- 5/31/2025
Films in Public Domain
Category
🎥
Short filmTranscript
00:00:00The
00:00:30Let's go.
00:01:00Oh, anything doing?
00:01:05Everything's pretty quiet.
00:01:06Yeah.
00:01:08It's kind of cold, isn't it?
00:01:10About time for long coats.
00:01:11Yeah, I'll say.
00:01:30Oh, good evening, officer.
00:01:40Evening?
00:01:41Well, it's almost morning.
00:01:43It is?
00:01:44What time is it?
00:01:4512.30.
00:01:47Say, don't you know it's against the law to be sleeping and spooning around here in the park?
00:01:52We didn't mean to break any law, officer.
00:01:54And you, young woman, you should be home in bed instead of lolling on this guy's shoulder.
00:01:59Weren't you ever in love?
00:02:01Yeah.
00:02:03That's why I'm paying alimony.
00:02:05He's got a nerve.
00:02:13I got an ocean to make him eat, that wisecrack.
00:02:16Oh, gosh, the money.
00:02:18Oh, is it there all right?
00:02:21Oh.
00:02:22Yeah, it's there.
00:02:25Gosh, I should never have gone to sleep with all that money in my pocket.
00:02:28Two hundred and thirty dollars takes a long time to save.
00:02:33Do you think two hundred and thirty dollars is enough to get married on?
00:02:38Sure.
00:02:38Some people get married on nothing.
00:02:42It doesn't seem possible that tomorrow at this time, I'll be Mrs. Thomas Jonathan Brown.
00:02:49Yeah.
00:02:50Oh, squeeze me.
00:02:54When you're my wife, Nancy, you better quit working.
00:02:58As soon as I get a raise.
00:02:59Oh, I got a better idea.
00:03:01Couldn't you get me a job at that apartment house where you work?
00:03:04Then we could be together.
00:03:06Doing what?
00:03:07Why, at the switchboard.
00:03:09Well, I might arrange it.
00:03:11I've got a lot of influence with the superintendent.
00:03:14He likes me.
00:03:15He told me yesterday I was the best assistant he ever had.
00:03:18Oh, that'd be grand.
00:03:20It's one of the swellest apartment hotels in town, isn't it?
00:03:22Is it?
00:03:23And among our tenants are some of the biggest financial men of New York.
00:03:28Really?
00:03:29Yeah.
00:03:30Why, there's one apartment on the tenth floor.
00:03:32A man named Frank Smiley.
00:03:34Well, I was in there one night fixing a radiator.
00:03:37And they just finished playing poker.
00:03:39And I saw one fellow give another one nine hundred and eighty dollars in cash and a check for seventy two hundred.
00:03:45Where did he get so much money?
00:03:47I wish I knew.
00:03:49Here we've both been working hard every day for six months and all we have is two hundred and thirty dollars.
00:03:56Well, we're lucky to have that.
00:03:58That's right, too.
00:04:01Oh, Tommy, I love you so much.
00:04:04If anything happened to you, I'd jump in the river.
00:04:07Well, Nancy, I'd want you to.
00:04:10I couldn't stand the thought of any other fellow having you.
00:04:14Honey, there's something about you that's different.
00:04:16Well, please me.
00:04:23Stick him up.
00:04:24Stick him up and be quick about it.
00:04:26You want to keep all your parts together?
00:04:27Oh, you're kidding me.
00:04:29Come across.
00:04:30Let him have the money, Tommy.
00:04:31He might kill you.
00:04:35Oh, no, we can't get married, Tommy.
00:04:37Oh, stay single.
00:04:39You're a lot better off.
00:04:40And you're money ahead.
00:04:41And now not a yip ought to be the one of you.
00:04:43Hold your hands up until I'm out of sight.
00:04:44You want to keep that schoolboy complexion.
00:04:54Tommy, squeeze me.
00:04:55You think I want to get shot?
00:04:59You can put your hands down now.
00:05:01He's gone.
00:05:02Oh, Tommy, you certainly were brave.
00:05:04Why are you even kidding with him?
00:05:06I thought he was fooling.
00:05:09Oh, Tommy, what are we going to do?
00:05:11We're going to get married just as we planned.
00:05:15I've got an idea.
00:05:17You come with me.
00:05:18Say, listen.
00:05:26As sure as my name is Frank Smiley, if you treat them square, they'll be square with you.
00:05:31Oh, now I know why you gave us such a good dinner, Frank.
00:05:34He's in the market for some jewelry.
00:05:36Cheap.
00:05:36Now, Emery, you got me wrong.
00:05:39I just wanted to give you folks a nice, good home-cooked dinner.
00:05:43And for every raisin in the pudding, you'll expect a carrot's worth of diamonds for a nickel, huh?
00:05:49Say, you know I'm giving you more than the value for the stuff than you're giving me.
00:05:55Then why don't you get it at a regular place?
00:05:57Ah, I want to give you boys a chance.
00:06:00This is Emery you're talking to.
00:06:02Well, come on, let's sit down and finish the rubber.
00:06:05Rocky's been detained a few minutes.
00:06:07He's on his way upstairs now.
00:06:08Good, I hope Gene gets here.
00:06:09I want to get some sleep tonight.
00:06:12My deal.
00:06:13You can't get any sleep in this man's town in the daytime because I'm not a nightlifer.
00:06:16Well, you won't get any sleep tonight either.
00:06:19We've got a date at the club later.
00:06:21We always have a date somewhere.
00:06:29Hello, Lola.
00:06:30Everybody here?
00:06:31Yes, sir.
00:06:35Hello, everybody.
00:06:36Hello, Rocky.
00:06:37Hello, Rocky.
00:06:38Hello, Doc.
00:06:39Who are you expecting?
00:06:41You.
00:06:41You better be.
00:06:42Gene here yet?
00:06:43No.
00:06:44Why didn't you come to dinner tonight, Rocky?
00:06:46Sorry I couldn't make it, Frank.
00:06:47Say, where is Gene?
00:06:48It's nearly one o'clock.
00:06:49He's out stepping with some high hats.
00:06:51He phoned he'd be late.
00:06:53I wonder what Gene wants to see me about tonight, Rocky.
00:06:56How should I know?
00:06:57You ought to.
00:06:58You're his right hand.
00:06:59Listen, I'm both in his hands.
00:07:01Only he doesn't know it.
00:07:03Someday I'll tell him and he'll get a surprise.
00:07:05Oh, so will you, Mary.
00:07:06Now, don't do anything right away.
00:07:09I think maybe Gene has a business proposition.
00:07:12He wants to talk over with me tonight.
00:07:13Don't be a silly old boy.
00:07:15You know I love you.
00:07:15Well, don't you know him?
00:07:18You sure?
00:07:18Don't you know him?
00:07:22Gene ought to see that.
00:07:24He'd love Rocky more than ever.
00:07:26Oh, Gene doesn't care.
00:07:28When a gentleman is finished with a lady,
00:07:30if he is a gentleman, he'll provide a successor, huh, Frankie?
00:07:33Yes, that sometimes reduces the pain of separation.
00:07:36Oh, and the course.
00:07:37I wouldn't be surprised if Gene gave us all the air one of these days.
00:07:43Who's play?
00:07:44It sure's.
00:07:46I think Gene is getting ready to quit the game.
00:07:48Oh, I wouldn't say that.
00:07:49He couldn't be such a success if he didn't like it a little bit.
00:07:52Well, come on, now.
00:07:53Watch your play, Emery.
00:07:54You know, I think Gene likes to think of himself
00:07:56as some sort of a modern Robin Hood.
00:07:58You ever notice he never pulls a job against a man
00:08:00who isn't going to be crooked himself?
00:08:02I wonder where he gets all...
00:08:03Oh, pardon.
00:08:04That romantic stuff.
00:08:06When you're in a racket, you're in a racket.
00:08:09Gene has too many scruples for his own good.
00:08:11I didn't think he was a brigadier general
00:08:13and I was a buck private.
00:08:14Well, aren't you?
00:08:15Gene's the brains of this outfit.
00:08:17Yeah, well, listen.
00:08:18I can plan the brakes as well as he can.
00:08:21And any time he wants to take a long trip,
00:08:23little me is all ready to take charge of this outfit.
00:08:26Listen, how can I think how to play
00:08:28when you're all talking like that?
00:08:29Why don't you play marbles then?
00:08:31The doctor wouldn't annoy you.
00:08:31Hello, Gene.
00:08:34Come in.
00:08:35Hello, Frank.
00:08:37Well, there you are.
00:08:38Hello, Gene.
00:08:39Sorry I'm late, Frank.
00:08:41Don't let me disturb you, Rocky.
00:08:42You didn't disturb me.
00:08:43I got up to get a light.
00:08:45How are you, Dottie?
00:08:46Leafy, Frank.
00:08:47It's going to be a long session.
00:08:49Not long.
00:08:50Why don't you run home to bed?
00:08:51Okay.
00:08:53Well, boys, I've got something
00:08:54that's awfully good news.
00:08:56Something you like, Frank.
00:08:57Yeah?
00:08:58I've decided that our friend Coleman, the jeweler,
00:09:01should part with some of his ill-gotten game.
00:09:03Coleman?
00:09:04Coleman?
00:09:05Gene, if you clean out Coleman,
00:09:08I promise to pay full value for the stuff.
00:09:11Now, I promise.
00:09:12Why is Coleman's stuff so valuable?
00:09:14His jewelry's no better than anyone else's.
00:09:16But he ran me out of business once
00:09:18by paying the boys 10 to 15% more.
00:09:21He broke me.
00:09:22Boys, I'll give you 20% more for Coleman's stuff.
00:09:27Well, we'll make that concession and let him have it.
00:09:29Oh, Genie, you don't know what you're doing for me.
00:09:33I've waited 25 years to see Coleman cleaned out.
00:09:38He's been getting away with murder for years.
00:09:40That's a bargain, Frank.
00:09:41A bargain?
00:09:43Sure, it's a bargain.
00:09:44He's a dirty crook.
00:09:49When do we pull the trick?
00:09:51Oh, sometime next week.
00:09:52I'll give you the layout in a few days.
00:09:54I'll tell you what, boys.
00:09:55I've got something special I'll open for this occasion to celebrate.
00:09:59Come on, Rocky.
00:10:00But, Frank, we can't.
00:10:01Why not?
00:10:02We've got a date at the Royal.
00:10:06I'm not going to the club.
00:10:08Tell Pete I'll be there later.
00:10:11I want to stick around and see what else Gene has on his chest.
00:10:15Goodbye.
00:10:16Good night.
00:10:17Good night, everybody.
00:10:17Good night, Ma.
00:10:18Good night.
00:10:18You, uh, haven't changed your mind about wanting to see me, have you?
00:10:22No.
00:10:24What's the matter?
00:10:25Isn't Rocky all you expected him to be?
00:10:26Oh, yes.
00:10:27Yes, but I just hoped that you'd miss me, Gene.
00:10:30Well, I haven't.
00:10:31You like Rocky.
00:10:32You picked him.
00:10:33Now you, uh, be happy.
00:10:39Not butting in on anything, I hope.
00:10:41Not at all.
00:10:42Say, we're not going to have any trouble over it, Don, are we?
00:10:49Trouble?
00:10:51Why should we?
00:10:53Well, you're sensible.
00:10:54I thought you might be jealous.
00:10:56Of you?
00:10:57Mm-hmm.
00:10:59But jealousy implies equality.
00:11:02Oh, so you don't think I'm your equal, eh?
00:11:04Not in the least, socially.
00:11:07But that need to interfere with our business relations.
00:11:09If you knew as much as I do, you'd be running this outfit instead of me.
00:11:23Maybe I will be, sooner than you think.
00:11:25Oh, be quiet, Rocky.
00:11:27Oh, he doesn't know what he's saying, Gene.
00:11:29Oh, don't I?
00:11:30Well, let me tell you something.
00:11:31You're either for your swell society friends or you're for us.
00:11:34The gang don't like it.
00:11:35They're getting fed up on you.
00:11:36Well, how would you know whether there was a million dollars' worth of jewelry lying around
00:11:40or a half a million dollars' worth of bonds if I wasn't mixing with a little class?
00:11:44We've got our own crowd to find that out.
00:11:46What are we paying finders for?
00:11:48Dot, Margie, and Emery, and a couple of dozen others.
00:11:51And keeping up that royal club.
00:11:53An idea of yours that costs us plenty.
00:11:55For what?
00:11:56So you can plant your ritzy friends.
00:11:58Our payroll's big enough to crack a safe for.
00:12:02You can't be in this racket and have a code of ethics.
00:12:05I never got an invitation to the Queen's reception.
00:12:08But I know my business.
00:12:09We want a leader with a couple of guns in his hands.
00:12:13Like you.
00:12:14Well, the gang like me, and that's good enough.
00:12:17Well, let me tell you something.
00:12:19I don't go in for murder, if that's what you mean.
00:12:22And while I'm running this outfit, you'll lay off the gunplay.
00:12:25Now we'll make a little poker, eh?
00:12:29What do you say?
00:12:30You know, you trimmed me good last time.
00:12:32Oh, I'll let you win your money back, Frank.
00:12:34Come on, Rocky.
00:12:35You don't mind, Doc?
00:12:36No.
00:12:37No, I've got something exciting to do.
00:12:39What?
00:12:40I'm going into your room and take a nap.
00:12:44Well, who's going to be banker?
00:12:46Let Frank be banker.
00:12:47It's his house.
00:12:48Nobody else can be banker.
00:12:49Every time I'm banker, I lay out more money than I take in.
00:12:53Oh, go on, Frank.
00:12:53Don't be a piker.
00:12:54All right, but I want cash in advance.
00:12:57No more checks.
00:12:59Mr. Smiley, are you insinuating?
00:13:01I'm not insinuating nothing.
00:13:03But I had a little trouble with a certain check two weeks ago.
00:13:06I told you we were going to play for fun.
00:13:08Yeah, sure we are.
00:13:08We're going to play for buttons, don't we, Frank?
00:13:10Come on, now.
00:13:11What's everybody doing?
00:13:13Somebody doing something?
00:13:14Yes.
00:13:15Yes.
00:13:15Yes.
00:13:17I raised a $50.
00:13:18What do you mean, you raised it?
00:13:20Nobody's opened yet.
00:13:21What?
00:13:21You mean to say that nobody's opened the first plot?
00:13:23Oh, now, look close.
00:13:24Look close.
00:13:25Hey, somebody must have opened it.
00:13:26Yes.
00:13:27No.
00:13:28Oh, all right.
00:13:29I said I'd never open on two little pair again, but I will.
00:13:31I'll make it easy for you, fellas.
00:13:32I'll open it for two buttons.
00:13:38Pick them up!
00:13:39Be quick about it if you want to keep all your parts together.
00:13:42Now, you guys, all stand up and keep your hands in the air.
00:13:46Well, I'm tired of sitting anyway.
00:13:48Now, stand over there and face the wall.
00:13:50Quick!
00:13:58Come in, honey.
00:14:06Go frisk them.
00:14:06Huh?
00:14:07See if they got any guns and take them away from them.
00:14:09Frisk them!
00:14:09Oh, frisk them!
00:14:12Yeah, he got any.
00:14:13Well, go on to the next one, then.
00:14:15Go on, honey.
00:14:15Don't be afraid.
00:14:16You guys try to get funny, and I'll shoot.
00:14:21I'm desperate, and I mean it.
00:14:22I wouldn't get one, anything.
00:14:30Can I help you?
00:14:31Put your hands up!
00:14:31What do I do with them?
00:14:32Bring them to me.
00:14:34Gee, you guys must be soldiers.
00:14:36Soldiers?
00:14:37Hey, you bitch, step out here.
00:14:39You mean me, buddy?
00:14:40Get your hands in the air.
00:14:41Come on, be quick about it if you want to keep all your parts together.
00:14:44Go through his pocket, honey, and get his robe.
00:14:46Get your hands in the air.
00:14:51Oh, he's got a lot.
00:14:53Just peel off $230 and put the rest back.
00:14:55Keep looking at the wall, you fellas, if you want to keep all your parts together.
00:14:57He's got $410.
00:14:59Just peel off $230 and put the rest back.
00:15:01That's all we want.
00:15:02Thanks.
00:15:03Now put ours in my coat pocket.
00:15:04Don't you think we'd better take it off for our trouble?
00:15:06No.
00:15:07Now, you big stiff, you go over and trace the wall with the rest of them guys.
00:15:09We get all we want this evening.
00:15:10Go on.
00:15:11Bring the guns along, honey.
00:15:12We'll leave them outside.
00:15:13Now, not a mover or a sound out of you guys for five minutes if you want to keep those schoolboy complexions.
00:15:17Come on.
00:15:18Now, just a second.
00:15:23Let's you be first off.
00:15:26If you don't mind.
00:15:27Not at all.
00:15:28I'm glad to get rid of it.
00:15:30They're just a couple of kids.
00:15:32Highway robbers.
00:15:33Honest, mister, we're not professional crooks.
00:15:35Why, you surprised me.
00:15:36I'm going to notify the police.
00:15:38Don't call the cops.
00:15:39I want to tell you something.
00:15:41This guy here is a thief and he stuck me up in the park.
00:15:43Oh, don't give me that.
00:15:45Go on, Frank.
00:15:46Call the cops.
00:15:46Just a minute, Frank.
00:15:47Wait a minute.
00:15:48Before you call him, let her get away because it's all my fault.
00:15:51I got her into this.
00:15:52I don't care what you do to me, but let her...
00:15:53Now, take it easy, son.
00:15:55Frank, will you turn to those guns?
00:15:56Sure.
00:15:57And have you the villainous looking weapon that that Desperado held us up with?
00:16:01Now, I'm going to let you go, young lady, but don't try any fastens on it.
00:16:04No, sir.
00:16:05All right.
00:16:05You stay right here while I operate on this big berth.
00:16:08Well, there's nothing in it.
00:16:11So there isn't.
00:16:12You've got to hand it to them.
00:16:13They've got nerve.
00:16:14I'll say they have.
00:16:16What are we going to do with them?
00:16:17Hand them over to the cops.
00:16:19The professional crooks in this town are getting too much competition.
00:16:23What was the idea, son?
00:16:24Only taking 230.
00:16:25Well, because that was all he took from me and I just wanted to get my money back.
00:16:29That's all.
00:16:30That guy's a thief, I tell you.
00:16:31No.
00:16:33Yeah.
00:16:33Say, give a look.
00:16:36This kid works here in the house.
00:16:38Yes, I remember.
00:16:39Came up one night to fix the radiator.
00:16:40Why, they're nerve at that kid.
00:16:42You work in the building?
00:16:43Sure I do.
00:16:44Tom, he was only taking his own money because that man took it from him.
00:16:48Oh, tell that to the cops and give them a big laugh.
00:16:51Just a minute.
00:16:52What was the idea of sticking up those kids with that money?
00:17:00Well, I was walking over here tonight through the park and I heard the kid talking about getting
00:17:05married and he saved up 230 bucks to go on a honeymoon and tie the knot.
00:17:10I thought I'd take it away from them, that was all.
00:17:12It was just a gag.
00:17:13Just naturally mean.
00:17:17That's me, Gene.
00:17:20I'm glad to see you're getting on to yourself.
00:17:23Frank, do you mind if I see these kids alone?
00:17:26No, not a bit.
00:17:27Sure.
00:17:27Come on, Amy.
00:17:28Perfectly all right.
00:17:29Come on, Rocky.
00:17:30He's the precious kid I ever knew.
00:17:33Say, Gene.
00:17:34Hmm?
00:17:35Those kids almost pulled off a pretty neat job tonight.
00:17:37They showed promise.
00:17:38Why don't I make friends with them?
00:17:39You're all right, kid.
00:17:44Well, you've got a little dirt on your shoulder.
00:17:49Go on, Rocky.
00:17:56Well, you, uh, you two bandits must have had a strenuous evening holding up four men.
00:18:03You tired?
00:18:05Sit down.
00:18:06Mister, you're not going to turn this over to the cops.
00:18:09Well, it all depends.
00:18:11How old are you?
00:18:12Twenty.
00:18:13How old are you?
00:18:14Eighteen.
00:18:15I suppose you've known each other for years, your old friend.
00:18:18We were going to get married tomorrow.
00:18:21Well, don't your parents object to your getting married so young?
00:18:24Well, you see, my folks live in Ohio, and I work at Gimbel's.
00:18:28You don't commute?
00:18:30Oh, no.
00:18:32How much money do you have at Gimbel's?
00:18:34Fourteen dollars a week.
00:18:35My job pays me fifty a month, my room, and tips.
00:18:38You have a position.
00:18:40Where are your parents?
00:18:42Oh, I haven't gotten any.
00:18:43Not for years.
00:18:43No?
00:18:44No.
00:18:45My old man married a widow in Danbury, Connecticut, and he don't care anymore.
00:18:49I see.
00:18:51Well, you're both sort of, uh, orphans, aren't you?
00:18:55Well, so am I.
00:18:57We're kind of in the same boat.
00:18:59You won't have us arrested, will you, mister?
00:19:01He won't have us arrested.
00:19:01No, no, you committed a very serious offense coming in here tonight, holding up four men
00:19:06with a revolver.
00:19:07That's highway robbery.
00:19:09That means fifteen years in prison.
00:19:10Oh, you wouldn't send us to prison for that.
00:19:12No, I like you.
00:19:14I like you both.
00:19:15How would you like to work for me?
00:19:19Oh, we'd like it, wouldn't we, Nancy?
00:19:21Well, I'd like to help you, and I, I can pay you much more than you'd earn in your present
00:19:26jobs.
00:19:26What do you say?
00:19:27Well, what do we have to do?
00:19:29Well, I'll find out that when I see what you're best fitted for.
00:19:33In the meantime, you'll go home with me tonight.
00:19:35I live alone.
00:19:36It'd be nice to have you.
00:19:37Sort of like a family.
00:19:40What do you say?
00:19:41Well, I, I guess it'll be all right.
00:19:44What do you say, boss?
00:19:45Oh, I say sure.
00:19:47But before I go anyplace, I'll have to stop by Mr. Dillon's.
00:19:49Mrs. Dillon's?
00:19:50Yeah, I'll have to get my clothes.
00:19:52Oh, well, don't worry about that.
00:19:54I'll send it to those.
00:19:55Now, in the meantime, I'll say goodnight to my host, and then we'll go.
00:20:05He's awful nice, isn't he?
00:20:06Yeah, isn't he?
00:20:08I think so.
00:20:11Well, Miss Nancy Porter.
00:20:35Are these all for me?
00:20:58Mother, are these all for me?
00:21:00Sure.
00:21:01The whole blessed lot.
00:21:02Gee, Nancy, you look swell.
00:21:10Isn't Gene wonderful to buy us all these new clothes?
00:21:13Well, he certainly has good taste.
00:21:15Everything he bought us, I'd have picked out myself.
00:21:17I can't help but think of those poor girls down at Gimbal.
00:21:24Well, this life may be all right for a woman,
00:21:27but a week of it's got me kind of restless.
00:21:29I wish he'd put me to work.
00:21:30He will as soon as he finds out what we're to do.
00:21:33You don't think it'll be something we can't do, do you, Nancy?
00:21:37Why, no, he wouldn't expect us to work at a trade we've never learned.
00:21:40I think he's going to let us choose a profession and study it.
00:21:43What would you like to be, Tommy?
00:21:45Well, I wouldn't like to be a gambler.
00:21:47Tommy, you don't mean...
00:21:48I don't know what I mean, but I got suspicions.
00:21:51Oh, Tommy, you're crazy.
00:21:52I don't want you to mention those suspicions of yours again.
00:21:55Gene is nice. He's been wonderful to us.
00:21:57Oh, it's Gene now, is it?
00:21:59Oh, you're just ungrateful, Tommy Brown.
00:22:01I admire Mr. Fenmore, and I respect him.
00:22:04You're just like all women. You're weak.
00:22:07I hope you're not going to let a few fine clothes make a demimonde out of you.
00:22:12Why, Tommy Brown, don't you call me a demimonde?
00:22:15Well, maybe you're not yet,
00:22:17but I'm a man, and I know how these things start.
00:22:20Oh, you know I'm not a demimonde.
00:22:22Yes, honey.
00:22:23Well, then squeeze me.
00:22:29I know Gene's a good man.
00:22:31You know, a woman can tell whether a man's all right or not with her intuition.
00:22:35All right.
00:22:36If your intuition says so, maybe he is.
00:22:39Oh, Mousy,
00:22:40has Mr. Fenmore any more socks with holes in them?
00:22:43I don't think so.
00:22:44But I didn't look in his wastebasket yet this morning.
00:22:48Oh, does he throw them away when they get holes?
00:22:49Sure.
00:22:51And the good thing it is for me that he does.
00:22:58Well, here I am back in the bosom of my family.
00:23:00How are you, Tommy?
00:23:01I'm all right.
00:23:02How's the little girl banded this morning?
00:23:03I never was so happy in my life.
00:23:06I'm glad to hear it.
00:23:07What do you do with my shirt?
00:23:08Sewing on the buttons.
00:23:10Well, now that's sweet of you, Nancy.
00:23:11She's a darling, isn't she, Tommy?
00:23:12Yeah.
00:23:14You know, I never had anyone sew on my buttons.
00:23:16How'd you keep up your pants?
00:23:18Sew them on yourself?
00:23:23My tailor does that.
00:23:25But I like to have Nancy do it.
00:23:27I'd love to do it.
00:23:29Well, just for that, I'm going to give you a present.
00:23:31Oh, Gene.
00:23:32Another present.
00:23:34Mm-hmm.
00:23:34Something every day.
00:23:36Well, it isn't.
00:23:37I've had this for a long time.
00:23:38I don't often come across a piece that I really like.
00:23:42But when I do, I keep it for an occasion just such as this.
00:23:45Uh, I hope you like bracelets.
00:23:47Oh, it's diamonds.
00:23:49Is it real?
00:23:51Oh, genuine, any one of the stuff, Tommy?
00:23:52Oh, Gene.
00:23:54Dear, beautiful old Tommy, isn't it lovely?
00:23:57Oh, I never dreamed of having such a thing.
00:24:00Oh, thank you.
00:24:02Yeah, it is nice of Mr. Fenmore.
00:24:04Yes.
00:24:05Because I could tell you it belonged to my mother, but it didn't.
00:24:08And you may call me Gene, too, Tommy.
00:24:10Thanks.
00:24:11Oh, Gene, why are you so good to us?
00:24:14Well, just because I'm selfish.
00:24:16And it gives me great pleasure to see you so happy and beautiful.
00:24:19Cars waiting downstairs for the kids.
00:24:21They'll be right down.
00:24:22Wait, I'll get you a coat.
00:24:23Yes, sir.
00:24:32Won't you come with us?
00:24:35Not today, dear.
00:24:35Oh, Gene, how can I ever thank you for everything?
00:24:40Just by being the lovely little thing that you are.
00:24:43Being my little pal.
00:24:45Makes a new man of me.
00:24:46I'll always try to be.
00:24:49Coming, Nancy?
00:24:50Yes, Tommy.
00:24:55There you are, dear.
00:24:57So.
00:24:59Goodbye, Gene.
00:25:00Goodbye, Gene.
00:25:00Tell Eddie not to drive too fast.
00:25:02Goodbye, man.
00:25:03Goodbye.
00:25:03Goodbye.
00:25:03Goodbye.
00:25:05Goodbye, Gene.
00:25:15So you fall for the little girl, eh?
00:25:19I see it coming the first day she was here.
00:25:22You see a lot, don't you?
00:25:24Well, I see that she's more than half in love with you, too.
00:25:28Not in love at all.
00:25:31She's dazzled by a little luxury.
00:25:32Ah, don't kid yourself, chief.
00:25:36I am not.
00:25:38She's in love with that boy.
00:25:40She's in love with Tommy.
00:25:42She may not be as sure of what she was a couple of weeks ago, but I know.
00:25:45Well, you'll offer a simple sometimes for a guy with brains.
00:25:51Maybe.
00:25:53But for once in my life, I'm thinking of someone else.
00:25:57I'd like to see that kid happy.
00:26:00If you could make a girl happy, if you try.
00:26:04You know, it's my opinion you can't fight love.
00:26:07It always licks you.
00:26:11Now, don't you give up that kid if you really want her.
00:26:15And don't get on too high ground with women, chief.
00:26:19It doesn't pay.
00:26:20I had a chance once when I was a young bucko.
00:26:26I passed it up because I thought I wasn't good enough for her.
00:26:31You're not sorry, are you?
00:26:33You bet I'm sorry.
00:26:35Made a bum out of me.
00:26:38And later, she married a cop.
00:26:41That was worth sacrificing myself for, I'll tell the world.
00:26:45I wish I could get out of this racket.
00:26:50You've been wishing that a long time, chief, but you can't do it.
00:26:55Why, they'd never let you go running around the streets with all you know.
00:27:00Don't I know it?
00:27:02So you got out and you're still drawing your breath?
00:27:05Yes.
00:27:06I got out because they all think I'm too old-fashioned with my methods.
00:27:11But I'm safe because they think I didn't want to get out.
00:27:17But I take good care never to be seen with any very respectable folks.
00:27:24Running around with respectable people is liable to rouse suspicion.
00:27:28Sure it does.
00:27:30Why, your own gang is kind of suspicious of you,
00:27:34playing around with a lot of swells.
00:27:37Well, I'm going to give them a good eyeful tonight.
00:27:39I'm taking a rich banker and his party down to the club.
00:27:43They've heard that it's a hangout for underworld characters.
00:27:47You don't say so.
00:27:49Well, I just breeze in
00:27:50and give you and your rich friends the once over.
00:27:54Yeah, do that.
00:27:55Do that, Monty.
00:27:56And we'll have a little laughter when I see you there.
00:27:58That'll be funny, will it?
00:28:09Tell me, are all these people underworld characters?
00:28:28I doubt it.
00:28:29They don't look intelligent enough to be crooks today.
00:28:31You'd never take Jane for the sort of person he is to look at him, would you?
00:28:50Why don't you look at somebody else for change?
00:28:51I think you're still stuck on that guy.
00:28:53Oh, don't be stupid.
00:28:54He's head over heels in love with that girl, Nancy.
00:28:57Yeah, well, at least she's got a brain that turns over occasionally.
00:29:03Now, Tommy's a prized sap, I ever saw one.
00:29:06He's a prized sap if he thinks he can keep his girl with Jean wanting her.
00:29:09Well, it's about time for the gathering of the Klan.
00:29:28Yeah.
00:29:29Our Brigadier General knows it, too.
00:29:31He's getting ready to send his slumming party home.
00:29:34Come on, Emery, let's go.
00:29:35We'll meet you outside.
00:29:38All right.
00:29:39Hello, Frank.
00:29:53Hello, Rocky.
00:29:54Hello, Rocky.
00:29:55Hello, Zorah.
00:29:55What?
00:29:56Hello, Emery.
00:29:57Rocky, where's Jean?
00:29:58She's outside.
00:29:59Staying with us and Frank.
00:29:59He'll be on a minute.
00:30:01Cigarette?
00:30:02No.
00:30:06I wish he'd hurry.
00:30:07I'll be late.
00:30:08It'll be all right, Ann.
00:30:09I sort of expected to see a hold-up or a shooting or something awful in this terrible place, Mr. Benmore.
00:30:15Oh, I guess it's a dull night.
00:30:17But I know it's one of the toughest places in New York because I had it straight from someone who knows.
00:30:21Well, I told the ladies that.
00:30:22I wouldn't let them wear their real jewels.
00:30:25I mean, they'd take them off before starting out.
00:30:28Very wise.
00:30:29This jewelry we have on is real Woolworths.
00:30:32Yes, I noticed that.
00:30:34But I hope you didn't leave your good things around for some porch climber to pick up.
00:30:38Oh, no.
00:30:38I always keep mine in a sewing basket in my bedroom.
00:30:41How original.
00:30:42I hope you have a clever hiding place for your things, Mrs. Allen.
00:30:44Oh, I always toss mine in an old hatbox in the top of my closet.
00:30:47A hatbox?
00:30:48Yes.
00:30:48Perfectly naive.
00:30:50How did you just go into the safe so often?
00:30:52I said, who would ever think of a hatbox?
00:30:53Nobody ever.
00:30:55Yes.
00:30:55I must remember that.
00:30:57The next good thing is a button to think about it.
00:30:59Thank you so much.
00:31:00Can we rock you somewhere else?
00:31:01No, I'm walking.
00:31:02Good night.
00:31:03Good night, Mr. Ben.
00:31:03Good night, Mr. Ben.
00:31:04Good night, Mr. Ben.
00:31:06Good night, old man.
00:31:07Good night, Mr. Benmore.
00:31:08And you came along.
00:31:09Good night.
00:31:10Good night, Mr. Benmore.
00:31:11Good night, Jeanne.
00:31:12I want to thank you for a very interesting evening, Vlad.
00:31:15Drop into the bank tomorrow.
00:31:17I'll come in in the morning.
00:31:18Good night.
00:31:19Night-night.
00:31:22This is a question of my dear, sister.
00:31:24What do you think of the choice?
00:31:26It's a place that I think everyone is listening.
00:31:28The music is a woman.
00:31:30It's a woman's food.
00:31:30It's a woman's food.
00:31:31Oh, it's a woman's food.
00:31:32It's a woman's food.
00:31:33Let's go to this place.
00:31:35It's very sweet, my wife.
00:31:37Very sweet.
00:31:38And would you like to eat?
00:31:39Hey, garçons.
00:31:51Hello, boys.
00:31:55Have you got the things I ask with you?
00:31:56Here they are, Chief.
00:31:59You know, boys, you've been a little active,
00:32:00like the headwater's getting annoyed.
00:32:02Well, it's too bad.
00:32:03This Goldman thing is sort of tricky.
00:32:06My opinion, we've been wise and quiet down for a while.
00:32:09He'll be in business next year.
00:32:10Next year?
00:32:11That's a long way off.
00:32:12How do we eat in the meantime?
00:32:14Very good, bye, all right.
00:32:15We do one layoff, Chief.
00:32:16Just call them jobs a pipe.
00:32:17We are so married.
00:32:18It's a pipe, I'm telling you.
00:32:20Nasty job right off Broadway.
00:32:21Think about planning.
00:32:23I'm going to crack that dump with my hands.
00:32:25You're wonderful, Rocky.
00:32:27You must be.
00:32:28You admit it.
00:32:28It's pretty soft you to sit there and plan these things.
00:32:30We're the boys that have to do them.
00:32:32My planning has been pretty successful up to now.
00:32:33Now, don't quarrel, boys.
00:32:35The money's waiting for you as soon as you deliver the stuff.
00:32:38Not all, boys.
00:32:38And there's a tray of special stones that Coleman always keeps in his safe.
00:32:45He only shows it to certain customers.
00:32:48Get me those, and I'll pay you $20,000 more.
00:32:57Now, boys, you know your business better than I do, so I'll be going.
00:33:01Now, don't go through the restaurant, Frank.
00:33:03Go the other way, if you don't mind.
00:33:05Good night, boys.
00:33:06Good night.
00:33:06Good night, Frank.
00:33:07So long, Frank.
00:33:08And, Rocky, don't forget to get that pearl ring, because I've sold it already.
00:33:15Okay, Frank.
00:33:17Go on.
00:33:18Good night, Frank.
00:33:18Night.
00:33:19Say, I've got an idea how to get that tray of special shiners on a Coleman's plate.
00:33:24How?
00:33:25Since don't be down there and doing whatever's the space.
00:33:27Oh, we got to know what's the space.
00:33:29The kids, Tommy and Nancy?
00:33:32No.
00:33:33Those kids are not in this game.
00:33:35They're straight, and I'm going to keep them that way.
00:33:38Oh, so you're going to keep little mama pure for your own purposes, eh?
00:33:41What do you mean by that?
00:33:43Well, everybody knows you're stuck on the girl.
00:33:45That's why you don't want to pull this Coleman job.
00:33:48She's probably not used to a gangster sweetheart.
00:33:51And you're going to go straight.
00:33:53Now, look here.
00:33:56Maybe this organization is getting too small to hold you and me.
00:34:00Maybe one of us had better plan on getting out.
00:34:03Well, then, maybe it better be you.
00:34:05If you're too yellow to go through with this Coleman job, I'll do it myself.
00:34:09I didn't say I wouldn't go through with it.
00:34:14I said it was wiser to lay off.
00:34:18You boys are set on doing it now.
00:34:21Yes, come on.
00:34:21Let's do it.
00:34:23You know what you want to do better than I do.
00:34:26Let me tell you, it's tricky.
00:34:28If you pull it clean, you get away with it.
00:34:30No bloodshed, you understand?
00:34:31Say, Gene, are you going to be here for a while?
00:34:42I'll be here for an hour or two.
00:34:43Good.
00:34:44I want to see you before you leave.
00:34:45All right.
00:34:46I'll be back.
00:34:47So long, fellas.
00:34:47So long, man.
00:34:48So long, man.
00:34:52Are you sure now that you got what I asked for?
00:34:54Absolutely, Gene.
00:34:58It certainly was a beautiful show we saw at night, wasn't it?
00:35:01Yeah, it was swell.
00:35:02The leading lady was just like you, only not so pretty.
00:35:06Well, I'm going to bed.
00:35:07Oh, don't go.
00:35:08Gene might come home any minute.
00:35:10Why don't you wait up a while longer?
00:35:11Oh, he never gets in before the crack of dawn.
00:35:13I hear him every night.
00:35:15Oh, he may change his way of living now.
00:35:16He's got a family.
00:35:17You mean us?
00:35:19Oh, there he is now.
00:35:22He doesn't ring the bell.
00:35:24He uses his latch key.
00:35:28Hello, Kitty.
00:35:29Is Gene here yet?
00:35:30No, he isn't.
00:35:31Well, I guess I'll come and wait for him.
00:35:34Hello, Tommy.
00:35:36You're just the lad I'm looking for.
00:35:43What do you want of me?
00:35:50You know, I feel I owe you, sir.
00:35:52You know, I guess that was kind of a mean trick I played on you, pretending to hold you up and take your money.
00:36:03Pretending?
00:36:04You took it.
00:36:05But I knew who you were all the time.
00:36:07Why I was going to give it back to you the next day.
00:36:09Oh, did you recognize me?
00:36:11Why, of course.
00:36:12Just as you recognized me.
00:36:13But just to show you how much I like you kids, I've got the boys, you know, Gene's friend.
00:36:20Well, they're going to chip in and buy you and Nancy a swell present.
00:36:25Oh, Mr. Rocky.
00:36:27We know you kids want to be married, and you haven't got much money.
00:36:31Have you got an engagement ring?
00:36:33No.
00:36:34We were just going to have a wedding ring for a while.
00:36:36Well, you've got to have an engagement ring.
00:36:39We're going to give you $2,000.
00:36:41Now, that'll buy a nice big diamond engagement ring and a wedding ring, besides.
00:36:49Oh, did you hear that, Tommy?
00:36:50Gee, Rocky, I had you all wrong.
00:36:53It's great of you and the boys to do this for us.
00:36:55No, it's nothing at all.
00:36:56We owe it to you.
00:36:57At least, I do.
00:37:00Now, I've got an idea.
00:37:02Do you know where Coleman's jewelry shop is just off Broadway?
00:37:05Yeah, I know Coleman's.
00:37:06Well, he'll give you rock-bottom prices.
00:37:08You'll go in there, oh, any time tomorrow afternoon.
00:37:12I'll drive you by if you like.
00:37:13I'll be going down there.
00:37:14Oh, thanks.
00:37:16You meet me downstairs.
00:37:18Now, don't say a word to Jean about this, will you?
00:37:21Oh, no.
00:37:22It was surprising, eh?
00:37:23All right.
00:37:24Good.
00:37:25Then we're pals?
00:37:27Sure.
00:37:27Sure.
00:37:38It's lucky not for you to do this for us, Rocky.
00:37:42No, it's nothing at all.
00:37:44It's almost closing time.
00:37:45You go in and ask to see some diamond wedding rings and some diamond engagement.
00:37:49Don't buy the first ones he shows you, will you?
00:37:50They'll be the bum ones.
00:37:51Oh, we'll only buy the best blue-white stuff.
00:37:54That's it.
00:37:55Here.
00:37:56Here's some money.
00:37:57Don't lose it, will you?
00:37:58No, we won't.
00:37:59I'm sorry I can't go with you, but I'll see you later.
00:38:01All right, fine.
00:38:02There's something I can show you.
00:38:33We're looking for an engagement ring and a wedding ring.
00:38:36Oh, I see.
00:38:39Now, here's some very lovely things that we have.
00:38:42How do you do?
00:38:43I am Mr. Coleman.
00:38:45Is there anything I can do for you?
00:38:46We're looking for an engagement ring and a wedding ring.
00:38:48Oh, what?
00:38:53These are very pretty.
00:38:59I have some very, very nice ones over here.
00:39:01Just one second.
00:39:02I'll be in my home.
00:39:02I've got proof.
00:39:03What do you think of this one?
00:39:04Stick them up!
00:39:06Let's go.
00:39:36Ha, there's a laugh.
00:39:40They got a picture of Lefty Moon.
00:39:42He's been dead five years.
00:39:44Here's a bit of information.
00:39:46Sam Wiseman, the clerk, proved himself a hero
00:39:48in a desperate struggle with two of the robbers.
00:39:51I'm glad you had a plug, Coleman, Rocky.
00:39:53Oh, he's an old guy. He's seen everything.
00:39:55You've got to hand it to Gene.
00:39:57He's playing this layout like a general.
00:39:59Listen, anybody can play him.
00:40:00But we're the guys that pull him.
00:40:01Mission, two young people,
00:40:03Miss Nancy Porter and Mr. Thomas Brown,
00:40:05who are at the store at the time of the hold-up,
00:40:08are being held at the district attorney's office
00:40:10as material witnesses.
00:40:13I hope those kids don't tip off anything.
00:40:16I wonder where Gene is.
00:40:17Hello? Hello? Who is this, please?
00:40:36Stop playing those jacks, Gene.
00:40:38This is Don.
00:40:39This isn't Gene. This is Rocky.
00:40:41Hello, Don.
00:40:42Then come right over here to Gene's, will you?
00:40:46All right, I'll wait for you.
00:40:55Well, Mousy, aren't you going to congratulate the boys?
00:40:58What for?
00:41:00No trick to it?
00:41:01No art in it?
00:41:02Just machine work.
00:41:04If that's young blood, I'm glad I've got hardening of the arteries.
00:41:09Too safe for any romance.
00:41:12Safe my eye.
00:41:14Well, if that's the first real job I've seen pulled off in 16 years.
00:41:20Too bad you had to use your gat, Rocky.
00:41:24Forget it.
00:41:24Coleman's dead.
00:41:49Coleman's dead.
00:41:54What's the big idea, Chief?
00:41:58I told you I didn't want any butchering.
00:42:00Now, you boys, get out of here.
00:42:01I want to talk to Rocky alone.
00:42:17Oh, what are you going to do when a guy starts squawking?
00:42:20Stand there and wait for the cops.
00:42:24You bumped Coleman off.
00:42:27I did.
00:42:29You yellow, white livid.
00:42:30Oh, cut it.
00:42:31He starts to hurl.
00:42:32I told him to shut up.
00:42:33He reached for a gat.
00:42:34He didn't reach for a gat.
00:42:35Well, he lowered his hands, and this baby hasn't taken any chances.
00:42:37Didn't my instructions mean anything to you?
00:42:39What kind of a business do you think you're in?
00:42:40It's the game, isn't it?
00:42:41You yellow, Rocky.
00:42:42Well, I wasn't going to let 75 grand slip away from me for a worm like Coleman.
00:42:45Now, wait a minute.
00:42:46Something else I want to talk over with you.
00:42:48What did you mean by sending Nancy and Tommy in as the coins when I told you not to?
00:42:51It didn't hurt him, I did it.
00:42:52We wanted somebody who wouldn't be recognized.
00:42:53And you picked the one person in the world I didn't want mixed up in this business.
00:42:56After I told you not to.
00:42:57You didn't need any decoys.
00:42:59You just wanted to hit at me where you knew it had hurt the most.
00:43:02Now, I've stood for you for a long time, but this is the end.
00:43:05By your dirty, low-down, yellow, white livid...
00:43:07That's enough.
00:43:08You're not going to talk.
00:43:08I've got to meet again.
00:43:09Give me that.
00:43:09Give me that gun, kid.
00:43:10Look here, Rocky.
00:43:10You're going to stop when I'm eating.
00:43:14Cover.
00:43:15Come on.
00:43:23He's dead.
00:43:24What did you do that for, Gene?
00:43:27Hello, everybody.
00:43:48Well, I hear it's been a very successful job.
00:43:52Oh, now, don't be downhearted, Gene, because Coleman got shot.
00:43:59Remember, it's all in the game.
00:44:03Yes, I guess getting shot is in the game.
00:44:05Sure.
00:44:08Oh, well.
00:44:09Where's Rocky?
00:44:10You, you killed him, you dirty bully.
00:44:36You were jealous of him because he took me away from you.
00:44:40And what's more, you were afraid he was going to take the gang away from you, too.
00:44:43You knew Rocky had your number and he was going to show you what's right.
00:44:48You and your mastermind.
00:44:51Ha!
00:44:51You and your orders of no shoot, you, you crawling hypocrite.
00:44:56You used a gat all right and you killed the only boy I ever really loved.
00:45:00You can't get away with that.
00:45:01I'll make you pay and pay good.
00:45:03I can do it, too.
00:45:04You know I can do it.
00:45:05I'll have you plug for this.
00:45:06So help me, I'll have you plug for this.
00:45:08Don't have any sense.
00:45:09You've got to get out of here.
00:45:10All right, Rocky.
00:45:13He can't get away.
00:45:14Rocky was one of the gang.
00:45:15You have no right to give it to him.
00:45:16You'll have to answer to the gang for this.
00:45:19You get the boys together and I'll be there at the club tonight.
00:45:22On your word?
00:45:24I'll be there at one o'clock, my word.
00:45:26All right.
00:45:30What are they going to do to you?
00:45:32I want you kids to go upstairs.
00:45:33You can do that for me, please.
00:45:35We want to have a talk with Matt now, later.
00:45:38I didn't want you mixed up in that job today.
00:45:40Oh, I know, but what are they going to do to you?
00:45:42They mustn't.
00:45:43They can't.
00:45:44Would it mean so much to you?
00:45:47Oh, Jean, I don't want anything to happen to you.
00:45:50I feel as if you needed me.
00:45:52Oh, I'd do anything to help you.
00:45:55You can help me most by going upstairs now.
00:45:58All right, Jean.
00:45:59Oh, whatever you are.
00:46:04You'll always be wonderful to me.
00:46:13They're going to try you, eh?
00:46:15They ain't going to bump you off like they did Pinky.
00:46:19Well, I hope not.
00:46:21Why don't you make a getaway, Jean?
00:46:24I'll go with you.
00:46:24Shame of you, Marseille.
00:46:27You did the right thing in bumping that butcher off.
00:46:31But you'll have a hard time making the gang believe it.
00:46:35They liked Rocky, so they did.
00:46:39Well, I'll have to worry about that.
00:46:41What about the kid?
00:46:45Bring her down there tonight.
00:46:48Bring them both down.
00:46:49I'll beat this, Marseille.
00:46:55I've got to beat it now.
00:47:14Hello.
00:47:14Hello.
00:47:15Hello.
00:47:15Hi.
00:47:16What's this meeting for?
00:47:18I was keeping an important date when I got you out of the way.
00:47:20This is the most important date you've had for a long time.
00:47:24We're trying, Jean, for the killing of Rocky.
00:47:39Now, listen here, Marseille.
00:47:40What did you bring those kids here for?
00:47:41The boss is ordered.
00:47:43Sit down.
00:47:44Well, it's one o'clock, and he isn't here yet.
00:47:49Yeah.
00:47:50It's that time to catch an outgoing train.
00:47:53Yes, you would say that.
00:47:55After all, Jean did for you, no other way to go.
00:47:58Listen here, Marseille.
00:47:59Now, fight down.
00:48:01Don't you guys get nervous.
00:48:03Jean will be here all right, all right.
00:48:10She had a guy over there.
00:48:12Pokey Dan.
00:48:13He spent six months digging his way out of Sing Sing.
00:48:17And by a miscalculation, came up in the warden's office.
00:48:21Yeah.
00:48:27How are you?
00:48:28I'm all right.
00:48:30How are you?
00:48:31They're checking him for a ride tonight.
00:48:39They're checking him for a ride tonight.
00:49:25Well, I'm sorry I'm late.
00:49:28Sit down, Gene. Let's get your business.
00:49:31No objection to my standing, is there?
00:49:33Gene, we're going to give you a fair trial.
00:49:35But if the gang decide against you,
00:49:37I guess you'll know what that means.
00:49:39I know.
00:49:40Rocky was the most popular and useful member of this gang.
00:49:42And you had no right to shoot him down in cold blood
00:49:45just because you had a grudge against him.
00:49:46Well, why don't you give him a dose of his own medicine?
00:49:48Show him how a chunk of cold lead feels. Gene!
00:49:51Now, just a minute. You haven't given me a chance to talk.
00:49:54Yeah, well, why should you think? You shot him, didn't you?
00:49:57Wait a minute.
00:49:58Well, let's hear what you have to say, Gene.
00:50:00Well, an opening.
00:50:03I just want to say that after looking at this crowd over,
00:50:08New York is comparatively safe tonight.
00:50:12You're in here, too.
00:50:14Now, let me remind you that since I've been the head of this organization,
00:50:19there's only been one man sent up.
00:50:22Think that over.
00:50:27Before I took hold of you and organized you,
00:50:29if you don't mind my saying so, what were you?
00:50:33Or possibly you've forgotten.
00:50:35Well, may I inquire what that has to do with what we're here for?
00:50:37It just has this to do with it.
00:50:39My leadership has been competent.
00:50:41I may even say brilliant.
00:50:42And I'll tell you why.
00:50:44I've always insisted when you go on a job,
00:50:46you cut away with full hands but clean ones,
00:50:48not smeared with blood.
00:50:50Rocky knew that I was absolutely against killing,
00:50:53yet he did it uselessly just because he was a butcher.
00:50:56I've tried to make you use your brain.
00:50:58Anybody can use a gap and burn for it.
00:51:01We've always been successful because we respected human life
00:51:05and thought faster than the other fellow,
00:51:07and most of that fast thinking has been on my part.
00:51:09This nightclub is my idea.
00:51:11I organize it, operate it.
00:51:13It showed a clean profit besides giving us a safe meeting place.
00:51:16But lately, as you all know,
00:51:19I wanted to quit the game entirely.
00:51:22Something came into my life that...
00:51:26Well, as the fiction writers put it,
00:51:28something made me want to go straight.
00:51:30Oh, don't listen to him.
00:51:31He'll try to talk you into believing that Rocky was a creep.
00:51:34He was.
00:51:35He was always a killer,
00:51:36and when I call him for disobeying orders,
00:51:38he pulled a gat on me.
00:51:39Why don't you realize that when he shot Coleman,
00:51:41he put you all in the shadow of the chair?
00:51:43You're lying.
00:51:44I was there.
00:51:45You shot him down cold like a dog.
00:51:47Oh, shut up.
00:51:48You wasn't there.
00:51:49Steady, Mouse.
00:51:50Now, just a minute.
00:51:51I think we're getting away from the main issue,
00:51:53which is why did I shoot Rocky?
00:51:56Yes, why did you shoot him?
00:51:58I shot him in self-defense.
00:52:00You don't believe that, do you, boy?
00:52:01He lied!
00:52:02He lied!
00:52:03He lied!
00:52:04He lied!
00:52:05He lied!
00:52:06He lied!
00:52:23Wrong lights.
00:52:24There's the switch.
00:52:27I'm here.
00:52:28Everybody, they're going to get away.
00:52:29Go after him, boys.
00:52:30Rusty, go get him, boys, and report back to me on the outside.
00:52:33Let's go to the outside, that's how they go with me.
00:52:40What's the big idea?
00:52:42Policemen.
00:52:47Just a moment.
00:52:49You ladies and gentlemen leave this restaurant as quietly as possible.
00:52:52All right.
00:53:02You boys pair out too?
00:53:03Yes.
00:53:06Well, there's nobody here we want.
00:53:07The rest of the boys come in the back. They're looking around upstairs.
00:53:09Nobody here at all, sir.
00:53:10They're not, huh? Well, I'm gonna look for myself.
00:53:22Hello.
00:53:29What are you doing here?
00:53:30We didn't do anything. We were just here watching the...
00:53:32Wait a minute.
00:53:34Can you beat that?
00:53:35They're the two kids we picked up at Coleman's place.
00:53:38Something wrong here.
00:53:40Mm-hmm.
00:53:41Take them downtown.
00:53:44Well, I know we're on the right track now.
00:53:46If I can get that guy, Rocky Mosby...
00:53:48All right.
00:53:49Wait a minute.
00:53:51Here, boys. Take these two birds downtown.
00:53:53Oh, I see.
00:53:56You wouldn't think a couple of kids like that would be mixed up with a bunch of gunmen?
00:53:59Well, they start young these days.
00:54:12Some gang, all right.
00:54:13They might as well be deaf and dumb for all you can get out of them.
00:54:16Can't somebody get something out of those two kids?
00:54:18Nothing any of them says is worth a hoot.
00:54:21I want to land this bird Fenmore for murder and nothing less.
00:54:25I thought I could make the old guy cough up.
00:54:27Uh, what's his name?
00:54:28The mouse.
00:54:29Yeah.
00:54:30But he wouldn't spill.
00:54:31He was cagier than any of them.
00:54:32Bill had the boy in there trying to make him talk.
00:54:35They know the truth if we can get it out of them.
00:54:37Well, all they'll admit is that they were at Coleman's before the hold-up,
00:54:41and they insist that they were looking for wedding rings,
00:54:44and nobody sent them.
00:54:46Bring that boy in here.
00:54:48Sit down over there.
00:54:49I can't stand it. I can't stand it. I've told you everything I know.
00:54:55Well, well, now, now.
00:54:56You've got something you can tell the district attorney, haven't you?
00:54:58You ready to tell me who sent you to Coleman's?
00:54:59His name was Rocky.
00:55:00And-
00:55:01That's the only name we knew.
00:55:02That's the fellow we found dead in Fenmore's apartment, isn't it?
00:55:06No.
00:55:07Right, I'll give a point, and if he can beè¦,
00:55:09he can be geratted, you know, Cotter.
00:55:10Now, I'm not sure you can do it.
00:55:11You'd have to leave your head over there.
00:55:13Come on.
00:55:15Sit down over there.
00:55:17I can't stand it. I can't stand it!
00:55:18I can't stand it! I've told you everything I know!
00:55:22Well, now, now, now.
00:55:23You've got something you can tell the district attorney, haven't you?
00:55:26You ready to tell me who sent you to Coleman's?
00:55:28His name was Rocky.
00:55:29Yes.
00:55:30You know Gene Fenmore?
00:55:31No.
00:55:32You know who killed Coleman?
00:55:33Yes, it was Rocky.
00:55:36And who killed Rocky?
00:55:37I don't know.
00:55:38Yes, you do too.
00:55:39It was Gene Fenmore.
00:55:40Your girlfriend there just said so.
00:55:42No, I didn't.
00:55:43Don't believe him, Tommy.
00:55:45This Rocky was a member of Gene Fenmore's gang, wasn't he?
00:55:47I don't know.
00:55:48Say, who took the game to the scene?
00:55:50No, I didn't.
00:55:51Don't believe him, Tommy.
00:55:52This Rocky was a member of Gene Fenmore's gang, wasn't he?
00:55:55I don't know.
00:55:56Say, who took the game to the scene?
00:55:58Say, who took you to the club last night?
00:56:00Tommy.
00:56:03Say, you didn't happen to see Gene Fenmore when you were there, did you?
00:56:06No.
00:56:07And you wouldn't know if you saw him.
00:56:08No, no, I don't know him.
00:56:10You do know that you're implicated in the Coleman murder, don't you?
00:56:13Your accessories.
00:56:14And an accessory pays the penalty just the same as a murderer.
00:56:17We didn't have anything to do with it, I tell you.
00:56:19I know you tell me, but I don't believe you.
00:56:21I didn't believe you when I had you down here after the holdup,
00:56:23and I don't believe you now.
00:56:25Now, listen here, you kids.
00:56:27If you want to come clean with me and tell me who planned the Coleman holdup,
00:56:32and the names of Rocky's pals,
00:56:34well, I'll promise to let you off easy.
00:56:36Why, maybe I can get you off altogether.
00:56:38All I know is Rocky gave us money to buy an engagement in a wedding ring.
00:56:42Oh, take them out of here.
00:56:43Come on.
00:56:44Go ahead.
00:56:49They've got a couple of saps.
00:56:51Go into the electric chair to protect their cheap crook.
00:56:53They'll only be caught sooner or later anyway.
00:56:55Go on, take them out.
00:56:56You got everything they said?
00:57:09Everything, yes.
00:57:10Good.
00:57:11Hurry, you can get it out and they'll get their signatures.
00:57:13We got him, Inspector.
00:57:14Where did you find him?
00:57:15In his apartment, taking a bath.
00:57:16Any signs about the place?
00:57:17No, sir, no signs.
00:57:18He's a cool guy.
00:57:19He never batted an eye when we told him he was wanted for murder.
00:57:20Bring him in.
00:57:21Yes, sir.
00:57:22How do you do, Eugene?
00:57:23Why so formal call me Gene?
00:57:24Thanks.
00:57:25You know, eventually I always meet the distinguished members of your profession.
00:57:27I will never find him.
00:57:28Why do you find him?
00:57:29What about his job, Eugene?
00:57:30Why do you find him?
00:57:31In his apartment, taking a bath.
00:57:32Any signs about the place?
00:57:33No, sir.
00:57:34No signs.
00:57:35He's a cool guy.
00:57:36He never batted an eye when we told him he was wanted for murder.
00:57:38Bring him in.
00:57:39Yes, sir.
00:57:40How do you do, Eugene?
00:57:41Why so formal call me Gene?
00:57:43How do you do, Eugene?
00:57:44Why so formal call me Gene?
00:57:46Thanks.
00:57:48You know, eventually I always meet the distinguished members of your profession.
00:57:51to meet the distinguished members of your profession.
00:57:54Thanks for the compliment.
00:57:56Just a moment.
00:58:01Bill.
00:58:08And more, I wonder if you happen to know these two youngsters.
00:58:14No, I don't.
00:58:16You're quite sure?
00:58:18You better take a closer look.
00:58:22Positive.
00:58:30Tommy, this is the gentleman I referred to, Mr. Fenmore.
00:58:33Look at him. Look at him.
00:58:37That's it. You ever seen him before?
00:58:41No.
00:58:44Never.
00:58:45No.
00:58:46No.
00:58:49Young lady, perhaps you know this gentleman.
00:58:52No, sir.
00:59:01I want you two to fix your eyes on one another.
00:59:03And perhaps you'll recall having met before.
00:59:06Mr. Fenmore.
00:59:18All right, pick him up.
00:59:19Come on.
00:59:28Sit down, Mr. Fenmore.
00:59:33Just a minute.
00:59:34You know, when two important men get together, the things they say might startle the world.
00:59:44I just want to see if there are any stenographers, their dictaphone's tucked away.
00:59:47Yeah, very prudent of you.
00:59:50Ned, important men must be caught.
00:59:53Would you mind taking those off? I'd like to have a free hand in the conversation.
00:59:57Charlie, we're going to have a nice little private talk.
01:00:07Sit down.
01:00:08Thanks.
01:00:15You know, I never saw you before tonight.
01:00:17Yeah?
01:00:19Thought you were funny pulling that stunt on me, huh?
01:00:23You mean tonight at the club?
01:00:24Yeah.
01:00:25Yeah.
01:00:27Well, I've got you, Fenmore.
01:00:29And I'm going to send you to the chair.
01:00:31Yeah?
01:00:32Well, that's a nice prospect.
01:00:33How are you going to do it?
01:00:34I've got the goods on you.
01:00:35Well, if you had the goods on me, you wouldn't be talking to me now.
01:00:38You planned the Coleman holdup.
01:00:40Why don't you think so?
01:00:41It was so clever, Gene.
01:00:42It took a brain like yours to plan it.
01:00:45Well, if that's the goods you have on me, I think you'd have to have something else.
01:00:48You know, Fenmore?
01:00:49While you've been running around with a lot of nice people,
01:00:52I've known all along that you were the leader of the worst band of guerrillas in the city.
01:00:55I've been throwing lassoons at you for some time.
01:00:58I caught an arm.
01:00:59I caught a leg.
01:01:00But what I wanted was your neck.
01:01:03Somehow these guerrillas of yours wouldn't commit murder.
01:01:07But this time, they did.
01:01:09And so you see, I've at last got your neck.
01:01:13Where are you driving at?
01:01:14I want you to sign a confession that you planned the Coleman holdup.
01:01:18Oh, is that all?
01:01:19That's all.
01:01:20Just, uh, scratch the pen, Gene.
01:01:22Just scratch the pen.
01:01:23Send myself to the chair.
01:01:24Oh, that is simple, isn't it?
01:01:26You know, Gene, the real tragedy is not Rocky or Coleman, but these two young people.
01:01:32You mean the young people I saw here tonight?
01:01:34Yeah.
01:01:35Well, what about them?
01:01:37Oh, quit stalling.
01:01:38You know all about them.
01:01:39But I don't.
01:01:40And they're just as guilty of murder as your pal Rocky who did the actual shooting.
01:01:44And I'm going to convict them.
01:01:46Well, what jury would convict those two kids?
01:01:48Well, the girl might get off of the stretch.
01:01:50But the boys going to the chair with you and the rest of the gangsters we nab tonight just as sure as shooting.
01:01:57Do you know Dorothy Palmer?
01:02:00Who?
01:02:01Dorothy Palmer.
01:02:03No.
01:02:04No?
01:02:07Well, she was your girl once.
01:02:09And she was pretty fond of your friend Rocky.
01:02:11We found his body tonight in your apartment after the raid.
01:02:15You killed him, didn't you?
01:02:16Well, if I did, I certainly don't remember it.
01:02:18Well, don't worry.
01:02:19The police department's already given you a vote of thanks for that.
01:02:22But I'm going to convict you for the murder of Coleman, too.
01:02:25Yeah, well, how are you going to do it?
01:02:26Well, what's your evidence?
01:02:27Carloads.
01:02:28Supplied by three-star witnesses who have turned the state's evidence.
01:02:32You don't mind if I don't believe you.
01:02:34No, it's all right.
01:02:35I'm going to prove it to you.
01:02:41Just a moment.
01:02:44One of the state's star witnesses.
01:02:45Your former sweetheart.
01:02:52I don't know the lady.
01:02:54You don't know me, Jean.
01:02:55Oh, don't make me laugh.
01:02:58Now listen, I helped land you and I'm glad of it.
01:03:01And unless you have me bumped off,
01:03:03I'll be reading what you ate for your last meal in Sing Sing.
01:03:07Oh, Miss Hall, Miss Hall, please, that's enough.
01:03:13Goodbye, Jean.
01:03:14And when you see him, give my love to Rocky.
01:03:30Well, is that enough?
01:03:31Well, you played it all right, but one ace won't beat me.
01:03:34All right, I'll play a trump ace.
01:03:37The kids have already admitted that Rocky sent him on the job
01:03:39and that Rocky killed Coleman.
01:03:41They've signed a confession.
01:03:44You mean to say those kids confessed to being accessories?
01:03:47Read it.
01:03:51Maybe they didn't know what they were doing when they went to Coleman.
01:03:53Well, it'll be pretty hard to make a jury believe that.
01:03:55Can I see them a minute?
01:03:56Sure.
01:03:57Did you sign that confession?
01:03:58Yes.
01:03:59Yes, we signed it.
01:04:00I leave you folks alone to talk it over.
01:04:03I'll see you in the back.
01:04:04Should I see them a minute?
01:04:05Sure.
01:04:07Did you sign that confession?
01:04:22Yes.
01:04:23Yes, we signed it.
01:04:24I leave you folks alone to talk it over.
01:04:31You got us into this.
01:04:32Get us out of it.
01:04:33Shh.
01:04:34The man is a stranger to us.
01:04:35We've never seen him before.
01:04:37I'm very sorry.
01:04:38Words won't do us any good.
01:04:39Get us out of this, won't you?
01:04:41I'll try.
01:04:42All you have to do is tell them we were innocent.
01:04:44Tell them Rocky put up a job on us.
01:04:45Yes, Gene.
01:04:46All you have to say is you knew Rocky sent us into that store
01:04:48without telling us there was going to be a holdup.
01:04:50Then they'd let us go.
01:04:51That wouldn't incriminate you any, would it?
01:04:53Why, certainly not.
01:04:54Oh, Gene, they mustn't do anything to tell me if they did.
01:04:57I couldn't live without him.
01:05:13A little statement I prepared for you, Gene.
01:05:15Read it.
01:05:16Why did you go to all that trouble for?
01:05:20You know I won't sign it.
01:05:21You won't sign it, huh?
01:05:23Not unless you're able to offer me something very attractive.
01:05:26What do you want?
01:05:27I want to see you alone.
01:05:30Well, what is it?
01:05:43I want the absolute unconditional freedom of those two youngsters.
01:05:48They're not even to be mentioned in the case.
01:05:50They are going up and so are you.
01:05:52Oh, yes I am.
01:05:54I'll fight this till doomsday.
01:05:56Jimmys and guns aren't the only weapons I have.
01:05:58There's a lot of good lawyers in this town
01:06:00that will keep me out of jail for a hundred thousand bucks.
01:06:02Maybe you're right, but I'll take a chance on it.
01:06:04I'll tell you what I'll do with you, Mr. District Attorney.
01:06:07I'll admit everything and take the rap.
01:06:11If you let those kids go.
01:06:17All right.
01:06:19I'll give you a letter that will guarantee their freedom.
01:06:21That they're innocent victims.
01:06:23If you'll sign that.
01:06:25I'll sign it when I get you a guarantee.
01:06:29Okay.
01:06:31Do you mind if I go in there and see the kids?
01:06:35It's all right.
01:06:37Well, Charlie.
01:06:39Don't worry. It'll be all right, Mr. District.
01:06:41Just a minute.
01:07:01You always have good pens here.
01:07:05Charlie, I want you to witness that.
01:07:09Have you got Mousy here?
01:07:11Yes. He's just outside.
01:07:13Do you mind if I see him?
01:07:15Hmm.
01:07:17Put that in the vault and tell Mousy to come in here.
01:07:31Well, there's your freedom, kid.
01:07:45You youngsters, go on home now.
01:07:47I'm going to keep an eye on you. I might need you.
01:07:49You're enough to leave the city, you understand?
01:07:51Yes, sir.
01:07:52Goodbye, Gene.
01:07:53Goodbye, Tommy.
01:07:55Goodbye, Gene.
01:07:57Goodbye, Nancy.
01:07:59Everything's all right now, isn't it?
01:08:01Yes, of course it's all right.
01:08:03Nothing will happen to you.
01:08:05No, nothing's going to happen to me.
01:08:07He knows you didn't have anything to do with it, doesn't he?
01:08:09Why, of course he knows it has nothing to do with it.
01:08:13Now, you go on home and I'll call you up later at the house.
01:08:16All right. Goodbye, Gene.
01:08:18Goodbye, Nancy.
01:08:29I want you to do me a favor, Mousy.
01:08:32Anything, Chief.
01:08:34I want you to look after those kids for me.
01:08:38Understand?
01:08:41Sure, Chief. But how can I?
01:08:44You're going out of here.
01:08:46I'll fix it all up with my lawyer this morning.
01:08:50But I want to know that they're well taken care of.
01:08:54Aren't you going out too?
01:08:59Not as soon as you are.
01:09:03I know I can depend on you, Mousy.
01:09:07And it'll make me feel better if...
01:09:09she's all right.
01:09:13I got you, boy.
01:09:15You can count on me...
01:09:18till they carry me out.
01:09:24You're a pretty regular fellow, Gene.
01:09:26Too bad you couldn't have done something better
01:09:27than lead a bunch of crooks.
01:09:29You know, I've been connected with the police department
01:09:30for a number of years.
01:09:31And I've seen the best of them come and go.
01:09:33And you can't get away with it.
01:09:34It's always a losing game.
01:09:37Well, at least you owe my profession a debt of gratitude.
01:09:39If it wasn't for men like me...
01:09:42there wouldn't be any necessity for men like you.
01:09:45for men like you.
01:09:46for men like you.
01:09:47for men like you.
01:09:48for men like you.
01:09:49for men like you.
01:09:52Well, at least you owe my profession a debt of gratitude.
01:09:55If it wasn't for men like me...
01:09:58there wouldn't be any necessity for men like you.
01:10:01for men like you.
01:10:17Well...
01:10:28i love you...
01:10:32i love you son of a king
Recommended
44:01
|
Up next
1:29:23
1:30:17
50:55
1:01:25
25:14
1:11:35
1:07:19
18:03
58:56
1:43:32
13:05
50:34
1:07:58
1:23:56
1:43:03