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Bull3ts or Ballots (1936) is a classic drama from the Golden Age of Hollywood, filled with intrigue, determination, and powerful storytelling. Set in a changing city, the film follows a man who takes bold steps to stand up for what he believes in, guided by courage and integrity. Featuring legendary performances by Edward G. Robinson and Humphrey Bogart, Bull3ts or Ballots captures the spirit of 1930s cinema with its memorable characters, smart dialogue, and timeless appeal.
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00:01:45A series of short pictures exposing the rackets of America.
00:01:48The Syndicate of Crime.
00:01:50A series of short pictures presented to the American public as a warning
00:01:54to arouse them against a growing national menace, the modern racketeer.
00:01:58When you see the accident takes you off.
00:02:011935.
00:02:03The total gold bullion in the United States Treasury and mints
00:02:06was nine and one half billion dollars.
00:02:091935.
00:02:11The crime combine of the racketeers,
00:02:13entrenched in 88 cities of over 100,000 population
00:02:17and reaching into thousands of surrounding towns,
00:02:20robbed the American people of 15 billion dollars.
00:02:23Huge sums.
00:02:25Extorted from the businessman.
00:02:27A steady flood of pennies, nickels and diamonds.
00:02:30Drained from the purses of the homeowner, the laborer and the housewife
00:02:34on the east coast.
00:02:35Perishable foods.
00:02:37A quarter of a cent levied on every head of lettuce.
00:02:40A cent on artichokes.
00:02:42A fraction of a cent on every type of products.
00:02:45When wholesalers refuse to pay tribute,
00:02:47the racketeers prevent them from moving shipments.
00:02:50Hundreds of carloads of fresh vegetables rot on sidings.
00:02:54Across the street from 100,000 American schools,
00:02:57attractive games are installed in stores, shops and restaurants.
00:03:01And in one city alone, the racketeers harvest $80,000 a week.
00:03:06Can you tell us how many kids there are in that school over there?
00:03:093500.
00:03:10Do you get much of that trade?
00:03:11Quite a bit.
00:03:12How about building it up?
00:03:13We'll install a nickel game for you.
00:03:15So they can go hungry handing you their lunch money.
00:03:18Get out of here.
00:03:19Get out of here.
00:03:20If that's the way you feel, we'll only install three.
00:03:22And you'll like it.
00:03:26There it goes!
00:03:28I can beat that.
00:03:31You better not spend any more.
00:03:32Come in, Nicole, will you?
00:03:43The Pacific coast.
00:03:44A group of restaurants refuse to buy meat through the racketeers.
00:03:47They try to buy it direct.
00:03:51What's your big idea?
00:03:52Where are you taking the load?
00:03:53Paris Café.
00:03:54All right, Joe.
00:03:55Well, you can't get away with shit gown.
00:03:58Nothing like a good kerosene flavor on a steak.
00:04:03You're next.
00:04:05October 1935.
00:04:07Al Kruger, a notorious racketeer, comes up for trial.
00:04:11He has previously been arrested 11 times
00:04:14on charges ranging from grand larceny to felonious assault.
00:04:19Dismissed each time.
00:04:21He finally faces a jury.
00:04:24We see you.
00:04:26Have you reached a verdict?
00:04:28We have, Your Honor.
00:04:29You may state it to the court.
00:04:30We find the defendant not guilty.
00:04:40I wish to state that your verdict is one that destroys the confidence
00:04:43of law-abiding people in the integrity and justice of the American court.
00:04:46You can leave here with the knowledge that you have rendered a blow at law enforcement
00:04:50and encourage those who violate the law.
00:04:53They will probably praise you.
00:04:55I do not.
00:04:57Jury discharged.
00:04:59And so Kruger is again given his freedom
00:05:01and returns to collect his share of the $200 million plunder
00:05:05taken each year in his city.
00:05:07So what?
00:05:08Entrenched and protected,
00:05:09the crime combine strikes swiftly at those who oppose it.
00:05:12Ward Bryant, publisher and leading crusader against the rackets,
00:05:16receives a telephone death threat against himself and his family.
00:05:21He makes a public reply.
00:05:23I have been ordered to stop making the syndicate of crime pictures.
00:05:27The gentleman who phoned added, or else.
00:05:30For his information, I shall continue to make them.
00:05:33And my papers will continue their present policy of open attack on racketeers
00:05:37and the directors of organized crime who are the really dangerous enemies of society.
00:05:41His phone call is only further evidence
00:05:44that the racketeers have the American public pretty well whipped
00:05:47when a citizen has to sacrifice the safety of his family
00:05:50to ask for security and decency.
00:05:53These same racketeers laugh at your laws.
00:05:56They make a joke of your courts.
00:05:58They rule by the fear of their bullets.
00:06:01They must be smashed by the power of your ballots.
00:06:04Let's go.
00:06:06Let's go.
00:06:14Who threatened Bryant?
00:06:15I don't know, but it's about time somebody told him to pipe down.
00:06:17He's been doing enough yelling in his papers without making those pictures.
00:06:20Ah, he's just racing his motor.
00:06:22Yeah, well, he's racing it so loud the public's liable to wake up one of these days.
00:06:25The public's been playing for a sucker so long they'll never wake up.
00:06:27Yeah, but that's where you and I think different.
00:06:29If he keeps on bringing our names out in the open, he can make it plenty hot.
00:06:32I'm gonna stop him before he stops us.
00:06:35Of course.
00:06:36You stick to your milk and produce business and leave Bryant alone.
00:06:39I'm still running the show and I say let him yell.
00:06:41He can't hurt us without any evidence and he isn't gonna get any.
00:06:52Pick me up here at the office at one o'clock.
00:06:55Go get yourself a drink and cool off.
00:06:57Okay.
00:06:58And forget Bryant.
00:07:00Sure.
00:07:05Hey, waiter.
00:07:06I want some bourbon and ginger ale.
00:07:10How are you, Herman?
00:07:11Hello, Eddie.
00:07:12Hello, Mr. Blake.
00:07:13Hello, Herman.
00:07:14I see you've got the bad news.
00:07:15Hey, wait, I want some bourbon and ginger ale.
00:07:19How are you, Herman?
00:07:21Hello, Eddie.
00:07:23Hello, Mr. Blake.
00:07:25Hello, Herman.
00:07:27I see you've got the bad news.
00:07:29Yeah.
00:07:31Is that out of class?
00:07:33No.
00:07:35No.
00:07:37No.
00:07:39No.
00:07:40No.
00:07:41No.
00:07:42No.
00:07:43Yeah.
00:07:44That ought to cause a lot of trouble.
00:07:46Yeah, I shouldn't be surprised.
00:07:48Probably blow the lid right off the city hall.
00:07:50Mm-hmm.
00:07:56Oh, I forgot. Miss Lee's waiting for me.
00:08:02Did you get a look at that crowd out there?
00:08:04I'll say. Boil shirts all over the place.
00:08:06How's your routine, Mary?
00:08:07Swell, it's in the bag.
00:08:08Good.
00:08:09How about your number, Eddie? Is it clicking?
00:08:10They'll knock Broadway for a loop.
00:08:11Never mind Broadway. Concentrate on the customers out there.
00:08:14Now, this is the biggest play we've ever had from downtown.
00:08:16And if our show gets over, we'll be packing them in.
00:08:18So go out there and give them everything.
00:08:20Say, we'll have them right on the floor.
00:08:21We're having a tough enough time keeping the seats filled.
00:08:28Hello, girls.
00:08:29Excuse me, will you?
00:08:30Hello, Miss Lee.
00:08:31Hello, Herman.
00:08:32How are the collections?
00:08:33Just fine.
00:08:34You really got something in this numbers game, Miss Lee.
00:08:36Mr. Heinrich says he thinks it's going to catch on here in the Bronx even better than in Harlem.
00:08:40When they look through that money, I think he's right.
00:08:42Well, if it keeps rolling in, you can quit the cabaret and move right into Park Avenue.
00:08:46I drive a Rolls Royce swell.
00:08:48We'll stick to the cabaret.
00:08:49All right, but Rolls Royces are better.
00:08:51Let's see.
00:08:52Seems to me I had something else I wanted to tell you.
00:08:55Never mind. It'll come.
00:08:57Oh, I remember. I saw Mr. Blake when I came in.
00:09:02Where?
00:09:03In the bar.
00:09:04In the bar? Was he drinking?
00:09:05Yes.
00:09:06What's happened downtown?
00:09:08Who, to me?
00:09:09Nothing. I wasn't even downtown.
00:09:10No, not you. What's happened on Broadway? Any extras out?
00:09:13Oh, yes. That publisher was murdered. The one named, uh...
00:09:16That explains it.
00:09:17The name...
00:09:18Never mind, Herman. Just sit down and rest.
00:09:20A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K...
00:09:25Bryant!
00:09:33Hello, Lee.
00:09:34How is the show, Lee?
00:09:36Going to see for yourself.
00:09:37I will.
00:09:40Hello, Johnny.
00:09:41Want to go in and see the show?
00:09:42No. Sit down a while.
00:09:47How have you been?
00:09:48Okay.
00:09:49Why didn't you let me know you were here?
00:09:50I was busy reading this about Bryant.
00:09:54You know him?
00:09:55Yeah, a little.
00:09:56Swell fellow.
00:09:57He had a swell wife and kid, too.
00:10:00He had plenty tough on him.
00:10:02Wife and kid?
00:10:03Yeah.
00:10:04You're a funny fellow, Johnny.
00:10:05When you come out of your shell, you're really human.
00:10:07Well, I don't like to see decent people pushed around.
00:10:11Well, something big breaks down there in your old stamping ground.
00:10:14It kind of gets under your skin, doesn't it?
00:10:16Well, it makes you think so.
00:10:17It's the only time I ever see you take a drink.
00:10:19Oh, no.
00:10:20This is just a celebration.
00:10:22We found out who stole Mrs. Blousemeyer's laundry.
00:10:24Oh, that must be something.
00:10:25It was.
00:10:26Are you on the level?
00:10:27Why, sure.
00:10:28Well, that's a fine finish to a great police career.
00:10:30Looking for laundry in the Bronx.
00:10:32Well, it's better than being pinched off with the fire horses.
00:10:35Say, I'm not kidding myself. I'm no use to them downtown anymore.
00:10:38When things like this happen, they need you plenty.
00:10:40You and your whole flying squad ought to be back there in action.
00:10:43Say, they don't believe in kicking the rats into line anymore.
00:10:46Nowadays, you're supposed to kiss them and tuck them in.
00:10:49Your friend McLaren seems to think so, too.
00:10:51Well, he's only a captain. He takes orders, too.
00:10:54And you'll go on being loyal to McLaren and the department.
00:10:57Yeah, that's it.
00:10:58And looking for laundry.
00:11:00Nice clean job.
00:11:02Well, Sunday, Mac will be back up on top.
00:11:04Then he won't have to worry about me anymore.
00:11:11Say, I thought you didn't let mugs come into this place.
00:11:15I don't want to know them. Who's he?
00:11:17That's Crail.
00:11:19I sent him up to Sing Sing a couple of years ago.
00:11:22Hello, Blake.
00:11:37I see the parole board has let you loose on the public again, huh?
00:11:39Yeah, no thanks to you.
00:11:41Well, I see where they cut the big shot detective down to size.
00:11:45Sure must be tough not to be able to kick the boys around anymore and make them tip their hats, do you?
00:11:49Yeah, but they still do.
00:11:51To a Bronx flat foot.
00:11:54Yeah.
00:11:57As long as I'm part of the force, they'll keep on tipping their hats.
00:12:02Remember it next time.
00:12:06Well, I guess I'll go downtown and see what's going on.
00:12:08You haven't lost your gentle touch, have you?
00:12:13I'll see you soon.
00:12:15Don't hurt your knuckles.
00:12:24What's the trouble?
00:12:25Put him under arrest for destroying property.
00:12:27Yes.
00:12:28Come on.
00:12:43You're sure you saw Fenner go inside the hotel?
00:12:45Well, yes, sir. I didn't pull away until after he went in.
00:12:47What time did you leave him?
00:12:489.55.
00:12:49Could he have had time to get down to Bryant's office by 10.15?
00:12:52I guess so.
00:12:53I'm not paying you to guess.
00:12:54Well, he could have if he grabbed a fast car right away and got a break with the traffic.
00:12:58Yes?
00:13:01Detective Blake to see you.
00:13:04Send him in.
00:13:06That's all. Wait for me.
00:13:07Yes, sir.
00:13:13Hello, Al.
00:13:14How are you, Johnny?
00:13:15Big night for you, huh?
00:13:17How?
00:13:18Secretary and chauffeur working overtime.
00:13:20Oh, that happens a lot.
00:13:22I think your racket's supposed to be doing all right.
00:13:24About 5,000 last week.
00:13:26500,000?
00:13:27I can't count that high.
00:13:29Have a chair, Johnny.
00:13:30Thanks.
00:13:33I thought you were homesteading up in the Bronx.
00:13:35What are you doing down in this neck of the woods?
00:13:37Oh, just poking around the old hangouts.
00:13:39Cigars?
00:13:40No, thanks. I'll smoke a pipe.
00:13:47What do you think of Bryant's death?
00:13:48I was just reading about it.
00:13:49Yeah.
00:13:50It's too bad. He was a nice fella.
00:13:51They'd probably try and hang it on you.
00:13:52Well, a couple of the boys from headquarters were up here half an hour ago.
00:13:54They were very nice about it, though.
00:13:55They were very nice about it, though.
00:13:56Well, that's the trouble with them. They have to be.
00:13:57You'd have taken me around the corner and rolled up a newspaper.
00:13:58Yeah, I suppose I would.
00:13:59But I didn't get much out of you the last time I gave you going over.
00:14:01You came close to it.
00:14:02You'd have got some more.
00:14:03I wanted to get you on that rap.
00:14:05The good old days, 8-10.
00:14:05Well, it's right now.
00:14:06Oh, I didn't get any more out of you until the last time I gave you going over.
00:14:11You came close to it.
00:14:20I wish I'd known it then. You'd have got some more.
00:14:22I wanted to get you on that rap.
00:14:23Good old days, 80.
00:14:24No.
00:14:25This is a discovery at that time.
00:14:27I had been there, and it had just been a problem.
00:14:29I wanted to get you on that rap.
00:14:31Good old days, eh, Johnny?
00:14:33Yeah.
00:14:35You've traveled a long ways since then.
00:14:37You would have gone a long ways, too,
00:14:39if you'd thrown in with me the first time I asked you to.
00:14:41I suppose I would.
00:14:42You would have been a great help in this business, Johnny.
00:14:45You know more about the inside of this town
00:14:47than any bird that ever lived in it.
00:14:48If I'd gone in with you, I'd have done it to nail you.
00:14:51Oh, no, you wouldn't.
00:14:52You never double-crossed anyone in your life.
00:14:55Not even a crook.
00:14:56Maybe he told you something in confidence.
00:14:58Sure, you rode the pants off of all of us.
00:15:01But you always let us know where you stood.
00:15:04You've always known what I thought of you.
00:15:06Then you're the only fellow I'd take it from, too.
00:15:08But I'd still like to have you throw in with me, Johnny.
00:15:11I'll stick with the department.
00:15:13After all the kicking around they've given you?
00:15:16Yeah.
00:15:17Well, you're a sucker.
00:15:18All you'll ever get out of it is a petty larceny pension.
00:15:21I could do more for you in a year
00:15:23than you can earn in a lifetime on the force.
00:15:25Well, maybe I'd like to make my money the hard way.
00:15:28Well, I'll probably still be asking you ten years from now.
00:15:32If you live that long.
00:15:33I'll be right back.
00:15:51Oh.
00:15:53Blake's the name.
00:15:54How about getting out of here?
00:15:56I asked Johnny in here.
00:15:57And I'm asking him out.
00:15:57No Bronx detective's going to hang around this office.
00:15:59Listen, Fenner.
00:16:00Never mind, Al.
00:16:02Fenner can't forget the week he spent at the hospital
00:16:04after he took a swing at me.
00:16:07I don't think much of him, either.
00:16:12See you sometime.
00:16:14So long, Johnny.
00:16:15Oh, I forgot to compliment you, Fenner.
00:16:24Nice, clean job you did on Bryant.
00:16:34What's he talking about?
00:16:36You know what he's talking about, you ten-cent thug!
00:16:39I told you to leave Bryant alone.
00:16:42Yeah?
00:16:42What's the matter with him?
00:16:43Fenner, someday you're going to get wise to the fact
00:16:46that that strong-arm gangster stuff went out with Prohibition.
00:16:48You're not running liquor anymore.
00:16:50You're in big business.
00:16:52I pulled you up out of the gutter.
00:16:54And you take a chance on ruining a $200 million gold mine
00:16:57to satisfy a grudge.
00:16:59Well, it's a fine way to pay me back
00:17:00for all I've done for you.
00:17:02Oh, I wouldn't pay you back that way, Al.
00:17:04I don't know.
00:17:20Hello?
00:17:22Yes, Kruger talking.
00:17:27Yes, sir, right away.
00:17:32The bosses?
00:17:32They're liable to knock the props right out from under me
00:17:35on account of this Bryant mess.
00:17:38If they do, it'll be the last thing that'll ever happen to me.
00:17:41You knew that.
00:17:43Swell having to cover you up to save my own neck.
00:17:47Poor day, Al.
00:17:49If you knew, you wouldn't sleep much tonight.
00:18:02You had to wake up, Al.
00:18:04Sometimes, you already may have a number of
00:18:32How are you, gentlemen?
00:18:40Who did it, Kruger?
00:18:43Bryant.
00:18:45I had an idea, that's why you called me.
00:18:48Yes, but you haven't answered the question.
00:18:51No, I wished I knew myself.
00:18:54Wasn't anyone in the organization.
00:18:55Very interesting.
00:18:57How did you arrive at that conclusion?
00:18:59I checked on them.
00:19:00Viscoll, Vinci, all of them.
00:19:03Did you check on Fenner?
00:19:05Yes.
00:19:06What makes you pick him up?
00:19:07Just that he's a little inclined to that type of work.
00:19:10No, not anymore.
00:19:12He's getting too fat on the profits to want any trouble.
00:19:14He was at the hotel.
00:19:15So, of course, you don't suspect him.
00:19:17Certainly not.
00:19:18He's been doing all right, hasn't he?
00:19:20Getting that extra two million for you out of the raisin milk.
00:19:23And did it occur to you that Bryant's death would cause an investigation?
00:19:27Sure, but I'm not worrying.
00:19:28There's nothing like a good investigation to make the public happy.
00:19:31This one won't make you happy.
00:19:33The mayor had a talk with the governor tonight.
00:19:35He's convening an extraordinary grand jury.
00:19:38What good will that do him?
00:19:39Thanks to your letting things get out of control, it'll cost us an extra million dollars this time.
00:19:44Um, I think you're beginning to slip, Kruger.
00:19:48I suggest that you locate the weak spots in your organization now.
00:19:53There aren't any.
00:19:54I'd still look around if I were you, Mr. Kruger.
00:19:57Because if you make just one more mistake, you're through.
00:20:04What do you mean, through?
00:20:05There's just one way to interpret it.
00:20:08That's all, Mr. Kruger.
00:20:09You've been in the police department for five years.
00:20:39For 30 years, Captain McLaren.
00:20:4031.
00:20:42We find that you have an excellent record.
00:20:44And a fine reputation for honesty and integrity.
00:20:47And yet you've been very outspoken against the attempts of previous commissions to solve the racket problem.
00:20:52Why is that?
00:20:53Are you asking for a frank opinion?
00:20:55Yes.
00:20:55I've had that attitude because half the commissions were nothing but political sops thrown to the public to keep them quiet.
00:21:01The other half did just what they were supposed to do.
00:21:03They investigated, wrote a report on it, took a swing at the police department and went home.
00:21:08Their work was of no help?
00:21:10No.
00:21:11We don't need investigations and reports.
00:21:13Every policeman on the force knows about the rackets.
00:21:16We know what they are and how they're worked.
00:21:18And they'll keep on being worked as long as the penalty for running a racket is no more than for breaking a bottle in the street.
00:21:23A misdemeanor.
00:21:2430 to 90 days in jail.
00:21:25What if stronger laws were passed?
00:21:28You'll have to go further than that.
00:21:29You'll have to wipe out the corruption behind them.
00:21:31Does this corruption reach into the police department itself?
00:21:33There have been rumors of its reaching into the other grand juries.
00:21:37That's why they went home.
00:21:38That's possible.
00:21:39This one's not going home, McLaren.
00:21:43Then you'd better make it your job to find out where the racket money goes.
00:21:47Who the top men are that buy protection?
00:21:49The governor's taking a crime bill before the legislature next week.
00:21:52It gives this jury something the others never had.
00:21:55Complete power to fight the rackets.
00:21:57To cut off their source of revenue.
00:21:58And discharge corrupt officials.
00:22:00We're recommending the appointment of a police commissioner who will be given the same power.
00:22:04Will that help to wipe them out?
00:22:06Yes.
00:22:07Would you accept the post?
00:22:09The police commissioner?
00:22:12With our complete backing?
00:22:13Yes, on one condition.
00:22:15What is it?
00:22:16That I have your full support in anything I do without having to explain it or answer to you for it.
00:22:20That's a large condition.
00:22:22An unnecessary one.
00:22:24Plans are no good when they leak ahead of time.
00:22:26And I've seen some leaks in high places.
00:22:28Those terms are satisfactory.
00:22:30You can let me know.
00:22:30And thank you for considering me.
00:22:32We don't care to waste time.
00:22:34We accept.
00:22:35And we'll recommend your appointment at once.
00:22:37Will you be ready to take charge?
00:22:38Yes, I will.
00:22:43Patrolman Jack Owens.
00:22:45Raymond Keeler.
00:22:47Alfred Quinn.
00:22:49Frank Rader.
00:22:51Richard Phillips.
00:22:53Edward Lynch.
00:22:54Police department clean-up.
00:22:56Read all about it.
00:22:57Police department clean-up.
00:22:58Extra paper, mister.
00:22:59Extra paper.
00:23:00Extra paper.
00:23:00Extra paper.
00:23:00Extra paper.
00:23:00Number one.
00:23:05Hey, Garber.
00:23:07Yeah?
00:23:07Didn't you forget something?
00:23:11Thanks.
00:23:16Hi, boys.
00:23:16Hello.
00:23:19Hi, boys.
00:23:21You better get these loafers working, Kelly.
00:23:23Or McLaren will swing his axe at them.
00:23:25Hey, Johnny.
00:23:26Yeah?
00:23:28What do you mind?
00:23:29I've got some bad news for you.
00:23:31What?
00:23:32You were washed out this morning.
00:23:34What are you doing, framing up on me?
00:23:36No, I'm on the level, Johnny.
00:23:39Fired?
00:23:42Where's the discharge?
00:23:46They sent it up from headquarters.
00:23:57Inefficiency.
00:23:58It's a rotten deal for McLaren to give a man with your record.
00:24:02I thought he was a friend of yours.
00:24:04Yeah.
00:24:13Good news, Miss Lee.
00:24:14Mr. Schlosser sold more numbers yesterday than any day before.
00:24:17How many?
00:24:18I forgot to ask him.
00:24:19Why?
00:24:20Never mind.
00:24:21How much have you got there?
00:24:222,180.
00:24:23No.
00:24:242,800 and...
00:24:25Let me see the...
00:24:29Did Schlosser do this adding?
00:24:31No, I did.
00:24:32That's just what I thought.
00:24:33How much is seven and four?
00:24:34Which ones?
00:24:35Ten.
00:24:36Perfect.
00:24:37Now, suppose you just collect and let Schlosser do the adding.
00:24:40It would make it a lot easier that way.
00:24:42How much did you make in Harlem today?
00:24:44I don't know yet.
00:24:45Nellie hasn't come in.
00:24:46There was something I wanted to tell you about Mr. Blake.
00:24:49It was important, too.
00:24:51So you forgot?
00:24:52Oh, I'll remember it.
00:24:53I got so much on my mind.
00:24:55Yes, I know.
00:24:56Well, before you forget, put the money in the safe, will you?
00:24:59I know it was something, and I know it was about Mr. Blake.
00:25:02Don't rest till I think what it is.
00:25:06Come in.
00:25:08Hello, Nellie.
00:25:09Hello, Miss Lee.
00:25:11That's all.
00:25:13If this keeps up, you're gonna be rich.
00:25:16$4,500 yesterday, Miss Lee, and the game is spreading all over Harlem.
00:25:21The boys all around the pool halls are spending their money on the numbers instead of dice.
00:25:26And when a colored boy stops scrap shooting, that's something.
00:25:31Rose, how many times have I told you not to use this on Miss Lee's hair?
00:25:35You ain't putting a wave in the hair right either.
00:25:37Give me that comb.
00:25:39Shoot, get on out of here.
00:25:41These low-count girls, you can't learn them nothing.
00:25:44Honestly, Miss Lee, you ought to let me come back and take care of you.
00:25:48No, Nellie, you've graduated.
00:25:50You keep on managing the Harlem end.
00:25:52You thought of this game, and you're the one that deserves to get rich from it.
00:25:55Sometimes I wish I hadn't thought of it.
00:25:58Madame Nellie Le Fleur.
00:26:00Foy.
00:26:02Seven.
00:26:04And four.
00:26:06And 18.
00:26:13Who is it?
00:26:15He isn't here.
00:26:17Who'd they want?
00:26:18McCluskey.
00:26:19That's you.
00:26:21Hello?
00:26:23He hung up.
00:26:27How many had the winning number yesterday, Nellie?
00:26:29One.
00:26:30Who?
00:26:31Me.
00:26:33Nellie.
00:26:34I've been riding my preacher's auto-license number, and it's shown.
00:26:37People will think you're cheating.
00:26:39I didn't tell anyone.
00:26:40Oh, Miss Lee, I remember what I have to tell you.
00:26:43What?
00:26:44Mr. Blake got fired from the police force last night.
00:26:47Somebody's kidding you.
00:26:48No, it's true.
00:26:49It's true.
00:27:08Hello, Johnny.
00:27:10How are you, Lee?
00:27:12Say, I never thought you'd get over this way.
00:27:15Well, what are we gonna do, stand here and swing on the door?
00:27:18Why, no.
00:27:19Come on in.
00:27:25Say, uh, what are you in an uproar about?
00:27:29Herman said you got fired.
00:27:32Yeah, that's right.
00:27:35Sit down, make yourself comfortable.
00:27:37Come on.
00:27:43Who did it?
00:27:46McLaren.
00:27:47And you're the one that was always telling me when McLaren got to the top, everything would be just fine and dandy.
00:27:52Well, I was wrong.
00:27:54Well, it's time you got wise to yourself.
00:27:56Around this town, the only reason friends pat you on the back is to find an easy place to break it.
00:28:00Yeah.
00:28:02You're a friend, aren't you?
00:28:04Well, I guess you're dumb enough to think so.
00:28:07Oh, no, I'm not dumb.
00:28:09You like me pretty well.
00:28:12Well, that goes both ways.
00:28:14If women and home life had been in my line, I'd have fallen for you a long time ago.
00:28:18That would have been kind of nice, wouldn't it?
00:28:21Yeah.
00:28:23Said you went crazy being married to a man who was never home.
00:28:26Sort of wondering if it was an optical illusion.
00:28:29Yeah.
00:28:32It isn't in the cards.
00:28:33And you can't beat the cards, can you?
00:28:36No.
00:28:40Johnny, I suppose you didn't get enough salary to save much, did you?
00:28:43Oh, I'll get along.
00:28:45I suppose you'll be looking for another job.
00:28:47Mm-hmm.
00:28:49I was wondering if you'd like to come in with me and help me run the numbers game.
00:28:54Say, you've got all the help you need.
00:28:56I won't have.
00:28:57It's getting bigger all the time.
00:28:58Some weeks it takes in from ten to twelve thousand.
00:29:01Twelve thousand?
00:29:03In that penny ante game?
00:29:04Uh-huh.
00:29:06Well, last time you told me about it, you were getting nickels and dimes.
00:29:09I know.
00:29:10But they're crazy about it in Harlem and now it's going over in the Bronx.
00:29:13I wish you'd come in and help me run it, Johnny.
00:29:16You'd make a swell job of building it up.
00:29:18You'd make a lot of money for both of us.
00:29:20They up pretty regular, Lee.
00:29:22You'll do it?
00:29:24No, not a chance.
00:29:26Say, any money I'd make would be coming out of your pocket.
00:29:29And I don't take any money away from women.
00:29:32Not me.
00:29:34Well, I thought I'd tell you about it anyway.
00:29:36Well, thanks, just the same.
00:29:42I'm sorry you got kicked out, Johnny.
00:29:44It's gonna be kind of tough to start and do a new game after all these years.
00:29:48Yeah, I suppose so.
00:29:50What are you gonna do?
00:29:51How would it take in the fights?
00:29:54They got a good car down tonight.
00:29:57Don't hurt your knuckles.
00:30:21I'm sorry I'm sorry, Papa.
00:30:22Don't hurt your knuckles.
00:30:27Help your knuckles.
00:30:29You at the нуж?
00:30:31Our love.
00:30:33All right!
00:30:36That's all.
00:30:38We love you, Papa.
00:30:41We love you, equipoise.
00:30:43You come on, Nick.
00:30:44Let's go.
00:31:14Come on, Johnny.
00:31:27I just want to thank you for the kick in the teeth.
00:31:35Would you prefer charges, Commissioner?
00:31:38No.
00:31:39Just throw them out in the street.
00:31:41Come on.
00:31:44See where Blake goes.
00:31:48Okay, boss.
00:32:02This is it, boss.
00:32:03Do you mind if I sit down and have a drink?
00:32:26I was waiting for you.
00:32:27Oh, you knew I was coming.
00:32:30I had a good idea from the way a man out there was tagging me.
00:32:34You don't miss much, do you?
00:32:37It's a habit.
00:32:39How was the main event?
00:32:42Ah, they should have had you in the ring.
00:32:44That was a sweet punch, Johnny.
00:32:47And he had it coming to him.
00:32:48You finally washed up, eh?
00:32:51Yeah, plenty.
00:32:53And a lot of thanks you got for McLaren and the public.
00:32:56Yeah, not even that petty larceny pension you were talking about.
00:32:59From now on, I'm going to see what it's like looking out for number one.
00:33:02Well, that offer's still good.
00:33:06I'd like to have you in with me.
00:33:10Doing what?
00:33:12I got a hunch we're going to have some trouble with McLaren and that jury on a tear.
00:33:16If there are any weak spots in the organization, I've got to find them now.
00:33:20And you'd be the first one to spot them.
00:33:23I want you to look over the whole setup.
00:33:25And the only one you'll have to answer to is me.
00:33:27You've got a lot of confidence in me.
00:33:31Why, I've heard guys that you've sent to prison say that if you ever made a deal,
00:33:35you'd see yourself dead before you'd go back on it.
00:33:41How about it?
00:33:47All right, Al.
00:33:57Oh, where you been?
00:33:58I just heard about Blake.
00:34:00Uh-huh.
00:34:01Yeah, I understand he's moving in on us.
00:34:02That's right.
00:34:04You're having him check up on us, eh?
00:34:06Right again.
00:34:06Any objections?
00:34:07Yeah, well, I'm running the milk of produce and you keep him away from it.
00:34:10Why?
00:34:10You got something to cover up?
00:34:12No.
00:34:13Well, that's good because he's going to check up on your outfit along with all the rest,
00:34:16whether you like it or not.
00:34:17If he okays it, all the cracking down McLaren can do won't hurt us.
00:34:21Suppose Mr. Blake double-crosses it.
00:34:23Oh, you got him wrong, Nick.
00:34:25Yeah, well, he's still a cop to me.
00:34:26Well, if it makes you happy, you keep right on thinking so.
00:34:31Are you coming down to the garage tonight?
00:34:32No.
00:34:33I suppose you're going to take him there, too.
00:34:35That's the idea.
00:34:37You know, that hat on the bed might be bad luck.
00:34:40For you or for me?
00:34:51Blake gone yet?
00:34:53Yeah, he just went out with Al.
00:34:54He's got room 318 upstairs.
00:34:56Get going.
00:34:57Okay.
00:34:58You go down to the garage and tell him when he leaves there.
00:35:00I want to know every move he makes.
00:35:02Check all the phone calls and get as much dope as you can.
00:35:04Go on, snap to it.
00:35:05Right.
00:35:13Okay.
00:35:14This place used to store bootleg liquor.
00:35:31You can go through it.
00:35:32I read it at once.
00:35:33I sat in the building across the street and watched you.
00:35:36Second floor window, I saw you.
00:35:40You'll be surprised at the change.
00:35:44No, this way.
00:35:44Come on.
00:36:14Come on.
00:36:21Hiya, Blake.
00:36:24Hiya, Blake.
00:36:26Okay.
00:36:27Threw away your club, eh?
00:36:29Well, I don't need one working with you fellas, do I?
00:36:33Are you through?
00:36:34167,812.
00:36:36Right.
00:36:37Oh, we don't believe in letting the banks handle our records.
00:36:43Yeah, I noticed that.
00:36:45All the cash business money is handled right here.
00:36:47Most of the business is cash.
00:36:49Yeah, all except a few of our regular corporations.
00:36:56How much, Vinci?
00:36:58Come on.
00:37:02122,300.
00:37:05What's the matter?
00:37:06Aren't they collecting any more?
00:37:07The fellas on the east side didn't do so good this week.
00:37:09Johnny, you better give Vinci's loan shocks that once over.
00:37:12Okay.
00:37:13He won't give my outfit that once over.
00:37:14Keep him away from it.
00:37:15What are you afraid of?
00:37:16I don't like the way your face is fastened on.
00:37:20I'll be down tomorrow morning and give you a chance to change it.
00:37:23That's calling him, Blake.
00:37:24Cut out the squawking, Louie.
00:37:26He's in here to help us.
00:37:36How's this for good news?
00:37:37310,196.
00:37:39Not bad for one week's take on pinball games.
00:37:42I wouldn't cry about it.
00:37:46You're thinking of opening a bank account?
00:38:02That's right.
00:38:03What do you think I joined this outfit for?
00:38:11I've been talking to some of the other fellas about you.
00:38:13Yeah?
00:38:14Well, what have you decided?
00:38:16Al Soldanian wants you in.
00:38:17That's okay with us.
00:38:18We're glad to have you around, but we like proof.
00:38:21We're expecting some real help from you.
00:38:23You're gonna get it.
00:38:25If you failed us, we'd be awfully disappointed.
00:38:28I can imagine.
00:38:30Hello, Wise.
00:38:45Oh, hello, Mr. Blake.
00:38:48I guess that kind of stuff is out from now on.
00:38:50Yeah, I'm sick of it myself.
00:38:51Have a cigarette?
00:38:52Thanks.
00:38:53What are you doing these days?
00:38:56Oh, I'm working for Fenner.
00:38:58Produce business.
00:38:59Yeah?
00:39:00Gave up the old wiretapping game, huh?
00:39:02Oh, sure.
00:39:03There's no money in that.
00:39:04Well, I'm glad to see you doing so well.
00:39:07See you again.
00:39:09Thanks, Mr. Blake.
00:39:23He just came in.
00:39:53Okay, here's the water.
00:39:54Alright.
00:39:55Let's see you.
00:39:56Okay, so that's this way.
00:39:57Let's see you right here.
00:39:58Now, let's see you.
00:39:59Let's see you.
00:40:00Let's see you.
00:40:01It's a little bit.
00:40:02Let's see you.
00:40:03Wait, I'm waiting.
00:40:04Not to see you even in the air or after the last time.
00:40:05Let's see you.
00:40:06I'm going to get you.
00:40:07Let's see you here.
00:40:08Come.
00:40:09I'm going to get you to the rain.
00:40:10Okay.
00:40:11Let's see you.
00:40:13Let's see you.
00:40:14You're watching.
00:40:15Oh, come.
00:40:16You're watching.
00:40:17And you're watching.
00:40:18I'm working for you.
00:40:19You're watching.
00:40:20OK, so
00:40:21He's whistling. It works great.
00:40:38What's happened, mister?
00:40:39Anything wrong?
00:40:40It just went off by accident.
00:40:47What's the matter?
00:40:49Did you hurt your ears?
00:40:51All right, boys, push it in here.
00:41:21First, it was my load shark racket, now $200,000 in jewelry.
00:41:28You ain't getting it any worse than the others.
00:41:31Sporty to me.
00:41:32Those cops couldn't have found that hide house without being tipped off.
00:41:35Yeah, and it all happened since Blake got in.
00:41:51Get that truck unloaded and get it out of here.
00:42:07Hey, what's going on here?
00:42:09Glad you dropped in, Fenner.
00:42:11What are you trying to pull?
00:42:12We're changing things around so the honest produce men will have a chance to do some business.
00:42:17I'm running an illegal wholesale business here, McLaren. You can't close this plant.
00:42:20Why not?
00:42:21Are you going to call them off or have I got to get a restraining order to make it?
00:42:24Go get your restraining orders and injunctions and anything else you need.
00:42:27The police used to waste a lot of time getting them trying to stop you.
00:42:30From now on, we act first.
00:42:32We're going to let you waste your time getting them.
00:42:34Maybe you're going to stop us.
00:42:36And don't forget to tell Kruger.
00:42:41That, that one.
00:42:42Yeah, if he wants trouble, I'll give him plenty of it.
00:42:44Hello, get Timberland on the phone.
00:42:46I don't care where he is. I said get him on the phone.
00:42:48You better forget about the lawyers and locate Al.
00:42:50And Mr. Blake, too. I want to ask him a few questions.
00:42:53Hello, Chamberlain.
00:43:03You'll have to move that car.
00:43:04I'm waiting.
00:43:05You've been here over an hour. Move on.
00:43:07Forget it. This car belongs to Al Kruger.
00:43:24Hello, gentlemen.
00:43:26What's the idea of the ticket? Afraid McLaren will fire you if you don't get rid of him?
00:43:29Nope. He's already weeded out all the rats.
00:43:33Leave him alone, Johnny.
00:43:38Come on, get up and let him keep your mouth shut.
00:43:40Come on, get up and let him keep your mouth shut.
00:43:57Pull away.
00:43:59Someday you'll learn that you can't be pulling that stuff.
00:44:01Yeah, well, someday I'll run into you when you haven't got the cavalry around.
00:44:04Call your lawyer, Al.
00:44:16Oh, solitary, huh?
00:44:17Yes, sir. Nice and private. All for yourself.
00:44:23Hey.
00:44:34Hello, Mac.
00:44:35How are you, Johnny?
00:44:37How's the jaw?
00:44:38Okay.
00:44:41How'd you get here, Henry?
00:44:42Oh, down, little fool. You were on the way over.
00:44:45Did he get hurt going off the horse?
00:44:47No, but your punches messed him up.
00:44:49You ought to learn to pull them, Johnny.
00:44:51Well, they look phony.
00:44:52We've been watching Fender's men.
00:44:54They've had you covered every minute.
00:44:56Yes, one of them followed me here.
00:44:58Yeah?
00:44:59Here's some more stuff to work on.
00:45:01Raids?
00:45:02Yeah, the sooner the better. You're getting them worried, Mac.
00:45:04Have you found out who bosses Kruger?
00:45:06No.
00:45:07All I know is there is somebody higher up, and he controls everything.
00:45:11If we can nail that bird, the whole works will fold up from the inside.
00:45:15Does Fender know who it is?
00:45:16No, nobody except Kruger.
00:45:18You think you'll be able to get it out of him?
00:45:19Oh, no.
00:45:20Then...
00:45:21Now, Fender is Kruger's number one man.
00:45:23If anything happens to Kruger, and I'm gonna see that it does,
00:45:27Fender moves up.
00:45:28But I'm not gonna let him, because I'm gonna step into Mr. Fender's shoes.
00:45:31How?
00:45:32I don't know yet.
00:45:34Is that all you've got to tell me?
00:45:36Well, that's all for now.
00:45:37Except keep on smashing him as fast as you get my instructions.
00:45:40When the break comes, I'll know what to do.
00:45:42In the meantime, you've gotta play the cars the way I deal, Mac.
00:45:45Only one thing tough about it.
00:45:47What's that?
00:45:48Kruger.
00:45:49Oh, he's a rat as much as the rest of them.
00:45:51He'd knock me off in a minute if he found out.
00:45:53But I'll hate to cross him.
00:45:55Because you haven't given him an even break.
00:45:57Yeah, that's right.
00:45:58I haven't given you one, Johnny.
00:46:00We had another man on the force that tried to smash that mob.
00:46:04They didn't kill him.
00:46:06They threw acid in his face.
00:46:08His headlights don't burn anymore.
00:46:10I handed you a rotten job, Johnny.
00:46:12Ah, forget it, Mac.
00:46:13I asked for it, didn't I?
00:46:15They all I know is handling mugs.
00:46:17I'd have taken the job if I had to ride a horse or hand out traffic tickets.
00:46:22Now, Kruger's lawyer's in the office with the writ for you.
00:46:25All right.
00:46:28Take care of yourself, Johnny.
00:46:30Sure.
00:46:32As soon as I'm set, I'll let you know.
00:46:34In the meantime, keep hammering, especially Fanner.
00:46:43Blake.
00:46:44Nobody else but Blake.
00:46:45Nobody touches until you brought Blake into the outfit.
00:46:48Now...
00:46:49You think I'm a sap?
00:46:50We're talking about Blake.
00:46:51So am I.
00:46:52I gave the guy a break.
00:46:54If he's double-crossing me...
00:46:59Yeah?
00:47:00Mr. Blake to see you.
00:47:04Send him in.
00:47:09Thanks for the fast legal service, Al.
00:47:15You'll see.
00:47:16Hello, Stoltretien.
00:47:17Hello, Stoltretien.
00:47:18What is this, a wake?
00:47:22Hello, Stoltzian.
00:47:37What is this, a wake?
00:47:40It might be.
00:47:43Nice picture of McLaren.
00:47:52The boys think you're working for him.
00:47:54I'm wondering.
00:47:56I'm not.
00:47:58I suppose your bird dog told you.
00:48:01I mean that thing you've had trailing me since I've been in the outfit.
00:48:04What have you got to say?
00:48:06Sure, Al, they're right. I just sold you right down the river.
00:48:09Yeah, the cops said they were sorry they kicked me off the force.
00:48:12McLaren sent me a basket of flowers for hitting them in the jaw.
00:48:16He said if I wanted to come back, you'd give me the whole Bronx to wander around in.
00:48:20I wouldn't clown, Johnny.
00:48:22Finally got wise to you. You're through.
00:48:25No, no. I'm just starting.
00:48:27Copper!
00:48:33I don't like guys who put their hands on me.
00:48:36Let's keep this a business meeting.
00:48:39Start talking.
00:48:41I went to work for you, Al, because you wanted help.
00:48:44I didn't come to you. You came to me.
00:48:46So you think I crossed you, huh?
00:48:48Well, I couldn't get a dime a dozen if I handed this whole mob over to the coppers, and you know it.
00:48:53I can see now why you needed help.
00:48:55And you need lots of it.
00:48:57You gonna let him talk his way out?
00:48:58Shut up. Keep talking.
00:49:00Will that any of these masterminds have anything useful to offer?
00:49:03Keep on talking.
00:49:05I've never seen it fail.
00:49:07Whenever mugs get into a jam, the first thing they do is they start knifing each other.
00:49:11Yeah, I thought you were smart, Al.
00:49:13Have you got anything to suggest?
00:49:15Let McLaren have his fun. You can't stop him.
00:49:18As soon as he's made a showing, the grand jury will fall up right under his nose and leave him without any backing.
00:49:22They always do, you know that.
00:49:23Meanwhile, we sit back and wind up broke.
00:49:25No, but go to work.
00:49:26Stop playing cops and robbers.
00:49:28Quit tapping telephone wires.
00:49:30Spend your time building up new rackets so that when McLaren comes up for air, he'll find a dozen more going.
00:49:36Just pull them right out of the hat, eh?
00:49:38I suppose you've got one.
00:49:40Yes, I've got one.
00:49:41Numbers.
00:49:43We're just talking about a new racket.
00:49:49What's the odds against picking the right number out of from one to a thousand?
00:49:52A thousand to one.
00:49:53That's right.
00:49:54And the payoff is 600 for one, if anybody picks the right number.
00:50:00Now, here.
00:50:03Now, a lot of people will try and pick that every day if one dollar would win him 600.
00:50:07What are you trying to sell us?
00:50:08The penny-ante game Lee Morgan's running up in the Bronx in Harlem?
00:50:11Well, it's so penny-ante that she's cleaning up 12,000 a week just around a few neighborhood stores.
00:50:15And most of the bets are dimes and nickels.
00:50:18Seven million people in this town and all of them looking for easy money.
00:50:21You just offer them 600 for one and this thing will spread like a four-alarm fire.
00:50:25And they won't be buying one number, they'll be picking four or five.
00:50:28But if you want to control the winning number, you can pay off on race track bets.
00:50:31And manipulate the totals.
00:50:32All it needs is organization.
00:50:34Get a million people in this town buying numbers
00:50:37and this one racket will clean up 300 million a year.
00:50:40Why, it's a cinch. It's easy.
00:50:43You boys better beat it.
00:50:44Mr. Blake and me want to talk over a little business.
00:50:47Come on now.
00:50:49Give it a chance to get this thing set up.
00:50:51We'll have a meeting or something for us.
00:50:52We'll tell you all about it in the next meeting.
00:50:54Sure.
00:50:55See you later, boss.
00:50:56Everything is going to be all right.
00:50:58You bet.
00:50:59You bet.
00:51:08Sit down, Johnny.
00:51:09Thanks.
00:51:10Let's go to work.
00:51:22What makes you think we're going to retire?
00:51:25Because there ain't going to be any room for you.
00:51:27Our company's organizing numbers game all over the city.
00:51:29And that lets you out.
00:51:30Let's us out nothing.
00:51:31I started this game here, and I'm going to keep it going.
00:51:34And so is Miss Lee.
00:51:35You and no other gunman's going to tell us what to do.
00:51:38You have us wrong, sister.
00:51:40We're businessmen.
00:51:41We don't carry guns.
00:51:45We don't?
00:51:46No.
00:51:47We're just telling you.
00:51:48Well, then I'm afraid we'd have to ask Timothy about it.
00:51:51Yes, sir.
00:51:56Timothy?
00:51:59Timothy?
00:52:00Throw those gentlemen out on their ears.
00:52:15They took the money away from me.
00:52:16The numbers money, the bag, everything.
00:52:17Who did?
00:52:18I don't know.
00:52:19Some men.
00:52:20They stopped me on the street and told me to keep my face out of there.
00:52:22They said I couldn't even make collections anymore.
00:52:24They did, did they?
00:52:25What are you going to do?
00:52:26I'm going to tell Johnny Blake about it.
00:52:27He'll run those mugs off the 93rd street dump.
00:52:29Well, I guess I'll go upstairs and turn in.
00:52:31You did all right tonight, Johnny.
00:52:32Hey, has Finner come in yet?
00:52:33He's in the coffee shop.
00:52:34Hey, where did you get that shiner?
00:52:35An oversized bouncer up the Bronx.
00:52:36What were you doing up in the Bronx?
00:52:37Taking the numbers game over for Finner.
00:52:38We were doing all right when we tangled with this Morgan thing.
00:52:40Have a seat.
00:52:41Just where did you get the idea you were going to take over the numbers game?
00:52:45I have taken it over.
00:52:46By tomorrow, it'll be in the bag.
00:52:47You're going to keep your hands off.
00:52:48I'm going to run that game.
00:52:49Finner.
00:52:50Since when did you get to be a big shot in this outfit?
00:52:52Tonight.
00:52:53You ain't got a crew to do any organizing.
00:52:54I will have from now on.
00:52:55I'm going to be just going to be a big shot.
00:52:56But you're going to be in the bag.
00:52:57Well, more than a few hours later.
00:52:58You'll just come back.
00:52:59We'll be in the night.
00:53:02Okay.
00:53:03I'm just going to run this game.
00:53:04We'll be in the cab.
00:53:05We'll be in the night.
00:53:09We'll go to that morning.
00:53:10You're in the night.
00:53:11Well it'll be in the night.
00:53:12We'll be in the night.
00:53:13Come on, you're in the night.
00:53:14Where is your manager?
00:53:15You've been in the night.
00:53:16There's a good old man.
00:53:17We'll find some informant.
00:53:18There's a good evening.
00:53:19Ain't got a crew to do any organizing.
00:53:21I will have from now on.
00:53:22He's working for me just the same as you are.
00:53:25I didn't give you any orders to take over.
00:53:27He's to have it, eh?
00:53:29That's right.
00:53:30I used to be number one man around here, Al.
00:53:32You're kind of kicking me down great, ain't you?
00:53:35You'll still be number one man if you quit stepping out of line.
00:53:38So you call this stepping out of line, eh?
00:53:41This and a publisher named Bryant.
00:53:49Thanks, Al.
00:53:55Okay.
00:53:56There's another thing we might just as well get straight.
00:53:59Lee Morgan started this game.
00:54:01She's going to keep on getting a small time break-off out of it.
00:54:03When this outfit takes anything over, it takes it all.
00:54:07If you're going to run it, you're going to run it right.
00:54:11Okay.
00:54:14Take it easy.
00:54:18Louie.
00:54:19Call it off.
00:54:21I said call it off.
00:54:38I understand John Blake lives here.
00:54:40That's correct.
00:54:41I'd like to see him.
00:54:42What's your name, please?
00:54:42Lee Morgan.
00:54:46I'll try his room.
00:54:49Mr. John Blake, please.
00:54:56All right.
00:54:57I'm sorry.
00:54:58He doesn't answer.
00:55:02Are you looking for Johnny Blake?
00:55:03Yes, I am.
00:55:04My name's Nick Fenner.
00:55:06Maybe I can help.
00:55:07Well, I've got to find him.
00:55:09You're Lee Morgan.
00:55:11Yes.
00:55:11You're on the numbers game up in the Bronx.
00:55:14So what?
00:55:15I hear they started running you out tonight.
00:55:18Well, they won't get away with it.
00:55:19It's a dirty trick.
00:55:19I don't blame you for gunning for Blake.
00:55:22Gunning for him?
00:55:23He's the one that's taking it away.
00:55:25That's a lie.
00:55:26He's grabbing it to put himself in strong with Al Kruger.
00:55:29Go and ask him.
00:55:31He's in the coffee shop.
00:55:32Oh, hello, Lee.
00:55:51Johnny.
00:55:52Are you taking the numbers game?
00:55:53Yes.
00:55:57Why?
00:55:58Well, I can't tell you.
00:56:01And I tried to take you in with me.
00:56:05It sort of turned out better to toss it to the wolves, didn't it?
00:56:08Well, I thought they'd let you keep on running your end of it.
00:56:11I guess that wasn't poetry about friends,
00:56:13finding an easy place to break your back.
00:56:23Hey, give me $7.42.
00:56:26I know I'm going to win today.
00:56:28Sure.
00:56:29I tell my wife this morning.
00:56:30I got a lock today, all right.
00:56:32One buck on $7.77.
00:56:34Shoot in the works, ain't you?
00:56:35I just took three blondes to the seventh floor.
00:56:37See you later.
00:56:38$8.11, $301, and $9.87.
00:56:42$10 on each of them.
00:56:43I'll be around in the morning with a clothes bastard to collect.
00:56:46Okay.
00:56:53Oh, no such luck, thanks.
00:56:56What is it?
00:56:57$5081.
00:56:58Oh, that's my number.
00:57:00I won!
00:57:00Now I'll get that fair coat.
00:57:03That's better than putting it in bank accounts.
00:57:05If the tax boys find out how much you got,
00:57:07they're alive in the wonder where it comes from.
00:57:08Yeah, looks like I'd have to hire another box.
00:57:11Looks like you'd have to hire about 10,
00:57:12the way those numbers keep paying off.
00:57:14You want to send some of it to Canada.
00:57:16Is that what you do?
00:57:17Yeah.
00:57:18It might be convenient sometimes.
00:57:20Well, you and the bosses must have had to hire a wolf.
00:57:22I don't know what they do, Bert.
00:57:24but they're not complaining.
00:57:25And how about meeting them sometime, huh?
00:57:27Not a chance.
00:57:28I'm the only one who knows who they are,
00:57:30and I gather they wanted to stay that way.
00:57:31Well, I guess you can't blame them for that.
00:57:39Thanks.
00:57:42Hey, uh,
00:57:43what would happen to them if you got lost?
00:57:46They'd just pick somebody else and keep on going.
00:57:48Fanner, I suppose.
00:57:49No, I think it'd be you.
00:57:51Me?
00:57:51They think you're the best man I've got.
00:57:53They do, huh?
00:57:54But you wouldn't want it, Johnny.
00:57:55It's a top job, all right,
00:57:57but it's the last one a guy ever holds.
00:57:59There's only one way out.
00:58:01Yeah, that's the payoff for helping them, huh?
00:58:03But you don't have to worry about getting it.
00:58:06How am I going to get lost?
00:58:07You better keep your eyes open.
00:58:08The boys are getting restless about McLaren
00:58:10still hammering their rackets.
00:58:11He'll be washed up pretty soon.
00:58:13Oh, yeah.
00:58:13Hey.
00:58:13How are you, Mr. Hollister?
00:58:33Oh, Blake, I didn't recognize you.
00:58:35Well, I guess it's been about five years.
00:58:37All of that.
00:58:39Oh, Mr. Kruger, Mr. Hollister.
00:58:40Mr. Kruger.
00:58:41How do you do?
00:58:41I read that you left the police department.
00:58:43You seem to be doing all right.
00:58:45What, have you had any more holdups?
00:58:46No, no.
00:58:47I lost some jewelry a few years ago,
00:58:49and it only took Blake about six hours to recover it.
00:58:52No, but it was better on that kind of a job.
00:58:53Well, I wish I'd known when you quit.
00:58:55It's like the hedge in the banking business.
00:58:56Oh, there's not enough money in it.
00:59:00I'm glad to have seen you again.
00:59:02Goodbye, Mr. Kruger.
00:59:03Goodbye.
00:59:03Goodbye.
00:59:05Well, fella.
00:59:07Yeah.
00:59:09Hello, Mac.
00:59:10I'm ready to go.
00:59:11Grab Kruger right away.
00:59:13I can't cover an arrest like that.
00:59:15Well, you've got them.
00:59:16Put them where nobody can get at him.
00:59:17Well, what are you going to do, Johnny?
00:59:18I've got no time to answer questions.
00:59:20Wait a minute.
00:59:21That's not all.
00:59:22Crack down on Fenner's milk outfit.
00:59:23Break it up.
00:59:24Smash it.
00:59:25This is the last move.
00:59:26Okay, you'll hear more from me.
00:59:33Yeah, what's up?
00:59:35They just knocked over your milk outfit.
00:59:37Yeah, which plan?
00:59:37All of them.
00:59:38They even raided the Brooklyn place and grabbed all the trucks.
00:59:40And that's all we've got left.
00:59:41If we don't do something about it, we're going to be washed up.
00:59:43What's Al doing about it?
00:59:44Nothing.
00:59:44He's going to let it ride like he does everything else.
00:59:46Yeah, but the numbers game's paying off big dough.
00:59:48Sure, it's going to keep on paying off as far as he's concerned.
00:59:50Where is he?
00:59:51He's checking up at the racetrack boys.
00:59:53Get out of that car.
00:59:54Now, listen, Nick, I'm going with you.
00:59:55Get out of that car.
01:00:03Where's all this protection you were supposed to give us?
01:00:11You're not beginning to coast on the profits from the numbers game, are you, Al?
01:00:15Letting the rest of us hold the bag?
01:00:17I'm taking orders just the same as you are.
01:00:20When the right ones come, I'll pass them along to you.
01:00:22Until then, you keep your noses out of this.
01:00:24Well, we were just wondering.
01:00:25All right, I'll see you a week from Thursday.
01:00:27Okay.
01:00:33All right.
01:01:03Hello, Nick.
01:01:14What's eating you?
01:01:15I'm starting to take over the numbers game.
01:01:33Are you at it again?
01:01:53It ain't a very big one.
01:01:54If Mike catches you back there, he'll crown you.
01:01:57Yeah, but he isn't here.
01:01:58Oh, look what happened.
01:02:14Hello, Lee.
01:02:15Hello.
01:02:17Pretty soon you'll start coming around here in the mornings.
01:02:20Beat it.
01:02:20Who, me?
01:02:21You.
01:02:22I wouldn't stay.
01:02:29He's no good, Miss Lee.
01:02:30She knows it.
01:02:31So do I.
01:02:36A lot of news there.
01:02:39Who did it?
01:02:40We're trying to find out.
01:02:41I thought he was a friend of yours.
01:02:44He was.
01:02:45You don't seem very upset about it.
01:02:47There's no use crying if the dice happened to fall that way.
01:02:50Do you want to go back in the numbers game?
01:02:54What are you trying to do, kid me?
01:02:55You started this racket.
01:02:57You ought to have a share in it.
01:02:59I suppose Mr. Blake will let me have it.
01:03:01He'll have nothing to say about it.
01:03:02But I'm running things from now on.
01:03:05If you want the Bronx and Harlem districts, they're yours.
01:03:08If you need protection, you'll get it.
01:03:11You don't trust me.
01:03:13I don't trust anybody.
01:03:15Neither do I.
01:03:17We ought to work fine together.
01:03:19How about it?
01:03:22You're going to take it away from Blake?
01:03:25Yeah.
01:03:26Go ahead and take it.
01:03:32The numbers game.
01:04:02We'll find out who got Al sooner or later,
01:04:23but we ain't got any time to start worrying about that now.
01:04:26The question is, do I run this business from now on or don't I?
01:04:30Well, that's all right with us.
01:04:31But the bosses may have something to say about it if we ever hear from them.
01:04:34I'll take care of that.
01:04:35Why wasn't Blake asked then on this meeting?
01:04:38Because he ain't going to have so much to say from now on.
01:04:40He's the one that sold Al on sitting back and waiting for McLaren to run down.
01:04:44Well, it didn't work out that way.
01:04:46I'm going to put the rackets back in full swing,
01:04:48even if it means trouble with McLaren.
01:04:52Hi, Mike.
01:04:53Hi, Johnny.
01:04:54Hello.
01:04:54Hi, Robert.
01:04:56Hitchcock.
01:04:57Hiya, Blake.
01:04:58I'm sorry, I'm late.
01:04:59Say, uh, what is this, uh, an election?
01:05:02It's already been held.
01:05:05And you're it.
01:05:06Any objections?
01:05:08Few.
01:05:09Yeah, what's the first one?
01:05:11A job was given to me.
01:05:14When?
01:05:14The bosses called me in two hours after the news broke.
01:05:17Do you expect us to believe that?
01:05:19Well, I told them you might have a few doubts,
01:05:21but, uh, I couldn't persuade them to come down here and prove it.
01:05:24Who are they?
01:05:27Did Kruger tell you?
01:05:29No.
01:05:31So I think I'll keep on sitting in the driver's seat till I hear from them personally.
01:05:36Ooh, sit anywhere you want to, but don't try and stop me from carrying out orders.
01:05:40Got orders and everything, eh?
01:05:42Yeah.
01:05:43I have to take charge of their money and have it over to them by 10 o'clock tomorrow night.
01:05:48Now, keep it yourself and no one will know the difference.
01:05:50Say, the numbers business is doing all right, Lambert.
01:05:53I don't have to chisel in on yours.
01:05:56Half the money I take to them will be mine anyway.
01:05:59Well, what do you say?
01:06:00Do I take charge of their split or have you some other suggestion?
01:06:04None that I can think of right now.
01:06:06All right, then.
01:06:08We'll meet in the garage tomorrow night at 6.
01:06:10Okay, Johnny.
01:06:11All right, Blake.
01:06:12All right, all right.
01:06:17All right.
01:06:20Hello?
01:06:30This is John Blake.
01:06:32The Oceanic Bank, Mr. Blake.
01:06:33Mr. Hollister asked me to call you and ask if you could drop over and have a little talk with him.
01:06:38I believe it's concerning your checking account.
01:06:40What's the matter?
01:06:40Is it overdrawn?
01:06:41I don't know, but Mr. Hollister considered it important.
01:06:45He'd appreciate it very much.
01:06:46Tell him I'll be right over.
01:06:50Mr. Blake.
01:06:53Will you go right in?
01:07:00Hello, Mike.
01:07:01Well, I didn't expect to see you again so soon.
01:07:03You didn't, did I?
01:07:05Mr. Thorndike, Mr. Blake.
01:07:08How do you do?
01:07:10How are you?
01:07:12Mr. Caldwell.
01:07:15How do you do?
01:07:16How are you?
01:07:19Hey, let it take a board meeting and an ex-government official go over my account?
01:07:23Nothing wrong with your account, Blake.
01:07:25We want to know why you tried to take over Kruger's job.
01:07:34You're the heads, huh?
01:07:39Yes.
01:07:41Well, no wonder the organization has been so well protected.
01:07:45Why did you try to take over the job?
01:07:47I didn't try and take it over.
01:07:48I took it over.
01:07:50And do you think we might object?
01:07:51Well, why should you?
01:07:52I've proven to you that I could run it better than anyone else.
01:07:55Fenner isn't any good.
01:07:56Yes, you've given us quite a nice bit of revenue.
01:07:59Well, I've given you more than any four of them put together.
01:08:01And you'll keep on getting it, provided you give me a few breaks.
01:08:04You know, I'm not in this for fun.
01:08:06Satisfied?
01:08:08Quite.
01:08:10Blake, the job is yours.
01:08:13Thanks.
01:08:14You're not making any mistake.
01:08:16Incidentally, Mr. Blake,
01:08:17you are the only one who will know who we are.
01:08:21I understand that.
01:08:23And the first thing we want you to do
01:08:24is to collect our royalties in the garage tonight
01:08:28and bring them here.
01:08:30I've already made arrangements about collecting them.
01:08:32Huh?
01:08:33Will it be all right if I'm here at 10?
01:08:35Uh, yes, yes.
01:08:37Well, before we go into detailed instructions,
01:08:39I suggest we all have a drink to Mr. Blake's success.
01:08:41That's a good idea.
01:08:43How about it?
01:08:43Well, it'll taste pretty good.
01:08:45Ha, ha, ha, ha.
01:08:47You're making a mistake
01:08:48by not telling the public what you're doing, McLaren.
01:08:50The papers are beginning to blast at you.
01:08:52Well, Adam.
01:08:52But you haven't discovered a thing on Kruger's death.
01:08:54Not so far.
01:08:55What are you doing to investigate it?
01:08:57I don't care to say.
01:08:58I'll be perfectly frank with you.
01:09:00The jury is fed up the way you've kept them in the dark.
01:09:03Those were the terms when I took the job.
01:09:05And we expected you to deliver,
01:09:06but you're getting nowhere.
01:09:07I know that you've broken up a few rackets,
01:09:09but you haven't gotten the men that we want.
01:09:11And if we don't get them, they're going to get us.
01:09:12A lot of pressure is being brought to bear
01:09:14to have us discharged.
01:09:15If that happens, all our work will have gone for nothing.
01:09:19I think you'll have some action soon.
01:09:21I hope so.
01:09:23If something doesn't break within the next two weeks,
01:09:26you're going to be let out.
01:09:28Thanks for telling me.
01:09:34Did you want to see me?
01:09:35Yes.
01:09:36Have these 40 men here at 3 o'clock this afternoon.
01:09:43Tell them to be ready for 24-hour duty.
01:09:45Things are getting warm, eh?
01:09:47Plenty.
01:09:47Got your figures, Nishko?
01:09:54Yeah.
01:09:5528,400.
01:09:56That's pretty bad.
01:09:58I'll say it is.
01:09:59First time I was here, it was about 170,000.
01:10:01It won't stay this way very long.
01:10:03Yeah.
01:10:04Aren't you going to wait for Nick?
01:10:05No, I, um, I'll get his figures later.
01:10:08All right.
01:10:09I'll see you at the hotel.
01:10:10Okay.
01:10:11Okay.
01:10:11Okay.
01:10:11Okay.
01:10:17All set to take him the money, eh?
01:10:22Yeah.
01:10:22Should I get him your regards?
01:10:23That's a lot of dough to go south with, Blake.
01:10:26If I ever find out you don't know him, I'm going to drop in on you.
01:10:29Yeah, like you did on Kruger.
01:10:31I'll be looking for you.
01:10:47Hey, you.
01:11:05Throw me that bag.
01:11:06Get out, get out.
01:11:09Buy no paper.
01:11:11Okay.
01:11:11Put that silverware.
01:11:14Come on, let's get out of here.
01:11:20Seal up.
01:11:24Seal up.
01:11:24Seal up.
01:11:34Yeah, here it is.
01:11:36That's it.
01:11:44You know, Blake told him.
01:11:46Blake?
01:11:47I saw him signal the cops.
01:11:49Now, don't kid yourself, he doesn't know who the bosses are.
01:11:51He wouldn't have pulled this raid unless he was ready to clamp down on them, too.
01:11:54He said he was gonna see them at 10 o'clock,
01:11:56and I can't warn him because I don't know who they are.
01:11:58That makes it great for him.
01:12:00I've got to get him before he gets to them.
01:12:02Yeah, if you can find him.
01:12:04I've got wires tailing him.
01:12:06I'll find him.
01:12:08I've got wires tailing him.
01:12:10I'll find him.
01:12:14I'll find him.
01:12:38Hear from Blake?
01:12:39No, and he's five minutes late.
01:12:41I'd feel a lot better if we got Fenner.
01:12:43Other men stationed?
01:12:44Yes.
01:12:52Hello.
01:12:53Johnny?
01:12:54Where are you?
01:12:551124 18th Street.
01:12:57Did you get everyone at the garage?
01:12:59All except Fenner.
01:13:00We couldn't find him.
01:13:01Well, that's fine.
01:13:02Well, don't worry about Fenner finding me.
01:13:04Did you get the serial numbers?
01:13:05Yes.
01:13:06Yes.
01:13:07The job's almost washed up, Johnny.
01:13:09If we can grab them with the money that matches those numbers, it's an airtight case.
01:13:12They'll get it at 10 sharp.
01:13:13I'm leaving here at a quarter off.
01:13:15Yeah, and don't make a move till I come out.
01:13:17One phony sign, you'll be out of luck.
01:13:19I won't.
01:13:20But I'm still worried about Fenner.
01:13:22Oh, forget it, Mac.
01:13:23We'll be having a beer at 10.30.
01:13:25Yeah.
01:13:26So he said, true word.
01:13:27The warden's betrayed me.
01:13:28Pardon me if you want it on the telephone.
01:13:29Excuse me.
01:13:30All right.
01:13:31Yes?
01:13:32Has Mr. Fenner been there this evening?
01:13:33This is Mr. Cagle speaking.
01:13:34And when he comes in, will you please tell him that Mr. Blake phoned?
01:13:35He wants to see him.
01:13:36It's very important.
01:13:37He's at 1124 East 18th Street.
01:13:38Yes, I'll tell him.
01:13:39Thanks.
01:13:40Pardon me, but Mr. Fenner wants to see you.
01:13:41Where is he?
01:13:42In the office.
01:13:43Oh, no.
01:13:44No.
01:13:45No.
01:13:46No.
01:13:47No.
01:13:48No, no.
01:13:49No.
01:13:50No.
01:13:51No.
01:13:52No.
01:13:53No.
01:13:54No.
01:13:55No.
01:13:56No.
01:13:57No.
01:13:58No.
01:13:59No.
01:14:00No.
01:14:01No.
01:14:02No.
01:14:03No.
01:14:04No.
01:14:05No.
01:14:06No.
01:14:07No.
01:14:08No.
01:14:09What's the idea of coming in the back way?
01:14:13The cops are after me.
01:14:15Do you know any places that Blake might be using for a hideout?
01:14:18Yes.
01:14:20He's at 1124 East 18th Street.
01:14:23He says he wants to see you.
01:14:25Yeah? How do you know?
01:14:27Well, someone by the name of Kegel phoned.
01:14:31Why? What's happened?
01:14:33Nothing except that Blake's done what I always said he'd do.
01:14:35He's put the whole crowd in the spot for McLaren.
01:14:37They're under arrest.
01:14:39He's working with the police?
01:14:40He's been working with them all the way, and I'm going to pay him off.
01:14:51There's no telephone listed at 1124 East 18th.
01:14:54Well, there is a phone there, and I've got to find the number.
01:14:56There's no number listed at that address.
01:14:58It must be a confidential number. I'm sorry.
01:15:07about knocking.
01:15:09I know he'll be a detective at 1124 East 18th Street.
01:15:10Well, there's no coming, Mr.
01:15:24because of when David Goodwin was миллиигрed.
01:15:26Let's see.
01:15:27Hashten?
01:15:28Yes.
01:15:29What's the enc:"No".
01:15:31Let's go.
01:16:01Let's go.
01:16:31Are you all right, Johnny?
01:16:33Yeah.
01:16:34Has Penner been here?
01:16:35He's in there, on the floor.
01:16:37Say, drive me over to Wall in 24th.
01:16:40Don't you want to go uptown?
01:16:41No, I've got some business.
01:16:48I was afraid he was gonna kill you.
01:16:50Well, how did you know about it?
01:16:52I told him where you were.
01:16:54Huh?
01:16:55I didn't know what he was gonna do until he told me you were back working with the police again.
01:16:58You know that, huh?
01:17:00Oh, I feel like such a hero, Johnny.
01:17:03And after the way I talked to you that night in the hotel.
01:17:06Oh, you didn't know. Forget it.
01:17:08Tried to be sore.
01:17:10But it seemed so funny not seeing you around.
01:17:15You're all through with that little now, aren't you, Johnny?
01:17:18Yeah.
01:17:19I'm so glad.
01:17:21Now you can go back on the force.
01:17:23Maybe in the Broadway district.
01:17:27Yeah.
01:17:30Here's where I get off.
01:17:31Are you all right, Johnny?
01:17:44Oh, sure I'm all right.
01:17:46Go back that way, Lee.
01:17:48I'll wait for you.
01:17:49You'll have to wait too long.
01:17:52Thanks for the lift.
01:17:54Erases, Lee.
01:17:56I'll remember that, Johnny.
01:17:58Good night.
01:17:59Good night, Johnny.
01:18:00Something's happened to him.
01:18:01Wait. We can't bring it up now.
01:18:03Come on.
01:18:04Come on.
01:18:05Come on.
01:18:06Come on.
01:18:07Come on.
01:18:08Come on.
01:18:09Come on.
01:18:10Come on.
01:18:11Come on.
01:18:12Come on.
01:18:13Come on.
01:18:14Come on.
01:18:15Come on.
01:18:16Something's happened to him.
01:18:17Wait. We can't bring it up now.
01:18:19Hello, Blake.
01:18:34How are you, gentlemen?
01:18:36All right.
01:18:37Ten o'clock on the dot.
01:18:39You keep your appointments.
01:18:40I wanted to make my first job perfect.
01:18:42Good.
01:18:43You can open it, Hunter.
01:18:45You have any trouble with Fenner?
01:18:47We got along fine.
01:18:49How does it feel to be head of the organization?
01:18:51I've been waiting for a night like this for 15 years.
01:18:54You deserve it.
01:18:56Will you gentlemen need me any longer?
01:18:59No.
01:19:00We'll get in touch with you next week.
01:19:01Good night.
01:19:02Good night.
01:19:03Good night.
01:19:04Good night.
01:19:17Good night.
01:19:47Good night.
01:19:59Good morning.
01:20:00Go ahead in.
01:20:01What's that?
01:20:03Lock that door.
01:20:06Hold it, officer.
01:20:07I think McLaren can use that.
01:20:09Get that box, boys.
01:20:10Okay, Cap. Put the bracelets on them.
01:20:11Yes, sir.
01:20:12Have a look in that vault.
01:20:14Johnny.
01:20:19Hello, Mac.
01:20:23Did you nail him?
01:20:24Yes.
01:20:25Oh, that's that.
01:20:27Who got you, fella?
01:20:29Yeah.
01:20:30Where is he?
01:20:33He's washed up.
01:20:34Well, you check the bullets he put into me with those that killed Brian and Kruger.
01:20:43They're all from his gun.
01:20:46You didn't miss a bet, did you?
01:20:48One.
01:20:50I was wrong about that glass of beer.
01:20:54But we've had lots of them.
01:20:56We'll be having more, Johnny. I'm taking you to the hospital.
01:20:59I won't do any good.
01:21:00Keep kicking him in the line, Mac.
01:21:06I will, Johnny.
01:21:08I like to think
01:21:09that when those mugs pass a policeman,
01:21:14they'll keep on tipping their hearts.
01:21:16I'll be right back.
01:21:22I'll be right back.
01:21:27I'll be right back.
01:21:28I will.
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