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00:02:19Please let me go.
00:02:20We can't do that, Miss Lowell.
00:02:22Mr. Brown wants you to see the fight.
00:02:23It's only the third round.
00:02:25I'll go back.
00:02:26Just let me go by myself.
00:02:27Mr. Brown is mad already.
00:02:29We lost you for two minutes.
00:02:30I promise I won't run away.
00:02:33Where would I go?
00:02:35All right.
00:02:35Let her go.
00:02:53I've changed my mind.
00:02:55I don't want to see the fights.
00:02:58I'm hungry.
00:03:01Call a cab.
00:03:04Call a cab.
00:03:06Mr. Brown says to keep her happy.
00:03:08Call a cab.
00:03:09I'll walk.
00:03:32I don't know.
00:03:35I don't understand.
00:03:37I want to see it.
00:03:4693rd precinct sergeant lee
00:03:49Captain Peterson
00:03:50Yes sir I know sir
00:03:51Lieutenant
00:03:51She's off duty sir
00:03:52But he's still in his office
00:03:53I know I know
00:03:561B3 roger
00:03:59Well I mean
00:04:00It's good to see you relax for a change
00:04:01Well evening captain
00:04:03Anything urgent?
00:04:04Urgent?
00:04:05No
00:04:06Anything urgent I leave to my subordinates
00:04:08There's some good 10 cent cigars
00:04:10Nice little loft cigars
00:04:13Randy
00:04:13My doctor's got me off everything worth living for
00:04:16Almost
00:04:19Leonard
00:04:20Yes sir
00:04:20There's got to be a stop to your complete disregard of the taxpayers' money
00:04:24I paid for this apple out of my own pocket
00:04:27You've spent $18,600 in the last six months
00:04:31Investigating one man
00:04:33A single man
00:04:35Brown's not a man
00:04:36He's an organization
00:04:38Now I need money to fight money
00:04:40Now look lieutenant
00:04:41I've got nothing against you personally
00:04:43I admire you
00:04:45You've got too many brains
00:04:46But that's not your fault
00:04:48Now
00:04:48What about this $18,600?
00:04:51How am I going to explain this to the commissioner?
00:04:54Well I
00:04:55Dictated an explanation
00:04:56If you want to use it
00:05:00Memorandum to Captain Peterson
00:05:02Covering expenditures of the 93rd precinct station
00:05:05The combination is growing stronger every day
00:05:08The only way to crush it is to get the top man
00:05:10When Grazi left the country
00:05:12Brown
00:05:14What do you think this is?
00:05:15A homicide investigation?
00:05:17You're dealing with the largest pool of illegal money in the world
00:05:20You're fighting a swamp with a teaspoon
00:05:25Combination keeps no books, no records
00:05:27Everything's run on word of mouth and hard cash
00:05:29That's their one weakness
00:05:31What?
00:05:31They have to have a treasurer
00:05:33So?
00:05:34And I know his name
00:05:35The name of a man who can pick up a phone and call Chicago and New Orleans and say
00:05:39Hey Bill, Joe's coming down for the weekend, advance him $50,000
00:05:43And he hangs up the phone and the money's advanced
00:05:45Protection money
00:05:47A new all-night bar opens with gambling outside city limits
00:05:52A bunch of high school kids come in for a good time
00:05:55They get loaded, they get irresponsible
00:05:57They lose their shirts
00:05:58And they get a gun
00:06:00Because they're worried, they want to make up their losses
00:06:02And a filling station, a tenant is dead with a bullet in his liver
00:06:07I have to see four kids on trial for first-degree murder
00:06:10Look at it
00:06:12First-degree murder because a certain Mr. Brown picked up a phone
00:06:15You can't touch, Brown, he's clean
00:06:18He's got nothing on him, not even a parking
00:06:20Now why is he so careful? It's unnatural
00:06:22You can't tell the jury a man's guilty because he's too innocent to be natural
00:06:25He's no more innocent than this gun
00:06:27Oh, now stop getting emotional, let it
00:06:28He's innocent until he's proven guilty
00:06:31Yes, Captain
00:06:35Is there anything else, Captain?
00:06:39Yes, it's a girl
00:06:41Susan Law
00:06:44You've had a tale on her for six months
00:06:46Why?
00:06:49She's Brown's girl
00:06:50She's our most valuable lead
00:06:53We know next to nothing about Brown
00:06:55But a woman knows
00:06:57She makes it her business to know
00:06:58If I can get hold of her and make her talk
00:07:00Oh, man, Ed, you spent six months trying
00:07:03She went to Vegas, you went to Vegas
00:07:04She flew to Cuba, you flew to Cuba
00:07:07Couldn't get authorization for the expense
00:07:09Bait it out of your own pocket
00:07:10I had to, you wouldn't back me up
00:07:11Well, I'm not in love with her, Leonard
00:07:13You are
00:07:32This is off the record, Leonard
00:07:34It's between friends
00:07:37Try to face facts
00:07:41Can't bear to think of her in the arms of this foot
00:07:44Forget her
00:07:48You're a cop, Leonard
00:07:50There's 17,000 laws on the books to be enforced
00:07:52You haven't time to reform wayward girls
00:07:56She's been with Brown three and a half years
00:08:00It's a lot of days
00:08:02And nights
00:08:04It takes it, Leonard
00:08:09Glad you agree
00:08:37Just don't run away
00:08:38We'd only have to come after you
00:08:40We'd only have to come after you
00:08:40Mr. Brown wouldn't like that
00:08:44Mr. Audubon
00:08:46Susan
00:08:47Well, I'm glad to see you
00:08:49How are you?
00:08:50It's been years
00:08:51Well, you look so different somehow, Susan
00:08:53I, well, I hardly recognized you
00:08:55Oh, I'm just the same, Mr. Audubon
00:08:57Well, how's your lovely mother?
00:08:59She's in England someplace
00:09:00I haven't kept track
00:09:01I should think you'd have gone along
00:09:03I hear that Bladovitz is playing a Beethoven cycle
00:09:06Oh, I, I haven't the interest I once had in the piano, Mr. Audubon
00:09:10Well, now I'm disappointed
00:09:12You don't play anymore
00:09:14The only thing I play now, Mr. Audubon, is stud poker
00:09:20Will you dance with me, Mr. Audubon?
00:09:23Well, certainly, Susan
00:09:24You, you all right?
00:09:26Oh, of course, of course
00:09:39The day Mr. Brown lets go our little lady
00:09:42I'll do it personally
00:09:45Mr. Audubon
00:09:52Susan
00:09:53I've taken some pills
00:09:54I think I've died
00:09:56Susan
00:10:24How do you feel now, Benny?
00:10:26Lost
00:10:27I feel terrible, Mr. Brown
00:10:28You kept fighting, Benny
00:10:30You've got heart
00:10:31Lost three of my teeth, too
00:10:33All right, so you lost
00:10:34Next time you'll win
00:10:35I'll show you how
00:10:37Take a look at Joe McClaw here
00:10:39He used to be my boss
00:10:40Now I'm his
00:10:41What's the difference between me and him?
00:10:44We breathe the same air
00:10:45Sleep in the same hotel
00:10:47He used to own it
00:10:50Now it belongs to me
00:10:52We eat the same steaks
00:10:53Drink the same bourbon
00:10:54Look
00:10:55Same manicure
00:10:56Same cufflinks
00:10:58But there's only one difference
00:11:00We don't get the same girls
00:11:02Why?
00:11:03Because women know the difference
00:11:05They got instinct
00:11:06First is first and second is nobody
00:11:09The best man won tonight, Mr. Brown
00:11:10You were better than Martinez
00:11:12Only you threw it away
00:11:14You step in the ring and shake hands with him
00:11:15You want to be his friend
00:11:16And you want to fight him
00:11:18No, Benny, no
00:11:19Mr. Brown
00:11:20Shut the door
00:11:24Now, Benny, who runs the world?
00:11:26Have you any idea?
00:11:27Not me, Mr. Brown
00:11:28That's right, not you
00:11:30What a funny thing
00:11:32They're not so much different from you
00:11:34But they've got something
00:11:35They've got it and they use it
00:11:37I've got it
00:11:37He hasn't
00:11:39So what is it, Benny?
00:11:40What makes the difference?
00:11:44Hate
00:11:46Hate is the word, Benny
00:11:47Hate the man who tries to beat you
00:11:49Kill him, Benny, kill him
00:11:51Hate him till you see Red
00:11:52And you'll come out winning the big money
00:11:54And the girls will come tumbling after
00:11:58You'll have to shut off your phone
00:11:59And lock the door to get a nice rest
00:12:04Get on your feet, Benny
00:12:13What'd you do that for, Mr. Brown?
00:12:15You should have hit me back
00:12:17You haven't got the hate
00:12:19Tear up Benny's contract
00:12:20He's no good to me anymore
00:12:27Where's Susan in the car?
00:12:28I tried to tell you before, Mr. Brown
00:12:30Tell me what
00:12:30He's in General Hospital
00:12:33What happened?
00:12:34He took some pills
00:12:37Get the comm, bring it around
00:12:38Buy me some cigarettes
00:12:48Hey, Shane
00:12:49Fourth end, Broadway
00:12:50Get a five-eighth
00:13:12Where is she?
00:13:14General Hospital.
00:13:17She's dying.
00:13:33You can take her to the prison ward now.
00:13:37Hello, Lieutenant.
00:13:38This is Mr. Brown.
00:13:41What do you want, Mr. Brown?
00:13:43Joe, tell the man I want her out.
00:13:45Mr. Brown would like to have Miss Lowell released.
00:13:47He'll put her in a private hospital.
00:13:48Is he a relative?
00:13:49Not exactly.
00:13:49Married to her?
00:13:50Just a personal friend.
00:13:51Yeah, visiting days are Tuesdays and Fridays.
00:13:53I don't know how you two got in here.
00:13:54You can get out the way you came in.
00:13:55Tell the man not that they're excited.
00:13:57Mr. Brown is a very reasonable man.
00:13:59You don't know him.
00:14:00Oh, is he?
00:14:01Well, I'm not.
00:14:02And I intend to make life very difficult for your Mr. Brown.
00:14:06You shouldn't talk like that, Lieutenant.
00:14:08You're overstepping your authority.
00:14:09Joe, the man has reason to hate me.
00:14:11His salary is $96.50 a week.
00:14:13The busboys in my hotel make better money than that.
00:14:15Don't you see, Joe?
00:14:16He's a righteous man.
00:14:18Personal feelings mean nothing to him.
00:14:20My girl's dying in a public hospital, and I want her out.
00:14:23She's under arrest, Mr. Brown.
00:14:25What's the charge?
00:14:25Homicide.
00:14:26It's ridiculous.
00:14:27She wouldn't kill a fly.
00:14:27She tried to kill herself.
00:14:29Is that a crime?
00:14:30It happens to be against two laws, gods and mans.
00:14:33I'm booking her under the second.
00:14:35Tell the man if he puts her on trial out.
00:14:42Doctor, come on.
00:14:56Susan.
00:14:58Stay away from the prisoner, Mr. Brown.
00:15:00Susan, are you all right?
00:15:01Brown, stay where you are.
00:15:02Susan.
00:15:09Joe.
00:15:12Tell the man I'm gonna break him so fast he won't have time to change his pants.
00:15:15Tell him the next time I see him he'll be down in the lobby of the hotel
00:15:17crying like a baby and asking for a $10 loan.
00:15:20Tell him that.
00:15:21And tell him I don't break my word.
00:15:24He must have done something pretty fine to get as high as you are, Mr. Brown.
00:15:28I'm looking into that. I'm gonna open you up and I'm gonna operate.
00:15:32I hate to think of what I'll find.
00:15:39But I tell you, Joe. A righteous man.
00:15:47Miss Lowell?
00:15:49Do you hear me, Miss Lowell?
00:15:58Are you a doctor?
00:15:59My name is Diamond. I'm a detective.
00:16:03Will you let me alone?
00:16:05I'll have to ask you certain questions and you'll have to answer.
00:16:08I feel so cold. Can't they turn on the heat?
00:16:12Can you get some hot coffee, please?
00:16:14If you'd get up and walk, you'd be a lot better off.
00:16:16I want to go to sleep. Just let me sleep.
00:16:20Here. Just take some of this. Come on.
00:16:23You're very kind. Everyone's kind.
00:16:28I don't deserve it.
00:16:29Come on now. Take a little of it.
00:16:32That's it.
00:16:36It's good.
00:16:39Why did you try to kill yourself?
00:16:42I don't know why. I can't remember.
00:16:45Please let me go to sleep.
00:16:46Were you jealous?
00:16:46Is that why? Was there another woman?
00:16:48Please, please.
00:16:48There was another woman, wasn't there?
00:16:50Just let me go to sleep.
00:16:50You mentioned her name, Alicia. Is that right?
00:16:54What about Alicia? Was Mr. Brown seeing Alicia?
00:16:57No. I don't know. I don't know who she is.
00:17:01Then how do you know her name?
00:17:02I don't know.
00:17:03You must know. You kept repeating it. Where'd you first hear it?
00:17:06I never heard it. I saw it.
00:17:10Where'd you see it? On a letter?
00:17:12In his apartment.
00:17:15It was raining outside and there was a mist on the window.
00:17:22He was writing a name on it with his finger like this.
00:17:27A moist glass.
00:17:30Alicia.
00:17:33And when he saw me, he rubbed it out.
00:17:37Oh, I'm so cold.
00:17:39Where's Alicia now?
00:17:41I don't know.
00:17:42Didn't you ask him?
00:17:44He wouldn't tell me.
00:17:48What was that?
00:17:50Oh, the diesel truck's going by. It's almost morning.
00:17:53Was Brown upset when you asked him about Alicia.
00:17:55I don't know any Alicia. Don't touch me.
00:17:57Go away. Please go away.
00:17:58You think you're the bright, respectable girl you were four years ago.
00:18:00You're not. You attempted suicide. You're under arrest.
00:18:03You could be sentenced to jail for six months.
00:18:04Nurse, may I have some water, please?
00:18:07Miss Lowell, answer one question.
00:18:09No.
00:18:09Who is Alicia?
00:18:11You tell me.
00:18:12Get on your feet.
00:18:15There's a man downstairs with a writ of habeas corpus.
00:18:18Already?
00:18:18It's McClaw. What'll I tell him?
00:18:20You know what habeas corpus means, Sam?
00:18:22I know what it does.
00:18:23It's Latin. It means you may have the body.
00:18:26Mr. Brown may have it.
00:18:32Sam.
00:18:35We're gonna find out who Alicia is.
00:18:38I want you to pick up every hood that works for Brown.
00:18:42And pick up Brown himself.
00:18:43I think that was a very good idea of himself.
00:18:47If you haven't heard that or not, just chaos.
00:18:58Could you repeat that?
00:18:58You ought not.
00:18:58You're about to be gone.
00:19:00What are you going to find?
00:19:01You ought to find out?
00:19:03If you're looking to find out where you are.
00:19:04You are so excited.
00:19:04You're about to be okay.
00:19:06You're looking for them.
00:19:09You're going to find out?
00:19:24What's happened?
00:19:25He's crazy.
00:19:26Who?
00:19:27Diamond, he's crazy.
00:19:29What happened, McClure?
00:19:31When they picked us up, I mentioned your name.
00:19:33You know what they said?
00:19:37Quit shaking.
00:19:38What did he ask you?
00:19:39A girl's name.
00:19:40That's all he could ask me.
00:19:42He just kept asking me this girl's name.
00:19:45Like it was nuts.
00:19:46He's crazy.
00:19:47What girl?
00:19:49They knocked it out of my head.
00:19:51I don't know.
00:19:53Alice something or another.
00:19:54Alicia, that's what it was.
00:19:56Alicia.
00:19:57What'd you tell him?
00:19:59Exactly what I know.
00:20:01Nothing.
00:20:02That's right, Fanny.
00:20:03You know nothing.
00:20:04Absolutely nothing.
00:20:05Don't forget it.
00:20:15I got a right to make a phone call.
00:20:18What do you want to call?
00:20:19Mr. Brown.
00:20:20Mr. Brown's a little busy right now.
00:20:22I'm in conference with Mr. Diamond.
00:20:26You know, legally, I don't have to submit to this test.
00:20:28I know.
00:20:28We appreciate your cooperation, Mr. Brown.
00:20:31And if I say no?
00:20:32Well, if you say no, I have a lot of questions to ask.
00:20:35You may be sitting in that chair for a couple of days.
00:20:37This way I can tell if you're lying in a few minutes.
00:20:39Well, go ahead, Larry.
00:20:40Let's get it over with.
00:20:42Picking me up for peddling without a license.
00:20:44You could have thought of something better than that, lieutenant.
00:20:47I prefer it to be suspicion of murder, but we had none today.
00:20:51I would have been happy to accommodate you.
00:20:53A police lieutenant.
00:20:57Now, I'm going to say one word at a time.
00:20:59Most of them won't mean a thing to you.
00:21:01But I want you to say whatever pops into your head.
00:21:03Like if I say sweet, I say sugar.
00:21:05If I say police, I say 96.50.
00:21:09Apple.
00:21:10Pear.
00:21:11Blue.
00:21:12Ocean.
00:21:13Brown.
00:21:14Mr. Brown to you.
00:21:15Only my friends call me brown.
00:21:20Water.
00:21:21Whiskey.
00:21:22Gun.
00:21:23Permit.
00:21:24Spaghetti.
00:21:25Bettini.
00:21:28What?
00:21:28What's that?
00:21:29What's what?
00:21:31Bettini.
00:21:32Spaghetti joint on the north side.
00:21:35Since when?
00:21:36Never heard of it.
00:21:37You couldn't afford it.
00:21:38Go ahead, John.
00:21:39Women.
00:21:41Expensive.
00:21:42Snow.
00:21:43White.
00:21:44Alicia.
00:21:47What was the name again?
00:21:49A woman's name.
00:21:50Alicia.
00:21:52No.
00:21:53No what?
00:21:54I said no.
00:21:54You want me to say it again?
00:21:56You know Alicia, don't you?
00:21:57Sure.
00:21:58Who is she?
00:21:59Two-year-old filly that broke her leg in the Jamaica steaks.
00:22:01I lost ten grand.
00:22:02You're lying, Mr. Brown.
00:22:05When you heard Alicia, your heart went bang.
00:22:07You don't lie with your blood pressure.
00:22:08You know what this means?
00:22:09It means you're scared.
00:22:11And Mr. Brown isn't scared of a horse.
00:22:12Who is she?
00:22:13What does she mean to you?
00:22:16That's a crime.
00:22:16Book me.
00:22:19Book me small change.
00:22:21All right, take him out, Sam.
00:22:24To the bullpen?
00:22:26No.
00:22:27Back to the gutter.
00:22:33Mr. Brown is a very influential citizen.
00:22:35I got 14 calls from the commissioner today.
00:22:38The 15th caught me.
00:22:40One more call and I'm out.
00:22:45Leonard, what were you doing?
00:22:46Just give me one possible explanation.
00:22:48That's all I ask.
00:22:49I was following a lead.
00:22:50I was being logical.
00:22:5396 false arrests.
00:22:55How am I going to explain?
00:22:57You only have to explain 95.
00:23:00Sam, what do I do with Leonard?
00:23:02Tell me what to do.
00:23:03Just give me another 18,000 for the Brown case.
00:23:07The Brown case is closed.
00:23:08Taput, schluss.
00:23:10The end.
00:23:10No more.
00:23:11Case closed.
00:23:17One hour, very clear.
00:23:22Hey, Sam.
00:23:24What was the name of that hood we failed to pick up?
00:23:27Ralph Patini.
00:23:29How long ago did he drop out of sight?
00:23:32About seven years ago.
00:23:33Why?
00:23:34That's about the same time that Grazie left the country
00:23:37and Brown took over.
00:23:39Yeah.
00:23:40So?
00:23:41Take a look at that graph.
00:23:45See how it jumped after he said Patini?
00:23:49Patini's was the only warrant we failed to serve.
00:23:53He hasn't been around for years.
00:23:54Maybe he's dead.
00:23:55No, he's not.
00:23:56I checked the morgue.
00:23:58The files is nothing.
00:24:00Why don't you go home?
00:24:02Get some rest.
00:24:03Oh, I've got a call to make first.
00:24:08Then it...
00:24:09Peterson meant what he said.
00:24:11You cross him means we're both out.
00:24:15What can we lose?
00:24:16Ninety-six-fifty a week.
00:25:05Oh, you've certainly got a nerve.
00:25:07Hi, Rita.
00:25:08What's on your mind?
00:25:09As if I didn't know.
00:25:11Oh, I thought maybe we could go dancing.
00:25:14I've been dancing, Lieutenant.
00:25:15Furthermore, you haven't been around here for six months.
00:25:18And furthermore, if you want a date, do what the others do.
00:25:21Call me first.
00:25:22A week in advance.
00:25:24Well, Rita, I'm giving a party tonight.
00:25:27Maybe you'd like to come.
00:25:29Party?
00:25:31Who's going to be there?
00:25:33It's you and me.
00:25:34Joke stinks.
00:25:36Lieutenant, either book me or let go my arm.
00:25:44Leonard.
00:25:47Leonard.
00:25:57Take me to the party.
00:26:03You're a beautiful girl, Rita.
00:26:09But you're stupid.
00:26:11Can't say anything nice without spoiling it.
00:26:14Why do you waste your time with a cop?
00:26:18Could get me a nice, rich hoodlum.
00:26:20You should be able to recommend one with your connections.
00:26:23What is there about a hoodlum that appeals to certain women?
00:26:28Hoodlums, detectives.
00:26:30Woman doesn't care how a man makes his living.
00:26:33Only how he makes love.
00:26:37Who is she, Leonard?
00:26:40I'm stupid, Leonard.
00:26:42About everything but men.
00:26:44Them, I know.
00:26:46I don't know.
00:26:48Give me my shoes.
00:26:49I'm going home.
00:26:54Put them on for me.
00:27:07When she hurts you again, baby,
00:27:09don't wait six months.
00:27:30Yes, I'm having a drink.
00:27:33Well, don't look at me as if I were a lush.
00:27:35That music, turn it off.
00:27:38I enjoy it.
00:27:39I said turn it off.
00:27:44What are we so cheerful about today?
00:27:47Where did you get that outfit?
00:27:48What's wrong with it?
00:27:50I like you better in white.
00:27:51You've got a dozen white dresses.
00:27:52Why don't you wear them?
00:27:53White doesn't please me anymore.
00:27:55A woman dresses for a man.
00:27:56You dress for me.
00:27:57Go put on something white.
00:27:59I won't.
00:28:03What's the matter with you?
00:28:05What have I done now?
00:28:07Before I came in,
00:28:08when you were playing that record,
00:28:09what were you thinking?
00:28:11I was trying to remember
00:28:12how I fell in love with you.
00:28:14It's so hard to remember.
00:28:16A girl's first love shouldn't be.
00:28:18It should be her only.
00:28:21Maybe that's why I can't leave you.
00:28:23We'll talk about love some other time.
00:28:26Do you know what I've been doing?
00:28:27What's been happening?
00:28:28People tell me all sorts of things.
00:28:30I don't listen.
00:28:33I didn't ask you before.
00:28:35You were sick.
00:28:37What did Diamond tell you?
00:28:40Diamond.
00:28:41Lieutenant Diamond.
00:28:43Detective.
00:28:4493rd Precinct.
00:28:45He grilled you for three hours in the hospital.
00:28:47What did he tell you?
00:28:48Kept asking me about a girl.
00:28:50What girl?
00:28:51Her name was Alicia.
00:28:53Who's she?
00:28:53I don't know.
00:28:55He was very insistent.
00:28:57What was her name again?
00:29:00Alicia.
00:29:04Doesn't mean a thing to me.
00:29:13Susan, tell me.
00:29:14Come on.
00:29:16What's bothering you?
00:29:25Susan, what are you trying to do?
00:29:26Drive me, Bats.
00:29:29What do you want, Susan?
00:29:30Tell me.
00:29:31I'll give you anything you want.
00:29:32Tell me.
00:29:33Nothing.
00:29:33Anything at all.
00:29:34Nothing.
00:29:35Nothing.
00:29:35Nothing.
00:29:36Nothing.
00:29:37Nothing.
00:29:37Nothing.
00:29:47Lieutenant.
00:29:48You had a call while the captain was in.
00:29:49I didn't want to disturb you.
00:29:50Who?
00:29:51She just said Rita.
00:29:52She wanted to see you and said you'd know where.
00:29:53Rita, you're right, Roger.
00:29:561L21 on my left.
00:29:57Call is at 1439.
00:30:11Say, Lieutenant.
00:30:13Hi, Pop.
00:30:14If you're looking for Rita, she's an addressing.
00:30:16Thanks.
00:30:22Hi, Rita.
00:30:23You certainly took your time getting here.
00:30:25Oh, come on.
00:30:25I've had a bad day.
00:30:26Don't give me any more.
00:30:27What I've got to tell you is not good.
00:30:29Fix this funny lady.
00:30:30I'll tell it.
00:30:32You're blowing your cork, pinching half the town.
00:30:34There's a big mad on you, and it's burning all over.
00:30:37Is that it?
00:30:38If they're quoting a price on you, you'd better take a vacation.
00:30:41Why'd you hear?
00:30:41It's all around.
00:30:42I picked up bits here and there.
00:30:44What are you going to do?
00:30:45If that's what I've been doing anymore.
00:30:48Are you trying to...
00:30:49Are you trying to get yourself killed, Leonard?
00:30:51Brown doesn't kill to get what he wants.
00:30:53He buys.
00:30:54Then you'd better sell out or start running.
00:30:57Well, you're really worried about me.
00:30:59A little.
00:31:01That's enough.
00:31:03It's a lot for me.
00:31:06That's my music.
00:31:11Leonard.
00:31:12Yeah?
00:31:12When will I see you again?
00:31:13Well, if I'm not dead, you'll find me where I always am.
00:31:15In jail.
00:31:41Shut up.
00:31:41Let's get him out of here.
00:32:02When's he going to wake up?
00:32:03Christmas?
00:32:04Shoot me with my own gun.
00:32:05That's what gets me.
00:32:07Fanny.
00:32:08Let me wake him up.
00:32:09Leave him alone.
00:32:11Mr. Brown doesn't want to draw any blood or show any marks.
00:32:15Hey, talk to Mr. Brown.
00:32:17Let me have him, Fanny.
00:32:18Two minutes is all I'll need.
00:32:20What for?
00:32:21I want to ask him one question.
00:32:24All right, go ahead.
00:32:25It's all yours.
00:32:28But first...
00:32:29Pay.
00:32:31Fanny, we're friends.
00:32:32You don't hold up a friend.
00:32:33Pay.
00:32:34Didn't Mr. Brown tell you?
00:32:36You're not Mr. Brown.
00:32:38For Mr. Brown, I'd snatch a judge from a superior court for a chocolate soda.
00:32:43Same goes for Mingo.
00:32:44Right, Mingo?
00:32:45Yeah.
00:32:47How much?
00:32:48A hundred.
00:32:49For Mingo, too.
00:32:51Why?
00:32:52A hundred each.
00:32:57Mingo.
00:33:02Thanks, Fanny.
00:33:04Now ask him all the questions you want.
00:33:20What did you pick me up for?
00:33:25I asked you a question.
00:33:26Why did you pick me up?
00:33:30I'm talking to you.
00:33:31Answer me.
00:33:33Why'd you pick me up?
00:33:38There he is, Mr. Brown.
00:33:40I was softening him up for you.
00:33:42I did a pretty good job.
00:33:44I told you not to touch him.
00:33:45I didn't hurt him.
00:33:46We're still legal.
00:33:48The trouble with you, McClure, is that you never took time to learn technique.
00:33:52Fanny, Mingo, bring that radio over here.
00:34:05I only want to borrow it, Joe.
00:34:11Will Joey Corn please look under the frigid air?
00:34:15Here's one of their current progenies, Martin.
00:34:19We're going to give the lieutenant a little concert.
00:34:24How's that?
00:34:25Too loud.
00:34:25Turn it down.
00:34:29Can you hear me, lieutenant?
00:34:34I just want to ask you one question and then you can go.
00:34:38What are you looking for?
00:34:40Maybe I can help you.
00:34:44What about Alicia?
00:34:45Watch your information.
00:34:47Arresting all my friends.
00:34:48Phony warrants.
00:34:51What's behind it?
00:34:58Mingo, try it.
00:35:06Don't be stubborn, lieutenant.
00:35:10What about Alicia?
00:35:17Why don't you ask yourself?
00:35:26There's a nice break coming up with a kid on drums.
00:35:28Real crazy.
00:35:31You like crazy drums, lieutenant?
00:35:34Have a good time.
00:35:57I think Mr. Diamond needs a drink.
00:36:00Got any liquor?
00:36:06How about some paint thinner?
00:36:07No, that'll kill him.
00:36:08Anything else?
00:36:11Hair tonic, 40% alcohol.
00:36:12Fine.
00:36:15Come down here and hold his hair panty.
00:36:19Hmm.
00:36:47I'll let him go.
00:36:50Shove him off.
00:37:01Look at that drunken cop.
00:37:03Isn't that a shame?
00:37:15Hold it.
00:37:33Diamond, what are you doing here?
00:37:36Well, well, I mean, you're drunk.
00:37:40I can grab you.
00:37:41Hey, come here.
00:37:48Call him.
00:37:49Grab one of my own officers.
00:37:51Slug him.
00:37:51Torture him.
00:37:52You were right, Leonard.
00:37:53They're afraid of something.
00:37:54Alicia.
00:37:55Well, that's a start.
00:37:57Let's go to work on Brown.
00:37:59I'd like to start by picking up Brown and company.
00:38:02No, you can't.
00:38:02They outsmarted you.
00:38:03Take a look in the mirror.
00:38:04There's not a mark on you.
00:38:05No, no.
00:38:06You were drunk.
00:38:06You came here on your own.
00:38:08That's the defense.
00:38:09And it's airtight, Leonard.
00:38:11That's why Brown delivered you here.
00:38:12His chief witness is me, Peterson.
00:38:14Oh, shit.
00:38:14I'm sorry, Leonard.
00:38:16Alicia.
00:38:17Alicia, Alicia.
00:38:19They don't know if it's a horse, a boat, or a girl.
00:38:22What else have you got?
00:38:23Another name cropped up.
00:38:25Bettini.
00:38:25Bettini?
00:38:26Have you ever heard of him?
00:38:26Where does he fit in?
00:38:28Out of 97 warrants, he was the only one he couldn't pick up.
00:38:32He turned up again on Brown's lie detection.
00:38:34Sit down, Leonard.
00:38:35Yeah, I'm about to let him.
00:38:37He was Grazzi's right-hand man, before Brown, before McClure, from my generation.
00:38:42He dropped out when Grazzi had to leave the country.
00:38:44Not dead?
00:38:44No, scared.
00:38:45He didn't fit in with Brown's new setup.
00:38:48None of the old crowd did.
00:38:50Bettini didn't wait around and get himself killed.
00:38:53Turned on as a citizen.
00:38:55Changed his name and went into hiding.
00:38:56You know where?
00:38:58I did him a favor once.
00:38:59Could have put him away for something he didn't do.
00:39:01I let it pass.
00:39:03He didn't deserve it, considering all the times he was guilty.
00:39:06I didn't have the evidence.
00:39:08Tell me where to find him.
00:39:09Oh, he's scared, Leonard.
00:39:10Too scared to talk.
00:39:12If he's that scared, he'll listen.
00:39:48Come in.
00:39:49Come on.
00:39:55Not yet.
00:39:57Just a minute.
00:39:59That's all I ask. Just a minute.
00:40:02Let me turn off the stove.
00:40:04Could cause a fire. Lots of nice old people in the building, okay?
00:40:11I've been waiting for you a long time.
00:40:15You look like such a nice young fella.
00:40:19That Brown sure knows how to pick him.
00:40:22I would never have suspected.
00:40:25Can I lie down and make it easier?
00:40:32Come closer.
00:40:35One shot ought to do it.
00:40:37You're not going to die, Mr. Bettini?
00:40:40I've got no money to offer you.
00:40:42I've got something to offer you.
00:40:44Don't fool with me, young fella. Get it over with.
00:40:47Mr. Brown didn't send me.
00:40:49My name is Diamond, Lieutenant Diamond, 93rd Precinct.
00:40:55If you'll help me, I can put your nightmare away.
00:41:01I can.
00:41:04I can't even help myself. How can I help you?
00:41:07I'm looking for a name.
00:41:10Alicia.
00:41:11You ever hear of her?
00:41:13Mean anything to you?
00:41:18Alicia was Brown's wife.
00:41:21Who told you?
00:41:22She told me she was a good girl.
00:41:28Helped you right off the farm.
00:41:31Brown married her when he was a prison guard.
00:41:36Two years later, she was a lush.
00:41:38Drink anything.
00:41:43Then Brown got tired of her.
00:41:47So he got rid of her.
00:41:54Take your time, Mr. Bettini.
00:41:58He was on Grazi's boat.
00:42:02Three days out for Portugal.
00:42:05Alicia came to the table drunk.
00:42:08Brown told her to go slip it off.
00:42:11She called him a name.
00:42:14Grazi laughed.
00:42:15Now Brown.
00:42:17I remember the look on Brown's face.
00:42:20And then he hit her.
00:42:22And she got up from the table and she pulled off a wedding ring.
00:42:26It was hard to pull off.
00:42:27It must have been grown to her finger.
00:42:31She pulled it off and threw it in the ocean.
00:42:34Then what?
00:42:37Then she went to her cabin.
00:42:40I never seen her again.
00:42:42What happened to her?
00:42:47How do you know?
00:42:50I know Brown.
00:42:51I know Brown too.
00:42:52That's no evidence.
00:42:55Then there was the ship's anchor.
00:42:58What about it?
00:43:00We stopped at the ASO's.
00:43:03The skipper went to shore and got another one.
00:43:07You think she was murdered and tied to the ship's anchor and dropped into the sea?
00:43:12I don't know which came first.
00:43:15I jumped ship at the moment we landed.
00:43:18Who was the skipper?
00:43:22Some Swede.
00:43:24What was his name?
00:43:26I never talked to the man.
00:43:29What did he look like?
00:43:30A uniform. Who looks in the uniform?
00:43:37It's important, Mr. Bettini.
00:43:39If the anchor was used, the skipper would surely know.
00:43:44He'd have to be paid off.
00:43:46Or killed off.
00:43:48Now try, please try to remember his name.
00:43:51Go away, leave me alone.
00:43:56For seven years I don't talk to nobody.
00:43:58Now I talk too much.
00:44:00You'll have to come with me, Mr. Bettini.
00:44:08You're locking me up?
00:44:10The next stranger who comes in won't be from the police.
00:44:15He'll be safer with us.
00:44:19You better pack your things.
00:44:23I got them all on you.
00:44:28Except this.
00:44:36How come a nice guy like you is a cop?
00:44:40Just lucky, I guess.
00:44:47You like antiques, officer?
00:44:50Who can afford them?
00:44:54If you're a captain on a boat born for Portugal,
00:45:00and you keep your mouth shut,
00:45:03you can buy a lot of antiques.
00:45:06Maybe a whole store for them.
00:45:19Yes, my love, that is what I've been telling you for the last five minutes,
00:45:22but you don't listen.
00:45:24Well, be calm.
00:45:25We can change our plans.
00:45:27Lot is not broken, my Elskling.
00:45:29I came to dig, and I helped him.
00:45:32No, we can have a couple cocktails,
00:45:35and then go to Stelningen.
00:45:37Good.
00:45:38Come on, Elskling.
00:45:41What can I do for you, sir?
00:45:43I'm Lieutenant Diamond, police.
00:45:45Diamond.
00:45:47Expensive name.
00:45:48I won't take much of your time, Mr. Dreyer.
00:45:50I just want to ask you a few questions.
00:45:52Please.
00:45:53It's about a large purchase you made.
00:45:55Well, I have complete books.
00:45:57Every dollar is there in black and white,
00:45:59unless it goes in the red.
00:46:01This purchase was made in 1946.
00:46:051946?
00:46:06I'm sorry I was not in business then.
00:46:09So, I can't help you.
00:46:11I was hoping you'd have some record.
00:46:13It's about the purchase of an anchor.
00:46:16I don't understand.
00:46:18In 1946, you were skipper of a private boat,
00:46:21bound from New York Harbor for Lisbon, Portugal,
00:46:24on the way you stopped at the Azores and bought a new anchor.
00:46:27Why?
00:46:32I don't understand.
00:46:35Well, try a little harder.
00:46:37You don't know me.
00:46:38I'm very stupid.
00:46:39The boat was a cabin cruiser owned by Grazzi.
00:46:43It's now being operated by a Mr. Brown.
00:46:45Do you know Mr. Brown?
00:46:47I had lunch with him last week.
00:46:48He's a very fine gentleman.
00:46:50He's a hoodlum.
00:46:52Because I have lunch with him, that is not a crime.
00:46:55I have lunch with anybody.
00:46:57I'm democratic.
00:46:58I'll even have lunch with you.
00:47:01Who paid for this shop?
00:47:03Me, Dreyer.
00:47:04You, Dreyer, borrowed the money from the Bolomac Corporation.
00:47:07The Bolomac Corporation is Brown, or Brown and Grazzi.
00:47:11Mr. Brown doesn't pay money for nothing.
00:47:14What makes you so valuable to Mr. Brown?
00:47:17What do you have on him?
00:47:18My name is Nils Dreyer.
00:47:20I live at 821 Mason Avenue.
00:47:22That is all I have to tell you.
00:47:24You know, Mr. Dreyer, things changed since I walked in here.
00:47:27Brown knows I'm here.
00:47:28He knows I'm talking to you.
00:47:30I said nothing.
00:47:31Yeah, but Brown doesn't know that.
00:47:35In exchange for information, Mr. Dreyer,
00:47:38I'll give you protection.
00:47:39I'll do better than that.
00:47:40I'll put you in jail.
00:47:42Suppose you put me in jail.
00:47:44The man in the next cell happens to have a gun.
00:47:47Boom!
00:47:47One dead Swede.
00:47:48Thank you very kindly.
00:47:50I'll remain stupid.
00:47:52How did you get in here, sir?
00:47:54The store is closed.
00:47:55I'm late for an appointment, if you'll excuse me.
00:47:58Mr. Dreyer, the secret you think keeps you safe will blow up in your face.
00:48:03You're dealing with a... a ruthless man.
00:48:07Mr. Diamond, I was a seaman for 30 years.
00:48:11I went to sea aged 14.
00:48:13I've seen storms.
00:48:15I've seen gunfire.
00:48:16I've seen torpedoes.
00:48:17I've been wrecked not once, four times.
00:48:20On a raft 37 days, nothing but water.
00:48:23Nothing kills me.
00:48:24I'll die in Stockholm like my great-grandfather, age 93.
00:48:28I'm not scared of anyone, including you, so get out.
00:48:36You change your mind, Mr. Dreyer.
00:48:38I just phoned the 93rd precinct.
00:48:39I'll send a squad car for you.
00:49:06Hello?
00:49:07Hello?
00:49:09Hello?
00:49:11Hello?
00:49:28Let's go.
00:49:58Sit down, Joe.
00:50:09I wanted him here alive. What happened?
00:50:12He had a gun, didn't he, Fanny?
00:50:14He had a gun, all right, Mr. Brown.
00:50:15I told you to go without guns.
00:50:17Which one of you changed my mind?
00:50:18I didn't have any gun with me.
00:50:20Mingo.
00:50:20It wasn't me, I swear.
00:50:23Well, he pulled a gun on me. What'd you want me to do?
00:50:26With your kind of brain, there was nothing else you could do.
00:50:29Now listen to me, you two.
00:50:30Go about your business.
00:50:31Go where you ordinarily go. Do what you ordinarily do.
00:50:34If they ask questions, say nothing.
00:50:36And you, get upstairs, go to bed. Stay there.
00:50:38You've been sick, you understand? Sick.
00:50:40And if they take you to police headquarters,
00:50:42shoot yourself in the head.
00:50:43It'll make everything a lot simpler.
00:50:45Now get out.
00:50:54Joe.
00:50:56Come here.
00:51:02Why did you do it, Joe?
00:51:04I told you he pulled a gun on me.
00:51:07I'm trying to run an impersonal business.
00:51:09Killing is very personal.
00:51:11Once it gets started, it's hard to stop.
00:51:13I could understand it if you were a trigger-happy punk,
00:51:15but you're not.
00:51:16You're an experienced man, Joe.
00:51:19Why did you do it?
00:51:24I guess I'm getting too old to handle a gun.
00:51:26Yeah.
00:51:27Maybe you're just getting too old, Joe.
00:51:29You don't like me much, do you?
00:51:32You figure when Grazi left the country,
00:51:33you should have taken over instead of me.
00:51:35Isn't that it?
00:51:36No, the job's too big for me.
00:51:38Yeah.
00:51:39You say that, but you don't mean it.
00:51:42Give me your gun, Joe.
00:51:55Come on.
00:52:01See what I mean, Joe?
00:52:02Two seconds ago, you had this gun in your hand.
00:52:05We're all alone here.
00:52:06The thought of using it flashed through your mind.
00:52:09But you couldn't.
00:52:10Yet you didn't hesitate to use it on dryer.
00:52:12Why?
00:52:13Because he was a little man, Joe.
00:52:15Like you, a little man.
00:52:17You had a soft job and good pay.
00:52:20Stop thinking about what might have been.
00:52:22And who knows?
00:52:23You may live to die in bed.
00:52:26That's all, Joe.
00:52:51It's empty.
00:52:53Can't be.
00:52:54Did anybody open this since yesterday?
00:52:55Miss Harleby?
00:52:56Impossible, sir.
00:52:58What do you got?
00:53:04It was dryer's life insurance.
00:53:06Where would an ex-saler keep a log work?
00:53:09Dryer was a very meticulous man.
00:53:11He kept a complete record of everything in his shop.
00:53:14In his shop.
00:53:22If you're looking for the log of Grazi's yacht in the summer of 46,
00:53:24you'll find it in there.
00:53:36Sam, get the DA's office and get a warrant for Brown's arrest.
00:53:39On what charge?
00:53:40Ah, arson.
00:53:41I got a court order.
00:53:43Issued this morning.
00:53:44It says that all the deeds, papers, and properties of this shop belong to me.
00:53:48Dryer had 20%.
00:53:49The Bolomac Corporation had the rest, and I'm the Bolomac Corporation.
00:53:53Nobody else.
00:53:54Not even Grazi?
00:53:55I bought him out.
00:53:57Why should the Bolomac Corporation be interested in burning that ship's log?
00:54:01Why?
00:54:01Liquidation of assets.
00:54:03Which is hardly a crime.
00:54:04Excuse me, Preston.
00:54:06I'll wait until I can put you on trial for murder.
00:54:10Whose murder, Lieutenant?
00:54:12Mine, if necessary.
00:54:14Don't push too hard.
00:54:15It's my sworn duty to push too hard.
00:54:18I'm in the only trouble with you is you'd like to be me.
00:54:21You'd like to have my organization, my influence, my fix.
00:54:24You can't.
00:54:25It's impossible.
00:54:26You think it's money.
00:54:27It's not.
00:54:28It's personality.
00:54:30You haven't got a lieutenant.
00:54:31You're a cop.
00:54:32Slow, steady, intelligent, with a bad temper, and a gun under your arm.
00:54:39I want the big yen for a girl you can't have.
00:54:42First is first, and second is nobody.
00:54:44Yeah, the DA is out.
00:54:46I have his assistant.
00:54:49Hang up, Sam.
00:55:32Miss Lowell.
00:55:38Go away, please.
00:55:40It'll only be a minute, Miss Lowell.
00:55:42Why here?
00:55:43Can't it wait?
00:55:44No.
00:55:45Well, what is it, please?
00:55:47I've come to ask you a favor.
00:55:49Do I owe you one?
00:55:51I want you to leave, Mr. Brown.
00:55:56I've asked you to leave, Mr. Diamond.
00:55:59Now, if you don't, I will.
00:56:00You think this is mink, Miss Lowell?
00:56:03You think these are the skins of little wild animals, sewn together for your pleasure?
00:56:07You're mistaken.
00:56:10Take your hands off.
00:56:10And these are skins of human beings, Miss Lowell.
00:56:13People who've been beaten, sold, robbed, doped, and murdered by Mr. Brown.
00:56:31I didn't come here to hurt you, Miss Lowell.
00:56:34You don't have to see me again or even speak to me again, but save yourself, leave him.
00:56:40How?
00:56:41All you have to do is walk out.
00:56:44Is that all, Mr. Diamond?
00:56:47You followed me long enough to know I can't.
00:56:53I live in a maze, Mr. Diamond.
00:56:56A strange, blind, and backward maze.
00:56:59And all the little twisting paths lead back to Mr. Brown.
00:57:05I can't buy that, Miss Lowell.
00:57:07Not in a million years.
00:57:13Why do you want to change my life, Mr. Diamond?
00:57:18My boss says I'm in love with you.
00:57:23I keep telling myself I'm just doing my job.
00:57:28Is that why you came to see me?
00:57:31No.
00:57:33I brought you a present.
00:57:35You'll keep it or burn it just as you please.
00:57:38What is it?
00:57:40It's a photograph of Brown's wife.
00:57:42Her name was Alicia.
00:57:45You might ask him what happened.
00:58:05I will be happy.
00:58:26It's a depression.
00:58:28Who is it?
00:58:28Susan.
00:58:33It's only 10.30.
00:58:36Is the concert that dull?
00:58:41Take your hands off me.
00:58:43Okay.
00:58:46I want to talk to you.
00:58:47Not now, later.
00:58:48No, now.
00:58:50Come here, I want to show you something.
00:59:05What is all this?
00:59:06This is my bank.
00:59:08I could have built this vault in my apartment, but that would have been too obvious.
00:59:11We don't take cheques. We deal strictly in cash.
00:59:15There isn't anybody I would trust with so much temptation except myself.
00:59:20Or maybe you.
00:59:22Trust me.
00:59:24Who did you see at the concert?
00:59:26Nobody.
00:59:26Nobody by the name of Diamond.
00:59:28Then why do you ask?
00:59:29You know everything.
00:59:31But there's one thing Mingo and Fante can tell you.
00:59:33Whether I still love you.
00:59:35What did Diamond tell you?
00:59:37That he's in love with me.
00:59:43Diamond in love? That's not possible.
00:59:44Any more than this clever machine.
00:59:46The machine gave me a strange present.
00:59:48What was it? A pair of handcuffs?
00:59:55I want to meet her.
00:59:58I want to meet your wife, Mr. Brown.
01:00:00You can't.
01:00:00Why? Because she's dead?
01:00:01No, she's alive.
01:00:03She's living in Sicily, in Grassi's house.
01:00:05This was taken a month ago.
01:00:07Came one of her letters.
01:00:08Why did she send it to you?
01:00:09She wants to come back.
01:00:11Why did you leave her?
01:00:12I don't want to talk about it.
01:00:14I do.
01:00:15Can't you let me hold on to some pride?
01:00:16I lost all mine with you.
01:00:20All right, I'll tell you.
01:00:22I was in love with her.
01:00:24Me, a prison guard.
01:00:26It was for her I began to work my way up.
01:00:28All I had was guts.
01:00:29I traded them for money and influence.
01:00:31I got respect from everybody but her.
01:00:33She did everything she could to humiliate me.
01:00:36She was always drunk, flirting with other men.
01:00:38I tried to straighten her out.
01:00:40I took her on a boat trip when Grassi had to go to Sicily.
01:00:42The day after we docked, she disappeared.
01:00:44I spent months looking for her.
01:00:46What do you think she was?
01:00:48Living in Grassi's house.
01:00:50He was a bigger man than me.
01:00:53Now you know who Alicia is.
01:00:59Well, well, well.
01:01:00Good evening, Mr. Dow.
01:01:01How are you?
01:01:01How you been?
01:01:02Lonely, Fred.
01:01:03Lonely.
01:01:04I'm between shows, half to 12 o'clock.
01:01:06Mr. Diamond is out.
01:01:08Would you like to go up there and wait for him?
01:01:10Thanks.
01:01:12Tell me what he does with his evenings.
01:01:14Work?
01:01:16I'm gonna kill that guy.
01:01:17Don't you kill him.
01:01:18He pays his rent right under the dot.
01:01:20I'd miss him.
01:01:21You and me both.
01:01:27Tony.
01:01:37Yeah?
01:01:39No, no.
01:01:41I'm wide awake.
01:01:43When do you want it done?
01:01:46I understand.
01:01:54Mingo.
01:01:55What's wrong?
01:01:56Mr. Brown wants an order filled tonight.
01:01:59Who?
01:02:00Diamond.
01:02:21It's open.
01:02:23Go.
01:02:24Go!
01:02:54Leonard.
01:02:56Leonard.
01:02:57What, Sam? What?
01:02:58Whatever you're thinking, drop it.
01:03:00It won't bring her back.
01:03:03Saks Fifth Avenue.
01:03:06She came to see me in her best shoes.
01:03:09I'll call up Peterson.
01:03:10He'll put every availability of me.
01:03:12Never mind, Sam.
01:03:14I said never mind.
01:03:17We don't have to check bullets or fingerprints.
01:03:20This room has a name written all over it.
01:03:23Brown, brown.
01:03:25He wanted to kill me.
01:03:26He got tired of waiting.
01:03:28So have I.
01:03:29What are you gonna do?
01:03:30Close the case.
01:03:31I know how you feel.
01:03:32Nobody knows how another person feels.
01:03:34No, Leonard.
01:03:34Sit down.
01:03:58Sit down.
01:03:59Do me a favor.
01:04:00Take off your gun.
01:04:05I treated her like a pair of gloves.
01:04:09When I was cold, I called her up.
01:04:16Don't blame yourself.
01:04:17You'll go crazy.
01:04:26Don't blame yourself.
01:04:36Don't blame yourself.
01:04:36I saw the papers this morning.
01:04:38I'm sorry.
01:04:40Terribly, terribly, terribly sorry.
01:04:42Why?
01:04:42That it wasn't me?
01:04:44Say what you came to say.
01:04:49I left Mr. Brown.
01:04:51You're a little late.
01:04:53Brown killed the girl in your apartment.
01:04:55His men did it.
01:04:57Can you prove it?
01:04:58No, I...
01:04:58Can you prove that Fanti and Mingo did it?
01:05:01That he ordered them to?
01:05:02No.
01:05:04Sit down.
01:05:09Don't you know you've gone?
01:05:11He will.
01:05:13I opened his private vault.
01:05:15Why?
01:05:16I wanted to help you if I could.
01:05:18What does it keep in the vault?
01:05:20Guns and money.
01:05:21It's no crime to have money or even to have a gun only to use it.
01:05:24I saw something else.
01:05:26What?
01:05:26Something about Alicia.
01:05:29Can you prove that she was murdered?
01:05:31No.
01:05:32I can prove that she's alive.
01:05:35What are you talking about?
01:05:37She's living in Sicily with Grazi.
01:05:40That's impossible.
01:05:42She sent this to Brown.
01:05:45It's Alicia, all right.
01:05:47Years older than her photograph taken on the boat.
01:05:50She must be alive.
01:05:53But this photo was never taken in Sicily.
01:05:56There's snow on the ground.
01:06:04Yeah.
01:06:05It's the same girl, all right.
01:06:06She's short-changed since the other picture.
01:06:09Could that be a fake?
01:06:10No, sir.
01:06:11This was made with an ordinary wide-angle lens.
01:06:14Now, judging from the scope...
01:06:15Oh, remind all that.
01:06:15Can you tell me when the picture was taken?
01:06:17The original was printed on Faragam paper.
01:06:19Well, what does that mean?
01:06:20It wasn't on the market till a year and a half ago.
01:06:22Frank, see that highway marker through the fence?
01:06:25Can you tell me what that is?
01:06:26Identify it?
01:06:27No, I can't.
01:06:27But I'll check it right away for you.
01:06:28Will you do it quickly, please?
01:06:30Leonard.
01:06:31Yeah?
01:06:31Alicia's alive.
01:06:33If there's no murder, there's no case.
01:06:35We may have an even stronger case.
01:06:37I've been in touch with our overseas military intelligence.
01:06:40They've been looking for Grazi for years, not to be found.
01:06:42And there's no record that he ever got to Sicily.
01:06:45What about Bettini's story?
01:06:47Bettini was right about a murder taking place on the boat.
01:06:49He was just wrong about the identity of the victim.
01:06:52Wait a minute.
01:06:53Spell that out.
01:06:55Well, I've been looking for the wrong murder.
01:06:59Brown didn't kill his wife.
01:07:01He killed his boss, Grazi.
01:07:03And that's why our intelligence couldn't find him.
01:07:06Grazi is at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean tied to an anchor.
01:07:10It's a beautiful theory, Lonnie.
01:07:13Beautiful.
01:07:14Except for one small item.
01:07:16You can't prove it.
01:07:18You have no witness.
01:07:19Oh, you got it, Frank. Let's see it.
01:07:21State highway marker, 225A.
01:07:2425A. Do you know where that is?
01:07:26I can find it in two hours.
01:07:27It's a one-lane gravel road that curves west from the coast highway.
01:07:55I don't know why you've come to me, officer.
01:07:58My name is Anna Lee Jackson.
01:08:00Are you sure you never took an ocean voyage?
01:08:03Well, if I had, I certainly would have remembered.
01:08:07You really have a way with flowers.
01:08:10What are these?
01:08:11These are stalk.
01:08:14Beautiful, all of them.
01:08:15How do you do it?
01:08:16Oh, you have to love them.
01:08:18They know the difference.
01:08:21Oh, my goodness.
01:08:23What is it?
01:08:25Caterpillar.
01:08:26Caterpillar.
01:08:27Eating the buds.
01:08:28Well, why didn't you kill it?
01:08:30Oh, I couldn't kill anything.
01:08:32I can't even cut these flowers.
01:08:35People want to see them.
01:08:37They've got to come here, where they're alive.
01:08:40Not withering and dying in a vase.
01:08:44You feel that pretty strongly, don't you?
01:08:46Oh, yes, I do.
01:08:48I can tell you why you feel that way.
01:08:50Can you?
01:08:52Because you saw your husband murder a man named Grazi.
01:08:55I'll spell the name for you.
01:08:57G-R-A-Z-Z-I.
01:08:58Grazi.
01:09:00I have a photograph of you.
01:09:03Taken seven years ago.
01:09:04You can have it if you like.
01:09:09The men are old friends of yours.
01:09:11One alive, the other dead.
01:09:20Now, listen to me, Alicia.
01:09:23Brown, unfortunately, is not a caterpillar.
01:09:25He doesn't eat flowers.
01:09:26He devours people.
01:09:29I had a friend, a girl, 24 years old.
01:09:34She was murdered last night.
01:09:36Brown thought he was killing me.
01:09:37He didn't even know her name.
01:09:38I don't hear anymore.
01:09:39Please, please, I'm sick.
01:09:41Can't you say I'm sick?
01:09:42You're sick all right, Alicia.
01:09:45Sick with fright.
01:09:46Now you're in our custody.
01:09:48You have nothing more to fear.
01:09:49You know that because you're perfectly sane.
01:09:55I'd rather be insane and alive.
01:10:03Insane and dead.
01:10:08It hurts.
01:10:09If you can move it, it's not broken.
01:10:10But it hurts.
01:10:11Take a drink.
01:10:12I took a drink.
01:10:13It still hurts.
01:10:14Take another drink.
01:10:15Penny, I'm trying to tell you.
01:10:16Don't understand.
01:10:25Well, I got news.
01:10:26Big news.
01:10:28Brown is finished.
01:10:29The police found Alicia.
01:10:30She's going to spill her guts to the grand jury.
01:10:34I said Brown's washed up.
01:10:35Finished.
01:10:36Off the map.
01:10:36You say.
01:10:38That means nothing.
01:10:39Gracie says.
01:10:40That's something.
01:10:41There ain't no Gracie.
01:10:42He's dead.
01:10:43Since when?
01:10:43Seven years.
01:10:45I've seen cablegrams.
01:10:46Brown sent those cablegrams.
01:10:48Brown killed them.
01:10:49Brown kept them alive to keep the boys in line.
01:10:51Why haven't you guys been chaperoning this Miss Lowell dame?
01:10:54You want to know where she is?
01:10:56She's helping the police.
01:10:58Seems like Mr. Brown has lost his charm.
01:11:02What would you suggest?
01:11:05Kill him.
01:11:12Kill him tonight.
01:11:13Not tomorrow.
01:11:14Mr. Brown will be dead soon enough.
01:11:16The boys will take care of him for his long double cross.
01:11:19But if we do it now fast,
01:11:21we'll save a lot of people a lot of trouble.
01:11:24We'll be in more solid than ever.
01:11:26Instead of running around for Brown and wet nurse and all his crazy dames,
01:11:30I'm going to show you two guys how to be men.
01:11:32Start all over.
01:11:34Slower this time.
01:12:04We're early.
01:12:06They said they'd land at 1am.
01:12:08Didn't want to be late.
01:12:09I'm coming all the way from Denver.
01:12:11Strange they sent way through you instead of the regular way.
01:12:14This isn't regular.
01:12:15This is special.
01:12:16They said they wanted 200 grand in small bills.
01:12:19I got it right here, but what's the pitch?
01:12:22Denver's usually a quiet spot.
01:12:23I don't know.
01:12:24I asked them, but they wouldn't tell me on the phone.
01:12:26Didn't they give any reason?
01:12:28No.
01:12:29What do you think it is?
01:12:31We'll know soon enough.
01:12:36Now, Mr. Brown, how do you feel now?
01:12:39Not so big, huh?
01:12:41You took my job.
01:12:43You took my hotel.
01:12:44You thought you could push me right off the earth.
01:12:47You punk.
01:12:48You accountant.
01:12:49You bookkeeper.
01:12:50Let him have it.
01:12:52Let him have it now.
01:12:53Right now.
01:12:59Wait a minute.
01:13:00What's the matter?
01:13:01You fellas gone loony?
01:13:03I'm McClure.
01:13:04Can't you see me?
01:13:05This is McClure.
01:13:08Don't do it, Mango.
01:13:09I'll give you dough.
01:13:10All the dough I got, 10,000, 20,000, everything.
01:13:14No, Fanny.
01:13:15Don't do it.
01:13:16Mr. Brown.
01:13:18Mr. Brown.
01:13:25Tell him not to do it.
01:13:26I'll do anything you want.
01:13:27I'll go away.
01:13:28You'll never see me again.
01:13:29Please, Mr. Brown.
01:13:31Don't just stand there alone.
01:13:32Kill me.
01:13:33Please, Mr. Brown.
01:13:34I don't want to die.
01:13:35Tell him.
01:13:36Please, tell him.
01:13:38Please, Mr. Brown.
01:13:48I don't want to die.
01:13:49I feel sorry for you, Joe.
01:13:51So I'm going to do you a favor.
01:13:53You won't hear the bullets.
01:14:15Sam.
01:14:16Yeah?
01:14:17Tell the captain I've finished my interrogation.
01:14:31Miss Lowell.
01:14:43Are you a policewoman?
01:14:45No.
01:14:47Who are you?
01:14:49My name is Susan Lowell.
01:14:51I'm a witness against Mr. Brown.
01:14:54I'm not.
01:14:58I can't do it.
01:15:01Haven't I humiliated myself enough?
01:15:03No one's done enough while he's still free.
01:15:07I've been Mr. Brown's girl the past four years.
01:15:14He met lots of girls. They were all crazy about him.
01:15:18I'm not proud of it.
01:15:20Then why'd you stay four years?
01:15:23Why'd you start?
01:15:24I don't know. No, that's not true.
01:15:26I was told, but I just wouldn't believe.
01:15:31Take a look at her, Alicia. Take a good look.
01:15:35You can see yourself ten years ago.
01:15:38If you had only spoken up then, how different your life would have been.
01:15:44Because he killed you.
01:15:46He buried you alive.
01:15:48Because he's a murderer.
01:15:50That's all he is, a murderer.
01:15:52Wanna hear?
01:15:53He killed Grazi, didn't he? You saw him do it, didn't you?
01:15:56I never said I did.
01:16:00Besides, Grazi deserved to die.
01:16:03And what about the girl he had killed three days ago?
01:16:05That she deserved to die too?
01:16:07What girl?
01:16:10You remember the girl?
01:16:12The girl I told you about at the sanitarium, you remember?
01:16:14No, no, I don't.
01:16:15Then I'll refresh your memory, this girl.
01:16:18Someone he didn't know, never met, never saw.
01:16:22They took 11 bullets from her body.
01:16:25The following morning, Miss Lowell had breakfast with him.
01:16:28He ordered bacon and two eggs.
01:16:30Tell her, Susan.
01:16:32Tell her how he ate his bacon and eggs while he looked at the papers.
01:16:35And saw the body of this girl lying in the morgue.
01:16:41I'll tell whatever I know.
01:16:46I'll take it to the DA's office for statement.
01:16:49Mr. Brown?
01:16:56Car 5A3, 5A3, call your station.
01:17:01Car 5A3, call your station, code 2.
01:17:05Captain.
01:17:06Captain, this is Mr. Malloy, an attorney.
01:17:08I have a writ of habeas corpus for Mrs. Alicia Brown.
01:17:11We have no Mrs. Brown here.
01:17:13But I...
01:17:13This is Miss Anna Lee Jackson.
01:17:19Hello, Alicia.
01:17:44It's no use, we can't use her.
01:17:46Not every case ends with a promotion.
01:17:48Your name in the papers.
01:17:52The close body's been found in the river, shut full of holes.
01:17:56This is an act of panic.
01:17:59Mr. Brown is cracking.
01:18:01Sam, take the headquarters squad, pick up Fanti and Mingo.
01:18:04First, Dreyer, Rita and McClure.
01:18:07They can't have alibis that'll stick for three murders.
01:18:11Come on, Mingo, lay off of that stuff.
01:18:15Mingo, lay off of that stuff, I told you!
01:18:24Gotta eat something?
01:18:27I can't swallow any more salami.
01:18:29That's all we've got.
01:18:31Where is Brown? When's he coming?
01:18:33How long are we gonna stay here?
01:18:35We've been here two days, I thought.
01:18:38I just can't take it anymore, Fanny.
01:18:42I tell you, my thumb's got an infection.
01:18:44It keeps aching worse than a sore tooth.
01:18:46Cops catch us, it'll ache worse.
01:18:48Cops, what can they prove?
01:18:50They don't have to prove a thing.
01:18:53They got three warrants out for us, indictments for three murders.
01:18:56So let them indict, they still can't prove.
01:19:01Can they?
01:19:05Do you know how long it would take for three murder trials?
01:19:09We'd be in jail for three years.
01:19:11Now relax.
01:19:12Brown will get us out of town until the heat blows out,
01:19:15and then we can come back.
01:19:16How do we know we're safe here?
01:19:17It's the safest place in the world.
01:19:19Grazie built this place in the Prohibition days.
01:19:21Not even the bell ops know it's here.
01:19:24I'm sour on this town, Fanny.
01:19:28When we get out, let's never come back, huh?
01:19:32What I'm worried about is getting out of this hotel.
01:19:35The cops will be looking for us in every closet.
01:19:45You thought you'd better come.
01:19:47Take it easy, boys.
01:19:50Look, it's now four in the afternoon.
01:19:52It's 5.30 tomorrow morning, the cops change shifts in the alley.
01:19:55I'll come for you then.
01:19:56Did you get us a car?
01:19:57Everything's arranged.
01:19:58Just keep your heads in wait.
01:19:59I brought you some food.
01:20:01What's the matter?
01:20:01Go creche.
01:20:02You've all been good boys.
01:20:04There's enough money here to take care of you for a long time.
01:20:07Divide it even and don't fight over it.
01:20:13How much do you think?
01:20:14Mr. Brown's a generous man.
01:20:16I'll tell you after a count.
01:20:17Give it here.
01:20:24Where are you going?
01:20:42Police are downstairs.
01:20:47Bring me another bottle.
01:20:49Mingo is still alive.
01:20:56He can't be.
01:20:57He is.
01:21:18I don't want to go up there again.
01:21:19There are things in Brown's vault you've got to identify.
01:21:38Who did this, Mingo?
01:21:40Mingo!
01:21:40Who did this to you?
01:21:42Nobody.
01:21:43Who killed a girl named Rita?
01:21:44Who killed McClure?
01:21:45Who paid you to do it?
01:21:46Nobody.
01:21:47You've got third degree burns, Mingo.
01:21:49You're dying.
01:21:50I ain't gonna die.
01:21:52Not me.
01:21:52Not you.
01:21:56And not Fanny.
01:22:03Fanny?
01:22:07Don't leave me, Fanny.
01:22:08He's dead.
01:22:09Murdered.
01:22:10While you ever try to kill you.
01:22:11You haven't got much time, Mingo.
01:22:13Tell us who did it.
01:22:13Do it for Fanny.
01:22:14You shouldn't have done it.
01:22:17Fanny was my only friend.
01:22:20You shouldn't.
01:22:23All right.
01:22:24I'll tell you.
01:22:26But not for you.
01:22:29We play square with him.
01:22:31You shouldn't have hurt Fanny.
01:22:33You haven't got much time, Mingo.
01:22:34Who did it?
01:22:35Who killed the girl in my room?
01:22:36Who paid you to do it?
01:22:40Mr.
01:22:41Mr. Brown.
01:22:43Mr. Brown.
01:22:46Leonard.
01:22:47What?
01:22:48Sam's been hurt.
01:22:49Shot.
01:22:51What?
01:22:52Where is he?
01:22:53In the hospital.
01:22:53It'll be all right.
01:22:55But Leonard.
01:22:56Susan's gone.
01:23:03Larry.
01:23:04Get a statement.
01:23:06Signed.
01:23:08A man like Brown would have a plan.
01:23:11Where would he go to make a getaway?
01:23:13You're a policeman.
01:23:15You find him.
01:23:17He's not alone.
01:23:18He's got Susan Lowell with her.
01:23:20I wouldn't raise a finger to help that girl.
01:23:23Let her go through what I've been through.
01:23:25She never hurt you, Alicia.
01:23:27He's the one who put you away.
01:23:28Why take it out on her?
01:23:29Because I hate her.
01:23:31Her and every other woman who ever had anything to do with him.
01:23:35What have I done to you?
01:23:36Why do you hate me?
01:23:37Oh, I don't.
01:23:40I must get...
01:23:41Then help me.
01:23:42Help me.
01:23:42Tell me where to find him.
01:23:43I've got to get back to my flowers.
01:23:46I'm sure nobody's taking care of them.
01:23:56Lieutenant.
01:24:02I don't want to help you.
01:24:05I don't.
01:24:07But I will.
01:24:12What's keeping that plane?
01:24:14Supposed to be here an hour ago.
01:24:16I've kept that stupid pilot on my payroll for years.
01:24:18Just for a spot like this.
01:24:20Why doesn't he come?
01:24:25Don't try that again.
01:24:30I want to be seen.
01:24:32Don't try that again.
01:24:36Why doesn't he come?
01:24:38I've got everything all figured out.
01:24:39Top to bottom.
01:24:40Smooth to silk.
01:24:42Everything's falling apart.
01:24:44I can't trust nobody.
01:24:46Nothing!
01:25:09No, he'll do this.
01:25:12What about you?
01:25:20No, he'll do it.
01:25:20Come on out, Brown.
01:25:42You can't get away, Brown.
01:26:16You can't get away.
01:26:24You can't get away.
01:26:25Drop the gun.
01:26:26Come and get it.
01:26:34Come on.
01:26:36I'm taking you to jail, Mr. Brown.
01:26:38You're not taking me to jail.
01:26:39You'll have to kill me first.
01:26:41Go ahead, shoot.
01:26:42Go ahead, kill me, copper.
01:26:43Kill me.
01:26:44Go ahead, kill me.
01:26:45Let's go, hoodlum.
01:26:49Hey, come.
01:26:51I won't kill him.
01:26:52I won't.
01:26:54Kill him.
01:26:56Kill me.
01:26:57Look at this.
01:26:59Go ahead.
01:27:04THE END
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