturally.
  1028. 1:04:54 It's no dying.
  1029. 1:04:59 You'd already opened the gas jet in the library that day you called about the fence.
  1030. 1:05:03 Hmm?
  1031. 1:05:04 What else?
  1032. 1:05:08 You make sure that Henry Carson was at his desk.
  1033. 1:05:10 Then you connected the tube.
  1034. 1:05:12 With the gas jet in the garage.
  1035. 1:05:13 You then went back to your own garage connected the tube to the tank.
  1036. 1:05:17 Turn down the gas.
  1037. 1:05:18 That was the hiss that scared Belle.
  1038. 1:05:20 You let in enough gas to kill a dozen men.
  1039. 1:05:23 And a mouse.
  1040. 1:05:25 Then you drew back the tube. And it was the end of that writing tube that Bell saw.
  1041. 1:05:29 Of course he thought it was a snake.
  1042. 1:05:30 And the confessed stabbing of Henry by Charles.
  1043. 1:05:33 Henry Carson was as dead as that mouse when his brother stabbed him.
  1044. 1:05:37 An interesting bit of reasoning.
  1045. 1:05:39 How long have you believed?
  1046. 1:05:40 I suspected it days ago.
  1047. 1:05:42 You were so down on my theory of gas.
  1048. 1:05:45 And so unwilling to involve Blake. Landers, you've done some fine reasoning. I never thought you'd figure it out.
  1049. 1:05:51 But you don't know the harm those two men have done.
  1050. 1:05:53 I came here to live with no idea but to practice.
  1051. 1:05:57 You see, we never actually met...
  1052. 1:05:59 But they knew me as well as I knew them.
  1053. 1:06:04 Hello. Are you two still congratulating each other?
  1054. 1:06:07 We're pretty good. Well, there's someone outside who thinks so too. Oh, you'll pardon me if I carry this investigation a little further.
  1055. 1:06:14 Won't you sit down, Mr. Tomlin?
  1056. 1:06:17 Certainly.
  1057. 1:06:19 Well, I suppose you're very busy now. It's Sean gone and Elsa on your hands. But if you have a minute...
  1058. 1:06:24 I've got something to tell you and something to ask you.
  1059. 1:06:26 An hour, if you like.
  1060. 1:06:28 Well, I thought you'd like to know that Landis has traced the murder of Henry Carson...
  1061. 1:06:33 For me.
  1062. 1:06:34 What?
  1063. 1:06:35 But you didn't do it. Of course not, but I've practically confessed it, and Landers has let the matter drop.
  1064. 1:06:41 Well, I'll be... Shh. It's all right. It's all right.
  1065. 1:06:45 What else could I do?
  1066. 1:06:47 You see, I found some rubber tubing that belonged to you hidden behind the firewood in the garage.
  1067. 1:06:51 I parted over to hide your fingerprints and leave my own. Then I hid in the back of my car.
  1068. 1:06:56 But will you tell me, please?
  1069. 1:06:58 Incompetence.
  1070. 1:06:59 How you got that tank of carbon monoxide to asphyxiate Henry Carson that night?
  1071. 1:07:03 That's the only thing I don't understand. The only thing that doesn't fit
  1072. 1:07:08 Do you mean to say that you confessed to such a crime to shield me?
  1073. 1:07:13 What else could I do?
  1074. 1:07:14 But I didn't do it.
  1075. 1:07:16 What?
  1076. 1:07:17 Then who the heck did?
  1077. 1:07:18 Well, you're just in time, children. For what?
  1078. 1:07:23 You accused Mr. Bernard of killing Cawson.
  1079. 1:07:26 Now I'm going to tell you who really came.
  1080. 1:07:29 Two weeks ago I was fool enough to remark in Chong's hearing that if somebody would only murder Henry Carson I'd be the happiest woman in the world.
  1081. 1:07:36 The morning after Henry was killed, I remembered.
  1082. 1:07:39 And knowing Chong's devotion to me, I accused him of it.
  1083. 1:07:43 He blandly admitted that he pried open a window, sneaked into your house, stole the gas from Blake's laboratory...
  1084. 1:07:49 and asphyxiated the old scoundrel.
  1085. 1:07:52 Well, I'll be...
  1086. 1:07:54 But he'll have to be arrested.
  1087. 1:07:56 Why, certainly. Where is he?
  1088. 1:07:58 On his way to China.
  1089. 1:08:00 Nevertheless, we'll get him.
  1090. 1:08:01 You were wondering where we spent our honeymoon. Well, it looks like China to me.
  1091. 1:08:08 - You're a man, Thorben. - For fool.
  1092. 1:08:11 Well, have it your own way. But I'll tell you what I'll do.
  1093. 1:08:14 I'll marry you.
  1094. 1:08:15 - Who asked you? - Hold your tongue.
  1095. 1:08:17 I'm not asking you, I'm telling you.

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Secret Agent 1936Disorder in the Court 1936A Man Betrayed 1936Marihuana 1936

Every free film of 1936 with a copy

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Road to Happiness 1941Doomed to Die 1940My Favorite Brunette 1947

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