The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.
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00:03:41FOLLOWING ME AROUND
00:03:42BEATING IN MY HEAD
00:03:43NEVER LETTING UP
00:03:48DID YOU EVER WANT TO
00:03:49FORGET ANYTHING
00:03:50DID YOU EVER WANT TO
00:03:51CUT AWAY A PIECE OF
00:03:52YOUR MEMORY
00:03:52OR BLUNT IT OUT
00:03:54YOU CAN'T
00:03:54NO MATTER HOW HARD
00:03:56YOU TRY
00:03:57YOU CAN CHANGE THE SCENERY
00:03:59BUT SOONER OR LATER
00:04:00YOU'LL GET A WHIP OF PERFUME
00:04:01WHERE SOMEBODY WILL SAY
00:04:02A CERTAIN PHRASE
00:04:03OR MAYBE HUM SOMETHING
00:04:04THEN YOU'RE LICKED AGAIN
00:04:08I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT
00:04:09YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH ME
00:04:11I USED TO LOVE THAT SONG
00:04:12ONCE
00:04:13SO DID THE CUSTOMERS
00:04:14BACK IN THE OLD
00:04:14BREAK OF DAWN CLUB
00:04:15IN NEW YORK
00:04:16I CAN'T REMEMBER A NIGHT
00:04:17WHEN I DIDN'T GET
00:04:18AT LEAST THREE REQUESTS
00:04:19FOR IT
00:04:20SUE
00:04:22SHE WAS ALWAYS
00:04:22SELLING IT TOO
00:04:24THOSE WERE THE DAYS
00:04:50WHERE YOU'RE IN THE OLD
00:04:52TOO
00:04:59YOU'RE IN THE OLD
00:05:02YOU'RE TELLING
00:05:04EVERYONE YOU KNOW
00:05:06THAT I'M ON YOUR MIND
00:05:07AND EACH PLACE YOU GO
00:05:09THEY CAN'T BELIEVE THAT YOU'RE IN
00:05:12LOVE WITH ME
00:05:14I HAVE ALWAYS PLACED YOU
00:05:18I HAVE ALWAYS PLACED YOU
00:05:18FAR ABOVE ME
00:05:20I JUST CAN'T IMAGINE
00:05:23THAT YOU LOVE ME
00:05:27AND AFTER ALL IS SET AND DONE
00:05:30TO THINK THAT I'M THE LUCKY ONE
00:05:33I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT YOU'RE IN
00:05:36LOVE WITH ME
00:05:45IT WASN'T MUCH OF A CLUB REALLY
00:05:47YOU KNOW THE KIND
00:05:48A JOINT WHERE YOU COULD HAVE A SANDWICH
00:05:50AND A FEW DRINKS
00:05:51AND RUN INTERFERENCE FOR YOUR GIRL
00:05:52ON THE DANCE FLOOR
00:05:56I PARTED THE PIANO IN THERE
00:05:57EVERY NIGHT FROM EIGHT
00:05:58UNTIL THE PLACE CLOSED UP
00:06:00WHICH USUALLY MEANT
00:06:01FOUR IN THE MORNING
00:06:02A GOOD JOB
00:06:03WAS JOBS WENT IN THOSE DAYS
00:06:08THEN TOO
00:06:10THERE WAS SUE
00:06:11WHO MADE WORKING THERE
00:06:12A LITTLE LIKE WORKING IN HEAVEN
00:06:15BUT HOW WE FELT ABOUT EACH OTHER
00:06:16WELL
00:06:17THERE WAS NOTHING VERY UNUSUAL IN THAT
00:06:19I WAS AN ORDINARY HEALTHY GUY
00:06:21AND SHE WAS AN ORDINARY HEALTHY GIRL
00:06:22AND WHEN YOU ADD THOSE TWO TOGETHER
00:06:24YOU GET AN ORDINARY HEALTHY ROMANCE
00:06:25WHICH IS THE OLD STORY
00:06:27SURE
00:06:28BUT SOMEHOW
00:06:30THE MOST WONDERFUL THING IN THE WORLD
00:06:40ALL IN ALL I WAS A PRETTY LUCKY GUY
00:06:55Mr. Paderewski I presume
00:06:57it's beautiful
00:06:58you're going to make Carnegie Hall yet Al
00:07:00yeah
00:07:01as a janitor
00:07:02I'll make my debut in the basement
00:07:05I don't blame you for being bitter darling
00:07:07but you mustn't give up hope
00:07:08why someday
00:07:09yeah someday
00:07:10if I don't get arthritis first
00:07:12in the meantime let's blow this trap
00:07:17all the time
00:07:35yeah
00:07:36yeah
00:07:38yeah
00:07:39yeah
00:07:40yeah
00:07:42I can't stand much more of that dump.
00:07:45Did you see that drunk tonight, trying to paw me?
00:07:48No, what drunk?
00:07:49Does it matter what drunk?
00:07:52Say, what's the matter with you tonight, darling?
00:07:54That's the third time you started to tell me something, then stop.
00:07:58We shouldn't have any secrets from each other, Sue.
00:08:01Next week we're going to make with the ring and the license.
00:08:02You and me will be a team.
00:08:03Yes, that's right.
00:08:04In the Bush League.
00:08:06I don't get you.
00:08:07We've been struck out.
00:08:10That's a funny way to talk, darling.
00:08:12Don't you want to marry me?
00:08:13Al, look, I love you.
00:08:15You know I do, and I want to marry you.
00:08:17But?
00:08:18But not now.
00:08:19Only after we've made good.
00:08:22Sunday I'm going away.
00:08:24Oh, I know you'll think it's silly.
00:08:26That's why I hesitated to tell you.
00:08:29But I'm going to California.
00:08:30I want to try my luck in Hollywood.
00:08:33That's the most stupid thing I ever heard of.
00:08:35Don't you know millions of people go out there every year
00:08:37and wind up polishing cuspidors?
00:08:39I thought you had better sense.
00:08:40You sound as if you don't think I have any talent.
00:08:43That has nothing to do with it.
00:08:44I'll make out all right.
00:08:45Maybe.
00:08:46But what about me?
00:08:47Doesn't it mean anything to you that you're busting up all our plans?
00:08:49We may not see each other for years.
00:08:51It won't be that long.
00:08:53I thought you'd love me.
00:08:54I do.
00:08:55You know I do.
00:08:59I do.
00:08:59Well, here we are.
00:09:04Al.
00:09:06Al, why can't you see my side of it?
00:09:08I'm young.
00:09:09We both are.
00:09:11And we've got all the time in the world to settle down.
00:09:15Really, darling.
00:09:17What I'm doing is the only sane thing to do.
00:09:21I hate the thought of being so far away from you.
00:09:24But we'll be together again someday.
00:09:28Maybe you'll decide to come out too later on.
00:09:30So long.
00:09:32Al.
00:09:34Aren't you going to kiss me goodnight?
00:09:36Sure.
00:09:37Why not?
00:09:40Goodnight.
00:09:54I'm going to kiss you goodnight.
00:09:58I'm going to kiss you goodnight.
00:10:00I'm going to kiss you goodnight.
00:10:01I'm going to kiss you goodnight.
00:10:01I'm going to kiss you goodnight.
00:10:01I'm going to kiss you goodnight.
00:10:01I'm going to kiss you goodnight.
00:10:02I'm going to kiss you goodnight.
00:10:03I'm going to kiss you goodnight.
00:10:04I'm going to kiss you goodnight.
00:10:04I'm going to kiss you goodnight.
00:10:04I'm going to kiss you goodnight.
00:10:06I'm going to kiss you goodnight.
00:10:09I'm going to kiss you goodnight.
00:10:10I'm going to kiss you goodnight.
00:11:26Say, Roberts, you hit the jackpot this time.
00:11:29Ten bucks.
00:11:31Thanks.
00:11:38So when this drunk handed me a tin spot after a request, I couldn't get very excited.
00:11:42What was it, I asked myself?
00:11:44A piece of paper crawling with germs.
00:11:46Couldn't buy anything I wanted.
00:11:50It couldn't...
00:11:53Then I thought of something.
00:12:17Long distance.
00:12:19I'd like to put a call through to Los Angeles.
00:12:21Miss Harvey.
00:12:23Sue Harvey.
00:12:24H-A-R-V-E-Y.
00:12:26The number is Crestview 65723.
00:12:28H-A-R-V-E-Y.
00:12:41The number is Crestview 65723.
00:12:53The number is Crestview 65725.
00:12:56Hello, Sue?
00:12:58This is Al.
00:13:00Oh, baby, it's great to hear from you, too.
00:13:02What's that? You do?
00:13:03Oh, me too, darling.
00:13:05I thought I'd go batty without you.
00:13:07I just had to...
00:13:08Huh?
00:13:10You're working as a hashlinger?
00:13:12Gee, honey, that's tough.
00:13:14Those guys out in Hollywood don't know the real thing
00:13:15when it's right in front of them.
00:13:17You just stick it out, Sue, baby.
00:13:19Keep going around to those casting offices.
00:13:21I'm sure you'll click.
00:13:23Look, I'll tell you what.
00:13:23You stay put out there, I'll come to you.
00:13:26No, don't try to stop me.
00:13:27Just expect me.
00:13:28Train?
00:13:29Who knows?
00:13:30Train, plane, bus, magic carpet.
00:13:31I'll be there if I have to crawl.
00:13:33If I have to travel by pogo stick.
00:13:35And then...
00:13:36Let's get married right away, huh?
00:13:41That's the stuff.
00:13:42That's what I've been wanting to hear you say.
00:13:46Well, goodbye for now.
00:13:49I'll be seeing you soon.
00:13:52Yeah.
00:13:54Bye.
00:14:00The only way I could cross country was to thumb rides.
00:14:03For even after hocking everything, I only had enough money to eat.
00:14:07Money.
00:14:08You know what that is.
00:14:10It's the stuff you never have enough of.
00:14:12Little green things with George Washington's picture that men slave for,
00:14:16commit crimes for, die for.
00:14:19It's the stuff that has caused more trouble in the world
00:14:21than anything else we ever invented.
00:14:23simply because there's too little of it.
00:14:26At least I had too little of it.
00:14:28So it was me for the thumb.
00:14:46Ever done any hitchhiking?
00:14:49It's not much fun, believe me.
00:14:51Oh, yeah.
00:14:52I know all about how it's an education
00:14:53and how you get to meet a lot of people and all that.
00:14:56But me, from now on, I'll take my education in college
00:15:00or in P.S. 62
00:15:02or I'll send a dollar ninety-eight in stamps for ten easy lessons.
00:15:14Thumbing rides may save your bus fare,
00:15:16but it's dangerous.
00:15:19You never know what's in store for you
00:15:20when you hear the squeal of brakes.
00:15:23If only I had known what I was getting into
00:15:26that day in Arizona.
00:15:29Here, throw that in the back seat.
00:15:34Okay, let's go.
00:15:35Make sure that door's closed.
00:15:50You know, Emily Post ought to write a book of rules
00:15:52for guys thumbing rides.
00:15:54Because as it is now,
00:15:56you never know what's right and what's wrong.
00:15:58We rode along for a little while,
00:16:00neither one of us saying anything.
00:16:02I was glad of that.
00:16:04I never know what to say to strange people driving cars.
00:16:08And, too, you can never tell if a guy wants to talk.
00:16:11A lot of rides have been cut short because of a big mouth.
00:16:15So I kept my mouth shut
00:16:17until he started opening up.
00:16:20Hand me that little box to come pop it, will you, pal?
00:16:26Hold the wheel, will you?
00:16:39How far are you going?
00:16:40L.A.
00:16:41Well, you're really traveling, aren't you?
00:16:43Yeah, but I don't expect to make it for a couple of years
00:16:45at the rate I've been promoting rides.
00:16:47Not much luck, huh?
00:16:48Sure, all bad.
00:16:50Not many people stop for a guy these days.
00:16:52Afraid of a stick-up, maybe.
00:16:54Well, you can't blame him.
00:16:56Where you coming from?
00:16:57New York.
00:16:58Well, New York.
00:17:00You're in luck this time.
00:17:02I'm going all the way.
00:17:04Right through to Los Angeles.
00:17:06You drive a car?
00:17:08Sure.
00:17:09When I be a tire, let me know.
00:17:10I'll holler.
00:17:13I guess at least an hour passed
00:17:15before I noticed those deep scratches
00:17:16in his right hand.
00:17:18They were wicked.
00:17:19Three puffy red lines
00:17:20about a quarter of an inch apart.
00:17:23He must have seen me looking at them
00:17:24because he said,
00:17:27beauties, aren't they?
00:17:29They're going to be scars someday.
00:17:32What an animal.
00:17:34Whatever it was,
00:17:34it must have been pretty big and vicious
00:17:36to have done that.
00:17:37Right on both counts, New York.
00:17:39I was tussling with the most dangerous animal
00:17:41in the world.
00:17:42A woman.
00:17:44She must have been Tarzan's mate.
00:17:46Looks like you lost the bob.
00:17:47Certainly wasn't a draw.
00:17:50You know, there ought to be a law
00:17:51against dames with claws.
00:17:53Yeah.
00:17:54I tossed her out of the car in her ear.
00:17:57Was I wrong?
00:17:58Give a lift to a tomato,
00:17:59you expect her to be nice, don't you?
00:18:01Yeah.
00:18:02After all,
00:18:03what kind of dame some rides?
00:18:05Sunday school teachers?
00:18:06Yeah.
00:18:08A little witch.
00:18:10She must have thought
00:18:11she was riding with some fall guy.
00:18:13A me who's been booking horses
00:18:15around race tracks since I was 20.
00:18:17I've known a million dames like her.
00:18:20Two million.
00:18:21Yeah.
00:18:24Stopped the car,
00:18:25opened the door,
00:18:27taken on the yard
00:18:28of the Duffy sister,
00:18:28I told her.
00:18:29That's the stuff.
00:18:30As I was done, huh?
00:18:33But if you want to see
00:18:34a real scar, brother,
00:18:35get a load of this.
00:18:38Wow.
00:18:39I got that one dueling.
00:18:41Dueling?
00:18:43Yeah, we're just kidding, of course.
00:18:44My dad owned a couple
00:18:45of Franco-Prussian sabers,
00:18:47kept them on the wall
00:18:48for decorations.
00:18:50Well, one day,
00:18:51the other kid and I
00:18:51took them down.
00:18:52The old man wasn't around,
00:18:53had a duel.
00:18:56You got me in the arm here.
00:18:58Pretty mean cut.
00:19:00Affection set in later.
00:19:01Yeah, I can see that.
00:19:04Now, give me that box again,
00:19:05will it?
00:19:05Yeah.
00:19:18Pain made me lose my head,
00:19:19I guess.
00:19:20I began slashing.
00:19:22Before I knew it,
00:19:23I put the other kid's eye on.
00:19:25That was tough.
00:19:26Well, it was just an accident,
00:19:28of course.
00:19:28Do you know how kids are?
00:19:29I got scared,
00:19:31decided I was going to run
00:19:32away from home.
00:19:33The old man almost caught me
00:19:35when I was packing my duds.
00:19:37The bloody rag I had
00:19:38wrapped around my wrist
00:19:39hadn't caught his attention.
00:19:41You've seen the bundle,
00:19:42for sure.
00:19:43But I beat him
00:19:44when he was phoning
00:19:45for a doctor.
00:19:47I was 15, 16 years ago.
00:19:49I haven't been home since.
00:19:55Pull in there for a bite
00:19:56or something, huh?
00:19:57A bite or something?
00:19:59Brother, was I hungry?
00:20:00I hadn't had anything
00:20:01in my stomach for hours.
00:20:04Yet even with that gnawing
00:20:05in the pit of my belly,
00:20:06I didn't want to be in too big
00:20:07a rush to put on the feed bag.
00:20:09First, I had to make sure
00:20:10this guy knew the score.
00:20:12If I got him down on me,
00:20:14I'd buy a ticket to Hollywood.
00:20:16I'll wait out here for you, mister.
00:20:18If there's the money,
00:20:18don't worry about paying for it.
00:20:20This time it's on me.
00:20:21Well, that's why you're...
00:20:22Paschal, take nothing of it.
00:20:23You make your first million,
00:20:24maybe you can do the same for me.
00:20:25Come on, New York.
00:20:26I gotta make the West Coast
00:20:27buy it Wednesday.
00:20:28There's a horse running
00:20:29in Santa Anita named
00:20:30Powered Bicycle.
00:20:31You can sell to me
00:20:32if I'm on him.
00:20:32We'll make it, all right.
00:20:35He did most of the talking
00:20:36during the half hour
00:20:37we were in the place.
00:20:38I ate.
00:20:40He rambled on
00:20:41about his old man
00:20:42whom we hadn't heard from
00:20:43since he ran away as a kid.
00:20:45Now he happened
00:20:45to become a bookie.
00:20:46And then all about
00:20:47how he got rooked in Miami.
00:20:49One race, 38 grand.
00:20:51They cleaned out my book.
00:20:52How do you like that?
00:20:54That was tough luck.
00:20:55Yeah, and I'm supposed
00:20:55to be the smart guy.
00:20:57Will you just wait?
00:20:58I'm going back to Florida
00:20:58next season with all kinds
00:20:59of jack.
00:21:00And you'll watch
00:21:01those stinkers run for cover.
00:21:03Do you want anything else?
00:21:04No thanks, I've had plenty.
00:21:11Let's check there, sister.
00:21:16Oh, just a miniature change, sir.
00:21:18Keep it, sister.
00:21:19Oh, thank you, say call again.
00:21:21I'll be waiting outside
00:21:22for you when you finish work.
00:21:24Sharp check, huh?
00:21:33I drove all that night
00:21:34while Haskell slept
00:21:35like a log.
00:21:37After a while,
00:21:38I began to get sleepy myself.
00:21:41I was happy, though.
00:21:43Soon I'd be with Sue again.
00:21:45The long trip was practically over
00:21:47and there'd be no more
00:21:48hoofing it down the concrete.
00:21:50I began to think of the future,
00:21:52which couldn't have been brighter
00:21:54if I'd embroidered it
00:21:55with neon lights.
00:21:56It was nice to think
00:21:57of Sue shooting to the top.
00:22:01It's amazing what a full belly
00:22:02can do to your imagination.
00:22:07Your eyes are blue,
00:22:10your kisses too.
00:22:12I never knew
00:22:13what they could do.
00:22:16I can't believe
00:22:18that you're in love
00:22:20with me.
00:22:24You're telling
00:22:26everyone you know
00:22:29I'm on your mind
00:22:31each place you go.
00:22:34I can't believe
00:22:35that you're in love
00:22:39with me.
00:22:55Mr. Haskell.
00:22:58Mr. Haskell.
00:23:02Mr. Haskell,
00:23:03wake up.
00:23:03It's raining.
00:23:04Don't you think
00:23:05we ought to stop
00:23:05and put up the top?
00:23:15Mr. Haskell,
00:23:16I'm going to put up the top.
00:23:32Up until then,
00:23:32I'd done things my way.
00:23:34But from then on,
00:23:35something else stepped in
00:23:36and shunted me off
00:23:37to a different destination
00:23:38than the one
00:23:38I had picked for myself.
00:23:40The one I pulled
00:23:41open that door.
00:23:46Mr. Haskell,
00:23:47what's the matter?
00:23:48Are you hurt?
00:23:50Are you hurt,
00:23:51Mr. Haskell?
00:23:53Start your sermon.
00:23:54I'll listen to it.
00:23:56But I know
00:23:56what you're going to hand me
00:23:57even before you open
00:23:58your mouths.
00:23:59You're going to tell me
00:24:00you don't believe my story
00:24:01of how Haskell died
00:24:02and give me that
00:24:02don't make me laugh
00:24:03expression on your
00:24:04smug faces.
00:24:09I saw it once.
00:24:09He was dead.
00:24:10And I was in for it.
00:24:12Who would believe
00:24:13he fell out of the car?
00:24:14Why, if Haskell came too,
00:24:15which of course he couldn't,
00:24:16even he would swear
00:24:16I conked him over the head
00:24:17for his dough.
00:24:18Yes, I was in for it.
00:24:21Instinct told me to run.
00:24:22But then I realized
00:24:23it was hopeless.
00:24:24There were lots of people
00:24:24back down the road
00:24:25who could identify me.
00:24:26That gas station guy
00:24:27and the waitress.
00:24:28I would be in a worse spot
00:24:29then trying to explain
00:24:29why I beat it.
00:24:31The next possibility
00:24:32was to sit tight
00:24:33and tell the truth
00:24:33when the cops came.
00:24:34But that would be crazy.
00:24:36He'd laugh at the truth.
00:24:37I'm not having my head
00:24:38in the noose.
00:24:41So what else was there
00:24:41to do but hide the body
00:24:42and get away in the car?
00:24:44I couldn't leave the car there
00:24:45with him in the gully?
00:24:46That would be like
00:24:47erecting a tombstone.
00:25:16My idea was to cover him
00:25:17with brush, not to rob him.
00:25:19But then I remembered
00:25:20that even if I only drove
00:25:21the car for 100 miles or so
00:25:22I would need money for gas.
00:25:25Besides, it was stupid of me
00:25:27to leave all that money
00:25:27on a dead man.
00:25:29Not only that,
00:25:30I'd have to take
00:25:30his driver's license
00:25:31in case I was stopped
00:25:32for something.
00:25:35I didn't like to think
00:25:35about it but by that time
00:25:37I'd done just what the police
00:25:38would say I did
00:25:38even if I didn't.
00:25:41My clothes.
00:25:42The owner of such an expensive
00:25:43car would never be wearing them.
00:25:45Some cop might pull me
00:25:53in a suspicion.
00:26:13Hey, you, this your car?
00:26:15Don't you know better
00:26:15than to leave a car
00:26:16with the wheels halfway
00:26:17in the middle of the road?
00:26:18That's the way accidents happen.
00:26:20I'm sorry, officer.
00:26:21I was just putting up my top.
00:26:23I didn't think.
00:26:24Well, from the next time,
00:26:25think.
00:26:25I'll let you go now
00:26:26but watch your step
00:26:27in the future.
00:26:28I know that's a lonely stretch
00:26:29but cars come by here
00:26:30once in a while
00:26:30and we have plenty
00:26:31of crack-ups.
00:26:32Thanks.
00:26:34Thanks.
00:26:57I left nothing in the car
00:26:58to try to give me away
00:26:58as Roberts.
00:27:00If they found a dead man
00:27:01in the gully now
00:27:01it would be me.
00:27:11As I drove off,
00:27:12it was still raining
00:27:14and the drop streak
00:27:15down the windshield
00:27:16like tears.
00:27:19I kept imagining
00:27:20I was being followed,
00:27:21that I could hear sirens
00:27:22back in the distance.
00:27:24Just how long
00:27:25it took me
00:27:25to cover the 60-odd miles
00:27:27to the California state line,
00:27:28I don't know.
00:27:30I lost all track of time.
00:27:32But the rain had stopped
00:27:33and the sun was up
00:27:34when I pulled up
00:27:35to the inspection station.
00:27:40Hello.
00:27:42Carrying any fruits
00:27:43or vegetables?
00:27:44No.
00:27:45Any livestock or poultry?
00:27:46No.
00:27:49I see your registration
00:27:50and driver's license, please.
00:27:55Anything in the baggage compartment?
00:27:57Just baggage.
00:28:00Charles Haskell, Jr.
00:28:02ate 30 brown eyes,
00:28:02dark hair,
00:28:04identifying marks, none.
00:28:05Are you Charles Haskell, Jr.?
00:28:07Yes.
00:28:08Well, remember,
00:28:09if you're employed
00:28:09and you stay over 30 days,
00:28:10you take out California plates.
00:28:12All right, officer,
00:28:13but I'll only be in the state
00:28:13a short while.
00:28:16Right, you can go now.
00:28:24I couldn't drive any farther
00:28:26without some sleep.
00:28:27Cops are no cops.
00:28:28I knew I had to hit the hay
00:28:30and hit it hard.
00:28:33I was dead tired.
00:28:36I was dead tired.
00:29:04No.
00:29:06No, you can't, Mr. Haskell.
00:29:09No.
00:29:14Mr. Haskell,
00:29:19you can't die.
00:29:21You don't think?
00:29:23I don't think I did it.
00:29:25No, Mr. Haskell.
00:29:27No.
00:29:29No.
00:29:30No.
00:29:44Who's there?
00:29:45It's the maid.
00:29:46Can I come in and clean?
00:29:49Later.
00:29:50In a half hour.
00:29:51All right, sir.
00:30:17There was no time to lose.
00:30:18Every minute I had to be
00:30:20Charles Haskell was dangerous.
00:30:21And I'd have to be
00:30:22Charles Haskell
00:30:23until I got to some city
00:30:24where I could leave the car
00:30:24and be swallowed up.
00:30:31That meant driving the car
00:30:32as far as San Bernardino,
00:30:34maybe even to Los Angeles.
00:30:35In a little town,
00:30:36I might be noticed,
00:30:37but in a city,
00:30:38I should be safe enough.
00:30:40Then, after I ditched the car,
00:30:42I could go on to Sue.
00:30:44But those five minutes
00:30:45at the state line
00:30:46made me realize
00:30:47it might be a good idea
00:30:48to find out a little bit
00:30:49about Mr. Haskell.
00:30:51Then, if anybody asked me questions,
00:30:53I could give the right answers.
00:30:55The first thing I found out
00:30:56was that I had $768.
00:30:59This was a lot of jack,
00:31:01but believe me,
00:31:02it was the kind of money
00:31:04I'd rather not have.
00:31:12And then I found out
00:31:13from a letter Haskell
00:31:14was carting around in his bag
00:31:16that he wasn't the open-handed,
00:31:17easy-going big shot
00:31:18who went around buying dinners
00:31:20for strange hitchhikers.
00:31:22Before I got done reading it,
00:31:23I saw him more as a chiseler.
00:31:26It was written to his old man
00:31:27in California,
00:31:29the one he hadn't seen
00:31:30in so many years.
00:31:31In it, Haskell posed
00:31:33as a salesman.
00:31:34Of hymnals, of all things.
00:31:37It was easy to see
00:31:38where Haskell expected
00:31:39to raise a new stake
00:31:40for his book in Miami.
00:31:42By rooking his old man.
00:31:45That was about all I found out
00:31:47from his effects.
00:31:48And it was enough.
00:31:50I told myself,
00:31:52maybe old man Haskell
00:31:53was lucky his son kicked off.
00:31:55He would never know it.
00:31:57But it saved him from taking a flyer
00:31:59in sacred literature preferred.
00:32:26near the airport at Desert Center,
00:32:28I pulled up for water.
00:32:30there was a woman.
00:32:36Hey, you!
00:32:37Come on if you want a ride.
00:32:40Hmm...
00:32:54Hmm.
00:32:59Hmm...
00:33:01Come on...
00:33:03Hmm...
00:33:03Ooh...
00:33:06Heave...
00:33:08Heave...
00:33:25How far are you going?
00:33:26How far are you going?
00:33:28That took me by surprise, and I turned my head to look her over.
00:33:33She was facing straight ahead, so I couldn't see her eyes.
00:33:35But she was young, not more than 24.
00:33:40Man, she looked as if she'd just been thrown off the crummiest freight train in the world.
00:33:45Yet in spite of this, I got the impression of beauty.
00:33:48Not the beauty of a movie actress, mind you, or the beauty you dream about when you're with your wife,
00:33:53but a natural beauty.
00:33:55A beauty that's almost homely because it's so real.
00:34:00Then suddenly she turned to face me.
00:34:02How far did you say you were going?
00:34:04Los Angeles.
00:34:05L.A.?
00:34:07L.A.'s good enough for me, mister.
00:34:09That's what I was afraid of.
00:34:11What'd you say?
00:34:12Oh, nothing. Just thinking out loud.
00:34:14People get in trouble for doing that.
00:34:17What's your name?
00:34:18You can call me Vera, if you like.
00:34:20You live in Los Angeles?
00:34:22No.
00:34:24Where you coming from?
00:34:25Oh, back there.
00:34:27Needles?
00:34:27No.
00:34:29Oh, sure. Phoenix.
00:34:30You look just like a Phoenix girl.
00:34:33Are the girls in Phoenix that bad?
00:34:34The girl must have been pretty tired, because she fell asleep not 20 minutes after she stepped into the car.
00:34:41She lay sprawled out with her head resting against the far door, like Haskell.
00:34:45I didn't like that part of it much, but I didn't wake her up.
00:34:50It wasn't that this girl still worried me.
00:34:52I'd gotten over that funny feeling I had when she looked at me, which I put down as just my
00:34:57jangled nerves.
00:34:58With her eyes closed, the test has gone out of her.
00:35:01She seemed harmless enough.
00:35:04And instead of disliking her, I began to feel sorry for her.
00:35:08The poor kid probably had had a rough time of living.
00:35:11Who was she, anyway?
00:35:13And why was she going to Los Angeles?
00:35:15And where'd she come from in the first place?
00:35:18The only thing I knew about her was her name.
00:35:20Not that it made any difference.
00:35:22A few hours more, and we'd be in Hollywood.
00:35:25I'd forget where I parked the car and look up Sue.
00:35:28This nightmare of being a dead man would be over.
00:35:31Well, this name was.
00:35:32Well, it was no business of mine.
00:35:34Where did you leave this body?
00:35:36Where did you leave the owner of this car?
00:35:38You're not fooling anyone.
00:35:40This buggy belongs to a guy named Haskell.
00:35:42That's not you, mister.
00:35:43You're out of your mind.
00:35:44That's my name, Charles Haskell.
00:35:46I can prove it.
00:35:46It's my driver's license.
00:35:47Save yourself the trouble, mister.
00:35:49Having Haskell's wallet only makes it worse.
00:35:51It just so happens I rode with Charlie Haskell.
00:35:53All the way from Louisiana.
00:35:55He picked me up outside of Shreveport.
00:35:57You rode?
00:35:58You heard me.
00:35:59Then it all came back to me.
00:36:01All the talk about dueling and scars and scratches.
00:36:04There was no doubt about it.
00:36:06Vera must be the woman Haskell had mentioned.
00:36:09She must have passed me while I slept.
00:36:11Well?
00:36:13Well, I'm waiting.
00:36:14My goose was cooked.
00:36:16She had me.
00:36:18That Haskell guy wasn't dead yet.
00:36:20He wasn't stretched out stiff and cold in any Arizona gully.
00:36:23He was sitting right there in the car laughing like mad while he haunted me.
00:36:28Well?
00:36:29There was nothing I could say.
00:36:31It was her move.
00:36:33Vera, whatever her name was,
00:36:35was just my luck picking her up on the road.
00:36:38It couldn't have been Helen or Mary or Evelyn or Ruth.
00:36:42It had to be the very last person I should ever have met.
00:36:46That's life.
00:36:48Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you.
00:36:56I told her everything, but she didn't believe my story.
00:36:58I should have saved my breath.
00:37:00That's the greatest cock and ball story I ever heard.
00:37:03So he fell out of his car.
00:37:04Say, who do you think you're talking to, a hick?
00:37:06Listen, mister, I've been around, and I know a wrong guy when I see one.
00:37:11What'd you do, kiss him with a wrench?
00:37:12Now, wait a minute.
00:37:13What I told you was true.
00:37:14You see, that's why I had to do it.
00:37:16You think I killed him.
00:37:17Well, the cops would have thought so, too.
00:37:18Yeah, well, maybe they still think so.
00:37:21What makes you so sure I'll shut up about this?
00:37:23Girl, I'm innocent.
00:37:25Give me a break, will you?
00:37:28It won't do me any good, having you pinched.
00:37:30The cops are no friends of mine.
00:37:32Now, if there was a reward, but there isn't.
00:37:35Thanks.
00:37:36Don't thank me yet.
00:37:37I'm not through with you by a long shot.
00:37:39Let's see that roll.
00:37:47Is that all Haskell had?
00:37:49Isn't it enough?
00:37:50No, I thought he had more.
00:37:51Not that I know of.
00:37:52You can search me if you think I'm holding out on you.
00:37:53Well, maybe I will at that.
00:37:55He told me he was going to bet $3,000
00:37:57on a horse named Paradisical on Wednesday at Santa Anita.
00:38:00He was stringing you along.
00:38:01He meant $300.
00:38:02Maybe.
00:38:02Sure, $3,000, $300.
00:38:04He was a piece of cheese, a big blowhard.
00:38:06Listen, mister.
00:38:07Don't try and tell me anything about Charlie Haskell.
00:38:09Remember, I knew him better than you did.
00:38:11Okay, then you knew he was a four-flusher.
00:38:12That explains the three grand bet.
00:38:13I'm not so sure he didn't have that three grand.
00:38:16Why should I believe you?
00:38:17You got all the earmarks of a cheap crook.
00:38:19Now, wait a minute.
00:38:21You're a cheap crook and you killed him.
00:38:22For two cents, I'd change my mind and turn you in.
00:38:25I don't like you.
00:38:26All right, all right.
00:38:27Don't get sore.
00:38:28I'm not getting sore.
00:38:29But just remember who's boss around here.
00:38:31If you shut up and don't give me any arguments,
00:38:32you'll have nothing to worry about.
00:38:34But if you act wise,
00:38:35well, mister, you'll pop into jail so fast
00:38:37it'll give you the bends.
00:38:39I'm not arguing.
00:38:39See that you don't.
00:38:40You know, as crooked as you look,
00:38:42I'd hate to see a fella as young as you
00:38:43wind up sniffing that perfume
00:38:45that Arizona hands out free to murderers.
00:38:47I'm not a murderer.
00:38:48Of course you're not.
00:38:49Haskell knocked his own head off.
00:38:50He fell.
00:38:51That's how it happened.
00:38:51Just like I told you.
00:38:52Sure.
00:38:52And then he made you a present of his belongings.
00:38:54I explained why I had to do that.
00:38:56Doesn't make a difference one way or another.
00:38:57I'm not a mourner.
00:38:58I liked Haskell even less than I like you.
00:39:01Yeah, I saw what you did to him.
00:39:03What do you mean?
00:39:04Well, scratches on his wrist.
00:39:05Sure, I scratched him.
00:39:07Well, so you did.
00:39:09So your idea was to drive the car a little way,
00:39:12maybe into San Bernardino, and then leave it.
00:39:14You weren't going to sell it?
00:39:16Sell it?
00:39:16You think I'm crazy, somebody else's car?
00:39:19See, all I want to do is leave it somewhere
00:39:21and forget I ever saw it.
00:39:22Not only don't you have any scruples,
00:39:23you don't have any brains.
00:39:25I don't get you.
00:39:26Maybe it's a good thing you met me.
00:39:28You'd have got yourself caught sure.
00:39:29Why, you dope.
00:39:30Don't you know a deserted automobile
00:39:32always rates an investigation?
00:39:34Huh?
00:39:35Look, the cops find a car.
00:39:37Then they get curious.
00:39:38They wonder where the owner is.
00:39:40So all right, they don't trace Haskell.
00:39:42They trace you.
00:39:43I never thought of that.
00:39:45The only safe way to get rid of the car
00:39:47is to sell it to a dealer.
00:39:48Get it registered under a new name.
00:39:50Say, stop at the next door.
00:39:51I want to get a bottle and do some shopping
00:39:53before we hit L.A.
00:39:54Okay.
00:39:55As soon as we find a place,
00:39:56I'll drop you off and pick you up later.
00:39:58Nothing doing.
00:39:58You're coming in, too.
00:40:00From now on, you and I are like the Siamese twins.
00:40:03Have it your way.
00:40:04I don't get the point.
00:40:05The point is, I don't want you to get lost.
00:40:07I'm not going to beat it
00:40:08if that's what you're afraid of.
00:40:09I'll say you're not.
00:40:10Well, I'm going to see that you sell this car
00:40:11so you don't get caught.
00:40:13Thanks.
00:40:14Of course, your interest wouldn't be financial, would it?
00:40:17You wouldn't want a small percentage of the profits.
00:40:20Well, now that you insist, how can I refuse?
00:40:23A hundred percent will do.
00:40:24I'm fine.
00:40:25I'm relieved.
00:40:26I thought for a moment you were going to take it all.
00:40:28I don't want to be a hog.
00:40:31A few hours later, we were in Hollywood.
00:40:34I was recognizing places Sue had written about.
00:40:37It struck me that far from being at the end of the trip,
00:40:40there was a greater distance between Sue and me
00:40:42than when I started out.
00:40:44Vera wasn't kidding with that Siamese twins crack.
00:40:47She rented a little apartment as Mrs. Charles Haskell.
00:40:52When I objected to this, she explained
00:40:54that it was on account of the car.
00:40:55A dealer might think something was funny
00:40:57if he called and found we were using different names.
00:41:04Home, sweet home.
00:41:06Yeah.
00:41:07Not bad, either.
00:41:16In case there's any doubt in your mind,
00:41:18I'll take the bedroom.
00:41:19Yeah.
00:41:21Sure is stuffy in here.
00:41:30Keep the window shut.
00:41:32Okay.
00:41:34The old crow downstairs
00:41:36said there's a fallen bed behind this door.
00:41:44You know how to work it?
00:41:49I invented it.
00:41:54Some joint.
00:41:55One can't have everything.
00:42:01I'm first in the bathtub.
00:42:04I don't know why,
00:42:05but I figured you would be.
00:42:17Boy, oh boy.
00:42:18It sure feels good to be clean again.
00:42:21I must be ten pounds lighter.
00:42:24You must be.
00:42:27Well, pitch and rides
00:42:28isn't exactly the way
00:42:29you keep your school girl complexion.
00:42:34I wish that guy with the sacks
00:42:36would give up.
00:42:38It gets on my nerves.
00:42:41Forget it.
00:42:45Have a drink.
00:42:47Aren't you afraid
00:42:48I might take you up on it?
00:42:51If I didn't want to give you a drink,
00:42:52I wouldn't have offered it.
00:42:55I'd be as sorry at Roberts.
00:42:56You got yourself into this thing.
00:42:59You should be grateful
00:43:00I'm not turning you in.
00:43:02Why, if I wasn't regular,
00:43:03you'd be in the pen this minute
00:43:04being photographed,
00:43:05fingerprinted,
00:43:05and being pushed around
00:43:06by the cops.
00:43:08So cheer up.
00:43:09Get rid of that long puss.
00:43:13Or is your conscience
00:43:14bothering you?
00:43:19No, it isn't.
00:43:23Well, that's the spirit.
00:43:26He's dead
00:43:27and no moment around
00:43:27will bring him back.
00:43:32Anyway,
00:43:33I never could understand
00:43:34this worrying about something
00:43:35that's over and done with.
00:43:35Now look, Vera,
00:43:36for the last time
00:43:36I didn't kill him.
00:43:37Haskell was a sick man.
00:43:39Maybe he was dead
00:43:39before he fell out of the car.
00:43:40I don't know.
00:43:41Sure, sure.
00:43:42He died of old age.
00:43:44All right.
00:43:46So if it'll make you sociable,
00:43:49you didn't kill him.
00:44:01Thanks.
00:44:13We're out of liquor, Roberts.
00:44:15Yeah.
00:44:17Too bad.
00:44:18I felt like getting tight tonight.
00:44:19Well, I think he succeeded.
00:44:22Am I tight?
00:44:24As a prima donna's corset.
00:44:25That's good.
00:44:27I wanted to get tight.
00:44:28Why?
00:44:29What have you got
00:44:30to get tight about?
00:44:31Oh, I don't know.
00:44:33A few things.
00:44:35Huh.
00:44:37You should have my worries.
00:44:39If I had your troubles,
00:44:40I'd stay sober.
00:44:41And I've got the key
00:44:42to that door.
00:44:46Yeah.
00:44:48Maybe you're right.
00:44:49I'm always right.
00:44:52You know,
00:44:53I don't like your attitude, Roberts.
00:44:55Well, there's a lot of things
00:44:56I don't like.
00:44:58Sure.
00:45:02But life's like a ball game.
00:45:04You've got to take a swing
00:45:05at whatever comes along
00:45:06before you wake up
00:45:07and find it's a ninth inning.
00:45:09You read that somewhere?
00:45:10That's the truth, Roberts.
00:45:11All you do is bellyache.
00:45:14Taking it easy
00:45:14and trying to make
00:45:16the better things.
00:45:18Maybe that's what's wrong
00:45:19with the whole world.
00:45:20Get the professor.
00:45:22People knock themselves out
00:45:24trying to buck fate.
00:45:25Now, take you, for instance.
00:45:26You're lucky to be alive.
00:45:28Why, suppose Haskell
00:45:29had opened your door.
00:45:30You'd be playing a harp now.
00:45:32Think of that.
00:45:34You think of it.
00:45:36I'm tired of thinking.
00:45:38There's plenty of people
00:45:39dying this minute.
00:45:41I would give anything
00:45:42to trade places with you.
00:45:45I know what I'm talking about.
00:45:48I'm not so sure.
00:45:50At least they know
00:45:51they're done for.
00:45:52They don't have to sweat blood
00:45:53wondering if they are.
00:45:56Your philosophy stinks, pal.
00:45:59We all know
00:46:00we're going to kick off someday.
00:46:01It's only a question of when.
00:46:05But what got us
00:46:06on this subject anyway?
00:46:07We'll be discussing
00:46:08politics next.
00:46:10Yeah.
00:46:13Where'd you hide the butts?
00:46:15On the table, sucker.
00:46:25We bored each other
00:46:26with conversation
00:46:26for a couple of hours longer.
00:46:28Every five minutes,
00:46:29one of us was wishing
00:46:30we had another bottle
00:46:31or a radio
00:46:32or something to read.
00:46:35Then finally,
00:46:35we ran out of chatter.
00:46:37I know it's only 11 o'clock,
00:46:39but I want to get up early
00:46:40and make the rounds
00:46:40of the used car lots.
00:46:41No worry about that.
00:46:43We've got all the time
00:46:44in the world.
00:46:44Maybe you have,
00:46:45but if you think
00:46:45I want to stay cooped up
00:46:46in this place any longer
00:46:47than I have to,
00:46:48you're batting.
00:46:48It's not a bad place.
00:46:50We pay plenty for
00:46:50diggings like this in New York.
00:46:52I wouldn't like it
00:46:52if it was the Ritz.
00:46:58You brought me liquor.
00:46:59You got a mean cough.
00:47:00I ought to do something about it.
00:47:02I'll be all right.
00:47:03That's what Camille said.
00:47:06Who?
00:47:07Nobody you know.
00:47:12Wasn't that the day
00:47:13in the night of consumption?
00:47:14Yeah.
00:47:16Wouldn't it be a break for you
00:47:17if I did kick off?
00:47:18You'd be free
00:47:19with all Haskell's dough and car.
00:47:21I don't want to see anybody die.
00:47:24Not even me.
00:47:26Especially not you.
00:47:27One person tied to me.
00:47:29If you did,
00:47:30well, that's all I need.
00:47:33You don't like me,
00:47:34do you, Roberts?
00:47:37I like you.
00:47:39I love you.
00:47:42My favorite sport
00:47:43is being kept prisoner.
00:47:45after we sell the car,
00:47:46you can go to blazes
00:47:47for all I care.
00:47:48But not until then.
00:47:56I'm going to bed.
00:48:06Good night, Roberts.
00:48:07Don't try and sneak away
00:48:08during the night.
00:48:09All the doors are locked.
00:48:11Anyway,
00:48:11if I find you gone
00:48:12in the morning,
00:48:12I'll notify the police.
00:48:14They'll pick you up.
00:48:15Don't worry.
00:48:15I don't want him in a spot.
00:48:18Well, good night.
00:48:19I hope that portable rack
00:48:20isn't too uncomfortable
00:48:21for you.
00:48:22Don't lose any sleep
00:48:23over it, will you, sir?
00:48:37Don't lose any sleep.
00:48:39Don't lose any sleep.
00:48:42Don't lose any sleep.
00:48:43Don't lose any sleep.
00:48:43Don't lose any sleep.
00:48:43Don't lose any sleep.
00:48:43Don't lose any sleep.
00:48:43Don't lose any sleep.
00:48:44Don't lose any sleep.
00:48:44Don't lose any sleep.
00:48:45Don't lose any sleep.
00:48:49Don't lose any sleep.
00:49:00Crest-fuel, six, five, seven, two, three.
00:49:14Hello?
00:49:16Hello?
00:49:18Hello!
00:49:21Hello?
00:49:29No, not yet, darling.
00:49:34Tomorrow.
00:49:36Maybe.
00:49:41If this were fiction, I would fall in love with her, marry her and make a respectable woman
00:49:46of her, or else she'd make some supreme class A sacrifice for me and die.
00:49:52Sue and I would bawl a little over her grave and make some crack about there's good in
00:49:56all of us.
00:49:57But Vera, unfortunately, was just as rotten in the morning as she'd been the night before.
00:50:04All right, all right, I'm coming.
00:50:06Look, Vera, it's almost noon.
00:50:09So what?
00:50:10The dealers will be there all day?
00:50:12They'll be there all year, too, but it doesn't have to wait that long.
00:50:14Shut up.
00:50:15You make us like a husband.
00:50:19Well, do I rate a whistle?
00:50:21You sure do, but let's go.
00:50:23Let's go, let's go.
00:50:24I spent 85 bucks in two hours preparing bait, and all you can say is, let's go.
00:50:30Come on.
00:50:36We've had a few used car lots last night down this way.
00:50:39What do you think we can get for this heap?
00:50:40I don't know.
00:50:41Plenty.
00:50:42He's letting me handle everything.
00:50:44Think we can get $2,000?
00:50:45I don't know, but don't worry.
00:50:47I'll squeeze as much out of this guy as I can.
00:50:49If I'd let it go cheap without a fight, he might think we've stolen the car.
00:50:53And listen, don't make any slips and call me Roberts.
00:50:56That'll cook us.
00:50:57I don't need you to tell me that.
00:50:59You better just sit by and keep your mouth closed.
00:51:01Remember, we're both in the soup if anything happens.
00:51:03Forget it and drive.
00:51:05You're my wife, Farrah Haskell.
00:51:08Look, after the deal's closed, let's go back to that place on Hollywood Boulevard,
00:51:11where I saw the fur jacket.
00:51:13I won't lie it.
00:51:14After the deal's closed, I'm saying goodbye to you.
00:51:17That's right, I forgot.
00:51:19I guess I'm getting kind of used to you.
00:51:22Well, that's a habit you can start breaking.
00:51:24Let's try this place in the middle of block.
00:51:33Good afternoon.
00:51:34What can I do for you?
00:51:35We're interested in selling a car.
00:51:36If the price is right.
00:51:40Well, if it's in good mechanical condition,
00:51:42it should book for about $1,600.
00:51:45Tony, take a look at this motor.
00:51:47$1,600.
00:51:48Are you kidding?
00:51:51Are you kidding?
00:52:01Well, it might be $1,600.
00:52:03Maybe $1,600.
00:52:03Before I let it go for $1,600, I'll wreck it and collect the insurance first.
00:52:10Hey, this motor's seen a lot of driving.
00:52:19Well, the mechanic inspected the car.
00:52:21We haggled.
00:52:23At last, when we were all worn out, we hit a compromise.
00:52:26His price.
00:52:31Okay, it's a deal.
00:52:32All right, come on.
00:52:33We'll sign the papers.
00:52:34I have the ownership of papers right here with me.
00:52:36Look, Vera, in the meantime, will you clean a dash compartment?
00:52:38There may be some stuff in it.
00:52:39All right, darling.
00:52:44$1,850.
00:52:45That dirty cr-
00:52:54New York, huh?
00:52:56Yeah.
00:52:57But you bought the car in Miami.
00:52:58Yeah.
00:53:00Well, let's see about the insurance.
00:53:01We can either have it transferred or canceled.
00:53:04What kind of insurance do you have, Mr. Haskell?
00:53:07Well, uh, aren't all the papers there?
00:53:13I don't see any.
00:53:14Surely you know what type of insurance you carry in the car.
00:53:17The name of the company?
00:53:19Yeah, but, uh...
00:53:21Well, if you'll just tell me the name of the company, I'd be very glad to take care of all
00:53:23the details.
00:53:25Well, look...
00:53:25Did you sign the papers yet?
00:53:27Not yet.
00:53:27Well, don't.
00:53:28We're not selling the car.
00:53:30Well, wait a minute, Mrs. Haskell.
00:53:31Come on, darling.
00:53:32What's the matter?
00:53:32Have you changed your mind?
00:53:33Yes, I'm sorry.
00:53:34I guess I have.
00:53:35But, Vera...
00:53:36Let's go.
00:53:42You got me out of a tight spot, Vera.
00:53:44But I still don't understand all this.
00:53:46You will in a minute.
00:53:47I almost threw away a gold mine.
00:53:491850 isn't to be sneezed at.
00:53:51The car doesn't book for as much as I thought.
00:53:53We're not selling the car.
00:53:54You want to keep it.
00:53:56Now, wait a minute, Vera.
00:53:57You said yourself I wouldn't be safe until the car was in someone else's name.
00:54:00I'd like to be free of this mess when I go.
00:54:01That's just it, Roberts.
00:54:02You're not going.
00:54:05There's a drive-in at the next corner.
00:54:06Pull in there and we'll get a bite to eat.
00:54:08Now, I'll explain.
00:54:09What is this?
00:54:10Another one of your brilliant ideas?
00:54:18Hello.
00:54:18Can I take your order?
00:54:19Make mine a ham sandwich and coffee.
00:54:21And for you, sir?
00:54:21Oh, I don't care.
00:54:23The same.
00:54:31Get this, Vera.
00:54:32I've been pretty patient so far.
00:54:34I've done everything you asked me to do, but no more.
00:54:36Shut up.
00:54:37You've taken Haskell's money.
00:54:39You can have the dough we get from selling the car.
00:54:41But you're not going to keep me a prisoner.
00:54:42It's a good thing I bought the paper.
00:54:43Take a look at that.
00:54:44Vera, I'm in no mood.
00:54:45Read that.
00:54:57No.
00:54:58Yes.
00:54:58No, I won't do it.
00:54:59Yes, you will.
00:55:00You think I'm crazy?
00:55:01It's impossible, I tell you.
00:55:03Excuse me.
00:55:09Blow the horn when you're through.
00:55:14No one could possibly get away with an act like that.
00:55:16It'd be wise to me in a minute.
00:55:18Don't be, yellow.
00:55:19You look enough like him.
00:55:20The same coloring and the same build.
00:55:22See how his clothes fit you?
00:55:23No kidding.
00:55:24You almost had me fooled for a while.
00:55:25Oh, grow up, Vera.
00:55:27Don't you think a father knows his own son?
00:55:28And there must be other relatives.
00:55:29Sir, father won't have to know you.
00:55:31We'll wait till he gives up the ghost.
00:55:32He's an old geezer and he won't pull through.
00:55:34And as far as other relatives are concerned,
00:55:36they haven't seen you in 15 or 20 years.
00:55:40Eat.
00:55:40I'm not hungry.
00:55:42And I won't do it.
00:55:44It's not as tough as it sounds.
00:55:45Remember, you've got all kinds of identification.
00:55:47His car, letters, license.
00:55:48I could never get away with it.
00:55:49It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
00:55:51The old boy has scads of dough.
00:55:53Look in the paper there.
00:55:54Personal fortune assessed at over 15 million.
00:55:56He'll leave plenty, I tell you.
00:55:58Maybe he cut off his son.
00:55:59How do we know?
00:56:00It's out, Vera.
00:56:01I won't have anything to do with it.
00:56:04I think you will.
00:56:06Look, Vera, I'll do anything within reason.
00:56:08But not that.
00:56:09So forget it.
00:56:10Now find yourself another stooge.
00:56:12You sack.
00:56:13You'll be fixed for the rest of your life as Charlie Haskell.
00:56:16You can take your inheritance and go away.
00:56:18No more worrying about the rent.
00:56:19No sweating, scheming, wondering where your next meal's coming from.
00:56:21Think about that, Roberts.
00:56:22Vera, please.
00:56:24You're talking too loud.
00:56:26Unless I'm splitting 50-50 with you.
00:56:27Sure, why not?
00:56:28We're both alike.
00:56:29Both born in the same gutter.
00:56:30Now take it easy, Vera.
00:56:31There's people around here.
00:56:32You don't know where you're talking.
00:56:34Well, wait till we read that old man Haskell's dead.
00:56:37And you show up.
00:56:38Like you read in New York that he was sick.
00:56:41No.
00:56:42I suppose he doesn't die.
00:56:43He will.
00:56:44I know he will.
00:56:45Something tells me.
00:56:48But as much as I insisted I would have no part of her scheme, Vera was taking it for granted
00:56:52I would.
00:56:55Neither of us had our mind on the cards as we played that night.
00:56:59I knew we were just trying to kill time between newspaper editions.
00:57:03This was a death watch for Vera.
00:57:06Maybe it was for me too.
00:57:08Don't you realize if I'm caught, they'll want to know where I got the car and stuff.
00:57:11And they'll have me on a murder charge.
00:57:12You're smart, you won't get caught.
00:57:15I knocked with seven.
00:57:16And if I'm caught, don't you realize you'll be out too?
00:57:20Eighteen points.
00:57:20That gives me thirty.
00:57:23How will I be out?
00:57:24You'll be out.
00:57:25Eighteen hundred and fifty dollars we would have gotten on the car.
00:57:27Really, Vera, you'd be an awful chump.
00:57:28You threw away all that dough in a dizzy long shot.
00:57:30Let me sell the bus tomorrow.
00:57:32With the money it'll bring and what you've already got, a clever kid like you can run it up in
00:57:35no time.
00:57:35Then we'd both be in the clear.
00:57:36I'll be in the clear anyway.
00:57:38Maybe.
00:57:39Maybe.
00:57:40But if I got caught,
00:57:43I'd get good and sore at you, you know.
00:57:44You mean you'd squeal?
00:57:45Oh, no, not squeal exactly.
00:57:46Never mind what you meant.
00:57:49Even if you did tell the cops I was in on it with you,
00:57:52what could they do to me?
00:57:54They might give me the same medicine they gave you.
00:57:57Yeah.
00:57:57A rope.
00:58:01But I'm on my way anyhow.
00:58:04All I'll be doing will be rushing it.
00:58:07All right.
00:58:08But think of the eighteen fifty you'd lose.
00:58:10You'd kick yourself along the block and let it get away from you.
00:58:12I'll take the chance.
00:58:14Want another drink?
00:58:15You're being a goon.
00:58:16That's the way people wind up behind the eight ball.
00:58:18Once they get a few dollars, they become greedy and want more.
00:58:21My, my.
00:58:22Caesar.
00:58:23Who?
00:58:23You know that Roman general?
00:58:25He got his for being greedy.
00:58:26He wasn't satisfied,
00:58:27so the final wind up was he took the count.
00:58:29A couple of days ago, you didn't have a dime.
00:58:32Why, you were so broke,
00:58:33you couldn't pay cash for a post-it stamp.
00:58:35Now you've got almost seven hundred dollars
00:58:36with eighteen fifty in the offing.
00:58:38Take my advice.
00:58:39Don't try for more.
00:58:40I'm tired of this game.
00:58:41Let's have some blackjack.
00:58:42Play solitaire.
00:58:43Okay, I will if that's the way you feel about it.
00:58:45That's the way I feel about it.
00:58:46Getting sore and throwing things won't help much, Roberts.
00:58:48I'm really doing you a favor.
00:58:50I help you out of the jam by keeping my mouth shut.
00:58:52I show you how to make some soft money.
00:58:53And what thanks do I get?
00:58:55Thanks.
00:58:55Sure.
00:58:56I would rather I call the cops
00:58:57and tell them you killed the man
00:58:58and stole his money.
00:58:58I didn't tell anybody.
00:58:59Yes, you did.
00:58:59No, I didn't.
00:59:00You know I didn't.
00:59:01All right, then.
00:59:05Suppose I call the cops.
00:59:07If you're innocent,
00:59:08what do you got to be scared of?
00:59:09Okay.
00:59:11Call them, Mutt.
00:59:11Go ahead and call them.
00:59:12See if I care.
00:59:13At least they'll give me a square deal.
00:59:15You want me to call them?
00:59:16You heard me.
00:59:17But I'm warning you.
00:59:18If I'm pinched,
00:59:19I'll swear you were in on it.
00:59:20I'll say that you helped me.
00:59:21If I fry,
00:59:22I'll get him with you.
00:59:23You wouldn't dare.
00:59:24You didn't.
00:59:25Yeah?
00:59:26Then try it and see.
00:59:28Call them.
00:59:29Yeah.
00:59:30Okay, I will.
00:59:44Information?
00:59:47I want the number
00:59:47at the Hollywood police station.
00:59:51Okay, I got it.
00:59:52Thanks.
00:59:56Wait a minute, Vera.
00:59:57You wouldn't do that.
00:59:58You wouldn't do that,
00:59:58and I'll show you if I wouldn't.
00:59:59Take it easy now.
01:00:00Let's talk this over.
01:00:01This was early in the evening,
01:00:03and the conversation,
01:00:04while hectic,
01:00:05was at least pitched low.
01:00:07But as the minutes passed,
01:00:09and more obstacles to her plan
01:00:11popped into my head,
01:00:12the air got blue.
01:00:14Each word coming from our lips
01:00:15cracked like a whip.
01:00:17I reminded her that as Charles Haskell,
01:00:19I didn't even know my mother's name,
01:00:21where I'd gone to school,
01:00:23the name of my best friend,
01:00:25whether I had an Aunt Emma or not,
01:00:27my religion,
01:00:28and if I'd ever owned a dog.
01:00:30I didn't even know
01:00:31what my middle initial stood for.
01:00:33I also pointed out
01:00:34that the real Haskell
01:00:35had a scar on his forearm.
01:00:37His people never saw that scar.
01:00:39He told me he ran away
01:00:40right after putting out the kid's eye.
01:00:41Yeah, but his father knew he was cut.
01:00:43It had to be some kind of a mark.
01:00:44So what?
01:00:46The old man's dead,
01:00:47or will be.
01:00:48I hope by tomorrow morning's papers.
01:00:50Anyway,
01:00:51you could cut yourself a little,
01:00:53couldn't you?
01:00:55Boy, for that kind of dough,
01:00:56I'd let you cut my leg off.
01:00:58You're drunk,
01:00:58and you're crazy mad, Vera.
01:01:00Turn him in if you want to,
01:01:00but I won't get mixed up in this.
01:01:02Besides, how do we know
01:01:02Haskell was such a phony?
01:01:04Maybe it wasn't the man's son at all.
01:01:05Maybe he just dreamed it up.
01:01:06Well, dream it or not,
01:01:08you won't be dreaming
01:01:09when the law attacks you on the shoulder.
01:01:12There's a cute little gas chamber
01:01:13waiting for you, Roberts.
01:01:15And I hear extraditioned Arizona's Ascension.
01:01:19Where's that phone?
01:01:21Vera.
01:01:21Leave me alone.
01:01:22Vera.
01:01:23I want a phone.
01:01:24Call police.
01:01:26I hate you.
01:01:28You're a stinker.
01:01:29You leave me alone.
01:01:30I'll let you alone
01:01:31when you promise to leave the phone
01:01:32where it is.
01:01:33You're drunk.
01:01:33You don't know what you're doing.
01:01:34You're hurting me.
01:01:35Will you promise?
01:01:36All right.
01:01:43You hurt me.
01:01:45I'm sorry, but...
01:01:46And it's hot in here.
01:01:47Open up the window.
01:01:48It's not hot.
01:01:49Don't tell me.
01:01:50Now, do you do it or do I do it?
01:01:54You're no gentleman, see?
01:01:55Yeah.
01:01:57All right.
01:01:57I'll open up the window.
01:02:02Vera.
01:02:08Vera, open the door.
01:02:09Please open the door.
01:02:10Vera, open the door.
01:02:11Don't use the phone.
01:02:12Listen to me.
01:02:13I don't like you, Roberts.
01:02:15You're no gentleman, see?
01:02:17You hurt my hand.
01:02:18And I'm going to get even with you.
01:02:21If you don't open the door,
01:02:22I'm going to kick it down, Vera.
01:02:24Vera, don't call the cops.
01:02:25Listen to me.
01:02:26I'll do anything you say.
01:02:28Vera, let me in.
01:02:31I'll break the phone.
01:02:32Stop going.
01:02:46Come on.
01:02:48Come on.
01:02:49Come on.
01:02:58I'll break the phone.
01:03:01I'll break the phone.
01:03:10the world is full of skeptics i know i'm one myself in the haskell business how many of you
01:03:17would believe he fell out of the car and now after killing vera without really meaning to do it
01:03:22how many of you would believe it wasn't premeditated in a jury room every last man of you
01:03:28would go down shouting that she had me over a barrel and my only out was force the room was
01:03:34still so quiet that for a while i wondered if i had suddenly gone deaf it was pure fear of
01:03:41course
01:03:42and i was hysterical but without making a sound vera was dead and i was her murderer murderer
01:03:52what an awful word that is but i've become one i'd better not get caught
01:03:58what evidence there was around the place had to be destroyed and from the looks of things there
01:04:01was plenty looking around the room at things we'd bought was like looking into the faces of a hundred
01:04:05people who'd seen us together and who remembered me this was the kind of testimony i couldn't rub out
01:04:13no i could burn clothes and hide bottles for the next five years
01:04:17there'd always be witnesses the landlady for one she could identify me the car dealer the waitress in
01:04:21the drive-in the girl in the dress shop and that guy in the liquor store they could all identify
01:04:25me
01:04:27i was cooked done for i had to get out of there
01:04:32while once i'd remain beside a dead body planning carefully how to avoid being accused of killing
01:04:37him this time i couldn't this time i was guilty
01:04:43i knew it felt it i was like a guy suffering from shock things were whirling around in my head
01:04:51i couldn't make myself think right all i could think of was the guy with the saxophone and what
01:04:56he was playing it wasn't a love song anymore it was a dirge
01:05:02is
01:05:06or
01:05:27or
01:05:28or
01:05:49but my problems weren't solved i had to stay away from new york for all time because al roberts
01:05:57was listed as dead and had to stay dead and i could never go back to hollywood someone might
01:06:03recognize me as haskell then too there was sue i could never go to her with a thing like this
01:06:12hanging over my head all i could do was pray she'd be happy
01:06:29i was in bakersfield before i read that vera's body was discovered
01:06:33that the police were looking for haskell in connection with his wife's murder
01:06:38isn't that a laugh haskell got me into this mess and haskell was getting me out of it
01:06:44the police were searching for a dead man
01:06:50i keep trying to forget what happened and wonder what my life might have been if that car of haskell's
01:06:57hadn't stopped but one thing i don't have to wonder about i know
01:07:06someday a car will stop to pick me up that i never thumbed
01:07:15yes fate or some mysterious force can put the finger on you or me for no good reason at all
01:07:24i of them
01:07:26you
01:07:28you
01:07:28all right
01:07:30all right
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