Shelby Carpenter: I can afford a blemish on my character, but not on my clothes.
Laura (1944)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Otto Preminger
Starring: Vincent Price, Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Clifton Webb
Waldo Lydecker killed Diane by accident, thinking that she was Laura. In his mind, if Laura could not be with him then anyone could have her, so with the help of the "twin clocks" he manages to hide a shotgun to kill Laura. Due to it being dark he could not see that it was really Diane. At the very end of the movie Waldo tries to kill the real Laura but is killed by a detective who accompanied McPherson to her apartment.
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Question: McPherson broke the grandfather clock and nothing was in there. But then, the next time he opened it with Laura there, nothing was broken, and there was a gun in there. How did it get fixed? What did I miss?
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Answer: It's a different clock. The first one is in Lydecker's flat, and there's an identical one in Laura's. McPherson finds the secret compartment in Lydecker's clock, and since Laura's is the same, he checks that one, too. The shotgun is in Laura's clock.