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♪♪

Get me police headquarters.

Art? This is Joe.

Are you still interested in the Kane gang?

Am I?

We hear they're pulling off the deal of the year

and then splitting for a while, but we can't locate them.

Why?

I'm at Fifth and Bradley.

I just saw Billy Lee and Ginger

go into an apartment across the street.

Wait a minute.

Nothing, Art. Just a van went by.

Now you get over here as fast as you can.

I'll go upstairs and try and hold 'em.

Right.

Fingerman's not here yet?

No.

He better get here soon.

He'll be here.

He knows what'll happen if he don't.

Hey, Ginger.

Where you heading when that bag's full?

South Side.

South Side of what?

Chicago, man.

There's only one South Side.

And when I'm there...

right to the Parrot Club.

Just at showtime.

And there she'll be, under a blue spot.

Who?

- Hannah Williams. - The singer?

And she'll be wearing a silver dress.

Well, I ain't got nobody waiting under no blue spot for me.

Hamburg, Germany. That's where I'm heading.

Wide-open.

Girlie bars.

Mud wrestling.

Trapezes.

Real kinky stuff.

Where'd you learn so much about Hamburg, Germany?

Sailor told me.

Hey, Cliff, you picked out where you're heading yet?

No, not yet.

Yeah... there'll be enough in that bag

to keep going around the world forever.

Cliff isn't going anywhere.

He wants to stay right here in town.

You know why?

My daughter's going to be home from school

and Cliff figures he's going to make a little time with her.

Isn't that right, Cliff?

Mr. Kane, I promised you I...

And I'll promise you something.

You go anywhere near Susan and I'll tear your heart out.

What's that?

It's Fingerman.

There's a warning buzzer on the first step.

This old place used to be a fancy house.

Fingerman was a regular customer.

Those steps are going to be the death of me yet.

To think I used to dance up them.

Ah, well...

Did you get any static from Denver?

They tested the stuff...

and then they asked me when they could get some more.

I told them to contact you.

You handle the contacts.

I'm retiring, George.

I'm going to sit in the sun out in Arizona

and play shuffleboard.

This old ticker of mine

may not go on ticking for very long, you know.

Come on, let's see what we've got in the suitcase.

Who is this?

That's the young kid I was telling you about.

He made our Denver contact.

We're cutting him in for a share.

There's enough for everybody.

Well, there it is, gentlemen.

A cool $2 million.

Put this in the bedroom, will you, please?

Wait! Wait!

We have no reason to be alarmed.

Help him put it back in the suitcase.

That's only one man; I'll handle it.

Everybody just relax.

Hello, Fingerman.

You can keep feeding the kitty.

Hold it.

Take it, Billy Lee.

You know him?

I believe the gentleman

is a private detective by the name of Joe Mannix.

Oh, that's quite a bundle.

How much heroin does it represent?

I'm in the real estate business.

Really? What did you sell, San Diego?

I have to deal in large amounts of currency.

You can ask my lawyer, Mr. Fingerman.

Sure, Billy Lee and Ginger, here,

they're your bankers.

Come off it, Kane.

There was a shipment of heroin hijacked

at the border last month, a syndicate shipment.

What did you do,

front for the sale, Fingerman?

Well, that's a very serious charge to make

without any evidence, Mr. Mannix.

Is it?

I know a man whose daughter died from an overdose.

Legally, the charge should be murder.

She was only 16 years old.

Then I don't suppose she'll get any older, will she?

And neither will you, Mr. Mannix.

Now you just relax, Mannix.

He got my hand!

All right, you'll live through it.

It's bad!

We'll fix it later, Billy Lee.

Come on, let's get out of here. Maybe he tipped the cops.

All right, my office.

Close up that suitcase and let's go.

Wait a minute, don't everybody leave at once.

It's gonna look bad.

Look, George, you leave with Ginger and Billy Lee,

and I'll follow with the kid.

I'll bring the money.

All right, Kane, hold it!

What's the matter?

- My heart. - What?

Take the money.

Go.

Get the room, Charlie.

You all right, Joe?

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Well, we got Kane, Ginger, and Billy Lee.

How about Fingerman?

We found him at the top of the stairs,

dead.

A heart attack, I guess.

Oh.

What about the young guy?

What guy?

A, uh, a young guy, about 25; he's new.

Didn't see him.

The money?

Didn't they split that up?

No, it was all in Fingerman's suitcase.

Well, we can book Kane and charge him,

but the D.A.'s gonna have a problem

making that stick without the money.

Yeah.

You've got no line on the kid at all?

No.

Kane's daughter just got back from college.

Let's go over to his place.

She may know something.

Susan?

Cliff, what are you doing here?

Look, honey, your dad's in trouble.

Trouble?

The police have arrested him.

What are you talking about?

- Why would they arrest my father? - Listen, listen.

Susan, I don't have much time.

The cops will be here soon.

You've got to lie.

- About what? - Me.

Cliff, what are you mixed up in?

What's my father mixed up in?

All right.

You have to know.

When I came here from Denver to study law,

you told me to look up your father.

I-I was broke.

You said he had a big real estate brokerage.

He'd help me.

Well, he... he helped me, all right,

but what he was selling wasn't houses or vacant lots.

What was he selling?

Drugs.

- I don't believe it. - Believe it.

- My father wouldn't. - Susan, you've got to believe it.

- Cliff, you know my father. - Listen. Listen to me, Susan!

Tonight the roof fell in.

What will happen to my father now?

20 years,

if he's convicted.

A-And you?

No, I'm clean.

No record. The police don't know me.

Susan,

Susan, all you have to do is steer them away.

You can't help your dad now.

You can't go back to school.

Come away with me.

Where?

Mexico.

Mexico?

Your father won't want you to see him stand trial.

He loves you too much.

Cliff,

he's my father.

Susan,

remember, you don't know me.

Okay.

My robe.

And, Susan, I love you.

- Miss Kane? - Yes.

I'm Lieutenant Malcolm, Los Angeles Police Department.

May we come in?

Of course.

I don't know anyone who looks

like the man you described, Mr. Mannix.

You'll have to forgive me, but I, I just can't believe

my father is what you say he is.

I'm sorry, but I just can't think.

Well, it's too bad you had to find out

about it this way, Miss Kane.

Good night, Miss Kane.

Good night.

Your father doesn't have

to serve 20 years in prison.

It could only be one day.

I've got the money the police were talking about,

a lot of money.

Money can fix anything.

What can it fix?

An escape.

There'd never be a trial.

He'd just vanish.

Where?

He said something about Brazil.

Your father's not that old.

He's got a lot of years left.

We owe him a chance to let him live those out, don't we?

Yes.

Go on, I'm listening.

The proposition's very simple, Mr. Sartino.

Whatever George Kane used to pay you for the merchandise,

I'll up it 20%, plus...

Plus what?

Half the cash out of the Denver deal.

Kane hijacked my shipment.

All that money is mine.

Half, or the money stays buried, Mr. Sartino.

Buddy.

Kid's ambitious, huh?

Yeah.

This generation... They can't wait to take over.

And that's what you're after, right, kid, to take over?

Only with your protection, Mr. Sartino.

Suppose I were to say yes.

I could beat it out of you, but suppose I said yes.

What happens if Kane beats the rap?

He won't beat the rap.

You seem pretty certain.

Kane's got a smart lawyer.

I can fix it so it doesn't matter how smart his lawyer is.

How?

You can't get to him, not with the cops sitting on him.

Tomorrow he'll be in courtroom number six...

Preliminary hearing.

Go on, I'm still listening.

Anything might happen if you set it up right.

George Kane's finished anyway.

I mean, businesswise he's dead.

He can't operate.

I can, Mr. Sartino.

I'm a law student, I'm clean,

there's nothing in the computer about me,

and I'll pay you 20% over the going price.

Okay.

If what you say might happen happens, phone me.

I'll listen even better then.

Fine.

Thank you, sir.

Want me to tail him?

What?

Do you want me to tail him?

Uh, not yet.

A polite kid.

A knife at your back, but very polite.

Well, uh, there was a suitcase full of money and five men.

Three of them are sitting over there at that...

I'm gonna get him for this.

Will you please take it easy?

I told you, Cliff has it all set up for us to get out of here.

Now just sit tight.

All arranged?

It's going to be slaughter in there.

For $15,000 it'd better be.

And the court will now rise.

One of these days I'm gonna kill you, Mannix.

♪♪

There you go, put that away now.

All right, gentlemen, neaten up.

Let's go to lunch.

Hey, that's Kane.

- And the other guy. - Billy Lee, go.

- Hit the alarm. - Come here. -

- Ring the alarm. - Come on, move, move!

Move, move!

In there!

Move!

Hold it, Mannix.

Hold it right there.

Billy Lee.

All right, Billy Lee,

give me that gun on the floor, please.

Mannix, why don't you just step over there with the lieutenant?

Ginger, would you believe that?

There's no firing pin in this gun, no firing pin at all.

Yeah, it looks as if Cliff got your daughter

and the money, too.

Take it easy, Art.

Ginger, keep an eye on that door.

Billy Lee, why don't you make sure

Mr. Mannix is completely clean?

Madam, would you care to sit over there, please?

Young man, over there right beside her.

Up.

Didn't I say something about killing you?

Don't waste him, Billy Lee.

No,

no, we're not going to waste anybody yet,

not a single one of them.

Yes.

If the police are looking for George Kane,

you might put them through on this extension.

Understand?

Now, ladies and gentlemen, we can do this the right way

or we can do it the wrong way.

The right way is for everybody to stay calm

and the wrong way is for somebody to get...

heroic, eh, slim?

And end up like the lieutenant over here.

Any questions?

Excuse me.

Kane here. Who's this?

This is Captain Donegan.

There's no way you can win, Kane.

You know it and I know it.

Now, you come out and lie face down on the sidewalk.

We'll take it from there.

Oh, the hell you say, Donegan.

I've got five hostages up here, and two of them

are police people.

We will kill them all

if we don't get what we want,

and what we want is what we missed

last night... $2 million, an airplane,

and a safe way to get to it.

Maybe I'd better talk to him.

Well, that's very thoughtful of you, Mr. Mannix.

Hello, Donegan, this is Mannix.

Look, Lieutenant Malcolm has been shot.

I think you'd better get a doctor

- up here as fast... - Hold it.

Scratch that, Donegan.

Malcolm gets his doctor when we get our airplane.

Well, what do you say?

Is it yes or no?

Mm-hmm.

All right, Donegan, you go and find someone

who can make the decision.

I'll give you three minutes,

and after that three minutes,

we start tossing bodies out of here, right into your laps.

I know just the body to start with.

Now, just a minute, just a minute.

Ease off there.

Mannix, I'm gonna let you go.

I want you to do me a favor.

I want you to go out,

find a young man by the name of Cliff Elgin,

and when you do, walk right up to him and say,

"I've got a present for you, sir,

from Mr. George Kane, and here it is."

Then I want you to pump six shots right into his gut.

Then come back into this room and tell me all about it.

Then we'll take it from there.

I'm not a hired killer, Kane.

Well, do you really want to see these innocent bystanders

and the wounded lieutenant there just end up dead?

Is that it?

Uh, look,

suppose I find Elgin and bring him back here alive.

Suit yourself.

You've got just as much time

as it takes Donegan to call me back.

Easy, Art.

There we go.

Would he do it... Just kill all of us?

I have no intention of being killed in this horrible room.

Mr. Mannix, I'm Edyth Loring.

Perhaps you know my husband... Loring Electronics?

I am afraid not, ma'am.

Are you with the police?

I'm a private investigator.

This man you've been asked to track down...

Is he a criminal?

Yes.

Then I see no reason you should refuse

what Mr. Kane has asked you to do.

Oh.

That'll be Donegan.

Yes?

Aw.

Well, Donegan, it turns out to be your lucky day.

I'm gonna give you a little bit more time.

You see, I'm sending Mannix out

to run a little errand for me.

Treat him right, will you?

All right, I'll do that.

Well, Mannix, what's it to be?

Elgin or... these good people here?

Oh, Donegan wants to see you on your way out.

Where does Elgin live?

You're the private detective.

Suppose you find that out.

I'll be back, Art,

no later than 7:00.

Hang in there.

Mr. Mannix.

How long can the lieutenant hold on?

In here?

Till morning, maybe.

- How about saying... - Stay back.

- What do they want? - Sorry. Later.

How many people up there?

Sorry.

Turn around.

Give us a word.

Hey, come on, later, huh?

What's going on up there?

Kane wants me to find a kid named Elgin,

then kill him.

Kill him?

Well, where is he?

Kane doesn't know.

I've got to find him.

Okay, find him. But that's it, Mannix...

You kill him, and you're up for a murder one charge.

Now, you deliver Elgin to me, and I'll deal for him with Kane.

Is that understood?

Yeah.

Mr. Mannix, would you make a statement?

How many people are up there?

People want to know what's going on.

Dundy, tail him.

Here, take my car. It's over there.

How many hostages?

Um, you need any fresh towels?

- Yes, please. - Okay.

I got a hurt hand.

Maybe you can do something for me.

He should really be in the hospital.

That will mean men with a stretcher,

only they won't just be men...

they will be policemen.

Sorry.

No way.

Where's Billy Lee?

Ginger.

Don't.

Billy Lee, don't.

You wouldn't stop me if she was white.

Thanks.

Look...

being black don't make no difference to me.

Now, you just behave yourself...

just like the rest.

Dig?

- But it's horrible! - I know, honey.

Those poor people and their families!

Nobody's gonna get killed. Listen to me.

Oh, this was crazy! I shouldn't have let you try it.

Something went wrong! I don't know what.

I had the van waiting in the parking lot.

I was sure it was gonna work.

Suddenly, the whole place filled with police.

- Well, what are we gonna do? - Look, look,

I know a man, a Frank Sartino.

He's got influence.

All your father wants is a chance to get away.

He's trading...

Life for a life.

I spoke to Sartino.

I offered him half the money I have...

That's close to a million dollars, Susan...

To get them to give your father the car and plane he wants.

Well, will they do it?

Honey, who wants a massacre?

When will you know?

Sartino said to give him an hour.

Now, we can't stay here; it's too dangerous.

I'll have to call Sartino from a place I know.

Cliff, what if this doesn't work?

We'll have done everything we could.

But... if he says it's fixed,

and they'll trade for the hostages,

will you go to Mexico with me?

Yes.

We're gonna be happy, Susan.

We're gonna be happy and rich.

You trust me, just trust me.

Are you expecting anyone?

- No. - Well, whoever it is, get rid of them!

Miss Kane?

- But on TV they said you... - I was a hostage, yeah.

Your father let me out on parole.

- What do you want from me? - Cliff Elgin.

I don't understand.

That's what your father put me out on the street for...

- To find him. - Why would my father

send you out to find Cliff?

Today, at the courthouse your father got caught in a switch.

He thought Cliff Elgin was setting up a break for him.

Cliff also arranged to get him a gun,

but the firing pin was taken out of it.

Your father was supposed to get shot

trying to escape from the county courthouse

with a gun that couldn't fire.

You mean... my father thinks Cliff tried to...

That's right.

Your father thinks Cliff deliberately set up

a trap to get him killed.

But Cliff wouldn't do that!

He has no reason to hate my father...

I'd say $2 million is a pretty fair reason.

Is this a trick?!

Now, look, Miss Kane,

my head's on the line; this is execution day.

There's a roomful of innocent people up in that courthouse.

You want to see them get shot?

Well, that's what's gonna happen unless I can deliver Cliff Elgin

to your father by 7:00 tonight!

I don't know where he is.

Miss Kane... are you in love with him?

- That's not your business. - But the hostages are.

I want Cliff Elgin. Now, where is he?

- Right here, Mannix. - Cliff!

Susan, get your coat.

Wait for me in the van. Go on.

You go with him, Miss Kane, and you're gonna murder

a roomful of innocent people.

He says you never meant to have Dad escape.

You meant to have him shot by the police.

- He's lying. - Am I?

He's a private eye, honey, out to make an easy buck.

You go wait in the van.

I'll take care of Mannix.

You won't hurt him... promise me.

Of course not.

Go now.

Turn around.

Come on.

I ought to put a bullet in you

for my own protection.

But since it's getaway day...

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A shamus. Name's Mannix.

Ain't he supposed to be in the courthouse with Kane?

Yeah. Frank better have a talk with him.

Let's take him out to the car.

The kid skipped...

with Kane's daughter...

and the money.

Well, I don't know if he had the money with him or not.

- Buddy? - Not in the house.

Took it apart.

Two... million... dollars.

What was it, confetti?

He celebrate New Year's with it?

He probably iced it somewhere until he's ready to move.

Move?

Out of the country.

That must've been some college that kid went to.

Listen, Mannix...

I got people to account to for that money.

They'll say: "Where is it, Frank?"

What do I answer?

A college kid snatched it?

Afraid I can't help you.

Now, uh, if you don't mind, I'll go.

Go where?

The courtroom, empty-handed?

We both need Elgin.

Work with me.

How?

Give me the kid before you deliver him to Kane.

Hello.

This is Cliff Elgin, Mr. Sartino.

What can I do for you?

Are you still interested in that deal, the one we discussed?

Yeah, I may be.

We have to firm it up.

Where can you be reached?

- I'm at Fingerman's. - Fine. I'll be in touch.

Mr. Mannix has had a very hard day.

Take him to his car.

We were talking about my working with you.

Take him to his car.

Lou.

Take him to his car.

The kid is at Fingerman's.

Get the money, all of it.

I don't care how.

Work on the girl if you have to, but I want it, today.

Yes, sir.

Well, it's still quiet up there. The D.A.'s in conference.

I don't know what his decision's gonna be, trade or move in.

What about the call to Sartino... Did the phone company trace it?

Yeah, they did. The listing is under E.P. Fingerman.

Can you stall? Can you buy me an hour?

I'll try.

Mannix is on his way to Fingerman's.

Now, this time don't lose him, huh?

What are you doing?

Buying insurance.

Against what?

Mr. Sartino.

Cliff...

I'll be finished in a minute.

Just a minute.

Cliff, I'm not going with you to Mexico.

There.

What did you say?

What Mr. Mannix said is true.

I tried not to believe it, but it is true, isn't it?

What's true?

You did want my father killed.

Sartino isn't going to call anybody.

It's some sort of a private deal

you've made with him...

about the money.

Why?

Not why. How.

How the game is played by all the big shots.

You deal yourself in, deal the other guy out.

And it doesn't matter

that some of the people in that courthouse may die?

Hey, it's not going to be me that's going to shoot them.

It's your old man who put you through college

by making junkies out of teenagers.

Let's face it, Susan.

There's dirt on every dollar.

You wait in here.

Go on.

Come on in.

Where's Sartino?

He couldn't come.

You got the money, kid?

Oh, not here.

Mr. Sartino's in kind of a big hurry for it.

Is the deal set?

Don't worry about the deal.

Excuse the artillery.

We just want to make sure you're clean.

Lou?

Two tickets to Mexico City.

Where's the girl?

I'm going to meet her at the airport.

Sit down.

Okay, now, listen.

Frank has changed his mind.

He wants all of it.

Oh. Well, that wasn't the deal.

It's the deal now.

Where's Frank's money?

We could put you in the hospital.

Where's Frank's money?

Cliff!

- Oh. - Lou.

Oh!

Shut up!

Hold it! Don't!

Hit it and spread 'em!

Don't move. Don't blink.

I'll get a doctor.

No.

The key... around my neck.

The... key... take it.

There's a bus station down... downtown.

Bus station.

Money is in the locker...

for s... for Susan.

How long has Joe been gone?

Oh, you just lie still.

He'll be back in a minute.

He's still bleeding very heavily.

I'll get some more towels.

Excuse me.

What is it?

W-Would you mind if I went over to the window?

What for?

I-I'd like to look for my wife to show her I'm okay.

Your wife?

Well, if you go over to that window,

she'll be a widow.

You ever wrestle in mud?

Not since I left the swamp.

Stuck-up broad.

What time is it?

7:00.

We'll give Mannix another half an hour.

Yeah?

Kane, this is Captain Donegan.

Now listen carefully.

I spoke to the D.A. There's no deal.

There isn't going to be a plane or a getaway car or anything.

You surrender, or we move in.

Is that their final decision?

Kane, there's nothing to be gained

by slaughtering those people you're holding up there.

Now, I'll give you ten minutes.

All right, Donegan, now you listen to me,

because I'm only going to say it once.

You get on the phone, and you call the mayor,

and you tell him, either we get that car and that airplane,

or he'll get a corpse in exactly one minute.

13-Mary 21. Repeat.

All right, Billy Lee.

You've been kind of itchy.

Pick somebody out.

Anybody?

Anybody.

You.

No!

Any objections, Ginger?

It's all the same to me.

Come on now. Don't make me carry you.

Come on up to the window where they can see you.

- No. - Come on.

- No. Please! - Come on.

Open up that blind.

Come on.

Unlock the window.

That's it. Now raise it up.

- No. - Come on.

Nice and high.

That's it.

Hold it!

Who is it?

Mannix.

That's it.

Where's Elgin?

He's dead. How are you feeling, Art?

Never mind the cop!

What about Elgin? How did you kill him?

I didn't.

What's that supposed to mean?

When I got to Fingerman's, he was dying.

Sartino had him shot.

Sartino?

Yeah, Elgin had the money.

Sartino sent his muscle in to get it.

Was there a girl with him?

Your daughter wasn't there.

How do I know Elgin is really dead?

What's this?

Elgin gave it to me just before he died.

The money's in a locker in a bus station downtown.

And this is supposed to prove that?

Would I have a key to that locker

if Elgin was still alive?

We'll find out together then, won't we, Mannix?

- Yeah. - Oh, he's cute.

He's real cute, isn't he, Ginger?

He tells us money's downtown, but he don't tell us

how we gonna get downtown to get it.

Maybe if I blow his head off, he won't be so cute.

Eh.

Kane, your daughter's here.

She wants to talk to you.

My kid?

Get her out of here, Donegan!

She's coming up to see you, Kane!

Susan! No!

Go on home!

It's too late, Kane.

She's already involved.

She's not going to let you kill those people, Kane!

You keep her down there, Donegan!

All right, get out!

Are you letting us go?

I assume that's what "get out" means.

You.

Just hold it right there.

Nobody's going nowhere.

Let 'em go, Ginger!

Key, George.

Oh.

Now the gun.

No, Ginger. Just... let 'em go!

It's finished.

I've done all the time I'm ever gonna do. The gun!

No.

Looks like we're gonna have to take it

away from him, Billy Lee.

Sure looks that way, don't it?

Don't be a fool, Billy Lee.

I don't want to kill you.

I'm thinking of Chicago, Billy Lee.

That girl in the silver dress.

My girl don't have on no dress at all.

You ready, Billy Lee?

Ready as I'll ever be.

All right, I want a circle

with me and Billy Lee in the middle.

That's how we're going out of here.

Cop's first.

Come on.

Okay, well, you two.

Come on.

Oh, don't, please! Don't! Don't.

You're killing me. Please... Oh, no, lady.

Oh... no, lady.

- Please don't kill me. - No! No! No!

It isn't necessary.

You hurt my hand.

He's dead, isn't he?

Yes.