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00:00:06The End
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00:01:37Well, here we are. I turned down here at the next block.
00:01:40Thanks, mister. I'll get off there.
00:01:49Want anything else?
00:01:51No.
00:01:52Hey, you.
00:01:56Me?
00:01:57Yeah, you.
00:01:58Where are you heading?
00:02:00East.
00:02:01You're there.
00:02:03I thought if you was heading north, I might be able to help you out.
00:02:06I'm pushing the Salt Lake and I don't like to ride alone at night.
00:02:09I'm one of those guys that got to talk or I fall asleep.
00:02:12Oh, sure, no, Mike.
00:02:13But pardon me, he's got Lou to keep in company, but I ain't got nobody at all.
00:02:18Where you coming from?
00:02:20West.
00:02:20Yeah, sure, I know, but where, L.A.?
00:02:23Maybe.
00:02:24I got a cousin out in L.A.
00:02:25You don't say. Yeah, he's been out...
00:02:29You're not much of a talker, are you?
00:02:30My mother taught me never to speak to strangers.
00:02:32Oh, wise guy.
00:02:33So what?
00:02:34Okay, okay, don't get sore.
00:02:36He's trying to be sociable, that's all.
00:02:39Hey, Glamorous.
00:02:41Let me change for a dime, will you?
00:02:52Let's have something quieter this time, Joe.
00:02:54My head's splitting.
00:02:55Is that what's wrong with it?
00:03:00Done with your coffee?
00:03:01No.
00:03:02And don't rush me, will you?
00:03:11Hey, turn that off.
00:03:12Will you turn that thing off?
00:03:13What's eating you now?
00:03:14Yeah, what's eating you?
00:03:15That music, it stinks.
00:03:16Oh, you don't like it, huh?
00:03:17No, turn it off.
00:03:18Now, wait a minute, pal.
00:03:19That was my nickel, see?
00:03:20This is a free country, and I play whatever I want to.
00:03:25Okay.
00:03:26Sure, and if you don't like it, you don't have to listen to it.
00:03:29And you can leave here anytime you want it.
00:03:31Okay, okay, I'm sorry I asked.
00:03:32First good piece play tonight, and you don't like it.
00:03:35Some people just ain't got any good taste.
00:03:48That tune, that tune, why was there always that rotten tune?
00:03:54Following me around, beating in my head, never letting up.
00:04:01Did you ever want to forget anything?
00:04:03Did you ever want to cut away a piece of your memory or blot it out?
00:04:06You can't, you know, no matter how hard you try.
00:04:10You can change the scenery, but sooner or later you'll get a whiff of perfume where somebody
00:04:15will say a certain phrase or maybe hum something.
00:04:17Then you're licked again.
00:04:21I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:04:23I used to love that song once.
00:04:26So did the customers back in the old Break of Dawn club in New York.
00:04:29I can't remember a night when I didn't get at least three requests for it.
00:04:34Sue, she was always selling it too.
00:04:37Those were the days.
00:05:03Your eyes are blue, your kisses too.
00:05:07I never knew what they could do.
00:05:10I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:05:15You're telling everyone you know that I'm on your mind each place you go.
00:05:22They can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:05:28I have always placed you far above me.
00:05:33I just can't imagine that you love me.
00:05:39And after all is said and done, to think that I'm the lucky one.
00:05:46I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:05:58It wasn't much of a club, really.
00:06:00You know the kind.
00:06:02A joint where you could have a sandwich and a few drinks and run interference for your girl on the
00:06:06dance floor.
00:06:09I pounded the piano in there every night from eight until the place closed up, which usually meant four in
00:06:14the morning.
00:06:15A good job as jobs went in those days.
00:06:21Then, too, there was Sue, who made working there a little like working in heaven.
00:06:28But how we felt about each other, well, there was nothing very unusual in that.
00:06:32I was an ordinary healthy guy and she was an ordinary healthy girl.
00:06:35And when you add those two together, you get an ordinary healthy romance, which is the old story.
00:06:40Sure, but somehow, the most wonderful thing in the world.
00:06:53All in all, I was a pretty lucky guy.
00:07:08Mr. Paderewski, I presume.
00:07:10It's beautiful.
00:07:11You're going to make Carnegie Hall yet, Al?
00:07:13Yeah, as a janitor.
00:07:16I'll make my debut in the basement.
00:07:18I don't blame you for being bitter, darling, but you mustn't give up hope.
00:07:22Why, someday...
00:07:23Yeah, someday, if I don't get arthritis first.
00:07:25In the meantime, let's blow this trap.
00:07:47Would you like to get something to eat, hon?
00:07:48Oh, I don't think so, Al.
00:07:49I lose my appetite working in this flea bag.
00:07:53Let's go home.
00:07:54Okay.
00:07:55I can't stand much more of that dump.
00:07:58Did you see that drunk tonight trying to paw me?
00:08:01No, what drunk?
00:08:02Does it matter what drunk?
00:08:05Say, what's the matter with you tonight, darling?
00:08:07That's the third time you started to tell me something and then stopped.
00:08:11We shouldn't have any secrets from each other, Sue.
00:08:13Next week, we're going to make with the ring and the license.
00:08:15You and me will be a team.
00:08:16Yes, that's right.
00:08:17In the Bush League.
00:08:19I don't get you.
00:08:20We've been struck out.
00:08:23That's a funny way to talk, darling.
00:08:25Don't you want to marry me?
00:08:26Al, look, I love you.
00:08:27You know I do.
00:08:28And I want to marry you.
00:08:30What?
00:08:31But not now.
00:08:32Only after we've made good.
00:08:35Sunday, I'm going away.
00:08:37Oh, I know you'll think it's silly.
00:08:39That's why I hesitated to tell you.
00:08:41But I'm going to California.
00:08:43I want to try my luck in Hollywood.
00:08:46That's the most stupid thing I ever heard of.
00:08:48Don't you know millions of people go out there every year and wind up polishing cuspidors?
00:08:52I thought you had better sense.
00:08:53You sound as if you don't think I have any talent.
00:08:55That has nothing to do with it.
00:08:57I'll make out all right.
00:08:58Maybe.
00:08:58But what about me?
00:09:00Doesn't it mean anything to you that you're busting up all our plans?
00:09:02We may not see each other for years?
00:09:03It won't be that long.
00:09:05I thought you loved me.
00:09:07I do.
00:09:08You know I do.
00:09:12Well, here we are.
00:09:16Al.
00:09:18Al, why can't you see my side of it?
00:09:21I'm young.
00:09:22We both are.
00:09:24And we've got all the time in the world to settle down.
00:09:28Really, darling.
00:09:29What I'm doing is the only sane thing to do.
00:09:34I hate the thought of being so far away from you.
00:09:37But we'll be together again someday.
00:09:40Maybe you'll decide to come out too later on.
00:09:43So long.
00:09:45Al.
00:09:46Aren't you going to kiss me goodnight?
00:09:49Sure.
00:09:50Why not?
00:09:53Goodnight.
00:09:56Goodnight.
00:09:58Goodnight.
00:10:01Goodnight.
00:10:04Bye.
00:10:05Bye.
00:11:37Say, Roberts, you hit the jackpot this time.
00:11:40Ten bucks.
00:11:42Thanks.
00:11:49So when this drunk handed me a tin spot after a request, I couldn't get very excited.
00:11:53What was it I asked myself?
00:11:55A piece of paper crawling with germs.
00:11:57Couldn't buy anything I wanted.
00:12:00It couldn't...
00:12:03Then I thought of something.
00:12:28Long distance.
00:12:30I'd like to put a call through to Los Angeles.
00:12:32Miss Harvey.
00:12:34Sue Harvey.
00:12:35H-A-R-V-E-Y.
00:12:37The number is Crestview 65723.
00:12:39H-A-R-V-E-Y.
00:13:09This is Al.
00:13:11Oh, baby, it's great to hear from you, too.
00:13:13What's that?
00:13:14You do?
00:13:14Oh, me too, darling.
00:13:16I thought I'd go batty without you.
00:13:18I just had to...
00:13:19Huh?
00:13:21You're working as a hashlinger?
00:13:23Gee, honey, that's tough.
00:13:25Those guys out in Hollywood don't know the real thing when it's right in front of them.
00:13:28You just stick it out, Sue, baby.
00:13:30Keep going around to those casting offices.
00:13:32I'm sure you'll click.
00:13:33Look, I'll tell you what.
00:13:34You stay put out there.
00:13:35I'll come to you.
00:13:37No, don't try to stop me.
00:13:38Just expect me.
00:13:39Train?
00:13:40Who knows?
00:13:41Train, plane, bus, magic carpet.
00:13:42I'll be there if I have to crawl.
00:13:44If I have to travel by pogo stick.
00:13:47And then...
00:13:48Let's get married right away, huh?
00:13:52That's the stuff.
00:13:53That's what I've been wanting to hear you say.
00:13:56Well, goodbye for now.
00:14:00I'll be seeing you soon.
00:14:03Yeah.
00:14:05Bye.
00:14:11The only way I could cross country was to thumb rides.
00:14:14For even after hocking everything, I only had enough money to eat.
00:14:18Money.
00:14:19You know what that is.
00:14:21It's the stuff you never have enough of.
00:14:23Little green things with George Washington's picture that men slave for, commit crimes for, die for.
00:14:30It's the stuff that has caused more trouble in the world than anything else we ever invented.
00:14:34Simply because there's too little of it.
00:14:37At least I had too little of it.
00:14:39So it was me for the thumb.
00:14:57Ever done any hitchhiking?
00:15:00It's not much fun, believe me.
00:15:02Oh, yeah.
00:15:03I know all about how it's an education and how you get to meet a lot of people and all
00:15:06that.
00:15:07But me?
00:15:08From now on, I'll take my education in college.
00:15:11Or in P.S. 62, where I'll send $1.98 in stamps for ten easy lessons.
00:15:25Thumbing rides may save your bus fare.
00:15:27But it's dangerous.
00:15:30You never know what's in store for you.
00:15:32You hear the squeal of brakes.
00:15:34If only I'd known what I was getting into that day in Arizona.
00:15:40Here, throw that in the back seat.
00:15:45Okay, let's go.
00:15:46Make sure that door's closed.
00:16:01You know, Emily Post ought to write a book of rules for guys thumbing rides.
00:16:06Because as it is now, you never know what's right and what's wrong.
00:16:09We rode along for a little while, neither one of us saying anything.
00:16:13I was glad of that.
00:16:15I never know what to say to strange people driving cars.
00:16:19And, too, you can never tell if a guy wants to talk.
00:16:22A lot of rides have been cut short because of a big mouth.
00:16:26So I kept my mouth shut until he started opening up.
00:16:31Hand me that little box to the compartment, will you, pal?
00:16:37Hold the wheel, will you?
00:16:50How far are you going?
00:16:51L.A.
00:16:52Well, you're really traveling, aren't you?
00:16:54Yeah, but I don't expect to make it for a couple of years at the rate I've been promoting rides.
00:16:58Not much luck, huh?
00:16:59Sure, all bad.
00:17:01Not many people stop for a guy these days.
00:17:03Afraid of a stick-up, maybe.
00:17:05Well, you can't blame him.
00:17:07Where are you coming from?
00:17:08New York.
00:17:09Well, New York.
00:17:11You're in luck this time.
00:17:13I'm going all the way.
00:17:15Right through to Los Angeles.
00:17:17You drive a car?
00:17:19Sure.
00:17:20Whenever you're tired, let me know.
00:17:22I'll holler.
00:17:24I guess at least an hour passed before I noticed those deep scratches in his right hand.
00:17:29They were wicked.
00:17:30Three puffy red lines about a quarter of an inch apart.
00:17:34He must have seen me looking at them because he said...
00:17:38Beauties, aren't they?
00:17:40They're going to be scars someday.
00:17:43What an animal.
00:17:45Whatever it was, it must have been pretty big and vicious to have done that.
00:17:48Right on both counts, New York.
00:17:50I was tussling with the most dangerous animal in the world.
00:17:53A woman.
00:17:55She must have been Tarzan's mate.
00:17:57Looks like you lost the bob.
00:17:58It certainly wasn't a draw.
00:18:01You know, there ought to be a law against dames with claws.
00:18:04Yeah.
00:18:05I tossed her out of the car in her ear.
00:18:08Was I wrong?
00:18:09Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't you?
00:18:12Yeah.
00:18:13After all, what kind of a dame's son rides?
00:18:16Sunday school teachers?
00:18:17Yeah.
00:18:19A little witch.
00:18:21She must have thought she was riding with some fall guy.
00:18:25And me, who's been booking horses around race tracks since I was 20.
00:18:29I've known a million dames like her.
00:18:31Two million?
00:18:32Yeah.
00:18:35Stopped the car, opened the door.
00:18:38Taken on the Arthur Duffy's sister, I told her.
00:18:40That's the stuff.
00:18:41It's always done, huh?
00:18:44But if you want to see a real scar, brother, get a load of this.
00:18:51I got that one jewelry.
00:18:53Dually?
00:18:54Yeah, we're just kidding, of course.
00:18:55My dad owned a couple of Franco-Prussian sabers.
00:18:58Kept them on the wall for decorations.
00:19:01Well, one day, another kid and I took them down.
00:19:03The old man wasn't around.
00:19:05Had a duel.
00:19:07You got me in the arm here.
00:19:09Pretty mean cut.
00:19:11Infection sat in later.
00:19:13Yeah, I can see that.
00:19:15Now, give me that box again, will you?
00:19:16Yeah.
00:19:29Pain made me lose my head, I guess.
00:19:31Began slashing.
00:19:33Before I knew it, I'd put the other kid's eye on.
00:19:36That was tough.
00:19:38Well, it was just an accident, of course.
00:19:40Do you know how kids are?
00:19:41I got scared, decided I was going to run away from home.
00:19:44Well, the old man almost caught me when I was packing my duds.
00:19:48The bloody rag I had wrapped around my wrist hadn't caught his attention.
00:19:52You've seen the bundle for sure.
00:19:55But I beat it when he was phoning for a doctor.
00:19:58I was 15, 16 years ago.
00:20:00I haven't been home since.
00:20:06Pull in there for a bite or something, huh?
00:20:08A bite or something?
00:20:10Brother, was I hungry?
00:20:12I hadn't had anything in my stomach for hours.
00:20:15Yet, even with that gnawing in the pit of my belly,
00:20:17I didn't want to be in too big a rush to put on the feedback.
00:20:21First, I had to make sure this guy knew the score.
00:20:23If I got him down on me, it was goodbye ticket to Hollywood.
00:20:28I'll wait out here for you, mister.
00:20:29If it's the money, don't worry about paying for it.
00:20:31This time it's on me.
00:20:32Well, that's quite of you, mister...
00:20:34Haskell, think nothing of it.
00:20:35You make your first million, maybe you can do the same for me.
00:20:37Come on, New York.
00:20:38I got to make the West Coast by Wednesday.
00:20:40There's a horse running at Santa Anita named Private Bicycle.
00:20:43It means it's all to me if I'm on him.
00:20:44We'll make it, all right.
00:20:47He did most of the talking during the half hour we were in the place.
00:20:50I ate.
00:20:52He rambled on about his old man,
00:20:54whom he hadn't heard from since he ran away as a kid.
00:20:56And how he happened to become a bookie.
00:20:58And then all about how he got rooked in Miami.
00:21:01One race, 38 grand.
00:21:03They cleaned out my book.
00:21:04How do you like that?
00:21:06That was tough luck.
00:21:07Yeah, and I'm supposed to be the smart guy.
00:21:09Will you just wait?
00:21:10I'm going back to Florida next season with all kinds of check.
00:21:12And you'll watch those stinkers run for cover.
00:21:15You want anything else?
00:21:16No, thanks.
00:21:17I've had plenty.
00:21:23That check there, sister?
00:21:25Mm-hmm.
00:21:28Oh, just a minute.
00:21:29Your change, sir.
00:21:30Keep it, sister.
00:21:31Oh, thank you, sir.
00:21:32Call again.
00:21:33I'll be waiting outside for you when you finish work.
00:21:36Sharp checker.
00:21:45I drove all that night while Haskell slept like a log.
00:21:49After a while, I began to get sleepy myself.
00:21:53I was happy, though.
00:21:55Soon I'd be with Sue again.
00:21:57The long trip was practically over,
00:21:59and there'd be no more hoofing it down the concrete.
00:22:02I began to think of the future,
00:22:05which couldn't have been brighter if I'd embroidered it with neon lights.
00:22:08It was nice to think of Sue shooting to the top.
00:22:12It's amazing what a full belly can do to your imagination.
00:22:19Your eyes are blue, your kisses, too.
00:22:24I never knew what they could do.
00:22:28I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:22:36I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:22:37You're telling everyone you know
00:22:41I'm on your mind each place you go.
00:22:45I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:23:12I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:23:15Wake up. It's raining.
00:23:17Don't you think we ought to stop and put up the top?
00:23:27Mr. Haskell, I'm going to put up the top.
00:23:43Up until then, I had done things my way.
00:23:46But from then on, something else stepped in
00:23:48and shunted me off to a different destination
00:23:49than the one I had picked for myself.
00:23:52But when I pulled open that door...
00:23:58Mr. Haskell, what's the matter?
00:24:00Are you hurt?
00:24:02Are you hurt, Mr. Haskell?
00:24:04Start your sermon.
00:24:06I'll listen to it.
00:24:08But I know what you're going to hand me
00:24:09even before you open your mouths.
00:24:11You're going to tell me you don't believe my story
00:24:13of how Haskell died
00:24:14and give me that don't make me laugh expression
00:24:15on your smug faces.
00:24:20I saw it once, he was dead.
00:24:22And I was in for it.
00:24:24Who would believe he fell out of the car?
00:24:26Why, if Haskell came too, which of course he couldn't,
00:24:27even he would swear I conked him over the head for his dough.
00:24:30Yes, I was in for it.
00:24:33Instinct told me to run.
00:24:34But then I realized it was hopeless.
00:24:35There were lots of people back down the road
00:24:37who could identify me.
00:24:38That gas station guy and the waitress.
00:24:40I would be in a worse spot then,
00:24:41trying to explain why I beat it.
00:24:43The next possibility was to sit tight
00:24:44and tell the truth when the cops came.
00:24:46But that would be crazy.
00:24:47They'd laugh at the truth
00:24:49and not have my head in the noose.
00:24:52So what else was there to do
00:24:53but hide the body and get away in the car?
00:24:55I couldn't leave the car there with him in the gully.
00:24:58That would be like erecting a tombstone.
00:24:59Come on.
00:24:59Let's go.
00:25:04Let's go.
00:25:11Let's go.
00:25:16Let's go.
00:25:16Let's go.
00:25:30Let's go.
00:25:42Let's go.
00:25:50Let's go.
00:25:56Let's go.
00:26:15Let's go.
00:26:35Let's go.
00:26:42Let's go.
00:26:45Let's go.
00:26:54Let's go.
00:27:07Let's go.
00:27:12Let's go.
00:27:21Let's go.
00:27:38Let's go.
00:27:43Let's go.
00:27:45Let's go.
00:28:00Let's go.
00:28:09Let's go.
00:28:17Let's go.
00:28:23Let's go.
00:28:26Let's go.
00:28:27Let's go.
00:28:28Let's go.
00:28:31Let's go.
00:28:32Let's go.
00:28:58Let's go.
00:29:13Let's go.
00:29:15No.
00:29:17Let's go.
00:29:18Let's go.
00:29:19Look.
00:29:28Right?
00:29:29No. He can't die.
00:29:32I think I did it.
00:29:36No, Mr. Haskell. No.
00:29:55Who's there?
00:29:56It's the maid. Can I come in and clean?
00:29:59Later. In a half hour.
00:30:02All right, sir.
00:30:27There was no time to lose.
00:30:29Every minute I had to be Charles Haskell was dangerous.
00:30:32And I'd have to be Charles Haskell until I got to some city where I could leave the car and
00:30:35be swallowed up.
00:30:42That meant driving the car as far as San Bernardino, maybe even to Los Angeles.
00:30:46In a little town I might be noticed, but in a city I should be safe enough.
00:30:51Then, after I ditched the car, I could go on to Sue.
00:30:55But those five minutes at the state line made me realize it might be a good idea to find out
00:31:00a little bit about Mr. Haskell.
00:31:02Then, if anybody asked me questions, I could give the right answers.
00:31:06The first thing I found out was that I had $768.
00:31:10This was a lot of jack, but believe me, it was the kind of money I'd rather not have.
00:31:23And then I found out from a letter Haskell was carting around in his bag that he wasn't the open
00:31:28-handed, easy-going big shot who went around buying dinners for strange hitchhikers.
00:31:32Before I got done reading it, I saw him more as a chiseler.
00:31:37It was written to his old man in California, the one he hadn't seen in so many years.
00:31:42In it, Haskell posed as a salesman of hymnals of all things.
00:31:48It was easy to see where Haskell expected to raise a new stake for his book in Miami, by rooking
00:31:54his old man.
00:31:56That was about all I found out from his effects.
00:31:59And it was enough.
00:32:01I told myself, maybe old man Haskell was lucky his son kicked off.
00:32:06He would never know it.
00:32:08But it saved him from taking a flyer in sacred literature preferred.
00:32:30He would never know it.
00:32:36Near the airport at Desert Center, I pulled up for water.
00:32:41There was a woman.
00:32:47Hey, you! Come on if you want a ride.
00:32:49A ride!
00:33:05A ride!
00:33:07A ride!
00:33:07Too late!
00:33:08A ride!
00:33:35How far are you going?
00:33:37How far are you going?
00:33:39That took me by surprise, and I turned my head to look her over.
00:33:43She was facing straight ahead, so I couldn't see her eyes.
00:33:46But she was young, not more than 24.
00:33:50Man, she looked as if she'd just been thrown off the crummiest freight train in the world.
00:33:56Yet, in spite of this, I got the impression of beauty.
00:33:59Not the beauty of a movie actress, mind you,
00:34:01or the beauty you dream about when you're with your wife,
00:34:04but a natural beauty.
00:34:06A beauty that's almost homely because it's so real.
00:34:11Then suddenly, she turned to face me.
00:34:13How far did you say you were going?
00:34:15Los Angeles.
00:34:16L.A.?
00:34:18L.A.'s good enough for me, mister.
00:34:20That's what I was afraid of.
00:34:21What did you say?
00:34:23Oh, nothing. Just thinking out loud.
00:34:25People get in trouble for doing that.
00:34:27What's your name?
00:34:29You can call me Vera, if you like.
00:34:31Do you live in Los Angeles?
00:34:32No.
00:34:34Where are you coming from?
00:34:36Oh, back there.
00:34:37Needles?
00:34:38No.
00:34:39Oh, sure. Phoenix.
00:34:41You look just like a Phoenix girl.
00:34:43Are the girls in Phoenix that bad?
00:34:45The girl must have been pretty tired
00:34:47because she fell asleep not 20 minutes after she stepped into the car.
00:34:51She lay sprawled out with her head resting against the far door, like Haskell.
00:34:56I didn't like that part of it much.
00:34:58But I didn't wake her up.
00:35:00It wasn't that this girl still worried me.
00:35:03I'd gotten over that funny feeling I had when she looked at me,
00:35:06which I put down as just my jangled nerves.
00:35:09With her eyes closed, the test has gone out of her.
00:35:12She seemed harmless enough.
00:35:14And instead of disliking her, I began to feel sorry for her.
00:35:18The poor kid probably had had a rough time of it.
00:35:22Who was she, anyway?
00:35:24And why was she going to Los Angeles?
00:35:26And where'd she come from in the first place?
00:35:28The only thing I knew about her was her name.
00:35:31Not that it made any difference.
00:35:33A few hours more and we'd be in Hollywood.
00:35:35I'd forget where I parked the car and look up Sue.
00:35:39This nightmare of being a dead man would be over.
00:35:42Who this dame was?
00:35:43Well, it was no business of mine.
00:35:44Where did you leave this body?
00:35:47Where did you leave the owner of this car?
00:35:49You're not fooling anyone.
00:35:51This buggy belongs to a guy named Haskell.
00:35:53That's not you, mister.
00:35:54You're out of your mind.
00:35:55That's my name, Charles Haskell.
00:35:56I can prove it.
00:35:57It's my driver's license.
00:35:58Beg yourself the trouble, mister.
00:35:59Having Haskell's wallet only makes it worse.
00:36:01It just so happens I rode with Charlie Haskell.
00:36:04All the way from Louisiana.
00:36:05He picked me up outside of Shreveport.
00:36:08You rode?
00:36:08You heard me.
00:36:09Then it all came back to me.
00:36:12All the talk about dueling and scars and scratches.
00:36:15There was no doubt about it.
00:36:17Vera must be the woman Haskell had mentioned.
00:36:19She must have passed me while I slept.
00:36:21Well?
00:36:23Well, I'm waiting.
00:36:25My goose was cooked.
00:36:26She had me.
00:36:28That Haskell guy wasn't dead yet.
00:36:31He wasn't stretched out stiff and cold in any Arizona gully.
00:36:34He was sitting right there in the car laughing like mad while he haunted me.
00:36:39Well?
00:36:40There was nothing I could say.
00:36:42It was her move.
00:36:44Vera, whatever her name was, was just my luck picking her up on the road.
00:36:49Couldn't have been Helen or Mary or Evelyn or Ruth.
00:36:52It had to be the very last person I should ever have met.
00:36:56That's life.
00:36:58Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you.
00:37:06I told her everything, but she didn't believe my story.
00:37:09I should have saved my breath.
00:37:11That's the greatest cock and ball story I ever heard.
00:37:13So he fell out of his car.
00:37:15Say, who do you think you're talking to, a hick?
00:37:17Listen, mister, I've been around.
00:37:19And I know a wrong guy when I see one.
00:37:21What'd you do, kiss him with a wrench?
00:37:23Now, wait a minute. What I told you was true.
00:37:25You see, that's why I had to do it.
00:37:27You think I killed him.
00:37:28Well, the cops would have thought so too.
00:37:29Yeah, well, maybe they still think so.
00:37:32What makes you so sure I'll shut up about this?
00:37:34Vera, I'm innocent.
00:37:35Give me a break, will you?
00:37:38It won't do me any good having you pinched.
00:37:40The cops are no friends of mine.
00:37:42Now, if there was a reward, but there isn't.
00:37:45Thanks.
00:37:46Don't thank me yet.
00:37:47I'm not through with you by a long shot.
00:37:50Let's see that roll.
00:37:58Is that all Haskell had?
00:37:59Isn't it enough?
00:38:00No, I thought he had more.
00:38:01Not that I know of.
00:38:02You can search me. You think I'm holding out on you.
00:38:04Well, maybe I will at that.
00:38:05He told me he was gonna bet $3,000 on a horse named Paradisical on Wednesday at Santa Anita.
00:38:10He was stringing you along. He meant $300.
00:38:12Maybe.
00:38:13Sure, three bucks, $300.
00:38:14He was a piece of cheese, a big blowhard.
00:38:16Listen, mister.
00:38:17Don't try and tell me anything about Charlie Haskell.
00:38:19Remember, I knew him better than you did.
00:38:21Okay, then you knew he was a four-flusher. That explains the three grand bet.
00:38:24I'm not so sure he didn't have that three grand.
00:38:26Why should I believe you?
00:38:28You got all the earmarks of a cheap crook.
00:38:30Now, wait a minute.
00:38:31You're a cheap crook and you killed him.
00:38:33For two cents, I'd change my mind and turn you in.
00:38:35I don't like you.
00:38:36All right, all right. Don't get sore.
00:38:38I'm not getting sore.
00:38:39But just remember who's boss around here.
00:38:41If you shut up and don't give me any arguments, you'll have nothing to worry about.
00:38:44But if you act wise, well, mister, you'll pop into jail so fast it'll give you the bends.
00:38:49I'm not arguing.
00:38:50See that you don't.
00:38:51You know, as crooked as you look, I'd hate to see a fella as young as you wind up sniffing
00:38:55that perfume that Arizona hands out free to murderers.
00:38:57I'm not a murderer.
00:38:58Of course you're not.
00:38:59Haskell knocked his own head off.
00:39:01He fell.
00:39:01That's how it happened.
00:39:01Just like I told you.
00:39:02Sure.
00:39:03And then he made you a present of his belongings.
00:39:04I explained why I had to do that.
00:39:06Oh, skip it.
00:39:06It doesn't make a difference one way or another.
00:39:07I'm not a mourner.
00:39:09I liked Haskell even less than I like you.
00:39:11Yeah, I saw what you did to him.
00:39:13What do you mean?
00:39:14Well, scratches on his wrist.
00:39:15Sure, I scratched him.
00:39:18Oh, so you did.
00:39:20So your idea was to drive the car a little way, maybe into San Bernardino and then leave it.
00:39:25You weren't gonna sell it?
00:39:26Sell it?
00:39:27You think I'm crazy, somebody else's car?
00:39:29See, all I wanna do is leave it somewhere and forget I ever saw it.
00:39:32Not only don't you have any scruples, you don't have any brains.
00:39:35I don't get you.
00:39:36Maybe it's a good thing you met me.
00:39:38You'd have got yourself caught sure.
00:39:40Why, you dope.
00:39:41Don't you know a deserted automobile always rates an investigation?
00:39:44Huh?
00:39:45Look, the cops find a car.
00:39:47Then they get curious.
00:39:48They wonder where the owner is.
00:39:50So all right, they don't trace Haskell.
00:39:52They trace you.
00:39:54I never thought of that.
00:39:55The only safe way to get rid of the car is to sell it to a dealer.
00:39:58Get it registered under a new name.
00:40:00Say, stop at the next door.
00:40:02I wanna get a bottle and do some shopping before we hit L.A.
00:40:05Okay.
00:40:05As soon as we find a place, I'll drop you off and pick you up later.
00:40:08Nothing doing.
00:40:09You're coming in too.
00:40:10From now on, you and I are like the Siamese twins.
00:40:13Have it your way, but I don't get the point.
00:40:15The point is, I don't want you to get lost.
00:40:17I'm not gonna beat it if that's what you're afraid of.
00:40:19I'll say you're not.
00:40:20Well, I'm gonna see that you sell this car so you don't get caught.
00:40:23Thanks.
00:40:24Of course, your interest wouldn't be financial, would it?
00:40:27You wouldn't want a small percentage of the profits.
00:40:30Well, now that you insist, how can I refuse?
00:40:33A hundred percent will do.
00:40:35Fine.
00:40:35I'm relieved.
00:40:36I thought for a moment you were gonna take it all.
00:40:39I don't wanna be a hog.
00:40:42A few hours later, we were in Hollywood.
00:40:44I was recognizing places Sue had written about.
00:40:47It struck me that far from being at the end of the trip,
00:40:50there was a greater distance between Sue and me than when I started out.
00:40:55Vera wasn't kidding with that Siamese twins crack.
00:40:58She rented a little apartment as Mrs. Charles Haskell.
00:41:02When I objected to this, she explained that it was on account of the car.
00:41:06The dealer might think something was funny if he called and found her using different names.
00:41:15Home, sweet home.
00:41:17Yeah.
00:41:18Not bad either.
00:41:27In case there's any doubt in your mind, I'll take the bedroom.
00:41:30Yeah.
00:41:32Sure is stuffy in here.
00:41:41Keep the windows shut.
00:41:43Okay.
00:41:45The old crow downstairs said there's a folding bed behind this door.
00:41:55You know how to work it?
00:42:00I invented it.
00:42:05Some joint.
00:42:06One can't have everything.
00:42:12I'm first in the bathtub.
00:42:14I don't know why, but I figured you would be.
00:42:27Boy, oh boy.
00:42:29It sure feels good to be clean again.
00:42:32I must be ten pounds lighter.
00:42:35You must be.
00:42:38Well, hitch and rides isn't exactly the way you keep your schoolgirl complexion.
00:42:45I wish that guy with the sacks would give up.
00:42:48It gets on my nerves.
00:42:52Forget it.
00:42:56Have a drink.
00:42:58Aren't you afraid I might take you up on it?
00:43:02If I didn't want to give you a drink, I wouldn't have offered it.
00:43:05Why be a sorehead, Roberts?
00:43:07You got yourself into this thing.
00:43:09You should be grateful I'm not turning you in.
00:43:12Why, if I wasn't regular, you'd be in the pen this minute, being photographed, fingerprinted, and being pushed around by
00:43:17the cops.
00:43:18So cheer up.
00:43:20Get rid of that long puss.
00:43:23Or is your conscience bothering you?
00:43:30No.
00:43:32It isn't.
00:43:33Swell.
00:43:34That's the spirit.
00:43:36He's dead and no moment around will bring him back.
00:43:42Anyway, I never could understand this worrying about something that's over and done with.
00:43:46Now look, Vera, for the last time I didn't kill him.
00:43:48Haskell was a sick man.
00:43:50Maybe he was dead before he fell out of the car.
00:43:51I don't know.
00:43:52Sure, sure.
00:43:53He died of old age.
00:43:55All right.
00:43:57So if it'll make you sociable?
00:44:00You didn't kill him.
00:44:12Thanks.
00:44:24We're out of liquor, Roberts.
00:44:26Yeah.
00:44:28Too bad.
00:44:29I felt like getting tight tonight.
00:44:31Well, I think you succeeded.
00:44:33Am I tight?
00:44:35That's a prima donna's corset.
00:44:36That's good.
00:44:37I wanted to get tight.
00:44:39Why?
00:44:40What have you got to get tight about?
00:44:42Oh, I don't know.
00:44:44A few things.
00:44:48You should have my worries.
00:44:50If I had your troubles, I'd stay sober.
00:44:52And I've got the key to that door.
00:44:57Yeah.
00:44:59Maybe you're right.
00:45:00I'm always right.
00:45:03You know, I don't like your attitude, Roberts.
00:45:06Well, there's a lot of things I don't like.
00:45:09Sure.
00:45:13Life's like a ball game.
00:45:15You gotta take a swing at whatever comes along before you wake up and find it's a ninth inning.
00:45:20I bet you read that somewhere.
00:45:22That's the trouble with you, Roberts.
00:45:23All you do is bellyache.
00:45:26Bit of taking it easy and trying to make the best of things.
00:45:31But maybe that's what's wrong with the whole world.
00:45:34Get the professor.
00:45:36People knock themselves out trying to buck fate.
00:45:39Now, take you, for instance.
00:45:40You're lucky to be alive.
00:45:42Well, I suppose Haskell had pulled open your door.
00:45:44You'd be playing a harp now.
00:45:46Think of that.
00:45:49You think of it.
00:45:50I'm tired of thinking.
00:45:52There's plenty of people dying this minute.
00:45:55It would give anything to trade places with you.
00:46:00I know what I'm talking about.
00:46:02I'm not so sure.
00:46:04At least they know they're done for.
00:46:06They don't have to sweat blood wondering if they are.
00:46:10Your philosophy stinks, pal.
00:46:13We all know we're gonna kick off someday.
00:46:16It's only a question of when.
00:46:19But what got us on this subject anyway?
00:46:22We'll be discussing politics next.
00:46:25Yeah.
00:46:27Where'd you hide the butts?
00:46:30On the table, sucker.
00:46:39We bored each other with conversation for a couple of hours longer.
00:46:43Every five minutes, one of us was wishing we had another bottle or a radio or something to read.
00:46:49Then, finally, we ran out of chatter.
00:46:52I know it's only 11 o'clock, but I want to get up early and make the rounds of the
00:46:55used car lots.
00:46:56No worry about that.
00:46:57We've got all the time in the world.
00:46:59Maybe you have, but if you think I want to stay cooped up in this place any longer than I
00:47:01have to, you're batty.
00:47:02It's not a bad place.
00:47:04We've paid plenty for diggings like this in New York.
00:47:06I wouldn't like it if it was the Ritz.
00:47:12You brought me liquor.
00:47:14You got a mean cough, ought to do something about it.
00:47:16I'll be all right.
00:47:17That's what Camille said.
00:47:21Nobody you know.
00:47:26Wasn't that the Dane that died of consumption?
00:47:28Yeah.
00:47:30Wouldn't it be a break for you if I did kick off?
00:47:33He'd be free with all Haskell's dough and car.
00:47:36I don't want to see anybody die.
00:47:39Not even me.
00:47:40Especially not you.
00:47:42One person died of me.
00:47:43If you did, well, that's all I need.
00:47:48You don't like me, do you, Roberts?
00:47:51I like you.
00:47:54I love you.
00:47:56My favorite sport is being kept prisoner.
00:48:00After we sell the car, you can go to blazes for all I care.
00:48:02But not until then.
00:48:10I'm going to bed.
00:48:21Good night, Roberts.
00:48:22Don't try and sneak away during the night.
00:48:24All the doors are locked.
00:48:25Anyway, if I find you gone in the morning, I'll notify the police.
00:48:29They'll pick you up.
00:48:30Don't worry. I know when I'm in a spot.
00:48:32Well, good night.
00:48:33I hope that portable rack isn't too uncomfortable for you.
00:48:37Don't lose any sleep over it, will you, sir?
00:48:47Yes, sir.
00:48:48Yes, sir, Betty.
00:49:16Oh, Chris.
00:49:19Six, five, seven, two, three.
00:49:29Hello?
00:49:31Hello?
00:49:33Hello?
00:49:36Hello?
00:49:36Hello?
00:49:43No.
00:49:45Not yet, darling.
00:49:49Tomorrow.
00:49:51Maybe.
00:49:56If this were fiction, I would fall in love with Vera, marry her and make a respectable woman of her,
00:50:01or else she'd make some supreme class A sacrifice for me and die.
00:50:07Sue and I would bawl a little over her grave and make some crack about there's good in all of
00:50:11us.
00:50:12But Vera, unfortunately, was just as rotten in the morning as she'd been the night before.
00:50:19All right, all right, I'm coming.
00:50:21Look, Vera, it's almost noon.
00:50:24So what? The dealers will be there all day?
00:50:27They'll be there all year, too, but that doesn't mean I'm going to wait that long.
00:50:30Shut up. You're making noises like a husband.
00:50:35Well, do I rate a whistle?
00:50:37You sure do, but let's go.
00:50:39Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.
00:50:40I spent 85 bucks in two hours preparing bait, and all you can say is let's go.
00:50:46Come on.
00:50:51We passed a few used car lots last night down this way.
00:50:55What do you think we can get for this heap?
00:50:56I don't know. Plenty.
00:50:58You just let me handle everything.
00:51:00Think we can get $2,000?
00:51:02I don't know, but don't worry.
00:51:03I'll squeeze as much out of this guy as I can.
00:51:05If I let it go cheap without a fight, he might think we've stolen the car.
00:51:09And listen, don't make any slips and call me Roberts.
00:51:12That'll cook us.
00:51:13I don't need you to tell me that.
00:51:15You better just sit by and keep your mouth closed.
00:51:18Remember, we're both in the soup if anything happens.
00:51:20Forget it and drive.
00:51:21You're my wife, Vera Haskell.
00:51:24Look, after the deal's closed, let's go back to that place on Hollywood Boulevard,
00:51:28where I saw the fur jacket.
00:51:29I want to buy it.
00:51:31After the deal's closed, I'm saying goodbye to you.
00:51:34That's right. I forgot.
00:51:35I guess I'm getting kind of used to you.
00:51:38Well, that's a habit you can start breaking.
00:51:41Let's try this place in the middle of the block.
00:51:49Good afternoon. What can I do for you?
00:51:51We're interested in selling a car.
00:51:53If the price is right.
00:51:57Well, if it's in good mechanical condition, it should blue book for about $1,600.
00:52:02Tony, take a look at this motor.
00:52:04$1,600. Are you kidding?
00:52:17Well, maybe $1,850.
00:52:19Before I let it go for $1,850, I'll wreck it and collect the insurance first.
00:52:27Hey, this motor's seen a lot of driving.
00:52:35While the mechanic inspected the car, we haggled.
00:52:39At last, when we were all worn out, we hit a compromise.
00:52:43His price.
00:52:47Okay, it's a deal.
00:52:49All right, come in. We'll sign the papers.
00:52:50I have the ownership papers right here with me.
00:52:52Look, Vera, in the meantime, will you clean out the dash compartment?
00:52:55There may be some stuff in it.
00:52:56All right, darling.
00:53:01$1,850. That dirty cro...
00:53:11New York, huh?
00:53:12Yeah.
00:53:13But you bought the car in Miami.
00:53:15Yeah.
00:53:17Now, let's see about the insurance.
00:53:18We can either have it transferred or canceled.
00:53:20What kind of insurance do you have, Mr. Haskell?
00:53:25Well, uh...
00:53:26Aren't all the papers there?
00:53:29I don't see any.
00:53:31Surely you know what type of insurance you carry in the car.
00:53:34The name of the company?
00:53:36Yeah, but, uh...
00:53:37Well, if you'll just tell me the name of the company,
00:53:39I'd be very glad to take care of all the details.
00:53:41Well...
00:53:42Did you sign the papers yet?
00:53:43Not yet.
00:53:44Well, don't. We're not selling the car.
00:53:46Well, wait a minute, Mr. Haskell.
00:53:47Come on, darling.
00:53:48What's the matter? Have you changed your mind?
00:53:50Yes, I'm sorry. I guess I have.
00:53:51But, Vera...
00:53:52Let's go.
00:53:59You got me out of a tight spot, Vera.
00:54:01But I still don't understand all this.
00:54:02You will in a minute.
00:54:03I almost threw away a gold mine.
00:54:061850 isn't to be sneezed at.
00:54:07The car doesn't book for as much as I thought.
00:54:09We're not selling the car.
00:54:11You want to keep it.
00:54:12Now, wait a minute, Vera.
00:54:13You said yourself I wouldn't be safe until the car was in someone else's name.
00:54:16I like to be free of this mess when I go.
00:54:18That's just it, Roberts.
00:54:19You're not going.
00:54:22There's a drive-in at the next corner.
00:54:23Pull in there and we'll get a bite to eat.
00:54:24And I'll explain.
00:54:26What is this?
00:54:26Another one of your brilliant ideas?
00:54:34Oh, may I take your order?
00:54:36Make mine a ham sandwich and coffee.
00:54:37And for you, sir?
00:54:38No, I don't care.
00:54:39The same.
00:54:48Get this, Vera.
00:54:49I've been pretty patient so far.
00:54:51I've done everything you asked me to do, but no more.
00:54:53Shut up.
00:54:54You've taken Haskell's money.
00:54:55And you can have the door we get from selling the car.
00:54:57But you're not going to keep me a prisoner.
00:54:59It's a good thing I bought the paper.
00:55:00Take a look at that.
00:55:01Vera, I'm in no mood.
00:55:02Read that.
00:55:13No.
00:55:14Yes.
00:55:15No, I won't do it.
00:55:16Yes, you will.
00:55:17You think I'm crazy?
00:55:18It's impossible, I tell you.
00:55:20Excuse me.
00:55:26Blow the horn when you're through.
00:55:31No one could possibly get away with an act like that.
00:55:33It'd be wise to me in a minute.
00:55:34Don't be, Yella.
00:55:35You look enough like him.
00:55:36The same coloring and the same build.
00:55:38See how his clothes fit you?
00:55:40No kidding.
00:55:40You almost had me fooled for a while.
00:55:42Oh, grow up, Vera.
00:55:43Don't you think a father knows his own son?
00:55:45And there must be other relatives.
00:55:46The father won't have to know you.
00:55:48We'll wait till he gives up the ghost.
00:55:49He's an old geezer and he won't pull through.
00:55:51And as far as other relatives are concerned,
00:55:53they haven't seen you in 15 or 20 years.
00:55:56Eat.
00:55:57I'm not hungry.
00:55:59And I won't do it.
00:56:00It's not as tough as it sounds.
00:56:02Remember, you've got all kinds of identification.
00:56:04His car, letters, licenses...
00:56:05I could never get away with it.
00:56:06It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
00:56:07The old boy has scads of dough.
00:56:10Look in the paper there.
00:56:11Personal fortune assessed at over 15 million.
00:56:13He'll leave plenty, I tell you.
00:56:15Maybe he cut off his son.
00:56:16How do we know?
00:56:17It's out, Vera.
00:56:18I won't have anything to do with it.
00:56:20I think you will.
00:56:23Look, Vera, I'll do anything within reason.
00:56:25But not that.
00:56:26So forget it.
00:56:27Or find yourself another stooge.
00:56:28You sack.
00:56:30You'll be fixed for the rest of your life as Charlie Haskell.
00:56:33You can take your inheritance and go away.
00:56:35No more worrying about the rent.
00:56:36No sweating, scheming, wondering where your next meal's coming from.
00:56:38Think about that, Roberts.
00:56:39Vera, please, you're talking too loud.
00:56:42Unless I'm splitting 50-50 with you.
00:56:44Sure, why not?
00:56:45We're both alike.
00:56:46Both born in the same gutter.
00:56:47Take it easy, Vera.
00:56:48There's people around here.
00:56:49You don't know where you're talking about.
00:56:51Well, wait till we read that old man Haskell's dead.
00:56:54And you show up.
00:56:55Like you read in New York that he was sick.
00:56:58No.
00:56:59Suppose he doesn't die?
00:57:00He will.
00:57:01I know he will.
00:57:02Something tells me.
00:57:05But as much as I insisted I would have no part of her scheme, Vera was taking it for granted
00:57:09I would.
00:57:12Neither of us had our mind on the cards as we played that night.
00:57:15I knew we were just trying to kill time between newspaper editions.
00:57:20This was a death watch for Vera.
00:57:23Maybe it was for me too.
00:57:24Don't you realize if I'm caught, they'll want to know where I got the car and stuff.
00:57:28And they'll have me on a murder charge.
00:57:29If you're smart, you won't get caught.
00:57:31I knocked with seven.
00:57:33And if I'm caught, don't you realize you'll be out too?
00:57:36Eighteen points.
00:57:37That gives me thirty.
00:57:40How will I be out?
00:57:41You'll be out.
00:57:41Eighteen hundred and fifty dollars we would have gotten on the car.
00:57:44Really, Vera, you'd be an awful chump.
00:57:45You threw away all that dough in a dizzy long shot.
00:57:47Let me sell the bus tomorrow.
00:57:48With the money it'll bring and what you've already got, a clever kid like you can run it up in
00:57:51no time.
00:57:52Then we'd both be in the clear.
00:57:53I'll be in the clear anyway.
00:57:55Maybe.
00:57:56Maybe.
00:57:57But if I got caught,
00:57:59I'd get good and sort you, you know.
00:58:01You mean you'd squeal?
00:58:02Oh no, not squeal exactly.
00:58:03Never mind what you meant.
00:58:07Even if you did tell the cops I was in on it with you, what could they do to me?
00:58:12They might give me the same medicine they gave you.
00:58:15Yeah.
00:58:15A rope.
00:58:19But I'm on my way anyhow.
00:58:23All they be doing will be rushing it.
00:58:26All right.
00:58:27But think of the eighteen fifty you'd lose.
00:58:29You'd kick yourself along the block if you ever let it get away from you.
00:58:31I'll take the chance.
00:58:33Want another drink?
00:58:34You're being a goon.
00:58:35That's the way people wind up behind the eight ball.
00:58:37Once they get a few dollars they become greedy and want more.
00:58:40My, my.
00:58:41Caesar.
00:58:42Who?
00:58:42You know that Roman general?
00:58:44He got his for being greedy.
00:58:45He wasn't satisfied.
00:58:46So the final wind up was he took the count.
00:58:48A couple of days ago you didn't have a dime.
00:58:51While you were so broke you couldn't pay cash for a postage stamp.
00:58:54Now you've got almost seven hundred dollars.
00:58:56With eighteen fifty in the offing.
00:58:57Take my advice.
00:58:58Don't try for more.
00:58:59I'm tired of this game.
00:59:00Let's have some blackjack.
00:59:01Play solitaire.
00:59:02Okay, I will if that's the way you feel about it.
00:59:04That's the way I feel about it.
00:59:05Getting sore and throwing things won't help much Roberts.
00:59:07I'm really doing you a favor.
00:59:09I help you out of the jam by keeping my mouth shut.
00:59:11I show you how to make some soft money.
00:59:12And what thanks do I get?
00:59:14Thanks.
00:59:14Sure.
00:59:15I would rather call the cops and tell them you killed a man and stole his money.
00:59:17I didn't tell anybody.
00:59:18Yes you did.
00:59:18No I didn't.
00:59:19You know I didn't.
00:59:20Alright then.
00:59:24Suppose I call the cops.
00:59:26Pure innocent.
00:59:27What do you got to be scared of?
00:59:29Okay.
00:59:30Call them you mutt.
00:59:31Go ahead and call them.
00:59:31See if I care.
00:59:32At least they'll give me a square deal.
00:59:34You want me to call them?
00:59:35You heard me.
00:59:36But I'm warning you.
00:59:37If I'm pinched I'll swear you were in on it.
00:59:39I'll say that you helped me.
00:59:40If I fry I'll get even with you.
00:59:43You wouldn't dare.
00:59:44You didn't.
00:59:44Yeah?
00:59:45Then try it and see.
00:59:47Call them.
00:59:48Yeah.
00:59:49Okay I will.
01:00:03Information?
01:00:06I want the number at the Hollywood police station.
01:00:10Okay I got it.
01:00:11Thanks.
01:00:16Wait a minute Vera.
01:00:17You wouldn't do that.
01:00:17Oh wouldn't I?
01:00:18Give me that and I'll show you if I would.
01:00:19Take it easy.
01:00:20Now let's talk this over.
01:00:21This was early in the evening.
01:00:23And the conversation while hectic was at least pitched low.
01:00:28But as the minutes passed and more obstacles to her plan popped into my head.
01:00:32The air got blue.
01:00:34Each word coming from our lips cracked like a whip.
01:00:37I reminded her that as Charles Haskell I didn't even know my mother's name.
01:00:41Where I'd gone to school.
01:00:43The name of my best friend.
01:00:45Whether I had an Aunt Emma or not.
01:00:47My religion.
01:00:48And if I'd ever owned a dog.
01:00:50I didn't even know what my middle initial stood for.
01:00:53I also pointed out that the real Haskell had a scar on his forearm.
01:00:57His people never saw that scar.
01:00:59He told me he ran away right after putting out the kid's eye.
01:01:01Yeah but his father knew he was cut.
01:01:03It'd have to be some kind of a mark.
01:01:04So what?
01:01:06The old man's dead or will be.
01:01:08I hope by tomorrow morning's papers.
01:01:10Anyway.
01:01:11You could cut yourself a little couldn't you?
01:01:15Boy for that kind of dough I'd let you cut my leg off.
01:01:18You're drunk and you're crazy mad Vera.
01:01:20Turn him in if you want to.
01:01:21But I won't get mixed up in this.
01:01:22Besides how do we know Haskell was such a phony.
01:01:24Maybe he wasn't the man's son at all.
01:01:25Maybe he just dreamed it up.
01:01:26Well dream it or not.
01:01:28You won't be dreaming when the law attacks you on the shoulder.
01:01:32There's a cute little gas chamber waiting for you Roberts.
01:01:35And I hear extradition to Arizona's Ascension.
01:01:39Where's that phone?
01:01:41Vera.
01:01:41Leave me alone.
01:01:42Vera.
01:01:43I want a phone call police.
01:01:46I hate you yellow stinker.
01:01:49You leave me alone.
01:01:51I'll let you alone when you promise to leave the phone where it is.
01:01:53You're drunk you don't know what you're doing.
01:01:54You're hurting me.
01:01:55Will you promise?
01:01:56All right.
01:02:03You hurt me.
01:02:05I'm sorry but...
01:02:06It's hot in here.
01:02:07Open up the window.
01:02:08It's not hot.
01:02:09Don't tell me.
01:02:10Now do you do it or do I do it?
01:02:14You're no gentleman, see?
01:02:16Yeah.
01:02:17All right.
01:02:17I'll open up the window.
01:02:22Vera.
01:02:28Vera, open the door.
01:02:29Please open the door.
01:02:30Vera, open the door.
01:02:31Don't use the phone.
01:02:32Listen to me.
01:02:33I don't like you.
01:02:34I don't like you, Roberts.
01:02:35You're no gentleman, see?
01:02:37You hurt my hand.
01:02:38And I'm going to get even with you.
01:02:41If you don't open the door, I'm going to kick it down, Vera.
01:02:44Vera, don't call the cops.
01:02:45Listen to me.
01:02:46I'll do anything you say.
01:02:48Vera, let me in.
01:02:51I'll break the phone.
01:02:52I'll break the phone.
01:03:30The world is full of skeptics.
01:03:33I know.
01:03:34I want myself.
01:03:36In the Haskell business, how many of you would believe he fell out of the car?
01:03:39And now, after killing Vera without really meaning to do it, how many of you would believe it wasn't premeditated?
01:03:45In a jury room, every last man of you would go down shouting that she had me over a barrel
01:03:50and my only out was force.
01:03:53The room was still.
01:03:56So quiet that for a while, I wondered if I had suddenly gone deaf.
01:04:00It was pure fear, of course.
01:04:02And I was hysterical.
01:04:04But without making a sound.
01:04:07Vera was dead.
01:04:08And I was her murderer.
01:04:11Murderer?
01:04:12What an awful word that is.
01:04:14But I had become one.
01:04:15And I'd better not get caught.
01:04:18What evidence there was around the place had to be destroyed.
01:04:20And from the looks of things, there was plenty.
01:04:22Looking around the room at things we'd bought was like looking into the faces of a hundred people who'd seen
01:04:26us together and who remembered me.
01:04:28This was the kind of testimony I couldn't rub out.
01:04:32No.
01:04:34I could burn clothes and hide bottles for the next five years.
01:04:37There'd always be witnesses.
01:04:38The landlady for one.
01:04:40She could identify me.
01:04:40The car dealer.
01:04:41The waitress in the drive-in.
01:04:42The girl in the dress shop.
01:04:43And that guy in the liquor store.
01:04:44They could all identify me.
01:04:47I was cooked.
01:04:49Done for.
01:04:50I had to get out of there.
01:04:52While once I'd remained beside a dead body.
01:04:55Planning carefully how to avoid being accused of killing him.
01:04:58This time I couldn't.
01:05:00This time I was guilty.
01:05:03I knew it.
01:05:05Felt it.
01:05:06I was like a guy suffering from shock.
01:05:09Things were whirling around in my head.
01:05:11I couldn't make myself think right.
01:05:13All I could think of was the guy with the saxophone and what he was playing.
01:05:18It wasn't a love song anymore.
01:05:20It was a dirge.
01:05:38A man headed forати craftsman.
01:05:38Don't know.
01:05:38I did a good business.
01:05:39The star...
01:05:39The star...
01:05:39The star...
01:05:39The star...
01:05:40The star.
01:05:41I looked at your face.
01:05:41Dez.
01:05:41The star...
01:05:41The star...
01:05:42The star...
01:05:46There's a star.
01:05:49The star.
01:06:09But my problems weren't solved.
01:06:12I had to stay away from New York for all time.
01:06:16Because Al Roberts was listed as dead and had to stay dead.
01:06:20And I could never go back to Hollywood.
01:06:22Someone might recognize me as Haskell.
01:06:26Then, too, there was Sue.
01:06:30I could never go to her with a thing like this hanging over my head.
01:06:34All I could do was pray she'd be happy.
01:06:49I was in Bakersfield before I read that Vera's body was discovered.
01:06:53That the police were looking for Haskell in connection with his wife's murder.
01:06:58Isn't that a laugh?
01:07:01Haskell got me into this mess.
01:07:02And Haskell was getting me out of it.
01:07:05The police were searching for a dead man.
01:07:10I keep trying to forget what happened.
01:07:13And wonder what my life might have been if that car of Haskell's hadn't stopped.
01:07:20But one thing I don't have to wonder about.
01:07:24I know.
01:07:27Someday a car will stop to pick me up that I never thumbed.
01:07:34Yes.
01:07:36Fate.
01:07:37Or some mysterious force.
01:07:40Can put the finger on you or me.
01:07:43For no good reason at all.
01:07:45More fun.
01:07:57HotYou.
01:07:59HotYou.
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