Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

( quietly ): Sit down.
Isn't that unusual?
The cops are gonna tie my prints in with that record.
( sighs )
A lawyer. Perry Mason.
Not when I tell him all about Faith
Why call them criminals without trying to understand
under these conditions?
It's not your kind of play.
Well, what's bad about it?
Why?
to sign contracts and give me a check.
The 75 grand I invested in a play of his.
Royce was killed.
the dream was always work.
There's some money.
TRAGG: The police.
Ernest Royce said he would
Well, it's a long arm of coincidence
According to another column
I did as I was told.
I show you now certain Photostats
he tortured me with this gun...
for the lawyer that handles his case.
Pity.
You shouldn't say things like that, Frank.
"'I know the two faces of them.
You make trouble for me,
That's right.
I'm taking you and my money out of the show.
You! You killed Volponi, and you killed Royce.
This will be a take.
I must admit, that's all I was interested in.
Goodbye. Goodbye.
( doorbell rings )
First time I ever got mixed up in show business.
How many times have you talked to him?
I was just about to leave.
Was Miss Foster aware that you were seeing them like this?
cannot be bound by statements made by others
Often on the phone.
Royce never wrote a decent play.
He insisted that Miss Foster
You're all wrong about the girl.
Why did you give Mr. Royce your check for $75,000
You agree with that, Mr. West?
I had a few drinks, and then I left.
( door closes )
There was only work.
can never be.
that caused the decedent
Why?
be introduced in evidence.
BURGER: What was your reaction to this meeting?
Mr. Dwight is your business manager, is he not?
so I'm closing out everything.
To book me for the murder
Why, Ernest? Why be so arbitrary?
I can't. Get it back!
( clears throat )
They'll play as I've written them."
A run-of-the-play contract?
through to him.
I don't appreciate it. What's happened?
Look, baby,
You didn't like the first two acts, Mr. West?
Yes. One was the voice of Ernest Royce.
Goodbye.
He went into the study to make a telephone call.
Stop it. Because he...
Your check, for that amount,
( mysterious theme playing )
( knocking on door )
Royce was killed by one of the real-life characters
Well, there was the reading late in the afternoon.
One was Royce and the other was Brooks.
But will you?
Love of you.
Oh.
Well...
action.
I said I'm taking my money and my girl out of your show.
What do you want? Thank you, miss.
for 12 years.
honest money?
He's on the set, but he'll be through in a moment.
You're wonderful, Frank.