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  • FOR THEM THAT TRESPASS

  • Subtitles by Seglora

  • Oh,look.They printed it.

  • What,dear?

  • My poem.In the Morning Post

  • It looks like much better than in Christie's writing.Doesn't it?

  • This is a solemn moment,Mrs Drew. The golden moment in a writer's life

  • The moment when he sees his name in print for the first time

  • His foot in on the lowest ground

  • The ladder stretches up above him,up and up to untold heights

  • Well,Christie,can you scale it,you think?

  • I heard that,decent try,Sir

  • I can write,I know I can, Cochrane said I could

  • Charles Cochrane?

  • I send him my play to read.He asked me to go to see him at the theatre

  • Is he going to do it?

  • No

  • He said that one day he might be very glad to do a play of mine

  • but at the moment I haven't discovered pain and power

  • passion

  • Life hadn't hit me with its full glory and sordidness

  • in short my play had not got harsh

  • I am utterly convinced and so is your mother

  • that great things will come to you in time

  • I am equally convinced that what you need at present is a bread and butter job

  • There never was an author born into this world who didn't had to eat

  • As your lead father's dearest friend I should like to put a proposition to you

  • May I visit you?

  • Yes,Vicar,please

  • I need a secretary,if you think you care to fill the post

  • I promise I would wink of any lyric poetry mistakenly inserted in my sermon notes

  • Thank You ,Sir

  • That's wonderful.I always dreaded working in the bank

  • The vicar's secretary,they have splendid,

  • and if you find that you are not clever enough to be a writer

  • you could always be a clergyman

  • Hello,Christie,how is the play?

  • I'm stuck

  • Rotten luck

  • What's wrong? Is the vicar smothering your muse?

  • No,not Pevency,vicar.Not his fault.Mine

  • I need experience,experience of life

  • It's bad for writers to be sheltered,Robert

  • Look at Swinburne,Villon,Kit Marlowe

  • roaring and singing around the taverns of cheap-side,living,seeing and writing

  • He had heart,all right

  • Say,you're ambitious

  • Shut up,I'm talking French, you wouldn't understand

  • A farmer would,its filth that fertilize then rejuvenates the earth

  • Lenten,Sir

  • It isn't pretty is it Bob?

  • It's beauty there, if you can see it

  • Do you ever read Kit Marlowe?

  • No

  • Would he,and Shakespeare for that matter,

  • had become the greatest poets and dramatists the world have ever known

  • if they hadn't seen life

  • I don't believe they would

  • Life doesn't come to you,you have to go out and look for it

  • A beer please

  • Bitter or ale,Dear

  • Bitter,please

  • That'll be four pence,Dear

  • Oh,very sorry,my love you aren't sure

  • Condessa

  • Stop it Herbie

  • You make him stop his legs

  • Herb,you can't take any liberty with Frankie now, you know

  • And when you was doing time she got herself mixed up with something posh

  • Jim,you,since when is a real woman,being posh

  • "How much,Mark.In a hurry, Bee,still there is plenty in the till"

  • "Because the Copsy spent the brass from his last job,now are getting mad"

  • His glory they just want the dog

  • And dug it up,when he come out, just like another dog

  • Oh,it's not worth it

  • I wouldn't know

  • Cops would always come out on top

  • Just says you,meet me here in three weeks time,and say that again

  • Hello,another job?

  • Give it a rest,makes you being here for half an hour

  • Where is it this time?

  • -Bank of England? -Glasgow

  • -And if we get the stuff.. -You get 5 years

  • Ah,mark it,it's essential,it can't go wrong

  • Who is in?

  • You know it is,his name is Jocko,he is a Scot,he is coming here tonight

  • Don't ask everyone to do a job

  • And picked his pals,we,I am hand picked,see

  • Oh,you'd liked it to be

  • Boy,will you would need it

  • Go out and play,I want to talk to Herbie

  • All right.,I was going anyway,it's my round

  • Don't do it,it's barmy

  • when every cop in England, saw a picture in Exeter Star

  • So what? If I get another stretch. What's that to you?

  • I would be in for 6 months,I come out Yeah,Frankie are you stuck on Jim?

  • He is stuck on me,more around, he wants to marry me

  • What's wrong with stuck on him too

  • Scared me Ida,as she was dead scared of Jim

  • I'm scared of him myself

  • That's why I've got to lay off with you

  • That waxes me

  • That fat over there,the one with the moon face and double chin

  • Ask her if she is stuck on Jim

  • I'll take her to the hospital

  • Yes.Chuck Jim.You got me back now

  • For how long? You go straight and I'll come back to you

  • You will have me in the Salvation Army,next.Oh,Frankie,it is not so easy

  • I've done it

  • That's rich,steady, you straight? Ha,ha,ha

  • Go on laugh.If I weren't Molly, and Monique,I may not be so good,I am on it

  • All right,all right

  • I'm not ashamed of anything I've done, sorry for nothing,Frankie,that's me

  • I'm sorry for nothing,Herb,that's me

  • It's Jocko.I must hop it

  • Steady,Herbie

  • So long

  • Lend us a dollar to next month

  • Now Chris,sorry Jocko just a friend

  • All right.We'll go somewhere where you haven't any friends.Come on

  • Don't see where you are going?

  • Sorry

  • Come on.It is still there.And it isn't milk

  • May I get you another?

  • The Dame would be charmed I'm sure

  • You keep your mouth out of it, or it will be mopped,sweetie

  • You great stark lump of nothing

  • Say

  • And,who asked you to interrupt two ladies conversation

  • Making troubles between friends

  • Getting familiar right?

  • You wait until Gilliard about this

  • Frankie,she is not worth it

  • You get out of it and don't interfere

  • You are part wet pigeon

  • You laughing great filth

  • You harassed me..

  • Be naughty now,has your mouth out

  • Now Frankie,turning ginger

  • Look at those

  • Here to my love,Frankie

  • You yellow headed something

  • Ay,ay,thought that,queens very rude

  • Stretch on

  • Get me free,great boy,I am a lady. This is a free country

  • Just let me get her,just let me get her

  • No,no.Please

  • Haven't you done enough of getting drinks and all

  • I did apologize,you know

  • That's right

  • You are welcome to buy another one,wasn't you?

  • -I was yes -Give me that to me

  • No,please don't bother

  • OK.How about that drink?

  • I got it.Drinks is clearly indicated

  • Clearly indicated? You do talk funny

  • What's your name?

  • Kit

  • -Kit -Kit what?

  • -Kit Marlowe -Kit Marlowe

  • That's nice.My thing

  • Thank you

  • Here is the Oakley Arms

  • -Come on -No.Let's go to somewhere quiet

  • The same to me

  • I live over there

  • 120 Croyber Square

  • Lovely isn't it? Do you live somewhere posh as well?

  • I live in Serram Hill

  • No wonder you talk nice

  • Gentleman of leisure,right?

  • No.I am a Vicar...I write

  • What do you do?

  • I work at the Station Buffet

  • You're happy?

  • All I can grumble.

  • Anyone on in service taking out the morning tea

  • to some old trout who lays in bed all day

  • When I take out morning tea I take it to myself

  • Some not,sorry,Kit.Sorry over nothing Frankie.That's me

  • Don't worry.My landlady puts herself to sleep at nights with gin

  • Well,sit down.Seats are free

  • Don't be shy

  • You've been much with girls like me,have you?

  • I'm easy,see?

  • Just what I look like.Not like those inscrutable you writers write about

  • You make a living writing?

  • No.Not yet.I am going to.I've had a poem published

  • Go on.Read it to me

  • -You want to hear it -Yes,I'd like to

  • It's called Sunset

  • So bowed old Ben with heavy feet and slow towards..

  • Carry on

  • towards the splendor of the setting sun

  • your poor unworldly piece of day work done there by the shadows of verode you go

  • wind is quiet and the evening still and the roads so leveled

  • that the younger feet sound brisk and lively on the hard paved street

  • Yet you walked as though you climbed a hill

  • Go on

  • It's all

  • Sympathize

  • You'd like to keep it?

  • Yes.I'll put it somewhere safe

  • Fancy you writing all them funny things

  • I'll keep my treasures behind the grate and I won't forget where I put them

  • You'll go far.I can see that

  • I'll take it up and read it when I am old and you're famous

  • I can't see you old

  • That's nice of you

  • Jim says that too.In that certain way you do

  • Jim?

  • My man.He is a fireman

  • He's the chap that chokes the fire,not the kind that puts them out

  • He is on the Mersey Land Express, 6 10 from Euston

  • Does he know..

  • That I ask my friends in for a drink,of course he don't

  • Jim knew you was here he do me good and proper

  • Don't buy much to make him better though,

  • He is a kind of likes it,for some that do

  • Hello.Cheer me

  • Jim is jealous,he has to have his own sweet way

  • There is no one worth a row of fins to Jim but him

  • The verve that goes them railway engines

  • couldn't they can go without the help of Mr Fireman,Jim,

  • He is the one that pulls the train, the engine only helps him

  • Come on,son, enjoy give over dreaming of the girl you left behind you

  • Stuff her up and she will go to the boil

  • Why not taking your friend back for a change

  • Hello Sam

  • Give up and walk out of that railwayman

  • And take someone up with a criminal fate

  • Men always say.Why not that with you. Nothing is too good for me

  • I guess that someone else has said

  • And so do I

  • And who are you?The King of Spain?

  • Good Night Your Majesty.Thank you.

  • You are not good to any girl who expects respectability to be around with you

  • Fancy a little bad seed just like your Lordship said you was

  • Say that again

  • Don't worry,you will hear it said again next for Friday

  • You shut your mouth or I'll do it for you

  • See that he is threatening,assault and battery,he is going to murder me,he is

  • Oh,I'm frightened.I am going home to mum

  • Now what you done,murder me

  • You drive a man to murder

  • -Hear,what's this about? -He is jealous

  • She doesn't belong to him

  • Ah,stow it you all!

  • You there,cool down,old mate!

  • They are silly those gentlemen

  • It's pity they don't teach manner in this class..

  • She is saucy to put that frankly

  • Shut up about the Frankie

  • Whose that?

  • It's me

  • I just come to say that I am sorry

  • You have no cause to talk to me like that

  • Look at what you have done to my skirt

  • I lost my temper, Frankie

  • Never see you these days

  • and now the night I'm leaving you are leading this path again

  • Yes.Let's forget about him. Let be lovers as we used to be,hey!

  • All right.Who is he anyway?

  • He comes from Serram Hill

  • And Herb,he treats me like a lady

  • Hold my arms in the street, walks on the outside

  • So he will grow out of that

  • How old is he?

  • About twenty he is clever then about thirty

  • I shall get him pushed

  • And Herb,he calls me White Swan

  • Is he goofy?

  • His white swan

  • Love a duckie must be daft

  • What's his name?

  • Oh,come on

  • -It's Kit -Kit what?

  • Kit Marlowe

  • Satisfied?

  • There's an amount of tea who belongs Brago OK

  • I know

  • Hey,Frankie,just in case keep this up warm for us

  • I'll put it behind the grate

  • That's just over a couple of hundred quid

  • I harp it

  • That's the matter with Jocko who done it

  • I've a secret hiding place

  • Sure.I leave my assignment

  • Herb

  • Don't do nothing silly

  • I don't you to worry as soft as butter and as fat

  • I'll come back rich,maybe rich enough to have a go at going straight

  • Come on Frankie.Give us a kiss

  • Well,so long

  • -Wish me luck -Good Luck Herbie

  • Frankie!

  • I've got some beer on my dress,service fault

  • That's was him just now,come to apologize

  • What's beaten you? You got a poem on your mind?

  • You know you are strange

  • Somehow there is two of you,one that say,Frankie you are wrong

  • another one say, Frankie, I like rotten girls

  • Not rotten.Rotten is mean, vicious,greedy

  • and above that you are gay and generous,lovely

  • That's nice

  • It just departed in some guys here we catch in Liverpool

  • And crawling into the pubs in Scotland Row

  • Sorry said Leaky,I am not going all around this evening

  • evening is no work in my days bill when the stuff is waiting out for you

  • Keep smiling

  • Off we go

  • You'll get your London train in time to see you smoking out with the girl

  • Come on,hurry up Sunshine

  • Or you never catch that lodger of yours

  • Signing it off at 11 20

  • Well we didn't make it in time for the Old Swan,still you are too young

  • for public eyes,wait to get to my age

  • then perhaps you could say be inside "de lemonade"

  • So long,sunny Jim

  • Quiet now the train has stopped

  • Isn't it

  • Sometimes I wish it wasn't

  • Makes me frightened

  • Frankie

  • Let me in

  • I'm coming just a second

  • Come on open that door or I batter it in

  • That way

  • -Will you be all right? -Quick

  • You've been with Herb

  • No,Jim,I haven't

  • I heard the windows

  • What's that?

  • Going sun bathing?

  • I was just getting into bed

  • Being seeing double too,hey!

  • Oh,no,I wished

  • No,we'll see

  • You're a liar!

  • Coming here and I'm still in Liverpool

  • I told you to lay off with Herbie, I come right back here and catch him

  • Now I'm going to make sure you too lay off with Herbie

  • Coming

  • -Who is it? -Jim

  • I've come to stay for keeps

  • What are you staring at?

  • What's the matter with you?

  • Nothing

  • Give me a drink,I'm dumb

  • Yes,Jim

  • I saw Frankie in the pub tonight

  • With Herb.They had quite a tryst

  • I haven't seen Frankie,I'm straight here

  • I left the railway depot and straight to you

  • Christie,dear,you were late in last night

  • Not so very late ,mother

  • Here is the check for my poems for the Morning Post

  • I hope you're going to save it,dear

  • No you have it mother. Please I like you to.My first

  • How sweet of you

  • And lots more,wait until I have done the play

  • You will never finish a new one with this rate

  • It isn't the new one, it is the earlier steps

  • I'm rewriting it

  • Thank you,Mother

  • Sorry for nothing,Frankie,that's me

  • I've never done it.I must shrug off

  • Kit Marlowe has done it

  • The couple was meeting after I left

  • Can or Can? I can't find that you didn't it yet

  • But I'm not a police . Your records not so good

  • But I have an alibi,I've been with you

  • I can't again,then,I know the police

  • Think my records not so good either

  • I'm thinking when you say that you came up to Glasgow

  • the very night the lassie was murdered, and you say you came to do a job with me

  • I'm thinking the police maybe will they understand

  • The one I'm thinking of anyway, we cannot do this job now

  • Jocko.If I had done her in I would take all my brass now,wouldn't I?

  • Can and Can.I am no policeman, I keep telling you

  • The police would say

  • that you have done it for the money, than lost your nerve and left without it

  • The police

  • They got a daft and crazy way of thinking, laddie

  • I tell them just what happened

  • They won't believe you

  • They don't trust our fellowmen.

  • I doubt them have a pretty accurate description of your clothing

  • Maybe I can fix you up and a with a mustache maybe

  • Thanks

  • I'll go back to London

  • and lay of some of the clothes in the river where the cops will never see them

  • London is big enough to hide me in,Jocko

  • The world is not so small you know

  • I know London.London is big

  • London is big,best you go to Hampton park

  • Latest about the murder

  • Excuse me Miss

  • This shop is shut

  • Heartless.Have a heart

  • I'm sorry I'm not working overtime.I got to be home

  • You're the lucky one,Miss, I've not got a home

  • Pardon me,could you fix me up?

  • It'll cost you a tenner if I do

  • That won't break my heart

  • Not particular?

  • No.Not foresee.I can't afford to be

  • Try

  • Jackson 17 Ship Lane

  • Thanks Miss.Here's your tenner

  • Give it to me tomorrow.

  • If you are suited

  • Thank you, Miss

  • Good Night

  • Good Evening Miss

  • I am sorry but..

  • Sharp shot.Your tenner,Miss.Thank you

  • So you got fixed up all right?

  • Sure I told you I wasn't fussy

  • -Fag? -I don't smoke

  • Are you doing anything tonight?

  • Got my tea at home

  • Tell me,Miss,what's your name

  • It's Rosie

  • Rosie?

  • Why not me when you had your tea?

  • What you're shy?

  • Maybe I got another fellow meeting me

  • I'll chuck him up

  • Didn't say I had

  • We would have a drink or two

  • I don't drink,thank you

  • What about a little walk?

  • -I don't.. -I don't walk,thank you

  • Walk? Where to?

  • That's up to you.I'm not particular

  • "Read about the murder,read all about it"

  • You haven't told me what your name is yet

  • Jack

  • "and forgive us our trespasses,as we forgive them their trespass against us"

  • "and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil,Amen"

  • How is your boy friend Rosie?

  • Fine

  • Tell us about him

  • Ask no questions,Dave,and you hear no lies

  • What's the matter?

  • Why don't you let us meet him?

  • Aren't we good enough for your Mr Jack?

  • Come on Dave I'm hungry

  • All right,Nicola,I fill you full of eclairs

  • -Coming Rosie? -No,I'm meeting Jack

  • Why not bring his high mighty ship along

  • We don't like eclairs

  • "Reward for the capture of Herbert Logan" read all about it

  • I thought you were never coming

  • I'm sorry

  • I was kept late at the shop

  • Mrs Jackson came in and told me that you have moved

  • I had to get a place nearer my work

  • You are not in trouble are you?

  • I got something I must tell you

  • Can you take it?

  • All depends,Jack

  • It won't make any difference for us,would it?

  • Of course it won't

  • First of all my name is not Jack

  • It's Herb

  • That don't make you,Jack..Herb

  • Look

  • Don't you read the papers?

  • Not much.Except the picture ones

  • Did you never hear about a murder?

  • Down in Croyber Square

  • Yes.Dave and Grace talk about it quite a bit

  • Good riddance to her Dave said

  • She wasn't all that bad

  • You knew her?

  • Yes,and they got me lined up for that job

  • You didn't do it Herb

  • I never did.I swear I never did.A fellow called Kit Marlove had done it

  • Please believe that.Please

  • What's the use of telling me you didn't it

  • don't you realize every minute you hide away make it so much worse

  • Well if I give myself up what happens?

  • Can't you see?

  • They got a victim, as long as someone swings,who cares

  • If they'll do,it won't be me

  • I'll stay out

  • I got to find this Marlowe, he's the one,I got to find him

  • Herb,I'm so afraid for you

  • I told you,just between the two of us, because I couldn't keep it to myself

  • If that come all to it,nor could I

  • All right Grace saved you from a power of trouble

  • That's right Dave ,consulted where I could

  • You never should have done

  • Now listen, I've been looking up the law,see

  • "even if you given no assistance to a person who has committed a felony

  • anyone who knows of his guilt

  • commits an offence if they don't communicate the information"

  • He swears he didn't do it

  • And did you ever seen the man who didn't swear he didn't do it?

  • (Grace) That's right

  • You know what you are doing,Rosie,don't you?

  • Keeping information from the police,accessory they call it

  • And in the case of murder you could get penal servitude for life

  • It isn't true

  • Oh,yes it is true all right

  • I've got it all here in black and white

  • Thanks Nicholas Come scar..a trich(intent italian)

  • Thanks,grazie,grazie

  • Grazie.That's italian for thank you

  • -Now look Rosie -Now listen

  • That fellow never should have told you

  • As he has you got to go to the police

  • But do you really would think he would have told me if he had done it?

  • I couldn't tell the police not now that they have passed this reward

  • Hundred quid,I haven't got it,doesn't do

  • to look a gift horse in the mouth they say

  • But he trusts me

  • Dave

  • Beside

  • Been so sweet to me

  • I wouldn't call it sweet to put you in a spot like this I call it downright criminal

  • Besides he might do it again

  • Or you know he's working to have a go at you

  • Or anyone

  • You owe it to society,that's what I say

  • Y-o-u o-w-e i-t t-o s-o-c-i-e-t-ty

  • Gracie,what am I to do

  • You leave it to me

  • When are you meeting him again?

  • Afternoon

  • What time?

  • At two

  • Where Rosie?

  • Where?

  • In a church yard,Newington

  • That's fine

  • Hello

  • Don't you look a treat

  • Hello

  • I tell you something

  • I think I'm getting sweet on you

  • Rosie,give us a kiss

  • No,Herb,not here there is people everywhere

  • They are not going to kiss you,only me

  • What's that?

  • Why so ladylike?

  • Let us sit down Herb

  • -I'm tired -What.Tired already?

  • Crikey.We haven't even started yet

  • Have you ever seen Crystal Palace?

  • Yes

  • Would you like to have another squiz of it? Come on

  • Let's go on the top of a bus and catch the sun

  • I love the sunshine. Makes me wonder how wrong

  • all the songs I ever heard till I bussed myself

  • "Oh all Rosies in London is a wonderful sight"

  • Don't worry.The police have forgotten all about me

  • Yes.Yes they have.Let's go. Let's go now quickly

  • You're Herbert Logan? I have a warrant

  • Come and get who has done it?

  • Honestly I know his name

  • That's fine

  • You are going to be a little gentleman and come along with us?

  • Please.I'll come

  • Let me say good-bye to her?

  • She's been really nice to me

  • All right

  • But get it move on,there is a car waiting

  • Well Rosie

  • Look so the outing is off after all

  • Here

  • Why don't do the Crystal Palace trip on me?

  • -No,Herbie,wouldn't be -All right

  • We'll do it when I have cleared myself,it won't take long

  • Say this day next week, same time same place

  • -All right? -Yes,Herb

  • Well,good-bye for now

  • Nice working it,thanks

  • Herb,I..

  • All right,come along Logan

  • Anything that matters?

  • -No.Thank You Officer -Good night ,Sir

  • And now Mr Heal,can you tell us of any other men

  • than the prisoner whom you knew to be acquaintances of Frances Ketchen?

  • No,Sir

  • Did you ever hear the deceased speak

  • of her alleged midnight visitor,Kit Marlowe?

  • No,Sir,never.

  • Never.Thank you

  • After you have signed off at the railway depot

  • why didn't you turn your steps towards the house in Craven Square?

  • Because,Sir, I thought her bloke would be there

  • And why did you think that?

  • Well,Sir,I knew he had a round with her when my back was turned

  • Thank you,Mr Heal

  • No questions,My Lord

  • Call for John Craigie Glenn

  • I swear by Almighty God,that the evidence I shall give

  • shall be the truth,the whole truth and nothing but the truth

  • Your name is John Craigie Glenn?

  • That's right

  • Or Jocko to your friends?

  • I,you can call me that rather,I never mind

  • Very friendly of you,thank you

  • And now,Mr Glenn,

  • will you tell the court if Herbert Logan came to Glasgow on the night in question?

  • I,he did

  • And will you tell us why?

  • He came to do a job with me

  • A burglary to put it bluntly

  • Put it to the hear what you like i,Sir, I don't mind

  • And you came forward as a witness,

  • even though you are a burglar, self confessed?

  • Will you tell us why?

  • Because I am not a man to save my skin by letting a laddie swing for somebody else

  • Just because you english policemen don't do that job

  • I find the witness's comment on the police superfluous

  • I believe in that

  • Now,Mr Glenn,is Logan not a friend of yours?

  • Ay,he's a decent one

  • And every word he said in here has been Gospel truth

  • May one ask precisely who it is that you know what he has been saying here?

  • I,you mean?

  • Then what is the answer Mr Glenn?

  • Perhaps I can provide the answer for you,

  • the answer is that you both agreed upon the story you would tell in court

  • Ay,that's right.Unless emergency we would both agree to tell the truth

  • One final question ,Mr Glenn,am I not right in thinking

  • that at least on one occasion,if not more,

  • you have been convicted in the past of perjury?

  • Maybe I have,but not this time

  • Regrettably I cannot share your confidence

  • I tell you the the truth and nothing but the truth,so help me God

  • Thank you

  • Have you been in at it? We had a pint together many times

  • but as I tell his blooming Lordship,

  • if ever I see a man look murderer, that was Herb that night

  • Oh,Frankie you would have laughed to see her name in headlines,hey

  • I'll tell you something, Herb is for the drop

  • When that lawyer fellow get started on him he has not got a bin out

  • He is in a rot,sorry I'm telling you

  • Now,Logan,you admit

  • that when you told the police that you never visited the house that night

  • you lied.I put it to you that your statement that you went to Glasgow

  • to commit a burglary is false as well

  • No,Sir,it isn't

  • I put it to you that you murdered Frances Ketchen,that you panicked

  • that then by chance found your way on to a Glasgow train

  • No,Sir,I never killed her

  • You admit that you quarreled with her in the Public House that night?

  • Yes,Sir

  • Then presumably you went around

  • to found Ketchen's house and said "I am very sorry I was rude"

  • Yes,Sir,I did just that

  • Remarkably magnanimously of you wasn't it?

  • And then,no doubt, this non existent midnight visitor

  • this figment of your feeble mind,Kit Marlowe,

  • daft as he,draft in and murdered her

  • Yes,Sir

  • Kit Marlowe,Logan,was a poet of considerable genius,

  • who flourished in the days of Queen Elizabeth

  • and although,no doubt, his moral was in tune with those licentious time

  • one hardly thinks it likely his spirit would return to earth

  • to visit Frances Ketchen in a tenement in Lenten town

  • And yet without one single solemn shred of evidence,

  • that is what you are asking the jury to believe

  • That Frances Ketchen died from strangulation

  • at the hands of someone who doesn't exist

  • But he does exist,I swear, he does exist,Kit Marlowe does exist

  • Take him back

  • Mr Hall?

  • Yes,Sir Huntley

  • My Lord,members of the jury,

  • It is not for us to consider the possibility or even the probability

  • that Herbert Logan murdered Frances Ketchen

  • Our sole consideration must be whether on the evidence

  • the charge that Herbert Logan murdered Frances Ketchen has been proved

  • In my submission it has not

  • Herbert Edward Logan

  • Members of the jury,are you agreed upon your verdict?

  • We are

  • Do you find the prisoner Herbert Edward Logan

  • guilty or not guilty of the willful murder of Frances Ketchen?

  • Guilty

  • And that is the verdict of you all?

  • Yes

  • Prisoner at the bar you stand convicted of the crime of wilful murder

  • Have you anything to say

  • why the court should not give you judgment according to law?

  • No,I've never done it,I've never done it, on my oath I've never done it

  • No

  • Oh yeah,oh yeah,oh yeah

  • My Lord,the King's justices do strictly charging about all persons

  • to keep silence,while sentence of death is passing on the prisoner at the bar

  • upon paying of imprisonment, God Save the King

  • Herbert Edward Logan the jury of your countrymen have found you guilty of murder

  • The sentence of the Court is that you'll be taken from this place

  • to a lawful prison and thence to a place of execution

  • and that you 'll be there hanged by the neck until you be dead

  • And that your body be afterward buried

  • within the precinct of the prison in which you were last confined

  • before your execution

  • And may the Lord have mercy upon your soul

  • Amen

  • I should have seen that one

  • That makes us quit,say

  • Have you got anything to read?

  • Yes Sir,I can't see it taking it in though,Sir

  • I gather that you have not been sleeping too well

  • No Sir.That church clock keeps me awake

  • That girl of yours has called again. Do you still refuse to see her?

  • -Yes -I see

  • I'll tell her not to come here anymore

  • Did she send those?

  • Don't you like them?

  • Not if she

  • All right I'll see her then

  • God lad

  • Herbert

  • Is it lonely?

  • No.I've got company

  • Don't hate me Herb?

  • I don't hate you,that what makes it worse

  • But why did you do it Rosie?

  • Why?

  • Those people said,got scared

  • I know you didn't do it,I knew in the afternoon in that church yard

  • It was

  • Yes,I say it was.Still you got your hundred quid

  • I haven't touched it

  • I gave it all to your petition

  • You should have a kept a quid or two back for the reed

  • Herbert,don't.I knew it is all my fault

  • I love you

  • Cut it out.I can't stand it if you

  • Hear,take her out,take her away

  • Take her away

  • Whatever happen to us,I'll always love you

  • And although I did not kill Frances Ketchen

  • I was in her room which I described above

  • after Herbert Logan left that night to catch the Glasgow train

  • It's signed Kit Marlowe

  • Well I'm there?

  • It isn't evidence.The Home Secretary can't act on that

  • I'm afraid you're right

  • Because you've always be convinced that Logan didn't do it haven't you?

  • Yes,always

  • Still you had a too good a case

  • Why can't the fellow come forward?

  • They'll never do

  • Probably someone with a place in life to loose

  • How is that petition doing?

  • Fine

  • Well,that and this between them might carry some weight

  • Maybe

  • I never slept a wink last night

  • and when I did,I dreamt of Herb

  • I am awfully grub at all

  • Pity you're not off the beer

  • You turn it in,I only told the judge what I have seen

  • You ain't the only one that see things

  • I seen her one night before she was copped it,with a fellow

  • I mean it weren't Herbert Logan either

  • But you never told the police

  • I don't like publicity

  • Then we have to see a fellow swinging for a job he had never done

  • If I told the police it wouldn't help him then?

  • Might now with this

  • What's that then?

  • A petition,that's what,here,you sign, right here,Alistair Sams

  • -It's all right to put my mark? -Yeah

  • Come on boys,I want you to sign this petition for Herbie Logan

  • Come on over here

  • Logan,I've just received this communication from the Home Office

  • I read it to you

  • The Home Secretary has advised His Majesty

  • to commute to penal servitude for life

  • a sentence of death passed on Herbert Edward Logan

  • Hello Rosie

  • What's you going do do with the money,duck?

  • She's going to take me to Monte Carlo

  • Aren't you?

  • What's the matter Rosie?

  • You've been backing the horses and done it all

  • Logan's case saved,read all about it

  • Logan!

  • You can't keep me here,I'm innocent

  • Come on Logan,you only think you haven't done it

  • I've never done it,I'm innocent

  • Look here Herbert Logan,I won't punish you this time,if you don't behave yourself

  • I've never done it.I'm innocent

  • Will you be sensible

  • Sir,I'm innocent

  • It maybe so,or may not

  • In any case it is no concern of mine

  • My job is to find out to you that

  • even while you have done your fifteen years and your case comes up for review

  • you won't get out of here unless your conduct sheet is pretty clear

  • Right Sir

  • Prisoner,right turn

  • Straight back

  • This fellow Drew is worth watching, he writes poetry and prose

  • I'm going to the British public that it is a first class play

  • And then he is bound to be a flop

  • Hello Rosie.How are you keeping?

  • Fine

  • Did you get my letters?

  • Yes,Herb

  • It's no good,I'll never give you up

  • I do think it what is best for you

  • I love you.I know what is best for me. I do not want anything else

  • Now Chris,such a wonderful sense of breeze

  • What's the matter darling?

  • Mary,I want to marry you but

  • Well,but what?

  • I don't deserve such heavens

  • Perhaps you did

  • But I do

  • I always dreamed about a white house

  • What a marvelous green

  • You can see the whole of London

  • Let's call it High Grove

  • High Grove?

  • You really like it Mary?

  • Oh,I think it is wonderful

  • Logan,now it is up to you

  • You got any plans?

  • Yes,Sir.I'm going to prove that I'm innocent

  • You're a funny chap

  • you've been in here for fifteen years and never lost your faith

  • Good bye

  • And Good Luck

  • -Herb -Hello

  • I'd never think it was today

  • Just look at me

  • That's all I want to do

  • Rosie

  • Come on,Rosie,give us a kiss

  • Fifteen years

  • I've got my dinner on

  • I'll get you something too

  • Don't you like it?

  • I like it all right,

  • but my tummy make it sore taking all my prison meals in one

  • Ease it up,take your tummy by surprise

  • Herb,will you get a job,all right?

  • That is not so easy,prisoners don't take the mark inside,it's afterward

  • I've saved a bit but only pay me back when we get married

  • What? You wouldn't want to marry me?

  • Why not?

  • How would you like it?

  • There goes Rosie Logan,her old man is just out of prison for murder

  • It's not for what people say, what I know myself

  • Grand.That's what you are Rosie

  • Sorry.Logan,we've nothing for you,come again next week

  • I've heard that for a year and more.Look guv.

  • Since I come out I've only had one job and that didn't last

  • Until they got to know about me

  • I've wife and kiddie,they sacked her when the boss found out about me

  • You've got to give me something

  • Mr Logan,we are doing all we can,

  • but we've no power to make employers give you work

  • That's good.That's very good.

  • Your face is character,my friend, I'll paint you, come tomorrow

  • No,I'll paint you when the rusted leaves of autumn fall,come back 6 months from now

  • Excuse me,guv.But do you live here?

  • If any artist could be said to live,I do.Why?

  • Do you like the house?

  • I wouldn't say I liked it but I know it

  • Everybody does.For many years ago

  • a girl was foully done to devil by old Moor,that's why I live here,brother

  • There is nothing like a murder on the premises for keeping down the rent

  • Forgive me

  • I must return to work,remember when the first leaves fall,

  • you and I will give the world a masterpiece

  • Meantime I have a railway poster to complete,Good Bye,a railway poster

  • Herb,you must be soaked

  • Take off your coat and come up to the fire

  • Any luck?

  • How is the kid?

  • What's up with you,you've been crying

  • Is he worse?

  • They said this place should have been pulled down years ago

  • If we want Jack to get better, we must take him out of here

  • We must both

  • Rosie,believe me,that money is still there,maybe

  • No what money?

  • The money I gave Frankie the night Marlowe done her in

  • It was hidden in the room in Croyber Square

  • But it was more than 10 years ago

  • No one has lived there since except the crazy painter bloke

  • He wouldn't see a pot of gold if it was left out of the hole

  • How would you get it?

  • Can't ask it for it,can I?

  • No,don't do it please

  • If you get caught they will send you back to prison

  • The what will become of Jack

  • It's him I am thinking of

  • He has to grow up strong and healthy in a decent home

  • The money is still there,it's only for one to pick it up

  • I'm just collecting my pay back after fifteen years breaking stones

  • Aren't you going to wish me luck?

  • Good Luck,Herb

  • Herb

  • Herb

  • Come back

  • Come back

  • Herb

  • Who is that?

  • Rosie?

  • Good Evening,Logan.I'm detective inspector Benstead.Remember me?

  • Yeah.That was you who picked me up

  • What do you want?

  • I've been checking out on you at the labour exchange

  • I had a talk with the barrister there,he'll give you a job,

  • go and see him tomorrow morning

  • It's true,I wouldn't believe it..

  • From a copper wouldn't you?

  • I've got a wife and kiddie, the same as you,Logan

  • Good Night

  • -Thanks.Good Night -Good Night

  • Good Night

  • When I saw him at the door I nearly died

  • Yes,so did I

  • Open it

  • Wonderful,Herb

  • Tomorrow we take a look round for our claim

  • What's that?

  • Looks like a bit of verse

  • "So bowed old dame" ah doesn't mean anything

  • "So bowed old dame,heavy beaten slow, towards the splendor of the setting sun"

  • "Poor unworthy piece of day work done,by the shadows of the road"

  • Fill Jack's bottle will you, milk is hot enough now

  • "Always be in the at if you can I'd say"

  • "And then there was the real set too"

  • "His story is shaking me and..

  • we just going to lam out at me when I run out of the house"

  • "For good male voice:are you sorry?

  • "female voice:No,I mustn't grumble,

  • at least I'm honest,I may not be so good but I'm honest"

  • "I'm not ashamed of anything I've done,sorry for nothing Millie,that's me"

  • Sorry for Millie

  • Herb

  • "You have just heard the first part of the Area,

  • the famous play by Christopher Drew"

  • -Give me the bottle -What was his name,Christopher something

  • "he produced it fifteen years ago, a debut of broadcasting of the author"

  • "The second part follows after an interval of 10 minutes at 7 40"

  • Here,Rosie,look here The Area Steps by Christopher Drew

  • That's him,Kit Marlowe

  • What makes you so sure?

  • That's how Frankie talked

  • It's him all right,I know it is

  • Have you got the Area Steps by Christopher Drew?

  • Oh,no.That's a very old play, it is out of print

  • Anything by him would do

  • We have some of his poems

  • The newly published poems in Collected Works only just come in

  • Barmy

  • "a great reckoning in a little room"

  • It is a line written by Shakespeare about a fellow dramatist called Marlowe

  • Marlowe?

  • Where can I found out more about this bloke Drew?

  • He's got two columns in Who's Who

  • -Whose what? -Who's Who

  • It's kind of record of successful people, written largely by themselves

  • Drew,Christopher

  • Born,educated

  • Grant's College Serram Hill

  • Publications,home,address

  • High Grove

  • The treasury that gave us Shakespeare, the treasury that gave us Shaw and

  • Shall I say it?Yes,why not.He's giving me a box for the first time of his new play

  • The treasury that gave us Christopher Drew

  • Ladies and Gentlemen and those with their elbows on the table

  • I give you a toast of Christopher and Mary,

  • coupled with a toast of Christopher's collective poems

  • Christopher,Mary

  • Ladies and Gentlemen,and those with their faces in the fruit salad

  • I thank you for your friendship, on my own behalf and Mary's

  • Though deeply grateful for the fame

  • and put it in the context,cash, I play them puts of broth

  • the things I value most

  • is seated around this table now

  • my wife,my children,all of you

  • Bob,Annie

  • Yes,solemn Annie

  • When I look round and see you all

  • I think how lucky I've been

  • and no man,least of all myself, is worthy of such luck

  • There's a candle lit for everyone of daddy's books

  • just think of writing all those books, just think of reading them

  • If you don't shut up I'll make you read them one by one

  • Come on,Dad,no cheating, blow them out all at once

  • Huge blow

  • Come on,Ben,all we get up

  • -Good night,father -Good night,darling

  • Excuse,daddy

  • Excuse me,Sir,a man came to see you, he was hanging about the garden

  • What sort of a man?

  • A rough sort,didn't like the look of him

  • -Give his name? -Logan,Herbert Logan

  • He said he would call back later

  • I will see him if he does

  • That's likely to be him now,Sir

  • Mr Drew

  • Yes

  • I'm Herbert Logan

  • Who?

  • Don't you remember me?

  • No,I'm sure,we have never met

  • We've never met before but I've been looking forward to it

  • It's kept me going thinking that for sixteen years

  • Fifteen of them in jail

  • Mr Logan,would you kindly tell me just what you come to see me for?

  • You were Kit Marlowe,weren't you?

  • The only Kit Marlowe I know of died in the reign of Queen Elizabeth

  • I heard that at the trial,thank you

  • Frankie told me all about you

  • Frankie? Who is Frankie?

  • The girl you strangled down in Croyber Square sixteen years ago

  • You were Kit Marlowe and you murdered Frankie

  • Mr Logan,I'm afraid your imaginations running away with you

  • I heard your play on the wireless, sorry for nothing,that's me

  • That's what Frankie always said, I found out other things as well

  • You were 21 just what Frankie said,

  • you went to school in Serram Hill, just like she said

  • She also said you were coming in that night

  • You are in.I know you are

  • How dare you come here and talking like this

  • It's not often I am accustomed to being pestered by lunatics

  • but this is too much,will you go at once please

  • Otherwise I should be obliged to call the police

  • You call the police,I'll give them all their proofs if they want

  • You mean this story about the girl being in my play

  • all authors,Mr Logan, find their characters

  • identified in people they never knew existing

  • I was 21 sixteen years ago,so were several thousands other people

  • I went to school in Serram Hill because I lived in Serram Hill

  • Lots of people do,you know

  • I hate to say this you run the risk of being certified

  • Now would you kindly go

  • I am mad,am I?

  • Perhaps I was to think you come forward now

  • What killer would

  • You're clever

  • Frankie said you were

  • You got all the answers pat

  • I admit I can never prove you were Kit Marlowe

  • but I know you were, and so do you

  • I swear it as God is my judge and yours,

  • One day he will judge you

  • One moment

  • It's just one point about your case as it occurs to me

  • I seem to remember that there was a woman who

  • See,here we are, Olive Mockson,

  • she testified that a certain fireman on the railway, a Heal

  • could not have been with this Frankie

  • at the time she was murdered as he was with her

  • I don't understand

  • An alibi,Logan,if this Olive Mockson was in love with Heal

  • an alibi might have not been too sound

  • Worth considering,you think?

  • He is undoubtedly be guilty of misprision of felony

  • Prosecution for that is very rare

  • But the cove in your play would be absolutely ruined

  • letting an innocent man rot in prison rather than stand up to it

  • Justified disgrace

  • The whole of society would be after him,the papers,fellows in parliament

  • No one would have the slightest mercy for him

  • The disgust of his fellowmen would follow him into the grave

  • Yes.So I imagined it would have been

  • Hey,give the pubs a miserable, we can't stick to lemonade

  • I've never touch a drop until I become a driver

  • -Well,so long Jim -So long

  • Be careful if it can't be good

  • Are you Jim Neal?

  • That's me

  • It's Logan,Herb

  • You clear off.There is no one who wants to mix with you

  • I've got some questions I want to ask you,Mr Heal

  • Who is it?

  • It's all right,Olive,my miss wouldn't like you hanging about here ,Logan

  • Olive?

  • Olive Mockson.Is she your mrs?

  • Sorry I can't help you

  • I know who had done it,Jim

  • I found him

  • Turn off that noise

  • What has that got to do with me?

  • I know who was with Frankie that night

  • A writer named Drew who was with her,all right

  • You said he was there,he must have known that,after she has done to him

  • You got no proof about this Drew

  • The cops would laugh at you

  • Detective Inspector Benstead don't do, the cop that picked me up,he listens to me

  • Always get's a bit too sentimental when the copper who nicked you does

  • Suppose Drew had been with Frankie,

  • just supposing he knew who it was had done her in

  • We got to force it out of him, see then I got what I want

  • I'll tell you something.That fellow Drew would talk one day.I'll make him

  • Sure as I'm standing here

  • You are wasting your time,mate,drop it

  • Here,have this beer

  • Until you find your wallet

  • Yeah,when I can get it,I was scavenger, not an engine driver

  • I'll say it's been tough for you,pretty awful if you've never done it

  • There's only one thing kept me going

  • the certainty that one day I'd find the real murderer

  • Look mate,I always thought that you've done it

  • What else was I to think?

  • I want you to know that I don't bear you no malice

  • So what say you if I try to fix you at the depot with a job

  • There is more talent in that then street sweeping

  • Railwayman? I could use some extra dole

  • You will get it enough to buy yourself a pint while you can forget all this

  • All gone and done with

  • I'll tell you what

  • I'm going to see Charlie now, he is the foreman

  • I'll speak to him about you,so we better meet up at the old..

  • No,I never go in there before I put myself right before the world

  • I walk in there again one day

  • Come to think of it

  • Why not come along and see Charlie with me?

  • Why not?

  • I'm going down the depot

  • I'll take it with the boiler before I go

  • We shan't be long

  • You been fixed up all right?

  • We can celebrate with a wet at Plate layer's Arms

  • Come on

  • That's not the way to the depot is it?

  • We go by the tunnel,saves time

  • I know the road

  • Road is not here,this is our bit

  • Here,hold this while I light my pipe

  • So you killed Frankie

  • Frankie is dead,I won't wake her up again

  • Now I just make certain she doesn't

  • Wake

  • There is someone I got to do right by

  • Get the police quick,quick

  • And he confessed?

  • Yeah, he confessed but even that it is not good enough

  • Detective Inspector Benstead said

  • lots of people,when they are dying, confess of murders they never did

  • I've got to get corroborative proof he says

  • How would you get it?

  • From Mr Drew,I'm seeing him tonight

  • I phoned him at the theatre,he's rehearsing a new play

  • I said I got to see him,something new,you see, that concerned him

  • Get a taxi,says he,and wait for me outside the theatre

  • We'll go somewhere quiet

  • Somewhere quiet?

  • I'll take him somewhere quiet

  • Aren't you going home,Sir, it's getting very late

  • Don't worry Sir,people are saying it's the best thing you've done

  • -Good Night Sir -Good night

  • Is this where you live?

  • Yeah

  • This way Mr Drew

  • Why not sit down? The seats are free

  • It was Jim Heal then?

  • Yes it was,he confessed in the presence of witnesses

  • Will that clear you?

  • No.Not yet it doesn't.I need proof

  • In a word,just one word from someone else

  • -Who? -You,Mr Drew

  • Jim Heal said he killed her because she was with another man

  • All you got to do is to say it was you

  • It was you,was it not?

  • Logan,you accuse me of murder

  • now you are accusing being with an unknown woman in a room I've never seen

  • Haven't you Mr Drew?

  • Look.Look around

  • Can't you hear her?

  • Can't you hear laughing the way she did?

  • Sorry for nothing,Frankie, didn't she say that?

  • Didn't she?

  • If you are not going to talk I'll bet there's something here that will

  • Frankie had a hideaway somewhere

  • somewhere where she kept her valuables, like under the boards maybe

  • Didn't you never give her something,Mr Drew?

  • I'll bet I could find something if I look

  • Have you read Heal's confession?

  • Indeed I have.I've got a copy

  • May I see it?

  • Sure,I'll get it

  • "You are writing old funny things,

  • I'll put it somewhere safe read it when I'm old,and you're famous"

  • Is this what you are looking for?

  • This poem you wrote

  • What's it got to do with it?

  • Proof you've been in this room before

  • We are quite alone

  • And that's how it's always going to be until

  • Just you and me until you want to tell the truth

  • I was here that night

  • But I could never make you understand why I let you suffer like this

  • I was young ambitious,my life then was so sheltered,narrow minded

  • I had not only myself to think of

  • Then once I started it became more difficult

  • Worse,worse

  • I know I can't make it up to you but you can have all the money you need

  • Money.I don't want your money

  • Logan,it's my wife and children against yours

  • I gone so far I can't go back

  • I'm not going to speak

  • You are not going to?

  • I'll do anything else you ask me but

  • not that

  • Ah,Mr Drew maybe now you'll feel some of the things I felt for 16 years

  • In the end justice has caught up with you

  • I wonder how many of us would have the courage

  • Hello,brother.Is everything ookiedookie?

  • What?

  • Yes it is

  • -I must.. -I say

  • When the first leaves fall

  • Sure,sure,thanks a lot

  • Rosie

  • Rosie

  • I'm cleared Rosie

  • Herb,wonderful

  • I think I got to cry

  • You are terrible feeble Rosie, crying is not going to top me

  • Crying,when I got a proof I'm innocent

  • I bet you have hysterics when I get my pardon,love

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