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Detour -Hd 1945
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00:00:00The End
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00:01:30Well, here we are. I turned down here at the next block.
00:01:39Thanks, mister. I'll get off there.
00:01:48Want anything else?
00:01:50No.
00:01:51Hey, you.
00:01:52Me?
00:01:56Yeah, you.
00:01:57Where are you heading?
00:01:59East.
00:02:01You're bad.
00:02:02I thought if he was heading north, I might be able to help you out.
00:02:05I'm pushing to Salt Lake and I don't like to ride alone at night.
00:02:08I'm one of those guys that got to talk or I fall asleep.
00:02:11Oh, sure.
00:02:12No, my...
00:02:12Pardon me, he's got Lou to keep in company, but I ain't got nobody at all.
00:02:17Where you coming from?
00:02:19West.
00:02:19Yeah, sure, I know, but where, L.A.?
00:02:22Maybe.
00:02:23I got a cousin out in L.A.
00:02:24You don't say.
00:02:25Yeah, he's been out...
00:02:26You're not much of a talker, are you?
00:02:29My mother taught me never to speak to strangers.
00:02:31Oh, wise guy.
00:02:32So what?
00:02:33Yeah, okay, okay, don't get sore.
00:02:35He's trying to be sociable, that's all.
00:02:38Hey, Glamorous.
00:02:40Let me change for a dime, will you?
00:02:51Let's have something quieter this time, Joe.
00:02:54My head's splitting.
00:02:54Is that what's wrong with it?
00:02:59Done with your coffee?
00:03:00No.
00:03:01Then don't rush me, will you?
00:03:03Hey, turn that off.
00:03:11Will you turn that thing off?
00:03:12What's eating you now?
00:03:13Yeah, what's eating you?
00:03:14That music, it stinks.
00:03:15Oh, you don't like it, huh?
00:03:16No, turn it off.
00:03:17Now, wait a minute, pal.
00:03:18That was my nickel, see?
00:03:20This is a free country, and I play whatever I want to.
00:03:24Okay.
00:03:25Sure, and if you don't like it, you don't have to listen to it.
00:03:28And you can leave here anytime you want it.
00:03:30Okay, okay, I'm sorry I asked.
00:03:31First good piece play tonight, and you don't like it.
00:03:34Some people just ain't got any good taste.
00:03:36That tune, that tune, why was there always that rotten tune?
00:03:53Following me around, beating in my head, never letting up.
00:03:56Did you ever want to forget anything?
00:04:02Did you ever want to cut away a piece of your memory or blot it out?
00:04:06You can't, you know.
00:04:07No matter how hard you try.
00:04:09You can change the scenery.
00:04:10But sooner or later, you'll get a whiff of perfume where somebody will say a certain phrase or maybe hum something.
00:04:16Then you're licked again.
00:04:20I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:04:23I used to love that song once.
00:04:25So did the customers back in the old Break of Dawn Club in New York.
00:04:28I can't remember a night when I didn't get at least three requests for it.
00:04:32Sue, she was always selling it, too.
00:04:35Those were the days.
00:04:37Your eyes are blue, your kisses, too.
00:05:06I never knew what they could do.
00:05:09I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:05:14You're telling everyone you know that I'm on your mind each place you go.
00:05:21They can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:05:27I have always placed you far above me.
00:05:32I just can't imagine that you love me.
00:05:38And after all is said and done to think that I'm the lucky one, I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:05:49It wasn't much of a club, really.
00:06:00You know the kind.
00:06:01A joint where you could have a sandwich and a few drinks and run interference for your girl on the dance floor.
00:06:05I pounded the piano in there every night from 8 until the place closed up, which usually meant 4 in the morning.
00:06:14A good job as jobs went in those days.
00:06:16Then, too, there was Sue, who made working there a little like working in heaven.
00:06:27But how we felt about each other, well, there was nothing very unusual in that.
00:06:31I was an ordinary healthy guy, and she was an ordinary healthy girl.
00:06:34And when you add those two together, you get an ordinary healthy romance, which is the old story.
00:06:39Sure, but somehow, the most wonderful thing in the world.
00:06:52All in all, I was a pretty lucky guy.
00:06:54Mr. Paderewski, I presume.
00:07:09It's beautiful.
00:07:10You're going to make Carnegie Hall yet, Al?
00:07:12Yeah, as a janitor.
00:07:15I'll make my debut in the basement.
00:07:17I don't blame you for being bitter, darling, but you mustn't give up hope.
00:07:21Why, someday...
00:07:22Yeah, someday.
00:07:22If I don't get arthritis first.
00:07:24In the meantime, let's blow this trap.
00:07:46Like to get something to eat, hon?
00:07:47Oh, I don't think so, Al.
00:07:48I lose my appetite working in this flea bag.
00:07:51Let's go home.
00:07:53Okay.
00:07:54I can't stand much more of that dump.
00:07:57Did you see that drunk tonight, trying to paw me?
00:08:00No, what drunk?
00:08:01Does it matter what drunk?
00:08:04Say, what's the matter with you tonight, darling?
00:08:06That's the third time you started to tell me something, then stop.
00:08:10We shouldn't have any secrets from each other, Sue.
00:08:13Next week, we're going to make with the ring and the license.
00:08:14You and me will be a team.
00:08:15Yes, that's right.
00:08:16In the Bush League.
00:08:18I don't get you.
00:08:19We've been struck out.
00:08:22That's a funny way to talk, darling.
00:08:24Don't you want to marry me?
00:08:25Al, look, I love you.
00:08:26You know I do.
00:08:27And I want to marry you.
00:08:29But?
00:08:30But not now.
00:08:31Only after we've made good.
00:08:34Sunday, I'm going away.
00:08:36Oh, I know you'll think it's silly.
00:08:38That's why I hesitated to tell you.
00:08:41But I'm going to California.
00:08:42I want to try my luck in Hollywood.
00:08:45That's the most stupid thing I ever heard of.
00:08:47Don't you know millions of people go out there every year and wind up polishing cuspidors?
00:08:51I thought you had better sense.
00:08:52You sound as if you don't think I have any talent.
00:08:54That has nothing to do with it.
00:08:56I'll make out all right.
00:08:57Maybe.
00:08:57But what about me?
00:08:59Doesn't it mean anything to you that you're busting up all our plans?
00:09:01We may not see each other for years.
00:09:03It won't be that long.
00:09:05I thought you loved me.
00:09:06I do.
00:09:07You know I do.
00:09:10Well, here we are.
00:09:15Al.
00:09:17Al, why can't you see my side of it?
00:09:20I'm young.
00:09:21We both are.
00:09:23And we've got all the time in the world to settle down.
00:09:27Really, darling.
00:09:29What I'm doing is the only sane thing to do.
00:09:32I hate the thought of being so far away from you.
00:09:36But we'll be together again someday.
00:09:38Maybe you'll decide to come out too later on.
00:09:42So long.
00:09:44Al.
00:09:45Aren't you going to kiss me good night?
00:09:48Sure.
00:09:49Why not?
00:09:52Good night.
00:09:53Good night.
00:10:11Good night.
00:10:15Good night.
00:11:19Say, Roberts, you hit the jackpot this time.
00:11:39Ten bucks.
00:11:41Thanks.
00:11:41So when this drunk handed me a tin spot after a request, I couldn't get very excited.
00:11:52What was it I asked myself?
00:11:54A piece of paper crawling with germs.
00:11:56Couldn't buy anything I wanted.
00:11:59It couldn't...
00:11:59Then I thought of something.
00:12:04Long distance.
00:12:29I'd like to put a call through to Los Angeles.
00:12:32Miss Harvey.
00:12:33Sue Harvey.
00:12:34H-A-R-V-E-Y.
00:12:36The number is Crestview 65723.
00:12:38H-A-R-V-E-Y.
00:13:08This is Al.
00:13:10Oh, baby, it's great to hear from you, too.
00:13:12What's that?
00:13:13You do?
00:13:14Oh, me, too, darling.
00:13:15I thought I'd go batty without you.
00:13:17I just had to...
00:13:18Huh?
00:13:20You're working as a hashlinger?
00:13:22Gee, honey, that's tough.
00:13:24Those guys out in Hollywood don't know the real thing when it's right in front of them.
00:13:27You just stick it out, Sue, baby.
00:13:29Keep going around to those casting offices.
00:13:31I'm sure you'll click.
00:13:33Look, I'll tell you what.
00:13:33You stay put out there.
00:13:34I'll come to you.
00:13:36No, don't try to stop me.
00:13:37Just expect me.
00:13:38Train?
00:13:39Who knows?
00:13:40Train, plane, bus, magic carpet.
00:13:41But I'll be there if I have to crawl.
00:13:43If I have to travel by pogo stick.
00:13:45And then let's get married right away, huh?
00:13:51That's the stuff.
00:13:52That's what I've been wanting to hear you say.
00:13:55Well, goodbye for now.
00:13:59I'll be seeing you soon.
00:14:02Yeah.
00:14:04Bye.
00:14:04The only way I could cross country was to thumb rides.
00:14:13For even after hocking everything, I only had enough money to eat.
00:14:17Money.
00:14:18You know what that is.
00:14:20It's the stuff you never have enough of.
00:14:22Little green things with George Washington's picture that men slave for,
00:14:26commit crimes for, die for.
00:14:29It's the stuff that has caused more trouble in the world
00:14:31than anything else we ever invented.
00:14:32Simply because there's too little of it.
00:14:36At least I had too little of it.
00:14:38So it was me for the thumb.
00:14:56Ever done any hitchhiking?
00:14:59It's not much fun, believe me.
00:15:00Oh, yeah, I know all about how it's an education,
00:15:04how you get to meet a lot of people and all that.
00:15:06But me, from now on, I'll take my education in college
00:15:10or in PS 62, or I'll send $1.98 and stamps for 10 easy lessons.
00:15:14Thumbing rides may save your bus fare, but it's dangerous.
00:15:29You never know what's in store for you when you hear the squeal of brakes.
00:15:33If only I had known what I was getting into that day in Arizona.
00:15:37Here, throw that in the back seat.
00:15:44Okay, let's go.
00:15:45Make sure that door's closed.
00:15:46You know, Emily Post ought to write a book of rules for guys thumbing rides.
00:16:05Because as it is now, you never know what's right and what's wrong.
00:16:07We rode along for a little while, neither one of us saying anything.
00:16:12I was glad of that.
00:16:14I never know what to say to strange people driving cars.
00:16:18And too, you can never tell if a guy wants to talk.
00:16:21A lot of rides have been cut short because of a big mouth.
00:16:25So I kept my mouth shut until he started opening up.
00:16:30Hand me that little box in the compartment, will you, pal?
00:16:32Hold the wheel, will you?
00:16:49How far are you going?
00:16:50L.A.
00:16:51Well, you're really traveling, aren't you?
00:16:53Yeah, but I don't expect to make it for a couple of years at the rate I've been promoting rides.
00:16:57Not much luck, huh?
00:16:58Sure, all bad.
00:17:00Not many people stop for a guy these days.
00:17:02Afraid of a stick-up, maybe.
00:17:04Well, you can't blame them.
00:17:06Where are you coming from?
00:17:07New York.
00:17:08Well, New York.
00:17:10You're in luck this time.
00:17:12I'm going all the way.
00:17:14Right through to Los Angeles.
00:17:17You drive a car?
00:17:18Sure.
00:17:19Whenever you're tired, let me know.
00:17:21I'll holler.
00:17:23I guess at least an hour passed before I noticed those deep scratches in his right hand.
00:17:28They were wicked.
00:17:29Three puffy red lines about a quarter of an inch apart.
00:17:33He must have seen me looking at them because he said...
00:17:37Beauties, aren't they?
00:17:39They're going to be scars someday.
00:17:42What an animal.
00:17:44Whatever it was, it must have been pretty big and vicious to have done that.
00:17:47Right on both counts, New York.
00:17:49I was tussling with the most dangerous animal in the world.
00:17:52A woman.
00:17:53She must have been Tarzan's mate.
00:17:56Looks like you lost the bob.
00:17:57It certainly wasn't a draw.
00:18:00You know, there ought to be a law against dames with claws.
00:18:03Yeah.
00:18:03I tossed her out of the car in her ear.
00:18:07Was I wrong?
00:18:08Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't you?
00:18:11Yeah.
00:18:13After all, what kind of a dame's son rides?
00:18:15Sunday school teachers?
00:18:16Yeah.
00:18:17A little witch.
00:18:20She must have thought she was riding with some fall guy.
00:18:24And me, who's been booking horses around race tracks since I was 20.
00:18:28I've known a million dames like her.
00:18:30Two million?
00:18:31Yeah.
00:18:31Stopped the car, opened the door, take it on the art of Duffy's sister, I told her.
00:18:39That's the stuff.
00:18:40It's always done, huh?
00:18:43But if you want to see a real scar, brother, get a load of this.
00:18:50I got that one jewelry.
00:18:52Dually?
00:18:53Yeah, we're just kidding, of course.
00:18:55My dad owned a couple of Franco-Prussian sabers.
00:18:57Kept them on the wall for decorations.
00:18:59Well, one day, another kid and I took them down.
00:19:02The old man wasn't around, had a duel.
00:19:06You get me in the arm here.
00:19:08Pretty mean cut.
00:19:10Confection set in later.
00:19:12Yeah, I can see that.
00:19:14Now, give me that box again, will you?
00:19:15Yeah.
00:19:16The pain made me lose my head, I guess.
00:19:30Began slashing.
00:19:32Before I knew it, I'd put the other kid's eye on.
00:19:35That was tough.
00:19:37Well, it was just an accident, of course.
00:19:39Do you know how kids are?
00:19:40I get scared, decide I was going to run away from home.
00:19:43The old man almost caught me when I was packing my duds.
00:19:47The bloody rag I had wrapped around my wrist hadn't caught his attention.
00:19:51You've seen the bundle for sure.
00:19:54But I beat it when he was phoning for a doctor.
00:19:56I was 15, 16 years ago.
00:19:59I haven't been home since.
00:20:05Pull in there for a bite or something, huh?
00:20:07A bite or something.
00:20:09Brother, was I hungry.
00:20:11I hadn't had anything in my stomach for hours.
00:20:14Yet even with that gnawing in the pit of my belly,
00:20:16I didn't want to be in too big a rush to put on the feed bag.
00:20:20First, I had to make sure this guy knew the score.
00:20:22If I got him down on me, it was goodbye ticket to Hollywood.
00:20:27I'll wait out here for you, mister.
00:20:28If it's the money, don't worry about paying for it.
00:20:30This time it's on me.
00:20:31Well, that's what of you, mister...
00:20:33Haskell, think nothing of it.
00:20:34You make your first million, maybe you can do the same for me.
00:20:36Come on, New York.
00:20:37I gotta make the West Coast by Wednesday.
00:20:39There's a horse running in Santa Anita named Pryor Bicycle.
00:20:42It means it ought to me if I'm on him.
00:20:43We'll make it, all right.
00:20:46He did most of the talking during the half hour we were in the place.
00:20:49I ate.
00:20:51He rambled on about his old man,
00:20:53whom he hadn't heard from since he ran away as a kid.
00:20:56And how he happened to become a bookie.
00:20:58And then all about how he got rooked in Miami.
00:21:00One race, 38 grand.
00:21:02They cleaned out my book.
00:21:03How do you like that?
00:21:05That was tough luck.
00:21:06Yeah, and I'm supposed to be the smart guy.
00:21:08Will you just wait?
00:21:09I'm going back to Florida next season with all kinds of jack.
00:21:11And you'll watch those stinkers run for cover.
00:21:14Do you want anything else?
00:21:15No, thanks.
00:21:16I've had plenty.
00:21:22That check there, sister?
00:21:23Mm-hmm.
00:21:27Oh, just a miniature change, sir.
00:21:29Keep it, sister.
00:21:30Oh, thank you.
00:21:31Say call again.
00:21:32I'll be waiting outside for you when you finish work.
00:21:34No.
00:21:35Sharp check, huh?
00:21:36I drove all that night while Hasco slept like a log.
00:21:48After a while, I began to get sleepy myself.
00:21:50I was happy, though.
00:21:54Soon I'd be with Sue again.
00:21:57The long trip was practically over,
00:21:58and I'd be no more hoofing it down the concrete.
00:22:01I began to think of the future,
00:22:04which couldn't have been brighter
00:22:05if I'd embroidered it with neon lights.
00:22:07It was nice to think of Sue shooting to the top.
00:22:12It's amazing what a full belly can do to your imagination.
00:22:15Your eyes are blue, your kisses, too.
00:22:23I never knew what they could do.
00:22:27I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:22:35You're telling everyone you know
00:22:40I'm on your mind each place you go.
00:22:45I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:23:07Mr. Haskell.
00:23:09Mr. Haskell.
00:23:10Mr. Haskell, wake up. It's raining.
00:23:16Don't you think we ought to stop and put up the top?
00:23:26Mr. Haskell, I'm going to put up the top.
00:23:28Dr. Have "...s deuxième place."
00:23:33Look, Mr. Haskell.
00:23:34Come on.
00:23:34There we go.
00:23:42Up until then, I'd done things my way.
00:23:45But from then on, something else stepped in
00:23:47and shunted me off to a different destination
00:23:48than the one I had picked for myself.
00:23:51But when I pulled open that door...
00:23:53Mr. Haskell, what's the matter? Are you hurt?
00:23:58Are you hurt, Mr. Haskell?
00:24:01Start your sermon. I'll listen to it.
00:24:04But I know what you're gonna hand me even before you open your mouths.
00:24:07You're gonna tell me you don't believe my story of how Haskell died...
00:24:10and give me that don't make me laugh expression on your smug faces.
00:24:18I saw it once, he was dead. And I was in for it.
00:24:22Who would believe he fell out of the car?
00:24:24Why, if Haskell came too, which of course he couldn't,
00:24:26even he would swear I conked him over the head for his dough.
00:24:28Yes, I was in for it.
00:24:31Instinct told me to run, but then I realized it was hopeless.
00:24:34There were lots of people back down the road who could identify me.
00:24:36That gas station guy and the waitress.
00:24:38I would be in a worse spot then, trying to explain why I beat it.
00:24:41The next possibility was to sit tight and tell the truth when the cops came.
00:24:44But that would be crazy. They'd laugh at the truth.
00:24:47I'm not having my head in the noose.
00:24:49So what else was there to do but hide the body and get away in the car?
00:24:54I couldn't leave the car there with him in the gully.
00:24:56That would be like erecting a tombstone.
00:24:58The
00:24:59You
00:25:00You
00:25:05My idea was to cover him with brush, not to rob him, but then I remembered that even if I only drove the car for a hundred miles or so, I would need money for gas.
00:25:34Besides, it was stupid of me to leave all that money on a dead man.
00:25:40Not only that, I'd have to take his driver's license in case I was stopped for something.
00:25:45I didn't like to think about it, but by that time I'd done just what the police would say I did, even if I didn't.
00:25:52My clothes, the owner of such an expensive car would never be wearing them.
00:25:56Some cop might pull me in on suspicion.
00:26:04Hey, you, this your car?
00:26:26Don't you know better than to leave a car with the wheels halfway in the middle of the road?
00:26:28That's the way accidents happen.
00:26:31I'm sorry, officer.
00:26:32I was just putting up my top.
00:26:34I didn't think.
00:26:34Well, and the next time, think.
00:26:36I'll let you go now, but watch your step in the future.
00:26:39I know that's a lonely stretch, but cars come by here once in a while and we have plenty of crack-ups.
00:26:43Thanks, officer.
00:26:44I left nothing in the car to give me away as Roberts.
00:27:10If they found a dead man in the gully now, it would be me.
00:27:21As I drove off, it was still raining.
00:27:24And the drop streaked down the windshield like tears.
00:27:29I kept imagining I was being followed, that I could hear sirens back in the distance.
00:27:34Just how long it took me to cover the 60-odd miles to the California state line, I don't know.
00:27:39I lost all track of time.
00:27:42But the rain had stopped and the sun was up when I pulled up to the inspection station.
00:27:50Hello.
00:27:52Carrying any fruits or vegetables?
00:27:54No.
00:27:55Any livestock or poultry?
00:27:56No.
00:27:58I'd like to see your registration and driver's license, please.
00:28:05Anything in the baggage compartment?
00:28:07What's the baggage?
00:28:10Charles Haskell, Jr.
00:28:11Aids 30 brown eyes, dark hair.
00:28:14Identifying marks, none.
00:28:16Are you Charles Haskell, Jr.?
00:28:17Yes.
00:28:18Well, remember, if you're employed and you stay over 30 days, you take out California plates.
00:28:22All right, officer, but I'll only be in the state a short while.
00:28:26Right, you can go now.
00:28:27I couldn't drive any farther without some sleep, cops or no cops.
00:28:38I knew I had to hit the hay and hit it hard.
00:28:43I was dead tired.
00:28:44I was dead.
00:29:09No.
00:29:11No, you can't, Mr. Haskell.
00:29:15No.
00:29:17Mr. Haskell, you can't die.
00:29:21I think I did it.
00:29:25No, Mr. Haskell.
00:29:29No.
00:29:31No.
00:29:33No.
00:29:35No.
00:29:37No.
00:29:53Who's there?
00:29:55It's the maid. Can I come in and clean?
00:29:57Later.
00:29:59In a half hour.
00:30:01All right, sir.
00:30:07Come on, I'm ready!
00:30:11Oh, yeah.
00:30:13So, I can't tell you what's going to call me.
00:30:15Fine.
00:30:17No, I'm ready.
00:30:19No, I'm ready.
00:30:21I'm ready.
00:30:23I'm ready, sir.
00:30:25All right.
00:30:27I'm ready.
00:30:28I'm ready.
00:30:29Charles Haskell was dangerous, and I'd have to be Charles Haskell
00:30:32until I got to some city where I could leave the car and be swallowed up.
00:30:41That meant driving the car as far as San Bernardino, maybe even to Los Angeles.
00:30:45In a little town I might be noticed, but in a city I should be safe enough.
00:30:50Then, after I ditched the car, I could go on to Sue.
00:30:54But those five minutes at the state line made me realize
00:30:57that it might be a good idea to find out a little bit about Mr. Haskell.
00:31:00Then, if anybody asked me questions, I could give the right answers.
00:31:04The first thing I found out was that I had $768.
00:31:08This was a lot of jack.
00:31:10But believe me, it was the kind of money I'd rather not have.
00:31:21And then I found out from a letter Haskell was carting around in his bag
00:31:25that he wasn't the open-handed, easy-going big shot
00:31:28who went around buying dinners for strange hitchhikers.
00:31:31Before I got done reading it, I saw him more as a chiseler.
00:31:34It was written to his old man in California,
00:31:37the one he hadn't seen in so many years.
00:31:40In it, Haskell posed as a salesman, of hymnals, of all things.
00:31:46It was easy to see where Haskell expected to raise a new stake
00:31:49for his book in Miami.
00:31:51By rooking his old man.
00:31:54That was about all I found out from his effects.
00:31:57And it was enough.
00:31:59I told myself, maybe old man Haskell was lucky his son kicked off.
00:32:03He would never know it.
00:32:05But it saved him from taking a flyer in sacred literature preferred.
00:32:09Near the airport at Desert Center, I pulled up for water.
00:32:38There was a woman.
00:32:45Hey, you! Come on if you want a ride.
00:33:08How far are you going?
00:33:09How far are you going?
00:33:10How far are you going?
00:33:12How far are you going?
00:33:14How far are you going?
00:33:15How far are you going?
00:33:19That took me by surprise, and I turned my head to look her over.
00:33:26She was facing straight ahead, so I couldn't see her eyes.
00:33:28But she was young, about more than 24.
00:33:32Man, she looked as if she had just been thrown off the crummiest freight train in the world.
00:33:39Yet in spite of this, I got the impression of beauty.
00:33:41Not the beauty of a movie actress, mind you.
00:33:43Or the beauty you dream about when you're with your wife.
00:33:45But a natural beauty.
00:33:46A beauty that's almost homely because it's so real.
00:33:47Then suddenly she turned to face me.
00:33:48How far did you say you were going?
00:33:49Los Angeles.
00:33:50LA?
00:33:51LA's good enough for me, mister.
00:33:52That's what I was afraid of.
00:33:53How far did you say you were going?
00:33:54How far did you say you were going?
00:33:55LA's good enough for me, mister.
00:33:56I was afraid of.
00:33:57Not the beauty of a movie actress, mind you,
00:33:59or the beauty you dream about when you're with your wife,
00:34:02but a natural beauty.
00:34:04A beauty that's almost homely because it's so real.
00:34:09Then suddenly she turned to face me.
00:34:11How far did you say you were going?
00:34:13Los Angeles.
00:34:14L.A.?
00:34:16L.A. is good enough for me, mister.
00:34:18That's what I was afraid of.
00:34:19What did you say?
00:34:21Oh, nothing. Just thinking out loud.
00:34:23People get in trouble for doing that.
00:34:25What's your name?
00:34:27You can call me Vera, if you like.
00:34:29Do you live in Los Angeles?
00:34:31No.
00:34:32Where are you coming from?
00:34:34Oh, back there.
00:34:35Needles?
00:34:36No.
00:34:37Oh, sure. Phoenix.
00:34:39You look just like a Phoenix girl.
00:34:41Are the girls in Phoenix that bad?
00:34:43The girl must have been pretty tired
00:34:45because she fell asleep not 20 minutes after she stepped into the car.
00:34:49She lay sprawled out with her head resting against the far door,
00:34:52like Haskell.
00:34:54I didn't like that part of it much.
00:34:56But I didn't wake her up.
00:34:58It wasn't that this girl still worried me.
00:35:01I'd gotten over that funny feeling I had when she looked at me,
00:35:04which I put down as just my jangled nerves.
00:35:07With her eyes closed and the test has gone out of her.
00:35:10She seemed harmless enough.
00:35:12And instead of disliking her, I began to feel sorry for her.
00:35:16The poor kid probably had had a rough time of it.
00:35:20Who was she anyway?
00:35:22And why was she going to Los Angeles?
00:35:24And where'd she come from in the first place?
00:35:26The only thing I knew about it was her name.
00:35:29Not that it made any difference.
00:35:31A few hours more and we'd be in Hollywood.
00:35:33I'd forget where I parked the car and look up Sue.
00:35:36This nightmare of being a dead man would be over.
00:35:39Who this dame was, well, it was no business of mine.
00:35:42Where did you leave his body?
00:35:44Where did you leave the owner of this car?
00:35:47You're not fooling anyone.
00:35:49This buggy belongs to a guy named Haskell.
00:35:51That's not you, mister.
00:35:52You're out of your mind.
00:35:53That's my name, Charles Haskell.
00:35:54I can prove it.
00:35:55It's my driver's license.
00:35:56Save yourself the trouble, mister.
00:35:57Having Haskell's wallet only makes it worse.
00:35:59It just so happens I rode with Charlie Haskell
00:36:01all the way from Louisiana.
00:36:03He picked me up outside of Shreveport.
00:36:05You rode?
00:36:06You heard me.
00:36:07Then it all came back to me.
00:36:09All the talk about dueling and scars and scratches.
00:36:12There was no doubt about it.
00:36:14Vera must be the woman Haskell had mentioned.
00:36:17She must have passed me while I slept.
00:36:19Well?
00:36:20Well, I'm waiting.
00:36:22My goose was cooked.
00:36:24She had me.
00:36:26That Haskell guy wasn't dead yet.
00:36:28He wasn't stretched out stiff and cold in any Arizona gully.
00:36:32He was sitting right there in the car laughing like mad while he haunted me.
00:36:37Well?
00:36:38There was nothing I could say.
00:36:40It was her move.
00:36:42Vera, whatever her name was,
00:36:44it was just my luck picking her up on the road.
00:36:47It couldn't have been Helen or Mary or Evelyn or Ruth.
00:36:50It had to be the very last person I should ever have met.
00:36:54That's life.
00:36:56Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you.
00:37:05I told her everything, but she didn't believe my story.
00:37:07I should have saved my breath.
00:37:09That's the greatest cock and ball story I ever heard.
00:37:11So he fell out of his car.
00:37:13Say, who do you think you're talking to, a hick?
00:37:15Listen, mister.
00:37:16I've been around.
00:37:17And I know a wrong guy when I see one.
00:37:19What'd you do?
00:37:20Kiss him with a wrench?
00:37:21Now, wait a minute.
00:37:22What I told you was true.
00:37:23You see, that's why I had to do it.
00:37:24You think I killed him.
00:37:25Well, the cops would have thought so too.
00:37:27Yeah, well, maybe they still think so.
00:37:29What makes you so sure I'll shut up about this?
00:37:32Vera, I'm innocent.
00:37:33Give me a break, will you?
00:37:35It won't do me any good having you pinched.
00:37:38The cops are no friends of mine.
00:37:40Now, if there was a reward, but there isn't.
00:37:43Thanks.
00:37:44Don't thank me yet.
00:37:45I'm not through with you by a long shot.
00:37:47Let's see that roll.
00:37:56Is that all Haskell had?
00:37:57Isn't it enough?
00:37:58No, I thought he had more.
00:37:59Not that I know of.
00:38:00You can search me.
00:38:01You think I'm holding out on you?
00:38:02Well, maybe I will at that.
00:38:03He told me he was going to bet $3,000 on a horse named Paradisical
00:38:07on Wednesday at Santa Anita.
00:38:08He was stringing you along.
00:38:09He meant 300.
00:38:10Maybe.
00:38:11Sure, three bucks, 300.
00:38:12He was a piece of cheese, a big blowhard.
00:38:14Listen, mister.
00:38:15Don't try and tell me anything about Charlie Haskell.
00:38:17Remember, I knew him better than you did.
00:38:19Okay, then you knew he was a four flusher.
00:38:21That explains the three grand bet.
00:38:22I'm not so sure he didn't have that three grand.
00:38:24Why should I believe you?
00:38:26You got all the earmarks of a cheap crook.
00:38:28Now, wait a minute.
00:38:29Shut up.
00:38:30You're a cheap crook and you killed him.
00:38:31For two cents, I'd change my mind and turn you in.
00:38:33I don't like you.
00:38:34All right, all right.
00:38:35Don't get sore.
00:38:36I'm not getting sore.
00:38:37But just remember who's boss around here.
00:38:39If you shut up and don't give me any arguments,
00:38:41you'll have nothing to worry about.
00:38:42But if you act wise, well, mister, you'll pop into jail so fast
00:38:46it'll give you the bends.
00:38:47I'm not arguing.
00:38:48See that you don't.
00:38:49You know, as crooked as you look,
00:38:50I'd hate to see a fella as young as you wind up
00:38:52sniffing that perfume that Arizona hands out free to murderers.
00:38:55I'm not a murderer.
00:38:56Of course you're not.
00:38:57Haskell knocked his own head off.
00:38:58He fell.
00:38:59That's how it happened.
00:39:00Just like I told you.
00:39:01Sure.
00:39:02And then he made you a present of his belongings.
00:39:03I explained why I had to do that.
00:39:04Oh, stop it.
00:39:05It doesn't make a difference one way or another.
00:39:06I'm not a mourner.
00:39:07I liked Haskell even less than I like you.
00:39:09Yeah, I saw what you did to him.
00:39:11What do you mean?
00:39:12Well, scratches on his wrist.
00:39:13Sure, I scratched him.
00:39:15Well, so you did.
00:39:17So your idea was to drive the car a little way,
00:39:20maybe into San Bernardino and then leave it.
00:39:23You weren't gonna sell it?
00:39:24Sell it?
00:39:25You think I'm crazy, somebody else's car?
00:39:27See, all I wanna do is leave it somewhere
00:39:29and forget I ever saw it.
00:39:30Not only don't you have any scruples,
00:39:31you don't have any brains.
00:39:33I don't get you.
00:39:34Maybe it's a good thing you met me.
00:39:36You'd have got yourself caught sure.
00:39:38Why, you dope.
00:39:39Don't you know a deserted automobile
00:39:40always rates an investigation?
00:39:42Huh?
00:39:43Look, the cops find a car.
00:39:45Then they get curious.
00:39:46They wonder where the owner is.
00:39:48So all right, they don't trace Haskell.
00:39:50They trace you.
00:39:51I never thought of that.
00:39:53The only safe way to get rid of the car
00:39:55is to sell it to a dealer.
00:39:56Get it registered under a new name.
00:39:58Say, stop at the next store.
00:40:00I want to get a bottle
00:40:01and do some shopping before we hit L.A.
00:40:03Okay.
00:40:04As soon as we find a place,
00:40:05I'll drop you off and pick you up later.
00:40:06Nothing doing.
00:40:07You're coming in too.
00:40:08From now on,
00:40:09you and I are like the Siamese twins.
00:40:11Have it your way,
00:40:12but I don't get the point.
00:40:13The point is,
00:40:14I don't want you to get lost.
00:40:15I'm not going to beat it
00:40:16if that's what you're afraid of.
00:40:17I'll say you're not.
00:40:18Well, I'm going to see
00:40:19that you sell this car
00:40:20so you don't get caught.
00:40:21Thanks.
00:40:22Of course,
00:40:23your interest wouldn't be financial,
00:40:24would it?
00:40:25You wouldn't want
00:40:26a small percentage of the profits.
00:40:28Well, now that you insist,
00:40:29how can I refuse?
00:40:30A hundred percent will do.
00:40:32Fine.
00:40:33I'm relieved.
00:40:34I thought for a moment
00:40:35you were going to take it all.
00:40:36I don't want to be a hog.
00:40:37A few hours later,
00:40:38we were in Hollywood.
00:40:39I was recognizing places
00:40:40Sue had written about.
00:40:41It struck me that
00:40:42far from being
00:40:43at the end of the trip,
00:40:44there was a greater distance
00:40:45between Sue and me
00:40:46than when I started out.
00:40:47Vera wasn't kidding
00:40:48with that Siamese twins crack.
00:40:49She rented a little apartment
00:40:51as Mrs. Charles Haskell.
00:40:53When I objected to this,
00:40:54she explained that
00:40:55it was on account of the car.
00:40:56A dealer might think
00:40:57something was funny
00:40:58if he called
00:40:59and found we were
00:41:00using different names.
00:41:01Home, sweet home.
00:41:02Yeah.
00:41:03Not bad either.
00:41:23In case there's any doubt
00:41:26in your mind,
00:41:27I'll take the bedroom.
00:41:28Yeah.
00:41:29Sure is stuffy in here.
00:41:40Keep the windows shut.
00:41:41Okay.
00:41:44The old crow downstairs
00:41:45said there's a fallen bed
00:41:46behind this door.
00:41:53You know how to work it?
00:41:58I invented it.
00:42:03Some joint.
00:42:04One can't have everything.
00:42:11I'm first in the bathtub.
00:42:13I don't know why,
00:42:14but I figured you would be.
00:42:23the old boy.
00:42:26Boy, old boy.
00:42:27It sure feels good
00:42:28to be clean again.
00:42:31I must be ten pounds lighter.
00:42:33You must be.
00:42:36Well, hitch and rides
00:42:37isn't exactly the way
00:42:38you keep your school,
00:42:39girl complexion.
00:42:43I wish that guy
00:42:44with the sacks would give up.
00:42:47Gets on my nerves.
00:42:50Forget it.
00:42:54Have a drink.
00:42:56Aren't you afraid
00:42:57I might take you up on it?
00:43:00If I didn't want
00:43:01to give you a drink,
00:43:02I wouldn't have offered it.
00:43:04Why be a sorehead, Roberts?
00:43:05You got yourself
00:43:06into this thing.
00:43:08You should be grateful
00:43:09I'm not turning you in.
00:43:11Why, if I wasn't regular,
00:43:12you'd be in the pen this minute
00:43:13being photographed,
00:43:14finger printed,
00:43:15and being pushed around
00:43:16by the cops.
00:43:17So cheer up.
00:43:18Get rid of that long puss.
00:43:21Or is your conscience
00:43:23bothering you?
00:43:29No.
00:43:31It isn't.
00:43:32Swell.
00:43:33That's the spirit.
00:43:35He's dead,
00:43:36no moment around
00:43:37will bring him back.
00:43:41Anyway,
00:43:42I never could understand
00:43:43this worrying about something
00:43:44that's over and done with.
00:43:45Sarah, for the last time,
00:43:46I didn't kill him.
00:43:47Haskell was a sick man.
00:43:48Maybe he was dead
00:43:49before he fell out of the car.
00:43:50I don't know.
00:43:51Sure, sure.
00:43:52He died of old age.
00:43:54All right.
00:43:56So if it'll make you sociable?
00:43:59You didn't kill him.
00:44:11Thanks.
00:44:15We're out of liquor, Roberts.
00:44:16Yeah.
00:44:17Too bad.
00:44:18I felt like getting tight tonight.
00:44:19Well, I think you succeeded.
00:44:20Am I tight?
00:44:21There's a prima donna's corset.
00:44:22That's good.
00:44:23I wanted to get tight.
00:44:24Why?
00:44:25What have you got to get tight about?
00:44:26Oh, I don't know.
00:44:27A few things.
00:44:28Huh.
00:44:30You should have my worries.
00:44:31If I had your troubles,
00:44:32I'd stay sober.
00:44:33And I've got the key to that door.
00:44:35Yeah.
00:44:36Maybe you're right.
00:44:37Well, I don't think you're right.
00:44:38I don't think you're right.
00:44:39Maybe you're right.
00:44:40I'm right, honey.
00:44:41I don't think you're right.
00:44:42I can't get tight.
00:44:43Why?
00:44:44Well, I think you succeeded.
00:44:45Am I tight?
00:44:46There's a prima donna's corset.
00:44:47That's good.
00:44:48I want to get tight.
00:44:49Why?
00:44:50What have you got to get tight about?
00:44:51Oh, I don't know.
00:44:52A few things.
00:44:53Huh.
00:44:54You should have my worries.
00:44:55Yeah. Maybe you're right.
00:44:58I'm always right.
00:45:01You know, I don't like your attitude, Roberts.
00:45:04Well, there's a lot of things I don't like.
00:45:07Sure.
00:45:11But life's like a ball game.
00:45:13You gotta take a swing at whatever comes along
00:45:15before you wake up and find it's a ninth inning.
00:45:18I bet you read that somewhere.
00:45:20That's the trouble with you, Roberts.
00:45:22All you do is bellyache.
00:45:25But taking it easy and trying to make the best of things.
00:45:29But maybe that's what's wrong with the whole world.
00:45:32Get the professor.
00:45:34People knock themselves out trying to buck fate.
00:45:37Now, take you, for instance. You're lucky to be alive.
00:45:40Why, suppose Haskell had pulled open your door.
00:45:43You'd be playing a harp now. Think of that.
00:45:46You think of it. I'm tired of thinking.
00:45:50There's plenty of people dying this minute.
00:45:53That would give anything to trade places with you.
00:45:58I know what I'm talking about.
00:46:00I'm not so sure.
00:46:02At least they know they're done for.
00:46:04They don't have to sweat blood wondering if they are.
00:46:07Your philosophy stinks, pal.
00:46:11We all know we're gonna kick off some day.
00:46:14It's only a question of when.
00:46:16But what's got us on this subject anyway?
00:46:20We'll be discussing politics next.
00:46:22Yeah.
00:46:24Where'd you hide the butts?
00:46:27On the table, sucker.
00:46:37We bored each other with conversation for a couple of hours longer.
00:46:41Every five minutes, one of us was wishing we had another bottle or a radio or something to read.
00:46:46And finally, we ran out of chat.
00:46:49I know it's only 11 o'clock.
00:46:51But I want to get up early and make the rounds of the used car lots.
00:46:54No hurry about that.
00:46:55We've got all the time in the world.
00:46:57Maybe you have.
00:46:58But if you think I want to stay cooped up in this place any longer than I have to, you're batty.
00:47:01It's not a bad place.
00:47:02We pay plenty for diggings like this in New York.
00:47:04I wouldn't like it if it was the Ritz.
00:47:06You brought me liquor.
00:47:07You got a mean cough.
00:47:08I ought to do something about it.
00:47:09I'll be all right.
00:47:10It's what the meal said.
00:47:11Who?
00:47:12Nobody you know.
00:47:13Wasn't that the day that died of consumption?
00:47:14Yeah.
00:47:15Wouldn't it be a break for you if I did kick off?
00:47:16You'd be free with all Haskell's dough and car.
00:47:19I don't want to see anybody die.
00:47:20Not even me.
00:47:21Especially not you.
00:47:22One person died of me.
00:47:23If you did.
00:47:24Well, that's all I need.
00:47:25You don't like me, do you, Roberts?
00:47:26You don't like me, Roberts.
00:47:27You don't like me, Roberts.
00:47:28You don't like me, Roberts.
00:47:29I like you.
00:47:30I love you.
00:47:31My favorite sport is being kept prisoner.
00:47:32After we sell the car.
00:47:33He would go next to you, Roberts.
00:47:38I don't want to see anyone die.
00:47:43You cannot catch me.
00:47:46I'm sorry, Roberts.
00:47:47What's your conscience?
00:47:48You don't like me, Roberts.
00:47:50I don't like you.
00:47:54I love you.
00:47:55Our favorite sport is being kept prisoner.
00:47:57After we sell the car, you can go to blazes for all I care, but not until then.
00:48:08I'm going to bed.
00:48:18Good night, Roberts.
00:48:20Don't try and sneak away during the night. All the doors are locked.
00:48:23Anyway, if I find you gone in the morning, I'll notify the police.
00:48:27They'll pick you up.
00:48:28Don't worry. I know when I'm in the spot.
00:48:31Well, good night. I hope that portable rack isn't too uncomfortable for you.
00:48:35Don't lose any sleepover, will you, sir?
00:48:57Good night.
00:48:59I'm sorry.
00:49:15Chris, few...
00:49:18six...
00:49:20five...
00:49:22seven...
00:49:24two...
00:49:25three...
00:49:27seven...
00:49:29seven...
00:49:30seven...
00:49:32seven...
00:49:33seven...
00:49:34seven...
00:49:35seven...
00:49:42no...
00:49:44not yet, darling...
00:49:47tomorrow...
00:49:49maybe...
00:49:51If this were fiction, I would fall in love with Vera, marry her, and make a respectable woman of her,
00:50:00or else she'd make some supreme class A sacrifice for me and die.
00:50:06Sue and I would bawl a little over her grave and make some crack about there's good in all of us.
00:50:11But Vera, unfortunately, was just as rotten in the morning as she'd been the night before.
00:50:18All right, all right, I'm coming.
00:50:20Look, Vera, it's almost noon.
00:50:24So what? The dealers will be there all day?
00:50:26They'll be there all year, too, but that doesn't mean I'm going to wait that long.
00:50:29Shut up. You're making noises like a husband.
00:50:34Well, do I rate a whistle?
00:50:36You sure do, but let's go.
00:50:38Let's go, let's go. I spend 85 bucks and two hours preparing bait, and all you can say is, let's go.
00:50:45Come on.
00:50:50We passed a few used car lots last night down this way.
00:50:54What do you think we can get for this heap?
00:50:56I don't know. Plenty. You just let me handle everything.
00:50:59Think we can get $2,000?
00:51:01I don't know, but don't worry. I'll squeeze as much out of this guy as I can.
00:51:05I'll let it go cheap without a fight. He might think we've stolen the car.
00:51:08And listen, don't make any slips and call me Roberts. That'll cook us.
00:51:12I don't need you to tell me that.
00:51:14You better just sit by and keep your mouth closed.
00:51:17Remember, we're both in the soup if anything happens.
00:51:19Forget it and drive.
00:51:20You're my wife, Farrah Haskell.
00:51:23Look, after the deal's closed, let's go back to that place on Hollywood Boulevard,
00:51:27where I saw the fur jacket. I want to buy it.
00:51:30After the deal's closed, I'm saying goodbye to you.
00:51:33That's right. I forgot. I guess I'm getting kind of used to you.
00:51:36Well, that's a habit you can start breaking.
00:51:40Let's try this place in the middle of the block.
00:51:48Good afternoon. What can I do for you?
00:51:50We're interested in selling a car.
00:51:52If the price is right.
00:51:56Well, if it's in good mechanical condition,
00:51:58it should blue book for about $1,600.
00:52:01Tony, take a look at this motor.
00:52:03$1,600. Are you kidding?
00:52:06Well, it might be $1,500.
00:52:18Before I let it go for $1,500,
00:52:20I'll wreck it and collect the insurance first.
00:52:26Andy, this motor's seen a lot of driving.
00:52:28While the mechanic inspected the car, we haggled.
00:52:38At last, when we were all worn out, we hit a compromise.
00:52:42His price.
00:52:47Okay, it's a deal.
00:52:48All right, come on, we'll sign the papers.
00:52:49I have the ownership papers right here with me.
00:52:51Look, Vera, in the meantime,
00:52:52will you clean out the dash compartment?
00:52:54Maybe there's some stuff in it.
00:52:55All right, darling.
00:52:59$1,850.
00:53:01That dirty cro...
00:53:03New York, huh?
00:53:12Yeah.
00:53:12But you bought the car in Miami.
00:53:14Yeah.
00:53:16Now, let's see about the insurance.
00:53:17We can either have it transferred or canceled.
00:53:20What kind of insurance do you have, Mr. Haskell?
00:53:23Well, aren't all the papers there?
00:53:28I don't see any.
00:53:30Surely you know what type of insurance you carry in the car.
00:53:33The name of the company?
00:53:35Yeah, but...
00:53:36Well, if you'll just tell me the name of the company,
00:53:38I'd be very glad to take care of all the details.
00:53:40Well, look...
00:53:41Did you sign the papers yet?
00:53:42Not yet.
00:53:43Well, don't.
00:53:44We're not selling the car.
00:53:45Well, wait a minute, Mrs. Haskell.
00:53:47Come on, darling.
00:53:47What's the matter?
00:53:48Have you changed your mind?
00:53:49Yes, I'm sorry.
00:53:50I guess I have.
00:53:51But, Vera...
00:53:51Let's go.
00:53:58You got me out of a tight spot, Vera.
00:54:00But I still don't understand all this.
00:54:02You will in a minute.
00:54:03I almost threw away a gold mine.
00:54:05$1850 isn't to be sneezed at.
00:54:07The car doesn't book for as much as I thought.
00:54:08We're not selling the car.
00:54:10You want to keep it.
00:54:11Now, wait a minute, Vera.
00:54:12You said yourself I wouldn't be safe until the car was in someone else's name.
00:54:15I'd like to be free of this mess when I go.
00:54:17That's just it, Roberts.
00:54:18You're not going.
00:54:21There's a drive-in at the next corner.
00:54:22Pull in there and we'll get a bite to eat.
00:54:23And I'll explain.
00:54:25What is this?
00:54:25Another one of your brilliant ideas?
00:54:33Oh, may I take your order?
00:54:35Make mine a ham sandwich and coffee.
00:54:36And for you, sir?
00:54:37Oh, I don't care.
00:54:38The same.
00:54:42Get this, Vera.
00:54:48I've been pretty patient so far.
00:54:50I've done everything you asked me to do, but no more.
00:54:52Shut up.
00:54:53You've taken Haskell's money.
00:54:54You can have the door we get from selling the car.
00:54:56But you're not going to keep me a prisoner.
00:54:58It's a good thing I bought the paper.
00:54:59Take a look at that.
00:55:00Vera, I'm in no mood.
00:55:01Read that.
00:55:01I'm in no mood.
00:55:13No.
00:55:13Yes.
00:55:14No, I won't do it.
00:55:15Yes, you will.
00:55:15You think I'm crazy?
00:55:17It's impossible, I tell you.
00:55:18Excuse me.
00:55:25Blow the horn when you're through.
00:55:30No one could possibly get away with an act like that.
00:55:32It'd be wise to me in a minute.
00:55:33Don't be, Yella.
00:55:34You look enough like him.
00:55:36The same coloring and the same build.
00:55:37See how his clothes fit you?
00:55:38No kidding.
00:55:40You almost had me fooled for a while.
00:55:41Oh, grow up, Vera.
00:55:42Don't you think a father knows his own son?
00:55:44And there must be other relatives.
00:55:45So a father won't have to know you.
00:55:47We'll wait till he gives up the ghost.
00:55:48He's an old geezer and he won't pull through.
00:55:50And as far as other relatives are concerned,
00:55:52they haven't seen you in 15 or 20 years.
00:55:56Eat.
00:55:56I'm not hungry.
00:55:58And I won't do it.
00:55:59It's not as tough as it sounds.
00:56:01Remember, you've got all kinds of identification.
00:56:03His car, letters, license.
00:56:04I could never get away with it.
00:56:05It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
00:56:07The old boy has scads of dough.
00:56:09Look in the paper there.
00:56:10Personal fortune assessed at over 15 million.
00:56:12He'll leave plenty, I tell you.
00:56:14Maybe he cut off his son.
00:56:15How do we know?
00:56:16It's out, Vera.
00:56:17I won't have anything to do with it.
00:56:19I think you will.
00:56:22Look, Vera, I'll do anything within reason.
00:56:24But not that.
00:56:26So forget it.
00:56:26Find yourself another stooge.
00:56:28You sick.
00:56:29You'll be fixed for the rest of your life as Charlie Haskell.
00:56:32You can take your inheritance and go away.
00:56:33No more worrying about the rent.
00:56:35No sweating, scheming, wondering where your next meal's coming from.
00:56:37Think about that, Roberts.
00:56:38Vera, please, you're talking too loud.
00:56:41Unless I'm splitting 50-50 with you.
00:56:43Sure, why not?
00:56:44We're both alike.
00:56:45Both born in the same gutter.
00:56:46Take it easy, Vera.
00:56:47There's people around here.
00:56:48You don't know where you're talking.
00:56:50Well, wait till we read that old man Haskell's dead.
00:56:53And you show up.
00:56:54Like you read in New York that he was sick.
00:56:57No.
00:56:58Suppose he doesn't die.
00:56:59He will.
00:57:00I know he will.
00:57:01Something tells me.
00:57:01But as much as I insisted I would have no part of her scheme, Vera was taking it for granted I would.
00:57:11Neither of us had our mind on the cards as we played that night.
00:57:15I knew we were just trying to kill time between newspaper editions.
00:57:17This was a death watch for Vera.
00:57:22Maybe it was for me, too.
00:57:24Don't you realize if I'm caught, they'll want to know where I got the car and stuff.
00:57:27And they'll have me on a murder charge.
00:57:28If you're smart, you won't get caught.
00:57:30I knocked with seven.
00:57:32And if I'm caught, don't you realize you'll be out, too?
00:57:3518 points.
00:57:36That gives me 30.
00:57:39How will I be out?
00:57:40You'll be out.
00:57:40$1,850 we would have gotten on the car.
00:57:43Really, Vera, you'd be an awful chump.
00:57:44You threw away all that dough on a dizzy long shot.
00:57:46Let me sell the bus tomorrow.
00:57:48With the money it'll bring and what you've already got, a clever kid like you can run it up in no time.
00:57:51Then we'd both be in the clear.
00:57:52I'll be in the clear anyway.
00:57:54Maybe.
00:57:55Maybe.
00:57:56But if I got caught, I'd get good and sore at you, you know.
00:58:00You mean you'd squeal?
00:58:01Oh, no, not squeal exactly.
00:58:02Never mind what you meant.
00:58:06Even if you did tell the cops I was in on it with you,
00:58:08what could they do to me?
00:58:11They might give me the same medicine they gave you.
00:58:14Yeah.
00:58:15A rope.
00:58:18But I'm on my way anyhow.
00:58:22All they'll be doing will be rushing it.
00:58:25All right.
00:58:26But it's like the 1850 you lose.
00:58:28You'd kick yourself along the block if you ever let it get away from you.
00:58:30I'll take the chance.
00:58:32Want another drink?
00:58:33You're being a goon.
00:58:35That's the way people wind up behind the eight ball.
00:58:37Once they get a few dollars, they become greedy and want more.
00:58:39My, my.
00:58:40Caesar.
00:58:41Who?
00:58:42You know that Roman general?
00:58:43He got his for being greedy.
00:58:44He wasn't satisfied, so the final wind up was he took the count.
00:58:48A couple of days ago, you didn't have a dime.
00:58:50Why, you were so broke, you couldn't pay cash for a postage stamp.
00:58:53Now you've got almost $700 with 1850 in the offing.
00:58:56Take my advice.
00:58:57Don't try for more.
00:58:58I'm tired of this game.
00:58:59Let's have some blackjack.
00:59:00Play solitaire.
00:59:01Okay, I will if that's the way you feel about it.
00:59:03That's the way I feel about it.
00:59:04Getting sore and throwing things won't help much, Roberts.
00:59:06I'm really doing you a favor.
00:59:08I help you out of the jam by keeping my mouth shut.
00:59:10I show you how to make some soft money.
00:59:11And what thanks do I get?
00:59:13Thanks.
00:59:13Sure.
00:59:14Or would you rather I call the cops and tell them you killed a man and stole his money?
00:59:16I didn't tell anybody.
00:59:17Yes, you did.
00:59:17No, I didn't.
00:59:18You know I didn't.
00:59:18All right, then.
00:59:23Suppose I call the cops.
00:59:25If you're innocent, what do you got to be scared of?
00:59:28Okay.
00:59:29Call them, you mutt.
00:59:30Go ahead and call them.
00:59:30See if I care.
00:59:31At least they'll give me a square deal.
00:59:33You want me to call them?
00:59:34You heard me.
00:59:36But I'm warning you.
00:59:36If I'm pinched, I'll swear you were in on it.
00:59:38I'll say that you helped me.
00:59:40If I fry, I'll get even with you.
00:59:42You wouldn't dare.
00:59:43You didn't.
00:59:43Yeah?
00:59:45Then try it and see.
00:59:46Call them.
00:59:47Yeah.
00:59:48Okay, I will.
01:00:03Information?
01:00:05I want the number at the Hollywood police station.
01:00:09Okay, I got it.
01:00:11Thanks.
01:00:15Wait a minute, Vera.
01:00:16You wouldn't do that.
01:00:16Oh, wouldn't I?
01:00:17Give me that and I'll show you if I wouldn't.
01:00:18Take it easy now.
01:00:19Let's talk this over.
01:00:21This was early in the evening.
01:00:22And the conversation, while hectic, was at least pitched low.
01:00:27But as the minutes passed and more obstacles to her plan popped into my head, the air got blue.
01:00:33Each word coming from our lips cracked like a whip.
01:00:35I reminded her of Charles Haskell, I didn't even know my mother's name, where I'd gone to school, the name of my best friend, whether I had an Aunt Emma or not, my religion, and if I'd ever owned a dog.
01:00:49I didn't even know what my middle initial stood for.
01:00:51I also pointed out that the real Haskell had a scar on his forearm.
01:00:56His people never saw that scar.
01:00:58He told me he ran away right after putting out the kid's eye.
01:01:00Yeah, but his father knew he was cut.
01:01:02It'll have to be some kind of a mark.
01:01:03So what?
01:01:04The old man's dead, or will be.
01:01:07I hope by tomorrow morning's papers.
01:01:10Anyway, you could cut yourself a little, couldn't you?
01:01:14Boy, for that kind of dough, I'd let you cut my leg off.
01:01:17You're drunk and you're crazy mad, Vera.
01:01:19Turn him in if you want to, but I won't get mixed up in this.
01:01:21Besides, how do we know?
01:01:22Haskell was such a phony.
01:01:23Maybe he wasn't the man's son at all.
01:01:24Maybe he just dreamed it up.
01:01:25Well, dream it or not, you won't be dreaming when the law attacks you on the shoulder.
01:01:30There's a cute little gas chamber waiting for you, Roberts.
01:01:34And I hear extradition to Arizona's Ascension.
01:01:38Where's that phone?
01:01:40Vera.
01:01:41Leave me alone.
01:01:41Vera.
01:01:42I want a phone.
01:01:43Call police.
01:01:45I hate you, yellow stinker.
01:01:48You leave me alone.
01:01:50I'll let you alone when you promise to leave the phone where it is.
01:01:52You're drunk.
01:01:52You don't know what you're doing.
01:01:53You're hurting me.
01:01:54Will you promise?
01:01:56All right.
01:02:00You hurt me.
01:02:04I'm sorry, but...
01:02:05And it's hot in here.
01:02:06Open up the window.
01:02:07It's not hot.
01:02:08Don't tell me.
01:02:09Now, do you do it or do I do it?
01:02:13You're no gentleman, see?
01:02:15Yeah.
01:02:16All right.
01:02:17I'll open up the window.
01:02:21Vera!
01:02:27Vera, open the door.
01:02:28Please open the door.
01:02:29Vera, open the door.
01:02:30Don't use the phone.
01:02:31Listen to me.
01:02:32I don't like you, Roberts.
01:02:34You're no gentleman, see?
01:02:36You hurt my hand.
01:02:38And I'm going to get even with you.
01:02:40If you don't open the door, I'm going to kick it down, Vera.
01:02:43Vera, don't call the cops.
01:02:44Listen to me.
01:02:45I'll do anything you say.
01:02:47Vera, let me in.
01:02:50I'll break the phone.
01:02:51I'll break the phone.
01:02:59Come on.
01:03:09I'll come in.
01:03:11I'll break the phone.
01:03:18Vera, my car.
01:03:19I'll break the phone.
01:03:22Give me aberry.
01:03:22The world is full of skeptics, I know, I'm one myself.
01:03:29In the Haskell business, how many of you would believe he fell out of the car?
01:03:33And now, after killing Vera without really meaning to do it,
01:03:36how many of you would believe it wasn't premeditated?
01:03:39In a jury room, every last man of you would go down
01:03:42shouting that she had me over a barrel and my only out was force.
01:03:52The room was still.
01:03:54So quiet that for a while I wondered if I had suddenly gone deaf.
01:03:58It was pure fear, of course.
01:04:00And I was hysterical.
01:04:02But without making a sound.
01:04:05Vera was dead.
01:04:07And I was her murderer.
01:04:09Murderer? What an awful word that is.
01:04:12But I'd become one.
01:04:14And I'd better not get caught.
01:04:16What evidence there was around the place had to be destroyed.
01:04:19And from the looks of things, there was plenty.
01:04:21Looking around the room at things we'd bought was like looking into the faces of a hundred people
01:04:24who'd seen us together and who remembered me.
01:04:26This was the kind of testimony I couldn't rub out.
01:04:30No.
01:04:32I could burn clothes and hide bottles for the next five years.
01:04:35There'd always be witnesses.
01:04:37The landlady, for one.
01:04:38She could identify me.
01:04:39The car dealer, the waitress in the drive-in, the girl in the dress shop,
01:04:41and that guy in the liquor store.
01:04:43They could all identify me.
01:04:46I was cooked.
01:04:47Done for.
01:04:48I had to get out of there.
01:04:50While once I'd remained beside a dead body,
01:04:53planning carefully how to avoid being accused of killing him,
01:04:56this time I couldn't.
01:04:58This time I was guilty.
01:05:00I knew it.
01:05:02Felt it.
01:05:04I was like a guy suffering from shock.
01:05:07Things were whirling around in my head.
01:05:09I couldn't make myself think right.
01:05:11All I could think of was the guy with the saxophone and what he was playing.
01:05:15It wasn't a love song anymore.
01:05:18It was a dirge.
01:05:20differently.
01:05:21Ladies and gentlemen, the aristocratic downturn,
01:05:28Who?
01:05:30I don't want an fool.
01:05:32The driver doesn't want this story out.
01:05:37Yes?
01:05:38It hasn't been an external îl orn age.
01:05:42I'll just die.
01:05:43You do not fire up.
01:05:44You are an Indian holding band.
01:05:46But my problems weren't solved, and I had to stay away from New York for all time because Al Roberts was listed as the
01:06:16dead and had to stay dead. And I could never go back to Hollywood. Someone might recognize me as Haskell. Then, too, there was Sue. I could never go to her with a thing like this hanging over my head. All I could do was pray she'd be happy.
01:06:46I was in Bakersfield before I read that Vera's body was discovered, that the police were looking for Haskell in connection with his wife's murder. Isn't that a laugh? Haskell got me into this mess, and Haskell was getting me out of it. The police were searching for a dead man.
01:07:05I keep trying to forget what happened, and wonder what my life might have been if that car of Haskell's hadn't stopped.
01:07:19But one thing I don't have to wonder about, I know.
01:07:26Someday a car will stop to pick me up that I never thumbed.
01:07:29Yes, fate or some mysterious force can put the finger on you or me for no good reason at all.
01:07:59Well, I've always had to wait until then.
01:08:00So, if you're going to access the left button, let me see what happens, hit your head.
01:08:02I go ahead and answer tomorrow.
01:08:07All right.
01:08:08I'm going to know who I left this place.
01:08:10By this way I wait to go ahead and dash theampoo lists are all over.
01:08:14Here we go ahead and try pulling the approximations.
01:08:17Then, I hope that it's going through Hunger benefits.
01:08:18Thanks.
01:08:19Thanks a lot.
01:08:21Thanks a lot.
01:08:22Just a few settings.
01:08:24I want to feel a moment that I just have played anisser
01:08:25with the energy later.
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