The Steel Man (1951) is a classic vintage science fiction and adventure film featuring a mysterious mechanical hero and a dangerous world of technology, suspense, and action. This restored presentation brings the atmosphere of classic cinema back to life for fans of vintage movies, old Hollywood, and classic science fiction.
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00:00:02The End
00:00:30Oh, my God.
00:01:15And now the challenger is coming down the aisle.
00:01:18This crowd is giving him a tremendous ovation as he climbs into the ring.
00:01:21No doubt about it, this lad is the most popular heavyweight contender in a long time.
00:01:27And there's drama behind those cheers, too.
00:01:30The drama and the lives of these two men that has finally brought them together in this ring tonight
00:01:34to battle for the heavyweight championship of the world.
00:01:44Fifteen rounds of boxing for the heavyweight championship of the world.
00:01:49Now, introducing, at 212 pounds, the champion, Colt Mason.
00:02:11There it is again, the roar of the crowd.
00:02:14Twenty thousand people all hating just one man.
00:02:18If they only knew.
00:02:20It isn't him they ought to hate.
00:02:22It's me.
00:02:23Because there was a time you couldn't find a soul who didn't think he was the sweetest guy on earth.
00:02:28And then something happened to change all that.
00:02:30But I fell in love with him.
00:02:34People can fall in love any place.
00:02:37Even in Colt Town, Pennsylvania.
00:02:40Falling in love is supposed to make you happy.
00:02:43But somehow in Colt Town it only made things worse.
00:02:47Because I was trapped.
00:02:48Trapped like everybody else in town.
00:02:51Trying to figure a way out.
00:02:52Knowing they'd never make it.
00:02:53And hating it.
00:02:55Like Alex Malick.
00:02:58Or just resigned to it.
00:03:00Like Pete Costco.
00:03:02Or waiting for that one big break.
00:03:04Like his son, Tommy.
00:03:06All of them trapped in the endless monotony of the minds.
00:03:10Never knowing from day to day when the trap might shut on them for good.
00:03:14And still, not being able to do a single thing about it.
00:03:18All except Colt Mason.
00:03:20He was different.
00:03:22He'd have gotten out.
00:03:23He'd have made it someday.
00:03:25His way.
00:03:27If only I'd let him.
00:03:43Hey Pete!
00:03:44You going to meet tonight?
00:03:46Huh?
00:03:47No meeting.
00:03:47Are you going?
00:03:49I can't hear you.
00:03:50Hey Colt!
00:03:51Rest your bill!
00:03:57Cut your drill!
00:03:59What?
00:04:00I said cut your drill.
00:04:02Why?
00:04:02On account of what I tell you.
00:04:04That's why.
00:04:12What are you, a wise guy?
00:04:16Nope.
00:04:17You looking to get your nose broke?
00:04:19I'm looking to get some work done.
00:04:21Do you mind?
00:04:24Why you do this thing?
00:04:26Who does nothing to you?
00:04:28You are wrong.
00:04:29Okay, so I'm wrong.
00:04:30I don't like the guy.
00:04:31I don't like you.
00:04:32Understand?
00:04:33That's going to worry me a lot.
00:04:35Honor!
00:04:37All right.
00:04:39Hey.
00:04:40Let's go eat.
00:05:05Why you look for trouble?
00:05:08Trouble from him?
00:05:10He's too good for trouble.
00:05:12Too good for mining too, ain't you, Einstein?
00:05:14That book going to teach you how to move coal?
00:05:16Moving coal ain't the only way to make a living.
00:05:18What's the matter a fellow want to get out of the mine?
00:05:21This country, everybody got a chance to make himself what he wants.
00:05:25My Tommy wants to get out too.
00:05:27That's why I sent him to night school.
00:05:29Learn to be optimist.
00:05:31My glasses, good trade.
00:05:34So's this.
00:05:36Maybe Coke show you how to move coal, Alex.
00:05:40Him?
00:05:40Uh-huh.
00:05:41Maybe you like to make a little bet, huh?
00:05:44Yeah.
00:05:45How about it?
00:05:47Ten bucks I move more the next shift than you do.
00:05:49Put up or shut up, Alex?
00:05:51Yeah, put your money where your mouth is.
00:05:53Come on.
00:05:55Okay, Einstein, you got yourself a bet.
00:06:02Come on, Coke.
00:06:06Get it sticking.
00:06:16Come on.
00:06:18Let's go, Coke.
00:06:22Come on, Coke.
00:06:27All right, push.
00:06:28All right, boys.
00:06:29Come now, let's go.
00:06:30Come on, move, man, move.
00:06:35Come on, Alex.
00:06:36Come on, get it going now.
00:06:39Get it going.
00:06:40How's the family?
00:06:41Got four new ones.
00:06:43Four?
00:06:44Trixie, my dog.
00:06:46Four new puppies.
00:06:47All with black spots.
00:06:49I'm going to kill that firehouse, Don.
00:06:53Feels good.
00:06:54Ah, the fine boot.
00:06:55Very well made.
00:06:57Built like a tire.
00:06:59I'll take that with me.
00:07:01Oh, pull it a little bit.
00:07:08Here you are.
00:07:12Charge them.
00:07:13Okay.
00:07:15More gottish.
00:07:38Hello, dirty face.
00:07:40All right.
00:07:41All right.
00:07:43Those mine?
00:07:44Mm-hmm.
00:07:45Four of them, gay men.
00:07:46Want them all today?
00:07:47Yeah.
00:07:48Yeah, all of them.
00:07:49Cash today.
00:07:50Oh, really?
00:07:51I want to bet.
00:07:52Where, up there?
00:07:54Oh, no, no.
00:07:55Down there.
00:07:56Moving cold.
00:07:57I'm almost too tired to take you out tonight.
00:07:59I said almost.
00:08:00I'll pick you up as soon as I change.
00:08:02I can't.
00:08:02Tonight, Coke inventory till 10 or 11.
00:08:05Don't be silly.
00:08:06I'm going to propose to you.
00:08:07You did that last week.
00:08:09I'll do it again.
00:08:09I like what she said.
00:08:10I didn't say yes.
00:08:11She said maybe.
00:08:12Very furby-looking.
00:08:21Tell him you're sick and I'm the doctor.
00:08:23I wish you'd tell that brother of yours he's making entirely too much noise upstairs.
00:08:27Tell him yourself.
00:08:27It's your building.
00:08:29Say, about the inventory.
00:08:30Could Rose Bow out of that tonight?
00:08:31Of course not.
00:08:32And if you don't tell him, I'll give him notice to vacate.
00:08:34Why?
00:08:34You knew why he rented the place.
00:08:35I did not.
00:08:36He said it was to be a club.
00:08:37A social club.
00:08:38Now, that's why he moved in three pool tables.
00:08:40About the inventory.
00:08:43Please speak to him, Coke.
00:08:44Sometimes I think they're coming right through the ceiling.
00:08:48Okay.
00:08:48Wrap nice and pretty, huh?
00:09:02Hey, George, I'll take ten to five on Madigan tonight in the semifinal.
00:09:05How about it?
00:09:05I'll give you eight to five.
00:09:07You're lucky to get it.
00:09:07Madigan may dump that palooker in three rounds.
00:09:10Back him up, Pete.
00:09:11Yeah?
00:09:12Yeah, the sixth at Belmont.
00:09:14Okay.
00:09:17Coke, yeah, just the guy I want to see.
00:09:18What?
00:09:20Oh, all right.
00:09:20I'll wait.
00:09:21Photo, be right up.
00:09:22I got one here with the sixth.
00:09:24I got one for you.
00:09:24Herbie's unhappy about the noise.
00:09:25Oh, forget Herbie.
00:09:27He's always beefing about something.
00:09:29What?
00:09:31Oh, no.
00:09:32You're breaking my heart.
00:09:34End the rail, then.
00:09:35A photo.
00:09:39Make his choice.
00:09:40Ten on the show.
00:09:41I tune him down, George.
00:09:43Herbie can make trouble.
00:09:43Herbie can make trouble.
00:09:44You should see what Ender Elder just did to me.
00:09:47Hey, you got 20 on Monday?
00:09:48Again?
00:09:49All right.
00:09:50So are you 20?
00:09:51How much?
00:09:52Why?
00:09:52Does it bother you?
00:09:53Oh, but I just...
00:09:53No, but maybe you'd like to forget that I wiped your nose and went hungry to feed you.
00:09:56Is that it?
00:09:56I didn't say that.
00:10:05Okay, I'm sorry.
00:10:07I mean it.
00:10:10You shouldn't be, kid.
00:10:11Anything I ever did for you, you paid off right down the line.
00:10:13Oh, shut up.
00:10:14How about some handball tonight?
00:10:15Martin, or Rosie?
00:10:16No, inventory.
00:10:17Okay, handball.
00:10:18I'll pick you up around eight.
00:10:20Okay.
00:10:28Yeah?
00:10:29Yeah, the seventh at Belmont.
00:10:30Tender wind, tender place on clean away.
00:10:32Okay.
00:10:49Ain't he the sweetest player you ever saw?
00:10:51He is not.
00:10:54He's as clumsy as a bull elephant.
00:10:55Everything he does is wrong.
00:10:58Ah!
00:11:01Yeah, everything wrong, but he wins.
00:11:03That's what amazes me.
00:11:05Hello, Alex.
00:11:05Joe.
00:11:06Hello, Gunna.
00:11:07Hi, boy.
00:11:07What do you say?
00:11:08That's a quick four-bitchy on me, George.
00:11:10You want to try it again?
00:11:11Okay, Tommy.
00:11:12You got a bet.
00:11:12Double to nothing next game, huh?
00:11:14Right.
00:11:14Next game?
00:11:15You guys going to play all night?
00:11:16We got one more.
00:11:18Relax.
00:11:18Oh, quit hogging the court.
00:11:19You got four men waiting here.
00:11:21Only we ain't waiting.
00:11:22They got another game, Alex.
00:11:23They only played one.
00:11:24Ask Crowley.
00:11:25You don't have to ask anybody.
00:11:26I'm telling you.
00:11:27Get off the court.
00:11:28What's wrong, Alex?
00:11:29You're doing a burn over the ten bucks you lose to the kid?
00:11:31How'd you like a poke in the nose?
00:11:35Forget it.
00:11:36We didn't come here to argue.
00:11:37Yeah, and that goes for you, too.
00:11:39Come out, son.
00:11:40I'm like a freak, Alex.
00:11:41Yeah, you and who else?
00:11:45I'll fight.
00:11:47I guess that's what he wants.
00:11:48How soon and where?
00:11:50Just a minute.
00:11:51If there's going to be any fighting here, it'll be in the ring and I'll referee.
00:11:55That suits you, Coke?
00:11:57Okay, come on.
00:11:58Let's go.
00:12:02You know, I'm going to be doing this professional pretty soon.
00:12:04The old man wants me to be an optimist like he calls it.
00:12:06But not for me.
00:12:07Fighting's my trade.
00:12:09You going to win, Alex?
00:12:13Okay, Tommy, I'll take over.
00:12:15Tommy's my second.
00:12:16No, no, Speed.
00:12:17Speed O'Keefe.
00:12:18I'm going to be a fighter.
00:12:18I'm going to get myself a match.
00:12:19Speed, come on.
00:12:20We'll talk about it later.
00:12:24Yeah, Coke.
00:12:25Come on, Alex, boy.
00:12:26Let's go, Alex.
00:12:27Come on.
00:12:31Now, let's keep it clean.
00:12:32That's all.
00:12:32Shake hands.
00:12:33Come out fighting.
00:12:33Come on.
00:12:34Come on, Alex.
00:12:35Let's go.
00:12:36Come on, Alex.
00:12:39Come on.
00:12:40Come on.
00:12:43You're off, Coke.
00:12:44Keep it high.
00:12:45Come on.
00:12:45Keep it high.
00:12:46Come on, kids.
00:12:49Come on, get in there.
00:12:50Come on, go.
00:12:53See it, Coke.
00:12:55Hit the left hook.
00:12:57You're off, Coke.
00:12:58Keep it high.
00:12:59Relax, kid.
00:13:00Contain yourself.
00:13:03Come on.
00:13:10Come on.
00:13:17There it counts.
00:13:18Come on, Alex, don't wait long.
00:13:20Come on.
00:13:21Come on!
00:13:22Come on, Alex.
00:13:25Come on, Alex.
00:13:26Come on, Alex.
00:13:28Come on, Alex.
00:13:30Come on, Alex.
00:13:32Get up!
00:13:33Get up!
00:13:34Get up!
00:13:35Get up!
00:13:36Great!
00:13:37Great!
00:13:37Great, great, great.
00:13:38Great!
00:13:39Let's get it.
00:13:46Come on! Come on!
00:13:48Go back to the corner! Stay there! Stay in the corner!
00:13:53One. That's enough. Better call the doctor.
00:13:59I tell you, you got dynamite in both of them.
00:14:02Next time, use a club. Better still, use an axe.
00:14:05Go on! Pendle your papers! Go on!
00:14:06Don't pay attention to that! Talk, you're terrific!
00:14:10Come on, coach.
00:14:17Hey, this is a little on the elegant side. We got enough money to eat here?
00:14:20Yeah, on account of I'm fresh out.
00:14:21Money? I'm loaded.
00:14:23Last at Belmont. Tend to win and tend to play with my money.
00:14:26Belmont?
00:14:27Oh, that dog? Nah, he ran out.
00:14:29Nah, I bet you tonight, kid. I take three to one on a knockout and garner a sweet 90 bucks.
00:14:33You bet on me against Alex?
00:14:35Remember when we left the handball cut? I did real good.
00:14:38Your table is ready, Mr. Mason.
00:14:39Ah, fine, Charlie. Go ahead, boys.
00:14:45Some of them are better, honey, huh?
00:14:50Thanks, mister.
00:14:54It's a big table, isn't it?
00:14:56Well, why not? It's gonna be a big party.
00:14:57Wine, Charlie.
00:14:58A domestic, but with bubbles, huh?
00:15:00Then char up three steaks. We'll take care of the heat department.
00:15:03Relax, fellas.
00:15:05Oh, no, you might as well start now at any time.
00:15:07Start what?
00:15:07Training.
00:15:09Oh, here we go again.
00:15:10Look, kid, I've been trying to tell you for a long time.
00:15:12You're gonna be a fighter. A great fighter.
00:15:14Forget it.
00:15:15I've been forgetting it long enough.
00:15:16Tonight we start thinking about it. Serious.
00:15:18Kid, you got a million dollars wrapped up in those two hands. A million.
00:15:21He's right, Coke.
00:15:22You got a lot to learn. You do a lot of things wrong.
00:15:24But you got the one thing nobody can learn.
00:15:26The thing only the great ones have got.
00:15:28You're a killer.
00:15:28Why? I'm a miner.
00:15:31And I'm gonna stay a miner.
00:15:33Maybe someday I'll have a radio store, but until...
00:15:36Radio, shmady. Oh, that's for kids.
00:15:38But if you really want to, okay, I'll show you how to get it.
00:15:40Why, in six months I'll have you doing semifinals at seven, eight hundred dollars a crack.
00:15:44In one year, seven, eight, maybe ten thousand for a main go.
00:15:48Then you buy yourself a store, you put your name on the window,
00:15:51and Rose can sit behind the cash register. It's as simple as that.
00:15:53No kidding, Coke, you're a natural.
00:15:55You ought to see what you did to Alex's eye and his nose.
00:15:57Tommy, drink your wine, huh?
00:15:59What about Alex?
00:16:00Oh, you beat him up a little. What did you expect?
00:16:02Bad?
00:16:03Well, not good, not for Alex.
00:16:06I didn't know that.
00:16:10If I do know this,
00:16:13I'm not gonna do it again.
00:16:15Not to Alex or anybody.
00:16:17If that bothers you, give me my twenty bucks and I'll blow.
00:16:21Okay, kid, if that's the way you want it.
00:16:25What are you gonna do, take Rosie, do a light movie and hold hands?
00:16:29I just might do that.
00:16:30And, uh, maybe you better talk it over with Herbie, huh?
00:16:35Excuse me a minute, Herbert.
00:16:39Hello, Coke.
00:16:41Tommy, George.
00:16:41Hi, Rose.
00:16:42What are you doing here?
00:16:43Taking inventory.
00:16:44Now, it so happens I was working tonight.
00:16:47Were you?
00:16:47Yes.
00:16:48We finished early and Herbie thought it would be a good idea.
00:16:50A very good idea.
00:16:52Well, I know you two want to fight alone.
00:16:53Come on, Tommy, I'm straight.
00:16:54Can't you call me speed?
00:16:55Okay, champ.
00:16:57Set up a flare if you're in trouble now.
00:17:02Don't you believe I was working?
00:17:04Does it matter what I believe?
00:17:05Well, you know it does.
00:17:08What's the matter with your eye?
00:17:09Nothing.
00:17:11All right, so I believe you were working.
00:17:12You take it from there.
00:17:13Well, we finished early.
00:17:15Herbie suggested some food.
00:17:16So you went to the chop suey joint on Main Street, only the tea was cold.
00:17:20No, Coke.
00:17:21That was last Saturday night.
00:17:22And the Saturday before.
00:17:24It was every Saturday night for the past year with you.
00:17:28Look, Coke, I don't blame you.
00:17:29You work hard for your money.
00:17:31You're trying to save it.
00:17:32For us, I know that.
00:17:34But can't you see it from my angle just a little bit?
00:17:37I've never even seen the inside of this place before.
00:17:40Or any other place like it.
00:17:42So at night, I had the chance.
00:17:44I took it.
00:17:44A few lights for a change.
00:17:46Is that really so bad?
00:17:48If you want to go to joints like this, I can take you.
00:17:50Sure.
00:17:51And what do we use to start the radio business?
00:17:53Coal?
00:17:57All right, you win.
00:17:59So now we've both seen the place.
00:18:01So now let's go back and get some chop suey, huh?
00:18:05What about Herbie?
00:18:06Herbie will understand.
00:18:08Don't.
00:18:10Mr. Mason, your guests.
00:18:12Hello, you gorgeous hunker man.
00:18:15Did I draw you honey bun?
00:18:19If this is a gag, it isn't funny.
00:18:21I think it is.
00:18:22I think it's very funny.
00:18:24Good night, honey bun.
00:18:29Hello, Tilly girl.
00:18:30You too, Billy.
00:18:31Hey, Gwendolyn, contain yourself.
00:18:32Come on, you're with me.
00:18:33You mean I don't get muscles?
00:18:35Nice going, brother.
00:18:36You're really lousy evening in a hurry.
00:18:38You mean you don't like Tilly?
00:18:39You know what I mean.
00:18:42Oh, Rose.
00:18:43Don't worry about her.
00:18:44Where's she gonna run to?
00:18:45But if you're really unhappy, I'll square things for you.
00:18:47Leave it alone.
00:18:49You are divine.
00:18:50I know, but I'm in training.
00:18:53In training.
00:18:54For what?
00:19:10Give me a couple more sticks.
00:19:12You're shooting pretty heavy, Alex.
00:19:14I said, give me a couple more sticks.
00:19:16I'm shooting what I like.
00:19:24Hey, Alex.
00:19:26About that eye, I'm sorry.
00:19:28Yeah?
00:19:29Well, let me tell you something, mister.
00:19:31I can still lick you if you fight like a man.
00:19:33But not when you fight like some kind of animal.
00:19:36I guess I lost my head.
00:19:38Yeah, well, it's too bad you found it.
00:19:40Give me them sticks.
00:20:05Fire in the hole!
00:20:07Fire in the hole!
00:20:11Fire in the hole!
00:20:42Fire in the hole!
00:20:44Oh! Country six above!
00:20:56Hey, Lonnie, whereabouts?
00:20:58Lower six, south entry, or fall.
00:21:03Whereabouts, George?
00:21:04Lower six.
00:21:07That's the Koch level.
00:21:16George, where is it?
00:21:17Lower six, Koch's working that level.
00:21:20Rose, I won't worry about it.
00:21:22It probably won't amount to anything.
00:21:25Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
00:21:28Get home, George.
00:21:30Oh, let me move there. He coaxed on six.
00:21:31We'll get him, aren't we?
00:21:32Oh, don't give me that. I was running this squad when you were to help.
00:21:34Come on, let's go.
00:21:46Here, give me that.
00:21:53Alex!
00:22:01Come on, let's keep digging.
00:22:25Mason, come out of there while we get in the timber.
00:22:28Well, never mind the timber. Clear to drift!
00:22:40Tommy!
00:22:42Tommy, listen!
00:22:58Minus! Clear to drift!
00:23:10Minus! Clear to drift!
00:23:12Where is that dress?
00:23:47Oh, you all right?
00:23:49Coke!
00:23:51George.
00:23:52George.
00:23:54Come on, let's get him out.
00:24:01Coke.
00:24:21George.
00:24:22George.
00:24:24You saved my life.
00:24:25Take it easy, Pete.
00:24:26You're not in the mine.
00:24:27Hey, Pop.
00:24:27Be quiet, will you?
00:24:28Thanks for the books.
00:24:30Tell Herbie I'll pay them as soon as they give me back my pants.
00:24:32They're all paid for.
00:24:33They're my get well present.
00:24:35Oh, we'll never see that in.
00:24:37How's it going?
00:24:38Okay, I got a surprise for you.
00:24:42It's pretty, huh?
00:24:44I wanted lilies, but they didn't have any.
00:24:46You're a screwball.
00:24:48How much did set you back?
00:24:49Oh, a moderate sum.
00:24:50They keep those ribbons in stock.
00:24:52Husband, brother, beloved son.
00:24:53You're not funny.
00:24:54I know, but I tried.
00:24:56Well, how's it going?
00:24:57All right.
00:24:58You're gonna let me out in three days.
00:24:59Wow.
00:25:01Hey, hey, light one for me, will you?
00:25:03Oh.
00:25:04Oh, wait a minute.
00:25:07Look, kid, you're in training as of now.
00:25:09This time I mean it.
00:25:10The road, the gym, the works.
00:25:13I figured I'd have you ready for your first go in about four weeks.
00:25:16George has an idea I'm a fighter.
00:25:18I have an idea he's crazy.
00:25:19For two reasons I got that idea.
00:25:21First, on account of you very seldom buy one of these for a fighter.
00:25:26Second, money.
00:25:2710, 15,000 one year, maybe 20 if you're lucky.
00:25:30Then you kids can get that radio store.
00:25:32A big one in Philadelphia.
00:25:34That's a lot of money.
00:25:35Honey, those are just some telephone numbers he dreamed up.
00:25:38Don't listen to me.
00:25:39Telephone numbers, huh?
00:25:40Look at here.
00:25:41Ridgewood Palace, October 3rd.
00:25:42Four round preliminary, $50.
00:25:44Oakdale Grove, October 29th.
00:25:46Four rounds, $50.
00:25:47November 20th, Scranton Arena, 75 buffos.
00:25:51Is that better than move and call?
00:25:52I don't get it.
00:25:53Fights I booked for you.
00:25:54I got all three of them without even leaving the pool room over the telephone.
00:25:58I tell you, kid, I got connections.
00:26:00All you gotta do is the fighting.
00:26:01Which he does very nicely.
00:26:04Well, you happy?
00:26:04No.
00:26:05I'm not gonna fight, George.
00:26:08I'm not gonna fight, George.
00:26:11Good.
00:26:11Have it your own way.
00:26:13Well, I guess you kids wanna get in a little smooching time, huh?
00:26:16Get well, now.
00:26:17I'll drop your line when I get to New York.
00:26:19New York?
00:26:20Or Chicago.
00:26:22Anyway, I'm getting out of here in the morning.
00:26:24There's no future in Coldtown for me anymore.
00:26:26Or for you, only you're too dumb to see it.
00:26:29What about the pool room?
00:26:31Well, there's no future of that either, especially since they've taken back the tables.
00:26:35Be good now.
00:26:36Did they really take out his pool tables?
00:26:39Uh-huh.
00:26:40This morning.
00:26:48Coke.
00:26:50Coke, is it very hard to fight?
00:26:52I mean, in the ring.
00:26:55It's just that it seems like so much money.
00:26:59And so quickly.
00:27:01You been talking to George?
00:27:03No.
00:27:03I...
00:27:04He said something about it.
00:27:07I didn't pay much attention.
00:27:08I just wondered.
00:27:11Look, Rosa.
00:27:12I...
00:27:13I don't know how to make you understand, but...
00:27:16I don't want to fight.
00:27:17I mustn't fight.
00:27:19It's like Alex said.
00:27:21I'm not a man anymore.
00:27:22I'm like an animal when I fight.
00:27:23I want to kill.
00:27:26And that's what's bad.
00:27:28And that feeling comes over me, and I can't stop it.
00:27:31And if I had a club or something in my hands...
00:27:32But George said that was the thing that you had that was so great.
00:27:35The killer instinct.
00:27:37Like Dempsey, like...
00:27:37You have been talking to George.
00:27:39No, Coke.
00:27:40Honest.
00:27:40I didn't...
00:27:41He talked.
00:27:43But couldn't...
00:27:44Maybe he be right.
00:27:46Look, Coke, he wouldn't have to do it forever.
00:27:49A year is all.
00:27:50Two at the most.
00:27:51And we'd have all the money we need.
00:27:54The way it is.
00:27:56We'll be old and gray before we ever have anything.
00:28:00With you down in the mines every day and me wondering.
00:28:06I just...
00:28:07I just don't know how long I can stand it, Coke.
00:28:34No, Coke, let me show you.
00:28:40so you keep your hands high way up the law says i have to hit that thing no but it's
00:28:45fun
00:28:48socket it in fashion doesn't it give you a lift no
00:28:59nice go chap here let me hold it
00:29:05save it kid use tomorrow night you've been working out in the ring now it's full solid
00:29:12okay both wrap it up i want to use the ring hey philly you want to work out with my
00:29:15boy
00:29:16i'll work out with him oh save it kid save your hands you're gonna be an optimist remember
00:29:19what do you say sure good since when you've given orders to my fighters well jojo just the man i
00:29:26want
00:29:26to see come on get in here kid i hear you laying even money jackie knocks out coke tomorrow i'll
00:29:30take 20 of that are you crazy i'll give five to your 20 and no better all right jackie hit
00:29:35the shower even money and my boy with a cracked rib a cracked rib and dry yourself off good
00:29:41thanks for the information come on bucks are pretty now kid plenty of footwork eh
00:29:49four rounds of boxing in the white corner at 212 pounds from pole town coke mason
00:30:00in the black corner weighing 215 pounds from ridgewood jackie boden
00:30:10come on come on come on your boat know the rules don't nobody break them shake hands now and come
00:30:18out fight just his head kid keep away from his belly now go ahead hunting on account of jackie's got
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00:30:24cracked rib oh my god if he's got a weak jaw do you think i fell for that cracked rib
00:30:27borden can
00:30:27take it in my belly all night only the head kid you hear me where's rose city she's all right
00:30:32she's all right remember what i said go after his head take it easy feel him on the first
00:30:35say that he's all right
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00:31:15he got 20 to my 10
00:31:49here it comes
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00:35:43It's pretty, isn't it?
00:36:07One thousand three hundred and ten dollars. I can hardly believe it paying off and booing. We'd be millionaires. I
00:36:13know you don't like that. How do you like it?
00:36:15All right, Coke, I know. But I know something else. In a year from now, we'll be out of this
00:36:20place. We'll be married and have our own home and begin to live like human beings.
00:36:26You're doing your best. You're wanting to like you. You wouldn't know.
00:36:31Come here. Come here.
00:36:33In one year, one year from now, we'll have a store like this in Philadelphia. Our store. All paid for
00:36:40in cash. That's not too much to ask, is it?
00:36:48I know, Mr. Bellio. I know he is. I know Civella's the contender. But believe me, he won't draw flies
00:36:54if you put him in there with Blaine.
00:36:55Here, here, read this.
00:36:56I read him. They all say your boy stinks. Max Watkins says he's the dirtiest fighter he's ever seen.
00:37:02That's why he pushed the state champ out of the headlines, huh?
00:37:04Coke Mason outdid himself in gutter tactics.
00:37:07Yeah, they really like him.
00:37:09What did they have to?
00:37:10What did they come to see him get killed?
00:37:12Yeah, and against Civella, that's exactly what happens. Thanks. No, I don't like murder.
00:37:17With a full house, is murder bad?
00:37:19This Coke Mason is your brother or your brother-in-law? Which?
00:37:26Hiya! Hi!
00:37:27Hi, Tony.
00:37:28Joe!
00:37:28This is George Mason. He's got that coal town punk, the Flatt and Loomis.
00:37:32Joe Civella, the guy you want to fight?
00:37:34Hiya.
00:37:34I'm Riley, his manager.
00:37:35Well, good to know you. Good to know you, Riley.
00:37:37I'm glad you dropped in. Maybe we can wrap the deal up this afternoon.
00:37:40What deal?
00:37:41Well, a fight with your boy now that Gardo's canceled out.
00:37:43Coke Mason's a natural.
00:37:45Who's Coke Mason?
00:37:46Who's Coke Mason?
00:37:47Read what Max Watkins has to say about him.
00:37:49That's a syndicated column. 352 newspapers.
00:37:52So that makes your boy a fighter, eh?
00:37:54You better come back in about five years.
00:37:57Were you able to get Patty Keller for us?
00:37:59No, no dice. He ain't ready.
00:38:00What about Madigan?
00:38:01Same with Madigan.
00:38:02I was figuring Buddy Blaine...
00:38:04Coke Mason.
00:38:05Dirty boy, huh?
00:38:06Likes to play rough.
00:38:07A little too rough for you, maybe, but I'll ask him to take it easy.
00:38:12How much did Blaine draw at the Ridgewood?
00:38:14Blaine didn't draw flies. They came to see Coke Mason.
00:38:17Look, we can work this deal out on a percentage.
00:38:19A deal that'll protect you and at the same time get Coke and the ring with Savela.
00:38:23Now, the way I see it...
00:38:25Come on!
00:38:26Come on!
00:38:28Come on!
00:38:29Come on!
00:38:33Come on!
00:38:34Come on!
00:38:35Get up!
00:38:35Get up!
00:38:36Another one!
00:38:38Two!
00:38:38Got him, right?
00:38:39Come on!
00:38:41Five!
00:38:42Six!
00:38:43Seven!
00:38:44Come on!
00:38:44One!
00:38:46Come on!
00:38:48Come on!
00:38:49Come on!
00:38:57Get up!
00:38:58Come on!
00:38:59Heard!
00:39:02Five!
00:39:03Die!
00:39:08Come on!
00:39:10Hör 만약!
00:39:11Die!
00:39:11Die!
00:39:12Die!
00:39:13Die!
00:39:34You've got to kick your left up, Kenny. He's fine in your head with every punch.
00:39:37I know. Like we did in the gym, Cody.
00:39:38Why don't you do it to tell you?
00:39:40You've got the seventh coming up. I told you to dump him in the fifth.
00:39:42Can't I try him? I hit him with everything, the Jew.
00:39:46No, try harder.
00:39:47You punch him to the head.
00:40:05You've overmatched him, George.
00:40:16Wrap it up, Kenny.
00:40:17Go down.
00:40:22Okay.
00:40:31Toss it in, George.
00:40:33Please, George. You'll kill him.
00:40:36Get up!
00:40:38Get up!
00:40:40Get up!
00:40:43Five!
00:40:50Oh, come on, then!
00:40:54That's it! That's it! That's it!
00:40:58Oh, come on, then!
00:40:58That's it! That's it!
00:41:00Oh, come on!
00:41:14Coke, I don't usually give any postmortems, but after 20 years of writing about the fight
00:41:17game, I think I qualify as an expert.
00:41:19Well, here's three words of advice.
00:41:21Give it up.
00:41:23I don't know where you got the idea you could fight or who put the idea in your head, but
00:41:26you just haven't got it, son.
00:41:29If you're lucky, some boy with a hard right will kill you before you've been around too
00:41:32long.
00:41:33If you're lucky.
00:41:35So long, Coke.
00:41:36I hope I never see you again or read about you in the sports pages.
00:41:41I thought you'd never throw in that towel.
00:41:55Listen, kid, you can take it or leave it, but for what it's worth, I'm sorry.
00:41:59For what?
00:42:01You seen yourself in a mirror?
00:42:03All right, so it's my fault.
00:42:05Hungry for a buck, so I match you with Savella.
00:42:07Never again.
00:42:10Watkins was right.
00:42:11Neither one of us belong in this racket.
00:42:12And as of now, we're out of it.
00:42:14Tonight.
00:42:16You sure of that, George?
00:42:17I am.
00:42:20I lived a hundred years tonight.
00:42:23I thought I'd die before it was over.
00:42:25I don't want you to do it anymore, Coke, not ever.
00:42:29Listen, kid, this is George Sarkin, your big brother, remember?
00:42:31He knows all about you.
00:42:34He knows what happens when you get hit.
00:42:37Or you don't even know when you're getting cut to pieces.
00:42:40Well, I was ready to cash in on that.
00:42:43Tonight I learned a funny thing.
00:42:46Blood's thicker than water.
00:42:48Especially when it's all over your brother's face.
00:42:52Pull over.
00:42:54I said pull over.
00:42:56I want you to hear this.
00:43:02You know, this is very funny.
00:43:04All of a sudden, you're worried about me getting hurt.
00:43:06And all the time, I've been worried about hurting the other guy.
00:43:09I'm not worrying anymore.
00:43:12They were screaming for Savella to kill me tonight, weren't they?
00:43:15They'd have liked that.
00:43:17All right, I'll give them something to scream about.
00:43:21Maybe it'll take a little time, but I'll catch up with Savella.
00:43:24And I'll catch up with the champ, too.
00:43:26Then they can really scream.
00:43:29If you want to go along with me, that's great.
00:43:33What do you say?
00:43:35Have it your way, kid.
00:43:36Why do you listen to him?
00:43:37Why do you agree with him?
00:43:39No.
00:43:40No.
00:43:41No.
00:43:41Call it any way you like, Rose.
00:43:43But if you're going with me, you're going all the way.
00:43:46All the way.
00:43:50I went all the way.
00:43:52I knew by then that I was wrong.
00:43:54That I'd been wrong all the time.
00:43:57That I'd gotten out of one trap and fallen right into another.
00:44:01Because by now it had become a grim contest between Coke and the hatred of the crowds.
00:44:10Four rounds in Wilkes-Barre, four rounds in Jersey City, and four more stitches over Coke's eye.
00:44:16South to New Orleans, following the roads that lead past the arenas.
00:44:20They came to see him get hurt, and he never disappointed them.
00:44:24But he was winning, and the crowds were getting bigger all the time.
00:44:27And the hate that followed him was something you could almost reach out and touch.
00:44:32I knew he couldn't take that kind of hate without having something happen to him.
00:44:36Sometimes his face looked almost like a stranger's, and I'd get sick with fear.
00:44:41Wondering when his heart would be a stranger's, too.
00:44:46It was worse when Speed started fighting.
00:44:49Speed always fought clean, and the crowds loved him and cheered themselves hoarse for him.
00:44:55How I wished some of those cheers could have been for Coke.
00:45:03But it was Coke's name that made the copy in the headlines.
00:45:06And by the time he caught up with Savella in Chicago for a second fight, Coke was big-time news.
00:45:12You can quote me as saying Coke Mason will take Savella in five.
00:45:15That's official.
00:45:16Can you make it in one? I like to get home early when I work.
00:45:19You like to get home early, eh?
00:45:23How about that?
00:45:24Hello, George.
00:45:25Hi, George.
00:45:25Well, Carolyn, how are you?
00:45:27Just some time.
00:45:28Well, we'll have a look.
00:45:29Let me have a look.
00:45:30Ready, how are you?
00:45:33Look, there's Coke Mason.
00:45:35Boo!
00:45:37Boo!
00:45:38Hey, what's all the booing about?
00:45:40In my book, this is the nicest uncle man that ever stepped into the ring.
00:45:44And you know something funny?
00:45:45I'm not kidding.
00:45:48Hey, Coke, I've got a wonderful idea for a picture.
00:45:51Yeah?
00:45:52You tossing these dames out the window.
00:45:56Fan, huh?
00:45:57I didn't know I had one.
00:45:59Photographer, too.
00:45:59How come?
00:46:00How come fan or how come photographer?
00:46:02Either one.
00:46:03It's a long, tedious story.
00:46:04How about a drink?
00:46:06Sure, what would you like?
00:46:08We'll keep that a secret.
00:46:09But I'll take a sidecar.
00:46:13Max here doesn't think I can take Savella.
00:46:15Oh?
00:46:17Oh, well, you know my wife.
00:46:19Oh, yes, yes, of course.
00:46:20How are you, Mrs. Mason?
00:46:21Here.
00:46:22Rose is Miss Ford.
00:46:23Hello.
00:46:24How do you do?
00:46:26Believe it or not, I'm waiting for a sidecar.
00:46:29Speed, I see you're finding a semi-wind-up on the same card with Coke.
00:46:32That's right, Mr. Watkins.
00:46:33Keep it up, Speed.
00:46:33Maybe someday you'll be in there with him.
00:46:35No, thanks, Mr. Watkins.
00:46:36Speed, baby.
00:46:37How about showing me the city lights from the terrace?
00:46:39Oh, I would, only I'm in training and all that night airway.
00:46:41Oh, for goodness sake.
00:46:45Did Coke ever tell you I advised him to quit after the first Savella fight?
00:46:49Yes.
00:46:51So did I.
00:46:52Why, Mrs. Mason?
00:46:53Why?
00:46:55Because I love him.
00:46:57I want to keep on loving him.
00:47:01Uh, tell me, Max, how come you picked Savella in your column?
00:47:05Well, because I don't believe Savella slipped too much or Coke has come up far enough.
00:47:09Of course, I could be wrong.
00:47:11You are.
00:47:12I can take Savella and he knows it.
00:47:14Well, frankly, it doesn't make that much difference.
00:47:16He's right, Coke.
00:47:17It doesn't.
00:47:18It doesn't.
00:47:29Taking Savella means a shot at the champ.
00:47:31How doesn't that count with you anymore?
00:47:33Coke, we've got $11,000 in the bank in spite of what George spends.
00:47:38Let's get our radio story.
00:47:39It isn't the money.
00:47:40I've told you enough times.
00:47:42Not the money, it's the title.
00:47:43That's what I want and that's what I'm going to get.
00:47:45Coke.
00:47:46Then we'll be great.
00:47:47I have the title.
00:47:53Sure.
00:47:55Sure.
00:48:01Mr. Mason, the phone, please.
00:48:05Excuse me.
00:48:11Sure, all fights are a gamble.
00:48:13How's this, Mason?
00:48:14This is Herb Riley.
00:48:16How soon can I see you?
00:48:17You don't see me.
00:48:19Well, this is Coke, Mason.
00:48:20Yeah.
00:48:21I guess you want my brother.
00:48:22Wait a minute.
00:48:23Don't quote me on this, but if we take Savella, which we will...
00:48:26George, telephone.
00:48:27I wouldn't be at all surprised if you saw a championship fight in six months.
00:48:31Herb Riley wants to talk to you.
00:48:33Oh, Riley, huh?
00:48:35Maybe Savella's getting cold feet.
00:48:37Yeah.
00:48:38Yeah, Riley, this is George.
00:48:39George, I've got to have that dough and I've got to have it quick.
00:48:42Well, I just haven't got it, Riley.
00:48:44Then go out and raise it.
00:48:45There's got to be somebody you can go to.
00:48:48Well, there might be one place.
00:48:50I didn't want to try, but I will.
00:48:52Okay.
00:48:53Come on down, Wills.
00:48:54We'll talk it over.
00:48:55Yeah, Riley, I'll be right down.
00:48:58What's the matter?
00:48:58Something wrong?
00:48:59Oh, no, no.
00:49:00Just about the percentages.
00:49:01Don't say anything to him.
00:49:02I'll straighten it out.
00:49:04Don't lose me this fight.
00:49:06I want Savella.
00:49:07Even if we have to take peanuts, I want Savella.
00:49:08Quit worrying, will you?
00:49:09You'll get him.
00:49:11Hey, Speed.
00:49:11Yeah?
00:49:12Help Coke pour for the gas, huh?
00:49:18Have you spoken to Coke about it?
00:49:20To Coke?
00:49:21Why, he'd blow his top in ten directions.
00:49:23He figures he can take Savella.
00:49:24Don't you?
00:49:25Nothing's that sure in this racket.
00:49:27Rose, you know that.
00:49:28The thing is that if Savella throws the fight,
00:49:30we get a shot at the title.
00:49:30Look, Mrs. Mason, George agrees with me.
00:49:34In the fight business, what you figure don't count,
00:49:37unless it's with an ad machine.
00:49:40Maybe, maybe Coke takes my boy, legitimate.
00:49:43Maybe he don't.
00:49:44And maybe he gets his brains knocked out,
00:49:47all to no purpose.
00:49:49George can tell you that Savella's ruined a lot of good boys.
00:49:52You don't have to tell me that.
00:49:54That's the only reason I'm listening to you at all.
00:49:57What happens if we win over Savella?
00:49:59What do you mean, what happens?
00:50:00I just told you, a crack at the title, that's what.
00:50:02What happens then?
00:50:03What are you worried about, Rose?
00:50:05Didn't Coke promise to quit after he wins the title?
00:50:07Coke can take Savella without a payoff.
00:50:09He can, and you know it.
00:50:11Then why are you offering to let Savella throw the fight?
00:50:14All right, Mrs. Mason.
00:50:16Supposing there's an outside chance that Coke can win.
00:50:20It'll go the limit.
00:50:21And when it's over,
00:50:22neither of those boys will ever fight again.
00:50:25They'll be ruined.
00:50:26Beat to death.
00:50:27Sure, Savella's over the hill.
00:50:29But if I rate him along easy like,
00:50:31he's got two, three more years of fighting left in him
00:50:33before I've got to throw him away.
00:50:35Does that make sense?
00:50:37Well, not at 15,000.
00:50:39Say, 12,500.
00:50:41Say, 10, Mr. Riley.
00:50:43And you might have yourself a deal.
00:50:52Say, 12,000.
00:50:53Say, 12,000.
00:51:02Say, 12,000.
00:51:04Say, 12,000.
00:51:07Oh, my God.
00:51:35How's it going, Speed?
00:51:36Thanks, champ. Thanks a lot.
00:51:37As soon as I change, I'll be down at your corner.
00:51:53Never mind these characters, Coke.
00:51:59Get them off, will you? Coke's in the ring.
00:52:00You've got time.
00:52:02Get my pants and a sweater.
00:52:04Another year and he'll be in your corner.
00:52:06He ain't in the same league with you.
00:52:08You're punchy. Coke's a champ.
00:52:10In another year, I'll have the title to prove it.
00:52:21Nice fight, Speed.
00:52:23Congratulations.
00:52:24Thanks, Mr. Watkins.
00:52:25Thanks a lot.
00:52:31Look at the way Coke works.
00:52:33Isn't he wonderful?
00:52:35No.
00:52:46Come back a long way, George.
00:52:49Send them back even further.
00:52:50Only don't get careless.
00:52:52Bring them along till about the fifth.
00:52:53By then, he'll be tired.
00:52:55By then, he'll be tired.
00:52:56Give them away, folks.想
00:53:15chapter one of mine. Don't
00:53:15let him off the side again. Let him
00:53:17out next. Go에,
00:53:22go. Go!
00:53:49Stop taking them.
00:53:50You want that eye on your chest?
00:53:53Rock, hold!
00:53:54Come in, show me how.
00:53:56I can't figure it, George.
00:53:59It isn't the same.
00:54:00It isn't even punch.
00:54:01So what?
00:54:02You do it for him.
00:54:29Well, there's one you missed, Max.
00:54:31Yeah.
00:54:35Granted, Coke Mason can hit.
00:54:37Granted, he's the dirtiest, roughest fighter that ever stepped into the ring.
00:54:39Still, that knockout needs explaining.
00:54:51And it's your contention that you know nothing of any arrangement by which Savella agreed
00:54:55to lose.
00:54:55Agreed to lose?
00:54:56I can take Savella today, tomorrow, any day in the week.
00:54:59If there's any doubt in your mind, or in here...
00:55:01All right, Mason, that's enough of that.
00:55:02You're not in back of some saloon.
00:55:04I've been in saloons where the air was a whole lot sweeter than it is here.
00:55:07This stinks, and you know it stinks.
00:55:10Maybe I'm not the kind of fancy damn fighter that Watkins likes, but if he says we bought
00:55:13this fight, he's a liar.
00:55:15And you can write that.
00:55:17I will write it.
00:55:18Because I think you believe every word you said.
00:55:21Is it a lie you spoke to Herb Riley at your hotel last week?
00:55:25That you sat with him in the bar and discussed a deal?
00:55:27That I spoke with him, no.
00:55:29That I discussed a deal with him, that's a lie, yeah.
00:55:32Look, could I say something?
00:55:34What is it?
00:55:36Three ribs cracked.
00:55:37Riley's got the x-rays.
00:55:39If I took a dive, I sure timed it bad.
00:55:46I'll drop you off at the hotel, then I'll...
00:55:48Better come up to the hotel with me.
00:55:50Well, later.
00:55:51I want to make sure the newspapers get the right slant in this story.
00:55:54I want to use those x-ray pictures and nail this thing down solid.
00:55:57I said come up with me.
00:56:03Everything's under control, children.
00:56:05Relax.
00:56:05They cleared you.
00:56:06I knew they would.
00:56:07That's great, champ.
00:56:07Did you tell them all?
00:56:08What about the purse?
00:56:09Oh, I pick up the check this afternoon.
00:56:10Then we fly down to New York and see what we can do about a title bomb.
00:56:13That suit you?
00:56:14No.
00:56:16Well, why not?
00:56:18Rose and I are going to stay in Chicago.
00:56:20Found the store we've been looking for, and the price is right.
00:56:23The store?
00:56:24Yeah, our store.
00:56:26The radio store you've been wanting to own.
00:56:28You want to quit fighting?
00:56:31That's what you want, isn't it?
00:56:33What's eating you, Colt?
00:56:35Did you drop your buttons?
00:56:36Isn't that what you want?
00:56:36A radio store?
00:56:39Yes, but...
00:56:40But what?
00:56:41Well, can we afford it?
00:56:43Yeah, that surveillance purse wasn't too heavy, you know.
00:56:44O'Reilly didn't want the fight.
00:56:45I had to take the short end to get his boy in the ring for you.
00:56:47But with that under your belt...
00:56:49We did get 10 grand, though, didn't we?
00:56:50Yeah, you're thinking about that, maybe 11.
00:56:53You've got 11 in the bank.
00:56:55Colt, I...
00:56:57I haven't got 11 in the bank.
00:57:00Why not?
00:57:01Look, look, Colt, I...
00:57:02You knew I wanted to take Savella.
00:57:04I waited to take Savella, but you didn't think I could.
00:57:06Why don't you forget Savella?
00:57:07What makes you think I need any help from you at all, in the ring or out?
00:57:10What?
00:57:11When didn't you need my help?
00:57:13Remember me?
00:57:14I'm the guy that took you out of the mines.
00:57:16I took you from a shack in Colt Town to this...
00:57:18This suite in Chicago.
00:57:20Get out.
00:57:22Go on out and find yourself a no-meal ticket, because you and I are all wrapped up.
00:57:26Okay.
00:57:27Okay, brother, I might do just that.
00:57:30Another thing.
00:57:31I'm gonna send you right back to the mines, where you belong.
00:57:35Wait a minute, Coca.
00:57:36I put up the money to fix the fight, not George.
00:57:38I did it because I didn't want you to get hurt anymore.
00:57:40I wanted you to go on and get your title so you'd quit.
00:57:44Well, I was wrong.
00:57:46You'll never quit.
00:57:48You like it too much.
00:57:50You like to hear them scream for blood, and you like to give it to them.
00:57:53You like to get in there and beat a man to death.
00:57:56You like to kill...
00:58:02Champ.
00:58:03Champ, I'm sorry.
00:58:06Champ.
00:58:06I'm...
00:58:07I'm sorry, I...
00:58:12Wait a minute, Colton.
00:58:15Wait a minute.
00:58:19No!
00:58:21No!
00:58:22No!
00:58:23No!
00:58:24No!
00:58:24No!
00:58:26No!
00:58:27No!
00:58:28No!
00:58:29No!
00:58:30No!
00:58:30No!
00:58:33No!
00:58:38Help me get him out of here!
00:58:39Help me!
00:58:40Get him out of here!
00:58:43So, it had happened.
00:58:44The thing I was always afraid of.
00:58:46It was all over.
00:58:48I never saw Cope, but he was around.
00:58:52And I knew who he was around with.
00:58:54And in spite of everything, I honestly hoped she could make him happy.
00:58:58I hadn't been much good at it.
00:59:05Cope, why don't you run out to Long Island for a couple of days?
00:59:08Montauk Point or somewhere like that.
00:59:10It's quiet there and you can sort of relax.
00:59:12No one relax.
00:59:13I don't like the word, forget it.
00:59:15Relax? What's wrong with relax?
00:59:18I said forget it.
00:59:20It's for God.
00:59:22Hi, Stanley. We're not eating scotch and water for the lady.
00:59:31Cope?
00:59:32Yeah?
00:59:33Today I was offered an assignment in Europe.
00:59:36I think I ought to take him.
00:59:39Suit yourself.
00:59:41Cope, you don't want me.
00:59:43You've got your mind all tied up with a lot of ancient history.
00:59:46A lot of other people.
00:59:49One in particular.
00:59:51And that's all right.
00:59:53She's always been best for you anyway.
00:59:57You can forget that, too.
01:00:00That one won't be so easy.
01:00:02Oh, Cope, remember me?
01:00:03I'm Mike Durant.
01:00:04I handled Denny Coslow, Irish Paddy Dunn, Tony Jacobs, and a few other good boys up there.
01:00:08You passed.
01:00:09Smartest thing you ever did, splitting with George.
01:00:11Now you can make yourself some real cabbage.
01:00:14Take me, for instance.
01:00:15Suppose I don't want to take you.
01:00:18Always a joker, huh?
01:00:20I can book you into the arena for a go with Mickey Foreman.
01:00:23It'd be a sellout at a $50 top.
01:00:25You can book him into the arena?
01:00:26They wouldn't let you through the door.
01:00:28Hello, Cope.
01:00:29I'm Big Nose Cassidy.
01:00:30I see you in Chicago.
01:00:32When you stop Cervelli, do you mind shoving over just a little?
01:00:34Shove over.
01:00:34And I say to myself, Big Nose, there's a boy you gotta handle.
01:00:38Under you, he goes far with great quickness.
01:00:40You make him champ before the year is split.
01:00:42You make him champ?
01:00:43He couldn't make a cup of coffee.
01:00:45Oh, coffee it is.
01:00:47Oh, Cope.
01:00:48Oh, Cope.
01:00:48Hey, Mr. Watkins.
01:00:50Uh, how would you gentlemen like to, uh, handle me?
01:00:54Huh?
01:00:54At the bar.
01:00:56Oh, sure, sure, sure.
01:00:58Right ahead.
01:01:03Sorry I'm late, Cope.
01:01:04It's all right.
01:01:05I just got here myself.
01:01:06What's so important you want to talk to me about?
01:01:09I need to manage you.
01:01:11Well, you might try Joe Gardella.
01:01:13He's one of the best.
01:01:14I want you to manage me.
01:01:16Set your own percentage.
01:01:17Me?
01:01:17I'm a newspaper man.
01:01:19I wish you'd do it, Max.
01:01:20You're the only one I can trust.
01:01:21Oh, it wouldn't work.
01:01:22But I do owe you something, Cope.
01:01:24I hold myself responsible for your break with Rose and with George.
01:01:29Why?
01:01:30Cervelli took a dive and you knew it.
01:01:32You didn't.
01:01:34I could have taken him, Max.
01:01:37When I meet Mike Schaefer, the title, I'll take him.
01:01:40Maybe then even you'll believe I can fight.
01:01:43Maybe they'll believe it, too.
01:01:45That mob in the seats would boo their heads off every time I get into the ring.
01:01:49It hurts, doesn't it?
01:01:51Yeah.
01:01:52Strange.
01:01:53Strange, I never thought it would get to you.
01:01:55Why not?
01:01:56I bleed a little when I'm cut.
01:01:59What is it they want from me?
01:02:02I pay to see a fight and I give it to them.
01:02:05All right.
01:02:06I know I go a little crazy sometimes when I'm in there going after a guy, but...
01:02:10They've got you, Peg, who's a dirty fighter.
01:02:12Quite frankly, you are.
01:02:14The crowd doesn't like a man who'll do anything to win.
01:02:18When you're going after a guy, as you say,
01:02:21you know if getting him meant killing him, you'd do it.
01:02:24Why, I don't know.
01:02:26Do you?
01:02:26No.
01:02:29Not exactly.
01:02:31In a way, I do, but...
01:02:33But what?
01:02:35Well, when I'm in there, when I'm getting hit,
01:02:40it's as though I were fighting for my life.
01:02:42Go on.
01:02:45When I was with George in the mining towns when I was a kid,
01:02:48I was always big for my age.
01:02:50Much bigger than the other kids.
01:02:53When I tried to do anything, I was clumsy.
01:02:56I'd laugh.
01:02:58It bothered me.
01:02:59Got so high.
01:03:00I couldn't take it anymore.
01:03:02George kept telling me to forget about it, but I couldn't.
01:03:05Finally, I made a stand.
01:03:07I took on about ten of them.
01:03:09Before George could drag me off, I'd almost killed a couple of them.
01:03:13When he told me about it later, I was scared.
01:03:16Because I didn't remember anything about it.
01:03:19All I know is that I'd been fighting for my life.
01:03:25That's what happens when I get into the ring.
01:03:29This doesn't make much sense to you.
01:03:34You take Joe Gardella, and I'll be in your corner.
01:03:37And you win the championship.
01:03:40And I'll tell you something.
01:03:42You're not a kid anymore, Coke.
01:03:45One of these days, you're going to grow up and be able to face humiliation without wanting to kill.
01:03:52And I'll tell you something else.
01:03:54When you do grow up, it may cost you the title.
01:04:19The new heavyweight champion of the world, Coke Mason!
01:04:26So at last, he'd won his title.
01:04:28I hoped they'd cheer him now that he was champion.
01:04:31And at last, he'd feel that he could quit.
01:04:34But they didn't.
01:04:35And so he went on fighting.
01:04:37And now I knew he'd never quit.
01:04:40Coke was a fighting champion.
01:04:42The kind of champion who defended his title against all comers.
01:04:45All but one.
01:04:47Speedo Keefe is the best in the heavyweight division.
01:04:49And the cleanest.
01:04:50You've got to give Speedo Kriker the title next.
01:04:52He's ready for Coke.
01:04:53I'm not sure Coke is ready for Speed.
01:04:56You're so right.
01:04:57Speedo Keefe's forgotten more about fighting than Coke will ever learn.
01:05:00I agree with you.
01:05:01So you play cozy and won't give us a fight, huh?
01:05:03Is that your idea or Coke's?
01:05:04No, Coke's idea is to give you your fight.
01:05:07Well, then what's been holding it up?
01:05:09No, just a notion Coke has.
01:05:10What, a notion he might lose his title?
01:05:13That's for you to figure out.
01:05:15All right, all right.
01:05:17You can tell, Speedo, he's got himself a fight.
01:05:20Well, that's more like it.
01:05:33Rose!
01:05:34How are you?
01:05:35Oh, excuse us, will you, fellas?
01:05:38Rose, what brings you to New York?
01:05:40I just wanted to look at you.
01:05:42I wanted to see how low a sports writer could get.
01:05:46Rose, what are you trying to say?
01:05:47You know what, the match with Speed?
01:05:49It wasn't my idea.
01:05:50Stopped it if you'd want it to.
01:05:52He listens to you.
01:05:53But no, it's copy.
01:05:55Rose, you don't mean that.
01:05:56You know what can happen.
01:05:58You know it's got to happen someday.
01:06:00Coke is going to kill somebody.
01:06:02If you're thinking about Speed, you're...
01:06:03Yes, I'm thinking about Speed, and I'm thinking about Coke.
01:06:06You know what happened to them.
01:06:08You know what happens to Coke when he gets in the ring.
01:06:10Suppose it's Speed that he kills.
01:06:12What then?
01:06:14Go on, tell me.
01:06:15I'm wasting my breath, because it'll make a swell story,
01:06:18and you'll feel just fine.
01:06:20Rose, Rose.
01:06:26Unless I'm wrong, Coke is going to fight a great fight.
01:06:29For something a lot bigger than the title.
01:06:31He's got to grow up, Rose.
01:06:33He's got to face it someday.
01:06:36And you've got to face it, too.
01:06:49Looks pretty sharp.
01:06:50Yes, sir, like a razor.
01:06:53Well, he better be.
01:06:55Well, what are you doing around here?
01:06:57Still a newspaper man, you remember?
01:06:59Well, you can quote me as saying Speed will take the trap in six.
01:07:02Do I use the word tramp?
01:07:03And be sure you spell it right.
01:07:05T-R-A-M-P.
01:07:07Okay, time.
01:07:09Hi, Mr. Watkins.
01:07:11Hey, you look good, Speed.
01:07:12Real good, thanks.
01:07:14How's...
01:07:15How's tricks?
01:07:16Oh, fine, fine.
01:07:17I got a quote from George here.
01:07:18He says you're going to take the trap in six.
01:07:20Anything to add to that, Speed?
01:07:21You can say the same for me.
01:07:23Only the word is champ.
01:07:24Be sure to spell it right, Mr. Watkins.
01:07:26I will, Speed.
01:07:27Uh, Mr. Watkins.
01:07:28Yeah?
01:07:31Tell Coke.
01:07:34Well, I know how he fights.
01:07:36And no matter what happens, or what has happened, I won't ever hold anything against him.
01:07:42I think Coke knows that, Speed.
01:07:44What and?
01:08:04Move!
01:08:07Move on!
01:08:09Move on!
01:08:09Move!
01:08:12Move on!
01:08:13The challenger is worthy opponent from Coal Town, Pennsylvania, weighing 198 pounds, that very popular boy, Steve O'Keefe!
01:08:28Listen to that ovation!
01:08:30There's been quite a contrast here tonight between those cheers for the challenger and the tremendous booing that the crowd
01:08:36gave the champion.
01:08:39Now, boys, you know the rules laid down by the Athletic Commission. I want a nice, clean fight.
01:08:42And Mason, champ or no champ, this goes for you.
01:08:45Keep all your punches in fair territory. In case of a knockdown, the standing fighter goes to the farthest neutral
01:08:49corner and stays there until I tell him to come out and resume fighting.
01:08:53Shake hands now and come out fighting at the bell, and good luck to both of you.
01:09:08Let's go!
01:09:12Let's go!
01:09:20Let's go!
01:09:26Let's go!
01:09:34One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
01:09:49Go!
01:10:27Smart tiger. I told you to stay outside and sharpshoot.
01:11:11I told you to stay outside and sharpshoot.
01:11:26Hey, what's happened to Coke? He sure changed his style. What did he do? Max, leave his knife in the
01:11:30dressing room?
01:11:31No. Coke had a notion. Guess he's trying it out.
01:11:38Every dime we got in the world is riding on this one. Do you hear me?
01:11:41Is that all that's riding?
01:12:00Keep away from him, Speed. Keep away from him.
01:12:14One, two, three, four, five, six.
01:12:26They have much!
01:12:44So far, it just isn't Coke Mason's kind of a fight.
01:12:46Either he's running out of gas,
01:12:48I don't think anybody at this ringside believes that for a minute.
01:12:52Or, and you can take this commentator's opinion for what it's worth,
01:12:55for the first time in his life,
01:12:56the champion is trying to fight a clean fight.
01:13:02a good one.
01:13:08It's easy to say.
01:13:09You can take this one.
01:13:09You can take this one.
01:13:11Oh, no.
01:13:12Oh, no.
01:13:16Oh, no, no.
01:13:23Oh.
01:13:25Oh.
01:13:26Oh, no.
01:13:26Oh, no.
01:13:26Oh, no, no.
01:13:28Oh, no.
01:13:58That's the bell for the end of the 12th round.
01:14:00Mason's seconds are in the ring, helping him to his corner.
01:14:02They're working over him frantically.
01:14:06I told you to put him away, do you hear?
01:14:08I told you to put him away.
01:14:09I tried, George. I hit him with everything. I tried.
01:14:12And right now it looks as though only a miracle can prevent the crowning of a new heavyweight champion here
01:14:16tonight.
01:14:16And the answer seems to be that Coke Mason has not only fought a superb fight, a tremendous fight, but
01:14:22a clean one.
01:14:45One, two, three.
01:15:04One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
01:15:18One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
01:15:45There's pandemonium here in ringside.
01:15:48O'Keefe was sagging against the ropes out on his feet, and it was only the bell that saved him.
01:16:00There's something strange about this crowd.
01:16:02When Coke Mason entered this ring tonight, he was booed as I've never heard a fighter booed before in my
01:16:07life.
01:16:07They're not booing him now.
01:16:37The winner and the new heavyweight champion of the world, Steve O'Keefe.
01:16:58Come on, kid. Let's go.
01:17:16It's you that hit the chair, you kid. It's you.
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