The Seventh Victim
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- 1943
- 71 min
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Two times nine is 18.
Three times nine is 27.
Four times nine is 36.
Come in, please.
Here we are, Mary.
I have a most painful matter
to discuss with you, Mary.
Your sister.
Have you heard from her lately?
No, Mrs. Lowood.
She doesn't write often.
- Have you any other relatives, Mary?
- No. Jacqueline brought me up.
Somehow I never felt
That makes it all the more difficult.
Difficult? Has anything happened
to Jacqueline?
We don't know, Mary.
We've been unable
to get in touch with your sister.
Sometimes she can be quite careless.
- Why don't you try Mrs. Redi?
- I've written repeatedly to Mrs. Redi.
She vouchsafes
no information whatsoever.
It is six months, Mary,
since your tuition has been paid.
Naturally, it's impossible for you
to stay on here as a paying pupil.
- Of course.
- Miss Gilcrist and I...
...have talked the matter over.
You can stay on here and work...
...with the younger children
as sort of an assistant teacher.
But, Mrs. Lowood,
I can't just stay on here...
...without knowing what's happened
to my sister.
Maybe if I went to New York,
if I saw Mrs. Redi myself...
I doubt if you'll get anything
out of that woman.
But if you'd like to try...
...l'll advance the money
to make the trip to New York.
Of course, my dear,
if you don't find your sister...
...you can always come back here.
Thank you.
Mary.
Don't come back.
No matter if you never find your sister.
No matter what happens to you.
Don't come back.
My parents died when I was a pupil.
I left as you are leaving.
But I didn't have courage.
One must have courage
to really live in the world.
I came back.
Gilcrist.
Agnes, John Quincy Adams
did not follow John Adams as president.
Build thee more stately mansions,
O my soul
Leave thy low-vaulted past!
Let each new temple,
Nobler than the last
Shut thee from heaven
With a dome more vast
Till thou at length art free
That's enough.
It seems all right, Joseph.
You see, we do keep up the quality
of La Sagesse products...
...in spite of Jacqueline's absence.
But you must know someone
who has seen or heard of my sister.
I'm afraid not.
Your sister had many friends,
but they were not my friends.
I was only the manager of her plant.
Mrs. Redi, there's one thing.
With Jacqueline gone,
how do you carry on the business?
What do you do with the receipts?
How do you sign the checks?
Why, Mary, I'm amazed.
Didn't Jacqueline tell you?
She sold the business to me
- It's my business now.
- I didn't know that.
Yes, and I must say
I've done quite well with it.
Perhaps even better than Jacqueline.
There's nothing you can think of?
Old letters?
Anything that might give me some hint
as to where I might find Jacqueline?
Leave your address.
If I find anything, I'll be in touch.
- I'm stopping at the Chatsworth.
- Thank you, my dear.
Why, Mary.
- Hello, Frances.
- How are you, honey?
- How's Miss Jacqueline?
- I don't know.
That's why I came to see Mrs. Redi.
I'm trying to find her.
You mean she's gone
and you don't know where she is?
Come here a minute.
I don't get this.
Miss Jacqueline's so crazy
about you.
and she had your picture in her office.
I know.
For the first time
I'm beginning to feel frightened.
I almost feel as if
Nothing's happened to her.
It's just I can't understand
her not keeping in touch with you.
- I can't understand it at all.
I saw Miss Jacqueline myself
about a week ago.
At a restaurant
the boyfriend took me to.
A little Italian place down in the Village
called the Dante.
- The Dante?
- Yes, it's on Perry Street.
Why don't you ask the people who own
the place? They'll remember Jacqueline.
Anybody who ever sees her
never forgets her.
I'll try there.
- I want to ask you about my sister.
- Yes?
She was seen here about a week ago.
Her name is Jacqueline Gibson.
I don't know no Gibson.
This is a restaurant.
- Many people come here.
- She's very beautiful.
I wish I could tell you
what she looks like.
I'm sure you'd remember her.
She's tall, with dark hair.
Once you'd seen my sister,
- Maybe.
- Let me look at you.
- You could be her sister.
- Yes.
Yes, if she made that much impression
on you, I'm sure it was Jacqueline.
She hasn't been here for a long time.
- But she was here?
- Oh, yes, yes.
One day a beautiful car comes here.
This beautiful woman in furs gets out.
There is a handsome man with her,
and the chauffeur.
The lady rents
one of our upstairs rooms...
...and the chauffeur changes
the lock on the doors.
Then the lady does not come back.
Not to live anyhow.
She came back three or four times.
But always alone. Just to eat.
You mean she just came here,
rented the room...
...locked it and left?
- Yes, and pays the rent every month.
Could you let me see that room?
If it is hers...
...there might be something there
to help me find my sister.
No, the rent is paid.
The lady asked us to promise.
- I won't open the door.
- Please.
It's important.
What did he say?
He said he always wanted to see
the inside of this room anyway.
I tell you, when a thing
like this comes up...
...you've got to go to the police.
What do you think
people pay taxes for?
It ain't just to keep us chasing
after crooks and regulating traffic.
We're supposed to help everybody.
Now, you've got to go to the police
about your sister, miss.
I've had some experience
with the Bureau of Missing Persons...
Yeah. Well, Mr. Hoag...
...lost persons are the concern
of the Missing Persons Bureau.
You stick to your poetry.
You're the poet, Jason.
Well, in a way that makes everything
my business, doesn't it?
- Were you going to make a suggestion?
- Yes.
I was going to ask you
to look into your own heart.
Do you really want to find your sister?
Oh, my Jason.
Always laughing,
always joking to help others.
He's a good boy, miss.
He just talks that way.
I'm a good boy, but no one
listens to what I say.
Now, you do what I tell you...
...and go to the Missing Persons Bureau
for your sister.
- Lf you'll give me the address.
- Certainly.
- She was only 16.
- Had she ever run away before?
- What did he have on when last seen?
- He went out without his hat or his coat.
It's very cold for such an old man.
Any identifying marks or characteristics?
Scars, amputation, tattoo marks,
speech impediments?
No, none.
Sign here.
Any further details?
She sold her business about
eight months ago to Mrs. Esther Redi.
What relation are you
to the missing person?
Sister.
Sign here.
Excuse me. I'm Irving August.
Private investigator.
I think I can help you.
Here's my card.
The name may not mean
anything to you...
...but say the word and
I'll have her in 48 hours.
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