1 00:02:04,797 --> 00:02:07,664 Why Emmet Ray? Because he was interesting. 2 00:02:07,968 --> 00:02:10,679 To me, Emmet Ray was a fascinating character. 3 00:02:10,703 --> 00:02:13,316 I was a huge fan of his when I was younger. 4 00:02:13,340 --> 00:02:16,355 I thought he was an absolutely great guitar player... 5 00:02:16,379 --> 00:02:17,512 and he was funny. 6 00:02:18,382 --> 00:02:19,382 You know, or... 7 00:02:20,384 --> 00:02:23,496 if funny's the wrong word, then sort of pathetic in a way. 8 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:26,320 He was flamboyant and he was, you know... 9 00:02:27,256 --> 00:02:28,723 boorish and obnoxious. 10 00:02:29,561 --> 00:02:33,107 Well, the problem is that there's just so little known about him. 11 00:02:33,131 --> 00:02:36,345 But we do know that he was a great guitar player. 12 00:02:36,369 --> 00:02:40,784 I'd say he was probably the second greatest guitar player in the world. 13 00:02:40,808 --> 00:02:42,785 Django Reinhardt was the best... 14 00:02:42,809 --> 00:02:45,409 and believe me, Emmet idolized Django. 15 00:02:45,582 --> 00:02:46,982 He was in awe of him. 16 00:02:47,384 --> 00:02:51,898 There's a story that says when he saw him playing in France, he fainted. 17 00:02:51,922 --> 00:02:56,589 He saw Django again at a restaurant in Germany, and he fainted again. 18 00:02:57,461 --> 00:02:59,173 It seems that every time... 19 00:02:59,197 --> 00:03:02,997 Django would always make him faint or he'd make him cry. 20 00:03:03,069 --> 00:03:06,681 Well, his relationship with Hattie is mostly what's known about him. 21 00:03:06,705 --> 00:03:09,719 There are a few Emmet Ray stories before that... 22 00:03:09,743 --> 00:03:12,689 but I have no idea whether they're true or not. 23 00:03:12,713 --> 00:03:15,560 First time anybody seemed to have heard of him was in Chicago. 24 00:03:15,584 --> 00:03:17,584 It was at this roadside joint. 25 00:03:21,991 --> 00:03:23,591 Good to see you tonight. 26 00:03:27,366 --> 00:03:29,412 - Where the hell is he? - I don't know. 27 00:03:29,436 --> 00:03:32,047 You gotta get him, Dan. He's layin' drunk somewhere. 28 00:03:32,071 --> 00:03:35,284 - He's probably in a poolroom. - Every night it's somethin' else. 29 00:03:35,308 --> 00:03:38,387 He's late. He gets drunk. He falls off the bandstand. 30 00:03:38,411 --> 00:03:41,559 - I told you not to hire this guy. - What time does Emmet Ray go on? 31 00:03:41,583 --> 00:03:44,193 Look at the crowd. Think they're here to see me? 32 00:03:44,217 --> 00:03:45,617 Relax. I'll find him. 33 00:03:45,988 --> 00:03:48,399 I'm gonna have to hold the show again. 34 00:03:48,423 --> 00:03:51,068 I'll kill this guy. I don't care what kind of artist he is. 35 00:03:51,092 --> 00:03:54,692 You take care of business. I'll find him. Just relax. 36 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:57,200 Hey, good to see you again. 37 00:04:00,772 --> 00:04:02,418 That's 50 more you owe me. 38 00:04:02,442 --> 00:04:05,109 I'm not goin' out of town. Another one? 39 00:04:08,917 --> 00:04:10,917 I think you got some visitors. 40 00:04:13,087 --> 00:04:13,954 I'll be back. 41 00:04:18,727 --> 00:04:21,127 - What'd we get? - Here's your end. 42 00:04:26,737 --> 00:04:30,319 This is what you bring me, $30? It's almost midnight. $30? 43 00:04:30,343 --> 00:04:32,320 That's half, Emmet. That's all we made. 44 00:04:32,344 --> 00:04:35,527 I can't live on that. I got car payments, I got new shirts. 45 00:04:35,551 --> 00:04:38,660 I'm sorry. Business was slow. It's a Jewish holiday. 46 00:04:38,684 --> 00:04:42,766 And last night it was rainin', and the night before you got food poisonin'. 47 00:04:42,790 --> 00:04:45,903 - Because I drank that booze you made. - Listen, Emmet. 48 00:04:45,927 --> 00:04:49,308 I don't know how to tell you this, but while I was in bed... 49 00:04:49,332 --> 00:04:53,732 with one of the johns you sent me, he got very excited, and he... 50 00:04:54,771 --> 00:04:57,504 got a heart attack, and he dropped dead. 51 00:04:59,477 --> 00:05:02,277 - Which one? - The salesman from Detroit. 52 00:05:02,582 --> 00:05:05,982 - What did you do? - I took my clothes and I left. 53 00:05:06,318 --> 00:05:08,897 So there's nothin' to trace back to us? 54 00:05:08,921 --> 00:05:13,321 Then I was thinking that maybe he had one of your business cards. 55 00:05:14,196 --> 00:05:17,410 - Oh, my God. - A pimp doesn't need business cards! 56 00:05:17,434 --> 00:05:19,412 You're always tryin' to be too fancy. 57 00:05:19,436 --> 00:05:22,448 Emmet, let's go. You're supposed to be on stage. 58 00:05:22,472 --> 00:05:25,753 Every night you're either late, drunk, or you don't show up. 59 00:05:25,777 --> 00:05:27,110 What is it with you? 60 00:05:39,592 --> 00:05:42,059 How are you doin'? I'm on right now. 61 00:05:42,998 --> 00:05:45,998 Thanks for comin'. Put their tab on my bill. 62 00:05:46,903 --> 00:05:50,283 I don't wanna embarrass you in front of friends, but boss said no more advances. 63 00:05:50,307 --> 00:05:53,554 Don't give me a song and dance. Just put their tab on my bill. 64 00:05:53,578 --> 00:05:54,278 Hi, guys. 65 00:08:20,858 --> 00:08:24,538 It's gonna be a lot of cats there. We always have fun at Don's. 66 00:08:24,562 --> 00:08:26,295 - Donald. - Well, Donald. 67 00:08:26,731 --> 00:08:28,709 - Watch out over there. - I got this, man. 68 00:08:28,733 --> 00:08:31,213 You take care of that. And don't forget to pass. 69 00:08:31,237 --> 00:08:34,416 - They caught him a couple of times. - Caught what? 70 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:36,840 Mind your business. Watch the road. 71 00:08:37,313 --> 00:08:39,689 What you got there, man? Is that a.45? 72 00:08:39,713 --> 00:08:41,180 .45 what? Wait, wait. 73 00:08:43,418 --> 00:08:45,151 Better put that shit away. 74 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:49,053 Hey, you wanna go to the dump, shoot some rats? Huh? 75 00:08:49,126 --> 00:08:50,926 - Shoot some what? - Rats. 76 00:08:51,461 --> 00:08:54,194 I do it all the time. It's a lot of fun. 77 00:08:54,398 --> 00:08:58,346 - A hepcat shootin' rats. - I don't think you need no more of this. 78 00:08:58,370 --> 00:09:02,237 There should be no other guns in this car besides my gun. 79 00:09:20,330 --> 00:09:22,810 Man, where'd you learn to play that thing like that? 80 00:09:22,834 --> 00:09:26,783 - I never heard guitar sound so good. - Yeah, I'm the greatest in the world. 81 00:09:26,807 --> 00:09:29,351 Well, you know, in France there's Django. 82 00:09:29,375 --> 00:09:33,456 Django? You know, he's comin' to America in the summer to record. 83 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:35,547 - Yeah? - Yeah. Ever meet him? 84 00:09:36,784 --> 00:09:38,584 I could've once, in Europe. 85 00:09:39,387 --> 00:09:42,200 You know, really, our styles are just different. 86 00:09:42,224 --> 00:09:45,557 Nate Drummond prefers me. He says I'm miraculous. 87 00:09:45,893 --> 00:09:49,909 You're welcome to come here anytime. You know, we play here all the time. 88 00:09:49,933 --> 00:09:52,933 - And I make great chili. - Well, thank you. 89 00:10:10,892 --> 00:10:13,770 Say, man, we're about to hit it. Can we drop you somewhere? 90 00:10:13,794 --> 00:10:16,209 - I like the air. I'll walk. - You sure about that? 91 00:10:16,233 --> 00:10:17,300 Yeah. Thank you. 92 00:10:46,835 --> 00:10:49,783 Well, I heard stories that he was a kleptomaniac. 93 00:10:49,807 --> 00:10:53,787 I heard that once he stole an alarm clock from Hoagy Carmichael... 94 00:10:53,811 --> 00:10:56,656 and Hoagy overslept and he missed a record date. 95 00:10:56,680 --> 00:10:57,880 What do you think? 96 00:10:58,349 --> 00:11:02,898 The only other story that I heard, other than Hattie, was this moon idea. 97 00:11:02,922 --> 00:11:05,789 He had this idea about this crescent moon. 98 00:11:06,493 --> 00:11:09,604 That he wanted to make an entrance on this big crescent moon. 99 00:11:09,628 --> 00:11:13,044 Well, the story is that it came to him, apparently... 100 00:11:13,068 --> 00:11:14,535 I guess, in a dream... 101 00:11:15,337 --> 00:11:17,884 that he'd build this moon thing with his own money. 102 00:11:17,908 --> 00:11:20,653 Because he thought that a star of his great stature... 103 00:11:20,677 --> 00:11:24,544 ought to be able to make a real big entrance with a moon. 104 00:11:24,582 --> 00:11:25,672 Just try to visualize it. 105 00:11:25,696 --> 00:11:26,861 Just try to visualize it. 106 00:11:26,885 --> 00:11:30,131 You're lookin' up, and there it is. Gold, beautiful moon. 107 00:11:30,155 --> 00:11:33,470 I'm comin' down, and you guys are playin'. What do you think? 108 00:11:33,494 --> 00:11:36,705 It's a stupid idea. I told you. Would you let me take this shot? 109 00:11:36,729 --> 00:11:41,196 I didn't ask your opinion. I'm just tellin' you how it's gonna go. 110 00:11:50,412 --> 00:11:53,345 And then the jacket would match the moon... 111 00:11:53,618 --> 00:11:55,951 against a black velvet background. 112 00:11:56,822 --> 00:11:59,822 - What do you think? - It sounds okay to me. 113 00:12:00,125 --> 00:12:01,592 - Yeah. - It's fancy. 114 00:12:03,763 --> 00:12:06,496 I'm considered the best guitar player... 115 00:12:06,567 --> 00:12:08,034 maybe that ever lived. 116 00:12:10,104 --> 00:12:12,584 Certainly in this country. There's this... 117 00:12:12,608 --> 00:12:14,475 There's a gypsy in France... 118 00:12:15,176 --> 00:12:18,376 and he's the most beautiful thing I ever heard. 119 00:12:20,683 --> 00:12:22,016 Tonight's the night. 120 00:12:22,353 --> 00:12:26,133 Emmet, just as long as you're happy. That's the most important thing. 121 00:12:26,157 --> 00:12:27,624 It's really beautiful. 122 00:12:27,825 --> 00:12:30,692 It is really beautiful. It's like jewelry. 123 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:36,278 Hey, I wanna just be alone with the moon for a minute, all right? 124 00:12:36,302 --> 00:12:38,969 You wanna be alone with the moon? Okay. 125 00:12:39,340 --> 00:12:42,473 Emmet, you know what you are? You're a genius. 126 00:12:57,895 --> 00:12:59,762 She's a knockout, ain't she? 127 00:13:00,367 --> 00:13:01,367 Hope it's safe. 128 00:13:03,103 --> 00:13:06,170 Of course it's safe. Why wouldn't it be safe? 129 00:13:06,307 --> 00:13:09,574 It's a hell of a drop. A man can break his neck. 130 00:13:11,447 --> 00:13:12,147 Really? 131 00:13:13,348 --> 00:13:16,681 And it starts to build and build in Emmet's mind. 132 00:13:17,455 --> 00:13:18,722 And by show time... 133 00:13:19,955 --> 00:13:22,422 he's numb with fear, he's petrified. 134 00:13:23,293 --> 00:13:26,273 And the audience is out there waiting for him... 135 00:13:26,297 --> 00:13:29,611 and he's backstage, meanwhile, drinking and drinking. 136 00:13:29,635 --> 00:13:32,902 When he's ready to go on, he's stiff as a board. 137 00:13:36,242 --> 00:13:39,109 - Snazzy! - Did you buy that off the rack? 138 00:13:40,416 --> 00:13:41,816 Look. The Big Dipper. 139 00:13:42,417 --> 00:13:45,484 - Emmet, your gun is bulging. - Do you think? 140 00:13:46,454 --> 00:13:48,532 What the hell you need it on stage for? 141 00:13:48,556 --> 00:13:50,603 I don't feel right without it. 142 00:13:50,627 --> 00:13:53,105 I'll give it back to you as soon as you're done. 143 00:13:53,129 --> 00:13:53,829 Show time! 144 00:14:12,355 --> 00:14:14,888 - You all right? - Emmet, be careful. 145 00:14:21,731 --> 00:14:22,431 You're on? 146 00:14:24,070 --> 00:14:24,870 Need a hand? 147 00:14:26,169 --> 00:14:26,969 Let's do it. 148 00:15:27,982 --> 00:15:31,449 Sooner or later, everybody's dreams go up in smoke. 149 00:15:33,084 --> 00:15:34,484 What about my dreams? 150 00:15:35,387 --> 00:15:37,054 I can't settle down, Ann. 151 00:15:37,724 --> 00:15:40,191 - We don't have to marry. - I can't. 152 00:15:40,361 --> 00:15:42,494 I gotta be free. I'm an artist. 153 00:15:43,565 --> 00:15:45,098 I thought you liked me. 154 00:15:47,203 --> 00:15:48,003 We have fun. 155 00:15:49,205 --> 00:15:53,253 I took you to the dump. I let you shoot my gun at some rats. 156 00:15:53,277 --> 00:15:56,725 Shootin' rats at the dump is not my idea of a good time. 157 00:15:56,749 --> 00:15:58,882 Why not? We brought sandwiches. 158 00:15:59,152 --> 00:16:02,900 And sittin' at the railroads watchin' trains, that's pretty strange too. 159 00:16:02,924 --> 00:16:04,524 See? That's what I mean. 160 00:16:06,728 --> 00:16:10,740 What I like to do, what you like to do, ain't the same thing. 161 00:16:10,764 --> 00:16:12,164 That's not it, Emmet. 162 00:16:12,634 --> 00:16:14,779 It's that you keep your feelings locked up... 163 00:16:14,803 --> 00:16:17,685 and you can't feel nothin' for anybody else. 164 00:16:17,709 --> 00:16:19,921 You say that like it's a bad thing. 165 00:16:19,945 --> 00:16:24,545 Some terrible things happen to people in love. I know. I've seen it. 166 00:16:24,717 --> 00:16:27,517 I enjoy the company of women. I love 'em. 167 00:16:28,087 --> 00:16:30,287 It's just that I don't need 'em. 168 00:16:31,524 --> 00:16:35,991 I guess, you know, that's the way it is when you're a true artist. 169 00:16:38,199 --> 00:16:40,644 It doesn't mean we can't fool around. 170 00:16:40,668 --> 00:16:43,468 Oh, right. Or shoot rats or watch trains. 171 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:48,440 I never met anybody that keeps their feelings so locked up. 172 00:16:48,712 --> 00:16:51,379 I let my feelin's come out in my music. 173 00:16:51,582 --> 00:16:56,031 Maybe if you let your feelings out in real life, your music would be better. 174 00:16:56,055 --> 00:16:56,788 Don't talk. 175 00:17:01,629 --> 00:17:03,696 Emmet met Hattie in New Jersey. 176 00:17:04,331 --> 00:17:06,731 The band was playing a resort hotel. 177 00:17:07,435 --> 00:17:08,902 On a day off, Emmet... 178 00:17:10,238 --> 00:17:12,438 and his drummer, Bill Shields... 179 00:17:14,044 --> 00:17:16,377 were doing their version of charm. 180 00:17:16,612 --> 00:17:20,079 They were trying to pick up girls on the boardwalk. 181 00:17:23,088 --> 00:17:25,866 This place is heaven on earth. Cotton candy, eight o'clock. 182 00:17:25,890 --> 00:17:26,823 Watch me work. 183 00:17:28,427 --> 00:17:29,227 Mary! Right? 184 00:17:30,997 --> 00:17:32,997 Why don't you drop dead, jerk? 185 00:17:33,499 --> 00:17:37,414 I thought you were someone I knew. Sometimes I hit with a... Mary! 186 00:17:37,438 --> 00:17:38,638 Martina. Mary Ann. 187 00:17:39,239 --> 00:17:40,039 Marge. Kate? 188 00:17:41,210 --> 00:17:44,410 Excuse me, miss. I'm a photography buff myself. 189 00:17:44,513 --> 00:17:47,660 I was thinkin' maybe we could get my friend to take a picture of us. 190 00:17:47,684 --> 00:17:49,284 Wait a minute. Time out. 191 00:17:49,687 --> 00:17:51,754 - Do you see this? - Oh, yeah. 192 00:17:52,023 --> 00:17:54,936 Did you see? She looked right at me. She smiled. 193 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:58,106 - That was a smile. - And she was lookin' right at me. 194 00:17:58,130 --> 00:17:59,397 Which one you want? 195 00:17:59,665 --> 00:18:01,543 The little one with the silly hat. 196 00:18:01,567 --> 00:18:03,546 She's more my size. I'll flip you. 197 00:18:03,570 --> 00:18:05,703 - I saw her first! - All right! 198 00:18:05,839 --> 00:18:08,352 You want the little one? Take the little one. 199 00:18:08,376 --> 00:18:10,453 I'll take the redhead. What difference does it make? 200 00:18:10,477 --> 00:18:13,960 They're gettin' away. There's nothin' wrong with the little one. 201 00:18:13,984 --> 00:18:16,896 The redhead's got nice legs and a nice chest. 202 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:19,099 - I'll take the redhead. - The little one is cute. 203 00:18:19,123 --> 00:18:23,136 She has a nice face and those Cupid-bow lips I like, but I'll take the redhead. 204 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:24,873 - You wanted the little one. - I changed my mind. 205 00:18:24,897 --> 00:18:25,830 I'll flip you. 206 00:18:28,701 --> 00:18:29,834 - Call. - Tails. 207 00:18:33,740 --> 00:18:36,020 - I got the little one. - We agree. 208 00:18:36,044 --> 00:18:38,377 - Now they gotta agree. - Come on. 209 00:18:39,948 --> 00:18:43,061 I'm telling you, you're gonna get on the Ferris wheel this time. 210 00:18:43,085 --> 00:18:46,934 Remember when you tried to go on? Last year we tried to get you up there. 211 00:18:46,958 --> 00:18:48,935 - Excuse me. - You were scared. 212 00:18:48,959 --> 00:18:51,092 Hi. You ladies from around here? 213 00:18:52,331 --> 00:18:54,331 Yeah, we work right near here. 214 00:18:54,565 --> 00:18:56,898 I'm Billy Shields. I'm a musician. 215 00:18:57,336 --> 00:18:59,803 He's with my quintet. I'm Emmet Ray. 216 00:19:00,406 --> 00:19:02,887 The Emmet Ray Hot Quintet. We're at the Lakeside Ballroom. 217 00:19:02,911 --> 00:19:06,988 It's our day off, so we were thinking maybe you could show us the sights. 218 00:19:07,012 --> 00:19:09,812 - You wanna go watch some trains? - What? 219 00:19:10,018 --> 00:19:12,418 He's kidding. Let's go for a drink. 220 00:19:14,557 --> 00:19:17,371 Ask him. I liked you instantly. I'm bein' honest. 221 00:19:17,395 --> 00:19:19,395 We flipped, he won, I got you. 222 00:19:19,631 --> 00:19:20,831 I'm Gracie MacRae. 223 00:19:22,032 --> 00:19:22,965 Billy Shields. 224 00:19:23,536 --> 00:19:27,681 And if I may say, you have the most beautiful blue eyes I've ever seen. 225 00:19:27,705 --> 00:19:29,372 This is my friend Hattie. 226 00:19:30,144 --> 00:19:31,611 Hattie, I'm Emmet Ray. 227 00:19:32,412 --> 00:19:35,679 I've got the quintet. You like jazz music, baby? 228 00:19:35,850 --> 00:19:38,250 How about we take a boat ride, huh? 229 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:40,453 Well, sure. We'd love to. 230 00:19:41,458 --> 00:19:44,036 - We'll ride around the lake. - Great. 231 00:19:44,060 --> 00:19:46,793 What's your name? Don't be shy, darlin'. 232 00:19:47,063 --> 00:19:49,130 Hattie don't talk. She's mute. 233 00:19:52,304 --> 00:19:54,037 Wanna go take a boat ride? 234 00:20:15,199 --> 00:20:17,532 Don't overthrow it. Throw it down. 235 00:20:23,608 --> 00:20:26,475 That was a good try. Try it one more time. 236 00:20:27,379 --> 00:20:29,379 That was all right. Good try. 237 00:20:29,583 --> 00:20:31,560 Thanks for stickin' me with the dummy. 238 00:20:31,584 --> 00:20:35,451 - Stop whining. You wanted her. - Then I changed my mind. 239 00:20:35,591 --> 00:20:37,335 She seems like a nice girl. 240 00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:39,871 How could she seem like anything? She doesn't talk. 241 00:20:39,895 --> 00:20:42,842 This is my one day off. I want a talkin' girl. 242 00:20:42,866 --> 00:20:46,547 - I think she's a bit of a half-wit. - What do you mean? 243 00:20:46,571 --> 00:20:48,884 Gracie says she's not all there in the head. 244 00:20:48,908 --> 00:20:50,175 Well, that's great. 245 00:20:50,708 --> 00:20:52,375 A man like me, got ideas. 246 00:20:53,612 --> 00:20:55,822 Try to have a good time today, huh? 247 00:20:55,846 --> 00:20:58,713 You girls wanna go for a walk on the pier? 248 00:21:02,122 --> 00:21:02,855 You hungry? 249 00:21:05,826 --> 00:21:07,293 Is that a yes or a no? 250 00:21:08,230 --> 00:21:09,097 Yeah, me too. 251 00:21:13,436 --> 00:21:14,136 What? Huh? 252 00:21:22,514 --> 00:21:26,447 I can't read that. It's like a Chinaman. What do you want? 253 00:21:27,922 --> 00:21:31,122 Do you know how to write? Did you go to school? 254 00:21:33,692 --> 00:21:36,159 What is that? Is that a yes or a no? 255 00:21:39,734 --> 00:21:42,401 You're a hard-luck case. You an orphan? 256 00:21:44,073 --> 00:21:45,073 You don't know? 257 00:21:45,775 --> 00:21:48,042 Oh, this is great. This is great. 258 00:21:48,079 --> 00:21:50,612 I get a goddamn mute orphan half-wit. 259 00:21:51,081 --> 00:21:54,395 I get all the winners. Were you always like this, born like this? 260 00:21:54,419 --> 00:21:56,798 Or did somebody drop you on your head, or what? 261 00:21:56,822 --> 00:22:00,489 Gracie's hungry. Let's go get some clams or somethin'. 262 00:22:00,525 --> 00:22:02,258 Can we switch for a while? 263 00:22:02,328 --> 00:22:04,395 No. What's the matter with you? 264 00:22:07,534 --> 00:22:10,482 I was amazing the second I picked up the instrument. 265 00:22:10,506 --> 00:22:13,639 It's just in me someplace, like a gift of God. 266 00:22:15,778 --> 00:22:18,957 They said I'd have been great, whatever instrument I chose. 267 00:22:18,981 --> 00:22:21,381 But on guitar, nobody can touch me. 268 00:22:23,289 --> 00:22:25,156 Except this gypsy in France. 269 00:22:25,458 --> 00:22:28,991 But mostly, I'm untouchable. They want me to record. 270 00:22:29,361 --> 00:22:31,094 They do, but I don't know. 271 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:35,580 Once you record, everybody can copy your stuff. 272 00:22:35,604 --> 00:22:37,071 They steal your ideas. 273 00:22:37,606 --> 00:22:42,406 Why do I wanna make something beautiful just to have some jerk copy it? 274 00:22:45,212 --> 00:22:48,479 You wanna come hear the show sometime? My guest? 275 00:22:48,652 --> 00:22:50,185 - Both of you. - Yeah. 276 00:22:51,656 --> 00:22:53,723 You'd appreciate it. You would. 277 00:22:53,857 --> 00:22:56,390 You'll see. I possess a great talent. 278 00:22:57,964 --> 00:23:01,097 You might be mute, but you're not deaf, right? 279 00:23:01,635 --> 00:23:04,349 And you don't have to be bright. Music's for everybody. 280 00:23:04,373 --> 00:23:05,840 The smart or the dumb. 281 00:23:10,279 --> 00:23:13,412 - How'd you lose your voice? - She don't know. 282 00:23:13,682 --> 00:23:16,530 It was somethin' when she was a kid, like a high fever. 283 00:23:16,554 --> 00:23:17,954 She doesn't remember. 284 00:23:19,825 --> 00:23:23,025 - Is she... - Yeah, but she's a good laundress. 285 00:23:28,734 --> 00:23:30,734 I've shot guys. That's right. 286 00:23:31,705 --> 00:23:34,705 Well, I had to. You know, it was them or me. 287 00:23:35,375 --> 00:23:37,042 I could tell you stories. 288 00:23:37,913 --> 00:23:40,826 What do you say we go to the dump, shoot some rats? 289 00:23:40,850 --> 00:23:41,550 What? 290 00:23:42,519 --> 00:23:43,986 Yeah, it'll be a ball. 291 00:23:44,756 --> 00:23:46,689 Emmet, please. Not now, huh? 292 00:23:46,958 --> 00:23:51,825 Well, it's my car, and I say we're stoppin' at the dump for ten minutes. 293 00:23:54,767 --> 00:23:57,167 - Uh, squeeze. - You call this fun? 294 00:23:57,236 --> 00:24:00,282 Don't jerk. Just squeeze. Line it up to your sights. 295 00:24:00,306 --> 00:24:03,084 He's gonna get away. Line it up in the sights. 296 00:24:03,108 --> 00:24:05,355 - Come on! It's cold! - In a minute. 297 00:24:05,379 --> 00:24:08,927 - Just do what I'm tellin' you to do! - Leave her alone already! 298 00:24:08,951 --> 00:24:10,418 There's nothin' to it. 299 00:24:15,393 --> 00:24:17,326 Did you see that? I got him! 300 00:24:17,528 --> 00:24:20,041 - You call this civil? - What are you doin'? 301 00:24:20,065 --> 00:24:23,511 - No more cheese for this little fella. - No, don't pick it up. 302 00:24:23,535 --> 00:24:25,982 These guys are diseased. You gotta put it down. 303 00:24:26,006 --> 00:24:28,852 Did you know that rats attack poor kids in their cribs? 304 00:24:28,876 --> 00:24:32,009 - I thought you'd enjoy this. - Are you crazy? 305 00:24:32,413 --> 00:24:33,880 So, what do you think? 306 00:24:34,214 --> 00:24:37,663 - You wanna come up to my room... - Do you think we could go out... 307 00:24:37,687 --> 00:24:40,620 - hear me play my guitar? - Alone sometime? 308 00:24:41,389 --> 00:24:42,322 Good. Come on. 309 00:24:48,567 --> 00:24:49,300 Come on in. 310 00:24:55,942 --> 00:24:57,075 That's my guitar. 311 00:24:58,512 --> 00:25:00,245 I'll play it for you soon. 312 00:25:00,915 --> 00:25:01,782 Like a drink? 313 00:25:05,888 --> 00:25:06,621 You know... 314 00:25:08,056 --> 00:25:10,389 I know we don't know each other... 315 00:25:11,060 --> 00:25:12,593 and we just met, but... 316 00:25:14,632 --> 00:25:16,365 I had a wonderful evening. 317 00:25:17,568 --> 00:25:20,435 I don't need a genius to have a good time. 318 00:25:22,940 --> 00:25:24,807 You know, I'm a fast worker. 319 00:25:33,221 --> 00:25:35,821 You're not puttin' up much resistance. 320 00:25:37,360 --> 00:25:38,560 Lot of girls do... 321 00:25:40,362 --> 00:25:41,429 on a first date. 322 00:25:46,370 --> 00:25:48,237 Hold on. Hold it. Time out. 323 00:25:48,706 --> 00:25:52,039 Just I'm gettin' a little razzled with your pace. 324 00:25:54,380 --> 00:25:55,180 You like me? 325 00:25:59,754 --> 00:26:01,754 Just expected more of a fight. 326 00:26:03,790 --> 00:26:06,990 This is... It's like shootin' fish in a barrel. 327 00:26:22,014 --> 00:26:23,214 Did you like that? 328 00:26:24,082 --> 00:26:25,215 I knew you would. 329 00:26:27,587 --> 00:26:29,654 They say I'm a wonderful lover. 330 00:26:31,191 --> 00:26:33,671 You got a terrific body. You really do. 331 00:26:33,695 --> 00:26:36,562 Round. I like round. And I don't mean fat. 332 00:26:36,832 --> 00:26:38,032 You got some heft. 333 00:26:39,069 --> 00:26:42,069 Makes a fella feel like he's been someplace. 334 00:26:44,041 --> 00:26:45,108 Now get dressed. 335 00:26:46,676 --> 00:26:48,809 I'm tired. I gotta go to sleep. 336 00:26:49,781 --> 00:26:52,248 If I don't get my sleep, I'm cranky. 337 00:26:53,621 --> 00:26:57,954 I'd give you cab fare, but I don't assume it's a long walk home. 338 00:27:00,861 --> 00:27:03,238 First time I had sex, seven years old. 339 00:27:03,262 --> 00:27:04,462 The guitar. Right. 340 00:27:06,001 --> 00:27:08,268 Well, that's why we came up here. 341 00:27:09,470 --> 00:27:11,270 All right, you get dressed. 342 00:27:11,807 --> 00:27:14,607 I'm exhausted. What's your favorite song? 343 00:27:15,145 --> 00:27:16,745 Oh, look who I'm askin'. 344 00:29:53,739 --> 00:29:55,139 I lived in Detroit... 345 00:29:55,740 --> 00:29:56,607 and Canada... 346 00:29:57,911 --> 00:29:58,911 and New York... 347 00:30:01,182 --> 00:30:01,882 St. Louis. 348 00:30:04,284 --> 00:30:06,017 My father was in the army. 349 00:30:07,222 --> 00:30:09,022 I never got along with him. 350 00:30:10,459 --> 00:30:12,459 He used to hit me with a belt. 351 00:30:14,731 --> 00:30:15,664 He's dead now. 352 00:30:17,935 --> 00:30:19,002 Got asphyxiated. 353 00:30:24,944 --> 00:30:27,477 I'm pretty sure my mother's dead too. 354 00:30:28,316 --> 00:30:29,849 She used to get spells. 355 00:30:31,717 --> 00:30:35,250 I don't know if her family put her away somewhere... 356 00:30:37,625 --> 00:30:38,758 or if she's dead. 357 00:30:40,397 --> 00:30:42,397 She used to foam at the mouth. 358 00:30:48,206 --> 00:30:49,606 She sang beautifully. 359 00:30:51,075 --> 00:30:53,675 The most beautiful music I ever heard. 360 00:30:58,118 --> 00:30:59,318 Except for this... 361 00:31:00,188 --> 00:31:02,188 gypsy guitar player in France. 362 00:31:04,826 --> 00:31:08,426 Can you believe I can't listen to him without cryin'? 363 00:31:56,422 --> 00:31:58,155 Give us a shot, would you? 364 00:32:06,937 --> 00:32:10,070 So I'm gonna be busy later. Somethin' came up. 365 00:32:12,611 --> 00:32:15,478 You just go get yourself home by yourself. 366 00:32:19,751 --> 00:32:22,018 Now wait. What was that look for? 367 00:32:22,423 --> 00:32:23,356 What did I do? 368 00:32:27,793 --> 00:32:28,793 I got business. 369 00:32:32,833 --> 00:32:35,366 We gotta spend every minute together? 370 00:32:40,177 --> 00:32:40,877 Look. 371 00:32:42,745 --> 00:32:44,612 You go get yourself a cab... 372 00:32:45,518 --> 00:32:47,251 and I'll see you tomorrow. 373 00:33:56,839 --> 00:33:58,172 Where the hell am I? 374 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:08,213 Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania? 375 00:34:09,752 --> 00:34:14,035 I take one puff in New Jersey, I end up in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania? 376 00:34:14,059 --> 00:34:15,259 I gotta get a cab. 377 00:34:22,734 --> 00:34:24,867 I need a taxi! Can I get a cab? 378 00:34:27,574 --> 00:34:29,907 I'm sorry, Emmet. I had no choice. 379 00:34:30,445 --> 00:34:33,960 - We got a contract. - Look, I run a first- class hotel here. 380 00:34:33,984 --> 00:34:36,194 - This was an emergency. - Yeah, an emergency. 381 00:34:36,218 --> 00:34:37,751 What kind of emergency? 382 00:34:38,421 --> 00:34:40,221 - My father died. - Again? 383 00:34:40,424 --> 00:34:42,434 How many times can your father pass away? 384 00:34:42,458 --> 00:34:45,740 I'm gonna come clean with you. I got abducted and I was threatened. 385 00:34:45,764 --> 00:34:48,808 You were gone for four days. We had the police out. 386 00:34:48,832 --> 00:34:52,382 I'm tired of shootin' crap every night to see if my main attraction will show. 387 00:34:52,406 --> 00:34:53,106 It's over. 388 00:34:55,007 --> 00:34:58,140 Look, I gotta borrow a few bucks for cab fare. 389 00:34:58,179 --> 00:34:59,912 You're kidding. How much? 390 00:35:00,948 --> 00:35:02,348 Nine hundred dollars. 391 00:35:17,301 --> 00:35:20,234 What's the matter? Oh, I know this routine. 392 00:35:20,506 --> 00:35:23,306 Look, I'm a free agent. I do as I please. 393 00:35:24,044 --> 00:35:26,844 I might as well tell you. I quit the job. 394 00:35:27,847 --> 00:35:30,647 I told him to take that job and stick it. 395 00:35:33,154 --> 00:35:37,754 So the band's leavin' for Hollywood two weeks sooner than I thought. 396 00:35:38,294 --> 00:35:40,627 I didn't tell you about Hollywood. 397 00:35:43,802 --> 00:35:45,202 We're makin' a movie. 398 00:35:45,905 --> 00:35:47,905 Yeah. Just a little short one. 399 00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:52,956 Just a couple of minutes of me and the boys playin' that tune, "All Of Me." 400 00:35:52,980 --> 00:35:53,980 You know? Good. 401 00:35:56,484 --> 00:35:59,684 What are you lookin' at me like that for? What? 402 00:36:01,688 --> 00:36:05,371 Look, I got together with a couple of guys, we had a few drinks. 403 00:36:05,395 --> 00:36:07,195 One thing led to another... 404 00:36:08,631 --> 00:36:11,964 and the next thing I knew, I woke up out of town. 405 00:36:14,740 --> 00:36:18,007 Look, I don't have to account to you. All right? 406 00:36:18,412 --> 00:36:21,479 We're not married. I'm not the marryin' kind. 407 00:36:22,715 --> 00:36:23,715 I can't settle. 408 00:36:26,287 --> 00:36:28,020 Whole idea leaves me cold. 409 00:36:30,425 --> 00:36:31,692 So I thought I'd... 410 00:36:33,061 --> 00:36:34,128 I thought I'd... 411 00:36:35,265 --> 00:36:36,665 buy you some lunch... 412 00:36:37,866 --> 00:36:38,999 and say good-bye. 413 00:36:41,139 --> 00:36:45,072 And I'll be comin' through here again, I'm sure, sometime. 414 00:36:49,647 --> 00:36:52,362 But you really are a spoiled dope, you know? 415 00:36:52,386 --> 00:36:56,365 I take you out to buy you things or go to the movies, you're fine. 416 00:36:56,389 --> 00:36:59,589 But the minute somethin' doesn't go your way... 417 00:37:00,260 --> 00:37:03,308 I gotta go, and there's no way you can come with me. 418 00:37:03,332 --> 00:37:06,599 I mean, you got responsibilities. You got a job. 419 00:37:07,435 --> 00:37:08,168 You have... 420 00:37:09,439 --> 00:37:11,306 underwear and socks to wash. 421 00:37:12,340 --> 00:37:15,740 And I can't have my life cluttered. I'm an artist. 422 00:37:15,847 --> 00:37:17,247 A truly great artist. 423 00:37:17,982 --> 00:37:19,315 I need to be free... 424 00:37:20,754 --> 00:37:22,687 so I'm saying good-bye, okay? 425 00:37:27,963 --> 00:37:29,896 Look. How many fingers I got? 426 00:37:30,267 --> 00:37:31,000 Ten, right? 427 00:37:31,901 --> 00:37:33,834 Ten, nine, eight, seven, six. 428 00:37:37,641 --> 00:37:39,241 There's eleven. You see? 429 00:37:45,649 --> 00:37:48,196 All right, look. If you come, it's not a free ride. 430 00:37:48,220 --> 00:37:51,031 I'm not a charity organization, all right? 431 00:37:51,055 --> 00:37:53,255 I don't know what I'm doin' here. 432 00:37:53,894 --> 00:37:55,694 Hey, if you come, you work. 433 00:38:22,527 --> 00:38:23,727 What's the matter? 434 00:38:25,332 --> 00:38:27,545 Nobody said it was gonna be a picnic. 435 00:38:27,569 --> 00:38:29,702 You know I can't risk my hands. 436 00:39:12,957 --> 00:39:15,290 Well, that might not be a bad idea. 437 00:39:26,742 --> 00:39:28,736 And now, folks, Chester Weems, a housepainter... 438 00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:30,823 And now, folks, Chester Weems, a housepainter... 439 00:39:30,847 --> 00:39:32,047 will play the saw. 440 00:39:56,510 --> 00:39:58,043 Fast falls the eventide 441 00:40:01,450 --> 00:40:02,783 The darkness deepens 442 00:40:05,420 --> 00:40:06,620 Lord with me abide 443 00:40:09,426 --> 00:40:10,759 The scarlet tanager. 444 00:40:17,636 --> 00:40:18,503 The barn owl. 445 00:40:33,290 --> 00:40:34,090 And you are? 446 00:40:35,458 --> 00:40:36,525 Homer P. Risley. 447 00:40:38,330 --> 00:40:40,397 What is your profession, Homer? 448 00:40:40,565 --> 00:40:43,032 Profession? I'm a birdseed salesman. 449 00:40:43,567 --> 00:40:46,780 - Oh, a traveling salesman. - That's right, you got it. 450 00:40:46,804 --> 00:40:49,871 And I see that your instrument is the guitar. 451 00:40:50,108 --> 00:40:53,041 Yeah, that's right. I've had a few lessons. 452 00:40:53,214 --> 00:40:57,814 No need to be nervous, Homer. This is a wonderful audience out here. 453 00:40:59,287 --> 00:41:01,420 Birdseed salesman, Homer Risley. 454 00:42:20,287 --> 00:42:24,166 Boy, those guys were ready to break out the tar and feathers, huh? 455 00:42:24,190 --> 00:42:28,172 Next time you're gonna hustle somebody, don't play so great. 456 00:42:28,196 --> 00:42:31,129 I can't remember the tunes if I play badly. 457 00:42:32,634 --> 00:42:35,634 I wonder if Django ever hustled any suckers. 458 00:42:37,274 --> 00:42:40,521 Look at her. She's frownin'. She doesn't like it. 459 00:42:40,545 --> 00:42:43,278 Well, they deserved it. They were jerks. 460 00:42:45,149 --> 00:42:46,682 She's too good-hearted. 461 00:42:47,822 --> 00:42:51,222 A genuinely sweet person. I like that, respect it. 462 00:42:52,958 --> 00:42:55,025 Won't get you anywhere in life. 463 00:42:58,868 --> 00:43:00,535 I had a dream last night. 464 00:43:02,271 --> 00:43:05,338 I had a dream we all went out to Hollywood... 465 00:43:06,076 --> 00:43:08,809 and I became discovered as a major star. 466 00:43:09,344 --> 00:43:10,544 You? A major star? 467 00:43:12,150 --> 00:43:13,350 You were dreamin'. 468 00:43:14,052 --> 00:43:15,852 Why not? I got a good face. 469 00:43:16,388 --> 00:43:19,655 We're in a short subject. We're the backup band. 470 00:43:19,759 --> 00:43:23,759 We're in the background, Emmet. We're lucky to be in focus. 471 00:43:24,096 --> 00:43:27,011 You can always get attention if you know how to do it. 472 00:43:27,035 --> 00:43:30,348 In this dream, I was standin' there surrounded... 473 00:43:30,372 --> 00:43:31,839 by gorgeous actresses. 474 00:43:33,744 --> 00:43:35,411 See? That she don't like. 475 00:43:35,744 --> 00:43:36,444 Relax. 476 00:43:37,582 --> 00:43:38,715 I'm with you now. 477 00:43:39,984 --> 00:43:43,764 I'm not one of these guys who turns his head every time some dame walks by. 478 00:43:43,788 --> 00:43:46,188 I've had plenty of beautiful women. 479 00:43:46,525 --> 00:43:48,992 And I always put 'em in their place. 480 00:43:49,230 --> 00:43:52,408 Yeah. "Love 'em and leave 'em," that's my motto. 481 00:43:52,432 --> 00:43:56,032 Love 'em and don't look back. I never once regretted. 482 00:43:56,904 --> 00:44:00,704 Not one time did I ever regret dumping a beautiful dame. 483 00:44:01,445 --> 00:44:03,087 You gotta keep your guard up. 484 00:44:03,111 --> 00:44:07,394 If you don't, them pretty ones get their worms in you, and then it's over. 485 00:44:07,418 --> 00:44:10,533 You're done. Particularly if you're an artist. 486 00:44:10,557 --> 00:44:13,624 I've seen too many guys cryin' in their beer. 487 00:44:13,826 --> 00:44:14,526 Me? 488 00:44:15,661 --> 00:44:16,994 I'm gonna be a star. 489 00:44:23,070 --> 00:44:23,770 All of me 490 00:44:24,838 --> 00:44:26,305 Why not take all of me 491 00:44:28,343 --> 00:44:29,210 Can't you see 492 00:44:30,112 --> 00:44:31,645 I'm no good without you 493 00:44:34,083 --> 00:44:34,883 Take my lips 494 00:44:35,986 --> 00:44:37,119 I wanna lose them 495 00:44:39,456 --> 00:44:40,256 Take my arms 496 00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:42,827 I'll never use them 497 00:44:45,029 --> 00:44:45,896 Your good-bye 498 00:44:47,166 --> 00:44:48,899 Left me with eyes that cry 499 00:44:50,706 --> 00:44:51,406 How can I 500 00:44:52,473 --> 00:44:54,073 Go on, dear without you 501 00:44:56,576 --> 00:44:57,709 You took the part 502 00:44:58,713 --> 00:45:00,180 That once was my heart 503 00:45:01,384 --> 00:45:03,051 So why not take all of me 504 00:45:06,090 --> 00:45:08,602 The reason Emmet hated Hollywood so much... 505 00:45:08,626 --> 00:45:11,471 was because Hattie was discovered, not him. 506 00:45:11,495 --> 00:45:12,974 That was the truth of it. 507 00:45:12,998 --> 00:45:17,479 She was out there watching him film. Every day she would hang out on the set. 508 00:45:17,503 --> 00:45:20,770 And one day, for, you know, some crazy reason... 509 00:45:21,175 --> 00:45:26,324 a director, who happened to be working the same lot Emmet was on, noticed her. 510 00:45:26,348 --> 00:45:30,795 And the director thought, "This girl is a dead ringer for May Talmadge." 511 00:45:30,819 --> 00:45:33,766 He was making a movie with May Talmadge, who was a big star. 512 00:45:33,790 --> 00:45:38,772 And he thought Hattie is exactly what he wanted to play May Talmadge's sister. 513 00:45:38,796 --> 00:45:41,641 And this is a 30- second part or something. 514 00:45:41,665 --> 00:45:44,713 When he found out that Hattie couldn't speak, it didn't make any difference... 515 00:45:44,737 --> 00:45:46,716 because the part had no dialogue. 516 00:45:46,740 --> 00:45:50,319 He just knew he had to have Hattie to play that part. 517 00:45:50,343 --> 00:45:52,543 Well, Emmet hated the whole idea. 518 00:46:09,198 --> 00:46:11,131 I can't believe you said yes. 519 00:46:11,202 --> 00:46:15,735 Did you nod that dopey face of yours? Do they know you can't speak? 520 00:46:16,642 --> 00:46:19,288 I don't get it. You're gonna embarrass me. 521 00:46:19,312 --> 00:46:21,445 Suddenly you're a movie actress. 522 00:46:22,450 --> 00:46:23,783 Don't make me laugh. 523 00:47:22,356 --> 00:47:24,023 Now, as the story goes... 524 00:47:25,125 --> 00:47:28,205 Hattie was playing this love scene with William Weston... 525 00:47:28,229 --> 00:47:32,043 this handsome older man who always kissed his leading ladies... 526 00:47:32,067 --> 00:47:34,334 so they said, with an open mouth. 527 00:47:34,401 --> 00:47:37,946 And he was kissing her, and they were doing take after take... 528 00:47:37,970 --> 00:47:41,183 and he was kissing her over and over with an open mouth. 529 00:47:41,207 --> 00:47:45,540 After 30 takes of getting kissed by this gorgeous leading man... 530 00:47:46,447 --> 00:47:48,447 Hattie went into a small coma. 531 00:47:53,488 --> 00:47:55,421 And that was the last time... 532 00:47:55,890 --> 00:47:58,090 Emmet ever set foot in Hollywood. 533 00:47:58,494 --> 00:48:02,340 Yeah, I remember Emmet and Hattie back East at that time. 534 00:48:02,364 --> 00:48:05,476 In fact, he had a good manager, this cat named Sid Bishop. 535 00:48:05,500 --> 00:48:08,179 Sid was really good to him, and he got him a lot of gigs. 536 00:48:08,203 --> 00:48:10,846 Emmet was doing really well, and that really wasn't easy. 537 00:48:10,870 --> 00:48:13,951 Back then, a lot of musicians were hurting from the Depression... 538 00:48:13,975 --> 00:48:16,688 and there wasn't a lot of work to go around. 539 00:48:16,712 --> 00:48:19,024 But Emmet even agreed at that time... 540 00:48:19,048 --> 00:48:21,925 to do a couple of sides for the Victor label. 541 00:48:21,949 --> 00:48:24,695 He did "Melancholy Baby," "Exactly Like You"... 542 00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:26,852 and "I'll See You In My Dreams." 543 00:49:19,308 --> 00:49:22,219 - What do you mean, I'm broke? - You give it away. 544 00:49:22,243 --> 00:49:24,710 You drink it up. You pick up checks. 545 00:49:24,747 --> 00:49:27,995 You lose it in poolrooms, and you're always buyin' Hattie presents. 546 00:49:28,019 --> 00:49:30,896 She's like a kid. She loves tearin' the paper off the box. 547 00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:32,564 You gotta go on a budget. 548 00:49:32,588 --> 00:49:34,667 I'll go on a budget if someone will straighten me out. 549 00:49:34,691 --> 00:49:36,736 A budget's not easy for a guy like you. 550 00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:40,239 - When I set my mind to somethin'... - You fight every good idea I have. 551 00:49:40,263 --> 00:49:42,540 I'll go on a budget. I'll be good. 552 00:49:42,564 --> 00:49:45,144 What do you spend on clothes a year? Do you have any idea? 553 00:49:45,168 --> 00:49:46,912 Want me to look like a bum? 554 00:49:46,936 --> 00:49:50,117 - What about rent? - I don't know. It's all hotels. 555 00:49:50,141 --> 00:49:52,853 - Any idea what you spend on food? - The booze gratis? 556 00:49:52,877 --> 00:49:57,390 Help yourself. Do you have any idea what you spend on food or entertainment? 557 00:49:57,414 --> 00:50:00,524 Do you have any investments, anything that'll throw off revenue? 558 00:50:00,548 --> 00:50:03,963 I got some savings, mostly from Hattie takin' in laundry. 559 00:50:03,987 --> 00:50:06,987 Emmet, we gotta look for places to cut down. 560 00:50:07,259 --> 00:50:10,469 I burned a hundred dollars once. A guy dared me. He was a four-flusher. 561 00:50:10,493 --> 00:50:12,605 He burned a fifty, I burned a hundred. 562 00:50:12,629 --> 00:50:16,309 He burned a twenty, I burned another hundred. I could cut that out. 563 00:50:16,333 --> 00:50:19,178 You wanna end up in the poorhouse when you're old? 564 00:50:19,202 --> 00:50:20,869 You ever see a poorhouse? 565 00:50:21,606 --> 00:50:24,786 From now on, your salary and expenses will come to me. 566 00:50:24,810 --> 00:50:26,943 I'm puttin' you on an allowance. 567 00:50:27,244 --> 00:50:29,240 Okay, that's it. The party's over. 568 00:50:29,264 --> 00:50:31,325 Okay, that's it. The party's over. 569 00:50:31,349 --> 00:50:35,416 You're spendin' too much, so now we've gotta go on a budget. 570 00:50:35,819 --> 00:50:38,886 Now, aside from food, what are your expenses? 571 00:50:40,492 --> 00:50:43,269 What about the doctor bills? You got a doctor? 572 00:50:43,293 --> 00:50:46,208 I bet you I get you a veterinarian who's cheaper. 573 00:50:46,232 --> 00:50:47,699 And this is goin' out. 574 00:50:49,599 --> 00:50:51,932 What are we? The electric company? 575 00:50:52,671 --> 00:50:54,404 We gotta save every penny. 576 00:50:56,576 --> 00:50:57,443 What is that? 577 00:51:03,682 --> 00:51:05,482 You remembered my birthday? 578 00:51:08,688 --> 00:51:10,355 We can't afford presents. 579 00:51:11,755 --> 00:51:14,555 That's gotta go back. It's gotta go back. 580 00:51:21,466 --> 00:51:24,266 These are the kid gloves I really wanted. 581 00:51:27,939 --> 00:51:30,606 Exactly the gloves I wanted, these are. 582 00:51:34,112 --> 00:51:36,691 You know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna cut you a break. 583 00:51:36,715 --> 00:51:38,248 It's my birthday and... 584 00:51:39,316 --> 00:51:41,783 So I'm gonna let you give 'em to me. 585 00:51:45,959 --> 00:51:47,492 You made this yourself? 586 00:51:54,664 --> 00:51:56,931 Your writin' looks like a chicken. 587 00:51:58,071 --> 00:52:00,671 Let's see. "It's been almost a year... 588 00:52:01,542 --> 00:52:03,342 since we've been together." 589 00:52:04,377 --> 00:52:05,077 Ayear? 590 00:52:06,944 --> 00:52:08,211 Well, that's scary. 591 00:52:14,856 --> 00:52:16,323 What's this word here? 592 00:52:18,192 --> 00:52:19,925 Is that... Is that "love"? 593 00:52:23,295 --> 00:52:26,295 Oh, no. Don't go gettin' any big ideas here. 594 00:52:26,833 --> 00:52:27,533 Jesus. 595 00:52:30,705 --> 00:52:32,572 I must've ate somethin' bad. 596 00:52:35,542 --> 00:52:37,809 I'm feelin'... I'm gonna be sick. 597 00:52:44,716 --> 00:52:47,195 - Got somethin' for me today, Mr. Ray? - I don't. 598 00:52:47,219 --> 00:52:50,199 - Mr. Ray, it's me, Charlie. - I'm all tapped out. 599 00:52:50,223 --> 00:52:52,423 - You never let me down. - Look. 600 00:52:52,694 --> 00:52:55,561 I'd like to help you, but I'm on a budget. 601 00:52:55,828 --> 00:52:57,908 I haven't had a bowl of soup all day. 602 00:52:57,932 --> 00:53:00,132 What, you wanna make me feel bad? 603 00:53:02,102 --> 00:53:04,969 - That's all you get. - All right, thanks. 604 00:53:05,139 --> 00:53:06,206 Thanks, Mr. Ray. 605 00:53:07,376 --> 00:53:10,787 What's the urgency? I came here as quick as I could. 606 00:53:10,811 --> 00:53:14,523 - Would you look at this thing? - This is why I came quick to meet you? 607 00:53:14,547 --> 00:53:16,924 - He only wants 4,000 for it. - Yeah, so? 608 00:53:16,948 --> 00:53:18,481 Does it fit the budget? 609 00:53:18,685 --> 00:53:21,196 Are you kidding? We just sold one of your cars. 610 00:53:21,220 --> 00:53:24,136 I'm tryin' to unload the other one, not buy one. 611 00:53:24,160 --> 00:53:25,801 - If I cut down? - Cut down? 612 00:53:25,825 --> 00:53:29,406 - Where are you gonna get four grand? - I'll borrow the money and pay it off. 613 00:53:29,430 --> 00:53:32,876 No one will lend you that kind of money, and you'll be saddled with payments. 614 00:53:32,900 --> 00:53:34,967 - I want the car. - No, Emmet. 615 00:53:35,170 --> 00:53:37,103 Hattie will give up desserts. 616 00:53:37,337 --> 00:53:39,814 - I want the car. - It's out of the question. 617 00:53:39,838 --> 00:53:42,386 - I gotta have the car. - You don't have the money. 618 00:53:42,410 --> 00:53:45,210 - I gotta have the car. - There's no way! 619 00:53:46,081 --> 00:53:48,881 - We can't afford it. - Stop sayin' "we." 620 00:53:48,950 --> 00:53:51,329 If I want the car, I'm gonna get it. 621 00:53:51,353 --> 00:53:54,397 - Maybe someday, if it's in your budget. - Budget! Budget! 622 00:53:54,421 --> 00:53:57,903 You're suffocating me with the budget. I can't buy Hattie a birthday present. 623 00:53:57,927 --> 00:54:00,639 You can't buy champagne if you can only afford beer. 624 00:54:00,663 --> 00:54:02,908 I'm the best guitar player in the world! 625 00:54:02,932 --> 00:54:05,276 If I want the car, I should have it. 626 00:54:05,300 --> 00:54:06,388 He said it, but he didn't believe it. 627 00:54:06,412 --> 00:54:07,576 He said it, but he didn't believe it. 628 00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:11,133 I mean, in his soul, he worshipped Django Reinhardt. 629 00:54:11,405 --> 00:54:13,885 It was more than that. He was frozen by him. 630 00:54:13,909 --> 00:54:15,842 Django was like a god to him. 631 00:54:16,311 --> 00:54:19,157 I don't know if this is true, or just another Emmet Ray story... 632 00:54:19,181 --> 00:54:22,893 but Sid Bishop, who was trying to help him financially at the time... 633 00:54:22,917 --> 00:54:26,630 got him a job in this club, and one night, just before show time... 634 00:54:26,654 --> 00:54:30,102 one of the guys backstage decides to play a joke on him... 635 00:54:30,126 --> 00:54:31,659 and tells him this lie. 636 00:54:32,260 --> 00:54:32,993 Hey, Emmet! 637 00:54:34,529 --> 00:54:38,609 Emmet, you're not gonna believe it. Guess who's sittin' at the front table? 638 00:54:38,633 --> 00:54:39,766 Django Reinhardt. 639 00:54:41,170 --> 00:54:45,170 Are you kiddin' me? We should get him up on stage with you. 640 00:54:45,507 --> 00:54:46,207 Reinhardt. 641 00:54:47,743 --> 00:54:49,276 He's gonna show him up. 642 00:54:50,179 --> 00:54:51,912 - I'm gonna... - Come on. 643 00:54:52,882 --> 00:54:55,749 Emmet, we can get him up on stage with us. 644 00:54:59,555 --> 00:55:02,022 - Django Reinhardt's here. - Really? 645 00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:11,267 Hey, Django's not in the audience. 646 00:55:11,599 --> 00:55:14,812 The house is half-empty. There's just some guy that looks like Django. 647 00:55:14,836 --> 00:55:17,448 Let's see if he's got the nerve to come down. 648 00:55:17,472 --> 00:55:20,005 - Harry, let's go. - Emmet, we're on! 649 00:55:20,043 --> 00:55:21,576 We should do it anyway. 650 00:55:23,244 --> 00:55:25,911 Emmet, come on down. I'll wait for you. 651 00:55:26,615 --> 00:55:30,163 I'll take you to the front table myself. I'll introduce you to Django. 652 00:55:30,187 --> 00:55:31,854 Now, as the story goes... 653 00:55:32,289 --> 00:55:36,237 Emmet, as you know, was pathologically phobic about Django Reinhardt... 654 00:55:36,261 --> 00:55:38,928 so he tried to escape through the roof. 655 00:55:39,029 --> 00:55:41,074 He just figured, to hell with the job that night. 656 00:55:41,098 --> 00:55:44,698 But remember, this was a guy who had fainted twice... 657 00:55:45,268 --> 00:55:48,381 when he came face-to-face with Django Reinhardt in Europe. 658 00:55:48,405 --> 00:55:52,886 He's looking for a way out, and decides to jump to the building next door. 659 00:55:52,910 --> 00:55:57,088 Well, as fate would have it, he hits a weak spot in the roof... 660 00:55:57,112 --> 00:56:00,225 and crashes through into somebody's apartment. 661 00:56:00,249 --> 00:56:03,897 As it happened, the apartment was being used by some counterfeiters... 662 00:56:03,921 --> 00:56:08,588 who thought it was a raid when he came through the roof, and ran out. 663 00:57:16,629 --> 00:57:19,439 Well, Eddie Durham, the great jazz pioneer... 664 00:57:19,463 --> 00:57:21,796 met Emmet in Chicago in the 1930's. 665 00:57:22,402 --> 00:57:24,479 Here's what he said about him in his book. 666 00:57:24,503 --> 00:57:27,548 "I met Emmet in Chicago. It was the height of the Depression. 667 00:57:27,572 --> 00:57:32,054 Work was scarce. A lot of guys took on teaching music as a sideline. 668 00:57:32,078 --> 00:57:33,011 Emmet refused. 669 00:57:33,746 --> 00:57:37,413 At that time he was married to a woman named Blanche." 670 00:58:40,381 --> 00:58:42,381 - What are you doing? - What? 671 00:58:42,616 --> 00:58:43,222 Nothing. 672 00:58:43,246 --> 00:58:43,946 Nothing. 673 00:58:43,951 --> 00:58:45,218 Excuse me, darling. 674 00:58:46,420 --> 00:58:48,220 You were stealing that box. 675 00:58:48,423 --> 00:58:50,956 - No. - Oh, yes, you were. I saw you. 676 00:58:51,226 --> 00:58:51,926 Why? 677 00:58:53,628 --> 00:58:54,495 I don't know. 678 00:58:55,030 --> 00:58:56,763 You're a genius, you know? 679 00:58:57,231 --> 00:59:00,410 Eubie Blake thinks I'm the best guitar player in the whole world, bar none. 680 00:59:00,434 --> 00:59:02,567 - And he knows Django. - Truly? 681 00:59:02,836 --> 00:59:04,236 I'm Blanche Williams. 682 00:59:06,207 --> 00:59:09,474 - Are you gonna squeal on me? - "Squeal" on you? 683 00:59:12,377 --> 00:59:15,510 Gosh. Not only are you vain and egotistical... 684 00:59:15,717 --> 00:59:17,784 but you have genuine crudeness. 685 00:59:20,053 --> 00:59:22,186 I didn't want the goddamn thing. 686 00:59:23,824 --> 00:59:26,370 I won't squeal on you if you take me for a drive... 687 00:59:26,394 --> 00:59:28,861 in that sublime automobile of yours. 688 00:59:29,530 --> 00:59:30,230 Drive. 689 00:59:31,065 --> 00:59:31,765 Where? 690 00:59:32,768 --> 00:59:35,368 To the ends of the earth. Astonish me. 691 00:59:41,209 --> 00:59:42,476 It's fun, isn't it? 692 00:59:42,979 --> 00:59:45,112 Well, it's definitely different. 693 00:59:45,246 --> 00:59:47,959 Make sure you don't pull it. You squeeze it. 694 00:59:47,983 --> 00:59:49,316 Squeeze the trigger. 695 00:59:50,984 --> 00:59:54,051 - Do you do this often? - Every chance I get. 696 00:59:54,088 --> 00:59:56,221 Specifically, what's the thrill? 697 00:59:56,324 --> 00:59:59,057 Well, I'm not sure, really. There's one. 698 00:59:59,628 --> 01:00:00,695 And you got him! 699 01:00:02,498 --> 01:00:06,378 Do you get a bigger kick doing this or stealing small objects? 700 01:00:06,402 --> 01:00:09,269 You know what? I could really use a drink. 701 01:00:21,181 --> 01:00:24,261 I stop in here every time I come through Chicago. 702 01:00:24,285 --> 01:00:25,752 She makes great chili. 703 01:00:26,289 --> 01:00:27,289 You like chili? 704 01:00:28,958 --> 01:00:31,358 What do you think of when you play? 705 01:00:31,493 --> 01:00:33,360 What goes through your mind? 706 01:00:33,631 --> 01:00:35,498 What are your real feelings? 707 01:00:37,030 --> 01:00:39,297 I don't know. That I'm underpaid. 708 01:00:39,668 --> 01:00:41,601 I think about that sometimes. 709 01:00:42,070 --> 01:00:44,670 Tell me about the girl you lived with. 710 01:00:47,276 --> 01:00:49,957 She was nice, but I told her not to fall in love with me. 711 01:00:49,981 --> 01:00:51,448 It was very one-sided. 712 01:00:53,650 --> 01:00:56,094 She was nice, but I just cut out one night. 713 01:00:56,118 --> 01:00:58,530 She was asleep, I left 500 cash by the bed, got my stuff... 714 01:00:58,554 --> 01:01:00,534 and got outta there at 4:00 in the morning. 715 01:01:00,558 --> 01:01:02,025 I didn't want a scene. 716 01:01:02,191 --> 01:01:04,258 She must have really loved you. 717 01:01:04,662 --> 01:01:07,662 I didn't say it was an easy decision, but... 718 01:01:08,563 --> 01:01:10,296 I needed more than Hattie. 719 01:01:10,570 --> 01:01:12,703 - Do you miss her? - Not a bit. 720 01:01:13,335 --> 01:01:14,847 I did the right thing for me. 721 01:01:14,871 --> 01:01:16,871 Maybe I wouldn't have met you. 722 01:01:17,107 --> 01:01:20,518 Come on, Emmet. Join us, man. Cut loose with the fellas. 723 01:01:20,542 --> 01:01:22,675 - You know you want to. - Yeah? 724 01:01:22,946 --> 01:01:23,646 Please. 725 01:01:24,680 --> 01:01:27,947 Come. You'll enjoy this. I'm great. I really am. 726 01:02:04,922 --> 01:02:07,922 After-hours jam session. Chicago South Side. 727 01:02:08,994 --> 01:02:10,194 He's like a cat... 728 01:02:11,030 --> 01:02:15,407 feline with the guitar, which is his only, certainly deepest love. 729 01:02:15,431 --> 01:02:17,164 No, his only. The sound... 730 01:02:18,737 --> 01:02:20,070 the beat, the ideas. 731 01:02:20,903 --> 01:02:22,503 Where do they come from? 732 01:02:23,208 --> 01:02:25,686 Any woman would be second to his music. 733 01:02:25,710 --> 01:02:29,558 He wouldn't miss me any more than the woman he abruptly left. 734 01:02:29,582 --> 01:02:32,182 He could only feel pain for his music. 735 01:02:32,452 --> 01:02:34,185 Such is the ego of genius. 736 01:02:35,721 --> 01:02:37,054 Must get used to it. 737 01:02:40,691 --> 01:02:42,936 I used to have a stable of girls in this town. 738 01:02:42,960 --> 01:02:43,893 - No. - Yeah. 739 01:02:44,428 --> 01:02:46,095 I made some money, but... 740 01:02:47,465 --> 01:02:49,132 whores are unpredictable. 741 01:02:50,904 --> 01:02:52,637 - They're nuts. - Really? 742 01:02:52,905 --> 01:02:54,505 Yeah. But money's money. 743 01:02:55,539 --> 01:02:58,006 I mean, you pimped and you procured? 744 01:02:59,377 --> 01:03:01,557 I can't stand it. It's just too perfect. 745 01:03:01,581 --> 01:03:03,425 - I don't like that word. - Which? 746 01:03:03,449 --> 01:03:05,316 "Pimp." No, I was a manager. 747 01:03:07,086 --> 01:03:10,286 - What's too perfect? - That whole seamy world. 748 01:03:10,587 --> 01:03:15,503 The girls I came out with were whores too, only we called them debutantes. 749 01:03:15,527 --> 01:03:18,673 I lived in a whorehouse when I was 18 for six months. 750 01:03:18,697 --> 01:03:20,764 Didn't have a job and no money. 751 01:03:20,966 --> 01:03:24,566 The madam put me up. She was a friend of my mother's. 752 01:03:25,171 --> 01:03:27,371 I'm sure you learned a lot there. 753 01:03:28,474 --> 01:03:31,007 I don't know. It's like being a cook. 754 01:03:31,511 --> 01:03:34,378 - A cook? - You're in the kitchen all day. 755 01:03:34,713 --> 01:03:37,046 You don't want to look at the food. 756 01:03:38,652 --> 01:03:41,852 I'd love to be a whore for a year. Just a year. 757 01:03:41,955 --> 01:03:43,888 If you ever want a manager... 758 01:03:45,392 --> 01:03:46,859 Look. That's a beauty. 759 01:03:47,858 --> 01:03:50,391 What is this fascination with trains? 760 01:03:50,830 --> 01:03:51,963 What do you mean? 761 01:03:52,833 --> 01:03:57,166 Do you have the urge to go off, to ride to unknown destinations? 762 01:03:57,204 --> 01:03:58,204 For what point? 763 01:03:58,737 --> 01:04:02,951 Are you trying to recapture some intangible feeling from childhood... 764 01:04:02,975 --> 01:04:06,642 when you dreamt of glamorous cities just out of reach? 765 01:04:07,081 --> 01:04:10,726 I'm not trying to capture anything from childhood. It stank. 766 01:04:10,750 --> 01:04:14,096 Then I can only think it must be the power of the locomotive... 767 01:04:14,120 --> 01:04:18,320 the sheer, potent sexual energy that arouses your masculinity. 768 01:04:18,460 --> 01:04:21,793 The wheels, the hot furnace, the pistons pumping. 769 01:04:23,432 --> 01:04:26,832 You sound like you wanna go to bed with the train. 770 01:05:02,103 --> 01:05:04,080 He's impulsive and hot-tempered... 771 01:05:04,104 --> 01:05:08,587 yet he listens to the recordings of Django Reinhardt for hours and cries. 772 01:05:08,611 --> 01:05:11,991 He has never met this gypsy guitarist and never wants to. 773 01:05:12,015 --> 01:05:15,882 I think because he doesn't want to learn Django's mortal. 774 01:05:15,917 --> 01:05:17,895 He sleeps with the light on in the room... 775 01:05:17,919 --> 01:05:22,600 and last night he woke up screaming the name of his old girlfriend Hattie. 776 01:05:22,624 --> 01:05:24,624 Then he asked me to marry him. 777 01:05:47,682 --> 01:05:49,349 Get a load of those legs? 778 01:05:51,221 --> 01:05:54,288 Take your hat off. She grew up with a butler. 779 01:05:57,359 --> 01:05:58,826 It was very impulsive. 780 01:05:59,994 --> 01:06:03,175 And as soon as they were married, right from the start... 781 01:06:03,199 --> 01:06:04,399 it was very shaky. 782 01:06:05,767 --> 01:06:08,967 Why did he marry her so suddenly? I don't know. 783 01:06:09,672 --> 01:06:12,951 You know, they only had one thing in common: Clothes. 784 01:06:12,975 --> 01:06:14,842 They were like two peacocks. 785 01:06:15,077 --> 01:06:19,010 But there was always an unreal quality to the whole thing. 786 01:06:19,283 --> 01:06:21,416 Talk about doomed relationships. 787 01:06:22,352 --> 01:06:23,952 I feel like gettin' out. 788 01:06:24,453 --> 01:06:26,520 Me too, Emmet, but we're broke. 789 01:06:27,424 --> 01:06:29,970 He's gonna give me my job back! He said so. 790 01:06:29,994 --> 01:06:32,603 If you show up on time, and then not always drunk. 791 01:06:32,627 --> 01:06:34,607 Somethin' comes over me. I get cold sweats. 792 01:06:34,631 --> 01:06:36,609 You're not sorry we got married, are you? 793 01:06:36,633 --> 01:06:38,609 Of course not! You're a beautiful woman. 794 01:06:38,633 --> 01:06:41,500 - Do you love me? - What's this all about? 795 01:06:41,872 --> 01:06:45,052 I'm trying to analyze your feelings so I can write about them. 796 01:06:45,076 --> 01:06:48,409 I'm your husband. I'm not some goddamn book idea! 797 01:06:49,378 --> 01:06:52,158 Have you ever cried over the loss of anyone? 798 01:06:52,182 --> 01:06:54,915 - Your mother, your father? - Not in me. 799 01:06:55,017 --> 01:06:58,065 You let your insides get to you and you're finished. 800 01:06:58,089 --> 01:07:02,035 If you just let your feelings out, you might even play better. 801 01:07:02,059 --> 01:07:02,759 Richer. 802 01:07:03,593 --> 01:07:06,908 Someone else said that to me once. Everybody knows everything. 803 01:07:06,932 --> 01:07:10,343 I've been trying to analyze what separates your playing from Django's... 804 01:07:10,367 --> 01:07:12,747 and I say it's that his feelings are richer. 805 01:07:12,771 --> 01:07:15,904 He's not afraid to suffer in front of anybody. 806 01:07:16,472 --> 01:07:19,720 - He doesn't hold things in check... - Stop talking about Django! 807 01:07:19,744 --> 01:07:23,144 The guy haunts me. All right? Enough about Django. 808 01:07:41,166 --> 01:07:41,866 Yeah. 809 01:07:43,334 --> 01:07:46,346 - I want to see Mr. Bedloe. - Be back in a minute. 810 01:07:46,370 --> 01:07:47,837 Do you mind if I wait? 811 01:07:49,805 --> 01:07:51,072 Got an appointment? 812 01:07:51,809 --> 01:07:53,209 - May I? - Go ahead. 813 01:07:54,012 --> 01:07:54,712 Nope. 814 01:07:57,448 --> 01:07:59,648 - Who are you? - I work for him. 815 01:08:01,954 --> 01:08:03,354 I've seen you around. 816 01:08:05,323 --> 01:08:08,923 - You're his strong-arm man. - He don't need no help. 817 01:08:09,294 --> 01:08:12,694 I saw you beat somebody up in the alley last week. 818 01:08:14,731 --> 01:08:17,779 - You're the guitar player's wife. - That's right. 819 01:08:17,803 --> 01:08:19,846 - I noticed you too. - You did? 820 01:08:19,870 --> 01:08:20,803 Lots of times. 821 01:08:25,978 --> 01:08:28,055 Why does Mr. Bedloe need a bodyguard? 822 01:08:28,079 --> 01:08:30,559 You come here to ask for your husband's job back? 823 01:08:30,583 --> 01:08:33,316 Is it true Mr. Bedloe runs some rackets? 824 01:08:33,516 --> 01:08:36,298 Joe thinks the world of your husband's guitar playing. 825 01:08:36,322 --> 01:08:38,389 He thinks he's a genius, but... 826 01:08:38,888 --> 01:08:41,637 I mean, let's be honest. Either he comes in here late... 827 01:08:41,661 --> 01:08:43,837 or he comes in drunk or he don't come in at all... 828 01:08:43,861 --> 01:08:46,394 and that's no way to run a nightclub. 829 01:08:47,333 --> 01:08:51,400 I thinkJoe's cooled down. He was pretty hot the other night. 830 01:08:52,037 --> 01:08:54,704 I hope you don't mind me asking, but... 831 01:08:55,906 --> 01:08:58,173 you're wearing a gun, aren't you? 832 01:08:59,179 --> 01:08:59,879 Not me. 833 01:09:01,814 --> 01:09:03,481 Did you ever kill anyone? 834 01:09:14,060 --> 01:09:17,071 Don't tell me that you never noticed me staring at you. 835 01:09:17,095 --> 01:09:19,074 - No, I... - You come in here a couple of nights. 836 01:09:19,098 --> 01:09:21,231 I couldn't take my eyes off you. 837 01:09:21,467 --> 01:09:24,800 - Really? - I love that blue silk dress you wear. 838 01:09:25,939 --> 01:09:27,339 Oh, yes. That... Gee. 839 01:09:30,643 --> 01:09:31,843 It's warm in here. 840 01:09:35,215 --> 01:09:36,548 Morning, Mr. Bedloe. 841 01:09:37,618 --> 01:09:40,330 You're a smart girl. You come from a good home. 842 01:09:40,354 --> 01:09:43,732 What are you doin' with a drunken guitar player for a husband? 843 01:09:43,756 --> 01:09:46,703 Okay, he's a brilliant musician, but who can live with him? 844 01:09:46,727 --> 01:09:49,460 Not me. I'll bet it's no picnic for you. 845 01:09:49,595 --> 01:09:51,777 He wants me to tell you he's learned his lesson. 846 01:09:51,801 --> 01:09:53,777 Do you think I was born yesterday? 847 01:09:53,801 --> 01:09:58,201 - I know you think he's great. - Great? His playin' makes me cry. 848 01:09:58,640 --> 01:10:00,716 Does he bring in customers? Some. 849 01:10:00,740 --> 01:10:03,273 Mostly aficionados. When he shows up. 850 01:10:04,245 --> 01:10:07,626 We found him the other night staring at freight trains at 9:00. 851 01:10:07,650 --> 01:10:09,826 - He's gonna turn over a new leaf. - Right. 852 01:10:09,850 --> 01:10:11,317 He's through drinkin'. 853 01:10:11,551 --> 01:10:13,084 Right. All right, look. 854 01:10:14,421 --> 01:10:17,734 I'm a soft touch, but I don't like to be made a fool. 855 01:10:17,758 --> 01:10:22,425 Out of respect for you, who I like, I'm gonna give him one more shot. 856 01:10:22,796 --> 01:10:27,196 But if you want my advice, no genius is worth too much heartache. 857 01:10:31,238 --> 01:10:33,905 - How'd you do? - He's such a nice man. 858 01:10:34,642 --> 01:10:35,975 You wanna celebrate? 859 01:10:36,511 --> 01:10:39,378 - Celebrate? - Yeah, have a drink with me. 860 01:10:39,546 --> 01:10:40,246 Come on. 861 01:10:42,149 --> 01:10:43,082 Well, I guess. 862 01:10:44,551 --> 01:10:47,298 There are a few things I wouldn't mind finding out. 863 01:10:47,322 --> 01:10:50,866 I'm a writer, and extreme characters always fascinate me. 864 01:10:50,890 --> 01:10:52,157 I ain't so extreme. 865 01:10:52,895 --> 01:10:54,907 Everybody I ever rubbed out deserved it. 866 01:10:54,931 --> 01:10:55,798 "Rubbed out"? 867 01:10:57,600 --> 01:10:59,267 That's so colorful and... 868 01:10:59,702 --> 01:11:02,615 What goes through your mind when you're rubbing someone out? 869 01:11:02,639 --> 01:11:03,706 Through my mind? 870 01:11:05,172 --> 01:11:07,919 What do you think about when you pull the trigger? 871 01:11:07,943 --> 01:11:09,210 Well, I don't know. 872 01:11:10,311 --> 01:11:12,911 Yet you're able to just shoot someone. 873 01:11:13,816 --> 01:11:16,016 I don't want to shock you, but... 874 01:11:16,784 --> 01:11:18,717 it always came natural to me. 875 01:11:18,854 --> 01:11:19,554 Really? 876 01:11:20,157 --> 01:11:23,557 Ever since I was 15 and I first picked up a gun... 877 01:11:24,360 --> 01:11:27,027 I discovered that I had a knack for it. 878 01:11:27,662 --> 01:11:28,462 Fascinating. 879 01:11:30,465 --> 01:11:33,732 - What are you doing? - You have very soft hair. 880 01:11:33,802 --> 01:11:34,869 - Don't. - Why? 881 01:11:36,106 --> 01:11:36,839 I'm scared. 882 01:11:37,807 --> 01:11:39,674 Because I kill for a living. 883 01:11:42,711 --> 01:11:44,711 Because I find you attractive. 884 01:11:57,125 --> 01:12:00,125 Blanche was a writer. Some kind of a writer. 885 01:12:01,163 --> 01:12:03,943 Not famous or anything, but she was published. 886 01:12:03,967 --> 01:12:06,367 In fact, she wrote a story called... 887 01:12:08,070 --> 01:12:09,737 "Strutting and Fretting." 888 01:12:10,540 --> 01:12:15,540 And it's vaguely about some of the stormy times she and Emmet were having. 889 01:12:17,178 --> 01:12:19,245 Why am I bored with my husband? 890 01:12:19,851 --> 01:12:21,451 It's all so complicated. 891 01:12:21,985 --> 01:12:24,985 In the end, I married for the wrong reasons. 892 01:12:25,021 --> 01:12:28,821 And why Emmet rushed into marriage with me is a mystery. 893 01:12:31,194 --> 01:12:32,461 Five in the corner. 894 01:12:36,699 --> 01:12:39,232 - That's all she wrote. - Lucky shot. 895 01:12:39,768 --> 01:12:42,016 You couldn't make that shot again if you tried. 896 01:12:42,040 --> 01:12:44,640 Don't give me that. Just hand it over. 897 01:12:45,076 --> 01:12:47,186 I'm one of the two, three top pool players in the country. 898 01:12:47,210 --> 01:12:50,123 No shame in losin' to me. Thank you very much. 899 01:12:50,147 --> 01:12:52,895 - Come here. I want to talk to you. - Yeah. 900 01:12:52,919 --> 01:12:55,052 Look, we know each other, right? 901 01:12:55,484 --> 01:12:57,565 I don't like to cause any problems... 902 01:12:57,589 --> 01:12:59,867 so I wanted to give you a little tip. 903 01:12:59,891 --> 01:13:01,734 On a horse? Couple of beers. 904 01:13:01,758 --> 01:13:03,025 No, not on a horse. 905 01:13:04,329 --> 01:13:05,996 I want to give you a tip. 906 01:13:06,862 --> 01:13:08,529 Keep an eye on your wife. 907 01:13:08,868 --> 01:13:11,578 - What do you mean? - Just keep an eye on her. 908 01:13:11,602 --> 01:13:12,302 Why? 909 01:13:13,503 --> 01:13:17,370 Because she's been spendin' a lot of time with Al Torrio. 910 01:13:18,542 --> 01:13:19,242 Who? 911 01:13:20,144 --> 01:13:22,856 Al Torrio. The hood that hangs around Bedloe. 912 01:13:22,880 --> 01:13:25,660 The bodyguard? And Blanche? Are you nuts? 913 01:13:25,684 --> 01:13:28,561 - Just tellin' you what's goin' around. - What kind of mind you got? 914 01:13:28,585 --> 01:13:32,067 Blanche'd never make a fool outta me with some strong- arm stooge. 915 01:13:32,091 --> 01:13:34,067 - Where'd you hear this? - Here and there. 916 01:13:34,091 --> 01:13:37,272 That's why I'm telling you. I didn't think you'd want people laughin' at you. 917 01:13:37,296 --> 01:13:40,563 Laughin' at me? You know how rumors get started. 918 01:13:43,302 --> 01:13:47,548 Come on. This is what happens when you have a wife everybody's envious of. 919 01:13:47,572 --> 01:13:49,783 It's jealousy, but I'm not the jealous type. 920 01:13:49,807 --> 01:13:53,540 - They're tryin' to knock me down. - Hope you're right. 921 01:14:10,629 --> 01:14:13,774 I've heard stories about this from musicians... 922 01:14:13,798 --> 01:14:16,010 I've read about it, but I don't really know. 923 01:14:16,034 --> 01:14:16,967 I know that... 924 01:14:17,403 --> 01:14:20,803 apparently, Emmet tried to follow Blanche one day. 925 01:14:21,306 --> 01:14:24,685 I believe she told him she was going to the dentist or something... 926 01:14:24,709 --> 01:14:26,042 and he followed her. 927 01:15:09,357 --> 01:15:11,290 You gotta go home right away? 928 01:15:11,457 --> 01:15:13,590 I think Emmet's at the poolroom. 929 01:15:13,925 --> 01:15:15,992 Come on. Let's go for a drive. 930 01:15:20,935 --> 01:15:23,178 You know, I didn't care too much for that movie. 931 01:15:23,202 --> 01:15:24,735 - No? - I like Cagney. 932 01:15:25,303 --> 01:15:28,103 Guns, bullets, shootin', a little action. 933 01:15:28,875 --> 01:15:31,322 How does it feel when you actually kill? 934 01:15:31,346 --> 01:15:33,213 What goes through your mind? 935 01:15:34,014 --> 01:15:36,526 What do you gotta ask the questions for all the time? 936 01:15:36,550 --> 01:15:37,950 Because I wanna know. 937 01:15:38,620 --> 01:15:42,999 Emmet has a violent side, but it all turns to passion in his music. 938 01:15:43,023 --> 01:15:46,236 With you there's just not a shred of sublimation. 939 01:15:46,260 --> 01:15:47,327 It's incredible. 940 01:15:48,263 --> 01:15:50,130 Let me ask you one question. 941 01:15:50,431 --> 01:15:53,164 Who makes love to you better, me or him? 942 01:15:54,169 --> 01:15:56,679 Emmet is an artist, and because he's an artist... 943 01:15:56,703 --> 01:15:57,770 he needs no one. 944 01:15:59,140 --> 01:16:03,340 Even making love, he seems to exist in a world all of his own. 945 01:16:04,213 --> 01:16:08,680 With you I feel like I'm looking right into the heart of darkness. 946 01:16:08,782 --> 01:16:10,982 I become crazy when you touch me. 947 01:16:12,020 --> 01:16:13,228 Okay, so now Emmet is fuming. 948 01:16:13,252 --> 01:16:14,532 Okay, so now Emmet is fuming. 949 01:16:14,556 --> 01:16:17,169 I mean, he found out that Torrio and Blanche... 950 01:16:17,193 --> 01:16:20,002 have gone to bed with each other, that they're lovers. 951 01:16:20,026 --> 01:16:21,893 And he's consumed with rage. 952 01:16:22,630 --> 01:16:26,963 Now, just at that moment, Torrio decides to pull off the road... 953 01:16:27,703 --> 01:16:30,413 and go into a gas station to buy some cigarettes. 954 01:16:30,437 --> 01:16:33,370 And there's Emmet in the back of the car... 955 01:16:33,674 --> 01:16:36,586 and he's trying very hard to figure out who he wants to shoot. 956 01:16:36,610 --> 01:16:39,210 Does he want to shoot Blanche? Torrio? 957 01:16:39,446 --> 01:16:41,156 Should he shoot both of them together? 958 01:16:41,180 --> 01:16:43,113 He's working on this problem. 959 01:16:43,419 --> 01:16:47,019 They go into the store, and exactly at that moment... 960 01:16:47,521 --> 01:16:49,188 a holdup is taking place. 961 01:16:49,525 --> 01:16:53,192 Two guys come running out. They don't know what to do. 962 01:16:54,130 --> 01:16:56,575 All hell is breaking loose. There's gunshots. 963 01:16:56,599 --> 01:16:58,599 Instead of taking their car... 964 01:16:58,664 --> 01:17:02,397 Torrio's got a big car. They jump in that and pull off. 965 01:17:18,220 --> 01:17:19,353 Calling all cars. 966 01:17:44,347 --> 01:17:45,280 I'm Emmet Ray. 967 01:17:45,781 --> 01:17:48,261 I'm the greatest guitar player in the world. 968 01:17:48,285 --> 01:17:49,885 Except maybe this gypsy. 969 01:17:50,887 --> 01:17:55,620 Perhaps you heard my recording of "You Were Meant For Me," RCA Victor. 970 01:17:55,791 --> 01:17:57,191 You were meant for me 971 01:18:00,263 --> 01:18:01,290 That's not what I heard. 972 01:18:01,314 --> 01:18:02,408 That's not what I heard. 973 01:18:02,432 --> 01:18:04,632 But like all Emmet Ray stories... 974 01:18:04,834 --> 01:18:08,167 you never know what's made up, exaggerated, true. 975 01:18:08,538 --> 01:18:11,751 You never know what to believe. What I heard was this. 976 01:18:11,775 --> 01:18:14,786 I heard that when they pulled into the gas station... 977 01:18:14,810 --> 01:18:17,225 Blanche gets out to get some cigarettes... 978 01:18:17,249 --> 01:18:19,649 and that's when he confronted them. 979 01:18:20,649 --> 01:18:24,264 How could you? How could you cheat on me with a bum like that? 980 01:18:24,288 --> 01:18:25,155 Emmet, don't! 981 01:18:25,388 --> 01:18:27,601 Make a fool out of me in front of everybody! 982 01:18:27,625 --> 01:18:30,701 So I slept with him. But I was just researching a book! 983 01:18:30,725 --> 01:18:31,525 I loved you! 984 01:18:33,631 --> 01:18:35,564 Don't be crazy. Do something! 985 01:18:37,801 --> 01:18:39,668 I'm sorry. My tire blew out. 986 01:18:41,405 --> 01:18:45,785 Believe me, he never tried to kill himself, because Emmet Ray was... 987 01:18:45,809 --> 01:18:49,076 He had much too much ego for anything like that. 988 01:18:51,015 --> 01:18:53,092 A story that Eddie Condon tells about... 989 01:18:53,116 --> 01:18:55,596 And Eddie Condon definitely was not a reliable source... 990 01:18:55,620 --> 01:18:57,897 'cause he was a big embellisher himself. 991 01:18:57,921 --> 01:19:01,054 But the story Eddie Condon tells, I believe... 992 01:19:01,893 --> 01:19:03,693 is that Torrio was aware... 993 01:19:04,729 --> 01:19:08,609 that the fact that he was a gangster was a big turn- on for Blanche. 994 01:19:08,633 --> 01:19:09,655 And so he decided... 995 01:19:09,679 --> 01:19:10,778 And so he decided... 996 01:19:10,802 --> 01:19:13,735 that he would pull into this gas station... 997 01:19:13,972 --> 01:19:15,639 and he would stick it up. 998 01:19:21,311 --> 01:19:24,292 - Can I help you, sir? - Get your hands in the air, Pops. 999 01:19:24,316 --> 01:19:26,027 Give me everything in the register! 1000 01:19:26,051 --> 01:19:29,051 Emmet was so panicked by hearing gunshots... 1001 01:19:29,088 --> 01:19:31,955 he crept into the front seat and took off. 1002 01:19:32,123 --> 01:19:36,871 He didn't get more than 50 feet before he crashed into an oncoming car. 1003 01:19:36,895 --> 01:19:41,095 Now there's this terrible crash. Miraculously, no one is hurt. 1004 01:19:41,400 --> 01:19:45,000 And who gets out of the car but a group of musicians. 1005 01:19:45,171 --> 01:19:47,038 I can't remember who it was. 1006 01:19:47,172 --> 01:19:50,919 It was like Buck Clayton, Coleman Hawkins, Teddy Wilson or something. 1007 01:19:50,943 --> 01:19:54,343 But there, suddenly, standing in front of Emmet... 1008 01:19:55,114 --> 01:19:56,447 is Django Reinhardt. 1009 01:20:11,497 --> 01:20:13,364 I believe later that year... 1010 01:20:14,167 --> 01:20:16,300 Emmet turned up in New Jersey... 1011 01:20:16,769 --> 01:20:20,969 and made that recording he did of one of his own compositions. 1012 01:20:21,205 --> 01:20:22,472 "Unfaithful Woman." 1013 01:20:47,333 --> 01:20:48,733 Very good, everybody. 1014 01:20:49,101 --> 01:20:51,916 - Particularly me. - That was great. And me. 1015 01:20:51,940 --> 01:20:55,619 - Let's go get somethin' to eat. - Emmet, we're going to New York. 1016 01:20:55,643 --> 01:20:58,310 We're goin' to New York. The big money. 1017 01:20:59,412 --> 01:21:01,212 Can I get those cigarettes? 1018 01:21:01,481 --> 01:21:05,560 Em, I tell you, the music business really picked up, just like you said. 1019 01:21:05,584 --> 01:21:10,251 We got some dancers lined up for tonight, pretty ones. They are wild. 1020 01:21:59,575 --> 01:22:00,375 How are you? 1021 01:22:04,612 --> 01:22:05,745 You look healthy. 1022 01:22:10,485 --> 01:22:12,352 I'm in town makin' a record. 1023 01:22:13,721 --> 01:22:16,521 I wrote a beautiful tune. It's a classic. 1024 01:22:19,829 --> 01:22:22,362 I'm sorry I cut out on you like that. 1025 01:22:23,265 --> 01:22:24,798 It was time to move on. 1026 01:22:25,702 --> 01:22:28,245 I was fair. I told you not to fall in love with me. 1027 01:22:28,269 --> 01:22:29,736 It's nothin' personal. 1028 01:22:30,839 --> 01:22:32,506 It's just, I'm an artist. 1029 01:22:36,513 --> 01:22:39,646 I like women, but they gotta have their place. 1030 01:22:43,418 --> 01:22:44,618 You angry with me? 1031 01:22:47,189 --> 01:22:48,866 You have every right to be. 1032 01:22:48,890 --> 01:22:50,757 I don't hold it against you. 1033 01:22:52,028 --> 01:22:54,761 I even thought of you a couple of times. 1034 01:22:57,132 --> 01:22:58,132 My wife said... 1035 01:22:59,735 --> 01:23:02,068 I said your name once in my sleep. 1036 01:23:05,609 --> 01:23:08,276 Must have had a nightmare or somethin'. 1037 01:23:10,378 --> 01:23:11,078 Yeah. 1038 01:23:12,115 --> 01:23:16,195 I had a wife. She's gone now, and believe me, I don't miss her. 1039 01:23:16,219 --> 01:23:18,433 I don't mean to say I miss you either... 1040 01:23:18,457 --> 01:23:21,524 but I didn't have any bad feelings about you. 1041 01:23:24,693 --> 01:23:29,626 We got a real good contract at a club in New York for a year. Good dough. 1042 01:23:34,372 --> 01:23:36,039 Maybe you'd like to come. 1043 01:23:37,541 --> 01:23:38,241 You know? 1044 01:23:39,073 --> 01:23:41,406 I'm not makin' any promises, but... 1045 01:23:41,745 --> 01:23:43,545 I think you might have fun. 1046 01:23:44,212 --> 01:23:46,079 You'd be in New York with... 1047 01:23:48,585 --> 01:23:51,985 one of the two best guitar players in the world... 1048 01:23:53,257 --> 01:23:54,790 six best poker players. 1049 01:23:55,557 --> 01:23:56,757 Not countin' that. 1050 01:23:59,895 --> 01:24:01,875 We leave tomorrow, if you want. 1051 01:24:01,899 --> 01:24:03,699 If you don't, I understand. 1052 01:24:03,868 --> 01:24:07,382 You know? Then it'd be "It was nice seeing you again. 1053 01:24:07,406 --> 01:24:08,139 Good luck." 1054 01:24:11,408 --> 01:24:13,808 I never could get your handwritin'. 1055 01:24:23,588 --> 01:24:24,288 Happily? 1056 01:24:27,591 --> 01:24:28,291 Got kids? 1057 01:24:33,531 --> 01:24:34,331 Boy or girl? 1058 01:24:36,866 --> 01:24:37,566 Boy? 1059 01:24:38,969 --> 01:24:39,669 Girl? 1060 01:24:45,377 --> 01:24:46,577 It's just as well. 1061 01:24:48,780 --> 01:24:52,225 I wouldn't want to give you the wrong impression. You'd get attached to me. 1062 01:24:52,249 --> 01:24:55,249 And you know me. I can't take entanglements. 1063 01:24:58,456 --> 01:25:02,303 I gotta go. We're gonna take some chorus girls out tonight. 1064 01:25:02,327 --> 01:25:03,994 And I'm leavin' tomorrow. 1065 01:25:08,133 --> 01:25:09,000 Take it easy. 1066 01:26:07,394 --> 01:26:12,061 I'm the greatest solo instrumentalist on the guitar you'll ever hear. 1067 01:26:12,531 --> 01:26:13,231 Oh, yeah? 1068 01:26:13,533 --> 01:26:18,600 The public's just getting to know my name. Next year, I'll be in the money. 1069 01:26:19,274 --> 01:26:22,274 You're a real looker. You are a real looker. 1070 01:26:22,374 --> 01:26:25,374 - You're not that bad yourself. - I mean it! 1071 01:26:25,678 --> 01:26:29,123 Maybe that's why the men give me a lot of tips when I dance. 1072 01:26:29,147 --> 01:26:30,880 You wanna go watch trains? 1073 01:26:31,018 --> 01:26:31,718 What? 1074 01:26:32,551 --> 01:26:33,951 - Come on. - Trains? 1075 01:26:34,155 --> 01:26:35,699 Wait. Where are we going? 1076 01:26:35,723 --> 01:26:37,456 - Jesus. - Outta the way. 1077 01:26:38,692 --> 01:26:40,092 Grab my stuff. Jesus. 1078 01:26:41,159 --> 01:26:43,572 - Where are we going? - My cigarettes! 1079 01:26:43,596 --> 01:26:46,063 Where do you think you're taking me? 1080 01:26:48,968 --> 01:26:50,435 Where's my cigarettes? 1081 01:26:50,804 --> 01:26:53,004 Leave them alone. Let's just go. 1082 01:26:54,508 --> 01:26:56,641 Come on. Let's go watch trains. 1083 01:27:13,996 --> 01:27:17,596 You almost lost me there, you know. Did you see that? 1084 01:27:18,364 --> 01:27:20,364 Jesus. What are we doing here? 1085 01:27:20,968 --> 01:27:22,301 I like to sit out... 1086 01:27:24,173 --> 01:27:26,040 and look at the trains pass. 1087 01:27:26,341 --> 01:27:28,274 Yeah. To each his own, I say. 1088 01:27:28,941 --> 01:27:30,941 I mean, I don't understand it. 1089 01:27:31,046 --> 01:27:33,779 I can make my guitar sound like a train. 1090 01:27:34,447 --> 01:27:36,380 God! I mean, I'm a nice girl. 1091 01:27:37,452 --> 01:27:39,964 I don't understand why you'd bring me here. 1092 01:27:39,988 --> 01:27:43,055 I can make my guitar sound just like a train. 1093 01:27:44,426 --> 01:27:46,493 I got a warm room we can go to. 1094 01:27:47,695 --> 01:27:49,762 Come on. I'll take care of you. 1095 01:27:49,963 --> 01:27:51,230 Come on. It's nice. 1096 01:27:53,101 --> 01:27:58,168 Jesus, I don't understand why you would bring a nice girl like me out here. 1097 01:28:00,440 --> 01:28:01,773 I'm takin' requests. 1098 01:28:02,544 --> 01:28:04,144 Do you know "Sweet Sue"? 1099 01:29:42,980 --> 01:29:45,857 All right, are you finished? Can we go now? 1100 01:29:45,881 --> 01:29:49,881 I really have to pee, you know. I gotta go to the bathroom. 1101 01:29:50,721 --> 01:29:52,501 - What's the matter with you? - Go on. 1102 01:29:52,525 --> 01:29:53,901 - What? - Get outta here. 1103 01:29:53,925 --> 01:29:55,658 What? What are you talk... 1104 01:29:56,593 --> 01:29:59,172 - You dragged me out here. - Just leave me alone. 1105 01:29:59,196 --> 01:30:00,929 - What? - Leave me alone! 1106 01:30:00,997 --> 01:30:02,397 I don't need anybody! 1107 01:30:04,468 --> 01:30:07,001 - I made a mistake! - Yeah. I'll say. 1108 01:30:08,106 --> 01:30:09,106 I made mistake! 1109 01:30:37,803 --> 01:30:40,380 I have no idea what happened to Emmet Ray. 1110 01:30:40,404 --> 01:30:42,937 He just sort of disappeared, I guess. 1111 01:30:44,141 --> 01:30:46,921 He did make, though, in those last couple of years... 1112 01:30:46,945 --> 01:30:49,345 he made really his best recordings. 1113 01:30:49,481 --> 01:30:52,748 He never played more beautifully, more movingly. 1114 01:30:53,952 --> 01:30:56,430 Something just seemed to kind of open up in him. 1115 01:30:56,454 --> 01:30:59,321 It was amazing, because he was, finally... 1116 01:30:59,391 --> 01:31:01,668 every bit as good as Django Reinhardt. 1117 01:31:01,692 --> 01:31:04,959 And then he just, you know, seemed to fade away. 1118 01:31:05,798 --> 01:31:07,331 I mean, I have no idea. 1119 01:31:08,767 --> 01:31:10,779 Some people said he went to Europe. 1120 01:31:10,803 --> 01:31:15,203 And some people feel that he may have stopped playing altogether. 1121 01:31:15,542 --> 01:31:19,542 But we do have, fortunately, those last recordings he made. 1122 01:31:22,647 --> 01:31:25,914 And they're great. They're absolutely beautiful.