The Big Combo (1955) is a hard-hitting film noir drenched in shadow, jazz, and moral ambiguity. Directed by Joseph H. Lewis, this crime classic delivers unforgettable cinematography, brutal realism, and a haunting exploration of love, lust, and power.
📽️ Plot Summary:
Police Lt. Leonard Diamond (Cornel Wilde) becomes obsessed with taking down the sadistic crime boss Mr. Brown (Richard Conte). His relentless pursuit leads him deep into a web of corruption, violence, and twisted passion, particularly surrounding Brown’s tormented girlfriend Susan Lowell (Jean Wallace). As Diamond edges closer to the truth, the lines between justice and obsession blur.
🕰️ Year Released: 1955
🎭 Genre: Film Noir, Crime, Drama
🎬 Directed by: Joseph H. Lewis
🎞️ Starring: Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Jean Wallace, Brian Donlevy, Lee Van Cleef, Earl Holliman
🎯 Why Watch It?
✔️ Classic noir with iconic high-contrast shadow cinematography
✔️ Richard Conte’s chilling performance as a ruthless mob boss
✔️ A powerful mix of crime, passion, and psychological depth
✔️ Joseph H. Lewis’s stylish direction at its finest
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📽️ Plot Summary:
Police Lt. Leonard Diamond (Cornel Wilde) becomes obsessed with taking down the sadistic crime boss Mr. Brown (Richard Conte). His relentless pursuit leads him deep into a web of corruption, violence, and twisted passion, particularly surrounding Brown’s tormented girlfriend Susan Lowell (Jean Wallace). As Diamond edges closer to the truth, the lines between justice and obsession blur.
🕰️ Year Released: 1955
🎭 Genre: Film Noir, Crime, Drama
🎬 Directed by: Joseph H. Lewis
🎞️ Starring: Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Jean Wallace, Brian Donlevy, Lee Van Cleef, Earl Holliman
🎯 Why Watch It?
✔️ Classic noir with iconic high-contrast shadow cinematography
✔️ Richard Conte’s chilling performance as a ruthless mob boss
✔️ A powerful mix of crime, passion, and psychological depth
✔️ Joseph H. Lewis’s stylish direction at its finest
🔔 Don’t forget to LIKE 👍 | COMMENT 💬 | SUBSCRIBE 🔔 for more shadowy film noir classics & public domain treasures!
👇 Explore More Noir & Crime Gems Here:
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🌑🎺 When the city is ruled by shadows, obsession becomes the deadliest weapon of all…
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00:01:58Please let me go.
00:02:20We can't do that, Miss Lowell.
00:02:22Mr. Brown, you should see the fight.
00:02:24It's only the third round.
00:02:25I'll go back.
00:02:26Just let me go by myself.
00:02:28Mr. Brown is mad already.
00:02:29We lost you for two minutes.
00:02:31I promise I won't run away.
00:02:33Where would I go?
00:02:35All right, let her go.
00:02:53I've changed my mind.
00:02:56I don't want to see the fights.
00:02:59I'm hungry.
00:03:01Call a cab.
00:03:05Call a cab.
00:03:06But Mr. Brown wants to...
00:03:07Mr. Brown says to keep her happy.
00:03:09Call a cab.
00:03:09John's first step back.
00:03:13All right.
00:03:19He's going to get to it.
00:03:24I don't think over...
00:03:26I don't know.
00:03:28I don't understand who was that.
00:03:31It's a light.
00:03:32I don't want to see it.
00:03:33I don't know.
00:03:33It's not easy.
00:03:34I don't know.
00:03:36I don't know.
00:03:379th Precinct, Sergeant Lee.
00:03:48Captain Peterson.
00:03:50Yes, sir, I know, sir.
00:03:51Lieutenant?
00:03:52He's on duty, sir.
00:03:53But he's still in his office.
00:03:54I know, I know.
00:03:561B3, roger.
00:03:59Well, I mean, it's good to see you relax for a change.
00:04:02Good evening, Captain.
00:04:04Anything urgent?
00:04:05Urgent?
00:04:05No.
00:04:07Anything urgent, I leave to my subordinates.
00:04:09There's some good 10-cent cigars in there.
00:04:11Thanks, I'm off cigars.
00:04:13Brandy.
00:04:14My doctor's got me off everything worth living for.
00:04:17Almost.
00:04:20Leonard.
00:04:20Yes, sir.
00:04:21There's got to be a stop to your complete disregard of the taxpayers' money.
00:04:25I paid for this apple out of my own pocket, Captain.
00:04:27Leonard, you've spent $18,600 in the last six months investigating one man.
00:04:33A single man.
00:04:34Brown's not a man.
00:04:36He's an organization.
00:04:38And I need money to fight money.
00:04:41Look, Lieutenant.
00:04:42I've got nothing against you personally.
00:04:44I admire you.
00:04:45You've got too many brains, but that's not your fault.
00:04:49Now, what about this $18,600?
00:04:51How am I going to explain this to the commissioner?
00:04:54Well, I dictated an explanation, if you want to use it.
00:05:01Memorandum to Captain Peterson covering expenditures of the 93rd Precinct Station.
00:05:06The combination is growing stronger every day.
00:05:08The only way to crush it is to get the top man.
00:05:11When Grazi left the country, Brown...
00:05:13What do you think this is?
00:05:16A homicide investigation?
00:05:18You're dealing with the largest pool of illegal money in the world.
00:05:21You're fighting a swamp with a teaspoon.
00:05:25Combination keeps no books, no records.
00:05:27Everything's run on word of mouth and hard cash.
00:05:30That's their one weakness.
00:05:31What?
00:05:32They have to have a treasurer.
00:05:34So, and I know his name.
00:05:36The name of a man who can pick up a phone and call Chicago and New Orleans and say,
00:05:39Hey, Bill, Joe's coming down for the weekend.
00:05:42Advance him $50,000.
00:05:44And he hangs up the phone and the money's advanced.
00:05:46Protection money.
00:05:48A new all-night bar opens with gambling outside city limits.
00:05:53A bunch of high school kids come in for a good time.
00:05:55They get loaded.
00:05:56They get irresponsible.
00:05:58They lose their shirts.
00:05:59And they get a gun.
00:06:01Because they're worried.
00:06:02They want to make up their losses.
00:06:03In a filling station, a tenant is dead with a bullet in his liver.
00:06:08I have to see four kids on trial for first-degree murder.
00:06:11Look at it.
00:06:12First-degree murder because a certain Mr. Brown picks up a phone.
00:06:16You can't touch, Brown.
00:06:17He's clean.
00:06:18He's got nothing on him.
00:06:20Not even the parking.
00:06:21Now, why is he so careful?
00:06:22It's unnatural.
00:06:23You can't tell the jury a man's guilty because he's too innocent to be natural.
00:06:26He's no more innocent than this gun.
00:06:27Oh, now, stop getting emotional, let it.
00:06:29He's innocent until he's proven guilty.
00:06:32Yes, Captain.
00:06:35Is there anything else, Captain?
00:06:39Yes.
00:06:40It's a girl.
00:06:42Susan Lowell.
00:06:43You've had a tail on her for six months.
00:06:46Why?
00:06:49She's Brown's girl.
00:06:51She's our most valuable lead.
00:06:52We know next to nothing about Brown, but a woman knows.
00:06:57She makes it her business to know.
00:06:59If I can get hold of her and make her talk.
00:07:00Oh, Leonard, you've spent six months trying.
00:07:03She went to Vegas, you went to Vegas.
00:07:05Yeah.
00:07:05She flew to Cuba, you flew to Cuba.
00:07:08Couldn't get authorization for the expense.
00:07:09Fade it out of your own pocket?
00:07:10I had to.
00:07:11You wouldn't back me up.
00:07:12No, I'm not in love with her, Leonard.
00:07:13You are.
00:07:14This is off the record, Leonard.
00:07:34It's between friends.
00:07:37Try to face facts.
00:07:38I can't bear to think of her in the arms of this foot.
00:07:45Forget her.
00:07:49You're a cop, Leonard.
00:07:50There's 17,000 laws on the books to be enforced.
00:07:53You haven't time to reform wayward girls.
00:07:57She's been with Brown three and a half years.
00:08:00It's a lot of days.
00:08:02And nights.
00:08:05Face it, Leonard.
00:08:08Glad you agree.
00:08:10Just don't run away.
00:08:39We'd only have to come after you.
00:08:40Mr. Brown wouldn't like that.
00:08:44Mr. Audubon.
00:08:46Susan.
00:08:47Well, I'm glad to see you.
00:08:50How are you?
00:08:50It's been years.
00:08:52Well, you look so different somehow, Susan.
00:08:54Well, I hardly recognized you.
00:08:56Oh, I'm just the same, Mr. Audubon.
00:08:58How's your lovely mother?
00:08:59She's in England someplace.
00:09:01I haven't kept track.
00:09:02I should think you'd have gone along.
00:09:04I hear that Bladovich is playing a Beethoven cycle.
00:09:06Oh, I haven't the interest I once had in the piano, Mr. Audubon.
00:09:10Well, now, I'm disappointed.
00:09:12You don't play anymore.
00:09:14The only thing I play now, Mr. Audubon, is stud poker.
00:09:21Will you dance with me, Mr. Audubon?
00:09:23Well, certainly, Susan.
00:09:24You all right?
00:09:26Oh, of course, of course.
00:09:28The day, Mr. Brown, lets go our little lady.
00:09:43I'll do it personally.
00:09:52Mr. Audubon.
00:09:53Susan.
00:09:54I've taken some pills.
00:09:56I think I've died.
00:09:56It's Susan.
00:09:59Oh, my God.
00:09:59It's so funny.
00:10:01It's not over, I think.
00:10:02Oh, my God.
00:10:03Oh, my God.
00:10:04Give her hair.
00:10:05What happened?
00:10:06Good girl.
00:10:06Let's get through.
00:10:07There you go.
00:10:08It's right here.
00:10:08Let's get over.
00:10:09Let's get over.
00:10:10How do you feel now, Benny?
00:10:26Lost.
00:10:27I feel terrible, Mr. Brown.
00:10:29You kept fighting, Benny.
00:10:31You've got heart.
00:10:32Lost three of my teeth, too.
00:10:33All right.
00:10:34So you lost.
00:10:34Next time you'll win.
00:10:35I'll show you how.
00:10:37Take a look at Joe McClure here.
00:10:39He used to be my boss.
00:10:41Now I'm his.
00:10:42What's the difference between me and him?
00:10:44We breathe the same air, sleep in the same hotel.
00:10:48He used to own it.
00:10:50Now it belongs to me.
00:10:52We eat the same steaks, drink the same bourbon.
00:10:55Look.
00:10:56Same manicure.
00:10:57Same cufflinks.
00:10:59But there's only one difference.
00:11:00We don't get the same girls.
00:11:02Why?
00:11:03Because women know the difference.
00:11:05They've got instinct.
00:11:07First is first, and second is nobody.
00:11:09The best man won tonight, Mr. Brown.
00:11:11You were better than Martinez.
00:11:13Only you threw it away.
00:11:14You step in the ring and shake hands with him.
00:11:16You want to be his friend, and you want to fight him.
00:11:18No, Benny, no.
00:11:20Mr. Brown, shut the door.
00:11:24Now, Benny, who runs the world?
00:11:26Have you any idea?
00:11:28Not me, Mr. Brown.
00:11:29That's right, not you.
00:11:31But a funny thing.
00:11:32They're not so much different from you.
00:11:34They've got something.
00:11:36They've got it, and they use it.
00:11:37I've got it.
00:11:38He hasn't.
00:11:39So what is it, Benny?
00:11:41What makes the difference?
00:11:45Hate.
00:11:46Hate is the word, Benny.
00:11:48Hate the man who tries to beat you.
00:11:50Kill him, Benny, kill him.
00:11:51Hate him till you see Red and you'll come out winning the big money.
00:11:55And the girls will come tumbling after.
00:11:56You'll have to shut off your phone and lock the door to get a nice rest.
00:12:04Get on your feet, Benny.
00:12:13What did you do that for, Mr. Brown?
00:12:16You should have hit me back.
00:12:17You haven't got the hate.
00:12:20Tear up Benny's contract.
00:12:21He's not good to me anymore.
00:12:22Where's Susan in the car?
00:12:29I tried to tell you before, Mr. Brown.
00:12:30Tell me what?
00:12:31She's in General Hospital.
00:12:33What happened?
00:12:34She took some pills.
00:12:37Get the car and bring it around.
00:12:39Buy me some cigarettes.
00:12:40You can't sell them.
00:12:49Fourth end, Broadway.
00:12:51You got to buy me.
00:12:54You got to buy me.
00:12:59You got to buy me.
00:12:59You got to buy me.
00:13:08You got to buy me.
00:13:09Where is she?
00:13:15General Hospital.
00:13:17She's dying.
00:13:33You can take her to the prison ward now.
00:13:37Hello, Lieutenant.
00:13:38This is Mr. Brown.
00:13:42What do you want, Mr. Brown?
00:13:44Joe, tell the man I want her out.
00:13:45Mr. Brown would like to have Miss Lowell released.
00:13:47He'll put her in a private hospital.
00:13:48Is he a relative?
00:13:49Not exactly.
00:13:50Married to her?
00:13:50Just a personal friend.
00:13:51Yeah, visiting days are Tuesdays and Fridays.
00:13:53I don't know how you two got in here.
00:13:54You can get out the way you came in.
00:13:55Tell the man I'm not that excited.
00:13:57Mr. Brown is a very reasonable man.
00:13:59You don't know him.
00:14:01Oh, is he?
00:14:02Well, I am not.
00:14:03And I intend to make life very difficult for your Mr. Brown.
00:14:06You shouldn't talk like that, Lieutenant.
00:14:08You're overstepping your authority.
00:14:09Joe, the man has reason to hate me.
00:14:11His salary is $96.50 a week.
00:14:13The busboys in my hotel make better money than that.
00:14:16Don't you see, Joe?
00:14:17He's a righteous man.
00:14:18Personal feelings mean nothing to him.
00:14:21My girl's dying in a public hospital and I want her out.
00:14:23She's under arrest, Mr. Brown.
00:14:25What's the charge?
00:14:26Homicide.
00:14:26It's ridiculous.
00:14:27She wouldn't kill a fly.
00:14:28She tried to kill herself.
00:14:30Is that a crime?
00:14:31It happens to be against two laws, gods and mans.
00:14:33I'm booking her under the second.
00:14:35Tell the man if he puts her on trial out.
00:14:37She's under arrest, Mr. Brown.
00:15:07Joe, tell the man I'm going to break him so fast he won't have time to change his pants.
00:15:16Tell him the next time I see him he'll be down in the lobby of the hotel crying like a baby and asking for a $10 loan.
00:15:21Tell him that.
00:15:22And tell him I don't break my word.
00:15:24He must have done something pretty fine to get as high as you are, Mr. Brown.
00:15:28I'm looking into that.
00:15:30I'm going to open you up and I'm going to operate.
00:15:32I hate to think of what I'll find.
00:15:37But I tell you, Joe, a righteous man.
00:15:48Miss Lowell, do you hear me, Miss Lowell?
00:15:58Are you a doctor?
00:16:00My name is Diamond.
00:16:01I'm a detective.
00:16:04You let me alone?
00:16:05I have to ask you certain questions and you'll have to answer them.
00:16:09I feel so cold.
00:16:11Can't they turn on the heat?
00:16:13Can you get some hot coffee, please?
00:16:14If you'd get up and walk, you'd be a lot better off.
00:16:16I want to go to sleep.
00:16:18Just let me sleep.
00:16:20Here.
00:16:21Just take some of this.
00:16:22Come on.
00:16:24You're very kind.
00:16:26Everyone's kind.
00:16:28I don't deserve it.
00:16:30Come on, I'll take a little of it.
00:16:31That's it.
00:16:37It's good.
00:16:39Why did you try to kill yourself?
00:16:43I don't know why.
00:16:44I can't remember.
00:16:45Please let me go to sleep.
00:16:46Were you jealous?
00:16:47Is that why?
00:16:47Was there another woman?
00:16:48Please, please.
00:16:49There was another woman, wasn't there?
00:16:50You mentioned her name, Alicia.
00:16:51Is that right?
00:16:55What about Alicia?
00:16:56Was Mr. Brown seeing Alicia?
00:16:58No, I don't know.
00:17:00I don't know who she is.
00:17:01Then how do you know her name?
00:17:02I don't know.
00:17:03You must know.
00:17:04You kept repeating it.
00:17:05Where'd you first hear it?
00:17:06I never heard it.
00:17:09I saw it.
00:17:10Where'd you see it?
00:17:11On a letter?
00:17:12In his apartment.
00:17:13It was raining outside and there was a mist on the window.
00:17:23He was writing a name on it with his finger like this.
00:17:27A moist glass.
00:17:31Alicia.
00:17:33And when he saw me, he rubbed it out.
00:17:38Oh, I'm so cold.
00:17:39Where's Alicia now?
00:17:41I don't know.
00:17:43Didn't you ask him?
00:17:44He wouldn't tell me.
00:17:49What was that?
00:17:51Oh, the diesel truck's going by.
00:17:52It's almost morning.
00:17:53But Brown upset when you asked him about Alicia.
00:17:55I don't know any Alicia.
00:17:56Don't touch me.
00:17:57Go away.
00:17:58Please go away.
00:17:59You think you're the bright, respectable girl you were four years ago.
00:18:01You're not.
00:18:01You attempted suicide.
00:18:02You're under arrest.
00:18:03You could be sentenced to jail for six months.
00:18:05Nurse, may I have some water, please?
00:18:07Miss Lowell, answer one question.
00:18:09No.
00:18:10Who is Alicia?
00:18:11You tell me.
00:18:12Get on your feet.
00:18:15There's a man downstairs with a writ of habeas corpus.
00:18:18Already?
00:18:19It's McClaw.
00:18:19What did I tell him?
00:18:20You know what habeas corpus means, Sam?
00:18:22I know what it does.
00:18:24It's Latin.
00:18:25It means you may have the body.
00:18:27Mr. Brown may have it.
00:18:28Sam.
00:18:35We're going to find out who Alicia is.
00:18:39I want you to pick up every hood who works for Brown.
00:18:42And pick up Brown himself.
00:18:44I want you to pick up.
00:19:14What happened?
00:19:25He's crazy.
00:19:27Who?
00:19:27Diamond.
00:19:28He's crazy.
00:19:29What happened, McClure?
00:19:31When they picked us up, I mentioned your name.
00:19:34You know what they said?
00:19:37Quit shaking.
00:19:38What did he ask you?
00:19:40A girl's name.
00:19:41That's all he could ask me.
00:19:42He just kept asking me this girl's name.
00:19:45Like he was nuts.
00:19:47He's crazy.
00:19:48What girl?
00:19:49They knocked her out of my head.
00:19:52I don't know.
00:19:53Alice something or another.
00:19:55Alicia, that's what it was.
00:19:56Alicia.
00:19:57What did you tell him?
00:19:59Exactly what I know.
00:20:01Nothing.
00:20:02That's right, Fanny.
00:20:03You know nothing.
00:20:04Absolutely nothing.
00:20:06Don't forget it.
00:20:06I've got a right to make a phone call.
00:20:18What do you want to call?
00:20:19Mr. Brown.
00:20:20Mr. Brown's a little busy right now.
00:20:22In conference with Mr. Diamond.
00:20:26You know, legally, I don't have to submit to this test.
00:20:28I know.
00:20:29We appreciate your cooperation, Mr. Brown.
00:20:31And if I say no?
00:20:33Well, if you say no, I have a lot of questions to ask.
00:20:36You may be sitting in that chair for a couple of days.
00:20:37This way I can tell if you're lying in a few minutes.
00:20:40Well, go ahead, lad.
00:20:41Let's get it over with.
00:20:43Picking me up for peddling without a license.
00:20:45You could have thought of something better than that, Lieutenant.
00:20:46I'd prefer it to be suspicion of murder, but we had none today.
00:20:52I would have been happy to accommodate you.
00:20:54A police lieutenant.
00:20:57Now, I'm going to say one word at a time.
00:20:59Most of them won't mean a thing to you.
00:21:01But I want you to say whatever pops into your head.
00:21:03Like if I say sweet, if I say sugar.
00:21:06If I say police, if I say 96.50.
00:21:10Apple.
00:21:11Pear.
00:21:12Blue.
00:21:13Ocean.
00:21:14Brown.
00:21:15Mr. Brown to you.
00:21:16Only my friends call me, Brown.
00:21:20Water.
00:21:22Whiskey.
00:21:23Gun.
00:21:24Permit.
00:21:25Spaghetti.
00:21:25Bettini.
00:21:28What? What's that?
00:21:30What's what?
00:21:31Bettini.
00:21:33Spaghetti joint on the north side.
00:21:35Since when? Never heard of it.
00:21:37You couldn't afford it.
00:21:39Go ahead, John.
00:21:40Women.
00:21:41Expensive.
00:21:42Snow.
00:21:43White.
00:21:44Alicia.
00:21:45All right.
00:21:48What was her name again?
00:21:49A woman's name.
00:21:51Alicia.
00:21:53No.
00:21:53No what?
00:21:54I said no.
00:21:55You want me to say it again?
00:21:56You know Alicia, don't you?
00:21:57Sure.
00:21:58Who is she?
00:21:59A two-year-old filly that broke her leg in the Jamaica Stakes.
00:22:02I lost ten grand.
00:22:03You're lying, Mr. Brown.
00:22:04When you heard Alicia, your heart went bang.
00:22:07You don't lie with your blood pressure.
00:22:09You know what this means?
00:22:10It means you're scared.
00:22:11And Mr. Brown isn't scared of a horse.
00:22:13Who is she?
00:22:13What does she mean to you?
00:22:16That's a crime.
00:22:17Book me.
00:22:19Book me, small change.
00:22:20All right, take him out, Sam.
00:22:24To the bullpen?
00:22:26No.
00:22:27Back to the gutter.
00:22:33Mr. Brown is a very influential citizen.
00:22:36I got 14 calls from the commissioner today.
00:22:39The 15th caught me.
00:22:41One more call and I'm out.
00:22:45Leonard, what were you doing?
00:22:47Just give me one possible explanation.
00:22:48That's all I ask.
00:22:49I was following a lead.
00:22:51I was being logical.
00:22:5396 false arrests.
00:22:56How am I going to explain?
00:22:57You only have to explain 95.
00:23:00Sam, what will I do with Leonard?
00:23:03Tell me what to do.
00:23:04Just give me another 18,000 for the Brown case.
00:23:07The Brown case is closed.
00:23:09Tapu, schloss.
00:23:10The end.
00:23:11No more.
00:23:12Case closed.
00:23:18Hey, Sam.
00:23:24What was the name of that hood we failed to pick up?
00:23:28Ralph Bettini.
00:23:30How long ago did he drop out of sight?
00:23:32About seven years ago.
00:23:34Why?
00:23:35That's about the same time that Grazie left the country and Brown took over.
00:23:39Yeah.
00:23:40So?
00:23:42Take a look at that graph.
00:23:43You see how it jumped after he said Bettini?
00:23:49Bettini's was the only warrant we failed to serve.
00:23:53He hasn't been around for years.
00:23:54Maybe he's dead.
00:23:55No, he's not.
00:23:56I checked the morgue.
00:23:58The files is nothing.
00:24:01Why don't you go home?
00:24:03Get some rest.
00:24:04Oh, I've got a call to make first.
00:24:07Leonard,
00:24:08Peterson meant what he said.
00:24:12You cross them means we're both out.
00:24:15What can we lose?
00:24:1696.50 a week?
00:24:38Oh, you've certainly got a nerve.
00:25:07Hi, Rita.
00:25:09What's on your mind?
00:25:10As if I didn't know.
00:25:12Oh, I thought maybe we could go dancing.
00:25:14I've been dancing, Lieutenant.
00:25:16Furthermore, you haven't been around here for six months.
00:25:19And furthermore, if you want a date, do what the others do.
00:25:21Call me first.
00:25:23A week in advance.
00:25:24Well, Rita, I'm giving a party tonight.
00:25:27I thought maybe you'd like to come.
00:25:30Party?
00:25:31Who's going to be there?
00:25:33Just you and me.
00:25:35Jokes stinks.
00:25:36Lieutenant, either book me or let go my arm.
00:25:45Leonard.
00:25:48Leonard!
00:25:57Take me to the party.
00:25:58You're a beautiful girl, Rita.
00:26:09But you're stupid.
00:26:11Can't say anything nice without spoiling it.
00:26:14Why do you waste your time with a cop?
00:26:18Could get me a nice, rich hoodlum.
00:26:21You should be able to recommend one with your connections.
00:26:24What is there about a hoodlum that appeals to certain women?
00:26:28Hoodlums, detectives.
00:26:30Woman doesn't care how a man makes his living.
00:26:34Only how he makes love.
00:26:35Who is she, Leonard?
00:26:41I'm stupid, Leonard.
00:26:42About everything but men.
00:26:44Them, I know.
00:26:48Give me my shoes.
00:26:49I'm going home.
00:26:54Put them on for me.
00:26:56When she hurts you again, baby,
00:27:09don't wait six months.
00:27:11Yes, I'm having a drink.
00:27:33Well, don't look at me as if I were a lush.
00:27:36That music, turn it off.
00:27:39I enjoy it.
00:27:40I said, turn it off.
00:27:44What are we so cheerful about today?
00:27:47Where did you get that outfit?
00:27:49What's wrong with it?
00:27:50I like you better in white.
00:27:51You've got a dozen white dresses.
00:27:52Why don't you wear them?
00:27:54White doesn't please me anymore.
00:27:55A woman dresses for a man.
00:27:57You dress for me.
00:27:57Go around something white.
00:27:59I won't.
00:28:04What's the matter with you?
00:28:06What have I done now?
00:28:08Before I came in,
00:28:08when you were playing that record,
00:28:09what were you thinking?
00:28:11I was trying to remember
00:28:12how I fell in love with you.
00:28:14It's so hard to remember.
00:28:17A girl's first love shouldn't be.
00:28:19It should be her only.
00:28:21Maybe that's why I can't leave you.
00:28:24We'll talk about love some other time.
00:28:26Do you know what I've been doing?
00:28:27What's been happening?
00:28:29People tell me all sorts of things.
00:28:31I don't listen.
00:28:34I didn't ask you before.
00:28:35You were sick.
00:28:37What did Diamond tell you?
00:28:41Diamond.
00:28:42Lieutenant Diamond.
00:28:43Detective.
00:28:4493 Precinct.
00:28:46He killed you for three hours in the hospital.
00:28:47What did he tell you?
00:28:49Kept asking me about a girl.
00:28:50What girl?
00:28:52Her name was Alicia.
00:28:53Who's she?
00:28:54I don't know.
00:28:56He was very insistent.
00:28:58What was her name again?
00:28:59Alicia.
00:29:04Doesn't mean a thing to me.
00:29:14Susan, tell me.
00:29:15Come on.
00:29:16What's bothering you?
00:29:17I hate and despise you.
00:29:25Susan, what are you trying to do?
00:29:27Drive me, Bats.
00:29:29What do you want, Susan?
00:29:30Tell me.
00:29:32I'll give you anything you want.
00:29:33Tell me.
00:29:33Nothing.
00:29:34Anything at all.
00:29:34Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing.
00:29:37Nothing.
00:29:46Lieutenant, you had a call while the captain was in.
00:29:49I didn't want to disturb you.
00:29:50Who?
00:29:51She just said Rita. She wanted to see you and said you'd know where.
00:29:53Thanks.
00:30:04Say, Lieutenant.
00:30:11Hi, Pop.
00:30:12If you're looking for Rita, she's an addressing.
00:30:15Thanks.
00:30:21Hi, Rita.
00:30:22You certainly took your time getting here.
00:30:24Oh, come on. I've had a bad day. Don't give me any more.
00:30:26What I've got to tell you is not good.
00:30:28Fix this for me, ladies.
00:30:29I'll tell it.
00:30:30You're a court pinching half the town.
00:30:33There's a big mat on you and it's burning all over.
00:30:36Is that it?
00:30:37If I'm quoting a price on you, you'd better take a vacation.
00:30:40Where'd you hear?
00:30:41It's all around. I picked up bits here and there.
00:30:43What are you going to do?
00:30:44That's what I've been doing anymore.
00:30:46Are you trying to...
00:30:48Are you trying to get yourself killed, Leonard?
00:30:51Brown doesn't kill to get what he wants, he buys.
00:30:54Then you'd better sell out or start running.
00:30:56Well, you're really worried about me.
00:30:58A little.
00:31:00That's enough.
00:31:01That's enough.
00:31:03It's a lot for me.
00:31:04That's the music.
00:31:10Leonard.
00:31:11Yeah?
00:31:12When will I see you again?
00:31:13Well, if I'm not dead, you'll find me where I always am.
00:31:15In jail.
00:31:16Shut up. Let's get him out of here.
00:31:32When is he going?
00:31:34What are you doing?
00:31:35That's fine.
00:31:36It's a lot.
00:31:37I have to save you.
00:31:38That's all.
00:31:39Oh, that's a lot.
00:31:41Shut up. Let's get him out of here.
00:31:42I'm not going to be here.
00:31:43I'm sorry.
00:32:02When's he gonna wake up? Christmas?
00:32:04Shoot me with my own gun. That's what gets me.
00:32:08Fanny!
00:32:09Let me wake him up.
00:32:10Leave him alone.
00:32:12Mr. Brown doesn't want to draw any blood or show any marks.
00:32:15Talk to Mr. Brown.
00:32:18Let me have him, Fanny.
00:32:19Two minutes is all I'll need.
00:32:21What for?
00:32:22I want to ask him one question.
00:32:24All right, go ahead. It's all yours.
00:32:27But first...
00:32:29Pay.
00:32:31Fanny, we're friends. You don't hold up a friend.
00:32:34Pay.
00:32:35Didn't Mr. Brown pay you?
00:32:36You're not Mr. Brown.
00:32:38For Mr. Brown, I'd snitch a judge from a superior court.
00:32:41For a chocolate soda.
00:32:43Same goes for Mingo.
00:32:44Right, Mingo?
00:32:45Yeah.
00:32:48How much?
00:32:49A hundred.
00:32:50For Mingo, too.
00:32:51What?
00:32:52A hundred.
00:32:53Each.
00:32:58Mingo.
00:32:59Thanks, Fanny.
00:33:04Now ask him all the questions you want.
00:33:20What did you pick me up for?
00:33:21I asked you a question. Why did you pick me up?
00:33:30I'm talking to you. Answer me.
00:33:33Why'd you pick me up?
00:33:39There he is, Mr. Brown.
00:33:40I was softening him up for you.
00:33:42I did a pretty good job.
00:33:44I told you not to touch him.
00:33:45I didn't hurt him. We're still legal.
00:33:47What's the problem with you, McClure, is that you never took time to learn technique.
00:33:52Fanny, Mingo, bring that radio over here.
00:34:00Turn it on.
00:34:06I only want to borrow it, Joe.
00:34:07I want to borrow it, Joe.
00:34:12Will Joey Cohen please look under the frigid air?
00:34:16Here's one of their current progenies, Martin.
00:34:19We're going to give the lieutenant a little concert.
00:34:24That's too loud. Turn it down.
00:34:29Can you hear me, lieutenant?
00:34:30I just want to ask you one question and then you can go.
00:34:39What are you looking for?
00:34:40Maybe I can help you.
00:34:44What about Alicia?
00:34:46What's your information?
00:34:47Arresting all my friends.
00:34:49Phony warrants.
00:34:51What's behind it?
00:34:58Mingo, try it.
00:35:00Don't be stubborn, lieutenant.
00:35:11What about Alicia?
00:35:17Why don't you ask yourself?
00:35:26There's a nice break coming up a kid on drums.
00:35:29Real crazy.
00:35:32You like crazy drums, lieutenant?
00:35:34Have a good time.
00:35:35I think Mr. Diamond needs a drink.
00:36:00Got any liquor?
00:36:05How about some paint thinner?
00:36:07No, that'll kill him.
00:36:08Anything else?
00:36:11Hair tonic, 40% alcohol.
00:36:12Fine.
00:36:15Come down here and hold his hair panty.
00:36:16hard to know, 20, 60 embeds it.
00:36:21Nice 하지만種.
00:36:24He wasり, by the way he had to warm.
00:36:26It's a cold, man.
00:36:27Now he has to look at his stove he got a damn treat.
00:36:28This is our duty...
00:36:28...
00:36:29...
00:36:30...
00:36:31Oat Veer...
00:36:32You're so tired.
00:36:34How many SEE?
00:36:35I will try his stimulant despite hiserv cocktail.
00:36:37I will not get close to him.
00:36:39That's special.
00:36:39We will try to get too much watching.
00:36:40Nice and fresh people to open you.
00:36:41Man,
00:36:42How many are you going to ask him?
00:36:43Look at that drunken cop isn't that a shame
00:37:13What are you doing here, well, well, you're drunk, my congratulations
00:37:43Come here
00:37:49Call him, grab one of my own officers, slug him, torture him
00:37:53You were right, Leonard, they're afraid of something
00:37:55Alicia
00:37:56Well, that's the start
00:37:58Let's go to work on Brown
00:38:00I'd like to start by picking up Brown and company
00:38:02No, you can't, they outsmarted you
00:38:04Take a look in the mirror, there's not a mark on you
00:38:06No
00:38:07You were drunk, you came here on your own
00:38:09That's the defense
00:38:10And it's airtight, Leonard
00:38:11That's why Brown delivered you here
00:38:13His chief witness is me, Peterson
00:38:15I'm sorry, Leonard
00:38:16Alicia, Alicia, Alicia
00:38:19They don't know if it's a horse, a boat or a girl
00:38:23What else have you got?
00:38:24Another name cropped up, Bettini
00:38:26Bettini?
00:38:27Where does he fit in?
00:38:28Out of 97 warrants, he was the only one he couldn't pick up
00:38:31He turned up again on Brown's lie detection
00:38:34Sit down, Leonard
00:38:35Yeah, brother, yeah
00:38:36He was Grazzi's right-hand man, before Brown, before McClure, from my generation
00:38:41He dropped out when Grazzi had to leave the country
00:38:43What, dead?
00:38:44No, scared
00:38:45He didn't fit in with Brown's new setup
00:38:47None of the old crowd did
00:38:49Bettini didn't wait around and get himself killed
00:38:52Turned to honest citizen, changed his name, went into hiding
00:38:56You know where?
00:38:58Did him a favor once
00:38:59Could have put him away for something he didn't do
00:39:01But I let it pass
00:39:03He didn't deserve it, considering all the times he was guilty
00:39:06I didn't have the evidence
00:39:08Tell me where to find him
00:39:09He's scared, Leonard, too scared to talk
00:39:12If he's that scared, he'll listen
00:39:26Come in
00:39:50Come in
00:39:56Not yet
00:39:57Just a minute
00:39:59That's all I ask, just a minute
00:40:01Let me turn off the stove
00:40:04Could cause a fire
00:40:06Lots of nice old people in the building, okay?
00:40:12I've been waiting for you a long time
00:40:15You look like such a nice young fella
00:40:19That Brown sure knows how to pick him
00:40:22I would never have suspected
00:40:26Can I lie down and make it easier?
00:40:33Come closer
00:40:35One shot ought to do it
00:40:37You're not going to die, Mr. Bettini
00:40:40I've got no money to offer you
00:40:42I've got something to offer you
00:40:44Don't fool with me, young fella
00:40:46Get it over with
00:40:47Mr. Brown didn't send me
00:40:49My name is Diamond, Lieutenant Diamond, 93rd Precinct
00:40:56If you'll help me
00:40:58I can put your nightmare away
00:41:01I can
00:41:05I can't even help myself, how can I help you?
00:41:08I'm looking for a name
00:41:10Alicia
00:41:11You ever hear of her?
00:41:13Mean anything to you?
00:41:14Alicia
00:41:19Was Brown's wife
00:41:21Who told you?
00:41:22She told me
00:41:25She was a good girl
00:41:28Helped you right off the farm
00:41:31Brown married the one who was a prison guard
00:41:34Two years later she was a lush
00:41:37Drink anything
00:41:43Then
00:41:44Brown got tired of her
00:41:47So he got rid of her
00:41:55Take your time, Mr. Bettini
00:41:56He was on Grazi's boat
00:41:59Three days out for Portugal
00:42:03Alicia came to the table drunk
00:42:08Brown told her to go sleep it off
00:42:11She called her name
00:42:13Grazi laughed
00:42:15Now Brown
00:42:17I remember the look on Brown's face
00:42:20And then he hit her
00:42:21And she got up from the table
00:42:24And she pulled off her wedding ring
00:42:26It was hard to pull off
00:42:27It must have been
00:42:29Grunt to her finger
00:42:31She pulled it off and threw it in the ocean
00:42:35Then what?
00:42:37Then she went to her cabin
00:42:41I never seen her again
00:42:43What happened to her?
00:42:48How do you know?
00:42:49I know Brown
00:42:52I know Brown too, but that's no evidence
00:42:55Then
00:42:57There was the ship's anchor
00:42:59What about it?
00:43:01We stopped at the SOA's
00:43:04The skipper went ashore and got another one
00:43:08You think she was murdered
00:43:10And tied to the ship's anchor
00:43:11And dropped into the sea?
00:43:13I don't know which came first
00:43:15I jumped ship the moment we landed
00:43:17Who was the skipper?
00:43:23Some Swede
00:43:25What was his name?
00:43:27I never talked to the man
00:43:29What did it look like?
00:43:31A uniform, who looks in the uniform?
00:43:34It's important, Mr. Bettini
00:43:40If the anchor was used, the skipper would surely know
00:43:43He'd have to be paid off
00:43:46Or killed off
00:43:48Now try, please try to remember his name
00:43:50Go away, leave me alone
00:43:54Seven years, I don't talk to nobody
00:43:56Now I talk too much
00:43:58You'll have to come with me, Mr. Bettini
00:44:00You're locking me up?
00:44:02The next stranger who comes in
00:44:04Won't be from the police
00:44:06He'll be safer with us
00:44:07You better pack your things
00:44:10I got them all on you
00:44:12Except this
00:44:14How come a nice guy like you is a cop?
00:44:28Just lucky, I guess
00:44:30How come a nice guy like you is a cop?
00:44:33Just lucky, I guess
00:44:35How come a nice guy like you is a cop?
00:44:37How come a nice guy like you is a cop?
00:44:41Just lucky, I guess
00:44:48You like antiques, officer?
00:44:51Who can afford them?
00:44:55If you're a captain on a boat born for Portugal
00:45:00And you keep your mouth shut
00:45:04You can buy a lot of antiques
00:45:08Maybe a whole store full
00:45:20Yes, my love, that is what I've been telling you for the last five minutes
00:45:23But you don't listen
00:45:25Well, be calm, we can change our plans
00:45:28Lotus isn't a broken, my Nelskling
00:45:30I came to dig, or man helped him
00:45:33We can have a cocktail
00:45:35Or we can have a cocktail
00:45:37Or we can go to Stirling
00:45:39What can I do for you, sir?
00:45:43I'm Lieutenant Diamond Police
00:45:46Diamond?
00:45:48Expensive name
00:45:50I won't take much of your time, Mr. Dreyer
00:45:52I just want to ask you a few questions
00:45:54Please
00:45:55It's about a large purchase you made
00:45:56Well, I have complete books
00:45:58Every dollar is there in black and white
00:46:00Unless it goes in the red
00:46:02This purchase was made in 1946
00:46:051946?
00:46:07I'm sorry I was not in business then
00:46:10So I can't help you
00:46:12I was hoping you'd have some record
00:46:14It's about the purchase of an anchor
00:46:16I don't understand
00:46:18In 1946 you were a skipper of a private boat
00:46:22Bound from New York Harbor for Lisbon, Portugal
00:46:25On the way you stopped at the Azores and bought a new anchor
00:46:28Why?
00:46:33I don't understand
00:46:35Well, try a little harder
00:46:38You don't know me, I'm very stupid
00:46:40The boat was a cabin cruiser owned by Grazi
00:46:43It's now being operated by a Mr. Brown
00:46:46Do you know Mr. Brown?
00:46:48I had lunch with him last week
00:46:49He's a very fine gentleman
00:46:51He's a hoodlum
00:46:53Because I have lunch with him, that is not a crime
00:46:56I have lunch with anybody, I'm democratic
00:46:59I'll even have lunch with you
00:47:01Who paid for this shop?
00:47:03Me, Dreyer
00:47:05You, Dreyer, borrowed the money from the Bolomac Corporation
00:47:08The Bolomac Corporation is Brown, or Brown and Grazi
00:47:10Mr. Brown doesn't pay money for nothing
00:47:14What makes you so valuable to Mr. Brown?
00:47:17What do you have on him?
00:47:19My name is Nils Dreyer
00:47:20I live at 821 Mason Avenue, that is all I have to tell you
00:47:24You know, Mr. Dreyer, things changed since I walked in here
00:47:28Brown knows I'm here, he knows I'm talking to you
00:47:31I said nothing
00:47:32Yeah, but Brown doesn't know that
00:47:36In exchange for information, Mr. Dreyer
00:47:38I'll give you protection
00:47:41I'll do better than that, I'll put you in jail
00:47:43Suppose you put me in jail
00:47:45The man in the next cell happens to have a gun
00:47:48Boom! One dead Swede
00:47:49Thank you very kindly, I'll remain stupid
00:47:52How did you get in here, sir? The store is closed
00:47:56I'm late for an appointment, if you'll excuse me
00:47:59Mr. Dreyer, the secret you think keeps you safe will blow up in your face
00:48:03You're dealing with a ruthless man
00:48:08Mr. Diamond, I was a seaman for 30 years
00:48:12I went to sea aged 14
00:48:14I've seen storms, I've seen gunfire, I've seen torpedoes
00:48:18I've been wrecked, not once, four times
00:48:21On a raft, 37 days, nothing but water
00:48:23Nothing kills me
00:48:25I'll die in Stockholm, like my great-grandfather, aged 93
00:48:29I'm not scared of anyone, including you, so get out
00:48:37If you change your mind, Mr. Dreyer
00:48:39Just phone to the 93rd precinct, I'll send a squad car for you
00:48:54Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello?
00:49:24What do you do?
00:49:27How many months do you live?
00:49:30I'm glad for you
00:49:32Hello?
00:49:34I'm glad you've stayed, sir
00:49:38Very really good
00:49:40I'm glad you came to charge them
00:49:42I put it okay
00:49:45More otherwise
00:49:47pays off
00:49:49I'm glad that I baby
00:49:50Quidditch
00:49:52Sit down, Joe.
00:50:09I wanted him here alive. What happened?
00:50:12He had a gun, didn't he, Fanny?
00:50:14He had a gun, all right, Mr. Brown.
00:50:16I told you to go without guns.
00:50:17Which one of you changed my mind?
00:50:19I didn't have any gun with me.
00:50:20Mingo.
00:50:20Look, it wasn't me, I swear.
00:50:24Well, he pulled a gun on me. What did you want me to do?
00:50:27With your kind of brain, there was nothing else you could do.
00:50:29Now, listen to me, you two.
00:50:31Go about your business.
00:50:32Go where you ordinarily go. Do what you ordinarily do.
00:50:35If they ask questions, say nothing.
00:50:37And you, get upstairs, go to bed. Stay there.
00:50:39You've been sick, you understand? Sick.
00:50:41And if they take you to police headquarters,
00:50:43shoot yourself in the head.
00:50:44It'll make everything a lot simpler.
00:50:46Now, get out.
00:50:46Joe, come here.
00:51:03Why did you do it, Joe?
00:51:04I told you he pulled a gun on me.
00:51:07I'm trying to run an impersonal business.
00:51:09Killing is very personal.
00:51:11Once it gets started, it's hard to stop.
00:51:13I could understand it if you were a trigger-happy punk, but you're not.
00:51:17You're an experienced man, Joe.
00:51:19Why did you do it?
00:51:20I guess I'm getting too old to handle a gun.
00:51:26Yeah.
00:51:27Maybe you're just getting too old, Joe.
00:51:30You don't like me much, do you?
00:51:32You figure when Grazzi left the country, you should have taken over instead of me.
00:51:35Isn't that it?
00:51:37No, the job's too big for me.
00:51:39Yeah.
00:51:40You say that, but you don't mean it.
00:51:43Give me your gun, Joe.
00:51:43Come on.
00:52:01See what I mean, Joe?
00:52:03Two seconds ago, you had this gun in your hand.
00:52:05We were all alone here.
00:52:07The thought of using it flashed through your mind.
00:52:09But you couldn't.
00:52:11Yet you didn't hesitate to use it on dryer.
00:52:12Why?
00:52:13Because he was a little man, Joe.
00:52:15Like you, a little man.
00:52:17You had a soft job and good pay.
00:52:20Stop thinking about what might have been.
00:52:22And who knows?
00:52:24You may live to die in bed.
00:52:27That's all, Joe.
00:52:27It's empty.
00:52:53It can't be.
00:52:54Did anybody open this since yesterday?
00:52:56Miss Hottlby?
00:52:57Impossible, sir.
00:52:59What do you got?
00:52:59It was dryer's life insurance.
00:53:07Where would an ex-air to keep a log work?
00:53:10Dryer was a very meticulous man.
00:53:11He kept a complete record of everything in his shop.
00:53:14In his shop.
00:53:15If you're looking for the log of Grazzi's yacht in the summer of 46, you'll find it in there.
00:53:26Sam, get the DA's office and get a warrant for Brown's arrest.
00:53:39On what charge?
00:53:41Ah, arson.
00:53:42I got a court order issued this morning.
00:53:45It says that all the deeds, papers, and properties of this shop belong to me.
00:53:48Dryer had 20%.
00:53:50The Bolomac Corporation had the rest, and I'm the Bolomac Corporation.
00:53:53Nobody else.
00:53:55Not even Grazzi?
00:53:55I bought them out.
00:53:58Why should the Bolomac Corporation be interested in burning that ship's log?
00:54:01Why?
00:54:02Liquidation of assets, which is hardly a crime.
00:54:07I'll wait until I can put you on trial for murder.
00:54:10Whose murder, Lieutenant?
00:54:12Mine, if necessary.
00:54:14Don't push too hard.
00:54:16It's my sworn duty to push too hard.
00:54:19I'm in the only trouble with you is you'd like to be me.
00:54:22You'd like to have my organization, my influence, my fix.
00:54:24You can't.
00:54:25It's impossible.
00:54:27You think it's money.
00:54:28It's not.
00:54:29It's personality.
00:54:30You haven't got a lieutenant.
00:54:31You're a cop.
00:54:32Slow, steady, intelligent, with a bad temper and a gun under your arm.
00:54:40I want the big yen for a girl you can't have.
00:54:42First is first, and second is nobody.
00:54:45Yeah, the DA is out.
00:54:47I have his assistant.
00:54:49Hang up, Sam.
00:54:54All right, Sam.
00:54:57There you are.
00:54:57All right, Sam.
00:55:27Miss Lowell.
00:55:38Go away, please.
00:55:40There'll only be a minute, Miss Lowell.
00:55:42Why here? Can't it wait?
00:55:44No.
00:55:46Well, what is it, please?
00:55:48I've come to ask you a favor.
00:55:50Do I owe you one?
00:55:52I want you to leave, Mr. Brown.
00:55:54I've asked you to leave, Mr. Diamond.
00:55:59Oh, if you don't, I will.
00:56:01You think this is mink, Miss Lowell?
00:56:03You think these are the skins of little wild animals sewn together for your pleasure?
00:56:08You're mistaken.
00:56:10Take your hands off.
00:56:11And these are skins of human beings, Miss Lowell.
00:56:14People who've been beaten, sold, robbed, doped, and murdered by Mr. Brown.
00:56:19I didn't come here to hurt you, Miss Lowell.
00:56:34You don't have to see me again or even speak to me again, but save yourself, leave him.
00:56:38How?
00:56:42All you have to do is walk out.
00:56:45Is that all, Mr. Diamond?
00:56:48You followed me long enough to know I can't.
00:56:54I live in a maze, Mr. Diamond.
00:56:56A strange, blind, and backward maze.
00:56:59And all the little twisting paths lead back to Mr. Brown.
00:57:05I can't buy that, Miss Lowell.
00:57:08Not in a million years.
00:57:13Why do you want to change my life, Mr. Diamond?
00:57:19My boss says I'm in love with you.
00:57:20I keep telling myself I'm just doing my job.
00:57:28Is that why you came to see me?
00:57:32No.
00:57:34I brought you a present.
00:57:36You'll keep it or burn it just as you please.
00:57:39What is it?
00:57:40It's a photograph of Brown's wife.
00:57:43Her name was Alicia.
00:57:46You might ask him what happened.
00:57:50You might ask him what happened.
00:57:51You might ask him what happened.
00:57:52You might ask him what happened.
00:57:53You might ask him what happened.
00:57:54You might ask him what happened.
00:57:55You might ask him what happened.
00:57:56You might ask him what happened.
00:57:57You might ask him what happened.
00:57:58You might ask him what happened.
00:57:59You might ask him what happened.
00:58:00You might ask him what happened.
00:58:01You might ask him what happened.
00:58:02You might ask him what happened.
00:58:03You might ask him what happened.
00:58:04You might ask him what happened.
00:58:05You might ask him what happened.
00:58:06You might ask him what happened.
00:58:07You might ask him what happened.
00:58:08You might ask him what happened.
00:58:09You might ask him what happened.
00:58:10You might ask him what happened.
00:58:11You might ask him what happened.
00:58:12You might ask him what happened.
00:58:13You might ask him what happened.
00:58:14Who is it?
00:58:28Susan.
00:58:33It's only 10.30.
00:58:36Is the concert that dull?
00:58:42Take your hands off me.
00:58:44Okay.
00:58:44I want to talk to you.
00:58:48Not now, later.
00:58:49No, now.
00:58:50Come here, I want to show you something.
00:59:05What is all this?
00:59:06This is my bank.
00:59:08I could have built this vault in my apartment, but that would have been too obvious.
00:59:12We don't take checks.
00:59:13We deal strictly in cash.
00:59:15There isn't anybody I would trust with so much temptation except myself.
00:59:20Or maybe you.
00:59:22Trust me.
00:59:24Who did you see at the concert?
00:59:26Nobody.
00:59:27Nobody by the name of Diamond.
00:59:28Then why do you ask?
00:59:30You know everything.
00:59:30There's one thing that Mingo and Fante can tell you, whether I still love you.
00:59:35What did Diamond tell you?
00:59:37That he's in love with me.
00:59:43Diamond in love?
00:59:44That's not possible.
00:59:45Any more than this clever machine.
00:59:46The machine gave me a strange present.
00:59:49What was it?
00:59:49A pair of handcuffs?
00:59:56I want to meet her.
00:59:58I want to meet your wife, Mr. Brown.
01:00:00She can't.
01:00:01Why?
01:00:01Because she's dead?
01:00:02No, she's alive.
01:00:03She's living in Sicily, in Grazi's house.
01:00:06This was taken a month ago.
01:00:07Came one of her letters.
01:00:08Why did she send her to you?
01:00:10She wants to come back.
01:00:12Why did you leave her?
01:00:12I don't want to talk about it.
01:00:14I do.
01:00:15Can't you let me hold on to some pride?
01:00:17I lost all mine with you.
01:00:21All right, I'll tell you.
01:00:23I was in love with her.
01:00:25Me, a prison guard.
01:00:27It was for her I began to work my way up.
01:00:29All I had was guts.
01:00:30I traded them for money and influence.
01:00:32I got respect from everybody but her.
01:00:34She did everything she could to humiliate me.
01:00:36She was always drunk, fighting with other men.
01:00:39I tried to straighten her out.
01:00:40I took her on a boat trip when Grazi had to go to Sicily.
01:00:43The day after we docked, she disappeared.
01:00:45I spent months looking for her.
01:00:47What do you think she was?
01:00:48Living in Grazi's house.
01:00:51He was a bigger man than me.
01:00:53Now you know who Alicia is.
01:00:59Well, well, well, good evening, Mr. Dow.
01:01:01How are you?
01:01:02How you been?
01:01:03Lonely, Fred, lonely.
01:01:05I'm between shows, half to 12 o'clock.
01:01:07Mr. Diamond is out.
01:01:08Would you like to go up there and wait for him?
01:01:11Thanks.
01:01:11Tell me what he does with his evenings.
01:01:14Work?
01:01:16I'm going to kill that guy.
01:01:18Don't you kill him.
01:01:19He pays his rent right under the dot.
01:01:20I'd miss him.
01:01:21You and me both.
01:01:22You and me both.
01:01:34Come on.
01:01:34Yeah.
01:01:35No.
01:01:35No.
01:01:36I'm wide awake.
01:01:36Yes? No, I'm wide awake.
01:01:42When do you want it done?
01:01:45I understand.
01:01:53Mingo. What's the matter?
01:01:56Mr. Brown wants an order filled tonight.
01:01:58Who?
01:02:00Diamond.
01:02:06It's open. Go. Go!
01:02:36Let's go.
01:02:55Leonard. Leonard.
01:02:57What, Sam? What?
01:02:58Whatever you're thinking, drop it. It won't bring it back.
01:03:01Saks Fifth Avenue.
01:03:06He came to see me in her best shoes.
01:03:09I'll call Peterson. He'll put every available man on it.
01:03:12Never mind, Sam. I said never mind.
01:03:17We don't have to check bullets or fingerprints.
01:03:20This room has a name written all over it. Brown, brown.
01:03:25He wanted to kill me. He got tired of waiting. So have I.
01:03:28What are you going to do? Close the case.
01:03:31I know how you feel.
01:03:32Nobody knows how another person feels.
01:03:34No, Leonard. Sit down.
01:03:59Do me a favor. Take off your gun.
01:04:06I treated her like a pair of gloves.
01:04:10When I was cold, I called her up.
01:04:16Don't blame yourself. You'll go crazy.
01:04:18I did that.
01:04:23You're crazy.
01:04:255961896.
01:04:28About the Georgia Jew now.
01:04:3157770.3.
01:04:37I saw the papers this morning.
01:04:39I'm sorry.
01:04:40Terribly, terribly sorry.
01:04:41Why? That it wasn't me?
01:04:44Say what you came to say.
01:04:46I left Mr. Brown.
01:04:51You're a little late.
01:04:53Brown killed the girl in your apartment.
01:04:56His men did it.
01:04:57Can you prove it?
01:04:58No, I...
01:04:59Can you prove that Fante Amingo did it?
01:05:01That he ordered them to?
01:05:03No.
01:05:04Sit down.
01:05:09Don't you know you've gone?
01:05:11He will.
01:05:13I opened his private vault.
01:05:15Why?
01:05:16I wanted to help you if I could.
01:05:18What does it keep in the vault?
01:05:20Guns and money.
01:05:21It's no crime to have money or even to have a gun only to use it.
01:05:24I saw something else.
01:05:26What?
01:05:27Something about Alicia.
01:05:29Can you prove that she was murdered?
01:05:31No.
01:05:32I can prove that she's alive.
01:05:35What are you talking about?
01:05:37She's living in Sicily with Grazzi.
01:05:40That's impossible.
01:05:42She sent this to Brown.
01:05:44It's Alicia, all right.
01:05:46Years older than her photograph taken on the boat.
01:05:49She must be alive.
01:05:53But this photo was never taken in Sicily.
01:05:55There's snow on the ground.
01:06:04Yeah.
01:06:05It's the same girl, all right.
01:06:06She's short-changed since the other picture.
01:06:09Could that be a fake?
01:06:10No, sir.
01:06:11This was made with an ordinary wide-angle lens.
01:06:13Now, judging from the scope...
01:06:15Don't remind all that.
01:06:16Can you tell me when the picture was taken?
01:06:17The original was printed on Varagam paper.
01:06:19What does that mean?
01:06:20It wasn't on the market until a year and a half ago.
01:06:22Frank.
01:06:23See that highway marker through the fence?
01:06:25Can you tell me what that is?
01:06:26Identify it?
01:06:27No, I can't.
01:06:28But I'll check it right away for you.
01:06:29Will you do it quickly, please?
01:06:30Leonard.
01:06:31Yeah?
01:06:32Alicia's alive.
01:06:33There's no murder.
01:06:34There's no case.
01:06:35We may have an even stronger case.
01:06:37I've been in touch with our overseas military intelligence.
01:06:40They've been looking for Grazzi for years.
01:06:41Not to be found.
01:06:42And there's no record that he ever got to Sicily.
01:06:45What about Bettini's story?
01:06:46Bettini was right about a murder taking place on the boat.
01:06:49He was just wrong about the identity of the victim.
01:06:52Wait a minute.
01:06:53Spell that out.
01:06:54Well, I've been looking for the wrong murder.
01:06:58Brown didn't kill his wife.
01:07:00He killed his boss, Grazzi.
01:07:02And that's why our intelligence couldn't find him.
01:07:05Grazzi is at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean tied to an anchor.
01:07:09It's a beautiful theory, Lonnie.
01:07:12Beautiful.
01:07:13Except for one small item.
01:07:16You can't prove it.
01:07:17You have no witness.
01:07:18Oh, you got it, Frank. Let's see it.
01:07:21State highway marker, 225A.
01:07:23225A.
01:07:24Do you know where that is?
01:07:25I can find it in two hours.
01:07:27It's a one-lane gravel road that curves west from the coast highway.
01:07:48I don't know why you've come to me, officer.
01:07:58My name is Anna Lee Jackson.
01:08:00Are you sure you never took an ocean voyage?
01:08:03Well, if I had, I certainly would have remembered.
01:08:06You really have a way with flowers.
01:08:10What are these?
01:08:11These are stalks.
01:08:13Beautiful.
01:08:14All of them.
01:08:15How do you do it?
01:08:16Oh, you have to love them.
01:08:18They know the difference.
01:08:20Oh, my goodness.
01:08:22What is it?
01:08:23Caterpillar.
01:08:25Eating the buds.
01:08:27Why didn't you kill it?
01:08:29Oh, I couldn't kill anything.
01:08:31I can't even cut these flowers.
01:08:34People want to see them.
01:08:36They've got to come here, where they're alive.
01:08:38Not withering and dying in a vase.
01:08:42You feel that pretty strongly, don't you?
01:08:45Oh, yes, I do.
01:08:47I can tell you why you feel that way.
01:08:50Can you?
01:08:51Because you saw your husband murder a man named Grazi.
01:08:55I'll spell the name for you.
01:08:56G-R-A-Z-Z-I, Grazi.
01:08:59I have a photograph of you.
01:09:02Taken seven years ago.
01:09:04You can have it if you like.
01:09:08The men are old friends of yours.
01:09:10One alive the other day.
01:09:20Now, listen to me, Alicia.
01:09:22Brown, unfortunately, is not a caterpillar.
01:09:25He doesn't eat flowers.
01:09:26He devours people.
01:09:28I had a friend, a girl, 24 years old.
01:09:33She was murdered last night.
01:09:35Brown thought he was killing me.
01:09:37He didn't even know her name.
01:09:38I don't want to hear anymore.
01:09:40Please, please, I'm sick.
01:09:41Can't you see I'm sick?
01:09:43You're sick all right, Alicia.
01:09:45Sick with fright.
01:09:46Now you're in our custody.
01:09:48You have nothing more to fear.
01:09:50You know that because you're perfectly sane.
01:09:53I'd rather be insane and alive than sane and dead.
01:10:08It hurts.
01:10:09If you can move it, it's not broken.
01:10:10But it hurts.
01:10:11Take a drink.
01:10:12I took a drink.
01:10:13It still hurts.
01:10:14Take another drink.
01:10:15Penny, I'm trying to tell you.
01:10:16You don't understand.
01:10:25Well, I got news.
01:10:27Big news.
01:10:28Brown is finished.
01:10:29The police found Alicia.
01:10:30She's going to spill her guts to the grand jury.
01:10:34I said Brown's washed up.
01:10:35Finished.
01:10:36Off the map.
01:10:37You say.
01:10:38That means nothing.
01:10:39Gracie says that's something.
01:10:40There ain't no Gracie.
01:10:42He's dead.
01:10:43Since when?
01:10:44Seven years.
01:10:45I've seen cablegrams.
01:10:46Brown sent those cablegrams.
01:10:48Brown killed them.
01:10:49Brown kept them alive to keep the boys in line.
01:10:51Why haven't you guys been chaperoning this Miss Lowell dame?
01:10:54You want to know where she is?
01:10:56She's helping the police.
01:10:58Seems like Mr. Brown has lost his charm.
01:11:00What would you suggest?
01:11:03Kill them.
01:11:12Kill them tonight, not tomorrow.
01:11:13Mr. Brown will be dead soon enough.
01:11:15The boys will take care of him for his long double-cross.
01:11:18But if we do it now fast,
01:11:20we'll save a lot of people a lot of trouble.
01:11:23We'll be in more solid than ever.
01:11:25Instead of running around for Brown and wetness
01:11:28and all these crazy dames,
01:11:30I'm going to show you two guys how to be men.
01:11:32Start all over.
01:11:34Slower this time.
01:11:58We're early.
01:12:06They said they'd land at 1 a.m.
01:12:08Didn't want to be late.
01:12:09I'm coming all the way from Denver.
01:12:11Strange they sent word through you instead of the regular way.
01:12:14This isn't regular, this is special.
01:12:16They said they wanted 200 grand in small bills.
01:12:19I got it right here, but what's the pitch?
01:12:21Denver's usually a quiet spot.
01:12:23I don't know.
01:12:24I asked them, but they wouldn't tell me on the phone.
01:12:26Didn't they give any reason?
01:12:28No.
01:12:29What do you think it is?
01:12:31We'll know soon enough.
01:12:36Now, Mr. Brown, how do you feel now?
01:12:38Not so big, huh?
01:12:40You took my job.
01:12:42You took my hotel.
01:12:44You thought you could push me right off the earth.
01:12:46You punk.
01:12:47You accountant.
01:12:48You bookkeeper.
01:12:50Let him have it.
01:12:51Let him have it now.
01:12:52Right now.
01:12:53Wait a minute.
01:12:54What's the matter?
01:12:55You fellas gone loony?
01:12:56I'm McClure.
01:12:57Can't you see me?
01:12:58This is McClure.
01:12:59Don't do it, Mango.
01:13:00I'll give you dough.
01:13:01All the dough I got, 10,000, 20,000, everything.
01:13:02No, Fanny.
01:13:03Don't do it.
01:13:04Mr. Brown.
01:13:05Mr. Brown.
01:13:06Mr. Brown's?
01:13:07Mr. Brown.
01:13:09Tell him not to do it.
01:13:10I'll do anything you want, I'll go away.
01:13:12You'll never see me again.
01:13:13Please, Mr. Brown.
01:13:14Don't just stand there and you'll kill me.
01:13:15Please, Mr. Brown.
01:13:17I don't want to die.
01:13:18Tell him.
01:13:20I'll do anything that you want.
01:13:21I'll go away.
01:13:22You'll never see me again.
01:13:23Please, Mr. Brown.
01:13:24Don't you stand there and you'll kill me.
01:13:26Please, Mr. Brown, I don't want to die.
01:13:29Please, Mr. Brown, don't just stand there and let him kill me.
01:13:33Please, Mr. Brown, I don't want to die. Tell him. Please, tell him.
01:13:49I feel sorry for you, Joe, so I'm going to do you a favor.
01:13:53You won't hear the bullets.
01:13:59Sam. Yeah? Tell the Captain I've finished my interrogation.
01:14:10Sam. Yeah? Tell the Captain I've finished my interrogation.
01:14:15Miss Lowell?
01:14:17Are you a policewoman?
01:14:18No.
01:14:19Who is your policewoman?
01:14:20No.
01:14:21Who are you?
01:14:22No.
01:14:23Who is this man?
01:14:24Mrs. Lowell?
01:14:43Are you a policewoman?
01:14:46No.
01:14:47Who are you?
01:14:49My name is Susan Lowell.
01:14:52I'm a witness against Mr. Brown.
01:14:55I'm not.
01:14:59I can't do it.
01:15:01Haven't I humiliated myself enough?
01:15:04No one's done enough while he's still free.
01:15:08I've been Mr. Brown's girl for the past four years.
01:15:14You met lots of girls.
01:15:16They were all crazy about him.
01:15:18I'm not proud of it.
01:15:20Then why'd you stay four years?
01:15:23Why'd you start?
01:15:24I don't know.
01:15:26No, that's not true.
01:15:27I was told.
01:15:29I just wouldn't believe.
01:15:32Take a look at her, Alicia.
01:15:34Take a good look.
01:15:35You can see yourself ten years ago.
01:15:38If you had only spoken up then, how different your life would have been.
01:15:44Because he killed you.
01:15:46He buried you alive.
01:15:49Because he's a murderer.
01:15:50That's all he is, a murderer.
01:15:53Wanna hear?
01:15:54He killed Grazie, didn't he?
01:15:55You saw him do it, didn't you?
01:15:57I never said I did.
01:16:00Besides, Grazie deserved to die.
01:16:03And what about the girl he had killed three days ago?
01:16:06That she deserved to die too?
01:16:08What girl?
01:16:11You remember the girl.
01:16:12The girl I told you about at the sanitarium.
01:16:14You remember.
01:16:15No, no, I don't.
01:16:15Then I'll refresh your memory, this girl.
01:16:19Someone he didn't know, never met, never saw.
01:16:22They took 11 bullets from her body.
01:16:25The following morning, Miss Lowell had breakfast with him.
01:16:28He ordered bacon and two eggs.
01:16:31Tell her, Susan.
01:16:32Tell her how he ate his bacon and eggs while he looked at the papers.
01:16:36And saw the body of this girl lying in the morgue.
01:16:41I'll tell whatever I know.
01:16:43I'll take it to the DA's office for statement.
01:16:50Miss Brown?
01:16:57Car 5A3, 5A3, call your station.
01:17:01Car 5A3, call your station.
01:17:03Code 2.
01:17:05Captain?
01:17:06Captain, this is Mr. Malloy, an attorney.
01:17:09I have a writ of habeas corpus for Mrs. Alicia Brown.
01:17:11We have no Mrs. Brown here.
01:17:13Why not?
01:17:14This is Miss Anna Lee Jackson.
01:17:19Hello, Alicia.
01:17:20Hello, Alicia.
01:17:20It's no use we can't use her not every case ends with a promotion your name in the papers
01:17:50the close body has been found in the river shut full of holes this is an act of panic mr brown is cracking
01:18:00Sam take the headquarters squad pick up fanti and mingo first dryer rita mcclure they can't have
01:18:09alibis it'll stick for three murders mingo lay off of that stuff mingo lay off of that stuff i told you
01:18:20you gotta eat something i can't swallow any more salami that's all we've got where is brown when's he
01:18:33coming how long are we going to stay here we've been here two days at all i just can't take it anymore
01:18:40fanny i tell you my thumb's got an infection it keeps aching worse than a sore tooth
01:18:45cops catches the lake worse cops what can they prove they don't have to prove a thing
01:18:53they got three warrants out for us indictments for three murders so let them indict they still can't prove
01:19:02can they
01:19:06you know how long it would take for three murder trials
01:19:08we'd be in jail for three years now relax brown will get us out of town until the heat blows out
01:19:15and then we can come back how do we know we're safe here it's the safest place in the world
01:19:19gratsy built this place in prohibition days not even the bellhops know it's here
01:19:24i'm sour on this town fanny
01:19:28when we get out let's never come back
01:19:30what i'm worried about is getting out of this hotel the cops will be looking for us in every closet
01:19:46you thought you'd never come just take it easy boys
01:19:50look it's now four in the afternoon at 5 30 tomorrow morning the cops change shifts in the alley
01:19:55i'll come for you then did you get us a car everything's arranged just keep your heads in
01:19:59weight i brought you some food and the medical creche you've always been good boys there's enough
01:20:05money here to take care of me for a long time divide it even and don't fight over it
01:20:14how much you think mr brown's a generous man i'll tell you after i count
01:20:17give it here
01:20:29the police are downstairs
01:20:47bring me another bottle mingo is still alive
01:20:51i don't want to go up there again there are things in brown's vault
01:21:21what you've got to identify
01:21:39who did this mingo mingo who did this to you
01:21:42nobody who killed a girl named rita who killed mcclure who paid you to do it nobody
01:21:48you've got third degree burns mingo you're dying i ain't gonna die
01:21:52i think not you
01:21:57and not fatty
01:22:04fanny
01:22:07don't leave me
01:22:08he's dead he's dead murdered while you ever tried to kill you you haven't got much time mingo tell
01:22:13tell us who did it tell us who did it do it for fanny
01:22:15you shouldn't have done it
01:22:16you shouldn't have done it
01:22:18fanny was my only friend
01:22:20you shouldn't
01:22:23all right i'll tell you
01:22:27but not for you
01:22:30we play square with him you shouldn't have hurt fanny
01:22:33you haven't got much time mingo who did it who killed the girl in my room who paid you to do it
01:22:40mr mr brown mr brown
01:22:46but it what sam's been hurt shot
01:22:50what where where is he in the hospital it'll be all right but leonard susan's gone
01:23:04larry get a statement signed
01:23:06a man like brown would have a plan where would he go to make a getaway you're a policeman
01:23:16you find him he's not alone he's got susan lowell with him i wouldn't raise a finger to help that
01:23:22girl let her go through what i've been through she never hurt you alicia he's the one who put you
01:23:28away why take it out on her because i hate her her and every other woman who ever had anything to do with him
01:23:35what have i done to you why do you hate me oh i don't
01:23:41i must help me help me tell me where to find it i got to get back to my flowers
01:23:46i'm sure nobody's taking care of them
01:23:56lieutenant
01:23:58i don't want to help you i don't but i will
01:24:13what's keeping that plane supposed to be here an hour ago
01:24:16i've kept that stupid pilot on my payroll for years just for a spot like this why doesn't he come
01:24:21i want to be seen don't try that again
01:24:33why doesn't he come i've got everything all figured out top to bottom smooth silk everything's falling
01:24:43far
01:24:45can't trust nobody
01:24:55so
01:24:57so
01:24:58Come on out, Brown.
01:25:28You can't get away, Brown.
01:25:58You can't get away, drop the gun.
01:26:27Come on, get it.
01:26:35Come on.
01:26:37We're taking you to jail, Mr. Brown.
01:26:39Why not?
01:26:40You're not taking me to jail.
01:26:41You have to kill me first.
01:26:42Go ahead, shoot.
01:26:43Go ahead and kill me, copper.
01:26:44Kill me.
01:26:45Go ahead.
01:26:46Kill me.
01:26:47Let's go, hoodlum.
01:26:52I won't go to jail.
01:26:54I won't.
01:26:55Kill me.
01:26:56Kill me.
01:26:57Kill me.
01:26:58Come on.
01:26:59Come on.
01:27:01Come on.
01:27:05THE END
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