《The Clue of the New Pin (1929)》Storyline
..Pennsylvania....I""m a police officer" - and threw his badge on the desk.[Note: The Sheriff""s yearly salary was about a third of Virgil""s salary.]After a long muted pause in reaction, the Sheriff sighed.He yelled for deputy Wood to enter and look at the badge ("Yeah, oh yeah!"), while fiercely criticizing his lack of thoroughness for not questioning the suspect before arresting him.The back-slapping, affectionate, uncomplicated friends meet up with a sixth friend - bar owner John (George Dzundza), and hen drink lots of beer at his place, and boisterously kid with each other.He reverses the outcome of heir bet, gives Les an overnight warehouse job, and orders bet-winner Joe to fly that night into the Peruvian Andes on a dangerous mission in bad weather: "Sorry, Joe, but the mail goes out on schedule.Through the front door of the steamy colonial bungalow, a well-dressed Caucasian man staggers onto the veranda.Wake up.You""re not gonna believe what I saw!...I never would have believed it.There was this, uh, in the cab, there was this...it was a red whoosh." Sleepily, she tells him that he has been instructed to call the power department immediately: "I think you""d better call them.