Who Done It? Page #6

Synopsis: Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed during a broadcast.
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Director(s): Erle C. Kenton
Production: Universal
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.8
APPROVED
Year:
1942
77 min
68 Views


Nobody's gonna catch us,

Chick, old boy! Stay in there!

Two of them put their weight

on me! Go on, Chick, run!

Go ahead!

I got them, Chick.

Hold that key.

That'll...

Let's go, son.

Where did the walls go?

Termites.

All right,

stick your hands up.

I said,

put up your hands.!

Hey, it's our friend.

Shh!

Our friend, our friend!

Shut up. Let that be a

lesson to you coppers.

All right, you two, march toward

that wall, and keep marching.

Thanks.

And so, Harry the Hawk turned the

tables on his desperate enemies.

- Listen in again next week at this...

- You like it?

All the other kids go

crazy about that program.

Why...

Come here! Close the gate! Whoo-ooh!

Close the gate! Ha, ha! Ha, ha! Ha, ha!

Which way did

they go, Chief?

What did you grab

that time?

Use your feet!

Leave that alone! Leave it the way it was.

Get up on your feet.

Okay.

Wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

Come on.

I gotta go back upstairs and get

something. What have you got to get?

My stomach. Oh, come on, come on.

Hey, it's a theater. Let's

go up and buy tickets.

No. Quiet.

Hey, look!

Those two guys came in here, and

we're not leaving until we find them.

Yeah, but Chief, The Wheel of

Fortune is just going on upstairs.

They're giving away $10,000, and

my wife dreamed I was gonna win it.

Well, my wife can dream,

can't she? Hey, you.

You see a couple of guys come in

here, a tall one and a little fat one?

No, I didn't

see anybody.

I know they're in here. Put a

man on every door. Right, Chief.

Well, we've found

plenty of nothing.

Why would Colonel Andrews

be in touch with the F.B.I.?

And why would he keep

a gun in his desk?

And why should somebody

want to kill him?

This is where

we came in.

I still think there's

something around here...

Uh-oh. What's this?

Look!

Jane, look at this.

Why, it's from the

America on the Air program.

If that isn't code, then

I'm a flop as a detective.

And look at this. "ColonelJ.R.

Andrews, distinguished service,

U.S. Cryptograph Bureau,

1917." Cryptograph Bureau...

That means the colonel

was an expert at code.

Sure. He caught a lot

of spies in the last war.

Now it all goes together.

Jane, this America on the Air broadcast goes

all over the world shortwave, doesn't it?

Yes, but I don't see what that... You will.

We're going to rebroadcast

"Murder at Midnight" tonight.

We're going to tell the whole radio

world who killed Colonel Andrews.

But we don't know. We will

before the broadcast is over.

How's your shorthand?

A little rusty.

Well, grease it up and let's get

going. We've got a lot of work to do.

Ladies and gentlemen...

Flying Bordellos,

you're on.

Get out there!

Aw, you shut up!

You get out...

Hey, wait a minute!

Come on.!

- You can't go out there.

Hey!

Oh!

All right, come on.

Come on.

Drop him!

Drop him!

Brannigan! Up here!

Brannigan!

Spread out, boys.

We'll find him.

Brannigan.!

Up here! Hey, Chief, what

are you doing up there?

Never mind! Get me down out of here! Huh?

- Release that rope!

- Oh! Yeah, sure.

No, no.

Not that one.

Yeah, that's it.

- Thanks, Brannigan.

I sure appreciate...

Serves you right. Why don't

you watch what you're doing?

Boom!

All right, go ahead.

Go ahead, go ahead.

Wait a minute, Loot.

There's the little guy now.

I'll fix him.

Tough luck, Loot.

You missed him.

I'll get him, though.

Come here!

Go ahead!

Come on, men.!

Maybe we can head them off!

Whoo! Whoo!

Get over there!

Which way did they go,

Loot? They went your way.

You must have passed them.

We're lost again, Loot.

You're always lost! Come on! Come on, boys.

There they go.

Come on!

- Chick! Where'd you go? Chick!

- Mervyn!

Mervyn, in the truck.!

Aah!

Truck.!

Truck? Okay.

Not that way. Come here.! This truck here.

Come on, hurry up! Wait a minute! I'm in!

Around it goes,

the giant wheel of fortune,

and when it stops, somebody

will be $10,000 richer.

And now...

And now, it stops!

The winner is decided, ladies and

gentlemen, the winner of the grand prize!

And here it is,

the grand prize winner.!

A resident of this city

wins the $ 10,000.!

Mr. Mervyn Q. Milgrim!

How do you like that? Some

jerk named Mervyn Milgrim. Hey!

That's you! That's you! Couldn't have...

Mr. Milgrim must

contact this studio...

by phone or in person

within five minutes.

- And the telephone number is Alexander 2222.

- Go! You got five minutes!

A fortune of $ 10,000

awaits...

the sound of your voice,

Mr. Milgrim.

Call Alexander 2222.

Hey!

Here's a place

where we can telephone.

Come on!

Come on.

You got it?

Operator! Operator!

Operator! Operator!

How do you like that?

What's the matter?

Nobody answers.

You gotta drop a nickel.

Oh, drop a nickel.

Hurry up. Okay. Operator, here goes.

Not there! Here, put the

nickel in the slot up there.

Oh, excuse me. I'm going over here

and figure out how to spend your money.

Okay. Operator!

The line is busy.

It's busy? I didn't even

ask you for the number yet.

Number, please.

Let me have Alexander 2222.

The line is busy.

The line is busy.

Give me a bicarbonate of soda,

will you, please. Yes, sir.

Operator,

give me long distance.

Long distance? I want to talk to the

Consolidated Coffee Company of Brazil.

Hello, Brazil? Oh, is this

you, Joe? Hi. This is Bill.

How's the coffee business?

Oh, just a grind, eh?

Yeah, I know. Well, I'll

call you later. So long.

Terrible service.

Look, Operator, will you get

me Alexander 2222, please?

The line is busy.

Hello, Operator.

Give me long distance.

Long distance? I want to talk

to Dan Magoo in Nome, Alaska.

Hello, Dan! How are you? How's everything?

This is Jake. Yeah. How's

the weather up there?

What?

Twenty below zero?

Say, that's pretty cold,

isn't it?

Weather down here? Just

a minute. I'll find out.

Hey, what's the temperature

around here? I don't know.

I don't live here. Don't

stand there like a dummy!

Go read the thermometer.

All right! All right!

What did the thermometer read?

They Work While You Sleep.

They Work...

Good-bye, Dan.

- Operator, give me Alexander 2222.

- The line is busy.

Did you get the number?

No, I didn't get it.

Why? Every time I talk to that

operator, she says the line is busy.

The line is not busy. Give me a

nickel. How are we gonna get the money?

Get out of my way. Get

out of my way. Hurry up.

Tell them it's Mervyn.

Operator? Give me Alexander 2222.

Hello.! Is this Alexander

2222? You got it? You got it?

Thank you. Hold it! Hold it! Hold it!

I told you the line

wasn't busy.

What did you hang up

the receiver for, Chick?

- I mean, you had the number. Operator?

- Number, please?

Oh, you hear me, huh? Operator, will

you please give me that number now.

- Alexander 2222... please!

- The line is busy.

Operator? Operator, I want

you to get me Moscow, Russia.

Thank you. The Conservatory

of Music. Tinchovsky, yes.

Oh, Professor Tinchovsky,

how do you do?

This is your American pupil,

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