The Missing Juror (1944)

Harry Wharton: I'm not going to hang? I'm not going to hang. Why, I've been hanged 100 times already. I'm a dead man, one of the living dead. Every time somebody marched down those stairs, I marched with him. I've hanged so many men on the gallows, the rope no longer chokes me.
[laughs]
Harry Wharton: That's funny, isn't it?
Prison Warden: Let's go down to my office, Harry.
Harry Wharton: Just a minute, Warden. Did you know that everything in these cells is done by twelves? There are 12 bars from the ceiling to the floor. It's exactly 12 steps around the inside of this. The guard takes just 12 steps from the stairs to here. Everything, everywhere, in twelves!
[laughs]
Harry Wharton: Like a jury! Twelve! Twelve! Twelve!
[laughs uncontrollably]

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Harry Wharton: Why don't they hang me? What are they waiting for? Hang me! Hang me!
[He sobs]

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Harry Wharton: Have you forgotten? I promised to show you my new house. The drawing room especially will interest you. It has a beamed ceiling. You know, you hang things from beams.

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