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Golden Age Detectives — Boston Blackie - Grannys Witchcraft. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
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Hi, Blackie. Are you having fun? Hi, Mary. I was cute casting. Who you supposed to be? Joan of Arc, the Queen of England, or the Bell of Brookhurst? I'm Mary Queen of God. Only right now I better be Mary, Mrs. The Sam which is hadn't I. I'll keep everybody in here for you here. Any suggestions on how that's done? Well, if I knew, you'd be king about the Sam which is. Hey, by the way, who look awfully sick as Robin Hood's Blackie? Are those real arrows? Sure, but I'm not really Robin Hood. I'm actually cute with clothes on. It's cold out. Well, if you'll be old kid, aim a couple of arrows so that they'll do the most good. I'll be seeing you. Oh, and remember, there is no mistletoe under the chandelier. Only you can forget that when I get back. I will. Hurry with those sandwiches, will you, Mary? You bet I will. I'm the kind of a guest who has an appetite for adventure, but I've also got a craving for something a little more substantial. I'll be over to Vienna. All right. Okay. Blackie. What's up, Madame? Where are the sandwiches and why the puzzle looked? This is a party. You know, have fun. Array, whoopie. What's wrong?
Nothing except that there's a very funny looking old lady out in the way asking for you. Really? How funny looking? Very, very. She's wearing a long black dress, her hair is practically white and... Ooh, this is so stringy and it could be arrested for loitering all over her face. What about the face? Well, from what I could see, maybe her hair doesn't cover enough of it. Sounds like a description of my schoolgirl sweetheart. Well, this is a costume party, Mary. And anybody can come dressed as anything she likes, as well. Zip gal overdid the footage I can tell you. She's a... she's a little airy, no kidding. Well, I'll see her and if the worst comes to worst, I'll grab her broom and ride off on her. Blackie, you don't know how close you might be to what that gal actually is. And now back to Boston Blackie. Enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to those who have no friends.
See you later, kid. Hello, I'm Boston Blackie, you want to see me? Yes, but I think you should have said you want to see me. Oh, I apologize. Say that's what I get up to have there. Who are you supposed to be? I'm Granny. Well, it's a cute gag and it's a cute costume. So, well, why don't you come inside and join the other's granny, old gal? I'm not here as a guest, Blackie. I came especially to see you. What is it, Granny? Any trouble? No, no, Blackie. I'm not in trouble. You are. Oh, really? Oh, what kind of trouble am I in there? What do I do? Break my shoelace tomorrow morning? You may never see tomorrow morning, Blackie. Unless you listen to me. Aren't you being a little corny, Granny? I don't know how to convince you, Blackie. All I know is that something told me to come here tonight and warn you that death
is very close to you. Something told you to come? Yes, I sit alone and all of a sudden things come to me. They tell me what's going to happen. They dare me to do something about you. You are serious, aren't you? Well, thanks for coming, Granny, but I can take care of myself. Death is very close to you. It may come tomorrow. Death may come in a car. A blue car. A big blue limousine. You're going to have me believing this if you don't stop. I'll stop. I have nothing else to say. But I can be found at my house. 50 Lincoln lanes. If you need me, remember what I see, Blackie. Death and a big blue car. Tomorrow, go back to your party, Blackie. Have fun while you can. Tonight, but keep away from the chandelier. The middle chandelier in that room.
Good night. Hmm. Good night, me. Where were you, Tolo? I'm not sure, Mary. I think I was out in the foyer. Oh, good to see you. Something long? No. No, I don't suppose so. Oh, OK, my lady. Let's see that this party of yours keeps going. Right, you are. Let's go over to the center of the room. Let's turn the air pressure on. Lucky nobody is under it. Well, I should say so, Blackie. How could an acid of like that happen? That's not what bothers me. It's not going to happen. Well, Blackie, if you're going to continue to walk knitting your eyebrows, at least do something constructive with them. Make me sweat or maybe not. Mary, I can't get over that old lady who came to your party last night. After all, she did warn me about the chandelier. I'm thinking about that big blue sedan. She warned you about what's the matter with you. You scared. Just careful.
Well, there goes the traffic light. Let's get to the other side of the street and onto another subject. Come on. OK, let's talk about the weather. You think we'll have any today? Well, now you know we might. It looks like we might have. Blackie, look out for that car. Jump, Mary, jump, man. Oh, that driver tried to run the town to me. I'm scared. That makes two of us. Lucky we made the curb in time. Lucky? Yes. Blackie, did you see the color of that big car that almost ran us down? I wasn't paying too much attention. I think it was black. I was looking for a car. I wasn't paying too much attention. I think it was blue. It was blue, and it was a limousine. Yeah. So Granny's prediction was right. That's settled. I'm going to see it. Well, no, I am. Don't be. I'll be Granny can tell, or tell my future. I'm just going to see it and make sure I have one. That did it, Hanson. I'm going to get the burger alarm so we can break this window now. Nobody here is. Good work, Fred.
Right here. Take my rain and use the dynamite window plate. I'd wash. Here we are. Our dissection cup takes the glass out. What are any trouble? Just a couple of taps. Did it? Good. I'll have been a pick up that door. Payed there for this factory tomorrow. There ought to be 25,000 small bills and that's it. Not bad for now, he's working. This job took more than an hour, Pete. I had to plan it, case it, figure out the best time was on a Sunday afternoon. It took weeks. Now 25G's ain't bad for a couple of weeks we're getting, boys. Who's me and that window with it? Yeah, okay. I'll wait out here in case the watchman changes his routine besides he needs to exercise. Throw it up here, copi. I'll be seeing you in a couple of minutes. Okay. Yeah, I'll be seeing you and 25,000 dollars.
Uh-oh. Hello, Blackie. Now do I sound like Blackie and Fector thirded. This is Mary Westery. Oh, you. Well, really, Inspector, I'm not that bad. I haven't been called all you and you. Well, I just... Blackie isn't here. I'm waiting for him to. Well, when he comes in, tell him to call me right away at headquarters. I got something important to tell him. Just a little news, he oughta know. Oh? Your hamstrings, Blackie and Tom. And he hates Blackie worse than he hates anything in the world. Because Blackie's telling him to present 10 years ago. Inspector, are you positive, he's back? I'm all unpositive. I'm sure. Now you be sure you have Blackie call me here. All right, but I could tell him, couldn't I? Yeah, I guess so. You tell him, he's westerly. I don't want to talk to a big, like, anyhow. Oh. Yes. Oh, hello. Hello. This is Fifty Lincoln Lane, isn't it? Yes, it is, Blackie. And I've been expecting you. Come in.
You've been expecting me? You mean you and I have met before, Gorgian? Certainly. We met last night at Miss Wesley's part. That's when I gave you this address. No, wait a minute. Don't try to tell me you're Granny. I knew who you were, didn't I? Of course I'm Granny. I beg your pardon, but I'm afraid I heard what you said. Now look, Granny wasn't using makeup and she looked at least 70 years old and you're not more than 25. To tell you the truth, I don't know how old I am. Oh, please sit down. Right. You're just going to have to trust me, Blackie. If I'm to help you. That's what I came to see you about. Somebody tried to run me down in an automobile about an hour ago. A big blue limousine. Yes, I know. As soon as it came to me, how they were going to try to kill me? I called you on the town, but there was no answer. Wait a minute. Before I really stopped believing this.
First of all, how can you be Granny? First of all, I'm going to make you more comfortable. I'll be the way you remember me. I'm going into the next room. All right, what's in there? Crystal Ball or your magic wand? Nothing's in here, Granny. Except my book. Please, Granny. I'll wait, but it isn't going to help me understand any of this. Well, you said you wouldn't be long. It's practically 10 seconds. What's going on? You see, Granny? I was Granny all the time. And now I look like Granny. This can't happen to me. Oh, I get it. This whole thing is a gag. That young girl is in that room. I think so, Granny. Come look. You bet I will. Well, Granny, you're looking. Yes, I am. She's not here. And there's no daughter. This room except the one I just came through.
Oh, I get it. She went out through this window. It's barred and bolted, Blackie. See for yourself. I'm saying I'm not believing. There'd be no place for her to hide. There's nothing here except these books, Blackie. You must believe me now. I bet if I find something to believe in in a hurry. Believe in me, Blackie. I'm trying to look out for you. Blackie, you mustn't go near Victoria Street tonight. Victoria Street? Why mustn't I go near there? Because of the fire. What fire? The one that will break out at 8 o'clock tonight. There'll be a fire at 8 o'clock, and you know it now. I don't get this. I don't get any of it unless you're right. What, Blackie? A witch? Well, yes. Are you a witch? I don't know, Blackie. Maybe I am. Sometimes I'm sure I am. Like now.
And now back to Boston, Blackie. At a party given by his girlfriend, Mary Wesley, Blackie is confronted by an old hag who predicts two attempts will be made on his life. When they happen, Blackie goes to see her, only to be met by a very beautiful girl who insists was she who warned him the evening previous. Along with this development comes word that Joe Henson life-long enemy of Blackie's is in Tom. But Blackie's immediate concern is the starklingly accurate predictions of his mysterious advisor. And as we return to our story, Blackie is at home reading up on witchcraft. How much longer you're going to strangle your eyes over that book, Blackie? Until I find something that makes this witch case make sense. I've gone through two books on witchcraft, two books jammed with case histories of supernatural predictions which came true right here. Here's one. As recently as 1859, a woman. Oh, I'll read it. Mary Thor Prescott foretold her husband death two months before it happened.
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What? Blackie, you, Barry. Which Blackie goes to the ins bookstale in factor. That's probably right. And by the way, Faraday, why aren't you with the fire on Victoria Street? What fire on what Victoria Street? There isn't any fire down there. Never mind. What's this about your hands and neck? You got my message. He's out of jail. Because you helped send him up. I thought you ought to know. I'll take care of him when I take care of my other problem, Faraday. Say maybe we got some news about him downtown. I don't care to use the phone. I didn't say anything. I'm not going to be a good guy. I'm not , I'm down town. It's okay to use the phone tonight. I didn't say you could use it. But you didn't say I couldn't eat it. Blackie, why is it you, and I always battled this way. The reason Faraday is, you and I. Pat Gordy's Roland. Roland, this is Faraday. Anything going on? Oh, no, I'm spectacular. No news on that Joe Hanson guy. Oh, nothing else, I'm spectacular. Everyone's very quiet. There's a big fire down at Victoria Street, but that's alright. Well, let the fire department worry about that. I call you back, Roland. Bang. Well, no news like here. That's what I thought. What's this all about? The fire department worrying? What about? Who cares? Some of them are fired out of Victoria Street.
I'm going home. How long, Miss Mezzi? The vine. YouTube, Frankie. I'm going to go home and get the shoes off. A Victoria Street? Frankie, how do you know about the fire of Victoria Street? Never mind. I wouldn't get a sensible answer anyhow. And once the inspectors write, he wouldn't get a sensible answer out of me. Mary, I'm going back to that house on Lincoln Lane as a delivery man or something. I wish... All right, the big hair for will you? Oh, I will, don't worry. One thing you can count on when I get there, I'll keep my witch about me. Yes? Hello, I got this a chair for you. All right, if I bring him in. Chair? Yes, I ordered a chair. Put it in the living room. This way, please. Right. I've been working on the ring. Put it right down there.
That's right. Thank you. Yes or not, trouble, lady? I guess that's all. A lady, your fosh is a ring. Yes, I know. You're not going to answer it? Yes, I'll answer it as soon as you leave, Blackie. You knew? It was me? You wouldn't try to fool me, Blackie. Not me. I knew you were coming, even before you decided to come. Would you please go now? I really must answer the phone. And you can't while I'm here? No. No, it's fine. You know, it might be your friend death calling to tell you when he's calling for me. It might be. Well, do me a favor. Ask him where he's calling from. Oh, what a snap this time. It's not paid well. It's not. I'm going to let it to this torture, bring it to this safe. We'll have 30 grand more in the kitchen. Yeah, I know, isn't it? This and the job we did yesterday afternoon will give us plenty of sugar.
Yeah. I did it. Now for 30 grand in diamond speed. Clean, clear, cold diamonds. Keeping for six months in the rid of them. Live on easy street. Maybe. Sure, maybe. Everything's going to be. Put that flashlight on its train. You'll see how close the positive me are, little maybe, is. They're awful, birdie hands in the hood. They should be birdie grand, don't you think? Oh, you're not an old rich in the gun, handsome. That would be smart. Lucky. That's right. And don't get nervous, you two. All I want right now are those diamonds. And what if I don't get now, handsome, please? Don't make me answer that. All right, blackie, tell me how do you know about this job? How do I know about it? I'll tell you, handsome. A witch told me. 30,000 dollar in diamond I lose. Inspector Faraday, I'm just sitting there. What kind of police force do we have here?
I'm not the whole police force, Mr. Mancay. I'm only one man. We got men working on a case. You got men working on my case. So what does that mean? Did I come to headquarters just to be told that? To tell you the truth, Mr. Balkeller? I don't know why you did come here. He doesn't know why. 30,000 dollars worth of diamonds, why isn't that enough? Hello, Faraday. Yeah, blackie, go away. I got trebles. He's got troubles. I've got troubles. I want my diamonds. I want them. Do you understand? Talk, Mr. Balkeller. I told you that. I'm a man's spikin' of a mind. I promise him in the case of the ones. Is this diamonds here, there? My diamonds. My diamonds. Thank you. I have my diamonds. I have my diamonds. I have my diamonds. Like it when you get those stones. I brought them here tonight. And Mr. Van Gelder is happy, isn't he? So what difference does it make where I got them? Besides, I'm going to let you win on some. Yeah, I can hardly wait. Listen, Faraday. You know that which business I told you about? Which which never mind. It's all tied up with Joe Hansen anyhow.
Hansen, eh? Hansen AB and C. First of all, he hired an old hag to tell me a couple of things that were going to happen. Go ahead. You aren't making sense, but that's nothing though. Well, he hired this old gal, old pal. Knowing I'd be very curious and investigator, which left him free to do what he wanted to around town. Why should he worry about you? He had a reason, Faraday. Believe me. He knew that as soon as I found out he was loose, I'd be on his trail and he wanted to keep me busy, so we hired that old goon. You think Joe Hansen planned this? And then made the old aims for addictions come true? That's right. I've engineered everything, falling chandelier, the big blue limousine, the fire on Victoria Street, the library with sliding panels, so one girl could disappear and I'd granny make an entrance. I know that all now. Who told you? A little bird? No, a little telephone. What? I tried to get in that house and link in lane as a delivery man, but it didn't work. But I'd brought along a telephone cut-in out that not did. I heard Hansen telling that old wood-d witch his plans. What? What? About a job he was pulling last night. Only Hansen doesn't know that I listened in out.
He thinks that granny told me about it, and if I know Hansen, he's going to try to get granny for that. So what? Where do we go from here? To Thielinckin Lane. Thinking he can find your way there by yourself. Oh, a law, I'll try. Of course I can. Only remember, I'm not taking orders for you. What do you want me to do? Meet me there. Hansen wants to get granny and I want to get him. What in here behind this hedge is me the creeps too. I can't wait to forget this business of taking care of granny. I've got that money you want to pick up from the factory. I can't get out of town right now. I can't do it, sugar. I'm going to take care of that double-crossing old name. I killed Pete because he tried to cross me and I'll kill her too. I got it to it. You've forgotten about Boston Blackin. I've not tried to keep him out of your way until you were ready to get him. We'll be okay now. I can't forget. Something inside me don't let me forget.
Maybe you better remember that too. Sure. As soon as it gets dark, we take care of granny and beat it. I've got a plane all gased up ready to go. We've got to wait till it's dark. It's dark enough now, Joey. I'm hungry. I just want to run out of the room. All right, get over to the window. Tell me what you see. All right. If I can't be anybody in the house, the old set granny has got to be here. Just look inside. Don't tell me what's got to be. Well? I can see it. She's in a big wing back, Jerry. Nice and calm and easy. Just as if she hadn't crossed it. I'll take care of her right now. Come on over to the window with me. Sure, Joey. I'm sticking close. Not to that close. Don't get in the way of my arm. I need this some of my, just something special. Hey. Well, you get one break anyhow. This window isn't bled. All the way a little. I can pry it up and with this Jimmy.
What? If she does, she'll be dead that much quicker. You're carrying my gun. Give it to me. Sure, Joey, sure. Here. Here's the gun. Get her washed, Joey. You can do anything as long as you keep your mouth shut. I can rest my arm in a swindersilce. I'll be sure I don't miss. Go ahead. Go ahead, Joey. Go ahead. I can have you wait to see your shoe. I just want to make sure I don't miss and I want. It's nice and steady. His wish he gets it. Right now. That's when your friend's off. Oh, you do any good, sugar. You and your boyfriend are through. You as a flaky. That's right. It's me. My gun. And I've got another friend, Inspector Faraday, who's coming around the house to grab you. I'll never forget you for this flaky. Joey. Oh, boy. You haven't got much time to remember anything. And sugar. Yeah. You tried to pretend you were the young addition of granny. Well, by the time you're out of jail, you'll be older than she is. The flaky, at least you grant me that there was nothing supernatural about granny and her predictions.
Will I, Mary? What was she saying that? Well, you as much as said it. You told Inspector Faraday that Joe Hanson arranged all those cunning little episodes which granny imagined in advance. Yeah, I guess that's right, Mary McGurll, except for one thing. Of course, Faraday found it was Hanson's gun that knocked off his ex-buddy teeth. So there was no reason for Hanson not to admit cooking up this witch thing against me. Well, he did, didn't he? Oh, sure. He admits everything. Except starting that fire under victorious. Well, he'd have no reason to deny that. Maybe he didn't do it. Well, in that case, how did granny know about it in advance? Oh. Oh, I never thought about that. Well, why don't you ask her? I tried to find her this morning, Mary. And maybe she is a witch and maybe she's just a frightened old woman. But for all I know, she's disappeared into thin air.
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