The Personality Kid 1934
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00:00:56 - Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, one, two, stay down you sucker.
00:01:03 Four, five, take the count of nine.
00:01:07 Seven, eight, nine.
00:01:08 (bell ringing)
00:01:11 The winner!
00:01:12 (crowd cheering)
00:01:15 - Well, Hospice, he looks like a good percentage.
00:01:27 Good luck.
00:01:27 - I'm a censor.
00:01:40 (bell ringing)
00:01:42 - Ladies and gentlemen.
00:01:44 The next part of the evening, 10 rounds of boxing or less.
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00:01:57 In this corner, at 164, the sensational flash
00:02:04 and dancing master, Ritzy McCarty.
00:02:07 (crowd cheering)
00:02:10 (crowd cheering)
00:02:12 - When do you dance, Ritzy?
00:02:20 - You dance, your feet.
00:02:23 (crowd cheering)
00:02:27 (bell ringing)
00:02:38 - And in this corner, at 165,
00:02:41 the stupider bruiser, Santa White.
00:02:44 (crowd cheering)
00:02:47 - Boys know the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, boxing?
00:02:55 - Perfectly.
00:02:56 - Oh, no, no, no, cracks.
00:02:58 Now when I ask you to break, break clean.
00:03:01 (bell ringing)
00:03:05 (crowd cheering)
00:03:08 - Give me a beat.
00:03:18 Come on, use your right.
00:03:32 - One, two, three.
00:03:34 Three, four, five, six.
00:03:36 - Get him, get him, Ritzy.
00:03:47 - One, two, three, four.
00:03:51 (bell ringing)
00:03:56 - Nice work, Ritzy.
00:04:00 - Hiya, babes.
00:04:01 - Make it snappy and I'll let him have it.
00:04:03 - You hungry?
00:04:04 - Starving.
00:04:05 - Okay, I'll take him this round.
00:04:06 (whip cracking)
00:04:08 (whistle blowing)
00:04:10 (bell ringing)
00:04:12 - Oh, she quit clowning.
00:04:16 - Customers like it all right, this noon.
00:04:19 (knocking)
00:04:21 ♪ Holy a lucky ♪
00:04:26 ♪ Holy a lucky I, holy I, I, oh ♪
00:04:30 ♪ Holy a lucky ♪
00:04:32 (crowd cheering)
00:04:35 - He ain't got no punch to speak of.
00:04:40 - How do you think that muscle-bound center
00:04:41 is falling on his face all the time?
00:04:43 Footwork.
00:04:44 - He's shifty, I grant you that.
00:04:49 - He's got color, that's what he's got.
00:04:51 The crowd wants him.
00:04:52 He can be taught.
00:04:53 - Okay, let's wait for him.
00:04:55 - Use your right, Ritzy.
00:04:59 - I'll let him have it.
00:05:01 - One, two, three, four, five, six,
00:05:07 - Good night, champ.
00:05:11 - Seven, eight, nine, out.
00:05:13 - The winner, Ritzy McCartney.
00:05:19 (crowd cheering)
00:05:21 - When a fighter rates that kind of a racket,
00:05:31 he smells like box office to me.
00:05:33 - Well, you ought to know.
00:05:34 - Come on, you eggs, you're on next.
00:05:35 Step on it.
00:05:36 (crowd cheering)
00:05:39 - Hiya, slacks.
00:05:42 Take it easy, boys, the sailor's still out cold.
00:05:45 See you later, babe.
00:05:48 - What's the matter, you looking for me?
00:05:50 - I'm Jay Stevens, I run the Coliseum.
00:05:52 This is Mr. Gavin, he manages the light heavyweight chain.
00:05:55 - Yeah, so what?
00:05:56 You got a manager?
00:05:58 The best in the world.
00:05:59 - Yeah?
00:06:00 Who's that?
00:06:01 - Wait a minute.
00:06:02 Hey, babes, come here.
00:06:04 Boys, meet Mrs. Ritzy McCartney, my manager.
00:06:10 - Come on, come on, cut out the clowning.
00:06:13 We want to talk business with you.
00:06:14 - You don't have to wear pants
00:06:15 and talk out the corner of your mouth
00:06:16 to be a fight manager.
00:06:17 - A girl?
00:06:18 Managing a pug like him?
00:06:20 - You want to sign him for a fight
00:06:21 at the Coliseum, Mr. Stevens?
00:06:23 - Well, we might offer you a deal.
00:06:25 - Oh, now don't do us any favors.
00:06:28 You want him because the fans want him.
00:06:29 All that nuts stuff, tap dancing, derby hat, they go for it.
00:06:32 Say, listen, we'd pack your Coliseum
00:06:34 like it's never been packed before.
00:06:35 - Hey, Shamrock, give me those clippings, will you?
00:06:37 Kinda like yourself, don't you?
00:06:39 - Sure, fans like us too.
00:06:40 - Hey, get a pipe of this.
00:06:42 Ritzy McCartney KO's Fine McBurton III.
00:06:45 Ritzy McCartney did it in Wisecrack,
00:06:46 tapped the teens, derby hats, and left hooks,
00:06:47 knocked out Fine McBurton III
00:06:48 round the preliminary last night.
00:06:49 He's undoubtedly a--
00:06:50 - Come on!
00:06:52 He's nothing but a cheap four-convener.
00:06:54 - Yeah?
00:06:54 You're around trying to sign him up, ain't you?
00:06:57 - Listen, brother, what you need is a rap on the puss.
00:07:01 (laughs)
00:07:04 She makes all my deals.
00:07:06 - Bring him around the office tomorrow.
00:07:08 Maybe we can cook up something.
00:07:10 - See you in cooking school.
00:07:11 Well, we're on our way to big time, honey.
00:07:15 - Mm, now you hurry up and get dressed.
00:07:18 - All right, babes.
00:07:19 ♪ We're in the money ♪
00:07:21 ♪ Da da da da da ♪
00:07:23 - Now you can get that town car, champ.
00:07:25 And I can be your sofa.
00:07:27 - Yeah.
00:07:28 I suppose you want one of those phone-colored uniforms.
00:07:31 - Phone-colored?
00:07:32 - Mm-hmm.
00:07:33 - Mm-mm.
00:07:34 Pale chocolate.
00:07:35 ♪ We're in the money ♪
00:07:40 (door opens)
00:07:42 - Good evening.
00:07:48 - Good evening.
00:07:49 What'll it be?
00:07:50 Beef sandwich, bowl of chili, and coffee, twice.
00:07:54 - That be all?
00:07:54 - That'll be plenty.
00:07:58 - No, bring me a mulled milk.
00:08:00 - Okay.
00:08:00 - Say, she's cute.
00:08:04 - Cut that out, Mr. McCarty.
00:08:07 You're on your honeymoon.
00:08:08 - Oh, she'll be cuter than anybody's honeymoon.
00:08:10 (both laugh)
00:08:11 - That's great, babes.
00:08:12 After we sign with Stevens at the Coliseum,
00:08:16 Madison Square Garden, huh?
00:08:18 - Maybe.
00:08:19 It all depends.
00:08:20 - Depends on what?
00:08:22 - Oh, listen, Ritzy, we're not in this fight record to stay.
00:08:24 Soon as we get 25 grand, we're gonna get out and stay out.
00:08:27 - Listen, honey, 25 G's is only grape nuts to a champ.
00:08:30 - Well, that's what we need it for, grapes.
00:08:31 Look.
00:08:32 Look.
00:08:35 Be independent.
00:08:37 Keep the vineyard and the vineyard will keep you.
00:08:39 That's what we're gonna raise, honey.
00:08:41 - Sure, and a flock of kids too, huh?
00:08:43 - Ah, bragging again, huh?
00:08:45 - Sure I'm bragging and I'm gonna be champ too.
00:08:47 - What do you wanna be champ for?
00:08:48 - Honey, will you stop being so dumb?
00:08:51 - Oh, maybe I'm dumb, but from where I sit, it looks to me
00:08:54 that being champ don't get you anything
00:08:56 but grief and cauliflower ears.
00:08:57 - Yeah, babes, but the fight game-
00:08:59 - Oh, it's not a game, Ritzy, it's a record.
00:09:02 So, we make it past 25 grand and then we kiss it goodbye.
00:09:05 Hey, look at Gene Tunney, he never went to quit, did he?
00:09:08 - Yeah.
00:09:09 Yeah, I guess maybe you're right.
00:09:11 - Of course I'm right.
00:09:12 That's why I'm your manager.
00:09:13 I tell you what to do and you do it, right?
00:09:15 - Right.
00:09:16 - Then kiss me.
00:09:17 - Right.
00:09:18 - Well, little girl, ain't that a good contract?
00:09:26 - Sure, it's good for you.
00:09:27 Hey, Ritzy, they only want 50% of you.
00:09:29 - Yeah?
00:09:31 I should get in there and trade punches with those monks
00:09:32 to give you four bits and every buck, huh?
00:09:34 - Now, wait a minute.
00:09:35 Mr. Gavin guarantees you six fights more dough
00:09:37 than you ever heard of, doesn't he?
00:09:38 - I don't know, does he?
00:09:39 - Yeah, that part of it's all right.
00:09:40 Now, look.
00:09:42 You make these changes, cut that 50 to 35, and we'll sign.
00:09:45 - Make it 25.
00:09:46 - Let me handle this, will you?
00:09:49 - Yeah, you go and take a walk around the block.
00:09:52 Okay, babes, you're the boss.
00:09:55 Don't let the James boys put anything over on you.
00:10:03 - See you at ring sign.
00:10:04 - In my corner.
00:10:05 - You must be screwy.
00:10:10 No boy under my exclusive management can--
00:10:12 - He'll be under our exclusive management.
00:10:14 I'm not resigning.
00:10:16 - And will he do what I say?
00:10:17 - He'll do what I say if I think it's good for him.
00:10:19 - What do you think?
00:10:21 Shall we take our terms?
00:10:22 - I think the little lady's pretty smart.
00:10:24 She'll work with us.
00:10:26 - Okay, girlie.
00:10:27 I'll have them retype the contract.
00:10:31 - Thanks.
00:10:32 - What are you figuring?
00:10:34 - Price of grapes.
00:10:36 - Grapes?
00:10:37 - Yeah, tons of grapes.
00:10:39 - What have grapes got to do with pugs?
00:10:43 - You'd be surprised.
00:10:44 (dramatic music)
00:10:48 - That'll be a pretty good fight, don't you think, Rankin?
00:10:58 Oh, Gavin, you know Rankin of the dispatch, don't you?
00:11:01 - Sure I do.
00:11:02 - We're old friends.
00:11:03 - Just came to the boxing commission,
00:11:04 saw the boys weigh in.
00:11:06 Who do you like for tonight's scrap, Ritzy or Kearney?
00:11:09 - I may be wrong, but the whole thing
00:11:10 smells from herring to this old nose.
00:11:12 - What do you mean?
00:11:13 - I mean that Kearney could kill this Ritzy of yours.
00:11:16 But something tells me he won't.
00:11:21 What do you think, Pop?
00:11:26 - Shouldn't wonder if that guy had house arrest.
00:11:31 - House detective Bloodman.
00:11:32 (crowd cheering)
00:11:35 (bell dings)
00:11:41 (crowd cheering)
00:11:43 (crowd cheering)
00:11:46 (crowd cheering)
00:11:49 (crowd cheering)
00:11:52 (crowd cheering)
00:11:54 (crowd cheering)
00:12:05 (bell dings)
00:12:21 (crowd cheering)
00:12:24 - Hiya, babes.
00:12:40 - Nice work, Ritzy.
00:12:41 - Don't look now.
00:12:44 That dame's here again.
00:12:45 Ringside seats.
00:12:47 (crowd cheering)
00:12:50 - Let's find out about her.
00:12:52 - Oh, yeah, she's an artist.
00:12:54 She paints pictures on magazine covers.
00:12:56 - Say, I wouldn't look bad on a magazine cover.
00:12:59 - Been there the last three fights.
00:13:00 (whistle blows)
00:13:04 (bell dings)
00:13:11 (crowd cheering)
00:13:14 (crowd cheering)
00:13:17 - Hiya, gorgeous.
00:13:33 - Oregon 6612.
00:13:35 - Ritzy, get on your feet, get back in the ring.
00:13:38 Get back in there, girl, put on your weave,
00:13:39 get in there, ring.
00:13:43 - Oregon 6612.
00:13:44 Oregon 6612.
00:13:46 Oregon 6612.
00:13:49 Oregon 6612.
00:13:51 (crowd cheering)
00:13:55 - Hey, huh?
00:14:01 - All right, get up, go!
00:14:05 (crowd cheering)
00:14:08 (crowd cheering)
00:14:11 - Oregon 6612.
00:14:17 - How much?
00:14:20 - 6612.
00:14:21 - Six and six is 12, boxcars.
00:14:25 One and two, three, crafts.
00:14:28 Whoa, bad luck.
00:14:29 - 6612.
00:14:30 (cash register dings)
00:14:34 Oregon 6612, yeah.
00:14:37 Boxcars, huh?
00:14:38 Oh, hello.
00:14:40 This is Ritzy, the winner.
00:14:43 The guy you had on your lap, you know.
00:14:45 Yeah.
00:14:46 - Wait a moment.
00:14:48 It's my cute little prize fighter.
00:14:50 - Well, maybe you'd rather be left alone.
00:14:53 - Oh, don't be tiresome, Freddy.
00:14:54 Ask him to come up.
00:14:55 We're having a little party.
00:14:59 Won't you join us?
00:15:00 - Well, I'd like to, but I'm gonna be busy,
00:15:04 but, oh, I'd be a sucker to pass up a doll like you.
00:15:07 Where is it?
00:15:09 - The Biltmore Towers.
00:15:10 - I'm practically there.
00:15:12 Go on, scram, shamrock, will you?
00:15:14 - Ritzy!
00:15:15 - Boxcars.
00:15:17 - Where were you going?
00:15:23 - Oh, I'm just going out and grab a sandwich
00:15:24 and a cup of coffee, you know.
00:15:25 - The last time you told me that,
00:15:26 you stayed out all night.
00:15:27 - Can I help it if coffee keeps me awake all night?
00:15:29 I won't be late.
00:15:30 - Nothing doing.
00:15:32 Where you go, I go.
00:15:33 (footsteps thudding)
00:15:35 - Come on, throw 'em.
00:15:36 Come on, hit me.
00:15:37 Come on, Pat, hit me.
00:15:38 See that?
00:15:40 I'm too smart.
00:15:41 Too fast, he can't touch me.
00:15:42 - I wish I could handle my body like that.
00:15:44 - Yeah?
00:15:45 Well, you'll do all right.
00:15:47 - Yes?
00:15:48 - Sure.
00:15:49 You know, it's all footwork, watch.
00:15:51 (footsteps thudding)
00:15:54 You move your body in close,
00:15:55 and you clench,
00:15:57 you get it?
00:15:59 - I get it.
00:16:00 Break.
00:16:02 - Yeah, yeah, yeah, then you break,
00:16:03 and you shift, and it's one, two.
00:16:05 And you get your men on the ropes,
00:16:06 and you're two.
00:16:07 (woman screams)
00:16:08 - Good, that's what they call the killer instinct.
00:16:10 - Yeah.
00:16:12 Yeah, that's it.
00:16:13 The killer instinct.
00:16:14 That's what I got.
00:16:15 - Divine.
00:16:16 You know, I'd love to have you pose for me.
00:16:18 - What do you mean?
00:16:19 You wanna paint me like those dames?
00:16:21 - That's the general idea.
00:16:22 Don't you think you'd make a splendid subject
00:16:24 for a Mobatine poster?
00:16:26 - Excellent.
00:16:27 - You know, when better bodies are built,
00:16:29 Mobatine will build them.
00:16:30 - I'll use that for a slogan.
00:16:33 - You will pose for me, won't you?
00:16:34 - How do you think it'll look?
00:16:37 - It'll look fine.
00:16:38 - Endorse Mobatine, and you'll be paid for it.
00:16:41 - Oh, business, huh?
00:16:42 - Strictly business.
00:16:44 - Well, I'm sorry.
00:16:45 My manager takes care of all my deals.
00:16:48 Babes, come here a minute, will you?
00:16:49 Pat wants me to pose for a poster endorsing that Mova...
00:16:54 - Mobatine.
00:16:55 - Mobatine.
00:16:56 - Yeah, for how much?
00:16:57 - 500's the usual price.
00:16:59 - Oh, no, no, a thousand.
00:17:00 - I'll make it 1,500.
00:17:01 - Let me handle this, will you?
00:17:02 Of course, you know, you couldn't get
00:17:05 a better model than Ritzy.
00:17:06 - 650.
00:17:09 - I'm a lady too.
00:17:11 I'll come down to 850.
00:17:12 - I want him, but he's going to cost me too much.
00:17:15 - Not a penny more than 750.
00:17:18 - I don't want to make him swell-headed,
00:17:20 but he's worth that to me just to keep him around the house.
00:17:23 Besides, he's got a swell smile.
00:17:25 Now, that alone ought to be worth another 100.
00:17:27 Ritzy, smile for the lady.
00:17:30 - But I don't want him to smile.
00:17:32 - Oh, well, that's different.
00:17:34 Without the smile, he's 750.
00:17:36 So, the lady in the gray dress for the lace cuffs for 750.
00:17:41 Without the smile.
00:17:41 - You really don't have to stay, Mrs. McCarty.
00:17:53 - Nothing's going to happen to Ritzy.
00:17:56 It is nothing serious.
00:17:58 - It is nothing serious.
00:17:59 - Well, I don't know.
00:18:02 This sort of oil may go to his head.
00:18:05 - It's getting awful crowded in here.
00:18:07 - This body is a valuable piece of property,
00:18:09 and I'm here to protect my interests.
00:18:11 - You go out and get me a fight with the champ.
00:18:14 It's my body, and I'll do all the worrying about it.
00:18:16 - Listen, Rosebud.
00:18:17 According to the community property laws of this state,
00:18:20 50% of this body is mine.
00:18:22 What am I offered for my half interest?
00:18:25 - Better be careful.
00:18:26 Someone may take you up.
00:18:27 - Will little Rosebud take good care of its beautiful body
00:18:32 while little Joanie goes to market for a fight?
00:18:34 - Will hit a Joanie like a great big sock on the kisser?
00:18:37 - Careful of that leopard skin, darling.
00:18:44 - Don't worry.
00:18:45 I'll watch him for you.
00:18:46 - Always cracking me.
00:18:52 (dramatic music)
00:18:54 - All right, relax.
00:19:02 - Say, kid.
00:19:14 You sure got the goods.
00:19:16 - You mean have, don't you?
00:19:19 - Yeah.
00:19:20 That's what I mean, have.
00:19:22 You know, you get careless with your English
00:19:23 when you're mixed with all sorts of people.
00:19:26 - You have contempt for the crowd, haven't you?
00:19:28 - Uh-huh.
00:19:29 Yeah, that's what I got, contempt.
00:19:32 - You were born to get your own way too, weren't you?
00:19:37 - Hi, babes.
00:19:52 - Hi.
00:19:53 - You're not sore, are you?
00:19:55 Not sore 'cause I come in late.
00:19:58 - Oh no, no.
00:20:00 That's four or five o'clock in the morning.
00:20:02 I'm lucky you came home at all.
00:20:04 - Well, I couldn't help it, kid.
00:20:06 No, I met some of the boys last night and...
00:20:10 Oh, you know how it is.
00:20:11 - Sure.
00:20:12 Sure, I know how it is.
00:20:14 Sort of the papers, they know how it is.
00:20:16 - Why, what's it?
00:20:19 - Last night at the Club Mirador,
00:20:20 the latest in hot chart, that lovely illustrator,
00:20:22 Patricia Merrill, wined and dined
00:20:24 with the newest boat o'er String, it's ritzy.
00:20:26 - Pork and beater?
00:20:28 Why, that dirty mudslinger,
00:20:31 I'll bust my dukes on his ugly muck.
00:20:33 - Mr. McCarty's such language.
00:20:35 Patricia wouldn't like it, I'm sure.
00:20:38 - Yeah, and there'll be enough out of you too.
00:20:40 - Take it easy, it's tough luck to hit a newspaper man.
00:20:44 - Yeah?
00:20:44 Well, it looks like I'm gonna run into
00:20:45 plenty of tough luck then.
00:20:47 (rain pattering)
00:20:50 - Ritzy, what's that girl got that I haven't got?
00:20:53 - Not a thing, babes, not a thing.
00:20:57 You could give her five aces
00:20:59 and still hold the winning hand.
00:21:00 I don't know how it happened, honestly, I don't.
00:21:03 I come to and I was lugging her around the floor.
00:21:06 I didn't tell you 'cause, well, I thought you'd get sore.
00:21:12 - You thought right.
00:21:13 - Nice party, though.
00:21:15 Met a lot of nice people.
00:21:16 Different.
00:21:18 Only had a lot of fast chatter and smart talk.
00:21:20 - Oh, yeah?
00:21:22 Well, what did they say that was so smart?
00:21:24 - Oh, a lot of smart talk.
00:21:25 All about introverts and extroverts
00:21:29 and I couldn't follow the gab.
00:21:32 - Bet you followed Patricia around all right.
00:21:36 - Oh, will you stop riding me?
00:21:38 I didn't even know she was there.
00:21:41 - You didn't hold her hand?
00:21:43 - Well, sure, there's nothing wrong about that.
00:21:46 - I didn't know.
00:21:47 You didn't put your arm around her waist, though.
00:21:49 - No.
00:21:50 - Not even while you were dancing?
00:21:52 - Well, sure, but I couldn't help it.
00:21:54 - You didn't hold her close, though?
00:21:56 - Well, not too close.
00:21:57 - Well, how close?
00:21:59 - Well, something like that.
00:22:01 - I'll bet it was more like that.
00:22:03 - Well, yeah, something.
00:22:05 - You didn't kiss her?
00:22:06 - No.
00:22:07 - Not even when you said goodnight?
00:22:09 - Well, you know, she kind of held up her pan
00:22:12 and, well, what would you do?
00:22:15 - I'd kiss her.
00:22:16 - Yeah, yeah, that's what I did.
00:22:18 Hey, lay off.
00:22:20 You can't browbeat me.
00:22:21 I want Stanford.
00:22:22 I'll walk out on you.
00:22:23 I'm gonna be the next champ, see?
00:22:24 And I gotta learn to meet the right kind of people.
00:22:26 Look at mugs like Tony and I'm going places, too.
00:22:28 - Listen, you were a pork and beaner when I picked you up.
00:22:31 And like a sap, I fell in love with you.
00:22:32 Well, I still love you.
00:22:33 And wherever you're going, I'm going, too, see?
00:22:35 - Sure you are, honey, that's what I meant.
00:22:38 But hey, take it easy, will you?
00:22:40 Say, I'm gonna have you meet lots of swell people.
00:22:42 - Yeah, we'll have 'em over for tea.
00:22:44 - Oswald, you're killing me.
00:22:46 - Come on, babes.
00:22:47 Lay one on this mug.
00:22:49 - No more chiseling.
00:22:51 - Uh-uh.
00:22:51 - No more freelancing.
00:22:52 - No.
00:22:53 - No odd jobs.
00:22:54 - Mm-mm.
00:22:55 - No night work.
00:22:56 - Mm-mm.
00:22:57 - You promise?
00:22:58 - I promise.
00:22:59 - If you trip me again, don't bother to pick me up.
00:23:03 Just phone the nearest hospital.
00:23:05 - What?
00:23:06 - Pretend I didn't say it.
00:23:07 - Oh, just when I get going good,
00:23:11 you pull something like that on me.
00:23:12 - Don't say that.
00:23:14 - That's why people like you are the backbone of the nation.
00:23:16 - Yeah.
00:23:18 Yeah, I guess you're right.
00:23:19 I certainly am putting the fight game back on its feet.
00:23:21 - She's mad to take up with a character like that.
00:23:26 - He has his points.
00:23:27 - Oh, hello, Bill.
00:23:29 - Hello, McCarty.
00:23:30 - How are you?
00:23:31 - Mr. Rankin, Miss Merrill.
00:23:32 - We're leaving.
00:23:33 - Oh, yeah?
00:23:34 - I promised to put Ritchie to bed early.
00:23:36 - Why, that's too bad.
00:23:37 I wanted to have a little chat with him.
00:23:38 - Yeah, and I want to have a little chat with you too,
00:23:39 if you don't mind stepping outside a minute.
00:23:41 - Gladly.
00:23:42 - So sorry we have to leave.
00:23:43 - Oh.
00:23:44 - I won't be a moment.
00:23:53 - Poor convener, huh?
00:24:00 - She's a little out of your class, Ritchie.
00:24:02 - Yeah, well, she's a lady, see?
00:24:04 - She acts like one.
00:24:05 - Now you get this, Rankin.
00:24:07 You print anything you want about me,
00:24:08 but leave her name out of it, understand?
00:24:10 - Listen, my paper pays me to dig up news,
00:24:12 and it's always news when a mug like you
00:24:14 starts training on a doll like that.
00:24:16 - Too bad a guy can't go out once in a while
00:24:17 without your mugs picking on him.
00:24:18 - I still contend that if you're gonna continue training
00:24:21 on tea dances, polo, and golf,
00:24:22 Biff Sullivan is gonna kill your chance
00:24:24 at the championship.
00:24:24 - Why, you...
00:24:25 - I'm always for the guy who smells of sweat
00:24:29 over the one who smells of perfume.
00:24:31 Say, that's a good line.
00:24:32 I think I'll use it.
00:24:34 - I don't know why I don't punch you in the nose.
00:24:36 - What'd you say, sweetheart?
00:24:38 - Gee, it's a shame a nice guy like you
00:24:39 has to wear glasses.
00:24:40 That's another good line.
00:24:41 Why don't you use that?
00:24:42 (upbeat music)
00:24:47 (speaking in foreign language)
00:24:58 (knocking)
00:24:59 - Who's that?
00:25:00 - I don't know.
00:25:01 - Tell Ritzy I'm here.
00:25:06 (crowd chattering)
00:25:09 - The Madam Queen is here.
00:25:14 - Who?
00:25:15 - The Archduchess.
00:25:17 You know boxcars.
00:25:18 - Give me that comb.
00:25:19 Throw me that rabbit's foot.
00:25:23 - I came to wish you luck, Ritzy.
00:25:30 - Yeah, yeah, well, I was hoping you would.
00:25:32 - Good luck, Chong.
00:25:35 - Oh, thanks.
00:25:36 Gee, that's great.
00:25:37 Patsy and Ritzy, eh?
00:25:40 Oh, I get it, the winner.
00:25:42 I'll put one in each glove.
00:25:45 What round do you want?
00:25:47 - Well, let's see.
00:25:48 The fifth.
00:25:50 - You got it.
00:25:51 - Last round, get ready, McCartney and Sullivan.
00:25:55 (crowd chattering)
00:25:58 (crowd chattering)
00:26:01 - I wish he'd cut out the bodger like.
00:26:11 - Listen to the customers.
00:26:12 - Jim, do that Alabama shuffle.
00:26:17 (laughing)
00:26:23 - Tell him another one.
00:26:24 - Now the Mississippi fade away.
00:26:26 (crowd chattering)
00:26:29 (whistle blowing)
00:26:43 (crowd chattering)
00:26:50 (crowd chattering)
00:26:53 - Finish him, Ritzy, come on, finish him.
00:27:10 (crowd chattering)
00:27:19 - Did you get it?
00:27:20 - Yeah, I knocked it.
00:27:21 - Get on the level.
00:27:22 - Looks like it.
00:27:24 (crowd chattering)
00:27:26 - Smells like fish to me.
00:27:34 - Nice woodwork, Ritzy.
00:27:41 It's great to be in such good condition.
00:27:45 Ritzy, Ritzy!
00:27:46 - Yes, it's worth.
00:27:47 - Ritzy, come on, you've got talk on the radio.
00:27:50 - Hi folks, it's well fine.
00:27:51 Sullivan gave me a great battle.
00:27:52 Wait a minute, listen.
00:27:53 Get it?
00:27:56 My manager.
00:27:56 - See you downstairs, darling.
00:27:59 - Hi, babes.
00:28:03 Sullivan come to yet?
00:28:04 - No, where's your hand?
00:28:05 - Oh, Jake, I guess he's got a glass jaw.
00:28:07 Maybe I'm developing a punch.
00:28:08 - Didn't I tell you there was dynamite in that rider of yours?
00:28:10 Look, I've got to go out and collect some dough
00:28:12 and tend to a few other details.
00:28:13 So I'll see you when you get home, huh?
00:28:14 - All right.
00:28:15 - Unless you want me to stick around.
00:28:16 - No, don't wait for me.
00:28:16 I've got to set up drinks for the boys.
00:28:17 I won't be late though.
00:28:18 - Okay, I'll have a snack for you when you get home.
00:28:20 - All right.
00:28:21 Say Shamrock, you think Sullivan was hurt bad?
00:28:23 - That right is sure right tonight, champ.
00:28:25 - Let's see, five G's for five rounds.
00:28:31 Five goes into five how many times?
00:28:32 - Once.
00:28:33 - One G for every three minutes?
00:28:35 That beats Garbo's salary, don't it?
00:28:37 It makes me the highest paid actor in the world.
00:28:40 - Hello, Beth.
00:28:43 How do you feel, kid?
00:28:46 - I was worried.
00:28:46 - About what?
00:28:48 - Well, about that punch.
00:28:49 I didn't want to have any manslaughter charges against me.
00:28:52 - Sam, that settles it.
00:28:53 I'm going to Hollywood.
00:28:54 I am the best actor in the world.
00:28:56 - What do you mean?
00:28:59 - You don't think that you could hit hard enough
00:29:00 to drop me on a square, do you?
00:29:02 - Are you trying to kid me?
00:29:04 Are you trying to kid me?
00:29:05 Why, you dirty double-crossing.
00:29:12 Come on, Beth, let's get out of here.
00:29:17 - Yeah, let's scram.
00:29:18 - You still think you can knock me out?
00:29:19 - Come on, come on.
00:29:20 - What do you think now, cheese champ?
00:29:22 Sullivan?
00:29:31 Sullivan!
00:29:34 Sullivan!
00:29:36 Sullivan!
00:29:38 Sullivan!
00:29:40 Is Gavin here?
00:29:41 - Not in here.
00:29:42 - Sherlock!
00:29:42 Is Gavin here?
00:29:45 - No, not in here.
00:29:45 - You might find him at Verona's, champ.
00:29:47 - Hello, McCarty.
00:29:58 Have a drink.
00:29:59 - Gavin, I just saw Sullivan.
00:30:00 - Yeah? How is he?
00:30:01 - You know how he is.
00:30:02 - Have a drink.
00:30:03 - Who's been making a sucker out of me?
00:30:04 - Take it easy, Willie Ritchie,
00:30:05 and let's go back to the hotel.
00:30:05 - Whose idea was it that Sullivan
00:30:06 should take a dive tonight?
00:30:07 Yours?
00:30:08 - Go easy, Willie Ritchie.
00:30:09 - Answer my question.
00:30:10 Did Sullivan take a dive or didn't he?
00:30:11 - Shut up, you fool.
00:30:12 You're trying to talk yourself right out of the fight game.
00:30:13 - I am out of the fight game.
00:30:14 - Can I quote you on that?
00:30:15 - Yeah, and I'm all fed up on you
00:30:16 and the rest of these crooks.
00:30:17 If I ever fight again, it's gonna be on the level.
00:30:18 You get that?
00:30:19 - Yeah, do you think you can?
00:30:20 - Why, you...
00:30:21 - Come on, what are you trying to do?
00:30:22 You're drunk now.
00:30:23 - All right, so what?
00:30:24 Give me a drink straight.
00:30:25 Sullivan did take a dive in the fifth, eh?
00:30:27 Have you got a statement to make, Gavin?
00:30:28 - He's lying.
00:30:29 - I'm gonna print the story just the same.
00:30:30 - Your newspaper will be sued for libel.
00:30:32 You can't prove that statement, Rankin.
00:30:33 - Sullivan told McCarty.
00:30:34 - Sullivan's punch drunk.
00:30:35 He don't know what he's saying.
00:30:36 - Yeah, Rankin, and we'll prove that.
00:30:38 - Yeah, I'll take that chance.
00:30:39 - Who do you think will ever give you a fight now,
00:30:45 you double-crossing mug?
00:30:47 - Me double-crossing?
00:30:48 - Yes, you.
00:30:50 We've got money invested in you, and you go and spill.
00:30:53 Listen, you think you're important?
00:30:55 You're a little frog in a great big ocean.
00:30:58 We picked you up and swelled you up
00:31:00 and made you a great big frog.
00:31:02 Your wife knew all about it.
00:31:03 She was in on it from the start.
00:31:05 What kind of a line are you trying to hand out anyway?
00:31:08 - Are you trying to tell me that my wife framed me?
00:31:11 Well, all right.
00:31:14 I'm gonna ask her.
00:31:17 And if you guys are lying, I'm coming back.
00:31:20 Then here's one fight that won't be framed.
00:31:23 (men chattering)
00:31:25 - Is that you, Ritzy?
00:31:30 Soup's on.
00:31:32 (bowls clinking)
00:31:35 - Well, what's the matter?
00:31:38 - Joan, is it true what Gavin and Stevens told me?
00:31:41 Is it?
00:31:42 - Ritzy, you're hurting me. - Is it true?
00:31:43 - It's not true.
00:31:44 - But you were in with these two crooks
00:31:45 and you knew these fights were framed.
00:31:47 - Sure, I knew it.
00:31:49 - Why, you...
00:31:51 - Ritzy.
00:31:57 Ritzy!
00:31:58 Ritzy, listen to me, you gotta listen.
00:32:01 - I've got nothing to listen to.
00:32:02 I'm getting out of here, see?
00:32:03 As soon as I get my share of the dough.
00:32:04 - Don't worry, there is no dough.
00:32:06 - No dough?
00:32:07 - You don't buy fighters that'll take a dive for nothing.
00:32:09 You've got a couple of thousand coming to you
00:32:10 from tonight's fight and that's all.
00:32:12 - Gee, that's great.
00:32:13 That's just dandy.
00:32:15 - Ritzy.
00:32:16 Ritzy, where are you going?
00:32:17 - You and I are all washed up.
00:32:18 You made a crook out of me.
00:32:19 - Well, I'd rather be in love with a crook
00:32:20 than a punch-drunk, slug-nutty, worn-out,
00:32:22 pug-rocking on his heels.
00:32:23 And that's what you'd be if you stayed in the racket.
00:32:25 - I wanted you to get out while you were still normal,
00:32:27 while you still looked familiar.
00:32:28 - Sure, you framed me, you sold me out.
00:32:29 - Oh, I'm sorry, Ritzy, but I did it for you.
00:32:31 - Sure, you did it for me.
00:32:33 You put me in a spot where any decent man
00:32:34 would spit in my face, you did it for me, all right.
00:32:36 - Well, I always hated the racket
00:32:37 and I figured as soon as we could pull out with enough dough.
00:32:39 - You're no better than they are, a lot of crooks.
00:32:41 - Well, maybe what I did was wrong,
00:32:43 but I've been on the level with you.
00:32:44 We had a chance to pick up some easy dough
00:32:46 and live like other people.
00:32:47 I have a lot of kids and a regular home.
00:32:50 - Well, I wanted all that too,
00:32:51 but I didn't want it this way.
00:32:52 - Oh, no, you wanted to wait
00:32:54 until your head looked like a vegetable
00:32:55 and there was nothing between your ears but a vacant lot.
00:32:57 All I did was try to get you out of a racket
00:32:58 you're not fitted for.
00:32:59 - What do you mean not fitted?
00:33:00 - You haven't got a punch.
00:33:01 - I don't need a punch, I'm too clever.
00:33:03 - Oh, is that so?
00:33:04 Well, that's why we had to frame a flock of setups for you,
00:33:06 to build you up so you'd look good.
00:33:08 Then we could have cashed in,
00:33:09 that's what they call showmanship.
00:33:11 Oh, but you wouldn't know about that.
00:33:12 - I ought to punch you right in the nose.
00:33:21 - You probably wouldn't even join me.
00:33:23 (dramatic music)
00:33:35 - Well, it's fine.
00:33:50 You get a load of that headline?
00:33:52 It's a great write-up I got.
00:33:54 - Forget it, Ritzy.
00:33:55 Aside from that, how do you feel?
00:33:57 - Aside from that, right on top.
00:33:58 I could lick the world.
00:34:00 - What are you going to do about it?
00:34:01 - Oh, what am I gonna do?
00:34:02 I'm gonna see some of my friends and get a job.
00:34:05 - Will they have one?
00:34:06 - Sure, they used to make me a lot of offers.
00:34:09 Now when the commissioner lets me fight again,
00:34:11 I'm gonna go out and knock 'em all as cold
00:34:12 as a lot of ice cubes.
00:34:14 - Now you talk like yourself again.
00:34:16 - Say, listen, Pat.
00:34:20 You wouldn't pull a frame on me, would you?
00:34:23 - No.
00:34:25 Then again, I'm not in love with you.
00:34:27 (phone ringing)
00:34:29 Hello?
00:34:34 Oh, hello, Bill.
00:34:36 Why, yes, I'd love to.
00:34:38 Pick me up at seven.
00:34:40 I like the crayon.
00:34:41 All right.
00:34:43 - Who's Bill?
00:34:45 - Bill Armstrong, the illustrator.
00:34:49 - You scowl like that.
00:34:50 - I thought you were going out with me tonight.
00:34:54 - Did I say that?
00:34:55 - Well, no, not exactly.
00:35:00 - Ritzy, you're a nice boy and I like to have you around.
00:35:07 Why don't you use your head?
00:35:09 - Oh, I get it.
00:35:12 You don't want to be seen in public with me.
00:35:15 - I didn't say that.
00:35:16 - No, you didn't say that, but that's what you meant.
00:35:17 You're ashamed of me.
00:35:18 I'm good enough for you.
00:35:19 Think I'm just a mug, 165 pounds stripped.
00:35:21 - Sounds like the second act curtain.
00:35:25 - Oh, curtain.
00:35:28 I get it.
00:35:30 (dramatic music)
00:35:33 (dramatic music)
00:35:35 - Getting the fights lined up, champ?
00:35:53 - Well, I haven't made up my mind yet, champ.
00:35:56 I've had two or three offers.
00:35:59 - No, I'm just hanging around here temporarily myself.
00:36:02 (knocking)
00:36:04 - That's all right, champ.
00:36:08 I'll just put that on your account.
00:36:10 By the way, champ, have you heard anything
00:36:13 from the boxing commission about your money?
00:36:16 - No, no, not yet, but it's gonna be straightened out.
00:36:20 I'm gonna get it, all right?
00:36:22 - Double boxcar.
00:36:27 (dramatic music)
00:36:30 (water running)
00:36:32 - Harley B.
00:36:58 - Give me a hamburger.
00:36:59 Onion, pickle, relish, coleslaw?
00:37:02 - Yeah, give me the works.
00:37:03 - On the fire.
00:37:04 - Kiss me.
00:37:25 - I'll have the same and coffee.
00:37:28 - Come on, then.
00:37:29 - Hello, Ritzy.
00:37:30 - Hello.
00:37:32 - How's everything?
00:37:36 - Oh, all right, fine.
00:37:39 - I tried to find you, but couldn't locate you.
00:37:43 Gavin said that he hadn't seen you.
00:37:44 - Yeah, I moved to another hotel.
00:37:46 - Oh. - Yeah.
00:37:47 - Got a job?
00:37:53 - Mm-hmm.
00:37:55 Sure, I got a small job.
00:37:58 Oh, I only come in these places.
00:37:59 I like hamburgers, you can't get 'em in the swell joints.
00:38:03 - Anything else for you?
00:38:09 Coffee, pie, for you, coffee?
00:38:11 - No.
00:38:15 - Put it all on one check?
00:38:16 - Sure.
00:38:17 - That'll be 25 cents.
00:38:21 Well, so long.
00:38:27 - Where do you live, Ritzy?
00:38:28 - I live in a hotel uptown.
00:38:30 - Is everything all right?
00:38:32 - Sure, everything's fine, great.
00:38:34 I suppose you think if you're not my manager,
00:38:35 I'm gonna be a flop or something.
00:38:37 - Oh, no, I'm glad, Ritzy.
00:38:39 - Well, well, happy days.
00:38:41 (train chugging)
00:38:44 (bells ringing)
00:38:53 - All aboard for the Martin City Limited
00:39:07 on track number two, Salt Lake City.
00:39:12 Ogden, Denver, and Omaha
00:39:17 on track number two, all aboard.
00:39:20 (bells ringing)
00:39:26 (bells ringing)
00:39:55 - Pretty nice, huh?
00:39:56 - Say, you're the guys I'm looking for.
00:40:00 - Glass of beer, will ya?
00:40:01 - Okay, three beers.
00:40:03 I'm introducing a young fighter
00:40:05 in the main event of my club Thursday night,
00:40:07 a boy by the name of Mullen, Jack Mullen.
00:40:09 - Yeah, Mullen, I know him.
00:40:10 - Yeah, now this here fighter's got comedy,
00:40:11 he's a natural buildup.
00:40:12 Now, I gotta get somebody who'll lay down for him,
00:40:15 but who'll lay down, you know what I mean?
00:40:17 Like an artist.
00:40:18 - Yeah, I know what you mean.
00:40:19 Sure, I know what you mean.
00:40:20 Like nobody should know.
00:40:21 - Yeah, now there are wise words
00:40:23 that are taking the clarifites of my club
00:40:24 and you can't fool 'em.
00:40:25 So it's gotta be somebody who, you know what I mean?
00:40:28 - I gotcha.
00:40:28 - Yeah, I know what you mean.
00:40:29 - Well, dig up a guy then, a good one.
00:40:31 - But you can't get him for nothing,
00:40:32 you know that, don't you?
00:40:33 - Okay, just so long as he's good.
00:40:36 - Say, I know just the guy.
00:40:38 He comes in here every day about this time.
00:40:41 Wait a minute.
00:40:41 - Now, who do you mean?
00:40:52 - Ritchie McCarty, remember?
00:40:54 He's still suspended.
00:40:55 Now, there's a name.
00:40:57 There's a guy who'd take a dive just like you said.
00:40:59 - You mean like an artist?
00:41:00 - Like Georgia Coleman, just like you said.
00:41:03 - He'd take a dive for a hundred?
00:41:05 - Where do we come in?
00:41:06 Make it two.
00:41:07 - Are you sure you can get him to do it?
00:41:08 - I don't know, I'll have to talk to him.
00:41:10 - Mike.
00:41:24 Let me take five bucks, will you?
00:41:26 - Five bucks, huh?
00:41:27 - Yeah, I'm flat again.
00:41:28 - Flat again, eh?
00:41:30 - Yeah.
00:41:32 - Well, that's just too bad.
00:41:33 - Hey, Ed.
00:41:36 - There he is now.
00:41:41 He can't get any fights at any of the big clubs.
00:41:43 As a matter of fact, he can't get in anywhere.
00:41:45 Now, a red joint like yours,
00:41:46 it wouldn't make any difference.
00:41:47 You can use him,
00:41:48 and he'd be a big kick to your customers.
00:41:51 - Okay, see what you can do.
00:41:52 (upbeat music)
00:41:55 - Hello, McCarty.
00:42:00 How you feeling?
00:42:01 - What's it to you?
00:42:04 - Come here.
00:42:05 You all washed up at this fight game,
00:42:09 or would you like another chance?
00:42:11 - Another chance?
00:42:12 - Sure.
00:42:12 - Now, shake the suds out of your brain and listen.
00:42:15 You hate all these guys that won't give you another fight.
00:42:17 Won't even give you another chance, don't you?
00:42:19 Well, I got a guy who's willing to give you another start.
00:42:22 - Yeah.
00:42:22 - Not only is he willing to give you another start,
00:42:24 but he'll pay you a hundred bucks for it.
00:42:26 And all you gotta do is let the guy tab you in the sixth,
00:42:29 and get down nice and easy.
00:42:31 But make it look good, see?
00:42:33 Get it?
00:42:33 - Yeah.
00:42:35 Yeah, I see.
00:42:38 (crowd cheering)
00:42:41 - You can't make that kind of light up funny, buddy.
00:42:43 I ain't one in the level, see?
00:42:44 - All right, all right.
00:42:46 (dramatic music)
00:42:49 (dramatic music)
00:42:51 (dramatic music)
00:42:54 (dramatic music)
00:42:57 (dramatic music)
00:43:00 (dramatic music)
00:43:02 (dramatic music)
00:43:05 (dramatic music)
00:43:08 (dramatic music)
00:43:11 (dramatic music)
00:43:13 (dramatic music)
00:43:16 (dramatic music)
00:43:44 - When I say I can make you over into men
00:43:47 of giant strength and energy,
00:43:48 I know what I'm talking about.
00:43:50 I've seen my new system of body development,
00:43:53 dynamic tension, transform hundreds of men
00:43:56 into Thompson champions.
00:43:58 By this man here, just one of my hundreds of pupils.
00:44:01 Am I right, John?
00:44:02 - Before I studied dynamic tension,
00:44:04 I couldn't eat, sleep, and drink.
00:44:05 - Did you say drink?
00:44:07 - Yes, I said drink.
00:44:09 - I thought you said drink.
00:44:10 (crowd laughing)
00:44:12 - So if hands or butts,
00:44:14 just tell me where you want handsome, powerful muscles.
00:44:17 I can make you healthy, powerful, confident he-men
00:44:21 in seven days.
00:44:22 Why not have an arm of might with power and grip
00:44:26 to obey your physical desires?
00:44:28 I have taken weaklings whose arms were scrawny pieces
00:44:32 of skin and bone, and in a short time
00:44:35 have developed them into strong men of powerful proportions
00:44:39 with bulging biceps, brawny forearms,
00:44:43 strong, solid arms of power that are respected by men
00:44:48 and admired by women.
00:44:50 Enroll now and get a pair
00:44:52 of Professor Thompson's dumbbells free.
00:44:55 Step right up, folks.
00:44:56 - So this is where you've been keeping yourself.
00:45:01 - Yeah.
00:45:02 - How long have you been doing this?
00:45:03 - Oh, about two or three days.
00:45:05 Some job for me, yeah?
00:45:09 Ritzy McCarty, common middleweight champion.
00:45:12 Oh, I only did it with the professor, though.
00:45:14 He's a friend of mine.
00:45:15 I wanted to help him out.
00:45:16 - You always were considerate, Ritzy.
00:45:17 How's your wife?
00:45:20 - I don't know.
00:45:21 - And don't care?
00:45:23 - It's all over.
00:45:24 - It's all over?
00:45:25 You're sure of that?
00:45:26 - Oh, I haven't seen her in six months.
00:45:31 - I have.
00:45:32 She called me up a few days ago, looking for you.
00:45:35 - Nothing doing.
00:45:38 I'm traveling light.
00:45:39 No chains, no chicks.
00:45:42 - No chains, no chicks.
00:45:47 - That's what I said.
00:45:48 - Then maybe you'd like to come and see me.
00:45:52 - Oh, well, Pat, that's different.
00:45:54 I'd love that.
00:45:55 - I've taken a little studio shop down here.
00:45:58 Why don't you come and see me tonight?
00:46:00 - Practically there.
00:46:02 - I guess we're all washed up here, Ritzy.
00:46:05 There's no loose change in these crowds.
00:46:07 - It's all right with me.
00:46:08 I'll pay my back pay.
00:46:09 - There it is.
00:46:10 There's your commission, 260.
00:46:11 (door opening)
00:46:14 (footsteps)
00:46:16 (footsteps)
00:46:18 (footsteps)
00:46:21 (knocking)
00:46:47 (door opening)
00:46:49 (soft music)
00:46:53 - Why, hello, Ritzy.
00:46:54 - Hello, babes.
00:46:59 - Well, who showed you the way?
00:47:02 - Well, I just saw a sign said, "This way to Jones,"
00:47:07 and another sign said, "This way to Jones,"
00:47:10 and I just kept following the signs, and here I am.
00:47:16 - I phoned Patricia, but she said she hadn't seen you.
00:47:18 I didn't know where you were.
00:47:20 - Yeah, that's a funny thing.
00:47:23 We just happened to bump into each other.
00:47:25 - Oh, Ritzy, that's beautiful.
00:47:29 Oh, gee.
00:47:31 - You sick?
00:47:34 - No, I'm not sick.
00:47:35 Just a little tired.
00:47:37 - Working?
00:47:39 - Until a month ago.
00:47:41 - Laid off, huh?
00:47:42 - No.
00:47:44 No, I'm just taking time out to have a...
00:47:46 - What?
00:47:51 - You know.
00:47:52 - One of them pink things that yell?
00:47:56 - Yeah.
00:47:57 - Gee.
00:48:02 So I'm gonna have a baby.
00:48:04 - You?
00:48:06 - Yeah, me.
00:48:09 - Well, then you better get down here on the couch.
00:48:11 - No, you gotta stay there.
00:48:12 You need rest and quiet.
00:48:13 - No.
00:48:14 I know all about these things.
00:48:15 Whatever you crave, I gotta get.
00:48:16 - Is that so?
00:48:17 - Yeah, and I'm gonna see it through.
00:48:18 This is one thing that I'll manage.
00:48:20 You got a doctor?
00:48:21 - They tell me there's one to every six people in town.
00:48:23 - Well, all right.
00:48:24 I'll get the best.
00:48:25 I'll get a nurse and all that.
00:48:26 I got a great idea.
00:48:27 You stay here till I get back.
00:48:32 - Okay.
00:48:37 I'll break my day at the Ritz.
00:48:40 (door opening)
00:48:42 - Hey, McCartney, no red stuff.
00:48:46 - Oh, no, I'm looking for red now.
00:48:48 - In that room around the corner.
00:48:49 - Thanks.
00:48:50 - The offer still go?
00:48:53 - Well, you changed your mind, eh?
00:48:55 Well, that's okay with me.
00:48:57 A hundred bucks is a lot of dough.
00:48:59 - Tell you what I'll do.
00:49:00 I'll fight you man on the level for nothing.
00:49:01 If I can't beat him, I'll take a dive in the last round.
00:49:03 Is that all right with you?
00:49:04 - You'll take a dive when I tell you to.
00:49:06 - I'm all right.
00:49:07 How about the dough?
00:49:08 - Not only after the fight.
00:49:10 - Well, gee, I'm broke.
00:49:11 Can't you let me have five bucks on account?
00:49:13 - Don't forget, Thursday night.
00:49:18 Blue Star Arena.
00:49:20 - Thanks.
00:49:21 - Wow.
00:49:38 - Here you are, babes.
00:49:39 Here.
00:49:40 - Garlic mixture.
00:49:43 - Sure.
00:49:44 Here. - Hot, sir.
00:49:45 Oh, Rissy.
00:49:47 - Look at that.
00:49:50 Cute, huh?
00:49:51 And I got one for you, too.
00:49:55 - Well, thanks.
00:49:57 - Let me pick this up.
00:50:01 How's that for size, all right?
00:50:02 - Yeah, that's about right, I guess.
00:50:06 - And I didn't forget you, either.
00:50:09 - You spread yourself, didn't you?
00:50:11 - What do you mean?
00:50:12 Say, when the boys saw me,
00:50:13 naturally they all slapped me on the back,
00:50:14 and every one of them gave me five.
00:50:16 - Well, you borrowed the money.
00:50:18 - Borrowed?
00:50:18 What do you mean, borrowed?
00:50:20 I told them about Junior,
00:50:21 they all shook hands and congratulated me.
00:50:23 - I see.
00:50:24 - Babes.
00:50:25 I'm saving the big kick for the last.
00:50:29 - Well, I tell you.
00:50:30 - Fighting him next Thursday night.
00:50:33 - Who are you fighting?
00:50:34 - Oh, just a palooka.
00:50:35 - Have you got a chance?
00:50:37 - What do you mean, have I got a chance?
00:50:39 - Well, I mean, you've not been in training,
00:50:41 you're not in condition.
00:50:42 - All right, I'll be in condition.
00:50:43 - Where are you gonna train?
00:50:44 - I'm gonna be all right.
00:50:46 - Now, Ritzy, if it's something you shouldn't take--
00:50:47 - What do you mean, I shouldn't take?
00:50:49 - Oh, I just mean, I know how it is
00:50:51 when you've been almost champed
00:50:52 to go out and take any kind of a fight.
00:50:55 But if it's a chance to come back,
00:50:56 if it's something that'll make you happy, then--
00:50:58 - Yeah, yeah, that's it, babes.
00:51:00 You see, it gives me a chance to come back,
00:51:02 and it's only a little dump outside of town,
00:51:04 nobody's gonna see me.
00:51:05 - Oh, Ritzy, I don't want you to fight
00:51:06 in that kind of a place.
00:51:07 - I can't get hurt, I'm too clever, you oughta know that.
00:51:09 - Yes, I know.
00:51:10 - And look, kid, maybe if I get going good,
00:51:14 we'll have those acres of grapes
00:51:15 you and I have been talking about.
00:51:17 Gee, babes, just think, you and I are gonna have a baby.
00:51:23 - If you get down on your knees and call me little mother,
00:51:26 I'm gonna give you a suck right on the button.
00:51:33 (truck rumbling)
00:51:35 (men chattering)
00:51:42 - Looks like a pretty big house.
00:51:45 - Yeah, it's all right.
00:51:46 - Your boy here?
00:51:48 - Let's go on back and see.
00:51:51 - Well, Ritzy, here's hoping you make a comeback.
00:51:54 - Yeah, make it snappy, will you?
00:51:56 - Yeah, you're all set now.
00:52:01 - What, girly, listen, I've already told you
00:52:04 I'm sorry I called you a tramp.
00:52:06 - Buddy, let me get on the phone, will you?
00:52:08 - No, honey, you got me wrong.
00:52:10 I didn't throw the chair at you.
00:52:12 No, I threw it at your mother.
00:52:15 Yeah, listen.
00:52:17 - Hey, Ritzy, come here.
00:52:18 - Now, here's what you, huh?
00:52:20 - Well, how you feeling?
00:52:23 - Don't forget the six rounds.
00:52:25 - Yeah, make it look good, see?
00:52:28 - Now, you listening?
00:52:29 - You're on next.
00:52:31 - So long.
00:52:31 - Come on, Al.
00:52:32 - Hi, Ritzy.
00:52:34 - Hi, kid.
00:52:35 - Look, if I last four rounds,
00:52:37 I haven't had a bite to eat since yesterday noon.
00:52:38 - Gee, that's tough.
00:52:39 - It's a break for him.
00:52:41 Fighting full of grub slows a guy down.
00:52:43 - Hold on, McCarty, get ready.
00:52:46 - Come on, Ritzy, you better step on it.
00:52:47 - You gotta get on that phone.
00:52:48 I gotta call the hospital.
00:52:49 - But listen, baby.
00:52:53 - Let me get on that phone, will you?
00:52:54 My wife's gonna have a baby,
00:52:55 and I gotta call the hospital.
00:52:57 - Okay, kid.
00:52:58 I'll call your bank, honey.
00:53:00 Yeah, a guy here's gonna have a baby.
00:53:03 - Shh, thanks.
00:53:05 - Drop that nickel on the phone, will you?
00:53:10 - Drexel, 1-2-5-7, yeah.
00:53:15 - Yes, Mr. McCarty, we'll call you directly.
00:53:17 We have news.
00:53:18 I have the number.
00:53:21 Very soon now, Mr. McCarty.
00:53:24 She's been in there nearly two hours.
00:53:26 - Thanks, bye.
00:53:28 - McCarty, snap out of it, step on it.
00:53:29 - Say, look, stay here, will you?
00:53:30 And if the phone rings when I'm on, take the message.
00:53:32 - McCarty, come on.
00:53:34 (audience applauding)
00:53:38 (bells ringing)
00:53:49 - Ladies and gentlemen, the baby man of the evening
00:53:54 and now to box him, introducing
00:53:57 that splendid, gummy West Side boy
00:53:59 and 160, Jackie Muller!
00:54:01 (audience cheering)
00:54:06 Now, he's got a great bow, beautiful!
00:54:10 A former contender for the championship
00:54:14 and now staging a comeback at 165,
00:54:17 Richie McCarty!
00:54:22 (audience booing)
00:54:24 - Rich, Richie!
00:54:26 Say, look, Richie McCarty, I gotta go down there.
00:54:29 Excuse me, will you?
00:54:29 I beg your pardon, I beg your pardon,
00:54:31 but I gotta go down there, Richie.
00:54:32 See how you clean, you be a second.
00:54:34 Excuse me, I'm off.
00:54:35 - Ha, if it's McCarty, it must be a feint, yeah.
00:54:39 (audience chattering)
00:54:42 Are you over here to see McCarty?
00:54:45 - No, I'm here to see this boy, Mullin.
00:54:48 - Oh, another buildup, eh?
00:54:49 - I don't know anything about him.
00:54:53 - That's funny.
00:54:54 - What?
00:54:55 - That McCarty should be selected as the sacrificial goat.
00:54:59 - I don't know what you mean.
00:55:01 - Oh, I'm sure you don't.
00:55:03 Everything's on the up and up.
00:55:05 - Oh, I told you not to show up unless I sent for you.
00:55:12 - You can't win without Shamrock.
00:55:13 (bell dings)
00:55:17 (audience chattering)
00:55:20 - He ain't even making it look good.
00:55:30 - He'll be better, he'll be better.
00:55:32 Say, you got a piece of cheese on you?
00:55:46 - Limburger this time.
00:55:47 (bell dings)
00:55:53 - Come over to his corner and tell him to snap out of it.
00:56:02 - Hey, listen, you big mug, make it look good, do you hear?
00:56:07 We got two up on this fight, we want no funny business.
00:56:10 Now make it look good, do you hear?
00:56:11 Make it look good.
00:56:12 - Okay, okay, I'll make it look good.
00:56:16 (whistle blows)
00:56:18 (bell dings)
00:56:23 (audience chattering)
00:56:26 (bell dings)
00:56:53 (audience applauding)
00:56:56 - Nice going, Jack, old boy.
00:56:58 - What made you mugs frame this fight?
00:57:00 I can lick 'em on the level.
00:57:01 - Oh yeah?
00:57:02 Well, we just wanted to play safe.
00:57:04 (whistle blows)
00:57:09 (bell dings)
00:57:12 (audience chattering)
00:57:15 (phone rings)
00:57:34 - Hello?
00:57:36 McCarty?
00:57:36 No, he's not here, he's upstairs in a ring taking it.
00:57:41 - What?
00:57:42 - Yeah.
00:57:42 - Yeah, I'll tell him, yeah, right away.
00:57:44 (bell dings)
00:58:00 - Just heard from the hospital.
00:58:05 It's a boy, both doing elegant.
00:58:08 (laughing)
00:58:11 (whistle blows)
00:58:14 - Do it now, let's go see Junior.
00:58:17 - This is it.
00:58:19 (bell dings)
00:58:21 - Say, this is a story.
00:58:30 McCarty's putting up a swell fight.
00:58:31 - Now, this can't be on the level.
00:58:33 Mullins can't be as bad as that.
00:58:34 I never saw him before, but from what I've been told...
00:58:37 (audience chattering)
00:58:41 - Come on, Mullins!
00:58:41 - What's the matter, Mullins?
00:58:43 - Give him some heat, will you?
00:58:46 - Come on, McCarty, you got him going.
00:58:50 - What's he out here?
00:58:54 - Heels off, Mullins.
00:58:54 - You double-crosser lug.
00:58:56 - Mullins, come on, get up.
00:58:58 (audience chattering)
00:59:05 - One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
00:59:10 - This is it.
00:59:17 - One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
00:59:23 - I don't know what I'd get up for.
00:59:32 - Say, this might be on the level.
00:59:33 - I hope he wins.
00:59:34 - I don't think he has a chance.
00:59:36 - Yes, but if he was in condition.
00:59:39 - Now, take it easy.
00:59:40 Don't listen to him, you know what you're doing.
00:59:44 - What a story.
00:59:51 - He said it was a story.
00:59:53 - Come on.
01:00:03 - What a comeback.
01:00:04 - One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
01:00:08 - Now, this is a payoff, eh?
01:00:20 - Come on, we'll see that he gets paid off.
01:00:24 - Give me Drexler, one, two, five, seven.
01:00:32 - Yes, ma'am.
01:00:34 - Just a hospital.
01:00:35 Give me the paternity ward.
01:00:37 - Hello, this is Ritchie McCarty.
01:00:42 Yeah, how's my wife?
01:00:44 Oh, that's swell, thanks.
01:00:45 Tell her I'm just leaving.
01:00:47 - Hey, listen, McCarty, what's the idea?
01:00:48 - Ritchie, I want to talk to you.
01:00:51 - Wait a minute, don't be a sap.
01:00:57 - Another frame of him, McCarty.
01:00:59 You're one of those guys
01:01:00 who just can't fight on the level, aren't you?
01:01:02 - I didn't lay down, did I?
01:01:03 - I thought you were going to.
01:01:04 - Say, listen, Rankin, were you ever in a spot
01:01:06 where you didn't have a thin dime
01:01:07 where somebody depended on you,
01:01:08 somebody you really cared for?
01:01:09 Well, why should I have to explain to you?
01:01:12 - That's right, you don't have to explain a thing to me.
01:01:14 You're okay, McCarty.
01:01:16 Read tomorrow morning's papers.
01:01:18 Tonight's cleaned up everything as far as I'm concerned.
01:01:21 - Thanks, Rankin.
01:01:22 - I don't know how you did it, Ritchie,
01:01:23 but if you never hit anyone before,
01:01:25 you certainly knocked that guy kicking tonight.
01:01:27 That's as pretty a haymaker as I've seen
01:01:28 for the last couple of years.
01:01:30 You're on your way back, kid,
01:01:32 and I'm gonna do all I can to help you.
01:01:34 So get into shape, take care of yourself.
01:01:36 And who knows what may happen.
01:01:37 That's the way I see it, kid.
01:01:40 - Good luck. - Thanks.
01:01:41 - Come on.
01:01:46 Get the mugs out of here.
01:01:49 - Scram, you.
01:01:49 - So what's the idea?
01:01:50 - You know what's good for you?
01:01:51 Be getting out of here, come on.
01:01:53 Get out.
01:01:55 You and me had a deal, didn't we?
01:01:56 - Yeah.
01:01:58 Yeah, we had a deal,
01:02:00 and I was gonna go through with it too,
01:02:02 but no, I just couldn't, that's all.
01:02:05 - Oh, you couldn't, eh?
01:02:07 - And why couldn't you?
01:02:08 - Well, I couldn't, that's all.
01:02:11 You guys wouldn't understand.
01:02:14 - No?
01:02:15 Come on, Al, spike.
01:02:18 Listen, you, Spike, and Dobie stay out in the alley.
01:02:26 I'm going out front with Mulligan,
01:02:27 and give 'em plenty.
01:02:29 - Okay.
01:02:30 - It's a frame, champ.
01:02:34 They're gonna beat you up.
01:02:36 - Well, ain't there any other way out of here?
01:02:38 - No, sir, there's any alley around front.
01:02:40 - All right, look, I'll take care of this.
01:02:43 You go out and grab a cab and wait for me, see?
01:02:44 - Oh, no, champ, I--
01:02:45 - Go out and grab a cab and wait for me.
01:02:46 Do as I tell you.
01:02:47 (door creaking)
01:02:50 (door creaking)
01:02:52 (door creaking)
01:02:55 (engine rumbling)
01:03:20 (engine rumbling)
01:03:23 - Here he comes now, get back.
01:03:25 (men shouting)
01:03:40 - Get, come on, get in the car, get in the car.
01:03:45 - Well, your son has a fine pair of lungs, Mrs. McCarty.
01:03:48 I just saw him in the nursery,
01:03:49 and he's yelling his head off.
01:03:51 - Couldn't I see him again?
01:03:53 - We'll let you visit with him a little later.
01:03:55 - Where's Ritzy?
01:03:57 - Now, will you stop worrying?
01:03:59 Your husband will be here in a few minutes.
01:04:01 - How's Mrs. McCarty?
01:04:09 - She's fine.
01:04:10 - Where is she?
01:04:11 - Ward six.
01:04:11 - Thanks.
01:04:12 - She all right, Doc?
01:04:16 - Sure, she's all right.
01:04:18 - What happened to you?
01:04:19 - I'm all right, but listen, Doc,
01:04:21 I couldn't get that dose, see,
01:04:22 something happened and I couldn't get it,
01:04:23 but I will, I swear I will.
01:04:25 - Oh, that's all right.
01:04:26 Don't you worry about it, I'm not.
01:04:28 - Can I see her?
01:04:29 - Yes, but only for a few minutes.
01:04:30 Now, take it easy.
01:04:31 - Mrs. McCarty is waiting to see you.
01:04:38 - Thanks.
01:04:39 - Hello, Ritzy.
01:04:47 - You all right, babes?
01:04:48 - I'm okay.
01:04:50 He isn't very pink, Ritzy, but he does yell.
01:04:53 - Where is he?
01:04:55 - He's in the nursery, they'll bring him in.
01:04:58 - Gee, I got here just as soon as I could.
01:05:00 - Oh, what happened, Ritzy?
01:05:04 - Oh, oh, I beat him, honey.
01:05:06 I beat him, I knocked him out.
01:05:08 Honest, I did.
01:05:09 - You're hurt, honey, you're hurt.
01:05:11 - Oh yeah, babes, but he didn't do it.
01:05:14 Honest, babes, I knocked him out.
01:05:16 I knocked him cold.
01:05:18 - Mr. McCarty here?
01:05:21 - Yes, sir.
01:05:22 - It's me, champ.
01:05:24 - Stevens, Stevens, come here a minute.
01:05:26 I gotta tell you the truth, Joan.
01:05:29 They offered me 100 bucks to dive in the fifth round.
01:05:33 And then,
01:05:35 then when they phoned about the baby,
01:05:38 I couldn't go through with it.
01:05:42 Couldn't give my kid that kind of a dirty deal,
01:05:43 and I called it all off.
01:05:46 I sailed in on them, babes.
01:05:48 Honest, I sailed in on them,
01:05:50 I knocked him cold, honest, I did.
01:05:52 I beat him, babes.
01:05:53 And then when I found out, I cost them money.
01:05:58 They beat me up in the alley, and I'm broke,
01:06:02 and I'm flat, but honest, babes, I knocked him out.
01:06:05 I tell you, I did.
01:06:07 - Oh, don't you worry.
01:06:09 I think they'll let us keep the baby anyway.
01:06:12 - If I'd known you had a punch like that,
01:06:13 we wouldn't have had to go to all that trouble
01:06:15 to build you up.
01:06:16 Why didn't you ever use it before?
01:06:17 You'd have been on top right now,
01:06:19 without any of the scandal.
01:06:21 - What do you mean, I got a punch?
01:06:23 - Sure you have.
01:06:25 That blow didn't travel any further than that.
01:06:28 You're one of these guys who's been too smart
01:06:29 for his own good.
01:06:30 You said to yourself, "Hmm, me?
01:06:32 "I'm gonna be clever."
01:06:34 I guess you know now there's much more
01:06:35 to fighting than that.
01:06:37 I didn't want to butt in here tonight,
01:06:39 but I just wanted to tell you to come around
01:06:41 to the office tomorrow, and I'll put you back in the game.
01:06:43 Three, four fights, and maybe I can get you
01:06:46 a chance at the championship.
01:06:47 Good night, Miss McCarty.
01:06:48 - Good night.
01:06:49 - Oh, by the way, I was talking to the commission tonight.
01:06:52 They're gonna release your money
01:06:53 on the Biff Sullivan fight tomorrow.
01:06:54 - What?
01:06:55 - Huh?
01:06:57 - Come on, Shamrock.
01:06:58 - Nurse, will you give this to Miss McCarty
01:07:00 for junior pale chocolate from Shamrock?
01:07:03 - Very well.
01:07:04 - Babes, did you hear what he said?
01:07:09 I got a punch!
01:07:10 - Yeah, and you got two grand.
01:07:12 Now maybe we can have those vineyards, huh?
01:07:14 - Yeah, yeah, if you want 'em.
01:07:17 - You won't have to fight anymore, Ritzy.
01:07:19 - One KO, two KOs, three KOs, and then the champ.
01:07:25 Four KOs, and then I'm champ.
01:07:29 Gee, babes, I just didn't know my own strength.
01:07:34 (dramatic music)
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