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00:02:20 Men, are you over 40?
00:02:22 When you wake up in the morning, do you feel tired and rundown?
00:02:24 Do you have that listless feeling?
00:04:00 Jefferies.
00:04:03 For what?
00:04:05 Who said I was getting rid of it?
00:04:07 This is Wednesday.
00:04:09 Seven weeks from the day you broke your leg. Yes or no?
00:04:13 Gunnison, how did you get to be such a big editor
00:04:16 With such a small memory?
00:04:18 Thrift, industry and hard work...
00:04:20 And catching the publisher with his secretary.
00:04:23 Did I get the wrong day?
00:04:26 No, wrong week.
00:04:27 Next Wednesday I emerge from this... Plaster cocoon.
00:04:32 That's too bad, Jeff. Well, I guess I can't be lucky every day.
00:04:37 Forget I called.
00:04:38 Yeach, I sure feel sorry for you, Gunnison.
00:04:41 Must be rough on you thinking of me wearing this cast for another week.
00:04:45 That one week is gonna cost me my best photographer,
00:04:48 And you a big assignment.
00:04:50 Where?
00:04:51 There's no point in even talking about it.
00:04:53 Oh, come on, come on. Where?
00:04:55 Kashmir. Got a code tip from the bureau chief this morning.
00:04:59 The place is about to go up in smoke.
00:05:01 What did I tell you? Didn't I tell you that's the next place to watch?
00:05:04 You did.
00:05:06 With that cast on? You don't.
00:05:11 I can take pictures from a jeep or a water buffalo, if necessary.
00:05:15 You're too valuable to the magazine for us to play around with.
00:05:18 I'll send Morgan or Lambert.
00:05:20 That's fine.
00:05:22 I get myself half-killed for you,
00:05:25 And you reward me by stealing my assignments.
00:05:27 I didn't ask you to stand in the middle of an automobile racetrack.
00:05:31 You asked for something dramatically different.
00:05:34 You got it.
00:05:37 Goodbye, Jeff.
00:05:39 You've got to get me out of here.
00:05:41 Six weeks sitting in a two-room apartment
00:05:43 With nothing to do but look out the window at the neighbours.
00:05:45 Bye, Jeff.
00:05:48 If you don't pull me out of this swamp of boredom,
00:05:51 I'm gonna do something drastic.
00:05:53 Like what?
00:05:55 Then I'll never be able to go anywhere.
00:05:57 lt's about time you got married,
00:05:58 Before you turn into a lonesome and bitter, old man.
00:06:03 Yeach, can't you just see me?
00:06:06 Rushing home to a hot apartment
00:06:08 To listen to the automatic laundry and the electric dishwasher
00:06:12 And the garbage disposal and the nagging wife.
00:06:17 Jeff, wives don't nag any more, they discuss.
00:06:20 Is that so? Is that so?
00:06:22 Maybe in the high-rent district they discuss.
00:06:25 In my neighbourhood, they still nag.
00:06:27 Well, you know best. I'll call you later.
00:06:31 Yeach, have some good news the next time, huh?
00:07:26 Good morning. I said, Good morning!
00:07:28 Oh, good morning.
00:07:47 Say, I wouldn't dig so deep if I were you.
00:07:52 You're giving them far too much water.
00:07:55 Why don't you shut up?
00:08:00 Well!
00:08:01 I do declare.
00:08:05 State sentence for a peeping tom,
00:08:06 Is six months in the workhouse.
00:08:08 Oh, hello, sweetheart.
00:08:10 They got no windows in the workhouse.
00:08:12 In the old days, they used to put your eyes out with a red-hot poker.
00:08:16 Any of those bikini bombshells you're always watching
00:08:19 Worth a red-hot poker?
00:08:21 Oh, dear.
00:08:23 We've become a race of Peeping Toms.
00:08:25 What people ought to do is get outside their own house
00:08:28 And look in for a change.
00:08:29 Yes, sir. How's that for a bit of homespun philosophy?
00:08:33 Reader's Digest, April 1939.
00:08:35 Well, I only quote from the best.
00:08:38 You don't have to take my temperature this morning.
00:08:40 Quiet. See if you can break 100.
00:08:43 You know, I should have been a gypsy fortune-teller
00:08:45 Instead of an insurance company nurse.
00:08:47 I got a nose for trouble. Can smell it ten miles away.
00:08:51 You heard of that market crash in 29? I predicted that.
00:08:56 Just how did you do that, Stella?
00:08:58 Oh, simple. I was nursing a director of General Motors.
00:09:02 Kidney ailment, they said. Nerves, I said.
00:09:07 Then I asked myself,
00:09:08 'What's General Motors got to be nervous about?
00:09:11 Overproduction, I says. Collapse.
00:09:15 When General Motors has to go to the bathroom ten times a day,
00:09:18 The whole country's ready to let go.
00:09:22 You know, Stella, in economics, a kidney ailment
00:09:25 Has no relationship to the stock market.
00:09:26 None whatsoever.
00:09:29 I can smell trouble right here in this apartment.
00:09:33 First you smash your leg,
00:09:34 Then you get to looking out the window,
00:09:37 See things you shouldn't see.
00:09:39 Trouble.
00:09:41 I can see you in court now
00:09:43 Surrounded by a bunch of lawyers in double-breasted suits.
00:09:46 You're pleading.
00:09:47 You say, Judge, it was only a bit of innocent fun.
00:09:51 I love my neighbours, like a father.
00:09:54 And the judge says, 'Well, congratulations.
00:09:56 You've just given birth to three years in Dannamora.
00:10:00 Right now, I'd welcome trouble.
00:10:02 You've got a hormone deficiency.
00:10:04 How can you tell from a thermometer?
00:10:06 Those bathing beauties you've been watching
00:10:07 Haven't raised your temperature one degree in a month.
00:10:14 Here we go.
00:10:18 One more week.
00:10:25 I think you're right.
00:10:27 I think there is gonna be trouble around here.
00:10:29 I knew it.
00:10:30 Ooh. Do you ever heat that stuff?
00:10:34 Gives your circulation something to fight.
00:10:37 What kind of trouble?
00:10:40 You kidding? She's a beautiful, young girl,
00:10:43 And you're a reasonably healthy young man.
00:10:46 She expects me to marry her.
00:10:48 I don't want to.
00:10:50 I'm just not ready for marriage.
00:10:53 Every man's ready for marriage when the right girl comes along.
00:10:56 Lisa Fremont is the right girl for any man with half a brain
00:10:59 Who can get one eye open.
00:11:00 She's alright.
00:11:02 What did you do, have a fight?
00:11:04 Father loading up the shotgun?
00:11:07 Please, Stella.
00:11:09 Some of the world's happiest marriages have
00:11:12 Started under the gun,' as you might say.
00:11:14 No, she's just not the girl for me.
00:11:17 She's too perfect. She's too talented.
00:11:19 She's too beautiful. She's too sophisticated.
00:11:22 She's too everything, but what I want.
00:11:24 Is what you want something you can discuss?
00:11:27 What? It's very simple, Stella.
00:11:30 She belongs to that rarefied atmosphere of Park Avenue:
00:11:33 Expensive restaurants and literary cocktail parties.
00:11:37 People with sense belong wherever they're put.
00:11:39 Can you imagine her tramping around the world with a camera bum
00:11:42 Who never has more than a week's salary in the bank?
00:11:44 If she was only ordinary.
00:11:47 You never gonna get married?
00:11:49 I'll probably get married one of these days,
00:11:51 But when I do, it's gonna be to someone who thinks of life
00:11:53 Not just as a new dress and a lobster dinner
00:11:58 And the latest scandal.
00:12:00 I need a woman who's willing to... Hold it.
00:12:03 Who's willing to go anywhere and do anything and love it.
00:12:07 So the honest thing for me to do is just call the whole thing off.
00:12:10 Let her find somebody else.
00:12:12 Yeach, I can hear you now.
00:12:14 Get out of my life, you perfectly wonderful woman.
00:12:18 Look, Mr Jefferies, I'm not an educated woman,
00:12:20 But I can tell you one thing.
00:12:22 When a man and a woman see each other and like each other,
00:12:26 They ought to come together, wham,
00:12:28 Like a couple of taxis on Broadway
00:12:30 And not sit around analysing each other
00:12:32 Like two specimens in a bottle.
00:12:34 There's an intelligent way to approach marriage.
00:12:37 Intelligence.
00:12:38 Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.
00:12:42 Modern marriage.
00:12:44 No, we've progressed emotionally.
00:12:49 Once it was see somebody, get excited, get married.
00:12:53 Now, it's read a lot of books,
00:12:54 Fence with a lot of four-syllable words, psychoanalyse each other
00:12:58 Until you can't tell the difference
00:13:00 Between a petting party and a civil service exam.
00:13:04 People have different emotional levels -
00:13:06 When I married Myles, we were both a couple of maladjusted misfits.
00:13:10 We are still maladjusted, and we have loved every minute of it.
00:13:15 0Well, that's fine, Stella.
00:13:16 Now, would you fix me a sandwich, please?
00:13:18 Yes, I will. And I'll spread a little common sense on the bread.
00:13:22 Lisa's loaded to her fingertips with love for you.
00:13:25 I got two words of advice for you: Marry her.
00:13:28 She pay you much?
00:13:47 There you are.
00:13:52 Here's the key.
00:14:01 Well, if you want anything, just ring.
00:14:17 Honey.
00:14:18 Come on.
00:14:27 Got to carry you over the threshold.
00:14:51 Window shopper.
00:15:40 How's your leg?
00:15:42 It hurts a little.
00:15:44 And your stomach?
00:15:50 And your love life?
00:15:52 Not too active.
00:15:54 Anything else bothering you?
00:15:57 Mm-hm.
00:15:59 Who are you?
00:16:02 Reading from top to bottom:
00:16:05 Lisa...
00:16:10 Carol...
00:16:15 Fremont.
00:16:18 Is this the Lisa Fremont who never wears the same dress twice?
00:16:21 Only because it's expected of her.
00:16:24 It's right off the Paris plane.
00:16:26 Do you think it'll sell?
00:16:29 Let's see now. There's the aeroplane ticket over,
00:16:31 Import duties, hidden taxes,
00:16:33 Profit markup
00:16:36 Eleven hundred?
00:16:39 They ought to list that dress on the stock exchange.
00:16:41 We sell a dozen a day in this price range.
00:16:44 Who buys them, tax collectors?
00:16:46 Even if I had to pay, it would be worth it.
00:16:48 Just for the occasion.
00:16:51 It's going on right here. It's a big night.
00:16:54 It's just an old run-of-the-mill Wednesday.
00:16:57 The calendar's full of them.
00:16:59 It's opening night of the last depressing week of L B Jefferies in a cast.
00:17:03 Well, I haven't noticed a big demand for tickets.
00:17:07 That's because I bought out the house.
00:17:10 You know, this cigarette box has seen better days.
00:17:14 I picked that up in Shanghai, which has also seen better days.
00:17:17 It's cracked and you never use it.
00:17:19 It's too ornate.
00:17:21 I'm sending up a plain, flat, silver one with your initials.
00:17:25 That's no way to spend your hard-earned money.
00:17:28 I wanted to.
00:17:33 What would you think of starting off with dinner at 21 ?
00:17:35 You have, perhaps, an ambulance downstairs?
00:17:38 No, better than that: 21 .
00:17:46 Thank you for waiting, Carl. The kitchen's right there on the left.
00:17:49 I'll take the wine.
00:17:54 Good evening, Mr Jefferies.
00:17:55 Just put everything in the oven, Carl, on low.
00:17:59 Let's open the wine now.
00:18:02 It's a Montrachet.
00:18:05 There's a corkscrew right over there.
00:18:08 Here, I'll do it.
00:18:11 Big enough?
00:18:14 I can't think of anything more boring or tiresome
00:18:16 Than what you've been through and the last week must be the hardest.
00:18:20 Alright. Yeach, I want to get this thing off and get moving.
00:18:24 Well, I'm going to make this a week you'll never forget.
00:18:29 Fine, thanks.
00:18:32 Just a minute, Carl.
00:18:34 This will take care of the taxi.
00:18:36 Have a pleasant dinner, Mr Jefferies.
00:18:41 Good night.
00:18:44 What a day I've had.
00:18:46 Are you tired?
00:18:48 I was all morning in a meeting,
00:18:50 Then I had to dash to the Waldorf for a quick drink with Madam Dufrene,
00:18:53 Who's just over from Paris with some spy reports.
00:18:58 Then I had to go to 21 and have lunch with the Harper's Bazaar people.
00:19:02 That's when I ordered dinner.
00:19:04 Then I had two fall showings 20 blocks apart.
00:19:07 Then I had to have a cocktail with Leland and Slim Hayward.
00:19:09 We're trying to get his new show.
00:19:11 Then I had to dash back and change.
00:19:13 Well, now, tell me, what was Mrs Hayward wearing?
00:19:17 She looked wonderfully cool.
00:19:19 She had on the most divine Italian hand-printed -
00:19:22 Oh, Italian?
00:19:24 Italian. Imagine.
00:19:28 In the columns about you today.
00:19:30 You can't buy that kind of publicity.
00:19:33 Someday you may want to open up a studio of your own here.
00:19:37 How would I run it from, say, Pakistan?
00:19:42 Jeff...
00:19:44 Isn't it time you came home? You could pick your assignment.
00:19:49 I wish there was one I wanted.
00:19:52 You mean leave the magazine?
00:19:54 For what?
00:19:58 I could get you a dozen assignments tomorrow:
00:20:00 Fashions, portraits.
00:20:02 Now, don't laugh. I could do it.
00:20:06 Can you see me driving down to the fashion salon in a jeep
00:20:09 Wearing combat boots and a three-day beard? Wouldn't that make a hit?
00:20:13 I could see you looking very handsome and successful
00:20:16 In a dark blue, flannel suit.
00:20:18 Let's stop talking nonsense, shall we?
00:20:21 Hm?
00:20:25 Guess I'd better start setting up for dinner.
00:22:27 Miss Lonelyhearts.
00:22:29 At least that's something you'll never have to worry about.
00:22:32 Oh?
00:22:33 You can see my apartment from here, all the way up on 63rd Street?
00:22:37 0No, not exactly, but we have a little apartment here
00:22:40 That's probably as popular as yours.
00:22:42 You remember, of course, Miss Torso, the ballet dancer?
00:22:47 She's like a queen bee with her pick of the drones.
00:22:59 I'd say she's doing a woman's hardest job.
00:23:02 Juggling wolves.
00:23:09 Thank you.
00:23:22 Well, she picked the most prosperous-looking one.
00:23:25 She's not in love with him... Or any of them.
00:23:28 Oh, how can you tell that from here?
00:23:32 You said it resembled my apartment, didn't you?
00:23:50 I hope they're cooked this time.
00:25:15 Where's that wonderful music coming from?
00:25:17 Some songwriter over there in the studio apartment.
00:25:20 Well...
00:25:22 He lives alone.
00:25:24 Probably had a very unhappy marriage.
00:25:27 Oh, it's enchanting.
00:25:32 It's almost as if it were being written especially for us.
00:25:35 Hm. No wonder he's having so much trouble with it.
00:25:42 At least you can't say the dinner isn't right.
00:25:45 Lisa... It's perfect.
00:25:49 As always.
00:26:02 There can't be that much difference between people and the way they live.
00:26:05 We all eat, talk, drink, laugh, wear clothes.
00:26:07 Well, now look -
00:26:09 If you're saying all this because you don't want to tell me the truth,
00:26:11 Because you're hiding something from me, then maybe I can understand.
00:26:14 I'm not hiding anything. It's just that -
00:26:16 It doesn't make sense.
00:26:17 What's so different about it here from there or anyplace you go
00:26:20 That one person couldn't live in both places just as easily?
00:26:23 Some people can. Now, if you'll just let me -
00:26:24 What is it but travelling from one place to another taking pictures?
00:26:27 It's like being a tourist on an endless vacation.
00:26:30 OK. That's your opinion. You're entitled to it.
00:26:32 Now, let me give you my side.
00:26:34 That it can only be done by a special, private little group of anointed people.
00:26:38 I made a simple statement, a true statement,
00:26:41 But I can back it up if you'll just shut up for a minute.
00:26:44 If your opinion is as rude as your manner, I don't think I care to hear it.
00:26:48 Oh, come on now. Simmer down.
00:26:50 I can't fit in here. You can't fit in there.
00:26:52 According to you, people should be born, live and die
00:26:54 On the same spot!
00:26:59 Did you ever eat fish heads and rice?
00:27:03 Well, you might have to if you went with me.
00:27:05 Did you ever try to keep warm in a C-54 at 15,000 feet,
00:27:09 20 degrees below zero?
00:27:11 Oh, I do it all the time,
00:27:13 Whenever I have a few minutes after lunch.
00:27:15 Did you ever get shot at? Run over?
00:27:17 Did you ever get sandbagged
00:27:18 Because somebody got unfavourable publicity from your camera?
00:27:21 Did you ever... Those high heels, they'll be great in the jungle.
00:27:24 And the nylons and those six-ounce lingerie.
00:27:26 Three.
00:27:28 They'll make a big hit in Finland, just before you freeze to death.
00:27:31 Well, if there's one thing I know, it's how to wear the proper clothes.
00:27:35 Yeach, yeach.
00:27:36 Well, try and find a raincoat in Brazil, even when it isn't raining.
00:27:40 Lisa, in this job you carry one suitcase.
00:27:43 Your home is the available transportation.
00:27:46 You don't sleep very much. You bathe less.
00:27:48 And sometimes the food that you eat
00:27:50 Is made from things that you couldn't even look at when they're alive.
00:27:54 Jeff, you don't have to be deliberately repulsive just to impress me I'm wrong.
00:27:57 Deliberately repulsive? I'm trying to make it sound good.
00:28:00 You just have to face it, Lisa, you're not meant for that kind of a life.
00:28:04 Few people are.
00:28:07 You're too stubborn to argue with.
00:28:12 I know, a lesser man would have told me it was one long holiday,
00:28:15 And I would have awakened to a rude disillusionment.
00:28:19 Well, now, wait a minute.
00:28:21 If you want to get vicious on this thing, I'd be happy to accommodate you.
00:28:27 No, I don't particularly want that.
00:28:33 So that's it?
00:28:34 You won't stay here, and I can't go with you.
00:28:37 It would be the wrong thing.
00:28:41 You don't think either one of us could ever change?
00:28:45 Right now it doesn't seem so.
00:28:52 I-I'm in love with you.
00:28:54 I don't care what you do for a living.
00:28:57 I'd like to be part of it somehow.
00:29:02 It's deflating to find out the only way I can be part of it,
00:29:05 Is to take out a subscription to your magazine.
00:29:09 I guess I'm not the girl I thought I was.
00:29:12 There's nothing wrong with you, Lisa.
00:29:14 You've got this town in the palm of your hand.
00:29:18 Not quite, it seems.
00:29:22 Goodbye, Jeff.
00:29:24 You mean good night.
00:29:25 I mean what I said.
00:29:29 Couldn't we just...
00:29:32 Couldn't we just... Keep things status quo?
00:29:38 Without any future?
00:29:40 Well, when am I gonna see you again?
00:29:44 Not for a long time.
00:29:47 At least... Not until tomorrow night.
00:30:51 Hey! Rain.
00:30:56 Grab that. Wait, I'll get the clock.
00:31:01 Oh, no!
00:31:04 Pull it.
00:31:09 0Pull on it. Let me do it.
00:31:13 In you go.
00:33:25 No, you can't come in. It's much too late.
00:33:28 No, not now.
00:33:29 No, I said good night.
00:35:09 What's that supposed to be, ma'am?
00:35:11 It's called hunger.
00:35:35 You'd think the rain would have cooled things off.
00:35:38 All it did was make the heat wet.
00:35:40 That's stiff right there. Right there.
00:35:43 The insurance company would be much happier
00:35:45 If you'd sleep in bed at night instead of in that wheelchair.
00:35:48 How do you know?
00:35:50 Must have been watching out that window for hours.
00:35:53 0Yeach, I was.
00:35:54 What are you gonna do if one of them catches you?
00:35:55 It depends which one. Miss Torso, for example -
00:35:58 You keep your mind off her.
00:36:01 She sure is the 'eat, drink and be merry girl.
00:36:03 Yeach, she'll wind up fat, alcoholic and miserable.
00:36:06 Yeach.
00:36:08 Speaking of misery, poor Miss Lonelyhearts.
00:36:11 She drank herself to sleep again, alone.
00:36:14 Poor soul. Maybe one day she'll find her happiness.
00:36:18 Yeach, and some man will lose his.
00:36:20 Isn't there anybody in the neighbourhood
00:36:22 Who could cast an eye in her direction?
00:36:24 Well...
00:36:26 It might just be that the salesman will be available soon.
00:36:29 Oh, him and his wife splitting up?
00:36:31 I just can't figure it.
00:36:33 He went out several times last night in the rain,
00:36:35 Carrying his sample case.
00:36:38 What would he be selling at three o'clock in the morning?
00:36:41 Flashlights. Luminous dials for watches.
00:36:44 House numbers that light up.
00:36:47 I don't think so.
00:36:48 I don't think so.
00:36:50 I think he was taking something out of the apartment.
00:36:53 Uh-huh. His personal effects.
00:36:58 He's gonna run out on her, the coward.
00:37:01 Yeach. Sometimes it's worse to stay than it is to run.
00:37:04 Yeach, well, it takes a particularly low type of man to do a thing like that.
00:37:10 How about this morning?
00:37:12 Any further developments?
00:37:14 The shades are all drawn in the apartment.
00:37:16 In this heat?
00:37:18 Well, they're up now.
00:37:25 Get back! Get back.
00:37:28 Come on, get out of sight.
00:37:31 That salesman's looking out of his window. You see?
00:37:34 Get back! He'll see you.
00:37:36 I'm not shy. I've been looked at before.
00:37:38 That's no ordinary look.
00:37:42 That's the kind of look a man gives
00:37:43 When he's afraid somebody might be watching him.
00:38:02 Get away from there.
00:38:04 He'll be after you. Go on, into the house.
00:38:06 Into the house. Shoo, shoo.
00:38:10 Goodbye, Mr Jefferies. See you tomorrow.
00:38:22 And don't sleep in that chair again.
00:38:25 Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Great conversationalist.
00:38:31 Stella...
00:38:33 Take those binoculars out and bring them here, will you?
00:38:37 Trouble.
00:38:38 I can smell it.
00:38:41 I'll be glad when they crack that cast, and I can get outta here.
00:42:12 How far does a girl have to go before you'll notice her?
00:42:15 Well, if she's pretty enough, she doesn't have to go anywhere.
00:42:19 She just has to be.'
00:42:21 Well, ain't I?
00:42:23 Pay attention to me.
00:42:27 I'm not exactly on the other side of the room.
00:42:31 Your mind is... And when I want a man, I want all of him.
00:42:39 Don't you ever have any problems?
00:42:42 I have one now.
00:42:45 So do I.
00:42:48 Tell me about it.
00:42:52 Why?
00:42:54 Why would a man leave his apartment three times
00:42:58 On a rainy night with a suitcase, and come back three times?
00:43:02 He likes the way his wife welcomes him home.
00:43:06 No, no. Not this salesman's wife.
00:43:09 And why didn't he go to work today?
00:43:11 Homework. It's more interesting.
00:43:15 What's interesting about a butcher knife
00:43:19 And a small saw
00:43:22 Wrapped in newspaper?
00:43:25 Nothing, thank heaven.
00:43:27 Why hasn't he been in his wife's bedroom all day?
00:43:30 I wouldn't dare answer that.
00:43:33 Well, listen. I'll answer it, Lisa.
00:43:36 There's something terribly wrong.
00:43:41 And I'm afraid it's with me.
00:43:46 Something too frightful to utter.
00:43:49 He went out a few minutes ago in his undershirt, hasn't come back.
00:44:06 That would be a terrible job to tackle.
00:44:14 Just how would you start to cut up a human body?
00:44:20 Jeff, I'll be honest with you. You're beginning to scare me.
00:44:26 Jeff, did you hear what I said? You're beginning to scare -
00:44:29 Shh! He's coming back!
00:44:58 Jeff, if you could only see yourself!
00:45:01 Sitting around looking out of the window to kill time is one thing,
00:45:04 But doing it the way you are with binoculars
00:45:06 And wild opinions about every little thing you see is diseased!
00:45:10 Do you think I consider it recreation?
00:45:13 I don't know what you consider it,
00:45:15 0But if you don't stop it, I'm getting out of here.
00:45:17 What's the
00:45:19 I just want to find out what's the matter with the salesman's wife.
00:45:22 Does that make me sound like a madman?
00:45:24 What makes you think there's something the matter with her?
00:45:26 A lot of things. She's an invalid. She demands constant care.
00:45:29 Yet not the husband or anybody else has been in to see her all day. Why?
00:45:35 Maybe she died.
00:45:38 Where's the undertaker?
00:45:39 She could be sleeping, under sedatives.
00:45:42 He's in there now. There's nothing to see.
00:45:45 There is something. I've seen it through that window.
00:45:47 I've seen bickering and family quarrels
00:45:50 And mysterious trips at night
00:45:51 And knives and saws and rope.
00:45:53 Now, since last evening, not a sign of the wife. Tell me where she is.
00:45:56 I don't know.
00:45:58 Maybe he's leaving his wife. I don't know. I don't care!
00:46:01 Lots of people have knives and saws and ropes around their houses.
00:46:05 And lots of men don't speak to their wives all day.
00:46:07 Lots of wives nag and men hate them and trouble starts,
00:46:10 But few of them end up in murder, if that's what you're thinking.
00:46:14 It's pretty hard for you to keep away from that word, isn't it?
00:46:16 You could see all that he did, couldn't you?
00:46:18 Of course, I
00:46:21 And he walked along the corridor and the street and the backyard.
00:46:24 I've seen him -
00:46:25 Jeff, do you think a murderer would let you see all that?
00:46:28 That he wouldn't pull the shades down and hide behind them?
00:46:31 He's being clever. He's being nonchalant.
00:46:33 And that's where you're not bring clever.
00:46:35 A murderer would never parade his crime in front of an open window.
00:46:38 Why not?
00:46:40 For all you know, there's something sinister going on there.
00:46:44 Where? Oh.
00:46:47 No comment.
00:47:11 Let's start from the beginning again, Jeff.
00:47:15 Tell me everything you saw
00:47:18 And what you think it means.
00:47:32 Yeach?
00:47:34 The name on the second floor
00:47:35 Rear mail box reads, 'Mr and Mrs Lars'.
00:47:38 That's L-a-r-s.
00:47:41 Lars Thorwald.
00:47:43 What's the number of the apartment?
00:47:44 125 West Ninth Street.
00:47:48 Thank you, dear.
00:47:49 OK, chief. What's my next assignment?
00:47:52 Just go home.
00:47:54 'Alright, but what's he doing now?
00:47:57 He's just sitting in the living room in the dark.
00:48:00 Hasn't gone near the bedroom.
00:48:03 Now you go home and get some sleep. Good night.
00:48:06 Good night.
00:48:16 What's it about, Jeff?
00:48:18 Look, Doyle, I can't tell you over the phone.
00:48:21 You have to be here and see the whole set-up.
00:48:23 It's probably nothing. It's just a little neighbourhood murder.
00:48:27 Did you say murder?
00:48:30 Oh, come now.
00:48:32 My only thought was throwing a little business your way, that's all.
00:48:34 I figured a detective would jump at the chance of something to detect.
00:48:38 I'm not working.
00:48:39 This happens to be my day off.
00:48:41 I usually took my best pictures on my day off.
00:48:44 I'll drop by.
00:48:49 Bless your heart, Stella.
00:48:51 Gee whiz, look at this.
00:48:53 I can't tell you what a welcome sight this is.
00:48:55 No wonder your husband still loves you.
00:48:57 The police.
00:48:58 You called the police.
00:49:01 Not an official call. It's an old friend of mine.
00:49:05 An old, ornery friend of mine.
00:49:08 Just where do you suppose he cut her up?
00:49:12 Of course. The bathtub.
00:49:15 That's the only place where he could have washed away the blood.
00:49:28 He better get that trunk out of there before it starts to leak.
00:49:52 Harry?
00:49:58 Look, look, Mr Jefferies.
00:50:37 I thought Doyle would be here by the time the trunk left,
00:50:39 Or I'd have called the police. Now we're gonna lose it.
00:50:41 Hold everything.
00:50:43 I'm just gonna get the name off that freight truck.
00:50:45 I'll keep an eye on the alley.
00:51:00 Long distance.
00:51:26 You didn't see the killing or the body. How do you know there was a murder?
00:51:29 Because everything this fellow's done has been suspicious:
00:51:32 Trips at night in the rain, knives and saws and trunks with rope,
00:51:36 And now this wife that isn't there any more.
00:51:38 I admit it all has a mysterious sound.
00:51:40 It could be any number of things. Murder's the least possible.
00:51:44 Doyle, don't tell me he's an unemployed magician,
00:51:46 Amusing the neighbourhood with his sleight of hand.
00:51:48 Don't tell me that.
00:51:49 It's too obvious and stupid a way to commit murder.
00:51:52 In full view of 50 windows?
00:51:53 0Then sit there smoking a cigar, waiting for the police to pick him up.
00:51:56 Alright, officer, do your duty. Go over and pick him up.
00:51:59 Jeff, you've got a lot to learn about homicide.
00:52:02 Why, morons have committed murder so shrewdly,
00:52:04 It's taken a hundred trained police minds to catch them.
00:52:07 That salesman wouldn't just knock his wife off after dinner
00:52:10 And toss her in the trunk and put her in storage.
00:52:12 I'll bet it's been done.
00:52:14 Most everything's been done... Under panic.
00:52:17 This is a thousand-to-one shot.
00:52:19 He's still sitting around the apartment. That man's not panicked.
00:52:22 You think I made all this up?
00:52:24 Well, I think you saw something
00:52:26 There's probably a very simple explanation for.
00:52:29 For instance?
00:52:32 His wife was sick in bed.
00:52:35 Yeach, so you told me.
00:52:38 Well, Jeff, I've got to run along.
00:52:42 I won't report this to the department. Let me poke into it a little on my own.
00:52:47 No sense in your getting a lot of ridiculous publicity.
00:52:50 Thank you.
00:52:53 We know the wife is gone, so I'll see if I can find out where.
00:52:56 Do that.
00:52:58 You had any headaches lately?
00:53:01 Not till you showed up.
00:53:03 It will wear off, along with the hallucinations.
00:53:06 See you around.
00:53:31 Get along.
00:53:53 He has a six months lease.
00:53:54 Used up a little more than five and a half months of it.
00:53:57 He's quiet, drinks, but not to drunkenness.
00:54:00 Pays his bills promptly with money earned
00:54:01 As a costume jewellery salesman: wholesale.
00:54:04 Kept to himself. No neighbours got close to him or his wife.
00:54:07 Yeach, well, I think they missed their chance with her.
00:54:09 She never left the apartment, until yesterday morning.
00:54:12 What time?
00:54:14 6:00am.
00:54:16 I think that's about the time I fell asleep.
00:54:19 Too bad.
00:54:21 Thorwalds were leaving their apartment at just that time.
00:54:26 Feel a little foolish?
00:54:28 No, not yet.
00:54:40 How's your wife?
00:54:47 Who said they left then?
00:54:49 W-Who left where?
00:54:52 Oh, the building superintendent and two tenants.
00:54:55 Flat statements, no hesitation. They jived with the letter.
00:54:58 Thorwalds were on their way to the railroad station.
00:55:01 Well, now, Tom, how could anybody possibly guess that?
00:55:04 What, did they have signs on their luggage saying,
00:55:06 'Grand Central, or bust'?
00:55:08 The superintendent met Thorwald on his way back.
00:55:11 Thorwald told him that he'd put his wife on a train to the country.
00:55:14 I see. I'd say this is a pretty convenient guy, this superintendent.
00:55:17 Have you checked his bank statements lately?
00:55:21 Huh?
00:55:25 It's a secondhand version of an unsupported story by the murderer.
00:55:29 Now did anybody actually see the wife get on the train?
00:55:33 I hate to remind you,
00:55:34 But this all started because you said she was murdered.
00:55:37 Now, did anyone, including you, actually see her murdered?
00:55:39 What are you doing?
00:55:42 Are you interested in solving this case or making me look foolish?
00:55:46 Well, if possible, both.
00:55:48 Then do a good job of it.
00:55:49 Go over there and search Thorwald's apartment.
00:55:51 It must be knee-deep in evidence.
00:55:53 I can't do that.
00:55:54 I don't mean right now, but when he goes out for a drink,
00:55:57 Or a paper, or something. What he doesn't know won't hurt him.
00:55:59 I can't do that even if he isn't there.
00:56:01 What's he...
00:56:03 Does he have a courtesy card from the police department or something?
00:56:06 Now don't get me mad.
00:56:08 Not even a detective can walk into an apartment and search it.
00:56:11 If I were caught in there, they'd have my badge within ten minutes.
00:56:14 Make sure you don't get caught, that's all.
00:56:16 If you find something, you've got a murderer,
00:56:19 And they don't care about a couple of house rules.
00:56:21 If you don't find anything, the fellow's clear.
00:56:23 At the risk of sounding stuffy,
00:56:25 I'd like to remind you of the Constitution and the phrase,
00:56:28 'search warrant issued by a judge who knows the Bill of Rights verbatim.
00:56:32 He must ask for evidence.
00:56:37 Yeach, I can hear myself,
00:56:39 Your Honour, I have a friend who's an amateur sleuth.
00:56:44 The other night, after having a heavy dinner, he...
00:56:47 He'd throw the New York State penal code in my face,
00:56:50 And there's six volumes.
00:56:52 By tomorrow morning there may not be any evidence left
00:56:55 Over in that apartment, you know that.
00:56:57 It's a detective's nightmare.
00:56:59 What do you need before you can search?
00:57:02 Tell me now, what do you need?
00:57:03 Bloody footsteps leading up to the door?
00:57:06 One thing I don't need is heckling. You called me and asked for help.
00:57:09 Now you're behaving like a taxpayer.
00:57:13 How did we ever stand each other in that plane
00:57:15 For three years during the war?
00:57:18 I guess I'll go over to the railroad station
00:57:20 And check on Thorwald's story.
00:57:22 Oh, forget about the story.
00:57:23 Find the trunk. Mrs Thorwald's in it.
00:57:26 Oh, I almost forgot.
00:57:28 There was a postcard in Thorwald's mailbox. It was...
00:57:31 Mailed 3:30 yesterday afternoon from Merritsville.
00:57:34 That's 80 miles north of here.
00:57:36 Message went: Arrived OK.
00:57:38 Already feeling better. Love, Anna.'
00:57:44 Uh... Is that, um...
00:57:47 Anna... Is that who I think it is?
00:57:51 Mrs Thorwald.
00:57:56 Oh, so anything you need, Jeff?
00:57:58 You might send me a good detective.
01:01:38 Hello? Yes?
01:01:41 This is Jeff again. Has Tom come in yet?
01:01:43 Not yet, Jeff.
01:01:44 You mean you haven't even heard from him?
01:01:46 Not a word. Is it something really important, Jeff?
01:01:49 Yeach, I'm afraid it is.
01:01:51 I'll have him call the moment I hear from him.
01:01:53 No, no, don't bother to do that.
01:01:55 Just have him get over here as soon as he can.
01:01:57 Looks like Thorwald's pulling out tonight.
01:01:59 Who's Thorwald?
01:02:01 And Thorwald's a man, don't worry.
01:02:03 Good night, you idiot.
01:02:22 Long distance again.
01:02:59 There's somebody at the door.
01:03:04 Hi.
01:03:27 Hello.
01:03:32 What'd you do to your hair?
01:03:34 Take a look at Thorwald. He's getting ready to pull out.
01:03:41 He doesn't seem to be in any hurry.
01:03:43 He's been laying out all his things on one of the beds:
01:03:45 Shirts, suits, coats, socks.
01:03:48 Even that alligator handbag his wife left on the bedpost.
01:03:52 He had it hidden in the dresser. At least, it was there.
01:03:55 He took it out, went to the telephone and made a long distance call.
01:03:59 He had his wife's jewellery in the handbag.
01:04:01 Seemed worried about it. Asked someone's advice over the phone.
01:04:04 Someone not his wife.
01:04:06 Well, I never saw him ask her for advice.
01:04:08 She volunteered plenty, but I never saw him ask her for any.
01:04:21 I wonder where he's going.
01:04:25 Suppose he doesn't come back?
01:04:30 I guess it's safe to put on lights.
01:04:40 OK, you can turn it on now. He must have gone someplace to the right.
01:04:46 All day long, I've been trying to keep my mind on my work.
01:04:49 Thinking about Thorwald?
01:04:53 Did you hear from him since he left?
01:04:56 He said he was gonna check the railroad station and the trunk.
01:04:59 He must be still at it.
01:05:01 Something on your mind?
01:05:04 It doesn't make sense to me.
01:05:07 Women aren't that unpredictable.
01:05:10 Hmm. Well, I can't guess what you're thinking.
01:05:14 A woman has a favourite handbag,
01:05:17 And it always hangs on her bedpost where she can get at it easily.
01:05:21 Then, all of a sudden, she goes away on a trip and leaves it behind. Why?
01:05:24 Because she didn't know she was going on a trip,
01:05:26 And where she's going, she wouldn't need the handbag.
01:05:28 Yes, but only her husband would know that.
01:05:32 And that jewellery - Women don't keep their jewellery in a purse
01:05:35 Getting all twisted and scratched and tangled up.
01:05:38 Well, do they hide it in their husband's clothes?
01:05:39 They do not. And they don't leave it behind either.
01:05:44 Why, a woman going anywhere but the hospital
01:05:46 Would always take make-up, perfume and jewellery.
01:05:50 Put that over there. That's inside stuff, huh?
01:05:52 It's basic equipment.
01:05:54 And you don't leave it behind in your husband's drawer
01:05:57 In your favourite handbag.
01:05:58 Well, I'm with you, sweetie. I'm with you.
01:06:00 Tom Doyle has a pat answer for that though.
01:06:02 That Mrs Thorwald left at 6:00am yesterday with her husband?
01:06:05 According to those witnesses.
01:06:07 Well, I have a pat rebuttal for Mr Doyle.
01:06:09 Couldn't have been Mrs Thorwald, or I don't know women.
01:06:13 What about the witnesses?
01:06:18 But she was not Mrs Thorwald.
01:06:20 That is, not yet.
01:06:28 Come here.
01:06:32 I'd like to see your friend's face when we tell him.
01:06:35 He doesn't sound like much of a detective.
01:06:38 Oh, don't be too hard on him. He's a steady worker.
01:06:42 I sure wish he'd show up.
01:06:44 Don't rush him. We have all night.
01:06:50 We have all what?
01:06:52 I'm going to stay with you.
01:06:56 Well, you'll have to clear that with my landlord.
01:07:00 I have the whole weekend off.
01:07:03 That's very nice, but I just have one bed.
01:07:06 If you say anything else, I'll... Stay tomorrow night too.
01:07:11 I won't be able to give you any... Pyjamas.
01:07:19 You said I'll have to live out of one suitcase.
01:07:24 I'll bet yours isn't this small.
01:07:28 Well, a Mark Cross overnight case.
01:07:31 Ooh.
01:07:34 Looks like you packed in a hurry.
01:07:36 Look at this. Isn't that amazing?
01:07:40 I'll trade you... My feminine intuition for a bed for the night.
01:07:44 I'll go along with that.
01:08:00 There's that song again.
01:08:08 Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that?
01:08:12 Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month.
01:08:17 It's utterly beautiful.
01:08:20 I wish I could be creative.
01:08:24 Y-Y-You have a great talent for creating difficult situations.
01:08:28 I do?
01:08:29 Like staying here all night uninvited.
01:08:31 Well, surprise is the most important element of attack.
01:08:35 Besides, you're not up on your private eye literature.
01:08:38 When they're in trouble, it's always their Girl Friday
01:08:40 That gets them out of it.
01:08:41 Is she the girl that saves them from the clutches
01:08:44 Of the over-passionate daughters of the rich?
01:08:47 The same.
01:08:50 It's funny. He never ends up marrying her, does he?
01:08:53 That's strange.
01:08:58 Why don't I slip into something more comfortable?
01:09:00 By all means.
01:09:02 I mean, like the kitchen and make us some coffee.
01:09:05 Oh, and some brandy too, huh?
01:09:17 Harry.
01:09:27 Jeff.
01:10:18 What else have you got on this man Thorwald?
01:10:20 Enough to scare me you wouldn't show up in time and we'd lose him.
01:10:24 Think he's getting out of here?
01:10:26 Laid out over there in the bedroom, waiting to be packed.
01:10:31 I'm just warming some brandy. Mr Doyle, I presume?
01:10:37 Tom, this is Miss Lisa Fremont.
01:10:40 How do you do?
01:10:50 Careful, Tom.
01:10:57 Hello.
01:10:58 Yeach, he's right here. For you.
01:11:01 Hello.
01:11:03 Speaking. Yeach.
01:11:08 Alright.
01:11:10 I see. Thank you... Goodbye.
01:11:13 Coffee will be ready soon.
01:11:15 Jeff, aren't you going to tell him about the jewellery?
01:11:17 Jewellery?
01:11:19 He's got his wife's jewellery hidden in his clothes in the bedroom there.
01:11:22 You sure it belonged to his wife?
01:11:25 Mr Doyle, that can only lead to one conclusion.
01:11:28 Namely?
01:11:29 That it was not Mrs Thorwald that left with him yesterday morning.
01:11:33 You figured that out, eh?
01:11:34 It's simply that women don't leave their jewellery behind
01:11:37 When they go on a trip.
01:11:39 Come on, Tom. You don't really need any of this information, do you?
01:11:49 As a matter of fact, I don't.
01:11:57 Lars Thorwald is no more a murderer than I am.
01:12:04 You can explain everything that's going on over there?
01:12:08 No, and neither can you.
01:12:10 That's a secret, private world you're looking into out there.
01:12:13 People do a lot of things in private they couldn't do in public.
01:12:15 Like disposing of their wives?
01:12:17 Get that idea out of your mind. It'll only lead in the wrong direction.
01:12:20 What about the knife and the saw?
01:12:23 Did you ever own a saw?
01:12:27 How many people did you cut up with it?
01:12:29 Or with the couple hundred knives you've owned in your lifetime?
01:12:34 0Your logic is backward.
01:12:36 You can't ignore the disappearance and the trunk and the jewellery.
01:12:39 I checked the railroad station. He bought a ticket.
01:12:42 Ten minutes later, he put his wife on the train.
01:12:44 Destination: Merritsville. The witnesses are that deep.
01:12:47 That might have been a woman, but it couldn't have been Mrs Thorwald.
01:12:50 That jewellery
01:12:52 That feminine intuition stuff sells magazines
01:12:55 But in real life, it's still a fairy tale.
01:12:58 I don't know how many wasted years I've spent,
01:12:59 Tracking down leads based on female intuition.
01:13:02 Alright! I take it you didn't find the trunk.
01:13:04 All this is from an old speech you made at the policemen's ball.
01:13:08 I found the trunk a half-hour after I left here.
01:13:10 I suppose it's normal for a man to tie up a trunk with heavy rope?
01:13:14 If the lock is broken, yes.
01:13:16 What did you find inside the trunk, a surly note to me?
01:13:19 Mrs Thorwald's clothes;
01:13:21 Clean, well-packed, not stylish, but presentable.
01:13:24 Didn't you take them off to the crime lab?
01:13:26 I sent them on their merry and legal way.
01:13:29 Why, when a woman is taking a simple, short trip,
01:13:32 Does she take everything she owns?
01:13:34 Let's let the female psychology department handle that one.
01:13:38 I would say it looked as if she wasn't coming back.
01:13:41 That's what's known as a family problem.
01:13:43 If she wasn't coming back, why didn't he tell his landlord?
01:13:45 I'll tell you why he didn't tell his landlord,
01:13:47 Because he was hiding something.
01:13:52 Do you tell your landlord everything?
01:13:54 Ah, I told you to be careful, Tom.
01:13:56 If I'd have been careful piloting that reconnaissance plane
01:13:59 You wouldn't have had the chance to take the pictures
01:14:01 That won you a medal, and a good job, and fame, and money.
01:14:07 What do you say, we all sit down and have a nice friendly drink.
01:14:12 Forget all about this.
01:14:14 We can tell lies about the good old days during the war.
01:14:19 You mean you're through with the case?
01:14:21 There is no case to be through with, Miss Fremont.
01:14:24 How about that drink?
01:14:33 Yeach, I guess you're right.
01:14:36 Well, I think I better get home and get some sleep.
01:14:41 Cheers.
01:14:45 I, uh... I'm not much of a snifter.
01:14:53 Oh, Jeff, if you need any more help...
01:14:56 Consult the Yellow Pages in your telephone directory.
01:15:00 Oh, I love funny exiting lines.
01:15:03 Who was that trunk addressed to?
01:15:06 Then let's wait and find out who picks it up.
01:15:09 Oh, that phone call, I gave them your number.
01:15:11 I hope you don't mind.
01:15:14 The police at Merritsville.
01:15:16 They reported the trunk was just picked up...
01:15:18 By Mrs Anna Thorwald.
01:15:21 Don't stay up too late.
01:15:41 Look.
01:16:13 Yeach, he's kind of young, isn't he?
01:16:50 What are you doing?
01:17:17 You know, much as I hate to give Thomas J Doyle too much credit,
01:17:21 He might have gotten ahold of something when he said
01:17:24 That was pretty private stuff going on out there.
01:17:28 I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man
01:17:31 With binoculars and a long-focus lens.
01:17:35 Do you...
01:17:37 Do you suppose it's ethical, even if you prove that he didn't commit a crime?
01:17:43 I'm not much on rear window ethics.
01:17:45 Of course, they can do the same thing to me,
01:17:47 Watch me like a bug under a glass, if they want to.
01:17:50 Jeff, if someone came in here, they wouldn't believe what they'd see.
01:17:54 What?
01:17:56 Plunged into despair because we find out a man didn't kill his wife.
01:18:00 We're two of the most frightening ghouls I've ever known.
01:18:04 You'd think we could be a bit happy that the poor woman is alive and well.
01:18:11 Whatever happened to that old saying, Love thy neighbour'?
01:18:16 You know, I think I'll start reviving that tomorrow.
01:18:20 Yeach, I'll begin with Miss Torso.
01:18:23 Not if I have to move into an apartment across the way...
01:18:29 And do the Dance of the Seven Veils' every hour.
01:18:34 Show's over for tonight.
01:18:41 Preview of coming attractions.
01:18:46 Did Mr Doyle think I stole this case?
01:18:50 No, Lisa, I don't think he did.
01:19:07 What do you think?
01:19:11 I will rephrase the question.
01:19:15 Do you like it?
01:19:18 Yes, I like it.
01:19:30 What's the matter?
01:19:34 Somebody's hurt?
01:19:36 Something's happened to the dog.
01:19:42 Somebody fall out a window?
01:19:45 I think it's a dog.
01:19:48 It's dead. It's been strangled. Its neck is broken.
01:19:54 Which one of you did it?
01:19:55 Which one of you killed my dog?
01:19:58 You don't know the meaning of the word neighbours'.
01:20:02 Neighbours like each other,
01:20:04 Speak to each other, care if anybody lives or dies!
01:20:09 But none of you do!
01:20:15 But I couldn't imagine any of you being so low
01:20:17 That you'd kill a helpless, friendly dog.
01:20:22 The only thing in this whole neighbourhood who liked anybody!
01:20:34 Did you kill him because he liked you? Just because he liked you?
01:20:42 Let's go inside.
01:20:47 Come on. Let's go back in.
01:21:01 You know, for a minute, that Tom Doyle almost had me
01:21:04 Convinced I was wrong.
01:21:05 But you're not?
01:21:07 In the courtyard, only one person didn't come to the window. Look.
01:21:18 Why would Thorwald want to kill a little dog?
01:21:23 Because it knew too much?
01:21:33 You think this is worth waiting all day to see?
01:21:36 Is he cleaning house?
01:21:37 He's washing down the bathroom walls.
01:21:40 Hm, must have splattered a lot.
01:21:45 Well, why not? That's what we're all thinking.
01:21:47 He killed her in there, he has to clean up those stains.
01:21:50 Oh, Stella, your choice of words.
01:21:53 Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.
01:21:59 Lisa, back there on that shelf, there's a little yellow box, you see it?
01:22:04 Top one?
01:22:06 And bring me the viewer there.
01:22:10 I just got a... These are about two weeks old.
01:22:15 I hope I took something else besides leg art. Now which one...
01:22:18 What are you looking for?
01:22:21 There's something, and if I'm right, I think I've solved a murder.
01:22:24 Mrs Thorwald?
01:22:27 No, the dog.
01:22:30 Uh-huh. I think I know why Thorwald killed that dog.
01:22:35 Here, now you take a look. Tell me what you see.
01:22:38 Now take it down.
01:22:40 Now look again.
01:22:42 Now take it down. You see?
01:22:46 It's just a picture of the backyard -
01:22:47 But with one important change. One important change.
01:22:52 Those flowers in Thorwald's pet flower bed.
01:22:56 You mean where the dog was sniffing around?
01:22:58 Where the dog was digging. Now look at those flowers.
01:23:01 Look, those two yellow zinnias on this end
01:23:05 Aren't as tall as they were.
01:23:07 Since when do flowers grow shorter in two weeks?
01:23:10 There's something buried there.
01:23:14 You haven't spent much time around cemeteries, have you?
01:23:17 Mr Thorwald could scarcely put his wife's body
01:23:20 In a plot of ground about one foot square.
01:23:23 Unless, of course, he put her in standing on end,
01:23:26 And then he wouldn't need a knife and saw.
01:23:29 No, my idea is she's scattered all over town.
01:23:32 Leg in the East River
01:23:35 No, no, no. There's something in there.
01:23:36 Those flowers have been taken out and put back in.
01:23:39 Maybe it's the knife and saw.
01:23:40 Call Lieutenant Doyle.
01:23:43 Let's wait till it gets a little darker, and I'll go over there and dig them up.
01:23:46 You'll go? You won't dig anything up and get your neck broken.
01:23:51 No, no, we've...
01:23:53 0We're not gonna call Doyle until I can produce Mrs Thorwald's body.
01:23:56 What we've got to do is find a way to get into that apartment.
01:23:59 He's packing.
01:24:01 Uh-oh.
01:24:03 Here, get me a pencil.
01:24:06 Stella, get me some note paper. It's up here someplace.
01:24:09 There it is.
01:25:24 You did it, Thorwald. You did it.
01:25:30 Look out, Lisa. He's coming.
01:25:32 If he ever
01:25:52 Thank heaven that's over.
01:25:59 Alright if I have a drink?
01:26:10 There's no doubt about it. He's leaving. Lt's just a question of when.
01:26:14 Mind if I use that portable keyhole?
01:26:18 Go ahead, just as long as you tell me what you're looking at.
01:26:27 I wonder...
01:26:30 Miss Lonelyhearts just laid out something that looks like
01:26:32 Rhodium tri-eckonal capsules.
01:26:34 You can tell from here?
01:26:37 To put everybody in Hackensack to sleep for the winter.
01:26:40 Does she have enough of them to
01:26:43 Wasn't that close?
01:26:46 What was his reaction when he looked at the note?
01:26:49 lt wasn't the kind of expression that would get him
01:26:51 A quick loan at the bank.
01:26:53 Jeff, the handbag!
01:27:19 Suppose Mrs Thorwald's wedding ring
01:27:22 Is among the jewellery he has in that handbag?
01:27:24 Now, during the phone conversation he held up three rings:
01:27:27 One with a diamond, one with a big stone of some sort,
01:27:30 And then just a plain gold band.
01:27:32 The last thing she would leave behind would be her wedding ring.
01:27:36 Stella, do you ever leave yours at home?
01:27:38 The only way anybody could get that ring would be to chop off my finger.
01:27:45 Let's go down and find out what's buried in the garden.
01:27:49 Why not? I've always wanted to meet Mrs Thorwald.
01:27:53 What are you two talking about
01:27:55 Of course I don't have a shovel.
01:27:56 There's probably one in the basement.
01:28:00 Squeamish? I'm not squeamish.
01:28:01 I just don't want you two to end up like that dog.
01:28:04 Oh, you know, Miss Fremont, he might just have something there.
01:28:08 Just hold on. Here, take this.
01:28:10 No sense taking any chances in this thing.
01:28:12 Here, give me the phone book.
01:28:15 What for?
01:28:17 Maybe I can get him out of that apartment.
01:28:19 We only need a few minutes.
01:28:21 I'll see if I can get about 15 minutes.
01:28:23 How?
01:28:26 Thorwald... Thorwald.
01:28:30 Chelsea 2-7099.
01:28:34 2-7099.
01:28:36 We scared him once, maybe we can scare him again.
01:28:39 I guess I'm using that word 'we a little freely.
01:28:42 You're taking all the chances.
01:28:45 Shall we vote him in, Stella?
01:28:48 2-7099. Look out.
01:28:53 Chelsea.
01:28:56 Chelsea.
01:29:15 Go on, pick it up, Thorwald.
01:29:18 Go on, you're curious.
01:29:20 You wonder if it's your girlfriend calling, the one you killed for.
01:29:23 Go on, pick it up.
01:29:29 Hello?
01:29:35 Well, did you get it, Thorwald?
01:29:37 Who are you?
01:29:38 I'll give you a chance to find out.
01:29:40 Meet me in the bar at the Albert Hotel.
01:29:43 Do it right away.
01:29:45 Why should I?
01:29:48 To settle the estate of your late wife.
01:29:52 I... Don't know what you mean.
01:29:55 Come on. Quit stalling, Thorwald,
01:29:57 Or I'll hang up and call the police.
01:29:59 I only have $100.
01:30:04 I'm at the Albert now. I'll be looking for you.
01:30:26 Come on, Stella, let's go.
01:30:27 One of you keep an eye on this window.
01:30:29 If I see him coming back, I'll signal with a flashbulb.
01:32:03 This is the Doyle residence.
01:32:05 Hello, this is L B Jefferies. I'm a friend of Mr Doyle.
01:32:09 Who's this?
01:32:11 Oh, uh... When do you expect them in?
01:32:14 They went to dinner and maybe a nightclub.
01:32:19 I see, hm.
01:32:20 If he calls in, have him get in touch with L B Jefferies?
01:32:24 I might have quite a surprise for him.
01:32:26 Well, do we have your number, Mr Jefferies?
01:32:29 He has it. Good night.
01:32:48 Ah, Stella was wrong about Miss Lonelyhearts.
01:33:23 Lisa, what are you... Don't...
01:33:30 Don't...
01:33:40 Lisa, what are you doing? Don't go...
01:33:58 Li...
01:34:16 Come on, come on! Get out of there!
01:34:24 She said ring Thorwald's phone the second you see him come back.
01:34:28 We'll ring right now! Give her another minute.
01:34:35 Alright, fellows, let's try it once from the beginning.
01:34:37 Miss Lonelyhearts.
01:34:39 Oh, call the police!
01:34:44 Operator.
01:34:46 Yes, sir.
01:34:59 Mr Jefferies, the music stopped her.
01:35:09 What... Lisa!
01:35:12 0Lisa!
01:35:25 Precinct Six, Sergeant Allgood.
01:35:27 Hello. Look, a man is assaulting a woman at 125 West Ninth Street,
01:35:31 Second floor, at the rear.
01:35:34 Make it fast!
01:35:36 Your name?
01:35:38 Phone number?
01:35:41 Two minutes.
01:36:01 The door was open.
01:36:17 Oh...
01:36:23 I told you...
01:36:27 Let go of me! Jeff!
01:36:29 Oh, no!
01:36:32 Jeff!
01:36:35 Lisa!
01:36:37 Stella, what do we do?
01:36:40 Jeff! Jeff!
01:37:32 What's she trying to do? Why doesn't she turn him in?
01:37:34 She's a smart girl.
01:37:37 lt'll get her out of there, won't it?
01:37:42 Look, the wedding ring!
01:37:49 Turn off the light! He's seen us!
01:38:01 How long do you think he'll stay there?
01:38:03 Unless he's dumber than I think, he won't wait until his lease is up.
01:38:07 Get my billfold out of the drawer in the table there.
01:38:09 What do you need money for?
01:38:12 You could leave her there till next Tuesday.
01:38:14 Then you could sneak safely away as planned.
01:38:17 Yeach, let's see, $127.
01:38:21 Well, this is first offence burglary, that's about $250.
01:38:25 Lisa's handbag.
01:38:28 How much does she have?
01:38:30 Here, take this.
01:38:34 What about the rest?
01:38:35 When those cops see Lisa, they'll even contribute.
01:38:43 Just a minute. Hurry up!
01:38:46 Jefferies.
01:38:49 Doyle, I've got something really big for you.
01:38:52 Why did I have to return your call?
01:38:54 Look! Don't louse up my night with another mad killer -
01:38:57 Listen to me! Listen to me! Lisa's in jail. She got arrested.
01:39:01 Your Lisa?
01:39:03 Boy, you should have seen her. She got into Thorwald's apartment,
01:39:07 But then he came back and the only way I could get her out,
01:39:09 Was call the police.
01:39:10 I told you -
01:39:11 She went in to get evidence, and she came out with evidence.
01:39:15 Like what?
01:39:19 If that woman was alive, she'd be wearing that ring, right?
01:39:23 Hm. Lt's a possibility.
01:39:26 He killed a dog last night
01:39:28 Because the dog was scratching around in the garden. You know why?
01:39:31 Because he had something buried in that garden that the dog scented.
01:39:34 Like an old ham bone?
01:39:35 I don't know what pet names Thorwald had for his wife,
01:39:38 But I'll tell you this:
01:39:39 All those trips at night with that metal suitcase,
01:39:43 He wasn't taking out his possessions,
01:39:44 Because his possessions are still up in the apartment.
01:39:47 'Do you think perhaps it was old ham bone?'
01:39:50 And I'll tell you something else.
01:39:53 All the telephone calls he made were long distance, alright?
01:39:56 Now, if he called his wife long distance on the day she left,
01:39:59 After she arrived in Merritsville,
01:40:01 Why did she write a card to him saying she arrived in Merritsville?
01:40:05 Why did she do that?
01:40:07 Where'd they take Lisa?
01:40:09 I sent somebody over with the bail money.
01:40:11 Maybe you won't need it. I'll run it down, Jeff.
01:40:13 Alright. Hurry up, will you? This fellow knows he's being watched.
01:40:17 He's not gonna wait around forever. Hurry up.
01:40:19 If that ring checks out, we'll give him an escort. So long, Jeff.
01:40:22 So long.
01:40:31 Hello, Tom.
01:40:32 I think Thorwald's left. I don't see...
01:40:37 Hello?
01:43:03 What do you want from me?
01:43:09 Your friend, the girl, could have turned me in. Why didn't she?
01:43:14 What is it you want, a lot of money? I don't have any money.
01:43:22 Say something.
01:43:25 Say something! Tell me what you want!
01:43:30 Can you get me that ring back?
01:43:34 No.
01:43:37 I can't. The police have it by now.
01:44:14 Lisa! Doyle!
01:44:24 What was that?
01:44:32 Look! Look over at that apartment! They're fighting!
01:44:42 Look, he's throwing him out the window!
01:44:52 Doyle!
01:44:57 Creele, give me your .38!
01:45:09 I'm sorry, Jeff. I got here as fast as I could.
01:45:11 Don't let anybody touch him. Get me a medical bag from upstairs.
01:45:14 Lisa, sweetie, if anything had happened to you -
01:45:17 I'm alright.
01:45:21 You got enough for a search warrant now?
01:45:23 Oh, yeach, sure.
01:45:25 Lieutenant Doyle.
01:45:27 Is he OK?
01:45:29 Thorwald's ready to take us on a tour of the East River.
01:45:37 Did he say what was buried in the flower bed?
01:45:39 Yeach. He said the dog got too inquisitive, so he dug it up.
01:45:44 It's in a hat box over in his apartment.
01:45:47 Want to look?
01:45:48 I don't want any part of her.
01:45:57 I hope it's gonna be a hit. This is the first release.
01:45:59 I'd love to hear it.
01:46:01 I can't tell you what this music has meant to me.
01:46:15 Oh, sweet little puppy.
01:46:18 Don't jump. Let's try it again, puppy.
01:46:21 Stay still. Stay.
01:46:31 0h Stanley!
01:46:35 My, look what the army's done for you!
01:46:40 The army's made me hungry.
01:46:42 What have you got in the icebox to eat?
01:46:44 Boy, it's good to be home.
01:46:50 If you had told me you'd quit your job,
01:46:52 We wouldn't have gotten married.
01:46:54 Oh, honey. Come on.