FITTING IN Full Movie
FITTING IN Full Movie
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00:01:30 - Well, here we are.
00:01:37 I turn down here at the next block.
00:01:39 - Thanks mister.
00:01:40 I'll get off there.
00:01:41 - Want anything else?
00:01:50 - No.
00:01:51 - Hey you.
00:01:52 - Me?
00:01:56 - You.
00:01:57 Where you heading?
00:01:58 - East.
00:02:01 - You're dead.
00:02:01 I thought if you was heading north,
00:02:03 I might be able to help you out.
00:02:05 I'm pushing the Salt Lake tonight.
00:02:06 Don't let the rioters alone at night.
00:02:08 I'm one of those guys that gotta talk or I fall asleep.
00:02:11 - Oh, sure, you know.
00:02:12 - Pardon me, he's got Lou to keep company,
00:02:14 but I ain't got nobody at all.
00:02:17 - Where you coming from?
00:02:18 - West.
00:02:19 - Yeah, sure, I know, but where, LA?
00:02:22 - Maybe.
00:02:23 - Got a cousin out in LA.
00:02:24 - You don't say.
00:02:25 He's been out.
00:02:26 You're not much of a talker, are you?
00:02:29 - My mother taught me never to speak to strangers.
00:02:31 - Oh, wise guy.
00:02:32 - So wise.
00:02:33 - Okay, okay, don't get sore.
00:02:35 He's trying to be sociable, that's all.
00:02:37 Hey, Glamorous.
00:02:40 Let me change for a dime, will you?
00:02:42 - Let's have something quieter this time, Joe.
00:02:53 My head's splitting.
00:02:54 - Is that what's wrong with it?
00:02:56 - Done with your coffee?
00:03:00 - No, and don't rush me, will you?
00:03:02 Hey, turn that off, will you?
00:03:11 Turn that thing off.
00:03:12 - What's eating you now?
00:03:13 - Yeah, what's eating you?
00:03:14 That music, it stinks.
00:03:15 - Oh, you don't like it, huh?
00:03:16 - No, turn it off.
00:03:16 - Now, wait a minute, pal.
00:03:18 That was my nickname, see?
00:03:19 This is a free country, and I play whatever I want to.
00:03:24 - Okay.
00:03:25 - Sure, and if you don't like it,
00:03:26 you don't have to listen to it.
00:03:28 And you can leave here any time you want to.
00:03:30 - Okay, okay, I'm sorry I asked.
00:03:31 - First good piece played tonight, and you don't like it.
00:03:34 Some people just ain't got any good taste.
00:03:36 That tune.
00:03:48 That tune.
00:03:51 Why was there always that rotten tune?
00:03:53 Following me around, beating in my head, never letting up.
00:03:56 Did you ever want to forget anything?
00:04:02 Did you ever want to cut away a piece of your memory
00:04:04 or blot it out?
00:04:06 You can't, you know.
00:04:07 No matter how hard you try.
00:04:09 You can change the scenery, but sooner or later,
00:04:12 you'll get a whiff of perfume,
00:04:13 or somebody will say a certain phrase,
00:04:14 or maybe hum something.
00:04:16 Then you're licked again.
00:04:18 I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:04:23 I used to love that song once.
00:04:25 So did the customers back in the old break at dawn club
00:04:27 in New York.
00:04:28 I can't remember a night when I didn't get
00:04:30 at least three requests for it.
00:04:31 Sue, she was always selling it too.
00:04:35 Those were the days.
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00:04:44 Your eyes are blue, your kiss is too.
00:05:06 I never knew what they could do.
00:05:09 I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:05:12 You're telling everyone you know that I'm on your mind
00:05:19 each place you go.
00:05:21 They can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:05:24 I have always placed you far above me.
00:05:33 I just can't imagine that you love me.
00:05:38 And after all is said and done, to think
00:05:42 that I'm the lucky one.
00:05:45 I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:05:48 It wasn't much of a club, really.
00:05:59 You know the kind, a joint where you could
00:06:01 have a sandwich and a few drinks and run interference
00:06:04 for your girl on the dance floor.
00:06:08 I planted the piano in there every night
00:06:10 from 8 until the place closed up, which usually
00:06:12 meant 4 in the morning.
00:06:14 A good job as jobs went in those days.
00:06:16 Then too, there was Sue, who made working there a little
00:06:24 like working in heaven.
00:06:27 But how we felt about each other, well, there
00:06:29 was nothing very unusual in that.
00:06:31 I was an ordinary healthy guy and she
00:06:33 was an ordinary healthy girl.
00:06:34 When you add those two together, you
00:06:35 get an ordinary healthy romance,
00:06:38 which is the old story.
00:06:39 Sure, but somehow, the most wonderful thing in the world.
00:06:43 All in all, I was a pretty lucky guy.
00:07:07 Mr. Paderewski, I presume.
00:07:09 It's beautiful.
00:07:10 You're going to make Carnegie Hall yet, Al?
00:07:12 Yeah, as a janitor.
00:07:15 I'll make my debut in the basement.
00:07:17 I don't blame you for being bitter, darling,
00:07:19 but you mustn't give up hope.
00:07:21 Why, someday--
00:07:21 Yeah, someday, if I don't get arthritis first.
00:07:24 In the meantime, let's blow this trap.
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00:07:29 Like to get something to eat, hon?
00:07:47 Oh, I don't think so, Al.
00:07:48 I lose my appetite working in this flea bag.
00:07:51 Let's go home.
00:07:53 OK.
00:07:54 I can't stand much more of that dump.
00:07:57 Did you see that drunk tonight, trying to paw me?
00:08:00 No, what drunk?
00:08:01 Does it matter what drunk?
00:08:04 Say, what's the matter with you tonight, darling?
00:08:06 That's the third time you've started to tell
00:08:07 me something, and then stop.
00:08:10 We shouldn't have any secrets from each other, Sue.
00:08:12 Next week, we're going to make with a ring and a license.
00:08:14 You and me will be a team.
00:08:15 Yes, that's right.
00:08:16 In the Bush League.
00:08:18 I don't get you.
00:08:19 We've been struck out.
00:08:22 That's a funny way to talk, darling.
00:08:24 Don't you want to marry me?
00:08:25 Al, look, I love you.
00:08:26 You know I do.
00:08:27 And I want to marry you.
00:08:29 But?
00:08:30 But not now.
00:08:31 Only after we've made good.
00:08:34 Sunday, I'm going away.
00:08:36 I know you'll think it's silly.
00:08:38 That's why I hesitated to tell you.
00:08:40 But I'm going to California.
00:08:42 I want to try my luck in Hollywood.
00:08:45 That's the most stupid thing I ever heard of.
00:08:47 Don't you know millions of people
00:08:48 go out there every year and wind up polishing cuspidors?
00:08:51 I thought you had better sense.
00:08:52 You sound as if you don't think I have any talent.
00:08:54 That has nothing to do with it.
00:08:55 I'll make out all right.
00:08:56 Maybe.
00:08:57 But what about me?
00:08:58 Doesn't it mean anything to you that you're
00:08:59 busting up all our plans?
00:09:01 We may not see each other for years.
00:09:02 It won't be that long.
00:09:04 I thought you loved me.
00:09:06 I do.
00:09:06 You know I do.
00:09:07 Well, here we are.
00:09:13 Al.
00:09:17 Al, why can't you see my side of it?
00:09:20 I'm young.
00:09:21 We both are.
00:09:23 And we've got all the time in the world to settle down.
00:09:27 Really, darling, what I'm doing is the only sane thing to do.
00:09:32 I-- I hate the thought of being so far away from you.
00:09:35 But-- but we'll be together again someday.
00:09:39 Maybe you'll decide to come out too later on.
00:09:42 So long.
00:09:44 Al, aren't you going to kiss me goodnight?
00:09:48 Sure.
00:09:49 Why not?
00:09:52 Goodnight.
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00:11:16 Say, Roberts, you hit the jackpot this time.
00:11:39 $10.
00:11:40 Thanks.
00:11:42 [door closes]
00:11:43 So when this drunk handed me a tent spot after a request,
00:11:49 I couldn't get very excited.
00:11:51 What was it, I asked myself.
00:11:52 A piece of paper crawling with germs.
00:11:55 Couldn't buy anything I wanted.
00:11:57 It couldn't--
00:11:58 Then I thought of something.
00:12:03 [music playing]
00:12:06 Long distance.
00:12:27 I'd like to put a call through to Los Angeles.
00:12:30 Miss Harvey, Sue Harvey, H-A-R-V-E-Y.
00:12:34 The number is Crestview 65723.
00:12:37 [music playing]
00:12:59 [phone ringing]
00:13:00 75--
00:13:01 Hello, Sue?
00:13:08 This is Al.
00:13:09 Oh, baby, it's great to hear from you, too.
00:13:11 What's that?
00:13:12 You do?
00:13:13 Oh, me too, darling.
00:13:15 I thought I'd go batty without you.
00:13:16 I just had to--
00:13:17 huh?
00:13:19 You're working as a hash slinger?
00:13:22 Gee, honey, that's tough.
00:13:23 Those guys out in Hollywood don't know the real thing
00:13:25 when it's right in front of them.
00:13:26 You just stick it out, Sue, baby.
00:13:28 Keep going around to those casting offices.
00:13:30 I'm sure you'll click.
00:13:32 Look, I'll tell you what.
00:13:33 You stay put out there.
00:13:34 I'll come to you.
00:13:35 No, don't try to stop me.
00:13:36 Just expect me.
00:13:38 Train?
00:13:39 Who knows?
00:13:40 Train, plane, bus, magic carpet.
00:13:41 I'll be there if I have to crawl, if I have to travel
00:13:43 by pogo stick.
00:13:45 And then let's get married right away, huh?
00:13:48 That's the stuff.
00:13:52 That's what I've been wanting to hear you say.
00:13:55 Well, goodbye for now.
00:13:58 I'll be seeing you soon.
00:14:01 Yeah.
00:14:03 Bye.
00:14:04 The only way I could cross country was to thumb rides.
00:14:12 For even after hocking everything,
00:14:14 I only had enough money to eat.
00:14:16 Money.
00:14:18 You know what that is.
00:14:20 It's the stuff you never have enough of.
00:14:22 Little green things with George Washington's picture
00:14:24 that men slave for, commit crimes for, die for.
00:14:28 It's the stuff that has caused more trouble in the world
00:14:30 than anything else we ever invented,
00:14:32 simply because there's too little of it.
00:14:35 At least I had too little of it.
00:14:38 So it was me for the thumb.
00:14:40 [music playing]
00:14:43 Ever done any hitchhiking?
00:14:58 It's not much fun, believe me.
00:15:01 Oh, yeah, I know all about how it's an education,
00:15:03 how you get to meet a lot of people and all that.
00:15:06 But me, from now on, I'll take my education in college,
00:15:10 or in PS62, or I'll send $1.98 in stamps for 10 easy lessons.
00:15:14 Thumbing rides may save you a bus fare, but it's dangerous.
00:15:29 You never know what's in store for you
00:15:31 when you hear the squeal of brakes.
00:15:33 If only I'd known what I was getting into that day in Arizona.
00:15:39 Here, throw that in the back seat.
00:15:43 OK, let's go.
00:15:44 Make sure that door's closed.
00:15:46 You know, Emily Post ought to write a book of rules
00:16:02 for guys thumbing rides.
00:16:03 Because as it is now, you never know
00:16:05 what's right and what's wrong.
00:16:07 We rode along for a little while, neither one of us
00:16:10 saying anything.
00:16:11 I was glad of that.
00:16:13 I never know what to say to strange people driving cars.
00:16:16 And two, you can never tell if a guy wants to talk.
00:16:20 A lot of rides have been cut short because of a big mouth.
00:16:25 So I kept my mouth shut until he started opening up.
00:16:29 Hand me that little box in the compartment
00:16:31 will you, pal?
00:16:32 Hold the wheel, will you?
00:16:36 How far are you going?
00:16:49 LA.
00:16:50 Wow, you're really traveling, aren't you?
00:16:52 Yeah, but I don't expect to make it for a couple of years
00:16:54 at the rate I've been promoting rides.
00:16:56 Not much luck, huh?
00:16:57 Sure, all bad.
00:16:59 Not many people stop for a guy these days.
00:17:02 Afraid of a stick up, maybe.
00:17:04 Well, you can't blame him.
00:17:06 Where are you coming from?
00:17:07 New York.
00:17:08 Well, New York.
00:17:10 You're in luck this time.
00:17:11 I'm going all the way, right through to Los Angeles.
00:17:16 Can you drive a car?
00:17:17 Sure.
00:17:18 Whenever you're tired, let me know.
00:17:20 I'll holler.
00:17:23 I guess at least an hour passed before I noticed
00:17:25 those deep scratches on his right hand.
00:17:27 They were wicked, three puffy red lines
00:17:30 about a quarter of an inch apart.
00:17:33 He must have seen me looking at them because he said--
00:17:36 Beauties, aren't they?
00:17:38 They're going to be scars someday.
00:17:42 What an animal.
00:17:43 Whatever it was, it must have been pretty big and vicious
00:17:45 to have done that.
00:17:47 Right on both counts, New York.
00:17:49 I was tussling with the most dangerous animal
00:17:51 in the world, a woman.
00:17:54 She must have been Tarzan's mate.
00:17:55 Looks like you lost the bout.
00:17:57 It certainly wasn't a draw.
00:18:00 You know, there ought to be a law against dames with claws.
00:18:03 Yeah.
00:18:04 I tossed her out of the car in her ear.
00:18:06 Was I wrong?
00:18:08 Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't you?
00:18:11 Yeah.
00:18:12 After all, what kind of dame some rides?
00:18:15 Sunday school teachers?
00:18:16 Yeah.
00:18:18 A little witch.
00:18:20 She must have thought she was riding with some fall guy.
00:18:23 Me, who's been booking horses around race tracks since I was 20.
00:18:27 I've known a million dames like her.
00:18:29 Two million.
00:18:30 Yeah.
00:18:33 Stop the car, open the door.
00:18:36 Take it on the Arthur Duffy sister, I told her.
00:18:39 That's the stuff.
00:18:40 As I was done, huh?
00:18:43 But if you want to see a real scar, brother,
00:18:45 get a load of this.
00:18:48 What?
00:18:49 I got that one, too.
00:18:51 Dually?
00:18:52 Yeah, we're just kidding, of course.
00:18:54 My dad owned a couple of Franco Prussian sabers.
00:18:57 Kept them on the wall for decorations.
00:18:59 Well, one day, another kid and I took them down.
00:19:02 The old man wasn't around, had a duel.
00:19:06 He got me in the arm here.
00:19:08 Pretty mean cut.
00:19:10 Infection set in later.
00:19:11 Yeah, I can see that.
00:19:13 Now give me that box again, will you?
00:19:15 Yeah.
00:19:17 [sizzling]
00:19:19 Pain made me lose my head, I guess.
00:19:30 Began slashing.
00:19:32 Before I knew it, I'd put the other kid's eye on.
00:19:35 That was tough.
00:19:36 Well, it was just an accident, of course.
00:19:38 Do you know how kids are?
00:19:40 I got scared, decided I was going to run away from home.
00:19:43 Old man almost caught me when I was packing my duds.
00:19:47 The bloody rag I had wrapped around my wrist
00:19:49 hadn't caught his attention.
00:19:51 He'd seen the bundle for sure.
00:19:53 But I beat it when he was phoning for a doctor.
00:19:57 That was 15, 16 years ago.
00:19:59 I haven't been home since.
00:20:00 Pull in there for a bite or something, huh?
00:20:07 A bite or something?
00:20:09 Brother, was I hungry.
00:20:10 I hadn't had anything in my stomach for hours.
00:20:13 Yet even with that gnawing in the pit of my belly,
00:20:15 I didn't want to be in too big a rush to put on the feed bag.
00:20:19 First, I had to make sure this guy knew the score.
00:20:22 If I got him down on me, it was goodbye ticket to Hollywood.
00:20:26 I'll wait out here for you, mister.
00:20:28 If it's the money, don't worry about paying for it.
00:20:30 This time it's on me.
00:20:31 Well, that's white of you, mister--
00:20:32 Haskell, think nothing of it.
00:20:33 You make your first million, maybe you can do the same for me.
00:20:35 Come on, New York.
00:20:37 I got to make the West Coast by Wednesday.
00:20:38 There's a horse running at Santa Anita named Prior Bicycle.
00:20:41 You can sell it to me if I want him.
00:20:43 We'll make it all right.
00:20:45 He did most of the talking during the half hour
00:20:47 we were in the place.
00:20:49 I ate.
00:20:51 He rambled on about his old man, whom he hadn't heard from
00:20:53 since he ran away as a kid, and how he happened
00:20:56 to become a bookie, and then all about how
00:20:58 he got rooked in Miami.
00:21:00 One race, 38 grand.
00:21:01 They cleaned out my book.
00:21:03 How do you like that?
00:21:04 That was tough luck.
00:21:05 Yeah, and I'm supposed to be the smart guy.
00:21:07 Well, you just wait.
00:21:08 I'm going back to Florida next season with all kinds of check.
00:21:11 And you watch those stinkers run for cover.
00:21:14 Want anything else?
00:21:15 No, thanks.
00:21:16 I've had plenty.
00:21:17 That check there, sister?
00:21:23 Oh, just a miniature change, sir.
00:21:29 Keep it, sister.
00:21:30 Oh, thank you, sir.
00:21:31 Call again.
00:21:32 I'll be waiting outside for you when you finish work.
00:21:35 Sharp checker.
00:21:36 [music playing]
00:21:39 I drove all that night while Haskell slept like a log.
00:21:48 After a while, I began to get sleepy myself.
00:21:52 I was happy, though.
00:21:54 Soon I'd be with Sue again.
00:21:56 The long trip was practically over,
00:21:58 and there'd be no more hoofing it down the concrete.
00:22:01 I began to think of the future, which
00:22:03 couldn't have been brighter if I'd
00:22:05 embroidered it with neon lights.
00:22:07 It was nice to think of Sue shooting to the top.
00:22:11 It's amazing what a full belly can do to your imagination.
00:22:14 (SINGING) Your eyes, oh, your kisses, too.
00:22:22 I never knew what they could do.
00:22:27 I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:22:32 You're telling everyone you know.
00:22:40 I'm on your mind each place you go.
00:22:44 I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:22:52 [music playing]
00:22:55 Mr. Haskell.
00:23:09 Mr. Haskell.
00:23:10 Mr. Haskell, wake up.
00:23:14 It's raining.
00:23:15 Don't you think we ought to stop and put up the top?
00:23:18 [music playing]
00:23:21 Mr. Haskell, I'm going to put up the top.
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00:23:31 Up until then, I had done things my way.
00:23:45 But from then on, something else stepped in and shunted
00:23:47 me off to a different destination than one
00:23:49 I had picked for myself, for one I pulled open that door.
00:23:53 [door slams]
00:23:54 [music playing]
00:23:57 Mr. Haskell, what's the matter?
00:23:59 Are you hurt?
00:24:01 Are you hurt, Mr. Haskell?
00:24:03 Start yourself.
00:24:05 I'll listen to it.
00:24:07 But I know what you're going to hand me even
00:24:08 before you open your mouths.
00:24:10 You're going to tell me you don't believe my story of how
00:24:12 Haskell died and give me that "don't make me laugh"
00:24:14 expression on your smug faces.
00:24:16 [music playing]
00:24:19 I saw it once.
00:24:20 He was dead.
00:24:21 And I was in for it.
00:24:23 Who would believe he fell out of the car?
00:24:25 Why, if Haskell came too, which of course he couldn't,
00:24:27 even he would swear I conked him over the head for his dough.
00:24:29 Yes, I was in for it.
00:24:32 Instinct told me to run.
00:24:33 But then I realized it was hopeless.
00:24:35 There were lots of people back down the road
00:24:36 who could identify me.
00:24:37 That gas station guy and the waitress.
00:24:39 I would be in a worse spot then trying
00:24:40 to explain why I beat it.
00:24:42 The next possibility was to sit tight and tell
00:24:44 the truth when the cops came.
00:24:45 But that would be crazy.
00:24:46 They'd laugh at the truth.
00:24:48 And I'd have my head in the noose.
00:24:49 So what else was there to do but hide the body
00:24:53 and get away in the car?
00:24:55 I couldn't leave the car there with him in the gully.
00:24:57 That would be like erecting a tombstone.
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00:25:05 My idea was to cover him with brush, not to rob him.
00:25:30 But then I remembered that even if I only
00:25:32 drove the car for 100 miles or so, I would need money for gas.
00:25:36 Besides, it was stupid of me to leave
00:25:38 all that money on a dead man.
00:25:40 Not only that, I'd have to take his driver's license in case
00:25:42 I was stopped for something.
00:25:46 I didn't like to think about it.
00:25:47 But by that time, I'd done just what the police would say I
00:25:49 did, even if I didn't.
00:25:52 My clothes.
00:25:53 The owner of such an expensive car
00:25:54 would never be wearing them.
00:25:56 Some cop might pull me in on suspicion.
00:25:58 [music playing]
00:26:01 Hey, you, this your car?
00:26:25 Don't you know better than to leave
00:26:26 a car with the wheels halfway in the middle of the road?
00:26:28 That's the way accidents happen.
00:26:30 I'm-- I'm sorry, officer.
00:26:31 I was just putting up my top.
00:26:33 I-- I didn't think.
00:26:34 Well, the next time, think.
00:26:36 I'll let you go now, but watch your step in the future.
00:26:38 I know that's a lonely stretch, but cars come by here
00:26:40 once in a while, and we have plenty of crack-ups.
00:26:43 Thanks.
00:26:44 [music playing]
00:26:47 [engine starting]
00:26:50 I left nothing in the car to give me away as Roberts.
00:27:10 If they found a dead man in the gully now, it would be me.
00:27:13 [music playing]
00:27:17 [engine revving]
00:27:20 As I drove off, it was still raining.
00:27:23 And the drops streaked down the windshield like tears.
00:27:26 I kept imagining I was being followed,
00:27:31 that I could hear sirens back in the distance.
00:27:34 Just how long it took me to cover the 60-odd miles
00:27:36 to the California state line, I don't know.
00:27:39 I lost all track of time.
00:27:41 But the rain had stopped, and the sun was up when I pulled up
00:27:44 to the inspection station.
00:27:46 Hello.
00:27:52 Carrying any fruits or vegetables?
00:27:54 No.
00:27:55 Any livestock or poultry?
00:27:56 No.
00:27:58 I'd like to see your registration and driver's
00:28:00 license, please.
00:28:01 Anything in the baggage compartment?
00:28:07 Just baggage.
00:28:10 Charles Haskell, junior, age 30, brown eyes, dark hair.
00:28:13 Identifying marks, none.
00:28:15 Are you Charles Haskell, junior?
00:28:17 Yes.
00:28:18 Well, remember, if you're employed
00:28:19 and you stay over 30 days, you take out California plates.
00:28:22 All right, officer, but I'll only
00:28:23 be in the state a short while.
00:28:25 Right.
00:28:26 You can go now.
00:28:27 [music playing]
00:28:30 See you later, man.
00:28:31 [engine revving]
00:28:34 I couldn't drive any farther without some sleep,
00:28:37 cops or no cops.
00:28:38 I knew I had to hit the hay and hit it hard.
00:28:42 I was dead tired.
00:28:44 [music playing]
00:28:49 [engine revving]
00:28:52 [music playing]
00:28:55 [music playing]
00:28:58 [music playing]
00:29:01 [music playing]
00:29:04 [music playing]
00:29:07 [music playing]
00:29:10 [music playing]
00:29:13 [music playing]
00:29:15 No.
00:29:16 No, you can't, Mr. Haskell.
00:29:18 No.
00:29:19 [music playing]
00:29:22 [music playing]
00:29:25 [music playing]
00:29:27 Mr. Haskell, you can't die.
00:29:31 Don't think-- don't think I did it.
00:29:35 No, Mr. Haskell.
00:29:37 No.
00:29:38 No.
00:29:39 [music playing]
00:29:43 [knocking]
00:29:45 [music playing]
00:29:48 [knocking]
00:29:50 [music playing]
00:29:53 Who's there?
00:29:54 It's the maid.
00:29:55 Can I come in and clean?
00:29:57 Later.
00:29:59 In a half hour.
00:30:00 All right, sir.
00:30:01 [music playing]
00:30:04 [knocking]
00:30:05 [music playing]
00:30:08 [knocking]
00:30:09 [music playing]
00:30:12 [knocking]
00:30:13 [music playing]
00:30:16 [knocking]
00:30:17 [music playing]
00:30:20 [music playing]
00:30:23 [music playing]
00:30:26 There was no time to lose.
00:30:28 Every minute I had to be Charles Haskell was dangerous.
00:30:30 And I'd have to be Charles Haskell until I got to some city where I could
00:30:33 leave the car and be swallowed up.
00:30:35 [music playing]
00:30:38 [music playing]
00:30:40 That meant driving the car as far as San Bernardino,
00:30:43 maybe even to Los Angeles.
00:30:45 In a little town, I might be noticed.
00:30:47 But in a city, I should be safe enough.
00:30:50 Then, after I ditched the car, I could go on to sue.
00:30:54 But those five minutes at the state line
00:30:56 made me realize it might be a good idea to find out a little bit about Mr.
00:30:59 Haskell.
00:31:01 Then, if anybody asked me questions, I could give the right answers.
00:31:05 The first thing I found out was that I had $768.
00:31:09 This was a lot of jack.
00:31:11 But believe me, it was the kind of money I'd rather not have.
00:31:15 [music playing]
00:31:18 [music playing]
00:31:22 And then I found out from a letter Haskell was carting around in his bag
00:31:26 that he wasn't the open-handed, easygoing big shot who went around
00:31:29 buying dinners for strange hitchhikers.
00:31:32 Before I got done reading it, I saw him more as a chiseler.
00:31:36 It was written to his old man in California, the one
00:31:39 I hadn't seen in so many years.
00:31:41 In it, Haskell posed as a salesman of hymnals, of all things.
00:31:47 It was easy to see where Haskell expected to raise a new stake for his book
00:31:51 in Miami, by rooking his old man.
00:31:55 That was about all I found out from his effects.
00:31:58 And it was enough.
00:32:00 I told myself, maybe old man Haskell was lucky his son kicked off.
00:32:05 He would never know it.
00:32:07 But it saved him from taking a flyer in sacred literature preferred.
00:32:35 Near the airport at Desert Center, I pulled up for water.
00:32:38 There was a woman.
00:32:41 Hey, you! Come on if you want a ride.
00:32:47 (SIREN WAILING)
00:32:49 (DOOR CLOSES)
00:32:50, (DOOR CLOSES)
00:32:51 s (DOOR CLOSES), (DOOR CLOSES)
00:32:53 (DOOR CLOSES)
00:32:54 (DOOR CLOSES)
00:32:55 (DOOR CLOSES)
00:32:56 (DOOR CLOSES)
00:32:57 (DOOR CLOSES)
00:32:58 (DOOR CLOSES)
00:33:00 (DOOR CLOSES)
00:33:01 (DOOR CLOSES)
00:33:02 v(TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING)
00:33:26 (TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING)
00:33:27 (TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING)
00:33:28 (TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING)
00:33:29 (TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING)
00:33:30 (TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING)
00:33:31 (TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING)
00:33:32 (TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING)
00:33:33 (TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING)
00:33:34 How far you going?
00:33:35 How far you going?
00:33:36 That took me by surprise.
00:33:39 And I turned my head to look her over.
00:33:40 She was facing straight ahead, so I couldn't see her eyes.
00:33:44 But she was young.
00:33:45 Not more than 24.
00:33:47 Man, she looked as if she'd just been thrown off the crummiest freight train in the world.
00:33:54 Yet in spite of this, I got the impression of beauty.
00:33:56 Not the beauty of a movie actress, mind you,
00:34:00 or the beauty you dream about when you're with your wife,
00:34:02 but a natural beauty.
00:34:03 A beauty that's almost homely because it's so real.
00:34:06 Then suddenly, she turned to face me.
00:34:11 How far did you say you were going?
00:34:12 Los Angeles.
00:34:14 L.A.?
00:34:15 L.A. is good enough for me, mister.
00:34:17 That's what I was afraid of.
00:34:19 What'd you say?
00:34:20 Oh, nothing. Just thinking out loud.
00:34:23 People get in trouble for doing that.
00:34:24 What's your name?
00:34:27 You can call me Vera if you like.
00:34:28 You live in Los Angeles?
00:34:30 No.
00:34:31 Where you coming from?
00:34:34 Oh, back there.
00:34:35 Needles?
00:34:36 No.
00:34:37 Oh, sure. Phoenix.
00:34:39 You look just like a Phoenix girl.
00:34:40 Are the girls in Phoenix that bad?
00:34:43 The girl must have been pretty tired
00:34:45 because she fell asleep not 20 minutes after she stepped into the car.
00:34:48 She lay sprawled out with her head resting against the far door.
00:34:52 Like Haskell.
00:34:53 I didn't like that part of it much.
00:34:55 But I didn't wake her up.
00:34:57 It wasn't that this girl still worried me.
00:35:00 I'd gotten over that funny feeling I had when she looked at me.
00:35:03 Which I put down. It's just my jangled nerves.
00:35:06 With her eyes closed and the tenseness gone out of her.
00:35:09 She seemed harmless enough.
00:35:11 And instead of disliking her, I began to feel sorry for her.
00:35:15 The poor kid probably had had a rough time of it.
00:35:18 Who was she, anyway?
00:35:21 And why was she going to Los Angeles?
00:35:23 And where'd she come from in the first place?
00:35:25 The only thing I knew about her was her name.
00:35:28 Not that it made any difference.
00:35:30 A few hours more and we'd be in Hollywood.
00:35:32 I'd forget where I parked the car and look up Sue.
00:35:35 This nightmare of being a dead man would be over.
00:35:38 Who this dame was, well, it was no business of mine.
00:35:41 Where did you leave his body?
00:35:43 Where did you leave the owner of this car?
00:35:46 You're not fooling anyone.
00:35:48 This buggy belongs to a guy named Haskell.
00:35:50 That's not you, mister.
00:35:51 You're out of your mind. That's my name, Charles Haskell.
00:35:53 I can prove it. It's my driver's license.
00:35:55 Save yourself the trouble, mister.
00:35:57 Having Haskell's wallet only makes it worse.
00:35:59 It just so happens I rode with Charlie Haskell
00:36:01 all the way from Louisiana.
00:36:03 He picked me up outside of Shreveport.
00:36:05 - You rode? - You heard me.
00:36:07 Then it all came back to me.
00:36:09 All the talk about dueling and scars and scratches.
00:36:12 There was no doubt about it.
00:36:14 Vera must be the woman Haskell had mentioned.
00:36:17 She must have passed me while I slept.
00:36:19 Well?
00:36:20 Well, I'm waiting.
00:36:22 My goose was cooked.
00:36:24 She had me.
00:36:26 That Haskell guy wasn't dead yet.
00:36:28 He wasn't stretched out stiff and cold in any Arizona gully.
00:36:31 He was sitting right there in the car,
00:36:33 laughing like mad while he haunted me.
00:36:35 Well?
00:36:38 There was nothing I could say.
00:36:40 It was her move.
00:36:42 Vera, whatever her name was,
00:36:44 it was just my luck picking her up on the road.
00:36:47 It couldn't have been Helen or Mary or Evelyn or Ruth.
00:36:49 It had to be the very last person I should ever have met.
00:36:52 That's life.
00:36:55 Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you.
00:36:58 I told her everything, but she didn't believe my story.
00:37:06 I should have saved my breath.
00:37:08 That's the greatest cock and bull story I ever heard.
00:37:10 So he fell out of his car.
00:37:12 Say, who do you think you're talking to, a hick?
00:37:14 Listen, mister, I've been around.
00:37:16 And I know a wrong guy when I see one.
00:37:17 What'd you do, kiss him with a wrench?
00:37:19 Now, wait a minute. What I told you was true.
00:37:21 You see, that's why I had to do it.
00:37:23 You think I killed him.
00:37:25 Well, the cops would have thought so, too.
00:37:27 Yeah, well, maybe they still think so.
00:37:29 What makes you so sure I'll shut up about this?
00:37:31 Vera, I'm innocent.
00:37:33 Give me a break, will you?
00:37:35 It won't do me any good having you pinched.
00:37:37 The cops are no friends of mine.
00:37:39 Now, if there was a reward, but there isn't.
00:37:41 Thanks.
00:37:43 Don't thank me yet.
00:37:45 I'm not through with you by a long shot.
00:37:46 Let's see that roll.
00:37:48 Is that all Haskell had?
00:37:56 - Isn't it enough? - No, I thought he had more.
00:37:58 Not that I know of. You can search me if you think I'm holding out on you.
00:38:00 Well, maybe I will at that.
00:38:02 He told me he was gonna bet $3,000
00:38:04 on a horse named Paradisical on Wednesday at Santa Anita.
00:38:07 He was stringing you along. He meant $300.
00:38:09 - Maybe. - Sure, three bucks, $300.
00:38:11 He was a piece of cheese, a big blowhard.
00:38:14 Listen, mister, don't try and tell me anything about Charlie Haskell.
00:38:16 Remember, I knew him better than you did.
00:38:18 Okay, then you knew he was a foreflusher.
00:38:20 That explains the three grand bet.
00:38:22 I'm not so sure he didn't have that three grand.
00:38:24 Why should I believe you?
00:38:26 You got all the earmarks of a cheap crook.
00:38:28 - Now, wait a minute. - Shut up!
00:38:30 You're a cheap crook and you killed him.
00:38:32 For two cents, I'd change my mind and turn you in.
00:38:34 I don't like you!
00:38:36 All right, all right, don't get sore.
00:38:38 I'm not getting sore, but just remember who's boss around here.
00:38:40 If you shut up and don't give me any arguments,
00:38:43 the act wise will miss to you, pop in the jail so fast
00:38:45 it'll give you the bends.
00:38:47 - I'm not arguing. - Well, see that you don't.
00:38:49 You know, as crooked as you look, I'd hate to see a fella
00:38:51 as young as you wind up sniffing that perfume
00:38:53 that Arizona hands out free to murderers.
00:38:55 - I'm not a murderer. - Of course you're not.
00:38:57 Haskell knocked his own head off.
00:38:59 He fell, that's how it happened, just like I told you.
00:39:01 Sure, and then he made you a present of his belongings.
00:39:03 - I explained why I had to do that. - Oh, skip it.
00:39:05 It doesn't make a difference one way or another.
00:39:07 I'm not a mourner. I liked Haskell even less than I like you.
00:39:09 Yeah, I saw what you did to him.
00:39:12 - Well, scratches on his wrist. - Sure, I scratched him.
00:39:14 Well, so you did.
00:39:16 So your idea was to drive the car a little way,
00:39:19 maybe into San Bernardino and then leave it.
00:39:21 You weren't gonna sell it?
00:39:23 Sell it? You think I'm crazy? Somebody else's car?
00:39:26 See, all I wanna do is leave it somewhere
00:39:28 and forget I ever saw it.
00:39:30 Not only don't you have any scruples, you don't have any brains.
00:39:32 I don't get you.
00:39:34 Maybe it's a good thing you met me.
00:39:36 You'd have got yourself caught, sure. Why, you dope.
00:39:38 Don't you know a deserted automobile
00:39:41 is a case of investigation?
00:39:42 Huh?
00:39:44 Look, the cops find a car, then they get curious.
00:39:46 They wonder where the owner is.
00:39:48 So, all right, they don't trace Haskell, they trace you.
00:39:51 I never thought of that.
00:39:53 The only safe way to get rid of the car
00:39:55 is to sell it to a dealer.
00:39:57 Get it registered under a new name.
00:39:59 Say, stop at the next store.
00:40:01 I wanna get a bottle and do some shopping before we hit L.A.
00:40:03 Okay. Since we find a place, I'll drop you off and pick you up later.
00:40:06 Nothing doing. You're coming in, too.
00:40:09 I'm not gonna rely on you and I like the Siamese twins.
00:40:10 Have it your way. I don't get the point.
00:40:12 The point is, I don't want you to get lost.
00:40:14 I'm not gonna beat it if that's what you're afraid of.
00:40:16 I'll say you're not.
00:40:18 Well, I'm gonna see that you sell this car so you don't get caught.
00:40:20 Thanks.
00:40:22 Of course, your interest wouldn't be financial, would it?
00:40:24 You would want a small percentage of the profits.
00:40:26 Well, now that you insist, how can I refuse?
00:40:29 A hundred percent'll do.
00:40:31 Fine. I'm relieved.
00:40:33 I thought for a moment you were gonna take it all.
00:40:35 I don't wanna be a hog.
00:40:38 A few hours later, we were in Hollywood.
00:40:39 I was recognizing places Sue had written about.
00:40:42 It struck me that far from being at the end of the trip,
00:40:45 there was a greater distance between Sue and me than when I started out.
00:40:49 Vera wasn't kidding with that Siamese twins crack.
00:40:52 She rented a little apartment as Mrs. Charles Haskell.
00:40:56 When I objected to this, she explained that it was on account of the car.
00:41:00 A dealer might think something was funny if he called
00:41:03 and found we were using different names.
00:41:06 Home, sweet home.
00:41:07 Yeah.
00:41:09 Not bad either.
00:41:11 In case there's any doubt in your mind, I'll take the bedroom.
00:41:21 Yeah.
00:41:23 Sure is stuffy in here.
00:41:25 I'm gonna go get a drink.
00:41:32 I'll be right back.
00:41:35 Keep the window shut.
00:41:36 Okay.
00:41:38 The old crow downstairs said there's a fallen bed behind this door.
00:41:43 You know how to work it?
00:41:51 I invented it.
00:41:56 Some genius.
00:42:03 Some joint.
00:42:04 One can't have everything.
00:42:06 I'm first in the bathtub.
00:42:12 I don't know why, but I figured you would be.
00:42:15 Boy, oh boy.
00:42:27 It sure feels good to be clean again.
00:42:31 That must be 10 pounds lighter.
00:42:32 It must be.
00:42:34 Well, hitching rides isn't exactly the way you keep your schoolgirl complexion.
00:42:39 I wish that guy with the sacks would give up.
00:42:45 Gets on my nerves.
00:42:48 Forget it.
00:42:51 Have a drink.
00:42:55 Aren't you afraid I might take you up on it?
00:43:00 If I didn't want to give you a drink, I wouldn't have offered it.
00:43:02 Why be a sorehead, Roberts?
00:43:04 You got yourself into this thing.
00:43:06 You should be grateful I'm not turning you in.
00:43:09 Why, if I wasn't regular, you'd be in the pen this minute,
00:43:12 being photographed, fingerprinted, and being pushed around by the cops.
00:43:15 So cheer up. Get rid of that long puss.
00:43:19 Or is your conscience bothering you?
00:43:23 No.
00:43:29 It isn't.
00:43:30 Swell. That's the spirit.
00:43:32 He's dead, and no moment around will bring him back.
00:43:36 Anyway, I never could understand this worrying about something that's over and done with.
00:43:43 Now look, Vera, for the last time, I didn't kill him.
00:43:45 Haskell was a sick man.
00:43:47 Maybe he was dead before he fell out of the car. I don't know.
00:43:49 Sure, sure. He died of old age.
00:43:51 All right.
00:43:53 So, if it'll make you sociable,
00:43:55 you're dead in my arms.
00:43:58 You didn't kill him.
00:43:59 Thanks.
00:44:11 We're out of liquor, Roberts.
00:44:23 Yeah.
00:44:26 Too bad. I felt like getting tight tonight.
00:44:28 Well, I think you succeeded.
00:44:30 Am I tight?
00:44:32 As a prima donna's corset.
00:44:34 That's good. I wanted to get tight.
00:44:36 Why? What have you got to get tight about?
00:44:39 Oh, I don't know. A few things.
00:44:42 You should have my worries.
00:44:47 If I had your troubles, I'd stay sober.
00:44:49 And I've got the key to that door.
00:44:55 Yeah.
00:44:56 Maybe you're right.
00:44:58 I'm always right.
00:45:00 You know, I don't like your attitude, Roberts.
00:45:03 Well, there's a lot of things I don't like.
00:45:05 Sure.
00:45:08 But life's like a ball game.
00:45:12 You've got to take a swing at whatever comes along
00:45:14 before you wake up and find it's a ninth inning.
00:45:16 I bet you read that somewhere.
00:45:19 That's the trouble with you, Roberts.
00:45:21 All you do is bellyache.
00:45:24 You're taking it easy
00:45:25 and trying to make the best of things.
00:45:27 But maybe that's what's wrong with the whole world.
00:45:31 Get the professor.
00:45:33 People knock themselves out trying to buck fate.
00:45:36 Now take you, for instance.
00:45:38 You're lucky to be alive.
00:45:40 Why, suppose Haskell had pulled open your door?
00:45:42 You'd be playing a harp now.
00:45:44 Think of that.
00:45:46 You think of it.
00:45:48 I'm tired of thinking of it.
00:45:50 There's plenty of people dying this minute.
00:45:53 I would give anything to trade places with you.
00:45:55 I know what I'm talking about.
00:45:59 I'm not so sure.
00:46:01 At least they know they're done for.
00:46:03 They don't have to sweat blood wondering if they are.
00:46:06 Your philosophy stinks, pal.
00:46:09 We all know we're going to kick off someday.
00:46:12 It's only a question of when.
00:46:14 But what's got us on this subject anyway?
00:46:18 We'll be discussing politics next.
00:46:22 Yeah.
00:46:23 Where'd you hide the butts?
00:46:26 On the table, sucker.
00:46:28 We bored each other with conversation for a couple of hours longer.
00:46:39 Every five minutes, one of us was wishing we had another bottle or a radio or something to read.
00:46:44 Then finally we ran out of chat.
00:46:47 I know it's only 11 o'clock, but I want to get out of here.
00:46:51 I want to get up early and make the rounds of the used car lots.
00:46:53 No hurry about that.
00:46:55 We've got all the time in the world.
00:46:57 Maybe you have, but if you think I want to stay cooped up in this place any longer than I have to, you're batty.
00:47:00 It's not a bad place.
00:47:02 They pay plenty for diggings like this in New York.
00:47:04 I wouldn't like it if it was the Ritz.
00:47:06 Rotten liquor.
00:47:12 You've got a mean cough. I ought to do something about it.
00:47:14 I'll be all right.
00:47:16 That's what Camille said.
00:47:18 Who?
00:47:20 Nobody you know.
00:47:21 Wasn't that the day in the diet of consumption?
00:47:26 Yeah.
00:47:28 Wouldn't it be a break for you if I did kick off?
00:47:30 You'd be free with all Haskell's dough and car.
00:47:33 I don't want to see anybody die.
00:47:35 Not even me?
00:47:38 Especially not you.
00:47:40 One person died in me.
00:47:42 If you did, well, that's all I need.
00:47:44 You don't like me, do you, Roberts?
00:47:47 I like you.
00:47:48 I love you.
00:47:51 My favorite sport is being kept prisoner.
00:47:54 After we sell the car, you can go to blazes for all I care, but not until then.
00:47:59 I'm going to bed.
00:48:09 I'm going to bed.
00:48:10 Good night, Roberts.
00:48:20 Don't try and sneak away during the night.
00:48:22 All the doors are locked.
00:48:24 Anyway, if I find you gone in the morning, I'll notify the police.
00:48:26 They'll pick you up.
00:48:28 Don't worry, I know when I'm in a spot.
00:48:30 Well, good night.
00:48:32 I hope that portable rack isn't too uncomfortable for you.
00:48:34 Don't lose any sleep over it, will you, Ferris?
00:48:36 I won't, Ferris.
00:48:38 (GUNSHOT)
00:48:39 (TIRES SCREECHING)
00:48:41 (DOOR OPENS)
00:48:43 (DOOR CLOSES)
00:48:44 (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
00:48:46 (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
00:49:14 Chris Few.
00:49:15 Six.
00:49:18 Five.
00:49:20 Seven.
00:49:22 Two.
00:49:24 Three.
00:49:26 Hello?
00:49:28 Hello?
00:49:30 Hello?
00:49:32 Hello?
00:49:34 No.
00:49:42 No.
00:49:43 Not yet, darling.
00:49:45 Tomorrow.
00:49:48 Maybe.
00:49:50 If this were fiction, I would fall in love with Vera,
00:49:57 marry her and make a respectable woman of her.
00:49:59 Or else she'd make some supreme class A sacrifice for me and die.
00:50:03 Sue and I would ball a little over her grave
00:50:07 and make some crack about there's good in all of us.
00:50:10 But Vera, unfortunately,
00:50:12 was just as rotten in the morning as she'd been the night before.
00:50:15 (KNOCKING ON DOOR)
00:50:16 All right, all right, I'm coming.
00:50:19 Look, Vera, it's almost noon.
00:50:20 So what? The dealers will be there all day?
00:50:25 They'll be there all year, too, but that doesn't mean I'm going to wait that long.
00:50:27 Shut up. You're making noises like a husband.
00:50:29 Well, do I rate a whistle?
00:50:35 You sure do, but let's go.
00:50:36 Let's go, let's go.
00:50:38 I spend 85 bucks and two hours preparing bait
00:50:40 and all you can say is, "Let's go."
00:50:41 Come on.
00:50:44 We passed a few used car lots last night down this way.
00:50:53 What do you think we can get for this heap?
00:50:54 I don't know. Plenty.
00:50:56 You just let me handle everything.
00:50:57 Think we can get $2,000?
00:51:00 I don't know, but don't worry.
00:51:01 I'll squeeze as much out of this guy as I can.
00:51:04 I'll let it go cheap without a fight.
00:51:05 He might think we've stolen the car.
00:51:07 And listen, don't make any slips and call me Roberts.
00:51:10 That'll cook us.
00:51:11 I don't need you to tell me that.
00:51:13 You better just sit by and keep your mouth closed.
00:51:15 Remember, we're both in this suit if anything happens.
00:51:18 Forget it and drive.
00:51:19 You're my wife, Farrah Haskell.
00:51:21 Look, after the deal's closed, let's go back to that place on Hollywood Boulevard
00:51:26 where I saw the fur jacket.
00:51:27 I want to buy it.
00:51:29 After the deal's closed, I'm saying goodbye to you.
00:51:31 That's right, I forgot.
00:51:33 I guess I'm getting kind of used to you.
00:51:36 Well, that's a habit you can start breaking.
00:51:38 Let's try this place in the middle of the block.
00:51:40 Good afternoon. What can I do for you?
00:51:49 We're interested in selling a car.
00:51:51 If the price is right.
00:51:52 Well, if it's in good mechanical condition, it should blue book for about $1,600.
00:51:59 Tony, take a look at this motor.
00:52:01 $1,600? Are you kidding?
00:52:05 Let's see.
00:52:06 Well, maybe $1,850.
00:52:18 Before I let it go for $1,850, I'll wreck it and collect the insurance first.
00:52:21 Lady, this motor's seen a lot of driving.
00:52:29 Well, the mechanic inspected the car.
00:52:31 We haggled.
00:52:32 At last, when we were all worn out, we hit a compromise.
00:52:36 His price.
00:52:37 Okay, it's a deal.
00:52:42 All right, come in. We'll sign the papers.
00:52:44 I have the ownership papers right here with me.
00:52:46 Look, Vera, in the meantime, will you clean out the dash compartment?
00:52:49 There may be some stuff in it.
00:52:50 All right, darling.
00:52:54 $1,850. That dirty crook.
00:52:57 New York, huh?
00:53:06 Yeah.
00:53:07 But you bought the car in Miami.
00:53:08 Yeah.
00:53:09 Well, let's see about the insurance.
00:53:12 We can either have it transferred or canceled.
00:53:14 Uh, what kind of insurance do you have, Mr. Haskell?
00:53:16 Well, uh, I have a car insurance.
00:53:21 Well, uh, aren't all the papers there?
00:53:25 I don't see any.
00:53:29 Surely you know what type of insurance you carry in the car.
00:53:31 The name of the company?
00:53:33 Yeah, but, uh...
00:53:35 Well, if you'll just tell me the name of the company,
00:53:37 I'd be very glad to take care of all the details.
00:53:39 Well...
00:53:40 Did you sign the papers yet?
00:53:41 Not yet.
00:53:42 Well, don't. We're not selling the car.
00:53:44 Well, wait a minute, Mrs. Haskell.
00:53:45 Come on, darling.
00:53:46 What's the matter? You changed your mind?
00:53:48 Yes, I'm sorry. I guess I have.
00:53:50 But Vera...
00:53:51 Let's go.
00:53:52 You got me out of a tight spot, Vera.
00:53:59 But I still don't understand all this.
00:54:01 You will in a minute.
00:54:02 I almost threw away a gold mine.
00:54:04 1850 isn't to be sneezed at.
00:54:06 The car doesn't book for as much as I thought.
00:54:08 We're not selling the car.
00:54:09 You want to keep it?
00:54:11 Now, wait a minute, Vera.
00:54:12 You said yourself I wouldn't be safe
00:54:13 until the car was in someone else's name.
00:54:15 I'd like to be free of this mess when I go.
00:54:17 That's just it, Roberts.
00:54:18 You're not going.
00:54:20 There's a driver at the next corner.
00:54:21 Pull in there and we'll get a bite to eat.
00:54:22 And I'll explain.
00:54:24 What is this, another one of your brilliant ideas?
00:54:26 Hello. Can I take your order?
00:54:34 Make mine a ham sandwich and coffee.
00:54:35 And for you, sir?
00:54:36 Oh, I don't care. The same.
00:54:38 Thank you.
00:54:41 Get this, Vera.
00:54:47 I've been pretty patient so far.
00:54:49 I've done everything you asked me to do, but no more.
00:54:51 Shut up.
00:54:52 You've taken Haskell's money.
00:54:53 And you can have the door we get from selling the car.
00:54:55 But you're not going to keep me a prisoner.
00:54:57 It's a good thing I bought the paper.
00:54:58 Take a look at that.
00:54:59 Vera, I'm in no mood.
00:55:00 Read that.
00:55:01 No.
00:55:12 Yes.
00:55:13 No, I won't do it.
00:55:14 Yes, you will.
00:55:15 You think I'm crazy?
00:55:16 It's impossible, I tell you.
00:55:17 Excuse me.
00:55:19 Blow the horn when you're through.
00:55:26 No one could possibly get away with an act like that.
00:55:31 He'll be wise to me in a minute.
00:55:32 Don't be yellow.
00:55:33 You look enough like him.
00:55:34 The same coloring and the same build.
00:55:36 See how his clothes fit you?
00:55:38 No kidding, you almost had me fooled for a while.
00:55:40 Oh, grow up, Vera.
00:55:41 Don't you think a father knows his own son?
00:55:43 And there must be other relatives.
00:55:44 A father won't have to know you.
00:55:46 We'll wait till he gives up the ghost.
00:55:47 He's an old geezer and he won't pull through.
00:55:49 And as far as other relatives are concerned,
00:55:51 they haven't seen you in 15 or 20 years.
00:55:53 Eat.
00:55:55 I'm not hungry.
00:55:56 And I won't do it.
00:55:58 It's not as tough as it sounds.
00:56:00 Remember, you've got all kinds of identification.
00:56:02 His car, letters, license.
00:56:03 I could never get away with it.
00:56:04 It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
00:56:06 The old boy has scads of dough.
00:56:08 Look in the paper there.
00:56:09 Personal fortune assessed at over 15 million.
00:56:11 He'll leave plenty, I tell you.
00:56:13 Maybe he cut off his son.
00:56:14 How do we know?
00:56:15 It's out, Vera.
00:56:16 I won't have anything to do with it.
00:56:18 I think you will.
00:56:21 Look, Vera, I'll do anything within reason.
00:56:24 But not that.
00:56:25 So forget it.
00:56:26 Find yourself another stooge.
00:56:27 You sap!
00:56:28 You'll be fixed for the rest of your life as Charlie Haskell.
00:56:31 You can take your inheritance and go away.
00:56:33 No more worrying about the rent, no sweat and scheming,
00:56:35 wondering where your next meal's coming from.
00:56:36 Think about that, Roberts!
00:56:37 Vera, please, you're talking too loud.
00:56:40 Unless I'm splitting 50/50 with you.
00:56:42 Sure, why not?
00:56:43 We're both alike.
00:56:44 Both born in the same gutter.
00:56:45 Now take it easy, Vera.
00:56:46 There's people around here.
00:56:47 You don't know who you're talking to.
00:56:49 Well, wait till we read that old man Haskell's dead.
00:56:52 Then you show up.
00:56:53 Like you read in New York that he was sick.
00:56:55 No.
00:56:57 Suppose he doesn't die?
00:56:58 He will.
00:56:59 I know he will.
00:57:00 Something tells me.
00:57:01 But as much as I insisted I would have no part of her scheme,
00:57:06 Vera was taking it for granted I would.
00:57:10 Neither of us had our mind on the cards as we played that night.
00:57:13 I knew we were just trying to kill time between newspaper editions.
00:57:17 This was a death watch for Vera.
00:57:20 Maybe it was for me, too.
00:57:22 Don't you realize if I'm caught,
00:57:24 they'll want to know where I got the car and stuff,
00:57:26 and they'll have me on a murder charge.
00:57:27 If you're smart, you won't get caught.
00:57:29 I knock with seven.
00:57:31 And if I'm caught, don't you realize you'll be out too?
00:57:33 18 points, that gives me 30.
00:57:37 How will I be out?
00:57:39 You'll be out $1,850 we would have gotten on the car.
00:57:41 Really, Vera, you'd be an awful chump if you threw away all that dough in a dizzy long shot.
00:57:45 Let me sell the bus tomorrow.
00:57:46 With the money it'll bring and what you've already got,
00:57:48 a clever kid like you can run it up in no time.
00:57:50 Then we'd both be in the clear.
00:57:51 I'll be in the clear anyway.
00:57:52 Maybe.
00:57:54 Maybe.
00:57:55 If I got caught.
00:57:56 I'd get good and sore too, you know.
00:57:59 You mean you'd squeal?
00:58:00 Oh, no, not squeal exactly.
00:58:01 Never mind what you meant.
00:58:02 Even if you did tell the cops I was in on it with you,
00:58:08 what could they do to me?
00:58:09 They might give me the same medicine they gave you.
00:58:13 Yeah.
00:58:14 A rope.
00:58:15 But I'm on my way anyhow.
00:58:19 All they'll be doing will be rushing it.
00:58:23 All right.
00:58:25 But think of the $1,850 you'd lose.
00:58:27 You'd kick yourself along the block if you ever let get away from you.
00:58:29 I'll take the chance.
00:58:31 Want another drink?
00:58:33 You're being a goon.
00:58:34 That's the way people wind up behind the eight ball.
00:58:36 Once they get a few dollars, they become greedy and want more.
00:58:38 My, my.
00:58:39 Caesar.
00:58:40 Who?
00:58:41 You know, that Roman general?
00:58:42 He got his for being greedy.
00:58:43 He wasn't satisfied, so the final wind-up was he took the count.
00:58:46 A couple of days ago, you didn't have a dime.
00:58:49 While you were so broke, you couldn't pay cash for a postage stamp.
00:58:52 Now you've got almost $700 with $1,850 in the offing.
00:58:55 Take my advice.
00:58:56 Don't try for more.
00:58:57 I'm tired of this game.
00:58:58 Let's have some blackjack.
00:58:59 Play solitaire.
00:59:00 Okay, I will, if that's the way you feel about it.
00:59:02 That's the way I feel about it.
00:59:03 Getting soar and throwing things won't help much, Roberts.
00:59:05 I'm really doing you a favor.
00:59:07 I help you out of the jam by keeping my mouth shut.
00:59:09 I show you how to make some soft money.
00:59:10 And what thanks do I get?
00:59:12 Thanks?
00:59:13 Sure.
00:59:14 Would you rather I call the cops and tell them you killed a man and stole his money?
00:59:16 I didn't kill anybody.
00:59:17 Yes, you did.
00:59:18 No, I didn't.
00:59:19 You know I didn't.
00:59:20 All right, then.
00:59:21 Suppose I call the cops.
00:59:24 Pure innocent, what do you got to be scared of?
00:59:26 Okay.
00:59:28 Call them, you mud.
00:59:29 Go ahead and call them.
00:59:30 See if I care.
00:59:31 At least they'll give me a square deal.
00:59:32 You want me to call them?
00:59:34 You heard me.
00:59:35 But I'm warning you.
00:59:36 If I'm pinched, I'll swear you were innocent.
00:59:37 I'll say that you helped me.
00:59:39 If I fry, I'll get even with you.
00:59:41 You wouldn't dare.
00:59:42 You didn't.
00:59:43 Yeah?
00:59:44 Then try it and see.
00:59:45 Call them.
00:59:46 Yeah.
00:59:47 Okay, I will.
00:59:48 Information?
01:00:02 I want the number of the Hollywood police station.
01:00:04 Okay, I got it.
01:00:07 Thanks.
01:00:08 Wait a minute, Vera.
01:00:12 You wouldn't do that.
01:00:13 Wouldn't I?
01:00:14 Give me that and I'll show you if I would.
01:00:15 Take it easy now.
01:00:16 Let's talk this over.
01:00:17 This was early in the evening.
01:00:18 And the conversation, while hectic, was at least pitched low.
01:00:22 But as the minutes passed, and more obstacles to her plan popped into my head,
01:00:28 the air got blue.
01:00:29 Each word coming from our lips cracked like a whip.
01:00:32 I reminded her that as Charles Haskell, I didn't even know my mother's name,
01:00:36 where I'd gone to school, the name of my best friend,
01:00:40 whether I had an Aunt Emma or not, my religion,
01:00:43 and if I'd ever owned a dog.
01:00:45 I didn't even know what my middle initial stood for.
01:00:48 I also pointed out that the real Haskell had a scar on his forearm.
01:00:52 His people never saw that scar.
01:00:54 He told me you ran away right after putting out the car.
01:00:56 Yeah, but his father knew it was cut.
01:00:57 It had to be some kind of a mark.
01:00:58 So what?
01:00:59 The old man's dead or will be, I hope, by tomorrow morning's papers.
01:01:04 Anyway, you could cut yourself a little, couldn't you?
01:01:07 Boy, for that kind of dough, I'd let you cut my leg off.
01:01:12 You're drunk and you're crazy mad, Vera.
01:01:14 Turn me in if you want to, but I won't get mixed up in this.
01:01:16 Besides, how do we know Haskell was such a phony?
01:01:18 Maybe he wasn't the man's son at all.
01:01:19 Maybe he just dreamed it up.
01:01:20 Well, dream it or not, I'll tell you.
01:01:23 You won't be dreaming when the law attacks you on the shoulder.
01:01:26 There's a cute little gas chamber waiting for you, Roberts.
01:01:30 And I hear extradition to Arizona's a cinch.
01:01:33 Where's that phone?
01:01:35 Vera.
01:01:37 Leave me alone!
01:01:38 Vera!
01:01:39 I want a phone call, please!
01:01:40 I hate you.
01:01:43 You're a stinker.
01:01:44 You leave me alone!
01:01:46 I'll let you alone when you promise to leave the phone where it is.
01:01:48 You're drunk.
01:01:49 You don't know what you're doing.
01:01:50 You're hurting me.
01:01:51 Will you promise?
01:01:53 All right.
01:01:55 You hurt me.
01:02:01 I'm sorry, but...
01:02:03 And it's hot in here.
01:02:04 Open up a window.
01:02:05 It's not hot.
01:02:06 Don't tell me.
01:02:07 Now, do you do it or do I do it?
01:02:09 You're an old gentleman, see?
01:02:12 Yeah.
01:02:13 All right.
01:02:14 I'll open up the window.
01:02:15 Vera!
01:02:20 Vera!
01:02:21 Vera, open the door.
01:02:27 Please open the door.
01:02:28 Vera, open the door.
01:02:29 Don't use the phone.
01:02:30 Listen to me.
01:02:31 I don't like you, Roberts.
01:02:33 You're an old gentleman, see?
01:02:35 You hurt my hand.
01:02:37 And I'm going to get even with you.
01:02:39 If you don't open the door, I'm going to kick it down, Vera.
01:02:42 Vera, don't call the cops.
01:02:43 Listen to me.
01:02:44 I'll do anything you say.
01:02:45 Vera, let me in.
01:02:49 I'll break the phone.
01:02:50 I'll break the phone.
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01:03:04 The world is full of skeptics.
01:03:31 I know.
01:03:32 I'm one myself.
01:03:33 In the Haskell business, how many of you would believe he fell out of the car?
01:03:37 And now, after killing Vera without really meaning to do it,
01:03:40 how many of you would believe it wasn't premeditated?
01:03:42 In a jury room, every last man of you would go down shouting that she had me over a barrel
01:03:48 and my only out was force.
01:03:50 The room was still.
01:03:53 So quiet that for a while I wondered if I had suddenly gone deaf.
01:03:57 It was pure fear, of course.
01:03:59 And I was hysterical.
01:04:00 But without making a sound.
01:04:02 Vera was dead.
01:04:05 And I was her murderer.
01:04:07 Murderer.
01:04:09 What an awful word that is.
01:04:11 But I'd become one.
01:04:12 I'd better not get caught.
01:04:14 What evidence there was around the place had to be destroyed.
01:04:17 And from the looks of things, there was plenty.
01:04:19 Looking around the room at things we'd bought was like looking into the faces of a hundred people
01:04:23 who'd seen us together and who remembered me.
01:04:25 This was the kind of testimony I couldn't rub out.
01:04:29 No.
01:04:30 I could burn clothes and hide bottles for the next five years.
01:04:33 There'd always be witnesses.
01:04:35 The landlady for one.
01:04:37 She could identify me.
01:04:38 The car dealer, the waitress in the drive-in, the girl in the dress shop,
01:04:40 and that guy in the liquor store.
01:04:41 They could all identify me.
01:04:43 I was cooked.
01:04:46 Done for.
01:04:47 I had to get out of there.
01:04:48 While once I'd remained beside a dead body,
01:04:52 planning carefully how to avoid being accused of killing him,
01:04:55 this time I couldn't.
01:04:57 This time I was guilty.
01:04:58 I knew it.
01:05:01 I felt it.
01:05:03 I was like a guy suffering from shock.
01:05:05 Things were whirling around in my head.
01:05:07 I couldn't make myself think right.
01:05:09 All I could think of was the guy with the saxophone and what he was playing.
01:05:13 It wasn't a love song anymore.
01:05:16 It was a dirge.
01:05:19 It was a dirge.
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01:06:08 But my problems weren't solved.
01:06:10 I had to stay away from New York for all time.
01:06:13 Because Al Roberts was listed as dead and had to stay dead.
01:06:17 And I could never go back to Hollywood.
01:06:20 Someone might recognize me as Haskell.
01:06:23 Then too, there was Sue.
01:06:26 I could never go to her with a thing like this hanging over my head.
01:06:31 All I could do was pray she'd be happy.
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01:06:38 I was in Bakersfield before I read that Vera's body was discovered.
01:06:51 That the police were looking for Haskell in connection with his wife's murder.
01:06:55 Isn't that a laugh?
01:06:58 Haskell got me into this mess and Haskell was getting me out of it.
01:07:02 The police were searching for a dead man.
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01:07:07 I keep trying to forget what happened.
01:07:10 And wonder what my life might have been if that car of Haskell's hadn't stopped.
01:07:16 But one thing I don't have to wonder about.
01:07:20 I know.
01:07:23 Someday a car will stop to pick me up that I never thumbed.
01:07:27 [music playing]
01:07:30 Yes.
01:07:34 Fate or some mysterious force can put the finger on you or me
01:07:40 for no good reason at all.
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