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Deadline – U.S.A. is a 1952 American film noir crime film and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore and Kim Hunter, written and directed by Richard Brooks. It is the story of a crusading newspaper editor who exposes a gangster's crimes while trying to keep the paper from going out of business; he is also attempting to reconcile with his ex-wife.
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00:00:00THE END
00:01:00What part did you play in the recent local elections, Mr. Rayenzi?
00:01:18You got me mixed up with somebody else, Senator.
00:01:21I'm in a cement and contracting business.
00:01:24What would you say your earnings are per year?
00:01:26Around $20,000 or $30,000.
00:01:28Say $30,000.
00:01:30You've got a $60,000 home here, a winter place in Miami, a summer place in Maine, two limousines,
00:01:36a sailboat worth $50,000, all on $30,000 a year.
00:01:41How do you do it, Mr. Rayenzi?
00:01:43Sometimes I wonder myself, Senator.
00:01:45It was testified here yesterday that you were paid $200,000 in cash to influence the election.
00:01:55Yeah, I read that in the papers.
00:01:57Now, if somebody will only tell me where all that money is, did I...
00:02:00You're high meddling in the election?
00:02:01Does it look like it?
00:02:03After all, you got elected, didn't you, Senator?
00:02:05You say this man keeps getting undressed without pulling down the shades.
00:02:32Well, what's your complaint, Madam?
00:02:35Boy?
00:02:36Here.
00:02:39Well, what did she want, boy?
00:02:40Well, from the condition of the body, she'd been soaking in the river for several days.
00:02:44This fur coat she wore was all she had on.
00:02:46Well, maybe she was a rich society matron.
00:02:48Mink isn't class-conscious at the Sunday.
00:02:51No other clothes, no identification.
00:02:53Well, Mr. Hutchison wants to see you in his office, sir.
00:02:56Boy!
00:02:57Boy!
00:03:05What about the Rienzi story, George?
00:03:07Boss wants to check it first.
00:03:12Yeah.
00:03:12Yeah.
00:03:15Yeah.
00:03:16Yeah.
00:03:17Yeah.
00:03:19Yeah.
00:03:20Yeah.
00:03:21Yeah.
00:03:22Yeah.
00:03:23Yeah.
00:03:24Yeah.
00:03:25Yeah.
00:03:30One column head, three line bank.
00:03:32A.P. says the paper's being sold.
00:03:34What?
00:03:35Sold.
00:03:36Who to?
00:03:37When?
00:03:38What about that, Frank?
00:03:39That's something only the garrisonaires Hutchison and the Gods have known, not us.
00:03:42It's a conspiracy to keep you just as you are, nice and ignorant.
00:03:46Sold.
00:03:47I can't believe it.
00:03:48Don't believe the Associated Press?
00:03:50My, my.
00:03:51Maine, two thousand.
00:03:52Better run for your lives, men.
00:03:53Don't forget to trample the women, loud mouth.
00:03:55Record.
00:03:56Give me the city desk.
00:03:57Look, who's the boss?
00:03:58Who says what goes in the paper?
00:03:59The managing editor, Mr. Hutchison.
00:04:00Then he's the man I want to see.
00:04:01Well, right now, he's vision of Bird Dog.
00:04:02Why don't you sit down?
00:04:03If you don't mind.
00:04:04He's still in the make-up country.
00:04:05Call him, call him.
00:04:06Credit controls.
00:04:07Inflation to be halted.
00:04:08Billions.
00:04:09Yes?
00:04:10Frank Allen.
00:04:11Urgent.
00:04:12Okay.
00:04:13Billions required.
00:04:14National budget.
00:04:15O.P.S. N.A.M.
00:04:16E.C.A.
00:04:17What's all this mean to the reader?
00:04:18Consumption tax.
00:04:19Sounds like a disease.
00:04:20No.
00:04:21No.
00:04:22No.
00:04:23No.
00:04:24No.
00:04:25No.
00:04:26No.
00:04:27No.
00:04:28No.
00:04:29No.
00:04:30No.
00:04:31No.
00:04:32Recom record.
00:04:33Squished but of deconstruction tax.
00:04:34Sounds like a disease.
00:04:35It'll be page 1 of every paper in the country.
00:04:37And the day, too.
00:04:38Well, what does this tax program mean to the average man and woman?
00:04:40Not billions.
00:04:41That's an impossible figure.
00:04:42Here to break it down.
00:04:43Yes, sir.
00:04:44Well, it costs the housewife for groceries.
00:04:45How much more for a car, a radio?
00:04:4650 bucks.
00:04:47100.
00:04:48How much?
00:04:49Run the story as is page 1, new lead, for the second edition.
00:04:52Right.
00:04:55United Press Fledge story, in same slot?
00:04:58Pictures coming yet?
00:04:59With casualty lists.
00:05:00Right.
00:05:01Ed.
00:05:06What about the dead nude murder story?
00:05:09Is it murder?
00:05:10Looks like it.
00:05:11Looks like it.
00:05:13Who is she?
00:05:14I don't know yet.
00:05:15Got some pictures of her, though.
00:05:17Very interesting.
00:05:20Put them on postcards and send it to Paris.
00:05:22Second section, play it down. No pictures.
00:05:24Yes, sir.
00:05:25Story's fine, George. Tie it off.
00:05:29Yes?
00:05:30I'm late for the dome.
00:05:31Okay.
00:05:33You leave tonight to handle that strike upstate?
00:05:35I'd like to stay with the Rienzi story.
00:05:37You're wasting your time, baby.
00:05:38Not if we can prove he's guilty.
00:05:40It's not our job to prove he's guilty.
00:05:42We're not detectives and we're not in the crusading business.
00:05:44Give me a week.
00:05:45Forget it.
00:05:46The state senate couldn't prove anything.
00:05:48Neither did that probe four years ago.
00:05:50They've had a nice circus, that's all.
00:05:52Television's had a field day.
00:05:53All the papers raised their circulation.
00:05:55And Rienzi's lawyers got richer.
00:05:58One week.
00:05:59Three days.
00:06:00Please, I got a good lead.
00:06:04All right.
00:06:05Stay out of trouble.
00:06:09Ed.
00:06:11That's right, Frank.
00:06:12Baby's on the auction block.
00:06:14We are.
00:06:15But we're the best outfit in town.
00:06:16In the country, maybe.
00:06:17But why?
00:06:18Why sell?
00:06:19Money.
00:06:20That's usually the reason something is sold, isn't it?
00:06:23Tell them I'm on my way up.
00:06:25The heirs and the lawyers are up in the dome right now waiting to explain the nature of their crime with facts, figures and falsehoods.
00:06:33One more F and they won't be drafted.
00:06:36But, Mother, the paper belongs to us.
00:06:40Why do we have to go to court to sell it?
00:06:42Perhaps because he never intended it to be sold.
00:06:45Oh, please, Mother.
00:06:46We've been over that a hundred times.
00:06:48The surrogate's court will decide that, Mrs. Garrison.
00:06:50Ed.
00:06:51Mrs. Garrison.
00:06:52What kept you so long?
00:06:53How's the expectant mother?
00:06:54Lousy.
00:06:55Hello, Ed.
00:06:56Alice.
00:06:57You're looking very well.
00:06:59How's your husband?
00:07:00Oh, fine.
00:07:01It's fine.
00:07:02It's fine, isn't it?
00:07:03Let's get this over with.
00:07:05I suppose you know why we're here, Mr. Hutchison.
00:07:07Practically everybody seems to know except the people who work here.
00:07:09We're sorry about that.
00:07:11We thought it best to make a general announcement discreetly.
00:07:14The death of a newspaper is never discreet.
00:07:17Here we go again.
00:07:19The last will and testament of the late John Garrison, drawn up just prior to his death,
00:07:23eleven years ago, designated as his heirs his eldest daughter, Alice,
00:07:28his daughter, Catherine, and his wife, Margaret.
00:07:32Inasmuch as Catherine attained her majority last week and became entitled to a full vote,
00:07:36it was decided by the three stockholders...
00:07:38Decided?
00:07:39Unanimously?
00:07:41Of course.
00:07:42Um, any objections?
00:07:45Would it make any difference?
00:07:47None.
00:07:48And I have no objections.
00:07:51The reason it was decided...
00:07:52Must we go into detail?
00:07:54I don't feel well.
00:07:56My entire staff feels the same way.
00:07:59Oh, Ed.
00:08:00What do Alice or I know about newspapers?
00:08:02Gives you an income.
00:08:04We never even come down here except twice a year from me.
00:08:07You're invited every day.
00:08:09Mrs. Courtney's husband feels the money could be invested more wisely elsewhere.
00:08:12John Garrison founded this paper, not Mrs. Courtney's husband.
00:08:16We're taking care of you, Ed.
00:08:17What?
00:08:18We always try, anyhow.
00:08:19You ought to get 1% of the sale price.
00:08:21Your share will amount to slightly more than $50,000.
00:08:24You're to notify all personnel they will receive two weeks' pay.
00:08:27Wait a minute.
00:08:28If this sounds as if we're being closed down, who's buying the day?
00:08:32What difference can it make?
00:08:33To the 1,500 people who work for you, it makes a lot of difference.
00:08:36Well, who is buying it?
00:08:39Or are you ashamed of it?
00:08:43Lawrence White is the buyer.
00:08:45White?
00:08:46We're being sold to the standard.
00:08:49Oh, I think I'm going to vomit.
00:08:51So do I.
00:08:53Mr. White's paper is very successful.
00:08:55He will undoubtedly make this one more profitable, too.
00:08:57It won't be this paper anymore.
00:08:58It'll be lost in the standard.
00:09:00As far as we're concerned, his offer is a generous one.
00:09:02He's only buying our circulation features and goodwill.
00:09:06He's eliminating his competition, that's all.
00:09:09Mrs. Garrison, you've got to stop them.
00:09:12Your husband created a new kind of journalism and you helped him.
00:09:16Take a look at the first paper you ever printed.
00:09:19Here.
00:09:20Page 1.
00:09:21Quote.
00:09:22This paper will fight for progress and reform.
00:09:25We'll never be satisfied merely with printing the news.
00:09:28We'll never be afraid to attack wrong,
00:09:30whether by predatory wealth or predatory poverty.
00:09:33You're not selling the day. You're killing it.
00:09:36The hearing to approve the sale will take place in surrogate's court day after tomorrow.
00:09:40You'll be there, of course.
00:09:41I never go to funerals.
00:09:46I think I like that man. That man.
00:09:49Stop it! Stop it!
00:09:52Stop it!
00:09:53Come on, kill him, Frank!
00:09:54Get him, Frank!
00:09:55Get him!
00:09:56Get him!
00:09:57Get him!
00:09:58Get him!
00:09:59Get him!
00:10:00Get him!
00:10:01Get him!
00:10:02Get him!
00:10:03Get him!
00:10:04Get him!
00:10:05Get him!
00:10:06Cut it out!
00:10:11You all right?
00:10:12In the pink.
00:10:14Yeah.
00:10:15What happened?
00:10:17One punch, six pushes, two kicks, lots of hollering.
00:10:20No decision.
00:10:21Henry?
00:10:22Well, I was sitting there minding my own business.
00:10:24He's been asking for it.
00:10:25Heard a rumor.
00:10:26Quit without notice.
00:10:27Took a job at the record.
00:10:28Rumor?
00:10:29Well, how about it, Mr. Hutchison?
00:10:31Is it a rumor?
00:10:32We have a right to protect ourselves, haven't we?
00:10:36Well, go ahead.
00:10:37Tell us we got nothing to worry about.
00:10:45The day after tomorrow, when Surrey gets caught.
00:10:50You got two weeks' pay coming to you.
00:10:52The paper's closing.
00:10:53You can quit now and look for another job,
00:10:55or wait for the probate judge's decision.
00:10:58It's up to you.
00:11:01There's nothing personal, Mr. Hutchison.
00:11:03I have my family to think about.
00:11:05That's right, Henry.
00:11:06Nothing personal.
00:11:09Well, Mr. Hutchison, the mayor won't...
00:11:11I'm busy.
00:11:12What are you gonna do?
00:11:15I got an assignment.
00:11:16Harry?
00:11:17There's still a sports page to get out.
00:11:36Fighting.
00:11:38A man your age did me good.
00:11:40He was right to quit.
00:11:41They all oughta quit.
00:11:42Maybe.
00:11:43Anyway, I got it out of my system.
00:11:46You were with the New York world, weren't you?
00:11:48Under Pulitzer, Cobb, and Barrett.
00:11:52What'd you do when it folded?
00:11:53Let's see now.
00:11:55I think I got myself a drink.
00:11:57Yep, I'm sure of it.
00:11:59And what'd you do?
00:12:00Came over here and went to work for old man Garrison.
00:12:03He was a great newspaper man.
00:12:05Yeah, but no good as a father.
00:12:06Terrible.
00:12:07Daughters.
00:12:09One of them married to a high-class broker
00:12:11who knows how to invest their money more wisely.
00:12:14They hate the paper, same as they hated the old man.
00:12:17Couldn't get at him when he was alive,
00:12:18so now they're kicking him when he's dead.
00:12:20Yes?
00:12:21Five minutes to press time.
00:12:23Okay, come in.
00:12:25Everybody in this racket gets kicked sooner or later,
00:12:27dead or alive.
00:12:28Get that in the fudge box.
00:12:29Yes, sir.
00:12:30Uh, the mayor...
00:12:31Darn the mayor!
00:12:33Yes, sir.
00:12:37The mayor.
00:12:39All he cares about is we'll support him for re-election if we fold.
00:12:42By now the boys will be having a nice, lively week in O'Brien's.
00:12:45Ever been to one?
00:12:47Before you know it, lads, you won't be feeling a thing,
00:12:49not a blessed thing.
00:12:51That's what a wake is for.
00:13:00Here.
00:13:01There.
00:13:02There.
00:13:06That's right.
00:13:07Brothers and sisters, hush up for a minute.
00:13:12Friends...
00:13:13It's an unemployed...
00:13:14We're here.
00:13:15Let me hear you.
00:13:16We're gathered here to bear a seizure.
00:13:19No!
00:13:20Brothers and sisters, we came to praise the day, not very instantly.
00:13:26I got the urge, brothers!
00:13:28High on the earth!
00:13:30Repent at ritual!
00:13:31Brother Cleary, a sinner of 14 years standing,
00:13:34sitting or lying down,
00:13:36will let out the misery.
00:13:38Hallelujah!
00:13:40Maestro, be flat of you, please.
00:13:42Flash, scoop, scoop.
00:13:45I came over the River Jordan
00:13:47from a weekly scandal sheet
00:13:49and asked old John Garrison for a job.
00:13:51Are you a journalist or a reporter, he said.
00:13:54What's the difference, I said.
00:13:56A journalist makes himself the hero of the story
00:13:58a reporter is only the witness.
00:14:04Sister Bond dollar!
00:14:05Sister Bond dollar!
00:14:07Has the spirit moved the research department?
00:14:09Oh!
00:14:11The spirit's moved her, all right.
00:14:14Hallelujah!
00:14:15That's the collection box.
00:14:17Sister Willebrand!
00:14:18Coming through the rye!
00:14:20Present and half accounted.
00:14:25Come on, honey.
00:14:26Give us a soul toll.
00:14:28It's a lovely corpse.
00:14:30The last poor dear.
00:14:32I knew it well.
00:14:33And why not?
00:14:35I gave it the best 14 years of my life.
00:14:39Then what have I got to show for it, huh?
00:14:40$81 in the bank.
00:14:44Two dead husbands and two or three kids I always wanted but never had.
00:14:52I've covered everything from electrocutions to love nest brawls.
00:14:55I've got fallen arches, unfixed teeth.
00:14:58And you want to know something?
00:14:59And I, I never saw Paris.
00:15:02But, but I wouldn't change those years.
00:15:07Not for anything in this world.
00:15:10I see the light, brother.
00:15:18Purify your soul, sinner.
00:15:20Save your tears.
00:15:21This is what the readers want.
00:15:23No!
00:15:24Throw the atheist out.
00:15:26Don't sell it short.
00:15:27It's got twice our circulation and three times our advertising linage.
00:15:31It's wild and yellow, but it's not exactly a newspaper.
00:15:40It keeps its people working.
00:15:43Well, maybe if I'd given you this kind of paper, you'd still have jobs.
00:15:47There's a place for this kind of sheet.
00:15:49Where, daddy?
00:15:50All right, so it's not your kind of paper.
00:15:53Who are we putting out papers for?
00:15:54You?
00:15:55You?
00:15:55You?
00:15:55You?
00:15:57Not enough anymore to give them just news.
00:15:59They want comics, contests, puzzles.
00:16:03They want to know how to bake a cake, win friends, and influence the future.
00:16:07Ergo, horoscopes, tips on the horses, interpretation of dreams so they can win on the numbers lotteries.
00:16:13And, if they accidentally stumble on the first page, news.
00:16:19Old man Garrison lies a boldly in the gray.
00:16:24Old man Garrison lies a boldly in the gray.
00:16:27Old man Garrison lies a boldly in the gray.
00:16:31You know, I never got to Paris, either.
00:16:34Have some anesthetic, brother.
00:16:35Glory, glory, hallelujah.
00:16:40Oh, glory, glory, hallelujah.
00:16:45Glory, glory, hallelujah.
00:16:49His day is done and gone.
00:16:53Heading any pain, Ed?
00:17:14Well, it was a nice wake.
00:17:16Night.
00:17:17Mr. Hutchison, I've been trying to see you all day, sir.
00:17:33I said I'd find you here.
00:17:36This will introduce me, sir.
00:17:37It's from my journalism professor at the university.
00:17:40Oh, so you want to be a newspaper man.
00:17:44Yes, sir.
00:17:45One student a semester is recommended.
00:17:47And you're it.
00:17:48Yes, sir.
00:17:49A newspaper man is the best profession in the world.
00:17:53You know what a profession is?
00:17:54It's a skilled job.
00:17:57Yes, those repairing watches.
00:17:59Nope.
00:18:01A profession is a performance for public good.
00:18:04That's why newspaper work is a profession.
00:18:07Yes, sir.
00:18:08Yes, sir.
00:18:10I, uh, I suppose you want to be a columnist.
00:18:13Foreign correspondent to Egypt.
00:18:15You speak Arabic?
00:18:16No, sir, but...
00:18:18What you do know are the customs, habits, religion, superstitions of the people.
00:18:23Well, I took a course in Near Eastern religion.
00:18:25You know the psychology of Egyptian politics and Muslim diplomacy?
00:18:30No, sir.
00:18:31Expert on economy, topography and geography of Egypt?
00:18:34I speak a little French.
00:18:35Maybe I could get a job in the...
00:18:37Yeah, so do I.
00:18:38But I couldn't hold down a job in my own Paris office.
00:18:42I see.
00:18:47Hey, Joe.
00:18:53So you want to be a reporter.
00:18:56Here's some advice about this racket.
00:18:57Don't ever change your mind.
00:19:01It may not be the oldest profession, but it's the best.
00:19:05Yes, sir.
00:19:06Hi.
00:19:28Why don't you go home, Ed?
00:19:34Yes, ma'am.
00:19:43Guess what?
00:19:46Scotch.
00:19:48I have decided to dedicate my life to you.
00:19:51Yes, dear.
00:19:53Yes, dear.
00:19:56That's why I'm going to give you the best years of my life.
00:19:59Mm-hmm.
00:20:03Do you know what's the matter with you?
00:20:05You're a spectic.
00:20:07Hmm?
00:20:07Uh, skeptic.
00:20:09Yes, dear.
00:20:12White beer?
00:20:14Homogenized.
00:20:16Couldn't we spark it with a little scotch?
00:20:20Drink that.
00:20:20As is.
00:20:22Nora.
00:20:24I love you.
00:20:26Let's get married again.
00:20:28Tonight.
00:20:38This could bring on my second childhood.
00:20:41It already has coming here this time of night.
00:20:48Nora.
00:20:49I'm free.
00:20:51Fired.
00:20:53Canned.
00:20:54No more paper.
00:20:56Nothing to keep us apart anymore.
00:20:58The paper has been sold.
00:21:01I know.
00:21:10Divorce is a very evil thing, Nora.
00:21:14Down from my Olympian Heights, I come humbly.
00:21:16I'm going to make a decent woman of you again, Nora.
00:21:25Yes, dear.
00:21:27Yes, dear.
00:21:27We'll go on a second honeymoon.
00:21:31We never had a first.
00:21:33No, I'm leveling, baby.
00:21:34There's no more paper.
00:21:37Travel.
00:21:38That's what we'll do.
00:21:39Europe, South America, everywhere.
00:21:41No worry about expense.
00:21:42I am loaded.
00:21:43I am loaded.
00:21:45So I noticed.
00:21:47I mean money.
00:21:48More money than we've ever had in our lives.
00:21:51I was paid off for being a good boy.
00:21:54Ed.
00:21:55Look, listen.
00:21:59You shouldn't have come here.
00:22:04It won't work out.
00:22:08Yeah.
00:22:09Well, that's not a bad copy.
00:22:23Not bad at all.
00:22:27How is the advertising business?
00:22:31You know, you were right to quit the newspaper.
00:22:34Now you've got something you can depend on.
00:22:37Something legitimate.
00:22:39I went to a wake tonight.
00:22:43Saw the light, sister.
00:22:45Hallelujah.
00:22:54Why should I fight?
00:22:56For what?
00:22:58Publishers don't care about the paper.
00:23:00The paper doesn't care about me.
00:23:02I don't care about anybody except you.
00:23:06Haven't I met him somewheres before?
00:23:08Well, just now, in the living room.
00:23:11Oh, yeah.
00:23:12Fight.
00:23:13What with?
00:23:14I'm an employee, not a stockholder.
00:23:17Maybe I should have taken it to the readers.
00:23:20Ah!
00:23:21What do they care?
00:23:22You've got to have an issue for that.
00:23:24Red hot story.
00:23:27Nora?
00:23:29Right here, darling.
00:23:31Right here, darling.
00:23:32I don't have to think about anybody but us.
00:23:37Yes, dear.
00:23:39Well, we'll have some great times together like we used to.
00:23:43Remember that time in Saranac when everybody thought we weren't married, so we went out and got married?
00:23:49The second time.
00:23:50And the fishing trips we never went on, and the hunting trips I promised you.
00:23:55We'll make them all this time.
00:23:56Yes, dear.
00:23:57Now I went up to Reno to try to stop the divorce.
00:24:01What is that you charge me with?
00:24:03Incompatibility.
00:24:05Incompatibility.
00:24:06That was a lie.
00:24:08They know where to reach you?
00:24:10Oh, I don't have to account to anybody.
00:24:12Yes, dear.
00:24:13I don't like him.
00:24:17I don't like him.
00:24:43I don't like him.
00:24:44City desk.
00:24:47What?
00:24:49Oh, hold it.
00:24:57Okay, go ahead.
00:25:00When did this happen?
00:25:03What time is it now?
00:25:056 what?
00:25:066.20.
00:25:08Where did it happen?
00:25:11Did you call the hospital?
00:25:13Are they sending an ambulance?
00:25:16Okay.
00:25:21Good morning, darling.
00:25:23Ed, I thought no one knew you were here.
00:25:27Where else would I go when I'm in trouble?
00:25:30Ed.
00:25:32Who slept here?
00:25:34It's time we had a talk, Ed.
00:25:36Not now, baby. I'm in a hurry.
00:25:38That call was urgent.
00:25:40Dinner tonight?
00:25:41Why not every night?
00:25:42You guys okay?
00:25:44Eight o'clock? I thought you were in a hurry.
00:25:47Did I have a pleasant time last night?
00:25:50Yes, dear.
00:25:51I did.
00:25:53Well, what do you know?
00:26:05I was making my round, sir.
00:26:07First, I didn't notice anything.
00:26:09Then I heard a kind of low moaning coming from the road down there.
00:26:11Well, good morning.
00:26:13Automobile accident, eh?
00:26:14No.
00:26:15Get him to the hospital.
00:26:16Name?
00:26:17I said get him to the hospital.
00:26:18Wait a minute.
00:26:19My name is Burroughs.
00:26:20My name is Burroughs.
00:26:21I work for the day.
00:26:22He runs it.
00:26:24Oh.
00:26:25Ben!
00:26:31They started banging me around when they got me in the car.
00:26:34How many were there?
00:26:35Three?
00:26:36Maybe four?
00:26:37Well, what was it?
00:26:38Three or four?
00:26:39I don't know.
00:26:41All right.
00:26:42They gave you a going over.
00:26:43What with?
00:26:45Fists.
00:26:46One of them hit me in the face with something hard.
00:26:48A sap, I guess.
00:26:49What did they say?
00:26:50Nothing.
00:26:51Not after they got me in the car.
00:26:52Before?
00:26:53Yes.
00:26:54Outside the Hall of Records.
00:26:55I told you.
00:26:56Tell me again.
00:26:57Please, sir.
00:26:58Shut up.
00:26:59The Hall of Records.
00:27:00She went there to check on Rienzi.
00:27:03George.
00:27:05The man I talked to must have tipped Rienzi.
00:27:08Yeah?
00:27:09How do you know?
00:27:10Left the office for a few minutes.
00:27:11Probably phoned.
00:27:12Probably, but you're not positive.
00:27:13No.
00:27:14I won't stand up in court.
00:27:15Well, how else were they waiting for me when I came out?
00:27:18Who was waiting?
00:27:19Rienzi's men.
00:27:20Did you identify them?
00:27:22One, maybe.
00:27:24Former boxer.
00:27:25Torpedo.
00:27:27Know his name?
00:27:29Whitey.
00:27:30I'm not sure Whitey something.
00:27:31If I brought him in, could you identify him?
00:27:33He asked me if I was Burroughs.
00:27:35He asked me if I worked for the day.
00:27:37What my car was it?
00:27:38I don't know.
00:27:39Sedan, blue, black, white.
00:27:40What are you trying to do?
00:27:41Protect Rienzi?
00:27:42I want facts that won't bounce.
00:27:44Facts that'll stand up against Rienzi's lawyers and libel suits.
00:27:47Facts that'll tear Rienzi's syndicate wide open.
00:27:50There just can't be any mistake.
00:27:52We can't have any retractions.
00:27:56George.
00:28:12How's it look?
00:28:13I'm afraid he may lose that eye.
00:28:18Mrs. Burroughs?
00:28:20Go away, Mr. Hutchison.
00:28:22Let us alone.
00:28:23Are you blaming me?
00:28:25Who sent him out?
00:28:26And for what?
00:28:28The great big fat glory of a newspaper?
00:28:31The paper you haven't even got anymore.
00:28:33Mr. Allen, one moment.
00:28:34The day.
00:28:35Good morning.
00:28:36One moment.
00:28:37Yes, sir.
00:28:38Put every man you can spare on the Rienzi story.
00:28:40Picture layout, the work.
00:28:41Where he gets his money, his high-up, data, facts, facts, and more facts.
00:28:43The tough thing is to prove the man.
00:28:44Prove them later.
00:28:45Charlie.
00:28:46Boy.
00:28:47City mortgage.
00:28:48This is Willebrand of the day.
00:28:49Any identification yet on that nude in the fur coat?
00:28:52Miss Barndoller.
00:28:53Relax.
00:28:54Ever heard of Rienzi?
00:28:55Okay, now.
00:28:56Rienzi Tomas, 51.
00:28:57Born Palermo, Sicily.
00:28:58Emigrated here, 1914.
00:28:59Attend a public school number 47.
00:29:00Has two children by legal wife Gertrude.
00:29:01We're not proposing him for the Chamber of Commerce.
00:29:02We want to convict him of every known crime in the books.
00:29:03All of which he is in the books.
00:29:04He's in the book.
00:29:05He's in the book.
00:29:06He's in the book.
00:29:07The book.
00:29:08The book.
00:29:09The book.
00:29:10The book.
00:29:11The book.
00:29:12The book.
00:29:13The book.
00:29:14The book.
00:29:15The book.
00:29:16The book.
00:29:17The book.
00:29:18The book.
00:29:19The book.
00:29:20The book.
00:29:21The book.
00:29:22The book.
00:29:23The book.
00:29:24I want everything.
00:29:25Yes, sir.
00:29:26I must have taken 20 shots of her as they were dragging her out of the river.
00:29:29That fur coat's worth five to six thousand dollars.
00:29:31Get your camera.
00:29:32Cover for her in the city hospital.
00:29:34George.
00:29:35Oh, George.
00:29:36That's right.
00:29:37You take Rienzi.
00:29:38His wife home, cars, everything.
00:29:39What if he smashes the camera?
00:29:40He's done it before.
00:29:41Let him.
00:29:42You get pictures of him doing it.
00:29:44Go ahead.
00:29:45Bill.
00:29:47Bill, I want a cartoon on Rienzi.
00:29:49It's got to be hard, tough, below the belt.
00:29:52The vulture is sucking the life out of the city.
00:29:54You got it?
00:29:55But a vulture only preys on the dead or the dying.
00:29:58Preys.
00:29:59Here's your caption.
00:30:00Let us pray.
00:30:01P-R-E-Y.
00:30:02Paper.
00:30:03The paper.
00:30:04Why should I stick my neck out?
00:30:05I want it for the first edition.
00:30:06I don't like the idea.
00:30:07I get in a jam with Rienzi and tomorrow the paper folds anyway.
00:30:09Where does that leave me?
00:30:10You're fired.
00:30:11Wait a minute.
00:30:12Clam off and get him out of here.
00:30:13Why the excitement?
00:30:14Everybody knows we're washed up.
00:30:15That's your mistake.
00:30:16But I worked here four years.
00:30:17That's my mistake.
00:30:18Say that.
00:30:19Get you about to.
00:30:20Miss Bentley, get your stenotype in there.
00:30:21Get Dr. Emanuel on the phone.
00:30:22Go $500 out of my bank and get it over to Burroughs' wife.
00:30:25Mr. Bellamy here's been waiting.
00:30:26Oh, yeah.
00:30:27Rewrite desk.
00:30:28Lobster ship.
00:30:29What's the lobster ship?
00:30:30After midnight, we circled out.
00:30:31Thermador naturally.
00:30:32Uh...
00:30:33Paid one at a time.
00:30:34Oh.
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00:31:18Oh.
00:31:19Oh.
00:31:20Oh.
00:31:21Oh.
00:31:22Oh.
00:31:23will continue to report the facts and the meaning of those facts
00:31:27without fear, without distortion,
00:31:31without hope of personal gain, as it always has done.
00:31:37Yes?
00:31:38Dr. Emanuel on two.
00:31:42Oh, hello, doctor.
00:31:44No, no, no, no, I'm fine.
00:31:47Yeah, I want to ask you a favor.
00:31:50A personal friend of mine needs your help.
00:31:53Yeah, he's in the city hospital.
00:31:55Name is Burroughs, George Burroughs.
00:31:58What?
00:32:00What is more important, doctor?
00:32:02You're delivering a lecture in London or saving a man's eyesight.
00:32:07Well, cancel it.
00:32:08Well, then delay it.
00:32:11We weren't too busy to raise funds for your clinic.
00:32:14Well, certainly I'm putting it on a personal basis.
00:32:16What's a friend for it, not for a favor?
00:32:20A real humanitarian.
00:32:25Well, where was I?
00:32:29We'll continue to report the facts and the meaning of those facts.
00:32:33Oh, that sentence is too long.
00:32:35Break it down.
00:32:36Change the word distortion.
00:32:37Somebody mightn't know what it means.
00:32:39Okay?
00:32:41Paragraph.
00:32:42Quote.
00:32:42What are the facts?
00:32:47Lianzi stuffs your ballot boxes.
00:32:49All right.
00:33:12Hey.
00:33:12If there's anything, I'll save the paper. This is it.
00:33:32You see the paper yet?
00:33:35Who's responsible?
00:33:37Obviously, Hutchison.
00:33:39Hutchison?
00:33:41We'll talk to him.
00:33:42Why can't you?
00:33:49I want to meet him personally.
00:33:53Why not?
00:33:58Everybody can be reached.
00:34:00Remember, Judge?
00:34:03Give me a three-column leave, a two-line bank on that raid.
00:34:08Evening, Mr. White.
00:34:09Did you see this spread on Rienzi in the day?
00:34:11Yes, sir.
00:34:12What have you done about it for our paper?
00:34:14Done, sir? A reporter gets into a barroom brawl.
00:34:16They say it was Rienzi.
00:34:17But can they prove it?
00:34:18Prove it?
00:34:19Front page editorials, flashy cartoons.
00:34:21Why, it's old-fashioned, Mr. White.
00:34:23And what's so ultra-modern about this horse in our paper?
00:34:27Then give me some old-fashioned journalism in the standard.
00:34:29Yes, sir.
00:34:30Yes, sir.
00:34:30Give me the city hospital.
00:34:37Sorry, I'm late.
00:34:39You like it?
00:34:40It's the best-looking front page in town.
00:34:42As usual.
00:34:43The make-up, the cartoon, the editorial under the name of Garrison, yours.
00:34:49It's wonderful.
00:34:50As usual.
00:34:51How are we?
00:34:53Are we as usual?
00:34:54Maybe the heirs will sit up and take notice.
00:34:57Of us?
00:34:58They won't sell the paper.
00:34:59Not now.
00:35:00Not in the middle of a fight like this.
00:35:01It'd be like endorsing Rienzi.
00:35:03It's a wonderful dress for dinner.
00:35:05You look much better than you did last night.
00:35:07How do you feel?
00:35:09Amorous.
00:35:09Good evening, Mrs. Hutchison.
00:35:11Good evening.
00:35:11Mr. Hutchison, your table's ready, sir.
00:35:13Will you order now?
00:35:14An appetizer first, perhaps?
00:35:15Oh, no, thank you.
00:35:17I have mine.
00:35:18I'll just steak for me.
00:35:20Telephone, Mr. Hutchison.
00:35:21Tell him I'm feeding.
00:35:23They said it's important.
00:35:25Urgent, dear.
00:35:26As usual.
00:35:32Keep calling her, Mrs. Hutchison.
00:35:34Yes, sir.
00:35:35Mrs. Hutchison.
00:35:39Yes?
00:35:42This is Willebrand.
00:35:43I'm at the city morgue.
00:35:44The place where little girls check their fur coats.
00:35:48The dead nude?
00:35:49What about her?
00:35:50Well, her mother showed up to identify this afternoon as a Mrs. Schmidt.
00:35:55That's the girl's name, Bessie Schmidt.
00:35:57But she also used the name Sally Gardner.
00:36:01Why bother me?
00:36:02Write it.
00:36:03Well, what I wanted to know was this.
00:36:05Now, Alan said he thought I ought to check with you first, but, um, this Mrs. Schmidt knows a lot more than she's telling.
00:36:16No.
00:36:18No, but I thought maybe if you talked to her, you could get...
00:36:20Let's not be dramatic, Mrs. Willebrand.
00:36:23No, no, no, I can't.
00:36:23You handle it.
00:36:24Your name's Fifi.
00:36:39She made a pass at me in the cloakroom.
00:36:40It's a way I have with women.
00:36:45I'm getting married again, Ed.
00:36:46That's right. I'm giving it to you straight and fast.
00:36:56You don't know the man. He's my boss at the advertising agency.
00:37:01First me, now another boss.
00:37:03It's getting to be a habit with you, isn't it?
00:37:05I'd like you to meet him.
00:37:07Compare notes, you mean?
00:37:08Thanks. I know enough people already.
00:37:10His name is Louis Chave.
00:37:11I don't want to know anything about him.
00:37:13I told him all about you.
00:37:14Everything.
00:37:16Sit down.
00:37:19I'm not one of your modern husbands, chin-up, stiff upper lip and all that sort of stuff.
00:37:23Always ready to discuss things sensibly.
00:37:25There isn't anything to discuss. I don't need your consent.
00:37:29We're divorced. Have been for two years.
00:37:30I don't recognize a divorce.
00:37:31You agreed to it.
00:37:32I was wrong. You're my wife.
00:37:35Not only because somebody said a few words over us, but because of all we meant to each other for eight years.
00:37:40You can't change all that with more words, legal or otherwise.
00:37:44They want you on the telephone, Mr. Hutchison.
00:37:45No way.
00:37:47You want me to quit the paper, okay? I'll get another job.
00:37:50Something...
00:37:50I want you to quit, Eddie.
00:37:51I have to go back today.
00:37:52Tomorrow it's over.
00:37:53It's right that you should go back.
00:37:56It's where you belong.
00:37:57You're the best newspaper man in the world.
00:37:59I don't want to change that.
00:38:02I never did.
00:38:03It's your whole life, and for you it's right.
00:38:06But I've got to write it to a life, too, and you can't give it to me.
00:38:11Can he?
00:38:13Maybe.
00:38:13Can you be the same with him as you were with me?
00:38:18Is it that easy?
00:38:22Do you love him?
00:38:25No, you don't.
00:38:27Not the same way.
00:38:29Maybe love isn't enough to make a marriage work.
00:38:32Please, Mr. Hutchison, I'm sorry to bother you again, but it's your office.
00:38:39Mr. Allen, he said if you won't come to the phone, then to come back to the paper.
00:38:44I'm sorry, sir.
00:38:45I'm sorry.
00:39:01Yes?
00:39:04What?
00:39:06Yanked what story?
00:39:08Willebrand's story on Sally Gardner.
00:39:12Well, it was pulled by our advertising department.
00:39:15It seems Mr. Andrew Wharton, president of Wharton's department store, was Sally's caviar picking.
00:39:23Right.
00:39:25Right.
00:39:27Composing room.
00:39:29One column head, one bank on this weather report.
00:39:31Yeah.
00:39:32Jake, I'm Willebrand's story, Sally Gardner.
00:39:35Yeah.
00:39:37Hold it, but don't kill it.
00:39:45Do you worry about every story in our paper, Mr. Fenway?
00:39:53It just seemed to me this was libelous material.
00:39:55We've got over a hundred stories in this issue.
00:39:57Check them all for libel?
00:39:58No, sir.
00:39:59Or any of them?
00:39:59No, sir.
00:40:00I see.
00:40:01You're a self-appointed censor only on stories involving big advertisers.
00:40:04I was trying to protect us.
00:40:06Us or you or Mr. Wharton?
00:40:07And for how much?
00:40:08He denies this story.
00:40:09Willebrand included his denial.
00:40:10When they're on, it's up to the police.
00:40:11I thought as a matter of policy that...
00:40:13Policy?
00:40:14Since when has the advertising department of this paper dictated its policy on news?
00:40:18I didn't act on my own.
00:40:20No, you haven't got the guts.
00:40:21So you went to Wharton.
00:40:23Run the story.
00:40:24I talked to Alice Garrison.
00:40:25Mr. Wharton came here.
00:40:26We phoned her.
00:40:27It was on her authority.
00:40:27She hasn't got the authority.
00:40:29Not until I'm out of here.
00:40:30Why, have you arranged for that, too?
00:40:33No, sir.
00:40:34It was slipping.
00:40:36Will you talk to Mr. Wharton?
00:40:37He's waiting right in here.
00:40:38Mr. Wharton, this is Mr. Hutchison.
00:40:43How do you do, sir?
00:40:46May I give you my side of it?
00:40:48I'll take care of this.
00:40:53Please don't publish that story.
00:40:55Why?
00:40:55Isn't it true?
00:40:56It can't do you much good, and it'll ruin me and hurt my family.
00:41:00I've been doing business with your paper for 20 years.
00:41:04You're a big advertiser, Mr. Wharton.
00:41:05We need your business, but not on those terms.
00:41:07All right.
00:41:08I made a mistake with Sally.
00:41:10But that was 10 years ago, and I've paid for it in blackmail every month.
00:41:14I'm sorry, Mr. Wharton.
00:41:15This is a matter for the police.
00:41:17You are interested in facts, aren't you?
00:41:21One day, Sally phoned.
00:41:23She was quitting her job at the store.
00:41:25She was letting me off the hook.
00:41:28She said there was another man.
00:41:30Another man there always is.
00:41:31In this case, the man was Tomas Rienci.
00:41:34Sally said she loved him.
00:41:36Would never bother me again.
00:41:37She even sent back some damaging photographs of us.
00:41:43She said she was set for life.
00:41:44What does she mean by that?
00:41:45She didn't say.
00:41:49Surely you don't think I killed Sally.
00:41:50I haven't seen her in over two years.
00:41:52Mrs. Wharton knew about Sally.
00:41:54She suggested that I talk to you.
00:41:56Your paper forced me to come here,
00:41:57but now that I'm here,
00:41:59I don't know who...
00:42:01Wharton,
00:42:02you can tell your wife I'm holding the story.
00:42:05Thank you, sir.
00:42:06But if that yarn about Rienci doesn't gel...
00:42:08It will.
00:42:09It's better for both eyes' sakes.
00:42:13Jim.
00:42:14Later, dear.
00:42:15What have you got on Sally Gardner?
00:42:18The furry blonde?
00:42:19Uh-huh.
00:42:19She was abroad.
00:42:21Yeah, for who?
00:42:22Since when do you go in for gossip?
00:42:24Since now.
00:42:30Jim,
00:42:30was Rienci playing around with Sally?
00:42:34What do you want?
00:42:35Proof.
00:42:36I want to be sure.
00:42:37From this, a fellow could catch a hole in the head.
00:42:40Yeah, he could.
00:42:42That bother you?
00:42:43Oh, no.
00:42:43No, no, no.
00:42:55Harry.
00:42:58You ever hear of Herman Schmidt?
00:43:00Small-time stuff.
00:43:01Had some kind of a political job at the arena.
00:43:03Boxing judge, I think.
00:43:05Oh, yeah, I got him now.
00:43:06Brother of Sally Gardner.
00:43:09Sally may have been tied in with Rienci.
00:43:11I know one thing.
00:43:12Rienci's tied in with the boxing commission.
00:43:16Now.
00:43:18Get a hold of Schmidt.
00:43:19Sweat him.
00:43:20About his job?
00:43:21No, about Sally.
00:43:23Boy.
00:43:24Here's Willebrand's copy.
00:43:25All we've got on Sally is she was once a bathing beauty.
00:43:29One thing it's short on is time.
00:43:31Sally and her brother were born here.
00:43:34Her mother came from Germany.
00:43:35Father dead.
00:43:37No known criminal record for Sally.
00:43:39No recorded marriages.
00:43:43Yes?
00:43:44Mr. Lewis Schaefer to see you.
00:43:45Yes, sir.
00:43:46Yes, sir.
00:43:46Yes, sir.
00:43:47Relax.
00:43:47If Lugerman's closed the financial page, ask him to come in.
00:43:48Yes, sir.
00:43:57Happy to meet you, Mr. Hutchinson.
00:43:59Yeah.
00:44:00Have those pictures?
00:44:01All right, here.
00:44:02Put them up here, chronologically.
00:44:03Sit down, Mr. Schaefer.
00:44:04Thank you, but what I have...
00:44:05There's a space for the missing period between Wharton and Rienci.
00:44:06Yes, sir.
00:44:07Coffee, Mr. Schaefer?
00:44:08Sandwich?
00:44:09No, thanks.
00:44:10I didn't mean to interrupt your work.
00:44:11How's my wife?
00:44:12That's what I want to say.
00:44:13Yes, sir.
00:44:14Yes, sir.
00:44:15Yes, sir.
00:44:16Yes, sir.
00:44:17Yes, sir.
00:44:18Yes, sir.
00:44:19Yes, sir.
00:44:20Yes, sir.
00:44:21Yes, sir.
00:44:22Yes, sir.
00:44:23Yes, sir.
00:44:24Yes, sir.
00:44:25Yes, sir.
00:44:26Yes, sir.
00:44:27How's my wife?
00:44:28That's what I came to see you about.
00:44:30Shoot.
00:44:31Well...
00:44:32Nora asked you to come?
00:44:33Well, of course not.
00:44:34I thought that we could...
00:44:36Well, this is rather personal, Mr. Hutchinson.
00:44:39Inasmuch as it concerns my wife, I hope it's not too personal.
00:44:43You're making her very unhappy.
00:44:45Want me?
00:44:46Oh, look a minute.
00:44:47I want to report on all Rienci's investments, legit and otherwise, dummy corporations, everything,
00:44:52real estate, manufacturing investments, whatever you can dig up.
00:44:55You got a starting point?
00:44:56Try the tax reports.
00:44:58Charlie and the governor's office might give you a hand.
00:44:59Right.
00:45:00Make it thorough.
00:45:05So I'm making her unhappy, Mr. Schaefer.
00:45:08Let her alone.
00:45:09You're confusing her, making her feel guilty.
00:45:11Her responsibility to you is over.
00:45:13Well, then why are you here?
00:45:14I'm only trying to do what's best for Nora.
00:45:16Well, that's not only ridiculous, but insulting.
00:45:18You're not that much of a pride.
00:45:20Ed, here's the...
00:45:21Oh, excuse me.
00:45:22What have you got?
00:45:24Sally bought some government bonds.
00:45:25When?
00:45:26Five months ago.
00:45:27Sally or Rienci?
00:45:28In her name.
00:45:2940,000 worth.
00:45:30And it took some doing at this hour, but we've got a checkup working in every bank for savings accounts.
00:45:34Safety deposit boxes?
00:45:35That too.
00:45:36That's all we've got.
00:45:37Okay.
00:45:38Look here, Frank.
00:45:39Sally's a high school girl, model for Wharton's department store, showgirl, kept girl.
00:45:45Missing portion, the river.
00:45:48Now, if we can plug up this hole between Wharton's department store and the river, fill it up with Rienzi.
00:45:55Goodbye, Mr. Schaefer.
00:45:56I can't wish you good luck.
00:45:57You know how it is.
00:45:58There's something you ought to know, Mr. Hutchison.
00:46:00Yes?
00:46:01Jim Cleary on one.
00:46:02Yes, Jim.
00:46:03Nora and I are getting married tomorrow night.
00:46:06Yes, yes.
00:46:09I thought it best not to delay any longer.
00:46:12You know how it is.
00:46:16Yes, yes.
00:46:17Go ahead.
00:46:18Here it is.
00:46:19Just what you've been looking for.
00:46:20Yeah.
00:46:21Rienzi's your boy, all right.
00:46:29Frank.
00:46:30Oh, it's the only show Rienzi backed.
00:46:31He insisted Sally be in it.
00:46:33I'm with Al Murray now.
00:46:35He says Rienzi used to send a car around for her every night after the show.
00:46:40Hold it.
00:46:41Switch this call to rewrite.
00:46:43You hear that, Cleary?
00:46:44Yes.
00:46:45Okay.
00:46:46Oh, Frank.
00:46:48On the Willebrandt story, kill the part about Wharton.
00:46:51Use Cleary's story for a lead-all.
00:46:53Throw in Sally's face.
00:46:55No nudity.
00:46:56Miss Bondollar.
00:46:57Yes, sir.
00:46:58I want a complete check on Lewis Schaeffer, runs the United Advertising Agency.
00:47:11Schaeffer.
00:47:12Yes, sir.
00:47:13Yes, sir.
00:47:14Anything from Thompson yet?
00:47:15No, sir.
00:47:16Hold it.
00:47:17I forgot you.
00:47:18You...
00:47:19Mr. Schmidt.
00:47:21Mr. Schmidt.
00:47:23Mr. Schmidt.
00:47:33Mr. Schmidt.
00:47:38Don't move.
00:47:39I just want...
00:47:40Shut up.
00:47:41Take your hat off.
00:47:55Sit down.
00:47:56No, over there.
00:47:58Put your hands on the table.
00:48:13Relax, Herman.
00:48:14I'm here to help you.
00:48:16Who's with you?
00:48:17Nobody.
00:48:20What's the pitch?
00:48:22My name is Thompson, reporter, sports, for the day of...
00:48:25Don't do that!
00:48:27Sports, huh?
00:48:30Sports, huh?
00:48:35What'd you write today?
00:48:42The question of televising next season's baseball games was discussed at a heated session of the Hot Stove League yesterday.
00:48:54What do you want?
00:48:56Would you mind putting that thing away?
00:48:58How did you find me?
00:49:01You know a lot of people in the fight game.
00:49:03They owe me favors.
00:49:04I collected a few.
00:49:06All right.
00:49:07Get to it.
00:49:08Why did Rienzi kill your sister?
00:49:15Did he?
00:49:17Then who are you afraid of, Herman?
00:49:19Why the hideout?
00:49:20That won't get you anywhere.
00:49:21I phoned your address into the paper.
00:49:22They know I'm here.
00:49:23By the next edition, Rienzi will know where you are.
00:49:28We're your only chance, Herman.
00:49:29Let me take you to the paper and you'll be safe.
00:49:30Sooner or later, Rienzi will get to you and you'll wind up in the morgue beside Sally.
00:49:35As long as Rienzi is free, you're a dead pigeon.
00:49:42Take your time.
00:49:43Rienzi won't get his copy of the day with your address until morning.
00:49:49Rienzi won't get his copy of the day with your address until morning.
00:50:19I have carefully read the last will and testament of the deceased, John Garrison.
00:50:28I find nothing therein to prevent the sale of the publication enterprises known as the
00:50:33day.
00:50:34Your Honor, Mrs. Garrison, wife of the deceased and one of the heirs, would like to address
00:50:38the court.
00:50:39Mrs. Garrison?
00:50:42Sir, I object to the sale of this paper to Mr. White.
00:50:45Your Honor, if Mrs. Garrison has agreed...
00:50:48...but this request for sale was signed by you, Mrs. Garrison.
00:50:51I've changed my mind.
00:50:52Mrs. Garrison's daughters have not and they constitute a majority.
00:50:55My husband would not have wished this paper to be sold to Mr. White.
00:50:59How do you know?
00:51:00Your Honor, I object to cross-examination until the witness has completed her statement.
00:51:05You knew the paper was being sold to Mr. White.
00:51:07But I did not know it was going to be rubbed out of existence, which it will be if this
00:51:12contract is approved.
00:51:13What happens to this newspaper after it has been sold is of absolutely no concern here.
00:51:17Is Mr. Crane the lawyer and the judge?
00:51:20This is a cheap display of sensational conspiracy.
00:51:23Would the other heirs care to reconsider?
00:51:25No, sir.
00:51:26Would it be all right, Mr. Crane, if they answered for themselves?
00:51:32Yes, sir.
00:51:33Yes, sir.
00:51:34Yes, sir.
00:51:35In that case, the paper may be sold.
00:51:39Then I'll buy it.
00:51:40The contract already exists.
00:51:41But, Your Honor, Mrs. Garrison has priority of purchase.
00:51:43I'll raise Mr. White's offer.
00:51:44Your Honor, I cannot see that my client's interest to be...
00:51:45Why don't you actually object to my daughter's receiving more money?
00:51:46That's what they're selling out for, isn't it?
00:51:47Money?
00:51:48Will the counsel kindly step up here?
00:51:49You can't do this.
00:51:50I can.
00:51:51I want to, and I'm going to.
00:51:52What good will it do?
00:51:53You'll be happy to know the stupidity is not already a good deal.
00:51:54In that case, the paper may be sold.
00:51:55Then I'll buy it.
00:51:56The contract already exists.
00:51:57But, Your Honor, Mrs. Garrison has priority of purchase.
00:51:59I'll raise Mr. White's offer.
00:52:01Your Honor, I cannot see that my client's interest to be...
00:52:03Why don't you actually object to my daughter's receiving more money?
00:52:06That's what they're selling out for, isn't it?
00:52:07Money?
00:52:08Will the counsel kindly step up here?
00:52:13You can't do this.
00:52:15I can, I want to, and I'm going to.
00:52:17What good will it do?
00:52:19You'll be happy to know the stupidity is not hereditary.
00:52:22You've acquired it all by yourselves.
00:52:24You're making us sound like fools.
00:52:26Well...
00:52:27What changed your mind?
00:52:29Have you seen today's paper and yesterday's?
00:52:32Loyalty changed my mind.
00:52:34A principle evidently lacking in the present generation.
00:52:37You haven't got the money to buy the paper.
00:52:40I'll get it.
00:52:41You're crazy.
00:52:42No, just ashamed.
00:52:45Ashamed for me, and for you, and for your father.
00:52:48I'm not going to let this paper die.
00:52:51That makes me crazy.
00:52:53I'm good and crazy.
00:52:56All right.
00:53:00I shall require time to consider Mrs. Garrison's request.
00:53:04Counsel will be notified when this court will reconvene.
00:53:08Sir.
00:53:09Mr. White.
00:53:10Any delay, even 24 hours, will wreck the value of the day.
00:53:15People will not buy a dying paper nor advertise in it.
00:53:19Now the staff of the day will become demoralized.
00:53:22No newspaper can function under this handicap.
00:53:25Thank you, Mr. White.
00:53:27No newspaper will be the suspect.
00:53:28It's not the case of the day.
00:53:30I'm not my fault.
00:53:31No newspaper.
00:53:32However, I must reserve decision.
00:53:33But if the current high standard of journalism in the day slackens, or any act of neglect threatens the well being of this newspaper,
00:53:38I shall be forced to make an immediate decision, based upon the current contract.
00:53:42I shall be forced to make an immediate decision based upon the current contract.
00:53:53Mr. Hutcherson, my name is Hanson.
00:53:54Yes.
00:53:55I'm Mr. Yancey's lawyer.
00:53:57He's waiting to see you in his car.
00:53:59Why?
00:54:00It's personal business.
00:54:02A ride?
00:54:04No, sir, a drive.
00:54:12How do you do, Mr. Hutcherson?
00:54:21Did I give you a lift someplace?
00:54:23Why?
00:54:24I'm the sociable type.
00:54:26They're expecting me at my office.
00:54:29Okay, Lippy.
00:54:31Okay what?
00:54:33Just okay.
00:54:34I wondered when and how you'd get around to this.
00:54:37Yeah?
00:54:38Yeah, I expected something a little more poetic.
00:54:40Drink.
00:54:41Drink?
00:54:42Nice.
00:54:44Oh, now that's rather poetic.
00:54:46Will it be?
00:54:47Nothing.
00:54:48Not a drinker, man?
00:54:49Not in an armored car.
00:54:52I think I like you.
00:54:54Why?
00:54:56Imagination.
00:54:57I like a man with imagination.
00:54:59You're a good newspaper man, they say.
00:55:01Not bad as your trade, either.
00:55:03You got two Pulitzer prizes, they say.
00:55:05Are they weight much?
00:55:06Cash, about $500 a piece.
00:55:08Your kind of imagination is weight more.
00:55:11I agree.
00:55:13But you're a hothead, they say.
00:55:15Who's they?
00:55:16Friends.
00:55:18I got friends everywhere.
00:55:20I'd like for you to be my friend.
00:55:22I got a friend.
00:55:23Not like me.
00:55:25Is that a proposal or a proposition?
00:55:27What do you got against me?
00:55:29You're not my type.
00:55:31You ever meet me before?
00:55:32Do business with me?
00:55:35Maybe you got the wrong impression of me.
00:55:37What kind of an impression would you like me to have?
00:55:42My family reads a paper.
00:55:46It's not nice what you print.
00:55:49I got a nice family.
00:55:51Sometime I'd like for you to meet them.
00:55:53No point in that, unless they're the ones that almost killed Burroughs.
00:55:57Burroughs?
00:55:58Never beat up a reporter, they say.
00:56:00It's like killing a cop on duty, they say.
00:56:03Never drop girls in the river, clothed or unclothed, they say.
00:56:07What have I got to do with reporters or girls?
00:56:10I'm in the cement and contracting business.
00:56:12Capone was in the insurance business.
00:56:13You got a sense of humor, friend.
00:56:15Why don't you laugh?
00:56:16Very funny.
00:56:17Tomorrow's newspaper will be even funnier.
00:56:19That's the Rianzi I like to see.
00:56:28This way you start shooting?
00:56:29What are you supposed to be, a little tin guard?
00:56:32You gonna save the world, a hero or something?
00:56:35There's only one kind of martyr, friend.
00:56:37Dead ones.
00:56:38Show me a martyr, I'll lay you four to one he winds up out of the money.
00:56:42My lawyer says I can sue you for this.
00:56:45Well?
00:56:45What you're trying to do has been tried before.
00:56:49Nobody could ever make it stick.
00:56:51In that case, you got nothing to worry about.
00:57:02Thanks for the lift.
00:57:04I can't say I enjoyed it.
00:57:06Cops, tax collectors, politicians, citizens' committees, they all got an angle.
00:57:10What's yours?
00:57:11Name it.
00:57:11What do you want?
00:57:12My prizes await more than Pulitzer's.
00:57:14I know.
00:57:15I got a look at Sally's fur coat.
00:57:23Wasn't that Hermit Schmidt just went in?
00:57:26Yeah.
00:57:38Okay.
00:57:40From the beginning.
00:57:41First, see the money.
00:57:42He said you'd pay for the story.
00:57:49Five grand.
00:57:54One thousand dollars.
00:57:55How far would that get me?
00:57:56Out of the country after you testify against Rianzi, yes or no?
00:58:00Well, he said you'd protect me.
00:58:02Well, these days, accommodations in jail are hard to get.
00:58:05However, I'll use my influence.
00:58:09Well?
00:58:11All right.
00:58:12Get some sleep and on your way out, have them send in a thousand dollars.
00:58:16In cash.
00:58:17In cash.
00:58:18In cash.
00:58:19In cash.
00:58:22Okay.
00:58:23You've got the floor.
00:58:29Where do you want me to start?
00:58:31Sally and Rianzi.
00:58:33Well, they liked each other.
00:58:35Liked?
00:58:36Well, you know.
00:58:38Rianzi pay her bills.
00:58:41What else?
00:58:42For everything.
00:58:45She was worth it.
00:58:46That's what I like.
00:58:47Family pride.
00:58:49Hey, Rianzi kicked in for the apartment.
00:58:51Her fur coat, some cheap jewelry.
00:58:52Maybe her car, too.
00:58:55But Sally bought $40,000 worth of government bonds in her name.
00:59:00Rianzi pay for that?
00:59:01I guess so.
00:59:04You're a liar.
00:59:06Sally used the $200,000.
00:59:08Rianzi gave it a hold for him.
00:59:09What?
00:59:10$200,000.
00:59:11Why would a guy part with that kind of scratch?
00:59:13Hot money.
00:59:14The city bank says your sister rented a safety deposit box.
00:59:16She gave it up a month ago.
00:59:17On the same day she moved out of her apartment.
00:59:19Why?
00:59:23All right.
00:59:23It's true.
00:59:24He gave her the money to keep for her.
00:59:26When he wanted it back, she was scared he'd make a break.
00:59:30She said as long as she kept the cash.
00:59:31She didn't work out that way.
00:59:42I don't feel so good.
00:59:51Have this tight.
00:59:52More coming.
00:59:53Yes, sir.
00:59:53Miss Garrison wants to see you in the dome.
00:59:55Oh, stall her.
00:59:56Here's that $1,000 you wanted.
00:59:57Uh-huh.
00:59:58Oh, Al.
01:00:02Get your camera in there.
01:00:04Are you married, honey?
01:00:05Unless I'm married.
01:00:07Later, baby.
01:00:08Get a hold of the governor.
01:00:09Ask him if he'll appoint a special grand jury to investigate the last election.
01:00:13Some of the names will come up.
01:00:15We supported a few for office.
01:00:17This paper has no political party.
01:00:18We support men for office.
01:00:19Some good, some bad.
01:00:21Mr. Hutchison, Mr. Willebrand's on here.
01:00:23If the governor won't act, get the chairman of the state senate committee.
01:00:28Yes?
01:00:29Hutchison.
01:00:32Oh, hold it.
01:00:34Now, go ahead, Willebrand.
01:00:37Sally.
01:00:38When did you find out Sally was dead?
01:00:47Well, I read about it in the paper.
01:00:50She was dead three days before the papers got it.
01:00:52Your mother says you left the house last Saturday and didn't come back.
01:00:54Sally was killed that same night.
01:00:55So what?
01:00:55I leave the house lots of times for weeks sometimes.
01:00:58But not to hide out.
01:00:59You were afraid of Rienzie.
01:01:00Why?
01:01:01You knew he was going to Sally's place last Saturday.
01:01:03I didn't even know where she lived.
01:01:04Hold it.
01:01:05Shoot.
01:01:08Sally was moved from her apartment on Maple Avenue
01:01:11for the inner-city storage company four weeks ago.
01:01:15The Leroy Hotel, registered under the name of Bessie Schmidt.
01:01:19Never left her room.
01:01:20She had only two visitors, your mother and you.
01:01:24You were there Saturday night.
01:01:26Well, I don't remember.
01:01:27Maybe I was.
01:01:28Why did you go there?
01:01:29Well, I, uh...
01:01:31She phoned me.
01:01:34Yeah, that's right.
01:01:35She phoned me.
01:01:36The desk clerk says you phoned her from the desk.
01:01:381.30 a.m.
01:01:40He could be wrong.
01:01:44Yeah.
01:01:45That's right.
01:01:47Somewhere out there, Rienzie's waiting for you.
01:01:51Either you tell the truth or I'll turn you loose.
01:01:53No money, no protection.
01:01:58Okay.
01:01:59Throw him out.
01:02:02Wait.
01:02:06Rienzie wanted his money.
01:02:08They couldn't find out where she was living.
01:02:10So you showed him.
01:02:11Why'd you do it?
01:02:12What did Rienzie promise?
01:02:13Well, he got me my job.
01:02:16I owed him some money.
01:02:17I couldn't pay him.
01:02:19He said the favor with squares.
01:02:20All you had to do was put the finger on your own sister.
01:02:24I didn't know what they were going to do.
01:02:26I swear.
01:02:27Who went with you, Rienzie?
01:02:29I went along.
01:02:29So she wouldn't be afraid to let you in.
01:02:31They came later.
01:02:32All you did was open the door for them.
01:02:34That's all.
01:02:34Who's they?
01:02:36Lefty Smith, Whitey Franks, and Kid Jones.
01:02:38They belong to Rienzie?
01:02:39Except Whitey.
01:02:40He hired his aunt.
01:02:40You let him in, then what?
01:02:42Well, they asked her for the money.
01:02:45She wouldn't give.
01:02:47So Whitey, he hit her.
01:02:49Then Lefty.
01:02:52She began to scream.
01:02:54She hollered for me to help her.
01:02:58And Whitey, he shut her up.
01:03:02I got scared.
01:03:04I couldn't watch what they were doing.
01:03:06I ran into the bathroom.
01:03:09I beat it out of there.
01:03:11That's all I know.
01:03:13Honest.
01:03:14Yes?
01:03:15Mrs. Garrison's still waiting.
01:03:16One left the other.
01:03:18I'll be right up.
01:03:20The word was out.
01:03:21Rienzie wanted me.
01:03:23They was afraid I was going to sing.
01:03:26If I stay for the trial, they'll get to me.
01:03:28You don't know them.
01:03:29In jail.
01:03:30No matter where or anywhere.
01:03:31Have them sign it.
01:03:32You won't have time to get this all in the bulldog.
01:03:34We'll get the text of the statement in the second edition.
01:03:36Count it.
01:03:37Count it.
01:03:39And have this office fumigated.
01:03:41Mr. Hutchinson, about Lewis Schaefer.
01:03:53Oh, yes.
01:03:53On that information you requested.
01:03:55Uh-huh.
01:03:55Lewis Schaefer, age 42, born Baltimore.
01:03:58Only child of John and Harriet Schaefer of a chemical fortune.
01:04:02Was he ever married before?
01:04:04No, sir.
01:04:04Ever get pinched?
01:04:06Was he ever arrested?
01:04:07No record, if he was.
01:04:08Alcoholic?
01:04:09Swindler?
01:04:11Maybe he's a fiend.
01:04:13You know, he looked like one.
01:04:14Check his army record.
01:04:16Maybe he's a spy.
01:04:17Got the silver star and the purple heart.
01:04:19That's a rotten report.
01:04:23Yes, sir.
01:04:24Eddie, two things.
01:04:27Rianzi started his libel suit.
01:04:28He was over the papers half an hour ago.
01:04:31Second.
01:04:32Judge McHale's going to hand down his decision tonight at nine.
01:04:34Because the libel suit?
01:04:35We'll be ready for him.
01:04:37And another thing.
01:04:38That one percent you were promised when we sold the paper.
01:04:41Well, Alice and Kitty have withdrawn it.
01:04:43What took them so long?
01:04:45You were wonderful today, baby.
01:04:47Oh, Mr. Blake and Mr. Green, this is Mr. Hutchinson.
01:04:49How do you do?
01:04:50How do you do, sir?
01:04:51Their banking firm has offered to lend us the extra money to meet Mr. White's offer.
01:04:55Pending a few facts, of course.
01:04:57Of course.
01:04:58Try to remember Rianzi's exact words when he asked you to bring the three hoods to Sally's hotel room.
01:05:04We can get that.
01:05:06We've got a warrant here for Herman Schmidt.
01:05:09We're not finished yet.
01:05:10We want him to sign the statement.
01:05:11It'll only take a few minutes.
01:05:12Come along, Schmidt.
01:05:13You've got no right to take statements.
01:05:15As long as it's not a police state we have.
01:05:16Sorry.
01:05:16You've got no right to see the public.
01:05:21Whitey.
01:05:22Shut up.
01:05:23Take him out the back.
01:05:24Wait on.
01:05:25I didn't tell him anything.
01:05:30Whitey, I didn't tell him anything.
01:05:34And that doesn't include the higher cost of newsprint.
01:05:37How's that?
01:05:39It keeps going up.
01:05:40Right now it's $110 a ton.
01:05:42In 1942 it was $50 a ton.
01:05:44It takes talent to get the news, think it through, write it, and back it up with research.
01:05:48Without good reporting you haven't got a paper.
01:05:51That extra 4% might make it a dangerous venture.
01:05:55A free presser like a free life is always in danger.
01:05:58That's why I came to hear me out of you.
01:06:00I know you're somebody.
01:06:03You can't listen.
01:06:04You've got to wait me to do anything.
01:06:05You son of a son.
01:06:06No, you can't believe me.
01:06:08I got money.
01:06:09Come here, come here!
01:06:39I like the proposition.
01:06:42Barring unforeseen complications, I think we...
01:06:45Ed, it's for you.
01:06:49Yeah?
01:07:09Give him a description of what that so-called police look like.
01:07:20Yes, Captain.
01:07:23When's the press gonna grow up and stop playing detective?
01:07:27Can't you tell the difference between a hoodlum and a cop?
01:07:29In this town?
01:07:31Yes, sir.
01:07:32Captain.
01:07:36Is that the address?
01:07:38I'll see the Miss Garrison gets home all right.
01:07:40What about Schmidt's confession? Do we run anyway?
01:07:42Without his signature?
01:07:44The judge would surely close us down.
01:07:49You made a mess of it.
01:07:51I told you I don't want no violence.
01:07:53Not yet, anyway.
01:07:55There's a time and place for this kind of thing.
01:07:57There's a stupid...
01:08:01No.
01:08:03No, run away from what?
01:08:05I'll talk to them myself, personally.
01:08:08Get them down here to my office.
01:08:10All of them.
01:08:11Sure.
01:08:12Now.
01:08:13Right now.
01:08:14You, too.
01:08:16Find Sally's old lady, Mrs. Schmidt.
01:08:18Bring her in.
01:08:19I wanna talk to her.
01:08:20And this time, don't foul it up.
01:08:22No paper ever did a better, faster, more thorough job.
01:08:29All we needed was this one bit of evidence.
01:08:32And we had it.
01:08:34Why do you think we hung the whole thing on Rienzi's case?
01:08:38Because we were sentimental about a dead girl in a mink coat?
01:08:41No.
01:08:42No, we had something big.
01:08:44Big enough to save our necks.
01:08:46Rienzi in the liquor business, the financial department dug that one up.
01:08:51Distributor for two of the biggest name brands.
01:08:53Rienzi's brother runs a wire service for race results, transportation.
01:08:58Loan agency for bookies, real estate, hotels, nightclubs.
01:09:02Slot machines, et cetera, et cetera.
01:09:05Years ago, my husband tried to do a story like this on a man just like Rienzi.
01:09:11No, I figured with a story like this to tell, they'd never close this town.
01:09:16Well, we showed them how a real newspaper can function.
01:09:22And now, we're licked, baby.
01:09:25Put a head on this, will you?
01:09:30My husband always said it was a worthwhile fight, didn't matter who won.
01:09:35Some good was sure to come out of it.
01:09:41That Rienzi's wine?
01:09:42Uh-huh.
01:09:43Pretty good.
01:09:44You're the best.
01:09:46Well, you're quite a girl.
01:09:49Yeah.
01:09:50If they made them different in your day.
01:09:54Yeah.
01:09:55More durable.
01:09:56More pliable.
01:09:58Girls these days have stuff, but they're brittle.
01:10:02Break more easily.
01:10:04Don't roll with the punches.
01:10:06Plenty of gall and no guts.
01:10:09Meaning Nora?
01:10:12Meaning Nora.
01:10:14Well, now be a respectful silence while we feel sorry for ourselves.
01:10:19Well, she had no right to walk out on me.
01:10:22Why not?
01:10:23Because.
01:10:24Because it inconvenienced you.
01:10:26Because she's my wife.
01:10:28You wouldn't have had a wife of that newspaper.
01:10:31It had beautiful legs.
01:10:33Sure, sure.
01:10:36But you never walked out on John.
01:10:38Who said so?
01:10:39Twice.
01:10:40You must have had a pretty good reason.
01:10:41The best.
01:10:42The bride always likes to think she's indispensable.
01:10:46Even in the morning.
01:10:48I woke up and he was gone.
01:10:51Gone back to the paper to do the Lusitania story.
01:10:55I walked out.
01:10:56Ah, but you came back.
01:10:58Two days later.
01:10:59He didn't even know I'd been gone.
01:11:02But he loved you.
01:11:03Passionately.
01:11:04Between editions.
01:11:05He had time to change the face of journalism.
01:11:09Fight for reform.
01:11:11Crusade for a thousand lost causes, but he had no time for his family.
01:11:15So I took my two daughters and left this big, beautiful mausoleum.
01:11:20Why did you come back?
01:11:21Well, we needed each other.
01:11:24It was I who did the adjusting, though.
01:11:26It wasn't Alice or Kitty or John.
01:11:30He needed a son to carry on the paper.
01:11:33And they needed a father to love, not a bulldog edition.
01:11:37Enter me.
01:11:39Spit an image.
01:11:42What did you want?
01:11:44To be useful.
01:11:46Well...
01:11:48To newspapers.
01:11:50To editors like you.
01:11:52A publisher's delight.
01:11:58Don't blame Nora.
01:12:00Unless she wants to come back, it won't work.
01:12:03If she stays away...
01:12:05I can look for a newspaper with nice legs.
01:12:09Court convenes in about half an hour.
01:12:11You gonna be there?
01:12:12Maybe.
01:12:17Will you marry me?
01:12:18You're too old.
01:12:20You go through old lady Schmidt's house?
01:12:24Off to bottom.
01:12:25Well?
01:12:26Nothing.
01:12:27Mrs. Schmidt, you find her?
01:12:28Not yet.
01:12:29Got anybody at the house waiting for her?
01:12:30Inside and out.
01:12:31Don't bring her here.
01:12:33I don't want none of your boys around here.
01:12:36Now or any time, you understand?
01:12:38I understand.
01:12:39And don't phone me.
01:12:40Here or at home.
01:12:42Any of you.
01:12:43Would it be better if we left town for a while?
01:12:44No.
01:12:45We stay put.
01:12:46Suppose the grand jury indicts?
01:12:47Leave them indict.
01:12:48Larry will take care of things.
01:12:50I'll try.
01:12:51That's right.
01:12:52You'll try.
01:12:53I don't want no panic.
01:12:55If there's an investigation.
01:12:57Or even a trial.
01:12:59We've been through this kind of thing before.
01:13:01We're still in business.
01:13:02A story's printed in the paper.
01:13:04So what?
01:13:05Tomorrow it's old news.
01:13:07Next week people forget.
01:13:08But if they keep printing?
01:13:09They won't.
01:13:10But if they keep us in the news until the trial.
01:13:12If they heat up the public.
01:13:13You take care of your end.
01:13:15I'll handle the paper.
01:13:16Hutchison won't handle these.
01:13:17He's got nothing.
01:13:18With Schmidt out of the way, what's he got?
01:13:20That won't stop him.
01:13:21And he won't stop us.
01:13:24Tomorrow he won't even have a paper.
01:13:26Courts will take it away from him.
01:13:28And if they don't, we'll take him away from the paper.
01:13:33Maybe they all need an example.
01:13:36Yeah, that's what they need.
01:13:43You better find Hutchison.
01:13:45You want to see him?
01:13:46No.
01:14:08Please rise.
01:14:13Please rise.
01:14:18His honor, the surrogate.
01:14:19Please be seated.
01:14:36Regarding the sale and purchase of the publishing company,
01:14:40herein referred to as the day...
01:14:43I've made a careful study of the existing contract
01:14:48between the heirs of the late John Garrison
01:14:51and Lawrence White Publishing Enterprises.
01:14:54I can see no reason why this contract should not be enforced.
01:14:58Therefore, unless further evidence or argument is presented
01:15:02to alter my judgment,
01:15:04the court is prepared to render its decision.
01:15:07Mrs. Garrison, do you have anything to add?
01:15:11Yes, sir.
01:15:12No statement, Your Honor.
01:15:15Your Honor!
01:15:17Before you decide, may I say something...
01:15:20If, Your Honor, please.
01:15:21I don't think this gentleman is one of the heirs.
01:15:24He's not here as amicus curiae,
01:15:26and I'm positive he's not here in the interests of Mr. White.
01:15:29Whom does he presume to represent?
01:15:31Well, sir, I'm trying to save a newspaper.
01:15:35Which is not yours in the first place.
01:15:37Fact is true.
01:15:38The day consists of a big building.
01:15:40I don't own that.
01:15:41It also consists of typewriters, teletypes, presses, newsprint, ink, and desks.
01:15:46I don't own those either.
01:15:49But this newspaper is more than that.
01:15:51We're all aware of what a newspaper consists.
01:15:53I'm not so sure about that.
01:15:57The day is more than a building.
01:16:00It's people.
01:16:01It's 1,500 men and women whose skill, heart, brains, and experience...
01:16:05make a great newspaper possible.
01:16:07We don't own one stick of furniture in this company.
01:16:10But we, along with the 290,000 people who read this paper...
01:16:14have a vital interest in whether it lives or dies.
01:16:17This is highly irregular procedure.
01:16:19So is the murder of a newspaper.
01:16:21Aren't you carrying this a bit too far?
01:16:23The death of a newspaper sometimes has far-reaching effects.
01:16:25Meaning your own pocketbook, in this case.
01:16:27In this case, meaning some unfinished business called Rianzi...
01:16:30if you read the day, you'd know what I mean.
01:16:32I don't care to discuss, Mr. Rianzi.
01:16:34This newspaper does.
01:16:35This doesn't concern us here today.
01:16:37It concerns the public every day.
01:16:39A newspaper, as Mr. White will agree, is published first, last, and always...
01:16:43in the public interest.
01:16:44Yours is not the only newspaper in town.
01:16:47Right now, it's the only newspaper willing to expose Rianzi.
01:16:50Your Honor, an honest, fearless press...
01:16:52is the public's first protection against gangsterism, local or international.
01:16:57Mr. Hutchinson, though a surrogate's court is informal...
01:17:01there are certain rules and procedure.
01:17:04May we have your decision now, sir?
01:17:06As one of your 290,000 readers, Mr. Hutchinson...
01:17:11I rule that you may proceed with your statement.
01:17:16Thank you, sir.
01:17:17But let's try to keep this from becoming a personal matter, please.
01:17:21Now, a newspaper is a very personal matter, sir.
01:17:24Ask the people who let us in their homes.
01:17:27I've read the day for more than 35 years.
01:17:30Before that, I sold it in the streets.
01:17:33However, here we're only concerned with the legal aspect of the sale and purchase of property.
01:17:39What happens after Mr. White takes possession...
01:17:42is outside of the jurisdiction of this court.
01:17:44Well, in whose jurisdiction is it?
01:17:46Just a moment. Since when is it immoral for someone to legally purchase a newspaper?
01:17:51I don't care if Mr. White buys and runs two papers or 20 papers or 100 papers.
01:17:57Some of the best newspapers in this country are part of a chain.
01:18:00But I do care when he buys a newspaper to put it out of business.
01:18:06Because without competition, there could be no freedom of the press.
01:18:09And I'm talking about free enterprise, Your Honor.
01:18:11The right of the public to a marketplace of ideas, news, and opinions.
01:18:16Not of one man's or one leader's or even one government's.
01:18:20I...
01:18:24Well, I guess that's all I have to say.
01:18:30The existing contract is valid.
01:18:32Made in good faith.
01:18:34As of tomorrow, November 14th...
01:18:38the Lawrence White Publications will assume control of...
01:18:41the day.
01:18:42Court assured.
01:18:49Well, thanks for trying.
01:18:51It'll be another day.
01:18:53Goodbye, eh.
01:18:54Goodbye.
01:19:01Here I am, Mr. Hutchison.
01:19:02I have the city desk.
01:19:04Frank.
01:19:05Here it is.
01:19:06Lead-off for the morning edition.
01:19:09The day after 47 years of daily publication...
01:19:12was sold last night.
01:19:13Ed, get back here as quick as you can.
01:19:15Yeah, well, give it to me over the phone.
01:19:22I'll be right there.
01:19:23Five minutes.
01:19:26Would you care the state who killed your daughter, Mrs. Schmidt?
01:19:29Was it Rienzi?
01:19:30Some of his men.
01:19:32I come to see boss.
01:19:34Did you know your son was working for Rienzi?
01:19:38Was that Hutch?
01:19:41Do you think we ought to call the police?
01:19:44I'm worried about her.
01:19:50The paper's been sold.
01:19:52I had a new lead.
01:19:59I don't know which one day.
01:20:00I'm worried about the police.
01:20:01I'm worried about the police.
01:20:02I've just realized that she was holding on her.
01:20:04I've got to go with the police.
01:20:05I've seen this debate.
01:20:06You've got to go with him.
01:20:07I've got to go with the police.
01:20:08I've been Szczepalini.
01:20:10Well, it's been a good news.
01:20:11I've lost several years on weekends.
01:20:12I've been a good news because I've been here.
01:20:13I've dealt with the police.
01:20:14I've been a bad news when I was a one of the old police officers.
01:20:15I just started with to go with them.
01:20:17It's been a good news.
01:20:18And I thought the big news that I was태 side of the police.
01:20:20I've seen him on the police.
01:20:21Coffee.
01:20:24Have you been to your home yet, Mrs. Schmidt?
01:20:28Where have you been?
01:20:30I speak to boss.
01:20:38Mrs. Schmidt wandered in on her own.
01:20:40Looking for you, won't talk to anyone else.
01:20:44Mrs. Schmidt, the boss.
01:20:46How do you do, Mrs. Schmidt?
01:20:48Your name, please?
01:20:49Hutcherson.
01:20:51I am mother to Bessie.
01:20:55Oh, how about your son?
01:20:58I'm very sorry.
01:20:59I do not comfort that.
01:21:09Sit down, please.
01:21:12Here.
01:21:16My Bessie.
01:21:17She comes to me and she says,
01:21:21Here, Mama.
01:21:22You keep this.
01:21:24If something happens to me,
01:21:26you do not have to worry.
01:21:30This is Bessie's diary?
01:21:32She says what happens to her
01:21:34and this Mr. Rienzi.
01:21:37Yes, sir?
01:21:38Get Captain Finley over here right away.
01:21:40And tell Arlen we're getting out the final edition, as usual.
01:21:44Yes, sir.
01:21:45Why didn't you go to the police, Mrs. Schmidt?
01:21:46Police?
01:21:47I do not know police.
01:21:49I know newspaper.
01:21:50This newspaper.
01:21:51For 31 years, I know this paper.
01:21:52I come to America.
01:21:53I wish to be good citizen.
01:21:54How to do this?
01:21:55From newspaper.
01:21:56It shows me how to read and write.
01:21:58My Bessie dies.
01:21:59You do not know police.
01:22:00Why didn't you go to the police, Mrs. Schmidt?
01:22:01Why didn't you go to the police, Mrs. Schmidt?
01:22:02Why didn't you go to the police, Mrs. Schmidt?
01:22:03You tryin' to find who he orders my Bessie?
01:22:05Sometimes you walk the透明 Stat blocks you so far.
01:22:09ocoin advice is what you do.
01:22:10I know, Mrs. Schmidt!
01:22:11It is still literary.
01:22:12For thirty-one years, I know this paper.
01:22:13I come to America.
01:22:14I wish to be good citizen.
01:22:15How to do this?
01:22:16From newspaper.
01:22:17It shows me how to read and write.
01:22:19My Bessie dies.
01:22:20You do not say bad things of her.
01:22:23You do not show bad pictures of her.
01:22:27You try to find who hurt my Bessie.
01:22:33Good. I help. I think what to do.
01:22:38I go on subway. I ride all day.
01:22:42I date. I come.
01:22:46By doing this, you may be in danger, like your son.
01:22:50You're not afraid.
01:22:53Your paper's not afraid.
01:22:56I am not afraid.
01:23:03Hello, Mrs. Hutcheson. Or is it Mrs. Schaefer now?
01:23:10Where is he?
01:23:11In the press room.
01:23:14Has he lost the paper?
01:23:16Yes.
01:23:17What's he gonna do?
01:23:19Get out the last edition.
01:23:21And it ought to be quite a paper.
01:23:23But then what?
01:23:24Look for another job, I guess.
01:23:27Is it Mrs. Schaefer?
01:23:29Hello, Alex.
01:23:30This is it, huh?
01:23:31Yeah. Looks like the last one.
01:23:59Yes?
01:24:09Who?
01:24:12I'll put the call through.
01:24:20Hutcheson?
01:24:21Hello, baby.
01:24:24How am I feeling?
01:24:26I hear Mrs. Schmitt come in to see you.
01:24:29That's right.
01:24:30That's right.
01:24:31There's some loose cash here belongs to you.
01:24:35$200,000 worth.
01:24:38Uh-huh.
01:24:39And there's something else, too.
01:24:45What diary?
01:24:46Who's gonna believe what a little tramp writes to herself?
01:24:50Wait a minute. Don't hang up.
01:24:52Here's some advice for your friend.
01:24:55Don't press your luck.
01:24:57Lay off of me.
01:24:58Don't print that story.
01:25:00What's that supposed to be?
01:25:02An order?
01:25:03If not tonight, then tomorrow.
01:25:05Maybe next week.
01:25:06Maybe next year.
01:25:07But sooner or later, you'll catch it.
01:25:09Listen to me.
01:25:10Print that story or a dead man.
01:25:13It's not just me anymore.
01:25:15You'd have to stop every newspaper in the country now.
01:25:18And you're not big enough at that job.
01:25:20People like you've tried it before.
01:25:21With bullets, prison, censorship.
01:25:23But as long as even one newspaper will print the truth, you're finished.
01:25:27Don't give me that fancy double talk.
01:25:29I want an answer.
01:25:30Yes or no?
01:25:31Yes or no?
01:25:45Yes or no?
01:25:46Hey!
01:25:51Hutchison?
01:25:53That noise.
01:25:54What's that racket?
01:25:55That's the press, baby.
01:25:57The press.
01:25:58And there's nothing you can do about it.
01:26:00Nothing.
01:26:01Nothing.
01:26:31Nothing.
01:26:32No.
01:26:32No.
01:26:33No.
01:26:35No.
01:26:46No.
01:26:48No.
01:26:49No.
01:26:50There's nothing you can do about it.
01:26:51One.
01:26:54One.
01:26:56Two.
01:26:58Yeah.
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