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00:02:46Isn't it beautiful?
00:02:48Two lovers in their silvern retreats, staring at the trees.
00:02:52And now Summer.
00:02:54That same summer when I was working so hard for him,
00:02:57scheming, planning, doing everything in my power to help him,
00:03:00he was having a cheap backstreet affair.
00:03:02Probably there's some other explanation.
00:03:04And her counting the hours until she saw him again,
00:03:06thanking him for the house he bought her with my money?
00:03:08He didn't buy the house.
00:03:10Oh.
00:03:12So you do know about it.
00:03:15I thought you would.
00:03:17Edith, I'm probably asking you the impossible.
00:03:22But my advice to you is to burn those letters.
00:03:24Forget them.
00:03:25Forget them?
00:03:27Forget that you, my own brother, let me go on living with a man
00:03:30who was coming to me from the arms of a common, cheap little...
00:03:33If you don't tell me who she is, I'll find out some other way.
00:03:38I'll get detectives.
00:03:39I'll show them these letters.
00:03:40You wouldn't do that.
00:03:41Oh, wouldn't I?
00:03:42I'll make her suffer.
00:03:46Edith.
00:03:51Come here.
00:03:52Sit down.
00:04:01Do you ever hear the name Nora Moran?
00:04:28Nora Moran?
00:04:31This may refresh your memory.
00:04:46What has she to do with?
00:04:48That's the girl.
00:04:51This woman and Dick?
00:04:52I don't believe it.
00:04:55It's true, nevertheless.
00:04:59You said you wanted her to suffer.
00:05:00Did you ever witness an execution?
00:05:06Of course not.
00:05:08Did you ever see the preparation for one?
00:05:12The cold-blooded preparation?
00:05:15From the disposal of a burned-out, lifeless thing
00:05:17that a few moments before the execution was a human being?
00:05:22They begin in the afternoon.
00:05:23The electrocution is at eight tonight.
00:05:39Yes, we'll get it there by six.
00:05:41She's five foot one.
00:05:44She's five foot one.
00:05:46Okay, five foot one.
00:05:53I've got to shave her head.
00:06:00She didn't eat a thing.
00:06:01You wouldn't eat her.
00:06:03She's only 21.
00:06:04Her suffering had been so mute and pitiful
00:06:19that they tried to relieve her.
00:06:24Just not quiet.
00:06:26You'll soon be asleep.
00:06:27You'll soon be asleep.
00:06:34Mrs. Watson.
00:06:44Are you sure they sent the telegram to Father Ryan?
00:06:47Yes.
00:06:49He'll be praying for you.
00:06:57There might still be a chance for you
00:06:59if you'd only tell why you did it.
00:07:01No.
00:07:05Why won't you tell, dearie?
00:07:10But you could tell me.
00:07:13Not anyone.
00:07:15Gradually, the opiate quieted her body,
00:07:17but her mind was too disordered.
00:07:19And in her confused state,
00:07:21everything became grotesque and unreal.
00:07:24We've all experienced it.
00:07:26And in our helplessness,
00:07:27we call on the one who means protection to us.
00:07:29To Nora, it was Father Ryan.
00:07:32Now was when she was a child.
00:07:36Nora's five years old.
00:07:38She's been with the sisters two years.
00:07:41And she's always been a very good child.
00:07:46Well,
00:07:47there's only one thing that's holding me back.
00:07:52I was only saying.
00:07:58I wanted to see how you'd fit on me lap.
00:08:05Darling,
00:08:06come over and try it.
00:08:10We got a car.
00:08:13Are you out?
00:08:14Sure.
00:08:15Bar and a couple of payments.
00:08:16Shh.
00:08:17What's a couple of payments
00:08:18between two good Irishmen
00:08:20like the child and me?
00:08:21Oh.
00:08:22The child and you.
00:08:24It's already the child and you.
00:08:28Well,
00:08:28we'll see.
00:08:31We'll see.
00:08:33Happiness break, dearie.
00:08:35But she remembered only the tragedy then.
00:08:37And the car killed him, Father.
00:08:56I didn't know for hours
00:08:58why I didn't come home.
00:09:01What do you want to do now, Nora?
00:09:05Sinful even to think of it now.
00:09:07But Mother Moran wanted me to...
00:09:10What was that?
00:09:13Learn to dance.
00:09:15She always said that
00:09:16when she could afford it,
00:09:17I could go to a school.
00:09:19You want to do that?
00:09:21Yes.
00:09:25I paid all the debts
00:09:26and there's $300 left.
00:09:28Would it be wrong
00:09:29to use the money for that?
00:09:30No.
00:09:32Not wrong, Nora.
00:09:34That's certainly not the wisest thing.
00:09:35But I want so much to do it.
00:09:38The money would last long enough
00:09:40until I studied
00:09:41and by that time
00:09:41I could get a job in a cafe
00:09:43or I might even get a job in a show.
00:09:45Months of practice,
00:09:53long hours and hard work
00:09:54until she felt prepared.
00:09:56And although her money
00:09:57was almost gone,
00:09:58she started out like thousands of others,
00:10:00confident of immediate success.
00:10:02There was the glamour of the theatre,
00:10:04the lights and the crowds,
00:10:06intoxicating to her
00:10:07because she now felt herself
00:10:08to be a part of it.
00:10:10There were the stage doors
00:10:11that promised mystery and excitement
00:10:12in the daily round of booking offices
00:10:14when she still felt
00:10:16that each new day
00:10:17was to mark the beginning
00:10:18of her success.
00:10:20And then there were a few things.
00:10:21Endless days.
00:10:23Voices that spoke.
00:10:25Nothing today.
00:10:26No experience.
00:10:27Nothing today.
00:10:28No.
00:10:29No, you won't do.
00:10:31Nothing today.
00:10:32Signs that haunted her.
00:10:34Chorus filled.
00:10:35No casting today.
00:10:36Chorus filled.
00:10:38Chorus filled.
00:10:39Until she knew the panic
00:10:40that comes with your last dollar
00:10:41and the desperate necessity
00:10:43for any kind of work.
00:10:44The failure there
00:10:45until she saw the end.
00:10:52I'm afraid you're too young
00:10:54to work in a circus.
00:10:56No, I'm not.
00:10:57I'm not too young.
00:10:58I'm old.
00:10:59Oh, please let me have it.
00:11:01Please.
00:11:03All right.
00:11:04Report to Paulino
00:11:04at King Brothers Circus.
00:11:08Excitement.
00:11:11A job.
00:11:12The sound of the client.
00:11:13Trumblers.
00:11:14Acrobats.
00:11:14Thrills.
00:11:15Excitement.
00:11:16Rehearsing what she'd say.
00:11:18Afraid someone would beat her there.
00:11:20And then he is there.
00:11:25Oh, no.
00:11:26Oh, no.
00:11:31Oh, no.
00:11:32Oh, no.
00:11:32Oh, no.
00:11:34Oh, no.
00:11:35Oh, no.
00:11:35Oh, no.
00:11:35Oh, no.
00:11:36Oh, no.
00:11:36Oh, no.
00:11:36Oh, no.
00:11:37Oh, no.
00:11:37Oh, no.
00:11:37Oh, no.
00:11:37Oh, no.
00:11:38Oh, no.
00:12:08She's just about the same size as your last partner.
00:12:32All right.
00:12:33Okay.
00:12:37You'll do very nicely.
00:12:39Oh, Mr. Paulino.
00:12:40Hmm?
00:12:40I don't have to go in the cage, do I?
00:12:42No, no.
00:12:43All you have to do is to wear that outfit and look pretty.
00:12:47And, uh, can the Mr. Stubbs.
00:12:49Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:13:19Nora was happy in the excitement of circus life,
00:13:32but the hurry, the bustle, and the thrill moving on, a new town.
00:13:36The whole thing was a glorious adventure until one night...
00:13:49The End
00:14:19Paulina's brutality and her fear of him were things that she could never forget.
00:14:26When things happen in our lives, we're conscious of this events.
00:14:31And later, subconsciously, we see our lives a pattern.
00:14:36And it's easy to recall the events that formed that pattern.
00:14:40And so it was with Nora.
00:14:42She was in a cell waiting to die.
00:14:46And yet she was in the circus.
00:14:47She was dreaming.
00:14:51But yet in her subconscious mind,
00:14:53she was reliving the events that formed the pattern of her life.
00:14:58Mrs. Watts.
00:15:05No, I'm Sadie.
00:15:08Don't you remember me?
00:15:11No, I don't.
00:15:13Things seem strange.
00:15:15That's because you're dreaming.
00:15:18And so far, you've dreamed things just as they happen.
00:15:20But I thought when you got to leave, I would change the dream if you wanted me to.
00:15:26How?
00:15:27I'm not giving you the money.
00:15:31I don't understand you.
00:15:34Don't you remember?
00:15:36After you've been with the circus for nearly a year,
00:15:38I found you sitting here one night.
00:15:41I was drunk.
00:15:42But not too drunk to know that you were just about ready to bump yourself off.
00:15:47So I gave you a hundred bucks to get away from the circus in Bolina.
00:15:51Oh, yes, now I remember.
00:15:57You were the only one who was friendly to me.
00:16:00Well, I'm not so sure it was a good thing.
00:16:03That's what I'm talking about.
00:16:05If I hadn't given you the money,
00:16:07you might not be here now in jail,
00:16:10waiting to be electrocuted.
00:16:13But I'm not in jail.
00:16:17I'm here.
00:16:18I guess I'd better get drunk.
00:16:21I can't help you.
00:16:23Oh, but you did help me.
00:16:25You gave me money.
00:16:27Where did I go?
00:16:28You went to New York and got a job in a nightclub.
00:16:32Then what did I do?
00:16:34You killed a man.
00:16:36But before that, I was happy.
00:16:38I was happy for the first time in my life.
00:16:41That's where I met him.
00:16:43Give me the money again.
00:16:45I don't care what happens after that.
00:16:46I'll see him again and I'll be happy.
00:16:48I'll be happy.
00:16:49I'll be happy.
00:16:51I'll be happy.
00:16:52I'll be happy.
00:16:53I'll be happy.
00:16:56I'll be happy.
00:16:57I'll be happy.
00:16:59I'll be happy.
00:17:00I'll be happy.
00:17:01I'll be happy.
00:17:04I'll be happy.
00:17:07I'll be happy.
00:17:08I'll be happy.
00:17:11I'll be happy.
00:17:15I'll be happy.
00:17:45That gentleman's here again.
00:17:47He wants to see you.
00:17:48What's his name?
00:17:49Crawford.
00:17:51Oh, yes.
00:18:01Do you live in New York?
00:18:03No.
00:18:04No.
00:18:04No.
00:18:04No.
00:18:04I'll stay another week.
00:18:19May I see you again?
00:18:21Of course.
00:18:26Good night.
00:18:27Good night.
00:18:29Good night.
00:18:39Good night.
00:18:42Good night.
00:18:46Ha ha ha!
00:19:46A week has seven days and seven nights.
00:19:58You don't tell me.
00:19:59Hey, Simple down here has made a discovery.
00:20:02She says a week has seven days and seven nights.
00:20:04Six days and six nights.
00:20:06Five.
00:20:07Four.
00:20:08Three.
00:20:09Two.
00:20:10One.
00:20:10A week's gone.
00:20:11One.
00:20:23I want to take these bags, please.
00:20:29I sent for you.
00:20:32Would you come to me?
00:20:34Anywhere.
00:20:34Laura what are you doing.
00:21:04Crying.
00:21:06Crying?
00:21:08The stove works.
00:21:11And the radio works.
00:21:13And the fireplace works.
00:21:15So lovely to have a fuss with things that work.
00:21:19I can't stand it.
00:21:20Oh you darling.
00:21:23I've heard enough.
00:21:25You can spare me the details of their romance.
00:21:27It's all in there.
00:21:29Months of it.
00:21:30While I like a fool was slaving for you.
00:21:32Oh come on now Edith.
00:21:34Please.
00:21:35Please.
00:21:36Let's be honest with ourselves.
00:21:38You weren't thinking any more of Dick than I was.
00:21:40Anything that you did.
00:21:42You did for your own social ambition.
00:21:44And to me he was just a figurehead that I'd groom for the governorship.
00:21:47To further my own political power.
00:21:50When I finally got wind of what was going on.
00:21:52He'd become a damned important figurehead.
00:21:55And with the election only two weeks off.
00:21:58One word of scandal would have ruined us.
00:22:00How did you find out about it?
00:22:02Well I became suspicious of the trips he was taking to the ranch every Monday and Friday.
00:22:06One day I followed him.
00:22:08I found that he was keeping her in a little house just across the state line in Wilchester.
00:22:13About an hour's drive from here.
00:22:15Then I traced the girl's history.
00:22:17And the more I found out about her the more I was certain that she had a definite plan.
00:22:22She was just to sit tight until he was the governor.
00:22:25And then collect for the rest of her life.
00:22:27Well at least you had sense enough to see that.
00:22:30Well you've read her letters.
00:22:32Do they sound like it?
00:22:33Certainly.
00:22:34They're just the sort of letters she would write to lull his suspicions.
00:22:38Perhaps.
00:22:40Perhaps.
00:22:42Before you judge that girl.
00:22:46Picture her lying in her cell.
00:22:49Trying in her disordered mind.
00:22:52To relive the months.
00:22:55She was in that cottage.
00:23:02Do you think we could get the president to put three Mondays and four Fridays in the week?
00:23:06Why?
00:23:07For those of the days I see you.
00:23:12Come over here dear will you?
00:23:14Immediately.
00:23:22You've been happy here haven't you dear?
00:23:25When I was a little girl we used to say foolish questions and say foolish answers.
00:23:29It's so heavy it turns on my finger.
00:23:42It burns on my finger.
00:23:57Don't do it.
00:23:59Why not?
00:24:01I don't know.
00:24:04I don't know!
00:24:07Now you've done it.
00:24:12Is that all they take over?
00:24:15Oh, I'm glad.
00:24:18She has such pretty hair.
00:24:26She heard their voices dimly,
00:24:28seemed to know what they were doing.
00:24:30She was going to die,
00:24:32and the thing she was dying for
00:24:34was about to happen.
00:24:36What is it, dear? What's the matter?
00:24:43I know now.
00:24:45It's the circus.
00:24:47It isn't.
00:24:49You must leave.
00:25:04You must leave now.
00:25:06Shh.
00:25:08Shh.
00:25:10Answer it.
00:25:12No, I won't.
00:25:13You must.
00:25:14No, I won't.
00:25:15You must.
00:25:16But don't you understand?
00:25:18If we don't see him,
00:25:19it won't happen.
00:25:22It's too late now.
00:25:24You must answer it.
00:25:28Shh.
00:25:32Yes.
00:25:34That's right.
00:25:36I must.
00:25:37You must.
00:25:53I beg your pardon.
00:25:54My name is John Grant,
00:25:55and I'd like to see Mr. Crawford.
00:25:57Why, he's...
00:25:58I don't bother lying.
00:25:59I know that he's here.
00:26:03Well,
00:26:04when are you finding me here?
00:26:05Well, Miss Moran,
00:26:06do you know Mr. Grant?
00:26:07How do you do?
00:26:08I just dropped in
00:26:09to see Miss Moran's father.
00:26:10He's an old friend of mine.
00:26:11Not in at the moment, I suppose?
00:26:13No.
00:26:14I see.
00:26:15Where could we talk?
00:26:18Would you mind if we talk to him here?
00:26:19Fine.
00:26:20Fine.
00:26:23Excuse me.
00:26:24Go now, please.
00:26:25Don't talk to him.
00:26:26I must, dear.
00:26:27I must, dear.
00:26:28You stay out here.
00:26:42Miss Moran's father's been sending her flowers.
00:26:57Well?
00:26:58How'd you find out about this?
00:26:59There's an extra out.
00:27:00An extra?
00:27:01About this?
00:27:02Yes.
00:27:03How could they have got out of it?
00:27:04This isn't even our state.
00:27:05Oh, well, there isn't anything to it anyway.
00:27:06I met her while I was in New York.
00:27:07So when she moved down here, she dropped me a note.
00:27:08Purely a friendly note to call.
00:27:09Every Monday and Friday.
00:27:10With an alibi like that, you don't rate the front page.
00:27:11With a comic section.
00:27:12You want to be in a comic section.
00:27:25Oh, well, there isn't anything to it anyway.
00:27:27I met her while I was in New York.
00:27:29So when she moved down here, she dropped me a note.
00:27:32Purely a friendly note to call.
00:27:33Every Monday and Friday.
00:27:36With an alibi like that, you don't rate the front page.
00:27:38You ought to be in the comic section.
00:27:41Has Edith seen it?
00:27:43I don't know. She can read.
00:27:46What do I think?
00:27:48Squirm a while. I'll watch.
00:27:50I ought to get something back for my money.
00:27:53Talking like that would help, John.
00:27:54You've got to think of something.
00:27:55All right. You do the thinking. I'll do the talking.
00:27:59The story hasn't broken in the papers yet.
00:28:03You mean you told me that just...
00:28:04I just wanted to give you a taste of how you'd feel if I did break it.
00:28:07If you're not out of here in exactly ten minutes, that's what's going to happen.
00:28:10I'll break it myself.
00:28:12I'll break it on the front page of every newspaper in the state.
00:28:14You along with it.
00:28:15You wouldn't do that, wouldn't I?
00:28:17Let me tell you something.
00:28:18You're running for governor.
00:28:19You're a married man.
00:28:21The fact that you're married to my sister doesn't mean a thing to me.
00:28:23That's her business.
00:28:24But I've spent a lot of time and money building you to where you are.
00:28:27And if you think for a moment I'm going to let you toss it just because you've fallen for some cheap little dame, you're mistaken.
00:28:31She isn't cheap.
00:28:32You bet your life she isn't.
00:28:33She's going to cost you plenty.
00:28:35What do you mean?
00:28:36Figure it out for yourself.
00:28:38Why do you suppose a girl from a New York nightclub would bury herself in a place like this?
00:28:41How do you know she comes from a nightclub?
00:28:43How did I know that she was in a circus before she was in a nightclub?
00:28:46I've got her number.
00:28:47I know her past history.
00:28:49You're crazy.
00:28:49Am I?
00:28:50Well, I'll tell you just how crazy I am.
00:28:52Either you end this thing right now or you're through.
00:28:55You'll go back to being in an office.
00:28:56What did you mean about knowing her history?
00:28:59Get her in here and ask her yourself.
00:29:01No, please.
00:29:01No?
00:29:02All right.
00:29:03I'll get her in myself.
00:29:04You'll talk to me.
00:29:08Come in.
00:29:18You heard what was said.
00:29:20Yes, I heard.
00:29:22All of it?
00:29:23I guess so.
00:29:25It's true, isn't it?
00:29:27What?
00:29:28About you being with the circus.
00:29:30The same one that's playing here tonight.
00:29:32Yes.
00:29:33That's right.
00:29:34What was your name then?
00:29:37Same as it is now.
00:29:39Shouldn't it have been something else?
00:29:41Or have there been so many you didn't bother with that?
00:29:50Yes, that's right.
00:29:51There have been so many I didn't bother with that.
00:29:54Men like him who were married.
00:29:56Men.
00:29:56Men!
00:30:05The End
00:30:08Did I do it better that time?
00:30:28You did it all right.
00:30:30It's because I've dreamed it so much.
00:30:32It really happened.
00:30:33All I could think of was that he has a wife.
00:30:35That hurts so that I couldn't think of much else.
00:30:37But now it's different.
00:30:40Every time I dream it, I think of different things to say to him that'll hurt him and make him leave.
00:30:44But I can't do it anymore.
00:30:46I just can't.
00:30:48You won't have to.
00:30:50Why?
00:30:52Don't you remember?
00:30:56I don't have to go through that again, do I?
00:30:59It happened.
00:31:01But that was because I didn't leave soon enough.
00:31:03Don't you understand?
00:31:03All I have to do is go now.
00:31:04It won't happen.
00:31:05Don't you see how easy it is?
00:31:06I'll just leave.
00:31:07I'll go now.
00:31:08It won't happen.
00:31:09But it did happen.
00:31:10You killed him.
00:31:13Yes.
00:31:14That's right.
00:31:16I killed him.
00:31:18And upon said trial, was found guilty of murder in the first degree for said killing.
00:31:24And on the 14th day of May, 1933, was sentenced to be put to death.
00:31:36Come, look at her.
00:31:38I don't want to.
00:31:40Come on, look at her.
00:31:41What's the matter with her?
00:31:48She's dead.
00:31:49I don't like the way they fixed her hair.
00:31:54They shaved part of it off.
00:31:55Why?
00:31:57Why?
00:31:57Why did they do that?
00:31:59So the current would go through her head.
00:32:02It doesn't go through her head?
00:32:04It goes through her head, her arms, and her legs.
00:32:07That's a lie.
00:32:08It goes through her head, her arms, and her legs.
00:32:12If you don't believe it, come to the execution tonight.
00:32:15They're going to kill her again.
00:32:17The warden wasn't pleased with the way she died.
00:32:19I won't have it.
00:32:20They can't do that.
00:32:21But they've done it.
00:32:23Don't you understand?
00:32:25She's dead.
00:32:28I'm not dead.
00:32:31I'm not dead.
00:32:33I'm dreaming.
00:32:37Don't let me go back to sleep again.
00:32:40Please.
00:32:42Help me to wake up.
00:32:43I must go back to sleep.
00:32:47Oh, Nan, you were dreaming, weren't you?
00:32:51Yes.
00:32:54Maybe if I walk, I can stay awake.
00:32:59You can't do that.
00:33:01Yes, I can.
00:33:03If you'll help me.
00:33:13And upon said trial, was found guilty of murder in the first degree for said killing.
00:33:24And on the 14th day of May, 1933, was sentenced to be put to death.
00:33:29Stop it.
00:33:30Megan, stop.
00:33:32Why don't you be human?
00:33:35Don't you see she's almost crazy?
00:33:37Well, I'm supposed to read it.
00:33:38I'm supposed to read it here in her cell.
00:33:41All right.
00:33:42Read it here.
00:33:44Can't you read it to yourself?
00:33:46I guess I can do that.
00:33:49Maybe if I just mumble, it'd be all right.
00:33:52Mumble and be damned.
00:33:53A fun set for us.
00:34:07What's that?
00:34:09Six o'clock.
00:34:12Don't worry.
00:34:13Don't worry.
00:34:13At six o'clock that night, Nora wasn't the only one walking the floor.
00:34:21I was in my office listening to the prison whistle.
00:34:24And I realized that I'd been listening to it all day.
00:34:27I didn't know what to think.
00:34:29Dick was now the governor.
00:34:31He promised to refuse a stay of execution.
00:34:33I didn't know whether he'd hold to his promise.
00:34:36I didn't know whether she'd stick to hers.
00:34:38What do you mean?
00:34:39What are you trying to tell me?
00:34:41When Dick left that night, I stayed to settle with her.
00:34:48Won't you please go now?
00:34:50As soon as we understand each other.
00:34:52I'll give you what you want within reason.
00:34:54That settles the account for all time.
00:34:57No future payments.
00:34:58No kickback.
00:34:59You understand?
00:35:01There'll be no kickback, as you call it.
00:35:03And no payments at all.
00:35:04So you can go now.
00:35:06What's your game?
00:35:08I doubt if you'd understand it.
00:35:10Goodbye.
00:35:10Goodbye.
00:35:12Wait a minute.
00:35:15Have you any money?
00:35:17Enough.
00:35:18Enough for what?
00:35:19To take me where I'm going.
00:35:23Who rented this place?
00:35:26He did.
00:35:27Is the rent paid?
00:35:29Until next Wednesday.
00:35:31When are you leaving?
00:35:33On the next train.
00:35:34You might as well take this.
00:35:37It's his.
00:35:41You'd better let me give you some money now.
00:35:43No.
00:35:46Well, if you change your mind, I'll be at the Carlton Hotel tonight.
00:35:48Come on.
00:35:49No.
00:35:50I'm sorry, he'll be at the Carlton Hotel.
00:35:52I'm sorry.
00:35:52No.
00:35:52I'm sorry.
00:35:52I'm sorry.
00:35:53I'm sorry.
00:35:54I'm sorry, sir.
00:35:54I'm sorry.
00:35:56I'm sorry.
00:35:58I'm sorry.
00:35:58You're welcome.
00:35:59I'm sorry.
00:36:00You're welcome.
00:36:00I sat in a hotel room trying to figure the girl out.
00:36:24I couldn't believe she turned down money.
00:36:27But at the end of two hours when she hadn't called,
00:36:30I decided she wasn't going to.
00:36:51Well.
00:36:55So you changed your mind about the money.
00:36:56No.
00:36:58Come in here.
00:36:59Come in here.
00:37:04Please.
00:37:08Help me move this.
00:37:09What's wrong?
00:37:11Push it away from the fireplace.
00:37:18What happened?
00:37:19Who is it?
00:37:21Polino.
00:37:22He was with the circus.
00:37:24He's the man I live with.
00:37:25I've been watching the house all evening.
00:37:29Came in after you left.
00:37:31He'd been outside watching and listening.
00:37:33Said he was going to blackmail Dick.
00:37:35He knew all about us.
00:37:38He wanted me to come back to him and help him get money from Dick.
00:37:40Then you.
00:37:42Yes, sir.
00:37:43I hit him with that whip.
00:37:44I hit him three times.
00:37:45Three times over the head.
00:37:49What will I do?
00:37:50You'll wait here until I call the police.
00:37:52No, don't do that.
00:37:53Why not?
00:37:54We must keep the police out of this.
00:37:56Wait a minute.
00:37:57I happen to be a district attorney.
00:37:59It's my business to prosecute people who commit murder.
00:38:01If this had happened 40 miles from here in my county, it would be my duty to send you to the electric chair.
00:38:07So if it's in your mind to have me help you get away with this, you may as well save your breath.
00:38:11I didn't know you were a district attorney.
00:38:13I thought you'd be willing to help me to keep Dick out of this.
00:38:16Dick?
00:38:16He is out of it.
00:38:17I know, but don't you see if they arrest me, the whole thing will come out.
00:38:21He rented this house.
00:38:22He's been coming here for months.
00:38:23There are a dozen different things that will drag him into it.
00:38:26If the newspapers get hold of it, they'll ruin him.
00:38:28They won't care about me, but he's an important man.
00:38:30They'll tear him to pieces.
00:38:32And his wife along with him.
00:38:33Dammit, why didn't you think of this before you committed murder?
00:38:36He went to bed drunk every night.
00:38:46Who?
00:38:47Polina.
00:38:48What about him?
00:38:49We could take him in your car to where the circus train is loading.
00:38:53Then when we got to the darkest part of the street, we could throw him out.
00:38:57Someone with the circus is bound to find him.
00:38:59And they'd find that he'd been murdered?
00:39:00No, they'll just think he's drunk.
00:39:02They found him like that before.
00:39:04What about the wound of his head?
00:39:07When we've thrown him out, I'll put a rock under his head.
00:39:11They'll think he hit it when he fell.
00:39:13They'll think that's what killed him.
00:39:14Nothing doing.
00:39:14Oh, don't.
00:39:19Wait.
00:39:20Please.
00:39:21Don't you realize what you're doing?
00:39:23You're destroying everything that has taken you years to build up.
00:39:25And it isn't necessary.
00:39:27All I'm trying to do is get Polina away from this house.
00:39:30Suppose I helped you.
00:39:32And you got caught after I left.
00:39:33You mean, would I tell that you'd help me?
00:39:36I wouldn't do a thing like that.
00:39:56Turn here.
00:39:57All right.
00:40:05Let's go.
00:40:14Bye.
00:40:19Bye.
00:40:20Bye.
00:40:21Bye.
00:40:22Slow up now.
00:40:35Can you manage it alone?
00:40:36Yes.
00:40:41Let me out around the corner.
00:40:42We'll never get away with it.
00:40:44Yes, we will. There's no one inside.
00:40:52Go on.
00:41:09You can imagine my feelings as I drove away and left her.
00:41:23All I could think of was getting out of that town.
00:41:26So I checked out at the hotel and drove home.
00:41:36I've changed my plans, Kito.
00:41:38Bring a hot drink to my room.
00:41:44I went through hell that night.
00:41:47One minute I knew that she was sincere.
00:41:49The next minute,
00:41:51I was certain that I'd walk into the cleverest little trap of magic.
00:41:55No matter how I figured, the answer was the same.
00:41:58If she was sincere, the plan was a thousand to one shot.
00:42:01If she succeeded, she'd collect.
00:42:04If she failed and she'd been lying, she'd talk.
00:42:06And faced with the rest,
00:42:09how did I know that what she'd been the actual murder on to me?
00:42:11It was my word against her.
00:42:13And the very integrity expected of me as a public official
00:42:16would have thrown the balance against me
00:42:18if it were known that I was mixed up.
00:42:19I figured the consequences of what I've done from every possible angle.
00:42:26Except the one that actually happened.
00:42:27Mr. Grant.
00:42:42I'm sorry to disturb you, sir.
00:42:47The headquarters on the phone.
00:42:49They say it's very urgent.
00:42:50All right, Kito.
00:42:53Hello?
00:42:54Yes?
00:42:55Good morning, Mr. Grant.
00:42:57There's been a murder on a circus train that pulled in here this morning.
00:43:01Pulled in here?
00:43:03Yes.
00:43:04We've got the girl who did it,
00:43:05but we can't get anything out of her and other circus people.
00:43:08The whole thing's a mix-up.
00:43:12Yes, I'll come right down.
00:43:22If you people are trying to shield this girl,
00:43:24you're going to regret it.
00:43:27Was this man dead when you found him in the street?
00:43:30Was he?
00:43:31Don't ask me.
00:43:33He was drunk.
00:43:34If I was drunk, how is it you don't know?
00:43:37Well, I was thinking of something else.
00:43:39It's quite apparent that you were both drunk.
00:43:42Did you put him to bed on the train?
00:43:44Did you?
00:43:45Did you?
00:43:46What do you mean, did I?
00:43:47What was you doing all the time?
00:43:49Well, I...
00:43:50Go on.
00:43:51I'm waiting.
00:43:53She's the one.
00:43:54Yes, so I gathered.
00:43:57Did you see your husband and his friend bring Paulino on the train?
00:44:00I did not.
00:44:01I've seen him drunk so many times I wouldn't have noticed it.
00:44:04Did any of you see him?
00:44:06Did they?
00:44:07Don't ask me.
00:44:08I was thinking of something else.
00:44:10That's enough.
00:44:11We'll get the girl.
00:44:16Have the prisoner brought in.
00:44:18Now, which one of you met the girl?
00:44:24We both did.
00:44:25You say she hasn't been with the circus for some time?
00:44:28About three years.
00:44:29When you met her, was she going toward the train or away from it?
00:44:36Beer.
00:44:36I bet there was drinking beer.
00:44:39You keep your pants on.
00:44:40A lot you got to say, Roran, drunk yourself.
00:44:43She was going toward the train.
00:44:46Why?
00:44:46If it isn't little Norris's eye when I saw her.
00:44:49I saw her first.
00:44:50She bumped into her.
00:44:53Staggered, more likely.
00:44:54You shut up.
00:44:55Now, listen.
00:44:56You people wait in the outer room.
00:45:07Come in.
00:45:10God bless you, darling.
00:45:15Sit down, Miss Moran.
00:45:24You admit killing, Paulino.
00:45:27Yes.
00:45:28How did you kill him?
00:45:29I told you.
00:45:30I hit him over the head with a whip.
00:45:32What did you do with a whip?
00:45:33I threw it away.
00:45:35Where?
00:45:36From the train.
00:45:38Why did you kill him?
00:45:40That's my business.
00:45:41But it also happens to be the state's business.
00:45:44I've told you I killed him.
00:45:45Isn't that enough?
00:45:46This thing has been going on all morning.
00:45:48Suppose you let me talk with her alone.
00:45:52This is the district attorney.
00:45:55It's my duty to tell you that until you get a lawyer, you don't have to answer any questions you don't want to answer.
00:46:01You can ask me questions, but I won't tell them any more than I told you.
00:46:04What happened?
00:46:17I ran into those women.
00:46:19Shh.
00:46:19Keep it finished, Al.
00:46:20Were you close to the body when you ran into them?
00:46:23No.
00:46:25I put a rock under his head and then I went back for my bag.
00:46:28While I was around the corner, I heard old Jake and Miller coming along.
00:46:32They stumbled over him.
00:46:33They were so drunk they didn't know he was dead.
00:46:35I watched them drag him onto the train.
00:46:38Well, why in the name of heaven did you get on the same train?
00:46:41Couldn't help it.
00:46:43While I was watching them drag Paulino away, those women bumped into me.
00:46:47Scared me so when they recognized me, I went to pieces.
00:46:50I don't remember much until I came to and the train was moving.
00:46:54How did they pin it onto you?
00:46:56Police did that.
00:46:58Circus people tried so hard to hush up my past with Paulino, I guess they overdid it.
00:47:02They all think I killed them on the train during the night.
00:47:05And of all places in the world, the train had to pull in here.
00:47:08Do you realize that I've got to prosecute you?
00:47:10Well, what difference does that make?
00:47:12Somebody else might trace it to the house in Wilchester.
00:47:15You'll know how to keep Dick out of it.
00:47:17You mean you're going through with this?
00:47:19I killed Paulino.
00:47:21I did it to save Dick.
00:47:23And you helped me to keep him out of it.
00:47:26Why should I turn now and undo everything we've done?
00:47:28It would ruin Dick.
00:47:29It would ruin you.
00:47:30No, it wouldn't help me.
00:47:33I'm still guilty of murder.
00:47:35All right.
00:47:36You're guilty of murder and I'm the prosecuting attorney.
00:47:38That's the way it stands.
00:47:39That's the way we're going to go through with it.
00:47:40And let me tell you something else.
00:47:42If you're doing this in the hope that Dick Crawford as governor will grant you a pardon,
00:47:45you may as well forget it.
00:47:46Because that man would sacrifice anything or anyone to satisfy his ambition.
00:47:55You know the rest of it.
00:47:56She went through the entire trial without a word in her own defense.
00:48:00Prosecuted by a man who was as guilty as she was.
00:48:03Sentenced to die by an unsympathetic jury and still never a word.
00:48:07Well, what of it?
00:48:08She was guilty.
00:48:09Well, I certainly don't condone what you did.
00:48:11But it wouldn't have done her any good to drag you into it.
00:48:13Wouldn't have done her any good.
00:48:15Why, any lawyer who knew the whole story could have built up such a case for that girl,
00:48:18the dick would have been run out of the state.
00:48:20I would have been sent to prison for life.
00:48:21And she would have walked out of that courtroom as free as air.
00:48:24Why, think of the case.
00:48:26The girl is being kept by a man in high public office.
00:48:28She commits murder for him.
00:48:29And the district attorney turns around and helps her cover up the murder and then prosecutes her.
00:48:35And furthermore, the murder was not committed in this state.
00:48:37This state had no legal right to try her.
00:48:39I had no legal right to prosecute her.
00:48:41What difference does it make which state tried her?
00:48:44She committed murder.
00:48:46And as for her saying nothing in the courtroom, it's perfectly obvious she did that expecting Dick to get her off.
00:48:51But the one thing in his favor is that he didn't let it influence him when he was faced with his duty.
00:48:56He had the courage and honesty to refuse to save her in spite of who she was.
00:49:00This state had invested him with certain powers and duties.
00:49:04And I'm glad that he at least lived up to that trust.
00:49:06Peter, if I'm making a campaign speech, you're just being a damn fool.
00:49:11And like most wives in your self-righteousness, you refuse to recognize any kind of love but your own.
00:49:18You never understood Dick.
00:49:20Neither one of us ever tried to understand him.
00:49:23He was just something that we kicked about between us to satisfy our own purposes and ambitions.
00:49:26We never considered whether he might want what we offered him.
00:49:30We simply forced him into it.
00:49:32You always made him feel that he was the weaker.
00:49:35You made him look up and be dependent upon you.
00:49:38Nora worshipped him.
00:49:40In her eyes, he was a great man.
00:49:43She never questioned him.
00:49:44She never asked for anything more.
00:49:46He didn't offer him.
00:49:47And through her love, he attained, or I think he attained something that you or I will never experience.
00:49:56Edith.
00:49:58I want to read you a letter.
00:50:01It's from Dick.
00:50:04Sit down.
00:50:04It starts simply, John, I'm going away with Nora.
00:50:15Away?
00:50:16That's how he puts it.
00:50:19You would call me insane if you knew what had happened to me tonight.
00:50:23And my relating it to you may seem an attempt to justify myself.
00:50:27I don't know.
00:50:29But I ask you to visualize the early hours of the evening.
00:50:35Next day.
00:50:36Remember, read on about it.
00:50:38Nor will ran to die at eight.
00:50:39Remember.
00:50:40Governor denied reprieve.
00:50:42Nor will ran to die.
00:50:43Remember.
00:50:44Next day.
00:50:45Remember.
00:50:46Read on about it.
00:50:47Nor will ran to die at eight.
00:50:48Remember.
00:50:51Did you switch a direct line into the governor's office?
00:50:53No.
00:50:54Did he want me to?
00:50:55You tell me where he wants to be and I'll appreciate it.
00:50:57Shall I go back and do it?
00:50:58No.
00:50:58Leave it alone.
00:51:01Governor denies reprieve.
00:51:02Air favor.
00:51:03Read on about it.
00:51:04All the mountains sink as we die at eight.
00:51:05So were ran to die.
00:51:06I tried to shout out the thought of Nora, her faith in me, the happiness we could know.
00:51:31Her happiness in those first few months.
00:51:35But her voice, memories of her, kept coming back.
00:51:39Do you live in New York?
00:51:55I'll stay another week.
00:51:57May I see you again?
00:51:59Of course.
00:52:02When I sent for you, would you come to me?
00:52:05Anywhere.
00:52:06The stove works.
00:52:08The stove works.
00:52:12And the radio works.
00:52:14The fireplace works.
00:52:17It's so lovely to have a house with everything that works.
00:52:19I can't stand it.
00:52:20I can't stand it.
00:52:21Oh, you dog.
00:52:24Do you think we could get the president for three Mondays and four Fridays in the week?
00:52:29Why?
00:52:30But those are the days I see you.
00:52:33Or have there been so many you didn't bother with that?
00:52:37Yes, that's right.
00:52:39There have been so many I didn't bother with that.
00:52:41Men like him who were married.
00:52:43Men.
00:52:59When I left, my actions were those of a stupid schoolboy.
00:53:08Driving away, I began to realize.
00:53:11How could I pass judgment of Noah?
00:53:13I was a married man.
00:53:15Offering her nothing but the question of the security of a house.
00:53:18Pardon my time.
00:53:20And I knew that no matter how many men there had been in her life,
00:53:23there was only one.
00:53:25Now.
00:53:26I went back.
00:53:29I went back.
00:54:00I guess I'm.
00:54:04I knew we were going to meet someday, but I didn't think it was going to be so soon.
00:54:08Don't listen to him. Don't talk to him. Go away, please.
00:54:11Hey, how much is she worse to you?
00:54:29Oh, my God.
00:54:59He's dead.
00:55:29Dead. A murderer.
00:55:44The thought of exposure terrified me.
00:55:45I imagine things.
00:55:58There's no one out there.
00:55:59But I saw a face at the window.
00:56:04You imagined.
00:56:07Perhaps. I don't know.
00:56:09Oh, my God, Nora.
00:56:16But it wasn't your fault.
00:56:18You did it in self-defense, dear.
00:56:20If you hadn't done it, he would have killed you.
00:56:22But I'm the only one who knows that.
00:56:25And when they find out about us, they won't believe anything I have to say.
00:56:28There's no way out.
00:56:29Oh, but there is a way.
00:56:30If you'll only go.
00:56:32Leave you to face this?
00:56:34I wouldn't have to face it.
00:56:36I have a plan.
00:56:37If you'll only leave and trust me.
00:56:39Can't you understand why I'm asking you to do this?
00:56:44Don't you realize that it isn't killing him that will ruin you?
00:56:48It's me.
00:56:49The months we've spent here.
00:56:53They'll take those months from us and spread them across the front page of every newspaper.
00:56:58They'll make them ugly and cheap instead of what they were.
00:57:03I'm not asking you to be cowardly.
00:57:06I'm asking you to let me keep the only happiness I've ever known.
00:57:11You'll go, won't you?
00:57:18No.
00:57:20Yes.
00:57:23No.
00:57:24I don't ask you to believe what happened, Max.
00:57:27I simply say it happened.
00:57:29Don't do that.
00:57:31All right.
00:57:33What are they doing to you?
00:57:35Nothing, dear.
00:57:37They're hurting you.
00:57:38You're frightened.
00:57:39What is there to be frightened of?
00:57:42Death.
00:57:43There's nothing to fear in death.
00:57:46Father Ryan is with me now.
00:57:47I want you to hear what he's saying.
00:57:49And remember it always.
00:57:51It's the prayer for the dead.
00:57:52No.
00:57:53I don't want to hear it.
00:57:54Don't make me hear it.
00:57:55But it's beautiful.
00:57:57Listen.
00:57:58The eternal rest give to them, O Lord.
00:58:01And let perpetual light shine upon them.
00:58:03Eternal rest and perpetual light.
00:58:07Is that frightening?
00:58:08No.
00:58:08Think of it that way.
00:58:12Think of me that way.
00:58:14I can't.
00:58:16All I can think of is that you're dying for something I did.
00:58:19I'm not dying for something you did.
00:58:21I'm dying for all the good things you're going to do.
00:58:24And I'm dying rather than give up something that was precious to me.
00:58:27My life, Matthew.
00:58:29I could have life with you if I told the truth.
00:58:31If I had the courage to tell the truth, I'd be free.
00:58:34They might put me in prison, but I'd be free.
00:58:36I'd be free of Grant.
00:58:37What of your wife?
00:58:38You can't do that to her.
00:58:41She's like him.
00:58:42They're both alike.
00:58:44Dominating, scheming, panning my life.
00:58:45And they always win.
00:58:47I wanted to pardon you, but he wouldn't let me.
00:58:52Why do I say he wouldn't let me?
00:58:55I could have done it.
00:58:57I can do it now.
00:58:59I can phone now and stop it.
00:59:00I can sign an unconditional pardon and you'll be free.
00:59:03What's free, dear?
00:59:04To go out and struggle.
00:59:07And perhaps no more men like Felina.
00:59:09To go on day after day knowing that somewhere in the world you're beginning to hate me.
00:59:14Why should I hate you?
00:59:15Because people change.
00:59:17What will she be 15 years from now?
00:59:20Just someone who can put you behind the bars anytime she wants to.
00:59:24Do you want to go through life waiting for that to happen?
00:59:27Let her die.
00:59:28That was his voice.
00:59:30I didn't think that.
00:59:30He said it.
00:59:31You heard him, didn't you?
00:59:32I wouldn't want you to think I felt that way about you.
00:59:34I know you wouldn't change.
00:59:36You understand.
00:59:36It was his voice.
00:59:37Don't let me die because you're afraid.
00:59:40Let me die because it's my destiny to die.
00:59:43Let me feel that in dying I made it possible for you to go on.
00:59:46You said there was no one there.
00:59:57You looked and you said there was no face at the window.
00:59:59You said I imagined it.
01:00:00You did.
01:00:01And what's he doing here?
01:00:02If he saw me, why doesn't he say something?
01:00:04Why doesn't he come out in the open?
01:00:05What's he waiting for?
01:00:07There's no one there.
01:00:08Yes, there is.
01:00:09And I know what he wants.
01:00:10He's waiting.
01:00:11He's waiting until I let you die.
01:00:13And then I'll have to kill him to keep him from telling.
01:00:14That'll be three murders.
01:00:16The first wasn't murder.
01:00:18You did it in self-defense.
01:00:20If I let them kill you, it'll be murder.
01:00:22And then I'll have to kill him.
01:00:23That'll be three.
01:00:25The first wasn't murder.
01:00:27And the second one hasn't happened.
01:00:29The first wasn't murder and I can stop the second.
01:00:33I'll stop it now.
01:00:35I'll stop it now.
01:00:37Stop it.
01:00:38Stop the execution.
01:00:39I'm the governor and I say stop the execution.
01:00:41I did it, do you hear?
01:00:42I killed him and you can't execute him.
01:00:44I did it.
01:00:54I did it, Nora.
01:01:06At first I couldn't understand her going so quickly.
01:01:10And then I looked at the phone.
01:01:11It was dead.
01:01:16Nora was dead.
01:01:23Did she know that I had tried?
01:01:26I think so.
01:01:27Because her voice came to me.
01:01:29Quiet.
01:01:31Reassuring.
01:01:31There's nothing to fear in death.
01:01:35Listen.
01:01:36Eternal rest give to them, O Lord.
01:01:38And let perpetual light shine upon them.
01:01:41Eternal rest and perpetual light.
01:01:44Is that frightening?
01:01:46I couldn't have put those words in her mouth.
01:01:53She must have been here.
01:01:54I couldn't have put those words in her mouth.
01:01:57She must have been here.
01:01:58I know she was here.
01:02:16I know she was here.
01:02:29So while I can still hear her saying,
01:02:32Eternal rest give to them, O Lord.
01:02:35And let perpetual light shine upon them.
01:02:38It ends there.
01:02:52Or does it begin?
01:02:55I wonder.
01:02:56I know she was here.
01:03:26THE END
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