Barbara Stanwyck | The 1946 Noir Masterpiece That Defined Twisted Obsession — A 4K Restored Gem

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[00:00:12]Oh yeah.

[00:00:44]Shut the door quick.

[00:00:58]Scared of thunder?

[00:01:03]>> No, I like it.

[00:01:05]>> That's good cuz there's going to be more of it. I brought you food for the kitten, too.

[00:01:11]>> Did you steal it?

[00:01:12]>> No, I bought it.

[00:01:14]>> Oh, >> and if we get caught, don't go making up any stories that I did. I'm in enough trouble as it is. You and your kitten.

[00:01:24]>> You want me to go back, Sam?

[00:01:27]Shut up any >> they looking for me?

[00:01:31]>> Your aunt's got every cop in Irish town.

[00:01:33]People through keyholes.

[00:01:34]>> You won't let them find me.

[00:01:36]>> You'll always come running to me.

[00:01:39]>> Got nobody else to run to. Sam, >> the circus is leaving town tonight.

[00:01:45]Their train will go right through here.

[00:01:47]When it does, you just follow me. You run with all your might. And when you grab on, grab tight.

[00:01:52]>> Don't you worry about me, Sam.

[00:01:55]Shh. Quiet.

[00:02:02]>> There they are. All right, kids. Unless you got wings, you're caught.

[00:02:08]>> All right, Martha. Let's go.

[00:02:24]You'll never catch him. YOU'LL NEVER CATCH HIM. Don't ruffer, you chump.

[00:02:29]All right, miss. We'll take down home to your aunt.

[00:02:46]Mr. O'Neal to see you, ma'am.

[00:02:49]>> Show him in.

[00:02:55]>> Mrs. Ivers will see you now.

[00:03:03]>> Good evening, Mrs. Ivers.

[00:03:05]>> Good evening.

[00:03:06]>> Good evening, Mrs. Ivers.

[00:03:08]>> I have good news. Martha, >> what about her?

[00:03:12]Martha has been found.

[00:03:13]>> I know.

[00:03:14]>> Well, it was Walter who was really responsible for Martha being found. He told the police where she and that boy uh Sam Masterson usually go. Isn't that so, Walter?

[00:03:24]>> Yes, father.

[00:03:27]>> The boy will be rewarded.

[00:03:29]>> Well, he's a good boy and he's bright.

[00:03:32]If I could afford it, I'd send him.

[00:03:33]>> Send him to a school like Harvard.

[00:03:35]>> I guess I've mentioned it before >> many times.

[00:03:40]Yes, madam.

[00:03:42]>> Take the boy to the kitchen, Lynch. Give him some ice cream. You may give him a piece of cake, too. Go along.

[00:03:48]>> Must thank Ms. Ivers.

[00:03:51]>> Thank you, Mrs. Ivers.

[00:03:58]>> You've lost your pupil, Mr. O'Neal. I'm sending her away. I know why you offered to tutor Martha. I know why you made Walter do his daily lessons with her. I know why you want him to live here. A scholarship for Water, that's why. But I'm not a foundation, Mr. O'Neal. I don't care whether Walter drives a truck or goes to Harvard. Probably be a lot happier driving a truck.

[00:04:24]You are expected, miss.

[00:04:28]Oh, just a minute, Miss.

[00:04:30]>> The name is Lan Dean. You'll tell Mrs. Ivers the name of the detective corer is Lan Dean. I'll tell her.

[00:04:42]I'll take your furs, miss.

[00:04:44]>> No.

[00:04:45]>> You'd better, miss. You know how she feels about that cat. I'll bring it up to your room.

[00:04:56]Your aunt is waiting for you.

[00:05:14]Come closer. Martha, closer. father.

[00:05:33]Look at me.

[00:05:39]You don't seem very sorry.

[00:05:41]>> I am. I'm sorry I was caught.

[00:05:47]No matter what you do, I won't cry.

[00:05:50]This is the fourth time you've tried to run away. Each time you were brought back here, no matter how far you got, you were brought back here.

[00:05:58]>> You don't own the whole world.

[00:05:59]>> Enough of it to make sure that you'll always be brought back here. Do you understand that?

[00:06:07]Do you understand that?

[00:06:09]>> Your aunt doesn't deserve such an attitude, Martha. There not very many women who'd be as patient and as kind, and there aren't very many little girls who'd be as ungrateful. When will you understand that I'm doing all this for you? That I'm trying to wash the dirt and grime off you. Make an ivvers out of you again.

[00:06:26]>> My name is Smith, the same as my father's was.

[00:06:29]>> Your name is Ivors? I've had it changed legally.

[00:06:32]>> I don't care what you've done.

[00:06:33]>> Your name is Iv, the same as your mother's was before she was stupid enough to marry them.

[00:06:37]>> Shut up. Shut up.

[00:06:38]>> HOW DARE YOU?

[00:06:38]>> SHUT UP.

[00:06:40]>> You've still got his foul mouth.

[00:06:43]>> I won't let you talk that way about my father.

[00:06:44]>> Your father was a nobody and Milan. The best thing he ever did for you is TO DIE.

[00:06:49]>> YOU'LL GET YOU OUT. I'LL GET YOU UP.

[00:06:51]STOP. IT'S >> ALL RIGHT, MR. O'NEAL.

[00:06:58]>> Go up to your room and get into some dry clothes. After you've had dinner, I want to have a talk with you.

[00:07:12]>> It's uh late. I'll I'll go get my son.

[00:07:15]Good night.

[00:07:16]>> Stay. I'm upset. I want someone to talk to.

[00:07:21]>> Yes, Mrs. Irus.

[00:07:24]>> Lynch told me to sneak bundles to you. I thought she'd be hungry, so I sneak the milk, too.

[00:07:34]She hates cats. She hates everything I like. A policeman came to my house this morning. He asked me if I had any idea of where you could have gone.

[00:07:44]My father said it was my duty to tell them.

[00:07:47]>> You're a father.

[00:07:48]>> I didn't say a thing. No matter what my father told your aunt, I didn't say a thing.

[00:07:55]>> I'm cold. I've got to change my clothes.

[00:07:57]I'll leave the door open so I can hear you.

[00:08:01]My father says you're foolish. My father says that someday you'll have everything in the world. My father says that if we only had ONE LITTLE PART OF WHAT you will have, I could GO TO HARVARD. YOUR WHAT? I COULD GO TO HARVARD.

[00:08:17]>> The lights. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE LIGHTS?

[00:08:19]THEY WENT OUT. I THINK THEY WENT OUT ALL OVER THE HOUSE. THERE'S A CANDLE ATTACHED ON THE TABLE NEAR THE WALL. OH, YOU stand still. I'll do it.

[00:08:47]Don't you think I'd better go up and see if Martha's all right?

[00:08:50]>> Martha will be all right anywhere. Your play.

[00:08:57]>> I'm afraid of the thunder and lightning.

[00:08:59]Draw the curtains. I'll go into change.

[00:09:08]Martha, >> one peep out of you and I'll break your nose.

[00:09:19]>> I won't say anything. Martha. Martha will tell you I won't say anything.

[00:09:22]>> What?

[00:09:25]>> Sam, you see Walter, I told you they'd never catch him. Sam, button me up.

[00:09:31]>> I came to say goodbye. I thought it over. Martha, it's better for you here.

[00:09:35]>> I won't stay here. I hate her.

[00:09:38]>> All you got to do is play smart with her.

[00:09:39]>> I'm going with you >> now. You listen TO ME.

[00:09:41]>> I DON'T WANT TO LISTEN.

[00:09:43]>> It's late. I got to go.

[00:09:45]>> Let him go, Martha. If he's caught here, it'll be sent to reform school. Mrs. Ivor said so.

[00:09:49]>> They got to catch me first.

[00:09:52]>> All right, Sam. If you won't take me, I'll go without you. I'll go off by myself.

[00:10:01]>> Okay, then let's go.

[00:10:02]>> I want to run up to the attic. I want to get a couple of things.

[00:10:14]Sam, quick. Sam.

[00:10:17]Sam. What? She's going downstairs.

[00:10:21]Sam, my aunt.

[00:10:22]>> I'll get her.

[00:10:50]Sam, have you got it? Have you got it?

[00:10:52]Sam, hurry, Sam, or that witch will catch us.

[00:11:07]Hey, help me.

[00:11:27]Heat up here.

[00:11:54]Heat.

[00:12:11]Heat.

[00:12:27]She's dead.

[00:12:29]>> We were upstairs.

[00:12:31]We heard a noise and we came down. We saw a man, a big man. He was leaving out of that front door he left. See it? It's open.

[00:12:42]And she was lying there.

[00:12:48]And this this was lying there, too. I picked it up.

[00:12:57]Isn't that true, Walter? Isn't it?

[00:13:02]Is it, Walter?

[00:13:05]>> Yes, father. It is.

[00:13:11]>> Put it down.

[00:13:13]put it exactly where you found it.

[00:13:22]>> Both of you better go upstairs.

[00:13:25]I'll phone the police.

[00:13:40]You'll never get away with it. Never.

[00:13:42]Your father believes me.

[00:13:43]>> I don't know. I'm not sure.

[00:13:45]>> You keep your mouth shut.

[00:13:46]>> But Sam, what about Sam? He was in the house. He saw it.

[00:13:49]>> Sam will never tell.

[00:13:50]>> Yes, he will. He's scared. That's why he ran away after it happened. Sam will never tell.

[00:13:54]>> Sam's scared. He ran away. I didn't. I stayed.

[00:13:57]>> No. No, he won't. Not Sam. Not Sam.

[00:14:12]I want to talk to you both.

[00:14:16]It's done.

[00:14:23]Now when the police come, you will tell them exactly what you told me. Do you understand, Martha?

[00:14:31]>> Yes, Mr. O'Neal.

[00:14:32]>> And you too, Walder?

[00:14:34]>> Yes, father.

[00:14:41]You poor child.

[00:14:44]You'll be all alone in the world now, except for Walter and myself.

[00:14:51]But you needn't be afraid. We'll always be with you, Walter and I.

[00:14:56]We'll never leave you.

[00:14:58]>> Thank you, Mr. O'Neal.

[00:15:21]Heat. Heat.

[00:15:37]your competition at the fairgrounds last week in the handicap. Chestnut King looks like an odds on favorite.

[00:15:42]>> That guy doesn't know what he's talking about. Chestnut King's a dog. He was losing racist to cow ponies years ago in Tijana.

[00:15:53]>> Well, what do you know? What do you know about that? How do you like that, sailor?

[00:15:59]Leave a place when you're a kid, maybe 17, 18 years ago, and you forget all about it, and all of a sudden, you're driving along and smack all your own hometown up and hits you right in the face.

[00:16:29]End of the line, sailor. Come on. Wake up.

[00:16:33]Where are we? In a small accident.

[00:16:36]What happened?

[00:16:38]>> The road curved, but I didn't. Come on.

[00:16:40]I've got to put in diverstown for repairs.

[00:16:49]Next time I pick me a guy that don't fall asleep.

[00:16:55]>> Welcome to Ivers Town. Well, maybe this time they mean it.

[00:17:06]>> You got anybody here to fix this wreck, master? Roll her in.

[00:17:13]>> Then more. You don't make a bet. Buy more of a pet. Not you. True.

[00:17:20]That boy, you don't make it.

[00:17:31]>> How long will it take? Pop.

[00:17:33]>> Can't tell till we look her over. Come back tomorrow.

[00:17:37]>> Open game.

[00:17:39]>> Nope.

[00:17:40]>> That four. Right back, little John. 20 to 10.

[00:17:47]No four.

[00:17:48]>> You got a bet. Come on, Harry. Make four.

[00:17:51]>> Seven. You sure? Joel. Thanks. Shooting 20. Credit.

[00:17:57]>> 10 more. You don't make it.

[00:17:59]>> Can I do How much will it cost, Bob? Won't know till it's done.

[00:18:07]>> Hey, now look. I want to know now.

[00:18:09]>> Take it someplace else.

[00:18:12]>> Welcome to Iverton. We interrupt this program of dinner music to bring you a special broadcast in the interest of the re-election of District Attorney Walter P. O'Neal. Hey, >> no, leave that on, will you, f?

[00:18:22]>> Ladies and gentlemen, it is with deep regret that we are forced to announce that Mr. O'Neal will not be able to address this citizen's forum tonight.

[00:18:28]Mr. O'Neal was suddenly taken ill, but we are fortunate to have the best loved civic figure of Iverstown, the gracious Mrs. O'Neal here in the studio tonight to speak for him.

[00:18:38]>> Citizens of Ivertown, the issues in this election are simple.

[00:18:43]That's enough of that malarkey.

[00:18:45]>> This uh Waler P. O'Neal, isn't it? The kid that used to live on uh Sycamore Street. His father used to be a school teacher.

[00:18:52]>> Yeah, that's him. You know him?

[00:18:54]>> Yeah, I used to.

[00:18:56]Little scared kid on Sycamore Street.

[00:18:58]Now he's running for the district attorney. What's the odds >> on what?

[00:19:03]>> The election.

[00:19:05]>> No odds, no takers. This is a sure bet, mister. Going to be reelected. going to be governor. And I'm making book right now that someday he'll run for president. Yep. Going to be whatever his wife wants him to be.

[00:19:21]>> Some girl. Um, who do you marry?

[00:19:23]>> You from this town?

[00:19:24]>> Used to be.

[00:19:26]>> You ought to know her then. Old lady Iver's niece.

[00:19:30]>> Martha Ivers.

[00:19:31]>> Yep.

[00:19:33]Came into the whole works after the old lady died.

[00:19:37]>> Well, what do you know? What do you know about that, Martha Ivers?

[00:19:48]>> I don't know. You still look like a scared little kid to me.

[00:19:55]>> Hello, Gallagher.

[00:19:56]>> Hey, wait a minute.

[00:19:58]Do I know you?

[00:20:00]>> Sure. I'm the guy who tossed a rock through that window once. The guy who chased me.

[00:20:05]>> If I chased you, I bet I caught you.

[00:20:11]Come to think of it, I believe he did.

[00:20:58]Hello.

[00:20:59]Hello.

[00:21:02]>> You live here?

[00:21:04]>> Used to.

[00:21:05]>> Who runs this place?

[00:21:06]>> Lady the name of Mrs. Burke. She's not home.

[00:21:09]>> You waiting for her?

[00:21:11]>> Just came back to get my things.

[00:21:15]I've been away for a while.

[00:21:18]I'm waiting for a taxi.

[00:21:20]>> I used to live here in this house 17 18 years ago. I was born here.

[00:21:27]>> Don't kidding me. You're older than that.

[00:21:29]>> Well, I didn't move right after I was born.

[00:21:33]>> Got one to spare.

[00:21:37]Got some more matches.

[00:21:39]>> I can hear these.

[00:21:43]Got the time.

[00:21:46]>> Yeah, it's a quarter after 11.

[00:21:47]>> Ain't that just dandy? And I've got an 11:30 bus to catch.

[00:21:51]>> You can still make it.

[00:21:52]>> How the taxi doesn't show up fast? Know anybody who lives around here the name of Masterson?

[00:21:59]>> No.

[00:22:00]>> Know anybody in town at all by that name?

[00:22:02]>> No, I'm from Ridgeville.

[00:22:05]>> Is your name Masterson?

[00:22:08]>> Yeah.

[00:22:08]>> You mean you're just getting home after 18 years?

[00:22:13]>> Well, 17 or 18.

[00:22:16]>> You're just getting around to looking up your people.

[00:22:18]>> Oh, not exactly.

[00:22:20]I just happen to be driving through on my way west and more or less curious. So, good luck.

[00:22:32]>> What you going to do?

[00:22:35]>> What do you mean?

[00:22:36]>> I mean about your people.

[00:22:38]>> I don't know. Maybe nothing.

[00:22:42]Maybe tomorrow I'll go down to the courthouse and look up the deaths in the last 18 years.

[00:22:46]>> Can you do that?

[00:22:48]Yeah, I think so.

[00:22:51]Good night.

[00:23:07]>> Bus terminal. Please hurry. I've got an 11:30 bus to catch.

[00:23:17]Masterson, >> I thought it was you, Mr. Masterson.

[00:23:26]>> I'm glad to see you again. I gave you my last match.

[00:23:29]>> Want to lift any place on the way to the bus station?

[00:23:32]>> You talked me into it?

[00:23:38]You got my matches? Got a name? Tony Antonia Antonia Marichek.

[00:23:46]>> Ain't that a dilly, Mr. Masterson?

[00:23:49]>> Sam, >> please hurry.

[00:23:56]>> The depot is just across the tracks. You still got four minutes.

[00:24:03]We >> have made it if you didn't stop to pick up your champ.

[00:24:06]>> Might be able to chase it.

[00:24:08]>> I can get a bus back to Ridgeville tomorrow.

[00:24:11]Maybe I won't get a bus back to Rville.

[00:24:14]Maybe I'll go someplace else.

[00:24:17]Maybe in another direction. Chipal or further west? Maybe.

[00:24:23]Have you ever been out west before?

[00:24:25]>> Huh?

[00:24:27]>> I've never Maybe I will.

[00:24:33]What's it like, babe?

[00:25:02]You want to go back?

[00:25:03]>> I can't go back there. I have to go someplace else.

[00:25:08]Do you drink, Sam?

[00:25:10]>> Yes, I drank.

[00:25:11]>> I'll buy you one.

[00:25:14]>> Okay.

[00:25:16]>> Too bad. You want me to check your bag in the station here?

[00:25:20]>> I don't know. I I guess I want it at a hotel.

[00:25:23]>> You want me to take you there?

[00:25:25]>> Do you happen to be at the Gable Hotel?

[00:25:28]>> Yeah.

[00:25:29]>> Can I go there?

[00:25:30]>> It's a public place. Yeah. Tell the clerk that Sam Masterson wants a room for a young lady. She'll register when she gets there.

[00:25:38]>> Yes, sir.

[00:25:39]>> Thanks.

[00:25:52]>> Cla, blue lights, music, everything.

[00:25:56]>> A cafe.

[00:26:00]When >> I lived in this town, there were nothing but saloons. My father used to live in them.

[00:26:06]Mine, too.

[00:26:07]>> We're related.

[00:26:09]>> I'll have the same thing you have, if you don't mind.

[00:26:11]>> Scotch. I uh take a plain water chaser with that when the scotch isn't so good.

[00:26:16]Two water chasers.

[00:26:20]>> Did you drive far?

[00:26:22]>> About 600 miles since this morning.

[00:26:26]>> You aren't driving anything tonight.

[00:26:28]>> Oh, my Stanley Steamer's in the garage having her face lifted.

[00:26:33]Better bring us a couple more before curfew.

[00:26:35]>> I'll swap.

[00:26:36]>> $92.

[00:26:39]Oh, >> on me.

[00:26:40]>> Well, thanks. Um, maybe you'd like to drink to finding your people.

[00:26:47]>> My mother wouldn't approve of that.

[00:26:49]>> How would you know after all this time?

[00:26:51]>> After all this time, you probably wouldn't care one way or the other.

[00:26:56]>> You talk awful coldblooded about them, don't you?

[00:26:59]>> That's life.

[00:27:00]>> Is it a big family? No, it wasn't.

[00:27:03]Besides me, they're just the usual two people necessary to increase the population.

[00:27:09]Mother left when I was a baby, and my father probably drank himself to death by now.

[00:27:15]>> Another man I know talks cold like that's my dad.

[00:27:19]He's the most coldblooded man in Ridgeville.

[00:27:23]Once he kicked me, J made me sick.

[00:27:27]I can guess why you didn't break your neck to catch that bus back to Ridgeville tonight. I >> probably would have got on and got off before it started out.

[00:27:36]Probably would have got the jitters the minute I got on.

[00:27:42]Anyway, it's gone now for tonight anyhow. There won't be another one until tomorrow night.

[00:27:49]And now I know for sure I'm not going to make that one either.

[00:27:53]Not the one to Rididgeville at least.

[00:27:58]>> But I'm so glad you came to have a drink with me tonight. I was so lonesome. I I like to have died. Have you ever been that lonesome?

[00:28:07]>> How lonesome is that?

[00:28:09]>> About as much as you can hold without busting open. Want to know how I got that way?

[00:28:16]>> Curfew.

[00:28:19]>> Should we go home? The the reason I picked the hotel, your hotel is is really very >> You read the hotel advertising on that when you had it.

[00:28:29]>> You're smart. Maybe you think I've been trying too hard to get acquainted.

[00:28:34]>> Maybe you have.

[00:28:35]>> Maybe you think that's wrong.

[00:28:37]>> Maybe it's too soon to tell.

[00:28:40]>> I wonder what you're thinking.

[00:28:42]>> I don't think you'll take up too much room in my Stanley Steamer.

[00:28:45]>> Maybe you're all right. You think you can hold that thought all the way to the coast?

[00:28:58]We better wait here for a minute.

[00:29:02]Hey, I want to ask you something.

[00:29:04]Does that guy look like a scared little boy to you?

[00:29:08]>> He looks like he's going to cry any minute. Let's get away from here.

[00:29:23]Is Mr. O'Neal there?

[00:29:24]>> No, madam. Not to my knowledge.

[00:29:48]Walter.

[00:29:52]Hello.

[00:30:01]No words.

[00:30:04]I have a cigarette.

[00:30:11]my lady's lips.

[00:30:12]>> I'll room for some coffee for you.

[00:30:14]>> No, thank you. I'll have another drink.

[00:30:16]>> Walter, >> if there's to be a discussion, I'll need another drink. Otherwise, I shall neither hear nor be coherent when and if I reply to whatever it is you're about to say.

[00:30:29]>> Did you forget that you were supposed to speak tonight?

[00:30:32]>> I didn't forget. today.

[00:30:35]It's nice your room. I mean, it's been a long time since I've been here.

[00:30:42]>> Where were you?

[00:30:44]>> Getting drunk.

[00:30:45]>> Where?

[00:30:46]>> I'm still the people's choice. I did not make a public display of myself anywhere.

[00:30:52]>> You realize, of course, that you will one day. Inevitably.

[00:30:55]>> Inevitably.

[00:30:56]>> Your career, not mine.

[00:30:58]>> What's mine is yours.

[00:31:00]>> Don't you think I'm entitled to an explanation?

[00:31:03]What do you want me to say?

[00:31:05]>> I don't want to put words in your mouth.

[00:31:07]>> I'd prefer that you would.

[00:31:09]>> All right. When did you get drunk? Where did you get drunk? Why did you get drunk?

[00:31:15]>> Don't stand over me like that.

[00:31:18]I'm a sentimental man, Martha.

[00:31:22]I started to get dressed and then I realized it was the fourth anniversary of my father's death.

[00:31:30]I thought it'd be nice if I went to the cemetery and laid a wreath of flowers on his grave. However, I never got there.

[00:31:40]Sentiment overwhelmed me. I I stopped off to have a drink to his sainted memory.

[00:31:47]As I drank, I thought to myself, it it's such a pity that my father isn't alive.

[00:31:53]To be able to see for himself all his dreams come true.

[00:31:58]the dreams he worked so hard for.

[00:32:02]His son, a famous man, married to a beautiful and wealthy woman.

[00:32:13]>> All right. Now, tell me why you got drunk.

[00:32:16]>> Because I couldn't get up and speak before people.

[00:32:24]>> Walter, listen to me. What's done is done.

[00:32:26]>> The deed's done, not the thought. You've got a life to live.

[00:32:29]>> I don't know. I'm not sure.

[00:32:30]>> A brilliant career.

[00:32:31]>> My father always said that.

[00:32:33]>> Your father was right.

[00:32:35]>> He was never right about anything. From the day he walked in and found your aunt on the floor.

[00:32:40]>> I told you I never want that mentioned.

[00:32:42]>> The day he sat beside you in the courtroom as I, the public prosecutor, demanded that the state take the life of a man for the brutal murder of Mrs. Iverson. My father said nothing. I looked at him, but he said nothing. Your father was a realistic man.

[00:32:59]>> My father, may he rest in peace, was a greedy man.

[00:33:03]>> The man they executed was a criminal. If he hadn't hanged for that, he would have hanged for something else.

[00:33:08]>> A man was a man, and justice is justice.

[00:33:11]It That's the way it is. I I can't get up and speak before people.

[00:33:18]The words stick in my throat. I I'd rather get drunk. I I do get drunk.

[00:33:28]I did get drunk.

[00:33:31]>> Would dear, listen to me. If you carry a thing in your mind that makes you sick, I want you well. Tomorrow >> will be life today.

[00:33:41]>> You will leave on a trip for your health for a few weeks.

[00:33:46]>> Will you go with me?

[00:33:48]>> No, I'll stay here.

[00:33:53]>> And I'll stay here, too.

[00:33:55]What do you want to do? Give everything up? Is that what you want to do?

[00:33:59]>> You wouldn't let me do that, would you, Martha?

[00:34:01]>> Do you want to?

[00:34:02]>> I don't know, Martha. I ask myself that question all the time.

[00:34:08]If my father were alive, I could ask him.

[00:34:11]Only I know what his answer would be.

[00:34:14]He'd say to me, "Keep what you have and make her live up to it."

[00:34:22]Make her live up to her bargain. That's what he'd say.

[00:34:24]>> I am living up to it, Walter.

[00:34:50]There's another drink left.

[00:34:52]Might as well have it.

[00:35:02]The bottle's empty now.

[00:35:08]Good night, Martha.

[00:35:17]Tell me, Martha, what should I do about my love for you?

[00:35:21]Tell me, Martha, why I don't abandon all this?

[00:35:25]Why I don't just throw it back in your face?

[00:35:27]>> You tell me, Walter.

[00:35:50]Well, this is it. Not good, not bad.

[00:35:53]>> With bath.

[00:35:56]>> With bath. And come out. Come out wherever you are. With bath. Eh, there's half as many baths as there is rooms.

[00:36:03]Half the rooms has baths and half hasn't. That's one way of looking at it.

[00:36:07]Another is for each two rooms, one has a bath in the middle and the other hasn't.

[00:36:11]Or you might say there's a half a bath to each of two rooms. How is that again?

[00:36:17]Now there's half as many beds as there is rooms. And if if the two Sorry, I've already sent the boy with those bags up to your room, Mr. Masterson.

[00:36:26]>> Oh, well, they belong to Miss Marichek here. They came in my name because she wasn't registered yet.

[00:36:32]>> I uh I I missed my bus, though.

[00:36:34]>> Oh, that's too bad.

[00:36:42]The boy went off at 12. You'll have to manage yourselves. I can't leave the board.

[00:36:46]>> Thanks.

[00:36:48]Good night.

[00:36:51]>> Sweet dreams.

[00:36:52]>> Good night, Cupid.

[00:36:55]25. Your room number is 25. I'm 23.

[00:36:58]Makes us neighbors.

[00:37:11]Why did you buy a ticket to Ridgeville if you didn't want to go back home?

[00:37:16]>> I didn't. I didn't buy the ticket. I got it, but I didn't buy it.

[00:37:30]>> You all right?

[00:37:32]I'm a little cold, maybe.

[00:37:34]>> Better get out of those wet clothes.

[00:37:42]>> I've started your bath for you. Hurry up now. I'm next.

[00:37:45]>> Thanks.

[00:38:17]Okay.

[00:38:23]I'll loan you a book for a couple of cigarettes.

[00:38:26]If you don't mind what kind of a book it is.

[00:38:33]That pine soap makes you tingle all over.

[00:38:36]>> There's something very personal about soap. It's almost as personal as a toothbrush.

[00:38:41]>> I won't use your toothbrush.

[00:38:43]>> Where's your book now?

[00:38:44]>> You don't care what kind of a book it is.

[00:38:46]>> Suspense is killing me.

[00:38:48]>> It isn't my book. Somebody here before forgotten left it.

[00:38:54]I warned you.

[00:39:02]There's one in every room of the hotel.

[00:39:05]One in practically every room of every hotel in the world. It tells all about it there in the first page or so.

[00:39:21]>> Well, what do you know?

[00:39:24]>> No, no, no, no. Don't get up.

[00:39:28]I want to look at you a minute.

[00:39:33]>> That's really a picture.

[00:39:36]>> Throw me a match.

[00:39:40]>> So, you're leaving tomorrow?

[00:39:42]>> Yeah, we're leaving tomorrow. That is if the car is fixed.

[00:39:45]>> Sure you won't mind me being a passenger?

[00:39:49]>> No. No.

[00:39:51]Lad of the company. Are you going to stay in the West?

[00:39:55]>> Maybe, maybe not.

[00:39:58]>> You might get lonesome again.

[00:40:00]>> I've been lonesome before. I was so lonesome tonight, I like to have died.

[00:40:03]>> I know you mentioned that, >> but I tried to tell you why.

[00:40:08]>> Look, I'm going to take a shower.

[00:40:11]>> I just got out of jail.

[00:40:15]I just got out tonight.

[00:40:18]>> Like I said, we leave tomorrow.

[00:40:29]I think you'll like that.

[00:40:53]Hallelujah.

[00:41:21]Heat.

[00:41:34]Heat.

[00:41:58]Heat. Heat.

[00:42:25]Open up, Sunny.

[00:42:52]Try that door.

[00:43:23]Good morning, Mr. Masters.

[00:43:27]You don't have to show me who you are. I can tell by the smell. My nose isn't that big. I want to see.

[00:43:39]The chief sent us up here to ask you a couple of questions.

[00:43:44]Sergeant Masterson, >> suspense is killing me. What do you want to know?

[00:43:48]>> You've been around.

[00:43:51]Look at that. Africa, Anzio, and Normandy. Why don't you wear that button in your coat?

[00:43:57]>> The same reason you don't wear your badge. I like it incognito. Now, what else do you want to know?

[00:44:02]>> What we wanted to know, this layout told us. There ain't nothing you can add to it.

[00:44:15]>> She didn't get in an accident, did she?

[00:44:17]>> She's in the can for a nice long stretch. What's the charge?

[00:44:20]>> Violation of probation.

[00:44:21]>> Probation for what? Theft. Terms of her probation when she was released yesterday was that she returned to her home in Ridgeville. An hour ago we picked her up at the depot and she tried to cash the ticket.

[00:44:31]>> Well, maybe she wanted to go by train.

[00:44:34]Maybe she wanted to walk. There's no law that says she's >> not the reason she gave. Wise guy.

[00:44:38]>> No.

[00:44:38]>> No. The reason she gave was that she got a job. Said you were her employer.

[00:44:45]>> Well, what's wrong with that?

[00:44:47]>> Nothing. If you can prove it. But take a tip for me, bud. Don't try it. Jake and me don't like to waste our time testifying in court, but we will.

[00:44:58]So long, exhibit 8, bud, in case you get stubborn. And now wait a minute, copper.

[00:45:08]All right, leave our things alone. You want to come along, soldier?

[00:45:28]the little scared boy.

[00:45:33]You're just about to do your old pal a great big favor.

[00:45:48]How do you like the way the election's going this beautiful morning?

[00:45:51]>> The election's going good every morning.

[00:45:53]>> Uh, look, honey. Um, Miss um >> St. John >> St. John >> Bobby >> better still.

[00:46:02]>> What can I do for you?

[00:46:04]>> In but not yet ready to face the world.

[00:46:09]>> Won't you sit down? Look, uh, honey, I'm in kind of a hurry. Uh, would you take a note in for me >> when he buzzes?

[00:46:19]Here.

[00:46:24]>> I'll take calls. Now, >> I'm in.

[00:46:38]>> There's a gentleman to see you. He says it's very important.

[00:46:44]>> Tell him I don't want to.

[00:46:46]Wait a minute.

[00:46:50]Never mind. I'll tell him myself.

[00:47:00]>> Sammy. Sammy Masterson. My little Walder O'Neal.

[00:47:05]>> We were kids together, Miss St. John. I wouldn't have known you, Sam. Well, I wouldn't have known you either, Walter.

[00:47:10]Only I saw your picture.

[00:47:11]>> A picture? Oh, yes. Yes, of course. I don't want to be disturbed unless it's very important.

[00:47:17]>> Yes, Mr. O'Neal.

[00:47:27]>> How long has it been?

[00:47:28]>> Oh, 17, 18 years, something like that.

[00:47:31]>> That long? We were just kids. You remember the three of us? Yeah, the three of us.

[00:47:39]Thanks. What's she like, Walter?

[00:47:41]Beautiful. I'm married.

[00:47:43]>> I know. I know. You've done all right. I guess so. And you? What have you done?

[00:47:49]>> Oh, knocked around. Seen a lot, I guess.

[00:47:51]You know, had some fun, maybe. What have you done mostly?

[00:47:55]>> Lately or mostly?

[00:47:56]>> Mostly. Gamble.

[00:47:59]You mean gamble?

[00:48:01]>> Sure. Sure. That's my business. Perhaps this is where I should remark that all life is a gamble.

[00:48:07]>> You don't need to bother. I know it.

[00:48:08]Some win, some don't. You needn't have made that point.

[00:48:13]I'm sorry, Sam. This has been a stuffy conversation. I uh Oh, would you like a drink?

[00:48:19]>> Isn't it a little early in the morning?

[00:48:21]I haven't even stopped for breakfast yet. The occasion.

[00:48:26]You talked me into it. Fine. Fine. Nice of you to look me up, Sam. Well, I wouldn't have bothered you, Walder. Only um I met a girl and you can help.

[00:48:38]>> You don't look like you need help with any girl. Now, >> this trip out I do. This kid's in jail.

[00:48:45]>> What's the charge?

[00:48:46]>> Violation of probation. Name is Tony Marichek.

[00:48:51]That's not easy to square, Sam. Oh, you can do it. You will.

[00:48:56]For old time's sake. For old time's sake. Thanks.

[00:49:05]Excuse me.

[00:49:11]>> Mrs. O'Neal is here to see you.

[00:49:13]>> Please have her wait.

[00:49:15]She usually drops in on her way downtown. Oh, I'd like to see her.

[00:49:22]>> Have Mrs. O'Neal come in?

[00:49:24]>> Yes, sir.

[00:49:29]>> Oh, I'm sorry. Sorry, I didn't know you were busy. I'll wait.

[00:49:31]>> Hello.

[00:49:33]>> Hello.

[00:49:34]>> The name is Masterson. Sam Masterson.

[00:49:37]>> I'm sorry. I Sammy Masterson.

[00:49:48]Oh. Oh, hello.

[00:49:51]>> Well, I'll do that again. Hello.

[00:49:55]>> You should have called me.

[00:49:56]>> You just came in.

[00:49:59]Well, you've grown to be a big boy, Sam.

[00:50:02]>> Well, I always was big for my age. You remember?

[00:50:06]>> Yes, I remember.

[00:50:07]>> Anything else you remember?

[00:50:09]>> Oh, well, there are there are lots of things.

[00:50:12]>> I never figured that a skinny little mut would grow up so beautiful.

[00:50:17]I thank you for my wife. That sounds funny. What does? Well, you're saying my wife, does it? Oh, and I don't get sore water.

[00:50:29]I mean, well, I've always thought of Martha's Well, you know how it is. You keep something in your mind since the time you're a kid.

[00:50:36]>> How long are you staying, Sam?

[00:50:38]>> Well, that all depends on our district attorney.

[00:50:41]>> Oh, >> yeah. I may have to pull out in a couple of hours.

[00:50:44]>> Oh, that's too bad.

[00:50:45]>> It's the way things are, you know.

[00:50:52]>> I don't want to be disturbed. Well, that's all right, Walter. You're a busy man, so Ablo. And uh thanks thanks for everything.

[00:51:01]So long, Martha.

[00:51:04]>> Aren't you glad now you missed that circus train?

[00:51:07]>> I don't know.

[00:51:08]>> Where can I reach you, Sam?

[00:51:10]>> Oh, the uh Gable Hotel. And you will do that for me, won't you, older?

[00:51:14]>> I'll try my best.

[00:51:16]>> You do that. And here's hoping you win that election.

[00:51:19]>> Thanks, I will.

[00:51:22]>> What your thing?

[00:51:24]>> Ask Martha. Sure. Sure thing.

[00:51:28]>> What odds you give it?

[00:51:29]>> Sure thing is never a gamble.

[00:51:31]>> No.

[00:51:32]>> What odds will you give that that's a fact?

[00:51:50]>> Breezy character, Sam.

[00:51:52]>> Thank you.

[00:51:54]very sure of himself.

[00:51:55]>> He always was.

[00:51:56]>> This is the first time I've ever seen you off balance.

[00:52:01]>> I wasn't aware of it.

[00:52:03]>> I was.

[00:52:06]>> It came as a shock.

[00:52:07]>> Yes, it did. Me, too.

[00:52:11]Sam will never tell. I'll never forget you saying that.

[00:52:15]>> What makes you think he will?

[00:52:16]>> What makes you think he won't?

[00:52:21]>> How long has he been here? He came in last night.

[00:52:24]>> Did he tell you much about himself?

[00:52:25]Where he's been? What he's been doing?

[00:52:27]>> I thought you'd ask what he wanted.

[00:52:30]>> What does he want?

[00:52:32]>> He's playing it smart.

[00:52:35]>> Sam was always a smart boy.

[00:52:37]>> All he wanted was for me to get his girl out of jail.

[00:52:41]>> His girl?

[00:52:42]>> That's what he said he wanted.

[00:52:46]>> What do you think he wants?

[00:52:47]>> What he can get. He's a gambler, a sharp shooter, an angle boy. They come through my office by the hundreds. Couldn't you see blackmail in his eyes?

[00:52:57]>> I haven't your experience with criminals.

[00:52:59]>> You will. When Sammy starts to shake you down.

[00:53:02]>> Release the girl. Maybe he'll just pick her up and leave.

[00:53:05]>> Leave. Do you think he'll leave a touch worth millions?

[00:53:08]>> There's only one way you'll find out.

[00:53:10]Release the girl.

[00:53:13]Goodbye, Miss St. John.

[00:53:20]Yes, Mr. O'Neal.

[00:53:21]>> I want a routine check on a Samuel Masterson at non-resident registered Gable Hotel. Miss St. John, close the door. I want a routine check of all garages. One of them has his car. Stay here, please. I want to check up on all local banks. Get that private detective a cary and tell him to come right over.

[00:53:50]Huh? Thought I might improve my mind while I waited.

[00:53:55]>> Boss's life of junk. Surely you didn't expect to wait that long.

[00:53:59]>> I was just going to look at the pictures. I found your message when I got back to the hotel.

[00:54:04]>> I asked you to phone.

[00:54:06]>> I figured you wouldn't mind if I came in person.

[00:54:09]>> I figured you would.

[00:54:11]>> Why? You impressed me this morning as a man who would bet on anything.

[00:54:15]>> Almost anything, depending on the odds.

[00:54:17]>> I'll bet you'd like to hear the story of my life.

[00:54:19]>> What do you bet?

[00:54:20]>> My story against yours.

[00:54:23]>> You got to bet.

[00:54:25]>> Well, let's see. You uh you left here September 27th, 1928. We'll start from there.

[00:54:31]>> The exact date? How come that's so clear in your mind?

[00:54:34]>> Why shouldn't it be?

[00:54:38]You know, I used to think this was the swlestlest butt in the world, but you really made it just that.

[00:54:44]>> Used to be so dark and ugly when she I hate it.

[00:54:52]Come on, I'll show you what I've done with the rest of the house.

[00:54:54]>> Okay, fine. I haven't been on a rubberneck tour in years.

[00:54:58]>> Soon after my aunt died, the executives of the estate wanted to close the house and send me to school. But Mr. O'Neal.

[00:55:03]>> Mister, you're kind of formal about your husband, aren't you?

[00:55:08]>> No, I was speaking about his father. Mr. O'Neal was my tutor. You remember him?

[00:55:12]>> Oh, yeah.

[00:55:13]>> After my aunt died, he and Walter lived here.

[00:55:16]>> I was cozy.

[00:55:18]>> This is Walter's room.

[00:55:21]>> Rich.

[00:55:24]Very rich.

[00:55:26]Well, you uh you lived here all the time then, huh?

[00:55:29]>> Except for the few years I went to college, Mr. Mr. O'Neal, Walter's father. Walter's father thought it would be good for me to get away for a while.

[00:55:38]>> Mr. O'Neal, uh, Walter's father, he sort of took care of everything, didn't he?

[00:55:42]>> Yes. Yes, he took care of everything.

[00:55:45]>> You didn't like that?

[00:55:46]>> Let's talk about something else.

[00:55:47]>> What do you want to talk about?

[00:55:49]>> Pick a subject. This is the dining room.

[00:55:54]>> And it kind of crowded.

[00:55:56]All right. I pick Walder as my subject.

[00:56:00]When did you marry him? When or why?

[00:56:02]>> I ask when.

[00:56:03]>> When I finished school.

[00:56:05]>> All right. Now, why did you marry him?

[00:56:08]>> Pick another subject.

[00:56:09]>> It's your turn.

[00:56:11]>> You.

[00:56:13]>> An open book. I went out of this town with the circus. The one you were supposed to go with. Made friends with the animals and lived happily ever after. Almost.

[00:56:23]>> Almost.

[00:56:24]>> Ah, I got ambitious in that tore it. But good. I got so I wasn't satisfied just being friendly with the animals. I got so I wanted to own the animals. So I bought some animals. Well, my lion got the mange and gave it to the monkeys.

[00:56:38]The animals became a responsibility and a liability. I lost all my hard-earned cash and ran like a thief out of there with a great yin to become friendly with people. Now that I had some success, me being a gambler and people being what they are. Well, that brings us up to my 21st year when I became a man officially.

[00:56:58]How did it feel to become a man officially?

[00:57:00]>> I felt I'd been there before.

[00:57:03]How did you feel about becoming a woman officially?

[00:57:07]>> I felt I'd been there, too.

[00:57:16]>> This is the room that you >> Do you remember, Sam?

[00:57:22]>> Do I?

[00:57:23]>> It's the only room I didn't change.

[00:57:26]It seems that only yesterday I came through that window. We were going to run away together that night.

[00:57:33]>> You do remember?

[00:57:38]>> Yeah.

[00:57:40]And it was Walter who let me in.

[00:57:45]>> I come here often, Sam.

[00:57:48]>> Little girls grow up. They never get through playing with dolls.

[00:57:53]>> There was a storm that night. Thunder and lightning.

[00:57:56]I was afraid of the thunder.

[00:57:58]>> In the freight car that night you told me you weren't.

[00:58:02]>> I didn't want you to know. I wanted to be like you. Never afraid of anything.

[00:58:07]You remember that, too, don't you, Sam?

[00:58:11]>> Well, things come back to you.

[00:58:12]>> Don't say it like that, Sam. Not to make me feel good, but because it's true.

[00:58:17]>> All right. It's true. We were just a couple of kids.

[00:58:21]>> We're not kids now.

[00:58:23]>> No, Martha. who were not kids.

[00:58:26]No time for dreams.

[00:58:28]>> Only one dream, Sam. And it came true.

[00:58:31]You're here.

[00:58:32]>> So is Walter.

[00:58:33]>> About Walter and myself. I want you to understand.

[00:58:36]>> I understand. Martin, I understood when I saw both of you together in the office. I watched the way he looked at you.

[00:58:44]>> Sam, if you stay in Ivertown.

[00:58:46]>> Well, I'm not staying in Iverstown.

[00:58:50]>> I'm sorry.

[00:58:53]Sorry that you ever left here, Sam.

[00:59:02]For old time's sake.

[00:59:05]Yeah, sure. For old time's sake.

[00:59:20]Bye, Martha.

[00:59:28]Dempsey's garage.

[00:59:31]>> Oh, yes, Mrs. O'Neal.

[00:59:33]>> Mrs. Walter O'Neal.

[00:59:35]>> Yes, ma'am.

[00:59:40]Well, it was a rush job anyway, and I'm rushed enough as it is. Don't mention it. Glad to be of service, Mrs. O'Neal.

[00:59:49]You can add this to your report.

[00:59:53]>> Miss O'Neal don't like this guy to go.

[00:59:56]>> Not yet. All right, MC. Thanks.

[01:00:06]>> Drink.

[01:00:07]>> Thanks. There's not much to report on him locally. Out of town reports are still coming in. You'll have a complete file on him in a couple of hours.

[01:00:14]>> What's he look like so far?

[01:00:16]>> He's a big shot gambler. broke many times but always turns up with a new bankroll. The police in every state have tried to find the source of his money but no dice. Many arrests, no convictions. Beat a murder rap in Frisco. Self-defense has a war record few can equal.

[01:00:31]>> The car in Dempsey's garage.

[01:00:33]>> The ownership certificate says he owns it.

[01:00:35]>> What's wrong with it?

[01:00:36]>> Smashed radiator.

[01:00:37]>> How long will it take to fix it?

[01:00:39]Well, who did Dempsey get this call from?

[01:00:51]>> Didn't you check that?

[01:00:52]>> Yes, I checked it. And who was it?

[01:00:55]>> Mrs. O'Neal.

[01:00:59]That's all.

[01:01:05]>> Yes, Mr. O'Neal.

[01:01:06]>> Get me the county jail. Well, I want the superintendent of the women's division.

[01:01:13]>> Yes.

[01:01:14]>> I have the county jail for you, Mr. O'Neal. Deputy Elizabeth Baker is on.

[01:01:19]>> Hello. That girl, the one I called you about before. Yes. Bring her out here at 8. I want to talk to her.

[01:01:35]You got the time, bud?

[01:01:37]Yeah, it's 5 after 8.

[01:01:39]>> Thanks. I'm expecting my friend out in a few minutes.

[01:01:43]>> Say, I ain't seen your face around here before.

[01:01:46]>> No, I'm a stranger here.

[01:01:47]>> Oh, then you ain't waiting for anybody, huh?

[01:01:51]>> Oh, >> she's a stranger, too.

[01:01:53]>> Oh, she's due out a couple of hours ago.

[01:02:02]>> You're in a lot of trouble, Miss March.

[01:02:05]The law is very specific on violation of probation.

[01:02:08]>> It's specific about everything.

[01:02:11]>> You're serving a 5-year sentence.

[01:02:13]>> So, I was told once before.

[01:02:15]>> You lied when you were picked up. You told the police you were employed by Sam Masterson.

[01:02:18]>> You think they would have believed me if id told the truth?

[01:02:20]>> Did you cook up that story between you?

[01:02:21]>> He had nothing to do with it.

[01:02:24]>> You're very fond of him, aren't you?

[01:02:27]You wouldn't want anything to happen to him.

[01:02:30]Does he feel the same about you?

[01:02:34]You wouldn't want to serve out that 5year sentence, would you?

[01:02:38]>> What are you getting at?

[01:02:39]>> Remember 5 years and this time you'll have to serve every day of it.

[01:02:46]You don't have to.

[01:02:49]All right, get down to it. What do I have to do?

[01:03:12]Tony.

[01:03:16]>> Tony.

[01:03:18]>> Tony.

[01:03:20]>> Hello, sir.

[01:03:21]>> O'Neal for me. Told me you'd be out at 6.

[01:03:23]>> O'Neal?

[01:03:24]>> Yeah, sure. The district attorney is an old friend of mine. asking to do me a favor and here you are. You're late but free.

[01:03:31]>> There was a mixup. They lost some papers.

[01:03:33]>> Oh, I got worried about you.

[01:03:36]What's the matter, kid? Tony, look at me.

[01:03:42]>> I'd like a drink.

[01:03:44]>> You're a sent you by a dozen. Hey, taxi.

[01:03:47]I'm going to toss you a real coming out party. Hey, taxi.

[01:04:02]Thanks, spaghetti.

[01:04:11]>> M. That looks wonderful. I think you'll like it.

[01:04:18]>> Go ahead, eat.

[01:04:20]>> Guess I'm not hungry. My stomach's in a knot.

[01:04:24]>> Yeah, this ought to help.

[01:04:26]>> I'd have died if I had to stay on in jail.

[01:04:29]>> Forget it. Now you're out.

[01:04:30]>> If you'd ever been in, you'd know what I mean.

[01:04:33]>> I know what you mean.

[01:04:35]>> A couple of times last night, I tried to tell you. Why did time we wouldn't listen.

[01:04:40]>> I don't want to now.

[01:04:42]>> Oh, now you've got to. Please.

[01:04:44]>> All right. Make you feel any better. I want to be sure you understand.

[01:04:50]1 to five. They gave me 1 to 5 years.

[01:04:52]That is.

[01:04:53]>> It's a long joke.

[01:04:55]>> It's forever. I did 3 months before I came to trial.

[01:04:59]>> It can happen to the best of people.

[01:05:02]>> I'm not the best of people. I'm just Tony Marichek.

[01:05:08]Where'd you get the fur coat, Tony? The judge asked me. I met a guy. I told him.

[01:05:13]He said he was in love with me. He gave me the coat. A likely story, he said. I said, "But it's true." Every word of it.

[01:05:20]I I tried to punt it because I needed the money.

[01:05:23]Where's the man he has? I don't know. I said he he took a powder. He he blew. He flew to the moon.

[01:05:32]You don't fly, Tony. The judge says the charge is theft. You do one to five.

[01:05:38]>> Well, how um how come they gave you probation?

[01:05:42]>> First offense, you know what probation is?

[01:05:46]Now it's your knife sticking in your back there.

[01:05:54]Still looking out for the cops. Relax.

[01:05:57]Now you're free.

[01:05:58]>> I don't feel so good.

[01:06:01]>> We only take you back to the hotel.

[01:06:02]>> Oh, no. No. Please let me sit here a while.

[01:06:15]Now, >> get your coat on. What's the gag? Get your coat.

[01:06:22]>> All right, Joe.

[01:06:22]>> What's the gag?

[01:06:24]>> I was up to your hotel. Nice layout you got there. Double rooms, connecting doors, and tall glasses. What did this guy tell you to give you when he picked you up?

[01:06:33]>> All right. Shows I don't have to be any trouble forgetting.

[01:06:35]>> She's my wife.

[01:06:42]Well, brother, you can have her in spades.

[01:06:48]Now, beat it. You, too. I just want to make sure.

[01:06:53]>> Joe, there don't have to be no trouble.

[01:06:54]>> No, there don't have to be no trouble.

[01:06:57]>> There's got to be. Certain wise guys have to be taught a lesson. Certain wise guys have to >> Where do you want it? Here or outside?

[01:07:04]Outside will do me fine. There's an alley through the kitchen door.

[01:07:10]>> Sam, >> shut up.

[01:07:17]>> Stay here.

[01:07:43]Okay, sister. You did a swell job.

[01:07:47]Now blow.

[01:07:51]>> Yes, sir.

[01:07:57]Heat.

[01:08:07]Heat.

[01:08:17]Heat.

[01:08:44]Heat. Heat.

[01:09:03]Heat.

[01:09:09]Oh, heat, heat.

[01:09:45]What happened to you?

[01:09:47]>> Not a thing. Just made up for Halloween.

[01:10:27]Go ahead, bud. You'll catch the next one.

[01:10:40]Cut that. Crying's not going to get you anywhere.

[01:10:43]>> I'll stop.

[01:10:45]>> I ought to beat it out of you.

[01:10:47]>> I think maybe I got it coming.

[01:10:48]>> Why? Why? Why?

[01:10:50]>> Last night in that restaurant, I kept trying to tell you.

[01:10:52]>> Come on, get down to it.

[01:10:53]>> Before they let me out, they took me to the DA's office.

[01:10:56]>> O'Neal? His name's Walter O'Neal?

[01:10:57]>> Yeah, that's right. That's his name.

[01:10:58]>> All right. They took you to his office.

[01:11:00]He asked me a lot of questions. Mostly about you.

[01:11:03]>> Not me.

[01:11:03]>> About you and me?

[01:11:05]>> Huh?

[01:11:05]>> He kept asking me finally why you came here. He asked me that a couple of times.

[01:11:08]>> What else?

[01:11:09]>> Oh, a lot of questions. I forget.

[01:11:11]>> Remember?

[01:11:12]>> My head's mixed up.

[01:11:13]>> Well, the goons. The the ones who worked me over.

[01:11:16]>> They just wanted to scare you. O'Neal doesn't want you in town. They said if I didn't play with them, I' I'd go back to jail.

[01:11:22]>> Who said that, O'Neal?

[01:11:23]>> No. No. The other man, Mr. O'Neal, wasn't there by then.

[01:11:26]>> Who cares?

[01:11:27]>> They said they wouldn't hurt you. What?

[01:11:30]>> No more parole. They said if I went for it, I'd do the whole five. They said if I didn't, I went for it.

[01:11:38]Go ahead and hit me, Sam. I've got it coming.

[01:11:47]>> Only thing you got coming, kid, is a break.

[01:11:51]>> I'm going back to town.

[01:11:53]>> They don't want you here, Sam. I don't know what it is, but they don't want you. They like it or not, they got you.

[01:11:56]>> Next time, it'll be worse.

[01:11:58]I don't like to get pushed around. I don't like people I like to be pushed around. I don't like anybody to get pushed around.

[01:12:08]Kidden, I tell you what you do.

[01:12:14]Are you you grab the next bus out and I'll meet you wherever you say >> I'll go back with you.

[01:12:23]>> Good.

[01:12:24]I want to just say that.

[01:12:37]>> Just a moment, sir. Thank you to Mr. O'Neal. And you won't get hurt.

[01:12:41]>> Yes, Mr. Masses. I hardly recognize you, sir.

[01:12:48]Tell your man to ask Martha to come down here.

[01:12:51]>> Tell Mrs. still near that. John, I thought we ought to have a little talk.

[01:13:04]We'll kick off first. Your team or mine?

[01:13:06]>> You look terrible, Sam.

[01:13:09]Have a drink.

[01:13:11]Thanks.

[01:13:20]Oh man.

[01:13:38]Heat.

[01:13:49]A report on Sam Masterson.

[01:14:06]>> Here, take this. I'm too up on you.

[01:14:09]>> Thanks.

[01:14:10]>> You're out of shape, Waler. for a minute there. I thought you were dead.

[01:14:14]>> I was.

[01:14:17]I wasn't going to shoot.

[01:14:19]>> I wasn't going to wait and see. Come on.

[01:14:25]I uh took a gander at this while you were out.

[01:14:30]I could have given you a much more detailed picture on Sam Masterson. I didn't know you cared.

[01:14:37]You know it now.

[01:14:40]Now I'll let Martha give it to you.

[01:14:42]>> Give him what, Sam?

[01:14:44]>> The facts concerning a guy called Sam Masterson and his attitudes towards life and love. Walard's got their own ideas.

[01:14:51]>> Sam, you're hurt.

[01:14:52]>> You ought to see the other guy.

[01:14:53]>> What happened?

[01:14:55]>> This. It fell out of a guy's pocket and hit me in the face. Private dicks.

[01:15:01]What's the trouble, Walter? Don't you trust your own cops?

[01:15:04]You're right, Sam. I hired the man who worked you over. The idea was mine. I thought it might scare you into not coming back. It hasn't.

[01:15:15]>> We're ready to listen to the current quotation on blackmail.

[01:15:18]>> Walter.

[01:15:19]>> Blackmail.

[01:15:19]>> I said blackmail. Now, what is the price? Remember, you're dealing with two old friends.

[01:15:26]Well, uh, which one of you do I deal with?

[01:15:30]>> With me. Be at my office at the plant at 3.

[01:15:33]>> Okay.

[01:15:37]May the deal be profitable to all of us.

[01:15:39]Whatever the price is, that's it. Sam, don't try this again. What happened last night can happen again and worse.

[01:15:49]Don't try it, sweetheart.

[01:15:52]I make this a flat statement.

[01:15:56]I'll kill you.

[01:16:08]Hold your hand under the water.

[01:16:15]Now dry your hand.

[01:16:23]>> This will hurt.

[01:16:26]>> Even pain at your hands.

[01:16:29]You were lucky.

[01:16:31]>> Yes, I'm a very lucky man >> and a stupid one. Yesterday afternoon, he told me he didn't want anything. That he was going away. He'd let me handle.

[01:16:39]>> I didn't like what you had in mind.

[01:16:43]It's quite a thing in a small city like this to be a district attorney.

[01:16:48]You get to feel like God, you know, everything down to the smallest detail.

[01:16:54]Even a call to Dempsey's garage.

[01:16:58]Sam's leaving Iverston today.

[01:17:01]>> That's what he said.

[01:17:02]>> I want to hear you say.

[01:17:03]>> It's up to him.

[01:17:04]>> No, it's up to you. I know you, Martha.

[01:17:07]You are my life's work. I've studied you all these years. A little girl in a cage waiting for someone to let her out. And along comes Sam.

[01:17:18]Do you know what's on my mind, Martha?

[01:17:20]About Sam? I mean, >> I think I do. And that's where it will stay on your mind.

[01:17:28]Unless, of course, I tell you differently.

[01:17:33]>> What did O'Neal say? Do you think he'll make trouble?

[01:17:36]>> No. No. I had him figured out, right?

[01:17:37]He's still just a scared little kid.

[01:17:40]Coffee, please. Black.

[01:17:42]No. Martha's the one I can't help out.

[01:17:45]>> Martha?

[01:17:46]>> Mrs. O'Neal? The three of us grew up together. I told you about it. Remember?

[01:17:52]Thanks. She's beautiful.

[01:17:56]That's why I can't figure it out why she'd a beautiful rich girl stay married to a guy she's not in love with.

[01:18:01]>> How do you know that?

[01:18:02]>> I know.

[01:18:04]>> You sound like you're in love with her.

[01:18:07]>> You sound like you're jealous.

[01:18:12]>> Could be.

[01:18:15]When are we leaving?

[01:18:16]>> This evening at the car's ready.

[01:18:19]>> What do we do until then?

[01:18:21]>> I know. Why don't we find out what happened to your people?

[01:18:25]Yeah.

[01:18:27]Well, it'll be simple. Now, I know I left town September 27th, 1928.

[01:18:32]>> The exact date? How come you remember it?

[01:18:34]>> Wouldn't you remember a date? The exact date about something that happened that long ago?

[01:18:37]>> No, not unless something terrific happened that day.

[01:18:40]>> Yeah.

[01:18:41]Come on, let's finish your coffee. We'll go down to the newspaper more, though.

[01:18:44]>> The more?

[01:18:46]>> Yeah. I think I can find out by my people down there. Afterwards, take you shopping.

[01:18:57]And that was a strange case. Went unsolved for years.

[01:19:03]Then one day they picked up a guy who stuck up a garage or something. Someone who used to work at old lady Ivor's house.

[01:19:10]Came out at the trial that he was the one that knocked the old lady off. It's my favorite case. A picture of the guy.

[01:19:19]>> Doesn't look like very much, is it?

[01:19:20]>> Yeah. kind of a scared little rabbit. I watched him all through the trial. Never had a chance. O'Neal really did a job on him.

[01:19:29]>> Is that Walder O'Neal?

[01:19:30]>> Yep. Same guy. Was kind of dramatic though. Him being engaged to the niece of the murdered woman.

[01:19:38]He sure did a job.

[01:19:40]Jury was anonymous.

[01:19:42]>> What happened to him?

[01:19:43]>> Oh, they hung him. Interesting, eh?

[01:19:46]Solving a murder after all those years.

[01:19:48]It's all in the files there. Go ahead and read it.

[01:19:50]>> Yeah. Thanks. I will.

[01:19:59]>> Yes, >> Mr. Masterson. By appointment.

[01:20:02]>> Send him in, please.

[01:20:08]>> 3:00. On the nose.

[01:20:10]>> On the nose. Come in, Sam.

[01:20:12]>> You should have kept me waiting. Big executives always keep people waiting.

[01:20:15]Didn't you know that?

[01:20:16]>> Good executives don't.

[01:20:17]>> I bet you're good.

[01:20:18]>> I am.

[01:20:26]It catches it, doesn't it? The feeling of a factory.

[01:20:30]>> When your aunt owned this place, I couldn't get past the gate. Now I'm a guest. Or am I?

[01:20:37]>> I invited you here.

[01:20:39]>> Martha, did your aunt leave you everything?

[01:20:42]>> I was her only heir.

[01:20:44]>> I'll never forget the way she looked that night, standing in the doorway, leaning on her king. I don't want to talk about it.

[01:20:51]>> Okay. Okay.

[01:20:53]>> You look different than you did this morning. Clean and fresh.

[01:20:57]>> Yeah. Well, it's the perfume I use that makes me smell so nice.

[01:21:02]I bet I smell as nice as you and water put together.

[01:21:06]>> What do you want?

[01:21:08]>> I think I've got what I want. I think I've got a gimmick.

[01:21:12]A gimmick is an angle that works for you to keep you from working too hard for yourself. Simple.

[01:21:19]>> Specifically, what is your anger?

[01:21:21]>> Specifically, >> half.

[01:21:25]>> Half of what?

[01:21:25]>> You tell me.

[01:21:30]>> All right, Sam.

[01:21:35]Come here.

[01:21:39]>> My father used to work here as a Milhand.

[01:21:42]>> So did my father when he was sober.

[01:21:45]>> Now I own it. Now you're even.

[01:21:48]>> Now I'm even. I was 21 when I took it over. It had 3,000 workers then. It's got 30,000 now. Ran as far as that gate.

[01:21:56]Now it goes down to the edge of the river. And I did it all by myself.

[01:22:02]Without Walter, without his father.

[01:22:05]All by myself.

[01:22:08]Half of this should make quite a score.

[01:22:13]>> Half would make you my partner.

[01:22:16]That's what I had in mind.

[01:22:19]>> You went out of here a dirty little kid once before. That can happen again. I don't have to give you anything if I don't want to.

[01:22:25]>> But you do want to.

[01:22:38]Hey, Tommy. Come out here quick.

[01:22:46]Yes, Sam.

[01:22:49]>> Make a wish.

[01:22:49]>> I went shopping.

[01:22:50]>> Any wish you make it. You got it.

[01:22:52]>> You feel good?

[01:22:53]>> Yeah, I'm high. I had a drink.

[01:22:55]>> What was in it?

[01:22:56]>> A bucket of gold. The dice came up seven. Tony, you bring me luck. I'm going to wear you like a charm.

[01:23:04]>> You really think so, Sam? You really think I bring you luck?

[01:23:06]>> I know so. And that's an asset for a guy in my business.

[01:23:10]>> Tony Marichek asset.

[01:23:11]>> Tony Marichek. Good kid. You stick around, Tony. Mariche.

[01:23:15]>> Now I've got all the luck. I'm funny that way. I say what's on my mind.

[01:23:21]>> You walk down the street and a girl asks you for a cigarette.

[01:23:24]>> And imagine the time.

[01:23:26]Life is funny.

[01:23:27]>> That's philosophy.

[01:23:29]>> It's good, too.

[01:23:31]You want to know how it is with me, Sam?

[01:23:33]>> No. Tell me.

[01:23:35]>> I've told you. And even if it's over, >> quick. Look, what you don't know, don't talk about.

[01:23:46]I bought a new outfit. I want to show you.

[01:23:48]>> Well, let's take a look at it.

[01:23:51]>> 8.95.

[01:23:52]How do you like it >> with you? Edit it.

[01:23:58]>> Hello, Sam.

[01:24:00]>> Tony.

[01:24:02]>> Hey, Sam.

[01:24:03]>> I heard you talking.

[01:24:05]>> Not even a crummy hotel like this has a switchboard.

[01:24:08]>> I have special privileges in this hotel, Sam.

[01:24:12]I own it.

[01:24:15]>> It's Miss O'Neal. Tony.

[01:24:18]>> Hello. So, this is the girl.

[01:24:22]Tony is my name. Antonio Marriage check.

[01:24:25]>> The sunsuit looks very well on her, Sam.

[01:24:27]She's got just a figure for her. She's a very pretty girl. I'll give another show at 8:00 >> in your room or here.

[01:24:38]>> Tony.

[01:24:39]>> Yes, sir. Ms. O'Neal is sorry she said that.

[01:24:42]>> I'm sorry I said that.

[01:24:45]>> Okay, forget it.

[01:24:47]>> Tony.

[01:24:48]>> Yes, sir.

[01:24:49]>> I'm going out with Ms. O'Neal on business. That's why you came here, isn't it?

[01:24:54]>> Yes.

[01:24:55]>> I'll be back after a little while.

[01:24:58]>> I got no place to go. I'll be here.

[01:25:06]>> I didn't like that.

[01:25:07]>> I apologize.

[01:25:09]There was ice on your tongue.

[01:25:11]>> If you want me to say anything else to her, >> you spoke your peace. Let's get out of here.

[01:25:17]>> I've never been in a hotel room like this before.

[01:25:19]>> I've been in too many.

[01:25:21]>> Just the way you read about it in books.

[01:25:23]Window shave. Scotch on the dress.

[01:25:28]Let's stay here, Sam.

[01:25:30]>> No.

[01:25:30]>> Why not? We can order our dinner here.

[01:25:32]>> I don't like room service.

[01:25:36]>> All right, Sam.

[01:25:39]Come on, let's go.

[01:25:49]>> What's your Tony Marriage really like?

[01:25:52]>> That's what she asked me about you.

[01:25:56]>> What are your plans for her?

[01:25:58]>> Oh, she's very independent.

[01:26:00]>> Hi, Blake. How did you meet her?

[01:26:03]>> We lived in the same house >> in Iverton.

[01:26:06]>> Yeah. when >> now now and then.

[01:26:18]>> Well, let's go back to our drinks. H >> to continue with your Antonio Marichek.

[01:26:27]Have you other things in common?

[01:26:28]>> Taxi cabs, hotels, and Bibles.

[01:26:33]And we don't like some of the same people and places.

[01:26:36]>> All sounds like a very substantial beginning.

[01:26:41]>> How long have you known her? Really?

[01:26:44]>> Since the day before yesterday.

[01:26:46]>> How long have you known me?

[01:26:49]>> Martha, I'm not sure that I've ever known you.

[01:26:53]What do you say? Let's get down to business.

[01:26:57]>> Let's get out of here.

[01:27:00]Winner.

[01:27:03]Yes, sir. Check, please. Yes, sir.

[01:27:06]Biscuit and soda.

[01:27:12]Thank you, sir.

[01:27:16]>> Wait outside, >> Sam. What is it?

[01:27:17]>> Wait outside.

[01:27:28]Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. That >> back to him when he so up. Tell him I run an honest book I always pay off.

[01:27:50]>> Thought I told you to wait outside.

[01:27:52]>> I wanted to see.

[01:27:53]>> You saw.

[01:27:54]>> You wanted to kill him, didn't you?

[01:27:56]>> Yes, I did.

[01:28:05]There's the spot.

[01:28:06]>> Yes.

[01:28:07]>> I like your car.

[01:28:11]>> You know what happened to Lot's wife when she looked back, don't you?

[01:28:13]>> What?

[01:28:14]>> She was turned into a pillar of salt.

[01:28:17]>> What happened to Lot?

[01:28:18]>> Well, he got away. He didn't look back.

[01:28:20]>> You know your Bible.

[01:28:22]>> You would too if you spent as much time as I did in hotel rooms.

[01:28:26]>> I'll take it up.

[01:28:28]Come on, let's get out of here. I love to watch the city from this spot.

[01:28:36]>> Up here doesn't even look real, does it?

[01:28:38]>> It's real. Very real. Owning it gives you a sense of power. You'd know what I meant if you had it.

[01:28:46]>> I >> If anyone asked me my name now, I'd say it was Martha Smith.

[01:28:53]I smelled smoke.

[01:28:56]Better take a look.

[01:29:03]>> Must have been some kids up here.

[01:29:06]>> Sam, don't let it burn. We used to come up here when we were kids and build a fire.

[01:29:13]Ah, >> let it burn, Sam.

[01:29:18]Okay.

[01:29:27]In those days, we used to think that this was real and that that didn't even exist.

[01:29:36]>> Just now you looked like Martha Smith.

[01:29:39]>> If only you hadn't run away.

[01:29:41]>> Well, I waited for you. I remember. I waited a long time in the rain, but you didn't show.

[01:29:46]Give me a cigarette, Sam.

[01:29:49]If only you hadn't left town. I had no one to turn to.

[01:29:56]>> What did you say, Sam?

[01:29:58]>> Nothing. I didn't say anything.

[01:30:00]>> When I found out, it was too late. Much too late. One thing led to another. And >> another what?

[01:30:11]>> I don't want to talk about it anymore.

[01:30:13]>> Oh, go ahead, Martha. I'll do you good.

[01:30:16]Another what?

[01:30:18]>> Where was I?

[01:30:19]>> One thing led to another.

[01:30:21]>> It would have been so different if you hadn't run away.

[01:30:25]Would have been you instead of Walter.

[01:30:29]Or if you had stopped me when I lifted the cane. Why didn't you stop me? You knew how much I HATED HER.

[01:30:36]WHY DIDN'T you stop me?

[01:30:38]>> I wasn't there, Martha.

[01:30:39]>> And then I stood there afterwards already.

[01:30:47]You You weren't there? No, Martha.

[01:30:53]I wasn't there. I left when your aunt came into the hallway. I didn't want to stick around. I was in enough trouble as it was. I never saw what happened. I never knew until tonight about your aunt or that man, the one they hung. The man that you and Walter killed.

[01:31:22]Heat. Heat.

[01:31:59]Sam, help me. Help me.

[01:32:02]>> All right, Martha.

[01:32:04]Tell me. Talk.

[01:32:08]>> All right, Sam.

[01:32:12]I never imagined anyone could die so quickly.

[01:32:16]I had always supposed that wherever I went, she would be with me, that she would never die.

[01:32:21]But it wasn't like that.

[01:32:24]I expected to find her when I went back to my room.

[01:32:28]Later, I became frightened.

[01:32:31]The coroner and the police were sympathetic. They talked very attentive.

[01:32:36]They believed my story, the one I told Walter's father.

[01:32:42]That night, I slept heavily, peacefully.

[01:32:46]>> How did you sleep the night after they hung that man?

[01:32:49]>> Wasn't long when I found out why Walter's father believed my story. It was as if my aunt had never died. He took her place.

[01:32:58]He wanted to make something of his son, and I was tied to them both from that time on.

[01:33:04]Became so unbearable that I wanted to tell the truth. But he had deliberately given me such a sense of guilt and had painted such a picture of what would happen to me that I was crazy with fear.

[01:33:15]He used that fear well to increase it. He made me part of another crime.

[01:33:23]My testimony sent an innocent man to the gallows and he used that to make me marry Walter.

[01:33:33]Sam, you're not going to go away again.

[01:33:35]I want you here, Sam. I've lived so much inside of myself. So choked with wanting something else that lives and breathes.

[01:33:42]So desperate for air and room to breathe in it. Oh, Sam, please, please stay here, Sam.

[01:34:07]Hi, mother.

[01:34:38]Tony, are you still up?

[01:34:43]>> Tony?

[01:34:45]>> Yes.

[01:34:46]>> It's me. It's Sam. Can I come in?

[01:34:49]>> Yes, Sam.

[01:34:56]Mand if I put your light on. Yes. A little while. I was sounding asleep.

[01:35:01]I've got a headache.

[01:35:03]>> Okay.

[01:35:06]I've got something to tell you, Tony.

[01:35:10]>> Yes, I am.

[01:35:30]Tony, you're crying.

[01:35:42]You're crying because you saw. I You were at the window there when we drove up.

[01:35:50]>> Well, that's what I came in to tell you about, Tony. The moth and me.

[01:35:56]>> You didn't have to, Sam. There were no strings on this deal.

[01:36:01]>> Well, that's why I wanted to.

[01:36:03]You see, it it started a long way back.

[01:36:07]I I don't know yet how it's going to finish.

[01:36:10]>> What do you want me to say?

[01:36:13]>> I don't know.

[01:36:14]>> What do you want me to do?

[01:36:15]>> I don't know.

[01:36:16]>> All you have to do is tell me the truth.

[01:36:19]>> Like you did when those goons worked me over.

[01:36:26]>> Now Reven, now I'm beat up.

[01:36:32]>> I'm sorry I said that, Tony.

[01:36:38]Look, kid.

[01:36:41]I'm sorry at myself, not at you.

[01:36:44]>> Do you want me to leave?

[01:36:48]>> Do you want to leave?

[01:36:51]>> That's up to you, Sam.

[01:36:54]I'm here on a rain check.

[01:36:56]>> Well, now don't put it that way. You're here because that's the way we wanted it.

[01:37:02]And no, >> I'm not sure.

[01:37:09]>> I'm just not sure.

[01:37:29]Hello, Gable Hotel. I want to speak to Sam Mastersonson.

[01:37:33]>> Put that phone down.

[01:37:35]>> Hello, Sam. This is Walter. I know I'm not disturbing you. Martha just came in.

[01:37:42]>> Well, what do you want?

[01:37:43]>> I want you to come up here now. Right now.

[01:37:47]>> Are you crazy? The service.

[01:37:48]>> We gave them the night off.

[01:37:50]>> You're drunk.

[01:37:53]>> I've had a lot to drink, but I'm not drunk.

[01:37:57]I suppose it'd be stupid to ask where you were. Yes, it would.

[01:38:01]>> Sam's not leaving, is he?

[01:38:02]>> Ask him when he gets here.

[01:38:04]>> I just got my answer.

[01:38:05]>> Then there are no more questions.

[01:38:08]>> No, I know what I need to know. Sam the Superman.

[01:38:14]Sam, the dirty little boy from the other side of the tracks.

[01:38:17]>> I'll go and change. I wouldn't want him to see me in the same dress twice.

[01:38:30]Come in.

[01:38:37]Tony, >> you're leaving? Huh?

[01:38:41]>> There's a bus out in about an hour.

[01:38:43]>> Tony, >> Sam, it's it's better this way.

[01:38:50]Look, >> Sam, I came back here with you because you said you didn't like to be pushed around.

[01:38:58]I liked you when you said that. You were looking for trouble. But it was a good kind of trouble. And now >> now what?

[01:39:07]>> Sam, I saw you're going to get hurt.

[01:39:11]Leave her, Sam. Leave this town even without me. But but leave.

[01:39:16]>> I can't. At least not just yet.

[01:39:24]>> You're going to need some money.

[01:39:26]>> No thanks.

[01:39:28]Let's break clean.

[01:39:37]>> See you around.

[01:39:38]>> Yeah.

[01:39:42]Around.

[01:39:52]Where's Martha? Upstairs getting dressed for the occasion.

[01:39:57]>> I'll go upstairs.

[01:40:04]>> Why did you call me?

[01:40:06]>> Got a riddle, Sam. Maybe you can help me solve it. It's a little riddle called What's to be done about me, Martha, and you?

[01:40:16]Sounds just like a poem. If it rhymed, it would rhyme with murder.

[01:40:32]>> He's drunk. He's been sitting here drinking all night.

[01:40:36]>> Draw a chalk line and I'll walk it. Or I'll take a mental test. any question like uh what is my object in life?

[01:40:45]>> I tried to stop him from calling you.

[01:40:47]>> You're a wise, an angry boy. You know all the answers, don't you? How are you on dreams?

[01:40:54]>> And I was glad he called you. I was frightened of him, Sam.

[01:40:57]>> She was frightened of me.

[01:41:00]I had a dream, Sam. It was about you.

[01:41:03]In my dream, you were not a handsome corpse. Maybe it was some other guy. In other dreams, there were obvious.

[01:41:09]>> I told you he's drunk. Did you say others for little Martha? Her life was so empty. Is that what she told you, Sam?

[01:41:16]>> I don't want them in here, Sam. Make them get out >> now. You're all of them, Sam. Every one of them rolled into one. Sam, >> keep talking. I'm all of them rolled into one.

[01:41:25]>> Yes, you're a gymnasium instructor in Philadelphia with a muscle for a brain and a tendency to insip adverse. You're a guy, just a guy named Pete and Erie who smells a fish and sinks.

[01:41:38]You're last year's greatest fullback and you flunked your bar exam, but you wanted to be an industrial engineer.

[01:41:44]You're a guy who came along to fix a tire so well you became a city paid inspector and you're a lot of this. But worst of all, you're the one and only man who shares with me the only claim I have on it. Ask her, Sam. Say to her, "Marth, is all this true?"

[01:41:59]>> What if it is? What did you expect? She never wanted to marry you. If you had any self-respect, she married me because she felt that way. I would never tell.

[01:42:06]>> That's a lie. your old man Foster. How long you expect her to go on paying off?

[01:42:11]>> Forever.

[01:42:13]Whatever happens to you, you've got coming. What can happen, Sam? Shall I tell you?

[01:42:20]She'll try to get you to kill me like she got me to send an innocent man to the gall.

[01:42:26]>> I told you the way it was. It was his father's idea. He made >> But did she tell you how she stood up in the police station? How she looked at the man without batting an eye? How she said, "Yes, that's the man. He's the one who came into the house that night. He's the man who killed my aunt.

[01:42:41]That even stuck in the throat of my father.

[01:42:44]My poor dear departed greedy father.

[01:42:49]But he went right on.

[01:42:51]And so did I.

[01:42:52]>> He's lying. You believe me, don't you, Sam? Sam.

[01:42:57]>> M. At least tell the truth now. Tell how much you were afraid of an unsolved murder. Tell what a threat it was to the power and the riches that you'd learned to love so much and that I'd learned to love too. Tell why I became district attorney. Tell why you made me hang that man. TELL THE TRUTH.

[01:43:14]>> I TOLD THE TRUTH. THEY WERE LIKE LEECHES. BOTH OF THEM. THEY WANTED EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING YOU EVERYTHING YOU HAD. I GAVE YOU GO.

[01:43:28]>> You're insane.

[01:43:31]You're out of your mind.

[01:43:34]Me, too.

[01:43:37]You see, Sam, how close we really are to each other. Don't break up our happy home. It'll have to be you or me. And unless you do it now, it'll be you.

[01:44:01]You mustn't think I'm drunk. I'm not.

[01:44:05]It's just that I'm sick inside of me.

[01:44:11]I'm sick.

[01:44:22]Martha, help me please.

[01:44:35]Sam, you believe me, don't you?

[01:44:59]Now, Sam, do it now. Set me free. Set both of us free. He fell down the stairs and fractured a skull. That's how he died. Everybody knows what a heavy drinker he was.

[01:45:11]Oh, Sam, it can be so easy.

[01:45:18]Heat.

[01:45:28]Heat.

[01:45:49]Heat.

[01:45:52]Heat.

[01:46:09]I thought you loved me.

[01:46:10]>> I thought I did, too.

[01:46:13]>> Now you hate me.

[01:46:15]>> Now I'm sorry for you.

[01:46:18]>> When I dreamed about you coming back.

[01:46:21]>> Your whole life has been a dream.

[01:46:24]>> I thought you'd be the Sam I knew as a child.

[01:46:26]>> Martha, you're sick. I could run to you when I was in trouble.

[01:46:31]>> In your mind, I mean, that's why you're sick >> and you'd help me.

[01:46:35]>> So sick that you don't even know the difference between right and wrong anymore.

[01:46:39]>> You've killed. It says so in your record.

[01:46:42]>> I've never murdered.

[01:46:55]Are you all right now?

[01:46:58]All right.

[01:47:01]You fell down the stairs.

[01:47:05]I remember you carried me in here.

[01:47:13]>> Yeah, >> you had your chance, Sam.

[01:47:30]It's a thin line, the one between life and death.

[01:47:36]>> You said I didn't know the difference between right and wrong. What's right for Walter and myself? For us to tell the truth.

[01:47:44]>> I think so. Yes.

[01:47:45]>> And hang for it.

[01:47:45]>> You wouldn't hang for it. Not if you confessed, you do time. Sure.

[01:47:49]>> Sure. I'll rot in prison for the rest of my life. And for what? What am I guilty of?

[01:47:52]>> Murder.

[01:47:52]>> What were their lives compared to mine?

[01:47:54]What was she? A human being.

[01:47:55]>> A mean, vicious, hateful old woman who never did anything for anybody. Look what I've done with what she's left me.

[01:47:59]I've given to charity, built schools, hospitals, given thousands of people work. What was he?

[01:48:03]>> Another human.

[01:48:04]>> A thief, a drunk, and someone who would have died in the gutter anyway. Neither one of them had any right to live.

[01:48:08]>> You didn't think Walter had either.

[01:48:12]>> Goodbye, Martha.

[01:48:14]>> Sam.

[01:48:19]Sam's going away.

[01:48:23]Did you hear what I said, Walter?

[01:48:25]>> Yes, I heard you.

[01:48:27]>> We can't let him go, can we?

[01:48:34]>> Martha's waiting for your answer, Walter.

[01:48:36]>> We'd always be afraid of him. We couldn't live that way. We'd be fools to let him go, knowing so much about us.

[01:48:42]>> May have a little trouble squaring this one.

[01:48:44]>> You broke into the house. You demanded money. You tried to attack me and I shot you in self-defense. Have a right to kill in self-defense. That's what the law says, doesn't it, Walter?

[01:49:00]>> Isn't that what the law says, Walter?

[01:49:07]>> It'll hold up, Walder. A man with a police record.

[01:49:19]It's a perfect case if you can get Walter to be your witness.

[01:49:26]Do you want to bet?

[01:49:37]I feel sorry for you.

[01:49:40]Both of you.

[01:50:07]You love him.

[01:50:09]>> I hate him.

[01:50:10]>> That's why you dropped the gun.

[01:50:12]>> I was afraid. For the first time in my life, I was afraid.

[01:50:17]I felt you'd no longer stand by me. That you'd leave me.

[01:50:23]>> No, Martha. I won't leave you. I love you.

[01:50:29]>> Don't cry, Martha. It's not your fault.

[01:50:34]>> It isn't, is it, Walter?

[01:50:36]>> No. Not mine. My father's nor your auntie. It's not anyone's fault. It's It's just the way things are.

[01:50:44]It's what people want and how hard they want it. How hard it is for them to get it.

[01:50:52]He's near the gate.

[01:50:56]I'm glad he's going.

[01:51:00]He'll always be.

[01:51:01]>> No, he won't, won't he? He won't. And he'll never tell you needn't be afraid.

[01:51:06]And you'll see things will be different now between you and me.

[01:51:12]Just like Just like nothing ever happened.

[01:51:19]>> Just like nothing ever happened.

[01:51:25]Will you kiss me, Martha?

[01:51:36]You believe me?

[01:52:08]I will. Ivers.

[01:52:11]>> No.

[01:52:14]No. Martha Smith.

[01:53:03]I missed a bus once and I was lucky.

[01:53:07]I wanted to see if I could be lucky twice.

[01:53:19]Don't look back, baby. Don't ever look back.

[01:53:24]You know what happened to Lot's wife, don't you? Whose wife?

[01:53:29]>> Sam's wife.

[01:53:34]>> Sam's wife.