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Detour 1945-Sd
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00:01:00Well, here we are.
00:01:25I turned down here at the next block.
00:01:27Thanks, mister.
00:01:28I'll get off there.
00:01:30Here.
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00:01:40Now.
00:01:40Now.
00:01:40Now go out and go out.
00:01:47Now let me know and play the guitar again.
00:01:47I thought if he was heading north, I might be able to help you out.
00:01:52I'm pushing the Salt Lake, and I don't like to ride alone at night.
00:01:55I'm one of those guys who got a talker, I fall asleep.
00:01:58Oh, sure, not much.
00:02:00Pardon me, he's got Lou to keep him company, but I ain't got nobody at all.
00:02:04Where you coming from?
00:02:06West.
00:02:07Yeah, sure, I know, but where, L.A.?
00:02:09Maybe.
00:02:10I got a cousin out in L.A.
00:02:12You don't say.
00:02:13Yeah, he's been out...
00:02:15You're not much of a talker, are you?
00:02:17My mother taught me never to speak to strangers.
00:02:19Oh, wise guy.
00:02:20So what?
00:02:21Okay, okay, don't get sore.
00:02:23He's trying to be sociable, that's all.
00:02:26Hey, Glamorous.
00:02:28Change 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?
00:02:44No, I'm not.
00:02:47Done with your coffee?
00:02:48No.
00:02:49And don't rush me, will you?
00:02:58Hey, turn that off.
00:02:59Will you turn that thing off?
00:03:00What's eating you now?
00:03:01Yeah, what's eating you?
00:03:02That music, it stinks.
00:03:03Oh, you don't like it, huh?
00:03:04No, turn it off.
00:03:05Now, wait a minute, pal.
00:03:06That was my nickel, see?
00:03:07This is a free country.
00:03:09And I play whatever I want to.
00:03:11Okay.
00:03:12Sure, and if you don't like it, you don't have to listen to it.
00:03:15And you can leave here any time you want it.
00:03:17Okay, okay, I'm sorry I asked.
00:03:19First good piece play tonight and you don't like it.
00:03:21Some people just ain't got any good taste.
00:03:23That tune.
00:03:24That tune.
00:03:25That tune.
00:03:26Why was there always that rotten tune?
00:03:27Following me around, beating in my head, never letting up.
00:03:29Did you ever want to forget anything?
00:03:30Did you ever want to cut away a piece of your memory or blot it out?
00:03:32You can't, you know.
00:03:33No matter how hard you try.
00:03:34You can change the scenery.
00:03:35You can change your home, run around.
00:03:44But you don't want to be a monster.
00:03:49Do you ever want to give you a secret, you know.
00:03:51No matter how hard you try.
00:03:52What can I do?
00:03:53What do you mean it?
00:03:54What can I do?
00:03:55What can I do?
00:03:56Try. You 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.
00:04:11I used to love that song once.
00:04:13So did the customers back in the old Break of Dawn Club in New York.
00:04:16I can't remember a night when I didn't get at least three requests for it.
00:04:20Sue, she was always selling it, too.
00:04:24Those were the days.
00:04:26Your 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.
00:05:02You're telling everyone you know
00:05:06that I'm on your mind each place you go.
00:05:09They 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
00:05:30to think that I'm the lucky one.
00:05:33I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:05:36I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:05:37I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:05:43I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:05:44It wasn't much of a club, really.
00:05:46You know the kind.
00:05:48A joint where you could have a sandwich and a few drinks
00:05:50and run interference for your girl on the dance floor.
00:05:52I pounded the piano in there every night from 8 until the place closed up,
00:05:59which usually meant 4 in the morning.
00:06:01A good job was jobs went in those days.
00:06:04Then, too, there was Sue who made working there a little like working in heaven.
00:06:11But 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.
00:06:21And when you add those two together, you get an ordinary, healthy romance,
00:06:24which is the old story.
00:06:26Sure.
00:06:27But somehow, the most wonderful thing in the world.
00:06:31All in all, I was the most wonderful thing in the world.
00:06:40All in all, I was a pretty lucky guy.
00:06:55Mr. 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, but you mustn't give up hope.
00:07:08Why, someday.
00:07:09Yeah, someday.
00:07:10If I don't get arthritis first.
00:07:11In the meantime, let's blow this trap.
00:07:13Like to get something to eat, hon?
00:07:14Oh, I don't think so, Al.
00:07:15I lose my appetite working in this flea bag.
00:07:16Let's go home.
00:07:17Okay.
00:07:18I can't stand much more of that dump.
00:07:22Did you see that drunk tonight trying to paw me?
00:07:23No.
00:07:24What drunk?
00:07:25Does it matter what drunk?
00:07:26Does it matter what drunk?
00:07:27Say, what's the matter with you tonight, darling?
00:07:28That's the third time you started to tell me.
00:07:29I don't know.
00:07:30I don't know.
00:07:31I don't know.
00:07:32I don't know.
00:07:33I don't know.
00:07:34I don't know.
00:07:35I don't know.
00:07:36I don't know.
00:07:37I don't know.
00:07:38I don't know.
00:07:39I don't know.
00:07:40I don't know.
00:07:41I can't stand much more of that dump.
00:07:44Did you see that drunk tonight trying to paw me?
00:07:47No.
00:07:48What drunk?
00:07:49Does it matter what drunk?
00:07:51Say, what's the matter with you tonight, darling?
00:07:54That's the third time you started to tell me something and then stopped.
00:07:57We shouldn't have any secrets from each other, Sue.
00:08:00Next week, we're going to make with the ring and the license.
00:08:02You and me will be a team.
00:08:03Yes, that's right.
00:08:04In the Bush League.
00:08:06I don't get you.
00:08:07We've been struck out.
00:08:09That's a funny way to talk, darling.
00:08:12Don't you want to marry me?
00:08:13Al, look.
00:08:14I love you.
00:08:15You know I do.
00:08:16And I want to marry you.
00:08:17But?
00:08:18But not now.
00:08:19Only after we've made good.
00:08:21Sunday, I'm going away.
00:08:24I know you'll think it's silly.
00:08:26That's why I hesitated to tell you.
00:08:28But I'm going to California.
00:08:30I want to try my luck in Hollywood.
00:08:32That's the most stupid thing I ever heard of.
00:08:35Don't you know millions of people go out there every year
00:08:37and 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.
00:08:43I'll make out all right.
00:08:44Maybe.
00:08:45But what about me?
00:08:46Doesn't it mean anything to you that you're busting up all our plans?
00:08:49We may not see each other for years.
00:08:50It won't be that long.
00:08:52I thought you loved me.
00:08:54I do.
00:08:55You know I do.
00:08:58Well, here we are.
00:09:03Al.
00:09:05Al, 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.
00:09:14Really, darling.
00:09:16What I'm doing is the only sane thing to do.
00:09:19I hate the thought of being so far away from you, but we'll be together again someday.
00:09:26Maybe you'll decide to come out too later on.
00:09:30So long.
00:09:31Al.
00:09:32Aren't you going to kiss me good night?
00:09:35Sure.
00:09:36Why not?
00:09:37Good night.
00:09:38Good night.
00:11:38So 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...
00:11:50Then I thought of something.
00:11:54I'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.
00:12:35The number is Crestview 65723.
00:12:40The number is Crestview 65723.
00:12:57Hello, Sue.
00:12:58This is Al.
00:13:00Oh, baby, it's great to hear from you, too.
00:13:02What's that?
00:13:03You 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 when 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, let'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.
00:13:54The 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.
00:14:07You 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, commit crimes for, die for.
00:14:19It's the stuff that has caused more trouble in the world than 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.
00:14:27So it was me for the thumb.
00:14:29Ever done any hitchhiking?
00:14:48It's not much fun, believe me.
00:14:50Oh yeah, I know all about how it's an education, how you get to meet a lot of people and all that.
00:14:56But me, from now on, I'll take my education in college.
00:15:00Or in P.S. 62, or I'll send a dollar ninety-eight in stamps for ten easy lessons.
00:15:04Thumbing rides may save your bus fare, but it's dangerous.
00:15:19You never know what's in store for you when you hear the squeal of brakes.
00:15:23If only I had known what I was getting into that day in Arizona.
00:15:29Here, throw that in the back seat.
00:15:31Okay, let's go.
00:15:35Make sure that door is closed.
00:15:50You 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.
00:15:57We rode along for a little while, neither one of us saying anything.
00:16:02I was glad of that.
00:16:04I never know what to say to strange people driving cars.
00:16:08And two, you can never tell if a guy wants to talk.
00:16:11A lot of rides have been cut short because of a big mouth.
00:16:15So I kept my mouth shut until he started opening up.
00:16:20Hand me that little box in the compartment, will you, pal?
00:16:22Hold the wheel, will you?
00:16:39How far are you going?
00:16:40L.A.
00:16:41Well, you're really traveling, aren't you?
00:16:43Yeah, but I don't expect to make it for a couple of years at the rate I've been promoting rides.
00:16:47Not much luck, huh?
00:16:48Sure, all bad.
00:16:50Not many people stop for a guy these days.
00:16:52Afraid of a stick-up, maybe.
00:16:54Well, they can't blame him.
00:16:56Where are you coming from?
00:16:57New York.
00:16:58Well, New York.
00:17:00You're in luck this time.
00:17:02I'm going all the way.
00:17:04Right through to Los Angeles.
00:17:06You drive a car?
00:17:08Sure.
00:17:08Whenever you're tired, let me know.
00:17:10I'll holler.
00:17:13I guess at least an hour passed before I noticed those deep scratches in his right hand.
00:17:18They were wicked.
00:17:19Three puffy red lines about a quarter of an inch apart.
00:17:23He must have seen me looking at them because he said...
00:17:26Beauties, aren't they?
00:17:28They're going to be scars someday.
00:17:32What an animal.
00:17:34Whatever it was, it must have been pretty big and vicious to have done that.
00:17:36Right on both counts, New York.
00:17:39I was tussling with the most dangerous animal in the world.
00:17:42A woman.
00:17:44She must have been Tarzan's mate.
00:17:46Looks like you lost the bob.
00:17:47It certainly wasn't a draw.
00:17:50You know, there ought to be a law against dames with claws.
00:17:53Yeah.
00:17:53I tossed her out of the car in her ear.
00:17:57Was I wrong?
00:17:58Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't you?
00:18:01Yeah.
00:18:02After all, what kind of dame some rides?
00:18:05Sunday school teachers?
00:18:06Yeah.
00:18:08A little witch.
00:18:10She must have thought she was riding with some fall guy.
00:18:14A me who's been booking horses around race tracks since I was 20.
00:18:16I've known a million dames like her.
00:18:20Two million?
00:18:21Yeah.
00:18:24Stopped the car, opened the door.
00:18:27Take it on the art of Duffy's sister, I told her.
00:18:29That's the stuff.
00:18:30It's always done, huh?
00:18:31Well, if you want to see a real scar, brother, get a load of this.
00:18:38Wow.
00:18:39I got that one dueling.
00:18:41Dueling?
00:18:43Yeah, we're just kidding, of course.
00:18:44My dad owned a couple of Franco-Prussian sabers.
00:18:47Kept them on the wall for decorations.
00:18:50Well, one day, the other kid and I took them down.
00:18:52The old man wasn't around.
00:18:53Had a duel.
00:18:56He got me in the arm here.
00:18:58Pretty mean cut.
00:18:59Infection sat in later.
00:19:01Yeah, I can see that.
00:19:03Now, give me that box again, will they?
00:19:05Yeah.
00:19:18Pain made me lose my head, I guess.
00:19:20I began slashing.
00:19:22Before I knew it, I'd put the other kid's eye out.
00:19:25That was tough.
00:19:27Well, it was just an accident, of course.
00:19:28Do you know how kids are?
00:19:30I get scared, decide I was going to run away from home.
00:19:33The old man almost caught me when I was packing my duds.
00:19:37The bloody rag I had wrapped around my wrist hadn't caught his attention.
00:19:41You've seen the bundle for sure.
00:19:43But I beat it when he was phoning for a doctor.
00:19:45I was 15, 16 years ago.
00:19:49I haven't been home since.
00:19:55Pull in there for a bite or something, huh?
00:19:57A bite or something.
00:19:59Brother, was I hungry?
00:20:01I hadn't had anything in my stomach for hours.
00:20:02Yet, even with that gnawing in the pit of my belly, I didn't want to be in too big a rush to put on the feedback.
00:20:09First, I had to make sure this guy knew the score.
00:20:12If I got him down on me, I'd buy a ticket to Hollywood.
00:20:15I'll wait out here for you, mister.
00:20:18If it's the money, don't worry about paying for it.
00:20:20This time it's on me.
00:20:21Well, that's why, sir.
00:20:22Haskell, think nothing of it.
00:20:23You make your first million, maybe you can do the same for me.
00:20:25Come on, New York.
00:20:26I gotta make the West Coast by Wednesday.
00:20:28There's a horse running at Santa Anita named Powered Bicycle.
00:20:31It means the ought to me if I'm on him.
00:20:32We'll make it, all right.
00:20:33He did most of the talking during the half hour we were in the place.
00:20:38I ate.
00:20:40He rambled on about his old man, whom he hadn't heard from since he ran away as a kid.
00:20:45Now he happened to become a bookie.
00:20:47And then all about how he got rooked in Miami.
00:20:49One race, 38 grand.
00:20:51They cleaned out my book.
00:20:52How do you like that?
00:20:54That was tough luck.
00:20:55Yeah, and I'm supposed to be the smart guy.
00:20:57Will you just wait?
00:20:57I'm going back to Florida next season with all kinds of jack.
00:21:00And you'll watch those stinkers run for cover.
00:21:03You want anything else?
00:21:04No, thanks.
00:21:04I've had plenty.
00:21:11Let's check there, sister.
00:21:16Oh, just a miniature change, sir.
00:21:18Keep it, sister.
00:21:19Oh, thank you, sir.
00:21:20Call again.
00:21:21I'll be waiting outside for you when you finish work.
00:21:24Sharp check, huh?
00:21:33I drove all that night while Haskell slept like a log.
00:21:37After a while, I began to get sleepy myself.
00:21:39I was happy, though.
00:21:43Soon I'd be with Sue again.
00:21:45The long trip was practically over, and I'd be no more hoofing it down the concrete.
00:21:50I began to think of the future, which couldn't have been brighter if I'd embroidered it with neon lights.
00:21:56It 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 are blue, your kisses, too.
00:22:12I never knew what they could do.
00:22:16I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:22:21You're telling everyone you know I'm on your mind each place you go.
00:22:33I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:22:51Mr. Haskell, Mr. Haskell, wake up.
00:23:03It's raining.
00:23:04Don't you think we ought to stop and put up the top?
00:23:15Mr. Haskell, I'm going to put up the top.
00:23:21Until then, I had done things my way.
00:23:34But from then on, something else stepped in and shunted me off to a different destination than the one I had picked for myself.
00:23:40The one I pulled open that door.
00:23:46Mr. Haskell, what's the matter?
00:23:48Are you hurt?
00:23:50Are you hurt, Mr. Haskell?
00:23:51I'm hurt.
00:23:53Start yourself.
00:23:54I'll listen to it.
00:23:56But I know what you're going to hand me even before you open your mouths.
00:23:59You're going to tell me you don't believe my story of how Haskell died and give me that don't make me laugh expression on your smug faces.
00:24:08I saw it once, he was dead.
00:24:10And I was in for it.
00:24:12Who would believe he fell out of the car?
00:24:14Why, if Haskell came too, which of course he couldn't, even he would swear I conked him over the head for his dough.
00:24:18Yes, I was in for it.
00:24:19instinct told me to run but then i realized it was hopeless there were lots of people back down
00:24:25the road who could identify me that gas station guy and the waitress i would be in a worse spot
00:24:29then trying to explain why i beat it the next possibility was to sit tight and tell the truth
00:24:33when the cops came but that would be crazy they'd laugh at the truth and i'd have my head in the
00:24:38noose so what else was there to do but hide the body and get away in the car i couldn't leave the
00:24:44car there with him in the gully that would be like erecting a tombstone
00:25:14my idea was to cover him with brush not to rob him but then i remember that even if i only drove
00:25:21the car for a hundred miles or so i would need money for gas besides it was stupid of me to leave
00:25:27all that money on a dead man not only that i'd have to take his driver's license in case i was stopped
00:25:32for something i didn't like to think about it but by that time i'd done just what the police would say
00:25:38i did even if i didn't my clothes the owner of such an expensive car would never be wearing
00:25:44some cop might put me in a suspicion
00:25:47hey you this your car
00:26:14don't you know better than to leave a car with the wheels halfway in the middle of the road
00:26:17that's the way accidents happen i'm sorry officer i was just putting up my top i didn't think
00:26:23well and the next time think i'll let you go now but watch your step in the future
00:26:27i know that's a lonely stretch but cars come by here once in a while and we have plenty of crack-ups
00:26:31thanks
00:26:33i 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
00:26:50as i drove off it was still raining and the drop streak down the windshield like tears
00:27:08i kept imagining i was being followed that i could hear sirens back in the distance
00:27:11just how long it took me to cover the sixty-odd miles to the california state line i don't know
00:27:17i lost all track of time but the rain had stopped and the sun was up when i pulled up to the inspection station
00:27:29i lost all track of time but the rain had stopped and the sun was up when i pulled up to the inspection station
00:27:36hello
00:27:41carrying any fruits or vegetables
00:27:43no
00:27:44any livestock or poultry
00:27:45no
00:27:46i see your registration and driver's license please
00:27:50anything in the baggage compartment this baggie
00:27:57charles haskell jr age 30 brown eyes dark hair identifying marks none
00:28:03are you charles haskell jr yes well remember if you're employed and you stay over 30 days you take out california plates
00:28:09all right officer but i'll only be in the state a short while
00:28:13right you can go now
00:28:17right
00:28:24i couldn't drive any farther without some sleep
00:28:27cops or no cops
00:28:28i knew i had to hit the hay and hit it hard
00:28:31i was dead tired
00:28:34you're not a big boy
00:28:36right you are away
00:28:37i'm you mean my friend
00:28:38thats know
00:28:39you are a big boy
00:28:40i don't know
00:28:41that's a great way
00:28:42i don't know
00:28:44what you're saying
00:28:45i got to the weather
00:28:46i don't know
00:28:48you can cause the weather
00:28:50that's a great day
00:28:51you can cause the weather
00:28:52you're going to be on your way
00:28:54you can cause the weather
00:28:55you'll be somehow
00:28:56you can cause the weather
00:28:57you know
00:28:58there's gonna be on your way
00:28:59this is
00:29:00No.
00:29:02No, you can't, Mr. Haskell.
00:29:04No.
00:29:06Mr. Haskell, you can't die.
00:29:08I think...
00:29:10I think I did it.
00:29:12No, Mr. Haskell.
00:29:14No.
00:29:16No.
00:29:18No.
00:29:20No.
00:29:22No.
00:29:24No.
00:29:26No.
00:29:28No.
00:29:30No.
00:29:44Who's there?
00:29:46It's the maid. Can I come in and clean?
00:29:48Later.
00:29:50In a half hour.
00:29:52All right, sir.
00:30:00There was no time to lose.
00:30:02Every minute I had to be Charles Haskell was dangerous.
00:30:04And I'd have to be Charles Haskell until I got to some city where I could leave the car and be swallowed up.
00:30:14That meant driving the car as far as San Bernardino.
00:30:16Maybe even to Los Angeles.
00:30:18In a little town I might be noticed.
00:30:20But in a city I should be safe enough.
00:30:22Then after I ditched the car, I could go on to Sue.
00:30:24But those five minutes at the state line made me realize it might be a good idea to find out a little bit about Mr. Haskell.
00:30:28Then if anybody asked me questions, I could give the right answers.
00:30:32The first thing I found out was that I had $768.
00:30:48idea to find out a little bit about Mr. Haskell. Then if anybody asked me questions I could give
00:30:53the right answers. The first thing I found out was that I had $768. This was a lot of jack,
00:31:01but believe me, it was the kind of money I'd rather not have.
00:31:12And then I found out from a letter Haskell was carting around in his bag that he wasn't the
00:31:17open-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. It was written to his old man in
00:31:27California, the one he hadn't seen in so many years. In it, Haskell posed as a salesman of
00:31:34hymnals of all things. It was easy to see where Haskell expected to raise a new stake for his book
00:31:41in Miami by rooking his old man. That was about all I found out from his effects, and it was enough.
00:31:50I told myself maybe old man Haskell was lucky his son kicked off. He would never know it,
00:31:57but it saved him from taking a flyer in sacred literature preferred.
00:32:11He would never know it.
00:32:26Near the airport at Desert Center, I pulled up for water. There was a woman.
00:32:36Hey, you. Come on if you want a ride.
00:32:41There's so many people.
00:32:43There's a woman, please.
00:32:44Sir, I Huh?
00:32:46Good, sir.
00:32:48I'm very lucky.
00:32:49Still, I'm very lucky from you.
00:32:59I'm not.
00:33:03I'm not.
00:33:04I'm not.
00:33:05How 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.
00:33:31She 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, or 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.
00:33:58Then 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.'s good enough for me, mister.
00:34:09That's what I was afraid of.
00:34:11What'd you say?
00:34:12Oh, nothing. Just thinking out loud.
00:34:14People get in trouble for doing that.
00:34:17What's your name?
00:34:18You can call me Vera, if you like.
00:34:20Do you live in Los Angeles?
00:34:22No.
00:34:24Where you coming from?
00:34:25Oh, back there.
00:34:26Needles?
00:34:27No.
00:34:29Oh, 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 because 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, like Haskell.
00:34:44I didn't like that part of it much, but 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, which I put down as just my jangled nerves.
00:34:58With her eyes closed and the testus gone out of her, she 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 it 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.
00:35:31Who this dame was, well, it was no business of mine.
00:35:34Where did you leave this 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.
00:35:47Save yourself the 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.
00:35:59Then 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.
00:36:15She 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,
00:36:35was just my luck picking her up on the road.
00:36:38It couldn't have been Helen or Mary or Evelyn or Ruth.
00:36:41It had to be the very last person I should ever have met.
00:36:46That's life.
00:36:48Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you.
00:36:50I 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, a hick?
00:37:06Listen, mister, I've been around.
00:37:09And I know a wrong guy when I see one.
00:37:11What'd you do, kiss 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.
00:37:40Let's see that roll.
00:37:47Is 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, $300.
00:38:04He was a piece of cheese, a big blowhard.
00:38:06Listen, mister, don'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.
00:38:21You'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.
00:38:38I'm not arguing.
00:38:39You'll 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
00:38:44sniffing that 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.
00:38:55Oh, skip it.
00:38:56It doesn't make a difference one way or another.
00:38:57I'm not a mourner.
00:38:58I 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?
00:39:18Somebody 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.
00:39:25I 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.
00:40:19Well, 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.
00:40:34And I 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.
00:40:43Vera wasn't kidding with that Siamese twins crack.
00:40:47She 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.
00:41:05Home, sweet home.
00:41:06Yeah.
00:41:07Not bad, either.
00:41:08In case there's any doubt in your mind, I'll take the bedroom.
00:41:19Yeah.
00:41:21Sure is stuffy in here.
00:41:31Keep the windows shut.
00:41:32Okay.
00:41:32The old crow downstairs said there's a folding bed behind this door.
00:41:44You know how to work it?
00:41:49I invented it.
00:41:54Some joint.
00:41:55One can't have everything.
00:41:56I'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.
00:42:22I must be ten pounds lighter.
00:42:24You must be.
00:42:26Well, 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.
00:42:47Aren't you afraid I might take you up on it?
00:42:49If I didn't want to give you a drink, I wouldn't have offered it.
00:42:54Why be as sorry, Ed 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.
00:43:08So cheer up.
00:43:09Get rid of that long puss.
00:43:10Or is your conscience bothering you?
00:43:19No.
00:43:21It isn't.
00:43:23Swell.
00:43:23That's the spirit.
00:43:26He's dead and no moment around will bring him back.
00:43:28Anyway, 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.
00:43:51Thanks.
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?
00:44:24As 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.
00:44:37He 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.
00:44:52You 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 song?
00:45:10That's such a drill, Roberts.
00:45:11All you do is bellyache.
00:45:14Making it easy and trying to make the better things.
00:45:18Maybe that's what's wrong with the whole world.
00:45:20Get the professor.
00:45:21People 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 would pull up in 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.
00:45:43I 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.
00:45:56Your 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.
00:46:25We 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.
00:46:41No worry about that.
00:46:42We'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've paid plenty for diggings like this in New York.
00:46:52I wouldn't like it if it was the Ritz.
00:46:58Drop me liquor.
00:46:59You've got a mean cough.
00:47:00I ought to do something about it.
00:47:02I'll be all right.
00:47:03That's what Camille said.
00:47:06Who?
00:47:06Nobody you know.
00:47:12Wasn't that the dame that died of consumption?
00:47:14Yeah.
00:47:16Wouldn't it be a break for you if I did kick off?
00:47:19You'd be free with all Haskell's dough and car.
00:47:21I 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.
00:47:38I 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.
00:47:48But 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, will you, Roberts?
00:48:37Don't lose any sleep over it.
00:48:37I'll see you next time.
00:49:07One, seven, two, three.
00:49:14Hello?
00:49:16Hello?
00:49:18Hello?
00:49:20Hello?
00:49:28No.
00:49:30Not yet, darling.
00:49:33Tomorrow.
00:49:34Maybe.
00:49:40If this were fiction, I would fall in love with Vera, marry her and make a respectable woman of her,
00:49:46or 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.
00:50:08So 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.
00:50:18Well, do I rate a whistle?
00:50:20You sure do, but let's go.
00:50:21Let's go.
00:50:22Let's go, let's go.
00:50:23I spent 85 bucks in two hours preparing bait, and all you can say is let's go.
00:50:28Come on.
00:50:29Come on.
00:50:35We'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.
00:50:51And 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, Farrah 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.
00:51:16That's right. I forgot. I guess I'm getting kind of used to you.
00:51:19Well, that's a habit you can start breaking.
00:51:23Let's try this place in the middle of the block.
00:51:32Good afternoon. What can I do for you?
00:51:34We're interested in selling a car.
00:51:36If the price is right.
00:51:40Well, if it's in good mechanical condition, it should blue book for about $1,600.
00:51:45Tony, take a look at this motor.
00:51:46$1,600. Are you kidding?
00:52:00Well, maybe $1,850.
00:52:02Before I let it go for $1,850, I'll wreck it and collect the insurance first.
00:52:05I think this motor's seen a lot of driving.
00:52:18While the mechanic inspected the car, we haggled.
00:52:22At last, when we were all worn out, we hit a compromise.
00:52:25His price.
00:52:26Okay, it's a deal.
00:52:31All 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.
00:52:40Eighteen hundred and fifty bucks. That dirty cro...
00:52:54New York, huh?
00:52:55Yeah.
00:52:56But you bought the car in Miami.
00:52:57Yeah.
00:52:59Well, let's see about the insurance. We can either have it transferred or canceled.
00:53:02Uh, what kind of insurance do you have, Mr. Haskell?
00:53:07Well, uh...
00:53:09Aren't all the papers there?
00:53:12I don't see any.
00:53:14Surely you know what type of insurance you carry in the car.
00:53:17The name of the company?
00:53:19Yeah, 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.
00:53:24Well...
00:53:25Did you sign the papers yet?
00:53:26Not yet.
00:53:27Well, don't. We're not selling the car.
00:53:29Well, wait a minute, Mrs. Haskell.
00:53:30Come on, darling.
00:53:31What's the matter? Did you change your mind?
00:53:33Yes, I'm sorry. I guess I have.
00:53:34But, Vera...
00:53:35Let's go.
00:53:42You got me out of a tight spot, Vera.
00:53:43But I still don't understand all this.
00:53:45You will in a minute.
00:53:46I almost threw away a gold mine.
00:53:48Eighteen fifty 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.
00:53:54You 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.
00:54:05There's a driver in 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?
00:54:17Oh, can I take your order?
00:54:18Make 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.
00:54:42It'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.
00:54:53No.
00:54:54Yes.
00:54:55No, I won't do it.
00:54:56Yes, you will.
00:54:57You think I'm crazy?
00:54:58It's impossible, I tell you.
00:54:59Excuse me.
00:55:09Blow the horn when you're through.
00:55:14No one could possibly get away with an act like that.
00:55:16Be 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.
00:55:25Oh, grow up, Vera.
00:55:26Don't you think a father knows his own son?
00:55:28And there must be other relatives.
00:55:29So a father won't have to know you.
00:55:30We'll wait till he gives up the ghost.
00:55:32He's an old geezer and he won't pull through.
00:55:34And as far as other relatives are concerned,
00:55:36they haven't seen you in 15 or 20 years.
00:55:39Eat.
00:55:40I'm not hungry.
00:55:41And I won't do it.
00:55:43It's not as tough as it sounds.
00:55:45Remember, you've got all kinds of identification.
00:55:47His car, letters, license.
00:55:48I could never get away with it.
00:55:49It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
00:55:50The old boy has scads of dough.
00:55:52Look in the paper there.
00:55:53Personal fortune assessed at over 15 million.
00:55:55He'll leave plenty, I tell you.
00:55:57Maybe he cut off his son.
00:55:58How do we know?
00:55:59It's out, Vera.
00:56:00I won't have anything to do with it.
00:56:02I think you will.
00:56:05Look, Vera.
00:56:06I'll do anything within reason.
00:56:08But not that.
00:56:09So forget it.
00:56:10Find yourself another stooge.
00:56:11You sap.
00:56:12You'll be fixed for the rest of your life as Charlie Haskell.
00:56:15You can take your inheritance and go away.
00:56:17No more worrying about the rent.
00:56:18No sweating, scheming, wondering where your next meal's coming from.
00:56:21Think about that, Roberts.
00:56:22Vera.
00:56:23Please.
00:56:24You're talking too loud.
00:56:25Unless I'm splitting 50-50 with you.
00:56:27Sure, why not?
00:56:28We're both alike.
00:56:29Both born in the same gutter.
00:56:30Now take it easy, Vera.
00:56:31There's people around here.
00:56:32You don't know where you're talking.
00:56:33Well, wait till we read that old man Haskell's dead.
00:56:36And you show up.
00:56:37Like you read in New York that he was sick.
00:56:40No.
00:56:41I suppose he doesn't die.
00:56:43He will.
00:56:44I know he will.
00:56:45Something tells me.
00:56:48But as much as I insisted I would have no part of her scheme,
00:56:51Vera was taking it for granted I would.
00:56:55Neither of us had our mind on the cards as we played that night.
00:56:58I knew we were just trying to kill time between newspaper editions.
00:57:02This was a death watch for Vera.
00:57:05Maybe it was for me too.
00:57:07Don't you realize if I'm caught, they want to know where I got the car and stuff?
00:57:10And they'll have me on a murder charge.
00:57:12If 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?
00:57:1818 points.
00:57:19That gives me 30.
00:57:22How will I be out?
00:57:23You'll be out.
00:57:24$1,850 we would have gotten on the car.
00:57:26Really, Vera, you'd be an awful chump.
00:57:28You threw away all that dough in a dizzy long shot.
00:57:30Let me sell the bus tomorrow.
00:57:31With the money it'll bring and what you've already got,
00:57:33a clever kid like you can run it up in no time.
00:57:35Then we'd both be in the clear.
00:57:36I'll be in the clear anyway.
00:57:37Maybe.
00:57:38Maybe.
00:57:39But if I got caught,
00:57:42I'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.
00:57:48Even if you did tell the cops I was in on it with you,
00:57:51what could they do to me?
00:57:53Maybe.
00:57:54They might give me the same medicine they gave you.
00:57:56Yeah.
00:57:57A rope.
00:58:01But I'm on my way anyhow.
00:58:04All they'll be doing will be rushing it.
00:58:07All right.
00:58:08But think of the 1850 you'd lose.
00:58:09You'd kick yourself along the block and let it get away from you.
00:58:12I'll take the chance.
00:58:14Want another drink?
00:58:15You're being a goon.
00:58:16That's the way people wind up behind the eight ball.
00:58:18Once they get a few dollars, they become greedy and want more.
00:58:21My, my.
00:58:22Caesar.
00:58:23Who?
00:58:24You know that Roman general?
00:58:25He got his for being greedy.
00:58:26He wasn't satisfied, so the final windup was he took the count.
00:58:29A 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 $700 with 1850 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.
00:58:42Play solitaire.
00:58:43Okay, 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 a jam by keeping my mouth shut.
00:58:51I show you how to make some soft money.
00:58:53And 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, you know I didn't.
00:59:01Alright then.
00:59:04Suppose I call the cops.
00:59:06Pure innocent, what do you got to be scared of?
00:59:09Okay.
00:59:10Call them you mutt.
00:59:11Go ahead and call them, see if I care.
00:59:12At least they'll give me a square deal.
00:59:14You 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 didn't.
00:59:25Yeah?
00:59:26Then try it and see.
00:59:27Call them.
00:59:28Yeah.
00:59:29Okay I will.
00:59:30Okay I will.
00:59:44Information?
00:59:46I want the number at the Hollywood police station.
00:59:51Okay I got it, thanks.
00:59:52Wait a minute Vera.
00:59:53You wouldn't do that.
00:59:54You wouldn't do that.
00:59:55I'll show you if I would.
00:59:56Take it easy now.
00:59:57Let's talk this over.
00:59:58This was early in the evening.
00:59:59And the conversation, while hectic, was at least pitched low.
01:00:03But as the minutes passed, and more obstacles to her plan popped into my head, the air got blue.
01:00:09Each word coming from our lips cracked like a whip.
01:00:12I reminded her that as 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.
01:00:29I didn't even know what my middle initial stood for.
01:00:32I also pointed out that the real Haskell had a scar on his forearm.
01:00:36His 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, you could cut yourself a little, couldn't you?
01:00:53Boy, 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, but I won't get mixed up in this.
01:01:01Besides, how do we know?
01:01:02Haskell 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, dreaming or not, you won't be dreaming when the law attacks you on the shoulder.
01:01:10There's a cute little gas chamber waiting for you, Roberts.
01:01:14And I hear extradition to Arizona's Ascension.
01:01:17Where's that phone?
01:01:19Vera.
01:01:20Leave me alone.
01:01:21Vera.
01:01:22I want a phone.
01:01:23Call police.
01:01:24I hate you.
01:01:26You're a stinker.
01:01:28You.
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.
01:01:33You don't know what you're doing.
01:01:34You're hurting me.
01:01:35Will 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?
01:01:55Yeah.
01:01:56All right.
01:01:57I'll open up the window.
01:02:07Vera, open the door.
01:02:08Please open the door.
01:02:09Vera, open the door.
01:02:10Don't use the phone.
01:02:11Listen to me.
01:02:12I don't like you, Roberts.
01:02:14You're no gentleman, see?
01:02:16You hurt my hand.
01:02:18And I'm going to get even with you.
01:02:20If you don't open the door, I'm going to kick it down, Vera.
01:02:23Vera, don't call the cops.
01:02:24Listen to me.
01:02:25I'll do anything you say.
01:02:26Vera, let me in.
01:02:30I'll break the phone.
01:02:31I'll kill you.
01:02:39I round your door and put me the phone.
01:02:41Mr.werton, let's chew your phone.
01:02:43I'm afraid of...
01:02:44Toe me.
01:02:45Do you want me?
01:02:46You'll know...
01:02:47Go for those spits.
01:02:50I'm sorry.
01:02:51Come...
01:02:52I have Parkinson'sugo.
01:02:53You've told me you weren't understandable.
01:02:54I am a персонally adviser,
01:02:55and I don't even know you, to get very pissed on today.
01:02:56Time lets go away.
01:02:57Toe me.
01:02:58I'm just wondering if this has��'s been answered and put this on.
01:02:59the world is full of skeptics i know i'm one myself in the haskell business how many of you
01:03:17would believe he fell out of the car and now after killing vera without really meaning to do it
01:03:21how many of you would believe it wasn't premeditated in a jury room every last man of you
01:03:28would go down shouting that she had me over a barrel and my only out was force
01:03:31the room was still so quiet that for a while i wondered if i had suddenly gone deaf
01:03:39it was pure fear of course and i was hysterical but without making a sound vera was dead and i was
01:03:49her murderer murderer what an awful word that is but i'd become one i better not get caught
01:03:56what evidence there was around the place had to be destroyed and from the looks of things there
01:04:01was plenty looking around the room at things we'd bought was like looking into the faces of a hundred
01:04:05people who'd seen us together and who remembered me this was the kind of testimony i couldn't rub out
01:04:10no i could burn clothes and hide bottles for the next five years
01:04:16there'd always be witnesses the landlady for one she could identify me the car dealer the waitress in
01:04:21the drive-in the girl in the dress shop and that guy in the liquor store it could all identify me
01:04:26i was cooked done for i had to get out of there
01:04:31while once i'd remain beside a dead body planning carefully how to avoid being accused of killing
01:04:37him this time i couldn't this time i was guilty
01:04:41i knew it felt it i was like a guy suffering from shock things were whirling around in my head
01:04:51i couldn't make myself think right all i could think of was the guy with the saxophone and what
01:04:56he was playing it wasn't a love song anymore it was a dirge
01:05:09you
01:05:29you
01:05:35but 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
01:06:17i 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 and wonder what my life might have been if that car of haskell's
01:06:57hadn't stopped but one thing i don't have to wonder about i know someday a car will stop to pick me up
01:07:08it's not that i never thumbed
01:07:14yes fate or some mysterious force can put the finger on you or me for no good reason at all
01:07:33so
01:07:39so
01:07:41so
01:07:43so
01:07:45so
01:07:47so
01:07:49so
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