MARMALADE Full Movie
MARMALADE Full Movie
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00:01:30 - Well, here we are.
00:01:37 I turn down here at the next block.
00:01:39 - Thanks mister.
00:01:41 I'll get off there.
00:01:42 - Want anything else?
00:01:50 - No.
00:01:51 - Hey you.
00:01:52 - Me?
00:01:56 - Yeah, you.
00:01:57 Where you heading?
00:01:58 - East.
00:02:00 - You're dead.
00:02:01 I thought if you was heading north,
00:02:03 I might be able to help you out.
00:02:05 I'm pushing to Salt Lake
00:02:06 and I don't like to ride it alone at night.
00:02:08 I'm one of those guys who gotta talk or I fall asleep.
00:02:11 - Oh, sure you might.
00:02:13 - Pardon me, he's got Lou to keep company,
00:02:14 but I ain't got nobody at all.
00:02:17 - Where you coming from?
00:02:19 - West.
00:02:19 - Yeah, sure I know, but where, LA?
00:02:22 - Maybe.
00:02:23 - I got a cousin out in LA.
00:02:25 - You don't say.
00:02:25 - Yeah, he's been out.
00:02:26 - You're not much of a talker, are you?
00:02:29 - My mother taught me never to speak to strangers.
00:02:31 - Oh, wise guy.
00:02:32 - So wise.
00:02:33 - Okay, okay, don't get sore.
00:02:35 Just trying to be sociable, that's all.
00:02:37 Hey, Glamorous.
00:02:40 Let's change for a dime, will you?
00:02:42 - Let's have something quieter this time, Joe.
00:02:53 My head's splitting.
00:02:54 - Is that what's wrong with it?
00:02:56 - Done with your coffee?
00:03:01 - No, and don't rush me, will you?
00:03:02 - Hey, turn that off, will you?
00:03:11 Turn that thing off.
00:03:12 - What's eating you now?
00:03:13 - Yeah, what's eating you?
00:03:14 That music, it stinks.
00:03:15 - Oh, you don't like it, huh?
00:03:16 - No, turn it off.
00:03:17 - Now, wait a minute, pal.
00:03:18 That was my nickname, see?
00:03:20 This is a free country, and I play whatever I want to.
00:03:23 Okay.
00:03:24 Sure, and if you don't like it,
00:03:25 you don't have to listen to it.
00:03:26 And you can leave here anytime you want to.
00:03:29 - Okay, okay, I'm sorry I asked.
00:03:30 - First good piece played tonight, and you don't like it.
00:03:32 Some people just ain't got any good taste.
00:03:35 That tune.
00:03:47 That tune.
00:03:49 Why was there always that rotten tune?
00:03:51 Following me around, beating in my head, never letting up.
00:03:54 Did you ever want to forget anything?
00:04:00 Did you ever want to cut away a piece of your memory
00:04:02 or blot it out?
00:04:04 You can't, you know.
00:04:05 No matter how hard you try.
00:04:07 You can change the scenery.
00:04:09 But sooner or later, you'll get a whiff of perfume
00:04:11 or somebody will say a certain phrase
00:04:13 or maybe hum something.
00:04:14 Then you're licked again.
00:04:16 I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:04:20 I used to love that song once.
00:04:22 So did the customers back in the old break at Dawn Club
00:04:24 in New York.
00:04:26 I can't remember a night when I didn't get
00:04:27 at least three requests for it.
00:04:29 Sue, she was always selling it too.
00:04:33 Those were the days.
00:04:34 ♪ Your eyes are blue ♪
00:04:37 ♪ And your lips are sweet ♪
00:04:40 ♪ I can't help but think of you ♪
00:04:43 ♪ I can't help but think of you ♪
00:04:46 ♪ I can't help but think of you ♪
00:04:49 ♪ I can't help but think of you ♪
00:04:52 ♪ I can't help but think of you ♪
00:04:55 ♪ I can't help but think of you ♪
00:04:58 ♪ I can't help but think of you ♪
00:05:02 ♪ Your eyes are blue ♪
00:05:04 ♪ Your kiss is too ♪
00:05:06 ♪ I never knew what they could do ♪
00:05:09 ♪ I can't believe that you're in love with me ♪
00:05:14 ♪ You're telling everyone you know ♪
00:05:18 ♪ That I'm on your mind each place you go ♪
00:05:21 ♪ They can't believe that you're in love with me ♪
00:05:27 ♪ I have always placed you far above me ♪
00:05:32 ♪ I just can't imagine that you love me ♪
00:05:38 ♪ And after all is said and done ♪
00:05:41 ♪ To think that I'm the lucky one ♪
00:05:45 ♪ I can't believe that you're in love with me ♪
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00:05:56 - It wasn't much of a club, really.
00:05:58 You know the kind, a joint where you could have a sandwich
00:06:01 and a few drinks and run interference
00:06:03 for your girl on the dance floor.
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00:06:07 I pounded the piano in there every night from eight
00:06:09 until the place closed up,
00:06:11 which usually meant four in the morning.
00:06:13 A good job as jobs went in those days.
00:06:16 Then, too, there was Sue,
00:06:22 who made working there a little like working in a club.
00:06:24 Making a living there a little like working in heaven.
00:06:27 But how we felt about each other,
00:06:29 well, there was nothing very unusual in that.
00:06:32 I was an ordinary healthy guy
00:06:33 and she was an ordinary healthy girl.
00:06:35 When you add those two together,
00:06:36 you get an ordinary healthy romance,
00:06:38 which is the old story.
00:06:40 Sure, but somehow, the most wonderful thing in the world.
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00:06:52 All in all, I was a pretty lucky guy.
00:06:55 - Mr. Paderewski, I presume.
00:07:09 It's beautiful.
00:07:10 You going to make Carnegie Hall yet, Al?
00:07:12 - Yeah, as a janitor.
00:07:15 I'll make my debut in the basement.
00:07:17 - I don't blame you for being bitter, darling,
00:07:19 but you mustn't give up hope.
00:07:21 - Someday.
00:07:22 - Yeah, someday.
00:07:23 If I don't get arthritis first.
00:07:24 In the meantime, let's blow this trap.
00:07:27 - Like to get something to eat, hon?
00:07:47 - Oh, I don't think so, Al.
00:07:48 I lose my appetite working in this flea bag.
00:07:51 Let's go home.
00:07:52 - Okay.
00:07:54 - I can't stand much more of that dump.
00:07:56 Did you see that drunk tonight, trying to paw me?
00:07:59 - No, what drunk?
00:08:00 - Does it matter what drunk?
00:08:03 - Say, what's the matter with you tonight, darling?
00:08:05 That's the third time you've started
00:08:07 to tell me something and then stop.
00:08:09 We shouldn't have any secrets from each other, Sue.
00:08:11 Next week, we're going to make with a ring and a license.
00:08:13 You and me will be a team.
00:08:14 - Yes, that's right.
00:08:15 In the Bush League.
00:08:17 - I don't get you.
00:08:18 - We've been struck out.
00:08:21 - That's a funny way to talk, darling.
00:08:23 Don't you want to marry me?
00:08:24 - Al, look, I love you.
00:08:25 You know I do, and I want to marry you.
00:08:28 - But?
00:08:29 - But not now.
00:08:30 Only after we've made good.
00:08:33 Sunday, I'm going away.
00:08:35 Oh, I know you'll think it's silly.
00:08:37 That's why I hesitated to tell you.
00:08:39 But I'm going to California.
00:08:41 I want to try my luck in Hollywood.
00:08:44 - That's the most stupid thing I ever heard of.
00:08:46 Don't you know millions of people go out there every year
00:08:48 and wind up polishing cuspid doors?
00:08:50 I thought you had better sense.
00:08:51 - You sound as if you don't think I have any talent.
00:08:53 - That has nothing to do with it.
00:08:55 - I'll make out all right.
00:08:56 - Maybe.
00:08:57 But what about me?
00:08:58 Doesn't it mean anything to you that you're
00:08:59 busting up all our plans?
00:09:00 We may not see each other for years.
00:09:02 - It won't be that long.
00:09:04 - I thought you loved me.
00:09:05 - I do.
00:09:06 You know I do.
00:09:09 Well, here we are.
00:09:14 - Al.
00:09:16 Al, why can't you see my side of it?
00:09:19 I'm young.
00:09:20 We both are.
00:09:21 And we've got all the time in the world to settle down.
00:09:25 - Oh.
00:09:26 - Really, darling.
00:09:27 What I'm doing is the only sane thing to do.
00:09:31 I-- I hate the thought of being so far away from you.
00:09:34 But-- but we'll be together again someday.
00:09:38 Maybe you'll decide to come out too later on.
00:09:41 - So long.
00:09:42 - Al, aren't you going to kiss me good night?
00:09:47 - Sure.
00:09:48 Why not?
00:09:51 Good night.
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00:11:35 [applause]
00:11:36 - Say, Robert, you hit the jackpot this time.
00:11:39 $10.
00:11:41 - Thanks.
00:11:42 So when this drunk handed me a 10 spot after a request,
00:11:51 I couldn't get very excited.
00:11:52 What was it, I asked myself, a piece of paper crawling
00:11:54 with germs.
00:11:55 It couldn't buy anything I wanted.
00:11:58 It couldn't.
00:11:59 Then I thought of something.
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00:12:07 [footsteps]
00:12:13 [door opening]
00:12:20 [door closing]
00:12:23 Long distance.
00:12:28 I'd like to put a call through to Los Angeles.
00:12:31 Miss Harvey.
00:12:32 Sue Harvey.
00:12:33 H-A-R-V-E-Y.
00:12:35 The number is Crestview 65723.
00:12:38 [music playing]
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00:12:50 [phone ringing]
00:13:01 75--
00:13:02 [phone ringing]
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00:13:04 Hello, Sue?
00:13:08 This is Al.
00:13:09 Oh, baby, it's great to hear from you, too.
00:13:12 What's that?
00:13:13 You do?
00:13:14 Oh, me too, darling.
00:13:15 I thought I'd go batty without you.
00:13:16 I just had to--
00:13:17 huh?
00:13:19 You're working as a hash slinger?
00:13:21 Gee, honey, that's tough.
00:13:23 Those guys out in Hollywood don't know the real thing
00:13:25 when it's right in front of them.
00:13:26 You just stick it out, Sue, baby.
00:13:28 Keep going around to those casting offices.
00:13:30 I'm sure you'll click.
00:13:31 Look, I'll tell you what.
00:13:32 You stay put out there.
00:13:33 I'll come to you.
00:13:34 No, don't try to stop me.
00:13:36 Just expect me.
00:13:37 Train?
00:13:38 Who knows?
00:13:39 Train, plane, bus, magic carpet.
00:13:41 I'll be there if I have to crawl,
00:13:42 if I have to travel by pogo stick.
00:13:44 And then let's get married right away, huh?
00:13:47 That's the stuff.
00:13:51 That's what I've been wanting to hear you say.
00:13:54 Well, goodbye for now.
00:13:58 I'll be seeing you soon.
00:14:01 Yeah.
00:14:03 Bye.
00:14:04 The only way I could cross country was to thumb rides.
00:14:12 For even after hocking everything,
00:14:14 I only had enough money to eat.
00:14:16 Money.
00:14:18 You know what that is.
00:14:20 It's the stuff you never have enough of.
00:14:22 Little green things with George Washington's picture
00:14:24 that men slave for, commit crimes for, die for.
00:14:28 It's the stuff that has caused more trouble in the world
00:14:30 than anything else we ever invented,
00:14:32 simply because there's too little of it.
00:14:35 At least I had too little of it.
00:14:38 So it was me for the thumb.
00:14:42 [music playing]
00:14:45 Ever done any hitchhiking?
00:14:58 It's not much fun, believe me.
00:15:01 Oh, yeah, I know all about how it's an education
00:15:03 and how you get to meet a lot of people and all that.
00:15:06 But me, from now on, I'll take my education in college
00:15:10 or in PS 62, or I'll send $1.98 in stamps
00:15:13 for 10 easy lessons.
00:15:14 Thumbing rides may save you a bus fare, but it's dangerous.
00:15:29 You never know what's in store for you
00:15:31 when you hear the squeal of brakes.
00:15:33 If only I had known what I was getting
00:15:35 into that day in Arizona.
00:15:39 Here, throw that in the back seat.
00:15:43 OK, let's go.
00:15:44 Make sure that door is closed.
00:15:46 You know, Emily Post taught her to write a book of rules
00:16:02 for guys thumbing rides.
00:16:04 Because as it is now, you never know what's right
00:16:06 and what's wrong.
00:16:08 He rode along for a little while,
00:16:09 and neither one of us saying anything.
00:16:12 I was glad of that.
00:16:13 I never know what to say to strange people driving cars.
00:16:17 And two, you can never tell if a guy wants to talk.
00:16:20 A lot of rides have been cut short because of a big mouth.
00:16:25 So I kept my mouth shut until he started opening up.
00:16:29 Hand me that little box in the compartment, will you, pal?
00:16:36 Hold the wheel, will you?
00:16:38 How far are you going?
00:16:50 L.A.
00:16:51 Wow, you're really traveling, aren't you?
00:16:53 Yeah, but I don't expect to make it for a couple of years
00:16:55 at the rate I've been promoting rides.
00:16:57 Not much luck, huh?
00:16:58 Sure, all bad.
00:17:00 Not many people stop for a guy these days.
00:17:02 Afraid of a stick-up, maybe.
00:17:04 Well, they can't blame him.
00:17:06 Where are you coming from?
00:17:07 New York.
00:17:08 Well, New York.
00:17:10 You're in luck this time.
00:17:12 I'm going all the way, right through to Los Angeles.
00:17:16 Can you drive a car?
00:17:18 Sure.
00:17:19 Whenever you're tired, let me know.
00:17:21 I'll holler.
00:17:23 I guess at least an hour passed before I noticed
00:17:25 those deep scratches on his right hand.
00:17:28 They were wicked, three puffy red lines
00:17:30 about a quarter of an inch apart.
00:17:33 He must have seen me looking at them because he said,
00:17:36 "Beauties, aren't they?
00:17:38 "They're gonna be scars someday."
00:17:42 What an animal.
00:17:43 Whatever it was, it must have been pretty big and vicious
00:17:45 to have done that.
00:17:47 Right on both counts, New York.
00:17:49 I was tussling with the most dangerous animal in the world,
00:17:52 a woman.
00:17:54 She must have been Tarzan's mate.
00:17:55 Looks like you lost the bout.
00:17:57 It certainly wasn't a draw.
00:18:00 You know, there ought to be a law against dames with claws.
00:18:03 Yeah.
00:18:04 I tossed her out of the car in her ear.
00:18:06 Was I wrong?
00:18:08 Give a lift to a tomato, you expect it to be nice, don't you?
00:18:11 Yeah.
00:18:12 After all, what kind of dame some rides?
00:18:15 Sunday school teachers?
00:18:16 Yeah.
00:18:18 A little witch.
00:18:20 Suppose I thought she was riding with some fall guy.
00:18:23 A me who has been poking horses around race tracks
00:18:25 since I was 20.
00:18:27 I've known a million dames like her.
00:18:29 Two million?
00:18:30 Yeah.
00:18:33 Stop the car, open the door,
00:18:36 take it on the Arthur Duffy sister, I told her.
00:18:38 That's the stuff.
00:18:39 As I was done, huh?
00:18:42 But if you want to see a real scar, brother,
00:18:44 get a load of this.
00:18:47 What?
00:18:49 I got that one, too.
00:18:51 Dooley?
00:18:52 Yeah, we're just kidding, of course.
00:18:54 My dad owned a couple of Franco-Prussian sabers.
00:18:56 Kept them on the wall for decorations.
00:18:59 Well, one day, another kid and I took them down.
00:19:01 The old man wasn't around, had a duel.
00:19:05 He got me in the arm here.
00:19:07 Pretty mean cut.
00:19:09 Infection set in later.
00:19:11 Yeah, I can see that.
00:19:13 Now give me that box again, will you?
00:19:14 Yeah.
00:19:16 The pain made me lose my head, I guess.
00:19:18 Began slashing.
00:19:20 Before I knew it, I'd put the other kid's eye on it.
00:19:23 That was tough.
00:19:25 Well, it was just an accident, of course.
00:19:27 Do you know how kids are?
00:19:29 I got scared, decided I was going to run away from home.
00:19:32 Old man almost caught me when I was practicing.
00:19:35 I got a little bit of a run-up.
00:19:37 I got a little bit of a run-up.
00:19:39 I got a little bit of a run-up.
00:19:41 I got a little bit of a run-up.
00:19:43 Old man almost caught me when I was practicing my duds.
00:19:47 The bloody rag I had wrapped around my wrist hadn't caught his attention.
00:19:50 He'd seen the bundle for sure.
00:19:53 But I beat it when he was phoning for a doctor.
00:19:56 That was 15, 16 years ago.
00:19:59 I haven't been home since.
00:20:01 Pull in there for a bite or something, huh?
00:20:07 A bite or something?
00:20:09 Brother, was I hungry.
00:20:10 I hadn't had anything in my stomach for hours.
00:20:13 Yet even with that gnawing in the pit of my belly,
00:20:15 I didn't want to be in too big a rush to put on the feed bag.
00:20:19 First I had to make sure this guy knew the score.
00:20:22 If I got him down on me, it was goodbye ticket to Hollywood.
00:20:26 I'll wait out here for you, mister.
00:20:28 If it's the money, don't worry about paying for it.
00:20:30 This time it's on me.
00:20:31 Well, that's quite of you, mister...
00:20:32 Haskell, think nothing of it.
00:20:34 You make your first million, maybe you can do the same for me.
00:20:36 Come on, New York.
00:20:37 I got to make the West Coast by Wednesday.
00:20:39 There's a horse running at Santa Anita named Proud Bicycle.
00:20:42 You can sell it to me if I want him.
00:20:43 We'll make it, all right.
00:20:45 He did most of the talking during the half hour we were in the place.
00:20:49 I ate.
00:20:51 He rambled on about his old man,
00:20:53 whom he hadn't heard from since he ran away as a kid.
00:20:55 And how he happened to become a bookie.
00:20:57 And then all about how he got rooked in Miami.
00:21:00 One race, 38 grand.
00:21:02 They cleaned out my book.
00:21:03 How do you like that?
00:21:04 That was tough luck.
00:21:06 Yeah, and I'm supposed to be the smart guy.
00:21:08 You just wait.
00:21:09 I'm going back to Florida next season with all kinds of check.
00:21:11 And you watch those stinkers run for cover.
00:21:14 Want anything else?
00:21:15 No, thanks. I've had plenty.
00:21:17 That check there, sister?
00:21:23 Mm-hmm.
00:21:24 Oh, just a miniature change, sir.
00:21:29 Keep it, sister.
00:21:30 Oh, thank you, sir. Call again.
00:21:32 I'll be waiting outside for you when you finish work.
00:21:35 Sharp checker.
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00:21:39 I drove all that night while Haskel slept like a log.
00:21:48 After a while, I began to get sleepy myself.
00:21:52 I was happy, though.
00:21:54 Soon I'd be with Sue again.
00:21:56 The long trip was practically over,
00:21:58 and there'd be no more hoofing it down the concrete.
00:22:01 I began to think of the future, which
00:22:03 couldn't have been brighter if I'd
00:22:04 embroidered it with neon lights.
00:22:06 It was nice to think of Sue shooting to the top.
00:22:11 It's amazing what a full belly can do to your imagination.
00:22:14 (SINGING) Your eyes, oh, your kisses, too.
00:22:22 I never knew what they could do.
00:22:26 I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:22:34 You're telling everyone you know.
00:22:39 I'm on your mind each place you go.
00:22:44 I can't believe that you're in love with me.
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00:22:55 Mr. Haskel.
00:23:08 Mr. Haskel.
00:23:09 Mr. Haskel, wake up.
00:23:13 It's raining.
00:23:14 Don't you think we ought to stop and put up the top?
00:23:16 [music playing]
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00:23:21 Mr. Haskel, I'm going to put up the top.
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00:23:30 Up until then, I had done things my way.
00:23:45 But from then on, something else stepped in and shunted me
00:23:47 off to a different destination than one
00:23:49 I had picked for myself.
00:23:51 For when I pulled open that door--
00:23:53 [door slams]
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00:23:56 Mr. Haskel, what's the matter?
00:23:59 Are you hurt?
00:24:01 Are you hurt, Mr. Haskel?
00:24:03 Start yourself.
00:24:05 I'll listen to it.
00:24:07 But I know what you're going to hand me,
00:24:08 even before you open your mouths.
00:24:10 You're going to tell me you don't believe my story
00:24:12 of how Haskel died, and give me that "don't make me laugh"
00:24:14 expression on your smug faces.
00:24:17 [music playing]
00:24:19 I saw it once.
00:24:20 He was dead.
00:24:21 And I was in for it.
00:24:23 Who would believe he fell out of the car?
00:24:25 Why, if Haskel came too, which of course he couldn't,
00:24:27 even he would swear I conked him over the head for his dough.
00:24:29 Yes, I was in for it.
00:24:32 Instinct told me to run.
00:24:33 But then I realized it was hopeless.
00:24:35 There were lots of people back down the road
00:24:36 who could identify me.
00:24:37 That gas station guy and the waitress.
00:24:39 I would be in a worse spot then, trying
00:24:40 to explain why I beat it.
00:24:42 The next possibility was to sit tight and tell
00:24:44 the truth when the cops came.
00:24:45 But that would be crazy.
00:24:46 They'd laugh at the truth.
00:24:48 And I'd have my head in the noose.
00:24:49 So what else was there to do but hide the body
00:24:53 and get away in the car?
00:24:54 I couldn't leave the car there with him in the gully.
00:24:57 That would be like erecting a tombstone.
00:24:59 [music playing]
00:25:01 [music playing]
00:25:03 My idea was to cover him with brush, not to rob him.
00:25:30 But then I remembered that even if I only
00:25:31 drove the car for 100 miles or so,
00:25:33 I would need money for gas.
00:25:35 Besides, it was stupid of me to leave
00:25:37 all that money on a dead man.
00:25:39 Not only that, I'd have to take his driver's license in case
00:25:42 I was stopped for something.
00:25:45 I didn't like to think about it.
00:25:46 But by that time, I'd done just what the police would say I did,
00:25:49 even if I didn't.
00:25:51 My clothes.
00:25:52 The owner of such an expensive car
00:25:54 would never be wearing them.
00:25:56 Some cop might pull me in on suspicion.
00:25:58 [music playing]
00:26:00 Hey, you, this your car?
00:26:25 Don't you know better than to leave
00:26:26 a car with the wheels halfway in the middle of the road?
00:26:28 That's the way accidents happen.
00:26:30 I'm sorry, officer.
00:26:31 I was just putting up my top.
00:26:33 I didn't think.
00:26:34 Well, the next time, think.
00:26:36 I'll let you go now, but watch your step in the future.
00:26:38 I know that's a lonely stretch, but cars come by here
00:26:40 once in a while, and we have plenty of crack-ups.
00:26:43 Thanks, officer.
00:26:44 [music playing]
00:26:46 I left nothing in the car to give me away as Roberts.
00:27:10 If they found a dead man in the gully now, it would be me.
00:27:13 [music playing]
00:27:15 As I drove off, it was still raining,
00:27:23 and the drops streaked down the windshield like tears.
00:27:26 I kept imagining I was being followed,
00:27:31 that I could hear sirens back in the distance.
00:27:34 Just how long it took me to cover the 60-odd miles
00:27:36 to the California state line, I don't know.
00:27:39 I lost all track of time.
00:27:41 But the rain had stopped, and the sun was up when I pulled up
00:27:44 to the inspection station.
00:27:45 Hello.
00:27:52 Carrying any fruits or vegetables?
00:27:53 No.
00:27:54 Any livestock or poultry?
00:27:56 No.
00:27:58 I'd like to see your registration
00:27:59 and driver's license, please.
00:28:00 Anything in the baggage compartment?
00:28:07 Just baggage.
00:28:09 Charles Haskell, Jr. Age 30, brown eyes, dark hair.
00:28:13 Identifying marks, none.
00:28:15 Are you Charles Haskell, Jr.?
00:28:16 Yes.
00:28:17 Well, remember, if you're employed
00:28:18 and you stay over 30 days, you take out California plates.
00:28:21 All right, officer, but I'll only
00:28:22 be in the state a short while.
00:28:25 Right, you can go now.
00:28:26 I couldn't drive any farther without some sleep,
00:28:36 cops or no cops.
00:28:38 I knew I had to hit the hay and hit it hard.
00:28:42 I was dead tired.
00:28:44 [music playing]
00:28:48 [tires screeching]
00:29:16 No, you can't, Mr. Haskell.
00:29:18 No.
00:29:19 Mr. Haskell, you can't die.
00:29:31 Don't think-- don't think I did it.
00:29:35 No, Mr. Haskell.
00:29:37 No.
00:29:38 No.
00:29:39 [knocking]
00:29:46 [knocking]
00:29:48 Who's there?
00:29:54 It's the maid.
00:29:55 Can I come in and clean?
00:29:58 Later.
00:29:59 In a half hour.
00:30:00 All right, sir.
00:30:01 [music playing]
00:30:04 There was no time to lose.
00:30:26 Every minute I had to be Charles Haskell was dangerous.
00:30:29 And I'd have to be Charles Haskell until I got to some city
00:30:31 where I could leave the car and be swallowed up.
00:30:33 That meant driving the car as far as San Bernardino,
00:30:42 maybe even to Los Angeles.
00:30:43 In a little town, I might be noticed.
00:30:45 But in a city, I should be safe enough.
00:30:48 Then, after I ditched the car, I could go on to sue.
00:30:52 But those five minutes at the state line
00:30:54 made me realize it might be a good idea
00:30:56 to find out a little bit about the state.
00:30:58 And I could find out a little bit about Mr. Haskell.
00:31:01 Then, if anybody asked me questions,
00:31:03 I could give the right answers.
00:31:05 The first thing I found out was that I had $768.
00:31:09 This was a lot of jack.
00:31:11 But believe me, it was the kind of money I'd rather not have.
00:31:15 And then I found out from a letter Haskell
00:31:24 was carting around in his bag that he wasn't
00:31:26 the open-handed, easy-going big shot
00:31:28 who went around buying dinners for strange hitchhikers.
00:31:31 Before I got done reading it, I saw him more as a chiseler.
00:31:35 It was written to his old man in California,
00:31:38 the one he hadn't seen in so many years.
00:31:41 In it, Haskell posed as a salesman
00:31:43 of hymnals, of all things.
00:31:47 It was easy to see where Haskell expected
00:31:49 to raise a new stake for his book in Miami,
00:31:52 by rooking his old man.
00:31:55 That was about all I found out from his effects,
00:31:58 and it was enough.
00:32:00 I told myself, maybe old man Haskell
00:32:02 was lucky his son kicked off.
00:32:05 He would never know it, but it saved him
00:32:07 from taking a flyer in sacred literature preferred.
00:32:11 [music playing]
00:32:14 Near the airport at Desert Center,
00:32:37 I pulled up for water.
00:32:40 There was a woman.
00:32:41 Hey, you.
00:32:46 Come on if you want a ride.
00:32:48 [music playing]
00:32:51 [music playing]
00:32:55 [music playing]
00:32:59 [music playing]
00:33:02 [gunshot]
00:33:03 [music playing]
00:33:06 [engine revving]
00:33:31 [engine revving]
00:33:34 How far you going?
00:33:36 How far you going?
00:33:38 That took me by surprise, and I turned my head
00:33:40 to look her over.
00:33:42 She was facing straight ahead, so I couldn't see her eyes.
00:33:45 But she was young, not more than 24.
00:33:49 Man, she looked as if she'd just been thrown off the crummiest
00:33:52 freight train in the world.
00:33:54 Yet in spite of this, I got the impression of beauty.
00:33:58 Not the beauty of a movie actress, mind you,
00:34:00 or the beauty you dream about when you're with your wife,
00:34:03 but a natural beauty, a beauty that's almost
00:34:06 homely because it's so real.
00:34:09 Then suddenly, she turned to face me.
00:34:12 How far did you say you were going?
00:34:14 Los Angeles.
00:34:15 LA?
00:34:16 LA's good enough for me, mister.
00:34:18 That's what I was afraid of.
00:34:20 What'd you say?
00:34:21 Oh, nothing.
00:34:22 Just thinking out loud.
00:34:24 People get in trouble for doing that.
00:34:26 What's your name?
00:34:27 You can call me Vera if you like.
00:34:29 You live in Los Angeles?
00:34:31 No.
00:34:33 Where you coming from?
00:34:34 Oh, back there.
00:34:36 Needles?
00:34:37 No.
00:34:38 Oh, sure, Phoenix.
00:34:40 You look just like a Phoenix girl.
00:34:42 Are the girls in Phoenix that bad?
00:34:44 The girl must have been pretty tired because she fell asleep
00:34:47 not 20 minutes after she stepped into the car.
00:34:50 She lay sprawled out with her head resting against the far door
00:34:53 like Haskell.
00:34:54 I didn't like that part of it much, but I didn't wake her up.
00:34:58 It wasn't that this girl still worried me.
00:35:01 I'd gotten over that funny feeling I had when she looked at me,
00:35:04 which I put down as just my jangled nerves.
00:35:07 With her eyes closed and the tenseness gone out of her,
00:35:10 she seemed harmless enough.
00:35:12 And instead of disliking her, I began to feel sorry for her.
00:35:16 The poor kid probably had had a rough time of it.
00:35:20 Who was she anyway?
00:35:22 And why was she going to Los Angeles?
00:35:25 And where'd she come from in the first place?
00:35:27 The only thing I knew about her was her name.
00:35:30 Not that it made any difference.
00:35:32 A few hours more and we'd be in Hollywood.
00:35:34 I'd forget where I parked the car and look up Sue.
00:35:37 This nightmare of being a dead man would be over.
00:35:40 Who this dame was, well, it was no business of mine.
00:35:43 Where did you leave his body?
00:35:46 Where did you leave the owner of this car?
00:35:48 You're not fooling anyone.
00:35:50 The doggy belongs to a guy named Haskell.
00:35:52 That's not you, mister.
00:35:53 You're out of your mind. That's my name, Charles Haskell.
00:35:55 I can prove it. It's my driver's license.
00:35:57 Save yourself the trouble, mister.
00:35:58 Having Haskell's wallet only makes it worse.
00:36:00 It just so happens I rode with Charlie Haskell all the way from Louisiana.
00:36:04 He picked me up outside of Shreveport.
00:36:06 You rode?
00:36:07 You heard me.
00:36:08 Then it all came back to me.
00:36:10 All the talk about dueling and scars and scratches.
00:36:14 There was no doubt about it.
00:36:16 Vera must be the woman Haskell had mentioned.
00:36:18 She must have passed me while I slept.
00:36:20 Well?
00:36:22 Well, I'm waiting.
00:36:23 My goose was cooked.
00:36:25 She had me.
00:36:27 That Haskell guy wasn't dead yet.
00:36:29 He wasn't stretched out stiff and cold in any Arizona gully.
00:36:32 He was sitting right there in the car, laughing like mad while he haunted me.
00:36:37 Well?
00:36:38 There was nothing I could say.
00:36:41 It was her move.
00:36:42 Vera, whatever her name was,
00:36:44 it was just my luck picking her up on the road.
00:36:47 It couldn't have been Helen or Mary or Evelyn or Ruth.
00:36:51 It had to be the very last person I should ever have met.
00:36:55 That's life.
00:36:57 Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you.
00:37:00 I told her everything, but she didn't believe my story.
00:37:08 I should have saved my breath.
00:37:10 That's the greatest cock and bull story I ever heard.
00:37:12 So he fell out of his car.
00:37:14 Say, who do you think you're talking to, a hick?
00:37:16 Listen, mister, I've been around,
00:37:18 and I know a wrong guy when I see one.
00:37:20 What'd you do, kiss him with a wrench?
00:37:22 Now, wait a minute. What I told you was true.
00:37:24 You see, that's why I had to do it.
00:37:25 You think I killed him.
00:37:26 Well, the cops would have thought so, too.
00:37:28 Yeah, well, maybe they still think so.
00:37:30 What makes you so sure I'll shut up about this?
00:37:33 Vera, I'm innocent.
00:37:34 Give me a break, will you?
00:37:37 It won't do me any good having you pinched.
00:37:39 The cops are no friends of mine.
00:37:41 Now, if there was a reward, but there isn't.
00:37:44 Thanks.
00:37:45 Don't thank me yet.
00:37:46 I'm not through with you by a long shot.
00:37:48 Let's see that roll.
00:37:50 Is that all Haskell had?
00:37:58 Isn't it enough?
00:37:59 No, I thought he had more.
00:38:00 Not that I know of.
00:38:01 You can search me if you think I'm holding out on you.
00:38:02 Well, maybe I will at that.
00:38:04 He told me he was gonna bet $3,000 on a horse named Paradisical
00:38:07 on Wednesday at Santa Anita.
00:38:09 He was stringing you along. He meant $300.
00:38:11 Maybe.
00:38:12 Sure, $3, $300.
00:38:13 He was a piece of cheese, a big blowhard.
00:38:15 Listen, mister, don't try and tell me anything about Charlie Haskell.
00:38:18 Remember, I knew him better than you did.
00:38:20 Okay, then you knew he was a foreflusher.
00:38:21 That explains the $3,000 bet.
00:38:23 I'm not so sure he didn't have that $3,000.
00:38:25 Why should I believe you?
00:38:27 You got all the earmarks of a cheap crook.
00:38:29 Now, wait a minute.
00:38:30 Shut up.
00:38:31 You're a cheap crook and you killed him.
00:38:32 For two cents, I'd change my mind and turn you in.
00:38:34 I don't like you.
00:38:35 All right, all right. Don't get sore.
00:38:37 I'm not getting sore.
00:38:38 But just remember who's boss around here.
00:38:40 If you shut up and don't give me any arguments,
00:38:42 I've got nothing to worry about.
00:38:43 But if you act wise, well, mister, you'll pop into jail so fast it'll give you the bends.
00:38:47 I'm not arguing.
00:38:48 Well, see that you don't.
00:38:49 You know, as crooked as you look,
00:38:51 I'd hate to see a fella as young as you wind up sniffing that perfume
00:38:54 that Arizona hands out free to murderers.
00:38:56 I'm not a murderer.
00:38:57 Of course you're not.
00:38:58 Haskell knocked his own head off.
00:38:59 He fell, that's how it happened, just like I told you.
00:39:01 Sure, and then he made you a present of his belongings.
00:39:03 I explained why I had to do that.
00:39:04 Oh, skip it.
00:39:05 It doesn't make a difference one way or another.
00:39:06 I'm not a mourner.
00:39:07 I like Haskell even less than I like you.
00:39:10 Yeah, I saw what you did to him.
00:39:11 What do you mean?
00:39:12 On scratches on his wrist.
00:39:14 Sure, I scratched him.
00:39:15 Well, so you did.
00:39:17 So your idea was to drive the car a little way,
00:39:21 maybe into San Bernardino, and then leave it.
00:39:23 You weren't going to sell it?
00:39:24 Sell it?
00:39:25 You think I'm crazy? Somebody else's car?
00:39:27 See, all I want to do is leave it somewhere and forget I ever saw it.
00:39:30 Not only don't you have any scruples, you don't have any brains.
00:39:33 I don't get you.
00:39:34 Maybe it's a good thing you met me.
00:39:36 You'd have got yourself caught, sure.
00:39:38 Why, you dope.
00:39:39 Don't you know a deserted automobile always rates an investigation?
00:39:42 Huh?
00:39:43 Look, the cops find a car.
00:39:45 Then they get curious.
00:39:46 They wonder where the owner is.
00:39:48 So, all right, they don't trace Haskell.
00:39:50 They trace you.
00:39:52 I never thought of that.
00:39:53 The only safe way to get rid of the car is to sell it to a dealer.
00:39:56 Get it registered under a new name.
00:39:58 Say, stop at the next store.
00:40:00 I want to get a bottle and do some shopping before we hit L.A.
00:40:03 Okay.
00:40:04 As soon as we find a place, I'll drop you off and pick you up later.
00:40:06 Nothing doing.
00:40:07 You're coming in, too.
00:40:08 From now on, you and I are like the Siamese twins.
00:40:11 Have it your way.
00:40:12 I don't get the point.
00:40:13 The point is, I don't want you to get lost.
00:40:15 I'm not going to beat it if that's what you're afraid of.
00:40:17 I'll say you're not.
00:40:18 Well, I'm going to see that you sell this car so you don't get caught.
00:40:21 Thanks.
00:40:22 Of course, your interest wouldn't be financial, would it?
00:40:25 You wouldn't want a small percentage of the profits.
00:40:28 Well, now that you insist, how can I refuse?
00:40:31 A hundred percent will do.
00:40:32 Fine.
00:40:33 I'm relieved.
00:40:34 I thought for a moment you were going to take it all.
00:40:37 I don't want to be a hog.
00:40:38 A few hours later, we were in Hollywood.
00:40:43 I was recognizing places Sue had written about.
00:40:46 It struck me that far from being at the end of the trip,
00:40:49 there was a greater distance between Sue and me than when I started out.
00:40:52 Vera wasn't kidding with that Siamese twins crack.
00:40:57 She rented a little apartment as Mrs. Charles Haskell.
00:41:01 When I objected to this, she explained that it was on account of the car.
00:41:05 A dealer might think something was funny if he called and found we were using different names.
00:41:09 Home, sweet home.
00:41:15 Yeah.
00:41:16 Not bad either.
00:41:18 In case there's any doubt in your mind, I'll take the bedroom.
00:41:28 Yeah.
00:41:29 Sure is stuffy in here.
00:41:33 Keep the window shut.
00:41:34 Okay.
00:41:35 The old crow downstairs said there's a fallen bed behind this door.
00:41:41 You know how to work it?
00:41:48 I invented it.
00:41:53 I'm not sure I'm going to be able to do it.
00:41:58 I'm sure you will.
00:41:59 I invented it.
00:42:00 Some joint.
00:42:05 One can't have everything.
00:42:06 I'm first in the bathtub.
00:42:13 I don't know why, but I figured you would be.
00:42:16 Boy, oh boy.
00:42:28 It sure feels good to be clean again.
00:42:30 I must be 10 pounds lighter.
00:42:33 You must be.
00:42:35 Well, hitching rides isn't exactly the way you keep your schoolgirl complexion.
00:42:40 I wish that guy with the sacks would give up.
00:42:46 Gets on my nerves.
00:42:49 Forget it.
00:42:52 Have a drink.
00:42:56 Aren't you afraid I might take you up on it?
00:42:58 If I didn't want to give you a drink, I wouldn't have offered it.
00:43:02 Why be a sorehead, Roberts?
00:43:05 You got yourself into this thing.
00:43:07 You should be grateful I'm not turning you in.
00:43:10 Why, if I wasn't regular, you'd be in the pen this minute,
00:43:13 being photographed, finger-pinted, and being pushed around by the cops.
00:43:16 So cheer up.
00:43:18 Get rid of that long puss.
00:43:20 Or is your conscience bothering you?
00:43:25 No.
00:43:26 It isn't.
00:43:28 Swell.
00:43:29 That's the spirit.
00:43:30 He's dead, and no moment around will bring him back.
00:43:34 Anyway, I never could understand this worrying about something that's over and done with.
00:43:41 Now look, Vera, for the last time, I didn't kill him.
00:43:43 Haskell was a sick man.
00:43:45 Maybe he was dead before he fell out of the car. I don't know.
00:43:47 Sure, sure. He died of old age.
00:43:49 Oh, don't worry.
00:43:51 Sure, sure. He died of old age.
00:43:53 All right.
00:43:55 So if it'll make you sociable,
00:43:57 you didn't kill him.
00:44:00 Thanks.
00:44:13 (SIGHS)
00:44:14 We're out of liquor, Roberts.
00:44:24 Yeah.
00:44:26 Too bad. I felt like getting tight tonight.
00:44:30 Well, I think you succeeded.
00:44:32 Am I tight?
00:44:33 As a prima donna's corset.
00:44:35 That's good.
00:44:36 I wanted to get tight.
00:44:38 Why? What have you got to get tight about?
00:44:41 Oh, I don't know.
00:44:42 A few things.
00:44:43 Huh.
00:44:45 You should have my worries.
00:44:48 If I had your troubles, I'd stay sober.
00:44:51 And I've got the key to that door.
00:44:52 Yeah.
00:44:57 Maybe you're right.
00:44:59 I'm always right.
00:45:00 You know, I don't like your attitude, Roberts.
00:45:04 Well, there's a lot of things I don't like.
00:45:06 Sure.
00:45:08 Hey.
00:45:09 Life's like a ball game.
00:45:14 You got to take a swing at whatever comes along
00:45:16 before you wake up and find it's a ninth inning.
00:45:18 I bet you read that somewhere.
00:45:20 That's the trouble with you, Roberts.
00:45:22 All you do is bellyache.
00:45:24 Instead of taking it easy
00:45:27 and, well, trying to make the best of things.
00:45:29 But maybe that's what's wrong with the whole world.
00:45:33 Get the professor.
00:45:34 People knock themselves out trying to buck fate.
00:45:37 Now, take you, for instance.
00:45:38 You're lucky to be alive.
00:45:40 Why, suppose Haskell had pulled open your door?
00:45:43 You'd be playing a harp now.
00:45:44 Think of that.
00:45:46 You think of it.
00:45:48 I'm tired of thinking.
00:45:50 There's plenty of people dying this minute
00:45:53 that would give anything to trade places with you.
00:45:56 I know what I'm talking about.
00:45:59 I'm not so sure.
00:46:02 At least they know they're done for.
00:46:05 They don't have to sweat blood wondering if they are.
00:46:07 Your philosophy stinks, pal.
00:46:10 We all know we're going to kick off someday.
00:46:14 It's only a question of when.
00:46:16 But what's got us on this subject anyway?
00:46:20 We'll be discussing politics next.
00:46:22 Yeah.
00:46:24 Where'd you hide the butts?
00:46:27 On the table, sucker.
00:46:30 We bored each other with conversation
00:46:31 for a couple of hours longer.
00:46:33 Every five minutes, one of us was wishing
00:46:35 we had another bottle or a radio or something to read.
00:46:38 Then finally, we ran out of chat.
00:46:41 I know it's only 11 o'clock,
00:46:44 but I want to get up early and make the rounds
00:46:46 of the used car lots.
00:46:47 No hurry about that.
00:46:48 We've got all the time in the world.
00:46:50 Maybe you have, but if you think I want to stay quiet,
00:46:52 I'll have to get up early.
00:46:54 I'm not going to be here all day.
00:46:56 I'm going to be here all night.
00:46:58 I know you have, but if you think I want to stay
00:46:59 cooped up in this place any longer than I have to,
00:47:01 you're batty.
00:47:02 It's not a bad place.
00:47:03 They pay plenty for diggings like this in New York.
00:47:04 I wouldn't like it if it was the Ritz.
00:47:06 You brought me liquor.
00:47:12 You got a mean cough.
00:47:14 I ought to do something about it.
00:47:15 I'll be all right.
00:47:17 That's what Camille said.
00:47:18 Who?
00:47:20 Nobody you know.
00:47:21 Wasn't that the day in the diet of consumption?
00:47:27 Yeah.
00:47:28 Wouldn't it be a break for you if I did kick off?
00:47:30 You'd be free with all Haskell's dough and car.
00:47:33 I don't want to see anybody die.
00:47:36 Not even me?
00:47:38 Especially not you.
00:47:40 One person died in me.
00:47:42 If you did, well, that's all I need.
00:47:44 You don't like me, do you, Roberts?
00:47:48 I like you.
00:47:51 I love you.
00:47:55 My favorite sport is being kept prisoner.
00:47:57 After we sell the car, you can go to blazes for all I care,
00:48:00 but not until then.
00:48:01 I'm going to bed.
00:48:10 Good night, Roberts.
00:48:20 Don't try and sneak away during the night.
00:48:22 All the doors are locked.
00:48:24 Anyway, if I find you gone in the morning,
00:48:25 I'll notify the police.
00:48:27 They'll pick you up.
00:48:28 Don't worry, I know when I'm in the spot.
00:48:29 Well, good night.
00:48:32 I hope that portable rack isn't too uncomfortable for you.
00:48:34 Don't lose any sleep over it, will you, Ferb?
00:48:37 (DOOR SLAMS)
00:48:38 (DOOR SLAMS)
00:48:40 (DOOR CREAKS)
00:48:42 (DOOR CREAKS)
00:48:43 (DOOR CREAKS)
00:49:10 (DOOR SLAMS)
00:49:11 Chris, if you...
00:49:16 Six...
00:49:19 Five...
00:49:21 Seven...
00:49:23 Two...
00:49:25 Three...
00:49:26 Hello?
00:49:29 Hello?
00:49:31 Hello?
00:49:33 Hello?
00:49:35 Hello?
00:49:36 No.
00:49:44 Not yet, darling.
00:49:46 Tomorrow.
00:49:49 Maybe.
00:49:51 If this were fiction,
00:49:56 I would fall in love with Vera,
00:49:58 marry her and make a respectable woman of her,
00:50:00 or else she'd make some supreme class A sacrifice for me
00:50:03 and die.
00:50:05 Sue and I would bawl a little over her grave
00:50:07 and make some crack about there's good in all of us.
00:50:09 But Vera, unfortunately,
00:50:12 was just as rotten in the morning as she'd been the night before.
00:50:15 (KNOCKING ON DOOR)
00:50:17 All right, all right, I'm coming.
00:50:19 Look, Vera, it's almost noon.
00:50:21 So what? The dealers will be there all day?
00:50:25 They'll be there all year, too, but that doesn't mean I'm going to wait that long.
00:50:28 Shut up. You're making noises like a husband.
00:50:33 Well, do I rate a whistle?
00:50:35 You sure do, but let's go.
00:50:37 Let's go, let's go.
00:50:38 I spent 85 bucks and two hours preparing bait
00:50:40 and all you can say is let's go.
00:50:42 Come on.
00:50:45 We passed a few used car lots last night down this way.
00:50:53 What do you think we can get for this heap?
00:50:55 I don't know. Plenty.
00:50:56 You just let me handle everything.
00:50:58 Think we can get $2,000?
00:51:00 I don't know, but don't worry.
00:51:02 I'll squeeze as much out of this guy as I can.
00:51:04 I'll let it go cheap without a fight.
00:51:06 He might think we've stolen the car.
00:51:08 And listen, don't make any slips and call me Roberts.
00:51:11 That'll cook us.
00:51:12 I don't need you to tell me that.
00:51:14 You better just sit by and keep your mouth closed.
00:51:16 Remember, we're both in this soup if anything happens.
00:51:18 Forget it and drive.
00:51:20 You're my wife, Vera Haskell.
00:51:22 Look, after the deal's closed,
00:51:25 let's go back to that place on Hollywood Boulevard
00:51:27 where I saw the fur jacket.
00:51:28 I want to buy it.
00:51:30 After the deal's closed, I'm saying goodbye to you.
00:51:32 That's right. I forgot.
00:51:34 I guess I'm getting kind of used to you.
00:51:36 Well, that's a habit you can start breaking.
00:51:39 Let's try this place in the middle of the block.
00:51:41 Good afternoon. What can I do for you?
00:51:50 We're interested in selling a car.
00:51:52 If the price is right.
00:51:53 Well, if it's in good mechanical condition,
00:51:58 we'll book for about $1,600.
00:52:00 Tony, take a look at this motor.
00:52:02 $1,600? Are you kidding?
00:52:05 Well, maybe $1,850.
00:52:18 Before I let it go for $1,850,
00:52:19 I'll wreck it and collect the insurance first.
00:52:26 I'm afraid this motor's seen a lot of driving.
00:52:28 Well, the mechanic inspected the car.
00:52:37 We haggled.
00:52:38 At last, when we were all worn out,
00:52:40 we hit a compromise.
00:52:42 His price.
00:52:43 Okay, it's a deal.
00:52:48 All right, come in. We'll sign the papers.
00:52:49 I have the ownership papers right here with me.
00:52:51 Look, Vera, in the meantime,
00:52:52 will you clean out the dash compartment?
00:52:54 There may be some stuff in it.
00:52:55 All right, darling.
00:52:56 $1,850.
00:53:01 That dirty crook.
00:53:02 New York, huh?
00:53:11 Yeah, but you bought the car in Miami.
00:53:13 Yeah.
00:53:14 Well, now let's see about the insurance.
00:53:17 We can either have it transferred or canceled.
00:53:19 Uh, what kind of insurance do you have, Mr. Haskell?
00:53:23 Well, uh, aren't all the papers there?
00:53:25 I don't see any.
00:53:29 Surely you know what type of insurance
00:53:31 you carry in the car.
00:53:32 The name of the company?
00:53:33 Yeah, but, uh...
00:53:36 Well, if you'll just tell me the name of the company,
00:53:38 I'd be very glad to take care of all the details.
00:53:40 Well...
00:53:41 Did you sign the papers yet?
00:53:42 Not yet.
00:53:43 Well, don't.
00:53:44 We're not selling the car.
00:53:45 Well, wait a minute, Mrs. Haskell.
00:53:46 Come on, darling.
00:53:47 What's the matter?
00:53:48 You changed your mind?
00:53:49 Yes, I'm sorry. I guess I have.
00:53:50 But, Vera...
00:53:51 Let's go.
00:53:52 (car beeping)
00:53:53 You got me out of a tight spot, Vera.
00:54:00 But I still don't understand all this.
00:54:01 You will in a minute.
00:54:02 I almost threw away a gold mine.
00:54:04 1850 isn't to be sneezed at.
00:54:06 The car doesn't book for as much as I thought.
00:54:08 We're not selling the car.
00:54:09 You want to keep it?
00:54:11 Now, wait a minute, Vera.
00:54:12 You said yourself I wouldn't be safe
00:54:13 until the car was in someone else's name.
00:54:15 I like to be free of this mess when I go.
00:54:17 That's just it, Roberts.
00:54:18 You're not going.
00:54:20 There's a driver at the next corner.
00:54:21 Pull in there and we'll get a bite to eat.
00:54:23 I'll explain.
00:54:24 What is this, another one of your brilliant ideas?
00:54:26 Hello. May I take your order?
00:54:34 Make mine a ham sandwich and coffee.
00:54:36 And for you, sir?
00:54:37 Oh, I don't care. The same.
00:54:38 Thank you.
00:54:41 Get this, Vera.
00:54:47 I've been pretty patient so far.
00:54:49 I've done everything you asked me to do, but no more.
00:54:51 Shut up.
00:54:52 You've taken Haskell's money.
00:54:53 And you can have the door we get from selling the car.
00:54:55 But you're not going to keep me a prisoner.
00:54:57 It's a good thing I bought the paper.
00:54:58 Take a look at that.
00:54:59 Vera, I'm in no mood.
00:55:00 Read that.
00:55:01 No.
00:55:12 Yes.
00:55:13 No, I won't do it.
00:55:14 Yes, you will.
00:55:15 You think I'm crazy?
00:55:16 It's impossible, I tell you.
00:55:18 Excuse me.
00:55:19 Blow the horn when you're through.
00:55:26 No one could possibly get away with an act like that.
00:55:32 It'd be wise to me in a minute.
00:55:33 Don't be yellow.
00:55:34 You look enough like him.
00:55:35 The same coloring and the same build.
00:55:37 See how his clothes fit you?
00:55:38 No kidding, you almost had me fooled for a while.
00:55:41 Oh, grow up, Vera.
00:55:42 Don't you think a father knows his own son?
00:55:44 And there must be other relatives.
00:55:45 The father won't have to know you.
00:55:46 Well, wait till he gives up the ghost.
00:55:48 He's an old geezer and he won't pull through.
00:55:50 And as far as other relatives are concerned,
00:55:52 they haven't seen you in 15 or 20 years.
00:55:54 Eat.
00:55:56 I'm not hungry.
00:55:57 And I won't do it.
00:55:59 It's not as tough as it sounds.
00:56:01 Remember, you've got all kinds of identification.
00:56:03 His car, letters, license.
00:56:04 I could never get away with it.
00:56:05 It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
00:56:07 The old boy has scads of dough.
00:56:08 Look in the paper there.
00:56:09 Personal fortune assessed at over 15 million.
00:56:12 He'll leave plenty, I tell you.
00:56:13 Maybe he cut off his son.
00:56:14 How do we know?
00:56:15 It's out, Vera.
00:56:16 I won't have anything to do with it.
00:56:18 I think you will.
00:56:21 Look, Vera, I'll do anything within reason.
00:56:24 But not that.
00:56:25 So forget it.
00:56:26 Find yourself another stooge.
00:56:27 You sack!
00:56:28 You'll be fixed for the rest of your life as Charlie Haskell.
00:56:31 You can take your inheritance and go away.
00:56:33 No more worrying about the rent,
00:56:34 no sweating, scheming,
00:56:35 wondering where your next meal's coming from.
00:56:37 Think about that, Roberts!
00:56:38 Vera, please, you're talking too loud.
00:56:41 Unless I'm splitting 50/50 with you.
00:56:43 Sure, why not?
00:56:44 We're both alike.
00:56:45 Both born in the same gutter.
00:56:46 Take it easy, Vera.
00:56:47 There's people around here.
00:56:48 You don't know who you're talking to.
00:56:50 Well, wait till we read that old man Haskell's dead.
00:56:53 Then you show up.
00:56:54 Like you read in New York that he was sick.
00:56:56 No.
00:56:58 Suppose he doesn't die?
00:56:59 He will.
00:57:00 I know he will.
00:57:01 Something tells me.
00:57:02 But as much as I insisted I would have no part of her scheme,
00:57:07 Vera was taking it for granted I would.
00:57:11 Neither of us had our mind on the cards as we played that night.
00:57:14 I knew we were just trying to kill time between newspaper editions.
00:57:18 This was a death watch for Vera.
00:57:20 Maybe it was for me, too.
00:57:23 Don't you realize if I'm caught,
00:57:25 they'll want to know where I got the car and stuff,
00:57:27 and they'll have me on a murder charge.
00:57:28 If you're smart, you won't get caught.
00:57:30 I knock with seven.
00:57:31 And if I'm caught, don't you realize you'll be out too?
00:57:34 18 points, that gives me 30.
00:57:37 How will I be out?
00:57:40 $1,850 we would have gotten on the car.
00:57:42 Really, Vera, you'd be an awful chump
00:57:43 if you threw away all that dough in a dizzy long shot.
00:57:45 Let me sell the bus tomorrow.
00:57:47 With the money it'll bring and what you've already got,
00:57:49 a clever kid like you can run it up in no time.
00:57:51 Then we'd both be in the clear.
00:57:52 I'll be in the clear anyway.
00:57:53 Maybe.
00:57:54 Maybe.
00:57:55 But if I got caught,
00:57:57 I'd get good and sore too, you know.
00:57:59 You mean you'd squeal?
00:58:00 Oh, no, not squeal exactly.
00:58:01 Never mind what you meant.
00:58:03 Even if you did tell the cops I was in on it with you,
00:58:08 what could they do to me?
00:58:10 They might give me the same medicine they gave you.
00:58:13 Yeah.
00:58:14 A rope.
00:58:15 But I'm on my way anyhow.
00:58:19 All they'll be doing will be rushing it.
00:58:23 All right.
00:58:25 But think of the 18.50 you'd lose.
00:58:27 You'd kick yourself along the block
00:58:28 if you ever let get away from you.
00:58:29 I'll take the chance.
00:58:31 Want another drink?
00:58:32 You're being a goon.
00:58:33 That's the way people wind up behind the eight ball.
00:58:35 Once they get a few dollars, they become greedy
00:58:37 and want more.
00:58:38 My, my.
00:58:39 Caesar.
00:58:40 Who?
00:58:41 You know that Roman general?
00:58:42 He got his for being greedy.
00:58:43 He wasn't satisfied,
00:58:44 so the final wind-up was he took the count.
00:58:46 A couple of days ago, you didn't have a dime.
00:58:49 While you were so broke,
00:58:50 you couldn't pay cash for a postage stamp.
00:58:52 Now you've got almost $700 with 18.50 in the offing.
00:58:55 Take my advice.
00:58:56 Don't try for more.
00:58:57 I'm tired of this game.
00:58:58 Let's have some blackjack.
00:58:59 Play solitaire.
00:59:00 Okay, I will, if that's the way you feel about it.
00:59:02 That's the way I feel about it.
00:59:03 Getting sore and throwing things won't help much, Roberts.
00:59:05 I'm really doing you a favor.
00:59:07 I help you out of the jam by keeping my mouth shut.
00:59:09 I show you how to make some soft money.
00:59:11 And what thanks do I get?
00:59:12 Thanks!
00:59:13 Sure.
00:59:14 I would rather call the cops and tell them you killed a man
00:59:15 and stole his money.
00:59:16 I didn't kill anybody.
00:59:17 Yes, you did.
00:59:18 No, I didn't.
00:59:19 You know I didn't.
00:59:20 All right, then.
00:59:21 Suppose I call the cops.
00:59:24 If you're innocent, what do you got to be scared of?
00:59:27 Okay.
00:59:28 Call them, you mutt.
00:59:29 Go ahead and call them.
00:59:30 See if I care.
00:59:31 At least they'll give me a square deal.
00:59:33 You want me to call them?
00:59:34 You heard me.
00:59:35 But I'm warning you.
00:59:36 If I'm pinched, I'll swear you were innocent.
00:59:38 I'll say that you helped me.
00:59:39 If I fry, I'll get even with you.
00:59:41 You wouldn't dare.
00:59:42 You're chicken!
00:59:43 Yeah?
00:59:44 Then try it and see.
00:59:45 Call them.
00:59:46 Yeah.
00:59:47 Okay, I will.
01:00:02 Information?
01:00:04 I want the number of the Hollywood police station.
01:00:09 Okay, I got it.
01:00:10 Thanks.
01:00:14 Wait a minute, Vera.
01:00:15 You wouldn't do that.
01:00:16 Who wouldn't?
01:00:17 Give me that and I'll show you if I would.
01:00:18 Take it easy now.
01:00:19 Let's talk this over.
01:00:20 This was early in the evening.
01:00:22 And the conversation, while hectic,
01:00:24 was at least pitched low.
01:00:26 But as the minutes passed,
01:00:28 and more obstacles to her plan popped into my head,
01:00:31 the air got blue.
01:00:33 Each word coming from our lips cracked like a whip.
01:00:36 I reminded her that as Charles Haskell,
01:00:38 I didn't even know my mother's name,
01:00:40 where I'd gone to school,
01:00:42 the name of my best friend,
01:00:44 whether I had an Aunt Emma or not,
01:00:46 my religion,
01:00:47 and if I'd ever owned a dog.
01:00:49 I didn't even know what my middle initial stood for.
01:00:52 I also pointed out that the real Haskell
01:00:54 had a scar on his forearm.
01:00:56 His people never saw that scar.
01:00:58 He told me he ran away right after putting out the kid's eye.
01:01:00 Yeah, but his father knew he was cut.
01:01:01 It'd have to be some kind of a mark.
01:01:02 So what?
01:01:04 The old man's dead or will be,
01:01:06 I hope, by tomorrow morning's papers.
01:01:08 Anyway, you could cut yourself a little, couldn't you?
01:01:12 Boy, for that kind of dough,
01:01:14 I'd let you cut my leg off.
01:01:16 You're drunk and you're crazy mad, Vera.
01:01:18 Turn me in if you want to, but I won't get mixed up in this.
01:01:20 Besides, how do we know Haskell was such a phony?
01:01:22 Maybe he wasn't the man's son at all.
01:01:23 Maybe he just dreamed it up.
01:01:24 Well, dream it or not,
01:01:26 you won't be dreaming when the law taps you on the shoulder.
01:01:29 There's a cute little gas chamber waiting for you, Roberts.
01:01:33 And I hear extradition to Arizona's a cinch.
01:01:36 Where's that phone?
01:01:38 Vera!
01:01:39 Leave me alone!
01:01:40 Vera!
01:01:41 I want a phone call, police!
01:01:43 I hate you, you stinker, you.
01:01:47 Leave me alone!
01:01:48 I'll let you alone when you promise to leave the phone where it is.
01:01:50 You're drunk, you don't know what you're doing.
01:01:52 You're hurting me.
01:01:53 Will you promise?
01:01:54 All right.
01:01:57 You hurt me.
01:01:59 I'm sorry, but...
01:02:00 And it's hot in here, open up a window!
01:02:02 It's not hot.
01:02:03 Don't tell me, not until you do what I do, I do it.
01:02:07 You're an old gentleman, see?
01:02:10 Yeah.
01:02:11 All right, I'll open up the window.
01:02:13 Vera!
01:02:17 Vera!
01:02:23 Vera!
01:02:25 Vera, open the door.
01:02:27 Please open the door.
01:02:28 Vera, open the door, don't use the phone, listen to me.
01:02:31 I don't like you, Roberts.
01:02:33 You're an old gentleman, see?
01:02:35 You hurt my hand.
01:02:37 And I'm gonna get even with you.
01:02:39 If you don't open the door, I'm gonna kick it down, Vera.
01:02:42 Vera, don't call the cops.
01:02:44 Listen to me, I'll do anything you say.
01:02:46 Vera, let me in.
01:02:48 I'll break the phone!
01:02:51 Vera!
01:02:52 Vera!
01:02:54 Vera!
01:02:56 [SIREN]
01:02:58 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:03:01 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:03:29 The world is full of skeptics.
01:03:31 I know.
01:03:33 I'm one myself.
01:03:35 In the Haskell business, how many of you would believe he fell out of the car?
01:03:38 And now, after killing Vera without really meaning to do it,
01:03:40 how many of you would believe it wasn't premeditated?
01:03:43 In a jury room, every last man of you would go down shouting that she had me over a barrel
01:03:49 and my only out was force.
01:03:51 The room was still.
01:03:54 So quiet that for a while I wondered if I had suddenly gone deaf.
01:03:58 It was pure fear, of course.
01:04:00 And I was hysterical.
01:04:02 But without making a sound.
01:04:04 Vera was dead.
01:04:07 And I was her murderer.
01:04:09 Murderer.
01:04:10 What an awful word that is.
01:04:12 But I'd become one.
01:04:14 I'd better not get caught.
01:04:16 What evidence there was around the place had to be destroyed.
01:04:19 And from the looks of things, there was plenty.
01:04:21 Looking around the room at things we'd bought was like looking into the faces of a hundred people
01:04:24 who'd seen us together and who remembered me.
01:04:27 This was the kind of testimony I couldn't rub out.
01:04:30 No.
01:04:32 I could burn clothes and hide bottles for the next five years.
01:04:35 There'd always be witnesses.
01:04:37 The landlady, for one.
01:04:38 She could identify me.
01:04:39 The car dealer, the waitress in the drive-in, the girl in the dress shop,
01:04:41 and that guy in the liquor store.
01:04:43 They could all identify me.
01:04:45 I was cooked.
01:04:47 Done for.
01:04:49 I had to get out of there.
01:04:51 While once I'd remained beside a dead body,
01:04:53 planning carefully how to avoid being accused of killing him,
01:04:57 this time I couldn't.
01:04:59 This time I was guilty.
01:05:01 I knew it.
01:05:03 I felt it.
01:05:05 I was like a guy suffering from shock.
01:05:07 Things were whirling around in my head.
01:05:09 I couldn't make myself think right.
01:05:12 All I could think of was the guy with the saxophone and what he was playing.
01:05:16 It wasn't a love song anymore.
01:05:19 It was a dirge.
01:05:22 [music]
01:05:25 [music]
01:05:27 ♪ (soft dramatic music)
01:05:43 (door closes)
01:05:45 ♪ (soft dramatic music)
01:06:06 ♪ (soft music)
01:06:09 - But my problems weren't solved.
01:06:11 I had to stay away from New York for all time...
01:06:15 because Al Roberts was listed as dead and had to stay dead.
01:06:19 And I could never go back to Hollywood.
01:06:22 Someone might recognize me as Haskell.
01:06:25 Then too...there was Sue.
01:06:29 I could never go to her with a thing like this
01:06:31 hanging over my head.
01:06:34 All I could do was pray she'd be happy.
01:06:38 ♪ (soft music)
01:06:48 I was in Bakersfield before I read
01:06:50 that Vera's body was discovered...
01:06:52 that the police were looking for Haskell
01:06:54 in connection with his wife's murder.
01:06:58 Isn't that a laugh?
01:07:00 Haskell got me into this mess,
01:07:02 and Haskell was getting me out of it.
01:07:04 The police were searching for a dead man.
01:07:07 ♪ (soft music)
01:07:09 I keep trying to forget what happened...
01:07:13 and wonder what my life might have been
01:07:15 if that car of Haskell's hadn't stopped.
01:07:19 But one thing I don't have to wonder about...
01:07:23 I know!
01:07:26 Someday a car will stop to pick me up that I never thumbed.
01:07:30 ♪ (soft music)
01:07:34 Yes...fate.
01:07:37 Or some mysterious force can put the finger on you or me...
01:07:42 for no good reason at all.
01:07:44 ♪ (dramatic music)
01:07:58 [BLANK_AUDIO]