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00:04:00Did you ever want to forget anything?
00:04:02Did you ever want to cut away a piece of your memory or blot it out?
00:04:05You can't, you know.
00:04:07No matter how hard you try.
00:04:09You can change the scenery,
00:04:11but sooner or later you'll get a whiff of perfume
00:04:13or somebody will say a certain phrase or maybe hum something.
00:04:16Then you're licked again!
00:04:20I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:04:22I used to love that song once.
00:04:24So did the customers back in the old break-at-dawn club in New York.
00:04:28I can't remember a night when I didn't get at least three requests for it.
00:04:32Sue, she was always selling it too.
00:04:36Those were the days.
00:04:58Your eyes are blue, your kiss is too.
00:05:06I never knew what they could do.
00:05:09I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:05:14You're telling everyone you know
00:05:18that I'm on your mind each place you go.
00:05:21They can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:05:27I have always placed you far above me.
00:05:33I just can't imagine that you love me.
00:05:39And after all is said and done,
00:05:42to think that I'm the lucky one.
00:05:45I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:05:57It wasn't much of a club, really.
00:05:59You know the kind.
00:06:01A joint where you could have a sandwich and a few drinks
00:06:03and run interference for your girl on the dance floor.
00:06:08I pounded the piano in there every night from eight until the place closed up,
00:06:12which usually meant four in the morning.
00:06:14A good job, as jobs went in those days.
00:06:20Then, too, there was Sue,
00:06:23who made working there a little like working in heaven.
00:06:26But how we felt about each other,
00:06:28well, there was nothing very unusual in that.
00:06:31I was an ordinary healthy guy, and she was an ordinary healthy girl.
00:06:34When you add those two together, you get an ordinary healthy romance,
00:06:37which is the old story.
00:06:39Sure.
00:06:40But somehow, the most wonderful thing in the world.
00:06:45All in all, I was a pretty lucky guy.
00:07:00Mr. Paderewski, I presume.
00:07:02It's beautiful.
00:07:03You're going to make Carnegie Hall yet, Al?
00:07:05Yeah.
00:07:07I'm going to make it.
00:07:10It's beautiful.
00:07:11You're going to make Carnegie Hall yet, Al?
00:07:13Yeah.
00:07:14As a janitor.
00:07:15I'll make my debut in the basement.
00:07:17I don't blame you for being bitter, darling,
00:07:19but you mustn't give up hope.
00:07:21By some day...
00:07:22Yeah, some day.
00:07:23If I don't get arthritis first.
00:07:25In the meantime, let's blow this trap.
00:07:40Like to get something to eat, hon?
00:07:41Oh, I don't think so, Al.
00:07:43I lose my appetite working in this flea bag.
00:07:46Let's go home.
00:07:47Okay.
00:07:49I can't stand much more of that dump.
00:07:52Did you see that drunk tonight, trying to paw me?
00:07:55No, what drunk?
00:07:56Does it matter what drunk?
00:07:59Say, what's the matter with you tonight, darling?
00:08:01That's the third time you've started to tell me something,
00:08:03and instead of telling me, you're telling me.
00:08:06Next week, we're going to make with a ring and a license.
00:08:08You and me will be a team.
00:08:09Yes, that's right.
00:08:10In the Bush League.
00:08:12I don't get you.
00:08:13We've been struck out.
00:08:16That's a funny way to talk, darling.
00:08:18Don't you want to marry me?
00:08:19Al, look, I love you.
00:08:20You know I do, and I want to marry you.
00:08:23But?
00:08:24But not now.
00:08:25Only after we've made good.
00:08:28Sunday, I'm going away.
00:08:30I'll be back.
00:08:31I'll be back.
00:08:33Good.
00:08:35Sunday, I'm going away.
00:08:37I 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.
00:08:46That's the most stupid thing I ever heard of.
00:08:48Don't you know millions of people go out there every year
00:08:50and wind up polishing cuspid doors?
00:08:52I 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?
00:09:02We 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.
00:09:23And we've got all the time in the world to settle down.
00:09:28Really, darling.
00:09:29What I'm doing is the only sane thing to do.
00:09:33I hate the thought of being so far away from you.
00:09:36But we'll be together again someday.
00:09:40Maybe you'll decide to come out too later on.
00:09:43So long.
00:09:44Al.
00:09:46Aren't you going to kiss me goodnight?
00:09:49Sure.
00:09:50Why not?
00:09:53Good night.
00:10:23Good night.
00:10:53Good night.
00:11:23Say, Roberts, you hit the jackpot this time.
00:11:39$10.
00:11:40Thanks.
00:11:41So when this drunk handed me a 10 spot after a request,
00:11:51I couldn't get very excited.
00:11:52What was it?
00:11:53I asked myself.
00:11:54A piece of paper crawling with germs.
00:11:56Couldn't buy anything I wanted.
00:11:58It couldn't.
00:12:04Then I thought of something.
00:12:29Long distance.
00:12:30I'd like to put a call through to Los Angeles.
00:12:32Miss Harvey.
00:12:33Sue Harvey.
00:12:34H-A-R-V-E-Y.
00:12:36The number is Crestview 65723.
00:13:01Hello, Sue?
00:13:02This is Al.
00:13:03Oh, baby, it's great to hear from you too.
00:13:04What's that?
00:13:05You do?
00:13:06Oh, me too, darling.
00:13:07I thought I'd go batty without you.
00:13:08I just had to...
00:13:09Huh?
00:13:10You're working as a hashlinger?
00:13:11Gee, honey, that's tough.
00:13:12Those guys out in Hollywood don't know the real thing
00:13:13when it's right in front of them.
00:13:14You just stick it out, Sue, baby.
00:13:15Keep going around to those casting offices.
00:13:16I'll see you later.
00:13:17Bye-bye.
00:13:18Bye-bye.
00:13:19Bye-bye.
00:13:20Bye-bye.
00:13:21Bye-bye.
00:13:22Bye-bye.
00:13:24No, don't try to stop me.
00:13:25Just expect me.
00:13:26Train?
00:13:27Who knows?
00:13:28Train, plane, bus, magic carpet.
00:13:29I'll be there if I have to crawl.
00:13:30If I have to travel by pogo stick.
00:13:31And then...
00:13:32Let's get married right away, huh?
00:13:33That's the stuff.
00:13:34That's what I'm talking about.
00:13:35That's it.
00:13:36That's it.
00:13:37That's it.
00:13:38That's it.
00:13:39That's it.
00:13:40That's it.
00:13:41That's it.
00:13:42That's it.
00:13:43That's it.
00:13:44That's it.
00:13:45That's it.
00:13:46That's it.
00:13:47That's it.
00:13:48That's it.
00:13:49That's it.
00:13:50That's it.
00:13:51That's it.
00:13:52That's it.
00:13:53That's the stuff.
00:13:54That's what I've been wanting to hear you say.
00:13:57Well, goodbye for now.
00:13:59I'll be seeing you soon.
00:14:02Yeah.
00:14:05Bye.
00:14:11The only way I could cross country was to thumb rides.
00:14:14For even after hocking everything,
00:14:16I only had enough money to eat.
00:14:18Money.
00:14:19You know what that is.
00:14:21It's the stuff you never have enough of, little green things with George Washington's picture
00:14:24that men slave for, commit 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.
00:14:35At least I had too little of it, so it was me for the thumb.
00:14:51Ever done any hitchhiking?
00:14:59It's not much fun, believe me.
00:15:01Oh yeah, I know all about how it's an education, how you get to meet a lot of people and all
00:15:05that.
00:15:06But me?
00:15:07From now on, I'll take my education in college, or in PS62, or I'll send a dollar ninety-eight
00:15:13in stamps for ten easy lessons.
00:15:24Thumbing rides may save you a bus fare, but it's dangerous.
00:15:28You never know what's in store for you when you hear the squeal of brakes.
00:15:34If only I had known what I was getting into that day in Arizona.
00:15:39Here, throw that in the back seat.
00:15:44Okay, let's go.
00:15:45Make sure that door is closed.
00:16:00You know, Emily Post taught her how to write a book of rules for guys thumbing rides.
00:16:05Because as it is now, you never know what's right and what's wrong.
00:16:08We rode along for a little while, neither one of us saying anything.
00:16:12I was glad of that.
00:16:14I never know what to say to strange people driving cars.
00:16:18And two, you can never tell if a guy wants to talk.
00:16:21A lot of rides have been cut short because of a big mouth.
00:16:25So I kept my mouth shut until he started opening up.
00:16:30Hand me that little box in the compartment, will you, pal?
00:16:36Hold the wheel, will you?
00:16:49How far are you going?
00:16:50L.A.
00:16:51Wow, you're really traveling, aren't you?
00:16:53Yeah, but I don't expect to make it for a couple of years at the rate I've been promoting rides.
00:16:57Not much luck, huh?
00:16:58Sure, all bad.
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 going to 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 some 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.
00:18:24Me, who's 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.
00:18:39That's the stuff.
00:18:40As I was done, huh?
00:18:43But if you want to see a real scar, brother, get a load of this.
00:18:48What?
00:18:50I got that with Dooley.
00:18:52Dooley?
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.
00:19:02The 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?
00:19:15Yeah.
00:19:26Pain made me lose my head, I guess.
00:19:28Began slashing.
00:19:30Before I knew it, I'd put the other kid's eye on.
00:19:33That was tough.
00:19:35Well, it was just an accident, of course.
00:19:37Do you know how kids are?
00:19:39I got scared, decided I was going to run away from home.
00:19:42Old man almost caught me when I was packing my duds.
00:19:46The bloody rag I had wrapped around my wrist hadn't caught his attention.
00:19:49He'd have seen the bundle for sure.
00:19:52But I beat it when he was phoning for a doctor.
00:19:55That was 15, 16 years ago.
00:19:57I haven't been home since.
00:20:03Go in there for a bite of something, huh?
00:20:05A bite of something?
00:20:07Brother, was I hungry.
00:20:09I hadn't had anything in my stomach for hours.
00:20:12Yet even with that gnawing in the pit of my belly,
00:20:14I didn't want to be in too big a rush to put on the feed bag.
00:20:17First, I had to make sure this guy knew the score.
00:20:20If I got him down on me, it was goodbye ticket to Hollywood.
00:20:24I'll wait out here for you, mister.
00:20:26If it's the money, don't worry about paying for it.
00:20:28This time it's on me.
00:20:29Well, that's white of you, mister...
00:20:30Haskell, think nothing of it.
00:20:32You make your first million, maybe you can do the same for me.
00:20:34Come on, New York.
00:20:35I got to make the West Coast by Wednesday.
00:20:37There'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 since 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.
00:21:11Want anything else?
00:21:12No thanks, I've had plenty.
00:21:15That check there, sister?
00:21:20Oh, just a miniature change, sir.
00:21:22Keep it, sister.
00:21:23Oh, thank you, sir.
00:21:24Call again.
00:21:25I'll be waiting outside for you when you finish work.
00:21:27Oh.
00:21:28Sharp check, huh?
00:21:31I drove all that night while Haskell slept like a log.
00:21:34After a while I began to get sleepy myself.
00:21:39I was happy, though.
00:21:41Soon I'd be with Sue again.
00:21:43The long trip was practically over.
00:21:44And I'd be no more hoofing it down the continent.
00:21:46I met my little sister in Los Angeles.
00:21:50I couldn't have been happier.
00:21:51It was the best time of my life.
00:21:53I was a good little boy.
00:21:54I didn't know how much I loved her or where I was going.
00:21:57The long trip was practically over, and there'd be no more hoofing it down the concrete.
00:22:01I began to think of the future,
00:22:04which couldn't have been brighter if I'd embroidered it with neon lights.
00:22:08It was nice to think of Sue shooting to the top.
00:22:11Heh, it's amazing what a full belly can do to your imagination.
00:22:17Your eyes, oh, your kisses too
00:22:22I never knew what they could do
00:22:27I can't believe that you're in love with me
00:22:35You're telling everyone you know
00:22:40I'm on your mind each place you go
00:22:44I can't believe that you're in love with me
00:23:06Mr. Haskell?
00:23:09Mr. Haskell?
00:23:12Mr. Haskell, wake up. It's raining.
00:23:15Don't you think we ought to stop and put up the top?
00:23:25Mr. Haskell, I'm going to put up the top.
00:23:42Up until then, I had done things my way.
00:23:45But from then on, something else stepped in and shunted me off to a different destination than the one I had picked for myself.
00:23:51The one I pulled open that door.
00:23:57Mr. Haskell, what's the matter?
00:23:59Are you hurt?
00:24:01Are you hurt, Mr. Haskell?
00:24:03Start your sermon.
00:24:05I'll listen to it.
00:24:07But I know what you're going to hand me even before you open your mouths.
00:24:10You're going to tell me you don't believe my story about how Haskell died
00:24:13and give me that don't make me laugh expression on your smug faces.
00:24:19I saw it once. He was dead.
00:24:21And I was in for it.
00:24:23Who would believe he fell out of the car?
00:24:25Why, if Haskell came too, which of course he couldn't, even he would swear I conked him over the head for his dough.
00:24:29Yes, 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 was in the worst spot then, trying to explain why I beat it.
00:24:42The next possibility was to sit tight and tell the truth when the cops came.
00:24:45But that would be crazy.
00:24:47They'd laugh at the truth.
00:24:49And I'd have my head in the noose.
00:24:52So what else was there to do but hide the body and 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.
00:25:09My idea was to cover him with brush.
00:25:29Not to rob him.
00:25:30But then I remembered that even if I only drove the car for a hundred miles or so, I would need money for gas.
00:25:35Besides, it was stupid of me to leave all that money on a dead man.
00:25:39Not only that.
00:25:40I'd have to take his driver's license in case I was stopped for something.
00:25:45I didn't like to think about it.
00:25:46But by that time I'd done just what the police would say I did.
00:25:49Even if I didn't.
00:25:51My clothes.
00:25:52The owner of such an expensive car would never be wearing them.
00:25:56Some cop might pull me in on suspicion.
00:26:10Hey, you, this your car?
00:26:12Don't you know better than to leave a car with the wheels halfway in the middle of the road?
00:26:15That's the way accidents happen.
00:26:17I'm sorry, officer.
00:26:19I was just putting up my top.
00:26:20I didn't think.
00:26:21Well, the next time, think.
00:26:23I'll let you go now, but watch your step in the future.
00:26:25I know that's all I can do.
00:26:26I'm sorry.
00:26:27I'm sorry.
00:26:28I'm sorry.
00:26:29I'm sorry.
00:26:30I'm sorry.
00:26:31I'm sorry.
00:26:32I'm sorry.
00:26:33I'm sorry.
00:26:34I'm sorry.
00:26:35I'm sorry.
00:26:36I'm sorry.
00:26:37I'm sorry.
00:26:38I know that's a lonely stretch, but cars come by here once in a while and we have plenty of crack-ups.
00:26:43Thanks, officer.
00:26:44Thanks.
00:27:08I left nothing in the car to give me away as Roberts.
00:27:10If they found a dead man in the gully now, it would be me.
00:27:15Oh, no.
00:27:21As I drove off, it was still raining.
00:27:24And the drops streaked down the windshield like tears.
00:27:29I kept imagining I was being followed, that I could hear sirens back in the distance.
00:27:34Just 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.
00:27:41But the rain had stopped and the sun was up when I pulled up to the inspection station.
00:27:50Hello.
00:27:52Carrying any fruits or vegetables?
00:27:53No.
00:27:54Any livestock or poultry?
00:27:55No.
00:27:58I'd like to see your registration and driver's license, please.
00:28:05Anything in the baggage compartment?
00:28:07Just baggage.
00:28:09Charles Haskell Jr., age 30, brown eyes, dark hair.
00:28:13Identifying marks, none.
00:28:15Are you Charles Haskell Jr.?
00:28:16Yes.
00:28:17Well, remember, if you're employed and you stay over 30 days, you take out California plates.
00:28:21All right, officer, but I'll only be in the state a short while.
00:28:25Right, you can go now.
00:28:34I couldn't drive any farther without some sleep.
00:28:36Cops or no cops.
00:28:38I knew I had to hit the hay and hit it hard.
00:28:42I was dead tired.
00:29:07No.
00:29:09No, you can't, Mr. Haskell.
00:29:11No.
00:29:20Mr. Haskell.
00:29:22You can't die.
00:29:24Don't think.
00:29:26Don't think I did it.
00:29:29No, Mr. Haskell.
00:29:31You can't die.
00:29:33Don't think.
00:29:35No, Mr. Haskell.
00:29:37No.
00:29:38No.
00:29:54Who's there?
00:29:55It's the maid.
00:29:56Can I come in and clean?
00:29:58Later.
00:30:00In a half hour.
00:30:01All right, sir.
00:30:27There was no time to lose.
00:30:29Every minute I had to be Charles Haskell was dangerous.
00:30:31I had to be Charles Haskell until I got to some city where I could leave the car and be swallowed up.
00:30:40That meant driving the car as far as San Bernardino.
00:30:43Maybe even to Los Angeles.
00:30:45In a little town I might be noticed, but in a city I should be safe enough.
00:30:50Then, after I ditched the car, I could go on to Sue.
00:30:54But those five minutes at the state line made me realize it might be a good idea to find out a little bit about Mr. Haskell.
00:31:01Then, if anybody asked me questions, I could give the right answers.
00:31:05The first thing I found out was that I had $768.
00:31:09This was a lot of jack.
00:31:11But believe me, it was the kind of money I'd rather not have.
00:31:22And then I found out from a letter Haskell was carting around in his bag
00:31:25that he wasn't the open-handed, easy-going big shot who went around buying dinners for strange hitchhikers.
00:31:31Before I got done reading it, I saw him more as a chiseler.
00:31:35It was written to his old man in California.
00:31:38The one he hadn't seen in so many years.
00:31:41In it, Haskell posed as a salesman of hymnals, of all things.
00:31:47It was easy to see where Haskell expected to 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 his son kicked off.
00:32:05He would never know it.
00:32:07But it saved him from taking a flyer in sacred literature preferred.
00:32:26Near the airport at Desert Center, I pulled up for water.
00:32:30There was a woman.
00:32:35Hey, you! Come on if you want a ride.
00:32:55Come on.
00:33:26How far are you going?
00:33:28How far are you going?
00:33:30That took me by surprise.
00:33:32And I turned my head to look her over.
00:33:34She was facing straight ahead, so I couldn't see her eyes.
00:33:37But she was young.
00:33:39About more than 24.
00:33:41Man, she looked as if she'd just been thrown off the crummiest freight train in the world.
00:33:46Yet, in spite of all that,
00:33:48she looked as if she'd just been thrown off the crummiest freight train in the world.
00:33:51Yet, in spite of all that,
00:33:52she looked as if she'd just been thrown off the crummiest freight train in the world.
00:33:54Yet, in spite of all that,
00:33:56I got the impression of beauty.
00:33:58Not the beauty of a movie actress, mind you.
00:34:01Or the beauty you dream about when you're with your wife.
00:34:03But a natural beauty.
00:34:05A beauty that's almost homely because it's so real.
00:34:10Then suddenly, she turned to face me.
00:34:12How far did you say you were going?
00:34:14Los Angeles.
00:34:15L.A.?
00:34:17L.A.'s good enough for me, mister.
00:34:19That's what I was afraid of.
00:34:20What'd you say?
00:34:22Nothing, just thinking out loud.
00:34:24People get in trouble for doing that.
00:34:26What's your name?
00:34:28You can call me Vera, if you like.
00:34:30You live in Los Angeles?
00:34:31No.
00:34:33Where are you coming from?
00:34:35Oh, back there.
00:34:36Needles?
00:34:37No.
00:34:39Oh, sure. Phoenix.
00:34:40You look just like a Phoenix girl.
00:34:42Are the girls in Phoenix that bad?
00:34:44The girl must have been pretty tired
00:34:46because she fell asleep not 20 minutes after she stepped into the car.
00:34:49She lay sprawled out with her head resting against the far door,
00:34:52like 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 when she looked at me,
00:35:04which I put down as 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, I began to feel sorry for her.
00:35:16The poor kid probably had had a rough time.
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?
00:35:27The 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?
00:35:45Where did you leave the owner of this car?
00:35:47You're not fooling anyone.
00:35:49This buggy belongs to a guy named Haskell.
00:35:51That's not you, mister.
00:35:53You're out of your mind. That's my name, Charles Haskell.
00:35:55I can prove it. He's my driver's license.
00:35:57Save yourself the trouble, mister.
00:35:59Having Haskell's wallet only makes it worse.
00:36:01It just so happens I rode with Charlie Haskell
00:36:03all the way from Louisiana.
00:36:05He picked me up outside of Shreveport.
00:36:07You rode?
00:36:09You heard me.
00:36:11Then it all came back to me.
00:36:13All the talk about dueling and scars and scratches.
00:36:15There was no doubt about it.
00:36:17Vera must be the woman Haskell had mentioned.
00:36:19She passed me while I slept.
00:36:21Well?
00:36:23Well, I'm waiting.
00:36:25My goose was cooked.
00:36:27She had me.
00:36:29That Haskell guy wasn't dead yet.
00:36:31He wasn't stretched out stiff and cold
00:36:33in any Arizona gully.
00:36:35He was sitting right there in the car
00:36:37laughing like mad while he haunted me.
00:36:39Well?
00:36:41There was nothing I could say.
00:36:43It was her move.
00:36:45Vera, whatever her name was,
00:36:46I'd have taken her up on the road.
00:36:48It couldn't have been Helen or Mary
00:36:50or Evelyn or Ruth.
00:36:52It had to be the very last person
00:36:54I should ever have met.
00:36:56That's life.
00:36:58Whichever way you turn,
00:37:00fate sticks out a foot to trip you.
00:37:06I told her everything,
00:37:08but she didn't believe my story.
00:37:10I should have saved my breath.
00:37:12That's the greatest cock and bull story I ever heard.
00:37:14So he fell out of his car.
00:37:16Listen, mister, I've been around
00:37:18and I know a wrong guy when I see one.
00:37:20What'd you do, kiss him with a wrench?
00:37:22Now, wait a minute. What I told you was true.
00:37:24You see, that's why I had to do it.
00:37:26You think I killed him.
00:37:28Well, the cops would have thought so too.
00:37:30Yeah, well, maybe they still think so.
00:37:32What 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.
00:37:44Thanks.
00:37:46I'm not through with you by a long shot.
00:37:48Let's see that roll.
00:37:56Is that all Haskell had?
00:37:58Isn't it enough?
00:38:00No, I thought he had more.
00:38:02Not that I know of. You can search me
00:38:04if you think I'm holding out on you.
00:38:06Well, maybe I will at that.
00:38:08He told me he was going to bet $3,000
00:38:10on a horse named Paradisical on Wednesday at Santa Anita.
00:38:12He was stringing you along. He meant $300.
00:38:14Maybe.
00:38:16Don't try and tell me anything about Charlie Haskell.
00:38:18Remember, I knew him better than you did.
00:38:20Okay, then you knew he was a foreflusher.
00:38:22That explains the $3,000 bet.
00:38:24I'm not so sure he didn't have that $3,000.
00:38:26Why should I believe you?
00:38:28You got all the earmarks of a cheap crook.
00:38:30Now, wait a minute.
00:38:32Shut up. You're a cheap crook and you killed him.
00:38:34For two cents, I'd change my mind and turn you in.
00:38:36I don't like you.
00:38:38All right, all right. Don't get sore.
00:38:40I'm not getting sore.
00:38:42But just remember who's boss around here.
00:38:44If you shut up and don't give me any arguments,
00:38:46I'll kill you so fast it'll give you the bends.
00:38:48I'm not arguing.
00:38:50Well, see that you don't.
00:38:52You know, as crooked as you look,
00:38:54I'd hate to see a fella as young as you wind up
00:38:56sniffing that perfume that Arizona hands out free to murderers.
00:38:58I'm not a murderer.
00:39:00Of course you're not. Haskell knocked his own head off.
00:39:02He fell, that's how it happened, just like I told you.
00:39:04Sure, and then he made you a present of his belongings.
00:39:06I explained why I had to do that.
00:39:08Oh, skip it. It doesn't make a difference one way or another.
00:39:10I'm not a mourner.
00:39:12I liked Haskell even less than I like you.
00:39:14Yeah, I saw what you did to him.
00:39:16Well, so you did.
00:39:18So your idea was to drive the car a little way,
00:39:20maybe into San Bernardino, and then leave it.
00:39:22You weren't gonna sell it?
00:39:24Sell it?
00:39:26You think I'm crazy? Somebody else's car?
00:39:28Say, all I wanna do is leave it somewhere
00:39:30and forget I ever saw it.
00:39:32Not only don't you have any scruples, you don't have any brains.
00:39:34I don't get you.
00:39:36Maybe it's a good thing you met me.
00:39:38You'd have got yourself caught, sure.
00:39:40Why, you dope.
00:39:42Don't you know a deserted automobile always rates an investigation?
00:39:44Huh?
00:39:46Then they get curious.
00:39:48They wonder where the owner is.
00:39:50So, all right, they don't trace Haskell.
00:39:52They trace you.
00:39:54I never thought of that.
00:39:56The only safe way to get rid of the car
00:39:58is to sell it to a dealer.
00:40:00Get it registered under a new name.
00:40:02Say, stop at the next store.
00:40:04I wanna get a bottle and do some shopping
00:40:06before we hit L.A.
00:40:08Okay. Since we find a place,
00:40:10I'll drop you off and pick you up later.
00:40:12Nothing doing. You're coming in, too.
00:40:14From now on, you and I are like the Siamese twins.
00:40:16I'm not gonna beat it if that's what you're afraid of.
00:40:18I'll say you're not.
00:40:20Well, I'm gonna see that you sell this car
00:40:22so you don't get caught.
00:40:24Thanks.
00:40:26Of course, your interest wouldn't be financial, would it?
00:40:28You wouldn't want a small percentage of the profits.
00:40:30Well, now that you insist, how can I refuse?
00:40:32A hundred percent'll do.
00:40:34Fine. I'm relieved.
00:40:36I thought for a moment you were gonna take it all.
00:40:38I don't wanna be a hog.
00:40:41A few hours later, we were in Hollywood.
00:40:43I was recognizing places Sue had written about.
00:40:46It struck me that,
00:40:48far from being at the end of the trip,
00:40:50there was a greater distance between Sue and me
00:40:52than when I started out.
00:40:54Vera wasn't kidding with that Siamese twins crack.
00:40:57She rented a little apartment,
00:40:59as Mrs. Charles Haskell.
00:41:01When I objected to this,
00:41:03she explained that it was on account of the car.
00:41:05A dealer might think something was funny
00:41:07if he called and found we were using different names.
00:41:14Home, sweet home.
00:41:17Not bad, either.
00:41:26In case there's any doubt in your mind,
00:41:28I'll take the bedroom.
00:41:30Yeah.
00:41:32Sure is stuffy in here.
00:41:41Keep the windows shut.
00:41:43Okay.
00:41:44The old crow downstairs
00:41:46said there's a fallen bed behind this door.
00:41:53You know how to work it?
00:41:58I invented it.
00:42:03Some joint.
00:42:05One can't have everything.
00:42:10I'm first in the bathtub.
00:42:11I don't know why,
00:42:13but I figured you would be.
00:42:24Boy, oh boy.
00:42:26It sure feels good to be clean again.
00:42:29I must be 10 pounds lighter.
00:42:32You must be.
00:42:35Well, hitching rides isn't exactly
00:42:37the way you keep your schoolgirl complexion.
00:42:39I wish that guy with the sacks would give up.
00:42:43Gets on my nerves.
00:42:47Forget it.
00:42:51Have a drink.
00:42:53Aren't you afraid I might take you up on it?
00:42:57If I didn't want to give you a drink,
00:42:59I wouldn't have offered it.
00:43:01Why be a sorehead, Roberts?
00:43:03You got yourself into this thing.
00:43:05I'm not a sorehead.
00:43:06You got yourself into this thing.
00:43:08You should be grateful I'm not turning you in.
00:43:11Why, if I wasn't regular,
00:43:13you'd be in the pen this minute
00:43:15being photographed, fingerprinted,
00:43:17and being pushed around by the cops.
00:43:19So cheer up.
00:43:21Get rid of that long puss.
00:43:23Or is your conscience bothering you?
00:43:29No.
00:43:31It isn't.
00:43:33That's the spirit.
00:43:35He's dead and no moment around will bring him back.
00:43:41Anyway, I never could understand
00:43:43this 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.
00:43:51I don't know.
00:43:53Sure, sure, he died of old age.
00:43:55All right.
00:43:57So if it'll make you sociable,
00:43:59you didn't kill him.
00:44:05Thanks.
00:44:18We're out of liquor, Roberts.
00:44:20Yeah.
00:44:22Too bad.
00:44:24I felt like getting tight tonight.
00:44:26Well, I think you succeeded.
00:44:28Am I tight?
00:44:30As a bartender.
00:44:31I think you succeeded.
00:44:33Am I tight?
00:44:35As a prima donna's corset.
00:44:37That's good.
00:44:39I wanted to get tight.
00:44:41Why?
00:44:43What have you got to get tight about?
00:44:45Oh, I don't know.
00:44:47A few things.
00:44:49You should have my worries.
00:44:51If I had your troubles, I'd stay sober.
00:44:53And I've got the key to that door.
00:44:57Yeah.
00:44:59Maybe you're right.
00:45:01You know, I don't like your attitude, Roberts.
00:45:03Well, there's a lot of things I don't like.
00:45:06Sure.
00:45:10But life's like a ball game.
00:45:12You've got to take a swing at whatever comes along
00:45:14before you wake up and find it's a ninth inning.
00:45:17I bet you read that somewhere.
00:45:19That's the trouble with you, Roberts.
00:45:21All you do is bellyache.
00:45:24Instead of taking it easy
00:45:26and trying to make the best of things.
00:45:28But maybe that's the problem.
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 a harp now.
00:45:42Think of that.
00:45:44You think of it.
00:45:46I'm tired of thinking.
00:45:48There's plenty of people dying this minute
00:45:51that would give anything to trade places with you.
00:45:55I don't know.
00:45:57I know what I'm talking about.
00:45:59I'm not so sure.
00:46:01At least they know they're done for.
00:46:03They don't have to sweat blood wondering if they are.
00:46:07Your philosophy stinks, pal.
00:46:10We all know we're going to kick off someday.
00:46:12It's only a question of when.
00:46:16But what's got us on this subject anyway?
00:46:19We'll be discussing politics next.
00:46:21Yeah.
00:46:22Where'd you hide the butts?
00:46:24On the table, sucker.
00:46:35We bored each other with conversation
00:46:37for a couple of hours longer.
00:46:39Every five minutes, one of us was wishing
00:46:41we had another bottle or a radio or something to read.
00:46:45Then finally, we ran out of chat.
00:46:48I know it's only 11 o'clock.
00:46:49But I want to get up early and make the rounds
00:46:51of the used car lots.
00:46:53No hurry about that.
00:46:55We got all the time in the world.
00:46:57Maybe you have.
00:46:59But if 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.
00:47:05They pay plenty for diggings like this in New York.
00:47:07I wouldn't like it if it was the Ritz.
00:47:10Rotten liquor.
00:47:12You got a mean cough.
00:47:14Ought to do something about it.
00:47:16I'll be all right.
00:47:17That's what Camille said.
00:47:19Who?
00:47:21Nobody you know.
00:47:26Wasn't that the day in the diet of consumption?
00:47:28Yeah.
00:47:30Wouldn't it be a break for you if I did kick off?
00:47:32You'd be free with all Haskell's dough and car.
00:47:35I don't want to see anybody die.
00:47:38Not even me?
00:47:40Especially not you.
00:47:42One person died in me.
00:47:44If you did, well, that's all I need.
00:47:47You don't like me, do you, Roberts?
00:47:50I like you.
00:47:52I love you.
00:47:55My favorite sport is being kept prisoner.
00:47:58After we sell the car, you can go to blazes for all I care.
00:48:01But not until then.
00:48:09I'm going to bed.
00:48:18Good night, Roberts.
00:48:20Don't try and sneak away during the night.
00:48:22All the doors are locked.
00:48:24Anyway, if I find you gone in the morning,
00:48:26I'll notify the police.
00:48:28They'll pick you up.
00:48:30Don't worry, I know when I'm in a spot.
00:48:32Well, good night.
00:48:34I hope that portable rack isn't too uncomfortable for you.
00:48:36Don't lose any sleep over it, will you, dear?
00:48:47Good night.
00:48:48Good night.
00:49:15Chris Fuhrman.
00:49:18Six...
00:49:20Five...
00:49:22Seven...
00:49:24Two...
00:49:26Three...
00:49:28Hello?
00:49:30Hello?
00:49:32Hello?
00:49:34Hello?
00:49:42No.
00:49:44Not yet, darling.
00:49:45Tomorrow.
00:49:47Maybe.
00:49:52If this were fiction,
00:49:54I would fall in love with Vera,
00:49:56marry her and make a respectable woman of her,
00:49:58or else she'd make some supreme class A sacrifice for me
00:50:01and die.
00:50:03Sue and I would bawl a little over her grave
00:50:05and make some crack about there's good in all of us.
00:50:08But Vera, unfortunately,
00:50:10was just as rotten in the morning
00:50:12as she'd been in the morning.
00:50:13Was just as rotten in the morning
00:50:15as she'd been the night before.
00:50:18All right, all right, I'm coming.
00:50:20Look, 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,
00:50:29but that doesn't mean I'm going to wait that long.
00:50:31Shut 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
00:50:41and all you can say is let's go.
00:50:44Come on.
00:50:50We passed a few used car lots
00:50:52last night down this way.
00:50:54What do you think we can get for this heap?
00:50:56I don't know. Plenty.
00:50:58You just let me 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.
00:51:09Don't make any slips and call me Roberts.
00:51:11That'll cook us.
00:51:13I don't need you to tell me that.
00:51:15You better just sit by and keep your mouth closed.
00:51:17Remember, we're both in this soup if anything happens.
00:51:19Forget it and drive.
00:51:21You're my wife, Farrah Haskell.
00:51:23Look, after the deal's closed,
00:51:25let's go back to that place on Hollywood Boulevard
00:51:27where I saw the fur jacket.
00:51:29I want to buy it.
00:51:31After the deal's closed, I'm saying goodbye to you.
00:51:33That's right, I forgot.
00:51:35I guess I'm getting kind of used to you.
00:51:37Well, that's a habit you can start breaking.
00:51:39Let'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.
00:52:01Tony, take a look at this motor.
00:52:03$1,600? Are you kidding?
00:52:07Well, maybe $1,850.
00:52:09Before I let it go for $1,850,
00:52:11I'll wreck it and collect the insurance first.
00:52:17Lady, this motor's seen a lot of driving.
00:52:25Well, the mechanic inspected the car.
00:52:27He said it was in good condition.
00:52:29He said it was in good condition.
00:52:31He said it was in good condition.
00:52:33He said it was in good condition.
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 on, we'll sign the papers.
00:52:50I have the ownership papers right here with me.
00:52:52Look, Vera, in the meantime,
00:52:54will you clean out the dash compartment?
00:52:56There may be some stuff in it.
00:52:58All right, darling.
00:53:00$1,850.
00:53:02That dirty crook.
00:53:04I'll get him.
00:53:10New York, huh?
00:53:12Yeah, but you bought the car in Miami.
00:53:14Yeah.
00:53:16Well, now 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?
00:53:23Well, uh, aren't all the papers there?
00:53:28I don't see any.
00:53:30Surely you know what type of insurance
00:53:32you carry in the car.
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...
00:53:41Did you sign the papers yet?
00:53:42Not yet.
00:53:43Well, don't.
00:53:44We're not selling the car.
00:53:45Well, wait a minute, Mrs. Haskell.
00:53:46Come on, darling.
00:53:47What's the matter?
00:53:48You changed your mind?
00:53:49Yes, I'm sorry.
00:53:50I guess I have.
00:53:51But, Vera...
00:53:52Let's go.
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.
00:54:03You can't throw away a goldmine.
00:54:051850 isn't to be sneezed at.
00:54:07The car doesn't book for as much as I thought.
00:54:09We're not selling the car.
00:54:10You want to keep it?
00:54:12Now, wait a minute, Vera.
00:54:13You said yourself I wouldn't be safe
00:54:14until the car was in someone else's name.
00:54:16I'd like to be free of this mess when I go.
00:54:18That's just it, Roberts.
00:54:19You're not going.
00:54:21There's a driver at the next corner.
00:54:23Pull 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?
00:54:33Hello. Can I take your order?
00:54:34Make mine a ham sandwich and coffee.
00:54:36And for you, sir?
00:54:37Oh, I don't care. The same.
00:54:46Get this, Vera.
00:54:48I've been pretty patient so far.
00:54:50I've done everything you asked me to do, but no more.
00:54:52Shut up.
00:54:53You've taken Haskell's money.
00:54:54And you can have the dough we get from selling the car.
00:54:56But you're not going to keep me a prisoner.
00:54:58It's a good thing I bought the paper.
00:54:59Take a look at that.
00:55:00Vera, I'm in no mood.
00:55:01Read that.
00:55:04No.
00:55:05Yes.
00:55:06No, I won't do it.
00:55:07Yes, you will.
00:55:08You think I'm crazy?
00:55:09It's impossible, I tell you.
00:55:11Excuse me.
00:55:18Blow the horn when you're through.
00:55:23No one could possibly get away with an act like that.
00:55:25It'd be wise to me in a minute.
00:55:26I'll be back in a minute.
00:55:28I'll be back in a minute.
00:55:29I'll be back in a minute.
00:55:30I'll be back in a minute.
00:55:31I'll be back in a minute.
00:55:32It'd be wise to me in a minute.
00:55:33Don't be yellow.
00:55:34You look enough like him.
00:55:35The same coloring and the same build.
00:55:37See how his clothes fit you?
00:55:39No kidding, you almost had me fooled for a while.
00:55:41Oh, grow up, Vera.
00:55:42Don't you think a father knows his own son?
00:55:44And there must be other relatives.
00:55:45The father won't have to know you.
00:55:46We'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.
00:55:55Eat.
00:55:56I'm not hungry.
00:55:57And I won't do it.
00:55:59It's not as tough as it sounds.
00:56:00Remember, you've got all kinds of identification.
00:56:02His car, letters, license.
00:56:03I could never get away with it.
00:56:04It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
00:56:06The old boy has scads of dough.
00:56:08Look in the paper there.
00:56:09Personal fortune assessed at over 15 million.
00:56:11He'll leave plenty, I tell you.
00:56:13Maybe he cut off his son.
00:56:14How do we know?
00:56:15It's out, Vera.
00:56:16I won't have anything to do with it.
00:56:19I think you will.
00:56:21Look, Vera.
00:56:22I'll do anything within reason.
00:56:24But not that.
00:56:25So forget it.
00:56:26Find yourself another stooge.
00:56:27Giuseppe!
00:56:28You'll be fixed for the rest of your life
00:56:30as Charlie Haskell.
00:56:31You can take your inheritance and go away.
00:56:33No more worrying about the rent, no sweat and scheming,
00:56:35wondering where your next meal's coming from.
00:56:37Think about that, Roberts!
00:56:38Vera, please.
00:56:39You're talking too loud.
00:56:41Unless I'm splitting 50-50 with you.
00:56:43Sure, why not?
00:56:44We're both alike.
00:56:45Both born in the same gutter.
00:56:46Take it easy, Vera.
00:56:47There's people around here.
00:56:48You 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.
00:56:59He will.
00:57:00I know he will.
00:57:01Something 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.
00:57:21Maybe it was for me, too.
00:57:23Don't you realize if I'm caught,
00:57:25they'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,
00:57:49a clever kid like you can run it up in no time.
00:57:51Then we'd both be in the clear.
00:57:52I'll be in the clear anyway.
00:57:54Maybe.
00:57:55But if I got caught,
00:57:57I'd get good and sore, too, you know.
00:57:59You mean you'd squeal?
00:58:01Oh, no, not squeal exactly.
00:58:02Never mind what you meant.
00:58:05Even if you did tell the cops I was in on it with you,
00:58:08what could they do to me?
00:58:10They might give me the same medicine they gave you.
00:58:13Yeah.
00:58:14A rope.
00:58:17But I'm on my way anyhow.
00:58:21All they'll be doing will be rushing it.
00:58:23All right.
00:58:24But think of the 1850 you'd lose.
00:58:26You'd kick yourself along the block
00:58:27if you ever let get away from you.
00:58:29I'll take the chance.
00:58:31Want another drink?
00:58:32You're being a goon.
00:58:33That's the way people wind up behind the eight ball.
00:58:35Once they get a few dollars,
00:58:36they become greedy and want more.
00:58:38My, my.
00:58:39Caesar.
00:58:40Who?
00:58:41You know that Roman general?
00:58:42He got his for being greedy.
00:58:43He wasn't satisfied,
00:58:44so the final wind-up was he took the count.
00:58:46A couple of days ago, you didn't have a dime.
00:58:49Why, you were so broke
00:58:50you couldn't pay cash for a postage stamp.
00:58:51Now you've got almost $700 with 1850 in the offing.
00:58:54Take my advice.
00:58:55Don't try for more.
00:58:56I'm tired of this game.
00:58:57Let's have some blackjack.
00:58:58Play solitaire.
00:58:59Okay, I will if that's the way you feel about it.
00:59:01That's the way I feel about it.
00:59:02Getting so on throwing things won't help much, Roberts.
00:59:04I'm really doing you a favor.
00:59:05I help you out of a jam by keeping my mouth shut.
00:59:07I show you how to make some soft money.
00:59:09And what thanks do I get?
00:59:10Thanks.
00:59:11Sure.
00:59:12I would rather call the cops
00:59:13and tell them you killed a man and stole his money.
00:59:15I didn't kill anybody.
00:59:16Yes, you did.
00:59:17No, I didn't.
00:59:18You know I didn't.
00:59:19All right, then.
00:59:21Suppose I call the cops.
00:59:23If you're innocent, what do you got to be scared of?
00:59:26Okay.
00:59:27Call them, you mud.
00:59:28Go ahead and call them.
00:59:29See if I care.
00:59:30At least they'll give me a square deal.
00:59:32You want me to call them?
00:59:33You heard me.
00:59:34But I'm warning you.
00:59:35If I'm pinched, I'll swear you were in on it.
00:59:37I'll say that you helped me.
00:59:38If I fry, I'll get even with you.
00:59:40You wouldn't dare.
00:59:41You didn't.
00:59:42Yeah?
00:59:43Then try it and see.
00:59:44Call them.
00:59:45Yeah.
00:59:46Okay, I will.
00:59:48Okay, I will.
01:00:02Information?
01:00:04I want the number of the Hollywood police station.
01:00:09Okay, I got it.
01:00:10Thanks.
01:00:14Wait a minute, Vera.
01:00:15You wouldn't do that.
01:00:16Who wouldn't?
01:00:18Take it easy now.
01:00:19Let's talk this over.
01:00:20This was early in the evening,
01:00:22and the conversation, while hectic,
01:00:24was at least pitched low.
01:00:26But as the minutes passed,
01:00:28and more obstacles to her plan popped into my head,
01:00:31the air got blue.
01:00:33Each word coming from our lips cracked like a whip.
01:00:36I reminded her that as Charles Haskell,
01:00:38I didn't even know my mother's name,
01:00:40where I'd gone to school,
01:00:42the name of my best friend,
01:00:44whether I had an Aunt Emma or not,
01:00:46my religion,
01:00:47and if I'd ever owned a dog.
01:00:49I didn't even know what my middle initial stood for.
01:00:52I also pointed out that the real Haskell
01:00:54had a scar on his forearm.
01:00:56His people never saw that scar.
01:00:58He told me he ran away right after putting out the kid's eye.
01:01:00Yeah, but his father knew he was cut.
01:01:02There'd have to be some kind of a mark.
01:01:03So what?
01:01:05The old man's dead or will be,
01:01:07I hope, by tomorrow morning's papers.
01:01:09Anyway, you could cut yourself a little, couldn't you?
01:01:13Boy, for that kind of dough, I'd let you cut my leg off.
01:01:16You're drunk and you're crazy mad, Vera.
01:01:18Turn me in if you want to, but I won't get mixed up in this.
01:01:20Besides, how do we know Haskell was such a phony?
01:01:22Maybe he wasn't the man's son at all.
01:01:23Maybe he just dreamed it up.
01:01:24Well, dream it or not,
01:01:26you won't be dreaming when the law
01:01:28taps you on the shoulder.
01:01:30There's a cute little gas chamber
01:01:32waiting for you, Roberts.
01:01:34And I hear extradition to Arizona's a cinch.
01:01:37Where's that phone?
01:01:39Vera!
01:01:40Leave me alone!
01:01:41Vera!
01:01:42I want a phone call!
01:01:43Police!
01:01:45I hate you.
01:01:47You're a stinker.
01:01:48You leave me alone!
01:01:49I'll let you alone when you promise to leave the phone where it is.
01:01:51You're drunk.
01:01:52You don't know what you're doing.
01:01:53You're hurting me.
01:01:54Will you promise?
01:01:55All right.
01:02:02You hurt me.
01:02:04I'm sorry, but...
01:02:05And it's hot in here.
01:02:06Open up a window.
01:02:07It's not hot.
01:02:08Don't tell me.
01:02:09Now, do you do it or do I do it?
01:02:12You're no gentleman, see?
01:02:14Yeah.
01:02:15All right.
01:02:16I'll open up the window.
01:02:21Vera!
01:02:27Vera, open the door.
01:02:28Please open the door.
01:02:29Vera, open the door.
01:02:30Don't use the phone.
01:02:31Listen to me.
01:02:32I don't like you, Roberts.
01:02:34You're no gentleman, see?
01:02:36You hurt my hand.
01:02:37And I'm going to get even with you.
01:02:39If you don't open the door, I'm going to kick it down, Vera.
01:02:42Vera, don't call the cops.
01:02:44Listen to me.
01:02:45I'll do anything you say.
01:02:46Vera, let me in.
01:02:49I'll break the phone.
01:03:07Vera.
01:03:29The world is full of skeptics.
01:03:32I know.
01:03:33I'm one myself.
01:03:35In the Haskell business, how many of you would believe he fell out of the car?
01:03:38And now, after killing Vera without really meaning to do it,
01:03:41how many of you would believe it wasn't premeditated?
01:03:44In a jury room, every last man of you would go down shouting that she had me over a barrel
01:03:49and my only out was force.
01:03:53The room was still.
01:03:55So quiet that for a while I wondered if I had suddenly gone deaf.
01:03:59It was pure fear, of course.
01:04:01And I was hysterical.
01:04:03Without making a sound.
01:04:06Vera was dead.
01:04:08And I was her murderer.
01:04:10Murderer.
01:04:11What an awful word that is.
01:04:13But I'd become one.
01:04:15I'd better not get caught.
01:04:17What evidence there was around the place had to be destroyed.
01:04:19And from the looks of things, there was plenty.
01:04:21Looking around the room at things we'd bought was like looking into the faces of a hundred people
01:04:25who'd seen us together and who remembered me.
01:04:27This was the kind of testimony I couldn't rub out.
01:04:31No.
01:04:33I could burn clothes and hide bottles for the next five years.
01:04:36There'd always be witnesses.
01:04:38The landlady, for one.
01:04:39She could identify me.
01:04:40The car dealer, the waitress in the drive-in, the girl in the dress shop,
01:04:42and that guy in the liquor store.
01:04:44They could all identify me.
01:04:47I was cooked.
01:04:48Done for.
01:04:49I 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 of killing him,
01:04:57this time I couldn't.
01:04:59This time I was guilty.
01:05:02I knew it.
01:05:03I felt it.
01:05:05I was like a guy suffering from shock.
01:05:07Things were whirling around in my head.
01:05:09I couldn't make myself think right.
01:05:12All I could think of was the guy with the saxophone and what he was playing.
01:05:16It wasn't a love song anymore.
01:05:19It was a dirge.
01:05:29It was a dirge.
01:06:00But my problems weren't solved.
01:06:02I had to stay away from New York for all time.
01:06:06Because Al Roberts was listed as dead and had to stay dead.
01:06:10But I could never go back to Hollywood.
01:06:12Someone might recognize me as Haskell.
01:06:16Then, too, there was Sue.
01:06:21She was my wife.
01:06:24She was my wife.
01:06:26There was Sue.
01:06:29I could never go to her with a thing like this hanging over my head.
01:06:33All I could do was pray she'd be happy.
01:06:48I was in Bakersfield before I read that Vera's body was discovered.
01:06:52That the police were looking for Haskell in connection with his wife's murder.
01:06:57Isn't that a laugh?
01:06:59Haskell got me into this mess.
01:07:01And Haskell was getting me out of it.
01:07:03The police were searching for a dead man.
01:07:09I keep trying to forget what happened.
01:07:12And wonder what my life might have been if that car of Haskell's hadn't stopped.
01:07:19But one thing I don't have to wonder about.
01:07:22I know.
01:07:25Someday a car will stop to pick me up that I never thumbed.
01:07:33Yes.
01:07:35Fate, or some mysterious force,
01:07:39can put the finger on you or me
01:07:42for no good reason at all.
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