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00:01:30Well, here we are. I turned down here at the next block.
00:01:39Thanks, mister. I'll get off there.
00:01:48Want anything else?
00:01:50No.
00:01:51Hey, you.
00:01:52Me?
00:01:56Yeah, you.
00:01:57Where are you heading?
00:01:59East.
00:02:01There.
00:02:02I thought if you were heading north, I might be able to help you out.
00:02:05I'm pushing the Salt Lake, and I don't like to ride alone at night.
00:02:08I'm one of those guys that got to talk or I fall asleep.
00:02:11Oh, sure, no, Mike.
00:02:12But pardon me, he's got Lou to keep in company, but I ain't got nobody at all.
00:02:17Where you coming from?
00:02:19West.
00:02:19Yeah, sure, I know, but where, L.A.?
00:02:22Maybe.
00:02:23I got a cousin out in L.A.
00:02:24You don't say.
00:02:25Yeah, he's been out.
00:02:28You're not much of a talker, are you?
00:02:29My mother taught me never to speak to strangers.
00:02:31Oh, wise guy.
00:02:32So what?
00:02:33Yeah, okay, okay, don't get sore.
00:02:35He's trying to be sociable, that's all.
00:02:38Hey, Glamorous, you change for a dime, will you?
00:02:51Let's have something quieter this time, Joe.
00:02:54My head's splitting.
00:02:55Is that what's wrong with it?
00:02:59Done with your coffee?
00:03:01No.
00:03:01Then don't rush me, will you?
00:03:03Hey, turn that off.
00:03:11Will you turn that thing off?
00:03:12What's eating you now?
00:03:13Yeah, what's eating you?
00:03:14That music, it stinks.
00:03:15Oh, you don't like it, huh?
00:03:16No, turn it off.
00:03:17Now, wait a minute, pal.
00:03:18That was my nickel, see?
00:03:20This is a free country, and I play whatever I want to.
00:03:24Okay.
00:03:26Sure, and if you don't like it, you don't have to listen to it.
00:03:28And you can leave here anytime you want it.
00:03:30Okay, okay, I'm sorry I asked.
00:03:31First good piece play tonight, and you don't like it.
00:03:34Some people just ain't got any good taste.
00:03:36That tune, that tune, why was there always that rotten tune?
00:03:53Following me around, beating in my head, never letting up.
00:03:56Did you ever want to forget anything?
00:04:02Did you ever want to cut away a piece of your memory or blot it out?
00:04:06You can't, you know.
00:04:07No matter how hard you try.
00:04:09You can change the scenery.
00:04:11But sooner or later, you'll get a whiff of perfume where somebody will say a certain phrase or maybe hum something.
00:04:16Then you're licked again.
00:04:18I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:04:23I used to love that song once.
00:04:25So did the customers back in the old Break of Dawn club in New York.
00:04:28I can't remember a night when I didn't get at least three requests for it.
00:04:32Sue, she was always selling it too.
00:04:36Those were the days.
00:04:37Your eyes are blue, your kisses too.
00:05:06I never knew what they could do.
00:05:09I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:05:14You're telling everyone you know that I'm on your mind each place you go.
00:05:21They can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:05:27I have always placed you far above me.
00:05:32I just can't imagine that you love me.
00:05:39And after all is said and done, to think that I'm the lucky one.
00:05:45I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:05:49It wasn't much of a club, really.
00:05:59You know the kind.
00:06:01A joint where you could have a sandwich and a few drinks and run interference for your girl on the dance floor.
00:06:05I pounded the piano in there every night from eight until the place closed up, which usually meant four in the morning.
00:06:14A good job as jobs went in those days.
00:06:16Then, too, there was Sue, who made working there a little like working in heaven.
00:06:27But how we felt about each other, well, there was nothing very unusual in that.
00:06:31I was an ordinary healthy guy, and she was an ordinary healthy girl.
00:06:34And when you add those two together, you get an ordinary healthy romance, which is the old story.
00:06:39Sure, but somehow, the most wonderful thing in the world.
00:06:52All in all, I was a pretty lucky guy.
00:07:07Mr. Paderewski, I presume.
00:07:09It's beautiful.
00:07:10You're going to make Carnegie Hall yet, Al.
00:07:12Yeah, as a janitor.
00:07:15I'll make my debut in the basement.
00:07:17I don't blame you for being bitter, darling, but you mustn't give up hope.
00:07:21Why, someday...
00:07:22Yeah, someday.
00:07:23But don't get arthritis first.
00:07:24In the meantime, let's blow this trap.
00:07:39Do you want to get something to eat, hon?
00:07:47Oh, I don't think so, Al.
00:07:49I lose my appetite working in this flea bag.
00:07:52Let's go home.
00:07:53Okay.
00:07:53I can't stand much more of that dump.
00:07:57Did you see that drunk tonight, trying to paw me?
00:08:00No, what drunk?
00:08:01Does it matter what drunk?
00:08:04Say, what's the matter with you tonight, darling?
00:08:06That's the third time you started to tell me something and then stopped.
00:08:10We shouldn't have any secrets from each other, Sue.
00:08:12Next week, we're going to make with the ring and the license.
00:08:14You and me will be a team.
00:08:15Yes, that's right.
00:08:16In the Bush League.
00:08:18I don't get you.
00:08:19We've been struck out.
00:08:22That's a funny way to talk, darling.
00:08:24Don't you want to marry me?
00:08:25Al, look, I love you.
00:08:26You know I do, and I want to marry you.
00:08:29But?
00:08:29But not now.
00:08:31Only after we've made good.
00:08:34Sunday, I'm going away.
00:08:36Oh, I know you'll think it's silly.
00:08:38That's why I hesitated to tell you.
00:08:41But I'm going to California.
00:08:42I want to try my luck in Hollywood.
00:08:45That's the most stupid thing I ever heard of.
00:08:48Don't you know millions of people go out there every year and wind up polishing cuspidors?
00:08:51I thought you had better sense.
00:08:52You sound as if you don't think I have any talent.
00:08:54That has nothing to do with it.
00:08:56I'll make out all right.
00:08:57Maybe.
00:08:58But what about me?
00:08:58Doesn't it mean anything to you that you're busting up all our plans?
00:09:01We may not see each other for years.
00:09:03It won't be that long.
00:09:05I thought you loved me.
00:09:06I do.
00:09:07You know I do.
00:09:10Well, here we are.
00:09:16Al.
00:09:18Al, why can't you see my side of it?
00:09:20I'm young.
00:09:21We both are, and we've got all the time in the world to settle down.
00:09:27Really, darling?
00:09:28What I'm doing is the only sane thing to do.
00:09:32I, I hate the thought of being so far away from you, but, but we'll be together again someday.
00:09:40Maybe you'll decide to come out too later on.
00:09:42So long.
00:09:44Al, aren't you going to kiss me good night?
00:09:48Sure, why not?
00:09:49Good night.
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00:11:16Say, Roberts, you hit the jackpot this time.
00:11:39Ten bucks.
00:11:41Thanks.
00:11:48So when this drunk handed me a ten spot after a request, I couldn't get very excited.
00:11:52What was it I asked myself?
00:11:54A piece of paper crawling with germs.
00:11:56Couldn't buy anything I wanted.
00:11:59It couldn't...
00:12:00Then I thought of something.
00:12:04Let's go.
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00:12:28Long distance.
00:12:29I'd like to put a call through to Los Angeles.
00:12:31Miss Harvey.
00:12:33Sue Harvey.
00:12:34H-A-R-V-E-Y.
00:12:36The number is Crestview 65723.
00:12:56Hello, Sue.
00:12:57This is Al.
00:12:58Oh, baby.
00:12:59It's great to hear from you, too.
00:13:00What's that?
00:13:01You do?
00:13:02Oh, me too, darling.
00:13:03I thought I'd go batty without you.
00:13:05I just had to...
00:13:06Huh?
00:13:07You're working as a hashlinger?
00:13:09Gee, honey, that's tough.
00:13:10Those guys out in Hollywood don't know the real thing when it's right in front of me.
00:13:12You just stick it out, Sue, baby.
00:13:13Keep going around to those casting offices.
00:13:14I'm sure you'll click.
00:13:15Look, I'll tell you what.
00:13:16You stay put out there.
00:13:17I'll come to you.
00:13:18No, don't try to stop me.
00:13:19Just expect me.
00:13:20Train?
00:13:21Who knows?
00:13:22Train, plane, bus, magic carpet.
00:13:23I'll be there for the day.
00:13:25Well, I'll find you.
00:13:26I'll find you that way.
00:13:27You'll find out for the day.
00:13:28What's that?
00:13:29You do?
00:13:30Me too, darling.
00:13:31I thought I'd go batty without you.
00:13:32I just had to...
00:13:33Huh?
00:13:34You're working as a hashlinger?
00:13:36Gee, honey, that's tough.
00:13:37Those guys out in Hollywood don't know the real thing when it's right in front of them.
00:13:39Who knows? Train, plane, bus, magic carpet.
00:13:41I'll be there if I have to crawl.
00:13:43If I have to travel by pogo stick.
00:13:45And then, let's get married right away, huh?
00:13:51That's the stuff.
00:13:52That's what I've been wanting to hear you say.
00:13:55Well, goodbye for now.
00:13:59I'll be seeing you soon.
00:14:02Yeah.
00:14:04Bye.
00:14:10The only way I could cross country was to thumb rides.
00:14:13For even after hocking everything, I only had enough money to eat.
00:14:17Money.
00:14:18You know what that is.
00:14:20It's the stuff you never have enough of.
00:14:22Little green things with George Washington's picture that men slave for,
00:14:25commit crimes for, die for.
00:14:29It's the stuff that has caused more trouble in the world
00:14:31than anything else we ever invented.
00:14:33Simply because there's too little of it.
00:14:36At least I had too little of it.
00:14:38So it was me for the thumb.
00:14:56Ever done any hitchhiking?
00:14:59It's not much fun, believe me.
00:15:01Oh, yeah.
00:15:02I know all about how it's an education,
00:15:03and how you get to meet a lot of people, and all that.
00:15:06But me?
00:15:07From now on, I'll take my education in college,
00:15:10or in P.S. 62,
00:15:11or I'll send $1.98 in stamps for ten easy lessons.
00:15:14Thumbing rides may save your bus fare, but it's dangerous.
00:15:29You never know what's in store for you when you hear the squeal of brakes.
00:15:33If only I'd known what I was getting into that day in Arizona.
00:15:39Here, throw that in the back seat.
00:15:44Okay, let's go.
00:15:45Make sure that door's closed.
00:15:46You know, Emily Post ought to write a book of rules for guys thumbing rides.
00:16:04Because as it is now, you never know what's right and what's wrong.
00:16:07We rode along for a little while, and neither one of us said anything.
00:16:12I was glad of that.
00:16:14I never know what to say to strange people driving cars.
00:16:17And, too, you can never tell if a guy wants to talk.
00:16:21A lot of rides have been cut short because of a big mouth.
00:16:25So I kept my mouth shut until he started opening up.
00:16:30Hand me that little box in the compartment, will you, pal?
00:16:32Hold the wheel, will you?
00:16:49How far are you going?
00:16:50L.A.
00:16:51Well, you're really traveling, aren't you?
00:16:53Yeah, but I don't expect to make it for a couple of years at the rate I've been promoting rides.
00:16:57Not much luck, huh?
00:16:58Sure, all bad.
00:16:59Not many people stop for a guy these days.
00:17:02Afraid of a stick-up, maybe.
00:17:03Where are you coming from?
00:17:04New York.
00:17:05Well, New York.
00:17:07You're in luck this time.
00:17:08I'm going all the way.
00:17:10Right through to Los Angeles.
00:17:13Can you drive a car?
00:17:14Sure.
00:17:15Whenever you're tired, let me know.
00:17:17I'll holler.
00:17:20I guess at least an hour passed before I noticed those deep scratches on his right hand.
00:17:24They were wicked.
00:17:25Three puffy red lines about a quarter of an inch apart.
00:17:30He must have seen me looking at them because he said...
00:17:33Beauties, aren't they?
00:17:35They're going to be scars someday.
00:17:39What an animal.
00:17:40Whatever it was, it must have been pretty big and vicious to have done that.
00:17:44Right on both counts, New York.
00:17:46I was tussing with the most dangerous animal in the world.
00:17:48A woman.
00:17:50She must have been Tarzan's mate.
00:17:52Looks like you lost the bob.
00:17:54It certainly wasn't a draw.
00:17:56You know, there ought to be a law against dames with claws.
00:18:00Yeah.
00:18:01I tossed her out of the car in her ear.
00:18:03Was I wrong?
00:18:05Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't you?
00:18:08Yeah.
00:18:09After all, what kind of dame some rides?
00:18:11Sunday school teachers?
00:18:13Yeah.
00:18:15A little witch.
00:18:17She must have thought she was riding with some fall guy.
00:18:20And me, who's been booking horses around race tracks since I was 20.
00:18:24I've known a million dames like her.
00:18:27Two million.
00:18:28Yeah.
00:18:31Stopped the car, opened the door.
00:18:34Take it on the Arthur Duffy sister, I told her.
00:18:36That's the stuff.
00:18:37As I was done, huh?
00:18:40But if you want to see a real scar, brother, get a load of this.
00:18:45What?
00:18:47I got that one dueling.
00:18:49Dueling?
00:18:50Yeah, we're just kidding, of course.
00:18:51My dad owned a couple of Franco-Prussian sabers.
00:18:54Kept them on the wall for decorations.
00:18:57Well, one day, another kid and I took them down.
00:18:59The old man wasn't around.
00:19:00Had a duel.
00:19:03You get me in the arm here.
00:19:05Pretty mean cut.
00:19:07Affection set in later.
00:19:09Yeah, I can see that.
00:19:11Now, give me that box again, will you?
00:19:12Yeah.
00:19:25Pain made me lose my head, I guess.
00:19:27Began slashing.
00:19:29Before I knew it, I'd put the other kid's eye on.
00:19:32That was tough.
00:19:34Well, it was just an accident, of course.
00:19:36Do you know how kids are?
00:19:37I got scared and decided I was going to run away from home.
00:19:40The old man almost caught me when I was packing my duds.
00:19:44The bloody rag I had wrapped around my wrist hadn't caught his attention.
00:19:48You've seen the bundle for sure.
00:19:49But I beat it when he was phoning for a doctor.
00:19:53I was 15, 16 years ago.
00:19:56I haven't been home since.
00:20:02Pull in there for a bite or something, huh?
00:20:04A bite or something.
00:20:06Brother, was I hungry.
00:20:08I hadn't had anything in my stomach for hours.
00:20:10Yet 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 feed bag.
00:20:16First, I had to make sure this guy knew the score.
00:20:19If I got him down on me, it was goodbye ticket to Hollywood.
00:20:23I'll wait out here for you, mister.
00:20:25If it's the money, don't worry about paying for it.
00:20:27This time it's on me.
00:20:29Well, that's what of you, mister...
00:20:30Haskell, think nothing of it.
00:20:31You make your first million, maybe you can do the same for me.
00:20:33Come on, New York.
00:20:35I gotta make the West Coast by Wednesday.
00:20:37There's a horse running in Santa Anita named Pryor Bicycle.
00:20:39You can insult me if I'm on him.
00:20:41We'll make it, all right.
00:20:43He did most of the talking during the half hour we were in the place.
00:20:46I ate.
00:20:48He rambled on about his old man whom he hadn't heard from since he ran away as a kid.
00:20:51And how he happened to become a bookie.
00:20:54And then all about how he got rooked in Miami.
00:20:57One race, 38 grand.
00:20:59They cleaned out my book.
00:21:00How do you like that?
00:21:02That was tough luck.
00:21:03Yeah, and I'm supposed to be the smart guy.
00:21:05Will you just wait?
00:21:06I'm going back to Florida next season with all kinds of check.
00:21:08And you'll watch those stinkers run for cover.
00:21:10You want anything else?
00:21:12No thanks, I've had plenty.
00:21:19That check there, sister?
00:21:21Oh, just a miniature change, sir.
00:21:26Keep it, sister.
00:21:27Oh, thank you, sir.
00:21:28Call again.
00:21:29I'll be waiting outside for you when you're finished work.
00:21:32Sharp check, huh?
00:21:33Yes.
00:21:42I drove all that night while Haskell slept like a log.
00:21:45After a while, I began to get sleepy myself.
00:21:50I was happy, though.
00:21:52Soon I'd be with Sue again.
00:21:53The long trip was practically over, and there'd be no more hoofing it down the concrete.
00:21:58I began to think of the future, which couldn't have been brighter if I'd embroidered it with neon lights.
00:22:04It was nice to think of Sue shooting to the top.
00:22:06It's amazing what a full belly can do to your imagination.
00:22:11Your eyes are blue, your kisses, too.
00:22:12I never knew what they could do.
00:22:13I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:22:16You're telling everyone you know I'm on your mind each place you go.
00:22:27I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:22:31You're telling everyone you know I'm on your mind each place you go.
00:22:41I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:23:04Mr. Haskell.
00:23:06Mr. Haskell.
00:23:07Mr. Haskell, wake up. It's raining.
00:23:12Don't you think we ought to stop and put up the top?
00:23:23Mr. Haskell, I'm gonna put up the top.
00:23:37Mr. Haskell.
00:23:40Until then, I had done things my way.
00:23:42But from then on, something else stepped in and shunted me off to a different destination than the one I had picked for myself.
00:23:48The one I pulled open that door.
00:23:54Mr. Haskell, what's the matter?
00:23:56Are you hurt?
00:23:58Are you hurt, Mr. Haskell?
00:23:59I'll start your sermon. I'll listen to it.
00:24:03But I know what you're gonna hand me even before you open your mouths.
00:24:07You're gonna tell me you don't believe my story of how Haskell died and give me that don't make me laugh expression on your smug faces.
00:24:13I saw it once, he was dead.
00:24:18And I was in for it.
00:24:20Who would believe he fell out of the car?
00:24:22Why, if Haskell came too, which of course he couldn't, even he would swear I conked him over the head for his dough.
00:24:26Yes, I was in for it.
00:24:28Instinct told me to run, but then I realized it was hopeless.
00:24:31There were lots of people back down the road who could identify me.
00:24:34That gas station guy and the waitress.
00:24:36I would be in a worse spot then, trying to explain why I beat it.
00:24:39The next possibility was to sit tight and tell the truth when the cops came.
00:24:42But that would be crazy.
00:24:43They'd laugh at the truth.
00:24:45Not having my head in the noose.
00:24:48So what else was there to do but hide the body and get away in the car?
00:24:52I couldn't leave the car there with him in the gully.
00:24:54That would be like erecting a tombstone.
00:25:01I couldn't leave the car.
00:25:02I couldn't leave the car.
00:25:03I couldn't leave the car.
00:25:04I couldn't leave the car.
00:25:05I couldn't leave the car.
00:25:24My idea was to cover him with brush, not to rob him.
00:25:27But then I remembered that even if I only drove the car for a hundred miles or so,
00:25:30I would need money for gas.
00:25:33Besides, it was stupid of me to leave all that money on a dead man.
00:25:37Not only that, I'd have to take his driver's license in case I was stopped for something.
00:25:42I didn't like to think about it.
00:25:44But by that time I'd done just what the police would say I did, even if I didn't.
00:25:49My clothes.
00:25:50The owner of such an expensive car would never be wearing them.
00:25:53Some cop might pull me in on suspicion.
00:26:00Why?
00:26:01Well, I've been a busy car.
00:26:08Let me say I've been a busy one.
00:26:10Don't you know better than leaving a car without wheels halfway in the middle of a road?
00:26:13Hey, you, this your car?
00:26:23Don't you know better than to leave a car with the wheels halfway in the middle of the road?
00:26:26That's the way accidents happen.
00:26:27I'm sorry, officer. I was just putting up my top. I didn't think.
00:26:31Well, the next time, think.
00:26:33I'll let you go now, but watch your step in the future.
00:26:36I know that's a lonely stretch, but cars come by here once in a while, and we have plenty of crack-ups.
00:26:40Thanks, officer.
00:26:43I'll let you go.
00:27:05I left nothing in the car to give me away his robber's.
00:27:08If they found a dead man in the gully now, it would be me.
00:27:13As I drove off, it was still raining, and the drop streaked down the windshield like tears.
00:27:23I kept imagining I was being followed, that I could hear sirens back in the distance.
00:27:31Just how long it took me to cover the 60-odd miles to the California state line, I don't know.
00:27:37I lost all track of time.
00:27:39But the rain had stopped, and the sun was up when I pulled up to the inspection station.
00:27:43I was like, man.
00:27:44I don't know.
00:27:48Hi.
00:27:49We're carrying any other fruits and vegetables?
00:27:51No.
00:27:51Any livestock or poultry?
00:27:53No.
00:27:56I'd like to see your registration and driver's license, please.
00:28:03Anything in the baggage compartment?
00:28:04What baggage?
00:28:05Charles Haskell, Jr., aged 30 brown eyes, dark hair,
00:28:09identifying marks, none.
00:28:11Are you Charles Haskell, Jr.?
00:28:13Yes.
00:28:14Well, remember, if you're employed and you stay over 30 days,
00:28:16you take out California plates.
00:28:18All right, officer, but I'll only be in the state a short while.
00:28:21Right. You can go now.
00:28:31I couldn't drive any farther without some sleep.
00:28:33Cops are no cops.
00:28:35I knew I had to hit the hay and hit it hard.
00:28:39I was dead tired.
00:29:03No.
00:29:05No, you can't, Mr. Haskell.
00:29:07No.
00:29:09Mr. Haskell, you can't die.
00:29:11No.
00:29:12No, you can't, Mr. Haskell.
00:29:15No.
00:29:24Mr. Haskell, you can't die.
00:29:27I don't think...
00:29:29I think I did it.
00:29:31No, Mr. Haskell.
00:29:33No.
00:29:34No.
00:29:35No.
00:29:36No.
00:29:51Who's there?
00:29:52It's the maid.
00:29:53Can I come in and clean?
00:29:55Later.
00:29:56In a half hour.
00:29:57In a half hour.
00:29:58All right, sir.
00:29:59There was no time to lose.
00:30:01Every minute I had to be Charles Haskell was dangerous.
00:30:03And I'd have to be Charles Haskell until I got to some city where I could leave the car and be swallowed up.
00:30:09There was no time to lose.
00:30:11Every minute I had to be Charles Haskell was dangerous.
00:30:13And I'd have to be Charles Haskell until I got to some city where I could leave the car and be swallowed up.
00:30:19That meant driving the car was dangerous.
00:30:22No.
00:30:23No.
00:30:24No.
00:30:25No.
00:30:26No.
00:30:27No.
00:30:28No.
00:30:29No.
00:30:30No.
00:30:31No.
00:30:32No.
00:30:33No.
00:30:34No.
00:30:35No.
00:30:36No.
00:30:37No.
00:30:38No.
00:30:39No.
00:30:40No.
00:30:41No.
00:30:42No.
00:30:43No.
00:30:44No.
00:30:45No.
00:30:46No.
00:30:47No.
00:30:48No.
00:30:49No.
00:30:50No.
00:30:51No.
00:30:52No.
00:30:53No.
00:30:54No.
00:30:55No.
00:30:56No.
00:30:57No.
00:30:58No.
00:30:59No.
00:31:00No.
00:31:01No.
00:31:02No.
00:31:03No.
00:31:04No.
00:31:05No.
00:31:06This was a lot of jack, but believe me, it was the kind of money I'd rather not have.
00:31:19And then I found out from a letter Haskell was carting around in his bag
00:31:22that he wasn't the open-handed, easy-going big shot
00:31:25who went around buying dinners for strange hitchhikers.
00:31:29Before I got done reading it, I saw him more as a chiseler.
00:31:33It was written to his old man in California,
00:31:35the one he hadn't seen in so many years.
00:31:38In it, Haskell posed as a salesman of hymnals, of all things.
00:31:44It was easy to see where Haskell expected to raise a new stake for his book in Miami
00:31:48by rooking his old man.
00:31:52That was about all I found out from his effects, and it was enough.
00:31:57I told myself maybe old man Haskell was lucky his son kicked off.
00:32:01He would never know it, but it saved him from taking a flyer
00:32:06in sacred literature preferred.
00:32:08near the airport at Desert Center, I pulled up for water.
00:32:18Near the airport at Desert Center, I pulled up for water.
00:32:21I was on the beach.
00:32:33Near the airport at Desert Center, I pulled up for water.
00:32:37There was a woman.
00:32:43Hey, you! Come on if you want a ride.
00:32:51Come on.
00:33:21Come on.
00:33:32How far are you going?
00:33:34How far are you going?
00:33:36That took me by surprise, and I turned my head to look her over.
00:33:40She was facing straight ahead, so I couldn't see her eyes.
00:33:43But she was young, not more than 24.
00:33:47Man, she looked as if she'd just been thrown off the crummiest freight train in the world.
00:33:51Yet, in spite of this, I got the impression of beauty.
00:33:54Not the beauty of a movie actress, mind you.
00:33:58Or the beauty you dream about when you're with your wife.
00:34:00But a natural beauty.
00:34:02A beauty that's almost homely because it's so real.
00:34:06Then suddenly, she turned to face me.
00:34:09How far did you say you were going?
00:34:11Los Angeles.
00:34:12L.A.?
00:34:14L.A.'s good enough for me, mister.
00:34:16That's what I was afraid of.
00:34:17What'd you say?
00:34:19Oh, nothing. Just thinking out loud.
00:34:20People get in trouble for doing that.
00:34:23What's your name?
00:34:25You can call me Vera, if you like.
00:34:27You live in Los Angeles?
00:34:28No.
00:34:30Where are you coming from?
00:34:32Oh, back there.
00:34:33Needles?
00:34:34No.
00:34:35Oh, sure. Phoenix.
00:34:37You look just like a Phoenix girl.
00:34:39Are the girls in Phoenix that bad?
00:34:40The girl must have been pretty tired because she fell asleep not 20 minutes after she stepped into the car.
00:34:47She lay sprawled out with her head resting against the far door, like Haskell.
00:34:51I didn't like that part of it much, but I didn't wake her up.
00:34:54It wasn't that this girl still worried me.
00:34:57I'd gotten over that funny feeling I had when she looked at me, which I put down as just my jangled nerves.
00:35:04With her eyes closed and the tenseness gone out of her, she seemed harmless enough.
00:35:09And instead of disliking her, I began to feel sorry for her.
00:35:12The poor kid probably had had a rough time of it.
00:35:17Who was she anyway?
00:35:19And why was she going to Los Angeles?
00:35:21And where'd she come from in the first place?
00:35:23The only thing I knew about her was her name.
00:35:26Not that it made any difference.
00:35:28A few hours more and we'd be in Hollywood.
00:35:30I'd forget where I parked the car and look up Sue.
00:35:33This nightmare of being a dead man would be over.
00:35:37Who this dame was?
00:35:38Well, it was no business of mine.
00:35:39Where did you leave his body?
00:35:41Where did you leave the owner of this car?
00:35:44You're not fooling anyone.
00:35:46This buggy belongs to a guy named Haskell.
00:35:48That's not you, mister.
00:35:49You're out of your mind.
00:35:50That's my name, Charles Haskell.
00:35:51I can prove it.
00:35:52It's my driver's license.
00:35:53Save yourself the trouble, mister.
00:35:54Having Haskell's wallet only makes it worse.
00:35:56It just so happens I rode with Charlie Haskell all the way from Louisiana.
00:36:00He picked me up outside of Shreveport.
00:36:02You rode?
00:36:03You heard me.
00:36:04Then it all came back to me.
00:36:06All the talk about dueling and scars and scratches.
00:36:09There was no doubt about it.
00:36:12Vera must be the woman Haskell had mentioned.
00:36:15She must have passed me while I slept.
00:36:17Well?
00:36:18Well, I'm waiting.
00:36:19My goose was cooked.
00:36:21She had me.
00:36:23That Haskell guy wasn't dead yet.
00:36:26He wasn't stretched out stiff and cold in any Arizona gully.
00:36:29He was sitting right there in the car laughing like mad while he haunted me.
00:36:32Well?
00:36:33There was nothing I could say.
00:36:35It was her move.
00:36:36Vera, whatever her name was, it was just my luck picking her up on the road.
00:36:41It couldn't have been Helen or Mary or Evelyn or Ruth.
00:36:45It had to be the very last person I should ever have met.
00:36:49That's life.
00:36:50Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you.
00:36:55I told her everything, but she didn't believe my story.
00:36:58I should have saved my breath.
00:36:59That's the greatest cock and ball story I ever heard.
00:37:01So he fell out of his car.
00:37:02Say, who do you think you're talking to?
00:37:03A hick?
00:37:04Listen, mister.
00:37:05I've been around.
00:37:06And I know a wrong guy when I see one.
00:37:07What'd you do?
00:37:08Kiss him with a wrench?
00:37:09Now, wait a minute.
00:37:10What I told you was true.
00:37:11You see, that's why I had to do it.
00:37:12Do you think I killed him?
00:37:13Well, the cops would have thought so, too.
00:37:14Yeah, well, you know.
00:37:15You know.
00:37:16You know.
00:37:17You know.
00:37:18You know.
00:37:19You know.
00:37:20You know.
00:37:21You know.
00:37:22You think I killed him.
00:37:23Well, the cops would have thought so, too.
00:37:24Yeah.
00:37:25Well, maybe they still think so.
00:37:27What makes you so sure I'll shut up about this?
00:37:29Girl, I'm innocent.
00:37:31Give me a break, will you?
00:37:33It won't do me any good having you pinched.
00:37:35The cops are no friends of mine.
00:37:37Now, if there was a reward, but there isn't.
00:37:40Thanks.
00:37:41Don't thank me yet.
00:37:43I'm not through with you by a long shot.
00:37:45Let's see that roll.
00:37:52Is that all Haskell had?
00:37:54Isn't it enough?
00:37:55No.
00:37:56I thought he had more.
00:37:57Not that I know of.
00:37:58You can search me.
00:37:59You think I'm holding out on you?
00:38:00Well, maybe I will at that.
00:38:01He told me he was gonna bet $3,000 on a horse named Paradisical on Wednesday at Santa Anita.
00:38:06He was stringing you along.
00:38:07He meant $300.
00:38:08Maybe.
00:38:09Sure.
00:38:10Three bucks, $300.
00:38:11He was a piece of cheese, a big blowhard.
00:38:12Listen, mister.
00:38:13Don't try and tell me anything about Charlie Haskell.
00:38:15Remember, I knew him better than you did.
00:38:17Okay, then you knew he was a four-flusher.
00:38:18That explains the three grand bet.
00:38:19I'm not so sure he didn't have that three grand.
00:38:21Why should I believe you?
00:38:23You got all the earmarks of a cheap crook.
00:38:25Now, wait a minute.
00:38:26Shut up.
00:38:27You're a cheap crook and you killed him.
00:38:28For two cents, I'd change my mind and turn you in.
00:38:30I don't like you.
00:38:31All right, all right.
00:38:32Don't get sore.
00:38:33I'm not getting sore.
00:38:34But just remember who's boss around here.
00:38:36If you shut up and don't give me any arguments, you'll have nothing to worry about.
00:38:39But if you act wise, well, mister, you'll pop into jail so fast it'll give you the bends.
00:38:44I'm not arguing.
00:38:45See that you don't.
00:38:46You know, as crooked as you look, I'd hate to see a fella as young as you wind up sniffing that perfume that Arizona hands out free to murderers.
00:38:52I'm not a murderer.
00:38:53Of course you're not.
00:38:54Haskell knocked his own head off.
00:38:55He fell.
00:38:56That's how it happened.
00:38:57Just like I told you.
00:38:58Sure.
00:38:59And then he made you a present of his belongings.
00:39:00I explained why I had to do that.
00:39:01Oh, skip it.
00:39:02Doesn't make a difference one way or another.
00:39:03I'm not a mourner.
00:39:04I liked Haskell even less than I like you.
00:39:07Yeah, I saw what you did to him.
00:39:08What do you mean?
00:39:09Well, scratches on his wrist.
00:39:10Sure, I scratched him.
00:39:11Don't say you did.
00:39:13So your idea was to drive the car a little way, maybe into San Bernardino and then leave it.
00:39:19You weren't gonna sell it?
00:39:20Sell it?
00:39:21You think I'm crazy?
00:39:22Somebody else's car?
00:39:23See, all I want to do is leave it somewhere and forget I ever saw it.
00:39:25Not only don't you have any scruples, you don't have any brains.
00:39:27I don't get you.
00:39:28Maybe it's a good thing you met me.
00:39:29You'd have got yourself caught sure.
00:39:30Why, you dope.
00:39:31Don't you know a deserted automobile always rates an investigation?
00:39:32Huh?
00:39:33Look, the cops find a car.
00:39:34Then they get curious.
00:39:35They wonder where the owner is.
00:39:36So all right, they don't trace Haskell.
00:39:37They trace you.
00:39:38I never thought of that.
00:39:39The only safe way to get rid of the car is to sell it to a dealer.
00:39:40Get it registered under a new name.
00:39:41Say, stop at the next door.
00:39:42I want to get a bottle and do some shopping before we hit L.A.
00:39:43Okay.
00:39:44I'm sorry.
00:39:45I'm sorry.
00:39:46I'm sorry.
00:39:47You're not going to beat it if that's what you're afraid of.
00:39:48I'll say you're not.
00:39:49Well, I'm going to see that you sell the car.
00:39:50They don't have a car.
00:39:51They don't have a car.
00:39:52They don't have to trace Haskell.
00:39:53They trace you.
00:39:54I never thought of that.
00:39:55The only safe way to get rid of the car is to sell it to a dealer.
00:39:56Get it registered under a new name.
00:39:57Say, stop at the next door.
00:39:58I want to get a bottle and do some shopping before we hit L.A.
00:39:59Okay.
00:40:00As soon as we find a place, I'll drop you off and pick you up later.
00:40:01Nothing doing.
00:40:02You're coming in, too.
00:40:03From now on, you and I are like the Siamese twins.
00:40:04Yeah, but you're way.
00:40:05I don't get the point.
00:40:06The 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.
00:40:08I'll say you're not.
00:40:09Well, I'm going to see that you sell this car so you don't get caught.
00:40:10Thanks.
00:40:11Of course, your interest wouldn't be financial, would it?
00:40:12You wouldn't want a small percentage of the profits.
00:40:13Well, now that you insist, how can I refuse?
00:40:14A hundred percent will do.
00:40:15Fine.
00:40:16I'm relieved.
00:40:17I thought for a moment you were going to take it all.
00:40:18I don't want to be a hog.
00:40:19I don't want to be a hog.
00:40:20A few hours later we were in Hollywood.
00:40:21I was recognizing places where Sue had written about.
00:40:25It struck me that far from being at the end of the trip,
00:40:26there was a greater distance between Sue and me than when I started out.
00:40:27How can I refuse?
00:40:29A hundred percent will do.
00:40:31Fine. I'm relieved.
00:40:33I thought for a moment you were going to take it all.
00:40:35I don't want to be a hog.
00:40:39A few hours later, we were in Hollywood.
00:40:41I was recognizing places Sue had written about.
00:40:44It struck me that far from being at the end of the trip,
00:40:47there was a greater distance between Sue and me than when I started out.
00:40:51Vera wasn't kidding with that Siamese twins crack.
00:40:54She rented a little apartment, as Mrs. Charles Haskell.
00:40:59When I objected to this, she explained that it was on account of the car.
00:41:02A dealer might think something was funny if he called and found we were using different names.
00:41:12Home, sweet home.
00:41:13Yeah.
00:41:14Not bad, either.
00:41:16If there's any doubt in your mind, I'll take the bedroom.
00:41:18Yeah.
00:41:19Sure is stuffy in here.
00:41:22Keep the windows shut.
00:41:23Okay.
00:41:24The old crow downstairs said there's a folding bed behind this door.
00:41:28You know how to work it?
00:41:49Do you know how to work it?
00:41:55I invented it.
00:42:00Some joint.
00:42:02One can't have everything.
00:42:08I'm first in the bathtub.
00:42:10I don't know why, but I figured you would be.
00:42:19Let's go.
00:42:23Boy, old boy.
00:42:25It sure feels good to be clean again.
00:42:28I must be ten pounds lighter.
00:42:30You must be.
00:42:32Well, hitch and rides isn't exactly the way you keep your school girl complexion.
00:42:41I wish that guy with the sacks would give up.
00:42:44Gets on my nerves.
00:42:46Forget it.
00:42:51Have a drink.
00:42:53Aren't you afraid I might take you up on it?
00:42:57If I didn't want to give you a drink, I wouldn't have offered it.
00:43:01Why be a sorehead, Roberts?
00:43:02You got yourself into this thing.
00:43:05You should be grateful I'm not turning you in.
00:43:08Why, if I wasn't regular, you'd be in the pen this minute,
00:43:10being photographed, fingerprinted, and being pushed around by the cops.
00:43:13So, cheer up.
00:43:16Get rid of that long puss.
00:43:19Or is your conscience bothering you?
00:43:26No.
00:43:28It isn't.
00:43:29Smile.
00:43:30That's the spirit.
00:43:32He's dead and no moment around will bring him back.
00:43:34Anyway, I never could understand this worrying about something that's over and done with.
00:43:38Now look, Vera, for the last time I didn't kill him.
00:43:40Haskell was a sick man.
00:43:41Maybe he was dead before he fell out of the car.
00:43:42I don't know.
00:43:43Sure, sure.
00:43:44He died of old age.
00:43:46All right.
00:43:48So if it'll make you sociable,
00:43:50you didn't kill him.
00:43:51Thanks.
00:43:52We're out of liquor, right?
00:43:53No.
00:43:54No.
00:43:55No.
00:43:56No.
00:43:57No.
00:43:58No.
00:44:01No.
00:44:02No.
00:44:03No.
00:44:04No.
00:44:05No.
00:44:06No.
00:44:07No, no.
00:44:08No.
00:44:09We're out of liquor, Roberts.
00:44:22Yeah.
00:44:24Too bad.
00:44:25I felt like getting tight tonight.
00:44:27Well, I think you succeeded.
00:44:29Am I tight?
00:44:31There's a prima donna's corset.
00:44:33That's good.
00:44:34I wanted to get tight.
00:44:36Why?
00:44:37What have you got to get tight about?
00:44:38Oh, I don't know.
00:44:40A few things.
00:44:44You should have my worries.
00:44:46If I had your troubles, I'd stay sober.
00:44:48And I've got the key to that door.
00:44:53Yeah.
00:44:55Maybe you're right.
00:44:56I'm always right.
00:44:59You know, I don't like your attitude, Roberts.
00:45:02Well, there's a lot of things I don't like.
00:45:05Sure.
00:45:05But life's like a ball game.
00:45:11You've got to take a swing at whatever comes along before you wake up and find it's the ninth inning.
00:45:16I bet you read that somewhere.
00:45:18That's the trouble with you, Roberts.
00:45:20All you do is bellyache.
00:45:23But I've taken it easy and we're trying to make the best of things.
00:45:26But maybe that's what's wrong with the whole world.
00:45:30Get the professor.
00:45:32People knock themselves out trying to buck fate.
00:45:35Now, take you, for instance.
00:45:36You're lucky to be alive.
00:45:38Why, suppose Haskell had pulled open your door.
00:45:41You'd be playing a harp now.
00:45:43Think of that.
00:45:43You think of it.
00:45:47I'm tired of thinking.
00:45:49There's plenty of people dying this minute.
00:45:52It would give anything to trade places with you.
00:45:54I know what I'm talking about.
00:45:59I'm not so sure.
00:46:00At least they know they're done for.
00:46:02They don't have to sweat blood wondering if they are.
00:46:06Your philosophy stinks, pal.
00:46:10We all know we're going to kick off someday.
00:46:12It's only a question of when.
00:46:15But what's got us on this subject anyway?
00:46:18We'll be discussing politics next.
00:46:21Yeah.
00:46:24Where'd you hide the butts?
00:46:26On the table, sucker.
00:46:35We bored each other with conversation for a couple of hours longer.
00:46:39Every five minutes, one of us was wishing we had another bottle or a radio or something to read.
00:46:45Then, finally, we ran out of chatter.
00:46:48I know it's only 11 o'clock, but I want to get up early and make the rounds of the used car lots.
00:46:52Now, hurry about that.
00:46:53We've got all the time in the world.
00:46:55Maybe you have, but if you think I want to stay cooped up in this place any longer than I have to, you're batty.
00:46:59It's not a bad place.
00:47:00We pay plenty for diggings like this in New York.
00:47:02I wouldn't like it if it was the Ritz.
00:47:08What?
00:47:09Liquor?
00:47:10You got a mean cough.
00:47:11I ought to do something about it.
00:47:13I'll be all right.
00:47:14That's what DeNeal said.
00:47:16Who?
00:47:17Nobody you know.
00:47:23Wasn't that the dame that died of consumption?
00:47:25Yeah.
00:47:26Wouldn't it be a break for you if I did kick off?
00:47:29He'd be free with all Haskell's dough and car.
00:47:32I don't want to see anybody die.
00:47:35Not even me.
00:47:37Especially not you.
00:47:38One person died of me.
00:47:40If you did, well, that's all I need.
00:47:42You don't like me, do you, Roberts?
00:47:48I like you.
00:47:50I love you.
00:47:53My favorite sport is being kept prisoner.
00:47:56After we sell the car, you can go to Blazers for all I care.
00:47:58But not until then.
00:47:59I'm going to bed.
00:48:17Good night, Roberts.
00:48:18Don't try and sneak away during the night.
00:48:20All the doors are locked.
00:48:21Anyway, if I find you gone in the morning, I'll notify the police.
00:48:25They'll pick you up.
00:48:26Don't worry.
00:48:26I know what I'm in the spot.
00:48:29Well, good night.
00:48:30I hope that portable rack isn't too uncomfortable for you.
00:48:33Don't lose any sleep over it, will you, Roberts?
00:48:34I'll be right back.
00:49:04You're welcome.
00:49:12Crescue.
00:49:15Six...
00:49:17Five...
00:49:19Seven...
00:49:21Two...
00:49:22Three...
00:49:25Hello?
00:49:27Hello?
00:49:29Hello?
00:49:31Hello?
00:49:33Hello?
00:49:40No.
00:49:42Not yet, darling.
00:49:44Tomorrow.
00:49:46Maybe.
00:49:52If this were fiction, I would fall in love with Vera.
00:49:55Marry her and make a respectable woman of her.
00:49:57Or else she'd make some supreme class A sacrifice for me and die.
00:50:02Sue and I would bawl a little over her grave and make some crack about there's good in all of us.
00:50:08But Vera, unfortunately, was just as rotten in the morning as she'd been the night before.
00:50:15All right, all right, I'm coming.
00:50:17Look, Vera, it's almost noon.
00:50:20So what? The dealers will be there all day?
00:50:23I'll be there all year, too, but that doesn't mean I'm going to wait that long.
00:50:25Shut up. You're making noises like a husband.
00:50:31Well, do I rate a whistle?
00:50:32You sure do, but let's go.
00:50:34Let's go, let's go.
00:50:35I spent 85 bucks in two hours preparing bait, and all you can say is let's go.
00:50:41Come on.
00:50:47We passed a few used car lots last night down this way.
00:50:50What do you think we can get for this heap?
00:50:51I don't know. Plenty.
00:50:53You just let me handle everything.
00:50:54Think we can get $2,000?
00:50:57I don't know, but don't worry.
00:50:58I'll squeeze as much out of this guy as I can.
00:51:01If I let it go cheap without a fight, he might think we've stolen the car.
00:51:04And listen, don't make any slips and call me Roberts.
00:51:07That'll cook us.
00:51:09I don't need you to tell me that.
00:51:10You better just sit by and keep your mouth closed.
00:51:13Remember, we're both in the soup if anything happens.
00:51:15Forget it and drive.
00:51:17You're my wife, Vera Haskell.
00:51:19Look, after the deal's closed, let's go back to that place on Hollywood Boulevard,
00:51:23where I saw the fur jacket.
00:51:25I want to buy it.
00:51:26After the deal's closed, I'm saying goodbye to you.
00:51:29That's right, I forgot.
00:51:31I guess I'm getting kind of used to you.
00:51:34Well, that's a habit you can start breaking.
00:51:36Let's try this place in the middle of the block.
00:51:45Good afternoon. What can I do for you?
00:51:46We're interested in selling a car.
00:51:48If the price is right.
00:51:49Well, if it's in good mechanical condition, it should blue book for about $1,600.
00:51:57Tony, take a look at this motor.
00:51:59$1,600. Are you kidding?
00:52:01Well, it might be $1,800.
00:52:02Before I let it go for $1,800, I'll wreck it and collect the insurance first.
00:52:09Maybe this motor's seen a lot of driving.
00:52:10While the mechanic inspected the car, we haggled.
00:52:11At last, when we were all worn out, we hit a compromise.
00:52:13His price.
00:52:14Okay, it's a deal.
00:52:15Okay, it's a deal.
00:52:16Okay, it's a deal.
00:52:17All right, come in.
00:52:18We'll sign the papers.
00:52:20I have the ownership papers right here.
00:52:21I have the ownership papers right here.
00:52:22Okay, let's get the insurance first.
00:52:24Let me get the insurance first.
00:52:27I think this motor's seen a lot of driving.
00:52:31While the mechanic inspected the car, we haggled.
00:52:32At last, when we were all worn out, we hit a compromise.
00:52:35His price.
00:52:36When we were all worn out, we had a compromise.
00:52:39His price.
00:52:44Okay, it's a deal.
00:52:45All right, come in, we'll sign the papers.
00:52:46I have the ownership papers right here with me.
00:52:49Look, Vera, in the meantime, will you clean out the dash compartment?
00:52:51Maybe there's some stuff in it.
00:52:53All right, darling.
00:52:56Eighteen hundred and fifty bucks. That dirty cr...
00:53:06New York, huh?
00:53:09Yeah.
00:53:09But you bought the car in Miami.
00:53:11Yeah.
00:53:13Well, now let's see about the insurance.
00:53:14We can either have it transferred or canceled.
00:53:16Uh, what kind of insurance do you have, Mr. Haskell?
00:53:20Well, uh...
00:53:22Aren't all the papers there?
00:53:26I don't see any.
00:53:27Surely you know what type of insurance you carry in the car.
00:53:30The name of the company?
00:53:32Yeah, but, uh...
00:53:34Well, if you'll just tell me the name of the company,
00:53:35I'd be very glad to take care of all the details.
00:53:37Well...
00:53:38Did you sign the papers yet?
00:53:39Not yet.
00:53:40Well, don't.
00:53:41Uh, we're not selling the car.
00:53:42Well, wait a minute, Mrs. Haskell.
00:53:44Come on, darling.
00:53:44What's the matter?
00:53:45Have you changed your mind?
00:53:46Yes, I'm sorry.
00:53:47I guess I have.
00:53:48But, Vera...
00:53:48Let's go.
00:53:55You got me out of a tight spot, Vera.
00:53:57But I still don't understand all this.
00:53:59You will in a minute.
00:54:00I almost threw away a gold mine.
00:54:01Eighteen-fifty isn't to be sneezed at.
00:54:03The car doesn't book for as much as I thought.
00:54:05We're not selling the car.
00:54:07You want to keep it?
00:54:08Now, wait a minute, Vera.
00:54:09You said yourself I wouldn't be safe
00:54:10until the car was in someone else's name.
00:54:12I'd like to be free of this mess when I go.
00:54:14That's just it, Roberts.
00:54:15You're not going.
00:54:17There's a drive-in at the next corner.
00:54:19Pull in there and we'll get a bite to eat.
00:54:20And I'll explain.
00:54:21What is this?
00:54:22Another one of your brilliant ideas?
00:54:30Oh, can I take your order?
00:54:31Make mine a ham sandwich and coffee.
00:54:33And for you, sir?
00:54:34Oh, I don't care.
00:54:35The same.
00:54:44Get this, Vera.
00:54:45I've been pretty patient so far.
00:54:47I've done everything you asked me to do, but no more.
00:54:49Shut up.
00:54:50You've taken Haskell's money.
00:54:51You can have the dough we get from selling the car.
00:54:53But you're not going to keep me a prisoner.
00:54:55It's a good thing I bought the paper.
00:54:56Take a look at that.
00:54:57Vera, I'm in no mood.
00:54:58Read that.
00:55:09No.
00:55:11Yes.
00:55:11No, I won't do it.
00:55:12Yes, you will.
00:55:13You think I'm crazy?
00:55:14It's impossible, I tell you.
00:55:16Excuse me.
00:55:22Blow the horn when you're through.
00:55:23No one could possibly get away with an act like that.
00:55:29It'd be wise to me in a minute.
00:55:30Don't be, Yella.
00:55:31You look enough like him.
00:55:33The same coloring and the same build.
00:55:34See how his clothes fit you?
00:55:35No kidding.
00:55:36You almost had me fooled for a while.
00:55:38Oh, grow up, Vera.
00:55:39Don't you think a father knows his own son?
00:55:41And there must be other relatives.
00:55:42The father won't have to know you.
00:55:44We'll wait till he gives up the ghost.
00:55:45He's an old geezer and he won't pull through.
00:55:47And as far as other relatives are concerned,
00:55:49they haven't seen you in 15 or 20 years.
00:55:51Eat.
00:55:53I'm not hungry.
00:55:55And I won't do it.
00:55:56It's not as tough as it sounds.
00:55:58Remember, you've got all kinds of identification.
00:56:00His car, letters, licenses...
00:56:01I could never get away with it.
00:56:02It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
00:56:04The old boy has scads of dough.
00:56:06Look in the paper there.
00:56:07Personal fortune assessed at over 15 million.
00:56:09He'll leave plenty, I tell you.
00:56:11Maybe he cut off his son.
00:56:12How do we know?
00:56:13It's out, Vera.
00:56:14I won't have anything to do with it.
00:56:17I think you will.
00:56:19Look, Vera,
00:56:20I'll do anything within reason.
00:56:22But not that.
00:56:23So forget it.
00:56:23Find yourself another stooge.
00:56:25You sap!
00:56:26You'll be fixed for the rest of your life as Charlie Haskell.
00:56:29You can take your inheritance and go away.
00:56:31No more worrying about the rent.
00:56:32No sweating, scheming, wondering where your next meal's coming from.
00:56:34Think about that, Roberts!
00:56:35Vera,
00:56:36please, you're talking too loud.
00:56:38Unless I'm splitting 50-50 with you.
00:56:40Sure, why not?
00:56:41We're both alike.
00:56:42Both born in the same gutter.
00:56:43Take it easy, Vera.
00:56:44There's people around here.
00:56:45You don't know where you're talking.
00:56:46Well, wait till we read that old man Haskell's dead.
00:56:50And you show up.
00:56:51Like you read in New York that he was sick.
00:56:53No.
00:56:54Suppose he doesn't die?
00:56:56He will.
00:56:57I know he will.
00:56:58Something tells me.
00:57:01But as much as I insisted I would have no part of her scheme,
00:57:04Vera was taking it for granted I would.
00:57:06Neither of us had our mind on the cards as we played that night.
00:57:11I knew we were just trying to kill time between newspaper editions.
00:57:15This was a death watch for Vera.
00:57:18Maybe it was for me, too.
00:57:20Don't you realize if I'm caught, they'll want to know where I got the car and stuff.
00:57:24And they'll have me on a murder charge.
00:57:25If you're smart, you won't get caught.
00:57:27I'm out with seven.
00:57:28And if I'm caught, don't you realize you'll be out, too?
00:57:3118 points.
00:57:33That gives me 30.
00:57:34How will I be out?
00:57:36You'll be out.
00:57:371850 dollars we would have gotten on the car.
00:57:39Really, Vera, you'd be an awful chump.
00:57:41You threw away all that dough and a dizzy long shot.
00:57:43Let me sell the bus tomorrow.
00:57:44With the money it'll bring and what you've already got,
00:57:46a clever kid like you can run it up in no time.
00:57:48Then we'd both be in the clear.
00:57:49I'll be in the clear anyway.
00:57:50Maybe.
00:57:51Maybe.
00:57:52But if I got caught,
00:57:54I'd get good and sort you, you know.
00:57:56You mean you'd squeal?
00:57:57Oh, no, not squeal exactly.
00:57:58Never mind what you meant.
00:58:00Even if you did tell the cops I was in on it with you,
00:58:05what could they do to me?
00:58:07They might give me the same medicine they gave you.
00:58:10Yeah.
00:58:11A rope.
00:58:15But I'm on my way anyhow.
00:58:17All they'll be doing will be rushing it.
00:58:21All right.
00:58:22But think the 1850 you'd lose.
00:58:24You'd kick yourself along the block if you ever let it get away from you.
00:58:27I'll take the chance.
00:58:29Want another drink?
00:58:30You're being a goon.
00:58:31That's the way people wind up behind the eight ball.
00:58:33Once they get a few dollars, they become greedy and want more.
00:58:36My, my.
00:58:37Caesar!
00:58:38Who?
00:58:39You know that Roman general?
00:58:40He got his for being greedy.
00:58:41He wasn't satisfied, so the final windup was he took the count.
00:58:44A couple of days ago, you didn't have a dime.
00:58:47Why, you were so broke you couldn't pay cash for a post-it stamp.
00:58:50Now you've got almost $700 with 1850 in the offing.
00:58:53Take my advice.
00:58:54Don't try for more.
00:58:55I'm tired of this game.
00:58:56Let's have some blackjack.
00:58:57Play solitaire.
00:58:58Okay, I will if that's the way you feel about it.
00:59:00That's the way I feel about it.
00:59:01Getting sore and throwing things won't help much, Roberts.
00:59:03I'm really doing you a favor.
00:59:05I help you out of the jam by keeping my mouth shut.
00:59:07I show you how to make some soft money.
00:59:08And what thanks do I get?
00:59:10Thanks.
00:59:11Sure.
00:59:12I call the cops and told them you killed a man and stole his money.
00:59:14I didn't kill anybody.
00:59:15Yes, you did.
00:59:16No, I didn't. You know I didn't.
00:59:17All right, then.
00:59:20Suppose I call the cops.
00:59:22If you're innocent, what do you got to be scared of?
00:59:25Okay.
00:59:26Call them, you mutt.
00:59:27Go ahead and call them. See if I care.
00:59:29At least they'll give me a square deal.
00:59:30You want me to call them?
00:59:32You heard me.
00:59:33But I'm warning you.
00:59:34If I'm pinched, I'll swear you were in on it.
00:59:36I'll say that you helped me.
00:59:37If I fry, I'll get even with you.
00:59:39You wouldn't dare. You're kidding.
00:59:40Yeah?
00:59:42Then try it and see.
00:59:43Call them.
00:59:44Yeah.
00:59:45Okay, I will.
00:59:59Information?
01:00:01I want the number at the Hollywood police station.
01:00:05Okay, I got it. Thanks.
01:00:12Wait a minute, Vera. You wouldn't do that.
01:00:13Oh, wouldn't I? Give me that and I'll show you if I wouldn't.
01:00:15Take it easy now. Let's talk this over.
01:00:17This was early in the evening.
01:00:19And the conversation, while hectic, was at least pitched low.
01:00:23But as the minutes passed and more obstacles to her plan popped into my head, the air got blue.
01:00:30Each word coming from our lips cracked like a whip.
01:00:33I 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.
01:00:46I didn't even know what my middle initial stood for.
01:00:49I also pointed out that the real Haskell had a scar on his forearm.
01:00:53His people never saw that scar.
01:00:55He told me he ran away right after putting out the kid's eye.
01:00:57Yeah, but his father knew he was cut.
01:00:59It had to be some kind of a mark.
01:01:00So what?
01:01:01The old man's dead or will be.
01:01:04I hope by tomorrow morning's papers.
01:01:06Anyway, you could cut yourself a little, couldn't you?
01:01:09Boy, for that kind of dough, I'd let you cut my leg off.
01:01:14You're drunk and you're crazy mad, Vera.
01:01:16Turn him in if you want to, but I won't get mixed up in this.
01:01:18Besides, how do we know Haskell was such a phony?
01:01:20Maybe he wasn't the man's son at all.
01:01:21Maybe he just dreamed it up.
01:01:22Well, dreaming or not, you won't be dreaming when the law taps you on the shoulder.
01:01:27There's a cute little gas chamber waiting for you, Roberts.
01:01:31And I hear extradition to Arizona's Ascension.
01:01:35Where's that phone?
01:01:37Vera!
01:01:38Leave me alone!
01:01:39Vera!
01:01:40I want a phone call, please!
01:01:41I hate you, yellow stinker.
01:01:44You leave me alone!
01:01:46I'll let you alone when you promise to leave the phone where it is.
01:01:48You're drunk. You don't know what you're doing.
01:01:49You're hurting me.
01:01:50Will you promise?
01:01:51All right.
01:01:57You hurt me.
01:02:00I'm sorry, but...
01:02:01And it's hot in here. Open up the window.
01:02:03It's not hot.
01:02:04Don't tell me. Now, do you do it or do I do it?
01:02:07You're no gentleman, see?
01:02:11Yeah.
01:02:12All right.
01:02:13I'll open up the window.
01:02:18Vera!
01:02:24Vera, open the door.
01:02:25Please open the door.
01:02:26Vera, open the door.
01:02:27Don't use the phone. Listen to me.
01:02:28I don't like you, Roberts.
01:02:30You're no gentleman, see?
01:02:32You hurt my hand.
01:02:34And I'm going to get even with you.
01:02:36If you don't open the door, I'm going to kick it down, Vera.
01:02:39Vera, don't call the cops.
01:02:41Listen to me. I'll do anything you say.
01:02:43Vera, let me in.
01:02:46I'll break the phone.
01:02:47I'll break the phone.
01:03:17I'll break the phone.
01:03:19I'll break the phone.
01:03:20I'll break the phone.
01:03:25The world is full of skeptics.
01:03:28I know.
01:03:29I want myself.
01:03:30In the Haskell business, how many of you would believe he fell out of the car?
01:03:33And now, after killing Vera without really meaning to do it,
01:03:36how many of you would believe it wasn't premeditated?
01:03:40In a jury room, every last man of you would go down shouting that she had me over a barrel
01:03:45and my only out was force.
01:03:49The room was still.
01:03:52So quiet that for a while, I wondered if I had suddenly gone deaf.
01:03:56It was pure fear, of course.
01:03:58And I was hysterical.
01:03:59But without making a sound.
01:04:02Vera was dead.
01:04:04And I was her murderer.
01:04:06Murderer?
01:04:08What an awful word that is.
01:04:10But I'd become one.
01:04:11I'd better not get caught.
01:04:12What evidence there was around the place had to be destroyed.
01:04:15And from the looks of things, there was plenty.
01:04:17Looking around the room at things we'd bought was like looking into the faces of a hundred people
01:04:21who'd seen us together and who remembered me.
01:04:23This was the kind of testimony I couldn't rub out.
01:04:28No.
01:04:29I could burn clothes and hide bottles for the next five years.
01:04:32There'd always be witnesses.
01:04:34The landlady, for one.
01:04:35She could identify me.
01:04:36The car dealer, the waitress in the drive-in, the girl in the dress shop,
01:04:38and that guy in the liquor store.
01:04:40They could all identify me.
01:04:43I was cooked.
01:04:45Done for.
01:04:46I had to get out of there.
01:04:48While once I'd remained beside a dead body, planning carefully how to avoid being accused of killing him,
01:04:54this time I couldn't.
01:04:56This time I was guilty.
01:04:58I knew it.
01:05:00I felt it.
01:05:02I was like a guy suffering from shock.
01:05:05Things were whirling around in my head.
01:05:07I couldn't make myself think right.
01:05:09All I could think of was the guy with the saxophone and what he was playing.
01:05:13It wasn't a love song anymore.
01:05:16It was a dirge.
01:05:32I couldn't do whatever reason.
01:05:35I was
01:06:02but my problems weren't solved i had to stay away from new york for all time because al roberts
01:06:13was listed as dead and had to stay dead and i could never go back to hollywood someone might
01:06:19recognize me as haskell then too there was sue i could never go to her with a thing like this
01:06:28hanging over my head all i could do was pray she'd be happy
01:06:34i was in bakersfield before i read that vera's body was discovered that the police were looking for
01:06:51haskell in connection with his wife's murder isn't that a laugh haskell got me into this mess
01:06:58and haskell was getting me out of it the police were searching for a dead man
01:07:03i keep trying to forget what happened and wonder what my life might have been if that car of haskell's
01:07:14hadn't stopped but one thing i don't have to wonder about i know
01:07:20someday a car will stop to pick me up that i never thumbed
01:07:26yes fate or some mysterious force can put the finger on you or me for no good reason at all
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