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Detour -HD (1945)
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00:06:10every night from eight until the place closed up,
00:06:12which usually meant four in the morning.
00:06:14A good job, as jobs went in those days.
00:06:20Then, too, there was Sue,
00:06:24who made working there a little like working in heaven.
00:06:27But how we felt about each other,
00:06:29well, there was nothing very unusual in that.
00:06:32I was an ordinary, healthy guy,
00:06:33and she was an ordinary, healthy girl.
00:06:34When you add those two together,
00:06:36you get an ordinary, healthy romance,
00:06:38which is the old story.
00:06:40Sure, but somehow, the most wonderful thing in the world.
00:06:52All in all, I was a pretty lucky guy.
00:06:55Mr. Paderewski, I presume.
00:06:57It's beautiful.
00:06:58You're going to make Carnegie Hall yet, Al?
00:07:00Yeah, as a janitor.
00:07:03I'll make my debut in the basement.
00:07:05I don't blame you for being bitter, darling,
00:07:07but you mustn't give up hope.
00:07:09Why, some day...
00:07:10Yeah, some day.
00:07:11If I don't get arthritis first,
00:07:12I'm sure I'll get arthritis.
00:07:14I'm sure I'll get arthritis.
00:07:16I'm sure I'll get arthritis.
00:07:18I'm sure I'll get arthritis.
00:07:20I'm sure I'll get arthritis.
00:07:22I'm sure I'll get arthritis.
00:07:23I'm sure I'll get arthritis first.
00:07:24In the meantime, let's blow this trap.
00:07:46Like to get something to eat, hon?
00:07:47Oh, I don't think so, Al.
00:07:49I lose my appetite working in this flea bag.
00:07:52Let's go home.
00:07:53Okay.
00:07:55I can't stand much more of that dump.
00:07:57Did you see that drunk tonight, trying to paw me?
00:08:00No, what drunk?
00:08:01Does it matter what drunk?
00:08:04Say, what's the matter with you tonight, darling?
00:08:06That's the third time you've started to tell me something,
00:08:08and then stop.
00:08:10We shouldn't have any secrets from each other, Sue.
00:08:12Next week, we're going to make with a ring and a license.
00:08:14You and me will be a team.
00:08:15Yes, that's right.
00:08:16In the Bush League.
00:08:18I don't get you.
00:08:19We've been struck out.
00:08:22That's a funny way to talk, darling.
00:08:24Don't you want to marry me?
00:08:25Al, look, I love you, you know I do,
00:08:27and I want to marry you.
00:08:29But?
00:08:30But not now.
00:08:31Only after we've made good.
00:08:34Sunday, I'm going away.
00:08:36Oh, I know you'll think it's silly.
00:08:38That's why I hesitated to tell you.
00:08:40But I'm going to California.
00:08:42I want to try my luck in Hollywood.
00:08:45That's the most stupid thing I ever heard of.
00:08:47Don't you know millions of people go out there every year
00:08:49and wind up polishing cuspid doors?
00:08:51I thought you had better sense.
00:08:52You sound as if you don't think I have any talent.
00:08:54That has nothing to do with it.
00:08:55I'll make out all right.
00:08:56Maybe.
00:08:57But what about me?
00:08:58Doesn't it mean anything to you
00:08:59that you're busting up all our plans?
00:09:01We may not see each other for years.
00:09:02It won't be that long.
00:09:04I thought you loved me.
00:09:05I do.
00:09:06You know I do.
00:09:10Well, here we are.
00:09:15Al.
00:09:17Al, why can't you see my side of it?
00:09:20I'm young.
00:09:21We both are.
00:09:23And we've got all the time in the world to settle down.
00:09:27Really, darling.
00:09:29What I'm doing is the only sane thing to do.
00:09:33I hate the thought of being so far away from you.
00:09:36But we'll be together again someday.
00:09:40Maybe you'll decide to come out too later on.
00:09:42So long.
00:09:44Al.
00:09:46Aren't you going to kiss me goodnight?
00:09:48Sure.
00:09:49Why not?
00:09:52Goodnight.
00:10:18Goodnight.
00:10:19Goodnight.
00:10:20Goodnight.
00:10:48Goodnight.
00:10:49Goodnight.
00:10:50Goodnight.
00:11:18Say, Roberts, you hit the jackpot this time.
00:11:3910 bucks.
00:11:40Thanks.
00:11:48So when this drunk handed me a tent spot after a request,
00:11:50I couldn't get very excited.
00:11:52What was it?
00:11:53I asked myself.
00:11:54A piece of paper crawling with germs.
00:11:56Couldn't buy anything I wanted.
00:11:58It couldn't.
00:12:03Then I thought of something.
00:12:28Long distance.
00:12:29I'd like to put a call through to Los Angeles.
00:12:31Miss Harvey.
00:12:32Sue Harvey.
00:12:33H-A-R-V-E-Y.
00:12:35The number is Crestview 65723.
00:13:01Hello, Sue?
00:13:08This is Al.
00:13:09Oh, baby, it's great to hear from you too.
00:13:11What's that?
00:13:12You do?
00:13:13Oh, me too, darling.
00:13:15I thought I'd go batty without you.
00:13:16I just had to...
00:13:17Huh?
00:13:19You're working as a hash slinger?
00:13:21Gee, honey, that's tough.
00:13:23Those guys out in Hollywood don't know the real thing
00:13:25when it's right in front of them.
00:13:26You just stick it out, Sue, baby.
00:13:28Keep going around to those casting offices.
00:13:30I'm sure you'll click.
00:13:32Look, I'll tell you what.
00:13:33You stay put out there.
00:13:34I'll come to you.
00:13:35No, don't try to stop me.
00:13:36Just expect me.
00:13:38Train?
00:13:39Who knows?
00:13:40Train, plane, bus, magic carpet.
00:13:41I'll be there if I have to crawl.
00:13:43If I have to travel by pogo stick.
00:13:45And then let's get married right away, huh?
00:13:50That's the stuff.
00:13:52That's what I've been wanting to hear you say.
00:13:55Well, goodbye for now.
00:13:59I'll be seeing you soon.
00:14:02Yeah.
00:14:04Bye.
00:14:10The only way I could cross country was to thumb rides.
00:14:13For even after hawking everything,
00:14:14I only had enough money to eat.
00:14:17Money.
00:14:18You know what that is.
00:14:20It's the stuff you never have enough of.
00:14:22Little green things with George Washington's picture
00:14:24that men slave for, commit crimes for, die for.
00:14:29It's the stuff that has caused more trouble in the world
00:14:31than anything else we ever invented.
00:14:33Simply because there's too little of it.
00:14:36At least I had too little of it.
00:14:38So it was me for the thumb.
00:14:42Ever done any hitchhiking?
00:14:45It's not much fun, believe me.
00:14:47Oh, yeah, I know all about how it's an education,
00:14:50how you get to meet a lot of people and all that.
00:14:53But me, from now on, I'll take my education in college
00:14:57or in P.A. or in law school.
00:15:00I'll take it all.
00:15:02I'll take it all.
00:15:04I'll take it all.
00:15:06I'll take it all.
00:15:08From now on, I'll take my education in college
00:15:11or in P.S. 62, or I'll send $1.98 in stamps
00:15:14for 10 easy lessons.
00:15:24Thumbing rides may save your bus fare,
00:15:27but it's dangerous.
00:15:29You never know what's in store for you
00:15:31when you hear the squeal of brakes.
00:15:34If only I'd known what I was getting into
00:15:36that day in Arizona.
00:15:40Throw that in the back seat.
00:15:44Okay, let's go. Make sure that door's closed.
00:16:00You know, Emily Post ought to write a book of rules
00:16:03about thumbing rides.
00:16:05Because as it is now, you never know what's right and what's wrong.
00:16:08We rode along for a little while.
00:16:10Neither one of us saying anything.
00:16:12I was glad of that.
00:16:14I never know what to say to strange people driving cars.
00:16:18And two, you can never tell if a guy wants to talk.
00:16:21A lot of rides have been cut short because of a big mouth.
00:16:25So I kept my mouth shut until he started opening up.
00:16:30Hand me that little box in the compartment, will you, pal?
00:16:36Hold the wheel, will you?
00:16:49How far are you going?
00:16:50L.A.
00:16:51Wow, you're really traveling, aren't you?
00:16:53Yeah, but I don't expect to make it for a couple of years
00:16:55at the rate I've been promoting rides.
00:16:57Not much luck, huh?
00:16:58Sure, all bad.
00:17:00Not many people stop for a guy these days.
00:17:02Afraid of a stick-up, maybe.
00:17:04Well, you can't blame him.
00:17:06Where are you coming from?
00:17:07New York.
00:17:08Well, New York.
00:17:10You're in luck this time.
00:17:12I'm going all the way.
00:17:14Right through to Los Angeles.
00:17:16Can you drive a car?
00:17:18Sure.
00:17:19Whenever you're tired, let me know.
00:17:21I'll holler.
00:17:23I guess at least an hour passed
00:17:25before I noticed those deep scratches on his right hand.
00:17:28They were wicked.
00:17:30Three puffy red lines about a quarter of an inch apart.
00:17:33He must have seen me looking at them because he said...
00:17:37Beauties, aren't they?
00:17:39They're gonna be scars someday.
00:17:42What an animal.
00:17:44Whatever it was, it must have been pretty big and vicious
00:17:46to have done that.
00:17:47Right on both counts, New York.
00:17:49I was tussling with the most dangerous animal in the world,
00:17:52a woman.
00:17:54She must have been Tarzan's mate.
00:17:55Looks like you lost the bout.
00:17:57It certainly wasn't a draw.
00:18:00You know, there ought to be a law against dames with claws.
00:18:03Yeah.
00:18:04I tossed her out of the car in her ear.
00:18:06Was I wrong?
00:18:08Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't you?
00:18:11Yeah.
00:18:12After all, what kind of a dame some rides?
00:18:15Sunday school teachers?
00:18:16Yeah.
00:18:18A little witch.
00:18:20She must have thought she was riding with some fall guy.
00:18:24For me, it was been booking horses around race tracks since I was 20.
00:18:28I've known a million dames like her.
00:18:30Two million.
00:18:31Yeah.
00:18:34Stop the car, open the door.
00:18:37Take it on the Arthur Duffy sister, I told her.
00:18:39That's the stuff.
00:18:40As I was done, huh?
00:18:43But if you want to see a real scar, brother, get a load of this.
00:18:50I got that when Joe...
00:18:52Yeah, we're just kidding, of course.
00:18:54My dad owned a couple of Franco Prussian sabers.
00:18:56Kept them on the wall for decorations.
00:18:59Well, one day, another kid and I took them down.
00:19:02The old man wasn't around, had a duel.
00:19:05He got me in the arm here.
00:19:07Pretty mean cut.
00:19:09Infection set in later.
00:19:11Yeah, I can see that.
00:19:13Now, give me that box again, will you?
00:19:15Yeah.
00:19:23Pain made me lose my head, I guess.
00:19:26Began slashing.
00:19:28Before I knew it, I'd put the other kid's eye on.
00:19:31That was tough.
00:19:33Well, it was just an accident, of course.
00:19:35Do you know how kids are?
00:19:37I got scared, decided I was going to run away from home.
00:19:40Old man almost caught me when I was packing my duds.
00:19:44The bloody rag I had wrapped around my wrist hadn't caught his attention.
00:19:47He'd seen the bundle for sure.
00:19:49But I beat it when he was phoning for a doctor.
00:19:52That was 15, 16 years ago.
00:19:54I haven't been home since.
00:20:00Go in there for a bite or something, huh?
00:20:02A bite or something?
00:20:04Brother, was I hungry.
00:20:06I hadn't had anything in my stomach for hours.
00:20:09Yet, even with that gnawing in the pit of my belly,
00:20:11I didn't want to be in too big a rush to put on the feed bag.
00:20:14You know, I'd rather die than go in there.
00:20:17I didn't want to be in too big a rush to put on the feed bag.
00:20:20First, I had to make sure this guy knew the score.
00:20:23If I got him down on me, it was goodbye ticket to Hollywood.
00:20:27I'll wait out here for you, mister.
00:20:29If it's the money, don't worry about paying for it.
00:20:31This time, it's on me.
00:20:32Well, that's white of you, mister.
00:20:33Haskell, think nothing of it.
00:20:35You make your first million, maybe you can do the same for me.
00:20:37Come on, New York.
00:20:38I got to make the West Coast by Wednesday.
00:20:40There's a horse running in Santa Anita named Pirate Bicycle.
00:20:42You can sell it to me if I want him.
00:20:44We'll make it, all right.
00:20:46He did most of the talking during the half hour we were in the place.
00:20:49I ate.
00:20:51He rambled on about his old man whom he hadn't heard from since he ran away as a kid.
00:20:56And how he happened to become a bookie.
00:20:58And then all about how he got rooked in Miami.
00:21:00One race, 38 grand.
00:21:02They cleaned out my book.
00:21:03How do you like that?
00:21:05That was tough luck.
00:21:06Yeah, and I'm supposed to be the smart guy.
00:21:08Well, you just wait.
00:21:09I'm going back to Florida next season with all kinds of jack.
00:21:11And you watch those stinkers run for cover.
00:21:14Want anything else?
00:21:15No, thanks.
00:21:16I've had plenty.
00:21:22That check there, sister?
00:21:27Oh, just a miniature change, sir.
00:21:29Keep it, sister.
00:21:30Oh, thank you, sir.
00:21:31Call again.
00:21:32I'll be waiting outside for you when you finish work.
00:21:35Sharp check, huh?
00:21:36Thanks.
00:21:45I drove all that night while Haskell slept like a log.
00:21:48After a while, I began to get sleepy myself.
00:21:53I was happy, though.
00:21:54Soon I'd be with Sue again.
00:21:57The long trip was practically over and there'd be no more hoofing it down the concrete.
00:22:02I began to think of the future.
00:22:04It couldn't have been brighter if I'd embroidered it with neon lights.
00:22:08It was nice to think of Sue shooting to the top.
00:22:12It's amazing what a full belly can do to your imagination.
00:22:18Your eyes, oh, your kisses, too.
00:22:23I never knew what they could do.
00:22:27I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:22:35You're telling everyone you know.
00:22:40I'm on your mind each place you go.
00:22:44I can't believe that you're in love with me.
00:22:58Mr. Haskell.
00:23:00Mr. Haskell.
00:23:04Mr. Haskell, wake up. It's raining.
00:23:06Don't you think we ought to stop and put up the top?
00:23:16Mr. Haskell, I'm sorry.
00:23:18I'm sorry.
00:23:19I'm sorry.
00:23:20I'm sorry.
00:23:22I'm sorry.
00:23:23I'm sorry.
00:23:24I'm sorry.
00:23:26Mr. Haskell, I'm going to put up the top.
00:23:43Until then, I had done things my way.
00:23:45But from then on, something else stepped in and shunted me off to a different destination than the one I had picked for myself.
00:23:51But when I pulled open that door...
00:23:56Mr. Haskell, what's the matter?
00:23:58Are you hurt?
00:24:00Are you hurt, Mr. Haskell?
00:24:02Start your sermon.
00:24:04I'll listen to it.
00:24:06But I know what you're going to hand me even before you open your mouths.
00:24:09You're going to tell me you don't believe my story of how Haskell died and give me that don't make me laugh expression on your smug faces.
00:24:18I saw it once. He was dead.
00:24:20And I was in for it.
00:24:21Who would believe he fell out of the car?
00:24:23Why, if Haskell came too, which of course he couldn't, even he would swear I conked him over the head for his dole.
00:24:27Yes, I was in for it.
00:24:30Instinct told me to run.
00:24:31But then I realized it was hopeless.
00:24:33There were lots of people back down the road who could identify me.
00:24:35That gas station guy and the waitress.
00:24:37I would be in a worse spot then trying to explain why I beat it.
00:24:40The next possibility was to sit tight and tell the truth when the cops came.
00:24:43But that would be crazy.
00:24:44They'd laugh at the truth.
00:24:46And I'd have my head in the noose.
00:24:49So what else was there to do but hide the body?
00:24:51And get away in the car.
00:24:52I couldn't leave the car there with him in the gully.
00:24:54That would be like erecting a tombstone.
00:25:22My idea was to cover him with brush.
00:25:24Not to rob him.
00:25:25But then I remembered that even if I only drove the car for a hundred miles or so, I would need money for gas.
00:25:30Besides, it was stupid of me to leave all that money on a dead man.
00:25:34Not only that, I'd have to take his driver's license in case I was stopped for something.
00:25:40I didn't like to think about it.
00:25:41But by that time I'd done just what the police would say I did.
00:25:44Even if I didn't.
00:25:45I'd close.
00:25:46The owner of such an expensive car would never be wearing them.
00:25:49Some cop might pull me in on suspicion.
00:26:15Hey, you, this your car?
00:26:17Don't you know better than to leave a car with the wheels halfway in the middle of the road?
00:26:20That's the way accidents happen.
00:26:22I'm sorry, officer.
00:26:24I was just putting up my top.
00:26:25I didn't think.
00:26:26Well, the next time, think.
00:26:28I'll let you go now, but watch your step in the future.
00:26:30I know that's a lonely stretch, but cars come by here once in a while and we have plenty of crack-ups.
00:26:34Thanks, officer.
00:26:36I'll let you go now, but watch your step in the future.
00:26:38I know that's a lonely stretch, but cars come by here once in a while and we have plenty of crack-ups.
00:26:41Thanks, officer.
00:26:45I know that's a lonely stretch, but cars come by here once in a while and we have plenty of crack-ups.
00:27:08I left nothing in the car to give me away as Roberts.
00:27:11If they found a dead man in the gully now, it would be me.
00:27:16If they found a dead man in the gully now, it would be me.
00:27:21As I drove off, it was still raining.
00:27:24And the drops streaked down the windshield like tears.
00:27:29I kept imagining I was being followed, that I could hear sirens back in the distance.
00:27:34Just how long it took me to cover the 60-odd miles to the California state line, I don't know.
00:27:39I lost all track of time.
00:27:40But the rain had stopped and the sun was up when I pulled up to the inspection station.
00:27:49Hello.
00:27:51Carrying any fruits or vegetables?
00:27:53No.
00:27:54Any livestock or poultry?
00:27:55No.
00:27:57I'd like to see your registration and driver's license, please.
00:28:04Anything in the baggage compartment?
00:28:06Just baggage.
00:28:07Just baggage.
00:28:10Charles Haskell Jr., age 30, brown eyes, dark hair.
00:28:13Identifying marks, none.
00:28:15Are you Charles Haskell Jr.?
00:28:17Yes.
00:28:18Well, remember, if you're employed and you stay over 30 days, you take out California plates.
00:28:22All right, officer, but I'll only be in the state a short while.
00:28:25Right, you can go now.
00:28:34I couldn't drive any farther without some sleep.
00:28:37No cops or no cops.
00:28:39I knew I had to hit the hay and hit it hard.
00:28:43I was dead tired.
00:29:08No.
00:29:10No, you can't, Mr. Haskell.
00:29:12No.
00:29:23Mr. Haskell, you can't die.
00:29:26Don't think...
00:29:28Don't think I did it.
00:29:31No, Mr. Haskell.
00:29:33No.
00:29:35No, Mr. Haskell.
00:29:37No.
00:29:39No.
00:29:54Who's there?
00:29:55It's the maid.
00:29:56Can I come in and clean?
00:29:58Later.
00:30:00In a half hour.
00:30:01All right, sir.
00:30:04Thank you.
00:30:27There was no time to lose.
00:30:29Every minute I had to be Charles Haskell was dangerous.
00:30:31And I'd have to be Charles Haskell until I got to some city
00:30:33where I could leave the car and be swallowed up.
00:30:41That meant driving the car as far as San Bernardino.
00:30:43Maybe even to Los Angeles.
00:30:45In a little town I might be noticed,
00:30:47but in a city I should be safe enough.
00:30:50Then, after I ditched the car, I could go on to Sue.
00:30:54But those five minutes at the state line
00:30:56made me realize it might be a good idea
00:30:58to find out a little bit about Mr. Haskell.
00:31:01Then, if anybody asked me questions,
00:31:03I could give the right answers.
00:31:05The first thing I found out was that I had $768.
00:31:09This was a lot of jack.
00:31:11But believe me,
00:31:13it was the kind of money I'd rather not have.
00:31:22And then I found out from a letter
00:31:24Haskell was carting around in his bag
00:31:26that he wasn't the open-handed, easy-going big shot
00:31:27who went around buying dinners for strange hitchhikers.
00:31:30Before I got done reading it,
00:31:32I saw him more as a chiseler.
00:31:35It was written to his old man in California,
00:31:37the one he hadn't seen in so many years.
00:31:40In it, Haskell posed as a salesman
00:31:42of hymnals, of all things.
00:31:46It was easy to see where Haskell expected
00:31:48to raise a new stake for his book in Miami
00:31:51by rooking his old man.
00:31:54That was about all I found out from his letter.
00:31:55That was about all I found out from his effects.
00:31:57And it was enough.
00:31:59I told myself,
00:32:01maybe old man Haskell was lucky his son kicked off.
00:32:04He would never know it,
00:32:06but it saved him from taking a flyer
00:32:08in sacred literature preferred.
00:32:26Near the airport at Desert Center,
00:32:28I pulled up for water.
00:32:31There was a woman.
00:32:37Hey, you!
00:32:39Come on if you want a ride.
00:32:55Come on.
00:33:26How far are you going?
00:33:28How far are you going?
00:33:30That took me by surprise,
00:33:32and I turned my head to look her over.
00:33:34She was facing straight ahead,
00:33:36so I couldn't see her eyes.
00:33:38But she was young,
00:33:40about more than 24.
00:33:42Man, she looked as if she'd just been thrown
00:33:44off the crummiest freight train in the world.
00:33:47Yes, she was young,
00:33:49but she didn't look old at all.
00:33:51She didn't look old at all.
00:33:52Man, she looked as if she'd just been thrown
00:33:54off the crummiest freight train in the world.
00:33:56Yet in spite of this,
00:33:58I got the impression of beauty.
00:34:00Not the beauty of a movie actress, mind you,
00:34:02or the beauty you dream about
00:34:04when you're with your wife,
00:34:06but a natural beauty.
00:34:08A beauty that's almost homely
00:34:10because it's so real.
00:34:12Then suddenly, she turned to face me.
00:34:14How far did you say you were going?
00:34:16Los Angeles.
00:34:18L.A.?
00:34:20L.A.'s good enough for me, mister.
00:34:22I know nothing, just thinking out loud.
00:34:24People get in trouble for doing that.
00:34:26What's your name?
00:34:28You can call me Vera if you like.
00:34:30You live in Los Angeles?
00:34:32No.
00:34:34Where are you coming from?
00:34:36Oh, back there.
00:34:38Needles?
00:34:40No.
00:34:42Oh, sure, Phoenix.
00:34:44You look just like a Phoenix girl.
00:34:46Are the girls in Phoenix that bad?
00:34:48The girl must have been pretty tired
00:34:50because she fell asleep not 20 minutes
00:34:52after walking against the far door,
00:34:54like Haskell.
00:34:56I didn't like that part of it much,
00:34:58but I didn't wake her up.
00:35:00It wasn't that this girl still worried me.
00:35:02I'd gotten over that funny feeling I had
00:35:04when she looked at me,
00:35:06which I put down as just my jangled nerves.
00:35:08With her eyes closed
00:35:10and the tenseness gone out of her,
00:35:12she seemed harmless enough.
00:35:14And instead of disliking her,
00:35:16I began to feel sorry for her.
00:35:18The poor kid probably had had
00:35:20a rough time of it.
00:35:22And why was she going to Los Angeles?
00:35:24And where'd she come from in the first place?
00:35:26The only thing I knew about her was her name.
00:35:29Not that it made any difference.
00:35:31A few hours more and we'd be in Hollywood.
00:35:33I'd forget where I parked the car
00:35:35and look up Sue.
00:35:37This nightmare of being a dead man would be over.
00:35:39Who this dame was,
00:35:41well, it was no business of mine.
00:35:43Where did you leave his body?
00:35:45Where did you leave the owner of this car?
00:35:47You're not fooling anyone.
00:35:49This buggy belongs to a guy named Haskell.
00:35:50That's not you, mister.
00:35:52You're out of your mind. That's my name, Charles Haskell.
00:35:54I can prove it. It's my driver's license.
00:35:56Save yourself the trouble, mister.
00:35:58Having Haskell's wallet only makes it worse.
00:36:00It just so happens I rode with Charlie Haskell
00:36:02all the way from Louisiana.
00:36:04He picked me up outside of Shreveport.
00:36:06You rode?
00:36:08You heard me.
00:36:10Then it all came back to me.
00:36:12All the talk about dueling and scars and scratches.
00:36:14There was no doubt about it.
00:36:16Vera must be the woman Haskell had mentioned.
00:36:18She must have passed me while I slept.
00:36:20Well?
00:36:22Well, I'm waiting.
00:36:24My goose was cooked.
00:36:26She had me.
00:36:28That Haskell guy wasn't dead yet.
00:36:30He wasn't stretched out stiff and cold
00:36:32in any Arizona gully.
00:36:34He was sitting right there in the car laughing like mad
00:36:36while he haunted me.
00:36:38Well?
00:36:40There was nothing I could say.
00:36:42It was her move.
00:36:44Vera, whatever her name was,
00:36:46it was just my luck picking her up on the road.
00:36:48It couldn't have been Helen
00:36:50or Evelyn or Ruth.
00:36:52It had to be the very last person
00:36:54I should ever have met.
00:36:56That's life.
00:36:58Whichever way you turn,
00:37:00fate sticks out a foot to trip you.
00:37:06I told her everything,
00:37:08but she didn't believe my story.
00:37:10I should have saved my breath.
00:37:12That's the greatest cock and bull story I ever heard.
00:37:14So he fell out of his car.
00:37:16Say, who do you think you're talking to, a hick?
00:37:18Listen, mister, I've been around
00:37:20and I've seen it all.
00:37:22What'd you do, kiss him with a wrench?
00:37:24Now, wait a minute.
00:37:26What I told you was true.
00:37:28You see, that's why I had to do it.
00:37:30You think I killed him.
00:37:32Well, the cops would have thought so too.
00:37:34Yeah, well, maybe they still think so.
00:37:36What makes you so sure I'll shut up about this?
00:37:38Vera, I'm innocent.
00:37:40Give me a break, will you?
00:37:42It won't do me any good having you pinched.
00:37:44The cops are no friends of mine.
00:37:46Now, if there was a reward, but there isn't.
00:37:48Thanks.
00:37:51Is that all Haskell had?
00:37:53Isn't it enough?
00:37:55No, I thought he had more.
00:37:57Not that I know of.
00:37:59You can search me if you think I'm holding out on you.
00:38:01Well, maybe I will at that.
00:38:03He told me he was going to bet $3,000
00:38:05on a horse named Paradisical on Wednesday at Santa Anita.
00:38:07He was stringing you along.
00:38:09He meant $300.
00:38:10Maybe.
00:38:12Sure, three bucks, $300.
00:38:14He was a piece of cheese, a big blowhard.
00:38:16Listen, mister, don't try and tell me anything
00:38:18about Charlie Haskell.
00:38:20Okay, then you knew he was a foreflusher.
00:38:22That explains the $3,000 bet.
00:38:24I'm not so sure he didn't have that $3,000.
00:38:26Why should I believe you?
00:38:28You got all the earmarks of a cheap crook.
00:38:30Now, wait a minute.
00:38:31Shut up!
00:38:33You're a cheap crook and you killed him.
00:38:35For two cents, I'd change my mind and turn you in.
00:38:37I don't like you!
00:38:39All right, all right, don't get sore.
00:38:41I'm not getting sore, but just remember
00:38:43who's boss around here.
00:38:45If you shut up and don't give me any arguments,
00:38:47you'll have nothing to worry about.
00:38:48I'm not arguing.
00:38:49Well, see that you don't.
00:38:50You know, as crooked as you look,
00:38:52I'd hate to see a fella as young as you
00:38:54wind up sniffing that perfume that Arizona
00:38:56hands out free to murderers.
00:38:57I'm not a murderer.
00:38:58Of course you're not.
00:38:59Haskell knocked his own head off.
00:39:01He fell, that's how it happened, just like I told you.
00:39:03Sure, and then he made you a present of his belongings.
00:39:05I explained why I had to do that.
00:39:07Oh, skip it.
00:39:08It doesn't make a difference one way or another.
00:39:10I'm not a mourner.
00:39:12I liked Haskell even less than I like you.
00:39:14Yeah, I saw what you did to him.
00:39:16What do you mean?
00:39:18So your idea was to drive the car a little way,
00:39:20maybe into San Bernardino, and then leave it.
00:39:22You weren't gonna sell it?
00:39:24Sell it?
00:39:25You think I'm crazy?
00:39:26Somebody else's car?
00:39:28Say, all I wanna do is leave it somewhere
00:39:29and forget I ever saw it.
00:39:31Not only don't you have any scruples,
00:39:32you don't have any brains.
00:39:33I don't get you.
00:39:35Maybe it's a good thing you met me.
00:39:37You'd have got yourself caught, sure.
00:39:38Why, you dope.
00:39:40Don't you know a deserted automobile
00:39:41always rates an investigation?
00:39:43Huh?
00:39:44Look, the cops find a car.
00:39:46Then they get curious.
00:39:47They wonder where the owner is.
00:39:49So, all right, they don't trace Haskell.
00:39:51They trace you.
00:39:53I never thought of that.
00:39:55The only safe way to get rid of the car
00:39:56is to sell it to a dealer.
00:39:57Get it registered under a new name.
00:39:59Say, stop at the next store.
00:40:01I wanna get a bottle and do some shopping
00:40:02before we hit L.A.
00:40:04Okay, since we find a place,
00:40:05I'll drop you off and pick you up later.
00:40:07Nothing doing.
00:40:08You're coming in, too.
00:40:09From now on, you and I are like the Siamese twins.
00:40:12Have it your way, but I don't get the point.
00:40:14The point is, I don't want you to get lost.
00:40:15I'm not gonna beat it if that's what you're afraid of.
00:40:17I'll say you're not.
00:40:18Well, I'm gonna see that you sell this car
00:40:19so you don't get caught.
00:40:21Thanks.
00:40:22Of course, your interest wouldn't be financial, would it?
00:40:25You wouldn't want a small percentage of the profits.
00:40:27Well, now that you insist, how can I refuse?
00:40:30A hundred percent'll do.
00:40:32Fine, I'm relieved.
00:40:34I thought for a moment you were gonna take it all.
00:40:36I don't wanna be a hog.
00:40:40A few hours later, we were in Hollywood.
00:40:42I was recognizing places to sit.
00:40:43I was recognizing places Sue had written about.
00:40:46It struck me that far from being at the end of the trip,
00:40:49there was a greater distance between Sue and me
00:40:51than when I started out.
00:40:53Vera wasn't kidding with that Siamese twins crack.
00:40:57She rented a little apartment as Mrs. Charles Haskell.
00:41:01When I objected to this, she explained
00:41:03that it was on account of the car.
00:41:05The dealer might think something was funny
00:41:07if he called and found we were using different names.
00:41:14Home, sweet home.
00:41:16Yeah.
00:41:18Not bad either.
00:41:26In case there's any doubt in your mind,
00:41:28I'll take the bedroom.
00:41:30Yeah.
00:41:32Sure is stuffy in here.
00:41:41Keep the windows shut.
00:41:44The old crow downstairs said
00:41:46there's a fallen bed behind this door.
00:41:54You know how to work it?
00:41:59I invented it.
00:42:04Some joint.
00:42:06One can't have everything.
00:42:11I'm first in the bathtub.
00:42:14I don't know why,
00:42:16but I figured you would be.
00:42:27Boy, oh boy.
00:42:29It sure feels good to be clean again.
00:42:32I must be 10 pounds lighter.
00:42:34You must be.
00:42:37Well, hitching rides isn't exactly
00:42:39the way you keep your schoolgirl complexion.
00:42:44I wish that guy with the sacks would give up.
00:42:47Gets on my nerves.
00:42:50Forget it.
00:42:54Have a drink.
00:42:57Aren't you afraid I might take you up on it?
00:43:01If I didn't want to give you a drink,
00:43:03I wouldn't have offered it.
00:43:05Why be a sorehead, Roberts?
00:43:07You got yourself into this thing.
00:43:09You should be grateful I'm not turning you in.
00:43:11Why, if I wasn't regular,
00:43:13I'd be in the pen this minute
00:43:15being photographed, fingerprinted,
00:43:17and being pushed around by the cops.
00:43:19So cheer up.
00:43:21Get rid of that long puss.
00:43:23Or is your conscience bothering you?
00:43:30No.
00:43:32It isn't.
00:43:34Swell.
00:43:36That's the spirit.
00:43:38He's dead and no moment around will bring him back.
00:43:40Anyway,
00:43:42I never could understand this worrying
00:43:44about something that's over and done with.
00:43:46Now look, Vera, for the last time, I didn't kill him.
00:43:48Haskell was a sick man.
00:43:50Maybe he was dead before he fell out of the car.
00:43:52I don't know.
00:43:53Sure, sure, he died of old age.
00:43:55All right.
00:43:57So if it'll make you sociable,
00:43:59you didn't kill him.
00:44:10Thanks.
00:44:22We're out of liquor, Roberts.
00:44:24Yeah.
00:44:26Too bad.
00:44:28I felt like getting tight tonight.
00:44:30Well, I think you succeeded.
00:44:32Am I tight?
00:44:34As a prima donna's corset.
00:44:36That's good.
00:44:37I wanted to get tight.
00:44:39Why?
00:44:40What have you got to get tight about?
00:44:42Oh, I don't know.
00:44:43A few things.
00:44:45Huh.
00:44:47You should have my worries.
00:44:49If I had your troubles, I'd stay sober.
00:44:51And I've got the key to that door.
00:44:56Yeah.
00:44:58Maybe you're right.
00:45:00I'm always right.
00:45:02You know, I don't like your attitude, Roberts.
00:45:05Well, there's a lot of things I don't like.
00:45:07Sure.
00:45:12But life's like a ball game.
00:45:14You got to take a swing at whatever comes along
00:45:16before you wake up and find it's a ninth inning.
00:45:19I bet you read that somewhere.
00:45:21That's the trouble with you, Roberts.
00:45:23All you do is bellyache.
00:45:25Bit of taking it easy
00:45:27and trying to make the best of things.
00:45:30But maybe that's what's wrong with the whole world.
00:45:33Get the professor.
00:45:35People knock themselves out
00:45:37with a buck fate.
00:45:38Now take you, for instance.
00:45:40You're lucky to be alive.
00:45:42Why, suppose Haskell had pulled open your door?
00:45:44You'd be playing a harp now.
00:45:46Think of that.
00:45:48You think of it.
00:45:50I'm tired of thinking.
00:45:52There's plenty of people dying this minute
00:45:54that would give anything to trade places with you.
00:45:59I know what I'm talking about.
00:46:02I'm not so sure.
00:46:04At least they know they're done for.
00:46:05They don't have to sweat blood
00:46:07wondering if they are.
00:46:09Your philosophy stinks, pal.
00:46:12We all know we're going to kick off someday.
00:46:15It's only a question of when.
00:46:18But what's got us on this subject anyway?
00:46:21We'll be discussing politics next.
00:46:23Yeah.
00:46:26Where'd you hide the butts?
00:46:28On the table, sucker.
00:46:36We bored each other with conversation
00:46:38for a couple of hours longer.
00:46:40Every five minutes, one of us was wishing
00:46:42we had another bottle or a radio
00:46:44or something to read.
00:46:46Then finally, we ran out of chat.
00:46:49I know it's only 11 o'clock,
00:46:51but I want to get up early
00:46:53and make the rounds of the used car lots.
00:46:55No hurry about that.
00:46:57We've got all the time in the world.
00:46:59Maybe you have, but do you think I want to stay
00:47:01cooped up in this place any longer than I have to?
00:47:03You're batty.
00:47:05I wouldn't like it if it was the Ritz.
00:47:11Rotten liquor.
00:47:13You got a mean cough, ought to do something about it.
00:47:15I'll be all right.
00:47:17That's what Camille said.
00:47:19Who?
00:47:21Nobody you know.
00:47:25Wasn't that the day in the diet of consumption?
00:47:28Yeah.
00:47:30Wouldn't it be a break for you if I did kick off?
00:47:32You'd be free with all Haskell's dough and car.
00:47:35I don't want to see anybody die.
00:47:37Not even me?
00:47:39Especially not you.
00:47:41One person died in me.
00:47:43If you did, well, that's all I need.
00:47:46You don't like me, do you, Roberts?
00:47:50I like you.
00:47:52I love you.
00:47:55My favorite sport is being kept prisoner.
00:47:58After we sell the car, you can go to blazes for all I care,
00:48:01but not until then.
00:48:06I'm going to bed.
00:48:17Good night, Roberts.
00:48:19Don't try and sneak away during the night.
00:48:21All the doors are locked.
00:48:23Anyway, if I find you gone in the morning,
00:48:25I'll notify the police.
00:48:27They'll pick you up.
00:48:29Don't worry, I know when I'm in a spot.
00:48:31Well, good night.
00:48:33I hope that portable rack isn't too uncomfortable for you.
00:48:35Don't lose any sleep over it, will you, girl?
00:49:05Chris Few.
00:49:08Six.
00:49:10Five.
00:49:12Seven.
00:49:14Two.
00:49:16Three.
00:49:18Hello?
00:49:20Hello?
00:49:22Hello?
00:49:24Hello?
00:49:26Hello?
00:49:28Hello?
00:49:30Hello?
00:49:32Hello?
00:49:33Hello?
00:49:35Hello?
00:49:43No.
00:49:45Not yet, darling.
00:49:48Tomorrow.
00:49:50Maybe.
00:49:55If this were fiction,
00:49:57I would fall in love with Vera,
00:49:59marry her and make a respectable woman of her,
00:50:00or else she'd make some Supreme Class A sacrifice for me
00:50:03and die.
00:50:05Sue and I would bawl a little over her grave
00:50:08and make some crack about there's good in all of us.
00:50:11But Vera, unfortunately,
00:50:13was just as rotten in the morning
00:50:15as she'd been the night before.
00:50:18All right, all right, I'm coming.
00:50:20Look, Vera, it's almost noon.
00:50:23So what?
00:50:25The dealers will be there all day?
00:50:27They'll be there all year, too,
00:50:28but it won't take that long.
00:50:30Shut up, you're making noises like a husband.
00:50:34Well, do I rate a whistle?
00:50:36You sure do, but let's go.
00:50:38Let's go, let's go.
00:50:40I spend 85 bucks and two hours preparing bait
00:50:42and all you can say is let's go.
00:50:44Come on.
00:50:51We passed a few used car lots last night down this way.
00:50:54What do you think we can get for this heap?
00:50:56I don't know, plenty.
00:50:58What do you think?
00:51:00Think we can get $2,000?
00:51:02I don't know, but don't worry.
00:51:04I'll squeeze as much out of this guy as I can.
00:51:06I'll let it go cheap without a fight.
00:51:08He might think we've stolen the car.
00:51:10And listen, don't make any slips and call me Roberts.
00:51:12That'll cook us.
00:51:14I don't need you to tell me that.
00:51:16You better just sit by and keep your mouth closed.
00:51:18Remember, we're both in this soup if anything happens.
00:51:20Forget it and drive.
00:51:22You're my wife, Vera Haskell.
00:51:24Look, after the deal's closed,
00:51:26let's go back to that place on Hollywood Boulevard
00:51:28and take it.
00:51:29I want to buy it.
00:51:31After the deal's closed, I'm saying goodbye to you.
00:51:33That's right, I forgot.
00:51:35I guess I'm getting kind of used to you.
00:51:38Well, that's a habit you can start breaking.
00:51:40Let's try this place in the middle of the block.
00:51:49Good afternoon. What can I do for you?
00:51:51We're interested in selling a car.
00:51:53If the price is right.
00:51:55Well, if it's in good mechanical condition,
00:51:57it should blue book for about $1,600.
00:52:00Tony, take a look at this motor.
00:52:02$1,600? Are you kidding?
00:52:15Well, maybe $1,850.
00:52:17Before I let it go for $1,850,
00:52:19I'll wreck it and collect the insurance first.
00:52:25Maybe this motor's seen a lot of driving.
00:52:33Well, the mechanic inspected the car.
00:52:35We haggled.
00:52:37At last, when we were all worn out,
00:52:39we hit a compromise.
00:52:41His price.
00:52:45Okay, it's a deal.
00:52:47All right, come in. We'll sign the papers.
00:52:49I have the ownership papers right here with me.
00:52:51Look, Vera, in the meantime,
00:52:52will you clean out the dash compartment?
00:52:54There may be some stuff in it.
00:52:56All right, darling.
00:52:59$1,850.
00:53:01That dirty crook.
00:53:10New York, huh?
00:53:12Yeah, but you bought the car in Miami.
00:53:14Yeah.
00:53:16Well, let's see about the insurance.
00:53:18We can either have it transferred or canceled.
00:53:20What kind of insurance do you have, Mr. Haskell?
00:53:23Well, uh...
00:53:25Aren't all the papers there?
00:53:28I don't see any.
00:53:30Surely you know what type of insurance
00:53:32you carry in the car.
00:53:34The name of the company?
00:53:36Yeah, but, uh...
00:53:38Well, if you'll just tell me the name of the company,
00:53:40I'd be very glad to take care of all the details.
00:53:42Well...
00:53:44Did you sign the papers yet?
00:53:46Not yet.
00:53:47Well, don't. We're not selling the car.
00:53:49Well, wait a minute, Mrs. Haskell.
00:53:50I guess I have.
00:53:51But Vera...
00:53:52Let's go.
00:53:58You got me out of a tight spot, Vera.
00:54:00But I still don't understand all this.
00:54:02You will in a minute.
00:54:04I almost threw away a gold mine.
00:54:06$1,850 isn't to be sneezed at.
00:54:08The car doesn't book for as much as I thought.
00:54:10We're not selling the car.
00:54:12You want to keep it?
00:54:14Now, wait a minute, Vera.
00:54:16You said yourself I wouldn't be safe
00:54:18until the car was in someone else's name.
00:54:20There's a driver at the next corner.
00:54:22Pull in there and we'll get a bite to eat.
00:54:24And I'll explain.
00:54:26What is this, another one of your brilliant ideas?
00:54:33Hello. May I take your order?
00:54:35Make mine a ham sandwich and coffee.
00:54:37And for you, sir?
00:54:39Oh, I don't care. The same.
00:54:41Thank you.
00:54:46Get this, Vera.
00:54:48I've been pretty patient so far.
00:54:50I've done everything you asked me to do, but no more.
00:54:52Shut up.
00:54:54You've taken Haskell's money.
00:54:56And you can have the door we get from selling the car.
00:54:58But you're not going to keep me a prisoner.
00:55:00It's a good thing I bought the paper. Take a look at that.
00:55:02Vera, I'm in no mood.
00:55:04Read that.
00:55:12No.
00:55:14Yes.
00:55:16No, I won't do it.
00:55:18Yes, you will.
00:55:21Blow the horn when you're through.
00:55:26No one could possibly get away with an act like that.
00:55:28It'd be wise to me in a minute.
00:55:30Don't be yellow.
00:55:32You look enough like him.
00:55:34The same coloring and the same build.
00:55:36See how his clothes fit you?
00:55:38No kidding, you almost had me fooled for a while.
00:55:40Oh, grow up, Vera.
00:55:42Don't you think a father knows his own son?
00:55:44And there must be other relatives.
00:55:46The father won't have to know you.
00:55:48We'll wait till he gives up the ghost.
00:55:50And as far as other relatives are concerned,
00:55:52they haven't seen you in 15 or 20 years.
00:55:55Eat.
00:55:57I'm not hungry. And I won't do it.
00:55:59It's not as tough as it sounds.
00:56:01Remember, you've got all kinds of identification.
00:56:03His car, letters, license.
00:56:05I could never get away with it.
00:56:07It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
00:56:09The old boy has scads of dough.
00:56:11Look in the paper there.
00:56:13Personal fortune assessed at over 15 million.
00:56:15He'll leave plenty, I tell you.
00:56:17Maybe he cut off his son. How do we know?
00:56:19I think you will.
00:56:21Look, Vera, I'll do anything within reason.
00:56:24But not that. So forget it.
00:56:26Find yourself another stooge.
00:56:28Giuseppe!
00:56:30You'll be fixed for the rest of your life as Charlie Haskell.
00:56:32You can take your inheritance and go away.
00:56:34No more worrying about the rent, no sweating,
00:56:36scheming, wondering where your next meal's coming from.
00:56:38Think about that, Roberts!
00:56:40Vera, please, you're talking too loud.
00:56:42Unless I'm splitting 50-50 with you.
00:56:44Sure, why not? We're both alike.
00:56:46Both born in the same gutter.
00:56:48You don't know what you're talking about.
00:56:50Well, wait till we read that old man Haskell's dead.
00:56:53Then you show up.
00:56:55Like you read in New York that he was sick.
00:56:57No.
00:56:59Suppose he doesn't die?
00:57:01He will. I know he will. Something tells me.
00:57:04But as much as I insisted I would have no part of her scheme,
00:57:07Vera was taking it for granted I would.
00:57:11Neither of us had our mind on the cards
00:57:13as we played that night.
00:57:15I knew we were just trying to kill time
00:57:16between newspaper editions.
00:57:18This was a death watch for Vera.
00:57:21Maybe it was for me, too.
00:57:23Don't you realize if I'm caught,
00:57:25they'll want to know where I got the car and stuff,
00:57:27and they'll have me on a murder charge.
00:57:29If you're smart, you won't get caught.
00:57:31I knock with seven.
00:57:33And if I'm caught, don't you realize you'll be out too?
00:57:3518 points, that gives me 30.
00:57:38How will I be out?
00:57:40You'll be out $1,850 we would have gotten on the car.
00:57:42Really, Vera, you'd be an awful chump
00:57:44if you threw away all that dough in a dizzy long shot.
00:57:46Let me sell the bus tomorrow.
00:57:48With the money it'll bring and what you've already got,
00:57:50a clever kid like you can run it up in no time.
00:57:52Then we'd both be in the clear.
00:57:54I'll be in the clear anyway.
00:57:56Maybe, maybe if I got caught,
00:57:58I'd get good and sore too, you know.
00:58:00You mean you'd squeal?
00:58:02Oh, no, not squeal exactly.
00:58:04Never mind what you meant.
00:58:06Even if you did tell the cops I was in on it with you,
00:58:09what could they do to me?
00:58:11They might give me the same medicine they gave you.
00:58:14Yeah.
00:58:17But I'm on my way anyhow.
00:58:21All they'll be doing will be rushing it.
00:58:23All right.
00:58:25But think of the $1,850 you'd lose.
00:58:27You'd kick yourself along the block
00:58:29if you ever let get away from you.
00:58:31I'll take the chance.
00:58:33Want another drink?
00:58:35You're being a goon.
00:58:37That's the way people wind up behind the eight ball.
00:58:39Once they get a few dollars they become greedy and want more.
00:58:41My, my.
00:58:43Caesar.
00:58:44Who?
00:58:46I don't know who it was he took the count.
00:58:48A couple of days ago you didn't have a dime.
00:58:50Why, you were so broke you couldn't pay cash
00:58:52for a postage stamp.
00:58:54Now you've got almost $700 with $1,850 in the offing.
00:58:56Take my advice, don't try for more.
00:58:58I'm tired of this game.
00:59:00Let's have some blackjack.
00:59:02Play solitaire.
00:59:04Okay, I will if that's the way you feel about it.
00:59:06That's the way I feel about it.
00:59:08Getting so on throwing things won't help much, Roberts.
00:59:10I'm really doing you a favor.
00:59:12I help you out of a jam by keeping my mouth shut.
00:59:14I show you how to make some soft money.
00:59:16I didn't do anything.
00:59:17Yes, you did.
00:59:18No, I didn't.
00:59:19You know I didn't.
00:59:20All right, then.
00:59:23Suppose I call the cops.
00:59:25If you're innocent, what do you got to be scared of?
00:59:27Okay, call them, you mud.
00:59:29Go ahead and call them, see if I care.
00:59:31At least they'll give me a square deal.
00:59:33You want me to call them?
00:59:35You heard me, but I'm warning you.
00:59:37If I'm pinched, I'll swear you were in on it.
00:59:39I'll say that you helped me.
00:59:41If I fry, I'll get even with you.
00:59:43You wouldn't dare.
00:59:44You didn't.
00:59:45Go ahead and try it and see.
00:59:46Call them.
00:59:47Yeah.
00:59:48Okay, I will.
01:00:02Information?
01:00:05I want the number of the Hollywood police station.
01:00:09Okay, I got it.
01:00:10Thanks.
01:00:15Wait a minute, Vera.
01:00:16You wouldn't do that.
01:00:17Oh, wouldn't I?
01:00:18Give me that and I'll show you if I would.
01:00:19Take it easy now.
01:00:20Let's talk this over.
01:00:21This was early in the evening.
01:00:23And the conversation, while hectic,
01:00:25was at least pitched low.
01:00:27But as the minutes passed
01:00:29and more obstacles to her plan popped into my head,
01:00:31the air got blue.
01:00:33Each word coming from our lips cracked like a whip.
01:00:36I reminded her that as Charles Haskell,
01:00:38I didn't even know my mother's name,
01:00:40where I'd gone to school,
01:00:42the name of my best friend,
01:00:43whether I had an Aunt Emma or not,
01:00:45my religion,
01:00:46and if I'd ever owned a dog.
01:00:48I didn't even know what my middle initial stood for.
01:00:51I also pointed out that the real Haskell
01:00:53had a scar on his forearm.
01:00:55His people never saw that scar.
01:00:57He told me you ran away
01:00:58right after putting out the kid's eye.
01:00:59Yeah, but his father knew it was cut.
01:01:01It had to be some kind of a mark.
01:01:02So what?
01:01:04The old man's dead or will be,
01:01:06I hope, by tomorrow morning's papers.
01:01:08Anyway, you could cut yourself a little,
01:01:10couldn't you?
01:01:11Boy, for that kind of dough,
01:01:13I'd let you cut my leg off.
01:01:15You're drunk and you're crazy mad, Vera.
01:01:17Turn me in if you want to,
01:01:18but I won't get mixed up in this.
01:01:20Besides, how do we know Haskell was such a phony?
01:01:22Maybe he wasn't the man's son at all.
01:01:23Maybe he just dreamed it up.
01:01:24Well, dream it or not,
01:01:26you won't be dreaming
01:01:27when the law taps you on the shoulder.
01:01:29There's a cute little gas chamber
01:01:31waiting for you, Roberts.
01:01:33And I hear extradition to Arizona's a cinch.
01:01:36Where's that phone?
01:01:38Vera!
01:01:39Leave me alone!
01:01:41Vera!
01:01:42I want a phone call, please!
01:01:45I hate you.
01:01:47You're a stinker.
01:01:48You leave me alone!
01:01:50I'll let you alone
01:01:51when you promise to leave the phone where it is.
01:01:52You're drunk.
01:01:53You don't know what you're doing.
01:01:54You're hurting me.
01:01:55Will you promise?
01:01:56All right.
01:02:02You hurt me.
01:02:04I'm sorry, but...
01:02:06And it's hot in here.
01:02:07Open up a window.
01:02:08It's not hot.
01:02:09Don't tell me.
01:02:10How do I do it?
01:02:13You're no gentleman, see?
01:02:14Yeah.
01:02:16All right.
01:02:17I'll open up the window.
01:02:21Vera!
01:02:27Vera, open the door.
01:02:28Please open the door.
01:02:29Vera, open the door.
01:02:30Don't use the phone.
01:02:31Listen to me.
01:02:32I don't like you, Roberts.
01:02:34You're no gentleman, see?
01:02:36You hurt my hand.
01:02:38And I'm gonna get even with you.
01:02:40If you don't open the door,
01:02:41I'm gonna kick it down, Vera.
01:02:43Vera, don't call the cops.
01:02:44Listen to me.
01:02:45I'll do anything you say.
01:02:47Vera, let me in.
01:02:50I'll break the phone.
01:03:10Vera.
01:03:29The world is full of skeptics.
01:03:32I know.
01:03:33I'm one myself.
01:03:35In the Haskell business,
01:03:36how many of you would believe he fell out of the car?
01:03:38And now, after killing Vera
01:03:39without really meaning to do it,
01:03:41how many of you would believe it wasn't premeditated?
01:03:44In a jury room,
01:03:46every last man of you would go down
01:03:47shouting that she had me over a barrel
01:03:49and my only out was force.
01:03:52The room was still.
01:03:55So quiet that for a while
01:03:56I wondered if I had suddenly gone deaf.
01:03:59It was pure fear, of course.
01:04:01And I was hysterical.
01:04:03But without making a sound.
01:04:06Vera was dead.
01:04:08And I was her murderer.
01:04:10Murderer.
01:04:11What an awful word that is.
01:04:13But I'd become one.
01:04:15I'd better not get caught.
01:04:17What evidence there was around the place
01:04:18had to be destroyed.
01:04:20And from the looks of things, there was plenty.
01:04:22Looking around the room at things we'd bought
01:04:23was like looking into the faces
01:04:24of a hundred people who'd seen us together
01:04:25and who remembered me.
01:04:27This was the kind of testimony I couldn't rub out.
01:04:31No.
01:04:33I could burn clothes and hide bottles
01:04:34for the next five years.
01:04:35There'd always be witnesses.
01:04:37The landlady for one.
01:04:38She could identify me, the car dealer,
01:04:39the waitress in the drive-in,
01:04:40the girl in the dress shop
01:04:41and that guy in the liquor store.
01:04:43They could all identify me.
01:04:46I was cooked.
01:04:48Done for.
01:04:49I had to get out of there.
01:04:51While once I'd remained beside a dead body
01:04:53planning carefully how to avoid
01:04:54being accused of killing him,
01:04:56this time I couldn't.
01:04:59This time I was guilty.
01:05:01I knew it.
01:05:03Felt it.
01:05:05I was like a guy suffering from shock.
01:05:08Things were whirling around in my head.
01:05:10I couldn't make myself think right.
01:05:12All I could think of was the guy with the saxophone
01:05:14and what he was playing.
01:05:17It wasn't a love song anymore.
01:05:19It was a dirge.
01:05:35It was a dirge.
01:06:06But my problems weren't solved.
01:06:08I had to stay away from New York
01:06:10for all time
01:06:12because Al Roberts was listed as dead
01:06:14and had to stay dead.
01:06:16But I could never go back to Hollywood.
01:06:18Someone might recognize me as Haskell.
01:06:22Then, too, there was Sue.
01:06:26I could never go to her
01:06:27with a thing like this hanging over my head.
01:06:31All I could do
01:06:32was pray she'd be happy.
01:06:46I was in Bakersfield before I read
01:06:48that Vera's body was discovered.
01:06:50That the police were looking for Haskell
01:06:52in connection with his wife's murder.
01:06:55Isn't that a laugh?
01:06:57Haskell got me into this mess
01:06:59and Haskell got me out of it.
01:07:00The police were looking for a dead man.
01:07:06I keep trying to forget what happened
01:07:09and wonder what my life might have been
01:07:12if that car of Haskell's hadn't stopped.
01:07:16But one thing I don't have to wonder about,
01:07:19I know.
01:07:22Someday a car will stop to pick me up
01:07:24that I never thumbed.
01:07:27And I'll never know
01:07:28if I ever thumbed.
01:07:34Yes.
01:07:36Fate
01:07:38or some mysterious force
01:07:40can put the finger on you or me
01:07:43for no good reason at all.
01:07:58I'm not going to do it.
01:08:00I'm not going to do it.
01:08:03I'm not going to do it.
01:08:05I'm not going to do it.
01:08:07I'm not going to do it.
01:08:09I'm not going to do it.
01:08:11I'm not going to do it.
01:08:13I'm not going to do it.
01:08:15I'm not going to do it.
01:08:17I'm not going to do it.
01:08:19I'm not going to do it.
01:08:21I'm not going to do it.
01:08:23I'm not going to do it.
01:08:25I'm not going to do it.