- 6/25/2025
The Turning Point is a 1952 American film noir crime film directed by William Dieterle and starring William Holden, Edmond O'Brien and Alexis Smith. It was inspired by the Kefauver Committee hearings dealing with organized crime.
Plot: John Conroy is a Special Prosecutor given extraordinary powers to break up the crime syndicate in a large midwestern town. Conroy appoints his cop father Matt as chief investigator. John doesn't understand why Matt is reluctant, but cynical reporter Jerry McKibbon thinks he knows: he's seen Matt with mob lieutenant Harrigan. Jerry's friendship for John is tested by the question of what to do about Matt, and by his attraction to John's girl Amanda. Meanwhile, the threatened racketeers adopt increasingly violent means of defense.
Plot: John Conroy is a Special Prosecutor given extraordinary powers to break up the crime syndicate in a large midwestern town. Conroy appoints his cop father Matt as chief investigator. John doesn't understand why Matt is reluctant, but cynical reporter Jerry McKibbon thinks he knows: he's seen Matt with mob lieutenant Harrigan. Jerry's friendship for John is tested by the question of what to do about Matt, and by his attraction to John's girl Amanda. Meanwhile, the threatened racketeers adopt increasingly violent means of defense.
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00:01:02Here he comes, boys. Here he is.
00:01:06Let's clear it away. Clear it away.
00:01:08Anything to say, Mr. Conroy?
00:01:11I've said all I can say to the boys at the airport.
00:01:13We haven't had a chance to get set up yet.
00:01:15All we've got is the governor's hand up.
00:01:16Extraordinary powers to break up the syndicate of crime.
00:01:18Does that mean Neil Eichelberger?
00:01:20Well, if it turns out to be Eichelberger, we'll take care of that.
00:01:22Anyway, they've got me in to see if I can clean things up.
00:01:24What specifically are you after, Mr. Conroy?
00:01:26Everything illegal, bookies, slot machines, graft, corruption.
00:01:29And you think the Eichelberger syndicate controls all this?
00:01:31If it does, we'll find it out.
00:01:33When we find it out, we'll break it up.
00:01:35Do you think the situation is serious enough to call for such measures?
00:01:38Well, for some reason or other, the pendulum seems to have swung back again.
00:01:41And as your newspapers have repeatedly pointed out,
00:01:44the city has become infested with crime again.
00:01:46It'll be our job to wipe it out.
00:01:48Oh, please don't ask me how.
00:01:51Thanks.
00:01:52May we have a picture, please?
00:01:53Yeah, sure, help yourself.
00:01:54Checking out for Mr. Fulker.
00:01:55Yes, certainly.
00:01:57Thanks a lot, fellas.
00:01:58I'm going to need your help.
00:01:59I know you'll go along with me.
00:02:00I'll give you everything I can as soon as I can.
00:02:02There's nothing more now, believe me.
00:02:04Thanks a lot.
00:02:05Thank you, Mr. Conroy.
00:02:07What do you think, boy's joy?
00:02:08Are you kidding me?
00:02:10We'll find out.
00:02:11When we do, we'll break it up.
00:02:14You'll want to get organized.
00:02:15Shall we make it 12.30 in the mayor's office?
00:02:16Fine, thank you very much.
00:02:17Good luck, Mr. Conroy.
00:02:18And you know the department is squarely behind you.
00:02:20Thank you very much, Captain.
00:02:21Thank you, gentlemen.
00:02:24Mandy!
00:02:25Hello, Johnny.
00:02:28I was wondering about you.
00:02:30Oh, Johnny, please.
00:02:31Oh, dignity beginning at noon.
00:02:34We've been here since six.
00:02:36Order will come later.
00:02:38Oh, one thing I want for myself.
00:02:40A car with a siren and a red light.
00:02:42You don't think it might be misunderstood?
00:02:43Okay, we'll skip the light.
00:02:46Hi.
00:02:47Jerry!
00:02:49Hiya, kid.
00:02:50I was looking for you in that crowd.
00:02:52I'll let you get the bugs out of your system.
00:02:54Congratulations.
00:02:55Thanks.
00:02:55This is great, Jerry.
00:02:57Oh, Jerry McKibben, Miss Waycross.
00:02:59How do you do?
00:02:59Hello.
00:03:00Amanda's helping me out.
00:03:01Combination girl Friday and spiritual advisor.
00:03:03Johnny.
00:03:03Also picnics on weekends.
00:03:05Amanda Waycross?
00:03:06Yes, why?
00:03:08I just want to get the names of the brain trust right.
00:03:10Oh.
00:03:10How you got into a crime wave should make quite a story.
00:03:16On the society page.
00:03:19Jerry's a reporter.
00:03:21I was beginning to suspect.
00:03:24Congratulations, anyway.
00:03:27Jerry and I grew up together down in Caroline Street.
00:03:29It's nice you both have such important friends.
00:03:31Yes, isn't it?
00:03:32Johnny, there are all kinds of messages.
00:03:36None of them less than cosmic.
00:03:37And your mother called.
00:03:39I promised I'd have breakfast with them.
00:03:41Come on with me, Jerry.
00:03:42We can talk.
00:03:43I'll ride along, but they'll want to have their dear boy to themselves.
00:03:45No, they'll want to see you.
00:03:46It's been years.
00:03:47If anyone calls.
00:03:48Tell them he just went out to get tattooed.
00:03:50I suppose that's as good as anything.
00:03:52And please call the house.
00:03:53Say I'm on my way.
00:03:53What's your angle, Jerry?
00:04:01I'm supposed to do some color stuff on you, Johnny.
00:04:04You feel like you're calling from Carrick?
00:04:05Not exactly.
00:04:06How's it been with you?
00:04:07I'm scraping by.
00:04:08I've read some of your stuff.
00:04:09Very tough.
00:04:10Very bright.
00:04:10There's a trick to it.
00:04:11I propose the problems, but never suggest the solutions.
00:04:14What are the problems?
00:04:15Lice, grab, corruption, war.
00:04:18None of it's simple.
00:04:19We're weak human beings, and the human equation smears everything up.
00:04:22All too sound.
00:04:23You're the boy for the solutions.
00:04:24So it seems.
00:04:26Why don't you help us out?
00:04:27How?
00:04:27Take a leave of absence?
00:04:29Come on in with us.
00:04:30As a press secretary, or a guy to point out Eichelberger to you?
00:04:32Write your own ticket.
00:04:33I'll point him out for nothing.
00:04:34Wish you luck, and you can take it from there.
00:04:36You don't go along with us?
00:04:37I go along with you fine.
00:04:39You give me a gun, a ready-made pardon, and I'll shoot the guy for you.
00:04:42I don't go for the paper hat and the tin sword.
00:04:48You know what it would mean to a man, Johnny, to break the Eichelberger syndicate?
00:04:51The DA's office, the governor's chair, seat in the Senate.
00:04:55That's right.
00:04:56I don't want any of it.
00:04:58Why not?
00:05:00No political ambitions.
00:05:02Clean hands, pure heart, and no political future, huh?
00:05:05That's me.
00:05:06You're a sucker, Johnny.
00:05:08Eichelberger's sitting on top of a $200 million empire.
00:05:12Have you got any idea what he'd do to protect that?
00:05:14Well, roughly.
00:05:17Let me ask another.
00:05:19You really know why you're in this?
00:05:22There's a job to be done.
00:05:23They tagged me.
00:05:24I was around.
00:05:26You were.
00:05:27You're a man who wants to do good, and they want a man to do good.
00:05:32Sure, you always wanted to do good.
00:05:34I don't say that's wrong.
00:05:35I say that's the way you are.
00:05:37You've been discovered.
00:05:39You made quite a splash at the university, telling the other do-gooders the theory of how
00:05:43the law should be.
00:05:44You're made to order for them.
00:05:46So they suck you in with your clean hands and pure heart.
00:05:49Happy little amateur?
00:05:51A kid standing in the sun with books under his arm.
00:05:53And if a flagpole falls on you, it's just an accident.
00:05:57You don't think I'm up to the job?
00:05:58I think you'll give it one fine whirl, and I'll be cheering.
00:06:05It's all nice and cozy.
00:06:07Same old story.
00:06:08Election's a year off, and the governor's trying to stir up some free advertising for himself.
00:06:13Are you sure you don't want something else, Johnny?
00:06:15No, thanks, ma'am.
00:06:16You're beginning to sound like Jerry, Pop.
00:06:18What's Jerry say?
00:06:19He thinks I'm a sucker, a fall guy.
00:06:22Could be.
00:06:23But you're old enough to know your own mind.
00:06:25Are you working with him on this, Jerry?
00:06:27No, I'm painting a picture of a special prosecutor's home life.
00:06:30I was afraid of that.
00:06:31Well, Jerry couldn't write anything we wouldn't like.
00:06:33Boy, he's just like my own boy.
00:06:35I'm not so sure.
00:06:36The important thing is, Johnny, how you feel about all this.
00:06:39Well, Pop, I think it's great.
00:06:41I've always hoped that someday we'd work out a way to be closer.
00:06:44So far, our jobs haven't allowed it.
00:06:46Now we'll be together.
00:06:47What could be better than that, huh?
00:06:48Well, Johnny, I know, but I don't just see how you mean.
00:06:53Well, haven't you heard from the department yet?
00:06:56Heard what?
00:06:57By special request of the governor.
00:06:59You're my chief investigator.
00:07:00No, son.
00:07:06No, I won't have it.
00:07:07Why not, Pop?
00:07:08It's already been discussed.
00:07:09Well, then you can undiscuss it.
00:07:11I'm a cop, Johnny.
00:07:13Just a hardworking, hoodlum-pinching cop.
00:07:16And I want to stay that way.
00:07:18At least until they're pinching me off.
00:07:21I'll leave the brain work for you.
00:07:23You've got the education for it.
00:07:25But leave me where I'm comfortable, huh?
00:07:27Well, Pop, it's not as simple as that.
00:07:30I can get all the bright young men I want.
00:07:32But what I need most is a cop, an honest cop.
00:07:34One who knows this town.
00:07:36Pop, it's already been decided.
00:07:38Yeah.
00:07:40We'll talk about it later.
00:07:44Gosh, I thought he'd jump at it.
00:07:47Thanks for breakfast, Mrs. Conroy.
00:07:49I'll see you later.
00:07:50Yeah.
00:07:55I'll see you later.
00:08:25I'll see you later.
00:08:55I'll see you later.
00:08:56You're welcome.
00:09:15We'll see you later, Mike.
00:09:16Oh, come back any time, Jerry.
00:09:17Don't stay away so long.
00:09:19And he'll see you in a minute.
00:09:35Okay, well, I'll be answers tomorrow, all right, son?
00:09:41Hello, Harrigan.
00:09:42Mr. Eichelberger?
00:09:43Yes?
00:09:44McKibben from the Chronicle.
00:09:45Well, I thought you'd like to make a statement.
00:09:48About what?
00:09:48Conroy.
00:09:49Sure, you can quote.
00:09:51I am happy that such an investigation has been started,
00:09:54since it can only clear me of all charges leveled against me
00:09:56by the gentlemen of the press of this city.
00:10:00Anytime.
00:10:02You're a friend of the Conroys.
00:10:03How do you mean?
00:10:05You know them.
00:10:06No.
00:10:08Harrigan's a friend of Matt Conroy's.
00:10:10We all grew up in the same neighborhood.
00:10:12Yes, years ago.
00:10:13One of the finest men I ever knew.
00:10:15I thought you kept that friendship up.
00:10:17You guys get the idea that the diploma you get
00:10:20when you graduate from journalism school
00:10:22makes you different from anybody else.
00:10:24Don't believe it.
00:10:26Mm-hmm.
00:10:28Uh-huh.
00:10:30That's a lot of money for a whiskey salesman to make, even for a man that does sell whiskey.
00:10:59It's all on the income tax report.
00:11:01Of course it is.
00:11:02Now let's talk about the Manzanatis case.
00:11:04Never heard of it.
00:11:05I'll refresh your memory.
00:11:071948.
00:11:08Peter Manzanatis was a produce dealer who refused to pay to the organization.
00:11:13He took a trip to Canada and he never came back.
00:11:15Maybe that guy liked to travel.
00:11:17Keep your attention here.
00:11:19March 1948.
00:11:21He took a leave of absence from the police force.
00:11:23You were gone three weeks.
00:11:25A vacation.
00:11:27Did you like Canada?
00:11:29I've never been to Canada.
00:11:31You and Jimmy Chop went to Canada.
00:11:33You took Manzanatis to Canada and you murdered them.
00:11:36I said I've never been to Canada.
00:11:38I don't know Manzanatis and I never heard of Jimmy Chop.
00:11:42Manzanatis left town the same time as you and Jimmy Chop.
00:11:45It's a big town.
00:11:47People come, people go.
00:11:51March 27th.
00:11:53You resigned from the police force.
00:11:55On the same day you went to work for Eichelberger.
00:11:57The second day.
00:11:58The first day we talked terms.
00:12:00Selling whiskey?
00:12:01I didn't sell whiskey then.
00:12:03What did you do?
00:12:04Odd jobs.
00:12:05Killing people?
00:12:06Odd jobs like that?
00:12:07You're cute too.
00:12:09The fact is that you were shaking down a lot of small-time bookmakers.
00:12:13Eichelberger got you off.
00:12:14He did you a favor and you did him one.
00:12:16You arranged the Manzanatis killing.
00:12:18I never heard so much junk in my life.
00:12:20You were a cop, Silbrae, and you're sold out.
00:12:22Baloney!
00:12:23And if it's the last thing I do, I'm going to nail you.
00:12:26All right.
00:12:28We'll see if Jimmy Chopp has a better memory.
00:12:32You can go, my friend.
00:12:34But not for long.
00:12:36I'd rather nail one crooked cop than a hundred hooligans.
00:12:40Get out.
00:12:45You just gotta find that Manzanatis woman.
00:12:49Shall I bore it?
00:12:51No, no, just leave it.
00:12:52I don't know when Mr. Conroy will be back.
00:12:53Understand anything else, miss?
00:12:55No, thank you.
00:12:58I have your story. Do you mind?
00:13:13I don't mind anything.
00:13:15There's plenty of hot coffee there.
00:13:19I must say you write very well.
00:13:23But you don't think very much of us, do you?
00:13:25I think the whole bunch of you are clever as all get out.
00:13:28And I thought I said so in a style that was all but heroic.
00:13:31It's the style I mean. It has a twist to it.
00:13:34Such as?
00:13:35Such as, uh...
00:13:37If the pulp mills of America can continue supplying enough paper to this efficient staff,
00:13:42something must come to light.
00:13:45The detached cynical observer faintly amused by the follies of other humans.
00:13:49Well, if that's all there, I agree with you. I'm one fine writer.
00:13:52And it carries over into your personal attitude.
00:13:55McKibben, you're heavy with it.
00:13:57Get a firm hold on yourself.
00:13:59Thanks, I will.
00:14:04As a matter of fact, not all people are happiest being exhibitionists.
00:14:08But I am, I suppose.
00:14:09I didn't say that.
00:14:10Your trick of inference again.
00:14:12Forgive me for not rising.
00:14:14Proof of my exhibitionism, I imagine,
00:14:18is for a girl whose experience with crime has been limited to a parking ticket.
00:14:21And you're quite a girl.
00:14:22To stick her nose into a professional clean-up campaign. Why should I...
00:14:25Walk barefooted through the pigsty. It had crossed my mind.
00:14:28Do you want me to tell you?
00:14:29Not particularly.
00:14:31You prefer your own explanation.
00:14:33Frankly, it doesn't make any difference one way or another.
00:14:35You're a handsome dame who does what she wants to do, so why worry about why?
00:14:39Well, I think we're in business.
00:14:42We've located Mrs. Manzanelli's to a nephew of hers out in Oakmont.
00:14:45She's here, living at 446 Pond Street under the name of Mrs. Stephen Nova.
00:14:50Oh, off the record, Jerry. This is not for publication.
00:14:53Naturally.
00:14:54Johnny, the first real break.
00:14:56If she'll talk...
00:14:58Better keep her on ice.
00:15:00Matt will, huh, Pop?
00:15:01Yeah, sure, son.
00:15:02Break off everything else in the morning.
00:15:04Matt will have her end of ten.
00:15:05Leave everything to me, Johnny.
00:15:06I'll have her here bright and early.
00:15:08We've waited a long time for this.
00:15:10See you in the morning.
00:15:11Right.
00:15:19Mandy, what do you say we chuck all this?
00:15:21Go out and have a real dinner somewhere.
00:15:22I'll even blow to a bottle of wine.
00:15:24Amanda prefers the simpler things of life.
00:15:26That's what you think.
00:15:27Come on with us, Jerry.
00:15:28No thanks.
00:15:29I've got to work.
00:15:30I'll see you later.
00:15:31Well, let's go.
00:15:32Thank you very much.
00:15:33Yes.
00:15:34I'll go.
00:15:35I'll go.
00:15:36I'm going to go.
00:16:06But, Johnny, we've had leaks before. I can't help questioning the wisdom of...
00:16:25Question what? Me? Forgot my copy.
00:16:29I don't blame you. If I were the professor, I'd question me, you, the DA, the whole kit and caboodle.
00:16:38I'd screen everybody.
00:16:40You know they've been screened.
00:16:42I'd screen them again. I'd get to know them intimately back to the time they were born.
00:16:47I'd question my own mother.
00:16:56It's open. Come in.
00:16:59To what do I owe the honor?
00:17:06I want to talk to you.
00:17:08Fine. No dinner with wine?
00:17:10I'm not going. What about your hurry to get to work?
00:17:14I had to do my flower arrangements.
00:17:17Have a seat.
00:17:19Thanks.
00:17:20Wasn't what you said when you left, wasn't that meant to be provocative?
00:17:24If you're gonna say something, get down to it.
00:17:27What did you mean when you said you'd question everyone?
00:17:31Just that.
00:17:33Won't you please sit down so I can throw myself at your feet?
00:17:36As you say.
00:17:48Let's get down to it.
00:17:49Good.
00:17:50I came here to ask you exactly what it is you've been holding behind your eyes these past weeks.
00:18:02I wish some of you ivory tower people would stop trying to be so smart.
00:18:06I wish you'd put your socks on and go home and sit by your fireplaces and read mystery stories where everything turns out nice and tidy in the end.
00:18:13If you must know, I think you're a square.
00:18:16And Johnny's a square.
00:18:17You're standing in a cold shoot and don't know it.
00:18:19And you're a whale of a tough guy, McKibbin.
00:18:21I am.
00:18:22A real know-it-all guy.
00:18:24You know all about the viciousness.
00:18:25You're at home in the slime.
00:18:27You can put your finger on all the bodies that have been buried, but you won't tell.
00:18:30Oh, no.
00:18:32That's too amateurish.
00:18:33That would destroy your pose.
00:18:35We're the dilettantes and you're the tough professional.
00:18:49As one exhibitionist to another, why don't you cut it out?
00:18:57Come on.
00:19:05446.
00:19:25Wherein is hidden Mrs. Stefan Nova, alias Mrs. Manzanates.
00:19:35You understand, Mrs. Manzanates?
00:19:37We'll have men there.
00:19:38You won't know who they are, but they'll be there.
00:19:41And we'll know everything you say, everything you tell them.
00:19:44Are you not afraid?
00:19:46Of course not.
00:19:47You're an old woman, Mrs. Manzanates.
00:19:49What should you be afraid of?
00:19:51It is true.
00:19:52You have a nephew, Peter, who works in a gas station in Oakmont.
00:19:56He's a fine boy, Peter.
00:19:58You're very fond of him.
00:20:00That's also true, isn't it, Mrs. Manzanates?
00:20:04All we want is peace, that's all.
00:20:09Just peace, Mrs. Manzanates.
00:20:14You put peace on your face tomorrow, and everything will be all right.
00:20:18All right.
00:20:34All right.
00:20:36All right.
00:20:56That was Ackerman, all right.
00:20:58Jerry, what do you think?
00:21:00She's all right.
00:21:02They were just selling insurance.
00:21:19Jerry, what are you doing out here?
00:21:22I want to see you.
00:21:24All right, come on in.
00:21:28What's the trouble?
00:21:30Is your wife asleep?
00:21:32Yeah. Sit down.
00:21:36I checked on 446 Pound Street. There wasn't a cop there.
00:21:38Well, I didn't think it necessary.
00:21:40Ackerman was there, though, with a couple of his goons
00:21:42teaching the facts of life to Mrs. Manzanatis.
00:21:44What?
00:21:45Don't act surprised. Why shouldn't they be?
00:21:48You called Harrigan right after you left us at the hotel.
00:21:51Jerry, you're crazy.
00:21:53I know you're working with Eichelberger, Matt.
00:21:56Specifically Harrigan.
00:21:58Are you drunk?
00:22:00I've known it for three weeks.
00:22:02I've tried to figure out what to do about it.
00:22:04I've come to the conclusion it's your problem.
00:22:06Jerry, this is nothing to joke about.
00:22:08Look, Matt, I grew up with Johnny.
00:22:09I know how he feels about you.
00:22:10Little tin guard on the mantelpiece.
00:22:12It's always been that way.
00:22:13Partly the reason he's in this today.
00:22:15I don't think you want to see him torn to pieces any more than I do.
00:22:19Somebody's filling you with pap.
00:22:21And I don't want to see you in jail.
00:22:23Any more than I'd like to see you found in an alley staring up at a curbstone only not seeing it.
00:22:29Those are the only alternatives I've been able to come up with.
00:22:32Now, you figure out one.
00:22:33I won't hear any more such talk.
00:22:35I'm going to print the story about what happened at Monsonati's today.
00:22:38Only for Johnny's sake, I'm going to leave you out of it.
00:22:40I'm going to give you a chance.
00:22:41It's a lie.
00:22:42But if you don't want him to find out that his father's been crossing him every day of the calendar,
00:22:46you better start figuring a way to get yourself clear.
00:22:48Get out!
00:22:50I'll give you 24 hours.
00:23:04Get this one thing through your heads.
00:23:07We need each other in this thing.
00:23:09Maybe you need me more than I need you.
00:23:11But this is the last time I go running around just because somebody in this outfit blows a cork.
00:23:16You hear that, Eamon?
00:23:17Anything I got to turn over to you, I'll report just like I've been doing.
00:23:20Knock it off.
00:23:21How do you explain this?
00:23:22The kidman was there yesterday when we got the word on the Monsonati's woman.
00:23:25He was asked to respect the confidence.
00:23:27By who?
00:23:28By John.
00:23:29And you let it go with that?
00:23:30What was I to do? Arrest him?
00:23:33Newspaper man.
00:23:35And he hightails it down to Pond Street and sits on the curb.
00:23:38And you didn't think it important enough to tell us, Matt.
00:23:40Why was that?
00:23:41He's always kept his word before.
00:23:43You sap.
00:23:44You wooden-headed sap.
00:23:45Take it easy, Matt!
00:23:46Wait outside for us.
00:23:47He's all right. Take my word for it.
00:23:51What kind of logic is that?
00:23:52A business like this depending on someone you think you can trust.
00:23:53Hasn't he told us everything so far?
00:23:54Small stuff. Stuff you put in the window to get the suckers inside.
00:23:56When it comes to a showdown, who pull a switch so fast our necks will get twisted watching them.
00:23:57All right. That's enough from both of you.
00:23:58We built a great outfit. Almost foolproof. But we've got the same weak links any business has.
00:24:00People. If we've got one or five hundred people, we've got that many weak links.
00:24:04Starting right here. I want it known around. I want it circulated in their bloodstreams.
00:24:08Everybody's under glass from here on out. This Conroy kid is tougher than we've ever done.
00:24:13How can he get in the sound of the car, Santa?
00:24:15We're told.
00:24:16Oh, that's what he said.
00:24:19Ah!
00:24:20Why do you call it?
00:24:21Why do you call it, Santa?
00:24:22That's it?
00:24:24Well, I don't go to that.
00:24:25The guy who said, I'm a thing.
00:24:26I'm a little bit more.
00:24:27You're a little bit more than the company.
00:24:28I'm a little bit more than what you think.
00:24:29I'm a little bit more than what you call it for.
00:24:32I want it circulated in their bloodstreams.
00:24:34Everybody's under glass from here on out.
00:24:36This Conroy kid is tougher than we thought.
00:24:38He's got angles and it looks like staying power.
00:24:41We'll match him. Money, brains, time, anything else.
00:24:44Tell our men that. Lay it on the line.
00:24:47Tell them they're gonna be under glass.
00:24:49I want a system set up. I want them to know there's a system.
00:24:52I want fear working for us.
00:24:54And we'll begin with Matt Conroy.
00:25:02How could anyone have known where she was?
00:25:13Take it just as an example of what you'll be up against all the way down the line.
00:25:17With all this money flowing from the bookie.
00:25:19It wasn't money. It was intimidation.
00:25:20One or the other.
00:25:21The fact remains it proves there is a working pipeline.
00:25:24Oh, now, no shop, Johnny. Skip it, please.
00:25:27This is why I wanted to get you out of the office for a minute or two.
00:25:30Come along. You haven't met everyone.
00:25:32Excuse me.
00:25:33Give him time. He's young as a politician.
00:25:35Well, gentlemen, what do you think of him?
00:25:42Hello, Jerry.
00:25:43Hi.
00:25:45You need all these witnesses to drum me out?
00:25:47You probably know everyone, don't you?
00:25:49Almost too well.
00:25:51Well, nice hideout you've got here, Miss Waycross.
00:25:55The bird's eye view of our very corrupt city.
00:25:58May I get you a drink?
00:25:59Excuse me.
00:26:00Hello, Johnny.
00:26:01This was a fine stunt.
00:26:02I gather Mrs. Manzanetti's did arrive at the hearing perfectly briefed?
00:26:05That's not the point.
00:26:06How did you know what was going on down at Pond Street?
00:26:08Shot in the dark.
00:26:09I guess you realize what this does to us.
00:26:11I printed a simple story that happened to be true.
00:26:13I thought it might help put pressure on. Anything wrong with that?
00:26:16If you can't see it...
00:26:17Tell me.
00:26:18It's a no-good tramp newspaper man's trick.
00:26:20Break any confidence for a little run-of-the-mill story.
00:26:22I thought something better of you.
00:26:25Okay, Professor.
00:26:27Jerry.
00:26:32Hello, Matt.
00:26:34I'd like to speak to you a minute, Jerry.
00:26:39I'm sorry, Jerry.
00:26:40Oh, forget it.
00:26:41Can I fix you something?
00:26:42All right, you're very sweet.
00:26:43Wrestle me up a ham sandwich.
00:26:44Jerry.
00:26:45I'm in a spot.
00:26:46I think I mentioned something about that last night.
00:27:01Yeah, I'm sorry I lost my temper.
00:27:06I suppose I admit what you said last night.
00:27:10Yeah.
00:27:11Then level with you.
00:27:13Yeah.
00:27:14Will you go along?
00:27:16That depends.
00:27:18Well, we've both heard the same kind of stories hundreds of times.
00:27:23Unless you've been through it yourself, it's hard to understand.
00:27:28Try me.
00:27:30Jerry, the way they got it worked out, a cop is supposed to be something more than human.
00:27:38He's supposed to work harder than anybody, and be more honest than anybody, and pay for his own bullets when he shoots a crook.
00:27:50Well, naturally, he's not supposed to want money or things for his family.
00:27:55He's altogether too high-principled for that.
00:28:00Well, it works out fine for a while, and then somehow or other you get to be 40, and you find yourself looking in the windows at the things other people look at.
00:28:16And you start wanting things, because by this time you've got a kid growing up, and you want some of the things for him.
00:28:25And then you find you're in debt.
00:28:32Then suddenly you find some easy money in your pocket.
00:28:40And then you find they owned you.
00:28:47So?
00:28:50Now they've got me in the nutcracker.
00:28:56How do you get out, Matt?
00:28:57You've got to help me, Jerry.
00:28:59If I believe you.
00:29:00I have never asked anything from anybody before.
00:29:03There's only one thing you can do.
00:29:06Deal behind Eichelberger's back.
00:29:08Sell Johnny on the idea you've got to plant and feed him phony information.
00:29:11And try hard to stay alive.
00:29:13There's that too.
00:29:16Or you can tell, Johnny.
00:29:18No.
00:29:19I can't do that.
00:29:20I...
00:29:21Matt, how do you make me believe you're on the level?
00:29:29Eichelberger had me up this morning.
00:29:31There's a folder in the DA's files they're worried about.
00:29:341934, Lloyd Caslin.
00:29:36He blabbed about a lot of things that didn't make much sense then.
00:29:39They would now, if anybody wanted to put them together.
00:29:42The old days, that's what they're worried about.
00:29:45They want me to get that folder for them.
00:29:48Now, how do I duck that and stay alive?
00:29:51I think that's fine.
00:29:53I think it's just great.
00:29:55When do they want it?
00:29:56Tonight.
00:29:57Get it and give it to them.
00:29:58Only first have it photostatted.
00:30:00I may be tailed.
00:30:02You ought to know how to handle that.
00:30:04Good night.
00:30:05Good night.
00:30:06Bye, thanks.
00:30:07See you soon.
00:30:08Thanks, Jerry.
00:30:09I'll see about it.
00:30:10All right, Matt.
00:30:13Mind if I eat as I run?
00:30:15Where are you going?
00:30:16Say is your car downstairs?
00:30:17In the garage.
00:30:18Lend me your keys?
00:30:19No.
00:30:23Operator, this is Miss Wake Cross apartment.
00:30:25Would you order a cab right away?
00:30:28See you later.
00:30:35Hello, operator.
00:30:36This is Miss Wake Cross.
00:30:37Please cancel that cab.
00:30:38No, I don't agree with you.
00:30:39Seven years ago.
00:30:40Oh, I know, but you can't.
00:30:41Excuse me.
00:30:42Seven years ago.
00:30:43Let's see what the other boys have to take.
00:30:45No, no, no, no.
00:30:46I've got to run out.
00:30:47The others won't mind, I hope.
00:30:48Mandy.
00:30:49Yes?
00:30:50Do you mind telling me what you're doing?
00:30:51I don't think it's just curiosity.
00:30:52I think it's business.
00:30:53I don't know.
00:30:54All right.
00:30:55I'm awfully doggone in love with you.
00:30:56You're sweet Johnny.
00:30:57Explain it to your politicos, will you?
00:30:58Sure.
00:31:24I canceled the cab.
00:31:25Come on, get in.
00:31:26I'll take you.
00:31:27Let's drive here.
00:31:31Move over.
00:31:57Move over.
00:32:07Thanks, Stu. You're the doctor these days.
00:32:15How about it, Mark?
00:32:17There's no trick to photostatic for your man, but it's against the rules.
00:32:21There are no rules for this committee.
00:32:27Wait here. I'll be right back.
00:32:43Yeah.
00:32:45Yeah, he was just here.
00:32:47I'm holding him in my hands right now.
00:32:49Make the photostat and let him have it.
00:32:51No, let him have it.
00:32:53It don't mean a thing. Not a thing.
00:32:55Right.
00:33:25I guess I'm not supposed to ask you who you've been following and why.
00:33:29No.
00:33:31But I... I suppose it was all right.
00:33:33What?
00:33:35Whatever it is, I'm not supposed to ask you.
00:33:37It was quite all right.
00:33:39Relax a little, McKibben.
00:33:41Perhaps we both should.
00:33:43Jerry, I know what you think of me.
00:33:45I guess I knew that day you met me and looked at me.
00:33:47I got into this because of Johnny, because he was in it.
00:33:49And because I have so much respect and admiration for him.
00:33:51And I thought I might help in some way.
00:33:53And I wanted to be doing something of some use.
00:33:55Can't you understand that?
00:33:57Yeah, sure.
00:33:59I still want to help.
00:34:01But you've made it so it isn't easy anymore.
00:34:03And...
00:34:04Jerry, I'm beginning to be the most lucky thing.
00:34:05That day you met me and looked at me.
00:34:07I got into this because of Johnny, because he was in it.
00:34:08And because I have so much respect and admiration for him.
00:34:11And I thought I might help in some way.
00:34:14And I wanted to be doing something of some use.
00:34:17Can't you understand that?
00:34:19Yeah, sure.
00:34:20I still want to help.
00:34:23But you've made it so it isn't easy anymore.
00:34:28And, Jerry, I'm beginning to be afraid.
00:34:32It's going to be all right.
00:34:34Is it?
00:34:36You relax a little.
00:34:44I'm hungry.
00:34:46There'll be time before we go looking for the next body.
00:34:49Okay.
00:34:53So there you have it.
00:34:57The life and times of one Amanda Waycross.
00:35:00Not very inspirational.
00:35:02I'd say very dull.
00:35:04This novel you wrote, what was it about?
00:35:07About three chapters.
00:35:09I mean content.
00:35:11About young love in Mississippi.
00:35:13Mind me not to read it.
00:35:14You bet I will.
00:35:16There's one point in your life story that escapes me.
00:35:23Yes.
00:35:26I mean Johnny.
00:35:27I know.
00:35:30Well.
00:35:32I went up to state you to interview him for one of my fine reviews.
00:35:36And strangely enough, he didn't turn against you.
00:35:39No.
00:35:41He fell in love with you.
00:35:43I suppose so.
00:35:44Was it immediate?
00:35:45Instant.
00:35:49You have that kind of effect.
00:35:53What a nice thing to say.
00:35:56You ought to know it by now.
00:36:02It's getting late.
00:36:04Does it matter?
00:36:05Supposed to.
00:36:07May I help you clean up?
00:36:10No, thanks.
00:36:12I'll leave it for Ellen.
00:36:20You want me to go?
00:36:21Yes.
00:36:22Yes.
00:36:34Mandy.
00:36:36You're not much good as a token dagger woman.
00:36:39We've been yapping all night and...
00:36:42What have you found out from me?
00:36:44I've found out enough.
00:36:48We both have.
00:36:50Something we didn't want to know.
00:36:55Do you want me to go now?
00:36:59Yes.
00:37:19Way out here...
00:37:29You wanted to be careful, didn't you?
00:37:31You could be going home to lunch.
00:37:33Would have been simpler to mail it.
00:37:35Neil's waiting for you.
00:37:37Why?
00:37:39Something about John.
00:37:41Where?
00:37:43In the oil station up the street.
00:37:49Come on.
00:37:55Come on, come on.
00:37:57Come on!
00:37:59Come on, man!
00:38:19Hold up! Hold up!
00:38:21Hold up!
00:38:25Police officer, drop that gun!
00:38:51Well, there's nothing to be done for them.
00:38:53Guess somebody better call the police.
00:38:55I don't know.
00:38:57I don't know.
00:38:59I never knew what hit him.
00:39:01Neither of them knew what happened.
00:39:03I don't know.
00:39:13Hello?
00:39:14Jerry?
00:39:15Yeah, Ed.
00:39:16Look at a flash.
00:39:17A shooting out on 34th and Schuyler.
00:39:18Matt Conroy killed.
00:39:24I don't know.
00:39:25Some guy robbing a market.
00:39:26Get out there, will you?
00:39:28I don't know.
00:39:29He...
00:39:30Yeah, yeah.
00:39:32Where'd you say it was, Ed?
00:39:3434th and Schuyler.
00:39:36Yeah, okay.
00:39:38A fine guy like that, and some little two-bit thief.
00:39:48I almost wish Matt hadn't got it.
00:39:50I wish we could have had him for a small while.
00:39:52Just a short while.
00:39:54Are you satisfied with it, Clint?
00:39:56Can't find much wrong.
00:39:5720 witnesses, they all tell him.
00:39:58Big sister act, huh?
00:39:59Yeah, the usual thing.
00:40:00He was the unlikeliest man in town to get killed, wasn't he, Clint?
00:40:02In a manner of speaking?
00:40:03A hood wouldn't put a finger on him.
00:40:04No.
00:40:05He had a badge on his vest and a paper in his pocket,
00:40:06and the paper said nobody could touch him.
00:40:07What's eating you?
00:40:08Don't you think the department takes care of its own?
00:40:09No.
00:40:10Don't you think the department takes care of its own?
00:40:11No.
00:40:12No.
00:40:13No.
00:40:14No.
00:40:15No.
00:40:16No.
00:40:17No.
00:40:18No.
00:40:19No.
00:40:20No.
00:40:21No.
00:40:22No.
00:40:23No.
00:40:24No.
00:40:25No.
00:40:26No.
00:40:27No.
00:40:28No.
00:40:29No.
00:40:30No.
00:40:31The department takes care of its own?
00:40:32You got a good question there.
00:40:34Let's both think of an answer.
00:40:41Accordingly, Jim, the line of duty.
00:40:43No connection has been established between his death
00:40:45and his official position with the crime commission.
00:40:47Now you'll have to excuse me.
00:40:48Will you come, Ronnie?
00:40:49and now you'll have to excuse me.
00:40:52Will you come, Ronnie?
00:40:57John.
00:41:01Johnny, I'm so sorry.
00:41:09Mad Conroy and I grew up in the same neighborhood.
00:41:13And I'll miss him.
00:41:14He was a fine man.
00:41:16And his widow should be proud of the way he served his community.
00:41:20As I said to Mr. Martin, I said,
00:41:22that was just like Matt Conroy.
00:41:24Brave as a tiger, that's what he was.
00:41:26Brave as a tiger.
00:41:28Thank you very much, Mrs. Martin.
00:41:30You're very kind.
00:41:31Mary, is there anything I can do for you?
00:41:34And to think that such a brave man
00:41:35should be killed by such hoodlums.
00:41:46Jerry.
00:41:47Yeah.
00:41:49I think I should know.
00:41:51What?
00:41:53I think it's important to all of us.
00:41:55Know what?
00:41:57About Matt.
00:41:58What about Matt?
00:42:00He stepped in front of a bulletin.
00:42:02Now he's waiting to be buried.
00:42:03What else?
00:42:04Jerry, don't close me out.
00:42:07I've never felt so lost.
00:42:11Last night, everything seemed so simple.
00:42:13Andy.
00:42:14Andy.
00:42:17Yes?
00:42:19You don't believe it was accidental?
00:42:22No.
00:42:23Why not?
00:42:27What did you and Matt talk about at my place?
00:42:29Why did you follow him downtown?
00:42:31Why did you follow him downtown?
00:42:37Years ago, it seems he took some money.
00:42:41I gather it was to put Johnny through college.
00:42:44They were using him.
00:42:47And upon my excellent advice, he tried to double-cross them.
00:42:53Oh, Jerry.
00:42:54What do I do now?
00:42:56Call the cops?
00:42:58And what do I tell Johnny about his father?
00:43:00That he was a crook?
00:43:04And how can I tell him about us now?
00:43:07Mandy, would you...
00:43:08Would you come in a minute and help Mother?
00:43:11Mr. Eichelberger, we'd like to ask you about some of the statements you made to our investigators, if you don't mind.
00:43:40Not at all.
00:43:41Glad to talk about anything.
00:43:43For my part, Mr. Conroy, I'll be happy to get on the record and clean up some of the things they've been printing about me.
00:43:49I've got a statement here I'd like to read.
00:43:51You can put it in the record later.
00:43:55All right.
00:43:57You're in the trucking business, Mr. Eichelberger.
00:44:00That's right.
00:44:01Have been for years.
00:44:01Run a lot of trucks.
00:44:03And how would you estimate your income for that business?
00:44:06Well, it's all on the tax records, Mr. Conroy.
00:44:08I couldn't say offhand.
00:44:10Well, would you say about $100,000?
00:44:13Yes, I guess so.
00:44:14A little more, less.
00:44:17And you have other sources of income?
00:44:20That's right.
00:44:21Will you tell us what they are?
00:44:23Well, they're varied.
00:44:24I own a few pieces of other businesses, and I lend a good deal of money here and there, charge interest.
00:44:32You lend money to bookies?
00:44:35Now, that I couldn't say.
00:44:36I lend money to people I know.
00:44:38What they do with it, I don't always know.
00:44:40Uh, they could be bookies, some of these people.
00:44:43They could at that, Mr. West.
00:44:44Some of them I wouldn't know.
00:44:46And the control of all this money, Mr. Eichelberger.
00:44:49Wouldn't you say that gives you control of these bookies?
00:44:52No, I wouldn't.
00:44:53That's what they like to say about me, czar of the bookies.
00:44:55That's nonsense.
00:44:56It isn't true.
00:44:57I lend money just like a bank does.
00:44:59Did it ever occur to you, Mr. Eichelberger,
00:45:01did you ever suspect for a moment that this money was being used for illegal purposes?
00:45:07I worried about it for years.
00:45:10Anybody who has as many friends as I have is bound to know a few.
00:45:14And in these times, you come to realize that you could be sitting on a powder keg and not knowing it.
00:45:21You see, a lot of people help me get started, help me a lot.
00:45:23So, uh, how can I always act like a bank?
00:45:27You would get notes for these loans, as you call them, Mr. Eichelberger?
00:45:31Sometimes, yes.
00:45:32They would be given to you directly?
00:45:34Well, one way or another.
00:45:36And if stock was the security, it would be registered to you?
00:45:41Sometimes, yes.
00:45:43I'm assuming that you are a good businessman, Mr. Eichelberger.
00:45:47Well, that I'll go along with.
00:45:50And that you'd see that these loans to these friends of yours would be handled in a businesslike way.
00:45:56You watch your pocketbook, you'll learn that.
00:46:00Did you occasionally buy these stocks?
00:46:02Well, uh, I guess you could call it that.
00:46:06Sometimes I'd buy them and hold them.
00:46:07Sometimes I wouldn't.
00:46:08Sometimes I'd just put them in the safe.
00:46:11And on the occasions when you did buy them, you'd use some sort of clearinghouse for these security transactions, I suppose.
00:46:19Yes, that's right.
00:46:20Isn't it a fact, Mr. Eichelberger, that you own a company for just that purpose?
00:46:27No, that's not true.
00:46:29I don't own it.
00:46:30I have some shares in a securities company.
00:46:34What company is that?
00:46:36Well, I'd like to consult with my lawyer.
00:46:41Go ahead.
00:46:42One, Arco Securities.
00:46:52I've done some business with them, among others.
00:46:55And the cash transactions, you kept a record of those?
00:46:58Mr. Conroy, you make it sound like I was loaning millions.
00:47:02As a matter of fact, you were, weren't you?
00:47:03That is, if we accept for a moment the premise that they were all loans?
00:47:07No, I wasn't.
00:47:08That's what comes of all this sensationalism, the kind of stuff the papers have been printing.
00:47:12A guy makes a $2 bet, he's a big gambler.
00:47:14I'd lend a few bucks and I'm a czar.
00:47:17You wish to say that there is not a large, thoroughly organized syndicate centered in this city?
00:47:22I don't know about it being organized, but as long as gambling is illegal and profitable, it'll always be there.
00:47:29Tell me, Mr. Conroy, how many people in this room do you believe never made a $2 bet?
00:47:35Station WRRG returning you to the Harrison Hotel, headquarters of the Conroy Committee.
00:47:41John Conroy continues his questioning of Miss Lillian Smith, former lady friend of Roy Ackerman.
00:47:47That's when you came back from Florida.
00:47:49Yeah, right about that time, I guess.
00:47:51And you gave a series of parties here in the city?
00:47:54I didn't give any parties.
00:47:55Some fellas gave parties.
00:47:57If I give parties, I gotta pay for them.
00:47:58Why should I do that when the parties are for fellas?
00:48:01Did Roy Ackerman come to any of these parties?
00:48:05That schmo, I wouldn't even have him around.
00:48:07How much money did you have when you came back from Florida?
00:48:13I don't know.
00:48:13$15,000, $20,000, more or less.
00:48:16How should I know?
00:48:17$5,000 or $6,000 wouldn't make any difference to you.
00:48:20I don't know much about money.
00:48:22I just use it for spending.
00:48:25Where did you get the money?
00:48:28From fellas.
00:48:29Where else?
00:48:30That's a silly question.
00:48:31This meeting will recess until 2 p.m.
00:48:38WRRG now brings you the third day of the Conroy Committee investigations.
00:48:42John Conroy has, for the past hour,
00:48:45been attempting to break down the testimony
00:48:46of another alleged member of the Eichelberger syndicate.
00:48:50That was in June, 1935.
00:48:54What was your salary at that time?
00:48:57Uh, I think it was $80 a week.
00:49:01Who paid it to you?
00:49:03Uh...
00:49:04Arco.
00:49:10Arco what?
00:49:12Arco Securities Company.
00:49:15Did Arco employ you?
00:49:16I don't know.
00:49:18I made a deal with Roy.
00:49:20Roy Ackerman?
00:49:21Yeah, yeah, that's right.
00:49:23But you said you were paid by the Arco Securities Company.
00:49:27I said I got my checks from Arco.
00:49:35Were you ever arrested and questioned?
00:49:38Maybe I was.
00:49:39I don't remember.
00:49:40You don't remember being arrested for murder?
00:49:42Uh, the cops can get in the habit of hauling a guy in.
00:49:48And you gave bond for $25,000?
00:49:51Huh?
00:49:52You say I did, I did.
00:49:53Didn't you?
00:49:55Okay, okay, I did.
00:49:57Where'd you get the money?
00:49:59What, for the bond?
00:50:01Uh...
00:50:02I sold some stock.
00:50:05$25,000 worth of stock on an $80 salary.
00:50:09Well, uh...
00:50:12No, well, you see, I had, uh...
00:50:13Let me remind you that you're under oath.
00:50:16To whom did you sell the stocks?
00:50:19Uh...
00:50:20Well, uh...
00:50:23I think, uh...
00:50:26It was a long time ago.
00:50:27Maybe it was Arco.
00:50:29Uh...
00:50:29Look, I don't know from nothing.
00:50:32He's got a head on him.
00:50:40It isn't a case of finding a buried body.
00:50:42It's a case of mathematical law.
00:50:44Thousands, stray pieces of information.
00:50:46He connects them right.
00:50:47He can spell out the whole story.
00:50:49Well, whether he knows it or not, he's got it all right here.
00:50:51I wouldn't have believed it.
00:50:52Arco.
00:50:52Almost every other page, Arco.
00:50:54Where did the money come from, Arco?
00:50:55What was the holding company, Arco?
00:50:57But it had to be, Neil, for the income tax record.
00:50:5920 years at work for the Federals.
00:51:01Now comes along the professor with a bee in his pants.
00:51:03And gets lucky.
00:51:04It isn't luck.
00:51:05It's hard work.
00:51:05He's building step by step.
00:51:07Setting a trap.
00:51:08Then he'll subpoena Arco's books and spring it.
00:51:11Tonight, tomorrow morning, the next day.
00:51:14What's wrong without just losing the books?
00:51:15It wouldn't stand.
00:51:16It would mount the same as a confession.
00:51:19There's no way to do it small.
00:51:21The whole building will have to go.
00:51:23Go?
00:51:25Even the fire department gave us a couple of notices
00:51:27that the gas furnace was dangerous.
00:51:28But there are apartments above the place.
00:51:30A dozen people live there.
00:51:31You can wake them up and carry them out.
00:51:33You'll be a hero.
00:51:34Neil, you can't.
00:51:35You wouldn't believe we'd do it?
00:51:37No.
00:51:38That's what makes it good.
00:51:39I don't think a jury would believe it either.
00:51:58I don't think a jury would gebe off.
00:52:01I don't think a jury would have.
00:52:01I don't think a jury would either.
00:52:02That's what I think.
00:52:04I don't thought they would be aarin' care center.
00:52:05That's what makes it even more SECOND?
00:52:08All right, hurry up, get the letters out there, get those files, I'm going to check with her, I'll be right back.
00:52:38What? Yeah, how is it? Coming, but make sure all the windows are closed. Okay, make a step.
00:52:59Hurry up. All set. All right, let's use the back door. What's that? Listen.
00:53:08She loves the way he says good night. Just a kid. All right, all right, why don't we get on with it? Get going.
00:53:23Hunter! Yeah? We're going! Okay!
00:53:39Are you sure there won't be anything left? I know my business. Yeah, but...
00:53:42The rock this place is going to get, there won't be anything big enough to put together.
00:53:46Okay.
00:53:50Okay, turn it on.
00:53:51Okay, turn it on.
00:53:52Let's have a moment.
00:53:56We have a lot of fun.
00:53:59Get going.
00:54:01All right, let's go.
00:54:09Why doesn't it go?
00:54:10Why doesn't it go?
00:54:21Shut up, it'll go.
00:54:40It's quite a coincidence.
00:55:07Johnny, I'll dig on this for the rest of my life if necessary.
00:55:37Come on, let's go.
00:55:44Come on, let's go.
00:55:51Come on.
00:55:56Come on, let's go.
00:56:03Come on, let's go.
00:56:18Come on, let's go.
00:56:33Come on.
00:56:52Come on.
00:56:59Anybody get out alive?
00:57:00One or two still fighting.
00:57:01But it won't be by morning.
00:57:02That's more or less the official opinion.
00:57:03Did you go up there?
00:57:04Yeah.
00:57:05Maybe you can get it across to your readers.
00:57:06These aren't just a lot of gangsters killing each other.
00:57:08The people of this fine Midwestern city are in danger of their lives in their own beds.
00:57:12They ought to make quite a story.
00:57:14The story's here.
00:57:16Yeah.
00:57:17I should have listened to you months ago.
00:57:19You suggested I wasn't the man for the job.
00:57:22I've changed my mind.
00:57:23We both have.
00:57:25How long it'll take me to get the smell of that burned flesh out of my nose.
00:57:31You can't blame yourself.
00:57:34Can't I?
00:57:35You warned me, Fogel, the police.
00:57:37What was it you said about me, Jerry?
00:57:39I was a kid standing in a hot sun with a dream on my face.
00:57:42That's passed, Johnny.
00:57:44Take a look at those files, evidence, testimony, thousands of pages of them.
00:57:48And to what purpose?
00:57:49It can't even be used for wallpaper.
00:57:52To get anywhere now to unify a case against Eichelberger would take a major piece of criminal evidence.
00:57:57According to the police, they'll have a lead on the explosion in 48 hours.
00:58:01What's your own opinion?
00:58:04Before they can get anything that'll tie Eichelberger to it.
00:58:08If they ever do, your commission will be dead and buried. You know that?
00:58:13Yeah.
00:58:14Well, so what?
00:58:15Shall we strike off a medal commemorating Mr. Eichelberger?
00:58:18How many more people do you want me to kill?
00:58:27I've dug up a story.
00:58:30A murder story.
00:58:33And if we play it right and have any luck,
00:58:36we can panic them into making a sucker move.
00:58:39What murder?
00:58:40If we can get one man close enough to go into the chair, the whole couple spill over.
00:58:44What murder?
00:58:48I'm gonna knock you to your knees again, Johnny.
00:58:51You'll have to get me on my feet first.
00:58:54Matt's murder.
00:58:56Matt wasn't a thief shooting his way out of a store.
00:59:00It was a planned execution all the way down the line to the double cross of the little guy they used.
00:59:05Why?
00:59:06What would be their motive?
00:59:08Matt was working with them.
00:59:10He told me so himself.
00:59:12He was trying to shake loose.
00:59:14I don't believe it.
00:59:27Of course not.
00:59:29Check it yourself.
00:59:31Take a look at his income tax returns from 1939 on.
00:59:36Johnny.
00:59:37Yes, ma'am.
00:59:51Well, what is this?
00:59:52You've been down here two hours.
00:59:53Nothing, ma'am.
00:59:54Just some papers of Dad's I wanted to see.
00:59:57Wouldn't you like something?
00:59:58A glass of milk?
00:59:59No, thanks, ma'am.
01:00:00We've got to get back downtown.
01:00:01Is there something wrong?
01:00:02Nothing more than usual.
01:00:04Oh.
01:00:05Good night, ma'am.
01:00:06Oh.
01:00:07Good night, ma'am.
01:00:08Good night, ma'am.
01:00:09Good night, ma'am.
01:00:10Good night, ma'am.
01:00:11What are you talking about, but what are you talking about?
01:00:13What are you talking about, ma'am?
01:00:14What are you talking about?
01:00:15How are you talking about a couple of prayers?
01:00:16Nothing, ma'am.
01:00:17Just some papers of Dad's I wanted to see.
01:00:19Well, wouldn't you like something?
01:00:20A glass of milk?
01:00:21No, thanks, ma'am.
01:00:22We're going to get back downtown.
01:00:23Is there something wrong?
01:00:25Nothing more than usual.
01:00:27Oh.
01:00:28Good night, ma'am.
01:00:30Good night, ma'am.
01:00:35I can't stop you from printing it, Jerry.
01:00:47All you have to do is ask.
01:00:50My father was a crooked cop.
01:00:52You can decide how much good it will do to publicize that
01:00:55and what it will do to my mother.
01:00:58But before you decide, you must know that I'm quitting.
01:01:01I'm getting out.
01:01:02Johnny.
01:01:05That means the whole investigation collapses.
01:01:15Are you going to appoint someone else?
01:01:16Will they?
01:01:18You know, they won't.
01:01:20They'll dig into the record and find out that all this time
01:01:23and all this money produced absolutely nothing.
01:01:26That the sacred investigation was a complete flop.
01:01:30And from then on, they'll play political hopscotch.
01:01:32A committee will be appointed to investigate the investigation.
01:01:35And in due time, they'll return with a comprehensive report
01:01:37that'll be promptly filed and forgotten.
01:01:40And in the meantime, the people will wind up right where they were
01:01:43at the mercy of the hoodlums.
01:01:44Is it important to you?
01:01:45Yes, it is.
01:01:46You're the boy in the sun now, huh?
01:01:50Maybe I am, Johnny.
01:01:52But something occurs to me,
01:01:54even allowing for the apathy of the people
01:01:56and their lack of integrity
01:01:57and their occasional lack of intelligence.
01:02:00And that's the fact that they all want desperately
01:02:02to believe in a certain majesty of the law.
01:02:04And for people like us, like you and me,
01:02:07the greatest crime in law is the lack of faith in the law.
01:02:11And that's when we join hands with the hoodlums.
01:02:14If they can convince us of the uselessness of knocking out crime,
01:02:18the difficulty, the fact that personal sacrifices may be too great,
01:02:21then we might as well hand over the city and the state
01:02:25and the nation, too, to the Neal Eichelbergers
01:02:27and let them run it for us.
01:02:33It's a very late point of view, coming from you.
01:02:36But a timely one, I suppose, in terms of a newspaper story.
01:02:41But I don't think I need a speech about honor and integrity
01:02:44from either one of you.
01:02:55I understood what you meant
01:03:18about Jerry and me.
01:03:21I'm sorry I couldn't have told you.
01:03:23It's unimportant.
01:03:25I can't apologize.
01:03:27I'll ask your forgiveness.
01:03:29I can only ask you to try and understand and believe
01:03:32that we tried very hard not to have it happen.
01:03:37But, Johnny, don't let this influence your decision.
01:03:41If you walk out now, you'll regret it all your life.
01:03:46Isn't it a tragic thing if people all over this nation
01:03:49can be told that a man like Eichelberger
01:03:51can tear a man like you apart with his dirty fingers?
01:03:53What are we coming to, Johnny?
01:03:58A man like that can do this to all of us.
01:04:00We'll go find out.
01:04:01We'll be back.
01:04:38Hello.
01:04:40This is Conroy.
01:04:42Hello, Johnny.
01:04:44I'm holding a press conference in my office at 10 o'clock.
01:04:47I'm giving them the facts about my father.
01:04:50You gonna stick with the job?
01:04:52Yes. I'm calling you now so you can have whatever lead this will give you.
01:04:56Johnny, what about your mother?
01:04:59I think you pointed out that sometimes a few people have to pay an exorbitant price to help the law.
01:05:08I want to talk to Mr... Mr. McKibben.
01:05:29Hello.
01:05:35Mr. McKibben?
01:05:37Yes. Who's this?
01:05:38You don't know me, Mr. McKibben. I just read your story.
01:05:42Well, that's nice, but who is this?
01:05:45My name's Carmelina...
01:05:48Carmelina who?
01:05:50It doesn't matter.
01:05:53It's about Monty LaRue.
01:05:56Where are you, Carmelina?
01:05:58Was that honestly how he was killed?
01:06:01Yes, it was. I can prove it to you.
01:06:04Where are you?
01:06:06Where are you?
01:06:21Hello, Carmelina.
01:06:22Hello.
01:06:23I'm glad you called.
01:06:27You're not sorry you did, are you?
01:06:30Was that how he was killed?
01:06:33Yes, exactly the way I wrote the story.
01:06:36They just shot him like that after we did it for him?
01:06:39They planned to double-cross him. He didn't have a chance.
01:06:42Were you his wife?
01:06:44Yes, but I didn't want him to get into it.
01:06:46Of course not.
01:06:47I couldn't stop him. He was crazy. I don't know what got into him.
01:06:51He was crazy to be a big guy.
01:06:53I know.
01:06:54They told him they'd make him a big guy.
01:06:56Who told him, Carmelina?
01:06:58It was they.
01:07:01Were you there when they made the deal?
01:07:04In the next room.
01:07:06But you heard them?
01:07:07Yes.
01:07:11Did you see Monty's body, Carmelina?
01:07:14There was a hole smashed right through his head.
01:07:19You'd like to have him pay for that, wouldn't you?
01:07:23Yes, that's what I want.
01:07:26Who was there, Carmelina?
01:07:29A fellow named Roy.
01:07:32Roy Ackerman?
01:07:33Yes.
01:07:34And a fellow named Hearn.
01:07:37What was his last name?
01:07:39What's the matter?
01:07:40It's them.
01:07:44Keep your head down.
01:07:47How'd they know you were here?
01:07:48I don't know.
01:07:49I live in the next block.
01:07:53Have they seen you?
01:07:54Yes.
01:07:55Are they coming?
01:07:58No.
01:07:59When they start this way, I want you to get up and walk toward that door.
01:08:03Walk, do you understand?
01:08:05They'll kill me.
01:08:06They'll kill us.
01:08:07I should look cold.
01:08:09I want you to walk toward that door.
01:08:11Do you hear me?
01:08:12They're coming.
01:08:13Go ahead.
01:08:16Hey!
01:08:17Leave!
01:08:18Marmalina!
01:08:24Marmalina?
01:08:25Marmalina!
01:08:39Marmalina!
01:08:40Karmelina!
01:08:54Karmelina!
01:08:56Karmelina!
01:09:10And arrange for a spot break on every station at hourly intervals. Good.
01:09:25Now, here it is.
01:09:27Karmelina, give yourself up to the police.
01:09:31As long as you are at large, you are in danger of your life.
01:09:36The police are your only protection.
01:09:40You got it? Good.
01:09:43Karmelina LaRue, described as female, 27 years, 5 foot 6 inches, 116 pounds.
01:09:49Large dark eyes, black hair, olive complexion.
01:09:51Don't worry, Roy. We'll find her.
01:09:53We'll find her. Or the cops will.
01:09:56I said stop worrying.
01:09:59What's the matter with you, Roy?
01:10:01I'll tell you what's the matter.
01:10:03That dame is the only person in the world with a finger that can point.
01:10:06And can point straight at me.
01:10:08She ran, didn't she? She knows better than to talk.
01:10:10She talked to McKibben.
01:10:12You know it wouldn't stand in court.
01:10:14Who be sitting in court, Neil?
01:10:16Waiting to see if it'd stand or not.
01:10:18I'll tell you who.
01:10:19Me.
01:10:20And I'll tell you something else.
01:10:22This guy, McKibben, is the only guy who can identify the LaRue dame.
01:10:25Anybody else they bring in is just a frightened dame.
01:10:27But he knows her.
01:10:29Neil, the day he shoved his nose in, our luck started going bad.
01:10:32You go ahead and worry about the court.
01:10:34I'm gonna change our luck.
01:10:36You'll do nothing of the kind.
01:10:38The first and only blunder we made was in knocking off Matt Conroy.
01:10:42You didn't think so at the time.
01:10:43I do now.
01:10:44Now get this, Roy.
01:10:46This is a positive order.
01:10:48Lay off McKibben.
01:10:50We'll find her.
01:10:52And we'll wash it up.
01:11:04I want Detroit.
01:11:05Logan, 60126.
01:11:14Hello?
01:11:15Who wants him?
01:11:17This is Harry, Roy.
01:11:19What's all that noise?
01:11:20Just playing some old records I just got in.
01:11:22Hey, turn that thing off.
01:11:23Now, Roy.
01:11:24Look.
01:11:25You still got that guy Red around?
01:11:28Red?
01:11:29Are you kidding?
01:11:30He's right here.
01:11:31I'd like to borrow him.
01:11:32Okay.
01:11:33When do you want him?
01:11:35Now.
01:11:36Put him on a plane right away.
01:11:41You're my pal.
01:11:42You're my pal, Jerry.
01:11:43But I hear nothing.
01:11:45Keep working, Pink.
01:11:46Find Ackerman and don't let him out of your sight.
01:11:48Let me know if he even coughs.
01:11:50Okay.
01:11:51It's a deal.
01:11:56Come on, girls.
01:11:57Step up.
01:11:58We're up at the end.
01:12:03Hands down.
01:12:05All right, now, girls.
01:12:06Keep your heads up and your hands by your sides.
01:12:09Hey, you with a white blouse.
01:12:10Wake up.
01:12:11Keep your head up there.
01:12:12Jerry?
01:12:13Any of these?
01:12:15No.
01:12:16All right, Mac.
01:12:17Keep sweeping.
01:12:18He says it's none of these.
01:12:19But don't pick up the same gals all night.
01:12:21That's all.
01:12:22But, Jerry.
01:12:23Yeah.
01:12:24You better stay here.
01:12:25Why?
01:12:26We don't want to lose you, sweetheart.
01:12:27You're the only one who can identify the girls.
01:12:29They know that as well as we do.
01:12:30I'm touched with your concern.
01:12:31You stay here.
01:12:33Listen, Clint.
01:12:34There's a girl out there somewhere scared to death.
01:12:36With every hoodlum in town looking for her.
01:12:38We'll get her.
01:12:39Yeah, you've done fine so far.
01:12:40I suppose you'll know just where to look.
01:12:42Maybe not, but I started with her.
01:12:44The least I can do is stay on my feet.
01:12:45Take a couple of men with you.
01:12:47You got a couple of men left.
01:12:48Let them look on their own.
01:12:49McKibbin.
01:12:50Your paper on the phone.
01:12:56Hello.
01:12:57Jerry, I got a call through the board.
01:12:59Sammy Lester.
01:13:00You know him?
01:13:01Lester?
01:13:02No.
01:13:03Says he used to manage Monty.
01:13:05Monty LaRue?
01:13:06Says he knows the girl.
01:13:07May have a tip for you.
01:13:08Won't talk to anybody but you.
01:13:10Okay.
01:13:11Put him on, Ed.
01:13:12Hold it.
01:13:13Hello.
01:13:14Yeah, this is McKibbin.
01:13:16Where are you?
01:13:17In a drugstore on Canal Street.
01:13:19Yeah?
01:13:20Maybe I can give you something.
01:13:22Sure.
01:13:23What do you got?
01:13:24Well, not on the phone.
01:13:26Where are you?
01:13:27At the fights.
01:13:28Listen.
01:13:29I'll leave a ticket at the box office for you.
01:13:31Come along.
01:13:32I'll take the next seat as soon as I can get away.
01:13:34I got a boy in the bout here.
01:13:36How do I know you, Sammy?
01:13:38How do I know what this is?
01:13:40You're not worried, are you, pal?
01:13:42In the middle of the stadium, how safe can you get?
01:13:45Now, look.
01:13:46I don't want any trouble.
01:13:54Okay, son.
01:14:15I can't get away.
01:14:16I didn't.
01:14:17You're lying.
01:14:18I can't get away.
01:14:19I can't get away.
01:14:20Okay, son.
01:14:21I can't get away.
01:14:22I can't get away.
01:14:23See ya.
01:14:24I can't get away.
01:14:25I can't get away.
01:14:40Oh, sorry.
01:14:41Take care of her, honey.
01:14:46Mr. Conroy, Mr. Conroy, she's here.
01:14:48She's here.
01:14:50All right.
01:14:52You're fine now.
01:14:54You're safe.
01:14:55We're going to take care of you.
01:14:58All right.
01:15:01All right, you're going to be fine.
01:15:03You're safe now.
01:15:05I'm John Conroy.
01:15:07There's nothing to be afraid of now.
01:15:09You are, Carmelina.
01:15:11Yes.
01:15:12Here.
01:15:13Drink this.
01:15:20This testimony and the mass of other stuff, you've got them.
01:15:22I think so.
01:15:23In any court in the land.
01:15:24And they'll break now.
01:15:24No question.
01:15:26All right, let's pick them up.
01:15:27Everyone on the list.
01:15:27Eichelberger, Ackerman, all of them.
01:15:28Let's go get them, boys.
01:15:31Mike, stay here, will you?
01:15:33What about Jerry?
01:15:34Still haven't got him.
01:15:37Well, stick with it.
01:15:37I'd like him to be in on this.
01:15:40Hello, Ed.
01:15:46Yes.
01:15:47At the fights, he couldn't be.
01:15:48Where?
01:15:49At the fights.
01:15:49Why the fights?
01:15:50Yes.
01:15:52Yes.
01:15:52They said he got a tip about Carmelina.
01:15:55I don't like it.
01:15:57Tell him to hold on.
01:15:57Hold it, Ed.
01:15:58Have you still got a detail downstairs?
01:16:00Yes, still standing by.
01:16:01Get it and get over to the arena quick.
01:16:02Yes, sir.
01:16:03Take the side.
01:16:04This is Dave Fogle.
01:16:05How about that information?
01:16:17Kevin.
01:16:24That's him.
01:16:26Get him in your mind, Red.
01:16:27There's no chance for a mistake.
01:16:29I could pick him up a million.
01:16:31You're satisfied with the setup?
01:16:32You know, man, I can find a guy across his whole gym.
01:16:36Let me work it out.
01:16:37I can't do it.
01:16:57Come on, I can't do it.
01:16:59Come on, Danny.
01:17:01Come on, Danny.
01:17:03Come on, Danny.
01:17:05Come on!
01:17:35Great shot from up here.
01:17:45Yeah.
01:18:05I've been trying to find you. I've seen Ackerman here. He fingered you when you come in. Some out of town guy is going to put the gun on you. Get out of here, but don't get in the clear.
01:18:35Come on!
01:19:05SCREAMING
01:19:29But, thank you.
01:20:03Three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, go!
01:20:33Jerry!
01:20:51Jerry!
01:20:55Jerry!
01:21:00There's a gun on me. Get away and keep them in the crowd.
01:21:27Get the doctor out.
01:21:30Get the doctor out. Come on.
01:21:47If they get this guy, they can get Ackerman.
01:21:51They will. And we've got Carmelina. Don't talk, Jerry.
01:21:55Oh, darling.
01:22:00Come on.
01:22:02Come on.
01:22:03Come on.
01:22:04Come on.
01:22:05Come on.
01:22:06Come on.
01:22:07Get it out.
01:22:09Come on.
01:22:10Get it out.
01:22:11Come on.
01:22:20Come on.
01:22:33Come on.
01:22:34Come on!
01:22:35Come on!
01:22:36Move!
01:22:37Come on!
01:22:38Come on!
01:22:39Come on!
01:23:03I'll admit I never thought I'd see that.
01:23:06Let's go.
01:23:09There was a shooting at the arena at the fights.
01:23:12One Ackerman's gunman got Jerry McKibbin.
01:23:15Let's get moving.
01:23:16Come on!
01:23:25Where is he?
01:23:26Downstairs.
01:23:28What happened?
01:23:34Where's the hospital?
01:23:39Okay.
01:23:40Good night.
01:23:41I'm just going to throw up
01:23:45the hospital.
01:23:46I'm going to take a look.
01:23:47I'm going to take a look at his hospital lab.
01:23:48I've got him.
01:23:49I went up to work.
01:23:51I'm going to take a look at the hospital lab.
01:23:52I'm going to take a look at him.
01:23:53I'm going to take a look at your hospital lab.
01:24:54He said so himself.
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