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FOG SHROUDED VIEW FERRIES, OTHER SMALL BOAT TRAFFIC UNDER SAN FRANCISCO BRIDGE. OCEAN LINER SLOWLY SAILING IN HARBOR.
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00:02:28 88 |
CU CHINESE FACE PEERS OUT OF PORT HOLE THROWS PACKAGE INTO WATER. MOTOR LAUNCH SAILS BY, MAN ON DECK SCOOPS UP PACKAGE. MAN SECRETIVELY SLIPS PACKAGE INSIDE TRENCH COAT, UNDER HIS ARM.
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00:02:56 116 |
MYSTERIOUS CHINESE MAN, WEARING FEDORA PEERS FROM BEHIND DOCK MOORING, TOWARDS CAMERA, AT LAUNCH PULLING INTO PIER, WATCHES MAN IN TRENCH COAT LEAVE LAUNCH.
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00:03:31 151 |
MYSTERY CHINESE MAN, FEDORA, COAT COLLAR UP KNOCKS ON DOOR, PASSES NOTE TO ELDERLY CHINAMAN THROUGH PEEP DOOR AT NIGHT.
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00:03:37 157 |
1930s TAXICAB "YELLOW CAB", PULLS UP UNDER ARCHED CARPORT. MAN IN TRENCH COAT EXITS.
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00:03:50 170 |
MAN, TRENCH COAT BULGING WITH HIDDEN PACKAGE, ENTERS FRONT DOOR OF ESTATE HOME LOOKS AROUND SUSPICIOUSLY, HEARS SINGING IN LIVING ROOM.
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00:03:57 177 |
MAN WEARING TUXEDO, AT PIANO PLAYING, SINGING MUSICAL SCALE AS VOICE EXERCISE.
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00:04:00 180 |
MALE CHINESE SERVANT, TRADITIONAL OUTFIT, APPROACHES MAN IN TRENCH COAT, ASKS TO TAKE HIS COAT AND HAT.
MAN REFUSES WALKS UP SPIRAL STAIRCASE TO UPPER FLOOR. |
00:04:22 202 |
CHINESE MAID CARRYING TRAY WITH TEA SERVICE IS STOPPED BY MAN IN TRENCH COAT, THEY SPEAK. SHE SHOWS DEFIANCE THEN FEAR AS HE THREATENS HER.
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00:05:01 241 |
MAN PLAYFULLY PINCHES CHEEK OF CHINESE MAID. SHE TURNS, LEAVES.
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00:06:05 305 |
CHINESE MAID STOPS MAN IN TUXEDO FROM PLAYING PIANO, THEY ARGUE. HE MAKES SUDDEN SHUSHING GESTURE WHEN SHE MAKES ACCUSATION.
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00:06:29 329 |
YOUNG COUPLE IN DRAMATIC SCENE IN LIVING ROOM HE TELLS HER HE LOVES HER DESPITE HER BEING MARRIED, SHE GETS EMOTIONAL, HE GETS EMOTIONAL, SAYS, SOME DAY I'M
GOING TO KILL HIM". BOTH COOL IT WHEN EVIL HUSBAND WALKS IN, GIVES HER KISS ON CHEEK. |
00:08:32 452 |
WOMAN GETS EMOTIONAL, TURNS AWAY FROM HUSBAND PUTS HAND TO HER FOREHEAD AS SHE HOLDS BACK TEARS.
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00:09:24 504 |
MAN LEAVES ROOM, WOMAN SHOWS DESPAIR, GRIEF.
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00:09:28 508 |
LIMOS ENTERING HUGE GATED ESTATE AT NIGHT FOR GATHERING OF ELITE.
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00:09:40 520 |
MR. WONG IN FORMAL WEAR, ENTERS MANSION, IS HELPED OFF WITH HAT, COAT, BY CHINESE BUTLER AT DOOR. ENTERS LIVING ROOM IS GREETED BY HOST WHO INTRODUCES HIS YOUNG WIFE. SOCIAL SET, IN FORMAL WEAR, ENJOYING PARTY.
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00:10:58 598 |
MAN SQUATS DOWN TO OPEN SAFE IN STUDY IN PRESENCE OF MR. WONG. WONG ADMIRES ARTIFACTS IN ORNATE CABINET.
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00:11:19 619 |
MAN SHOWS WONG LARGE GEM HE REMOVED FROM SAFE. "EYE OF THE DAUGHTER OF THE MOON" SAYS WONG, AS HE EXAMINES IT. HE LOOKS UP AT MAN, SAYS "VERY DANGEROUS". SPEAKS OF CURSE.
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00:12:04 664 |
MAN SHOWS WONG LETTER WRITTEN IN CHINESE: "THE POSSESSOR OF THE EYE OF THE DAUGHTER OF THE MOON RIDES SWIFTLY TO HIS DEATH".
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00:13:13 733 |
MAN SHOWS WONG ENVELOPE "THAT SHOULD BE OPENED IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO ME".
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00:15:11 851 |
THREE DISTINGUISHED MEN IN TUXEDOS, PRACTICE THEIR ROLES, LINES IN PLAY. ON PUFFS ON CIGARETTE AS HE READS LINES.
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00:15:55 895 |
FOUR DISTINGUISHED MEN IN TUXEDOS SIT ON LIVING ROOM STEPS ONE BEHIND THE OTHER USE GOLF CLUBS TO MAKE ROWING GESTURES, FOLLOWED BY HICCUP. ONE GUEST CORRECTLY DESCRIBES SCENE AS "THE VOLGA BOATMEN".
("CHARADES"-TYPE PARLOR GAME). WOMAN GUESSING WINS BOTTLE OF CHAMPAIGN. |
00:17:15 975 |
LIGHTS ARE DIMMED IN LIVING ROOM AS A MYSTERY PLAY IS INTRODUCED. CU CHINESE SERVANT ADJUSTS GRANDFATHER CLOCK TO READ MIDNIGHT.
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00:17:43 1003 |
MAN WALKS INTO DARKENED LIVING ROOM, TELLS MARRIED ROOM HE LOVES HER (BAD ACTING). HUSBAND WALKS IN THROUGH PATIO DOORS SHOOTS SUITOR, ALL APPLAUD AS PLAY ENDS. ALL IN ROOM ARE ASKED TO GIVE A NAME TO THE PLAY.
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00:19:28 1108 |
AFTER SEVERAL WRONG GUESSES WONG CORRECTLY NAMES PLAY, "MURDER COMES AT MIDNIGHT". ALL APPLAUD UNTIL "DEAD" SUITOR FAILS TO GET OFF FLOOR.
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00:20:14 1154 |
WONG EXAMINES BODY SAYS, "HIS FIRST APPEARANCE AND HIS LAST". WOMAN GOES INTO FAINTING SPELL IS STOPPED FROM FALLING BY ONE OF THE MEN.
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00:21:12 1212 |
WONG TAKES GUN FROM "ACTOR" IN PLAY, EXAMINES IT.
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00:21:22 1222 |
DISTINGUISHED MAN AND CHINESE MAID HELP HOSTESS, STILL IN FAINT, ONTO BED.
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00:23:39 1359 |
DETECTIVE ON SCENE IS SHOWN GUN BY WONG. "THESE ARE BLANKS". CU SLY LOOK ON FACES OF POSSIBLE SUSPECTS ARE SHOWN, INCLUDING CHINESE MALE SERVANT AND MAID.
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00:24:09 1389 |
CHINESE MAID SLIPS INTO UPSTAIRS STUDY, REMOVES ENVELOPE FROM SAFE TITLED: "TO BE OPENED IN CASE OF MY DEATH" HIDES IT UNDER HER BLOUSE.
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00:25:06 1446 |
MAN USES SMELLING SALTS TO REVIVE HOSTESS LYING IN BED FROM FAINT.
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00:25:35 1475 |
DETECTIVE TELLS SOCIALITES TO GO HOME, LEAVE THEIR NAMES AND ADDRESSES AS HE, WONG EXIT LIVING ROOM.
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00:26:00 1500 |
CHINESE MAID EAVESDROPS ON CONVERSATION BETWEEN WONG, MAN AND DETECTIVE
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00:27:48 1608 |
DETECTIVE QUESTIONS YOUNG MAN ABOUT ARGUMENT HE HAD WITH MURDERED MAN. WONG, POLICEMAN, WATCH.
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00:28:44 1664 |
WONG SITS IN DESK CHAIR SAYS TO ELDERLY FRIEND THAT HE SUSPECTS "FOUL PLAY".
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00:29:40 1720 |
WONG FINDS SAFE DOOR IN ROOM OPEN, LETTER AND GEM BOTH GONE.
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00:30:26 1766 |
WONG TELLS ELDERLY FRIEND, "I THINK YOU AND I WILL STAY THE NIGHT HERE", AS THEY LEAVE STUDY.
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00:30:32 1772 |
GUEST PIANIST PEEKS AROUND HALLWAY ROOM AS WONG AND FRIEND LEAVE STUDY.
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00:30:55 1795 |
WONG IN NIGHT ROBE SNEAKS AROUND MANSION AT NIGHT WITH FLASHLIGHT AS DOES SHADOWY FIGURE.
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00:31:54 1854 |
WONG MIXING CHEMICALS IN TEST TUBE IN LAB. EXAMINES CHINESE LETTER WITH MAGNIFYING GLASS. PEERS THROUGH MICROSCOPE.
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00:33:08 1928 |
WONG IN HIS ORNATE LIVING ROOM, CHINESE DECOR, PULL CORD TO SUMMON CHINESE HOUSE SERVANT WHO WEARS CHINESE TRADITIONAL COSTUME.
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00:33:47 1967 |
WONG WALKS TO PARROT ON PERCH IN LIVING ROOM, SMILES, WALKS AWAY, LIGHTS CIGARETTE.
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00:34:08 1988 |
WONG, DETECTIVE, CRIMINOLOGIST FRIEND, WATCH LAB TECHNICIAN CHECK BULLET RIFLING THROUGH MICROSCOPE.
TECHNICIAN FIRES GUN IN CHAMBER. TAKES OUT SPENT BULLET, EXAMINES IT UNDER MICROSCOPE WITH MURDER BULLET. |
00:37:00 2160 |
WONG, DETECTIVE, TWO OTHER MEN ALL WEARING BUSINESS SUITS, FEDORAS, CHAT IN DETECTIVE'S OFFICE.
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00:37:48 2208 |
CHINESE WOMAN ANSWERS DOOR KNOCK ON BEDROOM DOOR.
CHINESE SERVANT ANNOUNCES VISITOR. YOUNG SUITOR WALKS IN, WAITS FOR SERVANT, MAID TO LEAVE BEFORE MAKING LOVING ADVANCE ON GRIEVING WIFE OF MURDERED MAN. |
00:38:21 2241 |
TWO LOVERS HOLD HANDS AS THEY SPEAK.
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00:38:42 2262 |
GRIEVING WIFE, LOVER WALK INTO LIVING ROOM WHERE WONG, DETECTIVE ID QUESTIONING STAFF. MOST OF FILM CAST, SUSPECTS, ARE IN ROOM. WONG QUESTIONS MISTRESS WHO SITS ON SOFA.
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00:39:40 2320 |
DETECTIVE COMMENTS, "SEEMS TO ME WE HAVE A MOTIVE FOR MURDER".
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00:41:07 2407 |
CHINESE SERVANT WALKS INTO ROOM OPENS PATIO DOORS TO AIR OUT ROOM DUE TO SMOKE CAUSED BY WONG'S, CIGARETTE SMOKING. WONG, SEATED AT DESK POINTS FINGER AT SERVANT SAYS, "YOU KNOW SOMETHING, DON'T YOU?"
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00:41:58 2458 |
CHINESE MAID, MEETS LOVER (RUSSIAN PIANIST) IN GARDEN AT NIGHT, THEY EMBRACE. SHADOWY PERSON WATCHES FROM BEHIND TREE. SHE ACCUSES HIM OF STEALING GEM, THEY ARGUE, SHE BOLTS.
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00:43:48 2568 |
MAID RUNS INTO HOUSE IS MET BY CHINESE SERVANT WHO ASKS, "WHY YOU COME IN FRONT DOOR?" "YOU GO MEET HIM, HUH?" SHE RUNS UP SPIRAL STAIRCASE.
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00:44:11 2591 |
CHINESE MAID REMOVES ENVELOPE HIDDEN IN PICTURE FRAME IN BEDROOM, READS CONTENTS, TEARS IT UP. GOES TO DESK TO WRITE NOTE, TAKES CIGARETTE FROM CASE, (CU) LIGHTS UP, WRITES NOTE ADDRESSES IT TO "MR. WONG".
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00:45:01 2641 |
GOES TO SHUT LIGHT BY BED, PLACES NOTE TO MR. WONG BEHIND PICTURE FRAME, SUDDENLY FALLS ONTO BED UNCONSCIOUS. (POISON CIGARETTE).
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00:45:35 2675 |
POLICEMAN ON PATROL IN MANSION ENTERS DARKENED ROOM, GOES TO OPEN BALCONY WINDOW SEES LADDER LEADING TO GARDEN. CALLS PARTNER SEATED ON SPIRAL STAIRCASE, BLOW WHISTLE TO AWAKEN GUESTS
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00:46:24 2724 |
MR. WONG, OTHERS GUESTS EXIT BEDROOMS, GATHER IN HALLWAY. WONG, FRIEND, CHECK LADDER AT BEDROOM WINDOW.
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00:47:01 2761 |
POLICEMEN KNOCK ON BEDROOM DOORS TO AWAKEN OTHER GUESTS. WITH ALL GATHERED THEY DISCOVER ALL BUT MAID ARE THERE. ALL GO TO MAIDS BEDROOM.
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00:47:32 2792 |
POLICEMAN KNOCKS ON BEDROOM DOOR WHICH IS LOCKED, NO ONE ANSWERS. THEY DECIDE TO BREAK IN.
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00:47:46 2806 |
ALL ENTER ROOM, FIND CHINESE MAID ON BED. WHEN POLICEMAN PRONOUNCES HER DEAD, HOSTESS LETS OUT SIGH, SNUGGLES IN ARMS OF YOUNG LOVER.
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00:47:58 2818 |
CU WONG FINDS TORN LETTER IN TRASH CAN BY BED. ALSO FINDS CIGARETTE BUT ON ASHTRAY (CU).
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00:48:25 2845 |
WONG CHECKS LADDER IN GARDEN, GOING TO BEDROOM SEES FOOTPRINTS (CU). CU HAND WITH SILENCER GUN POINTS AT WONG, FIRES. WONG DUCKS INTO BUSHES.
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00:49:21 2901 |
WONG IN BATHROBE ENTERS HOUSE APPROACHES TWO MEN IN BATHROBES, CHINESE SERVANT IN HALLWAY. ASKS THEM FOR CIGARETTE, TAKES ONE FROM EACH MAN. WONG LEAVES, THE TWO MEN PUT CIGARETTES TO THEIR MOUTH, ONE OF THEM LIGHTS THE TWO WITH LIGHTER.
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00:49:52 2932 |
CU WONG SEATED AT TABLE PUTS TOGETHER TORN LETTER WITH GLUE. CRIMINOLOGY FRIEND IN NIGHT ROBE WATCHES.
POLICE SIREN INTERRUPTS CONVERSATION. |
00:51:24 3024 |
DETECTIVE QUESTIONS CHINESE SERVANT IN MANSION LIVING ROOM IN PRESENCE OF WONG AND OTHERS.
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00:52:00 3060 |
TOUGH DETECTIVE QUESTIONS RUSSIAN PIANIST WHO STILL WEARS NIGHT ROBE, CIGARETTE IN HAND.
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00:53:18 3138 |
WONG, ELDERLY FRIEND AND OTHERS WITH LOOK OF SUSPICION ON THEIR FACES.
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00:54:28 3208 |
WONG LAUGHS WHEN TOUGH DETECTIVE SAYS OF RUSSIAN MUSICIAN, "YOU KNOW HE CLAIMS TO BE A SINGER, I'LL MAKE HIM SING".
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00:54:33 3213 |
CHINESE SERVANT ANGRILY RIPS OPEN PICTURE IN FRAME ON BED, FINDS LETTER, WALKS OUT OF BEDROOM, MAKES PHONE CALL ON DESK IN HALLWAY.
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00:55:46 3286 |
WONG'S CHINESE HOUSE SERVANT SPEAKS TO WONG IN BROKEN ENGLISH, CHINESE ACCENT.
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00:56:00 3300 |
CHINESE SERVANT AT MANSION IS HIT ON HEAD BY UNKNOWN PERSON AS HE TRIES TO SPEAK TO WONG. CU HANDS OF ASSAILANT TAKES LETTER, SEARCHES THROUGH UNCONSCIOUS CHINESE SERVANT'S CLOTHING.
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00:56:30 3330 |
CU WONG CALLS BACK WHEN PHONE GOES DEAR. CU PHONE ON DESK RINGING, TILT DOWN TO BODY OF SERVANT. WONG TELLS HIS SERVANT, "GET MY HAT AND UMBRELLA". CALLS POLICE DETECTIVE.
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00:57:25 3385 |
SEDAN PULLS INTO MANSION CARPORT, TOWARDS CAMERA.
WONG, POLICE GET OUT WALK TO KNOCK ON DOOR. NO ANSWER. DETECTIVE BREAKS GLASS, REACHES IN TO OPEN DOOR. |
00:57:52 3412 |
WONG, POLICE FIND BODY OF CHINESE SERVANT ON FLOOR NEXT TO PHONE. "OUT LIKE A LIGHT", SAYS DETECTIVE.
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00:58:30 3450 |
WONG, DETECTIVE WATCH ELDERLY MAN, WOMAN AND YOUNG MAN ENTER ROOM, LOOK OF ASTONISHMENT WHEN THEY SEE BODY OF SERVANT ON GROUND. EQUALLY ASTONISHED WHEN THEY SEE POLICE.
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00:58:40 3460 |
WOMAN GETS DRAMATIC, SAYS, "WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?", TURNS PLACES HAND ON FACE, SITS ON COUCH, GRIEF STRICKEN.
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01:00:05 3545 |
WONG'S CHINESE SERVANT POURS TEA AS WONG READS FRAGMENTED LETTER AT HIS DESK.
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01:00:34 3574 |
CHINESE SERVANT ANSWERS DOORBELL (GONG) LETS IN YOUNG WIFE OF MURDERED MAN, ASKS WHO HER LATE HUSBAND NAMED IN THE LETTER. "MY HUSBAND HAD MANY ENEMIES".
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01:01:00 3600 |
WONG'S SERVANT LETS IN ALL SUSPECTS, ONE AT A TIME.
ALL WANTING TO KNOW WHO WAS NAMED IN WONG'S LETTER. |
01:04:25 3805 |
EACH SUSPECT SEATED AROUND WONG WATCH WITH INTEREST AS WONG ELIMINATES ONE SUSPECT AFTER THE OTHER.
PARROT ON PERCH IN BKGD. |
01:06:22 3922 |
WONG ACCUSES, CLEVERLY TRICKS, HIS ELDERLY CRIMINOLOGY FRIEND INTO CONFESSING TO MURDERS. WHICH HE DID FOR HONORABLE REASONS.
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01:08:20 4040 |
WONG PULLS POISON CIGARETTE FROM SUSPECTS MOUTH BEFORE HE LIGHTS IT IN ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.
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01:09:29 4109 |
WONG SHAKES HAND WITH MURDERER, WOMAN TRIES TO CONSOLE HIM AS HE IS TAKEN AWAY BY POLICE. WOMAN PUTS HANDS TO FACE AND CRIES.
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01:09:40 4120 |
DETECTIVE OPENS LETTER FINDS IT BLANK. IT WAS ONLY USED BY WONG TO TRICK MURDERER INTO CONFESSION.
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01:10:36 4176 |
CHINESE SERVANT DELIVERS THE REAL LETTER TO WONG AT HIS DESK. WONG TEARS IT UP WITHOUT OPENING IT.
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01:10:59 4199 |
WONG SHOWS SERVANT HUGE GEM, TELLS HIM, "YOU ARE TAKING BACK TO CHINA SOMETHING THAT BELONGS THERE."
CU ZOOM IN ON GEM. |
01:11:30 4230 |
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