:01:30
Yes, this is Sunset Boulevard,
Los Angeles, California.
:01:34
It's about 5:00 in the morning.
:01:38
That's the homicide squad...
:01:40
complete with detectives
and newspaper men.
:01:43
A murder has been reported from
one of those great big houses...
:01:47
in the ten thousand block.
:01:49
You'll read about it
in the late editions, I'm sure.
:01:52
You'll get it over your radio
and see it on television...
:01:56
because an old-time star is
involved-- one of the biggest.
:02:02
But before you hear it all distorted
and blown out of proportion...
:02:06
before those Hollywood columnists
get their hands on it...
:02:09
maybe you'd like to hear the facts--
the whole truth.
:02:14
If so, you've come
to the right party.
:02:18
You see, the body of a young man
was found...
:02:20
floating in the pool
of her mansion...
:02:22
with two shots in his back
and one in his stomach.
:02:26
Nobody important, really.
:02:28
Just a movie writer with a couple
of pictures to his credit.
:02:33
The poor dope.
He always wanted a pool.
:02:37
Well, in the end
he got himself a pool...
:02:40
only the price turned out to be
a little high.
:02:46
Let's go back about six months and
find the day when it all started.
:02:51
I was living in an apartment house
above Franklin and Ivar.
:02:55
Things were tough at the moment.
:02:58
I hadn't worked in a studio
for a long time.