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This Movie is a classic drama that follows a group of individuals as their plans and decisions unfold in unexpected ways. The film highlights themes of strategy, clever problem-solving, teamwork, and the impact of choices on everyday life. With strong performances, thoughtful storytelling, and carefully crafted cinematography, this 1956 production offers a compelling and engaging viewing experience. Audiences who enjoy character-driven narratives, suspenseful yet family-friendly plots, and timeless cinematic classics will find this film both intriguing and memorable.
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00:04:52About an hour earlier that same Saturday afternoon in September, in another part of the city,
00:05:05Patrolman First Class Randy Kennan had some personal business to attend to.
00:05:10Hiya, Tony. What's a good word?
00:05:13Same as always. Having a ball.
00:05:15I'll see you later.
00:05:16Good evening, Randy. How are things better?
00:05:24What's the use of kicking, Leo? You wouldn't believe it anyway.
00:05:28Oh, I suppose they will very well.
00:05:31After all, a man drives a new car, lives in a fine apartment.
00:05:35So, I like to live good. You got any objections?
00:05:38None at all.
00:05:40As long as you don't overlook your obligation to me, I trust if it's purely an oversight.
00:05:44I'm sure a man in your position wouldn't deliberately antagonize his creditors.
00:05:50I ain't got it, Leo. I know I should have it.
00:05:53And I'm as anxious to pay off as you ought to have me, but I just ain't got it.
00:05:57Well, we all get a little cramped now and then.
00:06:01Suppose we make it a thousand. I'll rewrite the balance. It's a new loan.
00:06:05Give me a fiscal breather. Fresh start.
00:06:07Listen, Leo. I'm broke, kidney. Flat broke.
00:06:10Right now, I couldn't give you a thousand cents. But if you can wait a couple of weeks...
00:06:14Might be arranged. With a proper collateral, of course.
00:06:18You mean, where's the dough come from? I can't tell you, Leo.
00:06:20All I can tell you is, it's a plenty sweet deal and I'll be able to pay off like a slot machine.
00:06:26In two weeks, you said no longer.
00:06:28Maybe even less than that.
00:06:29You know I wouldn't pull a thing like this. I knew I couldn't afford to.
00:06:33I'm glad you said that, Randy. I was going to point out as much myself.
00:06:38But since you relieved me of the unpleasant necessity...
00:06:41It's a deal, then. I pay you the $2,600 within the next two weeks.
00:06:44Plus $400, a total of $3,000. The extra interest, of course.
00:06:49I trust that'll be satisfactory.
00:06:51I can say no.
00:06:53Thank you, Randy. I was sure you'd see it my way.
00:06:57Take good care of yourself.
00:06:58I'll take care of myself, mister.
00:07:02That's my specialty.
00:07:05At 7 p.m. that same day, Johnny Clay, perhaps the most important thread in the unfinished fabric, furthered its design.
00:07:13None of these men are criminals in the usual sense.
00:07:15They've all got jobs.
00:07:17They all live seemingly normal, decent lives.
00:07:19But they got their problems and they've all got a little larceny in them.
00:07:24Now, you take my pal Unger, for instance, the guy who owns this apartment.
00:07:27He's putting up the money to operate with, and he's letting me stay here.
00:07:32He's a bookkeeper.
00:07:34Been with the same company for 10 years.
00:07:36You know, Faye, the biggest mistake I made before was shooting for peanuts.
00:07:40Five years have taught me one thing, if nothing else.
00:07:43Anytime you take a chance, you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk...
00:07:46...because they can put you away just as fast for a $10 heist as they can for a million-dollar job.
00:07:50You don't have to sell it to me, Johnny.
00:07:53You know I'll go along with anything you say.
00:07:54I always have, you know, even since we were kids.
00:07:58I've always believed you.
00:08:00Everything you've ever told me.
00:08:03Those five years you've been away, I know they must have been terrible for you.
00:08:08I mean, being locked up must be a terrible thing.
00:08:13I mean, you know something, this may sound funny, but waiting for you all those years and staying by myself, it was like, not that you were locked in, but I was locked out.
00:08:28Well, look at me.
00:08:31First time we've been together in five years and I'm making speeches.
00:08:34No, no.
00:08:35Everything is going to be all right.
00:08:36I promise you.
00:08:38Make sure you're right about it, Johnny.
00:08:40I'm no good for anybody else.
00:08:42I'm not pretty and I'm not very smart, so please don't leave me alone anymore.
00:08:47No, nothing is going to happen.
00:08:49Not this time.
00:08:50Well, I guess I'd better leave you be now.
00:08:54I know you've got a lot of work to do.
00:08:58When will I see you again?
00:09:00Saturday night.
00:09:01We'll be on the plane together.
00:09:02Look, Faye.
00:09:04Until it's all over, I want you to stay out of the way, huh?
00:09:07Look, there's anything I can do to help.
00:09:09No, nothing.
00:09:10You just make the plane reservations and remember to tell them at the office that you're leaving.
00:09:13Tell them you're getting married.
00:09:15I don't want to say goodbye.
00:09:20Oh, hello, Myra.
00:09:21We were just talking about you.
00:09:23Hi, Johnny.
00:09:24Hi, Miss Faye.
00:09:25Hello.
00:09:25I hope there's something nice.
00:09:27Oh, yes.
00:09:28Johnny was telling me about what a wonderful friend you were.
00:09:31Faye was just leaving, weren't you, baby?
00:09:32Oh, don't rush off on my account.
00:09:34No, she's late for an appointment.
00:09:35That's right.
00:09:37You'll be sure to call me, won't you, Johnny?
00:09:38Yeah, yeah.
00:09:39I'll do just what I told you, I wouldn't.
00:09:44It's nice to see you again, Mr. Unger.
00:09:47Take care of Johnny.
00:09:48Oh, there's nothing I wouldn't do for Johnny.
00:09:50I'll see you.
00:09:53A half an hour earlier at approximately 6.30, Mike O'Reilly, the track bartender, came home.
00:09:59Ruthie, I'm home.
00:10:01A half an hour later at approximately 6.30, Mike O'Reilly, the track bartender, came home.
00:10:10At 7.15 that same night,
00:10:40George Petey, the track cashier, arrived at his apartment.
00:10:44Hello.
00:10:50Hello.
00:10:53Feeling okay?
00:10:55Fine.
00:10:56I've been kind of sick today.
00:10:57I keep getting pains in my stomach.
00:10:59Maybe you got a hole in it, George.
00:11:01Do you suppose you have?
00:11:02A hole in it?
00:11:03How would I get a hole in my stomach?
00:11:05How would you get one in your head?
00:11:07Don't fix me a drink, George.
00:11:08I think I'm developing some pains myself.
00:11:11Sherry, can't I ever say anything at all without you joking me about it?
00:11:15Hurry up with that drink, George.
00:11:16The pains are getting worse.
00:11:20I saw something kind of nice coming home on the train tonight.
00:11:23Something, well, kind of sweet.
00:11:25A candy bar, George?
00:11:27No, not a candy bar, don't it?
00:11:33It was people.
00:11:36This couple, sitting just in front of me.
00:11:39Oh, they weren't young, exactly.
00:11:40I guess the woman was about your age.
00:11:42A little senile, you mean?
00:11:44With one foot and a big toe in the grave?
00:11:46You want to hear this or not?
00:11:48Do you or not, Sherry?
00:11:49I can't wait.
00:11:50Go ahead and throw me, George.
00:11:52Well, anyway, like I say, they were sitting just in front of me,
00:11:55and I could hear what they were saying.
00:11:56Well, part of it.
00:11:58They weren't young, exactly, and they weren't really old.
00:12:00She was about my age, you said.
00:12:01Not anymore.
00:12:02Maybe she was when you started telling this story, but not now.
00:12:05Anyway, she was calling him Papa, and he was calling her Mama.
00:12:08And the climax to this exciting story, the moral, the punchline, George.
00:12:13Forget it, Sherry.
00:12:15Just thought I'd tell you about it, but I might have known.
00:12:18Oh, I know.
00:12:19You want to bet I know?
00:12:19I'll give you seven to five.
00:12:21Cut it out, will you, Sherry?
00:12:23I'm tired.
00:12:24I don't feel so good.
00:12:25You want me to call you Papa, isn't that it, George?
00:12:28And you want to call me Mama?
00:12:30You know all the answers.
00:12:31Go right ahead.
00:12:32Of course, it may be the last word you ever say,
00:12:33but I'll try to kill you as pain as a pain.
00:12:34I've got to go out tonight.
00:12:36I don't suppose there's anything for dinner.
00:12:38Well, of course there is, darling.
00:12:39There are all sorts of things.
00:12:41We have steak and asparagus and potatoes.
00:12:44I don't smell nothing.
00:12:44Well, that figures, because you're too far away from it.
00:12:47Too far away from it?
00:12:48Well, certainly.
00:12:48You don't think I had it all cooked, do you?
00:12:50It's all down in the shopping center.
00:12:53Tell me something, will you, Sherry?
00:12:55Just tell me one thing.
00:12:58Why did you ever marry me anyway?
00:13:00Oh, George, when a man has to ask his wife that,
00:13:03well, he just hadn't met her, that's all.
00:13:05Well, I talk about it.
00:13:07Maybe it's all to the good in the long run.
00:13:08After all, if people didn't have headaches,
00:13:10what would happen to the aspirin industry?
00:13:12You used to love me.
00:13:13You said you did anyway.
00:13:15I seem to recall you made a memorable statement, too.
00:13:17Something about hitting it rich
00:13:19and having an apartment on Park Avenue
00:13:21and a different car for every day of the week.
00:13:23Not that I really care about such things, understand,
00:13:26as long as I have a big, handsome, intelligent brute like you.
00:13:29It would make a difference, wouldn't it, if I had money, I mean.
00:13:32How would you define money, George?
00:13:34Now, if you're thinking of giving me
00:13:35your collection of Roosevelt diamonds...
00:13:37I mean big money, hundreds of thousands of dollars.
00:13:40You really don't feel well, do you?
00:13:42Are you sure that pain's in your stomach?
00:13:43I'm going to have it, Sherry.
00:13:45Hundreds of thousands, maybe a half a million.
00:13:48Of course you are, darling.
00:13:50Did you put the right address on the envelope
00:13:51when you sent it to the North Pole?
00:13:53Go ahead and laugh, wait and see.
00:13:56Maybe you won't be laughing so hard in a few days.
00:13:59You're really serious.
00:14:01You really think you're going to have a lot of money?
00:14:03I don't think nothing, I know it.
00:14:05You've never been a liar, George.
00:14:07You don't have enough imagination to lie.
00:14:09So what makes you think or know
00:14:11that you're going to have several hundred thousand dollars?
00:14:13Because I do, I just can't talk about it, that's all.
00:14:15Not even to me, your little share.
00:14:17I shouldn't have even mentioned I was going to have it.
00:14:19It's not that I mind, I know I can trust you.
00:14:21But if these other guys ever...
00:14:22I can't talk about it, Sherry.
00:14:25I just can't.
00:14:27These other guys, is that why you're going out tonight to meet with her?
00:14:30They got nothing to do with that.
00:14:32I just got to go uptown for a little while.
00:14:34I see.
00:14:35Well, you go right ahead, George.
00:14:37If you want to act that way, I certainly won't try to stop you.
00:14:40Sherry, now, Sherry, honey, don't be sore at me.
00:14:42Well, after all, one woman's been married for five years
00:14:45and her own husband doesn't trust her.
00:14:47Why, you think more of them than you do of me.
00:14:49What right have you got to say a thing like that?
00:14:51You know I'm crazy about you.
00:14:53I'd do anything in the world for you.
00:14:55Honey, you're the one I'm doing it for.
00:14:57If I didn't love you so much...
00:14:58Look, I don't want you to do anything for me.
00:15:00I don't even want to talk to you anymore.
00:15:01You go up and see your fellow, whatever you want to do.
00:15:03Sherry.
00:15:04But don't you be surprised if I'm not here when you get home.
00:15:07Don't you all be surprised.
00:15:08You better be here, you hear me, Sherry?
00:15:10You will be, won't you?
00:15:12You wouldn't do anything foolish, would you?
00:15:14I certainly wouldn't want to,
00:15:16but as long as you don't trust me
00:15:17or have the slightest bit of faith in me.
00:15:20Sherry, if I ever found you with another man...
00:15:22But why?
00:15:23You have no use for me, or you say you do,
00:15:25but when it comes to a showdown or proving it,
00:15:27you say one thing and then you do the opposite.
00:15:31Well, I could tell you a little bit about it, I guess.
00:15:35Well, most of it.
00:15:37You have to promise to keep him quiet.
00:15:39Why, of course, darling.
00:15:40Just a second.
00:15:47Wow.
00:15:47Hello.
00:15:48Hello.
00:15:50How'd you get away from George tonight?
00:15:51He had to go somewhere.
00:15:53That's a break.
00:15:54I'm glad you called me.
00:15:58Something wrong, baby?
00:16:00No, nothing's wrong.
00:16:02Can I get you a drink?
00:16:04No, I don't think so.
00:16:06Come on, now.
00:16:08It's not my baby.
00:16:09Val, I called you last night.
00:16:11Oh, yeah?
00:16:12There was no answer.
00:16:13No, I guess I stepped out.
00:16:15I called you four times.
00:16:16Honey, I guess I was out somewhere.
00:16:18Oh, what'd you do?
00:16:20I don't know.
00:16:21I guess I was goofing off at a movie or something.
00:16:24Val, why are you doing this to me?
00:16:26I don't know what you mean.
00:16:28I think you do.
00:16:29Oh, look, Mrs. Petey.
00:16:32What I do is my own business.
00:16:34I never tried to pin you down, did I?
00:16:36I never asked you how you got your kicks before you met me, did I?
00:16:38I heard, Val.
00:16:39You didn't used to talk to me like that.
00:16:41I'm sorry, baby, but don't bug me.
00:16:44I could live my life a certain way.
00:16:45I can't stand it when the walls start closing in.
00:16:48But you know how crazy I am about you.
00:16:50And I'm crazy about you too, sweetheart.
00:16:52I've given you sufficient proof of that.
00:16:54I know it's just that lately every time I call you...
00:16:58So I step out once in a while.
00:17:00Look, you got yourself a husband.
00:17:01A guy will spend every last nickel on you.
00:17:03Won't ask you any questions when you come home from an afternoon movie at nine at night.
00:17:08Don't be greedy.
00:17:08I'm not greedy, Val.
00:17:10I'm in love with you.
00:17:10And if that's being greedy, then I'm the biggest glutton that ever walked with you.
00:17:14Well, don't make it sound so ominous.
00:17:15It's not like you're gonna eat me alive.
00:17:17I'll make you still happy.
00:17:22Darling, what are the two things in life you're most interested in?
00:17:26What?
00:17:27Money and women.
00:17:28Oh, that's a nice way to put me down.
00:17:30That about sums it up, doesn't it?
00:17:32We'll let it stand.
00:17:33I imagine what you really meant to say was money and woman.
00:17:37We're gonna have money, Val.
00:17:38More money than you ever dreamed of.
00:17:40Maybe even millions.
00:17:41Oh, yeah?
00:17:41How?
00:17:42George, that's how.
00:17:44He stumbled onto something big.
00:17:46That meatball?
00:17:47A meatball with gravy, Val.
00:17:49You know he works at the track.
00:17:50Well, somehow, and don't ask me how, but he's got connected with a mob.
00:17:54They're gonna rob the track offices for the day's receipts.
00:17:57You mean he seriously told you that he and some mob are gonna knock over the racetrack?
00:18:01And you can believe him, Val, because George may be a fool, but he's not a liar.
00:18:04The guy's crazy.
00:18:06That's never been done before.
00:18:07I know.
00:18:07I told him that.
00:18:08But he says the job's all set up and it's gonna be done.
00:18:11And if I'd just sit tight, I'd be up to my curls in cash just like that.
00:18:14Well, let's suppose this is all true.
00:18:18How do I fit in?
00:18:21Well, you know I've been gonna leave George.
00:18:23I guess you know why, too.
00:18:25Well, you've been saying that for a long, long time, Sherry.
00:18:27But everything's changed now.
00:18:31I was gonna tell him tonight.
00:18:32George may be very rich very soon.
00:18:35That's all he needs, isn't it?
00:18:36It'd still be George.
00:18:39So you think, let's say, George and his boys pull his job and George gets his cut?
00:18:45Maybe I could take it away from him, huh?
00:18:47I think you could.
00:18:51What about the others?
00:18:52You any idea who they are?
00:18:52Only this, I went through his clothes while he was showering.
00:18:57I'm quite sure George went there tonight.
00:19:00Hmm.
00:19:02Kiddo, I think we got something here.
00:19:04You know, if this is true, this is a lot bigger than you think.
00:19:08You're interested in taking George's cut?
00:19:09Well, I got news for you.
00:19:11George's cut's gonna be peanuts compared to this whole thing.
00:19:14We gotta find out more about the overall plan.
00:19:16You think I'll tell you any more?
00:19:18Not a chance.
00:19:19I could see he was scared stiff because he talked as much as he did.
00:19:22I don't get it, Johnny.
00:19:23About these two other guys.
00:19:27You mean there's gonna be two other guys in on the deal?
00:19:30And we ain't gonna know who they are?
00:19:32That's right.
00:19:33You don't know who they are and they don't know who you are.
00:19:35That makes sense to you, doesn't it?
00:19:37Yes, I guess so.
00:19:38But it makes sense to me, all right.
00:19:40How come we need them, though, Johnny?
00:19:41What are they gonna do?
00:19:42Well, one of them's for the job with a rifle.
00:19:44None of you boys can handle that, even if you were willing to.
00:19:47And the other one starts the fight in the bar.
00:19:48Well, these other fellas, how much are they cutting in for?
00:19:50Not that I mind.
00:19:51Anything you do is okay, but...
00:19:53These men are not gonna be in on the basic scheme.
00:19:55They're getting paid to perform certain definite duties at a certain definite time.
00:19:58And they're not cutting in on the take.
00:20:00They'll be paid a flat price to do a straight job.
00:20:03Well, if they don't know anything about the basic plan, about the job, then why are they doing it?
00:20:07It's simple.
00:20:07These boys are straight hoods.
00:20:08They get paid in advance.
00:20:09Five grand for the one with the rifle and $2,500 for the other.
00:20:12Well, where's this money coming from?
00:20:14That's where Marvin comes in.
00:20:15He's getting the $7,500 for us, and he gets it back off the top.
00:20:18I wish I could do more, Johnny.
00:20:21It's almost not right for me to get as much as everybody else.
00:20:23After all, all I do is...
00:20:25Your money counts for plenty, Marv.
00:20:27You don't hear any of them complaining, do you?
00:20:29Sure.
00:20:29You're okay in our book, Marv.
00:20:31But look, Johnny, if these two hoods get paid in advance, how do you know they're gonna do their jobs?
00:20:35I'll vouch for them.
00:20:37These guys are pros.
00:20:38They can't afford to weasel out on a deal.
00:20:40If they did, they'd be washed up.
00:20:41Okay?
00:20:42Okay.
00:20:42Any other questions?
00:20:45Well, let's take a look at this, then.
00:20:48This is a rough drawing of the track as I remember it.
00:20:53Brandy, you'll have to get me an A1 street map of the whole district.
00:20:56George, Mike, I want you to go over this thing with me inch by inch.
00:21:00Bring it completely up to date.
00:21:02Add or subtract the slightest change, even if it's something as small as the placing of a hot dog stand.
00:21:06Now, give or take a few thousand, I figure the loot on this deal at two million.
00:21:14There should be that much in the track offices.
00:21:17That includes profits on the power of mutual betting, the breakage money, taxes from the mutual machines, receipts from the concessions, and the money from ticket sales.
00:21:26None of this money is allowed to accumulate at any one point around the track, except for money to make change with and the mutual clerks' payoff money while it all goes into the office.
00:21:34And out of the entire take, only a few thousand dollars is put in the office safe to cover emergencies.
00:21:40The rest is out in the open, held for pickup by armored car.
00:21:44That car arrives about five o'clock.
00:21:46It parks directly in front of the main entrance to the clubhouse.
00:21:48Two men stay in it.
00:21:50One at the wheel, the other at a machine gun in the turret.
00:21:52Two others enter the office to collect the dough.
00:21:55Now, they're armed, of course, and so are the track detectives who cover them from the car to the office and back.
00:21:58Now, once the armored car arrives, a stick-up is out of the question.
00:22:04Now, what in the name of people with a baby doing outside their door?
00:22:35Uh, what do you think?
00:22:37You guys, any of you ever see this woman before?
00:22:40It's Sherry, my wife.
00:22:41Why, you.
00:22:42You've been talking.
00:22:43Now you spilled to her.
00:22:44I didn't know us.
00:22:45What, do you think I'm crazy?
00:22:46I wouldn't jerk you, clown.
00:22:48Come on, clown.
00:22:49Sing us a chorus from Pagliacci.
00:22:51You better talk, George.
00:22:52Come clean.
00:22:53Either you talk or we'll get it out of her.
00:22:54Please.
00:22:55You wouldn't do anything to her, Johnny, please.
00:22:57I don't want it.
00:22:57But if you won't talk, if you won't tell us what you told her.
00:22:59I didn't tell her nothing.
00:23:00Honest, I didn't.
00:23:01Why would I do a thing like that, Johnny?
00:23:03Oh, sure she wouldn't.
00:23:04She's just a billing inspector, is it?
00:23:06She just stopped outside the door to measure the keyhole.
00:23:09Why, you.
00:23:09Let's have it, George.
00:23:10We're going to get it out of one of you.
00:23:12If you didn't tell her anything, why was she around here snooping?
00:23:14Oh, she must have found the address in my pocket.
00:23:18Sure, that's what it was.
00:23:19Thought I was two-timing her, you know.
00:23:21Running around with another...
00:23:23Of course, she's just checking up on me, John.
00:23:30I didn't tell her nothing.
00:23:31Honest, I didn't.
00:23:33You'll let her go, won't you?
00:23:36You won't hurt her, John.
00:23:37Randy, Mike, take him home to his apartment and stick with him until I phone you.
00:23:41No, I'm not leaving, Shari.
00:23:42You're leaving, all right.
00:23:44Now, how are you going, sliding?
00:23:46No, walking.
00:23:47Come on, George, let's go.
00:23:52What are you going to do now, Johnny?
00:23:56Oh, I don't think I'll have to kill her.
00:23:58Just slap that pretty face into hamburger meat, that's all.
00:24:02Myra, why don't you take yourself a walk for an hour or so?
00:24:04Yeah, yeah.
00:24:05Yeah, I'll be.
00:24:06I'll be back in a couple hours.
00:24:35All right, sister.
00:24:51That's a mighty pretty head you've got on your shoulders.
00:24:53Do you want to keep it there, or do you want to start carrying it around in your hands?
00:24:56Maybe we could compromise and put it on your shoulder.
00:24:59I think that'd be nice, don't you?
00:25:01What were you doing outside that door?
00:25:02Doing?
00:25:03I was listening, naturally.
00:25:05Trying to, I should say.
00:25:06Oh, you admit it.
00:25:07You admit you were out there snooping.
00:25:08Yes, wasn't that naughty of me, but I'm afraid I was.
00:25:12I found an address in George's pocket.
00:25:14I thought he might be playing around with another woman, so I came over and...
00:25:17And you'd care if he was playing another dame?
00:25:19That would bother you.
00:25:20Oh, ho, ho, ho.
00:25:22You don't understand me, Johnny.
00:25:25You don't know me very well.
00:25:26I know you like a book.
00:25:28You're a no-good, nosy little tramp.
00:25:30You'd sell out your own mother for a piece of fudge, but you're smart along with it.
00:25:33Smart enough to know when to sell and when to sit tight, and you know you better sit tight in this case.
00:25:37I do.
00:25:37You heard me.
00:25:39You like money.
00:25:40You got a great big dollar sign there where most women have a heart.
00:25:43So play it smart.
00:25:44Stay in character and you'll have money.
00:25:46Plenty of it.
00:25:46George will have it, and he'll blow it all on you, probably by himself, a five-cent cigar.
00:25:50You don't know me very well, Johnny.
00:25:52I wouldn't think of letting George throw his money away on cigars.
00:25:57Isn't there a big if in there somewhere?
00:25:59Yeah, there's a couple of them.
00:26:01If you're smart, if you keep your trap shut and don't nose around anymore, you'll have money.
00:26:05You'll be loaded with a capital L, but if you don't, there'll be nothing.
00:26:08We'll forget the whole thing.
00:26:09Nothing will happen, and you won't have a penny.
00:26:10I wouldn't like that.
00:26:12Frail as I am, I'd much prefer to be loaded.
00:26:15I think we understand each other.
00:26:17Now, beat it.
00:26:19Those guys, fine friends they turned out to be, slapping me around, calling me dirty names.
00:26:25I thought that rotten Randy had caved the side of my head in.
00:26:28Poor George.
00:26:30You all right now, aren't you, darling?
00:26:31Doggone it, Sherry.
00:26:32You shouldn't have come over there tonight.
00:26:33It's a wonder we both didn't get killed.
00:26:35I don't think there was much danger of that.
00:26:37After all, if they'd killed you, it couldn't be a robbery.
00:26:40They've done anything to harm me or seriously offend you.
00:26:43They have offended me.
00:26:44They've offended me plenty.
00:26:45Oh, George, don't be such an old bear.
00:26:48They haven't. I'm not going to forget it in a hurry.
00:26:50Well, what else could they have done?
00:26:52I thought they acted quite reasonably.
00:26:55Well, anyway.
00:26:57What?
00:26:58What did Johnny do to you?
00:27:00Do? I already told you.
00:27:02Just asked me some questions and made sure it was all right for me to leave.
00:27:07Sherry, did Johnny try anything?
00:27:10Why, George, what a terrible thing for you to ask.
00:27:12I was pretty sure that you...
00:27:13I don't think you'd better say any more.
00:27:14Then why did you come over there tonight, Sherry?
00:27:17It wasn't for the reason you said.
00:27:18It was for the reason you said, George.
00:27:20You said it yourself.
00:27:21I was just trying to make an alibi for you.
00:27:23I was afraid those guys would kill you.
00:27:25You know that I wouldn't look at another woman.
00:27:27There wouldn't be any women chasing after a guy like me.
00:27:30Oh, let's drop it, George.
00:27:31You put words in my mouth, and then you say they're not true.
00:27:34I told you exactly what happened.
00:27:37Oh, dear.
00:27:40Everything's all right with you and your pals now.
00:27:42You're going to have lots and lots of money, and...
00:27:44I've been thinking it over, Sherry.
00:27:45I can hardly wait.
00:27:47How soon will it be, George?
00:27:48What day?
00:27:49It ain't going to be, Sherry.
00:27:50I'm dropping out.
00:27:52You're dropping out?
00:27:53Oh, you don't mean it.
00:27:54You can't mean it.
00:27:55I'm afraid, Sherry.
00:27:57This business tonight, it kind of opened my eyes.
00:28:00It made me realize the kind of guys I was getting mixed up with.
00:28:04Before, all I thought of was the money.
00:28:06Well, you just keep on thinking about that, George,
00:28:08and you'll think how disappointed I'd be if you didn't get that money.
00:28:12I'm afraid I'd feel like you didn't really love me.
00:28:15I don't see how I could feel any other way.
00:28:17Why?
00:28:18Why should I have to do a thing like that to prove to you that I love you?
00:28:22George, what are you going to do?
00:28:24I want to know right now.
00:28:25All you've ever done is talk about loving me.
00:28:27That's all I've had for the last five years is talk.
00:28:30Now that you have a chance to do something
00:28:33and to all those things you're promised, buy me things,
00:28:37well, what are you going to do, George?
00:28:38You know, there ain't a thing in the world I wouldn't do for you.
00:28:42Then you'll do this for me, won't you?
00:28:49I guess so.
00:28:50You'll be perfect, George.
00:28:52You have no idea how perfect.
00:28:54I won't have long to wait.
00:28:55Well, it will be within the next few days, won't it?
00:28:58Well, when will it be, George?
00:29:00You've got your own way, Sherry.
00:29:02You wanted me to go ahead with the deal, so I'm going.
00:29:04Now, leave me alone, will you?
00:29:06I'm sorry, darling.
00:29:08Of course, we won't even talk about it.
00:29:10You don't want to.
00:29:11You really love me, Sherry?
00:29:14Of course.
00:29:15You'll always love me?
00:29:17Always and always.
00:29:18Three days later, at 10.15 on a Tuesday morning,
00:29:30Johnny Clay began the final preparations.
00:29:32You want somebody to play with?
00:29:39No, no thanks.
00:29:39I'm just looking for a friend.
00:29:42Oh, you, Patzer.
00:29:44You missed the move.
00:29:45Knight to knight five, one takes knight.
00:29:47Rook takes rook, into rook four check.
00:29:49King to bishop four...
00:29:50Go away.
00:29:50Bother someone else.
00:29:51You don't know what you're talking.
00:29:52He couldn't do that.
00:29:53You don't know what you're talking.
00:29:54Shut up, Patzer.
00:29:55Make a move.
00:29:56He's right.
00:29:57I could have won your rook.
00:29:59Move, Patzer.
00:29:59Look, stop talking or I'll call Fisher.
00:30:02I can't think with all this noise.
00:30:04Good game, Maurice.
00:30:06Johnny Clay, my old friend.
00:30:08How are you?
00:30:09Good to see you, Maurice.
00:30:09Been a long time, huh?
00:30:10How long have you been out?
00:30:12Oh, not very long.
00:30:13It was very difficult, no?
00:30:15Yeah.
00:30:17Very difficult.
00:30:19You have much, buddy, Johnny.
00:30:21You have not yet learned that in this life
00:30:23you have to be like everyone else.
00:30:25The perfect mediocrity.
00:30:26No better, no worse.
00:30:28Individuality is a man's life.
00:30:29Gangster, and it must be strangled in its cradle
00:30:32to make our friends feel comfortable.
00:30:35You know, I often thought that the gangster and the artist
00:30:38are the same in the eyes of the masses.
00:30:41They are admired and hero-worshipped,
00:30:43but there is always present under language
00:30:46to see them destroyed at the peak of their glory.
00:30:49Yeah, like the man said,
00:30:53life is like a glass of tea, huh?
00:30:56Oh, Johnny, my friend.
00:30:57You never were very bright, but I love you anyway.
00:31:02How, uh, how's life been treating you, Maurice?
00:31:06About the same as always, Johnny.
00:31:08When I need some money, I go out and rest.
00:31:10But mostly I'm up here, wasting my time playing chess.
00:31:14But, you know, I wouldn't know what to do with myself
00:31:16if I didn't have this place to come to.
00:31:18Maurice, could you use $2,500?
00:31:22It's such a pleasure to ring to the choir.
00:31:25It's a musical.
00:31:26What is it, boy?
00:31:28We're taking care of a half a dozen private dicks,
00:31:30racetrack cops.
00:31:32I want you to start a fight with a bartender at the track.
00:31:34The track cops will try to break it up.
00:31:35You keep them busy for as long as you can.
00:31:37Make them drag you out of the place.
00:31:38No gunplay, strictly a muscle job.
00:31:40Would it be out of order for me to ask
00:31:42for what it is that you are willing to pay such a price
00:31:44to see me demonstrate my talents?
00:31:46I would imagine it is for more
00:31:49than just your own personal entertainment.
00:31:51$2,500 is a lot of dole, Maurice.
00:31:53Part of it's for not asking questions.
00:31:55That sounds not unreasonable.
00:31:57Still, I will probably go to jail.
00:31:59And jails I found unpleasant.
00:32:02For this very bit.
00:32:04Company is poor.
00:32:05Pets are too small.
00:32:06It'll only be a disorderly conduct charge.
00:32:08Maybe 60 days, nothing worse.
00:32:10And if a man has little money
00:32:11to spread around in the right places,
00:32:12he can be quite comfortable for his stay.
00:32:14I do not quite understand, Johnny.
00:32:16For what you want me to do,
00:32:18you could get any hoodlum for $100.
00:32:20I don't want any hoodlum.
00:32:22I want a guy like you.
00:32:23Someone who's absolutely dependable.
00:32:25Who knows he's being well-paid to take a risk
00:32:26and won't squawk if the going gets rough.
00:32:28I was thinking if perhaps
00:32:30you can't work out some other arrangement.
00:32:32$2,500, I like very much.
00:32:35But suppose I were willing to forgo part of it
00:32:37and take a share in your enterprise instead.
00:32:41No?
00:32:42No.
00:32:43It's not mine to share up.
00:32:44Very well, Johnny.
00:32:46Now a sense there will be certain details to work out.
00:32:48Yeah.
00:32:49I'll buy a cup of coffee.
00:32:57It's beautiful, isn't it?
00:32:59Yeah, it's exactly what I wanted.
00:33:01Yeah, Pops, you could take care of
00:33:02a whole roomful of people with that gun.
00:33:04Maybe not kill them all,
00:33:05but then they wouldn't be good for anything afterwards.
00:33:07I knew you'd take care of it for me, Nicky.
00:33:09Say, how long you had this place?
00:33:12Almost a year.
00:33:13Yeah, that's picturesque enough,
00:33:14but there can't be much profit in it.
00:33:16There isn't.
00:33:17But then there isn't much trouble on either.
00:33:19What are you thinking about?
00:33:21A job.
00:33:22Your kind of a job.
00:33:23A job with a rifle.
00:33:24What kind of money, Pops?
00:33:26Five thousand.
00:33:27What would I have to kill?
00:33:28A horse.
00:33:30A horse?
00:33:31A four-legged horse.
00:33:32And for that, I could find some of it.
00:33:33Well, for that and it...
00:33:34I figured that'd be a gimmick.
00:33:37Well, a gimmick isn't as tough as you may think.
00:33:40You shoot the horse,
00:33:41and if by any chance anything goes wrong,
00:33:42you don't squawk.
00:33:43And all I got to do is bump off a horse.
00:33:45Well, it's a special kind of a horse, Nicky.
00:33:47Well?
00:33:48For certain reasons,
00:33:49including your own protection,
00:33:50in case anything happens,
00:33:51I'm not going to give you the whole story.
00:33:52Just your part of it.
00:33:53Next Saturday,
00:33:54the $100,000 handicap is being run.
00:33:56In the seventh race,
00:33:57that's the big race of the season,
00:33:58there's a certain horse running.
00:33:59He's one of the best three-year-olds
00:34:00to come along in the last ten years.
00:34:02He's a big money winner,
00:34:03and he won't pay even money
00:34:03because half the people out there
00:34:04are going to be down on him.
00:34:05Well?
00:34:06All right.
00:34:07There's a parking lot less than 300 feet
00:34:08from the northwest corner of the track.
00:34:10From a car parked in the southeast corner of that lot,
00:34:12you get a perfect view of the horses
00:34:14as they come around the far corner
00:34:15and start into the stretch.
00:34:17A man sitting in a car,
00:34:18parked in that spot,
00:34:19using a high-powered rifle with a telescopic sight,
00:34:21should be able to bring down
00:34:22any given horse with a single shot.
00:34:24And a man with your eye
00:34:24would hardly need the telescopic sight.
00:34:26Well, that horse is worth a quarter million bucks,
00:34:28and you know the crowd will go completely nuts.
00:34:30Oh, well, let him go nuts.
00:34:32You can do it, Nick.
00:34:32You can do it easy,
00:34:33and you shouldn't have too much trouble
00:34:34getting away in the confusion.
00:34:36Red Lightning will undoubtedly be leading in the stretch
00:34:37because that's the way he runs.
00:34:38So he goes down,
00:34:39and a couple of other horses pile up on top of him.
00:34:41There'll be plenty of confusion.
00:34:42I can guarantee you that.
00:34:43Yeah.
00:34:44And there's one more thing.
00:34:45Suppose by accident you do get picked up.
00:34:47What have you done?
00:34:48You shot a horse.
00:34:49It isn't first-degree murder.
00:34:50In fact, it isn't even murder.
00:34:50In fact, I don't know what it is.
00:34:51But the chances are,
00:34:52the best they could get you on
00:34:53would be inciting a riot
00:34:55or shooting horses out of season
00:34:56or something like that.
00:34:57Well, you put it down.
00:34:58Could you make it sound real simple,
00:34:59you know, Pops?
00:35:00$5,000 for rubbing out a horse.
00:35:04Okay, Pops, how do I get it?
00:35:05$2,500 a day, $2,500 a day after the race.
00:35:08Okay, crazy.
00:35:09Now tell me something.
00:35:10What's your angle, John?
00:35:11They'll probably call the race off, huh?
00:35:13And they won't pay off any of the best.
00:35:15Come on.
00:35:15Maybe.
00:35:16But what my angle is, is my business.
00:35:18And, Nicky, $5,000 is a lot of dough,
00:35:20and that's what I'm paying it for.
00:35:21So nobody has to know my business.
00:35:23All right, John.
00:35:24I got no trouble.
00:35:25I'm with you.
00:35:26I'm looking for Joe Piano.
00:35:43Who's looking for Joe?
00:35:44Patsy sent me.
00:35:45Patsy who?
00:35:46Patsy Janelli.
00:35:47And where did you see Patsy?
00:35:48Alcatraz.
00:35:49We roomed together.
00:35:50My name happened to be...
00:35:50Don't tell him who you are.
00:35:51What can I do for you?
00:35:53Yeah, I want a place to stay for about a week.
00:35:54I won't be in there very much.
00:35:56I don't want it cleaned,
00:35:57and I don't want anybody else in it except myself.
00:35:59I think I can accommodate you.
00:36:01So how's the boy?
00:36:02Eh, he's fine.
00:36:03He's doing it on his ear.
00:36:04He's the best pitcher they got up there,
00:36:05and he told me to tell you not to worry about it.
00:36:07Yeah, he's doing the book, you know.
00:36:09I wanted plenty.
00:36:10Well, he's a tough kid.
00:36:11Maybe he'll get a break.
00:36:12Yeah, I know.
00:36:12Let's hope.
00:36:16Hey, well, I got another one.
00:36:17You don't have to worry about to leave anything in here.
00:36:19It'll be safe.
00:36:20I'm always over here.
00:36:21There'll be no maid service.
00:36:23Don't leave anything in there?
00:36:24Just this and another bag next week.
00:36:26Don't you worry.
00:36:26Nobody will disturb them.
00:36:28All right, what'll it be?
00:36:29Oh, no, no charge.
00:36:30You said Patsy sent you.
00:36:31Sure, he sent me, but he's a friend of mine.
00:36:33I'd feel better if I paid.
00:36:34It's kind of a business arrangement.
00:36:36I can afford it.
00:36:37Okay, then it'll be $10 a week.
00:36:40I'll send the money in the butts to the boy.
00:36:42Thank you very much.
00:36:43Have a nice time, eh?
00:36:54Four days later, at 7.30,
00:37:10Sherry Petey was wide awake.
00:37:26Gosh, honey, did I wake you up?
00:37:41I'm sorry.
00:37:41I just got to sleep somehow.
00:37:44Can I get you anything?
00:37:45Would you like some more coffee?
00:37:46No, I guess not.
00:37:47Nice of you to offer, though.
00:37:49I don't know.
00:37:50I'm just nervous and restless.
00:37:52I'll be all right.
00:37:53Go on back to bed, will you?
00:37:54No, I won't.
00:37:56Even if I don't get up to get my husband's breakfast,
00:37:58the least I can do is sit with him while he has his coffee.
00:38:01Now, Sherry, you sure you feel all right?
00:38:04I'm sorry.
00:38:04I didn't mean that the way it sounded.
00:38:06I deserved it.
00:38:09I know I've been irritable and moody lately,
00:38:11and I haven't acted like I should.
00:38:13It's just I can't stand living like this.
00:38:15This crummy apartment and a hamburger for dinner.
00:38:17Oh, you haven't been so bad, baby.
00:38:19Yes, I have.
00:38:21But things are going to be different, you'll see.
00:38:23We get all that money and have so many nice things.
00:38:26I'll stop thinking about myself so much.
00:38:28Your problems will be my problems.
00:38:31Whenever you're worried about something like now, for instance,
00:38:33is it the robbery?
00:38:34Is that what you're worrying about?
00:38:35Yeah, I guess it is a little.
00:38:37I don't have no reason to.
00:38:38I know it's going to be all right.
00:38:40Oh, it's naturally.
00:38:41You'd be a little upset at a time like this.
00:38:45Today, isn't it?
00:38:47Huh?
00:38:48What makes you think that?
00:38:49Just because I couldn't sleep, it doesn't mean that I...
00:38:51Oh, I know my Georgie.
00:38:52He can't fool me.
00:38:54I'm right, aren't I, darling?
00:38:55Today is the day we get all that money.
00:38:56No, you ain't.
00:38:57It isn't today.
00:38:59If you don't stop pestering me, trying to find out something you have no reason to know,
00:39:03there ain't going to be no money.
00:39:04But, George, how can you...
00:39:05I'm in it, Sherry.
00:39:06Now, I'm getting fed up.
00:39:08You heard what Johnny told you.
00:39:09To stop butting in.
00:39:10Mind your own business.
00:39:11He'd call this whole thing off.
00:39:12And he told me something else, too, which I neglected to tell you.
00:39:15That if I did butt in, as you and he choose to call it, that he'd break my neck.
00:39:19Well, maybe he had reason to.
00:39:21He wanted to make you understand that he means business.
00:39:25Well, I've got to say is you've certainly changed your tune since he and his friend slapped you around.
00:39:30Well, I was pretty sore about that.
00:39:32But, after all, what could they do?
00:39:33You said yourself they acted pretty reasonable.
00:39:35We had no reason to hold a grudge.
00:39:36But I'm not going to argue with you, George.
00:39:38If you let people beat you up and then take their side against your own wife, I...
00:39:42But you did, Sherry.
00:39:42You said, look, I wanted to quit.
00:39:44You wouldn't let me.
00:39:45You said I had no reason to.
00:39:47Anyway, Johnny didn't lay a hand on me.
00:39:49None of the guys did but Randy.
00:39:51I was going to tell you something about your dear friend Johnny.
00:39:54But since you feel about him like you do, I take his word against mine.
00:39:59What about him?
00:40:00What were you going to tell me?
00:40:02We stopped the conversation right there.
00:40:05What were you going to tell me, Sherry?
00:40:06I don't think I can tell you when you feel like you do about him.
00:40:12Not having any faith in me and keeping secrets.
00:40:15We won't have any secrets.
00:40:17What happened?
00:40:19Well, I tried to tell you about this the other night.
00:40:22But he was so upset.
00:40:24And every time I tried to say anything, you cut me off.
00:40:27Sherry, what are you trying to tell me?
00:40:30I tried to stop him.
00:40:32I pleaded and I struggled.
00:40:33I struggled.
00:40:36It doesn't matter, does it, Darlene?
00:40:39Anything that really matters is how I feel about you now, isn't it?
00:40:44It is today, isn't it?
00:40:50Earlier that morning at 5 a.m., Red Lightning was fed only a half portion of feed in preparation
00:40:56for the 7th race that afternoon, the $100,000 Lansdowne Stakes.
00:41:03At 7 that morning, Johnny Clay began what might be the last day of his life.
00:41:09Yeah, all right.
00:41:10I'm...
00:41:11Oh.
00:41:12Oh.
00:41:12What time is it?
00:41:15It's early yet.
00:41:16It's only 7.
00:41:17You better go back to sleep after I leave.
00:41:19I, uh, I just wanted to say goodbye.
00:41:21Until tonight, that is.
00:41:24Everything's all set.
00:41:25It should go perfectly.
00:41:25But if it doesn't, if anything goes wrong, why, just don't talk about this with anyone.
00:41:29You'll be in the clear for everything.
00:41:30Except being short on your books, and I don't think they'll be too rough.
00:41:32Oh.
00:41:33I'm not worried about that.
00:41:35Matter of fact, I'm not worried about anything.
00:41:36I just wish there was something more I could do to help.
00:41:39Yeah, you've done your part.
00:41:40I only hope we can do ours as well.
00:41:43We, uh, we'll probably never see each other again after we split the money and break up tonight,
00:41:47but in my book, you'll always be a stand-up guy.
00:41:52Johnny, I...
00:41:53I don't know how to say this, and I don't even know if I have the right,
00:41:57but I've always thought maybe you're like my own kid.
00:42:01Yeah, you can say anything you want.
00:42:02You've had a lot of rough breaks, and maybe you've made a few mistakes,
00:42:07but after today, the good Lord willing, you'll be a new man.
00:42:12A rich man.
00:42:14And that can make a lot of difference.
00:42:16You've got a lot of life ahead of you.
00:42:19A lot of people to meet.
00:42:21People of quality and substance.
00:42:24When do you get now?
00:42:25Wouldn't it be great if we could just go away, the two of us,
00:42:28and let the old world take a couple of turns,
00:42:30and have a chance to take stock of things?
00:42:35It can be pretty serious and terrible,
00:42:38particularly if it's not the right person.
00:42:41Getting married, I mean.
00:42:44You better go back to sleep.
00:42:47The, uh, seventh race starts about 4.30 if you want to catch it on the radio.
00:42:51I'll be back here about 7 o'clock.
00:42:56Keep away from the track.
00:42:58Go to a movie or something.
00:42:59See you later.
00:43:06It was exactly 7 a.m. when he got to the airport.
00:43:11The wait is okay, Mr. Preston.
00:43:13Is that all the baggage?
00:43:14Well, I'll have one more with you tonight.
00:43:16I, uh, I can keep it with me in the cabin, can I?
00:43:18Yes, sir, but be sure and check in here at the counter prior to flight time.
00:43:21Flight 465 leaves at 9 p.m. tonight.
00:43:24Thank you for flying American, sir.
00:43:30Stopping first at a florist, he arrived at the motel at 8.15.
00:43:33He was on schedule.
00:43:36Good morning, my friend.
00:43:38Good morning, Joe.
00:43:39Now, look, this afternoon a friend of mine is stopping by and leaving a bundle for me, huh?
00:43:42He's a cop.
00:43:43A cop?
00:43:43Yeah, yeah.
00:43:44He's, uh, drives a prowl car.
00:43:46A funny kind of a friend to have.
00:43:48Well, he's a funny kind of a cop.
00:43:49Now, you let him in, huh?
00:43:50You leave this bundle for me about 6.30.
00:43:52I'll be by right after that and pick it up, and that's the last you'll see of me.
00:43:54Would you come in for a drink?
00:43:55Well, I'd like to, but I've got a lot to do today, and if I did that way, everything would be all bowled up.
00:43:59I understand.
00:44:00I'll see you tonight.
00:44:01Yeah.
00:44:01So long.
00:44:01Take care of yourself.
00:44:25He reached the bus station at 8.45.
00:44:50It was 9.45.
00:45:20It was funny when he arrived at Mike's apartment.
00:45:22So far, everything had gone off according to plan.
00:45:33Mike O'Reilly was ready at 11.15.
00:45:35What goes on here?
00:45:37This is no way to get your strength back.
00:45:39Oh, very good, Mike, but I guess I'm just not hungry.
00:45:43Really, I couldn't eat another bite.
00:45:45Another?
00:45:46You haven't eaten anything yet.
00:45:47Well, I'll take something after a while.
00:45:49After I've had my medicine.
00:45:51I'll have more appetite then.
00:45:53That's a promise.
00:45:54No tricks now.
00:45:55It's a promise.
00:45:56You better go along now, Mike, or you'll be late for work.
00:45:59Yeah, I guess I will.
00:46:01Ruthie, things are going to get much better for us.
00:46:04I know.
00:46:05I know.
00:46:05I know, dear.
00:46:06I know I've made a lot of promises in the past, but this time it's not just talk.
00:46:12We're going to be rich and soon.
00:46:14You're going to have a fine house and doctors that'll make you well again.
00:46:17Of course, dear.
00:46:18But you'd better go along, Mike, or you'll be late.
00:46:21Yeah.
00:46:21Well, Mike.
00:46:27Yes?
00:46:28On your way home tonight, would you bring me some magazines?
00:46:30Of course.
00:46:32But, uh, Ruthie, I'm going to be a little late.
00:46:35Probably about 10.
00:46:37Some of the fellas and me are having a little get-together.
00:46:39I understand.
00:46:41Don't you drink too much beer, Mike.
00:46:43Remember how it always leaves you the next day.
00:46:45No worry about that.
00:46:47I won't be doing any drinking tonight.
00:46:48I called Mother.
00:46:53She'll be over this afternoon to fix your dinner.
00:46:55Thank you, dear.
00:46:58Goodbye.
00:46:59Don't forget to eat your breakfast.
00:47:18He reached the bus station at 11.29.
00:47:26Goodbye.
00:47:27Goodbye.
00:47:28Goodbye.
00:47:29Goodbye.
00:47:30Goodbye.
00:47:30Goodbye.
00:47:31Goodbye.
00:47:32Goodbye.
00:47:32Goodbye.
00:47:33Goodbye.
00:47:34Goodbye.
00:47:35Goodbye.
00:47:36Goodbye.
00:47:37Goodbye.
00:47:38Goodbye.
00:47:39Goodbye.
00:47:40Goodbye.
00:47:41Goodbye.
00:47:42Goodbye.
00:47:43Goodbye.
00:47:44Goodbye.
00:47:45Goodbye.
00:47:46Goodbye.
00:47:47Goodbye.
00:47:48Goodbye.
00:47:49Goodbye.
00:47:50Goodbye.
00:47:51Goodbye.
00:47:52Goodbye.
00:47:53Goodbye.
00:47:54Goodbye.
00:47:55At 1210, as it was his custom, he arrived at the track.
00:48:16Well, what have we got here? Who's the girlfriend, Mike?
00:48:18That's how you spend your money.
00:48:19Blowing your money on dames.
00:48:20I know a man like you that ought to know better.
00:48:23I ain't like you guys.
00:48:25These posies are for my wife.
00:48:27Besides, where do you guys get off calling me an old man?
00:48:31You buy your powers after you get through work, Mike.
00:48:33A lot of wool down you before you get home.
00:48:35Well, it can't be helped.
00:48:37After work, the shops will all be closed.
00:48:39Why don't you take them out and put them in the water?
00:48:41Or probably the clubhouse steward would put them in the refrigerator for you.
00:48:44Why don't you do that?
00:48:45Well, perhaps I should, but...
00:48:48Well, it's getting kind of late now.
00:48:50Look, I'm all dressed. Why don't I do it for you?
00:48:51No.
00:48:52What's the matter, Mike? I was just trying to do your favor.
00:48:55Those flowers are going in my lot.
00:48:57Then I'll know where they are.
00:48:59Okay, Mike. Suit yourself.
00:49:01I'm sorry, Bill. I appreciate your offer.
00:49:04After work, you know how it is.
00:49:06Everybody will be in a hurry to get away and...
00:49:08Edward Dunham.
00:49:28Come on.
00:49:29Come on.
00:49:29Come on.
00:49:30It's third and trumpet king, it is my baby leading by a length.
00:49:54Concentrator is second by three quarters of length, second ending, moving up faster on the outside is third and trumpet king, it is my baby concentrator and second ending, it is second ending concentrator and trumpet king, it is second ending in front, down to the wire, it's second ending the winner by a length, concentrator second by two, trumpet king third and my baby.
00:50:19The result of the first race now appears on the totalizator board, be sure to hold all tickets until the result of the race is declared official.
00:50:31After the first race, Mike was very busy.
00:50:45Give me a cup of bourbon please.
00:50:49Don't you think you've had enough, pal?
00:50:55Your attention please, the horses are now on the track for the second race at six furlong.
00:51:01At exactly 3.32 that same afternoon, officer Randy Kennan sent in motion his phase of the operation.
00:51:10Hello, Fred, this is Randy.
00:51:13Listen, pal, will you check with the dispatchers' office and see if they've been getting me loud and clear?
00:51:17Sure, I think my set's a little on the blank.
00:51:19Sure.
00:51:25What?
00:51:26He says it's okay.
00:51:28Well, that's funny, it keeps going dead.
00:51:31Now, I don't think it's one of the tubes, I'll keep fooling around with it.
00:51:34Give my regards to your missus.
00:51:35By the way, when's the big day supposed to be?
00:51:39Well, don't worry about it.
00:51:40The sixth one is always the hardest.
00:51:41Officer!
00:51:56Officer!
00:51:59Oh, thank heaven, hurry!
00:52:00Come quick, they're killing each other!
00:52:02I always knew they...
00:52:03He had timed the trip to the track on half a dozen different occasions, and he knew at
00:52:12just what point he should be, and precisely what time.
00:52:15He knew the entire success of the plan depended on his accuracy in arriving at the track at
00:52:19exactly the correct moment.
00:52:20A minute or two early was allowable, but ten seconds late would be fatal.
00:52:24Your attention, ladies and gentlemen, the horses are now on the track for the seventh race.
00:52:32The $100,000 added, Lansdowne Stakes, at one mile.
00:52:36A minute or two, and they're off and running.
00:52:46A minute or two, and they're off and running.
00:52:54At the start, it is a big game.
00:52:58A minute or two, and they're off and running.
00:53:02They're off and running! At the start, it is Red Lightning breaking on top, early streak is second, I'm hoping is third, White Fire is four.
00:53:12Earlier that afternoon at 2.30, Maurice was at the chess club. He was to be at the track in position at 4 o'clock just before the start of the seventh race.
00:53:20Fisher, I have to be back here tonight about 6.30. If I'm not, I'd like you to do something for me.
00:53:30Sure, Maurice. What is it?
00:53:32I'd like you to call this number and ask for Mr. Stillman and tell him Maurice requires his services.
00:53:38Sounds pretty mysterious. What's it all about?
00:53:41There are some things, my dear Fisher, which do not very much looking into.
00:53:45You have undoubtedly heard of the Siberian Godheader who tried to discover the true nature of the sun.
00:53:50He stared up at the heavenly body until it made him blind.
00:53:54There are many things of this sort, including love and death and my business for today.
00:53:59Please remember to make that call if I'm not back at 6.30.
00:54:03Your attention, ladies and gentlemen. The horses are now on the track for the seventh race.
00:54:08The $100,000 added Lansdowne Stakes at one mile.
00:54:14Plan in our apertures.
00:54:21We'll be back in the second attenem test...
00:54:23All right.
00:54:27And the back at the Send money...
00:54:30There are people looking for their круто-watcher...
00:54:34climb flat by the hill center...
00:54:36Come on.
00:54:42Yes, sir.
00:54:46God love you.
00:54:47Yes, sir.
00:54:51The horses are approaching the starting gate for the seventh race.
00:54:56The horses are approaching the starting gate for the seventh race.
00:55:03The horses are at the gate.
00:55:07The horses are at the gate.
00:55:12Come on.
00:55:22Hey, I got some service, this stupid looking Irish pig.
00:55:26What's the matter with you?
00:55:57Let's go.
00:56:27Let's go.
00:56:57It was exactly 4.23 when they dragged Maurice out.
00:57:04At 11.40 that morning, Nicky left his farm.
00:57:06He arrived at the track at 12.30.
00:57:18He arrived at the track at 12.30.
00:57:22Here's the other parking lot, mister.
00:57:33This one ain't open yet.
00:57:34I don't like the trouble.
00:57:35You're not troubling me.
00:57:37I said there's no parking here.
00:57:38There's no parking.
00:57:38And that's that.
00:57:39Look, Max, I'm a paraplegic.
00:57:42And I wanted to get in this lot to watch your graces for my car.
00:57:45That ain't my problem, mister.
00:57:47My leg's bummed, too, but nobody's feeling sorry for me.
00:57:51I know what you mean, buddy.
00:57:54Get that in the war?
00:57:55Battle of the Bulge.
00:57:58Say, look, I know there's a lot of extra trouble for you.
00:58:01I want you to take it.
00:58:02No, no, no.
00:58:02Skip it.
00:58:03Skip it.
00:58:04I want you to take it.
00:58:06Go on.
00:58:07Keep it.
00:58:09It's all right.
00:58:11Thanks a lot, mister.
00:58:12I'm sorry.
00:58:12It's okay.
00:58:13Forget it.
00:58:14Say, will you take down that fence?
00:58:15I'd like to get settled down before the first race starts.
00:58:19Okay?
00:58:20Sure, mister.
00:58:45Your attention, please.
00:58:50The horses are now on the track for the second race at six furlongs.
00:58:57I had this laying around, mister.
00:58:59I thought you might like to have it.
00:59:01Thanks.
00:59:01That's very kind of you.
00:59:03No trouble at all.
00:59:04If you need anything else, just how?
00:59:06I doubt if I need anything.
00:59:07I'm getting along just fine.
00:59:09But thanks, anyway.
00:59:11Well, who you betting on, mister?
00:59:12Anything look good to you?
00:59:13Red lightning, huh?
00:59:15Red lightning in the seventh.
00:59:17You say you're betting on him, huh?
00:59:19Yeah.
00:59:20I got a little bet down on him.
00:59:22Well, I guess I better be getting back to work.
00:59:24Yeah, well, thanks for bringing me to the program.
00:59:27No trouble at all.
00:59:28You sure there's nothing else I can do for you?
00:59:30No, nothing at all.
00:59:31If I think of anything, I'll give you a yell.
00:59:45Your attention, ladies and gentlemen, the horses are now on the track for the seventh race.
01:00:03The $100,000 added Lansdowne Stakes at one mile.
01:00:12The horses are approaching the starting gate for the seventh race.
01:00:16Sure is a nice day, ain't it?
01:00:31Well, sir, I didn't figure it would be when it first got up this morning, but it turned out real fine.
01:00:38Kind of funny when you stop to look at it.
01:00:40Well, it's almost the same as it always is this time of year, but I sure appreciate the way you're treating me, mister.
01:00:48It's not so much the money.
01:00:49Of course, I appreciate that, too, but it's more the way you...
01:00:51No, sir, I don't reckon I'll ever forget it.
01:00:56I brought you some luck, mister.
01:00:58You bet in this race, I figure you might need it.
01:01:00Oh, now, look, keep your junk and leave me alone, will you?
01:01:03Some... something wrong?
01:01:05You're wrong, nigga.
01:01:07Now, be a nice guy and go on about your business.
01:01:11Sure, boss.
01:01:13Sorry to bother you.
01:01:15My mistake.
01:01:21They're off.
01:01:30I'm running.
01:01:31It is Red Lightning breaking on top.
01:01:34Burley's streak is second.
01:01:35I'm hoping is third.
01:01:36White Fire is fourth.
01:01:38Little Arnie is next.
01:01:40Seymour's darling and bestseller.
01:01:42Moving down the back stretch, it's Red Lightning by a length and a quarter.
01:01:46I'm hoping is second by three quarters of a length.
01:01:48Little Arnie is third by a length and a quarter and Seymour's darling.
01:01:54Passing the half-mile post, it is Red Lightning by a length and a quarter.
01:01:58I'm hoping is second by a half a length.
01:02:00Seymour's darling is third and Little Arnie moving past to the outside.
01:02:05Into the far turn, it is Red Lightning in front by a length and a quarter.
01:02:10Little Arnie is second by half a length.
01:02:13And the horse is down.
01:02:15It is Red Lightning.
01:02:16At the head of the stretch, it is, I'm hoping, taking the lead to fire.
01:02:22Little Arnie drives on the other way.
01:02:26Hey, stop.
01:02:27Stop, stop.
01:02:27Stop.
01:02:31Little Arnie is the little Arnie.
01:02:33Down to the wire.
01:02:34It is Little Arnie going steadily, holding it.
01:02:38Mickey was dead at 424.
01:02:40At 2.15 that afternoon, Johnny Clay was still in the city.
01:02:44He knew exactly how long it would take him to drive to the track, park his car, and walk to the grandstand.
01:02:49He planned to arrive just before the start of the seventh race.
01:02:56Your attention, ladies and gentlemen.
01:02:58The horses are now on the track for the seventh race.
01:03:01For the seventh race.
01:03:03The $100,000 Haddon lands downstate at one mile.
01:03:07The horses are now on the track.
01:03:09The horses are now on the track.
01:03:11They are just all that.
01:03:12That's one of the woods.
01:03:13The horses have already moved on to the track.
01:03:14They're just like myético jean.
01:03:16Call the lóg me up for you.
01:03:16My father with our guys.
01:03:19The horses are gone so languages right now.
01:03:20Thanks.
01:03:21The horses, horses
01:03:31They will be the setting.
01:03:32I will probably get up.
01:03:33The horses are stuck.
01:03:34Dutch have been this huge.
01:04:05The horses are approaching the starting gate for the seventh race.
01:04:26Hey, I've had some services, stupid-looking Irish pig.
01:04:35You want to report on it?
01:04:37Yes, sir. Right away.
01:04:39There's a riot down there. Come on.
01:04:42Come on.
01:04:44They're off.
01:05:13On the start, it is Red Lightning breaking on top.
01:05:17Early streak is second.
01:05:19I'm hoping is third.
01:05:20White Fire is fourth.
01:05:22Little Arnie is next.
01:05:23Seymour's darling and bestseller.
01:05:26Moving down the back stretch, it's Red Lightning by a length and a quarter.
01:05:29I'm hoping it's second by three quarters of a length.
01:05:32Little Arnie is third by a length and a quarter and Seymour's darling.
01:05:37Passing the half mile post, it is Red Lightning by a length and a quarter.
01:05:41I'm hoping it's second by a length and a quarter.
01:05:44Seymour's darling is third.
01:05:46And Little Arnie moving past on the outside.
01:05:49Into the far turn.
01:05:50It is Red Lightning by a length and a quarter.
01:05:53Little Arnie is second by half a length.
01:05:56I'm hoping it's third.
01:05:57And the horse is down.
01:05:59It is Red Lightning.
01:06:01At the head of the stretch, it is I'm hoping taking the lead by a half a length.
01:06:06Little Arnie driving on the outside.
01:06:08Second by three quarters.
01:06:09Seymour's darling is third and a early streak.
01:06:13It is Little Arnie and Seymour's darling is Little Arnie in front.
01:06:17Down to the wire.
01:06:18It is Little Arnie going steadily holding it and winning it by three quarters of a length.
01:06:23I'm hoping his second to buy three quarters of a length.
01:06:28Seymour's darling is third to fire ahead.
01:06:31And White Fighter finish fourth.
01:06:36Your attention, ladies and gentlemen.
01:06:38Be sure to hold all tickets.
01:06:41These stewards are conducting an inquiry into the running of the seventh race.
01:06:44I'll show you the motion picture.
01:07:04All right, get your hands off, all of you.
01:07:05Now, one move out of any one of you and I'm going to start firing.
01:07:09You.
01:07:11Fill that bag up just as fast as you know how.
01:07:16You.
01:07:16Take that gun out of the holster.
01:07:19Be awful, awful careful how you do.
01:07:20I'll drop it.
01:07:29Kick it over here.
01:07:33All right, turn around and face the wall.
01:07:45All right, now the money in the safe.
01:07:50Fill it up.
01:07:52Fill it up.
01:08:04All right, now the money in the seventh race.
01:08:07However, jockey Danny Freed appears to be unheard.
01:08:13Fill it up.
01:08:14Fill it up.
01:08:15Fill it up.
01:08:16Fill it up.
01:08:17Fill it up.
01:08:17Fill it up.
01:08:17Fill it up.
01:08:19Fill it up.
01:08:19Fill it up.
01:08:20All right, all right, that's enough.
01:08:46Now put the bag here in the middle of the floor.
01:08:50Get back over there.
01:08:52Now, I'm going to open this door.
01:08:55I want you to go through it and go into the locker room
01:08:57and close the door after you.
01:08:58I'm going to start firing through that door
01:09:0015 seconds after you close the door.
01:09:03Let's go.
01:09:13Now close it.
01:09:20Let's go.
01:09:22Let's go.
01:09:23Let's go.
01:09:24Let's go.
01:09:25Let's go.
01:09:27Let's go.
01:09:28Let's go, sir.
01:09:32Let's go.
01:09:33Let's go.
01:10:03Let's go.
01:10:33Let's go.
01:11:03Let's go.
01:11:05Let's go.
01:11:07Let's go.
01:11:09Let's go.
01:11:11Let's go.
01:11:13Let's go.
01:11:15Let's go.
01:11:17Let's go.
01:11:19Let's go.
01:11:21Let's go.
01:11:23Let's go.
01:11:25Let's go.
01:11:27Let's go.
01:11:29Let's go.
01:11:31Let's go.
01:11:33Let's go.
01:11:35Let's go.
01:11:37Let's go.
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01:11:41Let's go.
01:11:43Let's go.
01:11:45Let's go.
01:11:47Let's go.
01:11:49Let's go.
01:11:51Let's go.
01:11:53Let's go.
01:11:55Let's go.
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01:11:59Let's go.
01:12:01Let's go.
01:12:03Let's go.
01:12:05Let's go.
01:12:06Let's go.
01:12:07Let's go.
01:12:09Let's go.
01:12:11Let's go.
01:12:13Let's go.
01:12:15Let's go.
01:12:17Let's go.
01:12:19Let's go.
01:12:21He runs the place, I guess.
01:12:23Sure hope Johnny knows how to pick his friends.
01:12:25I need another drink.
01:12:29Why ain't he here?
01:12:31Everything else runs on the timetable
01:12:33till it comes to paying us our shares,
01:12:35and the timetable breaks down.
01:12:38He's supposed to be here at 7.
01:12:45I think I get to the elevator.
01:12:46That'll be Johnny.
01:12:47Yeah.
01:12:51All right, everybody.
01:12:55What is this?
01:12:56It'll be a massacre if you don't keep those mitts up.
01:12:59Now, where's Johnny? What time's he do?
01:13:02Look, I've been sitting out in that car
01:13:03since 4 o'clock listening to that radio.
01:13:05I heard some pretty interesting things.
01:13:07Grandpa, tell me when time's Johnny getting here.
01:13:10Let me give you a bum steer, buddy.
01:13:12Look around.
01:13:14Can't believe you were tipped, huh?
01:13:16What if I had a certain little lady here?
01:13:19Hey, where's the jerk? Where's George?
01:13:20The jerk's right.
01:13:5040 minutes before, at 625, Johnny reached the motel.
01:13:57Due to heavy traffic around the track,
01:13:58he was 15 minutes behind schedule.
01:14:04Yeah, what is it?
01:14:07Oh, it's, uh, it's just a mistake.
01:14:10I'm sorry.
01:14:10Johnny arrived at the meeting place at 729,
01:14:38still 15 minutes late.
01:14:49It had been prearranged and agreed to by all
01:14:51that in the event of an emergency before the split,
01:14:54the money was to be saved by whoever had possession of it
01:14:56at that time,
01:14:57without any consideration of the fate of the others.
01:14:59The money to be divided in safety at a later date.
01:15:02After what he had seen,
01:15:03and unknowing the cause or the circumstances of the others,
01:15:06Johnny had no choice but to save himself and the money.
01:15:17Ten minutes later,
01:15:18he bought the largest suitcase he could find.
01:15:20I don't know.
01:15:32I don't know.
01:15:36Let's go.
01:16:06I'm back here, Belle, darling.
01:16:35How'd it go, dear?
01:16:44Watch out, dear. Watch out.
01:16:45What happened?
01:16:48Why? Why did you do it?
01:16:51Do what, dearest? I don't know what you're talking about.
01:16:54I was just getting some clothes ready to go to the cleaners.
01:16:58Hurry now.
01:16:59I'm sure you had to be stupid.
01:17:03You couldn't even play it smart with a gun pointed at you.
01:17:07Well, you better get smart fast and get out of here while you can still walk.
01:17:11Your friend Val, is that his name?
01:17:15Yes, and you better get out of here before he gets here.
01:17:17Oh, I'm sick, Sherry. I call an ambulance.
01:17:28The door's behind you. Take a cab.
01:17:31I love you, Sherry.
01:17:34George, you better go on and go. You look terrible.
01:17:37I never had anybody but you.
01:17:49Not a real husband.
01:17:51Not even...
01:17:53Just a bad joke without a punchline.
01:17:59American Airlines announces the arrival of flight 808.
01:18:29DC-7 service from Chicago.
01:18:33American Airlines announces the arrival of flight 808.
01:18:38DC-7 service from Chicago.
01:18:53The bastard and I are so excited.
01:18:56We haven't seen Daddy Sweetums for such a long, long time.
01:19:00Would a nice man let us wait outside so we can look at the airplanes?
01:19:04Why, certainly.
01:19:05You can stand outside on the boarding ramp.
01:19:06We'll be announcing the arrival of your husband's flight very shortly.
01:19:09He's a Sweetums man, isn't him.
01:19:12Let's hurry up real fast and see Daddy come off the airplane.
01:19:17Good evening.
01:19:18Good evening.
01:19:18Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Preston.
01:19:21Nine o'clock flight for Boston.
01:19:22Mm-hmm.
01:19:25We'll be announcing the on-time departure of this flight very shortly, sir.
01:19:29Do you have any other baggage?
01:19:31No, it was already checked through this morning.
01:19:32Oh, say, I want to carry that bag with me to the plane, please.
01:19:36Oh, I'm sorry, sir.
01:19:36It's much too large.
01:19:37I'll have to go check through his baggage.
01:19:38Oh, now, uh, let's, uh, let's be a little reasonable, huh?
01:19:43You can't tell me that the two of us family together are not entitled to one piece of luggage between us.
01:19:48Sir, we have no objection to one small bag or even two small bags.
01:19:51Well, we don't have anything else.
01:19:51It's already been checked through.
01:19:53I see.
01:19:55Even though it's getting very close to flight time, I think we can locate the rest of your luggage.
01:19:58You could transfer some of the contents from this one to a smaller one.
01:20:01No, I'm sorry.
01:20:01That won't work at all.
01:20:02Now, look, uh, let me talk to your supervisor, huh?
01:20:05All right.
01:20:06I'll be very happy to call him.
01:20:07Mr. Grimes!
01:20:08Mr. Grimes, should you come down this way, please?
01:20:14Good evening, sir.
01:20:14What can you do for me?
01:20:15Good evening.
01:20:16Now, my wife and I are going through to Boston.
01:20:18The rest of our luggage has already been checked through, and I want to take this bag with me in the cabin, please.
01:20:21I'm afraid it exceeds the maximum cabin size for flight requirements.
01:20:23Yes, it does look quite a bit too large for a passenger compartment.
01:20:27Sir, those are our flight regulations, which are designed for your comfort and safety.
01:20:31Well, I can't make the trip without it.
01:20:32You, uh, really can't, huh?
01:20:34Absolutely not.
01:20:35Well, in that case, I think we can.
01:20:37Now, how about it, Brown?
01:20:38I know it's past cancellation time, but under the circumstances, I think we might stretch a point, don't you?
01:20:42We'll give you a full rebate on your ticket, sir.
01:20:45Wait a minute.
01:20:45I don't want a rebate.
01:20:47Well, sir, I don't know what else to suggest.
01:20:50It's very close to flight time.
01:20:51There are other passengers waiting.
01:20:53Perhaps the gentleman's worried about the contents of the bag.
01:20:55Is that it?
01:20:55We'd be very happy to insure it.
01:20:56More than happy, we'd be delighted.
01:20:57Now, if you'd just give me its estimated value and tell me what's in it.
01:21:00No, there's nothing in it.
01:21:01I mean, uh, just personal items, things like that.
01:21:05All right.
01:21:06All right.
01:21:07Check it through.
01:21:08Passengers may now force American Airlines flight 40.
01:21:12The New Englander DC-7 service to Boston at gate 8.
01:21:17The New Englander DC-7 service to Boston at gate 8.
01:21:48Brighten, pretty airplane.
01:21:49He's going to bust him in that night that plane someday.
01:22:12Master, come back here.
01:22:17Let's go.
01:22:47Let's go.
01:23:17Will Passenger Preston, please report to the American Airlines ticket counter.
01:23:24Will Passenger Preston, please report to the American Airlines ticket counter.
01:23:31Taxi!
01:23:31Passenger Preston, please report to the American Airlines ticket counter.
01:23:43Johnny, you've got to run.
01:23:56Passenger Preston, please report to the American Airlines ticket counter.
01:23:58What's the difference?
01:24:00Passenger Preston, please report to the American Airlines ticket counter.
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