Boston Blackie - Carl Browning Cleaning Shop

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1:00You ready? Join the new planet fitness in La Crescenta for $1.15 a month. Hurry, deal ends October 4th. Planet Fitness, cardio, strength, recovery. Right around the corner. See club for details. Now, La Crescenta, don't feel too bad because the doc says you're not in great shape. You're a leveler, lived to be 100. Oh, I'm not worried about it, Ranny. I'm not worried about it. I'm not worried about it. I'm not worried about it. I'm not worried about it. I'm not worried about it. I'm not worried about it. You're a leveler, lived to be 100. Oh, I'm not worried about it, Ranny. All the doctors said was for me to take it easy. Not to do anything too strenuous. Sure. And you know what that means? What? You're just as good as you ever were. Maybe better. But you just got this low down, Kyle.

2:03And I'm going to see to it that you do. Thanks, Ranny. My cleaning shop isn't too strenuous for me. Oh, it's good to have a friend at a time like this. At a time like what? Things are going to be the same for you as they always were. Golf, swimming, gym, everything. Only not as much as before. I tell you what, we'll get out of the gym a couple of nights so we just the tool, the shoot basket, or toss a medicine ball around. Something like that. Something easy. All right. Let's make it starting tomorrow night. How about that? Tomorrow night? Sure. That's fine. One I won't be coming home till the following morning. Oh, your wife had a turn? Yeah, up in Port Smith. So we can go with the gym if you want? Right. And as long as one no one will be in town. How about dinner together after we work out? Well, I'd like that. It's a date then. I'll see you at the gym at five. After that we'll go to a restaurant downtown. Oh, excuse me. Sure. Hello? Hello, Ranny. This is Wanda. Oh. Hello there. How are you?

3:05Fine. Do you miss me, darling? You bet I do. Where are you? Still in Port Smith. You want me to stay here, don't you? Uh-huh. You're going to go through with it. Sure, Anne. Please don't get cold feet, darling. He's the only thing that stands between us. You know that. Don't worry. I'll do everything just as we planned. Tell me you love me, darling. I can't. Oh. Oh, is he with you now? Yes. I better hang up then. Remember I come back to town day after tomorrow. I know. It'll all be done by then. I'm going to take care of everything tomorrow night. And now on to Dick Colmer as Boston Blackie. Enemy to those who make him an enemy. Friend to those who have no friend. Hey, you. Just a minute. Come on. Press the pants later, but I want to talk to you.

4:15All right. What can I do for you, sir? Where's the guy who owns this pants pressing joint? I own this place. Oh, yeah. You name Colmer Brown? Yes. Okay, bud. And you're just the guy I want to see. Nice place you got here. Makes you good living, huh? Fair living. Well, I'm satisfied. That's great. I don't know, guys. Satisfied. That means he wants the other guy to be satisfied, too. Yes. I like you. It's going to cost you $100 a week to run this place from now on. $100 a week? Well, the place gets messed up and you along with it. It's just a little business to you, bud. You give me $100 every week and you can stay in business. I don't think I'm kidding. I'm going to make an example of you. A sort of exhibit A for the rest of the small shop owners around town. What do you mean? I mean, I'm just starting in business.

5:17Jerry Buck is the main in case you're interested. You've had a me, haven't you? Yeah. Yes, I have. A place you'd like to get hold of you. You can get hold of me anytime they want. It's not what they can't do anything on me. And look, don't you get any idea of going to the cops about this? Because as I said, I'm going to make an example of you in case you don't kick through with that 100. What kind of an example? A dead example, bud. See you tomorrow. See you around 10 in the morning. And I'll see $100 then, too. Won't I? Hello, Blackie. Well, hello, Carl. Come on in. What have you done? Promoted yourself to delivery? Oh, no, Blackie. But I happened to be passing your way, so I thought I'd deliver your suit to you myself.

6:22Oh, thanks. I think I can use it tonight, as a matter of fact. Here, I'll take it. I'll put it on the bill. Do that, will you, Carl? Say, and by the way, how is everything? Oh, not so good, Blackie. Not so good. Well, what's the matter? You cleaners being taken to the cleaners? Well, I don't know. I had a couple of bad experiences the last two days. Oh, what's happened? Well, first of all, my doctor says I'm not in such good shape. Oh, I'm sorry. And I have to take it easy. Well, I wouldn't worry about that. Carl, taking it easy will be good. Yeah, I suppose it will. And it's what happened to my shop this morning that really has me worried. What happened? The fellow named Jerry Buck came to see me. Once $100 a week from me or else. Uh-oh. What do I do, Blackie? I can't afford to give this guy $100 a week. And if I go to the police, you'll kill me. We'll contact the police, Carl. We have to in a case like this, but not yet. Yeah, but... What this fellow is trying to do to you is one of the crimes I hate most. What time tomorrow is he coming for his 100th? 10 in the morning.

7:2210 in the morning, eh? All right. I'll be at your shop, but... No, but still. I'll pick you up at your house and go to your shop with you. Well, I... I go to work at 8. Will that be too early for you? No, I'll be there. Now, don't worry about a thing, Carl. We won't let this guy get away with us. Oh, thanks, Blackie. I'm not in any danger tonight. No one saw me come here. Later on, I'm going to the gym and then to dinner with a friend of mine. We'll go ahead and have fun. By tomorrow, your troubles will all be over. That was a great meal we had, Rene. We got to eat there every time we get through with the gym. That's okay with me, Carl. You feel good. Oh, great. That little workout gave me an appetite. The meal was... Oh, look. I'm home already. What are you trying to do, Rene? Get rid of me. No, Carl. I just thought you'd like to hit the hay early tonight. Oh, but not this early. It's only 8 o'clock. Well, I'll come on in and shoot the breeze with you while I was at. Well, all right. It'll be good when one gets back to town tomorrow morning.

8:22I guess you miss her, don't you? I sure do. Can I understand why she's stayed in Port Smith so long? A boyfriend, maybe? Not in Port Smith, Carl. Her boyfriend is right here. I guess he is at that, Rene. Oh, one does a swell girl. Wonderful, right? Well, come on in. Let's chat a while. Yeah. Well, say, you don't have to stay if you have something to do, Rene. I have only one thing to do tonight, Carl. That's to stay with you all. Thanks a lot. You're a terrific guy. You know, I don't know what I'd do with... Rene, what are you doing with that gun? Just holding it, pal. And wanting it at me? I'll put it away, Rene. We don't want to have one of those. I didn't know it was loaded, accident, it's around here. It's not pointing at you by accident, Carl, old pal. Rene? Surprise, don't. I don't blame you much. I'd be rather surprised myself with my best friends that he was going to kill me. Hey, Rene, what is this? Some kind of a joke? Not Carl, this is no joke. This is murder. Rene, why? Why do you such a crazy thing? You know you can't get away with it.

9:24Oh, yes, I can. Oh, no, Rene. No, no, no, no. You are murder. Rene, because when I get through with you, the carnaz verdict will be... Death from natural causes. Hello, Mrs. Brown. I'm Boston Black. Here's your... Mrs. Brown. What is it? Something happened to your husband? He's in a bedroom. In bed, dead, as I found him this morning. Dead, Mrs. Brown? Yes, I've called the doctor, but he hasn't come yet. Why did you die? I'm not going to be here. I'm not going to be here. I'm going to be here. What's the doctor? But he hasn't come yet. What did you die? I don't know. I got home from work. Smith very early this morning and found him. I thought he was just asleep. In other words, he might have died in the sleep? Yes, he might have. He was under the doctor's care. Yes, I know. Well, let's have a look at him, then.

10:24If you like. How did you happen to call on him, Blacky? We had an appointment to go down to his shop together this morning to meet a man named Jerry Buck. Jerry Buck? I never heard him mention anyone by that name. No, I don't imagine he had. This is just the way you found your husband, Mrs. Brown, in bed just as he is right now. Yes. This is his now. Not a mark on him. No side of disturbance in the room. No blouses on him to show his death wasn't natural. But just the same. Who are you calling? The policeman's brand. I think your husband was murdered. Murdered it. And in an amazing way, too. I don't know how, but he was murdered, I'm sure. Who would kill it? Probably Jerry Buck. He would see me yesterday about that shakedown Buck was trying to call him. Shakedown?

11:24But that's not important right now. Faraday speaking. Hello Inspector, this is Blacky. I'm Adam Lohm. Thanks for two quiet here at headquarters. A good five, Blacky. Whatever you want, I'm not interested. Well, I have a murder you might be interested in, Faraday. A murder? Who's yours? No, I'm sorry, pal, but the only thing that could possibly kill me is your stupidity. The dead man is called Brown. And I think he's committed. Maybe poisoned or maybe killed some new way by an man named Jerry Buck. Jerry Buck. Now, isn't that night? Why did Jerry Buck kill him? For a hundred dollars shakedown money, Brown wouldn't pay. Oh, no, Blacky. I know Jerry Buck in his work. He's a no good guy, and I'm going to get him one of these days. But it won't be for murder. He's not the murdering kind. That's what you're thinking. Let us send somebody up here and have a look at the body. Sure, sure. I'll send up the car and earn a couple of men. What's the address? 909 Evergreen Street, apartment two. Okay. You think Brown was poisoned, eh? Well, there are no marks on. He wasn't shot or stabbed or killed by any visible means.

12:26Or by Jerry Buck or anybody else. It's murder, eh? Yes. I bet this one turns out to be death by natural causes. Goodbye. Blacky, are the police coming? Yes, Mrs. Brown. They'll be here in a little while. Magdana. Oh, Rainy, please. Please do come in. I got here as soon as I could. One day, I'm awfully sorry to hear about this. But my... It must be a shock to you, too. Oh, uh, Rainy. This is Boston Blacky. Blacky. John Rainy. How do you feel, Miss Rainy? I found Rainy. Come over. As soon as I found Carlos morning. Oh, no. Rainy's almost like one of the family. You knew Brown well, Miss Rainy? Yes. We've been the best of friends for years. I think I know how he died, too, Blacky. Oh. Over-exertion. I'm afraid that's what it was, too. What makes you think so, Mr. Rainy? Did you see him last night? Yes, I did. We went to the gym for a light workout. John was an active guy. I thought it was better to taper off the strenuous stuff rather than drop it cool.

13:28Well, that's sometimes wise, yes. But this time I'm afraid it was. Oh, he seemed to be in good spirits at dinner. Oh, you had dinner with him last night? Yes, about 6'30. Then he left to come home and relax. And he was all right, then? Yes, seemed to be... Poor guy. Yes, he died in the sleep. Well, if he had the die, I suppose it was best this way. Yes, if he died, as we think. John has been always sleep with his wrist watch on, Mrs. Brown. Oh, yes, he did. That is strange. What's that? His watch. I noticed that my first came in. It was running and it's kept perfect time since we've been in here. Well, it's a very good watch. Carl was awfully proud of it. Good watch, is it? Well, maybe so. It's keeping time all right right now, but it's exactly 2 hours slow. 2 hours slow? Yes. And I wonder why?

14:29And now back to Boston Blackie. Carl Brown, who has been ill, is told by gangster Jerry Buck that unless he pays him $100, his shop will be wrecked. And he'll be killed. So Carl goes to see Boston Blackie. And Blackie agrees to be with Carl the next day when the gangster comes for payment. That night, however, Carl's friend, John Rainey, pulls a gun on Carl and announces that he's going to kill him. Next morning, Carl is found at home, dead without a mark on him. Death has attributed to natural causes, but Blackie has convinced Carl was murdered. As we return to our story, Blackie and his friend Murray Wesley wait in the dead man's cleaning establishment for the appearance of the gangsters. 10 o'clock already, Blackie.

15:30If Mr. Buck is going to come here, he should be here by now. He may be stormy, just to worry his victim a little. A lot poor Mr. Brown has to worry about now. Yes. Mr. Rick Buck would show up. It's him he'll be proof something. I know what. But he didn't kill Mr. Brown. I don't see what's smart about it. If he killed Mr. Brown, he'd know there was no point in coming here to collect money from him. Blackie, what kind of poison killed Mr. Brown? None, Murray. I realized that. And if I told Faraday I could poison and kill him right after, there would have been some evidence of death by poison if he'd been killed that way. But there were no marks on him, you say? He couldn't have been killed any other way. I still think he was murdered, Murray. Murdered in a new and clever way. That watch, two hours slow. It's a cute way, no it is. They only figure out what it means. Maybe it just means his watch doesn't keep time. It keeps perfect time, Murray. I checked it myself and didn't lose a second. Now why is that watch of Brown's running two hours slow?

16:30How does it prove Carl was murdered? Please, Blackie, don't ask me. I'm just asking myself, Murray, and I'm telling myself the hands of that Clark Point, the Brown's murderer. I'm sure they do. Well, the hands of the Clark and here point to well after ten. Obviously, our friend Mr. Buck is not going to show up here. No, obviously not. So I think I'll show up with his place. Hey Jerry, huh? You hear with the radio about that guy, Carl Brown, you was going to see this morning. Come in, Marty. Yeah, just now. Guess you got to pick another sucker to get the business started. Ah, but somebody's got the door locked. Who see what is? One of the boys, maybe. And but maybe not. Open the slide panel and see what is first. Yeah. Yeah. What do you want? I want you to open the store.

17:30Get lost, Carick. Hey, get the go-man to tie. Get the go-yeah. Not to do open the store. Hey, Jerry, get the go-man to tie. Open the door for him, one. I think I know where he is. Do what the man says, pal. All right, all right, but let go of me first. Sure. I'm coming in the door fast, just so you won't change your mind and close it on me. Yeah, what do you want? Close the door and I'll tell you. That's a good boy. Yeah. Now you just be quiet. I have to see your pile, Jerry. What do you want me for, black-hack? Oh, you know where, Andy, Jerry? Yes. Good. Why didn't you come to see Karl Brown this morning as you promised you were? Two reasons? You said you'd be there at 10. What's one reason? Well, first of all, I was going to be late anyhow. Just to worry the guy a little. But then I heard of the radio a little while ago. There wasn't any reason to see him at all. You expect me to believe you didn't know he was dead until you heard it of the radio? That's right. That's also a lie. Well, I don't like to be accused of anything but lying or murder.

18:30Maybe I should take this guy apart for you, Jerry. Yeah, Martin. Maybe we should teach this robot a little less. You mean maybe he had a punch like this? Then I'll blacken you to little pala, mine like that without getting into a fight. Pull him, Jerry. I'll take care of this guy. Just open the door, Martin. Okay. Conversation's closed. Okay, now, Martin, let's slap him around and toss him. Oh, no, you don't. Here, I'll get him with this chair, Jerry. Check. Oh. There. That got him. The door's open. So let's toss him out. Grab him, Martin. Here, I got him. Right there. Yeah. Well, close the door. Nothing lying out there, wow. Sure, Jerry. Look, I'll be able to tell my grandchildren that I toss Boston black hair on his ear.

19:33John Rainey must be an important man, Blackie. He's kept us in his waiting room long enough. The secretary said he'd be running a little while, Mary. He's pretty busy, man. Oh. Well, I guess I'll read this magazine or something. What's the matter, the white boy? You don't answer the answer. So, oh, oh, maybe this is Mr. Rainey now. Yes, it is. I can see you now, Blackie. Oh, thanks, Mr. Rainey. Come on, Mary. I'm coming. I'm sorry, I kept you waiting so long, Blackie. I was on the long distance from him. That's all right. Mr. Wesley, Mr. Rainey. How do you do, Mr. Rainey? Now, what can I do for you, Blackie? I'm convinced your friend, Carl, was murdered. Maybe you can help me prove it. But, Blackie, it's obvious that Carl died of a heart attack. In fact, I feel partly responsible. You do? Yes, I took him to the gym with me last night. Even though we just had our light work on him, I'm afraid even that was too much for him. I don't think he died of overexition, Mr. Rainey. And I'd like you to help me prove he didn't. All right. Now, what do you know about Carl and his wife?

20:33About Carl and Wanda. What do you mean? I mean, did they get along? Of course they did. I'm really sure, though. Isn't strangely convenient that Carl's wife was out of town the night Carl died? No, she... Look, are you trying to say one that had something to do with Carl's death? I'm saying she might have wanted him to die. It's just a hunch, though. But Blackie's hunches are usually right? I don't like any part of this. One to Brown? Wait a minute, Mr. Rainey. Don't get excited. I didn't mean what you're thinking. I'm sorry, I said it. You should be. Well, I am. Come on, Mary. All right, Blackie. Thanks, Mr. Rainey, but I don't know what for. Sorry, I couldn't be of help to you. I'm sorry I got angry too. Forget it. Can we, Mary? Yes, I'm right here. Good-bye, Mr. Rainey. Good-bye. Well, we certainly got plenty of nothing out of him. Yes, didn't we? Then let's get back up town and concentrate on our watch. That watch again? Yes, I'm still absolutely certain that Carl was murdered. That watch is the clue. Why was it two hours slow? Well, you keep asking the same question, so you get the same answer.

21:33I don't know. Say, wait a minute, Mary. You know what kind of a place we were just in? Well, according to that sign up there, we were in the John Rainey Ice and Fuel Company. That's right, and it gives me an idea. We're coming back here tonight to prove the John Rainey killed Carl Brown and how he killed him, too. So you want to look around my ice plant this morning, dear Blackin? Yes, if you don't mind. Miss Wesley here has been pestering me about it ever since we left here yesterday. Well, I'm flattered. We have about the best plant in the city, Miss Wesley. Though I've heard, I hope you'll show us through it. I'm glad to. Right this way. Through this door here, we can go right into the main freezing room. Good. After you, Miss Wesley. Thank you. You should really be here late in the afternoon when you left the big ice flocks out of the vats and come. Well, maybe you'll let us come back then. Any time, Blackin. What's that humming noise? The generators that run the pumping machinery here.

22:33That odor you smell as ammonia, of course. Oh, yes, I recognize that. Miss Wesley is a nurse. Oh, a nurse. Wow, Miss Wesley. This is where most of your ice bags come from. We supply most of the hospitals in town. Miss Wesley is a private nurse. Most of her cases are in homes. Yes, but people in homes have headaches, too. By the way, Mr. Rainey, what's behind that big thing? It's behind that big heavy door over there. That's the newest addition to my plant. Blackin, the deep freezer. Big unit, isn't it? Biggest deep freezer on the stage. Can I see that, too, from the inside? Oh, may I, too. Well, I wouldn't advise it, Miss Wesley. I'll just open the door and give you an idea of how cold it is in there. Okay. Ooh! Oh! It is cold. I give up. I'll wait out here. I thought you would. All right, if I go in, Mr. Rainey? Of course. Blackie, for a minute or two. Here, I'll go in with you and show you the mechanics. Fine. We'll be out a minute, Mary, and we can hold hands. No thanks. I'll wait until you saw out. Ha-ha-ha. Ooh-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!

23:34Say, it is really cold in there. Yes, we'd better not stay in here, mother. Blackie, what did you just pick up off the floor? I watched. You watched? But how did it get in here? I put it in here. I came back after we left you last night. The door. It's closed. We can't open it from here. We can't get out. Oh, yes, we can. When I give Inspector Faraday the signal. The signal. Inspector Faraday. A policeman? A yes, in the manner of speaking. But what's he doing here? He's helping me with a little experiment. And it's worked. My watch has stopped, all right? Just as I thought it would be frozen stiff. Well, of course it stopped. It's so far below zero and here that a man would freeze to death and less than half an hour. And his watch would freeze too and run again after it was thought out. Well sure, everybody knows that. Sure. But not everybody knows that Carl Brown died by freezing and in here, where you put him. Are you kidding? Don't pretend to be surprised, Rainy. All I needed to prove that Carl was murdered was to find out why his watch was running two hours slow. The works were frozen for two hours.

24:35That's why you put that away, put away that gun. It's not going to do you any good. It's not going to do you any good either. Because I'm going to kid you with it. I don't think so, Rainy. Have you forgotten where locked in here? We've got to get out of here. We'll freeze to death in a few minutes. The way Carl froze to death in here? Blacken will freeze. Open the door. Open the door. No use pounding Rainy. Party, one up the door and like it the signal. Then give the signal I'm freezing. This is the way you killed Carl, isn't it? You locked him in here. No, let me out. Let me out. Open the door. Open the door. I won't open the door. I won't open until I give the signal. I'm not giving the signal. So you give me that gun and start talking. All right. Here, take the gun, take it. Now give the signal. You admit you killed Carl by putting him in here? Yes. Now give the signal I'm freezing. I'm freezing too, but first why did you kill Carl? Because one didn't want to get rid of him. Now have them open this door. I'm dying. The call is too much. It's too much. It's too much. Carl too. Much too much. There's a signal.

25:36Oh, thank you. You get what you want, Blacken? Yes, Byrde. You get rid of everything. Better let Rainy lie down. I think he's about to pass out. Yes, best out. Blacken, your face and hand are almost blue. Are you all right? Yes, I'm all right, Mary, but this is the first time I ever got out on the case by getting cold.

28:43Thanks for joining us. Thanks for being here. Thanks for seeing me. I'll see you next time. Take care. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.