The Strange Love of Martha Ivers-SD

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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers-SD
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00:01:37 Shut the door quick.
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00:01:51 Ha, scared of thunder?
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00:01:56 No, I like it.
00:01:58 That's good, because there's going to be more of it.
00:02:01 I brought you food.
00:02:03 I'll be getting two.
00:02:05 Did you steal it?
00:02:06 No, I bought it.
00:02:07 Oh.
00:02:08 And if we get caught, don't go making up any stories that I did.
00:02:12 I'm in enough trouble as it is, you and your kid.
00:02:17 You want me to go back, Sam?
00:02:20 Shut up and eat.
00:02:23 They looking for me?
00:02:25 Your aunt's got every cop in Iverstown peeping through keyholes.
00:02:27 You won't let them find me.
00:02:29 You'll always come running to me.
00:02:32 Got nobody else to run to, Sam.
00:02:36 The circus is leaving town tonight.
00:02:38 Their train will go right through here.
00:02:40 When it does, you just follow me.
00:02:42 You run with all your might, and when you grab on, grab tight.
00:02:45 Don't you worry about me, Sam.
00:02:48 Shh, be quiet.
00:02:55 There they are.
00:02:57 All right, kids, unless you got wings, you're caught.
00:03:01 All right, Martha, let's go.
00:03:17 You'll never catch him!
00:03:18 You'll never catch him!
00:03:20 Don't ruffer, you chump.
00:03:22 All right, miss, we'll take you on home to your aunt.
00:03:40 Mr. O'Neil to see you, ma'am.
00:03:42 Show him in.
00:03:48 Mrs. Ivers will see you now.
00:03:57 Good evening, Mrs. Ivers.
00:03:58 Good evening.
00:04:00 Good evening, Mrs. Ivers.
00:04:01 I have good news.
00:04:03 Martha--
00:04:04 What about her?
00:04:05 Martha has been found.
00:04:07 I know.
00:04:08 Well, it was Walter who was really responsible for Martha being found.
00:04:11 He told the police where she and that boy, Sam Masterson, usually go.
00:04:16 Isn't that so, Walter?
00:04:17 Yes, father.
00:04:20 The boy will be rewarded.
00:04:22 Well, he's a good boy, and he's bright.
00:04:25 If I could afford it, I'd send him--
00:04:27 Send him to a school like Harvard.
00:04:29 I guess I've mentioned it before.
00:04:30 Many times.
00:04:34 Yes, madam?
00:04:35 Take the boy to the kitchen, Lynch.
00:04:37 Give him some ice cream.
00:04:39 You may give him a piece of cake, too.
00:04:41 Go along.
00:04:42 We must thank Mrs. Ivers, Walter.
00:04:44 Thank you, Mrs. Ivers.
00:04:51 You've lost your pupil, Mr. O'Neill.
00:04:54 I'm sending her away.
00:04:55 I know why you offered to tutor Martha.
00:04:58 I know why you made Walter do his daily lessons with her.
00:05:01 I know why you want him to live here.
00:05:04 A scholarship for Walter, that's why.
00:05:06 But I'm not a foundation, Mr. O'Neill.
00:05:08 I don't care whether Walter drives a truck or goes to Harvard.
00:05:11 He'll probably be a lot happier driving a truck.
00:05:18 You are expected, miss.
00:05:21 Oh, just a minute, miss.
00:05:24 The name's Lon Dean.
00:05:26 You'll tell Mrs. Ivers the name of the detective who caught her is Lon Dean.
00:05:29 I'll tell her.
00:05:36 I'll take your furs, miss.
00:05:38 No.
00:05:39 You'd better, miss.
00:05:40 You know how she feels about that cat.
00:05:43 I'll bring it up to your room.
00:05:50 Your aunt is waiting for you.
00:06:08 Closer, Martha.
00:06:15 Closer, Martha.
00:06:27 Look at me.
00:06:33 You don't seem very sorry.
00:06:35 I am.
00:06:37 I'm sorry I was caught.
00:06:41 No matter what you do, I won't cry.
00:06:44 This is the fourth time you've tried to run away.
00:06:47 Each time you were brought back here, no matter how far you got, you were brought back here.
00:06:51 You don't own the whole world.
00:06:53 Enough of it to make sure that you'll always be brought back here.
00:06:57 Do you understand that?
00:07:00 Do you understand that?
00:07:03 Your aunt doesn't deserve such an attitude, Martha.
00:07:05 There are not very many women who'd be as patient and as kind.
00:07:08 And there aren't very many little girls who'd be as ungrateful.
00:07:11 When will you understand that I'm doing all this for you?
00:07:14 That I'm trying to wash the dirt and grime off you, make an Ivers out of you again?
00:07:19 My name is Smith, the same as my father's was.
00:07:22 Your name is Ivers.
00:07:24 I've had it changed legally.
00:07:26 I don't care what you've done.
00:07:27 Your name is Ivers, the same as your mother's was before she was stupid enough to marry that...
00:07:30 Shut up! Shut up!
00:07:31 How dare you?
00:07:32 Shut up!
00:07:34 You've still got his foul mouth.
00:07:36 I won't let you talk that way about my father.
00:07:38 Your father was a nobody, a mill hand.
00:07:40 The best thing he ever did for you was to die.
00:07:42 I'll kill you. I'll kill you.
00:07:44 Stop. Stop. Stop.
00:07:46 It's all right, Mr. O'Neil.
00:07:51 Go up to your room and get into some dry clothes.
00:07:53 After you've had dinner, I want to have a talk with you.
00:08:05 It's late. I'll go get my son.
00:08:08 Good night.
00:08:09 Stay. I'm upset.
00:08:12 I want someone to talk to.
00:08:14 Yes, Mrs. Ivers.
00:08:18 Lynch told me to sneak bundles to you.
00:08:20 I thought you'd be hungry, so I sneaked the milk, too.
00:08:28 She hates cats.
00:08:30 She hates everything I like.
00:08:32 A policeman came to my house this morning.
00:08:34 He asked me if I had any idea of where you could have gone.
00:08:38 My father said it was my duty to tell them.
00:08:41 Your father.
00:08:42 I didn't say a thing.
00:08:44 No matter what my father told your aunt, I didn't say a thing.
00:08:48 I'm cold. I have to change my clothes.
00:08:51 I'll leave the door open so I can hear you.
00:08:55 My father says you're foolish.
00:08:57 My father says that someday you'll have everything in the world.
00:09:01 My father says that if we only had one little part of what you'll have, I could go to Harvard.
00:09:07 Your what?
00:09:08 I could go to Harvard.
00:09:11 The lights. What happened to the lights?
00:09:13 They went out. I think they went out all over the house.
00:09:16 There's a candle that matches on the table near the wall.
00:09:19 Oh, you stand still. I'll do it.
00:09:41 Don't you think I'd better go up and see if Martha's all right?
00:09:44 Martha will be all right anywhere. Your play.
00:09:51 I'm afraid of the thunder and lightning. Draw the curtains. I'll go in to change.
00:10:02 Martha!
00:10:12 I'll get the teeth out of you and I'll break your nose.
00:10:14 I won't say anything. Martha! Martha will tell you I won't say anything.
00:10:18 What is it?
00:10:20 Sam!
00:10:23 You see Walter, I told you they'd never catch him. Sam buttoned me up.
00:10:26 I came to say goodbye. I thought it over Martha. It's better for you here.
00:10:30 I won't stay here. I hate her.
00:10:33 All you gotta do is play smart with her.
00:10:34 I'm going with you.
00:10:35 Now you listen to me.
00:10:36 I don't want to listen.
00:10:38 It's late. I gotta go.
00:10:40 Martha, if he's caught here he'll be sent to reform school. Mrs. Ivers said so.
00:10:44 They gotta catch me first.
00:10:46 All right Sam. If you won't take me I'll go without you. I'll go off by myself.
00:10:55 Okay. Then let's go.
00:10:57 I want to run up to the attic. I want to get a couple of things.
00:11:09 Sam! Quick Sam!
00:11:12 Sam! She's going downstairs.
00:11:15 Sam, my lamp!
00:11:17 I'll get it.
00:11:32 Get it, get it, get it, get it.
00:11:44 Sam! Have you got it? Have you got it Sam?
00:11:51 Hurry Sam or that old witch will catch us.
00:12:10 (woman screaming)
00:12:12 (dramatic music)
00:12:15 (train whistling)
00:12:18 (train whistling)
00:12:21 (train whistling)
00:12:24 (train whistling)
00:12:26 (train whistling)
00:12:29 (train whistling)
00:12:32 (train whistling)
00:12:35 (dramatic music)
00:13:01 (thunder rumbling)
00:13:04 - She's dead.
00:13:21 - We were upstairs.
00:13:24 We heard a noise and we came down.
00:13:26 We saw a man, a big man.
00:13:29 He was leaving.
00:13:31 Out of that front door he left.
00:13:32 See, it's open.
00:13:33 She was lying there.
00:13:36 And this, this was lying there too.
00:13:44 I picked it up.
00:13:45 Isn't that true, Walter?
00:13:53 Isn't it?
00:13:54 - Is it, Walter?
00:13:57 - Yes, father.
00:14:00 It is.
00:14:01 - Put it down.
00:14:05 Put it exactly where you found it.
00:14:08 Both of you better go upstairs.
00:14:18 I'll phone the police.
00:14:20 (dramatic music)
00:14:23 - You'll never get away with it, never.
00:14:36 - Your father believes me.
00:14:37 - I don't know, I'm not sure.
00:14:39 - You keep your mouth shut.
00:14:40 - But Sam, what about Sam?
00:14:41 He was in the house, he saw it.
00:14:43 - Sam will never tell.
00:14:44 - Yes, he will, he's scared.
00:14:45 That's why he ran away after it happened.
00:14:47 - Sam will never tell.
00:14:48 - Sam's scared.
00:14:49 He ran away, I didn't, I stayed.
00:14:51 - No, no, he won't.
00:14:52 Not Sam, not Sam!
00:14:53 - I wanna talk to you both.
00:15:07 Stop.
00:15:10 Now, when the police come,
00:15:18 you will tell them exactly what you told me.
00:15:23 Do you understand, Martha?
00:15:24 - Yes, Mr. O'Neil.
00:15:26 - And you too, Walter?
00:15:28 - Yes, father.
00:15:29 - You poor child.
00:15:35 You'll be all alone in the world now,
00:15:39 except for Walter and myself.
00:15:42 But you needn't be afraid.
00:15:46 We'll always be with you, Walter and I.
00:15:49 We'll never leave you.
00:15:50 - Thank you, Mr. O'Neil.
00:15:54 (tires screeching)
00:15:58 (tires screeching)
00:16:02 (tires screeching)
00:16:30 - Your competition at the fairgrounds last week.
00:16:33 In the handicap, Chestnut King
00:16:34 looks like an odds-on favorite.
00:16:36 - That guy doesn't know what he's talking about.
00:16:38 Chestnut King's a dog.
00:16:40 He was losing races to cow ponies years ago in Tijuana.
00:16:43 - Well, what do you know?
00:16:48 What do you know about that?
00:16:50 How do you like that, sailor?
00:16:51 Leave a place when you're a kid,
00:16:54 maybe 17, 18 years ago, and you forget all about it,
00:16:57 and all of a sudden you're driving along
00:16:58 and smack-o your own hometown up
00:17:00 and hits you right in the face.
00:17:02 End of the line, sailor.
00:17:23 Come on, wake up.
00:17:24 - Where are we?
00:17:28 - A small accident.
00:17:29 - What happened?
00:17:31 - The road curved, but I didn't.
00:17:33 Come on, I've got to put in to Iverstown for repairs.
00:17:36 Next time, I pick me a guy that don't fall asleep.
00:17:45 Welcome to Iverstown.
00:17:50 Well, maybe this time they mean it.
00:17:58 (horn honks)
00:18:00 - We got anybody here to fix this wreck, mister?
00:18:02 - Roll her in.
00:18:03 - 10 more, you don't make it.
00:18:07 - That.
00:18:08 - Five more, you do that.
00:18:09 - That's you.
00:18:10 - Shoot.
00:18:11 - 10 more, you don't make it.
00:18:15 - That.
00:18:16 - How long will it take, Pop?
00:18:27 - Can't tell till we look her over.
00:18:29 Come back tomorrow.
00:18:31 - Open game?
00:18:32 - Nope.
00:18:33 - Four.
00:18:39 - Right back, little Joe.
00:18:40 - 20 to 10, no four.
00:18:41 - You got it, Bet.
00:18:42 - Come on, Harry, make four.
00:18:43 - Seven.
00:18:46 - You shoot, Joe.
00:18:47 - Thanks.
00:18:47 - Shooting 20.
00:18:48 - You got it.
00:18:49 - 10 more, you don't make it.
00:18:53 - That I do.
00:18:57 - What's it'll cost, Pop?
00:18:58 - Won't know till it's done.
00:19:00 - Hey, now look, I wanna know now.
00:19:03 - Take it someplace else.
00:19:04 - Welcome to Iverston.
00:19:07 - We interrupt this program of dinner music
00:19:09 to bring you a special broadcast
00:19:11 in the interest of the re-election
00:19:12 of District Attorney Walter P. O'Neill.
00:19:14 - Hey, no, leave that on, will you, Pop?
00:19:15 - Ladies and gentlemen, it is with deep regret
00:19:17 that we are forced to announce that Mr. O'Neill
00:19:19 will not be able to address this citizens' forum tonight.
00:19:22 Mr. O'Neill was suddenly taken ill,
00:19:24 but we are fortunate to have the best-loved
00:19:26 civic figure of Iverstown, the gracious Mrs. O'Neill,
00:19:29 here in the studio tonight to speak for him.
00:19:31 - Citizens of Iverstown,
00:19:33 the issues in this election are simple.
00:19:35 - That's enough of that malarkey.
00:19:38 - This Walter P. O'Neill, isn't it?
00:19:41 The kid that used to live on Sycamore Street?
00:19:44 His father used to be a schoolteacher?
00:19:45 - Yeah, that's him.
00:19:47 You know him?
00:19:48 - Yeah, I used to.
00:19:49 Little scared kid on Sycamore Street,
00:19:52 and now he's running for the District Attorney.
00:19:54 What's the odds?
00:19:55 - On what?
00:19:57 - The election.
00:19:58 - No odds, no takers.
00:20:01 This is a sure bet, mister.
00:20:03 Gonna be re-elected, gonna be governor.
00:20:06 And I'm making book right now
00:20:07 that someday he'll run for president.
00:20:10 Yep, gonna be whatever his wife wants him to be.
00:20:14 - Some gal.
00:20:15 Who'd he marry?
00:20:17 - You from this town?
00:20:18 - Used to be.
00:20:19 - You ought to know her then.
00:20:21 Old Lady Iverst's niece.
00:20:24 - Martha Iverst?
00:20:25 - Yep.
00:20:26 Came into the whole works after the old lady died.
00:20:29 - Well, what do you know?
00:20:32 What do you know about that Martha Iverst?
00:20:34 - I don't know, you still look like
00:20:44 a scared little kid to me.
00:20:46 - Hello, Gallagher.
00:20:51 - Hey, wait a minute.
00:20:53 - Do I know you?
00:20:55 - Sure.
00:20:56 I'm the guy who tossed a rock through that window once.
00:20:59 And you're the guy who chased me.
00:21:01 - If I chased you, I'll bet I caught you.
00:21:03 - Come to think of it, I believe you did.
00:21:09 (dramatic music)
00:21:12 (dramatic music)
00:21:15 (dramatic music)
00:21:17 (dramatic music)
00:21:20 (dramatic music)
00:21:23 (dramatic music)
00:21:26 (dramatic music)
00:21:28 - Hello.
00:21:55 - Hello.
00:21:56 - You live here?
00:21:59 - Used to.
00:22:01 - Who runs this place?
00:22:02 - Lady, the name of Mrs. Burke.
00:22:04 She's not home.
00:22:05 - You waiting for her?
00:22:07 - Just came back to get my things.
00:22:08 I've been away for a while.
00:22:12 I'm waiting for a taxi.
00:22:15 - I used to live here in this house.
00:22:18 17, 18 years ago.
00:22:21 I was born here.
00:22:22 - Don't kid me, you're older than that.
00:22:25 - Well, I didn't move right after I was born.
00:22:27 - Got one to spare?
00:22:30 Got some more matches.
00:22:34 - I ain't got these.
00:22:36 - Got the time?
00:22:39 - Yeah, it's a quarter after 11.
00:22:43 - Now, ain't that just dandy?
00:22:45 And I've got an 11.30 bus to catch.
00:22:47 - You can still make it.
00:22:48 - How if the taxi doesn't show up fast?
00:22:50 - You know anybody who lives around here
00:22:52 in the name of Masterson?
00:22:55 - No.
00:22:56 - Know anybody in town at all by that name?
00:22:57 - No, I'm from Ridgeville.
00:22:59 Is your name Masterson?
00:23:02 - Mm, yeah.
00:23:04 - You mean, you're just getting home after 18 years?
00:23:08 - Well, 17 or 18.
00:23:10 - You're just getting around to looking up your people.
00:23:13 - No, not exactly.
00:23:15 I just happened to be driving through on my way west
00:23:18 and got more or less curious, that's all.
00:23:21 - I'll get luck.
00:23:22 - What you gonna do?
00:23:26 - What do you mean?
00:23:29 - I mean about your people.
00:23:30 - Well, I don't know.
00:23:33 Maybe nothing.
00:23:34 Maybe tomorrow I'll go down to the courthouse
00:23:37 and look up the deaths in the last 18 years.
00:23:39 - Can you do that?
00:23:40 - Yeah, I think so.
00:23:43 Good night.
00:23:50 (car horn honking)
00:23:53 (bus door creaking)
00:24:03 - The bus terminal, please hurry.
00:24:04 I've got an 11.30 bus to catch.
00:24:06 - Masterson.
00:24:20 - I thought it was you, Mr. Masterson.
00:24:21 - Well, I'm glad to see you again.
00:24:23 I gave you my last match.
00:24:25 - Want to lift any place on the way to the bus station?
00:24:27 - You talked me into it.
00:24:29 You got my matches.
00:24:36 Got a name?
00:24:36 - Tony.
00:24:39 Antonia.
00:24:40 Antonia Marachek.
00:24:41 Ain't that a dilly, Mr. Masterson?
00:24:44 - Sam.
00:24:46 (door creaking)
00:24:48 - Please hurry.
00:24:52 - The depot's just across the tracks.
00:24:53 You've still got four minutes.
00:24:55 (train clanking)
00:24:57 You'd have made it if you didn't stop
00:25:00 to pick up your jam.
00:25:01 - Might be able to chase it.
00:25:03 - I can get a bus back to Ridgeville tomorrow.
00:25:06 Maybe I won't get a bus back to Ridgeville.
00:25:10 Maybe I'll go someplace else.
00:25:11 Maybe in another direction.
00:25:15 Chicago or further west, maybe.
00:25:17 Have you ever been out west before?
00:25:21 - No.
00:25:22 - I've never.
00:25:23 Maybe I will.
00:25:26 What's it like?
00:25:30 - Big.
00:25:33 (train clanking)
00:25:39 (train whistling)
00:25:42 - Do you want to go back?
00:25:59 - Can't go back there.
00:26:00 Have to go someplace else.
00:26:02 Do you drink, Sam?
00:26:05 - Yes, I drink.
00:26:08 I'll buy you one.
00:26:09 - Okay.
00:26:11 - Too bad.
00:26:14 Do you want me to check your bag in the station here?
00:26:16 - I don't know.
00:26:17 I guess I'll want it at a hotel.
00:26:19 - You don't want me to take you there?
00:26:21 - Do you happen to be at the Gable Hotel?
00:26:23 - Yeah.
00:26:25 - Can I go there?
00:26:26 - It's a public place.
00:26:29 Yeah.
00:26:30 Tell the clerk that Sam Masterson wants a room
00:26:32 for a young lady.
00:26:33 She'll register when she gets there.
00:26:34 - Yes, sir.
00:26:35 Thanks.
00:26:36 - Keep it.
00:26:38 (train whistling)
00:26:41 (gentle music)
00:26:43 - Quiet, see?
00:26:49 Blue lights, music, everything.
00:26:53 - A cafe.
00:26:53 - When I lived in this town,
00:26:57 there were nothing but saloons.
00:26:59 My father used to live in 'em.
00:27:01 - Mine too.
00:27:03 - We're related.
00:27:06 I'll have the same thing you have if you don't mind.
00:27:07 - Scotch.
00:27:08 I take a plain water chaser with that
00:27:11 when the scotch isn't so good.
00:27:13 - Two water chasers.
00:27:14 - Did you drive far?
00:27:17 - About 600 miles since this morning.
00:27:21 - You aren't driving anything tonight.
00:27:24 - My Stanley steamer's in the garage,
00:27:27 having her facelifted.
00:27:28 Better bring us a couple more before curfew.
00:27:31 - I'll swap.
00:27:32 - That'll be $2.
00:27:34 (gentle music)
00:27:36 - On me.
00:27:37 - Oh, thanks.
00:27:38 Maybe you'd like to drink to finding your people.
00:27:42 - My mother wouldn't approve of that.
00:27:45 - How would you know after all this time?
00:27:48 - After all this time, you probably wouldn't care,
00:27:50 one way or the other.
00:27:51 - You talk awful cold-blooded about them, don't you?
00:27:55 - That's life.
00:27:57 - Is it a big family?
00:27:58 - No, it wasn't.
00:27:59 Besides me, they're just the usual two people necessary
00:28:02 to increase the population.
00:28:04 Mother left when I was a baby,
00:28:07 and my father probably drank himself to death by now.
00:28:12 - The other man I know talks cold like that's my dad.
00:28:14 He's the most cold-blooded man in Ridgeville.
00:28:18 Once he kicked me, it made me sick.
00:28:23 - I can guess why you didn't break your neck
00:28:25 to catch that bus back to Ridgeville tonight.
00:28:28 - I probably would've got on and got off
00:28:30 before it started out.
00:28:32 Probably would've got the jitters the minute I got on.
00:28:35 Anyway, it's gone now for tonight anyhow.
00:28:40 There won't be another one until tomorrow night.
00:28:43 Now I know for sure I'm not gonna make that one either.
00:28:47 Not the one to Ridgeville, at least.
00:28:50 But I'm so glad you came to have a drink with me tonight.
00:28:57 I was so lonesome, I'd like to have died.
00:29:00 Have you ever been that lonesome?
00:29:02 - How lonesome is that?
00:29:04 - About as much as you can hold without busting open.
00:29:07 Wanna know how I got that way?
00:29:09 - Curfew.
00:29:12 Shall we go home?
00:29:14 - The reason I picked the hotel,
00:29:17 your hotel is really very...
00:29:20 - You read the hotel advertising on that when you had it.
00:29:23 - You're smart.
00:29:24 Maybe you think I've been trying too hard to get acquainted.
00:29:28 - Maybe you have.
00:29:30 - Maybe you think that's wrong.
00:29:32 - Maybe it's too soon to tell.
00:29:33 - I wonder what you're thinking.
00:29:36 - I don't think you'll take up too much room
00:29:38 in my Stanley steamer.
00:29:40 - Maybe you're all right.
00:29:42 - You think you can hold that thought
00:29:43 all the way to the coast?
00:29:44 - We better wait here for a minute.
00:29:55 We better wait here for a minute.
00:29:56 Here, I wanna ask you something.
00:30:00 Does that guy look like a scared little boy to you?
00:30:04 - He looks like he's gonna cry any minute.
00:30:07 Let's get away from here.
00:30:08 Is Mr. O'Neil in?
00:30:21 - No, madam, not to my knowledge.
00:30:22 (dramatic music)
00:30:25 - Walter.
00:30:45 - Hello.
00:30:50 (dramatic music)
00:30:52 - No words?
00:30:59 Have a cigarette.
00:31:02 My lady's lips.
00:31:09 - I'll ring for some coffee for you.
00:31:10 - No, thank you, I'll have another drink.
00:31:12 - Walter.
00:31:14 - If there's to be a discussion, I'll need another drink.
00:31:18 Otherwise, I shall neither hear nor be coherent
00:31:21 when and if I reply to whatever it is you're about to say.
00:31:26 - Did you forget that you were supposed to speak tonight?
00:31:28 - I didn't forget, I...
00:31:31 It's nice.
00:31:34 Your room, I mean.
00:31:35 It's been a long time since I've been here.
00:31:39 - Where were you?
00:31:40 - Getting drunk.
00:31:42 - Where?
00:31:42 - I'm still the people's choice.
00:31:45 I did not make a public display of myself anywhere.
00:31:49 - You realize, of course, that you will one day, inevitably.
00:31:51 - Inevitably.
00:31:52 - It's your career, not mine.
00:31:55 - What's mine is yours.
00:31:57 - Don't you think I'm entitled to an explanation?
00:31:59 - What do you want me to say?
00:32:02 - I don't want to put words in your mouth.
00:32:04 - I'd prefer that you would.
00:32:06 - All right.
00:32:07 When did you get drunk?
00:32:07 Where did you get drunk?
00:32:08 Why did you get drunk?
00:32:09 - Don't stand over me like that.
00:32:15 I'm a sentimental man, Martha.
00:32:17 I started to get dressed,
00:32:20 then I realized it was the fourth anniversary
00:32:24 of my father's death.
00:32:25 I thought it'd be nice if I went to the cemetery
00:32:30 and laid a wreath of flowers on his grave.
00:32:33 However, I never got there.
00:32:35 Sentiment overwhelmed me.
00:32:38 I stopped off to have a drink to his sainted memory.
00:32:44 As I drank, I thought to myself,
00:32:47 it's such a pity that my father isn't alive.
00:32:50 To be able to see for himself all his dreams come true.
00:32:54 The dreams he worked so hard for.
00:32:57 His son, a famous man,
00:33:02 married to a beautiful and wealthy woman.
00:33:08 - All right.
00:33:11 Now tell me why you got drunk.
00:33:13 - Because I couldn't get up and speak before people.
00:33:16 - Walter, listen to me.
00:33:22 What's done is done.
00:33:23 - The deed's done, not the thought.
00:33:24 - You've got a life to live.
00:33:25 - I don't know, I'm not sure.
00:33:26 - A brilliant career.
00:33:28 - My father always said that.
00:33:30 - Your father was right.
00:33:31 - He was never right about anything.
00:33:33 From the day he walked in and found your aunt on the floor.
00:33:37 - I told you I never want that mentioned.
00:33:39 - The day he sat beside you in the courtroom.
00:33:42 - As I, the public prosecutor,
00:33:43 demanded that the state take the life of a man
00:33:46 for the brutal murder of Mrs. Iverson.
00:33:49 My father said nothing.
00:33:50 I looked at him, but he said nothing.
00:33:53 - Your father was a realistic man.
00:33:55 - My father, may he rest in peace, was a greedy man.
00:33:58 - The man they executed was a criminal.
00:34:02 If he hadn't hanged for that,
00:34:03 he would have hanged for something else.
00:34:05 - A man was a man, and justice is justice.
00:34:08 That's the way it is.
00:34:11 I can't get up and speak before people.
00:34:13 The words tick in my throat.
00:34:16 I'd rather get drunk.
00:34:19 I do get drunk.
00:34:21 I did get drunk.
00:34:26 - Walter, dear, listen to me.
00:34:29 If you carry a thing in your mind that makes you sick,
00:34:33 I want you well.
00:34:36 Tomorrow-- - You'll be like today.
00:34:37 - You will leave on a trip for your health for a few weeks.
00:34:42 Will you go with me?
00:34:43 - No, I'll stay here.
00:34:45 - Then I'll stay here, too.
00:34:50 - What do you wanna do, give everything up?
00:34:53 Is that what you wanna do?
00:34:55 - You wouldn't let me do that, would you, Martha?
00:34:56 - Do you want to?
00:34:58 - I don't know, Martha.
00:35:00 I ask myself that question all the time.
00:35:02 If my father were alive, I could ask him.
00:35:06 Only I know what his answer would be.
00:35:10 He'd say to me, "Keep what you have
00:35:12 "and make her live up to it."
00:35:16 Make her live up to her bargain.
00:35:19 That's what he'd say.
00:35:20 - I am living up to it, Walter.
00:35:22 (dramatic music)
00:35:25 - There's another drink left.
00:35:46 Might as well have it.
00:35:50 (dramatic music)
00:35:53 The bottle's empty now.
00:36:00 Good night, Martha.
00:36:06 Tell me, Martha, what should I do about my love for you?
00:36:18 Tell me, Martha, why I don't abandon all this.
00:36:20 Why I don't just throw it back in your face?
00:36:24 - You tell me, Walter.
00:36:47 - Now, this is it.
00:36:48 Not good, not bad.
00:36:50 - With bath?
00:36:50 - With bath, and come out, come out, wherever you are.
00:36:55 - With bath, eh?
00:36:56 There's half as many baths as there is rooms.
00:37:00 Half the rooms has baths and half hasn't.
00:37:02 That's one way of looking at it.
00:37:03 Another is, for each two rooms,
00:37:05 one has a bath in the middle and the other hasn't.
00:37:08 Or, you might say,
00:37:10 there's a half a bath to each of two rooms.
00:37:13 - How is that again, now?
00:37:15 - There's half as many baths as there is rooms,
00:37:16 and if the two...
00:37:17 - Sorry.
00:37:19 - I've already sent the boy with those bags up to your room, Mr. Masterson.
00:37:23 - Oh, well, they belong to Miss Marachek here.
00:37:25 They came in my name because she wasn't registered yet.
00:37:28 - I, uh... I missed my bus to Ridgeville.
00:37:31 - Oh, that's too bad.
00:37:32 The boy went off at 12.
00:37:39 You'll have to manage yourselves.
00:37:41 I can't leave the board.
00:37:42 - Thanks.
00:37:43 - Good night.
00:37:46 - Sweet dreams.
00:37:48 - Good night, Cupid.
00:37:49 - 25. Your room number's 25. I'm 23.
00:37:53 Makes us neighbors.
00:37:54 Why did you buy a ticket to Ridgeville if you didn't want to go back home?
00:38:10 - I didn't.
00:38:12 I didn't buy the ticket.
00:38:14 I got it, but I didn't buy it.
00:38:17 - You all right?
00:38:26 - I'm a little cold, maybe.
00:38:29 - Better get out of those wet clothes.
00:38:31 I've started your bath for you.
00:38:38 Hurry up now. I'm next.
00:38:39 - Thanks.
00:38:41 - I'm next. - Thanks.
00:38:43 [music]
00:38:45 [music]
00:39:12 - Okay.
00:39:14 [music]
00:39:19 I'll loan you a book for a couple of cigarettes,
00:39:22 if you don't mind what kind of a book it is.
00:39:24 [music]
00:39:29 That pine soap makes you tingle all over.
00:39:32 - There's something very personal about soap.
00:39:35 It's almost as personal as a toothbrush.
00:39:37 - I won't use your toothbrush.
00:39:39 - Where's your book now?
00:39:40 - You don't care what kind of a book it is?
00:39:42 - The suspense is killing me.
00:39:44 - It isn't my book.
00:39:45 Somebody here before forgotten left it.
00:39:48 I warned you.
00:39:52 [music]
00:39:58 - There's one in every room of the hotel.
00:40:01 One in practically every room of every hotel in the world.
00:40:05 It tells all about it there in the first page or so.
00:40:08 [music]
00:40:18 - Well, what do you know?
00:40:20 - No, no, no, no, don't get up.
00:40:22 I want to look at you a minute.
00:40:27 That's really a picture.
00:40:31 - Throw me a match.
00:40:36 - You're leaving tomorrow?
00:40:38 - Yeah, we're leaving tomorrow.
00:40:40 That is if the car is fixed.
00:40:41 - Sure you won't mind me being a passenger?
00:40:45 - No, no.
00:40:46 That or the company.
00:40:49 - Are you going to stay in the West?
00:40:51 - Maybe, maybe not.
00:40:53 You might get lonesome again.
00:40:56 - I've been lonesome before.
00:40:57 I was so lonesome tonight I liked to have died.
00:40:59 - I know, you mentioned that.
00:41:01 - I tried to tell you why.
00:41:04 - Look.
00:41:06 I'm going to take a shower.
00:41:07 - I just got out of jail.
00:41:09 I just got out tonight.
00:41:13 - Like I said,
00:41:17 we leave tomorrow.
00:41:19 I think you'll like that.
00:41:29 ♪ (romantic music)
00:41:47 (car starts)
00:41:49 ♪ (romantic music)
00:42:00 ♪ (romantic music)
00:42:28 ♪ (romantic music)
00:42:52 ♪ (romantic music)
00:43:19 ♪ (romantic music)
00:43:23 - Open up, sonny.
00:43:25 ♪ (romantic music)
00:43:39 ♪ (romantic music)
00:43:50 - Try that door.
00:43:52 ♪ (romantic music)
00:44:21 - Good morning, Mr. Masterson.
00:44:23 - You don't have to show me who you are.
00:44:27 I can tell by the smell.
00:44:28 - My nose isn't that big.
00:44:30 I want to see...
00:44:32 The chief sent us up here to ask you a couple of questions.
00:44:40 - Sergeant Masterson.
00:44:43 - Suspense is killing me. What do you want to know?
00:44:46 - You've been around.
00:44:48 Look at that.
00:44:50 Africa, Anzio, and Normandy.
00:44:53 - Why don't you wear that button in your coat?
00:44:55 - The same reason you don't wear your badge.
00:44:57 I like it incognito.
00:44:59 Now what else do you want to know?
00:45:00 - What we wanted to know, this layout told us.
00:45:03 There ain't nothing you can add to it.
00:45:06 - She didn't get in an accident, did she?
00:45:15 - She's in the can for a nice long stretch.
00:45:17 - What's the charge?
00:45:18 - Violation of probation.
00:45:19 - Probation for what?
00:45:21 - Theft.
00:45:22 Terms of her probation when she was released yesterday
00:45:24 was that she returned to her home in Ridgeville.
00:45:26 An hour ago, we picked her up at the depot
00:45:28 when she tried to cash the ticket.
00:45:30 - Well, maybe she wanted to go by train.
00:45:32 Maybe she wanted to walk. There's no law that says she...
00:45:34 - That's not the reason she gave, wise guy.
00:45:36 - No? - No.
00:45:38 The reason she gave was that she got a job.
00:45:40 Said you were her employer.
00:45:42 - Well, what's wrong with that?
00:45:45 - Nothing, if you can prove it.
00:45:47 - Well, take a tip from me, bud. Don't try it.
00:45:50 Jake and me don't like to waste our time testifying in court.
00:45:53 But we will.
00:45:55 - So long.
00:45:57 - Exhibit A, bud. In case you get stubborn.
00:46:02 - Hey, now, wait a minute, copper.
00:46:05 - All right, leave her things alone.
00:46:08 You want to come along, soldier?
00:46:10 - I'm not going to.
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00:50:03 - Excuse me.
00:50:05 - Mrs. O'Neil is here to see you.
00:50:11 - Please have her wait.
00:50:13 - She usually drops in on her way downtown.
00:50:16 - Oh, I'd like to see her.
00:50:18 - Have Mrs. O'Neil come in.
00:50:22 - Yes, sir.
00:50:24 - Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know you were busy. I'll wait.
00:50:30 - Oh, hello.
00:50:32 - The name is Masterson. Sam Masterson.
00:50:35 - I'm sorry. I...
00:50:37 - Sammy Masterson.
00:50:45 - Oh! Oh!
00:50:48 - Hello.
00:50:50 - Well, I'll do that again. Hello.
00:50:53 - You should have called me.
00:50:55 - You just came in.
00:50:57 - Well, you've grown to be a big boy, Sam.
00:51:00 - Well, I always was big for my age, you remember?
00:51:03 - Yes, I remember.
00:51:05 - Anything else you remember?
00:51:07 - Oh, well, there are... there are lots of things.
00:51:10 - I never figured that a skinny little mutt would grow up so beautiful.
00:51:15 - I thank you for my wife.
00:51:17 - That sounds funny.
00:51:20 - What does?
00:51:21 - Well, you're saying my wife.
00:51:24 - Does it?
00:51:25 - Oh, now, don't get so, Walter. I mean...
00:51:27 - Well, I've always thought of Martha as...
00:51:29 - Well, you know how it is. You keep something in your mind since the time you were a kid.
00:51:34 - How long are you staying, Sam?
00:51:36 - That all depends on our district attorney.
00:51:38 - Oh?
00:51:39 - Yeah, I may have to pull out in a couple of hours.
00:51:41 - Oh, that's too bad.
00:51:43 - It's the way things are, you know.
00:51:45 - I don't want to be disturbed.
00:51:51 - Well, that's all right, Walter. You're a busy man, so I'll blow.
00:51:54 - And, uh, thanks. Thanks for everything.
00:51:57 - So long, Martha.
00:52:01 - Aren't you glad now you missed that circus train?
00:52:05 - I don't know.
00:52:06 - Where can I reach you, Sam?
00:52:08 - Oh, the, uh, Gable Hotel. And you will do that for me, won't you, Walter?
00:52:12 - I'll try my best.
00:52:14 - You do that. And here's hoping you win that election.
00:52:17 - Thanks. I will.
00:52:20 - What, sure thing?
00:52:22 - Ask Martha.
00:52:23 - Sure. Sure thing.
00:52:25 - What odds you give it?
00:52:27 - A sure thing is never a gamble.
00:52:29 - No. What odds will you give that that's a fact?
00:52:32 - Breezy character, Sam.
00:52:50 - Thank you.
00:52:51 - Very sure of himself.
00:52:53 - He always was.
00:52:54 - This is the first time I've ever seen you off balance.
00:52:58 - I wasn't aware of it.
00:53:01 - I was.
00:53:03 - It came as a shock.
00:53:05 - Yes, it did. To me, too.
00:53:08 - Sam will never tell. I'll never forget you saying that.
00:53:13 - What makes you think he will?
00:53:14 - What makes you think he won't?
00:53:17 - How long has he been here?
00:53:20 - He came in last night.
00:53:22 - Did he tell you much about himself? Where he's been? What he's been doing?
00:53:25 - I thought you'd ask what he wanted.
00:53:28 - What does he want?
00:53:29 - He's playing it smart.
00:53:32 - Sam was always a smart boy.
00:53:35 - All he wanted was for me to get his girl out of jail.
00:53:39 - His girl?
00:53:40 - That's what he said he wanted.
00:53:43 - What do you think he wants?
00:53:45 - What he can get.
00:53:46 - He's a gambler, a sharpshooter, an angle boy.
00:53:49 - They come through my office by the hundreds.
00:53:51 - Couldn't you see blackmail in his eyes?
00:53:55 - I haven't your experience with criminals.
00:53:57 - You will. When Sammy starts to shake you down.
00:54:00 - Release the girl. Maybe he'll just pick her up and leave.
00:54:03 - Leave? Do you think he'll leave a touch worth millions?
00:54:06 - There's only one way you'll find out.
00:54:08 - Release the girl.
00:54:11 - Goodbye, Miss St. John.
00:54:18 - Yes, Mr. O'Neil.
00:54:19 - I want a routine check on a Samuel Masterson,
00:54:21 non-resident, registered Gable Hotel.
00:54:23 - Miss St. John, close the door.
00:54:25 - I want a routine check of all garages.
00:54:27 - One of them has his car. Stay here, please.
00:54:29 - I want a check up on all local banks.
00:54:31 - Get that private detective McCarthy and tell him to come right over.
00:54:36 - I thought I might improve my mind while I waited.
00:54:40 - Pasmo's life of John? Surely you didn't expect to wait that long.
00:54:44 - I was just going to look at the pictures.
00:54:46 - I found your message when I got back to the hotel.
00:54:49 - I asked you to phone.
00:54:51 - I figured you wouldn't mind.
00:54:53 - I'm not a man who's afraid of the dark.
00:54:56 - I'm not a man who's afraid of the dark.
00:54:58 - I'm not a man who's afraid of the dark.
00:55:00 - I'm not a man who's afraid of the dark.
00:55:02 - I'm not a man who's afraid of the dark.
00:55:04 - I figured you wouldn't mind if I came in person.
00:55:07 - I figured you would.
00:55:09 - Why?
00:55:10 - You impressed me this morning as a man who would bet on anything.
00:55:13 - Almost anything, depending on the odds.
00:55:15 - I bet you'd like to hear the story of my life.
00:55:17 - What do you bet?
00:55:18 - My story against yours.
00:55:21 - You got a bet.
00:55:23 - Let's see, you left here September 27th, 1928.
00:55:27 - We'll start from there.
00:55:29 - The exact date? How come that's so clear in your mind?
00:55:32 - Why shouldn't it be?
00:55:36 - You know, I used to think this was the swellest spot in the world.
00:55:39 - But you've really made it just that.
00:55:42 - It used to be so dark and ugly when she...
00:55:45 - I hate it.
00:55:50 - Come on, I'll show you what I've done with the rest of the house.
00:55:53 - Okay, fine. I haven't been on a rubberneck tour in years.
00:55:56 - Soon after my aunt died, the executors of the estate wanted to close the house and send me to school.
00:56:00 - But Mr. O'Neil... - Lester.
00:56:04 - You're kind of formal about your husband, aren't you?
00:56:06 - Oh, no, I was speaking about his father.
00:56:08 - Mr. O'Neil was my tutor. You remember him.
00:56:10 - Oh, yeah.
00:56:11 - After my aunt died, he and Walter lived here.
00:56:14 - That was cozy.
00:56:17 - This is Walter's room.
00:56:20 - Rich.
00:56:22 - Very rich.
00:56:24 - Well, you, uh...
00:56:26 - You lived here all the time then, huh?
00:56:28 - Except for the few years I went to college.
00:56:30 - Mr. O'Neil... Walter's father.
00:56:33 - Walter's father thought it would be good for me to get away for a while.
00:56:36 - Mr. O'Neil, uh... Walter's father. He sort of took care of everything, didn't he?
00:56:41 - Yes. Yes, he took care of everything.
00:56:43 - You didn't like that?
00:56:45 - Let's talk about something else.
00:56:46 - What do you want to talk about?
00:56:47 - Pick a subject.
00:56:49 - This is the dining room.
00:56:52 - Isn't it kind of crowded?
00:56:55 - All right.
00:56:56 - I pick Walter as my subject.
00:56:58 - When did you marry him?
00:56:59 - When or why?
00:57:00 - I ask when.
00:57:01 - When I finished school.
00:57:03 - All right. Now, why did you marry him?
00:57:06 - Pick another subject.
00:57:07 - It's your turn.
00:57:09 - You.
00:57:11 - An open book.
00:57:13 - I went out of this town with the circus, the one you were supposed to go with.
00:57:17 - Made friends with the animals and lived happily ever after.
00:57:20 - Almost.
00:57:21 - Almost?
00:57:23 - I got ambitious and that tore it, but good.
00:57:27 - I got so I wasn't satisfied just being friendly with the animals, I got so I wanted to own the animals.
00:57:31 - So I bought some animals.
00:57:33 - Well, my lion got the mange and gave it to the monkeys.
00:57:36 - The animals became a responsibility and a liability.
00:57:39 - I lost all my hard-earned cash and ran like a thief out of there with a great yin to become friendly with people.
00:57:45 - On that, I had some success.
00:57:47 - Me being a gambler and people being what they are.
00:57:50 - Well, that brings us up to my 21st year when I became a man, officially.
00:57:56 - How did it feel to become a man officially?
00:57:59 - I felt I'd been there before.
00:58:01 - How did you feel about becoming a woman officially?
00:58:05 - I felt I'd been there too.
00:58:08 - Now, this is the room that you...
00:58:17 - Do you remember, Sam?
00:58:20 - Do I?
00:58:21 - It's the only room I didn't change.
00:58:24 - Seems that only yesterday I came through that window.
00:58:28 - We were gonna run away together that night.
00:58:31 - You do remember.
00:58:33 - Yeah.
00:58:37 - And it was Walter who let me in.
00:58:41 - I come here often, Sam.
00:58:46 - Little girls grow up.
00:58:48 - They never get through playing with dolls.
00:58:51 - There was a storm that night, thunder and lightning.
00:58:54 - I was afraid of the thunder.
00:58:56 - Why, in the freight car that night, you told me you weren't.
00:58:59 - I didn't want you to know.
00:59:01 - I wanted to be like you, never afraid of anything.
00:59:05 - You remember that too, don't you, Sam?
00:59:08 - Well, things come back to you.
00:59:10 - Don't say it like that, Sam. Not to make me feel good, but because it's true.
00:59:14 - All right, it's true. We were just a couple of kids.
00:59:18 - We're not kids now.
00:59:20 - No, Martha, we're not kids.
00:59:23 - No time for dreams.
00:59:25 - Only one dream, Sam, and it came true. You're here.
00:59:29 - So is Walter.
00:59:30 - About Walter and myself... - Don't tell me.
00:59:32 - I want you to understand... - I understand, Martha.
00:59:35 - I understood when I saw both of you together in the office.
00:59:38 - I watched the way he looked at you. I never saw a guy so nuts about anybody in my life.
00:59:43 - Sam, if you stay in Iverstown... - Well, I'm not staying in Iverstown.
00:59:48 - All right, Sam, what do you want?
00:59:52 - What do I want?
00:59:55 - Yes, why did you come back here?
00:59:57 - Well, the road curved, but I didn't. - Answer me!
01:00:01 - Hey, now, wait a minute.
01:00:03 - You sound like I have to.
01:00:05 - As a matter of fact, you sounded just like your aunt used to.
01:00:09 - Don't say that to me. Don't ever...
01:00:12 - Look, baby, I won't be around long enough to repeat it.
01:00:15 - As soon as a certain young lady is out of your husband's clink and my car is out of Dempsey's alleged garage, I'm headed west.
01:00:24 - I think you really mean that. - Any objections?
01:00:27 - No. No objections.
01:00:31 - I should have known if I remembered. - You should have known what?
01:00:36 - You. That you'd be like this.
01:00:41 - I'm sorry.
01:00:43 - Sorry that you ever left here.
01:00:47 - Sam, for old times' sake.
01:00:55 - Yeah. Sure, for old times' sake.
01:01:01 [Music]
01:01:11 - Bye, Martha.
01:01:13 [Doorbell rings]
01:01:20 - Dempsey's garage.
01:01:22 - Oh, yes, Mrs. O'Neil. - Mrs. Walter O'Neil?
01:01:26 - Yes, ma'am.
01:01:29 - Well, it was a rush job anyway, and I'm rushed enough as it is.
01:01:33 - Don't mention it. Glad to be of service, Mrs. O'Neil.
01:01:37 - You can add this to your report.
01:01:41 - Mrs. O'Neil don't like this guy to go.
01:01:45 - Not yet.
01:01:47 - All right, Dempsey. Thanks.
01:01:55 - Drink? - Thanks.
01:01:58 - There's not much to report on him locally.
01:02:00 - The out-of-town reports are still coming in.
01:02:02 - He'll have a complete file on him in a couple of hours.
01:02:04 - What's he look like so far? - He's a big-shot gambler.
01:02:07 - Broke many times, but always turns up with a new bankroll.
01:02:10 - The police in every state have tried to find the source of his money, but no dice.
01:02:14 - Many arrests, no convictions.
01:02:16 - Beat a murder rap in Frisco. Self-defense.
01:02:19 - Has a war record few can equal.
01:02:21 - The current Dempsey's garage... - The ownership of the garage.
01:02:24 - The ownership certificate says he owns it.
01:02:26 - What's wrong with it? - Smashed radiator.
01:02:28 - How long will it take to fix it?
01:02:30 - Well...
01:02:32 - Who did Dempsey get this call from?
01:02:42 - Didn't you check that?
01:02:44 - Yes, I checked it. - And who was it?
01:02:46 - Mrs. O'Neil.
01:02:49 - That's all.
01:02:53 - Yes, Mr. O'Neil?
01:02:55 - Get me the county jail. I want the superintendent of the women's division.
01:02:58 - Yes? - I have the county jail for you, Mr. O'Neil.
01:03:05 - Deputy Elizabeth Baker is on.
01:03:07 - Hello. That girl, the one I called you about before.
01:03:11 - Yes.
01:03:13 - Bring her out here at 8. I want to talk to her.
01:03:17 - Hey, you got the time, bud?
01:03:19 - Yeah, it's 5 after 8. - Thanks.
01:03:21 - I'm expecting my friend out in a few minutes.
01:03:24 - Say, I ain't seen your face around here before.
01:03:28 - No, I'm a stranger here.
01:03:30 - Then you ain't waiting for anybody, huh?
01:03:32 - No.
01:03:34 - She's a stranger too. - Oh.
01:03:36 - No, she's not.
01:03:38 - She's a stranger.
01:03:40 - She's a stranger.
01:03:42 - She's a stranger.
01:03:44 - She's a stranger too. - Oh.
01:03:46 - She was due out a couple of hours ago.
01:03:48 - You're in a lot of trouble, Miss Marchek.
01:03:57 - The law is very specific on violation of probation.
01:04:00 - It's specific about everything.
01:04:02 - You're serving a five-year sentence.
01:04:05 - So I was told once before.
01:04:07 - You lied when you were picked up. You told the police you were employed by Sam Masterson.
01:04:10 - You think they would have believed me if I had told the truth?
01:04:12 - You think they would have believed me if I had told the truth? - He had nothing to do with it.
01:04:14 - You're very fond of him, aren't you?
01:04:17 - You wouldn't want anything to happen to him.
01:04:20 - Does he feel the same about you?
01:04:23 - You wouldn't want to serve out that five-year sentence, would you?
01:04:28 - What are you getting at? - Remember, five years.
01:04:32 - And this time you'll have to serve every day of it.
01:04:35 - You don't have to.
01:04:41 - All right, get down to it.
01:04:43 - What do I have to do?
01:04:45 - Tony!
01:05:05 - Tony!
01:05:10 - Tony!
01:05:11 - Hello, Sam.
01:05:12 - O'Neal phoned me, told me you'd be out at six.
01:05:15 - O'Neal? - Yeah, sure, the district attorney. He's an old friend of mine.
01:05:18 - I asked him to do me a favor, and here you are. You're late, but free.
01:05:22 - There was a mix-up. They lost some papers.
01:05:24 - Oh, I got worried about you.
01:05:26 - What's the matter, kid?
01:05:28 - Tony!
01:05:30 - Look at me.
01:05:32 - I'd like a drink.
01:05:35 - Oh, you're a cincher by a dozen.
01:05:38 - Hey, taxi! I'm gonna toss you a real coming-out party. Hey, taxi!
01:05:42 - Thanks.
01:05:54 - Spaghetti.
01:05:59 - Mmm, that looks wonderful. - I think you'll like it.
01:06:07 - Go ahead, eat.
01:06:08 - I guess I'm not hungry. My stomach's in a knot.
01:06:12 - You know, this ought to help.
01:06:14 - I'd have died if I had to stay on in jail.
01:06:17 - Forget it now. You're out.
01:06:19 - If you'd ever been in, you'd know what I mean.
01:06:21 - I know what you mean.
01:06:22 - A couple of times last night I tried to tell you. Why did time? You wouldn't listen.
01:06:29 - I don't want to now. - Oh, now you've got to. Please.
01:06:32 - I'm sorry.
01:06:35 - Please.
01:06:36 - All right. If it'll make you feel any better.
01:06:38 - I want to be sure you understand.
01:06:40 - One to five they gave me. One to five years, that is.
01:06:45 - That's a long joke.
01:06:46 - It's forever. I did three months before I came to trial.
01:06:50 - It can happen to the best of people.
01:06:53 - I'm not the best of people. I'm just Tony Marachek.
01:06:58 - Where'd you get the fur coat, Tony, the judge asked me?
01:07:03 - I met a guy, I told him. He said he was in love with me. He gave me the coat.
01:07:07 - A likely story, he said.
01:07:09 - I said, but it's true. Every word of it. I tried to pawn it because I needed the money.
01:07:14 - Where's the man he has?
01:07:17 - I don't know. I said he took a powdery. He blew. He flew to the moon.
01:07:21 - You don't fly, Tony, the judge says.
01:07:25 - The charge is theft. You do one to five.
01:07:29 - Well, how come they gave you probation?
01:07:32 - First offense. You know what probation is.
01:07:36 - I'm sure. A knife sticking in your back.
01:07:40 - Still looking out for the cops? Relax, now you're free.
01:07:49 - I don't feel so good.
01:07:51 - You want me to take you back to the hotel?
01:07:53 - Oh, no, no. Please. Let me sit here a while.
01:07:57 - Let me sit here a while.
01:07:58 - Now?
01:08:07 - Get your coat on. It's a gag. Get your coat.
01:08:13 - All right, Joe.
01:08:14 - What's the gag?
01:08:15 - I was up to your hotel. Nice layout you got there.
01:08:19 - Double rooms, connecting doors and tall glasses.
01:08:22 - What did this guy tell you he'd give you when he picked you up?
01:08:24 - All right, Joe. There don't have to be any trouble for getting...
01:08:26 - She's my wife.
01:08:27 - Brother, you can have her. In spades.
01:08:36 - Now beat it. You too. I just want to make sure...
01:08:44 - Joe, there don't have to be no trouble.
01:08:45 - No, there don't have to be no trouble. There's got to be.
01:08:48 - Certain wise guys have to be taught a lesson. Certain wise guys have to be...
01:08:53 - Where do you want it? Here or outside?
01:08:55 - Outside will do me fine. There's an alley through the kitchen door.
01:09:00 - Sam!
01:09:02 - Shut up.
01:09:03 - Stay here.
01:09:10 (Music)
01:09:34 - Okay, sister. You did a swell job.
01:09:39 - Now blow.
01:09:40 - Yes, sir.
01:09:43 (Music)
01:10:12 (Music)
01:10:18 (Music)
01:10:36 (Music)
01:11:05 (Music)
01:11:34 - What happened to you?
01:11:35 - Not a thing. Just made up for Halloween.
01:11:39 (Music)
01:12:07 (Music)
01:12:18 - Go ahead, bud. You'll catch the next one.
01:12:20 (Car engine)
01:12:31 - Cut that. Crime's not going to get you anywhere.
01:12:34 - I'll stop.
01:12:36 - I ought to beat it out of you.
01:12:38 - I think maybe I got it coming.
01:12:39 - Why? Why? Why?
01:12:41 - Last night in that restaurant I kept trying to tell you...
01:12:43 - Come on. Get down to it.
01:12:44 - Before they let me out, they took me to the DA's office.
01:12:47 - O'Neil? His name's Walter O'Neil?
01:12:48 - Yeah, that's right. That's his name.
01:12:49 - All right. They took you to his office.
01:12:51 - He asked me a lot of questions. Mostly about you.
01:12:53 - Not me.
01:12:54 - About you and me.
01:12:55 - Yeah?
01:12:56 - He kept asking me if I knew why you came here.
01:12:58 - What?
01:12:59 - He asked me that a couple of times.
01:13:00 - What else?
01:13:01 - Oh, a lot of questions. I forget.
01:13:02 - Remember.
01:13:03 - My head's mixed up.
01:13:04 - Well, the goons. The ones who worked me over.
01:13:06 - They just wanted to scare you. O'Neil doesn't want you in town.
01:13:09 - They said if I didn't play with them, I'd go back to jail.
01:13:12 - Incidentally.
01:13:13 - No, no. The other man, Mr. O'Neil, wasn't there by then.
01:13:16 - You care.
01:13:17 - They said they wouldn't hurt you.
01:13:19 - Much.
01:13:20 - No more parole, they said, if I went for it.
01:13:22 - I'd do the whole five, they said, if I didn't.
01:13:25 - I went for it.
01:13:27 - Go ahead and hit me, Sam. I've got it coming.
01:13:31 - I've got it coming.
01:13:32 - The only thing you've got coming, kid, is a break.
01:13:41 - I'm going back to town.
01:13:44 - They don't want you here, Sam. I don't know what it is, but they don't want you here.
01:13:46 - They've got me. Whether they like it or not, they've got me.
01:13:48 - Next time it'll be worse.
01:13:49 - Look. I don't like to get pushed around. I don't like people I like to be pushed around.
01:13:53 - I don't like anybody to get pushed around.
01:13:56 - Kidding.
01:14:01 - I'll tell you what you do.
01:14:03 - You grab the next bus out and I'll meet you wherever you say.
01:14:10 - I'll go back with you.
01:14:12 - Good.
01:14:15 - I wanted you to say that.
01:14:28 - Just a moment, sir.
01:14:30 - Take me to Mr. O'Neil and you won't get hurt.
01:14:32 - Yes, Mr. Masterson. I hardly recognize you, sir.
01:14:35 - Tell your man to ask Martha to come down here.
01:14:42 - Tell Mrs. O'Neil that, John.
01:14:45 - I thought we ought to have a little talk.
01:14:55 - We'll kick off first. Your team or mine.
01:14:57 - You look terrible, Sam.
01:14:59 - Have a drink.
01:15:01 - Thanks.
01:15:03 - Thanks.
01:15:04 (dramatic music)
01:15:08 (dramatic music)
01:15:11 (gunshot)
01:15:20 (dramatic music)
01:15:23 (dramatic music)
01:15:26 - A report on Sam Masterson.
01:15:42 (dramatic music)
01:15:51 (dramatic music)
01:15:54 - Here, take this. I'm two up on you.
01:16:00 - Thanks.
01:16:02 - You're out of shape, Walter. For a minute there I thought you were dead.
01:16:05 - I was.
01:16:07 - I wasn't going to shoot.
01:16:10 - I wasn't gonna wait and see. Come on.
01:16:13 - I took a gander at this while you were out.
01:16:21 - I could have given you a much more detailed picture on Sam Masterson.
01:16:24 - I didn't know you cared.
01:16:26 - You know it now.
01:16:29 - Now I'll let Martha give it to you.
01:16:33 - Give him what, Sam?
01:16:35 - The facts concerning a guy called Sam Masterson and his attitudes towards life and love.
01:16:40 - Walter's got their own ideas.
01:16:42 - Sam, you're hurt.
01:16:43 - You ought to see the other guy.
01:16:44 - What happened?
01:16:46 - This. It fell out of a guy's pocket and hit me in the face.
01:16:50 - Private dicks.
01:16:52 - What's the trouble, Walter? Don't you trust your own cops?
01:16:55 - You're right, Sam. I hired the men who worked you over.
01:16:59 - The idea was mine.
01:17:00 - I thought it might scare you into not coming back.
01:17:03 - It hasn't.
01:17:05 - We're ready to listen to the current quotation on blackmail.
01:17:08 - Walter!
01:17:10 - Blackmail.
01:17:11 - I said blackmail.
01:17:12 - Now what is the price?
01:17:14 - Remember, you're dealing with two old friends.
01:17:16 - Well, uh, which one of you do I deal with?
01:17:21 - With me. Be at my office at the plant at three.
01:17:23 - Okay.
01:17:25 - May the deal be profitable to all of us.
01:17:30 - Whatever the price is, that's it, Sam.
01:17:32 - Don't try this again.
01:17:34 - What happened last night can happen again.
01:17:37 - And worse.
01:17:39 - Don't try it, sweetheart.
01:17:43 - I'll make this a flat statement.
01:17:45 - I'll kill you.
01:17:48 - Hold your hand under the water.
01:18:00 - Now dry your hand.
01:18:07 - Dry your hand.
01:18:08 - This will hurt.
01:18:15 - Even pain at your hands.
01:18:19 - You were lucky.
01:18:21 - Yes, I'm a very lucky man.
01:18:23 - And a stupid one.
01:18:25 - Yesterday afternoon he told me he didn't want anything, that he was going away.
01:18:28 - He'd let me handle...
01:18:30 - I didn't like what you had in mind.
01:18:34 - It's quite a thing in a small city like this to be a district attorney.
01:18:37 - You get to feel like God.
01:18:40 - You know everything.
01:18:42 - Down to the smallest detail.
01:18:44 - Even a call to Dempsey's garage.
01:18:47 - Sam's leaving Iverston today.
01:18:51 - That's what he said.
01:18:54 - I want to hear you say it.
01:18:55 - It's up to him.
01:18:56 - No, it's up to you.
01:18:57 - I know you, Martha.
01:18:58 - You are my life's work.
01:19:00 - I've studied you all these years.
01:19:03 - A little girl in a cage waiting for someone to let her out.
01:19:05 - And along comes Sam.
01:19:08 - You know what's on my mind, Martha?
01:19:11 - About Sam, I mean.
01:19:12 - I think I do.
01:19:15 - And that's where it will stay on your mind.
01:19:17 - Unless, of course, I tell you differently.
01:19:20 - What did O'Neil say?
01:19:25 - Did you think he'd make trouble?
01:19:27 - No, no, I had him figured out, right?
01:19:28 - He's still just a scared little kid.
01:19:30 - Coffee, please, black.
01:19:33 - Now, Martha's the one I can't dope out.
01:19:34 - Martha?
01:19:37 - Mrs. O'Neil.
01:19:38 - The three of us grew up together.
01:19:39 - I told you about her, remember?
01:19:40 - Thanks.
01:19:44 - What's she like now?
01:19:47 - What do you mean?
01:19:49 - Is she pretty?
01:19:51 - She's beautiful.
01:19:53 - That's why I can't figure out why should a beautiful rich girl
01:19:56 - stay married to a guy she's not in love with.
01:19:58 - How do you know that?
01:20:00 - I know.
01:20:02 - You sound like you're in love with her.
01:20:04 - You sound like you're jealous.
01:20:06 - Could be.
01:20:11 - When are we leaving?
01:20:14 - This evening at the car trade.
01:20:15 - What are we doing till then?
01:20:18 - I know, why don't we find out what happened to your people?
01:20:21 - Yeah.
01:20:24 - Well, it'll be simple.
01:20:26 - Now I know I left town September 27th, 1928.
01:20:30 - The exact date, how come you remember it?
01:20:31 - Wouldn't you remember a date, the exact date about something that happened that long ago?
01:20:35 - No, not unless something terrific happened that day.
01:20:37 - Yeah.
01:20:39 - Come on, let's finish your coffee. We'll go down to the newspaper morgue.
01:20:42 - The morgue?
01:20:44 - Yeah, I think I can find out about my people down there.
01:20:47 - Afterwards, take you shopping.
01:20:50 - That was a strange case.
01:20:57 - Went unsolved for years.
01:21:00 - Then one day they picked up a guy who stuck up a garage or something.
01:21:03 - Someone who used to work at old lady Ivor's house.
01:21:06 - Came out at the trial, he was the one that knocked the old lady off.
01:21:11 - It's my favorite case.
01:21:13 - Here's a picture of the guy.
01:21:15 - Doesn't look like her, I must say.
01:21:17 - Yeah, kind of a scared little rabbit.
01:21:19 - I watched him all through the trial.
01:21:21 - Never had a chance.
01:21:23 - O'Neil really did a job on him.
01:21:25 - Is that Walter O'Neil?
01:21:27 - Yep, same guy.
01:21:28 - It was kind of dramatic though.
01:21:29 - Him being engaged to the niece of the murdered woman.
01:21:32 - He sure did a job.
01:21:35 - Jury was anonymous.
01:21:38 - What happened to him?
01:21:40 - Oh, they hung him. Interesting, eh?
01:21:42 - Solving a murder after all those years.
01:21:45 - It's all in the files there, go ahead and read it.
01:21:47 - Oh, thanks, I will.
01:21:57 - Yes?
01:21:58 - Mr. Masterson, by appointment.
01:22:00 - Send him in, please.
01:22:02 - Three o'clock, on the nose.
01:22:07 - On the nose, come in, Sam.
01:22:09 - You should have kept me waiting.
01:22:11 - Big executives always keep people waiting, didn't you know that?
01:22:13 - Good executives don't.
01:22:15 - I bet you're good.
01:22:17 - I am.
01:22:18 - It catches it, doesn't it?
01:22:26 - The feeling of a factory.
01:22:27 - When you're out on this place, I couldn't get past the gate.
01:22:30 - Now I'm a guest.
01:22:32 - Or am I?
01:22:34 - I invited you here.
01:22:36 - Martha, did your aunt leave you everything?
01:22:38 - I was her only heir.
01:22:40 - I'll never forget the way she looked that night, standing in the doorway, leaning on her cane.
01:22:46 - I don't want to talk about her.
01:22:48 - Okay, okay.
01:22:50 - You look different than you did this morning.
01:22:52 - Clean and fresh.
01:22:55 - Yeah, well, it's the perfume I use that makes me smell so nice.
01:22:59 - I bet I smell as nice as you and Walter put together.
01:23:03 - What do you want?
01:23:05 - I think I've got what I want.
01:23:07 - I think I've got a gimmick.
01:23:09 - A gimmick is an angle that works for you, to keep you from working too hard for yourself.
01:23:15 - Simple.
01:23:17 - Specifically, what is your angle?
01:23:19 - Specifically?
01:23:21 - Half.
01:23:23 - Half of what?
01:23:24 - You tell me.
01:23:25 - All right, Sam.
01:23:29 - Come here.
01:23:34 - My father used to work here as a middle hand.
01:23:39 - So did my father, when he was sober.
01:23:42 - Now I own it.
01:23:44 - Now you're even.
01:23:46 - Now I'm even.
01:23:48 - I was 21 when I took it over. It had 3,000 workers then.
01:23:51 - It's got 30,000 now.
01:23:53 - Ran as far as that gate, now it goes down to the edge of the river.
01:23:56 - And I did it all by myself.
01:23:59 - Without Walter, without his father.
01:24:02 - All by myself.
01:24:05 - Half of this should make quite a score.
01:24:08 - Half would make you my partner.
01:24:13 - That's what I had in mind.
01:24:16 - You went out of here a dirty little kid once before, that can happen again.
01:24:21 - I don't have to give you anything if I don't want to.
01:24:23 - But you do want to.
01:24:25 - Hey, Tony!
01:24:37 - Come out here, quick!
01:24:39 - Yes, Sam?
01:24:45 - Make a wish.
01:24:48 - I wouldn't shop in here.
01:24:49 - Any wish, you make it, you got it.
01:24:50 - You feel good.
01:24:51 - Yeah, I'm high, I had a drink.
01:24:53 - What was in it?
01:24:54 - A bucket of gold.
01:24:55 - The dice came up seven.
01:24:57 - Tony, you bring me luck, I'm gonna wear you like a charm.
01:25:00 - You really think so, Sam? You really think I bring you luck?
01:25:04 - I know so. And that's an asset for a guy in my business.
01:25:07 - Tony Marachek asset.
01:25:09 - Tony Marachek, good kid. You stick around, Tony Marachek.
01:25:13 - Now I've got all the luck.
01:25:15 - Funny that way, I say what's on my mind.
01:25:19 - You walk down the street and a girl asks you for a cigarette.
01:25:21 - And imagine the time.
01:25:23 - Life is funny.
01:25:26 - That's philosophy.
01:25:27 - It's good too.
01:25:28 - You want to know how it is with me, Sam?
01:25:31 - No, tell me.
01:25:32 - I've told you.
01:25:34 - And even if it's over, quick.
01:25:37 - Look, what you don't know, don't talk about.
01:25:39 - I bought a new outfit, I want to show you.
01:25:46 - Well, let's take a look at it.
01:25:49 - 8.95.
01:25:50 - How do you like it?
01:25:52 - With you in it, it's...
01:25:54 - Hello, Sam.
01:25:58 - Tony.
01:26:00 - Yes, Sam?
01:26:01 - I heard you talking.
01:26:03 - Even a crummy hotel like this has a switchboard.
01:26:06 - I have special privileges in this hotel, Sam.
01:26:09 - I own it.
01:26:12 - It's Ms. O'Neil, Tony.
01:26:17 - Hello.
01:26:18 - So this is the girl.
01:26:19 - Tony is my name.
01:26:21 - Antonia Marachek.
01:26:23 - The sunsuit looks very well on her, Sam.
01:26:26 - She's got just the figure for it.
01:26:27 - She's a very pretty girl.
01:26:29 - I give another show at 8 o'clock.
01:26:31 - In your room or here?
01:26:33 - Tony.
01:26:37 - Yes, Sam?
01:26:39 - Ms. O'Neil is sorry she said that.
01:26:41 - I'm sorry I said that.
01:26:42 - Okay, forget it.
01:26:44 - Tony.
01:26:46 - Yes, Sam?
01:26:47 - I'm going out with Ms. O'Neil on business.
01:26:50 - That's why you came here, isn't it?
01:26:52 - Yes.
01:26:53 - I'll be back after a little while.
01:26:55 - I've got no place to go.
01:26:57 - I'll be here.
01:26:59 - I didn't like that.
01:27:05 - I apologize.
01:27:07 - There was ice on your tongue.
01:27:09 - If you want me to say anything else to her...
01:27:11 - You spoke your piece.
01:27:13 - Let's get out of here.
01:27:15 - I've never been in a hotel room like this before.
01:27:17 - I've been in too many.
01:27:19 - Just the way you read about it in books.
01:27:21 - Window shade, scotch on the dresser.
01:27:24 - Let's stay here, Sam.
01:27:28 - No.
01:27:29 - Why not? We can order our dinner here.
01:27:30 - I don't like room service.
01:27:32 - All right, Sam.
01:27:36 - Come on, let's go.
01:27:39 - What's your Tony Marachek really like?
01:27:41 - That's what she asked me about you.
01:27:44 - What are your plans for her?
01:27:47 - Oh, she's very independent.
01:27:49 - Hardly.
01:27:51 - How did you meet her?
01:27:53 - We lived in the same house.
01:27:55 - In Iverstown?
01:27:57 - Yeah.
01:27:58 - When?
01:27:59 - Now.
01:28:00 - When did you meet her?
01:28:02 - I met her in the morning.
01:28:04 - I see.
01:28:07 - Well, now and then.
01:28:08 - Well, let's go back to our drinks, huh?
01:28:18 - To continue with your Antonio Marachek,
01:28:25 have you other things in common?
01:28:27 - Taxicabs, hotels, and Bibles.
01:28:30 - And we don't like some of the same people and places.
01:28:35 - All sounds like a very substantial beginning.
01:28:37 - How long have you known her, really?
01:28:41 - Since day before yesterday.
01:28:43 - How long have you known me?
01:28:46 - Martha, I'm not sure that I've ever known you.
01:28:49 - What do you say?
01:28:52 - Let's get down to business.
01:28:54 - Let's get out of here.
01:28:57 - Waiter!
01:28:59 - Yes, sir.
01:29:02 - Check, please.
01:29:03 - Yes, sir.
01:29:05 - Whiskey and soda.
01:29:06 - Thank you, sir.
01:29:12 - Wait outside.
01:29:15 - Sam, what is it?
01:29:16 - Wait outside.
01:29:32 - Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.
01:29:34 - Look back to him when he's sober.
01:29:37 - Tell him I run an honest book. I always pay off.
01:29:40 - I thought I told you to wait outside.
01:29:50 - I wanted to see.
01:29:52 - You saw.
01:29:53 - You wanted to kill him, didn't you?
01:29:54 - Yes, I did.
01:29:56 - I did.
01:29:57 - Is this the place?
01:30:04 - Yes.
01:30:05 - I like your car.
01:30:07 - You know what happened to Lott's wife when she looked back, don't you?
01:30:12 - What?
01:30:13 - She was turned into a pillar of salt.
01:30:15 - What happened to Lott?
01:30:16 - He got away. He didn't look back.
01:30:18 - You know your Bible.
01:30:20 - You would too if you spent as much time as I did in hotel rooms.
01:30:23 - I'll take it up.
01:30:26 - Come on, let's get out of here.
01:30:27 - I love to watch the city from this spot.
01:30:29 - Up here doesn't even look real, does it?
01:30:36 - It's real. Very real.
01:30:37 - Owning it gives you a sense of power.
01:30:40 - You'd know what I meant if you had it.
01:30:42 - Ivers, Ivers, Ivers.
01:30:45 - Ivers.
01:30:47 - If anyone asked me my name now, I'd say it was Martha Smith.
01:30:50 - I smell smoke.
01:30:52 - I smell smoke.
01:30:53 - Better take a look.
01:30:56 - Must have been some kids up here.
01:31:04 - Sam, don't. Let it burn.
01:31:06 - We used to come up here when we were kids and build a fire.
01:31:09 - Ah.
01:31:13 - Let it burn, Sam.
01:31:15 - Okay.
01:31:18 - Okay.
01:31:19 - In those days we used to think that this was real.
01:31:28 - And that...
01:31:30 - That didn't even exist.
01:31:33 - Just now you looked like Martha Smith.
01:31:37 - If only you hadn't run away.
01:31:39 - Well, I waited for you.
01:31:41 - I remember I waited a long time in the rain, but you didn't show.
01:31:44 - Give me a cigarette, Sam.
01:31:46 - Give me a cigarette, Sam.
01:31:47 - If only you hadn't left town.
01:31:49 - I had no one to turn to.
01:31:52 - What did you say, Sam?
01:31:56 - Nothing, I didn't say anything.
01:31:58 - When I found out, it was too late.
01:32:00 - Much too late.
01:32:02 - One thing led to another and...
01:32:05 - Another what?
01:32:08 - I don't want to talk about it anymore.
01:32:11 - Oh, go ahead, Martha.
01:32:13 - And do your good.
01:32:15 - Another what?
01:32:16 - Where was I?
01:32:18 - One thing led to another.
01:32:20 - It would have been so different if you hadn't run away.
01:32:22 - It would have been you instead of Walter.
01:32:26 - Or if you had stopped me.
01:32:30 - When I left at the cane, why didn't you stop me?
01:32:33 - You knew how much I hated her, why didn't you stop me?
01:32:36 - I wasn't there, Martha.
01:32:38 - And then I stood there afterwards.
01:32:40 - And I stood there.
01:32:41 - You...
01:32:47 - You weren't there?
01:32:50 - No, Martha.
01:32:52 - I wasn't there. I left when your aunt came into the hallway.
01:32:55 - I didn't want to stick around. I was in enough trouble as it was.
01:32:58 - I never saw what happened.
01:33:00 - I never knew until tonight about your aunt or that man.
01:33:04 - The one they hung.
01:33:06 - The man that you and Walter killed.
01:33:10 - Oh, God.
01:33:11 - Oh, God.
01:33:12 [Music]
01:33:28 [Martha crying]
01:33:39 [Music]
01:33:56 - Sam, help me.
01:33:58 - Help me.
01:34:00 - All right, Martha.
01:34:02 - Tell me. Talk.
01:34:04 - All right, Sam.
01:34:07 [Music]
01:34:10 - I never imagined anyone could die so quickly.
01:34:13 - I'd always supposed that wherever I went, she would be with me, that she would never die.
01:34:18 - But it wasn't like that.
01:34:21 - I expected to find her when I went back to my room.
01:34:25 - Later I became frightened.
01:34:28 - The coroner and the police were sympathetic. They talked very attentive.
01:34:35 - They believed my story, the one I told Walter's father.
01:34:38 - That night I slept heavily.
01:34:42 - Peacefully.
01:34:44 - How did you sleep the night after they hung that man?
01:34:47 - Wasn't long when I found out why Walter's father believed my story.
01:34:51 - It was as if my aunt had never died. He took her place.
01:34:55 - He wanted to make something of his son and I was tied to them both from that time on.
01:35:02 - It became so unbearable that I wanted to tell the truth.
01:35:05 - But he had deliberately given me such a sense of guilt and had painted such a picture of what would happen to me that I was crazy with fear.
01:35:12 - He used that fear well.
01:35:16 - To increase it, he made me part of another crime.
01:35:19 - My testimony sent an innocent man to the gallows.
01:35:24 - And he used that to make me marry Walter.
01:35:31 - Sam, you're not going to go away again.
01:35:33 - I want you here, Sam.
01:35:35 - I've lived so much inside of myself, so choked with wanting something else that lives and breathes.
01:35:40 - So desperate for air and room to breathe in it.
01:35:43 - Oh, Sam, please.
01:35:45 - Please stay here, Sam.
01:35:47 - Please, Sam.
01:35:48 - Hi, Mother.
01:36:06 - Hi, Mother.
01:36:07 [Music]
01:36:29 [Music]
01:36:35 - Toni? Are you still up?
01:36:38 [Knocking]
01:36:40 - Toni?
01:36:42 - Yes?
01:36:44 - It's me, it's Sam. Can I come in?
01:36:46 - Yes, Sam.
01:36:48 - Mind if I put your light on?
01:36:57 - It's been a little while. I was sound asleep. I've got a headache.
01:37:00 - Okay.
01:37:02 - I've got something to tell you, Toni.
01:37:07 - Yes, Sam.
01:37:10 [Music]
01:37:28 - Toni.
01:37:30 - You're crying.
01:37:39 - You're crying because you saw...
01:37:41 - You were at the window there when we drove up.
01:37:45 - Well, that's what I came in to tell you about, Toni. The moth and me.
01:37:53 - You didn't have to, Sam. There are no strings on this deal.
01:37:58 - Well, that's why I wanted to.
01:38:00 - You see, it...
01:38:02 - It started a long way back. I...
01:38:06 - I don't know yet how it's gonna finish.
01:38:08 - What do you want me to say?
01:38:10 - I don't know.
01:38:12 - What do you want me to do?
01:38:14 - I don't know.
01:38:15 - All you have to do is tell me the truth.
01:38:17 - Like you did when those goons worked me over.
01:38:20 - Now we're even.
01:38:25 - Now I'm beat up.
01:38:29 - I'm sorry I said that, Toni.
01:38:33 [Sounds of a car driving by]
01:38:35 - Look, kid.
01:38:37 - I'm sore at myself, not at you.
01:38:41 - Do you want me to leave?
01:38:43 - Do you want to leave?
01:38:47 - That's up to you, Sam.
01:38:50 - I'm here on a ring check.
01:38:53 - Well, now, don't put it that way. You're here because...
01:38:56 - That's the way we wanted it.
01:38:59 - And now...
01:39:02 - I'm not sure.
01:39:04 - I'm just not sure.
01:39:08 - Hello, Gable Hotel.
01:39:29 - I want to speak to Sam Masterson.
01:39:31 - Put that phone down.
01:39:32 - Hello, Sam. This is Walter.
01:39:34 - I know I'm not disturbing you.
01:39:36 - Martha just came in.
01:39:39 - Well, what do you want?
01:39:41 - I want you to come up here.
01:39:43 - Now. Right now.
01:39:45 - Are you crazy? The service...
01:39:47 - I gave them the night off.
01:39:48 - You're drunk.
01:39:50 - I've had a lot to drink, but I'm not drunk.
01:39:54 - I suppose it'd be stupid to ask where you were.
01:39:58 - Yes, it would.
01:39:59 - Sam's not leaving, is he?
01:40:01 - Ask him when he gets here.
01:40:03 - I just got my answer.
01:40:04 - Then there are no more questions.
01:40:06 - No. I know what I need to know.
01:40:09 - Sam the Superman.
01:40:12 - Sam the dirty little boy from the other side of the tracks.
01:40:15 - I'll go and change.
01:40:17 - I wouldn't want him to see me in the same dress twice.
01:40:20 - Twice.
01:40:21 - Come in.
01:40:30 - Toni.
01:40:37 - You're leaving, huh?
01:40:40 - There's a bus out in about an hour.
01:40:41 - Toni.
01:40:43 - Sam, it's... it's better this way.
01:40:49 - Look...
01:40:50 - Sam, I came back here with you because...
01:40:53 - You said you didn't like to be pushed around.
01:40:56 - I liked you when you said that.
01:40:59 - You were looking for trouble.
01:41:01 - But it was a good kind of trouble.
01:41:03 - And now...
01:41:05 - Now what?
01:41:06 - Sam, I saw her.
01:41:07 - You're going to get hurt.
01:41:09 - Leave her, Sam.
01:41:11 - Leave this town.
01:41:12 - Even without me, but... but leave.
01:41:15 - I can't.
01:41:16 - At least not just yet.
01:41:19 - I'm sorry.
01:41:20 - You're going to need some money.
01:41:25 - No thanks.
01:41:27 - Let's break clean.
01:41:29 - See you around.
01:41:38 - Yeah.
01:41:39 - Around.
01:41:44 - Where's Martha?
01:41:45 - Upstairs.
01:41:47 - Getting dressed for the occasion.
01:41:49 - Go upstairs.
01:41:51 - Why did you call me?
01:41:56 - I've got a riddle, Sam.
01:41:58 - Maybe you can help me solve it.
01:42:00 - It's a little riddle called, "What's to be done about me, Martha, and you?"
01:42:06 - I'm going to tell you.
01:42:08 - I'm going to tell you.
01:42:10 - I'm going to tell you.
01:42:12 - You.
01:42:13 - Sounds just like a poem.
01:42:16 - If it rhymed, it would rhyme with murder.
01:42:19 - He's drunk.
01:42:31 - He's been sitting here drinking all night.
01:42:33 - Draw a chalk line and I'll walk it.
01:42:36 - Or I'll take a mental test.
01:42:38 - Any question like, "What is my object in life?"
01:42:42 - I tried to stop him from calling you.
01:42:45 - You're a wiseacre.
01:42:46 - An angle boy.
01:42:48 - You know all the answers, don't you?
01:42:50 - How are you on dreams?
01:42:52 - Then I was glad he called you.
01:42:53 - I was frightened of him, Sam.
01:42:54 - She was frightened of me.
01:42:56 - I had a dream, Sam, that was about you.
01:43:00 - In my dream, you were not a handsome corpse.
01:43:03 - Maybe it was some other guy.
01:43:05 - In other dreams, there were others.
01:43:07 - I told you he's drunk.
01:43:08 - Did you say others?
01:43:09 - Many others.
01:43:11 - He's lying.
01:43:12 - Poor little Martha.
01:43:13 - Her life was so empty.
01:43:14 - Is that what you told your Sam?
01:43:16 - I don't want him in here, Sam.
01:43:17 - Make him get out.
01:43:18 - Now you're all of them, Sam.
01:43:19 - Every one of them rolled into one.
01:43:22 - Sam, make him...
01:43:23 - Keep talking.
01:43:24 - I'm all of them rolled into one.
01:43:25 - Yes.
01:43:27 - You're a gymnasium instructor in Philadelphia.
01:43:30 - With a muscle for a brain and a tendency to insipid verse.
01:43:33 - You're a guy, just a guy named Pete and Erie,
01:43:35 - who smells of fish.
01:43:36 - And sings.
01:43:37 - You're last year's greatest fullback,
01:43:39 - and you flunked your bar exam,
01:43:40 - but you wanted to be an industrial engineer.
01:43:42 - You're a guy who came along to fix a tire so well,
01:43:45 - you became a city paid inspector.
01:43:47 - And you're a lot of others.
01:43:49 - But worst of all, you're the one and only man
01:43:52 - who shares with me the only claim I have on her.
01:43:54 - Ask her, Sam.
01:43:56 - Say to her, "Martha's all is true."
01:43:58 - What if it is?
01:43:59 - What did you expect?
01:44:01 - She never wanted to marry you.
01:44:02 - If you had any self-respect,
01:44:03 - she married me because she felt I was a fool.
01:44:05 - She married me because she felt that way,
01:44:06 - I would never tell.
01:44:07 - That's a lie. Your old man forced her.
01:44:09 - How long do you expect her to go on paying off?
01:44:11 - Forever.
01:44:13 - Whatever happens to you, you've got coming.
01:44:16 - What can happen, Sam?
01:44:18 - Shall I tell you?
01:44:20 - She'll try to get you to kill me.
01:44:22 - Like she got me to send an innocent man to the gallows.
01:44:26 - I told you the way it was. It was his father's idea.
01:44:29 - He made...
01:44:30 - Did she tell you how she stood up in the police station?
01:44:31 - How she looked at the man without batting an eye?
01:44:34 - No, she said, "Yes, that's the man."
01:44:35 - He's the one who came into the house that night.
01:44:37 - He's the man who killed my aunt.
01:44:39 - That even stuck in the throat of my father.
01:44:44 - My poor, dear, departed, greedy father.
01:44:48 - But he went right on.
01:44:51 - And so did I.
01:44:53 - He's lying. You believe me, don't you, Sam?
01:44:55 - You believe her, Sam?
01:44:56 - Martha, at least tell the truth now.
01:45:00 - Tell how much you were afraid of an unsolved murder.
01:45:03 - Tell what a threat it was to the power and the riches that you'd learned to love so much.
01:45:06 - That I'd learned to love, too.
01:45:09 - Tell why I became district attorney.
01:45:12 - Tell why you made me hang that man. Tell the truth.
01:45:15 - I told the truth. They were like leeches, both of them. They wanted everything.
01:45:17 - All I ever wanted was you.
01:45:18 - Everything you own. Everything you have.
01:45:19 - I'll help you. You gave me nothing.
01:45:20 - Then go!
01:45:21 - You're insane.
01:45:32 - You're out of your mind.
01:45:33 - Me, too.
01:45:36 - You see, Sam, how close we really are to each other.
01:45:40 - Don't break up our happy home.
01:45:43 - It'll have to be you or me.
01:45:45 - And unless you do it now, it'll be you.
01:46:01 - You mustn't think I'm drunk. I'm not.
01:46:04 - It's just that I'm sick.
01:46:07 - Inside of me, I'm...
01:46:11 - sick.
01:46:13 - Martha, help me.
01:46:23 - Please.
01:46:26 - Please.
01:46:27 - Sam, you believe me, don't you?
01:46:38 - I believe you.
01:46:39 - Now, Sam. Do it now.
01:47:02 - Set me free. Set both of us free.
01:47:06 - He fell down the stairs and fractured his skull. That's how he died.
01:47:08 - Everybody knows what a heavy drinker he was.
01:47:10 - Oh, Sam, it can't be so easy.
01:47:14 - The End
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01:48:08 - I thought you loved me. - I thought I did too.
01:48:12 - Now you hate me.
01:48:14 - Now I'm sorry for you.
01:48:17 - I dreamed about you coming back.
01:48:21 - Your whole life has been a dream.
01:48:25 - I thought you'd be the Sam I knew as a child.
01:48:27 - Martha, you're sick.
01:48:29 - I could run to you when I was in trouble.
01:48:31 - In your mind, I mean, that's where you're sick.
01:48:34 - And you'd help me.
01:48:36 - So sick that you don't even know the difference between right and wrong anymore.
01:48:39 - You've killed. It says so in your record.
01:48:43 - I've never murdered.
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01:48:48 - Are you okay?
01:48:57 - I'm fine.
01:49:00 - You fell down the stairs.
01:49:03 - I remember.
01:49:06 - You brought me here.
01:49:14 - I'm going to bed.
01:49:15 - You had your chance, Sam.
01:49:25 - It's a thin line.
01:49:33 - The line between life and death.
01:49:36 - You said I didn't know the difference between right and wrong.
01:49:41 - What's right for Walter and myself?
01:49:43 - For us to tell the truth?
01:49:44 - I think so, yes.
01:49:46 - And hang for it? - You wouldn't hang for it.
01:49:48 - Not if you confessed. You'd do time, sure.
01:49:50 - Sure, I'll rot in prison for the rest of my life. And for what? What am I guilty of?
01:49:53 - Murder. - What were their lives compared to mine? What was she?
01:49:55 - A human being. - A mean, vicious, hateful old woman who never did anything for anybody.
01:49:58 - Look what I've done with what she's left me.
01:50:00 - I've given to charity, built schools, hospitals, given thousands of people work. What was he?
01:50:04 - Another human being. - A thief, a drunk, and someone who would have died in the gutter anyway.
01:50:07 - Neither one of them had any right to live.
01:50:09 - You didn't think Walter had either.
01:50:11 - No.
01:50:12 - Goodbye, Martha.
01:50:14 - Sam.
01:50:16 - Sam's going away.
01:50:21 - Did you hear what I said, Walter?
01:50:25 - Yes, I heard you.
01:50:27 - We can't let him go, can we?
01:50:29 - Martha's waiting for your answer, Walter.
01:50:36 - We'd always be afraid of him. We couldn't live that way.
01:50:40 - We'd be fools to let him go, knowing so much about us.
01:50:42 - You may have a little trouble squaring this one.
01:50:44 - You broke into the house, you demanded money, you tried to attack me, and I shot you in self-defense.
01:50:48 - I have a right to kill in self-defense. That's what the law says, doesn't it, Walter?
01:50:52 - Isn't that what the law says, Walter?
01:51:04 - You can hold up, Walter.
01:51:09 - A man with a police record?
01:51:11 - It's a perfect case if you can get Walter to be your witness.
01:51:23 - Do you want to bet?
01:51:37 - I feel sorry for you. Both of you.
01:51:41 - I feel sorry for you. Both of you.
01:52:08 - You love him.
01:52:09 - I hate him.
01:52:11 - That's why you dropped the gun.
01:52:12 - I was afraid. For the first time in my life, I was afraid.
01:52:17 - I felt you'd no longer stand by me. That you'd leave me.
01:52:22 - No, Martha, I won't leave you. I love you.
01:52:28 - Don't cry, Martha. It's not your fault.
01:52:33 - It isn't, is it, Walter?
01:52:37 - No. Not mine, no. Not my father's, nor your auntie's. It's not anyone's fault.
01:52:42 - It's just the way things are.
01:52:44 - It's what people want and how hard they want it.
01:52:48 - How hard it is for them to get it.
01:52:51 - He's near the gate.
01:52:55 - I'm glad he's going.
01:52:59 - He'll always be here.
01:53:02 - No, he won't, Walter. He won't.
01:53:05 - And he'll never tell you needn't be afraid.
01:53:07 - And you'll see. Things will be different now between you and me.
01:53:12 - Just like...
01:53:14 - Just like nothing ever happened.
01:53:18 - Just like nothing ever happened.
01:53:22 - Will you kiss me, Martha?
01:53:27 - I love you, Martha.
01:53:28 - You believe me?
01:53:38 - I do.
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01:54:09 - Ivers, Ivers, Ivers.
01:54:12 - No.
01:54:13 - No.
01:54:16 - Martha Smith.
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01:55:05 - I missed a bus once and I was lucky.
01:55:07 - I wanted to see if I could be...
01:55:11 - Lucky twice.
01:55:13 - Don't look back, baby.
01:55:22 - Don't ever look back.
01:55:24 - You know what happened to Lott's wife, don't you?
01:55:28 - Whose wife?
01:55:29 - Sam's wife.
01:55:33 (Laughs)
01:55:34 - Sam's wife.
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