1 00:02:41,130 --> 00:02:44,527 Well, here we are. I turn down here at the next block. 2 00:02:44,577 --> 00:02:48,515 Thanks, mister. I'll get off there. 3 00:02:53,375 --> 00:02:56,191 - Want anything else? - No. 4 00:02:56,241 --> 00:02:58,746 Hey, you! 5 00:03:00,459 --> 00:03:04,287 - Me? - Yeah you. Where’re you heading? 6 00:03:04,337 --> 00:03:05,570 East. 7 00:03:05,620 --> 00:03:10,359 Too bad. I thought if you was heading north I might be able to help you out. 8 00:03:10,409 --> 00:03:13,185 I’m pushing myself late tonight. I don’t like to ride alone at night. 9 00:03:13,235 --> 00:03:17,544 I am one of those guys who gotta talk or I fall asleep. 10 00:03:17,594 --> 00:03:20,079 My partner, he’s got Lou to keep him company, but ... 11 00:03:20,129 --> 00:03:21,933 ... I ain’t got nobody at all. 12 00:03:21,983 --> 00:03:24,377 - Where’re you coming from? - West. 13 00:03:24,428 --> 00:03:25,790 Yeah sure, I know, but ... 14 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:27,223 ... where? LA? 15 00:03:27,273 --> 00:03:29,688 - Maybe. - I’ve got a cousin out in LA ... 16 00:03:29,738 --> 00:03:32,945 - You don’t say. - Yeah. He’s been out ... 17 00:03:32,995 --> 00:03:34,358 You're not much of a talker, are you? 18 00:03:34,408 --> 00:03:36,352 My mother taught me never to speak to strangers. 19 00:03:36,402 --> 00:03:38,286 - Oh, wise guy is it. - So what!? 20 00:03:38,336 --> 00:03:40,440 Okay, okay. Don’t get sore. 21 00:03:40,490 --> 00:03:43,777 Trying to be sociable. That’s all. 22 00:03:43,827 --> 00:03:45,480 Hey, Grandma! 23 00:03:45,530 --> 00:03:49,578 Give me change for a dime, will you?. 24 00:03:56,763 --> 00:03:59,609 Let’s have something quieter this time, Joe. My head’s splitting. 25 00:03:59,659 --> 00:04:03,266 It that what's wrong with it? 26 00:04:04,168 --> 00:04:05,731 Done with your coffee? 27 00:04:05,781 --> 00:04:09,498 No. And don’t rush me, will you? 28 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:17,124 Hey, turn that off. Will you turn that thing off? 29 00:04:17,174 --> 00:04:18,998 - What’s eating you now? - Yeah, what’s eating you? 30 00:04:19,048 --> 00:04:21,082 - That music, it stinks. - Oh, you don’t like it, huh? 31 00:04:21,132 --> 00:04:23,407 - No. Turn it off! - Now wait a minute, pal. 32 00:04:23,457 --> 00:04:24,910 That was mine, that penny. 33 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:29,659 This is a free country, and I play whatever I want to. 34 00:04:29,709 --> 00:04:30,872 OK. 35 00:04:30,922 --> 00:04:33,076 Sure, and if you don’t like it, you don’t have to listen to it. 36 00:04:33,126 --> 00:04:34,980 And you can leave here any time, you want to. 37 00:04:35,030 --> 00:04:36,683 OK OK. I’m sorry I am. 38 00:04:36,733 --> 00:04:39,088 First good piece played tonight, and you don’t like it. 39 00:04:39,138 --> 00:04:43,457 Some people just ain’t got any good taste. 40 00:04:52,635 --> 00:04:56,072 That tune... That tune... 41 00:04:56,122 --> 00:04:58,527 Why was it always that rotten tune? 42 00:04:58,577 --> 00:05:03,728 Following me around, beating in my head, never letting up. 43 00:05:05,531 --> 00:05:07,676 Did you ever want to forget anything? 44 00:05:07,726 --> 00:05:11,093 Did you ever want cut away a piece of your memory or blot it out? 45 00:05:11,143 --> 00:05:12,606 You can’t, you know. 46 00:05:12,656 --> 00:05:14,700 No matter how hard you try. 47 00:05:14,750 --> 00:05:16,544 You can change the scenery ... 48 00:05:16,594 --> 00:05:18,918 ... but sooner or later, you’ll get a whiff of perfume or... 49 00:05:18,969 --> 00:05:21,935 ... somebody will say a certain phrase, or maybe hum something ... 50 00:05:21,985 --> 00:05:25,642 ... and you’re licked again. 51 00:05:25,772 --> 00:05:28,197 "I can’t believe that you’re in love with me” 52 00:05:28,247 --> 00:05:30,271 I used to love that song, once. 53 00:05:30,321 --> 00:05:33,819 So did the customers back in the old Break O’ Dawn Club in New York. 54 00:05:33,869 --> 00:05:37,857 I can’t remember a night when I didn’t get at least 3 requests for it. 55 00:05:37,907 --> 00:05:39,209 Sue ... 56 00:05:39,259 --> 00:05:41,464 She was always was selling it too. 57 00:05:41,514 --> 00:05:44,680 Those were the days. 58 00:06:08,118 --> 00:06:11,645 Your eyes of blue, your kisses too 59 00:06:11,695 --> 00:06:14,481 I never knew what they could do 60 00:06:14,531 --> 00:06:20,212 I can't believe that you're in love with me 61 00:06:20,262 --> 00:06:23,539 You're telling everyone I know 62 00:06:23,589 --> 00:06:26,625 That I'm on your mind each place you go 63 00:06:26,675 --> 00:06:32,727 They can't believe that you're in love with me. 64 00:06:32,777 --> 00:06:38,669 I have always placed you far above me 65 00:06:38,719 --> 00:06:44,291 I just can't imagine that you love me 66 00:06:44,341 --> 00:06:47,597 And after all is said and done 67 00:06:47,647 --> 00:06:50,694 To think that I'm the lucky one 68 00:06:50,744 --> 00:06:57,317 I can't believe that you're in love with me. 69 00:07:03,048 --> 00:07:06,556 It wasn’t much of a club, really. You know the kind. 70 00:07:06,606 --> 00:07:08,760 A joint where you could have a sandwich and a few drinks ... 71 00:07:08,810 --> 00:07:13,920 ... and run interference for your girl on the dance floor. 72 00:07:13,970 --> 00:07:17,718 I fronted the piano in there every night from 8:00 until the place closed up ... 73 00:07:17,768 --> 00:07:19,933 ... which usually meant 4:00 in the morning. 74 00:07:19,983 --> 00:07:24,141 A good job, as jobs went in those days. 75 00:07:25,774 --> 00:07:27,668 And then too ... 76 00:07:27,718 --> 00:07:29,201 ... there was Sue. 77 00:07:29,251 --> 00:07:32,648 ... who made working there a little like working in heaven. 78 00:07:32,698 --> 00:07:37,157 But how we felt about each other. Well, there was nothing very unusual in that. 79 00:07:37,207 --> 00:07:40,193 I was an ordinary healthy guy, and she was an ordinary healthy girl. 80 00:07:40,243 --> 00:07:43,660 And when you add those two together, you get an ordinary healthy romance. 81 00:07:43,710 --> 00:07:45,564 Which is the old story ... 82 00:07:45,614 --> 00:07:47,909 ... sure, but somehow ... 83 00:07:47,959 --> 00:07:52,278 ... the most wonderful thing in the world. 84 00:07:57,719 --> 00:08:01,817 All in all, I was a pretty lucky guy. 85 00:08:12,949 --> 00:08:15,004 Mr Paderewsky, I presume ... 86 00:08:15,054 --> 00:08:16,026 It's beautiful. 87 00:08:16,076 --> 00:08:18,270 You’re going to make Carnegie Hall your door. 88 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:20,946 Yeah, as a janitor. 89 00:08:20,996 --> 00:08:22,789 I’ll make my debut in the basement. 90 00:08:22,839 --> 00:08:24,954 I don’t blame you for being bitter, darling but ... 91 00:08:25,004 --> 00:08:26,617 ... you mustn’t give up hope. 92 00:08:26,667 --> 00:08:28,491 - Why, some day ... - Yeah, some day ... 93 00:08:28,541 --> 00:08:30,094 ... if I don’t get arthritis first. 94 00:08:30,144 --> 00:08:34,242 In the meantime, let’s blow this trap. 95 00:08:51,948 --> 00:08:54,383 - Like to get something to eat, hon’? - I don’t think so, Al. 96 00:08:54,433 --> 00:08:57,569 I lose my appetite working in this fleabag. 97 00:08:57,620 --> 00:09:00,425 - Let's go home. - OK. 98 00:09:00,475 --> 00:09:03,101 I can’t stand much more of that dump. 99 00:09:03,151 --> 00:09:05,786 Did you see that drunk tonight trying to paw me. 100 00:09:05,836 --> 00:09:06,988 No, what drunk? 101 00:09:07,039 --> 00:09:10,115 It doesn’t matter what drunk! 102 00:09:10,165 --> 00:09:12,479 Say, what’s the matter with you tonight, darling? 103 00:09:12,530 --> 00:09:15,916 That’s the third time you started to tell me something and then stopped. 104 00:09:15,967 --> 00:09:18,522 We shouldn’t have any secrets from each other, Sue. 105 00:09:18,572 --> 00:09:21,027 Next week, we’re going to make with the ring and the license. You and me. We’ll be a team. 106 00:09:21,077 --> 00:09:24,163 Yes, that's right. In the Bush League. 107 00:09:24,213 --> 00:09:28,231 - I don’t get you. - We’ve been struck out. 108 00:09:28,281 --> 00:09:30,035 A funny way to talk, darling. 109 00:09:30,085 --> 00:09:33,221 - Don’t you want to marry me? - Al, look, I love you, you know I do. 110 00:09:33,271 --> 00:09:35,967 - And I want to marry you. - But ... 111 00:09:36,017 --> 00:09:37,480 But not now. 112 00:09:37,530 --> 00:09:40,165 Only after we do good. 113 00:09:40,215 --> 00:09:42,340 Someday, I'm going away. 114 00:09:42,390 --> 00:09:44,324 Oh, I know you’ll think it silly ... 115 00:09:44,374 --> 00:09:48,612 That’s why I hesitated to tell you. But I’m going to California ... 116 00:09:48,662 --> 00:09:51,087 I want to try my luck in Hollywood. 117 00:09:51,137 --> 00:09:53,552 That’s the most stupid thing, I ever heard of. 118 00:09:53,602 --> 00:09:57,180 Don’t you know millions of people go out there every year and wind up polishing cuspidors? 119 00:09:57,230 --> 00:09:58,402 I thought you had better sense. 120 00:09:58,452 --> 00:10:00,386 You sound as if you don’t think I have any talent. 121 00:10:00,436 --> 00:10:01,699 That has nothing to do with it. 122 00:10:01,749 --> 00:10:04,745 - I'll make out alright. - Maybe. But what about me? 123 00:10:04,795 --> 00:10:07,370 Doesn’t it mean anything to you that you’re busting up all our plans. 124 00:10:07,420 --> 00:10:10,857 - We may not see each other for years. - It won’t be that long. 125 00:10:10,907 --> 00:10:15,507 - I thought you loved me. - I do, you know I do. 126 00:10:16,629 --> 00:10:20,296 Well ... here we are. 127 00:10:21,709 --> 00:10:23,853 Al ... 128 00:10:23,904 --> 00:10:26,389 Al, why can’t you see my side of it? 129 00:10:26,439 --> 00:10:29,264 I'm young. We both are. 130 00:10:29,314 --> 00:10:33,363 And we’ve got all the time in the world to settle down. 131 00:10:33,413 --> 00:10:34,886 Really, darling ... 132 00:10:34,936 --> 00:10:38,673 ... what I’m doing is the only sane thing to do. 133 00:10:38,723 --> 00:10:42,731 I ... I hate the thought of being so far away from you, but ... 134 00:10:42,782 --> 00:10:45,828 But we'll be together again someday. 135 00:10:45,878 --> 00:10:48,944 Maybe you’ll decide to come out too, later on. 136 00:10:48,994 --> 00:10:50,337 So long. 137 00:10:50,387 --> 00:10:52,030 Al ... 138 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:54,866 Aren’t you going to kiss me goodnight? 139 00:10:54,916 --> 00:10:57,692 Sure, why not? 140 00:10:58,954 --> 00:11:01,569 Good night. 141 00:12:44,587 --> 00:12:47,433 Say Roberts, you hit the jackpot this time ... 142 00:12:47,483 --> 00:12:49,197 Ten bucks. 143 00:12:49,247 --> 00:12:51,641 Thanks. 144 00:12:56,561 --> 00:12:58,996 But when a drunk handed me a ten spot, after a request ... 145 00:12:59,046 --> 00:13:00,640 ... I couldn’t get very excited. 146 00:13:00,690 --> 00:13:04,377 What was it? I asked myself. A piece of paper crawling with germs. 147 00:13:04,427 --> 00:13:08,966 It couldn’t buy anything I wanted. It couldn’t ... 148 00:13:11,221 --> 00:13:14,828 Then I thought of something. 149 00:13:36,271 --> 00:13:39,899 Long distance. I’d like to put a call through to Los Angeles. 150 00:13:39,949 --> 00:13:43,997 Miss Harvey, Sue Harvey. H-A-R-V-E-Y. 151 00:13:44,288 --> 00:13:48,055 The number is: Crest View 65723. 152 00:14:09,007 --> 00:14:13,797 Fifty ... seventy five ... eighty five. 153 00:14:15,691 --> 00:14:18,326 Hello Sue? This is Al. 154 00:14:18,376 --> 00:14:20,561 Oh baby, it’s great to hear from you too. 155 00:14:20,611 --> 00:14:22,114 What’s that? You do? 156 00:14:22,164 --> 00:14:23,938 Oh, me too, darling. 157 00:14:23,988 --> 00:14:26,643 I thought I’d go batty without you. I just had to ... 158 00:14:26,693 --> 00:14:30,892 Huh? ... You’re working as a hash slinger? 159 00:14:30,942 --> 00:14:32,074 Gee honey, that’s tough. 160 00:14:32,124 --> 00:14:35,711 Those guys out in Hollywood don’t know the real thing when it’s right in front of them. 161 00:14:35,761 --> 00:14:37,455 You just stick it out too, baby. 162 00:14:37,505 --> 00:14:41,152 Keep going around to those casting offices. I’m sure you’ll click. 163 00:14:41,202 --> 00:14:44,188 Look, I’ll tell you what. You stay put out there. I'll come to you. 164 00:14:44,239 --> 00:14:46,934 No, do not try to stop me. Just expect me. 165 00:14:46,984 --> 00:14:51,744 Train? Who knows. Train, plane, bus, magic carpet. I'll be there if I have to crawl. 166 00:14:51,794 --> 00:14:55,221 If I have to travel by pogo stick. And then ... 167 00:14:55,271 --> 00:14:59,369 ... let’s get married right away, huh? 168 00:14:59,519 --> 00:15:03,738 That’s the stuff. That's what I’ve been wanting to hear you say. 169 00:15:03,788 --> 00:15:07,616 Well ... goodbye for now. 170 00:15:07,666 --> 00:15:10,562 I’ll be seeing you soon. 171 00:15:10,612 --> 00:15:12,636 Yeah. 172 00:15:12,686 --> 00:15:14,971 ‘Bye. 173 00:15:18,598 --> 00:15:21,654 The only way I could cross country was to thumb rides. 174 00:15:21,704 --> 00:15:25,422 For even after hawking everything, I only had enough money to eat. 175 00:15:25,472 --> 00:15:28,798 Money. You know what that is. 176 00:15:28,849 --> 00:15:31,955 The stuff you never have enough of. Little green things with ... 177 00:15:32,005 --> 00:15:34,330 ... George Washington’s picture that men slave for ... 178 00:15:34,380 --> 00:15:37,396 ... commit crimes for, die for. 179 00:15:37,446 --> 00:15:39,470 It’s the stuff that has caused more trouble in the world ... 180 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:41,624 ... than anything else we ever invented. 181 00:15:41,674 --> 00:15:44,510 Simply because, there’s too little of it. 182 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:46,795 At least, I had too little of it. 183 00:15:46,845 --> 00:15:50,392 So it was me for the thumb. 184 00:16:04,971 --> 00:16:07,376 Ever done any hitchhiking? 185 00:16:07,426 --> 00:16:09,891 It's not much fun, believe me. 186 00:16:09,941 --> 00:16:12,266 Oh yeah, I know all about how it’s an education ... 187 00:16:12,316 --> 00:16:16,274 ... how to get to meet a lot of people and all that. But me ... 188 00:16:16,324 --> 00:16:20,703 ... from now on, I’ll take my education in college, or in PS-62, or I’ll... 189 00:16:20,753 --> 00:16:25,463 ... send $ 1.98 in stamps for “Ten Easy Lessons”. 190 00:16:32,848 --> 00:16:37,637 Thumbing rides may save your busfare, but it’s dangerous. 191 00:16:37,687 --> 00:16:40,072 You never know what’s in store for you, when you hear the... 192 00:16:40,122 --> 00:16:42,317 ... squeal of brakes. 193 00:16:42,367 --> 00:16:47,958 If only I had known what I was getting into, that day in Arizona. 194 00:16:48,399 --> 00:16:52,277 Here, throw that in the back seat. 195 00:16:52,497 --> 00:16:56,986 Okay, let’s go. Make sure that door’s closed. 196 00:17:08,940 --> 00:17:10,524 You know, Emily Post ought to write a ... 197 00:17:10,574 --> 00:17:13,339 ... book of rules for guys thumbing rides. 198 00:17:13,389 --> 00:17:17,137 Because, as it is now, you never know what’s right and what’s wrong. 199 00:17:17,187 --> 00:17:21,095 We rode along for a little while, neither one of us saying anything. 200 00:17:21,145 --> 00:17:23,079 I was glad of that. 201 00:17:23,129 --> 00:17:26,736 I never know what to say to strange people driving cars. 202 00:17:26,786 --> 00:17:30,003 Then too, you can never tell if a guy wants to talk. 203 00:17:30,053 --> 00:17:34,261 A lot of rides have been cut short because of a big mouth. 204 00:17:34,312 --> 00:17:39,041 So I kept my mouth shut until he started opening up. 205 00:17:39,091 --> 00:17:44,131 Hand me that little box in the compartment, will ya pal. 206 00:17:45,093 --> 00:17:48,480 Hold the wheel, will you. 207 00:17:57,759 --> 00:18:00,053 - How far are you going? - L.A. 208 00:18:00,104 --> 00:18:02,208 Well, you’re really travelling, aren’t you? 209 00:18:02,258 --> 00:18:04,262 Yeah, but I don’t expect to make it for a couple of years ... 210 00:18:04,312 --> 00:18:06,025 ... at the rate I’ve been sporting rides. 211 00:18:06,076 --> 00:18:09,112 - Not much luck, huh? - Sure, all bad. 212 00:18:09,162 --> 00:18:12,869 Not many people stop for a guy these days. Afraid of a stick up, maybe. 213 00:18:12,919 --> 00:18:14,984 Well, you can’t blame them. 214 00:18:15,034 --> 00:18:17,278 - Where are you coming from? - New York. 215 00:18:17,328 --> 00:18:19,392 Well, New York! 216 00:18:19,443 --> 00:18:22,769 Well, you’re in luck this time. I’m going all the way. 217 00:18:22,819 --> 00:18:25,585 Right through to Los Angeles. 218 00:18:25,635 --> 00:18:29,613 - You drive a car? - Sure, if you’re tired, let me know. 219 00:18:29,663 --> 00:18:32,248 I’ll holla. 220 00:18:32,298 --> 00:18:34,403 I guess at least an hour passed before I noticed ... 221 00:18:34,453 --> 00:18:36,828 ... those deep scratches in his right hand. 222 00:18:36,878 --> 00:18:38,341 They were wicked. 223 00:18:38,391 --> 00:18:42,118 Three puffy red lines, about a quarter of an inch apart. 224 00:18:42,168 --> 00:18:45,555 He must have seen me looking at them, because he said ... 225 00:18:45,605 --> 00:18:47,710 Beauties, aren’t they? 226 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:51,277 They’re going to be scars some day. 227 00:18:51,327 --> 00:18:52,619 What an animal! 228 00:18:52,670 --> 00:18:55,936 Whatever it was, it must have been pretty big and vicious to have done that. 229 00:18:55,986 --> 00:18:58,090 Right on both counts, New York. 230 00:18:58,141 --> 00:19:01,197 I was tussling with the most dangerous animal In the world... 231 00:19:01,247 --> 00:19:03,030 ... a woman. 232 00:19:03,081 --> 00:19:04,664 Must have been Tarzan’s mate. 233 00:19:04,714 --> 00:19:06,568 Looks like, you lost the bout. 234 00:19:06,618 --> 00:19:09,093 It certainly wasn’t a draw. 235 00:19:09,143 --> 00:19:12,099 You know, there should be a law against dangerous claws. 236 00:19:12,149 --> 00:19:13,001 Yeah. 237 00:19:13,051 --> 00:19:15,906 I tossed her out of the car on her ear. 238 00:19:15,957 --> 00:19:17,399 Was I wrong? 239 00:19:17,450 --> 00:19:20,285 Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don’t you? 240 00:19:20,335 --> 00:19:23,943 - Yeah. - After all, what kind of a dame, thumbs rides? 241 00:19:23,993 --> 00:19:27,640 - Sunday school teacher? - Yeah. 242 00:19:27,690 --> 00:19:29,494 A little witch. 243 00:19:29,544 --> 00:19:32,630 Must have thought, she was riding with some fall guy. 244 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:36,598 Not me who’s been booking horses around race tracks, since I was twenty. 245 00:19:36,648 --> 00:19:39,103 Ahh, I've known a million dames like her. 246 00:19:39,153 --> 00:19:42,320 - Two million. - Yeah. 247 00:19:43,071 --> 00:19:46,027 Stopped the car, opened the door ... 248 00:19:46,077 --> 00:19:48,242 "Take another hour and stop here, sister", I told her. 249 00:19:48,292 --> 00:19:52,180 - That’s the stuff - As I was going on. 250 00:19:52,230 --> 00:19:57,370 If you want to see a real scar, brother, get a load of this. 251 00:19:57,420 --> 00:19:58,823 Wow 252 00:19:58,873 --> 00:20:01,969 - I got that one duelling. - Duelling? 253 00:20:02,019 --> 00:20:06,188 Yeah, just kidding of course. My dad owned a couple of Franco-Prussian sabres. 254 00:20:06,238 --> 00:20:08,993 Kept them on the wall for decoration. 255 00:20:09,044 --> 00:20:15,136 Well one day, another kid and I took them down, and the old man wasn’t around... Had a duel. 256 00:20:15,186 --> 00:20:17,370 He hit me in the arm here. 257 00:20:17,420 --> 00:20:20,717 Pretty mean cut. Infection set in later. 258 00:20:20,767 --> 00:20:22,711 Yeah, I can see that. 259 00:20:22,761 --> 00:20:27,250 - Oh, give me that box again, will ya. - Yeah. 260 00:20:37,050 --> 00:20:41,479 Pain made me lose my head, I guess... Began slashing ... 261 00:20:41,529 --> 00:20:44,285 Before I knew it, I’d put the other kid’s eye out. 262 00:20:44,335 --> 00:20:45,798 That was tough. 263 00:20:45,848 --> 00:20:49,345 Oh, it was just an accident, of course. You know how kids are. 264 00:20:49,395 --> 00:20:52,621 I got scared and decided I was going to run away from home. 265 00:20:52,672 --> 00:20:56,630 Old man almost caught me, when I was packing my duds. 266 00:20:56,680 --> 00:21:00,066 The bloody rag I had wrapped around my wrist hadn't caught his attention ... 267 00:21:00,117 --> 00:21:02,952 ... he'd have seen the bundle for sure. 268 00:21:03,002 --> 00:21:06,008 So I beat it, when he was phoning for a doctor. 269 00:21:06,059 --> 00:21:08,463 That was fifteen – sixteen years ago. 270 00:21:08,514 --> 00:21:11,950 I haven’t been home since. 271 00:21:14,395 --> 00:21:18,253 Pull in there for a bite of something, huh? I’ll buy you ... 272 00:21:18,303 --> 00:21:23,253 Brother, was I hungry. I hadn’t had anything in my stomach for hours. 273 00:21:23,303 --> 00:21:25,247 But even with that gnawing in the pit of my belly. 274 00:21:25,297 --> 00:21:28,794 I didn’t want to be in too big a rush to put on the feed bag. 275 00:21:28,845 --> 00:21:31,660 First, I had to make sure this guy knew the score. 276 00:21:31,710 --> 00:21:35,458 If I got him down on me, goodbye ticket to Hollywood. 277 00:21:35,508 --> 00:21:38,845 - I’ll wait out here for you, mister. - If it’s the money, don’t worry about paying for it. 278 00:21:38,895 --> 00:21:40,017 This time it’s on me. 279 00:21:40,067 --> 00:21:42,302 - Well, that’s quite ... - Haskell. Think nothing of it. 280 00:21:42,352 --> 00:21:45,779 You make your first million, maybe you can do the same for me. Come on, New York. 281 00:21:45,829 --> 00:21:47,532 I gotta make the West Coast by Wednesday. 282 00:21:47,582 --> 00:21:50,368 There’s a horse running at Santa Anita, named "Paradisical" ... 283 00:21:50,418 --> 00:21:54,186 - Means dough to for me, if I’m on it. - You’ll make it, alright 284 00:21:54,236 --> 00:21:57,853 He did most of the talking, during the half hour we were in the place. 285 00:21:57,903 --> 00:21:59,907 I ate. 286 00:21:59,957 --> 00:22:04,015 He rambled on about his old man, whom he hadn’t heard from since he ran away as a kid,... 287 00:22:04,066 --> 00:22:06,029 ... and how he happened to become a bookie. 288 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:08,735 And then all about how he got rooked in Miami. 289 00:22:08,785 --> 00:22:11,691 One race, 38 grand. They cleaned out my book. 290 00:22:11,741 --> 00:22:14,156 - How do you like that? - It was tough luck. 291 00:22:14,206 --> 00:22:16,952 Yeah, and I'm supposed to be the smart guy. You just wait ... 292 00:22:17,002 --> 00:22:19,527 I’m going back to Florida, next season, with all kinds of jack. 293 00:22:19,577 --> 00:22:22,563 And you watch those stinkers run for cover. 294 00:22:22,613 --> 00:22:26,371 - Want anything else? - No thanks, I've had plenty. 295 00:22:30,679 --> 00:22:34,286 Got the cheque there, sister? 296 00:22:35,689 --> 00:22:37,643 Oh, just a minute! Your change, sir. 297 00:22:37,693 --> 00:22:40,439 - Keep it, sister. - Oh, thank you, sir. Call again. 298 00:22:40,489 --> 00:22:43,675 I’ll be waiting outside for you, when you’ve finished work. 299 00:22:43,726 --> 00:22:46,671 Sharp chick, huh? 300 00:22:52,994 --> 00:22:56,612 I drove all that night, while Haskell slept like a log. 301 00:22:56,662 --> 00:23:00,910 After a while, I began to get sleepy myself. 302 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:02,834 I was happy though. 303 00:23:02,884 --> 00:23:04,968 Soon I’d be with Sue again. 304 00:23:05,018 --> 00:23:09,798 The long trip was practically over, and there’d be no more hoofing it down the concrete. 305 00:23:09,848 --> 00:23:12,183 I began to think of the future ... 306 00:23:12,233 --> 00:23:16,061 ... which couldn’t have been brighter if I’d embroidered it with neon lights. 307 00:23:16,111 --> 00:23:19,798 It was nice to think of Sue, shooting to the top. 308 00:23:19,848 --> 00:23:23,927 Hmpf ... It’s amazing what a full belly can do to your imagination. 309 00:23:26,632 --> 00:23:31,311 Your eyes of blue, your kisses too 310 00:23:31,362 --> 00:23:35,740 I never knew what they could do 311 00:23:35,791 --> 00:23:44,207 I can't believe that you're in love with me 312 00:23:44,258 --> 00:23:48,827 You're telling everyone I know 313 00:23:48,877 --> 00:23:53,296 I'm on your mind each place you go 314 00:23:53,346 --> 00:24:05,440 I can't believe that you're in love with me 315 00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:17,845 Mister Haskell. 316 00:24:17,895 --> 00:24:20,731 Mister Haskell. 317 00:24:22,034 --> 00:24:24,008 Mister Haskell, wake up. It's raining. 318 00:24:24,058 --> 00:24:28,878 Don’t you think we ought to stop and put up the top? 319 00:24:35,110 --> 00:24:40,541 Mister Haskell, I’m going to put up the top. 320 00:24:51,613 --> 00:24:54,018 So far, things had been my way ... 321 00:24:54,068 --> 00:24:56,363 ... but from then on something else stepped in and shunted me off ... 322 00:24:56,413 --> 00:25:00,020 ... to a different destination than the one I picked for myself ... 323 00:25:00,070 --> 00:25:04,389 ... for when I pulled open that door ... 324 00:25:06,263 --> 00:25:09,780 Mr Haskell, what’s the matter? Are you hurt? 325 00:25:09,830 --> 00:25:12,506 Are you hurt, Mr Haskell? 326 00:25:12,556 --> 00:25:15,762 Doubtless ... I’ll listen to it. 327 00:25:15,812 --> 00:25:19,129 ... but I know what you’re going to hand me even before you open your mouth. 328 00:25:19,179 --> 00:25:21,694 You’re going to tell me you don’t believe my story about Haskell died ... 329 00:25:21,744 --> 00:25:27,716 ... and give me that "don’t make me laugh" expression on your smug faces. 330 00:25:28,528 --> 00:25:31,845 I saw at once he was dead ... and I was in for it. 331 00:25:31,895 --> 00:25:33,668 Who would believe that he fell out of the car? 332 00:25:33,718 --> 00:25:36,033 Why if Haskell came to, which of course he couldn’t, even he would swear ... 333 00:25:36,083 --> 00:25:37,997 ... I conked him over the head for his dough. 334 00:25:38,047 --> 00:25:40,712 Yes, I was in for it. 335 00:25:40,763 --> 00:25:43,598 Instinct told me to run, but then I realised it was hopeless. 336 00:25:43,648 --> 00:25:45,692 There were lots of people back down the road who could identify me. 337 00:25:45,743 --> 00:25:47,797 That gas station guy and the waitress. 338 00:25:47,847 --> 00:25:51,234 I would be in a worse spot then, trying to explain why I beat it. 339 00:25:51,284 --> 00:25:54,160 The next possibility was to sit tight and tell the truth when the cops came. 340 00:25:54,210 --> 00:26:00,683 But that would be crazy. They’d laugh at the truth, and I’d have my head in a noose. 341 00:26:00,733 --> 00:26:03,629 So what else was there to do, but hide the body and get away in the car? 342 00:26:03,679 --> 00:26:05,933 I couldn’t leave the car there with him in the gully. 343 00:26:05,983 --> 00:26:10,252 That would be like erecting a tombstone. 344 00:26:36,445 --> 00:26:39,521 My idea was to cover him with brush, not to rob him. 345 00:26:39,571 --> 00:26:42,206 But then I remembered that even if I only drove the car for a hundred miles or so ... 346 00:26:42,257 --> 00:26:44,892 ... I would need money for gas. 347 00:26:44,942 --> 00:26:48,970 Besides, it was stupid of me to leave all that money on a dead man. 348 00:26:49,020 --> 00:26:54,732 Not only that. I’d have to take his drivers license in case I was stopped or something. 349 00:26:54,782 --> 00:26:58,730 I didn’t like to think about it, but by that time I’d done just what the police would say I did ... 350 00:26:58,780 --> 00:27:00,914 ... even if I didn’t. 351 00:27:00,964 --> 00:27:05,584 My clothes. The owner of such an expensive car would never be wearing them. 352 00:27:05,634 --> 00:27:10,013 Some cop might pull me in under suspicion. 353 00:27:32,889 --> 00:27:34,833 Hey you, this your car? 354 00:27:34,883 --> 00:27:37,939 Don’t you know better than to leave a car with the wheels half way in the middle of the road? 355 00:27:37,989 --> 00:27:39,522 That’s the way accidents happen. 356 00:27:39,572 --> 00:27:42,739 I ... I’m sorry officer. I was just putting up my top. 357 00:27:42,789 --> 00:27:45,334 - I didn’t think. - Well, the next time think. 358 00:27:45,384 --> 00:27:47,939 I’ll let you go now, but watch your step in the future. 359 00:27:47,989 --> 00:27:50,534 I know that's a lonely stretch, but cars come by here once and a while, and ... 360 00:27:50,584 --> 00:27:52,628 ... we have plenty of crack ups. 361 00:27:52,679 --> 00:27:55,514 Thanks officer. 362 00:28:17,168 --> 00:28:19,954 I left nothing in the car that would give me away as Roberts. 363 00:28:20,004 --> 00:28:25,154 If they found a dead man in the gully now, it would be me. 364 00:28:31,236 --> 00:28:34,062 As I drove off, it was still raining ... 365 00:28:34,112 --> 00:28:37,940 ... and the drops streaked down the windshield like tears. 366 00:28:39,754 --> 00:28:44,784 I kept imagining I was being followed and that I could hear sirens back in the distance. 367 00:28:44,834 --> 00:28:48,591 Just how long it took me to cover the 60 odd miles to the California state line ... 368 00:28:48,641 --> 00:28:50,074 ... I don’t know. 369 00:28:50,124 --> 00:28:52,389 I lost all track of time. 370 00:28:52,439 --> 00:28:59,243 But the rain had stopped and the sun was up when I pulled up to the inspection station. 371 00:29:00,936 --> 00:29:05,065 - Hello. Carrying any fruits or vegetables? - No. 372 00:29:05,115 --> 00:29:08,822 - Any livestock or poultry? - No. 373 00:29:08,872 --> 00:29:14,514 I’d like to see your registration and and driver's license, please. 374 00:29:15,876 --> 00:29:20,275 - Anything in the baggage compartment? - Just baggage. 375 00:29:20,325 --> 00:29:23,842 Charles Haskell Jr, age 30, brown eyes, dark hair ... 376 00:29:23,893 --> 00:29:25,877 ... identifying marks, none. 377 00:29:25,927 --> 00:29:28,171 - Are you Charles Haskell Jr? - Yes. 378 00:29:28,221 --> 00:29:30,466 Well, remember that if you’re employed and stay over than 30 days ... 379 00:29:30,516 --> 00:29:32,310 ... you take out California plates. 380 00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:36,187 Alright officer, but I'll only be in the state a short while. 381 00:29:36,237 --> 00:29:39,454 Right, you can go now. 382 00:29:45,105 --> 00:29:48,803 I couldn’t drive any further without any sleep. Cops or no cops ... 383 00:29:48,853 --> 00:29:53,162 ... I knew I had to hit the hay and hit it hard. 384 00:29:53,212 --> 00:29:56,158 I was dead tired. 385 00:30:25,316 --> 00:30:29,084 No ... No you can’t, Mr Haskell. 386 00:30:29,445 --> 00:30:31,619 No. 387 00:30:38,132 --> 00:30:41,569 Mr Haskell, you can’t die. 388 00:30:41,990 --> 00:30:45,758 They’ll think ... that I did it. 389 00:30:46,199 --> 00:30:49,635 No, Mr Haskell. No ... no. 390 00:31:04,876 --> 00:31:09,275 - Who’s there? - It’s the maid. Can I can come in and clean? 391 00:31:09,325 --> 00:31:10,708 Later. 392 00:31:10,758 --> 00:31:14,526 - In a half hour. - Alright, sir. 393 00:31:37,662 --> 00:31:41,811 There was no time to lose. Every minute I had to be Charles Haskell was dangerous. 394 00:31:41,861 --> 00:31:44,165 And I’d have to be Charles Haskell, until I got to some city ... 395 00:31:44,216 --> 00:31:49,085 ... where I could leave the car and be swallowed up. 396 00:31:51,751 --> 00:31:54,436 That meant driving the car as far as San Bernardino ... 397 00:31:54,486 --> 00:31:56,049 ... maybe even to Los Angeles. 398 00:31:56,099 --> 00:31:57,993 In a little town, I might be noticed ... 399 00:31:58,043 --> 00:32:01,049 ... but in a city, I should be safe enough. 400 00:32:01,100 --> 00:32:05,038 Then after I ditched the car, I could go on to Sue. 401 00:32:05,088 --> 00:32:07,262 But those five minutes at the state line ... 402 00:32:07,312 --> 00:32:12,102 ... made me realise, it might be a good idea to find out a little bit about Mr Haskell. 403 00:32:12,152 --> 00:32:15,809 Then if anyone asked me questions I could give the right answers. 404 00:32:15,859 --> 00:32:20,128 The first thing I found out was that I had $768. 405 00:32:20,178 --> 00:32:23,344 This was a lot of jack. But believe me ... 406 00:32:23,395 --> 00:32:28,154 ... it was the kind of money I’d rather not have. 407 00:32:33,174 --> 00:32:36,721 And then I found out from a letter Haskell was carting around in his bag ... 408 00:32:36,772 --> 00:32:39,447 ... that he wasn’t the open-handed easy going big shot ... 409 00:32:39,497 --> 00:32:42,643 ... who went around buying dinners for strange hitchhikers. 410 00:32:42,693 --> 00:32:46,742 Before I got done reading it, I saw him more as a chiseller. 411 00:32:46,792 --> 00:32:49,477 It was written to his old man in California ... 412 00:32:49,527 --> 00:32:52,153 ... the one he hadn’t seen in so many years. 413 00:32:52,203 --> 00:32:54,628 In it Haskell posed as a salesman ... 414 00:32:54,678 --> 00:32:58,235 ... of hymnals, of all things. 415 00:32:58,285 --> 00:33:01,121 It was easy to see where Haskell expected to raise the new stake ... 416 00:33:01,171 --> 00:33:03,215 ... for his book in Miami. 417 00:33:03,265 --> 00:33:06,321 By rooking his old man. 418 00:33:06,371 --> 00:33:09,337 That was about all I found out from his effects ... 419 00:33:09,387 --> 00:33:11,221 ... and it was enough. 420 00:33:11,271 --> 00:33:16,512 I told myself maybe old man Haskell was lucky his son kicked off. 421 00:33:16,562 --> 00:33:22,614 He would never know it, but it saved him from taking a flyer on sacred literature preferred. 422 00:33:46,913 --> 00:33:51,352 Near the airport of Desert Centre, I pulled up for water. 423 00:33:51,402 --> 00:33:54,398 There was a woman. 424 00:33:57,063 --> 00:34:01,112 Hey you! Come on, if you want a ride. 425 00:34:45,882 --> 00:34:49,519 - How far are you going? - How far are you going? 426 00:34:49,569 --> 00:34:53,708 That took me by surprise, and I turned turned my head to look her over. 427 00:34:53,758 --> 00:34:56,764 She was facing straight ahead, so I couldn’t see her eyes. 428 00:34:56,814 --> 00:35:00,782 But she was young, not more than 24. 429 00:35:00,832 --> 00:35:06,043 Man, she looked as if she’d just been thrown off the crummiest freight train in the world. 430 00:35:06,093 --> 00:35:09,580 Yet in spite of this, I got the impression of beauty. 431 00:35:09,630 --> 00:35:11,985 Not the beauty of a movie actress, mind you ... 432 00:35:12,035 --> 00:35:14,610 ... or the beauty you dream about when you're with your wife. 433 00:35:14,660 --> 00:35:16,393 But a natural beauty. 434 00:35:16,444 --> 00:35:21,193 A beauty that’s almost homely, because it’s so real. 435 00:35:21,243 --> 00:35:23,227 Then suddenly she turned to face me. 436 00:35:23,277 --> 00:35:26,333 - How far did you say we’re going? - Los Angeles. 437 00:35:26,384 --> 00:35:30,231 L.A.? ... L.A’s good enough for me, mister 438 00:35:30,281 --> 00:35:33,037 - That’s what I was afraid of. - What did you say? 439 00:35:33,087 --> 00:35:35,131 Oh nothing. Just thinking out loud. 440 00:35:35,181 --> 00:35:37,927 People get in trouble for doing that. 441 00:35:37,977 --> 00:35:41,314 - What’s your name? - You can call me Vera, if you like. 442 00:35:41,364 --> 00:35:44,951 - Do you live in Los Angeles? - No. 443 00:35:45,001 --> 00:35:47,586 - Where are you coming from? - Oh, back there. 444 00:35:47,636 --> 00:35:50,021 - Needles? - No. 445 00:35:50,071 --> 00:35:53,608 Oh sure, Phoenix. You look just like a Phoenix girl. 446 00:35:53,659 --> 00:35:55,983 Are the girls in Phoenix that bad? 447 00:35:56,033 --> 00:35:58,749 The girl must have been pretty tired, because she fell asleep ... 448 00:35:58,799 --> 00:36:01,645 ... not twenty minutes after she stepped into the car. 449 00:36:01,695 --> 00:36:06,394 She lay sprawled out with her head resting against the far door like Haskell. 450 00:36:06,444 --> 00:36:10,903 I didn’t like that part of it much but I didn’t wake her up. 451 00:36:10,953 --> 00:36:13,358 It wasn’t that this girl still worried me. 452 00:36:13,408 --> 00:36:16,515 I’d gotten over that funny feeling I had, when she looked at me ... 453 00:36:16,565 --> 00:36:19,601 ... which I put down as just my jangled nerves. 454 00:36:19,651 --> 00:36:22,777 With her eyes closed, and the tempest gone out of them 455 00:36:22,827 --> 00:36:24,922 She seemed harmless enough. 456 00:36:24,972 --> 00:36:28,659 Instead of disliking her, I began to feel sorry for her. 457 00:36:28,709 --> 00:36:32,457 The poor kid probably had had a rough time of it. 458 00:36:32,507 --> 00:36:36,605 Who was she anyway? And why was she going to Los Angeles? 459 00:36:36,655 --> 00:36:39,050 And where’d she come from in the first place. 460 00:36:39,100 --> 00:36:41,836 The only thing I knew about her was her name. 461 00:36:41,886 --> 00:36:45,864 Not that it made any difference. A few hours more, we’d be in Hollywood. 462 00:36:45,914 --> 00:36:49,181 I’d forget where I parked the car and look up Sue. 463 00:36:49,231 --> 00:36:52,157 This nightmare of being a dead man would be over. 464 00:36:52,207 --> 00:36:54,982 Who this dame was, well it was no business of mine. 465 00:36:55,032 --> 00:36:57,628 Where did you leave his body? 466 00:36:57,678 --> 00:37:01,375 Where did you leave the owner of this car? You’re not fooling anyone. 467 00:37:01,425 --> 00:37:04,411 This buggy belongs to a guy named Haskell. That's not you, mister. 468 00:37:04,461 --> 00:37:07,678 You're out of your mind, that's my name, Charles Haskell. I can prove it. 469 00:37:07,728 --> 00:37:09,732 - My driver’s license. - Save yourself the trouble, mister. 470 00:37:09,782 --> 00:37:12,017 Having Haskell’s wallet only makes it worse. 471 00:37:12,067 --> 00:37:15,914 It just so happens I rode with Charlie Haskell all the way from Louisiana. 472 00:37:15,965 --> 00:37:18,089 He picked me up outside of Shreveport. 473 00:37:18,139 --> 00:37:20,293 - You rode ... - You heard me. 474 00:37:20,343 --> 00:37:22,357 Then it all came back to me. 475 00:37:22,408 --> 00:37:25,704 All the talk about duelling and scars and scratches. 476 00:37:25,754 --> 00:37:27,598 There was no doubt about it. 477 00:37:27,648 --> 00:37:30,263 Vera must be the woman Haskell had mentioned. 478 00:37:30,313 --> 00:37:32,047 She must have passed me while I slept. 479 00:37:32,097 --> 00:37:35,193 Well? ... Well, I'm waiting. 480 00:37:35,243 --> 00:37:39,011 My goose was cooked. She had me. 481 00:37:39,131 --> 00:37:41,436 That Haskell guy wasn’t dead yet. 482 00:37:41,486 --> 00:37:44,542 He wasn’t stretched out stiff and cold in any Arizona gully. 483 00:37:44,592 --> 00:37:49,552 He was sitting right there in the car laughing like mad while he haunted me. 484 00:37:49,602 --> 00:37:50,604 Well? 485 00:37:50,655 --> 00:37:54,462 There was nothing I could say. It was her move. 486 00:37:54,512 --> 00:37:56,416 Vera or whatever her name was ... 487 00:37:56,466 --> 00:37:59,542 It was just my luck, picking her up on the road. 488 00:37:59,593 --> 00:38:03,200 Couldn’t have been Helen or Mary or Evelyn or Ruth. 489 00:38:03,250 --> 00:38:07,048 It had to be the very last person, I should ever have met. 490 00:38:07,098 --> 00:38:08,911 That’s life. 491 00:38:08,961 --> 00:38:14,162 Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you. 492 00:38:17,358 --> 00:38:19,783 I told her everything, but she didn’t believe my story. 493 00:38:19,833 --> 00:38:21,527 I should have saved my breath. 494 00:38:21,577 --> 00:38:24,072 That’s the greatest cock-and-bull story I ever heard. 495 00:38:24,122 --> 00:38:27,860 So he fell out of his car? Say, who do you think you’re talking to? A hick? 496 00:38:27,910 --> 00:38:32,128 Listen mister, I’ve been around, and I know a wrong guy when I see one. 497 00:38:32,178 --> 00:38:33,611 What did you do? Kiss him with a wrench? 498 00:38:33,661 --> 00:38:37,248 Now wait a minute, what I told you is true. You see that’s why I had to do it? 499 00:38:37,299 --> 00:38:39,854 You think I killed him. Well, the cops would have thought so too. 500 00:38:39,904 --> 00:38:42,389 Yeah, well maybe they still think so. 501 00:38:42,439 --> 00:38:44,864 What makes you so sure, I’ll shut up about this. 502 00:38:44,914 --> 00:38:49,333 Vera, I’m innocent. Give me a break will you? 503 00:38:49,383 --> 00:38:53,411 It won’t do me any good having you fenced. The cops are no friends of mine. 504 00:38:53,461 --> 00:38:56,407 Now, if there was a reward ... But there isn’t. 505 00:38:56,457 --> 00:38:57,179 Thanks. 506 00:38:57,229 --> 00:39:00,936 Don’t thank me yet, I’m not through with you by a long shot. 507 00:39:00,986 --> 00:39:04,093 Let’s see that roll. 508 00:39:08,812 --> 00:39:10,445 Is that all Haskell had? 509 00:39:10,496 --> 00:39:12,399 - Isn’t it enough? - No. I thought he had more. 510 00:39:12,449 --> 00:39:14,704 Not that I know of. You can search me if you think I’m holding out on you. 511 00:39:14,754 --> 00:39:16,407 Well, maybe I will at that. 512 00:39:16,458 --> 00:39:18,702 He told me he was going to bet $3,000 ... 513 00:39:18,752 --> 00:39:21,538 ... on a horse named "Paradisical" on Wednesday at Santa Anita. 514 00:39:21,588 --> 00:39:23,893 - He was stringing you along. He meant $300. - Maybe. 515 00:39:23,943 --> 00:39:27,199 Sure, three bucks, three hundred. He was a piece of cheese a big blowhard. 516 00:39:27,249 --> 00:39:30,155 Listen mister, don’t try and tell me anything about Charlie Haskell. 517 00:39:30,205 --> 00:39:32,099 Remember, I knew him better than you did. 518 00:39:32,149 --> 00:39:34,965 OK, then you knew he was a four-flusher. That explains the three grand bet. 519 00:39:35,015 --> 00:39:37,400 I'm not so sure, he didn’t have that three grand. 520 00:39:37,450 --> 00:39:40,987 Why should I believe you? You’ve got all the earmarks of a cheap crook. 521 00:39:41,037 --> 00:39:42,490 - Now wait a minute. - Shut up. 522 00:39:42,540 --> 00:39:44,133 You're a cheap crook and you killed him. 523 00:39:44,183 --> 00:39:47,640 For two cents, I’d change my mind and turn you in. I don’t like you. 524 00:39:47,691 --> 00:39:50,246 - Alright alright, don’t get sore. - I’m not getting sore. 525 00:39:50,296 --> 00:39:52,350 But just remember who’s boss around here. 526 00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:55,556 If you shut up and don’t give me any arguments you’ll have nothing to worry about. 527 00:39:55,606 --> 00:39:56,839 But if you act wise ... 528 00:39:56,889 --> 00:40:00,045 ... I’ll make sure you pop into jail so fast, it'll give you the bends. 529 00:40:00,096 --> 00:40:01,969 - I’m not arguing. - We see that you don’t. 530 00:40:02,019 --> 00:40:03,402 You know, as crooked as you look ... 531 00:40:03,452 --> 00:40:06,799 ... I hate to see a fella as young as you wind up sniffing that perfume that ... 532 00:40:06,849 --> 00:40:08,482 ... Arizona hands out free to murderers. 533 00:40:08,533 --> 00:40:10,286 - I'm not a murderer. - Of course, you’re not ... 534 00:40:10,336 --> 00:40:11,839 Haskell knocked his own head off. 535 00:40:11,889 --> 00:40:13,412 He fell, that's all, just like I told you. 536 00:40:13,463 --> 00:40:15,557 Sure and then he made you a present of his belongings. 537 00:40:15,607 --> 00:40:17,320 - I explained why I did that. - Oh, skip it. 538 00:40:17,370 --> 00:40:20,106 It doesn’t make a difference one way or another. I'm not a mourner. 539 00:40:20,156 --> 00:40:22,892 I liked Haskell even less than I like you. 540 00:40:22,942 --> 00:40:25,367 - Yeah, I saw what you did to him. - What do you mean? 541 00:40:25,417 --> 00:40:28,914 - The scratches on his wrist. - Sure, I scratched him. 542 00:40:28,964 --> 00:40:31,168 I’ll say you did. 543 00:40:31,218 --> 00:40:33,763 So your idea was to drive the car a little way ... 544 00:40:33,814 --> 00:40:37,541 ... maybe into San Bernardino and then leave it. You weren’t going to sell it? 545 00:40:37,591 --> 00:40:40,758 Sell it? Do you think I'm crazy? Somebody else’s car. 546 00:40:40,808 --> 00:40:43,353 Yeah, all I want is to leave it somewhere and forget I ever saw it. 547 00:40:43,403 --> 00:40:46,309 Not only don’t you have any scruples, you don’t have any brains. 548 00:40:46,359 --> 00:40:47,361 I don’t get you. 549 00:40:47,411 --> 00:40:50,918 Maybe, it’s a good thing you met me. You’d have got yourself caught, sure. 550 00:40:50,968 --> 00:40:52,070 Why you dope. 551 00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:55,698 Don’t you know that a deserted automobile always rates an investigation? 552 00:40:55,748 --> 00:40:56,980 Huh? 553 00:40:57,030 --> 00:40:59,856 Look, the cops find a car. Then they get curious. 554 00:40:59,906 --> 00:41:01,690 They wonder where the owner is. 555 00:41:01,740 --> 00:41:05,247 So all right, they don’t trace Haskell. They trace you. 556 00:41:05,297 --> 00:41:06,880 I never thought of that. 557 00:41:06,930 --> 00:41:09,736 The only safe way to get rid of the car is to sell it to a dealer. 558 00:41:09,786 --> 00:41:11,860 Get it registered under a new name. 559 00:41:11,910 --> 00:41:14,576 Hey, stop at the next store. I want to get a bottle and do some shopping ... 560 00:41:14,626 --> 00:41:16,169 ... before we hit L.A. 561 00:41:16,219 --> 00:41:19,385 OK, if we find a place, I’ll drop you off and pick you up later. 562 00:41:19,436 --> 00:41:21,570 Nothing doing. You’re coming in too. 563 00:41:21,620 --> 00:41:24,486 From now on, you and I are like the Siamese twins. 564 00:41:24,536 --> 00:41:26,630 Have it your way, but I don’t get the point. 565 00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:28,774 The point is: I don’t want you to get lost. 566 00:41:28,824 --> 00:41:31,770 - I’m not going to beat it, if that’s what you're afraid of. - I’ll say you’re not. 567 00:41:31,821 --> 00:41:34,716 Why I’m going to see you sell this car, so you don’t caught. 568 00:41:34,766 --> 00:41:35,929 Thanks. 569 00:41:35,979 --> 00:41:38,614 Course your interest wouldn’t be financial, would it? 570 00:41:38,664 --> 00:41:41,330 You wouldn’t want a small percentage of the profits. 571 00:41:41,380 --> 00:41:44,346 Well, now that you insist, how can I refuse. 572 00:41:44,396 --> 00:41:48,073 - A hundred percent will do. - Fine. I’m relieved. 573 00:41:48,123 --> 00:41:50,398 I thought for a moment, you were going to take it all. 574 00:41:50,448 --> 00:41:53,294 I don’t want to be a hog. 575 00:41:53,344 --> 00:41:55,749 A few hours later, we were in Hollywood. 576 00:41:55,799 --> 00:41:58,725 I was recognising places Sue had written about. 577 00:41:58,775 --> 00:42:01,791 It struck me that far from being at the end of the trip ... 578 00:42:01,841 --> 00:42:05,869 ... there was a greater distance between Sue and me than when I started out. 579 00:42:06,180 --> 00:42:09,507 Vera wasn’t kidding with that “Siamese twins" crack. 580 00:42:09,557 --> 00:42:11,190 She rented a little apartment ... 581 00:42:11,240 --> 00:42:13,725 ... as Mrs Charles Haskell. 582 00:42:13,775 --> 00:42:17,302 When I objected to this, she explained it was on account of the car. 583 00:42:17,352 --> 00:42:19,477 The dealer might think something was funny, if he called ... 584 00:42:19,527 --> 00:42:23,956 ... and found we were using different names. 585 00:42:26,561 --> 00:42:29,216 - Home sweet home. - Yeah. 586 00:42:29,266 --> 00:42:32,102 Not bad either. 587 00:42:38,285 --> 00:42:41,090 In case there is any doubt in your mind, I’ll take the bedroom. 588 00:42:41,140 --> 00:42:43,365 Yep. 589 00:42:43,415 --> 00:42:46,692 Sure is stuffy in here. 590 00:42:52,814 --> 00:42:56,421 - Keep the windows shut. - OK. 591 00:42:56,882 --> 00:43:02,584 The old crow downstairs said there’s a folding bed behind this door. 592 00:43:06,411 --> 00:43:09,738 You know how to work it? 593 00:43:11,351 --> 00:43:14,127 I invented it. 594 00:43:16,532 --> 00:43:20,800 - Some joint. - One can’t have everything. 595 00:43:23,626 --> 00:43:26,131 I’m first in the bathroom. 596 00:43:26,181 --> 00:43:30,670 I don’t know why, but I figured you would be. 597 00:43:38,927 --> 00:43:43,636 Boy oh boy! It sure feels good to be clean again. 598 00:43:43,887 --> 00:43:46,352 I must be 10 pounds lighter. 599 00:43:46,402 --> 00:43:49,067 You must be. 600 00:43:49,147 --> 00:43:55,621 Well that’s alright. This is exactly the way you keep your school book induction. 601 00:43:56,552 --> 00:43:59,999 I wish that guy with the sax’ would give up. 602 00:44:00,049 --> 00:44:03,216 It gets on my nerves. 603 00:44:03,557 --> 00:44:06,112 Forget it. 604 00:44:07,194 --> 00:44:09,348 Have a drink. 605 00:44:09,398 --> 00:44:13,196 Aren’t you afraid I might take you up on it? 606 00:44:13,246 --> 00:44:16,693 I didn’t want to give you a drink, I wouldn’t have offered it. 607 00:44:16,743 --> 00:44:21,042 I’m very sorry, Roberts. You got yourself into this thing. 608 00:44:21,092 --> 00:44:23,898 You should be grateful, I’m not turning you in. 609 00:44:23,948 --> 00:44:27,054 Why if I wasn’t regular, you’d be in the pen this minute being photographed ... 610 00:44:27,104 --> 00:44:30,210 ... finger-printed and being pushed around by the cops. 611 00:44:30,260 --> 00:44:34,419 So cheer up. Get rid of that long puss. 612 00:44:34,950 --> 00:44:38,938 Or is your conscience bothering you? 613 00:44:41,734 --> 00:44:43,537 No. 614 00:44:43,587 --> 00:44:47,245 - It isn’t. - Swell, that's good. 615 00:44:48,116 --> 00:44:52,986 He's dead and no mooning around will bring him back. 616 00:44:53,828 --> 00:44:57,485 Anyway, I never could understand this worrying about something all been done with. 617 00:44:57,535 --> 00:44:59,590 Now look, Vera, for the last time, I didn’t kill him. 618 00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:03,527 Haskell was sick man. Maybe he was dead before he fell out of the car. I don’t know. 619 00:45:03,578 --> 00:45:06,433 Sure, sure. He died of old age. 620 00:45:06,483 --> 00:45:08,538 Alright ... 621 00:45:08,588 --> 00:45:11,644 ... so it’ll make you sociable. 622 00:45:11,694 --> 00:45:14,800 You didn’t kill him. 623 00:45:23,648 --> 00:45:26,043 Thanks. 624 00:45:35,442 --> 00:45:39,199 - We’re out of liquor, Roberts. - Yeah. 625 00:45:39,250 --> 00:45:42,356 Too bad, I felt like getting tight tonight. 626 00:45:42,406 --> 00:45:46,073 - Well, I think you succeeded. - Am I tight? 627 00:45:46,123 --> 00:45:47,677 As a prima donna’s corset. 628 00:45:47,727 --> 00:45:51,003 That’s good. I wanted to get tight. 629 00:45:51,053 --> 00:45:53,699 Why? What have got to get tight about. 630 00:45:53,749 --> 00:45:57,466 Oh, I don’t know, a few things. 631 00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:01,244 You should have my worries. 632 00:46:01,294 --> 00:46:03,649 If I had your troubles, I’d stay sober. 633 00:46:03,699 --> 00:46:07,577 And I’ve got the key to that door! 634 00:46:08,869 --> 00:46:10,813 Yep. 635 00:46:10,863 --> 00:46:14,621 - Maybe you're right. - I’m always right. 636 00:46:14,671 --> 00:46:17,427 You know, I don’t like your attitude, Roberts. 637 00:46:17,477 --> 00:46:20,382 Well, there’s a lot of things I don’t like. 638 00:46:20,433 --> 00:46:22,878 Sure is. 639 00:46:24,371 --> 00:46:28,328 Life’s like a ball game, you got to take a swing at whatever comes along ... 640 00:46:28,379 --> 00:46:31,435 ... before you wake up and find it’s the ninth innings. 641 00:46:31,485 --> 00:46:33,810 - You read that somewhere. - That's the problem with you, Roberts. 642 00:46:33,860 --> 00:46:36,114 All you do is bellyache 643 00:46:36,164 --> 00:46:40,453 I’m taking it easy, and trying to make the best of things. 644 00:46:40,503 --> 00:46:42,908 Maybe that's what wrong with the whole world. 645 00:46:42,958 --> 00:46:44,571 It’s a profession. 646 00:46:44,621 --> 00:46:47,227 People knock themselves out trying to bust fate. 647 00:46:47,277 --> 00:46:50,473 Now take you, for instance. You're lucky to be alive. 648 00:46:50,523 --> 00:46:52,758 Why, supposing Haskell had opened your door. 649 00:46:52,808 --> 00:46:57,137 You’d be playing a harp, now. Think of that. 650 00:46:57,187 --> 00:47:00,604 You think of it. I’m tired of thinking. 651 00:47:00,654 --> 00:47:03,600 There’s plenty of people dying this minute ... 652 00:47:03,650 --> 00:47:08,079 ... would give anything to trade places with you. 653 00:47:08,129 --> 00:47:10,744 I know what I'm talking about. 654 00:47:10,794 --> 00:47:12,217 I'm not so sure. 655 00:47:12,267 --> 00:47:14,522 At least, they know they’re done for. 656 00:47:14,572 --> 00:47:18,399 They don’t have to sweat blood wondering if they are. 657 00:47:18,450 --> 00:47:21,846 Your philosophy stinks, pal. 658 00:47:21,897 --> 00:47:24,111 We all know we’re going to kick off some day. 659 00:47:24,161 --> 00:47:27,768 It’s only a question of when. 660 00:47:28,269 --> 00:47:33,029 What got us on this subject anyway? We’ll be discussing politics, next. 661 00:47:33,079 --> 00:47:35,364 Yeah. 662 00:47:35,785 --> 00:47:37,989 Where’d you hide the butts? 663 00:47:38,039 --> 00:47:41,205 On the table, sucker. 664 00:47:47,348 --> 00:47:51,015 We are bored each other with conversation for a couple of hours longer. 665 00:47:51,065 --> 00:47:53,821 Every five minutes, one of us was wishing we had another bottle ... 666 00:47:53,871 --> 00:47:57,308 ... or a radio, or something to read. 667 00:47:57,358 --> 00:48:00,134 Then finally, we ended ran out of chatter. 668 00:48:00,184 --> 00:48:02,178 I know it’s only eleven o’clock, but I want to get up early ... 669 00:48:02,228 --> 00:48:03,841 ... and make the rounds of the used car lots. 670 00:48:03,891 --> 00:48:06,877 Don’t worry about that we got all the time in the world. 671 00:48:06,927 --> 00:48:08,170 Maybe you have, but if you think I want ... 672 00:48:08,220 --> 00:48:10,775 ... to stay cooped up in this place any longer than I have to, you're batty. 673 00:48:10,825 --> 00:48:12,148 It’s not a bad place. 674 00:48:12,198 --> 00:48:14,142 You pay plenty for digs like this in New York. 675 00:48:14,192 --> 00:48:18,350 I wouldn’t like it, if it was the Ritz. 676 00:48:20,575 --> 00:48:21,978 Rotten liquor. 677 00:48:22,028 --> 00:48:24,713 You got a mean cough. You want to do something about it. 678 00:48:24,763 --> 00:48:26,076 I’ll be alright. 679 00:48:26,126 --> 00:48:28,290 That's what Camille said. 680 00:48:28,341 --> 00:48:31,667 - Who? - Nobody you know. 681 00:48:34,753 --> 00:48:38,491 - Wasn’t that the dame that died of consumption - Yes. 682 00:48:38,541 --> 00:48:41,247 Wouldn’t it be a break for you, if I did kick off. 683 00:48:41,297 --> 00:48:44,253 You’d be free with old Haskell’s stolen car. 684 00:48:44,303 --> 00:48:47,078 I don’t want to see anybody die. 685 00:48:47,128 --> 00:48:48,892 Not even me? 686 00:48:48,942 --> 00:48:51,988 Specially, not you. One person died on me. 687 00:48:52,038 --> 00:48:56,026 If you did. Well, that’s all I need. 688 00:48:56,297 --> 00:48:59,804 You don’t like me, do you Roberts? 689 00:48:59,854 --> 00:49:04,413 Like you? I love you. 690 00:49:04,894 --> 00:49:07,890 My favourite sport is being kept prisoner. 691 00:49:07,940 --> 00:49:10,225 After we sell the car, you can go to blazes for all I care. 692 00:49:10,275 --> 00:49:12,730 But not until then. 693 00:49:18,492 --> 00:49:21,438 I'm going to bed. 694 00:49:28,712 --> 00:49:31,738 Goodnight, Roberts. Don’t try and sneak away during the night. 695 00:49:31,788 --> 00:49:33,151 All doors are locked. 696 00:49:33,201 --> 00:49:35,245 Anyway, I find you gone in the morning ... 697 00:49:35,296 --> 00:49:36,678 ... I’ll notify the police. 698 00:49:36,728 --> 00:49:40,586 - They’ll pick you up. - Don’t worry, I know when I’m in a spot. 699 00:49:40,636 --> 00:49:41,598 Well, good night. 700 00:49:41,648 --> 00:49:44,564 I hope that that portable rack isn't too uncomfortable for you. 701 00:49:44,614 --> 00:49:48,773 Don’t lose any sleep over it, will you Vera? 702 00:50:24,194 --> 00:50:36,599 Crest View 6-5-7-2-3 703 00:50:37,591 --> 00:50:41,309 Hello? Hello? 704 00:50:41,810 --> 00:50:45,938 Hello? Hello? 705 00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:56,399 No. Not yet, darling. 706 00:50:56,690 --> 00:51:00,848 Tomorrow ... maybe. 707 00:51:03,904 --> 00:51:06,960 If this were fiction, I would fall in love with Vera. 708 00:51:07,011 --> 00:51:09,145 Marry her and make a respectable woman of her. 709 00:51:09,195 --> 00:51:12,582 Or else, she would make some supreme, Class A sacrifice for me ... 710 00:51:12,632 --> 00:51:14,726 ... and die. 711 00:51:14,776 --> 00:51:16,991 Sue and I would bawl a little over her grave ... 712 00:51:17,041 --> 00:51:20,017 ... and make some crack about there’s good in all of us. 713 00:51:20,067 --> 00:51:23,744 But Vera, unfortunately, was just as rotten in the morning ... 714 00:51:23,794 --> 00:51:27,121 ... as she’d been the night before. 715 00:51:27,171 --> 00:51:29,115 Alright alright, I'm coming. 716 00:51:29,165 --> 00:51:32,302 Look Vera, it's almost noon. 717 00:51:32,352 --> 00:51:34,777 So what? The dealers will be there all day. 718 00:51:34,827 --> 00:51:37,091 They’ll be there all year too, but we don’t have to wait that long. 719 00:51:37,141 --> 00:51:41,240 Shut up. You’re making like a husband. 720 00:51:41,861 --> 00:51:45,638 - Well, do I rate a whistle? - You sure do, but let’s go. 721 00:51:45,689 --> 00:51:49,246 Let’s go, let’s go. I spend $85 and two hours preparing bait ... 722 00:51:49,296 --> 00:51:52,703 ... and all you can say is, "Let’s go”. 723 00:51:52,753 --> 00:51:55,198 Come on. 724 00:51:58,795 --> 00:52:01,591 We passed a few used car lots last night down this way. 725 00:52:01,641 --> 00:52:03,224 What do you think we can get for this heap? 726 00:52:03,274 --> 00:52:06,871 I don’t know. Plenty. Just let me handle everything. 727 00:52:06,921 --> 00:52:08,575 Think you can get two thousand dollars? 728 00:52:08,625 --> 00:52:10,008 I don’t know. But don’t worry ... 729 00:52:10,058 --> 00:52:12,452 I’ll squeeze as much out of this guy, as I can. 730 00:52:12,503 --> 00:52:15,719 If I let it go cheap without a fight, he might think we’ve stolen the car. 731 00:52:15,769 --> 00:52:20,108 And listen, don’t make any slips and call me Roberts. That’ll cook us. 732 00:52:20,158 --> 00:52:22,032 I don’t need you to tell me that. 733 00:52:22,082 --> 00:52:24,457 You better just sit by and keep your mouth closed. 734 00:52:24,507 --> 00:52:26,531 Remember we’re both in the soup, if anything happens ... 735 00:52:26,581 --> 00:52:30,589 - Forget it and drive. - You’re my wife, Vera Haskell. 736 00:52:30,639 --> 00:52:32,703 Look, after the deal’s closed ... 737 00:52:32,753 --> 00:52:34,687 ... let’s go back to that place on Hollywood Boulevard ... 738 00:52:34,737 --> 00:52:37,413 ... where I saw the fur jacket. I want to buy it. 739 00:52:37,463 --> 00:52:40,319 After the deal’s closed, I’m saying goodbye to you. 740 00:52:40,369 --> 00:52:45,078 That’s right, I forgot. I guess I'm getting kind of used to you. 741 00:52:45,128 --> 00:52:47,243 Well that’s a habit you can start breaking. 742 00:52:47,293 --> 00:52:50,068 Let's try this place in the middle of the block. 743 00:52:55,980 --> 00:52:57,734 Good afternoon, what can I do for you? 744 00:52:57,784 --> 00:53:03,095 - We’re interested in selling a car. - If the price is right. 745 00:53:03,726 --> 00:53:08,736 Well, if it’s in good mechanical condition, it should bluebook for about $1600. 746 00:53:08,786 --> 00:53:10,339 Tony, take a look at this motor. 747 00:53:10,389 --> 00:53:13,816 Sixteen hundred, are you kidding? 748 00:53:23,937 --> 00:53:25,740 Well, maybe $1850. 749 00:53:25,790 --> 00:53:31,933 Before I let it go for $1850, I’ll wreck it and collect the insurance first. 750 00:53:33,736 --> 00:53:37,895 Lady, this motor’s seen a lot of driving. 751 00:53:42,244 --> 00:53:46,031 While the mechanic inspected the car we haggled. 752 00:53:46,081 --> 00:53:49,418 At last, when we were all worn out we hit a compromise ... 753 00:53:49,468 --> 00:53:52,304 ... his price. 754 00:53:54,268 --> 00:53:56,823 - OK, it’s a deal. - Right, come in and we’ll sign the papers. 755 00:53:56,873 --> 00:53:58,977 I have the ownership papers right here with me. 756 00:53:59,027 --> 00:54:01,553 Look Vera, in the meantime, will you clean out the ash compartment. 757 00:54:01,603 --> 00:54:06,472 - Maybe there’s some stuff in it. - Alright, darling. 758 00:54:06,973 --> 00:54:10,581 1850 bucks, that dirty crook. 759 00:54:17,845 --> 00:54:19,789 - Hmm, New York, huh? - Yup. 760 00:54:19,839 --> 00:54:23,226 - But you bought the car in Miami. - Yes. 761 00:54:23,276 --> 00:54:26,894 Well, let’s see about the insurance, we can either have it transferred or cancelled. 762 00:54:26,944 --> 00:54:30,691 Ah, what kind of insurance do you have, Mr. Haskell? 763 00:54:30,741 --> 00:54:32,475 Well ah ... 764 00:54:32,525 --> 00:54:36,172 ... aren’t all the papers there? 765 00:54:36,222 --> 00:54:37,425 I don’t see any. 766 00:54:37,475 --> 00:54:40,241 Surely you know what type of insurance you carry on the car. 767 00:54:40,291 --> 00:54:42,515 The name of the company? 768 00:54:42,565 --> 00:54:44,058 Yeah, but ... 769 00:54:44,108 --> 00:54:45,621 Well, if you’ll just tell me the name of the company ... 770 00:54:45,671 --> 00:54:48,688 - ... I'd be very glad to take care of all the details. - Well ... 771 00:54:48,738 --> 00:54:50,802 - Did you sign the papers yet? - Not yet. 772 00:54:50,852 --> 00:54:53,006 Well don’t. We’re not selling the car. 773 00:54:53,056 --> 00:54:54,930 - Well, wait a minute, Mrs Haskell. - Come on darling. 774 00:54:54,980 --> 00:54:58,337 - What’s the matter? Change your mind? - Yes, I’m sorry, I guess I have. 775 00:54:58,387 --> 00:55:00,531 - But, Vera ... - Let’s go. 776 00:55:05,772 --> 00:55:09,119 You got me out of a tight spot Vera, but I still don’t understand all this. 777 00:55:09,169 --> 00:55:12,185 You will in a minute. I almost threw away a gold mine. 778 00:55:12,235 --> 00:55:14,219 $1850 isn’t to be sneezed at. 779 00:55:14,269 --> 00:55:16,203 The car doesn’t book for as much as I thought. 780 00:55:16,253 --> 00:55:18,979 - We’re not selling the car. - You want to keep it? 781 00:55:19,029 --> 00:55:21,544 Now wait a minute, Vera, you said yourself I wouldn’t be safe ... 782 00:55:21,594 --> 00:55:23,147 ... until the car was in someone else’s name. 783 00:55:23,197 --> 00:55:24,921 I’d like to be free of this mess, when I go. 784 00:55:24,971 --> 00:55:28,528 That's just it, Robert, you’re not going. 785 00:55:28,578 --> 00:55:31,153 There’s a drive in at the corner. Pull in there and we’ll get a bite to eat ... 786 00:55:31,203 --> 00:55:32,696 ... and, I’ll explain. 787 00:55:32,746 --> 00:55:35,402 What is this - another one of your brilliant ideas? 788 00:55:41,224 --> 00:55:44,059 - Hello, may I take your order? - Make mine, a ham sandwich and coffee. 789 00:55:44,109 --> 00:55:48,929 - And for you sir? - Oh, I don’t care ... the same. 790 00:55:48,979 --> 00:55:51,534 Thank you. 791 00:55:54,711 --> 00:55:57,837 Get this, Vera. I've been pretty patient, so far. 792 00:55:57,887 --> 00:56:00,673 - I’ve done everything you asked me to do, but no more. - Shut up! 793 00:56:00,723 --> 00:56:02,186 We’ve taken Haskell’s money ... 794 00:56:02,236 --> 00:56:04,120 You can have the dough we get from selling the car ... 795 00:56:04,170 --> 00:56:05,633 ... but you’re not going to keep me a prisoner. 796 00:56:05,683 --> 00:56:07,627 It’s a good thing I bought the paper. Take a look at that. 797 00:56:07,677 --> 00:56:11,775 - Vera, I’m in no mood ... - Read that! 798 00:56:20,312 --> 00:56:21,845 - No. - Yes. 799 00:56:21,896 --> 00:56:23,549 - No, I won’t do it. - Yes, you will. 800 00:56:23,599 --> 00:56:26,615 You think I'm crazy? It's impossible I tell you. 801 00:56:26,665 --> 00:56:29,220 Excuse me. 802 00:56:33,188 --> 00:56:37,066 Blow the horn when you’re through. 803 00:56:37,968 --> 00:56:41,235 No one could possibly get away with an act like that. They’d be wise to me in a minute 804 00:56:41,285 --> 00:56:43,449 Don’t be yellow. You look enough like him. 805 00:56:43,499 --> 00:56:46,856 The same colouring and the same build. See how his clothes fit? 806 00:56:46,906 --> 00:56:48,890 I’m not kidding. You almost had me fooled for a while. 807 00:56:48,940 --> 00:56:52,026 Oh, grow up, Vera. Don’t you think a father knows his own son? 808 00:56:52,076 --> 00:56:53,078 And there must be other relatives. 809 00:56:53,129 --> 00:56:55,874 The father won’t have to know you. We’ll wait till he gives up the ghost. 810 00:56:55,924 --> 00:56:57,998 He’s an old geezer and he won’t pull through. 811 00:56:58,048 --> 00:56:59,962 And as far as the relatives are concerned ... 812 00:57:00,012 --> 00:57:02,828 They haven’t seen you in fifteen or twenty years. 813 00:57:03,429 --> 00:57:05,744 - Eat. - I’m not hungry ... 814 00:57:05,794 --> 00:57:07,237 And I won’t do it. 815 00:57:07,287 --> 00:57:09,401 It's not as tough as it sounds. Remember, you’ve... 816 00:57:09,451 --> 00:57:11,766 ... got all kinds of identification: his car, letters, license ... 817 00:57:11,816 --> 00:57:14,642 I could never get away with it. It's the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. 818 00:57:14,692 --> 00:57:17,548 The old boy has bags of dough. Look in the paper there ... 819 00:57:17,598 --> 00:57:19,872 Personal fortune assessed over fifteen million. 820 00:57:19,923 --> 00:57:21,606 He’ll leave plenty, I tell you. 821 00:57:21,656 --> 00:57:23,690 Maybe he cut off his son. How do we know? 822 00:57:23,740 --> 00:57:27,327 It's out, Vera. I won’t have anything to do with it. 823 00:57:27,378 --> 00:57:29,612 I think you will. 824 00:57:29,662 --> 00:57:32,298 Look Vera, I'll do anything within reason. 825 00:57:32,348 --> 00:57:35,364 But not that. So forget it. Find yourself another stooge. 826 00:57:35,414 --> 00:57:37,227 You’re sick. 827 00:57:37,278 --> 00:57:39,522 You’d be fixed for the rest of your life as Charlie Haskell. 828 00:57:39,572 --> 00:57:41,486 You can take your inheritance and go away. 829 00:57:41,536 --> 00:57:43,310 No more worrying about the rent, no sweating ... 830 00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:46,085 ... scheming, wondering where your next meal’s coming from. Think about that, Roberts. 831 00:57:46,135 --> 00:57:49,302 Vera, please. You’re talking too loud. 832 00:57:49,352 --> 00:57:51,947 Unless I’m splitting 50-50 with you? Sure. Why not? 833 00:57:51,997 --> 00:57:55,234 - We’re both alike, both born the same guy. - Take it easy, Vera. 834 00:57:55,284 --> 00:57:58,300 People around here are going to hear you talk. 835 00:57:58,350 --> 00:58:00,855 We’ll wait until we read old man Haskell’s dead. 836 00:58:00,905 --> 00:58:02,298 Then you show up. 837 00:58:02,348 --> 00:58:04,683 Like you read in New York that he was sick. 838 00:58:04,733 --> 00:58:06,186 No. 839 00:58:06,236 --> 00:58:10,815 - Suppose he doesn’t die? - He will, I know he will. Something tells me. 840 00:58:12,238 --> 00:58:15,034 But as much as I insisted, I would have no part of her scheme. 841 00:58:15,084 --> 00:58:19,042 Vera was taking it for granted, I would. 842 00:58:19,092 --> 00:58:22,619 Neither of us had our minds on the cards as we played that night. 843 00:58:22,669 --> 00:58:26,687 I knew we were just trying to kill time between newspaper editions. 844 00:58:26,737 --> 00:58:29,663 This was a death watch, for Vera. 845 00:58:29,713 --> 00:58:31,567 Maybe it was for me too. 846 00:58:31,617 --> 00:58:34,974 Don’t you realise, if I’m caught, they’ll want to know where I got the car and stuff. 847 00:58:35,024 --> 00:58:38,411 - And they’ll have me on a murder charge. - If you’re smart, you won’t get caught. 848 00:58:38,461 --> 00:58:39,623 I’m out for seven. 849 00:58:39,673 --> 00:58:42,639 If I’m caught, don’t you realise you'll be out too? 850 00:58:42,689 --> 00:58:46,237 18 points. That gives me 30. 851 00:58:47,018 --> 00:58:50,756 How will I be out? You’ll be out $1850, you would have gotten on the car. 852 00:58:50,806 --> 00:58:54,323 Really Vera, you’ll be an awful chump. You threw away all that dough on a dizzy long shot. 853 00:58:54,373 --> 00:58:56,557 Let me sell the bus tomorrow. With the money it’ll bring and... 854 00:58:56,608 --> 00:58:59,193 ... what you’ve already got a clever kid like you could run it up in no time. 855 00:58:59,243 --> 00:59:01,848 - And we’d both be in the clear. - I’ll be in the clear anyway. 856 00:59:01,898 --> 00:59:05,886 Maybe. Maybe. But if I got caught ... 857 00:59:06,548 --> 00:59:09,023 - I’d get good and sore too, you know. - You mean you’d squeal? 858 00:59:09,073 --> 00:59:12,810 - Well no, not squeal exactly - Never mind what you meant. 859 00:59:12,860 --> 00:59:16,137 Even if you did tell the cops, I was in on it with you ... 860 00:59:16,187 --> 00:59:18,021 ... what could they do to me? 861 00:59:18,071 --> 00:59:20,516 They might give me the same medicine they gave you. 862 00:59:20,566 --> 00:59:23,452 - Yeah. - A rope. 863 00:59:24,875 --> 00:59:28,091 But I'm on my way now. 864 00:59:28,622 --> 00:59:30,937 All they’d be doing would be rushing it. 865 00:59:30,987 --> 00:59:33,512 Alright, but think of the $1850 you’d lose 866 00:59:33,562 --> 00:59:35,907 You’d kick yourself around the block, if you let it get away from you. 867 00:59:35,957 --> 00:59:38,091 I’ll take the chance. 868 00:59:38,141 --> 00:59:40,326 - Want another drink? - You being a goon. 869 00:59:40,376 --> 00:59:42,300 That’s the way people wind up behind the eight ball ... 870 00:59:42,350 --> 00:59:44,775 Once they get a few dollars, they become greedy and want more. 871 00:59:44,825 --> 00:59:46,889 - More. More. - Caesar. 872 00:59:46,939 --> 00:59:48,783 - Who? - You know, that Roman general. 873 00:59:48,833 --> 00:59:50,065 He got his, for being greedy. 874 00:59:50,115 --> 00:59:53,372 He wasn’t satisfied, so the final wind up was he took the count. 875 00:59:53,422 --> 00:59:55,687 A couple of days ago, you didn’t have a dime. 876 00:59:55,737 --> 00:59:58,653 Why you were so broke, you couldn’t pay cash for a postage stamp. 877 00:59:58,703 --> 01:00:01,829 Now you’ve got almost $700, with $1850 in the offing. 878 01:00:01,879 --> 01:00:04,965 - Take my advice, don’t try for more! - I’m tired of this game. 879 01:00:05,015 --> 01:00:07,130 - Let's have some black jack. - Play solitaire! 880 01:00:07,180 --> 01:00:08,663 OK I will, if that’s the way you feel about it. 881 01:00:08,713 --> 01:00:09,845 That’s the way I feel about it. 882 01:00:09,895 --> 01:00:12,010 Getting sore and throwing things won’t help much, Roberts. 883 01:00:12,060 --> 01:00:15,607 I’m really doing you a favour. I help you out of a jam by keeping my mouth shut. 884 01:00:15,657 --> 01:00:18,633 I show you how to make some soft money, and what thanks do I get. 885 01:00:18,683 --> 01:00:20,777 - Thanks?! - Sure, or would you rather I called the cops ... 886 01:00:20,827 --> 01:00:22,060 ... and tell them you killed the man and stole his money. 887 01:00:22,110 --> 01:00:23,182 - I didn’t kill anybody. - Yes, you did. 888 01:00:23,232 --> 01:00:24,705 No, I didn’t. You know I didn’t. 889 01:00:24,755 --> 01:00:27,531 Alright, then. 890 01:00:29,004 --> 01:00:30,808 Suppose I call the cops ... 891 01:00:30,858 --> 01:00:33,513 If you're innocent, what have you got to be scared of? 892 01:00:33,563 --> 01:00:37,110 OK, call them, if you must. Go ahead, call them. See if I care. 893 01:00:37,160 --> 01:00:39,134 At least they’ll give me a square deal. 894 01:00:39,184 --> 01:00:42,301 - You want me to call them? - You heard me. But I’m warning you ... 895 01:00:42,351 --> 01:00:45,327 If I’m pinched, I’ll swear you were in on it. I’ll say that you helped me. 896 01:00:45,377 --> 01:00:49,295 - If I fry, I’ll get even with you. - You wouldn’t dare, you’re chicken! 897 01:00:49,345 --> 01:00:53,664 Yeah? Then try it and see. Call them. Yeah. 898 01:00:54,195 --> 01:00:56,860 Okay I will. 899 01:01:08,383 --> 01:01:10,798 Information? 900 01:01:10,848 --> 01:01:15,297 I want the number of the Hollywood police station. 901 01:01:15,347 --> 01:01:18,514 OK, I got it. Thanks. 902 01:01:20,337 --> 01:01:21,660 Wait a minute, Vera, you wouldn’t do that. 903 01:01:21,710 --> 01:01:23,343 Oh, wouldn’t I? Let me do it, and I’ll show you if I would. 904 01:01:23,394 --> 01:01:25,438 Take it easy. Now let's talk this over. 905 01:01:25,488 --> 01:01:27,151 This was early in the evening. 906 01:01:27,201 --> 01:01:31,851 And the conversation while hectic was at least pitched low. 907 01:01:31,901 --> 01:01:33,614 But as the minutes passed ... 908 01:01:33,664 --> 01:01:36,500 ... and more obstacles to her plan popped into in my head ... 909 01:01:36,550 --> 01:01:38,203 ... the air got blue. 910 01:01:38,254 --> 01:01:41,500 Each word coming from our lips cracked like a whip. 911 01:01:41,550 --> 01:01:45,528 I reminded her that as Charles Haskell, I didn’t even know my mother’s name ... 912 01:01:45,578 --> 01:01:49,105 ... where I’d gone to school, the name of my best friend ... 913 01:01:49,156 --> 01:01:52,412 ... whether I had an Aunt Emma or not, my religion ... 914 01:01:52,462 --> 01:01:54,466 ... and if I’d ever owned a dog. 915 01:01:54,516 --> 01:01:57,232 I didn’t even know what my middle initial stood for. 916 01:01:57,282 --> 01:02:01,270 I also pointed out that the real Haskell had a scar on his forearm. 917 01:02:01,320 --> 01:02:03,064 His people never saw that scar. 918 01:02:03,114 --> 01:02:05,458 You told me he ran away right after putting out the kid’s eye. 919 01:02:05,508 --> 01:02:06,811 Yeah, but his father knew he was cut. 920 01:02:06,861 --> 01:02:10,158 - There’d be some kind of a mark. - So what? 921 01:02:10,208 --> 01:02:14,186 The old man’s dead or will be, I hope, by tomorrow morning’s papers. 922 01:02:14,236 --> 01:02:18,685 Anyway, you could cut yourself a little, couldn’t you? 923 01:02:18,735 --> 01:02:22,072 Boy, for that kind of dough, I’d let you cut my leg off. 924 01:02:22,122 --> 01:02:23,815 You're drunk and you’re crazy mad, Vera. 925 01:02:23,866 --> 01:02:25,850 Turn me in, if you want to, but I won’t get mixed up in this. 926 01:02:25,900 --> 01:02:27,924 Besides, how do we know? Haskell was such a phony. 927 01:02:27,974 --> 01:02:29,948 Maybe he wasn’t the man’s son after all. Maybe he just dreamed it up. 928 01:02:29,998 --> 01:02:31,912 Well, dreaming or not ... 929 01:02:31,962 --> 01:02:35,790 ... you won’t be dreaming when the law taps you on the shoulder. 930 01:02:35,840 --> 01:02:39,397 There’s a cute little gas chamber waiting for you, Roberts. 931 01:02:39,447 --> 01:02:42,974 And I hear extradition to Arizona’s a cinch. 932 01:02:43,024 --> 01:02:45,088 Where's that phone? 933 01:02:45,138 --> 01:02:46,371 - Vera! - Leave me alone. 934 01:02:46,421 --> 01:02:50,469 - Vera! - I want a phone call, police. 935 01:02:50,579 --> 01:02:54,728 I hate you, you stinking ... You leave me alone! 936 01:02:54,778 --> 01:02:56,972 I'll let you alone when you promise to leave the phone where it is. 937 01:02:57,022 --> 01:02:58,125 You’re drunk. You don’t know what you’re doing 938 01:02:58,175 --> 01:03:00,660 - You're hurting me, - Will you promise? 939 01:03:00,710 --> 01:03:03,155 Alright. 940 01:03:07,363 --> 01:03:09,167 You hurt me. 941 01:03:09,217 --> 01:03:12,343 - I'm sorry, but ... - It's hot in here, open up the window! 942 01:03:12,393 --> 01:03:17,874 - It’s not hot. - Don’t tell me. Now do you do it or do I do it? 943 01:03:18,045 --> 01:03:21,081 - You're no gentleman, see? - Yeah. 944 01:03:21,131 --> 01:03:24,959 Alright, I'll open up the window. 945 01:03:26,362 --> 01:03:28,646 Vera! 946 01:03:32,193 --> 01:03:34,618 Vera, open the door. Please open the door. 947 01:03:34,668 --> 01:03:37,173 Vera, open the door. Don’t use the phone. Listen to me. 948 01:03:37,223 --> 01:03:39,167 I don’t like you, Roberts. 949 01:03:39,217 --> 01:03:42,895 You're no gentleman, see. You hurt my hand. 950 01:03:42,945 --> 01:03:45,390 And I’m going to get even with you. 951 01:03:45,440 --> 01:03:48,376 You don’t open the door, I’m going to kick it down, Vera. 952 01:03:48,426 --> 01:03:52,103 Vera, don’t call the cops. Listen to me. I’ll do anything you say. 953 01:03:52,154 --> 01:03:55,039 Vera, let me in. 954 01:03:55,160 --> 01:03:58,326 I’ll break the phone! 955 01:04:22,625 --> 01:04:24,769 Vera ... 956 01:04:34,639 --> 01:04:37,375 The world is full of sceptics. 957 01:04:37,425 --> 01:04:40,631 I know - I'm one myself. 958 01:04:40,681 --> 01:04:43,758 In the Haskell business, how many of you would believe he fell out of the car? 959 01:04:43,808 --> 01:04:46,283 And now, after killing Vera without really meaning to do it. 960 01:04:46,333 --> 01:04:49,730 How many of you would believe it wasn’t premeditated. 961 01:04:49,780 --> 01:04:53,497 In a jury room, every last man of you would go down shouting that ... 962 01:04:53,547 --> 01:04:58,137 ... she had me over a barrel and my only out was force. 963 01:04:58,187 --> 01:05:00,852 The room was still. 964 01:05:00,902 --> 01:05:04,540 So quiet that for a while I wondered if I had suddenly gone deaf. 965 01:05:04,590 --> 01:05:08,387 It was pure fear of course. And I was hysterical. 966 01:05:08,437 --> 01:05:11,443 But without making a sound. 967 01:05:11,494 --> 01:05:15,371 Vera was dead and I was her murderer. 968 01:05:15,421 --> 01:05:18,698 Murderer! What an awful word that is. 969 01:05:18,748 --> 01:05:22,295 But I had become one. I’d better not get caught. 970 01:05:22,345 --> 01:05:24,820 What evidence there was around the place had to be destroyed. 971 01:05:24,871 --> 01:05:26,965 And from the looks of things, there was plenty. 972 01:05:27,015 --> 01:05:28,478 Looking around the room, at the things we’d bought ... 973 01:05:28,528 --> 01:05:32,947 ... was like looking into the faces of a hundred people, who had seen us together and who remembered me. 974 01:05:32,997 --> 01:05:36,905 This was the kind of testimony, I couldn’t rub out. 975 01:05:36,955 --> 01:05:39,941 No. I could burn clothes and hide bottles ... 976 01:05:39,991 --> 01:05:43,067 ... for the next five years. There’d always be witnesses. 977 01:05:43,117 --> 01:05:44,891 The landlady for one. She could identify me. 978 01:05:44,941 --> 01:05:47,236 The car dealer, the waitress in the drive-in, the girl in the dress shop and ... 979 01:05:47,286 --> 01:05:49,089 ... the guy in the liquor store. 980 01:05:49,139 --> 01:05:52,166 They could all identify me. 981 01:05:52,216 --> 01:05:56,975 I was cooked. Done for. I had to get out of there. 982 01:05:57,286 --> 01:05:59,550 While once I had remained beside a dead body ... 983 01:05:59,601 --> 01:06:02,757 ... planning carefully how to avoid being accused of killing him ... 984 01:06:02,807 --> 01:06:04,911 ... this time I couldn’t. 985 01:06:04,961 --> 01:06:07,667 This time I was guilty. 986 01:06:07,717 --> 01:06:09,290 I knew it. 987 01:06:09,340 --> 01:06:11,164 Felt it. 988 01:06:11,214 --> 01:06:13,398 I was like a guy suffering from shock. 989 01:06:13,449 --> 01:06:15,142 Things were whirling around in my head. 990 01:06:15,553 --> 01:06:18,078 I couldn’t make myself think right. 991 01:06:18,128 --> 01:06:22,467 All I could think of was the guy with the saxophone and what he was playing. 992 01:06:22,517 --> 01:06:25,012 It wasn’t a love song. 993 01:06:25,062 --> 01:06:28,218 It was a dirge. 994 01:07:14,452 --> 01:07:17,017 But my problems weren’t solved. 995 01:07:17,067 --> 01:07:20,624 I had to stay away from New York for all time. 996 01:07:20,674 --> 01:07:24,632 Because Al Roberts was listed as dead, and had to stay dead. 997 01:07:24,682 --> 01:07:27,147 And I could never to go back to Hollywood. 998 01:07:27,197 --> 01:07:30,634 Someone might recognize me as Haskell ... 999 01:07:30,684 --> 01:07:34,231 Then too, there was Sue ... 1000 01:07:34,803 --> 01:07:39,402 I could never go to her with a thing like this hanging over my head. 1001 01:07:39,452 --> 01:07:43,660 All I could do was pray she’d be happy. 1002 01:07:53,811 --> 01:07:58,059 I was in Bakersfield, before I read that Vera’s body was discovered ... 1003 01:07:58,110 --> 01:08:03,290 ... and that the police were looking for Haskell in connection with his wife’s murder. 1004 01:08:03,340 --> 01:08:05,374 Isn’t that a laugh? 1005 01:08:05,424 --> 01:08:09,422 Haskell got me into this mess, and Haskell was getting me out of it. 1006 01:08:09,472 --> 01:08:13,741 The police were searching for a dead man. 1007 01:08:14,964 --> 01:08:18,370 I keep trying to forget what happened ... 1008 01:08:18,421 --> 01:08:25,014 ... and wonder what my life might have been, if that car of Haskell’s hadn’t stopped. 1009 01:08:25,064 --> 01:08:28,401 But one thing, I don’t have to wonder about. 1010 01:08:28,451 --> 01:08:31,006 I know ... 1011 01:08:31,357 --> 01:08:36,838 ... someday a car will stop to pick me up that I never thumbed. 1012 01:08:39,152 --> 01:08:44,804 Yes. Fate ... or some mysterious force ... 1013 01:08:44,854 --> 01:08:47,980 ... can put the finger on you or me ... 1014 01:08:48,030 --> 01:08:51,056 ... for no good reason at all.