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Another Thin Man Page #5
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- Year:
- 1939
- 103 min
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when it happened, right?
No.
- Then there was someone else?
- Yes.
- Who?
- The baby.
Yes, the baby. But not the nurse?
No, the nurse was in her own room,
asleep, I guess.
You'd better ask her.
Her room is across from ours.
She ain't in there, she ain't anywhere
in the house. She's gone.
- Personally, I think she's very wise.
- Is that so?
This is a murder
we're trying to clear up, lad.
So let's don't hang up on who tells what.
Now, who gets the money?
According to his last will...
Miss MacFay was to get everything
but $100,000.
That went to Mrs. Bellam.
Well, now, what do you figure
all but $100,000 would amount to?
Certainly several millions.
You say you were asleep about an hour
when you heard the shot.
I said half an hour.
Stop wasting time here
I got a lot of time to waste.
Now, this Church,
you say you worked together.
- Are you and he still pretty close?
- We were never close.
- You didn't like each other much.
- Right.
Are you unfriends enough
so you'd like to see him in jail...
- or maybe the chair?
- Are you suggesting that I'd frame him?
Now, don't get sore
over a little thing like that.
Wait till you hear
what I'm really gonna suggest.
It seems to me that every time
your husband gets in with a girl...
the insurance companies
take an awful beating.
Now, it's nice, very nice for a wife
to trust her husband, but get this.
There's that Wynant girl
he knew before he was married.
He comes here to New York
and there's a murder.
He goes back to the West Coast,
there's a good-looking girl there...
and there's another murder.
He comes back here,
meets this Lois MacFay...
There's another murder.
Listen, we're not dishing the dirt
on your husband for the fun of it.
We're trying to show you
what you're up against.
It ain't that a man
that's had that many numbers...
could settle down to one.
- Was he really like that?
- Was he? Baby.
I always thought he was bragging.
He tell you about the coal man's widow
in Cleveland...
that wanted to set him up
into the agency for himself?
- Was that Jeanette?
- No. Her name was Bella Spruce.
Bella Spruce?
And the lighthouse keeper's daughter in...
- The what?
- The lighthouse keeper's daughter.
- What was her name?
- What it all comes down to is this Lois.
You're wrong to think
there couldn't be anything between them.
They're just making a monkey out of you.
Covering up for them.
I'm sure you're right.
But what was the lighthouse keeper's
daughter's name?
- Letty Finhaden.
- Letty Finhaden.
He wasn't in the room with you
when it happened, was he?
I say, he made you give him that alibi,
didn't he?
No.
Mr. Charles.
- I'm Van Slack, the Asst. District Attorney.
- Oh, yes.
I thought perhaps...
Well, of course, everybody knows
your reputation...
- but if you don't mind...
- Not at all.
Well, I'm a little confused.
The lamp torn away,
a glass of water knocked over.
Seems to have been quite a struggle.
Funny you didn't, Mr. Charles.
The way I figure it.
MacFay was lying here reading the paper.
He puts it down...
he turns off the lamp.
The murderer comes in through the door...
or the window.
MacFay hears him, he grabs for his gun.
It was his gun, wasn't it?
Yes, he kept it on the table.
From the look of this hole...
where would you say
I'd figure it come from about here.
Then the murderer was already
bearing down on his arm...
when MacFay got the shot away.
Or it could've gone off
when it hit the floor...
after the arm was broken.
A paraffin test will show you
whether he pulled the trigger.
Yes.
on the pillow with a blunt instrument.
Then went after him with a knife.
Anything to show
that he came through the window?
No, not yet.
One of the servants said
the front door was open.
Yes, if you and the two other gentlemen...
came, as you said,
when the shot was fired...
wouldn't you have seen or heard or...
I didn't get here that quickly.
The lights went out.
An electrician can tell you
what happened...
when the wires were cut from that lamp.
Electrician. Yes.
Did you people have a man
watching Church?
Well, not exactly. I suppose I should have.
The Colonel was always yelling,
imagining things...
which you know yourself
is all pretty ridiculous.
Could've been turned into
a practical joke, couldn't it?
Then you didn't have...
You didn't have a heavy-set man
with thick glasses watching Church?
- No.
- I thought not.
with a $6,000 coup before.
So I took down his number, I'll get it.
- Did you get anything out of Mrs. Charles?
- No, she's bats.
I wish my old lady was bats that way.
Here, darling, please drink this.
No one will tell me anything.
I'd feel better if I knew whether Father...
Did he die without...
There was no pain. He died instantly.
Where was he shot?
- He wasn't shot. It was a knife.
- A knife?
Don't talk about it now, dear.
Let's all get out of here
as quickly as possible.
- She can't stay here.
- That suits me.
Just as soon as we finish with the police.
- Did you have your session with them?
- Yes.
It was very interesting.
You think the police
I should say they're more than enough.
- You'd better take a bromide.
- You're shaking like a leaf.
- Is there something you haven't told us?
- Yes, what is it, Horn?
It's no wonder I'm jittery.
There's someone out to get Lois.
- How do you know?
- I was warned over the phone...
just a little while ago, a man's voice.
He said, "Call everybody off
or Lois will get what her old man got."
- No.
- We've got to call everyone off.
We've got to.
You can't call the police off
once they're in.
The warning said call off everybody.
- It must have been one of Church's gang.
- Sure.
You think Church murdered the Colonel,
don't you?
- Don't you?
- Of course.
Your dog's outside,
running with a knife in its mouth.
- Asta, quickly.
- That will be Asta.
We'll never find him like this.
Wait a minute. He's not gonna
run to strange men with lights.
What do you think he is, a moth?
- Call your men off, give me a flashlight.
- Give me that.
Hey, boys, lay off.
Give Mr. Charles a chance.
- Where did the dog find that knife?
- We don't know.
He came around thataway.
- Where is he now?
- He went thataway.
I'll go thisaway.
Asta.
Asta, come here. Give it to me.
Give it that back.
- Charles.
- What?
- Mr. Charles.
- Yes, dear.
What is it? What are you doing out here?
What's the matter?
It's... He has a gun.
- He has a what?
- Look out!
- Why, it's Horn.
- Well, can you beat that?
What were you shooting at him for?
I wasn't shooting at him,
he was shooting at me.
- Why were you shooting at him?
- Well, everybody else was.
She's all right, she's alive.
It's just her arm.
Carry her into the house.
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