The Young Savages-HD (1961)

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00:00:00 (cars rumbling) ♪ (soft music)

00:00:21 ♪ (soft music)

00:00:49 (children playing) ♪ (soft music)

00:01:07 ♪ (suspenseful music)

00:01:26 (tires screeching)

00:01:29 ♪ (suspenseful music)

00:01:31 (tires screeching)

00:01:33 ♪ (suspenseful music)

00:02:03 (water splashing)

00:02:05 ♪ (suspenseful music)

00:02:15 (car door slams)

00:02:17 ♪ (suspenseful music)

00:02:30 (water splashing)

00:02:32 ♪ (suspenseful music)

00:02:39 - Olé, Roberto! - Bravo, Roberto, bravo!

00:02:43 - Luisa!

00:02:45 (Luisa screams)

00:02:48 (Luisa screams) (Luisa screams)

00:02:51 (Luisa screams) (Luisa screams)

00:02:53 (Luisa screams) (Luisa screams)

00:02:57 - Help me, I'm going to die!

00:02:59 (Luisa screams)

00:03:11 ♪ (suspenseful music)

00:03:33 (gunshot)

00:03:35 ♪ (suspenseful music)

00:04:02 (siren wails)

00:04:08 (gunshot)

00:04:10 (car rumbles)

00:04:12 (siren wails)

00:04:17 (car rumbles)

00:04:20 ♪ (dramatic music)

00:04:23 (women speaking in Italian)

00:04:25 - What'd the guy look like?

00:04:26 How do you expect us to help you

00:04:28 if you don't know what the guy looks like?

00:04:30 Hi Lieutenant. - Hello Sergeant, where are the boys?

00:04:32 - Oh, we haven't set up for you inside.

00:04:33 - Uh-huh. Come on.

00:04:35 - When are we going to get the two shots, Lieutenant?

00:04:36 - Yeah, when can we see 'em, huh?

00:04:38 - Now fellas, we'll be through with this

00:04:39 as soon as we possibly can.

00:04:40 (men chatter)

00:04:43 This is Hank Bell, he'll handle the preliminary.

00:04:45 Captain Larson. - Captain?

00:04:48 - You know Whitey. - Sure.

00:04:51 (footsteps)

00:04:58 - Sit over there. - Sit down.

00:05:02 - Okay Whitey, preliminary interrogation.

00:05:05 The DA's office, Assistant District Attorney Bell,

00:05:08 Detective Lieutenant Gunnison.

00:05:09 Witnesses, Captain Larson, Officer--

00:05:12 - Wolman. - Officer Wolman.

00:05:14 Suspects...three members of a street gang

00:05:17 known as the Thunderbirds. Named...

00:05:20 (paper rustles)

00:05:22 - Arthur Reardon, Anthony Aposto, and Daniel...

00:05:27 D-I-P-A-C-E. - DePace.

00:05:31 (paper rustles)

00:05:33 - Which one of you is DePace?

00:05:36 (footsteps)

00:05:42 Your name DePace?

00:05:44 - David Copperfield.

00:05:46 - You want me to butcher around the room?

00:05:48 - Hey, he ain't writing that.

00:05:51 - He's DePace.

00:05:54 Your father John DePace?

00:05:55 - I ain't got no father.

00:05:59 - Your mother's name...Mary?

00:06:02 - Well what the hell has my mother got to do with it?

00:06:04 - Nothing kid.

00:06:06 How old are you Danny?

00:06:09 - I'm 15.

00:06:10 You can't hold me in this police station.

00:06:12 You can't even question me. I'm a juvenile.

00:06:15 - You're a juvenile up to 16 unless you killed somebody,

00:06:17 and you did.

00:06:19 - He stopped again. - All right, shoot!

00:06:22 - Gunnison!

00:06:24 (door closes)

00:06:27 (paper rustles)

00:06:30 - The law says you can execute a 15 year old for murder,

00:06:38 but it also says you can't question him in a police station.

00:06:40 - Now look...I'm tired of having to coddle these punks

00:06:42 because they're 15 instead of 16.

00:06:44 - You don't have to tell me about these kids.

00:06:46 I was born in this neighborhood.

00:06:47 I went to school with some of the worst cuncils in town.

00:06:50 - A good swift kick would have more than straightened out

00:06:51 these punks than anything-- - Gunnison,

00:06:53 we're not out to kick kids this time.

00:06:54 We're out for first degree murder.

00:06:57 - Putting a juvenile in the chair is always big trouble.

00:07:00 Whoever prosecutes this case will need a clear record

00:07:02 the defense can't attack.

00:07:04 No technicality is getting in the way,

00:07:05 like interrogating a juvenile in the police station.

00:07:08 Right?

00:07:09 - Okay.

00:07:11 - Let's find out the ages of the other two,

00:07:14 and then we'll separate the baby killers

00:07:15 from the adult killers.

00:07:16 - Okay, Whitey.

00:07:19 You, name and age.

00:07:21 - Arthur Reardon, 17.

00:07:23 - Batman!

00:07:24 - What's your name?

00:07:26 - Anthony Apostle.

00:07:28 - How old are you?

00:07:30 - 16.

00:07:32 - The home's been called, Captain?

00:07:35 - Strictly according to the book, Counselor.

00:07:38 Mrs. DePazzi and Reardon's old man are outside now.

00:07:42 - Take him out to see his mother.

00:07:44 (door opens)

00:07:46 (footsteps)

00:07:48 (lock clicks)

00:07:54 (lock clicks)

00:07:58 (keys jangle)

00:08:01 (lock clicks)

00:08:03 (lock clicks)

00:08:05 (door opens)

00:08:15 - So you're a big shaft man.

00:08:17 - He didn't find the knives on us.

00:08:20 - We found a lot of holes in the body.

00:08:21 We'll find the knives.

00:08:23 - The Spics started it.

00:08:24 He pulled the knife.

00:08:26 So now he's dead like he should be.

00:08:28 - Why do you figure he pulled the knife?

00:08:31 - He was on his turf.

00:08:33 - He's on your turf? You pull the knife?

00:08:36 - We ain't no dirty Spics.

00:08:38 We're Thunderbirds.

00:08:40 - You know the name of the boy you killed?

00:08:45 - No, we never seen him before.

00:08:48 - His name was Roberto Escalante.

00:08:49 He was 15 years old.

00:08:51 - So?

00:08:54 - Now let me get this straight.

00:08:58 You went for a walk on his street, he saw you.

00:09:01 He came at you with a knife, right?

00:09:03 - Yeah, that's right.

00:09:05 - He must have been pretty good with a knife.

00:09:08 - He's crazy.

00:09:09 - In fact, he must have been better with a knife

00:09:11 than anybody in the whole world.

00:09:13 Because Roberto Escalante was blind.

00:09:16 ♪ (dramatic music)

00:09:32 - So, in view of Tully's switch to guilty,

00:09:34 I think I'll be free to take over the teenage killing case,

00:09:37 if you'd like me to.

00:09:39 I mean, it sounds like a toughie.

00:09:41 And I'd like something to get my teeth into for a change.

00:09:43 Something I could really identify with.

00:09:45 - Yes, well I've asked Hank to handle the preliminary on that.

00:09:48 How about it, Hank?

00:09:49 - Well, the facts in the case are just about as reported.

00:09:52 The boys admit the killing, but they claim self-defense.

00:09:55 However, the boy they killed, the Puerto Rican boy, was blind.

00:09:58 - Oh...blind.

00:10:01 - I've got a hunch the papers are going to play this

00:10:05 like the Chicago fire.

00:10:08 You think we should try for first degree murder?

00:10:11 - It looks like it to me.

00:10:13 - You want to prosecute?

00:10:19 - That's up to you, but before you make any decision,

00:10:21 I think you ought to know...

00:10:23 one of the defendants is a kid named Apache.

00:10:26 I used to go with his mother when I was a kid.

00:10:28 - Oh boy, Hank, the papers would have a field day with this one.

00:10:31 I hope I'm not speaking out of turn, Mr. Cole,

00:10:33 but it seems to me that politically,

00:10:35 this is a dangerous case.

00:10:36 - Politically? (laughs)

00:10:39 We don't care anything about politics now, do we?

00:10:42 - Well sir, I think we're all aware sir,

00:10:45 that there's something more than a groundswell

00:10:46 developing to put you in the governor's mansion.

00:10:50 I'm sure none of us would like to see anything

00:10:51 happen to jeopardize that.

00:10:53 - The worst the newspapers can say is,

00:10:55 "Honest DA prosecutes son of childhood sweetheart."

00:10:58 Doesn't sound so damaging to me, huh?

00:11:01 All right, that's all for the moment, gentlemen.

00:11:03 ♪ (dramatic music)

00:11:09 - Hello darling.

00:11:11 - Sweetheart.

00:11:13 ♪ (dramatic music)

00:11:19 Boy, I'm beat.

00:11:21 ♪ (dramatic music)

00:11:24 (groans)

00:11:26 (paper rustles)

00:11:27 - How's that for timing?

00:11:28 - I earned this one today.

00:11:31 - Did you ever see such headlines?

00:11:34 - It's a hard case, all right.

00:11:35 - Mom, where's that white bra of yours?

00:11:37 Hi Dad. - Hi beautiful.

00:11:38 - Third drawer of the dresser, dear, where it always is.

00:11:40 - Okay.

00:11:42 - Jenny wearing a bra?

00:11:45 - Jenny's been wearing a bra for almost two years now.

00:11:49 - I guess I haven't taken a good look at her lately.

00:11:54 - One of those boys is only a year older than Jenny.

00:11:57 (paper rustles)

00:11:58 - I guess that's why it bothers me so.

00:12:01 - He was old enough to handle a knife.

00:12:03 - Whose idea was it anyway to go for murder?

00:12:04 One Dan Cole's? - Look Karen--

00:12:06 - I know why he assigned this case to you.

00:12:08 'Cause you're the only man smart enough

00:12:10 to get him a first degree conviction.

00:12:13 He'd frame his own mother to get that nomination.

00:12:17 - Karen, it wasn't Dan Cole's idea

00:12:18 to go for first degree murder.

00:12:20 (paper rustles)

00:12:21 It was mine.

00:12:23 - Yours?

00:12:26 - Yes...mine.

00:12:29 - I don't believe it.

00:12:31 Well you came from that neighborhood yourself.

00:12:33 - Yes, and I got out.

00:12:35 - Yes, you did.

00:12:37 But everybody hasn't got the emotional equipment

00:12:39 to put up with the slums and the poverty and--

00:12:42 - Here we go with the vassal theories of social oppression.

00:12:45 Listen Karen...

00:12:46 those punks have made Harlem a nightmare.

00:12:48 People are afraid to walk home from the subway after dark.

00:12:51 Remember the old man at the newsstand?

00:12:52 The one who loaned me the money to buy a suit

00:12:54 for my bar exam?

00:12:55 Well last week, four of your underprivileged children

00:12:58 beat him up.

00:12:58 They broke both his legs. He'll never walk again.

00:13:01 And you're upset because three self-confessed killers

00:13:03 are going to stand trial for murder.

00:13:05 (door closes)

00:13:06 - Good night folks. Don't wait up for me.

00:13:08 - Oh Jenny...

00:13:10 I wasn't planning to.

00:13:11 I'm going to bed at 12 o'clock, after you.

00:13:14 - Mother, you can be such a drag sometimes.

00:13:16 So utterly cubistic.

00:13:18 You know what I mean, don't you Dad?

00:13:20 - You heard your mother. 12 o'clock, doll.

00:13:23 - All right, I just hope I can explain it

00:13:25 to Lonnie's satisfaction.

00:13:27 Good night.

00:13:28 (door closes)

00:13:29 - Lonnie?

00:13:30 Whatever happened to Greg?

00:13:32 - He's been replaced by a more mature man, age 16.

00:13:36 - I ever meet Lonnie?

00:13:37 - You haven't even met Greg.

00:13:39 - Look honey, that's not right.

00:13:43 Come on, we'll grab our things, go out to dinner,

00:13:44 have a big thick steak and a bottle of wine.

00:13:46 What do you say?

00:13:48 - Okay.

00:13:49 ♪ (soft music)

00:13:53 - Oh by the way, your old girlfriend Mary DePace

00:13:55 called today. Twice.

00:13:58 I referred her to your office. Did you talk to her?

00:14:01 - I don't know what to say to her.

00:14:04 - Oh why don't you just tell her

00:14:05 that you're going to burn her son, for old time's sake.

00:14:09 ♪ (soft music)

00:14:11 (indistinct chatter)

00:14:19 - Stress out! Come on, will you?

00:14:21 Now don't spray something in Gamala hair, huh?

00:14:23 (indistinct chatter)

00:14:29 - Papa, what did you do?

00:14:30 - Never mind what I've done!

00:14:31 - You told the police about the knife!

00:14:33 - Mr. Ruggiero?

00:14:35 - Uh, that's right.

00:14:36 I hope nobody see you. Come here.

00:14:38 - Is this your daughter?

00:14:39 - I don't have him, I don't know nothing about him!

00:14:41 - All right, come on, come on.

00:14:43 - Lord, oh Lord, I'm scared.

00:14:44 What are you going to do with girls like this?

00:14:46 - Some father...

00:14:48 calls the cops on his own daughter.

00:14:50 - He did the right thing.

00:14:52 Your name is Angela, isn't it?

00:14:54 They call you Angie.

00:14:56 What did you do with the knives, Angie?

00:14:57 - You're so smart, find them!

00:15:00 (car rumbles)

00:15:05 - You can get into a lot of trouble by concealing evidence.

00:15:06 - I know. - You know that, don't you?

00:15:08 All right then, what did you do with the knives?

00:15:10 - I hid them in some newspapers.

00:15:12 Then I got scared and threw them in the back of a car.

00:15:14 - What car? - I don't know!

00:15:15 - Where was the car?

00:15:17 - I told you I don't know, it was just parked!

00:15:18 - Where? - On the street!

00:15:20 - What street? - I don't know, I don't know!

00:15:22 - Angie, I want you to listen to me.

00:15:27 Nothing is going to happen to you if you try to help us.

00:15:30 Now please think...

00:15:32 Where were you when you got rid of the knives?

00:15:35 Tell me.

00:15:36 - The cops were all around.

00:15:41 I just ran.

00:15:43 I turned the corner...

00:15:45 and there were more cops.

00:15:48 I don't know which corner.

00:15:51 I don't know, I don't know.

00:15:53 - All right, now about the car...

00:15:55 What kind of a car was it?

00:15:59 - I'm not sure. It could have been a Ford or a Chevy.

00:16:02 It was old, I think. - You remember the color?

00:16:05 - I think it was dark...black, or maybe it was blue.

00:16:10 (Angie gasps)

00:16:11 I was...

00:16:12 I was just so scared, I didn't know what to do.

00:16:17 - All right, Angie...

00:16:19 Let's talk about the boys for a minute.

00:16:22 Why did you take the knives in the first place?

00:16:24 - I don't know.

00:16:26 I don't know.

00:16:27 - Did you do it for Ridden?

00:16:29 - That creep. - Aposto?

00:16:32 - The Batman?

00:16:35 No, it's on account of Danny.

00:16:37 He's different.

00:16:39 He's sweet.

00:16:40 - He's a darling.

00:16:42 - What do you know about him?

00:16:43 - I know he killed a boy in cold blood.

00:16:45 - No he didn't, he just fought back!

00:16:48 - How do you know that?

00:16:49 - I told you because I saw it with my own eyes.

00:16:52 - What were you doing there?

00:16:53 - I just followed them.

00:16:54 - Why?

00:16:55 - I don't know.

00:16:57 The kicks.

00:17:02 (indistinct chatter)

00:17:06 - What did you see?

00:17:08 (bells jingling)

00:17:10 - I was a ways behind them.

00:17:12 ♪ (ominous music)

00:17:16 - The boy on the stoop pulled a knife.

00:17:19 - The boy on the stoop couldn't see.

00:17:21 - He still pulled a knife, it glittered.

00:17:23 I saw it shining.

00:17:25 (bells jingling)

00:17:28 - Anybody else see it?

00:17:29 - I was alone, but there were a lot of other people around.

00:17:31 They must have seen it!

00:17:32 - I talked to a lot of other people.

00:17:34 Nobody saw it.

00:17:35 - You talk to a lot of Puerto Ricans.

00:17:38 ♪ (ominous music)

00:17:44 - I think you're making this up, Angie, for Danny's sake.

00:17:46 - I'm not making it up

00:17:48 and you're not going to scare me into saying I am!

00:17:51 ♪ (ominous music)

00:17:56 I still can't get the blood off my skirt.

00:18:00 ♪ (sultry music)

00:18:24 (indistinct chatter) ♪ (sultry music)

00:18:36 ♪ (sultry music)

00:18:58 - Hey, these Puerto Ricans put on a pretty good show,

00:19:01 don't they? - Yeah, great.

00:19:03 - This interest you, Barton?

00:19:04 I thought your newspaper believed the only good Puerto Rican

00:19:07 was a dead Puerto Rican.

00:19:09 - You haven't been reading our paper, Mr. Bell.

00:19:11 - Not lately.

00:19:12 - This is oppressed minority season with us.

00:19:15 - You ought to read it, Hank.

00:19:17 Big expose on Park Avenue call houses.

00:19:20 - We perform a public service.

00:19:21 - Yes, I know.

00:19:23 You tell the citizens how to get their asses hauled.

00:19:25 (Barton laughs)

00:19:31 - We got the word that they concocted a story

00:19:33 about the blind boy flashing a knife.

00:19:35 Anything to that? - Not a thing.

00:19:38 - Good...because our readers are expecting the chair

00:19:42 for the killers...of this gentle and poetic blind boy.

00:19:47 - We'll do our best.

00:19:49 Who tips them off to these things anyway?

00:19:56 - Thousand and one, the girl was lying.

00:19:58 But supposing he did have a knife?

00:20:00 He would have been using it in self-defense.

00:20:02 - If he had a knife, we'll never make murder

00:20:04 one stick with the jury.

00:20:06 - It's what you really want, isn't it?

00:20:08 - That's what I want.

00:20:10 Last call, come on.

00:20:13 (paper rustling)

00:20:17 - Hey, come on you guys!

00:20:19 Hey, give him room guys! Give him room guys!

00:20:22 Anything to give us today, Dan?

00:20:23 - Certainly.

00:20:24 The city of New York will not rest

00:20:26 until justice has been done.

00:20:28 I've come to the funeral myself

00:20:29 to make sure that is perfectly clear.

00:20:31 - The boys are right on the job, Dan.

00:20:33 - Morning boys. - Dan.

00:20:35 - Who are the boys in costume?

00:20:36 - The horsemen...Puerto Rican gang.

00:20:39 Like to meet their leader?

00:20:40 - Yeah.

00:20:41 - Hey Zorro!

00:20:43 (speaking Spanish)

00:20:43 Come on over here a moment, will ya?

00:20:45 (speaking Spanish)

00:20:46 This is Mr. Cole, a district attorney.

00:20:52 Zorro.

00:20:54 - You gonna burn the Thunderbirds that killed Roberto?

00:20:56 - We're gonna try.

00:20:58 - That'll be the day.

00:20:59 - What do you mean by that, son?

00:21:00 - You're kidding.

00:21:01 - Try.

00:21:02 When your people come from Puerto Rico or Cuba,

00:21:04 they're just inhuman to cops.

00:21:06 It'll be the same old story this time.

00:21:09 (indistinct chatter)

00:21:14 - Mrs. Escalante.

00:21:16 - Mother of the dead boy.

00:21:18 (indistinct chatter)

00:21:32 - Mrs. Escalante...

00:21:34 Mrs. Escalante, I'm the district attorney.

00:21:37 Please accept my condolences.

00:21:39 - Gracias.

00:21:40 - And this is Mr. Bell, the prosecutor.

00:21:43 He'll help your son's case.

00:21:45 - You cannot help Roberto.

00:21:48 It is too late to help Roberto.

00:21:50 - Mrs. Escalante, please believe me--

00:21:51 - Pardoname, senor.

00:21:53 When I am a little girl...

00:21:57 in my family, they teach me love.

00:22:02 They teach me this in Puerto Rico where I am born.

00:22:06 The people there, they say to you "hello."

00:22:10 Here...

00:22:14 is different.

00:22:16 Here...so many people...

00:22:21 but is no one here say to you "hello."

00:22:25 In this city...

00:22:27 and on these streets...

00:22:30 is no time for love.

00:22:32 There is only...

00:22:35 Odio.

00:22:38 - Hatred.

00:22:40 - Hatred.

00:22:43 And it is hatred is killed my son.

00:22:47 - Your son will have justice, Mrs. Escalante.

00:22:51 - Ah, senor...

00:22:53 There's only one justice.

00:22:56 You want to do something, eh?

00:22:59 All right, you can do something for me...

00:23:02 and for my son.

00:23:04 One thing...

00:23:07 Kill them.

00:23:10 Kill the murderers...

00:23:12 the same way they kill my son.

00:23:15 You put out their eyes...

00:23:19 and you come at them with knives...

00:23:22 the same way they came at my son in his darkness.

00:23:29 You kill them like the animals they are.

00:23:33 You kill them and you rid the streets of the animals.

00:23:39 This you can do for me, senor...

00:23:43 and for my son...

00:23:45 who is dead.

00:23:48 (speaking in Spanish)

00:23:52 ♪ (soft music)

00:23:56 - Is that what you're going to do, Hank?

00:23:59 ♪ (soft music)

00:24:06 - Hello Mary.

00:24:07 - You're going to kill my kid?

00:24:10 You're going to put his eyes out

00:24:11 and come at him with knives in the darkness?

00:24:13 You're going to kill him like an animal, huh?

00:24:15 - This is Lieutenant Gunnison.

00:24:17 Miss--Mrs. DiPaci.

00:24:19 - Danny didn't have anything to do with this.

00:24:22 - I'm afraid he did.

00:24:23 - No...no.

00:24:25 He's protecting somebody, or something.

00:24:28 I know him.

00:24:29 I know he's my child, you don't know.

00:24:31 He swore to me he's not even a member of this gang.

00:24:34 - It still happened, Mary.

00:24:37 - Is that what my child is to you?

00:24:39 Just another case, another conviction?

00:24:41 He's mine, Hank!

00:24:43 - Danny will have a fair trial, the same as the other two.

00:24:46 - You know this neighborhood.

00:24:48 You're guilty before you're arrested.

00:24:50 - Mary... - You look everywhere

00:24:51 for evidence to prove that he's guilty.

00:24:53 Are you looking for evidence to prove he's innocent?

00:24:55 No, that wouldn't help you, would it?

00:24:58 You wouldn't get a gold star, would you Hank?

00:25:04 - They're all alike.

00:25:07 They all say the same thing.

00:25:11 My son didn't do it, my son couldn't do it,

00:25:14 my son is a good boy...

00:25:18 They all believe it too!

00:25:20 ♪ (ominous music)

00:25:36 ♪ (jazz music)

00:26:01 (knocking on door)

00:26:03 ♪ (jazz music)

00:26:09 - Can I come in a minute? - Please!

00:26:11 Please, Hank.

00:26:13 (footsteps)

00:26:19 Come in.

00:26:21 (footsteps)

00:26:23 (paper rustling)

00:26:25 (paper rustling)

00:26:29 I'm calling a Puerto Rican boy.

00:26:32 I want him to tell you something.

00:26:36 (speaking Spanish)

00:26:40 He came to see Danny last summer to thank him.

00:26:44 Sit down, Hank.

00:26:47 Jose?

00:26:49 Could you come to my house right away?

00:26:51 It's Danny's mother.

00:26:54 (speaking Spanish)

00:26:57 I went to look for him yesterday.

00:26:59 Sit down.

00:27:02 (footsteps)

00:27:05 - Uh...how does he get through no man's land?

00:27:08 - Well he comes through the cellars,

00:27:10 and then through that old area way--

00:27:12 - Over the roof?

00:27:14 Yeah, I remember.

00:27:17 - He'll be here right away.

00:27:22 Wait Hank, I have to go to work in a minute.

00:27:24 I work in an appliance store down--

00:27:26 - I'll wait.

00:27:29 Cigarette?

00:27:31 - I'll get you some coffee.

00:27:33 - No, don't--

00:27:35 - Jose?

00:27:39 Jose, this is Mr. Bell.

00:27:46 He's a friend of mine.

00:27:49 His amigo, you can talk to him.

00:27:51 - The Thunderbirds will kill me if they know I am here.

00:27:53 And the horsemen worse.

00:27:55 (speaking Spanish)

00:27:57 (footsteps)

00:28:00 (paper rustling)

00:28:04 - Jose, so you tell him please.

00:28:07 - Go ahead son.

00:28:09 - You know this swimming pool, mister?

00:28:10 On 124th Street? - Yes.

00:28:13 - Well, there's a coolant there.

00:28:15 No fighting.

00:28:17 I was there with some of the horsemen.

00:28:19 I don't swim so good, see?

00:28:22 (speaking Spanish)

00:28:27 (speaking Spanish)

00:28:30 (water splashing)

00:28:34 (water splashing)

00:28:43 - What's the matter, Vito?

00:28:45 - Look in the water.

00:28:48 - I don't see nothing in the water.

00:28:49 - Spicks!

00:28:51 - Well what are they doing?

00:28:53 - You like swimming with them?

00:28:55 (water splashing)

00:28:58 - Hey Danny!

00:29:00 Hey Danny!

00:29:02 - Come here.

00:29:03 (water splashing)

00:29:08 - Yeah, what's up, Dad?

00:29:09 - Take a look. San Juan's polluting the water.

00:29:12 (water splashing)

00:29:15 - So, you never saw a spick before?

00:29:17 They swim here every day.

00:29:18 - Today, I don't like it.

00:29:20 - What are you, head of the immigration department

00:29:22 or something? - I'm me, I don't like it,

00:29:23 and I say we kick 'em out.

00:29:24 - Danny, don't get into trouble.

00:29:28 - So that's your problem.

00:29:29 You let a broad boss you, huh?

00:29:33 (water splashing) - All right, all right,

00:29:34 big deal, let's go get it over with.

00:29:36 (children playing)

00:29:41 ♪ (dramatic music)

00:30:01 - What are you wearing a necklace for?

00:30:03 I thought only girls wore necklaces.

00:30:06 - That's no necklace.

00:30:07 That's Jesus Cristo.

00:30:09 - You got no religion?

00:30:12 - You got religion.

00:30:13 He's got religion, boy.

00:30:16 (water splashing)

00:30:18 You want to see how religious you are, Spick?

00:30:21 - Don't you call me a spick!

00:30:22 - We want to see if you can walk on water, Spick.

00:30:25 - Hey, I don't swim so good!

00:30:27 (water splashing)

00:30:28 (water splashing)

00:30:32 (horse whinnies)

00:30:35 (grunting)

00:30:37 I told you, I told you, I don't swim so good!

00:30:39 - He's trying to drown you, stupid!

00:30:41 (water splashing)

00:30:49 - Okay, let him go, that's enough!

00:30:51 - Hey, I keep you under!

00:30:53 ♪ (dramatic music)

00:30:56 (laughing)

00:30:58 ♪ (dramatic music)

00:30:59 - Don't let him get you, Mark! Kill him!

00:31:01 ♪ (dramatic music)

00:31:12 (children shouting)

00:31:14 (water splashing)

00:31:19 - Marko!

00:31:20 (water splashing)

00:31:23 ♪ (dramatic music)

00:31:33 - Thank you, Jose.

00:31:35 (door opens)

00:31:36 - Gracias, Jose!

00:31:38 Can you believe that the same boy who did this

00:31:45 would stab to death a helpless blind boy?

00:31:51 If he didn't do it, we'll find out he didn't do it.

00:31:54 Believe me, Mary.

00:31:56 - You know, Hank...

00:32:07 I made a terrible mistake when I walked out on you.

00:32:11 I knew it the...day after I married Johnny.

00:32:18 He turned out to be a petty racketeer.

00:32:21 I never told Danny what kind of man his father was.

00:32:25 But he's a pretty sharp kid.

00:32:29 And sometimes I would see him looking at me...

00:32:32 thinking, "What kind of woman is that?

00:32:34 She marries a guy like that."

00:32:37 And so...

00:32:40 you know, just to make him think more of me,

00:32:43 I would tell him about you.

00:32:48 You know, when we read your name in the papers, or...

00:32:53 I kind of heard about what you were doing...

00:32:57 and then I would think, "Well...

00:32:59 you can't be a total mess.

00:33:01 A man like that wanting to marry you."

00:33:03 - Don't give yourself the worst of it, Mary.

00:33:07 - You will try to see Danny...

00:33:09 as he really is, huh?

00:33:12 - I'll talk to him.

00:33:16 He could have been our son.

00:33:19 - That was a long time ago, Mary.

00:33:26 We've grown up.

00:33:28 Maybe it's too bad, but we've grown up.

00:33:32 - Will Danny grow up?

00:33:37 ♪ (ominous music)

00:33:47 - Goodbye, Mary.

00:33:48 - Goodbye, Hank.

00:33:50 ♪ (ominous music)

00:33:56 (baby cries)

00:34:02 (door closes)

00:34:05 (baby cries)

00:34:06 - 235 calling.

00:34:08 Over.

00:34:10 - Hardy speaking, over.

00:34:13 - This is Bell, Hardy.

00:34:14 What about the knives and the Escalante killing?

00:34:16 Over.

00:34:17 - What about them?

00:34:19 - Well, did you find them?

00:34:20 - Not yet.

00:34:22 - Well, how many men did you put on them?

00:34:23 - All we could spare.

00:34:25 - Well, how many is that?

00:34:26 - Two. (woman laughs)

00:34:30 - That's not enough, Lieutenant.

00:34:31 You'll have to put more men on them.

00:34:33 And you better put out an all-points bulletin

00:34:34 about that car, it could be anywhere by now.

00:34:37 And I want daily progress reports from your office.

00:34:39 - In which order do you want these requests turned down?

00:34:42 Over.

00:34:44 - Who is this character?

00:34:46 - I don't have all day, Bell.

00:34:48 Over.

00:34:49 - Let me talk to the head of your department.

00:34:50 - He went on vacation this morning

00:34:52 and is the only one who can give priority authorization

00:34:55 for additional manpower.

00:34:57 - Well, doesn't he deputize anyone to do it for him?

00:34:59 - No, he doesn't.

00:35:01 - Well, does your whole department go to pieces

00:35:02 because one man goes on a vacation?

00:35:05 - We'll find your lives as soon as we can, Mr. Bell.

00:35:08 Of course, we only have to find an undescribed automobile

00:35:11 which may be anywhere in the state of New York,

00:35:13 Connecticut, New Jersey, Arizona, or Texas.

00:35:16 Not that we can't do it, you understand,

00:35:18 in spite of being understaffed, overworked, and underpaid.

00:35:22 But I'm sure you're not interested

00:35:23 in our internal problems.

00:35:25 Over.

00:35:26 - Look, Hardy, I hate to have to go to the DA on this.

00:35:28 Over.

00:35:29 - Me too.

00:35:30 Nice talking to you.

00:35:32 - Over and out.

00:35:33 - Now, where to, Hank?

00:35:38 - What?

00:35:39 - Where to?

00:35:40 - Raymond Street Jail.

00:35:42 (smooth jazz music)

00:35:45 (smooth jazz music)

00:35:48 (men shouting)

00:36:05 - All right, come on now, knock it off.

00:36:13 Keep it quiet.

00:36:14 - I can't.

00:36:15 - My folks didn't understand me.

00:36:25 I just wanted to go to the country and see the cows.

00:36:27 Instead, they sent me out on this crummy street

00:36:29 to play with bad boys.

00:36:31 Some parents, huh?

00:36:33 Everybody wasn't their fault.

00:36:34 They were poor.

00:36:35 Okay, Batman, it's your turn.

00:36:38 - Oh, me, I'm stupid, you know.

00:36:40 I'm patsy because, uh,

00:36:43 I can't even read right, you know.

00:36:46 The doctor, he says to me, he says that my brain's

00:36:49 a little mixed up, you know.

00:36:51 I don't know, scrambled eggs.

00:36:52 - Now, show him how stupid you are.

00:36:54 - Stupid?

00:36:55 Oh, yeah.

00:36:56 (knocking)

00:37:02 - Now, tell him how stupid you are.

00:37:04 - Oh, well, I've been in the sixth grade,

00:37:07 I think five times now, that's right.

00:37:09 - My old man's a drunk.

00:37:10 My mother takes in boarders and goes out with them, too.

00:37:13 I got a sister, I don't know if she's my sister.

00:37:16 That's why I'm so disturbed.

00:37:18 He's got a song about it.

00:37:19 - Yeah, go ahead, sing it, stupid.

00:37:21 - Yeah, yeah.

00:37:22 ♪ My mother sells snow to the snowbirds

00:37:26 ♪ My father makes barbershop gin

00:37:29 ♪ My sister sells jazz for a living

00:37:33 ♪ And that's when the money rolls in

00:37:37 - Where's Dr. Walsh's office?

00:37:38 - Down at the end of that corridor.

00:37:39 - I'll take care of it, I'll take care of it.

00:37:41 - I'll take care of it.

00:37:42 - I'll take care of it.

00:37:43 - I'll take care of it.

00:37:44 - I'll take care of it.

00:37:45 - I'll take care of it.

00:37:46 - I'll take care of it.

00:37:47 - I'll take care of it.

00:37:48 - I'll take care of it.

00:37:49 - I'll take care of it.

00:37:50 - I'll take care of it.

00:37:51 - I'll take care of it.

00:37:52 - I'll take care of it.

00:37:53 - I'll take care of it.

00:37:54 - I'll take care of it.

00:37:55 - I'll take care of it.

00:37:56 - I'll take care of it.

00:37:57 - I'll take care of it.

00:37:58 - Yeah, I gotta go, bye.

00:37:59 - My name is Spell, DA's office.

00:38:03 - Oh yes.

00:38:04 I understand they're building

00:38:06 a kid-sized electric chair upstate for you people.

00:38:09 - Well now doctor, that's a nice, friendly approach.

00:38:12 - They type it is first degree, isn't it?

00:38:14 - Usually is in premeditated murder.

00:38:16 - Bully and going home.

00:38:17 I'm delighted you haven't fallen for any

00:38:19 of that modern nonsense about emotional problems

00:38:22 or environment or broken homes.

00:38:25 - A little mass execution now and then.

00:38:28 That'll stop 'em, huh?

00:38:29 - Nothing else has.

00:38:30 Look doctor, I came here to ask

00:38:32 a couple of questions about these boys.

00:38:35 I've already talked with the Redmond Apostle.

00:38:37 - Yeah, they're old pros.

00:38:40 Those two have been through the mill here regularly

00:38:42 since they were 10 or 11.

00:38:44 - Depache been in here before?

00:38:47 - No, this is his first.

00:38:49 - Tell me something about him.

00:38:50 - He's bright.

00:38:51 IQ 135, likes to read.

00:38:54 Of course the psychological tests show aggression

00:38:57 and fear just like the others.

00:38:59 - What about Ridden?

00:39:00 - Delusions of grandeur.

00:39:03 Deep feeling of inferiority.

00:39:05 Hates anybody whose skin of religion is different.

00:39:09 Underneath, scared of course.

00:39:12 But scared more than the others.

00:39:14 - Is Apostle as stupid as he seems?

00:39:18 - Retarded.

00:39:19 Very.

00:39:22 - As a psychiatrist, would you say he's legally sane?

00:39:26 - Now you know that the words sane and insane

00:39:29 have no meaning in medicine.

00:39:30 - They have in law.

00:39:32 - I deal in people, Mr. Bell.

00:39:34 Not in legal technicalities.

00:39:36 - Where is Depache?

00:39:39 - In the juvenile section.

00:39:40 - Thank you.

00:39:41 - Oh by the way, I hope you'll forgive my bad manners.

00:39:46 Conditioned reflex with public officials, I'm afraid.

00:39:51 - Think nothing of it, doctor.

00:39:52 We all have our emotional problems.

00:39:54 (laughing)

00:39:56 - I'm sorry.

00:39:57 Sit down.

00:40:06 Cigarette?

00:40:13 - Ram it.

00:40:14 - I'd like to hear your side of the story, Danny.

00:40:20 - So you can help fry me?

00:40:22 Do I look like a kook?

00:40:24 - Did my lawyers give you no care to talk to me?

00:40:27 - They know I'm here.

00:40:28 They must have told you you're in serious trouble.

00:40:30 - They told me I'm innocent until proven guilty.

00:40:33 - You'll get a fair trial if that's what you mean.

00:40:35 But not in a children's court.

00:40:36 A grown up murder trial.

00:40:38 You better tell me your story.

00:40:41 - Okay.

00:40:42 In two words, self defense.

00:40:45 - Danny, that's stupid and you know it.

00:40:47 And you're stupid to stick to it.

00:40:48 - Tough in a half, so I'm stupid.

00:40:53 - I'm a little scared too, huh?

00:40:54 - But nobody scares me, especially a bum like you.

00:40:57 - Don't get fresh with me, Danny.

00:40:58 I'm here because I'm a friend of your mother's.

00:41:00 - Don't con me, Mr. Bell.

00:41:02 Bell, your name's Bellini.

00:41:05 And you're a wop just like me.

00:41:07 What's the matter, Mr. Bellini?

00:41:10 You ashamed of being a wop?

00:41:12 Let me tell you something, Mr. Bellini.

00:41:17 Don't walk down any dark streets alone.

00:41:19 You haven't got the guts to handle a skinny broad

00:41:23 much less the Thunderbirds.

00:41:24 You look kind of fruity to me anyway.

00:41:26 And stay away from my mother, you big wop!

00:41:30 (children laughing)

00:41:38 (upbeat music)

00:41:41 - Excuse me, I'm looking for Zorro.

00:41:57 (speaking in foreign language)

00:42:02 - Go away, don't bother me.

00:42:06 (speaking in foreign language)

00:42:10 - Mr. Bell, who brings you to my turf?

00:42:17 - I'd like to talk with Luisa Escalante.

00:42:19 - Why?

00:42:20 - She was there the day it happened.

00:42:21 I'd like to talk with her.

00:42:22 (speaking in foreign language)

00:42:35 - Two minutes, come on, I'll buy you a beer.

00:43:04 - They think I'm a T-man, huh?

00:43:05 - Why do you think so?

00:43:06 - Well, you know, this white shirt, the suit.

00:43:09 - Oh, you know how them, huh?

00:43:11 - I used to live here.

00:43:12 They think I'm a cop and they don't wanna be around

00:43:14 if there's gonna be a pinch.

00:43:15 - Oh, you know the space, all right.

00:43:17 A guy gets pinchy, like throw stuff away,

00:43:20 might let in a little fit.

00:43:21 Next thing you know, you're arrested for holding

00:43:23 or maybe even for intent to sell.

00:43:25 - That's not true, Bruce McGill.

00:43:28 Good beer here, you'll like it.

00:43:30 - So you're working for Roberto, huh?

00:43:32 - Well, that's one way of putting it.

00:43:34 - The birds ain't got a chance.

00:43:36 Or have they?

00:43:38 - I think we've got a very good case.

00:43:40 - Yeah?

00:43:41 Well, man, you give it to them good.

00:43:44 The others are bad, but they're the worst.

00:43:46 - You don't like 'em, do you?

00:43:47 Any of 'em.

00:43:48 - Well, man, put yourself in my shoes.

00:43:51 The niggers look down on us, the waps look down on us.

00:43:54 The Irish were here before the Indians.

00:43:56 Man, my people had a proud race.

00:43:58 Why don't we go in no African jungle?

00:44:01 And the waps, what the hell did they ever have?

00:44:03 Mussolini, a big stink.

00:44:05 Michelangelo, so odd.

00:44:07 You ever heard of a guy named Picasso?

00:44:10 - Yes.

00:44:12 - Now, Pablo Picasso, man.

00:44:13 I went all the way down to the museum

00:44:15 to look at his paintings.

00:44:16 Now, that guy is great.

00:44:18 He's the greatest artist that ever lived, man.

00:44:19 He's zains.

00:44:21 And you know, that's the delivery kit

00:44:23 that don't wanna pay.

00:44:25 You know, Picasso, he's got the same blood

00:44:27 in his veins that I got in mine.

00:44:29 (smooth jazz music)

00:44:32 (smooth jazz music)

00:44:35 (smooth jazz music)

00:44:38 (smooth jazz music)

00:44:41 (smooth jazz music)

00:44:45 (smooth jazz music)

00:44:51 (smooth jazz music)

00:44:57 (smooth jazz music)

00:45:05 (smooth jazz music)

00:45:08 - I didn't know the first fiddle had the musical hall.

00:45:22 Puerto Rican.

00:45:23 Come on.

00:45:25 (smooth jazz music)

00:45:28 - Got a contribution to your war chest?

00:45:39 Look, we got three square blocks here.

00:45:43 Like this is an island, Little Puerto Rico.

00:45:45 You know what I mean, Mr. Bell?

00:45:47 Man, we're busting to get out.

00:45:48 But while we're here, we gotta protect our turf.

00:45:50 People gotta respect us.

00:45:52 And you know what people respect?

00:45:54 The force.

00:45:55 Here, our contribution to your fairy charity.

00:46:01 You know that that ain't the point.

00:46:04 It ain't the money.

00:46:05 We just can't let people come in and out of here

00:46:07 without knowing whose place it is.

00:46:08 - Like the Thunderbirds, huh?

00:46:09 - Yeah, like the Thunderbirds.

00:46:11 Look what happened to poor Roberto.

00:46:14 Our poor, innocent, blank kid

00:46:15 who never did anyone no wrong.

00:46:17 - Tell me something.

00:46:20 Thunderbirds know you protect your turf.

00:46:22 How do you explain three of them coming down here

00:46:24 and invading us?

00:46:25 - The Thunderbirds are all on junk, that's why.

00:46:27 They're dope addicts, you know.

00:46:29 That's right.

00:46:31 - Those boys weren't on junk.

00:46:34 - You're right.

00:46:36 They weren't on junk, not then anyway.

00:46:39 But it's that weird.

00:46:40 - What about the other two?

00:46:43 - Apasto.

00:46:44 - Apasto joking.

00:46:47 - Oh man, that cat does anything anybody tells him.

00:46:50 - And Apache?

00:46:54 - He's a wild one.

00:46:55 You know, he helped one of our guys out of trouble once.

00:46:59 Now why would a wop wanna help us back?

00:47:01 - Oh no, it's that weird.

00:47:04 He's got holes in his head.

00:47:07 I put one of them there.

00:47:08 When I smacked that chump, he went down

00:47:10 and I stomped him in the head.

00:47:12 You know why?

00:47:13 - So he wouldn't get up again.

00:47:14 If he did, you might go down, he'd stomp you.

00:47:17 - You sound like you've been stomped before.

00:47:22 - A touch here and there.

00:47:24 - Man, this poppin' is for no one, man.

00:47:26 It's for riding on toilet walls.

00:47:28 It stinks, man, it stinks!

00:47:30 That's what this poppin' is.

00:47:31 (speaking in foreign language)

00:47:36 - Well, the old lady won't let her baby

00:47:40 come down to this place,

00:47:41 so you can talk to her at the house, okay?

00:47:43 - What do I owe you, bartender?

00:47:46 - The beers are on me.

00:47:47 - Let me.

00:47:48 - I said the beers are on me.

00:47:49 - Thanks.

00:47:52 (gentle music)

00:47:55 - Mrs. Escalante, I'd like to talk with your daughter.

00:48:08 - You can talk to her right here.

00:48:11 - Louisa, I'd like to ask you,

00:48:16 just what happened the night Roberto was killed?

00:48:20 I told the cops many times.

00:48:22 - I know, but I'd like you to tell me.

00:48:25 - Tina.

00:48:29 I was sitting here.

00:48:32 Maria was there.

00:48:39 We saw them coming.

00:48:41 They jumped for Roberto and started killing him, that's all.

00:48:44 - Did Roberto have a knife?

00:48:48 - A knife?

00:48:50 - Un cuchillo, un cuchillo.

00:48:52 Your policemen keep asking for this knife.

00:48:54 - And why, and it is not true?

00:48:56 - Roberto never have a knife.

00:48:57 - Three boys said he pulled a knife.

00:49:01 - This is a lie.

00:49:02 - A girl saw it too.

00:49:03 - That is not so.

00:49:06 Who is this girl?

00:49:08 - Louisa, can you tell me something?

00:49:10 This girl said she saw something that glittered.

00:49:14 What was it that glittered?

00:49:15 - Glitter?

00:49:17 - Shine.

00:49:18 (gentle music)

00:49:21 - Oh, his harmonica.

00:49:26 The harmonica on which he plays his music.

00:49:29 This is what shined.

00:49:30 This is what you mean.

00:49:32 - Ladies and gentlemen, meet our next governor,

00:49:41 Mr. Dan Cole.

00:49:43 (all laughing)

00:49:46 - Friends, forgive me, I apologize for being late.

00:49:48 Something about doing a profile on me.

00:49:50 - Dan, that's great.

00:49:51 - You should call me first and then the White House.

00:49:53 I'll go right below.

00:49:54 - Wonderful, Dan.

00:49:58 - Oh, food.

00:50:00 - Not too rare for Mr. Cole.

00:50:01 - Make mine rare, please.

00:50:02 - Make Mr. Bell's rare.

00:50:04 - Hank, do you realize that a conviction

00:50:05 in the Escalante case is worth a 50,000 plurality

00:50:08 right in this district alone?

00:50:09 - 50,000?

00:50:10 Well, that's an electrical figure.

00:50:12 - I should say you can count on that plurality, Dan.

00:50:15 - Ah, case going that well, huh?

00:50:17 As of now, I see no reason why we can't get

00:50:18 first degree convictions.

00:50:20 - No ought to be a shoe-in.

00:50:22 Say, Hank, I got a great idea for publicity.

00:50:24 Why don't you get your picture taken

00:50:25 pulling the switch on the electric chair?

00:50:27 - You have a definite political potential, Hank,

00:50:32 but you must have cooperation right straight down the line.

00:50:35 - You don't have to worry about me, Mr. Cole.

00:50:37 I'm a great believer in electricity.

00:50:39 - My wife majored in sarcasm at Vassar.

00:50:43 - Yes, excuse me, please.

00:50:46 - Now hear this.

00:50:47 (audience chattering)

00:50:51 Before Dan Cole tells us what he thinks,

00:50:54 I should like to tell you all what I think.

00:50:56 (audience laughing)

00:50:57 I think that Dan Cole is riding on the crest of a wave.

00:51:00 (audience applauding)

00:51:04 And I'm mighty proud.

00:51:06 I'm proud of our party, and I'm proud of Dan Cole.

00:51:10 (audience applauding)

00:51:11 - And I'm proud of old Hank Bellini.

00:51:14 - Goodbye, Mr. Supreme Court of Justice.

00:51:17 - Campaign coming up, and it's going to mean shelter

00:51:19 to the wheel work for all of us.

00:51:21 - 3,000 more votes.

00:51:22 All you gotta do is electrocute a few kids.

00:51:25 - You third generation progressive,

00:51:27 sitting up at Vassar getting your fat checks from Daddy.

00:51:30 When was the last time you had a scrounge for a buck?

00:51:32 You think I can afford this phony idealism of yours?

00:51:34 I've got a job to do.

00:51:35 Now get in that car.

00:51:36 I'll park the car.

00:51:43 Be back in a minute.

00:51:43 - Get out, Harry.

00:51:44 (dramatic music)

00:51:51 (gun firing)

00:52:03 (dramatic music)

00:52:11 (dramatic music)

00:52:14 (gun firing)

00:52:37 (dramatic music)

00:52:40 (dramatic music)

00:52:42 - Hello?

00:52:46 Hank!

00:52:47 Hank!

00:52:48 Hank!

00:52:53 (screaming)

00:52:56 - Karen!

00:52:57 Karen!

00:52:58 Karen!

00:53:04 What's the matter, Karen?

00:53:06 What happened?

00:53:07 - There was blood.

00:53:09 There was blood.

00:53:10 (sobbing)

00:53:12 - How's the little lady feeling this morning?

00:53:25 - How do you think she feels?

00:53:27 - We've assigned Kirk and Brodsky

00:53:29 to stay with her until this is over.

00:53:30 - How do you do?

00:53:31 Go on and make yourself at home.

00:53:32 There's lots of coffee on the stove.

00:53:34 Where's that candy store where the Thunderbirds hang out?

00:53:38 - Why?

00:53:39 You think it'll go on up to Italian Harlem?

00:53:41 - Well, it wasn't Puerto Ricans

00:53:42 that paid us a visit last night.

00:53:43 - All right, I'll go with you.

00:53:44 - No, no, I want to return this visit personally.

00:53:47 - Now, why don't we have the T-Birds

00:53:49 picked up and brought in?

00:53:50 What's the address?

00:53:51 - 117th and First, Manetti's Candy Store.

00:53:54 - Pretty boy Savarisi, he's your man.

00:54:01 (smooth jazz music)

00:54:06 (smooth jazz music)

00:54:09 - Help you, Mac?

00:54:22 - I understand the Thunderbirds hang out here.

00:54:24 - Look, mister, I only sell sodas here, that's all.

00:54:30 - Come from the DA's office.

00:54:35 I have a list of all the names

00:54:36 and addresses of the Thunderbirds.

00:54:38 Now, I can have 'em picked up

00:54:39 and brought down for questioning,

00:54:40 or you can tell me where I can find Pretty boy Savarisi.

00:54:43 - Hey.

00:54:44 Hey.

00:54:46 Come on over.

00:54:48 Hey, we were just reading about some character

00:54:55 from the DA's office.

00:54:56 His wife got scared by some crazy cat slipper last night.

00:54:59 - Barge out.

00:55:01 Get the district attorney a chance.

00:55:02 - No thanks.

00:55:03 - That ain't polite.

00:55:05 - Where's Pretty boy Savarisi?

00:55:07 - You know, you got a lot of courage,

00:55:08 Mr. District Attorney, coming in here without no escort.

00:55:12 - You gonna tell me where I can find Pretty boy Savarisi,

00:55:14 or do I have to run you in?

00:55:16 - Well, now, what exactly was it

00:55:18 you wanted to see him about, huh, Mr. District Attorney?

00:55:21 - Where's your telephone?

00:55:23 - Hey, hey, Mr. District Attorney.

00:55:25 What's the matter?

00:55:26 Can't you take a little joke?

00:55:28 Don't get excited.

00:55:29 We clown around like this all the time.

00:55:31 Makes life interesting, you know?

00:55:34 (speaking in Italian)

00:55:41 - Never mind, I'll tell him myself.

00:55:42 This imbecile from the DA's office wants to see him.

00:55:45 (speaking in Italian)

00:55:50 (slapping sound)

00:55:51 - Did you knock?

00:55:56 Don't you got no menace?

00:55:58 You Pretty boy Savarisi?

00:56:00 (door opens)

00:56:02 (door closes)

00:56:06 (scoffs)

00:56:09 - You know why they call me Pretty boy, Mr. Bell?

00:56:11 - I can guess.

00:56:13 - Because I'm ugly.

00:56:16 Anybody calls me ugly, they're dead.

00:56:20 Dead.

00:56:23 - The table's crooked.

00:56:25 The floor's on a bias.

00:56:27 You're a mighty tough character, aren't you?

00:56:28 - You heard of me, huh?

00:56:30 16 times they got my name in the papers.

00:56:33 Most of the time, when they give the wrong address,

00:56:34 they don't spell the name right.

00:56:36 Savarisi!

00:56:38 You're a...

00:56:41 You're Italian too.

00:56:43 - Right, Mr. Bell.

00:56:45 (door closes)

00:56:46 - Put that back.

00:56:50 - Listen you bum...

00:56:53 Two of your punks came down to my apartment house

00:56:55 last night and terrorized my wife.

00:56:58 - Yeah, I was sorry to hear about that.

00:57:01 - The hard-headed kids, you know how it is.

00:57:03 You can't keep an eye on all your troops.

00:57:05 - They're members of your gang and you're their leader.

00:57:07 If it ever happens again, I'll hold you responsible, personally.

00:57:10 - Mr. Bell, I said I apologize.

00:57:13 Please tell your wife I'm sorry.

00:57:16 - Remember what I said.

00:57:19 - Mr. Bell...

00:57:21 Cue ball, please.

00:57:23 Thanks, Mr. Bell.

00:57:27 - Mr. Bell!

00:57:29 It's kind of hard keeping your boys in line

00:57:32 when they hear you spend the evening drinking with the Spicks.

00:57:35 Yeah, we know all about you palling around

00:57:37 with the horsemen over at the Tres Putas.

00:57:39 They're all on the stuff, you know that, don't you?

00:57:43 That's where they got their name, "Horsemen,"

00:57:44 "Big H" for heroin.

00:57:47 Well any of our boys get on the junker...

00:57:49 I break their arm.

00:57:51 - Cues, Warp.

00:57:57 - Another thing, Mr. Bell...

00:57:58 You've been coaching their star witness.

00:58:01 He didn't hear that.

00:58:02 Those are three nice guys you're trying to frame.

00:58:05 - Those three nice guys committed murder.

00:58:07 - Lots of nice guys all through history kill people.

00:58:10 In a war, the more people you kill, the more medals you get.

00:58:13 Well that don't make them any less nice, does it?

00:58:16 What about that guy in Benedict H. Bond?

00:58:18 He got the biggest medal of all.

00:58:21 Some owner.

00:58:22 I keep wondering around saying, "What a great guy!

00:58:24 He invented cancer!"

00:58:27 (door opens)

00:58:29 - No sir, Mr. Bell.

00:58:31 You're making a big mistake trying to frame those three guys.

00:58:33 They're okay, every one of them. They got hearts!

00:58:37 - Hard to chop down a blind boy...playing a harmonica.

00:58:45 - Well maybe that blind kid needed chopping down.

00:58:48 Did you ever think of that, Mr. Bell?

00:58:49 You think being blind made that kid an angel or something?

00:58:52 - Being blind got him killed.

00:58:54 - All right...

00:58:56 You want to know the truth about Escalante?

00:58:58 - Yeah, I don't want to. - He'll rob you.

00:59:01 - I thought he was just a blind kid too.

00:59:03 So nobody noticed. - So he's blind, so what?

00:59:06 - Then I heard the horsemen were busting out.

00:59:09 Bopping the gang in the next block.

00:59:10 So I had myself a look.

00:59:14 It was a rumble for real. Zip guns, Jack hammers the works.

00:59:18 Then I saw something phony.

00:59:21 Someone didn't fit.

00:59:23 - A blind angel...

00:59:25 But why?

00:59:27 - The cops got the word and I found out why.

00:59:32 The little creep was their cover-up, their arson.

00:59:35 They ditched their guns on him.

00:59:38 (car rumbles)

00:59:40 (tires screech)

00:59:42 (men shouting)

00:59:48 Every one of those horsemen was clean, man.

00:59:50 The cops couldn't hold a one.

00:59:52 Smart man. He was a top warlord in their gang.

00:59:56 That nice little blind boy.

00:59:58 - El Diablo!

01:00:00 I just called you fellas in to ask you to be nice enough to...

01:00:13 escort the district attorney to the edge of hot turf.

01:00:15 ♪ (dramatic music)

01:00:22 (water splashes)

01:00:24 ♪ (dramatic music)

01:00:29 (chickens clucking)

01:00:32 - Where does Zorro live, honey?

01:00:35 Thank you.

01:00:36 (chickens clucking)

01:00:39 ♪ (jazz music)

01:00:56 - Hello Mr. Bell.

01:00:58 (baby cries)

01:00:59 Come on in.

01:01:01 (baby cries)

01:01:10 Come into my office.

01:01:12 (baby cries)

01:01:26 Bed there.

01:01:28 (baby cries)

01:01:32 Sit down.

01:01:34 Make yourself comfortable.

01:01:36 I can't offer you any beer, but I'll accept one of your cigarettes.

01:01:39 - Why did you lie to me?

01:01:41 - Did I lie to you, Mr. Bell?

01:01:43 - Roberto Escalante was a leader in your gang.

01:01:46 - Ah-ha...

01:01:50 So you really mean plain detective, huh?

01:01:54 - Listen punk...

01:01:56 you may run these three square blocks,

01:01:57 but when I talk to you, I want the truth.

01:02:00 (phone beeps)

01:02:02 - Well it's a cruel world, Mr. Bell.

01:02:04 And blind kids can't sit around doing nothing

01:02:06 just because they're blind.

01:02:07 And since you're so interested, I'll tell you something else.

01:02:11 Roberto wasn't just Louisa's brother...

01:02:13 he was her pickup man.

01:02:15 - Louisa a prostitute?

01:02:19 - Louisa's a hooker.

01:02:21 And Roberto was a blind pickup man for his own sister.

01:02:26 - Well those dogs grab you, Mr. Bell.

01:02:29 And now, I'll tell you something else.

01:02:31 I don't care...

01:02:33 I don't care if he beat his mother or sold pot.

01:02:35 Roberto was killed in cold blood by three guys

01:02:37 who hit him because he had a darker skin.

01:02:39 Reardon came in like those Japs during the war.

01:02:41 Kamikaze...

01:02:42 ready to stick someone Spanish on home ground.

01:02:44 He found Roberto and killed him.

01:02:46 Now the law says that you die for that, Mr. Bell.

01:02:49 And it's your job to see that those three guys die for it.

01:02:53 (silence)

01:02:57 (paper rustles)

01:03:00 (paper rustles)

01:03:03 - Look! We ain't got much, but this we want!

01:03:06 I don't care whether you're making out

01:03:07 with the Pachisole lady or not...

01:03:10 just don't cop out on us.

01:03:12 Give me a cigarette.

01:03:22 - Hello Dan? This is Hank, I'm up in Harlem.

01:03:25 Listen to this...

01:03:26 It turns out our poor defense's blind boy

01:03:28 was a top leader in the horsemen...

01:03:30 and a procurer for our star witness who at the age of 16--

01:03:33 - Can you hold it a minute, Hank?

01:03:36 (handle rattles)

01:03:38 Jack, that press release on Louisa Escalante...kill it.

01:03:42 And you'd better call that columnist,

01:03:43 the one who was going to do the poem

01:03:44 about the little blind boy.

01:03:46 Tell him to forget it. Never mind why.

01:03:48 (door closes)

01:03:50 - Okay now...

01:03:52 what does that do to us?

01:03:53 - Well, I haven't had time to figure out all the details,

01:03:56 but I'd like to go back and take another crack

01:03:58 at that Danny DePatchi.

01:03:59 - Hank, you can't do it!

01:04:00 You're too close to trial to interrogate those boys now.

01:04:03 The defense would raise the roof.

01:04:04 - We've got to take the chance, Dan.

01:04:06 I want to try to break that boy down.

01:04:08 - Hank, absolutely no!

01:04:12 - Dan, I'll call you when I get back.

01:04:13 (door closes)

01:04:14 ♪ (ominous music)

01:04:38 - You look pretty good, Danny.

01:04:42 - Danny, Mr. Bell has some questions to ask you.

01:04:46 Something very important has come up.

01:04:49 You can trust him.

01:04:52 Danny, maybe it'll help us.

01:04:54 - I told you to stay away from her.

01:04:57 - Danny...

01:05:06 are you a member of the Thunderbirds?

01:05:08 - Who cares?

01:05:09 - Well, your mother cares for one.

01:05:11 I understand you swore...

01:05:13 you swore that you'd never join a gang.

01:05:16 - What if I did?

01:05:18 - Did you break that promise to her?

01:05:21 - Did you, Danny?

01:05:24 Why?

01:05:30 Why, Danny?

01:05:34 - The Thunderbirds are my friends.

01:05:36 (door opens)

01:05:38 - Danny, you put Red down once to save a Puerto Rican boy.

01:05:43 Now what happened in between to make you go along and kill one?

01:05:45 - In between, I found out who my friends really are.

01:05:48 - Your friends got you in here.

01:05:50 - What are you trying to do? Split me from the rest?

01:05:52 Get me to turn states evidence?

01:05:53 - You're not like those boys-- - Trust him you tell me,

01:05:55 and he sneaks up on me and tries to get me to rat on my friends!

01:05:58 I shouldn't even be talking to you, coming here with him.

01:06:01 Yeah, you are pretty cozy together.

01:06:03 What are you doing, shacking up with him?

01:06:05 (slap)

01:06:06 ♪ (sentimental music)

01:06:33 (slam)

01:06:34 ♪ (sentimental music)

01:06:36 - Well, now I know.

01:06:39 ♪ (sentimental music)

01:06:56 Hank, maybe you shouldn't have walked me home.

01:06:58 Maybe it would have been smarter you dropped me.

01:07:01 ♪ (sentimental music)

01:07:06 Thank you, Hank.

01:07:08 ♪ (sentimental music)

01:07:10 I guess I haven't been much of a mother, huh?

01:07:13 - Maybe if he had a father, he'd have--

01:07:14 - Yeah, some father.

01:07:17 I don't know, I always heard that...

01:07:20 a boy got in trouble 'cause he didn't have love.

01:07:23 I love Danny more than anything in the world.

01:07:27 You just thank God, Hank, you didn't have to raise your kid

01:07:31 on these streets.

01:07:33 Good night.

01:07:36 (door opens)

01:07:37 ♪ (sentimental music)

01:07:56 ♪ (suspenseful music)

01:08:14 (thunder) (woman screams)

01:08:17 ♪ (suspenseful music)

01:08:43 (tires screech)

01:08:45 ♪ (suspenseful music)

01:09:05 (footsteps)

01:09:15 - Doctor...

01:09:25 is it all right if I smoke?

01:09:27 - If you have to.

01:09:28 - Gunnison?

01:09:30 - How do you feel? - Oh, man...

01:09:34 man, I feel sick.

01:09:37 - That's a surprise.

01:09:39 - I was this far...

01:09:43 this far from killing him.

01:09:46 (footsteps)

01:09:51 Hello Karen.

01:09:52 I'm all right, honey.

01:09:55 Hello gorgeous.

01:09:56 - Daddy...

01:09:58 - I was spiked trying to steal third base.

01:10:01 - They've got us and told us.

01:10:03 - It's not as bad as it looks, just a couple of ribs.

01:10:06 I'll be all right.

01:10:08 I'll live.

01:10:10 I've got to, I...

01:10:12 I gotta get ready for that trial a week from Monday.

01:10:16 Or am I confused?

01:10:17 - No, not for a minute.

01:10:20 - I protected my face so I wouldn't put in

01:10:22 too bad an appearance.

01:10:24 Vanity. - Mm-hmm.

01:10:26 That's the difference between the police department

01:10:28 and the DA's office.

01:10:30 You boys protect your pretty faces.

01:10:32 - Our boys protect their kidneys.

01:10:34 - Stop making jokes, Cousins.

01:10:38 - Which gang was it, Daddy?

01:10:41 - I don't know, gorgeous.

01:10:43 Two birds or horsemen...

01:10:45 might have been either one or both.

01:10:48 Karen...

01:10:51 I was...I was choking on it.

01:10:54 I...I couldn't stop.

01:10:57 - And I wish to hell you hadn't.

01:11:01 - Hadn't stopped.

01:11:04 All right, now let's turn him over on his left side.

01:11:09 - Gently, even...

01:11:15 Gently.

01:11:17 Karen? - Yes, Lou?

01:11:20 - He was...

01:11:22 15 or 16 years old...

01:11:27 and I was trying with all my heart to kill him.

01:11:32 You know?

01:11:34 - I know.

01:11:36 ♪ (soft music)

01:11:40 (phone rings)

01:11:47 - Yes? - Hello Val, we found the knives!

01:11:53 - What? Who is this?

01:11:55 - This is Lieutenant Hardy.

01:11:57 - Lieutenant Hardy?

01:11:58 Oh...well hang on a second.

01:12:01 (door opens)

01:12:29 - What's the matter, Hardy? - I said we found the knives!

01:12:32 - You found the kni--

01:12:34 Is that what you called me for,

01:12:37 to tell me you found those damn knives?

01:12:39 - What's the matter, Val?

01:12:40 You said these knives were important!

01:12:42 - Well what could I possibly do with them

01:12:44 at this hour of the night? - Want a suggestion?

01:12:47 - You're not very funny, Hardy.

01:12:49 What condition are they in? - Bloody.

01:12:52 - Well send them over to the lab.

01:12:54 I want blood type and fingerprints, after sunrise.

01:12:56 - Aren't you interested in how we found them?

01:12:59 - Not very. Anything else?

01:13:01 - A lady in Kew Gardens found her three-year-old daughter

01:13:04 chewing on the handle of one of them

01:13:06 in the backseat of a light green Plymouth.

01:13:09 You helped a lot with the description of the car, Val.

01:13:13 Dark Ford or Chevy?

01:13:15 - Hardy, don't ever call me at this hour of the night again.

01:13:18 - 99th! (door slams)

01:13:20 ♪ (ominous music)

01:13:49 ♪ (ominous music)

01:13:51 - Hank?

01:13:53 Hank, are you all right? Does anything hurt you?

01:13:57 - I'm all right.

01:13:58 Rips are a little sore, that's all.

01:14:01 - You still got that lump on you, Joe.

01:14:05 You may have to put a little makeup on that

01:14:06 before you go to trial.

01:14:08 - That's all I need.

01:14:11 ♪ (ominous music)

01:14:16 - What do you think of your little victims

01:14:18 of social oppression now?

01:14:20 - I don't know what you mean.

01:14:22 - You were pretty sure of yourself the other night

01:14:24 at Cole's party.

01:14:26 - I'm sorry about that, Hank.

01:14:27 I made a fool out of myself.

01:14:29 - Bully for Escalante, you said.

01:14:31 Darling, I got a marvelous idea for a publicity stunt.

01:14:34 Get a picture of you pulling a switch on the electric chair.

01:14:38 - It's not a very funny joke.

01:14:40 The voice of the martini--

01:14:41 - You weren't that drunk, you knew what you were saying.

01:14:44 - It's late. Let's go to bed.

01:14:46 We can talk about this in the morning.

01:14:48 - Those hoodlums scared you half to death.

01:14:50 And they almost killed me.

01:14:52 You still think they need special consideration?

01:14:55 Special attention?

01:14:56 - You don't think I condone that kind of violence, do you?

01:14:59 - I've gone a hundred miles out of my way

01:15:01 to find out what makes these monsters tick.

01:15:03 I've been to Harlem time and again, to their homes.

01:15:06 They spit in my face.

01:15:08 What more can anyone do? What would you do?

01:15:11 (sighing)

01:15:12 - I don't know! - Don't you?

01:15:14 - All right, I made a mistake.

01:15:16 - Was it a mistake? Don't you believe what you said?

01:15:19 ♪ (sentimental music)

01:15:22 - All right, Hank...

01:15:25 I meant every word I said the other night.

01:15:28 ♪ (sentimental music)

01:15:38 - Something else you said...

01:15:41 Old Hank Bellini...

01:15:43 Danny DePace said it too.

01:15:46 What's the matter, Mr. Bellini? You ashamed of being a what?

01:15:50 ♪ (sentimental music)

01:15:53 My old man was ignorant.

01:15:54 He thought the way to be a good American

01:15:56 was to change your name.

01:15:58 It was always easy for me to explain, my father did.

01:16:01 Now I realize I not only went along with it, I was glad.

01:16:05 I was secretly glad my name was Bell instead of Bellini.

01:16:10 It was part of getting out of Harlem.

01:16:14 ♪ (sentimental music)

01:16:16 Like marrying you.

01:16:18 - You married me because you loved me.

01:16:22 Hank, I know what you're going through now.

01:16:25 Somehow you'll find the answer.

01:16:28 ♪ (sentimental music)

01:16:33 ♪ (suspenseful music)

01:16:48 - The grand jury of the County of New York

01:16:50 by this indictment accuses Arthur Redden,

01:16:53 Daniel DePace, and Anthony Apostol

01:16:57 of premeditated murder in the first degree

01:16:59 on the 25th day of July, 1960

01:17:03 in the County of New York,

01:17:04 by feloniously stabbing Roberto Escalante.

01:17:08 And at the state of time and place,

01:17:10 causing the death of said Roberto Escalante,

01:17:13 without excuse or justification.

01:17:15 Signed, Foreman of the Grand Jury, William Henry Baines.

01:17:19 - Bell? - Does the defense wish to open?

01:17:27 - This is the lab report on these knives.

01:17:30 - Your Honor?

01:17:32 - Thanks, Hardy.

01:17:34 - Ladies and gentlemen-- - Would you like to read it?

01:17:35 - When I get ready.

01:17:36 - I didn't think we'd find them, did you?

01:17:38 - We didn't, they just turned up.

01:17:40 - It's quite interesting.

01:17:41 You'd better read it. - It is not fact,

01:17:43 but a mere accusation.

01:17:45 I'm sure you will keep your minds open

01:17:47 until you have heard all the evidence from both sides,

01:17:51 and that your verdict will be a just one.

01:17:54 Thank you for your attention.

01:17:56 State your name, address, and age.

01:18:01 - Luisa Maria Filippa Garcia Escalante.

01:18:05 49 1/2 West 110th Street.

01:18:08 16 years old.

01:18:10 - Luisa, are you the sister of the murdered boy?

01:18:12 - Objection!

01:18:13 - Rephrase your question, Mr. Bell.

01:18:15 - Are you the sister of Roberto Escalante?

01:18:18 - I was.

01:18:20 - On the afternoon of July 25th, 1960,

01:18:22 were you seated on the front steps of the apartment house

01:18:25 where you live at 49 1/2 West 110th Street?

01:18:28 - Yes sir. - Who was there with you?

01:18:31 - My brother, Roberto.

01:18:33 - Anyone else? - Yes sir.

01:18:35 My friend, Maria Criva.

01:18:37 - What were you doing there?

01:18:39 - I was talking.

01:18:40 - And your brother?

01:18:42 - He was making music on the harmonica.

01:18:46 - The three of you were seated on the front steps,

01:18:48 minding your own business, watching the world go by.

01:18:51 Is that correct?

01:18:52 - Roberto was not watching the world go by.

01:18:56 - You mean he was blind?

01:18:59 - Yes.

01:19:01 - And he was playing the harmonica?

01:19:03 - Yes.

01:19:04 - Did anything happen to disturb that moment?

01:19:07 - Them!

01:19:13 Those boys!

01:19:13 - Wait, wait, wait.

01:19:14 Louisa, try to control yourself.

01:19:17 You'll just sit right down.

01:19:19 Try to tell me as clearly and as calmly as you can

01:19:25 just what happened.

01:19:30 - Three boys came down the street.

01:19:33 When they got by our stoop,

01:19:36 they pulled knives out of their pockets

01:19:39 and stabbed Roberto.

01:19:42 They stabbed him many times.

01:19:46 They killed him!

01:19:48 - Did he draw a knife?

01:19:52 - He did not have no knife.

01:19:54 - Did he act in any way as though

01:19:55 he were going to attack them?

01:19:59 - Why would he attack those boys?

01:20:01 He did not know they was there.

01:20:05 He was blind.

01:20:07 Why would he attack those three boys?

01:20:10 - What did the boys do then, Louisa?

01:20:20 - They ran away.

01:20:23 - Did you get a good look at them before they ran away?

01:20:26 - Yes, sir.

01:20:27 - If you saw them again, would you recognize them?

01:20:30 - Yes, sir.

01:20:31 - Are they in this courtroom?

01:20:33 - Right over there.

01:20:35 - Louisa, just so there can be no possibility of a mistake,

01:20:42 just so the court will know exactly

01:20:44 who you're talking about,

01:20:45 I want you to leave the witness stand,

01:20:47 go to the three boys who killed your brother,

01:20:49 and place your hand on the shoulder

01:20:51 of each one to identify them.

01:20:53 (footsteps)

01:20:55, (sniffling)

01:21:00 (footsteps)

01:21:02 (sniffling)

01:21:25 (footsteps)

01:21:27 (sniffling)

01:21:29 (shouting)

01:21:39 (shouting)

01:21:41 (shouting)

01:21:43 (shouting)

01:21:46 (footsteps)

01:21:48 (shouting)

01:21:50 (footsteps)

01:21:54 - Mrs. Escalade, the court realizes the extent

01:21:58 of your emotional involvement in this case.

01:22:00 - Nice work, Hank.

01:22:00 Here, read this.

01:22:04 Quite interesting.

01:22:06 I'm not through with her yet.

01:22:07 - Now if you'd like a short recess--

01:22:08 - No, no, I'm all right.

01:22:11 I'll be all right.

01:22:13 I want to answer the questions.

01:22:19 - Louisa, what is your occupation?

01:22:24 - Occupation?

01:22:25 - What do you do for a living?

01:22:26 You're on the road, Louisa.

01:22:34 Remember that.

01:22:35 What do you do for a living?

01:22:37 - I am a hooker.

01:22:40 - You mean you're a prostitute?

01:22:45 - Yes.

01:22:48 - When did you become a prostitute?

01:22:50 - I was 14.

01:22:53 - You became a prostitute when you were 14?

01:22:55 - Yes.

01:22:57 - Were you coerced into it?

01:22:59 - Objection, Your Honor.

01:23:00 I see no purpose to this line of questioning.

01:23:02 - Belle, do you have a point here

01:23:04 which applies to the case?

01:23:05 - I do, Your Honor.

01:23:07 - Proceed.

01:23:08 - Were you coerced into this profession?

01:23:14 - Coerced?

01:23:15 - Did someone, an older man for instance,

01:23:17 cause you to become a prostitute?

01:23:19 - No, sir.

01:23:23 I thought of it myself.

01:23:25 - You thought of it yourself?

01:23:26 Why?

01:23:27 - We had no money, and my mother was sick.

01:23:34 - Couldn't you get a job?

01:23:36 - I was 14.

01:23:38 I tried to get a job.

01:23:40 They do not give me a working permit.

01:23:43 - What about your brother?

01:23:44 - He was blind.

01:23:46 - Did you make some money this way?

01:23:52 - I did.

01:23:53 - Did your mother ask you where you got the money?

01:23:56 - Yes.

01:24:00 - What did you tell her?

01:24:01 - I told her I was on the street.

01:24:06 - You told your mother you were a prostitute?

01:24:10 - Yes.

01:24:11 - What did she say?

01:24:12 - She said,

01:24:21 why didn't we let her die?

01:24:22 - Mr. Bell, why are you pursuing this line?

01:24:28 - Your Honor, I'm trying to get at the truth.

01:24:31 - Thank you, Louisa.

01:24:34 No more questions.

01:24:35 Your witness, Mr. Rendon.

01:24:37 - No questions.

01:24:38 - Is the defense ready?

01:24:50 - Your Honor, the defense requests a short recess.

01:24:54 - Court will recess for 10 minutes.

01:24:56 - That was a masterful presentation.

01:25:10 Come on out in the hall.

01:25:10 I have your picture taken with you.

01:25:11 You go ahead, Dan.

01:25:12 I want to look at the soldiers.

01:25:13 - We're ready, Dan.

01:25:14 That was nice.

01:25:18 (crowd murmuring)

01:25:21 - Take your name, age, and address.

01:25:29 - Anthony Apostle, 16.

01:25:32 What was that?

01:25:34 - Your address.

01:25:35 - The court has Anthony Apostle's address.

01:25:41 Anthony, sit down.

01:25:43 (footsteps tapping)

01:25:46 Anthony Apostle, are you also known as Batman?

01:25:52 - Yeah.

01:25:54 - Well, why do they call you Batman?

01:25:56 - I don't know.

01:26:00 Everybody calls me Batman.

01:26:02 - Where'd you get the name?

01:26:04 - Batman, he's in the comics.

01:26:08 - I see.

01:26:10 Do you like reading comic books, Anthony?

01:26:13 - Yeah, sure.

01:26:14 I like the pictures, you know.

01:26:16 - What about the words, Anthony?

01:26:18 - Well, they're okay too, I guess, yeah.

01:26:21 - Well, then perhaps you have a little trouble

01:26:24 with the words.

01:26:25 - You know, I'm not such a hot reader.

01:26:32 - Anthony, what do you like about Batman?

01:26:35 (Anthony sighs)

01:26:43 - Batman, well, he ain't afraid of nothing, you know.

01:26:47 And he, well, he wears this cool black suit all the time.

01:26:54 And, well, he's always fighting, you know.

01:26:58 - Do you like to fight, Batman?

01:27:01 - Sure.

01:27:03 - Are you a good fighter, Batman?

01:27:05 - Oh, boy, my old man will tell you.

01:27:06 You know something?

01:27:07 I pack a hell of a wallop.

01:27:08 That's right.

01:27:09 - Why?

01:27:09 Has he watched you?

01:27:10 - No, I walloped him once.

01:27:12 (Anthony chuckles)

01:27:14 - Why do you like to fight, Batman?

01:27:16 - I don't know why.

01:27:21 - Try to think why.

01:27:22 - Why what?

01:27:26 - Try to think why you like to fight.

01:27:31 - 'Cause it makes me feel good?

01:27:33 - You really got your work cut out for you here.

01:27:36 He's even got me convinced this kid is a nut.

01:27:38 - Anthony,

01:27:40 if this court frees you, what will you do with your life?

01:27:43 - Where my gun gets from?

01:27:46 - Just answer the question, Anthony.

01:27:50 - The question?

01:27:51 - The question.

01:27:51 If this court frees you, what will you do with your life?

01:27:57 - I don't know.

01:28:00 - Well, if you were released this afternoon,

01:28:04 what would you do with the rest of the day?

01:28:06 - I don't know.

01:28:10 I'd go back to the block.

01:28:13 - And tomorrow?

01:28:14 - Tomorrow?

01:28:19 - Yes, tomorrow.

01:28:21 - I don't know, I mean, I gotta know what I do tomorrow.

01:28:26 - Anthony, please try to answer the question.

01:28:28 - I don't know.

01:28:32 - Dr. Walsh.

01:28:40 You heard Anthony Apostle testify

01:28:42 that he likes to fight because it makes him feel good.

01:28:45 Could you explain this testimony to the jury

01:28:47 in layman's terms, please?

01:28:49 - Apostle's gratification from fighting

01:28:52 stems from two sources.

01:28:54 One, fighting gives him status,

01:28:58 and two, in layman's terms,

01:29:01 Apostle enjoys pain.

01:29:03 - Dr. Walsh, do you believe Anthony Apostle

01:29:06 to be capable of an act, say an act of extreme violence,

01:29:09 which requires premeditation?

01:29:13 - Premeditation would not be consistent

01:29:15 with Apostle's pattern.

01:29:16 - The state of New York, may I?

01:29:23 - By all means.

01:29:24 - Is your employer, is it not, Dr. Walsh?

01:29:26 - I work for the state, yes.

01:29:28 - You realize you are testifying

01:29:30 against the state of New York?

01:29:31 - I realize that.

01:29:36 - Doesn't it frighten you to be testifying

01:29:38 in opposition to your employer?

01:29:41 - The truth is the truth.

01:29:42 - We've got to get our own man up there

01:29:44 and demolish that testimony and do it now.

01:29:47 Later it won't have the impact.

01:29:49 - Dr. Andrade, as a qualified psychiatrist,

01:29:52 I'd like to talk to you for a moment about Arthur Wren.

01:29:55 In your report to our office, you indicated

01:29:57 that he had more than normal aggression,

01:29:59 I believe you said, along with delusions of grandeur.

01:30:03 - Yes, those are parts of my findings.

01:30:04 - He had fantasies about becoming

01:30:06 a very important man in this neighborhood.

01:30:08 He dreamed about growing up to be a bigger man

01:30:11 in this field than Al Capone.

01:30:12 - Yes, he did.

01:30:15 - Doctor, you're a very experienced psychiatrist.

01:30:17 In your opinion, in your professional opinion,

01:30:20 what is the cause of these unmanageable

01:30:23 aggressions and delusions?

01:30:24 - Fear.

01:30:25 - Fear?

01:30:26 - Arthur Wren is a very frightened young man.

01:30:29 - Would you say as a generalization he's insecure

01:30:31 or as a specific that he is a coward?

01:30:34 - Oh, a layman might so describe him, yes.

01:30:36 - A coward and a bully?

01:30:38 - I don't know what the word bully means to you, Mr. Bell.

01:30:41 - A bully is a person so cowardly

01:30:43 that he attacks only those who cannot defend themselves.

01:30:47 Like a blind boy.

01:30:48 I would call him a bully and a coward.

01:30:54 - It's a line of stinking paint!

01:30:56 - Order.

01:30:57 - Ain't no one gonna be scared to get the whip.

01:30:58 - Order.

01:30:59 - Arthur, sit down.

01:31:00 Order!

01:31:01 - Let there be order in this court.

01:31:04 - Oh, these guys make me sick.

01:31:07 - I instruct the court attendants that in the event

01:31:09 of another outburst from this defendant,

01:31:12 they are to bind him and gag him

01:31:15 so that this trial will not be interrupted again.

01:31:17 - What do you mean, gag me?

01:31:19 This country's free speech, isn't it?

01:31:21 What do you mean, trying to tell me what I can say and do?

01:31:23 - Gag the defendant.

01:31:25 - Why the hell are you gonna gag me?

01:31:27 I got my rights!

01:31:28 I'm taking spigot again!

01:31:31 Are you calling a crime?

01:31:33 (shouting)

01:31:35 - Hank, this is gonna work against us.

01:31:49 This makes him look like a hot-headed maniac

01:31:51 instead of a cold-blooded killer.

01:31:54 We're gonna have a terrible time

01:31:55 proving premeditation now.

01:31:57 - Dr. Andrade, you testified that in your

01:32:03 professional opinion, Anthony Aposto was aware

01:32:06 of the quality and nature of his act

01:32:08 when he stabbed Roberto Escalante.

01:32:10 - Objection!

01:32:12 - When and if he stabbed Roberto Escalante.

01:32:14 - That is correct.

01:32:15 - Doctor, how can you say what was definitely

01:32:20 in the mind of Anthony Aposto

01:32:22 when and if he stabbed another boy?

01:32:24 - So far, science has found no means of determining

01:32:28 what definitely goes on in the mind of a man.

01:32:33 - If Anthony Aposto did not know what he was doing,

01:32:35 then he'd be innocent in the eyes of the law, wouldn't he?

01:32:39 - I'm afraid I can't answer questions about the law.

01:32:42 - Well, let me put it this way, Doctor.

01:32:44 Is there in your mind the slightest shadow of a doubt

01:32:48 that Anthony Aposto knew what he was doing

01:32:50 when he stabbed Roberto Escalante?

01:32:51 - But I have no psychic powers.

01:32:54 I can't answer your question.

01:32:56 - You are aware that under the laws of the United States,

01:32:59 a man is presumed innocent

01:33:01 if he has proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt?

01:33:03 - Oh, yes, yes.

01:33:03 - Yes, I am.

01:33:04 - Thank you, Doctor.

01:33:05 No more questions.

01:33:06 - That's all, Doctor.

01:33:08 - Call the next witness.

01:33:09 We call Daniel DePatchy.

01:33:11 - What are you doing?

01:33:17 - I'm looking for the truth.

01:33:18 - There's a proper procedure for finding the truth.

01:33:21 I didn't put you on this case to lose it.

01:33:23 - I'm looking for justice.

01:33:25 - The jury decides justice.

01:33:29 - I'm taking you off this case, Hank.

01:33:32 - You and your friends were walking--

01:33:34 - Don't do that, Dan.

01:33:35 I'd like to hear you explain it to the newspapers.

01:33:37 - Would you have stabbed him if he hadn't drawn his knife?

01:33:40 - No, sir.

01:33:41 - So you only stabbed him to defend yourself.

01:33:45 Thank you, Danny.

01:33:47 Your witness, Mr. Bell.

01:33:49 - Your Honor, I have here three knives

01:33:58 that I would like to place in evidence.

01:34:00 Also a sworn statement by one, Angela Ruggiello,

01:34:04 to the effect that these are the knives

01:34:05 handed her by the defendants on July 25th.

01:34:09 The statement goes on to say that Angela Ruggiello

01:34:11 wrapped the knives in a newspaper

01:34:13 and threw them in the back seat of an automobile

01:34:15 that same afternoon in the same condition

01:34:17 in which they were given her.

01:34:19 And finally, I have a police lab report

01:34:21 on the condition of the knives when they were found.

01:34:24 I would like to place this in evidence,

01:34:25 but at the proper time.

01:34:27 - Show me the knives, please.

01:34:29 Mark the statement.

01:34:31 You recognize these knives, Danny?

01:34:37 - No.

01:34:38 - You're under oath, Danny.

01:34:42 Don't add perjury to the charge against you.

01:34:44 - Is that any worse than going to the chair, huh?

01:34:46 I don't recognize 'em.

01:34:48 - This your knife?

01:34:54 - I don't remember.

01:34:57 - This one?

01:34:58 - I don't remember.

01:35:01 - What about this one?

01:35:07 - I don't remember.

01:35:08 - Don't you recognize any of these knives,

01:35:10 any one of them at all?

01:35:11 - Objection, badgering the witness.

01:35:13 Witness has already answered the question.

01:35:16 - Reaction sustained.

01:35:17 - Danny, are you afraid to admit which knife is yours?

01:35:20 - No, I'm not afraid.

01:35:22 - Then why can't you recognize your knife when you see it?

01:35:24 - Objection, counter-argument.

01:35:26 - The counsel is assuming a fact, not in evidence.

01:35:29 There is no testimony linking any of the knives

01:35:31 with the witness.

01:35:33 - I'll sustain that.

01:35:34 - Danny, you're a very bright young man

01:35:37 with a very high IQ.

01:35:39 You think the jury is gonna believe

01:35:40 that you can't recognize your knife when you see it?

01:35:43 - I don't care whether they believe it or not.

01:35:47 - Who spotted Roberto Escalante first?

01:35:49 - I don't remember.

01:35:50 - Who stabbed him first?

01:35:51 - We all stabbed him at the same time.

01:35:53 - How many times did you stab him?

01:35:55 - I don't remember.

01:35:56 - I saw you in Welfare Island.

01:35:57 You told me you stabbed Roberto Escalante four times.

01:36:00 - I must object.

01:36:02 - I'll rephrase the question, Your Honor.

01:36:05 Danny, did you or did you not confess

01:36:08 that you stabbed Roberto Escalante?

01:36:10 - Yeah, in self-defense.

01:36:12 - Did you also not confess that you stabbed him four times?

01:36:15 Answer yes or no.

01:36:17 - Objection.

01:36:18 Witness can always explain his answer.

01:36:20 - Witness, will you please answer the last question?

01:36:24 - Yeah, I guess I said that.

01:36:27 - And you stabbed him with this knife?

01:36:28 - I object.

01:36:29 - Answer yes or no.

01:36:30 - I object.

01:36:32 Counsel has still failed to identify the knife.

01:36:34 - I cannot question this witness properly

01:36:36 if my every word is going to be examined.

01:36:38 - You're bullying the witness.

01:36:39 - Damn it, you put him on the witness stand, didn't you?

01:36:42 - I must caution you about profanity in this courtroom.

01:36:45 - Your Honor, I'm sorry,

01:36:46 but I think I'm on the verge of establishing

01:36:48 which knife is his.

01:36:49 If I may proceed, please.

01:36:51 - Witness will answer the last question.

01:36:54 - Read back the last question.

01:36:56 - And you stabbed him with this knife.

01:36:58 - Well, Danny?

01:37:02 - Look, what if it is--

01:37:04 - Answer the question yes or no.

01:37:05 Is this your knife?

01:37:06 - Yes, yes, yes, yes.

01:37:07 - And how many times did you stab him?

01:37:09 - Four, four.

01:37:10 - Why, Danny?

01:37:11 - I told you he came at me.

01:37:11 - Why, Danny?

01:37:13 - I don't know.

01:37:14 - Why, why?

01:37:14 - And the other...

01:37:16 Because the others, they...

01:37:21 - Because the others stabbed him?

01:37:22 - Yes, yes, and--

01:37:23 - So you stabbed him?

01:37:24 - Yes, I stabbed him four times.

01:37:26 Look, what do you want from me?

01:37:28 I stabbed him!

01:37:29 I stabbed him, I stabbed him!

01:37:31 - You're lying, Danny.

01:37:33 You never stabbed him.

01:37:34 Your Honor, I want this report placed in evidence.

01:37:38 It's an official report

01:37:39 from the Criminal Identification Laboratory.

01:37:41 It states that the Swiss blade knife,

01:37:44 the one with the black and white handle,

01:37:46 the one you identified as your knife,

01:37:48 did not have a single trace of blood on it.

01:37:50 Your knife, Danny, and not a single trace of blood.

01:37:53 - No, no, I wiped it clean.

01:37:54 - Nobody could wipe it that clean.

01:37:55 Nobody could wipe it so clean

01:37:57 that the police lab wouldn't find

01:37:58 a single trace of blood on it.

01:38:00 No, Danny, you never stabbed him at all.

01:38:02 You only pretended to stab him.

01:38:03 - No, no, I--

01:38:05 - You turned the handle of the blade around,

01:38:06 and you stabbed him here on the shoulder.

01:38:08 - No, no, I stabbed him, I stabbed him!

01:38:11 - You're lying, Danny.

01:38:13 Danny, what are you afraid of?

01:38:15 (Danny crying)

01:38:18 Danny, did you kill Roberto Escalante?

01:38:22 - I never killed anybody in my life.

01:38:24 Never, never.

01:38:27 Oh, God, never!

01:38:29 Never!

01:38:32 - All right, Danny, all right.

01:38:34 - I hate crying.

01:38:37 Crying is for babies.

01:38:41 - Crying is for men too.

01:38:42 Who killed Roberto Escalante?

01:38:50 Anthony Aposto, a mental defective

01:38:53 that an efficient society would have taken

01:38:54 off the streets long ago?

01:38:55 Arthur Reardon?

01:38:57 A young man so crippled by the pressures

01:38:59 and poverty of slum life that...

01:39:01 that his rage makes him even more dangerous than Aposto,

01:39:05 and less capable of controlling his emotions?

01:39:08 Or Danny DePace?

01:39:12 Whose values are so twisted by the strange social order?

01:39:19 That he's afraid to admit he didn't kill.

01:39:22 - Nobel, you're out of order.

01:39:24 - Sorry, Your Honor.

01:39:28 No further questions.

01:39:31 - Mr. Randolph?

01:39:34 Your Honor, the defense rests.

01:39:40 This court will recess.

01:39:42 (crowd chattering)

01:39:45 - Mr. Nobel, my newspaper's very disappointed

01:39:48 in your performance.

01:39:49 Tell me, did your friendship with Mary DePace...

01:39:51 - You're right, anything you want.

01:39:52 - No comment.

01:39:53 - Mr. Cole, are you expecting to be sent

01:39:56 to the governor's mansion on the prestige

01:39:58 you're going to get from this case, huh?

01:40:00 Any statement?

01:40:01 - Yes, Barber.

01:40:02 Keep out of my sight.

01:40:03 - Arthur Reardon?

01:40:16 - Arthur Reardon?

01:40:18 The sentence of this court is that you be confined

01:40:21 in the Elmira Reception Center for a period

01:40:24 of not less than 20 years,

01:40:26 and no more than your natural life.

01:40:28 - Anthony Aposto, this court commits you

01:40:35 to the Matawan State Hospital for the criminally insane,

01:40:39 until such a time as you may be judged ready

01:40:42 to again take your place in society.

01:40:44 - Daniel DePace, you've acted in concert

01:40:48 with the other two defendants,

01:40:50 and as such, you became an accomplice.

01:40:53 However, the court has seen fit to be lenient in your case,

01:40:58 finds you guilty of third degree assault,

01:41:02 and then it sends you to the boys' prison

01:41:04 at Elmira, New York, for a period of one year,

01:41:07 for classification, treatment, and release.

01:41:13 And rehabilitation.

01:41:15 This court is adjourned.

01:41:17 - Hank?

01:41:35 Hank?

01:41:38 Hank!

01:41:40 (Hank crying)

01:41:43 And what about my son?

01:41:52 Is this your justice for a dead, blind boy?

01:41:55 What about the animals who killed my son?

01:41:59 - A lot of people killed your son, Mrs. Escalante.

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