WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:10.000 The strange Dr. Weird. 00:10.000 --> 00:21.000 Good evening. Come in, won't you? 00:21.000 --> 00:27.000 Why, what's the matter? Not nervous, are you? 00:27.000 --> 00:30.000 I don't want you to be nervous. 00:30.000 --> 00:34.000 Perhaps if I told you a story, it might help to calm you. 00:34.000 --> 00:41.000 I know a very nice story about a man who tried to live another man's life for him. 00:41.000 --> 00:54.000 I call it The Two Faces of Death. 00:54.000 --> 00:59.000 And now for my story, The Two Faces of Death. 00:59.000 --> 01:05.000 In an office high above the city, George Post of the financial firm of Post and Jones 01:05.000 --> 01:11.000 is dictating to his secretary, Nelson Smith, when the telephone rings. 01:11.000 --> 01:13.000 Shall I answer it, Mr. Post? 01:13.000 --> 01:23.000 No, I'll get it, Nelson. Hello, Post speaking. Who? Oh, yes. Yes, I see. 01:23.000 --> 01:30.000 Monday morning, you say? And the tip came from... Yes, yes, I get it. 01:30.000 --> 01:37.000 I'll take the necessary steps. Goodbye. Nelson, where are you going? 01:37.000 --> 01:39.000 I was going to the washroom, Mr. Post. 01:39.000 --> 01:40.000 Come back here. 01:40.000 --> 01:41.000 Yes, sir. 01:41.000 --> 01:43.000 Nelson, that phone call was from a friend of mine. 01:43.000 --> 01:47.000 He says the authorities are going to investigate the firm's books Monday morning. 01:47.000 --> 01:51.000 They got a tip that we're indulging in phony stock deals. And that tip came from you. 01:51.000 --> 01:53.000 No, no, Mr. Post, it wasn't me. 01:53.000 --> 01:54.000 You turned us in, Nelson. 01:54.000 --> 01:57.000 Please, Mr. Post, I don't know what you're talking about. 01:57.000 --> 01:59.000 What are you doing with that paper knife? 01:59.000 --> 02:02.000 I'm just going to teach you a little lesson. 02:02.000 --> 02:07.000 No, no, stay away from me. Stay... 02:07.000 --> 02:13.000 That Nelson is how a stool pigeon always winds up. Dead. 02:13.000 --> 02:17.000 Is there anything wrong, George? I thought I... Good Lord, what have you done? 02:17.000 --> 02:21.000 Listen, Walter, Nelson tipped off the feds that our stock deals have been phonies. 02:21.000 --> 02:22.000 We'd better clear out. 02:22.000 --> 02:24.000 Ida Kiln and Nelson are here to have the cops right after us. 02:24.000 --> 02:25.000 Yes, but, Walter... 02:25.000 --> 02:28.000 Don't worry, I have a plan. We'll hide Nelson's body in the closet. 02:28.000 --> 02:30.000 This is Friday. It won't be found until Monday. 02:30.000 --> 02:31.000 But then what? 02:31.000 --> 02:32.000 All right, you'll see. 02:32.000 --> 02:35.000 Right now, we're going to drive up to my lodge in the mountains. 02:35.000 --> 02:38.000 I have a new lodgekeeper up there named Tony Amato. 02:38.000 --> 02:50.000 And Tony's going to surprise you, Walter. He's going to surprise you very much. 02:50.000 --> 02:55.000 Late that evening, the two partners reached the lonely hunting lodge in the Adirondacks. 02:55.000 --> 03:00.000 And when Walter Jones got his first glimpse of Tony Amato, the lodgekeeper, 03:00.000 --> 03:04.000 he would scarcely conceal his astonishment. 03:04.000 --> 03:07.000 George Post gave Tony orders to prepare dinner. 03:07.000 --> 03:10.000 Just whip up anything you've got, Tony. We're starved. 03:10.000 --> 03:13.000 Yes, Mr. Post. I'll have something ready in half an hour. 03:13.000 --> 03:14.000 Good. We'll wash up meanwhile. 03:14.000 --> 03:16.000 Right, Mr. Post. 03:16.000 --> 03:19.000 Oh, my gosh, George. Is that the surprise? 03:19.000 --> 03:22.000 Why, he looks just like you. He could be your twin brother. 03:22.000 --> 03:25.000 That's the surprise, Walter. You know, fate works in funny ways. 03:25.000 --> 03:29.000 I was driving back from Chicago last winter when I picked up a hitchhiker, Tony. 03:29.000 --> 03:31.000 He was broke and desperate. 03:31.000 --> 03:34.000 He confessed to me the police wanted him for petty larceny. 03:34.000 --> 03:38.000 When I offered him this job as lodgekeeper, he was so grateful he almost cried. 03:38.000 --> 03:39.000 I see. 03:39.000 --> 03:42.000 Both Tony and I recognized that we looked alike. 03:42.000 --> 03:44.000 He thought I was helping him because of that. 03:44.000 --> 03:50.000 Actually, I figured I might need a fall guy sometime soon, and he'd be it. 03:50.000 --> 03:52.000 No, the time is here. 03:52.000 --> 03:54.000 Right. 03:54.000 --> 03:59.000 Suppose the police raid this lodge and find Tony Amato dead wearing my clothes. 03:59.000 --> 04:02.000 Beside him, there's a note confessing everything. 04:02.000 --> 04:04.000 What'll it look like, huh? 04:04.000 --> 04:08.000 Suicide, of course. They'll bury him and stop looking for you. 04:08.000 --> 04:12.000 Exactly. You can go on back to town and claim you didn't know what was going on. 04:12.000 --> 04:15.000 I'll take all the blame and clear you entirely. 04:15.000 --> 04:17.000 Why, that's perfect, George. 04:17.000 --> 04:22.000 But after you've taken care of Tony Amato's identity, what'll you do? 04:22.000 --> 04:24.000 I'll go back to Chicago and give myself up to the police. 04:24.000 --> 04:25.000 What? 04:25.000 --> 04:27.000 Yes. I'll claim amnesia. 04:27.000 --> 04:28.000 Oh. 04:28.000 --> 04:30.000 Say I can't remember what happened. 04:30.000 --> 04:34.000 Just that I committed some kind of crime and I want to clear myself. 04:34.000 --> 04:38.000 If necessary, I'll go to jail for six months for petty larceny. 04:38.000 --> 04:40.000 It'll be the perfect hiding place. 04:40.000 --> 04:42.000 Well, I'll be jiggy. 04:42.000 --> 04:45.000 It's brilliant, George. Positively brilliant. 04:45.000 --> 04:48.000 Yeah. Well, suppose we get ready for dinner. 04:48.000 --> 04:51.000 It's going to be an important dinner for Tony Amato. 04:51.000 --> 04:53.000 His last. 04:53.000 --> 05:03.000 If George spends a few months in jail, we can certainly spend a few seconds on an important detail or two. 05:03.000 --> 05:05.000 Details can be important, you know. 05:05.000 --> 05:08.000 In hats, for example, such details as these. 05:08.000 --> 05:11.000 How wide is the brim? Is the edge evenly stitched? 05:11.000 --> 05:13.000 Is the hat band distinctive? 05:13.000 --> 05:16.000 And does the shade harmonize with the rest of the hat? 05:16.000 --> 05:22.000 If the size label says seven and a quarter, is it exactly seven and a quarter or more like seven and three-eighths? 05:22.000 --> 05:31.000 Gentlemen, these may seem like small details, but add them up and you have the difference between an ordinary hat and one that really looks right on you. 05:31.000 --> 05:34.000 The makers of Adam hats know this well. 05:34.000 --> 05:40.000 They take a special care in the fashioning of every detail in their long line of smart hats. 05:40.000 --> 05:48.000 It's this sort of style testing that assures you of correct hat styling when you buy an Adam. 05:48.000 --> 05:52.000 Now, Dr. Weird. 05:55.000 --> 06:00.000 Now I'll continue my story, The Two Faces of Death. 06:00.000 --> 06:10.000 Dinner at the hunting lodge is over, and George Post has invited Tony Amato, who looks so strangely like him, to sit down and have a drink with them. 06:10.000 --> 06:14.000 Tony is almost pathetically grateful to his employer. 06:14.000 --> 06:18.000 Gee, Mr. Post, I don't know what I'd have done if you hadn't picked me up that day. 06:18.000 --> 06:21.000 I can't tell you what this job means to me. 06:21.000 --> 06:24.000 George is like that, big-hearted. You like it here, Tony? 06:24.000 --> 06:27.000 Oh, it's swell, Mr. Jones, so quiet and peaceful. 06:27.000 --> 06:31.000 You haven't been into the village much, have you, Tony? 06:31.000 --> 06:36.000 Oh, no, Mr. Post, you warned me about that. I haven't been to town once in the whole three months. 06:36.000 --> 06:39.000 Good. Well, let's finish our drinks. Here's to crime. 06:40.000 --> 06:42.000 Gee, that's good. 06:42.000 --> 06:45.000 Well, Mr. Post, if you'll excuse... 06:45.000 --> 06:47.000 I'll clear off. 06:47.000 --> 06:52.000 I feel so funny. What's wrong with me? 06:52.000 --> 06:54.000 You're dying, Tony, that's all. 06:54.000 --> 06:55.000 Dying? 06:55.000 --> 06:57.000 Yes, there's poison in that drink. 06:57.000 --> 07:03.000 You see, Tony, I need your life. You're going to die and become me. I'm going to live and become you. 07:03.000 --> 07:04.000 Simple, isn't it? 07:04.000 --> 07:08.000 You're going to become me? That's a hot one. 07:08.000 --> 07:15.000 Well, I hope you enjoy it. I hope you enjoy being Tony Amato. 07:19.000 --> 07:21.000 Well, he's gone. 07:21.000 --> 07:23.000 Very nicely done, George. 07:23.000 --> 07:26.000 Yes, I think so. In a moment, you'll join him, Walter. 07:26.000 --> 07:28.000 I'll join him. What do you say? 07:28.000 --> 07:30.000 Just that I poison your drink, too. 07:30.000 --> 07:31.000 You poisoned my drink? 07:31.000 --> 07:35.000 Yes, you don't think I could leave you alive to double-cross me for the money we've got hidden away, do you? 07:35.000 --> 07:41.000 I was going to double-cross you, George, but you beat me to it. 07:41.000 --> 07:45.000 You're clever, George. Very clever. 07:45.000 --> 07:48.000 Someday you'll be too clever. 07:48.000 --> 07:50.000 Someday. 07:50.000 --> 08:00.000 Two days later, in the early evening, George Post, dressed in clothes that had belonged to his ex-lodgekeeper, Tony Amato, descended from a bus in Midtown Chicago. 08:00.000 --> 08:05.000 He walked a few blocks, then stopped to buy an evening paper. 08:05.000 --> 08:09.000 Yeah, it should be here. They've had plenty of time to find the bodies. 08:09.000 --> 08:11.000 I'm sure they've got a lot of money. 08:11.000 --> 08:13.000 I'm sure they've got a lot of money. 08:13.000 --> 08:20.000 I'm sure they've got a lot of money. 08:20.000 --> 08:22.000 I asked, yes. Here it is. 08:22.000 --> 08:24.000 Banking firm partners in suicide pact. 08:24.000 --> 08:31.000 Police disclosed today that George Post and Walter Jones, the stock brokerage firm of Post and Jones, took their own lives. 08:31.000 --> 08:40.000 Save for a complete auditing of the books to determine the size of the swindle, authorities have marked the case closed. 08:40.000 --> 08:45.000 Well, that's that. George Post is dead. 08:45.000 --> 08:51.000 Now to carry out the rest of the plan, to give myself up to the police and clear Tony Amato's record. 08:51.000 --> 08:54.000 Oh, here comes a policeman now. He'll do. 08:54.000 --> 08:56.000 Oh, officer. 08:56.000 --> 08:57.000 What is it? 08:57.000 --> 08:59.000 Officer, I want to give myself up. 08:59.000 --> 09:00.000 Give yourself up? 09:00.000 --> 09:03.000 What for would you be giving yourself up? 09:03.000 --> 09:05.000 Tony Amato, is it? 09:05.000 --> 09:08.000 What brings you back to Chicago, Tony? 09:08.000 --> 09:09.000 Oh, you know me? 09:09.000 --> 09:14.000 Sure I know you, Tony. Didn't I see you often enough hanging out in the pool rooms here in me beat? 09:14.000 --> 09:18.000 Oh, then you must know what I did. What I'm wanted for. 09:18.000 --> 09:25.000 Well, you see, I was in an auto accident. I hit my head. I can't remember much except my name and that I was running away from the police. 09:25.000 --> 09:27.000 So it was the police you were running away from? 09:27.000 --> 09:31.000 Yes, I think I stole a little money. I want to clear myself. 09:31.000 --> 09:35.000 So you think you stole a little money? That's a hot one. 09:35.000 --> 09:40.000 Well, maybe you did, but we don't want you Tony. You're free as the wind for our weak hills. 09:40.000 --> 09:43.000 You mean I'm not wanted for anything? 09:43.000 --> 09:45.000 Not as far as we are concerned. 09:45.000 --> 09:48.000 Well, that's fine. I guess my memory... 09:48.000 --> 09:51.000 Hey, Tony, look out! That car! 09:51.000 --> 09:52.000 Ow! 10:04.000 --> 10:06.000 Here he is, Inspector. 10:06.000 --> 10:11.000 Hmm. Yeah, it's Tony all right. So the Scarlet mob got him, did they? 10:11.000 --> 10:14.000 Yeah. I saw the car coming. I ducked just in time. 10:14.000 --> 10:17.000 I wonder what brought Tony back to Chicago. 10:17.000 --> 10:21.000 He must have known Joe Scarlet was after him for holding out on his numbers collection. 10:21.000 --> 10:23.000 I sure can't figure it out, sir. 10:23.000 --> 10:26.000 He was trying to tell me something about losing his memory when they got him. 10:26.000 --> 10:29.000 One of the boys must have seen him on the street and recognized him. 10:29.000 --> 10:31.000 Well, I guess we'll never know. 10:31.000 --> 10:35.000 Wait a minute. His lips are moving. He is trying to speak. What is it, Tony? 10:35.000 --> 10:38.000 I... I... not... 10:38.000 --> 10:46.000 You're going to become me. That's a hot one. You're clever, George. Very clever. 10:46.000 --> 10:51.000 No, I'm not... not Tony. 10:51.000 --> 10:53.000 Can't catch what he's saying, Inspector. 10:53.000 --> 10:56.000 I hope you enjoy being Tony Amaro. 10:56.000 --> 11:02.000 Someday, George, you'll be too clever. Too clever. 11:02.000 --> 11:12.000 He's dead, Inspector. Tony is dead. 11:23.000 --> 11:26.000 Yes, our friend George was clever. 11:26.000 --> 11:34.000 But when you try to live somebody else's life, you can never be sure what you're letting yourself in for, can you? 11:34.000 --> 11:38.000 That's why it's always best just to be yourself. 11:38.000 --> 11:47.000 So if you ever meet somebody who looks exactly like you, don't let yourself be tempted to try what George did. 11:47.000 --> 11:53.000 I knew a man once who thought he could... Oh, you have to go now. 11:53.000 --> 11:56.000 Perhaps you'll drop in again soon. 11:56.000 --> 12:24.000 Just look for the house on the other side of the cemetery, the house of Dr. Weird.