- 9/9/2014
Passed | 1h 14min | Action, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 24 November 1942 (USA)
The city's District Attorney is murdered, and a newspaper reporter investigates. He starts finding out that everything wasn't quite as cut and dried as it appeared to be.
Director: Arthur Dreifuss
Writers: Edward Dein, Arthur Hoerl
Stars: Lee Tracy, Tom Brown, Tina Thayer
The city's District Attorney is murdered, and a newspaper reporter investigates. He starts finding out that everything wasn't quite as cut and dried as it appeared to be.
Director: Arthur Dreifuss
Writers: Edward Dein, Arthur Hoerl
Stars: Lee Tracy, Tom Brown, Tina Thayer
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00:02:11That's why I'm paying alimony.
00:02:19He's got a nerve.
00:02:20I got a notion to make him eat that wisecrack.
00:02:24Oh, gosh, the money!
00:02:26Oh, is it there all right?
00:02:29Oh, yeah, it's there.
00:02:32Gosh, I should never have gone to sleep with all that money in my pocket.
00:02:36Two hundred and thirty dollars takes a long time to save.
00:02:41Do you think two hundred and thirty dollars is enough to get married on?
00:02:45Sure. Some people get married on nothing.
00:02:50It doesn't seem possible that tomorrow at this time I'll be Mrs. Thomas Jonathan Brown.
00:02:57Yeah.
00:02:58Oh, squeeze me.
00:03:02When you're my wife, Nancy, you better quit working as soon as I get a raise.
00:03:07Oh, I got a better idea.
00:03:09Couldn't you get me a job at that apartment house where you work?
00:03:12Then we could be together.
00:03:13Doing what?
00:03:14Why, at the switchboard.
00:03:17Well, I might arrange it.
00:03:19I've got a lot of influence with the superintendent.
00:03:21He likes me.
00:03:22He told me yesterday I was the best assistant he ever had.
00:03:25Oh, that'd be grand.
00:03:27It's one of the swellest apartment hotels in town, isn't it?
00:03:30Is it?
00:03:31And among our tenants are some of the biggest financial men of New York.
00:03:36Really?
00:03:37Yeah.
00:03:38There's one apartment on the 10th floor, a man named Frank Smiley.
00:03:41Well, I was in there one night fixing the radiator, and they just finished playing poker.
00:03:46And I saw one fellow give another one $980 in cash and a check for $7,200.
00:03:52Where do they get so much money?
00:03:55I wish I knew.
00:03:57Here we've both been working hard every day for six months, and all we have is $230.
00:04:04Well, we're lucky to have that.
00:04:06That's right, too.
00:04:09Oh, Tommy, I love you so much.
00:04:12If anything happened to you, I'd jump in the river.
00:04:15Well, Nancy, I'd want you to.
00:04:17I couldn't stand the thought of any other fellow having you.
00:04:21Honey, there's something about you that's different.
00:04:26Well, squeeze me.
00:04:30Stick them up.
00:04:31Stick them up and be quick about it.
00:04:33You want to keep all your parts together?
00:04:35Oh, you're kidding me.
00:04:37Come across.
00:04:38Let him have the money, Tommy.
00:04:39He might kill you.
00:04:42Oh, no, we can't get married, Tommy.
00:04:45Oh, stay single.
00:04:46You're a lot better off, and you're money ahead.
00:04:49And now not a yip ought to be to one of you.
00:04:51Hold your hands up until I'm out of sight.
00:04:53You ought to keep that schoolboy complexion.
00:05:01Tommy, squeeze me.
00:05:03You think I want to get shot?
00:05:07You can put your hands down.
00:05:08Now he's gone.
00:05:09Oh, Tommy, you certainly were brave.
00:05:12Why, you even kidded with him.
00:05:14I thought he was fooling.
00:05:16Oh, Tommy, what are we going to do?
00:05:19We're going to get married just as we planned.
00:05:23I've got an idea.
00:05:25You come with me.
00:05:28Say, listen.
00:05:30As sure as my name is Frank Smiley,
00:05:33if you treat them square, they'll be square with you.
00:05:36Oh, now I know why you gave us such a good dinner, Frank.
00:05:39He's in the market for some jewelry, cheap.
00:05:41Now, Emery, you got me wrong.
00:05:44I just wanted to give you folks a nice, good, home-cooked dinner.
00:05:48And for every raisin in the pudding,
00:05:50you'll expect a carrot's worth of diamonds for a nickel, huh?
00:05:53Say, you know I'm giving you more than the value for the stuff
00:05:58than you're giving me.
00:05:59Then why don't you get it at a regular place?
00:06:01Oh, I want to give you boys a chance.
00:06:04This is Emery you're talking to.
00:06:06Come on, let's sit down and finish the rubber.
00:06:09Rocky's been detained a few minutes.
00:06:11He's on his way upstairs now.
00:06:12Good, I hope Gene gets here.
00:06:14I want to get some sleep tonight.
00:06:16My deal.
00:06:17You can't get any sleep in this man's town in the daytime.
00:06:19I guess I'll have to stay here.
00:06:21I can't get any sleep in this man's town in the daytime.
00:06:23I guess I'm not a nightlifer.
00:06:24Well, you won't get any sleep tonight either.
00:06:27We've got a date at the club later.
00:06:29We always have a date somewhere.
00:06:36Hello, Lola.
00:06:37Mr. Moses.
00:06:38Everybody here?
00:06:39Yes, sir.
00:06:43Hello, everybody.
00:06:44Hello, Rocky.
00:06:45Hello, Rocky.
00:06:46Hello, Dot.
00:06:47Who are you expecting?
00:06:48You.
00:06:49You better be.
00:06:50Gene here yet?
00:06:51No.
00:06:52Why didn't you come to dinner tonight, Rocky?
00:06:53Sorry, I couldn't make it, Frank.
00:06:55Say, where is Gene?
00:06:56It's nearly 1 o'clock.
00:06:57He's out stepping with some high hats.
00:06:59He phoned he'd be late.
00:07:00I wonder what Gene wants to see me about tonight, Rocky.
00:07:03How should I know?
00:07:05You ought to.
00:07:06You're his right hand.
00:07:08Listen, I'm both his hands, only he doesn't know it.
00:07:11Someday I'll tell him, and he'll get a surprise.
00:07:13So will you, maybe.
00:07:14Now, don't do anything right away.
00:07:17I think maybe Gene, he has a business proposition
00:07:19he wants to talk over with me tonight.
00:07:20Oh, don't be a silly old boy.
00:07:22You know I love you.
00:07:23Do you?
00:07:24Well, don't you know it?
00:07:25You sure?
00:07:26Don't you know it?
00:07:30Gene ought to see that.
00:07:31He'd love Rocky more than ever.
00:07:33Oh, Gene doesn't care.
00:07:35When a gentleman is finished with a lady,
00:07:37if he is a gentleman, he'll provide a successor,
00:07:39huh, Frankie?
00:07:40Yes, that sometimes reduces the pain of separation.
00:07:43Oh, and the cost.
00:07:44I wouldn't be surprised if Gene gave us all the air
00:07:46one of these days.
00:07:48Whose play?
00:07:49It's yours.
00:07:51I think Gene is getting ready to quit the game.
00:07:53Oh, I wouldn't say that.
00:07:54He couldn't be such a success if he
00:07:55didn't like it a little bit.
00:07:56Well, come on now.
00:07:57Watch your playing, Emory.
00:07:58You know, I think Gene likes to think of himself
00:08:00as some sort of a modern Robin Hood.
00:08:02You ever notice he never pulls a job against a man
00:08:04who isn't known to be crooked himself?
00:08:06I wonder where he gets all, oh, pardon,
00:08:09that romantic stuff.
00:08:11When you're in a racket, you're in a racket.
00:08:13Gene has too many scruples for his own good.
00:08:15I didn't think he was a brigadier gentleman.
00:08:17I was a buck private.
00:08:18Well, aren't you?
00:08:19Gene's the brains of this outfit.
00:08:21Yeah, well, listen.
00:08:22I can plan the breaks as well as he can.
00:08:24And any time he wants to take a long trip,
00:08:26little me is all ready to take charge of this outfit.
00:08:29Listen, how can I think how to play when you're
00:08:31all talking like that?
00:08:32Well, why don't you play marbles, then?
00:08:34The talk wouldn't annoy you.
00:08:36Hello.
00:08:39Well, there you are.
00:08:41Sorry I'm late, Frank.
00:08:43Don't let me disturb you, Rocky.
00:08:45You didn't disturb me.
00:08:46I got up to get a light.
00:08:47How are you, darling?
00:08:48Sleepy, Frank.
00:08:49Is it going to be a long session?
00:08:51Not long.
00:08:52Why don't you run home to bed?
00:08:54Well, boys, I've got something that's awfully good news.
00:08:58Something you'll like, Frank.
00:08:59Yeah?
00:09:00I've decided that our friend Coleman, the jeweler,
00:09:02is going to be our guest tonight.
00:09:04Oh.
00:09:05Yeah?
00:09:06I've decided that our friend Coleman, the jeweler,
00:09:08should part with some of his ill-gotten gains.
00:09:10Coleman?
00:09:11Coleman?
00:09:12Gene, if you clean out Coleman,
00:09:15I promise to pay full value for the stuff.
00:09:18Now, I promise.
00:09:19Why is Coleman's stuff so valuable?
00:09:21His jewelry's no better than anyone else's.
00:09:23But he ran me out of business once by paying
00:09:25the boys 10% to 15% more.
00:09:28He broke me.
00:09:29Boys, I'll give you 20% more for Coleman's stuff.
00:09:34Well, we'll make that concession and let him have it.
00:09:36Oh, Gene, you don't know what you're doing for me.
00:09:40I've waited 25 years to see Coleman cleaned out.
00:09:45He's been getting away with murder for years.
00:09:47That's a bargain, Frank.
00:09:49A bargain?
00:09:50Sure, it's a bargain.
00:09:51He's a dirty crook.
00:09:56When do we pull the trick?
00:09:58Oh, sometime next week.
00:09:59I'll give you the layout in a few days.
00:10:01I'll tell you what, boys.
00:10:02I've got something special I'll open for this occasion
00:10:05to celebrate.
00:10:06Come on, Rocky.
00:10:07But Frank, we can't.
00:10:08Why not?
00:10:09We've got a date at the Royal.
00:10:13I'm not going to the club.
00:10:15Tell Pete I'll be there later.
00:10:17I want to stick around and see what else Gene has on his chest.
00:10:22Goodbye.
00:10:23Good night.
00:10:24Good night, everybody.
00:10:25Good night.
00:10:26You haven't changed your mind about wanting to see me,
00:10:29have you?
00:10:30No.
00:10:31What's the matter?
00:10:32Isn't Rocky all you expected him to be?
00:10:34Oh, yes.
00:10:35Yes, but I just hoped that you'd miss me, Gene.
00:10:37Well, I haven't.
00:10:39You like Rocky.
00:10:40You picked him.
00:10:41Now you be happy.
00:10:46Not butting in on anything, I hope?
00:10:49Not at all.
00:10:53Say, we're not going to have any trouble of a doubt, are we?
00:10:57Trouble?
00:10:58Why should we?
00:11:00Well, you're sensible.
00:11:01I thought you might be jealous.
00:11:03Of you?
00:11:04Mm-hmm.
00:11:06Well, jealousy implies equality.
00:11:09Oh, so you don't think I'm your equal, eh?
00:11:12Not in the least, socially.
00:11:14But that may interfere with our business relations.
00:11:18If you knew as much as I do, you'd be running this outfit instead of me.
00:11:29Maybe I will be, sooner than you think.
00:11:31Oh, be quiet, Rocky.
00:11:33Oh, he doesn't know what he's saying, Gene.
00:11:35No, don't I?
00:11:36Well, let me tell you something.
00:11:37You're either for your swell society friends or you're for us.
00:11:40The gang don't like it.
00:11:41They're getting fed up on you.
00:11:43How would you know where there was a million dollars worth of jewelry lying around
00:11:46or a half a million dollars worth of bonds if I wasn't mixing with a little class?
00:11:50We've got our own crowd to find that out.
00:11:52What are we paying finders for?
00:11:54Dot, Margie, and Emery, and a couple of dozen others.
00:11:57And keeping up that royal club.
00:11:59An idea of yours that costs us plenty.
00:12:02For what?
00:12:03So you can plant your ritzy friends.
00:12:05Our payroll's big enough to crack a safe for.
00:12:08You can't be in this racket and have a code of ethics.
00:12:11I never got an invitation to the Queen's reception.
00:12:14But I know my business.
00:12:16We want a leader with a couple of guns in his hands.
00:12:19Like you.
00:12:20Well, the gang like me, and that's good enough.
00:12:23Well, let me tell you something.
00:12:25I don't go in for murder, if that's what you mean.
00:12:28And while I'm running this outfit, you lay off the gunplay.
00:12:33Now we make a little poker, eh?
00:12:35What do you say?
00:12:36You know, you trimmed me good last time.
00:12:38I'll let you win your money back, Frank.
00:12:40Come on, Rocky.
00:12:41You don't mind, Dot?
00:12:42No.
00:12:43No, I've got something exciting to do.
00:12:45What?
00:12:46I'm going into your room and take a nap.
00:12:50Well, who's going to be back here?
00:12:52Let Frank be back here.
00:12:53It's his house.
00:12:54Somebody else can be banker.
00:12:56Every time I'm banker, I lay out more money than I take in.
00:12:59Oh, go on, Frank.
00:13:00Don't be a piker.
00:13:01All right.
00:13:02But I want cash in advance.
00:13:04No more checks.
00:13:05Mr. Smiley, are you insinuating?
00:13:07I'm not insinuating nothing.
00:13:09But I had a little trouble with a certain check two weeks ago.
00:13:13I thought we were going to play for fun.
00:13:15Sure we are.
00:13:16We're going to play for buttons, aren't we, Frank?
00:13:18Come on, now.
00:13:19What's everybody doing?
00:13:20Somebody doing something?
00:13:22I raise you $50.
00:13:24What do you mean, you raise it?
00:13:25Nobody's opened yet.
00:13:26What?
00:13:27You mean to say that nobody's opened their first pot?
00:13:29Oh, now, look close.
00:13:30Look close.
00:13:31Say, somebody must have opened it.
00:13:33No.
00:13:34Oh, all right.
00:13:35I said I'd never open on too little fare again, but I will.
00:13:37I'll make it easy for you, fellas.
00:13:39I'll open it for two buttons.
00:13:44Stick them up.
00:13:45Be quick about it if you want to keep all your parts together.
00:13:48Now, you guys, all stand up and keep your hands in the air.
00:13:52Well, I'm tired sitting anyway.
00:13:54Now, stand over there and face the wall.
00:13:56Quick.
00:14:04Come in, honey.
00:14:11Go frisk them.
00:14:12Huh?
00:14:13See if they've got any guns and take them away from them.
00:14:15Frisk them.
00:14:16Oh, frisk them.
00:14:18They haven't got any.
00:14:19Well, go on to the next one, then.
00:14:20Go on, honey.
00:14:21Don't be afraid.
00:14:25You guys try to get funny, and I'll shoot.
00:14:27I'm desperate, and I mean it.
00:14:28I wouldn't get funny, mister.
00:14:36Can I help?
00:14:37Put your hands up.
00:14:38What'll I do with them?
00:14:39Bring them to me.
00:14:40Gee, you guys must be soldiers.
00:14:42Soldiers?
00:14:43Hey, you big stiff, step out here.
00:14:45You mean me, buddy?
00:14:46Keep your hands in the air.
00:14:47Come on, be quick about it if you want to keep all your parts together.
00:14:49Go to his pockets, honey, and get his roll.
00:14:57Oh, he's got a lot.
00:14:58Just peel off $230 and put the rest back.
00:15:00Keep looking at the wall, you fellas, if you want to keep all your parts together.
00:15:03He's got $410.
00:15:05Just peel off $230 and put the rest back.
00:15:07That's all we want.
00:15:08Thanks.
00:15:09Now, put ours in my coach's pocket.
00:15:10Don't you think we'd better take it all for our trouble?
00:15:12No.
00:15:13Now, you big stiff, you go and face the wall with the rest of them guys.
00:15:15We get all we want this evening.
00:15:16Go on.
00:15:17Bring the guns along, honey.
00:15:18We'll leave them outside.
00:15:19Now, not a move or a sound out of you guys for five minutes
00:15:21if you want to keep those schoolboy complexions.
00:15:23Come on.
00:15:24Help me!
00:15:25Help me!
00:15:26Help me!
00:15:27Now, careful.
00:15:28Put on that light, Frank.
00:15:29Sure.
00:15:30Now, just a second.
00:15:31Let's see who these birds are.
00:15:33If you don't mind.
00:15:34Not at all.
00:15:35I'm glad to get rid of it.
00:15:37Well, they're just a couple of kids.
00:15:39Highway robbers.
00:15:40Honest, mister, we're not professionals.
00:15:42We're not professional crooks.
00:15:43Why, you surprise me.
00:15:45I'm going to notify the police.
00:15:47Don't call the cops.
00:15:48I want to tell you something.
00:15:49This guy here is a thief, and he stuck me up in the park, and I...
00:15:52Oh, don't give me that.
00:15:53Go on, Frank.
00:15:54Call the cops.
00:15:55Just a minute, Frank.
00:15:56Wait a minute.
00:15:57Before you call them, let her get away, because it's all my fault.
00:15:59I got her into this.
00:16:00I don't care what you do to me, but let her...
00:16:02Now, take it easy, son.
00:16:03Frank, will you turn to those guns?
00:16:05Sure.
00:16:06And have you the villainous-looking weapon that Desperado held us up with?
00:16:09Now, I'm going to let you go, young lady, but don't try any fast ones on me.
00:16:12No, sir.
00:16:13All right.
00:16:14You stay right here while I operate on this Big Bertha.
00:16:16Well, there's nothing in it.
00:16:19So there isn't.
00:16:20You got to hand it over.
00:16:21They got nerve.
00:16:22I'll say they have.
00:16:23What are we going to do with them?
00:16:25Hand them over to the cops.
00:16:27The professional crooks in this town are getting too much competition.
00:16:30What was the idea, son, of only taking 230?
00:16:33Well, because that was all he took from me, and I just wanted to get my money back.
00:16:36That's all.
00:16:38That guy's a thief, I tell you.
00:16:40No.
00:16:41Yeah.
00:16:42Say, give a look.
00:16:44This kid works here in the house.
00:16:46Yes, I remember.
00:16:47Came up one night to fix the radiator.
00:16:49Why, the nerve.
00:16:50You work in the building?
00:16:51Sure I do.
00:16:52Tom, he was only taking his own money because that man took it from him.
00:16:56Oh, tell that to the cops and give them a big laugh.
00:16:59Just a minute.
00:17:00How was the idea of sticking up those kids for that money?
00:17:03Well, I was walking over here tonight through the park, and I heard the kid talking about
00:17:09getting married, and he saved up 230 bucks to go on a honeymoon and tie the knot.
00:17:14I thought I'd take it away from him, that was all.
00:17:16It was just a gag.
00:17:18Just naturally mean.
00:17:20That's me, Gene.
00:17:23Well, I'm glad to see you're getting on to yourself.
00:17:26Frank, do you mind if I see these kids alone?
00:17:29No, not a bit.
00:17:30Sure.
00:17:31Come on, Emmy.
00:17:32Perfectly all right.
00:17:33Come on, Rocky.
00:17:34He's the freshest kid I ever knew.
00:17:37Say, Gene.
00:17:38Hmm?
00:17:39Those kids almost pulled off a pretty neat job tonight.
00:17:41They showed promise.
00:17:42Why, I'd make friends with them.
00:17:46You're all right, kid, but you've got a little dirt on your shoulder.
00:17:52Come on, Rocky.
00:17:58Well, you two bandits must have had a strenuous evening holding up four men.
00:18:05You tired?
00:18:08Sit down.
00:18:10Mister, you're not going to turn this over to the cops.
00:18:12Well, it all depends.
00:18:13How old are you?
00:18:1420.
00:18:1520?
00:18:16Mister, you're not going to turn this over to the cops.
00:18:18Well, it all depends.
00:18:19How old are you?
00:18:2020.
00:18:22How old are you?
00:18:2318.
00:18:24I suppose you've known each other for years, your old friend.
00:18:27We were going to get married tomorrow.
00:18:29Well, don't your parents object to your getting married so young?
00:18:32Well, you see, my folks live in Ohio, and I work at Gimbel's.
00:18:37You don't commute?
00:18:38Oh, no.
00:18:41How much money do you earn at Gimbel's?
00:18:42$14 a week.
00:18:44That job pays me $15 a month, my room and tips.
00:18:47You have a position.
00:18:49Where are your parents?
00:18:50Oh, I haven't got any.
00:18:51Not for years.
00:18:52No?
00:18:53No.
00:18:54My old man married a widow in Danbury, Connecticut, and he don't care anymore.
00:18:58I see.
00:19:00Well, you're both sort of orphans, aren't you?
00:19:04Well, so am I.
00:19:06We're kind of in the same boat.
00:19:08You won't have us arrested, will you, mister?
00:19:09You won't have us arrested?
00:19:10Now, now, you committed a very serious offense coming in here tonight,
00:19:13holding up four men with a revolver.
00:19:15That's highway robbery.
00:19:17That means 15 years in prison.
00:19:19Oh, you wouldn't send us to prison for that?
00:19:21I like you.
00:19:23I like you both.
00:19:26How would you like to work for me?
00:19:28Oh, we'd like it, wouldn't we, Nancy?
00:19:30Well, I'd like to help you, and I could pay you much more than you'd earn in your present jobs.
00:19:35What do you say?
00:19:36Well, what do we have to do?
00:19:37Well, I'll find out that when I see what you're best fitted for.
00:19:42In the meantime, you'll go home with me tonight.
00:19:43I live alone.
00:19:45It'll be nice to have you, sort of like a family.
00:19:49What do you say?
00:19:50Well, I guess it'll be all right.
00:19:53What do you say, boss?
00:19:54Oh, I say sure.
00:19:55But before I go anyplace, I'll have to stop by Mrs. Dillon's.
00:19:58Mrs. Dillon's?
00:19:59Yeah, I'll have to get my clothes.
00:20:00Oh, well, don't worry about that.
00:20:02I'll send for those.
00:20:04In the meantime, I'll say goodnight to my host, and then we'll go.
00:20:13He's awful nice, isn't he?
00:20:15Yeah, isn't he?
00:20:16I think so.
00:20:34Well, Miss Nancy Porter.
00:21:05Nancy, are these all for me?
00:21:07Sure.
00:21:08The whole blessed lot.
00:21:12Gee, Nancy, you look swell.
00:21:17Isn't Gene wonderful to buy us all these new clothes?
00:21:20Well, he certainly has good taste.
00:21:22Everything he bought us, I'd have picked out myself.
00:21:24I can't help but think of those poor girls down at Gimbal.
00:21:30Well, this life may be all right for a woman,
00:21:33but a week of it's got me kind of restless.
00:21:35I wish he'd put me to work.
00:21:37He will as soon as he finds out what we're to do.
00:21:40You don't think it'll be something we can't do, do you, Nancy?
00:21:43Why, no.
00:21:44He wouldn't expect us to work at a trade we've never learned.
00:21:46I think he's going to let us choose a profession and study it.
00:21:49What would you like to be, Tommy?
00:21:51Well, I wouldn't like to be a gambler.
00:21:53Tommy, you don't mean...
00:21:55I don't know what I mean, but I've got suspicions.
00:21:57Oh, Tommy, you're crazy.
00:21:59I don't want you to mention those suspicions of yours again.
00:22:01Gene is nice. He's been wonderful to us.
00:22:04Oh, it's Gene now, is it?
00:22:06Oh, you're jealous and ungrateful, Tommy Brown.
00:22:08I admire Mr. Fenmore, and I respect him.
00:22:11You're just like all women. You're weak.
00:22:14I hope you're not going to let a few fine clothes make a demimonde out of you.
00:22:19Why, Tommy Brown, don't you call me a demimonde.
00:22:22Well, maybe you're not yet,
00:22:25but I'm a man, and I know how these things start.
00:22:27Oh, you know I'm not a demimonde.
00:22:30Yes, honey.
00:22:31Well, then squeeze me.
00:22:37I know Gene's a good man.
00:22:39You know, a woman can tell whether a man's all right or not with her intuition.
00:22:42All right. If your intuition says so, maybe he is.
00:22:46Oh, Marcy, has Mr. Fenmore any more socks with holes in them?
00:22:50I don't think so.
00:22:52Well, I didn't look in his wastebasket yet this morning.
00:22:56Oh, does he throw them away when they get holes?
00:22:58Sure. And the good thing it is for me that he does.
00:23:06Well, here I am back in the bosom of my family. How are you, Tommy?
00:23:09I'm all right, Mr. Fenmore.
00:23:10How's little girl Bannon this morning?
00:23:12I never was so happy in my life.
00:23:14I'm glad to hear it. What are you doing with my shirt?
00:23:16Sewing on the buttons.
00:23:18Well, now that's sweet of you, Nellie. She's a darling, isn't she, Tommy?
00:23:21You know, I never had anyone sew on my buttons.
00:23:24How'd you keep up your pants? Sew them on yourself?
00:23:31My tailor does that.
00:23:33But I like to have Nancy do it.
00:23:35I love to do it.
00:23:37Well, just for that, I'm going to give you a present.
00:23:39Oh, Gene, another present.
00:23:42Something every day.
00:23:44Well, it isn't... I've had this for a long time.
00:23:46I don't often come across a piece that I really like.
00:23:50But when I do, I keep it for an occasion just such as this.
00:23:53I hope you like bracelets.
00:23:55Oh, it's diamonds.
00:23:57Is it real?
00:23:58Oh, genuine A1 stuff, Tommy.
00:24:00Oh, Gene.
00:24:02They're beautiful, Tommy. Isn't it lovely?
00:24:05I never dreamed of having such a thing.
00:24:08Oh, thank you.
00:24:10Yeah, it is nice of Mr. Fenmore.
00:24:12Yes, because I could tell you it belonged to my mother, but it didn't.
00:24:16And you may call me Gene, too, Tommy.
00:24:18Thanks.
00:24:19Oh, Gene, why are you so good to us?
00:24:22Well, just because I'm selfish.
00:24:24And it gives me great pleasure to see you so happy and beautiful.
00:24:27The car's waiting downstairs for the kids.
00:24:29They'll be right down.
00:24:30Wait, I'll get you a coat.
00:24:40Won't you come with us?
00:24:43Not today, dear.
00:24:45Oh, Gene, how can I ever thank you for everything?
00:24:48Just by being the lovely little thing that you are,
00:24:51being my little pal,
00:24:53it makes a new man of me.
00:24:55I'll always try to be.
00:24:57Coming, Nancy?
00:24:59Yes, Tommy.
00:25:03There you are, dear.
00:25:06So.
00:25:07Goodbye, Gene.
00:25:08Goodbye.
00:25:09Tell Eddie not to drive too fast.
00:25:11Goodbye.
00:25:12Goodbye.
00:25:19Ah.
00:25:21So you fall for the little girl, eh?
00:25:24I see it coming the first day she was here.
00:25:28You see a lot, don't you?
00:25:30Well, I see that she's more than half in love with you, too.
00:25:34Not love at all.
00:25:36She's just dazzled by our little luxury.
00:25:38Ah, don't kid yourself, Chief.
00:25:41I'm not.
00:25:43She's in love with that boy.
00:25:46She's in love with that boy.
00:25:48She's in love with Tommy.
00:25:50She may not be as sure as she was a couple of weeks ago, but I know.
00:25:55You're all for simpler sometimes for a guy with brains.
00:25:59Maybe.
00:26:01But for once in my life, I'm thinking of someone else.
00:26:05I'd like to see that kid happy.
00:26:08You could make a girl happy if you tried.
00:26:12You know, it's my opinion you can't fight love.
00:26:16It always licks you.
00:26:19Now, don't you give up that kid if you really want her.
00:26:23And don't get on too high ground with women, Chief.
00:26:27It doesn't pay.
00:26:30I had a chance once when I was a young bucko.
00:26:34I passed it up because I thought I wasn't good enough for her.
00:26:39You're not sorry, are you?
00:26:41I do bet I'm sorry.
00:26:43Made a bum out of me.
00:26:46And later, she married a copper.
00:26:49That was worth sacrificing myself for, I'll tell the world.
00:26:56I wish I could get out of this racket.
00:26:59You've been wishing that a long time, Chief, but you can't do it.
00:27:03Why, they'd never let you go running around the streets with all you know.
00:27:08Don't I know it?
00:27:10But you got out, and you're still drawing your breath.
00:27:13Yes, I got out because they all think I'm too old-fashioned with my methods.
00:27:19But I'm safe because they think I didn't want to get out.
00:27:25But I take good care never to be seen with any very respectable folks.
00:27:32Running around with respectable people is liable to rouse suspicion.
00:27:36Sure it does.
00:27:38Why, your own gang is kind of suspicious of you.
00:27:42Playing around with a lot of swells.
00:27:45Well, I'm going to give them a good eyeful tonight.
00:27:48I'm taking a rich banker and his party down to the club.
00:27:51They've heard that it's a hangout for underworld characters.
00:27:55You don't say so.
00:27:57Well, I just breeze in and give you and your ritzy friends the once-over.
00:28:02Yeah, do that. Do that, Monty.
00:28:04And we'll have a lot of laughs.
00:28:06That'll be funny, won't it?
00:28:08Tell me, are all these people underworld characters?
00:28:36I doubt it. They don't look intelligent enough to be crooks to me.
00:28:53You'd never take Gene for the sort of person he is to look at him, would you?
00:28:57Why don't you look at somebody else for a change?
00:28:59I think you're still stuck on that guy.
00:29:01Oh, don't be stupid.
00:29:02He's head over heels in love with that girl, Nancy.
00:29:05Yeah, well, at least she's got a brain that turns over occasionally.
00:29:11Now, Tommy's a prized sap if I ever saw him.
00:29:14He's a prized sap if he thinks he can keep his girl with Gene Monninger.
00:29:32Well, it's about time for the gathering of the clan.
00:29:36Yeah, our brigadier general knows it, too.
00:29:39He's getting ready to send his slumming party home.
00:29:42Come on, Emery, let's go.
00:29:44We'll meet you outside.
00:29:45All right.
00:30:00Hello, Frank.
00:30:01Hello, Rocky.
00:30:02Hello, Rocky.
00:30:03Hello, Emery.
00:30:04Hello, Emery.
00:30:05Rocky, where's Gene?
00:30:06He's outside saying goodbye to some friends.
00:30:07He'll be out in a minute.
00:30:09Cigarette?
00:30:10No.
00:30:14I wish he'd hurry.
00:30:15I'll be late.
00:30:16You'll be right in.
00:30:18I sort of expected to see a holdup or a shooting or something awful in this terrible place, Mr. Fenmore.
00:30:23Oh, I guess it's a dull night.
00:30:25But I know it's one of the toughest places in New York because I headed straight for someone who knows.
00:30:29Well, I told the ladies that.
00:30:31I wouldn't let them wear their real jewels.
00:30:33I mean, they'd take them off before starting out.
00:30:36Very wise.
00:30:38This jewelry we have on is real Woolworth.
00:30:40Yes, I noticed that.
00:30:42But I hope you didn't leave your good things around for some porch climber to pick up.
00:30:46Oh, no, I always keep mine in a sewing basket in my bedroom.
00:30:49How original.
00:30:50I hope you have a cleverer hiding place for your things, Miss Sally.
00:30:52Oh, I always toss mine in an old hat box in the top of my closet.
00:30:56A hat box?
00:30:57How perfectly naive.
00:30:58I didn't think you was going to the safe so often.
00:31:00Well, who would ever think of a hat box?
00:31:02Nobody ever thinks that.
00:31:03I must remember that.
00:31:07Thank you so much.
00:31:08Can we drop you somewhere?
00:31:09Thank you. No, I'm walking home.
00:31:10Good night.
00:31:11Good night, Mr. Fenmore.
00:31:12Good night.
00:31:13Good night, Mrs. Selby.
00:31:14Good night, old man.
00:31:15Good night, Mr. Fenmore.
00:31:16Glad you came along.
00:31:18Good night.
00:31:19Good night, Mrs. Selby.
00:31:20Good night, Gene.
00:31:21I want to thank you for a very interesting evening.
00:31:23You're welcome.
00:31:24Drop in to the bank tomorrow.
00:31:25I'll come in in the morning.
00:31:26Goodbye.
00:31:27Night-night.
00:31:30This is the first time I've ever yelled, sister.
00:31:32What do you think of the joy?
00:31:34It's unbearable.
00:31:35I think everyone is disgusted.
00:31:36The music is vulgar.
00:31:37The food is abominable.
00:31:39I don't think there's any difference.
00:31:41Let's leave this place.
00:31:42It's very pretty, my princess.
00:31:44Very pretty.
00:31:45What would you like to eat?
00:31:48Let's go.
00:31:58Hello, boys.
00:31:59Hello, Gene.
00:32:00Hello, Gene.
00:32:01Have you got the things I asked for?
00:32:03Yeah, here they are, Chief.
00:32:05You know, boys, you've been a little active lately.
00:32:07Headquarters is getting annoyed.
00:32:09Oh, it's too bad.
00:32:10This Goldman thing is sort of tricky.
00:32:12In my opinion, we'd be wise to quiet down for a while.
00:32:15He'll be in business next year.
00:32:17Next year?
00:32:18That's a long way off.
00:32:19How do we eat in the meantime?
00:32:21We'll get by, all right.
00:32:22We're the one way off, Gene.
00:32:23This Goldman job's a pipe.
00:32:24What are you so leery about?
00:32:25It's a pipe.
00:32:26It's a pipe, I'm telling you.
00:32:27Nasty job right off Broadway.
00:32:29It'll take a lot of planning.
00:32:30I could crack that dump with my hands.
00:32:33You're wonderful, Rocky.
00:32:34You must be.
00:32:35You admit it.
00:32:36It's pretty soft of you to sit there and plan these things.
00:32:38But we're the boys that have to do them.
00:32:39My planning has been pretty successful up until now.
00:32:41Now, don't quarrel, boys.
00:32:42The money's waiting for you as soon as you deliver the stuff.
00:32:45Got it, boys.
00:32:47And there's a tray of special stones
00:32:49that Goldman always keeps in his safe.
00:32:52He only shows it to certain customers.
00:32:56Get me those and I'll pay you 20,000 more.
00:33:04Now, boys, you know your business better than I do,
00:33:07so I'll be going.
00:33:09Now, don't go through the restaurant, Frank.
00:33:11Go the other way if you don't mind.
00:33:13Good night, boys.
00:33:14Good night, Frank.
00:33:15Come on, Frank.
00:33:16And, Rocky, don't forget to get that pearl ring
00:33:20because I've sold it already.
00:33:22Okay, Frank.
00:33:25Come on, Frank.
00:33:26Good night, Frank.
00:33:27Good night.
00:33:29Say, I've got an idea how to get that tray of special stones
00:33:31out of Goldman's safe.
00:33:32How?
00:33:33I sent somebody down there that no one would ever suspect.
00:33:35Oh, we've got to know what to suspect.
00:33:38The kids?
00:33:39Tommy and Nancy?
00:33:40No.
00:33:41Those kids are not in this game.
00:33:43They're straight and I'm going to keep them that way.
00:33:46Oh, so you're going to keep little Mama pure
00:33:48for your own purposes, eh?
00:33:50What do you mean by that?
00:33:51Well, everybody knows you're stuck on her, girl.
00:33:54And you don't want to pull this Coleman job.
00:33:56She's probably not used to a gangster sweetheart.
00:33:59And you're going to go straight.
00:34:02Now, look here.
00:34:04Maybe this organization is getting too small
00:34:06to hold you and me.
00:34:08Maybe one of us had better plan on getting out.
00:34:11Well, then maybe it better be you.
00:34:13If you're too yellow to go through with this Coleman job,
00:34:16I'll do it myself.
00:34:19I didn't say I wouldn't go through with it.
00:34:22I said it was wiser to lay off.
00:34:26You boys are set on doing it now.
00:34:29Yes, come on.
00:34:30Let's go.
00:34:31Get it over with.
00:34:32You know what you want to do better than I do.
00:34:34Let me tell you, it's tricky.
00:34:36If you pull it clean, we get away with it.
00:34:38And no bloodshed, you understand?
00:34:46Say, Gene, you going to be here for a while?
00:34:50I'll be here for an hour or two.
00:34:52Good.
00:34:53I want to see you before you leave.
00:34:54All right.
00:34:55I'll be back.
00:34:56So long, fellas.
00:34:57So long.
00:34:58So long.
00:35:01You sure now that you got what I asked for?
00:35:03Absolutely, Gene.
00:35:07It certainly was a beautiful show we saw tonight, wasn't it?
00:35:10Yeah, it was swell.
00:35:11The leading lady was just like you, only not so pretty.
00:35:15Well, I'm going to bed.
00:35:16Oh, don't go.
00:35:17Gene might come home any minute.
00:35:18Why don't you wait up a while longer?
00:35:19Oh, he never gets in before the crack of dawn.
00:35:21I hear him every night.
00:35:22Oh, it may change his way of living now he's got a family.
00:35:25You mean us?
00:35:27Oh, there he is now.
00:35:30He doesn't ring the bell.
00:35:31He uses his latch key.
00:35:36Hello, Kitty.
00:35:37Is Gene here yet?
00:35:38No, he isn't.
00:35:39Well, I guess I'll come in and wait for him.
00:35:42Hello, Tommy.
00:35:44So just the lad I'm looking for.
00:35:51What do you want of me?
00:35:58You know, I feel I owe you something.
00:36:06You know, I guess that was kind of a mean trick I played on you,
00:36:09pretending to hold you up and take your money.
00:36:11Pretending?
00:36:12You took it.
00:36:13But I knew who you were all the time.
00:36:15Why, I was going to give it back to you the next day.
00:36:17Oh, did you recognize me?
00:36:19Why, of course, just as you recognized me.
00:36:23But just to show you how much I like you kids,
00:36:25I've got the boys, you know, Gene's friends.
00:36:28Well, they're going to chip in and buy you and Nancy a swell present.
00:36:33Oh, Mr. Rocky.
00:36:35We know you kids want to be married and you haven't got much money.
00:36:39Have you got an engagement ring?
00:36:41No.
00:36:42We were just going to have a wedding ring for a while.
00:36:44Well, you've got to have an engagement ring.
00:36:47We're going to give you $2,000.
00:36:52Now, that'll buy a nice big diamond engagement ring
00:36:55and a wedding ring besides.
00:36:57Oh, did you hear that, Tommy?
00:36:58Gee, Rocky, I had you all wrong.
00:37:00It's great of you and the boys to do this for us.
00:37:03No, it's nothing at all.
00:37:04We owe it to you.
00:37:05At least I do.
00:37:08Now, I've got an idea.
00:37:10Do you know where Coleman's jewelry shop is just off Broadway?
00:37:13Yeah, I know Coleman's.
00:37:14Well, he'll give you rock-bottom prices.
00:37:17You go in there, oh, any time tomorrow afternoon.
00:37:20I'll drive you by if you like.
00:37:21I'll be going down there.
00:37:22Oh, thanks.
00:37:24You meet me downstairs.
00:37:26Now, don't say a word to Gene about this, will you?
00:37:29Oh, no.
00:37:30We'll surprise him, eh?
00:37:31All right.
00:37:32Good.
00:37:33Then we're pals?
00:37:35Sure.
00:37:36Sure.
00:37:41Rocky, nice of you to do this for us, Rocky.
00:37:43No, it's nothing at all.
00:37:45It's almost closing time.
00:37:47You go in there to see some diamond wedding rings and some diamond engagement rings.
00:37:50Don't buy the first ones he shows you, will you?
00:37:52They'll be the bum ones.
00:37:53Oh, we'll only buy the best blue-white stuff.
00:37:55That's it.
00:37:57Here.
00:37:58Here's some money.
00:37:59Don't lose it, will you?
00:38:00No, we won't.
00:38:01I'm sorry I can't go with you, but I'll see you later.
00:38:03All right.
00:38:04See you later.
00:38:05See you later.
00:38:06See you later.
00:38:07See you later.
00:38:08I'm sorry I can't go with you, but I'll see you later.
00:38:10All right.
00:38:11Fine.
00:38:39Is there something I can show you, madam?
00:38:41We're looking for an engagement ring and a wedding ring.
00:38:44Oh, I see.
00:38:47Well, here are some very lovely things that we have.
00:38:49Well, how do you do?
00:38:51I am Mr. Coleman.
00:38:52Is there anything I can do for you?
00:38:54We're looking for an engagement ring and a wedding ring.
00:38:56Oh, I see.
00:39:01These are very pretty.
00:39:03I have some very, very nice ones over here.
00:39:05Just one second.
00:39:06I'll bring the mic over.
00:39:07What do you think of this one?
00:39:09Stick them up.
00:39:11What do you think of this one?
00:39:13Stick them up.
00:39:41See you.
00:39:47There's a laugh.
00:39:48They got a picture of Lefty Moon.
00:39:50He's been dead five years.
00:39:52Here's a bit of information.
00:39:54Sam Wiseman, the clerk, proved himself a hero
00:39:56in a desperate struggle with two of the robbers.
00:39:59I bet you had a plug Coleman, Rocky.
00:40:01Oh, he's an old guy.
00:40:02He's seen everything.
00:40:03You've got to hand it to Gene.
00:40:05He planned this layout like a general.
00:40:07Listen, anybody can plan them.
00:40:08But we're the guys that pull them.
00:40:09Listen, two young people, Miss Nancy Porter and Mr. Thomas Brown,
00:40:13who were at the store at the time of the holdup,
00:40:15are being held at the district attorney's office as material witnesses.
00:40:21I hope those kids don't tip off anything.
00:40:23I wonder where Gene is.
00:40:40Hello? Hello? Who is this, please?
00:40:44Stop playing those japs, Gene.
00:40:46This is Doc.
00:40:47This isn't Gene. This is Rocky.
00:40:49Hello, Doc.
00:40:50Say, come right over here to Gene's, will you?
00:40:53All right, I'll wait for you.
00:41:03Well, Mousy, aren't you going to congratulate the boys?
00:41:06What for?
00:41:07No trick to it.
00:41:08No art in it.
00:41:09Just machine work.
00:41:12If that's young blood, I'm glad I've got hardening of the arteries.
00:41:17Too safe for any romance.
00:41:19Safe my eye.
00:41:21Well, at that, it's the first real job I've seen pulled off in 16 years.
00:41:27Too bad you had to use your gut, Rocky.
00:41:31Forget it.
00:41:37Coleman.
00:41:57Coleman is dead.
00:42:05What's the big idea, Chief?
00:42:06I told you I didn't want any butchering.
00:42:08Now, you boys get out of here. I want to talk to Rocky alone.
00:42:25Oh, what are you going to do when a guy starts squawking?
00:42:28Stand there and wait for the cops?
00:42:33You bumped Coleman off.
00:42:35I did?
00:42:37You yellow, white, livid...
00:42:38Oh, cut it. If he starts to howl, I told him to shut up.
00:42:41He reached for a gap, so I didn't reach for a gap.
00:42:43Well, he lowered his hands, and this baby hasn't taken any chances.
00:42:45Didn't my instructions mean anything to you?
00:42:47What kind of a business do you think you're in? It's a game, isn't it?
00:42:49You yellow, Rocky.
00:42:50Well, I wasn't going to let 75 grand slip away from me for a worm like Coleman.
00:42:53Now, wait a minute.
00:42:54There's something else I want to talk over with you.
00:42:56What did you mean by sending Nancy and Tommy in as decoys when I told you not to?
00:42:59You didn't hurt him, I did it. We wanted somebody who wouldn't be recognized.
00:43:01When you picked the one person in the world I didn't want mixed up in this business after I told you not to.
00:43:05You didn't need any decoys.
00:43:07You just wanted to hit at me where you knew what it hurt the most.
00:43:10Now, I've stood for you for a long time, but this is the end.
00:43:13By your dirty, low-down, yellow, white, livid...
00:43:15That's enough. You're not going to talk about me again. Give me that.
00:43:17Give me that gun.
00:43:18Look here, Rocky.
00:43:19Stop it. I mean it.
00:43:22It's Trevor. Come on.
00:43:32He's dead.
00:43:34What did you do that for, Gene?
00:43:56Hello, everybody.
00:43:58Well, I hear it's been a very successful job.
00:44:02Oh, now, don't be downhearted, Gene, because Coleman got shot.
00:44:05Remember, it's all in the game.
00:44:09I guess getting shot is in the game.
00:44:11Sure.
00:44:14Oh, well.
00:44:15Where's Rocky?
00:44:32You...
00:44:34You killed him, you dirty bully.
00:44:37You were jealous of him because he took me away from you.
00:44:40And what's more, you were afraid he was going to take the gang away from you, too.
00:44:44You knew Rocky had your number and he was going to show you what's right.
00:44:49You and your mastermind.
00:44:52You and your orders of the devil.
00:44:55You and your orders of the devil.
00:44:58You and your orders of the devil.
00:45:01You and your orders of no shooting, you crawling hypocrite.
00:45:05You used a gavel right when you killed the only boy I ever really loved.
00:45:09You can't get away with that. I'll make you pay and pay good.
00:45:11I can do it, too. You know I can do it.
00:45:13I'll have you plugged for this.
00:45:14So help me, I'll have you plugged for this.
00:45:16Come on, Doc.
00:45:17You've got to get out of here.
00:45:22Rocky was one of the gang. You've no right to give it to him.
00:45:24You'll have to answer to the gang for this.
00:45:28You get the boys together and I'll be there at the club tonight.
00:45:30On your word?
00:45:32I'll be there at one o'clock. My word.
00:45:34All right.
00:45:38What are they going to do to you?
00:45:40I want you kids to go upstairs. Will you do that for me, please?
00:45:43We want to have a talk with you.
00:45:44Not now. Later.
00:45:46I didn't want you mixed up in that job today.
00:45:48Oh, I know, but what are they going to do to you?
00:45:50They mustn't. They can't.
00:45:53Would it mean so much to you?
00:45:55Oh, Gene, I don't want anything to happen to you.
00:45:57I'd feel as if you needed me.
00:45:59Oh, I'd do anything to help you.
00:46:02You can help me most by going upstairs now.
00:46:06All right, Gene.
00:46:10Oh, whatever you are, you'll always be wonderful to me.
00:46:20They're going to try you, eh?
00:46:22They ain't going to bump you off like they did Pinky.
00:46:25Well, I hope not.
00:46:27Why don't you make a getaway, Gene? I'll go with you.
00:46:31Ashamed of you, Marcy.
00:46:33You did the right thing in bumping that butcher off.
00:46:37But you'll have a hard time making the gang believe it.
00:46:41They liked Rocky, so they did.
00:46:45Well, I'll have to worry about that.
00:46:48What about the kid?
00:46:51Bring her down there tonight.
00:46:52Bring them both down.
00:46:55I'll beat this, Marcy.
00:46:59I've got to beat it now.
00:47:22Hello.
00:47:25What's this meeting for?
00:47:26I was keeping an important date when I got your S.O.S.
00:47:28This is the most important date you've had for a long time.
00:47:32We're trying Gene for the killing of Rocky.
00:47:47Now listen here, Marcy. What did you bring those kids here for?
00:47:50The boss is yours.
00:47:52Come on, sit down.
00:47:56Well, it's one o'clock and he isn't here yet.
00:47:58Yeah.
00:47:59I'm trying to catch an outgoing train.
00:48:02Yes, you won't say that.
00:48:04After all Gene did for you and a lot of other guys.
00:48:07Now, quiet down.
00:48:09Don't you guys get nervous.
00:48:11Gene will be here all right, all right.
00:48:19See that guy over there?
00:48:20Pokey Dunn.
00:48:22Spent six months digging his way out of Sing Sing.
00:48:26By a miscalculation, came up in the warden's office.
00:48:30Yeah.
00:48:35How are you?
00:48:37I'm all right, how are you?
00:48:47They're taking him for a ride tonight.
00:48:50All right.
00:49:29Well, I'm sorry I'm late.
00:49:31Sit down, Gene. Let's get to business.
00:49:35No objection to my standing, is there?
00:49:37Gene, we're going to give you a fair trial.
00:49:40But if the gang decide against you, I guess you know what that means.
00:49:43I know.
00:49:44Rocky was the most popular and useful member of the gang.
00:49:47And you had no right to shoot him down in cold blood just because you had a grudge against him.
00:49:50Why don't you give him a dose of his own medicine?
00:49:52Show him how a chunk of cold lead feels.
00:49:55Now, just a minute.
00:49:56You haven't given me a chance to talk.
00:49:58Yeah, well, why should you speak?
00:49:59You shot him, didn't you?
00:50:00Wait a minute.
00:50:02Well, let's hear what you have to say, Gene.
00:50:04Well, in opening,
00:50:07I just want to say that after looking this crowd over,
00:50:10New York is comparatively safe tonight.
00:50:14You in here, too.
00:50:16Now, let me remind you,
00:50:19that since I've been the head of this organization,
00:50:21there's only been one man sent up.
00:50:24Think that over.
00:50:29Now, before I took hold of you and organized you,
00:50:31if you don't mind my saying so,
00:50:34I'd like to ask you a few questions.
00:50:36Before I took hold of you and organized you,
00:50:38if you don't mind my saying so,
00:50:41what were you?
00:50:42Or possibly you've forgotten?
00:50:44Oh, may I inquire what that has to do with what we're here for?
00:50:46It just has this to do with it.
00:50:48My leadership has been competent.
00:50:49I may even say brilliant.
00:50:51And I'll tell you why.
00:50:53I've always insisted that when you go on a job,
00:50:55you come away with full hands, but clean ones,
00:50:57not smeared with blood.
00:50:59Rocky knew that I was absolutely against killing,
00:51:01yet he did it uselessly,
00:51:02just because he was a butcher.
00:51:04I've tried to make you use your brain.
00:51:07Anybody can use a gap and burn for it.
00:51:10We've always been successful because
00:51:12we respected human life
00:51:14and fought faster than the other fellow.
00:51:16And most of that fast thinking has been on my part.
00:51:19This nightclub was my idea.
00:51:21I organized it, operated it,
00:51:22and showed a clean profit besides giving us a safe meeting place.
00:51:26But lately, as you all know,
00:51:28I wanted to quit the game entirely.
00:51:31But something came into my life that...
00:51:34Well, as the fiction writers put it,
00:51:36something made me want to go straight.
00:51:38Oh, don't listen to him.
00:51:39He'll try to talk you into believing that Rocky was a traitor.
00:51:42He was.
00:51:43He was always a killer.
00:51:44And when I called him for disobeying orders,
00:51:46he pulled a gat on me.
00:51:47Why, don't you realize that when he shot Coleman,
00:51:49he put you all in the shadow of the chair?
00:51:51You're lying. I was there.
00:51:53You shot him down cold like a dog.
00:51:55Ah, shut up, you, wasn't there?
00:51:57Steady, mouse.
00:51:58Now, just a minute.
00:51:59I think we're getting away from the main issue,
00:52:01which is, why did I shoot Rocky?
00:52:06I shot him in self-defense.
00:52:08You don't believe that, do you, boys?
00:52:31Throw the lights.
00:52:33There's the switch.
00:52:36And I'm here.
00:52:37There's plenty of me to get away.
00:52:38Go after them, boys.
00:52:39Upstairs, boys.
00:52:40Go get them, boys, and report back to me on the outside.
00:52:42That's how they go at me.
00:52:48What's the big idea?
00:52:51To listen.
00:52:56Just a moment.
00:52:57You, ladies and gentlemen,
00:52:58leave this restaurant as quietly as possible.
00:53:01Yes, sir.
00:53:10You boys spread out, too.
00:53:11Yes, sir.
00:53:14Well, there's nobody here we want.
00:53:15The rest of the boys come in the back.
00:53:16They're looking around upstairs.
00:53:17Nobody here at all, sir.
00:53:18They're not, are they?
00:53:19Well, I'm going to look for myself.
00:53:32Hello.
00:53:34What are you doing here?
00:53:35We didn't do anything.
00:53:36We were just here watching the...
00:53:37Wait a minute.
00:53:39Can you beat that?
00:53:40They're the two kids we picked up at Coleman's place.
00:53:43Something wrong here.
00:53:44Mm-hmm.
00:53:46Take them downtown.
00:53:49Well, I know we're on the right track now.
00:53:51And if I can get that guy Rocky Mosby...
00:53:53All right, boys.
00:53:56Here, boys.
00:53:57Take these two birds down.
00:53:59Here, boys.
00:54:00Take these two birds downtown.
00:54:01All right, chief.
00:54:05You wouldn't think a couple of kids like that
00:54:06would be mixed up with a bunch of gunmen.
00:54:08Well, they start young these days.
00:54:21Some gang, all right.
00:54:22They might as well be deaf and dumb
00:54:23for all you can get out of them.
00:54:25Can't somebody get something out of those two kids?
00:54:27Nothing any of them says is worth a hoot.
00:54:29I want to land this bird, Fenmore, for murder
00:54:32and nothing less.
00:54:33I thought I could make the old guy cough up...
00:54:36What's his name?
00:54:37The Mouse.
00:54:38Yeah.
00:54:39Bet he wouldn't spill.
00:54:40He was cagier than any of them.
00:54:41Well, Bill's got the boy in there trying to make him talk.
00:54:43They know the truth if we can get it out of them.
00:54:45Well, all they'll admit is
00:54:47that they were at Coleman's before the holdup
00:54:50and they insist that they were looking for wedding rings
00:54:53and nobody sent them.
00:54:55Bring that boy in here.
00:55:11Sit down over there.
00:55:16I can't stand it.
00:55:18I can't stand it.
00:55:19I've told you everything I know.
00:55:21Well, well, now, now.
00:55:24You've got something you can tell the district attorney,
00:55:27haven't you?
00:55:28You ready to tell me who sent you to Coleman's?
00:55:30His name was Rocky.
00:55:32That's the only name we knew.
00:55:34That's the fellow we found dead in Fenmore's apartment,
00:55:37isn't it?
00:55:38Yes.
00:55:39You know Gene Fenmore?
00:55:40No.
00:55:41You know who killed Coleman?
00:55:43Yes, it was Rocky.
00:55:46And who killed Rocky?
00:55:48I don't know.
00:55:49Yes, you do too.
00:55:51It was Gene Fenmore.
00:55:54Your girlfriend there just said so.
00:55:56No, I didn't.
00:55:57Don't believe him, Tommy.
00:56:00This Rocky was a member of Gene Fenmore's gang, wasn't he?
00:56:03I don't know.
00:56:05Say, who took you to the club last night?
00:56:07Tommy.
00:56:10Say, you didn't happen to see Gene Fenmore
00:56:12while you were there, did you?
00:56:13No.
00:56:14Then you wouldn't know if you saw him.
00:56:15No, no, I don't know him.
00:56:17You do know that you're implicated in the Coleman murder,
00:56:19don't you?
00:56:20You're accessories.
00:56:21And an accessory pays a penalty just the same as a murderer.
00:56:24We didn't have anything to do with it, I tell you.
00:56:26I know you tell me, but I don't believe you.
00:56:28I didn't believe you when I had you down here after the holdup,
00:56:30and I don't believe you now.
00:56:33Now, listen here, you kids.
00:56:35If you want to come clean with me and tell me
00:56:38who planned the Coleman holdup in the names of Rocky's pals,
00:56:41well, I'll promise to let you off easy.
00:56:44Why, maybe I can get you off all together.
00:56:46All I know is Rocky gave us money to buy an apartment
00:56:49and he gave us money to buy an engagement and a wedding ring.
00:56:51Come on, take them out of here.
00:56:52Come on.
00:56:53Go ahead.
00:56:58You're a couple of saps.
00:57:00Going to the electric chair to protect a cheap crook
00:57:02will only be caught sooner or later anyway.
00:57:04Go on, take them out.
00:57:17Did you get everything they said?
00:57:18Everything.
00:57:19Good. Hurry and get it out and get their signatures.
00:57:30We got him, Inspector.
00:57:31Where'd you find him?
00:57:32In his apartment, taking a bath.
00:57:33Any signs of other place?
00:57:34No, sir. No signs.
00:57:36He's a cool guy.
00:57:37He never batted an eye when we told him he was wanted for murder.
00:57:40Bring him in.
00:57:41Yes, sir.
00:57:49How do you do, Eugene?
00:57:52Why so formal, call me Gene.
00:57:54Thanks.
00:57:57You know, eventually I always meet the distinguished members of your profession.
00:58:03Thanks for the compliment.
00:58:05Just a moment.
00:58:10The bill.
00:58:18And more, I wonder if you happen to know these two youngsters.
00:58:24No, I don't.
00:58:26You're quite sure?
00:58:27You better take a closer look.
00:58:36Positive.
00:58:38Tommy, this is the gentleman I referred to, Mr. Fenmore.
00:58:42Look at him.
00:58:43Look at him!
00:58:45That's it.
00:58:47Never seen him before?
00:58:49No.
00:58:52Never?
00:58:53No.
00:58:57Young lady, perhaps you know this gentleman.
00:59:00No, sir.
00:59:08Now, I want you two to fix your eyes on one another.
00:59:11And perhaps you'll recall having met before.
00:59:26All right, take him out.
00:59:28Sit down, Mr. Fenmore.
00:59:30Thanks.
00:59:33Just a minute.
00:59:34You know, when two important men get together, the things they say might startle the world.
00:59:45I just wanted to see if there were any stenographers or dictaphones tucked away.
00:59:48Yeah, very prudent of you, Mr. Fenmore.
00:59:50I'm sorry.
00:59:52I just wanted to see if there were any stenographers or dictaphones tucked away.
00:59:55Yeah, very prudent of you.
00:59:58Yes, important men must be cautious.
01:00:01Would you mind taking those off? I'd like to have a free hand in the conversation.
01:00:10Charlie, we're going to have a nice little private talk.
01:00:15Sit down.
01:00:16Thanks.
01:00:17Thanks.
01:00:24You know, I never saw you before tonight.
01:00:26Yeah?
01:00:29Thought you were funny pulling that stunt on me, huh?
01:00:32You mean tonight at the club?
01:00:33Yeah.
01:00:34Yeah.
01:00:36Well, I've got you, Fenmore.
01:00:38And I'm going to send you to the chair.
01:00:40Yeah?
01:00:41Well, that's a nice prospect. How are you going to do it?
01:00:43I've got the goods on you.
01:00:44Well, if you had the goods on me, you wouldn't be talking to me now.
01:00:46You planned the Coleman hold-up.
01:00:48What makes you think so?
01:00:49You were so clever, Gene, it took a brain like yours to plan it.
01:00:53Well, that's the goods you have on me. I think you'll have to have something else.
01:00:56You know, Fenmore, while you've been running around with a lot of nice people,
01:01:00I've known all along that you were the leader of the worst band of guerrillas in the city.
01:01:04I've been throwing lassos at you for some time.
01:01:06I caught an arm. I caught a leg.
01:01:09But what I wanted was your neck.
01:01:11Somehow these guerrillas of yours wouldn't commit murder.
01:01:14But this time, they did.
01:01:17And so you see, I've at last got your neck.
01:01:20Why are you driving at me?
01:01:21I want you to sign a confession that you planned the Coleman hold-up.
01:01:25Oh, is that all?
01:01:26That's all.
01:01:27Just a scratch of the pen, Gene.
01:01:29Just a scratch of the pen. Send myself to the chair.
01:01:31Well, that is simple, isn't it?
01:01:33You know, Gene, the real tragedy is not Rocky or Coleman,
01:01:38but these two young people.
01:01:39You mean the young people I saw here tonight?
01:01:40Yeah.
01:01:41What about them?
01:01:42Oh, quit stalling. You know all about them.
01:01:44But I don't.
01:01:45And they're just as guilty of murder as your pal Rocky, who did the actual shooting.
01:01:49And I'm going to convict them.
01:01:51Well, what jury would convict those two kids?
01:01:53Well, the girl might get off of the stretch,
01:01:55but the boy's going to the chair with you and the rest of the gangsters we nabbed tonight,
01:01:58just as sure as shooting.
01:02:02Do you know Dorothy Palmer?
01:02:05Who?
01:02:06Do you know Dorothy Palmer?
01:02:09Who?
01:02:10Dorothy Palmer.
01:02:12No.
01:02:13No?
01:02:16Well, she was your girl once,
01:02:18and she was pretty fond of your friend Rocky.
01:02:21We found his body tonight in your apartment after the raid.
01:02:24You killed him, didn't you?
01:02:26Well, if I did, I certainly don't remember it.
01:02:27Well, don't worry.
01:02:28The police department's already given you a vote of thanks for that.
01:02:31But I'm going to convict you for the murder of Coleman, too.
01:02:34Yeah, well, how are you going to do it?
01:02:35What's your evidence?
01:02:36Car loads supplied by three star witnesses who've turned state's evidence.
01:02:41You don't mind if I don't believe you?
01:02:43No, it's all right.
01:02:44And we'll prove it to you.
01:02:49Just a moment.
01:02:52One of the state's star witnesses, your former sweetheart.
01:03:01I don't know the lady.
01:03:03You don't know me, Jean.
01:03:04Oh, don't make me laugh.
01:03:07Now, listen, I helped land you, and I'm glad of it.
01:03:10And unless you have me bumped off,
01:03:12I'll be reading what you ate for your last meal in Sing Sing.
01:03:17Oh, Miss Palmer, Miss Palmer, please.
01:03:18That's enough. Thank you.
01:03:22Well, goodbye, Jean.
01:03:24And when you see him, give my love to Rocky.
01:03:34Well, is that enough?
01:03:36Well, you played it all right, but one ace won't beat me.
01:03:39All right, I'll play a trump ace.
01:03:41The kids have already admitted that Rocky sent them on the job
01:03:44and that Rocky killed Coleman.
01:03:46They've signed a confession.
01:03:50Do you mean to say those kids have confessed to being accessories?
01:03:54Read it.
01:03:55Maybe they didn't know what they were doing when they went to Coleman's.
01:03:57Well, it'll be pretty hard to make a jury believe that.
01:04:02Could I see them a minute?
01:04:03Sure.
01:04:26Did you sign that confession?
01:04:28Yes.
01:04:29Yes, we signed it.
01:04:30I'll leave you folks alone to talk it over.
01:04:37You got us into this. Get us out of it.
01:04:39Shh. The man is a stranger to us. We've never seen him before.
01:04:43I'm very sorry.
01:04:44Words won't do us any good. Get us out of this, won't you?
01:04:47I'll try.
01:04:48All you have to do is tell them we were innocent.
01:04:50Tell them Rocky put up a job on us.
01:04:52Yes, but I can't.
01:04:53Tell them Rocky put up a job on us.
01:04:55Yes, Gene, all you have to say is you knew Rocky sent us into that store
01:04:58without telling us there was going to be a holdup.
01:05:00Then they'd let us go.
01:05:01That wouldn't incriminate you any, would it?
01:05:03Why, certainly not.
01:05:04Oh, Gene, they mustn't do anything to Tommy if they did.
01:05:06I couldn't live without him.
01:05:09A little statement I prepared for you, Gene.
01:05:11Read it.
01:05:15What did you go to all that trouble for?
01:05:17You know I won't sign it.
01:05:18You won't sign it, huh?
01:05:20Not unless you're able to offer me something very attractive.
01:05:23Then what do you want?
01:05:25I want you to sign this.
01:05:27What do you want?
01:05:28I want you to sign this.
01:05:30What do you want?
01:05:31I want you to sign this.
01:05:33What do you want?
01:05:34I want you to sign this.
01:05:36What do you want?
01:05:38I want to see you alone.
01:05:52Well, what is it?
01:05:55I want the absolute, unconditional freedom of those two youngsters.
01:05:58They're not even to be mentioned in the case.
01:06:00They're going up, and so are you.
01:06:02Oh, yes, I am.
01:06:04It's like pistol doomsday.
01:06:06Jimmies and guns aren't the only weapons I have.
01:06:08There's a lot of good lawyers in this town who'll keep me out of jail for $100,000.
01:06:12Maybe you're right, but I'll take a chance on it.
01:06:14I'll tell you what I'll do with you, Mr. District Attorney.
01:06:18I'll admit everything and take the rap.
01:06:21If you let those kids go.
01:06:27All right.
01:06:29I'll give you a letter that will guarantee their freedom,
01:06:31that they're innocent victims.
01:06:34Sign that.
01:06:36I'll sign it when I get your guarantee.
01:06:39Okay.
01:06:42Do you mind if I go in and see the kids?
01:06:44It's all right.
01:06:45Well, Charlie.
01:06:49Don't worry. It'll be all right, Nancy.
01:06:51Just a minute.
01:07:05You always have good pens here.
01:07:09Charlie, I want you to witness that.
01:07:13Have you got Mousy here?
01:07:15Yes. He's just outside.
01:07:17Do you mind if I see him?
01:07:19Put that in the vault and tell Mousy to come in here.
01:07:27I'm sorry.
01:07:29It's all right.
01:07:31All right.
01:07:51Well, there's your freedom, kid.
01:07:54You youngsters go on home now.
01:07:56I'm going to keep an eye on you when I might need you.
01:07:58You're not to leave the city, you understand?
01:08:00Yes, sir.
01:08:01Goodbye, Gene.
01:08:03Goodbye, Tommy.
01:08:05Goodbye, Gene.
01:08:07Goodbye, Nancy.
01:08:08Everything's all right now, isn't it?
01:08:10Yes, of course it's all right.
01:08:12Nothing will happen to you.
01:08:14No, nothing's going to happen to me.
01:08:16He knows you didn't have anything to do with it, doesn't he?
01:08:18Why, of course he knows I had nothing to do with it.
01:08:23Now, you go on home, and I'll call you up later at the house.
01:08:26All right. Goodbye, Gene.
01:08:28Goodbye, Nancy.
01:08:39I want you to do me a favor, Mousy.
01:08:42Anything, Chief?
01:08:45I want you to look after those kids for me.
01:08:49Understand?
01:08:51Sure, Chief, but how can I?
01:08:54You're going out of here.
01:08:57I'll fix it all up with my lawyer this morning.
01:09:01But I want to know that they're well taken care of.
01:09:05Aren't you going out too?
01:09:09Not as soon as you are.
01:09:13I know I can depend on you, Mousy.
01:09:17And it'll make me feel better if she's all right.
01:09:23I got you, boy.
01:09:25You can count on me...
01:09:28till they carry me out.
01:09:42You're a pretty regular fellow, Gene.
01:09:44Too bad you couldn't have done something better than lead a bunch of crooks.
01:09:47You know, I've been connected with the police department for a number of years.
01:09:50And I've seen the best of them come and go.
01:09:53And you can't get away with it.
01:09:55It's always a losing game.
01:10:00Well, at least you owe my profession a debt of gratitude.
01:10:05If it wasn't for men like me...
01:10:08there wouldn't be any necessity for men like you.
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