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The Sin of Nora Moran is a powerful pre-Code crime drama that tells the tragic story of a woman caught between love, sacrifice, and a harsh fate. Filled with emotional performances, dramatic courtroom scenes, and innovative storytelling techniques, this classic 1933 film explores themes of guilt, redemption, and social judgment. A memorable piece of vintage cinema for fans of classic Hollywood and noir-style drama.
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00:01:22Anything else to wish, Mr. Grant?
00:01:23You know, that's all you may go to bed.
00:01:29See who that is.
00:01:30Yes, sir.
00:01:38Well, hello, Edith.
00:01:40What's the matter? Is something wrong?
00:01:42I found these letters in the exit.
00:01:44Read them.
00:01:51I have a woman. She doesn't sign her name.
00:01:54Not on any one of them?
00:01:56Not on any one of them.
00:01:57But read it.
00:01:58It's most enlightening.
00:02:25Charming, isn't it?
00:02:27All the seasons of the year poetically recorded.
00:02:30Winter.
00:02:31My fire.
00:02:33My house.
00:02:36Spring.
00:02:37Spring comes to the love nest.
00:02:39The tree outside the living room window is budding, and I win the bet.
00:02:43The blossoms are yellow.
00:02:44Well, isn't it beautiful?
00:02:47Two lovers in their sylvan retreats staring at the trees.
00:02:52And now Summer.
00:02:54That same summer when I was working so hard for him.
00:02:57Scheming, planning, doing everything in my power to help him.
00:02:59And he was having a cheap backstreet affair.
00:03:02Probably there's some other explanation.
00:03:03And her counting the hours until she saw him again?
00:03:06Thanking him for the house he bought her with my money?
00:03:08He didn't buy the house.
00:03:10Oh.
00:03:12So you do know about it.
00:03:14I thought you would.
00:03:17Edith.
00:03:18I'm probably asking you the impossible.
00:03:21But my advice to you is to burn those letters.
00:03:24Forget them.
00:03:25Forget them?
00:03:26Forget that you, my own brother, let me go on living with a man who was coming to me from
00:03:30the arms of a common, cheap little...
00:03:34If you don't tell me who she is, I'll find out some other way.
00:03:37I'll get detectives.
00:03:38I'll show them these letters.
00:03:40You wouldn't do that.
00:03:41Oh, wouldn't I?
00:03:42I'll make her suffer.
00:03:46Edith.
00:03:51Come here.
00:04:00Sit down.
00:04:26Do you ever hear the name Nora Moran?
00:04:29Nora Moran?
00:04:31This may refresh your memory.
00:04:45What has she to do with it?
00:04:48That's the girl.
00:04:50This woman and Dick?
00:04:53I don't believe it.
00:04:55It's true, nevertheless.
00:04:58You said you wanted her to suffer.
00:05:03Did you ever witness an execution?
00:05:05Of course not.
00:05:08Did you ever see the preparation for one?
00:05:11The cold-blooded preparation?
00:05:14From the disposal of a burned-out, lifeless thing that a few moments before the execution was a human being?
00:05:22They begin in the afternoon.
00:05:35The electrocution is at eight tonight.
00:05:39Yes, we'll get it there by six.
00:05:41She's five foot one.
00:05:44She's five foot one.
00:05:45Okay, five foot one.
00:05:53I've got to shave her head.
00:06:00She didn't eat her thing.
00:06:01You wouldn't eat her.
00:06:02She's only 21.
00:06:06I've got a kid that age.
00:06:08I wonder what she's thinking.
00:06:16Her suffering had been so mute and pitiful that they tried to relieve her.
00:06:23Just that quiet.
00:06:25You'll soon be asleep.
00:06:42Mrs. Watson, are you sure they sent the telegram to Father Ryan?
00:06:47Yes.
00:06:48He'll be praying for you.
00:06:56There might still be a chance for you if you'd only tell why you did it.
00:07:02No.
00:07:05Why won't you tell, dearie?
00:07:09But you could tell me.
00:07:13Not anyone.
00:07:15Gradually, the opiate quieted her body, but her mind was too disordered.
00:07:19And in her confused state, everything became grotesque and unreal.
00:07:24We've all experienced it.
00:07:25And in our helplessness, we call on the one who means protection to us.
00:07:30To Nora, it was Father Ryan.
00:07:32Now was when she was a child.
00:07:36Nora's five years old.
00:07:37She's been with the sisters two years.
00:07:41And she's always been a very good child.
00:07:45Well,
00:07:49there's only one thing that's holding me back.
00:07:54Yes, your honey.
00:07:56I was only saying.
00:07:58I wanted to see how you'd fit on me, Lama.
00:08:05Darling,
00:08:06come over and try it.
00:08:10We got a car.
00:08:13Are you out?
00:08:14Sure.
00:08:15Barring a couple of payments.
00:08:17What's a couple of payments between two good Irishmen like the child and me?
00:08:21Oh,
00:08:22the child and you.
00:08:24It's already the child and you.
00:08:27Well,
00:08:28we'll see.
00:08:31We'll see.
00:08:33Happiness for eight years.
00:08:35But she remembered only the tragedy that ended.
00:08:54And the car killed him, Father.
00:08:56I didn't know for hours why they didn't come home.
00:09:01What do you want to do now, Nora?
00:09:05Sinful even to think of it now.
00:09:07But Mother Moran wanted me to...
00:09:10What was that?
00:09:13Learn to dance.
00:09:15She always said that when she could afford it, I could go to a school.
00:09:19Do you want to do that?
00:09:21Yes.
00:09:25I paid all the debts and there's $300 left.
00:09:28Would it be wrong to use the money for that?
00:09:30No.
00:09:31Not wrong, Nora.
00:09:33Certainly not the wisest thing.
00:09:35But I want so much to do it.
00:09:38The money would last long enough until I studied and by that time I could get a job in a
00:09:42cafe or I might even get a job in a show.
00:09:51Months of practice.
00:09:53Long hours and hard work until she felt prepared.
00:09:56And although her money was almost gone, she started out like thousands of others, confident of immediate success.
00:10:02There was the glamour of the theatre, the lights, and the crowds, intoxicating to her because she now felt herself
00:10:08to be a part of it.
00:10:09There were the stage doors, a promised mystery and excitement, and the daily round of booking offices,
00:10:15when she still felt that each new day was to mark the beginning of her success.
00:10:19And then the refusings, endless days, voices that spoke, nothing today, no experience, nothing today, no, no, you won't do,
00:10:30nothing today.
00:10:32Signs that haunted her, chorus filled, no casting today, chorus filled, chorus filled, until she knew the panic that comes
00:10:40with your last dollar,
00:10:41and the desperate necessity for any kind of work, the failure there until she saw the end.
00:10:52I'm afraid you're too young to work in a circus.
00:10:55Oh, no, I'm not. I'm not too young. I'm old. Oh, please let me have it. Please.
00:11:02All right. Report to Paulina at King Brothers Circus.
00:11:10Excitement. A job. The sound of the client. Tongue lines. Acrobats. Thrills. Excitement.
00:11:16Rehearsing what she'd say, afraid someone would beat her there, and then his name.
00:11:33Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
00:12:28She's just about the same size as your last partner.
00:12:32All right.
00:12:35Okay.
00:12:37You'll do very nicely.
00:12:38Oh, Mr. Polito.
00:12:40I don't have to go in the cage, do I?
00:12:42No, no.
00:12:43All you have to do is to wear that outfit and look pretty.
00:12:47And can the Mr. Stump.
00:13:29Nora was happy with the excitement of circus life.
00:13:32With the hurdy, the bustle, and the thrill moving on.
00:13:34A new town.
00:13:36The whole thing was a glorious adventure until one night.
00:14:19Paulina's brutality.
00:14:20And her fear of him were things that she could never forget.
00:14:26When things happen in our lives, we're conscious of those events.
00:14:31And later, subconsciously, we see our lives a pattern.
00:14:35And it's easy to recall the events that formed that pattern.
00:14:40And so it was with Nora.
00:14:42She was in a cell waiting to die.
00:14:45And yet she was in the circus.
00:14:48She was dreaming.
00:14:50But yet in her subconscious mind,
00:14:53she was reliving the events that formed the pattern of her life.
00:15:03Mrs. Watts.
00:15:05No.
00:15:06I'm Sadie.
00:15:08Don't you remember me?
00:15:11No, I don't.
00:15:13Things seem strange.
00:15:15That's because you're dreaming.
00:15:17And so far you've dreamed things just as they have been.
00:15:20But I thought when you got to me,
00:15:23I would change the dream if you wanted me to.
00:15:26How?
00:15:27I'm not giving you the money.
00:15:30I don't understand you.
00:15:33Don't you remember me?
00:15:35After you've been with the circus for nearly a year,
00:15:38I found you sitting here one night.
00:15:41I was drunk.
00:15:42But not too drunk to know that you were just about ready to bump yourself off.
00:15:47So I gave you a hundred bucks to get away from the circus at Bodine.
00:15:54Oh, yes.
00:15:54Now I remember.
00:15:56You were the only one who was friendly to me.
00:16:00Well, I'm not so sure it was a good thing.
00:16:03That's what I'm talking about.
00:16:05If I hadn't given you the money,
00:16:07you might not be here now in jail,
00:16:10waiting to be electrocuted.
00:16:12But I'm not in jail.
00:16:17I'm here.
00:16:19I guess I'd better get drunk.
00:16:21I can't help you.
00:16:22Oh, but you did help me.
00:16:24You gave me money.
00:16:27Where did I go?
00:16:28You went to New York and got a job in a nightclub.
00:16:32Then what did I do?
00:16:33You killed a man.
00:16:36But before that, I was happy.
00:16:38I was happy for the first time in my life.
00:16:41That's where I met him.
00:16:43Give me the money again.
00:16:44I don't care what happens after that.
00:16:46I'll see him again and I'll be happy.
00:16:56I'll see him again.
00:17:03I'll see him again and I'll be happy.
00:17:16I'll be happy.
00:17:35I'll see him again and I'll be happy.
00:17:43What's this?
00:17:46That gentleman's here again. He wants to see you.
00:17:48What's his name? Crawford.
00:17:50Oh, yes.
00:18:01Do you live in New York?
00:18:03No.
00:18:17I'll stay another week. May I see you again?
00:18:21Of course.
00:18:26Good night.
00:18:28Good night.
00:18:44Good night.
00:19:15Good night.
00:19:44Good night.
00:19:55A week has seven days and seven nights.
00:19:58You don't tell me.
00:19:59Hey, Simple down here has made a discovery.
00:20:01She says a week has seven days and seven nights.
00:20:04Six days and six nights.
00:20:06Five.
00:20:07Four.
00:20:07Three.
00:20:09Two.
00:20:09One.
00:20:10The week's gone.
00:20:22The week's gone.
00:21:01Laura, what are you doing?
00:21:04Crying.
00:21:06Crying?
00:21:08The stove works.
00:21:12And the radio works.
00:21:13And the fireplace works.
00:21:15So lovely to have a pose with things that work.
00:21:19I can't stand it.
00:21:20I can't stand it.
00:21:21Oh, you darling.
00:21:24I've heard enough.
00:21:25You can spare me the details of their romance.
00:21:27It's all in there.
00:21:29Months of it.
00:21:29While I, like a fool, was slaving for you.
00:21:33Oh, come on now, Edith.
00:21:34Please, please.
00:21:35Let's be honest with ourselves.
00:21:38You weren't thinking any more of Dick than I was.
00:21:41Anything that you did, you did for your own social ambition.
00:21:44And to me, he was just a figurehead that I'd groomed for the governorship to further my own political power.
00:21:50When I finally got wind of what was going on, he'd become a damned important figurehead.
00:21:55And with the election only two weeks off, one word of scandal would have ruined us.
00:22:00How did you find out about it?
00:22:02Well, I became suspicious of the trips he was taking to the ranch every Monday and Friday.
00:22:07One day I followed him.
00:22:09I found that he was keeping her in a little house just across the state line in Wilchester, about an
00:22:13hour's drive from here.
00:22:16Then I traced the girl's history.
00:22:18And the more I found out about her, the more I was certain that she had a definite plan.
00:22:23She was just to sit tight until he was the governor and then collect for the rest of her life.
00:22:27At least you had sense enough to see that.
00:22:30Well, you've read her letters.
00:22:32Do they sound like it?
00:22:33Certainly.
00:22:34They're just the sort of letters she would write to lull his suspicions.
00:22:38Perhaps.
00:22:40Perhaps.
00:22:42Before you judge that girl, picture her lying in her cell, trying in her disordered mind to relive the months
00:22:54she was in that cottage.
00:23:02Do you think we could get the president to put three Mondays and four Fridays in the week?
00:23:06Why?
00:23:07For those are the days I see you.
00:23:12Come over here, dear, will you?
00:23:14Oh, immediately.
00:23:23You've been happy here, haven't you, dear?
00:23:26When I was a little girl, we used to say foolish questions to serve foolish answers.
00:23:41So heavy, it turns on my finger.
00:23:57Don't do it.
00:23:59Don't do it.
00:23:59Why not?
00:24:00I don't know.
00:24:04I don't know!
00:24:07Now you've done it.
00:24:12Is that all you take off?
00:24:15Oh, I'm glad.
00:24:18She has such pretty hair.
00:24:26She heard their voices dimly, seemed to know what they were doing.
00:24:30She was going to die.
00:24:32And the thing she was dying for was about to happen.
00:24:40What is it, dear?
00:24:41What's the matter?
00:24:44I know now.
00:24:45It's the circus.
00:24:48Listen.
00:25:03You must leave.
00:25:06You must leave now.
00:25:13Answer it.
00:25:14No, I won't.
00:25:16You must.
00:25:17But don't you understand?
00:25:18If we don't see him, it won't happen.
00:25:22It's too late now.
00:25:24You must answer it.
00:25:33Yes.
00:25:34That's right.
00:25:36I must.
00:25:53I beg your pardon.
00:25:54My name is John Grant.
00:25:56I'd like to see Mr. Crawford.
00:25:58Why, he's...
00:25:58I don't bother lying.
00:25:59I know that he's here.
00:26:03Well, when are you finding me here?
00:26:05Miss Moran, do you know Mr. Grant?
00:26:07How do you do?
00:26:08I just dropped in to see Miss Moran's father.
00:26:10He's an old friend of mine.
00:26:12Not in at the moment, I suppose.
00:26:13No.
00:26:13Oh, I see.
00:26:15Where could we talk?
00:26:18Do you mind if we talked in here?
00:26:19Fine.
00:26:21Fine.
00:26:23Excuse me.
00:26:24Go now, please.
00:26:25Don't talk to him.
00:26:27I must, dear.
00:26:28You stay out here.
00:26:41Miss Moran's father's been sending her flowers.
00:27:07Well, how'd you find out about this?
00:27:08There's an extra out here.
00:27:11An extra?
00:27:13About this?
00:27:14Yes.
00:27:18How could they have got out of it?
00:27:21This isn't even our state.
00:27:24Oh, well, there isn't anything to it anyway.
00:27:27I met her while I was in New York.
00:27:29So when she moved down here, she dropped me a note.
00:27:32Purely a friendly note to call.
00:27:33Every Monday and Friday.
00:27:36With an alibi like that, you don't write the front page.
00:27:38You ought to be in a comic section.
00:27:41Has Edith seen it?
00:27:42I don't know.
00:27:43She can read.
00:27:45God.
00:27:47What life?
00:27:48Squirm a while.
00:27:49I'll watch.
00:27:50I ought to get something back for my money.
00:27:52Talking like that would help, John.
00:27:54You've got to think of something.
00:27:55All right.
00:27:56You do the thinking.
00:27:57I'll do the talking.
00:27:58The story hasn't broken in the papers yet.
00:28:03You mean you told me that just...
00:28:04I just wanted to give you a taste of how you'd feel if I did break it.
00:28:07If you're not out of here in exactly ten minutes, that's what's going to happen.
00:28:10I'll break it myself.
00:28:11I'll break it on the front page of every newspaper in the state.
00:28:13You along with it.
00:28:15You wouldn't do that, wouldn't I?
00:28:17Let me tell you something.
00:28:18You're running for governor.
00:28:19You're a married man.
00:28:20The fact that you're married to my sister doesn't mean a thing to me.
00:28:23That's her business.
00:28:24But I've spent a lot of time and money building you to where you are.
00:28:27And if you think for a moment I'm going to let you toss it just because you've fallen for some
00:28:30cheap little dame, you're mistaken.
00:28:31She isn't cheap.
00:28:32You bet your life she isn't.
00:28:33She's going to cost you plenty.
00:28:34What do you mean?
00:28:36Figure it out for yourself.
00:28:38Why do you suppose a girl from a New York nightclub would bury herself in a place like this?
00:28:41How do you know she comes from a nightclub?
00:28:43How did I know that she was in a circus before she was in a nightclub?
00:28:46I've got her number.
00:28:47I know her past history.
00:28:48You're crazy.
00:28:49Am I?
00:28:50Well, I'll tell you just how crazy I am.
00:28:52Either you end this thing right now or you're through.
00:28:54You'll go back to being in an office.
00:28:57What did you mean about knowing her history?
00:28:59Get her in here and ask her yourself.
00:29:01No, please.
00:29:01No?
00:29:02All right.
00:29:03I'll get her in myself.
00:29:04You talk to me.
00:29:08Come in.
00:29:18You heard what was said?
00:29:20Yes, I heard.
00:29:21All of it?
00:29:23I guess so.
00:29:24It's true, isn't it?
00:29:26What?
00:29:28About you being with the circus.
00:29:29The same one that's playing here tonight.
00:29:32Yes.
00:29:33That's right.
00:29:34What was your name then?
00:29:37Same as it is now.
00:29:39Shouldn't it have been something else?
00:29:41Or have there been so many you didn't bother with that?
00:29:50Yes, that's right.
00:29:51There have been so many I didn't bother with that.
00:29:54Men like him who were married.
00:29:56Men.
00:30:26Did I do it better that time?
00:30:28You did it all right.
00:30:30It's because I've dreamed it so much.
00:30:32And it really happened.
00:30:33All I could think of was that he has a wife.
00:30:35That hurts so that I couldn't think of much else.
00:30:38But now it's different.
00:30:39Every time I dream it, I think of different things to say to him that'll hurt him and make
00:30:42him leave.
00:30:44But I can't do it anymore.
00:30:46I just can't.
00:30:48You won't have to.
00:30:50Why?
00:30:52Don't you remember?
00:30:56I don't have to go through that again, do I?
00:30:58It happened.
00:31:00But that was because I didn't leave soon enough.
00:31:02Don't you understand?
00:31:03All I have to do is go now.
00:31:04It won't happen.
00:31:05Don't you see how easy it is?
00:31:06I'll just leave.
00:31:07I'll go now.
00:31:08It won't happen.
00:31:09But it did happen.
00:31:10You killed him.
00:31:13Yes.
00:31:14That's right.
00:31:16I killed him.
00:31:18And upon said trial, was found guilty of murder in the first degree for said killing.
00:31:24And on the 14th day of May, 1933, was sentenced to be put to death.
00:31:36Come, look at her.
00:31:37I don't want to.
00:31:39Come on, look at her.
00:31:47What's the matter with her?
00:31:48She's dead.
00:31:51I don't like the way they fixed her hair.
00:31:54They shaved part of it all.
00:31:56Why?
00:31:57Why did they do that?
00:31:59So the current would go through her head.
00:32:02It doesn't go through her head?
00:32:04It goes through her head, her arms, and her legs.
00:32:06That's a lie.
00:32:08It goes through her head, her arms, and her legs.
00:32:11If you don't believe it, come to the execution tonight.
00:32:14They're going to kill her again.
00:32:16The warden wasn't pleased with the way she died.
00:32:19I won't have it.
00:32:20They can't do that.
00:32:21But they've done it.
00:32:22Don't you understand?
00:32:24She's dead.
00:32:28I'm not dead.
00:32:30I'm not dead.
00:32:32I'm dreamy.
00:32:37Don't let me go back to sleep again.
00:32:39Please.
00:32:41Help me to wake up.
00:32:44I must go back to sleep.
00:32:47Poor lamb.
00:32:48You were dreaming, weren't you?
00:32:51Yes.
00:32:54Maybe if I walk, I can stay awake.
00:32:59You can't do that.
00:33:01Yes, I can.
00:33:03If you'll help me.
00:33:18And upon said trial, was found guilty of murder in the first degree for said killing.
00:33:23And on the 14th day of May, 1933, was sentenced to be put to death.
00:33:29Stop it.
00:33:30Make him stop.
00:33:32Why don't you be human?
00:33:34Don't you see she's almost crazy?
00:33:36But I'm supposed to read it.
00:33:38I'm supposed to read it here in her cell.
00:33:41All right.
00:33:42Read it here.
00:33:43Can't you read it to yourself?
00:33:46I guess I can do that.
00:33:49Maybe if I just mumble, it'd be all right.
00:33:51Mumble and be damned.
00:33:54If I'm sick for us.
00:34:07What's that?
00:34:09Six o'clock.
00:34:12Don't worry.
00:34:17At six o'clock that night, Nora wasn't the only one walking the floor.
00:34:21I was in my office listening to the prison whistle.
00:34:24And I realized that I'd been listening to it all day.
00:34:27I didn't know what to think.
00:34:29Dick was now the governor.
00:34:31He promised to refuse a stay of execution.
00:34:33I didn't know whether he'd hold to his promise.
00:34:35I didn't know whether she'd stick to hers.
00:34:38What do you mean?
00:34:39What are you trying to tell me?
00:34:41When Dick left that night, I stayed to settle with her.
00:34:48Would you please go now?
00:34:49As soon as we understand each other.
00:34:52I'll give you what you want within reason.
00:34:54But that settles the account for all time.
00:34:56No future payments.
00:34:57No kickback.
00:34:59You understand?
00:35:00There'll be no kickback, as you call it.
00:35:02And no payments at all.
00:35:04So you can go now.
00:35:06What's your game?
00:35:07I doubt if you'd understand it.
00:35:10Goodbye.
00:35:12Wait a minute.
00:35:15Have you any money?
00:35:17Enough.
00:35:18Enough for what?
00:35:19To take me where I'm going.
00:35:23Who rented this place?
00:35:26He did.
00:35:27Is the rent paid?
00:35:29Until next Wednesday.
00:35:31When are you leaving?
00:35:33On the next train.
00:35:35You might as well take this.
00:35:37It's his.
00:35:41You'd better let me give you some money now.
00:35:43No.
00:35:46But if you change your mind, I'll be at the Carlton Hotel tonight.
00:36:21I sat in a hotel room trying to figure the girl out.
00:36:24I couldn't believe she turned down money.
00:36:27But at the end of two hours when she hadn't called,
00:36:29I decided she wasn't going to.
00:36:54So you changed your mind about the money?
00:36:56No.
00:36:58Come in here.
00:37:00Come in here.
00:37:02Come in here.
00:37:03Please.
00:37:08Help me move this.
00:37:09What's wrong?
00:37:11Push it away from the fireplace.
00:37:17What happened?
00:37:21He was with the circus.
00:37:24He's the man I live with.
00:37:27Been watching the house all evening.
00:37:29Came in after you left.
00:37:31He'd been outside watching and listening.
00:37:33Said he was going to blackmail Dick.
00:37:35He knew all about us.
00:37:37He wanted me to come back to him and help him get money from Dick.
00:37:41Then you...
00:37:41Yes, I hit him with that whip.
00:37:44I hit him three times.
00:37:45Three times over the head.
00:37:49What'll I do?
00:37:50You'll wait here till I call the police tomorrow.
00:37:52No, don't do that.
00:37:53Why not?
00:37:54We must keep the police out of this.
00:37:56Wait a minute.
00:37:57I happen to be a district attorney.
00:37:59It's my business to prosecute people who commit murder.
00:38:01If this had happened 40 miles from here in my county,
00:38:04it would be my duty to send you to the electric chair.
00:38:06So if it's in your mind to have me help you get away with this,
00:38:09you may as well save your breath.
00:38:10I didn't know you were a district attorney.
00:38:13I thought you'd be willing to help me to keep Dick out of this.
00:38:16Dick?
00:38:16He is out of it.
00:38:17I know, but don't you see if they arrest me,
00:38:19the whole thing will come out.
00:38:21He rented this house.
00:38:22He's been coming here for months.
00:38:23There are a dozen different things that'll drag him into it.
00:38:25If the newspapers get hold of it, they'll ruin him.
00:38:28They won't care about me, but he's an important man.
00:38:30They'll tear him to pieces.
00:38:31And his wife along with him.
00:38:33Dammit, why didn't you think of this before you commit murder?
00:38:35Murder.
00:38:43He went to bed drunk every night.
00:38:46Who?
00:38:47Helena.
00:38:48What about him?
00:38:49We could take him in your car to where the circus train is loading.
00:38:52Then when we got to the darkest part of the street,
00:38:54we could throw him out.
00:38:56Someone with the circus is bound to find him.
00:38:58And they'd find that he'd been murdered?
00:39:00No, they'll just think he's drunk.
00:39:02They found him like that before.
00:39:04What about the wound in his head?
00:39:07When we've thrown him out, I'll put a rock under his head.
00:39:10They'll think he hit it when he fell.
00:39:12They'll think that's what killed him.
00:39:14Nothing doing.
00:39:16Oh, don't!
00:39:19Wait!
00:39:20Please!
00:39:21Don't you realize what you're doing?
00:39:22You're destroying everything that has taken you years to build up.
00:39:25And it isn't necessary.
00:39:26All I'm trying to do is get Polino away from this house.
00:39:30Suppose I helped you.
00:39:31And you got caught after I left.
00:39:33You mean, would I tell that you'd help me?
00:39:37I wouldn't do a thing like that.
00:39:55Turn here.
00:40:00THE END
00:40:27Slow up now
00:40:34Can you manage it alone?
00:40:36Yes
00:40:41Let me out around the corner
00:40:42We'll never get away with this
00:40:43Yes, we will
00:40:44There's no one inside
00:41:07Go on
00:41:19You can imagine my feelings as I drove away and left her
00:41:23All I could think of was getting out of that town
00:41:25So I checked out at the hotel and drove home
00:41:36I've changed my plans, Kato
00:41:38Bring a hot drink to my room
00:41:44I went through hell that night
00:41:47One minute I knew that she was sincere
00:41:49The next minute
00:41:51I was certain that I'd walk in the cleverest little trap of magic
00:41:54No matter how I figured, the answer was the same
00:41:58If she was sincere, the plan was a thousand to one shot
00:42:01If she succeeded, she'd collect
00:42:03If she failed and she'd been lying, she'd talk
00:42:07And faced with the rest, how did I know that what she'd pin the actual murder onto me
00:42:11Was my word against her
00:42:13And the very integrity expected of me as a public official
00:42:16Would have thrown the balance against me
00:42:18If it were known that I was mixed up
00:42:21I figured the consequences of what I'd done from every possible angle
00:42:25Except the one that actually happened
00:42:35Mr. Grant
00:42:45I'm sorry to disturb you, sir
00:42:47But headquarters on the phone
00:42:48They say it's very urgent
00:42:50All right, Kato
00:42:53Hello, yes
00:42:54Good morning, Mr. Grant
00:42:56There's been a murder on a circus train that pulled in here this morning
00:43:01Pulled in here?
00:43:03Yes
00:43:03We've got the girl who did it
00:43:05But we can't get anything out of her and other circus people
00:43:08The whole thing's a mix-up
00:43:12Yes, I'll come right down
00:43:21If you people are trying to shield this girl, you're going to regret it
00:43:26Was this man dead when you found him in the street?
00:43:30Was he?
00:43:31Don't ask me
00:43:32He was drunk
00:43:33If I was drunk, how is it you don't know?
00:43:36Well, I was thinking of something else
00:43:39It's quite apparent that you were both drunk
00:43:42Did you put him to bed on the train?
00:43:44Did you?
00:43:45Did you?
00:43:46What do you mean, did I?
00:43:47What was you doing all the time?
00:43:49Well, I...
00:43:50Go on, I'm waiting
00:43:53She's the one
00:43:54Yes, so I gather
00:43:56Did you see your husband and his friend bring Paulino on the train?
00:44:00I did not
00:44:00I've seen him drunk so many times
00:44:03I wouldn't have noticed it
00:44:04Did any of you see him?
00:44:06Did they?
00:44:07Don't ask me
00:44:08I was thinking of something else
00:44:09That's enough
00:44:10We'll get the girl
00:44:16Have the prisoner brought in
00:44:22Now, which one of you met the girl?
00:44:24We both did
00:44:25You say she hasn't been with the circus for some time?
00:44:28About three years
00:44:29When you met her, was she going toward the train or away from it?
00:44:36Beer
00:44:36I bet there was drinking beer
00:44:38You keep your pants on
00:44:40A lot you got to say, Roran, drunk yourself
00:44:43She was going toward the train
00:44:46Why, if it isn't little Norris's eye when I saw her
00:44:49I saw her first
00:44:50She bumped into her
00:44:53Staggered more likely
00:44:54You shut up
00:44:55Now listen
00:45:01You people wait in the outer room
00:45:07Come in
00:45:10God bless you, darling
00:45:15Sit down, Miss Moran
00:45:24You admit killing Paulino?
00:45:26Yes
00:45:28How did you kill him?
00:45:29I told you, I hit him over the head with a whip
00:45:31What did you do with a whip?
00:45:33I threw it away
00:45:34Where?
00:45:36From the train
00:45:38Why did you kill him?
00:45:40That's my business
00:45:41But it also happens to be the state's business
00:45:43I've told you I killed him, isn't that enough?
00:45:46This thing has been going on all morning
00:45:48Suppose you let me talk with her alone
00:45:52This is the district attorney
00:45:55It's my duty to tell you that until you get a lawyer
00:45:57You don't have to answer any questions you don't want to answer
00:46:01You can ask me questions
00:46:02But I won't tell them any more than I told you
00:46:15What happened?
00:46:17I ran into those women
00:46:18Shh
00:46:19Keep it finished, Al
00:46:20Were you close to the body when you ran into them?
00:46:22No
00:46:24Put a rock under his head
00:46:26And then I went back for my bag
00:46:28While I was around the corner
00:46:29I heard old Jake and Miller coming along
00:46:31They stumbled over him
00:46:33They were so drunk they didn't know he was dead
00:46:36I watched them drag him onto the train
00:46:37Well, why in the name of heaven did you get on the same train?
00:46:40Couldn't help it
00:46:42While I was watching them drag Paulino away
00:46:45Those women bumped into me
00:46:47Scared me so when they recognized me
00:46:48I went to pieces
00:46:50I don't remember much until I came to
00:46:52And the train was moving
00:46:53How did they pin it onto you?
00:46:55Police did that
00:46:58Circus people tried so hard to hush up my past
00:47:00But Paulino, I guess they overdid it
00:47:02They all think I killed them on the train during the night
00:47:04And of all places in the world
00:47:06The train had to pull in here
00:47:08Do you realize that I've got to prosecute you?
00:47:10Well, what difference does that make?
00:47:12Somebody else might trade it to the house in Wilchester
00:47:14You'll know how to keep Dick out of it
00:47:16You mean you're going through with this?
00:47:19I killed Paulino
00:47:21I did it to save Dick
00:47:23And you helped me to keep him out of it
00:47:26Why should I turn now and undo everything we've done?
00:47:28It would ruin Dick
00:47:29It would ruin you
00:47:31It wouldn't help me
00:47:33I'm still guilty of murder
00:47:34All right
00:47:35You're guilty of murder and I'm the prosecuting attorney
00:47:37That's the way it stands
00:47:38That's the way we're going to go through with it
00:47:40And let me tell you something else
00:47:42If you're doing this in the hope that Dick Crawford as governor
00:47:44Will grant you a pardon
00:47:45You may as well forget it
00:47:46Because that man would sacrifice anything or anyone
00:47:48To satisfy his ambition
00:47:55You know the rest of it
00:47:57She went through the entire trial without a word in her own defense
00:48:00Prosecuted by a man who was as guilty as she was
00:48:03Sentenced to die by an unsympathetic jury
00:48:05And still never a word
00:48:07Well what of it?
00:48:08She was guilty
00:48:09Well I certainly don't condone what you did
00:48:11But it wouldn't have done her any good to drag you into it
00:48:13Wouldn't have done her any good
00:48:15Why any lawyer who knew the whole story
00:48:17Could have built up such a case for that girl
00:48:18That Dick would have been run out of the state
00:48:19I would have been sent to prison for life
00:48:21And she would have walked out of that courtroom as free as air
00:48:24Why think of the case
00:48:25The girl is being kept by a man in high public office
00:48:27She commits murder for him
00:48:29And the district attorney turns around
00:48:30And helps her cover up the murder
00:48:31And then prosecutes
00:48:35And furthermore the murder was not committed in this state
00:48:37This state had no legal right to try her
00:48:39I had no legal right to prosecute
00:48:41What difference does it make which state tried her?
00:48:44She committed murder
00:48:46And as for her saying nothing in the courtroom
00:48:47It's perfectly obvious she did that
00:48:49Expecting Dick to get her off
00:48:51But the one thing in his favor is
00:48:52That he didn't let it influence him
00:48:54When he was faced with his duty
00:48:55He had the courage and honesty
00:48:57To refuse to save her
00:48:58In spite of who she was
00:49:00This state had invested him
00:49:02With certain powers and duties
00:49:03And I'm glad that he at least
00:49:05Lived up to that trust
00:49:06Edith, are you making a campaign speech
00:49:08Or just being a damn fool?
00:49:12Like most wives
00:49:13In your self-righteousness
00:49:14You refuse to recognize
00:49:15Any kind of love but your own
00:49:18You never understood Dick
00:49:20Neither one of us ever tried to understand him
00:49:22He was just something
00:49:23That we kicked about between us
00:49:24To satisfy our own purposes and ambitions
00:49:28We never considered whether he might want
00:49:29What we offered him
00:49:30We simply forced him into it
00:49:32You always made him feel
00:49:33That he was the weaker
00:49:35You made him look up
00:49:36And be dependent upon you
00:49:38Nora worshipped him
00:49:40In her eyes he was a great man
00:49:42She never questioned him
00:49:44She never asked for anything
00:49:46He didn't offer him
00:49:48And through her love he attained
00:49:50Or I think he attained something
00:49:51That you or I will never experience
00:49:56Edith
00:49:58I want to read you a letter
00:50:01It's from Dick
00:50:03Sit down
00:50:11It starts simply
00:50:12John
00:50:13I'm going away with Nora
00:50:15Away?
00:50:16That's how he puts it
00:50:19You would call me insane
00:50:20If you knew what had happened to me tonight
00:50:23And my relating it to you may
00:50:24Seem an attempt to justify myself
00:50:26I don't know
00:50:29But I ask you to visualize
00:50:30The early hours of the evening
00:50:32Read all the mountains
00:50:33We get
00:50:35Next day
00:50:35Read all about it
00:50:37Normal ran to die at eight
00:50:39Now, paper
00:50:40Governor denies reprieve
00:50:42Normal ran to die
00:50:43Paper
00:50:44Next day
00:50:44Read all about it
00:50:46Normal ran to die at eight
00:50:48Paper
00:50:51Did you switch a direct line
00:50:52Into the governor's office?
00:50:53No
00:50:54Did he want me to?
00:50:55You tell me where he wants today
00:50:56And I'll appreciate it
00:50:56Shall I go back and do it?
00:50:58No, leave it alone
00:51:01Governor denies reprieve
00:51:02Fair, fair, fair
00:51:03Read about it
00:51:26I tried to shut out the thought of Nora
00:51:28Her faith in me
00:51:30The happiness we could know
00:51:32Her happiness in those first few months
00:51:35But her voice
00:51:36Memories of her
00:51:37Kept coming back
00:51:53Do you live in New York?
00:51:55I'm staying another week
00:51:57May I see you again?
00:51:59Of course
00:52:02When I sent for you
00:52:04Would you come to me?
00:52:05Anywhere
00:52:11The stove works
00:52:12And the radio works
00:52:14The fireplace works
00:52:16It's so lovely to have a house
00:52:18With everything that works
00:52:20I can't stand it
00:52:21Oh, you God
00:52:24Do you think we could get the president
00:52:25For three Mondays
00:52:26And four Fridays
00:52:27In the week?
00:52:28Why?
00:52:30For those of the days
00:52:31I see you
00:52:33Or have there been so many
00:52:34You didn't bother with it?
00:52:37Yes
00:52:37That's right
00:52:39There have been so many
00:52:40I didn't bother with it
00:52:41Men like him
00:52:42Who were married
00:52:42Men
00:53:04When I left my actions
00:53:06Were those of a stupid schoolboy
00:53:08Driving away
00:53:09I began to realize
00:53:11How could I pass
00:53:12Judgment of Noah?
00:53:13I was a married man
00:53:15Offering her
00:53:16Nothing but the questionable
00:53:17Security of the house
00:53:18Part of my time
00:53:20And I knew that
00:53:20No matter how many men
00:53:21There had been in her life
00:53:22There was only one
00:53:24Now
00:53:26I went back
00:53:43Nora
00:53:44Nora
00:53:46Nora
00:53:57Hi, Governor
00:54:00We'll get something
00:54:04I knew we were going to meet someday
00:54:05But I didn't think
00:54:06It was going to be so soon
00:54:07Don't listen to him
00:54:08Don't talk to him
00:54:09Go away
00:54:09Please
00:54:10Hey
00:54:11How much is she worse to you?
00:54:18How much is she worse to you?
00:54:23How much is she worse to you?
00:54:30How much is she worse to you?
00:54:33How much is she worse to you?
00:54:34How much is she worse to you?
00:54:34How much is she worse to you?
00:54:35How much is she worse to you?
00:54:35How much is she worse to you?
00:54:35How much is she worse to you?
00:54:36How much is she worse to you?
00:54:36How much is she worse to you?
00:54:37How much is she worse to you?
00:54:37How much is she worse to you?
00:54:37How much is she worse to you?
00:54:37How much is she worse to you?
00:54:39How much is she worse to you?
00:54:39How much is she worse to you?
00:54:42How much is she worse to you?
00:54:45How much is she worse to you?
00:54:54THE END
00:55:23He's dead
00:55:34Dead
00:55:41A murderer
00:55:43The thought of exposure terrified me
00:55:45I imagine
00:55:58There's no one up
00:55:59But I saw a face at the window
00:56:04You imagine
00:56:06Perhaps
00:56:08I don't know
00:56:14Oh my God, Nora
00:56:16But it wasn't your fault
00:56:18You did it in self-defense, dear
00:56:19If you hadn't done it, he would have killed you
00:56:22But I'm the only one who knows that
00:56:24And when they find out about us, they won't believe anything I have to say
00:56:28There's no way out
00:56:29Oh, but there is a way, if you'll only go
00:56:32Leave you to face this?
00:56:33I wouldn't have to face it
00:56:35I have a plan
00:56:37If you'll only leave and trust me
00:56:41Can't you understand why I'm asking you to do this?
00:56:44Don't you realize that it isn't killing him that will ruin you?
00:56:48It's me
00:56:50The months we've spent here
00:56:53They'll take those months from us and spread them across the front page of every newspaper
00:56:58They'll make them ugly and cheap
00:57:00Instead of what they were
00:57:03I'm not asking you to be cowardly
00:57:06I'm asking you to let me keep the only happiness I've ever known
00:57:11You'll go
00:57:13Won't you?
00:57:18No
00:57:19Yes
00:57:22No
00:57:24I don't ask you to believe what happened next
00:57:26I simply say it happened
00:57:28Don't do that
00:57:31All right
00:57:33What are they doing to you?
00:57:35Nothing, dear
00:57:37They're hurting you
00:57:38You're frightened
00:57:39What is there to be frightened of?
00:57:42Death
00:57:43There's nothing to fear in death
00:57:46Father Ryan is with me now
00:57:47I want you to hear what he's saying
00:57:49And remember it always
00:57:51It's the prayer for the dead
00:57:52No, I don't want to hear it
00:57:53Don't make me hear it
00:57:54But it's beautiful
00:57:57Listen
00:57:58Eternal rest
00:57:59Give to them, O Lord
00:58:00And let perpetual light shine upon them
00:58:03Eternal rest
00:58:04And perpetual light
00:58:07Is that frightening?
00:58:10No
00:58:10Then think of it that way
00:58:13Think of me that way
00:58:15I can't
00:58:16All I can think of is that you're dying for something I did
00:58:18I'm not dying for something you did
00:58:21I'm dying for all the good things you're going to do
00:58:24And I'm dying rather than give up something that was precious to me
00:58:27My life with you
00:58:28I could have life with you if I told the truth
00:58:31If I had the courage to tell the truth, I'd be free
00:58:33They might put me in prison, but I'd be free
00:58:35I'd be free of Grant
00:58:36What of your wife?
00:58:38You can't do that to her
00:58:40She's like him
00:58:42They're both alike
00:58:44Dominating, scheming, planning my life
00:58:45And they always win
00:58:47I wanted to pardon you, but he wouldn't let me
00:58:52Why do I say you wouldn't let me?
00:58:55I could have done it
00:58:56I can do it now
00:58:58I can phone now and stop it
00:59:00I can sign an unconditional pardon and you'll be free
00:59:02What's free, dear?
00:59:04To go out and struggle
00:59:06And perhaps no more men like Felina
00:59:09To go on day after day
00:59:11Knowing that somewhere in the world you're beginning to hate me
00:59:13Why should I hate you?
00:59:15Because people change
00:59:17What will she be 15 years from now?
00:59:20Just someone who can put you behind the bars anytime she wants to
00:59:24Do you want to go through life?
00:59:25Waiting for that to happen?
00:59:27Let her die
00:59:28That was his voice
00:59:29I didn't think that
00:59:30He said it
00:59:31You heard him, didn't you?
00:59:32I wouldn't want you to think I felt that way about you
00:59:33I know you wouldn't change
00:59:35You understand
00:59:36It was his voice
00:59:37Don't let me die because you're afraid
00:59:40Let me die because it's my destiny to die
00:59:43Let me feel that in dying I made it possible for you to go on
00:59:54You said there was no one there
00:59:56You looked and you said there was no face at the window
00:59:58You said I imagined it
01:00:00You did
01:00:00And what's he doing here?
01:00:02If he saw me
01:00:03Why doesn't he say something?
01:00:04Why doesn't he come out in the open?
01:00:05What's he waiting for?
01:00:07There's no one there
01:00:08Yes there is
01:00:08And I know what he wants
01:00:09He's waiting
01:00:11He's waiting until I let you die
01:00:12And then I'll have to kill him to keep him from telling
01:00:14That'll be three murders
01:00:16The first wasn't murder
01:00:18You did it in self-defense
01:00:19If I let them kill you it'll be murder
01:00:21And then I'll have to kill him
01:00:22That'll be three
01:00:25The first wasn't murder
01:00:26And the second one hasn't happened
01:00:29The first wasn't murder
01:00:30And I can stop the second
01:00:32I'll stop it now
01:00:34I'll stop it now
01:00:36Stop it
01:00:37Stop the execution
01:00:38I'm the governor and I say stop the execution
01:00:40I did it, you hear?
01:00:42I killed him and you can't execute her
01:00:49I did it
01:00:53I did it, Nora
01:01:06At first I couldn't understand her going so quickly
01:01:09And then I looked at the phone
01:01:13It was dead
01:01:15Nora was dead
01:01:23Did she know that I had tried?
01:01:25I think so
01:01:26Because her voice came to me
01:01:29Quiet
01:01:30Reassuring
01:01:32There's nothing to fear in death
01:01:34Listen
01:01:36Eternal rest give to them, O Lord
01:01:38And let perpetual light shine upon them
01:01:40Eternal rest
01:01:42And perpetual light
01:01:44Is that frightening?
01:01:50I couldn't have put those words in her mouth
01:01:52She must have been here
01:02:03abaalter
01:02:04You can have put it all for her
01:02:24You can have sworn to me
01:02:26I know she was here.
01:02:29So while I can still hear her saying,
01:02:32eternal rest give to them, O Lord,
01:02:35and let perpetual light shine upon them.
01:02:49It ends there.
01:02:52Or does it begin?
01:02:54I wonder.
01:02:56I wonder.
01:03:26I wonder.
01:03:27I wonder.
01:03:29I wonder.
01:03:30I wonder.
01:03:30I wonder.
01:03:31I wonder.
01:03:33I wonder.
01:03:34I wonder.
01:03:35I wonder.
01:03:36I wonder.
01:03:37I wonder.
01:03:38I wonder.
01:03:40I wonder.
01:03:46I wonder.
01:03:47I wonder.
01:03:48I wonder.
01:03:50I wonder.
01:03:52I wonder.
01:03:53I wonder.
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