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00:01:02Chicago.
00:01:05Hog butcher for the world.
00:01:08Tool maker.
00:01:10Stacker of wheat.
00:01:13Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler.
00:01:17Storming.
00:01:18Husky.
00:01:19Brawling.
00:01:21City of big shoulders.
00:01:23Those are the proud words of Carl Sandburg.
00:01:26It's how we like to think of our city.
00:01:29Underneath the carpet of our complacency and inertia
00:01:31was the dirt which had caked up again
00:01:34since Al Capone, Mr. Big, was put out of circulation.
00:01:38We'd fooled ourselves into believing
00:01:40that the air was fresh and pure again.
00:01:43But all that had happened under Mr. Big
00:01:45was small potatoes compared to the syndicate
00:01:47which had taken over the mantle of crime and corruption
00:01:50on a nationwide scale.
00:01:53As I learned when Nelson Kern paid me a visit.
00:01:56This time, they were hiding behind a phony veneer
00:02:00of legitimate enterprises.
00:02:03And it wasn't long after Mr. Kern left my office
00:02:06when it all started again.
00:02:08Hey, Mr. Kern.
00:02:27Let's go.
00:02:35Hey, sir.
00:02:42Come on.
00:02:44You're welcome.
00:02:46Hey, Mr. Kern.
00:02:47Come on.
00:02:49Come on.
00:02:49Come on.
00:02:50Come on.
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00:02:56that's when i knew for certain that kern hadn't lied to me that they were back in business
00:03:05bigger and dirtier than ever a malignancy that would have to be cut out at the core
00:03:11by nightfall it was all over town the radio and the newspapers were full of it
00:03:21nelson kern respected head of the highly successful accounting and business management
00:03:26firm kern associates by his own admission to david healy editor of the chicago telegraph
00:03:32branded himself a close working associate of arnold valent alleged head of chicago's vast
00:03:37crime cartel later that night mrs kern committed suicide she left a note for her daughter joyce
00:03:46kern living in france the last four years engaged to some guy in the state department you know usual
00:03:51thing crowds newspapers hounding her couldn't face the scandal disgrace by the next morning
00:03:59the news services were giving us the story on joyce kern she had disappeared from paris was
00:04:04rumored to be on her way to a sanitarium in switzerland the fiance's family issued a formal statement for
00:04:10the press if there had ever been an engagement it was all off now that was it 30
00:04:15hey fellas come here a hater for real
00:04:34golly it's a real gun
00:04:39late that afternoon i met with a group of men at one of the loop hotels
00:04:44they were quite a collection clarence haynes who was kern's lawyer
00:04:49henry nugent owner of one of our largest department stores
00:04:53sam landell one of our foremost business executives
00:04:57harold unkers president of a utility company detective lieutenant robert fenton
00:05:02he'd fought the mob in the old days and hated their guts and pat winters state attorney and
00:05:08illinois's leading crime buster kern was hired by unicorn casually in life the insurance company
00:05:15that occupies the building on clark street right he told me he discovered it was just a legitimate
00:05:20front for all of valent's illegitimate enterprises the more kern saw the dirtier he began to feel
00:05:26he felt he had to wash his hands for the sake of his family as well as himself
00:05:30why did he go to you well he said valent had a lot of friends in the right places
00:05:35he wanted me to front for him act on his behalf and making a deal with the federal and state
00:05:41authorities and make sure the police guaranteed his family the maximum protection possible
00:05:45mr winters yes sir seems to me the attorney general's office should be able to do something
00:05:51well we can't build a case without evidence and that isn't easy to come by
00:05:55sure the big dough still rolls in from gambling shakedowns vice all the other rackets but
00:06:01what happens to the money for every illegal operation the syndicate has a dozen legitimate fronts
00:06:06so a little of the take drifts into this business and a little into that pretty soon it's like trying
00:06:11to separate sewer water from the ocean well what do you suggest dave that we pack up and move
00:06:15not if you're willing to open your checkbooks and take a gamble just what's on your mind some
00:06:21information came in this morning that we may be able to hang our hats on we know who killed kern
00:06:27that is who pulled the trigger a kid found the gun this morning on a piling it belonged to a hood
00:06:34by the name of mel burke he's one of valent's boys did you arrest him no i sent out a tracer on him
00:06:40without telling anybody why but even when i do find him i'm not going to pick him up we ask him
00:06:46not to you see if we pick up burke we get ourselves one small fry he means nothing we think we may be
00:06:54able to use this information as bait for the big fry you understand this is all under wraps of course
00:06:59that's why i called you all together we've got an opportunity to break the syndicate but it'll take
00:07:04money i've already contacted the other newspapers they're willing to cooperate to clean out this element
00:07:09so you can see i'm here as a representative of all the dailies first time we've ever agreed on
00:07:14anything that's quite true well i'm sure money will be no problem good that's what i wanted to hear
00:07:21you'll be apprised of everything we do when it happens gentlemen i suggest we leave one at a time
00:07:2636 single background attended northwestern university to prepare for cpa career
00:07:44took business administration commercial law to get his bachelor of science
00:07:48two years as infantry officer during the war four major campaigns decorated twice
00:07:53wounded transferred to judge advocate's office helped crack a million dollar black market operation
00:07:59in france now living here in chicago auditor for the internal revenue bureau grade seven
00:08:03son's made to order he is i got to know him well during the war i was the ceo we've kept in touch
00:08:09since you think he'll go for this deal well he's ambitious wants to get out on his own
00:08:14can fly pretty high on sixty thousand dollars i wouldn't know
00:08:17this was the man winters wanted for the job his name was barry amsterdam
00:08:24after barry had been introduced to us
00:08:53we quickly briefed him on what we wanted him to do unicorns a syndicate front a financial clearinghouse
00:08:58but we've got to prove it and that's where you come in kern was an accountant tax expert
00:09:03break it all down and it still adds up to a high-priced bookkeeper right
00:09:06i should only be such a bookkeeper kern operated first class
00:09:11works by the suits dollar cigars it's the way i like to operate when i get out on my own
00:09:16but on the level of time play along with us and you will
00:09:19kern said he had enough evidence to put valent on ice for the next hundred years
00:09:24now what kind of evidence could a bookkeeper get his hands on
00:09:30wait a minute wait a minute you want me to find out what kern found out is that it
00:09:35that's it i've already taken that everybody was speaking to your commissioner he'll cooperate
00:09:39if you're willing
00:09:41well it's very nice to have met you gentlemen pat i'll get out the next corner
00:09:45you were born for the job barry i was born to die in bed at the age of 90
00:09:49winters said you were a bright boy i'm bright enough to be a coward where the syndicate is
00:09:54concerned i'm not cut out for this cloak and dagger stuff we think you are give me one good
00:09:59reason why i should stick my neck out we can give you 60 000 good reasons what
00:10:0360 000 dollars mr amsterdam you pull this job off you wanted to set up your own accounting and
00:10:10business management firm didn't you yes of course i did but i wanted to do it while i was alive
00:10:14look mr amsterdam you're going to get 60 grand for doing what the guys on the force do every day
00:10:20and you know how long it takes them to make 60 grand 12 years
00:10:24all right you shame me into it lieutenant you and the 60 000
00:10:34one at a time one at a time one at a time you better be in love with one at a time
00:10:47take my advice you're gonna find you're better off loving one at a time
00:10:53men from 20 to 83 don't go in for variety when you start loving two or more trouble comes a knocking
00:11:11at the door one at a time one at a time you better be in love with one at a time tell all the gals
00:11:20that you'd decline to be in love with more than one at a time
00:11:25old king solomon thought he could have a lot more than one man should
00:11:37but when he felt the end was near this is what he shouted for all to hear
00:11:44one at a time one at a time one at a time you better be in love with one at a time take my advice
00:11:51you're gonna find you better off loving one at a time
00:11:56one at a time
00:12:09one at a time one at a time you better be in love with one at a time
00:12:15tell all the girls that you decline to be in love with more than one at a time one at a time one at a time
00:12:22one at a time one at a time you better be in love with one at a time
00:12:27one at a time tell all the girls that you decline you better be in love with one at a time
00:12:38well stinger i feel lucky again so be sensible will you been in there twice now and each time you've
00:12:46taken a bath isn't that enough well i happen to enjoy it do you mind you know i've been trying
00:12:52to determine whether you're more fascinated by gambling than my gamblers after all the way you
00:12:56played up with them and everything really for a new day don't you think you're taking too much for
00:12:59granted i don't trust that kind they just as soon cut your throat as look at you look why don't we
00:13:06compromise tony you go home and i'll take a cab later over my dead body how would i know the difference
00:13:16okay sue it's your throat see you around honey oh tony the card please
00:13:36you must have been born in las vegas
00:13:46but this time sue why don't you try moe's system moe always wins he says you can't lose if you just
00:14:05bet on winning numbers of course if you insist on betting on losing what's the big idea moe always
00:14:10win no it's just that i wouldn't want to see you take another bath on the other hand it might be a
00:14:15very pleasant sight next time ask your friend moe to tell you how to get in here without using me
00:14:21for a front well where would i find a more attractive front
00:14:35more even black
00:15:03black
00:15:07oh you never beat it that way really i suppose moe told you a better system
00:15:11mm-hmm he said to watch you and do exactly the opposite place your bets folks well like they
00:15:17say every man to his own poison what's yours red even black odd
00:15:3425 red
00:15:41haven't you had enough
00:15:44i'll have to have this okay this morning all right i'll be at the bar
00:15:47i do
00:15:48you're not serious about going back there for more punishment i am why not the night's young compared
00:15:59to you it's ancient whatever that means honey when it comes to gambling you belong at that
00:16:06i've just had a streak of bad luck it'll change sure sure it will just as soon as you go out that
00:16:17door the gent may have a point there miss morton excuse me certainly brad i'm brad lacy yes i know
00:16:24i'm happy to meet you mr lacy about this check miss morton i'd like to help you out but we have a strict
00:16:30policy about cashing personal checks afraid it might bounce wouldn't be the first time it's happened
00:16:36not that i think this one will like i said it's just a matter of policy mr lacy
00:16:43you uh seen mel burke around he hasn't been around some time that's what i figured since about uh
00:16:55tuesday huh if you haven't seen him uh tell him someone saw him make the hit he might be interested
00:17:02he said he saw mel burke make the hit he's away the cashier's window
00:17:23well look at where the horses you play you put up two you get back two and a half what good is that
00:17:26so i put up two grand i get 2 500 oh gee i'm sorry buddy we're just talking about
00:17:32the horses i know that yeah it's all right thanks it's a lot of weapon for only a dime
00:17:44mr berry amsterdam
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00:18:48i told you i told you i have talent still hurt only when i laugh need an emcee connie
00:18:56dance sing i don't know about his dancing but i got a hunch he can sing like a mink
00:19:01you like that music mr rams today
00:19:05old stuff isn't it everything gets better with age except women
00:19:10they don't write songs like that anymore of course they used to play it faster but then
00:19:14everything was faster those days 20 25 years ago huh i imagine you were a lot faster yourself
00:19:22a philosopher college man must be five better whatchamacallit
00:19:28kappa copper copper oh you read the clipping yes what do you carry it with you for to impress
00:19:33the girls i don't as a rule but i thought you boys might enjoy it more than they would a comic
00:19:37book yeah i figured we'd frisk you huh how else was i gonna get in to see you you took money
00:19:44under the table huh yes the table wasn't low enough you must be a lousy tax man if they
00:19:50found it out they found it out because landale got drunk one night and shot off his mouth
00:19:55for your scrapbook thanks i read about that a few days ago one of the other papers gave you
00:20:00a much bigger spread yeah like the man said i don't care what you say about me just so you
00:20:05spell my name right the man was wrong in some business it's better if no one sees your name
00:20:11you know who i am of course i do you're arnie valent i've seen your picture in a paper a couple of
00:20:15times you see what i mean publicity is good for actors and politicians only you know why you're here
00:20:23i guess you tell me
00:20:26i saw mel burke make the hit the hit college man don't talk to me as if i was some gangster or
00:20:39something i understand good english all right i saw burke killed kern you just happened to be there
00:20:48at the time i was coming out of the federal building the bureau giving me my walking papers so i was
00:20:53walking how'd you know burke i didn't never saw him before in my life how'd you know it was him well
00:21:01i got a pretty good look at him and i had an idea i could find out who he was said you could have a drink
00:21:06excuse me go ahead but ask first like i said i thought i had an idea how i could find out who it
00:21:22was i went to the cops i told him that somebody had stolen my hubcaps and i thought i could recognize
00:21:28the thief they let me look through the mug shots and i picked out burke's picture
00:21:32you told him that burke stole your hubcaps the cops laughed even harder they said burke was one
00:21:40of your boys and that he didn't have to go around lifting hubcaps well i told him i guess maybe i'd
00:21:45made a boo-boo and well that's how i found out who shot kern why didn't you tell the police mr amsterdam
00:21:52barry to my friends why did you tell the police mr amsterdam ouch well supposing i had so what i get a
00:22:01pat on the back for outstanding service to the community and a couple of days later i get a
00:22:05bullet hole in the same place you want a payoff for keeping your mouth shut is that it i'll let you
00:22:11tell me what it's worth to you i'll tell you what it's worth nothing so you go to the police so they
00:22:18pick up burke so he doesn't talk so i know nothing about it why am i here then that's a good question
00:22:28you a lawyer too commercial law business management stuff like that business management huh that's a
00:22:35good background shame to waste it on the tax department i'll tell you why you're here mr
00:22:40amsterdam because i don't like trouble if you go to the police and tell them that burke killed kern
00:22:46immediately the papers say that arnie valent is behind it do they know they know nothing i say i don't know
00:22:52anything about it kern was my friend but i'm supposed to be a big man in the syndicate syndicate
00:22:58a fancy word they made up i don't even know what they mean but like i say i don't like trouble
00:23:04that's why you're here i'd want to cause you trouble mr valent and have done it by now
00:23:11you want a job strictly legitimate i don't touch anything else
00:23:15one hundred dollars a week is there a future in it for me there's either a good future for you
00:23:24mr amsterdam there's no future at all go down to the unicorn casually in life insurance company
00:23:31tomorrow morning and ask for jack roper take him home
00:23:50mr valent told me to come in and see you
00:23:52see ben lewis he's head of accounting he'll show you what to do thank you
00:24:07get me mr valent
00:24:12what do you think of the little enchilada running to
00:24:16maybe she'll be good for the ralph banning frisco
00:24:18what do you think of it donnie can't she sing oh with a chest like that you ought to sing bass
00:24:24you saw enough get her mr roper calling adios boy bye yes jack amsterdam just came in
00:24:34i turned him over to lewis in the accounting department good keep your eye on him let me
00:24:38know everything he does if he works out i have some plans for him okay arnie i'll keep you posted good
00:24:44what would you stop filing your nails at the table where were you brought up anyway
00:24:51sometimes wonder why i put up with you want me to tell you that don't get funny
00:24:59when you lay off the goggles so early in the morning
00:25:07barry was smart enough not to rush things
00:25:10he wanted to wait until they accepted him as a permanent fixture knowing all the time that they
00:25:15were watching every move he made not only in the office but even when he tried to get lost in the
00:25:22heavy shopping crowds of the loop barry knew there was always someone tailing him to see where he was
00:25:29going who his friends were or whether he would make a contact
00:25:43so that he could keep a date he had made in the northern indian and eskimo wing of the chicago
00:26:10museum of natural history
00:26:24museum of natural history
00:26:35so put the necklace bit into operation anytime now
00:26:38Sit down, Barry.
00:27:04What's this you told Ben Lewis about settling that Cleo Allen claim?
00:27:08Seventy-five grand is a lot of dough to be handing out, especially if we can duck it.
00:27:12She lost a diamond and an emerald necklace. What's wrong with it?
00:27:16Nothing wrong, but I can beat it. Legitimately, I mean. Everything's strictly on the up and up.
00:27:21I can't take that chance. All she has to do is drag us into court.
00:27:24She won't. Don't worry.
00:27:26You seem pretty sure of yourself.
00:27:28Well, I wouldn't be wasting your time if I wasn't.
00:27:30What have you got to lose? If it doesn't pan out, you write the lady a check and that's that.
00:27:34It's just not healthy, that's all. You start messing around with business ethics.
00:27:38Look, I'm not selling anything. I'm just trying to save you 70,000 bucks.
00:27:4170,000? What happened to the other five?
00:27:45Well, you see, I'm, uh, I'm not eligible for the regular Christmas bonus.
00:27:50I thought maybe I could earn one.
00:27:52Ethically?
00:27:54Smelling like a rose.
00:27:55Let me think about it.
00:28:08Tell you how he's going to pull it off?
00:28:10No, but he wants five grand for himself if he does.
00:28:15That's what I like about him, Jack.
00:28:17He's hungry for money.
00:28:19That could be good for us.
00:28:22Shall I let him go ahead?
00:28:22Yeah, let's see how he does it.
00:28:30You hit the jackpot.
00:28:32Fix it.
00:28:32Well, that's the nicest necklace I never owned.
00:28:48Oh, Lieutenant Fenton gave me a message for you.
00:28:52Valent went to the fights with Roper.
00:28:53Oh, thanks. Thanks very much.
00:29:04Hi, Mr. Roper.
00:29:05Hiya, Barry.
00:29:05Valent.
00:29:06Where are you sitting?
00:29:07Oh, I'm back up there with the peasant.
00:29:09I'll swap with you.
00:29:11You'll see better there.
00:29:12Thanks.
00:29:19You remember, Connie.
00:29:21Never pass a brandy bottle that I don't think of.
00:29:24Mr. Chico, Mr. Amsterdam.
00:29:26Hi, Miss Chico.
00:29:27Oh.
00:29:27He comes to all the fights, but he hates him.
00:29:30I'll never take the place of high alive.
00:29:32What happened to that claim you're going to fix up, Barry?
00:29:35Just a lot of talk, huh?
00:29:38There you are.
00:29:39All signed, sealed, and delivered.
00:29:41She withdrawing the claim?
00:29:43Read it.
00:29:46Hit him with a left, stupid.
00:29:47Hit him.
00:29:48It looks like Barry made a gift of $75,000 to the stockholder bill.
00:29:57$70,000.
00:29:59Mr. Roper promised me $5,000 if I delivered.
00:30:02That claim looked pretty solid to me.
00:30:04How did you manage it?
00:30:06Well, in checking the claim, I noticed that while the policy was made out to Cleo Allen,
00:30:10someone else was making the payments on the premiums.
00:30:13Guess who?
00:30:14Henry Nugent.
00:30:15It's the old Holy Joe himself.
00:30:18He's married and got three kids.
00:30:20That's what came to my mind.
00:30:22I figured that if Nugent were making the payments on the insurance,
00:30:25he must also have bought the necklace.
00:30:27Blackmail is a touchy proposition, Barry.
00:30:30Oh, Mr. Roper, I wouldn't stoop that long.
00:30:33I simply told Mr. Nugent that the company might have to contest the claim.
00:30:37In that event, it'd be witnesses and evidence subpoenas.
00:30:41Well, the next thing I knew, the old boy was telling me to pick up a letter to Thin,
00:30:44and that's all it was to it.
00:30:46You earned the five grand, Barry.
00:30:48Oh, thanks, Mr. Ballin.
00:30:51But I'm still looking for that future you promised me.
00:30:53Don't blame you.
00:30:55I'd like to get my fingers on some of that real long grain regular life.
00:30:58I've been poor and I've been rich.
00:31:01Take it from me, rich is better.
00:31:08Come on.
00:31:09I've seen enough of this.
00:31:12You'll be hearing from me.
00:31:13Well, don't you want to stay and see who wins?
00:31:15Are you kidding?
00:31:16Ballin wanted to test Barry, so he gave him the set of books Kern kept for government examiners
00:31:24only.
00:31:25If Barry blew the whistle on him, Ballin knew he was protected because these were not his
00:31:29personal books.
00:31:30But Barry knew it was a dry run.
00:31:33Ballin had messed him up just enough to have Barry holler to the authorities.
00:31:37He knew that somewhere there was another set of books, Ballin's own.
00:31:41If those books were in, I can't believe that Kern kept them.
00:31:45Why not?
00:31:46There's some holes in there big enough to drive Leavenworth through.
00:31:49I could get killed with books like that.
00:31:52Well, maybe that's what he wanted.
00:31:55I thought you said he was your friend.
00:31:57That's what I thought.
00:31:58Well, they're all right now.
00:32:00You can take them to the Internal Revenue and get a clean bill of health.
00:32:04Mind if I have a drink?
00:32:06You don't have to ask.
00:32:11What do you want?
00:32:39I'd just like to ask you a few questions.
00:32:42How'd you get in here?
00:32:46Uh, no, police.
00:32:50We heard you saw who bumped Kern.
00:32:52Oh, did you now?
00:32:53Now, where'd you hear that?
00:32:55Things get around.
00:32:56What do you think?
00:32:57Don't have a tab on what we're doing and we don't have a tab on what he's doing?
00:33:00That kind of dirt travels fast on a two-way street.
00:33:04Why don't you take me down to headquarters?
00:33:05If we take you down there and you say you saw nothing, that ends it.
00:33:10We can't question you there like we can't here.
00:33:12Oh, I see.
00:33:14Well, your questions might be different down there, but my answers would be the same.
00:33:18You boys better get a refund.
00:33:20You bought the wrong dirt.
00:33:22Good night, fellas.
00:33:23I'm going to bed.
00:33:23Uh, you don't listen good, do you?
00:33:27I missed something?
00:33:28We said the reason that we're not dragging you in is because we can question you better here.
00:33:34I don't see the difference.
00:33:41You get the difference now?
00:33:43You saw Mel Beck trigger Kern, didn't you?
00:33:47The pilot ain't here to take care of you now.
00:33:49So get him!
00:33:50Wait a minute.
00:33:51Wait a minute, fellas.
00:33:52Don't.
00:33:52It's mine.
00:33:53Yeah, don't.
00:33:54Don't hit me.
00:33:54It's mine.
00:33:55I'll tell you.
00:33:56Everything I'll...
00:33:57Get up.
00:33:57Get up.
00:34:20Where's Mr. Ballard?
00:34:28He's in bed.
00:34:29I want to see him.
00:34:30I told you he's in bed.
00:34:31I don't care whether he's in bed or not.
00:34:33I want to see him.
00:34:35Just a minute, Mike.
00:34:36Ah, that's all right.
00:34:37Here you go.
00:34:39What's the trouble, Barry?
00:34:40I just wanted to tell you this.
00:34:42You can take your books and your job and everything else you've got and you know what you can do with it.
00:34:45What's eating you?
00:34:46If you don't trust me, you don't want me and I don't want you.
00:34:49How do you know?
00:34:51No cops can afford suits like they were.
00:34:53Besides that, to be a cop, you've got to have some education.
00:34:55Those two goons talk like they've been left back six times in the fourth grade.
00:34:58Don't be hard on me, Barry.
00:35:00You know by now I can't be too careful.
00:35:02Did I ever do anything to make you run a test on me?
00:35:05Ah, forget it.
00:35:06Let's just say I goofed.
00:35:07Remember when I gave you that job at Unicorn, I told you there'd either be a good future for you or no future at all.
00:35:15Well, which is it?
00:35:17Good.
00:35:18I'm going to give you a chance to make some of that big money you've been itching for.
00:35:21I need somebody to make some spot checks for me.
00:35:25Make sure some of the boys have been holding out since Kern died.
00:35:29Well, it shouldn't be too hard to do.
00:35:32What's in it for me?
00:35:34Ten percent of everything they've been holding out on me.
00:35:38You feel better now?
00:35:40Yeah, sure.
00:35:42That long green can cure most everything.
00:35:45Come on, make yourself a drink.
00:35:50From Chicago, nerve center of the operation, Barry now learned how the syndicate worked.
00:35:55It was like a giant octopus whose tentacles spread from Chicago into practically every state in the union.
00:36:00The syndicate took in from 10 to 15 million a year from gambling alone.
00:36:05Another 20 million from shakedowns.
00:36:07And all the other rackets.
00:36:12This money was turned over to underlings who operated bars, nightclubs, all sorts of joints by the hundreds.
00:36:18The syndicate also controlled, for example, ice companies.
00:36:22And who used ice?
00:36:23Bars and nightclubs.
00:36:24So for a lot of ice cubes that were never delivered, the bars paid the ice companies a fortune.
00:36:30Valent would hold the ice companies a few years and then sell to the Unicorn Casualty Insurance Company.
00:36:35Through Unicorn, the money flowed out to finance other businesses.
00:36:38Some phony, some legitimate.
00:36:40Trucking, distilleries, the Sapphire Hotel in Miami, and dozens of other enterprises.
00:36:46It was one pocket to another, multiplied a hundred times.
00:36:50Big profits, small taxes.
00:36:52Since it all became capital gains and the syndicate stayed clean.
00:36:56When he got through checking, he told Valent in what spots he was being taken and by whom.
00:37:02You know Ben Hammond?
00:37:04How are you?
00:37:04Delaware, Mohawk Loan and Mortgage, right?
00:37:07That's right.
00:37:08Sit low.
00:37:10Detroit, Lawson's used cars.
00:37:12That's it.
00:37:14Henderson.
00:37:14Oh, Henderson's easy.
00:37:15I came from there.
00:37:16St. Louis, apex ice.
00:37:17No mistake.
00:37:18Miller.
00:37:20Miller is Miami Peacock Room.
00:37:22I had a good time there.
00:37:22I saw you.
00:37:25What a memory for names, huh?
00:37:26And for figures.
00:37:27He scared me more than the tax boys.
00:37:30Where'd you find him?
00:37:31I didn't.
00:37:32He found me.
00:37:33What is there I don't like about him?
00:37:36Probably Arnie.
00:37:38I never figured a pair of pants would push me out of the picture.
00:37:42Oh, a man gets to a certain age.
00:37:44He's more interested in brains than dames.
00:37:48Arnie ain't that old.
00:37:53Sweetness, would you please?
00:37:56Well, if it isn't a lady gambler.
00:37:59What are you doing here, slumming?
00:38:00I wasn't until now.
00:38:02No flattery will get you nowhere.
00:38:04Who fronted for you so you could crash in here?
00:38:06Oh, no one.
00:38:07I've been spoiled by you.
00:38:11What do you say let's be friends?
00:38:13Let's not be anything.
00:38:19Not that it'll break your heart, but I have to leave.
00:38:21See your old friend?
00:38:40I told you before.
00:38:42I don't even know his name.
00:38:43You will.
00:38:44See where he went?
00:38:46In her sanctum?
00:38:47For big wheels only.
00:38:50I'm not that big, Sue.
00:38:51I just take orders.
00:38:52They give them.
00:38:55Did you say his name was?
00:38:57I didn't.
00:38:58But it's Amsterdam.
00:38:59Barry Amsterdam.
00:39:01Valens' number one man.
00:39:06Is she a big wheel, too?
00:39:08Valens' personal property.
00:39:10He likes young stuff.
00:39:13I told you to get out and stay out.
00:39:14I think she just aged 10 years.
00:39:22I'm going to make this short and sweet.
00:39:25After Kern wasn't around anymore,
00:39:27some of the boys thought they'd fatten up at my expense.
00:39:30Smart.
00:39:31Didn't think I'd find out about it.
00:39:33So some of the money that was supposed to come through didn't.
00:39:36They weren't satisfied with their cut.
00:39:38They wanted part of mine.
00:39:40Well, what's part of mine is part of yours.
00:39:42But they forgot one thing.
00:39:46That sooner or later, I'd dig up somebody as smart as Kern.
00:39:49Maybe smarter.
00:39:51Barry.
00:39:52So those that got a little extra green on their fingers got a warning.
00:39:56The others are out.
00:39:57For good.
00:39:59Now, I want you to pass the word down the line
00:40:01that if there's any more holdouts,
00:40:04there'll be no more warnings.
00:40:07No more talk.
00:40:08No more nothing.
00:40:10They're finished.
00:40:12I'll go out and have some fun.
00:40:29Truce pack?
00:40:30What'd you do, spike it with Hamlock?
00:40:34You're a trusting soul, aren't you?
00:40:36Well, I must say our relations haven't exactly been cordial.
00:40:39I'm trying to remedy it.
00:40:40What else can I do?
00:40:42You know, that's a leading question.
00:40:43I hope it's leading to where I think it is.
00:40:46To better relations between us.
00:40:48Would you do me a favor?
00:40:55Oh, I knew there was a catch to this truce pack business.
00:40:58I hope it's not that bad.
00:40:59I just wanted you to take me home.
00:41:02You wanted me to...
00:41:04Well, uh, what would Lacey say?
00:41:08What could he say?
00:41:10He takes orders.
00:41:12You give them.
00:41:18Friend of yours, Barry?
00:41:20Yes, uh, Miss Morton, Mr. Vallon.
00:41:22How do you do?
00:41:23We met some time ago when we both carved our initials in the leg of a roulette table.
00:41:26You have good taste, Barry.
00:41:28You have good taste, Barry.
00:41:30Same line he handed me when Chico first brought me around.
00:41:33You're drunk.
00:41:34What have I got to be sober about?
00:41:36You'd better go home.
00:41:37Chico.
00:41:38Want to get rid of me, huh?
00:41:40Got your eye on this new hunk of merchandise that bright boy brought around.
00:41:44He's good with the figures, all right.
00:41:46In more ways than one.
00:41:47Shut up.
00:41:48Come, Connie, I'll take you home.
00:41:50Nobody's taking me home.
00:41:51I want to stay, I'll stay.
00:41:52Nobody pushes Connie around because I can do some pushing myself.
00:41:57Now get her out of here.
00:41:58Come, Connie, let's go home.
00:42:02I'm, uh, I'm sorry, Miss Morton.
00:42:07You don't have to go to all this trouble, Sue.
00:42:09I'm really a pushover.
00:42:10That's one out of left field.
00:42:12Thanks.
00:42:15Oh, wow.
00:42:19You see it go by?
00:42:20What?
00:42:21My hat.
00:42:23Like a chaser?
00:42:25No, thanks.
00:42:25The way you were mixing these, I'd probably need a chaser for the chaser.
00:42:30What are you after?
00:42:32What makes you think I'm after something?
00:42:34You've got more switches in the railroad yard.
00:42:37First you give me the brush, now you're romancing me like I was Liberace.
00:42:41A woman's prerogative to change your mind.
00:42:44It's a man's prerogative to find out why she changed it.
00:42:48Well, I just decided I'd rather have you as a friend than an enemy.
00:42:51All right, so we're friends.
00:42:57Miss, what are you trying to prove, friend?
00:43:00Soft lights, stiff drinks, loaded conversation?
00:43:02What have I got that you want?
00:43:05Maybe I'm just fascinated by men who live in shadows.
00:43:09Oh, brother, shadowshed.
00:43:11You don't have to make fun of me just because I'm hospitable.
00:43:15Does this hospitable business include Arnie Vallant as well?
00:43:19How did Vallant get in here?
00:43:22He hasn't yet, but I have a feeling he will if you have your way.
00:43:26Look, let's stop this footsie business.
00:43:28You don't like Vallant. He's not your type.
00:43:30Aren't you presuming a lot?
00:43:32You're almost up Chuck tonight when he pushed Connie around, yet you're pretending it was all right.
00:43:36Why?
00:43:37Why are you climbing?
00:43:40Climbing?
00:43:40From Lacey to Amsterdam to Vallant.
00:43:43A triple play. Is that what you had in mind?
00:43:46You make it sound as though I were Mata Hari.
00:43:50You know what happened to her?
00:43:51She caught her death of coal standing in front of a firing squad.
00:43:55Oh, I'm sorry. It was clumsy of me.
00:43:58Here, I'll pick up a piece.
00:43:59Oh, I'm so sorry.
00:44:01It's all right. It's all right. I'll live.
00:44:02If you just get me a Band-Aid or something, I'll be as good as new.
00:44:35Did you find what you were looking for, Mr. Amsterdam?
00:44:51As I think so.
00:44:53The, um, the J.K. on the luggage.
00:44:57Now, what could that J stand for?
00:44:59Jean? Janet?
00:45:02Jenny?
00:45:03No.
00:45:03Now, Jenny doesn't seem to suit you.
00:45:06It'd be more like, uh, Joyce?
00:45:11And the K.
00:45:13I wonder if by any possible chance that could stand for Kern.
00:45:18Joyce Kern?
00:45:21Now that you've found what you're looking for,
00:45:24suppose you tell me what I'm looking for?
00:45:26All I know is what I read in the papers.
00:45:30May I?
00:45:32Mr. Amsterdam, you said something before.
00:45:35Let's stop playing footsie.
00:45:37My father's been killed.
00:45:40My mother's dead because of it.
00:45:42Well, my hair's down now, and my hate is showing.
00:45:45So before this gun goes off, perhaps you'll tell me who killed my father.
00:45:52Well, it makes you think I know.
00:45:54You're valence number one man, remember?
00:45:56You give orders.
00:45:58Others take them.
00:46:01Supposing I told you to, uh, put that thing away.
00:46:04There, you see?
00:46:08People don't always do what they're told.
00:46:12You little idiot.
00:46:13What do you think you're doing, playing games?
00:46:15If Alan finds out who you are, you'll strip the skin off your lily right back.
00:46:18Well, you're his number one boy, aren't you?
00:46:21What are you waiting for?
00:46:22I should, I should at that, but then the neighbors might complain about the noise,
00:46:25and I'd have to spend the night in jail.
00:46:26Besides that, I prefer your skin where it is on your back.
00:46:29You see, I had a weak spot for a gal named Sue Morton.
00:46:32Now, let me give you a little A1 advice.
00:46:34You get out of this town and stay out.
00:46:35Don't ever let me see you around here again.
00:46:37Next time, I won't care if the neighbors do complain.
00:46:51About 407, please.
00:46:52Second door to your right.
00:46:59Hello, Barry.
00:47:03Hi.
00:47:04Dave, why didn't you tell me that Kern's daughter was playing Sue Morton, girl detective?
00:47:08Nobody knew until she went to see Haynes after you found her out.
00:47:12She'd taken a tramp steamer home from Europe without telling anyone.
00:47:15Oh, the little dope could have wound up in the bottom of some river.
00:47:18Did Haynes tell her about me?
00:47:19He felt he had to.
00:47:20Thought it would make her feel better to know someone was trying to get valid.
00:47:23Well, I just hope he told her to keep off my neck.
00:47:25How are things going after that?
00:47:26Oh, fine, fine.
00:47:28I'm getting rich fast.
00:47:29Well, we're paying you 60 grand to get valid, not to get rich out of you.
00:47:31Yes, I know, I know.
00:47:33And a weaker man would be tempted, believe me.
00:47:34I never saw so much cash floating around.
00:47:36What about his personal books?
00:47:37Oh, sits on them like a hen on eggs.
00:47:39Nobody gets to look at those.
00:47:41Unless maybe it's this girl Connie.
00:47:43She seems to have something on him.
00:47:44I thought he trusted you.
00:47:46Where his own books are concerned, he doesn't even trust his mother.
00:47:50He's got one, too.
00:47:51But he's been hinting lately.
00:47:53Hinting?
00:47:54At what?
00:47:55Well, evidently, his own personal bookkeeping was all loused up when Kern died.
00:47:59He's been talking about setting up some kind of a business partnership with me.
00:48:03Probably wants me to keep an eagle eye on his own funds.
00:48:06Can't we get Vallon through some of those phony companies he set up?
00:48:09No, no, no.
00:48:09He's too smart for that.
00:48:10None of those companies are registered in his name.
00:48:12They're all held in the name of some flunky of his, a front man who cuts it up with Arnie.
00:48:16You clamp one and you get the front man, but not Arnie.
00:48:19No, no, you can't touch him that way.
00:48:21Well, then the only solution is to get a look at Vallon's own books.
00:48:23Well, that's only half of it.
00:48:25The other half is going to be much tougher.
00:48:28Getting them out of his hands to use as evidence.
00:48:31You're getting the 60 grand.
00:48:32You figure it out.
00:48:33I came to tell you how sorry I am.
00:48:45I had no idea that...
00:48:46Wait a minute.
00:48:47Come on in.
00:48:53Haynes was a fool to tell you.
00:48:55No, he wasn't.
00:48:56It made me feel better to know that there's some people trying to do something about this.
00:49:01After my father was killed, I heard nothing more.
00:49:07I was desperate.
00:49:09I know.
00:49:09But it's better this way, believe me.
00:49:11You'd have only gummed things up.
00:49:13Besides, that's much too pretty an act to stick out.
00:49:16If I can never do anything to help.
00:49:18Just stay out of the way.
00:49:20And whatever you do, keep using that Sue Morton moniker.
00:49:24All right, Barry.
00:49:26Good luck.
00:49:27Sue.
00:49:29Joyce.
00:49:31I'm going to ask you something.
00:49:32It's not going to be very pleasant for you, but...
00:49:35Well, you were your father's only legatee.
00:49:37He left everything he had to you.
00:49:39Since you've been back, have you come across anything that you think I should know about?
00:49:44No.
00:49:45Not that I know of.
00:49:47But then I didn't know much about his affairs, having spent the last few years in Europe.
00:49:50I'm going to ask you to do me a favor.
00:49:53Would you get a hold of every paper, bill, letter, receipt, anything at all that belong to your father and bring them here to me?
00:49:59I'd like to look at them.
00:50:00You can't tell.
00:50:01It might be just...
00:50:02Excuse me.
00:50:02I want to show you some figures.
00:50:15Some very special figures you haven't seen before.
00:50:18I'll pick you up in ten minutes.
00:50:19Well, fine.
00:50:19Fine.
00:50:20I'll, um...
00:50:20I'll meet you downstairs.
00:50:21I'll be waiting.
00:50:22Right.
00:50:24Valant.
00:50:25Yes.
00:50:26I'm finally going to get a look at his personal books, the ones your father kept for him.
00:50:30This is the evidence that I've been waiting for.
00:50:32Got to let Fenton know, but I don't know where Valant's taking me.
00:50:35Did you come into camp or did you drive?
00:50:37I drove.
00:50:37My car's downstairs.
00:50:38All right.
00:50:38I'm going to give you a chance to play girl detective.
00:50:40Only this time for blood.
00:50:41You know where I'm taking you?
00:51:10I'll find out soon enough.
00:51:11I guess.
00:51:12You're going to meet my old lady.
00:51:14You'll like her.
00:51:16She still worries about me like the friends I keep.
00:51:19Like I was still a kid.
00:51:20Yeah, they're all the same.
00:51:22To them, you'll never grow up.
00:51:23Yeah.
00:51:24You know that partnership I talked to you about?
00:51:27I've decided to go through with it.
00:51:29You'll check out everything the way Kern did.
00:51:31That's why I want you to see my system of bookkeeping.
00:51:35Well, this partnership, how's it going to work?
00:51:37I'll cut you in on everything from my end.
00:51:40Thanks, honey.
00:51:41You've earned it.
00:51:43One other thing.
00:51:45These books will be mine.
00:51:47They'll be in your name.
00:51:50If anything goes wrong and they're found, then you'll take the rap.
00:51:55You'll be in the clear.
00:51:56Right.
00:51:56Is this the way you worked it with Kern?
00:52:00No, I made a mistake with Kern.
00:52:02Those books were in my name.
00:52:05This way, if anybody wants to blow the whistle, they'll blow it on you.
00:52:09Not me.
00:52:10They'll bring it on you.
00:52:11No, I'm giddy.
00:52:13I'm not going to leaveão.
00:52:13But they're coming.
00:52:14They're that much.
00:52:14I can't help you.
00:52:15They'll be in your name.
00:52:15I haven't seen him.
00:52:15Maybe one of them is Muhy
00:52:25or God- dileigo.
00:52:27I'm going to get her to move out of this neighborhood years ago.
00:52:53I wanted her to have a fancy apartment over in Lakeshore Drive.
00:52:57She wouldn't have any part of it.
00:52:59She's lived here ever since she was married.
00:53:01Saw her kids born here, the old man died.
00:53:05All her friends are here. Markets, church.
00:53:09She wouldn't be here at home anyplace else.
00:53:12So she's happy, that's all that counts?
00:53:14That's the way I figure it.
00:53:16Way to see the apartment.
00:53:18Hasn't changed since I was a kid.
00:53:21Here, get yourself some candy.
00:53:23Come on.
00:53:25See that corner?
00:53:27They call it death corner.
00:53:29I used to hang out there when I was a young punk, itching to make something of myself.
00:53:35More killings there with shivs and guns in the 20s and 30s than any spot in this town.
00:53:40That's where I first saw the big boys. Capone, O'Banion, Big Jim, Colosimo.
00:53:47That's the last of the old mob, Barry.
00:53:49Only because I learned from the boners they made.
00:53:53Come a long way, huh?
00:53:55That's the window to my old lady's apartment.
00:54:08When I was a kid, I used to yell up,
00:54:10Hey, Ma, throw me down two cents.
00:54:13Big deal.
00:54:15Buy jawbreakers and titsi rolls.
00:54:17Hey, Ma!
00:54:19Yeah, Louie?
00:54:21Throw me down a dime, will ya?
00:54:23Oh, the kid's got them.
00:54:25Oh, ah!
00:54:27Inflation.
00:54:28Come on.
00:54:29Come on.
00:54:53Detective Lieutenant Fenton, please.
00:54:55Oh, Arnie!
00:54:57Hi.
00:54:58How you feeling, Mama?
00:55:00Oh, I'm fine, Arnie.
00:55:00Fine.
00:55:01Come in, come in.
00:55:02Why don't you meet a friend of mine, Barry Amsterdam?
00:55:04Oh, I'm always happy to meet a friend of Arnie's.
00:55:07Howdy to do, Mrs. Allen.
00:55:08Well, I haven't seen you for a long time.
00:55:11Why did you let me know you were coming and I made something special for you?
00:55:14Well, I can't stay very long, Mama.
00:55:16I just wanted to see how you were and pick up that book I left here.
00:55:19Oh, well, you go ahead.
00:55:20I'll make some coffee.
00:55:22Excuse me.
00:55:22Oh, now, son, take off your coat and make yourself at home.
00:55:24Oh, thank you.
00:55:28What's he doing at Maxlow and Peoria?
00:55:30His mother still lives there.
00:55:31I didn't know he had one.
00:55:33Oh, that's where it is.
00:55:45Well, where did he go?
00:55:46You?
00:55:46Oh, look.
00:55:48Here.
00:55:49All right.
00:55:50Ty.
00:55:50Here you are, Barry.
00:55:54I'll talk to the old lady while you look this over.
00:56:20There it is.
00:56:41Arnie, this is so simple a kid could follow it.
00:56:44That's why I want you to keep the same system so I can make heads or tails of it.
00:56:48complicated bookkeeping throws me.
00:56:50Arnie tells me you're a college graduate.
00:56:52I wanted Arnie to go to college, too.
00:56:54How we could have afforded it, I don't know.
00:56:56But we would have managed somehow.
00:56:58But Arnie didn't want it.
00:57:00Suppose I had gone to college, Mom.
00:57:02I might have become an accountant like Barry here.
00:57:04This way I can afford to pay an accountant to work for me.
00:57:06Your son does pretty good, Mrs. Ballard.
00:57:08I know.
00:57:10Can I show you something, Mr. Amsterdam?
00:57:12Oh, come on. I'll show you.
00:57:14Sure.
00:57:16This is Arnie when he was confirmed. Would you believe it?
00:57:22No, I wouldn't.
00:57:24And this is Arnie when he graduated from public school.
00:57:26There. That one.
00:57:28It's not hard to pick him out, is it?
00:57:30Oh, I've heard some bad stories about Arnie.
00:57:32But I don't believe them.
00:57:34I know my son.
00:57:36And I know he wouldn't do anything bad.
00:57:38Really bad.
00:57:46You run and see if Arnie's letting that coffee get burnt.
00:58:00You go ahead now. Come in.
00:58:02Arnie?
00:58:20Arnie?
00:58:22Yeah, Barry.
00:58:28Arnie, what'd you do with the...
00:58:30Well, now that you know how I want hours kept...
00:58:32Why don't you go into the living room?
00:58:34I'll have coffee ready for you in a minute.
00:58:36Okay.
00:58:38Go on, son. Join Arnie.
00:58:44Who would that be? I wasn't expecting anyone.
00:58:46Probably me.
00:58:48I'll get it.
00:58:56Just a minute.
00:59:00He burned me. He burned me.
00:59:04Let's go, Svetlana.
00:59:06You know him?
00:59:08All my life. He's a detective, a lieutenant detective.
00:59:10Detective? I thought he was a hood.
00:59:12Just goes to show you, you can't tell the difference.
00:59:14When he tried to push past me, I thought he was going for you.
00:59:16What's the matter? What's happened?
00:59:18It's nothing, Ma. It's all right. You go inside.
00:59:20I want to talk to these boys out here.
00:59:22What's your name?
00:59:24Amsterdam. Barry Amsterdam.
00:59:26Yeah, I heard. Crooked tax boy made good in a bad way.
00:59:28Take it easy, Fenton. What do you expect when you come busting in here?
00:59:31Yeah, did you say you were a cop? Did you show a search warrant?
00:59:33Let go of me.
00:59:34It's all right, boys.
00:59:35What am I supposed to do? Let everyone who wants push up to Arnie?
00:59:38What do you want, Fenton?
00:59:39I, uh, just wanted to ask you a couple of questions about Mel Burke.
00:59:45Well, what about him?
00:59:46We found the gun used on Kern, the bullets matched, and we traced it to Burke.
00:59:50We thought you might know where he was.
00:59:52What'd you have to come up here for and scare the life out of these old lady?
00:59:55You know where he lives. Why didn't you go there?
00:59:57We did and he wasn't home, so we put out a call and his car was spotted downstairs.
01:00:00You passed the question, Valent. I said, where's Burke?
01:00:03I haven't seen him in more than a year.
01:00:05Maybe you'd like to tell us.
01:00:07Maybe you'd like to buy one of our life insurance policies.
01:00:10He might get killed going down those stairs.
01:00:12All right, we'll find him.
01:00:13And when we do, we're gonna have a couple more questions to ask you, Valent.
01:00:17Any time it's all, Fenton, except announce yourself next time, huh?
01:00:20You pull another trick like this and I'll break your head wide open.
01:00:25Come on, fellas.
01:00:27I've been wanting to do that all my life.
01:00:32I've had the guts.
01:00:36On the very same night Joyce came to see Barry with all the data she could find that belonged to her father,
01:00:41Barry knew that the police had picked up Burke in Florida and had started extradition proceedings.
01:00:47The papers Joyce brought were meaningless until Barry came to one in particular,
01:00:52a receipt made out to Nelson Kern from the Melrose Microfilm Company.
01:00:56$14.60 for microfilming. What was that for?
01:01:01I wondered about that one myself.
01:01:04But I thought many accounting firms might use microfilm to record papers.
01:01:08Yes, that's true. There's a lot of business reasons.
01:01:11Except that this was made out to your father personally, not the firm of Kern Associates.
01:01:16And it was paid for with cash. Why?
01:01:20The next morning Joyce went down to the Melrose Microfilm Company.
01:01:25I have a receipt here made out to Mr. Kern for some microfilming.
01:01:28Was it ever picked up?
01:01:30Well, now, let's see.
01:01:32Uh-huh. K, K, K, A, K, E, Kern. Here it is.
01:01:40Oh, uh, well, this was picked up quite some time ago.
01:01:43Did Mr. Kern pick it up himself?
01:01:45No, uh, no, it was a young lady. Uh, she said she was Mr. Kern's secretary.
01:01:50The reason I remember, uh, well, she was also very attractive.
01:01:59Well, do you remember what it was that Mr. Kern had microfilmed?
01:02:02Well, yes, it, uh, was a ledger.
01:02:05Several hundred pages for which we charged two cents a page.
01:02:09You're welcome.
01:02:11Miss Becker, Nelson Kern's secretary, had quickly been summoned
01:02:14to Lieutenant Detective Fenton's office for questioning
01:02:17based on the information Joyce Kern uncovered.
01:02:20Miss Becker knew nothing about any microfilm.
01:02:23But Fenton now knew why Kern was killed.
01:02:27And he could almost put his finger on the person who picked up the microfilm.
01:02:31To make certain, he sent Joyce back there with a photo.
01:02:34The clerk at Melrose Microfilm was quick to recognize a photo of Connie
01:02:38as the girl who called for the envelope addressed to Mr. Kern.
01:02:42That night, I sneaked up to Barry's apartment with Joyce Kern.
01:02:46The knowledge that Connie had picked up the microfilm
01:02:48spelled a dead end for Barry.
01:02:50Feeling that he had nothing else to go on, he wanted to call it quits.
01:02:53All right, so we know who picked it up. What good does that do?
01:02:56If we could only find it, we could prove that he's the head of...
01:02:58Do you think that Valent is stupid enough to hang on to that?
01:03:01That microfilm could cause an exposure bigger than the H-bomb.
01:03:03Take it from me, it's nothing but ashes now.
01:03:06It's no use, Dave. We're bush leaguers compared to them.
01:03:09Isn't there something else we can do?
01:03:11You tell me. Everywhere I turn, I hit a stone wall.
01:03:14All right, so I am finally a partner of sorts.
01:03:17Even keeps Valent's books. But they're in my name.
01:03:20If anybody finds them, he stays in the clear and I end up a crook.
01:03:23What do you want me to do? Put the finger on myself?
01:03:26Wait for the brakes.
01:03:27What brakes?
01:03:28The way Valent plays it, he's got things plugged so tight,
01:03:30there are no brakes.
01:03:32I'm serious, Dave. Forget it.
01:03:35I know when I'm licked.
01:03:45Who is it?
01:03:46Wait.
01:03:53Just a minute.
01:04:05Ah. What brings you here?
01:04:07Harley sent me over. He tried to get you earlier. No dice.
01:04:10Oh, yeah. Well, I was out for a while. What does he want?
01:04:13He decided to throw a little party to celebrate that new partnership that you and Egypt put.
01:04:20Who's in there?
01:04:22No one.
01:04:23Thought I heard some talking on the way.
01:04:25I said no one.
01:04:35Why didn't you tell me?
01:04:36Don't I have any private life of my own anymore?
01:04:40Now I know why you didn't even answer the phone.
01:04:42I'll tell Arnie.
01:04:44Meet us at the Tropicana.
01:04:47You know, it's funny.
01:04:48Arnie told me to ask you to bring that trick along.
01:04:51He goes for it.
01:04:52Let's see.
01:04:53Let's see.
01:05:06Thanks, Joyce.
01:05:07For a minute there, I thought...
01:05:08This could be the break we wanted, Mary.
01:05:10You said that you thought Connie had something on him.
01:05:13You mean use Joyce to make Connie mad enough to talk? Is that it?
01:05:17It's our only chance.
01:05:18I heard him say Valence attracted to her.
01:05:20Well, not in exactly those words.
01:05:24How about it, Joyce?
01:05:26You willing to be used to do a little green-eyed needling?
01:05:29What do you want me to do?
01:05:44Do you remember Miss Morton, Arnie?
01:05:46Of course.
01:05:47Couldn't forget her.
01:05:48Glad you could come.
01:05:49I'm so happy to see you again, Mr. Bell.
01:05:51You know everyone.
01:05:52I believe so.
01:05:59I didn't mean to sit so close.
01:06:01Well, you've got to be close enough.
01:06:03Oh, brother.
01:06:05Why aren't you up there, Chico?
01:06:07Long ago I found out they do very well without this stick.
01:06:11But this stick without them?
01:06:13Nothing.
01:06:16Mary.
01:06:17Excuse me, boys.
01:06:19You're welcome.
01:06:20Don't you?
01:06:31What are you drinking, Barry?
01:06:32Oh, I'm drinking Stingers.
01:06:33I'll have another one.
01:06:34Ginger ale.
01:06:37Nate told me about...
01:06:41Oh, he did.
01:06:42He's got a pretty big mouth.
01:06:44One of these days I'm gonna put my fist in it.
01:06:46That's what I like about you, Barry.
01:06:48you're a gentleman you never talk i admire that you didn't bring me up here just to tell me what
01:06:54a gentleman i am to join no here's a touchy subject this partnership i was wondering if
01:07:02we could spread it a little to have you cut me in on something of yours
01:07:06what about connie do you like her she does nothing to me me neither why is it time though
01:07:24you see miss morton may not be a lady but she acts like one connie isn't a lady and doesn't act like
01:07:30one connie's a bomb thing like this could cause her to explode she knows a lot honey don't you let me
01:07:37worry about that all right you can wrap it up and take it home thanks
01:07:48this time why don't you just try climbing into his lap i would but you're already there and i'm
01:07:54staying there you might as well understand that say uh how does she feel about me personally i mean
01:08:02you'll have no trouble making the grin good and arnie's always telling me barry's girl is such
01:08:08a lady lady my foot well by comparison sugar and cream who are you
01:08:23knock it off knock it off but i saw you had it coming come on connie change for you no no quick
01:08:31uh
01:08:46hiya connie come on sit down join the leftovers where did arnie go quick switch honey i'm really
01:08:51not such a bad guy until after you get to know me better what kind of a man are you letting him walk
01:08:55off with your girl what kind of a woman are you letting her walk off with your man i wasn't here to
01:09:00stop them cut it out honey he's finished with you through done with kaput there's nothing you or i
01:09:04can do about it well maybe there's nothing you can do about it but there's plenty i can do give me a
01:09:09for instance i'll save it for arnie don't worry bright boy you'll soon have a right back in your hair
01:09:15like dandruff you want me to stick around drive you home thanks but chico knows where i live
01:09:20for a week connie tried to get in touch with valent every time she called barry was on the other end
01:09:34you're wasting a fortune in dimes connie no no he's always sue well how would i know when he's coming
01:09:56back it doesn't matter anyhow he's not home to you look do me a favor will you honey don't call it
01:10:09who was that the ex-girlfriend can't you smell the tamale burning she's beginning to be a
01:10:17nuisance you'd imagine she'd have learned by now nobody learns without a lesson first why don't
01:10:24you teach her one barry sort of spell it out for her easy like well that's a little out of my department
01:10:30but uh i'll see what kind of a teacher i could be oh uh don't miss me too much
01:10:45hasta mañana baby good night
01:10:47i'm waiting for you connie i've got something to tell you save it oh now don't be like that
01:11:01i came here to do you a favor what kind of a favor stop hounding arnie forget him lay off don't phone
01:11:09don't threaten forget he lives otherwise otherwise you take it from there can't you
01:11:16why are you telling me this call it affinity as a one discard to the other you know the cord that
01:11:24binds between castoffs you not only let him walk off with your girl but now you're acting as watchdog
01:11:30how low can you get well if you hang around you might find out as far as i'm concerned you've already
01:11:37hit bottom
01:11:50scared the girdle off if that naughty give me a medal for this
01:11:58you all right you okay let me alone tell arnie that if he ever tries that again or
01:12:02i'm never found dead the d.a's gonna get a lender that'll blow arnie higher than he just tried to
01:12:06blow me
01:12:24come on get in the car
01:12:35come on get in the car
01:12:40come on get in the car
01:12:43why arnie i thought you didn't want to see me again and here you practically forced me to come
01:12:48miss me huh hello arnie carnie you ought to know me pretty well
01:12:53well don't interrupt you ought to know that i don't frighten easily and i don't like to be
01:12:58sleeping fix me a drink shut up and listen you can tell the honeymoon's over can't you someday he
01:13:05may even talk to you this way he may even try to have you knocked off like he did me
01:13:10well you told me to teach her a lesson i tried talking she wouldn't listen so i had a couple
01:13:17of the boys throw a scare in her well i can throw a few scares myself if you ever try that again i'll do
01:13:23the talking now what's this about a letter to the d.a you know a letter's no good unless you can prove
01:13:29what's in it
01:13:31well according to a lawyer i spoke to microfilm is uh to use his words now what did he say
01:13:41oh yes primary evidence that's what he said primary evidence
01:13:45you're lying don't test it you told me you burned it the minute you got out of the store
01:13:53i lied then but i'm not lying now do you think i don't know what happened to those meaty young
01:13:59kids you played around with before you met me when you had your fill you shipped them off and nobody
01:14:03ever heard a word from them again well i knew this and i wasn't gonna let you bounce me around that
01:14:07way so i kept the microfilm better than life insurance huh arnie now you gotta make sure that i live
01:14:14otherwise you don't live either you're making this up like to find out get rid of me try it
01:14:23where is it connie don't make me laugh where is it connie you'll never get it for me never not
01:14:29even if you kill me and you won't do that you can't afford to maybe you'll be almost glad i did
01:14:33before i'm through with you arnie don't are you still carrying a torch and get in a talk if you
01:14:38want her back in one piece honey tell him please stay out of this chico
01:14:44you'd better get a new singer chico and he won't be able to appear in public for a while
01:15:07don't leave it alone i'll tell but leave it alone you'll tell you know
01:15:19she gave me something to keep for her she said that if anything should ever happen to her to mail it to
01:15:25the district attorney but i didn't know what it was just now honest i didn't where is it
01:15:28in my violin case in the rosin box in the case i keep a mark is the music shop
01:15:39hold it boys stuff's at some music shop what's the address 131 cleveland street
01:15:46you didn't you didn't can't you see what you've done you've killed me
01:16:01i couldn't help it i couldn't help it you know how i feel about you i couldn't sit here and listen to
01:16:07you screaming i was taking it not you and if i didn't talk oh you fool you gutless frightened
01:16:13little fool oh please corny please i couldn't help it i just couldn't help it take us there
01:16:19i can't i can't i feel sick well go telephone him and tell him we're coming
01:16:23hello marky chico and mr valent will come down to get my violin case you know the one that's
01:16:42the spare one you're holding for me give it to him no i can't come down myself i'm too busy adios
01:16:48you know you wait until i come back you go i'll keep your company barry
01:17:00i'm sick i'm sick i'm really sick
01:17:08some coffee hugo please i think we could all stand some
01:17:18i don't care if they kill on me i want them to kill him tell them
01:17:49lieutenant lieutenant are you still there
01:18:00i'm valent should you go call you yes mr valent i have it ready for you
01:18:18get that basket get that basket you got a match burn it
01:18:35so
01:18:39Come on.
01:19:09Come on.
01:19:39Come on.
01:20:09Come on.
01:20:39Come on.
01:21:09Come on.
01:21:11What's the tunnel used for?
01:21:29We use it to deliver merchandise from one department store to another.
01:21:32Don't have to buck street traffic.
01:21:34Also to get rid of the trash and that sort of stuff.
01:21:37There's 40 miles of it, but only three openings.
01:21:39Where are they?
01:21:41Cleveland, Halstead, and Ohio.
01:21:42You two go down after them.
01:21:45You take Halstead, and we'll take Ohio.
01:21:47Let's go.
01:21:48Let's go.
01:21:49Let's go.
01:21:51Come on.
01:21:52Let's go.
01:21:52Let's go.
01:21:56Let's go.
01:21:58Let's go.
01:22:02Let's go.
01:22:12Let's go.
01:22:42Drop it, Arnie.
01:23:09Arnie! Arnie!
01:23:10Arnie!
01:23:12Arnie!
01:23:13Arnie!
01:23:14Arnie!
01:23:15Arnie!
01:23:16Arnie!
01:23:17Arnie!
01:23:18Arnie!
01:23:19Arnie!
01:23:20Arnie!
01:23:21Arnie!
01:23:22Arnie!
01:23:23Arnie!
01:23:24Arnie!
01:23:25Arnie!
01:23:26Arnie!
01:23:27Arnie!
01:23:28Arnie!
01:23:29Arnie!
01:23:30Arnie!
01:23:31Arnie!
01:23:32Arnie!
01:23:33Arnie!
01:23:34Arnie!
01:23:35Arnie!
01:23:36Arnie!
01:23:37Oh, my boy. My boy. Oh, my...
01:23:42Mom.
01:23:44Oh, my boy.
01:23:45Oh, my boy.
01:23:52The information contained on the microfilm was turned over to the various law enforcement agencies,
01:23:58who moved in with a vengeance.
01:24:00Everyone incriminated was picked up, tried, and convicted,
01:24:03and the syndicate was cracked wide open.
01:24:05For how long it will remain so is a matter for constant civic vigilance in our city as well as yours.
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