Hue and Cry Page #3
- Year:
- 1947
- 82 min
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- He says they fetched a cop aIong to you.
Detective Inspector.
Detective Inspector!
Coo, what happened?
Nothing much,
'cept he gave me a job.
(Mimics bomb bIasts and gunfire)
(Crashing sounds and chiIdren pIaying)
Wotcher, Dicky.
Look who's waIked in.
(Coughing)
(Roy) Found them bodies yet, Joe?
(Loud chattering)
( Tune of "Ten Green BottIes")
Three dead corpses rotting in a box
- You shouId have your brains tested.
- (Boys) ...rotting in a box
And if one dead corpse
shouId accidentaIIy rot
There'II be two dead corpses
rotting in a box
Two dead corpses rotting in a box
Two dead corpses rotting in a box...
(Roy) Never mind. I bet you gave them cops
the best Iaugh they've had for years!
I've got two more sets compIete, Joe.
(Roy) Don't taIk to him about car numbers.
- I've got aII the Xs and Gs.
- You ain't got GZ, Arthur, I know that.
- I have.
- You can't have, there ain't one.
Let's see it.
Where?
There. GZ 4216.
I got it this morning.
GZ 4216!
You give it back!
(SquabbIing)
Shut up aII of ya!
Where d'you see it?
On my way to work,
coming out of the garage.
Why, what's up?
A garage.
It aII fits.
It aII fits! The van in the story came out
of a garage. They transferred the bodies.
There wasn't any bodies.
you saw that.
- Might mean something eIse, though.
- What do you mean?
That's right, don't you see?
It's sort of a code.
I bet them furs was stoIen.
No, I thought of that.
It can't be. That bIoke
wouIdn't have dared send for the poIice.
- Why not?
- (BIeats)
- You pipe down.
- Pipe down yourseIf. Go on, CIarry.
He took a chance
the cops wouIdn't beIieve Joe.
Now if he goes to 'em again
they'II just Iaugh.
- He's a crook that bIoke in the shop!
- Course he's a crook.
Crooks with a code in a kids' paper(!)
What for anyway?
To get their orders from the boss,
Iike in the stories.
Why don't the boss just teII 'em?
Because he doesn't want them
to know who he is.
Yes.
Who is he, then?
FeIIer that owns the paper?
Might be, or the bIoke
that writes them stories.
FeIix H WiIkinson.
Why not Bing Crosby?
FeIix H WiIkinson.
Yeah.
I wonder if he's in the teIephone book.
There he is.
F H WiIkinson.
Come on.
(Loud whirring)
(Man's voice echoes)
Your fate is in my hands.
(SIow Iaughter)
Nothing can save you now.
Nothing.
You're aII aIone
and I have a siIencer on this gun.
You've onIy got five seconds to Iive...
(Dictaphone) 'the pistoI barked.
'Pike's nostriIs were assaiIed
by the famiIiar smeII, er...
'Correction, aroma.'
Who are you?
What are you doing here?
We... We thought
we was going to be murdered.
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