Trascrizione completa di Female Jungle

00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:17,280 Burt Kaiser as Alex Voe, Robert Davis as George, James Kodl as Joe, 34 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:22,480 Also appearing are Rex Thorsen as Sgt. Duane, Jack Hill as Captain Kroger, Bruce Carlisle 35 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:28,120 as Chuck, Connie Cezon as Connie, Gordon Urquhart as Larry Jackson, Alan Frost as Doctor Urquhart, 36 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:31,600 Bruno Ve Sota as Frank, and Jean Lewis as Monica Madison. 37 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:34,100 Female Jungle opens outside a cocktail bar. 38 00:02:34,100 --> 00:02:37,100 A woman dressed to the nines in an evening gown gets out of a cab, 39 00:02:37,100 --> 00:02:39,120 goes to the door of the bar, but doesn't go in. 40 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:41,620 She turns and starts marching in the direction of the camera. 41 00:02:41,620 --> 00:02:45,300 And us the audience, a pair of hands reaches out and grabs her neck. 42 00:02:45,300 --> 00:02:49,040 After choking the life out of her, the killer drops her body on the ground, then steals her 43 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:50,140 diamond choker. 44 00:02:50,140 --> 00:02:55,060 The title female jungle appears over the woman's body, prone in street, while the music plays 45 00:02:55,060 --> 00:02:57,340 a dramatic "pupidupadum" theme. 46 00:02:57,340 --> 00:03:01,220 It was very dramatic, but there's a dead person, so it's deserved. 47 00:03:01,220 --> 00:03:04,940 A police photographer snaps a picture of the crime scene where a crowd is gathered. 48 00:03:04,940 --> 00:03:09,520 Among the crowd is Joe, who we will learn is the bartender of the bar that the blinds 49 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:10,520 did not enter. 50 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:14,660 Police captain Captain Cobra pulls up in his car and still sitting in his car, he discusses 51 00:03:14,660 --> 00:03:16,680 the case with the two detectives on site. 52 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:20,400 He learns that the victim was an actress, Monica Madison, and a book of matches from the 53 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:22,280 Can Can Club was found in her purse. 54 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:24,600 The Can Can Club is the bar across the street. 55 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:28,120 One of the detectives says that Monica was dressed up for the premiere of her movie that 56 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:32,240 evening, so the captain wants the detectives to find out if she was at the premiere and 57 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:33,560 if so, with whom. 58 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:36,480 One of the detectives says that there were big names at that party and they may not want 59 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:38,120 to be awakened in the middle of the night. 60 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:41,240 Captain Cobra says they're probably still partying after the premiere. 61 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:43,200 The captain asked if robbery was a motive. 62 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:47,440 The detectives tell him that there was still 42 dollars in change in the woman's purse, 63 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:50,760 and she was still wearing the ring and jewelry on her

arm, so robbery did not appear to be 64 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:51,760 a motive. 65 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:54,920 Captain Cobra spots somebody loitering outside the Can Can Club, bringing him over he tells 66 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:59,120 the detectives, so one of the cops goes to get the man and the other heads over to the 67 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:03,160 vagabond restaurant to start interviewing people who were at the premiere. 68 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:07,440 Captain Cobra demands that the man get in the car with him, so he climbs in the backseat. 69 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:10,400 This is Detective Sergeant Jack Stevens, another officer. 70 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:14,160 He's not on duty though, he just happened to be hanging out at the bar and he's admittedly 71 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:15,160 had a few. 72 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:16,960 Cobra tells him he reeks of booze. 73 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:18,840 Steven says he was drinking on his own time. 74 00:04:18,840 --> 00:04:19,840 What's the big deal? 75 00:04:19,840 --> 00:04:21,480 But Cobra thinks it is a big deal. 76 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:22,480 How long are you in there? 77 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:24,720 He asks one hour, two, three. 78 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:28,080 Steven's admits he's been there a while, but surely no more than three hours. 79 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:31,120 At this point, Dr. Urkhar, the medical examiner, comes over. 80 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:35,240 His unofficial report is that the woman died by strangulation, no more than an hour 81 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:36,240 ago. 82 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:38,400 She's not a small cut on her neck, but it's not from a fingernail. 83 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:40,560 A fine cloth was drawn across her neck. 84 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:42,320 The fabric was tightened, then yanked. 85 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:46,200 Dr. Urkhar puts his face in the captain's car window to give him this report and he gives 86 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:47,200 it in between sneezes. 87 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:50,480 For some reason, they made him have a cold for this bit part. 88 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:55,000 Cobra asks if that fine cloth is what killed her, but Urkhar says no, a pair of hands choked 89 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:56,000 her to death. 90 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,520 Cobra tells the cop remaining, Sergeant Dwayne, to get a list of all her jewelry. 91 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:02,760 Dr. Urkhar then offers Cobra a cough shock before he goes. 92 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:06,600 Cobra wonders if anyone in the club might have heard a scream or a yell or anything, but 93 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:08,320 no one offers any explanation. 94 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:12,080 At least of all Stevens, who was in the club and, yeah, I ignored the captain's query. 95 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:16,160 Captain Cobra says characters like Stevens make a three-ring circus out of police work, and 96 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:18,160 he says Stevens makes him sick. 97 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:22,240 Some random drunk comes by the car to razz the cops and then is sent on his way. 98 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:24,920 Stevens asks what difference does it make when he does on his own time. 99 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:28,520 Plenty of other cops have done the same thing, but he says he does feel terrible about what 100 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:29,520 happened. 101 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:31,280 And he'd like to get some coffee so he can help out. 102 00:05:31,280 --> 00:05:35,080 Cobra tells Stevens he needs to get some sleep, and he'd better be fresh as a daisy when 103 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:36,720 he's on again tomorrow night. 104 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:40,360 Cobra drives off and Stevens blends in with the crowd, still gawking at the dead woman 105 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:41,360 in the street. 106 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:44,200 We see one particular suspicious character amongst the crowd. 107 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:47,400 He seems very interested in the comings and goings of the detectives. 108 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:50,440 Stevens goes over to the side door of the bar to smoke a cigarette. 109 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:53,800 The club's maintenance man George comes out with a trash and bumps his smoke. 110 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:55,400 Stevens gives him the rest of his pack. 111 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:58,720 George comments that Stevens got rid of the blind he was with, then George asks what's 112 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:00,400 going on with the crowd in the street. 113 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:02,040 Stevens tells him a girl was murdered. 114 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:03,200 George knew that already. 115 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:04,200 He just wanted the deets. 116 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:05,800 Like, was she shot or what? 117 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:08,440 Stevens tells me to go and join the crowd if he wants to know so badly. 118 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:10,040 Oh no, says George. 119 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:11,800 My curiosity ends right here. 120 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:12,800 Smart guy. 121 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:16,520 Stevens suddenly asked George to fill him in on what he himself was doing that night by 122 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:18,720 asking George when he came on duty. 123 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:22,160 George says that when he got there, Stevens had just started his second bottle. 124 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:25,560 George goes back inside the bar to finish his closing duties and Stevens goes around 125 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:27,280 the front to the club and enters. 126 00:06:27,280 --> 00:06:31,840 Back outside with the still gathered crowd that man we discussed earlier stairs down in 127 00:06:31,840 --> 00:06:33,160 Monica Madison's body. 128 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:37,400 Frank, the husband of one of the waitresses at the bar appears behind him and he tells the 129 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:42,160 man whose name is Alex that else wife Peggy, a waitress at the club went home without him. 130 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:44,800 She must have seen him in the crowd and so

she went home by herself. 131 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:48,480 I also as she was supposed to meet him here, but Frank says that Peggy wasn't feeling well 132 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:51,080 and asked Connie Frank's wife to fill in for her. 133 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:54,520 Frank advises out catch up to her best not to leave her alone with a maniac on the 134 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:55,520 loose. 135 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:57,240 He gets to Peggy walking home alone. 136 00:06:57,240 --> 00:06:59,080 We can see that a man is following her. 137 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:02,000 She goes into her building and after a second so does he. 138 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:04,880 She goes up to her apartment and he follows at her door. 139 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:09,240 He comes up right behind her close enough to envelop her in his voluminous black coat and 140 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:10,360 fly off with her. 141 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:12,640 She's struggling with her keys as he comes upon her. 142 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:13,640 Did I frighten you? 143 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:17,360 He asks Peggy says no and the stranger offers to help her with her key, but she refuses 144 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:21,440 his help and she looks very relieved when Al comes up behind them and unlocks the door. 145 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:23,000 Why don't you invite your friend in Peggy? 146 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:24,000 He asks. 147 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:26,760 My friend says Peggy pushed him past Alex to go inside. 148 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:28,720 The stranger says he recognizes Alex. 149 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:29,720 He's a caricaturist. 150 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:31,040 That's right, says Alex. 151 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:33,520 I draw funny pictures of very and funny people. 152 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:36,280 Blood says he would very much like a caricature. 153 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:37,280 Now, ask, Al. 154 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:38,560 Do you know what time it is? 155 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:39,560 Peggy asked from the doorway. 156 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:42,440 Al tells the man that his drawings aren't done on the spot. 157 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:43,960 First, he'll do a rough sketch. 158 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:45,880 Then later, he brings by a big finished drawing. 159 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:50,040 He tells him the price is $10, $5 down, $5 upon delivery. 160 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:53,200 And he holds his hand out to the stranger, saying that the picture is guaranteed to make 161 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:54,600 all your friends laugh at you. 162 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:57,320 The stranger is ready to pay the full amount in advance. 163 00:07:57,320 --> 00:08:00,600 You've inspired me, says Al, and he invites the stranger inside. 164 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:04,600 Alex asks if he hasn't seen the man somewhere before, but the stranger says that he doubts 165 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:08,520 it, and that he should have been in possession of one of Al's caricatures long before this. 166 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:13,000 Al offers a stranger a drink, except he's out of booze, maybe coffee, the man accepts, 167 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:15,680 and tries to rifle through Alex's portfolio of drawings. 168 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:17,640 Alex has two and puts one aside. 169 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:19,360 That's not for customers, he says. 170 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:23,560 As the stranger starts leaving through the portfolio, Alex chooses himself and goes into the kitchen 171 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:24,560 with Peggy. 172 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:27,200 Al says the sketch should only take around five minutes from to do. 173 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:30,680 She complains that she's tired and Al offers to give the money back to the stranger and chase 174 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:33,240 him out, but Peggy says she was just tired as all. 175 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:35,520 He says she's always complaining about something. 176 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:37,200 And Peggy asks that they don't fight tonight. 177 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:40,720 Al tells her to just let him make this quick ten bucks, and then they can be alone and 178 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:41,720 talk. 179 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:45,400 Peggy lets the slip that she made $14 a tips tonight at the club, and Alex takes this 180 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:46,400 rather personally. 181 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:48,080 He starts another quarrel with her. 182 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:52,400 He's throwing his lack of success as a bar of caricatures in his face, so she has to reassure 183 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:53,400 him again. 184 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:55,600 It is a very talented boy, but that doesn't help. 185 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:56,600 He's still raging. 186 00:08:56,600 --> 00:09:00,080 She tells him that he brews too much and then he drinks, and that's not helping either of 187 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:01,080 them. 188 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:02,080 Maybe he should get a regular job. 189 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:04,840 Her salary and tips barely cover the rent and groceries. 190 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:07,280 Al promises to sell a few characters this week. 191 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:08,280 How many? 192 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:09,280 Two, three, as Peggy? 193 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:13,440 There's no way to guarantee he'll sell any, so Alex agrees to get a job in the morning. 194 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:17,400 The stranger is getting an earful of this as he continues leaving through Alex's portfolio. 195 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:18,400 Peggy challenges Al. 196 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:19,400 Yeah, right. 197 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:21,640 All you do is draw a drink and sleep. 198 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:24,880 She tells him to get out, and he marches out of the kitchen to the room where the stranger 199 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:26,480 has been rifling through his pictures. 200 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:30,600 He gives the man his $10 back and runs out of the apartment, chased by Peggy. 201 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:32,400 She follows him to the

stairs, but he's gone. 202 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:36,600 Back in the apartment, the stranger folds up and pockets one of Al's sketches. 203 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:40,480 Peggy returns, and the stranger tells her that her husband is very talented, and he hopes 204 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:42,720 he hasn't caused any trouble between them. 205 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:44,320 Of course not Peggy assures him. 206 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:47,680 The stranger explains that he works all day, and he was told the best time to find Al at 207 00:09:47,680 --> 00:09:49,080 home was at two in the morning. 208 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:51,880 For the record, you usually find me at home at two in the morning too. 209 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:53,880 Not available to strangers. 210 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:56,960 He asks Peggy if she's tired, and she says she couldn't sleep now. 211 00:09:56,960 --> 00:09:59,040 She needs coffee, but wants something stronger. 212 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:01,200 He suggests going on a short drive with him. 213 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:05,120 They could stop for a nip somewhere, but then he says her husband probably wouldn't approve, 214 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:07,160 so she says she'd love to go. 215 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:08,160 Girl, what? 216 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:10,400 You don't even know this creep's name. 217 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:14,080 Nevertheless, she shuts off the burner under this steaming percolator and says she'll 218 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:15,080 get her sweater. 219 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:19,320 Back at the Can Can Club, bartender Joe is serving Steven's a glass of milk, trying to 220 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:20,320 help him sober up. 221 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:22,920 I'm just going to make him throw up. 222 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:26,720 Joe tells him that the murder outside really has an effective business one way or the other, 223 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:28,040 but it's liable to scare off the help. 224 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:29,480 Are you sure that's what he said? 225 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:31,480 This diatribe was mumbled with the... 226 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:32,480 I have no idea. 227 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:36,360 The guard between his feet, he presumed watching this that perhaps James Codal is not a 228 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:38,960 professional actor based on this performance. 229 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:42,360 Sergeant Dwayne is getting a statement from Connie, the waitress, on the other side of the 230 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:43,360 bar. 231 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:47,440 Dwayne asks Joe for Becky's address and phone number, and Joe provides it and tells Steven's 232 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:50,840 that, at he been there when the murder happened, they'd be questioning him too. 233 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:54,640 Joe drops the bomb that Steven's left before the murder, semi-drunk, and then returned to 234 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:56,320 the club completely wasted. 235 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:58,080 But Steven's can't remember any of

this. 236 00:10:58,080 --> 00:11:01,440 Joe says that when he stumbled back in, Connie the waitress put him in a booth. 237 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:05,320 Joe summons Connie over, and then Joe asks Steven's what he did with the blonde he met last 238 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:06,320 night. 239 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:08,200 Steven's tells Joey put her in a cab and send her home. 240 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:11,240 Connie comes over and Steven says that he has some questions for her, but Connie says 241 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:12,920 she told the other cop everything. 242 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:16,220 She sees her husband Frank and tells Steven's that her husband's here to get her, but 243 00:11:16,220 --> 00:11:18,640 Steven still needs to talk and takes her aside. 244 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:21,440 So Connie leads Steven's to a table so they can sit. 245 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:24,960 The chair's already stacked for the night, so Connie pulls one down, and in doing so, 246 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:28,920 Nick Steven's arm with it, and he leaves profusely throughout the remainder of the scene. 247 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:31,920 Connie tells Steven said he was more drunk than usual last night. 248 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:32,920 Steven's wants her to clarify. 249 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:35,320 At 1 a.m. yesterday, she put him in a booth. 250 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:38,240 You were pretty wobbly after you left that blonde, says Connie. 251 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:42,240 As this conversation is happening, another cop returns to talk to Sergeant Dwayne, and says 252 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:46,160 something about the killer being all scratched up, a defensive wound from the murder. 253 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:49,320 Steven says Connie to hold that thought, and he has Dwayne for an update. 254 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:50,320 Connie asks if she can go. 255 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:53,560 Her husband's still waiting, and Steven's dismisses her so he can speak with Dwayne. 256 00:11:53,560 --> 00:11:57,520 Dwayne tells him that they found some skin under Monica Madison's nails, so she obviously 257 00:11:57,520 --> 00:11:58,520 scratched the killer. 258 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:03,520 George, mopping, chooses this moment to swing his mop underneath Steven's bleeding hand. 259 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:06,200 Dwayne walks away, and Steven's follows George into the bathroom. 260 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:10,040 George helps Steven's with his bloody hand until Joe comes in to badger George into finishing 261 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:11,040 up closing. 262 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:13,840 So Steven's has to finish binding his wound himself. 263 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:15,880 Steven's has out of the club and into the night. 264 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:18,320 Meanwhile, the stranger has taken Peggy to his home. 265 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:20,480 The name on the mailbox says Claude Homestead. 266 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:21,800 So we know his name. 267 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:24,160 We don't know if he ever offered that information to Peggy. 268 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:25,160 Let's hope. 269 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:28,200 Claude suggests that going for a drink before he drives her home. 270 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:29,200 She's reluctant. 271 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:30,200 It's late. 272 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:31,600 Claude says that they haven't been out that long. 273 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:34,240 She looks at his watch and decides that it'll be okay. 274 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:35,240 Ugh. 275 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:37,240 Not an ounce of self preservation in this woman. 276 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:39,840 They go inside his house, which is rather nice. 277 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:43,080 He has a garden and a living room and a real fireplace. 278 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:45,400 She's enamored of it, but says he doesn't need to light it. 279 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:47,680 She's content just to sit there looking at it. 280 00:12:47,680 --> 00:12:49,640 Claude hangs up her sweater as she chuckles. 281 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:53,720 She turns down and doesn't offer her a night to go home with old man customers, but here she 282 00:12:53,720 --> 00:12:54,720 is. 283 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:58,280 She obviously waited for the right creepy stranger to offer her a ride to his place. 284 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:02,240 At the closet, Claude pulls a sketch from his pocket, glasses at it, and puts it back 285 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:03,720 into his coat as he hangs it up. 286 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:05,320 He asks Peggy what she would like to drink. 287 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:07,160 "Scotch and water if you have it," she says. 288 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:09,160 "Do you like music, cast Claude?" 289 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:10,160 "Hmm." 290 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:13,000 So Claude starts blasting a record as he makes their drinks. 291 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:15,240 "It's a symphony, and it's his favorite." 292 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:18,040 She says it's cool and all, but could he turn it down a little bit? 293 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:22,200 No, he says, "This is how you have to listen to music, so you can hear every instrument." 294 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:26,120 He agrees to turn down the volume, as Peggy continues to complain that it's hurting her ears. 295 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:29,480 "Well, everyone's really tired, so I can expect them to be a little cranky." 296 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:33,560 Now we see that Stevens has gone to Connie in Frank's place and he's knocking at the door. 297 00:13:33,560 --> 00:13:37,520 Connie and Frank are in bed, and now Connie has to get out of bed to answer the door, 298 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:39,440 and she does so, complaining the whole time. 299 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:43,120 As she puts on her bathrobe, Stevens relentlessly bangs on the door until she finally lets 300 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:44,120 him in. 301 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:47,320 He tells Connie that she can help the cops catch the killer, and then asks about the blonde 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00:13:47,320 --> 00:13:48,680 that he was with that night. 303 00:13:48,680 --> 00:13:51,440 Connie says that she's seen the blonde in the bar a couple of times before. 304 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:55,040 Run the bed, Frank glares at the people having a conversation in his bedroom. 305 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:57,400 Stevens says that the blonde seems to have disappeared. 306 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:00,720 He had gotten her name, Miss Adams, but had not been able to track her down. 307 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:03,000 Connie tells them that's because her name is in Adams. 308 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:04,840 She goes by the name Candy Price. 309 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:08,600 She lives in the same building as Peggy Vogue, the other waitress at the Can-Can Club. 310 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:10,640 Stevens thinks her for her help and leaves. 311 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:14,560 Connie sits down at a bed and wonders aloud how anything she said could help catch the murderer. 312 00:14:14,560 --> 00:14:16,800 And who would want to murder a person anyway? 313 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:19,800 Brinks is up in bed with a skull on his face and Connie turns off the lamp. 314 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:21,080 It's not her fault. 315 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:22,120 Back with Claude and Peggy. 316 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:24,800 Claude raises his glass and tells the supporter of Monica. 317 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:26,760 Peggy thinks it's time she'd be returning home. 318 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:29,600 Claude asks why, does she really think her husband loves her? 319 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:33,120 Claude tells Peggy that she must know why he brought her here, grabbing her arm, but 320 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:34,120 she shakes him off. 321 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:36,440 She's more interested in the light coming from outside. 322 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:37,960 Claude says that's the pool. 323 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:41,640 And Peggy says she'd like to take a dip by points in the direction of a cabana where she 324 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:43,280 can find a suit to change into. 325 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:46,400 Next we see Stevens going to Candy Price's apartment. 326 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:48,360 The door's ajar so he goes inside. 327 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:51,400 Music is playing on the radio and he sees Candy lying on the sofa. 328 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:52,400 Are you all right? 329 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:53,400 He asks. 330 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:55,040 She doesn't move so he leads down towards her. 331 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:57,480 She responds by sitting up and laying a big kiss on him. 332 00:14:57,480 --> 00:14:59,040 She tells him it's nice to see him again. 333 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:00,560 He left her four hours ago. 334 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:01,560 Stevens can't remember. 335 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:03,720 So he asks if she knows where he went. 336 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:07,800 He asks her to tell him where he said he was going after he left her, but she just kisses 337 00:15:07,800 -->

00:15:10,600 him until she gets a phone call from a customer. 338 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:14,280 At the same time, the radio replays an earlier broadcast of an interview that followed the 339 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:17,840 Gallup premiere of Blondes on Broadway, starring Monica Madison. 340 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:19,840 Monica is there with the man who discovered her. 341 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:21,560 Columnist Claude Almsted. 342 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:25,760 Although ostensibly the interview's with Monica, Claude does most of the talking, but in 343 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:27,360 any case, it doesn't last that long. 344 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:31,480 The interview ends and the DJ says that Monica has a bright future ahead of her. 345 00:15:31,480 --> 00:15:36,160 So, now Stevens has a lead, so he sneaks off while Candy continues her phone conversation. 346 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:38,560 Candy finishes setting up her business arrangement with the caller. 347 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:40,600 It's a date she says as she hangs up. 348 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:42,760 She steps down to the hall and Alice there. 349 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:44,000 She tells him she's missed him. 350 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:46,200 She offers him the drink that she's holding in her hand. 351 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:48,720 Once some, he ignores her and goes to the stairs. 352 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:52,120 She calls him out for ignoring her, but Alex runs up the stairs to his department. 353 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:55,040 He goes in and calls out for Peggy, but gets no answer. 354 00:15:55,040 --> 00:15:58,240 He starts rummaging through his papers and finds a sketch of the stranger who had come to 355 00:15:58,240 --> 00:15:59,480 his door that night. 356 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:01,840 So on the page is a sketch of Monica Madison. 357 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:02,840 Back with Claude and Peggy. 358 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:06,240 Claude is standing on the patio watching Peggy swim, but the phone rings in the house and 359 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:07,960 he returns inside to answer it. 360 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:10,920 So, our guest Stevens is on the phone and he asks questions for Claude. 361 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:14,560 After confirming that Claude had escorted Monica Madison to the premiere, Stevens asked 362 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:16,520 Claude to meet with him to answer a few questions. 363 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:17,520 "Where do you want me to be?" 364 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:18,520 As Claude. 365 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:20,320 The answer, of course, is the Kang-Kang Club. 366 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:29,080 We can't afford another set. 367 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:32,720 At the club, Sergeant Dwayne grabs Stevens' arm as he returns from the phone booth. 368 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:35,720 Dwayne tells Stevens that the captain had told him to go home and sleep it off. 369 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:38,920 Stevens says that he's just trying to work the case on his own time to get back in the 370 00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:39,920 captain's good graces. 371 00:16:39,920 --> 00:16:41,840 And he's already learned a few things. 372 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:44,880 Like that Claude omsted escorted Monica Madison to the premiere. 373 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:46,600 As Dwayne, Stevens nods. 374 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:50,120 Sergeant Dwayne says that Stevens needs to remember that Dwayne's in charge here. 375 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:52,960 Stevens says that if it all goes sideways, he'll take the heat. 376 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:55,800 Dwayne relents, but says that he has to be there for all questioning. 377 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:56,800 And Stevens agrees. 378 00:16:56,800 --> 00:17:00,760 And then Stevens makes another call to the radio DJ, the one that we heard earlier in 379 00:17:00,760 --> 00:17:01,760 Candy's apartment. 380 00:17:01,760 --> 00:17:05,760 The DJ is still on the air at this late hour and gives more details on the Monica Claude 381 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:07,280 dynamic at the interview. 382 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:11,040 As Joe loudly begs the cops to at least let him call his wife to explain why he's not home 383 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:12,040 yet. 384 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:15,480 The DJ explains that Claude was obsessed with Monica Madison, and it was his writing about 385 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:17,480 her every day that made her a star. 386 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:19,880 But now that she's famous, she was planning on dumping him. 387 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:21,840 And this confirms what Stevens suspected. 388 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:25,160 After the call, Dwayne and Stevens conferr as Joe gripes about them. 389 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:26,160 Stevens says he was right. 390 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:28,080 There was tension between the two of them. 391 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:29,920 All of a sudden, Al is there. 392 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:33,360 Sergeant Dwayne and Stevens start bombarding Al with questions. 393 00:17:33,360 --> 00:17:34,720 Joe tells them that Al's cool. 394 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:37,240 He works for him and he draws the funniest pictures. 395 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:39,640 Al says he's got some sketches he'd like to show them. 396 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:43,640 He says he starts drawing people all the time and hopes they'll notice and pay him to finish. 397 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:47,920 He was drawing Monica Madison anyway when she saw her in the club a couple days ago because 398 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:51,520 celebrity sketches are a good way to promote his business, but she must have moved on so 399 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:53,160 he went on to another face. 400 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:55,400 He pulls out the picture of Claude and Monica Madison. 401 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:57,040 He says that he's worried about his wife. 402 00:17:57,040 --> 00:17:59,680 He left her alone at the apartment with the man in the picture. 403 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:03,520 Stevens asks Al why he should be worried that some weird guy took his wife to

an unknown 404 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:04,520 destination. 405 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:08,400 So Al reminds them that Monica Madison was killed a few feet away from where they're sitting 406 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:09,400 tonight. 407 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:12,600 Al tells Stevens that he hadn't recognized Claude when he came to his place, but he knew 408 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:16,240 it was strange that they came up to his house that 2am looking for a caricature. 409 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:19,640 Meanwhile, Joe had screwed back to the bar and he calls out that he's got something 410 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:20,640 to show them. 411 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:25,680 He has a signed photograph of Monica posing for Al as he's sketching her and seated between 412 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:27,480 them in the background is Claude. 413 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:31,320 What's out about this picture is that it was taken two nights ago and after that Monica 414 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:36,280 Madison never returned to the club allegedly, allegedly not that anybody's reporting. 415 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:38,520 We did see her come to the door, but she didn't go in. 416 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:41,880 But somehow this photo was taken, printed and then she autographed it. 417 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:44,280 I don't think Joe was printing it in the back of the bar. 418 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:45,280 Weird. 419 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:46,280 But we can't really dwell on that. 420 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:47,280 We have to keep moving. 421 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:50,960 Stevens looks at the photograph and confirms that that guy in the picture looks like the 422 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:52,400 drawing that Al showed him. 423 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:56,520 Joe says that Monica Madison had come into the club once before about 2 weeks earlier. 424 00:18:56,520 --> 00:19:00,280 She was alone but looking for someone and she was so beautiful Joe recognized her right 425 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:01,280 away. 426 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:03,560 Alex starts bleeding about something happening to his wife. 427 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:07,320 Dwayne tells Alex that she's probably just walking off the argument and reporter is missing 428 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:09,120 if she doesn't return by morning. 429 00:19:09,120 --> 00:19:10,320 Holy cow. 430 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:11,720 So Alex leaves the club. 431 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:15,400 Joe wants to close up and go home too, but the police are waiting for Claude to show up, 432 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:16,920 so Joe's got to stick around. 433 00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:18,920 Joe's wife will have to be disappointed. 434 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:19,920 For sure. 435 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:21,120 She's really disappointed. 436 00:19:21,120 --> 00:19:24,080 As Alex exits the club, he sees Candy there waiting for him. 437 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:28,200 He hustles her into an alley and she lets us know that they've been having an affair. 438 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:30,280 She

wonders why he won't tell his wife about them. 439 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:33,880 Then Alan Peggy can get a divorce and Alan Candy can run off together. 440 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:36,560 And Alan Peggy, the characters are married with children. 441 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:37,560 Yeah. 442 00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:38,920 Just occurred to me. 443 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:40,480 Al says it's not that simple. 444 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:44,240 Al says that he and his wife argue all the time, but that she can never give him a divorce. 445 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:47,040 She asks Al if Peggy's not tired of supporting him. 446 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:50,520 Then because that was a low blow, she kisses him passionately to make up for it. 447 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:51,520 It works. 448 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:54,760 Candy tells Al he's trouble and always will be, but she doesn't care. 449 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:58,080 She says she's going to make him what only her and to keep wanting only her. 450 00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:00,280 She says she loves him and he asks why. 451 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:01,280 She's out of his league. 452 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:03,000 He doesn't have two nickels to rub together. 453 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:04,640 She says that doesn't matter to her. 454 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:07,400 She's had men with money and the anti-promises that come with it. 455 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:09,480 She kisses him again, but he pulls away. 456 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:11,000 This feels different, says Al. 457 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,800 Just knowing that Peggy isn't trouble makes all this seem wrong. 458 00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:15,360 He asks what he's trying to pull. 459 00:20:15,360 --> 00:20:19,280 She's mad at his hot and cold routine, but Al explains that he left his wife with a potential 460 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:20,280 murderer. 461 00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:21,280 Candy asks, what about me? 462 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:22,280 Sorry, kiddin. 463 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:24,840 I didn't count on things boom-ringing the way they did. 464 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:27,920 He just figured out that his wife is more important to him than Candy is now. 465 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:29,960 But he tells Candy to forget all about him. 466 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:31,560 She doesn't appreciate the brush off. 467 00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:32,960 She asks what she's supposed to do now. 468 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:36,400 Find a nice shy guy and live a normal, bored life with him. 469 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:39,040 Al tells Candy she should just forget about them as a couple. 470 00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:40,680 And she just don't add up together. 471 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:42,040 Besides, he's worried about his wife. 472 00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:43,360 There's a killer roaming around. 473 00:20:43,360 --> 00:20:45,000 He's afraid she might be his next victim. 474 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:48,680 Well, there's your victim now, says Candy, indicating Claude's car than just pulled up. 475 00:20:48,680

--> 00:20:50,120 Al runs over to the car. 476 00:20:50,120 --> 00:20:51,520 Where have you been, yes Peggy? 477 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:53,360 I hope you don't mind this Claude. 478 00:20:53,360 --> 00:20:54,360 Mind? 479 00:20:54,360 --> 00:20:55,360 Why should I mind? 480 00:20:55,360 --> 00:20:56,360 Says Al. 481 00:20:56,360 --> 00:20:57,360 She's only my wife. 482 00:20:57,360 --> 00:20:58,360 Al asked if Peggy and Claude had met somewhere before. 483 00:20:58,360 --> 00:21:01,960 He didn't clock it before because he'd been drinking, but he's at the club until two every 484 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:02,960 night. 485 00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:03,960 Why come to his house? 486 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:06,840 Then he turns his attention to Peggy, saying that everyone's going to know what a good 487 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:10,760 for nothing he married and yanks are out of the car, noticing that she's been drinking. 488 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:12,640 And after he'd been so worried about her. 489 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:16,480 Peggy pulls away and runs off, causing Al to drop his portfolio. 490 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:18,240 Candy comes back to Al to plead her case. 491 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:19,560 Why not run off with her? 492 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:21,120 His wife's got someone else. 493 00:21:21,120 --> 00:21:24,240 But Al sees Claude walking into the club, so Al runs off after him. 494 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:25,560 I'll be waiting for you, Al. 495 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:26,560 Candy calls out after him. 496 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:27,560 I'll be waiting. 497 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:31,800 In the club, Al accuses Al instead of being the guy, meaning the killer. 498 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:33,240 But Sergeant joins ignoring him. 499 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:36,160 He thinks Claude for coming down to meet them there at the Gan Gan Club. 500 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:38,160 This is a matter of great importance. 501 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:41,640 Claude sits at a table, agreeing to do his best to answer their questions. 502 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:44,760 As soon as the lawyer is present, why a lawyer asks Stevens? 503 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:47,960 Because Claude says if he's been brought in for questioning, why not do this at the police 504 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:48,960 station? 505 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:50,760 We choose to do it here, says Stevens. 506 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:53,440 And I choose to wait for my lawyer, the clear is Claude. 507 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:55,080 Stevens pulls Claude from his chair. 508 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:56,400 Smug, aren't you, he says. 509 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:58,680 I know my rights, but calmly replies. 510 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:02,320 Sergeant Wayne says they all want to solve this case, so everyone just calm down. 511 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:06,240 Alex mentions his wife, just says the other cop from the beginning of the movie, Chuck, returns 512 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:07,960 to report on the premiere party. 513 00:22:07,960 -->

00:22:12,520 Monica was there with a columnist called Claude Almsted, Duane supplies. 514 00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:15,400 Yeah, says Chuck, and they were fighting tooth and nail. 515 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:18,400 Chuck doesn't realize that Almsted is sitting right in front of him, but he does note that 516 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:22,920 Monica left the party after getting a call around 145 with Claude on her heels. 517 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:26,680 And Chuck apologizes for not getting a line on what jewelry Monica Madison was wearing. 518 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:28,320 But I guess that's not important right now. 519 00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:29,320 But that's enough for Duane. 520 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:31,640 He's made a rough Claude up to get some answers. 521 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:33,120 But Stevens tells them to hold up. 522 00:22:33,120 --> 00:22:34,760 They don't know that he's even guilty. 523 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:36,720 We will when I get through with him, says Duane. 524 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:38,360 And Duane has who else could have done it. 525 00:22:38,360 --> 00:22:42,640 Stevens looks very guilty, as he says, no one, but he wants 10 minutes alone with Claude 526 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:43,640 first. 527 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:48,400 Duane says no way, but Stevens needs to prove that he's cured now from alcoholism, I guess. 528 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,960 And everyone watches with interest as Stevens describes how he's straight now. 529 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:54,160 So Duane relents and gives him his 10 minutes. 530 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:56,080 So Stevens starts questioning Claude. 531 00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:59,560 Almsted is silent, but Stevens keeps pushing the questions, trying to find the missing 532 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:02,200 pieces to the puzzle he's already worked out. 533 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:05,520 Stevens mentioned they went to the premiere, then the radio station for that interview, 534 00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:06,520 where they argued. 535 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:07,520 "You love her?" 536 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:08,520 He asks. 537 00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:10,040 "I love your Claude admits that she love you." 538 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:11,560 No more questions, says Claude. 539 00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:13,280 You loved her, but she didn't love you. 540 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:14,960 And now that she's famous, she didn't need you anymore. 541 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:17,560 And she was going to leave you, and that's why you killed her, right? 542 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:18,560 Yes, says Claude. 543 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:22,320 Then he continues, "I helped her career." 544 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:25,640 Claude clams up when Stevens asks if he's also admitting to the murder. 545 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:27,280 Stevens says that they just want the truth. 546 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:30,640 Claude says that there were at least a dozen people at that party that Monica heard 547 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:32,080 on her way up to the top. 548 00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:33,480 Why single him out? 549 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:36,960 Stevens points out that he left right after she did, and he wasn't the area tonight when 550 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:37,960 she was murdered. 551 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:39,760 "I wanted a caricature," he says. 552 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:40,760 Twice. 553 00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:44,560 Stevens says that he was in the club before, wanting to ask him for a caricature then. 554 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:46,160 What are you talking about, ask Claude? 555 00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:47,160 Then Alpipes up. 556 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:49,560 He gave me off when I asked him then if he wanted me to draw him. 557 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:52,600 But what Al really wants to know is, what was Claude doing with his wife? 558 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:56,200 This line of questioning has no bearing on the case at hand, so Dwayne gets Alude back 559 00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:57,200 off. 560 00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:00,200 Stevens says that they have a photograph of him at the club, so why lie about being 561 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:01,200 here then? 562 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:04,240 That night was the only chance Al had to draw Monica in person. 563 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:05,920 It's the only time I saw her alive. 564 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:06,920 Al adds. 565 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:08,200 Finally, started Dwayne has had enough. 566 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:12,680 He grabs Claude, still demanding a lawyer, and then he, Stevens and Claude starts struggling. 567 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:14,960 You quit bullying me, Demand's Claude. 568 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:16,920 But Dwayne's going to beat the truth out of him. 569 00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:20,760 Stevens tries to stop him, and Joe wonders if he should call the cops on these three. 570 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:21,760 Ha-ha. 571 00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:25,000 Stevens decks Dwayne, and this is very exciting for Joe, if they knock themselves out. 572 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:26,280 Maybe then he can go home. 573 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:29,040 During the scuffle, Claude makes a break for it and runs outside. 574 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:31,600 Claude's car is still there, so he couldn't have gone far. 575 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:33,600 Sarge and Stevens and Dwayne run off to find him. 576 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:35,840 Joe and George go back in the bar to straighten up. 577 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:39,800 George says that they're hunting Claude like a dog, and that it don't make sense to kill 578 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:40,800 anyone. 579 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:41,800 At least not to him. 580 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:44,520 Al overhears this, and then recalls that Peggy is alone. 581 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:46,760 Alex goes over to the phone to call Peggy. 582 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:50,040 Peggy is at home alone, sobbing into her pillow, when the phone rings. 583 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:52,000 She answers, but doesn't want to talk to Al. 584 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:55,640 But he

practically tells her that the guy she was with tonight murdered Monica Madison. 585 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:57,560 And he just ran away from the police. 586 00:24:57,560 --> 00:24:59,600 He tells her to lock the door until he gets there. 587 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:01,120 She says she will and hangs up. 588 00:25:01,120 --> 00:25:04,440 When she goes to lock the door, however, she finds that Claude on set his already in the 589 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:05,440 apartment. 590 00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:07,640 She throws a lap at him and pushes a desk toward him. 591 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:09,640 Do you know why Monica Madison was murdered? 592 00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:12,480 He asks, but Peggy isn't going to stick around to get the answer from him. 593 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:13,480 She runs outside. 594 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:16,360 Turns out of her apartment into the club and Claude runs after her. 595 00:25:16,360 --> 00:25:19,640 Then we see Peggy and Al meeting on the street, but Alice furious. 596 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:21,160 Peggy had just stayed home. 597 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:22,960 Al could have framed Claude for killing her. 598 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:25,360 He acts like he's going to complete the job here anyway. 599 00:25:25,360 --> 00:25:26,360 But Candy interrupts Alice. 600 00:25:26,360 --> 00:25:29,960 He's asking about Monica's caricature, as if Peggy knows anything about it. 601 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,840 Candy's arrival gives Peggy the opportunity to slip away. 602 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:33,840 Are you crazy? 603 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:34,840 Candy asks. 604 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:36,120 Al says everyone is against him. 605 00:25:36,120 --> 00:25:39,920 He drags Candy into the shadows and asks what she told Sergeant Stevens about him. 606 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:43,040 She denies having said anything, but offers to help him however she can. 607 00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:46,720 Al tells her Stevens has the caricature of Monica Madison and he needs her to get it back 608 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:48,440 for him or he's a dead man. 609 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:50,720 Candy says she'll help him, but he calls her a liar. 610 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:52,200 He puts his hand on her throat. 611 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:55,800 He explains that he tried to get some money from Monica Madison, then he and Candy could 612 00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:56,800 run away together. 613 00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:58,520 But Monica threatened to call the cops. 614 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:02,600 As Al strangles Candy, he tells her he loves her and everything he did for her. 615 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:04,080 Including murdering her, I guess. 616 00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:07,640 He asks her dead body for the caricature, but it's Claude who steps out of the shadows 617 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:09,040 claiming that he has it. 618 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:11,320 Alex demands it, but Claude says no. 619 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:12,960 This is the evidence that will hang you. 620 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:15,160 Al pulls out his knife and starts towards Claude. 621 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,320 Stevens appears and tells Al to drop the knife. 622 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:19,600 Al runs and Stevens shoots at him, but misses. 623 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:23,000 Stevens chases Alex into a warehouse and starts to dwayne follows. 624 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:26,520 In the warehouse they get close to him, but Al shoves some barrels at them and runs outside. 625 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:28,800 Dwayne and Stevens catch up to Al on the street. 626 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:30,040 He pulls the knife on them. 627 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:33,200 Stop for all shoot, warn Stevens, but Dal techs off ring again. 628 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:36,080 So Stevens and Dwayne have no choice but to shoot him in the back. 629 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:39,200 Now we and the main surviving cast we turn to the Can Can Club. 630 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:40,600 For the day new mole. 631 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:43,320 Stevens informs Joe Hill need to be getting another artist. 632 00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:44,320 Oh geez. 633 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:48,040 Peggy is in tears and Claude tries to explain to her that he tried to tell her at the apartment 634 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:51,720 and then at his place what was going on and what Al was doing behind her back. 635 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:55,480 It does confess to trying to hurt her the way that Al heard him, whatever that means, but 636 00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:56,920 he couldn't bring himself to do it. 637 00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:58,840 This does not quell Peggy's tears though. 638 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:02,160 Dwayne's on the phone calling in the other two bodies to the station and asked for them 639 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:03,160 to send over the wagon. 640 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:06,320 Then he gets Claude to fill him in on the motives and such. 641 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:10,200 Claude says that after her success in Blondes on Broadway, Monica Madison had fallen in 642 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:12,240 love with a handsome talented artist. 643 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:15,720 Claude manages to keep his place with her by showering her with expensive gifts. 644 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:19,800 He gave her that time in Choker and she replied by telling him, "Alba love this honor." 645 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:23,600 Stevens produces a drawing from Al's portfolio and the Choker is attached to it. 646 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:26,520 But we could go, Monica told Claude that Al was blackmailing her. 647 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:28,360 So Claude took her back and said he would help her. 648 00:27:28,360 --> 00:27:32,000 Monica brought Claude to the Can Can Club so that he could see what Alix looks like. 649 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:36,000 And that's when Claude found out about Al's wife Peggy who knew nothing about the blackmail 650 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:37,000 scheme. 651 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:38,000 Nor the affair. 652 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:39,000 Claude continues.

653 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:40,400 Last night at the premiere was the end. 654 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:43,840 After going to the premiere, Monica told him that the theater that she was going to Italy 655 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,880 to shoot a picture and while there she was going to marry the producer. 656 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:48,880 Claude admits he wanted to kill her himself. 657 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:52,280 They continue to argue at the party after the premiere until she received a phone call. 658 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:54,440 He didn't know what it was about but she left in a hurry. 659 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:57,440 He tried to follow her and if not for a few traffic lights, he might have been able to 660 00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:58,440 save her. 661 00:27:58,440 --> 00:27:59,440 But he didn't. 662 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,360 He says that he was happy that she was dead and then takes it back. 663 00:28:02,360 --> 00:28:03,360 Maybe he wasn't. 664 00:28:03,360 --> 00:28:04,360 He doesn't know how he felt. 665 00:28:04,360 --> 00:28:06,120 But he did come into the bar to call the cops. 666 00:28:06,120 --> 00:28:08,800 He knew it was Alex Vodet killer but he had no proof. 667 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:09,800 Not thinking clearly. 668 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:13,280 He went ahead with the scheme and took the caricature from Al's portfolio, thinking it 669 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:15,040 might help prove him guilty somehow. 670 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:16,040 And it has. 671 00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:18,400 He also wanted to see Peggy and tell her about her husband. 672 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:22,080 When Stevens was questioned in Claude, he revealed that Al had told him he'd only seen Monica 673 00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:24,240 lie there one night when the photo was taken. 674 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:27,360 But if that were true, we did outsketch the picture Claude has been carrying around this 675 00:28:27,360 --> 00:28:29,480 whole time, the one where she's wearing the choker. 676 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:32,600 He never would have seen it before because she was wearing a plain necklace that one time 677 00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:34,040 that he met her and sketched her. 678 00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:37,960 As revealed in the photograph, Yeti drew a detailed rendering of it around her neck. 679 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:39,360 QED, he killed her. 680 00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:43,120 Yeah, somehow that proves that Al was the murder of Monica Madison. 681 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:46,000 Even though they were having an affair and you might have seen it in the course of sleeping 682 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:51,080 with her illicitly at any rate, Dwayne needs all the evidence and wants to hear all the statements 683 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:52,920 to give to the police superintendent. 684 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:54,440 This includes Peggy's interview. 685 00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:59,560 So Peggy and Claude leave so that they can go down to the station for a real police interview. 686 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:02,120 As they head out, Sergeant Stevens remains behind. 687 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:05,600 Yes, George White is armed, blood so badly when Connie knocked him with that chair. 688 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:09,320 George explains a couple of hoods came into the club with Stevens to care of them, even 689 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:10,600 though they were armed with knives. 690 00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:14,920 George had asked Stevens at the time if he was stabbed, but Stevens insisted he was fine. 691 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,520 Stevens asked if this was before or after he left with the blonde. 692 00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:21,600 About a half hour before says George, and his concerns Stevens, there's still some time 693 00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:22,760 he can't account for. 694 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:25,200 He left with the blonde, but then he left her right after. 695 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,480 But there's three hours or so he still can't account for. 696 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:31,160 He returned to the club hours later and no one knows what he did in the interim. 697 00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:32,960 What you don't know won't hurt you, says George. 698 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:35,120 That's what you think, says Stevens. 699 00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:39,520 Stevens leaves and then Joe tells George, I guess we can go home now and they do. 700 00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:41,520 And that's the end. 701 00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:50,960 Welcome back to the American International Podcast where we're talking about female jungle 702 00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:52,840 from 1956. 703 00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:56,240 Female jungles working titles were Girl Murder and Hangover. 704 00:29:56,240 --> 00:30:00,280 The film was produced independently and shot in the Los Angeles area in November and December 705 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:01,280 of 1954. 706 00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:05,680 The LA citizen news announced the film under the title Girl Murdered was currently shooting 707 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:07,040 at Larshmont Studio. 708 00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:12,920 The Eagle Rock Sentinel, a Los Angeles publication noted in its November 25th, 1954 edition that 709 00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:17,360 the Cannes Can supper club on Colorado Boulevard received considerable prominence last week 710 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:21,400 when Bert Kaiser Productions took some nightclub scenes for their new mystery picture. 711 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:24,360 Camera and soundtracks were very much in evidence during the filming. 712 00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:28,600 According to production manager David Kramarski, Kathleen Crowley, who played Peggy, have 713 00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:32,520 been hired to play the lead and Jane Mansfield had been cast in a much smaller role. 714 00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:36,280 Kramarski said, we were supposed to film some exteriors in downtown Los Angeles and 715 00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:37,960 Crowley showed up three hours late. 716 00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:40,160 She said she'd

been raped by three black men. 717 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:43,440 Someone told me she'd become hysterical so we called her agent and he came and took her 718 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:44,440 away. 719 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:47,680 We still had half the picture to finish so we rewrote the script and build up the role 720 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:48,680 that Jane had. 721 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:51,640 When we were done, there were only two quick shots that we needed of Kathleen Crowley 722 00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:55,040 to bridge some scenes so we hired a double and shot her from behind. 723 00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:58,800 I think that was a scene where Alex tries to kill Peggy because we just see her eyes, 724 00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:01,280 we don't see her face, and then we see her from behind. 725 00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:04,080 That's a weird story too because I could find no other mention of it. 726 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:08,560 It was in the Mark Thomas McGee book and there's a lot more to the quote I didn't include 727 00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:12,920 where Kramarski says that he thinks Kathleen Crowley lied and got another job. 728 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:16,000 But then he has Carmen Cohen saying that he thinks that she was telling the truth. 729 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,400 I don't know, it's just really weird and it wasn't in the paper reported as a crime. 730 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:20,400 So who knows? 731 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:25,040 In 1954, Kaiser unsuccessfully tried to sell distribution rights to female jungle to 732 00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:27,720 paramount pictures and allied artists. 733 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:31,600 According to Mark Thomas McGee and Faster and Furious here, Kaiser was so eager to unload 734 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:34,200 it, ARC got it at a bargain price. 735 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:36,880 More of a bargain than Nicholson and Arcoff could have hoped for. 736 00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:41,360 Because just before a female jungle came out, Mansfield blew up as the star of the successful 737 00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:44,520 Broadway stage play will success spoil Rock Hunter. 738 00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:47,800 She reprised her role in the 1957 film Made of the Play. 739 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:52,160 According to McGee, Mansfield only got the part because her agent asked for $50 less than 740 00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:54,280 the other actors who auditioned for the part. 741 00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:59,800 Mansfield received $150 for the job and Kaiser was credited with being practically the discoverer 742 00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:03,640 of Mansfield in the Los Angeles Times in April of 1956. 743 00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:07,840 This was Jane Mansfield's first film job and ARC gave her an introducing credit in female 744 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:08,840 jungle. 745 00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:12,280 In February 1955, she became playboys playmate of the month. 746 00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:17,320 She was also Miss February 1956, 57, 58 and 1960. 747 00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:21,680 Time magazine published a picture of Mansfield and captioned it "Sex on the Rocks" a phrase 748 00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,920 the ARC used to its advantage when promoting the film. 749 00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:30,280 The ARC Pressbook gave Mansfield's measurements as 40, 21, 36 and said she would be America's 750 00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:32,320 biggest wolf whistle in the coming year. 751 00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:36,720 Female jungle was released on a double bill with Oklahoma woman opening in Kishok, Denohio 752 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:40,200 on April 11, 1956 for opening in other markets. 753 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:44,440 The Pressbook for Female Jungle advised theater owners to borrow a shock machine from one of 754 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:48,880 the nearby penny arcades and set this up as part of a lobby display to invite men to test 755 00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:53,320 their shock power while looking at a life-size cardboard sandy of Jane Mansfield, which was 756 00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:55,160 available to purchase from ARC. 757 00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:59,040 They also suggested testing women too with the beauty contest searching for the one whose 758 00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:01,640 body most closely matched Mansfield's dimensions. 759 00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:04,800 The winner or body of the year would be awarded prizes. 760 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:09,480 Taglines for female jungle include nothing more dangerous than a love starved animal cut 761 00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:11,080 in a female jungle. 762 00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,520 Naked passions in the female jungle. 763 00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:15,920 Excitement screams like a siren in the night. 764 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:18,560 Rills jolt with the burst of gunfire. 765 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:22,800 The review and variety set a female jungle, occasionally the odd bag collection of characters 766 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:27,080 assembled for this effort, react to the downbeat situations in a manner faintly resembling 767 00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:28,080 human emotion. 768 00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:31,840 Otherwise, this pick is an example of Mickey's spalanish mood run amuck. 769 00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:35,440 Since there's little help from the murky plotting, most box office chances will have to come 770 00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:40,440 from the succession of Chesty Femmes, including Jane Mansfield, before her current success, 771 00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:44,360 who strut their brief moments across the screen, and the elongated scenes of amorous 772 00:33:44,360 --> 00:34:11,480 fuddling which leave only the ultimate to the imagination. 773 00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:23,920 Glenn Trump of the Omaha World Herald wrote, "Just about all that's notable about female 774 00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:27,920 jungle is that it brings busty blonde beauty Jane Mansfield to the screen for the first 775 00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:30,440 time since she became a Broadway sensation. 776 00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:34,680 Even so, her role of

candy price, a foot loose model, is far from starting." 777 00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:40,040 By Gilmore of the Toronto Telegram wrote, "Bucksome Jane Mansfield has had a lot of movie publicity. 778 00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:42,360 Most of it concentrating on photos rather than words. 779 00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:45,400 It's possible that the belly who will stir up a bit of interest regarding the lady's 780 00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:47,640 current screen appearance in female jungle. 781 00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:51,120 But offhand, I couldn't nominate a more hard to follow movie than this one." 782 00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:55,800 Ed Hokura in the Hamilton Canada Spectator wrote in his scathing review a female jungle, 783 00:34:55,800 --> 00:35:00,240 "The worst agent of the year title goes to the man who gets 10% of everything Jane 784 00:35:00,240 --> 00:35:01,240 Mansfield makes. 785 00:35:01,240 --> 00:35:02,240 Why? 786 00:35:02,240 --> 00:35:05,880 Because he has allowed his client to make the most unimpressive screen debut any actress 787 00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:06,880 ever made. 788 00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:10,840 The meanest producer of the year award goes to Bert Kaiser for letting a certain actor 789 00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:14,400 strangle the star of the Broadway hit Will Success Spoiler Rock Hunter. 790 00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:15,400 Why? 791 00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:18,880 Because the actor he chose to play that particular part was Bert Kaiser, who has yet to show 792 00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:21,000 that he can act or produce pictures." 793 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:25,960 Dorothy Kilgallon in her voice of Broadway's dedicated column reported in June of 1956 that 794 00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:30,120 Jane Mansfield is all upset because a quickie flicker she made a long time ago, the female 795 00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:33,200 jungle, with Lawrence Tierney, is about to be released. 796 00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:36,320 She doesn't think a performance in the picture does justice to her current abilities as 797 00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:37,320 actors. 798 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:38,320 That may be true. 799 00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:50,960 Well, Jeff Moore then one critic noted that the plot was "merky" and perhaps incomprehensible, 800 00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:55,360 and I think that I can speak for you in saying that we both found it a little bit hard to 801 00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:57,160 follow, maybe more than a little. 802 00:35:57,160 --> 00:36:01,960 Yeah, even at the end when John Caridine explains everything, it still doesn't feel like he 803 00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:03,280 explained everything. 804 00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:06,800 I wouldn't say he explained it to the satisfaction of perhaps a jury. 805 00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:10,280 He would have to consider a reasonable doubt, because I think there's a lot of doubt left 806 00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:11,280 in there. 807 00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:16,600 All he did was establish that Al Lied about seeing Monica Madison prior to that night. 808 00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:18,640 That's the only thing he was able to prove. 809 00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:24,200 But Monica herself said that she was having a thing with him, so that lie was really meaningless. 810 00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:26,960 He probably was just lying so his wife didn't find out. 811 00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:28,680 And that's all told through Claude, so. 812 00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:33,240 Who has more incentive than anyone to paint himself as not the killer here. 813 00:36:33,240 --> 00:36:34,240 Exactly. 814 00:36:34,240 --> 00:36:36,640 We may have uncovered a deeper plot here that they skipped over. 815 00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:38,040 Maybe John Caridine did do it. 816 00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:42,320 And also, we have those three missing hours that Stevens can't account for. 817 00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:43,880 How do we know that he didn't kill Monica? 818 00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:46,880 I guess he doesn't really have a motive because he didn't know anything about her. 819 00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:51,480 He wasn't sleeping with her or being blackmailed by her or whatever, or blackmailing her. 820 00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:52,880 I can't remember. 821 00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:55,280 The whole Stevens subplot is just kind of weird. 822 00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:58,360 I mean, obviously the point is that he's an alcoholic and he doesn't know what he did. 823 00:36:58,360 --> 00:36:59,800 He had a blackout episode. 824 00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:03,160 And so he thinks that he might be the killer and so he's really invested into hopefully finding 825 00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:04,160 out that he's not. 826 00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:08,160 And yet we don't know exactly what he did do of the suspects. 827 00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:10,200 He seems the least likely to have done it. 828 00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:11,200 True. 829 00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:13,280 Yeah, the least motive for Monica Madison. 830 00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:14,920 But what was he doing with candy? 831 00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:16,640 They just hook up because she does that. 832 00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:21,120 She hooks up with people, even if she's in love with Alex, she still makes dates with strangers 833 00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:22,120 on the phone. 834 00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:23,120 I guess. 835 00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:26,400 And what is it about Alex that all the women in this town, except for Connie have a thing 836 00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:27,400 for him? 837 00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:28,400 Have a thing for him. 838 00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:31,800 What the writers of this movie coincidence? 839 00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:33,600 The writer is bed everyone in this movie. 840 00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:35,440 Well, there's not that many women. 841 00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:37,360 I mean, Joe's wife has talked about. 842 00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:39,320 We never see her like Vera on cheers. 843 00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:44,480 Obviously is some wish fulfillment on behalf of the producer director writer of this movie. 844

00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:46,680 But you can't say that Bruno Vistotto's character. 845 00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:48,240 I guess Connie is kind of a dish. 846 00:37:48,240 --> 00:37:49,240 She's fine. 847 00:37:49,240 --> 00:37:50,240 Better than he deserves. 848 00:37:50,240 --> 00:37:51,240 I'm sure. 849 00:37:51,240 --> 00:37:54,320 But yeah, Alex, that is a head scratcher because he doesn't have anything going for him. 850 00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:55,320 He's unpleasant. 851 00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:56,320 He's not that handsome. 852 00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:57,680 He's not rich. 853 00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:02,320 And we get to see his drawings, not that for Kaiser do them, but we get to see Alex portfolio. 854 00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:03,320 And they're fine. 855 00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:05,240 You can make a few bucks on the boardwalk. 856 00:38:05,240 --> 00:38:06,240 Exactly. 857 00:38:06,240 --> 00:38:11,920 But he's scoring Hollywood actresses and blonde bombshell prostitutes left and right. 858 00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:13,240 And he has a pretty wife. 859 00:38:13,240 --> 00:38:15,040 What's he got that no one else has? 860 00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:19,440 Well, you look at the other people in the town and I guess it's Los Angeles. 861 00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:21,640 This is one corner of Los Angeles. 862 00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:23,960 It's a very close knit part of Los Angeles. 863 00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:24,960 I guess. 864 00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:27,720 The apartment is almost next door to the cancass club. 865 00:38:27,720 --> 00:38:30,880 Keep puffing it back and forth and it doesn't take more than a couple of minutes to go back 866 00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:31,880 and forth. 867 00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:35,200 But it has to drive, but he also lives out in the boonies because he's got a rich person house. 868 00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:39,640 I know he's rich because he wears a tuxedo with the top hat and tails the entire movie. 869 00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:40,640 He hasn't asked God. 870 00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:45,080 I always feel bad when I see John Caridian in a movie because he's a really good actor and 871 00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:47,240 he's just made so many bad movies. 872 00:38:47,240 --> 00:38:48,240 Yeah, I wonder why. 873 00:38:48,240 --> 00:38:50,840 I mean, he's got a very stately presence here. 874 00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:52,280 He's a Shakespearean actor. 875 00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:53,280 Yeah. 876 00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:55,920 He's got some good movies, but there's a lot more bad ones. 877 00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:57,520 He's totally slumming it here. 878 00:38:57,520 --> 00:38:59,880 No, he's slumming it in voodoo, man. 879 00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:00,880 You seen that one? 880 00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:01,880 No. 881 00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:02,880 You got to check that out. 882 00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:03,880 Not AIP. 883 00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:04,880 Not AIP. 884 00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:05,880 Well, I may not be able to get to it for a while. 885 00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:06,880 It's monogram, I think. 886 00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:07,880 Well, yeah, I know. 887 00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:11,440 And he's done some even worse ones that ended up on Mystery Science Theater. 888 00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:12,440 This one's not great. 889 00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:14,080 I want to say slumming it. 890 00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:19,520 It's just because we're in a bar with a bunch of drunks and lose her, basically. 891 00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:22,120 And here he is dressed to go to a Hollywood premiere. 892 00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:23,120 I want a caricature. 893 00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:27,400 But he's so creepy in this movie should have been called Red Herring rather than Female 894 00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:28,400 Jungle. 895 00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:30,440 This female jungle doesn't really make sense as a title. 896 00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:32,640 It's blaming the women for what the men are doing. 897 00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:34,240 Yeah, there's a lot about this movie. 898 00:39:34,240 --> 00:39:35,840 It's just not really pleasant. 899 00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:39,280 I think it fits really well into our November theme. 900 00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:42,920 Probably better than any other movie we could have thought of from this era. 901 00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:44,560 It's a pretty grimy flick. 902 00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:47,920 But it has these touches of glamour that just don't go with it. 903 00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:50,360 And John Caragene really doesn't belong in this movie. 904 00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:55,760 No, and neither does Monica Madison, who is a glamorous actor on her way up. 905 00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:59,280 And yet she's hanging out and scuzzy bars like the can-can club. 906 00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:02,680 No, she fell in love with Al because he's irresistible. 907 00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:03,680 It's Fair Mone's. 908 00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:04,680 Don't question it. 909 00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:05,680 And he's a talented artist. 910 00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:07,880 Like you said, there are diamond dozen on the boardwalk. 911 00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:11,200 You could probably pick four or five of them up on Santa Monica Pier. 912 00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:12,200 No problem. 913 00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:13,920 Probably a less complicated home lives. 914 00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:18,040 A lot of this movie happens because of John Caragene's character. 915 00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:21,760 He knows that Alex foes guilty, but he feels he has to prove it. 916 00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:23,600 So he plays this cat in mouse game. 917 00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:27,160 And the whole time he's also playing part of the red herring for the audience. 918 00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:29,000 And it's just really annoying. 919 00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:32,560 It's hard to believe that he's 100% innocent of anything here too. 920 00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:35,720 Because he doesn't admit to toying with Peggy. 921 00:40:35,720 --> 00:40:39,560 He wants to bring her out to his house so that he

can maybe hurt Alex the way that Alex 922 00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:40,560 hurt him. 923 00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:42,040 So he's not a good guy. 924 00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:45,920 And he's got this tit for tat thing with Monica where he made her famous and now she 925 00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:46,920 owes him. 926 00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:47,920 He was trying to figure out. 927 00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:49,920 I never found this when I was researching it. 928 00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:55,240 The origin of this story was this just bird Kaiser trying to start a career for himself. 929 00:40:55,240 --> 00:40:59,280 He was never a successful producer and even less successful actor. 930 00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:03,440 And he were he changed up with Bruno Vassoda who as a character actor did a lot of stuff 931 00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:05,880 with Korman and quite a few films for A.I.P. 932 00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:07,360 We've seen him before and. 933 00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:08,360 He was in the Furious. 934 00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:09,520 He was in the past in the Furious. 935 00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:11,200 He was uncredited in Nite Tide. 936 00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:12,760 I think was last time we saw him. 937 00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:13,760 Oh yeah. 938 00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:16,000 He's the guy walking down the stairs, bumping into Dennis. 939 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:17,000 He's not easily recognizable. 940 00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:19,000 He directed a couple more films for A.I.P. 941 00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:22,240 He directed the brain eaters and invasion of the star creatures. 942 00:41:22,240 --> 00:41:27,000 And his last appearance would have been in the 1971 in bunny o'Hare. 943 00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:29,000 Replays like a lab tech or something. 944 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,000 Why was there a lab tech in bunny o'Hare? 945 00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:32,000 For the police? 946 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:33,000 What's the been? 947 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:34,000 I don't know. 948 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:35,000 That was three and a half years ago. 949 00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:36,320 Was he in bucket of blood? 950 00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:37,320 Yes. 951 00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:38,320 He was the art collector. 952 00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:39,320 I thought so. 953 00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:40,320 I think he was going to buy the cat. 954 00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:41,320 Dick Miller wouldn't sell it to him. 955 00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:45,680 No, Dick Miller had sold it to the guy who owned the club, the yellow rumor, whatever 956 00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:46,680 it was. 957 00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:47,680 Oh, okay. 958 00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:49,720 And he was going to resell it to Bruno Vassoda. 959 00:41:49,720 --> 00:41:51,600 And he was in Carmen's stable of actors. 960 00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:53,240 So he was probably in a lot of movies. 961 00:41:53,240 --> 00:41:54,320 So we haven't seen yet. 962 00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:55,800 And some that don't even apply to us. 963 00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:57,800 We won't be seeing Bird Kaiser again, though. 964 00:41:57,800 --> 00:41:58,800 Oh, darn. 965 00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:03,880 He's not really bursting with talent, but it does seem like he engineered a way for himself 966 00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:05,880 to make out with Jane Mansfield. 967 00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:07,240 So you've got to give him credit for that. 968 00:42:07,240 --> 00:42:11,600 Yeah, he made out with just about everybody in this movie except his wife. 969 00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:13,000 We didn't seem with Monica Madison. 970 00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:14,000 Oh, that's true. 971 00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:15,240 It just played out in your head, I guess. 972 00:42:15,240 --> 00:42:19,960 Yeah, if this movie didn't start Jane Mansfield, I don't think that anybody would be thinking 973 00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:20,960 about it at all. 974 00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:24,960 Maybe we would, but for the most part, it's only notoriety is because she was in it. 975 00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:28,760 Yeah, and I don't think that Jane Mansfield's presence is really enough to save it. 976 00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:30,280 No, absolutely not. 977 00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:32,320 Especially since she was supposed to have a smaller role. 978 00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:36,000 And I was trying to figure out what this movie would have been had Kathleen Crowley not 979 00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:37,000 been attacked. 980 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:39,880 Would she have been the one you get murdered in the alley? 981 00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:42,960 And how would Jane Mansfield's character have figured into the plot? 982 00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:46,480 Was Jane Mansfield supposed to be Monica Madison originally? 983 00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:47,560 I don't think so. 984 00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:51,760 I just think she was supposed to be maybe a prostitute who maybe witnessed something at 985 00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:52,760 the club. 986 00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:53,760 She was Stevens. 987 00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:54,760 Wasn't playing into the different character. 988 00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:55,760 They just beefed up her part. 989 00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:56,760 Yeah. 990 00:42:56,760 --> 00:43:00,760 Otherwise, she was just in the club with Stevens and she witnessed something and helped provide 991 00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:01,760 a clue. 992 00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:04,400 Now she's Allel's girlfriend and he kills her. 993 00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:05,400 I don't know. 994 00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:08,200 The things that didn't happen in this movie are almost as impuherited as the things that 995 00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:09,200 did. 996 00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:13,840 Well, we don't know what the script originally was that might have been very helpful for us. 997 00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:17,680 The timeline in this movie is strange because it's all takes place in one night. 998 00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:19,680 It starts to rain before two in the morning. 999 00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:22,880 Yeah, and then it goes on for four or five hours.

1000 00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:24,400 It's still night when they're done. 1001 00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:27,280 Well, it wasn't the winter, so night less longer. 1002 00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:30,360 But yeah, this was just so exhausting to watch. 1003 00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:34,120 I felt so bad for Joe and George and Connie. 1004 00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:35,600 People just want to go to sleep. 1005 00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:39,240 And yet they have to be dragged through this police investigation and they're awake all 1006 00:43:39,240 --> 00:43:40,240 night. 1007 00:43:40,240 --> 00:43:41,240 They're exhausted. 1008 00:43:41,240 --> 00:43:42,240 Hopefully they get the next day off. 1009 00:43:42,240 --> 00:43:45,040 I get finding myself trying to measure what time it was. 1010 00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:46,040 I know. 1011 00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:47,640 As the events were occurring. 1012 00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:50,920 We have to assume that it didn't happen in real time. 1013 00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:56,680 It could be that everything happened between 2 a.m. and 4 30 a.m. or something similar. 1014 00:43:56,680 --> 00:44:00,400 But the pacing of the movie doesn't really allow us to follow the time that way. 1015 00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:04,200 Kind of angered me the second time we were watching this is the day new mall that happens 1016 00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:08,560 at the bar where we finally find out Claude's explanation for everything whether it's the 1017 00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:09,560 truth or not. 1018 00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:11,840 But that part goes on for a really long time. 1019 00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:16,000 And that's bad in storytelling when you're just telling and you're not showing. 1020 00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:17,920 And especially when we have an unreliable narrator. 1021 00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:18,920 I don't know. 1022 00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:21,520 It takes a long time to get through Claude's explanation. 1023 00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:25,960 It reminded me of the terror when Jack Nicholson pinned Dick Miller to the wall so he could 1024 00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:29,240 explain the whole movie which hadn't made any sense up to that point. 1025 00:44:29,240 --> 00:44:31,440 Well, thank God he did. 1026 00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:35,240 But I trust Dick's retelling of the story more than I trust John Carrity and Zier because 1027 00:44:35,240 --> 00:44:37,320 I believe he probably left a lot out. 1028 00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:41,320 Alright so now we have to place a grade on female jungle. 1029 00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:46,320 As always using our AIP system where A is awesome, I is intermediate and P is pathetic. 1030 00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:48,360 Jeff, give this movie a letter grade. 1031 00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:50,640 I can't say this is a very good movie. 1032 00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:51,640 It's not bad. 1033 00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:52,960 It's definitely confusing. 1034 00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:56,640 I watched it twice in preparation for this episode and the second time we're winding 1035 00:44:56,640 --> 00:44:59,080 it constantly trying to figure out what was going on. 1036 00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:03,880 I do that anyway but this particular film was incredibly difficult to follow. 1037 00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:06,960 I'm not sure if it's so well written that that's the case. 1038 00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:09,840 I think it could have been better written and been easier to follow. 1039 00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:14,000 I don't think it was trying to fool me as we went along except maybe in suspecting 1040 00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:15,720 John Carrity as the killer. 1041 00:45:15,720 --> 00:45:18,880 As for Jane Mansfield, I don't see what the fuss was. 1042 00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:21,280 I was so annoyed every time she came on screen. 1043 00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:25,320 I like Joe better than Jane Mansfield in this movie. 1044 00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:26,880 I'm going to give this one an eye. 1045 00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:28,360 It's not horrible. 1046 00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:29,360 It's not really not good. 1047 00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:30,360 Very middle of the road. 1048 00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:32,360 But it probably had no water for a North-Earth. 1049 00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:33,960 What are your thoughts, Cheryl? 1050 00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:39,600 Well, my first thought is that this movie is an hour and ten minutes long and yet it feels 1051 00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:41,200 like it's about two and a half hours long. 1052 00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:45,200 We feel like we are up all night with the characters and we're being put through our 1053 00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:47,080 faces the same way that they are. 1054 00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:52,480 It's kind of an exhausting watch, especially when we were stopping down to take notes and 1055 00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:54,680 try to figure out what the heck is going on. 1056 00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:57,320 I was getting very annoyed with it by the end. 1057 00:45:57,320 --> 00:46:01,280 I'm going to pull back away from that and try to evaluate the movie as a whole. 1058 00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:02,280 You're right. 1059 00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:06,120 Jane Mansfield was kind of irritating in this movie and I don't think that's anything to do 1060 00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:07,120 with her. 1061 00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:11,320 I just think it's the way that her character was written as being in love with Al. 1062 00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:12,320 Like why? 1063 00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:13,760 Not even just in love with it. 1064 00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:15,080 She's really in love. 1065 00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:19,560 She's like head over heels and not thinking straight and just being downright dumb. 1066 00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:23,920 She's raised to throw her entire life away for this guy when someone who looks like 1067 00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:26,160 her could be with anybody. 1068 00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:27,160 Somebody good perhaps. 1069 00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:30,120 I mean, not just somebody with money, but somebody with

moral character. 1070 00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:32,360 We're supposed to believe she's a prostitute or something. 1071 00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:35,280 So maybe that's not important to her, but I don't believe that. 1072 00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:39,320 But yeah, she throws herself at this turd for no reason. 1073 00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:44,080 And I've kind of irritated with Peggy too for getting in her car with this strange man who 1074 00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:48,880 gave her the creeps just a little while earlier and she lets him drive her up to his house 1075 00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:52,360 and she goes swimming in his pool at what is going on here? 1076 00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:55,360 Did women not have a sense of self preservation back then? 1077 00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:56,920 It's insane behavior. 1078 00:46:56,920 --> 00:46:59,400 And so that kind of stuff just sticks in my head. 1079 00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:03,720 I know a man wrote this and it's what men think women will do. 1080 00:47:03,720 --> 00:47:06,440 And so maybe I should just take it with a grain of salt. 1081 00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:08,360 But man, these are some dumb rods. 1082 00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:12,840 And it's hard to love this movie, but I can't say that I hate it. 1083 00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:14,160 It's definitely a noir movie. 1084 00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:16,200 So it qualifies for New York. 1085 00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:18,760 But I just can't in good conscious give this an A. 1086 00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:20,640 I'm going to give it an I as well. 1087 00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:22,160 It's kind of middle of the road. 1088 00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:25,680 It's like they have something here that could have been good, but they just choose to 1089 00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:28,440 make it average every single step of the way. 1090 00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:33,120 And so that's what they get an I for average, I for intermediate. 1091 00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:36,760 One thing that I think they really dropped the ball on is with the character of Al. 1092 00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:38,720 They didn't do anything to make him a suspect. 1093 00:47:38,720 --> 00:47:42,440 I guess I suspected him for the whole time because he looks sleazy. 1094 00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:47,120 Till towards the end, they kind of picture him as this guy who he's kind of a jerk, but 1095 00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:48,640 he does love his wife. 1096 00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:53,800 And there's so building up John Caird he is the red hairing and Sergeant Stevens not knowing 1097 00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:55,160 if he might have done it. 1098 00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:59,200 He never even really point a finger at Al, but you can't help with suspect him just because 1099 00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:00,760 of how he looks and acts. 1100 00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:05,600 When we first see him, he's standing by the crime scene and he looks so squirrely there. 1101 00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:08,400 And you know how they say that killers always return to the scene of the crime. 1102 00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:11,560 So as soon as I saw him, I'm like, this guy's up to no good. 1103 00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:13,120 You know, that was the first time we watched. 1104 00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:15,120 And then by the second time I'm like, well, look at this guy. 1105 00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:17,040 He's so obviously the killer. 1106 00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:22,240 And I knew it then, but just the way he's behaving is just so nervous and twitchy. 1107 00:48:22,240 --> 00:48:24,080 There's always something weird about him. 1108 00:48:24,080 --> 00:48:28,320 It just gives off this bad aura and the aura is serial killer. 1109 00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:31,940 The first time through I missed a lot of the John Caird in stuff and that he was the red 1110 00:48:31,940 --> 00:48:36,200 hairing because I was so convinced that it was all the whole time that I wasn't paying 1111 00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:39,600 attention to the rest of the quote unquote clues that are being thrown at me. 1112 00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:42,640 Well, you're more perceptive than any character in this movie. 1113 00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:43,640 That's for sure. 1114 00:48:43,640 --> 00:48:47,000 Well, we solve the mystery of the female jungle, but there's one more loose end that needs 1115 00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:48,000 following up. 1116 00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:51,200 You still haven't visited our website, aippod.com. 1117 00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:53,960 It's more than just the home of American International Podcast, 1118 00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:57,800 it’s where you can delve deeper into each of the films we discuss with trailers, posters, and 1119 00:48:57,800 --> 00:48:58,800 more. 1120 00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:01,880 You can find out where each film is currently streaming so you can check it out for yourself. 1121 00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:05,440 And there's an opportunity to help us locate films that are still missing from our archive. 1122 00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:09,280 You'll also find links to our 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