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🚨🗞️ Dive into the dark alleys of journalism and justice in Big Town After Dark (1947)—a gritty noir crime drama based on the popular radio series. With tough reporters, shadowy criminals, and high-stakes investigations, this film brings the thrills of the newsroom to the silver screen.
📽️ Plot Summary:
Editor Steve Wilson and ace reporter Lorelei Kilbourne uncover a dangerous crime racket operating under the cover of darkness. As the tension builds, they must outsmart crooks, dodge danger, and expose the truth—no matter the risk.
🕰️ Year Released: 1947
🎭 Genre: Crime, Film Noir, Drama
🎬 Directed by: William C. Thomas
🎞️ Starring: Phillip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Richard Travis
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✔️ Classic 1940s newspaper noir vibes
✔️ Based on a hit radio drama
✔️ Sharp dialogue and tight suspense
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📰🌒 Murder. Mystery. Media. Step into Big Town After Dark (1947)—where justice never sleeps.
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📽️ Plot Summary:
Editor Steve Wilson and ace reporter Lorelei Kilbourne uncover a dangerous crime racket operating under the cover of darkness. As the tension builds, they must outsmart crooks, dodge danger, and expose the truth—no matter the risk.
🕰️ Year Released: 1947
🎭 Genre: Crime, Film Noir, Drama
🎬 Directed by: William C. Thomas
🎞️ Starring: Phillip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Richard Travis
🎯 Why Watch It?
✔️ Classic 1940s newspaper noir vibes
✔️ Based on a hit radio drama
✔️ Sharp dialogue and tight suspense
✔️ A must-see for noir and vintage crime fans
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📰🌒 Murder. Mystery. Media. Step into Big Town After Dark (1947)—where justice never sleeps.
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00:00:00Satsang with Mooji
00:01:00Good morning, Steve.
00:01:15Right, Fox. Call me back.
00:01:17Good morning, Lorelei.
00:01:19What's this bilge I hear about your selling a novel?
00:01:23What novel?
00:01:24Oh, every reporter has a novel in his trunk.
00:01:26Yeah, for the ones I've read, there's a good place for them.
00:01:28I thought you'd be pleased.
00:01:30I am pleased. I congratulate you.
00:01:32Only I hate to see you waste your time writing tripe.
00:01:34Tripe?
00:01:35Look, Lorelei, you're a newspaper woman and a good one.
00:01:38As for novels...
00:01:38Now, wait a minute, Steve.
00:01:40That's the way you feel about it?
00:01:42As of right now, I'm not a newspaper woman.
00:01:45What's that?
00:01:46I'm through.
00:01:47Oh, now, just a second, Lorelei.
00:01:49You can't do that.
00:01:50And why not?
00:01:51I have another novel in work and...
00:01:52Look, Lorelei, if it's a raise you want, $10 a week.
00:01:55No.
00:01:56$20?
00:01:57No, Steve, I'm through.
00:01:59Very well.
00:02:00If your mind's made up, you'll have to give me two weeks' notice.
00:02:04Okay.
00:02:05Two weeks.
00:02:07Steve, I...
00:02:08Oh, good morning, Lorelei.
00:02:10Good morning, Mr. Peabody.
00:02:11I hear you sold your novel.
00:02:13Congratulations.
00:02:13Thank you, Mr. Peabody.
00:02:18Great girl, Lorelei.
00:02:20She's made a fine police reporter, hasn't she?
00:02:22She certainly has, and I'm sure miss her.
00:02:25That is the newspaper woman, miss her.
00:02:27Miss her?
00:02:27Yeah, she's given me two weeks' notice.
00:02:29But you're not going to let her leave, are you?
00:02:31Not if I can help it.
00:02:33Good.
00:02:34Now, by the way, Steve, did you ever meet my niece, Susan Peabody?
00:02:37No, I don't believe so.
00:02:38I brought her here from California a year ago.
00:02:40Been putting her through a journalism course at State College.
00:02:44Now she wants to quit school and take a job on the paper.
00:02:47I have a full staff, Mr. Peabody.
00:02:49Just a minute.
00:02:50After all, Steve, I own this paper and...
00:02:52According to the terms of our contract, all hiring is in my hands.
00:02:56I don't need a cub reporter.
00:02:57I'm not running a finishing school in journalism.
00:03:00And if your niece wants a job on a newspaper, let her try the Chronicle.
00:03:02I was hoping you'd see it that way.
00:03:04Well.
00:03:06I'd much rather she stayed in college.
00:03:08Well, why don't you tell us, though?
00:03:09Well, it's hard for me to say no to one of the family.
00:03:12I'd rather you did it.
00:03:14She's waiting outside.
00:03:16There's anything I'm good at around the newspaper at saying no.
00:03:19You'll need to be good, Steve.
00:03:20Susan's quite aggressive.
00:03:22I'm afraid her folks haven't been too strict with her.
00:03:24She needs discipline.
00:03:25Come in, dear.
00:03:32Steve, my niece, Susan Peabody.
00:03:34Oh, how do you do, Mr. Peabody?
00:03:35How do you do, Mr. Wilson?
00:03:36I'll leave you two to talk things over.
00:03:39Well, it's nice to see you.
00:03:42Sit down, sit down, please.
00:03:44So, you want to be a newspaper woman, hmm?
00:03:49There's nothing I'd rather do.
00:03:51Well, the journalism course at State is excellent.
00:03:53But it's so slow and so expensive.
00:03:55I hate being a burden on Uncle Amos.
00:03:57I want to earn my own way, and I want to earn it working on a newspaper.
00:04:00A very commendable ambition, Miss Peabody.
00:04:03But I wonder if you know that there's more to being a reporter
00:04:05than sticking a press card in your hat and going to all the bed of fires.
00:04:10You sound like Uncle Amos.
00:04:11Now, listen, Mr. Wilson.
00:04:12If I'm going to work for you, we should have no secrets.
00:04:16I'm in a terrible jam.
00:04:17Oh?
00:04:18For the past six months, I've been working on the Limberry Eagle.
00:04:21Cub reporter.
00:04:22Sixteen dollars a week.
00:04:24Limberry.
00:04:24It's a pretty tough town.
00:04:26Is it?
00:04:26I really wouldn't know.
00:04:27I only worked on campus news.
00:04:29But I cut so many classes, I flunked out of college.
00:04:32Oh, that's bad.
00:04:33Does your uncle know?
00:04:34Not yet.
00:04:35And if you'll give me a job, I won't have to tell him.
00:04:37Please, Mr. Wilson.
00:04:38I simply can't let him find out what's happened.
00:04:40He'd be so disappointed and so hurtful.
00:04:42Steve, what goes?
00:04:43Lorelai says she's quitting in two weeks.
00:04:45Lorelai quitting?
00:04:47Don't take any bets on her, Fletcher.
00:04:50Oh, come in, Fletch.
00:04:51Come in.
00:04:53You'll want to meet your new police reporter.
00:05:02Stay out, you failed one peddler.
00:05:06Well, you think you suppose those Chronicle boys don't want me in the press room?
00:05:09Hello, Lore, what's new?
00:05:11The dicks say Harry's ready to sing on that bank caper.
00:05:13We're going to check with the D.A.
00:05:14Oh, thanks, Lore.
00:05:16Okay, babe, no charge.
00:05:21See, Steve?
00:05:22Uh-huh.
00:05:23Pleased about your novel?
00:05:24Of course he was pleased.
00:05:25Like you'd be pleased at losing a pot on four kings.
00:05:28You didn't quarrel with them, did you?
00:05:29No, I didn't quarrel.
00:05:31I quit.
00:05:32Quit?
00:05:32I thought you and Steve were sort of...
00:05:34Don't exaggerate, Wally.
00:05:36Well, if you're really quitting, that's the best news I've heard
00:05:39since the mayor tripped over that cornerstone and broke his leg.
00:05:41You couldn't mean you haven't enjoyed working with me.
00:05:43Well, we haven't got anything against you Goldilocks.
00:05:47We don't want a dame on police.
00:05:49Any dame, dames upset our style.
00:05:52You know, this press room used to be a nice, rough, dirty dump
00:05:55until you moved in, Lorelei.
00:05:56Now it's...
00:05:57Well, it's like a tea room, only we ain't got any tea.
00:06:01You're going to need tea, Harvey.
00:06:05No tea, Wally.
00:06:09When are you going to quit?
00:06:10Two weeks.
00:06:11You'll never make it.
00:06:12Nobody ever quit the newspaper record.
00:06:13Hildy Johnson tried to quit.
00:06:16And look what happened to him.
00:06:17Somebody stole his watch.
00:06:19Remember?
00:06:20I remember.
00:06:23Hey!
00:06:24Somebody stole my watch.
00:06:26Oh, that Louis Sneed.
00:06:28That thieving rat.
00:06:30I'll chew him up and spit him off the 14th floor.
00:06:32Oh, by the way, call your office.
00:06:37Steve's been trying to get you.
00:06:38Thanks.
00:06:40You know, Lorelei, with you gone, things aren't going to be to save around the old press room.
00:06:44Steve Wilson, please.
00:06:46You mean you'll miss me?
00:06:47Mm-hmm.
00:06:48Like I'd miss a toothache.
00:06:50Steve, Lorelei.
00:06:51I've just sent over your replacement.
00:06:54So soon?
00:06:55Two weeks is little enough time to learn to please speed, so please cooperate, will you?
00:07:00I'll be glad to.
00:07:01Just a gag, he says.
00:07:11Okay, so a sock on the jaw.
00:07:14Just a gag.
00:07:17Well, why the sour-faced Goldilocks won't the auditor okay your swindle sheet?
00:07:21Steve's sending over a new police reporter, and I'm supposed to break him in.
00:07:24Here's the place a nice homey touch, don't you think?
00:07:29Yes, like a gutter.
00:07:31Well, I hope he plays poker.
00:07:33Bad poker, that is.
00:07:34Well, we'll find out.
00:07:36Oh, yeah, and phone the janitor, Harvey.
00:07:38Tell him to bring back our cuspidor.
00:07:54Hello there, beautiful.
00:08:18Jake, what are you doing in Big Town?
00:08:20Came over to make a little payoff for the bus.
00:08:22Doing anything later?
00:08:24I'll be tied up all day, and you know it.
00:08:26Maybe some other time, then.
00:08:28Where you want it, boys?
00:08:30Where it belongs, right in the middle of the room.
00:08:35Ms. Kilbin?
00:08:36Yes.
00:08:37I'm Susan Peabody.
00:08:38Mr. Wilson sent me over to cover police.
00:08:40How do you do, miss?
00:08:42Peabody?
00:08:42Hey, Ms. Peabody.
00:08:43It's my uncle.
00:08:45Ms. Peabody, I want you to meet Wally Blake and Harvey Kushner at the chronic.
00:08:48Hello.
00:08:50How do you do, Susan?
00:08:51As fine a pair of jackals as ever said a cub reporter's throat.
00:08:55Oh, now, you don't want to pay any attention to Lorelei, Ms. Peabody.
00:08:58Or a couple of worms, sure.
00:09:00But as long as you don't try to step on us, I, uh...
00:09:02That's box three.
00:09:07I'll show you how to find the fire.
00:09:13Tea room.
00:09:14Well, well, Jake Sebastian.
00:09:19Ain't you off the reservation?
00:09:21How are things in Lindbury?
00:09:22Suckers still playing poker?
00:09:23Go get lost, will ya?
00:09:25Sure.
00:09:25You know any good places to get lost in?
00:09:28Okay, okay.
00:09:33Well, what could you learn on a rag like that?
00:09:34Oh, you'd be surprised.
00:09:36The Eagle office is only a block from the Winner's Club.
00:09:38Oh, one of those poker joints.
00:09:40Hello, morgue.
00:09:41Lorelei Kilburn.
00:09:41Anything?
00:09:4221.
00:09:43Hold the suspect.
00:09:44No make on the license.
00:09:46No, that's just the police radio.
00:09:47Pay no attention to it.
00:09:48So you play poker.
00:09:50Harvey?
00:09:51Susan.
00:09:52I have a woman beating up a drunken brawl.
00:09:54She may die in a floater at the morgue.
00:09:55Someone might think they paid us to work in this job.
00:09:59Louie?
00:10:00This is Susan Peabody, our new police reporter.
00:10:02Susan Louie Sneed.
00:10:04If he happens to like you, Louie's the best news source in the city hall.
00:10:07Pleased to meet you.
00:10:08Did you say Peabody?
00:10:09Michael owns the Illustrated Press.
00:10:10What do they do about this law?
00:10:11Better get upstairs, boys.
00:10:13The D.A. dug up a hot lead of that Boyle murder.
00:10:17Wait a minute, boys.
00:10:18Susan's going with you.
00:10:21How come?
00:10:26One of Steve Wilson's brilliant plays, Leading with the Queen.
00:10:28Rewrite, please.
00:10:30Thinks I'll get jealous and change my mind about quitting.
00:10:33Hello, McCabe.
00:10:33I have a couple of yarns for the last run.
00:10:35Uh, Mabel Seeley, 24-519, Jameson Place.
00:10:40Jameson Place.
00:10:41We moved to the emergency with cuts, bruises, and lacerations.
00:10:44Husband John B. Seeley held in the city jail, both drunk.
00:10:47No, no identification on the body.
00:10:48That's all, McCabe.
00:10:50Hmm.
00:10:52Interesting.
00:10:53What the world are you talking about?
00:10:55Am I talking again?
00:10:56Do you ever stop?
00:10:57Want to play a couple of hands of cards?
00:10:59You know I haven't got time to play cards.
00:11:01I got a hunch it might be a good idea for you to start practicing.
00:11:05Here's my five.
00:11:06I'm in.
00:11:07I'll call.
00:11:10Full house.
00:11:10King's on the roof.
00:11:11No.
00:11:12You're a deal, McGonagall.
00:11:1742, 10th and 0, a man down.
00:11:20Ambulance, 14.
00:11:21Run.
00:11:25Well, a little poker?
00:11:26It ain't post office, Doc.
00:11:27We just thought we'd kill a little time.
00:11:29Time ain't all you killing, sister.
00:11:31Deal me out, boys.
00:11:33How have you been doing your first day on the beach?
00:11:34How's she been doing, he asked.
00:11:37Haven't had a bit of trouble.
00:11:38Everybody's been wonderful to me.
00:11:40That's good.
00:11:41Far like a home?
00:11:42Mm-hmm.
00:11:43Funny, I thought she was having dinner with me.
00:11:45Well, I guess she misunderstood.
00:11:4788, no make on the license.
00:11:49Uh, you haven't had dinner yet, have you?
00:11:51No, and I'm starving.
00:11:52Well, let's go.
00:11:53Isn't this a bit irregular?
00:11:54The managing editor taking the cub reporter out to dinner?
00:11:57Miss Peabody, as far as I'm concerned, you're not a cub reporter.
00:12:00You're the boss's favorite niece.
00:12:01And a deal like that, how can I lose?
00:12:03You get her in a poker game, Doc, you'll find out how you can lose.
00:12:1047, no make.
00:12:12Profit, eh?
00:12:13Roger.
00:12:16Good?
00:12:19Mm, wonderful.
00:12:20I was crazy about that cub I yawning.
00:12:23Where'd you learn to play poker?
00:12:25Winner's club.
00:12:26One of those poker joints in Lindbury?
00:12:28Mm-hmm.
00:12:29It's quite a racket they've built up.
00:12:31Too bad, too.
00:12:32You shouldn't allow those clubs so close to college green.
00:12:35Too many kids get the poker fever and spend so much time drawing to inside straight, they flunk out of college.
00:12:40Is it good?
00:12:40No, thanks, I don't smoke.
00:12:42It's really a shame.
00:12:44Those dives should be locked up.
00:12:45Well, there's a bill in the legislature now.
00:12:47Bars private gambling clubs within ten miles of a university.
00:12:50However, it's buried in committee.
00:12:52Suppose we got it out.
00:12:54We?
00:12:55How?
00:12:55A crusade in the illustrated press.
00:12:57Pictures, editorials, sob stories.
00:12:59Uncle Amos, you know, just loves a crusade.
00:13:02Yeah, don't I know.
00:13:03Well, don't you like crusades?
00:13:06When they're news.
00:13:07I'm old-fashioned, Susan.
00:13:09I've always believed a newspaper should publish news.
00:13:11Wouldn't it be news if we closed up those gambling clubs?
00:13:14Trouble is, people who want to gamble will find a way.
00:13:17Clubs are no clubs.
00:13:17Listen, Mr. Wilkie.
00:13:18Have you ever been in one of those joints?
00:13:20Then do me a favor.
00:13:22Go out to the winner's club with me tonight.
00:13:24Get into a game and watch the people.
00:13:26And then decide if they shouldn't be closed up.
00:13:30All right, I will.
00:13:32Maybe this is my lucky night.
00:13:34Come on, Marcus.
00:13:57Wait a minute, big shot.
00:13:59You didn't pay for those cigarettes.
00:14:00Go buy yourself a mink coat, baby.
00:14:21No, life was never easy for Mother and me,
00:14:24even before Dad died.
00:14:25California's supposed to be the land of sunshine and gold.
00:14:28Well, you can't eat the sunshine,
00:14:30and the gold never seemed to stick to Dad's fingers.
00:14:32You see, he was the black sheep of the family.
00:14:35The one who wouldn't keep his nose to the grindstone.
00:14:38I'll bet I'd have liked him.
00:14:39Oh, I'm sure you would.
00:14:41Everybody liked Dad.
00:14:42Everybody but Uncle Amos.
00:14:43Uncle Amos would never have anything to do with him.
00:14:45I never even saw my uncle till I came to Big Town.
00:14:48He was just a legend.
00:14:49A legend about a mean, grasping old millionaire.
00:14:52Was I surprised when I met him for the first time?
00:14:55Oh, Peabody's all right?
00:14:56Why, he's a darling.
00:14:57Look at all he's done for me.
00:14:58Brought me east, paid my tuition,
00:15:00rented me an apartment in College Green,
00:15:02gave me an allowance.
00:15:06Well, there's the Winners' Club.
00:15:07This way, please.
00:15:33That'll be a dollar for each chair.
00:15:44All right.
00:15:50Paper.
00:15:51Thanks, Max.
00:15:52Sure.
00:15:52Okay, Chuck.
00:15:58She's at table 14 with that guy off the illustrated press.
00:16:02Good.
00:16:04Monk, come in here.
00:16:06What's she been doing all day?
00:16:08She left her apartment in College Green at 9,
00:16:10drove her crate into Big Town,
00:16:11and went to the press.
00:16:13She was at the...
00:16:13Monk, send an O'Hara.
00:16:18O'Hara?
00:16:19Come on, Ryan.
00:16:20She was at the press an hour,
00:16:22then she went to the city hall,
00:16:24stayed there until 7.30 tonight.
00:16:26She got into a poker game, the press room.
00:16:28Ah, she would.
00:16:29You want me, Mr. LaRue?
00:16:31There's a peasant at table 14 I want you to take care of.
00:16:35Check.
00:16:37So?
00:16:38At 7.30, Wilson took her to dinner at the Green Lantern.
00:16:41He left the Lantern at 9 and came on out of here.
00:16:45All right, you know what to do.
00:16:46I'll wait for you here.
00:16:51Up by.
00:16:52I'm out.
00:16:53I'll stay.
00:16:54I'm in.
00:16:56Five more.
00:17:01Cool.
00:17:02I'll see you.
00:17:03I'm in.
00:17:04All night.
00:17:07Nice going.
00:17:08I didn't think you had it.
00:17:11I've had enough.
00:17:16Good evening.
00:17:17I believe it's your deal.
00:17:21You come here often?
00:17:22Every night.
00:17:24How are you doing?
00:17:25It's my third stack.
00:17:26I guess it's not my night.
00:17:31I'll have a new deal, if you don't mind.
00:17:32Next time, deal off the top of the deck.
00:17:34I don't take that from nobody.
00:17:35You were dealing bottoms and I saw you.
00:17:37Why, you lying piker, you.
00:17:41Wait a minute.
00:17:42Wait a minute.
00:17:42What is this?
00:17:43Let go.
00:17:43Let go.
00:17:44Stick around.
00:17:47Deal the cards.
00:17:48What's going on?
00:17:49Let go.
00:17:50Let go.
00:17:51Let go.
00:17:51Let go.
00:17:52Let go of me.
00:17:58Hold it, Monk.
00:17:59Why not?
00:18:01Get him on his feet.
00:18:02I'll handle this.
00:18:02Huh?
00:18:03Now put him in a car and dump him in big town.
00:18:28How'd you get in the act?
00:18:41Preston got flash and Harvey phoned me.
00:18:44You might have been killed, Steve.
00:18:45How do you feel?
00:18:46Never mind that.
00:18:47What's the story?
00:18:48You were found unconscious on the 9th Street Causeway.
00:18:51What happened?
00:18:53Oh, I got out of line in someone else's territory.
00:18:56The Winners Club, one of those poker joints from Limbury.
00:18:59I had a day in cheating and...
00:19:02Where's Susan?
00:19:04Susan?
00:19:04Is that who you were out with?
00:19:07You didn't waste any time, did you?
00:19:09Never mind the sarcasm.
00:19:10What time is it?
00:19:12One o'clock.
00:19:13Call her home with her.
00:19:14See if she got in all right.
00:19:15What's her phone number?
00:19:17I don't know.
00:19:17Look it up in the book.
00:19:18College Green.
00:19:19Nurse, where's the phone?
00:19:21In the hall.
00:19:21First turn to the left.
00:19:26Nurse, where's my coat?
00:19:29On the chair.
00:19:30But if you want to play safe, you'll stay in that bed the rest of the night.
00:19:33Thanks.
00:19:33Get me another cup of coffee, will I?
00:19:34You get her, what'd she say?
00:19:53There was no answer.
00:19:55Those two mugs.
00:19:58That big dame working for the house.
00:20:01Marla, I was framed.
00:20:02Taking Peabody's knees to that clip, John.
00:20:04And what did you expect?
00:20:06Fanfare, an awkward corsage on the house.
00:20:08Here.
00:20:09Thanks.
00:20:09Taking her my eye.
00:20:10She took me.
00:20:12She's been living there practically for months.
00:20:14She didn't learn poker and journalism 7B, you know.
00:20:17What time did you say it was?
00:20:18I think it's time you call the police.
00:20:20Okay, let's go.
00:20:30Press room.
00:20:32Yes, Sergeant.
00:20:3381, Vermont and Gary, a woman down.
00:20:35Yeah.
00:20:37I see.
00:20:40Thanks.
00:20:42Well, the dicks went out to the witness club with a couple of Lindbury bulls.
00:20:45She wasn't there.
00:20:46Claiming never saw her before.
00:20:48Didn't know when she went, where, or how.
00:20:50What happened to her car?
00:20:51Some woman phoned in a stolen car report at 11.42 p.m.
00:20:55Didn't?
00:20:55No, my guess is no.
00:20:57All units, keep alert for a woman age 20, red hair, 5 feet 2, weight 115 pounds,
00:21:03believed to be in the hands of kidnappers.
00:21:05They're not using her name.
00:21:07No, I asked them to keep it on a secret file.
00:21:09No use building up a scandal if she's all right.
00:21:13Shouldn't we phone Mr. Peabody?
00:21:15We've got to tell him, Steve.
00:21:17If it is a snatch, he'll have to pay the ransom.
00:21:19Stop talking like that.
00:21:22Rat.
00:21:23Try the number again, will you?
00:21:25Oh, why don't you try?
00:21:26Can't you see I'm so jittery I can't dial?
00:21:35She's home.
00:21:36For a girl who's supposed to be at work at 9 a.m.,
00:21:38that's a number that keeps laid out.
00:21:39Oh, quit it.
00:21:41Do you want to take me home now,
00:21:43or do you want to wait here and talk to her?
00:21:44I'll wait.
00:21:46You poor kid.
00:21:47She may have been out looking for me.
00:21:48Maybe she's worried.
00:21:49You hope.
00:21:50Oh, lay off, will you?
00:21:51What did you say your number was?
00:21:53Now he can dial.
00:21:54R.B. 1, 4, 6, 9, 2.
00:21:57She was there just a minute ago.
00:22:19Do you suppose she has a party line and the other party's using it?
00:22:23With Peabody's influence, would she use a party line?
00:22:26When you got that busy signal before, you just dial the wrong number, that's all.
00:22:31Well, what now?
00:22:33Louie, don't you ever sleep?
00:22:39Not if I can help it.
00:22:41Looks bad for the kid, huh?
00:22:44What kid?
00:22:46You don't have to play dumb chum.
00:22:47Dumb chum.
00:22:48I'm a poet, huh?
00:22:49I thought you had those dicks in your pocket.
00:22:51Don't blame the dicks.
00:22:52They didn't tip me off.
00:22:53I got other sources.
00:22:55You don't have to worry anyhow.
00:22:56I wouldn't give it to the Chronicle.
00:22:59Press for a little thing.
00:23:00Yeah.
00:23:03You'll check the wheel for Prince, won't you?
00:23:06Thanks, Ray.
00:23:08Did they find her jalopy?
00:23:09Where?
00:23:10In a vacant lot outside of Big Town.
00:23:14Well, that's bad.
00:23:16Snatch, all right.
00:23:20You think so, Louie?
00:23:21Cinch.
00:23:22Come morning, that Winters Club mob will put the pressure on Peabody.
00:23:26Wonder what the little filly will bring on the hook.
00:23:30Well, if I run it at any angles, I'll pass them on.
00:23:33Wait a minute, Louie.
00:23:34Come here, come here.
00:23:35Sit down, sit down.
00:23:37Louie, you pick up more dirt around here than 17 street cleaners.
00:23:41Okay.
00:23:42Suppose the girl has been snatched.
00:23:44We're going to need an intermediary.
00:23:46Huh?
00:23:46Go between, Louie.
00:23:47Go between what?
00:23:48Oh, quit stalling.
00:23:49You know what I mean.
00:23:50And you're elected.
00:23:51Hey, look, Lorelei.
00:23:51Don't let them do this.
00:23:52Louie, before we can put that girl in circulation, we've got to know the score.
00:23:55And you're the only one who can find it out.
00:23:57Please, if you think for one second that I...
00:23:59We've been good friends, Louie.
00:24:00Why, we've been batting around the city hall for a long time now.
00:24:04It's been me for you and you for me.
00:24:07You wouldn't let me down now, would you, Louie?
00:24:09Oh, baby, you're killing me.
00:24:10Oh, come on, Louie.
00:24:13Well, okay.
00:24:15I'll see what I can do.
00:24:19Attaboy, Junie.
00:24:20Come on, I'll get going.
00:24:22Well, no use stalling any longer.
00:24:25I'll have to call Peabody.
00:24:29Press room, Lorelei Kilburn.
00:24:31Thanks.
00:24:33No prints on the steering wheel.
00:24:34Well, that wouldn't be Susan.
00:24:37Well, that cinches it.
00:24:40I'll have to call.
00:24:42Oh, missed it.
00:24:43I never should have given her that apartment in College Green.
00:24:47If she hadn't been living by herself,
00:24:49going around with those college kids,
00:24:50she'd never have heard of the Winner's Club.
00:24:52I made a mistake bringing her here in the first place.
00:24:55Oh, you're only trying to be kind.
00:24:57Yes, but look what I've done to her.
00:24:58The poor child.
00:24:59They won't hurt her.
00:25:00They'll only shake you down.
00:25:01You better start worrying about yourself.
00:25:03I do think I care about myself.
00:25:04To have her back right now, I'd gladly pay...
00:25:10Yeah, very well, I'll wait.
00:25:11It's Louie Sneed.
00:25:12Steve?
00:25:13We ought to get a squad of cops,
00:25:15go out to the Winner's Club,
00:25:16and round up the whole mob.
00:25:17We've been over that before, Mr. Peabody.
00:25:19We have no evidence.
00:25:20We can't even call in the FBI
00:25:21until the kidnapping has actually been established.
00:25:24Yeah, Louie.
00:25:26Uh-huh.
00:25:29Yeah.
00:25:31Right, I got it.
00:25:32Thanks, Junior.
00:25:35Louie's made contact with someone who's in touch with the mob.
00:25:37What do they want me to do?
00:25:39They want you on the southwest corner of Fifth and Grant
00:25:41at 10 o'clock this morning.
00:25:42You must be alone.
00:25:43I just have time to make it.
00:25:44Now, now, wait a minute.
00:25:45You're not going to pay off, are you?
00:25:46I might.
00:25:47Why?
00:25:47It's the wrong way to handle a snatch.
00:25:49Why, if that mob shakes you down without any trouble...
00:25:51Steve, my niece is in danger.
00:25:52If I have to pay, I'll pay.
00:25:54I want that girl back unharmed.
00:25:55Miss Whitley, call the detective bureau.
00:26:04Tell Captain Murphy to have two of his best men meet me right away
00:26:07at Fifth and Grand, northeast corner.
00:26:09Got it?
00:26:09Yes, Mr. Wilson.
00:26:10Second desk on the right, Mr. Peabody.
00:26:24Nice of you to come, Mr. Peabody.
00:26:44I'm Charles LaRue, managing director of the Winner's Club.
00:26:47How much do you want?
00:26:48Now, about that stock.
00:26:50It's a block of 50,000 shares of common stock in the Winner's Club.
00:26:54Par value, $1 per share.
00:26:56I'll sell it par.
00:26:59The stock is already made out in your name, Mr. Peabody.
00:27:02Make the check out to me, Charles LaRue.
00:27:04I see.
00:27:08You'd be very slow if you didn't.
00:27:10I think you'll find this an excellent investment.
00:27:17Of course, the stock has never paid a dividend.
00:27:20Maybe it never will.
00:27:22But every investment has intangibles.
00:27:24Values which can't be reckoned in dollars and cents.
00:27:27Great.
00:27:36Good morning, Mr. LaRue.
00:27:38Good morning.
00:27:40Deposit this to my account, please.
00:27:55There you are, boys.
00:27:56Here's your stock, Mr. Peabody.
00:27:58You'll find it a very good investment.
00:28:02All right, boys.
00:28:02Take him along.
00:28:05What's all this about?
00:28:06You'll find out at headquarters.
00:28:07What's that?
00:28:14Stock in the Winner's Club.
00:28:15$50,000 worth.
00:28:18I just bought it.
00:28:20Not good, Mr. Peabody.
00:28:22Not good.
00:28:28Come on, Harding.
00:28:29What's the rap?
00:28:30Did you talk to Cashier?
00:28:31He told me the money had been legally deposited in LaRue's account.
00:28:37For the last time, Harding, I demand that I'd be allowed to phone my attorney.
00:28:42He has a point there, Mr. Peabody, of course.
00:28:44However...
00:28:44Take him down and book him on an open charge, then bring him back.
00:28:57What's the corporation commissioner have to sell?
00:29:00The Winner's Club is a legitimate corporation.
00:29:02LaRue had a legal right to sell that stock.
00:29:05Commissioner said if you want your money back, you'll have to go to court.
00:29:07I don't care about getting the money back.
00:29:09I want Susan back.
00:29:12Harding speaking.
00:29:14For you, Wilson.
00:29:15Hey.
00:29:17Yeah?
00:29:18What goes, Steve?
00:29:21Oh, I see.
00:29:23How long will you be up there?
00:29:25I'll call you.
00:29:26Louis, they have a man in the DA's office by the name of LaRue.
00:29:29He just shook Peabody down for $50,000.
00:29:33Chuck LaRue.
00:29:34I was afraid of that.
00:29:36Goldilocks, this whole caper smells.
00:29:40And that babe with the innocent look.
00:29:42What does Steve Wilson want to go taking her out for when him and you...
00:29:44Maybe he only did it to make me jealous, huh, Louis?
00:29:47Maybe he didn't.
00:29:48Maybe he didn't.
00:29:49But Goldilocks, if he's given you the runaround...
00:29:51Louis, you're just a sweet sentimentalist.
00:29:54Well, this whole caper smells.
00:29:56Forget it, Louis.
00:29:57If anything goes wrong, no one will blame you.
00:29:59I know, but...
00:30:03Darling, I'm terribly sorry I'm late,
00:30:07but my car was stolen last night
00:30:09and I had to spend the night with a girlfriend.
00:30:11Girlfriend?
00:30:11Yes, Mona Lawrence.
00:30:12And we got to talking over coffee
00:30:13and time just slipped by and...
00:30:15Include me out of this.
00:30:18Steve wants you to call him right away.
00:30:19Oh, is he all right?
00:30:20You know, there was some trouble last night.
00:30:21So I heard.
00:30:22I'll get Steve on the phone for you.
00:30:23Yeah, I suppose he's mad at me.
00:30:25Oh, dear.
00:30:26I wonder if he'll fire me.
00:30:27No, I don't think he'll fire you.
00:30:28He'll probably murder you.
00:30:30Steve Wilson, please.
00:30:33Hello, Steve.
00:30:35Oh, I'm all right.
00:30:36I spent the night with a girlfriend.
00:30:37Well, never mind that.
00:30:39I'm in the DA's office on the 14th floor.
00:30:40Get up here right away.
00:30:41Now bring Lorelei with you.
00:30:45He wants us both to come up to the DA's office right away.
00:30:48He says that...
00:30:48Never mind what he says.
00:30:50Come on.
00:30:50Fourteen, please.
00:31:08Okay, Susan.
00:31:09Start talking.
00:31:10About Steve?
00:31:11Oh, I think he's wonderful.
00:31:12You didn't mind about his taking me out last night, did you?
00:31:14Why should I mind?
00:31:15Well, I thought maybe there was an understanding between you two.
00:31:17The only understanding between me and Steve is that I'm quitting 13 days from today.
00:31:23Susan, would you be interested in knowing that your night with Mona Lawrence cost Mr. Peabody $50,000?
00:31:27How?
00:31:30Never mind.
00:31:32Well, I don't see what I did that was wrong.
00:31:40There was some trouble at the women's club and Steve disappeared.
00:31:43I waited a while and decided to go home.
00:31:45My car was missing, so I called the police and told them it was stolen.
00:31:48Then I took a bus and went to Mona's.
00:31:50Weren't you at all worried about what happened to Steve?
00:31:52Of course I was.
00:31:53I kept calling his house and finally I called the office.
00:31:55And the operator told me he'd come in and gone out on the story.
00:32:06I presume you know my niece.
00:32:10Sorry, I've never had the pleasure.
00:32:12On the contrary, Mr. LaRue.
00:32:13You cashed a check for me once, remember?
00:32:15I've cashed checks for so many people.
00:32:18That's all, LaRue.
00:32:20You're free.
00:32:20Now, wait a minute.
00:32:21This man just swindled me out of $50,000.
00:32:24You're not going to let him get away with it.
00:32:25I didn't swindle you out of anything.
00:32:27You bought some stock in my club.
00:32:29Sure I did.
00:32:30But that was on the assumption that he had my niece.
00:32:33You led me to believe...
00:32:34I don't know where you got that idea, Mr. Peabody.
00:32:35I never mentioned your niece.
00:32:38Now, look here.
00:32:39This is nothing but an open and shut case of fraud.
00:32:41And I'm going to see...
00:32:42Take it easy, Mr. Peabody.
00:32:44I'm sure your investment is going to pay off.
00:32:47Are you through with me?
00:32:48Are you through with me?
00:32:48Any time you want to get a check, cash, drop in.
00:33:01Excuse me a minute.
00:33:02Now, young lady, just exactly what happened last night.
00:33:12Wait a minute, LaRue.
00:33:13That was a very clever trick.
00:33:20But don't get the idea we're through with you.
00:33:25That's just part payment on last night's account.
00:33:28Down.
00:33:29And I spent most of the time telling her about my new job.
00:33:33So, there it is.
00:33:35You should have phoned the office this morning...
00:33:37...instead of sitting around chatting with your friends.
00:33:39I never seem to do anything right.
00:33:41It wasn't your fault.
00:33:42Forget it.
00:33:43It was my fault, and I'll never forget it.
00:33:44I've caused you nothing but trouble and expense...
00:33:46...ever since I came here.
00:33:47I'm going to give up and go back to California.
00:33:49You're doing nothing of the kind.
00:33:50You wanted to be a reporter?
00:33:51Very well, we'll make you a reporter.
00:33:54Now get back to the press room and go to work.
00:33:56Oh, Uncle Amos, you're a darling.
00:33:58Coming, Lorelei?
00:33:58Well, Lorelei's staying here.
00:34:00You're on your own, Susan.
00:34:01Oh, Susan.
00:34:02No one knows anything about this business,
00:34:04so don't talk to Wally or Harvey.
00:34:06Of course not.
00:34:09What was the idea of stopping me with LaRue?
00:34:12LaRue wasn't as smart as he thought when he sold you that stock.
00:34:15We're going to use it to close up the Winners Club.
00:34:17Yes, and every other club in Limburg.
00:34:18That's a worthy ambition, Mr. Wilson.
00:34:21And not an easy thing to do.
00:34:22Of course, there's that bill before the legislature.
00:34:24Buried committee.
00:34:26We'll dig it out of committee.
00:34:27Will you cooperate, Harding?
00:34:28Absolutely.
00:34:29Good.
00:34:30We'll use a full-page spread with pictures.
00:34:32Lots of pictures.
00:34:33We'll put on a good old-fashioned, muck-wrecking expose.
00:34:36And what's more, AP, I'll get your money back.
00:34:41Lorelei Kilbin, Sergeant.
00:34:43Anything?
00:34:47Everything's quiet.
00:34:48You sure you won't need me any longer?
00:34:50You've had a hard day.
00:34:51Go home and rest.
00:34:52You're so kind to me, Lorelei.
00:34:54I do appreciate it.
00:34:55Forget it.
00:34:55Good night.
00:34:56Good night, Lorelei.
00:34:57Good night, boys.
00:34:58Good night, beautiful.
00:34:59Take it easy, kid.
00:35:00Hiya, Scoop.
00:35:00What's breaking?
00:35:03Same to you, sister.
00:35:06Hey, you guys.
00:35:06That Hawkins story.
00:35:07The dicks are holding out on you.
00:35:08The dame sang two hours ago.
00:35:10I had a hunch they'd try to pull a fast one on us.
00:35:13Come on, Wally.
00:35:19I'm giving them the runaround.
00:35:21The dame's still clammed up.
00:35:23They'll murder you.
00:35:25Let me worry about that.
00:35:27You know, I've been thinking.
00:35:28And?
00:35:29Little Miss Innocence ain't on the level.
00:35:31Her act with Steve.
00:35:32Please, Louie.
00:35:33I don't want to hear any more about her or...
00:35:35Don't try to kid me, Goldilocks.
00:35:36You're carrying a torch like the Statue of Liberty.
00:35:38I didn't think it showed.
00:35:40Well, it does.
00:35:41Are you going to be a sap and let that piece of no-good fluff break you two apart?
00:35:44I'm sure Steve knows what he wants.
00:35:45Well, it ain't what he wants.
00:35:47And most of all, it ain't what you want.
00:35:50And between the both of us, we're going to straighten him out about her.
00:35:52She's palsy-wowsy with more wrong G's than a... than a bail bond broker.
00:35:56What am I saying?
00:35:59You know, Jake Sebastian?
00:36:01Should I?
00:36:01Top man of Chuck LaRue's mob.
00:36:04Yesterday, right here in the city hall, I seen him talking to her.
00:36:06So?
00:36:07So.
00:36:08Take that shake down.
00:36:11Say that Chuck LaRue had Steve framed.
00:36:14Say he had Susan's car stolen.
00:36:17Say he had her trailed out to her girlfriend's house.
00:36:20Say that he knew she'd be out of circulation until morning.
00:36:23What I want to know is...
00:36:24How he'd know she wouldn't check in here until after ten this morning.
00:36:27Ah, so you've been thinking about it too, huh?
00:36:29Naturally.
00:36:31Okay.
00:36:32Do something.
00:36:33What should I do?
00:36:34Should I be bothered because her uncle is shaking down for $50,000?
00:36:37Should I care if Steve Wilson is making a fool of himself over the girl?
00:36:42Don't give me that Goldilocks.
00:36:46You care all right and plenty.
00:36:48All right, I care.
00:36:50So do I.
00:36:51I was the go-between on that deal, you know.
00:36:53I was double-crossed too.
00:36:56Okay, Louie.
00:36:57I might do a little checking.
00:37:00Okay, kid.
00:37:01You go into your dance and I'll go into mine.
00:37:03And tomorrow we'll compare notes, right?
00:37:04Right.
00:37:05When we get through with her, they'll be putting her face where it belongs on...
00:37:08on iodine bottles.
00:37:15Hello, Lindbergh Eagle.
00:37:16City desk, please.
00:37:17Hello, Hanks.
00:37:19Lorelei Kilburn.
00:37:21Fine.
00:37:21I want to check up on one of your new cub reporters, Susan Peabody.
00:37:26No.
00:37:27She claims she worked for you.
00:37:30Oh, I see.
00:37:31Thanks.
00:37:36Not more than half a column, Joe.
00:37:37We're tight now.
00:37:39And when we break that Winners Club story in the final...
00:37:42Okay, then kill it.
00:37:44I'll be ready any time.
00:37:45I'll be with you in five minutes.
00:37:48Hello, Jimmy.
00:37:49Lorelei?
00:37:50Are you in on this Winners Club thing?
00:37:52Lorelei's covering a political meeting tonight.
00:37:55Republicrats United.
00:37:56Very important.
00:37:57Ah, you lucky girl.
00:37:58Steve, I hate to mention this, but I've been doing some checking on your new reporter, and...
00:38:07Very interesting, Goldilocks, but I can't go into it now.
00:38:09I'm going out to the Winners Club.
00:38:11We're going out to the Winners Club.
00:38:13To play this thing right, you need some human interest angles.
00:38:15Very well, I'm your girl.
00:38:17Uh-uh, that's out.
00:38:17This job is too dangerous.
00:38:19If it's dangerous for me, it's twice as dangerous for you.
00:38:22I'm going.
00:38:23You're not.
00:38:23I am.
00:38:24You're not going to the Winners Club tonight.
00:38:45Winners Club.
00:38:48Wait for it.
00:38:49You bet, Mr. Wilson.
00:38:54Sure, but not too loud.
00:38:56Not with Monk and Marcus breathing down the deck.
00:39:02He was right, Chuck.
00:39:03They're here.
00:39:04Good.
00:39:05Bring them in.
00:39:16After the trouble you caused last night, Wilson, you and your friends aren't welcome here.
00:39:20Do you want to get out peacefully?
00:39:22We're not leaving the room.
00:39:23Oh, no.
00:39:24Keep out of this, Monk.
00:39:25You too, Marcus.
00:39:26Remember I told Mr. Peabody his investment with Payor?
00:39:30Well, he's assigned a stock to me.
00:39:32Only a piece of this joint, I have a legal right to enter it at any time.
00:39:36So, if you still want to put us out, hop to it.
00:39:41What do you say, LaRue?
00:39:48Come on, Lorela.
00:39:49Let's go.
00:40:19Oh
00:40:27How much is 17 take away
00:40:31The rule how about a shot of you and the boys? Oh, no the boss don't like his picture took
00:40:35Call mr. Wilson's cab one cab coming right up
00:40:39Well, thanks. It was a successful evening. We got some nice pictures
00:40:43Give us a good spread Wilson bad publicity is better than no publicity an aphorism mr. LaRue
00:40:48which I hope to disprove
00:40:50Come on Lorelai
00:40:54Partners come on O'Brien
00:41:00Get the car
00:41:18Well, I I never expected it to be that easy now when that home yet go deluxe
00:41:28Keep going Bob straight into big
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00:51:52can't blame you for trying to protect myself
00:51:54I only blame you for not trusting me
00:52:04Does that look like I don't trust you?
00:52:09Is it all here?
00:52:10It's all there. 50,000 bucks. But don't get any ideas. Half of it's mine. No, darling. All of it is ours.
00:52:22I
00:52:24Okay, Uncle Amos
00:52:26Penny-pinching old skinflip
00:52:28Now what do you think of your favorite niece?
00:52:30A millionaire and he puts me up in a place like this. He buys me a car, a second-hand roadster. He gives me a fur coat, rabbit and jackrabbit at that. I get an allowance, 30 bucks a week. And you know how he lives? I can guess. You know how he dresses his daughter? Mink no less. Okay. Starting tomorrow I wear mink. You don't want to crowd your luck, baby. Maybe I do want to crowd your luck, baby.
00:52:51Maybe I do want to crowd my luck. When you have the cards, you play them, don't you? Okay, so we've got the cards. And we've only started. We've got 50,000 bucks. Pretty soon we take him for another 50,000 and after that...
00:53:04What's the matter, Chuck?
00:53:07Quit dreaming, Susan. We got 50 G's and we were lucky. Have a smoke and cool off. You know very well I don't smoke.
00:53:21Who's been up here?
00:53:23Stop it! Stop it!
00:53:26Who was up here?
00:53:29Jake.
00:53:30Jake, huh? My good friend Jake.
00:53:34So that's why you put on a fancy outfit.
00:53:36That's not true. I put this on for you. Jake only stayed a few minutes.
00:53:41Long enough to smoke a couple of cigarettes, huh?
00:53:43And long enough to make a couple of passes at me.
00:53:45Which you brushed off, of course.
00:53:46Yes.
00:53:47That I'd have to see. I've been watching you two.
00:53:49Darling!
00:53:50Shut up!
00:53:51Hello, Marcus. Chuck. Jake there? Okay, now look and get this straight. As soon as Jake comes in, I want you and Monk to take the card. Sorry to have kept you waiting, Mr. Peabody. I had a little business.
00:53:56Look what the Chronicle's running. Amos Peabody?
00:54:02Hello, Marcus. Chuck. Jake there?
00:54:08Okay, now look and get this straight.
00:54:12As soon as Jake comes in, I want you and Monk to take the car.
00:54:16Sorry to have kept you waiting, Mr. Peabody.
00:54:18I had a little business.
00:54:20Look what the Chronicle's running.
00:54:22Amos Peabody, publisher of the Illustrated Press,
00:54:26has bought a block of common stock in the Winners Club.
00:54:28It was revealed today.
00:54:30The Winners Club is one of several private gambling clubs now operating in Lynnbury.
00:54:34That changes everything.
00:54:36Why?
00:54:37In the light of that story, our blast against the gambling clubs is not an expose.
00:54:41It's a publicity stunt to build business for the Winners Club.
00:54:44It certainly looks like that, don't I?
00:54:46And what does that make me?
00:54:47Appearing before the legislature and asking them to pass a law closing a club in which I own an interest.
00:54:52They'll say that's a publicity stunt, too.
00:54:54Well, there's only one thing left to do.
00:54:56Run the whole story of the shakedown exactly as it happened.
00:54:59However, that means dragging Susan into it.
00:55:02Steve, I'm afraid she's already in it.
00:55:05Well, I'll have Lorelei write the story right away.
00:55:07When you go back from the Capitol, we'll see what we can do about your $50,000.
00:55:10We'll see what we can do about Susan.
00:55:12Your taxi's waiting, Mr. Peabody.
00:55:14Well, good luck with the legislature.
00:55:16Thanks.
00:55:17Lorelei there.
00:55:18Set her in, will you?
00:55:20Lorelei.
00:55:21All right.
00:55:26What do you want, Steve?
00:55:27The Chronicle's running a story on Peabody's buying that stock.
00:55:30So we've got to run the story on the shakedown.
00:55:32The straight, unbiased, unvarnished story of what happened.
00:55:35Will you write it?
00:55:36Now? Tonight?
00:55:37Naturally.
00:55:38We can't use it as a follow-up.
00:55:39It'll look too phony.
00:55:40Wait a minute.
00:55:41Steve Wilson.
00:55:42Wilson, this is Chuck LaRue.
00:55:44I understand you're running your big story on the Winner's Club tomorrow morning.
00:55:49Now look, Wilson.
00:55:50Why don't you talk it over with me?
00:55:52I realize all that, Wilson, but what have you got to lose?
00:55:57Well, boss, here we are.
00:56:00Ordinarily, I'd be glad to come to your office.
00:56:03To be perfectly frank, Wilson, and I don't dare stick my face in the big town until some of this heat is off.
00:56:10No, I'm not at the club.
00:56:11I'm in College Green.
00:56:12Wilson doesn't know where you live, does he?
00:56:14The address is broken.
00:56:15No, I'm not at the club.
00:56:16I'm in College Green.
00:56:17Wilson doesn't know where you live, does he?
00:56:21The address is 595 Oak Street, apartment 402.
00:56:26I've got it.
00:56:27I'll be right over.
00:56:30Did you hire Louie to watch Susan's apartment?
00:56:33I certainly did not.
00:56:34What's he doing there?
00:56:35How would I know?
00:56:38Where are you going?
00:56:39Susan's.
00:56:40Why the heater?
00:56:41It's a cold night.
00:56:42You're humorously.
00:56:44Look, Steve, you're only sticking your neck out for what?
00:56:47For Peabody's dollar, 50,000 bucks.
00:56:49Don't give me that.
00:56:50You don't care about Peabody's dough.
00:56:51You have your mind on Chuck LaRue.
00:56:53Zoe beat you up last night and showed you up today.
00:56:55Why not forget it?
00:56:56Forget it?
00:56:57Are you kidding?
00:56:59Now get on that story.
00:57:00Send Fletcher in here.
00:57:07Fletcher, Steve wants you.
00:57:13You want me, Steve?
00:57:14Here's the play.
00:57:15LaRue wants to see me.
00:57:16You just phoned from Susan's apartment.
00:57:17Here's the address.
00:57:18Susan's, eh?
00:57:19Well, I'm not surprised.
00:57:20Neither am I.
00:57:21Now look, if you don't hear from me in 40 minutes...
00:57:23I'll be out there with a carload of cow.
00:57:24No, no, that's no good.
00:57:25We've got nothing on LaRue yet.
00:57:26Get a couple of the boys some circulation.
00:57:27I know just the pair.
00:57:28And stand by for a call.
00:57:29I'll be waiting.
00:57:30Not yet, Goldilocks.
00:57:35Now listen, kid.
00:57:39Let...
00:57:40Let...
00:57:41Put down a fin for me on wee Willy Winky in the third at Hialeah.
00:57:44A fin on wee Willy Winky in the third at...
00:57:50No, no.
00:57:51Now look.
00:57:52Steve just went upstairs.
00:57:53You better hurry out here right away, Lorelei.
00:57:55There's something crooked on it.
00:57:56I'm afraid it's too hot for me to handle.
00:57:58Okay.
00:57:59I'll be waiting for you in the lobby.
00:58:03Up five.
00:58:04You're five?
00:58:05And up you five, boss.
00:58:07Are you nuts?
00:58:09Ain't my money.
00:58:11I'll stay.
00:58:14How many?
00:58:15Two.
00:58:17One card.
00:58:18You?
00:58:19I'll play these.
00:58:21Dealer takes three.
00:58:26In the kitchen.
00:58:28Come on, Wilson.
00:58:29How are you?
00:58:30Fine, thanks.
00:58:32I believe you've met the boys.
00:58:33Monk, Marcus, and Jake Sebastian.
00:58:34Sure, hiya, boys.
00:58:35Hi, Wilson.
00:58:36Little game you happy?
00:58:37Yeah, postman's holiday.
00:58:38Might as well finish his hand?
00:58:39No, go ahead.
00:58:41Well, cozy little place you've got here.
00:58:43I like it.
00:58:44Jake, you over here.
00:58:45I like it.
00:58:46Jake, you over here.
00:58:47Come on, Wilson.
00:58:48Come on, Wilson.
00:58:49How are you?
00:58:50Come on, Wilson.
00:58:51How are you?
00:58:52Come on, Wilson.
00:58:53How are you?
00:58:54Fine, thanks.
00:58:55I like it.
00:58:56Jake, you open.
00:58:59Uh, 20.
00:59:0320 more.
00:59:05There's still time to kill that story, isn't there, Wilson?
00:59:09Plenty of time.
00:59:10I'm saving it for our final.
00:59:12You guys are awful brave betting into a pant hand.
00:59:14I'll call.
00:59:15I'll call.
00:59:18And 50 better.
00:59:20What are you so proud of?
00:59:2350 more.
00:59:25You sure you don't want to change your mind about it?
00:59:28The story?
00:59:30Can't.
00:59:31It isn't up to me.
00:59:33It's up to Peabody.
00:59:34If it's the persuasion you were looking for, you should have invited him here.
00:59:38You'll do.
00:59:40Yes, I think you'll do very well.
00:59:42What do you say, Monk?
00:59:43It's 100 of you.
00:59:45I'll call.
00:59:47I mean, what do you got?
00:59:50Four deuces.
00:59:53Deal, Jake.
00:59:54Look, LaRue, if there's something on your mind, let's have it.
00:59:57Don't worry, I got plenty on my mind.
00:59:59You want a drink?
01:00:00No, thanks.
01:00:03What will people say when they find out the managing editor of the Illustrated Press owns a piece of the Winner's Club?
01:00:08When they read the paper in the morning, they'll find out just how the whole shakedown was engineered.
01:00:13And they'll say that LaRue and his mom ought to be run out of the state.
01:00:17Why don't you sit down here?
01:00:19No, thanks.
01:00:20Too rich for my blood.
01:00:22Table steaks, as much as little as you like.
01:00:25Okay.
01:00:26Center's life.
01:00:28What do you have?
01:00:29Take $100.
01:00:35You deal, Wilson.
01:00:36No, no, it's Sebastian's deal. Go ahead, Jake.
01:00:39Jake doesn't like to deal.
01:00:41He doesn't even like to play poker.
01:00:44Jake just likes to play with dames, don't you, Jake?
01:00:47Yeah, Jake is a great boy with the babes.
01:00:50He can make more passes than a leather neck with a pair of crooked dice.
01:00:57He has a particular yen for other guys' wives.
01:01:01You got a wife, Mr. Wilson?
01:01:03No.
01:01:05You're lucky.
01:01:06I mean, with Jake around.
01:01:08What are you kidding here, Chuck?
01:01:10Just kidding, Jake, old boy.
01:01:12Just kidding.
01:01:13You won't need a ride around here, Wilson.
01:01:16It isn't that kind of game.
01:01:18Just a big, happy family, huh?
01:01:20Okay.
01:01:22You crossed me up very neatly, Wilson, running that shakedown, Yarn.
01:01:27I'm surprised Peabody would want to get his knees mixed up in a sordid story like that.
01:01:31You don't know Peabody.
01:01:33He's a tough old guy.
01:01:35I wonder if he's tough enough to take what I'm going to dish him.
01:01:39I wonder if he's tough enough to take what I'm going to dish him.
01:01:41Baby, come in here.
01:01:44Mr. Wilson, meet Mrs. LaRue.
01:01:48I've already met Mrs. LaRue.
01:01:51Found her very charming.
01:01:53She's charming, all right, but not very smart.
01:01:55No?
01:01:56Who planned this caper?
01:01:58Who dragged Wilson out to the Winners Club and set the deal?
01:02:01You did, dear.
01:02:02Well, what do you mean I'm not smart?
01:02:04No?
01:02:05Who planned this caper?
01:02:06Who dragged Wilson out to the Winners Club and set the deal?
01:02:08You did, dear.
01:02:09Well, what do you mean I'm not smart?
01:02:12Sit down, baby.
01:02:14Dealer in.
01:02:15Nobody minds?
01:02:18Six hands.
01:02:19Nice game.
01:02:20Yeah, the set is shy, though.
01:02:21That's better.
01:02:22What do you mean I'm not smart?
01:02:23Put it on the line.
01:02:24I'll stay.
01:02:25With a smart girl knowing me very well, play around with my best friend.
01:02:30You staying?
01:02:31Yeah, I'm in.
01:02:32Me, too.
01:02:33I'll stay.
01:02:34I'll stay.
01:02:35I'll stay.
01:02:36With a smart girl knowing me very well, play around with my best friend.
01:02:37You staying?
01:02:38Yeah, I'm in.
01:02:39Me, too.
01:02:40Look, LaRue, I don't know what you and your marital problems have to do with my running that story.
01:02:44Cards?
01:02:45One.
01:02:46One card.
01:02:48Two cards.
01:02:49Two cards.
01:02:50I'll stay.
01:02:51I'll stay.
01:02:52I'll stay.
01:02:53I'll stay.
01:02:54With a smart girl knowing me very well, play around with my best friend.
01:02:56You staying?
01:02:57Yeah, I'm in.
01:02:58Me, too.
01:02:59Look, LaRue, I don't know what you and your marital problems have to do with my running that story.
01:03:00Cards?
01:03:01One.
01:03:03One card.
01:03:04Two cards.
01:03:07Look at it this way, Wilson.
01:03:10How would Amos Peabody like for it to be known that this kid here, this green pea from the west, came into town and made a sucker out of her uncle?
01:03:18He won't know anything about it until the paper hits the streets.
01:03:21He'll know it if you tell him right now.
01:03:24Peabody left town ten minutes ago for the state capitol.
01:03:28Get a bill through the legislature, that'll close you up.
01:03:31Then you're the only person in town who can kill the story.
01:03:35Right.
01:03:36Wrong.
01:03:37Check.
01:03:38Check.
01:03:40Check.
01:03:41Bet ten.
01:03:45You don't seem to understand, Wilson.
01:03:47There's a story breaking right here that'll back your Winners Club story right out of the newspaper.
01:03:54Mark, Mark, it's on your way. You got your stories.
01:03:56Hey, what goes?
01:03:57I'm sure, boy.
01:03:58Sit down.
01:03:59Marcus, why don't you tell the cops?
01:04:02You and me and Monk was playing poker here with Jake and this guy, Wilson, and the dame, I mean your wife.
01:04:07Yeah, then we got a call from the club. Trouble with a couple of the peasants.
01:04:10And me and you and Monk hopped in a car and hightailed it out to Lynnbury.
01:04:14Leaving?
01:04:15Jake and this guy, Wilson, and the dame, I mean your wife, here alone in the apartment together.
01:04:19Okay, on your way. Pull the car around in the alley and wait. I'll be down the fire escape. Scram!
01:04:23Okay.
01:04:24What are you doing? Half that dough is mine and if you...
01:04:26Shut up, you two-timing tramp.
01:04:27Half that dough is mine, I tell you. Don't you think you're going to powder with it?
01:04:29Well, the money's half yours all right, but where you're going, baby, it won't do you any good.
01:04:33You can't phone the cops, Lorelai. If there's nothing wrong up there, that mob will sue your paper for a million bucks. Come along with me.
01:04:36But, Louie.
01:04:37Come along, Goldilocks. Leave everything to Louie.
01:04:47Hold it, Monk, who's that?
01:05:01That ain't good.
01:05:02That ain't good.
01:05:09Let's take it.
01:05:10Yeah.
01:05:15Get up to the back of that truck, you guys.
01:05:16In you go.
01:05:17Now, listen, you much.
01:05:18Ah, come on.
01:05:18Never mind the yaggity yak.
01:05:20Get in the truck.
01:05:21Come on.
01:05:21Get in.
01:05:22Get in.
01:05:26Drive it around back in the alley.
01:05:28Yeah.
01:05:28Then I'll get the boss's car and bring it around, too.
01:05:32You're acting like a fool.
01:05:35If you've got the crazy idea, I've been playing around with your wife.
01:05:41Quiet.
01:05:41Chuck, you're insane.
01:05:42I lied to you about Jakey.
01:05:43Chuck, listen to me.
01:05:44Chuck, please.
01:05:45Chuck, listen to me.
01:05:46Chuck, please.
01:05:46Chuck, please.
01:05:50The end of the day is a dog.
01:05:51You're acting like a fool.
01:05:52You're acting like a fool.
01:05:52If you've got the crazy idea, I've been playing around with your wife.
01:05:54Quiet.
01:05:54Chuck, you're insane.
01:05:56I lied to you about Jakey.
01:05:58Chuck, listen to me.
01:05:59Chuck, please.
01:05:59Operator, give me the police, sit down, don't try anything funny, will you?
01:06:29Police, I want you to send the coroner to 595 Oak Street, apartment 402.
01:06:39I've just killed a man and a woman, I'm gonna kill myself.
01:06:44My name, Wilson, Steve Wilson.
01:06:59306, 304.
01:07:01Are you sure you know where you're going?
01:07:03Sure, I cased this joint all night, come on.
01:07:0627, 595 Oak Street, apartment 402.
01:07:22A shooting.
01:07:27Good.
01:07:30Police have traced the call back.
01:07:32What are you waiting for?
01:07:34I want to hear a prowl car.
01:07:36There it is.
01:07:40It's a nice setup, LaRue, but you'll never get away with it.
01:07:43Why should the police believe I killed these people?
01:07:46You've been playing around with my wife, so did Jake.
01:07:49When the boys and I left you here, you and Jake must have got into an argument over Susan.
01:07:54You evidently blew your top.
01:07:57I trust this gun is registered in your name.
01:08:00It is.
01:08:03But you can't have a suicide without Powder Burns.
01:08:06Let me take care of Powder Burns.
01:08:19Don't touch the gun, Louie, his prints are on it.
01:08:21Well, here's Peabody's 50,000.
01:08:31Steve, she's still alive.
01:08:32Oh, too bad.
01:08:36Look, Kelly, I'm not interested in clinical details.
01:08:38Will she live?
01:08:40Okay, Kelly, keep in touch.
01:08:42Well, here we are.
01:08:44Where's Butcher?
01:08:45He's swearing out a complaint against Monk and Markets.
01:08:47Kidnapping, conspiracy, accessory before the fact.
01:08:49Hey, they left one out parking in front of a fire hydrant.
01:08:51They booked them on that, too.
01:08:52They better.
01:08:53Well, what do you think of it?
01:08:54A beautiful blast, huh?
01:08:55Will it turn the trick?
01:08:56Will it turn the trick?
01:08:57I guarantee that within 30 days, every poker club will be closed up tighter than a Puritan's lips.
01:09:01How's Susan?
01:09:02Kelly just found from the general hospital.
01:09:03They've given her transfusion.
01:09:04They say she'll live.
01:09:05Good.
01:09:06Hey, them mugs will need bond.
01:09:08Thanks for everything, Louie.
01:09:09Okay, Junior, no charge.
01:09:12Well, should we call it tonight?
01:09:14Oh, now, Louie Sneed.
01:09:15Now, there's the character.
01:09:16He's brash.
01:09:17He's sharp as a tack.
01:09:18He's hepped all the angles.
01:09:20You know?
01:09:21I think Louie would make a pretty fine police reporter.
01:09:25Still, I guess I already have a pretty fine police reporter.
01:09:29Laurel, I...
01:09:30You're not really gonna leave me, are you?
01:09:32Well, I...
01:09:34Are you?
01:09:36Oh, Steve, you pig-luck.
01:09:38Hey, this building's on fire.
01:09:40Call me when the walls get hot.
01:09:42Get hot.
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