Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

Where did you get that?

The content of the play

The less you get mixed up in the thing,

of Ernest Royce, the, uh, playwright.

Would you have him call Mr. Perry Mason please?

And they found...?

and at least one play in New York every year,

I tried to tell you, John.

The...motivations are obscure.

it was not Helen Dwight who killed Volponi.

your conversation with Mr. Brooks on this occasion?

of newspaper articles purportedly written by you.

( ominous theme playing )

are you asking this court to believe

if that's what you mean.

that Helen had done it.

Well, Frank. I didn't hear you come in.

to the defendant, Frank Brooks.

It speaks one short word.

Can you identify one of the voices

( romantic classical music playing on radio )

( sighs ) I don't remember.

Pretty busy, huh? Well, you know how it is.

That's right. You had your own byline?

No further questions.

"the first play by Ernest Royce,

Didn't Royce introduce her to Mr. Gifford?

Look, I was brought up in the rackets.

I ain't ashamed of that record.

Well, she asked me not to mention it

Well, we'll have to talk to John Gifford about it.

He lied to you about Faith Foster.

Then you'd be familiar

Well, then how did Gifford get it back?

It's been my family, my home...

I'll fix you a drink. Thanks.

But I want this one.

a cheap and melodramatic anticlimax.

He giving you a hard time?

That night, I came back to plead with him about the play.

embracing each other. I did.

you'd know that he's typical of

tell you everything before.

to invest a large amount

I don't like to be taken, Mr. Mason.

so I'll tell you what I'm gonna do.

Oh, you can, uh...

And when finally he demanded not only money...

Me getting star billing with Helen Dwight.

I thought you killed him.

She's a nice kid.

this play must not be produced as it's written.

But there was no play...

put it in my hand...

Well, I didn't exactly meet her.

( dramatic theme playing )

DIRECTOR: All right...

It's not fair to judge a play