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😢🕵️‍♀️ Truth is buried. Innocence is lost. One woman’s secret could destroy them all… The Sin of Nora Moran (1933) is a daring and emotionally charged pre-Code drama told in flashbacks, dreams, and inner turmoil. A powerful film ahead of its time.  📽️ Plot Summary: Nora Moran, a young woman condemned to death, hides a heartbreaking secret that could save her life. As politicians and lovers debate her fate, the tragic truth behind her so-called “crime” is slowly revealed in a non-linear, psychological narrative unlike any other film of the era.  🕰️ Year Released: 1933 🎭 Genre: Drama, Romance, Crime, Pre-Code 🎬 Directed by: Phil Goldstone 🎞️ Starring: Zita Johann, John Miljan, Alan Dinehart  🎯 Why Watch It? ✔️ Early example of non-linear storytelling in cinema ✔️ Powerful lead performance by Zita Johann (of The Mummy) ✔️ A feminist story of agency, sacrifice, and morality ✔️ Pre-Code emotional depth and social critique  🔔 Don’t forget to LIKE 👍 | COMMENT 💬 | SUBSCRIBE 🔔 for more powerful Golden Age dramas, rare pre-Code gems, and public domain classics!  👇 Explore More Vintage Masterpieces and Classic Cinema Here: 📺 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYSxyPafGbnT7hNTlq29mZQJKn7wrNglY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎞️ #TheSinOfNoraMoran #PreCodeHollywood #ClassicMovies #ZitaJohann #PublicDomainFilm #WomenInFilm #1930sCinema #PsychologicalDrama ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚖️💔 One woman. One choice. A haunting secret. The Sin of Nora Moran (1933) is a cinematic confession you won’t forget. ________________________________________

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00:01:00Anything else you wish, Mr. Grant?

00:01:23No, that's all. You may go to bed.

00:01:30See who that is.

00:01:38Well, hello, Edith.

00:01:40What's the matter? Is something wrong?

00:01:42I found these letters in the exit.

00:01:44Read them.

00:01:45I have a woman. She doesn't sign her name.

00:01:55Not on any one of them?

00:01:56Not on any one of them. But read it. It's most enlightening.

00:02:00Not on any one of them.

00:02:30Winter. My fire. My house.

00:02:36Spring. Spring comes to the love nest.

00:02:40The tree outside the living room window is budding.

00:02:42And I win the bet. The blossoms are yellow.

00:02:46Isn't it beautiful?

00:02:48Two lovers in their sylvan retreats staring at the trees.

00:02:52And now Summer.

00:02:54That same Summer when I was working so hard for him.

00:02:57Steaming, planning, doing everything in my power to help him.

00:03:00And he was having a cheap backstreet affair.

00:03:02Probably there's some other explanation.

00:03:04And her counting the hours until she saw him again?

00:03:06Thanking him for the house he bought her with my money?

00:03:08He didn't buy the house.

00:03:10Oh.

00:03:12So you do know about it.

00:03:14I thought you would.

00:03:17Edith.

00:03:18I'm probably asking you the impossible.

00:03:20But my advice to you is to burn those letters.

00:03:24Forget them.

00:03:25Forget them?

00:03:27Forget that you, my own brother, let me go on living with a man who was coming to me from

00:03:30the arms of a common cheap little...

00:03:33If you don't tell me who she is, I'll find out some other way.

00:03:37I'll get detectives.

00:03:39I'll show them these letters.

00:03:40You wouldn't do that.

00:03:41Oh, wouldn't I.

00:03:43I'll make her suffer.

00:03:46Edith.

00:03:51Come here.

00:04:00Sit down.

00:04:11Do you ever hear the name Nora Moran?

00:04:29Nora Moran?

00:04:31This may refresh your memory.

00:04:41What has she to do with it?

00:04:48That's the girl.

00:04:51This woman and Dick?

00:04:53I don't believe it.

00:04:55It's true, nevertheless.

00:04:59You said you wanted her to suffer.

00:05:03Did you ever witness an execution?

00:05:06Why, of course not.

00:05:08Did you ever see the preparation for one?

00:05:12A cold-blooded preparation.

00:05:15From the disposal of a burned-out, lifeless thing

00:05:17that a few moments before the execution was a human being.

00:05:22They begin in the afternoon.

00:05:36The electrocution's at eight tonight.

00:05:39Yes, we'll get it there by six.

00:05:41She's five foot one.

00:05:44She's five foot one.

00:05:46Okay, five foot one.

00:05:54I've got to shave her head.

00:05:55She didn't eat a thing.

00:06:01You wouldn't eat her.

00:06:03She's only 21.

00:06:06I've got to keep that age.

00:06:07I wonder what she's thinking.

00:06:16Her suffering had been so mute and pitiful

00:06:19that they tried to relieve her.

00:06:24Just that quiet.

00:06:26You'll soon be asleep.

00:06:27Mrs. Watson,

00:06:43are you sure they sent the telegram to Father Ryan?

00:06:47Yes.

00:06:48He'll be praying for you.

00:06:57There might still be a chance for you

00:06:59if you'd only tell why you did it.

00:07:02No.

00:07:03Why won't you tell, dearie?

00:07:10But you could tell me.

00:07:13Not anyone.

00:07:14I don't know.

00:07:15I don't know.

00:07:15Gradually, the opiate quieted her body,

00:07:17but her mind was too disordered.

00:07:19And in her confused state,

00:07:21everything became grotesque and unreal.

00:07:24We've all experienced it.

00:07:26And in our helplessness,

00:07:27we call on the one who means protection to us.

00:07:30To Nora, it was Father Ryan.

00:07:32Now was when she was a child.

00:07:36Nora's five years old.

00:07:38She's been with the sisters two years.

00:07:39And she's always been a very good child.

00:07:46Well,

00:07:47there's only one thing that's holding me back.

00:07:54Yes, your honey.

00:07:56I was only saying.

00:07:58I wanted to see how you'd fit on me lap.

00:08:05Darling,

00:08:06come over and try it.

00:08:09We got a car.

00:08:13Are you out?

00:08:14Sure.

00:08:15Bar and a couple of payments.

00:08:17Shh, what's a couple of payments?

00:08:18Between two good Irishmen like the child and me.

00:08:21Oh,

00:08:22the child and you.

00:08:24It's already the child and you.

00:08:27Well,

00:08:28we'll see.

00:08:31We'll see.

00:08:33Happiness for eight years.

00:08:35But she remembered only the tragedy that ended.

00:08:39And the car killed him, Father.

00:08:56I didn't know for hours why they didn't come home.

00:08:59What do you want to do now, Nora?

00:09:05Sinful even to think of it now.

00:09:07But Mother Moran wanted me to...

00:09:10What was that?

00:09:13Learn to dance.

00:09:15She always said that when she could afford it, I could go to a school.

00:09:17Do you want to do that?

00:09:21Yes.

00:09:25I paid all the debts and there's three hundred dollars left.

00:09:28Would it be wrong to use the money for that?

00:09:30No.

00:09:32Not wrong, Nora.

00:09:34Certainly not the wisest thing.

00:09:36But I want so much to do it.

00:09:39The money would last long enough until I studied.

00:09:40And by that time I could get a job in a cafe.

00:09:43I might even get a job in a show.

00:09:51Months of practice.

00:09:53Long hours of hard work because she felt prepared.

00:09:56And although her money was almost gone,

00:09:58she started out like thousands of others,

00:10:00confident of immediate success.

00:10:01There was the glamour of the theatre.

00:10:04The lights and the crowds.

00:10:06Intoxicating to her because she now felt herself to be a part of it.

00:10:10There were the stage doors, a promised mystery and excitement.

00:10:13And the daily round of booking offices.

00:10:15When she still felt that each new day was to mark the beginning of her success.

00:10:20And then the refusings.

00:10:21Endless days.

00:10:23Voices that spoke.

00:10:25Nothing today.

00:10:26No experience.

00:10:27Nothing today.

00:10:28No.

00:10:29No, you won't do.

00:10:31Nothing today.

00:10:32Signs that haunted her.

00:10:34Chorus filled.

00:10:35No casting today.

00:10:36Chorus filled.

00:10:38Chorus filled.

00:10:39Until she knew the panic that comes with your last dollar.

00:10:42And the desperate necessity for any kind of work.

00:10:44The failure there until she saw the end.

00:10:52I'm afraid you're too young to work in a circus.

00:10:55No, I'm not.

00:10:57I'm not too young.

00:10:58I'm old.

00:10:59Oh, please let me have it.

00:11:01Please.

00:11:02All right.

00:11:04Report to Paulino at King Brothers Circus.

00:11:10Excitement.

00:11:11A job.

00:11:12Sound of a collab.

00:11:13Tongues.

00:11:14Acrobats.

00:11:14Thrills.

00:11:15Excitement.

00:11:16Rehearsing what she'd say.

00:11:18Afraid someone would beat her there.

00:11:20And then he's there.

00:11:20Oh, many looks like a tornado.

00:11:37Oh, my goodness.

00:11:37Oh.

00:11:38Oh.

00:11:40Oh.

00:11:43Oh.

00:11:44Oh.

00:11:45Oh

00:12:15Oh

00:12:28She's just about the same size as your last partner all right

00:12:35Okay, you look very nicely

00:12:40I don't have to go in the cage do I

00:12:42No, no, all you have to do is to wear that outfit and look pretty and can they miss this stuff

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00:25:50I beg your pardon my name is John Grant and I'd like to see Mr. Crawford.

00:25:58Why he's...

00:25:58I don't bother lying. I know that he's here.

00:26:03Well, when are you finding me here?

00:26:06Miss Moran, do you know Mr. Grant?

00:26:07How do you do?

00:26:08I just dropped in to see Miss Moran's father. He's an old friend of mine.

00:26:12Not in at the moment, I suppose?

00:26:13No.

00:26:14I see.

00:26:15Where could we talk?

00:26:18Would you mind if we talked in here?

00:26:19Fine.

00:26:21Fine.

00:26:23Excuse me.

00:26:24Go now, please.

00:26:26Don't talk to him.

00:26:27I must, dear.

00:26:28But you stay out here.

00:26:42Miss Moran's father's been sending her flowers.

00:26:44Well, how'd you find out about this?

00:27:09There's an extra house.

00:27:11An extra?

00:27:13About this?

00:27:14Yes.

00:27:19How could they have got out of it?

00:27:20Well, this isn't even in our state.

00:27:24Oh, well, there isn't anything to it, anyway.

00:27:26I met her while I was in New York.

00:27:29So when she moved down here, she dropped me a note.

00:27:32Purely a friendly note to call.

00:27:33Every Monday and Friday.

00:27:36With an alibi like that, you don't write the front page.

00:27:38You ought to be in the comic section.

00:27:39Has Edith seen it?

00:27:43I don't know.

00:27:43She can read.

00:27:46Good.

00:27:47What'll I do?

00:27:48Squirm a while.

00:27:49I'll watch.

00:27:50I ought to get something back for my money.

00:27:53Talking like that will help, John.

00:27:54You've got to think of something.

00:27:55All right.

00:27:56You do the thinking.

00:27:57I'll do the talking.

00:27:59The story hasn't broken in the papers yet.

00:28:03You mean you told me that?

00:28:04I just wanted to give you a taste of how you'd feel if I did break.

00:28:07But if you're not out of here in exactly ten minutes, that's what's going to happen.

00:28:10I'll break it myself.

00:28:11I'll break it on the front page of every newspaper in the state.

00:28:14You along with it.

00:28:15You wouldn't do that, wouldn't I?

00:28:17Let me tell you something.

00:28:18You're running for governor.

00:28:19You're a married man.

00:28:21The fact that you're married to my sister doesn't mean a thing to me.

00:28:23That's her business.

00:28:24But I've spent a lot of time and money building you to where you are.

00:28:27And if you think for a moment I'm going to let you toss it just because you've fallen for some cheap little dame, you're mistaken.

00:28:31She isn't cheap.

00:28:32You bet your life she isn't.

00:28:33She's going to cost you plenty.

00:28:35What do you mean?

00:28:36Figure it out for yourself.

00:28:38Why do you suppose a girl from a New York nightclub would bury herself in a place like this?

00:28:41How do you know she comes from a nightclub?

00:28:43How did I know that she was in a circus before she was in a nightclub?

00:28:46I've got her number.

00:28:47I know her past history.

00:28:49You're crazy.

00:28:49Am I?

00:28:50Well, I'll tell you just how crazy I am.

00:28:52Either you end this thing right now or you're through.

00:28:55You'll go back to being in an office.

00:28:57What did you mean about knowing her history?

00:28:59Get her in here and ask her yourself.

00:29:01No, please.

00:29:01No.

00:29:02All right.

00:29:03I'll get her in myself.

00:29:04You'll talk to me.

00:29:05Come in.

00:29:18You heard what was said?

00:29:20Yes, I heard.

00:29:22All of it?

00:29:23I guess so.

00:29:25It's true, isn't it?

00:29:27What?

00:29:27About you being with the circus.

00:29:30The same one that's playing here tonight.

00:29:32Yes.

00:29:33That's right.

00:29:34What was your name then?

00:29:37Same as it is now.

00:29:39Shouldn't it have been something else?

00:29:41Or have there been so many you didn't bother with that?

00:29:43Men like him who were married.

00:29:56Men.

00:29:57Men.

00:29:58Men.

00:29:59Men.

00:30:00Men.

00:30:01Men.

00:30:02Men.

00:30:03Men.

00:30:04Men.

00:30:05Men.

00:30:06Men.

00:30:07Men.

00:30:09Men.

00:30:10Men.

00:30:11Men.

00:30:12Men.

00:30:13Men.

00:30:14Men.

00:30:15Men.

00:30:16Men.

00:30:17Men.

00:30:18Men.

00:30:19Men.

00:30:20Men.

00:30:21Men.

00:30:22Men.

00:30:23Men.

00:30:24Men.

00:30:25Did I do it better that time?

00:30:28You did it all right.

00:30:30It's because I've dreamed it so much.

00:30:32And it really happened.

00:30:33All I could think of was that he has a wife.

00:30:35That hurts so that I couldn't think of much else.

00:30:38But now it's different.

00:30:40Every time I dream it, I think of different things to say to him that'll hurt him and make him leave.

00:30:44But I can't do it anymore.

00:30:46I just can't.

00:30:48You won't have to.

00:30:50Why?

00:30:52Don't you remember?

00:30:56I don't have to go through that again, do I?

00:30:59It happened.

00:31:00But that was because I didn't leave soon enough.

00:31:03Don't you understand?

00:31:03All I have to do is go now.

00:31:04It won't happen.

00:31:05Don't you see how easy it is?

00:31:07I'll just leave.

00:31:07I'll go now.

00:31:08It won't happen.

00:31:09But it did happen.

00:31:10You killed him.

00:31:13Yes.

00:31:14That's right.

00:31:16I killed him.

00:31:18And upon said trial was found guilty of murder in the first degree for said killing.

00:31:24And on the 14th day of May, 1933, was sentenced to be put to death.

00:31:36Come, look at her.

00:31:38I don't want to.

00:31:40Come on, look at her.

00:31:47What's the matter with her?

00:31:48She's dead.

00:31:51I don't like the way they fixed her hair.

00:31:54They shaved part of it all.

00:31:56Why?

00:31:57Why did they do that?

00:31:59So the current would go through her head.

00:32:02It doesn't go through her head?

00:32:03It goes through her head, her arms, and her legs.

00:32:06That's a lie.

00:32:08It goes through her head, her arms, and her legs.

00:32:12If you don't believe it, come to the execution tonight.

00:32:15They're going to kill her again.

00:32:17The warden wasn't pleased with the way she died.

00:32:19I won't have it.

00:32:20They can't do that.

00:32:21But they've done it.

00:32:23Don't you understand?

00:32:25She's dead.

00:32:25I'm not dead.

00:32:30I'm not dead.

00:32:32I'm dreaming.

00:32:37Don't let me go back to sleep again.

00:32:40Please.

00:32:42Help me to wake up.

00:32:45I mustn't go back to sleep.

00:32:47Poor Nam.

00:32:49You were dreaming, weren't you?

00:32:51Yes.

00:32:51Maybe if I walk, I can stay away.

00:32:59You can't do that.

00:33:01Yes, I can.

00:33:03If you'll help me.

00:33:18And upon said tribe was found guilty of murder

00:33:21in the first degree for said killing.

00:33:24And on the 14th day of May, 1933,

00:33:27was sentenced to be put to death.

00:33:29Stop it.

00:33:30Make it stop.

00:33:32Why don't you be human?

00:33:34Don't you see she's almost crazy?

00:33:37Well, I'm supposed to read it.

00:33:39I'm supposed to read it here in her cell.

00:33:41All right.

00:33:42Read it here.

00:33:44Can't you read it to yourself?

00:33:45I guess I'll do that.

00:33:49Maybe if I just mumble, it'll be all night.

00:33:52Mumble and be damned.

00:33:54If I'm good for us.

00:34:07What's that?

00:34:09It's a clock.

00:34:10Oh, moron.

00:34:17At six o'clock that night,

00:34:18Nora wasn't the only one walking the floor.

00:34:21I was in my office listening to the prison whistle.

00:34:24And I realized that I'd been listening to it all day.

00:34:27I didn't know what to think.

00:34:29Dick was now the governor.

00:34:31He promised to refuse to stay at execution.

00:34:33I didn't know whether he'd hold to his promise.

00:34:36I didn't know whether she'd stick to hers.

00:34:38What do you mean?

00:34:39What are you trying to tell me?

00:34:41When Dick left that night,

00:34:43I stayed to settle with her.

00:34:48Won't you please go now?

00:34:50As soon as we understand each other.

00:34:52I'll give you what you want within reason.

00:34:54But that settles the account for all time.

00:34:57No future payments.

00:34:58No kickback.

00:34:59You understand?

00:35:01There'll be no kickback, as you call it.

00:35:03No payments at all.

00:35:04So you can go now.

00:35:06What's your game?

00:35:08I doubt if you'd understand it.

00:35:10Goodbye.

00:35:12Wait a minute.

00:35:15Have you any money?

00:35:17Enough.

00:35:18Enough for what?

00:35:19To take me where I'm going.

00:35:23Who rented this place?

00:35:26He did.

00:35:28Is the rent paid?

00:35:29Till next Wednesday.

00:35:31When are you leaving?

00:35:33On the next train.

00:35:35You might as well take this.

00:35:37It's his.

00:35:41You'd better not to give you some money now.

00:35:43No.

00:35:46But if you change your mind,

00:35:47I'll be at the Carton Hotel tonight.

00:35:48I've got a little bit more of a home.

00:36:11Thanks for tuning in.

00:36:13I sat in a hotel room trying to figure the girl out.

00:36:25I couldn't believe she turned down money.

00:36:27But at the end of two hours when she hadn't called,

00:36:30I decided she wasn't going to.

00:36:43Well, so you changed your mind about the money.

00:36:56No.

00:36:58Come in here.

00:37:02Come in here, please.

00:37:08Help me move this.

00:37:09What's wrong?

00:37:11Push it away from the fireplace.

00:37:13What happened?

00:37:19Who is it?

00:37:21Polino.

00:37:22He was with the circus.

00:37:24He's the man I live with.

00:37:27Been watching the house all evening.

00:37:29Came in after you left.

00:37:31He'd been outside watching and listening.

00:37:33Said he was going to blackmail Dick.

00:37:35He knew all about us.

00:37:37He wanted me to come back to him and help him get money from Dick.

00:37:40Then you.

00:37:41Yes, I hit him with that whip.

00:37:44I hit him three times.

00:37:45Three times over the head.

00:37:49What'll I do?

00:37:49You'll wait here until I call the police.

00:37:52No, don't do that.

00:37:53Why not?

00:37:54We must keep the police out of this.

00:37:56Wait a minute.

00:37:56I happen to be a district attorney.

00:37:59It's my business to prosecute people who commit murder.

00:38:01If this had happened 40 miles from here in my county, it would be my duty to send you to the vector chair.

00:38:07So if it's in your mind to have me help you get away with this, you may as well save your breath.

00:38:10I didn't know you were a district attorney.

00:38:13I thought you'd be willing to help me to keep Dick out of this.

00:38:16Dick?

00:38:16He is out of it.

00:38:17I know, but don't you see if they arrest me, the whole thing will come out.

00:38:21He rented this house.

00:38:22He's been coming here for months.

00:38:23There are a dozen different things that will drag him into it.

00:38:26If the newspapers get hold of it, they'll ruin him.

00:38:28They won't care about me, but he's an important man.

00:38:30They'll tear him to pieces.

00:38:32And his wife along with him.

00:38:33Damn it, why didn't you think of this before you committed murder?

00:38:43He went to bed drunk every night.

00:38:46Who?

00:38:47Helena.

00:38:48What about it?

00:38:49We could take him in your car to where the circus train is loading.

00:38:53Then when we got to the darkest part of the street, we could throw him out.

00:38:57Someone with the circus is bound to find him.

00:38:59And they'd find that he'd been murdered?

00:39:00No, they'll just think he's drunk.

00:39:03They've found him like that before.

00:39:05What about the wound in his head?

00:39:07When we've thrown him out, I'll put a rock under his head.

00:39:11They'll think he hit it when he fell.

00:39:12They'll think that's what killed him.

00:39:14Nothing doing.

00:39:16Oh, don't.

00:39:19Wait.

00:39:20Lee.

00:39:21Don't you realize what you're doing?

00:39:23You're destroying everything that has taken you years to build up.

00:39:25And it isn't necessary.

00:39:26All I'm trying to do is get Polino away from this house.

00:39:30Suppose I helped you.

00:39:31And you got caught that, Riley.

00:39:33You mean, would I tell that you'd help me?

00:39:37I wouldn't do a thing like that.

00:39:38Turn here.

00:39:57Turn here.

00:39:57THE END

00:40:27Slow up now

00:40:28Can you manage it alone?

00:40:36Yes

00:40:36Let me out around the corner

00:40:42We'll never get away with this

00:40:43Yes we will, there's no one inside

00:40:57Go on

00:41:09You can imagine my feelings as I drove away and left

00:41:22All I could think of was getting out of that town

00:41:25So I checked out at the hotel and drove home

00:41:28I've changed my plans, Kito

00:41:38Bring a hot drink to my room

00:41:39I went through hell that night

00:41:46One minute I knew that she was sincere

00:41:48The next minute

00:41:50I was certain that I'd walk into the cleverest little trap of magic

00:41:54No matter how I figured

00:41:56The answer was the same

00:41:57If she was sincere

00:41:59The plan was a thousand and one shot

00:42:00If she succeeded, she'd collect me

00:42:03If she failed

00:42:05And she'd been lying, she'd talk

00:42:06And faced with the rest

00:42:08How did I know

00:42:09But what she'd pin the actual murder onto me

00:42:11My word against hers

00:42:13And the very integrity expected of me

00:42:15As a public official

00:42:16Would have thrown the balance against me

00:42:18That were known that I was mixed up

00:42:19I figured the consequences

00:42:23Of what I've done from every possible age

00:42:25Except the one that actually happened

00:42:27Mr. Grant

00:42:42I'm sorry to disturb you, sir

00:42:47But headquarters on phone

00:42:48They say it's very urgent

00:42:50All right, Kito

00:42:51Hello? Yes?

00:42:55Well, good morning, Mr. Grant

00:42:56There's been a murder on a circus train

00:42:59That pulled in here this morning

00:43:00Pulled in here?

00:43:03Yes

00:43:03We've got the girl who did it

00:43:05But we can't get anything out of her

00:43:06And of the circus people

00:43:07The whole thing's a mix-up

00:43:09Yes, I'll come right down

00:43:13If you people are trying to shield this girl

00:43:24You're going to regret it

00:43:26Was this man dead when you found him in the street?

00:43:30Was he?

00:43:31Don't ask me

00:43:32He was drunk

00:43:34If I was drunk

00:43:35How is it you don't know?

00:43:37Well, I was thinking of something else

00:43:39It's quite apparent that you were both drunk

00:43:41Did you put him to bed on the train?

00:43:44Did you?

00:43:45Did you?

00:43:46What do you mean, did I?

00:43:47What was you doing all the time?

00:43:49Well, I...

00:43:50Go on

00:43:51I'm waiting

00:43:52She's the one

00:43:54Yes, so I gather

00:43:56Did you see your husband and his friend bring Paulino on the train?

00:44:00I did not

00:44:01I've seen him drunk so many times

00:44:03I wouldn't have noticed it

00:44:04Did any of you see him?

00:44:06Did they?

00:44:07Don't ask me

00:44:08I was thinking of something else

00:44:10That's enough

00:44:10We'll get the girl

00:44:12Have the prisoner brought in

00:44:18Now, which one of you met the girl?

00:44:24We both did

00:44:25You say she hasn't been to the circus for some time?

00:44:28About three years

00:44:29When you met her, was she going toward the train or away from it?

00:44:36Beer

00:44:36I bet there was drinking beer

00:44:38You keep your pants on

00:44:40A lot you got to say

00:44:41Roaring drunk yourself

00:44:42She was going toward the train

00:44:45Why, if it isn't little Norris's eye when I saw her

00:44:49I saw her first

00:44:50She bumped into her

00:44:52Staggered more likely

00:44:54You shut up

00:44:55Now, listen

00:44:56You people wait in the outer room

00:45:03Come in

00:45:08God bless you, darling

00:45:12Sit down, Miss Moran

00:45:17You admit killing Paulino

00:45:25Yes

00:45:27How did you kill him?

00:45:29I told you

00:45:30I hit him over the head with a whip

00:45:31What did you do with a whip?

00:45:33I threw it away

00:45:34Where?

00:45:36From the train

00:45:37Why did you kill him?

00:45:40That's my business

00:45:41But it also happens to be the state's business

00:45:44I told you I killed him

00:45:45Isn't that enough?

00:45:46This thing has been going on all morning

00:45:48Suppose you let me talk with her alone

00:45:50This is the district attorney

00:45:54It's my duty to tell you

00:45:56That until you get a lawyer

00:45:57You don't have to answer any questions

00:45:59You don't want to answer

00:46:00You can ask me questions

00:46:02But I won't tell them any more than I told you

00:46:04What happened?

00:46:17I ran into those women

00:46:18Shh, keep your voice down

00:46:20Were you close to the body when you ran into them?

00:46:23No

00:46:23Put a rock under his head

00:46:26And then I went back to my bag

00:46:27While I was around the corner

00:46:29I heard old Jake and Miller coming along

00:46:31They stumbled over him

00:46:33They were so drunk

00:46:34They didn't know he was dead

00:46:35I watched them drag him onto the train

00:46:38Well, why in the name of heaven

00:46:39Did you get on the same train?

00:46:41Couldn't help it

00:46:41While I was watching them drag Paulino away

00:46:44Those women bumped into me

00:46:46Scared me

00:46:47So when they recognized me

00:46:48I went to pieces

00:46:49I don't remember much

00:46:51Until I came to

00:46:52And the train was moving

00:46:53How did they pin it onto you?

00:46:56Police did that

00:46:56Circus people tried so hard

00:46:59To hush up my past

00:47:00But Paulino

00:47:00I guess they overdid it

00:47:01They all think I killed them

00:47:03On the train during the night

00:47:04And of all places in the world

00:47:06The train had to pull in here

00:47:07Do you realize that

00:47:09I've got to prosecute you?

00:47:10Well, what difference does that make?

00:47:12Somebody else might

00:47:13Trace it to the house in Wilchester

00:47:14You'll know how to keep Dick out of it

00:47:16You mean you're going through with this?

00:47:19I killed Paulino

00:47:20I did it to save Dick

00:47:22And you helped me to keep him out of it

00:47:25Why should I turn now

00:47:27And undo everything we've done?

00:47:28It would ruin Dick

00:47:29It would ruin you

00:47:30It wouldn't have me

00:47:32I'm still guilty of murder

00:47:34All right

00:47:35You're guilty of murder

00:47:36And I'm the prosecuting attorney

00:47:37That's the way it stands

00:47:39That's the way we're going to go through with it

00:47:40And let me tell you something else

00:47:41If you're doing this

00:47:43In the hope that Dick Crawford as governor

00:47:44Will grant you a pardon

00:47:45You may as well forget it

00:47:46Because that man would sacrifice

00:47:47Anything or anyone

00:47:48To satisfy his ambition

00:47:50You know the rest of it

00:47:56She went through the entire trial

00:47:58Without a word in her own defense

00:47:59Prosecuted by a man

00:48:01Who was as guilty as she was

00:48:02Sentenced to die

00:48:04By an unsympathetic jury

00:48:05And still never a word

00:48:06Well, what of it?

00:48:08She was guilty?

00:48:09Well, I certainly don't condone

00:48:10What you did

00:48:11But it wouldn't have done her

00:48:12Any good to drag you into it

00:48:13Wouldn't have done her any good

00:48:14Why, any lawyer

00:48:16Who knew the whole story

00:48:17Could have built up such a case

00:48:18For that girl

00:48:18That Dick would have been

00:48:19Run out of the state

00:48:19I would have been sent

00:48:20To prison for life

00:48:21And she would have walked

00:48:22Out of that courtroom

00:48:23As free as air

00:48:24Why, think of the case

00:48:25The girl is being kept

00:48:26By a man in high public office

00:48:28She commits murder for him

00:48:29And the district attorney

00:48:30Turns around

00:48:31And helps to cover up the murder

00:48:32And then prosecutes

00:48:33And furthermore

00:48:36The murder was not committed

00:48:37In this state

00:48:37This state had no legal right

00:48:39To try her

00:48:39I had no legal right

00:48:40To prosecute

00:48:41What difference does it make

00:48:42Which state tried her

00:48:43She committed murder

00:48:45And as for her saying

00:48:47Nothing in the courtroom

00:48:47It's perfectly obvious

00:48:48She did that

00:48:49Expecting Dick to get her off

00:48:50But the one thing

00:48:52In his favor

00:48:52Is that he didn't let it

00:48:53Influence him

00:48:54When he was faced

00:48:54With his duty

00:48:55He had the courage

00:48:56And honesty

00:48:57To refuse to save her

00:48:58In spite of who she was

00:48:59This state

00:49:01Had invested him

00:49:02With certain powers

00:49:03And duties

00:49:03And I'm glad

00:49:04That he at least

00:49:05Lived up to that trust

00:49:06Either are you

00:49:07Making a campaign speech

00:49:08Or just being a damn fool

00:49:09Like most wives

00:49:13In your self-righteousness

00:49:14You refuse to recognize

00:49:15Any kind of love

00:49:16But your own

00:49:17You never understood

00:49:19Dick

00:49:19Neither one of us

00:49:21Ever tried to understand

00:49:22He was just something

00:49:24That we kicked about

00:49:24Between us

00:49:25To satisfy our own

00:49:26Purpaces and ambitions

00:49:26We never considered

00:49:29Whether he might want

00:49:29What we offered him

00:49:30We simply forced him

00:49:31Into him

00:49:31You always made him

00:49:33Feel that he was

00:49:34The weaker

00:49:34You made him look up

00:49:36And be dependent

00:49:36Upon you

00:49:37Nora worshipped

00:49:39In her eyes

00:49:41He was a great man

00:49:42She never questioned him

00:49:44She never asked

00:49:45For anything

00:49:45He didn't offer

00:49:47And through her love

00:49:49He attained

00:49:49Or I think

00:49:51He attained something

00:49:51That you or I

00:49:52Will never experience

00:49:53Eden

00:49:57I want to read you

00:49:59A letter

00:50:00It's from Dick

00:50:02Sit down

00:50:04It starts simply

00:50:12John

00:50:12I'm going away

00:50:14With Nora

00:50:15Away?

00:50:16That's how he puts it

00:50:18You would call me insane

00:50:20If you knew

00:50:21What had happened

00:50:21To me tonight

00:50:22And my relating it

00:50:24To you may

00:50:24Seem an attempt

00:50:26To justify myself

00:50:27I don't know

00:50:28But I ask you

00:50:30To visualize

00:50:30The early hours

00:50:31Of the evening

00:50:32Read all the mountains

00:50:33We get

00:50:34Governing tonight

00:50:35Back straight

00:50:36Premier

00:50:36Read all about it

00:50:37Nora Miranda died

00:50:39At eight

00:50:39Premier

00:50:40Governor denies reprieve

00:50:42Nora Miranda died

00:50:43Premier

00:50:43Next

00:50:44Read about it

00:50:46Nora Miranda died

00:50:48At eight

00:50:48Premier

00:50:49Did you switch a direct line

00:50:52To the governor's office?

00:50:53No

00:50:54Did he want me to?

00:50:55You tell me

00:50:55Where he wants to dance

00:50:56I appreciate it

00:50:57Shall I go back

00:50:57And do it?

00:50:58No

00:50:58Leave me alone

00:50:59Governor denies reprieve

00:51:02Ma'am

00:51:02Premier

00:51:03Read about it

00:51:04We died

00:51:05To the

00:51:05Oh

00:51:06Miranda died

00:51:06I tried to shut out

00:51:28The thought of Nora

00:51:28Her faith in me

00:51:30The happiness we could know

00:51:31Her happiness in those first few months

00:51:34But her voice

00:51:36Memories of her

00:51:37Kept coming back

00:51:39Do you live in New York?

00:51:56I'll stay another week

00:51:57May I see you again?

00:51:59Of course

00:52:00I sent for you

00:52:04Would you come to me?

00:52:05Anywhere

00:52:06The stove works

00:52:12And the radio works

00:52:14The fireplace works

00:52:16It's so lovely to live in the house

00:52:18With everything that works

00:52:19I can't stand it

00:52:21Oh you got it

00:52:23Do you think we could get the president

00:52:26To put three Mondays and four Fridays in the week?

00:52:28Why?

00:52:30For those are the days I see you

00:52:31Or have there been so many

00:52:34You didn't bother with that?

00:52:37Yes

00:52:38That's right

00:52:38There have been so many

00:52:40I didn't bother with that

00:52:41Men like him who were married

00:52:43Men

00:52:43When I left my actions with those of a stupid schoolboy

00:53:07Driving away I began to realize

00:53:10How could I pass judgment of Noah

00:53:13I was a married man

00:53:15Offering her nothing but the question of the security of the house

00:53:18Part of my time

00:53:19And I knew that no matter how many men there had been in her life

00:53:23There was only one

00:53:24Now

00:53:25I went back

00:53:27Nora

00:53:44Nora

00:53:46Hi Governor

00:53:58We got something

00:54:01I knew we were going to meet someday

00:54:06But I didn't think it was going to be so soon

00:54:07Don't listen to him

00:54:08Don't talk to him

00:54:09Go away

00:54:10Please

00:54:10Hey

00:54:11How much is she worse to you?

00:54:13How much is she worse to lose a lot of money?

00:55:10He's dead.

00:55:24He's dead.

00:55:40A murderer.

00:55:42The thought of exposure terrified me.

00:55:46I imagined things.

00:55:58There's no one out there.

00:56:02But I saw a face at the window.

00:56:04You imagined.

00:56:06Perhaps.

00:56:08I don't know.

00:56:14Oh, my God, Nora.

00:56:16But it wasn't your fault.

00:56:18You did it in self-defense, dear.

00:56:20If you hadn't done it, he would have killed you.

00:56:22But I'm the only one who knows that.

00:56:24And when they find out about us, they won't believe anything I have to say.

00:56:27There's no way out.

00:56:29Oh, but there is a way.

00:56:30If you'll only go.

00:56:32Leave you to face this?

00:56:33I wouldn't have to face it.

00:56:35I have a plan.

00:56:36If you'll only leave and trust me.

00:56:40Can't you understand why I'm asking you to do this?

00:56:43Don't you realize that it isn't killing him that will ruin you?

00:56:47It's me.

00:56:49The months we've spent here.

00:56:52They'll take those months from us and spread them across the front page of every newspaper.

00:56:57They'll make them ugly and cheap.

00:57:00Instead of what they were.

00:57:02I'm not asking you to be cowardly.

00:57:05I'm asking you to let me keep the only happiness I've ever known.

00:57:09You'll go.

00:57:12Won't you?

00:57:14No.

00:57:18No.

00:57:19Yes.

00:57:22No.

00:57:24I don't ask you to believe what happened next.

00:57:26I simply say it happened.

00:57:28Don't do that.

00:57:31Laura.

00:57:33What are they doing to you?

00:57:35Nothing, dear.

00:57:36They're hurting you.

00:57:38You're frightened.

00:57:39What is there to be frightened of?

00:57:41Death.

00:57:43There's nothing to fear in death.

00:57:45Father Ryan is with me now.

00:57:47I want you to hear what he's saying.

00:57:48And remember it always.

00:57:50It's the prayer for the dead.

00:57:52No.

00:57:53I don't want to hear it.

00:57:54Don't make me hear it.

00:57:55But it's beautiful.

00:57:56Listen.

00:57:57The eternal rest give to them, O Lord.

00:58:00And let perpetual light shine upon them.

00:58:03Eternal rest and perpetual life.

00:58:06Is that frightening?

00:58:08No.

00:58:09Then think of it that way.

00:58:12Think of me that way.

00:58:14I can't.

00:58:15I can't.

00:58:16All I can think of is that you are dying for something I did.

00:58:18I'm not dying for something you did.

00:58:20I'm dying for all the good things you're going to do.

00:58:23And I'm dying rather than give up something that was precious to me.

00:58:26My life with you.

00:58:28I could have life with you if I told the truth.

00:58:31If I had the courage to tell the truth, I'd be free.

00:58:33They might put me in prison, but I'd be free.

00:58:35I'd be free of Grant.

00:58:36What of your wife?

00:58:38You can't do that to her.

00:58:40She's like him.

00:58:41They're both alike.

00:58:42Dominating, scheming, planning my life.

00:58:45And they always win.

00:58:46I wanted to pardon you, but he wouldn't let me.

00:58:52Why do I say you wouldn't let me?

00:58:55I could have done it.

00:58:56I can do it now.

00:58:58I can phone now and stop it.

00:59:00I can sign an unconditional pardon and you'll be free.

00:59:02What's free, dear?

00:59:04To go out and struggle.

00:59:06And perhaps no more men like Polino.

00:59:09To go on day after day knowing that somewhere in the world you're beginning to hate me.

00:59:13Why should I hate you?

00:59:14Because people change.

00:59:17What will she be 15 years from now?

00:59:19Just someone who can put you behind the bars anytime she wants to.

00:59:23Do you want to go through life waiting for that to happen?

00:59:26Let her die.

00:59:27That was his voice.

00:59:29I didn't think that.

00:59:30He said it.

00:59:31You heard him, didn't you?

00:59:32I wouldn't want you to think I felt that way about you.

00:59:33I know you wouldn't change.

00:59:35You understand.

00:59:36It was his voice.

00:59:37Don't let me die because you're afraid.

00:59:39Let me die because it's my destiny to die.

00:59:42Let me feel that in dying I made it possible for you to go on.

00:59:54You said there was no one there.

00:59:56You looked and you said there was no face at the window.

00:59:58You said I imagined it.

00:59:59You did.

01:00:00You did.

01:00:01And what's he doing here?

01:00:02If he saw me, why doesn't he say something?

01:00:04Why doesn't he come out in the open?

01:00:05What's he waiting for?

01:00:06There's no one there.

01:00:07Yes, there is.

01:00:08And I know what he wants.

01:00:09He's waiting.

01:00:10He's waiting until I let you die.

01:00:12And then I'll have to kill him to keep him from telling.

01:00:14That'll be three murders.

01:00:15The first wasn't murder.

01:00:17You did it in self-defense.

01:00:19If I let them kill you, it'll be murder.

01:00:21Then I'll have to kill him.

01:00:22That'll be three.

01:00:23The first wasn't murder.

01:00:26The second one hasn't happened.

01:00:28The first wasn't murder and I can stop the second.

01:00:31I'll stop it now.

01:00:33I'll stop it now.

01:00:35Stop it.

01:00:36Stop the execution.

01:00:37I'm the governor and I say stop the execution.

01:00:40I did it, do you hear?

01:00:41I killed him and you can't execute her.

01:00:48I did it.

01:00:53I did it, Nora.

01:00:55At first I couldn't understand her going so quickly.

01:01:09And then I looked at the phone.

01:01:11It was dead.

01:01:14Nora was dead.

01:01:16Did she know that I had tried?

01:01:24I think so.

01:01:26Because her voice came to me.

01:01:28Quiet.

01:01:29Reassuring.

01:01:30There's nothing to fear, isn't it?

01:01:33Listen.

01:01:34The eternal rest give to them, O Lord.

01:01:37And let perpetual light shine upon them.

01:01:40Eternal rest and perpetual light.

01:01:43Is that frightening?

01:01:49I couldn't have put those words in her mouth.

01:01:52She must have been here.

01:02:22I know she was here.

01:02:27So while I can still hear her saying,

01:02:31Eternal rest give to them, O Lord.

01:02:34And let perpetual light shine upon them.

01:02:37Shine upon them.

01:02:49It ends there.

01:02:52Or does it begin?

01:02:55I wonder.

01:02:56I hope we can lose.

01:02:57I know.

01:02:59I know he had to address it.

01:03:00I know, but it made a mistake.

01:03:01I want to make a mistake.

01:03:02I can't believe it.

01:03:03Letbook.

01:03:04I got it.

01:03:05I know...

01:03:06I heard that.

01:03:07I know.

01:03:08I'm interested in this.

01:03:09I'm interested in...

01:03:10I know you.

01:03:12I can not believe me.

01:03:14I know you who's been in this room.

01:03:15I knew you were.

01:03:16I know she was sitting in this room.

01:03:17I know she was thinking.

01:03:18I knew you was thinking.

01:03:19I'm interested in this room.

01:03:20THE END

01:03:50THE END

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