 Johnny dollars Right away my right big toe needs the frosting what's the matter a policy holder young fellow named Jefferson went west on an oil They only disappeared it might be murder. Well, I guess I'd better pack two shirts looking for one man in a big state Like California can be murdered Edmund O'Brien in the transcribed adventure of the man with the action-packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator yours truly Johnny dollar Expense account submitted by special investigator Johnny dollar to great Corinthian life insurance company Hartford, Connecticut The following is an accounting of my expenditures during process of search for your missing policy holder youthful millionaire Alec Jefferson or how they were drilling for oil for what they struck was me Expense account item one a hundred and eighty six dollars and thirteen cents airfare Hartford to Los Angeles Item two fifteen dollars hire car airport to office of rebel wildcat is incorporated on Potential oil and in the new halls saw this district. I arrived at 9 30 a.m. A Handful of dirt dentists were hard at it drilling at a rig not 30 feet from the shack type office Oh, no, we're not better stand by driver. My man may not be here. Can you tell me where I'll find Mr. Flaherty? You're talking to him. I'm Mars Flaherty What can I do for you? My name is Johnny dollar. Mr. Flaherty I've been sent out here by the Corinthian life insurance company to see if I can get a track and your partner Alec Jefferson I see Well, it's their money you're spending dollars. Oh, I don't care much if you wasted But if you don't mind my saying so, I do think you're gonna be wasting your time. Well, I get paid by the day Then I guess you don't mind wasting time. I'll lock you don't get the idea. I'm just naturally pessimistic. I'm not Just that I've already done a lot of looking for young Jefferson and when that bird flew the coop He didn't leave a feather you could trace him by Well, do you have any objection to give me a few details? No, no, sit down. Not at all. Thank you To save time maybe I'd better tell you what I already know Well, it can't be much it isn't I suppose you realize Corinthian life is the administrator of Jefferson's father's estate Yeah, yeah, I know that well having charge of the money. They naturally know that young Jefferson financed this operation. That's right His money my experience The only thing we needed was a little more luck Well, there you have it. That's all I've got. What can you tell me? Whatever young Alexander God, he was asking for a guy built like a Cream puff he got money strong around here round an oil peel that isn't healthy even for a big guy How do you mean he got strong too much money too much opinion? That mixed up with too many other men's women can mean trouble for anybody any particular women too many Fine telling me who they are matter of fact, I Know you can have it. I already tried it just one more thing How and when did he drop out of sight a week ago last night? He left here at five o'clock for his apartment on the sunset strip in Hollywood. He never got there I checked that too. Yeah. Yeah, give me that paper back I'll write down the address Thanks. Well, I'll be around. Oh by the way the the first thing we try to figure out in my racket is who would benefit most How would you like to have him found? dead or alive Either way darling, I can take it. I've lost partners before I Spent the next 20 minutes on a long shot thinking I could pick up some information from the drillers But it was a long shot that missed those guys wouldn't have told me it was a nice day The outdoor life having got me nowhere I decided to give the indoor type of try first stop Jefferson's apartment on the sunset strip The lock was foolproof, but I wasn't fooling the joint was decorated in a lovely shade of hangover green The series of alcohol rings from the bottoms of glasses carrying out the motif on all flat surfaces In the living room. I found several pieces of loosely strewn feminine attire in the bedroom I found one piece of loosely strewn female. Who are you? What do you want? Oh? Sorry, I understood this was Alec Jefferson's apartment. It is. Oh You can drop your eyebrows mister on his wife. I beg your pardon. You heard me. I'm Mrs. Alec Jefferson That's me that road with you Now to make coffee. Yeah, why? Well, how about making me some while I go put on a face? I guess so You'll probably have to wash the percolator To me the best grounds for divorce would be coffee grounds and an unwashed percolator. Oh, I washed it I also made the coffee wondering the while how she had made the matrimonial grade Right then and there I'd have given her the bad housekeeping award She looked like the kind of a girl who could get into a beauty contest, but Like she'd never win it Anywhere you looked at her she was a new complication your coffee's ready find any clean cups. No, but I washed to Yeah Would you mind telling me who you are? I'm an insurance investigator. I'm looking for your husband We should find him. I could use some money How long have you two been married? Do we wait why routine question? Tell me when was the last time you saw him? I was waiting here for in the night. He does it here Any witnesses? if I need Tell me this do you have any idea why he disappeared or where he is at the slightest Do you know a man named Morris Flaherty? Yeah Yeah, I sure do how well I was his girl so By the way, have the police come to you yet? No, I went to them. You see I'm the one who reported Alec missing. You know whether they've come up with anything nothing much Up until now. He's just a missing person They put Alex picture on a television every night. I Don't know that they're doing much else. They keep calling him a Occasion look look, please don't get so hysterical about this. It makes you so hard to question Oh nothing. Oh, oh, I get it Excuse me if I seem dense this morning morning. It's three in the p.m. All right, so everything about me wrong. That's right look You can think that I married him for his money if you want to Because you used to suspecting everybody of everything But have you heard they're two sides to every marriage Do I look strong enough to have carried him to the order? I never weighed him But answer me this if he swept you off your feet, why did he pull a fade out in the middle of the honeymoon? Maybe he'd never seen a day without makeup on before and had to go someplace to think it out Look, I I think I'd better be going. I'm not much of a cook When you're working on a case your nerve ends are easily disturbed So when I left the house, you saw a hard top blue Plymouth Park opposite this the apartment Mine clanged an alarm In the cars had an equally hard top man reading holes in the newspaper I gave him the slow walk away in quick turn treatment. I caught him with his newspaper down And I had to go into my act My George you old son of a gun. Oh my gosh. It's good to see you talking about my name is George. What? What? Well, I'll be What do you know as I came out of the house? I got half a look at Jen as I started a walk away the face registered Why mr. You're a dead ringer for an old-school pal of mine George Pfeiffer. How do you like that? Well, come here. Let me take a closer look. Come here. I look odd sleep tight Okay, sleeping beauty over you go I'll drive I Turned the car up into the Hollywood Hills found an empty house with a pysale sign out front and a garage out back and drove in His wallet was bulging with everything but money and information an ID card gave his name as Phillip Wilkins His occupation as private detective The next fact I came up with was that mr. Wilkins was a light sleeper He came to to find me still fishing through his wallet Give me that Okay, hold it. Mr. Take it easy Here you can have your wallet back Now keep calm and everything's gonna be all right if you don't I'll Have to give you whiskers and other dusting. All right. Look, what's a big idea? I'll just slug me you know why mr. Wilkins because you had a plant on me And I figured if you were that curious about me I wanted to know more about you and nuts I wasn't watching you just watching that house you come out of there's a dame in there that I'm getting paid to tell I can't afford to be convinced of that Who hired you? I'm not telling you or anybody else Mr. Dollar Oh word travels fast first you tell me you're not watching me and you also tell me you know who I am so what is that illegal Went to see the thing that I'm watching I was told you'd probably be around and you was You'll be in my report if you're healthy enough to make it. What were you really doing with that stakeout? Were you watching the apartment waiting for somebody to show up? Do you really have a tail on mrs. Jefferson or did you follow me in from the oil fields? Why should I follow you? Maybe you and I got the same approach to this case You found him yeah, no, but it's still early. Who else is interested in finding Jefferson Here he's quite a playboy Maybe one of his playmates wants him served with breach of promise papers. I got a let's face it I can't tell you who I'm working for you'll know that it ain't ethical It's not ethical to let yourself get picked up as easily as I picked you up either or let it go I don't suppose by any chance you know a man named Morris Flaharty No, I'd like to see one of his Derrick's fall on him why so what did he do to you a couple of days ago I went out there to try and sell him some information He had three of his men beat me up and throw me off the oil field. Yeah What's with that look would you believe me who knows you might be telling me you hate Mars Flaharty to keep me from thinking You're working for him. I think you better get out of this car and let me drive away dollar A lot of trouble. I don't think so You don't think so I Can have you pulled into a kid now that's what you have in mind Then first you'd better get a few witnesses for yourself. Oh, come on. So those are calm down for a minute If you really hate that guy Well, maybe we can make a deal It's against him out there wouldn't how much do you know about Flaharty my book He's Michael lousy way back He's promoted about 50 worlds and none of them ever happened While they hit oil My guess that he's got a hunch it. This is the big one That's why I think his partner disappeared You know what difference would that make even if his partner turned up dead Flaharty would still have to split any profits with young Jefferson's estate Maybe not. I Know they had a queer deal. Well, who'd know about that deal besides Flaharty and Jefferson. I don't know But I do know one way of finding out what it is. How's that? Flaharty keeps all his papers in the safe in his office. I've even got the combination Well, give it to you. You keep it Wilkins I still don't know who you're trying to get even with Flaharty and me So what I'm going to do is give you half a break Then I'll only be taking half a chance. Yeah, and why don't you want the combination to the safe? I don't need it You're gonna open that safe Because you're going out there with me tonight You handle a glass cutter, right? Oh look is what we do I'll wet this suction cup get a grip on the glass. Hey, you cut around the outside edge And I'll lift the paint out in one piece lesson number one straight from the birdless handbook Get your fingers over that flashlight for all I know you might still turn out to be the local poor of the year Yeah, that's right. I might Yeah Thanks, I will go on get to work. All right. All right. I'm as anxious to get this over with this your Give me a little more like okay. I go to it You go to it you reach in and if your hand comes up with anything heavier than papers, I'll cream your skull Will you stop your worrying? All right, you gotta not stay down there. I don't want to walk off with anybody's government funds Yeah, I got all I want and put these back Close it up. All right. Now come on. Let's get out of here just a minute Wilkins I'm gonna have a good look at these paper. You can look at them later. Come on. Let's go look this I'll give you for free. It's the difference between being a four dollar a day private detective and a $10 one What you've got printed in your memory. Nobody can take away from you So hold your horses while I take a look at this partnership agreement. All right. All right, but hurry up. We got a couple of watchmen Yeah, here it is Okay, let's go you first. Okay back to the car make it fast and easy Over here you drive, you know Wilkins and a clammy feeling for a while back there that we weren't going to make it Don't go start in any celebrations. You didn't make it in just a moment We will return to the second act of yours truly Johnny dollar but first Burr and young lady Johnny down to the thing Gary Cooper and young Gary this Wednesday Now we return to yours truly Johnny dollars starring Edmond O'Brien Wearing a gun muzzle for a back collar button My left leg picked up the nervous vibrations of my front seatmate Philip Wilkins Mars Flaherty in the back seat was so close. I could almost identify the Brian of the bourbon. He'd been drinking. I Suppose you got what you went into the office after I not only got it I memorized it and it makes you look bad Yeah, then I don't have to explain to you why I don't want you two guys or the paper running around town on the loose Well, it's a corporate paper. That means it's on file somewhere. So what difference does it make start the car? Well, we go my house go ahead get going. Okay Wilkins you better roll What's at your house the reason that paper makes a difference right now the guy you came here looking for showed up I like Jefferson. Where is he? He's where we're going my place. Well, and I guess maybe my employers have got nothing to worry about Nothing but paying off on his life insurance. I like Jefferson's dad To open the door stand next to his your boy Died young didn't the other thing is it looks like he died in my house. Now, what do I do now? If you're putting on an innocent act, you're doing pretty good Flaherty. How's the rest of it go? I've been around killings before so I know how the rest of it goes Cops take one look at this they grabbed me before that happens I got some work to do so have I been around killings before and I know how the rest of your story goes You came into your house and you found him somebody hit Jefferson over the head with that piece of fire We're to get rid of them and make you look guilty. You're being framed The next chapter read you've got eight witnesses to prove you were at a church social at the probable time of death That's the way. I wish I'd read but I haven't got any witnesses I've been on the loose out in the hills ever since I saw you this morning. Oh, yeah What are you a nature lover an oil man? My racket you never stop sniffing I came back and found them here. I headed it for the office site I wanted that paper you got out of the way for the time being with that gun of yours objective I looked the body over Help yourself. Thank you idea. How long he's been dead, Donald. Oh Hard to tell feels like quite a while Could have happened before I met you Nothing Hey, yeah Party ever see this before What is an earring? Let me see that your hands off. Don't touch it That's another $4 detective move. You don't touch evidence. You draw a mental picture of it What are you trying to do involve yourself or uninvolve a client? How about it? Florida you have any idea who that earring belongs to maybe one of the Danes on that list you gave me, huh? I Wish I could get away with lying to you, but I don't think I'm in a position to try It belongs to Ada. Oh Jefferson's white not legally. What do you mean? I married her in Mexico in 45 She must have liked the scenery She took Jefferson down there and went through a ceremony with him two weeks without divorcing you. That's right You guys really turned out to be partners Now about that earring How do you know it belongs to Ada? Well, it's one of us said I bought for about six months ago I might as well tell you they'd find out anyway Well, I Don't suppose you're in the mood to let me do what I want to do What's that call the police? No, no not yet. Well, I'll tell you one thing With this piece of evidence that just turned up you're wasting your time holding on to us What you should be doing is getting to Ada before she flies the coop that would really fix you up Sure would I don't want to see her get loose anymore than you do Then I guess we better go pay Ada a visit God is one lousy earring and if you think I'm gonna stand here and listen to you try to pin a murder on me You're nuts Mars never bought me anything. He never gave me any earrings How about it clarity? Too bad. Hey there if I thought there was a chance to help you I would but your earring was laying right there on the floor next to his body Well a monster you what are you trying to do to me why if anybody had reason to kill Alec you did your miserable thing now Now wait a minute Ada Don't make yourself look worse by throwing a lot of accusations around. I know about the contract between Alec and Mars in Case of death the survivor gains full control of the oil field But a good piece of evidence will beat out a good piece of motive in any court in the country And you've got both working against you get out of here. You don't know what you're talking about. I think I do Knowing about that agreement you married both these guys Those Mexican marriages are just just weak enough to help you beat a bigamy rap if it came to that and just strong enough to help You collect if either of your husbands died Your next move would be to divorce the one that was still living and take advantage of the California community property laws You've got it all figured out haven't you well not quite I haven't figured out why young Jefferson went all the trouble of dropping out of sight and then showed up to get Himself murdered think I can tell you it was about time you told us something I was working for Alec Jefferson That's why I couldn't tell you tell her I was getting paid to help him stay out of sight and keep my eye on these two The contract had him worried when I ain't covered the bigamy and told him about it He decided to go to Flourney and try and straighten it out man-to-man basis. You know that Ada. No, I don't know anything about anything That's a lie. I was with him this morning when he called you told you was going out there You had plenty of time to get out there and wait. You can't get away with it. You can't prove anything Before I'm gonna gun Flourney. I got her Around you go That's better Well Flourney Don't you think I'd better call the police now. I'm afraid there's nothing else to do okay, then you hold Your hands Get me police operator My name is dollar I'm calling from apartment 3c horizon view apartment sunset strip. I've got a murderer here for you It's out in new hall, but that can wait The dead bodies usually do but you never can tell about a killer Well, that's it. You got a good tight hold on a Flourney. Yeah, I can handle it good then handle this I wanted to keep her on ice till the police get here Mars Flourney is our boy Give me a radar What is it? Wilkins take a look at her ears Why I don't see nothing wrong with them. Well, that's just it That earring we found near the body. It was made for a pierced ear Eight is aren't she never could have worn it Flourney had been a nice enough guy to buy jewelry for his wife when he had her He wouldn't have bought the wrong kind of earring when he wanted to set her up as a patsy The police trace his purchase of same to a main street pawn shop But what really nailed them was the biggest switch of all Since the murder weapon was a shaft of rough bark firewood. There were no fingerprints on it But by the same token there were weapon prints on Flourney's fingers a batch of tiny splinters under the skin And as much as my own girl furnished the practice which made me perfect on this case I assume you will not be annoyed at my listing expense account item three sixty-five dollars one pair gold earrings inscribed To Olga with love Item for a hundred and eighty seven dollars and thirteen cents return transportation Los Angeles to Hartford expense account total Seven hundred and eleven dollars signed yours Truly Johnny dollar yours truly Johnny dollars stars Edmund O'Brien in the title role and is written by Paul Dudley and Gil Dowd With music composed and conducted by Leith Stevens Edmund O'Brien can currently be seen starring in the Harry M. 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