1 00:01:53,647 --> 00:01:56,517 Oh, that's the cocktail bar, huh? 2 00:01:56,584 --> 00:01:59,487 - What's in there? - It's a private dining room. 3 00:01:59,553 --> 00:02:02,390 From now on, it's the gambling room. 4 00:02:02,456 --> 00:02:04,592 - Make a note of that, Charlie. - Right. 5 00:02:08,529 --> 00:02:11,665 Take him out for a walk. It's too stuffy in here. 6 00:02:25,246 --> 00:02:27,348 That, it's crummy. Change it. 7 00:02:27,415 --> 00:02:30,318 But, Mr. Vanning, it's French. I had it specially designed. 8 00:02:30,384 --> 00:02:31,885 It's still crummy. 9 00:02:31,952 --> 00:02:34,555 None of the classy spots use that kind of stuff. 10 00:02:34,622 --> 00:02:37,225 I want the kind that sticks up in the ceiling. 11 00:02:37,291 --> 00:02:39,893 - Indirect lighting. - That's what I want. 12 00:02:51,572 --> 00:02:55,008 Hello, Gabby. Still around? 13 00:02:55,075 --> 00:02:56,244 Yeah. 14 00:03:10,258 --> 00:03:12,726 Emmy Lou is the name, Mr. Vanning. 15 00:03:13,894 --> 00:03:16,597 Alright, now. This is it. 16 00:03:16,664 --> 00:03:18,699 I'm taking over this joint. 17 00:03:18,766 --> 00:03:21,669 From now on, you're working for me, understand? 18 00:03:21,735 --> 00:03:25,306 Most of you've been around long enough to know how I operate. 19 00:03:25,373 --> 00:03:28,175 If you don't, read the papers and find out. 20 00:03:28,242 --> 00:03:30,378 Up to now, this night club racket's 21 00:03:30,444 --> 00:03:33,547 been run on a penny-ante basis. That's out. 22 00:03:33,614 --> 00:03:36,450 From now on, I'm organizing it. 23 00:03:36,517 --> 00:03:40,087 When I organize anything, I make it pay big money, or else.. 24 00:03:40,153 --> 00:03:43,857 Now, this town is full of big shots from the stakes. 25 00:03:43,924 --> 00:03:46,059 They keep pouring in by the carload 26 00:03:46,126 --> 00:03:47,861 looking for one thing. 27 00:03:47,928 --> 00:03:51,131 The kind of time they can go home and brag about. 28 00:03:51,198 --> 00:03:55,235 And torch songs with soft lights aren't going to satisfy them. 29 00:03:55,303 --> 00:03:57,070 We know the kind of action they want 30 00:03:57,137 --> 00:04:00,574 and we are going to give it. From tiddlywinks to roulette. 31 00:04:00,641 --> 00:04:03,277 But they're going to pay for it, plenty. Understand? 32 00:04:03,344 --> 00:04:06,780 In other words...a clip joint. 33 00:04:06,847 --> 00:04:10,484 Yeah...and run on a high-class basis. 34 00:04:10,551 --> 00:04:13,554 'Your job is to soften them up, so, they can be taken.' 35 00:04:13,621 --> 00:04:16,223 'There's only one way to work on chumps..' 36 00:04:16,290 --> 00:04:18,058 '...our way.' 37 00:04:18,125 --> 00:04:20,260 'With no holds barred.' 38 00:04:21,862 --> 00:04:23,364 High-class? 39 00:04:25,599 --> 00:04:28,068 You don't like it, huh? 40 00:04:28,135 --> 00:04:30,404 It all depends. 41 00:04:30,471 --> 00:04:32,473 How much is there in it for us? 42 00:04:32,540 --> 00:04:34,708 About 50 times what you're getting now. 43 00:04:34,775 --> 00:04:36,844 But you don't get it for nothing. 44 00:04:36,910 --> 00:04:39,480 Every week, you're going to kick back 45 00:04:39,547 --> 00:04:41,281 part of what you make to me. 46 00:04:41,349 --> 00:04:45,619 That goes for protection, hush money, lawyer's fee, bail bonds 47 00:04:45,686 --> 00:04:49,690 anything else to square the rap, in case, the law steps in. 48 00:04:49,757 --> 00:04:52,526 That's one thing you wouldn't have to worry about. 49 00:04:52,593 --> 00:04:54,995 Anybody that sticks with me 50 00:04:55,062 --> 00:04:56,997 gets taken care of. 51 00:04:59,733 --> 00:05:03,337 Maybe you like this setup, maybe you don't. 52 00:05:03,404 --> 00:05:05,473 But you're going to take it. 53 00:05:05,539 --> 00:05:07,541 'I got every nightclub in town' 54 00:05:07,608 --> 00:05:11,345 'and every girl working in every nightclub, sewed up.' 55 00:05:11,412 --> 00:05:13,647 'You're going to work the way I tell you' 56 00:05:13,714 --> 00:05:16,049 'or you don't work at all.' 57 00:05:16,116 --> 00:05:18,051 You got that straight? 58 00:05:20,888 --> 00:05:22,823 Alright, the place will be closed 59 00:05:22,890 --> 00:05:25,459 until we get it fixed like I want it. 60 00:05:29,329 --> 00:05:32,733 Oh, and cut a peephole in the door. 61 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:35,736 The chumps go for that hard-to-get-inangle. 62 00:05:35,803 --> 00:05:37,971 Come on, let's get outta here. 63 00:05:43,677 --> 00:05:45,613 Wait till I get my pay. 64 00:05:45,679 --> 00:05:47,815 'Hurry up. We'll be outside.' 65 00:05:49,950 --> 00:05:53,320 Hey, you. Yeah, you. Kind of old, ain't you? 66 00:05:53,387 --> 00:05:55,322 I need young dames here. 67 00:05:55,389 --> 00:05:57,591 The kind men go for in a hurry. 68 00:05:57,658 --> 00:06:00,828 But, Mr. Vanning, I've been here a long time-- 69 00:06:00,894 --> 00:06:02,329 That's the trouble. 70 00:06:02,396 --> 00:06:04,031 You won't do. You're through. 71 00:06:04,097 --> 00:06:06,867 You said you took care of people who're loyal to you. 72 00:06:06,934 --> 00:06:09,537 - She never worked for me. - But she has for Beler. 73 00:06:09,603 --> 00:06:11,539 And she's always been on the level. 74 00:06:11,605 --> 00:06:13,574 How do you know what she can do? 75 00:06:13,641 --> 00:06:16,143 Why kick her out just because you're taking over? 76 00:06:16,209 --> 00:06:17,945 Sure, she's okay, Vanning. 77 00:06:18,011 --> 00:06:21,014 Why don't you give her a break and let her prove it? 78 00:06:21,081 --> 00:06:23,216 You know, she can't wreck the place. 79 00:06:23,283 --> 00:06:24,952 Yeah? 80 00:06:25,018 --> 00:06:27,621 - Okay. - Thanks, Mr. Vanning. 81 00:06:29,857 --> 00:06:32,826 Pretty smart girl, aren't you? 82 00:06:32,893 --> 00:06:34,495 I get along. 83 00:06:34,562 --> 00:06:36,997 How about coming up to my place for a drink? 84 00:06:37,064 --> 00:06:39,867 - I'd like to know you better. - No, thanks. 85 00:06:39,933 --> 00:06:41,201 Why not? 86 00:06:41,268 --> 00:06:43,671 Well, you've told me I was working for you. 87 00:06:43,737 --> 00:06:47,541 So, I work for you. That's as far as it goes. 88 00:06:47,608 --> 00:06:50,644 Anyway, I'm sort of afraid of your social set. 89 00:06:50,711 --> 00:06:52,913 - Afraid? - Yes, I.. 90 00:06:52,980 --> 00:06:55,683 I might get to learn too much about you 91 00:06:55,749 --> 00:06:58,218 like, Audrey Fleming did. 92 00:06:58,285 --> 00:07:00,087 Remember? 93 00:07:00,153 --> 00:07:02,723 Anyway, if I'd wanted to end up in the river 94 00:07:02,790 --> 00:07:05,559 I'd have taken a jump off Brooklyn Bridge, five years ago. 95 00:07:05,626 --> 00:07:07,928 You're not afraid to talk, anyway. 96 00:07:07,995 --> 00:07:09,830 We're among friends. 97 00:07:09,897 --> 00:07:12,365 And I think we'll get along a lot better 98 00:07:12,432 --> 00:07:14,802 if we understand each other. 99 00:07:14,868 --> 00:07:17,971 I think I'll be a big help to your business. 100 00:07:18,038 --> 00:07:20,574 Maybe you will at that. 101 00:07:20,641 --> 00:07:22,643 Goodnight. 102 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:28,749 - Smart girl. - Maybe too smart. 103 00:07:30,217 --> 00:07:34,855 - Thanks, Mary. You were swell. - Forget it, Estelle. 104 00:07:37,691 --> 00:07:40,828 - Goodnight, Mr. Vanning. - Goodnight. 105 00:07:42,062 --> 00:07:43,997 - What's her name? - Emmy Lou. 106 00:07:44,064 --> 00:07:45,766 Make a note of it. 107 00:07:51,038 --> 00:07:54,174 - Here you are, girls. - Wait a minute, let's walk. 108 00:07:54,241 --> 00:07:56,977 We'll need some fresh air after that one. 109 00:08:12,826 --> 00:08:16,263 That sign, what's it mean? 110 00:08:16,329 --> 00:08:18,866 - Come on. What does it mean? - Intimate. 111 00:08:18,932 --> 00:08:21,769 - What does that mean? - You know, intimate. 112 00:08:21,835 --> 00:08:23,771 Personal. Get together. 113 00:08:23,837 --> 00:08:26,574 Like, uh, like this.. 114 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:29,943 Oh, well, why don't it say what it means? 115 00:08:31,411 --> 00:08:33,480 - Change it. - To what? 116 00:08:33,547 --> 00:08:37,751 - What was that you said? - Intimate. 117 00:08:37,818 --> 00:08:40,554 - Intimate. Make a note of it. - Right. 118 00:08:54,267 --> 00:08:56,169 Good morning. 119 00:09:24,665 --> 00:09:26,967 I don't really look old, do I? 120 00:09:27,034 --> 00:09:29,402 'What does he expect a girl to look like' 121 00:09:29,469 --> 00:09:31,071 'at six in the morning after dragging' 122 00:09:31,138 --> 00:09:33,807 a lot of heavyweight shoe salesmen all night? 123 00:09:33,874 --> 00:09:35,909 Like a debutante? 124 00:09:35,976 --> 00:09:39,780 I bet if he saw me when I'd just come to work and my makeup-- 125 00:09:39,847 --> 00:09:42,716 Oh, let's skip it, Estelle, and go to bed. 126 00:09:42,783 --> 00:09:44,785 We're all fagged out. 127 00:09:44,852 --> 00:09:47,287 Well, let him fire me. What do I care? 128 00:09:47,354 --> 00:09:49,957 I don't want any part of his clip joints anyway. 129 00:09:50,023 --> 00:09:52,192 And if you do, you're crazy. 130 00:09:52,259 --> 00:09:54,828 He might as well put a gun in our hands 131 00:09:54,895 --> 00:09:56,630 and send us out on stick-ups. 132 00:09:56,697 --> 00:09:58,632 Well, what are you going to do? 133 00:09:58,699 --> 00:10:01,168 You heard what he said. It's Vanning or nothing. 134 00:10:01,234 --> 00:10:04,571 Well, this isn't the only way to make a living. 135 00:10:04,638 --> 00:10:06,373 Do you know a better one? 136 00:10:06,439 --> 00:10:09,109 Well, of course, I can always go back into Vaudeville. 137 00:10:09,176 --> 00:10:12,512 Stop kidding yourself, Estelle. Your dancing days are over. 138 00:10:12,579 --> 00:10:15,849 You'd have counterweights to keep your arches from falling. 139 00:10:15,916 --> 00:10:19,152 Then I'll get one in a factory, behind a counter, anyplace. 140 00:10:19,219 --> 00:10:21,989 - At 12 and a half a week? - That's enough for me. 141 00:10:22,055 --> 00:10:24,291 - For cigarettes? - Mm-mm. 142 00:10:24,357 --> 00:10:27,961 We've all tried this 12 and a half a week stuff. It's no good. 143 00:10:28,028 --> 00:10:30,798 Living in furnished rooms, walking to work. 144 00:10:30,864 --> 00:10:32,866 Going hungry a couple of days a week 145 00:10:32,933 --> 00:10:35,803 so you can have some clothes to put on your back. 146 00:10:35,869 --> 00:10:39,006 I've had enough of that for the rest of my life. 147 00:10:39,072 --> 00:10:41,875 - And so have you. - Well, of course she has. 148 00:10:41,942 --> 00:10:44,812 She's just burned up 'cause Johnny said she was gettin' old. 149 00:10:44,878 --> 00:10:47,014 Aren't you, honey? 150 00:10:58,158 --> 00:10:59,927 You're a sweet little hyena, aren't you? 151 00:10:59,993 --> 00:11:01,995 'Well, it's true, isn't it?' 152 00:11:02,062 --> 00:11:04,664 'Working for Vanning isn't gonna be any bed of roses.' 153 00:11:04,732 --> 00:11:08,135 - 'You don't have to rub it in.' - 'You're gonna work for him.' 154 00:11:08,201 --> 00:11:10,771 Uh-huh, but I'm not getting into his trap. 155 00:11:10,838 --> 00:11:12,840 And I'm not taking any chances of getting 156 00:11:12,906 --> 00:11:15,075 a slap in the face with a spade either. 157 00:11:15,142 --> 00:11:18,912 We're letting ourselves in for enough as it is. 158 00:11:18,979 --> 00:11:21,214 Some will wind up in the short end. 159 00:11:21,281 --> 00:11:23,250 But not me, baby. 160 00:11:23,316 --> 00:11:26,787 I know all the angles, and I think I'm smart enough 161 00:11:26,854 --> 00:11:29,022 to keep one step ahead of them 162 00:11:29,089 --> 00:11:31,291 till I get enough to pack it all in 163 00:11:31,358 --> 00:11:34,394 and live on easy street the rest of my life. 164 00:11:34,461 --> 00:11:36,429 I know how to beat this racket. 165 00:11:36,496 --> 00:11:39,266 Yeah? How? 166 00:11:39,332 --> 00:11:42,269 That's what I've been trying to find out for years. 167 00:11:53,313 --> 00:11:56,216 - Good evening, gentlemen. - Here you are. 168 00:11:56,283 --> 00:11:58,919 - Oh, look at that. - Oh, keep the change. 169 00:11:58,986 --> 00:12:02,655 This way, please. Where are they from? 170 00:12:02,722 --> 00:12:05,525 I picked them up at the Waldorf Ritz, metal industries banquet. 171 00:12:05,592 --> 00:12:08,128 It's locked. Hey, captain, commodore, come on. 172 00:12:08,195 --> 00:12:09,997 Just a second, gentlemen. 173 00:12:12,099 --> 00:12:14,802 From the Waldorf Ritz. McGrew sent them. 174 00:12:19,907 --> 00:12:22,342 Say, are we having fun? 175 00:12:22,409 --> 00:12:24,544 - Good evening, gentlemen. - How do you do? 176 00:12:24,611 --> 00:12:27,547 - How many? - Four, please. 177 00:12:27,614 --> 00:12:30,417 Right this way, please. 178 00:12:30,483 --> 00:12:33,520 * Ain't it funny that paper money * 179 00:12:33,586 --> 00:12:36,223 * Don't seem like genuine Jack * 180 00:12:36,289 --> 00:12:38,725 * And every check has a knack * 181 00:12:38,792 --> 00:12:43,596 * Of jumpin' and a-bumpin' and bouncing back * 182 00:12:43,663 --> 00:12:46,867 * I like nothin' but silver dollars * 183 00:12:46,934 --> 00:12:49,937 * And I've collected a few * 184 00:12:50,003 --> 00:12:54,141 * When silver starts in ringin' * 185 00:12:54,207 --> 00:12:58,645 * It rings so true * 186 00:12:58,711 --> 00:13:02,249 * My silver dollar man * 187 00:13:02,315 --> 00:13:08,721 * He ain't a tie-and-collar man * 188 00:13:08,788 --> 00:13:11,624 * A rough and ready man * 189 00:13:11,691 --> 00:13:17,230 * But he's a mighty steady man * 190 00:13:18,765 --> 00:13:20,567 * And though he can't supply * 191 00:13:20,633 --> 00:13:26,506 * A lot of luxuries that I demand * 192 00:13:28,075 --> 00:13:30,911 * He never leaves me till he leaves * 193 00:13:30,978 --> 00:13:34,747 * A bit of silver in my hand * 194 00:13:34,814 --> 00:13:36,249 * He's the.. * 195 00:13:36,316 --> 00:13:38,919 Are there going to be any more in your party? 196 00:13:38,986 --> 00:13:40,620 I don't know. 197 00:13:40,687 --> 00:13:43,957 * Upon the easy fame and.. * 198 00:13:46,293 --> 00:13:48,061 Are there? 199 00:13:48,128 --> 00:13:49,863 * You don't know how my heart feels * 200 00:13:49,930 --> 00:13:52,632 * Playing those cartwheels * 201 00:13:52,699 --> 00:13:54,134 Mary. 202 00:13:56,103 --> 00:14:00,440 * But I'll try to love him * 203 00:14:00,507 --> 00:14:02,575 * If he didn't * 204 00:14:02,642 --> 00:14:06,179 * Have a dime * 205 00:14:06,246 --> 00:14:09,216 * He's truly divine * 206 00:14:09,282 --> 00:14:13,186 * That silver dollar man of mine * 207 00:14:13,253 --> 00:14:16,689 * He's so divine * 208 00:14:16,756 --> 00:14:19,993 * That silver dollar man * 209 00:14:20,060 --> 00:14:25,398 * Of mine * 210 00:14:27,834 --> 00:14:30,070 Florrie, sit here. 211 00:14:32,172 --> 00:14:35,808 - Sit right down, honey. - Oh, no, no. I saw her first. 212 00:14:35,875 --> 00:14:39,279 Alright, I've got my gal right here. 213 00:14:41,781 --> 00:14:44,918 Gabby...go to work on 'em. 214 00:14:47,154 --> 00:14:50,357 How do you want it, honey? Soft and smooth or loud and hard? 215 00:14:50,423 --> 00:14:54,494 Soft and smooth. Only don't put 'em to sleep, just yet. 216 00:15:04,604 --> 00:15:06,906 What is your party drinking? 217 00:15:06,974 --> 00:15:08,908 Why, uh, what have you been drinking? 218 00:15:08,976 --> 00:15:10,677 - Champagne. - Fine! 219 00:15:10,743 --> 00:15:12,479 We don't wanna change your diet. 220 00:15:12,545 --> 00:15:14,881 - Champagne for everybody. - Everybody! 221 00:15:14,948 --> 00:15:17,317 Champagne! Gallons of it! 222 00:15:20,220 --> 00:15:23,756 Are you in the mood for music? 223 00:15:23,823 --> 00:15:25,959 I'll say. I am, baby. 224 00:15:26,026 --> 00:15:28,495 Alright. Hey, Gus. 225 00:15:37,904 --> 00:15:40,073 - They're all set. - Who ordered? 226 00:15:40,140 --> 00:15:42,142 The young fellow with Mary. Champagne. 227 00:15:42,209 --> 00:15:44,344 Tell Mary, the dice table for him. 228 00:15:44,411 --> 00:15:45,845 Okay. 229 00:15:45,912 --> 00:15:48,881 * City people, pity people, who don't know a lot * 230 00:15:48,948 --> 00:15:50,917 * About the night life * 231 00:15:50,984 --> 00:15:53,553 * But they are wrong * 232 00:15:53,620 --> 00:15:55,588 * Though they may be witty people * 233 00:15:55,655 --> 00:15:59,192 * They don't know the folks who lead the right life * 234 00:15:59,259 --> 00:16:02,629 * Still get along * 235 00:16:02,695 --> 00:16:07,500 * To a plain old-fashioned couple * 236 00:16:07,567 --> 00:16:14,341 * Let me dedicate my song * 237 00:16:14,407 --> 00:16:18,411 * They're not sophisticated people * 238 00:16:18,478 --> 00:16:22,182 * And though they're only common folks * 239 00:16:22,249 --> 00:16:27,420 * You don't know how I envy people * 240 00:16:27,487 --> 00:16:32,659 * Like Mr. and Mrs. Doe * 241 00:16:32,725 --> 00:16:37,564 * They don't know much about swing music * 242 00:16:37,630 --> 00:16:41,968 * They wouldn't care for risque jokes * 243 00:16:42,035 --> 00:16:45,004 * But every morning * 244 00:16:45,072 --> 00:16:48,975 * Birds sing music * 245 00:16:49,042 --> 00:16:53,613 * For Mr. and Mrs. Doe * 246 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:59,686 * I've got a little wreath of holly hanging on my window * 247 00:17:00,987 --> 00:17:04,357 * They've all gotten old * 248 00:17:04,424 --> 00:17:08,161 * I've got a cunning little colleague * 249 00:17:08,228 --> 00:17:13,233 * They were little angels * 250 00:17:13,300 --> 00:17:18,438 * Dressed in silk and wool * 251 00:17:19,872 --> 00:17:25,678 * They call each other mom and pappy * 252 00:17:25,745 --> 00:17:30,483 * She does her sewing while he smokes * 253 00:17:30,550 --> 00:17:37,290 * But I wish I were half as happy * 254 00:17:37,357 --> 00:17:44,063 * As Mr. and Mrs. Doe * 255 00:17:48,501 --> 00:17:51,504 Come on. Come on over here and sit up here, baby. 256 00:18:02,715 --> 00:18:04,717 Here's how. 257 00:18:13,092 --> 00:18:15,762 Thanks, sugar. 258 00:18:29,909 --> 00:18:31,678 'Snake eyes.' 259 00:18:31,744 --> 00:18:33,713 Well, honey, I guess this isn't our night. 260 00:18:33,780 --> 00:18:35,715 Oh, keep on trying, you'll get hot. 261 00:18:35,782 --> 00:18:38,585 Un-un, not with three pair of snake eyes in a row. 262 00:18:38,651 --> 00:18:41,454 - How much am I in for? - Eighteen hundred dollars. 263 00:18:41,521 --> 00:18:43,290 - Is that all? - 'Yes.' 264 00:18:43,356 --> 00:18:45,292 Would you mind taking my check? 265 00:18:45,358 --> 00:18:47,560 I don't like leaving myself without any cash. 266 00:18:49,996 --> 00:18:54,133 - Glad to accommodate you. - That's what I call service. 267 00:18:54,201 --> 00:18:56,236 I believe you ordered for the party. 268 00:18:56,303 --> 00:18:59,172 You might as well add this to it. 269 00:19:02,709 --> 00:19:06,379 That's a lot of party. Where are the others? 270 00:19:06,446 --> 00:19:10,383 They got a bit tight and left with the girls. 271 00:19:10,450 --> 00:19:14,254 - Thanks. - Come on, honey, let's go. 272 00:19:24,631 --> 00:19:26,233 - Cab. - Yes, sir. 273 00:19:36,075 --> 00:19:37,877 Goodnight. 274 00:19:37,944 --> 00:19:39,279 Need a cab? 275 00:19:45,318 --> 00:19:47,387 Tail that cab. 276 00:19:47,454 --> 00:19:49,422 Boy, they sure took me to the cleaners. 277 00:19:49,489 --> 00:19:51,057 You had a good time, didn't you? 278 00:19:51,123 --> 00:19:54,527 The best in my life. I'd like to do it all over again. 279 00:19:54,594 --> 00:19:57,630 - I guess you can afford it. - Afford it? 280 00:19:57,697 --> 00:20:00,533 - What's so funny? - You think I can afford it? 281 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:03,403 Listen sister, I don't make that much money in a year 282 00:20:03,470 --> 00:20:05,104 let alone spend it. 283 00:20:05,171 --> 00:20:07,940 You're tellin' that you haven't got the money to pay off? 284 00:20:08,007 --> 00:20:11,010 - Nope, not a red cent. - I was just putting on an act. 285 00:20:11,077 --> 00:20:14,747 I wanna see the look on their faces when they try to cash it. 286 00:20:14,814 --> 00:20:18,351 - Will that be funny. - Yeah, like a funeral. Yours. 287 00:20:18,418 --> 00:20:22,522 And that's what you're going to have if you don't pay. 288 00:20:22,589 --> 00:20:24,757 Don't you know that you're messing around with Vanning? 289 00:20:24,824 --> 00:20:27,627 They'd cut your throat for a dime. 290 00:20:27,694 --> 00:20:30,930 So, you could imagine what they're going to do to you. 291 00:20:30,997 --> 00:20:32,732 Say, you kidding me? 292 00:20:32,799 --> 00:20:36,303 Well, if you don't believe me, stick around and find out. 293 00:20:36,369 --> 00:20:39,138 Well, what am I gonna do? 294 00:20:39,205 --> 00:20:41,774 Have you got enough money to pay your hotel bill? 295 00:20:41,841 --> 00:20:44,844 Yeah, I paid that in advance. I got my railroad ticket too. 296 00:20:44,911 --> 00:20:48,315 Use it, check out of that hotel and grab the first train home 297 00:20:48,381 --> 00:20:50,016 before it's too late. 298 00:20:54,821 --> 00:20:56,389 - Goodnight. - Goodnight. 299 00:20:56,456 --> 00:20:58,458 - Remember what I told you. - Oh, I will. 300 00:20:58,525 --> 00:21:00,360 - Mary. - Yeah? 301 00:21:00,427 --> 00:21:02,995 I haven't even got enough to pay for the cab. 302 00:21:03,062 --> 00:21:05,231 Oh. 303 00:21:05,298 --> 00:21:06,899 - Here. - Thanks. I'll send it to you. 304 00:21:06,966 --> 00:21:09,135 - What's your address. - Forget it. 305 00:21:09,201 --> 00:21:12,639 No, no, no. Please, write it down here. 306 00:21:12,705 --> 00:21:13,706 Alright. 307 00:21:15,007 --> 00:21:16,543 Oh, gee, you're swell. 308 00:21:16,609 --> 00:21:19,912 I don't know why. A sap like you deserves to be taken. 309 00:21:19,979 --> 00:21:23,516 I guess you must bring out the mother instinct in me. 310 00:21:23,583 --> 00:21:25,585 Now, go on, get in. Hurry. 311 00:21:25,652 --> 00:21:27,119 - Goodnight, chump. - Goodnight. 312 00:21:27,186 --> 00:21:28,355 - Be careful. - Alright. 313 00:21:28,421 --> 00:21:30,590 Take him to Waldorf Ritz and step on it. 314 00:21:30,657 --> 00:21:32,792 - Goodnight. - Goodnight. 315 00:21:43,603 --> 00:21:45,237 - Hello, McGrew. - Hiya. 316 00:21:45,304 --> 00:21:47,273 Mind if we park around here for a while? 317 00:21:47,340 --> 00:21:51,310 Keepin' an eye on one of those guys till we can get his check. 318 00:21:51,378 --> 00:21:53,480 - How much did you take him for? - 'Plenty.' 319 00:21:56,816 --> 00:22:00,052 Yes, sir, 319? Yes, sir. Right away. 320 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:02,054 He's checking out. 321 00:22:17,637 --> 00:22:19,972 Pennsylvania Station. 322 00:22:32,385 --> 00:22:34,854 Whew! What a night. 323 00:22:41,961 --> 00:22:44,997 Oh, does that feel good to stand up and stretch. 324 00:22:45,064 --> 00:22:48,801 - Good mornin'. - What's good about it? 325 00:22:48,868 --> 00:22:50,870 You all look as if you had hangovers. 326 00:22:50,937 --> 00:22:54,607 No, stomachaches. I never ate so much chop suey in my life. 327 00:22:54,674 --> 00:22:58,277 Me neither. One more dish and I'd have put my hair in a braid 328 00:22:58,344 --> 00:23:00,012 and opened up a laundry. 329 00:23:00,079 --> 00:23:03,149 - Well, I like chop suey. - You like anything. 330 00:23:03,215 --> 00:23:04,817 What happened? 331 00:23:04,884 --> 00:23:06,919 Well, our boyfriends' idea of a swell evening 332 00:23:06,986 --> 00:23:09,956 was to take us from one chop suey joint to another. 333 00:23:10,022 --> 00:23:12,492 Yippy. Did we have fun. 334 00:23:12,559 --> 00:23:14,994 The only laugh I got out of the whole night 335 00:23:15,061 --> 00:23:18,097 was when this screwball, nearly choked to death on a chopstick. 336 00:23:19,799 --> 00:23:22,869 - How'd you do, Mary? - Oh, alright. 337 00:23:22,935 --> 00:23:25,104 'Did they take that chump for much?' 338 00:23:25,171 --> 00:23:26,673 Well, I-I-I don't know. 339 00:23:26,739 --> 00:23:29,108 'Where did you go after you left the club?' 340 00:23:29,175 --> 00:23:30,510 Home. 341 00:23:30,577 --> 00:23:33,880 Gee, it must be swell to get some sleep. 342 00:23:33,946 --> 00:23:36,282 And where did you disappear to last night 343 00:23:36,348 --> 00:23:38,451 that makes you so smug? 344 00:23:38,518 --> 00:23:42,121 I spent a very charming evening with Mr. Vanning. 345 00:23:45,024 --> 00:23:46,358 Oh. 346 00:23:46,425 --> 00:23:47,960 Emmy Lou! 347 00:23:50,763 --> 00:23:53,165 - You're a fool. - Don't kid yourself. 348 00:23:55,602 --> 00:23:57,737 Girls, good morning. 349 00:23:57,804 --> 00:23:59,972 Don't you believe in knocking twice? 350 00:24:00,039 --> 00:24:01,674 Don't you believe in payin' once? 351 00:24:01,741 --> 00:24:03,510 - No. - So, we're even. 352 00:24:03,576 --> 00:24:06,245 How about it, girls, according to my book 353 00:24:06,312 --> 00:24:09,081 you owe me for enough dresses to start a new business. 354 00:24:09,148 --> 00:24:11,050 Now, it's gonna come to a showdown. 355 00:24:11,117 --> 00:24:14,120 Either you're gonna pay me or you ain't, one or the other. 356 00:24:14,186 --> 00:24:16,956 Louie, I'm kinda afraid it's gonna have to be the other. 357 00:24:17,023 --> 00:24:19,792 Give us a break. You know us. We're good for it. 358 00:24:19,859 --> 00:24:21,894 Girls, if it was up to me, honest 359 00:24:21,961 --> 00:24:25,031 I'd do it in a minute. I like you, you like me. 360 00:24:25,097 --> 00:24:28,901 But what am I gonna do, that guy Vanning and his bunch are on my 361 00:24:28,968 --> 00:24:31,904 neck every minute of the day. Collect, collect, collect. 362 00:24:31,971 --> 00:24:34,440 Vanning? What's he got to do with it? 363 00:24:34,507 --> 00:24:36,576 Everything. He's taken this over too. 364 00:24:36,643 --> 00:24:38,611 Yeah, it's the truth. 365 00:24:38,678 --> 00:24:41,280 All my life I've been in business for myself. 366 00:24:41,347 --> 00:24:44,784 If I lost all the money I made, at least it was mine. 367 00:24:44,851 --> 00:24:46,853 But now, I don't even get that satisfaction. 368 00:24:46,919 --> 00:24:50,623 Everything is his. Just like with you girls. Nice, huh? 369 00:24:50,690 --> 00:24:54,226 Pretty soon, that guy is gonna charge us for breathing. 370 00:24:54,293 --> 00:24:57,496 Listen, if you'll promise to pay a little.. 371 00:24:57,564 --> 00:24:59,365 ...I'll show some new stuff that I got. 372 00:24:59,431 --> 00:25:01,801 And I positively guarantee you that it was stolen 373 00:25:01,868 --> 00:25:04,671 from the best shop in town. But you gotta promise. 374 00:25:04,737 --> 00:25:06,673 - Sure. - Oh, we promise. 375 00:25:06,739 --> 00:25:08,741 - Sure. - I'll bet we're gonna love it. 376 00:25:08,808 --> 00:25:10,810 - Oh, it's heavy. - I want the white one! 377 00:25:10,877 --> 00:25:12,812 Hey, take it easy. Take it easy. 378 00:25:12,879 --> 00:25:15,114 You can't do that, that's mine. 379 00:25:15,181 --> 00:25:18,017 Oh, look at this. Isn't this.. 380 00:25:19,485 --> 00:25:20,987 Yes, sir. 381 00:25:23,723 --> 00:25:25,658 Pick me up in about a half-hour? 382 00:25:25,725 --> 00:25:27,226 - So long. Bye. - So long. 383 00:25:27,293 --> 00:25:30,129 - Emmy Lou, look. - Isn't it adorable? 384 00:25:30,196 --> 00:25:32,832 I'll guarantee you that's one of the most beautiful pieces 385 00:25:32,899 --> 00:25:36,135 of merchandise I ever seen. 386 00:25:37,336 --> 00:25:38,905 - Come in. - Come in. 387 00:25:44,310 --> 00:25:46,245 - Betty. - Hello, Mary. 388 00:25:46,312 --> 00:25:48,748 Gee, I'm glad to see you. 389 00:25:48,815 --> 00:25:50,750 Girls, this is my kid sister, Betty 390 00:25:50,817 --> 00:25:52,752 that I've told you so much about. 391 00:25:52,819 --> 00:25:54,553 How do you do? 392 00:25:56,656 --> 00:25:58,858 'Oh. Oh, Betty.' 393 00:25:58,925 --> 00:26:00,860 'Th-this is Louie, o-our designer.' 394 00:26:00,927 --> 00:26:02,729 - 'Designer?' - 'Yes.' 395 00:26:02,795 --> 00:26:04,997 You see, our store is giving a fashion show.. 396 00:26:05,064 --> 00:26:07,667 ...and they sent him up with some models to wear. 397 00:26:07,734 --> 00:26:09,702 And, well we were rehearsing. 398 00:26:09,769 --> 00:26:13,272 That is, E-Emmy Lou was. Weren't you, Emmy Lou? 399 00:26:13,339 --> 00:26:15,341 Oh, yeah-yeah. Sure. 400 00:26:15,407 --> 00:26:18,010 What, do you have to rehearse for a fashion show? 401 00:26:18,077 --> 00:26:19,846 Oh sure, just like being an actress. 402 00:26:19,912 --> 00:26:22,314 And you have to keep on rehearsing, don't you? 403 00:26:22,381 --> 00:26:23,816 'Sure, sure.' 404 00:26:23,883 --> 00:26:26,252 Louie, we'll see you back at the show room. 405 00:26:26,318 --> 00:26:28,821 Show room? 406 00:26:28,888 --> 00:26:31,523 Oh, so this is the sister you're always 407 00:26:31,590 --> 00:26:34,126 talking about, huh, Mary? Nice looking girl. 408 00:26:34,193 --> 00:26:35,928 Nice looking coat too. 409 00:26:35,995 --> 00:26:39,598 It looks like, sure I remember. I sold it to you a year ago. 410 00:26:39,666 --> 00:26:41,901 - I said goodbye, Louie. - Yes goodbye, Louie. 411 00:26:41,968 --> 00:26:44,737 - Hey, what about the money? - You can send us the check. 412 00:26:44,804 --> 00:26:47,606 Send you a check? Are you crazy, or am I? 413 00:26:47,674 --> 00:26:49,608 - Come on, Louie. - Now, wait a minute. 414 00:26:49,676 --> 00:26:51,744 Cut it out, will you? What is this? 415 00:26:51,811 --> 00:26:53,880 Halloween. We're putting on a masquerade. 416 00:26:53,946 --> 00:26:55,882 Can't you get it through your head 417 00:26:55,948 --> 00:26:58,517 that she doesn't want sister to know what she's doing? 418 00:26:58,584 --> 00:27:00,086 Oh...I get it now. 419 00:27:00,152 --> 00:27:02,154 I thought you'd get it sooner or later. 420 00:27:02,221 --> 00:27:06,125 Oh come on will you, quit kidding. 421 00:27:06,192 --> 00:27:08,460 You've never seen so much excitement in your life. 422 00:27:08,527 --> 00:27:10,697 For weeks, the whole school has talked about 423 00:27:10,763 --> 00:27:12,699 nothing else but this football game. 424 00:27:12,765 --> 00:27:14,701 You see, the boys who're playing 425 00:27:14,767 --> 00:27:16,703 come from a college right near us. 426 00:27:16,769 --> 00:27:19,205 We know most of them all and.. 427 00:27:19,271 --> 00:27:22,008 ...and, you know.. 428 00:27:22,074 --> 00:27:24,043 - Sweet. - Like sugar. 429 00:27:24,110 --> 00:27:26,478 So, we decided to come and see it. 430 00:27:26,545 --> 00:27:29,849 It didn't cost much, Mary. Besides, I was dying to see you. 431 00:27:29,916 --> 00:27:31,851 Oh I'm glad you came, darling. 432 00:27:31,918 --> 00:27:34,220 Gee, it must be fun going to school. 433 00:27:34,286 --> 00:27:36,923 'Oh, it's not exciting if that's what you mean.' 434 00:27:36,989 --> 00:27:38,925 Mostly going to classes and studying. 435 00:27:38,991 --> 00:27:41,160 Of course, once in a while we have dances 436 00:27:41,227 --> 00:27:43,095 and parties, and that's about all. 437 00:27:43,162 --> 00:27:45,097 I don't think you'd like it. 438 00:27:45,164 --> 00:27:47,867 Sounds much easier than standing on your feet all night-- 439 00:27:47,934 --> 00:27:49,902 How long are you going to stay, Betty? 440 00:27:49,969 --> 00:27:53,039 Just for the day. Came to see the game and then back. 441 00:27:53,105 --> 00:27:55,174 'You're coming with us, aren't you?' 442 00:27:55,241 --> 00:27:58,310 No, no, you go with your friends. 443 00:27:58,377 --> 00:28:00,546 I think I'll just stay home and rest. 444 00:28:00,612 --> 00:28:02,548 You're tired, aren't you? 445 00:28:02,614 --> 00:28:04,350 You all look so tired. 446 00:28:04,416 --> 00:28:07,219 'You must work awfully hard in that dress shop, don't you?' 447 00:28:07,286 --> 00:28:10,122 Oh, It just happened that this week was very busy. 448 00:28:10,189 --> 00:28:13,492 Yeah, sugar. They practically rushed us right off our feet. 449 00:28:13,559 --> 00:28:15,962 I wish there was something I could do, Mary. 450 00:28:16,028 --> 00:28:18,130 You keep right on going to school. 451 00:28:18,197 --> 00:28:21,400 I know, but it sort of makes me feel so helpless. 452 00:28:21,467 --> 00:28:24,270 I go to school and a have good time and.. 453 00:28:24,336 --> 00:28:27,206 ...you have to work so awfully hard to keep me there. 454 00:28:27,273 --> 00:28:29,308 I'll pay you back for it someday, Mary. 455 00:28:29,375 --> 00:28:32,144 You'll pay me back every time I look at you. 456 00:28:33,279 --> 00:28:35,714 That must be my friends. I'll answer it. 457 00:28:42,221 --> 00:28:44,590 Which one of you is Mary Dwight? 458 00:28:44,656 --> 00:28:46,025 I am. 459 00:28:49,762 --> 00:28:52,664 Know a fella named Ralph Krawford? 460 00:28:52,731 --> 00:28:54,901 Ralph Krawford? 461 00:28:54,967 --> 00:28:58,137 Yes, I was out with him last night. 462 00:28:58,204 --> 00:29:00,339 Did you ever see this before? 463 00:29:06,178 --> 00:29:07,679 Sure. 464 00:29:07,746 --> 00:29:10,082 Sure, I gave it to him. 465 00:29:10,149 --> 00:29:12,084 - What about it? - Nothing. 466 00:29:12,151 --> 00:29:14,753 Only it was in his pocket when we found him. 467 00:29:14,821 --> 00:29:16,255 Murdered. 468 00:29:17,623 --> 00:29:19,591 Murdered? 469 00:29:19,658 --> 00:29:23,262 'Yeah, we found him layin' in an alley earlier this morning.' 470 00:29:26,465 --> 00:29:28,467 Well, what's that got to do with me? 471 00:29:28,534 --> 00:29:30,903 You'll find out when we get down to headquarters. 472 00:29:30,970 --> 00:29:34,106 I don't wanna go. Tell me what I'm being arrested for. 473 00:29:34,173 --> 00:29:36,342 Well, if you must know sister, we're holding you 474 00:29:36,408 --> 00:29:39,278 on suspicion of murder. The rest of you get dressed. 475 00:29:39,345 --> 00:29:42,949 Well, you don't think it took all of us to kill him, do you? 476 00:29:43,015 --> 00:29:45,417 You'll get a chance to answer that. Get going. 477 00:29:56,195 --> 00:29:59,631 And you say that these men asked you to recommend a night club? 478 00:29:59,698 --> 00:30:01,300 Yes, sir. 479 00:30:01,367 --> 00:30:03,535 Why'd you send them to the Club Intimate? 480 00:30:03,602 --> 00:30:05,071 No particular reason. 481 00:30:05,137 --> 00:30:07,506 It was the first place that popped into my head. 482 00:30:07,573 --> 00:30:09,541 Because you were paid so much a head 483 00:30:09,608 --> 00:30:11,978 by Vanning for steering suckers in there, don't you? 484 00:30:12,044 --> 00:30:13,688 Vanning? Who's Vanning? Never heard of him. 485 00:30:13,712 --> 00:30:16,482 You never heard of two years in jail for perjury either? 486 00:30:16,548 --> 00:30:19,852 If a guest in the hotel asks me a question 487 00:30:19,919 --> 00:30:21,888 it's part of my job to answer it. 488 00:30:21,954 --> 00:30:23,890 What he does or where he goes 489 00:30:23,956 --> 00:30:26,092 after that is none of my business. 490 00:30:27,359 --> 00:30:29,361 That's all. Thanks. 491 00:30:32,631 --> 00:30:35,101 Well, I guess that's that. 492 00:30:35,167 --> 00:30:37,669 He was lying, and so were the rest of them. 493 00:30:37,736 --> 00:30:41,373 They know just how and why that man was killed and who did it. 494 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:44,010 Just as you and I do. It's marvelous, isn't it? 495 00:30:44,076 --> 00:30:47,513 One man, Johnny Vanning, completely terrorizes the city. 496 00:30:47,579 --> 00:30:49,681 Commits every crime from murder to mayhem. 497 00:30:49,748 --> 00:30:52,952 We all know it, yet we can't do a thing about it. 498 00:30:53,019 --> 00:30:54,887 Look, son. 499 00:30:54,954 --> 00:30:56,889 My files are bulging with quashed indictments 500 00:30:56,956 --> 00:30:59,725 'hung juries, verdicts of "not guilty."' 501 00:30:59,791 --> 00:31:02,194 'So long as Vanning is able to buy politicians' 502 00:31:02,261 --> 00:31:04,330 and hire unscrupulous lawyers 503 00:31:04,396 --> 00:31:06,598 who take advantage of every technicality of the law.. 504 00:31:06,665 --> 00:31:08,700 ...who coach and buy perjured testimony.. 505 00:31:08,767 --> 00:31:11,170 ...and so long as Vanning is able to continue 506 00:31:11,237 --> 00:31:13,372 intimidating witnesses, it's futile. 507 00:31:13,439 --> 00:31:15,841 How long is it gonna keep on being futile? 508 00:31:15,908 --> 00:31:17,509 I don't know. 509 00:31:17,576 --> 00:31:20,779 We've got to wait for Vanning to make that one false move. 510 00:31:20,846 --> 00:31:22,448 I don't like waiting. 511 00:31:22,514 --> 00:31:24,883 Well, do you wanna take the case into court? 512 00:31:24,951 --> 00:31:26,152 'Sure.' 513 00:31:26,218 --> 00:31:28,020 - With those witnesses? - Sure, why not? 514 00:31:28,087 --> 00:31:30,222 If Vanning can get away with intimidation 515 00:31:30,289 --> 00:31:31,823 why can't I? 516 00:31:31,890 --> 00:31:33,825 You're a young man, Dave. 517 00:31:33,892 --> 00:31:35,827 At this stage of your career 518 00:31:35,894 --> 00:31:37,863 a fiasco isn't going to help you much. 519 00:31:37,930 --> 00:31:39,665 Yeah, well, I'll take that chance. 520 00:31:39,731 --> 00:31:43,602 Alright. From now on, it's your case. Go to it. 521 00:31:43,669 --> 00:31:45,604 - Thanks. - Good luck. 522 00:31:50,609 --> 00:31:52,844 - Did you pick up those girls? - Yes, sir. 523 00:31:52,911 --> 00:31:55,847 - They're in with the others. - 'Step into my office.' 524 00:31:55,914 --> 00:31:58,985 - Not at all. - You too, Casey. 525 00:32:02,588 --> 00:32:05,224 Right this way, gentleman. Step right over here. 526 00:32:10,829 --> 00:32:12,764 Oh, Casey, will you close that blind? 527 00:32:12,831 --> 00:32:14,166 Yes, sir. 528 00:32:27,313 --> 00:32:30,849 Ferguson, have all those girls lineup facing this way. 529 00:32:30,916 --> 00:32:33,052 'Stand up, please.' 530 00:32:36,622 --> 00:32:38,624 Those the girls you were with last night? 531 00:32:38,690 --> 00:32:41,493 You've got nothing to be afraid of. They can't see you. 532 00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:44,896 - Were those the girls? - Yes, sir. Yeah. 533 00:32:44,963 --> 00:32:47,299 All except that one on the end. 534 00:32:47,366 --> 00:32:49,635 - Which one? - The one with the leather coat. 535 00:32:52,338 --> 00:32:54,740 'The girl with the leather coat, step forward.' 536 00:33:01,780 --> 00:33:04,350 You sure you didn't see her around the club? 537 00:33:04,416 --> 00:33:06,318 Yes, sir. 538 00:33:06,385 --> 00:33:08,520 Alright, which one was with Krawford? 539 00:33:08,587 --> 00:33:11,690 - One on the end, the blonde. - That's Mary Dwight. 540 00:33:13,959 --> 00:33:16,628 'Ferguson, bring Mary Dwight into my office right away.' 541 00:33:21,467 --> 00:33:23,735 Alright, thank you. That's all. 542 00:33:31,810 --> 00:33:34,813 - Mary Dwight? - That's right. 543 00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:37,183 Sit down. 544 00:33:37,249 --> 00:33:39,885 Go ahead, sit down. 545 00:33:39,951 --> 00:33:41,153 Alright. 546 00:33:44,290 --> 00:33:46,225 You work at the Club Intimate? 547 00:33:46,292 --> 00:33:48,294 Are you telling me or asking me? 548 00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:50,496 Those other girls, they work there too? 549 00:33:50,562 --> 00:33:52,298 You know everything. 550 00:33:52,364 --> 00:33:55,134 That little girl with the leather coat. What does she do? 551 00:33:55,201 --> 00:33:56,968 She's got nothing to do with this. 552 00:33:57,035 --> 00:33:58,637 We'll find out about that later. 553 00:33:58,704 --> 00:34:00,906 No, we'll find out about that right now. 554 00:34:00,972 --> 00:34:03,742 That kid's my sister and she was down here visiting me 555 00:34:03,809 --> 00:34:06,011 from college when those gorillas of yours blew in 556 00:34:06,078 --> 00:34:08,847 and pulled us all in. I'll tell you something else. 557 00:34:08,914 --> 00:34:10,682 If you get her mixed up in this-- 558 00:34:10,749 --> 00:34:13,952 Nothing of that sort, if she had nothing to do with it 559 00:34:14,019 --> 00:34:15,687 I'll let her go 560 00:34:15,754 --> 00:34:19,558 just as I'll let you go, if you had nothing to do with it. 561 00:34:21,893 --> 00:34:25,231 Last night about ten o'clock, four men came into the club. 562 00:34:25,297 --> 00:34:27,233 They sat down with you girls. 563 00:34:27,299 --> 00:34:29,368 You had some drinks and you danced. 564 00:34:29,435 --> 00:34:32,138 There isn't any law against that, is there? 565 00:34:32,204 --> 00:34:34,773 One of those men was Ralph Krawford. He was with you. 566 00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:37,609 The other four left about one o'clock. You and he stayed. 567 00:34:37,676 --> 00:34:39,978 He lost a lot of money gambling. 568 00:34:40,045 --> 00:34:42,348 Then, you left together in a cab. 569 00:34:42,414 --> 00:34:44,250 - Where'd you go? - Home. 570 00:34:44,316 --> 00:34:46,252 What'd you do when you got there? 571 00:34:46,318 --> 00:34:49,087 Nothing. I got out, and he went off in the cab. 572 00:34:49,155 --> 00:34:52,824 - Where? - I don't know. 573 00:34:52,891 --> 00:34:55,627 Well, the cab driver just testified a few minutes ago 574 00:34:55,694 --> 00:34:58,897 that you told him to take Ralph to the Waldorf Ritz Hotel. 575 00:34:58,964 --> 00:35:01,099 How do you account for that? 576 00:35:03,034 --> 00:35:04,770 Supposing I did? 577 00:35:04,836 --> 00:35:07,005 Then, you did know where he was going? 578 00:35:07,072 --> 00:35:08,874 Well, I knew where he was starting for 579 00:35:08,940 --> 00:35:11,743 but I didn't know where he was going to wind up. 580 00:35:11,810 --> 00:35:13,779 And you didn't see him between the time 581 00:35:13,845 --> 00:35:16,415 he checked out and the time we found him murdered? 582 00:35:16,482 --> 00:35:18,617 - No. - Can you prove you didn't? 583 00:35:20,085 --> 00:35:22,221 Can you prove I did? 584 00:35:24,089 --> 00:35:27,859 - You're a pretty smart girl. - So they tell me. 585 00:35:27,926 --> 00:35:30,729 Much too smart to be protecting a murderer like Vanning. 586 00:35:32,398 --> 00:35:34,333 I'm not protecting anybody but myself. 587 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:36,635 'Now, Mary, we're trying to help you.' 588 00:35:36,702 --> 00:35:38,837 - I'm doing alright. - For how long? 589 00:35:38,904 --> 00:35:41,106 Until Vanning gets as much as he can 590 00:35:41,173 --> 00:35:43,375 and then throws you in the ashcan just like 591 00:35:43,442 --> 00:35:45,644 with everything else he's ever laid his hands on. 592 00:35:45,711 --> 00:35:49,114 Now, we're trying to put a stop to that. Help people like you. 593 00:35:49,181 --> 00:35:50,916 But there's nothing we can do 594 00:35:50,982 --> 00:35:53,118 unless you're willing to help yourself. 595 00:35:53,185 --> 00:35:55,153 Now, why don't you give us a break. 596 00:35:55,221 --> 00:35:57,689 What kind of a break have you ever given us? 597 00:35:57,756 --> 00:36:00,326 Outside of kicking us around every chance you could get? 598 00:36:00,392 --> 00:36:03,161 There's only one kind of a break we want from you 599 00:36:03,229 --> 00:36:04,730 and that's to leave us alone. 600 00:36:04,796 --> 00:36:07,366 And let us make a living in our own way. 601 00:36:07,433 --> 00:36:09,568 Or is that asking too much? 602 00:36:13,539 --> 00:36:15,674 Anything else you wanna know? 603 00:36:17,743 --> 00:36:20,879 How do you like the inside of a jail? 604 00:36:20,946 --> 00:36:22,681 - Me? - Yes, you. 605 00:36:22,748 --> 00:36:24,683 Because that's exactly where you're going. 606 00:36:24,750 --> 00:36:26,518 Maybe you don't know it, young lady 607 00:36:26,585 --> 00:36:29,221 but there's law that states an accessory to a murder 608 00:36:29,288 --> 00:36:31,657 equally as guilty as the murderer himself. 609 00:36:31,723 --> 00:36:35,193 Now, unless you tell me exactly what happened and who did it.. 610 00:36:35,261 --> 00:36:38,196 ...I'm going to indict you for murder. 611 00:36:56,748 --> 00:37:00,386 Nice, huh? Just when I got everything running fine. 612 00:37:00,452 --> 00:37:02,187 - It'll blow over. - Yeah. 613 00:37:02,254 --> 00:37:05,457 In the meantime, every one of my joints gets a bad reputation. 614 00:37:05,524 --> 00:37:08,360 What do you suppose people thought they were before this? 615 00:37:08,427 --> 00:37:10,862 - Ice cream parlors? - Never mind that. 616 00:37:10,929 --> 00:37:13,499 I want it stopped. 617 00:37:13,565 --> 00:37:16,335 What kind of a guy is this Graham? 618 00:37:16,402 --> 00:37:19,305 - Young, ambitious. - What's his price? 619 00:37:19,371 --> 00:37:22,173 Did you ever hear the story about the virtuous young man? 620 00:37:22,240 --> 00:37:25,043 Someday you're going to give me one of those screwy answers 621 00:37:25,110 --> 00:37:27,879 and I'm going to bust you right in the nose. 622 00:37:27,946 --> 00:37:29,881 Tell it to me in English. 623 00:37:29,948 --> 00:37:31,950 He can't be bought. 624 00:37:32,017 --> 00:37:34,119 Is that plain enough? 625 00:37:34,185 --> 00:37:35,521 Yeah. 626 00:37:36,822 --> 00:37:38,457 Too plain. 627 00:37:38,524 --> 00:37:40,826 Anybody that wouldn't take dough is crazy. 628 00:37:40,892 --> 00:37:42,628 Crazy men are dangerous. 629 00:37:42,694 --> 00:37:45,063 A guy like that is liable to get too big 630 00:37:45,130 --> 00:37:47,899 and really put the clamps down. And where will we be? 631 00:37:47,966 --> 00:37:50,135 Oh, I've got a little something worked out 632 00:37:50,201 --> 00:37:51,937 that will take care of that possibility. 633 00:37:52,003 --> 00:37:54,973 - Is it cute? - Everything I do is cute. 634 00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:58,043 When I get through with him, he'll be lucky to be able 635 00:37:58,109 --> 00:38:01,313 to get a job as a second assistant to a notary public. 636 00:38:01,380 --> 00:38:02,848 Swell. 637 00:38:02,914 --> 00:38:06,318 - Did you spring the girl yet? - No. 638 00:38:06,385 --> 00:38:08,286 What are you waiting for? 639 00:38:08,354 --> 00:38:10,356 When I promise to get my girls out 640 00:38:10,422 --> 00:38:12,591 in case they get jammed up, I mean it. 641 00:38:12,658 --> 00:38:15,594 - Get her out. - She stays in jail. 642 00:38:15,661 --> 00:38:18,997 Listen, Gordon. You're doing alright as my lawyer. 643 00:38:19,064 --> 00:38:22,468 But I don't like it when you start trying to be my boss. 644 00:38:22,534 --> 00:38:25,170 Get that girl out before she starts squawking. 645 00:38:25,236 --> 00:38:27,205 That's just what I want her to do. 646 00:38:27,272 --> 00:38:28,440 What? 647 00:38:30,075 --> 00:38:32,143 Only, she's going to squawk.. 648 00:38:32,210 --> 00:38:34,346 ...the way I tell her to. 649 00:38:35,914 --> 00:38:39,585 How do you do, Miss Dwight? Sorry, I was delayed. 650 00:38:39,651 --> 00:38:42,220 I got here as soon as I could. 651 00:38:42,287 --> 00:38:44,289 Now, before we accept this case, there are 652 00:38:44,356 --> 00:38:46,458 several things I'd like to discuss with you. 653 00:38:46,525 --> 00:38:48,460 - Who sent you? - Vanning. 654 00:38:48,527 --> 00:38:51,430 - And keep it under your hat. - It's about time. 655 00:38:51,497 --> 00:38:53,231 - Well? - Sit down. 656 00:38:53,298 --> 00:38:55,901 That's all I've been doing for the past two days 657 00:38:55,967 --> 00:38:57,903 is standing up and sitting down. 658 00:38:57,969 --> 00:39:00,372 I don't need a lawyer to tell me that. 659 00:39:00,439 --> 00:39:03,475 - When do I get out of here? - You don't. 660 00:39:03,542 --> 00:39:06,512 - Oh, I see. A little conniving. - Yeah, that's right. 661 00:39:06,578 --> 00:39:08,514 I go to bat for Vanning 662 00:39:08,580 --> 00:39:11,450 and I get paid off by taking the rap for him. 663 00:39:11,517 --> 00:39:13,552 Listen, jurisprudence, I pay Vanning good money 664 00:39:13,619 --> 00:39:15,554 to settle little things like this 665 00:39:15,621 --> 00:39:17,823 and he's going to get me out of here. 666 00:39:17,889 --> 00:39:20,559 Now, listen, you know that Vanning takes care 667 00:39:20,626 --> 00:39:22,928 of all the people that play ball with him. 668 00:39:22,994 --> 00:39:25,163 You've got to stay here and help him. 669 00:39:25,230 --> 00:39:26,498 Help him? 670 00:39:26,565 --> 00:39:28,500 What is this, a charity affair? 671 00:39:28,567 --> 00:39:30,536 He's gonna' help me, and do it fast. 672 00:39:30,602 --> 00:39:33,839 If he doesn't get me out of here by tonight, I am-- 673 00:39:33,905 --> 00:39:35,907 Do nothing. 674 00:39:35,974 --> 00:39:39,210 Vanning was telling me that you said something about a girl 675 00:39:39,277 --> 00:39:42,514 that was found in the river by the name of.. 676 00:39:42,581 --> 00:39:44,315 ...Audrey Fleming. 677 00:39:44,382 --> 00:39:48,854 Now, you don't wanna' be found in that spot, do you? 678 00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:50,355 You sit down. 679 00:39:50,422 --> 00:39:53,024 and listen to what I've got to say. 680 00:39:58,997 --> 00:40:01,433 What did you want to see me about? 681 00:40:02,868 --> 00:40:05,637 How long are you going to keep me in this place? 682 00:40:05,704 --> 00:40:07,439 That entirely depends on you. 683 00:40:07,506 --> 00:40:11,209 You wouldn't do this if I were somebody important, would you? 684 00:40:11,276 --> 00:40:12,478 No. 685 00:40:13,979 --> 00:40:16,448 You'd be afraid. Somebody higher up might find out. 686 00:40:16,515 --> 00:40:18,249 You might lose your job. 687 00:40:18,316 --> 00:40:21,720 but with me, you can get tough. People like us, we don't count. 688 00:40:21,787 --> 00:40:24,690 We're nobodies. Set-ups to be kicked about by everyone. 689 00:40:24,756 --> 00:40:28,159 I won't stand for it. Either you let me out of here, or-- 690 00:40:28,226 --> 00:40:29,961 Or what? 691 00:40:30,028 --> 00:40:32,197 Coming in here like this isn't gonna help you. 692 00:40:32,263 --> 00:40:34,633 There's only one way for you to get out. 693 00:40:34,700 --> 00:40:36,900 'Tell me what happened the night Krawford was murdered.' 694 00:40:36,935 --> 00:40:38,403 - I can't. - 'Why not?' 695 00:40:38,470 --> 00:40:39,738 - I'm afraid. - Of Vanning? 696 00:40:39,805 --> 00:40:41,439 'Yes. He'll kill me.' 697 00:40:41,507 --> 00:40:44,510 - He did have a part in this. - No, he didn't-he-he was.. 698 00:40:44,576 --> 00:40:47,145 Oh, oh, please don't ask me to talk. He'll kill me. 699 00:40:47,212 --> 00:40:49,380 Help me to prove that he was responsible 700 00:40:49,447 --> 00:40:51,382 and I'll put him behind bars. 701 00:40:51,449 --> 00:40:53,084 You don't know what he's like. 702 00:40:53,151 --> 00:40:55,554 People just disappear and are never heard of again. 703 00:40:55,621 --> 00:40:57,589 I don't want that to happen to me. 704 00:40:57,656 --> 00:40:59,958 I'm young and, and I wanna live. 705 00:41:03,328 --> 00:41:07,465 I don't wanna die. 706 00:41:09,234 --> 00:41:13,271 Alright come on, now. Pull yourself together. 707 00:41:13,338 --> 00:41:16,007 Here...use this. 708 00:41:17,042 --> 00:41:18,143 Thanks. 709 00:41:21,046 --> 00:41:24,115 'It's pretty tough going for you girls, isn't it?' 710 00:41:24,182 --> 00:41:25,216 Yeah. 711 00:41:26,451 --> 00:41:28,620 Sometimes it's too tough. 712 00:41:30,589 --> 00:41:33,358 There's no use crying about it. 713 00:41:33,424 --> 00:41:36,695 That's the way it is. That's the way it's gotta be. 714 00:41:36,762 --> 00:41:38,730 No, it doesn't. 715 00:41:38,797 --> 00:41:41,166 You're not the only one that was born with 716 00:41:41,232 --> 00:41:42,968 two strikes against him. 717 00:41:43,034 --> 00:41:46,037 I probably got kicked around just as much as you did. 718 00:41:46,104 --> 00:41:48,774 I didn't like it any better than you do. 719 00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:50,876 The only difference between us is that.. 720 00:41:50,942 --> 00:41:53,845 ...well, I did something about it. You won't. 721 00:41:53,912 --> 00:41:57,048 Now, Mary, if you'll help me to put Vanning and his crowd 722 00:41:57,115 --> 00:41:59,551 where they belong...you'll not only be helping yourself 723 00:41:59,618 --> 00:42:03,521 but you'll be helping thousands of other girls just like you. 724 00:42:03,589 --> 00:42:05,957 If you won't...well, then, you'll just 725 00:42:06,024 --> 00:42:09,995 keep on getting in deeper and deeper until.. 726 00:42:10,061 --> 00:42:13,198 ...well, I...I guess you know the rest of the story 727 00:42:13,264 --> 00:42:15,634 just as well as I do. 728 00:42:15,701 --> 00:42:17,636 Now, you see that, don't you? 729 00:42:17,703 --> 00:42:20,572 Yeah, I see. 730 00:42:20,639 --> 00:42:23,041 Well, now, why won't you tell me what you know? 731 00:42:23,108 --> 00:42:25,777 Well, what have you got to lose? 732 00:42:25,844 --> 00:42:29,047 Nothing. Not a thing. 733 00:42:29,114 --> 00:42:31,049 Then you'll talk? 734 00:42:32,884 --> 00:42:35,186 - Why not? - Good girl. 735 00:42:36,722 --> 00:42:39,991 'Oh, Smith, come in here and bring your book.' 736 00:42:53,438 --> 00:42:56,407 And now Miss Dwight, you've testified that when you arrived 737 00:42:56,474 --> 00:43:00,045 at the Waldorf Ritz Hotel, you saw the deceased being dragged 738 00:43:00,111 --> 00:43:02,447 into a taxicab by two of the defendants. 739 00:43:02,513 --> 00:43:05,283 - Is that right? - Yes, sir. 740 00:43:07,418 --> 00:43:09,354 Can you identify these men? 741 00:43:10,521 --> 00:43:12,257 Yes, sir. 742 00:43:12,323 --> 00:43:14,960 'Will the defendants please rise?' 743 00:43:19,230 --> 00:43:23,101 Will you indicate the men you saw that night? 744 00:43:23,168 --> 00:43:26,537 'Go ahead, Miss Dwight, you've nothing to be afraid of.' 745 00:43:26,604 --> 00:43:28,774 'Which are the men?' 746 00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:30,909 Those two men standing there behind Mr. Vanning. 747 00:43:30,976 --> 00:43:33,845 'And you positively identify William Borno and James Meller' 748 00:43:33,912 --> 00:43:36,114 as the two men you saw drag the deceased 749 00:43:36,181 --> 00:43:39,184 Ralph Krawford, into the taxicab? 750 00:43:39,250 --> 00:43:40,986 Yes, sir. 751 00:43:41,052 --> 00:43:42,988 Have you ever seen these men before? 752 00:43:43,054 --> 00:43:45,724 Oh, sure. They're a couple of Vanning's strong-arm men. 753 00:43:45,791 --> 00:43:47,926 They work as bouncers at the club. 754 00:43:49,394 --> 00:43:51,329 Thank you, Miss Dwight. 755 00:43:53,164 --> 00:43:54,966 Your witness. 756 00:44:00,739 --> 00:44:03,108 You say your name is Mary Dwight? 757 00:44:03,174 --> 00:44:05,310 - 'Yes, sir.' - 'Is that your true name?' 758 00:44:05,376 --> 00:44:07,112 Answer the question. 759 00:44:07,178 --> 00:44:09,147 - Is that your true name? - No, sir. 760 00:44:09,214 --> 00:44:11,850 - Then what is it? - Mary Strauber. 761 00:44:11,917 --> 00:44:14,352 Why did you have to change it, Miss Strauber? 762 00:44:14,419 --> 00:44:16,688 - For professional reasons. - What is your profession? 763 00:44:16,755 --> 00:44:18,724 I object, your honor. That's immaterial. 764 00:44:18,790 --> 00:44:22,027 'I'm merely trying to establish the character of this witness.' 765 00:44:22,093 --> 00:44:25,997 - 'Overruled. Proceed.' - 'I repeat the question.' 766 00:44:26,064 --> 00:44:28,867 What is your profession, Miss Strauber? 767 00:44:28,934 --> 00:44:31,937 I'm a hostess, in a nightclub. 768 00:44:32,003 --> 00:44:34,305 Now, will you please explain to the jury 769 00:44:34,372 --> 00:44:37,709 just what your duties as hostess are? 770 00:44:37,776 --> 00:44:41,847 Well...we have to entertain all the men 771 00:44:41,913 --> 00:44:43,849 'that come into the club alone.' 772 00:44:43,915 --> 00:44:46,451 And just how, do you entertain these men? 773 00:44:46,517 --> 00:44:49,254 I object. That's a deliberate attempt to degrade the witness. 774 00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:52,657 Overruled. I believe it's material. 775 00:44:52,724 --> 00:44:56,527 And now, just how do you entertain these men? 776 00:44:56,594 --> 00:45:00,398 Well, we dance with them and get them to buy us drinks. 777 00:45:00,465 --> 00:45:02,300 Is that all? 778 00:45:02,367 --> 00:45:04,803 We're nice and pleasant to them.. 779 00:45:04,870 --> 00:45:06,938 ...and see that they have a good time. 780 00:45:07,005 --> 00:45:10,008 In other words, you've got to be nice and pleasant to men 781 00:45:10,075 --> 00:45:13,912 you don't know, who ordinarily, you'd have nothing to do with. 782 00:45:13,979 --> 00:45:15,947 - 'Isn't that right?' - 'Yes, sir.' 783 00:45:16,014 --> 00:45:18,683 'Now, Ms. Strauber, isn't it true that about a week previous' 784 00:45:18,750 --> 00:45:21,319 to the night in question, you were threatened with dismissal 785 00:45:21,386 --> 00:45:24,389 by Mr. Vanning for exceeding your duties as hostess? 786 00:45:24,455 --> 00:45:27,292 Objection, Your Honor. It's irrelevant and immaterial. 787 00:45:27,358 --> 00:45:29,427 I believe it both relevant and material 788 00:45:29,494 --> 00:45:32,430 to inquire into the motives of this witness. 789 00:45:32,497 --> 00:45:33,631 Overruled. 790 00:45:33,698 --> 00:45:35,200 I ask you again, Ms. Strauber. 791 00:45:35,266 --> 00:45:38,269 Is it true, that in spite of repeated warnings by Mr. Vanning 792 00:45:38,336 --> 00:45:40,538 that he would not tolerate such conduct 793 00:45:40,605 --> 00:45:42,340 in any establishment of his 794 00:45:42,407 --> 00:45:45,243 you persisted in entertaining the men outside the club? 795 00:45:45,310 --> 00:45:47,445 - Yes, but I-- - That's all, Ms. Strauber. 796 00:45:51,716 --> 00:45:53,218 Thank you. 797 00:45:55,987 --> 00:45:57,488 'The people rest.' 798 00:46:01,659 --> 00:46:03,795 The defense calls John Truble. 799 00:46:08,499 --> 00:46:11,069 Will you please take the witness stand, Mr. Truble? 800 00:46:19,044 --> 00:46:21,146 'Put up your right hand.' 801 00:46:21,212 --> 00:46:23,982 'Do you swear to tell the truth nothing but the truth?' 802 00:46:24,049 --> 00:46:25,984 - 'I do.' - 'What's your name?' 803 00:46:26,051 --> 00:46:28,987 - John Truble. - Please be seated. 804 00:46:29,054 --> 00:46:32,257 Mr. Truble, as sheriff for Maco County.. 805 00:46:32,323 --> 00:46:34,960 ...do you recall arresting two men named William Borno 806 00:46:35,026 --> 00:46:37,162 and James Meller for drunken driving? 807 00:46:37,228 --> 00:46:38,329 Yes, sir. 808 00:46:38,396 --> 00:46:40,331 What disposition was made of that charge? 809 00:46:40,398 --> 00:46:42,968 They both pleaded guilty, so they got a $50 fine 810 00:46:43,034 --> 00:46:45,270 and 10 days in jail apiece. 811 00:46:45,336 --> 00:46:47,505 Will you please look around this courtroom and see 812 00:46:47,572 --> 00:46:51,342 if you see either William Borno or James Meller, or both. 813 00:46:51,409 --> 00:46:54,179 There's the two of them, sitting over there behind the table. 814 00:46:54,245 --> 00:46:57,582 Will you two men rise, please? 815 00:46:57,648 --> 00:47:01,419 - 'You mean, these two men?' - That's right. That's them. 816 00:47:01,486 --> 00:47:03,989 May the record show that the witness has indicated 817 00:47:04,055 --> 00:47:06,557 the defendants Borno and Meller. 818 00:47:10,561 --> 00:47:12,130 Now, Mr. Truble. 819 00:47:12,197 --> 00:47:14,132 You positively identify them 820 00:47:14,199 --> 00:47:17,368 as the two men, remanded into your custody 821 00:47:17,435 --> 00:47:21,672 at Maco County Jail, from October 4th to October 14th? 822 00:47:21,739 --> 00:47:23,408 Yes, sir. 823 00:47:23,474 --> 00:47:25,843 And you're certain that you didn't permit them to leave 824 00:47:25,911 --> 00:47:28,679 the jail, so that they could be seen dragging the deceased 825 00:47:28,746 --> 00:47:32,417 Ralph Crawford, into a taxicab, on the night of October 9th? 826 00:47:32,483 --> 00:47:34,685 No, sir. I'm very strict about that. 827 00:47:44,195 --> 00:47:46,264 Your Honor, I wish to offer into evidence 828 00:47:46,331 --> 00:47:48,266 these duly attested records 829 00:47:48,333 --> 00:47:50,335 of the arrest, conviction and imprisonment 830 00:47:50,401 --> 00:47:52,737 of the defendants, William Borno and James Meller 831 00:47:52,803 --> 00:47:54,739 on the charges and for the period 832 00:47:54,805 --> 00:47:57,909 just stated by the witness. 833 00:47:57,976 --> 00:48:00,111 'They may be so received.' 834 00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:04,815 And so, ladies and gentlemen of the jury 835 00:48:04,882 --> 00:48:07,518 you can readily understand why the district attorney 836 00:48:07,585 --> 00:48:11,189 floundering in his desperate attempt to prosecute my client 837 00:48:11,256 --> 00:48:13,358 has the effrontery to bring into this court 838 00:48:13,424 --> 00:48:15,660 such an obviously trumped-up charge. 839 00:48:15,726 --> 00:48:20,231 And as if this were not enough, he expects an intelligent jury 840 00:48:20,298 --> 00:48:23,668 to convict the defendants for murder on the testimony 841 00:48:23,734 --> 00:48:27,138 of a woman, who he tries to tell you, is an innocent victim 842 00:48:27,205 --> 00:48:30,175 'of circumstances, but who, by her own admission' 843 00:48:30,241 --> 00:48:34,645 'is unreliable, unscrupulous and unfit to be heard and believed' 844 00:48:34,712 --> 00:48:38,483 'in any court of justice, and is definitely objectionable' 845 00:48:38,549 --> 00:48:42,287 'in the eyes of all decent and upright men and women.' 846 00:48:57,168 --> 00:48:59,804 "We, the jury in the above entitled action 847 00:48:59,870 --> 00:49:03,208 find the defendants, and each of them, not guilty." 848 00:49:06,377 --> 00:49:08,746 The clerk will record the verdict as read. 849 00:49:08,813 --> 00:49:13,051 The jury is excused and the defendants are discharged. 850 00:49:13,118 --> 00:49:15,153 Boy, I've been in some rotten ones 851 00:49:15,220 --> 00:49:17,355 but this smells to high heaven. 852 00:49:17,422 --> 00:49:18,723 Nice going, kid. 853 00:49:19,757 --> 00:49:21,092 Thanks. 854 00:49:21,159 --> 00:49:23,694 Yes, it's reached my nose by now. 855 00:49:25,863 --> 00:49:28,299 Oh, just a minute. 856 00:49:28,366 --> 00:49:31,369 You know, for a little while, you had me believing in you. 857 00:49:31,436 --> 00:49:33,738 I thought maybe you were different. 858 00:49:33,804 --> 00:49:35,873 My mistake. Thanks for the ride. 859 00:49:35,940 --> 00:49:39,444 If I weren't in such a hurry, I'd break right down and cry. 860 00:49:39,510 --> 00:49:41,979 So long, chump. I'll be seeing you. 861 00:49:53,824 --> 00:49:56,827 Ah! I wish it was all over. It's getting on my nerves. 862 00:49:56,894 --> 00:50:00,698 Yes, and your talking about it is getting on mine. 863 00:50:00,765 --> 00:50:02,067 Well, what happened? 864 00:50:02,133 --> 00:50:03,868 - Where's the kid? - Inside. 865 00:50:03,934 --> 00:50:06,137 - Vanning won, didn't he? - Yeah, Vanning won. 866 00:50:06,204 --> 00:50:08,206 - How's she taking it? - Pretty tough. 867 00:50:08,273 --> 00:50:12,043 If you want me to, I'll talk to her first, Mary. 868 00:50:12,110 --> 00:50:14,379 No, thanks, Estelle. 869 00:50:14,445 --> 00:50:16,614 Had to happen sooner or later. 870 00:50:16,681 --> 00:50:17,982 So I.. 871 00:50:18,049 --> 00:50:21,652 I suppose I might just as well go in and face it now. 872 00:50:31,629 --> 00:50:33,131 Hello, Betty. 873 00:50:40,505 --> 00:50:41,505 Betty? 874 00:50:44,575 --> 00:50:48,579 You know...this isn't gonna get us anywhere, darling. 875 00:50:49,914 --> 00:50:52,450 Why didn't you tell me? 876 00:50:52,517 --> 00:50:55,553 Why did you let me believe that.. 877 00:50:55,620 --> 00:50:57,122 Well, I.. 878 00:50:57,988 --> 00:51:00,191 I just couldn't. 879 00:51:01,559 --> 00:51:05,196 I guess, I didn't ever want you to find out. 880 00:51:05,263 --> 00:51:07,398 I wish now I had. 881 00:51:09,500 --> 00:51:11,636 I've hurt you, haven't I, darling? 882 00:51:13,538 --> 00:51:15,473 Betty. 883 00:51:15,540 --> 00:51:18,743 You're not gonna let this make a difference between us, are you? 884 00:51:20,745 --> 00:51:22,046 Are you? 885 00:51:22,113 --> 00:51:24,182 You can't. 886 00:51:24,982 --> 00:51:26,884 You'll see. 887 00:51:26,951 --> 00:51:29,120 You'll forget all about it. 888 00:51:29,187 --> 00:51:32,590 And in a couple of weeks, you'll be going back to school. 889 00:51:42,567 --> 00:51:43,567 Mary. 890 00:51:45,436 --> 00:51:47,638 I'm not going back to school. 891 00:51:54,145 --> 00:51:56,281 Not going back to school? 892 00:51:57,148 --> 00:51:59,083 Why? 893 00:51:59,150 --> 00:52:02,052 Oh, I-I don't know. 894 00:52:02,119 --> 00:52:04,622 I just don't like school anymore, that's all. 895 00:52:06,657 --> 00:52:10,261 I've been thinking of leaving for a long time. 896 00:52:10,328 --> 00:52:13,030 - That's not the reason. - Yes, it is. 897 00:52:13,097 --> 00:52:15,300 Betty, I want you to tell me the truth. 898 00:52:15,366 --> 00:52:18,803 I wanna know why you're not going back to school. 899 00:52:18,869 --> 00:52:20,305 Alright. 900 00:52:20,371 --> 00:52:22,873 I'll tell you. 901 00:52:22,940 --> 00:52:24,875 I can't. 902 00:52:24,942 --> 00:52:27,111 Don't you think my friends have read the papers? 903 00:52:27,178 --> 00:52:29,947 Don't you think they've seen your picture and mine plastered 904 00:52:30,014 --> 00:52:32,217 all over the front pages? 905 00:52:32,283 --> 00:52:35,720 I couldn't go back and face them now. 906 00:52:35,786 --> 00:52:37,722 I'd be too ashamed. 907 00:52:39,224 --> 00:52:40,991 Ashamed of what? 908 00:52:41,058 --> 00:52:42,527 Of you. 909 00:52:59,977 --> 00:53:02,046 Mary. 910 00:53:02,112 --> 00:53:04,081 Mary, please, I didn't mean it. 911 00:53:04,148 --> 00:53:08,553 - Oh, please, don't. I didn't-- - I know you didn't, Betty. 912 00:53:08,619 --> 00:53:12,557 That's alright. Let's forget all about it. 913 00:53:12,623 --> 00:53:14,759 Pretend you never said it. 914 00:53:22,099 --> 00:53:23,268 Hello? 915 00:53:26,904 --> 00:53:30,040 - Oh, it's you. You scared me. - I'm sorry. 916 00:53:30,107 --> 00:53:33,711 Don't you ever get tired sitting around in the dark by yourself? 917 00:53:33,778 --> 00:53:35,079 I like it. 918 00:53:35,145 --> 00:53:36,914 I like it too, but not by myself. 919 00:53:36,981 --> 00:53:39,350 I'm going to a party, I'm gonna get dressed. 920 00:53:39,417 --> 00:53:41,786 - Do you wanna give me a hand? - I'd love to. 921 00:53:41,852 --> 00:53:44,622 It's gonna be a big party. I'll wear my prettiest dress. 922 00:53:44,689 --> 00:53:47,892 As a matter of fact, everybody in town is gonna be there. 923 00:53:49,226 --> 00:53:50,961 Which one do you want? 924 00:53:51,028 --> 00:53:53,398 'The silver one with the little black jacket.' 925 00:53:53,464 --> 00:53:55,600 'It's hanging towards the back.' 926 00:53:56,767 --> 00:53:58,269 Oh, this one. 927 00:54:00,738 --> 00:54:02,673 Why, Emmy Lou, it's beautiful. 928 00:54:02,740 --> 00:54:04,675 Well, all my dresses are beautiful. 929 00:54:04,742 --> 00:54:06,677 They gotta be in this racket. 930 00:54:06,744 --> 00:54:08,679 There's nothing like clothes, honey. 931 00:54:08,746 --> 00:54:12,283 That's the sugar that makes the flies come around. 932 00:54:12,350 --> 00:54:15,019 I'll bet it'd look nice on you, too. 933 00:54:15,085 --> 00:54:17,121 I once had a dress like this. 934 00:54:17,187 --> 00:54:21,392 Of course, it wasn't nearly so pretty, but it was silver. 935 00:54:21,459 --> 00:54:23,894 I wore it to the junior prom. 936 00:54:23,961 --> 00:54:25,696 Gee, I had fun that night. 937 00:54:25,763 --> 00:54:29,434 - Lots of boyfriends, huh? - I never missed a dance. 938 00:54:29,500 --> 00:54:32,202 You miss dancing, don't you? 939 00:54:32,269 --> 00:54:33,771 Kind of. 940 00:54:36,941 --> 00:54:39,510 How'd you like to go the party with me tonight? 941 00:54:39,577 --> 00:54:42,112 - Party? - Sure. 942 00:54:42,179 --> 00:54:44,815 Vanning's throwing it. It'll be the classiest affair in town. 943 00:54:44,882 --> 00:54:48,386 You'd have the time of your life. Come on, what do you say? 944 00:54:48,453 --> 00:54:50,655 - Why, I'd love to, but-- - But what? 945 00:54:50,721 --> 00:54:52,890 It's alright for an old maid to sit around 946 00:54:52,957 --> 00:54:56,160 but a swell-looking kid like you ought to go out and enjoy life. 947 00:54:56,226 --> 00:54:59,764 Get some fun outta it. You could use a little fun, couldn't you? 948 00:54:59,830 --> 00:55:01,766 - Yes, I-- - Well, then, that settles it. 949 00:55:01,832 --> 00:55:04,001 - You're going, in this dress. - But, Emmy Lou, I-- 950 00:55:04,068 --> 00:55:06,236 Come on, Cinderella, get out of these pajamas. 951 00:55:06,303 --> 00:55:08,238 You're gonna have a marvelous time. 952 00:55:08,305 --> 00:55:10,240 You'll meet loads and loads of people. 953 00:55:10,307 --> 00:55:12,242 'Alright, but Emmy Lou..' 954 00:55:36,967 --> 00:55:40,170 - Swell, isn't it? - Marvelous. 955 00:55:40,237 --> 00:55:43,874 Very lovely, Johnny. Where have you been keeping that? 956 00:55:43,941 --> 00:55:46,411 - The one in silver? - Like it? 957 00:55:46,477 --> 00:55:48,746 What do you think? 958 00:55:48,813 --> 00:55:50,114 It's yours. 959 00:55:55,420 --> 00:55:57,354 - Who's the kid? - Friend of mine. 960 00:55:57,422 --> 00:55:58,856 Is she alright? 961 00:55:58,923 --> 00:56:01,692 Do you think I'd have brought her, if she wasn't? 962 00:56:01,759 --> 00:56:03,160 Okay. 963 00:56:03,227 --> 00:56:06,597 A particular friend of mine I want her to meet, understand? 964 00:56:06,664 --> 00:56:09,467 - Sure, Johnny. Where is he? - Over at the bar. 965 00:56:09,534 --> 00:56:11,469 Big fellow by the end. 966 00:56:11,536 --> 00:56:15,573 - What's his name? - Crandall. Bob Crandall. 967 00:56:16,574 --> 00:56:18,275 Okay, Johnny. 968 00:56:18,342 --> 00:56:20,044 Come on, sugar. 969 00:56:24,882 --> 00:56:27,217 Well, if it isn't Bob Crandall. 970 00:56:27,284 --> 00:56:29,219 Where have you been keeping yourself? 971 00:56:29,286 --> 00:56:30,788 How are you? 972 00:56:30,855 --> 00:56:32,790 I want you to meet Betty Strauber. 973 00:56:32,857 --> 00:56:34,792 Bob Crandall. I've known him for years. 974 00:56:34,859 --> 00:56:37,027 - How do you do? - Will you have some champagne? 975 00:56:37,094 --> 00:56:39,029 - Champagne? - Why, sure, we'd love it. 976 00:56:39,096 --> 00:56:41,231 - More champagne. - 'Yes, sir.' 977 00:56:41,298 --> 00:56:43,067 Would you excuse me for just a minute? 978 00:56:43,133 --> 00:56:45,703 There's somebody I've gotta see. I'll pick you up later. 979 00:56:45,770 --> 00:56:47,705 - Won't you sit down? - Thank you. 980 00:56:47,772 --> 00:56:50,340 I'm way ahead of you. Think you can catch up? 981 00:56:50,407 --> 00:56:51,809 - I'll try. - Great. 982 00:56:51,876 --> 00:56:54,011 Here's to a large evening. 983 00:56:58,449 --> 00:57:00,485 Tickled? Good. 984 00:57:12,763 --> 00:57:15,199 - How you doing, sugar? - Swell. 985 00:57:29,647 --> 00:57:31,148 'Eighty cents.' 986 00:57:34,051 --> 00:57:37,454 Wait a minute, lady, I ain't got no change for no $100 bill. 987 00:57:37,522 --> 00:57:41,091 - 'Oh, I'm sorry.' - 'Thank you.' 988 00:57:44,529 --> 00:57:46,664 - Oh, hello. - 'Hello.' 989 00:57:48,999 --> 00:57:51,736 - Where were you? - At a party. 990 00:57:51,802 --> 00:57:54,471 - Who took you? - Emmy Lou. 991 00:57:55,806 --> 00:57:57,975 I'm terribly sorry for having come in so late 992 00:57:58,042 --> 00:58:01,078 but we were having such a marvelous time, and I.. 993 00:58:01,145 --> 00:58:04,682 - Where'd you get that money? - Oh, this? 994 00:58:04,749 --> 00:58:08,052 - Mr. Crandall gave it to me. - Why? 995 00:58:08,118 --> 00:58:11,722 Why, I told him I had to leave, he gave it for taxi fare. 996 00:58:11,789 --> 00:58:13,724 He must've been a little drunk. 997 00:58:13,791 --> 00:58:15,760 I suppose you're going to see him again? 998 00:58:15,826 --> 00:58:17,762 - Yes, tomorrow for lunch. - You little fool! 999 00:58:17,828 --> 00:58:19,764 - Take it easy. - Shut up! 1000 00:58:19,830 --> 00:58:21,766 - But, Mary, what's wrong? - Get upstairs. 1001 00:58:21,832 --> 00:58:23,901 - What have I done? - I said, get upstairs. 1002 00:58:23,968 --> 00:58:26,771 - Mary, the kid didn't know. - Shut up. This is my affair. 1003 00:58:26,837 --> 00:58:29,206 Mine too. I wanna know why it's alright for you 1004 00:58:29,273 --> 00:58:31,842 to go to Vanning's parties and not alright for me. 1005 00:58:31,909 --> 00:58:34,278 So that's where you were. 1006 00:58:34,344 --> 00:58:36,480 Betty. Betty, you listen to me. 1007 00:58:36,547 --> 00:58:40,150 If you wanna go to a party again, you get advice from me. 1008 00:58:40,217 --> 00:58:41,586 Do you hear? 1009 00:58:41,652 --> 00:58:43,788 But you still haven't answered my question. 1010 00:58:45,355 --> 00:58:47,558 Well, you're different. 1011 00:58:47,625 --> 00:58:49,694 - That's why. - Well, maybe I'm not. 1012 00:58:49,760 --> 00:58:51,829 - Maybe, I'm just like you are. - Betty. 1013 00:58:51,896 --> 00:58:54,264 I'm not gonna stay cooped up in a room forever 1014 00:58:54,331 --> 00:58:56,901 'cause you're afraid, I'll do the same things you do. 1015 00:58:56,967 --> 00:58:59,637 - Oh, Betty, be quiet. - No, I won't. It's the truth. 1016 00:58:59,704 --> 00:59:02,873 You're afraid. Well, I'm not. Not anymore. 1017 00:59:02,940 --> 00:59:05,542 I've got the whole thing figured out. 1018 00:59:05,610 --> 00:59:09,780 Betty. Betty, listen to me. I've done an awful lot for you. 1019 00:59:09,847 --> 00:59:12,617 All you've ever done for me is mess up my life. 1020 00:59:12,683 --> 00:59:15,252 Fixed it so the things that I wanted to have 1021 00:59:15,319 --> 00:59:17,154 I can't have anymore. Alright. 1022 00:59:17,221 --> 00:59:19,790 If I can't live one way, I can live another. 1023 00:59:19,857 --> 00:59:22,793 - Why not? I'm young, pretty-- - And dumb! 1024 00:59:22,860 --> 00:59:26,096 But you're smart. You can teach me the rest. 1025 00:59:30,434 --> 00:59:33,003 Alright. If that's the way you feel about it 1026 00:59:33,070 --> 00:59:35,640 you can go anywhere you want to from now on. 1027 00:59:35,706 --> 00:59:37,875 You can even go back to Vanning's party. 1028 00:59:39,710 --> 00:59:41,946 That's exactly what I'm going to do. 1029 01:00:07,772 --> 01:00:09,907 Hello, beautiful. You back again? 1030 01:00:09,974 --> 01:00:12,076 Hello. I'm looking for someone. 1031 01:00:12,142 --> 01:00:14,912 Well, you can stop looking right now, because you've found him. 1032 01:00:14,979 --> 01:00:18,115 That's something to celebrate about, isn't it? Or is it? 1033 01:00:18,182 --> 01:00:20,918 - Yes, it is. - You look sad, beautiful. 1034 01:00:20,985 --> 01:00:22,953 I don't want to see you look sad. 1035 01:00:23,020 --> 01:00:25,656 What you need is champagne, lots of it. 1036 01:00:25,723 --> 01:00:27,124 Maybe I do. 1037 01:00:27,191 --> 01:00:30,027 Not there, out on the terrace. All by ourselves. 1038 01:00:30,094 --> 01:00:32,296 That something to cheer your little heart up? 1039 01:00:32,362 --> 01:00:36,466 The champagne, the terrace...and me. 1040 01:00:36,533 --> 01:00:38,502 That worth a smile? 1041 01:00:38,568 --> 01:00:40,705 Come on, give it to me. 1042 01:00:40,771 --> 01:00:42,272 That's better. 1043 01:00:50,781 --> 01:00:52,917 Well, now for a little champagne. 1044 01:01:01,491 --> 01:01:03,994 Well...here we are. 1045 01:01:06,797 --> 01:01:08,532 Big, isn't it? 1046 01:01:08,598 --> 01:01:11,836 Yeah, but not so big you can't have anything that's in it. 1047 01:01:11,902 --> 01:01:17,007 It's too big. It makes you feel lonely and scared. 1048 01:01:17,074 --> 01:01:19,777 Well, if that don't suit you, there's the moon. 1049 01:01:19,844 --> 01:01:24,048 You can ask me for that. Or the stars. 1050 01:01:24,114 --> 01:01:28,152 But you don't need them. They're right in your eyes. 1051 01:01:28,218 --> 01:01:32,056 - You say pretty things. - Pretty things, pretty people. 1052 01:01:32,122 --> 01:01:34,992 I say them and give them. 1053 01:01:35,059 --> 01:01:38,328 - Please, don't! - You're a funny kid. 1054 01:01:38,395 --> 01:01:41,331 Please, don't, please. No, please don't. 1055 01:01:44,501 --> 01:01:47,637 No, you don't. Come on, honey. Don't act that way. 1056 01:01:47,704 --> 01:01:49,639 Give me a little kiss. 1057 01:01:49,706 --> 01:01:52,943 That's right, beautiful. Go up to the sky. I'll meet you there. 1058 01:01:53,010 --> 01:01:54,945 - Emmy Lou. - Why, Betty, what's the matter? 1059 01:01:55,012 --> 01:01:56,947 Take me home. Please take me home. 1060 01:01:57,014 --> 01:02:00,150 What's eating her? She stewed or something? 1061 01:02:00,217 --> 01:02:02,386 Come on, kid, stop putting on an act. 1062 01:02:02,452 --> 01:02:03,754 - Johnny-- - Shut up. 1063 01:02:03,821 --> 01:02:05,990 - You heard me, come on. - Let go of me! 1064 01:02:06,056 --> 01:02:08,826 - You're going to go nice? - No, I won't do it! 1065 01:02:22,406 --> 01:02:25,509 Looks bad. She ain't breathing good. Shall I get an ambulance? 1066 01:02:25,575 --> 01:02:28,312 'And have her talk? Don't be a sucker.' 1067 01:02:42,459 --> 01:02:43,994 Where's Betty? 1068 01:02:45,162 --> 01:02:46,162 Betty? 1069 01:02:47,764 --> 01:02:49,699 You heard me. Where's Betty? 1070 01:02:49,766 --> 01:02:53,003 - Well, didn't she come home? - She did, but she went back. 1071 01:02:53,070 --> 01:02:56,306 She didn't return to the party. At least, I didn't see her. 1072 01:02:56,373 --> 01:02:58,943 - Emmy Lou, you're lying. - Why should I lie to you? 1073 01:02:59,009 --> 01:03:01,778 - Where did she go? - I tell you, I didn't see her. 1074 01:03:01,846 --> 01:03:03,613 - Oh, I could kill you. - Let me alone. 1075 01:03:03,680 --> 01:03:06,450 - Who told you to take her? - She wanted to go herself. 1076 01:03:06,516 --> 01:03:09,153 She's not the kind to get mixed in such parties. 1077 01:03:09,219 --> 01:03:11,388 - I know nothing. - Why didn't you look after her? 1078 01:03:11,455 --> 01:03:13,590 Why didn't you look after her yourself? 1079 01:03:13,657 --> 01:03:15,559 She was your sister, not mine. 1080 01:03:15,625 --> 01:03:20,164 - If anything happens to her.. - Nothing's happened to her. 1081 01:03:20,230 --> 01:03:23,367 - 'How do you know?' - 'I just do, I'm telling you.' 1082 01:03:24,401 --> 01:03:25,903 I just know. 1083 01:03:30,908 --> 01:03:33,010 - Where you going? - I've got to find her. 1084 01:03:33,077 --> 01:03:35,045 Stick around a while. She might show up. 1085 01:03:35,112 --> 01:03:37,247 Oh, I can't wait, Gabby. 1086 01:03:44,054 --> 01:03:45,789 - Where's my sister? - Your sister? 1087 01:03:45,856 --> 01:03:49,059 How should I know? I never saw your sister in my life. 1088 01:03:49,126 --> 01:03:51,495 You're lying. She came last night at your party. 1089 01:03:51,561 --> 01:03:53,297 She came with Emmy Lou. 1090 01:03:53,363 --> 01:03:55,699 - Oh, was that your sister? - Yes. 1091 01:03:55,765 --> 01:03:57,067 Nice-looking kid. 1092 01:03:57,134 --> 01:03:59,069 Yeah, but went home about 2 o'clock. 1093 01:03:59,136 --> 01:04:01,071 - Ain't that right, Charlie? - Yeah. 1094 01:04:01,138 --> 01:04:03,340 - You're lying. Both of you. - Now, take it easy. 1095 01:04:03,407 --> 01:04:07,244 You know you're lying. Betty returned here, I can prove it. 1096 01:04:07,311 --> 01:04:09,679 - Yeah, by who? - Never mind that. 1097 01:04:09,746 --> 01:04:11,949 Where is she? What happened to her? 1098 01:04:12,016 --> 01:04:13,951 What's the matter with you, Mary? 1099 01:04:14,018 --> 01:04:16,186 Don't you think I'd tell you if I knew? 1100 01:04:16,253 --> 01:04:18,188 Why should I hold out on you? 1101 01:04:18,255 --> 01:04:21,358 I don't know. But I'm gonna find out. 1102 01:04:21,425 --> 01:04:23,860 Alright, I tried to be nice to you. 1103 01:04:23,928 --> 01:04:26,430 - Now get out, and fast! - You don't scare me. 1104 01:04:26,496 --> 01:04:28,999 Oh, hot-headed, eh? Just like.. 1105 01:04:29,066 --> 01:04:31,601 - Like who? - Like me. 1106 01:04:32,602 --> 01:04:34,538 I'm the same way. 1107 01:04:34,604 --> 01:04:36,340 Now, go home and cool off. 1108 01:04:36,406 --> 01:04:40,444 I'll send some of the boys out. Maybe they'll help you find her. 1109 01:04:40,510 --> 01:04:41,778 Listen, Vanning. 1110 01:04:41,845 --> 01:04:45,249 All I know is that kid sister of mine came back here again 1111 01:04:45,315 --> 01:04:47,484 last night, and nobody has seen her since. 1112 01:04:47,551 --> 01:04:49,286 And get this straight. 1113 01:04:49,353 --> 01:04:53,190 If I find out, you or anybody else has laid a finger on her.. 1114 01:04:53,257 --> 01:04:57,594 - You'll what? - I'll get you. 1115 01:04:57,661 --> 01:05:01,265 Even if I have to crawl back from my grave to do it. 1116 01:05:08,072 --> 01:05:09,839 Her sister, eh? That's bad. 1117 01:05:09,906 --> 01:05:12,476 - Who do you think tipped her? - Who do you think? 1118 01:05:12,542 --> 01:05:15,112 Emmy Lou. Go over there and grab that ditzy blonde 1119 01:05:15,179 --> 01:05:17,647 before she shoots off her face. 1120 01:05:17,714 --> 01:05:20,917 I know she went back to the party. I can prove it. 1121 01:05:20,985 --> 01:05:22,953 Emmy Lou is just covering up for Vanning. 1122 01:05:23,020 --> 01:05:25,622 He just tried to pawn the same story off on me. 1123 01:05:25,689 --> 01:05:29,193 You know Vanning doesn't duck around corners for nothing. 1124 01:05:29,259 --> 01:05:31,195 That's what's driving me crazy. 1125 01:05:31,261 --> 01:05:33,863 - And that's why-- - Alright, now. Take it easy. 1126 01:05:33,930 --> 01:05:37,267 You say, you reported to the missing persons bureau? 1127 01:05:37,334 --> 01:05:39,003 Yes. 1128 01:05:39,069 --> 01:05:41,038 Then, there's nothing I can do about it. 1129 01:05:41,105 --> 01:05:43,540 I'm sorry, but that's out of my department. 1130 01:05:43,607 --> 01:05:46,977 Did they cut your heart up into departments too? 1131 01:05:47,044 --> 01:05:48,778 That kid's my sister. 1132 01:05:48,845 --> 01:05:51,515 Any one of a million things could've happened to her. 1133 01:05:51,581 --> 01:05:55,119 - What do you expect me to do? - Arrest Vanning. 1134 01:05:55,185 --> 01:05:57,121 - Will you testify against him? - Yes. 1135 01:05:57,187 --> 01:05:59,323 Like you did last time? 1136 01:06:02,126 --> 01:06:05,295 You'll pardon me, but I don't believe a word you're saying. 1137 01:06:10,934 --> 01:06:14,271 You think I'm pretty low, don't you? 1138 01:06:14,338 --> 01:06:16,506 Now, what do you expect me to think? 1139 01:06:18,608 --> 01:06:22,646 I meet a lot of people here. I feel sorry for some of them. 1140 01:06:22,712 --> 01:06:25,815 They just can't help themselves. They don't know any better. 1141 01:06:25,882 --> 01:06:29,186 They're the misfits of the world, but you're not that kind. 1142 01:06:29,253 --> 01:06:31,421 You know what's right and you know what's wrong. 1143 01:06:31,488 --> 01:06:33,857 You know better, but you won't do anything about it. 1144 01:06:33,923 --> 01:06:36,693 You think you can get through the world by outsmarting it. 1145 01:06:36,760 --> 01:06:41,665 I've learned such people end up by outsmarting themselves. 1146 01:06:41,731 --> 01:06:44,934 And that's exactly what's going to happen to you. 1147 01:06:45,001 --> 01:06:47,171 And I won't feel a bit sorry about it 1148 01:06:47,237 --> 01:06:50,740 because, lady, you've got it coming to you. 1149 01:06:55,712 --> 01:06:57,714 Thanks for telling me. 1150 01:07:01,218 --> 01:07:03,153 The coroner's reports. 1151 01:07:16,533 --> 01:07:19,336 Oh, Mary. Will you come here a moment, please? 1152 01:07:26,476 --> 01:07:27,777 Sit down. 1153 01:07:40,790 --> 01:07:42,726 They found your sister. 1154 01:07:45,395 --> 01:07:46,395 Where? 1155 01:07:48,198 --> 01:07:50,834 In the river...dead. 1156 01:07:58,041 --> 01:07:59,543 It isn't true. 1157 01:08:00,910 --> 01:08:02,779 It isn't true. 1158 01:08:05,482 --> 01:08:08,418 - I'm sorry. - Oh, no. 1159 01:08:08,485 --> 01:08:12,189 No, you don't have to be sorry for me. 1160 01:08:12,256 --> 01:08:16,693 You were right. I had it coming to me. 1161 01:08:18,228 --> 01:08:20,597 Oh, but why did it have to happen to her? 1162 01:08:20,664 --> 01:08:23,099 Why did it have to happen to her? 1163 01:08:29,939 --> 01:08:31,675 Alright. Now, let's go back. 1164 01:08:31,741 --> 01:08:35,379 You say Emmy Lou looked as if something terrible had happened? 1165 01:08:35,445 --> 01:08:37,381 Did she say anything? 1166 01:08:37,447 --> 01:08:40,016 - Well, when she came-- - She didn't say a thing. 1167 01:08:40,083 --> 01:08:43,587 I told you, she went into the bedroom and didn't say a word. 1168 01:08:43,653 --> 01:08:45,822 I suppose you didn't hear her say anything, either? 1169 01:08:45,889 --> 01:08:49,092 Well, I was tired and I wasn't paying much attention to her. 1170 01:08:49,159 --> 01:08:51,495 Oh, why don't you all stop stalling? 1171 01:08:51,561 --> 01:08:53,797 You know you heard every word she said. 1172 01:08:53,863 --> 01:08:58,335 I said, we didn't hear a thing. Not a thing. 1173 01:09:00,003 --> 01:09:02,172 I suppose, you girls realize that Emmy Lou 1174 01:09:02,239 --> 01:09:04,208 is the key witness to this whole business. 1175 01:09:04,274 --> 01:09:06,643 You know as well as I do who murdered Betty. 1176 01:09:06,710 --> 01:09:08,645 For years, we've waited for Vanning 1177 01:09:08,712 --> 01:09:12,249 to make one false move, and this is it. 1178 01:09:12,316 --> 01:09:14,251 Oh, what's the use? 1179 01:09:14,318 --> 01:09:16,253 I thought they were your friends. 1180 01:09:16,320 --> 01:09:17,987 So did I. 1181 01:09:18,054 --> 01:09:21,090 Alright, then I don't have to handle them with kid gloves. 1182 01:09:21,157 --> 01:09:22,892 Now, let's understand each other. 1183 01:09:22,959 --> 01:09:26,162 I've given you all a chance, and you've turned it down. 1184 01:09:26,230 --> 01:09:28,365 Now, when I get Vanning, which I will 1185 01:09:28,432 --> 01:09:30,800 I'm gonna get everybody connected with him. 1186 01:09:30,867 --> 01:09:32,869 And that means all of you. 1187 01:09:36,506 --> 01:09:38,442 - Mary. - Get away from me. 1188 01:09:38,508 --> 01:09:41,278 - You've got this all wrong. - I said, get away from me. 1189 01:09:41,345 --> 01:09:45,114 - What else could we do? - The law isn't for us. 1190 01:09:45,181 --> 01:09:46,916 Then what is? 1191 01:09:46,983 --> 01:09:49,753 That's another thing I've been trying to figure out for years. 1192 01:09:49,819 --> 01:09:52,556 Well, I'm sick of figuring things out. 1193 01:10:04,601 --> 01:10:07,804 Sure, we know all that. We know how hard it's hit you. 1194 01:10:07,871 --> 01:10:11,275 We know what you'd like to do about it. So would we. 1195 01:10:11,341 --> 01:10:13,610 We're in a spot. 1196 01:10:13,677 --> 01:10:15,612 Remember, once, I wanted to quit this. 1197 01:10:15,679 --> 01:10:18,047 You said there was nothing else we could turn to. 1198 01:10:18,114 --> 01:10:20,884 That we didn't know any other way of making a living. 1199 01:10:20,950 --> 01:10:22,886 Well, you're right, Mary, we don't. 1200 01:10:22,952 --> 01:10:25,121 If we go to Graham we'll really find out 1201 01:10:25,188 --> 01:10:28,191 for the first time just how tough it can be for us. 1202 01:10:28,258 --> 01:10:31,928 That is, if we're lucky enough to be alive that long. 1203 01:10:31,995 --> 01:10:33,963 Oh, you can understand that, can't you, Mary? 1204 01:10:34,030 --> 01:10:36,533 I only understand that Betty was my sister. 1205 01:10:36,600 --> 01:10:40,270 That Vanning killed her, and you won't help do anything about it. 1206 01:10:40,337 --> 01:10:43,106 Mary, there's nothing anybody else can do to bring her back. 1207 01:10:43,172 --> 01:10:47,076 We can get Vanning, make him pay, put him where he belongs. 1208 01:10:47,143 --> 01:10:48,445 So what? 1209 01:10:48,512 --> 01:10:51,114 So somebody else will take his place. 1210 01:10:51,180 --> 01:10:53,049 There'll always be somebody else. 1211 01:10:53,116 --> 01:10:56,320 Sure, as long as there are gals in the world like us 1212 01:10:56,386 --> 01:10:58,955 who are afraid of guys like that. 1213 01:10:59,022 --> 01:11:02,258 I said that once to a guy I was crazy about. 1214 01:11:02,326 --> 01:11:04,494 He worked for Vanning and got into a jam. 1215 01:11:04,561 --> 01:11:07,130 I saw a chance for both of us to get out 1216 01:11:07,196 --> 01:11:09,766 of this racket, once and for all, without being afraid. 1217 01:11:09,833 --> 01:11:14,638 I told him. He listened to me. They killed him. 1218 01:11:16,272 --> 01:11:21,077 I was crazy about him, Mary, just like you were about Betty. 1219 01:11:21,144 --> 01:11:23,880 Oh, what's the use? 1220 01:11:23,947 --> 01:11:27,484 It all adds up to the same thing if you wanna live. 1221 01:11:27,551 --> 01:11:30,320 'You took the words right out of my mouth.' 1222 01:11:40,597 --> 01:11:43,500 What did you tell that D.A.? 1223 01:11:43,567 --> 01:11:45,502 - Did she say anything? - Nothing. 1224 01:11:45,569 --> 01:11:47,303 - 'Did any of you?' - No. 1225 01:11:47,371 --> 01:11:50,974 - Why did you go to the law? - Why did you kill my sister? 1226 01:11:51,040 --> 01:11:53,042 - Answer me. - You answer me. 1227 01:11:53,109 --> 01:11:54,844 Why did you kill my sister? 1228 01:11:54,911 --> 01:11:57,113 I don't know what you're talking about. 1229 01:11:57,180 --> 01:12:00,784 Maybe, Emmy Lou does. Where is she? 1230 01:12:00,850 --> 01:12:03,653 - What did you do with her? - You listen to me. 1231 01:12:03,720 --> 01:12:05,755 You lay off that guy, Graham, understand? 1232 01:12:05,822 --> 01:12:09,225 If you got any beefs, you come to me, I'll straighten them out. 1233 01:12:09,292 --> 01:12:12,396 Not this one. You can't. 1234 01:12:12,462 --> 01:12:15,932 You heard what I said. Stay away from that guy. 1235 01:12:15,999 --> 01:12:19,436 - And that goes for all of you. - Not for me, it doesn't. 1236 01:12:19,503 --> 01:12:22,038 I'll tell him, and plenty more. 1237 01:12:24,073 --> 01:12:26,075 You'll tell him nothing. 1238 01:12:30,146 --> 01:12:32,682 Alright, get out of here. 1239 01:12:33,983 --> 01:12:34,983 Charlie. 1240 01:12:36,285 --> 01:12:37,521 Johnny! 1241 01:12:37,587 --> 01:12:39,723 Shut up, or you'll get the same. 1242 01:12:41,591 --> 01:12:43,393 Go ahead, Charlie. 1243 01:12:57,140 --> 01:12:58,775 'No! Ugh!' 1244 01:13:03,179 --> 01:13:08,017 'No, no. Oh, please! Please, don't.' 1245 01:13:22,098 --> 01:13:25,735 Remember, if anybody asks any questions 1246 01:13:25,802 --> 01:13:27,971 you came home and found her that way. 1247 01:13:30,406 --> 01:13:32,542 Mary. Mary! 1248 01:14:05,174 --> 01:14:07,110 Alright, break it in. 1249 01:14:09,879 --> 01:14:12,448 Alright, keep your seats, everybody. This is a raid. 1250 01:14:15,652 --> 01:14:18,021 Put that stuff down and stay where you are. 1251 01:14:21,858 --> 01:14:23,793 Alright, here you are. Break that in. 1252 01:14:23,860 --> 01:14:26,229 You better get up there and search that floor. 1253 01:14:34,170 --> 01:14:36,339 Take those girls and line them up here. 1254 01:14:36,405 --> 01:14:38,608 There's not enough room. 1255 01:14:48,451 --> 01:14:52,155 I know Graham's working fast, but we've got to beat him to it. 1256 01:14:52,221 --> 01:14:54,791 Tell Williams to put up all the bail they want. 1257 01:14:54,858 --> 01:14:57,293 The sky's the limit. 1258 01:14:57,360 --> 01:14:59,629 Okay. Keep me posted. 1259 01:14:59,696 --> 01:15:01,264 Better think fast, Gordon. 1260 01:15:01,330 --> 01:15:03,900 It don't look like D.A.'s fooling this time. 1261 01:15:03,967 --> 01:15:06,803 Either Graham's putting on a show to shut up the newspapers 1262 01:15:06,870 --> 01:15:09,238 or he's got something on you we don't know about. 1263 01:15:09,305 --> 01:15:12,141 Nobody's ever got anything on me I don't know about. 1264 01:15:15,378 --> 01:15:16,546 Yeah. 1265 01:15:18,347 --> 01:15:21,250 Okay, I'll tell him. Graham's on his way here. 1266 01:15:21,317 --> 01:15:23,486 He's after that girl. 1267 01:15:23,553 --> 01:15:25,889 He wants to sweat it out of her. 1268 01:15:25,955 --> 01:15:28,291 And if he does, you'll fry. 1269 01:15:28,357 --> 01:15:31,628 - Get her out of here, fast. - Take it easy, Gordon. 1270 01:15:31,695 --> 01:15:35,231 Nobody's going to get a chance to sweat her. 1271 01:15:35,298 --> 01:15:36,298 Charlie. 1272 01:15:39,335 --> 01:15:42,939 'In a series of raids, police are swooping down on nightclubs' 1273 01:15:43,006 --> 01:15:45,217 'and gambling joints owned or controlled by Johnny Vanning.' 1274 01:15:45,241 --> 01:15:47,811 'Neither police nor the D.A. would disclose the reason' 1275 01:15:47,877 --> 01:15:49,889 'for this sudden interest in Mr. Vanning's enterprises.' 1276 01:15:49,913 --> 01:15:53,116 'It's not hard to guess that it all ties in with the killing' 1277 01:15:53,182 --> 01:15:55,551 'of Betty Strauber and the beating of her sister, Mary' 1278 01:15:55,619 --> 01:15:58,588 'who is still in serious condition at the General Ho--' 1279 01:16:01,825 --> 01:16:04,594 'Alright, Johnny, you wait out here.' 1280 01:16:06,562 --> 01:16:08,297 Come on, sister, you're going places. 1281 01:16:08,364 --> 01:16:10,499 - Where to? - Never mind. Just places. 1282 01:16:10,566 --> 01:16:12,501 Get her stuff out of here. 1283 01:16:12,568 --> 01:16:16,005 No. No, I won't go. 1284 01:16:16,072 --> 01:16:20,309 I won't. Johnny promised me. He promised he'd take care of me. 1285 01:16:20,376 --> 01:16:24,313 He can't double-cross me. He can't! He can't! No! 1286 01:16:24,380 --> 01:16:26,315 Oh, no! No! 1287 01:16:29,619 --> 01:16:33,256 No! No! No! Where are you taking me? 1288 01:16:36,826 --> 01:16:38,762 Wait a minute, Charlie. Vanning's phoning down. 1289 01:16:38,828 --> 01:16:40,997 Take her to the lobby. 1290 01:16:41,064 --> 01:16:43,366 Come out! 1291 01:16:43,432 --> 01:16:45,068 Gotta open it. 1292 01:16:51,474 --> 01:16:54,510 Get on the phone. Tell the doorman to stop her. 1293 01:16:54,577 --> 01:16:56,913 - Tell him she's drunk. - Right. 1294 01:17:03,687 --> 01:17:04,988 Around the back. 1295 01:17:05,054 --> 01:17:07,023 Did you see a blonde come through here? 1296 01:17:07,090 --> 01:17:09,358 - No, sir. - Get that dame and fast! 1297 01:17:15,364 --> 01:17:17,701 'You feel better now, don't you?' 1298 01:17:20,569 --> 01:17:21,738 Yes. 1299 01:17:23,206 --> 01:17:26,442 - We'll have to go soon. - Goodbye. 1300 01:17:26,509 --> 01:17:28,244 Oh, don't take it so hard, Mary. 1301 01:17:28,311 --> 01:17:30,880 The doctor outside told me he could fix that scar 1302 01:17:30,947 --> 01:17:32,916 so nobody'd ever notice it. 1303 01:17:32,982 --> 01:17:35,651 I got things wrong with me 1304 01:17:35,719 --> 01:17:37,887 that all the doctors in the world can't fix. 1305 01:17:37,954 --> 01:17:40,623 Mary, we were figuring that when you got out 1306 01:17:40,690 --> 01:17:42,425 we'd send you away, maybe to Florida 1307 01:17:42,491 --> 01:17:45,729 and you could lie in the sun and rest for a few weeks. 1308 01:17:45,795 --> 01:17:49,198 It'll do you a lot good, Mary. You'll forget all about this. 1309 01:17:49,265 --> 01:17:51,067 How? 1310 01:17:51,134 --> 01:17:54,904 By just closing my eyes and pretending it never happened? 1311 01:17:57,040 --> 01:18:00,309 I wish it was as easy as that...but it isn't. 1312 01:18:02,045 --> 01:18:08,451 You see, I...I keep seeing that poor little sister of mine.. 1313 01:18:08,517 --> 01:18:15,024 ...lying there...with that fear still in her eyes.. 1314 01:18:15,091 --> 01:18:18,327 '...and her pretty little head all twisted.' 1315 01:18:21,197 --> 01:18:22,766 Me, too. 1316 01:18:22,832 --> 01:18:26,035 - I see her too, just like you. - Emmy Lou. 1317 01:18:26,102 --> 01:18:29,238 Mary. 1318 01:18:29,305 --> 01:18:31,007 Oh, Mary. 1319 01:18:41,751 --> 01:18:44,954 You go on back to headquarters and I'll see you there later. 1320 01:18:45,021 --> 01:18:48,424 If you get any news of Emmy Lou, call me at the hospital. 1321 01:18:48,491 --> 01:18:49,993 Alright, Mr. Graham. 1322 01:18:52,328 --> 01:18:55,298 I didn't mean to take her there, Mary. 1323 01:18:55,364 --> 01:18:58,167 - You know I didn't. I.. - Never mind. 1324 01:18:58,234 --> 01:19:00,970 Never mind, Emmy Lou. It's all over now. 1325 01:19:02,939 --> 01:19:08,277 There's only one thing that I'm interested in. 1326 01:19:08,344 --> 01:19:12,315 - Estelle, call Graham's office. - What are you gonna do, Mary? 1327 01:19:13,616 --> 01:19:17,453 Have Emmy Lou tell him the same story she just told us. 1328 01:19:17,520 --> 01:19:21,858 - Do you know what you're doing? - Sure, I do. 1329 01:19:21,925 --> 01:19:24,928 I swore that I'd make Vanning pay for this 1330 01:19:24,994 --> 01:19:27,230 if it was the last thing I ever did. 1331 01:19:27,296 --> 01:19:30,399 Well, why make her pay for it too? 1332 01:19:30,466 --> 01:19:33,502 Once she tells Graham, she's gone. Don't you realize that? 1333 01:19:33,569 --> 01:19:39,275 You'll be equally responsible for her being gone as Vanning. 1334 01:19:39,342 --> 01:19:40,609 Well? 1335 01:19:40,676 --> 01:19:45,648 Go ahead, Mary. It doesn't make any difference anymore. 1336 01:19:45,714 --> 01:19:48,885 My number's up anyhow. 1337 01:19:48,952 --> 01:19:51,554 He'll get me, just as he'll get every one of you. 1338 01:19:51,620 --> 01:19:54,390 As long as we're alive, there's a chance of someone telling. 1339 01:19:54,457 --> 01:19:56,792 And Vanning doesn't take chances. 1340 01:19:56,860 --> 01:19:59,728 One by one, he'll get us. 1341 01:19:59,795 --> 01:20:01,564 Maybe, if we went to him and said 1342 01:20:01,630 --> 01:20:03,732 "Look, Johnny, you know us, we won't talk." 1343 01:20:03,799 --> 01:20:06,569 - Maybe we could make a deal. - I'm sick of making deals. 1344 01:20:06,635 --> 01:20:08,737 Well, you wanna keep on living, don't you? 1345 01:20:08,804 --> 01:20:13,042 If this is what you call living, I don't want any part of it. 1346 01:20:13,109 --> 01:20:15,311 Always being afraid. 1347 01:20:15,378 --> 01:20:19,648 Never knowing, what's going to happen to you the next day. 1348 01:20:19,715 --> 01:20:25,488 I'm fed up with being afraid of...Vanning or anybody else. 1349 01:20:25,554 --> 01:20:30,426 There must be...some other way for me to live. 1350 01:20:30,493 --> 01:20:32,628 If there isn't, I.. 1351 01:20:32,695 --> 01:20:38,334 Well, I'd sooner put a bullet in my head, right now, and end it. 1352 01:20:40,503 --> 01:20:42,838 - 'Hello, Graham.' - Hello, Mary. 1353 01:20:44,140 --> 01:20:47,076 Emmy Lou? What does she know? 1354 01:20:47,143 --> 01:20:49,112 - Everything. - Will she talk? 1355 01:20:49,178 --> 01:20:52,581 Yeah, she'll talk, and so will we. 1356 01:21:09,398 --> 01:21:12,001 I'm telling you, Johnny, we've got to make a deal. 1357 01:21:12,068 --> 01:21:14,003 What do you mean? 1358 01:21:14,070 --> 01:21:16,639 Plead guilty. Throw yourself on the mercy of the court. 1359 01:21:16,705 --> 01:21:19,442 Mercy? Don't make me laugh. 1360 01:21:19,508 --> 01:21:22,711 They've been waiting to get me in a spot like this for years. 1361 01:21:22,778 --> 01:21:26,282 We haven't got a chance with Emmy Lou testifying for them. 1362 01:21:26,349 --> 01:21:29,452 - Our only way out is a deal. - Me? 1363 01:21:29,518 --> 01:21:33,522 I don't make no deals with nobody. They make deals with me. 1364 01:21:33,589 --> 01:21:37,560 All the time I've been that way, ever since I was that big. 1365 01:21:37,626 --> 01:21:39,662 You think I care for money? 1366 01:21:39,728 --> 01:21:43,732 All I care about is to make people do what I tell them. 1367 01:21:43,799 --> 01:21:45,601 You're crazy, Johnny. 1368 01:21:45,668 --> 01:21:48,938 Yeah, maybe I am. 1369 01:21:49,005 --> 01:21:51,207 Maybe, I ain't. 1370 01:21:51,274 --> 01:21:53,342 I just know one thing. 1371 01:21:53,409 --> 01:21:57,680 I ain't going to let no five dames put the skids under me. 1372 01:21:57,746 --> 01:22:00,483 You want a deal? Here it is. 1373 01:22:00,549 --> 01:22:05,121 You tell to those dames that I'll get them before the trial 1374 01:22:05,188 --> 01:22:08,324 and maybe I got to wait until after it's over. 1375 01:22:08,391 --> 01:22:13,362 But if they talk, sure as my name's Johnny Vanning.. 1376 01:22:13,429 --> 01:22:15,598 ...I'll get 'em. 1377 01:22:15,664 --> 01:22:18,234 I wish that guy Graham would stop sending these banquets. 1378 01:22:18,301 --> 01:22:20,236 He's ruining my girlish figure. 1379 01:22:20,303 --> 01:22:22,871 You don't have to make a pig out of yourself. 1380 01:22:22,938 --> 01:22:25,308 Well, it's free, why not? 1381 01:22:25,374 --> 01:22:27,643 Come on, Mary, your stuff's getting cold. 1382 01:22:27,710 --> 01:22:29,645 No, I'm not hungry. 1383 01:22:35,851 --> 01:22:37,853 Gabby, look. 1384 01:22:37,920 --> 01:22:43,592 See that guy there, across the street, with the gray hat on? 1385 01:22:43,659 --> 01:22:47,130 He looks like Joe Donnera, one of Vanning's executioners. 1386 01:22:47,196 --> 01:22:48,931 Right. Get away from that window, Mary. 1387 01:22:48,998 --> 01:22:51,967 That little hophead isn't out there walking for his health. 1388 01:23:04,080 --> 01:23:05,581 That's all. 1389 01:23:13,822 --> 01:23:15,458 Be seated. 1390 01:23:15,524 --> 01:23:20,229 Proceed with the case of The State vs. Vanning. 1391 01:23:20,296 --> 01:23:22,598 The state calls Florrie Liggett. 1392 01:23:22,665 --> 01:23:26,069 And when Betty got out of the taxi and came up the stoop 1393 01:23:26,135 --> 01:23:28,104 she had money in her hand, didn't she? 1394 01:23:28,171 --> 01:23:29,472 Yes, sir. 1395 01:23:29,538 --> 01:23:31,707 - It was a $100 bill, wasn't it? - Yes, sir. 1396 01:23:31,774 --> 01:23:35,344 And where did she tell you she got that $100 bill? 1397 01:23:35,411 --> 01:23:39,682 - From a man at the party. - Just as a sort of a present? 1398 01:23:39,748 --> 01:23:42,351 No, sir. She said she got it for taxi fare. 1399 01:23:42,418 --> 01:23:46,289 'She told you that she accepted a $100 bill for taxi fare?' 1400 01:23:46,355 --> 01:23:49,358 'Yes, sir. We always got that at Johnny's parties.' 1401 01:23:50,926 --> 01:23:53,062 Thank you. That's all. 1402 01:24:11,114 --> 01:24:13,649 The state calls Estelle Porter. 1403 01:24:13,716 --> 01:24:16,285 - You knew Betty Strauber? - Yes, sir. 1404 01:24:16,352 --> 01:24:18,921 Will you speak louder so the jury can hear you? 1405 01:24:18,987 --> 01:24:20,289 Yes, sir. 1406 01:24:20,356 --> 01:24:22,925 What kind of a girl would you say she was? 1407 01:24:22,991 --> 01:24:24,760 She was the sweetest kid you ever saw. 1408 01:24:24,827 --> 01:24:26,795 'And up until very recently, she didn't know' 1409 01:24:26,862 --> 01:24:29,432 'the kind of work you and her sister were doing?' 1410 01:24:29,498 --> 01:24:32,268 No, sir. She thought we were models in a dress shop. 1411 01:24:32,335 --> 01:24:34,437 Mary kept her in a swell school. 1412 01:24:34,503 --> 01:24:37,273 Wanted her to grow up to be a god kid, and.. 1413 01:24:37,340 --> 01:24:39,742 Objection, as irrelevant and cheap pathos 1414 01:24:39,808 --> 01:24:42,578 in an attempt to play on the sympathies of the jury. 1415 01:24:42,645 --> 01:24:45,381 I merely offer it in rebuttal to the cheap insinuations 1416 01:24:45,448 --> 01:24:48,083 cast upon the character of the deceased Betty Strauber. 1417 01:24:48,151 --> 01:24:50,353 Overruled. Proceed. 1418 01:24:54,290 --> 01:24:57,926 The state calls Dorothy Marvin, known as Gabby Marvin. 1419 01:24:57,993 --> 01:25:02,731 Why did you refuse to talk about this case to the D.A. at first? 1420 01:25:02,798 --> 01:25:04,533 I had a reason. 1421 01:25:04,600 --> 01:25:07,170 And was it for the same reason that you tried 1422 01:25:07,236 --> 01:25:09,572 to persuade the other girls not to talk? 1423 01:25:09,638 --> 01:25:13,242 - Yes. - And just what was that reason? 1424 01:25:13,309 --> 01:25:16,812 - Vanning. - What do you mean, Vanning? 1425 01:25:16,879 --> 01:25:19,648 A boy I was crazy about used to work for him. 1426 01:25:19,715 --> 01:25:22,918 He wanted to get out of this, so we could go away together. 1427 01:25:22,985 --> 01:25:26,322 But he knew too much. Vanning wouldn't let him out. 1428 01:25:26,389 --> 01:25:29,024 So the boyfriend got sore and talked. 1429 01:25:29,091 --> 01:25:32,295 George, he was that kind of a guy, sorta hotheaded and wild-- 1430 01:25:32,361 --> 01:25:34,497 Never mind that. What happened? 1431 01:25:36,332 --> 01:25:39,568 They found him in a ditch, full of slugs. 1432 01:25:45,608 --> 01:25:47,743 The state calls Mary Dwight. 1433 01:25:47,810 --> 01:25:49,945 And when you defied Vanning's command 1434 01:25:50,012 --> 01:25:51,747 to stay away from the law 1435 01:25:51,814 --> 01:25:55,584 and threatened to tell me all you knew, what did he do? 1436 01:25:55,651 --> 01:25:59,154 He slapped me hard right across the mouth. 1437 01:25:59,222 --> 01:26:00,623 Then what happened? 1438 01:26:00,689 --> 01:26:03,726 He ordered all the other girls to leave the room. 1439 01:26:03,792 --> 01:26:05,594 And after they left? 1440 01:26:05,661 --> 01:26:09,965 Charlie and another member of the gang, went to work on me. 1441 01:26:10,032 --> 01:26:11,967 'And by that you mean?' 1442 01:26:12,034 --> 01:26:14,570 They started slapping me around. 1443 01:26:14,637 --> 01:26:18,441 They'd keep crashing their big fists in my face. 1444 01:26:18,507 --> 01:26:21,577 And threatening me with worse 1445 01:26:21,644 --> 01:26:24,647 if I didn't keep my mouth shut like Johnny said. 1446 01:26:25,981 --> 01:26:30,986 Then when I fell down, they started kicking me. 1447 01:26:31,053 --> 01:26:36,492 Oh, I begged them to lay off, but they wouldn't stop. 1448 01:26:36,559 --> 01:26:39,795 Then when I saw Charlie.. 1449 01:26:39,862 --> 01:26:45,268 ...lean over me and take out his knife.. 1450 01:26:45,334 --> 01:26:48,471 ...I screamed and-and fainted. 1451 01:26:50,906 --> 01:26:54,477 And you don't remember anything that happened after that? 1452 01:26:54,543 --> 01:26:58,213 No. Not until I woke up in the hospital. 1453 01:26:58,281 --> 01:27:02,751 Was there any reason why Charlie cut that cross on your cheek? 1454 01:27:03,686 --> 01:27:04,686 Sure. 1455 01:27:06,322 --> 01:27:09,191 Sure, that's Johnny's little trademark.. 1456 01:27:09,258 --> 01:27:12,361 ...for anyone who double-crosses him. 1457 01:27:14,463 --> 01:27:17,266 Emmy Lou Eagan, take the stand. 1458 01:27:17,333 --> 01:27:19,268 Then Betty pleaded with Vanning 1459 01:27:19,335 --> 01:27:22,137 not to make her go with Mr. Crandall. 1460 01:27:22,204 --> 01:27:25,641 And that only made Johnny mad. 1461 01:27:25,708 --> 01:27:28,777 He grabbed her, and when she tried to fight him off 1462 01:27:28,844 --> 01:27:31,880 he hit her, and she fell down the stairs. 1463 01:27:31,947 --> 01:27:33,882 - She fell down the stairs? - Yes, sir. 1464 01:27:33,949 --> 01:27:35,918 Then Vanning didn't deliberately 1465 01:27:35,984 --> 01:27:38,153 push or throw her down the stairs, did he? 1466 01:27:38,220 --> 01:27:41,624 Well, no, sir. He hit her so hard she lost her balance and-- 1467 01:27:41,690 --> 01:27:44,393 Accidentally fell down the stairs, isn't that right? 1468 01:27:44,460 --> 01:27:46,194 - Yes, sir. - Then Vanning didn't kill her? 1469 01:27:46,261 --> 01:27:49,031 - Oh, he did! He did! - You said it was an accident. 1470 01:27:49,097 --> 01:27:51,667 - Now, which is it? - He killed her, I tell you. 1471 01:27:51,734 --> 01:27:54,937 I saw him, and that's why he wanted to kill me too. 1472 01:28:01,944 --> 01:28:04,747 And in summing up, I cannot impress upon you too strongly 1473 01:28:04,813 --> 01:28:07,683 you must never lose sight of the background of this case. 1474 01:28:07,750 --> 01:28:10,919 A viciously ruthless background from which sprang the motive 1475 01:28:10,986 --> 01:28:13,489 for this killing of an innocent girl. 1476 01:28:13,556 --> 01:28:16,325 You should consider not only Vanning the murderer 1477 01:28:16,392 --> 01:28:18,661 but also Vanning the vice czar 1478 01:28:18,727 --> 01:28:22,064 who, at this very moment is exacting his staggering tribute 1479 01:28:22,130 --> 01:28:24,567 from a supine and cowardly city. 1480 01:28:24,633 --> 01:28:27,670 To defend this empire of vice and crime 1481 01:28:27,736 --> 01:28:29,805 Vanning is pursuing the same methods he used 1482 01:28:29,872 --> 01:28:31,807 in building and maintaining it. 1483 01:28:31,874 --> 01:28:36,078 Insidious bribery to corrupt, brutal violence to intimidate 1484 01:28:36,144 --> 01:28:40,683 and cold-blooded murder to silence any who dared protest. 1485 01:28:40,749 --> 01:28:44,019 Had all these succeeded, as they had so often in the past 1486 01:28:44,086 --> 01:28:47,289 I wouldn't be here prosecuting Vanning for murder. 1487 01:28:47,356 --> 01:28:49,091 And why did he fail? 1488 01:28:49,157 --> 01:28:51,259 Was it because our leading citizens had risen 1489 01:28:51,326 --> 01:28:56,264 in righteous indignation to rid the city of this criminal? 1490 01:28:56,331 --> 01:28:58,266 Ladies and gentlemen. 1491 01:28:58,333 --> 01:29:00,836 These leading citizens, men of reputation 1492 01:29:00,903 --> 01:29:03,138 men of standing, men of righteousness 1493 01:29:03,205 --> 01:29:06,274 who cried to the high heavens that the city was overrun 1494 01:29:06,341 --> 01:29:08,076 with crime and corruption. 1495 01:29:08,143 --> 01:29:10,813 When they were called upon to testify, to do something 1496 01:29:10,879 --> 01:29:15,551 about it, to risk even a little, did they? No. 1497 01:29:15,618 --> 01:29:18,487 They were either too busy or too afraid. 1498 01:29:18,554 --> 01:29:21,323 Out of all the teeming millions of this great city 1499 01:29:21,390 --> 01:29:23,726 only five girls had the courage 1500 01:29:23,792 --> 01:29:27,730 'to take their very lives in their hands and accuse Vanning.' 1501 01:29:27,796 --> 01:29:29,732 'In spite of all threats of reprisals' 1502 01:29:29,798 --> 01:29:32,100 'the horror of which they knew too well' 1503 01:29:32,167 --> 01:29:35,003 'they were ready to appear before you to testify.' 1504 01:29:35,070 --> 01:29:38,273 And let me be the first to admit the truth of the accusations 1505 01:29:38,340 --> 01:29:41,109 that were brought against these girls in a desperate effort 1506 01:29:41,176 --> 01:29:42,811 to discredit them. 1507 01:29:42,878 --> 01:29:45,614 Frankly, they're everything the defense has said they are. 1508 01:29:45,681 --> 01:29:47,716 Their characters are questionable. 1509 01:29:47,783 --> 01:29:50,085 Their profession, unsavory and distasteful. 1510 01:29:50,152 --> 01:29:52,588 Oh, it's not been difficult to crucify them 1511 01:29:52,655 --> 01:29:55,323 but it has been difficult to crucify the truth. 1512 01:29:55,390 --> 01:29:57,392 And that truth is that these girls 1513 01:29:57,460 --> 01:30:01,229 in the face of sheer, stark terrorism, did appear in court 1514 01:30:01,296 --> 01:30:04,099 exposed themselves to the public gaze, told the truth 1515 01:30:04,166 --> 01:30:07,903 about themselves, told the world what they really are. 1516 01:30:07,970 --> 01:30:10,839 Then you must believe that they were telling the truth 1517 01:30:10,906 --> 01:30:13,842 when they testified that Vanning was responsible 1518 01:30:13,909 --> 01:30:15,844 'for the death of Betty Strauber.' 1519 01:30:15,911 --> 01:30:18,046 'And if you do believe that' 1520 01:30:18,113 --> 01:30:20,282 there is but one verdict you can reach.. 1521 01:30:20,348 --> 01:30:23,151 ...and that is guilty. 1522 01:30:30,392 --> 01:30:31,894 Be seated. 1523 01:30:33,796 --> 01:30:35,731 Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. 1524 01:30:35,798 --> 01:30:37,733 Have you reached a verdict? 1525 01:30:37,800 --> 01:30:40,168 - We have, Your Honor. - Hand it to the clerk. 1526 01:30:53,516 --> 01:30:56,051 Read it. 1527 01:30:56,118 --> 01:30:58,654 "We, the jury, in the above entitled cause 1528 01:30:58,721 --> 01:31:00,656 "find the defendants guilty on counts 1529 01:31:00,723 --> 01:31:02,858 "one, two, three and four." 1530 01:31:08,964 --> 01:31:12,167 Your Honor, at this time we give oral notice of our intention 1531 01:31:12,234 --> 01:31:14,202 to move for a new trial. 1532 01:31:14,269 --> 01:31:17,840 An intelligent, courageous, indiscriminating jury 1533 01:31:17,906 --> 01:31:20,776 has found you, Vanning, guilty of heading a combination 1534 01:31:20,843 --> 01:31:26,582 to commit and profit from every vicious and reprehensible crime. 1535 01:31:26,649 --> 01:31:29,785 This makes you responsible, in law and morals 1536 01:31:29,852 --> 01:31:32,187 for every foul and cruel deed 1537 01:31:32,254 --> 01:31:34,623 performed at your command by your henchmen. 1538 01:31:34,690 --> 01:31:37,159 'The evidence against you is overwhelming.' 1539 01:31:37,225 --> 01:31:40,929 'Your previous record shows you a incorrigible criminal.' 1540 01:31:40,996 --> 01:31:43,732 'A low and brutal character' 1541 01:31:43,799 --> 01:31:47,069 an unprincipled and aggressive egotist. 1542 01:31:47,135 --> 01:31:50,238 It is my sworn duty to administer to each of you 1543 01:31:50,305 --> 01:31:53,942 the justice and punishment of an outraged community. 1544 01:31:54,009 --> 01:31:56,378 But before I do, let me warn you. 1545 01:31:56,444 --> 01:31:59,447 That should any of the people's witnesses be injured or harassed 1546 01:31:59,514 --> 01:32:04,219 'specifically, if anything happens to those five girls' 1547 01:32:04,286 --> 01:32:07,122 'the court will request the parole authorities' 1548 01:32:07,189 --> 01:32:08,991 'to retain in prison' 1549 01:32:09,057 --> 01:32:11,894 'the defendants against whom such witnesses testified' 1550 01:32:11,960 --> 01:32:14,963 'for the maximum terms of the sentences to be imposed.' 1551 01:32:16,498 --> 01:32:18,466 'Since all of you have been found guilty' 1552 01:32:18,533 --> 01:32:20,268 'on every count in the indictment' 1553 01:32:20,335 --> 01:32:22,705 it is a judgment and sentence of this court 1554 01:32:22,771 --> 01:32:24,506 that you be imprisoned 1555 01:32:24,573 --> 01:32:28,210 for a term of not less than 30 nor more than 50 years 1556 01:32:28,276 --> 01:32:30,212 'in the state penitentiary.' 1557 01:32:38,787 --> 01:32:41,289 Well, that's that. 1558 01:32:42,157 --> 01:32:44,326 Come on, kids. 1559 01:32:44,392 --> 01:32:45,894 Let's go. 1560 01:32:53,736 --> 01:32:55,804 - Congratulations. - Nice work, Dave. 1561 01:32:55,871 --> 01:32:58,240 Just a minute, Mr. Graham. Look this way, please. 1562 01:33:09,952 --> 01:33:10,952 Joe. 1563 01:33:16,458 --> 01:33:19,461 Johnny says to lay off. 1564 01:33:19,527 --> 01:33:20,696 Okay. 1565 01:33:29,838 --> 01:33:31,006 'Mary.' 1566 01:33:35,110 --> 01:33:36,110 Yes? 1567 01:33:38,013 --> 01:33:41,616 - Aren't you gonna wait? - What for? 1568 01:33:41,684 --> 01:33:44,586 - It's all over, isn't it? - Over? 1569 01:33:44,653 --> 01:33:48,891 Why, sure. You'd better go back inside. 1570 01:33:48,957 --> 01:33:50,893 They all wanna congratulate you. 1571 01:33:50,959 --> 01:33:53,328 Oh, no, you're the one that should be getting 1572 01:33:53,395 --> 01:33:56,531 the congratulations, not me. 1573 01:33:56,598 --> 01:33:59,668 Uh-uh. I don't want them. 1574 01:33:59,735 --> 01:34:03,371 - But, where will you go? - Places. 1575 01:34:03,438 --> 01:34:06,474 - But, what will you do? - Do? 1576 01:34:06,541 --> 01:34:09,912 Oh, I'll get along. I always have. 1577 01:34:09,978 --> 01:34:12,114 Mary, I'd like to help you. 1578 01:34:15,317 --> 01:34:16,317 Why? 1579 01:34:16,351 --> 01:34:19,554 Why? Because I.. 1580 01:34:19,621 --> 01:34:22,925 ...because I think you've got a break coming to you. 1581 01:34:22,991 --> 01:34:24,159 And? 1582 01:34:25,360 --> 01:34:28,063 And I'd like to see that you get it. 1583 01:34:29,464 --> 01:34:32,500 What's the use of stalling? 1584 01:34:32,567 --> 01:34:35,771 We both live in different worlds, that's how we leave it. 1585 01:34:35,838 --> 01:34:37,973 I don't want to leave it that way. 1586 01:34:38,040 --> 01:34:40,809 I said to you that if you ever started helping yourself 1587 01:34:40,876 --> 01:34:43,645 I'd be the first one to go to bat for you. 1588 01:34:43,712 --> 01:34:45,447 And that still goes. 1589 01:34:45,513 --> 01:34:48,851 No matter what you do or where you go.. 1590 01:34:48,917 --> 01:34:50,418 ...we'll meet again. 1591 01:34:57,893 --> 01:35:00,028 Goodbye, Graham. 1592 01:35:01,629 --> 01:35:03,766 I'll be seeing you. 1593 01:35:13,408 --> 01:35:15,577 - Here's Graham. - Been looking all over for you. 1594 01:35:15,643 --> 01:35:17,412 'How about pictures of our next D.A.?' 1595 01:35:17,479 --> 01:35:20,248 'What do you mean D.A.? He'll be our next governor.' 1596 01:35:20,315 --> 01:35:22,250 'Come on. Give that old personality smile.' 1597 01:35:22,317 --> 01:35:24,820 'You know, Graham, the old chin out.' 1598 01:35:24,887 --> 01:35:28,190 - 'Atta-boy.' - 'Just a few more now, Graham.' 1599 01:35:28,256 --> 01:35:31,393 - Wait a minute, Graham. - Let's get two more.