Not Rated | 1h 27min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 13 February 1955 (USA)
A police lt. is ordered to stop investigating deadly crime boss Mr. Brown, because he hasn't been able to get any hard evidence against him. He then goes after Brown's girlfriend who despises him, for information instead.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis (as Joseph Lewis)
Writer: Philip Yordan (by)
Stars: Richard Conte, Jean Wallace, Cornel Wilde
We have over 15,000 titles available for licensing to VOD platforms. Contact: sales@echelonstudios.us
A police lt. is ordered to stop investigating deadly crime boss Mr. Brown, because he hasn't been able to get any hard evidence against him. He then goes after Brown's girlfriend who despises him, for information instead.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis (as Joseph Lewis)
Writer: Philip Yordan (by)
Stars: Richard Conte, Jean Wallace, Cornel Wilde
We have over 15,000 titles available for licensing to VOD platforms. Contact: sales@echelonstudios.us
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00:02:46I don't want to see the fights.
00:02:49I'm hungry.
00:02:52Call a cab.
00:02:56Call a cab.
00:02:57But Mr. Brown...
00:02:58Mr. Brown says to keep her happy.
00:03:00Call a cab.
00:03:04Call a cab.
00:03:06But Mr. Brown...
00:03:07Mr. Brown says to keep her happy.
00:03:08Call a cab.
00:03:33Call a cab.
00:03:4693rd Precinct. Sergeant Lee.
00:03:48What's that I have?
00:03:49Captain Peterson.
00:03:51Yes, sir, I know, sir.
00:03:52Lieutenant.
00:03:53He's off duty, sir.
00:03:54But he's still in his office.
00:03:55I know, I know.
00:03:561B3, roger.
00:04:00It's good to see you relaxed for a change.
00:04:02Good evening, Captain.
00:04:03Anything urgent?
00:04:04Urgent?
00:04:07Anything urgent, I leave to my subordinates.
00:04:09There's some good 10-cent cigars in that box.
00:04:11No, thanks. They're all off cigars.
00:04:13Randy.
00:04:14My doctor's got me off everything worth living for.
00:04:16Almost.
00:04:19Leonard.
00:04:20Yes, sir.
00:04:21There's got to be a stop to your complete disregard of the taxpayers' money.
00:04:24I paid for this apple out of my own pocket, Captain.
00:04:27Leonard, you've spent $18,600 in the last six months
00:04:31investigating one man.
00:04:33A single man.
00:04:35Brown's not a man.
00:04:36He's an organization.
00:04:38And I need money to fight money.
00:04:40Now, look, Lieutenant.
00:04:41I've got nothing against you personally.
00:04:43I admire you.
00:04:45You've got too many brains, but that's not your fault.
00:04:48Now, what about this $18,600?
00:04:51How am I going to explain this to the commissioner?
00:04:54Well, I dictated an explanation if you want to use it.
00:05:00Memorandum to Captain Peterson
00:05:02covering expenditures of the 93rd Precinct Station.
00:05:05The Combination is growing stronger every day.
00:05:08The only way to crush it is to get the top man.
00:05:11When Grazzi left the country, Brown...
00:05:14What do you think this is, a homicide investigation?
00:05:17You're dealing with the largest pool of illegal money in the world.
00:05:20You're fighting a swamp with a teaspoon.
00:05:25Combination keeps no books, no records.
00:05:27Everything's run on word of mouth and hard cash.
00:05:30That's their one weakness.
00:05:31What?
00:05:32They have to have a treasurer.
00:05:33So?
00:05:34And I know his name.
00:05:35The name of a man who can pick up a phone
00:05:37and call Chicago and New Orleans and say,
00:05:39Hey, Bill, Joe is coming down for the weekend.
00:05:42Advance him $50,000.
00:05:44And he hangs up the phone and the money is advanced.
00:05:46Protection money.
00:05:48A new all-night bar opens with gambling outside city limits.
00:05:52A bunch of high school kids come in for a good time.
00:05:55They get loaded.
00:05:56They get irresponsible.
00:05:57They lose their shirts.
00:05:59And they get a gun.
00:06:00Because they're worried.
00:06:01They want to make up their losses.
00:06:02And a filling station attendant is dead with a bullet in his liver.
00:06:07I have to see four kids on trial for first-degree murder.
00:06:11Look at it.
00:06:12First-degree murder because a certain Mr. Brown picks up a phone.
00:06:15You can't touch Brown.
00:06:16He's clean.
00:06:18He's got nothing on him.
00:06:19Not even a parking ticket.
00:06:20Why is he so careful?
00:06:21It's unnatural.
00:06:22You can't tell a jury a man's guilty because he's too innocent to be natural.
00:06:25He's no more innocent than this gun.
00:06:26Oh, now, stop getting emotional at it.
00:06:28He's innocent until he's proven guilty.
00:06:31Yes, Captain.
00:06:35Is there anything else, Captain?
00:06:38Yes.
00:06:39It's a girl.
00:06:41Susan Lowe.
00:06:44He's had a tail on her for six months.
00:06:46Why?
00:06:48She's Brown's girl.
00:06:50She's our most valuable lead.
00:06:52We know next to nothing about Brown, but a woman knows.
00:06:55She makes it her business to know.
00:06:57If I can get hold of her and make her talk...
00:06:59Oh, Leonard, you spent six months trying.
00:07:01She went to Vegas, you went to Vegas.
00:07:03She flew to Cuba, you flew to Cuba.
00:07:05Couldn't get authorization for the expense.
00:07:07Paid it out of your own pocket?
00:07:08I had to.
00:07:09You wouldn't back me up.
00:07:10Well, I'm not in love with her, Leonard.
00:07:11You are.
00:07:22This is off the record, Leonard.
00:07:24It's between friends.
00:07:27Try to face facts.
00:07:31Can't bear to think of her in the arms of this foot.
00:07:34Forget it.
00:07:38You're a cop, Leonard.
00:07:39There's 17,000 guns in this country.
00:07:42You're a cop.
00:07:44You're a cop.
00:07:46You're a cop.
00:07:48You're a cop.
00:07:49You're a cop.
00:07:50There's 17,000 laws on the books to be enforced.
00:07:53You haven't time to reform wayward girls.
00:07:57She's been with Brown three and a half years.
00:08:00That's a lot of days.
00:08:03And nights.
00:08:05Face it, Leonard.
00:08:09I'm glad you agree.
00:08:38Just don't run away.
00:08:39We'd only have to come after you.
00:08:40Mr. Brown wouldn't like that.
00:08:44Mr. Audible.
00:08:46Susan.
00:08:47Well, hi.
00:08:48Well, I'm glad to see you.
00:08:49How are you?
00:08:50It's been years.
00:08:51Well, you look so different somehow, Susan.
00:08:53I...
00:08:54Well, I hardly recognized you.
00:08:55Oh, I'm just the same, Mr. Audible.
00:08:58How's your lovely mother?
00:08:59She's in England someplace.
00:09:00I haven't kept track.
00:09:02I should think you'd have gone along.
00:09:03I hear that Blatovich is playing a Beethoven cycle.
00:09:06Oh, I...
00:09:07I haven't the interest I once had in the piano, Mr. Audible.
00:09:10Well, now I'm disappointed.
00:09:12You don't play anymore.
00:09:14The only thing I play now, Mr. Audible, is stud poker.
00:09:20Will you dance with me, Mr. Audible?
00:09:23Why, certainly, Susan.
00:09:25You all right?
00:09:26Oh, of course.
00:09:27Of course.
00:09:40Today, Mr. Brown, let's go our little lady.
00:09:43I'll do it personally.
00:09:50Mr. Audible.
00:09:51Susan.
00:09:52I've taken some pills.
00:09:54I think I'm dying, Mr. Audible.
00:09:55Susan!
00:09:57Get in, get in.
00:09:59Get the hell over here.
00:10:02Get back.
00:10:03Get her hair.
00:10:04Where's Carol?
00:10:05I don't know.
00:10:06She's right here.
00:10:07I don't know.
00:10:08I don't know.
00:10:20How do you feel now, Benny?
00:10:22Lost.
00:10:23I feel terrible, Mr. Brown.
00:10:25You kept fighting, Benny.
00:10:26You've got heart.
00:10:27Lost three of my teeth, too.
00:10:29All right, so you're lost.
00:10:30Next time, you'll win.
00:10:31I'll show you how.
00:10:33Take a look at Joe McClaw here.
00:10:35He used to be my boss.
00:10:36Now he's his.
00:10:37What's the difference between me and him?
00:10:40We breathe the same air, sleep in the same hotel.
00:10:43He used to own it!
00:10:45He used to own it!
00:10:46Now it belongs to me.
00:10:48We eat the same steaks, drink the same bourbon.
00:10:50Look.
00:10:51Same manicure.
00:10:52Same cufflinks.
00:10:54But there's only one difference.
00:10:56We don't get the same girls.
00:10:58Why?
00:10:59Because women know the difference.
00:11:01They got instinct.
00:11:03First is first and second is nobody.
00:11:05But bus men won the night, Mr. Brown.
00:11:07You were better than Martinez.
00:11:09Only you threw it away.
00:11:10You step in the ring and shake hands with them.
00:11:12You're not a man.
00:11:14You step in the ring and shake hands with them.
00:11:16You want to be his friend and you want to fight him.
00:11:18No, Benny, no.
00:11:20Mr. Brown.
00:11:21Shut the door.
00:11:24Now, Benny, who runs the world?
00:11:26Have you any idea?
00:11:28Not me, Mr. Brown.
00:11:29That's right, not you.
00:11:31But a funny thing.
00:11:32They're not so much different from you.
00:11:34They've got something.
00:11:36They've got it and they use it.
00:11:37I've got it, he hasn't.
00:11:39So what is it, Benny?
00:11:41What makes the difference?
00:11:44Hate.
00:11:46Hate is the word, Benny.
00:11:48Hate the man who tries to beat you.
00:11:50Kill him, Benny, kill him.
00:11:51Hate him until you see red
00:11:52and you'll come out winning the big money.
00:11:55And the girls will come tumbling after.
00:11:59You'll have to shut off your phone
00:12:00and lock the door to get a night's rest.
00:12:05Get on your feet, Benny.
00:12:13What did you do that for, Mr. Brown?
00:12:16You should have hit me back.
00:12:17You haven't got the hate.
00:12:20Tear up Benny's contract.
00:12:21He's no good to me anymore.
00:12:27Where's Susan in the car?
00:12:29I tried to tell you before, Mr. Brown.
00:12:30Tell me what?
00:12:31She's in General Hospital.
00:12:33What happened?
00:12:34She took some pills.
00:12:37Get the car and bring it around.
00:12:39Buy me some cigarettes.
00:12:43Take the fourth and Broadway.
00:12:45You don't buy these.
00:13:13Where is she?
00:13:15General Hospital.
00:13:17She's dying.
00:13:33You can take her to the prison ward now.
00:13:37Hello, Lieutenant.
00:13:38This is Mr. Brown.
00:13:41What do you want, Mr. Brown?
00:13:43Joe, tell the man I want her out.
00:13:45Mr. Brown would like to have Miss Lowell released.
00:13:46He'll put her in a private hospital.
00:13:48Is he a relative?
00:13:49Not exactly.
00:13:50Married to her?
00:13:51Just a personal friend.
00:13:52Visiting days are Tuesdays and Fridays.
00:13:53I don't know how you two got in here.
00:13:54You can get out the way you came in.
00:13:55Tell the man not to get excited.
00:13:57Mr. Brown is a very reasonable man.
00:13:59You don't know him.
00:14:00Oh, is he?
00:14:02Well, I'm not.
00:14:03And I intend to make life very difficult
00:14:04for your Mr. Brown.
00:14:06You shouldn't talk like that, Lieutenant.
00:14:08You're overstepping your authority.
00:14:09Joe, the man has reason to hate me.
00:14:11His salary is $96.50 a week.
00:14:13The busboys at my hotel make better money than that.
00:14:15Don't you see, Joe?
00:14:16He's a righteous man.
00:14:18Personal feelings mean nothing to him.
00:14:20My girl's dying in a public hospital
00:14:21and I want her out.
00:14:23She's under arrest, Mr. Brown.
00:14:25What's the charge?
00:14:26Homicide.
00:14:27That's ridiculous.
00:14:28She wouldn't kill a fly.
00:14:29She tried to kill herself.
00:14:30Is that a crime?
00:14:31It happens to be against two laws,
00:14:32gods and mans.
00:14:33I'm booking her under the second.
00:14:35Tell the man if he puts her on trial, I'll...
00:14:37Dr. Gamanza, wanted in surgery.
00:14:41Dr. Gamanza, wanted in surgery.
00:14:46Alicia.
00:14:48Alicia.
00:14:52Susan.
00:14:54Stay away from the prisoner, Mr. Brown.
00:14:56Susan, are you all right?
00:14:57Brown, stay where you are.
00:14:58Susan.
00:15:02I'm sorry.
00:15:03Susan.
00:15:10Joe.
00:15:12Tell the man I'm going to break him so fast
00:15:13he won't have time to change his pants.
00:15:15Tell him the next time I see him
00:15:16he'll be down in the lobby of the hotel
00:15:17crying like a baby and asking for a $10 loan.
00:15:20Tell him that.
00:15:22And tell him I don't break my word.
00:15:24You must have done something pretty fine
00:15:26to get as high as you are, Mr. Brown.
00:15:28I'm looking into that.
00:15:29I'm going to open you up and I'm going to operate.
00:15:31I hate to think of what I'll find.
00:15:38But I tell you, Joe, the righteous man...
00:15:46Miss Lowell?
00:15:48Do you hear me, Miss Lowell?
00:15:56Are you a doctor?
00:15:58My name is Diamond.
00:15:59I'm a detective.
00:16:02You left me alone.
00:16:04I have to ask you certain questions
00:16:05and you'll have to answer them.
00:16:07I feel so cold.
00:16:09Can't they turn on the heat?
00:16:11Can you get some hot coffee, please?
00:16:12If you'd get up and walk, you'd be a lot better off.
00:16:15I want to go to sleep.
00:16:16Just let me sleep.
00:16:18Here.
00:16:19Just take some of this.
00:16:20Come on.
00:16:22You're very kind.
00:16:24Everyone's kind.
00:16:26I don't deserve this.
00:16:27I don't deserve it.
00:16:29Come on now, take a little of it.
00:16:32That's it.
00:16:36It's good.
00:16:39Why did you try to kill yourself?
00:16:42I don't know why.
00:16:43I can't remember.
00:16:44Please let me go to sleep.
00:16:45Were you jealous?
00:16:46Is that why?
00:16:47Was there another woman?
00:16:48Please, please.
00:16:49There was another woman, wasn't there?
00:16:50You mentioned her name, Alicia.
00:16:51Is that right?
00:16:54What about Alicia?
00:16:55Was Mr. Brown seeing Alicia?
00:16:57No, I don't know.
00:16:59I don't know who she is.
00:17:00Then how do you know her name?
00:17:01I don't know.
00:17:03You must know.
00:17:04You kept repeating it.
00:17:05Where did you first hear it?
00:17:06I never heard it.
00:17:08I saw it.
00:17:10Where did you see it?
00:17:11On a letter?
00:17:12In his apartment.
00:17:15It was raining outside,
00:17:19and there was a mist on the window.
00:17:23He was writing a name on it with his finger like this.
00:17:27Moist glass.
00:17:30Alicia.
00:17:34And when he saw me,
00:17:36he rubbed it out.
00:17:38Oh, I'm so cold.
00:17:39Where is Alicia now?
00:17:41I don't know.
00:17:43Didn't you ask him?
00:17:44He wouldn't tell me.
00:17:49What was that?
00:17:51Oh, a diesel truck is going by.
00:17:52It's almost morning.
00:17:53Was Brown upset when you asked him about Alicia?
00:17:55I don't know anything.
00:17:56Don't touch me.
00:17:57Go away.
00:17:58Please go away.
00:17:59You think you're the bright, respectable girl you were four years ago.
00:18:01You're not.
00:18:02You attempted suicide.
00:18:03You're under arrest.
00:18:04You could be sentenced to jail for six months.
00:18:05Nurse, may I have some water, please?
00:18:07Miss Lowell, answer one question.
00:18:09No.
00:18:10Who is Alicia?
00:18:11You tell me.
00:18:12Get on your feet.
00:18:15There's a man downstairs with a writ of habeas corpus.
00:18:18Already?
00:18:19It's a quote.
00:18:20What'll I tell him?
00:18:21You know what habeas corpus means, Sam?
00:18:23I know what it does.
00:18:24It's Latin.
00:18:25You may have the body.
00:18:26Mr. Brown may have it.
00:18:32Sam.
00:18:35We're gonna find out who Alicia is.
00:18:38I want you to pick up every hood that works for Brown.
00:18:42And pick up Brown himself.
00:18:55Let's go.
00:18:56♪
00:19:24What's up?
00:19:25Crazy.
00:19:26Who?
00:19:27Diamond, he's crazy.
00:19:29What happened, McClure?
00:19:31When they picked us up, I mentioned your name.
00:19:33You know what they said?
00:19:34Pfft.
00:19:37Quit shaking.
00:19:38What'd he ask you?
00:19:40A girl's name.
00:19:41That's all he could ask me.
00:19:42Just kept asking me this girl's name.
00:19:45Like it was nuts.
00:19:46He's crazy.
00:19:47What girl?
00:19:49They knocked it out of my head.
00:19:51I don't know.
00:19:53Alice something or another.
00:19:54Alicia, that's what it was.
00:19:56Alicia.
00:19:57What'd you tell him?
00:19:59Exactly what I know.
00:20:01Nothing.
00:20:02That's right, Fanny.
00:20:03You know nothing.
00:20:04Absolutely nothing.
00:20:05Don't forget it.
00:20:15I got a right to make a phone call.
00:20:18Who do you want to call?
00:20:19Mr. Brown.
00:20:20Mr. Brown's a little busy right now
00:20:22in conference with Mr. Diamond.
00:20:26You know, legally, I don't have to submit to this test.
00:20:28I know.
00:20:29We appreciate your cooperation, Mr. Brown.
00:20:31And if I say no?
00:20:33Well, if you say no, I have a lot of questions to ask.
00:20:35You may be sitting in that chair for a couple of days.
00:20:37This way, I can tell if you're lying in a few minutes.
00:20:40Well, go ahead, lad.
00:20:40Let's get it over with.
00:20:43Picking me up for peddling without a license.
00:20:44You could have thought of something
00:20:45better than that, Lieutenant.
00:20:47I'd prefer it to be suspicion of murder,
00:20:49but we had none today.
00:20:52I would have been happy to accommodate you,
00:20:53a police lieutenant.
00:20:57Now, I'm going to say one word at a time.
00:20:59Most of them won't mean a thing to you,
00:21:01but I want you to say whatever pops into your head.
00:21:03Like if I say sweet, I say sugar.
00:21:05If I say police, I say $96.50.
00:21:09Apple.
00:21:10Pear.
00:21:11Blue.
00:21:12Ocean.
00:21:13Brown.
00:21:14Mr. Brown to you.
00:21:15Only my friends call me Brown.
00:21:20Water.
00:21:21Whiskey.
00:21:22Gun.
00:21:23Permit.
00:21:24Spaghetti.
00:21:25Patini.
00:21:28What? What's that?
00:21:29What's what?
00:21:31Patini.
00:21:33Spaghetti joint on the north side.
00:21:35Since when?
00:21:36Never heard of it.
00:21:37You couldn't afford it.
00:21:38Go ahead, John.
00:21:39Women.
00:21:41Expensive.
00:21:42Snow.
00:21:43White.
00:21:44Alicia.
00:21:48What was the name again?
00:21:49A woman's name.
00:21:50Alicia.
00:21:52No.
00:21:53No what?
00:21:54I said no.
00:21:55You want me to say it again?
00:21:56You know Alicia, don't you?
00:21:57Sure.
00:21:58Who is she?
00:21:59A two-year-old filly that broke her leg in the Jamaica Stakes.
00:22:01I lost $10,000.
00:22:02You're lying, Mr. Brown.
00:22:05When you heard Alicia, your heart went bang.
00:22:07You don't lie with your blood pressure.
00:22:08You know what this means?
00:22:09It means you're scared.
00:22:11And Mr. Brown isn't scared of a horse.
00:22:12Who is she?
00:22:13What does she mean to you?
00:22:16That's a crime.
00:22:17Book me.
00:22:19Book me, small change.
00:22:22All right, take him out, Sam.
00:22:24To the bullpen?
00:22:26No.
00:22:27Back to the gutter.
00:22:33Mr. Brown is a very influential citizen.
00:22:36I got 14 calls from the commissioner today.
00:22:38The 15th caught me.
00:22:40One more call and I'm out.
00:22:45Leonard, what were you doing?
00:22:46Just give me one possible explanation.
00:22:48That's all I ask.
00:22:49I was following a lead.
00:22:50I was being logical.
00:22:5396 false arrests.
00:22:56How am I going to explain?
00:22:57You only have to explain 95.
00:23:00Sam, what'll I do with Leonard?
00:23:02Tell me what to do.
00:23:03Just give me another $18,000 for the Brown case.
00:23:07The Brown case is closed.
00:23:09Taput.
00:23:10Schluss.
00:23:10The end.
00:23:11No more.
00:23:12Case closed.
00:23:20Hey, Sam, what was the name of that hood we failed to pick up?
00:23:25Ralph Bettini.
00:23:27How long ago did he drop out of sight?
00:23:29About seven years ago.
00:23:30Why?
00:23:32That's about the same time that Grazzi left the country
00:23:34and Brown took over.
00:23:36Yeah?
00:23:37So?
00:23:39Take a look at that graph.
00:23:42See how it jumped after he said Bettini?
00:23:46Bettini's was the only warrant we failed to serve.
00:23:50He hasn't been around for years.
00:23:51Maybe he's dead.
00:23:52No, he's not.
00:23:53I checked the morgue.
00:23:55The files.
00:23:56There's nothing.
00:23:58Why don't you go home?
00:23:59Get some rest.
00:24:01I've got a call to make first.
00:24:04Leonard, Peterson meant what he said.
00:24:09You cross him, it means we're both out.
00:24:12What can we lose?
00:24:15What can we lose?
00:24:16$96.50 a week?
00:24:44You've certainly got a nerve.
00:25:07Hi, Rita.
00:25:08What's on your mind?
00:25:10As if I didn't know.
00:25:12Thought maybe we could go dancing.
00:25:14I've been dancing, Lieutenant.
00:25:16Furthermore, you haven't been around here for six months.
00:25:18And furthermore, if you want a date, do what the others do.
00:25:21Call me first.
00:25:22A week in advance.
00:25:24Well, Rita, I'm giving a party tonight.
00:25:26I thought maybe you'd like to come.
00:25:29Party?
00:25:31Who's going to be there?
00:25:33Just you and me.
00:25:34Joke stinks.
00:25:37Lieutenant, either book me or let go of my arm.
00:25:45Leonard.
00:25:48Leonard!
00:25:57Take me to the party.
00:26:04You're a beautiful girl, Rita.
00:26:09But you're stupid.
00:26:11Can't say anything nice without spoiling it.
00:26:15Why do you waste your time with a cop?
00:26:19Could get me a nice rich hoodlum.
00:26:21You should be able to recommend one with your connections.
00:26:24What is there about a hoodlum that appeals to certain women?
00:26:28Hoodlums, detectives.
00:26:30A man doesn't care how a man makes his living.
00:26:34Only how he makes love.
00:26:38Who is she, Leonard?
00:26:41I'm stupid, Leonard.
00:26:42About everything but men.
00:26:44Them, I know.
00:26:48Give me my shoes.
00:26:49I'm going home.
00:26:55Come on, Phoenix.
00:27:07When she hurts you again, baby, don't wait six months.
00:27:25Yes, I'm having a drink.
00:27:28Well, don't look at me as if I were a lush.
00:27:31That music, turn it off.
00:27:34I enjoy it.
00:27:35I said turn it off.
00:27:39What are we so cheerful about today?
00:27:42Where did you get that outfit?
00:27:44What's wrong with it?
00:27:45I like you better in white.
00:27:46You've got a dozen white dresses.
00:27:47Why don't you wear them?
00:27:48White doesn't please me anymore.
00:27:51A woman dresses for a man.
00:27:52You dress for me.
00:27:53Go put on something white.
00:27:54I won't.
00:27:59What's the matter with you?
00:28:00What have I done now?
00:28:02Before I came in when you were playing that record,
00:28:04what were you thinking?
00:28:05I was trying to remember how I fell in love with you.
00:28:09That's so hard to remember?
00:28:11A girl's first love shouldn't be.
00:28:13It should be her only.
00:28:16Maybe that's why I can't leave you.
00:28:18We'll talk about love some other time.
00:28:20Do you know what I've been doing?
00:28:21What's been happening?
00:28:22People tell me all sorts of things.
00:28:24I don't listen.
00:28:27I didn't ask you before.
00:28:29You were sick.
00:28:31What did Diamond tell you?
00:28:34Diamond.
00:28:35Lieutenant Diamond.
00:28:36Detective.
00:28:3793 Precinct.
00:28:38He grilled you for three hours.
00:28:39He said you were sick.
00:28:40He said you were sick.
00:28:43He kept asking me about a girl.
00:28:45What girl?
00:28:46Her name was Alicia.
00:28:48Who's she?
00:28:49I don't know.
00:28:50He was very insistent.
00:28:52What was her name again?
00:28:54Alicia.
00:28:58It doesn't mean a thing to me.
00:29:02Susan, tell me.
00:29:03Come on.
00:29:04What's bothering you?
00:29:06I hate to despise you.
00:29:12Susan.
00:29:13What are you trying to do?
00:29:14Drive me bats?
00:29:16What do you want, Susan?
00:29:17Tell me.
00:29:18Tell me.
00:29:19Tell me.
00:29:20Tell me.
00:29:21Tell me.
00:29:22Tell me.
00:29:23Tell me.
00:29:24Tell me.
00:29:25Tell me.
00:29:26Tell me.
00:29:27Tell me.
00:29:28Tell me.
00:29:29Tell me.
00:29:30Tell me.
00:29:31I'll give you anything you want.
00:29:32Tell me.
00:29:33Nothing.
00:29:34Anything at all.
00:29:35Nothing.
00:29:36Nothing.
00:29:37Nothing.
00:29:38Nothing.
00:29:47Lieutenant.
00:29:48You had a call while the captain was in.
00:29:49I didn't want to disturb you.
00:29:50Who?
00:29:51She just said Rita.
00:29:52She wanted to see you and said you'd know where.
00:29:53OK.
00:29:54Thanks.
00:29:55What else?
00:29:5621 on my last call.
00:29:57And at 1439.
00:29:58Say, Lieutenant.
00:29:59Hi, Pop.
00:30:00If you're looking for Rita, she's in our dressing room.
00:30:15Hi, Rita.
00:30:21Oh, come on. I've had a bad day. Don't give me any more.
00:30:23What I've got to tell you is not good.
00:30:25Fix this for me, will you?
00:30:26I'll tell it.
00:30:28You keep blowing your cork, pinching half the town.
00:30:30There's a big mat on you, and it's burning all over.
00:30:33Is that it?
00:30:34They're quoting a price on you. You'd better take a vacation.
00:30:37Where'd you hear?
00:30:38It's all around. I picked up bits here and there.
00:30:40What are you gonna do?
00:30:42It's what I've been doing only more.
00:30:44Are you trying to...
00:30:46Are you trying to get yourself killed?
00:30:48Brown doesn't kill to get what he wants. He buys.
00:30:50Then you'd better sell out or start running.
00:30:53Are you really worried about me?
00:30:55A little.
00:30:56That's enough.
00:30:59It's a lot for me.
00:31:01That's my music.
00:31:07Leonard.
00:31:08Yeah?
00:31:09When will I see you again?
00:31:10Well, if I'm not dead, you'll find me where I always am, in jail.
00:31:13Ah!
00:31:14Oh!
00:31:15Shut up! Let's get him out of here!
00:31:19Oh!
00:31:20Oh, my God!
00:31:21Oh!
00:31:22Oh, my God!
00:31:23Oh!
00:31:24Oh!
00:31:25Oh!
00:31:26Oh!
00:31:27Oh!
00:31:28Oh!
00:31:29Oh!
00:31:30Oh!
00:31:31Oh!
00:31:32Oh!
00:31:33Oh!
00:31:34Oh!
00:31:35Oh!
00:31:36Oh!
00:31:37Oh!
00:31:38Oh!
00:31:39Oh!
00:31:40Oh!
00:31:41Oh!
00:31:42Get him out of here.
00:32:02When's he going to wake up?
00:32:03Christmas?
00:32:04Shoot me with my own gun.
00:32:05That's what gets me.
00:32:07Fanny, let me wake him up.
00:32:10Leave him alone.
00:32:11Mr. Brown doesn't want to draw any blood or show any marks.
00:32:15Now, talk to Mr. Brown.
00:32:17Let me have him, Fanny.
00:32:19Two minutes is all I'll need.
00:32:21What for?
00:32:21I want to ask him one question.
00:32:24All right, go ahead.
00:32:25It's all yours.
00:32:27But first, pay.
00:32:31Fanny, we're friends.
00:32:32You don't hold up a friend.
00:32:33Pay.
00:32:34Didn't Mr. Brown pay you?
00:32:36You're not Mr. Brown.
00:32:38For Mr. Brown, I'd snatch a judge from a superior court.
00:32:41For a chocolate soda.
00:32:43Same goes for a mingo.
00:32:44Right, mingo?
00:32:45Yeah.
00:32:47How much?
00:32:48$100.
00:32:49For a mingo, too.
00:32:51Why?
00:32:52$100 each.
00:32:57Mingo.
00:33:02Thanks, Fanny.
00:33:04Now ask him all the questions you want.
00:33:11All right.
00:33:23What did you pick me up for?
00:33:28I asked you a question.
00:33:29Why did you pick me up?
00:33:33I'm talking to you.
00:33:35Answer me.
00:33:36Why'd you pick me up?
00:33:41up for you I did a pretty good job told you not to touch him I didn't hurt him
00:33:46we're still legal trouble with you McClure is it you never took time to learn
00:33:50technique Fante Mingo bring that radio over here
00:34:05I only want to borrow it Joe
00:34:11will Joey Cohen please look under the Frigidaire here's one of their current
00:34:17progeny smart gonna get the lieutenant a little concert
00:34:28can you hear me lieutenant just want to ask you one question and then you can go
00:34:38what are you looking for maybe I can help you what about Alicia what's your
00:34:46information arresting all my friends phony warrants what's behind it
00:34:54Mingo try it
00:34:59ahhhhhh
00:35:06that'll be stubborn lieutenant what about Alicia
00:35:16why don't you ask yourself
00:35:24nice break coming up a kid on drums real crazy you like crazy drums lieutenant
00:35:33have a good time
00:35:54I think Mr. Diamond needs a drink can I get a liquor
00:36:06how about some paint thinner no that'll kill him anything else
00:36:10air tonic 40% alcohol fine come down here and hold his head Fante
00:36:24...
00:36:47now let him go
00:36:49Shove him off.
00:37:01Look at that drunken cop. Isn't that a shame?
00:37:14Hold him.
00:37:20Okay.
00:37:31Diamond, what are you doing here?
00:37:34Well, well, Leonard, you're drunk.
00:37:38My congratulations.
00:37:40Come here.
00:37:42Come here.
00:37:48Call him. Grab one of my own officers. Slug him. Torture him.
00:37:52You were right, Leonard. They're afraid of something.
00:37:54Alicia.
00:37:55Well, that's a start.
00:37:57Let's go to work on Brown.
00:37:59I'd like to start by picking up Brown and company.
00:38:01No, you can't. They outsmarted you.
00:38:03Take a look in the mirror. There's not a mark on you.
00:38:05You were drunk. You came here on your own.
00:38:07That's the defense.
00:38:09And it's airtight, Leonard. That's why Brown delivered you here.
00:38:12His chief witness is me, Peterson.
00:38:14I'm sorry, Leonard.
00:38:16Alicia. Alicia. Alicia.
00:38:19They don't know if it's a horse, a bull, or a girl.
00:38:22What else have you got?
00:38:24Another name cropped up. Patini.
00:38:25Patini? Have you ever heard of him?
00:38:27Where does he fit in?
00:38:28Out of 97 warrants, he was the only one we couldn't pick up.
00:38:32He turned up again on Brown's lie detection.
00:38:34Sit down, Leonard. You don't know about him.
00:38:37He's a right-hand man before Brown, before McClure, from my generation.
00:38:41He dropped out when Grazzi had to leave the country.
00:38:43Not dead?
00:38:44No, scared.
00:38:45He didn't fit in with Brown's new setup.
00:38:48None of the old crowd did.
00:38:50Patini didn't wait around and get himself killed.
00:38:53Turned honest citizen.
00:38:54Changed his name, went into hiding.
00:38:56You know where?
00:38:57I did him a favor once.
00:38:59Could have put him away for something he didn't do.
00:39:01I let it pass.
00:39:03He didn't deserve it, considering all the times he was guilty.
00:39:06I didn't have the evidence.
00:39:07Tell me where to find him.
00:39:09He's scared, Leonard. Too scared to talk.
00:39:11If he's that scared, he'll listen.
00:39:37Come in.
00:39:43Not yet.
00:39:45Just a minute.
00:39:47That's all I ask. Just a minute.
00:39:49Let me turn off the stove.
00:39:52Could cause a fire. Lots of nice old people in there.
00:39:55I'll be right back.
00:39:57I'll be right back.
00:39:59I'll be right back.
00:40:01I'll be right back.
00:40:03I'll be right back.
00:40:05Lots of nice old people in the building, okay?
00:40:11I've been waiting for you a long time.
00:40:15You look like such a nice young fellow.
00:40:19That Brown sure knows how to pick them.
00:40:22I would never have suspected.
00:40:25Can I lie down?
00:40:27Make it easy.
00:40:32Come closer.
00:40:35One shot ought to do it.
00:40:37You're not going to die, Mr. Bettini.
00:40:40I've got no money to offer you.
00:40:42I've got something to offer you.
00:40:44Don't fool with me, young fellow. Get it over with.
00:40:47Mr. Brown didn't send me.
00:40:49My name is Diamond, Lieutenant Diamond, 93rd Precinct.
00:40:55If you'll help me, I can put your nightmare away.
00:41:01I can't.
00:41:04I can't even help myself. How can I help you?
00:41:07I'm looking for a name, Alicia.
00:41:10You ever hear of her?
00:41:12Mean anything to you?
00:41:16Alicia was Brown's wife.
00:41:20Who told you?
00:41:22She told me.
00:41:24She was a good girl.
00:41:27Helped you right off the farm.
00:41:31Brown married her when he was a prison guard.
00:41:36Two years later, she was a lush, drink anything.
00:41:42Then Brown got tired of her.
00:41:46So he got rid of her.
00:41:53Take your time, Mr. Bettini.
00:41:57It was on Grazzi's boat.
00:42:00Three days out for Portugal.
00:42:03Alicia came to the table drunk.
00:42:06Brown told her to go sleep it off.
00:42:09She called him a name.
00:42:11Grazzi laughed, not Brown.
00:42:15I remember the look on Brown's face.
00:42:18Then he hit her.
00:42:20She got up from the table and she pulled off a wedding ring.
00:42:24It was hard to pull off, it must have been...
00:42:27grown to a finger.
00:42:29She pulled it off and threw it in the ocean.
00:42:32Then what?
00:42:34Then she went to her cabin.
00:42:38I never seen her again.
00:42:40What happened to her?
00:42:45How do you know?
00:42:47I know Brown.
00:42:49I know Brown, too, but that's no evidence.
00:42:52Then there was the ship's anchor.
00:42:55What about it?
00:42:57We stopped at the S.O.S.
00:43:00The skipper went ashore and got another one.
00:43:04You think she was murdered...
00:43:06and tied to the ship's anchor and dropped into the sea?
00:43:09I don't know which came first.
00:43:12I jumped ship the moment we landed.
00:43:15Who was the skipper?
00:43:17Who was the skipper?
00:43:22Some Swede.
00:43:24What was his name?
00:43:26I never talked to the man.
00:43:28What did he look like?
00:43:30A uniform. Who looks in a uniform?
00:43:37It's important, Mr. Patini.
00:43:39If the anchor was used, the skipper would surely know.
00:43:43He'd have to be paid off or killed off.
00:43:47Now, please try to remember his name.
00:43:51Go away. Leave me alone.
00:43:55Seven years I don't talk to nobody and I talk too much.
00:44:00You'll have to come with me, Mr. Patini.
00:44:08You're locking me up?
00:44:10The next stranger who comes in won't be from the police.
00:44:15You'll be safer with us.
00:44:19You better pack your things.
00:44:22I got them all on me.
00:44:27Except this.
00:44:36How come a nice guy like you is a cop?
00:44:40Just lucky, I guess.
00:44:47You like antiques, officer?
00:44:50Who can afford them?
00:44:54If you're a captain on a boat born for Portugal...
00:44:59...and you keep your mouth shut...
00:45:03...you can buy a lot of antiques.
00:45:06Maybe a whole store full.
00:45:10Yes, my love, that is what I've been telling you...
00:45:13...for the last five minutes, but you don't listen.
00:45:16Now, be calm. We can change our plans.
00:45:19Don't break it, darling.
00:45:21I'll be back in half an hour.
00:45:24We can have a few cocktails...
00:45:27...and then go to the station.
00:45:30Goodbye, darling.
00:45:41What can I do for you, sir?
00:45:43I'm Lieutenant Diamond, police.
00:45:45Diamond. Expensive name.
00:45:48I won't take much of your time.
00:45:50I just want to ask you a few questions.
00:45:52Please.
00:45:53It's about a large purchase you made.
00:45:55I have complete books.
00:45:57Every dollar is there in black and white...
00:45:59...unless it goes in the red.
00:46:01This purchase was made in 1946.
00:46:041946.
00:46:06I'm sorry I was not in business then.
00:46:09So, I can't help you.
00:46:11I was hoping you'd have some record.
00:46:13It's about the purchase of an anchor.
00:46:16I don't understand.
00:46:18In 1946, you were skipper of a private boat...
00:46:21...bound from New York Harbor for Lisbon, Portugal...
00:46:24...on the way you stopped at the Azores and bought a new anchor.
00:46:27Why?
00:46:32I don't understand.
00:46:35Well, try a little harder.
00:46:37You don't know me. I'm very stupid.
00:46:39The boat was a cabin cruiser owned by Grazzi.
00:46:42It's now being operated by a Mr. Brown.
00:46:45Do you know Mr. Brown?
00:46:47I had lunch with him last week. He's a very fine gentleman.
00:46:50He's a hoodlum.
00:46:52Because I have lunch with him, that is not a crime.
00:46:55I have lunch with anybody. I'm democratic.
00:46:58I'll even have lunch with you.
00:47:00Who paid for this shop?
00:47:02Me, Dreyer.
00:47:04You, Dreyer, borrowed the money from the Bolomac Corporation.
00:47:07The Bolomac Corporation is Brown, or Brown and Grazzi.
00:47:10Mr. Brown doesn't pay money for nothing.
00:47:13What makes you so valuable to Mr. Brown?
00:47:16What do you have on him?
00:47:18My name is Nils Dreyer. I live at 821 Mason Avenue.
00:47:21That is all I have to tell you.
00:47:23You know, Mr. Dreyer, things changed since I walked in here.
00:47:27Brown knows I'm here. He knows I'm talking to you.
00:47:29I said nothing.
00:47:31Yeah, but Brown doesn't know that.
00:47:34In exchange for information, Mr. Dreyer, I'll give you protection.
00:47:38I'll do better than that. I'll put you in jail.
00:47:41Suppose you put me in jail.
00:47:43The man in the next cell happens to have a gun.
00:47:46Boom! One dead Swede.
00:47:48Thank you very kindly. I'll remain stupid.
00:47:51How did you get in here, sir? The store is closed.
00:47:54I'm late for an appointment, if you'll excuse me.
00:47:57Mr. Dreyer, the secret you think keeps you safe will blow up in your face.
00:48:02You're dealing with a ruthless man.
00:48:06Mr. Diamond, I was a seaman for 30 years.
00:48:09I went to sea aged 14.
00:48:12I've seen storms, I've seen gunfire, I've seen torpedoes.
00:48:16I've been wrecked not once, four times.
00:48:18On a raft, 37 days, nothing but water.
00:48:21Nothing kills me.
00:48:23I'll die in Stockholm like my great-grandfather, aged 93.
00:48:26I'm not scared of anyone, including you, so get out.
00:48:32If you change your mind, Mr. Dreyer, just phone the 93rd Precinct.
00:48:36I'll send a squad car for you.
00:48:38Hello?
00:48:41Yes, Mr. Dreyer?
00:48:43If you'd like to speak with me, I'm at the...
00:48:48Yes, I want to speak with you.
00:48:50As soon as I get out of here.
00:48:53I want to tell you something.
00:48:54I want to talk to you, Mr. Dreyer.
00:48:56I want to talk to you now.
00:48:58What is it?
00:48:59You know, I was troubled when you went out of the house.
00:49:03Hello?
00:49:06Hello?
00:49:08Hello?
00:49:33Sit down, Joe.
00:49:59I wanted him here alive. What happened?
00:50:02He had a gun, didn't he, Fanny?
00:50:04He had a gun, all right, Mr. Brown.
00:50:05I told you to go without guns. Which one of you changed my mind?
00:50:08I didn't have any gun with me.
00:50:09Mingo.
00:50:10It wasn't me, I swear.
00:50:13Well, he pulled a gun on me. What did you want me to do?
00:50:16With your kind of brain, there was nothing else you could do.
00:50:18I didn't have any gun with me.
00:50:19Mingo.
00:50:20It wasn't me, I swear.
00:50:22Well, he pulled a gun on me. What did you want me to do?
00:50:25With your kind of brain, there was nothing else you could do.
00:50:27Now, listen to me, you two.
00:50:29Go about your business.
00:50:30Go where you ordinarily go. Do what you ordinarily do.
00:50:32If they ask questions, say nothing.
00:50:34And you, get upstairs, go to bed. Stay there.
00:50:36You've been sick, you understand? Sick.
00:50:38And if they take you to the police headquarters,
00:50:40shoot yourself in the head. It'll make everything a lot simpler.
00:50:43Now, get out.
00:50:52Joe.
00:50:54Come here.
00:50:55Come here.
00:51:02Why did you do it, Joe?
00:51:04I told you he pulled a gun on me.
00:51:06I'm trying to run an impersonal business.
00:51:08Killing is very personal.
00:51:10Once it gets started, it's hard to stop.
00:51:12I could understand it if you were a trigger-happy punk, but you're not.
00:51:15You're an experienced man, Joe.
00:51:18Why did you do it?
00:51:19I guess I'm getting too old to handle a gun.
00:51:21Yeah.
00:51:22Maybe you're just getting too old, Joe.
00:51:25You don't like me much, do you?
00:51:27You figure when Grazzi left the country, you should have taken over instead of me.
00:51:30Isn't that it?
00:51:32No, the job's too big for me.
00:51:34Yeah.
00:51:35You say that, but you don't mean it.
00:51:38Give me your gun, Joe.
00:51:50Come on.
00:51:55See what I mean, Joe?
00:51:57Two seconds ago, you had this gun in your hand.
00:51:59We're all alone here.
00:52:01The thought of using it flashed through your mind.
00:52:03But you couldn't.
00:52:05Yet you didn't hesitate to use it on Dreyer. Why?
00:52:08Because he was a little man, Joe.
00:52:10Like you, a little man.
00:52:12You got a soft job and good pay.
00:52:14But you didn't hesitate to use it on Dreyer.
00:52:17You got a soft job and good pay.
00:52:19Stop thinking about what might have been.
00:52:21And who knows?
00:52:23You may live to die in bed.
00:52:26That's all, Joe.
00:52:47It's empty.
00:52:48It can't be.
00:52:49Did anybody open this since yesterday?
00:52:51Miss Hottleby?
00:52:52Impossible, sir.
00:52:54What do you got?
00:53:00It was Dreyer's life insurance.
00:53:02Where would an executive keep a logbook?
00:53:04Dreyer was a very meticulous man.
00:53:06He kept a complete record of everything in his shop.
00:53:09In his shop.
00:53:11If you're looking for the log of Grazzi's shop in the summer of 46,
00:53:14you'll find it in there.
00:53:26Sam, get the DA's office.
00:53:27Get a warrant for Brown's arrest.
00:53:29On what charge?
00:53:30I asked you.
00:53:31On what charge?
00:53:32On what charge?
00:53:33On what charge?
00:53:34On what charge?
00:53:35On what charge?
00:53:36On what charge?
00:53:37On what charge?
00:53:38On what charge?
00:53:39On what charge?
00:53:40Arson.
00:53:41I got a court order.
00:53:42Issued this morning.
00:53:44It says that all the deeds, papers and properties of this shop belong to me.
00:53:47Dreyer had 20%.
00:53:49The Bollomac Corporation had the rest and I'm the Bollomac Corporation.
00:53:52Nobody else.
00:53:53Not even Grazzi?
00:53:55I bought him out.
00:53:57Why should the Bollomac Corporation be interested in burning that ship's log?
00:54:00Why?
00:54:01Liquidation of assets.
00:54:03Which is hardly a crime.
00:54:05I'll wait until I can put you on trial for murder.
00:54:08Whose murder, Lieutenant?
00:54:10Mine, if necessary.
00:54:12Don't push too hard.
00:54:14It's my sworn duty to push too hard.
00:54:17Simon, the only trouble with you is you'd like to be me.
00:54:19You'd like to have my organization, my influence, my fix.
00:54:22You can't. It's impossible.
00:54:25You think it's money. It's not.
00:54:27It's personality.
00:54:28You haven't got it, Lieutenant. You're a cop.
00:54:30Slow, steady, intelligent.
00:54:33With a bad temper and a gun on the arm.
00:54:37The big yen for a girl you can't have.
00:54:40First is first and second is nobody.
00:54:42Yeah, the DA is out. I have his assistant.
00:54:46Hang up, Sam.
00:55:03I'm going to kill you.
00:55:04It's low.
00:55:35Go away, please.
00:55:37It'll only be a minute, Miss Lowe.
00:55:39Why here? Can't it wait?
00:55:41No.
00:55:43Well, what is it, please?
00:55:45I've come to ask you a favor.
00:55:47Do I owe you one?
00:55:49I want you to leave Mr. Brown.
00:55:53I've asked you to leave, Mr. Diamond.
00:55:56Now, if you don't, I will.
00:55:57You think this is mink, Miss Lowe?
00:56:00You think these are the skins of little wild animals?
00:56:02Sewn together for your pleasure?
00:56:05You're mistaken.
00:56:07Take your hands off me.
00:56:08These are skins of human beings, Miss Lowe.
00:56:10People who've been beaten, sold, robbed, doped,
00:56:14murdered by Mr. Brown.
00:56:17Why did you come here to hurt you, Miss Lowe?
00:56:19You don't have to see me again or even speak to me again,
00:56:22but save yourself, leave him.
00:56:25How?
00:56:27All you have to do is walk out.
00:56:30Is that all, Mr. Diamond?
00:56:33Yes.
00:56:35I'm going to kill you.
00:56:37I'm going to kill you.
00:56:39I'm going to kill you.
00:56:41I'm going to kill you.
00:56:43I'm going to kill you.
00:56:44Is that all, Mr. Diamond?
00:56:47You've followed me long enough to know I can't.
00:56:53I live in a maze, Mr. Diamond.
00:56:55A strange, blind and backward maze.
00:56:59And all the little twisting paths lead back to Mr. Brown.
00:57:04I can't buy that, Miss Lowe.
00:57:06Not in a million years.
00:57:08Why do you want to change my life, Mr. Diamond?
00:57:13My boss says I'm in love with you.
00:57:18I keep telling myself I'm just doing my job.
00:57:23Is that why you came to see me?
00:57:26No.
00:57:29I brought you a present.
00:57:31Keep it or burn it, just as you please.
00:57:33I brought you a present.
00:57:35Keep it or burn it, just as you please.
00:57:38What is it?
00:57:39It's a photograph of Brown's wife.
00:57:42Her name was Alicia.
00:57:45You might ask him what happened.
00:58:04FIVE YEARS LATER
00:58:27Who is it?
00:58:28Susan.
00:58:33It's only 10.30.
00:58:36The cards are that dull?
00:58:41Take your hands off me.
00:58:43Okay.
00:58:46I want to talk to you.
00:58:47Not now, later.
00:58:48No, now.
00:58:50Come here, I want to show you something.
00:59:04What is all this?
00:59:05This is my bank.
00:59:07I could have built this vault in my apartment, but that would have been too obvious.
00:59:11We don't take checks, we deal strictly in cash.
00:59:14There isn't anybody I would trust with so much temptation, except myself.
00:59:19Or maybe you.
00:59:21Trust me.
00:59:23Who did you see at the concert?
00:59:25Nobody.
00:59:26A nobody by the name of Diamond?
00:59:27Then why do you ask? You know everything.
00:59:31There's one thing Mingo and Fante can tell you.
00:59:33Whether I still love you.
00:59:35What did Diamond tell you?
00:59:36That he's in love with me.
00:59:42Diamond in love? That's not possible.
00:59:44Any more than this clever machine.
00:59:46The machine gave me a strange present.
00:59:48What was it? A pair of handcuffs?
00:59:55I want to meet her.
00:59:57I want to meet your wife, Mr. Brown.
00:59:59You can't.
01:00:00Why? Because she's dead?
01:00:01No, she's alive.
01:00:03She's living in Sicily, in Grazzi's house.
01:00:05This was taken a month ago.
01:00:06Came in one of her letters.
01:00:08Why did she send it to you?
01:00:09She wants to come back.
01:00:11Why did you leave her?
01:00:12I don't want to talk about it.
01:00:13I do.
01:00:14Can't you let me hold on to some pride?
01:00:16I lost all mine with you.
01:00:20All right, I'll tell you.
01:00:22I was in love with her.
01:00:24Me, a prison guard.
01:00:26It was for her I began to work my way up.
01:00:28All I had was guts.
01:00:29I traded them for money and influence.
01:00:31I got respect from everybody but her.
01:00:33She did everything she could to humiliate me.
01:00:35She was always drunk, flirting with other men.
01:00:38I tried to straighten her out.
01:00:40I took her on a boat trip when Grazzi had to go to Sicily.
01:00:42The day after we docked, she disappeared.
01:00:44I spent months looking for her.
01:00:46What do you think she was?
01:00:48Living in Grazzi's house.
01:00:50He was a bigger man than me.
01:00:53Now you know who Alicia is.
01:00:58Well, well, well.
01:00:59Good evening, Miss Souda.
01:01:00How are you?
01:01:01How you been?
01:01:02Lonely, Fred, lonely.
01:01:04I'm between shows, half to 12 o'clock.
01:01:06Mr. Diamond is out.
01:01:08Would you like to go up there and wait for him?
01:01:10Thanks.
01:01:11Tell me what he does with his evenings.
01:01:14Work.
01:01:15I'm going to kill that guy.
01:01:17Don't you kill him.
01:01:18He pays his rent right on the dot.
01:01:20I'd miss him.
01:01:21You and me both.
01:01:28Yeah?
01:01:29No, no.
01:01:30I'm wide awake.
01:01:33When do you want it done?
01:01:36I understand.
01:01:43Mingo.
01:01:44Yeah, what's wrong?
01:01:45Mr. Brown wants an order filled tonight.
01:01:47What's the matter?
01:01:48He says he's going to kill you.
01:01:50He's going to kill me.
01:01:51He's going to kill me.
01:01:52He's going to kill me.
01:01:53He's going to kill me.
01:01:54He's going to kill me.
01:01:55He's going to kill me.
01:01:56He's going to kill me.
01:01:57An order filled tonight.
01:01:59Who?
01:02:00Diamond.
01:02:22It's open.
01:02:23Go.
01:02:24Go!
01:02:27Go!
01:02:54Leonard.
01:02:55Leonard.
01:02:56Leonard.
01:02:57What, Sam?
01:02:58Sam, what?
01:02:59Whatever you're thinking, drop it.
01:03:00We'll bring her back.
01:03:03Saks Fifth Avenue.
01:03:06She came to see me in her best shoes.
01:03:09I'll call Peterson.
01:03:10He'll put every available man on it.
01:03:12Never mind, Sam.
01:03:14I said never mind.
01:03:17We don't have to check bullets or fingerprints.
01:03:20This room has a name written all over it.
01:03:22Brown.
01:03:23Brown.
01:03:24He wanted to kill me.
01:03:25He got tired of waiting.
01:03:27So have I.
01:03:28What are you going to do?
01:03:29Close the case.
01:03:30I know how you feel.
01:03:31Nobody knows how another person feels.
01:03:33No, Leonard.
01:03:34Sit down.
01:03:55Do me a favor.
01:03:57Take off your gun.
01:04:02I treated her like a pair of gloves.
01:04:06When I was cold, I called her up.
01:04:13Don't blame yourself.
01:04:14You'll go crazy.
01:04:241-896.
01:04:251-896.
01:04:26Top of Georgia, Juneau.
01:04:28Mile 85770.3.
01:04:36I saw the papers this morning.
01:04:38I'm sorry.
01:04:39Terribly, terribly sorry.
01:04:41Why? That it wasn't me?
01:04:44Say what you came to say.
01:04:49I left Mr. Brown.
01:04:50You're a little late.
01:04:51Brown killed the girl in your apartment.
01:04:53His men did it.
01:04:54Can you prove it?
01:04:55No, I...
01:04:56Can you prove that Fante Amingo did it?
01:04:58That he ordered them to?
01:05:00No.
01:05:02Sit down.
01:05:07Does he know you've gone?
01:05:09He will.
01:05:11I opened his private vault.
01:05:13Why?
01:05:14I wanted to help you, if I could.
01:05:16What does he keep in the vault?
01:05:18Guns and money.
01:05:19It's no crime to have money or even to have a gun, only to use it.
01:05:22I saw something else.
01:05:23What?
01:05:24Something about Alicia.
01:05:27Can you prove that she was murdered?
01:05:29No.
01:05:30I can prove that she's alive.
01:05:33What are you talking about?
01:05:35She's living in Sicily with Grazi.
01:05:38That's impossible.
01:05:40She sent this to Brown.
01:05:42It's Alicia, all right.
01:05:44Years older than her photograph taken on the boat.
01:05:46She must be alive.
01:05:49But this photo was never taken in Sicily.
01:05:52There's snow on the ground.
01:06:00Yeah, it's the same girl, all right.
01:06:02She sure changed since the other picture.
01:06:05Could that be a fake?
01:06:06No, sir.
01:06:07This was made with an ordinary wide-angle lens.
01:06:09Now, judging from the scope...
01:06:10Oh, remind all that.
01:06:11Can you tell me when the picture was taken?
01:06:13The original was printed on paper.
01:06:14Well, what does that mean?
01:06:15It wasn't on the market until a year and a half ago.
01:06:18Frank, see that highway marker through the fence?
01:06:20Can you tell me what that is?
01:06:21Identify it.
01:06:22No, I can't, but I'll check it right away for you.
01:06:24Will you do it quickly, please?
01:06:26Leonard.
01:06:27Alicia's alive.
01:06:28If there's no murder, there's no case.
01:06:31We may have an even stronger case.
01:06:33I've been in touch with our overseas military intelligence.
01:06:35They've been looking for Grazi for years, not to be found.
01:06:38And there's no record of her being found.
01:06:40What about Bettini's story?
01:06:42Well, Bettini was right about a murder taking place on the boat.
01:06:45He was just wrong about the identity of the victim.
01:06:48Wait a minute.
01:06:49Spell that out.
01:06:51Well, I've been looking for the wrong murder.
01:06:54Brown didn't kill his wife.
01:06:56He killed his boss, Grazi.
01:06:58And that's why our intelligence couldn't find him.
01:07:01Grazi is at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, tied to an anchor.
01:07:05And I've been in touch with our overseas military intelligence.
01:07:08He's tied to an anchor.
01:07:11It's a beautiful theory, Lenny.
01:07:13Beautiful.
01:07:14Except for one small item.
01:07:17You can't prove it. You have no witness.
01:07:19Oh, you got it, Frank. Let's see it.
01:07:21State highway marker, 225A.
01:07:2425A. Do you know where that is?
01:07:26I can find it in two hours.
01:07:27It's a one-lane gravel road that curves west from the coast highway.
01:07:39Two hours later.
01:07:55I don't know why you've come to me, officer.
01:07:58My name is Anna Lee Jackson.
01:08:00Are you sure you never took an ocean voyage?
01:08:03Well, if I had, I certainly would have remembered.
01:08:05You really have a way with flowers.
01:08:08What are these?
01:08:09These are stock.
01:08:12Beautiful, all of them.
01:08:13How do you do it?
01:08:14Oh, you have to love them.
01:08:16They know the difference.
01:08:19Oh, my goodness.
01:08:20What is it?
01:08:22Caterpillar.
01:08:24Eating the buds.
01:08:26Well, why didn't you kill it?
01:08:28Oh, I couldn't kill anything.
01:08:30I can't even cut these flowers.
01:08:33People want to see them.
01:08:34They've got to come here where they're alive,
01:08:37not withering and dying in a vase.
01:08:41You feel that pretty strongly, don't you?
01:08:43Oh, yes, I do.
01:08:45I can tell you why you feel that way.
01:08:48Can you?
01:08:49Because you saw your husband murder a man named Grazzi.
01:08:53I'll spell the name for you.
01:08:54G-R-A-Z-Z-I.
01:08:56Grazzi.
01:08:58I have a photograph of you,
01:09:00taken seven years ago.
01:09:02You can have it if you like.
01:09:06The men are old friends of yours,
01:09:08one alive, the other dead.
01:09:18Now, listen to me, Alicia.
01:09:20Brown, unfortunately, is not a caterpillar.
01:09:23He doesn't eat flowers.
01:09:24He devours people.
01:09:27I had a friend, a girl, 24 years old.
01:09:32She was murdered last night.
01:09:33Brown thought he was killing me.
01:09:35He didn't even know her name.
01:09:36I don't want to hear anymore.
01:09:37Please, please, I'm sick.
01:09:38Can't you see I'm sick?
01:09:40You're sick all right, Alicia.
01:09:42Sick with fright.
01:09:43Now you're in our custody.
01:09:45You have nothing more to fear.
01:09:47You know that because you're perfectly sane.
01:09:52I'd rather be insane and alive
01:09:57than sane and dead.
01:10:05It hurts.
01:10:06If you can move it, it's not broken.
01:10:07But it hurts.
01:10:08Take a drink.
01:10:09I took a drink.
01:10:10It still hurts.
01:10:11Take another drink.
01:10:12Honey, I'm trying to tell you.
01:10:13You don't understand.
01:10:15Well?
01:10:16I got news.
01:10:17Big news.
01:10:18Brown is finished.
01:10:19The police found Alicia.
01:10:20She's going to spill her guts to the grand jury.
01:10:24They said Brown's washed up.
01:10:25Finished.
01:10:26Off the map.
01:10:27You say.
01:10:28That means nothing.
01:10:29Grouchy says.
01:10:30That's something.
01:10:31There ain't no Grouchy.
01:10:32He's dead.
01:10:33Since when?
01:10:34Seven years.
01:10:35I don't know.
01:10:36I don't know.
01:10:37I don't know.
01:10:38I don't know.
01:10:39I don't know.
01:10:40I don't know.
01:10:41I don't know.
01:10:42I don't know.
01:10:43Seven years.
01:10:44I've seen cablegrams.
01:10:46Brown sent those cablegrams.
01:10:47Brown killed him.
01:10:48Brown kept them alive to keep the boys in line.
01:10:51Why haven't you guys been chaperoning this Miss Lowaldame?
01:10:54You want to know where she is?
01:10:56She's helping the police.
01:10:57Seems like Mr. Brown has lost his charm.
01:11:02What would you suggest?
01:11:04Kill him.
01:11:06Kill him tonight, not tomorrow.
01:11:08Mr. Brown will be dead soon enough.
01:11:10The boys will take care of him for his long double cross.
01:11:13But if we do it now, fast,
01:11:15we'll save a lot of people a lot of trouble.
01:11:18We'll be in more solid than ever.
01:11:20Instead of running around for Brown and Wetnurse
01:11:23and all his crazy dames,
01:11:24I'm going to show you two guys how to be men.
01:11:26Start all over.
01:11:28Slower this time.
01:11:30Let's go.
01:11:33Why did the club get his heartache?
01:11:37He wanted to become a big-shot,
01:11:38but he stopped without a scratch.
01:11:41He's crazy.
01:11:44But he was a shot and a created scapegoat.
01:11:49Where's Peter?
01:11:51He got in.
01:11:52You must be waiting for him.
01:11:53Roger, he's at the door right now.
01:11:56Ah, hello.
01:11:57Come on, let's go ahead.
01:11:58They said they'd land at 1 a.m., didn't want to be late, I'm coming all the way from Denver.
01:12:11It's strange they sent word through you instead of the regular way.
01:12:14This isn't regular, this is special.
01:12:16They said they wanted 200 grand in small bills.
01:12:19I got it right here, but what's the pitch?
01:12:22Denver's usually a quiet spot.
01:12:23I don't know.
01:12:24I asked them, but they wouldn't tell me on the phone.
01:12:27Do you think of any reason?
01:12:28No.
01:12:29What do you think of it?
01:12:31We'll know soon enough.
01:12:36Now, Mr. Brown, how do you feel now?
01:12:39Not so big, huh?
01:12:41You took my job, you took my hotel, you thought you could push me right off the earth.
01:12:46You punk.
01:12:47You accountant.
01:12:48You bookkeeper.
01:12:50Let him have it.
01:12:51Let him have it now.
01:12:52Right now.
01:12:57Wait a minute.
01:12:59What's the matter?
01:13:00You fellas gone loony?
01:13:02I'm McClure.
01:13:03Can't you see me?
01:13:04This is McClure.
01:13:07Don't do it, Bingo.
01:13:08I'll give you dough.
01:13:09All the dough I got, $10,000, $20,000, everything.
01:13:13No, Fanny, don't do it.
01:13:15Mr. Brown.
01:13:16Mr. Bronson.
01:13:22Mr. Brown.
01:13:23Tell him not to do it.
01:13:24I'll do anything he says.
01:13:26Tell him not to do it.
01:13:27I'll do anything he wants.
01:13:28I'll go away.
01:13:29He'll never see me again.
01:13:30Please, Mr. Brown.
01:13:31Don't just stand there and let him kill me.
01:13:34Please, Mr. Brown.
01:13:35I don't want to die.
01:13:36Tell him.
01:13:37Please tell him.
01:13:50I feel sorry for you, Joe.
01:13:52So I'm going to do you a favor.
01:13:54You won't hear the bullets.
01:13:56You won't hear the bullets.
01:14:16Sam.
01:14:17Yeah.
01:14:18Tell the captain I finished my interrogation.
01:14:26Miss Lowell.
01:14:39Are you a policewoman?
01:14:41No.
01:14:43Who are you?
01:14:45My name is Susan Lowell.
01:14:48I'm a witness against Mr. Brown.
01:14:51I'm not.
01:14:52I'm not.
01:14:53I can't do it.
01:14:55Haven't I humiliated myself enough?
01:14:58No one's done enough while he's still free.
01:15:02I've been
01:15:04Mr. Brown's girl
01:15:06the past four years.
01:15:09He met lots of girls.
01:15:11They were all crazy about him.
01:15:13I'm not proud of it.
01:15:15Then why'd you stay four years?
01:15:18I'm not proud of it.
01:15:20I'm not proud of it.
01:15:21Then why'd you stay four years?
01:15:23Why'd you start?
01:15:24I don't know.
01:15:26No, that's not true.
01:15:28I was told, but
01:15:30I just wouldn't believe.
01:15:32Take a look at her, Alicia.
01:15:34Take a good look.
01:15:36You can see yourself ten years ago.
01:15:39If you had only spoken up then,
01:15:41how different your life would have been.
01:15:44Because he killed you.
01:15:46He buried you alive.
01:15:48Because he's a murderer.
01:15:50That's all he is, a murderer.
01:15:52Wanna hear?
01:15:54He killed Grazzi, didn't he?
01:15:55You saw him do it, didn't you?
01:15:57I never said I did.
01:16:00Besides, Grazzi deserved to die.
01:16:03And what about the girl he had killed three days ago?
01:16:06Did she deserve to die too?
01:16:08That girl.
01:16:11You remember the girl?
01:16:13The girl I told you about at the sanitarium, you remember?
01:16:15No, no, I don't.
01:16:17Then I'll refresh your memory, this girl.
01:16:18Someone he didn't know, never met, never saw.
01:16:21They took 11 bullets from her body.
01:16:24The following morning, Miss Lowell had breakfast with him.
01:16:27He ordered bacon and two eggs.
01:16:29Tell her, Susan.
01:16:31Tell her how he ate his bacon and eggs
01:16:33while he looked at the papers.
01:16:35And saw the body of this girl lying in the morgue.
01:16:40I'll tell whatever I know.
01:16:45Take it to the DA's office for security.
01:16:47Take it to the DA's office for statement.
01:16:50Mr. Brown.
01:16:57Car 5A3, 5A3, call your station.
01:17:01Car 5A3, call your station. Code 2.
01:17:05Captain. Captain, this is Mr. Malloy, an attorney.
01:17:08I have a writ of habeas corpus for Mrs. Alicia Brown.
01:17:11We have no Mrs. Brown here.
01:17:13But I...
01:17:14This is Miss Anna Lee Jackson.
01:17:15Miss Anna Lee Jackson.
01:17:20Hello, Alicia.
01:17:21MS. ANNA LEE JACKSON
01:17:44No use. We can't use her.
01:17:46Not every case ends with a promotion.
01:17:48Your name on the papers.
01:17:51McClure's body's been found in the river, shut full of holes.
01:17:55Oh, this is an act of panic. Mr. Brown is cracking.
01:17:59Sam, take the headquarters squad. Pick up Fante and Mingo.
01:18:03First dryer, Rita and McClure.
01:18:06If they can't have alibis, it'll stick for three murders.
01:18:09Come on, Mingo, lay off of that stuff.
01:18:14Mingo, lay off of that stuff, I told you.
01:18:21You gotta eat something.
01:18:24I can't swallow any more salami.
01:18:26That's all we've got.
01:18:29Where is Brown? When's he coming?
01:18:31How long are we gonna stay here?
01:18:33We've been here two days, that's all.
01:18:36I just can't take it anymore, Fante.
01:18:39I tell you, my thumb's got an infection.
01:18:41It keeps aching worse than a sore tooth.
01:18:44Cops catch us, they like worse.
01:18:46Cops, where can they prove?
01:18:48They don't have proof.
01:18:51They don't have to prove a thing.
01:18:53They got three warrants out for us, indictments for three murders.
01:18:56So let them indict, they still can't prove.
01:19:01Can they?
01:19:05You know how long it would take for three murder trials.
01:19:09We'd be in jail for three years. Now relax.
01:19:12Brown will get us out of town until the heat blows out, and then we can come back.
01:19:16How do we know we're safe here?
01:19:18This is the safest place in the world.
01:19:20Gratzi built this place in prohibition days.
01:19:22Not even the bellhops know it's here.
01:19:24I'm sour on this town, Fante.
01:19:28When we get out, let's never come back, huh?
01:19:33What I'm worried about is getting out of this hotel.
01:19:35The cops will be looking for us in every closet.
01:19:37I thought you'd never come.
01:19:39Take it easy, boys.
01:19:42Look, it's now four in the afternoon.
01:19:44At 5.30 tomorrow morning, the cops change ships in the alley.
01:19:47I'll come for you then.
01:19:49Did you get us a car?
01:19:51Everything's arranged. Just keep your heads and wait.
01:19:53I brought you some food.
01:19:55What's the matter, Gokreesh?
01:19:57You've all been good boys.
01:19:59There's enough money here to take care of you for a long time.
01:20:02I'm sure you'll be all right.
01:20:05There's enough money here to take care of you for a long time.
01:20:07Divide it even, and don't fight over it.
01:20:13How much do you think?
01:20:15Mr. Brown's a generous man.
01:20:17I'll tell you after I count it.
01:20:19Give it here.
01:20:25There you go!
01:20:35Police are downstairs.
01:20:40Bring me another bottle.
01:20:43Mingo is still alive.
01:20:50He can't be.
01:20:52He is.
01:21:05I don't want to go up there again.
01:21:07There are things in Brown's vault you've got to identify.
01:21:09There are things in Brown's vault you've got to identify.
01:21:35Who did this, Mingo?
01:21:37Mingo, who did this to you?
01:21:39Nobody.
01:21:41Who killed a girl named Rita?
01:21:43Who killed McClure? Who paid you to do it?
01:21:45Nobody.
01:21:47You've got third-degree burns, Mingo. You're dying.
01:21:49I ain't gonna die.
01:21:51Not me.
01:21:53Not you.
01:21:55And not Fanny?
01:22:02Fanny.
01:22:04Don't leave me, Fanny.
01:22:06He's dead. Murdered.
01:22:08Why you ever try to kill you?
01:22:10You haven't got much time, Mingo. Tell us who did it.
01:22:12Do it for Fanny.
01:22:14You shouldn't have done it.
01:22:16Fanny was my friend.
01:22:18You shouldn't have.
01:22:22All right. I'll tell you.
01:22:24But not for you.
01:22:28We'd play square with him.
01:22:30You shouldn't have hurt Fanny.
01:22:32You haven't got much time, Mingo.
01:22:34Who did it? Who killed the girl in my room?
01:22:36Who paid you to do it?
01:22:40Mr. Brown.
01:22:42Mr. Brown.
01:22:44Leonard.
01:22:46What?
01:22:48Sam's been hurt. Shot.
01:22:50What? Where is he?
01:22:52In the hospital. He'll be all right.
01:22:54But, Leonard, Susan's gone.
01:23:02Larry.
01:23:04Get a statement. Sign it.
01:23:08A man like Brown would have a plan.
01:23:10Where would he go to make a getaway?
01:23:12You're a policeman.
01:23:14You find him.
01:23:16He's not alone. He's got Susan Lowell with him.
01:23:18I wouldn't raise a finger to help that girl.
01:23:20Let her go through what I've been through.
01:23:22She never hurt you, Alicia.
01:23:24He's the one who put you away.
01:23:26Why take it out on her?
01:23:28Because I hate her.
01:23:31Her and every other woman who ever had anything to do with him.
01:23:35What have I done to you? Why do you hate me?
01:23:37Oh, I don't.
01:23:41Then help me. Help me. Tell me where to find him.
01:23:43To get back to my flowers.
01:23:45I'm sure nobody's taking care of them.
01:23:55Lieutenant.
01:24:01I don't want to help you.
01:24:04I don't.
01:24:06But I will.
01:24:11What's keeping that plane?
01:24:13It was supposed to be here an hour ago.
01:24:15I've kept that stupid pilot on my payroll for years.
01:24:17Just for a spot like this.
01:24:19Why doesn't he come?
01:24:24Don't try that again.
01:24:26I want to be seen.
01:24:28Don't try that again.
01:24:32Why doesn't he come?
01:24:34I've got everything all figured out.
01:24:36Top to bottom. Smooth as silk.
01:24:38Everything's falling apart.
01:24:41I can't trust nobody. Nothing.
01:24:56Come on out, Brown.
01:24:58Come on out, Brown.
01:25:28You can't get away, Brown.
01:25:58You can't get away. Drop the gun.
01:26:00Come and get it.
01:26:03You can't get away. Drop the gun.
01:26:05Come and get it.
01:26:25You can't get away. Drop the gun.
01:26:27Come and get it.
01:26:32Come on, I'm taking you to jail, Mr. Brown.
01:26:37No, you're not taking me to jail. You have to kill me first. Go ahead, shoot.
01:26:41Go ahead, kill me, copper, kill me. Go ahead, kill me.
01:26:44Let's go, hoodlum.
01:26:49I won't go in there. I won't.
01:26:53Kill me. Kill me.