"[THEME MUSIC]" "Yeah, yeah." "I know but call me tomorrow, I gotta get out of here." "Hey, Tuttle." "I got a date for you tonight." "Dot's cousin just got into town and you and I..." "I already have an engagement." "I've had it for over a phone with Cyrus J. Rutherford." "Cyrus J. Rutherford?" "The screwball millionaire?" "Eccentric." "You can't call a man with $8 million a screwball." "I can." "All that hocus pocus about the stars and building a private uh..." "What do you call it on top of his house?" "Observatory." "He just happens to believe on the influence of the stars on human behavior." "The only stars that could influence my behavior would be Dorothy Lamour or Veronica Lake." "Say every big company in town is taking a shot at Rutherford." "How'd you swing it?" "Leo." "Leo?" "Leo who?" "The star." "You see, I wrote and told him I was born under the sign of Leo." "That's his lucky star." "And he wrote right back and made the appointment for the 13th, which is today, when Leo's in the ascendancy." "You mean to say you believe in that guff too?" "I believe in selling insurance." "Tuttle." "The way you keep that nose to the grindstone, you're gonna wear out the grindstone." "You can laugh." "Wait till I come back here with Mr." "Rutherford's name of that policy." "[CHATTER]" "[BANGING OF GAVEL]" "Quiet, please." "I, Cyrus J. Rutherford, being of sound mind and body, do hereby declare the following to be the preamble to my last will and testament." "The disposition of my estate is of only slightly less interest to me than it is to you, my loving heirs." "It has been divided among you." "The largest share is to be $500,000." "And the smallest $1.50 to pay for the taxi from the station." "So pay close attention, all of you." "My sister, Estelle, who disobeyed my wishes 20 years ago by marrying a nincompoop named, I believe," "Kenneth and whom I have had the pleasure of not seeing since." "Cyrus never changed a bit." "MORTON GELLMAN:" "And niece Margaret, whom I have never seen, which is probably just as well." "I like that." "My nephew, James Davis, I last saw him when he was an impertinent youth of 20." "I do not like impertinence and I did not like James." "My niece, Carol Dunlap." "Although I despised her father, turned out to have somewhat better intelligence and a less selfish interest in her old uncle than others in the family." "And the last of my living relatives, nephew Henry Rutherford and his wife, Mona." "Henry, at least, has the virtue of bearing the Rutherford name and he was a fairly good investment counselor." "Honest, as far as I could find out." "Mona wears too much makeup." "I told you he didn't like..." "Oh, shut up." "Go on Mr. Gellman." "MORTON GELLMAN:" "And she seems to have waited with undue impatience for my demise." "My faithful butler, Merkil, who for 20 years padded the household bills." "And Matthews, who kept house for me in a haphazard sort of way." "Professor Hilton, to whom I owe my knowledge and understanding of the secrets of the heavens." "And finally, my lawyer, Morton Gellman..." "Uh." "Uh, well." "That's about all, folks." "The rest is just routine." "Go ahead and read it." "We're all just one big happy family." "Yeah." "Let's hear it." "We want it." "Whom I trust implicitly as far as I can throw an elephant." "As you know, I have been an ardent student of the stars." "I want to continue to be exposed to them." "Therefore, I wish to be interred not underground, but in a glass dome vault where they will ever more continue to shine down upon me." "You are all to remain here as my guests until this vault is completed." "After I have safely interred, you may open my will which is now sealed in the safe and the specimen room." "Then you will learn how I've seen fit to reward you, one and all." "But should this, my last wish, be disobeyed and my body buried anywhere except in the above mentioned vault; then the terms of the will shall be reversed." "And those who are to get the large bequests will get the smallest and vice versa." "Furthermore, should any of you leave the grounds before I'm safely interred in my vault, you will forfeit all rights to your legacies." "I know you will find it difficult to live together, even for a few days, but this is my wish." "So with these last words, I leave you to your squabbling which fortunately, I won't be able to hear." "Of all insulting, insane ideas." "It'll never hold up in a court of law." "Please, please." "It's all perfectly legal." "They'll start work on the vault tomorrow." "It should only be a matter of a few days." "Looks as if you and I are in for the lion's share." "You mean from what Uncle Cyrus said?" "This place gives me the creepy memes." "I wish it were over with." "You don't have to stay." "Have you read the final will?" "Do you know who gets what?" "He drew it up himself and nobody will read the will until he is properly interred." "[ARGUING]" "Let's not stand around in the presence of Uncle Cyrus' body and quarrel about his will." "I wouldn't quarrel either if I spent 20 years stooging for a slice of it." "I resent that." "I meant you to, dear cousin." "Perhaps you would all like some coffee." "Very well." "You'll serve it in the library, Matthews." "Am I taking orders from you now?" "You are." "Do as Mrs. Rutherford say, Matthews, until the actual will is read." "What do you mean by that?" "Exactly nothing, madam." "Nothing at all." "Excuse me, I'll straighten the room." "MORTON GELLMAN:" "Atlas Detective Agency?" "I have a job for you." "What?" "You want to hire a man to guard a stiff?" "Yes, I want you to see that he isn't buried." "Hey, look, is this a gag?" "MORTON GELLMAN:" "His body must not be disturbed." "That's right." "You want the job or don't you?" "We'll keep your friend on ice." "Just pay my man the first $100 when he gets there." "All right." "I'll be expecting you in about an hour." "Boo!" "Uh, can I play too?" "I bet your pardon." "That's all right." "I'm just going to have a quiet six or eight drinks if you will tell me which is to be my room." "Well I could even show you unless you'd rather drink alone." "Mrs. Rutherford." "Mona!" "Well, well." "What have we here?" "Oh, come on, Kenneth." "I've got a headache." "Has anyone seen Professor Hilton?" "He's up in the tour, I imagine, communing with the stars." "Well just to set everyone's mind at rest," "I've engaged a watch man to spend the night with the casket." "That's a swell idea." "It'll save us the trouble of watching each other all night." "What have you there, Merkil?" "There are too many rats in this house that should be done away with." "You haven't put out enough cups." "Mr. and Mrs. Rutherford." "Are they to have it too?" "All of them." "Will you open the door, please?" "[KNOCKING]" "Come in." "I brewed some coffee, sir, but I cannot find anyone in the library." "Well they probably all retired." "Would you care for some, sir?" "No, it keeps me awake." "I assure you this coffee will not keep you awake." "No, thank you." "No, thank you, Merkil." "Very well, sir." "[MUSIC PLAYING]" "Call when you want me to pick you up." "Right." "And don't let the stiff take a powder on you." "Huh?" "[LAUGHS]" "Creepy joint." "I hope this job don't last long." "[THUMP]" "Oh!" "[KNOCKING]" "Come in." "I thought you might need your bag, Mrs. Carol." "You left it in the hall closet downstairs." "Oh, yes, thank you." "Just put it there." "Yes ma'am." "That was very considerate of you." "Not at all." "I hope you'll be comfortable." "I'm sure I will." "Good night," "Good night." "[HUMMING]" "Leave this house at once if you value your life." "[MUSIC PLAYING]" "That must be the detective driving up." "Thank goodness for that." "Uh, good evening." "I have an appointment." "Yes, I know." "This way, sir." "Nice place you have here." "Yes, sir." "Oh, I've been trying to get here for so long." "I'll tell him you're here, sir." "Thank you." "Go!" "You're not wanted here." "Hm?" "Go!" "Go!" "I'm so glad you've come." "Say." "I wouldn't have slept a wink all night if you hadn't." "Well thanks, that's awfully kind of you." "You don't look a bit like I expected." "I don't?" "No." "I thought you'd be more rugged looking." "You know that lady..." "Why do I have to look rugged?" "Well, I don't mean that you aren't." "I just..." "I just mean that you don't look it." "I suppose under your coat you're a mass of muscle." "Just shows how deceptive appearances can be." "Oh, I don't think my appearance is so deceptive." "Now you're being modest." "But then I've heard that people who lead dangerous lives usually are." "Well, it isn't so dangerous but uh, once in a while you run into a rough customer who tries to throw you out." "But mostly it's just routine." "I wouldn't call it routine to go tracking people down so they can shoot at you." "Oh, no one's ever gone that fat." "All thought one time a fellow tried to cancel his wife's life." "Oh, how horrible." "What did you do?" "I talked him out of it." "Besides that I got him to take out an annuity for her." "You must be very brave." "Oh, I wouldn't go so far as to say that." "How do you do?" "I'm Morton Gellman, Mr. Rutherford's lawyer." "Please to meet you." "Your duties have been explain to you?" "Mr. Gellman, I've been in this business for over 12 years." "Good, then you should know what to do." "Here's your money." "Oh, I couldn't take any money yet really." "This is just the first payment." "You'll get the rest later if everything goes off satisfactory." "Well I'm quite sure it will." "Of course, he has to be examined by the doctor." "Well... well." "That's all been taken care of." "You just do your part, we'll take care of the rest." "Here you are." "Well this is a little bit irregular but I guess it'll be all right." "He's in there." "You just sit with him all night." "I'll sit with him?" "I'll be upstairs if you should want me." "May I show you in, sir?" "Well I guess so, yes." "Uh, good bye Miss..." "Dunlap." "Pleased to have met..." "Met." "We haven't met yet." "My name is Tuttle." "Albert Tuttle." "I'm Carol Dunlap." "Please to meet you." " How do you do?" "CAROL DUNLAP:" "How do you do?" "Would you care to have a cup of coffee, sir?" "Yes, thanks, I would." "What kind of coffee is this?" "The very best, sit." "No, I mean there are two classes of coffee drinkers." "There the percolated then there's the drip." "This is percolated." "Sorry, I'm a drip." "Well, excuse me." "Yes." "Good luck, Mr. Tuttle." "Don't worry." "Mr. Rutherford won't get away from me tonight." "This way, sir." "How's Mr. Rutherford looking these days?" "He never looked better, sir." "Fine." "He's in there." "Thank you." "Good evening, Mr. Rutherford." "Oh." "There you are." "Mr. Rutherford, I'm Albert L. Tuttle of the..." "Oh!" "Oh, oh!" "Help!" "Open the door!" "Let me out of here!" "Help, help!" "Tuttle, what's the matter with you?" "Oh, I can't sell a dead man insurance." "What are you talking about?" "He's in there right in the corner." "I just put my briefcase right on his face." "What's going on here?" "What's the disturbance?" "They don't seem to understand." "Mr. Rutherford, he's in there deceased." "Dead." "What'd you think he was?" "Dosing?" "You mean you knew it all the time?" "Why else would I hire you to watch the body?" "Watch it?" "I came here to sell it." "Him." "Uh, life insurance." "Whoever heard of selling a dead man life insurance?" "I don't want to sell him now." "Say, who are you, anyway?" "Albert Tuttle of the Emperor Life Insurance." "I have an appointment with Mr. Rutherford." "I've had it for over a month." "I was going to sell him a $200,000 policy and get my gold pin." "Why didn't you say so?" "What are you doing going around posing as a detective?" "I wasn't posting as anybody." "I came here to see Mr. Rutherford and I've seen him." "I'm going to get out of here!" "Not with my $100." "I'm going to get out of here!" " Not with my $100." "Not with my $100." "I don't want your money." " Not with my $100." " I don't want your money." "I didn't want it in the first place!" "Here." "Your hat and coat, sir." "I don't want my hat and coat I just..." "Oh." "Excuse me." "I hope whatever you're worried about turns out all right when the real detective gets here." "Maybe he isn't coming." "Maybe they just said that." "I wouldn't put it past them." "I don't quite follow you." "I'm afraid to talk here." "Oh." "If you're worried about staying here," "I'd be very happy to drive you into town." "I can't." "[THUNDER RUMBLING]" "I feel quite sure everything will turn out all right." "I know something's going to happen." "I wish you'd stay." "What could happen with all those nice people here?" "Well." "Good bye." "Look out!" "Get away from here before you get yourself killed." "Wait a minute, pal, wait a minute." "You gonna pass up a bet like that?" "Pipe that doll." "[WHISTLES]" "You could be a hero." "Go now while you've got both legs." "This is none of your business." "Don't listen to that side of you." "Get in there and pitch!" "Look at those eyes." "Look at those..." "Stop it, stop it!" "She's luring you to destruction." "She'll try flattery next." "She'll say, you saved my life." "You're wonderful." "Oh." "You saved my life." "You're wonderful." "What did I tell you?" "Eh." "[GROANS]" "You're hurt." "Nah." "It was just a bump." "You all right?" "Yeah." "Oh." "Well." "Good bye." "Oh please don't go." "Oh it was just an accident." "No it wasn't." "Someone tried to kill me, I know it." "They said they would and they'll try it again." "Here, will you read this?" "Somebody put it in my bag." "Leave this house at once if you value your life." "Well." "Good bye." "Hey, that's really on the level." "Somebody tried to..." "Whose room is up there?" "Oh that's the tower, I think." "The tower, eh?" "Somebody tried to kill you, eh?" "Well I'll show him he can't go around throwing rocks at people." "I'll go up there and I'll get him in my hands and I'll..." "I'll tear him apart!" "Now please don't, you might get hurt." "It's a good thing you talked me out of it." "Then you'll help me?" "Well uh." "Well uh." "Well." "[KNOCKING]" "Yes?" "This is Mr. Tuttle, Professor Hilton." "Do you mind if we look around, Professor?" "I'm busy." "Constellations changing." "Venus approaching Jupiter." "That must be very interesting for Jupiter." "Go right ahead, we won't get in your way." "Uh, careful." "You might get..." "Uh, uh, long way down." "How did that stone get loose?" "Stone?" "Stone?" "Oh yes, stone." "Thought I heard, afraid to look." "Heights make me, um, vertigo." "Uh, Dizzy." "That's fun for an astrologist." "Up, yes." "Look up, I like that." "Down, no." "It..." "It goes to my uh, uh, uh dizzy." "Professor." "I was almost killed by that stone." "You don't seem very interested." "What will be, will be." "It's all in the stars." "May I look at your hand?" "Palms?" "Poppycock, bugnum." "Don't believe in reading palms." "It depends on what you see there." "There's dirt on yours." "How did it get there?" "Uh." "Well." "My pencil." "Rolled underneath the telescope." "Bit dusty under there." "Very dusty." "Hm." "Well, uh, excuse us." "Thank you." "What do you think?" "Well he looked harmless enough but there was dirt on his hand." "Well maybe someone came around the Professor when he wasn't looking and loosened the stone." "Why should anyone want to harm you?" "I don't know." "Uncle Cyrus left kind of a peculiar will." "Hasn't been read yet." "But if I'm one of the ones that get the bigger share, somebody wants to get me out of the way." "Could of been an accident." "Accident?" "Say, you covered for falling stone?" "I don't think so." "Well if one stone fell, another could work loose and it would be a good thing to be covered." "Lets see now." "Oh, the detective!" "I wonder why he didn't show up." "Hm?" "Atlas Detective Agency." "Canal 6-0-5-9-8." "[RINGING]" "They don't answer." "Maybe they're on a special case." "Something like murder or something." "What are you doing here?" "I thought you'd left." "Well you see, uh..." "You wanted someone to watch the body." "The detective didn't show up." "So Mr. Tuttle said he do it." "The detective didn't show up." "So Mr. Tuttle said he do it." "I did?" "I did?" "Him?" "He." "What?" "He not him." "It's a common mistake." "You see him is objective..." "I'm sure your grammar's excellent, Mr. Tuttle." "But I'm afraid you won't make a very good watch man." "I'm afraid so too." "Well he's better than no watch man at all, isn't he?" "Besides, I think it's very nice to say he'd do so." "Who?" "Who?" "Who will?" "Very well." "I wash my hands of the whole responsibility." "From now on it's on your own head." "On my head?" "Now Mr. Gellman, there's been a mistake here." "It's very kind of you." "I'll be able to sleep now." "Good night, Albert." " Good night, Carol." " Good night, Mr. Gellman." "Good night." "I guess it'll be all right." "I'll uh sit here and make myself comfortable." "In there." "In there?" "I don't need everybody to watch out here?" "Uh, but, um." "Mr. Gellman, would you like to play a little dominoes?" "No." "Any game?" "No." "Murder At Midnight." "[CLOCK CHIMING]" "9, 10, 11." "[CHIME]" "[CHIRPING]" "[WOLF HOWLING]" "The large, gloomy, house was dark except for the light by which McGarity was reading." "Outside a storm was brewing." "Inside, the painful silence held a promise of violence and death." "In the distance the first faint rumble of approaching thunder was heard." "[THUNDER]" "The very emptiness of the room held menace." "To Inspector McGarity's alert ears, no sound was too slight to be heard." "The ticking of the clock" "[CLOCK TICKING]" "Almost in rhythm with the beating of his own heart." "[HEART BEAT]" "The wind slammed a shutter against a window." "McGarity knew that hour was at hand." "Quietly, a secret panel opened in the wall behind him." "Two hands with fingers curved like the claws of a predatory animal reached toward his throat." "Feeling vaguely that something was amiss," "McGarity glanced around and the hands withdrew." "When they reappeared they held a handkerchief to jam down his throat and snuff the breath from his lungs before he could cry out." "The hair on the back of McGarity's neck began to rise as he had a premonition of the bloody hand which had struck down Sarah Oglebee would strike again that night." "But McGarity's premonition was well founded for at that very moment the murdered lurking behind him was preparing to kill him the famous detective in cold blood!" "Ah, trash!" "Things like that don't happen." "[WIND HOWLING]" "[THUNDER]" "[THUMP]" "Oh!" "Mr. Tuttle, are you all right?" "Albert?" "Oh!" "Oh." "What's the matter with the lights?" "I don't know." "Maybe the wires are down." "[GASP]" "Albert!" "MERKIL:" "Is he dead?" "CAROL DUNLAP:" "Well somebody do something." "He's hurt." "Oh, Albert." "Speak to me." "Say something." "Oh." "Just sign on the dotted line." "The beneficiary..." "He's delirious." "Oh." "Oh, Carol." "What happened?" "There's blood on your hand." "You're hurt." "Oh, it's your blood." "Oh, my blood." "My blood?" "I'm wounded, he killed me." "Oh control yourself, it's only a scratch." "You should have such a scratch." "Never mind that." "What happened?" "Oh, I don't know." "The lights went out and somebody hit me." "Then the lights went out." "There it is." "What is it?" "It's my blood." "That's what I was hit with." "Both doors are locked from the inside." "It's someone right here in this house." "Where were you five minutes ago?" "Oh don't be so nosy." "I was with him, why?" "What's the matter." "You got a headache?" "Maybe you can tell us whats the matter." "Someone attacked him." "That's my blood." "(slurring)We were upstairs having a night cap." "Kenneth Hopkins, you promised you'd only have one drink." "It's cold up there in bed!" "Who's this?" "Mr. Tuttle was acting as watch man to be sure that no one steals the..." "He's gone." "Well maybe he went off for a little walk?" "This is no joking matter." "How did this happen?" "Do you realize what this means if he's buried underground?" "I thought you were getting a watchman." "Somebody knocked him out." "And I thought you were an insurance salesman." "Well, I am." "I mean, I was." "You see I just stayed to help out." "There's something fishy about you." "First you come here with a story we can't check." "Then you work yourself in as a watchman." "Henry, if you're insinuating that Albert had anything to do with it, well I asked him to stay." "Oh." "Oh, I'm sorry, Albert." "Suppose you lay off the third degree with Carol." "Somebody stole Uncle Cyrus' body and I'm going to find out who before it's too late." "But why would anyone want to steal a body?" "Because of my client's will." "He wanted to be interred in a glass top vault so the stars would shine down on him." "He didn't want to be buried any other way." "If he is then his bequests will be reversed." "Those who were to get the largest share will get the smaller and visa versa." "Oh, I see." "Then somebody saw the body so that they could bury it and reverse the will." "But that would mean that they knew what was in the will." "And nobody does do they?" "I wonder." "Cut out the wise cracks or I'll let you have it." "Oh, I think you're taking a lot for granted, Henry." "No one has read the will." "The body must still be here in the house and we've got to find it." "I beg pardon." "With everybody's nerves on edge, I suggest that you all have some coffee." "No." "No." "Oh, yes, Merkil." "I'll have some." "Thank you." "No, I like drip." "Maybe Uncle wasn't stolen." "Maybe he's hiding." "I can see why he didn't like you." "And I'll tell you right now what I think." "What?" "That you can and Kenneth, who undoubtedly are down for the smallest share, have stolen it!" "Why you true bit heel." "I've been wanting to do this for 20 years!" "Oh, Albert!" "[YELLING]" "Oh, no." "I hit the jackpot." "Uncle Cyrus' body." "Take it away, somebody." "Take it..." "Listen, Tuttle." "I've got an idea who we can catch the body snatcher." "If it works." "Get someone else, my head is killing me." "You're the only one who can do it." "Not listen." "Please." "Just let me lie here quietly and bleed." "All you've got to do is to pretend you're fed up, you're scared." "Pretend I'm scared?" "What do you think I'm shaking from, enthusiasm?" "You quit." "Then when the coast is apparently clear whoever it was might come back and try again." "Then you catch them." "We catch them." "We?" "By that time I'll be in my bed." "Oh, no." "You only pretend to leave." "Then you sneak in through the French Windows and you wait for them." "Listen." "I'm not covered for going in through windows." "I mean in case of glass breakage." "There's nothing to it." "I'll be right here waiting for you and you'll be waiting in the coffin." "Oh, I'll be..." "Coffin?" "Don't you think it'll be a little bit crowded in there?" "We'll hide the real body." "Oh." "I got a better idea." "Let the body stay there and let me hide." "Look, you want to help, don't you?" "For Ms. Dunlap's sake." "Well I didn't figure on going that far." "Good." "Now you'll start your act as soon as we get out in the hall." "Now wait a minute." "I want to talk to Ms. Dunlap first." "I don't want her to think I'm a coward, even if I am." "Absolutely not." "You mustn't tell anyone." "If anything went wrong, she'd be open to suspension." "Oh, I didn't... if anything went wrong?" "Nothing will go wrong." "Why don't you stop worrying?" "Remember how, you pretend you're leaving." "Then I'll let you in again through the French Windows." "But make it convincing." "I can't stand much more." "That body falling on Albert." "Ugh!" "ALBERT L. TUTTLE:" "I've had enough of this." "I'm going home!" "MORTON GELLMAN:" "All right." "If that's the way you feel about it." "Albert." "ALBERT L. TUTTLE:" "That is the way I feel about it." "I am going home." "I don't care what you say, Mr. Gellman, I'm leaving." "After all, I've been popped in the head and punched around and pushed around." "Albert." "Why should I stay?" "Next time I might get kill and I'm too young to get killed." "That's a very sensible attitude." "A very sensible attitude, Mr. Tuttle." "After all, it's not my affair." "You said so yourself, Carol." "I came here to sell you Uncle Cyrus insurance." "And as long as nobody's interested in insurance," "I'm leaving!" "Well, good bye, Carol." "Go..." "Goodbye, Albert." "I'll..." "I'll uh." "I. I don't blame you for going but..." "Well maybe we'll meet again some time in town." "Maybe." "And if we do there'll be something I want to say." "What?" "Goodbye." "[KNOCKING]" "What detained you?" "I had to pretend to go to bed so the others would too." "They're all asleep now." "Come on." "Can't I sit here awhile and defrost?" "Come on, we've got work to do." "Pull that." "I don't think we ought to try it again." "Too risky." "Well we got rid of that screwball, didn't we?" "There's nothing to stop us now." "Do you think we're doing the right thing?" "Suppose we get rid of the body and find out we've reversed the will in somebody else's favor." "Yes." "What about that?" "Don't be asinine." "Uncle Cyrus didn't like any of us well enough to leave us a pig's bristle." "I'm for taking my chances on reversing the will and getting a good share." "All right, I'm with you there." "But what was the goofy idea of moving the body?" "I thought he was plenty comfortable in the cellar where we put him first." "Are you serious?" "I thought you and your pop put him behind the living room panel." "We thought you did." "Hey, wait a minute." "Either you two are giving me run around or somebody else is playing put and take." "I wonder who." "Well stop wondering." "This time we'll stash Uncle Cyrus' body where nobody'll ever find it." "Get your coats." "What for?" "We're going to take a little hike." "A hike?" "And stop nursing that bottle." "Come on, Dad." "Come on, hurry it up, will ya?" "Think he'll be safe in there?" "Of course, you'll be watching." "Yeah, I'll be wa..." "Here, hide the key." "Come on." "(whispers) Tuttle." "Get your coat off and get in." "Say, I have an idea." "Supposing I hide in the specimen room with you." "No, that's no good." "Get in." "It doesn't look comfortable." "Why not?" "It's padded." "Yeah, so is a cell." "Come on now, get in." "Now wait a minute." "Don't rush me." "Uh, you sure it's safe?" "I'm not worried about that." "You're not worried." "No need of both of us worrying." "Come, come now." "I haven't got very much time." "Don't lock it!" "Of course not." "Mr. Gellman." "What is it now?" "Could you get me a glass of water?" "[HICCUPS] I got hiccups." "[HICCUPS]" "Hold your breath, that'll cure you." "That's what I'm afraid of." "[HICCUPS]" "[HICCUPS]" "Look." "What?" "I thought I saw those windows move." "You shouldn't of had that last drink." "Go ahead, open it." "Well." "Come on, let's get him out of here." "It's locked." "Guess we'll have to take the whole box." "You take that other end." "[HICCUP]" "Will you stop that jerking?" "Who jerked?" "You did." "Do you want to make drop it?" "If anybody jerked, you jerked." "Oh for heaven's sake stop it." "Come on, let's get this thing over with." "There, that." "You almost took it out of my hands that time." "I did no such thing." "Your grip must have slipped." "Look do I have to carry this thing myself?" "Come on, I'm freezing." "Come on, I'm freezing." "Well." "Well." "What do you say to this for a ready made grave?" "Nobody will ever find him in the pool." "No!" "Can't we get this thing over with?" "Let's get out of here." "Help!" "Let me out of here!" "Stop!" "Help!" "Let me out of here!" "Help!" "Oh!" "Oh, Albert!" "Hey." "Oh, Albert!" "Are you all right?" "Hey." "Oh." "[GRUMBLING]" "Come here." "What did they do to you?" "Oh, it was that Gellman." "He's the one that talked me into this." "Wait a minute there's something..." "Oh, it's a goldfish." "Wait til I get my hands on that... that lawyer." "You mean you think that Gellman..." "Perfectly safe, he said." "Nothing could happen to me." "Why it's as simple as a straight life insurance policy." "You know what?" "Oh, what's that in my pocket?" "Oh." "Oh!" "Oh!" "Gellman." "Sure it was Gellman." "He knew I wouldn't leave you here all alone." "So he cooked up that scheme just to get me out of the way." "Even maybe get in his coffin." "Then after he and his accomplices had gotten me on the way, he thought he'd have a clear field." "But let me tell you..." "Uh-oh." "What are you doing?" "I want to see if they had time to steal the body while I was drowning." "You mean the body's in there?" "Yeah it's still in..." "[SCREAMS]" "It's Gellman." "Rutherford's gone and he's in there dead." "Well I don't think he could exactly himself on a coat hook to commit suicide or would he?" "Oh don't leave me!" "Hello, hello?" "Mr. Gellman." "Dead!" "This is dead too." "There, there, there now." "Now don't get scared." "Oh but I am scared, Albert." "Aren't you?" "Who, me?" "I've been scared since 8:30." "What are we going to do?" "There's a murdered in this house." "Three of them." "Any one of us might be next." "Not if we catch them first." "How?" "I'll show them." "I'm through being pushed around." "I've been bopped, clopped, and clumped." "I'll show them that they can't drown Albert Tuttle and get away with it." "I'll call them all down here and we'll grill them." "Frill." "That reminds me, I'm hungry." "Me too." "I think we oughta..." "We oughta fry this and eat it." "Albert." "What about the murderer?" "Let them catch their own fish." "I made a joke." "Yeah." "Poor Mr. Gellman." "Why wouldn't anyone want to kill him?" "Never mind that, then what?" "Well then we came back here and we went to the closet and there he was, dead." "What about my uncle?" "Where is he?" "We better find the body before it's buried." "How can you be so cold blooded?" "A man's been murdered!" "And all you can think about is your inheritance." "Whoever stole the body was thinking about it too." "That same person murdered Gellman." "There were three of them." "I saw them." "You saw them?" "Why didn't you say so?" "Who were they?" "It was dark." "I couldn't tell." "You couldn't tell?" "Merkil." "Yes, sir?" "Do you always sleep fully clothed?" "Uh." "No, sir." "Then what are you doing dressed at this hour of the night?" "I was waiting for the next occurrence." "Oh then you knew something was going to happen." "Well, didn't it?" "Having all ready been aroused once before," "I thought it would save time if I remained in my room on call." "Is that how the mud got on your shoes?" "Waiting in the room?" "I stepped out to let the cat in out of the rain." "What rain?" "What rain?" "The rain that's falling down, sir." "What is the trouble?" "I heard the commotion." "Where were you, Professor?" "Watching Venus under the rain." "Mr. Gellman has been murdered." "Well you're not surprised." "Surprise?" "No." "Not even at murdered?" "No such a thing." "All ordained." "Mr. Gellman in the shadow." "An unlucky star." "Very unlucky." "Well if the stars can tell you all at perhaps they can also tell you who killed him." "No." "I am a scientist Mr. Turtle." "It's Tuttle." "Not a detective." "I can tell you this, though." "Do not make too many plans for a birthday party yourself." "You are under the influence of a very precarious star." "Very precarious Mr. Tittle." "It's Tuttle." "My car is outside." "I'm going for the police." "You will never get there." "Why not?" "Begging your pardon, sir." "The bridge over the creek was washed out aside from the power." "No one can get in or out." "Then I'll walk." "Suit yourself, sir." "But the nearest telephone booth be about to 10 miles in the rain." "Why do we waste time answer a lot of questions?" "We better start looking for Uncle's body." "You look for him." "I'm going up to lock myself in my room til the police come." "Come a long, Kenneth," "Me too." "I didn't come here to spend all night on a treasure hunt." "Aren't you going to give us a clue?" "While we're on the subject, where were you when all this went on?" "I was in bed." "Is that right?" "I suppose so." "You suppose so?" "We have separate rooms." "Well naturally." "I'm going to help them look." "After all I started..." "You should get out of those wet clothes before you catch your death." "Oh stop using that word!" "I'm all right." "There's a vacant room next to mine." "It was Uncle Cyrus'." "You're going to use it." "Come on." "Would you like some coffee Mr. Tuttle?" "It's Tittle." "Uh!" "Tuttle." "No, thank you." "Madam." "I don't need anything to keep me awake." "None for me, thanks." "No." "If you find anything, call me I'll be in my room." "That would be a novelty." "That gentlemen business wasn't at all smart." "Well you don't think I killed him do you?" "If you didn't, who did?" "You might of." "Who else?" "Me?" "Listen you're not trying to pin this on me, are you." "Oh don't be silly." "We were all together." "Except when you went for your coats." "Stop it." "Somebody else wants the will changed even more than we do." "Enough to commit murder." "Open the door!" "Open up!" "That you, Kenneth?" "[SCREAMING]" "Oh stop him, stop him!" "What's the matter?" "What are you..." "Oh the murderer, he was here." "Where?" "Right here on the bed beside me." "He tried to choke me." "Go back to sleep, you had a nightmare." "Oh I didn't, I tell you!" "He was here." "He was right in bed beside me." "Wait til I finish brushing my teeth." "I'll find Jim and get ya a drink." "ESTELLE HOPKINS: (crying) Oh Kenneth, please!" "It was him I tell you!" "It's locked." "I have to get my keys." "Let's get it out of the way for the time being." "OK." "We'll keep him there for a few minutes." "Shh!" "Here's one with a couple of snorts left." "Ah and here's a full one." "Just take both of them." "That's just what I was going to do." "Good." "(mumbling) Albert." "That's got a real kick in it." "Yeah." "Wonder whose it was." "Who cares?" "I was going to sing a song about a murderer." "Shh." "Who are you shushing?" "I can sing if I want to, can't I?" "Well this one's a dead soldier." "Better hide the bottle before they start squawking." "Where did I put it?" "Here's the spot." "Nobody will be the wiser." "Well just one more little drink and then you go make shut eye." "OK." "What's that?" "What's what?" "I think I've had enough." "Good night." "I thought we put it in the closet." "I know we put it in the closet." "Did you?" "Never mind." "Let's put it where it belongs." "[SCREAMING]" "CAROL DUNLAP:" "Please help!" "What was that?" "Carol, for heaven's sake." "What happened?" "What's going on?" "He's in there." "The murderer in the basket." "He is, is he?" "I'll give you to til the count of three to come out." "One, two, three." "ALBERT L. TUTTLE:" "Don't shoot." "Don't shoot!" "Oh, Carol." "I can explain everything." "It uh... embarrassing, isn't it?" "[THUMPING NOISE]" "(mumbling) Coffin!" "The coffin." "Oh!" "Oh, don't scream like that." "You scared me." "Mr. Tuttle." "What are doing here?" "Well I heard footsteps." "They sound as if they came from up here." "I heard them too." "I'd of sworn they came from right over my head." "I guess there's nobody else here." "Must have been the wind." "We better go back before someone else hears us and starts shooting." "Yes, we better." "Now if you get frightened, I'm right across there." "You call me." "That's a big help." "Thank you, good night." "Good night." "Good evening." "Did you sell any insurance?" "Now listen, Carol." "Dunlap to you." "No matter what you're thinking, I'm innocent." "I was just taking her back to her room then I was going to my room." "Oh, you've had a busy night." "You mean when I got into Margaret's room?" "That wasn't my fault either." "Why you Casanova." "Oh you've got me all wrong." "I got into her room through her mother's room." "I was lost." "Well if you don't believe me, perhaps you'll believe Mrs. Rutherford." "Mrs. Rutherford!" "You don't have to explain." "I only know what I've seen." "She doesn't answer." "Mrs. Rutherford?" "I just left." "We'd better go in." "I'll show you." "Is she awake?" "Is she..." "[SCREAMING]" "What's all the racket?" "Pounding on walls, scream..." "Oh." "How did this happen?" "I don't know." "I was her a few minutes ago." "Mona." "Mona!" "I'll kill you for this." "Take it easy." "I'll kill him." "My wife." "Wait a minute." "I don't know what this is all about." "You don't think I had anything to do with it?" "That's absurd." "I just took her back to her room and I didn't even go in." "Ask Carol, she saw me come out." "I mean, uh..." "I thought you said you didn't go inside." "I didn't." "I just..." "I just looked around to make sure that there was nobody there." "Then you were inside." "Oh that doesn't prove anything." "Suppose he was inside." "Then he was the last person to see her alive." "He just admitted it." "I didn't!" "Anybody could have gotten in here." "How?" "Through the panel." "There's a spring here." "You just touch it and this... this panel opens." "There's a secret passage in back of it." "It's there someplace." "Save that for the police." "Only the next time you better make it better." "Police?" "I came here to sell insurance!" "Brother, you better have some." "Oh, Jim." "What right have we got to judge?" "Look Carol, a murder's been committed." "Two murders." "By his own admission he was the last person to see both murdered people alive." "Then he pulls this phony story about a secret panel, only there's no panel." "And Uncle Cyrus' body is still missing." "I'll bet he stole it." "I didn't have anything to do with it." "I came here to sell insurance." "Why should I go around killing people?" "Well that's something else for the police to find out." "Let's lock him up before he has the chance to kill somebody else." "Come on, you." "You can't do this to me." "I tell you I'm innocent." "Come on, Merkil." "Yes, sir." "ALBERT L. TUTTLE:" "What are you going to do me?" "We're locking you in here." "Jim, here's the keys." "I wish you'd listen to me." "The real murderer's still at large." "Sure, we'll listen to you when the police get here." "Are you sure this only way out?" "The only other way is straight down." "Good." "Should I take him out sir and push him off the ledge?" "We could say it was an accident." "No, Merkil." "We'll let the law take it's course if he's quiet." "Of course, if he tries to escape..." "Well, that's a different matter." "How's Henry?" "Pretty broken up." "I'll see what I can do for him." "Perhaps you would like some coffee, sir." "[GROANS]" "Jim, about Albert." "Sorry, Carol." "I'm afraid he's just a wrong guy." "CAROL DUNLAP:" "Albert." "Carol." "They don't know I'm here." "I stole the key." "You better leave before the police suspect you too." "You believe me, don't you?" "Of course I do." "And so will the police." "I'm not so sure." "It's just my word against the evidence." "Even the stars are against me." "The Professor said so." "Don't get feeling like that." "Everything will turn out all right some how." "Stars or no stars." "Look." "They're clearing up all ready." "Maybe that's a good sign." "I wonder which one is mine." "You know, the precarious one." "Don't tell me you're falling for that hooey." "You can't tell." "There maybe something to it after all." "Aw." "How can those little pinpoints influence your life?" "You can't even tell them apart." "Not even through this thing, I'll bet ya." "Probably has plain old fashion window glass in it." "Oh!" "What's a matter?" "Something in your eye." "Look at it." "Look at it." "That's nothing." "It's him!" "It's he!" "(yelling) Oh no!" "Wait for me!" "Jim." "Jim!" "Jim!" "Henry!" "Quickly!" "Jim!" "Yes, Carol, what is it?" "Upstairs in the tower." "It was awful." "It was Uncle Cyrus' body!" "Up in the tower?" "Henry." "Henry!" "He's in the tower." "Where is he?" "He's in there, he looks horrible." "What?" "Wait a minute." "It is Uncle Cyrus." "Well you were up here all alone." "What did you do..." "Is something wrong?" "My telescope?" "Let me see." "Remarkable." "Very remarkable." "I've never seen the moon's face so clear." "The star..." "Get him out!" "Get him out!" "He'll ruin my lens!" "What kind of a joke is that?" "This is not a toy!" "Get him out!" "Henry!" "Henry?" "Oh!" "Henry." "Are you all right?" "[MUFFLED RESPONSE]" "Albert was right." "Someone must have used this passageway to kill Mona." "Henry!" "But who?" "Somebody else who got too nosy." "I don't understand." "Oh you don't mean it." "Oh surely you don't mean it." "You killed Mona and Mr. Gellman!" "You could have been alive but you followed me and found out too much." "But..." "But, Henry." "Uncle Cyrus liked you." "He lied, the old hypocrite." "I know." "I read his will." "He didn't think I'd get anything." "But now I'll get it all." "All of it because I'll kill everybody who comes in my..." "[SCREAMING]" "What was that?" "Sounded like Carol." "Where did it come from?" "Down there." "[SCREAMING]" "Come on!" "We've got to find her." "This way, men!" "Oh, excuse me." "Hurry up, men." "I got him!" "It's the killer!" "Hurry up, men!" "Hurry up, men." "Don't be afraid!" "Who are you?" "He pulled a knife on me." "I'm a detective." "A detective?" "Yeah." "Someone cocked me on the door." "Well then who bopped me?" "The murderer!" "He's still lose." "Down there." "Hurry, he's got the girl!" "Come on, fellas." "Hey, what about me?" "This way, fellas!" "Come on!" "You're going to have an accident." "You're gonna fall off the tower." "Haha." "ALBERT L. TUTTLE:" "Come on, men." "We've got him cornered!" "Whoa!" "Whoa!" "Hey, hey!" "Whoa!" "Whoa!" "Stop!" "Mr. Rutherford." "It's Henry." "It's him!" "I've had enough of your interference!" "He's going to shoot!" "Look out!" "You killed Mr. Gellman and Mona." "That's right!" "After Cyrus underrated me!" "[GUN SHOT]" "[SCREAMING]" "You all right?" "Well, well." "Quite a satisfactory will." "Go on, Jim." "That's all there was to it." "Henry had read the will, knew he wasn't going to get much money, so he tried to reverse it." "Gellman caught him reading it, so Henry killed him." "Well." "Now that the old boys' resting peacefully in his vault, we're all set for life." "Let's have a drink on it." "Would anyone like a cup of coffee?" "ALL:" "No." " No coffee for me." "Not for me, thanks." "I'm going to have something stronger." "Well, Carol I..." "Well Carol, I guess my work is over here." "I guess it's goodbye." "I hope not, Albert." "Maybe sometime, some place." "Go on in, pal." "She's waiting for you." "Wait." "You go in there, you'll never get out." "You'll be hooked for life." "Love her." "Cheers." "Such fine coffee." "Isn't it?" "CAROL DUNLAP:" "Oh, Albert!"