Man of Courage
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00:01:42 Oh, I've heard rumors of how the political race is moving.
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00:02:10 Hello, John. Are you busy?
00:02:12 No, come on in.
00:02:13 Newspapers are surely giving you a lot of credit for sending up that mob.
00:02:17 The law is the law, Frank. Maybe someday people will learn that crime doesn't pay.
00:02:23 The people in this city are certainly finding that out.
00:02:26 You've built up a great record, John.
00:02:28 A criminal always has two strikes against him when he comes in the court.
00:02:31 All you have to do is throw him the third one, as hard as you can.
00:02:34 One thing, no one can ever accuse you of throwing curves that aren't legal.
00:02:38 No, just a good straight fast ball. I don't convict innocent people.
00:02:43 Look here, boss, this thing is going too far.
00:02:51 Mike, I told you I didn't want any of you boys coming up to my office unless I sent them for you.
00:02:56 Yeah, listen, one of your boys is on his way to the chair.
00:03:00 This Wallace is your man, ain't he?
00:03:03 Don't worry, Mike. I've got him right in my pocket.
00:03:06 What?
00:03:07 If he ever knew I played around with your crowd, he'd drop me like a hot brick.
00:03:12 But you've got to do something.
00:03:14 Just take it easy, Mike.
00:03:16 Nobody's going to burn.
00:03:18 The governor can burn anybody, can't he?
00:03:21 What governor?
00:03:22 John Wallace.
00:03:24 I made him district attorney, and I'm going to make him governor.
00:03:28 He's going to be awfully hard to handle when he's upstairs.
00:03:31 Oh, no, he's not.
00:03:33 He's going to be elected on a long record of convictions.
00:03:36 Promise John Wallace doesn't know it, but some of those convictions are phony, promoted by me.
00:03:42 I can break him any time.
00:03:46 Yes?
00:03:49 Chief of Detective Haynes would like to see you.
00:03:52 Send him in.
00:03:53 Bad news, John.
00:04:02 What's up?
00:04:03 Oh, somebody walked into Big Joe's place last night and left Joe lying on the floor with a couple of bullets in his eye.
00:04:09 They haven't got a thing.
00:04:10 Well, you've got to get something and get it fast.
00:04:12 This is no time to have people screaming about a murder we can't clear up.
00:04:15 Oh, I know. It was a fellow that got away clean.
00:04:17 Happened early in the morning.
00:04:19 Haven't I been yelling for you to close that place up?
00:04:21 If you'd done it, maybe this wouldn't have happened.
00:04:23 I want every sawdust dive and boogie shop in this town closed up.
00:04:27 Round up every proprietor, bartender, and tramp you can find.
00:04:29 Question everybody.
00:04:30 Get a lead on his killing right away.
00:04:32 Okay.
00:04:33 All this fuss on account of somebody bumps off a gambler.
00:04:37 That's all there is to it, Chief.
00:04:39 I said close up and I mean it.
00:04:41 Close up.
00:04:42 And don't open until you hear from me.
00:04:44 That's final.
00:04:46 That you, Charlie?
00:04:48 Yeah.
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00:04:55 Operator?
00:04:57 Call at 7-7-6-4.
00:04:59 Yeah, I heard.
00:05:02 The boss wants you to padlock your dump.
00:05:04 The DA is thumping his chest and screaming.
00:05:07 Danny, lock it up.
00:05:09 Take a vacation.
00:05:10 Wait a minute, I'll ask him.
00:05:13 Hey, boss.
00:05:14 Charlie wants to know can he keep open over the weekend
00:05:16 on account of some boys are dropping in for a clam bake.
00:05:19 Ask him how he'd like to have his clam bake in the county jail.
00:05:22 Well.
00:05:23 Hey, Charlie.
00:05:24 The boss wants to know how would you like to have it in the county jail?
00:05:27 What?
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00:05:47 It's foolish to quarrel and break up and then be bruised.
00:05:56 Why must we quarrel?
00:05:58 Let's make up like sweethearts do.
00:06:05 Now and then I've got a feeling I'm falling.
00:06:12 Now and then I feel I'm falling for you.
00:06:22 Night and day my poor heart keeps calling.
00:06:28 Wondering your heart's calling me too.
00:06:36 The birds in the trees sing melodies.
00:06:42 They seem to know love's a thing.
00:06:46 When you're not around the leaves crumble down.
00:06:51 Like loving the spring gone.
00:06:55 Now and then I've got a feeling I'm falling.
00:07:01 Darling, now and then I feel I'm falling for you.
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00:07:24 Night and day my poor heart keeps calling.
00:07:29 Wondering your heart's calling me too.
00:07:38 The birds in the trees sing melodies.
00:07:42 They seem to know love's a thing.
00:07:45 When you're not around the leaves crumble down.
00:07:49 Like loving the spring gone.
00:07:53 Now and then I've got a feeling I'm falling.
00:07:58 Darling, now and then I feel I'm falling in love again.
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00:08:15 Oh, Mrs. Joyce. Wait a minute, please.
00:08:17 What's the matter, Pete?
00:08:19 Well, I'm sorry, but I've got to pay you off for tonight.
00:08:22 What do you mean? I've got a contract.
00:08:24 I know that, but you want to finish it out in the clean?
00:08:27 What are you talking about, Pete?
00:08:29 See, there goes the play.
00:08:32 Mr. Law and Order Wallace is clamping down.
00:08:35 On account of big Joe getting bumped off.
00:08:39 Big Joe?
00:08:41 But we'll open up again soon.
00:08:43 And when we do, I'll give you a buzz.
00:08:46 In the meantime, you can come in any time you want, you know.
00:08:49 Here's your money and good luck.
00:08:52 Thanks.
00:08:54 Don't you think you ought to lay off that stuff?
00:09:03 Take it easy, will you, baby?
00:09:05 I've got plenty of worries of my own.
00:09:07 Yeah, I know. Come on, sit down.
00:09:09 Okay.
00:09:11 You want to get rid of that gun?
00:09:20 No, never mind about it.
00:09:22 If it wasn't for me, you'd get rid of it.
00:09:24 They're too hard to get. Besides, I might need this one again.
00:09:27 Now keep quiet.
00:09:28 Okay, relax. The guy's dead and you don't owe him anything.
00:09:31 The big tomato had to give me the sack for a few weeks.
00:09:34 Yeah?
00:09:36 Listen, Georgie, I'm crazy about you.
00:09:38 Let's you and me skip this town.
00:09:40 I can't leave town now. I might look bad.
00:09:43 Oh, you're leaving town all the time.
00:09:45 In Chicago, I know everybody.
00:09:47 I can put you on to a couple of big games.
00:09:49 I can get a job anywhere.
00:09:51 You'll be riding high.
00:09:53 What about my wife and kids?
00:09:55 Well, what about them? She ain't your kind.
00:09:58 You never should have married her in the first place.
00:10:00 I know. Sally's been a pretty good meal ticket.
00:10:03 You're worried about a meal ticket with me around?
00:10:06 You're lucky she's got enough money to take care of herself and the kids.
00:10:10 Yeah, maybe you're right.
00:10:12 I do feel a little jittery about sticking around here.
00:10:16 Okay, I'll make a few arrangements and we'll get rolling in the morning.
00:10:20 I'll meet you here at 10 o'clock.
00:10:22 [The door closes.]
00:10:44 George.
00:10:45 Yeah? What do you want?
00:10:47 Why do you always stay out so late? And drinking again.
00:10:50 All right, so I've been drinking.
00:10:52 I think you're awake now.
00:10:54 Oh, Sally, will you shut up and go to bed?
00:10:56 George, I have to talk to you. I just must.
00:10:59 Now let me alone. I can take care of myself.
00:11:02 George, would you just listen to me just this once?
00:11:04 I'm not going to listen to you anymore and you're not going to have to listen to me.
00:11:08 I'm through.
00:11:10 George, you don't mean that. You can't.
00:11:14 You're not going to tell me what I can do?
00:11:16 You've been telling me what to do long enough.
00:11:20 Today is Mary Ann's birthday.
00:11:22 I don't bring the kid up into this. I'm leaving in the morning.
00:11:26 She wanted a picnic, so I planned it just for the three of us.
00:11:29 Can't you leave after?
00:11:31 All right, if he'll pipe down, then I'll do it.
00:11:34 But make it in the morning early.
00:11:36 I've got to get going.
00:11:41 I can hardly believe we're on our way.
00:11:44 It's just us.
00:11:46 Right.
00:11:49 Look, honey, I can't get away for a couple of hours.
00:11:52 I may have a chance to pick up a little easy money.
00:11:55 What are you up to?
00:11:56 Nothing serious.
00:11:58 Have you seen the papers? The sooner we get out of town, the better.
00:12:01 Leave everything to me.
00:12:04 I won't be long.
00:12:07 All right, but don't be late.
00:12:10 You stay right here till one o'clock.
00:12:13 All right.
00:12:23 What's that, Daddy?
00:12:26 That's my fountain pen.
00:12:29 What does that say, Daddy?
00:12:32 That's my name, George Dixon.
00:12:34 Can I play with it?
00:12:36 Yes, of course you can.
00:12:45 Oh, goody, goody, goody.
00:12:47 Four years old and a wonder girl.
00:12:50 Now make a wish and blow hard.
00:12:57 Did I do all right, Mommy?
00:12:59 Why, I couldn't have done better myself.
00:13:03 Will my wish come true, Daddy?
00:13:05 Yes, I guess it will.
00:13:07 What did you wish, D?
00:13:08 I wished that you and me and Daddy would always be having picnics.
00:13:15 Suppose you go over there and look behind that bush, and maybe you'll find another wish come true.
00:13:30 Mommy, Daddy, is this my baby?
00:13:33 Yes.
00:13:35 Your father got it for you.
00:13:38 Can us Maryanns walk for a walk?
00:13:40 Who?
00:13:41 Little Maryann me.
00:13:42 That's my child and that's her name.
00:13:45 Oh, don't you want a piece of your birthday cake, Prince?
00:13:49 All right, darling, but don't go far.
00:13:52 We won't.
00:13:58 I'll tell her you're going away on a trip.
00:14:00 Yeah, that's right.
00:14:03 Say, by the way, have you kept up the payments on my insurance policy?
00:14:07 Yes, but you're not going to cash in on it, George.
00:14:09 Why shouldn't I? It's my policy.
00:14:11 Oh, no. It's your daughter.
00:14:14 You've never done anything for her.
00:14:16 Besides, I'm the one who made all the payments on that insurance.
00:14:20 Today I'm going to buy your whole box full of insurance.
00:14:38 Don't you feel them, mister?
00:14:40 Why, I never felt better in my life, honey.
00:14:43 What are you doing out here?
00:14:45 Me and Maryann are taking a walk.
00:14:47 Please don't mention walking to me.
00:14:50 What's down there?
00:14:52 Look up. That's a big hole. Come here.
00:14:55 What's your name?
00:14:56 Maryann.
00:14:58 I know that's your doll's name, but what's yours?
00:15:01 Maryann.
00:15:03 Oh, twins. Well, my name is Slim.
00:15:07 That's a funny name.
00:15:10 I guess it is at that.
00:15:12 Maybe you ought to change it to Maryann.
00:15:15 No, I like Slim.
00:15:17 And I like Maryann. Both of them.
00:15:21 Hey, what you got there?
00:15:23 That's a fountain.
00:15:26 Yeah. Say, that's a nice one, ain't it?
00:15:30 Mmm, gold.
00:15:39 I dropped my doll.
00:15:42 Look out. I'll get your dolly for you.
00:15:47 Stand back there now. Your dolly's down there on the cushion.
00:15:51 I'll get it for you.
00:16:00 Here it is.
00:16:02 Maryann. Maryann.
00:16:06 I gotta go. My mama's calling me.
00:16:12 Oh.
00:16:16 Maryann. Maryann.
00:16:19 Where are you?
00:16:21 Darling, everything's in the car. Where have you been?
00:16:23 Out playing.
00:16:25 Well, we're going.
00:16:27 Where did Daddy go?
00:16:29 He's gone away for a little while. Come on, dear.
00:16:32 But I don't like going home without my daddy.
00:16:44 Well, you've been a long enough time.
00:16:46 Did you get that easy money?
00:16:47 No, I didn't.
00:16:48 So what? Let's get on our way.
00:16:49 Well, let's not drive too fast. It might look suspicious.
00:16:51 Oh, stop worrying. You'll be in my car.
00:16:53 That's good enough for me.
00:16:55 You'll sleep with me, kid, and you'll wear a diamond.
00:16:57 That's good enough for me, too.
00:17:16 James, I'm tired of trying to pin this murder on every tramp you pick up.
00:17:19 You'd better have something for the newspapers.
00:17:21 Suppose none of these guys get to it.
00:17:24 They're only suspects.
00:17:25 You know as well as I do they're nothing but stooges.
00:17:27 What if they are?
00:17:29 We've got to tell the newspapers we're holding somebody.
00:17:31 Let them go after the election.
00:17:33 Somebody killed Big Joe.
00:17:34 We've got to find out who it was or this election won't mean a thing to me.
00:17:37 Or you either.
00:17:38 Well, we got the bullets out of Joe's body.
00:17:41 Our only hope is to find that gun.
00:17:43 Well, find it.
00:17:46 Ted.
00:17:48 Send him in.
00:17:50 Tom, if we don't find this murderer, it's going to look bad.
00:17:53 Yeah.
00:17:54 I know, John.
00:17:56 Oh.
00:17:57 Hello, Mr. Campbell.
00:17:58 Don't talk to me.
00:17:59 Go out and do something.
00:18:01 If we don't break this case, we're sunk.
00:18:04 You don't have to tell me that.
00:18:05 John, I know you don't like it.
00:18:06 But let me get you a scapegoat, a fall guy.
00:18:09 Don't talk such nonsense.
00:18:10 Oh, you can pardon him after we win this election.
00:18:12 Now, wouldn't that look sweet?
00:18:14 No, Mark, I don't want to be governor on those terms.
00:18:16 All you need is one more big sensational case to put you over.
00:18:19 If we can't break this one, we've got to get another one.
00:18:25 Ah!
00:18:26 Ah!
00:18:27 A dead man!
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00:18:42 Here you are, John.
00:18:44 This may be your case.
00:18:45 Everything we need, open and shut.
00:18:48 What's this?
00:18:49 Then identifying the body found in the old stone quarry up by the pond.
00:18:53 George Dixon.
00:18:54 Yeah, missing four months, man about town.
00:18:56 Campbell, wife and child living here in the city.
00:18:59 The wife carried heavy insurance on the dead man.
00:19:01 You get it?
00:19:02 Yeah.
00:19:03 All right, Hanes, pick her up for questioning.
00:19:06 Now, Mrs. Dixon, you say the last time you saw your husband
00:19:09 was on the 4th of September.
00:19:12 How do you remember that date so well?
00:19:14 It was my daughter's birthday.
00:19:16 Oh, I see.
00:19:17 The three of you, you, your husband, and your daughter,
00:19:20 were having a picnic in the park near the old stone quarry.
00:19:23 Yes.
00:19:24 And your husband just went away and left you there.
00:19:28 Yes.
00:19:29 He said he was leaving.
00:19:30 He said he was leaving you?
00:19:32 When did he tell you that?
00:19:34 He told me about it the night before.
00:19:37 Oh, he told you about it the night before.
00:19:39 Yes.
00:19:41 All right, Mrs. Dixon, that'll do for now.
00:19:45 Mind if I talk to your little girl?
00:19:47 Not a bit.
00:19:48 This way, Mrs. Dixon.
00:19:53 Come on, dear.
00:19:59 Mr. Wallace wants to talk to you.
00:20:01 Hello.
00:20:08 Alone, Mrs. Dixon, if you don't mind.
00:20:11 Of course.
00:20:12 Don't be frightened.
00:20:13 I'm not frightened.
00:20:16 Well, hello.
00:20:17 Are you Mary Ann?
00:20:23 Yes, I'm four years old.
00:20:25 That's fine.
00:20:27 Do you remember the day when you went on the birthday picnic
00:20:30 with your daddy and mommy?
00:20:31 Oh, yes.
00:20:32 That's when I got to be four years old.
00:20:35 I see.
00:20:36 Well, did your daddy come back from the picnic
00:20:38 with you and mommy?
00:20:39 Oh, no.
00:20:40 Mommy stayed just while I watched.
00:20:42 Me and mommy came back together.
00:20:47 Now, Mary Ann, did your mommy and daddy
00:20:50 ever get mad at each other?
00:20:52 Oh, yes.
00:20:53 I don't think they liked each other very much.
00:20:56 Daddy didn't even want to go on my own little picnic.
00:21:00 How do you know that?
00:21:02 Because they had the fight the night before.
00:21:06 Oh, my goodness.
00:21:08 Were they still mad when they went on the picnic?
00:21:11 Oh, yes.
00:21:12 Awful mad about the insurance.
00:21:15 The insurance.
00:21:17 Yeah, I see.
00:21:19 All right, Mary Ann.
00:21:20 That's fine.
00:21:22 You run along now.
00:21:24 Your mommy's waiting outside for you.
00:21:26 I hope you find my daddy and tell him to come back.
00:21:29 That's a sweet kid.
00:21:39 This whole thing is too bad.
00:21:40 Yes, but we can't help that.
00:21:42 We've got to play it up.
00:21:43 It's the greatest thing that ever happened to us,
00:21:45 and you know it, John.
00:21:46 Play it up big.
00:21:48 Yes, I suppose so.
00:21:49 Mrs. Dixon, why haven't you made any attempt
00:21:56 to locate your husband?
00:21:58 He wanted to leave me.
00:21:59 Why should I try to bring him back?
00:22:02 And you didn't suspect that anything could happen to him?
00:22:07 Did he have any enemies?
00:22:09 Nothing I know of.
00:22:10 Then why didn't you tell us that he drank heavily, Mrs. Dixon?
00:22:13 Only because I didn't think it mattered.
00:22:15 Does it?
00:22:16 May.
00:22:18 Sometimes it leads to nasty arguments.
00:22:22 Just what are you driving at, Mr. Haynes?
00:22:25 He wanted to go.
00:22:26 I only asked him to wait for the picnic
00:22:28 for my daughter's birthday.
00:22:30 You arranged his picnic near the deserted stone quarry.
00:22:34 You planned to have him go there because you
00:22:36 knew he was going to leave you.
00:22:38 Now let me tell you something else, Mrs. Dixon.
00:22:40 I happen to know that you've had a lot of serious trouble
00:22:43 with your husband.
00:22:45 Yes, we have been having trouble.
00:22:47 Didn't your husband have quite a sizable insurance policy
00:22:51 on which you paid the premiums?
00:22:54 Yes.
00:22:57 Sure, you don't think that--
00:22:58 I don't think anything.
00:23:00 Facts speak for themselves.
00:23:02 And I've got to hold you in custody, Mrs. Dixon.
00:23:05 You wish this department to take care of your child
00:23:10 or have you some means of taking care of her elsewhere?
00:23:14 I don't know.
00:23:16 I don't know what this is all about.
00:23:19 I didn't kill him.
00:23:20 You must believe me.
00:23:21 Maybe I do a lot for you, Mrs. Dixon.
00:23:26 If you'd only confess.
00:23:27 But I have nothing to confess.
00:23:32 I'm sorry.
00:23:33 What do you want us to do with your daughter?
00:23:35 Send her to Mrs. Black.
00:23:41 She lives next door to me.
00:23:44 Very well.
00:23:45 Mrs. Dixon, if you had any good reason for doing away
00:23:58 with your husband, please tell me and I'll
00:24:00 do all I can to help you.
00:24:02 Am I supposed to say that I killed him?
00:24:04 Possibly.
00:24:05 You pushed him over that cliff in self-defense.
00:24:07 I didn't do anything to him.
00:24:08 I didn't kill him.
00:24:11 Mrs. Dixon, I sincerely hope you're telling the truth.
00:24:15 If you are, you have nothing to fear from me.
00:24:17 John, this case is going to put you across.
00:24:24 Look at the publicity break you're getting
00:24:26 all over the country.
00:24:28 [music playing]
00:24:30 Get a load of this.
00:24:37 They'll never find you now.
00:24:39 What an alibi.
00:24:40 And who's filled it all up for you with that big mug of a DA
00:24:43 that threw me out of a job?
00:24:45 How do you like that?
00:24:47 How do you like it?
00:24:48 I end up with me.
00:24:50 I wonder how much it would be worth to the old lady
00:24:52 for me to show up and prove that she's innocent.
00:24:55 Maybe I ought to--
00:24:57 Maybe you ought to do what?
00:24:58 Go back there and take a chance on getting yourself caught
00:25:00 when you got the greatest out in the world.
00:25:02 You'll do nothing of the kind.
00:25:04 They'll never convict her anyway.
00:25:06 You're alive, ain't you?
00:25:08 You're going to stay.
00:25:09 And so, ladies and gentlemen of the jury,
00:25:12 we have shown that according to the defendant's own admission
00:25:16 that her husband told her the very night
00:25:18 before this picnic that he was leaving her for good.
00:25:22 It has also been proven that the defendant, Mrs. Dixon,
00:25:26 carried a very heavy insurance policy on her husband's life,
00:25:30 the premiums of which she had always paid herself.
00:25:34 I will now ask Chief of Detective Haynes to take the stand.
00:25:38 Raise your right hand.
00:25:45 [inaudible]
00:25:47 I do.
00:25:48 Sit down.
00:25:49 Sit down.
00:25:50 Chief Haynes, you were present when the defendant's
00:25:58 small daughter was being questioned?
00:26:00 Yes, sir, I was.
00:26:02 Will you please tell the jury just what she said at that time?
00:26:06 She said that father and mother had called the night before the murder.
00:26:11 I object to the insinuating nature of the witness's answer.
00:26:14 May it please the court of testimony as relative.
00:26:16 Objection.
00:26:17 Objection overruled.
00:26:19 Proceed.
00:26:21 You mean the night before the picnic, don't you, Chief Haynes?
00:26:24 Yes.
00:26:25 And did she say her father and mother quarreled at any other particular time?
00:26:29 She said the last time that she saw her father,
00:26:32 her mother was pretty mad at him, yelling something about insurance.
00:26:36 Ah.
00:26:37 If Your Honor, please.
00:26:38 That's all, Chief Haynes.
00:26:40 Your witness, Mr. Thomas.
00:26:42 No questions.
00:26:43 Your Honor, I wish to make a motion that the case against the defendant
00:26:46 be dismissed for lack of evidence.
00:26:49 I object on the grounds that the state has established a clean-cut motive.
00:26:52 On nothing but hearsay evidence and far-fetched assumption.
00:26:55 Proceed, Mr. Thomas.
00:26:57 Thank you, Your Honor.
00:27:00 I submit to the court that we have based our whole defense on the fact that
00:27:04 all the evidence against this unfortunate woman is purely circumstantial,
00:27:08 and that the prosecution cannot possibly prove on the flimsy evidence of a
00:27:12 probably misplaced or lost fountain pen that the body in question is that of her
00:27:16 husband at all.
00:27:17 I move that this case be dismissed for lack of evidence.
00:27:20 If the body is not George Dixon, where is George Dixon?
00:27:24 Motion denied.
00:27:25 If Your Honor, please.
00:27:26 I would like to call Mrs. Dixon.
00:27:32 Mrs. Dixon.
00:27:33 [The defense is called to the stand.]
00:27:44 Raise your right hand.
00:27:46 Do you want to tell the Supervisor there's nothing much to do to help you?
00:27:49 I do.
00:27:50 Take the stand, please.
00:27:59 Mrs. Dixon, isn't it true that your husband caused you a lot of trouble
00:28:06 because he drank a good deal?
00:28:08 Yes, it is true.
00:28:11 Did he ever contribute anything toward the support of yourself and your child?
00:28:16 Hardly ever, and then it was dangerous.
00:28:19 Have you at all times been in possession of sufficient means to live quite
00:28:23 comfortably without looking to him for anything whatsoever?
00:28:26 Yes, I have.
00:28:28 Hadn't you, in fact, given him quite large sums of money from time to time?
00:28:37 And who was a beneficiary of the insurance policy on your husband's life?
00:28:43 My daughter.
00:28:47 You're a witness, Mr. Wallace.
00:28:56 Mrs. Dixon, have you received any word at all from your husband since his
00:29:00 disappearance?
00:29:01 No, I haven't.
00:29:02 No letter, no scrap of paper, no evidence of any kind that he's still alive?
00:29:07 Nothing.
00:29:08 The news of this case has spread all over the country.
00:29:10 Do you think any man would keep quiet under these circumstances if he were
00:29:13 still alive?
00:29:14 I don't know.
00:29:15 I don't know.
00:29:16 Have you ever made any attempt yourself to get in touch with your husband?
00:29:19 No.
00:29:20 I never wanted to see him again.
00:29:21 Never.
00:29:22 Is that the reason why you refused to go to the morgue and look at the body?
00:29:24 No.
00:29:25 I'm telling the truth.
00:29:26 I'm telling the truth.
00:29:27 Isn't it the truth that you're afraid to look at your husband's body?
00:29:29 No.
00:29:30 No.
00:29:31 No.
00:29:32 No.
00:29:33 No.
00:29:34 No.
00:29:35 No.
00:29:36 No.
00:29:37 No.
00:29:38 No.
00:29:39 Your Honor, I ask that this court be adjourned until the defendant is
00:29:42 sufficiently recovered to continue.
00:29:45 It is so ruled.
00:29:49 Court adjourned.
00:29:52 John, why do you allow this to adjourn?
00:29:55 They can't find George Dixon.
00:29:57 He's dead.
00:29:58 Bring pressure on the court.
00:29:59 Resume the case.
00:30:00 I don't like to argue.
00:30:02 What do you mean?
00:30:03 Why do you have that jury eating out of your hand?
00:30:06 Slap it through before it gets cold.
00:30:08 I'm getting a little cold myself.
00:30:10 You're getting cold.
00:30:11 You know we can't stand two defeats in a row.
00:30:14 I'm not worried about a conviction.
00:30:16 I know I can get a conviction.
00:30:17 I'm just wondering if that woman is really guilty.
00:30:20 There's that little girl.
00:30:23 I don't know why I ever tried to make a politician out of you.
00:30:28 Don't you know if you don't do this thing, somebody else will and get all the credit.
00:30:32 Yes, I know enough about it to know that.
00:30:34 See, Governor, it has always been your consuming ambition.
00:30:37 It's consuming, all right.
00:30:38 It's just my luck to have the whole thing hang on a case where I've got to
00:30:41 convict a woman on circumstantial evidence.
00:30:43 What is that?
00:30:44 The point is you know you can do it.
00:30:46 How do you know I can do it?
00:30:47 That woman is just putting on an act for the jury.
00:30:50 Well, I don't know.
00:30:51 Maybe that's not her husband's fault.
00:30:53 Oh, yes, it is.
00:30:54 I've found additional proof.
00:30:57 What proof?
00:30:58 I've just been waiting for you to get started again before I gave it to you.
00:31:01 I know how important this case is to both of us.
00:31:04 I've had men scouring the city for more evidence.
00:31:06 They found a dentist who positively identified the teeth of the corpse as
00:31:11 those of George Dixon.
00:31:13 Are you sure?
00:31:14 Are you sure about that, Mark?
00:31:16 No mistake about it.
00:31:18 And Dr. Willard is ready to testify.
00:31:20 I can never bring myself to believe that Mrs. Dixon wasn't telling the truth.
00:31:28 Now you know she's a liar.
00:31:30 Get me Judge Roberts.
00:31:36 And according to your own charts and records, which have already been
00:31:41 presented as evidence to this court,
00:31:43 you positively identify this work as the very same fillings you fitted into the
00:31:48 mouth of George Dixon three years ago.
00:31:51 I do.
00:31:52 Thank you, Dr. Willard.
00:31:53 That's all.
00:31:54 Call Mrs. Dixon.
00:32:00 Mrs. Dixon?
00:32:06 Raise your right hand, please.
00:32:09 Tell him it's worth telling the truth.
00:32:11 I do.
00:32:12 Take a stand.
00:32:13 Mrs. Dixon, I just want to ask you one question.
00:32:21 Was this man your husband's dentist?
00:32:26 Yes, he was.
00:32:30 Prosecution rests.
00:32:39 So Mrs. Dixon gets...
00:32:41 Some dumb gals just ain't got no idea how to protect themselves.
00:32:46 Oh, but you know how, of course, don't you?
00:32:49 I thought you said she'd never be convicted.
00:32:51 A lot you care.
00:32:52 I suppose she didn't have enough sense to give a flash of her leg to the jury.
00:32:56 She just never had any sense.
00:32:58 Yeah, 20 years to life.
00:33:00 And to think of me, sitting right here with a corpus selecti.
00:33:07 Say, how about...
00:33:09 What if she'll be able to collect the insurance on my life?
00:33:12 Oh, so now you're on the smell of some easy money, huh?
00:33:16 Well, it's my life. It ought to be my money.
00:33:18 [Music]
00:33:45 You talked out very good. The first time you did after that, you held people for a pardon.
00:33:50 So why worry?
00:33:51 Oh, I'm all right. Thanks, Alice.
00:33:54 You'll get used to it, honey.
00:33:56 You ought to thank your stores you're in here.
00:33:58 This is Lighthouse compared to what the gals get.
00:34:01 Oh, go on, eat.
00:34:09 I'm just not hungry.
00:34:13 You will be. Don't let it get you down, kid.
00:34:16 That wasn't so bad, was it?
00:34:29 Or was it?
00:34:30 Just like Mother used to make when she was drunk.
00:34:42 Who are you writing to now? Your congressman?
00:34:45 No. My daughter.
00:34:48 Oh, Mary Ann. Tell her Aunt Alice sends her love.
00:34:52 Let's just get it back with a hat on for her.
00:34:56 How old did she say she was, then?
00:34:59 Five. She had a birthday just last week.
00:35:02 Hey, she's a smart little kid being able to read at that age.
00:35:07 My old man couldn't read until he was 60, and then all he learned was the labels on boxes.
00:35:12 I'm afraid Mary Ann couldn't even do that.
00:35:15 Black reads my letters to her.
00:35:17 She's an awfully nice lady. She lives next door.
00:35:20 She's taking care of Mary Ann for me.
00:35:22 For free? That's a good deal.
00:35:25 What you got on her?
00:35:27 Nothing.
00:35:29 I have enough money to take care of her.
00:35:34 It ain't often that you meet anybody in here with any money.
00:35:37 It's nice you don't have to worry about your kid anyway.
00:35:41 I don't worry about her.
00:35:44 I just want to get her letters.
00:36:00 I have wished I could be with you.
00:36:02 I only hope that not too many birthdays will pass before I can see you and be with you again.
00:36:07 All my thoughts are with you.
00:36:09 Be a good girl and do what Mrs. Black tells you.
00:36:13 But I don't have to tell you, do I dear?
00:36:16 No.
00:36:17 All my love and kisses, Mother.
00:36:21 Tell me, answer Mommy's letters?
00:36:24 All right, there's a paper and pencil.
00:36:26 Go write.
00:36:29 Dear Mommy, I miss you too.
00:36:32 Now I'll help you make the letters.
00:36:38 Dear...
00:36:42 Mommy.
00:36:47 And maybe next year we can have another birthday party.
00:36:50 Love and kisses.
00:36:52 Here. Mrs. Black says I'm a very good girl.
00:36:56 Of course she is.
00:36:58 She's our kid, ain't she?
00:37:00 How about a little music?
00:37:02 Not that you need any cheering up after a letter from that kid of yours.
00:37:06 We interrupt this program to take you to Memorial Hall.
00:37:14 Hey, you!
00:37:16 I said music! No, wait.
00:37:18 And it gives me tremendous pleasure, ladies and gentlemen,
00:37:21 to present to you a man who needs no introduction.
00:37:24 A man who is to all of us a symbol of fearless honor.
00:37:27 A man whose entire life has been devoted to justice and the protection of the weak.
00:37:32 That great man, that able man, the governor of this great state, Mr. John Wallace.
00:37:38 My friends...
00:37:40 If that doesn't include you, eh, honey?
00:37:50 John Wallace is probably too busy going up to remember me.
00:37:54 I was just one of his step-aunts.
00:37:57 Sit down and relax, Mark. What are you so nervous about?
00:38:16 I'm just wondering, John, what you're going to do about that McKinney-Robinson bill.
00:38:19 What? Well, I'll sign it, of course.
00:38:21 You think that's a smart move?
00:38:23 Now, Mark, you know the power and traction monopoly has led to taxpayers for years.
00:38:26 It's time the state handled its own biggest asset.
00:38:29 Might lose you lots of friends.
00:38:31 Yes, it might. This is bigger than having a lot of friends.
00:38:35 Bigger than you think.
00:38:37 John, I've never asked many personal favors of you.
00:38:45 Oh, come on now. Don't ask me not to sign that bill.
00:38:49 That's just what I am asking.
00:38:51 Well, there's nothing to it, Mark. That's one bill I'm going to sign, and that's all there is to that.
00:38:55 Maybe you don't see exactly what I mean.
00:38:59 Maybe I don't want it.
00:39:01 All right, John.
00:39:04 It's time we had an understanding anyway.
00:39:07 There's a cool million dollars in this for me.
00:39:11 - For you? - Yes, for me and for all of us.
00:39:14 You think I ran our campaign on hay?
00:39:17 If you want to play politics, John, you've got to pay off your political debts one way or another.
00:39:21 I'm not going to pay them at the expense of the people.
00:39:23 - How do you think other people feel? - Oh, I know how they feel.
00:39:25 You're sitting in the governor's chair right now because I pay off in plenty, and I'm still paying.
00:39:29 You're not going to leave me holding the bag.
00:39:31 Tell me one thing, Mark. Why hasn't this ever come up before?
00:39:34 That's not the point, John.
00:39:38 That's the point.
00:39:42 I'll cut you in 50/50.
00:39:45 - I'll just pretend I never heard that. - Oh, no, you won't.
00:39:50 I carried you along and built you up ever since you were a small-town assemblyman.
00:39:53 You're not going to run out on me now.
00:39:55 Have I ever inferred I'd use any office for your benefit?
00:39:57 What difference does that make? I put you where you are, and you're going to do as I say whether you like it or not.
00:40:02 - That's quite a statement. - You think you're in on a clean record, don't you?
00:40:05 You're sitting in the governor's chair right now on a phony conviction.
00:40:08 - Oh, come on, Mark. - Don't act so high and mighty.
00:40:11 There's nothing holding you up but a perjured witness.
00:40:13 - Do you know what you're saying? - I said a perjured witness.
00:40:16 I bought and paid for him, and I control him, understand?
00:40:19 - I don't believe it. What case do you mean? - The Sally Dixon case.
00:40:22 - Your latest triumph. - Sally Dixon?
00:40:25 Oh, you're in it just as deep as I am.
00:40:27 I framed her, but you convicted her.
00:40:30 I can get out, but you can't.
00:40:39 - How did you frame her? - That's Dennis.
00:40:42 He filled those teeth all right after I took him down to the morgue and paid him to do it.
00:40:47 Get out of this office before I throw you out.
00:40:50 I'll be seeing you, John.
00:40:56 Give me Johnson.
00:41:06 Hello, Erskine. This is John Wallace.
00:41:09 Can you get over here right away? I want to see you.
00:41:12 Have I got a story?
00:41:15 Yeah, I got a story, all right.
00:41:18 That's the story, Erskine, and it's all yours.
00:41:23 That's terrific, John. I don't know how I can thank you for giving the story to me.
00:41:27 Put me through to the warden of the state penitentiary.
00:41:30 All I want you to do is give me a copy of the story.
00:41:33 I'll hold it, all right, and I'm with you from now on.
00:41:36 Good. I'm going to need lots of help.
00:41:39 Hello, warden. This is Governor Wallace.
00:41:42 I want Sally Dixon brought to my office first thing in the morning.
00:41:45 Yes, Sally Dixon.
00:41:48 Get me District Attorney McCoy.
00:41:52 You're going to upset a lot of apple carts, and it's all right with me.
00:41:55 I'm going to clean the state of political corruption. It's the last thing I ever do.
00:41:59 Hello, Mayor. I'm going to get you a copy of the story.
00:42:02 Thank you.
00:42:03 Hello, Mac. This is John Wallace.
00:42:05 I want you to call a special session of the grand jury to investigate the political activities of Mark Crandall.
00:42:11 Evidence? I'll give you plenty myself.
00:42:14 No, Mark Crandall is no friend of mine.
00:42:17 And Mac, that dentist that testified in the Dixon case.
00:42:21 Yes, Willard, that's him.
00:42:24 Put him in jail and keep him there till you hear from me.
00:42:26 And one more thing.
00:42:28 Keep this under your hat.
00:42:30 That's it.
00:42:32 She's almost ready.
00:42:37 My goodness, I wish I knew what this was all about.
00:42:39 Governor Wallace wants me to bring her up with the capital.
00:42:42 That's all I know.
00:42:43 Am I going to see my mommy?
00:42:45 Well, I wouldn't say yes.
00:42:48 I wouldn't say no.
00:42:49 Why don't we go along and find out, eh?
00:42:51 Okay.
00:42:52 Okay, good.
00:42:53 Say goodbye to Mrs. Black.
00:42:55 Come on.
00:42:57 Goodbye.
00:43:00 Mrs. Dixon, I don't suppose you can ever find it in your heart to forgive me.
00:43:05 Why have you brought me here?
00:43:09 Send Haines in.
00:43:12 Mommy!
00:43:27 There he is.
00:43:30 Mrs. Dixon.
00:43:41 This is a full and complete pardon signed by me as governor.
00:43:46 I've arranged to have a car take you to Mrs. Black's.
00:43:55 [Mrs. Black is seen walking to the door.]
00:43:59 And that's my last official act as governor of this state.
00:44:13 Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
00:44:17 This is Erskine Johnson with the latest news.
00:44:20 Here's a story hot off the press from the capital of one of our greatest states.
00:44:24 After pointedly pardoning Sally Dixon, whom he convicted and sent to the penitentiary on a murder charge a year ago,
00:44:31 John Wallace resigned his governorship today, handing Mrs. Dixon a full and complete exoneration.
00:44:39 This is my last official act as governor of this state, says John Wallace.
00:44:44 Mrs. Dixon was convicted on manufactured testimony, declared the ex-governor,
00:44:49 naming Mark Crandall, well-known political, and Dr. O.N. Willard of this city,
00:44:53 in a conspiracy to criminally cause a miscarriage of justice.
00:44:57 Turn off that radio, will you?
00:44:59 Crandall and Willard were ordered held by a special session of the grand jury for trial.
00:45:03 District attorney Frank McCoy promises an early conviction of these men.
00:45:08 Mrs. Dixon's husband, Wallace insists, has never been legally proven dead.
00:45:13 Will you shut that thing off?
00:45:15 And now here's a choice item from Hollywood.
00:45:18 If you ask me, I think you were better off dead.
00:45:21 Oh, don't try to be so smart.
00:45:23 Maybe now you won't have to drink so much of that embalming fluid.
00:45:26 Listen, one of these days I'm going to pop you right in the nose.
00:45:29 Yeah, I know.
00:45:31 I'm kind of glad your wife got out.
00:45:33 I felt quite right about letting her take that rap.
00:45:37 You never felt quite right, huh?
00:45:39 No, I never.
00:45:40 I've certainly done her a favor, taken you off her hands.
00:45:43 Oh, is that so?
00:45:44 I did all right for you.
00:45:45 Sure you did, 'cause you got so blind you couldn't tell one card from another.
00:45:49 Ah, take it easy, will you?
00:45:51 I just had a long run of hard luck.
00:45:53 So have I.
00:45:55 Here, pay the guy and let's get out of here.
00:45:57 Any news on that big political shakeup before the paper goes to bed?
00:46:04 You can tell him I said Crandall will get at least 20 years.
00:46:07 And what about those threats you've been getting?
00:46:09 Oh, I don't pay any attention to that.
00:46:11 You better be careful.
00:46:12 You found out Crandall was mixed up with some pretty bad baby.
00:46:15 Just what I've been telling him all along.
00:46:17 Sure, but they're scared to death.
00:46:18 Crandall's on his way and they're afraid to make a move.
00:46:20 Don't be too sure.
00:46:22 I gotta run.
00:46:23 I'll call her the day till.
00:46:25 I'll walk along with you.
00:46:26 All right, Tom.
00:46:27 Glad to have you.
00:46:38 I didn't mean to keep you so late.
00:46:40 Oh, that's all right.
00:46:41 Look out!
00:46:42 You know who it is?
00:47:07 Yeah, a fellow named Mike.
00:47:09 Used to work for Crandall.
00:47:11 Looks like he saved the taxpayers a little money.
00:47:14 Yeah.
00:47:15 Now maybe you'll listen to me.
00:47:18 Sure will, Tom.
00:47:20 I sure will.
00:47:21 Okay, well don't worry about it.
00:47:25 I'll have Haines covered for you.
00:47:27 All right, bye.
00:47:28 Well, John, I've enjoyed helping you run these guys down.
00:47:32 I never had so much fun in my life.
00:47:34 And what's more, I'm gonna call on Mrs. Dixon tonight.
00:47:36 You can put that on the air too if you wanna.
00:47:38 Will I?
00:47:39 What a follow up to that pardon yawn.
00:47:41 Come in, Mr. Wallace.
00:47:47 So nice to see you again.
00:47:49 Thanks.
00:47:50 Oh, it's all right.
00:47:51 Well, I just thought I would, uh...
00:47:54 As a matter of fact, I thought...
00:47:55 Oh, I know.
00:47:56 More of those legal matters to discuss, I suppose.
00:48:00 You wait.
00:48:01 I'll tell her you're here.
00:48:03 Now you keep right on.
00:48:05 You're doing fine.
00:48:07 You're fine.
00:48:09 Well?
00:48:19 I just thought I would drop by.
00:48:22 I must say you are persistent.
00:48:24 Oh, so am I.
00:48:27 Flowers.
00:48:28 [footsteps]
00:48:48 I used to get a lovely bunch in my cell every morning.
00:48:55 Oh, how rude of me.
00:48:56 Do let me take your hat.
00:48:58 Thanks very much.
00:49:00 Oh, not at all, Mr. Wallace.
00:49:01 A pleasure.
00:49:02 If you touch me, I'll bite.
00:49:05 That'd be a relief.
00:49:08 The jury's out now.
00:49:10 It's proper to sit down.
00:49:12 Hang it all, Mrs. Dixon.
00:49:16 I tried to explain that trial to you.
00:49:19 I believed you.
00:49:20 So help me, I was ready to drop the case.
00:49:22 I told you how Crandall tricked me.
00:49:24 I'll admit I was an ambitious fool and fell for it.
00:49:27 But I resigned the minute I found it out.
00:49:30 And I put Crandall and that dentist both in jail.
00:49:33 Do you enjoy putting people in jail?
00:49:36 I certainly do enjoy putting anyone in jail who has harmed you.
00:49:40 And what about yourself?
00:49:42 I can only answer you as you once answered me.
00:49:47 I'm innocent.
00:49:53 I believe you.
00:49:55 Well, Mrs. Black, the truant.
00:50:04 A fine pair of hooks and flares.
00:50:08 Now, this is the important appointment you left your office for.
00:50:12 Mrs. Black, tell her.
00:50:13 Oh, yes, she's just...
00:50:15 Oh, and look at...
00:50:17 Oh, you poor dog.
00:50:19 A big law enforcement man like you taking her out
00:50:22 and trying to teach her how to stay away from school.
00:50:24 Why, she learned more today than...
00:50:26 Yes, I'll bet.
00:50:27 All about what she shouldn't eat.
00:50:28 Oh, look at her face.
00:50:30 Well, I don't think she needs anything more to eat.
00:50:32 Mrs. Black, will you take her and try and clean her up and put her to bed?
00:50:35 Oh, little children have to get all messed up once in a while.
00:50:39 Poor darling.
00:50:42 I just hope you don't get sick.
00:50:46 You know, I don't feel anything well myself.
00:50:49 The laws and statutes of this state are thoroughly incompatible
00:51:11 with the lives and emotions of suffering humanity.
00:51:15 Imagine making a man wait all this while.
00:51:18 Did I ever tell you my folks left me a very nice little farm?
00:51:21 Really?
00:51:22 Oh, John, I'd love a farm.
00:51:24 Do you?
00:51:25 Well, why the dickens don't we go back there to live?
00:51:27 Oh, that would be wonderful.
00:51:28 Why, John, I was raised on a farm.
00:51:30 Jumping Jiminy crickets, so was I.
00:51:32 I always knew there was something about you.
00:51:34 Can you make butter?
00:51:35 Certainly I can make butter.
00:51:36 I used to plow.
00:51:37 I used to love to plow.
00:51:40 [A woman is sitting in a chair in a room.]
00:51:47 Why do I have to go to school today?
00:51:50 Because today is Saturday.
00:51:52 Will Mommy be home soon?
00:51:55 Yes, dear.
00:51:56 Mommy's coming home early,
00:51:58 and then Mr. Wallace is taking us all for a nice ride in the country.
00:52:02 I like rides.
00:52:04 Can I go out and fly my baby?
00:52:07 Of course, dear, but don't you play in the street.
00:52:10 I won't.
00:52:12 Come on, Bert.
00:52:13 We're going out and fly.
00:52:15 Fly, fly, fly, fly, fly.
00:52:19 [The children are playing in the yard.]
00:52:36 Mary Ann.
00:52:37 Daddy.
00:52:38 Daddy.
00:52:39 I'm so glad you came home.
00:52:42 Want to go for a nice ride with Daddy?
00:52:44 Yes, a nice long ride.
00:52:46 Come on, baby.
00:52:47 Here we go.
00:52:56 Mary Ann.
00:52:57 Mary Ann.
00:53:01 Oh, Mrs. Dixon.
00:53:02 Where was she?
00:53:03 Didn't you see her?
00:53:05 No, I didn't.
00:53:06 You must, you must.
00:53:07 Stop picking at me, Sally.
00:53:09 Let's try to be calm and find out all we can as quickly as possible.
00:53:12 It's important no one should know about this for the present but the four of us.
00:53:16 You haven't told anyone else, Mrs. Black.
00:53:18 No, I just waited here like you told me to do.
00:53:21 You didn't see the license at all?
00:53:23 I didn't think of it.
00:53:24 You didn't even see whether it was a license of this state?
00:53:27 No, I didn't see it.
00:53:29 But it was a black sedan and went away very fast.
00:53:32 Yes.
00:53:33 Now, Sally, Tom Haines is the best special investigator the state ever had.
00:53:37 Even the police couldn't do any better.
00:53:39 I've got a few contacts to make myself.
00:53:41 Now, you two stay right here and don't talk to anybody.
00:53:55 Good grief.
00:53:59 What do you got there?
00:54:02 This is my kid.
00:54:03 What are you bringing her here for?
00:54:05 I want you to take care of her for a while.
00:54:07 Wonderful.
00:54:08 Now I suppose I've got to buy milk, too.
00:54:10 Hello.
00:54:12 Hi.
00:54:18 No, Sally, please.
00:54:19 You stay at home and try not to worry too much.
00:54:22 Yes, I know, but we're doing everything that's possible.
00:54:25 All right, now don't worry.
00:54:27 Goodbye.
00:54:29 You know, John, this might be some of Crandall's gang trying to get at you through the girl and the baby.
00:54:34 I don't think so.
00:54:38 I've got a letter here.
00:54:39 It says from George Dixon.
00:54:41 The missing husband.
00:54:42 That's interesting.
00:54:43 Yeah, but you can't say anything about it now.
00:54:45 It's a big temptation, but you know I won't.
00:54:47 It says to put an ad in the personal columns of the Chicago Papers.
00:54:50 Can you handle that for me?
00:54:51 Anything you want, John.
00:54:52 Good.
00:54:57 Oh, come on now, honey.
00:54:59 Eat your ice cream.
00:55:01 Your daddy's going to take you home to your mommy pretty soon now.
00:55:04 Or else.
00:55:08 I don't want it.
00:55:09 I want to go home now.
00:55:12 Oh, you want to go now.
00:55:14 You want to go now.
00:55:17 I tell you, I've had a lot of tough audiences in my time, but you got me licked, kid.
00:55:22 I've been through everything I knew.
00:55:23 I've danced, I've sung, I've done everything.
00:55:26 I don't like those old songs.
00:55:29 Oh, you don't, huh?
00:55:31 Well, maybe you'd like a little champagne.
00:55:34 Oh, don't.
00:55:36 Well, I think I'll have a little drink myself.
00:55:39 My mommy used to give me nicer parties, not like this.
00:55:49 Oh.
00:55:50 I know, she did, honey.
00:55:52 I guess I just don't know how to give parties for kids.
00:55:56 I would like you if you just didn't sing at me.
00:56:00 All right, I won't sing.
00:56:05 You smell good.
00:56:09 Oh, no I don't, baby.
00:56:11 Get away from that champagne, you big tramp.
00:56:14 What is all this?
00:56:15 You never break out any of this champagne for me.
00:56:17 How much longer are we going to keep this up?
00:56:19 I'm getting awful tired of it.
00:56:21 Why don't you mind your own business?
00:56:23 I want to go home to my mommy.
00:56:27 You have to start squawking every time I come in here.
00:56:31 Oh, don't cry, honey.
00:56:33 Do you have to do that in front of the kids?
00:56:36 Come on, Mary Ann.
00:56:39 George, I told you I don't like this.
00:56:54 Who cares what you like?
00:56:56 I have to take care of the kids, don't I?
00:56:58 That makes two of you.
00:56:59 Shut up, will you?
00:57:00 I put up, so I don't have to shut up.
00:57:02 You better take that kid back to her mother.
00:57:04 Now let me handle this my own way.
00:57:06 Oh, my gosh.
00:57:08 Can't you think of some other way to pry a few pounds out of that old lady of yours?
00:57:11 It's quicker this way, and it can't miss.
00:57:14 How do you know they won't call in the cops?
00:57:16 I wrote her some letters.
00:57:18 She knows I got the kid.
00:57:19 She doesn't know where.
00:57:20 I mail the letters from out of town.
00:57:22 Yeah, but what about me?
00:57:23 You don't care what happens to me.
00:57:25 Suppose I'm somebody looking for this kid, and they find her here with me.
00:57:28 The only time I ever see you is when you're broke.
00:57:31 I'm not taking a federal rap.
00:57:33 I'm not putting myself in a spot for nobody.
00:57:35 Nobody's going to take any rap.
00:57:38 The kid's just as much mine as it is hers.
00:57:40 She can have her back any time she wants to, on my terms.
00:57:44 Wonderful.
00:57:45 How can you do something like this to your own kid, and to somebody that's still your wife?
00:57:50 What do you think you get off telling me what to do about my wife?
00:57:55 Yeah, I know.
00:57:56 Maybe I'm pretty low.
00:57:58 Maybe I haven't done so good.
00:58:00 Let me tell you, I've been mixed up with some pretty good heels in my time.
00:58:05 But so help me, I never seen such a roughed down good for you.
00:58:08 Boy, you--
00:58:10 Shut her, or I'll fix her so it'll stay shut.
00:58:14 Oh, please don't hit me, Georgie.
00:58:17 You know I didn't mean it.
00:58:19 It's just that this thing's getting on my nerves.
00:58:23 It's getting on my nerves, too.
00:58:25 So don't go popping off at me all the time, or I'll blow the whole thing up.
00:58:28 Georgie, don't do that.
00:58:31 They'll come through pretty soon, and you'll be all set.
00:58:35 Come on, sit down and relax.
00:58:37 You know me, I just gotta bust loose once in a while.
00:58:41 Yeah, you're gonna bust loose once too often.
00:58:44 It'll be the last time.
00:58:46 I don't care if you hit me, Georgie.
00:58:51 Good boy.
00:58:53 You got a punch.
00:58:56 You good punches now and then's good for a girl, I always say.
00:59:00 Here.
00:59:02 Just relax.
00:59:04 Give me a drink.
00:59:05 Cheers to us.
00:59:10 I feel better already.
00:59:14 Here's a drink, Georgie.
00:59:26 Here.
00:59:27 Drink a few more of these and maybe you can get some rest.
00:59:39 [Heartbeat]
00:59:59 Are you sure these letters are from George Dixon?
01:00:01 I'm sure.
01:00:03 He was always trying to make you give him money.
01:00:05 Well, why doesn't he come and get his confounded money?
01:00:07 We've had that ad in the paper for five days.
01:00:09 He's had plenty of time to see it.
01:00:11 I just wish we knew where to find him.
01:00:14 I know he wants to make you suffer as much as he wants.
01:00:17 Oh, John, you don't think you'll hurt Mary Ann?
01:00:19 Oh, how can you say that?
01:00:21 A man is a child's own father.
01:00:24 Yes, but maybe he doesn't know how to take care of her.
01:00:29 Oh, I'm so worried.
01:00:30 Oh, come on now, Sally, don't do that.
01:00:33 Hang on a little while longer.
01:00:34 He's bound to show up sooner or later.
01:00:37 Any man who would do a thing like this.
01:00:40 I'd like to get my hands on him for about five minutes.
01:00:44 I don't want you to hurt him.
01:00:46 I just want him to bring back my little girl.
01:00:48 Here's your little girl, Mrs. Dixon.
01:00:51 Mommy!
01:00:52 Mary Ann!
01:00:58 Where did she come from?
01:00:59 She drives up in a cab, gets out, walks right to the house.
01:01:02 You better lock that door.
01:01:03 There's a bird not very far behind me who would just love to cut my throat.
01:01:07 Who?
01:01:08 A fellow by the name of George Dixon.
01:01:11 What do you know about this?
01:01:12 Say, don't you push me around, you big palooka.
01:01:14 I got the kid away from him and I brought her home.
01:01:17 The least you can do is put me in jail and give me a little protection.
01:01:20 Is Dixon on his way here?
01:01:21 I was just getting the kid away from him, just getting the kid out of there when he wakes up.
01:01:25 I locked the door, but I didn't know which one of us would get here first.
01:01:28 Well, that's just fine.
01:01:29 We'll be right here waiting for him.
01:01:31 Well, you had better look out.
01:01:32 He's been hitting the bottle for months.
01:01:34 He's mad and he's half crazy.
01:01:36 And he's got a gun.
01:01:40 Well, that's too bad.
01:01:41 I was looking forward to meeting that fellow on equal terms.
01:01:45 Send squad cars at 368 Rome.
01:01:48 Yeah, tell them to keep out of sight.
01:01:50 When the guy goes in the house, tell them to follow right away.
01:01:52 Right?
01:01:53 Right.
01:01:55 Sally, take Mary Ann.
01:01:56 Now, you women better get out of here.
01:01:58 If you don't mind, I'll just stick around a while.
01:02:01 I got a little score of my own to settle.
01:02:03 Take that side of the door, Haynes.
01:02:05 I'll take this.
01:02:06 Okay.
01:02:07 Turn out the light.
01:02:14 Hey, you.
01:02:15 Who, me?
01:02:16 Yeah.
01:02:17 Where are you?
01:02:18 Right over here, behind this big, thick house.
01:02:21 Don't try to pull anything funny.
01:02:23 Send me your gun, big boy.
01:02:25 I'll shoot him myself for Mrs. Dixon.
01:02:27 You've done time for killing him once, haven't you?
01:02:30 Anyone ever had a permit to kill is hers.
01:02:32 You're going to hang around in here, get out of the way, and shut up.
01:02:35 All right.
01:02:36 I'll always tell a fact, even in the dark.
01:02:41 You keep quiet.
01:02:43 Now I'm over here.
01:02:45 I'm with a case.
01:02:46 Shh.
01:02:48 [Music]
01:03:13 [Indistinct talking]
01:03:18 I got it.
01:03:21 Take it, boy.
01:03:22 [Music]
01:03:32 Sure you got a good grip on it?
01:03:42 Hold on to him a minute.
01:03:47 I knew I could do it if I could just get a good shot at him.
01:03:50 And that isn't all.
01:03:51 I read about them bullets you took out of Big Joe.
01:03:54 You'll find the ones you shoot out of that gun you took off of him are twin brothers to the ones you got.
01:04:01 Lock him up, boys.
01:04:12 You sure this is a gun?
01:04:13 Try it and see.
01:04:20 Thank heaven you've got him where he can't do any more harm.
01:04:26 I don't know how I could ever thank you for bringing me here.
01:04:28 The trouble is we've got to lock you up for withholding evidence for a very serious crime.
01:04:33 I won't allow you to do that.
01:04:35 Oh, it's all right.
01:04:36 I was behind in the rent anyway.
01:04:37 Well, don't you worry.
01:04:38 I'm going to see them all.
01:04:40 Kind of looks like Mary Ann's going to have a new papa.
01:04:43 Come on.
01:04:44 Let's take a little walk.