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00:07:45Oh, I don't think so, Al.
00:07:46I lose my appetite working in this flea bag.
00:07:49Let's go home.
00:07:50OK.
00:07:52I can't stand much more of that dump.
00:07:55Did you see that drunk tonight, trying to paw me?
00:07:57No, what drunk?
00:07:58Does it matter what drunk?
00:08:01Say, what's the matter with you tonight, darling?
00:08:04That's the third time you've started to tell me something,
00:08:06and then stop.
00:08:07We shouldn't have any secrets from each other, Sue.
00:08:09Next week, we're going to make with a ring and a license.
00:08:11You and me, we're going to get married.
00:08:13Next week, we're going to make with a ring and a license.
00:08:14You and me, we'll be a team.
00:08:15Yes, that's right.
00:08:17In the Bush League.
00:08:18I don't get you.
00:08:19We've been struck out.
00:08:22That's a funny way to talk, darling.
00:08:24Don't you want to marry me?
00:08:25Al, look, I love you.
00:08:27You know I do, and I want to marry you.
00:08:29But?
00:08:30But not now.
00:08:32Only after we've made good.
00:08:34Sunday, I'm going away.
00:08:36Oh, I know you'll think it's silly.
00:08:39That's why I hesitated to tell you.
00:08:41But I'm going to California.
00:08:43I want to try my luck in Hollywood.
00:08:45That's the most stupid thing I ever heard of.
00:08:48Don't you know millions of people go out there every year
00:08:49and wind up polishing cuspid doors?
00:08:51I thought you had better sense.
00:08:53You sound as if you don't think I have any talent.
00:08:55That has nothing to do with it.
00:08:56I'll make out all right.
00:08:57Maybe.
00:08:58But what about me?
00:08:59Doesn't it mean anything to you that you're
00:09:00busting up all our plans?
00:09:01We may not see each other for years.
00:09:03It won't be that long.
00:09:05I thought you loved me.
00:09:06I do.
00:09:07You know I do.
00:09:11Well, here we are.
00:09:16Al.
00:09:18Al, why can't you see my side of it?
00:09:21I'm young.
00:09:22We both are.
00:09:24And we've got all the time in the world to settle down.
00:09:28Really, darling, what I'm doing is the only sane thing to do.
00:09:33I hate the thought of being so far away from you.
00:09:37But we'll be together again someday.
00:09:40And maybe you'll decide to come out too later on.
00:09:43So long.
00:09:44Al, aren't you going to kiss me goodnight?
00:09:49Sure.
00:09:50Why not?
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00:11:35Hey Robert, you hit the jackpot this time.
00:11:3810 bucks.
00:11:40Thanks.
00:11:47So when this drunk handed me a $.10 after a request I couldn't get very excited.
00:11:51What was it I asked myself?
00:11:54A piece of paper crawling with germs, couldn't buy anything I wanted, it couldn't.
00:12:01Then I thought of something.
00:12:26Long distance.
00:12:27I'd like to put a call through to Los Angeles.
00:12:29Miss Harvey. Sue Harvey. H-A-R-V-E-Y.
00:12:33The number is Crestview 65723.
00:13:0075...
00:13:07Hello, Sue? This is Al.
00:13:10Oh, baby, it's great to hear from you, too.
00:13:12What's that? You do?
00:13:14Oh, me too, darling.
00:13:16I thought I'd go batty without you. I just had to...
00:13:18Huh?
00:13:20You're working as a hash slinger?
00:13:22Gee, honey, that's tough.
00:13:24Those guys out in Hollywood don't know the real thing when it's right in front of them.
00:13:27You just stick it out, Sue, baby.
00:13:29Keep going around to those casting offices.
00:13:31I'm sure you'll click.
00:13:33Look, I'll tell you what. You stay put out there. I'll come to you.
00:13:36No, don't try to stop me. Just expect me.
00:13:38Train? Who knows?
00:13:40Train, plane, bus, magic carpet.
00:13:42I'll be there if I have to crawl.
00:13:44If I have to travel by pogo stick.
00:13:46And then let's get married right away, huh?
00:13:51That's the stuff.
00:13:53That's what I've been wanting to hear you say.
00:13:55Well, goodbye for now.
00:13:59I'll be seeing you soon.
00:14:02Yeah.
00:14:04Bye.
00:14:10The only way I could cross country was to thumb rides.
00:14:13For even after hocking everything, I only had enough money to eat.
00:14:17Money.
00:14:19You know what that is.
00:14:21It's the stuff you never have enough of.
00:14:23The little green things with George Washington's picture that men slave for,
00:14:26commit crimes for, die for.
00:14:29It's the stuff that has caused more trouble in the world than anything else we ever invented.
00:14:33Simply because there's too little of it.
00:14:36At least I had too little of it.
00:14:38So it was me for the thumb.
00:14:54Ever done any hitchhiking?
00:14:57It's not much fun, believe me.
00:14:59Oh, yeah, I know all about how it's an education,
00:15:02how you get to meet a lot of people and all that.
00:15:04But me?
00:15:06From now on, I'll take my education in college.
00:15:09Or in PS62, or I'll send $1.98 in stamps for ten easy lessons.
00:15:24Thumbing rides may save your bus fare,
00:15:27but it's dangerous.
00:15:29You never know what's in store for you
00:15:31when you hear the squeal of brakes.
00:15:34If only I had known what I was getting into that day in Arizona.
00:15:40Yeah, throw that in the back seat.
00:15:44Okay, let's go. Make sure that door is closed.
00:15:54You know, Emily Post taught to write a book of rules for guys thumbing rides.
00:15:59Because as it is now, you never know what's right and what's wrong.
00:16:03We rode along for a little while, neither one of us saying anything.
00:16:07I was glad of that.
00:16:09I never know what to say to strange people driving cars.
00:16:13And two, you can never tell if a guy wants to talk.
00:16:16A lot of rides have been cut short.
00:16:18So I kept my mouth shut until he started opening up.
00:16:23Hand me that little box in the compartment, will you, pal?
00:16:29Hold the wheel, will you?
00:16:31How far are you going?
00:16:32L.A.
00:16:33Wow, you're really traveling, aren't you?
00:16:35Yeah, but I don't expect to make it for a couple of years
00:16:37at the rate I've been promoting rides.
00:16:39Not much luck, huh?
00:16:40Sure, all bad.
00:16:42Not much luck.
00:16:44I'm sure you'll make it.
00:16:46I'll be back.
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00:17:00Not many people stop for a guy these days.
00:17:02Afraid of a stick-up, maybe.
00:17:04Well, you can't blame them.
00:17:06Where are you coming from?
00:17:07New York.
00:17:08Well, New York.
00:17:10You're in luck this time.
00:17:12I'm going all the way.
00:17:14Right through to Los Angeles.
00:17:16Can you drive a car?
00:17:18Sure.
00:17:19Whenever you're tired, let me know.
00:17:21I'll holler.
00:17:23I guess at least an hour passed before I noticed those deep scratches on his right hand.
00:17:28They were wicked.
00:17:30Three puffy red lines about a quarter of an inch apart.
00:17:33He must have seen me looking at them because he said...
00:17:37Beauties, aren't they?
00:17:39They're gonna be scars someday.
00:17:42What an animal.
00:17:44Whatever it was, it must have been pretty big and vicious to have done that.
00:17:47Right on both counts, New York.
00:17:49I was tussling with the most dangerous animal in the world.
00:17:52A woman.
00:17:54She must have been Tarzan's mate.
00:17:56Looks like you lost the bout.
00:17:58It certainly wasn't a draw.
00:18:00You know, there ought to be a law against dames with claws.
00:18:03Yeah.
00:18:04I tossed her out of the car in her ear.
00:18:07Was I wrong?
00:18:09Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't you?
00:18:11Yeah.
00:18:13After all, what kind of a dame's son rides?
00:18:15Sunday school teachers?
00:18:17Yeah.
00:18:19A little witch.
00:18:21She must have thought she was riding with some fall guy.
00:18:24For me, it was been booking horses around race tracks since I was 20.
00:18:28I've known a million dames like her.
00:18:30Two million.
00:18:31Yeah.
00:18:34Stop the car, open the door.
00:18:37Take it on the Arthur Duffy sister, I told her.
00:18:40That's the stuff.
00:18:41As I was done, huh?
00:18:43But if you want to see a real scar, brother, get a load of this.
00:18:50I got that with Julie.
00:18:52Julie?
00:18:53Yeah, we're just kidding, of course.
00:18:55My dad owned a couple of Franco Prussian sabers.
00:18:57Kept them on the wall for decorations.
00:19:00Well, one day, another kid and I took them down.
00:19:03The old man wasn't around, had a duel.
00:19:06He got me in the arm here.
00:19:08Pretty mean cut.
00:19:10Infection set in later.
00:19:12Yeah, I can see that.
00:19:14Now give me that box again, will you?
00:19:16Yeah.
00:19:24Pain made me lose my head, I guess.
00:19:27Began slashing.
00:19:29Before I knew it, I'd put the other kid's eye on.
00:19:32That was tough.
00:19:33Well, it was just an accident, of course.
00:19:35Do you know how kids are?
00:19:37I got scared, decided I was going to run away from home.
00:19:40Old man almost caught me when I was packing my duds.
00:19:44The bloody rag I had wrapped around my wrist hadn't caught his attention.
00:19:48He'd seen the bundle for sure.
00:19:50But I beat it when he was phoning for a doctor.
00:19:53That was 15, 16 years ago.
00:19:55I haven't been home since.
00:20:01Pull in there for a bite or something, huh?
00:20:03A bite or something?
00:20:05Brother, was I hungry.
00:20:07I hadn't had anything in my stomach for hours.
00:20:10Yet even with that gnawing in the pit of my belly,
00:20:12I didn't want to be in too big a rush to put on the feed bag.
00:20:16First, I had to make sure this guy knew the score.
00:20:19If I got him down on me, it was goodbye ticket to Hollywood.
00:20:23I'll wait out here for you, mister.
00:20:25If it's the money, don't worry about paying for it.
00:20:27This time it's on me.
00:20:28Well, that's white of you, mister.
00:20:30Haskell, think nothing of it.
00:20:31You make your first million, maybe you can do the same for me.
00:20:33Come on, New York.
00:20:34I gotta make the West Coast by Wednesday.
00:20:36There's a horse running in Santa Anita named Pirate Bicycle.
00:20:39You can sell it to me if I want him.
00:20:41We'll make it, all right.
00:20:43He did most of the talking during the half hour we were in the place.
00:20:47I ate.
00:20:49He rambled on about his old man whom he hadn't heard from
00:20:51since he ran away as a kid.
00:20:53And how he happened to become a bookie.
00:20:55And then all about how he got rooked in Miami.
00:20:57One race, 38 grand.
00:20:59They cleaned out my book.
00:21:00How do you like that?
00:21:02That was tough luck.
00:21:03Yeah, and I'm supposed to be the smart guy.
00:21:05Well, you just wait.
00:21:06I'm going back to Florida next season with all kinds of jack.
00:21:08And you'll watch those stinkers run for cover.
00:21:10Anything else?
00:21:11No, thanks.
00:21:12I've had plenty.
00:21:19That check there, sister?
00:21:24Oh, just a miniature change, sir.
00:21:26Keep it, sister.
00:21:27Oh, thank you, sir.
00:21:28Call again.
00:21:29I'll be waiting outside for you when you finish work.
00:21:32Sharp check, huh?
00:21:34I drove all that night while Hasko slept like a log.
00:21:38After a while, I began to get sleepy myself.
00:21:42I was happy, though.
00:21:44Soon I'd be with Sue again.
00:21:46The long trip was practically over,
00:21:48and there'd be no more hoofing it down the concrete.
00:21:51I began to think of the future.
00:21:53I began to think of the past.
00:21:55I began to think of the future.
00:21:57I began to think of the past.
00:21:59I began to think of the future.
00:22:01I began to think of the future,
00:22:03which couldn't have been brighter
00:22:05if I'd embroidered it with neon lights.
00:22:07It was nice to think of Sue shooting to the top.
00:22:12It's amazing what a full belly can do to your imagination.
00:22:18Your eyes, oh, your kisses, too.
00:22:23I never knew what they could do.
00:22:27I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:22:36You're telling everyone you know
00:22:40I'm on your mind each place you go.
00:22:45I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:22:58Mr. Haskell.
00:23:00Mr. Haskell.
00:23:04Mr. Haskell, wake up. It's raining.
00:23:06Don't you think we ought to stop and put up the top?
00:23:17Mr. Haskell, wake up.
00:23:19It's raining.
00:23:21Mr. Haskell, wake up.
00:23:23Mr. Haskell, wake up.
00:23:26Mr. Haskell, I'm going to put up the top.
00:23:43Up until then, I had done things my way.
00:23:45But from then on, something else stepped in
00:23:47and shunted me off to a different destination
00:23:49than the one I had picked for myself.
00:23:51But when I pulled open that door...
00:23:56Mr. Haskell, what's the matter?
00:23:58Are you hurt?
00:24:00Are you hurt, Mr. Haskell?
00:24:02Start yourself.
00:24:04I'll listen to it.
00:24:06But I know what you're going to hand me
00:24:08even before you open your mouths.
00:24:10You're going to tell me you don't believe my story
00:24:12of how Haskell died and give me that
00:24:14don't make me laugh expression on your smug faces.
00:24:18I saw it once. He was dead.
00:24:20And I was in for it.
00:24:22Who would believe he fell out of the car?
00:24:24Why, if Haskell came too, which of course he couldn't,
00:24:26even he would swear I conked him over the head for his dough.
00:24:28Yes, I was in for it.
00:24:31Instinct told me to run.
00:24:33But then I realized it was hopeless.
00:24:35There were lots of people back down the road who could identify me.
00:24:37That gas station guy and the waitress.
00:24:39I would be in a worse spot then trying to explain why I beat it.
00:24:41The next possibility was to sit tight
00:24:43and tell the truth when the cops came.
00:24:45But that would be crazy. They'd laugh at the truth.
00:24:47And I'd have my head in the noose.
00:24:51So what else was there to do but hide the body
00:24:53and get away in the car?
00:24:55I couldn't leave the car there with him in the gully.
00:24:57That would be like erecting a tombstone.
00:25:24My idea was to cover him with brush.
00:25:26Not to rob him.
00:25:28But then I remembered that even if I only drove the car for a hundred miles or so,
00:25:30I would need money for gas.
00:25:33Besides, it was stupid of me to leave all that money on a dead man.
00:25:37Not only that, I'd have to take his driver's license
00:25:39in case I was stopped for something.
00:25:43I didn't like to think about it.
00:25:45But by that time I'd done just what the police would say I did,
00:25:47even if I didn't.
00:25:49I'd close.
00:25:51The owner of such an expensive car would never be wearing them.
00:25:54Some cop might pull me in on suspicion.
00:26:22Hey, you, this your car?
00:26:24Don't you know better than to leave a car with the wheels halfway in the middle of the road?
00:26:27That's the way accidents happen.
00:26:29I'm sorry, officer.
00:26:31I was just putting up my top. I didn't think.
00:26:33Well, the next time, think.
00:26:35I'll let you go now, but watch your step in the future.
00:26:37I know that's a lonely stretch, but cars come by here once in a while
00:26:40and we have plenty of crack-ups.
00:26:42Thanks.
00:26:51Come on.
00:27:09I left nothing in the car to give me away as Roberts.
00:27:11If they found a dead man in the gully now, it would be me.
00:27:21As I drove off, it was still raining.
00:27:24And the drops streaked down the windshield like tears.
00:27:30I kept imagining I was being followed, that I could hear sirens back in the distance.
00:27:35Just how long it took me to cover the 60-odd miles to the California state line, I don't know.
00:27:40I lost all track of time.
00:27:42But the rain had stopped and the sun was up when I pulled up to the inspection station.
00:27:51Hello.
00:27:53Carrying any fruits or vegetables?
00:27:55No.
00:27:56Any livestock or poultry?
00:27:57No.
00:27:59I'd like to see your registration and driver's license, please.
00:28:06Anything in the baggage compartment?
00:28:08Just baggage.
00:28:11Charles Haskell, Jr., age 30, brown eyes, dark hair.
00:28:14Identifying marks, none.
00:28:16Are you Charles Haskell, Jr.?
00:28:18Yes.
00:28:19If you're employed and you stay over 30 days, you take out California plates.
00:28:22All right, officer, but I'll only be in the state a short while.
00:28:26Right, you can go now.
00:28:35I couldn't drive any farther without some sleep.
00:28:37Cops or no cops.
00:28:39I knew I had to hit the hay and hit it hard.
00:28:43I was dead tired.
00:28:49No.
00:29:15No.
00:29:17No, you can't, Mr. Haskell.
00:29:19No.
00:29:28Mr. Haskell, you can't die.
00:29:31Don't think...
00:29:33Don't think I did it.
00:29:36No, Mr. Haskell.
00:29:38No.
00:29:39No.
00:29:47Who's there?
00:29:48It's the maid.
00:29:49Can I come in and clean?
00:29:51Later.
00:29:53In a half hour.
00:29:54All right, sir.
00:30:17There was no time to lose.
00:30:19Every minute I had to be Charles Haskell was dangerous.
00:30:22And I'd have to be Charles Haskell until I got to some city
00:30:24where I could leave the car and be swallowed up.
00:30:32That meant driving the car as far as San Bernardino.
00:30:35Maybe even to Los Angeles.
00:30:37In a little while, I'd have to go to New York.
00:30:39I'd have to go to New York.
00:30:41I'd have to go to New York.
00:30:43I'd have to go to New York.
00:30:45I'd have to go to Los Angeles.
00:30:46In a little town, I might be noticed.
00:30:48But in a city, I should be safe enough.
00:30:51Then, after I ditched the car, I could go on to sue.
00:30:55But those five minutes at the state line
00:30:57made me realize it might be a good idea
00:30:59to find out a little bit about Mr. Haskell.
00:31:02Then, if anybody asked me questions,
00:31:04I could give the right answers.
00:31:06The first thing I found out was that I had $768.
00:31:10This was a lot of jack.
00:31:13It was the kind of money I'd rather not have.
00:31:22And then I found out from a letter
00:31:24Haskell was carting around in his bag
00:31:26that he wasn't the open-handed, easy-going big shot
00:31:29who went around buying dinners for strange hitchhikers.
00:31:32Before I got done reading it, I saw him more as a chiseler.
00:31:36It was written to his old man in California,
00:31:39the one he hadn't seen in so many years.
00:31:41In it, Haskell posed as a salesman
00:31:44of hymnals, of all things.
00:31:47It was easy to see where Haskell expected
00:31:49to raise a new stake for his book in Miami,
00:31:52by rooking his old man.
00:31:55That was about all I found out from his effects,
00:31:58and it was enough.
00:32:00I told myself, maybe old man Haskell was lucky
00:32:03his son kicked off.
00:32:05He would never know it,
00:32:07but it saved him from taking a flyer
00:32:09in sacred literature preferred.
00:32:11Here.
00:32:36Near the airport at Desert Center, I pulled up for water.
00:32:40There was a woman.
00:32:46Hey, you! Come on if you want a ride.
00:33:09Come on.
00:33:35How far are you going?
00:33:37That took me by surprise, and I turned my head to look her over.
00:33:41She was facing straight ahead, so I couldn't see her eyes.
00:33:44But she was young, about more than 24.
00:33:48Man, she looked as if she'd just been thrown
00:33:50off the crummiest freight train in the world.
00:33:53Yet in spite of this, I got the impression of beauty.
00:33:57Not the beauty of a movie actress, mind you,
00:33:59or the beauty you dream about when you're with your wife,
00:34:02but a natural beauty.
00:34:04A beauty that's almost homely because it's so real.
00:34:09Then suddenly, she turned to face me.
00:34:11How far did you say you were going?
00:34:13Los Angeles.
00:34:14L.A.?
00:34:16L.A.'s good enough for me, mister.
00:34:18That's what I was afraid of.
00:34:20What'd you say?
00:34:21Oh, nothing. Just thinking out loud.
00:34:23People get in trouble for doing that.
00:34:26What's your name?
00:34:27You can call me Vera if you like.
00:34:29You live in Los Angeles?
00:34:31No.
00:34:32Where are you coming from?
00:34:34Oh, back there.
00:34:35Needles?
00:34:36No.
00:34:37Oh, sure. Phoenix.
00:34:39You look just like a Phoenix girl.
00:34:41Are the girls in Phoenix that bad?
00:34:43The girl must have been pretty tired
00:34:45because she fell asleep not 20 minutes
00:34:47after she stepped into the car.
00:34:49She lay sprawled out with her head resting
00:34:51against the far door, like Haskell.
00:34:54I didn't like that part of it much,
00:34:56but I didn't wake her up.
00:34:58It wasn't that this girl still worried me.
00:35:01I'd gotten over that funny feeling I had
00:35:03when she looked at me, which I put down.
00:35:05It's just my jangled nerves.
00:35:07With her eyes closed and the tenseness gone out of her,
00:35:10she seemed harmless enough.
00:35:12And instead of disliking her,
00:35:14I began to feel sorry for her.
00:35:16The poor kid probably had had a rough time of it.
00:35:20Who was she, anyway?
00:35:22And why was she going to Los Angeles?
00:35:24And where'd she come from in the first place?
00:35:26The only thing I knew about her was her name.
00:35:29Not that it made any difference.
00:35:31A few hours more and we'd be in Hollywood.
00:35:33I'd forget where I parked the car and look up Sue.
00:35:36This nightmare of being a dead man would be over.
00:35:39Who this dame was, well, it was no business of mine.
00:35:42Where did you leave his body?
00:35:44Where did you leave the owner of this car?
00:35:46You're not fooling anyone.
00:35:48This buggy belongs to a guy named Haskell.
00:35:50That's not you, mister.
00:35:52You're out of your mind. That's my name, Charles Haskell.
00:35:54I can prove it. It's my driver's license.
00:35:56Save yourself the trouble, mister.
00:35:58Having Haskell's wallet only makes it worse.
00:36:00It just so happens I rode with Charlie Haskell.
00:36:02All the way from Louisiana.
00:36:04He picked me up outside of Shreveport.
00:36:06You rode?
00:36:07You heard me.
00:36:08Then it all came back to me.
00:36:10All the talk about dueling and scars and scratches.
00:36:13There was no doubt about it.
00:36:15Vera must be the woman Haskell had mentioned.
00:36:18She must have passed me while I slept.
00:36:20Well?
00:36:22Well, I'm waiting.
00:36:23My goose was cooked.
00:36:25She had me.
00:36:28That Haskell guy wasn't dead yet.
00:36:30He wasn't stretched out stiff and cold in any Arizona gully.
00:36:33He was sitting right there in the car laughing like mad while he haunted me.
00:36:38Well?
00:36:39There was nothing I could say.
00:36:41It was her move.
00:36:43Vera, whatever her name was,
00:36:45it was just my luck picking her up on the road.
00:36:48It couldn't have been Helen or Mary or Evelyn or Ruth.
00:36:52It had to be the very last person I should ever have met.
00:36:56That's life.
00:36:58Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you.
00:37:06I told her everything, but she didn't believe my story.
00:37:09I should have saved my breath.
00:37:11That's the greatest cock and bull story I ever heard.
00:37:13So he fell out of his car.
00:37:15Say, who do you think you're talking to, a hick?
00:37:17Listen, mister, I've been around,
00:37:19and I know a wrong guy when I see one.
00:37:21What'd you do, kiss him with a wrench?
00:37:23Wait a minute. What I told you was true.
00:37:25You see, that's why I had to do it.
00:37:27You think I killed him. Well, the cops would have thought so, too.
00:37:29Yeah, well, maybe they still think so.
00:37:31What makes you so sure I'll shut up about this?
00:37:34Vera, I'm innocent.
00:37:36Give me a break, will you?
00:37:38It won't do me any good having you pinched.
00:37:40The cops are no friends of mine.
00:37:42Now, if there was a reward, but there isn't.
00:37:45Thanks.
00:37:46Don't thank me yet.
00:37:48I'm not through with you by a long shot.
00:37:50Let's see that roll.
00:37:54Is that all Haskell had?
00:37:56Isn't it enough? No, I thought he had more.
00:37:58Not that I know of. You can search me if you think I'm holding out on you.
00:38:01Well, maybe I will at that.
00:38:03He told me he was gonna bet $3,000 on a horse named Paradisical
00:38:06on Wednesday at Santa Anita.
00:38:08He was stringing you along. He meant $300.
00:38:10Maybe. Sure, three bucks, $300.
00:38:12He was a piece of cheese, a big blowhard.
00:38:14Listen, mister, don't try and tell me anything about Charlie Haskell.
00:38:17Remember, I knew him better than you did.
00:38:19Okay, then you knew he was a four-flusher.
00:38:21That explains the $3,000 bet.
00:38:23I'm not so sure he didn't have that $3,000.
00:38:25Why should I believe you?
00:38:27You got all the earmarks of a cheap crook.
00:38:29Now, wait a minute. Shut up.
00:38:31You're a cheap crook and you killed him.
00:38:33For two cents, I'd change my mind and turn you in.
00:38:35I don't like you. All right, all right, don't get sore.
00:38:37I'm not getting sore, but just remember who's boss around here.
00:38:40If you shut up and don't give me any arguments,
00:38:42you'll have nothing to worry about.
00:38:44But if you act wise, we'll miss to you
00:38:46popping to jail so fast it'll give you the bends.
00:38:48I'm not arguing. Well, see that you don't.
00:38:50You know, as crooked as you look,
00:38:52I'd hate to see a fella as young as you wind up
00:38:54sniffing that perfume that Arizona hands out free to murderers.
00:38:56I'm not a murderer. Of course you're not.
00:38:58Haskell knocked his own head off.
00:39:00He fell, that's how it happened, just like I told you.
00:39:02Sure, and then he made you a present of his belongings.
00:39:04I explained why I had to do that. Oh, skip it.
00:39:06Doesn't make a difference one way or another. I'm not a mourner.
00:39:08I liked Haskell even less than I like you.
00:39:10Yeah, I saw what you did to him.
00:39:12What do you mean?
00:39:14Those scratches on his wrist. Sure, I scratched him.
00:39:16Well, so you did.
00:39:19So your idea was to drive the car a little way,
00:39:21maybe into San Bernardino, and then leave it.
00:39:23You weren't gonna sell it?
00:39:25Sell it? You think I'm crazy?
00:39:27Somebody else's car?
00:39:29Say, all I want to do is leave it somewhere and forget I ever saw it.
00:39:31Not only don't you have any scruples, you don't have any brains.
00:39:33I don't get you.
00:39:35Maybe it's a good thing you met me.
00:39:37You'd have got yourself caught, sure.
00:39:39Why, you dope. Don't you know a deserted automobile
00:39:41always rates an investigation?
00:39:43Huh?
00:39:45Look, the cops find a car. Then they get curious.
00:39:47They wonder where the owner is.
00:39:49So, all right, they don't trace Haskell.
00:39:51They trace you.
00:39:53I never thought of that.
00:39:55The only safe way to get rid of the car is to sell it to a dealer.
00:39:57Get it registered under a new name.
00:39:59Say, stop at the next store.
00:40:01I want to get a bottle and do some shopping before we hit L.A.
00:40:03Okay.
00:40:05Since we find a place, I'll drop you off and pick you up later.
00:40:07Nothing doing. You're coming in, too.
00:40:09From now on, you and I are like the Siamese twins.
00:40:11Yeah, but your way.
00:40:13I don't get the point.
00:40:15The point is, I don't want you to get lost.
00:40:17I'm not going to beat it if that's what you're afraid of.
00:40:19I'll say you're not.
00:40:21Well, I'm going to see that you sell this car so you don't get caught.
00:40:23Thanks.
00:40:25Of course, your interest wouldn't be financial, would it?
00:40:27You wouldn't want a small percentage of the profits.
00:40:29Well, now that you insist, how can I refuse?
00:40:31A hundred percent will do.
00:40:33Fine. I'm relieved.
00:40:35I thought for a moment you were going to take it all.
00:40:37I don't want to be a hog.
00:40:39A few hours later, we were in Hollywood.
00:40:41I was recognizing places Sue had written about.
00:40:44It struck me that far from being at the end of the trip,
00:40:47there was a greater distance between Sue and me than when I started out.
00:40:51Vera wasn't kidding with that Siamese twins crack.
00:40:55She rented a little apartment as Mrs. Charles Haskell.
00:40:59When I objected to this, she explained that it was on account of the car.
00:41:03A dealer might think something was funny if he called
00:41:05and found we were using different cars.
00:41:08Home, sweet home.
00:41:10Yeah.
00:41:12Not bad, either.
00:41:21In case there's any doubt in your mind, I'll take the bedroom.
00:41:24Yeah.
00:41:26Sure is stuffy in here.
00:41:29Keep the window shut.
00:41:31Okay.
00:41:33The old crow downstairs said there's a fallen bed behind this door.
00:41:43You know how to work it?
00:41:47I don't know how to work it.
00:41:49I don't know how to work it.
00:41:51I don't know how to work it.
00:41:53I don't know how to work it.
00:41:55I invented it.
00:42:00Some joint.
00:42:02One can't have everything.
00:42:08I'm first in the bathtub.
00:42:10I don't know why, but I figured you would be.
00:42:26Boy, oh, boy.
00:42:28It sure feels good to be clean again.
00:42:31I must be 10 pounds lighter.
00:42:33You must be.
00:42:36Well, hitching rides isn't exactly the way you keep your schoolgirl complexion.
00:42:44I wish that guy with the sacks would give up.
00:42:47Gets on my nerves.
00:42:50Forget it.
00:42:55Have a drink.
00:42:57Aren't you afraid I might take you up on it?
00:43:01If I didn't want to give you a drink, I wouldn't have offered it.
00:43:05Why be a sorehead, Roberts?
00:43:07You got yourself into this thing.
00:43:09You should be grateful I'm not turning you in.
00:43:12Why, if I wasn't regular, you'd be in the pen this minute,
00:43:14being photographed, fingerprinted, and being pushed around by the cops.
00:43:18So cheer up. Get rid of that long puss.
00:43:22Or is your conscience bothering you?
00:43:29No.
00:43:31It isn't.
00:43:32Swell. That's the spirit.
00:43:35He's dead, and no moment around will bring him back.
00:43:41Anyway, I never could understand this worrying about something that's over and done with.
00:43:45Now look, Vera, for the last time, I didn't kill him.
00:43:47Haskell was a sick man.
00:43:49Maybe he was dead before he fell out of the car. I don't know.
00:43:51Sure, sure. He died of old age.
00:43:54All right.
00:43:56So if it'll make you sociable,
00:43:59you didn't kill him.
00:44:11Thanks.
00:44:20We're out of liquor, Roberts.
00:44:22Yeah.
00:44:24Too bad. I felt like getting tight tonight.
00:44:27Well, I think you succeeded.
00:44:29Am I tight?
00:44:31As a prima donna's corset.
00:44:33That's good. I wanted to get tight.
00:44:36Why? What have you got to get tight about?
00:44:39Oh, I don't know. A few things.
00:44:42Huh.
00:44:44You should have my worries.
00:44:47If I had your troubles, I'd stay sober.
00:44:49And I've got the key to that door.
00:44:54Yeah.
00:44:56Maybe you're right.
00:44:58I'm always right.
00:45:00You know, I don't like your attitude, Roberts.
00:45:03Well, there's a lot of things I don't like.
00:45:05Sure.
00:45:10But life's like a ballgame.
00:45:12You gotta take a swing at whatever comes along before you wake up.
00:45:15I bet you read that somewhere.
00:45:17That's the trouble with you, Roberts.
00:45:19All you do is bellyache.
00:45:21Bit of taking it easy
00:45:23and, well, trying to make the best of things.
00:45:26But maybe that's what's wrong with the whole world.
00:45:29Get the professor.
00:45:31People knock themselves out trying to buck fate.
00:45:34Now, take you, for instance.
00:45:36You're lucky to be alive.
00:45:38Why, suppose Haskell had pulled open your door?
00:45:40You'd be playing up to him.
00:45:42Suppose Haskell had pulled open your door.
00:45:44You'd be playing a harp now.
00:45:46Think of that.
00:45:48You think of it.
00:45:50I'm tired of thinking.
00:45:52There's plenty of people dying this minute
00:45:55that would give anything to trade places with you.
00:45:59I know what I'm talking about.
00:46:02I'm not so sure.
00:46:04At least they know they're done for.
00:46:06They don't have to sweat blood wondering if they are.
00:46:09Your philosophy stinks, pal.
00:46:12We all know we're gonna kick off someday.
00:46:15It's only a question of when.
00:46:18But what's got us on this subject anyway?
00:46:21We'll be discussing politics next.
00:46:23Yeah.
00:46:26Where'd you hide the butts?
00:46:28On the table, sucker.
00:46:32We bored each other with conversation
00:46:34for a couple of hours longer.
00:46:36Every five minutes, one of us was wishing
00:46:38we had another bottle or a radio or something to read.
00:46:42Then, finally, we ran out of chat.
00:46:45I know it's only 11 o'clock,
00:46:47but I want to get up early and make the rounds of the used car lots.
00:46:49No hurry about that.
00:46:51We've got all the time in the world.
00:46:53Maybe you have, but do you think I want to stay cooped up
00:46:55in this place any longer than I have?
00:46:57No.
00:46:59But do you think I want to stay cooped up in this place
00:47:01any longer than I have to? You're batty.
00:47:03It's not a bad place.
00:47:04They pay plenty for diggings like this in New York.
00:47:06I wouldn't like it if it was the Ritz.
00:47:12Rotten liquor.
00:47:14You got a mean cough. Ought to do something about it.
00:47:16I'll be all right.
00:47:18That's what Camille said.
00:47:20Who?
00:47:21Nobody you know.
00:47:24Wasn't that the dame that died of consumption?
00:47:26Yeah.
00:47:28Wouldn't it be a break for you if I did kick off?
00:47:31You'd be free with all Haskell's dough and car.
00:47:34I don't want to see anybody die.
00:47:36Not even me?
00:47:38Especially not you.
00:47:40One person died in me.
00:47:42If you did, well, that's all I need.
00:47:46You don't like me, do you, Roberts?
00:47:49I like you.
00:47:51I like you.
00:47:53I love you.
00:47:56My favorite sport is being kept prisoner.
00:47:59After we sell the car, you can go to blazes for all I care.
00:48:01But not until then.
00:48:10I'm going to bed.
00:48:13Good night, Roberts.
00:48:15Don't try and sneak away during the night.
00:48:17All the doors are locked.
00:48:19Anyway, if I find you gone in the morning,
00:48:21I'll notify the police.
00:48:23They'll pick you up.
00:48:25Don't worry. I know when I'm in a spot.
00:48:27Well, good night.
00:48:29I hope that portable rack isn't too uncomfortable for you.
00:48:31Don't lose any sleep over it, will you?
00:48:33I hope that portable rack isn't too uncomfortable for you.
00:48:35Don't lose any sleep over it, will you?
00:49:03Come on.
00:49:15Crestview.
00:49:18Six.
00:49:20Five.
00:49:22Seven.
00:49:24Two.
00:49:26Three.
00:49:28Hello?
00:49:30Hello?
00:49:33Hello?
00:49:35Hello?
00:49:43No.
00:49:45Not yet, darling.
00:49:48Tomorrow.
00:49:50Maybe.
00:49:55If this were fiction,
00:49:57I would fall in love with Vera,
00:49:59marry her and make a respectable woman of her.
00:50:01Well, she'd make some supreme class-A sacrifice for me
00:50:04and die.
00:50:06Sue and I would bawl a little over her grave
00:50:08and make some crack about there's good in all of us.
00:50:11But Vera, unfortunately,
00:50:13was just as rotten in the morning
00:50:15as she'd been the night before.
00:50:17All right, all right. I'm coming.
00:50:19All right, all right. I'm coming.
00:50:21Look, Vera, it's almost noon.
00:50:23So what?
00:50:25The dealers will be there all day?
00:50:27They'll be there all year, too, but that doesn't mean I'm gonna wait that long.
00:50:29Shut up. You're making noises like a husband.
00:50:34Well, do I rate a whistle?
00:50:36You sure do, but let's go.
00:50:38Let's go, let's go.
00:50:40I spend 85 bucks and two hours preparing bait
00:50:42and all you can say is let's go.
00:50:44Come on.
00:50:51We passed a few used car lots last night down this way.
00:50:54What do you think we can get for this heap?
00:50:56I don't know. Plenty.
00:50:58We handle everything.
00:51:00Think we can get $2,000?
00:51:02I don't know, but don't worry.
00:51:04I'll squeeze as much out of this guy as I can.
00:51:06I'll let it go cheap without a fight.
00:51:08He might think we've stolen the car.
00:51:10And listen, don't make any slips and call me Roberts.
00:51:12That'll cook us.
00:51:14I don't need you to tell me that.
00:51:16You better just sit by and keep your mouth closed.
00:51:18Remember, we're both in this soup if anything happens.
00:51:20Forget it and drive.
00:51:22You're my wife, Vera Haskell.
00:51:24Look, after the deal's closed,
00:51:26there's that place on Hollywood Boulevard
00:51:28where I saw the fur jacket. I want to buy it.
00:51:30After the deal's closed, I'm saying goodbye to you.
00:51:32That's right. I forgot.
00:51:34I guess I'm getting kind of used to you.
00:51:38Well, that's a habit you can start breaking.
00:51:40Let's try this place in the middle of the block.
00:51:48Good afternoon. What can I do for you?
00:51:50We're interested in selling a car.
00:51:52If the price is right.
00:51:56Well, if it's in good mechanical condition,
00:51:58it should blue book for about $1,600.
00:52:00Tony, take a look at this motor.
00:52:02$1,600?
00:52:04Are you kidding?
00:52:16Well, maybe $1,850.
00:52:18Before I let it go for $1,850,
00:52:20I'll wreck it and collect the insurance first.
00:52:26Maybe this motor's seen a lot of driving.
00:52:34Well, the mechanic inspected the car.
00:52:36We haggled.
00:52:38At last, when we were all worn out,
00:52:40we hit a compromise.
00:52:42His price.
00:52:46Okay, it's a deal.
00:52:48All right, come in. We'll sign the papers.
00:52:50I have the ownership papers right here with me.
00:52:52Look, Vera, in the meantime, will you clean out the dash compartment?
00:52:54Maybe there's some stuff in it.
00:52:56All right, darling.
00:53:00$1,850.
00:53:02That dirty crook.
00:53:10New York, huh?
00:53:12Yeah, but you bought the car in Miami.
00:53:14Yeah.
00:53:16Well, let's see about the insurance.
00:53:18We can either have it transferred or canceled.
00:53:20Uh, what kind of insurance do you have, Mr. Haskell?
00:53:22Well, uh...
00:53:24Aren't all the papers there?
00:53:28I don't see any.
00:53:30Surely you know what type of insurance you carry in the car.
00:53:32The name of the company?
00:53:34Yeah, but, uh...
00:53:36Well, if you'll just tell me the name of the company,
00:53:38I'd be very glad to take care of all the details.
00:53:40Well...
00:53:42Did you sign the papers yet?
00:53:44Not yet.
00:53:46Well, don't. We're not selling the car.
00:53:48Well, wait a minute, Mrs. Haskell.
00:53:50I'm sorry. I guess I have.
00:53:52But, Vera...
00:53:58You got me out of a tight spot, Vera.
00:54:00But I still don't understand all this.
00:54:02You will in a minute.
00:54:04I almost threw away a gold mine.
00:54:06$1,850 isn't to be sneezed at.
00:54:08The car doesn't book for as much as I thought.
00:54:10We're not selling the car.
00:54:12You want to keep it?
00:54:14Now, wait a minute, Vera.
00:54:16You said yourself I wouldn't be safe
00:54:18I understand, Roberts. You're not going.
00:54:20There's a driver in the next corner.
00:54:22Pull in there, and we'll get a bite to eat.
00:54:24And I'll explain.
00:54:26What is this? Another one of your brilliant ideas?
00:54:34Hello. May I take your order?
00:54:36Make mine a ham sandwich and coffee.
00:54:38And for you, sir?
00:54:40Oh, I don't care. The same.
00:54:42Thank you.
00:54:48Vera, I've been pretty patient so far.
00:54:50I've done everything you asked me to do, but no more.
00:54:52Shut up.
00:54:54You've taken Haskell's money.
00:54:56And you can have the door we get from selling the car.
00:54:58But you're not going to keep me a prisoner.
00:55:00It's a good thing I bought the paper. Take a look at that.
00:55:02Vera, I'm in no mood.
00:55:04Read that.
00:55:12No.
00:55:14Yes.
00:55:16You think I'm crazy? It's impossible, I tell you.
00:55:18Excuse me.
00:55:26Blow the horn when you're through.
00:55:30No one could possibly get away with an act like that.
00:55:32He'll be wise to me in a minute.
00:55:34Don't be yellow. You look enough like him.
00:55:36The same coloring and the same build.
00:55:38See how his clothes fit you?
00:55:40No kidding. You almost had me fooled for a while.
00:55:42Oh, grow up, Vera. Don't you think a father knows his own son?
00:55:44And there must be other relatives.
00:55:46The father won't have to know you. We'll wait till he gives up the ghost.
00:55:48He's an old geezer and he won't pull through.
00:55:50And as far as other relatives are concerned,
00:55:52they haven't seen you in 15 or 20 years.
00:55:54Eat.
00:55:56I'm not hungry.
00:55:58And I won't do it.
00:56:00It's not as tough as it sounds.
00:56:02Remember, you've got all kinds of identification. His car, letters, license.
00:56:04I could never get away with it.
00:56:06It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
00:56:08The old boy has scads of dough.
00:56:10Look in the paper there. Personal fortune assessed at over 15 million.
00:56:12He'll leave plenty, I tell you.
00:56:14Maybe he cut off his son. How do we know?
00:56:16It's out, Vera. I won't have anything to do with it.
00:56:20I think you will.
00:56:22Look, Vera, I'll do anything within reason.
00:56:24But not that.
00:56:26So forget it. Find yourself another stooge.
00:56:28Giuseppe!
00:56:30You'll be fixed for the rest of your life as Charlie Haskell.
00:56:32You can take your inheritance and go away.
00:56:34No more worrying about the rent, no sweat and scheming,
00:56:36wondering where your next meal's coming from.
00:56:38Think about that, Roberts!
00:56:40Please, you're talking too loud.
00:56:42Unless I'm splitting 50-50 with you.
00:56:44Sure, why not? We're both alike. Both born in the same gutter.
00:56:46Take it easy, Vera.
00:56:48There's people around here. You don't know who you're talking to.
00:56:50Well, wait till we read that old man Haskell's dead.
00:56:52Then you show up.
00:56:54Like you read in New York that he was sick.
00:56:56No.
00:56:58Suppose he doesn't die?
00:57:00He will. I know he will. Something tells me.
00:57:04But as much as I insisted I would have no part of her scheme,
00:57:06Vera was taking it for granted I would.
00:57:10Neither of us had our mind on the cards
00:57:12as we played that night.
00:57:14I knew we were just trying to kill time
00:57:16between newspaper editions.
00:57:18This was a death watch for Vera.
00:57:20Maybe it was for me, too.
00:57:22Don't you realize if I'm caught
00:57:24they'll want to know where I got the car and stuff
00:57:26and they'll have me on a murder charge.
00:57:28If you're smart, you won't get caught.
00:57:30I knock with seven.
00:57:32And if I'm caught, don't you realize you'll be out too?
00:57:3418 points.
00:57:36That gives me 30.
00:57:38How will I be out?
00:57:40You'll be out $1,850 we would have gotten on the car.
00:57:42Really, Vera, you'd be an awful chump
00:57:44if you threw away all that dough in a dizzy long shot.
00:57:46Let me sell the bus tomorrow.
00:57:48With the money it'll bring and what you've already got,
00:57:50a clever kid like you can run it up in no time.
00:57:52Then we'd both be in the clear.
00:57:54I'll be in the clear anyway.
00:57:56Maybe. Maybe. If I got caught.
00:57:58I'd get good and sore too, you know.
00:58:00You mean you'd squeal?
00:58:02Oh, no, not squeal exactly.
00:58:04Never mind what you meant.
00:58:06Even if you did tell the cops I was in on it with you,
00:58:08what could they do to me?
00:58:12They might give me the same medicine they gave you.
00:58:14Yeah. A rope.
00:58:18But I'm on my way anyhow.
00:58:22All they'll be doing will be rushing it.
00:58:24All right.
00:58:26But think of the $1,850 you'd lose.
00:58:28You'd kick yourself along the block if you ever let get away from you.
00:58:30I'll take the chance.
00:58:32Want another drink?
00:58:34You're being a goon.
00:58:36That's the way people wind up behind the eight ball.
00:58:38Once they get a few dollars, they become greedy and want more.
00:58:40My, my.
00:58:42Caesar. Who?
00:58:44You know that Roman general? He got his for being greedy.
00:58:46He wasn't satisfied, so the final wind-up was he took the count.
00:58:48A couple of days ago, you didn't have a dime.
00:58:50Why, you were so broke you couldn't pay cash for a postage stamp.
00:58:54Now you've got almost $700 with $1,850 in the offing.
00:58:56Take my advice. Don't try for more.
00:58:58I'm tired of this game. Let's have some blackjack.
00:59:00Play solitaire.
00:59:02Okay, I will, if that's the way you feel about it.
00:59:04That's the way I feel about it.
00:59:06Getting so on throwing things won't help much, Roberts.
00:59:08I'm really doing you a favor.
00:59:10I help you out of a jam by keeping my mouth shut.
00:59:12I show you how to make some soft money.
00:59:14And what thanks do I get?
00:59:16Thanks? Sure.
00:59:18I would rather call the cops and tell them you killed a man and stole his money.
00:59:20I didn't kill anybody. Yes, you did.
00:59:22No, I didn't. You know I didn't.
00:59:24All right, then.
00:59:26Suppose I call the cops.
00:59:28If you're innocent, what do you got to be scared of?
00:59:30Go ahead and call them. See if I care.
00:59:32At least they'll give me a square deal.
00:59:34You want me to call them? You heard me.
00:59:36But I'm warning you. If I'm pinched, I'll swear you were innocent.
00:59:38I'll say that you helped me.
00:59:40If I fry, I'll get even with you.
00:59:42You wouldn't dare. You didn't.
00:59:44Yeah? Then try it and see.
00:59:46Call them. Yeah.
00:59:48Okay, I will.
01:00:00Information?
01:00:02I want the number of the Hollywood police station.
01:00:06Okay, I got it. Thanks.
01:00:12Wait a minute, Vera. You wouldn't do that.
01:00:14Wouldn't I? Give me that and I'll show you if I would.
01:00:16Take it easy now. Let's talk this over.
01:00:18This was early in the evening.
01:00:20And the conversation, while hectic,
01:00:22was at least pitched low.
01:00:24But as the minutes passed
01:00:26and more obstacles arose,
01:00:28the air got blue.
01:00:30Each word coming from our lips
01:00:32cracked like a whip.
01:00:34I reminded her that as Charles Haskell,
01:00:36I didn't even know my mother's name,
01:00:38where I'd gone to school,
01:00:40the name of my best friend,
01:00:42whether I had an Aunt Emma or not,
01:00:44my religion,
01:00:46and if I'd ever owned a dog.
01:00:48I didn't even know what my middle initial stood for.
01:00:50I also pointed out that the real Haskell
01:00:52had a scar on his forearm.
01:00:54His people never saw that.
01:00:56His people never saw that scar.
01:00:58He told me you ran away right after putting out the kid's eye.
01:01:00Yeah, but his father knew it was cut.
01:01:02It had to be some kind of a mark.
01:01:04So what?
01:01:06The old man's dead or will be,
01:01:08I hope, by tomorrow morning's papers.
01:01:10Anyway, you could cut yourself a little,
01:01:12couldn't you?
01:01:14Boy, for that kind of dough,
01:01:16I'd let you cut my leg off.
01:01:18You're drunk and you're crazy mad, Vera.
01:01:20Turn me in if you want to, but I won't get mixed up in this.
01:01:22Besides, how do we know Haskell was such a phony?
01:01:24Maybe he didn't mean to do it. Maybe he just dreamed it up.
01:01:26Well, dream it or not,
01:01:28you won't be dreaming when the law
01:01:30taps you on the shoulder.
01:01:32There's a cute little gas chamber
01:01:34waiting for you, Roberts.
01:01:36And I hear extradition to Arizona's a cinch.
01:01:38Where's that phone?
01:01:40Vera.
01:01:42Leave me alone.
01:01:44I want a phone call to the police.
01:01:46I hate you.
01:01:48You're a stinker.
01:01:50You leave me alone.
01:01:52I don't care where it is. You're drunk. You don't know what you're doing.
01:01:54You're hurting me.
01:01:56Will you promise?
01:01:58All right.
01:02:02You hurt me.
01:02:04I'm sorry, but...
01:02:06And it's hot in here. Open up a window.
01:02:08It's not hot.
01:02:10Don't tell me. Now, do you do it or do I do it?
01:02:14You're an old gentleman, see?
01:02:16Yeah. All right.
01:02:18I'll open up the window.
01:02:22Vera.
01:02:28Vera, open the door. Please open the door.
01:02:30Vera, open the door. Don't use the phone. Listen to me.
01:02:32I don't like you, Roberts.
01:02:34You're an old gentleman, see?
01:02:36You hurt my hand.
01:02:38And I'm gonna get even with you.
01:02:40If you don't open the door,
01:02:42I'm gonna kick it down, Vera.
01:02:44Vera, don't call the cops. Listen to me.
01:02:46I'll do anything you say.
01:02:48Vera, let me in.
01:02:50I'll break the phone.
01:03:20The world is full of skeptics.
01:03:22I know.
01:03:24I'm one myself.
01:03:26In the Haskell business,
01:03:28how many of you would believe
01:03:30he fell out of the car?
01:03:32And now, after killing Vera
01:03:34without really meaning to do it,
01:03:36how many of you would believe
01:03:38it wasn't premeditated?
01:03:40In a jury room,
01:03:42every last man of you
01:03:44would go down shouting
01:03:46that she had me over a barrel
01:03:48and my only out was force.
01:03:52The room was still.
01:03:54So quiet that for a while
01:03:56I wondered if I had suddenly gone deaf.
01:03:58It was pure fear, of course.
01:04:00And I was hysterical.
01:04:02But without making a sound.
01:04:04Vera was dead.
01:04:06And I was her murderer.
01:04:08Murderer.
01:04:10What an awful word that is.
01:04:12But I'd become one.
01:04:14I'd better not get caught.
01:04:16What evidence there was around the place
01:04:18had to be destroyed.
01:04:20And from the looks of things, there was plenty.
01:04:22Looking around the room at things we'd bought
01:04:24was like looking into the faces
01:04:26of a hundred people who'd seen us together
01:04:28and who remembered me.
01:04:30This was the kind of testimony I couldn't rub out.
01:04:32No.
01:04:34I could burn clothes and hide bottles
01:04:36for the next five years.
01:04:38There'd always be witnesses.
01:04:40The landlady, for one.
01:04:42She could identify me.
01:04:44It could all identify me.
01:04:46I was cooked.
01:04:48Done for.
01:04:50I had to get out of there.
01:04:52While once I'd remained beside a dead body
01:04:54planning carefully how to avoid being accused
01:04:56of killing him,
01:04:58this time I couldn't.
01:05:00This time I was guilty.
01:05:02I knew it.
01:05:04Felt it.
01:05:06I was like a guy suffering from shock.
01:05:08Things were whirling around in my head.
01:05:10I couldn't make myself think right.
01:05:12All I could think of was the guy with the saxophone
01:05:14and what he was playing.
01:05:16It wasn't a love song anymore.
01:05:18It was a dirge.
01:05:42But my problems weren't solved.
01:06:10I had to stay away from New York for all time
01:06:14because Al Roberts was listed as dead
01:06:16and had to stay dead.
01:06:18But I could never go back to Hollywood.
01:06:20Someone might recognize me as Haskell.
01:06:24Then, too, there was Sue.
01:06:28I could never go to her with a thing like this
01:06:30hanging over my head.
01:06:32All I could do was pray she'd be happy.
01:06:38I was in Bakersfield before I read
01:06:50that Vera's body was discovered.
01:06:52That the police were looking for Haskell
01:06:54in connection with his wife's murder.
01:06:56Isn't that a laugh?
01:06:58Haskell got me into this mess
01:07:00and Haskell was getting me out of it.
01:07:02The police were searching for a dead man.
01:07:04I keep trying to forget what happened
01:07:06and wonder what my life might have been
01:07:08if that car of Haskell's hadn't stopped.
01:07:10But one thing I don't have to wonder about.
01:07:12I know.
01:07:14Someday a car will stop to pick me up
01:07:16that I never thumbed.
01:07:18Yes.
01:07:20Fate, or some mysterious force,
01:07:24can put the finger on you or me
01:07:28for no good reason at all.
01:07:30I don't know.
01:07:32I don't know.
01:07:34I don't know.
01:07:36I don't know.
01:07:38I don't know.
01:07:40I don't know.
01:07:42I don't know.
01:07:44I don't know.
01:07:46I don't know.