His Girl Friday (1940)
Approved | 1h 32min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 18 January 1940 (USA)
A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.
Director: Howard Hawks
Writers: Charles Lederer (screen play), Ben Hecht (from the play "The Front Page")
Stars: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy
Approved | 1h 32min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 18 January 1940 (USA)
A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.
Director: Howard Hawks
Writers: Charles Lederer (screen play), Ben Hecht (from the play "The Front Page")
Stars: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy
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00:41:51You hear that? That's the story I just wrote.
00:41:54Yes, yes, I know we had a bargain.
00:41:56I just said I'd write it. I didn't say I wouldn't tear it up.
00:41:58It's all in little pieces now, Alder.
00:42:00And I hope to do the same for you someday.
00:42:02And that, my friends, is my farewell to the newspaper game.
00:42:04I'm gonna be a woman, not a news-getting machine.
00:42:06I'm gonna have babies and take care of them and give them cod liver oil and watch their teeth grow and...
00:42:10Oh, dear, if I ever see one of them look at a newspaper again, I'm gonna brain them.
00:42:13Where's my hat?
00:42:14Hello? Hello?
00:42:16Oh, Mr. Burns? Yes, she's still here.
00:42:21And another thing I want... Oh.
00:42:24Where is my... Oh, there it is.
00:42:26Hello, Doctor. Sorry to be late.
00:42:28Oh, that's quite all right.
00:42:29These boys from the newspapers, they take up so much of my time.
00:42:31You know, they wanted me to hang Williams at their convenience.
00:42:34Oh, hello.
00:42:35These newspapers, what they did to me in Chicago...
00:42:37I'm glad to believe it.
00:42:38Always after me for interviews.
00:42:39Yes, me too.
00:42:40Of course, I did rather promise to make them some sort of statement when I finished here.
00:42:43You don't mind, do you?
00:42:44Well, it's hardly ethical, Doctor. You see, all statements are supposed to come from me.
00:42:47I see.
00:42:48Well, what do you say to giving them some sort of joint interview?
00:42:51I can discuss some of the psychological aspects of the case and you...
00:42:54You mean we'd have our pictures taken together?
00:42:56Yes, yes, shaking hands.
00:42:57Oh, splendid idea.
00:42:58Of course, I don't take a very good picture.
00:42:59Oh, that doesn't matter, Doctor. The publicity's the main thing.
00:43:01Doctor, I'm getting awful tired.
00:43:04Can I go back to jail again?
00:43:06Oh, I'm awfully sorry. I forgot you were there.
00:43:08No, Mr. Williams, we have some further questions for you.
00:43:10Sheriff, do you mind extinguishing the light, please?
00:43:11Of course, Doctor.
00:43:12It helps a lot what we have to do over here.
00:43:14Now, let me see.
00:43:16Mr. Williams, you know, of course, that you're going to be executed.
00:43:20Now, who do you feel is responsible for that?
00:43:22I'm innocent. It wasn't my fault.
00:43:25Well, Mervis...
00:43:26Send us a postcard.
00:43:27That'll do.
00:43:28Goodbye, Hilly.
00:43:29So long, Johnson. When we see you again, Johnson.
00:43:30Next time you see me, I should be riding in a Rolls Royce giving interviews on success.
00:43:34So long, you wage slaves.
00:43:36Oh, and you're calling up fire escapes and getting kicked out of front doors
00:43:39and eating Christmas dinners and one-armed joints.
00:43:41Don't forget your pal, Hilly Johnson.
00:43:43Don't worry.
00:43:44And when the road beyond unfolds and the...
00:43:53Hey, look out! It's a jailbreak!
00:43:58What's the matter? What happened?
00:44:01Hey, watch where you're aiming, will ya?
00:44:03Pop the gate! He's right at the gate!
00:44:05Who got away? Who was it?
00:44:06Where are we at?
00:44:07Earl Williams!
00:44:11Hello. Hello. Hello.
00:44:12Hurry up. Hurry up. This is important.
00:44:13Give me the desk.
00:44:14Blank. Earl Williams just escaped.
00:44:15Jailbreak. Don't know yet.
00:44:16On your back.
00:44:17Williams took a powder.
00:44:18Went over the wall.
00:44:19I don't know anything yet.
00:44:20On your back.
00:44:25Post it. Get me Walter Burns. Quick. Hilly Johnson.
00:44:29Walter. Walter. Hilly.
00:44:30Earl Williams just escaped from the county jail.
00:44:32Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:44:33Don't worry. I'm on the job.
00:44:38Hey, Cody!
00:44:39Hey!
00:44:43Hey! Wait a minute, Earl!
00:44:44Hey!
00:44:49Hey! Cody!
00:44:51Hey!
00:44:54Hey!
00:44:56Hey! Wait a minute, Earl!
00:44:57Wait a minute, Earl!
00:45:16Cody, I want to talk to you.
00:45:27This is Endicott. Give me a rewrite.
00:45:29He ain't here.
00:45:30Hello, Gil.
00:45:31Here's the situation now.
00:45:32You ready?
00:45:33Williams was taken over to the sheriff's private office
00:45:35to be examined by this Professor Egglehoffer.
00:45:37And in a few minutes, he shot his way out.
00:45:39No, nobody knows where he got the gun.
00:45:41He went upstairs to the infirmary
00:45:42and got out through the skylight.
00:45:43He must have slid down the rain pipe to the street.
00:45:45No, nobody knows where he got it.
00:45:46Or if they do, they won't talk.
00:45:47Hello, sweetheart. Give me the desk.
00:45:48Crime commission offers $10,000 reward for Williams' capture.
00:45:50No clue yet as to Williams' whereabouts.
00:45:52No. No.
00:45:53Here's a little feature, though.
00:45:54There's been an accident about a tear bomb.
00:45:56Yeah, tear bomb, tear bomb.
00:45:58Criminals cry for it.
00:45:59I don't know.
00:46:00This tear bomb went off unexpectedly
00:46:01in the hands of Sheriff Hartwell's bombing squad.
00:46:03What went over the desk?
00:46:04The following deputies were rushed to the hospital.
00:46:05A fine friend you.
00:46:06Their names are Mervyn D. Wilkerson,
00:46:08the mayor's brother-in-law.
00:46:09After all I've done for you.
00:46:11Howard Schuster, the sheriff's uncle,
00:46:12on his mother's side.
00:46:13Hello, Jim.
00:46:14Side lights on Sheriff Hartwell's manhunt.
00:46:15William Mansfield, the sheriff's landlord.
00:46:17And Lester Winthrop, who married the sheriff's niece.
00:46:19You remember, the very homely dame.
00:46:21All right, you ready?
00:46:22Mrs. William Rice, age 55, scrub lady,
00:46:23while scrubbing the eighth floor of the Commerce Building
00:46:25was shot in the left leg
00:46:26by one of Sheriff Hartwell's deputies.
00:46:27Look, I'm not...
00:46:28There goes another scrub lady.
00:46:30Nah, it was only a flesh wound.
00:46:31They took her to the hospital.
00:46:32Call you back.
00:46:33McHugh speaking.
00:46:34Give me the desk.
00:46:35Hey, Mac.
00:46:36Any hope on how he escaped?
00:46:37Maybe the sheriff let him out
00:46:38so Williams could vote for him.
00:46:39A man answering the description of Earl Williams
00:46:40was seen boarding a southbound...
00:46:41Call you back.
00:46:42Oh.
00:46:43Thought you'd gone.
00:46:44I thought so, too.
00:46:45Get me Walter Burns, quick.
00:46:50Walter.
00:46:51Walter, listen.
00:46:52I've got the whole story
00:46:54on how Williams got that gun and escaped
00:46:55and I got it exclusive.
00:46:56Yeah, yeah, that's right, and it's a pip.
00:46:58It cost me 450 bucks to tear it out of Cooley.
00:47:01Never mind that.
00:47:02What's the story?
00:47:03Well, just a minute and I'll give you the story,
00:47:04but I'm telling you first
00:47:05I had to give him all the money I had on me
00:47:06and it wasn't exactly mine.
00:47:07Well, it's Bruce's money and I want it back.
00:47:10Bruce's money?
00:47:11Sure, sure, sure.
00:47:12You'll get it.
00:47:13Now, what's the story?
00:47:14I'll send the money right down to you.
00:47:15I swear it on my mother's grave.
00:47:17All right, here's the...
00:47:18Wait a minute.
00:47:19Your mother's alive.
00:47:20My grandmother's grave.
00:47:21Don't be technical, Healy.
00:47:22What's the story?
00:47:23Well, you get that money down here.
00:47:25All right, all right, here's your story.
00:47:27The jailbreak of your dreams.
00:47:28It seems this expert, Dr. Egglehoffer,
00:47:30the profound thinker from New York,
00:47:31was giving Williams a final sanity test
00:47:33in the sheriff's office.
00:47:34You know, sticking a lot of pins in him
00:47:35so that he could get his reflexes.
00:47:37Well, he decided to reenact the crime
00:47:38exactly as it was taking place
00:47:40in order to study Williams' powers of coordination.
00:47:43Well, I'm coming to it.
00:47:44Of course, he had to have a gun to reenact the crime with
00:47:46and who do you suppose supplied it?
00:47:48Peter B. Hartwell.
00:47:49B for brains.
00:47:51No kidding.
00:47:53I tell you, I'm not kidding.
00:47:54I'm not good enough to make this one up.
00:47:56Well, the sheriff gave his gun to the professor
00:47:57and the professor gave it to Earl
00:47:58and Earl shot the professor right in the classified ads.
00:48:01No, ads.
00:48:02Ain't it perfect?
00:48:04If the sheriff hadn't rolled a red carpet
00:48:06and loaned Williams an umbrella,
00:48:07it couldn't have been more ideal.
00:48:08Who?
00:48:09Oh, no, no, Egglehoffer wasn't badly hurt.
00:48:11They took him to the county hospital
00:48:12where they're awfully afraid he'll recover.
00:48:14Oh, that's great work, Healy.
00:48:15Huh?
00:48:16Oh, stop worrying about the money.
00:48:17I'll see you get it in 15 minutes.
00:48:18Well, I'd better get it in 15 minutes.
00:48:19Bruce is downstairs waiting in a taxi cab for me
00:48:21and we're in a hurry.
00:48:22Hold on a minute.
00:48:23Hey, Benji, come here.
00:48:24There's a guy waiting in a taxi
00:48:25in front of the criminal courts building.
00:48:27His name is Bruce Baldwin.
00:48:28What does he look like?
00:48:29He looks like that fellow in the movies, you know,
00:48:31Ralph Bellamy.
00:48:32Go ahead.
00:48:33Can you handle it?
00:48:34I've never fought on you yet, have I?
00:48:35Come on, get going.
00:48:36You only got about two minutes.
00:48:37Hurry.
00:48:38Yes, dear, I'm sorry to keep you waiting.
00:48:40How much was it again?
00:48:41$450?
00:48:42Just a second.
00:48:44Louie, I need $450.
00:48:47I need $450 worth of counterfeit money.
00:48:49Can't carry that much, boss.
00:48:50No, just a $450 counterfeit.
00:48:52Where can I get it?
00:48:53Oh, I got that on me.
00:48:54Oh, what a coincidence.
00:48:55Well, take it over to Hildy.
00:48:56Hello, it's coming right over.
00:48:57Yeah, I'm sending it over with Louie.
00:48:58Well, thanks for your story, dear,
00:48:59and good luck on your honeymoon.
00:49:01No, no, never mind the thanks.
00:49:02Just see that money gets here.
00:49:07Oh, Hildy, you still here?
00:49:08No, I'm in Niagara Falls.
00:49:10McHugh speaking.
00:49:11Nemo, I got a good feature for you on the manhunt.
00:49:14Ready?
00:49:15Mrs. Phoebe DeWolf,
00:49:17gave birth to a Picaninny in a patrol wagon
00:49:18with Sheriff Hartwell's special rifle squad acting as nurses.
00:49:21Now, Phoebe was walking along the street when...
00:49:23That's right, yeah.
00:49:24So they coached her in the patrol wagon,
00:49:26started a race with the start.
00:49:27When the Picaninny was born,
00:49:28the rifle squad examined him carefully
00:49:30to see if it was Earl Williams.
00:49:31Well, they knew he's hiding somewhere.
00:49:33Yeah, here's a fail.
00:49:35They named the kid Peter Hartwell DeWolf...
00:49:37Restroom.
00:49:39Bruce, I thought you were downstairs.
00:49:41What?
00:49:43Arrested again?
00:49:44What for this time?
00:49:45Well, they called it mashing.
00:49:49No, I didn't, Hildy.
00:49:52I was sitting right in the taxi where you left me
00:49:55and the young lady seemed to have a dizzy spell
00:49:58and I just...
00:49:59Huh?
00:50:01Well, she's kind of...
00:50:04Huh?
00:50:06Yeah, she's a blonde.
00:50:08Yes, very blonde.
00:50:10Never mind, I know how it happened.
00:50:11Just a minute.
00:50:12Get me Walter Burns, Hildy Johnson.
00:50:14Bruce, where are you?
00:50:1527 Precinct, hold on a minute, will you?
00:50:17Walter, you...
00:50:19Well, he was there a minute ago.
00:50:21But I...
00:50:23I'm sorry, can't locate him.
00:50:25Double-crossing.
00:50:26Hello, no, not you.
00:50:27Bruce, I can't get there right away.
00:50:29About 20 minutes.
00:50:30But you see, I have to wait here for the...
00:50:32I'll tell you when I see you.
00:50:34If I ever get my two hands again on that Walter Burns...
00:50:36Hold on a minute, Emo.
00:50:37Anything I can do to help you?
00:50:39R.A. 64 cent?
00:50:41Welcome to it.
00:50:42Thanks.
00:50:43You better buy an annuity.
00:50:45What's that, Emo?
00:50:46No, I can't give you an official statement.
00:50:48No.
00:50:49Wait a minute, here's the mayor.
00:50:50Maybe he'll give us one.
00:50:51How about a statement, mayor?
00:50:52Don't pester me now, please.
00:50:53I've got a lot on my mind.
00:50:54Yes, I won't say anything.
00:50:55Have you seen Sheriff Hartwell?
00:50:56It's hard to tell, your honor.
00:50:57You see, there's many cockroaches around here.
00:50:59Whoa, wait a minute, wait a minute.
00:51:00How about a statement, your honor?
00:51:01Sure, we go to press in 20 minutes.
00:51:02I can't help that.
00:51:03I've nothing to say.
00:51:04Not at this time.
00:51:05Just a moment, please.
00:51:06What do you know about the escape?
00:51:07How'd he get out?
00:51:08Wait a minute, boys, not so fast.
00:51:09Well, give us a statement on the election then.
00:51:11What effect will all this have on the voters?
00:51:12None whatsoever.
00:51:13How can an unavoidable misfortune like this
00:51:15have any influence on the upright citizens
00:51:18of our fair city?
00:51:19Mr. Mayor, please.
00:51:20Is there a red menace or ain't there?
00:51:22How did Williams get out of that rubber jail of yours?
00:51:24You don't understand the gap.
00:51:25We picked out somebody to be responsible.
00:51:27Is there any truth in the report
00:51:28that you're on Staline's payroll?
00:51:29Yeah, the senator claims you sleep in red underwear.
00:51:32Never mind the jokes.
00:51:33Don't forget I'm the mayor of this town.
00:51:34Oh, wait a minute.
00:51:35Come here.
00:51:36Hey, Hartwell, I want to see you.
00:51:37How'd he get away?
00:51:38Come on.
00:51:39Where'd he get the gun?
00:51:40Hi, Your Honor.
00:51:41Any statement on the red uprising tomorrow?
00:51:42What red uprising?
00:51:43There'll be no red uprising.
00:51:44The governor says the situation calls for the militia.
00:51:47Give me a rewrite.
00:51:48You can quote me as saying
00:51:49anything the governor says is a tissue of lies.
00:51:51Yes.
00:51:52Hello, Jake.
00:51:53Here's a red-hot statement from the governor.
00:51:54He claims the mayor and the sheriff
00:51:55have shown themselves to be a couple of eight-year-olds
00:51:57playing with fire.
00:51:59Yeah.
00:52:00You can quote him as follows.
00:52:02It is a lucky thing for the city
00:52:03that next Tuesday is election day
00:52:05as the citizens will thus be saved
00:52:06the expense of impeaching the mayor and the sheriff.
00:52:09That's all.
00:52:10Call you back.
00:52:11Nice to have seen you, Mayor.
00:52:12Excuse me, boys.
00:52:13I've got so much stuff.
00:52:14Wait a minute.
00:52:15Who engineered this?
00:52:16Was it the Reds?
00:52:17No.
00:52:18Who was it?
00:52:19You?
00:52:20Me?
00:52:21No.
00:52:22Just a minute and I'll tell you.
00:52:23I've got them located.
00:52:24Who, Williams?
00:52:25Where?
00:52:26Where is he?
00:52:27Out on Center Street where he used to live.
00:52:28I just got a tip.
00:52:29Well, why didn't you say so?
00:52:30The rifle squad's just going out.
00:52:31Oh, really?
00:52:32You'll be able to catch it if you hurry.
00:52:33Please.
00:52:34You mean I'm through?
00:52:35I mean I'm scratching your name off
00:52:36of the ticket next Tuesday
00:52:37and I'm running Sherman in your place.
00:52:38But form the Reds with it.
00:52:40But Fred, I...
00:52:41Williams isn't a Red and you know it.
00:52:42But there are a lot of
00:52:43communistic sympathizers around
00:52:44and I thought that if I got a slogan like that
00:52:46I could...
00:52:47I know it,
00:52:48but that's got nothing to do with this case.
00:52:49Do you realize there are 200,000 votes at stake
00:52:51and if Earl Williams don't hang,
00:52:52we're going to lose him?
00:52:53We're going to hang him.
00:52:54Come in.
00:52:55He can't get away.
00:52:56What do you mean he can't get away?
00:52:57He did get away, didn't he?
00:52:58What do you want?
00:52:59I...
00:53:00What do you want?
00:53:01Are you Sheriff Hartwell?
00:53:02I'm here.
00:53:03What is it?
00:53:04You're a hard man to find, Sheriff.
00:53:05I have a message here from the governor.
00:53:07What's from the governor?
00:53:08It was a reprieve for Earl Williams.
00:53:10For who?
00:53:11Earl Williams' reprieve.
00:53:12And you said there wasn't going to be a reprieve.
00:53:13I didn't.
00:53:14It frightens me to think
00:53:15of what I'd like to do to you.
00:53:16Who else was there when he gave you this?
00:53:17Nobody.
00:53:18He was out fishing.
00:53:19Get the governor on the phone.
00:53:20No, he's not there.
00:53:21He's out duck shooting.
00:53:22What a red hat.
00:53:23The bastard Demrock is fishing,
00:53:24duck shooting.
00:53:25A guy who's done nothing for the last 40 years
00:53:26but play pinochle,
00:53:27gets elected governor
00:53:28and right away he thinks he's a Tarzan.
00:53:30Read that.
00:53:31Insane, he says.
00:53:32Why, he knows very well
00:53:33Williams isn't insane.
00:53:34Well, I never met the man.
00:53:35Ah, pure politics.
00:53:36It's an attempt to ruin us.
00:53:37Dementia prick, I'm sure.
00:53:38Fred, we've got to think fast.
00:53:39What are we going to tell the reporters?
00:53:40Tell them our heart is through
00:53:41and they're staying on account of you.
00:53:42Oh, Fred.
00:53:43Tell them it's an afterthought.
00:53:44Tell them I want your resignation now.
00:53:45Hello?
00:53:46Yes.
00:53:47Yes, this is Hartwell.
00:53:48What?
00:53:49Where?
00:53:50Where?
00:53:51Holy moly.
00:53:52Hold the wire.
00:53:53They've got him.
00:53:54They've got Williams.
00:53:55They've got him surrounded.
00:53:56The rifle squad have him out of his house.
00:53:57Tell them to hold the phone.
00:53:58No.
00:53:59Now, listen.
00:54:00You never arrived with this.
00:54:01Yes, I did.
00:54:02Don't you remember?
00:54:03I came through that door
00:54:04and I thought he was Sheriff Harp.
00:54:05I mean, you, huh?
00:54:06What's your salary?
00:54:07$40 a week.
00:54:08Now, don't cut me off.
00:54:09How would you like to make $350 a month?
00:54:10That's almost $100 a week.
00:54:11No, I couldn't afford that.
00:54:12Who, me?
00:54:13Well, who do you think?
00:54:14Now, they need a fella like you
00:54:15in the city sealer's office.
00:54:16In the what?
00:54:17City sealer's.
00:54:18You mean I should work in the city sealer's?
00:54:19No, wait a minute.
00:54:20I'm in conference.
00:54:21No, my wife wouldn't want me to do that.
00:54:22Yeah, why not?
00:54:24That's all right.
00:54:25You can bring her in here.
00:54:26We'll pay all the expenses.
00:54:27No, I don't think so.
00:54:28For heaven's sakes, why not?
00:54:29Well, I got two kids going to school,
00:54:30and if they change towns,
00:54:31they'll lose a grade.
00:54:32Then I better fight them.
00:54:33No, they won't.
00:54:34They'll skip a grade.
00:54:35And I'll guarantee you
00:54:36that they'll graduate
00:54:37with highest honors.
00:54:38Hold your horses.
00:54:39Also, are you afraid?
00:54:40Now, what do you say?
00:54:41No, it puts me
00:54:42in a kind of peculiar hole.
00:54:43No, it doesn't.
00:54:44Now, remember,
00:54:45you never delivered this.
00:54:46Yes, I did.
00:54:47No, you didn't.
00:54:48You got caught in the traffic or something.
00:54:49No, I came around the back.
00:54:50Wait a minute.
00:54:51Yes, but how do I know that...
00:54:52Come in and see me
00:54:53in my office tomorrow.
00:54:54What's your name?
00:54:55Pettibone. What's yours?
00:54:56Pettibone?
00:54:57Not really.
00:54:58No, no, no.
00:54:59Now, all you've got to do
00:55:00is to lay low
00:55:01and keep your mouth shut.
00:55:02Well, I'm tired anyhow.
00:55:03Here, go to this address.
00:55:04Nice homey place.
00:55:05They'll take good care of you.
00:55:06Just tell them Fred sent you.
00:55:07Here, it's $50 on account.
00:55:08Will you wait, Olsen?
00:55:09I'll tell you in one minute.
00:55:10Oh, you forgot to tell me
00:55:11what a city senior does.
00:55:12I'll explain it all tomorrow.
00:55:13Is it hard?
00:55:14No, no, easy.
00:55:15Very easy.
00:55:16Well, that's good
00:55:17Fred, Fred,
00:55:18they're still on the phone.
00:55:19All right,
00:55:20tell them to shoot to kill.
00:55:21What?
00:55:22You heard what I said.
00:55:23But the reprieve, Fred,
00:55:24the thing...
00:55:25I had to as I tell you.
00:55:26All right, hello, Olsen.
00:55:27Shoot to kill.
00:55:28That's the orders.
00:55:29Pass the word alive.
00:55:30$500 reward.
00:55:31$500 to the man who does it.
00:55:32All right, I'll be right over.
00:55:33Hi, Hildy.
00:55:34You double-crossing hyena.
00:55:35I'd like to take a...
00:55:36What's the matter, Hildy?
00:55:37Don't give me that innocent stuff.
00:55:38What did you pull on Mr. Baldwin this time?
00:55:39Who, me?
00:55:40Yes, you and that albino of yours.
00:55:41Is he talking about Evangeline?
00:55:42None other.
00:55:43She ain't no albino.
00:55:44She'll do till one comes along.
00:55:45She was born right here in this country.
00:55:46If she tries anything else,
00:55:47she'll have to stay right here in this country.
00:55:48I don't mind.
00:55:49And you too,
00:55:50and it won't be on a phony charge either.
00:55:51Did you bring that money?
00:55:52Oh, yeah, $400.
00:55:53$450.
00:55:54All right,
00:55:55you can't blame a guy for trying.
00:55:56You better give me a receipt.
00:55:57I'll give you a scar.
00:55:58I got plenty of them.
00:55:59Oh,
00:56:00and I'll take Mr. Baldwin's wallet too.
00:56:01Mr. Baldwin's what?
00:56:02His purse.
00:56:03Come on, come on, Louie.
00:56:04All right, Hildy,
00:56:05I'll do it for you
00:56:06because I like you.
00:56:07But you better tell that financier
00:56:09to be more careful in these hard times,
00:56:10you know what I mean?
00:56:11Sure, sure.
00:56:12If I'm alone,
00:56:13I'm gonna carry your brass knuckles too.
00:56:14Now, don't talk that way, Hildy.
00:56:15Here, I'll take that.
00:56:16I'll take it to the station.
00:56:17Wait a minute, wait a minute.
00:56:18You'll take it over to the station, all right?
00:56:19You'll take it to the 27th Precinct
00:56:20and tell the cops how this all happened.
00:56:21I couldn't do that, Hildy.
00:56:22Boyd's gonna have me in Alcatraz in an hour.
00:56:23That's not a bad idea.
00:56:24Here, catch.
00:56:25Louie!
00:56:26Okay.
00:56:35Hello, operator.
00:56:36Hildy just called.
00:56:37Hello, operator.
00:56:38Hildy Johnson, will you get me...
00:56:39Drop that phone.
00:56:41Never mind.
00:56:43You're not gonna tell anybody where I am.
00:56:49Put that gun down, Earl.
00:56:53You don't wanna shoot me, Earl.
00:56:54I'm your friend, remember?
00:56:56I'm gonna write the story on you
00:56:57in production for use.
00:56:58Oh, yes.
00:56:59That's right.
00:57:00Production for use.
00:57:01You don't wanna hurt your friend.
00:57:02Don't move.
00:57:03Maybe you're my friend
00:57:04and maybe you're not.
00:57:05But don't come any nearer.
00:57:06You can't trust anybody
00:57:07in this crazy world.
00:57:09I don't blame you.
00:57:10If I were you,
00:57:11I wouldn't trust anybody either.
00:57:12Don't do that.
00:57:13Put it back.
00:57:14Put it back.
00:57:15You know, if you try any tricks,
00:57:16I'll shoot you.
00:57:17I can do it right from here.
00:57:19Sure.
00:57:20Sure you could, Earl.
00:57:21You don't wanna do that.
00:57:22You don't wanna kill anybody.
00:57:24No, you're right.
00:57:25I don't wanna kill anybody.
00:57:27That's what I thought.
00:57:28Wait a minute.
00:57:29Where are you going?
00:57:30I was just gonna close the door
00:57:32so nobody'd see you.
00:57:33No, you weren't.
00:57:34You were gonna get somebody.
00:57:35But I don't want that.
00:57:36All I want is to be left alone.
00:57:37I won't get anybody.
00:57:38Yes, you will.
00:57:39You'll get them after me again.
00:57:40I won't let you do that.
00:57:41I won't.
00:57:44Give me that.
00:57:45I guess I fired all the shells.
00:57:47I'm awful tired.
00:57:49Earl, I couldn't go through.
00:57:50Throw that shot down.
00:57:51Lower your head.
00:57:52I don't care.
00:57:53I'm not afraid to die.
00:57:54Stop it.
00:57:55I was telling the fellow that
00:57:56when he handed me the gun.
00:57:57Be quiet, will you?
00:57:58Waking me up in the middle of the night.
00:57:59Talking to me about things
00:58:00they don't understand.
00:58:01Shut up.
00:58:02I wish they'd take me back
00:58:03if they handed me a gun.
00:58:04They will if you don't keep quiet.
00:58:06I couldn't go through
00:58:07another day like this.
00:58:08Maybe you think I could.
00:58:10Get me Walter Burns, quick.
00:58:11Tell him I need him.
00:58:14Hello, hello.
00:58:16Oh, but Bruce, please.
00:58:17I know I said I'd be down in 20 minutes
00:58:18but something terrific has happened.
00:58:19Hold on.
00:58:20Walter, Hilde, come over here right away.
00:58:21Wait, Bruce, just a second.
00:58:22I'll explain everything.
00:58:23Walter, get this.
00:58:24I've got Earl Williams here.
00:58:25Yeah, right in the press room.
00:58:26Honest, down the level.
00:58:27Hurry, I need you.
00:58:28Right.
00:58:29Bruce, biggest thing in the world has happened.
00:58:30I've captured Earl Williams.
00:58:31You know, the murderer.
00:58:32Stay down there, Earl.
00:58:33Just as soon as I hand him over the paper
00:58:34I'll be right down.
00:58:35Bruce, I can't.
00:58:36Bruce, don't you realize it's too hard.
00:58:38Who is it?
00:58:39It's me, Molly Molloy.
00:58:40Open the door.
00:58:42What do you want, Molly?
00:58:43I gotta find...
00:58:45Where is everybody?
00:58:46They're not here. They've all gone.
00:58:47Oh, please tell me where they've gone.
00:58:48Please tell me.
00:58:49Molly, I don't know.
00:58:50And I'm awfully busy.
00:58:51Am I running along?
00:58:52Oh, look.
00:58:53They got him surrounded.
00:58:54They're gonna shoot him down like a dog.
00:58:55They're looking for you, too.
00:58:56If you're smart, you'll get out of here.
00:58:57I don't care.
00:58:58You've gotta tell me.
00:58:59You've gotta.
00:59:00I ain't afraid of them.
00:59:01Molly.
00:59:02Molly, don't go.
00:59:03Oh, come in, Molly.
00:59:04Drop a chair.
00:59:08Hello, Molly.
00:59:09How did you get in here?
00:59:10Down the pipe.
00:59:11I didn't mean to shoot him.
00:59:12Really, I didn't.
00:59:13Shh.
00:59:14Be quiet.
00:59:15You believe me, don't you, Molly?
00:59:16Sure, I believe you.
00:59:18Thanks for the roses.
00:59:19They were beautiful.
00:59:20I'm sorry, Mr. Freeman.
00:59:23I'm going to watch you.
00:59:24Don't.
00:59:25For heaven's sake, don't do that.
00:59:26It's terrible.
00:59:27I want to get him out of here.
00:59:28You're crazy.
00:59:29You wouldn't get halfway down that hole
00:59:30without being seen.
00:59:31Yeah, but they'll find you.
00:59:32I know it.
00:59:33I know it.
00:59:34I'm trying to think before those reporters come in.
00:59:35Let them take me.
00:59:36What difference does it make?
00:59:37Come on.
00:59:38Let them.
00:59:39Hey, who locked the door?
00:59:41Oh, now it's too late.
00:59:42No, it isn't.
00:59:43No, it isn't.
00:59:44Earl, get in this desk.
00:59:45Come on.
00:59:46Get in.
00:59:47Come on.
00:59:51Open up.
00:59:52Put yourself together.
00:59:56All right.
00:59:57All right.
00:59:58I'm coming.
01:00:00Oh, what are you trying to do?
01:00:01Kick the building down?
01:00:02You're getting kind of exclusive, ain't you?
01:00:03After all, we got some phone calls to make.
01:00:04Hey, what's she doing up here?
01:00:05Run down and get some smelling salts, will you?
01:00:06What's the matter?
01:00:07What happened?
01:00:08Came up here and had hysterics.
01:00:09Got pretty sick.
01:00:10How do you feel, kid?
01:00:11I don't feel so good.
01:00:12Get you some water?
01:00:13I'll get it.
01:00:14Do anything for you?
01:00:15No.
01:00:16Oh, you don't look so sick to me.
01:00:17You didn't bump into Williams, did you?
01:00:18Ain't you funny?
01:00:19Yeah, where is he?
01:00:20Leave me alone, will you?
01:00:21OK.
01:00:22Give me the desk.
01:00:23No harm in asking.
01:00:24Hello, Jim?
01:00:25Yeah, it's false alarm.
01:00:27I forgot to tell Williams.
01:00:28And he wasn't there.
01:00:29Halloween going on outside.
01:00:30The whole police force standing on its ear.
01:00:31Oh, hello, Hildy.
01:00:32I thought you were gone.
01:00:33I'm waiting for some money from Walden.
01:00:34What a chase.
01:00:35Give me email.
01:00:36It was on Williams.
01:00:37Perfect talking.
01:00:38Give me the desk.
01:00:39Any news, boys?
01:00:40Yeah.
01:00:41I've never been so tired in my life.
01:00:42What?
01:00:43Where?
01:00:44Melrose Station?
01:00:45Huh?
01:00:46All right, connect me.
01:00:47Hello, Molly.
01:00:48How are you?
01:00:49Hold it a minute.
01:00:50Hey, fellas, this looks good.
01:00:51Yeah, call you back.
01:00:52An old lady just called the detective bureau
01:00:53and claims Williams is hiding under her piazza.
01:00:54Tell her to stand up.
01:00:55I'm ready.
01:00:56Let's not do any more going out.
01:00:57Never mind, Sarge.
01:00:58Tear it up.
01:00:59Say, who pulled the shades down?
01:01:00I did.
01:01:01They were throwing those lights around.
01:01:02You know, I got a hunch Williams ain't anywhere
01:01:09they've been looking for him.
01:01:11He might be right here in this building somewhere.
01:01:13Sure, sure.
01:01:14Hanging around like a duck in a shooting gallery.
01:01:16There's that skylight he got out of,
01:01:17but how did he reach the ground?
01:01:19I'm pretending there ain't any road.
01:01:21Jump over to this roof.
01:01:22It's only about four feet.
01:01:23Yeah, once he got to the roof,
01:01:24he could slide down a drain pipe.
01:01:25And come in any one of these windows on this side.
01:01:27The story's gonna walk right in the window.
01:01:29Masterminds at work.
01:01:30Why don't you boys go home?
01:01:31Maybe Williams will come and call on you.
01:01:32Wouldn't it be funny if he's in this building somewhere?
01:01:34Oh, why not search the building?
01:01:35Everybody take a floor.
01:01:36Oh, no, I'm not gonna want her all over this place.
01:01:38What a great bunch of reporters you are.
01:01:40The biggest story in two years
01:01:41and you're all too lazy to go after it.
01:01:42Say, Hildy, if I know you,
01:01:43you seem pretty anxious to get rid of us.
01:01:45You trying to scoop us or something?
01:01:46What are you, crazy?
01:01:47On my own time?
01:01:48Everybody's been giving her the story
01:01:49on how Williams got the gun.
01:01:50Yeah, did you smuggle that gun into Williams, Molly?
01:01:52Oh, no, I didn't do nothing.
01:01:53Come clean, Molly.
01:01:54Let the girl alone.
01:01:55She's...
01:01:56Will?
01:01:57Mrs. Baldwin.
01:01:58Mother.
01:01:59Don't you mother me.
01:02:00Playing cat and mouse with my poor boy.
01:02:01Keeping him locked up.
01:02:02Making us miss two trains
01:02:03and you supposed to be married tomorrow.
01:02:05I'll be with you in five minutes.
01:02:06You don't have to go with me at all.
01:02:07Just give me Bruce's money
01:02:08and you can stay here forever,
01:02:09as far as I'm concerned.
01:02:10You and that murderer you caught.
01:02:12What's that?
01:02:13Which one of these men is it?
01:02:14They all look like murderers to me.
01:02:16Wait a minute, Hildy.
01:02:17What murder did you catch?
01:02:18What are you talking about?
01:02:19I'm quoting my son
01:02:20and he has never lied to me.
01:02:22That's ridiculous in the first place.
01:02:23I never said anything like that.
01:02:24Yes, you did.
01:02:25No, I didn't.
01:02:26I said I was trying to find the murderer.
01:02:28You got it all balled up.
01:02:29Can't you see that?
01:02:30Who are you holding on to?
01:02:31Nobody.
01:02:32Now let me go, William.
01:02:33I don't know where he is.
01:02:34Stop it.
01:02:35Stop it.
01:02:36What are you asking her for?
01:02:37She don't know where he is.
01:02:38I'm the only one that knows.
01:02:39Where is Williams?
01:02:40Try and find out.
01:02:41Come on, Molly.
01:02:42Talk.
01:02:43Talk?
01:02:44Now you want me to talk?
01:02:45Talk.
01:02:46Oh, ain't that funny?
01:02:47You wouldn't listen to me before,
01:02:48and now you want me to talk?
01:02:49Don't tell him anything, Molly.
01:02:50Leave me alone.
01:02:51I know what I'm doing.
01:02:52Stay out of this, silly.
01:02:53Why didn't you listen to me?
01:02:54Why didn't you?
01:02:55Come on.
01:02:56Cut that out.
01:02:57You keep your hands off of me.
01:02:58Where is he?
01:02:59What do you want to know for?
01:03:00So you can write some more lies,
01:03:01so you can sell some more papers.
01:03:02Never mind that.
01:03:03All right.
01:03:04All right.
01:03:05I'll tell you what I'll do.
01:03:06I'll give you a story.
01:03:07I'll give you a wonderful story.
01:03:08Only this time, it'll be true.
01:03:09You'll never find him now.
01:03:10Get the ambulance.
01:03:11Somebody.
01:03:12Get an ambulance.
01:03:13Somebody.
01:03:14She's dead.
01:03:15No, she isn't killed.
01:03:16She's dead.
01:03:17No, she isn't killed.
01:03:18She's moving.
01:03:19Darling, did you see that?
01:03:20Where is he?
01:03:21She jumped out the window.
01:03:22I know that.
01:03:23Where is he, I said?
01:03:24Anyway, she isn't dead.
01:03:25Come to it.
01:03:26Where have you got Williams?
01:03:27He's in the desk.
01:03:28Kevin, she didn't kill us.
01:03:29How are you doing?
01:03:30Let me out.
01:03:31I can't stand it.
01:03:32Keep quiet.
01:03:33You're sitting pretty.
01:03:34What's in there?
01:03:35Who are you?
01:03:36What are you doing?
01:03:37Who is she?
01:03:38This is Mr. Baldwin, Bruce's mother.
01:03:39What are you doing?
01:03:40Shut up.
01:03:41I won't shut up.
01:03:42You're doing something wrong.
01:03:43Mother, please.
01:03:44Take her out of here.
01:03:45My name is Louis Peluso.
01:03:46Lock her up.
01:03:47See if she doesn't talk to anyone along the way.
01:03:48You can't do this.
01:03:49What do I tell him?
01:03:50Tell him it's a case of DT.
01:03:51Don't worry, Mother.
01:03:52This is only temporary.
01:03:53Walter, let go of me.
01:03:54Where do you think you're going?
01:03:55I'm going after Mother, and I'm going to get Bruce out of jail.
01:03:56Walter, why did you have to do this to me?
01:03:57Get Bruce out of jail?
01:03:58How can you worry about a man who's resting in a nice, quiet police station?
01:03:59Well, this is going on Hildy.
01:04:00This is war.
01:04:01You can't desert me now.
01:04:02Walter, will you get off that trapeze?
01:04:03You've got your story right over there on the desk.
01:04:04Go on.
01:04:05Smear it all over the front page.
01:04:06Gerald Williams captured by the Morning Post.
01:04:07I covered your story for you, and I got in a fine mess doing it.
01:04:08Now I'm getting out.
01:04:09You drooling idiot.
01:04:10What do you mean, getting out?
01:04:11Just what I said.
01:04:12There are 365 days in a year one can get mad.
01:04:13How many times have you got a murderer locked up in a desk?
01:04:14Once in a lifetime.
01:04:15Hildy, you've got the whole city by the seat of their pants.
01:04:16I know.
01:04:17I know.
01:04:18You know.
01:04:19You know.
01:04:20You've got the brain of a pancake.
01:04:21This isn't just a story you're covering.
01:04:22It's a revolution.
01:04:23This is the greatest yarn in journalism since Livingston discovered Stanton.
01:04:24It's a revolution.
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01:09:17How's it coming, hon?
01:09:18Oh, all right, I guess.
01:09:19Where's Ruth?
01:09:20Ruth?
01:09:21Oh, he went out.
01:09:22Is he coming back here?
01:09:23Certainly he's coming back.
01:09:24Didn't you hear him?
01:09:25What have you got so far?
01:09:26Let me hear it.
01:09:27While hundreds of Sheril Hartwell paid gunmen stalked through the city
01:09:28shooting innocent bystanders, spreading their reign of terror –
01:09:30Earl Willies was lurking, less than 20,000 were shirts –
01:09:32Why wait a minute.
01:09:33Why wait a minute?
01:09:34Aren't you going to mention the post?
01:09:35Doesn't the paper get any credit?
01:09:36Why, I did that right there in the second paragraph.
01:09:37Well, who's going to read the second paragraphs?
01:09:38story that's what I'm sorry what's the idea of locking his door who's in any
01:09:56better sense and it hello hello mr. Burns well quite an honor having you
01:10:01come over here hello Benziger oh you know my excuse me I just want to get my
01:10:06you know it's quite a coincidence seeing you tonight isn't it Hildy yes yes how
01:10:10do you mean by the matter of fact I was talking to our mr. Duffy about you just
01:10:12this afternoon really well nothing detrimental on the contrary on the
01:10:16contrary that was one swell story you had in the paper this morning oh did you
01:10:19did you care for the poem mr. Burns the poem the poem was great I like the
01:10:24ending especially and all is well outside his cell but in his heart he
01:10:28hears the hangman calling and the gallows falling and his white-haired
01:10:32mother's tears heartbreaking that's fine how'd you like to come and work for
01:10:36me what yes we can use a man like you all we got now a lot of lowbrows like
01:10:40Johnson here are you serious mr. Burns yes wait a minute
01:10:43listen Duffy Duffy I'm sending a mr. Bunsinger over to see Benzinger oh yeah
01:10:47and Mervyn isn't it yeah no Roy Roy V certainly Roy V Benzinger the poet well
01:10:53of course you wouldn't know you probably never heard of Shakespeare either look I
01:10:58want you to put mr. Benzinger on the staff right away how much getting on the
01:11:01tribune wrong 75 I'll give you a hundred in a byline now you give him
01:11:04everything he wants you understand okay I want you to hustle and write me a
01:11:09story from the point of view of the escaped man he hides cowering afraid of
01:11:12every sound of every light he hears footsteps as hard as going like that and
01:11:15all the time they're closing in now get the sense of the animal at bay sort of
01:11:17Jack London style exactly I'll just get my rhyming it doesn't have to rhyme
01:11:21doesn't have to rhyme oh well I'm deeply grateful mr. Burns it's very oh oh if you
01:11:26should have an opening for a war correspondent I parlay a little French
01:11:30you know I'll keep in mind what if I won't Capitaine bonjour it's white-haired
01:11:38mother's tears that's a tough business now listen that fella Benzinger's on his
01:11:42way over to see you right now handle him with kid gloves put him to work writing
01:11:45poetry no no we don't want him just stall him along until the extras out
01:11:48then tell him his poetry smells and kick him downstairs you said it that'll teach
01:11:52him a lesson he won't quit his paper without giving notice I mean you may
01:11:55double-cross anybody wait a minute but just remembered Bruce isn't coming back
01:12:00here he said he was taking the nine o'clock oh well in that case he's gone
01:12:02by now come on honey like a frozen Robin get on with the story you don't have a
01:12:06place all finished by the time butch gets here oh you have messed up my life
01:12:10what am I going to do oh the windows too small we'd have to carry the desk out of
01:12:14a building I am falling for your line they're gonna name streets after yes
01:12:19yes well you've had a nice rest now get back to work who is it
01:12:25it's me boss it's Louie Louie
01:12:29what's the matter with you what'd you do with it what happened you been in a fight
01:12:33down Weston Avenue we was going 65 miles an hour you know what I mean take that
01:12:36mush out of your mouth where's the old lady I'm telling you we run smack into a
01:12:39police patrol you know what I mean we busted it in half what's she hurt look
01:12:41where is she tell me imagine bumping into a load of cops they come rolling
01:12:44out like orange what did you do with her touch me when I come to I was running
01:12:48down dirty you were with her weren't you was I you were in the taxi cab the
01:12:51driver got knocked cold butterfingers I give you an ordain to take something
01:12:54you hand her over to the cops what do you mean I handed her the cops was on the
01:12:57wrong side of the street no everything's fine she's probably squawking her head
01:13:00off in a police I don't think she's squawking much you know what I mean
01:13:03don't tell me she killed hey what she did you notice me say listen me with a
01:13:07gun on the hip and a kidnapped old lady on my hands I'm gonna stick around
01:13:10asking questions from a lot of cops you know what I mean dead dead oh this is
01:13:13the end oh that's fate Hildy what will be will be what am I gonna say to Bruce
01:13:19can I tell him look honey if he really loves you you won't have to tell him
01:13:23anything snap out of it would you rather have had the old dame dragging the
01:13:26whole police force in here I killed her I'm responsible what am I gonna do how
01:13:30can I ever face Bruce again look at me Hildy I am looking at you you murderer
01:13:34now if it was my own grandmother I'd carry on you know I would for the paper
01:13:38Louie where did it happen Western and 34th I got it we could do more here now
01:13:43be calm listen
01:13:48Maine four five five seven who well butch where are you
01:13:53Oh Mission Hospital receiving room please well what are you doing there
01:13:55haven't you even started already Hildy Johnson was there an old lady brought in
01:13:58there from Sebastian butch listen it's a matter of life and death nobody I can't
01:14:03hear morning six nine speak up what what you can't stop for a day no community
01:14:09hospital give me the receiving I don't care if you've been after her for six
01:14:11years but your whole lives are at stake you're gonna let a woman come between
01:14:14us after all we've been through max Hildy Johnson was there an old lady
01:14:17brought in there and it all smashed up butch I'd put my arm in fire for you up
01:14:20to here now you can't jump across me look around will you please does all
01:14:24right put her on I'll talk to her oh good evening madam now listen you
01:14:28ten cent glamour girl you can't keep us away from his duty what's that you say
01:14:32that again I'll come over there and kick you in the teeth
01:14:34hey what kind of language is that now look here you she hung up what did I
01:14:40say stop it I don't like that motion around with something that's
01:14:47cooperating well where is Duffy diabetes I ought to know better than to hire
01:14:54anybody with a disease I'll give me Olympia to one Louie yes what Louie it's
01:14:59up to you anything you say well beat it up get hold of some guys who do you want
01:15:03anybody with hair on his chest get him off the street get him anywhere offer
01:15:06him anything only get him we got to get that desk out of here is it important
01:15:08is it important listen Louie you're the best friend I got I like you too all
01:15:11right then don't fail me get enough people to move that desk now come on I
01:15:14rely on you know me boss the shirt off my back okay don't bump into anything
01:15:17that dumb immigrant a flop on me it shows you're bored if he's not back in
01:15:23five minutes we're carrying out alone do anything you want there's a million ways
01:15:26we can start a fire have the fireman take it out in the confusion I don't
01:15:28give a darn what you do hey come here see if we can lift it oh what nobody oh
01:15:32never mind are you gonna help me no I'm not you want me to strain my back I'm
01:15:36gonna find mrs. Baldwin now look here Johnson hey you you mean me yes you what
01:15:48do you mean by breaking in here like this hmm you can't bluff me Burns I
01:15:52don't care who you are what paper you're ready to go please look fella
01:15:56Sonny's happened to my mother we're going out to get Williams you have the
01:16:00door and Molly we're in here talking I know where he is oh look I don't know
01:16:03anything really and there's been an accident Johnson there's something very
01:16:05very peculiar going on here I'll see here Johnson a moment hard well if you
01:16:09have any accusations to make make them in the proper manner otherwise I'll have
01:16:13to ask you to get out you'll ask me to what get out oh you will hey you keep
01:16:18that door closed and don't let anybody in or out now we'll see about this come
01:16:21on piggy give him the third degree yeah I'm talking you got Williams yes now
01:16:24look here Johnson I'm going to get to the bottom of this are you going to talk
01:16:26around you well what do you want me to say what do you know about William what
01:16:29do you know about William now we're getting all right boys take her out of
01:16:33here all right Burns I'll take that gun where did you get this gun I've got a
01:16:45right to carry a gun if I want to not this gun I can explain that hard well
01:16:48when Hildy told me she was gonna interview Earl Williams I thought it
01:16:50would be dangerous so I gave her a gun to defend herself oh you did well that's
01:16:52very interesting but this happens to be the gun that Williams used to shoot his
01:16:55way out with why good man are you trying to make me out a liar I ought to know my
01:16:59own gun or not where is Earl Williams where have you got it you're barking up
01:17:05the wrong tree hard well I'll give you three minutes to tell me where he is he
01:17:08went over to the hospital to call on Professor Egglehopper with a bag of
01:17:11marshmallows where is he ask the mastermind what he's doing here speak up
01:17:15speak up what do you know about this my dear fellow where is the morning post
01:17:19does not obstruct justice or hide criminal you ought to know that Johnson
01:17:23you're under arrest and you too Burns who's under arrest listen you
01:17:26insignificant square-toed pimple-headed spies you realize what you're doing I'll
01:17:30show you what I'm doing Burns you're obstructing justice and so is the
01:17:33morning post and I'm going to see that you're fined $10,000 you'll see nothing
01:17:37of the kind I'm going to begin by impounding the post property is this
01:17:39your desk no yes what are you afraid of Hildy I dare you to move this desk out
01:17:43of here all right I will I'm warning you you move this desk out of this building
01:17:48I'll put you behind bars you can do it too is that so I'll see the Roosevelt
01:17:51here's about all right tell him come on boys confiscate this desk your last
01:17:54chance this is a federal offense and you fellas to be accessory will you take a
01:17:57chance on that go ahead boys all right open up this door mother mother I am
01:18:04glad to see I all right I've been that's the man that did it right there what's
01:18:10the idea here this lady claims she's been kidnapped what they dragged me all
01:18:14the way down the stairs but just a minute did this man have anything to do
01:18:17with it why he was in charge of the whole thing he told them to kidnap me
01:18:20excuse me madam are you referring to me you know you did what about this burns
01:18:25kidnapping I'm trying to frame me huh I never saw this woman before in my life
01:18:29what a thing to say I was standing right here when that girl jumped out the
01:18:33window get him over here right away look here madam be honest if you were out
01:18:37joyriding plastered I got into some scrape why don't you admit it instead of
01:18:41accusing innocent people how dare you talk like that to me just a little crazy
01:18:46mother and I can tell you something more yeah I can tell you why they did it yeah
01:18:49that's some kind of a murderer in here and they were hiding
01:18:56and you know it what was that he's in there give me the desk give me that phone
01:19:02what a break stand back everybody how do you my show on get your guns out he's
01:19:05harmless don't take any chance to shoot right through the day anybody you've got
01:19:08on your gray head oh no Jake hang on don't he call Duffy no you don't you
01:19:18want to see a scoop in a minute now everybody all the wire aim right at the
01:19:21center all right Carl Frank what did we get on each end of the desk I'm coming
01:19:25up we got you covered Williams have it in a minute don't try to move anytime
01:19:27now I'll count three it's hot one ready for an emergency do any second now three
01:19:32up with it I got you Williams go ahead shoot me
01:19:36in the criminal courts building hiding in a desk come on on your feet out boys
01:19:40don't try any funny stuff Williams was unconscious when they opened the desk
01:19:43Williams put up a desperate struggle but the police overpowering offered no
01:19:45resisting right shoot out with a cop so these gun wouldn't work break through a
01:19:48whole court in the police Duffy the morning put me that turn Williams over
01:19:51to the sheriff put the cops on these people all of us don't receive but the
01:19:53sheriff led to Williams capture hold on the sheriff is tracing mysterious
01:19:58telephone call which gave away Williams hiding hello Gary give me the warden's
01:20:14office quick well you're gonna wish you'd never been born oh am I hello Fred
01:20:18well fine work Pete just certainly delivered the goods I'm proud of you
01:20:21look kind of natural don't sight for sore eye aiding an escaped criminal and
01:20:25a little charge of kidnapping it what's that to me but that's the jail must be
01:20:28somebody there well looks like about ten years apiece for you two birds does it
01:20:32whenever you think you've got the morning post licked it's time for you to
01:20:34get out of town whistling in the dark well that isn't gonna help you this time
01:20:37you're through listen the last man who said that to me was Archie Leach just a
01:20:40week before he cut his that's so we've been a worse chance than this haven't we
01:20:43held a no you forget the power that always watches over the morning post my
01:20:48lord not with you now hello this is Hartwell I've caught him yes Williams
01:20:52single-handed we'll proceed with the hanging per schedule you're gonna be in
01:20:56office exactly two days more what you'll be doing you'll be making rooms
01:21:03in the state penitentiary hello Joe this is Hartman I want you to come over to my
01:21:06office right away yes I just captured a couple of important birds and I want you
01:21:09to take the confession I'll be getting a boy all the lawyers in the world I'm
01:21:12gonna help you now listen you're talking to the morning post Oh bar of the press
01:21:16ha ha ha listen bigger men than you have found out what the power of the press is
01:21:21president King here's a reprieve say you say get out of here oh you can't
01:21:25bribe me my wife's gonna hear you oh no I won't here's the reprieve I don't want
01:21:31to be a city see my wife throw him out right out you go just a minute wait a
01:21:35minute who's trying to bribe you they wouldn't take this he's insane what did
01:21:38I tell you an unseen power what do you mean by coming in here with a cock and
01:21:41bull story like that frame up he's an imposter arrest him a minute trying to
01:21:45hang in this man win an election that's murder that's a lie never saw him before
01:21:48I was to tell my wife your name the penny bone Joe penny point did you
01:21:52deliver this first mr. penny talk to they started right in bribing those
01:21:56them that's absurd on the face of it Walner he's talking like a child out of
01:22:00the mouth of bait I behave same drunk or something why this unfortunate man
01:22:05Williams has really been reprieved I'm personally tickled death aren't you Pete
01:22:08oh go on you'd hang your own mother to be reelected that's a horrible thing to
01:22:11say about anybody miss Johnson oh you're marvelous take a look at their water
01:22:14you're an intelligent man never mind that let's have your story mr. penny bone
01:22:19well 19 years ago I married mrs. penny skip all that well she wasn't mrs.
01:22:22pebble no she was one of the army Jones sheriff this document is authentic and
01:22:27Earl Williams has been reprieved and our Commonwealth has been saved the painful
01:22:31necessity of shedding blood get off the soapbox say that for the tribute Pete
01:22:35take those handcuffs off my friend I'm amazed that you're doing a thing like
01:22:38that awful water you don't know how badly I feel no no excuse at all for
01:22:42Pete to fly off the handle I was only doing my duty nothing personal what you
01:22:46say your name was a pebble wasn't yes here's a picture of my wife a fine
01:22:50looking woman because you haven't seen her yet well she's all right oh well
01:22:53she's good enough for me if I was to tell my wife to be about three more
01:23:00hours I'd say enough for us to get out a special edition asking for your recall
01:23:04and your arrest you know you little boys ought to get about ten years a piece I
01:23:07think yep don't make any hasty decisions mr. Burns you might run into a thumping
01:23:11big libel so you're going to run into the governor why my old friend the
01:23:15governor and I understand each other perfectly yes and so do I so do you
01:23:18watcha who do and I'm mr. Pettibone if you'll come along with us we'll take you
01:23:22over to the warden's office and deliver this reprieve come on Pete
01:23:24vows to tell my wife you won't have to wait for those two future jailbirds read
01:23:31the morning post squeeze though give me Duffy that's the worst jam we've been in
01:23:34a long time what well where is he get him remember the time we stole old lady
01:23:38haggardy stomach off the coroner's physician that marvelous anytime you
01:23:41need this guy's never there we prove she'd been poisoned yeah yeah to hide
01:23:45out for a week you remember that so I'm hotel that that's where I mean how we
01:23:50we could have gone to jail for that too you know that oh yes maybe you're right
01:23:55here it's a bad business well you're gonna be better off so you better get
01:23:58going well to Bruce of course but you know he's gone he took that I just sent
01:24:04him a wire he'll be waiting at the station when you get into Albany I go on
01:24:07what look why doesn't that guy have a phone put in there maybe keep going
01:24:12Hildy keep going what is that with you wait a minute
01:24:16look honey can't you understand I'm trying to do something noble for once in
01:24:20my life now get out of here before I change my mind come on there's tough
01:24:22enough now just a minute send a fellow why he'll be waiting when you get in
01:24:25come on who writes the story I'll do it myself won't be half as good as you can
01:24:28do it what's the difference my story I'd kind of like to think that it oh the
01:24:33same old act isn't it try to push me out of here thinking I'll be stupid enough
01:24:36to want to say no I know I deserve that Hilly wait a minute Duffy but this is
01:24:40one time you're wrong look honey when you walk out that door part of me would
01:24:44go right with you but a whole new world's gonna open up for you I made fun
01:24:48of Bruce and Albany and all that kind of thing you know why I was jealous I was
01:24:52sore because he could offer you the kind of life I can't give you that's what you
01:24:56want honey I I could stay and do the story and take the train in the morning
01:24:59just forget it come on come on goodbye dear and good luck
01:25:06Oh Duffy hello notice how it goes so far oh just a minute
01:25:12hello who healthy Johnson no she just left I'm still here I can take it hang
01:25:18on a minute Hildy Johnson speaking the fourth precinct police station
01:25:26well put him on Bruce I thought you're on your way to Albany what for for
01:25:33having counterfeit money counterfeit money hold on a minute Duffy
01:25:37where did you get it I gave it to you oh I know I'm just having a bath
01:25:57honey don't don't cry please come on I didn't mean to make you cry honey what's
01:26:01the matter with you you never cried before
01:26:04Hildy I thought you were really sending me away with Bruce I didn't know you had him locked up
01:26:12I thought you were on the level for once I thought you were just standing by and
01:26:18letting me go off with him not doing a thing about it oh come on honey why do you
01:26:23think I was a chump I mean I thought you didn't love me what were you thinking
01:26:28what is daddy they're gawking for we have to get him out of jail
01:26:35send Louie down with some honest money and send him back to Albany where he belongs
01:26:40sure sure Duffy everything's changed tell Louie to stand by we're coming over
01:26:45the office no don't worry about the story Hildy's gonna write it of course
01:26:48she's not quitting she never intended to we're gonna get married oh hey Duffy you
01:26:56no no not permanently just for the two weeks we're away on the honeymoon I don't know where
01:27:01we're going where we going Niagara Falls Niagara Falls Duffy sure you've earned it but what
01:27:09strike what strike where Albany well I know it's on the way Duffy but I can't ask you okay Duffy