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00:02:07	Hello there, Mr. Neff.
00:02:21	- Working pretty late aren't you, Mr. Neff?
00:02:28	- You look kind of all in at that.
00:02:32	- How's the insurance business, Mr. Neff?
00:02:36	They wouldn't ever sell me any.
00:02:40	- Uh-huh.
00:02:44	Twelve.
00:04:41	Office memorandum
00:04:44	Walter Neff to Barton Keyes, Claims Manager.
00:04:48	Los Angeles, July 16th, 1938.
00:04:52	Dear Keyes:
00:04:55	I suppose you'll call this a confession when you hear it.
00:04:58	I don't like the word confession.
00:05:01	I just want to set you right about one thing you couldn't see,
00:05:06	You think you're such a hot potato as a claims manager,
00:05:11	Well, maybe you are, Keyes
00:05:13	but let's take a look at this Dietrichson claim
00:05:16	Accident and Double Indemnity.
00:05:19	You were pretty good in there for a while, Keyes.
00:05:23	You said it wasn't an accident. Check.
00:05:26	You said it wasn't suicide. Check.
00:05:29	You said it was murder.
00:05:32	Check.
00:05:34	You thought you had it cold, didn't you?
00:05:37	All wrapped up in tissue paper, with pink ribbons around it.
00:05:40	It was perfect
00:05:42	except that it wasn't, because you made a mistake
00:05:45	just one tiny little mistake.
00:05:49	When it came to picking the killer, you picked the wrong guy.
00:05:53	Want to know who killed Dietrichson?
00:05:57	Hold tight to that cheap cigar of yours, Keyes.
00:06:01	I killed Dietrichson.
00:06:03	Me, Walter Neff
00:06:05	insurance salesman, 35 years old, unmarried, no visible scars.
00:06:11	Until a little while ago, that is.
00:06:15	Yes, I killed him.
00:06:18	I killed him for money
00:06:20	and a woman
00:06:24	and I didn't get the money and I...
00:06:27	didn't get the woman.
00:06:30	Pretty, isn't it?
00:06:45	It began last May.
00:06:49	About the end of May, it was.
00:06:52	I had to run out to Glendale
00:06:56	On the way back I remembered
00:07:00	So I decided to run over there.
00:07:02	It was one of those California spanish houses
00:07:07	This one must have cost somebody about 30,000 bucks
00:07:10	that is, if he ever finished paying for it.
00:07:16	- Mr. Dietrichson in?
00:07:18	- The name is Neff. Walter Neff.
00:07:21	- It's Mr. Dietrichson I'd like to talk to, not subscriptions.
00:07:26	- How soon do you expect him?
00:07:29	- What is it, Nettie? Who is it?
00:07:33	- I'm Mrs. Dietrichson. What is it?
00:07:37	- I'm Walter Neff, Pacific All-Risk.
00:07:40	Pacific All-Risk Insurance Company.
00:07:45	I've been trying to contact your husband for the past
00:07:48	Is there anything I can do?
00:07:50	The insurance ran out on the fifteenth.
00:07:53	a smashed fender or something while you're not fully covered.
00:07:58	Perhaps I know what you mean, Mr. Neff.
00:08:01	- I've just been taking a sun bath.
00:08:05	- About those policies, Mrs. Dietrichson... I hate to take up your time...
00:08:10	If you can wait till I put something on, I'll be right down.
00:08:12	Nettie, show Mr. Neff into the living room.
00:08:18	- Where would the living room be?
00:08:22	That's okay. I always carry my own keys.
00:08:32	The living room was still stuffy from last night's cigars.
00:08:37	The windows were closed
00:08:39	the Venetian blinds showed up the dust in the air.
00:08:43	On the piano, in couple of fancy frames,
00:08:51	They had a bowl of those little red
00:08:56	but, to tell you the truth, Keyes,
00:09:00	nor in auto renewals, nor in
00:09:04	I was thinking about that dame upstairs
00:09:08	and I wanted to see her again, close
00:09:19	- I wasn't long, was I?
00:09:21	I hope I've got my face on straight.
00:09:23	- It's perfect for my money.
00:09:26	- With two f's, like in Philadelphia. If you know the story.
00:09:29	The Philadelphia Story.
00:09:31	Suppose we sit down and you tell me about the insurance.
00:09:33	- My husband never tells me anything.
00:09:40	We've been handling this insurance for 3 years
00:09:47	That's a honey of an anklet
00:09:50	As I was saying, we'd hate to see the policies lapse.
00:09:53	Of course, we give him 30 days.
00:09:55	I guess he's been too busy down
00:09:58	Could I catch him home some evening for a few minutes?
00:10:00	- I suppose so. But he's never home much before eight.
00:10:04	- You're not connected with the Automobile Club, are you?
00:10:07	- Why?
00:10:11	- Do they have a better rate?
00:10:14	- No, he isn't.
00:10:19	I never knock the other
00:10:22	The Automobile Club is fine.
00:10:24	I can do just as well for you, though.
00:10:28	It wouldn't take me two minutes
00:10:31	For instance, we're writing a new kind of
00:10:36	- You're a smart insurance man, aren't you, Mr. Neff?
00:10:40	- Doing pretty well?
00:10:44	- You handle just automobile insurance or all kinds?
00:10:48	public liability, group insurance, industrial stuff and so on.
00:10:52	- Accident insurance?
00:10:58	I wish you'd tell me what's engraved on that anklet.
00:11:02	- Just my name.
00:11:06	- Phyllis.
00:11:10	- But you're not sure?
00:11:15	Mr. Neff, why don't you drop by tomorrow evening about 8:30 ?
00:11:18	- He'll be in then.
00:11:19	My husband. You were anxious to talk to him weren't you?
00:11:23	Yeah I was but I'm only getting
00:11:27	There's a speed limit in this state, Mr. Neff. 45 miles an hour.
00:11:31	- How fast was I going, officer?
00:11:34	Suppose you get down off your motorcycle and give me a ticket.
00:11:37	- Suppose I let you off with a warning this time.
00:11:41	Suppose I have to whack you over the knuckles.
00:11:43	Suppose I bust out crying and put my head on your shoulder.
00:11:46	- Suppose you try putting it on my husband's shoulder.
00:11:55	- Eight-thirty tomorrow evening then, Mrs. Dietrichson.
00:11:59	- Will you be here, too?
00:12:01	- Same chair, same perfume, same anklet?
00:12:07	I wonder if you wonder.
00:12:12	It was a hard-afternoon and I can still
00:12:18	How could I have known that murder
00:12:22	Maybe you would've known Keyes
00:12:26	But I didn't. I felt like a million.
00:12:30	I went back to the office to see if I had any mail.
00:12:33	It was the day you had that truck driver
00:12:38	Oh, Mr. Neff, Mr. Keyes wants to see you.
00:12:42	Is he sore, or just frothing at the mouth a little?
00:12:55	C'mon, Gorlopis. You're not kidding anybody
00:12:59	- Sez you. All I want is my money.
00:13:04	- Come in, Walter. This is Sam Gorlopis from Inglewood.
00:13:08	- Wrote a policy on his truck. How are you, Mr. Gorlopis?
00:13:14	Yeah! Now look, Gorlopis.
00:13:16	Every month hundreds of claims come to this desk.
00:13:19	Some of them are phonies, and I know which ones.
00:13:25	- What little man?
00:13:29	Every time one of those phonies comes along
00:13:33	And yours was one of them, Gorlopis.
00:13:36	So what did I do?
00:13:38	I sent a tow car out to your garage this afternoon
00:13:43	And what did they find?
00:13:44	- They found what was left of a pile of shavings.
00:13:49	The ones you soaked with
00:13:54	- Look, mister, I'm just a poor guy. Maybe I made a mistake.
00:14:01	- I ain't feelin' so good, Mr. Keyes.
00:14:06	- Sign what?
00:14:15	- Now you're an honest man again. Goodbye, Gorlopis.
00:14:20	$2600. That's a lot of dough where I live.
00:14:23	What's the matter, Gorlopis?
00:14:25	Just put your hand on the knob, turn it to the left
00:14:29	- pull it toward you... that's the boy.
00:14:40	What kind of an outfit is this anyway?
00:14:42	Are we an insurance company,
00:14:44	- ...writing a policy on a mugg like that?
00:14:48	I clipped a note to that Gorlopis application to have him
00:14:51	I know you did, Walter. I'm not beefing at you.
00:14:54	The way they don't do things. The way they'll write
00:14:58	And I'm the guy that has to sit
00:15:01	so they won't throw more money out of
00:15:04	- Okay, turn the record over and let's hear the other side.
00:15:08	of fast-talking salesmen dumb enough to sell life
00:15:11	with four rattlesnakes.
00:15:13	- I've had 26 years of that, and I...
00:15:18	Only you worry about it too much,
00:15:22	You're so darn conscientious
00:15:25	You wouldn't even say today is
00:15:27	and then you would check if it
00:15:30	and then you would find out
00:15:31	then find out if their calendar
00:15:33	That's enough from you, Walter.
00:15:42	I love you, too.
00:15:51	I really did, too, you old crab, always yelling
00:15:56	You never fooled me... not for a second.
00:16:00	The kind I always knew that behind the cigar ashes
00:16:06	Back in my office there was a phone message
00:16:10	She didn't want me to come tomorrow evening.
00:16:13	She wanted me to come
00:16:18	I had a lot of stuff lined up for that Thursday afternoon,
00:16:21	including a trip down to Santa Monica to see a couple
00:16:27	But I kept thinking about Phyllis Dietrichson
00:16:40	Hello, Mr. Neff. Aren't you coming in?
00:16:44	I'm considering it.
00:16:47	I hope you didn't mind my changing the appointment.
00:16:51	- That's alright. I was working on my stamp collection.
00:16:56	- Would you like a glass?
00:16:59	There might be some.
00:17:07	- About those renewals, Mr. Neff.
00:17:11	- You did?
00:17:13	In fact, I thought he'd be here this afternoon.
00:17:16	- But he's not?
00:17:21	Nettie!... Nettie!... Oh, I forgot, it's the maid's day off.
00:17:27	- Nevermind the beer, ice tea will be fine.
00:17:31	Fix it your way.
00:17:34	Seeing it's the maid's day off maybe there's something
00:17:40	- Fresh.
00:17:44	- Not much money but you learn a lot about life.
00:17:51	Where did you pick up this tea drinking?
00:17:53	- You're not English, are you?
00:17:58	They say native Californians all come from Iowa.
00:18:02	- Mr. Neff, I.....
00:18:05	- Walter.
00:18:07	- Tell me, Walter... how much commission do you make?
00:18:13	- I thought maybe I could throw more business your way.
00:18:17	I was thinking about my husband. I worry a lot
00:18:22	- Not for an executive, is it?
00:18:25	He's right down there with the
00:18:28	You mean some dark night
00:18:31	- Please don't talk like that.
00:18:33	The other day a casing line snapped and caught
00:18:38	- Bad.
00:18:42	- Suppose something like that happened to my husband?
00:18:47	- Don't you think he ought to have accident insurance?
00:18:52	- What kind of insurance could he have?
00:18:56	Say a 100 and 25 a week cash benefit.
00:19:01	- Capital sum? What's that?
00:19:05	Maybe I shouldn't have said that.
00:19:08	- I suppose you have to think of everything in your business.
00:19:11	I'm sure I could sell him on the idea of some
00:19:15	- You could try. But he's pretty tough going.
00:19:21	He's got a lot on his mind. He doesn't seem to want to
00:19:27	- Sometimes we sit all evening without a word to each other.
00:19:33	- So I just sit and knit.
00:19:38	Maybe I like the way his thumbs hold up the wool.
00:19:42	Anytime his thumbs get tired...
00:19:46	Wouldn't I?
00:19:51	Why not a little rum that gets this up on its feet?
00:19:57	I want to ask you something, Walter.
00:20:02	- Could I get him an accident policy without bothering him?
00:20:06	That would make it easier for you, too.
00:20:09	I have a little allowance of my own.
00:20:17	- Why shouldn't he know?
00:20:20	- He's superstitious about it.
00:20:24	If there was a way to get it
00:20:29	- You see what I mean, Walter?
00:20:32	You want him to have the policy without him knowing it.
00:20:35	And that means without the insurance
00:20:38	- That's the set-up, isn't it?
00:20:41	No, I think it's lovely.
00:20:43	And then, some dark wet night, if a crown block fell on him...
00:20:46	Only sometimes it can't quite make
00:20:50	- I don't know what you're talking about.
00:20:52	It can be a car backing over him,
00:20:55	- Any little thing like that, as long as it's a morgue job.
00:20:59	Not that crazy.
00:21:02	- Goodbye, Mrs. Dietrichson.
00:21:06	Look, baby, you can't get away with it.
00:21:11	- You want to knock him off, don't you.
00:21:14	Who'd you think I was, anyway?
00:21:15	A guy that walks into a good-looking dame's front parlor
00:21:19	You got one that's been around too long?
00:21:23	Just give me a smile and I'll help you collect."
00:21:26	- I think you're rotten.
00:21:31	- Get out of here.
00:21:46	So I let her have it, straight between the eyes.
00:21:51	I knew I had hold of a redhot poker and the
00:21:56	I stopped at a drive-in for a bottle
00:22:00	only I wanted it worse now, to get rid of the sour
00:22:06	I didn't want to go back to the office, so I dropped by
00:22:12	to get my mind thinking about something else for a while.
00:22:16	I didn't feel like eating dinner
00:22:20	so I drove home, put the car away
00:22:25	It had begun to rain outside and I watched it
00:22:30	That didn't help me either. I was all twisted up
00:22:37	And right then it came over me that I hadn't walked out on anything at all,
00:22:41	that the hook was too strong,
00:22:46	It was only the beginning.
00:22:49	So at eight o'clock the bell would ring
00:22:53	as if it was the most natural thing in the world.
00:23:00	- Hello. You forgot your hat this afternoon.
00:23:05	- Don't you want me to bring it in?
00:23:10	Put it on the chair.
00:23:20	- How did you know where I live?
00:23:24	- It's raining.
00:23:27	Peel off your coat and sit down.
00:23:32	- Your husband out?
00:23:35	He phoned he'd be late. About 9:30.
00:23:38	- It's about time you said you're glad to see me.
00:23:42	- Like what?
00:23:45	I must have said something that
00:23:48	You must never think anything
00:23:51	- Okay.
00:23:54	- What do you want me to do?
00:23:59	- Like the first time you came to the house.
00:24:04	- Something has happened.
00:24:08	It's happened to us.
00:24:12	I feel as if he was watching me.
00:24:17	But he keeps me on a leash.
00:24:20	- He's in Long Beach, isn't he? Relax.
00:24:25	- Maybe you oughtn't.
00:24:28	- If you want to.
00:24:31	Sure. Right now.
00:24:48	- I'm crazy about you, baby.
00:24:51	- That perfume on your hair. What's the name of it?
00:24:58	We ought to have some of that pink wine
00:25:02	But all I have is bourbon.
00:25:04	Bourbon is fine, Walter.
00:25:13	Get a couple of glasses, will you.
00:25:23	- Soda?
00:25:26	You know, about six months ago a guy slipped on the soap
00:25:32	Only he had accident insurance. So they
00:25:37	- Who didn't?
00:25:41	There was another case where a guy was found shot and
00:25:48	All she collected was a three-to-ten stretch in Tehachapi.
00:25:52	Perhaps it was worth it to her.
00:25:56	See if you can carry this as far as the living room.
00:26:02	- It's nice here, Walter. Who takes care of it for you?
00:26:08	- Cook your own breakfast?
00:26:11	- The rest I get at the corner drugstore.
00:26:16	You don't know them. You don't hate them.
00:26:19	You don't have to sit across the table and smile at him
00:26:24	- What daughter? Oh, that little girl on the piano.
00:26:29	He thinks a lot more of her than he does of me.
00:26:32	- Ever think of a divorce?
00:26:35	- I suppose because it would cost him money.
00:26:39	But he had when you married him?
00:26:41	Yes, he had. And I wanted a home. Why not?
00:26:46	But that wasn't the only reason.
00:26:49	I was his wife's nurse. She was sick for a long time.
00:26:51	When she died, he was all broken up.
00:26:54	- I.... pitied him so.
00:26:57	Yes, Walter. He's so mean to me.
00:27:00	Every-time I buy a dress or a pair of shoes
00:27:04	He keeps me shut up. He's always been mean to me.
00:27:07	Even his life insurance all goes to that daughter of his.
00:27:11	- That Lola.
00:27:14	No. And nothing is just what I'm worth to him.
00:27:17	So you lie awake in the dark
00:27:21	Walter, I don't want to kill him. I never did.
00:27:24	Not even when he gets drunk and slaps my face.
00:27:30	- Only sometimes you wish he was dead.
00:27:33	And you wish it was an accident
00:27:37	- Is that it?
00:27:41	The other night we drove home
00:27:45	When we got into the garage he just sat there with
00:27:51	And I thought what it would be like if I didn't switch it off
00:27:55	- ...just closed the garage door and left him there.
00:27:59	if you had that accident policy, and tried to pull
00:28:04	For him a set-up like that would be
00:28:07	In 3 minutes he'd know it wasn't an accident.
00:28:11	- In half an hour you'd be signing your name to a confession.
00:28:15	Not if there's an insurance company in the picture, baby.
00:28:20	And if there's a death mixed up
00:28:22	They'll hang you as sure as ten dimes will buy a dollar.
00:28:26	And I don't want you to hang, baby.
00:28:31	Stop thinking about it, will you.
00:28:36	So we just sat there, and she started
00:28:41	and we didn't say anything. Maybe she had
00:28:46	I couldn't. Because it all tied up with
00:28:50	since long before I ever ran into Phyllis Dietrichson.
00:28:54	Because, in this business you can't sleep for
00:29:01	You're like the guy behind the roulette wheel, watching
00:29:06	And then one night, you get to thinking
00:29:09	And do it smart. Because you've
00:29:13	And you know every notch in it by heart.
00:29:15	And you figure all you need is a plant out in front
00:29:18	a shill to put down the bet.
00:29:21	And suddenly the doorbell rings and the whole
00:29:29	Look, Keyes, I'm not trying to whitewash myself.
00:29:33	I fought it, only... I guess I didn't fight it hard enough.
00:29:38	The stakes were $50,000,
00:29:42	a man who'd never done me any dirt, except...
00:29:45	he was married to a woman
00:29:49	and I did...
00:30:03	Will you phone me?
00:30:05	Walter!
00:30:09	I hate him. I loathe going back to him.
00:30:13	Sure I believe you.
00:30:18	- I can't stand it anymore. What if they did hang me?
00:30:23	- It's better than going on this way.
00:30:28	- Do you know what you're saying?
00:30:30	We're gonna do it and we're gonna
00:30:34	- Walter, you're hurting me.
00:30:37	Nothing sloppy. Nothing weak.
00:30:53	Call me tomorrow. But not from your house.
00:30:57	It's got to be perfect, understand.
00:31:01	Straight down the line.
00:31:46	That was it Keyes.
00:31:48	The machine reels started the movement
00:31:52	The first thing we had to do was
00:31:56	I knew he wouldn't buy, but all I wanted
00:32:00	So I had to make him sign
00:32:04	And I wanted a witness besides Phyllis
00:32:09	I was trying to think with your brains, Keyes.
00:32:13	questions you were going to spring
00:32:17	A couple of nights later I went to the house.
00:32:21	Everything looked fine,
00:32:25	It was Dietrichson's daughter Lola
00:32:28	and it made me feel a little queer in the belly to....
00:32:31	have her sitting right there
00:32:35	as if nothing was going to happen.
00:32:38	I suppose you realize, Mr. Dietrichson,
00:32:41	you are not covered by
00:32:45	The only way you can protect yourself
00:32:47	Yeah! I know all about that.
00:32:50	I need earthquake insurance
00:32:54	If we bought all the insurance they can think up,
00:32:57	What keeps us broke is you going out and buying five
00:33:03	Dollar for dollar, accident insurance
00:33:07	- Maybe some other time, Mr. Neff. I had a tough day.
00:33:11	- Suppose we just settle that automobile insurance tonight.
00:33:16	All we need on that is for you
00:33:19	- Phyllis, mind if we don't finish this game? It bores me stiff.
00:33:24	Yes, I have.
00:33:26	- Father, is it all right if I run along now?
00:33:30	- Just Anne. We're going roller skating.
00:33:32	- Anne Matthews.
00:33:35	- It better not be that Zachetti guy. If I ever catch you...
00:33:40	I also told you we're going roller skating.
00:33:43	the north-west corner, in case
00:33:47	I hope that is all clear. Father.
00:33:50	- Good night, Phyllis.
00:33:52	- Oh, I'm sorry. Good night, Mr...
00:33:54	Good night, Mr. Neff.
00:33:59	A great little fighter for her weight.
00:34:03	- Now if you just sign these, Mr. Dietrichson.
00:34:06	The applications for your auto renewals.
00:34:09	- When will that be?
00:34:11	- Just so I'm covered when I drive up North.
00:34:14	- Palo Alto.
00:34:16	- And he still goes to his class reunion every year.
00:34:20	- Can't I have a little fun even once a year?
00:34:24	- Did you play football, Mr. Dietrichson?
00:34:28	- Where do I sign?
00:34:34	- Both copies, please.
00:34:37	- One is the agent's copy. I need it for my files.
00:34:48	Thank you, Mr. Dietrichson.
00:34:49	No hurry about the check, Mr. Dietrichson.
00:34:52	- How much you taking me for?
00:34:54	- I guess that's enough insurance for one evening, Mr. Neff.
00:35:02	Bring me some soda when you come up, Phyllis.
00:35:05	- Good night, Mr. Dietrichson.
00:35:24	Good night, Mr. Neff.
00:35:29	- All right, Walter?
00:35:30	- He signed it, didn't he?
00:35:32	- Listen. That trip to Palo Alto When does he go?
00:35:34	- He drives, huh?
00:35:36	- Not this time. You're going to make him take the train.
00:35:37	Because it's all worked out for a train. Listen, baby.
00:35:40	There's a clause in every accident policy,
00:35:44	The insurance companies put it in
00:35:46	It means they pay double on certain accidents.
00:35:49	The kind that almost never happen.
00:35:51	Like for instance if a guy got killed on a train
00:35:53	- they'd pay a $100,000 instead of $50,000.
00:35:56	We're hitting it for the limit, baby.
00:36:02	It'll be the train, Walter. Just the way you want it.
00:36:05	Straight down the line.
00:36:26	Hello, Mr. Neff.
00:36:29	It's me.
00:36:31	- Anything wrong?
00:36:34	- For me? Why?
00:36:43	- Which way would that be?
00:36:47	Oh, sure. Vermont and Franklin.
00:36:50	Be glad to, Miss Dietrichson.
00:36:55	- Roller skating, eh? You like roller skating?
00:37:02	Only tonight you're leaving it?
00:37:04	Yes, I am.
00:37:07	I'm having a very tough time at home.
00:37:09	My father doesn't understand me and Phyllis hates me.
00:37:13	- That does sound tough, all right.
00:37:17	- You mean it's not Vermont and Franklin?
00:37:20	Only it's not Anne Matthews.
00:37:22	It's Nino Zachetti.
00:37:24	- You won't tell on me, will you?
00:37:27	Nino's not what my father says at all.
00:37:31	He was doing pre-med at U.S.C. and working
00:37:35	He got behind in his credits and flunked out.
00:37:38	Then he lost his job for talking back.
00:37:41	He's so hot-headed.
00:37:44	- That comes expensive, doesn't it?
00:37:47	except maybe the guy that owns Standard Oil.
00:37:52	I can't give Nino up.
00:37:55	- It'll straighten out all right, Miss Dietrichson.
00:37:59	This is the corner right here, Mr. Neff.
00:38:04	Nino! Over here Nino!
00:38:15	- This is Mr. Neff, Nino.
00:38:18	- The name is Zachetti.
00:38:20	Mr. Neff gave me a ride from the house.
00:38:23	- Why does he have to get told about us?
00:38:27	- I'm not worrying. Just don't you broadcast so much.
00:38:31	- He's a friend.
00:38:34	And if I did, I like to pick them myself. C'mon!
00:38:36	Look, sonny, she needed the ride and I brought her along.
00:38:41	- All right, Lola, make up your mind. Coming or not?
00:38:48	Don't mind him, Mr. Neff.
00:38:59	She was a nice kid
00:39:01	and maybe he was a little better than he sounded.
00:39:04	But right then it gave me
00:39:08	with that briefcase right behind
00:39:11	And what that signature meant.
00:39:14	He was a dead pigeon.
00:39:16	It was only a question of time, not much time at then.
00:39:20	You know that big market up on Los Feliz, Keyes?
00:39:23	That's the place Phyllis
00:39:27	I already had most of the plan in my head,
00:39:32	And she had to know them
00:39:36	We had to be very careful from now on.
00:39:38	We couldn't let anybody see us together.
00:39:41	We couldn't even talk
00:39:44	Not from her house or at my office anyway.
00:39:47	So she used to be in the market
00:39:52	And I could sort of run into
00:39:56	Sort of accidentally on purpose.
00:39:59	- Walter, I ....
00:40:03	- I wanted to talk to you ever since yesterday.
00:40:06	It's all set. The accident policy
00:40:09	I got his check too.
00:40:11	I saw him down in the oil fields.
00:40:14	The check's just made out
00:40:17	But you have to send a check for the auto insurance, see.
00:40:20	It's all right that way,
00:40:23	Quick, open your bag.
00:40:30	- Can you get into his safe deposit box?
00:40:33	Fine. But don't put the policy in there yet.
00:40:36	- And remember, you never touched it
00:40:38	- I'm not a fool.
00:40:42	- That's just it. He isn't going.
00:40:43	- That's what I've been trying to tell you. The trip is off.
00:40:48	Mister, could you reach me
00:40:55	I don't see why they always have
00:41:01	- Go ahead. I'm listening.
00:41:04	- Broke his leg?
00:41:07	- Nothing. Just wait.
00:41:10	- Until he can take a train. I told you it's got to be a train.
00:41:14	- We won't grab a hammer and do it fast, just to get over it.
00:41:18	Only we're not going to do it other ways.
00:41:20	But we can't leave it like this. What do you think
00:41:23	- Plenty. But not as bad as sitting in that death-house.
00:41:27	- Just don't let's start losing our heads.
00:41:35	Excuse me.
00:41:39	- We're going to do it right. That's all I said.
00:41:43	It's getting me just as bad, baby. But we've got to wait.
00:41:45	Maybe we have, Walter. Only...
00:41:47	it's so tough without you.
00:41:50	It's like a wall between us.
00:41:53	I better go baby. I'm thinking of you every minute.
00:42:02	After that a full week went by and I didn't see her once.
00:42:06	I tried to keep my mind off her and off the whole idea.
00:42:10	I kept telling myself that maybe those fates watching over
00:42:16	Then it was the 15th of June.
00:42:19	You may remember that date, Keyes.
00:42:22	You came into my office around 3 in the afternoon...
00:42:26	Hello, Keyes.
00:42:27	I just came from Norton's office.
00:42:28	The semi-annual sales records are out.
00:42:31	- That's twice in a row. Congratulations.
00:42:34	How would you like a cheap drink?
00:42:36	How would you like a $50 cut in salary?
00:42:39	- Do I laugh now or wait until it gets funny?
00:42:42	There's too much stuff piling up on my desk.
00:42:45	I spend half the night walking up and down in my bed.
00:42:49	- I thought that you...
00:42:51	- Because I've got a crazy idea you might be good at the job.
00:42:54	- I'm a salesman.
00:42:59	- You're too good to be a salesman.
00:43:01	Phooey. All you guys do is ring doorbells
00:43:06	- What's troubling you is that 50 buck cut, isn't it?
00:43:09	Look, Walter. The job I'm talking about
00:43:12	It takes more guts than there is in 50 salesman.
00:43:15	- It's the hottest job in the business.
00:43:18	A desk job. Is that all you can see in it?
00:43:21	Just a hard chair to park your pants on from nine to five.
00:43:24	Just a pile of papers to shuffle around, and five
00:43:29	maybe a little doodling on the side.
00:43:31	That's not the way I see it, Walter.
00:43:33	To me a claims man is a surgeon
00:43:36	and that desk is an operating table, and those pencils
00:43:40	And those papers are not just forms
00:43:44	They're alive!
00:43:46	They're packed with drama!
00:43:50	A claims man, Walter,
00:43:56	Who?
00:43:57	Okay, hold on a minute.
00:43:58	A claims man is a doctor and
00:44:01	and a jury and a father confessor, all in one.
00:44:03	And you want to tell me you're not interested.
00:44:05	All you want to work with is your finger on a doorbell.
00:44:09	There's a dame on your phone.
00:44:12	- Walter Neff speaking.
00:44:15	- Are you with somebody?
00:44:21	I've only got a minute. It can't wait.
00:44:24	Listen. He's going tonight. On the train.
00:44:27	- Are you listening? Walter!
00:44:31	Only uh... make it snappy will you?
00:44:33	He's on crutches. The doctor says he can go if he's careful.
00:44:37	It's wonderful, Walter.
00:44:40	- Only with the crutches it's ever so much better, isn't it?
00:44:44	One hundred percent better.
00:44:46	- Hold the line, okay? Keyes, suppose I join your office...
00:44:55	- Go ahead.
00:44:59	Is it still that same dark street, isn't it?
00:45:03	- Okay, anything else?
00:45:09	- What color did you pick?
00:45:11	And the cast on his left leg.
00:45:15	- That suits me fine.
00:45:18	I'm shaking like a leaf.
00:45:22	I love you, Walter. Goodbye.
00:45:27	- Sorry, Keyes.
00:45:30	- Or is it none of my business?
00:45:32	Margie! I bet she drinks from the bottle.
00:45:35	- Why don't you settle down and get married, Walter?
00:45:39	- I almost did, once. A long time ago.
00:45:43	We even had the church picked out, the dame and I.
00:45:48	And I was on my way out
00:45:51	- Then suddenly that little man in here started working on me.
00:45:55	Yeah. And the stuff that came out.
00:45:59	She'd been dyeing her hair ever since she was sixteen.
00:46:01	And there was a manic-depressive in her family on
00:46:05	- ...a professional pool player in Baltimore. As for her brother...
00:46:10	- She was a tramp from a long line of tramps.
00:46:15	- How about that job I want you for?
00:46:18	- Thanks, just the same.
00:46:21	Only get this:
00:46:23	I picked you for the job,
00:46:26	but because I thought maybe you were
00:46:36	Guess I was wrong. You're not smarter,
00:46:53	Yes, Keyes. Those fates I was talking about
00:46:58	Now they had thrown the switch. The gears had meshed.
00:47:02	The time for thinking had all run out.
00:47:05	I wanted my movements accounted
00:47:08	So when I left the office I put my rate book
00:47:13	That was part of the alibi.
00:47:16	From here on there was a question
00:47:22	I got home about seven and drove right into the garage.
00:47:25	This was another item to establish my alibi.
00:47:29	- Hiya there, Mr. Neff.
00:47:32	- How about giving the heap a wash?
00:47:36	- Anytime you get to it, Charlie. I'm staying in tonight.
00:47:40	Up in my apartment I called Lou Schwartz,
00:47:44	He lived in Westwood. That made it a toll call
00:47:48	I told him I had forgotten my rate book and needed
00:47:53	I changed into a navy blue suit
00:47:57	Lou Schwartz called me back
00:48:01	I stuffed a hand towel and a roll of adhesive tape into my
00:48:07	Next I stuck a card inside the telephone box,
00:48:12	That way I would know there had been a
00:48:16	Then I did the same thing to the
00:48:20	I left the apartment by the service stairs. Nobody saw me.
00:48:25	I walked all the way from
00:48:29	I didn't want to take the bus because there was a chance
00:48:33	I was being that careful.
00:48:36	I could smell that honeysuckle again,
00:48:46	I slipped the garage door open as quietly as I could.
00:48:50	She backed the car in, just the way I told her to.
00:48:53	I figured it was safer that way, in case he got
00:48:57	I got into the back of the car.
00:49:00	I laid there on the floor and waited.
00:49:03	All the time I was thinking about that dark street
00:49:08	and the three honks on the horn
00:49:10	About ten minutes later they came down.
00:49:13	- You all right, honey?
00:49:15	I'll have the car out in a second.
00:49:54	- Take it easy, honey. We've got lots of time.
00:50:17	Remember what the doctor said. If you get careless
00:50:20	So what? I could break the other one
00:50:25	- Makes you feel pretty good to get away from me, doesn't it?
00:50:28	I'll be back Monday at the latest.
00:50:47	This is not the right street. Why did you turn here?
00:50:54	What are you doing that for?
00:50:58	What are you honking the horn for?
00:52:00	- You take care of the redcap and the conductor.
00:52:03	- Keep them away from me as you can. I don't want help.
00:52:07	You start just as soon as the train leaves.
00:52:10	When you get to the dairy turn off
00:52:12	From there it's exactly 8/10
00:52:15	- Remember?
00:52:19	You don't want any cops
00:52:22	- Walter, we've been through all that so many times!
00:52:27	I'll be back in the observation platform.
00:52:32	Let the train pass, then blink your lights twice.
00:52:37	- San Francisco train, lady?
00:52:40	Car 9, section 11. This way please.
00:52:51	- Thank you. My husband doesn't like to be helped.
00:53:00	Car 9, section 11. Thank you.
00:53:06	- Here's the tickets. Take good care of yourself with that leg.
00:53:10	I'll miss you, honey.
00:53:12	Section 11, suh.
00:53:15	- All aboard!
00:53:17	Good bye, honey.
00:53:25	Good luck, honey!
00:53:36	- Can you make up my berth right away?
00:53:38	- I'm going back to the observation car for a smoke.
00:54:14	You'd like a chair?
00:54:17	No thanks, I'd rather stand.
00:54:22	- You going far?
00:54:26	- My name's Jackson. I'm going to Medford. Medford, Oregon.
00:54:31	Had a broken arm myself once.
00:54:33	That darn cast sure itches something fierce, don't it?
00:54:39	- Palo Alto's a nice little town. You a Stanford man?
00:54:46	- Oh-oh.... I bet you left something behind. I always do.
00:54:51	- Must have left it in my overcoat back in the section.
00:54:57	Dietrichson. No, thanks. I really prefer cigars.
00:55:02	- Maybe the porter could....
00:55:07	- Oh, if it's not too much trouble. Car 9, section 11.
00:55:57	Okay. This is got to be fast. Take his hat
00:56:31	Okay, baby. That's it.
00:57:31	All right, let's go.
00:57:43	On the way back we went over once more what
00:57:48	and about the insurance, when that came up.
00:57:50	I was afraid she might go to pieces a little,
00:57:55	No nerves. Not a tear, not even a blink of the eyes...
00:57:59	She dropped me a block from my apartment house.
00:58:03	Walter!
00:58:05	What's the matter? Aren't you going to kiss me?
00:58:11	It's straight down the line, isn't it?
00:58:18	- I love you, Walter.
00:58:35	It was two minutes past 11
00:58:39	Nobody saw me this time either.
00:58:41	In the apartment I checked the bells.
00:58:45	No calls. No visitors.
00:58:47	Then I changed my clothes again.
00:58:50	That left one last thing to do.
00:58:52	I had to go down to the garage.
00:58:55	I wanted Charlie to see me again.
00:59:03	- You going to use your car after all? I'm not quite through.
00:59:08	Just going up the drug store for something to eat.
00:59:10	- Working upstairs all evening. My stomach's getting sore.
00:59:17	That was all there was to it.
00:59:19	Nothing had slipped, nothing had been
00:59:24	And yet, Keyes, as I was walking down
00:59:27	suddenly it came over me
00:59:31	It sounds crazy, Keyes, but it's true so help me:
00:59:34	I couldn't hear my own footsteps.
00:59:40	It was the walk of a dead man.
00:59:50	That was the longest night I ever lived through, Keyes
00:59:53	and the next day was worse,
00:59:57	and they started talking about it at the office
00:59:58	and the day after that when you started digging into it.
01:00:02	I kept my hands in my pockets
01:00:06	and I put on dark glasses
01:00:08	and then I took them off again so
01:00:12	I was trying to hold myself together, but...
01:00:15	I could feel my nerves pulling me to pieces....
01:00:21	- Oh, Walter.
01:00:24	- Come along, the big boss wants to see us.
01:00:28	- Must be.
01:00:30	The guy's dead, we had him insured
01:00:35	- What have you got so far?
01:00:39	...no predisposing medical cause of any kind.
01:00:41	He died of a broken neck.
01:00:43	- When is the inquest?
01:00:47	The train people and some passengers told
01:00:51	It was all over in 45 minutes. Verdict, accidental death.
01:00:57	- What do the police figure?
01:01:01	They're satisfied. It's not their dough.
01:01:04	Come on, Walter.
01:01:07	All right, thank you very much, gentlemen.
01:01:11	Please stand by. I may need you later.
01:01:14	Come in, Mr. Keyes! You too, Mr. Neff.
01:01:21	- You find this an uncomfortably warm day Mr. Keyes?
01:01:26	Sit down, gentlemen. Any new developments?
01:01:29	- I just talked to this Jackson long distance, Medford, Oregon.
01:01:32	The last guy that saw Dietrichson alive.
01:01:37	Dietrichson wanted a cigar and Jackson went
01:01:40	When he returned to the
01:01:43	Jackson didn't think anything was wrong until
01:01:47	They had found Dietrichson's body
01:01:50	- Very interesting, about the cigar case. Anything else?
01:01:54	Dietrichson's secretary says
01:01:57	There is a daughter. All she remembers is Neff talking to her
01:02:03	I couldn't sell him at first. Mrs. Dietrichson opposed it.
01:02:08	Later on I saw him in the oil fields and closed him.
01:02:11	- He signed the application and gave me his check.
01:02:15	There's no sense in pushing Neff around.
01:02:19	Are your salesmen supposed to know that
01:02:22	- Fall off a train? Are we sure Dietrichson fell off the train?
01:02:28	You don't, Mr. Keyes?
01:02:29	Then what do you think of this case?
01:02:32	- It contains a double indemnity clause. What's your opinion?
01:02:38	- Not even a hunch? One of those interesting hunches of yours?
01:02:42	I'm surprised, Mr. Keyes.
01:02:46	- I think I know... in fact I know I know what happened.
01:02:51	I know it was not an accident.
01:02:56	- What do you say to that?
01:03:00	You've got the ball. Let's see you run with it.
01:03:03	There's a widespread feeling
01:03:09	Yes?... Have her come in, please.
01:03:13	There's a widespread feeling
01:03:16	he must be an idiot.
01:03:18	- I'm having a visitor, if you don't mind.
01:03:20	No, no. I want you to stay and watch me handle this.
01:03:23	Mrs. Dietrichson.
01:03:29	Thank you very much for coming, Mrs. Dietrichson.
01:03:33	- This is Mr. Keyes.
01:03:35	- How do you do.
01:03:36	- I've met Mr. Neff. How do you do.
01:03:43	May I extend our sympathy in your bereavement.
01:03:45	I hesitated before asking you to come here so soon. But now
01:03:51	- You know why we asked you to come, don't you?
01:03:55	Your husband had an accident policy with this company.
01:03:59	- No. I remember some talk at the house but he didn't seem to want it.
01:04:05	- You'll probably find the policy among his personal effects.
01:04:10	It seems a tax examiner has to be present.
01:04:12	Please, Mrs. Dietrichson, I don't want you to think
01:04:15	- But there are a few things we should like to know.
01:04:18	We have the report of the coroner's inquest.
01:04:22	We are not entirely satisfied. In fact ...
01:04:25	we are not satisfied at all.
01:04:28	Frankly, Mrs. Dietrichson, we suspect ...
01:04:32	a suicide.
01:04:37	- I'm sorry. Would you like a glass of water?
01:04:45	Thank you.
01:04:52	Had your husband been moody
01:04:56	Did he seem to have financial
01:04:58	- He was all right and I don't know of any financial worries.
01:05:04	First, your husband takes out
01:05:09	- Because he doesn't want his family to suspect his intentions.
01:05:12	Next, he goes on this trip entirely alone. He has to be alone.
01:05:15	He hobbles all the way out to the observation platform,
01:05:22	Once there, he finds he is not alone. There is a man there.
01:05:25	- What was his name, Keyes?
01:05:29	So he gets rid of this Jackson
01:05:33	- And then he is alone. And then he does it.
01:05:36	He jumps. Suicide. In which case the company is not liable.
01:05:40	You know that, of course.
01:05:42	- Now we could go to court...
01:05:47	Just a moment, please. I said we could
01:05:51	What I want to suggest is a compromise on both sides.
01:05:54	- A settlement for a certain sum, a part of the policy value...
01:05:58	When I came in here I had no idea you owed me any money.
01:06:02	Now you tell me you want to pay me a part of it, whatever it is.
01:06:07	I don't like your insinuations
01:06:10	In fact I don't like you, Mr. Norton. Goodbye, gentlemen.
01:06:19	Nice going, Mr. Norton. You sure carried that ball.
01:06:22	Only you fumbled on the goal line.
01:06:24	Then you heaved an illegal forward pass
01:06:27	- Now you can't get up cause you haven't got a leg to stand on.
01:06:31	- She can go to court and we can prove it was suicide.
01:06:35	Mr. Norton, the first thing
01:06:38	Only I dumped it in the
01:06:42	You ought to take a look
01:06:47	- You might learn a little something about the business.
01:06:51	Yeah. In the front office. Come on, you never read
01:06:56	I've got ten volumes on suicide alone.
01:06:58	Suicide by race, by color, by occupation, by sex,
01:07:02	Suicide, how committed:
01:07:03	by poisons, by fire-arms, by drowning, by leaps.
01:07:05	Suicide by poison, subdivided by types of poison
01:07:08	such as corrosive, irritant, systemic, gaseous,
01:07:13	Suicide by leaps, subdivided by leaps from high places
01:07:15	under wheels of trains, under wheels of trucks,
01:07:20	But Mr. Norton, there's not one single case
01:07:26	And do you know how fast that train was going
01:07:29	15 miles an hour.
01:07:31	Now how could anybody jump off a slow moving train
01:07:36	No soap, Mr. Norton. We're sunk, and we'll have to pay
01:07:41	May I have this?
01:07:46	Come on, Walter.
01:07:51	Next time I'll rent a tuxedo.
01:08:09	I could have hugged you right then
01:08:14	You were the only one we were really scared of
01:08:16	and instead you were almost playing on our team...
01:08:19	That evening when I got home my nerves had eased off.
01:08:22	I could feel the ground under my feet again,
01:08:27	A 100,000 bucks goes safe for Phyllis and me
01:08:39	Hello...
01:08:40	Hello, baby....
01:08:42	Sure, everything is fine...
01:08:44	- You were wonderful in Norton's office.
01:08:49	How do you think I felt, baby?
01:08:51	- Where are you?
01:08:55	- Can I come up?
01:09:25	Hello, Keyes.
01:09:32	- What's on your mind?
01:09:35	The guy had a broken leg.
01:09:37	- What are you talking about?
01:09:40	- He had accident insurance, didn't he?
01:09:42	- Then he broke his leg, didn't he?
01:09:45	And he didn't put in a claim.
01:09:49	What are you driving at?
01:09:54	- It stuck half way.
01:09:57	- There's something wrong with that Dietrichson case.
01:10:01	- Maybe he just didn't have time.
01:10:08	- No. Impossible. You delivered the policy personally, right?
01:10:12	- And you got his check.
01:10:15	- Got any bicarbonate of soda?
01:10:19	Walter. I've been living with this little man for 26 years.
01:10:23	- He's never failed me yet. There's got to be something wrong.
01:10:28	No. Not suicide.
01:10:30	But not accident either.
01:10:33	What else?
01:10:34	Look, Walter.
01:10:35	A man takes out an accident policy that is worth
01:10:39	Then, two weeks later, he is killed on a train.
01:10:41	And not in a train accident, mind you,
01:10:45	Do you know what
01:10:48	One out of.... I don't know how many billions.
01:10:52	And add to that the broken leg.
01:10:54	Now it just can't be the way it looks.
01:11:01	Such as what?
01:11:09	Murder?
01:11:11	- Don't you have any peppermint or anything?
01:11:14	- Soda water?
01:11:17	- Who do you suspect?
01:11:22	- The wife?
01:11:26	- You're crazy, Keyes. She wasn't even on the train.
01:11:29	I don't claim to know how it was worked,
01:11:34	I've got to get to a drug store.
01:11:39	- Good night, Walter.
01:11:42	- See you at the office in the morning.
01:11:46	But I'd like to move in on her right now, tonight
01:11:49	if it wasn't for Norton and his
01:11:53	I'd have the cops after her so quick her head would spin.
01:11:56	They'd put her through the wringer,
01:12:00	- Only you haven't got a single thing to go on, Keyes.
01:12:03	Just 26 years experience, all the percentage there is,
01:12:11	Have you got one of those things?
01:12:24	- Good night, Keyes.
01:12:40	- How much does he know?
01:12:44	It's those stinking hunches of his.
01:12:46	- But he can't prove anything, can he?
01:12:53	- For how long a while?
01:12:56	You don't know Keyes. Once he gets his
01:13:00	He'll investigate you. He'll have you shadowed.
01:13:04	- Are you afraid, baby?
01:13:08	But not of Keyes. I'm afraid of us.
01:13:11	We're not the same any more.
01:13:12	We did it so we could be together, but instead
01:13:16	- What are you talking about?
01:13:22	Shut up, baby.
01:13:32	Hello, Mr. Neff.
01:13:35	- Hello.
01:13:39	- Yes. Of course.
01:13:42	Somewhere where we can be alone?
01:13:45	Oh Yeah uh... Come on into my office.
01:13:54	- Is it something about... what happened?
01:13:58	It's about my father's death.
01:14:01	I'm terribly sorry, Miss Dietrichson.
01:14:06	- Lou, do you mind if I use the office alone for a few minutes?
01:14:18	Look at me Mr. Neff, I'm not crazy,
01:14:24	but I have an awful feeling that something's wrong.
01:14:28	And I had that same feeling once before.
01:14:30	- When my mother died.
01:14:32	We were up at Lake Arrowhead. That was six years ago.
01:14:38	and my mother was very sick with pneumonia.
01:14:41	She had a nurse with her.
01:14:42	There were just the three of us in the cabin.
01:14:46	One night I got up and went into my mother's room.
01:14:50	All the bed covers were on the floor
01:14:54	The nurse wasn't in the room.
01:14:58	Just then I heard a door open behind me.
01:15:01	The nurse stood there.
01:15:03	She didn't say a word, but there was
01:15:11	Two days later my mother was dead.
01:15:17	- Do you know who that nurse was?
01:15:21	Phyllis! I tried to tell my father,
01:15:26	Six months later she married him and I kind of talked myself
01:15:32	But now it's all back again, now that
01:15:37	You're not making sense, Miss Dietrichson.
01:15:39	- Your father fell off a train.
01:15:41	and two days before he fell off
01:15:44	She was in her room in front of a mirror,
01:15:48	as if she couldn't wait
01:15:51	You've had a pretty bad shock, Miss Dietrichson.
01:15:54	- Aren't you just imagining all this?
01:15:57	....they had before my mother died. That same look.
01:16:02	You don't like your step-mother, do you?
01:16:04	- Isn't it just because she is your step-mother?
01:16:07	She did it for the money. Only you're not going
01:16:10	She's not going to get away with it
01:16:13	- I'm going to tell everything I know.
01:16:17	I'm not afraid. You'll see.
01:16:28	I'm sorry.
01:16:33	I didn't mean to act like this.
01:16:36	- All this that you've been telling me... who else have you told?
01:16:41	- How about your step-mother?
01:16:44	I moved out. I'm not living at home any more.
01:16:49	- And you didn't tell that boy-friend of yours? Zachetti.
01:16:56	- Where are you living now?
01:17:01	- Four walls, and you just sit and look at them, huh?
01:17:10	So I took her to dinner that evening at a Mexican restaurant
01:17:15	I wanted to cheer her up..
01:17:17	Next day was Sunday and we went
01:17:21	She had loosened up a bit and she was even laughing...
01:17:24	I had to make sure she wouldn't tell
01:17:27	It was dynamite, whether it was true or not.
01:17:30	And I had no chance to talk to Phyllis.
01:17:34	I couldn't even phone her for
01:17:39	Monday morning there was a note
01:17:43	For a minute I wondered if
01:17:48	Outside your door was the last guy
01:18:02	Come in. Come in, Walter.
01:18:05	Hello, Keyes.
01:18:07	I want to ask you something.
01:18:09	After all the years we've known each other,
01:18:12	- About what?
01:18:14	Walter, I'm a very great man. This Dietrichson business.
01:18:18	It's murder, and murders don't come any neater.
01:18:22	As fancy a piece of homicide as anybody ever ran into.
01:18:25	Smart and tricky and almost perfect, but...
01:18:31	- ...and wrapped up in tissue paper with pink ribbons on it.
01:18:36	You know what?
01:18:37	That guy Dietrichson was never on the train.
01:18:42	- He wasn't?
01:18:45	Now look Walter, you can't be sure of killing a man
01:18:51	The only way you can be sure is to kill him first
01:18:55	That would mean either killing him on the train...
01:18:57	or... and this is where it really gets fancy...
01:19:00	you kill him somewhere else and put him on the tracks.
01:19:02	Two possibilities, and I personally buy the second.
01:19:07	- You're way ahead of me, Keyes.
01:19:11	They killed the guy... the wife and somebody else...
01:19:15	and then the somebody else took the crutches
01:19:18	and then the somebody else jumped off
01:19:20	and then they put the body on the tracks
01:19:23	An impersonation, see.
01:19:25	And a cinch to work.
01:19:26	Because it was night, very few people were about,
01:19:30	- ...and they never really looked at the man at all.
01:19:34	Is it? I tell you it fits together like a watch.
01:19:39	And now let's see what we have in the way of proof.
01:19:41	The only guy that really got a good look at this
01:19:46	I took the trouble to bring him down here from Oregon.
01:19:51	- Come in, Mr. Jackson.
01:19:54	- These are fine cigars you smoke.
01:19:56	- That's what I said. Did you study those photographs?
01:20:00	- I studied them thoroughly. Very thoroughly.
01:20:03	Mr. Keyes, I'm a Medford man. Medford, Oregon.
01:20:05	- Up in Medford we take our time making up our minds...
01:20:09	- Let's have it.
01:20:13	- Yes.
01:20:16	- What do you mean no?
01:20:19	- Will you swear to that?
01:20:22	- And if I say it, I mean it, and if I mean it, of course I'll swear it.
01:20:27	- Oh, this is Mr. Neff, one of our salesmen.
01:20:30	- How are you?
01:20:32	Sit down, Mr. Jackson.
01:20:34	- How would you describe the man you saw on that platform?
01:20:40	about 10 or 15 years younger
01:20:43	- Dietrichson was about 50, wasn't he, Walter?
01:20:48	The man I saw was nothing like 51 years old.
01:20:51	Of course, it was pretty dark on that platform
01:20:53	come to think of it, he tried to keep his back towards me.
01:20:56	- But I'm positive just the same.
01:20:59	Of course you understand
01:21:01	- We may need you again here if the case comes to court.
01:21:07	Expenses paid, of course.
01:21:09	Of course.
01:21:12	Get me Lubin, in the cashier's office.
01:21:15	Hello, Lubin. This is Keyes.
01:21:17	Listen, I'm sending a man named
01:21:22	Oh, we brought him down here from Medford Oregon ....
01:21:26	Uh-huh.
01:21:28	Oh, take care of his hotel, will you?
01:21:30	- Ever been in Medford, Mr. Neff?
01:21:34	- Do you go trout fishing? Maybe I saw you up Klamath Falls way?
01:21:39	I don't fish.
01:21:42	Neff. Neff. It's the name.
01:21:44	- There's a family of Neffs in Corvallis.
01:21:47	Let me see. This man's an automobile dealer in Corvallis.
01:21:49	- Very reputable man, too, I'm told.
01:21:53	Room 27 on the 11th floor.
01:21:55	- ....and the ticket for the train tonight.
01:21:58	Tomorrow morning would suit me better.
01:22:00	- There's a very good osteopath here I want to see before I leave.
01:22:10	- Well, goodbye, gentlemen. It's been a pleasure.
01:22:16	There it is, Walter. It's beginning
01:22:20	A murder's never perfect.
01:22:23	And when two people are involved it's usually sooner.
01:22:25	We know the Dietrichson dame is in it, and somebody else.
01:22:29	Pretty soon we're going to know who that somebody else is.
01:22:31	Sometime, somewhere, they've got to meet.
01:22:35	Whether it's love or hate doesn't matter.
01:22:38	They think it's twice as safe
01:22:41	But it's not twice as safe.
01:22:45	They've committed a murder and that's
01:22:48	where each one can get off at a different stop.
01:22:50	They've got to ride all the way to the end of the line.
01:22:56	She put in her claim
01:23:06	Let her sue us if she dares.
01:23:09	and that somebody else.
01:23:22	Mrs. Dietrichson?... This is Jerry's market.
01:23:25	We just got in a shipment of that English soap
01:23:30	Thank you, Mrs. Dietrichson.
01:23:58	Hello, Walter.
01:24:01	Come over here.
01:24:05	- What's the matter?
01:24:10	Keyes is rejecting your claim.
01:24:12	He's sitting back with his mouth watering,
01:24:14	- He wants you to sue. But you're not going to.
01:24:17	He's got plenty.
01:24:22	He's figured out how it was worked.
01:24:25	- He's dug up a witness he thinks will prove it.
01:24:29	Yeah? And then you're in court and
01:24:33	Like, for instance, about you and the first Mrs. Dietrichson.
01:24:37	- What about me and the first Mrs. Dietrichson?
01:24:39	And about that black hat you were
01:24:43	Lola's been telling you some of her
01:24:46	I've been seeing her, if you want to know.
01:24:49	- She's been putting on an act, crying all over your shoulder...
01:24:52	- All I'm telling you is we're not going to sue.
01:24:56	- Because she's made you feel like a heel all of sudden.
01:25:00	- We're pulling out, understand.
01:25:02	You're not fooling me, Walter.
01:25:06	- You can't take it that she might find out some day. Can you?
01:25:16	- It's me I'm talking about. I don't want to be left out of it.
01:25:20	- ...the way we wanted. We can't go though with it. That's all.
01:25:24	The tough part is all behind us. We just have
01:25:28	- ...and stick together, close, the way we started out.
01:25:50	I loved you, Walter. And I hated him.
01:25:52	But I wasn't going to do anything
01:25:56	You planned the whole thing.
01:26:00	Yeah, and I was the one
01:26:03	Is that what you're telling me?
01:26:05	And nobody's pulling out.
01:26:07	We went into it together, and we're coming out at the end
01:26:12	Remember?
01:26:20	Yes, I remembered.
01:26:23	Just like I remembered what you had told me, Keyes...
01:26:26	about that trolley car ride...
01:26:29	and how there was no way to getting off
01:26:33	where the cementary was.
01:26:36	And I got to thinking what cemeteries are for.
01:26:40	They're to put dead people in,
01:26:44	I guess that was the first time I ever
01:26:50	and how it would be if she was dead.
01:26:54	I saw Lola 3 or 4 times that week.
01:26:58	One night we went up into
01:27:02	I guess it sounds crazy, Keyes, but it was
01:27:37	Why are you crying?
01:27:41	You won't tell me?
01:27:44	Of course I will, Walter.
01:27:46	I wouldn't tell anybody else but you. It's about Nino.
01:27:50	- Zachetti? What about him?
01:27:54	He and Phyllis. He helped her do it. I know he did.
01:27:58	What makes you say that?
01:28:00	I've been following him.
01:28:04	It was Phyllis and him all alone.
01:28:06	Maybe he was going with me just for a blind.
01:28:09	- And the night of the murder...
01:28:12	...he was supposed to pick me up after a lecture at U.C.L.A.
01:28:16	but he never showed up. He said he was sick.
01:28:20	Sick!
01:28:23	He couldn't show up,
01:28:25	because the train was leaving with my father on it.
01:28:33	Maybe I'm just crazy. Maybe it's all just in my mind.
01:28:37	- Sure, it's all in your mind.
01:28:42	...because I still love him.
01:28:51	Zachetti.
01:28:52	Phyllis and Zachetti.
01:28:55	What was he doing up at her house?
01:28:58	I couldn't figure that one out.
01:29:01	I tried to make sense out of it and got nowhere.
01:29:04	But the real brain-twister came the next day.
01:29:08	You sprang it on me, Keyes....
01:29:11	after office hours, when you caught
01:29:14	Oh, Walter, just a minute.
01:29:21	- Hello, Keyes.
01:29:24	- What for?
01:29:29	- How do you mean?
01:29:33	- What guy?
01:29:36	- The somebody else?
01:29:39	- No kidding?
01:29:41	and it's okay by me.
01:29:43	When we get into that courtroom
01:29:46	- Come on - I'll buy you a martini.
01:29:48	- With two olives.
01:29:51	Margie. I still bet she drinks from the bottle.
01:29:56	- They give matches when you buy cigars. Just ask for them.
01:30:00	So long, Walter.
01:30:07	I was scared stiff, Keyes.
01:30:09	Maybe you were playing cat-and-mouse with me.
01:30:12	Maybe you knew all along I was the somebody else.
01:30:16	That's what I had to find out
01:30:18	and I knew where to look... in your office.
01:30:52	Memo to Mr. Norton. Confidential.
01:30:54	Dietrichson File.
01:30:56	With regard to your proposal
01:30:59	I disagree absolutely.
01:31:01	I have investigated his movements on the night of the crime
01:31:08	In addition to this, I have known Neff intimately for 11 years,
01:31:20	...Furthermore, no connection whatsoever has been established
01:31:26	whereas I am now able to report that such a connection
01:31:32	This man has been observed to visit Mrs. Dietrichson
01:31:39	We have succeeded in identifying him as one Nino Zachetti
01:31:43	former medical student, aged 28
01:31:45	residing at
01:31:51	We have checked Zachetti's
01:31:55	and have found that they cannot be accounted for.
01:31:58	I am preparing a more detailed
01:32:01	and it is my belief that we already have
01:32:06	to justify police action.
01:32:09	I strongly urge that this whole matter be turned over
01:32:13	Respectfully, Barton Keyes.
01:32:52	Phyllis? Walter.
01:32:54	I've got to see you... Tonight...
01:32:57	Yes, it has to be tonight...
01:33:00	How's eleven o'clock?
01:33:02	Don't worry about Keyes.
01:33:04	Leave the door on the latch and put the lights out.
01:33:07	No, nobody's watching the house... not any more.
01:33:11	It's just for the neighbors...
01:33:13	I told you not to worry about Keyes.
01:33:16	See you eleven o'clock.
01:33:18	Yeah.
01:33:20	Goodbye, baby.
01:33:26	I guess I don't have to tell you
01:33:30	For the first time I saw a way
01:33:34	and of Phyllis, too, all at the same time.
01:33:37	Yeah, that's what I thought.
01:33:40	But what I didn't know was that she had plans of her own.
01:34:43	In here, Walter.
01:34:59	Hello, baby.
01:35:03	- Anybody else in the house?
01:35:07	- What's that music?
01:35:19	Just like the first time I came here, isn't it?
01:35:21	We were talking about automobile insurance.
01:35:25	Only you were thinking about murder.
01:35:28	- And I was thinking about that anklet.
01:35:32	- I'm all through thinking, baby. Just came to say goodbye.
01:35:39	You're the one that's going, baby. Not me.
01:35:42	- I'm getting off the trolley car right at this corner.
01:35:47	All right, I tell you.
01:35:49	A friend of mine has got a funny theory.
01:35:51	He says when two people commit a murder
01:35:55	one can't get off without the other.
01:35:58	They have to go on riding clear to the end of the line.
01:36:01	- And the last stop is the cemetery.
01:36:05	You bet he has.
01:36:07	Two people are going to ride
01:36:09	Only I'm not going to be one of them.
01:36:14	- Just who are you talking about?
01:36:20	Come on, baby, I just got into this because
01:36:24	I was a sucker.
01:36:25	- I'd have been brushed-off as soon as you got the money.
01:36:29	- Save it. I'm telling it's been you and that Zachetti all along.
01:36:34	It doesn't make any difference whether it's true or not.
01:36:39	The point is Keyes believes Zachetti
01:36:43	- He'll have him in the gas chamber before he knows what happened.
01:36:48	Don't be silly, baby.
01:36:54	What do you think is going to happen to you?
01:36:58	That's what Keyes thinks. And what's good enough
01:37:02	Maybe it's not good enough for me, Walter.
01:37:06	- Maybe I'd rather talk.
01:37:11	Under six feet of dirt, maybe.
01:37:13	And if it was you, they'd just charge it up
01:37:17	Sure they would.
01:37:20	That's just what's going to happen, baby.
01:37:24	With the cops right behind him.
01:37:26	It's all taken care of.
01:37:29	- And that'd make everything lovely for you, wouldn't it?
01:37:33	And it's got to be done before
01:37:35	and Lola gets a chance to sound off and they trip
01:37:39	- ...and drag me down with you.
01:37:42	- So we can get that money and be together.
01:37:46	He came here the first time just to ask where Lola was.
01:37:49	He's crazy sort of guy, quick-tempered.
01:37:51	I kept hammering into him that she was with another, so he'd
01:37:58	- And you know what he'd have done to her, don't you, Walter?
01:38:02	And for once I believe you.
01:38:06	- We're both rotten.
01:38:10	You got me to take care of your husband
01:38:13	and maybe take care of me too
01:38:15	and then somebody else would have come
01:38:18	- That's the way you operate isn't it, baby?
01:38:25	I don't like this music anymore.
01:38:28	Do you mind if I close the window?
01:38:49	You can do better than that, can't you baby?
01:38:53	Better try again!
01:38:57	Maybe if I came a little closer?
01:39:10	How's this? Do you think you can do it now?
01:39:21	Why didn't you shoot again, baby?
01:39:30	Don't tell me it's because you've been
01:39:34	No. I never loved you, Walter.
01:39:37	I'm rotten to the heart.
01:39:41	That's all you ever meant to me....
01:39:44	...until a minute ago.
01:39:47	When I couldn't fire that second shot.
01:39:51	I didn't think anything like that could ever happen to me.
01:39:55	- I'm sorry, baby. I'm not buying.
01:40:06	Goodbye, baby.
01:41:02	Zachetti!
01:41:06	Come here!
01:41:12	I said come here.
01:41:17	- The name is Neff.
01:41:22	Look, kid, I want to give you a present.
01:41:26	- Here's a nice new nickel.
01:41:29	- Suppose you go back down the hill to a store and make a call.
01:41:34	Number Granite 0386. Ask for Miss Dietrichson, first name Lola.
01:41:40	- And if I ever talk to her, it's not going to be over any telephone.
01:41:45	- She doesn't want any part of me.
01:41:50	She's in love with you. Always has been.
01:41:54	Here. Granite 0386, go on and call her.
01:41:58	Go on! That way.
01:42:10	It's almost 4:30 now, Keyes.
01:42:14	It's cold.
01:42:17	I wonder if she's still
01:42:21	or whether they've found her by now.
01:42:24	I wonder a lot of things, but they don't matter any more
01:42:32	except I want to ask you to do me a favor.
01:42:36	I want you to be the one to tell Lola,
01:42:42	I want you to take care of her and that guy Zachetti
01:42:51	so he doesn't get pushed around too much.
01:42:55	Hello, Keyes.
01:43:07	Up pretty early, aren't you?
01:43:11	I always wondered what time you got down to the office.
01:43:15	Or did your little man pull you out of bed?
01:43:18	The janitor did.
01:43:20	Seems you leaked a little blood on the way in here.
01:43:25	Wouldn't be surprised.
01:43:29	- I wanted to straighten out that Dietrichson story for you.
01:43:35	- How long have you been standing there?
01:43:39	Kind of a crazy story with a crazy twist to it.
01:43:45	You can't figure them all, Walter.
01:43:48	That's right. You can't, can you?
01:43:52	And now I suppose I get the big speech
01:43:55	the one with all the two-dollar words in it.
01:43:59	Let's have it, Keyes.
01:44:02	Walter, you're all washed up.
01:44:08	Thanks, Keyes. That was short anyway.
01:44:12	I'm going to call a doctor.
01:44:16	What for? So they can patch me up?
01:44:20	So they can nurse me along till I'm back on my feet?
01:44:23	So I can walk under my own power
01:44:26	- Is that it, Keyes?
01:44:30	- Well, I've got a different idea.
01:44:33	Look, Keyes. Suppose you went back to bed and didn't find
01:44:39	From then on you can play it any way you like.
01:44:42	Would you do that much for me, Keyes?
01:44:45	- Give me one good reason.
01:44:49	- You're not going anywhere, Walter.
01:44:53	I'm going across the border.
01:44:54	- You haven't got a chance, Walter.
01:44:58	- You'll never make the border.
01:45:02	Watch me.
01:45:04	You'll never even make the elevator.
01:45:06	So long, Keyes.
01:45:37	Hello...
01:45:39	Send an ambulance to the Pacific Building on Olive Street...
01:45:43	Yeah... It's a police job.
01:46:05	- How you doing, Walter?
01:46:10	Only somebody moved the elevator a couple of miles away.
01:46:14	They're on the way.
01:46:20	You know why you didn't figure this one, Keyes?
01:46:23	Let me tell you.
01:46:25	The guy you were looking for was too close.
01:46:28	He was right across the desk from you.
01:46:31	Closer than that, Walter.
01:46:37	I love you too.
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