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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:04:27,684 --> 00:04:29,845 Make it fast. 2 00:04:29,853 --> 00:04:31,809 Don't want the boss to get wise. 3 00:04:32,773 --> 00:04:34,479 Jeez. 4 00:04:36,151 --> 00:04:38,062 Ain't the old bastard a riot 5 00:04:38,069 --> 00:04:41,561 when he starts that bull about "turnin' over a new leaf"? 6 00:04:41,573 --> 00:04:43,734 "Not a damn drink on the house," he tells me. 7 00:04:43,742 --> 00:04:45,198 "And all these bums 8 00:04:45,202 --> 00:04:47,693 have gotta pay up their room rent beginning tomorrow," he says. 9 00:04:50,999 --> 00:04:53,706 I'll be glad to pay up... tomorrow. 10 00:04:55,712 --> 00:04:58,670 And I know my fellow inmates will promise the same. 11 00:04:58,673 --> 00:05:02,131 They've all a touching credulity concerning tomorrow. 12 00:05:03,970 --> 00:05:07,883 It'll be a great day for them tomorrow... Feast of all fools. 13 00:05:09,392 --> 00:05:11,849 And their ships will come in loaded to the gunwales 14 00:05:11,853 --> 00:05:14,640 with canceled regrets and promises fulfilled 15 00:05:14,648 --> 00:05:16,980 and clean slates and new leases. 16 00:05:16,983 --> 00:05:20,441 - Yeah, and a ton of hop. - Don't mock the faith. 17 00:05:22,030 --> 00:05:25,272 Have you no respect for religion, you unregenerate wop? 18 00:05:26,535 --> 00:05:28,526 What does it matter if the truth is 19 00:05:28,537 --> 00:05:33,031 that their favoring breeze will have the stink of nickel whiskey on its breath, 20 00:05:33,041 --> 00:05:36,579 and their sea will be a growler of lager and ale, 21 00:05:38,004 --> 00:05:40,996 and their ships will long since be looted and scuttled 22 00:05:41,007 --> 00:05:43,214 and sunk on the bottom? 23 00:05:43,218 --> 00:05:45,800 To hell with the truth. 24 00:05:45,804 --> 00:05:49,513 The history of the world proves the truth has no bearing on anything. 25 00:05:51,059 --> 00:05:53,425 It's the lie of the pipe dream that gives life 26 00:05:53,436 --> 00:05:57,725 to the whole misbegotten, mad lot of us, drunk or sober. 27 00:05:57,732 --> 00:06:00,974 The old philosopher, like hickey calls ya. 28 00:06:00,986 --> 00:06:03,443 I suppose you don't fall for no pipe dreams. 29 00:06:03,446 --> 00:06:04,777 No, I don't. 30 00:06:05,782 --> 00:06:08,273 Mine are dead and buried behind me. 31 00:06:09,828 --> 00:06:14,288 What's before me is the fact that death is a fine, long sleep, 32 00:06:14,291 --> 00:06:15,656 and I'm damn tired. 33 00:06:16,626 --> 00:06:18,708 And it can't come too soon for me. 34 00:06:18,712 --> 00:06:22,204 Yeah, just hangin' around, hopin' you croak, ain't ya? 35 00:06:22,215 --> 00:06:24,672 Well, I'm bettin' you have a good, long wait. 36 00:06:24,676 --> 00:06:27,543 Jeez, somebody'd have to take an ax to croak you. 37 00:06:29,431 --> 00:06:32,514 Yeah, it's my bad luck to be cursed with an iron constitution 38 00:06:32,517 --> 00:06:34,929 that even Harry's booze can't corrode. 39 00:06:34,936 --> 00:06:39,179 The old anarchist wise guy that knows all the answers. 40 00:06:39,190 --> 00:06:40,851 Forget the "anarchist" part of it. 41 00:06:42,110 --> 00:06:44,396 I'm through with the movement long since. 42 00:06:45,739 --> 00:06:50,108 I saw that if men wanted to be saved from themselves, 43 00:06:50,118 --> 00:06:52,780 that would mean they'd have to give up greed. 44 00:06:52,787 --> 00:06:55,950 They wouldn't pay that price for Liberty. 45 00:06:55,957 --> 00:06:59,495 So I said to the world, god bless all here and may the best man win... 46 00:07:00,420 --> 00:07:03,287 And die of gluttony. 47 00:07:03,298 --> 00:07:08,008 I took a seat in the grandstand of philosophical detachment 48 00:07:08,011 --> 00:07:11,799 to fall asleep observing the cannibals do their death dance. 49 00:07:14,142 --> 00:07:16,224 Ain't I telling him the truth, comrade Hugo? 50 00:07:16,227 --> 00:07:19,344 Oh, for chrissake, don't get that bughouse bum started. 51 00:07:19,356 --> 00:07:21,312 Capitalist swine! 52 00:07:21,316 --> 00:07:24,103 Bourgeois stool pigeon! 53 00:07:24,110 --> 00:07:27,022 Have the slaves no right to sleep even? 54 00:07:31,284 --> 00:07:34,447 Hello, little rocky, little monkey face. 55 00:07:34,454 --> 00:07:37,161 Where are your little slave girls? 56 00:07:38,833 --> 00:07:41,495 Don't be a fool. Loan me a dollar. 57 00:07:41,503 --> 00:07:43,243 Damn bourgeois wop! 58 00:07:43,964 --> 00:07:46,046 Buy me a drink. 59 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:50,671 He's out again. 60 00:07:50,679 --> 00:07:53,796 He's lucky no one don't take his crack serious, 61 00:07:53,807 --> 00:07:57,220 or he'd wake up every morning in a hospital. 62 00:07:57,227 --> 00:08:00,719 Nobody takes him seriously. That's his epitaph. 63 00:08:00,730 --> 00:08:05,724 If I've been through with the movement long since, it's been through with him, 64 00:08:05,735 --> 00:08:09,603 and thanks to whiskey he's the only one who doesn't know it. 65 00:08:09,614 --> 00:08:13,106 He's gonna pull that "slave girl" stuff on me once too often. 66 00:08:13,118 --> 00:08:16,201 Hell, you'd think I was a pimp or somethin'. 67 00:08:16,204 --> 00:08:18,035 A pimp don't hold a job. 68 00:08:18,039 --> 00:08:19,950 I'm a bartender. 69 00:08:19,958 --> 00:08:22,370 Them tarts, Margie and Pearl, 70 00:08:22,377 --> 00:08:25,835 they're just a sideline to pick up some extra dough. 71 00:08:25,839 --> 00:08:27,329 Strictly business, 72 00:08:27,340 --> 00:08:30,798 like they were fighters and I was their manager, see. 73 00:08:30,802 --> 00:08:35,136 I fix the cops for them so they can hustle without gettin' pinched. 74 00:08:35,140 --> 00:08:37,722 And I don't beat 'em up like a pimp would. 75 00:08:37,726 --> 00:08:39,307 They like me. 76 00:08:39,310 --> 00:08:41,801 What if I... I take their money? 77 00:08:41,813 --> 00:08:43,769 Tarts can't hang on to dough. 78 00:08:44,649 --> 00:08:45,980 But I'm a bartender 79 00:08:45,984 --> 00:08:48,726 and I work hard for my living in this dump. 80 00:08:50,530 --> 00:08:53,317 Shrewd businessman who doesn't miss an opportunity 81 00:08:53,324 --> 00:08:55,030 to get on in the world, huh? 82 00:08:55,035 --> 00:08:56,616 Yeah, that's me. 83 00:08:56,619 --> 00:08:58,405 Grab another ball, Larry. 84 00:09:02,709 --> 00:09:06,952 You'd never think all these bums had a bed upstairs to go to. 85 00:09:06,963 --> 00:09:10,797 Scared if they hit the hay they wouldn't be here when hickey showed up 86 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:13,416 and they'd miss a couple of drinks. 87 00:09:13,428 --> 00:09:15,760 To me, it's not so much the hope of booze. 88 00:09:15,764 --> 00:09:18,096 But I've got the blues, 89 00:09:18,099 --> 00:09:21,216 and hickey's a great one to make a joke of everything and cheer you up. 90 00:09:21,227 --> 00:09:23,684 Yeah, some kidder. 91 00:09:23,688 --> 00:09:27,601 Remember how he works up that gag about his wife when he's cockeyed, 92 00:09:27,609 --> 00:09:30,897 cryin' over her picture and then spilling it on you all of the sudden 93 00:09:30,904 --> 00:09:33,190 that he left her in the hay with the iceman? 94 00:09:34,783 --> 00:09:37,775 Yeah, I wonder what's happenin'? 95 00:09:41,164 --> 00:09:44,656 He always got here a couple of days before Harry's birthday party. 96 00:09:44,667 --> 00:09:47,158 And now he's only got till tonight to make it. 97 00:09:47,921 --> 00:09:49,457 This dump. 98 00:09:49,464 --> 00:09:52,331 It's like a morgue with all these bums passed out. 99 00:09:52,342 --> 00:09:53,923 It's a liel 100 00:09:53,927 --> 00:09:55,417 papa. 101 00:09:55,428 --> 00:09:57,043 Papa. 102 00:09:57,055 --> 00:09:58,716 Poor devil. 103 00:10:00,183 --> 00:10:03,266 Ah, the hell with pity. Does no good. I'm through with it. 104 00:10:04,646 --> 00:10:06,807 Dreamin' about his old man. 105 00:10:06,815 --> 00:10:08,806 From what the old-timers say, 106 00:10:08,817 --> 00:10:11,900 the old gent sure made a pile of dough in the bucket shop game 107 00:10:11,903 --> 00:10:14,064 before the cops got him. 108 00:10:14,072 --> 00:10:15,437 Jeez. 109 00:10:15,448 --> 00:10:18,155 I've seen 'em bad before, but never this bad. 110 00:10:18,159 --> 00:10:19,774 Look at that getup. 111 00:10:19,786 --> 00:10:23,199 Sold his suit and shoes at solly's two days ago. 112 00:10:23,206 --> 00:10:25,913 Solly give him two bucks and a bum outfit. 113 00:10:25,917 --> 00:10:29,830 Yesterday he sells the bum one back to solly for four bits 114 00:10:29,838 --> 00:10:31,703 and gets these rags to put on. 115 00:10:31,714 --> 00:10:33,250 Now he's through. 116 00:10:33,258 --> 00:10:37,126 That's solly's final edition he won't take back for nothin'. 117 00:10:37,137 --> 00:10:39,594 Willie sure is on the bottom. 118 00:10:39,597 --> 00:10:41,679 I ain't never seen no one so bad, 119 00:10:41,683 --> 00:10:44,846 except hickey on the end of a couple of his bats. 120 00:10:45,687 --> 00:10:47,678 It's a great game, 121 00:10:47,689 --> 00:10:49,680 the pursuit of happiness. 122 00:10:49,691 --> 00:10:51,682 Harry don't know what to do about him. 123 00:10:51,693 --> 00:10:53,684 He called up his old lady's lawyer 124 00:10:53,695 --> 00:10:57,108 like he always does when Willie gets licked. 125 00:10:57,115 --> 00:10:59,948 You remember, they used to send down a private dick 126 00:10:59,951 --> 00:11:02,237 to give him the rush to a cure. 127 00:11:02,245 --> 00:11:04,406 But the lawyer tells Harry nix... 128 00:11:04,414 --> 00:11:08,578 The old lady is off of Willie for keeps this time, and he can go to hell. 129 00:11:11,212 --> 00:11:13,954 With the consolation he hasn't got far to go. 130 00:11:17,177 --> 00:11:19,463 It's a goddamn liel 131 00:11:19,470 --> 00:11:21,461 - nix. Nix! - Oh, papa! 132 00:11:21,472 --> 00:11:24,464 - Nix! Cut out the noise! - Oh, Jesus, papa! 133 00:11:24,475 --> 00:11:26,090 Je - shh! Sus! 134 00:11:26,102 --> 00:11:27,967 Cut out the... 135 00:11:27,979 --> 00:11:29,264 Who's that yellin'? 136 00:11:29,272 --> 00:11:32,184 Willie, boss. The Brooklyn boys is after him. 137 00:11:32,192 --> 00:11:36,606 Well, why don't you give the poor fella a drink and keep him quiet? 138 00:11:36,613 --> 00:11:39,821 Jeez, can't I get a wink o' sleep in my own backroom? 139 00:11:39,824 --> 00:11:42,691 Listen to the blind-eyed, deef old bastard, will ya. 140 00:11:42,702 --> 00:11:46,911 He give me strict orders not to let Willie hang up no more drinks, no matter what. 141 00:11:46,915 --> 00:11:49,031 What's that? I can't hear ya. 142 00:11:49,042 --> 00:11:51,658 You're a cockeyed liar. 143 00:11:51,669 --> 00:11:55,662 Never refused a drink to anyone needed it as bad in my life. 144 00:11:55,673 --> 00:11:57,629 Told you to use your judgment. 145 00:11:58,676 --> 00:12:01,042 Too busy thinkin' up ways to cheat me. 146 00:12:02,013 --> 00:12:03,969 I ain't as blind as you think. 147 00:12:03,973 --> 00:12:07,465 I can still see a cash register, b'jeez. 148 00:12:07,477 --> 00:12:10,435 Oh, sure, boss. Swell chance of foolin' you. 149 00:12:10,438 --> 00:12:14,727 I-I'm wise to you and your sidekick Chuck. 150 00:12:14,734 --> 00:12:18,522 B'jeez, you're... you're burglars, not barkeeps. 151 00:12:18,529 --> 00:12:21,521 You'd steal the pennies off your dead mothers' eyes. 152 00:12:21,532 --> 00:12:24,820 I'll fire both of ya. 153 00:12:24,827 --> 00:12:26,988 No one ever played Harry hope for a sucker. 154 00:12:27,956 --> 00:12:29,787 No one but everybody. 155 00:12:29,791 --> 00:12:32,578 Least you could do is keep things quiet. 156 00:12:32,585 --> 00:12:35,577 Give me a drink, rocky. Harry said it was all right. 157 00:12:35,588 --> 00:12:36,828 God, I need a drink. 158 00:12:36,839 --> 00:12:38,875 Then grab it. It's right under your nose. 159 00:12:40,176 --> 00:12:41,336 Thank you. 160 00:12:42,929 --> 00:12:44,089 When. 161 00:12:44,764 --> 00:12:45,844 When! 162 00:12:46,683 --> 00:12:49,140 I didn't say take a bath! 163 00:12:49,143 --> 00:12:52,135 Jeez, look. He's killed half a pint or more! 164 00:12:52,146 --> 00:12:54,353 Leave him be, the poor devil. 165 00:12:55,858 --> 00:12:59,521 Half-pint of that dynamite in one swig'll fix him for a while. 166 00:12:59,529 --> 00:13:01,520 If it doesn't kill him. 167 00:13:01,531 --> 00:13:03,613 All right by me. It ain't my booze. 168 00:13:04,784 --> 00:13:06,740 Wh-wh-whose booze? 169 00:13:07,912 --> 00:13:09,994 Gimme some! 170 00:13:09,998 --> 00:13:12,080 Where's hickey? 171 00:13:12,083 --> 00:13:15,371 - What time is it, rocky? - Getting near time to open up. 172 00:13:15,378 --> 00:13:17,710 Time you begun to sweep up in the bar. 173 00:13:17,714 --> 00:13:19,705 Never mind the time. 174 00:13:19,716 --> 00:13:23,959 If hickey ain't come, it's time Joe went to sleep again. 175 00:13:26,889 --> 00:13:29,926 Hey. I got an idea. 176 00:13:29,934 --> 00:13:33,847 Say, Larry, what about that young guy parritt? 177 00:13:33,855 --> 00:13:36,267 Come to look you up last night and rented a room. 178 00:13:37,483 --> 00:13:39,269 He's upstairs, asleep. 179 00:13:40,778 --> 00:13:42,860 No hope there, Joe. He's broke. 180 00:13:43,740 --> 00:13:45,526 Me and rocky knows different. 181 00:13:45,533 --> 00:13:48,696 Had a roll when he paid you his room rent, didn't he, rocky? 182 00:13:48,703 --> 00:13:52,070 Yeah, he flashed it like he forgot and then tried to hide it quick. 183 00:13:52,081 --> 00:13:54,788 - He did, did he? - Yeah. I figured he don't belong. 184 00:13:54,792 --> 00:13:56,783 But he said he was a friend of yours. 185 00:13:56,794 --> 00:13:57,909 He's a liar. 186 00:13:59,756 --> 00:14:02,088 Ah, it's true his... 187 00:14:02,091 --> 00:14:05,504 His mother and I were friends a few years ago on the coast. 188 00:14:07,472 --> 00:14:09,713 You read in the papers about that bombing on the coast 189 00:14:09,724 --> 00:14:11,385 where a few people were killed? 190 00:14:12,810 --> 00:14:15,176 Well, the one woman they pinched, Rosa parritt, 191 00:14:15,188 --> 00:14:17,179 is his mother. 192 00:14:17,190 --> 00:14:20,432 They'll be coming up for trial soon. They haven't got a chance. 193 00:14:20,443 --> 00:14:21,899 She'll get life. 194 00:14:23,613 --> 00:14:26,605 I'm telling you all this so you'll know why if Don acts a bit queer 195 00:14:26,616 --> 00:14:28,322 and not jump on him. 196 00:14:28,326 --> 00:14:30,191 He's her only kid. 197 00:14:30,203 --> 00:14:32,364 Why ain't he out there stickin' by her? 198 00:14:32,372 --> 00:14:35,364 - Must be a good reason. - I get it. 199 00:14:35,375 --> 00:14:38,082 Then what kind of a sap is he to hang on to his right name? 200 00:14:38,086 --> 00:14:40,202 I'm telling you, I don't know. 201 00:14:40,213 --> 00:14:41,578 And I don't wanna know! 202 00:14:42,965 --> 00:14:45,331 To hell with the movement and everybody connected with it. 203 00:14:52,141 --> 00:14:56,601 If there's one thing more than another I can't stand, 204 00:14:56,604 --> 00:15:00,267 it's the sucker game you and Hugo calls the movement. 205 00:15:01,275 --> 00:15:04,108 Reminds me of a damn fool argument 206 00:15:04,112 --> 00:15:06,228 me and mose Porter had the other night. 207 00:15:06,239 --> 00:15:08,230 He's drunk, and I'm drunker, 208 00:15:08,241 --> 00:15:09,777 and he says, 209 00:15:09,784 --> 00:15:12,400 "socialists and anarchists, we oughta shoot 'em dead." 210 00:15:12,412 --> 00:15:14,448 I said, "hold on. Hold on now. 211 00:15:14,455 --> 00:15:17,367 You talk as if the socialists and the anarchists 212 00:15:17,375 --> 00:15:19,707 were the same thing. 213 00:15:19,710 --> 00:15:22,577 The anarchist, he never works. 214 00:15:22,588 --> 00:15:25,625 He drinks. He never buys. 215 00:15:25,633 --> 00:15:29,125 And if he do ever get a nickel, he blows it on bombs 216 00:15:29,137 --> 00:15:30,843 and wouldn't give you nothin'. 217 00:15:30,847 --> 00:15:32,838 So you can go ahead and shoot him. 218 00:15:32,849 --> 00:15:35,511 But, uh, the socialist, 219 00:15:35,518 --> 00:15:38,635 sometimes he gets a job, 220 00:15:38,646 --> 00:15:42,230 and if he gets ten bucks he's bound by his religion 221 00:15:42,233 --> 00:15:45,350 to split it with ya 50-50. 222 00:15:45,361 --> 00:15:49,024 So you don't shoot those socialists while I'm around. 223 00:15:49,031 --> 00:15:51,568 Course, if they broke, 224 00:15:51,576 --> 00:15:54,283 then they no-good bastards too." 225 00:15:57,039 --> 00:15:58,620 B'god, Joe, 226 00:15:59,959 --> 00:16:02,416 you've got all the beauty of human nature 227 00:16:02,420 --> 00:16:05,332 and the practical wisdom of the world in that little parable. 228 00:16:05,339 --> 00:16:06,624 Sure. 229 00:16:06,632 --> 00:16:09,749 Larry ain't the only wise guy in this dump. Eh, Joe? 230 00:16:11,179 --> 00:16:12,760 Here's your guy. 231 00:16:16,350 --> 00:16:17,806 Hello, Larry. 232 00:16:18,978 --> 00:16:20,718 Hello. 233 00:16:20,730 --> 00:16:23,893 What's up? Thought you'd be asleep. 234 00:16:23,900 --> 00:16:25,811 I couldn't make it. 235 00:16:25,818 --> 00:16:28,275 I, uh, thought I might see if you were around. 236 00:16:29,363 --> 00:16:32,526 Well... sit down and join the bums then. 237 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:49,293 The rules of the house are that drinks may be served at all hours. 238 00:16:53,054 --> 00:16:55,716 Oh, I get ya. But, uh, hell, I'm just about broke. 239 00:17:02,939 --> 00:17:04,804 Oh, I know. You guys saw... 240 00:17:06,442 --> 00:17:09,434 You think I have a roll, don't you? Well, I'll show you you're wrong. 241 00:17:09,445 --> 00:17:11,481 You see? They're all ones. 242 00:17:12,573 --> 00:17:14,814 I gotta live on this till I get a job. 243 00:17:19,205 --> 00:17:22,572 Oh, you think I made up a phony, don't you? Why the hell would I do that? 244 00:17:24,585 --> 00:17:26,576 Where would I get a roll anyway? 245 00:17:26,587 --> 00:17:29,420 You don't get rich doin' what I been doin'. Ask Larry. 246 00:17:29,423 --> 00:17:31,505 You're lucky in the movement you get enough to eat. 247 00:17:32,510 --> 00:17:34,501 What's this song and dance about? 248 00:17:34,512 --> 00:17:35,877 We ain't said nothin'. 249 00:17:37,139 --> 00:17:39,130 Oh, I was just tryin' to put you right. 250 00:17:39,141 --> 00:17:41,883 I don't want you to think I'm a tightwad. I'll buy you a drink if you want one. 251 00:17:41,894 --> 00:17:43,134 N if"? 252 00:17:43,145 --> 00:17:45,136 Man, when I don't want a drink, 253 00:17:45,147 --> 00:17:48,310 you call the morgue and you tell 'em come take Joe's body away 254 00:17:48,317 --> 00:17:49,807 'cause he's sure enough dead. 255 00:17:49,819 --> 00:17:52,811 Now gimme the bottle quick, rocky, before he changes his mind. 256 00:17:52,822 --> 00:17:54,904 I'll take a cigar when I go in the bar. 257 00:17:56,867 --> 00:17:59,609 - What'll you have? - Oh, uh, nothin'. I'm on the wagon. 258 00:17:59,620 --> 00:18:01,702 - What's the damage? - Fifteen cents. 259 00:18:03,916 --> 00:18:05,497 That must be some booze. 260 00:18:05,501 --> 00:18:08,584 It's cyanide cut with carbolic acid 261 00:18:08,588 --> 00:18:11,000 to give it a mellow flavor. 262 00:18:11,007 --> 00:18:12,167 Here's luck. 263 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:26,178 I guess I'll get back in the bar and catch a couple of winks 264 00:18:26,188 --> 00:18:28,349 before opening-up time. 265 00:18:32,111 --> 00:18:34,022 One-drink guy. 266 00:18:35,698 --> 00:18:38,815 No hope till Harry's birthday party. 267 00:18:38,826 --> 00:18:40,362 'Less hickey shows up. 268 00:18:41,746 --> 00:18:43,737 Hickey do come, Larry, 269 00:18:43,748 --> 00:18:47,286 you wake me up if you have to bat me with a chair. 270 00:18:56,302 --> 00:18:57,542 Who's hickey? 271 00:18:58,304 --> 00:18:59,714 A hardware drummer. 272 00:19:01,057 --> 00:19:04,390 He's an old friend of Harry hope's and all the gang. 273 00:19:04,393 --> 00:19:05,803 He's a grand guy. 274 00:19:07,063 --> 00:19:08,803 Comes here twice a year regularly 275 00:19:08,814 --> 00:19:11,100 on a periodical drunk 276 00:19:11,108 --> 00:19:13,064 and blows in all his dough. 277 00:19:14,445 --> 00:19:16,652 Doesn't run into anyone he knows in his business here. 278 00:19:16,656 --> 00:19:19,318 Yes, that's what I want too, Larry. 279 00:19:19,325 --> 00:19:21,156 Like I told you last night, 280 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:23,867 I gotta stay undercover. 281 00:19:23,871 --> 00:19:26,863 You did a lot of hinting. You didn't tell me anything. 282 00:19:28,042 --> 00:19:30,033 Well, you can guess, can't ya? 283 00:19:30,044 --> 00:19:32,410 - Say, what kind of joint is this anyway? - This? 284 00:19:33,881 --> 00:19:36,748 This is no chance saloon. 285 00:19:36,759 --> 00:19:40,126 Bedrock bar. The end of the line café. 286 00:19:40,137 --> 00:19:42,423 The bottom of the sea rathskeller. 287 00:19:43,808 --> 00:19:46,550 Didn't you notice the beautiful calm in the atmosphere? 288 00:19:47,645 --> 00:19:49,601 That's because this is the last harbor. 289 00:19:51,190 --> 00:19:54,023 No one here has to worry about where they're going next, 290 00:19:54,026 --> 00:19:56,483 'cause they can go no further. 291 00:19:56,487 --> 00:19:58,899 Although even here they keep up the appearance of life 292 00:19:58,906 --> 00:20:02,819 with a few harmless pipe dreams about their yesterdays and tomorrows. 293 00:20:04,829 --> 00:20:06,319 What's your pipe dream, Larry? 294 00:20:06,330 --> 00:20:07,945 Oh, I'm the exception. 295 00:20:09,417 --> 00:20:11,373 I haven't any left, thank god. 296 00:20:13,045 --> 00:20:16,378 Don't complain about this place. You couldn't find a better for lying low. 297 00:20:16,382 --> 00:20:17,792 Well, I'm glad of that. 298 00:20:19,051 --> 00:20:22,509 I got knocked off base by a business on the coast. 299 00:20:23,848 --> 00:20:26,430 Since then, it's been no fun dodging around the country, 300 00:20:26,434 --> 00:20:28,425 thinking every guy I see might be a dick. 301 00:20:28,436 --> 00:20:31,473 You're safe here. The cops ignore this dump. 302 00:20:32,940 --> 00:20:34,931 They think it's as harmless as a graveyard, 303 00:20:34,942 --> 00:20:36,807 and b'god, you know, they're right. 304 00:20:39,029 --> 00:20:40,690 Yeah, it's been lonely as hell. 305 00:20:42,491 --> 00:20:44,482 Christ, I'm glad I found you, Larry. 306 00:20:44,493 --> 00:20:47,485 You know, I kept sayin' to myself, if I can just find Larry, 307 00:20:47,496 --> 00:20:49,487 he's the one guy in the world who'd understand. 308 00:20:49,498 --> 00:20:50,863 Understand what? 309 00:20:52,793 --> 00:20:54,158 All I've been through. 310 00:20:58,716 --> 00:21:01,799 Oh... oh, I know. You're thinkin', "this guy has a hell of a nerve. 311 00:21:01,802 --> 00:21:04,088 I haven't seen him since he was a kid." 312 00:21:04,096 --> 00:21:06,052 Well, I've never forgotten you, Larry. 313 00:21:08,434 --> 00:21:11,722 You're the one friend of mother's who ever paid any attention to me. 314 00:21:11,729 --> 00:21:14,687 I remember you used to ask me questions. You took what I said seriously. 315 00:21:16,734 --> 00:21:18,349 I got the feeling in the years you lived with us 316 00:21:18,360 --> 00:21:20,567 you'd sort of taken the place of my old man. 317 00:21:20,571 --> 00:21:23,529 - I don't suppose you remember it. - I remember it very well. 318 00:21:25,451 --> 00:21:28,409 You were a lonely, serious little shaver then. 319 00:21:31,123 --> 00:21:33,614 Why didn't they pick you up when they got your mother and the rest? 320 00:21:33,626 --> 00:21:35,912 Oh... oh, I, uh... I wasn't around. 321 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:38,457 And as soon as I heard the news I went undercover. 322 00:21:39,965 --> 00:21:42,957 You've noticed my glad rags. I was staked to them as a disguise. 323 00:21:42,968 --> 00:21:46,631 And then I, you know, hung around gambling joints and pool halls and hooker shops, 324 00:21:46,639 --> 00:21:48,880 places where they wouldn't look for a wobblie, 325 00:21:48,891 --> 00:21:51,052 pretending I was a... 326 00:21:51,060 --> 00:21:53,016 A sport. 327 00:21:53,020 --> 00:21:56,012 Anyway, they picked up everybody who was, you know, really important, 328 00:21:56,023 --> 00:21:58,810 so I guess they didn't think about me till afterwards. 329 00:21:58,818 --> 00:22:00,774 Papers say the cops got them. 330 00:22:01,946 --> 00:22:05,279 The burns dicks knew every move beforehand. 331 00:22:11,872 --> 00:22:14,454 Yeah, it hasn't come out who it was yet. 332 00:22:14,458 --> 00:22:16,414 It may never come out. 333 00:22:16,418 --> 00:22:17,874 I guess who it was 334 00:22:17,878 --> 00:22:20,039 must have made a bargain with the burns men to keep him out of it. 335 00:22:20,047 --> 00:22:22,163 B'god. 336 00:22:22,174 --> 00:22:25,541 Hate to believe it of any of that crowd. 337 00:22:25,553 --> 00:22:27,259 Oh, I know they were damn fools, 338 00:22:27,263 --> 00:22:30,801 as stupidly greedy for power as any capitalist they attacked, 339 00:22:30,808 --> 00:22:34,096 but I'd have sworn there wasn't a yellow stool pigeon among them. 340 00:22:34,103 --> 00:22:36,890 Yeah, I'd have sworn that too, Larry. 341 00:22:36,897 --> 00:22:40,515 I hope his soul rots in hell, whoever it is. 342 00:22:40,526 --> 00:22:42,517 Yeah, so do I. 343 00:22:46,448 --> 00:22:48,734 How did you locate me? 344 00:22:48,742 --> 00:22:50,323 Oh, through mother. 345 00:22:51,787 --> 00:22:53,402 I told her not to tell anyone. 346 00:22:53,414 --> 00:22:55,200 Oh, no, she didn't tell me. 347 00:22:55,207 --> 00:22:57,698 But she kept all your letters. 348 00:22:57,710 --> 00:23:01,202 I found where she hid them and I sneaked up there after she was arrested. 349 00:23:04,592 --> 00:23:08,176 Never would have thought she was a woman who kept letters. 350 00:23:08,178 --> 00:23:10,260 No, I wouldn't either. 351 00:23:10,264 --> 00:23:13,256 There's nothing soft or sentimental about mother. 352 00:23:13,267 --> 00:23:15,929 I haven't written her for two years. Or anyone else. 353 00:23:18,939 --> 00:23:22,352 You know, it's funny she kept in touch with you for so long. 354 00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:24,645 When she's finished with someone, she's finished with them. 355 00:23:24,653 --> 00:23:27,486 And you know how she feels about the movement. 356 00:23:27,489 --> 00:23:30,447 Anyone who loses their faith in it is more than dead to her. 357 00:23:32,995 --> 00:23:35,202 - Yet she seemed to forgive you. - She didn't. 358 00:23:36,290 --> 00:23:39,874 She wrote to denounce me and bring the sinner to repentance. 359 00:23:42,546 --> 00:23:45,504 Then what made you leave the movement? Was it on mother's account? 360 00:23:46,675 --> 00:23:49,838 Who the hell put that idea in your head? 361 00:23:49,845 --> 00:23:53,212 Why, nothin'. Except I remember that fight you had with her just before you left. 362 00:23:53,223 --> 00:23:55,635 Well, if you do, I don't. That was 11 years ago. 363 00:23:55,643 --> 00:23:57,383 You were only seven years old. 364 00:23:59,021 --> 00:24:03,640 If we quarreled, it was because I told her I'd become convinced that the movement 365 00:24:03,651 --> 00:24:05,516 was a beautiful pipe dream. 366 00:24:08,072 --> 00:24:11,064 I don't remember it that way. 367 00:24:11,075 --> 00:24:13,612 Well, blame it on your imagination and forget it. 368 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:18,241 You asked me why I quit the movement. 369 00:24:18,248 --> 00:24:20,489 Had a lot of good reasons. 370 00:24:20,501 --> 00:24:22,332 One was myself. 371 00:24:22,336 --> 00:24:24,042 Another was my comrades. 372 00:24:25,297 --> 00:24:27,709 And the last was that breed of swine 373 00:24:27,716 --> 00:24:30,298 called men in general. 374 00:24:30,302 --> 00:24:31,633 As for myself... 375 00:24:33,097 --> 00:24:36,180 I'd become convinced, after 30 years devotion to the cause, 376 00:24:36,183 --> 00:24:38,139 that I wasn't made for it. 377 00:24:39,395 --> 00:24:43,479 I was born condemned to see both sides of a question. 378 00:24:43,482 --> 00:24:47,691 And when you're damned that way... The questions multiply, 379 00:24:47,695 --> 00:24:49,856 until in the end 380 00:24:49,863 --> 00:24:52,104 they're all questions and no answers. 381 00:24:53,867 --> 00:24:56,984 As history proves, to be a worldly success at anything, 382 00:24:56,996 --> 00:24:59,282 especially revolution, 383 00:24:59,289 --> 00:25:03,453 you've got to wear blinders like a horse and only see what's straight ahead of you. 384 00:25:05,212 --> 00:25:08,170 As for my comrades in the great cause, 385 00:25:09,925 --> 00:25:12,917 I felt about them as Horace walpole did about england 386 00:25:12,928 --> 00:25:16,261 when he said he could love it if it wasn't for the people in it. 387 00:25:18,017 --> 00:25:21,601 That's why I quit the cause. At any rate, it had nothing to do with your mother. 388 00:25:21,603 --> 00:25:24,390 But mother always thought it was on her account. 389 00:25:24,398 --> 00:25:27,390 You know her. To hear her go on sometimes, you'd think she was the movement. 390 00:25:27,401 --> 00:25:29,892 That's a hell of a thing to say after what happened to her. 391 00:25:29,903 --> 00:25:32,189 Oh, no, I wasn't sneering, Larry, no. 392 00:25:32,197 --> 00:25:35,155 No, I've said the same thing to her lots of times, to kid her. 393 00:25:37,411 --> 00:25:40,778 I know I shouldn't now, but, uh, I keep forgetting she's in jail. 394 00:25:41,999 --> 00:25:44,957 Seems so unreal to me. She's always been so free. 395 00:25:48,297 --> 00:25:51,084 I don't wanna even, uh, think about it. 396 00:25:53,844 --> 00:25:56,677 So, what have you been doing all these years since you le... 397 00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:58,921 You know, left the coast, Larry? 398 00:25:58,932 --> 00:26:02,595 I've been a philosophical, drunken bum, and proud of it. 399 00:26:04,605 --> 00:26:08,143 I hope you've deduced why I answer a lot of impertinent questions 400 00:26:08,150 --> 00:26:10,061 from a total stranger. 401 00:26:10,069 --> 00:26:12,685 For that's all you are to me. 402 00:26:12,696 --> 00:26:15,403 I have a hunch you came to get something from me. 403 00:26:15,407 --> 00:26:17,739 Well, I have no answers. No, not even for myself. 404 00:26:19,161 --> 00:26:23,120 Unless you can call what heine wrote in his poem to morphine an answer. 405 00:26:24,208 --> 00:26:26,199 "Lo, sleep is good, 406 00:26:26,210 --> 00:26:28,451 better is death. 407 00:26:28,462 --> 00:26:31,875 In sooth, the best of all were never to be born." 408 00:26:34,593 --> 00:26:37,175 That's a hell of an answer. 409 00:26:42,351 --> 00:26:44,808 Still, you never may know when it might come in handy. 410 00:26:46,563 --> 00:26:48,554 I don't suppose you've had a chance 411 00:26:48,565 --> 00:26:50,806 to get any news of your mother since she was in jail. 412 00:26:50,818 --> 00:26:54,652 Oh, no, no chance. Anyway, I don't think she really wants to talk to me. 413 00:26:54,655 --> 00:26:58,489 You see, we got in this fight just before that business happened. 414 00:26:58,492 --> 00:27:01,734 She bawled me out because I was goin' around with tarts. 415 00:27:01,745 --> 00:27:03,360 I told her, "you always acted the free woman. 416 00:27:03,372 --> 00:27:05,328 You never let anything stop you." 417 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,742 Anyway, she told me that she didn't give a damn what I did 418 00:27:09,753 --> 00:27:13,291 except she began to suspect that I was losing interest in the movement. 419 00:27:13,298 --> 00:27:15,459 - And were you? - Sure I was. 420 00:27:18,512 --> 00:27:21,504 I couldn't go on forever believing that gang was gonna change the world 421 00:27:21,515 --> 00:27:23,506 by shooting off their loud traps on soap boxes, 422 00:27:23,517 --> 00:27:26,475 sneaking around, trying to blow up a bridge or a lousy building. 423 00:27:30,107 --> 00:27:33,599 Then I finally got wise that it was all a crazy pipe dream. 424 00:27:37,030 --> 00:27:41,524 Then this... this business of someone sellin' out, that's what finished me off. 425 00:27:48,125 --> 00:27:50,081 You can understand how I feel, can't ya, Larry? 426 00:27:53,130 --> 00:27:55,997 "The days grow hot, o Babylon! 427 00:27:56,008 --> 00:27:59,876 'Tis cool beneath thy Willow trees.” 428 00:28:01,263 --> 00:28:03,094 Goddamned stool pigeon! 429 00:28:03,098 --> 00:28:06,215 What? What do you mean? You can't call me that! 430 00:28:08,645 --> 00:28:10,431 Hello, little Don. 431 00:28:10,439 --> 00:28:14,148 I didn't recognize you. 432 00:28:14,151 --> 00:28:17,234 You've grown. Big boy. 433 00:28:17,237 --> 00:28:19,353 How's your mother? 434 00:28:19,364 --> 00:28:20,979 Don't be a fool! 435 00:28:20,991 --> 00:28:23,903 Loan me a dollar. Buy me a drink! 436 00:28:23,911 --> 00:28:25,902 Sure. I'll buy you a drink, Hugo. 437 00:28:25,913 --> 00:28:29,076 I'm sorry I got, uh... I got sore at you there. 438 00:28:29,082 --> 00:28:31,494 Oughta have remembered that when you're soused 439 00:28:31,501 --> 00:28:33,457 you call everyone "stool pigeon.” 440 00:28:34,588 --> 00:28:36,670 It's just no damn joke right at this time. 441 00:28:41,803 --> 00:28:43,589 Oh, gee. He passed out again. 442 00:28:55,817 --> 00:28:58,058 What are you giving me the hard look for, Larry? 443 00:29:01,323 --> 00:29:03,154 You thought I was gonna hit him? 444 00:29:04,993 --> 00:29:06,529 What do you think I am? 445 00:29:06,536 --> 00:29:09,118 I always stood up for him when everybody in the movement panned him 446 00:29:09,122 --> 00:29:10,658 for an old, drunken has-been. 447 00:29:12,751 --> 00:29:15,367 He had the guts to serve ten years in the can in his own country. 448 00:29:15,379 --> 00:29:18,371 Got his eyes ruined in solitary. I'd like to see some of 'em here stick that. 449 00:29:18,382 --> 00:29:20,373 Well, they're gonna get their chance now to... 450 00:29:25,847 --> 00:29:27,553 Uh... 451 00:29:27,557 --> 00:29:30,765 Hey, Larry, tell me more about this dump. Who are all these tanks in here? 452 00:29:30,769 --> 00:29:33,351 Who's that guy over there tryin' to catch pneumonia? 453 00:29:37,526 --> 00:29:39,357 That's captain Lewis, 454 00:29:39,361 --> 00:29:42,524 one-time hero in the British army. 455 00:29:43,573 --> 00:29:47,691 He strips to display that scar, which he got from a native spear, 456 00:29:47,703 --> 00:29:49,694 whenever he's completely plastered. 457 00:29:51,290 --> 00:29:55,579 The bewhiskered bloke next to him is general wetjoen, 458 00:29:55,585 --> 00:29:58,577 who led a commando in the war. 459 00:29:58,588 --> 00:30:02,877 They met up when they worked in the boer war spectacle in the St. Louis fair, 460 00:30:02,884 --> 00:30:05,751 and they've been bosom friends ever since. 461 00:30:08,056 --> 00:30:10,342 They dream away the hours in happy dispute 462 00:30:10,350 --> 00:30:13,717 over the brave days in South Africa, 463 00:30:13,729 --> 00:30:16,141 when they were trying to murder each other. 464 00:30:18,525 --> 00:30:20,766 He was in it too. 465 00:30:20,777 --> 00:30:22,642 Correspondent for some english paper. 466 00:30:22,654 --> 00:30:25,270 His nickname here is Jimmy tomorrow. 467 00:30:26,658 --> 00:30:29,240 - What do they do for a living? - As little as possible. 468 00:30:30,871 --> 00:30:34,614 Once in a while one of them makes a successful touch somewhere. 469 00:30:34,624 --> 00:30:38,492 And some of them get a few dollars a month from connections at home, 470 00:30:38,503 --> 00:30:41,370 who pay it on the condition that they never come back. 471 00:30:42,799 --> 00:30:46,291 The rest live on free lunch and their old friend Harry hope, 472 00:30:46,303 --> 00:30:50,216 who doesn't give a damn what a man does or doesn't do, 473 00:30:50,223 --> 00:30:52,384 as long as he likes him. 474 00:30:52,392 --> 00:30:54,804 That must be a tough life. 475 00:30:54,811 --> 00:30:56,893 Don't waste your pity. 476 00:30:56,897 --> 00:30:59,513 They manage to stay drunk and keep their pipe dreams, 477 00:30:59,524 --> 00:31:02,015 and that's all they ask out of life. 478 00:31:02,027 --> 00:31:06,066 It isn't often that men attain the true goal of their heart's desire. 479 00:31:09,076 --> 00:31:11,533 And that applies to Harry himself. 480 00:31:11,536 --> 00:31:14,778 He's so satisfied with life that he hasn't set foot out of this place 481 00:31:14,790 --> 00:31:16,872 since his wife died 20 years ago. 482 00:31:18,210 --> 00:31:20,997 He has no need of the outside world. 483 00:31:22,756 --> 00:31:26,089 Place does a fine trade from the market across the street and the dockworkers, 484 00:31:26,093 --> 00:31:29,585 so in spite of Harry's thirst and his generous heart, he comes out even. 485 00:31:30,931 --> 00:31:34,173 He never worries about hard times as long as there's friends from the old days, 486 00:31:34,184 --> 00:31:36,425 when he was a jithey tammany politician, 487 00:31:36,436 --> 00:31:38,927 and a friendly brewery to tide him over. 488 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:42,772 Pat mcgloin, his pal sitting beside him, 489 00:31:42,776 --> 00:31:46,485 was a police lieutenant in the lush days of graft when everything went. 490 00:31:46,488 --> 00:31:48,444 But he got too greedy, 491 00:31:48,448 --> 00:31:51,030 and when the usual reform investigation came along 492 00:31:51,034 --> 00:31:54,367 he was caught red-handed, thrown off the force. 493 00:31:54,371 --> 00:31:57,283 Joe there ran a colored gambling house then. 494 00:31:58,125 --> 00:31:59,661 Was a hell of a sport. 495 00:32:01,002 --> 00:32:04,244 Well, that completes our family circle of inmates. 496 00:32:04,256 --> 00:32:06,542 Except for the two barkeeps and their girls, 497 00:32:06,550 --> 00:32:09,542 three ladies of the pavement that room on the third floor. 498 00:32:09,553 --> 00:32:11,509 I never wanna see a whore again. 499 00:32:14,349 --> 00:32:17,011 I mean, they always get you in Dutch. 500 00:32:17,018 --> 00:32:20,886 Why omit me from your who's-who in dipsomania, Larry? 501 00:32:20,897 --> 00:32:22,979 It's an unpardonable slight. 502 00:32:23,942 --> 00:32:25,898 Yes, generous stranger... 503 00:32:25,902 --> 00:32:27,688 I trust you're generous... 504 00:32:27,696 --> 00:32:29,778 I was born in the purple. 505 00:32:29,781 --> 00:32:33,569 The son, mmm, but unfortunately not the heir 506 00:32:33,577 --> 00:32:36,660 of the late, world-famous bill oban, 507 00:32:36,663 --> 00:32:38,494 king of the bucket shops. 508 00:32:39,749 --> 00:32:43,412 A revolution deposed him. He was sent into exile. 509 00:32:43,420 --> 00:32:46,002 In fact, not to mince matters... 510 00:32:46,006 --> 00:32:49,749 They locked him in the can and threw away the key. 511 00:32:51,344 --> 00:32:57,089 Alas, his was an adventurous spirit that pined in confinement. 512 00:32:57,100 --> 00:32:58,556 And so he died. 513 00:33:00,645 --> 00:33:02,476 That's tough luck. 514 00:33:02,481 --> 00:33:04,096 Mmm. Mmm. 515 00:33:06,026 --> 00:33:10,895 Even at Harvard I discovered my father was well-known by reputation. 516 00:33:10,906 --> 00:33:13,739 Although that was some time before 517 00:33:13,742 --> 00:33:17,200 the district attorney gave him so much unwelcome publicity. 518 00:33:17,204 --> 00:33:20,241 Even as a freshman, I was notorious. 519 00:33:23,752 --> 00:33:26,539 That, uh, Henry Wadsworth longfellow 520 00:33:26,546 --> 00:33:29,333 would have shown a drunken negress dancing the cancan 521 00:33:29,341 --> 00:33:31,332 at high noon on brattle street. 522 00:33:33,929 --> 00:33:36,386 That was my father's idea. 523 00:33:39,434 --> 00:33:42,392 But I did make myself a brilliant student! 524 00:33:44,606 --> 00:33:46,938 Dirty trick on my classmates, 525 00:33:47,984 --> 00:33:50,942 inspired by revenge, I fear. 526 00:33:50,946 --> 00:33:54,279 I wa... I w-was a brilliant student in law school too. 527 00:33:55,450 --> 00:33:59,443 My father wanted a lawyer in the family. 528 00:33:59,454 --> 00:34:04,073 Wanted a thorough knowledge of the law close at hand in the house 529 00:34:04,084 --> 00:34:06,416 to help him find fresh ways to evade it. 530 00:34:10,298 --> 00:34:13,836 But I discovered the loophole of whiskey 531 00:34:14,803 --> 00:34:18,011 and so escaped his jurisdiction. 532 00:34:18,014 --> 00:34:20,756 Speaking of whiskey, sir, reminds me... 533 00:34:20,767 --> 00:34:23,224 And I hope reminds you... 534 00:34:23,228 --> 00:34:25,344 That when greeting a prince 535 00:34:25,355 --> 00:34:27,846 the customary salutation 536 00:34:27,857 --> 00:34:29,267 is "what'll you have?" 537 00:34:29,276 --> 00:34:32,268 Nix! All you guys think I'm made of dough. 538 00:34:32,279 --> 00:34:34,065 Broke? 539 00:34:34,072 --> 00:34:36,688 Why, you haven't the thirsty look of the impecunious. 540 00:34:36,700 --> 00:34:38,782 I judge you to be a plutocrat, 541 00:34:38,785 --> 00:34:40,946 your pockets stuffed with ill-gotten gains. 542 00:34:40,954 --> 00:34:42,819 Two or three dollars, at least. 543 00:34:42,831 --> 00:34:45,288 Don't think we'll question how you got it. 544 00:34:45,292 --> 00:34:47,453 What do you mean, how I got it? 545 00:34:49,129 --> 00:34:51,541 That's a laugh, isn't it, Larry? 546 00:34:51,548 --> 00:34:56,292 Him thinking me a plutocrat when I've been in the movement all my life? 547 00:34:57,387 --> 00:34:59,844 Oh, one of those, huh? 548 00:34:59,848 --> 00:35:03,432 Why don't you go away and blow yourself up. That's a good lad. 549 00:35:04,644 --> 00:35:06,134 Hugo... 550 00:35:06,146 --> 00:35:09,764 Hugo is the only... Licensed preacher of that gospel here. 551 00:35:09,774 --> 00:35:12,641 Oh, dangerous terrorist, Hugo. 552 00:35:12,652 --> 00:35:16,110 He'd as soon blow the collar off a schooner of beer as look at you. 553 00:35:18,450 --> 00:35:21,692 Let us ignore this useless youth, Larry. 554 00:35:21,703 --> 00:35:23,910 Let us join in prayer 555 00:35:23,913 --> 00:35:26,325 that hickey, the great salesman, will soon arrive, 556 00:35:26,333 --> 00:35:29,666 bringing the blessed bourgeois long green. 557 00:35:30,795 --> 00:35:34,253 Would that hickey or death would come, huh? 558 00:35:36,801 --> 00:35:38,541 Meanwhile, 559 00:35:38,553 --> 00:35:40,009 I will sing a song... 560 00:35:41,097 --> 00:35:44,134 A beautiful, old new england folk ballad 561 00:35:44,142 --> 00:35:47,179 which I picked up at Harvard amid the debris of education. 562 00:35:48,563 --> 00:35:52,647 J; Oh, Jack, oh, Jack was a sailor lad I 563 00:35:52,651 --> 00:35:55,734 j; And he went to a tavern for gin j 564 00:35:55,737 --> 00:35:57,523 j; And he rapped and he rapped with a 565 00:35:58,907 --> 00:36:00,397 j but j 566 00:36:00,408 --> 00:36:03,616 I never a soul seemed in j 567 00:36:04,704 --> 00:36:08,162 the origin of this beautiful ditty is veiled in mystery, Larry. 568 00:36:08,166 --> 00:36:12,375 Th-there was a legend bruited about in Cambridge lavatories 569 00:36:12,379 --> 00:36:14,791 that Waldo Emerson composed it, 570 00:36:17,217 --> 00:36:19,208 while he was trying to write a sermon. 571 00:36:19,219 --> 00:36:23,212 But my own view is that it goes back much further, 572 00:36:23,223 --> 00:36:26,841 and Jonathan Edwards was the author of both words and music. 573 00:36:27,977 --> 00:36:30,263 J; Oh, he rapped and rapped I 574 00:36:30,271 --> 00:36:31,852 j; And he tapped and tapped 575 00:36:31,856 --> 00:36:34,643 j; Enough to wake the dead 576 00:36:34,651 --> 00:36:36,312 & till he heard a damsel j 577 00:36:37,737 --> 00:36:41,901 js on a window right over his head j 578 00:36:41,908 --> 00:36:43,864 rocky, b'jeez, 579 00:36:43,868 --> 00:36:46,530 can't you keep that crazy bastard quiet? 580 00:36:46,538 --> 00:36:50,406 And now the influence of a good woman enters our mariner's lifeline. 581 00:36:50,417 --> 00:36:54,001 Well, perhaps "good" isn't the word, but very, very kind. 582 00:36:54,003 --> 00:36:59,339 J "oh, come up,” she cried "my sailor lad j 583 00:36:59,342 --> 00:37:02,379 j and you and I'll agree 584 00:37:02,387 --> 00:37:04,218 j and I'll show you the prettiest j 585 00:37:05,390 --> 00:37:09,884 j; That ever you ever did see" I 586 00:37:09,894 --> 00:37:11,509 you see, Larry? 587 00:37:11,521 --> 00:37:13,432 The lewd puritan touch, obviously, 588 00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:17,024 and it grows more marked as we go on. 589 00:37:17,026 --> 00:37:22,020 J oh, he put his arms around her waist & 590 00:37:22,031 --> 00:37:25,148 j; And gazed in her bright blue eyes j 591 00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:28,527 piano! Whaddaya think this dump is, a dump? 592 00:37:28,538 --> 00:37:32,122 Give him the bum's rush upstairs. Lock him in his room. 593 00:37:32,125 --> 00:37:33,786 - Come on. - No. No! 594 00:37:33,793 --> 00:37:35,078 Please, rocky. Please. 595 00:37:35,086 --> 00:37:37,577 I'll go crazy up in that room alone. It's haunted! 596 00:37:37,589 --> 00:37:40,422 Please, Harry, please. Let me stay here. I'll be quiet. 597 00:37:40,425 --> 00:37:43,588 What the hell you doin' to him, rocky? Leave him alone. 598 00:37:44,471 --> 00:37:46,757 Long as he's quiet. 599 00:37:46,765 --> 00:37:49,472 Thanks, Harry. You're a good scout. 600 00:37:53,646 --> 00:37:57,184 Ehh. Can't trust nobody. 601 00:37:58,234 --> 00:38:00,395 Leave it to that dago to keep order, 602 00:38:00,403 --> 00:38:02,940 it's like bedlam in a cathouse, 603 00:38:02,947 --> 00:38:04,483 singin' and everything. 604 00:38:06,284 --> 00:38:08,696 And you big barfly, 605 00:38:08,703 --> 00:38:11,365 you're a hell of a help to me. 606 00:38:11,372 --> 00:38:15,081 There ain't gonna be no more drinks on the house till hell freezes over. 607 00:38:23,259 --> 00:38:25,375 Good god. 608 00:38:25,386 --> 00:38:29,925 Have I been drinking at the same table with a bloody kaffir? 609 00:38:29,933 --> 00:38:31,673 Hello, captain! 610 00:38:31,684 --> 00:38:33,515 You comin' up for air? 611 00:38:37,148 --> 00:38:38,854 "Kaffir"? 612 00:38:38,858 --> 00:38:40,143 Who's he? 613 00:38:41,110 --> 00:38:43,442 "Kaffir," that's a nigger, Joe. 614 00:38:44,531 --> 00:38:47,739 That's a joke on him, Joe. 615 00:38:47,742 --> 00:38:51,781 He don't know you. He's still blind drunk. 616 00:38:53,540 --> 00:38:58,580 A great mistake I missed him at the battle of modder river. 617 00:38:58,586 --> 00:39:01,168 With mine rifle 618 00:39:01,172 --> 00:39:05,632 I shoot damn fool limey officers by the dozen, 619 00:39:06,469 --> 00:39:07,959 but him I miss! 620 00:39:09,055 --> 00:39:11,046 Hey, wake up, Cecil. 621 00:39:11,057 --> 00:39:12,593 You bloody fool. 622 00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:15,137 Don't you know your old friend Joe? 623 00:39:15,144 --> 00:39:17,055 He's white, Joe is. 624 00:39:24,988 --> 00:39:28,697 Oh, profound apologies, Joseph, old chum. 625 00:39:28,700 --> 00:39:32,284 Eyesight a trifle blurry, I'm afraid. 626 00:39:32,287 --> 00:39:35,029 Whitest colored man I ever knew. 627 00:39:35,039 --> 00:39:37,030 Proud to call you my friend. 628 00:39:37,041 --> 00:39:39,953 Oh, I know it's a mistake, captain. 629 00:39:39,961 --> 00:39:43,374 - You is regular. - Even if you is a limey! 630 00:39:50,471 --> 00:39:54,089 But I don't stand for "nigger" from nobody. 631 00:39:54,100 --> 00:39:57,968 In the old days, somebody calls me a nigger, they ends up in a hospital. 632 00:40:00,523 --> 00:40:03,265 Me, in old days in transvaal, 633 00:40:03,276 --> 00:40:07,235 I was so tough and strong, 634 00:40:07,238 --> 00:40:11,197 I... I grab axle of ox wagon, 635 00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:13,407 with full load, 636 00:40:13,411 --> 00:40:15,697 and lift like feather. 637 00:40:15,705 --> 00:40:20,074 As for you, my balmy boer that walks like a man, 638 00:40:20,084 --> 00:40:21,790 I say it again. 639 00:40:21,794 --> 00:40:26,163 It was a grave error in our foreign policy ever to set you free. 640 00:40:26,174 --> 00:40:28,916 Come now, Cecil, piet. 641 00:40:28,927 --> 00:40:30,758 We must forget the war. 642 00:40:31,554 --> 00:40:33,044 Boer and briton, 643 00:40:33,056 --> 00:40:37,220 each fought fairly and played the game until the better man won. 644 00:40:37,226 --> 00:40:39,968 And then we shook hands. 645 00:40:39,979 --> 00:40:43,813 We are all brothers within the empire, 646 00:40:43,816 --> 00:40:47,809 united beneath the flag on which the sun never sets. 647 00:40:49,530 --> 00:40:51,896 J; Ship me somewhere j 648 00:40:51,908 --> 00:40:55,275 j» east of Suez j 649 00:40:56,537 --> 00:40:58,402 & where the best j 650 00:40:58,414 --> 00:41:00,700 j» is like the worst j 651 00:41:01,793 --> 00:41:03,749 & where there ain't no j 652 00:41:03,753 --> 00:41:06,460 s ten commandments & 653 00:41:07,507 --> 00:41:08,747 > and a man j 654 00:41:08,758 --> 00:41:11,795 » can raise a thirst j 655 00:41:13,638 --> 00:41:17,506 j on the road to mandalay j 656 00:41:18,518 --> 00:41:21,931 j; Where the flying fishes & 657 00:41:21,938 --> 00:41:22,973 j; Play I 658 00:41:24,691 --> 00:41:26,556 & and the dawn j 659 00:41:26,567 --> 00:41:28,353 j; Comes up like thunder j 660 00:41:32,490 --> 00:41:34,355 j» out of China j 661 00:41:34,367 --> 00:41:35,573 j 'cross the bay j 662 00:41:39,580 --> 00:41:41,536 b'god, you're there already, Jimmy. 663 00:41:42,959 --> 00:41:46,042 Worst is best here. East is west. 664 00:41:46,045 --> 00:41:48,457 And tomorrow's yesterday. 665 00:41:48,464 --> 00:41:49,954 What more do you want? 666 00:41:51,384 --> 00:41:54,501 Come now, Larry, old friend. 667 00:41:56,222 --> 00:41:59,714 You pretend a bitter cynic philosophy, 668 00:42:00,768 --> 00:42:02,258 but in your heart... 669 00:42:03,271 --> 00:42:06,013 You are the kindest man among us. 670 00:42:07,275 --> 00:42:08,560 The hell you say. 671 00:42:11,654 --> 00:42:13,269 Tomorrow, yes. 672 00:42:14,699 --> 00:42:17,691 High time I got myself straightened out. 673 00:42:19,454 --> 00:42:23,117 I must have this suit cleaned and pressed. 674 00:42:23,124 --> 00:42:25,240 I can't look like a tramp when I'm... 675 00:42:26,252 --> 00:42:28,334 Yes, sir. 676 00:42:28,337 --> 00:42:30,794 White folks always said I was white. 677 00:42:32,258 --> 00:42:34,874 The days when I was flush, 678 00:42:34,886 --> 00:42:37,468 Joe mott's the only colored man they allowed 679 00:42:37,472 --> 00:42:39,428 in the white gambling houses. 680 00:42:40,475 --> 00:42:42,887 "You're all right, Joe. 681 00:42:42,894 --> 00:42:45,852 You're white," they tells me. 682 00:42:47,315 --> 00:42:49,897 They wouldn't let me play craps though, 683 00:42:49,901 --> 00:42:52,938 'cause they knew I could make them dice behave. 684 00:42:52,945 --> 00:42:56,688 "Any other game, any limit you like, Joe," 685 00:42:56,699 --> 00:42:58,109 they says. 686 00:42:58,826 --> 00:43:01,568 Man, the money I lost. 687 00:43:08,002 --> 00:43:09,412 Yeah. 688 00:43:10,505 --> 00:43:12,962 Look at the big chief in them days. 689 00:43:14,133 --> 00:43:16,499 He knew I was white. 690 00:43:16,511 --> 00:43:21,050 I'd saved my dough so I could start my own gambling house. 691 00:43:21,057 --> 00:43:25,801 Folks in the know they tells me, see the man at the top. 692 00:43:25,812 --> 00:43:28,394 Then you never has trouble. 693 00:43:28,397 --> 00:43:31,480 You get Harry hope to give you a letter to the chief. 694 00:43:32,777 --> 00:43:34,358 And he does. 695 00:43:37,281 --> 00:43:38,771 Ain't that right, Harry? 696 00:43:40,368 --> 00:43:41,403 Huh? 697 00:43:42,620 --> 00:43:45,327 Why, sure, I gave you a letter. 698 00:43:45,331 --> 00:43:47,367 I says you was white. 699 00:43:48,209 --> 00:43:50,450 There. You see, captain? 700 00:43:50,461 --> 00:43:53,828 I went to see the chief, shakin' in my boots, 701 00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:56,923 and there he was, sittin' behind a big desk, 702 00:43:56,926 --> 00:43:59,542 lookin' as big as a freight train. 703 00:43:59,554 --> 00:44:01,294 He don't look up. 704 00:44:01,305 --> 00:44:03,762 He keeps me waitin' and waitin'. 705 00:44:03,766 --> 00:44:06,929 And after what seems like an hour to me, 706 00:44:06,936 --> 00:44:11,726 he says, slow and quiet, like he didn't mean no harm, 707 00:44:11,732 --> 00:44:14,565 "you want to open a gambling joint, does ya, Joe?" 708 00:44:14,569 --> 00:44:17,060 But he don't give me no chance to answer. 709 00:44:17,071 --> 00:44:20,905 He jumps up, lookin' as big as two freight trains, 710 00:44:20,908 --> 00:44:24,821 and he pounds his fists like a ham on the desk and he shouts, 711 00:44:24,829 --> 00:44:27,286 "you black son of a bitch! 712 00:44:27,290 --> 00:44:30,874 Harry says you're white, and you'd better be white, 713 00:44:30,877 --> 00:44:34,369 or there's a little iron room up the river waitin' for ya." 714 00:44:36,966 --> 00:44:39,423 Then he sits down 715 00:44:39,427 --> 00:44:42,590 and he says, quiet again, 716 00:44:42,597 --> 00:44:45,805 "all right, you can open. Get the hell outta here." 717 00:44:45,808 --> 00:44:47,890 So I opens. 718 00:44:47,894 --> 00:44:51,011 And he finds out I's white sure enough, 719 00:44:51,022 --> 00:44:53,729 'cause I run wide open for years 720 00:44:53,733 --> 00:44:56,770 and I pays my sugar on the dot. 721 00:44:56,777 --> 00:44:59,063 And me and the cops is friends. 722 00:45:02,617 --> 00:45:04,278 Them old days! 723 00:45:04,285 --> 00:45:07,903 Many's the night I used to come in here. 724 00:45:07,914 --> 00:45:12,829 This used to be a first-class hangout for sports in them days. 725 00:45:12,835 --> 00:45:16,248 Good whiskey. Fifteen cents, two for two bits. 726 00:45:17,715 --> 00:45:22,209 I throws down a $50 bill like it was trash paper 727 00:45:22,220 --> 00:45:23,630 and I says, 728 00:45:24,805 --> 00:45:26,545 "drink it up, boys! 729 00:45:27,683 --> 00:45:29,639 I don't want the change.” 730 00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:32,635 Ain't that right, Harry? 731 00:45:33,481 --> 00:45:34,971 Yes. 732 00:45:34,982 --> 00:45:39,021 And, b'Jesus, if I ever seen you throw 50 cents on the bar now, 733 00:45:39,987 --> 00:45:41,978 I'd know I had delirium tremens! 734 00:45:43,366 --> 00:45:45,357 Oh, thanks, Harry, old chum. 735 00:45:45,368 --> 00:45:47,529 I will have a drink, now you mention it. 736 00:45:47,536 --> 00:45:49,743 Uh, seeing it's so near your birthday. 737 00:45:49,747 --> 00:45:51,988 What's that? I can't hear ya. 738 00:45:51,999 --> 00:45:54,991 No, I was afraid you wouldn't. 739 00:45:55,002 --> 00:45:57,459 I don't have to hear ya, b'jeez. 740 00:45:57,463 --> 00:46:00,170 Booze is the only thing you ever talk about. 741 00:46:00,174 --> 00:46:01,755 True, true. 742 00:46:01,759 --> 00:46:06,128 Yes, there was a time when my conversation was more comprehensive. 743 00:46:06,138 --> 00:46:08,345 But as I became burdened with the years, 744 00:46:08,349 --> 00:46:11,466 it seemed rather pointless to discuss my other subject. 745 00:46:12,228 --> 00:46:14,719 You can't joke with me. 746 00:46:14,730 --> 00:46:17,016 How much room rent you owe me? Tell me that. 747 00:46:17,024 --> 00:46:19,481 I'm sorry. 748 00:46:19,485 --> 00:46:22,272 Adding always baffled me. 749 00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:24,862 Subtraction's my forte. 750 00:46:24,865 --> 00:46:27,607 Think you're funny. 751 00:46:28,703 --> 00:46:30,785 Captain, b'jeez. 752 00:46:30,788 --> 00:46:32,995 Showin' off your wounds. 753 00:46:32,999 --> 00:46:36,491 Put on your clothes, for chrissake. This ain't no turkish bath. 754 00:46:37,670 --> 00:46:40,082 Lousy limey army. 755 00:46:40,089 --> 00:46:43,206 Took 'em years to lick a gang of Dutch hayseeds. 756 00:46:43,217 --> 00:46:46,505 That's right, Harry. Give him hell. 757 00:46:46,512 --> 00:46:50,096 I give you my word of honor, as an officer and a gentleman, 758 00:46:50,099 --> 00:46:52,590 you shall be paid tomorrow. 759 00:46:52,601 --> 00:46:55,058 We swear it, Harry. 760 00:46:55,062 --> 00:46:56,848 Tomorrow, without fail. 761 00:46:56,856 --> 00:46:58,721 There ya are, Harry. 762 00:46:58,733 --> 00:47:02,851 Sure. What could be fairer? A promise is a promise, as I've often discovered. 763 00:47:03,863 --> 00:47:06,445 I mean you too. 764 00:47:06,449 --> 00:47:09,316 Old graftin' flatfoot. 765 00:47:09,327 --> 00:47:11,989 Fine company for me, b'jeez! 766 00:47:11,996 --> 00:47:14,829 Been livin' in my flat since Christ knows when, 767 00:47:14,832 --> 00:47:19,201 and you ain't even got the decency to get me upstairs where I got a good bed. 768 00:47:19,211 --> 00:47:22,453 Kept me down here waitin' for hickey to show up, 769 00:47:22,465 --> 00:47:24,456 hopin' I'd blow ya to more drinks. 770 00:47:24,467 --> 00:47:27,254 I did my damnedest to get you up. 771 00:47:27,261 --> 00:47:30,503 But you said you couldn't bear the flat because it was one of those nights 772 00:47:30,514 --> 00:47:33,506 when memory brought poor old bessie back to ya. 773 00:47:34,143 --> 00:47:36,008 Ah, yes. 774 00:47:36,020 --> 00:47:37,510 I remember now. 775 00:47:38,731 --> 00:47:40,938 I could almost see her in every room, 776 00:47:40,941 --> 00:47:43,478 just as she used to be. 777 00:47:43,486 --> 00:47:45,693 And it's 20 years since I... 778 00:47:45,696 --> 00:47:48,608 Isn't a pipe dream of yesterday a touching thing? 779 00:47:48,616 --> 00:47:49,901 - By all accounts... - Twenty years! 780 00:47:49,909 --> 00:47:51,615 Bessie nagged the hell out of him. 781 00:47:51,619 --> 00:47:56,283 And I've never set foot out of this house since the day I buried her. 782 00:47:56,290 --> 00:47:59,953 Once she was gone, I didn't give a damn for anything. 783 00:47:59,960 --> 00:48:02,667 The boys was gonna nominate me for alderman. 784 00:48:02,671 --> 00:48:04,081 Mmm, bessie wanted it. 785 00:48:04,090 --> 00:48:06,456 And she was so proud. 786 00:48:06,467 --> 00:48:08,503 But when she was taken I... I told them, 787 00:48:08,511 --> 00:48:10,843 "no, boys, I can't do it. I'm through.” 788 00:48:13,682 --> 00:48:18,096 I've no doubt, while bessie would appreciate my grief, 789 00:48:18,104 --> 00:48:21,813 she wouldn't want it to keep me cooped up in here all my life. 790 00:48:21,816 --> 00:48:24,273 So I've made up my mind to go out soon, 791 00:48:24,276 --> 00:48:27,609 take a walk around the ward, see all the friends I used to know, 792 00:48:27,613 --> 00:48:29,569 get together with the boys. 793 00:48:30,908 --> 00:48:33,524 My birthday. Tomorrow! 794 00:48:33,536 --> 00:48:36,323 That'll be the right time to turn over a new leaf. 795 00:48:36,330 --> 00:48:38,116 Sixty. That ain't too old. 796 00:48:38,916 --> 00:48:40,531 The prime of life, Harry. 797 00:48:40,543 --> 00:48:41,953 Mmm. 798 00:48:43,379 --> 00:48:45,711 Time I took hold of myself. 799 00:48:46,924 --> 00:48:50,963 Tomorrow I must get my things from the laundry. 800 00:48:50,970 --> 00:48:53,336 Clean collar and shirt. 801 00:48:53,347 --> 00:48:57,590 If I wash the ones I've got on anymore, they'll fall apart. 802 00:48:59,145 --> 00:49:01,887 I must make a good appearance. 803 00:49:01,897 --> 00:49:04,889 I've heard rumors the management were at their wits' end 804 00:49:04,900 --> 00:49:06,891 and would be only too willing 805 00:49:06,902 --> 00:49:10,315 to have me run the publicity department for them again. 806 00:49:11,782 --> 00:49:15,400 All it have to do is get fixed up with a decent front tomorrow. 807 00:49:16,162 --> 00:49:18,494 It's as good as done. 808 00:49:18,497 --> 00:49:21,455 Poor Jimmy's off on his pipe dream again. 809 00:49:24,128 --> 00:49:29,543 I'm sorry we had to postpone our trip again this April, piet. 810 00:49:29,550 --> 00:49:32,917 I'd hoped the blasted old estate would be settled by then. 811 00:49:34,430 --> 00:49:36,421 We'll make it next year, 812 00:49:36,432 --> 00:49:40,345 even if we have to work and earn our passage money. 813 00:49:43,481 --> 00:49:46,348 You'll stay with me at the old place 814 00:49:46,358 --> 00:49:48,519 just as long as you like. 815 00:49:49,487 --> 00:49:51,728 England in April. Hmm. 816 00:49:51,739 --> 00:49:54,151 Oh, I want you to see that, piet. 817 00:49:55,659 --> 00:50:00,369 I admit the veldt has its points, but it's not home. 818 00:50:00,372 --> 00:50:02,784 Especially home in April. 819 00:50:03,792 --> 00:50:06,704 J; We've been together now & 820 00:50:06,712 --> 00:50:08,998 j for 40 years j 821 00:50:09,006 --> 00:50:12,715 j and it don't seem a day too much j 822 00:50:13,636 --> 00:50:16,252 j; There ain't a lady j 823 00:50:16,263 --> 00:50:18,174 j living in the land 824 00:50:18,182 --> 00:50:19,797 j as I'd swap j 825 00:50:19,808 --> 00:50:22,515 & for me dear old Dutch j 826 00:50:23,479 --> 00:50:26,061 j; There ain't a lady j 827 00:50:26,065 --> 00:50:28,351 j living in the land 828 00:50:28,359 --> 00:50:30,145 j as I'd swap j 829 00:50:30,152 --> 00:50:33,610 & for me dear old Dutch j 830 00:50:37,201 --> 00:50:41,410 ja, Cecil, I can see how beautiful it must be. 831 00:50:42,122 --> 00:50:43,908 But I will enjoy 832 00:50:43,916 --> 00:50:46,248 when I am home too. 833 00:50:46,252 --> 00:50:49,244 The veldt. Ja! 834 00:50:50,464 --> 00:50:52,250 You could put england on it 835 00:50:52,258 --> 00:50:56,922 and it would look like a farmer's small garden. 836 00:50:57,805 --> 00:50:59,761 By god, 837 00:50:59,765 --> 00:51:02,051 there is space to be free. 838 00:51:02,059 --> 00:51:04,425 The air... 839 00:51:04,436 --> 00:51:06,176 Like wine is! 840 00:51:06,188 --> 00:51:09,225 You don't need booze to be drunk. 841 00:51:10,109 --> 00:51:11,849 I'll make my stake and... 842 00:51:13,279 --> 00:51:15,270 Get my new gambling house open 843 00:51:15,281 --> 00:51:17,237 before you boys leave. 844 00:51:18,409 --> 00:51:20,400 You gotta come to the opening. 845 00:51:20,411 --> 00:51:23,494 B'jeez, Jimmy's started 'em off smokin' the same hop. 846 00:51:25,249 --> 00:51:28,241 This bughouse'll drive me stark, raving loony yet! 847 00:51:29,003 --> 00:51:30,368 What? What'd ya say? 848 00:51:33,465 --> 00:51:35,501 Nothing, Harry. 849 00:51:35,509 --> 00:51:37,465 I had a crazy thought in my head. 850 00:51:39,013 --> 00:51:41,220 "Crazy" is right. 851 00:51:41,223 --> 00:51:43,430 You old wise guy. 852 00:51:43,434 --> 00:51:46,096 Damned old fool anarchist-i-won't-worker. 853 00:51:47,146 --> 00:51:48,932 You'll pay up tomorrow, 854 00:51:48,939 --> 00:51:51,806 or I'll... I'll start a Harry hope revolution. 855 00:51:51,817 --> 00:51:55,150 I'll tie a dispossess bomb to your tail 856 00:51:55,154 --> 00:51:57,736 that'll blow you out in the street. 857 00:51:57,740 --> 00:52:00,277 I'll... I'll make your movement move! 858 00:52:07,833 --> 00:52:10,324 Well, sure'n it's hot, parchin' work, 859 00:52:10,336 --> 00:52:13,419 sittin' here laughin' at your jokes so early in the morning... 860 00:52:14,089 --> 00:52:16,205 On an empty stomach. 861 00:52:16,216 --> 00:52:18,207 Who asked you to laugh anyway? 862 00:52:19,428 --> 00:52:21,293 B'jeez, bessie'd never forgive me 863 00:52:21,305 --> 00:52:24,388 if she knew I had you living in our flat, 864 00:52:24,391 --> 00:52:28,475 throwin' ashes and cigar butts on our carpet. 865 00:52:28,479 --> 00:52:31,016 You know her opinion of you, Mac. 866 00:52:31,023 --> 00:52:33,514 "That pat mcgloin is the biggest drunken grafter 867 00:52:33,525 --> 00:52:37,109 that ever disgraced the police force," she used to say. 868 00:52:37,112 --> 00:52:41,731 "If I had my way, he'd get booted out in the gutter on his fat behind." 869 00:52:41,742 --> 00:52:43,778 Some claim she didn't say "behind" either. 870 00:52:45,579 --> 00:52:47,365 She didn't mean it. 871 00:52:47,373 --> 00:52:50,365 She was angry at me because you used to get me drunk. 872 00:52:51,669 --> 00:52:53,375 But Bess, 873 00:52:53,379 --> 00:52:56,337 she had a heart of gold underneath her sharpness. 874 00:52:57,883 --> 00:53:01,341 She knew I was innocent of all the charges. 875 00:53:03,389 --> 00:53:05,095 One moment, please! 876 00:53:05,891 --> 00:53:07,347 Lieutenant mcgloin... 877 00:53:09,019 --> 00:53:11,260 Are you aware that you're under oath? 878 00:53:12,398 --> 00:53:14,810 You know what the penalty for perjury is? 879 00:53:16,902 --> 00:53:18,938 Come now, lieutenant. 880 00:53:18,946 --> 00:53:22,188 Isn't it a fact that you're guilty as hell? 881 00:53:22,199 --> 00:53:25,783 No, don't say "how 'bout your old man?” I'm asking the questions! 882 00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:29,695 Gentlemen of the jury, 883 00:53:32,459 --> 00:53:34,450 court will now recess 884 00:53:34,461 --> 00:53:37,578 while the da sings out a little ditty that he learned at Harvard. 885 00:53:38,632 --> 00:53:41,374 It was composed in a wanton moment 886 00:53:41,385 --> 00:53:43,797 by the Dean of the divinity school 887 00:53:43,804 --> 00:53:46,386 on a moonlight night in July, 1776, 888 00:53:46,390 --> 00:53:49,223 while sobering up in a turkish bath. 889 00:53:54,356 --> 00:53:57,143 J and you and I'll agree 890 00:53:57,151 --> 00:53:58,982 j and I'll show you the prettiest j 891 00:53:59,987 --> 00:54:01,227 - rocky! - & that"... & 892 00:54:02,156 --> 00:54:04,568 no. Harry, please. 893 00:54:04,575 --> 00:54:07,317 Please don't make rocky bounce me upstairs. I'll go crazy alone. 894 00:54:08,412 --> 00:54:11,620 I-I apologize. I apologize, Mac. 895 00:54:11,623 --> 00:54:14,581 Don't get sore. I was only kidding you. 896 00:54:14,585 --> 00:54:18,419 You will let me... take your case, 897 00:54:18,422 --> 00:54:19,912 won't you, Mac? 898 00:54:20,799 --> 00:54:22,835 Yeah. Sure, Willie. 899 00:54:22,843 --> 00:54:25,129 And it'll make your reputation. 900 00:54:25,137 --> 00:54:27,378 Hey, Mac. 901 00:54:27,389 --> 00:54:30,222 What the hell you think's happened to hickey? 902 00:54:30,225 --> 00:54:32,341 I hope he turns up. 903 00:54:32,352 --> 00:54:35,094 You remember that gag he always pulls 904 00:54:35,105 --> 00:54:37,096 about his wife and the iceman? 905 00:54:43,155 --> 00:54:45,362 Opening time, boss. 906 00:54:45,365 --> 00:54:47,230 Why don't you go to bed, boss? 907 00:54:47,242 --> 00:54:49,107 Hickey'd never turn up this time of the morning. 908 00:54:49,119 --> 00:54:50,279 Someone's comin' now! 909 00:54:50,287 --> 00:54:52,278 Oh, that's only my two pigs. 910 00:54:52,289 --> 00:54:54,371 It's about time they showed. 911 00:54:54,374 --> 00:54:56,456 You keep them dumb broads quiet. 912 00:54:56,460 --> 00:54:58,576 I'm gonna catch a couple more winks here. 913 00:54:58,587 --> 00:55:00,828 I don't want no damn fool laughin' and screechin'. 914 00:55:01,590 --> 00:55:03,330 Hey. 915 00:55:03,342 --> 00:55:07,506 Never thought I'd see the day when Harry hope's would have tarts slippin" in. 916 00:55:07,513 --> 00:55:10,004 What would bessie think, hmm? 917 00:55:10,015 --> 00:55:14,349 But I don't let 'em use my rooms for business. Pay their rent too. 918 00:55:16,146 --> 00:55:18,979 - Nix! Piano! - Which is more than I can say for... 919 00:55:18,982 --> 00:55:21,348 B'jeez, Mac. 920 00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:25,148 I'll... t'll bet bessie's doin' somersaults in her grave. 921 00:55:27,574 --> 00:55:29,030 Hello. 922 00:55:31,870 --> 00:55:33,861 - Jeez, Pearl. - Hello. 923 00:55:34,873 --> 00:55:36,864 This place is a morgue, 924 00:55:36,875 --> 00:55:38,831 with all these stiffs on deck. 925 00:55:40,379 --> 00:55:43,041 Hey, you old wise guy! 926 00:55:43,048 --> 00:55:44,458 Ain't you died yet? 927 00:55:45,717 --> 00:55:47,753 Not yet, Margie. 928 00:55:47,761 --> 00:55:50,093 But I'm waiting impatiently for the end. 929 00:55:50,097 --> 00:55:51,257 Yeah? 930 00:55:53,183 --> 00:55:55,595 Hey, who's the new guy? Friend of yours? 931 00:55:56,770 --> 00:55:57,930 Hey, kid! 932 00:55:58,897 --> 00:56:00,933 You wanna have a good time? Huh? 933 00:56:00,941 --> 00:56:02,932 Hey! Hell with him! 934 00:56:02,943 --> 00:56:04,979 - You dumb broads! - Yeah. Tough. 935 00:56:04,987 --> 00:56:06,443 Cut the loud talk. 936 00:56:06,446 --> 00:56:08,482 Sit down before I knock ya down. 937 00:56:08,490 --> 00:56:09,775 Oh! 938 00:56:11,910 --> 00:56:13,741 What? What? What? 939 00:56:17,708 --> 00:56:20,541 Well, how did you tramps do? 940 00:56:20,544 --> 00:56:22,660 - Uh, pretty good. Huh, Pearl? - Sure. 941 00:56:22,671 --> 00:56:24,662 We nailed a couple of all-night guys. 942 00:56:24,673 --> 00:56:26,880 On sixth Avenue. Boobs from the sticks. 943 00:56:26,884 --> 00:56:28,875 Stinko, the both of 'em. 944 00:56:28,886 --> 00:56:32,049 We thinks we's in luck, so we steers 'em to a real hotel. 945 00:56:32,055 --> 00:56:33,795 We figure they're too stinko to bother us much, 946 00:56:33,807 --> 00:56:35,468 and we could cop a good night's sleep 947 00:56:35,475 --> 00:56:39,059 in beds that ain't got cobblestones in the mattress like the ones in this dump. 948 00:56:39,062 --> 00:56:40,802 - But we was out of luck. - Yeah. 949 00:56:40,814 --> 00:56:44,807 They didn't bother us much that way, but they wouldn't go to sleep either, see. 950 00:56:44,818 --> 00:56:47,776 Jeez, I never heard such Gabby guys. 951 00:56:48,614 --> 00:56:50,650 So, here we are. 952 00:56:51,533 --> 00:56:52,864 Yeah, I see you. 953 00:56:52,868 --> 00:56:54,859 But I don't see no dough yet. 954 00:56:54,870 --> 00:56:57,111 Right on the job, ain't he, Margie? 955 00:56:57,122 --> 00:56:59,613 Yeah, our little businessman. That's him. 956 00:56:59,625 --> 00:57:02,583 - Come on. Dig. - What, you scared we're holding out on ya? 957 00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:07,337 The way he grabs, you'd think it was him done the work. 958 00:57:07,341 --> 00:57:09,798 Here ya are, grafter. 959 00:57:09,801 --> 00:57:11,666 I hope it chokes ya. 960 00:57:11,678 --> 00:57:14,340 You dumb baby dolls give me a pain. 961 00:57:14,348 --> 00:57:18,512 What would you do with money if I wasn't around? Give it all to some pimp. 962 00:57:18,518 --> 00:57:20,133 Jeez, what's the difference? 963 00:57:20,145 --> 00:57:22,056 Oh, I didn't mean that, rocky. 964 00:57:22,064 --> 00:57:24,726 A lot of difference. Get me? 965 00:57:24,733 --> 00:57:27,224 Sure. Don't get sore. 966 00:57:27,235 --> 00:57:30,193 Gee, can't you take a little kiddin'? 967 00:57:30,197 --> 00:57:34,065 Yeah, come on, rocky. Pearl was only kiddin'. 968 00:57:34,076 --> 00:57:37,159 We know you don't live off us. You got a regular job. 969 00:57:37,162 --> 00:57:39,244 That's why we like you. 970 00:57:39,247 --> 00:57:40,987 You're a bartender. 971 00:57:40,999 --> 00:57:44,992 Sure. I'm a bartender. And I treat you girls right, don't I? 972 00:57:45,003 --> 00:57:46,413 - Yeah. - Sure. 973 00:57:46,421 --> 00:57:49,083 Jeez, I'm wise you hold out on me. 974 00:57:49,091 --> 00:57:52,800 But I know it ain't much, so what the hell. I let you get away with it. 975 00:57:55,722 --> 00:57:58,714 Hey, you know you oughtn't to kid him about that stuff. 976 00:57:58,725 --> 00:58:00,716 Serve you right if he beat you up. 977 00:58:00,727 --> 00:58:03,218 I bet he'd give you an awful beatin' once he started. 978 00:58:03,230 --> 00:58:04,720 Guineas got awful tempers. 979 00:58:04,731 --> 00:58:07,848 Anyways, we wouldn't keep no pimp like we were regular old whores. 980 00:58:07,859 --> 00:58:09,599 - We ain't that bad. - Oh, no. 981 00:58:09,611 --> 00:58:11,852 - We're tarts, but that's all. - Right. 982 00:58:13,573 --> 00:58:15,279 Hey, rocky. 983 00:58:15,283 --> 00:58:18,025 Cora got back around three o'clock. 984 00:58:18,036 --> 00:58:20,778 She woke up Chuck and dragged him out of the hay 985 00:58:20,789 --> 00:58:22,950 to go to a chop suey joint. 986 00:58:22,958 --> 00:58:25,745 Imagine him standin' for that stuff? 987 00:58:25,752 --> 00:58:27,993 I bet they've been sittin' around, 988 00:58:28,005 --> 00:58:30,997 kiddin' themselves with that old pipe dream about gettin' married 989 00:58:31,008 --> 00:58:33,294 and settlin' down on a farm. 990 00:58:33,301 --> 00:58:36,509 Jeez, when Chuck's on the wagon they never lay off that dope. 991 00:58:37,597 --> 00:58:38,962 Yeah. 992 00:58:38,974 --> 00:58:42,432 Of all the pipe dreams in this dump, they got the nuttiest. 993 00:58:42,436 --> 00:58:44,427 They been dreamin' it for years, 994 00:58:44,438 --> 00:58:47,771 every time Chuck goes on the wagon. 995 00:58:47,774 --> 00:58:49,810 What would getting married get him? 996 00:58:49,818 --> 00:58:52,651 But the farm stuff is the sappiest part, 997 00:58:52,654 --> 00:58:55,646 when both of them have been dragged up in this ward 998 00:58:55,657 --> 00:58:59,070 and they ain't never been nearer a farm than coney island. 999 00:58:59,077 --> 00:59:00,112 Ehh. 1000 00:59:01,455 --> 00:59:04,538 They'd get d.T.'S if they ever heard a cricket chirp. 1001 00:59:04,541 --> 00:59:07,032 I heard crickets once. 1002 00:59:07,044 --> 00:59:09,251 On my cousin's place in Jersey. 1003 00:59:09,254 --> 00:59:11,916 I couldn't sleep a wink. 1004 00:59:11,923 --> 00:59:16,337 Jeez, can you picture a good barkeep like Chuck diggin' spuds? 1005 00:59:16,344 --> 00:59:19,211 And imagine a whore hustlin' the cows home. 1006 00:59:19,222 --> 00:59:21,554 Hey, rocky, you oughtn't to call Cora that. 1007 00:59:21,558 --> 00:59:24,174 - I mean, she may be a tart, but, uh... - Oh, sure, sure. 1008 00:59:24,186 --> 00:59:26,177 That's all I meant. A tart. 1009 00:59:26,188 --> 00:59:28,804 But he's right about the damn cows, Margie. 1010 00:59:28,815 --> 00:59:32,023 Jeez, I bet Cora don't know which end of the cow has the horns. 1011 00:59:32,027 --> 00:59:33,312 I'm gonna ask her! 1012 00:59:33,320 --> 00:59:35,311 - Come on. - Here's your chance. 1013 00:59:35,322 --> 00:59:37,062 Hello, bums! 1014 00:59:39,493 --> 00:59:41,404 Jeez! 1015 00:59:41,411 --> 00:59:44,619 The morgue on a rainy Sunday night. 1016 00:59:44,623 --> 00:59:46,739 Hello, wise guy. Ain't you croaked yet? 1017 00:59:47,459 --> 00:59:49,324 Not yet, Cora. 1018 00:59:49,336 --> 00:59:51,372 Damned tiring, just waiting for the end. 1019 00:59:51,379 --> 00:59:55,668 Oh, go on. You'll never die. You'll have to hire somebody to croak you with an ax. 1020 00:59:55,675 --> 00:59:58,667 You dumb hooker, cut the loud talk. 1021 00:59:59,763 --> 01:00:02,095 - This ain't a cathouse. - Aw! 1022 01:00:03,642 --> 01:00:05,678 Hey, Cora. How you doin'? 1023 01:00:05,685 --> 01:00:08,267 Hey, Chuck. 1024 01:00:10,941 --> 01:00:14,809 If I'd known this dump was a hooker hangout, I'd never have come here. 1025 01:00:14,820 --> 01:00:18,108 - You seem down on the ladies. - I hate every bitch that ever lived. 1026 01:00:20,617 --> 01:00:23,074 You can understand how I feel, can't you, when I was getting mixed up with that tart 1027 01:00:23,078 --> 01:00:25,285 that made me have that fight with mother. 1028 01:00:29,918 --> 01:00:33,410 What does it matter to you? You're in the grandstand. You're through with life. 1029 01:00:33,421 --> 01:00:35,787 I'm glad you remembered that. 1030 01:00:38,844 --> 01:00:40,505 Who's the guy with Larry? 1031 01:00:40,512 --> 01:00:42,343 A tightwad. The hell with him. 1032 01:00:43,431 --> 01:00:45,843 Say, Cora, wise me up. 1033 01:00:45,851 --> 01:00:48,593 Which end of the cow is the horns on? 1034 01:00:48,603 --> 01:00:50,389 Aw, don't bring that up. 1035 01:00:50,397 --> 01:00:53,514 Me and this overgrown tramp's been scrappin' about the farm. 1036 01:00:53,525 --> 01:00:55,015 He says Jersey's the best place, 1037 01:00:55,026 --> 01:00:58,234 and I said long island, on account of we'll be near coney. 1038 01:00:58,238 --> 01:01:01,230 And then I tells him, "how do I know you're off of periodicals for life?" 1039 01:01:01,241 --> 01:01:03,448 I tells her I'm off the stuff for life. 1040 01:01:03,451 --> 01:01:05,066 She beefs we won't be married a month 1041 01:01:05,078 --> 01:01:07,410 before I'll throw it in her face she was a tart. 1042 01:01:07,414 --> 01:01:10,747 I tells her, what the hell do you think I'm marryin'? A virgin? 1043 01:01:10,750 --> 01:01:13,332 Why should I care, as long as you lay off it 1044 01:01:13,336 --> 01:01:16,078 and don't do no cheatin' with the iceman or nobody. 1045 01:01:16,089 --> 01:01:18,876 That's on the level, baby. 1046 01:01:18,884 --> 01:01:20,715 Aw, you big tramp. 1047 01:01:20,719 --> 01:01:24,632 Can you tie it? I'll buy you a drink. I'll do anything. 1048 01:01:24,639 --> 01:01:27,051 No! This round's on me. 1049 01:01:27,058 --> 01:01:30,516 I run into luck. That's why I dragged Chuck out of bed... to celebrate. 1050 01:01:30,520 --> 01:01:32,806 It was a sailor. I rolled him. 1051 01:01:32,814 --> 01:01:34,770 Listen, it was a scream. 1052 01:01:34,774 --> 01:01:38,107 My dogs was givin' out when I seen this guy holdin' up a lamppost, 1053 01:01:38,111 --> 01:01:40,818 so I hurried to get him before a cop did. 1054 01:01:40,822 --> 01:01:44,235 I says, "hello, handsome. Wanna have a good time?" 1055 01:01:44,242 --> 01:01:46,699 Jeez, he was paralyzed! 1056 01:01:46,703 --> 01:01:48,694 One of them polite jags. 1057 01:01:48,705 --> 01:01:50,991 Tries to bow to me. Imagine. 1058 01:01:50,999 --> 01:01:53,866 And I had to prop him up or he'd fell on his nose. 1059 01:01:53,877 --> 01:01:56,744 "Lady," he says, "can ya kindly tell me 1060 01:01:56,755 --> 01:01:59,167 the nearest way to the museum of natural history?" 1061 01:02:00,508 --> 01:02:03,045 Can you imagine? At 2:00 A.M.! 1062 01:02:03,053 --> 01:02:05,465 As if I'd know where the dump was anyway. 1063 01:02:05,472 --> 01:02:08,464 But I says, uh, "sure thing, honey boy. 1064 01:02:08,475 --> 01:02:10,557 I'll be only too glad.” 1065 01:02:10,560 --> 01:02:12,926 So I steered him into a side street where it was dark, 1066 01:02:12,938 --> 01:02:15,805 propped him against the wall and I give him a frisk. 1067 01:02:15,815 --> 01:02:17,646 And what do you think he does? 1068 01:02:17,651 --> 01:02:21,235 Jeez, I ain't lyin'. He begins to laugh, the big sap. 1069 01:02:23,031 --> 01:02:26,899 "Quit ticklin' me," he says, while I was friskin' him for his roll! 1070 01:02:26,910 --> 01:02:28,866 Well, I near died! 1071 01:02:30,580 --> 01:02:33,572 Then I turned him around and give him a shove to start him. 1072 01:02:33,583 --> 01:02:35,619 "Just keep goin'," I told him. 1073 01:02:35,627 --> 01:02:39,040 "It's a big, white building on your right. You can't miss it." 1074 01:02:39,047 --> 01:02:40,378 Oh! 1075 01:02:40,382 --> 01:02:42,748 He must be swimmin' in the north river yet. 1076 01:02:42,759 --> 01:02:45,717 Ain't uncle Sam a sap to trust guys like that with dough. 1077 01:02:45,720 --> 01:02:48,052 Well, I picked 12 bucks off of him. 1078 01:02:48,974 --> 01:02:51,431 So come on, rocky. Set 'em up. 1079 01:02:51,434 --> 01:02:55,177 Oh, say, Chuck's kiddin' about the iceman a minute ago reminds me. 1080 01:02:55,188 --> 01:02:58,555 - Where the hell's hickey? - That's what we're all wonderin'. 1081 01:02:58,566 --> 01:03:01,308 Well, he oughta be here. Me and Chuck seen him. 1082 01:03:01,319 --> 01:03:03,025 - You've seen hickey? - Yeah. 1083 01:03:03,029 --> 01:03:05,566 Hey, boss! Boss, boss, come to! 1084 01:03:05,573 --> 01:03:07,564 Cora's seen hickey. 1085 01:03:07,575 --> 01:03:09,907 - Where did you see him, Cora? - Right on the next corner. 1086 01:03:09,911 --> 01:03:11,492 He was standin' there. 1087 01:03:11,496 --> 01:03:13,862 We said, "welcome to our city. 1088 01:03:13,873 --> 01:03:17,161 The gang's expectin' you with their tongues hangin' out a yard long." 1089 01:03:17,168 --> 01:03:21,127 And I kidded him, "how's the iceman, hickey? How's he doin' at your house?" 1090 01:03:21,131 --> 01:03:24,089 And he laughs and says, "fine." 1091 01:03:24,092 --> 01:03:27,880 And then he says, "tell the gang I'll be along in a minute. 1092 01:03:27,887 --> 01:03:29,718 I'm just finishin' figurin' out the best way 1093 01:03:29,723 --> 01:03:31,588 to save 'em and bring 'em peace.” 1094 01:03:33,018 --> 01:03:36,010 B'jeez, he's thought up a new gag. 1095 01:03:36,021 --> 01:03:39,138 It's a wonder he didn't borrow a salvation army uniform 1096 01:03:39,149 --> 01:03:41,105 and show up in that! 1097 01:03:41,109 --> 01:03:44,567 Go out and get him, rocky. Tell him we're waitin' to be saved. 1098 01:03:44,571 --> 01:03:47,563 Yeah, Harry, he was only kiddin', but he was funny too somehow. 1099 01:03:47,574 --> 01:03:49,110 He was different or somethin'. 1100 01:03:49,117 --> 01:03:51,984 Well, he was sober, baby. That's what made him different. 1101 01:03:51,995 --> 01:03:54,782 Sure. Gee, ain't I dumb? 1102 01:03:54,789 --> 01:03:57,656 Dumbest broad I ever seen. 1103 01:03:57,667 --> 01:03:59,908 Hmm. Sober. 1104 01:03:59,919 --> 01:04:01,534 That's funny. 1105 01:04:01,546 --> 01:04:04,413 He's always lapped up a good starter on his way here. 1106 01:04:04,424 --> 01:04:06,164 Well, b'jeez, he won't be sober long. 1107 01:04:06,176 --> 01:04:10,089 He'll be good and ripe for my birthday party tonight at 12:00. 1108 01:04:10,096 --> 01:04:13,463 Listen, he's fixed some new gag to pull on us. 1109 01:04:13,475 --> 01:04:16,182 We'll pretend to let him kid us, see, 1110 01:04:16,186 --> 01:04:18,768 and we'll kid the pants off of him! 1111 01:04:20,315 --> 01:04:22,556 Here's the old son of a bitch! 1112 01:04:22,567 --> 01:04:25,900 Hello, gang! 1113 01:04:25,904 --> 01:04:29,863 J oh, we're old pals we're jolly old pals & 1114 01:04:29,866 --> 01:04:33,074 j in all kinds of weather we always stick together & 1115 01:04:33,078 --> 01:04:35,069 j and we're always game j 1116 01:04:35,080 --> 01:04:36,490 > and ever the same j 1117 01:04:36,498 --> 01:04:39,160 j; So give me your friendship j 1118 01:04:39,167 --> 01:04:42,204 j my jolly old pals & 1119 01:04:42,212 --> 01:04:44,874 & and another little drink j 1120 01:04:44,881 --> 01:04:47,793 j; Won't do us any harm 1121 01:04:47,801 --> 01:04:50,588 do your duty, brother rocky. 1122 01:04:50,595 --> 01:04:52,506 Bring on the rat poison. 1123 01:04:52,514 --> 01:04:55,381 - How goes it, governor? - B'jeez, hickey, you old bastard. 1124 01:04:55,392 --> 01:04:57,053 It's good to see you. 1125 01:04:57,060 --> 01:05:00,018 - Hello, Mac. - Welcome, boyo! 1126 01:05:00,021 --> 01:05:01,852 - Willie! - Hickey! 1127 01:05:01,856 --> 01:05:03,221 Hi, old scout! 1128 01:05:05,235 --> 01:05:07,851 - Hello, Joe. - All right, hickey. How you doin'? 1129 01:05:07,862 --> 01:05:09,853 - Well, hickey, old Tom. - Hup! Captain Lewis! 1130 01:05:10,990 --> 01:05:12,696 General wetjoen. 1131 01:05:12,700 --> 01:05:13,940 - Aha! - T saw it! 1132 01:05:15,453 --> 01:05:17,990 Hello, Hugo. How goes it? 1133 01:05:18,957 --> 01:05:20,117 Whoa! 1134 01:05:20,125 --> 01:05:23,208 Too much lying beneath the Willow trees, huh? 1135 01:05:24,337 --> 01:05:25,873 Hello, Jimmy. 1136 01:05:25,880 --> 01:05:28,121 - It's grand to see you. - How's the old scout? 1137 01:05:28,133 --> 01:05:30,590 - You look great. - Sit down, hickey. Sit down. 1138 01:05:31,678 --> 01:05:34,670 Well, I, uh... Jimmy! 1139 01:05:34,681 --> 01:05:38,594 B'jeez, hickey, it seems natural to see your ugly, grinnin' map. 1140 01:05:38,601 --> 01:05:41,217 This dumb broad was tryin' to tell us you'd changed. 1141 01:05:41,229 --> 01:05:44,266 But you ain't a damn bit. Tell us about yourself. 1142 01:05:44,274 --> 01:05:46,811 Jeez, hickey, you look like a million dollars. 1143 01:05:46,818 --> 01:05:48,979 Here's your key, hickey. Same old room. 1144 01:05:48,987 --> 01:05:50,477 Oh, thanks, rocky. 1145 01:05:50,488 --> 01:05:53,025 I'll be going up in a little while and grab a snooze. 1146 01:05:53,032 --> 01:05:55,648 I haven't been able to sleep lately. Tired as hell. 1147 01:05:55,660 --> 01:05:57,867 Couple hours good kip'll fix me. 1148 01:05:57,871 --> 01:06:01,580 First time I ever heard you worry about sleep. 1149 01:06:01,583 --> 01:06:03,448 B'jeez, you never would go to bed. 1150 01:06:03,460 --> 01:06:06,167 Get a couple of slugs under your belt, you'll forget sleepin'. 1151 01:06:06,171 --> 01:06:09,083 Here's mud in your eye, hickey. 1152 01:06:09,090 --> 01:06:11,627 All right, drink hearty, boys and girls. 1153 01:06:15,221 --> 01:06:19,464 B'jeez, is that a new stunt, drinkin' your chaser first? 1154 01:06:19,476 --> 01:06:21,432 Uh, no. I forgot to tell rocky. 1155 01:06:21,436 --> 01:06:24,678 You'll have to excuse me, boys and girls, but I'm off the stuff for keeps. 1156 01:06:26,524 --> 01:06:28,139 What the hell? 1157 01:06:28,902 --> 01:06:30,267 Sure, sure. 1158 01:06:30,278 --> 01:06:32,485 Joined the salvation army, ain't ya? 1159 01:06:32,489 --> 01:06:35,572 Been elected President of the wctu. 1160 01:06:35,575 --> 01:06:37,281 Take the bottle away from him, rocky. 1161 01:06:37,285 --> 01:06:39,401 We don't wanna tempt him into sin. 1162 01:06:39,412 --> 01:06:42,620 Well, I know it's hard to believe, but Cora was right, Harry. 1163 01:06:42,624 --> 01:06:45,286 I have changed. I mean, about the booze. 1164 01:06:45,293 --> 01:06:46,703 I don't need it anymore. 1165 01:06:47,921 --> 01:06:51,379 B'jeez, Cora said you was comin' here to save us. 1166 01:06:51,382 --> 01:06:54,920 Well, go on. Get this joke off your chest. Start the service. 1167 01:06:54,928 --> 01:06:58,170 Sing a goddamned hymn if you like. We'll all join in the chorus. 1168 01:06:58,181 --> 01:07:00,797 & no drunk will come in to this beautiful home 1169 01:07:00,808 --> 01:07:04,175 you don't think I'd come around peddling any brand of temperance bunk, do ya? 1170 01:07:04,187 --> 01:07:07,520 Just 'cause I quit the stuff don't mean I'm going prohibition. 1171 01:07:07,524 --> 01:07:10,311 I'm not that ungrateful. It's given me too many good times. 1172 01:07:10,318 --> 01:07:12,354 So if anybody wants to get drunk, 1173 01:07:14,531 --> 01:07:16,271 why the hell shouldn't they? 1174 01:07:16,282 --> 01:07:19,991 Hell, I know that game from soup to nuts. I wrote the book. 1175 01:07:19,994 --> 01:07:21,985 The only reason I quit is, 1176 01:07:21,996 --> 01:07:24,078 I finally had the guts to face myself 1177 01:07:24,082 --> 01:07:28,371 and throw overboard that damned lying pipe dream that was making me miserable 1178 01:07:28,378 --> 01:07:32,041 and do what I had to do for the happiness of all concerned. 1179 01:07:32,048 --> 01:07:35,131 Then all at once I was at peace with myself 1180 01:07:35,134 --> 01:07:37,090 and I didn't need the booze anymore. 1181 01:07:40,890 --> 01:07:43,632 But what the hell. Don't let me be a wet blanket. 1182 01:07:43,643 --> 01:07:45,179 Set 'em up again, rocky. 1183 01:07:45,186 --> 01:07:48,349 Here. Keep the balls comin' till that's killed. Then ask for more. 1184 01:07:48,356 --> 01:07:51,189 Jeez. A roll that'd choke a hippopotamus. 1185 01:07:51,192 --> 01:07:52,773 Fill up, youse guys! 1186 01:07:52,777 --> 01:07:54,768 That sounds more like you, hickey. 1187 01:07:54,779 --> 01:07:57,771 That water-wagon bull. 1188 01:07:57,782 --> 01:07:59,898 Quit the act and have a drink, for chrissake. 1189 01:07:59,909 --> 01:08:01,069 It's no act, governor. 1190 01:08:01,077 --> 01:08:04,194 But that don't mean I'm a teetotal grouch and can't be in the party. 1191 01:08:04,205 --> 01:08:06,912 Why else do you think I'm here except to have a party, like I've always done, 1192 01:08:06,916 --> 01:08:09,123 and help celebrate your birthday tonight? 1193 01:08:09,127 --> 01:08:11,118 You've all been good pals to me. 1194 01:08:11,129 --> 01:08:13,120 Best friends I've ever had. 1195 01:08:13,131 --> 01:08:15,463 And I been thinking about you ever since I left the house, 1196 01:08:15,466 --> 01:08:17,331 all the time I was walking here. 1197 01:08:17,343 --> 01:08:20,585 Walkin'? B'jeez! You mean to say you walked? 1198 01:08:20,597 --> 01:08:22,428 I sure as hell did. 1199 01:08:22,432 --> 01:08:25,640 All the way from the wilds of darkest astoria. 1200 01:08:25,643 --> 01:08:28,055 I seemed to get here before I knew it. 1201 01:08:28,062 --> 01:08:30,053 And that oughta encourage you, governor. 1202 01:08:30,064 --> 01:08:33,306 Show you a little walk around the ward is nothing to be scared about. 1203 01:08:33,318 --> 01:08:35,024 It was going on 12:00 1204 01:08:35,028 --> 01:08:37,314 when I went into the bedroom to tell Evelyn I was leaving. 1205 01:08:37,322 --> 01:08:39,688 Six hours, say. No, less than that. 1206 01:08:39,699 --> 01:08:41,360 'Cause I'd been standing on the street corner some time 1207 01:08:41,367 --> 01:08:43,028 before Chuck and Cora came along, 1208 01:08:43,036 --> 01:08:44,992 thinking about all of you. 1209 01:08:44,996 --> 01:08:48,580 Course I was only kidding, Cora, with that stuff about saving you. 1210 01:08:48,583 --> 01:08:51,120 But no, I wasn't either. 1211 01:08:51,127 --> 01:08:52,788 But I didn't mean booze. 1212 01:08:52,795 --> 01:08:54,786 I meant save you from pipe dreams. 1213 01:08:54,797 --> 01:08:56,788 Because I know now, from my experience, 1214 01:08:56,799 --> 01:08:59,506 that they're the things that can really poison and ruin a guy's life 1215 01:08:59,510 --> 01:09:01,796 and keep him from finding any peace. 1216 01:09:01,804 --> 01:09:06,423 If you knew how free and contented I feel now... why, I'm like a new man. 1217 01:09:06,434 --> 01:09:10,723 And the cure for them is so damn simple, once you got the nerve. 1218 01:09:10,730 --> 01:09:14,314 Just stop lying to yourself and kidding yourself about tomorrows. 1219 01:09:16,444 --> 01:09:19,732 Hell, this begins to sound like a damn sermon on the way to lead the good life. 1220 01:09:19,739 --> 01:09:21,354 It's in my blood, I guess. 1221 01:09:21,366 --> 01:09:24,529 My old man used to whale salvation into my heinie with a birch rod. 1222 01:09:24,535 --> 01:09:26,992 He was a preacher in the sticks of Indiana, like I've told you. 1223 01:09:26,996 --> 01:09:28,827 Got my knack of sales gab from him too. 1224 01:09:28,831 --> 01:09:30,992 He was the boy that could sell those hoosier hayseeds 1225 01:09:31,000 --> 01:09:32,991 building lots along the golden street. 1226 01:09:33,002 --> 01:09:34,663 Don't look at me like that, boys and girls. 1227 01:09:34,671 --> 01:09:37,834 I'm not trying to sell you a goldbrick. Nothing up my sleeves. Honest. 1228 01:09:40,134 --> 01:09:41,874 Take you, governor. 1229 01:09:41,886 --> 01:09:43,672 That walk around the ward you never take. 1230 01:09:45,139 --> 01:09:48,427 - What about it? - You know as well as I do, Harry. 1231 01:09:48,434 --> 01:09:50,140 Everything about it. 1232 01:09:51,646 --> 01:09:54,513 - Well, b'Jesus, I'm going to take it. - Of course you are. 1233 01:09:54,524 --> 01:09:56,230 Because I'm gonna help you. 1234 01:09:56,234 --> 01:10:00,398 I know it's the thing you've gotta do before you know what real peace means. 1235 01:10:00,405 --> 01:10:02,270 Same thing with you, Jimmy. 1236 01:10:02,281 --> 01:10:05,364 Gonna have to try and get your old job back, and no tomorrows about it. 1237 01:10:05,368 --> 01:10:07,575 - I-i-1i... - No, no, don't tell me. 1238 01:10:07,578 --> 01:10:10,240 I know all about tomorrows. I wrote the book. 1239 01:10:11,749 --> 01:10:14,661 I-I don't understand you, hickey. 1240 01:10:14,669 --> 01:10:16,705 I admit I've foolishly delayed, 1241 01:10:16,713 --> 01:10:20,001 but as it happens, well, I just made up my mind 1242 01:10:20,007 --> 01:10:22,544 that as soon as I can get straightened out... 1243 01:10:22,552 --> 01:10:24,713 Fine, fine. That's the spirit. 1244 01:10:24,721 --> 01:10:28,088 And I'm gonna help you, Jimmy, because you've always been damn kind to me, 1245 01:10:28,099 --> 01:10:30,431 and I wanna prove how grateful I am to you. 1246 01:10:30,435 --> 01:10:33,222 When it's all over and you don't have to nag yourself anymore, 1247 01:10:33,229 --> 01:10:35,094 you'll be grateful to me too. 1248 01:10:35,106 --> 01:10:38,564 And all the rest of you... Ladies included... 1249 01:10:38,568 --> 01:10:40,809 Are in the same boat, one way or another. 1250 01:10:40,820 --> 01:10:43,482 B'god, you've hit the nail on the head, hickey. 1251 01:10:43,489 --> 01:10:47,402 This dump is the palace of pipe dreams. 1252 01:10:47,410 --> 01:10:49,492 Well, well. 1253 01:10:49,495 --> 01:10:52,612 The old grandstand philosopher speaks, huh? 1254 01:10:52,623 --> 01:10:54,989 And you think you're the big exception, eh? 1255 01:10:55,001 --> 01:10:56,832 Life doesn't mean a damn to you anymore. 1256 01:10:56,836 --> 01:10:58,827 You're retired from the circus. 1257 01:10:58,838 --> 01:11:02,672 You're impatiently waiting for the end and the good old, long sleep. 1258 01:11:02,675 --> 01:11:04,757 Well, I think a lot of you, Larry, you old bastard, 1259 01:11:04,761 --> 01:11:06,752 and I'll try to make an honest man out of you too. 1260 01:11:06,763 --> 01:11:09,095 What the devil are you hinting at? 1261 01:11:09,098 --> 01:11:12,636 Well, you don't have to ask me, do ya? Wise old guy like you. 1262 01:11:12,643 --> 01:11:15,055 Just ask yourself. I'll bet you know. 1263 01:11:15,062 --> 01:11:17,553 He's got your number, all right, Larry. That's the stuff, hickey. 1264 01:11:17,565 --> 01:11:19,556 He's got no right to sneak out of everything. 1265 01:11:19,567 --> 01:11:21,649 Well, hello. 1266 01:11:21,652 --> 01:11:23,233 A stranger in our midst. 1267 01:11:24,530 --> 01:11:26,486 I didn't notice you before, brother. 1268 01:11:30,495 --> 01:11:33,328 My name's, uh, parritt. I'm an old friend of Larry's. 1269 01:11:38,169 --> 01:11:40,876 - What are you staring at? - Oh, no offense, brother. 1270 01:11:40,880 --> 01:11:42,745 I was just trying to figure. 1271 01:11:42,757 --> 01:11:45,043 Haven't we met before someplace? 1272 01:11:47,261 --> 01:11:49,377 No. This is the first time I've been east. 1273 01:11:49,388 --> 01:11:51,754 No, you're right. I know that's not it. 1274 01:11:51,766 --> 01:11:55,509 In my game, to be a shark at it, you teach yourself never to forget a name or a face. 1275 01:11:56,729 --> 01:11:59,516 But still, I know damn well there's... 1276 01:11:59,524 --> 01:12:01,640 Something I recognize about you. 1277 01:12:03,361 --> 01:12:05,818 We're members of the same lodge, 1278 01:12:05,822 --> 01:12:07,483 in some way. 1279 01:12:07,490 --> 01:12:09,651 What are you talking about? 1280 01:12:11,494 --> 01:12:12,904 You're nuts. 1281 01:12:12,912 --> 01:12:15,779 Don't kid me, little boy. I'm a good salesman. 1282 01:12:15,790 --> 01:12:18,657 So damn good, the firm was glad to take me back after every drunk. 1283 01:12:18,668 --> 01:12:21,626 And what made me good was, I could size up anyone. 1284 01:12:23,798 --> 01:12:25,413 But still, I don't... 1285 01:12:27,635 --> 01:12:30,968 Well, never mind. I can tell you're having trouble with yourself. 1286 01:12:30,972 --> 01:12:33,805 And I'll be glad to do anything I can to help a friend of Larry's. 1287 01:12:33,808 --> 01:12:36,891 Mind your own business, hickey. He's nothing to you. 1288 01:12:36,894 --> 01:12:38,930 Or to me. 1289 01:12:40,356 --> 01:12:43,098 You're keeping us all in suspense. 1290 01:12:43,109 --> 01:12:45,896 Tell us more about how you're going to save us. 1291 01:12:46,904 --> 01:12:49,566 Well, hell, don't get sore, Larry. 1292 01:12:49,574 --> 01:12:52,691 We're old pals. I've always liked you a lot. You know that. 1293 01:12:55,413 --> 01:12:57,028 Forget it, hickey. 1294 01:12:57,790 --> 01:12:59,872 Fine, fine. 1295 01:12:59,876 --> 01:13:01,457 That's the spirit. 1296 01:13:05,965 --> 01:13:08,923 What's the matter, everybody? Come on. Drink up. A little action. 1297 01:13:13,264 --> 01:13:16,222 Have another. Hell, this is a celebration. 1298 01:13:18,019 --> 01:13:20,852 Oh, forget it if anything I said sounded too serious. 1299 01:13:20,855 --> 01:13:24,018 You think I'm talking out of turn, just tell me to go chase myself. 1300 01:13:25,735 --> 01:13:28,772 No, boys and girls, I'm not trying to put anything over on you. 1301 01:13:29,906 --> 01:13:32,488 It's just that I know now, from experience, 1302 01:13:32,491 --> 01:13:35,278 what a lying pipe dream can do to you 1303 01:13:35,286 --> 01:13:37,948 and how damned relieved and contented with yourself you'll feel 1304 01:13:37,955 --> 01:13:39,695 when you're rid of it. 1305 01:13:43,294 --> 01:13:44,500 God. 1306 01:13:46,297 --> 01:13:47,912 Sleepy all of a sudden. 1307 01:13:49,800 --> 01:13:52,041 That long walk must be getting to me. 1308 01:13:53,554 --> 01:13:55,340 I better go upstairs. 1309 01:14:02,021 --> 01:14:04,728 Hell of a trick to go dead on you like this. 1310 01:14:07,443 --> 01:14:09,525 But no, boys and girls, I've... 1311 01:14:12,365 --> 01:14:15,072 Never known what real peace was until now. 1312 01:14:17,453 --> 01:14:19,193 It's a grand feeling. 1313 01:14:22,041 --> 01:14:24,407 Like when you're sick and suffering like hell... 1314 01:14:25,836 --> 01:14:28,418 And the doc gives you a shot in the arm. 1315 01:14:31,258 --> 01:14:32,748 The pain goes... 1316 01:14:34,929 --> 01:14:36,260 And you drift off. 1317 01:14:39,100 --> 01:14:41,261 You can let yourself go at last. 1318 01:14:43,729 --> 01:14:46,937 You sink down to the bottom of the sea. 1319 01:14:49,735 --> 01:14:51,271 Rest in peace. 1320 01:14:55,908 --> 01:14:58,194 There's no further you have to go. 1321 01:15:01,038 --> 01:15:02,403 Not one single... 1322 01:15:04,000 --> 01:15:06,332 Hope or dream left to nag you. 1323 01:15:12,008 --> 01:15:14,090 But you'll all know what I mean when you... 1324 01:15:18,514 --> 01:15:21,972 Excuse me. I'll just... forty winks and... 1325 01:15:24,478 --> 01:15:25,809 Drink up, everybody. 1326 01:15:28,065 --> 01:15:29,475 On me. 1327 01:15:32,653 --> 01:15:34,860 Don't let me be a wet blanket. 1328 01:15:35,990 --> 01:15:38,447 All I want is to see you happy. 1329 01:16:25,456 --> 01:16:27,492 Well, how's that, kid? 1330 01:16:27,500 --> 01:16:29,957 What the hell do I know about flowers? 1331 01:16:29,960 --> 01:16:32,542 You can see they're pretty, can't you? You big dummy. 1332 01:16:32,546 --> 01:16:35,504 Well, yeah, baby, sure. If you like 'em, they're all right with me. 1333 01:16:38,344 --> 01:16:40,676 Oh, jeez, Pearl. 1334 01:16:40,679 --> 01:16:42,670 Look at that cake, huh? Come here. Look. 1335 01:16:42,681 --> 01:16:45,172 Six candles, each for ten years. 1336 01:16:45,184 --> 01:16:47,596 Aw, when do we light the candles, rocky? 1337 01:16:47,603 --> 01:16:49,685 Oh, ask that bughouse hickey. 1338 01:16:49,688 --> 01:16:52,020 "Just before Harry comes down," he says. 1339 01:16:52,024 --> 01:16:54,982 "Then Harry blows 'em out with one breath, for luck." 1340 01:16:56,529 --> 01:16:58,770 Hickey was gonna have 60 candles, 1341 01:16:58,781 --> 01:17:03,275 but I says, "if the old guy took that big a breath, he'd croak himself." 1342 01:17:03,285 --> 01:17:07,278 - Anyways, it's a nice cake, ain't it? - Sure, it's all right by me. 1343 01:17:07,289 --> 01:17:09,450 But what is Harry gonna do with a cake? 1344 01:17:09,458 --> 01:17:11,870 If he ever ate a hunk, it'd croak him. 1345 01:17:13,087 --> 01:17:16,375 - Jeez, you're a dope. Ain't he, Margie? - Yeah. 1346 01:17:16,382 --> 01:17:18,964 - Dope is right. - You broads better watch your step, or... 1347 01:17:18,968 --> 01:17:21,300 - Or what? - Yeah! What? What? 1348 01:17:21,303 --> 01:17:23,544 Say, what the hell's got into youse? 1349 01:17:23,556 --> 01:17:26,548 It'll be 12 o'clock and Harry's birthday before long. 1350 01:17:26,559 --> 01:17:28,550 I ain't lookin' for no trouble. 1351 01:17:28,561 --> 01:17:30,643 Aw, we ain't neither, rocky. 1352 01:17:33,482 --> 01:17:37,475 A guy what can't see flowers is pretty must be some dumbbell. 1353 01:17:37,486 --> 01:17:39,477 Yeah, well, if I was as dumb as you... 1354 01:17:40,781 --> 01:17:43,363 Jeez, you got your scrappin' pants on, ain't ya? 1355 01:17:44,618 --> 01:17:46,609 Well, hell, baby. What's eatin' you? 1356 01:17:46,620 --> 01:17:48,611 What could Harry do with flowers? 1357 01:17:48,622 --> 01:17:50,613 He don't know a cauliflower from a geranium. 1358 01:17:50,624 --> 01:17:52,239 Jeez. 1359 01:17:52,251 --> 01:17:55,209 Ever since hickey's woke up, you can't hold him. 1360 01:17:55,212 --> 01:17:58,079 He's taking on the party like it was his birthday. 1361 01:17:58,090 --> 01:18:00,081 Well, he's paying for everything, ain't he? 1362 01:18:00,092 --> 01:18:02,925 Oh, I don't mind the birthday stuff so much. 1363 01:18:02,928 --> 01:18:06,341 What gets my goat is the way he's buttin' in all over the place, 1364 01:18:06,348 --> 01:18:08,555 telling everybody where to get off. 1365 01:18:08,559 --> 01:18:10,891 - He just keeps hintin' around. - Yeah. 1366 01:18:10,895 --> 01:18:13,887 - He was hintin' to me and Margie. - Yeah, the lousy drummer. 1367 01:18:13,898 --> 01:18:16,890 He just gives you an earful of that line of bull 1368 01:18:16,901 --> 01:18:20,519 about you gotta be honest with yourself and not kid yourself, 1369 01:18:20,529 --> 01:18:22,986 and you gotta have the guts to be what you are. 1370 01:18:22,990 --> 01:18:26,107 I told him, that's all right for the bums in this dump, 1371 01:18:26,118 --> 01:18:27,949 but it don't go with me, see. 1372 01:18:27,953 --> 01:18:30,945 I don't kid myself with no pipe dreams. 1373 01:18:32,291 --> 01:18:34,498 - What are you grinnin' at? - Nothin'. 1374 01:18:34,501 --> 01:18:37,117 - Nothin'. - It better be nothin'. 1375 01:18:37,129 --> 01:18:40,963 And don't let hickey put no ideas in your nuts if you wanna stay healthy. 1376 01:18:42,384 --> 01:18:45,171 He's ridin' someone every minute. 1377 01:18:45,179 --> 01:18:48,091 He's got Harry and Jimmy tomorrow run ragged, 1378 01:18:48,098 --> 01:18:52,592 and the rest are hidin' in their rooms so they won't have to listen to him. 1379 01:18:52,603 --> 01:18:55,094 They're all acting cagey with the booze too, 1380 01:18:55,105 --> 01:18:59,144 like they was scared if they get too drunk they might spill their guts. 1381 01:18:59,151 --> 01:19:02,018 And everybody's getting a prize grouch on. 1382 01:19:02,029 --> 01:19:03,565 Yeah. 1383 01:19:03,572 --> 01:19:05,938 He's been hintin' around to me and Chuck too. 1384 01:19:05,950 --> 01:19:09,943 You'd think he suspected me and Chuck had no real intention of gettin' married. 1385 01:19:09,954 --> 01:19:12,946 You'd think he suspected Chuck wasn't gonna lay off of periodicals, 1386 01:19:12,957 --> 01:19:14,538 or maybe didn't even want to. 1387 01:19:14,541 --> 01:19:17,749 I told him, I'm on the wagon for keeps, and Cora knows it. 1388 01:19:17,753 --> 01:19:19,960 And I told him, sure, I know it. 1389 01:19:19,964 --> 01:19:23,548 And Chuck ain't never gonna throw it in my face I was a tart neither. 1390 01:19:23,550 --> 01:19:26,792 And if you think we're just kiddin' ourselves, we'll show ya. 1391 01:19:26,804 --> 01:19:28,715 We're gettin' married tomorrow. 1392 01:19:28,722 --> 01:19:30,258 - Ain't we, honey? - You bet, baby. 1393 01:19:30,266 --> 01:19:31,756 Christ, Chuck! 1394 01:19:31,767 --> 01:19:34,349 Are you lettin' that bughouse louse hickey kid you into marryin'... 1395 01:19:34,353 --> 01:19:36,719 Nobody's kiddin' him into it. Nor me neither. 1396 01:19:36,730 --> 01:19:38,686 Hickey's right. 1397 01:19:38,691 --> 01:19:40,181 If this tramp's gonna marry me, 1398 01:19:40,192 --> 01:19:42,399 he oughta do it and not just shoot off his bazoo about it. 1399 01:19:42,403 --> 01:19:43,984 You can't be that dumb, Chuck. 1400 01:19:43,988 --> 01:19:46,274 You keep out of this. You hear? 1401 01:19:46,282 --> 01:19:50,321 And don't start beefin' about the crickets on the farm driving us nuts. 1402 01:19:50,327 --> 01:19:52,784 Christ, you'd think they was elephants! 1403 01:19:52,788 --> 01:19:55,245 Ah, rocky, don't notice that broad. 1404 01:19:55,249 --> 01:19:57,991 You heard what she said, right? Tomorrow. Tomorrow. 1405 01:19:58,002 --> 01:19:59,867 The same old crap. 1406 01:19:59,878 --> 01:20:01,709 - Is that so? - Mmm. 1407 01:20:01,714 --> 01:20:04,421 Imagine Cora a bride. That's the hot one. 1408 01:20:04,425 --> 01:20:07,883 Jeez, Cora, if all the guys you've stayed with was side by side, 1409 01:20:07,886 --> 01:20:10,002 you could walk on 'em from here to Texas. 1410 01:20:10,014 --> 01:20:13,097 You can't talk to me like that, you skinny dago hooker. 1411 01:20:13,100 --> 01:20:16,308 I may be a tart, but I ain't a cheap old whore like you! 1412 01:20:16,312 --> 01:20:18,303 I'll show ya who's a whore! 1413 01:20:18,314 --> 01:20:20,555 - Get her, Pearl! Get her! Get her! - Dago whore! 1414 01:20:20,566 --> 01:20:22,852 Let me go! 1415 01:20:22,860 --> 01:20:24,896 All right, cool off. 1416 01:20:24,903 --> 01:20:27,269 Aw, bury it! What are you, a virgin? 1417 01:20:27,281 --> 01:20:29,272 You mean you think I'm a whore too. 1418 01:20:29,283 --> 01:20:31,899 - Yeah! And me too? - Now, don't start nothin'. 1419 01:20:31,910 --> 01:20:35,698 I suppose it'd tickle you if me and Margie did what that hickey was hintin' 1420 01:20:35,706 --> 01:20:37,697 and come right out and admit we was whores! 1421 01:20:37,708 --> 01:20:40,324 All right, what of it? It's the truth, ain't it? 1422 01:20:40,336 --> 01:20:42,201 Jeez, rocky. 1423 01:20:42,212 --> 01:20:43,952 That's a fine thing to say to two girls 1424 01:20:43,964 --> 01:20:45,920 who's been as good to you as Pearl and Margie. 1425 01:20:47,509 --> 01:20:50,546 Oh... oh, look, I didn't mean to call you that, Pearl. 1426 01:20:51,388 --> 01:20:53,629 No hard feelings, Cora. 1427 01:20:53,640 --> 01:20:56,848 There. That fixes everything, don't it? 1428 01:20:56,852 --> 01:20:59,844 Okay, rocky. We're whores. 1429 01:20:59,855 --> 01:21:02,722 - You know what that makes you, don't ya? - Look out, now. 1430 01:21:02,733 --> 01:21:04,348 A lousy little pimp, that's what. 1431 01:21:04,360 --> 01:21:06,396 - I'll learn you! - You dirty little Guinea! 1432 01:21:06,403 --> 01:21:08,815 - And that'll learn you! - Bastard. 1433 01:21:08,822 --> 01:21:11,564 Yeah, he's proving it to us, Pearl. 1434 01:21:11,575 --> 01:21:13,031 Sure. 1435 01:21:13,035 --> 01:21:15,902 Hickey's converted him. He's give up his pipe dream. 1436 01:21:15,913 --> 01:21:18,325 - Lay off of me, or I'll... - Oh, lay off them! 1437 01:21:18,332 --> 01:21:20,493 Harry's party ain't no time to beat up your stable. 1438 01:21:20,501 --> 01:21:23,208 Whose stable? Who do you think you're talkin' to? 1439 01:21:23,212 --> 01:21:25,794 I ain't never beat 'em up. What do you think I am? 1440 01:21:25,798 --> 01:21:29,791 I just give 'em a slap like any guy would his wife if she got too Gabby. 1441 01:21:29,802 --> 01:21:33,420 I'm not lookin' for no trouble on Harry's birthday party! 1442 01:21:33,430 --> 01:21:36,718 You lousy little Guinea! 1443 01:21:36,725 --> 01:21:40,559 I'll lay off ya until the party's over if Pearl will. 1444 01:21:40,562 --> 01:21:42,018 Sure, I will. 1445 01:21:42,022 --> 01:21:44,013 For Harry's sake, not yours, you little wop! 1446 01:21:44,024 --> 01:21:47,016 Hey, listen, youse. Don't get no wrong... 1447 01:21:47,027 --> 01:21:50,690 What the hell are you laughin' at, you half-dead old stew bum? 1448 01:21:50,697 --> 01:21:53,109 At himself, he oughta be. 1449 01:21:53,117 --> 01:21:55,529 Jeez, hickey sure got his number. 1450 01:21:56,662 --> 01:21:58,653 Wake up, comrade. 1451 01:21:58,664 --> 01:22:00,450 There's a revolution starting all around you, 1452 01:22:00,457 --> 01:22:02,448 and you're sleeping through it. 1453 01:22:02,459 --> 01:22:05,451 B'god, it's not to bakunin's ghost you ought to be praying in your dreams, 1454 01:22:05,462 --> 01:22:07,623 but the great nihilist hickey! 1455 01:22:07,631 --> 01:22:09,838 He's started a movement that'll blow up the world. 1456 01:22:11,802 --> 01:22:14,544 You, Larry. Renegade. Traitor! 1457 01:22:14,555 --> 01:22:16,011 I'll have you shot! 1458 01:22:17,224 --> 01:22:19,465 Don't be a fool. Buy me a drink. 1459 01:22:22,980 --> 01:22:24,186 Mmm! 1460 01:22:26,483 --> 01:22:27,893 Mmm! 1461 01:22:27,901 --> 01:22:30,142 Bourgeois swine! Hickey! 1462 01:22:32,823 --> 01:22:34,438 He laughs like good fellow. 1463 01:22:35,659 --> 01:22:37,115 He makes jokes. 1464 01:22:38,912 --> 01:22:40,948 He dares to hint to me... 1465 01:22:41,999 --> 01:22:44,411 So I see what he dares to think. 1466 01:22:46,295 --> 01:22:50,379 He thinks I am finish, it is too late, 1467 01:22:50,382 --> 01:22:53,294 so I do not wish the day to come, 1468 01:22:53,302 --> 01:22:55,384 because it will not be my day! 1469 01:22:55,387 --> 01:22:57,002 Huh? 1470 01:22:57,014 --> 01:22:58,970 I see what he thinks. 1471 01:23:01,185 --> 01:23:02,641 He thinks lies. 1472 01:23:02,644 --> 01:23:05,306 Even worse, that I... 1473 01:23:09,234 --> 01:23:12,647 I'll have him hanged the first one of all, to the first lamppost! 1474 01:23:17,367 --> 01:23:21,201 Why you so serious, you little monkey faces? 1475 01:23:21,205 --> 01:23:24,197 It's all great joke, no? 1476 01:23:24,208 --> 01:23:27,621 So we get drunk and we laugh like hell, 1477 01:23:28,337 --> 01:23:30,293 and then we die, 1478 01:23:30,297 --> 01:23:32,253 and the pipe dream vanish. 1479 01:23:34,468 --> 01:23:37,585 So be of good cheer, little stupid peoples. 1480 01:23:37,596 --> 01:23:41,214 "The days grow hot, o Babylon!" 1481 01:23:41,225 --> 01:23:43,261 Soon, little proletarians, 1482 01:23:43,268 --> 01:23:46,351 we will have free picnic in the cool shade, 1483 01:23:46,355 --> 01:23:48,346 and we will eat hot dogs 1484 01:23:48,357 --> 01:23:51,565 and drink free wine beneath the Willow trees. 1485 01:23:51,568 --> 01:23:53,775 Like hogs! Yes? 1486 01:23:53,779 --> 01:23:56,236 Like beautiful little hogs! 1487 01:24:02,246 --> 01:24:04,407 Goddamn liar, hickey. 1488 01:24:06,375 --> 01:24:09,208 It's he who makes me sheer. 1489 01:24:09,211 --> 01:24:11,543 I want to sleep. 1490 01:24:16,510 --> 01:24:18,967 Hickey ain't overlookin' no bets. 1491 01:24:18,971 --> 01:24:20,962 It's only the old wise guy Larry 1492 01:24:20,973 --> 01:24:24,340 who's still pretending he's the one exception who don't do no pipe dreamin'. 1493 01:24:24,351 --> 01:24:25,887 I... 1494 01:24:26,687 --> 01:24:27,847 All right. 1495 01:24:29,648 --> 01:24:32,606 Take it out on me if it makes you more content. 1496 01:24:33,944 --> 01:24:36,105 Sure, I love every hair of your heads, 1497 01:24:36,113 --> 01:24:39,025 my great, big, beautiful baby dolls, 1498 01:24:39,032 --> 01:24:41,023 and there's nothing I wouldn't do for you. 1499 01:24:41,034 --> 01:24:43,366 The old Irish bunk, huh? 1500 01:24:43,370 --> 01:24:46,737 We ain't big, and we ain't your baby dolls. 1501 01:24:46,748 --> 01:24:48,079 But we admit we're beautiful. 1502 01:24:48,083 --> 01:24:49,994 - Huh, Margie? - Yeah, sure thing. 1503 01:24:50,002 --> 01:24:54,336 But what would he do with beautiful dolls, even if he had the price, the old goat? 1504 01:24:54,339 --> 01:24:55,920 Eh. 1505 01:24:55,924 --> 01:24:59,041 Larry, you're okay, even though you are full of bull. 1506 01:24:59,052 --> 01:25:00,963 Sure. You're aces with us. 1507 01:25:00,971 --> 01:25:02,552 We're nervous, that's all. 1508 01:25:02,556 --> 01:25:05,764 It's hickey, that lousy drummer. Why can't he be like he's always been? 1509 01:25:05,767 --> 01:25:08,179 I ain't never seen a guy change so. 1510 01:25:08,186 --> 01:25:11,849 - What do you think happened to him, Larry? - I don't know. 1511 01:25:11,857 --> 01:25:15,770 With all his gab, I notice he's kept that to himself so far. 1512 01:25:16,903 --> 01:25:20,395 Maybe he's saving the great revelation for Harry's party. 1513 01:25:21,992 --> 01:25:24,028 Let him mind his own business, and I'll mind mine. 1514 01:25:24,036 --> 01:25:25,276 Yeah, that's what I say. 1515 01:25:25,287 --> 01:25:28,779 Say, Larry, where's that young friend of yours disappeared to? 1516 01:25:28,790 --> 01:25:32,203 I don't care where he is, except I wish he was a thousand miles away. 1517 01:25:35,297 --> 01:25:37,037 He's a pest. 1518 01:25:37,049 --> 01:25:42,339 I told him, I'll take a lot from you, hickey, like everyone else in this dump, 1519 01:25:42,346 --> 01:25:44,507 'cause you always been a grand guy. 1520 01:25:44,514 --> 01:25:47,506 But there's things I don't take from you nor nobody, see. 1521 01:25:47,517 --> 01:25:50,634 Remember that, or you'll wake up in a hospital, 1522 01:25:50,646 --> 01:25:52,227 or maybe worse, 1523 01:25:52,230 --> 01:25:55,313 with your wife and the iceman walkin' slow behind you. 1524 01:25:55,317 --> 01:25:58,229 Oh, you oughtn't to make that iceman crack, rocky. 1525 01:25:58,236 --> 01:26:01,478 I notice he ain't pulled that old gag this time. 1526 01:26:01,490 --> 01:26:04,732 Do you suppose he did catch his wife cheatin', huh? 1527 01:26:04,743 --> 01:26:06,825 Oh, that's the bunk. 1528 01:26:06,828 --> 01:26:10,946 He ain't pulled that gag or showed her photo around because he ain't drunk. 1529 01:26:10,957 --> 01:26:13,573 And if he's caught her cheating he'd be drunk, wouldn't he? 1530 01:26:13,585 --> 01:26:16,952 He'd have beat her up and then gone on the worst drunk he'd ever staged. 1531 01:26:16,963 --> 01:26:18,999 Sure. Rocky's got the right dope, baby. 1532 01:26:26,431 --> 01:26:30,970 I's stood tellin' people this dump is closed for the night all I'm gonna. 1533 01:26:30,977 --> 01:26:33,969 Let Harry hire a doorman, pay him wages, if he wants one. 1534 01:26:33,980 --> 01:26:37,063 Yeah? Harry's pretty damn good to ya. 1535 01:26:37,067 --> 01:26:39,353 Sure, he is. I don't mean that. 1536 01:26:40,195 --> 01:26:41,935 Anyways, it's all right. 1537 01:26:41,947 --> 01:26:45,360 I told Schwartz the cop we closed for the party. 1538 01:26:45,367 --> 01:26:46,982 He'll keep folks away. 1539 01:26:47,994 --> 01:26:50,736 I wants me a big drink, that's what. 1540 01:26:50,747 --> 01:26:53,705 Who's stoppin' ya? You can have all you want on hickey. 1541 01:26:55,669 --> 01:26:59,833 All right, I earned all the drinks on him I could drink in a year 1542 01:26:59,840 --> 01:27:02,297 for listening to his crazy bull. 1543 01:27:02,300 --> 01:27:04,712 Here's hopin' he gets the lockjaw. 1544 01:27:06,972 --> 01:27:09,338 I drinks on him, but I don't drink with him. 1545 01:27:09,349 --> 01:27:11,385 No, sir. Never no more. 1546 01:27:11,393 --> 01:27:15,477 Aw, bull. Hickey's all right. What's he done to you? 1547 01:27:15,480 --> 01:27:17,846 That's my business. 1548 01:27:17,858 --> 01:27:20,224 Sure, you think he's all right. 1549 01:27:20,235 --> 01:27:22,226 He's a white man, ain't he? 1550 01:27:22,237 --> 01:27:25,070 Now, listen to me, you white boys! 1551 01:27:25,073 --> 01:27:28,190 Don't you get it in your head that I's pretendin' to be what I ain't, 1552 01:27:28,201 --> 01:27:30,192 or that I ain't proud to be what I am. 1553 01:27:30,203 --> 01:27:32,034 You gettin' me? 1554 01:27:36,626 --> 01:27:38,787 Or you and me's gonna have trouble. 1555 01:27:42,507 --> 01:27:44,122 The nerve. 1556 01:27:44,134 --> 01:27:47,376 Just because she acts nice to him, he gets a swelled nut. 1557 01:27:47,387 --> 01:27:49,378 If that ain't like a coon all over. 1558 01:27:49,389 --> 01:27:52,756 He talkin' fight talk, huh? I'll murder the nigger. 1559 01:27:52,768 --> 01:27:56,511 Li-listen, boys. I... i-I'm sorry. 1560 01:27:56,521 --> 01:27:59,888 You been good friends to me. 1561 01:27:59,900 --> 01:28:02,186 It's that hickey. 1562 01:28:02,194 --> 01:28:05,186 He gets my head all mixed up with craziness. 1563 01:28:05,197 --> 01:28:06,983 Aw, that's all right, Joe. 1564 01:28:06,990 --> 01:28:10,153 The boys wasn't taking you serious. 1565 01:28:10,160 --> 01:28:13,652 Jeez, what'd I say, hickey ain't overlookin' no bets? 1566 01:28:13,663 --> 01:28:16,200 And you gotta admit he's got the right dope. 1567 01:28:16,208 --> 01:28:18,324 I mean, on some of the bums here. 1568 01:28:18,335 --> 01:28:20,997 He's certainly got one guy I know sized up right. 1569 01:28:21,004 --> 01:28:22,869 - Ain't he, Pearl? - Certainly has. 1570 01:28:22,881 --> 01:28:24,667 Cut it out, I told ya! 1571 01:28:24,674 --> 01:28:26,665 It's nothing to me, what happened to him. 1572 01:28:28,053 --> 01:28:30,886 But I have a feeling he's dying to tell us inside him, 1573 01:28:30,889 --> 01:28:32,470 and yet he's afraid. 1574 01:28:32,474 --> 01:28:34,214 Like that damn kid. 1575 01:28:35,852 --> 01:28:39,344 Strange, the queer way he seemed to recognize him. 1576 01:28:39,356 --> 01:28:41,972 If he's afraid, that explains why he's off booze. 1577 01:28:41,983 --> 01:28:44,725 Afraid if he got drunk he might tell us... 1578 01:28:44,736 --> 01:28:47,648 Well, well, well! Here I am in the Nick of timel 1579 01:28:47,656 --> 01:28:50,864 well, come on. Somebody give me a hand with these packages. 1580 01:28:50,867 --> 01:28:54,451 Jeez, hickey, you scared me out of a year's growth, 1581 01:28:54,454 --> 01:28:55,864 sneaking in like that. 1582 01:28:55,872 --> 01:28:57,453 Sneakin'? 1583 01:28:57,457 --> 01:29:00,164 You were all so busy drinking in words of wisdom from old wise guy here 1584 01:29:00,168 --> 01:29:02,284 you couldn't hear anything else. 1585 01:29:02,295 --> 01:29:06,538 And from what I heard, you're not so good when you start playing Sherlock Holmes. 1586 01:29:06,550 --> 01:29:10,293 You've got me all wrong. I'm not afraid of anything now. 1587 01:29:10,303 --> 01:29:12,294 Not even myself. 1588 01:29:12,305 --> 01:29:14,546 You'd better stick to the part of old cemetery, 1589 01:29:14,558 --> 01:29:16,219 the barker for the big sleep. 1590 01:29:16,226 --> 01:29:18,558 That is, if you can still let yourself get away with it. 1591 01:29:18,562 --> 01:29:22,146 Old cemetery! That's him, hickey. We'll have to call him that. 1592 01:29:22,148 --> 01:29:25,561 You're getting to do a lot of puzzling about me. Aren't you, Larry? 1593 01:29:25,569 --> 01:29:27,525 But that won't help you. 1594 01:29:27,529 --> 01:29:29,611 You've gotta think of yourself. 1595 01:29:29,614 --> 01:29:31,821 I couldn't give you my peace. 1596 01:29:31,825 --> 01:29:34,157 You've gotta find your own. 1597 01:29:34,160 --> 01:29:36,242 All it can do is to help you, and the rest of the gang, 1598 01:29:36,246 --> 01:29:38,111 by showing you the way to find it. 1599 01:29:38,123 --> 01:29:40,910 Oh, hire a church. 1600 01:29:40,917 --> 01:29:42,999 All right, boys and girls. Don't get sore. 1601 01:29:43,003 --> 01:29:45,244 I guess that did sound too much like a lousy preacher. 1602 01:29:45,255 --> 01:29:47,416 Well, let's forget it and get on with the party. 1603 01:29:47,424 --> 01:29:50,006 Is those bundles grub? You brought enough already to feed an army. 1604 01:29:50,010 --> 01:29:52,296 I want this to be the biggest birthday Harry's ever had. 1605 01:29:52,304 --> 01:29:54,966 You and rocky go out in the hall and bring in the big surprise. 1606 01:29:54,973 --> 01:29:57,134 My arms are busted lugging it. 1607 01:29:57,142 --> 01:29:59,758 - You got us het up! What is it, hickey? - Just wait and see. 1608 01:29:59,769 --> 01:30:00,884 I thought to myself, 1609 01:30:00,896 --> 01:30:03,512 I'll bet this is what would please those whores more than anything. 1610 01:30:03,523 --> 01:30:06,060 Then I said, I don't care how much money it costs. They're worth it. 1611 01:30:06,067 --> 01:30:08,058 They're the best little scouts in the world, 1612 01:30:08,069 --> 01:30:10,606 and they've always been damn kind to me when I was down and out. 1613 01:30:10,614 --> 01:30:12,605 And I meant every word of that. 1614 01:30:12,616 --> 01:30:14,607 - Well, what's the matter? - Mmm. 1615 01:30:14,618 --> 01:30:16,609 What... oh, I see. 1616 01:30:16,620 --> 01:30:19,157 I didn't say that to offend you, so don't be silly. 1617 01:30:19,164 --> 01:30:21,684 - All right, all right. Let it slide. - Oh, look! Here it comes! 1618 01:30:22,626 --> 01:30:25,868 Hickey, what'd you get him? 1619 01:30:25,879 --> 01:30:27,915 Unveil it, boys! 1620 01:30:29,674 --> 01:30:31,164 - Oh! - It's champagne! 1621 01:30:31,176 --> 01:30:33,417 Oh, jeez, hickey, if you ain't a sport! 1622 01:30:33,428 --> 01:30:36,420 I never been soused on champagne! Let's get stinko! 1623 01:30:36,431 --> 01:30:38,717 You betcha my life! All of us! 1624 01:30:38,725 --> 01:30:41,512 You sure is hittin' the high spots, hickey. 1625 01:30:41,519 --> 01:30:43,510 When I runs my gambling house, 1626 01:30:43,521 --> 01:30:46,604 I drink that old bubbly water in steins. 1627 01:30:46,608 --> 01:30:50,317 I'm gonna drink that way again too, soon as I make my stake. 1628 01:30:52,155 --> 01:30:55,022 And that ain't no pipe dream neither. 1629 01:30:55,033 --> 01:30:58,196 What do we drink it out of, hickey? There ain't no wine glasses. 1630 01:30:58,203 --> 01:31:00,410 Joe's got the right idea. Steins. 1631 01:31:00,413 --> 01:31:02,369 That's the spirit for Harry's party. 1632 01:31:02,374 --> 01:31:05,616 We will drink wine beneath the Willow trees! 1633 01:31:06,711 --> 01:31:08,121 That's the spirit, brother. 1634 01:31:08,129 --> 01:31:10,541 And let the lousy slaves drink vinegar. 1635 01:31:12,342 --> 01:31:14,298 Goddamn liar. 1636 01:31:15,553 --> 01:31:17,339 Leave Hugo be. 1637 01:31:18,598 --> 01:31:20,884 He rotted ten years in prison for his faith. 1638 01:31:20,892 --> 01:31:22,598 He earned his dream. 1639 01:31:22,602 --> 01:31:24,718 Have you no decency or pity? 1640 01:31:25,438 --> 01:31:27,019 Hello. What's this? 1641 01:31:28,191 --> 01:31:30,147 I thought you were in the grandstand. 1642 01:31:31,486 --> 01:31:33,477 Listen, Larry, you're gettin' me all wrong. 1643 01:31:33,488 --> 01:31:35,479 You oughta know me better. 1644 01:31:35,490 --> 01:31:38,106 Of course I have pity, but now that I've seen the light, 1645 01:31:38,118 --> 01:31:40,609 it's not my old kind of pity, the kind yours is, 1646 01:31:40,620 --> 01:31:43,407 the kind that lets itself off easy by encouraging some poor guy 1647 01:31:43,415 --> 01:31:45,531 to go on kidding himself with a lie, 1648 01:31:45,542 --> 01:31:47,203 the kind that leaves the poor slob worse off 1649 01:31:47,210 --> 01:31:49,622 because he feels guiltier than ever, 1650 01:31:49,629 --> 01:31:52,120 the kind that makes his lying hopes nag at him 1651 01:31:52,132 --> 01:31:55,420 and reproach him until he's a rotten skunk in his own eyes. 1652 01:31:55,427 --> 01:31:58,169 No, sir, the kind of pity I feel now 1653 01:31:58,179 --> 01:32:01,216 is after final results that'll really save the poor guy, 1654 01:32:01,224 --> 01:32:03,715 make him contented with what he is and quit battling himself 1655 01:32:03,727 --> 01:32:05,592 so he can find peace for the rest of his life. 1656 01:32:07,522 --> 01:32:10,559 Oh, I know you resent the way I have to show you up to yourself, 1657 01:32:10,567 --> 01:32:14,685 but you'll be grateful to me when you're able to admit, without feeling ashamed, 1658 01:32:14,696 --> 01:32:16,527 that all the grandstand philosopher bunk 1659 01:32:16,531 --> 01:32:19,944 and the waiting for the big sleep stuff is a pipe dream. 1660 01:32:19,951 --> 01:32:22,158 You'll be able to say to yourself, 1661 01:32:22,162 --> 01:32:25,575 I'm just an old man who's scared of life, 1662 01:32:25,582 --> 01:32:28,039 but even more scared of dying. 1663 01:32:28,043 --> 01:32:31,706 So I'm keepin' drunk and hangin' on to life at any price, and what of it? 1664 01:32:31,713 --> 01:32:37,003 B'god, if I'm not beginning to think you've gone mad. 1665 01:32:38,261 --> 01:32:39,751 You're a liar. 1666 01:32:39,763 --> 01:32:43,472 That's no way to talk to an old pal who's trying to help you. 1667 01:32:43,475 --> 01:32:47,059 Hell, if you really wanted to die, you'd just take a hop off the fire escape. 1668 01:32:47,062 --> 01:32:50,022 And if you really were in the grandstand, you wouldn't be pitying everyone. 1669 01:32:52,567 --> 01:32:56,606 As for my bein' bughouse, well, you can't crawl out of it that way. 1670 01:32:56,613 --> 01:32:58,274 I'm too damn sane. 1671 01:32:58,281 --> 01:33:01,273 I can size up guys and turn 'em inside out better than I ever could, 1672 01:33:01,284 --> 01:33:03,445 even when they're strangers, like that parritt kid. 1673 01:33:04,746 --> 01:33:06,987 He's licked, Larry. 1674 01:33:06,998 --> 01:33:10,365 I think there's only one possible way out you can help him take. 1675 01:33:10,376 --> 01:33:12,708 That is, if you have the right kind of pity for him. 1676 01:33:13,797 --> 01:33:15,378 What do you mean? 1677 01:33:16,591 --> 01:33:20,960 I'm not advising him, except to leave me out of his troubles. 1678 01:33:20,970 --> 01:33:24,383 - He's nothing to me. - You'll find he won't agree to that. 1679 01:33:24,390 --> 01:33:27,006 He'll keep after you until he makes you help him, 1680 01:33:27,018 --> 01:33:29,976 because he's gotta be punished so he can forgive himself. 1681 01:33:31,147 --> 01:33:33,058 He hasn't got the guts. 1682 01:33:33,066 --> 01:33:34,772 He can't manage it alone. 1683 01:33:34,776 --> 01:33:36,812 And you're the only one he can turn to. 1684 01:33:36,820 --> 01:33:39,778 For the love of god, mind your own business. 1685 01:33:41,282 --> 01:33:43,273 A lot you know about him. 1686 01:33:43,284 --> 01:33:44,865 He's hardly spoken to you. 1687 01:33:44,869 --> 01:33:48,077 No, that's right, but I do know a lot about him just the same. 1688 01:33:48,081 --> 01:33:51,198 I've had hell inside of me, and I can spot it in others. 1689 01:33:53,044 --> 01:33:56,707 Maybe that's what gives me the feeling there's something familiar about him, 1690 01:33:56,714 --> 01:33:58,329 something between us. 1691 01:33:59,092 --> 01:34:01,128 No, it's more than that. 1692 01:34:01,136 --> 01:34:04,128 Tell me about him. For example, I don't imagine he's married, is he? 1693 01:34:04,139 --> 01:34:06,801 - No. - Hasn't been mixed up with someone? 1694 01:34:06,808 --> 01:34:08,764 Oh, I don't mean trollops. 1695 01:34:08,768 --> 01:34:12,135 I mean the old "real love" stuff that crucifies you. 1696 01:34:13,314 --> 01:34:15,475 Maybe you're right. 1697 01:34:15,483 --> 01:34:17,394 I wouldn't be surprised. 1698 01:34:18,486 --> 01:34:20,272 I see. 1699 01:34:20,280 --> 01:34:23,067 You think I'm on the wrong track, and you're glad I am, 1700 01:34:23,074 --> 01:34:26,441 because then I won't suspect whatever it is he did about the great cause. 1701 01:34:28,413 --> 01:34:31,246 That's another lie you keep telling yourself, Larry... 1702 01:34:31,249 --> 01:34:33,581 That the good old cause means nothing to you anymore. 1703 01:34:33,585 --> 01:34:35,746 - What the hell are you... - But you're wrong about parritt. 1704 01:34:35,753 --> 01:34:38,916 That's not what's got him stopped. It's what's behind that. 1705 01:34:40,425 --> 01:34:43,167 And it's a woman. I recognize the symptoms. 1706 01:34:44,888 --> 01:34:47,049 You're the boy who's never wrong. 1707 01:34:49,017 --> 01:34:52,009 His trouble is, he was brought up a devout believer in the movement, 1708 01:34:52,020 --> 01:34:54,477 and now he's lost his faith. 1709 01:34:54,480 --> 01:34:56,471 It's a shock. 1710 01:34:56,482 --> 01:35:00,600 But he's young and he'll soon find another dream just as good. 1711 01:35:00,612 --> 01:35:01,977 Or as bad. 1712 01:35:01,988 --> 01:35:03,979 All right. T'll let it go at that, Larry. 1713 01:35:03,990 --> 01:35:06,823 He's nothing to me. Except that I'm glad he's here. 1714 01:35:06,826 --> 01:35:09,283 Because he'll help me make you wake up to yourself. 1715 01:35:11,456 --> 01:35:15,119 I don't even like the guy, or the feeling that there's anything between us. 1716 01:35:15,126 --> 01:35:17,959 But you'll find out that I'm right just the same 1717 01:35:17,962 --> 01:35:19,953 when you get to the final showdown with him. 1718 01:35:19,964 --> 01:35:22,125 There'll be no showdown. I don't give a tinker's... 1719 01:35:22,133 --> 01:35:24,465 Sticking to the grandstand, eh? 1720 01:35:26,262 --> 01:35:30,221 I always knew that you'd be the toughest of all the gang to convince, Larry. 1721 01:35:30,225 --> 01:35:32,181 And along with Harry and Jimmy tomorrow... 1722 01:35:33,311 --> 01:35:35,302 It was you I wanted to help the most. 1723 01:35:40,235 --> 01:35:42,476 I've always liked you a lot, you old bastard. 1724 01:35:43,529 --> 01:35:45,110 Hey, not much time before 12:00. 1725 01:35:45,114 --> 01:35:46,820 Come on, gang. Let's get goin'. 1726 01:35:46,824 --> 01:35:49,361 Come on, boys and girls. Let's get busy. 1727 01:35:49,369 --> 01:35:52,907 The cake all set? Fine. And my gift? And yours, girls. 1728 01:35:52,914 --> 01:35:54,905 Tie, tie, and a handkerchief. 1729 01:35:54,916 --> 01:35:56,702 Chuck and rocky. Hmm? 1730 01:35:56,709 --> 01:35:59,576 Harry certainly will be very touched by your thoughts of him. 1731 01:35:59,587 --> 01:36:02,579 Margie and Pearl, get back in the bar and get ready to bring the grub right in. 1732 01:36:02,590 --> 01:36:04,581 There'll be some drinking first and some toasts. 1733 01:36:04,592 --> 01:36:06,583 My idea was to use the wine for that, so get that all set. 1734 01:36:06,594 --> 01:36:08,960 I'll go upstairs and root everybody out, and Harry the last. 1735 01:36:08,972 --> 01:36:11,213 When you hear us coming, somebody light the candles on the cake 1736 01:36:11,224 --> 01:36:13,340 and start playing his favorite tune on the piano. 1737 01:36:13,351 --> 01:36:16,559 Come on, Cora, everybody. Let's hustle. We want this to come off in style. 1738 01:36:16,562 --> 01:36:20,146 Jeez, I gotta practice. I ain't laid my mitts on a box in god knows when. 1739 01:36:20,149 --> 01:36:22,014 Hey, Joe! 1740 01:36:22,026 --> 01:36:24,483 Jeez, I've forgotten this has-been tune. 1741 01:36:24,487 --> 01:36:26,773 Come on, Joe. Hum it so's I can follow. 1742 01:36:39,877 --> 01:36:43,210 B'god! It's a second feast of belshazzar! 1743 01:36:43,214 --> 01:36:45,375 With hickey to do the writing on the wall! 1744 01:36:45,383 --> 01:36:48,341 Oh, shut up, old cemetery. 1745 01:36:48,344 --> 01:36:50,801 Well, if it ain't prince Willie. 1746 01:36:50,805 --> 01:36:54,138 Gee, kid, you look sick. Get a couple of shots in ya. 1747 01:36:54,142 --> 01:36:57,225 No, thanks. Not now. I-I'm tapering o-off. 1748 01:37:06,779 --> 01:37:09,486 It's been hell up in that damn room, Larry. 1749 01:37:09,490 --> 01:37:12,607 The... the things I've imagined. 1750 01:37:14,078 --> 01:37:16,410 But, uh... 1751 01:37:17,790 --> 01:37:19,906 I-I've got it beat now. 1752 01:37:19,917 --> 01:37:23,034 By... by tomorrow morning, I'll... t'll be on the wagon. 1753 01:37:24,047 --> 01:37:25,537 And I'll, uh... 1754 01:37:25,548 --> 01:37:28,005 I-t'll get b-back my clothes first thing. 1755 01:37:28,009 --> 01:37:30,842 H-hickey's loaning me the money. 1756 01:37:30,845 --> 01:37:32,927 A-and I'm gonna do what I always said. 1757 01:37:32,930 --> 01:37:35,637 I'm g-g-gonna go to the da's office. 1758 01:37:35,641 --> 01:37:39,600 Because he knows that I... I really w-was a brilliant student. 1759 01:37:40,897 --> 01:37:42,853 I know I could make good. 1760 01:37:45,151 --> 01:37:50,362 I-I owe a lot to hickey. He's... made me wake up to myself and see what a fool... 1761 01:37:51,616 --> 01:37:54,028 W-wasn't nice to face, but... 1762 01:37:57,121 --> 01:37:59,407 It's not what he says. 1763 01:37:59,415 --> 01:38:01,747 It's what you feel behind what he hints. 1764 01:38:01,751 --> 01:38:03,958 Christ, you think all I really wanted to do with my life 1765 01:38:03,961 --> 01:38:05,371 was sit here and stay drunk? 1766 01:38:05,380 --> 01:38:06,836 I'll show him. 1767 01:38:10,802 --> 01:38:12,417 If you want my advice... 1768 01:38:13,805 --> 01:38:16,217 You'll put your mouth on this bottle and keep it there 1769 01:38:16,224 --> 01:38:18,180 until you don't give a damn about hickey. 1770 01:38:21,312 --> 01:38:22,677 That's fine advice. 1771 01:38:24,774 --> 01:38:26,730 I thought you were my friend. 1772 01:38:43,084 --> 01:38:45,040 Gee, I'm glad you're here, Larry. 1773 01:38:46,462 --> 01:38:48,748 That damn fool hickey knocked on my door. 1774 01:38:49,841 --> 01:38:51,331 I thought it must be you. 1775 01:38:51,342 --> 01:38:54,300 He came bustin' in, he made me come downstairs here. 1776 01:38:55,930 --> 01:38:58,546 I don't know what for. I don't belong at this birthday celebration. 1777 01:38:58,558 --> 01:39:00,924 I don't know this gang, and I don't wanna be mixed up with 'em. 1778 01:39:00,935 --> 01:39:03,551 - All I came here for was to find you. - I warned you, I... 1779 01:39:03,563 --> 01:39:05,679 Can't you make hickey mind his own business? 1780 01:39:07,275 --> 01:39:10,187 Just now he pats me on the shoulder like he's sympathizing with me. 1781 01:39:11,696 --> 01:39:13,982 He says, "I know how it is, but you can't hide from yourself, 1782 01:39:13,990 --> 01:39:16,106 not even here on the bottom of the sea. 1783 01:39:16,117 --> 01:39:18,108 You've gotta face the truth and do what must be done 1784 01:39:18,119 --> 01:39:20,326 for your own peace and for the happiness of all concerned." 1785 01:39:20,329 --> 01:39:23,571 - What'd he mean by that, Larry? - How the hell would I know? 1786 01:39:23,583 --> 01:39:26,074 Then he grins and says, "Larry's getting wise to himself. 1787 01:39:26,085 --> 01:39:27,950 I don't think you can rely on his help. 1788 01:39:27,962 --> 01:39:30,954 He's gonna have to choose between living and dying, and he'll never choose to die 1789 01:39:30,965 --> 01:39:32,956 while there's a breath left in the old bastard." 1790 01:39:32,967 --> 01:39:35,333 Then he laughs like it's a joke on you. 1791 01:39:37,346 --> 01:39:40,930 - Well, what do you say to that, Larry? - I have nothing to say. 1792 01:39:40,933 --> 01:39:44,926 Except you're a bigger fool than he is to listen to him. 1793 01:39:44,937 --> 01:39:47,269 Oh, is that so? Well, he's no fool where you're concerned. 1794 01:39:47,273 --> 01:39:50,231 He's got your number, all right. 1795 01:39:53,321 --> 01:39:55,403 You know I don't mean that. 1796 01:39:55,406 --> 01:39:57,397 What I want most is to be friends with you. 1797 01:39:57,408 --> 01:39:59,945 I haven't a single friend left in the world. I hope... 1798 01:40:01,204 --> 01:40:02,785 I'd hoped you'd... 1799 01:40:05,666 --> 01:40:08,749 And you could too, without it hurting you. 1800 01:40:08,753 --> 01:40:11,495 You ought to, for mother's sake. She really loved you. 1801 01:40:12,840 --> 01:40:14,796 You loved her too, didn't you? 1802 01:40:16,469 --> 01:40:18,425 Leave what's dead in its grave. 1803 01:40:20,556 --> 01:40:25,266 I suppose because I was only a kid, you don't think I was wise about you and her. 1804 01:40:25,269 --> 01:40:28,557 Well, I been wise ever since I can remember to all the guys she's had. 1805 01:40:30,316 --> 01:40:33,729 She used to try to kid me along it wasn't so. 1806 01:40:33,736 --> 01:40:37,695 That's a silly stunt for a free anarchist woman, to be ashamed of being free. 1807 01:40:37,698 --> 01:40:39,814 Shut your damn trap. 1808 01:40:42,036 --> 01:40:44,197 Yes, I know I shouldn't say that now. 1809 01:40:45,706 --> 01:40:47,822 I keep forgetting she isn't free anymore. 1810 01:40:57,677 --> 01:41:00,840 You know, Larry, you're the one of them all she cared most about. 1811 01:41:04,058 --> 01:41:06,470 Anybody else who left the movement would've been more than dead to her, 1812 01:41:06,477 --> 01:41:08,013 but she couldn't forget you. 1813 01:41:08,020 --> 01:41:09,976 She used to make excuses for you. 1814 01:41:11,774 --> 01:41:14,732 I used to try to get her goat about you. 1815 01:41:14,735 --> 01:41:16,066 I'd say, "Larry's got brains, 1816 01:41:16,070 --> 01:41:18,982 and yet he thinks the movement's a crazy pipe dream." 1817 01:41:18,990 --> 01:41:21,481 She blamed it on the booze getting you. 1818 01:41:21,492 --> 01:41:23,448 She'd kid herself that you'd give up the booze 1819 01:41:23,452 --> 01:41:25,864 and come back to the movement tomorrow. 1820 01:41:25,871 --> 01:41:29,534 She used to say, "Larry can't kill in himself a faith he's given his life to. 1821 01:41:29,542 --> 01:41:31,624 Not without killing himself." 1822 01:41:34,880 --> 01:41:37,246 How 'bout that, Larry? Was she right? 1823 01:41:43,097 --> 01:41:45,713 I suppose what she meant by that was to come back to her. 1824 01:41:45,725 --> 01:41:48,262 She was always getting the movement mixed up with herself. 1825 01:41:51,522 --> 01:41:53,729 But I'm sure she really must have loved you, Larry, 1826 01:41:53,733 --> 01:41:56,691 as much as she could've loved anyone beside herself. 1827 01:41:58,029 --> 01:42:00,441 No, she wasn't even faithful to you, was she? 1828 01:42:00,448 --> 01:42:02,905 That's why you walked out on her, isn't it? 1829 01:42:04,368 --> 01:42:08,236 I remember that last fight you had with her. I was listening. 1830 01:42:08,247 --> 01:42:12,240 I was on your side, even if she was my mother, because I liked you so much. 1831 01:42:14,754 --> 01:42:18,246 I remember she was putting on her high-and-mighty "free woman" stuff, 1832 01:42:18,257 --> 01:42:21,795 telling you you were still a slave to bourgeois morality and jealousy... 1833 01:42:23,054 --> 01:42:25,340 And that you thought the woman you loved 1834 01:42:25,348 --> 01:42:27,384 was a piece of private property you owned. 1835 01:42:27,391 --> 01:42:30,133 I remember you got mad and told her, "I don't like living with a whore!" 1836 01:42:30,144 --> 01:42:31,759 You lie! I never called her that! 1837 01:42:31,771 --> 01:42:35,355 That's why she still respects you... 'Cause you walked out on her. 1838 01:42:35,358 --> 01:42:37,770 She got sick of the others. 1839 01:42:37,777 --> 01:42:41,941 She had to keep on having lovers to prove to herself how free she was. 1840 01:42:43,783 --> 01:42:45,694 Made home a lousy place. 1841 01:42:45,701 --> 01:42:48,158 I felt like you did. It was like living in a whorehouse. 1842 01:42:48,162 --> 01:42:51,199 Only worse, because she didn't have to make her living at it. 1843 01:42:51,207 --> 01:42:52,367 Bastard. 1844 01:42:53,250 --> 01:42:54,615 She's your mother. 1845 01:42:56,337 --> 01:42:57,417 Have you no shame? 1846 01:42:59,048 --> 01:43:00,379 No. 1847 01:43:02,301 --> 01:43:04,542 She brought me up to believe that family respect stuff 1848 01:43:04,553 --> 01:43:06,384 is all bourgeois, property-owning crap. 1849 01:43:06,389 --> 01:43:08,220 - Why should I be ashamed? - I've had enough! 1850 01:43:08,224 --> 01:43:10,590 No! Larry, please don't leave me. 1851 01:43:10,601 --> 01:43:14,560 Larry, I promise, I only mentioned her name to make you understand better. 1852 01:43:18,442 --> 01:43:21,980 Why didn't you come up to my room like I asked you to? I kept waiting. 1853 01:43:21,987 --> 01:43:24,603 - We can talk over everything up there. - There's nothing to talk about. 1854 01:43:24,615 --> 01:43:27,357 But I gotta talk to you or I'm gonna talk to hickey. 1855 01:43:29,161 --> 01:43:33,120 I feel he knows anyway and I'm sure he'd understand, but I hate his guts. 1856 01:43:34,875 --> 01:43:36,160 I'm scared of him. Honest. 1857 01:43:36,168 --> 01:43:38,705 There's something not human behind his damn grinning and kidding. 1858 01:43:38,713 --> 01:43:40,578 You feel that too, do you? 1859 01:43:40,589 --> 01:43:42,625 But I can't go on like this. I gotta tell you, Larry. 1860 01:43:42,633 --> 01:43:44,919 - I won't listen. - Okay, I won't, Larry. 1861 01:43:56,772 --> 01:43:59,309 Ah, who do you think you're kidding? 1862 01:44:01,402 --> 01:44:03,484 I know damn well you've guessed. 1863 01:44:03,487 --> 01:44:06,445 - I've guessed nothing. - But I want you to guess now. 1864 01:44:07,366 --> 01:44:08,947 I'm glad you have. 1865 01:44:10,244 --> 01:44:12,235 I know now, since hickey's been after me, 1866 01:44:12,246 --> 01:44:15,206 that I meant you to guess right from the start... that's why I came to you. 1867 01:44:19,253 --> 01:44:21,209 I want you to understand the reason. 1868 01:44:25,593 --> 01:44:30,007 You see, I... I began to study American history, 1869 01:44:30,014 --> 01:44:34,098 and I got admiring Washington and Jefferson and Jackson and Lincoln, 1870 01:44:34,101 --> 01:44:37,264 and I began to feel patriotic and love this country. 1871 01:44:37,271 --> 01:44:39,262 Saw it was the best government in the world, 1872 01:44:39,273 --> 01:44:42,265 where everybody was equal, everybody had a chance. 1873 01:44:42,276 --> 01:44:44,267 And I saw the ideas behind the movement, 1874 01:44:44,278 --> 01:44:46,690 they came from a lot of Russians like bakunin and kropotkin. 1875 01:44:46,697 --> 01:44:49,564 They were all meant for Europe. 1876 01:44:49,575 --> 01:44:52,942 See, we didn't need 'em here in a democracy, where we were free already. 1877 01:44:56,499 --> 01:44:59,411 I didn't want this country to be destroyed for a damn foreign pipe dream! 1878 01:44:59,418 --> 01:45:02,251 I began to feel like I was a traitor 1879 01:45:02,254 --> 01:45:04,245 for helping a lot of cranks and bums and free women 1880 01:45:04,256 --> 01:45:06,212 plot to overthrow our government. 1881 01:45:08,636 --> 01:45:10,968 And I saw it was my... My duty to my country. 1882 01:45:10,971 --> 01:45:13,587 You stinking, rotten liar. 1883 01:45:14,892 --> 01:45:18,430 You think you can fool me with such hypocrite cant? 1884 01:45:18,437 --> 01:45:20,143 I don't give a damn what you did. 1885 01:45:20,147 --> 01:45:23,514 That's on your own, whatever it was. I don't know, and I don't wanna know. 1886 01:45:23,526 --> 01:45:26,313 But I never thought mother would be caught. Please believe that. 1887 01:45:26,320 --> 01:45:27,730 I never wou... 1888 01:45:27,738 --> 01:45:30,980 All t know is that I am sick of living. 1889 01:45:30,991 --> 01:45:32,356 I'm through. 1890 01:45:33,661 --> 01:45:37,153 I'm drowned and contented on the bottom of a bottle. 1891 01:45:38,582 --> 01:45:41,699 Honor or dishonor, faith or treachery, 1892 01:45:43,170 --> 01:45:46,162 they're nothing to me but opposites of the same stupidity 1893 01:45:46,173 --> 01:45:49,131 which is the king and ruler of life, and in the end... 1894 01:45:50,261 --> 01:45:53,344 They'll both rot into dust in the same grave. 1895 01:45:54,473 --> 01:45:56,384 All things are meaningless to me... 1896 01:45:57,685 --> 01:46:01,553 Because they grin at me from the one skull of death. 1897 01:46:01,564 --> 01:46:03,350 So go away. 1898 01:46:03,357 --> 01:46:05,143 I've forgotten your mother. 1899 01:46:08,779 --> 01:46:10,735 You old philosopher, huh? 1900 01:46:12,157 --> 01:46:13,567 You lousy old faker! 1901 01:46:13,576 --> 01:46:17,569 For the love of god, leave me in peace, the little time that's left to me. 1902 01:46:17,580 --> 01:46:20,617 Don't pull that pitiful old man junk on me. 1903 01:46:20,624 --> 01:46:24,333 You'll never die when there's a drink of whiskey left. 1904 01:46:24,336 --> 01:46:28,079 You be careful how you taunt me back into life. I warn you. 1905 01:46:28,090 --> 01:46:31,173 Because I might remember there's a thing called justice there 1906 01:46:31,176 --> 01:46:32,666 and the punishment for... 1907 01:46:37,182 --> 01:46:39,138 You're as mad as hickey... 1908 01:46:40,561 --> 01:46:42,517 And just as big a liar. 1909 01:46:43,647 --> 01:46:46,354 Wait'll hickey gets through with you. 1910 01:46:49,945 --> 01:46:52,687 Well, hello, tightwad kid. 1911 01:46:52,698 --> 01:46:56,407 You come to join the... What? Ooh, boy. Don't he act bashful! 1912 01:46:58,495 --> 01:47:00,360 Don't touch me! 1913 01:47:02,583 --> 01:47:04,539 Hey, rocky! Fight in the hall! 1914 01:47:04,543 --> 01:47:07,660 - Believe me, I'll break your neck! - By god... 1915 01:47:07,671 --> 01:47:10,583 What the hell! 1916 01:47:10,591 --> 01:47:13,583 - Don't touch me! - Can ya beat it? 1917 01:47:13,594 --> 01:47:16,586 I heard youse two call each other every name you can think of, 1918 01:47:16,597 --> 01:47:18,087 but I never seen... 1919 01:47:18,098 --> 01:47:22,262 A swell time to stage your first bout... On Harry's birthday party! 1920 01:47:22,269 --> 01:47:25,136 - What started the scrap? - Nothing, old chap. 1921 01:47:25,147 --> 01:47:26,933 Our business, you know. 1922 01:47:26,941 --> 01:47:29,808 But that bloody ass hickey made some insinuation about me, 1923 01:47:29,818 --> 01:47:32,605 and the boorish boer had the impertinence to agree with him. 1924 01:47:32,613 --> 01:47:35,275 That's a lie! 1925 01:47:35,282 --> 01:47:40,402 Hickey made joke about me, and this limey said, "yes, it was true!" 1926 01:47:40,412 --> 01:47:42,903 - Yes! - Now sit down, the both of youse! 1927 01:47:42,915 --> 01:47:44,871 Cut out this rough stuff! 1928 01:47:51,340 --> 01:47:55,003 Jeez, would you look at those bums? Like a couple of kids. 1929 01:47:55,010 --> 01:47:57,217 For god's sake, would you kiss and make up, huh? 1930 01:47:57,221 --> 01:47:58,802 Yeah! 1931 01:47:58,806 --> 01:48:00,888 Harry's party begins in a minute, 1932 01:48:00,891 --> 01:48:03,473 and we don't want no soreheads around here! 1933 01:48:04,812 --> 01:48:06,427 Oh, very well then. 1934 01:48:06,438 --> 01:48:09,430 In deference to the occasion, I apologize, 1935 01:48:09,441 --> 01:48:11,773 general wetjoen, 1936 01:48:11,777 --> 01:48:13,517 provided you do also. 1937 01:48:14,530 --> 01:48:17,567 I apologize, captain Lewis, 1938 01:48:17,574 --> 01:48:20,156 because Harry is my good friend. 1939 01:48:20,160 --> 01:48:22,947 Oh, hell, if you can't do better than that... 1940 01:48:22,955 --> 01:48:24,866 Here's the star boarder. 1941 01:48:24,873 --> 01:48:26,329 It's serious this time. 1942 01:48:27,167 --> 01:48:28,953 I'm tellin' all of you, 1943 01:48:28,961 --> 01:48:31,953 that bastard hickey's got Harry on the hip. 1944 01:48:31,964 --> 01:48:36,253 And it ain't gonna do us no good if he gets Harry to take that walk tomorrow. 1945 01:48:36,260 --> 01:48:38,125 He's sure to call on bessie's relations 1946 01:48:38,137 --> 01:48:40,753 and have a little cry over poor old bessie. 1947 01:48:40,764 --> 01:48:44,427 And you know what that bitch and all her family thought of me. 1948 01:48:45,686 --> 01:48:48,428 Once bessie's relations get their hooks into him, 1949 01:48:49,732 --> 01:48:52,690 it'll be as tough for us as if she wasn't even gone. 1950 01:48:53,652 --> 01:48:55,062 Everything all set? 1951 01:48:55,070 --> 01:48:57,152 Ah, fine. Half a minute to go. 1952 01:48:57,156 --> 01:48:59,021 Harry's starting down with Jimmy now. 1953 01:48:59,033 --> 01:49:00,614 I had a hard time getting him to move. 1954 01:49:00,617 --> 01:49:02,824 Harry don't even want to remember it's his birthday now. 1955 01:49:02,828 --> 01:49:05,240 Oh, here they come! Come on, everybody! Light the candles! 1956 01:49:05,247 --> 01:49:07,704 Cora, get ready to play. Stand up, everybody. 1957 01:49:07,708 --> 01:49:10,074 Chuck. Rocky. The wine. 1958 01:49:10,085 --> 01:49:12,451 Let's see. Twelve o'clock on the dot. 1959 01:49:12,463 --> 01:49:15,045 Come on, everybody, with a "happy birthday, Harry!" 1960 01:49:15,049 --> 01:49:17,836 Happy birthday, Harry! 1961 01:49:17,843 --> 01:49:19,549 Hey! 1962 01:49:19,553 --> 01:49:22,169 Cut out the glad hand, hickey! 1963 01:49:22,181 --> 01:49:23,921 You think I'm a sucker? 1964 01:49:23,932 --> 01:49:28,050 B'Jesus, I know you, you sneakin', lyin' drummer. 1965 01:49:28,062 --> 01:49:31,646 And all you bums! What the hell you tryin' to do? 1966 01:49:31,648 --> 01:49:33,639 Yellin' and raisin' the roof. 1967 01:49:33,650 --> 01:49:37,188 You want the cops to close the joint and take my license away? 1968 01:49:37,196 --> 01:49:40,609 Hey, ya dumb tart. Quit bangin' that box. 1969 01:49:41,366 --> 01:49:43,527 Jeez, Harry, I... 1970 01:49:43,535 --> 01:49:46,242 B'jeez, the least you could do is learn a tune. 1971 01:49:47,289 --> 01:49:49,029 And you two hookers, 1972 01:49:49,041 --> 01:49:51,032 screamin' at the top of your lungs. 1973 01:49:51,043 --> 01:49:53,125 What do you think this is, a dollar cathouse? 1974 01:49:53,128 --> 01:49:54,959 B'jeez, that's where you belong. 1975 01:49:54,963 --> 01:49:58,251 Oh... Harry. 1976 01:49:58,258 --> 01:50:02,001 Jeez, Harry, I never thought you'd say it like you meant it. 1977 01:50:04,181 --> 01:50:07,469 Harry, don't get sore at the gang just 'cause you're upset with yourself. 1978 01:50:08,393 --> 01:50:10,224 I promised you'd come through all right, haven't I? 1979 01:50:10,229 --> 01:50:11,844 So quit worryin'. 1980 01:50:11,855 --> 01:50:13,516 You don't wanna bawl out the old gang 1981 01:50:13,524 --> 01:50:16,516 just when they're congratulating you on your birthday, do ya? 1982 01:50:16,527 --> 01:50:19,564 B'jeez, they ain't as dumb as you. 1983 01:50:19,571 --> 01:50:22,153 They know I was only kiddin" 'em. 1984 01:50:22,157 --> 01:50:26,070 They know I appreciate their congratulations. Don't you, fellas? 1985 01:50:26,078 --> 01:50:27,818 Yeah, sure, Harry! 1986 01:50:31,708 --> 01:50:33,824 B'jeez, I like you broads. 1987 01:50:34,753 --> 01:50:36,334 You know I was only kiddin'. 1988 01:50:37,840 --> 01:50:39,831 - Sure. We know, Harry. - Sure. 1989 01:50:39,842 --> 01:50:43,255 Sure. Harry's the greatest kidder in this dump, and that's sayin' something. 1990 01:50:43,262 --> 01:50:45,253 Look how he's kidded himself for 20 years. 1991 01:50:45,264 --> 01:50:49,758 But unless I'm wrong, governor, and I'm bettin' I'm not, we'll soon know, eh? 1992 01:50:49,768 --> 01:50:51,929 Tomorrow morning. 1993 01:50:51,937 --> 01:50:54,303 No, by god. It's this morning now. 1994 01:50:55,315 --> 01:50:57,306 This... th-th-this morning? 1995 01:50:57,317 --> 01:50:59,308 Yes, it's the day at last, Jimmy. 1996 01:50:59,319 --> 01:51:01,355 But don't be scared. I'll help you. I promised that. 1997 01:51:01,363 --> 01:51:03,900 I-I-i don't understand you. 1998 01:51:03,907 --> 01:51:06,944 Kindly remember I'm fully capable of settling my own affairs. 1999 01:51:06,952 --> 01:51:09,409 Well, isn't that exactly what I want you to do? 2000 01:51:10,873 --> 01:51:12,659 Only watch out on the booze. 2001 01:51:12,666 --> 01:51:15,533 You've had a lot to drink already, and you don't wanna let yourself duck out of it 2002 01:51:15,544 --> 01:51:18,331 by being too drunk to move, not this time. 2003 01:51:18,338 --> 01:51:21,080 B'jeez, Margie, you know I didn't mean it. 2004 01:51:22,509 --> 01:51:26,377 It's that lousy drummer ridin' me that's got my goat. 2005 01:51:26,388 --> 01:51:28,754 I know, Harry, I know. 2006 01:51:28,765 --> 01:51:30,847 Hey, come on. Look at your cake. 2007 01:51:30,851 --> 01:51:34,184 You haven't even noticed it yet, huh? Ain't it grand? Look. 2008 01:51:34,188 --> 01:51:36,600 Yeah. Say, that's pretty. 2009 01:51:36,607 --> 01:51:38,939 I ain't ever had a cake since bessie... 2010 01:51:40,068 --> 01:51:41,308 - Six candles, eh? - Mm-hmm. 2011 01:51:41,320 --> 01:51:44,278 - Each for ten years, huh? - Hickey got it. 2012 01:51:46,158 --> 01:51:49,946 Well, it was thoughtful of him. He means well, I guess. 2013 01:51:49,953 --> 01:51:52,865 - Aw, the hell with this cake! - Oh, wait, Harry! 2014 01:51:52,873 --> 01:51:56,832 You ain't seen the presents from me and Margie and Cora and Chuck and rocky. 2015 01:51:56,835 --> 01:52:00,748 And there's a watch all engraved with your name and the date from hickey. 2016 01:52:00,756 --> 01:52:03,919 Well, the hell with... B'jeez, he can keep it! 2017 01:52:05,427 --> 01:52:06,758 Hey. 2018 01:52:06,762 --> 01:52:10,004 He ain't even gonna look at the presents. 2019 01:52:10,015 --> 01:52:13,007 Hey... hey, come on, everybody. This is all wrong! 2020 01:52:13,018 --> 01:52:16,010 If somebody don't put some life in this party, I'm gonna go nuts! 2021 01:52:16,021 --> 01:52:18,512 Hey, Cora, why don't you bang on that box! 2022 01:52:18,523 --> 01:52:21,731 Uh, uh, play somethin' for Harry, huh? 2023 01:52:21,735 --> 01:52:24,943 You don't have to stop just 'cause he kidded ya. 2024 01:52:24,947 --> 01:52:27,029 No, you was playin' it fine, Cora. 2025 01:52:27,032 --> 01:52:28,943 It was bessie's favorite tune. 2026 01:52:28,951 --> 01:52:30,862 She was always singin' it. 2027 01:52:30,869 --> 01:52:33,030 I-it brings her back. I wish... 2028 01:52:33,038 --> 01:52:36,701 Yes, we've all heard you tell us that you thought the world of her, governor. 2029 01:52:36,708 --> 01:52:39,745 So I did, b'jeez. 2030 01:52:39,753 --> 01:52:43,587 Everyone knows I did. And, b'jeez, if you say I didn't... 2031 01:52:43,590 --> 01:52:46,127 Now, governor, I didn't say anything. 2032 01:52:46,134 --> 01:52:49,001 You're the only one that knows the truth about that. 2033 01:52:49,012 --> 01:52:51,924 Marjorie's favorite song was "loch lomond." 2034 01:52:53,642 --> 01:52:55,974 Oh, she was beautiful. 2035 01:52:55,978 --> 01:53:00,722 She had a beautiful voice and she played the piano beautifully. 2036 01:53:02,776 --> 01:53:05,233 You were lucky, Harry, bessie died. 2037 01:53:05,237 --> 01:53:07,319 But there are more bitter sorrows 2038 01:53:07,322 --> 01:53:10,189 than losing the woman one loves by the hand of death. 2039 01:53:10,200 --> 01:53:11,781 You needn't go on, Jimmy. 2040 01:53:11,785 --> 01:53:14,401 We've all heard the story about how you came back to Cape Town 2041 01:53:14,413 --> 01:53:16,404 and found her in the hay with a staff officer. 2042 01:53:16,415 --> 01:53:20,533 We know you'd like to believe that's what started you on booze and ruined your life. 2043 01:53:22,254 --> 01:53:24,836 I-I'm talking to Harry. 2044 01:53:24,840 --> 01:53:28,128 Will you kindly keep out of my... 2045 01:53:28,135 --> 01:53:30,046 My life is not ruined! 2046 01:53:31,305 --> 01:53:34,047 But I'll bet when you admit the truth to yourself, 2047 01:53:34,057 --> 01:53:37,845 you'll confess that you were pretty sick of her hating you for getting drunk. 2048 01:53:37,853 --> 01:53:42,142 I'll bet you were really damned relieved when she gave you such a good excuse. 2049 01:53:42,149 --> 01:53:45,141 - I know how it is, Jimmy. See, I... - Ha! 2050 01:53:45,152 --> 01:53:47,268 So that's what happened, is it? 2051 01:53:47,279 --> 01:53:50,237 Your iceman joke finally came home to roost, did it? 2052 01:53:51,783 --> 01:53:53,774 Maybe you should have remembered there's truth 2053 01:53:53,785 --> 01:53:56,993 in the old superstition that you'd better look out what you call, 2054 01:53:56,997 --> 01:53:59,033 because in the end it comes to you. 2055 01:53:59,041 --> 01:54:01,077 Oh, is that a fact, Larry? 2056 01:54:01,084 --> 01:54:02,699 Well, well. 2057 01:54:02,711 --> 01:54:05,828 Then you'd better be careful how you keep callin' for the old big sleep. 2058 01:54:06,923 --> 01:54:08,629 This one? 2059 01:54:08,633 --> 01:54:11,625 Well, what are we waiting for, boys and girls? Let's get this party rolling. 2060 01:54:11,636 --> 01:54:14,127 Chuck! Rocky! Bring on the big surprise! 2061 01:54:14,139 --> 01:54:17,302 Governor, you sit over here at the head of the table. Come on. 2062 01:54:19,019 --> 01:54:20,975 Well, sit down, girls. Sit down. 2063 01:54:25,067 --> 01:54:27,228 And I'll sit here at the foot. 2064 01:54:28,320 --> 01:54:30,561 Real champagne, bums! Cheer up! 2065 01:54:39,039 --> 01:54:41,121 What is this, a funeral? 2066 01:54:41,124 --> 01:54:45,914 Mixing champagne with Harry's red-eye'll knock you paralyzed. 2067 01:54:45,921 --> 01:54:48,207 Ain't you never satisfied? 2068 01:54:50,217 --> 01:54:52,208 Order! Order! 2069 01:54:52,219 --> 01:54:53,834 Ladies and gents... 2070 01:54:55,305 --> 01:54:57,546 Yes, I am gonna drink with you this time, Larry, 2071 01:54:57,557 --> 01:54:58,922 to prove that I'm not teetotal 2072 01:54:58,934 --> 01:55:01,550 because the booze'll make me spill my secrets, as you think. 2073 01:55:01,561 --> 01:55:04,553 I don't need the booze anymore, or anything else. 2074 01:55:04,564 --> 01:55:06,225 I just wanna be sociable 2075 01:55:06,233 --> 01:55:08,645 and propose a toast in honor of our old friend Harry, 2076 01:55:08,652 --> 01:55:10,517 and drink it with you. 2077 01:55:10,529 --> 01:55:12,815 Wake up our demon bomb-tosser, rocky. 2078 01:55:12,823 --> 01:55:15,189 We don't want any corpses at this feast. 2079 01:55:15,200 --> 01:55:17,236 Hey, Hugo. Come up for air. 2080 01:55:17,244 --> 01:55:19,200 Don't you see the champagne? 2081 01:55:21,164 --> 01:55:23,200 We will eat birthday cake 2082 01:55:23,208 --> 01:55:26,291 and drink champagne beneath the Willow trees! 2083 01:55:31,675 --> 01:55:34,007 This wine is unfit to drink! 2084 01:55:34,010 --> 01:55:36,592 It has not properly been iced. 2085 01:55:36,596 --> 01:55:40,384 Always the high-toned swell at heart, eh, Hugo? 2086 01:55:40,392 --> 01:55:43,805 Well, god help us poor bums if you ever got to telling us where to get off. 2087 01:55:43,812 --> 01:55:46,724 You'd have been drinking our blood beneath those Willow trees. 2088 01:55:46,731 --> 01:55:48,972 Here's the toast, ladies and gents. 2089 01:55:48,984 --> 01:55:50,895 Here's to Harry hope, 2090 01:55:50,902 --> 01:55:53,860 who's been a friend in need to every one of us. 2091 01:55:53,864 --> 01:55:55,775 And here's to the old governor, 2092 01:55:55,782 --> 01:55:59,866 the best sport and the kindest, biggest-hearted guy in the world. 2093 01:55:59,870 --> 01:56:01,861 Come on, everybody. To Harry. 2094 01:56:01,872 --> 01:56:02,861 Bottoms up. 2095 01:56:02,873 --> 01:56:04,283 - To Harry! - To Harry! 2096 01:56:04,291 --> 01:56:06,657 - To you, boss. - Happy birthday. 2097 01:56:08,128 --> 01:56:09,834 Thanks, all of you. 2098 01:56:11,089 --> 01:56:13,296 Hickey, you old son of a bitch. 2099 01:56:14,301 --> 01:56:16,758 That's white of ya. 2100 01:56:16,761 --> 01:56:20,800 - I know you meant it too. - Of course I meant it, Harry, old friend. 2101 01:56:20,807 --> 01:56:24,550 And I mean it when I say that I hope this will be the biggest day in your life 2102 01:56:24,561 --> 01:56:26,973 and in the lives of everyone here, 2103 01:56:26,980 --> 01:56:30,723 and the beginning of a new life of peace and contentment. 2104 01:56:30,734 --> 01:56:32,565 And here's to that, Harry. 2105 01:56:32,569 --> 01:56:36,278 Oh, forget the bughouse line of bull for a minute, can't ya? 2106 01:56:36,281 --> 01:56:40,149 You're right, rocky. I am talking too much. It's Harry we want to hear from. 2107 01:56:40,160 --> 01:56:43,527 Speech! Speech! Speech! 2108 01:56:45,373 --> 01:56:48,831 B'Jesus, I'm... I'm no good on speeches. 2109 01:56:49,794 --> 01:56:53,958 All I can say is, thanks to everybody again 2110 01:56:53,965 --> 01:56:56,672 for remembering me on my birthday. 2111 01:56:59,304 --> 01:57:02,216 Only don't think because I'm 60 2112 01:57:02,224 --> 01:57:05,637 I'll be a bigger damned fool easy Mark than ever. 2113 01:57:05,644 --> 01:57:08,226 Like hickey says, it's gonna be a new day. 2114 01:57:08,230 --> 01:57:10,846 This dump has got to be run like other dumps 2115 01:57:10,857 --> 01:57:13,519 so I can make some money and not just split even. 2116 01:57:13,527 --> 01:57:15,609 I'm sick of bein' played for a sucker. 2117 01:57:17,322 --> 01:57:22,032 I know you're all laughin' at me now behind my back, 2118 01:57:22,035 --> 01:57:24,196 thinkin' to yourselves, why, the... 2119 01:57:24,204 --> 01:57:27,162 Why, the old lyin', pipe-dreamin' faker. 2120 01:57:27,165 --> 01:57:30,703 We've heard his bull about takin' a walk around the ward for years. 2121 01:57:30,710 --> 01:57:32,325 He'll never make it. 2122 01:57:32,337 --> 01:57:34,544 He's scared. He's yellow. 2123 01:57:34,548 --> 01:57:35,913 He ain't got the guts. 2124 01:57:35,924 --> 01:57:38,085 He's scared he'll find out... 2125 01:57:39,594 --> 01:57:41,585 But I'll show you, b'jeez. 2126 01:57:41,596 --> 01:57:46,386 And I'll show you too, you son of a bitch of a fryin' pan-peddlin' bastard. 2127 01:57:46,393 --> 01:57:48,805 That's the stuff, Harry! 2128 01:57:48,812 --> 01:57:52,054 Of course you'll try to show me. That's what I want you to do. 2129 01:57:55,652 --> 01:57:57,017 Well, Jesus, 2130 01:57:57,779 --> 01:57:59,986 all of you, forgive me. 2131 01:58:01,157 --> 01:58:02,488 I lost my temper. 2132 01:58:03,743 --> 01:58:05,153 I ain't feelin' well. 2133 01:58:07,998 --> 01:58:09,954 I got a hell of a grouch on. 2134 01:58:11,626 --> 01:58:14,208 You're as welcome as the flowers in may. 2135 01:58:18,550 --> 01:58:20,506 Oh, sure, boss. 2136 01:58:20,510 --> 01:58:23,172 You're always aces with us, see. 2137 01:58:25,473 --> 01:58:27,384 Uh, listen, everybody. 2138 01:58:27,392 --> 01:58:30,850 I know you're sick of my gabbin', but, uh, I think I owe it to you 2139 01:58:30,854 --> 01:58:32,640 to do a little explaining and apologize 2140 01:58:32,647 --> 01:58:35,309 for some of the rough stuff I've had to pull on you. 2141 01:58:35,317 --> 01:58:37,933 I had to make you help each other with me. 2142 01:58:37,944 --> 01:58:42,358 I saw that I couldn't do what I had to do alone, not in the time at my disposal. 2143 01:58:42,365 --> 01:58:44,356 I knew when I came here I wouldn't be able to stay long. 2144 01:58:44,367 --> 01:58:46,278 I'm slated to leave on a trip. 2145 01:58:46,286 --> 01:58:50,199 Now, I know every one of you, inside and out, by heart. 2146 01:58:50,206 --> 01:58:53,118 I may have been drunk when I been here before, 2147 01:58:53,126 --> 01:58:54,787 but old hickey could never be so drunk 2148 01:58:54,794 --> 01:58:57,285 that he couldn't have to see through everybody. 2149 01:58:57,297 --> 01:58:59,413 Everybody, that is, except himself. 2150 01:58:59,424 --> 01:59:02,211 And finally he had to see through himself too. 2151 01:59:02,218 --> 01:59:04,209 I swear I would've never acted this way 2152 01:59:04,220 --> 01:59:07,428 if I didn't absolutely believe it'd be worthwhile to you in the end. 2153 01:59:07,432 --> 01:59:09,718 When you're rid of the guilt that makes you lie to yourselves 2154 01:59:09,726 --> 01:59:11,216 that you're something you're not 2155 01:59:11,227 --> 01:59:15,812 and the remorse that nags at you and makes you hide behind lousy pipe dreams, 2156 01:59:15,815 --> 01:59:18,807 you won't give a damn what you are anymore. 2157 01:59:18,818 --> 01:59:20,809 I wouldn't say this unless I knew. 2158 01:59:20,820 --> 01:59:23,061 Brothers and sisters, this peace is real. It is a fact. 2159 01:59:23,073 --> 01:59:27,032 I know because I've got it here and now, right in front of you. 2160 01:59:27,035 --> 01:59:30,903 Well, you can see the difference in me. You remember how I used to be. 2161 01:59:30,914 --> 01:59:32,905 Even when I had two quarts of rotgut under my belt 2162 01:59:32,916 --> 01:59:34,702 and joked and sang "sweet Adeline,” 2163 01:59:34,709 --> 01:59:37,451 I still felt like a guilty skunk. 2164 01:59:37,462 --> 01:59:41,046 But you can see that I don't give a damn about anything anymore. 2165 01:59:41,049 --> 01:59:45,042 And I promise you by the time this day is over, 2166 01:59:45,053 --> 01:59:48,545 I'll have every one of you feeling the same way. 2167 01:59:48,556 --> 01:59:51,423 I guess that's about all from me for the present, boys and girls. 2168 01:59:51,434 --> 01:59:53,641 So let's get on with the party. 2169 01:59:53,645 --> 01:59:54,805 Wait. 2170 01:59:56,439 --> 01:59:59,556 I think it would help us poor, pipe-dreaming sinners 2171 01:59:59,567 --> 02:00:01,774 along the sawdust trail of salvation... 2172 02:00:02,987 --> 02:00:05,069 If you told us now what it was happened 2173 02:00:05,073 --> 02:00:08,861 that converted you to this great peace you've found. 2174 02:00:08,868 --> 02:00:11,655 I notice you didn't say anything when I asked you about the iceman. 2175 02:00:13,331 --> 02:00:16,915 Did this great revelation of the evil habit of dreaming about tomorrow 2176 02:00:16,918 --> 02:00:20,661 come to you after you found out your wife was sick of you? 2177 02:00:20,672 --> 02:00:23,880 B'jeez, you've... you've hit it, Larry. 2178 02:00:23,883 --> 02:00:26,795 I've noticed he hasn't shown her picture around this time. 2179 02:00:26,803 --> 02:00:30,387 He hasn't got it. The iceman took it away from him! 2180 02:00:30,390 --> 02:00:33,803 Look at him. Can you blame her? 2181 02:00:33,810 --> 02:00:36,222 She must be hard up to fall for an iceman. 2182 02:00:36,229 --> 02:00:39,562 Imagine a sap like that advising me and Chuck to get married. 2183 02:00:39,566 --> 02:00:41,272 Yeah, he done so good with it. 2184 02:00:41,276 --> 02:00:45,360 At least I can say that Marjorie chose an officer and a gentleman. 2185 02:00:47,073 --> 02:00:48,859 Come to look at you, hickey, old chum, 2186 02:00:48,867 --> 02:00:53,236 you're sprouting horns like a bloody antelope. 2187 02:00:53,246 --> 02:00:57,535 Bigger, by god. Like a water buffalo. 2188 02:00:59,127 --> 02:01:02,119 & "oh, come up," she cried j 2189 02:01:02,130 --> 02:01:05,748 j my iceman lad and you and I'll agree j 2190 02:01:05,759 --> 02:01:08,216 ; And I'll show you the prettiest... & 2191 02:01:08,219 --> 02:01:11,302 j; That ever you did ever see j 2192 02:01:12,891 --> 02:01:15,598 well, I'm glad to see you getting in good spirits for Harry's party, 2193 02:01:15,602 --> 02:01:18,014 even if the joke is on me. 2194 02:01:18,021 --> 02:01:20,103 I admit I always asked for it in the old days 2195 02:01:20,106 --> 02:01:23,018 by pulling the iceman gag, so, uh, laugh all you like. 2196 02:01:34,496 --> 02:01:36,407 Well, I guess this forces my hand, 2197 02:01:36,414 --> 02:01:38,905 you bringing up the subject of Evelyn. 2198 02:01:38,917 --> 02:01:40,999 I had wanted to wait till the party was over, 2199 02:01:41,002 --> 02:01:44,085 but, uh, you're getting the wrong idea about poor Evelyn, 2200 02:01:44,088 --> 02:01:46,044 and I've gotta stop that. 2201 02:01:47,801 --> 02:01:51,259 I'm sorry to tell you that my dearly beloved wife is dead. 2202 02:01:59,979 --> 02:02:01,435 B'god. 2203 02:02:02,857 --> 02:02:04,973 I felt he had the touch of death on him. 2204 02:02:08,321 --> 02:02:10,778 Oh, forgive me, hickey. 2205 02:02:10,782 --> 02:02:13,489 I'd like to cut my dirty tongue out. 2206 02:02:14,369 --> 02:02:16,485 - Sorry. - Sorry. Apologies. 2207 02:02:16,496 --> 02:02:18,077 Oh, now, look, everybody. 2208 02:02:18,081 --> 02:02:21,244 You mustn't let this be a wet blanket on Harry's birthday party. 2209 02:02:21,251 --> 02:02:24,163 You're still getting me all wrong. There's no reason. 2210 02:02:24,170 --> 02:02:26,877 You see, I don't feel any grief. 2211 02:02:26,881 --> 02:02:29,463 I've gotta feel glad, for her sake, 2212 02:02:30,343 --> 02:02:32,379 because she's at peace. 2213 02:02:32,387 --> 02:02:34,218 She's rid of me at last. 2214 02:02:34,222 --> 02:02:35,803 You can imagine what it's like being married 2215 02:02:35,807 --> 02:02:37,763 to a no-good, drunken cheater like me. 2216 02:02:38,726 --> 02:02:41,513 And there was no way out of it for her 2217 02:02:41,521 --> 02:02:43,227 because she loved me. 2218 02:02:43,231 --> 02:02:45,597 Should I feel sad? 2219 02:02:45,608 --> 02:02:48,896 She wouldn't want me to feel sad. 2220 02:02:53,283 --> 02:02:57,652 Why, all that Evelyn ever wanted out of life was to make me happy. 2221 02:03:17,056 --> 02:03:20,219 Ah, nothin' now till the noon rush from the market. 2222 02:03:22,020 --> 02:03:25,137 If I ain't a sap to let Chuck kid me into workin' his time 2223 02:03:25,148 --> 02:03:27,355 so's he can take the morning off. 2224 02:03:27,358 --> 02:03:29,064 But I got sick of arguin'. 2225 02:03:29,068 --> 02:03:32,026 I says, "all right, get married. What's it to me?" 2226 02:03:37,327 --> 02:03:39,534 Some party last night, huh? 2227 02:03:39,537 --> 02:03:41,619 It was jinxed from the start, 2228 02:03:41,623 --> 02:03:45,741 but his telling about his wife croakin' put the ko on it. 2229 02:03:45,752 --> 02:03:50,212 Yes, the birthday feast turned out to be a wake. 2230 02:03:50,214 --> 02:03:54,332 Him promising he'd cut out that bughouse bull about peace, 2231 02:03:54,344 --> 02:03:58,053 and then he went on talkin' and talkin' like he couldn't stop. 2232 02:03:59,766 --> 02:04:01,722 And the gang sneakin' upstairs, 2233 02:04:01,726 --> 02:04:05,139 leaving free booze and eats like they was poison. 2234 02:04:05,146 --> 02:04:08,138 He's been hoppin' from room to room all night. 2235 02:04:08,149 --> 02:04:12,142 He's got his reform wave going strong this morning. 2236 02:04:12,153 --> 02:04:14,610 Did you notice him drag Jimmy out the first thing 2237 02:04:14,614 --> 02:04:17,071 to get his laundry and his clothes pressed 2238 02:04:17,075 --> 02:04:19,066 so he wouldn't have no excuse? 2239 02:04:19,077 --> 02:04:22,990 And he give Willie the dough to buy his stuff back from solly's. 2240 02:04:22,997 --> 02:04:26,785 And all the rest have been brushin' and shavin' themselves with the shakes. 2241 02:04:26,793 --> 02:04:29,500 He didn't come to my room. 2242 02:04:29,504 --> 02:04:31,961 Afraid I might ask him a few questions. 2243 02:04:31,965 --> 02:04:34,877 Yeah, I'd say you were scared of him. 2244 02:04:34,884 --> 02:04:38,547 - You'd lie then. - Don't let him kid you, rocky. 2245 02:04:38,554 --> 02:04:41,261 He had his door locked. I couldn't get in either. 2246 02:04:41,265 --> 02:04:44,132 Yeah. Who do you think you're kidding, Larry? 2247 02:04:44,143 --> 02:04:47,226 Like he says, if you was so anxious to croak, 2248 02:04:47,230 --> 02:04:50,267 why wouldn't you hop off your fire escape long ago? 2249 02:04:50,274 --> 02:04:54,392 Because it'd be a coward's quitting, that's why. 2250 02:04:54,404 --> 02:04:56,110 He's all quitter, rocky. 2251 02:04:57,782 --> 02:04:59,568 He's a yellow old faker. 2252 02:04:59,575 --> 02:05:01,486 You lying punk. 2253 02:05:01,494 --> 02:05:04,201 Yeah, keep out of this, you. 2254 02:05:04,205 --> 02:05:06,161 Shall I give him the bum's rush, Larry? 2255 02:05:06,165 --> 02:05:08,451 You don't want him around, nobody else don't. 2256 02:05:08,459 --> 02:05:11,542 Aw, let him stay. I don't mind. He's nothing to me. 2257 02:05:12,755 --> 02:05:14,211 You're right. 2258 02:05:16,384 --> 02:05:17,999 I have nowhere I can go now. 2259 02:05:18,011 --> 02:05:20,172 You're the only one in the world I can turn to. 2260 02:05:21,389 --> 02:05:23,801 Aw, you're a soft old sap, Larry. 2261 02:05:23,808 --> 02:05:25,844 He's a no-good louse like hickey. 2262 02:05:25,852 --> 02:05:28,138 He don't belong. 2263 02:05:28,146 --> 02:05:31,183 Yeah, I'm all in. Not a wink of sleep. 2264 02:05:47,540 --> 02:05:50,031 Larry, I'm sorry for riding you, 2265 02:05:50,043 --> 02:05:54,002 but you get my goat when you act as if you didn't care a damn what happened to me. 2266 02:05:54,005 --> 02:05:56,337 And you keep your door locked so I can't talk to you. 2267 02:05:57,842 --> 02:06:00,754 But that was to keep hickey out, wasn't it? 2268 02:06:00,762 --> 02:06:03,549 I don't blame you. I'm getting more and more to hate him. 2269 02:06:03,556 --> 02:06:06,548 More and more scared of him. 2270 02:06:06,559 --> 02:06:09,767 Especially since he told us about his wife being dead. 2271 02:06:11,606 --> 02:06:14,518 It's that queer feeling he gives me that I'm mixed up with him in some way. 2272 02:06:14,525 --> 02:06:17,312 I don't know why, but it started me thinking about mother. 2273 02:06:18,780 --> 02:06:21,271 As if she was dead. 2274 02:06:23,493 --> 02:06:25,449 I suppose she might as well be. 2275 02:06:29,415 --> 02:06:32,498 It must kill her when she thinks of me. 2276 02:06:32,502 --> 02:06:36,086 I know she doesn't want to, but she can't help it. 2277 02:06:39,425 --> 02:06:41,882 After all, I'm her only kid. 2278 02:06:41,886 --> 02:06:45,128 She used to spoil me and made a pet of me. 2279 02:06:47,141 --> 02:06:49,097 Every once in a great while... 2280 02:06:51,479 --> 02:06:53,219 When she remembered me... 2281 02:06:55,233 --> 02:06:57,315 As if she was trying to make up for something, 2282 02:06:57,318 --> 02:07:00,606 as if she was... feeling guilty. 2283 02:07:02,448 --> 02:07:05,281 So I guess she must have loved me a little. 2284 02:07:05,284 --> 02:07:07,866 Even if she never let it interfere with her freedom. 2285 02:07:13,334 --> 02:07:14,790 You know, Larry... 2286 02:07:17,505 --> 02:07:20,588 I once had a sneaking suspicion that if the truth were known, 2287 02:07:20,591 --> 02:07:22,297 you were my father. 2288 02:07:22,301 --> 02:07:24,166 Damn fool. 2289 02:07:24,178 --> 02:07:26,544 Who put that insane idea in your head? 2290 02:07:28,850 --> 02:07:30,556 Anyone in the coast crowd could tell 2291 02:07:30,560 --> 02:07:33,597 I never laid eyes on your mother till after you were born. 2292 02:07:34,814 --> 02:07:36,930 Well, now, I'd hardly ask them, would I? 2293 02:07:41,237 --> 02:07:44,229 I know you're right though, 'cause I asked her. 2294 02:07:47,952 --> 02:07:50,489 She brought me up to be frank and ask her anything. 2295 02:07:53,541 --> 02:07:56,283 I was talking about how she must feel now about me. 2296 02:07:59,172 --> 02:08:03,506 My getting through with the movement, she'll never forgive me for that. 2297 02:08:03,509 --> 02:08:04,999 It must be the final knockout 2298 02:08:05,011 --> 02:08:07,093 if she knows that I was the one who sold out the movement. 2299 02:08:07,096 --> 02:08:09,587 Shut up, damn you. Shut up. It'll kill her. 2300 02:08:10,600 --> 02:08:12,181 But, Larry... 2301 02:08:13,436 --> 02:08:15,927 I never thought that they would have caught her. 2302 02:08:17,523 --> 02:08:19,764 You've gotta believe what the only reason was. 2303 02:08:22,528 --> 02:08:26,112 I'll admit, what I told you last night, that was a lie. 2304 02:08:26,115 --> 02:08:28,982 All that bunk about feeling patriotic and my duty to my country. 2305 02:08:30,870 --> 02:08:33,111 But here's the true reason, the only reason, Larry. 2306 02:08:35,583 --> 02:08:38,871 See, I got stuck on this whore, and I wanted dough. 2307 02:08:38,878 --> 02:08:42,496 That's the only reason. That's all I did it for. Just the money, honest! 2308 02:08:42,506 --> 02:08:45,418 Shut up! What the hell is it to me? 2309 02:08:45,426 --> 02:08:47,508 - What's comin' off here? - Nothing. 2310 02:08:47,511 --> 02:08:51,049 This young punk is talking my ear off. He's a worse pest than hickey. 2311 02:08:51,057 --> 02:08:53,844 Oh, yeah. Hickey. 2312 02:08:53,851 --> 02:08:55,512 Say, listen. 2313 02:08:58,564 --> 02:09:00,646 What questions? What questions? 2314 02:09:00,650 --> 02:09:03,437 Well, you notice he didn't tell us what his wife died of. 2315 02:09:03,444 --> 02:09:06,436 Oh, lay off of that. The poor guy. 2316 02:09:06,447 --> 02:09:08,312 What are you getting at anyway? 2317 02:09:08,324 --> 02:09:12,613 - You don't think it's just a gag of his? - No. No, I don't. 2318 02:09:12,620 --> 02:09:14,531 Damn sure he brought death here with him. 2319 02:09:14,538 --> 02:09:16,824 I can smell the cold touch of it upon him. 2320 02:09:16,832 --> 02:09:18,413 Aw, bunk. 2321 02:09:18,417 --> 02:09:21,454 You got croakin' on the brain, old cemetery. 2322 02:09:21,462 --> 02:09:25,330 Say, do you mean you think she committed suicide 2323 02:09:25,341 --> 02:09:27,206 on account of his cheatin' or somethin'? 2324 02:09:27,218 --> 02:09:28,924 It wouldn't surprise me. 2325 02:09:28,928 --> 02:09:30,634 But that's crazy. 2326 02:09:30,638 --> 02:09:33,926 Jeez, if she'd done that, he wouldn't tell us he was glad about it, would he? 2327 02:09:33,933 --> 02:09:36,800 You know her better than that, Larry. You know she'd never commit suicide. 2328 02:09:36,811 --> 02:09:39,143 - She's like you. She'll hang onto life... - What about you? 2329 02:09:39,146 --> 02:09:41,853 B'god, if you had any guts or decency... 2330 02:09:41,857 --> 02:09:45,145 I'd take that hop off the fire escape you're too yellow to take. 2331 02:09:45,152 --> 02:09:47,438 - No. I'm done judging. - Yeah, I suppose you'd like that. 2332 02:09:47,446 --> 02:09:49,687 What the hell's all this about? 2333 02:09:49,699 --> 02:09:51,815 What do you know about hickey's wife? 2334 02:09:51,826 --> 02:09:53,817 - How do you know she didn't... - He doesn't. 2335 02:09:53,828 --> 02:09:56,410 Hickey's addled the little brains he's got. 2336 02:09:56,414 --> 02:09:58,746 Shove him back to his table, rocky. I'm sick of him. 2337 02:09:58,749 --> 02:10:01,286 You heard Larry, so move, quick. 2338 02:10:05,881 --> 02:10:07,997 Gee, Larry, 2339 02:10:08,009 --> 02:10:11,376 that's a hell of a way to treat me after I've trusted you, 2340 02:10:11,387 --> 02:10:13,343 when I need your help. 2341 02:10:19,603 --> 02:10:21,685 Jeez. 2342 02:10:21,689 --> 02:10:23,850 If she committed suicide, 2343 02:10:23,858 --> 02:10:26,190 you gotta feel sorry for hickey, huh? 2344 02:10:26,193 --> 02:10:28,559 You can understand how he'd go bughouse 2345 02:10:28,571 --> 02:10:32,860 and not be responsible for all the crazy stunts he's stagin' here. 2346 02:10:32,867 --> 02:10:37,782 But how can you be sorry for him when he says he's glad she croaked? 2347 02:10:37,788 --> 02:10:39,870 Aw, nuts! 2348 02:10:39,874 --> 02:10:42,832 You don't get nowhere trying to figure his game. 2349 02:10:42,835 --> 02:10:44,700 But I know this. 2350 02:10:44,712 --> 02:10:47,795 He better lay off of me and my stable. 2351 02:10:47,798 --> 02:10:50,414 Oh, jeez, Larry. 2352 02:10:50,426 --> 02:10:52,792 What a night them two pigs give me. 2353 02:10:54,013 --> 02:10:56,095 When the party went dead, 2354 02:10:56,098 --> 02:10:59,761 they pinched a couple of bottles and brung it up to their room. 2355 02:10:59,769 --> 02:11:02,101 I don't get a wink of sleep, see? 2356 02:11:02,104 --> 02:11:04,311 Just as I'd dropped off on that chair there, 2357 02:11:04,315 --> 02:11:06,397 they come down looking for trouble. 2358 02:11:06,400 --> 02:11:09,642 Or else they raise hell upstairs, laughin' and singin', 2359 02:11:09,653 --> 02:11:12,520 so that I get scared they'd get the joint pinched 2360 02:11:12,531 --> 02:11:15,238 and go up to tell 'em to can the noise. 2361 02:11:15,242 --> 02:11:18,951 And every time they crawl my frame with the same old argument. 2362 02:11:18,954 --> 02:11:24,039 They'd say, "so you agree with hickey, do you, you dirty little Guinea? 2363 02:11:24,043 --> 02:11:25,999 So we're whores, are we? 2364 02:11:26,003 --> 02:11:28,870 Well, we agree with hickey about you, see. 2365 02:11:28,881 --> 02:11:31,372 You're nothin' but a lousy pimp!" 2366 02:11:31,384 --> 02:11:33,375 Then I'd slap them. 2367 02:11:33,386 --> 02:11:35,297 But it don't do no good. 2368 02:11:35,304 --> 02:11:37,386 They keep at it over and over. 2369 02:11:37,390 --> 02:11:41,099 Jeez, I get the earache just thinkin' of it. 2370 02:11:41,102 --> 02:11:43,013 "Listen," they'd say, 2371 02:11:43,020 --> 02:11:46,558 "if we're whores, we got a right to have a regular pimp 2372 02:11:46,565 --> 02:11:49,272 and not stand for no punk imitation. 2373 02:11:49,276 --> 02:11:51,483 We're sick of wearing out our dogs 2374 02:11:51,487 --> 02:11:54,979 poundin' the sidewalks for a double-crossin' bartender, 2375 02:11:54,990 --> 02:11:58,403 when all the thanks we get is he looks down on us. 2376 02:11:58,411 --> 02:12:01,995 Don't expect us to work tonight 'cause we won't, see, 2377 02:12:01,997 --> 02:12:04,909 not if the streets were blocked with sailors. 2378 02:12:04,917 --> 02:12:07,329 We're goin' on strike." 2379 02:12:07,336 --> 02:12:10,373 Whores goin' on strike. Can you tie that? 2380 02:12:11,924 --> 02:12:14,791 They'd say, "we're takin' a holiday. 2381 02:12:14,802 --> 02:12:18,135 We're gonna beat it to coney island and shoot the chutes, 2382 02:12:18,139 --> 02:12:20,972 and maybe we'll come back and maybe we won't. 2383 02:12:20,975 --> 02:12:23,182 And you can go to hell." 2384 02:12:23,185 --> 02:12:25,676 So they put on their lids and beat it. 2385 02:12:25,688 --> 02:12:27,474 The both of them stinko. 2386 02:12:29,191 --> 02:12:32,854 Hey, rocky. Cora wants a Sherry flip for her nerves. 2387 02:12:32,862 --> 02:12:36,525 Sherry flip! Christ, she don't need nothin' for her nerve. 2388 02:12:36,532 --> 02:12:38,488 What's she think this is, the Waldorf? 2389 02:12:38,492 --> 02:12:40,403 Yeah, I told her, what would we use for Sherry? 2390 02:12:40,411 --> 02:12:42,697 And there wasn't no egg unless she laid one. 2391 02:12:42,705 --> 02:12:47,290 She says, "is there a law you can't go out and buy the makings, you big tramp?" 2392 02:12:47,293 --> 02:12:50,000 Aw, the hell with her. She'll drink booze or nothin'. 2393 02:12:50,004 --> 02:12:51,835 Oh, jeez. 2394 02:12:51,839 --> 02:12:55,707 A guy oughta give his bride anything she wants on her wedding day, I should think. 2395 02:12:55,718 --> 02:12:57,674 Ha! Pipe the bridegroom, Larry. 2396 02:12:57,678 --> 02:12:59,919 - All dolled up for the killin'. - Shut up. 2397 02:12:59,930 --> 02:13:02,592 Ah, one week on that farm in Jersey. 2398 02:13:02,600 --> 02:13:04,306 That's what I'll give ya. 2399 02:13:04,310 --> 02:13:07,802 Then you'll come running here some night yelling for a shot of booze 2400 02:13:07,813 --> 02:13:09,895 because the crickets is after you. 2401 02:13:09,899 --> 02:13:11,810 Oh, jeez, Chuck. 2402 02:13:11,817 --> 02:13:15,605 That louse hickey certainly made a prize couple of suckers outta youse. 2403 02:13:16,739 --> 02:13:19,230 I'd like to give him one sock in the puss. 2404 02:13:19,241 --> 02:13:20,697 Just one. 2405 02:13:21,785 --> 02:13:23,650 Can that. What's he got to do with it? 2406 02:13:23,662 --> 02:13:25,869 Anyway, we said we was gonna, so we're gonna, see. 2407 02:13:25,873 --> 02:13:27,454 Don't give me no argument. 2408 02:13:27,458 --> 02:13:29,198 If only Cora'd cut out the beefin'. 2409 02:13:29,210 --> 02:13:31,041 She don't give me a minute's rest all night. 2410 02:13:31,045 --> 02:13:33,127 It's the same old stuff over and over. 2411 02:13:33,130 --> 02:13:35,121 Do I really wanna marry her? 2412 02:13:35,132 --> 02:13:36,918 I said, "sure, baby. Why not?" 2413 02:13:36,926 --> 02:13:40,089 "Yeah," she says, "but after a week, you'll be thinkin' what a sap you was. 2414 02:13:40,095 --> 02:13:42,302 You'll make that an excuse to go off on a periodical, 2415 02:13:42,306 --> 02:13:44,547 and I'll be tied for life to a no-good soak, 2416 02:13:44,558 --> 02:13:47,095 and the first thing I know, you'll have me out hustlin' again. 2417 02:13:47,102 --> 02:13:48,467 Your own wifel" 2418 02:13:48,479 --> 02:13:50,936 and she bust out cryin', and I'd get sore. 2419 02:13:50,940 --> 02:13:52,646 "You're a liar," I tells her. 2420 02:13:52,650 --> 02:13:55,938 "I ain't never taken your dough except when I was drunk and not workin'." 2421 02:13:55,945 --> 02:13:58,561 "Yeah?" she says, "and how long will you stay sober now? 2422 02:13:58,572 --> 02:14:00,608 Don't think you can kid me with that water-wagon bull. 2423 02:14:00,616 --> 02:14:02,322 I've heard it too often." 2424 02:14:02,326 --> 02:14:05,193 That'd make me sore and I'd say, "don't call me a liar. 2425 02:14:05,204 --> 02:14:07,160 But I wish I was drunk right now 2426 02:14:07,164 --> 02:14:10,076 because if I was, you wouldn't be keeping me awake all night, beefin'. 2427 02:14:10,084 --> 02:14:12,666 You open your yap, I'd knock the stuffings out of you!" 2428 02:14:12,670 --> 02:14:17,164 Then she'd yell, "that's a sweet way to talk to the girl you're gonna marry." 2429 02:14:17,174 --> 02:14:20,166 Jeez, she's got me hanging on the ropes. 2430 02:14:23,222 --> 02:14:26,214 Jeez, would I like to get a quart of that redeye under my belt. 2431 02:14:26,225 --> 02:14:27,681 Well, why the hell don't you? 2432 02:14:29,228 --> 02:14:31,389 Sure, you'd like that, wouldn't you? 2433 02:14:31,397 --> 02:14:33,012 I'm wise to you. 2434 02:14:33,023 --> 02:14:36,311 You don't want to see me get married and settle down like a regular guy. 2435 02:14:36,318 --> 02:14:40,231 You'd like me to stay paralyzed all the time, so's I'd be like you, a lousy pimp! 2436 02:14:40,239 --> 02:14:42,855 Listen, I don't take that even from you, see! 2437 02:14:42,866 --> 02:14:45,573 Yeah? You wanna make something of it? Don't make me laugh! 2438 02:14:45,578 --> 02:14:47,443 I could lick ten of youse with one mitt! 2439 02:14:47,454 --> 02:14:49,240 Not with lead in your belly, you won't! 2440 02:14:49,248 --> 02:14:52,536 Hey, rocky and Chuck! Cut it out! 2441 02:14:52,543 --> 02:14:54,499 Don't let that hickey make you crazy. 2442 02:14:54,503 --> 02:14:57,245 - Keep outta our business! - Stay where you belong, you dirty nigger! 2443 02:14:57,256 --> 02:15:00,714 You white sons of bitches! I'll rip your guts out! 2444 02:15:00,718 --> 02:15:04,631 That's it! Murder each other, you damned loons, with hickey's blessing! 2445 02:15:04,638 --> 02:15:06,879 Didn't I tell you he'd brought death with him? 2446 02:15:08,017 --> 02:15:11,305 All right, you. Let go of that shiv. 2447 02:15:11,312 --> 02:15:13,803 And I'll put this gat away. 2448 02:15:24,116 --> 02:15:26,607 Hello, little people! 2449 02:15:26,619 --> 02:15:28,701 Never mind! 2450 02:15:28,704 --> 02:15:31,662 Soon you will eat hot dogs 2451 02:15:31,665 --> 02:15:33,826 beneath the Willow trees 2452 02:15:33,834 --> 02:15:36,166 and drink free wine. 2453 02:15:38,130 --> 02:15:42,339 The champagne was not properly iced. 2454 02:15:42,343 --> 02:15:44,334 Goddamned liar hickey! 2455 02:15:44,345 --> 02:15:47,883 Does that prove I want to be aristocrat? 2456 02:15:47,890 --> 02:15:50,757 I love only the proletariat. 2457 02:15:50,768 --> 02:15:52,759 I will lead them. 2458 02:15:52,770 --> 02:15:55,933 I will be like a god to them! 2459 02:15:55,939 --> 02:15:57,895 They will be my slaves! 2460 02:16:08,827 --> 02:16:11,113 I'm very drunk, no, Larry? 2461 02:16:11,121 --> 02:16:13,783 I talk foolishness. 2462 02:16:13,791 --> 02:16:16,999 I'm so drunk, Larry, old friend, am I not? I don't know what I say. 2463 02:16:18,337 --> 02:16:20,498 I've never seen you so paralyzed. 2464 02:16:21,590 --> 02:16:23,546 Lay your head on the table and sleep it off. 2465 02:16:23,550 --> 02:16:25,006 Yeah. 2466 02:16:25,010 --> 02:16:27,592 I should sleep. 2467 02:16:27,596 --> 02:16:29,928 I'm too crazy drunk. 2468 02:16:42,069 --> 02:16:43,934 You're right, Larry. 2469 02:16:48,033 --> 02:16:50,900 Bad luck come in the door the day hickey come. 2470 02:16:52,538 --> 02:16:55,280 I'm an old gambling man, 2471 02:16:55,290 --> 02:16:57,872 and I knows bad luck when I feels it. 2472 02:16:59,128 --> 02:17:01,494 But it's white man's bad luck. 2473 02:17:02,965 --> 02:17:04,921 He can't jinx me. 2474 02:17:10,764 --> 02:17:14,473 The bread's cut, and I done finished my job. 2475 02:17:15,853 --> 02:17:17,969 Now do I get the drink I earned? 2476 02:17:20,983 --> 02:17:22,689 Here's the key to my room. 2477 02:17:24,153 --> 02:17:25,893 I ain't coming back! 2478 02:17:25,904 --> 02:17:28,361 I'm going to my own folks where I belong. 2479 02:17:28,365 --> 02:17:31,949 I'm sick and tired of messing around with white men. 2480 02:17:33,871 --> 02:17:35,452 What the hell! 2481 02:17:35,456 --> 02:17:38,243 I'm only saving you the trouble, white boy! 2482 02:17:38,250 --> 02:17:41,037 Now you don't have to break it soon as my back's turned, 2483 02:17:41,044 --> 02:17:45,458 so's no white man can kick about drinkin' from the same glass. 2484 02:17:45,466 --> 02:17:50,301 I'm tired of loafin' around with a lot of bums. 2485 02:17:50,304 --> 02:17:52,090 I'm a gambling man. 2486 02:17:52,097 --> 02:17:56,136 I'm gonna get in a big crap game and win me a big bankroll. 2487 02:17:56,143 --> 02:18:01,263 Then I gets the okay to open up my own gambling house for colored men. 2488 02:18:01,273 --> 02:18:04,060 And then maybe I comes back here sometimes 2489 02:18:04,067 --> 02:18:06,149 to see the bums. 2490 02:18:06,153 --> 02:18:09,862 And maybe I'll throws a $20 bill down on the bar 2491 02:18:09,865 --> 02:18:11,947 and says, "drink it up” 2492 02:18:11,950 --> 02:18:14,532 and listen when they all pat me on the back 2493 02:18:14,536 --> 02:18:16,697 and say, "Joe, you sure is white." 2494 02:18:16,705 --> 02:18:20,948 But I'll say, "no, I'm black, and my dough is black man's dough, 2495 02:18:20,959 --> 02:18:24,543 and you's proud to drink with me or you don't get no drink!" 2496 02:18:24,546 --> 02:18:28,004 Or maybe I just says, "you can all go to hell. 2497 02:18:31,261 --> 02:18:34,628 I don't lower myself drinkin' with no white trash." 2498 02:18:36,850 --> 02:18:39,216 And that ain't no pipe dream. 2499 02:18:39,228 --> 02:18:42,812 I'll get the money for my stake today, somewhere, somehow. 2500 02:18:42,815 --> 02:18:46,774 If I have to borrow a gun and stick up some white man, I gets it! 2501 02:18:51,740 --> 02:18:53,446 You wait and see. 2502 02:19:00,707 --> 02:19:04,040 Can you beat the nerve of that dinge? 2503 02:19:04,044 --> 02:19:07,286 Jeez, if I wasn't dressed up, I'd go out and mop up the street with him. 2504 02:19:07,297 --> 02:19:10,209 Oh, let him go. The poor old dope. 2505 02:19:10,217 --> 02:19:12,503 Him and his gambling house. 2506 02:19:12,511 --> 02:19:15,503 He'll be back tonight, asking Harry for his room 2507 02:19:15,514 --> 02:19:17,596 and bummin' me for a ball. 2508 02:19:17,599 --> 02:19:20,181 Then I'll be the one to smash the glass. 2509 02:19:20,185 --> 02:19:22,551 I'll learn him his place. 2510 02:19:22,563 --> 02:19:24,519 Another guy all dolled up. 2511 02:19:27,860 --> 02:19:30,272 Got your clothes from solly's, huh, Willie? 2512 02:19:30,279 --> 02:19:32,440 Now you can sell it back to him again tomorrow. 2513 02:19:32,447 --> 02:19:34,904 No, I-I'm through with that stuff. 2514 02:19:34,908 --> 02:19:38,150 You look sick, Willie. Here. Take a ball. Pick you up. 2515 02:19:38,161 --> 02:19:39,947 No, thanks. 2516 02:19:39,955 --> 02:19:42,321 The only way to stop is to stop. 2517 02:19:42,332 --> 02:19:45,369 I'd have no chance if I went to the da's office smelling of booze. 2518 02:19:45,377 --> 02:19:46,958 You're really going there? 2519 02:19:46,962 --> 02:19:49,044 I said I was, didn't I? 2520 02:19:49,047 --> 02:19:53,131 I just came back here to rest for a few minutes. 2521 02:19:53,135 --> 02:19:55,342 I'll show that cheap drummer. 2522 02:19:55,345 --> 02:19:57,301 I don't need to have any Dutch courage. 2523 02:20:00,475 --> 02:20:04,684 Well, he's, uh... He's been very kind and generous, 2524 02:20:04,688 --> 02:20:06,144 staking me. 2525 02:20:07,733 --> 02:20:11,396 You know, my... my legs are a bit shaky. 2526 02:20:11,403 --> 02:20:13,564 I'd better sit down a while. 2527 02:20:27,794 --> 02:20:29,284 Here's another one. 2528 02:20:29,296 --> 02:20:32,003 Hey, good morning, gentlemen, all. 2529 02:20:40,349 --> 02:20:43,386 And a jolly good morning it is too. 2530 02:20:45,312 --> 02:20:48,679 An eye-opener? I think not, rocky, old chum. 2531 02:20:48,690 --> 02:20:51,853 Uh, not required, you know. 2532 02:20:51,860 --> 02:20:54,772 Feel extremely fit, as a matter of fact. 2533 02:20:54,780 --> 02:20:58,648 Can't say that I slept much though, thanks to that interfering ass hickey 2534 02:20:58,659 --> 02:21:01,901 and that stupid bounder of a boer. 2535 02:21:01,912 --> 02:21:04,654 I-I've had about all I can take from that fellow. 2536 02:21:04,665 --> 02:21:06,997 Oh, well. It's my own fault, I suppose, 2537 02:21:07,000 --> 02:21:09,992 for allowing a brute of a Dutch farmer to become familiar. 2538 02:21:11,254 --> 02:21:14,337 Well, it's come to a parting of the ways. 2539 02:21:14,341 --> 02:21:16,582 And jolly good riddance. 2540 02:21:16,593 --> 02:21:19,505 Oh, that reminds me. 2541 02:21:19,513 --> 02:21:21,094 Here's my key. 2542 02:21:21,098 --> 02:21:23,054 I shan't be coming back. 2543 02:21:25,978 --> 02:21:29,266 Sorry to be leaving good old Harry and the rest of you, of course, 2544 02:21:29,272 --> 02:21:33,436 but I-I simply cannot continue to live under the same roof with that fellow. 2545 02:21:33,443 --> 02:21:36,105 So hickey's kidded the pants off of you too? 2546 02:21:36,113 --> 02:21:37,899 You think you're leaving here, huh? 2547 02:21:37,906 --> 02:21:39,988 Ja. 2548 02:21:39,992 --> 02:21:41,983 That's what he kids himself. 2549 02:21:43,912 --> 02:21:46,153 Yes, I'm leaving, rocky. 2550 02:21:46,164 --> 02:21:48,826 Not that that ass hickey has anything to do with it. 2551 02:21:48,834 --> 02:21:50,825 B-been thinking things over, you know. 2552 02:21:50,836 --> 02:21:53,122 Time I turned over a new leaf. 2553 02:21:53,130 --> 02:21:55,837 He's gonna get a job. That's what he says. 2554 02:21:55,841 --> 02:21:57,547 What at, for chrissake? 2555 02:21:57,551 --> 02:22:00,793 Oh, anything. Not manual labor, of course. 2556 02:22:00,804 --> 02:22:04,672 Uh, anything that calls for a bit of brains and education. 2557 02:22:04,683 --> 02:22:07,049 I'll see a pal of mine at the consulate. 2558 02:22:07,060 --> 02:22:09,346 He promised me whenever I felt an energetic fit, 2559 02:22:09,354 --> 02:22:11,640 he'd get me a post with the cunard. 2560 02:22:11,648 --> 02:22:14,856 Uh, clerk in the office or something of that kind. 2561 02:22:14,860 --> 02:22:19,229 Ja, at limey consulate, they promise anything to get rid of him, 2562 02:22:19,239 --> 02:22:21,696 when he comes there drunk. 2563 02:22:21,700 --> 02:22:25,033 They're scared to call the police and have him pinched 2564 02:22:25,037 --> 02:22:27,403 because it would scandal in the papers make 2565 02:22:27,414 --> 02:22:30,531 about limey officer and gentleman. 2566 02:22:32,294 --> 02:22:34,785 I only need the post temporarily, rocky. 2567 02:22:34,796 --> 02:22:36,707 Means to an end, you know. 2568 02:22:36,715 --> 02:22:40,799 Save enough for a passage... Uh, first-class passage home. 2569 02:22:40,802 --> 02:22:42,667 That's the bright idea. 2570 02:22:42,679 --> 02:22:47,013 Ha! He's sailing back to home sweet home. 2571 02:22:47,017 --> 02:22:50,305 That's biggest pipe dream of all. 2572 02:22:51,646 --> 02:22:56,390 What little brain the poor limey has left that isn't in whiskey pickled, 2573 02:22:56,401 --> 02:22:58,016 hickey has made crazy. 2574 02:22:58,028 --> 02:23:00,314 Hickey ain't made no sucker out of you, huh? 2575 02:23:00,322 --> 02:23:02,904 You're too foxy, huh? 2576 02:23:02,908 --> 02:23:05,695 But I bet you think you're goin' out and landing a job too. 2577 02:23:05,702 --> 02:23:07,442 I am, ja! 2578 02:23:07,454 --> 02:23:12,118 For me it is easy because I put on no airs of gentleman. 2579 02:23:12,125 --> 02:23:14,912 I'm not ashamed to work with my hands. 2580 02:23:14,920 --> 02:23:17,502 I was a farmer before the war 2581 02:23:17,506 --> 02:23:22,091 when bloody limey thieves steal my country. 2582 02:23:22,094 --> 02:23:26,053 Anyone I ask for job can see with one look 2583 02:23:26,056 --> 02:23:30,846 I have the great strength to do work of ten ordinary mens. 2584 02:23:30,852 --> 02:23:33,844 Yes, you remember, Chuck, he gave us a demonstration 2585 02:23:33,855 --> 02:23:36,813 of his extraordinary muscles last night 2586 02:23:36,817 --> 02:23:39,024 when he helped to move the piano. 2587 02:23:39,027 --> 02:23:41,188 You couldn't even hold up your corner. 2588 02:23:41,196 --> 02:23:43,812 It was your fault the damn box almost fell over. 2589 02:23:43,824 --> 02:23:45,815 My hands were sweaty. 2590 02:23:45,826 --> 02:23:48,317 Could I help that my hands slip? 2591 02:23:48,328 --> 02:23:50,569 I could the whole weight of it lift. 2592 02:23:50,580 --> 02:23:55,290 In old days in transvaal, I lift loaded oxcart by the axle. 2593 02:23:55,293 --> 02:23:58,251 So, why shouldn't I get job? 2594 02:23:58,255 --> 02:24:00,917 That longshoreman boss, Dan, 2595 02:24:00,924 --> 02:24:03,085 he tell me anytime I like, 2596 02:24:03,093 --> 02:24:05,004 he take me on. 2597 02:24:05,011 --> 02:24:08,003 And Benny from the market, he promise me same. 2598 02:24:08,014 --> 02:24:11,552 You remember, rocky, it was one of those rare occasions 2599 02:24:11,560 --> 02:24:14,267 when the boor that walks like a man... 2600 02:24:14,271 --> 02:24:16,683 Spelled with a double-o, by the way... 2601 02:24:16,690 --> 02:24:19,932 Was buying drinks when Dan and Ben were stony. 2602 02:24:19,943 --> 02:24:22,855 They'd have promised him the bloody moon. 2603 02:24:22,863 --> 02:24:26,321 Yeah, you big boob. Them birds was only kidding you. 2604 02:24:26,324 --> 02:24:29,612 That's lie! You will see. This morning I get job. 2605 02:24:29,619 --> 02:24:33,111 I'll show that bloody limey gentleman 2606 02:24:33,123 --> 02:24:35,364 and that liar hickey. 2607 02:24:35,375 --> 02:24:37,991 And I need work only little while 2608 02:24:38,003 --> 02:24:40,494 to save money for my passage home. 2609 02:24:40,505 --> 02:24:45,875 I need not much money because I am not ashamed to travel steerage. 2610 02:24:45,886 --> 02:24:50,550 I don't put on first-cabin airs! 2611 02:24:50,557 --> 02:24:54,266 Und I can go home to my country! 2612 02:24:54,269 --> 02:24:59,184 When I get there, they will let me come in! 2613 02:24:59,191 --> 02:25:01,477 There was a rumor in South Africa 2614 02:25:01,484 --> 02:25:03,645 that a certain boer officer... 2615 02:25:03,653 --> 02:25:08,022 If you can call the leaders of a rabble of Dutch farmers officers... 2616 02:25:08,033 --> 02:25:10,615 He kept advising cronjé to retreat 2617 02:25:10,619 --> 02:25:12,985 and not stand and fight. 2618 02:25:12,996 --> 02:25:14,952 And I was right. I was right. 2619 02:25:14,956 --> 02:25:17,242 He got surrounded at paardeberg. 2620 02:25:17,250 --> 02:25:19,332 He had to surrender. 2621 02:25:19,336 --> 02:25:21,577 Good strategy, no doubt. 2622 02:25:21,588 --> 02:25:24,955 But a suspicion grew afterwards 2623 02:25:24,966 --> 02:25:27,207 into a conviction among the boers 2624 02:25:27,219 --> 02:25:29,380 that the officer's caution was prompted 2625 02:25:29,387 --> 02:25:32,595 by a desire for his personal escape. 2626 02:25:32,599 --> 02:25:36,717 His countrymen were extremely savage about it. 2627 02:25:36,728 --> 02:25:38,969 And his family disowned him. 2628 02:25:38,980 --> 02:25:44,225 So I imagine there won't be any welcoming committee waiting on the dock, 2629 02:25:44,236 --> 02:25:48,104 n-nor any delighted relatives making the veldt ring 2630 02:25:48,114 --> 02:25:51,982 with their happy cries of "welcome home, general!" 2631 02:25:51,993 --> 02:25:55,531 All lies, you goddamned limey! 2632 02:25:59,084 --> 02:26:01,917 I also have heard rumors of a limey officer 2633 02:26:01,920 --> 02:26:06,254 who, after the war, lost all his money gambling 2634 02:26:06,258 --> 02:26:08,169 when he was drunk. 2635 02:26:08,176 --> 02:26:11,964 But they found out it was regiment money too he lost! 2636 02:26:11,972 --> 02:26:13,963 - Why, you bloody Dutch so... - Cut it out! 2637 02:26:13,974 --> 02:26:15,635 Let him come! 2638 02:26:15,642 --> 02:26:17,678 I saw them come before 2639 02:26:17,686 --> 02:26:20,302 at modder river, magersfontein, 2640 02:26:20,313 --> 02:26:22,019 spion kopje, 2641 02:26:22,023 --> 02:26:24,184 waving their silly swords, 2642 02:26:24,192 --> 02:26:28,401 so afraid they couldn't show how brave they was! 2643 02:26:28,405 --> 02:26:32,239 And I killed them with mein rifle so easy! 2644 02:26:32,242 --> 02:26:34,654 Listen to me, you Cecil! 2645 02:26:34,661 --> 02:26:37,152 Often when I'm drunk and kidding you, 2646 02:26:37,163 --> 02:26:39,575 I say I'm sorry I missed you. 2647 02:26:39,582 --> 02:26:43,245 But now, by god, I am sober, 2648 02:26:43,253 --> 02:26:45,244 and I don't joke, and I say... 2649 02:26:45,255 --> 02:26:48,088 You can't say hickey hasn't got the miraculous touch to raise the dead 2650 02:26:48,091 --> 02:26:50,582 when he can start the boer war raging again! 2651 02:26:53,638 --> 02:26:58,132 Yes, well, I-it's time I was on my merry way. 2652 02:26:58,143 --> 02:27:00,725 Early bird catches the job, what! 2653 02:27:00,729 --> 02:27:03,436 Uh, good... good-bye and good luck, rocky. 2654 02:27:03,440 --> 02:27:05,305 And the rest of you. 2655 02:27:09,321 --> 02:27:10,902 By god. 2656 02:27:10,905 --> 02:27:13,612 If that limey can go, 2657 02:27:13,616 --> 02:27:15,072 I can go. 2658 02:27:24,169 --> 02:27:25,830 Well, why don't you beat it? 2659 02:27:25,837 --> 02:27:27,748 Uh... uh... _eh? 2660 02:27:27,756 --> 02:27:30,168 Oh, just... just been thinking. 2661 02:27:30,175 --> 02:27:34,259 Hardly the decent thing to push off without saying good-bye to old Harry. 2662 02:27:34,262 --> 02:27:37,595 One of the best, old Harry. And good old Jimmy. 2663 02:27:37,599 --> 02:27:40,591 Th-they ought to be down very soon. 2664 02:27:40,602 --> 02:27:42,558 Oh, I'm... I'm sorry. 2665 02:27:42,562 --> 02:27:45,349 I seem to be blocking your way out. 2666 02:27:47,025 --> 02:27:49,892 No, I-I will wait 2667 02:27:49,903 --> 02:27:52,815 to say good-bye to Harry too. 2668 02:27:54,824 --> 02:27:56,860 Jeez, can you beat them simps? 2669 02:27:58,078 --> 02:28:00,194 Hell, I forgot Cora. She'll be throwin' a fit! 2670 02:28:00,205 --> 02:28:04,244 That's right. Wait on her and spoil her, you poor sap! 2671 02:28:07,962 --> 02:28:12,001 Look here, parritt. I'd like to have a talk with you. 2672 02:28:12,008 --> 02:28:14,624 - About what? - About the trouble you're in. 2673 02:28:14,636 --> 02:28:17,594 I know, I know. You don't admit it, and you're quite right. 2674 02:28:17,597 --> 02:28:19,588 That's my advice. Deny everything. 2675 02:28:19,599 --> 02:28:21,385 Say, what the hell are you accusing me of? 2676 02:28:21,393 --> 02:28:24,180 Make no statements whatever without consulting your attorney. 2677 02:28:24,187 --> 02:28:27,554 Keep your mouth shut. Look, you can trust me. I'm a lawyer. 2678 02:28:27,565 --> 02:28:32,434 And it's occurred to me that you and I ought to cooperate. 2679 02:28:32,445 --> 02:28:37,530 Of course, I'm going to see the da this morning about a job on his staff. 2680 02:28:37,534 --> 02:28:39,946 But, uh, that may take time. 2681 02:28:39,953 --> 02:28:43,662 There may not be an immediate opening. 2682 02:28:43,665 --> 02:28:45,747 And meanwhile, it, um, would be a good idea 2683 02:28:45,750 --> 02:28:48,992 for me to take a case or two on my own, 2684 02:28:49,003 --> 02:28:52,495 just to prove that my brilliant record in law school 2685 02:28:52,507 --> 02:28:54,168 was no flash in the pan. 2686 02:28:54,175 --> 02:28:58,043 So, why not retain me as your attorney? 2687 02:28:58,054 --> 02:29:01,217 You're crazy. What do I want with a lawyer? 2688 02:29:01,224 --> 02:29:04,842 Yeah, that's right. Don't admit anything. 2689 02:29:04,853 --> 02:29:08,016 But you can trust me, so let's not beat about the bush. 2690 02:29:09,899 --> 02:29:11,890 You got in trouble out on the coast, huh? 2691 02:29:11,901 --> 02:29:15,064 Now, you're in hiding. Any fool can spot that. 2692 02:29:15,071 --> 02:29:18,655 Y-you feel safe here, and maybe you are, for a while. 2693 02:29:18,658 --> 02:29:20,649 But remember, they get you in the end. 2694 02:29:20,660 --> 02:29:23,151 I know, from my father's experience. 2695 02:29:23,163 --> 02:29:25,154 Nobody could have felt safer than he did. 2696 02:29:25,165 --> 02:29:28,202 When anybody mentioned the law to him, he nearly died laughing. 2697 02:29:28,209 --> 02:29:30,666 - But... - You crazy mutt. 2698 02:29:30,670 --> 02:29:32,831 You hear that, Larry? 2699 02:29:32,839 --> 02:29:36,297 This damn fool thinks the cops are after me. 2700 02:29:37,594 --> 02:29:39,880 I wish to god they were. 2701 02:29:39,888 --> 02:29:42,220 And so should you, if you had the honor of a louse. 2702 02:29:44,601 --> 02:29:46,592 You're the guy who kids himself he's through with the movement. 2703 02:29:46,603 --> 02:29:48,093 You're still in love with it. 2704 02:29:48,104 --> 02:29:51,562 You're not in trouble, parritt? I was hoping... never mind. 2705 02:29:51,566 --> 02:29:54,399 No... no offense meant, parritt. 2706 02:29:54,402 --> 02:29:56,859 That's all right, Willie. 2707 02:29:56,863 --> 02:30:00,731 I'm not sore at you. It's that damned yellow faker that gets my goat. 2708 02:30:13,630 --> 02:30:17,623 I think I understand, Larry. It's really mother you still love. 2709 02:30:17,634 --> 02:30:19,090 Isn't it? 2710 02:30:20,887 --> 02:30:23,128 In spite of that dirty deal she gave you. 2711 02:30:24,849 --> 02:30:26,555 What the hell did you expect? 2712 02:30:26,559 --> 02:30:29,642 She was never true to anyone but herself and the movement. 2713 02:30:31,814 --> 02:30:35,272 But, Larry, I can understand how you still can't help feeling... 2714 02:30:38,112 --> 02:30:41,229 See, because I still love her too. 2715 02:30:41,241 --> 02:30:45,109 So, you see, I couldn't have expected they'd catch her, Larry. 2716 02:30:45,119 --> 02:30:46,859 You gotta believe me that I only sold 'em out 2717 02:30:46,871 --> 02:30:48,953 to get a few lousy dollars to blow on a whore. 2718 02:30:48,957 --> 02:30:50,538 There's no other reason, honest. 2719 02:30:50,542 --> 02:30:52,658 For the love of Christ, will you leave me in peace! 2720 02:30:52,669 --> 02:30:54,955 If you don't keep still, 2721 02:30:54,963 --> 02:30:58,251 you'll be saying something soon that'll make you vomit your own soul 2722 02:30:58,258 --> 02:31:01,091 like a drink of nickel rotgut that won't stay down! 2723 02:31:01,094 --> 02:31:03,801 - Larry, don't go! You gotta help me! - Set 'em up, rocky. 2724 02:31:03,805 --> 02:31:06,592 I swore I'd have no more drinks on hickey if I died of drought, 2725 02:31:06,599 --> 02:31:08,305 but I changed my mind. 2726 02:31:08,309 --> 02:31:10,265 B'god, he owed it to me. 2727 02:31:16,234 --> 02:31:18,850 I'd be blind to the world now 2728 02:31:18,861 --> 02:31:21,443 if it was the iceman of death himself treating. 2729 02:31:25,118 --> 02:31:28,030 What made me say that, I wonder. 2730 02:31:28,037 --> 02:31:30,528 Well, b'god, it fits, 2731 02:31:30,540 --> 02:31:33,031 for death was the iceman that hickey called to his home. 2732 02:31:33,042 --> 02:31:35,579 Oh, forget the iceman gag. 2733 02:31:35,587 --> 02:31:37,543 The poor dame is dead. 2734 02:31:37,547 --> 02:31:39,708 Go on and get paralyzed. 2735 02:31:39,716 --> 02:31:43,083 I'll be glad to see one bum in this dump act natural. 2736 02:31:48,600 --> 02:31:50,682 Come and sit here, Mac. 2737 02:31:50,685 --> 02:31:52,596 You're just the man I want to see. 2738 02:31:52,604 --> 02:31:55,767 If I'm to take your case, we ought to have a talk before we leave. 2739 02:31:55,773 --> 02:31:59,015 There'll be no talk. You damned fool. 2740 02:31:59,027 --> 02:32:01,689 Do you think I'd have your father's son for my lawyer? 2741 02:32:01,696 --> 02:32:03,857 - Mmm. - They'd take one look at you 2742 02:32:03,865 --> 02:32:06,026 and bounce us both out on our necks. 2743 02:32:06,034 --> 02:32:07,865 I don't need a lawyer anyway. 2744 02:32:07,869 --> 02:32:09,905 Hell with the law. 2745 02:32:09,912 --> 02:32:13,279 All I've got to do is see the right ones, 2746 02:32:13,291 --> 02:32:15,282 get them to pass the word. 2747 02:32:15,293 --> 02:32:17,079 They will too. 2748 02:32:17,086 --> 02:32:19,042 They know I was framed. 2749 02:32:20,089 --> 02:32:22,080 And once the word is passed, 2750 02:32:22,091 --> 02:32:24,548 it's as good as done, law or no law! 2751 02:32:26,763 --> 02:32:28,219 Here's my key, rocky. 2752 02:32:29,766 --> 02:32:31,427 I'd rather sleep in the gutter 2753 02:32:31,434 --> 02:32:34,847 than spend another night under the same roof as that drummer. 2754 02:32:34,854 --> 02:32:38,096 - Son of a drummer. - All you birds give me a pain. 2755 02:32:38,107 --> 02:32:42,271 It'd serve you right if I wouldn't give the keys back to you tonight. 2756 02:32:44,322 --> 02:32:45,778 Hello, everybody! 2757 02:32:47,492 --> 02:32:49,403 Here we go! 2758 02:32:50,787 --> 02:32:54,154 Oh. 2759 02:32:54,165 --> 02:32:57,248 Well, h-hickey just told us, ain't it time we beat it, 2760 02:32:57,251 --> 02:32:59,082 if we was really going. 2761 02:32:59,087 --> 02:33:02,375 So we're showing the bastard, ain't we, honey? 2762 02:33:02,382 --> 02:33:05,749 He's coming right down with Harry and Jimmy. 2763 02:33:05,760 --> 02:33:07,842 Jeez. 2764 02:33:07,845 --> 02:33:11,429 Them two look like they was going to the electric chair. 2765 02:33:15,228 --> 02:33:19,312 Whoa. Well, let's get going, honey, before he comes down. 2766 02:33:19,315 --> 02:33:22,022 - Sure. Anything you say, baby. - Yeah? 2767 02:33:22,026 --> 02:33:25,439 Well, I say we stop at the first regular dump, 2768 02:33:25,446 --> 02:33:30,566 and you gotta blow me to a Sherry flip... Or four or five, if I want 'em. 2769 02:33:30,576 --> 02:33:33,739 - Or all bets is off. - You got a fine bun on now. 2770 02:33:33,746 --> 02:33:36,237 Oh, cheapskate. 2771 02:33:36,249 --> 02:33:39,241 Here, use my money then if you're so stingy. 2772 02:33:39,252 --> 02:33:41,914 You'll grab it all anyways right after the ceremony. 2773 02:33:41,921 --> 02:33:43,377 I know you. 2774 02:33:43,381 --> 02:33:46,168 Here, you big tramp. 2775 02:33:46,175 --> 02:33:47,756 Keep your lousy dough, 2776 02:33:47,760 --> 02:33:49,842 and don't show your legs off to these bums when you're gonna be married, 2777 02:33:49,846 --> 02:33:51,882 if you don't want a sock in the puss! 2778 02:33:51,889 --> 02:33:53,754 All right, honey. 2779 02:33:59,856 --> 02:34:04,190 Say, why don't all you barflies come to the weddin'? 2780 02:34:12,326 --> 02:34:15,693 Well, we're going, guys. 2781 02:34:19,167 --> 02:34:21,453 Say, rocky, are you going deef? 2782 02:34:21,461 --> 02:34:23,873 I said me and Chuck was goin' now. 2783 02:34:23,880 --> 02:34:27,247 Well, good-bye. Give my love to Jersey. 2784 02:34:27,258 --> 02:34:31,592 Well, ain't you even gonna wish us happiness, you dirty little Guinea? 2785 02:34:31,596 --> 02:34:33,552 Sure. 2786 02:34:33,556 --> 02:34:36,514 Here's hopin' you don't murder each other before next week. 2787 02:34:36,517 --> 02:34:39,304 Baby, what do we care for that pimp? 2788 02:34:39,312 --> 02:34:41,598 - I think he's lying, Jimmy. - Here's hickey coming. 2789 02:34:41,606 --> 02:34:43,642 Let's get out of here. 2790 02:34:44,776 --> 02:34:46,858 Grab his arm, Jimmy. 2791 02:34:54,452 --> 02:34:56,613 Well, here we are. 2792 02:34:56,621 --> 02:34:58,862 We got this far at least. 2793 02:34:58,873 --> 02:35:00,534 Good work, Jimmy. 2794 02:35:00,541 --> 02:35:02,907 I told you you weren't half as sick as you pretended to be. 2795 02:35:02,919 --> 02:35:04,705 No excuse whatsoever for postponing, now. 2796 02:35:04,712 --> 02:35:08,375 Will you kindly keep your hands to yourself? 2797 02:35:08,382 --> 02:35:11,340 I merely mentioned I would feel more fit tomorrow. 2798 02:35:11,344 --> 02:35:13,209 But... 2799 02:35:13,221 --> 02:35:15,928 It might as well be today, I suppose. 2800 02:35:15,932 --> 02:35:19,220 Finish it now so it'll be dead forever and you'll be free. 2801 02:35:19,227 --> 02:35:20,967 Now, cheer up, Harry. 2802 02:35:20,978 --> 02:35:23,640 You notice your rheumatism didn't bother you coming down the stairs, did you? 2803 02:35:23,648 --> 02:35:25,513 You're the damnedest one for alibis, governor. 2804 02:35:25,525 --> 02:35:26,890 I can't hear you. 2805 02:35:26,901 --> 02:35:30,940 You're a liar! I've had rheumatism on and off for 20 years. 2806 02:35:30,947 --> 02:35:32,153 Ever since bessie died. 2807 02:35:32,156 --> 02:35:35,023 We all know it's the kind of rheumatism you turn on and off. 2808 02:35:35,034 --> 02:35:37,776 We're on to you, you old faker. 2809 02:35:37,787 --> 02:35:41,405 B'jeez! What are all you bums hanging around, staring at me for? 2810 02:35:41,415 --> 02:35:44,407 Why don't you get the hell out of here and tend to your own business, 2811 02:35:44,418 --> 02:35:46,158 like hickey's told you! 2812 02:35:46,170 --> 02:35:48,081 Yes, Harry, I certainly thought they would have had the guts 2813 02:35:48,089 --> 02:35:49,579 to have been gone by this time. 2814 02:35:51,008 --> 02:35:53,249 Or maybe I did have my doubts. 2815 02:35:53,261 --> 02:35:55,968 'Cause I know exactly what you're up against, boys. 2816 02:35:55,972 --> 02:35:57,712 I know you turn into such a coward, 2817 02:35:57,723 --> 02:36:00,931 that you'll grab at any lousy excuse not to kill your pipe dreams. 2818 02:36:00,935 --> 02:36:02,846 And yet, as I've said over and over again, 2819 02:36:02,854 --> 02:36:05,516 it's exactly those damned lying tomorrow dreams 2820 02:36:05,523 --> 02:36:07,434 that keep you from making peace with yourself. 2821 02:36:07,441 --> 02:36:09,727 So you've gotta kill them, like I did mine. 2822 02:36:11,696 --> 02:36:14,688 Well, come on, boys. Get moving. 2823 02:36:14,699 --> 02:36:17,816 Well, who's gonna start the ball rolling? 2824 02:36:19,871 --> 02:36:22,487 Well, you, captain, and you, general. You're nearest the door. 2825 02:36:22,498 --> 02:36:26,366 And besides, you're old war heroes. You ought to lead this forlorn hope. 2826 02:36:26,377 --> 02:36:29,039 Show us a little of that old battle of modder river spirit 2827 02:36:29,046 --> 02:36:30,752 we've heard so much about. 2828 02:36:30,756 --> 02:36:32,087 You can't hang around here all day 2829 02:36:32,091 --> 02:36:35,003 looking like you were scared the street outside would bite you. 2830 02:36:35,011 --> 02:36:38,845 Right you are, Mr. nosy bloody Parker. 2831 02:36:38,848 --> 02:36:40,804 Time I pushed off. 2832 02:36:40,808 --> 02:36:44,141 I was only waiting to say good-bye to you, Harry, old chum. 2833 02:36:45,771 --> 02:36:49,559 Good-bye, captain. Hope you have luck. 2834 02:36:49,567 --> 02:36:53,526 Oh, I'm bound to, old chap, and the same to you. 2835 02:37:04,332 --> 02:37:07,540 By god, if that limey can, I can. 2836 02:37:16,844 --> 02:37:18,459 Well, next? 2837 02:37:19,764 --> 02:37:21,345 Come on, Mac. 2838 02:37:21,349 --> 02:37:23,340 It's a fine summer's day. 2839 02:37:36,030 --> 02:37:37,986 That's the stuff, Mac. 2840 02:37:45,456 --> 02:37:48,323 Good-bye, Harry. Thanks for all your kindness. 2841 02:37:51,170 --> 02:37:53,252 That's the way, Willie. 2842 02:37:53,255 --> 02:37:55,917 Oh, the da's a busy man, Willie. 2843 02:37:55,925 --> 02:37:58,507 You can't keep him waiting all day, you know. 2844 02:38:01,430 --> 02:38:03,386 Good luck, Willie. 2845 02:38:11,399 --> 02:38:12,980 Now it's your turn, Jimmy, old pal. 2846 02:38:16,612 --> 02:38:18,068 Jimmy. 2847 02:38:37,925 --> 02:38:40,632 You can't do that to yourself, Jimmy, old pal. 2848 02:38:40,636 --> 02:38:44,254 One drink on top of your hangover on an empty stomach, you'll be orey-eyed. 2849 02:38:44,265 --> 02:38:47,382 Tomorrow. I'll be in good shape tomorrow. 2850 02:38:51,522 --> 02:38:54,434 All right. I'm going. 2851 02:38:55,943 --> 02:38:57,899 Take your hands off me! 2852 02:39:04,410 --> 02:39:05,866 Dirty swine! 2853 02:39:09,165 --> 02:39:11,121 All set for an alcohol rub now. 2854 02:39:13,085 --> 02:39:14,950 Ah. 2855 02:39:14,962 --> 02:39:16,998 No hard feelings. 2856 02:39:17,006 --> 02:39:19,588 I know how he feels. 2857 02:39:19,592 --> 02:39:22,004 I wrote the book. 2858 02:39:22,011 --> 02:39:25,970 I've seen the day, if anybody forced me to face the truth about my pipe dreams, 2859 02:39:25,973 --> 02:39:27,929 I'd have shot 'em dead. 2860 02:39:33,022 --> 02:39:35,138 Well, governor. 2861 02:39:35,149 --> 02:39:37,231 Jimmy made the grade. Now it's your turn. 2862 02:39:37,234 --> 02:39:40,351 Leave Harry alone. Damn you. 2863 02:39:40,362 --> 02:39:43,820 I'd make up my mind about myself, if I were you, Larry, 2864 02:39:43,824 --> 02:39:45,360 and not bother over Harry. 2865 02:39:45,367 --> 02:39:47,608 He doesn't need anyone's bum pity. Do you, governor? 2866 02:39:48,537 --> 02:39:50,152 No, b'jeez. 2867 02:39:50,164 --> 02:39:53,031 Keep your nose out of this, Larry. 2868 02:39:53,042 --> 02:39:56,205 I've always been going to take this walk, ain't I? 2869 02:39:56,212 --> 02:39:59,875 You bums want to keep me locked up in here as if I was in jail. 2870 02:39:59,882 --> 02:40:01,747 Well, I've stood it long enough. 2871 02:40:01,759 --> 02:40:04,546 I'll do as I damned please, b'jeez. 2872 02:40:04,553 --> 02:40:06,965 You keep your nose out too, hickey. 2873 02:40:06,972 --> 02:40:09,964 B'jeez, you'd think you was the boss of this dump, and not me. 2874 02:40:11,936 --> 02:40:13,767 What the hell's to be scared of? 2875 02:40:13,771 --> 02:40:15,557 Sure, I'm all right. 2876 02:40:15,564 --> 02:40:18,397 Just taking a stroll around my own ward. 2877 02:40:18,400 --> 02:40:20,265 What's the weather like outside, rocky? 2878 02:40:20,277 --> 02:40:21,767 Fine day, boss. 2879 02:40:21,779 --> 02:40:23,690 What's that? I can't hear you. 2880 02:40:23,697 --> 02:40:25,653 Don't look fine to me. 2881 02:40:25,658 --> 02:40:28,616 Looks as if it'd pour down cats and dogs any minute. 2882 02:40:28,619 --> 02:40:31,577 My rheumatis... oh! Must be my eyes. 2883 02:40:31,580 --> 02:40:33,616 Half blind, b'jeez. 2884 02:40:33,624 --> 02:40:37,583 Makes things look black. I see now it's a fine day. 2885 02:40:38,963 --> 02:40:42,171 Too damned hot for a walk though, if you ask me, yeah. 2886 02:40:42,174 --> 02:40:45,666 Well, do me good to sweat the booze out of me. 2887 02:40:47,596 --> 02:40:50,303 But I'll have to watch out for the damned automobiles. 2888 02:40:50,307 --> 02:40:52,889 Wasn't none of them around the last time. 2889 02:40:52,893 --> 02:40:54,679 From what I've seen through the window, 2890 02:40:54,687 --> 02:40:57,394 they'd run over you as soon as look at you. 2891 02:40:57,398 --> 02:40:59,354 Well, so long. 2892 02:41:01,110 --> 02:41:04,352 Well, b'jeez, where are you, hickey? It's time we got started. 2893 02:41:04,363 --> 02:41:08,322 No, no, Harry. Can't be done. You gotta keep a date with yourself alone. 2894 02:41:08,325 --> 02:41:10,782 Hell of a guy you are. 2895 02:41:10,786 --> 02:41:14,153 Thought you'd be willing to help me across the street, seeing I'm half blind. 2896 02:41:14,165 --> 02:41:16,998 Half deef too. I can't hear those damned automobiles. 2897 02:41:17,001 --> 02:41:19,242 Oh, the hell with you! 2898 02:41:19,253 --> 02:41:22,290 I've never needed no one's help and I don't now. 2899 02:41:22,298 --> 02:41:25,631 I'll take a good long walk now I've started. 2900 02:41:25,634 --> 02:41:30,003 See all my old friends. B'jeez, they must have given me up for dead. 2901 02:41:30,014 --> 02:41:33,131 They know it was grief over bessie's death that made me... 2902 02:41:34,059 --> 02:41:36,926 Well, sooner I get started... 2903 02:41:36,937 --> 02:41:38,802 You know, hickey, that's what gets me. 2904 02:41:38,814 --> 02:41:42,682 I can't help thinking that the last time I went out 2905 02:41:42,693 --> 02:41:44,854 was to bessie's funeral. 2906 02:41:44,862 --> 02:41:48,946 After she'd gone, I didn't feel life was worth living. 2907 02:41:48,949 --> 02:41:52,533 I can't feel it's right for me to go, even now, hickey. 2908 02:41:52,536 --> 02:41:54,868 It's like I was doing wrong to her memory. 2909 02:41:54,872 --> 02:41:58,615 Now, governor, you can't let yourself get away with that one anymore. 2910 02:41:58,626 --> 02:42:00,958 What's that? I can't hear you. 2911 02:42:03,005 --> 02:42:07,169 B'jeez, I remember as clear as day 2912 02:42:07,176 --> 02:42:09,337 the last time before she... 2913 02:42:09,345 --> 02:42:12,678 It was a fine Sunday morning. 2914 02:42:12,681 --> 02:42:15,047 We went out to church together. 2915 02:42:16,560 --> 02:42:19,973 It's a great act, governor, but I know better, and so do you. 2916 02:42:19,980 --> 02:42:23,017 You never did want to go to church or any place else with her. 2917 02:42:23,025 --> 02:42:26,813 She was always on your neck, wanting you to have ambition and go out and do things, 2918 02:42:26,820 --> 02:42:29,778 when all you wanted to do was to get drunk in peace. 2919 02:42:31,033 --> 02:42:33,649 Can't hear a word you're saying. 2920 02:42:33,661 --> 02:42:36,368 You're a goddamned liar anyway! 2921 02:42:37,748 --> 02:42:40,239 B'jeez, you son of a bitch. 2922 02:42:40,251 --> 02:42:42,412 If there was a mad dog out there, 2923 02:42:42,419 --> 02:42:46,458 I'd go and shake hands with it rather than stay here with you. 2924 02:42:56,767 --> 02:42:58,632 Jesus! He made it! 2925 02:42:58,644 --> 02:43:01,135 I'd have give you 50-to-1 he'd never... 2926 02:43:01,146 --> 02:43:03,512 Oh-ho. He's stopped. 2927 02:43:03,524 --> 02:43:05,264 I'll bet you he's comin' back. 2928 02:43:05,276 --> 02:43:06,982 Of course he's coming back. 2929 02:43:06,986 --> 02:43:10,274 By tonight they'll all be here again, you dumbbell. That's the whole point. 2930 02:43:10,281 --> 02:43:12,772 No, he ain't neither! He's gone to the curb. 2931 02:43:12,783 --> 02:43:16,321 He's lookin' up and down. Scared stiff of automobiles. 2932 02:43:16,328 --> 02:43:20,742 There ain't more than two an hour comes down this street, the old boob! 2933 02:43:24,628 --> 02:43:28,291 B'jeez, give me a drink, quick. 2934 02:43:28,299 --> 02:43:30,756 Scared me out of a year's growth. 2935 02:43:30,759 --> 02:43:33,171 B'jeez, that guy oughta be pinched! 2936 02:43:33,178 --> 02:43:36,511 B'jeez, it ain't safe to walk in the streets. Give me that bottle. 2937 02:43:43,188 --> 02:43:45,850 - You seen it, didn't you, rocky? - Seen what? 2938 02:43:45,858 --> 02:43:49,066 That automobile, you dumb wop! 2939 02:43:49,069 --> 02:43:51,606 Fella driving it must be drunk or crazy. 2940 02:43:51,613 --> 02:43:54,696 He'd have run right over me if I hadn't have jumped. 2941 02:43:54,700 --> 02:43:58,534 Larry, have a drink. Come on. Everybody have a drink. 2942 02:43:58,537 --> 02:44:01,620 Have a cigar, rocky. I know you hardly touch it. 2943 02:44:01,623 --> 02:44:04,365 This is one time I do touch it! 2944 02:44:04,376 --> 02:44:06,583 I'm gonna get stinko, see! 2945 02:44:06,587 --> 02:44:08,327 Well, jeez, Harry! 2946 02:44:08,339 --> 02:44:10,250 I thought you had some guts! 2947 02:44:10,257 --> 02:44:13,670 I was bettin' you'd make it and show that four-flusher up. 2948 02:44:13,677 --> 02:44:16,919 Automobile, hell! Who do you think you're kiddin'? 2949 02:44:16,930 --> 02:44:21,094 There was no automobile! You just quit cold. 2950 02:44:21,101 --> 02:44:25,014 I guess I ought to know. B'jeez, it almost killed me. 2951 02:44:25,022 --> 02:44:26,978 Now, now, governor, don't be foolish. 2952 02:44:26,982 --> 02:44:28,973 You've faced the test and you've come through. 2953 02:44:28,984 --> 02:44:30,895 You're rid of that nagging dream stuff now. 2954 02:44:30,903 --> 02:44:33,736 You know you can't believe it anymore. 2955 02:44:33,739 --> 02:44:36,151 You saw it, didn't you, Larry? 2956 02:44:36,158 --> 02:44:38,114 Have a drink. Have another. Have all you want. 2957 02:44:38,118 --> 02:44:41,576 We'll go on a grand old souse together. 2958 02:44:41,580 --> 02:44:43,662 You saw that automobile, didn't you? 2959 02:44:43,665 --> 02:44:46,748 Sure, I saw it, Harry. You had a narrow escape. 2960 02:44:46,752 --> 02:44:48,458 B'god, I thought you were a goner. 2961 02:44:48,462 --> 02:44:50,293 What the hell are you doing, Larry? 2962 02:44:50,297 --> 02:44:53,505 Remember what I told you about the wrong kind of pity. Now leave him alone. 2963 02:44:53,509 --> 02:44:56,171 You'd think I was trying to harm him, the fool way you act. 2964 02:44:56,178 --> 02:44:58,794 Why, there isn't anything I wouldn't do for Harry, and he knows it. 2965 02:44:58,806 --> 02:45:02,890 All I wanted was to fix it so he'd finally be at peace with himself. 2966 02:45:02,893 --> 02:45:04,554 If you'll just wait till the final returns are in, 2967 02:45:04,561 --> 02:45:06,517 that's exactly what I've accomplished. 2968 02:45:07,773 --> 02:45:09,354 Come on, governor. 2969 02:45:09,358 --> 02:45:11,940 What's the use of being stubborn now that it's over and dead? 2970 02:45:11,944 --> 02:45:14,560 - Give up that ghost automobile. - Yeah. 2971 02:45:14,571 --> 02:45:16,527 What's the use now? 2972 02:45:18,075 --> 02:45:20,316 It's all a lie. 2973 02:45:20,327 --> 02:45:22,613 No automobile. 2974 02:45:22,621 --> 02:45:24,953 B'jeez, something ran over me. 2975 02:45:24,957 --> 02:45:26,913 Must have been myself, I guess. 2976 02:45:28,544 --> 02:45:30,500 Guess I'll sit down. 2977 02:45:32,256 --> 02:45:34,121 Feel all in. 2978 02:45:36,718 --> 02:45:38,674 Like a corpse, b'jeez. 2979 02:45:47,688 --> 02:45:49,679 Hello, Hugo. 2980 02:45:49,690 --> 02:45:51,897 Coming up for air? 2981 02:45:51,900 --> 02:45:55,484 Oh, stay passed out. That's the right dope. 2982 02:45:56,738 --> 02:45:59,855 There ain't any cool Willow trees, 2983 02:45:59,867 --> 02:46:02,529 except you grow your own in a bottle. 2984 02:46:06,874 --> 02:46:09,331 Hello, Harry. 2985 02:46:09,334 --> 02:46:11,996 Stupid proletarian monkey face. 2986 02:46:14,089 --> 02:46:16,626 I will drink champagne 2987 02:46:16,633 --> 02:46:18,999 beneath the wil... 2988 02:46:19,011 --> 02:46:22,595 But the slaves must ice it properly! 2989 02:46:24,224 --> 02:46:26,715 Goddamned hickey! 2990 02:46:26,727 --> 02:46:30,265 Peddler pimp for nouveau riche capitalism! 2991 02:46:32,232 --> 02:46:35,440 When I lead the jackass mob to the sack of Babylon, 2992 02:46:35,444 --> 02:46:38,481 I will make them hang him to the first lamppost! 2993 02:46:39,740 --> 02:46:42,072 Good work. 2994 02:46:42,075 --> 02:46:44,532 I'll help pull the rope. 2995 02:46:52,252 --> 02:46:54,038 Have a drink, Hugo. 2996 02:46:57,633 --> 02:46:59,749 Uh, no, thank you. 2997 02:47:03,263 --> 02:47:05,219 I'm too crazy drunk. 2998 02:47:06,642 --> 02:47:09,224 I hear myself say crazy things. 2999 02:47:11,688 --> 02:47:14,646 Do not listen, please. 3000 02:47:14,650 --> 02:47:19,189 Larry will tell you, I have never been so crazy drunk. 3001 02:47:21,365 --> 02:47:23,321 I must sleep it off. 3002 02:47:31,166 --> 02:47:34,249 What's the matter, Harry? You look funny. 3003 02:47:38,966 --> 02:47:40,752 You look dead! 3004 02:47:42,761 --> 02:47:45,218 What's happened? I don't know you. 3005 02:47:47,766 --> 02:47:50,428 Listen, 3006 02:47:50,435 --> 02:47:52,676 I feel I'm dying too 3007 02:47:52,688 --> 02:47:56,681 because I'm so crazy drunk. 3008 02:47:59,861 --> 02:48:02,819 I can't sleep here with you. You look dead! 3009 02:48:13,041 --> 02:48:16,579 Another one who's begun to enjoy your peace. 3010 02:48:18,213 --> 02:48:22,673 Oh, I know it's rough on him right now. Same as it is on Harry. 3011 02:48:22,676 --> 02:48:25,042 But that's just the first shock. 3012 02:48:25,053 --> 02:48:27,214 I promise you they'll both be all right. 3013 02:48:27,222 --> 02:48:29,087 And you believe that? 3014 02:48:30,392 --> 02:48:32,474 I see you do, you mad fool. 3015 02:48:33,478 --> 02:48:35,309 Of course, I believe it. 3016 02:48:35,314 --> 02:48:37,054 I know from my own experience. 3017 02:48:37,065 --> 02:48:40,182 And now it's my turn, I suppose. 3018 02:48:40,193 --> 02:48:44,311 What is it I'm to do to achieve this blessed peace of yours? 3019 02:48:44,323 --> 02:48:47,156 Well, we've discussed all of that, Larry. 3020 02:48:47,159 --> 02:48:49,275 Just stop lying to yourself. 3021 02:48:49,286 --> 02:48:52,528 You think when I say I'm finished with life 3022 02:48:52,539 --> 02:48:56,703 and tired of watching the stupid greed of the human circus 3023 02:48:56,710 --> 02:49:00,453 and I'll welcome closing my eyes in the long sleep of death, 3024 02:49:00,464 --> 02:49:02,295 you think that's a coward"s lie? 3025 02:49:03,592 --> 02:49:05,048 Well, what do you think? 3026 02:49:06,303 --> 02:49:08,544 I'm afraid to live, am I? 3027 02:49:08,555 --> 02:49:11,137 And even more afraid to diel 3028 02:49:11,141 --> 02:49:15,350 so I sit here, with my pride drowned on the bottom of a bottle, 3029 02:49:15,354 --> 02:49:19,188 keeping drunk so I won't see myself shaking in my britches with fright, 3030 02:49:19,191 --> 02:49:21,807 or hear myself whining and praying, 3031 02:49:21,818 --> 02:49:25,231 beloved Christ, let me live a little longer at any price. 3032 02:49:25,238 --> 02:49:28,355 If it's only for a few days more, or a few hours even, 3033 02:49:28,367 --> 02:49:30,449 have mercy, almighty god, 3034 02:49:30,452 --> 02:49:33,569 and let me still clutch greedily to my yellow heart 3035 02:49:33,580 --> 02:49:36,947 this sweet treasure, this Jewel beyond price, 3036 02:49:36,958 --> 02:49:40,667 this dirty, stinking bit of withered old flesh 3037 02:49:40,671 --> 02:49:42,627 which is my beautiful little life. 3038 02:49:44,758 --> 02:49:47,591 You think you'll make me admit that to myself? 3039 02:49:48,679 --> 02:49:50,670 But you just did admit it, didn't you? 3040 02:49:56,353 --> 02:49:58,719 That's the stuff, hickey. 3041 02:49:58,730 --> 02:50:03,099 Show that old yellow faker up. He can't play dead on me like this. 3042 02:50:03,110 --> 02:50:05,897 Yes, you're gonna have to settle with him, Larry. 3043 02:50:05,904 --> 02:50:08,896 I'm leaving you entirely in his hands. 3044 02:50:08,907 --> 02:50:10,363 And he'll do as good a job as I could 3045 02:50:10,367 --> 02:50:12,858 at making you give up the old grandstand bluff. 3046 02:50:13,912 --> 02:50:17,700 Close that big clam of yours, hickey. 3047 02:50:17,708 --> 02:50:21,826 B'jeez, you're a worse gabber than that nagging bitch bessie was. 3048 02:50:21,837 --> 02:50:24,499 Jeez! Did you hear that? 3049 02:50:28,135 --> 02:50:30,922 What's wrong with this booze? 3050 02:50:30,929 --> 02:50:33,591 There's no kick in it. 3051 02:50:33,598 --> 02:50:37,386 Jeez, Larry. Hugo had it right. 3052 02:50:37,394 --> 02:50:39,180 He does look like he croaked. 3053 02:50:39,187 --> 02:50:41,428 Don't be a damned fool. He's all right. 3054 02:50:41,440 --> 02:50:43,396 It's just the first shock. 3055 02:50:45,068 --> 02:50:47,229 You are all right, aren't you, Harry? 3056 02:50:47,237 --> 02:50:51,230 I... I want to pass out like Hugo. 3057 02:50:55,746 --> 02:50:58,112 It's the peace of death you've brought him. 3058 02:50:58,123 --> 02:50:59,579 That's a lie. 3059 02:51:02,919 --> 02:51:07,208 Well, well, you did manage to get a rise out of me that time, didn't you? 3060 02:51:07,215 --> 02:51:09,706 That's just plain damned foolishness. 3061 02:51:09,718 --> 02:51:13,051 Look at me. I've been through it. Do I look dead? 3062 02:51:13,054 --> 02:51:14,840 Just leave Harry alone. Give him time. 3063 02:51:14,848 --> 02:51:18,181 It's the first shock. He'll be all right. 3064 02:51:18,185 --> 02:51:20,346 He'll be a new man, like I am. 3065 02:51:24,149 --> 02:51:27,016 How's it coming, governor? 3066 02:51:27,027 --> 02:51:29,734 Beginning to feel free, aren't you? 3067 02:51:31,072 --> 02:51:33,609 Relieved and not guilty anymore? 3068 02:51:33,617 --> 02:51:35,448 Mmm, b'jeez. 3069 02:51:35,452 --> 02:51:37,989 You must have been monkeying with the booze too, 3070 02:51:37,996 --> 02:51:40,282 you interfering bastard. 3071 02:51:40,290 --> 02:51:42,906 There's no life in it now. 3072 02:51:42,918 --> 02:51:45,284 I want to get drunk and pass out. 3073 02:51:46,922 --> 02:51:50,380 I'll admit I didn't think it'd hit him so hard. 3074 02:51:50,383 --> 02:51:53,170 He's always been such a happy-go-lucky slob, like I was. 3075 02:51:54,429 --> 02:51:56,966 Well, it hit me hard too, but only for a minute. 3076 02:51:58,558 --> 02:52:02,767 But then I felt as if a ton of guilt had been lifted off my mind. 3077 02:52:02,771 --> 02:52:05,433 And I saw what had happened was the only possible way 3078 02:52:05,440 --> 02:52:07,476 for the peace of all concerned. 3079 02:52:08,443 --> 02:52:10,149 What was it happened? 3080 02:52:10,153 --> 02:52:11,939 Tell us that. 3081 02:52:11,947 --> 02:52:14,984 And don't try to get out of it. I want a straight answer! 3082 02:52:14,991 --> 02:52:17,482 I-I think it's something you drove someone else to do. 3083 02:52:19,788 --> 02:52:21,119 Someone else? 3084 02:52:21,915 --> 02:52:24,327 What did your wife die of? 3085 02:52:24,334 --> 02:52:26,290 You've kept that a deep secret. 3086 02:52:28,880 --> 02:52:31,997 That's not very considerate of you, Larry, 3087 02:52:32,008 --> 02:52:34,966 but if you insist on knowing now, there's no reason you shouldn't. 3088 02:52:36,388 --> 02:52:38,800 It was a bullet through the head that killed poor Evelyn. 3089 02:52:43,436 --> 02:52:46,018 Who... who the hell cares? 3090 02:52:47,482 --> 02:52:52,067 To hell with her and that nagging old hag bessie. 3091 02:52:52,070 --> 02:52:55,107 Christ. You had the right dope, Larry. 3092 02:52:56,741 --> 02:52:59,153 You drove your poor wife to suicide? 3093 02:52:59,160 --> 02:53:00,946 I knew it. 3094 02:53:00,954 --> 02:53:04,993 B'god, I don't blame her. I'd almost do the same thing myself to get rid of you. 3095 02:53:05,000 --> 02:53:07,537 It's what you'd like to drive us all to... 3096 02:53:10,755 --> 02:53:12,711 I'm sorry, hickey. I'm sorry. 3097 02:53:14,217 --> 02:53:16,833 I'm a rotten louse to throw that in your face. 3098 02:53:17,804 --> 02:53:19,795 Oh, that's all right, Larry. 3099 02:53:19,806 --> 02:53:21,387 But don't jump to conclusions. 3100 02:53:21,391 --> 02:53:24,554 I didn't say poor Evelyn committed suicide. 3101 02:53:24,561 --> 02:53:26,552 That's the last thing she'd have done, 3102 02:53:26,563 --> 02:53:30,522 while I was still alive so she could take care of me and forgive me. 3103 02:53:32,360 --> 02:53:35,852 No, if you'd known her at all, you'd never have such a crazy suspicion. 3104 02:53:37,616 --> 02:53:40,824 No, I'm sorry to tell you my poor wife was killed. 3105 02:53:43,830 --> 02:53:45,741 She was murdered? 3106 02:53:45,749 --> 02:53:47,705 You're a liar, Larry! 3107 02:53:50,837 --> 02:53:54,295 You must be crazy to say that to me. You know damn well she's still alive. 3108 02:53:54,299 --> 02:53:56,335 Murdered? Who done it? 3109 02:53:56,343 --> 02:54:00,086 Shut up, you dumb wop. It's none of our damn business. Leave him alone. 3110 02:54:01,640 --> 02:54:04,222 Still the old grandstand bluff? 3111 02:54:04,225 --> 02:54:06,090 Or just some more bum pity? 3112 02:54:07,312 --> 02:54:09,394 The police don't know who killed her yet, rocky, 3113 02:54:09,397 --> 02:54:11,308 but I expect they will before very long. 3114 02:54:12,859 --> 02:54:15,316 How's it coming, governor? 3115 02:54:15,320 --> 02:54:17,276 Getting over the first shock? 3116 02:54:19,240 --> 02:54:22,949 Beginning to feel free of guilt and lying hopes 3117 02:54:22,953 --> 02:54:25,569 and at peace with yourself? 3118 02:54:25,580 --> 02:54:28,822 Somebody croaked your Evelyn, eh? 3119 02:54:28,833 --> 02:54:31,415 B'jeez, my bets are on the iceman. 3120 02:54:32,837 --> 02:54:35,203 But who the hell cares? 3121 02:54:35,215 --> 02:54:37,797 Let's get drunk and pass out. 3122 02:54:41,221 --> 02:54:44,634 B'jeez, what did you do to the booze, hickey? 3123 02:54:44,641 --> 02:54:47,303 There's no damned life left in it. 3124 02:54:48,687 --> 02:54:50,928 Larry, don't look like that. 3125 02:54:50,939 --> 02:54:52,930 You gotta believe what I'm telling you! 3126 02:54:52,941 --> 02:54:56,104 It had nothing to do with her! It was just for a few lousy dollars! Honest! 3127 02:54:57,320 --> 02:55:00,687 Don't be a fool. Buy me a drink! 3128 02:55:00,699 --> 02:55:02,985 But no more wine! 3129 02:55:02,993 --> 02:55:05,450 It is not properly iced! 3130 02:55:07,247 --> 02:55:10,910 You goddamned stupid proletarian slaves! 3131 02:55:10,917 --> 02:55:14,455 Buy me a drink or I'll have you shot! 3132 02:55:14,462 --> 02:55:18,626 Please, for god's sake! 3133 02:55:19,759 --> 02:55:22,045 I'm not drunk enough! 3134 02:55:22,053 --> 02:55:25,420 I cannot sleep! 3135 02:55:25,432 --> 02:55:29,220 Life is a crazy monkey face! 3136 02:55:29,227 --> 02:55:34,688 Always there's blood beneath the Willow trees! 3137 02:55:34,691 --> 02:55:37,478 I hate it! 3138 02:55:37,485 --> 02:55:40,397 I'm afraid. 3139 02:55:44,743 --> 02:55:48,031 Oh, please. Please. Please. 3140 02:55:48,038 --> 02:55:51,121 I'm too crazy drunk. 3141 02:55:51,124 --> 02:55:53,160 I say crazy things. 3142 02:55:53,168 --> 02:55:55,875 Oh, for god's sake, 3143 02:55:55,879 --> 02:55:58,370 do not listen to Mel 3144 02:55:58,381 --> 02:56:00,542 do not listen to me! 3145 02:56:03,011 --> 02:56:05,969 I'm afraid. 3146 02:56:10,310 --> 02:56:13,643 You're beginning to worry me, governor. 3147 02:56:13,646 --> 02:56:17,639 Something's holding you up somewhere, but I don't see why. 3148 02:56:17,650 --> 02:56:20,983 You've faced the truth about yourself. 3149 02:56:20,987 --> 02:56:24,855 You've done what you had to do to kill your nagging pipe dreams. 3150 02:56:24,866 --> 02:56:26,948 Oh, I know it knocks you cold. 3151 02:56:26,951 --> 02:56:28,942 But only for a minute. 3152 02:56:28,953 --> 02:56:32,241 Then you'll see it was the only possible way to peace. 3153 02:56:32,248 --> 02:56:34,534 Then you'll feel happy, like I did. 3154 02:56:36,127 --> 02:56:39,039 That's what worries me about you, governor. 3155 02:56:39,047 --> 02:56:41,709 It's time you began to feel happy. 3156 02:57:17,418 --> 02:57:18,783 Come on, you damn nigger. 3157 02:57:18,795 --> 02:57:20,877 Beat it in the backroom. It's after hours. 3158 02:57:23,842 --> 02:57:27,209 Aw, to hell with it. Let the dump get pinched. 3159 02:57:27,220 --> 02:57:29,802 I'm through with this lousy job anyway. 3160 02:57:30,723 --> 02:57:32,884 Huh. Been scrappin', huh? 3161 02:57:32,892 --> 02:57:34,974 Started off on your periodical, ain't you? 3162 02:57:34,978 --> 02:57:38,470 - Yeah. Ain't you glad? - I'm out on my feet holdin' down your job. 3163 02:57:38,481 --> 02:57:41,143 You said if I'd take your day, you'd relieve me at 6:00. 3164 02:57:41,151 --> 02:57:42,982 And here it's half past 1:00 A.M. 3165 02:57:42,986 --> 02:57:44,942 Well, you're takin' over now, get me? 3166 02:57:44,946 --> 02:57:47,107 - No matter how plastered you are! - Ah, plastered. 3167 02:57:47,115 --> 02:57:50,858 Hell, I wish I was. I lapped up a gallon, but it don't hit me right. 3168 02:57:50,869 --> 02:57:53,576 And to hell with the job. I'm gonna tell Harry I'm quittin'. 3169 02:57:53,580 --> 02:57:55,491 Well, I'm quittin' too. 3170 02:57:55,498 --> 02:57:56,954 I've played sucker for that crummy blonde long enough, 3171 02:57:56,958 --> 02:57:58,789 lettin' her kid me into workin'. 3172 02:57:58,793 --> 02:58:01,705 - From now on I take it easy. - I'm glad you're gettin' some sense. 3173 02:58:01,713 --> 02:58:03,578 I hope you're gettin' some. 3174 02:58:03,590 --> 02:58:04,796 What a prize sap you been, 3175 02:58:04,799 --> 02:58:07,211 tendin' bar when you got two good hustlers in your stable. 3176 02:58:07,218 --> 02:58:09,584 Yeah, but I ain't no sap now. 3177 02:58:09,596 --> 02:58:12,303 I'll learn 'em when they get back from coney. 3178 02:58:12,307 --> 02:58:15,424 Jeez, that Cora sure played you for a dope, 3179 02:58:15,435 --> 02:58:18,393 feedin' you that marriage-on-a-farm hop. 3180 02:58:18,396 --> 02:58:21,559 Yeah, hickey got it right. A lousy pipe dream. 3181 02:58:21,566 --> 02:58:24,399 It was her pulling Sherry flips on me woke me up. 3182 02:58:24,402 --> 02:58:27,815 Walkin' to the ferry, every gin mill we come to, she'd drag me in to blow her. 3183 02:58:27,822 --> 02:58:29,483 I got thinkin', what won't she want 3184 02:58:29,490 --> 02:58:31,651 when she gets that ring on her finger and I'm hooked? 3185 02:58:31,659 --> 02:58:33,024 So I tells her at the ferry, 3186 02:58:33,036 --> 02:58:36,073 "kiddo, you can go to Jersey or to hell, but count me out." 3187 02:58:36,080 --> 02:58:38,867 She said it was her told you to go to hell 3188 02:58:38,875 --> 02:58:40,740 because you'd start hittin' the booze. 3189 02:58:40,752 --> 02:58:42,788 I got thinkin' too, jeez, won't I look sweet 3190 02:58:42,795 --> 02:58:45,411 with a wife that if you put all the guys she's stayed with side by side, 3191 02:58:45,423 --> 02:58:47,288 they'd reach to Chicago. 3192 02:58:47,300 --> 02:58:49,006 That kind of dame, you can't trust 'em. 3193 02:58:49,010 --> 02:58:51,843 The minute your back is turned, they're cheatin' with the iceman or someone. 3194 02:58:51,846 --> 02:58:54,428 Hickey done me a favor, makin' me wake up. 3195 02:58:57,060 --> 02:58:59,847 Only it was fun, kinda, me and Cora kiddin' ourselves. 3196 02:59:02,565 --> 02:59:05,557 Say, where is that son of a bitch, hickey? 3197 02:59:05,568 --> 02:59:07,684 I want one good sock at the guy... just one... 3198 02:59:07,695 --> 02:59:09,981 And the next buttin' in he'll do will be in the morgue. 3199 02:59:09,989 --> 02:59:12,446 - I'll take a chance on goin' to the chair! - Sit down! 3200 02:59:12,450 --> 02:59:15,738 Keep away from him, Chuck! He ain't here now anyway. 3201 02:59:15,745 --> 02:59:19,112 He went out to phone, he said. I got a hunch he beat it. 3202 02:59:19,123 --> 02:59:23,116 But if he does come back, you don't know him, if anyone asks you, get me? 3203 02:59:23,127 --> 02:59:25,743 The chair... maybe that's where he's goin'. 3204 02:59:25,755 --> 02:59:29,998 I don't know nothin', see, but it looks like he croaked his wife. 3205 02:59:30,009 --> 02:59:33,467 You mean she really was cheatin' on him? Then I don't blame the guy. 3206 02:59:33,471 --> 02:59:36,178 - Who's blamin' him? - Is any of the gang wise? 3207 02:59:36,182 --> 02:59:38,594 Larry is. And the boss oughta be. 3208 02:59:38,601 --> 02:59:41,559 I tried to wise the rest of them to stay clear of him, 3209 02:59:41,562 --> 02:59:45,271 but they're all so licked, I don't know if they got it. 3210 02:59:45,275 --> 02:59:48,938 Oh, I don't give a damn what he done to his wife, 3211 02:59:48,945 --> 02:59:51,561 but if he gets the hot seat, I won't go into no mournin'. 3212 02:59:51,572 --> 02:59:52,561 Me neither. 3213 02:59:52,573 --> 02:59:54,859 Not after his throwin' it in my face I'm a pimp. 3214 02:59:54,867 --> 02:59:58,075 What if I am? And what's he done to Harry? 3215 02:59:58,079 --> 03:00:01,367 Jeez, the poor old slob is so licked, he can't even get drunk. 3216 03:00:01,374 --> 03:00:02,955 And all the gang. 3217 03:00:02,959 --> 03:00:05,166 I couldn't help feelin' sorry for the poor bums 3218 03:00:05,169 --> 03:00:07,626 when they showed up tonight, one by one, 3219 03:00:07,630 --> 03:00:10,417 lookin' like pooches with their tails between their legs 3220 03:00:10,425 --> 03:00:14,293 that everyone'd been kickin' till they were too punch-drunk to feel it no more. 3221 03:00:14,304 --> 03:00:16,545 Jimmy tomorrow was the last. 3222 03:00:16,556 --> 03:00:18,512 Schwartz, the copper, brung him in. 3223 03:00:18,516 --> 03:00:20,381 Seen him sittin' on the dock on west street, 3224 03:00:20,393 --> 03:00:22,805 lookin' at the water and cryin'. 3225 03:00:22,812 --> 03:00:25,724 Schwartz thought he was drunk, and I let him think it. 3226 03:00:25,732 --> 03:00:27,518 But he was cold sober. 3227 03:00:27,525 --> 03:00:30,938 He was tryin' to jump in and didn't have the nerve, I figured it. 3228 03:00:30,945 --> 03:00:35,780 Jeez, there ain't enough guts left in the whole gang to battle a mosquito. 3229 03:00:35,783 --> 03:00:38,445 Aw, to hell with them. Who cares? Give me a drink. 3230 03:00:40,872 --> 03:00:43,329 I see you been hittin' the red-eye too. 3231 03:00:43,333 --> 03:00:46,416 Yeah. But it don't do no good. I can't get drunk right. 3232 03:00:46,419 --> 03:00:50,833 This dirty dinge was able to get his snootful and pass out. 3233 03:00:50,840 --> 03:00:53,752 Jeez, even hickey can't faze a nigger. 3234 03:00:53,760 --> 03:00:56,251 You'd think he was fazed if you'd seen him come in. 3235 03:00:56,262 --> 03:01:00,301 Stinko, and he pulled a gat and said he'd plug hickey for insultin' him. 3236 03:01:00,308 --> 03:01:02,720 Then he dropped it and began to cry 3237 03:01:02,727 --> 03:01:06,436 and said he wasn't a gamblin' man or a tough guy no more. 3238 03:01:06,439 --> 03:01:10,307 He got drunk panhandlin' drinks in nigger joints, I suppose. 3239 03:01:10,318 --> 03:01:12,274 I guess they felt sorry for him. 3240 03:01:12,278 --> 03:01:15,441 He ain't got no business in a bar after hours. Why don't you Chuck him out? 3241 03:01:15,448 --> 03:01:17,985 Aw, to hell with it. Who cares? 3242 03:01:17,992 --> 03:01:19,448 Yeah, I don't. 3243 03:01:21,287 --> 03:01:24,199 Excuse me, white boys. 3244 03:01:25,458 --> 03:01:28,416 I don't want to be where I'm not wanted. 3245 03:01:29,712 --> 03:01:31,703 My pig's in the backroom, ain't she? 3246 03:01:31,714 --> 03:01:34,376 I wanna collect the dough I wouldn't take this mornin', like a sucker, 3247 03:01:34,384 --> 03:01:36,340 before she blows it. 3248 03:01:37,637 --> 03:01:39,502 I'm comin' too. 3249 03:01:47,897 --> 03:01:50,604 I'm waitin', baby. Dig. 3250 03:01:50,608 --> 03:01:55,648 Yeah. I been expectin' you. I got it all ready. Here. 3251 03:01:55,655 --> 03:02:01,616 Jeez, imagine me kiddin' myself I wanted to marry a drunken pimp. 3252 03:02:01,619 --> 03:02:02,904 That's nothin', baby. 3253 03:02:02,912 --> 03:02:04,402 Imagine what a sap I'd have been 3254 03:02:04,414 --> 03:02:08,248 when I can get your dough just as easy without it. 3255 03:02:17,343 --> 03:02:20,176 Hello, old cemetery. 3256 03:02:20,179 --> 03:02:21,885 Hello, tightwad. 3257 03:02:21,889 --> 03:02:23,845 You still around? 3258 03:02:25,143 --> 03:02:26,599 Ask Larry. 3259 03:02:28,312 --> 03:02:31,099 He knows I'm here, all right, although he's pretending not to. 3260 03:02:33,151 --> 03:02:36,939 He'd like to forget I'm alive. 3261 03:02:36,946 --> 03:02:41,861 He's trying to kid himself with that grandstand philosopher stuff. 3262 03:02:41,868 --> 03:02:46,407 But he knows he can't get away with that now. 3263 03:02:48,082 --> 03:02:50,494 He kept himself locked up in his room until a while ago, 3264 03:02:50,501 --> 03:02:52,366 alone with a bottle of booze. 3265 03:02:52,378 --> 03:02:54,790 He couldn't make it work. He couldn't even get drunk. 3266 03:02:54,797 --> 03:02:56,753 So he had to come out. 3267 03:02:58,426 --> 03:03:01,463 There must have been something up there he was even more scared to face 3268 03:03:01,471 --> 03:03:03,427 than he is me and hickey. 3269 03:03:05,975 --> 03:03:08,261 I guess he got looking at the fire escape... 3270 03:03:12,315 --> 03:03:14,226 Thinking how handy it was if he was really sick of life 3271 03:03:14,233 --> 03:03:16,770 and only had the nerve to die. 3272 03:03:18,613 --> 03:03:20,695 And he's been thinking about me too, rocky. 3273 03:03:20,698 --> 03:03:23,235 He's gotta figure a way to get out of helping me. 3274 03:03:27,121 --> 03:03:31,114 He loved her too, so he thinks I oughta take a hop off the fire escape. 3275 03:03:37,715 --> 03:03:40,422 For god's sake, can't you say something? 3276 03:03:41,427 --> 03:03:42,883 Larry. 3277 03:03:49,227 --> 03:03:51,468 Larry? 3278 03:03:51,479 --> 03:03:53,094 Thinking of what hickey must have done 3279 03:03:53,105 --> 03:03:55,346 has got me so I don't know anymore what I did or why. 3280 03:03:57,193 --> 03:03:59,309 I can't go on like this. 3281 03:04:00,404 --> 03:04:02,315 I gotta know what I gotta do. 3282 03:04:02,323 --> 03:04:05,406 Goddamn you! Are you trying to make me your executioner? 3283 03:04:05,409 --> 03:04:06,865 Executioner. 3284 03:04:10,248 --> 03:04:13,035 - Then you think I... - I don't think anything. 3285 03:04:17,088 --> 03:04:19,955 I... I suppose you think I ought to die, huh? 3286 03:04:21,676 --> 03:04:24,258 Because I sold out a lot of loudmouthed fakers? 3287 03:04:27,974 --> 03:04:29,339 Hal 3288 03:04:29,350 --> 03:04:31,762 don't make me laugh. I oughta get a medal. 3289 03:04:35,231 --> 03:04:37,267 Oh, you old sap! 3290 03:04:37,275 --> 03:04:39,311 You must still believe in the movement. 3291 03:04:41,612 --> 03:04:43,819 Hickey's right about him, isn't he, rocky? 3292 03:04:43,823 --> 03:04:46,064 An old, no-good drunken tramp, as dumb as he is, 3293 03:04:46,075 --> 03:04:48,157 oughta take a hop off the fire escape. 3294 03:04:48,160 --> 03:04:50,572 Sure. Why don't he? 3295 03:04:50,580 --> 03:04:53,287 Or you? Or me? 3296 03:04:53,291 --> 03:04:56,658 Oh, what the hell's the difference? Who cares? 3297 03:05:01,424 --> 03:05:04,211 What am I doin' here with youse two? 3298 03:05:05,678 --> 03:05:08,636 I remember I had something on my mind to tell you. What? 3299 03:05:10,224 --> 03:05:13,307 Oh, I got it now. 3300 03:05:13,311 --> 03:05:17,975 I was thinking how you was both regular guys. 3301 03:05:17,982 --> 03:05:21,395 I'm thinking, ain't two guys like them saps 3302 03:05:21,402 --> 03:05:25,611 to be hangin' around like a couple of stew bums and wastin' themselves? 3303 03:05:26,699 --> 03:05:29,315 What do you think, parritt? 3304 03:05:29,327 --> 03:05:31,693 You ain't a bad-looking guy. 3305 03:05:31,704 --> 03:05:36,414 You could easy make some gal who's a good hustler and start a stable. 3306 03:05:36,417 --> 03:05:40,205 I'd help you and wise you up to the inside dope on the game. 3307 03:05:41,964 --> 03:05:43,829 Well, what about it? 3308 03:05:43,841 --> 03:05:46,127 What if they do call you a pimp? 3309 03:05:48,679 --> 03:05:52,092 I don't want anything to do with whores. I wish they were all in jail or dead. 3310 03:05:52,099 --> 03:05:53,930 All right. Stay a bum. 3311 03:05:55,144 --> 03:05:57,180 How 'bout you, Larry? 3312 03:05:57,188 --> 03:06:01,272 You ain't dumb. Sure, you're old. 3313 03:06:01,275 --> 03:06:05,188 But that don't matter. All the girls think you're aces. 3314 03:06:05,196 --> 03:06:08,984 They fall for you like you were their uncle or old man or somethin'. 3315 03:06:08,991 --> 03:06:11,232 They like takin' care of you. 3316 03:06:11,243 --> 03:06:14,610 And the cops around here, they like you too. 3317 03:06:14,622 --> 03:06:19,537 You wouldn't have to worry where the next drink's comin' from or wear dirty clothes. 3318 03:06:19,543 --> 03:06:22,535 Well? Don't it look good to you? 3319 03:06:22,546 --> 03:06:25,959 No, it doesn't look good, rocky. 3320 03:06:25,966 --> 03:06:28,548 I mean, the peace hickey's brought you. 3321 03:06:28,552 --> 03:06:32,295 It isn't contented enough, if you have to make a pimp of everyone else. 3322 03:06:32,306 --> 03:06:35,890 I'm a sap to waste time on you. 3323 03:06:35,893 --> 03:06:38,179 A stew bum is a stew bum. 3324 03:06:38,187 --> 03:06:42,021 Oh, like I was sayin' to Chuck, 3325 03:06:42,024 --> 03:06:46,188 if anyone asks you, you don't know nothin' about hickey, get me? 3326 03:06:46,195 --> 03:06:49,187 You never even heard he had a wife. 3327 03:06:49,198 --> 03:06:51,314 Oh, jeez. 3328 03:06:51,325 --> 03:06:54,408 We all oughta get drunk and stage a celebration 3329 03:06:54,412 --> 03:06:56,778 when that bastard goes to the chair. 3330 03:06:56,789 --> 03:07:00,907 B'god, I'll celebrate with you and drink to his long, long life in hell. 3331 03:07:02,086 --> 03:07:04,077 That poor devil. 3332 03:07:04,088 --> 03:07:06,545 Ah, that's pity. The wrong kind. 3333 03:07:06,549 --> 03:07:08,255 He'll welcome the chair. 3334 03:07:08,259 --> 03:07:11,376 Yes. What are you so damned scared about death for? 3335 03:07:13,222 --> 03:07:14,803 I don't want your lousy pity. 3336 03:07:16,308 --> 03:07:18,515 I hope he don't come back, Larry. 3337 03:07:18,519 --> 03:07:20,430 We don't know nothin' now. 3338 03:07:20,438 --> 03:07:22,975 We're only guessin', see? 3339 03:07:22,982 --> 03:07:25,439 But if that bastard keeps on talking... 3340 03:07:25,443 --> 03:07:28,731 He'll come back, and he'll keep on talking. 3341 03:07:28,738 --> 03:07:32,071 He's lost his confidence that the peace he's sold us is the real McCoy, 3342 03:07:32,074 --> 03:07:34,861 and it's made him uneasy about his own. 3343 03:07:34,869 --> 03:07:38,532 - He'll have to prove... - That's a damned lie, Larry. 3344 03:07:38,539 --> 03:07:40,871 I haven't lost confidence. 3345 03:07:40,875 --> 03:07:44,288 When I made up my mind to sell someone something I thought they oughta want, 3346 03:07:44,295 --> 03:07:46,251 I've sold 'em. 3347 03:07:46,255 --> 03:07:49,372 I mean, I don't think it's very kind of you to make that kind of a crack 3348 03:07:49,383 --> 03:07:52,591 when I've been doing my best to help. 3349 03:07:52,595 --> 03:07:54,677 Keep away from me, will ya. 3350 03:07:54,680 --> 03:07:57,342 I don't know nothin' about you, see? 3351 03:08:01,103 --> 03:08:03,059 Well, how's it coming, everybody? 3352 03:08:05,357 --> 03:08:07,188 I'm sorry I had to leave you for a while, 3353 03:08:07,193 --> 03:08:09,525 but there was something I had to get finally settled. 3354 03:08:09,528 --> 03:08:11,314 It's all fixed now. 3355 03:08:11,322 --> 03:08:15,361 When are you gonna do something about this booze, hickey? 3356 03:08:15,367 --> 03:08:19,827 We can't pass out, and you promised us peace. 3357 03:08:22,333 --> 03:08:25,700 For god's sake, Harry, are you still harping on that damned nonsense? 3358 03:08:25,711 --> 03:08:27,542 You kept it up all afternoon and night! 3359 03:08:27,546 --> 03:08:29,662 And you got everybody else singing the same crazy tune! 3360 03:08:29,673 --> 03:08:32,380 I've had about all I can stand. That's why I phoned. 3361 03:08:36,430 --> 03:08:39,638 Excuse me, boys and girls. I don't mean that. 3362 03:08:39,642 --> 03:08:43,055 It's just that I worry about you when you play dead on me like this. 3363 03:08:43,062 --> 03:08:46,270 I was hoping by the time I got back, you'd be like you ought to be. 3364 03:08:46,273 --> 03:08:48,810 I thought you were deliberately holding back on me before, when I was here, 3365 03:08:48,818 --> 03:08:50,308 because you didn't wanna give me the satisfaction 3366 03:08:50,319 --> 03:08:52,526 of showin' me that I had the right dope. 3367 03:08:52,530 --> 03:08:55,192 And I did have. I know from my own experience. 3368 03:08:55,199 --> 03:08:58,407 But I've explained that a million times. 3369 03:08:58,410 --> 03:09:00,901 And you've all done what you needed to do. 3370 03:09:00,913 --> 03:09:03,404 By rights, you should be contented with yourself 3371 03:09:03,415 --> 03:09:08,284 and free from lying hopes and nagging dreams that torment you. 3372 03:09:08,295 --> 03:09:12,789 But here you are, sitting around like a lot of stiffs cheating the undertaker! 3373 03:09:12,800 --> 03:09:14,756 I can't figure it. 3374 03:09:16,345 --> 03:09:19,462 Unless it's just your damned stubborn pigheadedness. 3375 03:09:21,517 --> 03:09:23,508 Ah, hell. 3376 03:09:23,519 --> 03:09:25,885 Don't act like this with me, gang. 3377 03:09:25,896 --> 03:09:28,387 You're my old pals, the only friends I've got. 3378 03:09:28,399 --> 03:09:32,984 You know, the one thing I want is to see you happy before I go. 3379 03:09:32,987 --> 03:09:35,148 There's damned little time left now. 3380 03:09:36,365 --> 03:09:37,946 I made a date for two o'clock. 3381 03:09:37,950 --> 03:09:41,067 So we've gotta get busy right away and find out what's wrong. 3382 03:09:43,581 --> 03:09:47,165 Can't you appreciate what you've got, for god's sake? 3383 03:09:47,167 --> 03:09:49,374 Don't you see you're free to be yourselves now 3384 03:09:49,378 --> 03:09:50,959 without feeling remorse or guilt, 3385 03:09:50,963 --> 03:09:53,921 or having to lie to yourselves about reforming tomorrow? 3386 03:09:53,924 --> 03:09:56,586 Don't you see there is no tomorrow now? 3387 03:09:56,594 --> 03:09:59,210 You're rid of it forever. You've killed it. 3388 03:09:59,221 --> 03:10:02,384 You don't have to care a damn about anything anymore. 3389 03:10:02,391 --> 03:10:06,680 You've finally got the game of life licked. Don't you see that? 3390 03:10:06,687 --> 03:10:10,054 Then why the hell don't you get drunk and sing "sweet Adeline"? 3391 03:10:10,065 --> 03:10:12,852 Why don't you laugh and celebrate and get pie-eyed? 3392 03:10:14,153 --> 03:10:15,768 Ah. 3393 03:10:17,823 --> 03:10:21,486 The only reason I can think of is you're putting on this rotten half-dead act 3394 03:10:21,493 --> 03:10:24,781 just to get back at me, 'cause you hate my guts. 3395 03:10:24,788 --> 03:10:28,201 God, don't do that, gang. 3396 03:10:28,208 --> 03:10:31,792 It makes me feel like hell to think that you hate me. 3397 03:10:31,795 --> 03:10:34,628 It makes me feel that you suspected that I hated you. 3398 03:10:34,632 --> 03:10:36,543 But that is a lie! 3399 03:10:36,550 --> 03:10:39,838 I used to hate everybody in the world that wasn't as rotten a bastard as I was. 3400 03:10:39,845 --> 03:10:42,006 But that was when I was still living in hell, 3401 03:10:42,014 --> 03:10:43,800 before I faced the truth... 3402 03:10:45,768 --> 03:10:49,181 And saw the one possible way to free poor Evelyn 3403 03:10:49,188 --> 03:10:51,645 and give her the peace that she'd always dreamed about. 3404 03:10:51,649 --> 03:10:53,514 Aw, put a bag over it! 3405 03:10:53,525 --> 03:10:56,016 To hell with Evelyn. What if she was cheatin'? 3406 03:10:56,028 --> 03:10:58,360 And who cares what you did to her? That's your funeral. 3407 03:10:58,364 --> 03:11:00,275 We don't give a damn, see? 3408 03:11:00,282 --> 03:11:04,696 All we want outta you is keep the hell away from us and give us a rest! 3409 03:11:04,703 --> 03:11:09,197 The one possible way to make up to her for all I'd made her go through, 3410 03:11:09,208 --> 03:11:12,871 and get her rid of me so I couldn't make her suffer anymore, 3411 03:11:12,878 --> 03:11:15,335 and she wouldn't have to forgive me again. 3412 03:11:17,257 --> 03:11:22,342 I saw I couldn't do it by killing myself, like I'd wanted to for a long time. 3413 03:11:22,346 --> 03:11:26,009 That would have been the last straw for her. 3414 03:11:26,016 --> 03:11:30,385 She'd have died of a broken heart to think that I could do that to her. 3415 03:11:30,396 --> 03:11:32,352 She'd have blamed herself too. 3416 03:11:33,482 --> 03:11:37,020 Or I just couldn't run away from her. 3417 03:11:37,027 --> 03:11:40,565 She'd have died of grief and humiliation if I'd done that to her. 3418 03:11:41,782 --> 03:11:44,023 She'd have thought I'd stopped loving her. 3419 03:11:47,788 --> 03:11:49,324 You see, 3420 03:11:50,457 --> 03:11:53,324 Evelyn loved me, and I loved her. 3421 03:11:55,379 --> 03:11:57,916 That was the trouble. 3422 03:11:57,923 --> 03:12:01,882 It would have been easy to find a way out if she hadn't have loved me so much. 3423 03:12:01,885 --> 03:12:03,841 Or if I hadn't have loved her. 3424 03:12:05,055 --> 03:12:08,013 But as it was, there was only one possible way. 3425 03:12:09,435 --> 03:12:10,891 I had to kill her. 3426 03:12:13,439 --> 03:12:16,727 Mad fool, can't you keep your mouth shut? 3427 03:12:17,985 --> 03:12:20,647 We may hate you for what you've done this time, 3428 03:12:20,654 --> 03:12:22,360 but we remember the old times 3429 03:12:22,364 --> 03:12:25,697 when you brought laughter and kindness here instead of death. 3430 03:12:25,701 --> 03:12:28,693 We don't wanna know things that will make us help send you to the chair! 3431 03:12:28,704 --> 03:12:31,787 Shut up! You yellow faker! Can't you face anything? 3432 03:12:31,790 --> 03:12:34,452 Wouldn't I deserve the chair too, if I'd... 3433 03:12:38,047 --> 03:12:41,335 It's worse if you kill someone and they have to go on living. 3434 03:12:43,552 --> 03:12:46,885 I'd be glad of the chair. 3435 03:12:46,889 --> 03:12:49,596 It'd wipe it out. It'd square me with myself. 3436 03:12:51,643 --> 03:12:55,056 I wish you'd get rid of that bastard, Larry. 3437 03:12:55,064 --> 03:12:58,727 I can't have him pretending there's something in common between him and me. 3438 03:13:01,070 --> 03:13:03,106 It's what's in your heart that counts. 3439 03:13:04,698 --> 03:13:08,532 There was love in my heart, not hate. 3440 03:13:08,535 --> 03:13:11,151 You're the liar! 3441 03:13:11,163 --> 03:13:13,779 I don't hate her. I couldn't! 3442 03:13:13,791 --> 03:13:16,498 And anyway, it had nothing to do with her. You ask Larry. 3443 03:13:16,502 --> 03:13:20,586 Goddamn you, stop shoving your rotten soul in my lap! 3444 03:13:20,589 --> 03:13:23,422 Don't worry about the chair, Larry. 3445 03:13:23,425 --> 03:13:26,713 I know you're still terrified by death, 3446 03:13:26,720 --> 03:13:30,304 but when you've made peace with yourself, like I have... 3447 03:13:31,600 --> 03:13:33,556 You won't give a damn. 3448 03:13:38,524 --> 03:13:41,106 Listen, everybody. I've made up my mind. 3449 03:13:41,110 --> 03:13:43,817 The only way I can clear this up for you so you'll realize 3450 03:13:43,821 --> 03:13:45,903 how contented and carefree you ought to feel, 3451 03:13:45,906 --> 03:13:48,818 now that I've made you get rid of your pipe dreams, 3452 03:13:48,826 --> 03:13:52,569 is to show you what a pipe dream did to me and Evelyn. 3453 03:13:52,579 --> 03:13:55,366 I'm certain if I tell you about it from the beginning, 3454 03:13:55,374 --> 03:13:58,992 you'll appreciate what I've done for you and why I did it 3455 03:13:59,002 --> 03:14:01,368 and how damned grateful you ought to be, 3456 03:14:01,380 --> 03:14:03,336 instead of hating me. 3457 03:14:05,384 --> 03:14:07,625 You see, even as kids, Evelyn and me... 3458 03:14:07,636 --> 03:14:11,629 All we want is to pass out and get drunk 3459 03:14:11,640 --> 03:14:14,302 and a little peace! 3460 03:14:17,271 --> 03:14:19,557 All right, if that's the way you feel. 3461 03:14:19,565 --> 03:14:21,681 I don't want to cram it down your throats. 3462 03:14:21,692 --> 03:14:23,603 I don't need to tell anyone. 3463 03:14:23,610 --> 03:14:27,649 I don't feel guilty. I'm only worried about you. 3464 03:14:28,740 --> 03:14:32,107 What did you do to this booze? 3465 03:14:32,119 --> 03:14:34,075 That's what we'd like to hear. 3466 03:14:35,581 --> 03:14:37,993 Ain't that right, Jimmy? 3467 03:14:38,000 --> 03:14:39,911 Yes. 3468 03:14:39,918 --> 03:14:42,375 Quite right. 3469 03:14:42,379 --> 03:14:46,338 It was all a stupid lie... My nonsense about tomorrow. 3470 03:14:47,843 --> 03:14:51,427 Naturally, they would never give me my position back. 3471 03:14:51,430 --> 03:14:53,842 And I would never dream of asking them. 3472 03:14:55,726 --> 03:14:59,389 I didn't resign. I was fired for drunkenness. 3473 03:15:01,023 --> 03:15:04,481 And it was absurd of me to excuse my drunkenness 3474 03:15:04,484 --> 03:15:08,272 by pretending it was my wife's adultery that ruined my life. 3475 03:15:10,115 --> 03:15:12,527 As hickey guessed, 3476 03:15:12,534 --> 03:15:15,697 I was a drunkard before that. 3477 03:15:15,704 --> 03:15:20,664 I discovered early in life that living frightened me when I was sober. 3478 03:15:23,128 --> 03:15:26,291 I've even forgotten why I married Marjorie. 3479 03:15:27,716 --> 03:15:32,335 I had some idea of wanting a home, perhaps. 3480 03:15:32,346 --> 03:15:35,884 But, of course, I much preferred the nearest pub. 3481 03:15:37,768 --> 03:15:40,760 Why Marjorie married me, god knows. 3482 03:15:42,439 --> 03:15:47,433 She soon found out that I much preferred drinking all night with my pals 3483 03:15:47,444 --> 03:15:50,106 to being at home in bed with her. 3484 03:15:51,740 --> 03:15:55,528 So, naturally, she was unfaithful. 3485 03:15:58,205 --> 03:16:01,572 And I was glad to be free, 3486 03:16:01,583 --> 03:16:06,168 even grateful to her, I think, 3487 03:16:06,171 --> 03:16:12,337 for giving me such a good, tragic excuse. 3488 03:16:18,475 --> 03:16:20,966 In the backroom if you want a drink. 3489 03:16:20,978 --> 03:16:22,684 Guy named hickman in the backroom? 3490 03:16:22,688 --> 03:16:25,771 - Think I know the names... - Listen, you. This is murder. 3491 03:16:25,774 --> 03:16:30,063 It was hickman himself phoned in and said we'd find him here around 2:00. 3492 03:16:30,070 --> 03:16:32,061 So that's who he phoned to. 3493 03:16:32,072 --> 03:16:33,778 Yeah, he's in there. 3494 03:16:33,782 --> 03:16:36,865 And if you want a confession, all you gotta do is listen. 3495 03:16:36,868 --> 03:16:39,200 You can't stop the bastard talkin'. 3496 03:16:39,204 --> 03:16:43,413 I've gotta tell you, your being this way now gets my goat. 3497 03:16:43,417 --> 03:16:45,203 And it's all wrong. 3498 03:16:45,210 --> 03:16:47,451 It puts things in my mind. 3499 03:16:47,462 --> 03:16:50,420 It makes me think that if I got balled up about you, 3500 03:16:50,424 --> 03:16:52,961 then how do I know I wasn't balled up about myself? 3501 03:16:52,968 --> 03:16:55,425 And that is just plain damned foolishness. 3502 03:16:55,429 --> 03:16:57,511 But when you know the story of me and Evelyn, 3503 03:16:57,514 --> 03:17:00,756 you'll see it was the only possible way out, for her sake. 3504 03:17:00,767 --> 03:17:03,474 Only I've gotta start way back at the beginning. 3505 03:17:03,478 --> 03:17:05,434 Otherwise, you won't understand. 3506 03:17:07,149 --> 03:17:10,266 You see, even as a kid, I was always restless. 3507 03:17:10,277 --> 03:17:12,233 I had to keep on the go. 3508 03:17:12,237 --> 03:17:15,525 You've heard the old saying that ministers' sons are sons of guns? 3509 03:17:15,532 --> 03:17:17,648 Well, that was me and then some. 3510 03:17:17,659 --> 03:17:19,775 Home was like a jail. 3511 03:17:19,786 --> 03:17:21,617 Listening to my old man whooping up hellfire 3512 03:17:21,621 --> 03:17:23,907 and scaring those hoosier suckers into shelling out their dough 3513 03:17:23,915 --> 03:17:25,780 only handed me a laugh, 3514 03:17:25,792 --> 03:17:27,703 although I gotta hand it to him, 3515 03:17:27,711 --> 03:17:30,168 the way he sold them nothing for something, 3516 03:17:30,172 --> 03:17:32,037 I guess I take after him, 3517 03:17:32,049 --> 03:17:34,131 and that's what made me a good salesman. 3518 03:17:34,134 --> 03:17:37,422 Well, like I said, home was like jail, and so was school, 3519 03:17:37,429 --> 03:17:39,670 and so was that damned hick town. 3520 03:17:39,681 --> 03:17:41,592 The only places I liked were the pool halls, 3521 03:17:41,600 --> 03:17:44,842 where I could smoke sweet caporals and mop up a couple of beers, huh? 3522 03:17:44,853 --> 03:17:47,765 Thinking I was a hell-on-wheels sport. 3523 03:17:47,773 --> 03:17:50,105 We had one hooker shop in town. 3524 03:17:50,108 --> 03:17:53,475 Of course, I liked that too. Not that I hardly ever had the entrance money. 3525 03:17:53,487 --> 03:17:56,024 My old man was a tight old bastard. 3526 03:17:56,031 --> 03:17:58,613 But I liked to sit around in the parlor and joke with the girls, 3527 03:17:58,617 --> 03:18:02,610 and they liked me too 'cause I'd kid 'em along and make 'em laugh. 3528 03:18:02,621 --> 03:18:05,488 Well, you know how a small town is. 3529 03:18:05,499 --> 03:18:07,364 Everybody got wise to me. 3530 03:18:07,376 --> 03:18:10,664 They said I was a no-good tramp. But I didn't give a damn what they said. 3531 03:18:10,670 --> 03:18:12,661 I hated everybody in the place. 3532 03:18:12,672 --> 03:18:14,958 That is, except Evelyn. 3533 03:18:14,966 --> 03:18:18,129 And I loved Evelyn, even as a kid. 3534 03:18:18,136 --> 03:18:19,797 And Evelyn loved me. 3535 03:18:22,391 --> 03:18:25,554 Larry, I loved mother, no matter what she did. I still do. 3536 03:18:25,560 --> 03:18:27,676 Yes, sir, as far back as I can remember, 3537 03:18:27,687 --> 03:18:30,474 Evelyn and I loved each other. 3538 03:18:30,482 --> 03:18:32,689 She always stood up for me. 3539 03:18:32,692 --> 03:18:36,435 She wouldn't believe the gossip, or she pretended she wouldn't. 3540 03:18:36,446 --> 03:18:40,109 No one could convince her that I was no good. 3541 03:18:40,117 --> 03:18:43,905 Evelyn was stubborn as hell once she'd made up her mind. 3542 03:18:43,912 --> 03:18:48,906 Even when I'd admit things and ask her forgiveness, 3543 03:18:48,917 --> 03:18:52,785 she'd make excuses for me and defend me against myself. 3544 03:18:53,964 --> 03:18:56,000 And she'd kiss me 3545 03:18:56,007 --> 03:18:58,248 and she'd say she knew that I wouldn't do it again. 3546 03:18:58,260 --> 03:19:00,546 I said that I wouldn't, and I'd promise... 3547 03:19:00,554 --> 03:19:02,920 I'd have to promise. 3548 03:19:02,931 --> 03:19:06,970 She was so damn sweet and good. 3549 03:19:06,977 --> 03:19:08,933 Yet I knew darned well... 3550 03:19:10,230 --> 03:19:13,097 No, sir, you couldn't stop Evelyn! 3551 03:19:13,108 --> 03:19:16,692 Nothing on earth could shake her faith in me. Even I couldn't. 3552 03:19:18,155 --> 03:19:20,737 She was a sucker for a pipe dream. 3553 03:19:23,452 --> 03:19:27,946 Well, naturally, her family forbid her seeing me. 3554 03:19:27,956 --> 03:19:31,869 They were one of the town's best, rich for that hick burg. 3555 03:19:31,877 --> 03:19:34,414 They owned the trolley line and the lumber company. 3556 03:19:34,421 --> 03:19:36,002 Strict methodists too. 3557 03:19:36,006 --> 03:19:39,498 Oh, did they hate my guts. 3558 03:19:39,509 --> 03:19:42,546 Even they couldn't stop Evelyn. 3559 03:19:42,554 --> 03:19:46,797 She'd sneak notes to me, and we'd meet on the side. 3560 03:19:46,808 --> 03:19:48,764 But I was getting more restless, 3561 03:19:50,145 --> 03:19:53,182 and the town was getting more like a jail. 3562 03:19:53,190 --> 03:19:55,351 I made up my mind to beat it. 3563 03:19:55,358 --> 03:19:58,395 I knew exactly what I wanted to be by that time. 3564 03:19:58,403 --> 03:20:01,145 I'd met a lot of drummers around the hotel, and I liked them. 3565 03:20:01,156 --> 03:20:03,067 They were always telling jokes, huh? 3566 03:20:03,074 --> 03:20:06,862 They were sports. Always on the move. I liked their life. 3567 03:20:06,870 --> 03:20:09,953 And I knew I could kid people and sell things. 3568 03:20:09,956 --> 03:20:14,120 The hitch was how to get the railroad fare to the big town. 3569 03:20:16,087 --> 03:20:20,171 Well, I told Mollie Arlington my trouble. 3570 03:20:20,175 --> 03:20:22,257 She was the madam of the cathouse. 3571 03:20:22,260 --> 03:20:23,966 She liked me. 3572 03:20:23,970 --> 03:20:26,837 She laughed and she said, "hell, I'll stake you, kid. I'll bet on you. 3573 03:20:26,848 --> 03:20:28,884 With that grin of yours and that line of bull, 3574 03:20:28,892 --> 03:20:32,134 you oughta be able to sell skunks for good ratters." 3575 03:20:32,145 --> 03:20:34,101 Yeah, Mollie was all right. 3576 03:20:35,690 --> 03:20:38,022 She made me feel confident in myself. 3577 03:20:39,486 --> 03:20:42,728 Well, I paid her back too... First money I earned. 3578 03:20:42,739 --> 03:20:46,231 I remember sending her a kidding letter saying that I was peddling baby carriages, 3579 03:20:46,243 --> 03:20:48,859 and she and the girls had better get in on our bargain offer. 3580 03:20:48,870 --> 03:20:50,030 Ho-ho-ho-ho! 3581 03:20:52,457 --> 03:20:54,413 That's getting ahead of my story. 3582 03:20:57,379 --> 03:20:59,540 That last night before I left town... 3583 03:21:01,299 --> 03:21:03,255 I had a date with Evelyn. 3584 03:21:04,553 --> 03:21:07,420 I got all worked up. 3585 03:21:07,430 --> 03:21:10,012 She was so pretty and sweet and good. 3586 03:21:11,268 --> 03:21:13,304 I told her straight. 3587 03:21:13,311 --> 03:21:17,270 I said, "you better forget me, Evelyn, for your own sake. 3588 03:21:17,274 --> 03:21:19,856 I'm no good, and I never will be." 3589 03:21:21,820 --> 03:21:23,776 And I broke down and cried. 3590 03:21:25,407 --> 03:21:28,695 And she just said, looking white and scared, 3591 03:21:28,702 --> 03:21:30,863 "why, Teddy, don't you still love me?" 3592 03:21:32,455 --> 03:21:34,946 And I said, "love you? 3593 03:21:34,958 --> 03:21:38,746 God, Evelyn, I love you more than anything in the world, and I always will." 3594 03:21:40,171 --> 03:21:42,457 And she said, 3595 03:21:42,465 --> 03:21:44,421 "then nothing matters, Teddy. 3596 03:21:47,304 --> 03:21:50,762 Because nothing but death can stop my loving you. 3597 03:21:52,225 --> 03:21:55,183 So when you're ready, you send for me, and we'll be married. 3598 03:21:57,397 --> 03:22:01,481 And I know I can make you happy, Teddy, and when you're happy, 3599 03:22:01,484 --> 03:22:05,102 you won't want to do any of those bad things you've done anymore." 3600 03:22:07,115 --> 03:22:10,357 And I said, "of course I won't, Evelyn." 3601 03:22:10,368 --> 03:22:12,404 And I meant it. 3602 03:22:12,412 --> 03:22:14,368 I believed it. 3603 03:22:16,833 --> 03:22:20,075 I loved her so much, she could make me believe anything. 3604 03:22:20,086 --> 03:22:24,830 You married her, you caught her cheating with the iceman, 3605 03:22:24,841 --> 03:22:26,923 and you croaked her. 3606 03:22:26,926 --> 03:22:29,838 All we want is to pass out in peace, b'jeez! 3607 03:22:30,972 --> 03:22:32,883 So I beat it to the big town. 3608 03:22:32,891 --> 03:22:35,928 I got a job easy. It was a cinch for me to make good. 3609 03:22:35,935 --> 03:22:38,847 I had the knack. It was like a game, sizing people up quick, 3610 03:22:38,855 --> 03:22:40,595 spotting what their pet pipe dreams were, 3611 03:22:40,607 --> 03:22:42,268 and then kidding them along that line, 3612 03:22:42,275 --> 03:22:45,233 pretending you believed what they wanted to believe about themselves. 3613 03:22:45,236 --> 03:22:47,101 Then they liked you, they trusted you, 3614 03:22:47,113 --> 03:22:49,354 they wanted to buy something to show their gratitude. 3615 03:22:49,366 --> 03:22:51,197 It was fun. 3616 03:22:51,201 --> 03:22:53,908 But still, all the while, I felt guilty, 3617 03:22:53,912 --> 03:22:57,746 as though I shouldn't be having such a good time away from Evelyn. 3618 03:22:57,749 --> 03:23:00,957 In each of my letters, I'd tell her how I missed her, but I'd warn her too. 3619 03:23:00,960 --> 03:23:02,450 I'd tell her about my faults, 3620 03:23:02,462 --> 03:23:05,420 how I liked my booze every now and then and so on. 3621 03:23:05,423 --> 03:23:07,789 But you couldn't shake Evelyn's belief in me 3622 03:23:07,801 --> 03:23:10,508 or her dreams about the future. 3623 03:23:10,512 --> 03:23:12,924 And then after each one of her letters, 3624 03:23:12,931 --> 03:23:15,513 I'd be as full of faith as she was. 3625 03:23:15,517 --> 03:23:20,307 So when I got enough saved to start us off, I sent for her, and we got married. 3626 03:23:20,313 --> 03:23:23,055 Christ, wasn't I happy for a while! 3627 03:23:23,066 --> 03:23:24,647 And wasn't she happy. 3628 03:23:24,651 --> 03:23:26,437 I don't care what anybody says. 3629 03:23:26,444 --> 03:23:29,607 I'll bet there were never two people who loved each other more than me and Evelyn. 3630 03:23:29,614 --> 03:23:31,696 Not only then, but ever afterwards. 3631 03:23:31,700 --> 03:23:33,861 In spite of everything I did. 3632 03:23:33,868 --> 03:23:35,779 Well, it's all there, at the start... 3633 03:23:35,787 --> 03:23:38,244 Everything that happened afterwards. 3634 03:23:38,248 --> 03:23:40,409 I never could learn to handle temptation. 3635 03:23:40,417 --> 03:23:41,998 I'd want to reform and mean it. 3636 03:23:42,001 --> 03:23:45,038 I'd promise her, and I'd promise myself, and I'd believe it. 3637 03:23:45,046 --> 03:23:48,038 I'd even tell her, "it's the last time, Evelyn." 3638 03:23:48,049 --> 03:23:51,837 And she'd say, "I know it's the last time, Teddy. You'll never do it again." 3639 03:23:51,845 --> 03:23:54,131 And that's what made it so hard. 3640 03:23:54,139 --> 03:23:56,721 That's what made me feel like such a rotten skunk... 3641 03:23:56,725 --> 03:23:58,966 Her always forgiving me. 3642 03:23:58,977 --> 03:24:00,717 My playing around with women, for instance. 3643 03:24:00,729 --> 03:24:03,345 It was just a harmless good time to me. It didn't mean anything. 3644 03:24:03,356 --> 03:24:05,267 But I'd know what it meant to her. 3645 03:24:05,275 --> 03:24:08,017 So I'd swear to myself, never again. 3646 03:24:08,027 --> 03:24:11,815 But you know how it is, traveling around. Those damn hotel rooms. 3647 03:24:11,823 --> 03:24:13,939 You'd get to seeing things in the wallpaper. 3648 03:24:13,950 --> 03:24:17,534 I'd get so damned bored, so lonely and homesick. 3649 03:24:17,537 --> 03:24:20,153 But at the same time, sick of home. 3650 03:24:20,165 --> 03:24:23,453 I'd feel free. I'd want to celebrate a little. 3651 03:24:23,460 --> 03:24:27,169 Well, I never drank on the job, so it had to be dames. Any tart. 3652 03:24:27,172 --> 03:24:31,290 What I'd want was some tramp that I could be myself with without being ashamed, 3653 03:24:31,301 --> 03:24:33,883 someone I could tell a dirty joke to, and she'd laugh. 3654 03:24:33,887 --> 03:24:36,344 Jeez! 3655 03:24:36,347 --> 03:24:40,431 All the lousy jokes I've had to listen to and pretend was funny. 3656 03:24:40,435 --> 03:24:45,225 Sometimes I'd try a joke that I thought was a real corker on Evelyn. 3657 03:24:45,231 --> 03:24:48,268 She'd always make herself laugh. 3658 03:24:48,276 --> 03:24:52,110 But I could tell she thought it was dirty and not funny. 3659 03:24:52,113 --> 03:24:56,197 She always knew about the tarts that I'd been with when I came home from a trip. 3660 03:24:56,201 --> 03:24:59,159 She'd kiss me and look in my eyes, and she'd know. 3661 03:25:00,497 --> 03:25:03,580 And I could see in her eyes her not wanting to know. 3662 03:25:03,583 --> 03:25:06,666 And telling herself, even if it is true, he can't help it. 3663 03:25:06,669 --> 03:25:09,376 They tempt him. He's lonely. He hasn't got me. 3664 03:25:09,380 --> 03:25:12,167 It's only his body. He doesn't love them. I'm the only one he loves. 3665 03:25:12,175 --> 03:25:14,257 And she was right too! 3666 03:25:16,179 --> 03:25:18,135 Couldn't if I wanted to. 3667 03:25:20,308 --> 03:25:24,392 She forgave me even when it all had to come out in the open. 3668 03:25:24,395 --> 03:25:27,387 You know how it is when you keep taking chances. 3669 03:25:27,398 --> 03:25:31,983 You may be lucky for a long time, but you get nicked in the end. 3670 03:25:31,986 --> 03:25:34,352 I picked up a nail from some tart in altoona. 3671 03:25:34,364 --> 03:25:37,527 Yeah, and she picked it up from some guy. 3672 03:25:37,534 --> 03:25:39,399 It's all in the game. 3673 03:25:39,410 --> 03:25:43,198 I had to do a lot of lying and stalling when I got home, 3674 03:25:43,206 --> 03:25:45,822 but it didn't do any good. 3675 03:25:45,834 --> 03:25:48,792 The quack I went to got all my dough. 3676 03:25:48,795 --> 03:25:51,832 And he told me I was cured, and I believed him. 3677 03:25:53,007 --> 03:25:55,373 But I wasn't. 3678 03:25:55,385 --> 03:25:57,592 And poor Evelyn. 3679 03:25:57,595 --> 03:26:00,632 But she did her best to make me believe that she fell for my lie 3680 03:26:00,640 --> 03:26:03,131 about how traveling men get things 3681 03:26:03,142 --> 03:26:06,930 from drinking cups... on trains. 3682 03:26:10,149 --> 03:26:12,936 Anyway, she forgave me, 3683 03:26:12,944 --> 03:26:17,438 the same way she forgave me every time I'd show up after a periodical drunk! 3684 03:26:19,075 --> 03:26:22,533 And you all know what I look like after one of those. You saw me. 3685 03:26:22,537 --> 03:26:26,530 Like something lying in the gutter that no alley cat would lower himself to drag in, 3686 03:26:26,541 --> 03:26:30,204 something they threw out of the dt ward at bellevue along with the garbage, 3687 03:26:30,211 --> 03:26:32,167 something that should be dead... 3688 03:26:34,465 --> 03:26:35,921 But isn't. 3689 03:26:46,185 --> 03:26:49,052 Evelyn wouldn't have heard from me in a month or more. 3690 03:26:50,773 --> 03:26:52,764 She'd been waiting there alone... 3691 03:26:54,652 --> 03:26:58,361 With the neighbors feeling sorry for her out loud and shaking their heads. 3692 03:27:00,825 --> 03:27:03,862 That was until she got me to move to the outskirts... 3693 03:27:05,038 --> 03:27:07,950 Where there weren't any next-door neighbors. 3694 03:27:11,628 --> 03:27:13,414 Then the door would open. 3695 03:27:15,006 --> 03:27:16,712 In I'd stumble... 3696 03:27:18,843 --> 03:27:21,004 Looking like what I just said... 3697 03:27:22,847 --> 03:27:26,715 Into her home, which she always kept so spotless and clean. 3698 03:27:27,977 --> 03:27:31,060 And I'd sworn it would never happen again! 3699 03:27:31,064 --> 03:27:34,682 And now I'd have to start swearing again that this was the last time! 3700 03:27:34,692 --> 03:27:38,651 I could see disgust having a battle in her eyes with love. 3701 03:27:38,655 --> 03:27:40,771 But love always won. 3702 03:27:43,409 --> 03:27:47,152 She'd make herself kiss me... 3703 03:27:50,625 --> 03:27:52,581 As though nothing had happened... 3704 03:27:55,546 --> 03:27:58,413 As though I'd just come home from a business trip. 3705 03:28:01,302 --> 03:28:03,634 She'd never complain or bawl me out. 3706 03:28:06,182 --> 03:28:09,720 Christ, can you imagine what a guilty skunk she made me feel! 3707 03:28:09,727 --> 03:28:12,639 If only once she admitted that her pipe dream about tomorrow 3708 03:28:12,647 --> 03:28:15,184 and my behaving myself would never be any good, 3709 03:28:15,191 --> 03:28:17,728 but she wouldn't! 3710 03:28:17,735 --> 03:28:20,192 She was stubborn as hell. 3711 03:28:20,196 --> 03:28:22,278 Once she'd set her mind on anything, 3712 03:28:22,281 --> 03:28:26,650 you couldn't shake her faith that it had to come through tomorrow! 3713 03:28:31,290 --> 03:28:33,997 Well, it was the same old story 3714 03:28:34,002 --> 03:28:36,960 over and over, for years and years. 3715 03:28:38,631 --> 03:28:43,295 It kept piling up, inside her and inside me. 3716 03:28:43,302 --> 03:28:45,793 God, can you picture what I made her suffer, 3717 03:28:45,805 --> 03:28:48,091 and all the guilt that she made me feel, 3718 03:28:48,099 --> 03:28:51,466 and how I hated myself? 3719 03:28:51,477 --> 03:28:55,345 If she only hadn't been so damned good, 3720 03:28:55,356 --> 03:28:58,894 if she'd have been the same kind of wife that I was a husband. 3721 03:28:58,901 --> 03:29:01,392 God, sometimes I used to pray that she'd... 3722 03:29:03,322 --> 03:29:06,314 I'd even say to her, "go on, why don't you, Evelyn? 3723 03:29:06,325 --> 03:29:09,192 It'd serve me right. I wouldn't mind. I'd forgive you." 3724 03:29:10,663 --> 03:29:13,575 Of course, I'd pretend I was kidding, 3725 03:29:13,583 --> 03:29:18,247 the same way I used to joke here about her being in the hay with the iceman. 3726 03:29:18,254 --> 03:29:21,121 She'd have felt so hurt if I said it seriously. 3727 03:29:22,550 --> 03:29:25,838 She'd have thought I stopped loving her. 3728 03:29:25,845 --> 03:29:28,928 Ah! I suppose you think I'm a liar, 3729 03:29:28,931 --> 03:29:32,799 that no woman could have stood all she stood and still loved me so much, 3730 03:29:32,810 --> 03:29:35,597 that it isn't human for a woman to be so pitying and forgiving. 3731 03:29:35,605 --> 03:29:37,971 Well, I am not lying, 3732 03:29:37,982 --> 03:29:41,349 and if you'd ever seen her, you'd realize that I wasn't. 3733 03:29:42,570 --> 03:29:45,232 It was written all over her face... 3734 03:29:45,239 --> 03:29:48,322 Sweetness, love, pity, forgiveness. 3735 03:29:49,911 --> 03:29:53,074 Wait. I'll show you. I always carry her picture. 3736 03:30:02,340 --> 03:30:05,002 No, I'm forgetting. 3737 03:30:05,009 --> 03:30:08,001 I tore it up afterwards. 3738 03:30:08,012 --> 03:30:10,719 I didn't need it anymore. 3739 03:30:11,849 --> 03:30:14,556 Jeez, hickey, jeez! 3740 03:30:14,560 --> 03:30:17,051 I burnt up mother's picture, Larry. 3741 03:30:17,063 --> 03:30:19,179 Her eyes kept following me around all the time. 3742 03:30:19,190 --> 03:30:21,272 They seemed to be wishing I was dead. 3743 03:30:21,275 --> 03:30:23,311 It kept piling up, like I said. 3744 03:30:25,279 --> 03:30:27,611 I got so I thought about it all the time. 3745 03:30:27,615 --> 03:30:30,982 And I hated myself more and more, thinking of all the wrong I'd done 3746 03:30:30,993 --> 03:30:33,826 to the sweetest woman in the world that loved me so much. 3747 03:30:33,830 --> 03:30:35,991 It even got so I'd curse myself for a lousy bastard 3748 03:30:35,998 --> 03:30:38,410 every time I saw myself in the mirror. 3749 03:30:38,417 --> 03:30:41,909 I felt such pity for her, it drove me crazy. 3750 03:30:41,921 --> 03:30:43,627 You'd never believe it, would you, Larry? 3751 03:30:43,631 --> 03:30:46,998 A guy like me, that's knocked around so much, could feel such pity. 3752 03:30:50,263 --> 03:30:56,008 It got so every night I'd... wind up hiding my face in her lap, 3753 03:30:57,019 --> 03:30:59,135 bawling and begging for forgiveness. 3754 03:31:00,648 --> 03:31:03,481 Of course, she'd always comfort me and say, 3755 03:31:03,484 --> 03:31:05,850 "never mind, Teddy. 3756 03:31:05,862 --> 03:31:08,103 I know you won't ever again.” 3757 03:31:10,241 --> 03:31:12,197 Christ, I loved her so. 3758 03:31:14,954 --> 03:31:17,536 But I began to hate that pipe dream! 3759 03:31:19,208 --> 03:31:21,369 I was beginning to think I was going bughouse, 3760 03:31:21,377 --> 03:31:25,336 because sometimes I couldn't forgive her for forgiving me! 3761 03:31:25,339 --> 03:31:28,877 I even caught myself hating her for making me hate myself so much! 3762 03:31:28,885 --> 03:31:32,423 There's a limit to the guilt you can feel and the forgiveness and pity you can take! 3763 03:31:32,430 --> 03:31:35,217 You have to begin blaming somebody else too! 3764 03:31:37,059 --> 03:31:41,473 It got so sometimes when she'd kiss me... 3765 03:31:43,441 --> 03:31:46,478 It was like she was doing it on purpose 3766 03:31:46,485 --> 03:31:48,225 to humiliate me, 3767 03:31:49,822 --> 03:31:52,859 as if she'd spit in my face! 3768 03:31:52,867 --> 03:31:56,576 Well, I saw how crazy and rotten that was of me, 3769 03:31:56,579 --> 03:31:59,366 and I just hated myself more and more! 3770 03:32:01,250 --> 03:32:04,583 You'd never believe that I could hate so much. 3771 03:32:04,587 --> 03:32:06,623 Huh, Larry? 3772 03:32:06,631 --> 03:32:10,795 A good-natured, happy-go-lucky slob like me. 3773 03:32:14,472 --> 03:32:16,963 As the time got nearer when I was due to come here for my drunk 3774 03:32:16,974 --> 03:32:18,430 around Harry's birthday, 3775 03:32:19,352 --> 03:32:21,638 I got nearly crazy. 3776 03:32:21,646 --> 03:32:24,604 I kept swearing to her every night that this time I really wouldn't, 3777 03:32:24,607 --> 03:32:28,350 until I'd made it a real final test to myself and to her. 3778 03:32:28,361 --> 03:32:30,192 She kept encouraging me and saying, 3779 03:32:30,196 --> 03:32:32,107 "I can see you really mean it now, Teddy. 3780 03:32:32,114 --> 03:32:36,153 I know you'll conquer it this time, and we'll be so happy." 3781 03:32:36,160 --> 03:32:38,902 And when she'd say that and kiss me... 3782 03:32:41,374 --> 03:32:43,330 I'd believe it too. 3783 03:32:45,294 --> 03:32:48,081 Then she'd go to bed, 3784 03:32:48,089 --> 03:32:51,047 and I'd stay up 'cause I couldn't sleep 3785 03:32:51,050 --> 03:32:54,508 and I didn't want to disturb her, rolling and twisting around. 3786 03:32:54,512 --> 03:32:56,468 I'd get so damned lonely. 3787 03:32:58,099 --> 03:33:01,512 I'd get to thinking how peaceful it was here, 3788 03:33:01,519 --> 03:33:03,350 sittin' around with the old gang, gettin' drunk, 3789 03:33:03,354 --> 03:33:05,094 and forgetting about love. 3790 03:33:05,106 --> 03:33:07,643 Laughing and singing and joking, swapping lies. 3791 03:33:09,443 --> 03:33:12,435 And finally I knew I had to come. 3792 03:33:14,532 --> 03:33:18,024 And I knew if I came this time, it would be the finish! 3793 03:33:18,035 --> 03:33:21,448 'Cause I'd never have the guts to go back and be forgiven again, 3794 03:33:21,455 --> 03:33:24,947 and that would break Evelyn's heart 3795 03:33:24,959 --> 03:33:26,790 because to her that would mean 3796 03:33:28,254 --> 03:33:30,290 I didn't love her anymore. 3797 03:33:33,926 --> 03:33:38,886 That last night I'd driven myself crazy trying to figure a way out for her. 3798 03:33:40,725 --> 03:33:42,681 I went into the bedroom. 3799 03:33:43,853 --> 03:33:46,185 I was going to tell her it was the end. 3800 03:33:47,106 --> 03:33:50,348 But I couldn't do that to her. 3801 03:33:50,359 --> 03:33:53,021 She was sound asleep. 3802 03:33:53,029 --> 03:33:57,989 And I thought, god, if only she'd never wake up, she'd never know. 3803 03:34:00,870 --> 03:34:03,703 And then it came to me... 3804 03:34:03,706 --> 03:34:06,493 The one possible way out, for her sake. 3805 03:34:09,837 --> 03:34:13,125 I remembered I'd given her a gun for protection while I was away. 3806 03:34:15,134 --> 03:34:17,090 It was in the bureau drawer. 3807 03:34:19,388 --> 03:34:22,300 She'd never feel any pain. 3808 03:34:22,308 --> 03:34:24,549 She'd never wake up from her dream. 3809 03:34:26,771 --> 03:34:28,227 So I... 3810 03:34:31,108 --> 03:34:33,599 So I killed her. 3811 03:34:33,611 --> 03:34:35,977 I may as well confess, Larry. 3812 03:34:37,031 --> 03:34:38,817 There's no use lying anymore. 3813 03:34:38,824 --> 03:34:40,780 You know anyway. 3814 03:34:42,328 --> 03:34:44,410 I didn't give a damn about the money. 3815 03:34:44,413 --> 03:34:47,246 It was because I hated her. 3816 03:34:49,001 --> 03:34:51,993 And then I saw that I'd always known that was the only possible way 3817 03:34:52,004 --> 03:34:56,247 to give her peace and free her from the misery of loving me. 3818 03:34:56,258 --> 03:34:59,967 I saw it meant peace for me, too, knowing she was at peace. 3819 03:34:59,970 --> 03:35:03,588 I felt as though a ton of guilt was lifted off my mind. 3820 03:35:03,599 --> 03:35:06,682 I remember I stood by the bed and suddenly I had to laugh. 3821 03:35:06,685 --> 03:35:08,266 I couldn't help it. 3822 03:35:08,270 --> 03:35:10,261 And I knew Evelyn would forgive me. 3823 03:35:10,272 --> 03:35:12,263 I remember I'd heard myself speaking to her, 3824 03:35:12,274 --> 03:35:15,311 as though it was something I'd always wanted to say. 3825 03:35:15,319 --> 03:35:18,652 "Well, you know what you can do with your pipe dream now, 3826 03:35:18,656 --> 03:35:20,817 you damned bitch!" 3827 03:35:30,501 --> 03:35:32,833 - No. I never... - Yes. Yes, that's it! 3828 03:35:32,837 --> 03:35:35,123 Her and that damned movement pipe dream! Huh, Larry? 3829 03:35:35,131 --> 03:35:38,498 No, that's a lie! Good god, I could have never said that! 3830 03:35:38,509 --> 03:35:40,591 If I had, I'd have gone insane! 3831 03:35:40,594 --> 03:35:44,086 Why, I loved Evelyn better than anything in life! 3832 03:35:44,098 --> 03:35:47,386 Boys, you're my old pals! You've known old hickey for years. 3833 03:35:47,393 --> 03:35:49,258 You know that I could never... 3834 03:35:49,270 --> 03:35:50,976 Harry! 3835 03:35:50,980 --> 03:35:53,141 Harry, you've known me longer than anybody else. 3836 03:35:53,149 --> 03:35:56,312 You know that I must have been insane, don't you, governor? 3837 03:35:56,318 --> 03:35:58,274 Who the hell cares? 3838 03:35:59,572 --> 03:36:03,281 Insane? You mean, you went really insane? 3839 03:36:03,284 --> 03:36:05,070 Yes! Or I couldn't have laughed! 3840 03:36:05,077 --> 03:36:06,908 I couldn't have said that to her! 3841 03:36:06,912 --> 03:36:10,746 That's enough, hickman. You know who we are. You're under arrest. 3842 03:36:10,749 --> 03:36:13,741 Come along and spill your guts where we can get it on... 3843 03:36:13,752 --> 03:36:15,083 You owe me a break! 3844 03:36:15,087 --> 03:36:17,499 I phoned and made it easy for you, didn't I? Just a few minutes! 3845 03:36:17,506 --> 03:36:20,498 Harry, you know I couldn't have said that to Evelyn, don't you? Unless... 3846 03:36:20,509 --> 03:36:23,251 And you've been crazy ever since? 3847 03:36:23,262 --> 03:36:25,173 Everything you've said and done here... 3848 03:36:25,181 --> 03:36:27,888 Now, governor, up to your old tricks, eh? 3849 03:36:27,892 --> 03:36:29,632 I see what you're driving at, but I c... 3850 03:36:47,203 --> 03:36:49,194 Yes, of course, Harry. 3851 03:36:49,205 --> 03:36:51,912 I've been out of my mind ever since. Ever since I've been here. 3852 03:36:51,916 --> 03:36:54,123 You saw I was insane, didn't you? 3853 03:36:54,126 --> 03:36:57,209 Can it! I've had enough of your act. Save it for the jury. 3854 03:36:57,213 --> 03:36:59,750 Now, listen, you guys. Don't fall for his lies. 3855 03:36:59,757 --> 03:37:02,248 He's starting to get foxy now and thinks he'll plead insanity. 3856 03:37:02,259 --> 03:37:03,465 But he can't get away with that. 3857 03:37:03,469 --> 03:37:06,552 B'jeez, you dumb dick. 3858 03:37:09,266 --> 03:37:10,972 We've known him for years, 3859 03:37:10,976 --> 03:37:14,639 and every one of us noticed he was nutty the minute he showed up here. 3860 03:37:14,647 --> 03:37:17,229 If you'd seen the damned fool things he made us do. 3861 03:37:17,233 --> 03:37:19,315 We only did them because we... 3862 03:37:19,318 --> 03:37:23,482 Because we hoped he'd come out of it if we kidded him along and humored him. 3863 03:37:23,489 --> 03:37:26,151 Ain't that right, fellas? 3864 03:37:26,158 --> 03:37:28,695 A fine bunch of rats! 3865 03:37:28,702 --> 03:37:31,239 Covering up for a dirty, cold-blooded murderer. 3866 03:37:31,247 --> 03:37:33,784 Is that so? 3867 03:37:33,791 --> 03:37:36,282 B'jeez, you know the old story. 3868 03:37:36,293 --> 03:37:39,501 When Saint Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland, 3869 03:37:39,505 --> 03:37:42,212 they swam to New York and joined the police force. 3870 03:37:45,135 --> 03:37:47,797 You stand up for your rights, b'jeez, hickey. 3871 03:37:47,805 --> 03:37:50,296 I've still got friends at the hall. 3872 03:37:50,307 --> 03:37:53,595 I'll have this guy back in uniform, pounding a beat 3873 03:37:53,602 --> 03:37:57,220 where the only graft he'll get will be stealing tin cans from the goats. 3874 03:37:58,774 --> 03:38:04,235 Listen, you cockeyed old bum, for a plugged nickel, I'd... 3875 03:38:04,238 --> 03:38:06,604 - Come on, you... - Oh, I want to go, officer. 3876 03:38:06,615 --> 03:38:10,449 I can hardly wait now. I should've phoned you from the house right afterwards. 3877 03:38:10,452 --> 03:38:12,659 It was a waste of time coming here. 3878 03:38:12,663 --> 03:38:15,075 I've gotta explain to Evelyn, but I know she's forgiven me. 3879 03:38:15,082 --> 03:38:18,700 She knows I was insane. You've got me all wrong, officer. 3880 03:38:18,711 --> 03:38:20,417 I want to go to the chair. 3881 03:38:20,421 --> 03:38:22,503 Crap! 3882 03:38:22,506 --> 03:38:24,588 God, you're a dumb dick. 3883 03:38:24,592 --> 03:38:27,584 Do you suppose I give a damn about life now? 3884 03:38:27,595 --> 03:38:29,586 Why, you bonehead. 3885 03:38:29,597 --> 03:38:33,556 I haven't got a single damned lying hope or pipe dream left. 3886 03:38:39,898 --> 03:38:41,604 Don't worry, hickey! 3887 03:38:41,609 --> 03:38:43,895 They can't give you the chair! 3888 03:38:43,902 --> 03:38:48,020 We'll testify you was crazy! Won't we, fellas? 3889 03:38:52,077 --> 03:38:54,819 Jesus, he's gone. 3890 03:38:54,830 --> 03:38:56,991 Poor crazy son of a bitch. 3891 03:38:58,334 --> 03:39:01,167 Well, b'jeez, I need a drink. 3892 03:39:01,170 --> 03:39:03,752 Maybe it'll have the old kick now he's gone. 3893 03:39:05,341 --> 03:39:07,127 Yeah, boss. 3894 03:39:07,134 --> 03:39:09,295 Maybe we can get drunk now. 3895 03:39:19,021 --> 03:39:22,354 May the chair bring him peace at last, 3896 03:39:22,358 --> 03:39:24,724 the poor tortured bastard. 3897 03:39:26,987 --> 03:39:29,774 Yes, but he isn't the only one who needs peace, Larry. 3898 03:39:33,702 --> 03:39:35,658 I can't feel sorry for him. 3899 03:39:36,622 --> 03:39:39,034 He's lucky. 3900 03:39:39,041 --> 03:39:41,202 He's through now. It's all decided for him. 3901 03:39:46,173 --> 03:39:48,585 I wish it was decided for me. 3902 03:39:48,592 --> 03:39:52,255 I've never been any good at deciding things, 3903 03:39:52,262 --> 03:39:54,127 even about selling out. 3904 03:39:54,139 --> 03:39:58,553 It was the tart that the detective agency got after me that put it in my mind. 3905 03:40:00,688 --> 03:40:02,644 You remember what mother's like, Larry. 3906 03:40:05,067 --> 03:40:08,605 She always decided what I must do. She made all the decisions for me. 3907 03:40:10,823 --> 03:40:13,360 She doesn't like anyone but herself to be free. 3908 03:40:21,125 --> 03:40:25,084 I suppose you think I ought to have made those dicks take me away with hickey. 3909 03:40:28,048 --> 03:40:30,004 How could I prove it, Larry? Huh? 3910 03:40:33,804 --> 03:40:36,386 They'd think I was nutty 'cause she's still alive. 3911 03:40:40,561 --> 03:40:43,724 You're the only one who can understand how guilty I am, 3912 03:40:43,731 --> 03:40:46,518 'cause you know her and what I've done to her. 3913 03:40:46,525 --> 03:40:50,188 You're the only one who can understand that I'm much guiltier than he is. 3914 03:40:51,697 --> 03:40:54,154 That what I did is much worse than murder because she's dead, 3915 03:40:54,158 --> 03:40:56,114 and yet she has to live. 3916 03:40:57,828 --> 03:41:00,160 For a little while. 3917 03:41:00,164 --> 03:41:03,247 She can't live long in jail. 3918 03:41:03,250 --> 03:41:05,411 She loves her freedom too much. 3919 03:41:11,008 --> 03:41:13,294 I can't kid myself like hickey... 3920 03:41:15,304 --> 03:41:17,260 That she's at peace. 3921 03:41:22,269 --> 03:41:24,760 As long as she lives, 3922 03:41:24,772 --> 03:41:29,266 she'll never be able to forget what I've done to her, not even in her sleep. 3923 03:41:30,986 --> 03:41:33,022 She'll never have a second's peace. 3924 03:41:44,500 --> 03:41:46,456 Jesus, Larry, say something. 3925 03:41:51,215 --> 03:41:53,331 I'm not bluffing either, 3926 03:41:53,342 --> 03:41:55,799 that I was crazy afterwards 3927 03:41:55,803 --> 03:41:57,885 when I laughed and thought to myself, 3928 03:41:57,888 --> 03:42:00,595 "you know what you can do with your freedom pipe dream now, 3929 03:42:00,599 --> 03:42:02,510 don't you, you damn old bitch?" 3930 03:42:02,518 --> 03:42:04,008 Gol 3931 03:42:04,019 --> 03:42:06,385 get the hell out of life, goddamn you, 3932 03:42:06,396 --> 03:42:08,307 before I choke it out of you! 3933 03:42:08,315 --> 03:42:10,226 Go on! Go up. 3934 03:42:12,736 --> 03:42:14,192 Thanks, Larry. 3935 03:42:20,744 --> 03:42:24,111 I can see now that it's the only possible way I can ever get free from her. 3936 03:42:25,666 --> 03:42:27,782 I guess I've known that all my life. 3937 03:42:37,094 --> 03:42:39,551 Oh. 3938 03:42:41,807 --> 03:42:45,174 It ought to give mother a little comfort too. 3939 03:42:48,647 --> 03:42:52,640 She'll finally be able to play the incorruptible mother of the revolution, 3940 03:42:52,651 --> 03:42:54,812 whose only child's a proletariat. 3941 03:42:57,990 --> 03:43:03,860 She'll be able to say, "justice is done, so may all traitors die!" 3942 03:43:03,871 --> 03:43:05,827 She'll be able to say... 3943 03:43:08,458 --> 03:43:10,995 "I'm glad he's dead! 3944 03:43:12,421 --> 03:43:14,377 Long live the revolution.” 3945 03:43:20,262 --> 03:43:22,378 You know her, Larry. She was always a ham. 3946 03:43:22,389 --> 03:43:28,100 Go, for the love of Christ, you mad, tortured bastard, for your own sake. 3947 03:43:35,319 --> 03:43:37,105 Thanks, Larry. 3948 03:43:37,112 --> 03:43:39,148 That's kind. 3949 03:43:42,409 --> 03:43:46,277 I knew you were the only one who could understand my side of it. 3950 03:43:57,132 --> 03:44:00,875 Hello, little Don, little monkey face. 3951 03:44:00,886 --> 03:44:04,049 Don't be a fool. Buy me a drink. 3952 03:44:06,266 --> 03:44:07,847 Sure, I will, Hugo. 3953 03:44:09,895 --> 03:44:11,851 Tomorrow, beneath the Willow trees. 3954 03:44:13,732 --> 03:44:15,313 Stupid fool. 3955 03:44:15,317 --> 03:44:17,182 Hickey make you crazy too. 3956 03:44:31,458 --> 03:44:36,248 I'm glad, Larry, they take that crazy hickey away to asylum. 3957 03:44:37,881 --> 03:44:40,873 He makes me have bad dreams. 3958 03:44:40,884 --> 03:44:43,375 He makes me tell lies about myself. 3959 03:44:43,387 --> 03:44:46,174 He makes me want to spit on all I've ever dreamed. 3960 03:44:46,181 --> 03:44:48,923 Yes, I'm glad they take him to asylum! 3961 03:44:55,941 --> 03:44:58,102 I don't feel I'm dying now. 3962 03:44:59,319 --> 03:45:03,403 He was selling death to me, that crazy salesman. 3963 03:45:04,866 --> 03:45:08,233 I think I have a drink now, Larry. 3964 03:45:11,039 --> 03:45:15,533 B'jeez, fellas. I'm feeling the old kick, or I'm a liar. 3965 03:45:15,544 --> 03:45:17,910 It's putting life back in me. 3966 03:45:17,921 --> 03:45:20,003 It was hickey that kept it from... 3967 03:45:20,007 --> 03:45:23,340 B'jeez, I know that sounds crazy, but he was crazy, 3968 03:45:23,343 --> 03:45:26,631 and he'd got all of us as bughouse as he was. 3969 03:45:26,638 --> 03:45:28,469 Dangerous too. 3970 03:45:28,473 --> 03:45:33,137 Look at me pretending to start for a walk just to keep him quiet. 3971 03:45:33,145 --> 03:45:35,807 I knew damned well it wasn't the right day for it. 3972 03:45:35,814 --> 03:45:40,057 The sun was broiling and the streets full of automobiles. 3973 03:45:40,068 --> 03:45:43,276 Aye, I could feel myself getting sunstroke, 3974 03:45:43,280 --> 03:45:45,521 and an automobile damn near ran over me. 3975 03:45:45,532 --> 03:45:48,399 Didn't it, rocky? He was watching. Ask rocky. Didn't it? 3976 03:45:48,410 --> 03:45:51,948 The automobile, boss? Sure, I seen it. 3977 03:45:51,955 --> 03:45:53,661 Just missed you. 3978 03:45:53,665 --> 03:45:56,122 I thought you was a goner. 3979 03:45:56,126 --> 03:45:58,583 On the word of an honest bartender. 3980 03:46:01,131 --> 03:46:03,668 You're a bartender, all right. 3981 03:46:03,675 --> 03:46:06,667 No one can say different. 3982 03:46:06,678 --> 03:46:09,590 But, b'jeez, don't pull that honest junk. 3983 03:46:11,058 --> 03:46:14,095 You and Chuck ought to have cards in the burglars' union. 3984 03:46:20,734 --> 03:46:23,771 B'jeez, it's good to hear someone laugh again. 3985 03:46:25,113 --> 03:46:29,277 All the time that bas... That poor old hickey was here, 3986 03:46:29,284 --> 03:46:32,071 I didn't have the heart. 3987 03:46:32,079 --> 03:46:34,616 B'jeez, I'm getting drunk and glad of it. 3988 03:46:36,208 --> 03:46:38,324 Come on, fellas. It's on the house. 3989 03:46:38,335 --> 03:46:39,791 Cheers. 3990 03:46:44,216 --> 03:46:46,923 Ah. Poor old hickey. 3991 03:46:46,927 --> 03:46:51,296 We mustn't hold him responsible for anything he's done. 3992 03:46:51,306 --> 03:46:52,967 Yeah. Nah. 3993 03:46:52,974 --> 03:46:56,842 We'll remember him the way we've always known him before... 3994 03:46:56,853 --> 03:47:01,062 The kindest, biggest-hearted guy that ever wore shoe leather. 3995 03:47:01,066 --> 03:47:02,476 - Yeah. - Yeah. 3996 03:47:02,484 --> 03:47:05,317 - The best. - Fine chap. Fine chap. 3997 03:47:05,320 --> 03:47:09,313 Good luck to him in matteawan! Come on. Bottoms up. 3998 03:47:17,040 --> 03:47:18,951 Christ. 3999 03:47:18,959 --> 03:47:20,540 Why don't he... 4000 03:47:21,670 --> 03:47:23,581 Why don't he what? 4001 03:47:23,588 --> 03:47:26,625 Ah, don't be a fool. Hickey's gone. 4002 03:47:26,633 --> 03:47:28,589 He was crazy. 4003 03:47:28,593 --> 03:47:30,174 Have a drink. 4004 03:47:32,597 --> 03:47:35,714 What's the matter with you, Larry? 4005 03:47:35,725 --> 03:47:37,681 You look funny. 4006 03:47:39,187 --> 03:47:41,553 What you listen for out in backyard? 4007 03:47:43,817 --> 03:47:48,527 Well, I thank god now that me and Chuck did all we could to humor the poor nut. 4008 03:47:48,530 --> 03:47:52,569 Imagine us goin' off like we really meant to get married, 4009 03:47:52,576 --> 03:47:55,363 when we ain't even picked out the farm yet. 4010 03:47:56,955 --> 03:48:00,573 Sure thing, baby. We kidded him we was serious. 4011 03:48:00,584 --> 03:48:05,078 I may as well say now I detected his condition almost at once. 4012 03:48:05,088 --> 03:48:06,328 Yeah? 4013 03:48:06,339 --> 03:48:09,376 All that talk of his about tomorrow, for example. 4014 03:48:10,969 --> 03:48:14,382 He had the fixed idea of the insane. 4015 03:48:14,389 --> 03:48:16,675 It only makes them worse to cross them. 4016 03:48:18,185 --> 03:48:20,892 Same with me, Jimmy. Only I spent the day in the park. 4017 03:48:20,896 --> 03:48:22,978 I wasn't such a damned fool as to... 4018 03:48:24,399 --> 03:48:28,062 Picture my predicament if I had gone to the consulate. 4019 03:48:29,362 --> 03:48:32,900 The pal of mine there is a bit of a humorous blighter. 4020 03:48:32,908 --> 03:48:35,695 He'd have gotten me a job out of pure spite. 4021 03:48:37,162 --> 03:48:42,077 So I strolled about and finally came to roost in the park. 4022 03:48:42,083 --> 03:48:45,996 And lo and behold, who should be on the neighboring bench 4023 03:48:46,004 --> 03:48:48,586 but my battlefield companion, 4024 03:48:48,590 --> 03:48:50,831 the boer that walks like a man. 4025 03:48:52,510 --> 03:48:55,718 Who, if the British government had taken my advice, 4026 03:48:55,722 --> 03:48:59,931 would have been removed from his fetid kraal in the veldt 4027 03:48:59,935 --> 03:49:03,473 straight to the baboon's cage in the London zoo. 4028 03:49:04,981 --> 03:49:08,189 And little children would now be asking their nurses, 4029 03:49:08,193 --> 03:49:12,027 "tell me, Nana, is that the boer general, 4030 03:49:12,030 --> 03:49:14,362 the one with the blue behind?" 4031 03:49:25,043 --> 03:49:28,126 No offense meant, piet, old chap. 4032 03:49:29,172 --> 03:49:31,754 No offense taken, 4033 03:49:31,758 --> 03:49:34,340 you damned limey. 4034 03:49:49,859 --> 03:49:54,523 About the job. I felt the same as you, Cecil. 4035 03:50:00,495 --> 03:50:03,453 What's the matter, Larry? 4036 03:50:03,456 --> 03:50:05,822 You look scared. 4037 03:50:05,834 --> 03:50:07,620 What are you listening for out there? 4038 03:50:07,627 --> 03:50:09,413 No, sir. 4039 03:50:11,006 --> 03:50:13,668 I wasn't fool enough to get in no crap game, 4040 03:50:13,675 --> 03:50:15,506 not while hickey's around. 4041 03:50:15,510 --> 03:50:17,751 Them crazy people put a jinx on you. 4042 03:50:20,473 --> 03:50:24,432 It wasn't no good for me trying to explain to a crazy guy 4043 03:50:24,436 --> 03:50:26,222 but it ain't the right time. 4044 03:50:26,229 --> 03:50:27,844 Hey! 4045 03:50:27,856 --> 03:50:30,814 You know how getting reinstated is. 4046 03:50:30,817 --> 03:50:32,808 B'jeez, I'm cockeyed. 4047 03:50:34,362 --> 03:50:37,195 B'jeez, you're all cockeyed. 4048 03:50:37,198 --> 03:50:40,281 And b'jeez, we're all all right! 4049 03:50:40,285 --> 03:50:42,901 Let's have another. 4050 03:50:45,457 --> 03:50:48,119 What's the matter, Larry? 4051 03:50:48,126 --> 03:50:50,082 Why you keep eyes shut? 4052 03:50:51,379 --> 03:50:53,791 You look dead! 4053 03:50:55,759 --> 03:50:57,875 What you listen for in backyard? 4054 03:50:59,429 --> 03:51:03,092 You crazy fool! You give me bad dreams too! 4055 03:51:04,517 --> 03:51:06,803 Hello there, Hugo! 4056 03:51:10,815 --> 03:51:13,352 Welcome to the party! 4057 03:51:13,360 --> 03:51:15,601 Yes, b'jeez, Hugo. Sit down. 4058 03:51:15,612 --> 03:51:18,775 Have a drink! Have ten drinks, b'jeez! 4059 03:51:22,327 --> 03:51:23,817 Hello, little Harry! 4060 03:51:27,665 --> 03:51:31,078 Hello, nice, funny, little monkey faces. 4061 03:51:33,171 --> 03:51:35,253 Goddamned stupid bourgeois! 4062 03:51:36,674 --> 03:51:39,336 Soon comes the day of judgment! 4063 03:51:42,514 --> 03:51:45,722 Give me ten drinks, Harry. Don't be a fool! 4064 03:51:46,601 --> 03:51:49,263 Gangway for two good whores. 4065 03:51:49,270 --> 03:51:53,138 Yeah. And we want a drink, quick. 4066 03:51:53,149 --> 03:51:56,061 Yeah, yeah. Shake the lead outta your pants, you pimp! 4067 03:51:56,069 --> 03:51:57,775 We want a little service, huh? 4068 03:51:57,779 --> 03:52:00,566 Well, look who's here. 4069 03:52:00,573 --> 03:52:03,064 Hello there, sweethearts. 4070 03:52:03,076 --> 03:52:07,365 Jeez, I was beginning to worry about you, honest. 4071 03:52:07,372 --> 03:52:09,454 Yeah? What kind of gag is this? 4072 03:52:09,457 --> 03:52:11,664 Come on and join the party, you broads. 4073 03:52:11,668 --> 03:52:13,579 B'jeez, I'm glad to see you. 4074 03:52:13,586 --> 03:52:16,828 - Hey, what's... what's come off here? - Where's that louse hickey? 4075 03:52:16,840 --> 03:52:19,456 Ah, the cops got 'im. 4076 03:52:19,467 --> 03:52:22,630 He's gone crazy and croaked his wife. 4077 03:52:22,637 --> 03:52:23,922 Jeez. 4078 03:52:23,930 --> 03:52:26,296 So forget about that whore stuff. 4079 03:52:26,307 --> 03:52:30,016 I'll knock the block off anyone calls you whores. 4080 03:52:30,019 --> 03:52:34,262 - Ha-ha-ha! - You're tarts, and what the hell of it? 4081 03:52:34,274 --> 03:52:36,515 You're as good as anyone. 4082 03:52:36,526 --> 03:52:39,233 So forget it, see. 4083 03:52:39,237 --> 03:52:43,480 That's our little bartender, ain't he, Pearl? 4084 03:52:43,491 --> 03:52:46,779 Yeah, and a cute little Guinea at that. 4085 03:52:46,786 --> 03:52:49,698 And is he stinkol! 4086 03:52:49,706 --> 03:52:52,072 Stinko is right. 4087 03:52:52,083 --> 03:52:54,290 - But he ain't got nothin' on us. - No! 4088 03:52:54,294 --> 03:52:57,161 Jeez, rocky, did we have a good time at coney. 4089 03:52:57,172 --> 03:53:00,164 B'jeez, sit down, you dumb whores! 4090 03:53:00,175 --> 03:53:04,168 Welcome home. Have a drink. Have ten drinks, b'jeez. 4091 03:53:04,179 --> 03:53:06,044 B'jeez, this is all right. 4092 03:53:06,055 --> 03:53:10,094 We'll make this my birthday party and forget the other. 4093 03:53:10,101 --> 03:53:13,810 But who's missing? Where's the old wise guy? Where's Larry? 4094 03:53:15,607 --> 03:53:18,724 Oh, over by the window, boss. 4095 03:53:18,735 --> 03:53:23,650 He's got his eyes shut. The old bastard's asleep. 4096 03:53:23,656 --> 03:53:26,614 Aw, to hell with him. Let's have a drink. 4097 03:53:31,831 --> 03:53:33,787 It's the only way out for him. 4098 03:53:35,627 --> 03:53:37,993 For the peace of all concerned, as hickey said. 4099 03:53:41,716 --> 03:53:44,173 Goddamn his yellow soul. 4100 03:53:44,177 --> 03:53:47,635 If he doesn't soon, I'll go up and throw him off. 4101 03:53:47,639 --> 03:53:51,598 Like a dog with its guts ripped out that you'd put out of his misery. 4102 03:54:14,916 --> 03:54:18,204 What the hell was that? What the hell was that? 4103 03:54:18,211 --> 03:54:21,874 Something fell off the fire escape. 4104 03:54:21,881 --> 03:54:24,497 A mattress, I'll bet. 4105 03:54:24,509 --> 03:54:28,843 Some of these bums have been sleepin' on the fire escapes. 4106 03:54:28,846 --> 03:54:31,804 They... they've got to cut it out. 4107 03:54:31,808 --> 03:54:35,300 B'jeez, this... This ain't no fresh air cure. 4108 03:54:36,813 --> 03:54:39,429 Mattresses cost money. 4109 03:54:39,440 --> 03:54:40,896 Poor devil. 4110 03:54:44,070 --> 03:54:46,482 God rest his soul in peace. 4111 03:55:00,712 --> 03:55:04,580 I'll never be a success in the grandstand or anywhere else. 4112 03:55:05,758 --> 03:55:07,714 Life is too much for me. 4113 03:55:09,345 --> 03:55:13,429 I'll be a weak fool looking with pity at the two sides of everything 4114 03:55:13,433 --> 03:55:15,014 till the day I die, 4115 03:55:15,018 --> 03:55:16,974 and may that day come soon. 4116 03:55:19,397 --> 03:55:22,434 I'm the only real convert to death that hickey made here. 4117 03:55:24,527 --> 03:55:28,486 From the bottom of my coward's heart, I mean that now. 4118 03:55:30,575 --> 03:55:32,861 Hey there, Larry! 4119 03:55:32,869 --> 03:55:35,736 Come on over and get paralyzed. 4120 03:55:35,747 --> 03:55:37,988 What the hell you doing, sittin' here? 4121 03:55:39,250 --> 03:55:41,457 B'jeez, let's sing. Let's celebrate! 4122 03:55:41,461 --> 03:55:44,373 B'jeez, it's my birthday party. 4123 03:55:44,380 --> 03:55:47,167 B'jeez, I'm orey-eyed! 4124 03:55:47,175 --> 03:55:49,166 I want to sing. 4125 03:55:49,177 --> 03:55:52,590 J; Every Sunday 4126 03:55:52,597 --> 03:55:55,179 js down to her home we go j 4127 03:55:55,183 --> 03:55:57,799 j all the boys and all the girls & 4128 03:55:57,810 --> 03:56:00,973 j; They love her so j 4129 03:56:00,980 --> 03:56:03,813 j; Always jolly 7b 4130 03:56:03,816 --> 03:56:06,649 j heart that is true, I know j 4131 03:56:06,653 --> 03:56:12,273 j she is the sunshine of paradise alley & 4132 03:56:14,243 --> 03:56:17,451 j by yon Bonnie banks and by yon Bonnie braes & 4133 03:56:17,455 --> 03:56:22,040 j; Where the sun shines bright on loch lomond j 4134 03:56:22,043 --> 03:56:25,627 j; Where me and my true love will never meet again & 4135 03:56:25,630 --> 03:56:29,999 j on the Bonnie, Bonnie banks of loch lomond 4136 03:56:30,009 --> 03:56:34,002 j; You'll take the high road and I'll take the low road & 4137 03:56:34,013 --> 03:56:37,722 j» and I'll be in Scotland afore ye j 4138 03:56:37,725 --> 03:56:41,217 j; But me and my true love will never meet again & 4139 03:56:41,229 --> 03:56:45,017 j on the Bonnie, Bonnie banks of loch lomond 4140 03:56:45,024 --> 03:56:48,266 j; Dansons le carmagnole vive le son, vive le son & 4141 03:56:48,277 --> 03:56:51,440 j; Dansons la carmagnole vive le son des canons j 4142 03:56:51,447 --> 03:56:54,655 the days grow hot, o Babylon! 4143 03:56:54,659 --> 03:56:58,151 Cool beneath thy Willow trees! 318971

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