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00:01:25Thanks, mister.
00:01:26I'll get off there.
00:01:27Want anything else?
00:01:28No.
00:01:29Hey, you.
00:01:30Me?
00:01:31Yeah, you.
00:01:32Where you heading?
00:01:33East.
00:01:34Yeah.
00:01:35I thought if he was heading north, I might be able to help you out.
00:01:37I'm pushing the Salt Lake, and I don't like to ride alone at night.
00:01:38I'm one of those guys that got to talk or I fall asleep.
00:01:39Oh, sure.
00:01:40No, Mike.
00:01:41Pardon me, he's got Lou to keep him company, but I ain't got nobody at all.
00:01:44Where you coming from?
00:01:45West.
00:01:46Yeah, sure, I know, but where, LA?
00:01:47Maybe.
00:01:48I got a cousin out in LA.
00:01:49You don't say.
00:01:50Yeah, he's been out.
00:01:51You're not much of a talker, are you?
00:01:52My mother taught me never to speak to strangers.
00:01:53Oh, a wise guy.
00:01:54So what?
00:01:55Okay, okay, don't get sore.
00:01:56He's trying to be sociable, that's all.
00:01:57I don't know.
00:01:58I don't know.
00:01:59I'm going to be a little bit.
00:02:00I'm not going to be a little bit more than I'm going to ride alone at night.
00:02:03I'm one of those guys that got to talk or I fall asleep.
00:02:05Oh, sure, not much.
00:02:06But pardon me, he's got Lou to keep him company, but I ain't got nobody at all.
00:02:09Where you coming from?
00:02:10West.
00:02:11Yeah, sure, I know, but where, LA?
00:02:12Maybe.
00:02:13I got a cousin out in LA.
00:02:14You don't say.
00:02:15Yeah, he's been out.
00:02:16You're not much of a talker, are you?
00:02:17My mother taught me never to speak to strangers.
00:02:19Oh, a wise guy.
00:02:20So what?
00:02:21It's okay.
00:02:22Don't get sore.
00:02:23He's trying to be sociable, that's all.
00:02:25Hey, Glamorous.
00:02:26You change for a dime, will you?
00:02:39Let's have something quieter this time, Joe.
00:02:41My head's splitting.
00:02:42Is that what's wrong with it?
00:02:46Done with your coffee?
00:02:47No.
00:02:48And don't rush me, will you?
00:02:50Hey, turn that off.
00:02:51Will you turn that thing off?
00:02:52What's eating you now?
00:02:53Yeah, what's eating you?
00:02:54That music, it stinks.
00:02:55Oh, you don't like it, huh?
00:02:56No, turn it off.
00:02:57Now, wait a minute, pal.
00:02:58That was my little, see?
00:02:59This is a free country.
00:03:00And I play whatever I want to.
00:03:01Okay.
00:03:02Sure, and if you don't like it, you don't have to listen to it.
00:03:03And you can leave here any time you want it.
00:03:04Okay, okay, I'm sorry I asked.
00:03:05First good piece played in LA.
00:03:06And you don't like it.
00:03:07Some people just ain't got any good taste.
00:03:09That tune.
00:03:10That tune.
00:03:11That tune.
00:03:12That tune.
00:03:13Why was there always that rotten tune?
00:03:14Following me around, beating in my head, never letting up.
00:03:15That tune.
00:03:16That tune.
00:03:17Why was there always that rotten tune?
00:03:19Following me around, beating in my head, never letting up.
00:03:43Never letting up.
00:03:48Did you ever want to forget anything?
00:03:50Did you ever want to cut away a piece of your memory or blot it out?
00:03:53You can't, you know.
00:03:55No matter how hard you try.
00:03:57You can change the scenery.
00:03:59But sooner or later you'll get a whiff of perfume
00:04:01where somebody will say a certain phrase or maybe hum something.
00:04:04Then you're licked again.
00:04:08I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:04:10I used to love that song once.
00:04:12So did the customers back in the old Break of Dawn Club in New York.
00:04:15I can't remember a night when I didn't get at least three requests for it.
00:04:19Sue, she was always selling it too.
00:04:23Those were the days.
00:04:42Your eyes are blue, your kisses too.
00:04:54I never knew what they could do.
00:04:57I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:05:01You're telling everyone you know that I'm on your mind each place you go.
00:05:08They can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:05:13I have always placed you far above me.
00:05:20I just can't imagine that you love me.
00:05:26And after all is said and done to think that I'm the lucky one.
00:05:33I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:05:37It wasn't much of a club really.
00:05:47You know the kind.
00:05:48A joint where you could have a sandwich and a few drinks and run interference for your girl on the dance floor.
00:05:53I pounded the piano in there every night from 8 until the place closed up.
00:05:59Which usually meant 4 in the morning.
00:06:02A good job was jobs went in those days.
00:06:08Then too, there was Sue.
00:06:11Who made working there a little like working in heaven.
00:06:14But how we felt about each other, well, there was nothing very unusual in that.
00:06:18I was an ordinary healthy guy and she was an ordinary healthy girl.
00:06:22And when you add those two together, you get an ordinary healthy romance.
00:06:25Which is the old story.
00:06:27Sure.
00:06:28But somehow, the most wonderful thing in the world.
00:06:39All in all, I was a pretty lucky guy.
00:06:52Mr. Paderewski, I presume.
00:06:57It's beautiful.
00:06:58You're going to make Carnegie Hall yet, Al?
00:07:00Yeah.
00:07:01As a janitor.
00:07:03I'll make my debut in the basement.
00:07:05I don't blame you for being bitter, darling.
00:07:07But you mustn't give up hope.
00:07:08Why, someday...
00:07:09Yeah, someday.
00:07:10If I don't get arthritis first.
00:07:12In the meantime, let's blow this trap.
00:07:14Do you like something to eat, hon?
00:07:20Oh I don't think so, Al.
00:07:35Oh, I don't think so, Al. I lose my appetite working in this flea bag.
00:07:40Let's go home.
00:07:41Okay.
00:07:42I can't stand much more of that dump.
00:07:45Did you see that drunk tonight trying to paw me?
00:07:48No, what drunk?
00:07:49Does it matter what drunk?
00:07:52Say, what's the matter with you tonight, darling?
00:07:54That's the third time you started to tell me something and then stopped.
00:07:58We shouldn't have any secrets from each other, Sue.
00:08:00Next week we're going to make with the ring and the license. You and me will be a team.
00:08:03Yes, that's right. In the Bush League.
00:08:06I don't get you.
00:08:07We've been struck out.
00:08:10That's a funny way to talk, darling. Don't you want to marry me?
00:08:13Al, look, I love you. You know I do. And I want to marry you.
00:08:17But?
00:08:18But not now. Only after we've made good.
00:08:22Sunday I'm going away.
00:08:24Oh, I know you'll think it's silly. That's why I hesitated to tell you.
00:08:29But I'm going to California. I want to try my luck in Hollywood.
00:08:33That's the most stupid thing I ever heard of.
00:08:36Don't you know millions of people go out there every year and wind up polishing cuspidors?
00:08:39I thought you had better sense.
00:08:40You sound as if you don't think I have any talent.
00:08:42That has nothing to do with it.
00:08:44I'll make out all right.
00:08:45Maybe. But what about me?
00:08:47Doesn't it mean anything to you that you're busting up all our plans?
00:08:49We may not see each other for years.
00:08:51It won't be that long.
00:08:53I thought you loved me.
00:08:54I do. You know I do.
00:08:56Well, here we are.
00:09:04Al.
00:09:06Al, why can't you see my side of it?
00:09:08I'm young.
00:09:09We both are.
00:09:10And we've got all the time in the world to settle down.
00:09:15Really, darling.
00:09:17What I'm doing is the only sane thing to do.
00:09:20I hate the thought of being so far away from you.
00:09:24But we'll be together again someday.
00:09:28Maybe you'll decide to come out too later on.
00:09:31So long.
00:09:32Al.
00:09:33Aren't you going to kiss me goodnight?
00:09:37Sure.
00:09:37Why not?
00:09:41Goodnight.
00:10:03Well, I'm going to kiss you goodnight.
00:10:04I'm going to kiss you goodnight.
00:10:05I'm going to kiss you goodnight.
00:10:06I'm going to kiss you goodnight.
00:10:07I'm going to kiss you goodnight.
00:10:08I'm going to kiss you goodnight.
00:10:09I'm going to kiss you goodnight.
00:10:10I'm going to kiss you goodnight.
00:10:11I'm going to kiss you goodnight.
00:10:12I'm going to kiss you goodnight.
00:10:13I'm going to kiss you goodnight.
00:10:14I'm going to kiss you goodnight.
00:10:15I'm going to kiss you goodnight.
00:10:16I'm going to kiss you goodnight.
00:10:17I'm going to kiss you goodnight.
00:10:18I'm going to kiss you goodnight.
00:10:19I'm going to kiss you goodnight.
00:10:20I'm going to kiss you goodnight.
00:10:21I'm going to kiss you goodnight.
00:10:22I'm going to kiss you goodnight.
00:11:03Say, Roberts, you hit the jackpot this time.
00:11:29Ten bucks.
00:11:31Thanks.
00:11:33So when this drunk handed me a tent spot after a request, I couldn't get very excited.
00:11:42What was it I asked myself?
00:11:44A piece of paper crawling with germs.
00:11:46Couldn't buy anything I wanted.
00:11:48It couldn't...
00:11:51Then I thought of something.
00:11:54Long distance.
00:12:18I'd like to put a call through to Los Angeles.
00:12:22Miss Harvey.
00:12:23Sue Harvey.
00:12:24H-A-R-V-E-Y.
00:12:26The number is Crestview 65723.
00:12:28The number is Crestview 65723.
00:12:35Hello, Sue.
00:12:45This is Al.
00:13:00Oh, baby, it's great to hear from you, too.
00:13:02What's that? You do?
00:13:04Oh, me too, darling.
00:13:05I thought I'd go batty without you.
00:13:07I just had to...
00:13:08Huh?
00:13:10You're working as a hashlinger?
00:13:12Gee, honey, that's tough.
00:13:14Those guys out in Hollywood don't know the real thing
00:13:15when it's right in front of them.
00:13:17You just stick it out, Sue, baby.
00:13:19Keep going around to those casting offices.
00:13:21I'm sure you'll click.
00:13:23Look, I'll tell you what.
00:13:23You stay put out there, I'll come to you.
00:13:26No, don't try to stop me.
00:13:27Just expect me.
00:13:28Train?
00:13:29Who knows?
00:13:30Train, plane, bus, magic carpet.
00:13:31I'll be there if I have to crawl.
00:13:33If I have to travel by pogo stick.
00:13:35And then...
00:13:36let's get married right away, huh?
00:13:41That's the stuff.
00:13:42That's what I've been wanting to hear you say.
00:13:45Well, goodbye for now.
00:13:49I'll be seeing you soon.
00:13:52Yeah.
00:13:54Bye.
00:13:58The only way I could cross country was to thumb rides.
00:14:03For even after hocking everything, I only had enough money to eat.
00:14:07Money.
00:14:08You know what that is.
00:14:10It's the stuff you never have enough of.
00:14:12Little green things with George Washington's picture that men slave for,
00:14:16commit crimes for, die for.
00:14:19It's the stuff that has caused more trouble in the world
00:14:21than anything else we ever invented.
00:14:23Simply because there's too little of it.
00:14:26At least I had too little of it.
00:14:28So it was me for the thumb.
00:14:29I'll be doing it.
00:14:30I'll be doing it.
00:14:31I'll be doing it.
00:14:33It's the same thing.
00:14:36I'll be using the same thing.
00:14:37For that matter.
00:14:37It's the same thing.
00:14:38On the other hand, Jack.
00:14:38He'll buy you.
00:14:42He's the same part of it.
00:14:43I'll be using the same thing.
00:14:46Ever done any hitch-hiking?
00:14:47It's not much fun, believe me.
00:14:48it's not much fun believe me oh yeah I know all about how it's an education how
00:14:54you get to meet a lot of people and all that but me from now on I'll take my
00:14:59education in college or in PS 62 or I'll send a dollar ninety-eight and stamps
00:15:03for ten easy lessons
00:15:06something rides may save your bus fare but it's dangerous you never know what's
00:15:19in store for you you hear the squeal of brakes if only I had known what I was
00:15:25getting into that day in Arizona
00:15:29you know Emily Post ought to write a book of rules for guys thumbing rides
00:15:54because as it is now you never know what's right and what's wrong
00:15:58we rode along for a little while neither one of us saying anything I'm glad of
00:16:03that I never know what to say to strange people driving cars until you can never
00:16:09tell if a guy wants to talk a lot of rides have been cut short because of a big
00:16:13mouth so I kept my mouth shut until he started opening up
00:16:19hand me that little box the compartment with it pal
00:16:25hold the wheel with it
00:16:27how far are you going LA well you're really traveling aren't you yeah but I don't expect to make it for a couple of
00:16:45years the rate I've been promoting rides not much luck huh sure all bad not many
00:16:50people stop for a guy these days afraid of a stick-up maybe I can't blame them
00:16:55where you're coming from New York well New York
00:16:59never left this time I'm going all the way right through to Los Angeles
00:17:05you drive a car sure whenever you're tired let me know I'll holler I guess at least an hour passed
00:17:15before I noticed those deep scratches in his right hand they were wicked three puffy red lines about a
00:17:21quarter of an inch apart he must have seen me looking at them because he said beauties aren't
00:17:27they they're gonna be scars someday what an animal whatever it was it must have been
00:17:35pretty big and vicious to have done that I don't both counts New York I was
00:17:39tussling with the most dangerous animal in the world a woman she must have been
00:17:44Tarzan's mate looks like you lost the Bob certainly wasn't a draw you know
00:17:50there ought to be a law against dames with claws yeah I tossed her out of the car in her ear
00:17:55was I wrong give a lift to a tomato you expect her to be nice don't you yeah after all what kind
00:18:03of dame some rides Sunday school teachers a little witch she must have thought she was riding with
00:18:12some fall guy to me who's been booking horses around race track since I was 20. I've known a
00:18:18million things like her two million yeah
00:18:21stop the car open the door take it on the art that Duffy's sister I told her
00:18:29that's the stuff as I was done huh but if you want to see a real scar brother get a load of this
00:18:36wow I got that one doing dueling yeah we're just kidding of course my dad owned a couple of
00:18:46Franco-Prussian sabers kept him on the wall for decorations well one day the kid and I took
00:18:51him down the old man wasn't around had a duel you got me in the arm here pretty mean cut
00:18:59affection sat in later yeah I can see that now give me that box again will it yeah
00:19:05pain made me lose my head I guess I began slashing before I know it I put the other kids eye on
00:19:24that was tough I was just an accident of course you know how kids are I got scared decided I was
00:19:31going to run away from home oh man almost caught me when I was packing my duds the bloody rag I
00:19:38had wrapped around my wrist hadn't caught his attention you've seen the bundle for sure but I
00:19:44beat it when he was phoning for a doctor I was 15 16 years ago I haven't been home since
00:19:50pulling that for a bite or something huh a bite or something brother was I hungry I hadn't had
00:20:01anything in my stomach for hours yet even with that knowing in the pit of my belly I didn't want to be
00:20:06in too big a rush to put on the feedback first I had to make sure this guy knew the score if I got
00:20:13him down on me goodbye ticket to Hollywood I'll wait out here for you mister if it's the money don't
00:20:18worry about paying for it this time it's on me well that's what your haskell think nothing of it
00:20:23you make your first million maybe you can do the same for me come on New York I gotta make the west
00:20:27coast by Wednesday the horse running at Santa Anita named powered bicycle means daughter me if I'm on
00:20:32him we'll make it all right he did most of the talking during the half hour we were in the place
00:20:37I ate he rambled on about his old man whom he hadn't heard from since he ran away as a kid now he
00:20:45happened to become a bookie and then all about how he got rooked in Miami one race 38 grand they
00:20:51cleaned out my book how do you like that that was tough luck yeah and I'm supposed to be the smart
00:20:56guy will you just wait I'm going back to Florida next season with all kinds of jack you watch those
00:21:01stinkers run for cover anything else no thanks I've had plenty
00:21:05that check there sister oh just a miniature change sir keep it sister oh thank you say call again
00:21:21I'll be waiting outside for you when you finish work sharp check huh
00:21:25I drove all that night while Haskell slept like a log after a while I began to get sleepy myself
00:21:39I was happy though soon I'd be with Sue again the long trip was practically over and I'd be no more
00:21:48hoofing it down the concrete I began to think of the future which couldn't have been brighter if I'd
00:21:54embroidered it with neon lights it was nice to think of Sue shooting to the top
00:21:58it's amazing what a full belly can do to your imagination
00:22:03your eyes oh your kisses too I never knew what they could do I can't believe that you're in love with
00:22:21me you're telling everyone you know I'm on your mind each place you go I can't believe that you're in love with me
00:22:42Mr. Haskell Mr. Haskell Mr. Haskell wake up it's raining don't you think we ought to stop and put up the top
00:23:06up until then I've done things my way but from then on something else stepped in and
00:23:36shunted me off to a different destination than the one I had picked for myself the one I pulled open that
00:23:41door Mr. Haskell what's the matter are you hurt are you hurt Mr. Haskell start yourself I'll listen to it but
00:23:56I know what you're gonna hand me even before you open your mouths you're gonna tell me you don't
00:24:00believe my story about Haskell died and give me that don't make me laugh expression on your smug faces
00:24:05I saw it once he was dead and I was in for it who would believe he fell out of the car
00:24:13why if Haskell came too which of course he couldn't even he would swear I conked him over the head for
00:24:17his dough yes I was in for it instinct told me to run but then I realized it was hopeless there were
00:24:24lots of people back down the road who could identify me that gas station guy and the waitress
00:24:27I would be in a worse spot then trying to explain why I beat it the next possibility was to sit tight
00:24:33and tell the truth when the cops came but that would be crazy they'd laugh at the truth and I'd have
00:24:37my head in the noose so what else was there to do but hide the body and get away in the car
00:24:43I couldn't leave the car there with him in the gully that would be like erecting a tombstone
00:24:48my idea was to cover him with the
00:24:49this man's dead
00:24:52my idea was to cover him with the
00:25:18brush not to rob him but then i remember that even if i only drove the car for a hundred miles or so
00:25:22i would need money for gas besides it was stupid of me to leave all that money on a dead man
00:25:29not only that i'd have to take his driver's license in case i was stopped for something
00:25:35i didn't like to think about it but by that time i'd done just what the police would say i did
00:25:39even if i didn't my clothes the owner of such an expensive car would never be wearing them
00:25:44some cop might put me in a suspicion
00:25:58so
00:26:13hey you this your car don't you know better than to leave a car with the wheels halfway in the middle
00:26:17of the road that's the way accidents happen i'm i'm sorry officer i was just putting up my top i
00:26:23didn't think well in the next time think i'll let you go now but watch your step in the future
00:26:28i know that's a lonely stretch but cars come by here once in a while we have plenty of crack-ups
00:26:53i left nothing in the car to give me away as roberts if they found a dead man on the gully now it would be me
00:27:11as i drove off it was still raining and the drop streak down the windshield like tears
00:27:16i kept imagining i was being followed that i could hear sirens back in the distance
00:27:24just how long it took me to cover the 60-odd miles to the california state line i don't know
00:27:30i lost all track of time but the rain had stopped and the sun was up when i pulled up to the inspection
00:27:35station
00:27:41hello carrying any fruits or vegetables no any livestock or poultry no
00:27:48i'd like to see your registration and driver's license please
00:27:55anything in the baggage compartment just baggage
00:27:58that's what's going on
00:28:00charles haskell jr age 30 brown eyes dark hair identifying marks none are you charles haskell
00:28:06jr yes well remember if you're employed and you stay over 30 days you take out california plates
00:28:12all right officer but i'll only be in the state a short while right you can go now
00:28:17i couldn't drive any farther without some sleep cops or no cops i knew i had to hit the hay and hit it hard
00:28:33i was dead tired
00:28:47i was dead
00:29:07oh you can't mr haskell
00:29:09no
00:29:17who's there it's the maid
00:29:45it's the maid can i come in and clean later in a half hour all right sir
00:30:15i'll be in the car
00:30:17i was no time to lose
00:30:19every minute i had to be charles haskell was dangerous
00:30:21i'd have to be charles haskell until i got to some city where i could leave the car and be swallowed up
00:30:28that meant driving the car as far as san bernardino maybe even to los angeles in a little town i might be noticed but in a city i should be safe enough
00:30:40then after i ditched the car i could go on to sue
00:30:45but those five minutes at the state line
00:30:47made me realize it might be a good idea to find out a little bit about mr haskell
00:30:51then if anybody asked me questions i could give the right answers
00:30:55the first thing i found out was that i had 768 dollars
00:30:59this was a lot of jack
00:31:01but believe me
00:31:02it was the kind of money i'd rather not have
00:31:11and then i found out from a letter haskell was carting around in his bag
00:31:16that he wasn't the open-handed easy-going big shot who went around buying dinners for strange hitchhikers
00:31:22before i got done reading it i saw him more as a chiseler
00:31:24it was written to his old man in california the one he hadn't seen in so many years in it haskell
00:31:32posed as a salesman of hymnals of all things it was easy to see where haskell expected to raise a
00:31:40new stake for his book in miama by rooking his old man that was about all i found out from his effects
00:31:48and it was enough i told myself maybe old man haskell was lucky his son kicked off
00:31:56he would never know it but it saved him from taking a flyer in sacred literature preferred
00:32:18now
00:32:26near the airport at desert center i pulled up for water
00:32:30there was a woman
00:32:36hey you come on if you want to ride
00:32:48Let's go.
00:33:18How far are you going?
00:33:26How far are you going?
00:33:28That took me by surprise, and I turned my head to look her over.
00:33:33She was facing straight ahead, so I couldn't see her eyes.
00:33:36But she was young, about more than 24.
00:33:40Man, she looked as if she'd just been thrown off the crummiest freight train in the world.
00:33:45Yet, in spite of this, I got the impression of beauty.
00:33:48Not the beauty of a movie actress, mind you.
00:33:51Or the beauty you dream about when you're with your wife.
00:33:53But a natural beauty.
00:33:55A beauty that's almost homely because it's so real.
00:34:00Then suddenly, she turned to face me.
00:34:02How far did you say you were going?
00:34:04Los Angeles.
00:34:05L.A.?
00:34:07L.A. is good enough for me, mister.
00:34:09That's what I was afraid of.
00:34:11What did you say?
00:34:12Oh, nothing. Just thinking out loud.
00:34:13People get in trouble for doing that.
00:34:17What's your name?
00:34:18You can call me Vera, if you like.
00:34:20You live in Los Angeles?
00:34:22No.
00:34:24Where you coming from?
00:34:25Oh, back there.
00:34:27Needles?
00:34:27No.
00:34:28Oh, sure.
00:34:30Phoenix.
00:34:31You look just like a Phoenix girl.
00:34:33Are the girls in Phoenix that bad?
00:34:35The girl must have been pretty tired.
00:34:37Because she fell asleep not 20 minutes after she stepped into the car.
00:34:41She lay sprawled out with her head resting against the far door.
00:34:44Like Haskell.
00:34:45I didn't like that part of it much.
00:34:47But I didn't wake her up.
00:34:50It wasn't that this girl still worried me.
00:34:52I'd gotten over that funny feeling I had when she looked at me.
00:34:55Which I put down as just my jangled nerves.
00:34:58With her eyes closed and the testness gone out of her.
00:35:02She seemed harmless enough.
00:35:04And instead of disliking her, I began to feel sorry for her.
00:35:07The poor kid probably had had a rough time a little.
00:35:11Who was she anyway?
00:35:13And why was she going to Los Angeles?
00:35:15And where'd she come from in the first place?
00:35:18The only thing I knew about her was her name.
00:35:20Not that it made any difference.
00:35:22A few hours more and we'd be in Hollywood.
00:35:25I'd forget where I parked the car and look up Sue.
00:35:28This nightmare of being a dead man would be over.
00:35:30Who this dame was?
00:35:32Well, it was no business of mine.
00:35:34Where did you leave his body?
00:35:36Where did you leave the owner of this car?
00:35:38You're not fooling anyone.
00:35:40This buggy belongs to a guy named Haskell.
00:35:42That's not you, mister.
00:35:43You're out of your mind.
00:35:44That's my name, Charles Haskell.
00:35:45I can prove it.
00:35:46It's my driver's license.
00:35:47Take yourself a trouble, mister.
00:35:49Having Haskell's wallet only makes it worse.
00:35:51It just so happens I rode with Charlie Haskell.
00:35:53All the way from Louisiana.
00:35:55He picked me up outside of Shreveport.
00:35:57You rode?
00:35:58You heard me.
00:35:58Then it all came back to me.
00:36:01All the talk about dueling and scars and scratches.
00:36:04There was no doubt about it.
00:36:06Vera must be the woman Haskell had mentioned.
00:36:09She must have passed me while I slept.
00:36:11Well?
00:36:13Well, I'm waiting.
00:36:14My goose was cooked.
00:36:16She had me.
00:36:18That Haskell guy wasn't dead yet.
00:36:20He wasn't stretched out stiff and cold in any Arizona gully.
00:36:23He was sitting right there in the car laughing like mad while he haunted me.
00:36:28Well?
00:36:29There was nothing I could say.
00:36:31It was her move.
00:36:33Vera, whatever her name was, was just my luck picking her up on the road.
00:36:38It couldn't have been Helen or Mary or Evelyn or Ruth.
00:36:42It had to be the very last person I should ever have met.
00:36:44That's life.
00:36:48Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you.
00:36:56I told her everything, but she didn't believe my story.
00:36:58I should have saved my breath.
00:37:00That's the greatest cock and ball story I ever heard.
00:37:03So he fell out of his car.
00:37:04Say, who do you think you're talking to?
00:37:06A hick?
00:37:06Listen, mister.
00:37:07I've been around.
00:37:09And I know a wrong guy when I see one.
00:37:11What'd you do?
00:37:11Kiss him with a wrench?
00:37:12Now, wait a minute.
00:37:13What I told you was true.
00:37:14You see, that's why I had to do it.
00:37:16You think I killed him.
00:37:17Well, the cops would have thought so, too.
00:37:18Yeah, well, maybe they still think so.
00:37:21What makes you so sure I'll shut up about this?
00:37:23Vera, I'm innocent.
00:37:25Give me a break, will you?
00:37:28It won't do me any good having you pinched.
00:37:30The cops are no friends of mine.
00:37:32Now, if there was a reward, but there isn't.
00:37:35Thanks.
00:37:36Don't thank me yet.
00:37:37I'm not through with you by a long shot.
00:37:39Let's see that roll.
00:37:42Is that all Haskell had?
00:37:49Isn't it enough?
00:37:50No, I thought he had more.
00:37:51Not that I know of.
00:37:52You can search me.
00:37:52You think I'm holding out on you.
00:37:53Well, maybe I will at that.
00:37:55He told me he was going to bet $3,000 on a horse named Paradisicle on Wednesday at Santa Anita.
00:38:00He was stringing you along.
00:38:01He meant $300.
00:38:02Maybe.
00:38:02Sure, $3,000.
00:38:03$300.
00:38:04He was a piece of cheese, a big blowhard.
00:38:06Listen, mister.
00:38:06Don't try and tell me anything about Charlie Haskell.
00:38:09Remember, I knew him better than you did.
00:38:11Okay, then you knew he was a four-flusher.
00:38:12That explains the three grand bet.
00:38:13I'm not so sure he didn't have that three grand.
00:38:16Why should I believe you?
00:38:17You got all the earmarks of a cheap crook.
00:38:19Now, wait a minute.
00:38:20Shut up.
00:38:21You're a cheap crook and you killed him.
00:38:23For two cents, I'd change my mind and turn you in.
00:38:25I don't like you.
00:38:26All right, all right.
00:38:27Don't get sore.
00:38:28I'm not getting sore.
00:38:29But just remember who's boss around here.
00:38:31If you shut up and don't give me any arguments, you'll have nothing to worry about.
00:38:34But if you act wise, well, mister, you'll pop into jail so fast it'll give you the bends.
00:38:39I'm not arguing.
00:38:39You see that you don't.
00:38:40You know, as crooked as you look, I'd hate to see a fella as young as you wind up sniffing
00:38:44that perfume that Arizona hands out free to murderers.
00:38:47I'm not a murderer.
00:38:48Of course you're not.
00:38:49Haskell knocked his own head off.
00:38:50He fell.
00:38:51That's how it happened.
00:38:51Just like I told you.
00:38:52Sure.
00:38:52And then he made you a present of his belongings.
00:38:54I explained why I had to do that.
00:38:56It doesn't make a difference one way or another.
00:38:57I'm not a mourner.
00:38:59I liked Haskell even less than I like you.
00:39:01Yeah, I saw what you did to him.
00:39:03What do you mean?
00:39:04Well, scratches on his wrist.
00:39:05Sure, I scratched him.
00:39:07I'll say you did.
00:39:09So your idea was to drive the car a little way, maybe into San Bernardino, and then leave
00:39:14it.
00:39:14You weren't going to sell it?
00:39:16Sell it?
00:39:17You think I'm crazy, somebody else's car?
00:39:19See, all I want to do is leave it somewhere and forget I ever saw it.
00:39:22Not only don't you have any scruples, you don't have any brains.
00:39:24I don't get you.
00:39:26Maybe it's a good thing you met me.
00:39:28You'd have got yourself caught sure.
00:39:29Why, you dope.
00:39:30Don't you know a deserted automobile always rates an investigation?
00:39:34Huh?
00:39:35Look, the cops find a car.
00:39:37Then they get curious.
00:39:38They wonder where the owner is.
00:39:40So all right, they don't trace Haskell.
00:39:42They trace you.
00:39:43I never thought of that.
00:39:45The only safe way to get rid of the car is to sell it to a dealer.
00:39:48Get it registered under a new name.
00:39:50Say, stop at the next door.
00:39:51I want to get a bottle and do some shopping before we hit L.A.
00:39:55Okay.
00:39:55As soon as we find a place, I'll drop you off and pick you up later.
00:39:58Nothing doing.
00:39:59You're coming in too.
00:40:00From now on, you and I are like the Siamese twins.
00:40:03Have it your way.
00:40:04I don't get the point.
00:40:05The point is, I don't want you to get lost.
00:40:07I'm not going to beat it if that's what you're afraid of.
00:40:09I'll say you're not.
00:40:10Well, I'm going to see that you sell this car so you don't get caught.
00:40:13Thanks.
00:40:14Of course, your interest wouldn't be financial, would it?
00:40:17You wouldn't want a small percentage of the profits.
00:40:20Well, now that you insist, how can I refuse?
00:40:23A hundred percent will do.
00:40:24Fine.
00:40:25I'm relieved.
00:40:26I thought for a moment you were going to take it all.
00:40:29I don't want to be a hog.
00:40:31A few hours later, we were in Hollywood.
00:40:34I was recognizing places Sue had written about.
00:40:37It struck me that far from being at the end of the trip,
00:40:40there was a greater distance between Sue and me than when I started out.
00:40:44Vera wasn't kidding with that Siamese twins crack.
00:40:48She rented a little apartment as Mrs. Charles Haskell.
00:40:52When I objected to this, she explained that it was on account of the car.
00:40:55The dealer might think something was funny if he called and found we were using different names.
00:40:59Home, sweet home.
00:41:06Yeah.
00:41:07Not bad either.
00:41:16In case there's any doubt in your mind, I'll take the bedroom.
00:41:19Yeah.
00:41:21Sure is stuffy in here.
00:41:22Keep the window shut.
00:41:32Okay.
00:41:35The old crow downstairs said there's a phone in bed behind this door.
00:41:44You know how to work it?
00:41:49I invented it.
00:41:52Some joint.
00:41:55One can't have everything.
00:42:01I'm first in the bathtub.
00:42:04I don't know why, but I figured you would be.
00:42:17Boy, oh boy.
00:42:18It sure feels good to be clean again.
00:42:20I must be ten pounds lighter.
00:42:24You must be.
00:42:27Well, hitch and rides isn't exactly the way you keep your schoolgirl complexion.
00:42:34I wish that guy with the sacks would give up.
00:42:38It gets on my nerves.
00:42:41Forget it.
00:42:45Have a drink.
00:42:46Aren't you afraid I might take you up on it?
00:42:51I didn't want to give you a drink.
00:42:52I wouldn't have offered it.
00:42:54Why be as sorry, Roberts?
00:42:56You got yourself into this thing.
00:42:59You should be grateful I'm not turning you in.
00:43:02Why, if I wasn't regular, you'd be in the pen this minute,
00:43:04being photographed, fingerprinted, and being pushed around by the cops.
00:43:07So, cheer up.
00:43:09Get rid of that long puss.
00:43:13Or is your conscience bothering you?
00:43:19No.
00:43:21It isn't.
00:43:23Swell.
00:43:23That's the spirit.
00:43:24He's dead.
00:43:27No moment around will bring him back.
00:43:32Anyway, I never could understand this worrying about something that's over and done with.
00:43:35Now, look, Vera, for the last time, I didn't kill him.
00:43:37Haskell was a sick man.
00:43:39Maybe he was dead before he fell out of the car.
00:43:40I don't know.
00:43:41Sure, sure.
00:43:42He died of old age.
00:43:44All right.
00:43:46So if it'll make you sociable,
00:43:49you didn't kill him.
00:43:54Thanks.
00:44:13We're out of liquor, Roberts.
00:44:15Yeah.
00:44:17Too bad.
00:44:18I felt like getting tight tonight.
00:44:20Well, I think he succeeded.
00:44:22Am I tight?
00:44:23That's a prima donna's corset.
00:44:25That's good.
00:44:27I wanted to get tight.
00:44:29Why?
00:44:29What have you got to get tight about?
00:44:31Oh, I don't know.
00:44:33A few things.
00:44:35Huh.
00:44:37You should have my worries.
00:44:39If I had your troubles, I'd stay sober.
00:44:41And I've got the key to that door.
00:44:46Yeah.
00:44:48Maybe you're right.
00:44:49I'm always right.
00:44:50You know, I don't like your attitude, Roberts.
00:44:55Well, there's a lot of things I don't like.
00:44:58Sure.
00:45:02But life's like a ball game.
00:45:04You've got to take a swing at whatever comes along
00:45:06before you wake up and find it's a ninth inning.
00:45:09You read that some.
00:45:10That's such a true, Roberts.
00:45:11All you do is bellyache.
00:45:14Big and easy and
00:45:15we're trying to make the better things.
00:45:18Maybe that's what's wrong with the whole world.
00:45:21Get the professor.
00:45:22People knock themselves out trying to buck fate.
00:45:25Now, take you for instance.
00:45:26You're lucky to be alive.
00:45:28Why, suppose Haskell had opened your door.
00:45:30You'd be playing a harp now.
00:45:32Think of that.
00:45:33You think of it.
00:45:36I'm tired of thinking.
00:45:38There's plenty of people dying this minute.
00:45:41I would give anything to trade places with you.
00:45:45I know what I'm talking about.
00:45:48I'm not so sure.
00:45:50At least they know they're done for.
00:45:52They don't have to sweat blood wondering if they are.
00:45:54Your philosophy stinks, pal.
00:45:59We all know we're going to kick off someday.
00:46:02It's only a question of when.
00:46:05But what got us on this subject anyway?
00:46:08We'll be discussing politics next.
00:46:10Yeah.
00:46:13Where'd you hide the butts?
00:46:15On the table, sucker.
00:46:17Okay.
00:46:24We bored each other with conversation for a couple of hours longer.
00:46:28Every five minutes, one of us was wishing we had another bottle or a radio or something to read.
00:46:35Then finally, we ran out of chatter.
00:46:37I know it's only 11 o'clock, but I want to get up early and make the rounds of the used car lots.
00:46:41Don't worry about that.
00:46:43We've got all the time in the world.
00:46:44Maybe you have, but if you think I want to stay cooped up in this place any longer than I have to, you're batty.
00:46:48It's not a bad place.
00:46:50We pay plenty for diggings like this in New York.
00:46:52I wouldn't like it if it was the Ritz.
00:46:54I don't want to see anybody die.
00:47:24Not even me.
00:47:26Especially not you.
00:47:27One person died of me.
00:47:29If you did, well, that's all I need.
00:47:33You don't like me, do you, Roberts?
00:47:37I like you.
00:47:39I love you.
00:47:42My favorite sport is being kept prisoner.
00:47:45After we sell the car, you can go to Blazers for all I care.
00:47:47But not until then.
00:47:56I'm going to bed.
00:48:06Good night, Roberts.
00:48:07Don't try and sneak away during the night.
00:48:09All the doors are locked.
00:48:10Anyway, if I find you gone in the morning, I'll notify the police.
00:48:14They'll pick you up.
00:48:15Don't worry.
00:48:15I know when I'm in a spot.
00:48:18Well, good night.
00:48:19I hope that portable rack isn't too uncomfortable for you.
00:48:22Don't lose any sleep over it.
00:48:23Will you, sir?
00:48:23I'm going to bed.
00:48:37Oh, my God.
00:48:43Oh, my God.
00:48:45Oh, my God.
00:48:46Oh, my God.
00:48:49Oh, my God.
00:48:53Crestview, six, five, seven, two, three.
00:49:14Hello?
00:49:16Hello?
00:49:18Hello?
00:49:21Hello?
00:49:23Hello?
00:49:28No.
00:49:30Not yet, darling.
00:49:33Tomorrow.
00:49:35Maybe.
00:49:40If this were fiction, I would fall in love with Vera, marry her and make a respectable woman of her, or else she'd make some supreme class A sacrifice for me and die.
00:49:51Sue and I would bawl a little over her grave and make some crack about there's good in all of us.
00:49:57But Vera, unfortunately, was just as rotten in the morning as she'd been the night before.
00:50:02All right, all right, I'm coming.
00:50:06Look, Vera, it's almost noon.
00:50:09So what? The dealers will be there all day?
00:50:11They'll be there all year, too, but they don't have to wait that long.
00:50:14Shut up. You make us like a husband.
00:50:19Well, do I rate a whistle?
00:50:20You sure do, but let's go.
00:50:22Let's go, let's go. I spent 85 bucks in two hours preparing bait, and all you can say is let's go.
00:50:29Come on.
00:50:30We've had a few used car lots last night down this way.
00:50:38What do you think we can get for this heap?
00:50:40I don't know. Plenty. He's let me handle everything.
00:50:43Think we can get $2,000?
00:50:45I don't know, but don't worry. I'll squeeze as much out of this guy as I can.
00:50:49If I let it go cheap without a fight, he might think we've stolen the car.
00:50:52And listen, don't make any slips and call me Roberts. That'll cook us.
00:50:56I don't need you to tell me that.
00:50:58You better just sit by and keep your mouth closed.
00:51:01Remember, we're both in the soup if anything happens.
00:51:03Forget it and drive.
00:51:04You're my wife, Vera Haskell.
00:51:07Look, after the deal's closed, let's go back to that place on Hollywood Boulevard,
00:51:11where I saw the fur jacket. I want to buy it.
00:51:14After the deal's closed, I'm saying goodbye to you.
00:51:17That's right, I forgot. I guess I'm getting kind of used to you.
00:51:21Well, that's a habit you can start breaking.
00:51:24Let's try this place in the middle of the block.
00:51:26Good afternoon. What can I do for you?
00:51:33We're interested in selling a car.
00:51:34If the price is right.
00:51:37Well, if it's in good mechanical condition, it should blue book for about $1,600.
00:51:44Tony, take a look at this motor.
00:51:47$1,600. Are you kidding?
00:51:56Well, maybe $1,600.
00:51:57Before I let it go for $1,600.
00:51:58Before I let it go for $1,600.
00:51:59Before I let it go for $1,600, I'll wreck it and collect the insurance first.
00:52:02Andy, this motor's seen a lot of driving.
00:52:03While the mechanic inspected the car, we haggled.
00:52:05At last, when we were all worn out, we hit a compromise.
00:52:08His price.
00:52:09Okay, it's a deal.
00:52:10All right, come on, we'll sign the papers.
00:52:11I have the ownership papers right here with me.
00:52:12Look, Vera, in the meantime, will you clean a dash compartment?
00:52:13There may be some stuff in it.
00:52:14All right.
00:52:15There may be some stuff in it.
00:52:16All right, darling.
00:52:17$1,600.
00:52:18$1,600.
00:52:19$1,600.
00:52:20$1,600.
00:52:21$1,600.
00:52:22$1,600.
00:52:23$1,600.
00:52:24$1,600.
00:52:25$1,600.
00:52:26$1,600.
00:52:27$1,600.
00:52:28$1,600.
00:52:29$1,600.
00:52:30$1,600.
00:52:31$1,600.
00:52:32All right, come on, we'll sign the papers.
00:52:33I have the ownership papers right here with me.
00:52:35Look, Vera, in the meantime, will you clean a dash compartment?
00:52:38There may be some stuff in it.
00:52:39All right, darling.
00:52:43$1,600.
00:52:44$250.
00:52:45That dirty cro...
00:52:54In New York, huh?
00:52:55Yeah.
00:52:56But you bought the car in Miami.
00:52:58Yeah.
00:52:59Well, now, let's see about the insurance.
00:53:01We can either have it transferred or canceled.
00:53:03Uh, what kind of insurance do you have, Mr. Haskell?
00:53:06Well, uh, aren't all the papers there?
00:53:12I don't see any.
00:53:13Surely you know what type of insurance you carry in the car.
00:53:16The name of the company?
00:53:18Yeah, but, uh...
00:53:20Well, if you'll just tell me the name of the company, I'd be very glad to take care of all the details.
00:53:23Well...
00:53:24Did you sign the papers yet?
00:53:26Not yet.
00:53:27Well, don't.
00:53:28We're not selling the car.
00:53:29Well, wait a minute, Mrs. Haskell.
00:53:30Come on, darling.
00:53:31What's the matter?
00:53:32Did you change your mind?
00:53:33Yes, I'm sorry.
00:53:34I guess I have.
00:53:35But, Vera...
00:53:36Let's go.
00:53:42You got me out of a tight spot, Vera.
00:53:44But I still don't understand all this.
00:53:45You will in a minute.
00:53:46I almost threw away a gold mine.
00:53:481850 isn't to be sneezed there.
00:53:50The car doesn't book for as much as I thought.
00:53:52We're not selling the car.
00:53:53You want to keep it?
00:53:55Now, wait a minute, Vera.
00:53:56You said yourself I wouldn't be safe until the car was in someone else's name.
00:53:59I'd like to be free of this mess when I go.
00:54:01That's just it, Roberts.
00:54:02You're not going.
00:54:03There's a drive-in at the next corner.
00:54:06Pull in there and we'll get a bite to eat.
00:54:07And I'll explain.
00:54:08What is this?
00:54:09Another one of your brilliant ideas?
00:54:17Hello.
00:54:18Can I take your order?
00:54:19Make mine a ham sandwich and coffee.
00:54:20And for you, sir?
00:54:21Oh, I don't care.
00:54:22The same.
00:54:31Get this, Vera.
00:54:32I've been pretty patient so far.
00:54:34I've done everything you asked me to do, but no more.
00:54:36Shut up.
00:54:37You've taken Haskell's money.
00:54:38And you can have the doorway get from selling the car.
00:54:40But you're not going to keep me a prisoner.
00:54:41It's a good thing I bought the paper.
00:54:43Take a look at that.
00:54:44Vera, I'm in no mood.
00:54:45Read that.
00:54:56No.
00:54:57Yes.
00:54:58No, I won't do it.
00:54:59Yes, you will.
00:55:00You think I'm crazy?
00:55:01It's impossible, I tell you.
00:55:02Excuse me.
00:55:09Blow the horn when you're through.
00:55:14No one could possibly get away with an act like that.
00:55:16It'd be wise to me in a minute.
00:55:17Don't be yellow.
00:55:18You look enough like him.
00:55:19The same coloring and the same build.
00:55:21See how his clothes fit you?
00:55:22No kidding.
00:55:23You almost had me fooled for a while.
00:55:24Oh, grow up, Vera.
00:55:25Don't you think a father knows his own son?
00:55:27And there must be other relatives.
00:55:28So a father won't have to know you.
00:55:30We'll wait till he gives up the ghost.
00:55:31He's an old geezer and he won't pull through.
00:55:33And as far as other relatives are concerned,
00:55:35they haven't seen you in 15 or 20 years.
00:55:37Eat.
00:55:38I'm not hungry.
00:55:39And I won't do it.
00:55:40It's not as tough as it sounds.
00:55:41Remember, you've got all kinds of identification.
00:55:42His car, letters, license.
00:55:43I could never get away with it.
00:55:44It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
00:55:45The old boy has scads of dough.
00:55:46Look in the paper there.
00:55:47Personal fortune assessed at over 15 million.
00:55:48He'll leave plenty, I tell you.
00:55:49Maybe he'd cut off his son.
00:55:50How do we know?
00:55:51It's out, Vera.
00:55:52I won't have anything to do with it.
00:55:53I think you will.
00:55:54Look, Vera.
00:55:55I'll do anything within reason.
00:55:56But not that.
00:55:57So forget it.
00:55:58Find yourself another stooge.
00:55:59You sap.
00:56:00You'll be fixed for the rest of your life as Charlie Haskell.
00:56:02You can take your inheritance and go away.
00:56:03No more worrying about the rent.
00:56:04No sweat.
00:56:05No sweat.
00:56:06No sweat.
00:56:07No sweat.
00:56:08No sweat.
00:56:09No sweat.
00:56:10No sweat.
00:56:11No sweat.
00:56:12No sweat.
00:56:13No sweat.
00:56:14No sweat.
00:56:15No sweat.
00:56:16No sweat.
00:56:17Think about that, Roberts.
00:56:18Vera.
00:56:19Please.
00:56:20You're talking too loud.
00:56:21Unless I'm splitting 50-50 with you.
00:56:22Sure.
00:56:23Why not?
00:56:24We're both alike.
00:56:25Both born in the same gutter.
00:56:26Take it easy, Vera.
00:56:27There's people around here.
00:56:28You don't know what you're talking about.
00:56:29Well, wait till we read that old man Haskell's dead.
00:56:31And you show up.
00:56:32Like you read in New York that he was sick.
00:56:34No.
00:56:35Suppose he doesn't die.
00:56:36He will.
00:56:37I know he will.
00:56:38Something tells me.
00:56:39I know he will.
00:56:40Something tells me.
00:56:42I know he will.
00:56:43I know he will.
00:56:44Something tells me.
00:56:45But as much as I insisted I would have no part of her scheme.
00:56:50Vera was taking it for granted I would.
00:56:52Neither of us had our mind on the cards as we played that night.
00:56:57I knew we were just trying to kill time between newspaper editions.
00:57:01This was a death watch for Vera.
00:57:04Maybe it was for me too.
00:57:06Don't you realize if I'm caught.
00:57:08They want to know where I got the car and stuff.
00:57:10And they'll have me on a murder charge.
00:57:11If you're smart you won't get caught.
00:57:14I knocked with seven.
00:57:15And if I'm caught don't you realize you'll be out too.
00:57:18Eighteen points.
00:57:19That gives me thirty.
00:57:22How will I be out?
00:57:23You'll be out eighteen hundred and fifty dollars we would have gotten on the car.
00:57:26Really Vera you'd be an awful chump.
00:57:27He threw away all that dough and a dizzy long shot.
00:57:29Let me sell the bus tomorrow.
00:57:30With the money it'll bring and what you've already got a clever kid like you can run it up in no time.
00:57:34Then we'd both be in the clear.
00:57:35I'll be in the clear anyway.
00:57:37Maybe.
00:57:38Maybe.
00:57:39But if I got caught.
00:57:41I'd get good and sore at you you know.
00:57:43You mean you'd squeal?
00:57:44Oh no not squeal exactly.
00:57:45Never mind what you meant.
00:57:47Even if you did tell the cops I was in on it with you.
00:57:51What could they do to me?
00:57:53They might give me the same medicine they gave you.
00:57:56Yeah.
00:57:57A rope.
00:57:58But I'm on my way anyhow.
00:58:04All they'll be doing will be rushing it.
00:58:06All right.
00:58:07But think of the eighteen fifty you'd lose.
00:58:09You'd kick yourself along the block and let it get away from you.
00:58:11I'll take the chance.
00:58:13Want another drink?
00:58:14You're being a goon.
00:58:15That's the way people wind up behind the eight ball.
00:58:17Once they get a few dollars they become greedy and want more.
00:58:20My, my.
00:58:21Caesar.
00:58:22Who?
00:58:23You know that Roman general?
00:58:24He got his for being greedy.
00:58:25He wasn't satisfied so the final wind up was he took the count.
00:58:28A couple of days ago you didn't have a dime.
00:58:31Why you were so broke you couldn't pay cash for a postage stamp.
00:58:34Now you've got almost seven hundred dollars.
00:58:36With eighteen fifty in the offing.
00:58:37Take my advice.
00:58:38Don't try for more.
00:58:39I'm tired of this game.
00:58:40Let's have some blackjack.
00:58:41Play solitaire.
00:58:42Okay I will if that's the way you feel about it.
00:58:44That's the way I feel about it.
00:58:45Getting sore and throwing things won't help much Roberts.
00:58:47I'm really doing you a favor.
00:58:49I help you out of the jam by keeping my mouth shut.
00:58:51I show you how to make some soft money.
00:58:52And what thanks do I get?
00:58:54Thanks.
00:58:55Sure.
00:58:56I would rather call the cops and tell them you killed a man and stole his money.
00:58:58I didn't tell anybody.
00:58:59Yes you did.
00:59:00No I didn't.
00:59:01You know I didn't.
00:59:02Alright then.
00:59:04Suppose I call the cops.
00:59:06If you're innocent what do you got to be scared of?
00:59:09Okay.
00:59:10Call them your mutt.
00:59:11Go ahead and call them.
00:59:12See if I care.
00:59:13At least they'll give me a square deal.
00:59:15You want me to call them?
00:59:16You heard me.
00:59:17But I'm warning you.
00:59:18If I'm pinched I'll swear you were in on it.
00:59:20I'll say that you helped me.
00:59:21If I fry I'll get even with you.
00:59:23You wouldn't dare.
00:59:24You did.
00:59:25Yeah.
00:59:26Then try it and see.
00:59:27Call them.
00:59:28Yeah.
00:59:29Okay I will.
00:59:44Information?
00:59:45I want the number of the Hollywood police station.
00:59:51Okay I got it.
00:59:52Thanks.
00:59:56Wait a minute Vera.
00:59:57You wouldn't do that.
00:59:58You wouldn't do that and I'll show you if I wouldn't.
00:59:59Take it easy now.
01:00:00Let's talk this over.
01:00:01This was early in the evening and the conversation while hectic was at least pitched low.
01:00:06But as the minutes passed and more obstacles to her plan popped into my head the air got blue.
01:00:13Each word coming from our lips cracked like a whip.
01:00:16I reminded her that as Charles Haskell I didn't even know my mother's name.
01:00:20Where I'd gone to school.
01:00:22The name of my best friend.
01:00:24Whether I had an Aunt Emma or not.
01:00:26My religion.
01:00:27And if I'd ever owned a dog.
01:00:29I didn't even know what my middle initial stood for.
01:00:31I also pointed out that the real Haskell had a scar on his forearm.
01:00:35His people never saw that scar.
01:00:38He told me he ran away right after putting out the kid's eye.
01:00:40Yeah but his father knew he was cut.
01:00:42It had to be some kind of a mark.
01:00:43So what?
01:00:45The old man's dead or will be.
01:00:47I hope by tomorrow morning's papers.
01:00:49Anyway.
01:00:50You could cut yourself a little couldn't you?
01:00:54Boy for that kind of dough I'd let you cut my leg off.
01:00:57You're drunk and you're crazy mad Vera.
01:00:59Turn him in if you want to.
01:01:00But I won't get mixed up in this.
01:01:01Besides how do we know Haskell was such a phony.
01:01:03Maybe he wasn't the man's son at all.
01:01:04Maybe he just dreamed it up.
01:01:05Well dream it or not.
01:01:07You won't be dreaming when the law attacks you on the shoulder.
01:01:11There's a cute little gas chamber waiting for you Roberts.
01:01:14And I hear extradition to Arizona's Ascension.
01:01:18Where's that phone?
01:01:20Vera.
01:01:21Leave me alone.
01:01:22Vera.
01:01:23I want a phone call police.
01:01:25I hate you.
01:01:27You're a stinker you.
01:01:29Leave me alone.
01:01:30I'll let you alone when you promise to leave the phone where it is.
01:01:32You're drunk you don't know what you're doing.
01:01:33You're hurting me.
01:01:34Will you promise?
01:01:36All right.
01:01:42You hurt me.
01:01:44I'm sorry but.
01:01:45It's hot in here.
01:01:46Open up the window.
01:01:47It's not hot.
01:01:48Don't tell me.
01:01:49Now do you do it or do I do it.
01:01:53You're no gentleman see.
01:01:54You hurt my hand.
01:01:55And I'm gonna get even with you.
01:01:56If you don't open the door I'm gonna kick it down Vera.
01:01:57Vera.
01:01:58Vera.
01:01:59Don't call the cops.
01:02:00Listen to me.
01:02:01I'll do anything you say.
01:02:02I'll open up the window.
01:02:04Vera.
01:02:05Vera.
01:02:06Open the door.
01:02:07Please open the door.
01:02:08Vera.
01:02:09Open the door.
01:02:10Don't use the phone.
01:02:11Listen to me.
01:02:12I'll do anything you say.
01:02:13Vera.
01:02:14Let me in.
01:02:15I'll break the phone.
01:02:17I'll break the phone.
01:02:47the world is full of skeptics I know I want myself in the Haskell business how
01:03:17many of you would believe he fell out of the car and now after killing Vera without really
01:03:21meaning to do it how many of you would believe it wasn't premeditated in a jury
01:03:26room every last man of you would go down shouting that she had me over a barrel and
01:03:30my only out was force the room was still so quiet that for a while I wondered if
01:03:38I'd suddenly gone deaf it was pure fear of course and I was hysterical but without
01:03:44making a sound Vera was dead and that was her murderer what an awful word that is
01:03:53but I'd become one I'd better not get caught what evidence there was around
01:03:59the place had to be destroyed and from the looks of things there was plenty
01:04:02looking around the room at things we'd bought was like looking into the faces of
01:04:05a hundred people who'd seen us together and who remembered me this was the kind
01:04:09of testimony I couldn't rub out no I could burn clothes and hide bottles for the
01:04:15next five years there'd always be witnesses the landlady for one she could
01:04:20identify me the car dealer the waitress in the drive-in the girl in the dress shop
01:04:23and that guy in the liquor store it could all identify me I was cooked done for I had to
01:04:30get out of there while once I'd remain beside a dead body planning carefully how to
01:04:36avoid being accused of killing him this time I couldn't this time I was guilty
01:04:41knew it felt it I was like a guy suffering from shock things were whirling around in
01:04:50my head I couldn't make myself think right all I could think of was the guy with
01:04:55the saxophone and what he was playing it wasn't a love song it was a dirge
01:05:06the man who was playing it and my daughter was playing it so it was a
01:05:26big deal so I was like I was like oh hey you know what I did the guy with the
01:05:32but my problems weren't solved i had to stay away from new york for all time because al roberts
01:05:57was listed as dead and had to stay dead and i could never go back to hollywood someone might
01:06:03recognize me as haskell then too there was sue i could never go to her with a thing like this
01:06:12hanging over my head all i could do was pray she'd be happy
01:06:27i was in bakersfield before i read that vera's body was discovered
01:06:33that the police were looking for haskell in connection with his wife's murder
01:06:38isn't that a laugh haskell got me into this mess and haskell was getting me out of it
01:06:44the police were searching for a dead man
01:06:50i keep trying to forget what happened
01:06:52and wonder what my life might have been if that car of haskell's hadn't stopped
01:07:00but one thing i don't have to wonder about
01:07:03i know
01:07:06someday a car will stop to pick me up that i never thumbed
01:07:09yes fate or some mysterious force can put the finger on you or me for no good reason at all
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