That
you didn't.
Hey, Joe, who's this guy Strickland? All you news hawks hanging around here.
Half the guests are inquiring about him. A fine hotel dick.
Don't you ever read anything outside the racing form?
Amos Strickland is the number one criminal lawyer in the country.
Why? All the excitement
lawyers have visited the lost caverns before? Sure.
But when a lawyer is Amos Strickland and he
postpones an important case to come up here,
something is cooking
no pictures,
no
pictures
up. You
heard the man
need it. Go ahead.
You must be Mr Strickland. Brilliant. You must be the hotel detective.
Usually I
Jeff
Mr Strickland. Good evening Mr Strickland.
I'm sorry, you were annoy but you know how new man I am. Unfortunately. Yes.
Tell Mr Crandall, I'm here.
I'm sorry, sir, Mr Crandall's not in but I'll tell his niece you're here.
She's very anxious to speak with you young man.
If I wanted to speak to his niece, I'd ask for her the moment Mr Crandall comes in
and tell him I want to see him. Yes, sir.
Freddie, will you show Mr Stricken to room 125? Yes, sir.
Pull my leg. Be more careful. My good man. I'm sorry.
My umbrella is pick up, pick up my bag.
I live,
look, look at my glasses,
they're broken. I'll have your job for this.
Aren't you a little too old for this type of work? I have you discharged fire.
Take out my bag. Get out, you,
you, you care this idiot. Get out of here, get out. What seems to be the trouble.
Who are you?
I'm Mr Milton, the hotel manager. Oh, you are? Are you?
Well, look at my glasses who's responsible for this? He is what?
Well, it's your fault if you had to come here, he never broke em.
I,
I insist that you discharge this moron immediately
take off that uniform and get out.
You're fired.
Ok?
I'll go,
I wanna tell you something, Mr Strickland,
I'll get even with you for this.
Every dog has his day and I'll have mine.
I'm gonna make you pay for this. Are you threatening me? In words of one syllable?
Yes.
So you got fired,
eh? Yes, I did.
And I'm going to tell you the same thing that I told him every dog has his day.
I'll show you your room. Mr Strickland Casey, bring the bags up. Who me?
You the key, please? Jeff
this way,
Jeff, give me a hand with it.
Jeff, have you been demoted to Bellboy? No, just helping Casey
belong to the great Mr Strickland. Jeff.
I told you to notify me the instant he got here, he said he didn't want to speak to you.
Just your uncle Mr Strickland's a man you don't argue with.
He just got Freddie fired.
Betty. I said Freddy's been fired again.
What?
Oh, Freddie,
I'll speak to my uncle.
Is there anything wrong?
Not a thing,
my key, please. Yes, Mrs Grimsby.
I
thank you.
Ok,
Mr Strickland. I'm sorry, I bars in like this but
I read it to me to apologize to you.
How sorry for the way I talk to you.
Really? I am Mr Strickland
and I'm also sorry, Mr Stricker.
I,
I dropped the golf bag on your toes.
It must have hurt
this a trick one.
There's something else I want to say.
I'm sorry, I booked your eyeglasses.
Thanks a lot for allowing me to apologize to you
Mr Strickland
and I apologize. Would you mind telling Mr Melton?
Yeah,
Mr Trick one
that you think it's better if you go inside the next room,
there's a bed in there to lay down.
Hm. It's a short walk.
This is Strickland.
Don't you feel well?
Oh,
this guy is plenty sick.
Oh, he made it.
No.
What you need is here and
plenty of it and I ain't gonna give it to you with a little handkerchief.
I gotta give you plenty of hair.
Mr Stricker,
come on with it.
I gotta do something to help you. Come on,
I
want
blood
blood.
He's dead.
Who did it, Mr Strickland?
Bye.
Gee.
That's funny.
I always thought that if I was in a room alone with a dead person,
I would be scared.
Ha ha.
But
Casey,
ok,
Mr,
m,
what's the matter? Mr Milton? This idiot just attacked me.
Take him out of here before he kills somebody? Tell me I didn't do it.
I never killed anybody. I just happened to find a body.
He was dead before I even got there. What body? Who's dead?
What are you talking about? Mrs Strickland? He's been murdered, murdered.
Possible. We don't permit murders in this hotel. Oh, Mr Sm,
dad, dad,
dad,
I walk
into
my
house. I'm like,
come here.
Excuse
me.
There, there he is,
he is dead. Sure he's dead. I'll try to
take down,
he's dead. I'll see you later. Wait a minute,
I'll go away and nobody touched that body. Touch it. I don't even look at
it.
Not a word of this is the guest. We must keep it quiet.
Made you better leave an extra sheet for Casey to cover up the dead body. Dead body.
Get air quiet
and don't touch a thing. Call we.
Hello.
What's the matter what happened?
There's been an accident is a serious murder.
How to operate it. Get me inspector Wellman. Why? It's Mr Strickland
Jeff?
Take Betty to her room. No, I don't want to speak to the sergeant.
I want to speak to Wellman. That's awful.
He was such a nice man.
You have a handkerchief.
Yes.
What happened Strickland was murdered?
Is that?
No, no, I don't want to speak to the sergeant.
I want to speak to Inspector Wellman and hurry it up.
What's going on here?
I caught this man trying to make off with that briefcase.
I thought it might contain important evidence.
You caught me trying to get away with this briefcase.
It was
him. You fibber.
How dare you call Mr Brooks. A thief. Apologize at once. Tell him you're sorry,
apologize,
Mr Brooks.
I'm sorry, you're a crook,
pig head
pin
Freddie
Mr Melton.
Keep this as quiet as possible.
I'll put this in the safe.
Hello.
Hello, inspector Wellman.
This is Casey Casey of the lost caverns hotel.
You better hop right over here.
Looks like we got a motor on our hands.
Ok.
Oh, Mr Casey. Yeah,
my name is Rey.
I checked in this morning. What
I do for you, Mr Rey.
I heard about the murder. My gun disappeared from my room a couple of hours ago.
It's registered in my name
and if it turns out to be the murder weapon.
Well, I just want the police to know, have you any idea who took it?
Well, it could have been a maid, a waiter or a bellboy. Bellboy.
If that makes sense. Bellboys carry pas keys, right?
It could be a bellboy because I was a bellboy myself and I know
I had a pas key I could get in every room in the place.
What am I saying? Casey searching me. He may have Brea's
gun on him. No, I mean, I mean,
I mean,
I don't, I don't know how I get in the middle of all these things in
case you search them.
I
know.
Ok.
Nothing on him. Mr Smelting or Melton.
You're not going to implicate me unless you get away with it.
Casey, I heard him threaten Mr Strickland.
Don't let him out of your sight until the police come
troublemaker.
Casey. I'm worried
now.
You don't think I had anything to do with it, do you?
No,
no, but it looks bad. Freddie, it looks bad.
Of course you have two things in your favor.
Number one, they found no bloodstains on you.
Number two, the gun that killed Strickland is still missing that I'm very happy for.
But on the other side of the ledger,
all the evidence points to you.
You were seen fighting with him,
then you lost your job. Of course, that supplies the motives.
But then you were heard threatening him
and you were seen coming out of his room.
What are you doing?
Laundry,
laundry,
the laundry.
Yeah.
Wait a minute. Come here. Just a minute.
Hey, where'd you get that gun? I don't know Freddie for the last time.
I'm going to ask you, where'd you get that gun? I don't know. Where'd you get that gun?
That's not fair. You said for the last time I answered it. Hello, Freddy.
Are you using unfair tactics trying to help you out?
There's no doubt that what this is really his gun
and there's no doubt what they planted it in here.
We've got to get it back to his room before the police come.
Otherwise you're a dead duck.
Now, why would anybody want to put a thing like that in here for you?
When we find that out? We'll find the culprit. Who's the culprit?
The culprit and the murder are the same. Oh, they are. Come on, come on, s
duck. Duck.
There's something sneaky about that name. I think you're right.
I'm gonna question her.
She went that way
over the other wedding.
Now, don't forget if he's in here.
Just pretend we made a mistake.
Should sit
up,
uh,
the wrong key. Try this one.
What,
where did you, where did you get that red, red,
red Skelton
Skulks
comes up any door
p
This guy is certainly a messy housekeeper.
This place has been searched.
I wonder if it could have been that day we saw down the hall.
Whoever it was did a thorough job. I'll say they did.
Look, let's plant the gun hearing. Get out. Wait a minute
is a telegram to Michael Readier.
Get a load of this. I'm including your case in my memoirs. Imperative.
You be at the lost caverns hotel this weekend sign
Amos Strickland. You know this could tie in with the murder.
I'm gonna check on this. Really?
You go see if the coast is clear. I'll plant this c in one of his suits in the closet.
Oh,
you didn't see me?
Couldn't see me.
You didn't see me?
I wasn't here.
Ok. I planted the gun. Come on, let's go come.
What's the matter with you? I didn't see him.
You didn't see who the man who wasn't here. What man, all I did was open up the door.
See if the coach was clear. My mind went blank. Your mind's been a blank all your life.
Come on, close the door.
I said, come,
come on,
I am here.
We'll have a coroner's report on Strickland.
The first thing in the morning for you, inspector. That'll be fine doc.
Now, let's see, where were we? Milford?
You said you've been strictly secretary for nearly 20 years, over 20 years,
naughty enemies.
He had, well, naturally, inspector will,
when a big criminal lawyer is bound to make some enemies,
but I don't know of anyone who would have resorted to murder.
You're wasting your time.
Inspector, you've got the murderer Phillips, the bellboy, Mr Melton.
If you don't mind, I'll handle this case in my own way.
Sergeant. Bring that bellboy in. Ok, Phillips inspect the one, I'll be firm.
You just leave it to me. I can handle these two guys. Boy,
you can go Melton.
Ok, Phillips, I didn't do it. I tell you, inspector, I didn't do it. Please. Please.
Inspector. I didn't do it. Don't hit me. Don't hit me.
Don't twist my arm, don't twist my arm. I miss,
I
tell you, I
don't
have
to r,
don't hit me.
Please don't. Oh, no.
Shut up. Well, the man didn't touch you with his little finger.
What kind of third degree is this? I don't give the degrees
in
g,
all right. What's the matter when that guy thinks?
Oh,
inspector, he's been that way all his life.
He's too dumb to commit a murder.
But I don't understand why is he always Hoing about rubber hose, Casey?
Show him the telegram. What telegram are you withholding evidence? Oh,
no, no, no inspector. I was going to give you this.
We found this in really room.
I'll look this over later in the meantime,
I'm release and gets Bell Hop in your custody.
He's not to leave the hotel but I got them. Mr Min says I have to get out.
You'll remain as a guest of the state, a guest. That's right.
They pay for everything,
huh?
Inspector. If you get a chance come up and uh, see me sometime.
Thank you. Goodbye.
Uh
Oh, excuse me.
So.
00, just a moment dear. It's all right.
Uh Would you bring the phone over here, please?
Hello?
Yes,
of course.
I'd be delighted.
Thank you.
We're gonna have a guest,
Casey.
I want you to order me a present on the half show.
Also order me, uh, Crepes Tran
Sot
and my special order of Caviar
with Boloney on the side. Now, look, Freddie. I know you're a guest of the state.
But don't you think you're carrying this thing too far after all?
California's a big state. If it was Rhode Island, it'd be different. $8.55.
Mr Phillips, can you spell California? Certainly sign the check, please.
Could you please?
And uh put a big tip on for everybody.
Thank you. You're
welcome. You're welcome. You're welcome. You're welcome.
Goodbye. Now, see you tomorrow.
You won't be here tomorrow. Yes, I will wait.
Inspector Wellman sees the report I have on Michael. Really?
You will be just an ordinary little bell hop again.
I don't intend to be a bellhop anymore. Furthermore,
I have a date with Angela Gordon.
You mean to tell me that the Looking Day made a date with you? Yes, I don't believe it.
Angela,
my Angela,
please.
Uh
uh
kill me, darling, darling.
Here's your suit,
Angela
Angela. Oh, am I into it?
No, but he is.
Hm.
Mm.
And Sheila,
I want you to sit down.
I think so
away.
Shouldn't please.
Gee, you're pretty. I bet you say that to all the girls. Yes,
they don't go over so good with the boys. You are sweet
and to think that they suspect you of murdering Strickland.
It's ridiculous. Yes.
And if they ever give me the gas chamber,
they're hanging the wrong man and they'll be sorry.
Have you any idea who the real murder is?
Yes.
Cool.
The corporate,
but who is the culprit?
Well, the murderer in
case he has a full report on him,
he has to find out only one thing before he can put him in jail.
What's that? If he did it? If, who did it? The
cop,
who is the cop? The murderer? Don't you understand? Freddie?
If you could prove who did it? You'll be a hero.
And I just said door heroes.
Why didn't you get him to sign a confession? You who to sign a confession?
The murderer? Who's the murderer? The culprit, don't you understand?
Yes.
Yes, I do.
If I get to murder to sign a confession that will prove that I'm innocent.
Why couldn't I think of something like that?
Oh, if I only had a pen or paper I would, you know what I would do if?
Thank you, I dictate your right
start.
I hereby confess
you didn't.
Oh, no, Freddie. Right.
Hm.
I hereby
confess to the murder of
Amos Strickland.
Now sign it.
May you sign it? Certainly you are the witness
then when the real murderer signs it,
everyone will know who got the confession out of him.
Yeah,
that's right.
Ready
Phillips
here.
Boy will Casey be proud of me. Oh, don't tell Casey. We'll keep it a secret.
Excuse me.
Someone at the door.
Oh,
for me. I took the liberty of ordering this. That'll be all. Yes, ma'am.
I thought it might be fun to have a little champagne.
G,
I never thought I'd live a life like this.
I've got a report on every one of you.
Thank you, Mr Strickland Secretary.
Now you've all had enough experience with the law
to know that the sooner is not cooperating,
the sooner we'll get this case over with.
Ok. Who's gonna speak up?
No.
Huh.
Inspector, I've got to talk to you right away.
Inspector. I've cracked this case wide open. I've got the murderer for you, Mike.
Really? You, maybe that's why we can't find him. Have you got any proof? Sure.
I sent his fingerprints down to headquarters
and I've got the complete report.
You know, he was defended on a murder rep by Strickland in 1940 Old Step Casey.
We know all that. Oh, wait a minute. It matches in with the telegram he received.
That's your motive
here. Except for one thing
outside of the girl. Everyone in that room received a similar telegram
and they've all got just as much to lose as migrated Crandle. Two Crandle two,
sorry Casey.
Keep on trying.
Sergeant.
Send my greeting, Miss Gordon in here. I've got two men looking for him now.
Not Angela Gordon. Yeah.
She was once tried for feeding her husband champagne cocktails,
two jigger of champagne and one jigger.
A poison. Holy smoke. She's up in Freddie's room.
I saw the champagne wagon hit her that way.
They're having cocktails right now, huh?
There's a poison on it. Open. The doctors, all heads gone.
I'm hurt Freddy. I mix one of my special champagne cocktails just for you
and you won't even taste it.
I have a confession to make
you did it. No,
I mean that stuff. I never drink that stuff. That's like drinking poison. Oh,
just one teensy soup.
Oh,
I'll stop. But the bubbles is tickle in my nose. For little ants.
I wouldn't drink of a big Angela.
Look good on will you and stop pressing a glass? Oh,
to
make it? Give me the glass and I've had enough of this Angela.
Hey,
you see, just as I told you
I
drink
the antidote.
What's
going on
here?
What is that? Mustard? Milk, mustard, milk, mustard and milk. Come on. I got
him.
I got,
this is an outbreak. I've told them who you are. Miss Gordon.
You can stop pretending why you.
I also gave the inspector the background on your playmates,
including that fake Swami from Brooklyn.
What else have you got? Well, and water swell. What are you doing to
fire?
I
got,
I'm
gonna
say,
when are you gonna start cooperating with us, Miss Gordon inspector?
I do anything you say. But please don't let my name get into the newspapers.
I'm engaged to be married and it would wreck my life.
What else have you got? Sweet Island Line.
Well, all right
here
you
who kill Strickland, Miss Gordon? I don't know. Inspector. Please believe me.
If I knew anything at all, I'd tell you
what else you got.
Rere and Belladonna.
Get in there. Get in there.
I tell you, inspector, there's nothing in that drink. We'll find out soon enough.
In the meantime, I'm holding you.
I've tried everything, given him everything, nothing happened.
Thank you,
Casey. What are you doing to me?
Sorry about the rough treatment, Freddie.
But that champagne cocktail might have been poisoned.
Maybe.
Are you trying to tell me that?
What do you?
I didn't even drink this stuff. Well, why didn't you tell me every time I,
you can put something down it.
What good is this confession? If that bellboy is still around,
you've let us down Angela.
We were all rather surprised when the police found there was nothing in the drink.
Well, you don't think I intended to kill him.
I just wanted to get him drunk and put him on
a slow boat to Shanghai or someplace not permanent enough.
My dear, he'd come back.
If Mike really hadn't left, he'd know how to get us out of this situation.
Well, I've done my part. I got the confession. I suppose it's up to me
this bellboy will commit suicide tonight and this will be found beside the body.
Suicide.
I have ways.
You are in a deep sleep, the sound sleep
you hear nothing but the sound of my voice.
You will do as I say, you will obey without question.
Open your eyes,
Freddie,
your future is black. A terrible fate. Awaits you, you have nothing to live for
but you have one escape. Excuse
me.
Yes, eternal sleep. The sleep that brings peace. The sleep that goes on forever.
I may as well be dead.
It's right. Fred.
Stand up,
stand up.
Obey me. Do as I say.
Now walk,
stand on the foot of the bear.
Put the noose around your neck.
Now when I count three,
jump
one,
two,
three,
she drops Freddie,
stand up on the floor.
Take the noose from around your neck.
Yeah,
we'll have to try something else.
Freddie. Do you have a gun
then get it.
Do you have the garden? Freddie?
Then don't delay. Put it to your head and use it.
No, no, no.
Maybe you'd like to select your own means of self destruction.
How would you like to die?
Old age?
Freddie
come to the window.
I'm up on the sill
now, then Freddie
jump
not into the room out of the window. Now climb up again.
You are going to commit suicide if it's the last thing you do.
No.
Take this knife,
he owes it.
Freddie.
Listen to me.
You will do as I tell you,
you will obey me without question,
Freddie.
I want you to take this knife and plunge it into your heart.
Do as I say
amazing, even under hypnosis, the will of an idiot to cling to life.
Freddie,
would you plunge this knife into the heart of the man in the mirror,
God
and take the knife
plunge it into the heart of the man in the mirror.
No,
no,
no, Freddie, not me, not me. You fool the man in the mirror. Freddie
obey me.
Made in America.
Oh Freddie,
Freddie,
Freddie. Freddie, wake up Freddie. What is this?
Give me that knife?
It's the idea of chasing me around with a knife. How can I be chasing you, Casey?
I'm in bed.
Wait a minute.
What am I doing? I must be sleep over.
What's the meaning of this?
I must have walked on the ceiling too.
Casey.
What a dream. I had never mind. Your dream.
Rey
has run out and
we've got to find her and make him talk. Now, put on your clothes while I wash my hands.
Hurry up.
How did they ever make it up there?
It must have come up this way up the side wall. I guess we do it that way.
I don't know,
probably got chewing
on my feet. I don't know
Casey,
Casey
Casey.
What's the matter?
What's this? What's the matter? What's this all about?
What, what is your,
what are you trying to say?
Get out of the way.
It's Mike.
He's dead.
He's been stabbed.
Hey, you didn't do this while you were sleepwalking, did you?
I wouldn't kill anybody. You know that I know it. But do the cops know it?
They find this out? It'll be curtains for you.
Boy, we've got to get this body back into its own room.
What do we do? What do we do? What do we do?
I'll get a laundry card. You get that body out of there.
Well, come on, get some life into it,
don't you think that's a little too much
mom?
Yeah.
Come on, Freddie. We better get this body back to its room.
I still don't know why I can't wear my brown suit.
Well,
that's all nobody will recognize you when
you're pushing this cart down the corridor.
Come on, make a snappy.
Come on.
Come on, Freddie, let's get rid of this body.
Bye.
Come on. Come on, Freddie.
Freddie. Where are you now? Freddie. You right
here.
Come on,
come.
Hello, Casey's
right there, mate. Would you get me an extra bath towel?
Yes. Get a bath towel for the inspector. By the way,
any news on the murder inspector,
I'm expecting a phone call from stone that it'll pin it on that bell boy,
you're keeping an eye on him, aren't you?
Yes, everything's in hand.
I said everything's in hand. Hurry up with that towel.
The dumbest maid we have in the hotel.
I've been speaking to the Boston regards, firing her several times.
Nothing happens. Maybe she knows where the body's buried.
I don't know. Here's your time.
Thank you. You're welcome. My
phone
p
ok.
Shall we put them in bed? Oh,
certainly not. Let's put them in the closet. Let somebody else find them.
Oh, we go, hurry up. I put the light on
Panam
Oy
and push it in
a boy
right up on the shelf here. Wait up
the
sheet.
You
one
right.
Get your hand away.
Give this
boot,
come on, let's get out of here. Go
hurry up,
turn out the light.
Wait a minute.
If they find that car in there,
Wellman might tie this up to you.
Go get the car,
go
get the car, go get the car. Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up.
Come on. Come all. I do go eat the car, car all
to
us
all the week.
Come on. Come on.
Come on, hurry up,
get it out there.
I
want to make it snappy.
We were right in here
or somebody comes along and catches
us.
Get rid of it.
Hey,
I put it right in there. Should push it.
Hey, let me
close
the
door, close the door.
That's a little off my mind. Oh, boy.
Come on,
boy. Are you excited?
Sure,
boy,
I'm glad that's over with.
I want to thank you for,
you know, we were in a mess there for a couple of minutes.
I'll get right out of that disguise and hurry up.
Yeah,
I'm tired of it. I'm going to lie down for a while. Take care of these things
and don't disturb me.
Ok. So
didn't I tell you not to disturb me?
You haven't hung up my hat and coat yet? What's the matter with?
You can't depend on you at all anymore.
You're just one.
No, no.
Where's the card? Where's the card?
Oh, s scheduled isn't it?
I'll confess
you did it or certainly not.
They don't
s Milford, the
Strickland Secretary. What's he hanging around here for?
He's dead. You dope.
We've got to get this body out of here. Get the car ready.
Ok.
What's the matter?
It's relia, hey, wait a minute. We just let them down this room.
There's something funny going on here. Dead men can't walk this one. Did.
What are we going to do now? We can't go back to Ria's room.
We might bump into the inspector again.
Yeah,
I got an idea why
we can take them both down to the card room.
There's nobody playing cards at this hour tonight.
We take them down and, and drop them off. Good idea.
Good idea. Come on. Give me a hand with this buddy Casey.
Maybe they don't play cards. Maybe they don't. Will you talk sense?
Please get these bodies out of here.
Come on,
bye.
Oh,
for
me.
So you're new here, ar
yes, it's my first night.
You, you certainly must have been busy. Look at all this laundry, don't do that.
Don't do that.
You,
so, you know something,
you're kind of cute.
Ok.
Why don't you let your work go for a while and, uh,
stay down here and keep me company.
Things have been awfully d
out here tonight.
Much better than you think.
Oh,
no, you don't, no, don't do it.
Hey,
what's, what's going on here? It's getting so that the poor
girl is in shape anymore.
Excuse me? The desk.
Come on, let's get out of here.
Come on, I'm getting rid of these bodies. Ok. I'll get them out.
What are you talking that way? I don't know. I'm not more mixed style.
Rid of the bodies.
Uh, oh,
Freddie Phillips. Love Bell boy.
No. Inspector Wellman. I haven't seen him.
No, sir. Nobody's left the hotel tonight.
Hey, c
oh, yes, he's down here now
for you
out. Ok,
let's get out of here.
00,
here comes Abernathy. Come on. Get rid of that.
Ok.
There's nothing like a nice sociable game of bridge. Oh, I
love Bridge. Bridge
with two open hands.
Are, we're playing with two dummies?
Oh,
there's a card on the floor. His hands dead.
They're both dead.
Oh, no, you don't know. That's picking.
Oh, he's always cheating.
Have, uh, have you got a match?
No, no, no, here's a match
here.
Hook up the van.
She did.
What's your bed?
Grand slam?
You be a grand slam on my hand.
Yes.
You know what,
what
you are going to get murdered.
Excuse me?
You want to have me, your partner,
the one you've got a scar?
Oh,
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to get you all excited that way. Really?
I didn't, you know, I wouldn't do that for the world, don't you?
You know that? Get your hand off me, get your hand off me.
I am partially engaged. Now. You leave me.
Oh, mi,
what's the matter?
I'm not talking until come here.
You're so strong
now. You dragged me out of here. What do you want?
How about a little smack?
Hm.
You
just a little smack.
Mhm.
Hm.
What happened?
Well, he asked for a snack so I gave it home.
Get that wagon out of here, change those clothes.
I'll go out and see if the coast is clear. Ok.
Sorry fellas. But you'll have to play two handed.
Here comes Wellman and Stone Casey. I've been looking for you. Where's that?
Bell boy? Yeah. What? Bell boy? Freddie?
Oh, Freddie, I
know Freddie Kitz
Mayer from Philadelphia. Now there's a regular kid. I,
I mean Freddie Phillips,
Freddie Phillips.
You mean that little round chubby sort of uh with the black hair?
The bellhop?
He was fired. I know he was fired. What are you trying to? No, no, no, no.
For a minute. I thought you were trying to hide something.
Who me? Yeah, you, where's Phillips?
I wish I knew
exactly
what a detective. I told you not to let Phillips out of your sight.
Well, he's too fat to slip down a rat hole. Where is he now?
Inspector, I've told you 10 times. I don't know. Maybe he's up in his room.
We stopped there on the way down here. Stone phone headquarters.
Tell him to get a dragnet out.
Hey, you
guys, I'm
here.
You and I are gonna have a little talk. I agree with you.
Let's talk over here someplace where I can lose it. We'll talk right here.
Let's go upstairs a smart company. I don't want to go
upstairs. My room's a mess up there. All right, Phillips.
What do you know about the murder? Which one? I
treat them? Treat him. There was a papa band of mama.
Don't
mind the fairy tales. Why'd you kill Strickland? I didn't kill him.
I told you boys that before. He's too dumb. Yeah. Well, what do you call? This
could be ashes, right? We bought it in this guy's room. How to analyze it.
The remains of a linen handkerchief.
Well, now a burned handkerchief can't prove anything.
It does when I test prove that it had blood stains on it.
I burn it.
Oh, so you admit it?
Oh, no, you see Mr Stickler. He was in the room, he was laying there dead.
I didn't know anything like that. I sort of
hangs right over there. II,
I,
why didn't you tell me this before? I ain't got any sense. I thought maybe you
think that was the murderer? A handkerchief, a handkerchief
might have had a monogram on it or a laundry mark.
That one piece of evidence could have led us to the murderer.
I think it has.
Don't jump a conclusion. Sergeant. Let's go upstairs and talk it over peacefully.
No, no, no stop. No. Stay here.
That's one thing, fellas were you and
R are in
cahoots
the last time I saw r he didn't talk to me.
You can only find Rey,
I could make him talk. If you could. It'd be a good trick. You could make him talk.
You don't know. Well, man, you don't know. Rey,
what's Stalin? I think he's hiding upstairs in your room.
Let's go up and find out. It might be a good idea. Let's write up and find out.
Really?
Are you coming with me?
I'm coming.
He's such a young boy too.
Hey, fellas. You know, you can come up, come on, come on up now. Come on.
Let's stick with
that
blood.
Take it
easy.
Put yourself together. What happened?
I've been trying to get in here all evening but no one answered.
I finally let myself in and
then I saw that. Whose name is this? Mr Milford Strickland secretary? Huh?
This case is getting screw you every minute you go to your room.
I'll call you if I need you.
Any of you people seen Mr Milford in the last few hours. I was in the lobby quite late.
I, I didn't see him go out.
Ok. We'll start with you, Swami.
What are you doing? Fully dressed at this hour?
Just a little game of cards with Mr Brooks.
And you,
I was the third hand
and naturally you two were there
naturally were there? Oh, that makes it pretty convenient, doesn't it?
One for all and all for one as far as the alibis
are concerned
and you Mr Crandall? I couldn't sleep. I went out for a walk.
Did we take your word for it or did somebody see you? I was with him.
You people can go back to your rooms, not you Phillips and Casey,
the rest of you stay here.
What about me?
You can go. You too. Wilson.
I'd like to remain if I may inspector.
You see the reputation of the hotel is involved.
Ok,
ready.
I don't get it.
Why didn't you want me to tell him you were out on the terrace together?
Please don't ask me, Jeff
and thanks for not giving me away.
Someone in this room knows a lot more than he or she is admitting.
And I intend to find out who it is. Are you making an accusation? Inspector?
Maybe you owe him a motive for killing
Strickland to prevent his memoirs from being published
last night. He was murdered
tonight. His secretary disappears.
Maybe he's still alive. Maybe he isn't he isn't.
How do you know?
Because I mean,
the back
of course, that spot on the carpet that, that ain't catch up there.
Well, it could mean that Milford has been murdered.
On the other hand, it might be a red herring.
Oh, no, that's not a red herring that looks more like Bush.
You don't have to waste any more time. Inspector. You've got your murderer.
I thought so too, Mr Melton. But Phillips has come up with an air tight alibi.
Thanks. Inspector. Did you hear that Casey?
I got an airtight alibi. I'm going to locate Milford and re
if I have to take this hotel apart with my own hands,
now nobody leaves this hotel without my permission.
You can all go now that you Casey?
Oh, that's you, Casey. E
I'm sorry, you're one of the suspects. I'll do everything I can to get you out though.
Phillips.
I wanna talk to you.
Me.
Yeah,
you're in this thing up to your neck.
But there was something phony about that bunch
of creeps being fully dressed at this hour.
Someone's gonna give you one more chance to clear yourself.
Look, I'm getting sick and tired of everybody accusing me of murder.
You could be the murderer yourself.
What are you trying to do? Get away. Shut up
Casey, Casey. Make it easy,
tireless than I mean,
as long as Phillips was under suspicion, the real killer,
if he wasn't Phillips felt safe,
but now he's gonna be pretty anxious to get that handkerchief back.
So Phillips, you're going to put the handkerchief up for sale?
Who's going to buy a lot of ashes? Nobody but us knows that you burned it. Hey, I get it.
I get it.
I get it too. The woman that buys the handkerchief is the murder. Exactly.
So, spread the word around that.
You've got the handkerchief and that you'll sell it for, say about 5000.
And
don't try to blow in the meantime,
are you sure you're smart enough to handle this?
I'm plenty sm
I'm going right up to my hotel room right now. I figure the whole thing out.
Yeah, here's your hotel key in my pocket where
I, that's,
I had it
here. It is.
I didn't get this for nothing. You know,
here it is.
All right. Come on.
Where'd you ditch the bodies? The elevator in the elevator, the elevator. Come on.
We gotta get rid of those bodies.
Not that one. This one over here,
there's no bodies in there. That's what I'm trying to tell you.
Some dirty crook stole them. Well, at least we're rid of them,
but now we've got to find someone who's willing to pay $5000 for that handkerchief.
Now, wait a minute. Kishi. Suppose the murder hasn't got the money.
Well, then they have to murder you to get it back. By the way, they'll show their hand.
Well, if they murder me, I have to be killed. That's right.
But at least you're proving your innocence.
It's true. Sure. One way or another I can't lose. That's right. Ain't I lucky stiff?
Ok, Steve, I should never let Paris come on. Let's go upstairs.
I
tell you, I don't need a handkerchief. I have plenty. But I'll let you have this hand
very cheap. Only $5000. $5000. You're insane.
But it's such a beautiful handkerchief. It's really enough for the sneeze at
neither is $5000. 0, please, please buy the handkerchief. If you do.
I'll let you have a very cheap. I don't you have it on the easy payment plan. $3500.
Now, the small monthly payments. 15 months.
No,
18 months. No, 21 months is as far as I can go. No, no.
Hey,
how'd you make out? Oh,
no good. Listen, nobody wants to buy that handkerchief. It's cheaper to kill me.
I wish they'd quit stalling. Get around to it.
You're getting around doing all right. Look, it's only a kitten,
but somebody's putting them up to it. Better luck next time.
Now they got the Indians after me.
Hey,
Pish, give me my hair.
You
another false alarm.
I wish somebody would do something to you. I'm becoming a nervous wreck.
Disgusting, isn't it?
Have you talked to everybody about that handkerchief?
Everybody about Mr Brooks Brooks.
I just saw him going in the health club. Say Freddie, this is your last bet.
If he's the killer, you'll be vindicated.
If he's the killer I'll be perfect to assassinate exterminated and marinate it.
Well, that's, that
just a little longer Mr Brooks
right here, Freddie.
This is my stop.
That's right.
Hello, Mr Brooks.
Taking a steam bath
naturally.
You know, for a steam bath to do you any good.
You've got to stay in here at least 10 minutes.
You got to find something to do while you're here.
Wanna play cards,
Mr Brooks.
Do you catch many calls?
No. Why?
I got a hangar?
I'd like to sell you
cheap.
$5000.
Why? That's ridiculous.
That's enough.
You know, Mr Brooks the way you perspire now, you could use that attitude.
It's a big one.
I'll take my rub down to my room. Basil.
Ok, Mr,
I'll get you in a minute ready. Ok, Mr Paso
and Mr Brooks.
Mr Brooks.
I'd like to talk to you for another minute.
Oh,
uh,
you,
the guy never give me a chance to cut my price. He could have chiseled me a little bit.
That's all
if you.
Ok,
inspector, I still say if you let me sweat that bill hop a little,
I'll get a confession out of him.
Ok?
If nobody falls with the handkerchief gagging or yours,
there's still a chance that Brooks is the killer
Freddie's working on him now.
Well, you've got until tonight to prove it.
There's a train going out of here at nine o'clock
and that bunch of creeps are planning to take it.
You're not gonna let him, are you? They know as much about the law as I do.
I've either got a book. I'm gonna let them go. I haven't got a thing on them.
Oh,
hotels burning?
Oh, hey, it's the health club Freddie's in there.
Really? Where are you,
when I turn off
the,
get him out of here quick?
Yeah.
How do you like that?
Somebody's trying to cook my goose. What do you mean?
I saw a hand come around the corner and he put on a lot of steam.
A lot of steam. All the steam he could put on
full force. I think somebody's trying to kill me.
Sounds phony to me. Yeah.
Maybe you're just trying to divert suspicion for yourself.
You're not as dumb as your luck. Get your hand off me. No, I've had enough of you.
Inspector. I don't want any more of this from you after all.
I'm a citizen and I'm a taxpayer
and it's my taxes that buys you your gun and your badge
and it's my taxes that also pays you your salary every week. You're working for me.
You are nothing but a public servant. So, give me another bottle of water. Ok.
Well, the inspector's not fooling with you anymore.
You heard what? He said?
Nothing develops by nine o'clock tonight.
He's gonna place a formal charge reporter against you.
Are you nervous about that? Give me the key.
Absolutely.
Wait a minute.
What's wrong? Stand back.
Get in. What's the matter with you?
What in the world is that?
It's booby trap?
What for, for boobs?
I'm not taking any chances of anyone sneaking in
here and killing me without me knowing it.
Yeah, big dope.
What's to prevent anybody from coming in those French doors?
It's pretty good at it.
That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen is that so, yeah,
let me tell you something.
If the murderer comes into this room by himself,
somebody else is going to carry him out.
Why you dirty double crosser?
Hey, we've got it all rings.
Have somebody try and kill you and you're trying to prevent
it. You know,
come here,
look at this. I suppose you've got these windows rigged up too.
Oh, they can't hurt me here. We're three stories up,
boy. Are you lucky? Somebody's finally trying to bump you off. Congratulations
when the inspector is about this.
Oh, boy. Oh, boy.
Uh,
get me inspector Wellman.
Oh,
look at those bullet holes. My
one
Casey.
Why is everybody so happy? I'm going to be killed,
boy. Are they really after you?
Oh,
come, come, put a smile on your face.
Add some
boy,
enjoy life.
Go in the other room and lie down, go in and rest. Relax.
I will sure. Go ahead.
Well, uh, uh, uh, uh, what?
He's not in his room.
We'll page him in the lobby.
Everybody's so happy. You will. Your murder.
Understand
about the whole thing.
Oh,
every time I open up one of those closet doors I always find a dead body.
Is there anybody in there?
Huh?
Uh,
Casey.
I didn't hear you come in.
You're supposed to be out there talking to inspector Wellman.
Now, you know, people all around here, they're all dying just to kill me and hear you.
Come in resting.
Oh, you
Casey.
You gotta be ashamed. You gotta be embarrassed.
That's why you got your face all covered up.
Now. Come on now, Casey.
What was the matter with the dark suit? You look good in that one.
Fine.
What's the matter? What's the matter for
you,
Fred?
What's
wrong? What happened?
Come here.
How
much,
how
much
over there?
All right. All right. So you messed up the bed. What about it? Go and
here.
Oh m
oh,
are you trying to tell me that Milford's body was there and it's gone.
Take care of yourself. Take it
easy. Take it.
Look, go get yourself a drink of water.
That'll fix you up. Go ahead.
Take it easy. Take it easy. Don't get excited.
Go ahead.
I want
right.
Put them in now.
All right. No one.
Nothing where
it must be a league in T
oh,
come here.
Keep quiet.
There's nobody in this suite
now.
Shut up
just to satisfy you. I'll check you.
Get on the phone and see if the inspectors on his way up. Hurry up. Go on.
All right. All right.
That boy don't know what's going around here.
You don't know what's happening.
I, I know I saw, I saw it in there before
and when I go back it ain't there.
And I, I was in the other room over there, I wanted to goggle my throat
and I go down like that. I saw it. I saw it was in
the bathtub over there.
I know I'm not losing that. I know that I could be having
who with the nation who look at nations,
but I know I saw it.
Hello.
Hello?
What? You mad enough?
Come
on.
You
know. Now,
what,
what?
Oh, no, no, not again.
You mean to tell me that Milford was there? He was there.
Now, listen,
I am getting sick and tired of this nonsense of yours. He was there.
Oh, don't tell me that
Milford was there. Milford was there, Milford was there? How could he be?
The man is dead
for a dead man? He's sure getting around.
Listen, I'm going to prove to you once and for all that he's not here.
Is he there?
No,
come in, come in. Is he dead? No, no, come in.
All right.
Is he there?
Yes.
Hm.
Milford covered up.
There's something strange going on here.
Somebody's trying to scare you out of this room. I know who it is. Who him?
That's the inspector. We've got to get rid of him before he finds his body in here.
Come on.
Well, hello. Inspector.
I'm sorry to have bothered you, but I found out it was all a mistake.
It was just his imagination. That's right. Inspector,
you see those three bullet holes in the window? That's only my imagination.
That's all.
Where were you when these shots were fired? I was sitting right here but not for long.
Mike Radio
Casey.
Do you think I'm in the right room?
Yes.
Stone. Go in the bedroom and get a sheet in the bed
in
the bedroom. I got
shut up. Sure. I
shut up,
shut up.
I said nothing.
Well, Phillips, what do you know about this? Oh, sure, sure.
What do you know about this? Quit Stalin? Now you've got two murders to explain
better. Make it three inspector,
I pulled the spread down there. He was Freddie. No, Freddie couldn't have done this.
Inspector. These bodies were planning. That's right.
This one was planted over here. There was no,
look, inspector, I don't understand the whole thing in the suite here.
I got every door locked you can't get in or out.
That whole room in there is all label booby traps. I'll prove it.
Come on, I want to show it to you. Come on, everybody.
Look, inspector, what in the world is that thing?
I'm gonna show you how it works. Now, look,
you see when I go outside and leave my room
as soon as I go outside,
I leave the door open just a little bit and I reach in with my hand and I take this
and I put it on the door knob like that, you get it.
Now, if somebody should happen to come in, the door opens up, pulls us down like this,
this pulls us down and
hits you right on the head.
Then I got French doors over there, but I got them all rigged up.
I'm not worried about these ones because nobody can come
in with three flights up and that door over there
that leads to Mr Randell's apartment. And Mr Randle's a nice neat man.
He wouldn't leave anybody lying around. I'm afraid he did this time.
Phillips is telling the truth.
I brought those bodies in here. Is that a confession? Crandall? Of course not.
My uncle had nothing to do with the murders. Excuse me, inspector.
Are you the guy that's been playing hide and seek with M
and me?
I don't know what you're talking about.
I found the bodies in my room. Inspector. I got panicky.
There was no other place I brought them in here.
How could you find the bodies in your room? I put them in the elevator.
I got
it.
Now you put your foot in. That's good enough for me. Frederick Phillips.
I place you under arrest on the charge of willful and premeditated homicide.
Thank you, Mr Crannell M Crannell. I may want to talk to you later.
Inspector.
Ok, Phillip. Spill it. Why did you kill those three men?
I didn't kill him.
I don't go around killing people,
but all the evidence points to me.
Take me down.
Very
Philips.
What did you say? Inspector? It
wasn't me.
Did you call me
Freddie
Philips?
Freddy Phillips.
Hey, it's coming from over here.
Mm.
Freddie Phillip.
Did I scare you
to the body?
You sure did.
Then listen carefully.
If you don't want to die,
come to the cabins at 730 tonight.
Bring the handkerchief.
I'll be on the guest
of the bottomless.
Tell nobody
and come alone.
Come alone.
Persistent, isn't he? That's a phonograph record. It's probably homemade.
He's coming from the basement. Anyone recognize the voice?
I don't know anybody who isn't here. Inspector.
I think our plan has finally worked out.
Freddy will go to the caverns tonight and he'll catch the murder of Red Freddy.
This is the last chance to clear yourself.
I'm not going to get down the caverns all by myself. I'm afraid. Wait a minute.
Would you rather die a hero or live like a rat?
Well,
get the cheese ready.
Ok,
Casey.
Look,
it says do not enter
shuck just when I was looking forward to going in there. Well, I guess that's it.
Yeah.
Mm. Mm.
Freddie,
you go ahead alone. It's nearly 730.
It's
Dan.
Go ahead.
We won't be far behind you when you find the guy that wants that handkerchief. Yep.
Go ahead. Go ahead. We have.
Yes.
Pardon me? Are you the man who wants to buy the Hank said? Oh,
you
now, where could he have gone so quickly?
Freddie?
Oh, it's only an hour. Let's find Freddie before something happens to him. Come on.
Well, what are we doing now? It looks like the killer's outsmarted.
We've got to get to Freddie.
There's another entrance and the bottom was good. About a half mile down.
Come on.
Let's go.
I turned my ankle. You'll have to go on without me. Boys.
You can't miss it. It's the first big turn to your left.
Go ahead, boys. I'm going back to the hotel
KGC.
Y
is that an echo?
Hello,
here
with the woman side. Theone
Casey. Are you still behind me?
Come all along.
Oh,
no.
Oh, yes.
Yeah.
Wow.
And
the biggest thing I ever saw.
Beware of bottomless pit.
If Ross do not wander around,
call for guide,
Mr Guide.
I sit here and wait for him.
Hello?
Oh, I wish the guy that wanted that handkerchief would come and take me out of here.
I
don't like it here.
A moving rock.
Yeah.
Mhm.
I gotta get another candle.
Yeah.
Ain't going to work.
I don't
they
uh
I'll get another Kel.
Hey mister.
Hey,
what happened?
Hello?
Oh, no.
Yeah,
I
castle
on
that of
fear and I help you
a
little
closer.
Shake my head. Give
me a
handkerchief and I'll send
you, see my life and I'll give you a handkerchief. No,
I,
this could have been serious.
Ky,
how ky
out?
Ok.
What
y
try it that
way.
Good work.
Good work. I might catch
it.
Are you?
Hey, you get
it
over.
I
get it
in the rob
at a boy.
All
right.
Why you?
$10?
Hey,
I'd be my colors. God
again.
Oh,
Jo.
Yeah.
Is that
ok? Ok.
First one
very
Freddie Phillips.
What?
Now?
I have
to,
I have a gun
but if you get me out of here, I'll take you where it is. It's in my room.
I'll take you there.
I
found out that
free and going
in two minutes the water the over your
head.
Ryan.
I
think you keep them over there,
right?
A fine way to end up a drain flood.
He isn't in here
was
never mind in case he could see who the
hell I was.
It.
He can see who he was. No, he had
a
and I not
on.
What about the handkerchief?
I
told him who was in my bedroom. Come on. We still got a chance right now.
Oh,
my trap. It worked. I got him. I got him.
My trap. Got the killer. Come on.
I know.
I know I knew it was gonna work. Get that killer up.
Casey.
You lunatic. Why didn't you tell me you reset that thing?
I set that trap to catch the killer
Oh,
so you must be the killer nonsense. What are you doing up here? Anyway, my ankle hurt.
I come up to lay down. That's a likely story. You come up here to get the handkerchief.
You're crazy. Is that so?
Well, it's all beginning to add up now, Casey, you're trying to frame me.
You're the only guy that was in a room here
with me when my father was being moved around.
Not only that
I wouldn't put it past you if it wasn't a voice that came out of the ventilator.
You dope. You were standing right alongside of me. So you're a ventriloquist, huh?
Look, Freddie, don't talk like that. I'm your friend, my friend.
You're trying to kill me,
inspector, I demand that you arrest this homicidal maniac.
There's nothing I can do to help you.
Now, Freddie, stop putting ideas in the inspector's head.
He doesn't need you and I'm glad you're all here.
It's save to trouble me sending for you. Come on in and sit down
sergeant case he's the murderer.
I caught him red handed all by myself. No help whatsoever from the inspector.
I called him,
come over myself.
Uh, uh,
Mr Milton,
the murder. Will you stop that?
I have known for some time why Amos Strickland was killed to
keep him from finding out that
his secretary Milford had been blackmailing Crandall
Milford. Exactly.
Amos Strickland knew nothing about it
when you phoned him that you wouldn't pay another penny.
He came down here not to put the pressure on, but to find out more about it.
But Milford couldn't have killed Strickland.
He was 400 miles away.
So he must have been working with somebody in this hotel,
someone who was a partner in the blackmail Casey
blackmailer.
Now, I know how you can afford to smoke those 20 cent cigars.
You killed Strickland. So he couldn't get the clan who had the goods on you. Freddie,
Freddie, you shouldn't talk like that. After all.
We're cousins, we have the same blood in our veins. Yes. And I want to keep mine.
Milford knew that Strickland was going to be killed.
So he rounded up a few former clients
to have them on the scene
in order to throw suspicion in many directions, please. What about the memoirs?
They were a fake. Milford invented them to get you down here.
Strickland had no intention of retiring
and any lawyer that would publish a book like
that could never expect to get another client.
Pretty cute. E
you are Milford.
Well, I want to tell you something. I'm glad they caught you, Freddie, please.
Please. You see that folks? You see that he's trying to choke me. Freddie.
You see that he don't know what's on. Strad. Freddie. Did you see him that time
like that?
When really disappeared? I suspected that he was Milford's accomplice.
But when both reader and Milford were found dead,
I knew that. I had to look someplace else
and you're looking at him right now. Stop that, Freddie, believe me, I'm innocent.
You're innocent.
Well, let me tell you something.
Ah, I forgot what I was gonna say.
You lucky boy,
why Relia
was murdered is one of the angles of this case that still puzzles me. I have a theory.
Inspector.
You remember the murderer to
Ria's gun for the killing,
or perhaps Relia
found out about it and had to be put out of the way.
A brilliant deduction. Mr Melton.
You're right. Inspector.
Yeah,
it was Casey. He put the gun in my room so everybody would be suspicious of me.
But inspector Wellman,
why did the killer take the bodies from the
elevator and leave them in my uncle's room?
It was very obvious when you shut up,
you talk to her
when Phillips was no longer under suspicion.
The killer hoped to make Mr Cradle number one suspect.
See, I'm glad that's cleared up.
Now, at this point, the killer's only remaining problem
was to recover the incriminating.
That's it.
Casey came in here
for the hand
and he couldn't find it. A very clever deduction.
I think so.
Except for one thing,
Mr Belton Casey was one of the few of us who knew there was no handkerchief.
Phillips had burned it
specter. I found what we were looking for.
Thank you, sergeant.
I have a confession to make
you did it. Oh, No, no, no.
I kept you here in order to give Sergeant Stone
a chance to go through your rooms and luggage.
Now, there's mineral mud in the caves.
So whoever was in there a few minutes ago would have it on their shoe. All right.
Everybody get the
wall quick. Don't try anything.
You can't get away. I think I can. Are you going out that door? I am ha ha.
As in case, the big one didn't work.
Well, there he is inspector, get him out of here.
Well, now do I solve the murder?
I want all you folks to get down to the champagne room and have some lemonade.
It's on me. Nice work, Freddie. You can have a job back too. Thank you, Mr
Crandall. Thank you,
Casey. Something I got to tell you about that.
Never once did I believe you were the murderer? I knew it all the time.
I was using you as a decoy. Ok, kid. Ok, Casey. You
down
ready.
I want to congratulate you without all those booby traps.
We could have never solved this murder. Thank you ever so much.
I'm going to make a change now. I want to get out of these wet clothes.
Ok.
This one I completely forgot about.