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00:04:25So did the customers back in the old break-at-dawn club in New York.
00:04:28I can't remember a night when I didn't get at least three requests for it.
00:04:32Sue, she was always selling it, too.
00:04:36Those were the days.
00:04:55Your eyes are blue, your kisses, too.
00:05:06I never knew what they could do.
00:05:09I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:05:15You're telling everyone you know that I'm on your mind each place you go.
00:05:21They can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:05:27I have always placed you far above me.
00:05:33I just can't imagine that you love me.
00:05:39And after all is said and done, to think that I'm the lucky one,
00:05:45I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:05:57It wasn't much of a club, really. You know the kind.
00:06:01A joint where you could have a sandwich and a few drinks
00:06:03and run interference for your girl on the dance floor.
00:06:08I pounded the piano in there every night from eight until the place closed up,
00:06:12which usually meant four in the morning.
00:06:14A good job, as jobs went in those days.
00:06:20Then, too, there was Sue, who made working there a little like working in heaven.
00:06:27But how we felt about each other, well, there was nothing very unusual in that.
00:06:31I was an ordinary, healthy guy, and she was an ordinary, healthy girl.
00:06:34When you add those two together, you get an ordinary, healthy romance,
00:06:38which is the old story.
00:06:40Sure. But somehow, the most wonderful thing in the world.
00:06:52All in all, I was a pretty lucky guy.
00:06:56Mr. Paderewski, I presume. It's beautiful.
00:06:59You're going to make Carnegie Hall yet, Al?
00:07:01Yeah, as a janitor. I'll make my debut in the basement.
00:07:07I don't blame you for being bitter, darling, but you mustn't give up hope.
00:07:10Why, someday...
00:07:11Yeah, someday, if I don't get arthritis first.
00:07:14In the meantime, let's blow this trap.
00:07:16I'm sure you'll get better.
00:07:18I'm sure you'll get better.
00:07:20I'm sure you'll get better.
00:07:22I'm sure you'll get better.
00:07:24In the meantime, let's blow this trap.
00:07:46Like to get something to eat, hon?
00:07:47Oh, I don't think so, Al. I lose my appetite working in this flea bag.
00:07:52Let's go home.
00:07:53Okay.
00:07:55I can't stand much more of that dump.
00:07:57Did you see that drunk tonight, trying to paw me?
00:08:00No, what drunk?
00:08:01Does it matter what drunk?
00:08:04Say, what's the matter with you tonight, darling?
00:08:07That's the third time you've started to tell me something, and then stop.
00:08:10We shouldn't have any secrets from each other, Sue.
00:08:13Next week, we're going to make with a ring and a license. You and me will be a team.
00:08:15Yes, that's right. In the Bush League.
00:08:18I don't get you.
00:08:19We've been struck out.
00:08:22That's a funny way to talk, darling.
00:08:24Don't you want to marry me?
00:08:25Al, look, I love you. You know I do, and I want to marry you.
00:08:29But?
00:08:30But not now.
00:08:31Only after we've made good.
00:08:34Sunday, I'm going away.
00:08:36Oh, I know you'll think it's silly.
00:08:38That's why I hesitated to tell you.
00:08:41But I'm going to California.
00:08:43I want to try my luck in Hollywood.
00:08:45That's the most stupid thing I ever heard of.
00:08:47Don't you know millions of people go out there every year and wind up polishing cuspidors?
00:08:51I thought you had better sense.
00:08:52You sound as if you don't think I have any talent.
00:08:54That has nothing to do with it.
00:08:56I'll make out all right.
00:08:57Maybe. But what about me?
00:08:59Doesn't it mean anything to you that you're busting up all our plans?
00:09:01We may not see each other for years.
00:09:03It won't be that long.
00:09:05I thought you loved me.
00:09:06I do. You know I do.
00:09:11Well, here we are.
00:09:16Al.
00:09:18Al, why can't you see my side of it?
00:09:20I'm young. We both are.
00:09:23And we've got all the time in the world to settle down.
00:09:27Really, darling, what I'm doing is the only sane thing to do.
00:09:32I hate the thought of being so far away from you,
00:09:36but we'll be together again someday.
00:09:40Maybe you'll decide to come out, too, later on.
00:09:42So long.
00:09:44Al, aren't you going to kiss me goodnight?
00:09:48Sure. Why not?
00:09:52Goodnight.
00:10:48Goodnight.
00:11:19Say, Roberts, you hit the jackpot this time.
00:11:23Ten bucks.
00:11:25Thanks.
00:11:48So when this drunk handed me a tent spot after a request,
00:11:51I couldn't get very excited.
00:11:52What was it I asked myself?
00:11:54A piece of paper crawling with germs.
00:11:56Couldn't buy anything I wanted.
00:11:59It couldn't...
00:12:03Then I thought of something.
00:12:19Long distance.
00:12:21I'd like to put a call through to Los Angeles.
00:12:24Miss Harvey.
00:12:25Sue Harvey. H-A-R-V-E-Y.
00:12:28The number is Crestview 65723.
00:12:4975...
00:12:56Hello, Sue? This is Al.
00:12:59Oh, baby, it's great to hear from you, too.
00:13:01What's that? You do?
00:13:03Oh, me too, darling.
00:13:05I thought I'd go batty without you. I just had to...
00:13:08I just had to...
00:13:11I just had to...
00:13:14I just had to...
00:13:17I just had to...
00:13:20You're working as a hash slinger?
00:13:22Gee, honey, that's tough.
00:13:24Those guys out in Hollywood don't know the real thing
00:13:26when it's right in front of them.
00:13:28You just stick it out, Sue, baby.
00:13:30Keep going around to those casting offices.
00:13:32I'm sure you'll click.
00:13:34Look, I'll tell you what. You stay put out there.
00:13:36I'll come to you.
00:13:38No, don't try to stop me. Just expect me.
00:13:40Train? Who knows? Train, plane, bus, magic carpet.
00:13:42I'll be there if I have to crawl.
00:13:44If I have to travel by pogo stick.
00:13:47Let's get married right away, huh?
00:13:51That's the stuff.
00:13:53That's what I've been wanting to hear you say.
00:13:55Well, goodbye for now.
00:13:59I'll be seeing you soon.
00:14:01Yeah.
00:14:04Bye.
00:14:10The only way I could cross country was to thumb rides.
00:14:13For even after hocking everything,
00:14:15I only had enough money to eat.
00:14:17Money.
00:14:19You know what that is.
00:14:21It's the stuff you never have enough of.
00:14:23Little green things with George Washington's picture
00:14:25that men slave for, commit crimes for, die for.
00:14:29It's the stuff that has caused more trouble in the world
00:14:31than anything else we ever invented.
00:14:33Simply because there's too little of it.
00:14:36At least I had too little of it.
00:14:38So it was me for the thumb.
00:14:46Ever done any hitchhiking?
00:14:48It's not much fun, believe me.
00:14:50Oh, yeah, I know all about how it's an education,
00:14:53how you get to meet a lot of people and all that.
00:14:56But me, from now on, I'll take my education in college.
00:15:00Or in P.S. 62, or I'll send a $1.98 in stamps
00:15:03for ten easy lessons.
00:15:05I'll get a job.
00:15:07I'll get a job.
00:15:09I'll get a job.
00:15:11I'll get a job.
00:15:13I'll send a $1.98 in stamps for ten easy lessons.
00:15:24Thumbing rides may save you a bus fare,
00:15:27but it's dangerous.
00:15:29You never know what's in store for you
00:15:31when you hear the squeal of brakes.
00:15:34If only I had known what I was getting into
00:15:36that day in Arizona.
00:15:40Yeah, throw that in the back seat.
00:15:43Okay, let's go. Make sure that door is closed.
00:16:00You know, Emily Post ought to write a book of rules for guys thumbing rides.
00:16:04Because as it is now, you never know what's right and what's wrong.
00:16:08We rode along for a little while, neither one of us saying anything.
00:16:11I was glad of that.
00:16:13I never know what to say to strange people driving cars.
00:16:17And two, you can never tell if a guy wants to talk.
00:16:20A lot of rides have been cut short because of a big mouth.
00:16:24So I kept my mouth shut until he started opening up.
00:16:29Hand me that little box in the compartment, will you, pal?
00:16:35Hold the wheel, will you?
00:16:42How far are you going?
00:16:44L.A.
00:16:46Wow, you're really traveling, aren't you?
00:16:48Yeah, but I don't expect to make it for a couple of years at the rate I've been promoting rides.
00:16:52Not much luck, huh?
00:16:54Sure, all bad.
00:16:56Not many people stop for a guy these days.
00:16:58Afraid of a stick-up, maybe.
00:17:00Well, you can't blame them.
00:17:02Where are you coming from?
00:17:04New York.
00:17:06Well, New York.
00:17:08You're right.
00:17:09Well, New York.
00:17:11You're in luck this time.
00:17:13I'm going all the way.
00:17:15Right through to Los Angeles.
00:17:17Can you drive a car?
00:17:19Sure. Whenever you're tired, let me know.
00:17:21I'll holler.
00:17:24I guess at least an hour passed before I noticed those deep scratches on his right hand.
00:17:29They were wicked.
00:17:31Three puffy red lines about a quarter of an inch apart.
00:17:34He must have seen me looking at them because he said...
00:17:37Beauties, aren't they?
00:17:39They're gonna be scars someday.
00:17:42What an animal.
00:17:44Whatever it was, it must have been pretty big and vicious to have done that.
00:17:47Right on both counts, New York.
00:17:49I was tussling with the most dangerous animal in the world.
00:17:52A woman.
00:17:54She must have been Tarzan's mate.
00:17:56Looks like you lost the bout.
00:17:58It certainly wasn't a draw.
00:18:00You know, there ought to be a law against dames with claws.
00:18:03Yeah.
00:18:05I tossed her out of the car in her ear.
00:18:07Was I wrong?
00:18:09A little lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't you?
00:18:12Yeah.
00:18:14After all, what kind of a dame's son rides?
00:18:16Sunday school teachers?
00:18:18Yeah.
00:18:20A little witch.
00:18:22She must have thought she was riding with some fall guy.
00:18:24And me, who's been booking horses around race tracks since I was 20.
00:18:28I've known a million dames like her.
00:18:30Two million?
00:18:32Yeah.
00:18:34Stop the car, open the door.
00:18:36Take it on the Arthur Duffy sister, I told her.
00:18:38That's the stuff.
00:18:40As I was done, huh?
00:18:42But if you want to see a real scar, brother,
00:18:44get a load of this.
00:18:47What?
00:18:49I got that when dueling.
00:18:51Dueling?
00:18:53Yeah, we were just kidding, of course.
00:18:55My dad owned a couple of Franco Prussian sabers.
00:18:57Kept them on the wall for decorations.
00:18:59Well, one day, another kid and I took them down.
00:19:02The old man wasn't around.
00:19:04Had a duel.
00:19:06He got me in the arm here.
00:19:08Pretty mean cut.
00:19:10Infection set in later.
00:19:12Yeah, I can see that.
00:19:14Now give me that box again, will you?
00:19:16Yeah.
00:19:28Pain made me lose my head, I guess.
00:19:30Began slashing.
00:19:32Before I knew it, I'd put the other kid's eye on.
00:19:34That was tough.
00:19:36Well, it was just an accident, of course.
00:19:38Do you know how kids are?
00:19:40I got scared, decided I was going to run away from home.
00:19:43Old man almost caught me when I was packing my duds.
00:19:47The bloody rag I had wrapped around my wrist
00:19:49hadn't caught his attention.
00:19:51He'd seen the bundle for sure.
00:19:53But I beat it when he was phoning for a doctor.
00:19:56That was 15, 16 years ago.
00:19:59I haven't been home since.
00:20:05Pull in there for a bite of something, huh?
00:20:08A bite of something?
00:20:10Brother, was I hungry.
00:20:12I hadn't had anything in my stomach for hours.
00:20:14Yet even with that gnawing in the pit of my belly,
00:20:17I didn't want to be in too big a rush to put on the feed bag.
00:20:20First I had to make sure this guy knew the score.
00:20:23If I got him down on me,
00:20:25it was goodbye ticket to Hollywood.
00:20:27I'll wait out here for you, mister.
00:20:29If it's the money, don't worry about paying for it.
00:20:31This time it's on me.
00:20:32That's quite of you, mister.
00:20:34Haskell, think nothing of it.
00:20:36You make your first million, maybe you can do the same for me.
00:20:38Come on, New York.
00:20:40I gotta make the West Coast by Wednesday.
00:20:42There's a horse running in Santa Anita named Proud Bicycle.
00:20:44You can sell it to me if I want him.
00:20:46We'll make it, all right.
00:20:48He did most of the talking
00:20:50during the half hour we were in the place.
00:20:52I ate.
00:20:54He rambled on about his old man
00:20:56whom he hadn't heard from since he ran away as a kid.
00:20:58And how he happened to become a bookie.
00:21:00And then all about how he got rooked in Miami.
00:21:02They cleaned out my book.
00:21:04How do you like that?
00:21:06That was tough luck.
00:21:08Yeah, and I'm supposed to be the smart guy.
00:21:10You just wait.
00:21:12I'm going back to Florida next season with all kinds of jack.
00:21:14And you watch those stinkers run for cover.
00:21:16Anything else?
00:21:18No thanks, I've had plenty.
00:21:23That check there, sister?
00:21:28Oh, just a miniature change, sir.
00:21:30Keep it, sister.
00:21:32I'll be waiting outside for you when you finish work.
00:21:34No.
00:21:36Sharp check, huh?
00:21:45I drove all that night while Haskell slept like a log.
00:21:48After a while, I began to get sleepy myself.
00:21:52I was happy, though.
00:21:54Soon I'd be with Sue again.
00:21:56The long trip was practically over
00:21:58and there'd be no more hoofing it down the concrete.
00:22:00I began to think of the future,
00:22:02which couldn't have been brighter
00:22:04if I'd embroidered it with neon lights.
00:22:06It was nice to think of Sue shooting to the top.
00:22:10It's amazing what a full belly can do to your imagination.
00:22:16Your eyes, oh, your kisses, too.
00:22:21I never knew what they could do.
00:22:25I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:22:33You're telling everyone you know
00:22:38I'm on your mind each place you go.
00:22:43I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:22:56Mr. Haskell.
00:22:59Mr. Haskell.
00:23:03Mr. Haskell, wake up. It's raining.
00:23:05Don't you think we ought to stop and put up the top?
00:23:07Mr. Haskell.
00:23:09Mr. Haskell.
00:23:13Mr. Haskell, wake up. It's raining.
00:23:16Don't you think we ought to stop and put up the top?
00:23:26Mr. Haskell, I'm going to put up the top.
00:23:37Mr. Haskell.
00:23:43Up until then, I had done things my way.
00:23:45But from then on, something else stepped in
00:23:47and shunted me off to a different destination
00:23:49than one I had picked for myself.
00:23:51For when I pulled open that door...
00:23:57Mr. Haskell, what's the matter?
00:23:59Are you hurt?
00:24:01Are you hurt, Mr. Haskell?
00:24:03Start your sermon.
00:24:04I'll listen to it, but I know what you're going to hand me even before you open your mouths.
00:24:09You're going to tell me you don't believe my story about how Haskell died,
00:24:12and give me that don't make me laugh expression on your smug faces.
00:24:19I saw it once, he was dead, and I was in for it.
00:24:22Who would believe he fell out of the car?
00:24:24Why, if Haskell came too, which of course he couldn't,
00:24:26even he would swear I conked him over the head for his dough.
00:24:28Yes, I was in for it.
00:24:31Instinct told me to run, but then I realized it was hopeless.
00:24:34There were lots of people back down the road who could identify me.
00:24:36That gas station guy, and the waitress.
00:24:38I would be in a worse spot then, trying to explain why I beat it.
00:24:41The next possibility was to sit tight and tell the truth when the cops came,
00:24:44but that would be crazy.
00:24:46They'd laugh at the truth, and I'd have my head in the noose.
00:24:51So what else was there to do but hide the body and get away in the car?
00:24:54I couldn't leave the car there with him in the gully.
00:24:56That would be like erecting a tombstone.
00:25:00♪♪
00:25:10♪♪
00:25:20♪♪
00:25:27My idea was to cover him with brush, not to rob him.
00:25:30But then I remembered that even if I only drove the car for 100 miles or so,
00:25:33I would need money for gas.
00:25:36Besides, it was stupid of me to leave all that money on a dead man.
00:25:40Not only that, I'd have to take his driver's license
00:25:42in case I was stopped for something.
00:25:46I didn't like to think about it, but by that time I'd done
00:25:48just what the police would say I did, even if I didn't.
00:25:52My clothes.
00:25:53The owner of such an expensive car would never be wearing them.
00:25:56Some cop might put me on suspicion.
00:25:59♪♪
00:26:09♪♪
00:26:17♪♪
00:26:23Hey you, this your car?
00:26:25Don't you know better than to leave a car with the wheels halfway in the middle of the road?
00:26:28That's the way accidents happen.
00:26:30I'm sorry, officer. I was just putting up my top. I didn't think.
00:26:34Well, the next time, think.
00:26:36I'll let you go now, but watch your step in the future.
00:26:38I know that's a lonely stretch, but cars come by here once in a while
00:26:41and we have plenty of crack-ups.
00:26:43Thanks.
00:26:55♪♪
00:27:08I left nothing in the car to give me away as Roberts.
00:27:11If they found a dead man in the gully now, it would be me.
00:27:21As I drove off, it was still raining.
00:27:24The drops streaked down the windshield like tears.
00:27:29I kept imagining I was being followed, that I could hear sirens back in the distance.
00:27:34Just how long it took me to cover the 60-odd miles to the California state line, I don't know.
00:27:40I lost all track of time.
00:27:42But the rain had stopped and the sun was up when I pulled up to the inspection station.
00:27:50Hello.
00:27:51Hello.
00:27:53Carrying any fruits or vegetables?
00:27:54No.
00:27:55Any livestock or poultry?
00:27:56No.
00:27:59I'd like to see your registration and driver's license, please.
00:28:06Anything in the baggage compartment?
00:28:07Just baggage.
00:28:10Charles Haskell, Jr., age 30, brown eyes, dark hair.
00:28:14Identifying marks, none.
00:28:16Are you Charles Haskell, Jr.?
00:28:17Yes.
00:28:18Well, remember, if you're employed and you stay over 30 days, you take out California plates.
00:28:22All right, officer, but I'll only be in the state a short while.
00:28:26Right, you can go now.
00:28:35I couldn't drive any farther without some sleep, cops or no cops.
00:28:39I knew I had to hit the hay and hit it hard.
00:28:43I was dead tired.
00:28:49I was dead tired.
00:28:50No.
00:29:15No.
00:29:17No, you can't, Mr. Haskell.
00:29:18No.
00:29:27Mr. Haskell, you can't die.
00:29:30Don't think...
00:29:32Don't think I did it.
00:29:34No, Mr. Haskell.
00:29:36No.
00:29:38No.
00:29:49Who's there?
00:29:50It's the maid.
00:29:51Can I come in and clean?
00:29:53Later.
00:29:55In a half hour.
00:29:56All right, sir.
00:30:19There was no time to lose.
00:30:21Every minute I had to be Charles Haskell was dangerous.
00:30:23And I'd have to be Charles Haskell until I got to some city
00:30:25where I could leave the car and be swallowed up.
00:30:33That meant driving the car as far as San Bernardino,
00:30:35maybe even to Los Angeles.
00:30:37In a little town I might be noticed,
00:30:39but in a city I'd be forgotten.
00:30:41I'd be forgotten forever.
00:30:43I'd be forgotten forever.
00:30:45I'd be forgotten forever.
00:30:46In a little town I might be noticed,
00:30:48but in a city I should be safe enough.
00:30:50Then, after I ditched the car,
00:30:52I could go on to sue.
00:30:54But those five minutes at the state line
00:30:56made me realize it might be a good idea
00:30:58to find out a little bit about Mr. Haskell.
00:31:01Then, if anybody asked me questions,
00:31:03I could give the right answers.
00:31:05The first thing I found out was that I had $768.
00:31:09This was a lot of jack.
00:31:11But believe me,
00:31:13it was the kind of money I'd rather not have.
00:31:17And then I found out from a letter
00:31:19Haskell was carting around in his bag
00:31:21that he wasn't the open-handed,
00:31:23easy-going big shot
00:31:25who went around buying dinners for strange hitchhikers.
00:31:27Before I got done reading it,
00:31:29I saw him more as a chiseler.
00:31:31It was written to his old man in California,
00:31:33the one he hadn't seen in so many years.
00:31:36In it, Haskell posed as a salesman,
00:31:38of hymnals, of all things.
00:31:40And I thought to myself,
00:31:42I'd better get out of here
00:31:43before I become a salesman,
00:31:45of hymnals, of all things.
00:31:48It was easy to see where Haskell expected
00:31:50to raise a new stake for his book in Miami,
00:31:53by rooking his old man.
00:31:56That was about all I found out from his effects.
00:31:59And it was enough.
00:32:01I told myself,
00:32:03maybe old man Haskell was lucky his son kicked off.
00:32:06He would never know it,
00:32:08but it saved him from taking a flyer
00:32:10in sacred literature preferred.
00:32:14♪♪♪
00:32:36Near the airport at Desert Center,
00:32:38I pulled up for water.
00:32:40There was a woman.
00:32:44Hey, you!
00:32:46Come on if you want a ride.
00:32:47Come on if you want a ride.
00:33:17I'll be back.
00:33:35How far you going?
00:33:37How far you going?
00:33:39That took me by surprise,
00:33:41and I turned my head to look her over.
00:33:43She was facing straight ahead,
00:33:45so I couldn't see her eyes,
00:33:47not more than 24.
00:33:49Man, she looked as if she'd just been thrown
00:33:51off the crummiest freight train in the world.
00:33:54Yet in spite of this,
00:33:56I got the impression of beauty.
00:33:58Not the beauty of a movie actress, mind you,
00:34:00or the beauty you dream about
00:34:02when you're with your wife,
00:34:04but a natural beauty.
00:34:06A beauty that's almost homely because it's so real.
00:34:09Then suddenly she turned to face me.
00:34:11How far did you say you were going?
00:34:13Los Angeles.
00:34:15L.A.?
00:34:17L.A.'s good enough for me, mister.
00:34:19That's what I was afraid of.
00:34:21What'd you say?
00:34:23Oh, nothing, just thinking out loud.
00:34:25People get in trouble for doing that.
00:34:27What's your name?
00:34:29You can call me Vera if you like.
00:34:31You live in Los Angeles?
00:34:33No.
00:34:35Where you coming from?
00:34:37Oh, back there.
00:34:39Needles?
00:34:41No.
00:34:43Oh, sure, Phoenix.
00:34:45You look just like a Phoenix girl.
00:34:47She fell asleep not 20 minutes
00:34:49after she stepped into the car.
00:34:51She lay sprawled out with her head
00:34:53resting against the far door, like Haskell.
00:34:55I didn't like that part of it much,
00:34:57but I didn't wake her up.
00:34:59It wasn't that this girl still worried me.
00:35:02I'd gotten over that funny feeling I had
00:35:04when she looked at me,
00:35:06which I put down as just my jangled nerves.
00:35:08With her eyes closed
00:35:10and the tenseness gone out of her,
00:35:12she seemed harmless enough.
00:35:14And instead of disliking her,
00:35:15I began to feel sorry for her.
00:35:17The poor kid probably had had
00:35:19a rough time of it.
00:35:21Who was she anyway?
00:35:23And why was she going to Los Angeles?
00:35:25And where'd she come from in the first place?
00:35:27The only thing I knew about her was her name.
00:35:30Not that it made any difference.
00:35:32A few hours more and we'd be in Hollywood.
00:35:34I'd forget where I parked the car
00:35:36and look up Sue.
00:35:38This nightmare of being a dead man would be over.
00:35:40Who this dame was,
00:35:42well, it was no business of mine.
00:35:43Where did you leave his body?
00:35:45Where did you leave the owner of this car?
00:35:48You're not fooling anyone.
00:35:50This buggy belongs to a guy named Haskell.
00:35:52That's not you, mister.
00:35:54You're out of your mind. That's my name, Charles Haskell.
00:35:56I can prove it. It's my driver's license.
00:35:58Save yourself the trouble, mister.
00:36:00Having Haskell's wallet only makes it worse.
00:36:02It just so happens I rode with Charlie Haskell
00:36:04all the way from Louisiana.
00:36:06He picked me up outside of Shreveport.
00:36:08You rode?
00:36:10You heard me.
00:36:11All the talk about dueling and scars and scratches.
00:36:14There was no doubt about it.
00:36:16Vera must be the woman Haskell had mentioned.
00:36:19She must have passed me while I slept.
00:36:21Well?
00:36:23Well, I'm waiting.
00:36:25My goose was cooked.
00:36:27She had me.
00:36:29That Haskell guy wasn't dead yet.
00:36:31He wasn't stretched out stiff and cold
00:36:33in any Arizona gully.
00:36:35He was sitting right there in the car
00:36:37laughing like mad while he haunted me.
00:36:39Well?
00:36:41It was her move.
00:36:43Vera, whatever her name was,
00:36:45it was just my luck picking her up on the road.
00:36:48It couldn't have been Helen or Mary
00:36:50or Evelyn or Ruth.
00:36:52It had to be the very last person I should ever have met.
00:36:55That's life.
00:36:57Whichever way you turn,
00:36:59fate sticks out a foot to trip you.
00:37:06I told her everything, but she didn't believe my story.
00:37:09I should have saved my breath.
00:37:11It was the best cock and bull story I ever heard.
00:37:13So he fell out of his car.
00:37:15Say, who do you think you're talking to, a hick?
00:37:17Listen, mister, I've been around,
00:37:19and I know a wrong guy when I see one.
00:37:21What'd you do, kiss him with a wrench?
00:37:23Now, wait a minute. What I told you was true.
00:37:25You see, that's why I had to do it.
00:37:27You think I killed him.
00:37:29Well, the cops would have thought so, too.
00:37:31Yeah, well, maybe they still think so.
00:37:33What makes you so sure I'll shut up about this?
00:37:35Vera, I'm innocent.
00:37:37Give me a break, will you?
00:37:39It won't do me any good having you pinched.
00:37:41Now, if there was a reward, but there isn't.
00:37:44Thanks.
00:37:46Don't thank me yet.
00:37:48I'm not through with you by a long shot.
00:37:50Let's see that roll.
00:37:57Is that all Haskell had?
00:37:59Isn't it enough?
00:38:01No, I thought he had more.
00:38:03Not that I know of.
00:38:05You can search me if you think I'm holding out on you.
00:38:07Well, maybe I will at that.
00:38:09He told me he was going to bet $3,000
00:38:11or $3,000.
00:38:12Maybe.
00:38:13Sure, $3,000, $3,000.
00:38:14He was a piece of cheese, a big blowhard.
00:38:16Listen, mister.
00:38:17Don't try and tell me anything about Charlie Haskell.
00:38:19Remember, I knew him better than you did.
00:38:21Okay, then you knew he was a four flusher.
00:38:23That explains the three grand bet.
00:38:25I'm not so sure he didn't have that three grand.
00:38:27Why should I believe you?
00:38:29You got all the earmarks of a cheap crook.
00:38:31Now, wait a minute.
00:38:32Shut up.
00:38:34You're a cheap crook and you killed him.
00:38:36For two cents, I'd change my mind and turn you in.
00:38:38I don't like you.
00:38:39I don't care who's boss around here.
00:38:41If you shut up and don't give me any arguments,
00:38:43you'll have nothing to worry about.
00:38:45But if you act wise, we'll mister you,
00:38:47pop into jail so fast it'll give you the bends.
00:38:49I'm not arguing.
00:38:50I see that you don't.
00:38:51You know, as crooked as you look,
00:38:53I'd hate to see a fella as young as you
00:38:55wind up sniffing that perfume that Arizona
00:38:57hands out free to murderers.
00:38:58I'm not a murderer.
00:38:59Of course you're not.
00:39:00Haskell knocked his own head off.
00:39:01He fell, that's how it happened, just like I told you.
00:39:03Sure, and then he made you a present of his belongings.
00:39:05I explained why I had to do that.
00:39:07Oh, skip it.
00:39:08I like Haskell even less than I like you.
00:39:10Yeah, I saw what you did to him.
00:39:12What do you mean?
00:39:13The scratches on his wrist.
00:39:14Sure, I scratched him.
00:39:16Well, so you did.
00:39:18So your idea was to drive the car a little way,
00:39:21maybe into San Bernardino and then leave it.
00:39:23You weren't going to sell it?
00:39:25Sell it?
00:39:26You think I'm crazy? Somebody else's car?
00:39:28See, all I want to do is leave it somewhere
00:39:30and forget I ever saw it.
00:39:31Not only don't you have any scruples,
00:39:33you don't have any brains.
00:39:34I don't get you.
00:39:35Maybe it's a good thing you met me.
00:39:36You'd have got yourself caught, sure.
00:39:38Why, you dope.
00:39:39Don't you know a deserted automobile
00:39:41always rates an investigation?
00:39:43Huh?
00:39:44Look, the cops find a car.
00:39:46Then they get curious.
00:39:47They wonder where the owner is.
00:39:49So, all right, they don't trace Haskell.
00:39:51They trace you.
00:39:53I never thought of that.
00:39:55The only safe way to get rid of the car
00:39:57is to sell it to a dealer.
00:39:58Get it registered under a new name.
00:40:00Say, stop at the next store.
00:40:02I want to get a bottle and do some shopping
00:40:04before we hit L.A.
00:40:05If we find a place, I'll drop you off
00:40:06and pick you up later.
00:40:07Nothing doing.
00:40:08You're coming in, too.
00:40:10From now on, you and I are like the Siamese twins.
00:40:12Yeah, but your way.
00:40:13I don't get the point.
00:40:15The point is, I don't want you to get lost.
00:40:17I'm not going to beat it if that's what you're afraid of.
00:40:18I'll say you're not.
00:40:20Well, I'm going to see that you sell this car
00:40:21so you don't get caught.
00:40:22Thanks.
00:40:24Of course, your interest wouldn't be financial, would it?
00:40:26You wouldn't want a small percentage of the profits.
00:40:29Well, now that you insist, how can I refuse?
00:40:32100% will do.
00:40:33Fine, I'm relieved.
00:40:35I thought for a moment you were going to take it all.
00:40:37I don't want to be a hog.
00:40:40A few hours later, we were in Hollywood.
00:40:42I was recognizing places Sue had written about.
00:40:45It struck me that far from being at the end of the trip,
00:40:48there was a greater distance between Sue and me
00:40:50than when I started out.
00:40:53Vera wasn't kidding with that Siamese twins crack.
00:40:56She rented a little apartment as Mrs. Charles Haskell.
00:41:00When I objected to this,
00:41:01she explained that it was on account of the car.
00:41:03A dealer might think something was funny
00:41:05if he called and found we were using different names.
00:41:13Home, sweet home.
00:41:14Yeah.
00:41:16Not bad either.
00:41:25In case there's any doubt in your mind,
00:41:26I'll take the bedroom.
00:41:28Yeah.
00:41:29Sure is stuffy in here.
00:41:38Keep the window shut.
00:41:39Okay.
00:41:42The old crow downstairs said
00:41:44there's a fallen bed behind this door.
00:41:52You know how to work it?
00:41:59I invented it.
00:42:04Some joint.
00:42:05One can't have everything.
00:42:11I'm first in the bathtub.
00:42:14I don't know why, but I figured you would be.
00:42:27Boy, oh boy.
00:42:29It sure feels good to be clean again.
00:42:32I must be 10 pounds lighter.
00:42:34You must be.
00:42:37Well, hitching rides isn't exactly the way
00:42:39you keep your schoolgirl complexion.
00:42:44I wish that guy with the sacks would give up.
00:42:48Gets on my nerves.
00:42:51Forget it.
00:42:55Have a drink.
00:42:57Aren't you afraid I might take you up on it?
00:43:01If I didn't want to give you a drink,
00:43:02I wouldn't have offered it.
00:43:04Why be a sorehead, Roberts?
00:43:06You got yourself into this thing.
00:43:09You should be grateful I'm not turning you in.
00:43:12Why, if I wasn't regular, you'd be in the pen this minute,
00:43:14being photographed, fingerprinted,
00:43:15and being pushed around by the cops.
00:43:18So cheer up.
00:43:19Get rid of that long puss.
00:43:23Or is your conscience bothering you?
00:43:27No.
00:43:29It isn't.
00:43:31Well, that's the spirit.
00:43:34He's dead, and no moment around will bring him back.
00:43:40Anyway, I never could understand this worrying
00:43:42about something that's over and done with.
00:43:44Now look, Vera, for the last time, I didn't kill him.
00:43:46Haskell was a sick man.
00:43:48Maybe he was dead before he fell out of the car.
00:43:49I don't know.
00:43:50Sure, sure.
00:43:51He died of old age.
00:43:53All right.
00:43:54So it'll make you sociable?
00:43:57You didn't kill him.
00:44:09Thanks.
00:44:21We're out all day.
00:44:23We're out of liquor, Roberts.
00:44:25Yeah.
00:44:27Too bad.
00:44:28I felt like getting tight tonight.
00:44:30Well, I think you succeeded.
00:44:32Am I tight?
00:44:34As a prima donna's corset.
00:44:36That's good.
00:44:37I wanted to get tight.
00:44:39Why?
00:44:40What have you got to get tight about?
00:44:42Oh, I don't know.
00:44:43A few things.
00:44:45Huh.
00:44:47You should have my worries.
00:44:49If I had your troubles, I'd stay sober.
00:44:50And I've got the key to that door.
00:44:55Yeah.
00:44:57Maybe you're right.
00:44:58I'm always right.
00:45:01You know, I don't like your attitude, Roberts.
00:45:03Well, there's a lot of things I don't like.
00:45:06Sure.
00:45:10But life's like a ballgame.
00:45:12You got to take a swing at whatever comes along
00:45:14before you wake up and find it's a ninth inning.
00:45:17I bet you do.
00:45:18It's a ninth inning.
00:45:20I bet you read that somewhere.
00:45:22That's the trouble with you, Roberts.
00:45:24All you do is bellyache.
00:45:26You're taking it easy
00:45:28and trying to make the best of things.
00:45:31But maybe that's what's wrong with the whole world.
00:45:34Get the professor.
00:45:36People knock themselves out trying to buck fate.
00:45:38Now take you, for instance.
00:45:40You're lucky to be alive.
00:45:42Why, suppose Haskell had pulled open your door?
00:45:44You'd be playing a harp now.
00:45:46Think of that.
00:45:48You think of it.
00:45:50I'm tired of thinking.
00:45:52There's plenty of people dying this minute
00:45:54that would give anything to trade places with you.
00:45:59I know what I'm talking about.
00:46:02I'm not so sure.
00:46:04At least they know they're done for.
00:46:06They don't have to sweat blood wondering if they are.
00:46:09Your philosophy stinks, pal.
00:46:13We all know we're going to kick off someday.
00:46:15It's only a question of when.
00:46:19But what's got us on this subject anyway?
00:46:21We'll be discussing politics next.
00:46:24Yeah.
00:46:27Where'd you hide the butts?
00:46:29On the table, sucker.
00:46:38We bored each other with conversation
00:46:40for a couple of hours longer.
00:46:42Every five minutes, one of us was wishing
00:46:44we had another bottle or a radio or something to read.
00:46:48Then, finally, we ran out of chat.
00:46:51I know it's only 11 o'clock, but I want to get up early
00:46:53and make the rounds of the used car lots.
00:46:55No hurry about that.
00:46:57We've got all the time in the world.
00:46:59Maybe you have, but if you think I want to stay cooped up
00:47:01in this place any longer than I have to, you're batty.
00:47:03It's not a bad place.
00:47:05They pay plenty for diggings like this in New York.
00:47:07I wouldn't like it if it was the Ritz.
00:47:11Rotten liquor.
00:47:13You've got a mean cough.
00:47:15Ought to do something about it.
00:47:16I'll be all right.
00:47:18That's what Camille said.
00:47:20Who?
00:47:22Nobody you know.
00:47:26Wasn't that the day in the diet of consumption?
00:47:28Yeah.
00:47:30Wouldn't it be a break for you if I did kick off?
00:47:32You'd be free with all Haskell's dough and car.
00:47:35I don't want to see anybody die.
00:47:38Not even me?
00:47:40Especially not you.
00:47:42One person died in me.
00:47:44If you did, well, that's all I need.
00:47:47You don't like me, do you, Roberts?
00:47:51I like you.
00:47:53I love you.
00:47:56My favorite sport is being kept prisoner.
00:47:59After we sell the car, you can go to blazes for all I care,
00:48:01but not until then.
00:48:10I'm going to bed.
00:48:17Good night, Roberts.
00:48:19Don't try and sneak away during the night.
00:48:21All the doors are locked.
00:48:23Anyway, if I find you gone in the morning,
00:48:25I'll notify the police.
00:48:27They'll pick you up.
00:48:29Don't worry, I know when I'm in a spot.
00:48:31Well, good night.
00:48:33I hope that portable rack isn't too uncomfortable for you.
00:48:35Don't lose any sleep over it, will you, girl?
00:48:46Good night.
00:49:16Two...
00:49:19Six...
00:49:21Five...
00:49:23Seven...
00:49:25Two...
00:49:27Three...
00:49:29Hello?
00:49:31Hello?
00:49:33Hello?
00:49:35Hello?
00:49:43No.
00:49:45Not yet, darling.
00:49:48Tomorrow.
00:49:50Maybe.
00:49:55If this were fiction,
00:49:57I would fall in love with Vera,
00:49:59marry her and make a respectable woman of her,
00:50:01or else she'd make some Supreme Class A sacrifice for me
00:50:04and die.
00:50:06Sue and I would bawl a little over her grave
00:50:08and make some crack about there's good in all of us.
00:50:11But Vera, unfortunately,
00:50:12was just as rotten in the morning
00:50:14as she'd been the night before.
00:50:17All right, all right, I'm coming.
00:50:19Look, Vera, it's almost noon.
00:50:22So what?
00:50:24The dealers will be there all day?
00:50:26They'll be there all year, too,
00:50:28but that doesn't mean I'm going to wait that long.
00:50:30Shut up, you're making noises like a husband.
00:50:33Well, do I rate a whistle?
00:50:35You sure do, but let's go.
00:50:37Let's go, let's go.
00:50:39I spend 85 bucks and two hours preparing bait
00:50:40and all you can say is let's go.
00:50:43Come on.
00:50:49We passed a few used car lots
00:50:51last night down this way.
00:50:53What do you think we can get for this heap?
00:50:55I don't know, plenty.
00:50:57You just let me handle everything.
00:50:59Think we can get $2,000?
00:51:01I don't know, but don't worry.
00:51:03I'll squeeze as much out of this guy as I can.
00:51:05I'll let it go cheap without a fight.
00:51:07He might think we've stolen the car.
00:51:08And listen, don't make any slips and call me Roberts.
00:51:11That'll cook us.
00:51:13I don't need you to tell me that.
00:51:15You better just sit by and keep your mouth closed.
00:51:17Remember, we're both in this soup if anything happens.
00:51:19Forget it and drive.
00:51:21You're my wife, Farrah Haskell.
00:51:23Look, after the deal's closed,
00:51:25let's go back to that place on Hollywood Boulevard
00:51:27where I saw the fur jacket.
00:51:29I want to buy it.
00:51:31After the deal's closed, I'm saying goodbye to you.
00:51:33That's right, I forgot.
00:51:35I guess I'm getting kind of used to you.
00:51:37Well, that's a habit you can start breaking.
00:51:39Let's try this place in the middle of the block.
00:51:47Good afternoon.
00:51:49What can I do for you?
00:51:51We're interested in selling a car.
00:51:53If the price is right.
00:51:55Well, if it's in good mechanical condition,
00:51:57it should blue book for about $1,600.
00:52:00Tony, take a look at this motor.
00:52:02$1,600?
00:52:04Are you kidding?
00:52:06$1,600?
00:52:16Well, maybe $1,850.
00:52:18Before I let it go for $1,850,
00:52:20I'll wreck it and collect the insurance first.
00:52:26Lady, this motor's seen a lot of driving.
00:52:28While the mechanic inspected the car,
00:52:30we haggled.
00:52:32At last, when we were all worn out,
00:52:34we hit a compromise.
00:52:36His price.
00:52:41Okay, it's a deal.
00:52:43All right, come in, we'll sign the papers.
00:52:45I have the ownership papers right here with me.
00:52:47Look, Vera, in the meantime,
00:52:49will you clean out the dash compartment?
00:52:51There may be some stuff in it.
00:52:53All right, darling.
00:52:54$1,850.
00:52:56That dirty crook.
00:53:06New York, huh?
00:53:08Yeah, but you bought the car in Miami.
00:53:10Yeah.
00:53:12Well, now let's see about the insurance.
00:53:14We can either have it transferred or canceled.
00:53:16What kind of insurance do you have, Mr. Haskell?
00:53:19Well, I don't have any.
00:53:21I don't have any.
00:53:23Well, uh...
00:53:25Aren't all the papers there?
00:53:28I don't see any.
00:53:30Surely you know what type of insurance
00:53:32you carry in the car.
00:53:34The name of the company?
00:53:36Yeah, but, uh...
00:53:38Well, if you'll just tell me the name of the company,
00:53:40I'd be very glad to take care of all the details.
00:53:42Well...
00:53:44Did you sign the papers yet?
00:53:46Not yet.
00:53:48Well, don't. We're not selling the car.
00:53:50Well, wait a minute, Mrs. Haskell.
00:53:53You got me out of a tight spot, Vera.
00:53:55But I still don't understand all this.
00:53:57You will in a minute.
00:53:59I almost threw away a gold mine.
00:54:011850 isn't to be sneezed at.
00:54:03The car doesn't book for as much as I thought.
00:54:05We're not selling the car.
00:54:07You want to keep it?
00:54:09Now, wait a minute, Vera.
00:54:11You said yourself I wouldn't be safe
00:54:13until the car was in someone else's name.
00:54:15I'd like to be free of this mess when I go.
00:54:17That's just it, Roberts.
00:54:19You're not going.
00:54:21There's a driver at the next corner.
00:54:23Pull in there and we'll get a bite to eat.
00:54:25And I'll explain.
00:54:27What is this, another one of your brilliant ideas?
00:54:34Hello. May I take your order?
00:54:36Make mine a ham sandwich and coffee.
00:54:38And for you, sir?
00:54:40Oh, I don't care. The same.
00:54:47Get this, Vera.
00:54:48I've been pretty patient so far.
00:54:50I've done everything you asked me to do, but no more.
00:54:52Shut up.
00:54:54You've taken Haskell's money.
00:54:56And you can have the door we get from selling the car.
00:54:58But you're not going to keep me a prisoner.
00:55:00It's a good thing I bought the paper. Take a look at that.
00:55:02Vera, I'm in no mood.
00:55:04Read that.
00:55:12No.
00:55:14Yes.
00:55:16No, I won't do it.
00:55:18Excuse me.
00:55:25Blow the horn when you're through.
00:55:30No one could possibly get away with an act like that.
00:55:32He'll be wise to me in a minute.
00:55:34Don't be yellow. You look enough like him.
00:55:36The same coloring and the same build.
00:55:38See how his clothes fit you?
00:55:40No kidding, you almost had me fooled for a while.
00:55:42Oh, grow up, Vera.
00:55:44Don't you think a father knows his own son?
00:55:46And there must be other relatives.
00:55:48He's an old geezer and he won't pull through.
00:55:50And as far as other relatives are concerned,
00:55:52they haven't seen you in 15 or 20 years.
00:55:55Eat.
00:55:57I'm not hungry. And I won't do it.
00:55:59It's not as tough as it sounds.
00:56:01Remember, you've got all kinds of identification.
00:56:03His car, letters, license.
00:56:05I could never get away with it.
00:56:07It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
00:56:09The old boy has scads of dough.
00:56:11Look in the paper there.
00:56:13Personal fortune assessed at over 15 million.
00:56:15He'll leave plenty, I tell you.
00:56:16It's out, Vera.
00:56:18I won't have anything to do with it.
00:56:20I think you will.
00:56:22Look, Vera.
00:56:24I'll do anything within reason.
00:56:26But not that. So forget it.
00:56:28Find yourself another stooge.
00:56:30You'll be fixed for the rest of your life as Charlie Haskell.
00:56:32You can take your inheritance and go away.
00:56:34No more worrying about the rent,
00:56:36no sweating, scheming,
00:56:38wondering where your next meal's coming from.
00:56:40Think about that, Roberts.
00:56:42Vera, please, you're talking too loud.
00:56:44Unless I'm splitting 50-50 with you.
00:56:46Take it easy, Vera.
00:56:48There's people around here.
00:56:50You don't know who you're talking to.
00:56:52Well, wait till we read that old man Haskell's dead.
00:56:54Then you show up.
00:56:56Like you read in New York that he was sick.
00:56:58No.
00:57:00Suppose he doesn't die?
00:57:02He will. I know he will.
00:57:04Something tells me.
00:57:06But as much as I insisted I would have no part of her scheme,
00:57:08Vera was taking it for granted I would.
00:57:12Neither of us had our mind on the cards
00:57:14as we played that night.
00:57:16We were trying to kill time between newspaper editions.
00:57:18This was a death watch for Vera.
00:57:21Maybe it was for me, too.
00:57:23Don't you realize if I'm caught,
00:57:25they'll want to know where I got the car and stuff,
00:57:27and they'll have me on a murder charge.
00:57:29If you're smart, you won't get caught.
00:57:31I knock with seven.
00:57:33And if I'm caught, don't you realize you'll be out too?
00:57:3518 points, that gives me 30.
00:57:38How will I be out?
00:57:40You'll be out $1,850 we would have gotten on the car.
00:57:42Really, Vera, you'd be an awful chump
00:57:44if you threw away all that dough
00:57:46and said, you know what?
00:57:48Let me sell the bus tomorrow.
00:57:50With the money it'll bring and what you've already got,
00:57:52a clever kid like you can run it up in no time.
00:57:54Then we'd both be in the clear.
00:57:56I'll be in the clear anyway.
00:57:58Maybe, maybe if I got caught,
00:58:00I'd get good and sore too, you know.
00:58:02You mean you'd squeal?
00:58:04Oh, no, not squeal exactly.
00:58:06Never mind what you meant.
00:58:08Even if you did tell the cops I was in on it with you,
00:58:10what could they do to me?
00:58:12They might give me the same medicine they gave you.
00:58:14Yeah.
00:58:17But I'm on my way anyhow.
00:58:21All they'll be doing will be rushing it.
00:58:23All right.
00:58:25But think of the $1,850 you'd lose.
00:58:27You'd kick yourself along the block
00:58:29if you ever let get away from you.
00:58:31I'll take the chance.
00:58:33Want another drink?
00:58:35You're being a goon.
00:58:37That's the way people wind up behind the eight ball.
00:58:39Once they get a few dollars they become greedy and want more.
00:58:41My, my.
00:58:43Caesar.
00:58:44Who?
00:58:46That's the way people wind up once he took the count.
00:58:48A couple of days ago you didn't have a dime.
00:58:50Why, you were so broke you couldn't pay cash
00:58:52for a postage stamp.
00:58:54Now you've got almost $700 with $1,850 in the offing.
00:58:56Take my advice, don't try for more.
00:58:58I'm tired of this game.
00:59:00Let's have some blackjack.
00:59:02Play solitaire.
00:59:04Okay, I will if that's the way you feel about it.
00:59:06That's the way I feel about it.
00:59:08Getting sore and throwing things won't help much, Roberts.
00:59:10I'm really doing you a favor.
00:59:12I help you out of a jam by keeping my mouth shut.
00:59:14I show you how to make some soft money.
00:59:16I didn't do anything.
00:59:17Yes, you did.
00:59:18No, I didn't. You know I didn't.
00:59:20All right, then.
00:59:23Suppose I call the cops.
00:59:25If you're innocent, what do you got to be scared of?
00:59:27Okay.
00:59:29Call them, you mud.
00:59:31Go ahead and call them, see if I care.
00:59:33At least they'll give me a square deal.
00:59:35You want me to call them?
00:59:37You heard me, but I'm warning you.
00:59:39If I'm pinched, I'll swear you were in on it.
00:59:41I'll say that you helped me.
00:59:43If I fry, I'll get even with you.
00:59:44If you don't care, then try it and see.
00:59:46Call them.
00:59:48Yeah.
00:59:50Okay, I will.
01:00:03Information?
01:00:05I want the number of the Hollywood police station.
01:00:10Okay, I got it. Thanks.
01:00:15Wait a minute, Vera. You wouldn't do that.
01:00:17Oh, wouldn't I? Give me that and I'll show you if I would.
01:00:19Take it easy now. Let's talk this over.
01:00:21This was early in the evening,
01:00:23and the conversation, while hectic,
01:00:25was at least pitched low.
01:00:27But as the minutes passed
01:00:29and more obstacles to her plan popped into my head,
01:00:32the air got blue.
01:00:34Each word coming from our lips cracked like a whip.
01:00:37I reminded her that as Charles Haskell,
01:00:39I didn't even know my mother's name,
01:00:41where I'd gone to school,
01:00:42the name of my best friend,
01:00:44whether I had an Aunt Emma or not,
01:00:46my religion,
01:00:48and if I'd ever owned a dog.
01:00:50I didn't even know what my middle initial stood for.
01:00:52I also pointed out that the real Haskell
01:00:54had a scar on his forearm.
01:00:56His people never saw that scar.
01:00:58He told me you ran away
01:01:00right after putting out the kid's eye.
01:01:02Yeah, but his father knew he was cut.
01:01:04It had to be some kind of a mark.
01:01:06So what?
01:01:08The old man's dead or will be,
01:01:10I hope by tomorrow morning's papers.
01:01:12Oh, couldn't you?
01:01:14Boy, for that kind of dough,
01:01:16I'd let you cut my leg off.
01:01:18You're drunk and you're crazy mad, Vera.
01:01:20Turn me in if you want to, but I won't get mixed up in this.
01:01:22Besides, how do we know Haskell was such a phony?
01:01:24Maybe he wasn't the man's son at all.
01:01:26Maybe he just dreamed it up.
01:01:28Well, dream it or not, you won't be dreaming
01:01:30when the law taps you on the shoulder.
01:01:32There's a cute little gas chamber
01:01:34waiting for you, Roberts.
01:01:36And I hear extradition to Arizona's a cinch.
01:01:38Where's that phone?
01:01:40Vera!
01:01:42I want a phone call, please.
01:01:45I hate you, you stinker.
01:01:47You leave me alone.
01:01:49I'll let you alone when you promise
01:01:51to leave the phone where it is.
01:01:53You're drunk, you don't know what you're doing.
01:01:55You're hurting me.
01:01:57Will you promise?
01:01:59All right.
01:02:01You hurt me.
01:02:03I'm sorry, but...
01:02:05And it's hot in here.
01:02:07Open up a window.
01:02:09It's not hot.
01:02:10Do it or do I do it.
01:02:13You're no gentleman, see?
01:02:15Yeah.
01:02:17All right, I'll open up the window.
01:02:21Vera!
01:02:27Vera, open the door.
01:02:29Please open the door.
01:02:31Vera, open the door.
01:02:33Don't use the phone, listen to me.
01:02:35I don't like you, Roberts.
01:02:37You're no gentleman, see?
01:02:38And I'm gonna get even with you.
01:02:40If you don't open the door,
01:02:42I'm gonna kick it down, Vera.
01:02:44Vera, don't call the cops.
01:02:46Listen to me, I'll do anything you say.
01:02:48Vera, let me in.
01:02:50I'll break the phone.
01:03:09Vera.
01:03:30The world is full of skeptics.
01:03:32I know.
01:03:34I'm one myself.
01:03:35In the Haskell business,
01:03:37how many of you would believe he fell out of the car?
01:03:39And now, after killing Vera
01:03:41without really meaning to do it,
01:03:43how many of you would believe it wasn't premeditated?
01:03:45In a jury room,
01:03:47every last man of you would go down
01:03:49shouting that she had me over a barrel
01:03:51and my only out was force.
01:03:53The room was still.
01:03:56So quiet that for a while
01:03:58I wondered if I had suddenly gone deaf.
01:04:00It was pure fear, of course.
01:04:02And I was hysterical.
01:04:03But without making a sound.
01:04:06Vera was dead.
01:04:08And I was her murderer.
01:04:10Murderer?
01:04:12What an awful word that is.
01:04:14But I'd become one.
01:04:16I'd better not get caught.
01:04:18What evidence there was around the place
01:04:20had to be destroyed.
01:04:22And from the looks of things, there was plenty.
01:04:24Looking around the room at things we'd bought
01:04:26was like looking into the faces of a hundred people
01:04:28who'd seen us together and who remembered me.
01:04:30This was the kind of testimony I couldn't rub out.
01:04:31No.
01:04:33I could burn clothes and hide bottles
01:04:35for the next five years.
01:04:37There'd always be witnesses.
01:04:39The landlady for one.
01:04:41She could identify me, the car dealer,
01:04:43the waitress in the drive-in, the girl in the dress shop,
01:04:45and that guy in the liquor store.
01:04:47They could all identify me.
01:04:49I was cooked.
01:04:51Done for.
01:04:53I had to get out of there.
01:04:55While once I'd remained beside a dead body
01:04:57planning carefully how to avoid being accused of killing him,
01:04:59this time I couldn't.
01:05:02I knew it.
01:05:04Felt it.
01:05:06I was like a guy suffering from shock.
01:05:08Things were whirling around in my head.
01:05:10I couldn't make myself think right.
01:05:12All I could think of was the guy with the saxophone
01:05:15and what he was playing.
01:05:17It wasn't a love song anymore.
01:05:19It was a dirge.
01:05:31It was a dirge.
01:06:01But my problems weren't solved.
01:06:03I had to stay away from New York for all time.
01:06:06Because Al Roberts was listed as dead
01:06:08and had to stay dead.
01:06:10But I could never go back to Hollywood.
01:06:12Someone might recognize me as Haskell.
01:06:15Then, too, there was Sue.
01:06:19I could never go to her with a thing like that.
01:06:21I couldn't.
01:06:23I couldn't.
01:06:25I couldn't.
01:06:27I couldn't.
01:06:29I couldn't.
01:06:31With a thing like this hanging over my head,
01:06:34all I could do was pray she'd be happy.
01:06:49I was in Bakersfield before I read
01:06:51that Vera's body was discovered.
01:06:53That the police were looking for Haskell
01:06:55in connection with his wife's murder.
01:06:58Isn't that a laugh?
01:07:00Haskell got me into this mess
01:07:02and Haskell was getting me out of it.
01:07:04The police were searching for a dead man.
01:07:10I keep trying to forget what happened
01:07:13and wonder what my life might have been
01:07:15if that car of Haskell's hadn't stopped.
01:07:20But one thing I don't have to wonder about,
01:07:23I know.
01:07:26Someday a car will stop to pick me up
01:07:27that I never thumbed.
01:07:33Yes.
01:07:35Fate,
01:07:37or some mysterious force
01:07:39can put the finger on you or me
01:07:42for no good reason at all.
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