VIDEO TB2K Movies - What About Bob 1991 - Hacksaw Ridge 2016 - The Man Who Would Be King 1975 - Ad Astra 2019 - Hud 1963 - Vera Cruz 1954 & Housecarl picks!

1911user

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There are 6 movies this week.
I recommend watching or saving these sooner rather than later.

This thread on MAIN has the info about the movies and is the place for discussion about them, as before.
However, all of the movie and download links are located in a separate,
members-only, thread in the MEDIA CENTER at this link:

----------->>> Link to the thread containing the actual movie links (click this) <<<-----------

This should help protect the source of the movies and keep them available longer.


If you watch or download a movie, please comment or like to guide future selections.
Click the "movies" tag at top to see a list of previous movie threads.

Movie trailers (from youtube) can be found in post #8 of this thread.
Click the "movies" tag at the top of this thread to see a list of all movies posted in the past.

Enjoy the Show!


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1911user

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The first movie is What About Bob. This 1991 comedy stars Bill Murray, Richard Dreyfuss, and Julie Hagerty. Baby steps... :xpnd:

- A successful psychotherapist loses his mind after one of his most dependent patients, an obsessive-compulsive neurotic, tracks him down during his family vacation.

Bob Wiley is a neurotic and manipulative man who has a habit of clinging onto his therapists. His last one, not being able to deal with him, sends him to Leo Marvin. After having just one session, Bob thinks the world of Dr. Marvin. However, the doctor is leaving to spend the rest of the summer with his family, which throws Bob into utter despair. He calls the doctor constantly demanding to see him, but the doctor says he is on vacation and cuts Bob off. He manages to find out where he is and goes there. The doctor's family takes a liking to him, but the doctor feels that he is just intrusive. And no matter what he does, Bob just won't go away, and everybody thinks that Leo is being mean.

What About Bob? (1991) - IMDb <<<----- IMDB movie info and review link

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1911user

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The second movie is Hacksaw Ridge. This 2016 WW2 historical film was produced by Mel Gibson based on a true story. I'll warn that the second part of the film (at Okinawa) is intense with war action.

The extraordinary true story of conscientious objector Desmond T. Doss who saved 75 men in Okinawa, during the bloodiest battle of WWII, without firing a single shot. Believing that the war was just but killing was nevertheless wrong, he was the only American soldier in WWII to fight on the front lines without a weapon. As an army medic Doss single-handedly evacuated the wounded near enemy lines - braving enemy fire and putting his own life on the line. He was the first conscientious objector to ever earn the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Hacksaw Ridge (2016) - IMDb <<<----- IMDB movie info and review link

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1911user

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The third movie is The Man Who Would Be King. This 1975 John Huston historical adventure stars Sean Connery, Michael Caine, and Christopher Plummer.

- Two British former soldiers decide to set themselves up as Kings in Kafiristan, a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander the Great.

This adaptation of the famous short story by Rudyard Kipling tells the story of Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnahan, two ex-soldiers in India when it was under British rule. They decide that the country is too small for them, so they head off to Kafiristan in order to become Kings in their own right. Kipling is seen as a character that was there at the beginning, and at the end of this glorious tale.

The Man Who Would Be King (1975) - IMDb <<<----- IMDB movie info and review link

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1911user

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The fourth movie is Ad Astra. This 2019 space adventure stars Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, and Donald Sutherland.

- Astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across an unforgiving solar system to uncover the truth about his missing father and his doomed expedition that now, 30 years later, threatens the universe.

30 years ago Dr Clifford McBride and his crew set off on an expedition to Neptune. At a point all contact was lost and the expedition is assumed to have failed. Now, life in the Solar System is under threat as strange energy surges are experienced, caused by activity on Neptune. US Space Command is convinced that McBride is behind this and sends McBride's son Roy, a highly competent and experienced astronaut, to Neptune to seek answers.

Ad Astra (2019) - IMDb <<<----- IMDB movie info and review link

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1911user

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The fifth movie is Hud. This 1963 drama stars Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, and Patricia Neal.

Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and his stern and highly principled father, Homer. Hud's nephew Lon admires Hud's cheating ways, though he soon becomes aware of Hud's reckless amorality to bear him anymore. In the world of the takers and the taken, Hud is a winner. He's a cheat, but, he explains "I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner."

Hud (1963) - IMDb <<<----- IMDB movie info and review link

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1911user

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The sixth movie is Vera Cruz. This 1954 western stars Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, Denise Darcel, and Cesar Romero.

- During the Mexican Rebellion of 1866, an unsavory group of American adventurers are hired by the forces of Emporer Maximilian to escort a countess to Vera Cruz.

Two nineteenth century soldiers of fortune, one survivor of the Civil War with a soft spot for sick horses and social justice, the other a charming and greedy trigger-happy killer, search for their next dollar down in Mexico at a time when the country is torn between Emperor Maxmillian and the nationalist peasant Army trying to overthrow him. Since the Emperor has the most cash, our hired guns agree to serve the Emperor by escorting a Countess to the city of Vera Cruz passing through territory under rebel control. On the way to Vera Cruz, both fighters discover three million U.S. dollars in gold coins (intended to buy guns for the Emperor from France) hidden at the bottom of the stagecoach carrying the Countess, and she is not totally unaware of the fact either. She has her own plans too. All three plot against the other two to scoop the treasure away. Betrayal is not an issue. It's not even personal. It's just business.

Vera Cruz (1954) - IMDb <<<----- IMDB movie info and review link

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Housecarl

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RIPCORD: "PARA-NURSE" Allison Hayes Guest stars. 8-2-1962 (HD HQ1080p)
RT 24:22
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7JRiMnGdw4



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RIPCORD: "Para-Nurse" Season 1, Episode 38. Air Date - August 2, 1962. Plot - A Para-Nurse named Laura Copeland (Allison Hayes) is on an assignment to help Ted McKeever (Larry Pennell), and Jim Buckley (Ken Curtis) with a Father's young kid who has fallen ill to a fatal lung disease. Starring, Larry Pennell, and Ken Curtis. With Guest stars, Allison Hayes, Harry Carey Jr. Grant Woods, William Flaherty, and Curtis Haymore.
 
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FLIGHT - THE DERELICT - B-47 4018 82710
RT 24:44
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPGcOSvxv5Y


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Support Our Channel : https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Flight was a television show from 1958, and this episode is entitled THE DERELICT. It was directed by Jean Yarbrough, written by Arthur Brown, Jr. and features a cast that includes Robert Christopher, Patrick Waltz, Christopher Dark, Ray Montgomery, Ed Perry, William Cassidy, Steve Ihnat. Flight ran from 1958-59 and was hosted by George C. Kenney. In this particular episode a B-47 bomber catches fire in mid-air, and its crew must make a desperate decision about whether to bail out of the stricken aircraft. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com
 
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Thanks much! I have a funny story about WhatAboutBob. Parts of it (mostly the office and interior home scenes) were filmed in the Roanoke, VA armory of the Virginia National Guard. I was newly enlisted, and remember on Saturday nights sitting in the chairs on the set, after everyone had packed up and left. Only later, when the movie came out and I saw it, I was all "Hey! I sat in that chair, I know that room!"
 
AlfaMan

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Thank you for yet another fun week of movies. I just saw them and started downloading...........

Agree with Dennis-I always look forward to your movie thread. Every week you've posted I've found a hidden gem, or a jewlery box full of movie gems.

Don't EVER stop, minister of culture and enlightenment. Your TB2K family LOVES the effort you put into this!
 
1911user

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I am surprised at the lack of interest in What About Bob.
Hud is classic Newman but early 60's and Vera Cruz is from the 50's, but What About Bob....?
 
jward

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Its something I'd actually seen, so - and stories bout krazy peeps, well, we're living it we don't want to see it :D
 
1911user

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jward said:
Its something I'd actually seen, so - and stories bout krazy peeps, well, we're living it we don't want to see it :D
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If I saw Bob coming around a corner, I'd run away and hide with no shame :D

It is a funny movie.
 
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Housecarl

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Black Tuesday - 1954 Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
RT 1:20:09
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pVm1xZvC48


Black Tuesday - 1954 Crime, Drama, Film-Noir Gangster Vincent Canelli and bank robber Peter Manning escape from Death Row minutes before their execution by electric chair. Director: Hugo Fregonese Writers: Sydney Boehm (screenplay), Sydney Boehm (story) Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Jean Parker, Peter Graves ,,(IMDb)
 
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The Secret Ways 1961 (Spy Thriller) Richard Widmark & Sonja Ziemann
RT 1:52:05
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZQ3r9uBzQ8


The Secret Ways is a 1961 American thriller film based on Alistair MacLean's 1959 novel The Last Frontier. Directed by Phil Karlson. it stars Richard Widmark. Plot In Vienna, 1956, after Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian uprising American adventurer Michael Reynolds (Richard Widmark) is hired by an international espionage ring to smuggle a noted scholar and resistance leader, Professor Jansci (Walter Rilla), out of Communist-ruled Hungary. Reynolds goes to Vienna to see the professor's daughter, Julia (Sonja Ziemann), and he persuades her to accompany him to Budapest. Once there, Reynolds is kidnapped by "freedom fighters" who take him to the professor's secret headquarters. Meanwhile, one of Jansci's trusted aides is captured by the Hungarian Secret Police and forced to reveal the professor's hiding place. Reynolds, Julia, and Jansci are quickly rounded up and taken to Szarhaza Prison, where they are tortured by the sadistic Colonel Hidas (Howard Vernon). They are rescued by a resistance fighter known as The Count (Charles Régnier), who tricks the Communists into placing the prisoners in his custody. At the last moment the ruse is discovered. The Count is killed as the other three race to the airport where a chartered plane is waiting. Hidas pursues them but is killed in an accident on the runway. Safe at last, Reynolds, Julia, and the professor leave Hungary.
 
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The Chairman 1969 | Spy/Thriller | Gregory Peck & Anne Heywood
RT 1:34:40
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwKlLBZojgA


The Chairman is a 1969 spy film starring Gregory Peck. It was directed by J. Lee Thompson. The screenplay was by Ben Maddow based on a novel by Jay Richard Kennedy. Plot A Western agent is sent to Communist China in order to retrieve an important agricultural enzyme. What he does not know is that there is a bomb implanted in his head; the forces behind his mission will detonate it if he fails to carry out the assignment. Nobel Prize–winning university professor Dr. John Hathaway's mission begins with Lt. General Shelby's request at the U.S. embassy in London that he travel to China to visit Soong Li, a former professor of Hathaway's who has reportedly developed an enzyme that would permit crops to grow in any kind of climate. The hesitant Hathaway is further urged to go by a phone call from the President of the United States. Hathaway is concerned about the situation, as is a close female friend he knows named Kay in London. A transmitter is implanted in Hathaway's skull as a tracking device. He is not informed that the device also includes an explosive element in case of emergency that can be triggered by the Americans if necessary. Neither the U.S. nor the Soviet Union wants the enzyme to remain exclusively in Chinese hands. Shortly after his arrival in Hong Kong, Hathaway is sent to meet a beautiful young Chinese woman, Ting Ling, who introduces him to Security Chief Yin at a nightclub. When Hathaway returns to his hotel room, he finds Ting Ling waiting for him in his bed naked and enticing him to seduce her because it is her duty for the Chairman. She tries to undress him, but when he hears a noise made by an intruder he goes to investigate. He apprehends a male intruder, but Ting Ling picks up a telephone and uses it to knock Hathaway unconscious. Security Chief Yin takes Hathaway by car to meet China's Party Chairman. They play a game of table tennis and discuss the enzyme, which the Chairman claims he intends to share with the entire world. At this moment, Lt. General Shelby, who is listening in London, considers and discusses with his seniors the possibility of detonating the explosive device in Hathaway's head to kill the Chairman. Hathaway is then taken by plane to be reunited with Professor Soong Li and also meets Li's daughter, Soong Chu. No one thinks Hathaway is really spying on the Chinese regime. Soong Li, possibly betrayed by his daughter Soong Chu, is attacked by guards looking for the formula. Before he dies, Soong Li gives a book to Hathaway containing quotations from the Chairman. The professor flees with the book and a piece of microfilm, trying to reach the Soviet border before Yin's men can capture him. He is unable to scale a fence, so Shelby elects to set off the explosive device, but Soviet border troops arrive at the last minute to help Hathaway cross safely. Once safe, the professor discovers that the enzyme's formula is hidden in the Chairman's book of quotations. He gets the device removed and is taken aback when it is demonstrated to him that it contained an explosive device that could have been detonated remotely at any time. He then returns to Kay in London.
 
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Housecarl

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"When Trumpets Fade" Complete 1998 WW2 TV-Movie
RT 1:26:07
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd4YVSv6d5w


In the heat of battle not all soldiers can be heroes. A gritty, realistic, depressing, but nonetheless excellent film.This 1998 HBO TV-movie directed by John Irvin (“Hamburger Hill”) and starring Ron Eldard, Frank Whaley, and Dylan Bruno. First released on June 27, 1998, the film is set in World War II during the fall 1944 Battle of the Hürtgen Forest - “After nearly three months of heavy combat, the Allies took the Hurtgen Forest. More than 24,000 soldiers were killed and wounded in the battle. The Battle of the Bulge began only a few days later, leaving the campaign in the Hurtgen Forest largely forgotten today." In WWII Western Germany, Private David Manning reluctantly leaves behind a mortally wounded fellow soldier and searches for survivors from his platoon, only to learn from commanding officer Captain Pritchett that they have all been killed in action. Despite requesting a discharge on the grounds of mental disability, Manning is promoted to sergeant and assigned to lead a new platoon of young inductees.
 
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Housecarl

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British True Crime Thriller Full Movie | Death Drums Along The River (1963) | Retrospective
RT 1:19:46
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y6lrUY_y_g

(film starts out with good "beat cop" police work....HC)

"A British colonial policeman in Africa investigates a murder in a hospital up river and ends up uncovering a plot involving diamond smuggling and the local indigenous tribe. Death Drums Along the River (1963) Studio: Big Ben Films Director: Lawrence Huntington Writer: Edgar Wallace Cast: Richard Todd, Marianne Koch
 
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Housecarl

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Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950 Crime, Drama, Film-Noir) (DVD)
RT 1:34:37
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1T8ut5oPn4


Where the Sidewalk Ends is a 1950 American film noir directed and produced by Otto Preminger. The screenplay for the film was written by Ben Hecht, and adapted by Robert E. Kent, Frank P. Rosenberg, and Victor Trivas. The screenplay and adaptations were based on the novel Night Cry by William L. Stuart. The film stars Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney. The film narrative concerns ruthless and cynical Mark Dixon (Dana Andrews), a metropolitan police detective, who despises all criminals because his father was one. Considered a classic of the film noir genre, the film displays a brand of violence, "lurking below urban society", which is an important noir motif. Cast Dana Andrews as Detective Sgt. Mark Dixon Gene Tierney as Morgan Taylor-Paine Gary Merrill as Tommy Scalisi Bert Freed as Detective Sgt. Paul Klein (Dixon's partner) Tom Tully as Jiggs Taylor, Morgan's father Karl Malden as Detective Lt. Thomas Ruth Donnelly as Martha, owner of Martha's Café Craig Stevens as Kenneth Paine Background Where the Sidewalk Ends is the last film that Otto Preminger would make as a director-for-hire for Twentieth Century Fox in the 1940s. The series includes Laura, which also stars Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews, Whirlpool, and Fallen Angel. Filming locations The film was primarily shot on a studio set, but the filmmakers also shot a few scenes at actual New York City locations.
 
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Housecarl

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Tristan and Isolde
RT 2:05:27
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D76oa0iNZO0


From executive producer Ridley Scott comes a sweeping, action-packed saga of epic battles, political intrigue and forbidden passion, set in a time when the lines between heroism and savagery were etched in fire and carved out with broadswords. After the fall of Rome, visionary warlord Marke (Rufus Sewell) seeks to unite the squabbling English tribes to form one strong nation and defeat brutal Irish King Donnchadh. But when Lord Marke's greatest and most loyal knight, Tristan (James Franco), falls in love with Isolde (Sophia Myles), a beautiful Irish woman, it threatens to destroy the fragile truce and ignite a war. In the spirit of Braveheart and A Knight's Tale, Tristan and Isolde is a rousing tale of trust and treachery that will leave you breathless!
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Housecarl

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Beat The Devil (1953) |
Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones Comedy Full Movie

RT 1:29:46
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqkmgHS3TXw


In this John Huston film -- which features an unusual mix of adventure, comedy and crime elements -- Billy (Humphrey Bogart) and Maria Dannreuther (Gina Lollobrigida) are among a number of travelers stranded in Italy en route to Africa. While the Dannreuthers seem like an average couple, they have the same goal as Mrs. Gwendolen Chelm (Jennifer Jones) and some of their other shifty companions -- to lay claim to property that is supposedly rich with uranium.
 
jward

jward

passin' thru
Normally notta fan of of multiple partners unless everyone knows the score, no pun intended, but "this" movie had house building in it, n I <3 me some House buildin! :: happy sigh ::
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Strangers When We Meet 1960 (Kirk Douglas, Kim Novak)
A suburban architect loves his wife but is bored with his marriage and with his work, so he takes up with the neglected, married beauty who lives down the street.
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Housecarl

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Part of the reason I posted this Douglas/Novak film was the level of frankness from a film of that era with such a name cast that didn't treat the topic as farce as was common for the time.
 
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Housecarl

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The Notorious Landlady 1962 (Comedy) Kim Novak & Jack Lemmon
RT 2:03:05
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gHBKaCyLdk


The Notorious Landlady is a 1962 American comedy mystery film starring Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, and Fred Astaire. The film was directed by Richard Quine, with a script by Blake Edwards and Larry Gelbart.

Plot
When American diplomat William Gridley arrives in London, he rents part of Carly Hardwicke's house from her and promptly begins to fall in love. Gridley doesn't know that many people think she killed her British husband, Miles Hardwick, because he has disappeared; but without a body, the police cannot do a thing. Gridley's boss is Franklyn Ambruster, a State Department chief in the American embassy who learns about it and doesn't take this "lapse of judgment" lightly. A Scotland Yard detective arrives at the embassy and convinces Gridley, who by this time is in love with Carly, to spy on her without letting her realize she is being investigated. When a fire erupts as Carly and Gridley are grilling steaks in the backyard of her house, a scandal ensues that is played out in the papers. Since Carly is also American, she goes to the embassy to tell his boss that Gridley is a good man and not to send him out of the country. The boss takes Carly to lunch, becomes smitten with her, and proclaims her innocence. After Carly has pawned many of her belongings to pay bills, her husband, Miles, shows up alive but then is shot and killed by Carly as Gridley is on the phone with the Scotland Yard detective. Carly is put on trial but is exonerated by the eyewitness testimony of her crippled neighbor's private nurse saying that Miles was attacking Carly. Ultimately Carly tells Gridley that she is being blackmailed by the nurse who wants the pawn ticket to a candelabra that Carly recently pawned. The pawn ticket was actually the cause of the argument between Carly and Miles, who had stuffed the candelabra with stolen jewels. When Gridley and Carly go to retrieve the candelabra, they find the pawnbroker murdered. A chase sequence ensues, and Gridley and Carly find the nurse in the act of pushing her elderly patient off a cliff to silence her story. It was, in fact, the elderly patient who witnessed Miles and Carly fighting, and the nurse merely said she was the one who saw the struggle. Gridley and Carly save the elderly lady as music from The Pirates of Penzance plays, and Gridley's chief and the Scotland Yard detective arrive to find the nurse detained.
 
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