The Bat (1959)
Elaine Edwards: Dale Bailey
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Quotes
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Judy Hollander : [the Bat is pounding on the wall on the floor above them] What's that noise?
Dale Bailey : I don't know, I kind of fell half asleep, for a moment I thought it was something from a dream.
Judy Hollander : It's somewhere in the house!
Dale Bailey : Yes on a floor above, not directly over us, probably in a room overlooking the driveway.
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Judy Hollander : [after finding Mark Fleming dead with his throat torn] I don't think I'll sleep tonight.
Dale Bailey : Me either.
Judy Hollander : All I can see is poor Mark Fleming just staring at us... I thought that when people died, their eyes closed, is in sleep.
Dale Bailey : Don't think about it.
Judy Hollander : I'll bet you're thinking about it.
Dale Bailey : No, I was thinking of my husband sleeping in jail tonight. Oh Judy I love him so much!
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Judy Hollander : [the Bat, unbeknown, is pounding in the wall on the floor above] Should we call Miss Van Gorder?
Dale Bailey : She'll hear it, how can she help but hear it? Besides, we don't want her to think we're a couple of hysterical women.
Judy Hollander : Well I'm about to become one, I've about had it for one night. Dale you're not going out in that hall!
Dale Bailey : I want to find out what's happening up there!
Judy Hollander : But Lt. Anderson said if we stayed behind our locked doors we'd be safe.
Dale Bailey : Vick isn't safe locked up in that jail! Perhaps that stolen money is in this house, Mark Fleming seemed to think it was. Maybe that's what somebody's looking for.
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Lt. Andy Anderson : [finding Judy dead] The Bat.
Cornelia van Gorder : Yes the Bat, he caught her at the head of the stairs. We saw him rushing down the stairs as we came out of our rooms. I hurled that
[a fireplace poker]
Cornelia van Gorder : at him, I hit him I believe. 'I'm going to cover this place from attic to basement' you said, well what were you covering out there while that poor child was murdered, where were you?
Lt. Andy Anderson : I saw a man outside on the grounds. I went out and hunted him, I hunted him among the trees so far as the brook down near the back road, then I lost him. After that I'd give my own life than let this happen to Judy, but I told you to stay in your rooms and lock your doors and stay there! What was she doing at the head of those stairs?
Dale Bailey : That was my fault.
Cornelia van Gorder : They heard a strange noise, heavy pounding in one of the rooms on the third floor, we all heard it.
Dale Bailey : I wanted to see what it was, but Judy, she wouldn't let me go out there by myself,
[crying]
Dale Bailey : I made her stay on the balcony!
Lt. Andy Anderson : What about your new butler?
Cornelia van Gorder : Oh he's in his room I suppose.
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Dale Bailey : Vick, what's the matter?
Victor Bailey : Come in here both of you. Andy, we're in trouble. Wendell Heinz came in today to pick up $350,000 worth of bonds that we were holding as collateral for a loan. They were kept in our special vault. Mr. Fleming and I are the only officers of the bank who have access to that vault.
Lt. Andy Anderson : So?
Victor Bailey : The Heinz bonds are gone! That's not all, other negotiable securities are missing as well. From what I can gather short of a careful check, the bank has been looted over a million dollars worth of securities!
Lt. Andy Anderson : You'll have to notify Fleming.
Victor Bailey : I wish I could talk to him, unfortunately he and Doctor Wells are deep in the woods, they can't be reached by phone.
