NIGHTMARE (1956) ✩ in HD ✩ Edward G. Robinson, Kevin McCarthy

"At first." "All I could see was this face." "This beautiful babe's face." "Floating towards me." "And in my head." "Was this slow, crazy melody." "Like a tune from another world." "And then I saw the room." "A queer, mirrored room." "And somehow I was inside it." "There was danger there." "I knew that." "I wanted to turn and run." "But I couldn't." "It was as if my brain was handcuffed." "That I had to do what I had come to do." "What a dream." "Those thumbprints on my throat." "They weren't th

ere last night when I undressed." "It couldn't be." "That all happened in a nightmare." "Talk about your realistic dreams." "I couldn't have done it in my sleep." "I choked myself without waking up?" "Blood." "I must have scratched myself." "There they are." "The button and that odd-shaped key." "The things out of the dream." "I had never seen them before." "They hadn't been there when I undressed last night." "The button wasn't mine." "The key wasn't mine." "But if they were there .." "It must

have happened." "The dream, the struggle, the murder. Everything." "But how?" "Could something like that happen and I wouldn't know it?" "Was I going insane?" "Across the rooftops I could see the river." "Out there everything was status quo." "The hassle was in here." "With me." "My stomach was riding a roller-coaster." "I couldn't face going to work." "I didn't want to see anybody." Will you get me Canal 47362. [ Gina singing: ] "Don't tell me." "Don't tell me." "The troubles you have known." "

Don't tell me." "Please don't tell me." "I've troubles enough of my own." "If you've got a man that you want to keep." "I have nothing more than this to say." "Keep one eye open every time you sleep." "Or your man will get away." "And that is the last .." "You will ever see of your man." "It was the very last time." "I saw .." "My man." Baby, if you won't come as you're sore over last night, forgive and forget. What do you say? - Stan? Well, if a guy is sick he is sick. How long do you think it

will be? Well, I don't know. I'll try to get Peewee. What did he say? What's the matter? Four sides we got to cut and your boyfriend turns up sick. What is it? Did he tell you? Is it something serious? Do you think it's because I didn't use his arrangements? Billy, he wouldn't you stand you up for a session. It must be something serious. I know you love the guy. I love him too but you got to admit he is a screwball. He's the kind of screwball I like. Have it your way. We got to get a sub. Fat ch

ance. Let's see. 'Thomas. Peewee Thomas'. "The more I tried to figure it the sicker I got." "Even that weird nightmare music kept tearing at me." "Where did I ever hear it before?" "All of a sudden the room started spinning." Hotel New Orleans? Stan Grayson's room please. [ Telephone ] [ Telephone ] Mr Grayson doesn't answer? Oh. Thank you. Honey. The genius shouldn't be there. - Oh, Billy. If he was laid up. Know what I mean? - No, I don't. Something awful fishy about this. He can be replaced.

Don't do anything rash. Give me a chance to talk to him. What good will that do? And you guys played that last number lousy. "I had to get out of my room." "Out into the sunshine." "I had to stay out of the shadows." "And I know that tonight." "I would be afraid of the dark." "I walked all day. I didn't know where.." "It didn't matter." "I had to talk to somebody." "Gina." "I'd get sympathy from Gina." "What I needed was an explanation." "Renee." "My brother-in-law." "He ought to be able to figu

re something." Hi. Now, wait a minute. I've seen you somewhere before. Hello, Sis. I was just telling Rene. Couldn't have been ten minutes ago. I said if you didn't show up in the next few days I was sending out a posse. You're just in time for dinner. As if you didn't know. You're staying for dinner, aren't you? - Yeah. Sure. Hey, you look a little peaky. I keep telling Rene you don't take care of yourself. Those restaurants, those hours. Do you feel alright? I'm okay, Sis. Well, you look peaky

. Just a little tired. Been working today? A recording session. - Oh good. I hope you have a hit. - Where is Rene? Now, where would he be? In the garage? Wait until you see what he's working on now, my do-it-yourself husband. He gets so wrapped up he is just as liable to forget about his dinner. So you tell him it will be on the table in five minutes. Will you tell him? Hello Rene. Stan. Don't ever creep up on me like that. I'm just liable to cut your head off. How do you like her? A sweetheart,

isn't she. - A beauty. When did you get her? - Three weeks ago. Steel. You know, this fellow's wife. She is afraid of the water. Say, Rene. I've got to talk to you. Well, I'll just finish .. - No, wait a minute. Something eating on you, fellow? Rene. I've got a real problem. Well, shoot. I don't know where to start. I don't know how to start. You and Gina had a row, huh? Well, I'll fix that up for you. No. I wish it was that easy. - Well, what else? You know, you're going to think I have flippe

d my lid. Last night I had a nightmare. I dreamed I killed a man. So, you had a nightmare. I don't know who he was. And I don't know where it was supposed to be. But it was in some kind of a mirrored room. I had a fight with him. I stabbed him with some kind of a steel tool of some kind. I .. Well, during the struggle. A button came off his coat. And after I had killed him. I locked his body in a closet and I took the key. That was quite a dream. Then. When I woke up. Well. Look. And this mornin

g. There was blood on my wrist. No. No, no. Listen to me. I figured I'd scratched myself in my sleep. So I washed it off. But that was before I saw these. You are all to pieces, kid. Rene, you've got to help me. - Sure, kid. Sure. You don't know what I've been through today. Where did you get this? I told you. No. I mean, where did you first get it? Before you dreamed about it. You haven't been listening to me. You don't understand what I'm saying. I didn't have it before I dreamed about it. I n

ever saw it before then. Then, when I wake up it turns out real. I warned you before. You work too hard and you play too hard. I know. You're a musician and high strung with that artistic temperament. But you must know when to draw the line. - Rene .. And it isn't up to me to lecture you about drinking either. But hanging out in bars until .. - Stop it, Rene. Look, I wasn't drunk. And I'm not loony. There's a door somewhere. Right this minute and this key belongs to it. And behind that door ther

e's man. Dead. I don't know who he is. I don't know where it is. I don't know how it happened. But it must have happened. And I must have done it. Otherwise, how would it come to me in my sleep like this? And these things? - Now. You listen to me, kid. You had these things before. You picked them up someplace and forgot them someplace. A long time ago. And last night you .. Have some chilli con carne, a drink too many and you cook up a nightmare. It's then that you remember these old things and

you weave them in. No, no. - Don't say no. Now, you either dream a thing or it actually happens. Don't worry. If you had a battle with a guy .. And remembered him when you sleep. You would wake up alright. It happened, Rene. I tell you it happened. You dreamed it. You never had these things. Why don't you take a few days rest? You are wearing your nerves thin. Take Gina down to Biloxi. Do a little fishing. That is your answer? - Yes. Take a vacation? That's all you can tell me? Stan. Rene. Come

and get it. Look, Rene. Please. I tell you once more that I never saw these things before. Now forget these things. And not a word of this to Sue, you understand? She worries about you enough. You haven't helped me a bit. - Well, naturally not. Do you expect me to arrest you for murdering somebody in a dream? Well, the arrest will have to happen in the dream too. Because I am off duty when I'm dreaming. Come on. Come on, kid. Let's wrap ourselves around some chow. Will you do me a favor? Smile f

or Sue, will you? Darn it all. I keep cracking the polish off that one nail. You like curried shrimps, Stan? He'd better like them, eh Sue? As that's what we are going to have. Are you feeling better, Stan? I thought you were sick. Well, I was. I just wasn't feeling well. I kept calling your room all day and there was no-one there. And Billy got a little bit suspicious. I didn't feel like working today and I wasn't sick enough to stay in my room. Why does everybody have to make such a big thing

out of it? "The blood." "I washed it off." "I don't know how long I was blacked out." "I hazily remember waking for a moment and felt I was being carried somewhere." "And then I blacked out again." "It must have been around midnight that something wakened me." Feel any better? Did I do any talking? Did I say anything? No, nothing. But you scared the daylights out of them. What am I going to do? Sue is sleeping now. I took Gina home a while ago. Did they ask any questions? What do you think? What

did you say? - The truth. No, no. Not what you're thinking. Not that dream business but the real truth. You're wearing yourself out. - Rene, how can I make you understand? You passed out just like any high-strung guy .. Who's seen ghosts that he made for himself in here. Go on. Keep on talking like that and you'll drive me batty. Instead of that, why don't you try and help me? How? You are a detective. Take the key and the button. You've had many cases where you had less than that to begin with

. Find out where they came from and what they were doing on me. Find out where that mirrored room is. - Now, forget them. Once and for all, forget them. I can't. They are all I've got to find out what happened. Nothing has happened. You're selling yourself a phony bill of goods. Just as phony as that nail polish was blood. It's the kind of trick your mind has played on you. It cannot be that. Now look. And don't you crack on to Sue about this nonsense or I'll .. Well, just don't crack. She's fre

tted herself about you plenty ever since your mother died. I know. Now would be the worst time of all. Now? Why now? I wasn't going to tell you until later. But .. She is going to have a kid. That's fine, Rene. That's fine. After being married nine years? It's great. And now you know. So forget it, will you? And if you keep harping on this spooking business .. I am going to grab you and take you down to a head doctor. So help me. Now go on. Get some sleep. "Sleep?" "I felt I would never sleep ag

ain until I knew the answer." "Four days went by without a lead." "I scoured the papers." "Not one line about the murder." "I couldn't figure it." "And all week I had been avoiding Gina." "I didn't want her involved in this horror that kept gnawing at my brain." "If something didn't happen soon .." "That was it." "That out-of-the-world melody." "If I could out where I had heard it." "That would give me something to go on." "One of my hip friends ought to know that tune." I never met up with that

one, Stan boy. Sorry. Man, that's a weird one. You got me. "It was the same from one end of Bourbon Street to the other." "It was a tune that stumped the experts." "Sorry, Stan." "I guess I lose the $64,000." Thanks anyway, Meade. "It was her." "The babe from the mirrored room." I beg your pardon. Did you say something? I thought you were somebody else. That's not very original. It will do for a starter. No. You got me wrong. I really thought you .. - Was someone else? And then I say: 'Is that

so'? Then you say: 'Yeah'. 'This friend of mine. She looks just like you'. From the back. - Yeah. From the back. Naturally. Then, pretty soon you're sitting next to me and we're having a drink together. Why don't we just skip all the preliminaries? What was that when you started it? Rye. He says. Two of the same. The greatest. Do you come here often? If nothing happened I would let one more number run over me and then I was going. If nothing happened. What's your name? Joe. Joe May. Hi, Joe May.

I am Madge Novick. Well, here is to .. What do we drink to, Joe? Sunshine? I'll buy that. Here is to sunshine. Why sunshine? I just like it better than .. the dark. Me too. Every morning when that sun is shining I am fine. By the time night rolls around if I ain't got something lined up .. oh .. Honey. You are in a state of the galloping jitters. I'm upset about something. Like to tell Mama about it? You'd think I had lost my marbles. Take a good look around. All kinds of people sitting by them

selves. Trying to find companionship or .. Maybe a little sunshine in a glass. Sometimes I think we're all minus a few marbles. What do you want, Oscar? I guess he wants to get me another drink. I have a better idea. My place. I call it a place. It's not quite an apartment. It's right around the corner. We can have ourselves a quiet drink there. And you can tell me all your troubles. And pretty soon they'll just fade away. Okay. Okay. [ Female singing: ] "All my closets full of men's clothes." "

And no man to put them on." "Got to find a man to love me." "Before this day is gone." "A woman ain't a woman." "If she ain't got herself a man." "A woman ain't a woman." "If she ain't got herself a man." "There must be a man who loves me." It's not very big. Make yourself comfortable. Sit down. On that? It's my oriental blood. I like to sit cross-legged and brood. Fix yourself something. I will be right back. Hi. Do you want to tell me your troubles now? Huh? What's the matter? Joe. [ Door knoc

ks ] Who is it? - Me. Rene. Hello, Rene. Still dragging your nose? Well, I've got something downstairs that will cheer you up. For Pete's sake, Rene. Come on, come on. Don't be a mule. Put it on. We're going out on a little picnic. - I don't want to go anywhere. Don't you want to help your sister celebrate? Celebrate what? - The brand-new car I just got her. That is fine. I hope she enjoys it but I don't want to go anywhere. You are going to hide in your room like a groundhog? Now look here. Thi

s is Sunday. It's my day off. Suzy and I are taking a ride in the country. She's cooked a big pot of jambalaya for you. Look, will you stop treating me as though I'm cracked? I won't take a jaunt to shake the devils out of me if that's what you're after. Do it for Sue, will you? Don't make her worry. Do you want me to have a baby with wrinkles in his forehead? Come on. That's the boy. Look, Rene. You're putting me in an embarrassing position. Come on. Don't be a weasel. Come on. Hello Gina. - Ho

w are you, Stan? How are you, Sue? How you feeling? - Me? I am fine. Good. It's a swell car. Just another toy for my boy here. Is that so? I bought it just for you. - Sure. I can't even drive. Stan, this wasn't my idea at all, you know. Don't apologise. I'm glad you picked me up. Well, where shall we go, kids? Just anywhere out in the country. Any ideas, Stan? What about Bayou Lafourche? Bayou Lafourche it is. "Bayou Lafourche." "It just popped into my head." "Gina and I always preferred the lak

e but something made me say Lafourche." "Somehow, it seemed important." Tell me. You know where you are going? No. But I got a hunch that not too far down this road .. We'll find just the spot with nice soft grass and a cool breeze. Uhuh. Did you ever see anyone so stubborn? The ants around here are just as friendly as the ants farther down. Now, what's the matter with that spot over there? Nothing, but I think a little further down .. Alright then. Stop here. I am getting hungry. Okay. Okay, my

love. Seeing you're eating for two now. You must be awfully hungry. Want some more? No, no. Three plates were enough. You know, if anybody should ask me .. This was the best jambalaya I ever ate. Just like mother used to make. The jambalaya my mother used to make wasn't half as good as yours. Oh, Rene. Hey, kids. Lots more to eat if you want it. No thanks. Stan. When are you coming back to work? I don't know. Billy has been griping all week. I can't work. Can you understand that? I understand.

But Billy said unless you show tomorrow he doesn't want you again. Well, that's the way it will have to be. Don't you trust me, Stan? Why don't you tell me what is troubling you? I know that you aren't really sick. If .. If you love me. Please don't shut me out. Forget it, Gina. You can't help me. The best thing for you is to just forget about us. Now take it easy, Suzy girl. I can't help it. You know what thunder does to me. Yeah. We had better go. Stan, come on. It's going to rain. Holy smokes

. You didn't have to take me seriously. The gosh-darned wipers are stuck. You should have tried them dear before you bought it. Alright, alright. Rene, I can't stand any more of this. Let's stop at the first place we can and get out of this. Alright now, baby. Calm down, calm down. No houses around here. "That bridge." "I have seen it before." "But when?" There is a cut-off a little way ahead. Just around the bend. There is a big house up there I think. You know this section? You've been here be

fore? There is the cut-off. Are you going to get us more lost than ever? No, no. Keep going. You'll come to it. There is a brick gateway. You turn in there. "I didn't know how I knew that." "But the closer we came the harder my heart pounded." "And the more frightened I got." There it is. Turn Rene. Into the gate. Like he told you. Let's make a dash for it. I wonder if there is anybody home. I wish we could gain access finally. I knew there must be a key here someplace. Stan, are you going to st

and out there all day? Come on in and close the door. Let's have some light. Not that one. What is this, a rib? How come you know so much about this place? It's a rib. Your brother. The great comic. Hello. Anybody home? Don't do that. Stan, you are cold. You are shaking. So are you. We had better find a place to dry out. Before we get pneumonia. It looks like they've been away a long time. You being a detective comes in handy, dad. In case anyone shows up, we won't get in trouble for crashing in

here, will we? Let's see what gives at the fireplace. Well, that is a lucky break. It's a gas log. Better sit down. Dry out. Before you catch cold. I am bushed. There must be a kitchen around here someplace. A little hot tea won't do you any harm. [ Gramophone music ] Remember that one, Sue? "That was it." "The nightmare melody." "It was just that old tune slowed down to a lower pitch." "Had I heard it that way before?" "Was it here?" Stan. Why don't you come over here by the fire? "This is the

place alright." "This is the place." Yeah. Wipe your forehead. Have you got the key? What are you two doing up there? Keep her downstairs. Keep her downstairs. Be down in a minute. Watch the kettle in the kitchen. I've got some water boiling for tea. Alright. But I wish you would stop poking around. Look. That's what he was crouched in front of that night. He must have been using a blow torch. That is what made that bluish light. It made her face stand out in the reflections like a mask. That m

ust be the one I .. I propped him behind after I .. No, no, no. - Get out the way. Dried blood. Someone who was hurt was in here. Someone who is dead. Are you two coming down or do I have to come up there and get you? 'Freud's Studies in Hysteria'. 'Manual of Psychotherapy'. 'Narco-Analysis'. The owner of this house must be a doctor or something. I'll take the tray back to the kitchen. - Never mind. I'll take it. The rain ought to let up soon. Why don't you catch yourself a little nap? Do like S

ue. Close it. I don't want them to hear this. Sit down. Now, let's hear about another dream. You think I liked, don't you? You knew how to get here from a dream, didn't you? You knew where the key was from a dream, didn't you? That fumbling around didn't fool me. You knew where the light switch was from a dream. If you weren't Sue's brother, I'd push your lying face back through your head. I told you how the whole thing happened. You came to me for help. But you had no guts to come clean. To say

: Look, Rene. I went to such and such a place and I killed a guy. Such and such a guy for such and such a reason. No. You had to cook up a dream. I can respect a man no matter how terrible a crime he's committed. If he owns up to it. I can respect a man who would deny it flatly. But a guy that comes to a man and preys on the fact he is married to his sister. Abuses his common sense and makes a fool out of him. I didn't. I told you the truth. - Are you true to me? Well, I've got no use for him. H

e's lower than the lowest crap we ever nabbed for knifing someone in an alley. 'Look, Rene'. 'Look'. 'I found this key in my pocket when I woke up'. 'Look. I found this button'. Trying to play on my sympathies, weren't you? Getting me to think in terms of doctors so as to get you off. Was that it? Was it? Rene. Well, that was quite a dream. Well, the dream is over and baby is awake. Now, you are going to tell me the facts. Whether it goes any further than me, that is my business. But at least I'

m going to get them. How could I tell you what I don't know? - What were you doing here that night? What brought you here? - I was never here before. Who was the man you killed? What was his name? Are you going to tell me? Are you? Are you going to answer me? How can I answer you when I don't know? Why did you kill him? Why? I've handled closed-mouth guys before. Now, you're going to tell me or I will half-kill you with my own hands. Get over there. What is this? I'll ask the questions. What are

you doing here? We came in out of the rain. Will that suit you? Not yet. Identify yourselves and be quick about it. Help yourself. 'Rene Bressard'. 'New Orleans Homicide Division'. Glad to know you, Bressard. How about doing a little identifying yourself? I'm a deputy attached to the Sheriff's Office in this parish here. 'Torrence' is the name. My brother-in-law Stan Grayson. Hi. I am detailed to keep an eye on this place. I was home having a bite to eat and on my way back to the station I .. S

ay. How did you get in here? I thought I had it locked. We found a key in the flowerpot on the porch. You did? It must have been a spare. I have the original. We didn't know there was a spare. What do you mean, you were detailed to keep an eye on this place? Didn't you know? There was a murder committed here last week. Was there? I'd like to hear about it. Murder is my business. Have a cigarette. - No thanks. I cut them out about a month back. I always carry a pocket full of these now. This plac

e belonged to a wealthy couple named Belknap. He's in the importing business. He often goes away on long business trips. He was away when it happened. Somewhere in Mexico. In fact, we haven't been able to notify him yet. His wife was a pretty little thing. Was? - Kinda flirty. There was a young buck she used to run around with. His name was .. Bob Clune. Was? The milkman found Mrs Belknap about daybreak Monday. Near the road that leads up here. Dead? Dying. Unconscious. Both legs broken. Skull f

ractured. Insides all busted up. It kinda gets him, don't it? Things like this are new to him, I guess. About this woman. How did it happen? It was a car did it. We found it later. Hair and blood on the tyres. Bob Clune's car. Then Warner. That's my chief. - Yep. He comes here to look around and .. He finds a safe busted in a mirrored room upstairs. I'll take you up there and show you if you want. A mirrored room? Yeah. Well, that gave us our case. We figured that Clune knew that Belknap had a l

ot of money in the safe. When he went to Mexico. So he came up here and started to heist it. And then Mrs Belknap caught him. She ran out afraid he would kill her. He got in his car, chased her down the road and ran over her. "All of a sudden life was swell again." "I don't know how to drive." "And Rene know that too." Here. Have a smoke, kid. Yes. Thanks. You got a match? - Yep. Well. That was the case we thought we had until Wednesday. Thought you had? - Yeah. We sent out a general alarm for C

lune. And then on Wednesday morning. Mrs Belknap came to. The first thing she asked was: Is Bob alright? He didn't kill Bob Clune, did he? He? Yeah. What she told us sent us hotfooting back here. We found Clune's body propped up behind one of those mirrored doors upstairs. He'd been stabbed with an ice-pick or something. She died that night. Well. There went our case. Did you .. Did you get anything on the real killer? Practically everything except the guy himself. She took a good look at him wh

en it happened. We got all the dope over at my chief's office. I'm just on my way over there. You interested? Yeah. Who knows? I might even be able to help you find the killer. Glad to have you come along. - Thanks. I'd better let the girls know we'll be gone for a while. My wife. You shouldn't let it get to you. This is just routine with us. I know. It's just that I'm not used to this sort of discussion. Yeah. I can understand that. I was a little bit squeamish myself when I first started this

job. I told Gina. Sue is still asleep. Come on. I'll stay here. - Come on. Isn't it odd Captain Warner .. That they never printed anything about it in the New Orleans papers? They're playing ball with us. - Is that so? We have the theory .. That if the killer didn't read about us finding the bodies he might come back. Take a look. Maybe he'd want to find out what happened to Mrs Belknap. Yep. Here is the description she gave us before she died. Uhuh. Getting along about that age. I had to get me

some reading glasses. Maybe this will help. - Thanks. 'The killer was about thirty. Medium build'. 'Brown hair'. 'His eyes were fixed and glassy'. 'He could have been mentally unbalanced'. Have you any pictures of them? Mrs Belknap and Clune I mean. I had some taken in the morgue. Can I have a look at them? - Sure thing. Thank you. It's stopped raining. Think you'll have the barbecue, Captain? - A sure thing. It will as dry as a bone by six o'clock. Any ideas? No. I just thought it might fit in

with something at our office. Have a look at them, Stan. Who knows? You might even know these people. "It was them alright." "The faces in the nightmare." "Now I knew there was no escape." "I was a murderer." He went out like a light. What do you suppose made him do it? Was it the pictures of those dead people? Things like that sure get them. I've noticed that before. He is not well. He gets these dizzy spells every now and then. It's only since I .. - Never mind. Here, take this. That's better

. Stan. As soon as I get him home he'll be a hundred percent. Well, I hope so. - Thanks. That's alright. I'll be seeing you. - Goodbye. Thanks, Sue. Sorry the rain spoiled the picnic. Take care of yourself, Stan. You too. I'll call you. I'm going up for a minute. You happen to be parked near a hydrant. McBurney is on this beat. If he says anything just tell him whose car it is. I'm going to take Sue home before I do anything else. I love Sue. I think you love Gina. That is your business. All I k

now is that I love Sue. It's bad enough what this will do to her when she finds out. Rene, what am I going to do? Run out. I am giving you that one last chance. If they catch up with you I want you to meet your end somewhere else. Not here. If you're still here in the morning .. I am going to arrest you for the murder of those two people. I still don't know what happened. I don't have to ask you if you killed them. You passed out cold when you saw their dead faces in those pictures. I'm going to

turn in what I know tomorrow at my precinct house. And they can pass it on to Warner. I'll be back in the morning. You'd better be gone. I beg your pardon. The fifteenth floor. Take me up to it. Can't you go any faster? Got it wide open. Fifteen. You should have let me. You should have let me. Well, I didn't think of that way out. Come on. Get up. Stan. I didn't want to drag you into this. What is it, Stan? If you are in such terrible trouble that you wanted to .. But why, Rene? Why would he wa

nt to go and do such a .. Never mind now. I will handle it. Now, you go on down and take Sue home. Don't tell her any more than you have to. Tell her that Stan is sick and I thought I'd better stay with him tonight. Okay? Whatever it is, just make him understand I am with him. You go right ahead, will you. And take care of Sue. Rene. Did I wake you? What about the arrest? What about it? If you're going to take me down in the morning, what's the sense of waiting? None, maybe. Here. Have a smoke.

No thanks. What I can't figure. I gave you a chance to run out. Instead, you tried to kill yourself. Why? I can't escape from myself. There's something wrong with me. I killed those people. I don't know how or why or how I got there. You should have let me jump. Something is wrong with this lamp. Maybe the fuse is out. It happened to the old guy in the next room one night. Yeah? He had to use a candle. The same night I had the dream. Yeah. Just a loose bulb. What did you say? He had to use a can

dle? What do you mean? Were you in there with him? No, no. He came and rapped on my door. He stuck his head in and wanted to know if my lights had gone out. Why did he have to come in here? Couldn't he tell by the hall? I don't know. There is a little night light in the hall. Maybe it's on a different circuit. The night you had this dream? That's right. Tell me everything that happened that night. Anything unusual at the club? Well, we were all keyed up about a recording session the next day. We

played our closing number at the club same as always. "He took me out on the town." "It was a merry-go-round." "Oh, what a spin he had me in." "My heart was wrapped up and sold." "But when the fire grew cold, the way he threw me down .." "Was a sin." "And here's the kicker." "I wouldn't figure." "If he just wanted me again, I would say fine." "What's your sad story?" "What's your sad story?" "What's your sad story?" "It can't be sadder than mine." "He took me out on the town." "It was a merry-g

o-round." "Oh, what a spin he had me in." "My heart was wrapped up and sold." "But when the fire grew cold .." "The way he threw me down .." "Was a sin." "And here's the kicker." "I wouldn't figure." "If he just wanted me again." "I would say fine." "What's your sad story?" "What's your sad story?" "What's your sad story?" "It can't be sadder .." "Than mine." Thank you so much. We'd like to play all night but even musicians must sleep. Goodnight, folks. Say, baby. You were the greatest tonight.

Thanks, darling. - Can I walk you home? You look tired, Stan. You feel alright? - I'm fine. Stan, we're using the old arrangements on the recording day tomorrow. Are you kidding? I've not slept for a week getting these ready. Maybe that's what's wrong. You need some shut-eye, genius. You can't do that. What's wrong with them? You asked me. I'll tell you. They are too far out. They're not commercial. Who says? I says. You can't hear the melody. If the public can't hear the melody, you're dead. D-

E-D. Dead. So how long will you keep playing the same old corn? Just because it's a bit progressive .. - Leave it up the guys here. You've played them. What do you say, fellahs? Yeah. He's right, Stan. - Too progressive. Too modern. You haven't said anything. You wouldn't want me to lie, Stan. Here, Stan. We'll play the old arrangements tomorrow. The corny ones. Stan. I know you're upset about this, honey. - I'll see you tomorrow, Gina. So I came back here to the hotel and .. Then you came upsta

irs and went to sleep? Well, no. I was still burned about Billy so I stopped in at the bar. Downstairs. I thought I would unwind before I tried to sleep. "And this old fellow, Britten." "The one that lived in the next room here." "He came over and bought me a drink." "He was a friendly old guy." "He'd been living here for a week or so." "I used to meet him in the elevator." "I thought I'd have a brandy, but .." "He insisted a daiquiri would be more relaxing." "You know, I don't like rum, but .."

He was such a nice old guy that .. I took it just to please him. Uhuh. How many drinks did you have? Just a couple. Then I came up here and I went to bed. You went right to sleep? No. I read the paper like I do every night. I always read the sports. "I just put out the light and closed my eyes when I heard a knock at the door." [ Door knocks ] [ Door knocks ] Who is it? Harry Britten from next door. Just a second. Pardon me. Did I wake you? No .. no, no. I just put out the light. - You did? My

light went out. That's what I wanted to see you about. I thought maybe the .. Circuit was off. Is your light working? Try it. Yes. I guess it was just the globe that burned out. Sorry to trouble you. Not at all. You are tired, aren't you? I can see you are pretty tired. I am sorry. No. Really, it's alright. You are tired and I woke you up. It's alright. I guess he's got a one-track mind. Used to mumbling to himself maybe. Anyway, he finally closed the door and .. I dropped right off to sleep. No

w, wait a minute. Are you sure the door closed after him? Did you hear it? Did you see it closed? What the difference? The door must have closed. He went away. I went to sleep. He was standing in the door there with a candle in his hand and he kept saying .. 'You are tired'. So what? 'His eyes were fixed and glassy'. 'He could have been mentally unbalanced'. What? I was just .. Remembering something in that deathbed statement Mrs Belknap made to Warner. You say you .. Used to talk to this fellow

every once in a while? What about? Sports. Politics. One time, going down in the elevator. He had this box of mentholated cough drops. He kept taking them out and offering them to me. Have a cough drop? Go ahead. Have one. No thanks. I don't like them. Go on. They're good for you. No thanks. Really. You ought to try one. Your voice sounds kinda hoarse. I took it because I felt kinda sorry for him. I really hate those cough drops. And you took a daiquiri too because he suggested it. Yeah. Testin

g willpower, maybe? You're trying to make something out of this. What is it? Oh, nothing. Nothing that makes any sense yet. You get some sleep kid, will you. Where are you going? I am going back to the Belknap house to see if I can get some more information. Now? All the way back there at this hour of the morning? I don't know what I've got, if anything. No more shortcuts. I thought you'd never get here. I was here early this morning. Then I had to go back out there again. Here. Have a look. Wel

l? Who is it? That's Britten. The man who had the room next door to me. Britten is also Lewis Belknap. The murdered woman's husband. Then was he the one who ..? There's no 'out' in this for you, Stan. Not yet. I checked your fingerprints with the ones Warner got at the mirrored room. You found your way into the Belknap house. You killed Bob Clune. And shoved his body into a closet. And Mrs Belknap? You didn't kill her. You can't drive. We think Belknap drove you up there. And was waiting for you

outside. Then Mrs Belknap ran out and her husband in Clune's car purposely ran over her. Why didn't I know what was going on or what I was doing? We think we know why. But there is only one way to prove it. To show it could have happened the first time by making it happen all over again. You mean, go back and go through it all over again? No, not exactly. You killed a man, Stan. Right now you are guilty. What we have to do is prove that you didn't know what you were doing. And why you didn't kn

ow. How? What do you mean? We haven't any time to lose. They located Belknap yesterday. He wired Warner to have his wife reburied in the family plot. He will arrive in time for the funeral. Get your coat on. "I was scared sick." "But I got back into that house before Belknap returned from the funeral." "A couple of friends drove back with him." "I waited upstairs." "Looking down into the living-room as they said goodbye." Why don't you come and stay at our place tonight, Lewis? Yes. We'd like to

have you. Don't worry about me. I will be fine here. You're you won't come with us? No. Thanks a lot. Goodnight. "He was coming up." "I wanted to leave but I had to stay. It was my only chance to save myself." How did you get here? You showed me the way, didn't you? You remember coming here? You didn't think I would. You couldn't have. Then how did I get here? You explain it. How long have you been here like this? Since just before dark. I got in while you were at the funeral. Who did you bring

with you? Just this. You remembered coming here? You couldn't have. You had the look. The typical look. - Of a hypnotised subject? I faked it. No matter how good you think you are. Then why did you do everything I told you to? When I dropped that knife in your hand and told you what to do, you took it. I figured maybe you would pay off. Afterwards. To keep me quiet. And if I had tried to quit then. I figured I'd have found a knife in my back. But what happened? What went wrong in here? I let yo

u out of the car. I told you what to do. I dropped the knife somewhere in the dark. But I came up anyway. Clune was stealing your dough and .. "About to run off with your wife." - "Yes, yes." "I could have been killed by Clune." "But just by mistake your wife put a weapon in my hand." "And I had to use it to save myself." "That explains why she got out of the house." "I finished her. With the car." I should have known you weren't in control. Oh no. Your control was alright. You still have the ta

lent. But you just said .. - Yes. And you fell for it. I didn't know what I was doing when I came up here. And I never would have found you but I saw your face in the newspapers. As the husband of the murdered woman. And I recognised you as Britten. I didn't come back to be paid off for what I did. You couldn't make me murder. I killed that man in self-defence. But now, I'll never be able to clear myself in the eyes of the law. And you're going to pay for doing that to me. Now. This way. - No. N

o. Wait. Don't do that. I can do something for you. I'll give you money. I'll get you out of the country. You should have left me alone. - Wait. Just one minute. Just one minute. To make you see. Just sixty seconds. You don't want to kill me. Those two had plotted against me for months. I knew it. That's why I did what I did. I had to do it. "Can't you understand? I had to do it." "You can understand that." He has got him going. Better get up there and cover the front stairs. If you'd suffered t

he indignities from those two that I did .. You'd have done the same thing. Stop it. Just a few seconds please. You don't want to kill me. Look up. Look up. Please. See? Just thirty seconds. I am sure I can make you see. Just a few seconds. Shall I go up and take him? - No, not yet. We must let him put him under. We must have proof for a jury that he can do it. "Fifteen seconds." "That's right. Look up." Killing me won't quiet your conscience. You don't want to shoot me. Drop the gun. It's too h

eavy. Drop the gun. Drop it, Grayson. You are too tired to hold it up. Just drop it. You will feel so much better. Just let go of it. Better still. Give the gun to me, Grayson. You are tired. That is better. "That horrible curtain closed over me again." "I couldn't fight it." Let's get up there. Did he get past you? Nobody came down those stairs. Let's try the other rooms. Captain Warner. Bressard. There is a back stairway through here. You'd better split up. If you see anything, yell. You are g

uilty. You killed Clune. Give me your coat. Get in the water. There you will find peace. Warner, Torrence. Over here. He is a goner. You alright now, kid? Yeah. All of a sudden I am alright. Anything else, madam? I think I'll have another order of duck. "I saw the note he tacked upon the door." "He was nowhere to be found." "That was the last .." "I ever saw of my man." Hiya, babe. Rene. I was so nervous I had to do something while I waited. So I ate. This is going to cost a fortune. For Junior,

I can afford it. Hurry up. Tell me. What did the DA say? I have to have a hearing. With the evidence Rene gave them he says I'll have no bother getting a dismissal. Thank goodness. You ought to be very proud of your husband. Oh, I will be. When he pays this check. Get your own. "Don't tell me." "The troubles you have now." "Don't tell me." "Please don't tell me." "I've troubles enough of my own." "If you've got a man that you want to keep." "I have nothing more than this to say." "Keep one eye

open every time you sleep." "Or your man will get away." "And that's the last .." "You'll ever see of your man." "It was the very last time." "I saw .." "My man." ..r-o..