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00:01:22Well, here we are.
00:01:24A turn down here at the next block.
00:01:26Thanks, mister.
00:01:27I'll get off there.
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00:01:35Want anything else?
00:01:36No.
00:01:37Hey, you.
00:01:41Me?
00:01:42Yeah, you.
00:01:43Where you heading?
00:01:45East.
00:01:46You're dead.
00:01:48I thought if you was heading north,
00:01:49I might be able to help you out.
00:01:51I'm pushing the Salt Lake,
00:01:52and I don't like to ride it alone at night.
00:01:54I'm one of those guys that gotta talk,
00:01:55or I fall asleep.
00:01:57Oh, certainly, Mike.
00:01:58Pardon me, he's got Lou to keep company,
00:02:00but I ain't got nobody at all.
00:02:02Where you coming from?
00:02:04West.
00:02:06West.
00:02:07Yeah, sure, I know, but where, L.A.?
00:02:09Maybe.
00:02:10I got a cousin out in L.A.
00:02:12You don't say.
00:02:13Yeah, he's been out.
00:02:15You're not much of a talker, are you?
00:02:17My mother taught me never to speak to strangers.
00:02:19Oh, a wise guy.
00:02:20So what?
00:02:21Okay, okay, don't get sore.
00:02:23He's trying to be sociable, that's all.
00:02:26Hey, Glamorous.
00:02:27Get changed for a dime, will you?
00:02:36Let's have something quieter this time, Joe.
00:02:38My head's splitting.
00:02:39Is that what's wrong with it?
00:02:44Done with your coffee?
00:02:46No, and don't rush me, will you?
00:02:56Hey, turn that off.
00:02:57Will you turn that thing off?
00:02:58What's eating you now?
00:02:59Yeah, what's eating you?
00:03:00That music, it stinks.
00:03:01Oh, you don't like it, huh?
00:03:02No, turn it off.
00:03:03Now, wait a minute, pal.
00:03:04That was my name, see?
00:03:05This is a free country.
00:03:07And I play whatever I wanted.
00:03:09Okay.
00:03:11Sure, and if you don't like it,
00:03:12you don't have to listen to it.
00:03:13And you can leave here anytime you want to.
00:03:15Okay, okay, I'm sorry I asked.
00:03:17First good piece played tonight,
00:03:18and you don't like it.
00:03:19Some people just ain't got any good taste.
00:03:34That tune.
00:03:36That tune!
00:03:38Why was there always that rotten tune?
00:03:40Following me around, beating in my head,
00:03:42never letting up.
00:03:47Did you ever want to forget anything?
00:03:49Did you ever want to cut away
00:03:50a piece of your memory or blot it out?
00:03:52You can't, you know.
00:03:54No matter how hard you try.
00:03:56You can change the scenery.
00:03:58But sooner or later,
00:03:59you'll get a whiff of perfume
00:04:00or somebody will say a certain phrase
00:04:02or maybe hum something.
00:04:03Then you're licked again.
00:04:07I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:04:09I used to love that song once.
00:04:11So did the customers back in the old
00:04:13break of dawn club in New York.
00:04:15I can't remember a night
00:04:16when I didn't get at least three requests for it.
00:04:18Sue, she was always selling it too.
00:04:22Those were the days.
00:04:33Your eyes are blue.
00:04:35Your kiss is too.
00:04:37I never knew what they could do.
00:04:40I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:04:47I used to love that song once.
00:04:50So did the customers back in the old
00:04:52break of dawn club in New York.
00:04:54I can't remember a night when I didn't get at least three requests for it.
00:04:58So did the customers back in the old
00:05:00break of dawn club in New York.
00:05:02You're telling everyone you know
00:05:05that I'm on your mind each place you go.
00:05:08They can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:05:14I have always placed you far above me.
00:05:20I just can't imagine that you love me.
00:05:26And after all is said and done
00:05:29to think that I'm the lucky one
00:05:32I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:05:44It wasn't much of a club really.
00:05:46You know the kind.
00:05:48A joint where you could have a sandwich and a few drinks
00:05:50and run interference for your girl on the dance floor.
00:05:55I pounded the piano in there every night
00:05:57from eight until the place closed up
00:05:59which usually meant four in the morning.
00:06:01A good job as jobs went in those days.
00:06:07Then too there was Sue
00:06:10who made working there a little like working in heaven.
00:06:13But how we felt about each other
00:06:15well there was nothing very unusual in that.
00:06:18I was an ordinary healthy guy
00:06:20and she was an ordinary healthy girl
00:06:22and when you add those two together
00:06:24you get an ordinary healthy romance
00:06:26which is the old story.
00:06:28Sure, but somehow
00:06:30the most wonderful thing in the world.
00:06:40All in all I was a pretty lucky guy.
00:06:43Mr. Paderewski, I presume.
00:06:45It's beautiful.
00:06:47You're going to make Carnegie Hall yet, Al?
00:06:49Yeah, as a janitor.
00:06:51I'll make my debut in the basement.
00:06:53I don't blame you for being bitter, darling
00:06:55but you mustn't give up hope.
00:06:57Why, someday...
00:06:59Yeah, someday.
00:07:01If I don't get arthritis first.
00:07:03In the meantime, I'm going to be a doctor.
00:07:05I'm going to be a doctor.
00:07:07I'm going to be a doctor.
00:07:09I'm going to be a doctor.
00:07:11I'm going to be a doctor.
00:07:12Good.
00:07:14In the meantime, let's blow this trap.
00:07:36Like to get something to eat, hun?
00:07:38No, I don't think so, Al.
00:07:40I can't stand much more of that dump.
00:07:43Did you see that drunk tonight trying to paw me?
00:07:46No, what drunk?
00:07:47Does it matter what drunk?
00:07:50Say, what's the matter with you tonight, darling?
00:07:52That's the third time you've started to tell me something
00:07:54and then stopped.
00:07:56We shouldn't have any secrets from each other, Sue.
00:07:58Next week, we're going to make with a ring and a license.
00:08:00You and me will be a team.
00:08:01Yes, that's right.
00:08:02In the Bush League.
00:08:04I don't get you.
00:08:05We've been struck out.
00:08:09That's a funny way to talk, darling.
00:08:11Don't you want to marry me?
00:08:12Al, look, I love you.
00:08:13You know I do.
00:08:14And I want to marry you.
00:08:16But?
00:08:17But not now.
00:08:18Only after we've made good.
00:08:21Sunday, I'm going away.
00:08:23Oh, I know you'll think it's silly.
00:08:25That's why I hesitated to tell you.
00:08:27But I'm going to California.
00:08:29I want to try my luck in Hollywood.
00:08:32That's the most stupid thing I ever heard of.
00:08:34Don't you know millions of people go out there every year
00:08:36and wind up polishing cuspid doors?
00:08:38I thought you had better sense.
00:08:39You sound as if you don't think I have any talent.
00:08:41That has nothing to do with it.
00:08:42I'll make out all right.
00:08:43Maybe.
00:08:44But what about me?
00:08:45Doesn't it mean anything to you that you're
00:08:46busting up all our plans?
00:08:48We may not see each other for years.
00:08:49It won't be that long.
00:08:51I thought you loved me.
00:08:52I do.
00:08:53You know I do.
00:08:57Well, here we are.
00:09:03Al.
00:09:05Al, why can't you see my side of it?
00:09:08I'm young.
00:09:09We both are.
00:09:11And we've got all the time in the world to settle down.
00:09:15Really, darling.
00:09:16What I'm doing is the only sane thing to do.
00:09:20I hate the thought of being so far away from you.
00:09:24But we'll be together again someday.
00:09:28Maybe you'll decide to come out too later on.
00:09:30So long.
00:09:33Al, aren't you going to kiss me goodnight?
00:09:37Sure.
00:09:38Why not?
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00:11:26Say, Robert, you hit the jackpot this time.
00:11:29Ten bucks.
00:11:30Thanks.
00:11:38So when this drunk handed me a tent spot after a request, I couldn't get very excited.
00:11:42What was it, I asked myself?
00:11:43A piece of paper crawling with germs.
00:11:46Couldn't buy anything I wanted.
00:11:48It couldn't...
00:11:52Then I thought of something.
00:11:56I thought of...
00:12:17Long distance.
00:12:18I'd like to put a call through to Los Angeles.
00:12:21Miss Harvey.
00:12:22Sue Harvey.
00:12:23H-A-R-V-E-Y.
00:12:25The number is Crestview 6-5-7-2-3.
00:12:517-5.
00:12:525.
00:12:56Hello, Sue?
00:12:57This is Al.
00:12:58Oh, baby, it's great to hear from you, too.
00:13:01What's that?
00:13:02You do?
00:13:03Oh, me too, darling.
00:13:04I thought I'd go batty without you.
00:13:06I just had to...
00:13:07Huh?
00:13:09You're working as a hash slinger?
00:13:11Gee, honey, that's tough.
00:13:13Those guys out in Hollywood don't know the real thing when it's right in front of them.
00:13:16You just stick it out, Sue, baby.
00:13:18Keep going around to those casting offices.
00:13:20I'm sure you'll click.
00:13:21Look, I'll tell you what.
00:13:23You stay put out there.
00:13:24I'll come to you.
00:13:25No, don't try to stop me.
00:13:27Just expect me.
00:13:28Train?
00:13:29Who knows?
00:13:30Train, plane, bus, magic carpet.
00:13:31I'll be there if I have to crawl.
00:13:33If I have to travel by pogo stick.
00:13:35And then let's get married right away, huh?
00:13:41That's the stuff.
00:13:42That's what I've been wanting to hear you say.
00:13:45Well, goodbye for now.
00:13:49I'll be seeing you soon.
00:13:52Yeah.
00:13:54Goodbye.
00:14:00The only way I could cross country was to thumb rides.
00:14:03Or even after hocking everything, I only had enough money to eat.
00:14:07Money.
00:14:08You know what that is.
00:14:10It's the stuff you never have enough of.
00:14:12Little green things with George Washington's picture that men slave for.
00:14:16Commit crimes for.
00:14:17Die for.
00:14:19It's the stuff that has caused more trouble in the world than anything else we ever invented.
00:14:23Probably because there's too little of it.
00:14:26At least I had too little of it.
00:14:28So it was me for the thumb.
00:14:46Ever done any hitchhiking?
00:14:49It's not much fun, believe me.
00:14:51Oh yeah, I know all about how it's an education, how you get to meet a lot of people and all that.
00:14:56But me?
00:14:57From now on, I'll take my education in college.
00:15:00Or in PS62, or I'll send $1.98 in stamps for ten easy lessons.
00:15:14Thumbing rides may save you a bus fare.
00:15:16But it's dangerous.
00:15:18You never know what's in store for you.
00:15:20You hear the squeal of brakes.
00:15:23If only I had known what I was getting into that day in Arizona.
00:15:29Here, throw that in the back seat.
00:15:33Okay, let's go.
00:15:34Make sure that door is closed.
00:15:37You know, Emily Post taught to write a book of rules for guys thumbing rides.
00:15:42Because as it is now, you never know what's right and what's wrong.
00:15:46We rode along for a little while, neither one of us saying anything.
00:15:50I was glad of that.
00:15:52I never know what to say to strange people driving by.
00:15:55I never know what to tell them.
00:15:58I never know what to say to them.
00:16:01I never know what to say to them.
00:16:03I never know what to say to strange people driving cars.
00:16:07And two, you can never tell if a guy wants to talk.
00:16:10A lot of rides have been cut short because of a big mouth.
00:16:15So I kept my mouth shut until he started opening up.
00:16:19Hand me that little box in the compartment, will you, pal?
00:16:25Hold the wheel, will you?
00:16:34How far are you going?
00:16:35L.A.
00:16:36Well, you're really traveling, aren't you?
00:16:38Yeah, but I don't expect to make it for a couple of years at the rate I've been promoting rides.
00:16:42Not much luck, huh?
00:16:43Sure, all bad.
00:16:45Not many people stop for a guy these days.
00:16:47Afraid of a stick-up, maybe.
00:16:49Well, they can't blame him.
00:16:51Where are you coming from?
00:16:52New York.
00:16:53Well, New York.
00:16:55You're in luck this time.
00:16:56I'm going all the way.
00:16:58I'm going all the way.
00:17:00You're in luck this time.
00:17:01I'm going all the way.
00:17:03Right through to Los Angeles.
00:17:06Can you drive a car?
00:17:07Sure.
00:17:08Whenever you're tired, let me know.
00:17:10I'll holler.
00:17:13I guess at least an hour passed before I noticed those deep scratches on his right hand.
00:17:17They were wicked.
00:17:19Three puffy red lines about a quarter of an inch apart.
00:17:23He must have seen me looking at them because he said...
00:17:26Beauties, aren't they?
00:17:27They're going to be scars someday.
00:17:31What an animal.
00:17:32Whatever it was, it must have been pretty big and vicious to have done that.
00:17:36Right on both counts, New York.
00:17:38I was tussling with the most dangerous animal in the world.
00:17:41A woman.
00:17:43She must have been Tarzan's mate.
00:17:44Looks like you lost the bout.
00:17:46It certainly wasn't a draw.
00:17:49You know, there ought to be a law against dames with claws.
00:17:52Yeah.
00:17:53I tossed her out of the car in her ear.
00:17:55Was I wrong?
00:17:57Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't you?
00:18:00Yeah.
00:18:02After all, what kind of a dame some rides?
00:18:04Sunday school teachers?
00:18:05Yeah.
00:18:08A little witch.
00:18:10She must have thought she was riding with some fall guy.
00:18:13To me, it was my broken horses around race tracks since I was 20.
00:18:17I've known a million dames like her.
00:18:19Two million?
00:18:20Yeah.
00:18:23Stop the car, open the door...
00:18:25Take it on the Arthur Duffy sister, I told her.
00:18:28That's the stuff.
00:18:29As I was done, huh?
00:18:31But if you want to see a real scar, brother, get a load of this.
00:18:36Wow.
00:18:38I got that one dueling.
00:18:40Dueling?
00:18:41Yeah, we were just kidding, of course.
00:18:43My dad owned a couple of Franco-Prussian sabers.
00:18:45Kept them on the wall for decorations.
00:18:48Well, one day, another kid and I took them down.
00:18:50The old man wasn't around, had a duel.
00:18:52He got me in the arm here.
00:18:54Pretty mean cut.
00:18:56Infection set in later.
00:18:58Yeah, I can see that.
00:19:00Now, give me that box again, will you?
00:19:02Yeah.
00:19:15Pain made me lose my head, I guess.
00:19:17I began slashing.
00:19:18Before I knew it, I'd put the other kid's eye out.
00:19:21That was tough.
00:19:23Well, it was just an accident, of course.
00:19:25Do you know how kids are?
00:19:27I got scared, decided I was going to run away from home.
00:19:30Old man almost caught me when I was packing my duds.
00:19:34The bloody rag I had wrapped around my wrist hadn't caught his attention.
00:19:37He'd have seen the bundle for sure.
00:19:40But I beat it when he was phoning for a doctor.
00:19:43I was 15, 16 years old.
00:19:45I haven't been home since.
00:19:51Pull in there for a bite or something, huh?
00:19:53A bite or something.
00:19:55Brother, was I hungry.
00:19:57I hadn't had anything in my stomach for hours.
00:20:00Yet, even with that gnawing in the pit of my belly,
00:20:02I didn't want to be in too big a rush to put on the feed bag.
00:20:05First, I had to make sure this guy knew the score.
00:20:08If I got him down on me, he'd buy a ticket to Hollywood.
00:20:11And then I'd have to go back to the hospital.
00:20:13If I got him down on me, he'd buy a ticket to Hollywood.
00:20:16I'll wait out here for you, mister.
00:20:18If it's the money, don't worry about paying for it.
00:20:20This time it's on me.
00:20:21Well, that's why I'm here.
00:20:22Haskell, think nothing of it.
00:20:23You make your first million, maybe you can do the same for me.
00:20:25Come on, New York.
00:20:27I've got to make the West Coast by Wednesday.
00:20:28There's a horse running at Santa Anita named Pirate Bicycle.
00:20:31He means the door to me if I'm on him.
00:20:32You'll make it, all right.
00:20:35He did most of the talking during the half hour we were in the place.
00:20:38I ate.
00:20:40He rambled on about his old man whom he hadn't heard from since he ran away as a kid.
00:20:44And how he happened to become a bookie.
00:20:46And then all about how he got rooked in Miami.
00:20:49One race, 38 grand.
00:20:50They cleaned out my book.
00:20:52How do you like that?
00:20:53That was tough luck.
00:20:54Yeah, and I'm supposed to be the smart guy.
00:20:56Well, you just wait.
00:20:57I'm going back to Florida next season with all kinds of jack.
00:21:00And you watch those stinkers run for cover.
00:21:02Do you want anything else?
00:21:03No, thanks. I've had plenty.
00:21:10That check there, sister?
00:21:15Oh, just a miniature change, sir.
00:21:17Keep it, sister.
00:21:18Oh, thank you. Say call again.
00:21:20I'll be waiting outside for you when you finish work.
00:21:23Sharp check, huh?
00:21:32I drove all that night while Haskell slept like a log.
00:21:36After a while, I began to get sleepy myself.
00:21:40I was happy, though.
00:21:42Soon I'd be with Sue again.
00:21:44The long trip was practically over,
00:21:46and there'd be no more hoofing it down the concrete.
00:21:49I began to think of the future,
00:21:51which couldn't have been brighter
00:21:53if I'd embroidered it with neon lights.
00:21:55It was nice to think of Sue shooting to the top.
00:21:59It's amazing what a full belly can do to your imagination.
00:22:02Your eyes, oh, your kisses, too.
00:22:08I never knew what they could do.
00:22:13I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:22:21You're telling everyone you know
00:22:26I'm on your mind each place you go.
00:22:30I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:22:52Mr. Haskell?
00:22:55Mr. Haskell?
00:22:56Mr. Haskell?
00:23:00Mr. Haskell, wake up. It's raining.
00:23:02Don't you think we ought to stop and put up the top?
00:23:13Mr. Haskell, I'm going to put up the top.
00:23:27Up until then, I had done things my way.
00:23:30But from then on, something else stepped in
00:23:32and shunted me off to a different destination
00:23:34than the one I had picked for myself.
00:23:37But when I pulled open that door...
00:23:43Mr. Haskell, what's the matter?
00:23:45Are you hurt?
00:23:47Are you hurt, Mr. Haskell?
00:23:49Start yourself.
00:23:51I'll listen to it.
00:23:53But I know you're in love with me.
00:23:54I'll listen to it.
00:23:56But I know what you're going to hand me
00:23:58even before you open your mouths.
00:24:00You're going to tell me you don't believe my story
00:24:02of how Haskell died and give me that
00:24:04don't make me laugh expression on your smug faces.
00:24:09I saw it once. He was dead.
00:24:11And I was in for it.
00:24:13Who would believe he fell out of the car?
00:24:15Why, if Haskell came too, which of course he couldn't,
00:24:17even he would swear I conked him over the head for his dough.
00:24:19Yes, I was in for it.
00:24:21Instinct told me to run.
00:24:22But then I realized it was hopeless.
00:24:24There were lots of people back down the road
00:24:26who could identify me.
00:24:28That gas station guy and the waitress.
00:24:30I would be in a worse spot then
00:24:32trying to explain why I beat it.
00:24:34The next possibility was to sit tight
00:24:36and tell the truth when the cops came.
00:24:38But that would be crazy.
00:24:40They'd laugh at the truth.
00:24:42And I'd have my head in the noose.
00:24:44So what else was there to do
00:24:46but hide the body and get away in the car?
00:24:48I couldn't leave the car there with him in the gully.
00:24:50That would be like erecting a tombstone.
00:24:52What a terrible thing to do.
00:24:54They were supposed to be parading us.
00:24:56I'd better go see who they were.
00:24:58But I don't want to be afraid.
00:25:00My whole life I've been running around
00:25:02looking for him.
00:25:04I know where he is.
00:25:06I know where he is.
00:25:08I've got to find him.
00:25:10I've got to find him.
00:25:12It's easy for me, don't you think?
00:25:14But if I find him,
00:25:16he'll be walking to the gas station in the dark
00:25:18with a gun on him.
00:25:19But then I remembered that even if I only drove the car for a hundred miles or so I would need money for gas
00:25:25Besides it was stupid of me to leave all that money on a dead man
00:25:29Not only that I'd have to take his driver's license in case I was stopped for something
00:25:34I didn't like to think about it, but by that time I'd done just what the police would say I did even if I didn't
00:25:41My clothes the owner of such an expensive car would never be wearing them
00:25:45Some cop might pull me in on suspicion
00:25:50I
00:26:13Hey you this your car
00:26:14Don't you know better than to leave a car without wheels halfway in the middle of the road. That's the way accidents happen
00:26:19I I'm sorry officer. I was just putting up my top. I didn't think well the next time think I'll let you go now
00:26:26But watch your step in the future. I know that's a lonely stretch, but cars come by here once in a while
00:26:30We have plenty of crack-ups
00:26:44I
00:26:57Left nothing in the car to give me away as Roberts if they found a dead man on the gully now it would be me
00:27:03As I drove off it was still raining and the drop streak down the windshield like tears I
00:27:12Kept imagining I was being followed that I could hear sirens back in the distance
00:27:17Just how long it took me to cover the 60-odd miles to the California state line. I don't know. I lost all track of time
00:27:25I
00:27:27Don't know I lost all track of time, but the rain had stopped and the Sun was up when I pulled up to the inspection station
00:27:39Hello
00:27:41Carrying any fruits or vegetables any livestock or poultry
00:27:47I'd see your registration and driver's license, please
00:27:54Anything in the baggage compartment
00:27:57That's baggage
00:28:00Charles Haskell jr. 830 brown eyes dark hair identifying marks none
00:28:05Are you Charles Haskell jr.? Yes. Well, remember if you're employed and you stay over 30 days you take out, California plates
00:28:12All right officer, but I'll only be in the state a short while
00:28:16Right you go now
00:28:18I
00:28:25Couldn't drive any farther without some sleep cops or no cops. I knew I had to hit the hay and hit it hard. I
00:28:33Was dead tired
00:28:48I
00:29:07Can't mr. Haskell
00:29:18Ask him can't die
00:29:23I think I did it
00:29:25No, mr. Haskell
00:29:27No
00:29:44Who's there it's the maid can I come in and clean later in a half-hour?
00:29:58I
00:30:17Was no time to lose
00:30:18Every minute I had to be Charles Haskell was dangerous
00:30:21Not have to be Charles Haskell until I got to some city where I could leave the car and be swallowed up
00:30:28That
00:30:31Meant driving the car as far as San Bernardino, maybe even to Los Angeles in a little town
00:30:36I might be noticed but in a city I should be safe enough
00:30:40Then after I ditched the car I could go on to sue
00:30:44But those five minutes at the state line made me realize it might be a good idea to find out a little bit about mr
00:30:50Haskell
00:30:51Then if anybody asked me questions, I could give the right answers
00:30:55The first thing I found out was that I had seven hundred and sixty-eight dollars
00:30:59This was a lot of Jack, but believe me was the kind of money. I'd rather not have
00:31:12And then I found out from a letter Haskell was carting around in his bag
00:31:16That he wasn't the open-handed easygoing big shot who went around buying dinners for strange hitchhikers
00:31:22Before I got done reading it. I saw him more as a chiseler
00:31:26It was written to his old man in California
00:31:28The one he hadn't seen in so many years
00:31:31In it Haskell posed as a salesman of
00:31:34hymnals of all things
00:31:37It was easy to see where Haskell expected to raise a new stake for his book in Miami by rooking his old man
00:31:45That was about all I found out from his effects and it was enough I
00:31:50Told myself maybe old man Haskell was lucky his son kicked off
00:31:55He would never know it, but it saved him from taking a flyer in sacred literature preferred
00:32:20Near the airport at Desert Center, I pulled up for water. There was a woman
00:32:29Hey you come on if you want a ride
00:32:50You
00:33:20How far you going
00:33:22That took me by surprise and I turned my head to look her over
00:33:27She was facing straight ahead. So I couldn't see her eyes, but she was young not more than 24
00:33:34Man, she looked as if she'd just been thrown off the crummiest freight train in the world
00:33:39Yet in spite of this I got the impression of beauty
00:33:43Not the beauty of a movie. I got the impression of a woman
00:33:45Yet in spite of this I got the impression of beauty
00:33:48Not the beauty of a movie actress mind you or the beauty you dream about when you're with your wife, but a natural beauty
00:33:55A beauty that's almost homely because it's so real
00:34:00Then suddenly she turned to face me how far did you say you were going Los Angeles, LA
00:34:07L.a.'s good enough for me. Mr. I was afraid of what'd you say? Oh, nothing just thinking out loud
00:34:13People get in trouble for doing that
00:34:16What's your name? You can call me Vera if you like
00:34:20You live in Los Angeles. No
00:34:23Why are you coming from Oh back there needles? No. Oh
00:34:29Sure, Phoenix. You look just like a Phoenix girl and the girls in Phoenix that bad
00:34:34The girl must have been pretty tired because she fell asleep not 20 minutes after she stepped into the car
00:34:39She lay sprawled out with her head resting against the bar door like Haskell. I didn't like that part of it much
00:34:46But I didn't wake her up
00:34:48It wasn't that this girl still worried me. I've gotten over that funny feeling. I had when she looked at me, which I put down
00:34:54It's just my jangled nerves
00:34:56With her eyes closed the test has gone out of it. She seemed harmless enough
00:35:02And instead of disliking her I began to feel sorry for
00:35:05Was she anyway and why was she going to Los Angeles and where'd she come from in the first place the only thing I knew about it was
00:35:13a name
00:35:14Not that it made any difference few hours more and would be in Hollywood. I'd forget where I parked the car and look up soon
00:35:21This nightmare of being a dead man would be over
00:35:25With his name was well, it was no business of mine. Where did you leave his body?
00:35:29You're not fooling anyone this buggy belongs to a guy named Haskell that's not you mister. You're out of your mind
00:35:35That's my name Charles Haskell. I can prove it. It's my drivers. Thank you. Tell the trouble mister
00:35:39Evan Haskell's wallet only makes it worse. It just so happens. I rode with Charlie Haskell all the way from, Louisiana
00:35:45He picked me up outside of Shreveport. You rode you heard me
00:35:49I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry
00:35:53I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry
00:35:57You heard me and it all came back to me
00:36:01All the talk about dueling and scars and scratches
00:36:04There was no doubt about it
00:36:06Vera must be the woman Haskell had mentioned. She must have passed me while I slept. Well
00:36:12Well, I'm waiting my goose was cooked
00:36:16She had me
00:36:17That Haskell guy wasn't dead yet
00:36:20He wasn't stretched out stiff and cold in any Arizona gully. He was sitting right there in the car laughing like mad while he haunted me
00:36:28Well, there was nothing I could say
00:36:31Was her move?
00:36:33Vera whatever her name was was just my luck picking her up on the road
00:36:38Couldn't have been Helen or Mary or Evelyn or Ruth?
00:36:41It had to be the very last person I should ever have met
00:36:45That's life
00:36:47Whichever way you turn fate sticks out a foot to trip you
00:36:50I
00:36:56Told her everything but she didn't believe my story. I should have saved my breath
00:37:00That's the greatest cock and bull story I ever heard. So he fell out of his car
00:37:04Say, who do you think you're talking to a hick? Listen, mister
00:37:07I've been around and I know a wrong guy when I see one. What'd you do kiss him with a wrench now?
00:37:12Wait a minute what I told you was true. You see that's why I had to do it
00:37:15You think I killed him? Well, the cops would have thought so too. Yeah. Well, maybe they still think so
00:37:21What makes you so sure? I'll shut up about this girl. I'm innocent. Give me a break. Will you?
00:37:28It won't do me any good having you pinched the cops are no friends of mine
00:37:32Now if there was a reward, but there isn't
00:37:35Thanks, don't thank me yet. I'm not through with you by a long shot. Let's see that roll
00:37:41Is that all Haskell had isn't it enough? No, I thought he had more not that I know of you can search me
00:37:47You think I'm holding out on you? Well, maybe I will at that
00:37:49He told me he was gonna bet $3,000 on a horse named paradisical on Wednesday at Santa Nita. He was stringing you along
00:37:55He meant 300 maybe sure three bucks 300. It was a piece of cheese a big blowhard. Listen, mister
00:38:01Don't try and tell me anything about Charlie Haskell. Remember? I knew him better than you could
00:38:05Okay, then you knew he was a four-flusher that explains the three grand bet. I'm not so sure he didn't have that three grand
00:38:10Why should I believe you? You got all the earmarks of a cheap crook. Now, wait a minute
00:38:15You're a cheap crook and you killed him for two cents. I changed my mind and turn you in. I don't like you
00:38:21All right. All right, don't get so I'm not getting sore
00:38:23But just remember who's boss around here if you shut up and don't give me any arguments
00:38:27You'll have nothing to worry about but if you act wise
00:38:29You'll have nothing to worry about
00:38:31But if you act wise well, mr. You pop in the jail so fast, it'll give you the bends
00:38:35I'm not I see that you don't you know as crooked as you look
00:38:39I'd hate to see a fella as young as you wind up sniffing that perfume that Arizona hands out free to murderers
00:38:44I'm not a murderer. Of course. You're not Haskell knocked his own head off. He fell
00:38:48That's how it happened. Just like I told you and then he made you a present of his belongings
00:38:51I explained why I do that doesn't make a difference one way or another. I'm not a mourner
00:38:55I like Tasco even less than I like you
00:38:57I'm not a mourner. I like Tasco even less than I like you. Yeah, I saw what you did to him
00:39:02What do you mean? Well scratches on his wrist. Sure. I scratched him
00:39:07I'll say you did
00:39:09So your idea was to drive the car a little way maybe into San Bernardino and then leave it
00:39:14You weren't gonna sell it sell it. You think I'm crazy somebody else's car
00:39:19See, all I want to do is leave it somewhere and forget I ever saw it
00:39:21Not only don't you have any scruples you don't have any brains. I don't get you. Maybe it's a good thing
00:39:27You met me you'd have got yourself caught. Sure. Why you dope don't you know, what deserted automobile always rates an investigation?
00:39:35Look the cops find a car then they get curious. They wonder where the owner is. So, all right
00:39:41They don't trace Haskell. They trace you. I never thought of that
00:39:45The only safe way to get rid of the car is to sell it to a dealer get it registered under a new name
00:39:50Say stop at the next store. I want to get a bottle and do some shopping before we hit LA
00:39:54Okay, we find a place I'll drop you off and pick you up later nothing doing you're coming in too from now on you and
00:40:01I like the Siamese twins
00:40:02Have it your way. I don't get the point. The point is I don't want you to get lost
00:40:07I'm not gonna beat it if that's what you're afraid of. I'll say you're not
00:40:10Well, I'm gonna see that you sell this car so you don't get caught
00:40:13Thanks, of course, your interest wouldn't be financial with it. You wouldn't want a small percentage of the profits
00:40:19Well now that you insist, how can I refuse a hundred percent will do
00:40:24Fine, I'm relieved. I thought for a moment. You're gonna take it all. I don't want to be a hog a
00:40:31Few hours later. We were in Hollywood. I was recognizing places. Sue had written about
00:40:36It struck me that far from being at the end of the trip
00:40:40There was a greater distance between Sue and me than when I started out
00:40:44Vera wasn't kidding with that Siamese twins crack
00:40:47She rented a little apartment as mrs. Charles Haskell
00:40:51When I objected to this she explained that it was on account of the car
00:40:55A dealer might think something was funny if he called in front we were using different names
00:41:04Home sweet home. Yeah, not bad either
00:41:16Case there's any doubt in your mind. I'll take the bedroom. Yeah
00:41:21Sure is stuffy in here
00:41:31Keep the window shut. Okay, the old crow downstairs said there's a phone a bed behind this door
00:41:44You know how to work it I
00:41:47Invented it
00:41:52Some joint one can't have everything
00:41:59I'm first in the bathtub. I don't know why but I figured you would be
00:42:17Boy oh boy, it sure feels good to be clean again. I must be ten pounds lighter
00:42:24He must be
00:42:27Well itching rides isn't exactly the way you keep your schoolgirl complexion
00:42:34I wish that guy with the sacks would give up gets on my nerves
00:42:41Forget it
00:42:44Have a drink aren't you afraid I might take you up on it. I
00:42:51Didn't want to give you a drink I wouldn't have offered it
00:42:54I'd be a sorry Roberts. You got yourself into this thing
00:42:58You should be grateful. I'm not turning you in
00:43:01Why if I wasn't regular you'd be in the pen this minute being photographed fingerprinted and being pushed around by the cops
00:43:08So cheer up get rid of that long puss
00:43:10Or is your conscience bothering you
00:43:18It isn't Wow, that's the spirit he's dead no moment around I'll bring him back
00:43:29Anyway, I never could understand this worrying about something that's over and done with now look Vera for the last time
00:43:34I didn't kill it Haskell was a sick man
00:43:36Maybe was dead before he fell out of the car. I don't know what he was doing
00:43:39So it'll make you sociable
00:43:42It didn't kill him
00:43:55Thanks
00:44:08We're out of liquor Roberts
00:44:11Yeah
00:44:12Too bad. I felt like getting tight tonight. Well, I think he succeeded. Am I time?
00:44:19As a prima donnas corset, that's good. I wanted to get tight
00:44:24Why what have you got to get tight about? Oh, I don't know a few things
00:44:33You should have my worry
00:44:36You should have my worries if I had your troubles I'd stay sober and I've got the key to that door
00:44:45Yeah, maybe you're right I'm always right
00:44:50You know, I don't like your attitude Roberts, well, there's a lot of things I don't like
00:44:55Well, there's a lot of things I don't like
00:45:02But life's like a ballgame
00:45:04You got to take a swing at whatever comes along before you wake up and find it's a ninth inning
00:45:09You read that someone that's such real Roberts. Oh, yeah, it was bellyache
00:45:13Making it easy and well trying to make the better things
00:45:18Maybe that's what's wrong with the whole world
00:45:20Get the professor
00:45:22People themselves out trying to buck fate now. Take you for instance. You're lucky to be alive
00:45:28Why suppose Haskell and open your door you'd be playing a harp now think of that
00:45:34You think of it
00:45:36I'm tired of thinking
00:45:38There's plenty of people die in this minute. I would give anything to trade places with you. I
00:45:45Know what I'm talking about
00:45:48I'm not so sure at least they know they're done for
00:45:52They don't to sweat blood wondering if they are
00:45:56Your philosophy stinks pal
00:45:59We all know we're gonna kick off someday it's only a question of when
00:46:04But what got us on this subject anyway, we'll be discussing politics next yeah
00:46:13Where'd you hide the butts on the table sucker
00:46:23We bought each other with conversation for a couple of hours longer
00:46:27Every five minutes one of us was wishing we had another bottle or a radio or something to read
00:46:33Then finally we ran out of chat I
00:46:36Know it's only 11 o'clock, but I want to get up early and make the rounds of the used car lots
00:46:40No, hurry about that. We've got all the time in the world
00:46:43Maybe you have but do you think I want to stay cooped up in this place any longer than I have to your batty?
00:46:47It's not a bad place pay plenty for diggings like this in New York
00:46:51You got a mean cough want to do something about it, I'll be all right. That's what Camille said
00:46:58Nobody, you know
00:47:03Wasn't that the day in the died of consumption. Yeah
00:47:07Wouldn't it be a break for you if I did kick off?
00:47:10He'd be free with all house calls
00:47:12I'm sure he'd be happy to see you
00:47:15I'm sure he'd be happy to see you
00:47:17I don't want to see anybody die
00:47:20Not even me
00:47:21Especially not you one person died to me if you did. Well, that's all I need
00:47:29You don't like me do you Roberts
00:47:32Like you I
00:47:35Love you
00:47:37My favorite sport is being kept prisoner
00:47:40After we sell the car you can go to blazes
00:47:43I'm going to bed
00:47:53Good night Roberts. Don't try and sneak away during the night. All the doors are locked. Anyway, I find you gone in the morning
00:47:58I'll see you in the morning. I'll see you in the morning
00:48:01Good night Roberts. Don't try and sneak away during the night. All the doors are locked
00:48:05Anyway, if I find you gone in the morning, I'll notify the police. They'll pick you up. Don't worry. I know what I'm in a spot
00:48:12Well, good night. I hope that portable rack isn't too uncomfortable for you. I'll lose any sleep over
00:48:30You
00:49:01Chris you
00:49:04Six
00:49:10Two
00:49:14Hello hello
00:49:19Hello
00:49:21Hello
00:49:24You
00:49:29Know
00:49:31Not yet darling tomorrow
00:49:36Maybe
00:49:41If this were fiction I would fall in love with her marry her and make a respectable woman of her well
00:49:46She'd make some supreme class a sacrifice for me die
00:49:50Sue and I would ball a little over a grave and make some crack about there's good in all of us
00:49:55But Vera unfortunately was just as rotten in the morning as she'd been the night before
00:50:03All right, all right, I'm coming
00:50:08So what the dealers will be there all day I'll be there all year too, but it doesn't wait that long
00:50:12Shut up, you make us like a husband
00:50:15Do I rate a whistle you sure do but let's go let's go let's go
00:50:19I spent 85 bucks in two hours preparing bait and all you can say is let's go
00:50:25Come on
00:50:31We've had a few used car lots last night down this way, what do you think we can get for this heap?
00:50:35I don't know plenty. Let me handle everything
00:50:39We can get the rest of the stuff
00:50:41Plenty let me handle everything
00:50:43Then we can get $2,000. I don't know but don't worry. I'll squeeze as much out of this guy as I can
00:50:49I'll let it go cheap without a fight. He might think we've stolen the car and listen
00:50:53Don't make any slips and call me Roberts. That'll cook us. I don't need you to tell me that
00:50:58You better just sit by and keep your mouth closed
00:51:01Remember, we're both in the soup. If anything happens forget it and drive. You're my wife Vera Haskell
00:51:07look
00:51:08After the deal is closed. Let's go back to that place on Hollywood Boulevard where I saw the fur jacket
00:51:13I won't I after the deal is closed. I'm saying goodbye to you. That's right. I forgot. I guess I'm getting kind of used to you
00:51:22That's a habit you can start breaking let's try this place in the middle of block
00:51:32Good afternoon, what can I do for you? We're interested in selling a car if the price is right
00:51:39Well, if it's in good mechanical condition, it should blue book for about 1,600
00:51:44Tony take a look at this motor
00:51:471,600 are you kidding?
00:52:00Well, maybe 1850 before I let it go for 1850 I'll wreck it and collect the insurance first
00:52:09I did this motor seen a lot of driving
00:52:18While the mechanic inspected the car we haggled
00:52:22At last when we were all worn out we hit a compromise
00:52:25his price
00:52:30Okay, it's a deal. All right, come on. We'll sign the papers. I have the ownership papers right here with me
00:52:34Look Vera in the meantime, will you clean a dash compartment? Maybe some stuff in it? All right, darling
00:52:441850 bucks that dirty
00:52:54New York, huh? Yeah, but you bought the car in Miami. Yeah
00:52:57Well, let's see about the insurance we can either have it transferred or canceled
00:53:01What kind of insurance do you have? Mr. Haskell?
00:53:04Well, I know the papers there. I
00:53:10Don't see any surely, you know what type of insurance you carry in the car the name of the company
00:53:16Yeah, but well if you'll just tell me the name of the company, I'd be very glad to take care of all the details
00:53:21Well, did you sign the papers yet? Not yet
00:53:24Well, don't we're not selling the car. Well, wait a minute. Let's ask. Oh, come on, darling. What's the matter change your mind?
00:53:31Yes, I'm sorry. I guess I have but very much. Let's go
00:53:40You got me out of a tight spot Vera, but I still don't understand all this you're well in a minute
00:53:44I almost threw away a goldmine
00:53:471850 isn't to be sneezed at the car doesn't book for as much as I thought we're not selling the car
00:53:52You want to keep it now? Wait a minute very you said yourself
00:53:54I wouldn't be safe until the car was in someone else's name. I'd like to be free of this mess when I go
00:53:58That's just it Roberts. You're not going
00:54:02There's a driver in the next corner pull in there and we'll get a bite to eat now, I'll explain
00:54:06What is this another one of your brilliant ideas?
00:54:15Oh, I think you're gonna make mine a ham sandwich and coffee and for you sir, I'll have a
00:54:22I don't care the same
00:54:25Thank you
00:54:31Get this Vera I've been pretty patient so far I've done everything you asked me to do but no more shut up
00:54:37You've taken Haskell's money. You can have the door we get from selling the car, but you're not gonna keep me a prisoner
00:54:42It's a good thing. I bought the paper. Take a look at that fear. I'm in no mood
00:54:52No, yes, no, I won't do it. Yes, you will you think I'm crazy it's impossible I tell you, excuse me
00:55:05Blow the horn when you're through
00:55:10No one could possibly get away with an act like that be wise to me in a minute
00:55:13Don't be yeah, you look enough like him the same coloring in the same build
00:55:18Oh grow up Vera, don't you think a father knows his own son and there must be other relatives
00:55:22So father won't have to know you. Well, wait till he gives up the ghost
00:55:24He's an old geezer and he won't pull through and as far as other relatives are concerned
00:55:28They haven't seen you in 15 or 20 years
00:55:32Eat I'm not hungry
00:55:34And I won't do it. It's not as tough as it sounds
00:55:37Remember, you've got all kinds of identification cards on you. You can't get away with it
00:55:40I'm not hungry. I won't do it. It's not as tough as it sounds
00:55:44It's not as tough as it sounds remember
00:55:46You've got all kinds of identification his car letters like I could never get away with it
00:55:49It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard
00:55:51The old boy has scads of dough look in the paper their personal fortune assessed at over 15 million
00:55:56He'll leave plenty. I tell you maybe cut off his son. How do we know? It's out Vera
00:56:01I won't have anything to do with it. I
00:56:04Think you will
00:56:06Look Vera, I'll do anything within reason but not that so forget it. Find yourself another stooge
00:56:12You'll be fixed for the rest of your life as Charlie Haskell you can take your inheritance and go away
00:56:16No more worrying about the rent. No sweat and scheming wondering where your next meals coming from think about that Roberts Vera
00:56:22Please you're talking too loud
00:56:24Unless I'm splitting 50-50 with you. Sure. Why not? We're both alike both born the same gutter. Take it easy Vera
00:56:30There's people around here. You don't know what you're talking
00:56:33Well, wait, we read that old man Haskell's dead and you show up like you read in New York that he was sick
00:56:38No, I suppose he doesn't die. Well, I know he will something tells me
00:56:46But as much as I insisted I would have no part of her scheme Vera was taking it for granted I would
00:56:52Neither of us had our mind on the cards as we played that night. I knew we were just trying to kill time between newspaper editions
00:57:00This was a death watch for Vera
00:57:03Maybe it was for me too
00:57:05Don't you realize if I'm caught they'll want to know where I got the car and stuff and they'll have me on a murder
00:57:09Charge, you're smart. You won't get caught
00:57:12I knocked with seven and if I'm caught don't you realize you'll be out to
00:57:1618 points it gives me 30
00:57:20How will I be out you'll be out eighteen hundred and fifty dollars we would have gotten in the car
00:57:24Really very you'd be an awful chump. He threw away all that dough in a dizzy long shot
00:57:27Let me sell the bus tomorrow with the money
00:57:29It'll bring what you've already got a clever kid like you can run it up in no time
00:57:32Then we'd both be in the clear. I'll be in the clear. Anyway, maybe maybe but if I got caught
00:57:39I'd get couldn't sort you. You know, you mean you'd squeal. Oh, no, not squealing. Never mind what you meant
00:57:45Even if you did tell the cops I was in on it with you. What could they do to me?
00:57:50They might give me the same medicine. They gave you. Yeah a rope
00:57:57But I'm on my way
00:57:59I'll be doing will be rushing it
00:58:02All right, but think the 1850 you lose you'd kick yourself along the block and let get away from you. I'll take the chance
00:58:09One another drink you're being a goon. That's the way people wind up behind the eight ball
00:58:13Once they get a few dollars to become greedy and want more
00:58:16My my Caesar Oh, you know that Roman general he got his for being greedy
00:58:21He wasn't satisfied. So the final wind-up was he took the count
00:58:24A couple of days ago. You didn't have a dime while you were so broke. You couldn't pay cash for a postage stamp
00:58:30Now you've got almost $700 with 1850 in the offing. Take my advice. Don't try for more
00:58:35I'm tired of this game. Let's have some blackjack
00:58:38Place on it here. Okay. I will if that's the way you feel about that's the way I feel about getting so on throwing things
00:58:43Won't help much Roberts. I'm really doing you a favor. I help you out of the jam by keeping my mouth shut
00:58:48I show you how to make some soft money and what thanks do I get
00:58:50I would rather call the cops and tell him you killed a man and stole his money. Yes, you did
00:58:54No, I didn't, you know, I didn't. All right, then
00:59:00Suppose I call the cops pure innocent. What do you got to be scared of?
00:59:05Okay
00:59:06Call him you might go ahead and call him. See if I care at least they'll give me a square deal
00:59:11You want me to call you heard me, but I'm warning you if I'm pinched. I'll swear you were in on it
00:59:15I'll see to it. I'll call the cops
00:59:17But I'm warning you if I'm pinched I'll swear you were in on it
00:59:19I'll see that you help me if I fry I'll get even with you. You wouldn't dare you did. Yeah
00:59:26And try it and see call him. Yeah
00:59:29Okay, I will
00:59:32Information
00:59:34I want the number of the Hollywood Police Station
00:59:38Okay, I got it. Thanks
00:59:43Wait a minute Vera you wouldn't do that. Oh wouldn't do that. I'll show you if I would take it easy now. Let's talk this over
00:59:49I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that
00:59:54I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that
00:59:57Take it easy now. Let's talk this over
01:00:00This was early in the evening and the conversation while hectic was at least pitched low
01:00:06But as the minutes passed and more obstacles to her plan popped into my head the air got blue
01:00:12Each word coming from our lips cracked like a whip. I
01:00:16Reminded her that as Charles Haskell, I didn't even know my mother's name
01:00:20Where I'd gone to school the name of my best friend
01:00:23Whether I had an aunt Emma or not my religion and if I had ever owned a dog
01:00:28I didn't even know what my middle initial stood for. I
01:00:31Also pointed out that the real Haskell had a scar on his forearm
01:00:35His people never saw that scar. He told me you ran away right after putting out the kid's eye
01:00:40Yeah, but his father knew he was cut. It'll be some kind of a mark. So what?
01:00:44The old man's dead or will be I hope by tomorrow morning's papers
01:00:49Anyway, you could cut yourself a little
01:00:52Boy for that kind of dough, I'd let you cut my leg off
01:00:57You're drunk and you're crazy mad Vera turn me in if you want to but I won't get mixed up in this
01:01:01Besides, how do we know Haskell was such a phony? Maybe wasn't the man's son at all
01:01:04Maybe just dreamed it up. Well
01:01:07You won't be dreaming when the law taps you on the shoulder
01:01:10There's a cute little gas chamber waiting for you Roberts, and I hear extradition to Arizona's a cinch
01:01:17Where's that?
01:01:25I hate you. You're a stinker you
01:01:29I'll let you alone when you promise to leave the phone where it is. You're drunk. You don't know what you're doing
01:01:33You're hurting me. Will you promise? All right
01:01:37You hurt me, I'm sorry, but it's hot in here. Open up a window. It's not hot
01:01:43Don't tell me now. Do you do it or do I do it?
01:01:47You're no gentlemen see yeah, all right, I'll open up the window
01:01:51Your open the door, please open the door Vera open the door don't use the phone listen to me
01:01:55I don't like you Robert. You're no gentleman. See you hurt my hand and I'm gonna get even with you
01:02:02You don't open the door. I'll open the door
01:02:08You're no gentlemen, see you hurt my hand and I'm gonna get even with you
01:02:13If you don't open the door, I'll open the window
01:02:15See you hurt my hand and I'm going to get even with you if you don't open the door
01:02:22I'm gonna kick it down Vera
01:02:24No, don't call the cops. Listen to me. I'll do anything you say
01:02:27Vera let me in
01:02:30I'll break the phone
01:02:45I
01:03:13Know I'm on myself
01:03:16In the Haskell business how many of you would believe he fell out of the car
01:03:19And now after killing Vera without really meaning to do it. How many of you would believe it wasn't premeditated
01:03:25In a jury room every last man of you would go down shouting that she had me over a barrel and my only out was force
01:03:33The room was still
01:03:36So quiet that for a while I wondered if I had suddenly gone deaf
01:03:40It was pure fear, of course
01:03:41And I was hysterical
01:03:43But without making a sound
01:03:47Vera was dead and that was her murderer
01:03:51Murderer what an awful word that is but I'd become one. I'd better not get caught
01:03:57What evidence there was around the place had to be destroyed and from the looks of things there was plenty
01:04:02Looking around the room and things we'd bought was like looking into the faces of a hundred people had seen us together and who remembered
01:04:07Me this was the kind of testimony. I couldn't rub out
01:04:10No, I
01:04:12Could burn clothes and hide bottles for the next five years
01:04:15It always be witnesses the landlady for one
01:04:18She could identify me the car dealer the waitress in the drive-in the girl in the dress shop and that guy in the liquor store
01:04:23It could all identify me
01:04:26I was cooked done for I had to get out of there
01:04:31While once I had remained beside a dead body planning carefully how to avoid being accused of killing him this time I couldn't
01:04:38This time I couldn't
01:04:40This time I was guilty
01:04:43Knew it
01:04:44Felt it. I
01:04:46Was like a guy suffering from shock things were whirling around in my head. I couldn't make myself think, right?
01:04:53All I could think of was the guy with a saxophone and what he was playing
01:04:57It wasn't a love song
01:05:00It was a dirge
01:05:07You
01:05:37You
01:05:49But my problems weren't solved I had to stay away from New York for all time
01:05:55Because Al Roberts was listed as dead and had to stay dead
01:05:59And I could never go back to Hollywood
01:06:02Someone might recognize me as Haskell
01:06:05Then to there was Sue I
01:06:10Could never go to her with a thing like this hanging over my head
01:06:14All I could do was pray she'd be happy
01:06:27I
01:06:29Was in Bakersfield before I read that Vera's body was discovered
01:06:33That the police were looking for Haskell in connection with his wife's murder
01:06:38Isn't that a laugh
01:06:40Haskell got me into this mess and Haskell was getting me out of it. The police were searching for a dead man. I
01:06:50Keep trying to forget what happened
01:06:53And wonder what my life might have been if that car of Haskell's hadn't stopped
01:07:00But one thing I don't have to wonder about
01:07:03I know
01:07:06Someday a car will stop to pick me up that I never thumbed
01:07:14Yes
01:07:16fate
01:07:17Or some mysterious force and put the finger on you or me
01:07:23For no good reason at all
01:07:32You
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