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Copy, boy. Thanks, Copy boy

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Where's the record of
this story? Morning Post.

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City desk. Just a moment.
I'll connect you.

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Anybody asking me, I'm down at
the courthouse. Morning Post.

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Elevator. Going down.

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Hildy. Oh, hi, Skinny. Hello, Ruth.
Hello, Maisie. Hello, Hildy. How are you?

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Tell me, is the Lord of the Universe
in? Yes, he's in. In a bad humor.

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Somebody must have stolen the crown
jewel. Shall we announce you? Oh, no, no.

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I'll blow my own horns.

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He's in, Roosh. You'd better wait
here. I'll be back in ten minutes.

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Even ten minutes is a long
time to be away from you.

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What did you say? Huh?

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What? Go on. Uh.

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Oh, go ahead. I just said even ten minutes
is a long time to be away from you.

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I heard you the first time. I like

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it. That's why I asked
you to say it again.

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I can stand being spoiled a little.

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The gentleman I'm going in to
see did very little spoiling.

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I'd like to spoil him just once. Sure
you don't want me to go in with you?

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Oh, no, I can handle it. Well, if
things get rough, remember I'm here.

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I'll come a -running, partner.

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Well, hello, Jim. Hello, Hildy. Hi,
Hildy. Welcome back. Hello, Hildy.

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How have you been?

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Hi, Hildy. Hello, Beatrice. How's
advice to the love lawn? Fine.

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My cat just had kittens again. It's
your own fault. Oh, hello, Hildy.

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Glad to see you back. Glad to see
you. What? Hi, Tim. You all right?

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You still around? Oh,
hello, Hildy. All right.

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A little more around the chin, boss.

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What do you want? Your ex -wife
is here. Do you want to see her?

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Well...

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Well, hello, Hildy.
Hello, Walter. Hi, Hildy.

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Oh, hello, Louie. How's
the big slot machine king?

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Oh, I ain't doing that no more.
I'm retired. You know what I mean?

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Say, Walter. I'm busy, Duffy. Oh, hello,
Hildy. Hello, Duffy. Listen, Walter.

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Get going. I'm busy.

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I thought you ought to know
that the governor didn't sign

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that reprieve. What? And
tomorrow morning, Earl Williams

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dies makes a sucker out of us Well,

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what are you gonna do?

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Get the governor on the phone.

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I can't why not can't locate him is out
fishing How many places to fish are there?

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Well at least to the Atlantic and Pacific.
All right, that simplifies it doesn't it?

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Get him on the phone. And tell him
what? Quiet Duffy, he's thinking.

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Tell him if you reprieve Earl Williams,
we'll support him for Senator.

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What telling the morning post to be
behind him hook line and sinker,

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but you can't do why not because we've
been a democratic paper for over 20 years.

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All right after we get the reprieve
we'll be democratic again Oh,

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go on Duffy get going.

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Remember, the Morning Post expects
every city editor to do his duty.

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You two, Louie, get out of here.

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Okay, boy

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See you're still at it. It's the first
time I ever double -crossed the governor.

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What can I do for you?

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Well, would you mind if I sat down there's

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been a lamp burning in the
window for you, honey here Oh,

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I jumped out that window
a long time ago over.

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Oh, may I have one of those?

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Yeah

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And the match, thank you off.

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Well, well. How long is it? How
long is what? You know what?

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How long is it since
we've seen each other?

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Oh, well, let's see.

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I spent six weeks in Reno, then
Bermuda, about four months, I guess.

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Seems like yesterday to me.

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Maybe it was yesterday, Hildy.
Been seeing me in your dreams.

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Oh, no, Mama doesn't dream
about you anymore, Wally.

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You wouldn't know the old
girl now. Ah, yes, I would.

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I'd know you anytime, anyplace. Anywhere.
Ah, you're repeating yourself, Walter.

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That's the speech you made
the night you proposed.

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Yeah, I noticed you still remember
it. Of course I remember it.

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If I didn't remember it, I
wouldn't have divorced you.

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Yeah, sort of wish you hadn't done
that, Hildy. Done what? Divorce me.

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Makes a fellow lose all faith in himself.

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Gives him a, almost gives him
a feeling he wasn't wanted.

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Oh, now, look, Junior, that's
what divorces are for. Nonsense.

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You've got an old -fashioned idea.
Divorce is something that lasts

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Why, divorce doesn't mean
anything nowadays, Hildy.

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Just a few words, mummled
over you by a judge.

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We've got something between
us, nothing can change.

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Well, I suppose you're right in
a way, Walter. Sure, I'm right.

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I am fond of you, you know. Yeah, girl.

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I often wish you weren't such a stinker.

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Latin, I suppose. You must
come up and meet my mother.

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You must come up and meet
my mother, she'd like that.

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Then why on earth did you
promise not to fight the divorce

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and do everything you possibly
could to gum up the whole works?

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Well, I meant to let you go,
Hildy, but you know how it is.

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You never miss the water
till the well runs dry.

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Oh, big fat lummocks like you
hiring an aeroplane to ride. Hildy,

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don't be hasty.

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Remember my dimple, Walter.

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Delayed our divorce 20 minutes while
the judge went out to watch it.

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Well, I don't want to brag, but I've still
got the dimple and in the same place.

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Look, Hildy, I only acted like any husband

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who didn't want to see his home broken up.

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What home? What home? Don't you remember
the home I promised you? Sure I do.

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That was the one we were to
have right after the honeymoon.

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That honeymoon. Was it my fault?

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Did I know that coal mine was
gonna have another cave -in?

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I intended to be with
you on our honeymoon,

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Hildy. Honest, I did.

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All I know is that instead of two weeks
in Atlantic City with my bridegroom,

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I spent two weeks in a coal
mine with John Krupski.

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You don't deny that, do you,
Walter? Deny it? I'm proud of it.

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We've beaten the whole country on
that story. Well, suppose we did.

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That isn't what I got married
for. Oh, what is the good of...

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Look, now, look, Walter.

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What I came up here to tell

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you is that you must stop
phoning me a dozen times a day,

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sending me 20 telegrams.

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I write a beautiful telegram,
don't I? Everybody says so.

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Are you going to listen
to what I have to say?

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Look, look, what's the use of fighting,
Hildy? I'll tell you what you do.

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You come back to work on the paper.

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If we find we can't get along in a
friendly fashion, we'll get married again.

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What? Certainly. I haven't
any hard feelings.

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Oh, Walter, you're wonderful
in a loathsome sort of way.

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Now, will you please be quiet
just long enough for me

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to tell you what I came up here to say?

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I have a lunch date
already. I cannot break it.

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Where do you take your hands off me?

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What are you, playing
osteopath? Temper, temper.

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Oh, listen, Walter. You are no longer
my husband and no longer my boss.

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And you're not going to be my boss. What's
that supposed to mean? Just what I say.

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You mean you're not coming
back to work on the paper?

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You are right, Mr. Burns,
for the first time today.

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Got a better offer, huh? You
bet I've got a better offer.

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All right, go on, take it, work for
somebody else. That's the gratitude I get.

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Oh, I wish you'd stop panting.

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What were you when you
came here five years ago,

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a little college girl from
a school of journalism?

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I'd take a doll -faced hick.

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Well, you wouldn't take me if I hadn't
been doll-faced. Oh, why should I?

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Why should I? thought it'd be a
novelty to have a face around here

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around here a man could
look at without shuddering.

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Listen, Walter...

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Listen, I made a great
reporter out of you, Hildy,

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but you won't be half as good on
any other paper and you know it.

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We're a team, that's what we are. You need
me and I need you and the paper needs...

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Sold, American!

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Oh, all right, go. Listen, Walter, please.

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The paper's gonna have to get
along without me. So are you.

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It just didn't work out, Walter.

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Well, it would have worked out

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if you'd been satisfied with just being
editor and reporter, but not you.

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You had to marry me, spoil
everything. I wasn't satisfied.

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I suppose I proposed to you.

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Well, you practically did, making
goo -goo eyes at me for two years

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until I broke down on water.

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And I still claim I was tight
the night I proposed to you.

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If you'd have been a gentleman, you'd
have forgotten all about it, but not you.

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Why, you... You're losing
your eye. You used

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to be at a pitch better than
that. Hello? Yeah? What?

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Sweeney? What can I do for you? What? Wait
a minute. I'm not Sweeney. I'm Duffy.

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Listen, Sweeney, you can't do that
to me. Not today of all days.

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What's the matter with you? Are you loony?

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Jumping, Jehoshaphat. Now, listen,
sweetie, this is no time...

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Oh, all right, I suppose so. Yes,
if you have to, you have to.

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He had to. How do you like
that? Everything happens to me.

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365 days in a year, and
this has to be the day.

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What's the matter, Walnut? Sweeney.
Dead? So he might just as well be.

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The only man on the paper that can write
and he picks the day to have a baby.

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Well, he didn't do it on purpose,

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did he? I don't care
whether he did or not.

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He's supposed to be covering the
Earl Williams case. And where is he?

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Walking up and down in the hospital.

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Is there no sense of
honor in this country?

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Well, haven't you got anybody else? No.

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No, there's nobody else on the paper
that can write. This will break me.

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Unless...

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Hildy.

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No. Hildy, you've got to
help me out. Not a chance.

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Get out of here, Duffy. I'm
busy. Please, save your breath.

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This will bring us back together
again, just the way we used to be.

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That's just what I'm afraid of any time,
any place, anywhere. Don't mock me.

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This is bigger than anything that ever
happened to us. Don't do it for me.

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Do it for the paper. Scram, Svengali. If
you won't do it for love, how about money?

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Forget the other offer. I'll
raise you 25 bucks a week.

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Listen to me, you great,
big, bumble-headed baboon.

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I'll make it 35 bucks and not a cent
more. Walter, are you going to listen?

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Well, good grief, how much is that
other paper going to pay you?

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There isn't any other paper. Oh, well,
in that case, I'll raise it off.

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You go back to your old salary,
I'm like, how do you like that?

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Trying to blackjack me. Walter,

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I want to show you something.
I'm busy. It's here.

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It's a ring. Take a good look
at it. Do you know what it is?

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It's an engagement ring.

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I tried to tell you right away,
but you would start reminiscing.

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I'm getting married, Walter,

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and I'm also getting as far away from
the newspaper business as I can get.

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What?

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I'm through.

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You get married all you want to hildy, but
you can't quit the newspaper business.

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Oh, why not? I know you, Hildy. I
know what quitting would mean to you.

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What would it mean? It would kill you.
You can't sell me that, Walter Burns.

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Who says I can't? You're a newspaper
man. That's why I'm quitting.

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I want to go someplace
where I can be a woman.

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You mean be a traitor. A traitor?

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A traitor to what? A traitor to
journalism. You're a journalist, Hildy.

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A journalist? Now, what does that
mean? Peeking through keyholes?

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Chasing after fire engines?

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Waking people up in the middle
of the night to ask them

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if Hitler's going to start another war?

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Stealing pictures off old ladies.

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I know all about reporters, Walter,

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a lot of daffy Budinskis running around
without a nickel in their pockets,

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and for what?

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So a million hired girls, Motelman's
wives will know what's going on? Why I...

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Oh, what's the use?

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Walter, you wouldn't know what it
means to want to be respectable

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and live a halfway normal life.

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Point is, I'm through.

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Where'd you meet this man?

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Bermuda. Rich, huh? Well,

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he's not what you call rich.
Makes about 5 ,000 a year.

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What's his line? He's in
the insurance business.

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Insurance business? Uh -huh. Well,
that's a good honest business, isn't it?

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Oh, certainly it's honest. It's
also adventurous. It's romantic.

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Listen, Hildy, I can't picture
you being surrounded by policies.

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Policies, Policies to
the right of a policy.

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It doesn't make sense. Well,
I can. I can. and I like it.

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And I like it, what's more. Besides,

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he forgets the office
when he's with me. Oh.

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He doesn't treat me like an errand boy
either, Walter. He treats me like a woman.

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It does, does, eh? How did I
treat you? Like a water buffalo?

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I don't know from water buffaloes,
but I do know about him.

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He's kind and he's sweet and he's
considerate. He wants a home and children.

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Sounds more like a guy I ought
to marry. What's his name?

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Uh, Baldwin. Bruce Baldwin.
Baldwin, Baldwin, Baldwin.

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Oh, I knew a Baldwin once. A
horse thief in Mississippi.

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Couldn't be the same fella, could it?

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You're now talking about the
man I'm marrying tomorrow.

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Tomorrow? As soon as that?

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Mm -hmm.

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Well, at last I got out what
I came up here to tell you.

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Guess there isn't any more to the story.

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Well, so long, Walter. So long, Hildy.

00:12:05.185 --> 00:12:07.751
And better luck to you next time. Thanks.

00:12:08.685 --> 00:12:10.205
Oh, Hildy. Huh?

00:12:13.105 --> 00:12:16.109
Well, you kind of took
the wind out of my sails.

00:12:16.290 --> 00:12:20.545
Look, honey. I just want to wish
you everything I couldn't give you.

00:12:20.665 --> 00:12:22.167
Well, thank you, Walter.

00:12:22.985 --> 00:12:24.377
This other fellow, I...

00:12:24.497 --> 00:12:27.462
Well, I'm sorry I didn't
get a chance to see him.

00:12:27.582 --> 00:12:30.910
I'm more or less particular
about whom my wife marries.

00:12:31.030 --> 00:12:35.205
Where is he? Oh, he's right on the
job, waiting for me out there. Ah.

00:12:35.525 --> 00:12:37.152
Do you mind if I meet him?

00:12:37.272 --> 00:12:39.525
Oh, no, Walter. It wouldn't
do any good, really.

00:12:39.645 --> 00:12:42.205
Oh, now, you're not afraid, are
you? Afraid? Of course not.

00:12:42.325 --> 00:12:46.245
Well, then, come on. Let's see this
paragon. Is he as good as you say?

00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:49.825
Oh, he's better. Well, then, what does
he want with you? Oh, now you got me.

00:12:49.945 --> 00:12:51.760
Thank you now, Mildred.

00:12:51.880 --> 00:12:55.985
Oh, I am sorry, Hildy. I suppose Bruce,
what's his name? Baldwin. Baldwin.

00:12:56.060 --> 00:12:57.407
I suppose he opens doors for you.

00:12:57.457 --> 00:13:00.765
He does, and when he's with a lady,
he takes his hat off. Oh, I am sorry.

00:13:00.885 --> 00:13:05.391
And when he walks with a lady, he
waits for her. Oh, well, in that case.

00:13:07.145 --> 00:13:08.045
Allow me.

00:13:08.985 --> 00:13:09.885
Come, boy.

00:13:09.935 --> 00:13:14.885
Well, I can see right away my wife picked
out the right husband for herself.

00:13:15.005 --> 00:13:19.949
How do you do, sir? Must be some mistake.
I'm already married. Already married?

00:13:21.495 --> 00:13:23.725
Oh, Hildy, you should
have told me. Mr. Barnes.

00:13:23.845 --> 00:13:26.453
Congratulations again, Mr.
Baldwin. Oh, no, no. My name is...

00:13:26.503 --> 00:13:29.170
Oh, excuse me, will you? I'm terribly
busy. Just leave your card with the boy.

00:13:29.245 --> 00:13:32.550
What did you say, Mr. Baldwin? Mr. Burns.
My name is... Mr. Burns. Some other time.

00:13:32.625 --> 00:13:35.650
I'm busy with Mr. Bruce Baldwin here. I
didn't hear what you said, Mr. Baldwin.

00:13:35.725 --> 00:13:38.810
I was going to say that my name is...
Now, look, what is it with you?

00:13:38.885 --> 00:13:41.783
Can't you see that... I'm Bruce
Baldwin. Oh, you're Bruce Baldwin? Yes.

00:13:41.865 --> 00:13:44.805
Well, who is he? Who are
you? My name's Pete Davis.

00:13:44.925 --> 00:13:47.809
Well, Mr. Davis, is this
any concern of yours? No.

00:13:47.859 --> 00:13:50.594
Well, from now on, I thank you to
keep your nose out of my affairs.

00:13:50.644 --> 00:13:52.385
And don't let it happen again, that's all.

00:13:52.505 --> 00:13:56.645
Mr. Baldwin, I'm terribly sorry about
this mistake. This is indeed a pleasure.

00:13:56.765 --> 00:13:58.065
Oh, that's wrong, isn't it?

00:13:58.115 --> 00:14:01.298
Well, Bruce, you see, I thought... You
don't mind if I call you Bruce, do you?

00:14:01.348 --> 00:14:03.565
After all, we're practically
related. Oh, not at all.

00:14:03.685 --> 00:14:06.305
You see, my wife, that is,
your wife, I mean, Hildy...

00:14:06.425 --> 00:14:10.065
Oh, Hildy, you know, you led me to expect
you were marrying a much older man.

00:14:10.140 --> 00:14:13.528
Oh, really? What did I say that led you to
expect such... Oh, don't worry about it.

00:14:13.578 --> 00:14:15.546
I realize you didn't mean old in years.

00:14:15.596 --> 00:14:21.045
You always carry an umbrella, Bruce? Well,
it looked a little cloudy this morning.

00:14:21.165 --> 00:14:23.355
That's right. Rubbers, too, I hope.

00:14:23.775 --> 00:14:26.056
Attaboy. A man ought to be
prepared for any emergency.

00:14:26.106 --> 00:14:29.290
Well, Walter, I think we'd better be
running along. Yes, we'd better be going.

00:14:29.365 --> 00:14:32.467
Where are we going? I'm taking you two
to lunch. Didn't you tell him, Hildy?

00:14:32.517 --> 00:14:36.985
No, she didn't. Well, I guess she just
wanted to surprise you, Bruce. After you.

00:14:37.105 --> 00:14:40.605
After you, Hildy. Wasting your time,
Walter, won't be a bit of good.

00:14:40.725 --> 00:14:43.291
No, no, I'm glad to do it. Glad to do it.

00:14:46.562 --> 00:14:51.005
Well, hello, Gus. Well, don't tell
me it's you, Hildy. It's none other.

00:14:51.094 --> 00:14:53.870
How have things been? Oh, I can't
complain. Well, I can. I'm hungry.

00:14:53.945 --> 00:14:55.624
Get me a roast beef sandwich.
Rare on white bread.

00:14:55.664 --> 00:14:57.088
Oh, sorry. On white bread, Gus.

00:14:57.138 --> 00:14:59.605
Over there, Bruce. Right
here. And you, Hildy? Oh,

00:14:59.725 --> 00:15:00.905
I'll have the same, I guess.

00:15:01.025 --> 00:15:05.969
You, sir? Yes, that's all right for me.
Bring some mustard, too, Gus. Yes, sir.

00:15:06.465 --> 00:15:07.779
Ah, well, well, well.

00:15:07.915 --> 00:15:12.425
So, uh, you two are gonna get married,
huh? Well, how's it feel, Bruce?

00:15:12.545 --> 00:15:16.245
Feels awful good. Yes, sir. Well, you're
getting a great little girl for yourself.

00:15:16.365 --> 00:15:20.045
I realize that. Things have been
different for me ever since I met Hildy.

00:15:20.165 --> 00:15:22.425
I've never met anyone
quite like her before.

00:15:22.545 --> 00:15:24.865
Everybody else I've ever known, well,

00:15:24.985 --> 00:15:28.685
you could always tell ahead of time
what they were going to say or do.

00:15:28.805 --> 00:15:33.277
But Hildy's not like that. You can't
tell that about her. And that's nice.

00:15:33.327 --> 00:15:35.490
Yes, well, you're getting
something else, too, Bruce.

00:15:35.565 --> 00:15:38.177
You're getting a great newspaper
man. You know all kids, Walter.

00:15:38.285 --> 00:15:42.425
One of the best I ever knew. Sorry
to see her go. Darn sorry, Hildy.

00:15:42.545 --> 00:15:44.845
I'd like to believe you
meant that. I do mean it.

00:15:44.920 --> 00:15:48.525
Listen, if you ever want to come back to
the newspaper business... Which I won't.

00:15:48.645 --> 00:15:50.005
Oh, well, in spite of everything,

00:15:50.125 --> 00:15:52.385
if I ever do this, there's
only one man I'd work for.

00:15:52.460 --> 00:15:54.770
Bet your life I'd kill you if you
ever worked for anybody else.

00:15:54.845 --> 00:15:56.682
Now, you hear that,
Bruce? That's my diploma.

00:15:56.732 --> 00:15:58.778
You must be quite a business of its.

00:15:59.115 --> 00:16:02.825
Hildy, are you sure you want to
quit? Now, Bruce, what do you mean?

00:16:02.945 --> 00:16:07.025
Well, I mean if there's any doubt about
it or if there's anything that... No.

00:16:07.145 --> 00:16:11.065
This is your chance to have a home and
to be, like you said, a human being.

00:16:11.185 --> 00:16:12.762
And I'm going to make
you take that chance.

00:16:12.802 --> 00:16:15.280
Certainly. Why, I wouldn't let her stay.

00:16:15.400 --> 00:16:20.165
No, no, she deserves all this happiness,
Bruce. All the things I couldn't give her.

00:16:20.285 --> 00:16:23.825
Yeah, all she ever wanted was a home.
Well, I'll certainly try to give her one.

00:16:23.945 --> 00:16:27.725
I know you will, Bruce. Where are you
going to live? Albany. Albany, huh?

00:16:27.845 --> 00:16:31.185
Got a family up there there? Or
just my mother. Just a mother?

00:16:31.305 --> 00:16:34.965
Oh, you're going to live with your
mother? Well, just for the first year.

00:16:35.085 --> 00:16:39.845
Oh, well, that will be nice. Yes, yes,
a home with mother. In Albany, too.

00:16:39.965 --> 00:16:44.365
Mighty nice little town, Albany. They've
got the state capital there, you know.

00:16:44.485 --> 00:16:47.301
Yeah, I know, yeah. Well,
we were there once.

00:16:50.355 --> 00:16:52.365
Listen, will you ever forget the night

00:16:52.440 --> 00:16:54.195
you brought the governor
back to the hotel?

00:16:54.245 --> 00:16:58.375
You see, I was in taking a bath
while I came walking out with a...

00:17:01.045 --> 00:17:02.922
She didn't know I was in town.

00:17:03.083 --> 00:17:06.525
Well, Bruce, how is business
out there? Any better?

00:17:06.645 --> 00:17:08.685
Well, Albany's a mighty
good insurance town.

00:17:08.805 --> 00:17:11.165
Most people there take it
out pretty early in life.

00:17:11.285 --> 00:17:13.545
Yeah, well, I can see why they would.

00:17:13.665 --> 00:17:15.545
Statistics show that
most of our policies...

00:17:15.665 --> 00:17:15.967
You know, Bruce,

00:17:16.017 --> 00:17:18.705
I've got a feeling I ought to have
taken out a little insurance.

00:17:18.825 --> 00:17:21.682
Of course, that really doesn't matter
now that Hildy and I have, uh...

00:17:21.765 --> 00:17:26.075
Well, you know, we've, uh... Does
it? What does it? What do you think?

00:17:26.125 --> 00:17:28.370
Still, at that, it might have
been a good idea if we...

00:17:28.445 --> 00:17:31.302
If I had taken out a little insurance.
Well, I honestly feel that way.

00:17:31.352 --> 00:17:33.945
I figure I'm in one business
that really helps people.

00:17:34.065 --> 00:17:36.965
Of course, we don't help you
much while you're alive, but...

00:17:37.085 --> 00:17:44.250
afterward. That's what counts.
I don't get it. Nice going.

00:17:44.330 --> 00:17:48.085
I so sorry Gus my foot must have
slipped oh that's all right

00:17:48.205 --> 00:17:51.605
What would you like to drink?
Coffee? Gus, shall I put some room

00:17:51.725 --> 00:17:54.425
in the coffee it's a nasty
day sure oh me too Gus please

00:17:54.545 --> 00:17:56.645
And you, sir? Not for me,
thanks. Go on, Bruce.

00:17:56.765 --> 00:17:59.605
No, I have a lot to do this
afternoon. I have to buy the tickets

00:17:59.725 --> 00:18:01.522
and check the baggage.
Well, do it tomorrow.

00:18:01.562 --> 00:18:03.925
There's plenty of time. We're
leaving today at 4 o'clock,

00:18:04.045 --> 00:18:05.922
taking the sleeper for Albany.

00:18:07.005 --> 00:18:10.525
Oh, you're leaving today
at 4 o 'clock, huh?

00:18:10.645 --> 00:18:13.245
Say, that's only two hours.
That doesn't give us much

00:18:13.365 --> 00:18:14.885
time as that. I've got a lot to do.

00:18:15.005 --> 00:18:17.145
I ought to get something
off. Look at that.

00:18:17.185 --> 00:18:18.925
Isn't that silly? All down over my front.

00:18:19.045 --> 00:18:23.425
That's nothing new here. No, never
mind. Gus, do something about this.

00:18:23.475 --> 00:18:28.245
Call me to the telephone as soon as I get
back to the table. Sure. Thanks, Gus.

00:18:28.365 --> 00:18:30.985
That's fine. Thanks.

00:18:31.105 --> 00:18:33.365
I'm terribly sorry about
that. That's silly, isn't it?

00:18:33.485 --> 00:18:37.285
Listen, Bruce, let me get that straight.
I must have misunderstood you.

00:18:37.389 --> 00:18:40.450
You mean you're taking the sleeper today
and then getting married tomorrow?

00:18:40.525 --> 00:18:44.805
Oh, well, it's not like that. Well,
what is it like? Oh, poor Walter.

00:18:44.925 --> 00:18:46.305
He'll toss and turn all night.

00:18:46.425 --> 00:18:49.485
Perhaps we'd better tell him
Mother's coming along, too. Mother?

00:18:49.605 --> 00:18:52.885
Well, your mother kicked the bucket...
No, my mother. My mother. Oh, your...

00:18:53.005 --> 00:18:56.725
Oh, well, that relieves my mind. Oh, it's
cruel of us to let you suffer that way.

00:18:56.845 --> 00:18:59.545
Isn't Walter sweet? Always
wanting to protect me.

00:18:59.665 --> 00:19:03.425
Well, I admit I wasn't much of a husband,
but you can always count on me, Hildy.

00:19:03.500 --> 00:19:05.582
I don't think she'll need
you very much, Mr. Burns.

00:19:05.632 --> 00:19:09.205
I aim to do most of the protecting
myself. Mr. Burns, telephone.

00:19:09.325 --> 00:19:11.625
For me? Yes, sir. That's strange.

00:19:12.665 --> 00:19:13.565
Pardon me.

00:19:15.712 --> 00:19:18.465
You know, Hildy, he's
not such a bad fellow.

00:19:18.585 --> 00:19:22.465
No, he should make some girl real
happy. Mm -hmm. Laugh happy.

00:19:23.055 --> 00:19:27.005
He's not the man for you, I can
see that. but I sort of like him.

00:19:27.125 --> 00:19:31.277
He's got a lot of charm. Well, he comes by
it naturally. His grandfather was a snake.

00:19:32.385 --> 00:19:34.085
Hello? Hello? Hey, Duffy.

00:19:34.205 --> 00:19:35.885
Listen, is there any way we can stop

00:19:36.005 --> 00:19:38.045
the 4 o 'clock train to
Albany from leaving town?

00:19:38.165 --> 00:19:40.105
We might dynamite it. Could we?

00:19:40.646 --> 00:19:44.025
Oh, well, maybe we couldn't.
All right, now, get this.

00:19:44.100 --> 00:19:47.965
Get hold of Sweeney and send him out of
town on a two weeks' vacation right away.

00:19:48.085 --> 00:19:51.045
All right, keep your shirt
on. Hilda's coming back.

00:19:51.120 --> 00:19:53.814
No, she doesn't know it yet, but
I promise you she's staying here.

00:19:53.864 --> 00:19:58.524
And listen, tell Louie to stick around
the office. I may need him. Good -bye.

00:19:58.935 --> 00:20:02.905
Thanks, Gus. Oh, this is bad
business. What's the matter, Walter?

00:20:03.025 --> 00:20:07.025
Oh, the Earl Williams case. Oh, yes, I've
been reading about that. It's pretty bad.

00:20:07.145 --> 00:20:09.185
What is the lowdown on
it? Oh, simple, honey.

00:20:09.305 --> 00:20:11.625
Poor little dope who lost
his job and went berserk

00:20:11.745 --> 00:20:14.125
and shot a cop who was coming
after him to quiet him down.

00:20:14.245 --> 00:20:16.585
Now they're gonna hang him
tomorrow. Oh, your paper.

00:20:16.649 --> 00:20:18.690
You've been taking his
side, haven't you? Mm -hmm.

00:20:18.765 --> 00:20:19.910
Well, if he was out of his mind

00:20:19.985 --> 00:20:22.271
when he did it, why doesn't
the state just put him away?

00:20:22.321 --> 00:20:24.275
Because it happened to
be a colored policeman.

00:20:24.315 --> 00:20:25.705
You know what that means, Hildy.

00:20:25.812 --> 00:20:27.730
The colored vote's very
important in this town.

00:20:27.805 --> 00:20:30.539
Especially with an election coming up
in three or four days. That mayor...

00:20:30.589 --> 00:20:32.605
He'd hang his own grandmother
to be re -elected.

00:20:32.680 --> 00:20:35.279
I should think he could just show
that the man wasn't responsible.

00:20:35.319 --> 00:20:36.434
That's not so easy.

00:20:37.008 --> 00:20:40.536
Maybe it isn't so hard, either.
Why, what do you mean, Hildy?

00:20:40.586 --> 00:20:43.770
Well, don't they have to have another
expert examine him before they hang him?

00:20:43.845 --> 00:20:45.605
Sure, a bird named
Egelhoffer's gonna do it.

00:20:45.725 --> 00:20:48.625
Well, he'll say the same as
all the rest. Suppose he does.

00:20:48.700 --> 00:20:50.006
Well, what's your scheme, Hildy?

00:20:50.056 --> 00:20:52.345
Look, Waller, you get the
interview with Earl Williams.

00:20:52.465 --> 00:20:53.905
Print Egelhoffer's statement.

00:20:54.025 --> 00:20:58.045
And right alongside of it, you know,
double column, run your interview.

00:20:58.165 --> 00:21:01.805
Alienist says he's sane, interview shows
he's goofing. Oh, Hildy, you can do it.

00:21:01.925 --> 00:21:04.991
You could save that poor
devil's life. You could.

00:21:05.111 --> 00:21:08.531
You're going away, I forgot. How
long would the interview take?

00:21:08.581 --> 00:21:10.050
Oh, about an hour for the interview,

00:21:10.125 --> 00:21:11.880
another hour to write
it, that's about all.

00:21:11.930 --> 00:21:14.925
Hildy, we could take the six o 'clock
train if it'd save a man's life.

00:21:15.045 --> 00:21:15.945
No, Bruce.

00:21:16.065 --> 00:21:19.172
If you want to save Earl Williams'
life, you write the interview yourself.

00:21:19.222 --> 00:21:22.610
You're still a good reporter. Oh, Hilda,
you know I can't write that kind of thing.

00:21:22.685 --> 00:21:25.570
It takes a woman's touch, and he's that
hard. Now, don't get poetic, Walter.

00:21:25.645 --> 00:21:28.951
Get Sweeney. He's the best man you've got
on the paper for that sob sister stuff.

00:21:29.001 --> 00:21:32.605
Poor Sweeney. Duffy just told
me his wife finally had twins.

00:21:32.725 --> 00:21:33.685
Isn't that terrible?

00:21:33.760 --> 00:21:36.658
Well, Sweeney went out to celebrate,
and now we can't find him anymore.

00:21:36.708 --> 00:21:39.245
So, Sweeney has twins, and Earl
Williams gets hanged tomorrow.

00:21:39.320 --> 00:21:42.230
Now, Walter, look, it isn't... Well,
you argue with her. You argue with her.

00:21:42.305 --> 00:21:44.670
Otherwise, you're going on a
honeymoon with blood on your hands.

00:21:44.745 --> 00:21:46.433
How can you have any happiness after that?

00:21:46.483 --> 00:21:49.385
All through the years, you'll remember
that the man went to the gallows

00:21:49.505 --> 00:21:51.415
because she was too
selfish to wait two hours.

00:21:51.465 --> 00:21:54.730
I tell you, Bruce, Earl Williams' face
had come between you on the train tonight

00:21:54.805 --> 00:21:56.610
and at the preacher's tomorrow
and all the rest of your life.

00:21:56.685 --> 00:21:57.960
Oh, now, stop it, stop it, Walter. Hildy.

00:21:57.961 --> 00:21:59.329
Hold on, shh, the whole
place will hear you.

00:21:59.379 --> 00:22:00.282
Stop what? What a man.

00:22:00.845 --> 00:22:04.600
I just remembered, Sweeney was
only married four months ago.

00:22:08.985 --> 00:22:13.616
All right, Hilda, you wait, I'm licked.
Then Mr. Sweeney didn't have twins.

00:22:14.165 --> 00:22:18.345
No, indeed. The twins were Walter's,
all his. Oh, it was nothing.

00:22:18.465 --> 00:22:21.884
Well, come on, let's forget it.
Here, we'll start all over again.

00:22:21.934 --> 00:22:24.750
Now, I'll offer you two a business
proposition. We're not interested.

00:22:24.825 --> 00:22:26.370
Well, you'll be interested.
Now, you're a smart young man.

00:22:26.445 --> 00:22:29.343
Don't listen to him, Bruce. I know him
of all from way back. And he never...

00:22:29.393 --> 00:22:31.965
What do you want? I'm talking
to him. Now, look, Bruce.

00:22:32.085 --> 00:22:33.533
You persuade Hildy to do the story,

00:22:33.583 --> 00:22:35.850
and you can write out a nice
fat insurance policy for me.

00:22:35.925 --> 00:22:37.850
What do you say to that? Oh,
no, no, no. Come on, Bruce.

00:22:37.900 --> 00:22:40.845
No, I wouldn't use my wife for business
purposes. Wait a minute, Bruce.

00:22:40.965 --> 00:22:44.385
Walter, how big a policy?
Oh, $25 ,000, $50 ,000.

00:22:44.505 --> 00:22:47.258
What's the commission
on a $100 ,000 policy?

00:22:47.895 --> 00:22:50.805
$1 ,000? Well, I couldn't... We
could use that money, Bruce.

00:22:50.895 --> 00:22:52.650
How long would it take
to get him examined?

00:22:52.725 --> 00:22:54.929
Well, I could get a company
doctor here in 20 minutes.

00:22:54.979 --> 00:23:00.465
All right, Bruce, suppose you have
Mr. Burns examined over in his office

00:23:00.585 --> 00:23:03.405
and see what they'll allow
on that old carcass of his.

00:23:03.525 --> 00:23:06.965
Say, I'm better than I ever was. There
was never anything to brag about.

00:23:07.085 --> 00:23:09.385
Now, look, Bruce, I'll go
back and change and dress,

00:23:09.460 --> 00:23:11.174
and after you get the check, you phone me.

00:23:11.224 --> 00:23:14.985
I'll be in the press room at the criminal
courts building. Oh, Walter. What?

00:23:15.060 --> 00:23:18.885
By the way, I think you better make that a
certified What do you think I am, a crook?

00:23:19.005 --> 00:23:22.985
Yes. No certified check, no story. Get me?
It'll be certified. Want my fingerprints?

00:23:23.105 --> 00:23:26.922
No, thanks. I've still got those.
Gus, how much do I owe you?

00:23:27.685 --> 00:23:28.686
Thank you, dear.

00:23:28.736 --> 00:23:32.845
Oh, Bruce. Oh, I'm sorry. It's all right.
How much money have you got with you?

00:23:32.965 --> 00:23:35.544
You know, everything we have,
$500. Give me the $500.

00:23:35.594 --> 00:23:38.370
But I have to buy the tickets. I'll
buy the tickets. But I should...

00:23:38.445 --> 00:23:40.870
Believe me, dear, I know what I'm doing.
He'll get you in a crap game or something.

00:23:40.945 --> 00:23:41.830
I don't gamble.

00:23:41.905 --> 00:23:44.925
I know a lot of people that never did
anything till they met Walter Burns.

00:23:44.975 --> 00:23:48.445
Please, dear. All right, but remember,
it's everything we have in the world.

00:23:48.565 --> 00:23:51.505
I know, I know. Oh, Bruce. You
got a change of ten? I just...

00:23:51.625 --> 00:23:54.965
See what I mean, don't you, Bruce? I
just gave everything I had to Hildy.

00:23:55.085 --> 00:23:59.778
All I've got left is... Oh, come on,
Hildy. Not me. Sign it. Oh, all right.

00:24:01.205 --> 00:24:02.144
For the waiter.

00:24:03.545 --> 00:24:05.360
Come on, Bruce. Really? Yeah.

00:24:09.105 --> 00:24:14.125
I'll open for a dime. I'm in.
I'll stay. Right. Wilcox 3400.

00:24:14.405 --> 00:24:15.305
I'm in.

00:24:15.835 --> 00:24:17.424
Say, take that one of you birds,

00:24:17.474 --> 00:24:19.269
will you? You ain't
doing anything, are you?

00:24:19.319 --> 00:24:22.245
I'll take two. One's for the day,
man. What's the matter with you guys?

00:24:22.365 --> 00:24:26.745
Crippled or something? I'll just pay 20
cents. Press room, huh? I'll see you.

00:24:26.865 --> 00:24:30.885
Wait a minute. Hello, Sarge. McHugh
talking. Hold the line, will you? What?

00:24:31.005 --> 00:24:34.189
Hello. No, I told you this is the press
room in the criminal court's building.

00:24:34.285 --> 00:24:35.885
Well, Jake, new lead on the hanging.

00:24:36.005 --> 00:24:39.134
This alienist from New
York, Dr. Max J. Egelhofer.

00:24:39.535 --> 00:24:40.345
Egelhofer.

00:24:40.465 --> 00:24:40.830
Yeah,

00:24:40.905 --> 00:24:42.330
he's going to interview
Williams in about half

00:24:42.405 --> 00:24:43.670
an hour in the sheriff's office.

00:24:43.745 --> 00:24:46.032
Must be about the tenth alienist
they've put on, Williams.

00:24:46.082 --> 00:24:48.125
If he wasn't crazy before,
he would be by the time

00:24:48.245 --> 00:24:50.367
ten of those babies got
through psychoanalyzing him.

00:24:50.465 --> 00:24:54.005
Give me the desk. Is this guy Egelhofer
any good? Figure it out for yourself.

00:24:54.125 --> 00:24:57.285
He's the guy they sent to Washington
to interview the brain trust. Blimey.

00:24:57.405 --> 00:25:01.145
He said they were sane. Here's the
situation on the eve of the hanging.

00:25:01.265 --> 00:25:05.305
I'll pick up a little fudge. This is
Murphy. More slop on the hanging.

00:25:05.380 --> 00:25:07.298
A double guard has been
thrown around the jail,

00:25:07.348 --> 00:25:10.445
municipal buildings, railroad terminals,
and elevated stations to prepare

00:25:10.565 --> 00:25:12.745
for the expected general
uprising of radicals.

00:25:12.865 --> 00:25:14.145
At the hour of execution.

00:25:14.265 --> 00:25:16.265
The sheriff has just
put 200 more relatives

00:25:16.385 --> 00:25:19.185
on the payroll to protect
the city from the Red Army,

00:25:19.305 --> 00:25:21.445
which is leaving Moscow
in a couple of minutes.

00:25:21.565 --> 00:25:23.685
The trouble is, when the
real Red Menace shows up,

00:25:23.805 --> 00:25:25.525
the sheriff will still be crying wolf.

00:25:25.645 --> 00:25:28.985
What do you got? Is that good?
Sure looks good from here.

00:25:29.105 --> 00:25:33.105
Well, Hildy, when did you get back? Hi,
Ernie. Hiya, Hildy. Glad to see you.

00:25:33.225 --> 00:25:36.445
Glad to see you, Mac. Hey, where'd you
get the hat? I paid 12 bucks for that.

00:25:36.565 --> 00:25:39.065
Going back to work? It's
just a farewell appearance.

00:25:39.140 --> 00:25:41.385
I'm going into business for
myself. You're what doing?

00:25:41.435 --> 00:25:44.045
I'm getting married tomorrow. Why? Again?

00:25:44.165 --> 00:25:48.605
Are we invited to the wedding? Well, I
might use you for a bridesmaid, Roy.

00:25:48.725 --> 00:25:52.425
Uh -oh. How are you, Murphy? Hildy. What
are you getting married for, Hildy?

00:25:52.545 --> 00:25:55.605
None of your business. You ain't
fooling us, are you, Hildy? Fooling?

00:25:55.725 --> 00:25:57.225
Look what I've got in here.

00:25:57.345 --> 00:26:00.125
Three tickets to Albany on the
six o 'clock train tonight.

00:26:00.200 --> 00:26:01.180
What do you mean, three?

00:26:01.230 --> 00:26:05.691
For me and my beau and hats -off boys,
his sweet darling mom. Oh, that's nice.

00:26:05.741 --> 00:26:09.170
What kind of marriage is that? It's going
to be all right. I'm going to settle down.

00:26:09.245 --> 00:26:10.878
I'm through with the newspaper business.

00:26:10.928 --> 00:26:14.445
Can you picture Hildy singing
lullabies and hanging out daddies?

00:26:14.565 --> 00:26:16.385
Popping lies over the back fence.

00:26:16.460 --> 00:26:19.031
You can see me back as soon as she
gets tired of beating you rugs.

00:26:19.081 --> 00:26:21.244
I'm not gonna beat you rugs. I don't...

00:26:21.294 --> 00:26:24.192
Hey, there's Third in Jefferson, isn't
it, where that central school is?

00:26:24.242 --> 00:26:26.605
No school this time of day.
Why do you care? You'll quit.

00:26:26.725 --> 00:26:28.085
Yeah, you said you were thrilled.

00:26:28.205 --> 00:26:31.396
I just thought it might be
a good fire, that's all.

00:26:31.516 --> 00:26:34.765
Hey, what's that? Just practicing for
the Williams party in the morning.

00:26:34.885 --> 00:26:39.391
Gonna miss a nice hanging, Hildy. Not
interested. Tell him to pipe down.

00:26:44.105 --> 00:26:47.265
Hey, keep quiet down there.
How do you expect us

00:26:47.385 --> 00:26:51.785
to get any work done? Oh,
shut up! Very little respect

00:26:51.905 --> 00:26:56.085
for the press around here. Say,
did anybody phone me? Nothing

00:26:56.205 --> 00:26:59.085
I know of. Say, Hildy, does,
uh, Walter know you're getting

00:26:59.161 --> 00:27:01.610
married just had lunch with him
does he know you're quitting

00:27:01.685 --> 00:27:04.205
Yes, I told him. Any
more questions? Thanks.

00:27:04.325 --> 00:27:05.925
Deal you in, Hildy? I haven't got time.

00:27:05.965 --> 00:27:08.845
I have to do a yarn on Williams.
Did he know what he was doing

00:27:08.965 --> 00:27:09.965
when he fired that gun?

00:27:10.085 --> 00:27:14.025
If you ask us, no. If you ask the state
alienists, the answer is yes. Who is he?

00:27:14.145 --> 00:27:15.545
What's he do? He was a bookkeeper.

00:27:15.665 --> 00:27:20.065
He starts at $20 a week and after 14 years
he gradually works himself up to $17 .50.

00:27:20.140 --> 00:27:20.834
Cut more gum. No.

00:27:20.884 --> 00:27:24.065
McCluskey Company goes out of business
and Williams loses his job. Dime open.

00:27:24.185 --> 00:27:26.565
Can't get another. No. I'm in. I'm in.

00:27:26.685 --> 00:27:29.885
So he starts hanging around
the park listening to a lot

00:27:30.005 --> 00:27:33.245
of soapbox spellbinders making phony
speeches and begins believing.

00:27:33.365 --> 00:27:36.869
And makes some of his own. Up
a dime. All right. I'm in.

00:27:38.097 --> 00:27:42.665
Anything else, Doc? No, that'll be
about all, Mr. Burns. Everything okay?

00:27:42.785 --> 00:27:45.538
You have nothing to
worry about. Good, good.

00:27:45.658 --> 00:27:48.785
How are you doing, Bruce? There's
just one more thing, Mr. Burns.

00:27:48.860 --> 00:27:52.445
Good day, Mr. Burns, Mr. Baldwin.
Goodbye, Doc. Thanks very much. Hey, Doc.

00:27:52.725 --> 00:27:54.073
Who's the beneficiary?

00:27:54.355 --> 00:27:59.154
Excuse me, excuse me. That is, in case of
your death, who do we pay the money to?

00:27:59.274 --> 00:28:00.622
Why, Hildy, of course.

00:28:01.225 --> 00:28:02.289
Oh, I don't know.

00:28:02.409 --> 00:28:04.405
That'd make me feel pretty funny.

00:28:04.525 --> 00:28:08.065
Oh, now, why shouldn't I make Hildy
my, uh, whatever it was, you know?

00:28:08.170 --> 00:28:12.081
I feel I should take care of her. But
you will take care of her, Bruce.

00:28:12.201 --> 00:28:15.525
Say, if that doctor's right,
I'm good for a long time, yeah?

00:28:15.645 --> 00:28:21.225
Look, Bruce, this is a debt of honor
with me. I was a bad husband to Hildy.

00:28:21.345 --> 00:28:23.045
She could have claimed a lot of alimony

00:28:23.165 --> 00:28:25.305
if she'd wanted to, but
she wouldn't take any.

00:28:25.425 --> 00:28:28.772
She had it coming to her, but she was too
independent. Well, I'm independent, too.

00:28:28.885 --> 00:28:31.445
I know you are, Bruce. I
know you are. But look,

00:28:31.565 --> 00:28:33.165
now, you just figure it this way.

00:28:33.285 --> 00:28:36.765
I'm good for, well, we'll
say at least 25 years yet.

00:28:36.885 --> 00:28:39.245
Well, by that time you'll
probably have made enough

00:28:39.333 --> 00:28:41.170
so that the money won't
mean anything to you.

00:28:41.245 --> 00:28:44.625
But suppose you haven't made good,
Bruce. What about Hilda's old age?

00:28:44.745 --> 00:28:45.684
Think of Hilda.

00:28:46.425 --> 00:28:51.325
Ah, I can see her now. White
haired, lavender and old lace.

00:28:52.165 --> 00:28:56.205
Can't you see her, Bruce? Yes,
yes I can. She's old, isn't she?

00:28:56.925 --> 00:28:58.489
Now Bruce, don't you think

00:28:58.609 --> 00:29:03.482
that Hilda's entitled to spend her last
remaining years Without worries of money?

00:29:03.602 --> 00:29:07.513
Of course you do, Bruce. Well, of
course, if you put it that way.

00:29:07.925 --> 00:29:09.825
And remember, I love her, too.

00:29:11.685 --> 00:29:13.875
Yes, I'm beginning to realize that.

00:29:14.365 --> 00:29:18.871
And the beauty of it is, she'll never
have to know until I've passed on.

00:29:19.985 --> 00:29:24.265
Oh, well, maybe she'll think
kindly of me after I'm gone.

00:29:29.605 --> 00:29:30.505
Gee.

00:29:36.252 --> 00:29:38.903
Make me feel like a heel
coming between you.

00:29:39.023 --> 00:29:41.555
No, no, Bruce, you didn't come between us.

00:29:41.675 --> 00:29:46.255
It was all over for her before you came
on the scene. For me... Hey, Walter.

00:29:46.375 --> 00:29:50.293
It'll never be. What do you want?
Can I see you a minute, please?

00:29:51.385 --> 00:29:52.449
Excuse me, Bruce.

00:29:54.015 --> 00:29:57.745
You get it? You get it? You get
it? Oh, where is it? Come on.

00:29:57.865 --> 00:30:01.244
Certified? Sure. But look,
Walter, that's for $2 ,500.

00:30:03.285 --> 00:30:07.165
Well, Bruce, here we are, certified
and everything. Certified.

00:30:08.215 --> 00:30:12.605
Gosh, I'm afraid Hildy will feel ashamed
to think she hasn't trusted you.

00:30:12.725 --> 00:30:14.865
But she'll know someday. Oh, yeah.

00:30:14.985 --> 00:30:17.845
Oh, Bruce, you promised to phone
her as soon as you got the check.

00:30:17.965 --> 00:30:19.467
Oh, yes, yes, of course.

00:30:19.587 --> 00:30:22.805
Get me Hildy Johnson, press
room, criminal courts building.

00:30:22.925 --> 00:30:26.805
Sit down, Bruce. The operator
will get her for you. Thank you.

00:30:27.485 --> 00:30:29.049
Excuse me, will you? Yes.

00:30:29.405 --> 00:30:30.305
Hello?

00:30:30.645 --> 00:30:32.272
Yes, I'll wait, thank you.

00:30:34.865 --> 00:30:38.125
Start hollering. Heal
the guard. Thank you.

00:30:39.285 --> 00:30:43.279
Hildy Johnson speaking. Oh, hello, Bruce.
I got a dime left. Well, what about me?

00:30:43.399 --> 00:30:47.843
We've been playing for an hour. Take
it easy, will you? Hello, Bruce.

00:30:48.177 --> 00:30:52.245
Did you get the check? Is it
certified? Certified and everything.

00:30:52.365 --> 00:30:55.865
I have it right in my pocket.
Oh, in your pocket, that's fine.

00:30:55.985 --> 00:30:58.434
Wait a minute, maybe it isn't
so fine. Bruce, where are you?

00:30:58.525 --> 00:31:00.903
I'm in Mr. Burns' office. Is he there?

00:31:01.546 --> 00:31:02.985
Well, now, look, Bruce,

00:31:03.105 --> 00:31:06.085
I don't want you to carry that
check around in your pocket.

00:31:06.197 --> 00:31:06.850
Well, because...

00:31:06.925 --> 00:31:13.265
Yes, yes, I know all that, but, uh, Bruce,
there's an old newspaper superstition

00:31:13.385 --> 00:31:17.285
that the first big check you get,
you put in the lining of your hat.

00:31:17.405 --> 00:31:18.305
In your hat.

00:31:18.355 --> 00:31:22.505
It brings good luck. I've been a reporter
for 20 years. I never heard that before.

00:31:22.625 --> 00:31:25.905
Neither did I. I know it sounds silly,
dear, but do it for me, please.

00:31:26.025 --> 00:31:28.904
Yes, yes, right now. All
right, just a minute.

00:31:38.805 --> 00:31:41.496
There you are. I've
done it. Anything else?

00:31:42.565 --> 00:31:43.465
Oh, yes.

00:31:44.085 --> 00:31:44.985
All right.

00:31:46.485 --> 00:31:47.385
Uh -huh.

00:31:47.845 --> 00:31:49.910
Yes, yes, I'll tell him. Goodbye.

00:31:50.115 --> 00:31:51.765
Well, everything all right, Bruce?

00:31:51.840 --> 00:31:54.371
Oh, yes, Hildy said to tell you
she'll get right to work fine.

00:31:54.421 --> 00:31:56.288
Well, I must be going now. All right.

00:31:56.328 --> 00:31:59.536
Oh, Bruce, you don't want to forget
this. Might rain. Oh, thanks.

00:31:59.656 --> 00:32:02.125
Oh, you don't mind if I don't
show you our deal Oh, no.

00:32:02.245 --> 00:32:05.065
Not at all. Well, thanks for everything.
Excuse me. What did you say?

00:32:05.185 --> 00:32:07.185
I said thanks for everything nonsense.

00:32:07.305 --> 00:32:10.625
Don't thank me I should
thank you So long so long

00:32:24.565 --> 00:32:25.465
Hello Cooley

00:32:25.515 --> 00:32:29.405
What are you doing around here? I want
an interview with Errol Williams.

00:32:29.525 --> 00:32:32.545
How about a little service? No more
interviews. Why not? Sheriff's orders.

00:32:32.665 --> 00:32:36.685
Besides, the doctor's coming over. Can't
do it. Oh. Say, is this your money?

00:32:36.805 --> 00:32:39.625
Well, I don't think it is. Twenty
bucks? Yeah, I guess maybe it is.

00:32:39.745 --> 00:32:43.165
That's what I thought. Come on, I'm
in a hurry. Hey, Joe, open up here.

00:32:43.285 --> 00:32:45.788
Now, Hildy, don't be... I won't be long.

00:32:50.645 --> 00:32:53.337
Hello, Earl. Hello,
Hildy. My name's Johnson.

00:32:53.457 --> 00:32:57.943
Mind if I talk to you for a few minutes?
No, I haven't anything else to do.

00:32:58.063 --> 00:32:59.319
I guess that's right.

00:33:02.795 --> 00:33:07.005
So you see, I couldn't plead insanity
because I'm just as sane as anybody else.

00:33:07.080 --> 00:33:09.774
You didn't mean to kill that
policeman, right? Why, of course not.

00:33:09.824 --> 00:33:13.425
It's against everything I've ever stood
for. They know it was an accident.

00:33:13.545 --> 00:33:16.665
I'm not guilty. It's...
it's just the world.

00:33:18.205 --> 00:33:21.459
I see what you mean. Sorry
about the lipstick, Earl.

00:33:21.579 --> 00:33:23.525
Now, look, after you lost your job,

00:33:23.645 --> 00:33:26.461
what did you do? I tried
to find another job.

00:33:26.581 --> 00:33:31.065
I mean, how did you spend your time? Oh,
I used to sit around the park any place.

00:33:31.185 --> 00:33:33.985
Oh, I don't smoke. When
you were in the park,

00:33:34.105 --> 00:33:35.965
did you hear any of those speeches?

00:33:36.085 --> 00:33:38.465
You mean those fellows that talk too much?

00:33:38.585 --> 00:33:41.785
Yeah. Well, I didn't pay any
attention. You see, I was thinking...

00:33:41.864 --> 00:33:43.170
Did you hear anything they said?

00:33:43.245 --> 00:33:47.225
Yes. Well, is there anything you
remember? Anything in particular?

00:33:47.300 --> 00:33:49.627
Well, there was one fellow,
he... What did he talk about?

00:33:49.677 --> 00:33:51.515
He talked about production for use.

00:33:51.885 --> 00:33:56.015
Production for use? Yes, he said
everything should be made use of.

00:33:56.135 --> 00:33:58.345
Makes quite a bit of
sense, doesn't it? Yes,

00:33:58.465 --> 00:34:00.655
I liked him. He was a good speaker.

00:34:00.775 --> 00:34:03.325
When you found yourself
with that gun in your hand

00:34:03.445 --> 00:34:06.805
and that policeman coming at
you, what did you think about?

00:34:06.880 --> 00:34:09.329
I don't know exactly. You just
thought of something? Well...

00:34:09.379 --> 00:34:14.194
Could it have been production for use? I
don't know. I... What's a gun for, Earl?

00:34:14.825 --> 00:34:17.765
A gun? Hmm. Why, to shoot, of course.

00:34:18.605 --> 00:34:24.345
Oh, and maybe that's why he used it.
Maybe. Seems reasonable. Yes, yes it is.

00:34:24.465 --> 00:34:27.525
But you see, I've never had
a gun in my hand before.

00:34:27.645 --> 00:34:31.885
And that's what a gun's for, isn't
it? Maybe that's why. Sure it is.

00:34:32.005 --> 00:34:36.573
Yes, that's what I thought of. Production
for use. It's simple, isn't it?

00:34:36.693 --> 00:34:40.465
Very simple. There's nothing crazy about
that, is there? No, nothing at all.

00:34:40.540 --> 00:34:43.193
You'll write about that in your
paper, won't you? You bet I will.

00:34:43.243 --> 00:34:44.524
Who sent you the roses?

00:34:44.725 --> 00:34:48.355
Miss Molly Molloy. She's a
wonderful person. picture? Yes.

00:34:48.725 --> 00:34:52.229
She's beautiful, isn't she?
Time's up, Hildy. All right.

00:34:53.005 --> 00:34:57.625
I guess that's all. I like talking
to you. Goodbye, Miss Johnson.

00:34:59.465 --> 00:35:00.365
Goodbye, Earl.

00:35:01.425 --> 00:35:02.325
Good luck.

00:35:05.155 --> 00:35:08.385
Three landladies, boys. You did
well, didn't you? Right on.

00:35:08.471 --> 00:35:10.430
I wonder what the post's
gonna do without Hildy.

00:35:10.505 --> 00:35:13.030
Yeah, do you suppose Walter Burns
will ever let her go? I don't know.

00:35:13.105 --> 00:35:15.921
Remember what he did to Bill Fenton
when he wanted to go to Hollywood?

00:35:15.971 --> 00:35:19.005
had him thrown in jail for arson.
Forgery. Was that it? Yeah. Give me

00:35:19.125 --> 00:35:21.166
some change. Hey, Mac.

00:35:21.206 --> 00:35:25.785
Hey, Stairway Sam, would you mind
turning on some lights? Sure,

00:35:25.905 --> 00:35:28.985
it's a duck you can't see anything in
this place hey who's this guy hill

00:35:29.105 --> 00:35:32.725
he's gonna marry I don't know bruce
something I give the marriage six months

00:35:32.845 --> 00:35:35.965
why because she won't be able to
stay away from the paper any longer

00:35:36.085 --> 00:35:39.645
than that. Did you see her when that bell
went off? Not that it must be pretty

00:35:39.765 --> 00:35:41.945
nice to be be able to walk
out of a place and quit.

00:35:42.065 --> 00:35:45.085
Not bad. Yeah, I had a publicity
job offered to me last year.

00:35:45.205 --> 00:35:48.125
Should have taken it. That's what
I'd like, a job on the side.

00:35:48.245 --> 00:35:53.505
A desk and a stenographer. I wouldn't mind
a nice big blonde with big brown eyes.

00:35:53.625 --> 00:35:57.665
I'll bet you ten to one it don't
last six months. She's just like us.

00:35:57.740 --> 00:36:00.189
We wouldn't be sticking around
waiting for that guy to date.

00:36:00.239 --> 00:36:03.625
Well, well, Miss Molly Malloy. Hello,
Molly. Hi, Molly, how's tricks?

00:36:03.699 --> 00:36:06.270
I've been looking for you, Tramps.
Don't they call on Williams?

00:36:06.345 --> 00:36:08.455
He's right across the courtyard.
You'd better hurry up.

00:36:08.505 --> 00:36:10.025
Nice bunch of roses you sent to Earl.

00:36:10.145 --> 00:36:13.645
What do you want done with them tomorrow
morning? A lot of wise guys, ain't you?

00:36:13.765 --> 00:36:17.895
You're breaking up the game, Molly.
What do you want? I came to...

00:36:18.015 --> 00:36:22.185
I came to tell you what I think of
you, all of you. Keep your shirt on.

00:36:22.305 --> 00:36:25.267
If you was worth breaking my nails
on, I'd tear your face wide open.

00:36:25.317 --> 00:36:28.500
What do you swore about us, sweetheart?
Wasn't that a swell story we gave you?

00:36:28.550 --> 00:36:29.524
Yeah, what do you want?

00:36:29.644 --> 00:36:32.005
Crumbs have been making a
fool out of me long enough.

00:36:32.125 --> 00:36:34.245
I never said I loved Earl Williams

00:36:34.365 --> 00:36:36.165
and was willing to marry
him on the gallows.

00:36:36.285 --> 00:36:39.005
You made that up. and
about my being a soul mate

00:36:39.125 --> 00:36:40.431
and having a love nest with him.

00:36:40.506 --> 00:36:41.290
Well, you did, didn't you?

00:36:41.365 --> 00:36:42.010
Yeah, I've been sticking around

00:36:42.085 --> 00:36:44.412
that cuckoo ever since they
threw him in the death house.

00:36:44.462 --> 00:36:46.905
That's a lie. Everybody
knows you're his girlfriend.

00:36:47.025 --> 00:36:50.025
I met Mr. Williams just once
in my life. How many? Two.

00:36:50.144 --> 00:36:52.430
When he was wandering around
in the rain without his hat

00:36:52.505 --> 00:36:55.245
and coat on, like a sick dog,
the day before the shooting.

00:36:55.365 --> 00:36:56.025
Give me one.

00:36:56.145 --> 00:36:57.705
I went up to him like any human

00:36:57.825 --> 00:36:59.985
being would, and I asked
him what was the matter,

00:37:00.105 --> 00:37:04.445
and he told me about being fired after
being on the same job for 14 years.

00:37:04.565 --> 00:37:06.105
Who bets? That's 20 cents.

00:37:06.225 --> 00:37:08.645
And I brought him up to my room
because it was warm there.

00:37:08.765 --> 00:37:10.455
Oh, put it on a phonograph.

00:37:10.605 --> 00:37:12.225
Oh, listen to me, please.

00:37:13.165 --> 00:37:16.544
I tell you, he just sat there
talking to me all night.

00:37:17.065 --> 00:37:21.305
He never once laid a hand on me.
And in the morning, he went away.

00:37:21.708 --> 00:37:25.025
And I never saw him again
till that day of the trial.

00:37:25.145 --> 00:37:26.405
Sure, I was his witness.

00:37:26.525 --> 00:37:29.125
And what a witness. That's
why you're persecuting me.

00:37:29.245 --> 00:37:32.845
Because Earl Williams treated me
decent and not like an animal.

00:37:32.920 --> 00:37:35.532
The press room. We're busy. Why
don't you go see your boyfriend?

00:37:35.582 --> 00:37:39.105
Yeah, he's got a nice room you won't
have it long. He left a call for 7 a .m.

00:37:39.225 --> 00:37:43.418
It's a wonder a bolt of lightning don't
come down and strike you all dead.

00:37:54.785 --> 00:37:58.978
What's that they're fixing up a
pain in the neck for your boyfriend

00:37:59.585 --> 00:38:06.545
Shame on you shame on you a A poor little
fella that never met nobody, no harm.

00:38:06.665 --> 00:38:08.545
Sitting there this minute with the angel

00:38:08.665 --> 00:38:10.492
With the Angel of Death beside
him and you crackin' jokes.

00:38:10.542 --> 00:38:12.624
All right, now, kids, you're
gonna get out of here.

00:38:12.674 --> 00:38:15.685
Come on, Molly, let's get out
of here. Oh, they ain't human.

00:38:15.805 --> 00:38:18.585
I know, they're newspaper men.
All they've been doing is lying.

00:38:18.705 --> 00:38:20.765
All they've been doing
is writing lies. I know,

00:38:20.885 --> 00:38:23.075
Molly. Why won't they listen to me?

00:38:23.385 --> 00:38:25.137
Why won't they listen to me?

00:38:43.765 --> 00:38:46.025
Hello? Who? Hilda Johnson?

00:38:47.005 --> 00:38:49.258
Hang on, she'll be back in a minute.

00:38:52.865 --> 00:38:55.180
You guys want to play any more cards?

00:38:55.345 --> 00:38:57.535
What's the use? I can't win anyway.

00:39:13.865 --> 00:39:15.305
Gentlemen of the press.

00:39:18.045 --> 00:39:18.945
Hildy.

00:39:19.425 --> 00:39:20.405
Phone for you.

00:39:22.505 --> 00:39:23.405
Hello.

00:39:24.105 --> 00:39:25.345
Oh, hello, Bruce.

00:39:26.945 --> 00:39:30.965
Well? Where are you? You're where?

00:39:31.452 --> 00:39:34.205
Well, how did that happen?

00:39:34.325 --> 00:39:37.016
Never mind, never mind.
I'll be right down.

00:39:38.885 --> 00:39:40.825
Oh, I'm sorry. Sorry.

00:39:41.985 --> 00:39:45.364
Hiya, Sheriff. How you doing?
Oh, my shin and my back.

00:39:45.497 --> 00:39:47.509
What's going on around here? Bruce

00:39:47.629 --> 00:39:50.351
was in trouble. Lioness
pushes to defend cub.

00:39:50.471 --> 00:39:55.263
Man forgets hanky, mama goes to wipe nose.
I still give that marriage six months.

00:39:55.383 --> 00:39:59.939
Well, I don't know what you fellas are
talking about. What do you want, Pete?

00:40:00.059 --> 00:40:03.076
Oh, I've got the tickets
for the hanging here, boy.

00:40:03.705 --> 00:40:07.825
Pete, why can't you hang this
guy at 5 o 'clock instead of 7?

00:40:07.900 --> 00:40:10.267
Sure, it won't hurt you, and
we can make the city edition.

00:40:10.317 --> 00:40:12.025
Oh, well, now, that's kind of raw, Roy.

00:40:12.145 --> 00:40:15.140
After all, I can't hang a man in his
sleep just to please the newspaper.

00:40:15.190 --> 00:40:16.570
Yeah, but you can reprieve him twice,

00:40:16.645 --> 00:40:18.850
so the hanging's three days
before election, can't you?

00:40:18.925 --> 00:40:21.190
Yeah, you can run on a law and order
ticket. You can do that, all right.

00:40:21.265 --> 00:40:24.085
Honest, boys, I had absolutely
nothing to do with those reprieves.

00:40:24.160 --> 00:40:26.290
Yeah, how do we know there won't
be another reprieve tonight?

00:40:26.365 --> 00:40:28.610
What if this Eggelhoffer
finds Williams insane?

00:40:28.660 --> 00:40:32.894
Well, he won't find him insane because he
isn't. He's just as sane as I am. Sane.

00:40:33.625 --> 00:40:35.005
Oh, now, be serious.

00:40:35.125 --> 00:40:36.725
Boys, after all, this is a hanging,

00:40:36.845 --> 00:40:38.785
and it's going to go
according to schedule.

00:40:38.905 --> 00:40:41.345
Seven o 'clock in the morning
and not a minute earlier.

00:40:41.465 --> 00:40:43.985
After all, there's such a thing
as being humane, you know.

00:40:44.105 --> 00:40:47.805
All right, Pinky, wait till you want a
favor. And please don't call me Pinky.

00:40:47.925 --> 00:40:49.965
Why not? Because I got a name, see,

00:40:50.085 --> 00:40:52.305
and it's Peter B. Hartwell.
What's the B for?

00:40:52.425 --> 00:40:53.325
Bull.

00:40:53.445 --> 00:40:56.755
But I'm innocent. I didn't do anything.
I never stole a watch in my life.

00:40:56.805 --> 00:41:00.070
No, you didn't, Bruce. I know you didn't.
All right, Mike, come on, let him out.

00:41:00.145 --> 00:41:03.451
I can't, Hildy. He's accused of stealing
a watch and they found the watch on him.

00:41:03.501 --> 00:41:05.965
But I never stole... Please,
Bruce. And who accused him?

00:41:06.040 --> 00:41:08.390
Diamond Louie, the biggest crook in
town. I know. It's all good, Hildy.

00:41:08.465 --> 00:41:11.130
Now, don't Hildy me. You're going to let
him out, aren't you? No. I never stole...

00:41:11.205 --> 00:41:12.725
Bruce, please. All right, you're not.

00:41:12.800 --> 00:41:15.086
Well, perhaps you'd better
read the post in the morning.

00:41:15.136 --> 00:41:17.325
I can't imagine who'd do
a thing like that to me.

00:41:17.445 --> 00:41:20.345
I can't think of any enemies I have.
I'm sure you haven't any, Bruce.

00:41:20.465 --> 00:41:23.765
Have you got the check? Oh,
yes. I have it right here.

00:41:23.885 --> 00:41:28.328
That's a funny superstition you
newspaper people have. This isn't as...

00:41:28.448 --> 00:41:30.325
About being arrested at first,

00:41:30.445 --> 00:41:33.285
I thought maybe Walter Burns might
have something to do with it.

00:41:33.405 --> 00:41:36.765
But then, of course, I realized
he couldn't have. Why?

00:41:36.885 --> 00:41:40.685
Well, he's a very nice fellow,
Hildy. Oh, yes, I found that out.

00:41:40.805 --> 00:41:43.246
What's the matter? I've lost my wallet.

00:41:43.785 --> 00:41:45.785
Yes. Well, Bruce,

00:41:45.860 --> 00:41:48.472
never mind. I have the money. You
better give me the check, too.

00:41:48.522 --> 00:41:51.185
And that picture of us in
Bermuda? Don't bother, Bruce.

00:41:51.305 --> 00:41:53.495
You'll find lots of things missing.

00:41:55.475 --> 00:41:59.025
No, Bruce, dear, you wait here.
I'm not taking any more chances.

00:41:59.145 --> 00:42:02.837
I'll be down in three minutes.
We're taking the next train.

00:42:03.565 --> 00:42:06.799
And so, into this little
tortured mind came the idea

00:42:06.919 --> 00:42:09.456
that that gun had been produced for use.

00:42:09.576 --> 00:42:13.825
And use it he did. But the state
has a production for use plan too.

00:42:14.125 --> 00:42:15.305
It has a gallows.

00:42:15.425 --> 00:42:17.905
And at 7 a .m., unless a miracle occurs,

00:42:18.025 --> 00:42:22.005
that gallows will be used to separate
the soul of Earl Williams from his body.

00:42:22.125 --> 00:42:26.693
And out of Molly Malloy's life will
go the one kindly soul she ever knew.

00:42:28.085 --> 00:42:29.649
That's as far as she got.

00:42:29.699 --> 00:42:32.766
But I ask you guys, can that
girl write an interview?

00:42:32.816 --> 00:42:34.530
She'll do until somebody else comes along.

00:42:34.605 --> 00:42:37.095
I don't think it's very ethical
reading other people's stuff.

00:42:37.145 --> 00:42:40.685
Where do you get that ethic stuff? You're
the only one who'll swipe any of it.

00:42:40.805 --> 00:42:42.705
I still say that anybody
that can write like

00:42:42.780 --> 00:42:44.494
that ain't going to give it up permanently

00:42:44.544 --> 00:42:46.845
to sew socks for a guy in
the insurance business.

00:42:46.965 --> 00:42:50.445
Now I give that marriage three months
and I'm laying three to one. Any takers?

00:42:50.565 --> 00:42:51.385
I'll take that bet.

00:42:51.435 --> 00:42:53.170
Hey, it's getting so a
girl can't leave the room

00:42:53.245 --> 00:42:55.265
without being discussed
by a bunch of old ladies.

00:42:55.385 --> 00:42:58.245
Hello, Post? Hey, get me Walden
Burns, will you, please?

00:42:58.365 --> 00:42:59.665
Oh, don't get sore, Hildy.

00:42:59.785 --> 00:43:02.765
We were only saying a swell reporter
like you wouldn't quit so easy.

00:43:02.885 --> 00:43:06.705
This is Hildy Johnson. Oh, I can quit
all right without a single quiver.

00:43:06.780 --> 00:43:10.365
I'm gonna live like a human being, not
like you chumps. Is that you, Walden?

00:43:10.485 --> 00:43:12.025
Oh, I've got some news for you.

00:43:12.145 --> 00:43:15.369
Yes, yes, I got the interview all right,
but I've got some more important news.

00:43:15.465 --> 00:43:19.325
Yeah, perhaps you'd better get a
pencil and take it down. All ready?

00:43:19.445 --> 00:43:21.390
Now, get this, you double
-crossing chimpanzee.

00:43:21.440 --> 00:43:24.110
There ain't gonna be any interview
and there ain't gonna be any story.

00:43:24.185 --> 00:43:26.810
And that certified check of yours
is leaving with me in 20 minutes.

00:43:26.885 --> 00:43:29.270
I wouldn't cover the burning of Rome for
you if they were just lighting it up.

00:43:29.345 --> 00:43:30.930
And if I ever lay my
two eyes on you again,

00:43:31.005 --> 00:43:32.253
I'm going to walk right
up to you and hammer

00:43:32.303 --> 00:43:34.923
on that monkey skull of yours till
it rings like a Chinese gong.

00:43:34.973 --> 00:43:36.810
Oh, so you don't know
why I'm angry with you.

00:43:36.885 --> 00:43:39.824
Well, perhaps you'd better get Louie
to tell you the story of his watch.

00:43:39.874 --> 00:43:43.030
And there's just one other little
thing I want you to listen to.

00:43:43.855 --> 00:43:48.905
Did you hear that? That's the story I just
wrote. Yes, yes, I know we had a bargain.

00:43:49.025 --> 00:43:51.525
I just said I'd write it. I
didn't say I wouldn't tear it up.

00:43:51.645 --> 00:43:55.305
It's all in little pieces now, Holder. and
I hope to do the same for you someday.

00:43:55.425 --> 00:43:57.833
And that, my friends, is my
farewell to the newspaper game.

00:43:57.883 --> 00:43:59.830
I'm going to be a woman, not
a news -getting machine.

00:43:59.905 --> 00:44:01.473
I'm going to have babies
and take care of them

00:44:01.523 --> 00:44:03.805
and give them cod liver oil
and watch their teeth grow.

00:44:03.880 --> 00:44:06.615
And, oh, dear, if I ever see one
of them look at a newspaper again,

00:44:06.665 --> 00:44:08.324
I'm going to brain them. Where's my hat?

00:44:08.665 --> 00:44:11.856
Hello. Hello. Oh, Mr. Burns?
Yes, she's still here.

00:44:14.725 --> 00:44:16.665
And another thing I want... Oh.

00:44:17.925 --> 00:44:19.865
Where is my... Oh, there it is.

00:44:19.985 --> 00:44:23.365
Hello, Doctor. Sorry to be late.
Well, that's quite all right.

00:44:23.458 --> 00:44:26.070
These boys from the newspapers,
they take up so much of my time.

00:44:26.145 --> 00:44:29.165
You know, they wanted me to hang Williams
at their convenience. Oh, hello.

00:44:29.265 --> 00:44:30.465
Well, these newspapers,

00:44:30.585 --> 00:44:33.063
what they did to me in
Chicago. I quite believe it.

00:44:33.113 --> 00:44:34.950
Always after me for
interviews. Yes, me too.

00:44:35.025 --> 00:44:36.370
Of course, I did rather promise to make

00:44:36.445 --> 00:44:38.130
them some sort of statement
when I finished here.

00:44:38.205 --> 00:44:40.530
You don't mind, do you? Well,
that's hardly ethical, Doctor.

00:44:40.605 --> 00:44:42.768
You see, all statements are
supposed to come from me.

00:44:42.818 --> 00:44:46.005
Well, what do you say to giving
them some sort of joint interview?

00:44:46.125 --> 00:44:49.341
I can discuss some of the psychological
aspects of the case and you...

00:44:49.391 --> 00:44:52.330
You mean we'd have our pictures taken
together? Yes, yes, shaking hands.

00:44:52.405 --> 00:44:54.410
Oh, splendid idea. Of course, I
don't take a very good picture.

00:44:54.485 --> 00:44:57.138
Oh, that doesn't matter, Doctor.
The publicity is the main thing.

00:44:57.188 --> 00:45:01.265
Doctor, I'm getting awful tired.
Can't I go back to jail again?

00:45:01.385 --> 00:45:03.325
Oh, I'm awfully sorry. I
forgot you were there.

00:45:03.400 --> 00:45:05.550
No, Mr. Williams, we have some
further questions for you.

00:45:05.625 --> 00:45:08.564
Sheriff, do you mind extinguishing
the light, please? Of course, Doctor.

00:45:08.614 --> 00:45:12.694
I think that will help us a lot in what
we have to do over here. Now, let me see.

00:45:12.814 --> 00:45:16.865
Mr. Williams, you know, of course,
that you're going to be executed.

00:45:16.985 --> 00:45:19.645
Now, who do you feel is
responsible for that?

00:45:19.765 --> 00:45:22.545
I am innocent. It wasn't my fault.

00:45:22.665 --> 00:45:26.094
Well, Murphy. Send us a postcard.
That'll do. Goodbye, Hildy.

00:45:26.144 --> 00:45:28.715
Goodbye, Hildy. So long, Johnson.
We'll see you again, Johnson.

00:45:28.765 --> 00:45:29.625
Next time you see me,

00:45:29.745 --> 00:45:32.585
I should be riding in a Rolls -Royce
giving interviews on success.

00:45:32.705 --> 00:45:34.835
So long, you wage slaves.

00:45:34.885 --> 00:45:38.150
Well, when you're crawling up fire escapes
and getting kicked out of front doors

00:45:38.225 --> 00:45:40.266
and eating Christmas dinners
in one -armed joints,

00:45:40.316 --> 00:45:41.985
don't forget your pal, Hildy Johnson.

00:45:42.105 --> 00:45:45.860
And when the road beyond
unfolds and the...

00:45:52.465 --> 00:45:54.468
Hey, look out! It's a jailbreak!

00:45:57.345 --> 00:45:59.410
What's the matter? What happened?

00:45:59.460 --> 00:46:04.525
Hey, watch where you're aiming, will ya?
Watch the gate! He's trying to get...

00:46:04.645 --> 00:46:09.213
Who got away? Who was it? Earl Williams!
Who do you think? Earl Williams?

00:46:09.263 --> 00:46:12.837
Hello. Hello. Hello. Hurry up. Hurry up.
This is important. Give me the desk.

00:46:12.887 --> 00:46:16.030
Flash. Earl Williams just escaped.
Jailbreak. Don't know yet. Hold your back.

00:46:16.105 --> 00:46:18.338
Williams took a powder. Went over
the wall. I don't know anything yet.

00:46:18.388 --> 00:46:19.144
Hold your back.

00:46:24.925 --> 00:46:28.399
Oh, Post, get me Walter
Burns. Quick, Hildy Johnson.

00:46:28.995 --> 00:46:32.420
Walter, Walter, Hildy. Oh, he just
escaped from the county jail.

00:46:32.540 --> 00:46:35.344
Yeah, yeah, yeah, don't
worry, I'm on the job.

00:46:49.925 --> 00:46:51.885
Hey, Cooley!

00:47:17.605 --> 00:47:18.505
Cooley!

00:47:19.105 --> 00:47:20.795
Cooley! I want to talk to you.

00:47:30.165 --> 00:47:32.418
This is Endicott. Give me a rewrite.

00:47:32.845 --> 00:47:33.745
He ain't here.

00:47:34.285 --> 00:47:37.061
Hello, Gil. Here's the
situation now. You ready?

00:47:37.111 --> 00:47:39.070
Williams was taken over
to the sheriff's private

00:47:39.145 --> 00:47:41.267
office to be examined by
this Professor Egglehoffer.

00:47:41.345 --> 00:47:44.745
And in a few minutes, he shot his way out.
No, nobody knows where he got the gun.

00:47:44.820 --> 00:47:47.170
He went upstairs to the infirmary
and got out through the skylight.

00:47:47.245 --> 00:47:49.170
He must have slid down the
rain pipe to the street.

00:47:49.245 --> 00:47:51.870
No, nobody knows where he got it.
Well, if they do, they won't talk.

00:47:51.945 --> 00:47:52.810
Hello sweetheart, give me the desk.

00:47:52.885 --> 00:47:55.696
Crime Commission offers $10,000
reward for Williams. Are you talking?

00:47:55.746 --> 00:47:59.025
No clue yet as to William's whereabouts.
No, no. Here's a little feature though.

00:47:59.145 --> 00:48:02.625
There's been an accident about a tear
bomb. Yeah, tear bomb, tear bomb.

00:48:02.745 --> 00:48:04.205
Criminals cry for it. I don't know.

00:48:04.325 --> 00:48:05.900
This tear bomb went off unexpectedly

00:48:05.950 --> 00:48:07.950
in the hands of Sheriff
Hartwell's bombing squad.

00:48:08.025 --> 00:48:10.719
What went off? The following deputies
were rushed to the hospital.

00:48:10.769 --> 00:48:12.385
A fine friend you are. Their names are

00:48:12.505 --> 00:48:16.005
Mervyn D. Wilkerson, the mayor's brother
-in -law. After all I've done for you.

00:48:16.125 --> 00:48:19.387
Howard Schuster, the sheriff's uncle,
on his mother's side. Hello, Jim.

00:48:19.437 --> 00:48:21.110
Sidelights on Sheriff Hartwell's manhunt.

00:48:21.185 --> 00:48:22.899
William Mansfield, the sheriff's landlord,

00:48:22.949 --> 00:48:25.138
and Lester Winthrop, who
married the sheriff's niece.

00:48:25.188 --> 00:48:27.954
You remember, the very homely dame.
All right, you ready? Call you back.

00:48:28.004 --> 00:48:29.585
Mrs. William Rice, age 55, scrub lady,

00:48:29.660 --> 00:48:31.150
while scrubbing the eighth
floor of the Commerce Building,

00:48:31.225 --> 00:48:33.453
was shot in the left leg by one
of Sheriff Hartwell's deputies.

00:48:33.503 --> 00:48:34.205
Look, I'm not...

00:48:34.455 --> 00:48:37.476
There goes another scrub lady.
Nah, it was only a flesh wound.

00:48:37.526 --> 00:48:38.955
They took her to the hospital. Call

00:48:39.005 --> 00:48:40.715
you back. McHugh speaking.
Give me the desk.

00:48:40.755 --> 00:48:42.465
Hey, Mac, any dope on how he escaped?

00:48:42.540 --> 00:48:44.490
Maybe the sheriff let him out
so Williams could vote for him.

00:48:44.540 --> 00:48:45.812
Oh, a man answering the
description of Earl

00:48:45.852 --> 00:48:48.085
Williams was seen boarding a southbound...

00:48:48.205 --> 00:48:49.206
Call you back.

00:48:49.925 --> 00:48:52.115
But you're gone. I thought so, too.

00:48:52.865 --> 00:48:54.555
Get me Walter Burns, quick.

00:48:58.345 --> 00:48:59.784
Walter, Walter, listen.

00:48:59.859 --> 00:49:01.655
I've got the whole story
on how Williams got

00:49:01.705 --> 00:49:03.565
that gun escape and I got it exclusive.

00:49:03.685 --> 00:49:05.905
Yeah, yeah, that's right, and it's a pip.

00:49:06.025 --> 00:49:08.025
It cost me 450 bucks to tear it out

00:49:08.145 --> 00:49:10.145
of Cooley. Never mind now,
but what's the story?

00:49:10.220 --> 00:49:11.630
Well, just a minute and
I'll give you the story.

00:49:11.705 --> 00:49:13.883
But I'm telling you first, I had to
give him all the money I had on me,

00:49:13.933 --> 00:49:16.005
and it wasn't exactly mine
well it's bruce's money

00:49:16.125 --> 00:49:21.065
and I want it back bruce's money
sure sure sure you'll get it now

00:49:21.185 --> 00:49:23.905
what's the story I'll send the
money right down to you I swear

00:49:24.025 --> 00:49:27.745
it on my mother's grave all right
here's this wait a minute your mother's

00:49:27.865 --> 00:49:29.945
alive my grandmother's
grave don't be technical

00:49:30.065 --> 00:49:31.585
hilly what's the story well you get

00:49:31.705 --> 00:49:34.365
that money down here all
right all right here's

00:49:34.485 --> 00:49:37.145
your story. It's the jailbreak
of your dreams. It seems

00:49:37.265 --> 00:49:39.825
this expert, Dr. Egglehoffer, the
profound thinker from New York,

00:49:39.900 --> 00:49:42.512
was giving Williams a final sanity
test in the sheriff's office.

00:49:42.562 --> 00:49:45.865
You know, sticking a lot of pins in
him so that he could get his reflexes.

00:49:45.940 --> 00:49:48.471
Well, he decided to reenact the
crime exactly as it was taken.

00:49:48.545 --> 00:49:51.865
Place, in order to study
Williams' powers of coordination.

00:49:51.985 --> 00:49:53.885
Well, I'm coming to it. Of course,

00:49:53.960 --> 00:49:55.878
he had to have a gun to
reenact the crime with.

00:49:55.928 --> 00:50:00.000
And who do you suppose supplied it?
Peter B. Hartwell. B for brains.

00:50:01.505 --> 00:50:02.405
No kidding.

00:50:02.455 --> 00:50:06.101
I tell you, I'm not kidding. I'm not
good enough to make this one up.

00:50:06.151 --> 00:50:08.110
Well, the sheriff gave
his gun to the professor,

00:50:08.185 --> 00:50:09.573
and the professor gave it to Earl,

00:50:09.623 --> 00:50:12.565
and Earl shot the professor right
in the classified ads. No ads.

00:50:13.405 --> 00:50:14.469
Ain't it perfect?

00:50:14.735 --> 00:50:18.065
If the sheriff hadn't rolled a red
carpet and loaned Williams an umbrella,

00:50:18.140 --> 00:50:21.770
it couldn't have been more ideal. Who? Oh,
no, no, Edgelhoffer wasn't badly hurt.

00:50:21.820 --> 00:50:23.330
They took him to the county hospital,

00:50:23.405 --> 00:50:25.160
where they're awfully
afraid he'll recover.

00:50:25.210 --> 00:50:28.480
Oh, that's great work, Hildy. Huh?
Oh, stop worrying about the money.

00:50:28.530 --> 00:50:31.510
I'll see you get it in 15 minutes.
Well, I'd better get it in 15 minutes.

00:50:31.585 --> 00:50:34.483
Bruce is downstairs waiting in a taxi
cab for me, and we're in a hurry.

00:50:34.533 --> 00:50:36.785
Hold on a minute. Hey, Benji, come here.

00:50:36.850 --> 00:50:39.830
There's a guy waiting in a taxi in
front of the Criminal Courts building.

00:50:39.905 --> 00:50:41.946
His name is Bruce Baldwin.
What does he look like?

00:50:41.996 --> 00:50:45.345
He looks like that fellow in the movies,
you know, Ralph Bellamy. Oh, him?

00:50:45.465 --> 00:50:49.245
Can he handle it? I've never flopped on
you yet, have I? Come on, get going.

00:50:49.365 --> 00:50:51.485
You've only got about two minutes. Hurry.

00:50:51.605 --> 00:50:54.445
Yes, dear. I'm sorry to keep you
waiting. How much was it again?

00:50:54.565 --> 00:50:56.245
$450? For just a second.

00:50:57.221 --> 00:51:02.165
Louie, I need $450 worth of counterfeit
money. You can't carry that much, boss.

00:51:02.285 --> 00:51:05.345
No, just the $450 counterfeit. Where
can I get it? Oh, I got that on me.

00:51:05.465 --> 00:51:06.649
Oh, what a coincidence. Well,

00:51:06.725 --> 00:51:08.888
take it over to Hildy. Hello,
it's coming right over.

00:51:08.963 --> 00:51:10.030
Yeah, I'm sending it over with Louie.

00:51:10.105 --> 00:51:12.840
Well, thanks for your story, dear,
and good luck on your honeymoon.

00:51:12.890 --> 00:51:16.662
No, no, never mind the thanks.
Just see that money gets here.

00:51:19.305 --> 00:51:23.623
Oh, Hildy, you still here? No, I'm
in Niagara Falls. McHugh speaking.

00:51:23.743 --> 00:51:27.065
Emo, I got a good feature for
you on the manhunt. Ready?

00:51:27.185 --> 00:51:29.665
Mrs. Phoebe DeWolf, 861 1⁄2
South State Street, colored,

00:51:29.740 --> 00:51:31.332
gave birth to a Picaninian patrol wagon

00:51:31.382 --> 00:51:34.625
with Sheriff Hartwell's special
rifle squad acting as nurses.

00:51:34.745 --> 00:51:37.845
Phoebe was walking along the
street when... That's right, yeah.

00:51:37.965 --> 00:51:40.945
So they coaxed her in the patrol wagon
and started a race with the store.

00:51:41.065 --> 00:51:42.325
When the Picaninny was born,

00:51:42.400 --> 00:51:45.257
the rifle squad examined him
carefully to see if it's Ur Williams.

00:51:45.307 --> 00:51:48.505
Well, they knew he was hiding
somewhere. Yeah, here's the payoff.

00:51:48.625 --> 00:51:51.942
They named the kid Peter
Hartwell DeWolf... Restroom.

00:51:52.746 --> 00:51:55.736
Bruce, I thought you were
downstairs in the...

00:51:55.856 --> 00:51:56.756
What?

00:51:57.565 --> 00:52:01.985
Arrested again? What for this
time? Well, they called it...

00:52:03.145 --> 00:52:04.045
Mashing.

00:52:05.205 --> 00:52:06.245
I didn't, Hildy.

00:52:06.835 --> 00:52:10.140
I was sitting right in the
taxi where you left me,

00:52:10.260 --> 00:52:14.505
and the young lady seemed to have
a dizzy spell, and I just...

00:52:14.625 --> 00:52:15.525
Huh?

00:52:16.245 --> 00:52:20.345
Well, uh, she's kind of, uh... Huh?

00:52:21.965 --> 00:52:23.217
Yes, she's a blonde.

00:52:23.810 --> 00:52:28.065
Yes, very blonde. Never mind. I know
how it happened. Just a minute.

00:52:28.185 --> 00:52:30.250
Get me Walter Burns. Hildy Johnson.

00:52:31.460 --> 00:52:35.465
Bruce, where are you? 27th Precinct.
Hold on a minute, will you?

00:52:35.585 --> 00:52:38.526
Walter, you... Well, he
was there a minute ago.

00:52:39.025 --> 00:52:39.925
But I...

00:52:40.565 --> 00:52:42.317
I'm sorry, can't locate him.

00:52:42.855 --> 00:52:45.505
Double -crossing. Hello.
No, not you. Bruce,

00:52:45.625 --> 00:52:47.005
I can't get there right away.

00:52:47.125 --> 00:52:50.825
What about 20 minutes? Well, you
see, I have to wait here for the...

00:52:50.945 --> 00:52:52.465
I'll tell you when I see you.

00:52:52.585 --> 00:52:53.905
If I ever get my two hands again

00:52:53.980 --> 00:52:55.870
on that Walter Branson...
Hold on a minute, Nemo.

00:52:55.945 --> 00:52:58.884
Anything I can do to help you? How
much money have you got on your mind?

00:52:58.934 --> 00:53:01.945
64 cents. Welcome to it. But,
thanks, you'd better buy an annuity.

00:53:02.065 --> 00:53:04.085
What's that, Emo? No, I can't give

00:53:04.205 --> 00:53:06.051
you an official statement.
No. Wait a minute.

00:53:06.101 --> 00:53:09.030
Here's the mayor. Maybe he'll give us
one. How about a statement, mayor?

00:53:09.105 --> 00:53:11.170
Don't pester me now, please.
I've got a lot on my mind.

00:53:11.245 --> 00:53:13.590
His honor won't say anything.
Have you seen Sheriff Hartlow?

00:53:13.665 --> 00:53:16.790
It's hard to tell, your honor. You see,
there's so many cockroaches around here.

00:53:16.865 --> 00:53:18.750
Whoa, wait a minute, wait a minute.
How about a statement, your honor?

00:53:18.825 --> 00:53:21.610
Sure, we go to press in 20 minutes. I
can't help that. I've nothing to say.

00:53:21.685 --> 00:53:24.530
Not at this time. Just a moment, please.
What do you know about the escape?

00:53:24.605 --> 00:53:27.290
How'd he get out? Where'd you get the
gun? Wait a minute, boys. Not so fast.

00:53:27.365 --> 00:53:28.670
Well, give us a statement
on the election, then.

00:53:28.745 --> 00:53:31.385
What effect will all this have
on the voters? None whatsoever.

00:53:31.505 --> 00:53:35.045
How can an unavoidable misfortune
like this have any influence

00:53:35.165 --> 00:53:37.425
on the upright citizens of our fair city?

00:53:37.545 --> 00:53:40.835
Belong me. Mr. Mayor, please. Is
there a red menace or ain't there?

00:53:40.885 --> 00:53:44.150
How did Williams get out of that rubber
jail of yours? You understand the gaffe?

00:53:44.225 --> 00:53:45.694
Well, you picked out
somebody to be responsible.

00:53:45.744 --> 00:53:48.445
Is there any truth in the report
that you're on Stalin's payroll?

00:53:48.565 --> 00:53:51.945
Yeah, the senator claims you sleep in
red underwear. Never mind the jokes.

00:53:52.020 --> 00:53:54.877
Don't forget I'm the mayor of this
town. Oh, wait a minute. Come here.

00:53:54.927 --> 00:53:59.205
How'd he get away? Where'd he
get the gun? Hi, Your Honor.

00:53:59.325 --> 00:54:01.925
Any statement on the Red Uprising
tomorrow? What Red Uprising?

00:54:02.045 --> 00:54:05.965
There'll be no Red Uprising. The governor
says the situation calls for the militia.

00:54:06.085 --> 00:54:06.845
Give me a rewrite.

00:54:06.965 --> 00:54:10.205
You can quote me as saying anything
the governor says is a tissue of lies.

00:54:10.325 --> 00:54:13.005
Hello, Jake. Here's a red -hot
statement from the governor.

00:54:13.125 --> 00:54:15.585
He claims the mayor and the
sheriff have shown themselves

00:54:15.705 --> 00:54:19.084
to be a couple of eight -year
-olds playing with fire.

00:54:19.485 --> 00:54:21.675
Here. You can quote him as follows.

00:54:21.795 --> 00:54:23.665
It is a lucky thing for the city

00:54:23.785 --> 00:54:26.505
that next Tuesday is election
day, as the citizens will thus

00:54:26.625 --> 00:54:29.885
be saved the expense of impeaching
the mayor and the sheriff.

00:54:30.005 --> 00:54:33.285
That's all. I'll call you back.
I still have seen you, Mayor.

00:54:33.405 --> 00:54:36.105
Excuse me, boys. I've got so much... Wait.

00:54:36.145 --> 00:54:38.945
Who engineered this? Was it the
Reds? No. Who was it? You? Me?

00:54:39.065 --> 00:54:42.090
No. Just a minute and I'll tell you.
I've got him located. Where is he?

00:54:42.140 --> 00:54:44.630
Out on Center Street where he
used to live. I just got a tip.

00:54:44.705 --> 00:54:46.990
Why didn't you say so? The
rifle squad is just going out.

00:54:47.065 --> 00:54:50.453
You'll be able to catch it if you hurry.
Look, please, Pete, I want to talk to you.

00:54:50.503 --> 00:54:53.445
Please, Fred, look, I've got so
much to do. Now, see here, Fred.

00:54:53.565 --> 00:54:56.170
Pete, you're through. Through?
You mean I'm through?

00:54:56.220 --> 00:54:58.750
I mean I'm scratching your name
off with a ticket next Tuesday

00:54:58.800 --> 00:55:00.382
and I'm running Sherman in your place.

00:55:00.432 --> 00:55:02.350
Reform the Reds with a
rope. Yeah, but Fred, I...

00:55:02.425 --> 00:55:03.870
Williams isn't a red and you know it.

00:55:03.945 --> 00:55:06.721
But there are a lot of communistic
sympathizers around and I thought

00:55:06.771 --> 00:55:08.645
that if I got a slogan
like that, I could...

00:55:08.765 --> 00:55:11.125
I know it, but that's got
nothing to do with this case.

00:55:11.245 --> 00:55:13.265
Do you realize there are
200 ,000 votes at stake

00:55:13.340 --> 00:55:15.667
and if Earl Williams don't
hang, we're going to lose him?

00:55:15.717 --> 00:55:17.985
We're going to hang him.
Come in. He can't get away.

00:55:18.060 --> 00:55:21.817
What do you mean he can't get away? He did
get away, didn't he? What do you want?

00:55:21.937 --> 00:55:26.545
I, uh... What do you want? Are you
Sheriff Hartwell? I'm here. What is it?

00:55:26.665 --> 00:55:30.185
You're a hard man to find, Sheriff. I
have a message here from the governor.

00:55:30.305 --> 00:55:33.460
Is this it? It was a reprieve
for Earl Williams. For who?

00:55:33.510 --> 00:55:36.530
Earl Williams' reprieve. And you said
there wasn't going to be a reprieve.

00:55:36.605 --> 00:55:39.530
How did you get it? It frightens me to
think of what I'd like to do to you.

00:55:39.605 --> 00:55:42.290
Who else was there when he gave you
this? Nobody. He was out fishing.

00:55:42.365 --> 00:55:45.385
Get the governor on the phone. No, he's
not there. He's out duck shooting.

00:55:45.435 --> 00:55:46.285
What a redhead.

00:55:46.615 --> 00:55:50.045
A fishing, duck shooting, a guy who's
done nothing for the last 40 years,

00:55:50.120 --> 00:55:53.304
but play pinochle, gets elected governor,
and right away thinks he's a Tarzan.

00:55:53.354 --> 00:55:56.825
Read that. Insane, he says. Why, he
knows very well Williams isn't insane.

00:55:56.945 --> 00:55:59.957
Well, I never met the man. Ah, pure
politics. It's an attempt to ruin us.

00:56:00.007 --> 00:56:02.170
Dementia prick. Fred,
we've got to think fast.

00:56:02.245 --> 00:56:03.270
What are we going to tell the reporters?

00:56:03.345 --> 00:56:04.418
Tell them the party's
through in this state

00:56:04.468 --> 00:56:05.745
on account of you. Oh, Fred.

00:56:05.865 --> 00:56:08.945
And as an afterthought, tell them
I want your resignation now.

00:56:09.065 --> 00:56:12.945
Hello? Yes? Yes, this is
Hartwell. What? Where? Where?

00:56:13.065 --> 00:56:16.425
Holy moly! Hold the wire! They've
got him. They've got Williams.

00:56:16.500 --> 00:56:19.194
They've got him surrounded. The rifle
squad have him out of his house.

00:56:19.244 --> 00:56:21.343
Tell him to hold the phone.
Oh, hold... Hold the wire.

00:56:21.383 --> 00:56:23.051
Cover up that transfer.
Cover up the... No.

00:56:23.171 --> 00:56:26.276
Now, listen. You never arrived with
this. Yes, I did. Don't you remember?

00:56:26.326 --> 00:56:27.510
Wait a minute.

00:56:27.585 --> 00:56:30.728
I came through that door and I thought
he was Sheriff Harp. I mean, you, huh?

00:56:30.803 --> 00:56:33.217
What's your salary? Forty dollars
a week. Now, don't cut me off.

00:56:33.267 --> 00:56:36.005
How would you like to make $350 a
month? That's almost $100 a week.

00:56:36.125 --> 00:56:38.780
No, I couldn't afford that. Who,
me? Well, who do you think?

00:56:38.830 --> 00:56:41.850
Now, they need a fellow like you in
the city sealer's office. In the what?

00:56:41.925 --> 00:56:44.330
City sealer's. You mean I should
work in the city? No, wait a minute.

00:56:44.405 --> 00:56:47.070
I'm in conference. No, my wife
wouldn't want me to do that. Why not?

00:56:47.145 --> 00:56:50.288
Well, you see, my wife lives in the
country with my family. That's all right.

00:56:50.338 --> 00:56:52.765
You can bring her in here.
We'll pay all the expenses.

00:56:52.885 --> 00:56:55.485
No, I don't think so. For
heaven's sakes, why not?

00:56:55.605 --> 00:56:57.238
Well, I've got two kids going to school,

00:56:57.295 --> 00:56:59.214
and if they change towns,
they'll lose a grade.

00:56:59.264 --> 00:57:00.785
No, they won't. They'll skip a grade.

00:57:00.905 --> 00:57:04.089
And I'll guarantee you that they'll
graduate with highest... Hold your horses.

00:57:04.185 --> 00:57:06.325
Hold your horses, Olson. Hurry
up, Fred. Now, what do you say?

00:57:06.445 --> 00:57:09.204
No, it puts me in a kind of
peculiar hole. No, it doesn't.

00:57:09.254 --> 00:57:12.030
Now, remember, you never delivered
this. Yes, I did. No, you didn't.

00:57:12.105 --> 00:57:14.270
You got caught in the traffic or
something. No, I came around the back.

00:57:14.345 --> 00:57:17.313
Well, pretend you didn't. Now get out
of here and don't let anybody see you.

00:57:17.363 --> 00:57:19.205
Wait a minute. Yes, but
how do I know that...

00:57:19.280 --> 00:57:22.370
Come in and see me in my office tomorrow.
What's your name? Pettybone. What's yours?

00:57:22.445 --> 00:57:23.885
Pettybone? Not really. No, no, no.

00:57:23.960 --> 00:57:26.409
All you've got to do is to lay
low and keep your mouth shut.

00:57:26.459 --> 00:57:29.265
Well, I'm tired anyhow. Here, go
to this address. Nice homey place.

00:57:29.340 --> 00:57:31.789
They'll take good care of you.
Just tell them Fred sent you.

00:57:31.845 --> 00:57:34.954
Here's $50 on a copy. Will you wait,
Olsen? I'll tell you in one minute.

00:57:35.004 --> 00:57:37.668
Oh, you forgot to tell me what a city
citizen does. I'll explain tomorrow.

00:57:37.718 --> 00:57:39.845
No, tomorrow. Is it hard?
No, no, easy, very easy.

00:57:39.920 --> 00:57:42.287
Well, that's good, because my
health isn't what my wife...

00:57:42.337 --> 00:57:45.165
Well, we'll fix that, too. My wife?
Yeah, fix anything. Go ahead.

00:57:45.285 --> 00:57:49.425
Fred, Fred, they're still on the phone.
All right, tell them to shoot to kill.

00:57:49.500 --> 00:57:52.071
What? You heard what I said. But
the reprieve, Fred, if they...

00:57:52.121 --> 00:57:55.045
All right, do as I tell you. All
right, hello, Olsen. Shoot to kill.

00:57:55.165 --> 00:57:59.385
That's the orders. Pass the word alive.
$500 reward. $500 to the man who does it.

00:57:59.505 --> 00:58:01.382
All right, I'll be right over.

00:58:03.115 --> 00:58:05.651
Hi, Hildy. You double -crossing
hyena. I'd like to take you...

00:58:05.701 --> 00:58:08.150
What's the matter, Hildy? Don't
give me that innocent stuff.

00:58:08.225 --> 00:58:09.870
What did you pull on Mr.
Baldwin this time? Who, me?

00:58:09.945 --> 00:58:11.345
Yes, you and that albino of yours.

00:58:11.420 --> 00:58:12.870
Is he talking about
Evangeline? None other.

00:58:12.945 --> 00:58:14.390
She ain't no albino. She'll
do it when one comes along.

00:58:14.465 --> 00:58:15.810
She was born right here in this country.

00:58:15.885 --> 00:58:17.910
If she tries anything else, she'll have
to stay right here in this country.

00:58:17.985 --> 00:58:20.761
I don't mind. And you too, and it
won't be on a phony charge either.

00:58:20.811 --> 00:58:23.045
Did you bring that money?
Oh, yeah. 400 bucks.

00:58:24.045 --> 00:58:24.945
450.

00:58:25.505 --> 00:58:28.258
All right. You can't
blame a guy for trying.

00:58:28.333 --> 00:58:31.762
Here, you'd better give me a receipt. I'll
give you a scar. I've got plenty of them.

00:58:31.812 --> 00:58:35.125
Oh, and I'll take Mr. Baldwin's wallet,
too. Mr. Baldwin's what? His purse.

00:58:35.245 --> 00:58:36.725
Come on, come on, Louie.

00:58:36.845 --> 00:58:40.040
All right, Hildy. I'll do it
for you, because I like you.

00:58:40.090 --> 00:58:43.110
But you better tell that financier to
be more careful in these hard times,

00:58:43.185 --> 00:58:43.856
you know what I mean?

00:58:43.906 --> 00:58:45.959
Sure. Unload him a carry
of brass knuckles, too?

00:58:45.999 --> 00:58:47.285
Now, don't talk that way, Hildy.

00:58:47.360 --> 00:58:50.410
Here, I'll take that. I'll take it to the
station. Wait a minute, wait a minute.

00:58:50.485 --> 00:58:51.830
You'll take it over to
the station, all right?

00:58:51.905 --> 00:58:54.330
You'll take it to the 27th precinct and
tell the cops how this all happened.

00:58:54.405 --> 00:58:56.846
I couldn't do that, Hildy. Burns
would have me in Alcatraz in an hour.

00:58:56.896 --> 00:58:57.842
That's not a bad idea.

00:58:58.265 --> 00:58:59.165
Louie!

00:59:07.935 --> 00:59:10.985
Hello, operator. Hildy
Johnson. Will you get me...

00:59:11.105 --> 00:59:12.106
Drop that phone.

00:59:12.805 --> 00:59:13.705
Never mind.

00:59:15.125 --> 00:59:17.878
You're not going to tell
anybody where I am.

00:59:20.825 --> 00:59:22.327
Put that gun down, Earl.

00:59:24.715 --> 00:59:27.905
You don't want to shoot me,
Earl. I'm your friend, remember?

00:59:28.025 --> 00:59:30.485
I'm going to write the story on
your production for use. Oh,

00:59:30.605 --> 00:59:31.731
yes. That's right.

00:59:32.125 --> 00:59:33.314
Production for use.

00:59:33.434 --> 00:59:35.705
You don't want to hurt
your friend. Don't move.

00:59:35.825 --> 00:59:38.945
Maybe you're my friend and maybe
you're not, but don't come any near.

00:59:39.065 --> 00:59:41.818
You can't trust anybody
in this crazy world.

00:59:41.938 --> 00:59:45.485
I don't blame you. If I were you,
I wouldn't trust anybody either.

00:59:45.605 --> 00:59:48.045
Don't do that. Put it back. Put it back.

00:59:48.165 --> 00:59:52.765
You know, if you try any tricks, I'll
shoot you. I can do it right from here.

00:59:52.885 --> 00:59:54.885
Sure you could, Earl. You don't want

00:59:55.005 --> 00:59:57.696
to do that. You don't
want to kill anybody.

00:59:58.125 --> 01:00:01.066
No, you're right. I don't
want to kill anybody.

01:00:01.186 --> 01:00:04.365
That's what I thought. Wait a
minute. Where are you going?

01:00:04.485 --> 01:00:07.705
I was just going to close the door so
nobody would see you. No, you weren't.

01:00:07.825 --> 01:00:10.185
You were going to get somebody.
But I don't want that.

01:00:10.305 --> 01:00:13.205
All I want is to be left alone. I
won't get anybody. Yes, you will.

01:00:13.325 --> 01:00:16.829
You'll get them after me again.
I won't let you do that.

01:00:18.325 --> 01:00:20.845
I guess I fired all the shells.

01:00:21.095 --> 01:00:25.045
I'm awful tired. I couldn't go
through. Earl, throw that shot.

01:00:25.165 --> 01:00:27.425
They'll know you're here. I don't care.

01:00:27.545 --> 01:00:32.045
I'm not afraid to die. I was telling the
fellow that when he handed me the gun.

01:00:32.120 --> 01:00:33.753
Waking me up in the middle of the night,

01:00:33.803 --> 01:00:36.005
talking to me about things
they don't understand.

01:00:36.125 --> 01:00:39.485
Shut up. I wish they'd
take me back and hang me.

01:00:39.605 --> 01:00:41.325
They will if you don't keep quiet.

01:00:41.445 --> 01:00:43.605
I couldn't go through
another day like this.

01:00:43.725 --> 01:00:45.227
Maybe you think I could.

01:00:45.573 --> 01:00:47.325
Give me Walter Burns, quick.

01:00:47.445 --> 01:00:48.697
Tell him I need him.

01:00:50.405 --> 01:00:51.305
Hello, hello.

01:00:51.668 --> 01:00:53.045
Oh, but Bruce, please.

01:00:53.120 --> 01:00:55.250
I know I said I'd be down in 20 minutes,
but something terrific has happened.

01:00:55.325 --> 01:00:57.990
Hold on. Walter, Hildy, come over here
right away. Wait, Bruce, just a second.

01:00:58.065 --> 01:01:00.390
I'll explain everything. Walter, get
this. I've got Earl Williams here.

01:01:00.465 --> 01:01:02.970
Yeah, right in the press room. Honest,
on the level. Hurry, I need you. Right.

01:01:03.045 --> 01:01:05.380
Bruce, the biggest thing in the world has
happened. I've captured Earl Williams.

01:01:05.430 --> 01:01:07.925
You know, the murderer. Stay
down there, Earl. Wait a minute!

01:01:07.987 --> 01:01:09.130
Listen, Bruce, I'll be down.

01:01:09.205 --> 01:01:10.443
But just as soon as I
hand him over the paper,

01:01:10.493 --> 01:01:12.045
I'll be right down. Bruce, I can't.

01:01:12.165 --> 01:01:14.765
Bruce, don't you realize that
you... Come on, let me in!

01:01:14.885 --> 01:01:17.889
Who is it? It's me, Molly
Molloy. Open the door!

01:01:19.262 --> 01:01:21.190
What do you want, Molly? I gotta find...

01:01:21.240 --> 01:01:23.730
Where is everybody? Well, they're
not here. They've all gone.

01:01:23.805 --> 01:01:26.350
Oh, please tell me where they've gone.
Please tell me. Molly, I don't know.

01:01:26.425 --> 01:01:29.170
And I'm awfully busy. Am I running wrong?
Oh, look. They got him surrounded.

01:01:29.245 --> 01:01:31.270
They're gonna shoot him down like a
dog. They're looking for you, too.

01:01:31.345 --> 01:01:34.350
If you're smart, you'll get out of here. I
don't care. You gotta tell me. You gotta.

01:01:34.425 --> 01:01:35.910
I ain't afraid of them. All right,
Molly, I'll tell you where they are.

01:01:35.985 --> 01:01:39.605
They're down at Center Street. Center and
4th. Oh, that's where he used to... Molly.

01:01:39.725 --> 01:01:42.604
Molly, don't go. Come
in, Molly. Drop a chair.

01:01:45.776 --> 01:01:50.787
Hello, Molly. How did you get in here?
Down the pipe. I didn't mean to shoot him.

01:01:50.907 --> 01:01:54.990
Really, I didn't. Shh. Be quiet.
You believe me, don't you, Molly?

01:01:55.110 --> 01:01:59.007
Sure, I believe you. Thanks for
the roses. They were beautiful.

01:01:59.385 --> 01:02:00.449
Sir, Mr. Freeman.

01:02:00.595 --> 01:02:05.465
No, for heaven's sake,
don't you get hysterical.

01:02:05.585 --> 01:02:08.034
I want to get him out of
here. Sit down, you're crazy.

01:02:08.109 --> 01:02:09.970
You wouldn't get halfway down
that hole without being seen.

01:02:10.045 --> 01:02:11.570
But they'll find him.
I know it, I know it.

01:02:11.645 --> 01:02:14.465
I'm trying to think before those
reporters come in. Let him take me.

01:02:14.585 --> 01:02:17.902
What difference does it make?
No, I'll never let him.

01:02:18.105 --> 01:02:19.669
Hey, who locked the door?

01:02:19.719 --> 01:02:23.525
Oh, now it's too late. No, it isn't,
no, it isn't. Earl, get in this desk.

01:02:23.645 --> 01:02:26.023
Oh, what do you mean? Come on, get in.

01:02:31.225 --> 01:02:34.385
Open up in there!

01:02:36.265 --> 01:02:38.330
All right, all right, I'm coming.

01:02:38.380 --> 01:02:41.424
Oh, what are you trying to
do, kick the building down?

01:02:41.474 --> 01:02:43.270
You're getting kind of
exclusive, ain't you?

01:02:43.345 --> 01:02:45.370
After all, we got some phone calls to
make. Hey, what's she doing up here?

01:02:45.445 --> 01:02:46.430
Run down and get some smelling salts,

01:02:46.505 --> 01:02:48.054
What's the matter? What happened?

01:02:48.104 --> 01:02:50.965
Came up here and had hysterics. Got
pretty sick. How do you feel, Kit?

01:02:51.085 --> 01:02:54.965
I don't feel so good. Get you some water?
I'll get it. Do anything for you? No.

01:02:55.040 --> 01:02:58.020
Oh, you don't look so sick to me. You
didn't bump into Williams, did you?

01:02:58.070 --> 01:03:01.085
Ain't you funny? Yeah, where is
he? Let me alone, will you? Okay.

01:03:01.205 --> 01:03:05.265
Give me the desk. No harm in asking.
Hello, Jim? Yeah, it's false alarm.

01:03:05.385 --> 01:03:06.854
They surrounded the house all right,

01:03:06.906 --> 01:03:09.110
but they forgot to tell
Williams, and he wasn't there.

01:03:09.185 --> 01:03:11.590
Halloween going on outside. The whole
police force standing on its ear.

01:03:11.665 --> 01:03:14.210
Oh, hello, Hildy. I thought you were gone.
I'm waiting for some money from Walter.

01:03:14.285 --> 01:03:17.025
What a chase. Give me Emo. What
was on Williams? Perfect talking.

01:03:17.145 --> 01:03:21.205
Give me the desk. Any news, boys? Yeah.
Yeah, I've never been so tired in my life.

01:03:21.325 --> 01:03:23.659
What? Where? Melrose Station?
Huh? All right, connect me.

01:03:23.709 --> 01:03:26.710
Hello, Molly, how are you? Hold it a
minute. Hey, fellas, this looks good.

01:03:26.785 --> 01:03:27.410
Yeah, call you back.

01:03:27.485 --> 01:03:28.810
An old lady just called Detective Buren,

01:03:28.885 --> 01:03:30.630
claims Williams is
hiding under her piazza.

01:03:30.705 --> 01:03:32.510
Tell her to stand up. Well,
we looked every other place.

01:03:32.585 --> 01:03:34.010
Did you want to go out
on it? I have to stick

01:03:34.085 --> 01:03:35.554
around. I'll cover this end for you.

01:03:35.604 --> 01:03:38.765
I spent $1 .40 on taxi cabs already.
Let's not do any more going out.

01:03:38.840 --> 01:03:41.697
Never mind, Sarge. Tear it up. Say,
who pulled the shades down? I did.

01:03:41.747 --> 01:03:44.186
They were throwing those lights around.

01:03:49.175 --> 01:03:53.925
You know, I've got a hunch Williams ain't
anywhere they've been looking for him.

01:03:54.045 --> 01:03:57.065
He might be right here in this
building somewhere. Sure, sure.

01:03:57.185 --> 01:03:59.504
Hanging around like a duck
in a shooting gallery.

01:03:59.554 --> 01:04:02.370
There's that skylight he got out of,
but how did he reach the ground?

01:04:02.445 --> 01:04:03.914
I'm pretending there ain't any room.

01:04:03.964 --> 01:04:06.385
I'm gonna jump over to this
roof. It's only about four feet.

01:04:06.499 --> 01:04:09.070
Yeah, once he got to the roof,
he could slide down a drainpipe.

01:04:09.145 --> 01:04:11.186
And come in any one of
these windows on this side.

01:04:11.261 --> 01:04:13.130
The story's gonna walk
right in the window...

01:04:13.205 --> 01:04:15.190
The mastermind's at work.
Why don't you boys go home?

01:04:15.265 --> 01:04:16.750
Maybe Williams will come and call on you.

01:04:16.825 --> 01:04:19.111
Wouldn't it be funny if he's
in this building somewhere?

01:04:19.161 --> 01:04:21.307
Why not search the building?
Everybody take a floor.

01:04:21.357 --> 01:04:23.070
I'm not going to wander
all over this place.

01:04:23.145 --> 01:04:24.610
What a great bunch of reporters you are.

01:04:24.685 --> 01:04:26.830
The biggest story in two years and
you're all too lazy to go out.

01:04:26.905 --> 01:04:29.725
Say, Hildy, if I know you, you seem
pretty anxious to get rid of us.

01:04:29.800 --> 01:04:32.410
You trying to scoop us or something?
What are you crazy on my own time?

01:04:32.485 --> 01:04:34.792
Mollie's been giving her the story
on how Williams got the gun.

01:04:34.842 --> 01:04:37.765
Did you smuggle that gun into Williams,
Molly? No, I didn't do nothing.

01:04:37.885 --> 01:04:41.225
Come clean, Molly. Let the
girl alone. She said... Will?

01:04:41.345 --> 01:04:44.385
Mrs. Baldwin. Mother, I want to
tell you... Don't you mother me.

01:04:44.499 --> 01:04:47.030
Playing cat and mouse with my
poor boy. Keeping him locked up.

01:04:47.105 --> 01:04:49.980
Making us miss two trains, and you're
supposed to be married tomorrow.

01:04:50.030 --> 01:04:52.770
I'll be with you in five minutes.
You don't have to go with me at all.

01:04:52.845 --> 01:04:53.730
Just give me Bruce's money

01:04:53.805 --> 01:04:56.009
and you can stay here forever
as far as I'm concerned.

01:04:56.059 --> 01:04:57.891
You and that murderer
you caught. What's that?

01:04:57.931 --> 01:04:59.925
What did you say? Which
one of these men is it?

01:05:00.045 --> 01:05:02.185
They all look like murderers
to me. Wait a minute,

01:05:02.305 --> 01:05:04.370
Hildy. What murder did you catch?

01:05:04.921 --> 01:05:07.925
I'm quoting my son, and
he has never lied to me.

01:05:08.000 --> 01:05:10.857
That's ridiculous in the first place.
I never said anything like that.

01:05:10.925 --> 01:05:14.345
Yes, you did. No, I didn't. I said
I was trying to find the murderer.

01:05:14.465 --> 01:05:17.066
She's got it all balled up. Can't you
see that? Who are you holding on to?

01:05:17.106 --> 01:05:20.925
Nobody. Now let me go, will you? I
don't know where he is. Stop it!

01:05:21.045 --> 01:05:24.965
Stop it! What are you asking her
for? She don't know where he is.

01:05:25.085 --> 01:05:28.165
I'm the only one that knows. Where
is William? Try and find out.

01:05:28.285 --> 01:05:32.585
Come on, Molly, talk. Talk? Now you want
me to talk? Sure. Oh, ain't that funny?

01:05:32.705 --> 01:05:35.004
You wouldn't listen to me
before, not even for a minute.

01:05:35.054 --> 01:05:38.090
And now you want me to talk? Don't tell
him anything, Molly. Leave me alone.

01:05:38.165 --> 01:05:41.050
I know what I'm doing. Stay out of this,
silly. Why didn't you listen to me? Why?

01:05:41.125 --> 01:05:43.070
Come on, cut that out. You keep your
hands off of me. Where is he, Molly?

01:05:43.145 --> 01:05:44.849
Where is he? What do you want to know for?

01:05:44.899 --> 01:05:46.165
So you can write some more lies,

01:05:46.285 --> 01:05:48.285
so you can sell some more
papers. Never mind, Dad.

01:05:48.360 --> 01:05:51.258
All right. All right. I'll tell you
what I'll do I'll give you a story.

01:05:51.308 --> 01:05:55.042
I'll give you a wonderful story
only this time. It'll be true

01:05:55.385 --> 01:05:56.665
Their finding out, no

01:05:56.785 --> 01:05:58.945
Get the ambulance, somebody. Somebody...

01:06:04.245 --> 01:06:07.124
She's dead well, she
isn't killed she's moving

01:06:07.174 --> 01:06:14.065
Darling, did you see that? Where is he?
She jumped out the window. I know that.

01:06:14.140 --> 01:06:16.426
Where is he? I said. Anyway,
she isn't dead. Come to me.

01:06:16.476 --> 01:06:18.681
Where have you got
William? He's in the desk.

01:06:18.801 --> 01:06:20.945
Kevin, she doesn't kill
herself. How are you doing?

01:06:21.065 --> 01:06:22.249
Let me out. I can't stand it.

01:06:22.325 --> 01:06:23.810
Keep quiet. You're sitting pretty.

01:06:23.860 --> 01:06:26.350
What's in there? Who are you?
What are you doing? Who is she?

01:06:26.425 --> 01:06:29.670
This is Mrs. Baldwin, Bruce's mother. What
are you doing? Shut up. I won't shut up.

01:06:29.745 --> 01:06:31.650
You're doing something wrong. Mother,
please. Take her out of here.

01:06:31.725 --> 01:06:34.565
Wait a minute, Walter. Quiet. Take
the lady over to Pollock Marks.

01:06:34.685 --> 01:06:36.124
My name's Louie Peluso.

01:06:36.174 --> 01:06:39.371
Lock her up. See if she doesn't
talk to anyone on the way.

01:06:39.372 --> 01:06:41.465
You can't do this. What do I tell him?

01:06:41.585 --> 01:06:45.165
Tell them it's a case of DT. Don't
worry, Mother. This is only temporary.

01:06:45.285 --> 01:06:46.405
Let go of me.

01:06:46.525 --> 01:06:48.465
Where do you think you're going?

01:06:48.540 --> 01:06:51.071
I'm going after Mother and I'm
going to get Bruce out of jail.

01:06:51.121 --> 01:06:54.165
Why did you have to do this
to me? Get Bruce out of jail?

01:06:54.240 --> 01:06:57.342
How can you worry about a man who's
resting in a nice, quiet police station?

01:06:57.392 --> 01:06:58.885
This is going on hilly. This is war.

01:06:59.005 --> 01:07:00.925
You can't desert me now.
Get off that trapeze.

01:07:01.000 --> 01:07:02.970
You've got your story right over
there on the desk go on smear

01:07:03.045 --> 01:07:05.410
it all over the front page Oh Williams
captured by the Morning Post.

01:07:05.485 --> 01:07:06.910
I covered your story for you, and I got

01:07:06.985 --> 01:07:08.781
in a fine mess doing it
now I'm getting out.

01:07:08.831 --> 01:07:10.814
You drooling idiot. What do
you mean you're getting out?

01:07:10.815 --> 01:07:12.585
Just what I said. There
are 365 days in a year one

01:07:12.660 --> 01:07:14.782
can get mad. How many times
you got a murderer locked

01:07:14.832 --> 01:07:16.425
up in a desk once in a lifetime? Hillary,

01:07:16.500 --> 01:07:18.459
you got the whole city by
the seat of the pants.

01:07:18.509 --> 01:07:21.165
I know I know no, you know You've
got the brain of a pancake.

01:07:21.241 --> 01:07:22.710
This isn't just a story of covering.

01:07:22.785 --> 01:07:25.305
It's a revolution This is the
greatest yarn in journalism

01:07:25.425 --> 01:07:27.874
since Livingston discovered
Stanley the other way around Oh,

01:07:27.924 --> 01:07:28.890
well, don't get technical.

01:07:28.965 --> 01:07:30.870
At a time like this, do you
realize what you've done, honey?

01:07:30.945 --> 01:07:32.428
You've taken a city
that's been graft -ridden

01:07:32.478 --> 01:07:34.045
for 40 years under the same old gang,

01:07:34.120 --> 01:07:35.490
and with this yarn,
you're kicking them out.

01:07:35.565 --> 01:07:36.690
You're giving us a chance to have the same

01:07:36.765 --> 01:07:38.974
kind of government New York's
having under the guard here.

01:07:39.024 --> 01:07:41.485
Listen, honey, if I didn't have
your best interest at heart,

01:07:41.560 --> 01:07:43.519
do you think I'd waste my
time arguing with you?

01:07:43.569 --> 01:07:46.889
You've done something big, Hildy. You've
stepped up into a new class. Huh?

01:07:46.939 --> 01:07:49.510
We'll make such monkeys out of
those ward healers next Tuesday.

01:07:49.585 --> 01:07:52.459
Nobody will vote for them, not even their
wives. I suppose it may. Certainly.

01:07:52.509 --> 01:07:53.485
We'll crucify that mob.

01:07:53.560 --> 01:07:54.970
We'll keep Williams
undercover until morning

01:07:55.045 --> 01:07:56.370
so the Post can break the story exclusive.

01:07:56.445 --> 01:07:58.990
Then we let the governor in on the
capture, share the glory with him.

01:07:59.065 --> 01:08:01.610
I get it, I get it. You kicked over
the whole city hall like an abacus.

01:08:01.685 --> 01:08:03.430
You got the Mayor and Hartwell
backed up against the wall.

01:08:03.505 --> 01:08:05.464
You put one administration
out and another one in.

01:08:05.565 --> 01:08:08.525
This isn't just a newspaper
story, Hildy, it's a career.

01:08:08.645 --> 01:08:09.977
And you stand there belly aching

01:08:10.027 --> 01:08:11.470
about whether you catch
an 8 o 'clock train

01:08:11.545 --> 01:08:12.390
or a 9 o 'clock train.

01:08:12.465 --> 01:08:13.290
But, Walter, I never figured it that way.

01:08:13.365 --> 01:08:14.850
Oh, you're still a dull
-faced hick, that's why.

01:08:14.925 --> 01:08:16.170
Gee, he'd be the white-haired boy.

01:08:16.245 --> 01:08:17.603
Sure, there'll be naming
streets after you.

01:08:17.643 --> 01:08:19.230
Hildy Johnson Street. There'll be statues

01:08:19.305 --> 01:08:20.970
There'll be statues of you in the park.
The movies will be after you, the radio.

01:08:21.045 --> 01:08:23.130
By tomorrow morning, I'll bet you
there's a Hildy Johnson cigar.

01:08:23.205 --> 01:08:25.110
You can see the billboards now. It
says, light up with Hildy Johnson.

01:08:25.185 --> 01:08:28.394
Oh, Walter, will you stop that acting?
We got a lot to do. Oh, you're talking.

01:08:28.444 --> 01:08:29.750
We can't leave Williams in here.

01:08:29.825 --> 01:08:32.510
We'll take him over to my private office,
which is our phone. That one on the end.

01:08:32.585 --> 01:08:34.950
How are you going to take him? They'll
see him. Not if he's inside the desk.

01:08:35.025 --> 01:08:37.070
We'll carry the desk over.
Hello? You can't move that desk.

01:08:37.145 --> 01:08:38.250
It's crawling with cops outside.

01:08:38.325 --> 01:08:40.190
All right, we're lowering out the window
with pulleys. Now, quit stalling.

01:08:40.265 --> 01:08:42.330
Get the typewriter over here. Come
on, stop pounding on the lead.

01:08:42.405 --> 01:08:45.390
How much of this stuff do you want? All
the ways you got. Hello, give me Duffy.

01:08:45.465 --> 01:08:48.270
Walter. What? Can I call the mayor a bird
of prey? Call him anything you like.

01:08:48.345 --> 01:08:51.046
How about the time he had his house
painted by the fire department?

01:08:51.096 --> 01:08:54.245
Give him the words. Hello, Duffy, get
set. We got the biggest story in years.

01:08:54.365 --> 01:08:57.625
Earl Williams captured by the
Morning Post exclusive. Yeah.

01:08:57.700 --> 01:08:59.659
And I want you to tear
out the whole front page.

01:08:59.725 --> 01:09:02.925
That's what I said, the whole front page
out. But never mind the European war.

01:09:03.000 --> 01:09:05.490
We got something a whole lot bigger than
that. Hilda Johnson's right in the lead.

01:09:05.565 --> 01:09:06.670
I'll give it to you as
soon as she's finished.

01:09:06.745 --> 01:09:08.782
And listen, Duffy, get a
hold of Butch O 'Connor.

01:09:08.832 --> 01:09:11.566
Time to come up here right away
with half a dozen of his wrestlers.

01:09:11.616 --> 01:09:14.845
Yeah, put your collar. What? Well, I got
a desk I want, boo. Never mind what...

01:09:14.965 --> 01:09:17.605
Hildy. What the deuce do you
want? Oh, hello, Bruce. Hildy.

01:09:17.725 --> 01:09:20.305
No, no, never mind the Chinese
earthquake, for heaven's sake.

01:09:20.380 --> 01:09:21.890
Hildy, I just want to
ask you one question.

01:09:21.965 --> 01:09:23.990
Bruce, how did you get out of jail?
Well, not through any help of yours.

01:09:24.065 --> 01:09:26.800
Now, listen, buddy, you can't come
in here. I'm not talking to you.

01:09:26.850 --> 01:09:29.343
I had to wire Albany for $100
so I could get out on bail.

01:09:29.393 --> 01:09:31.230
Look, I don't care if
there's a million dead.

01:09:31.305 --> 01:09:32.910
I don't know what they're going
to think up there in Albany.

01:09:32.985 --> 01:09:34.610
They had to send the money
to the police station.

01:09:34.685 --> 01:09:36.830
Oh, for Pete's sake, Hildy, come
on. We're waiting for that story.

01:09:36.905 --> 01:09:38.850
We'll explain everything to
them, Bruce. Where's Mother?

01:09:38.925 --> 01:09:41.656
She said she was coming up here. She
left. No, I can't hear you, Duffy.

01:09:41.706 --> 01:09:44.485
Where'd she go? Out someplace. Don't
know. Junk the Polish corridor.

01:09:44.605 --> 01:09:47.939
Hildy, tell me where my mother was going.
She couldn't say. Oh, never mind that.

01:09:47.989 --> 01:09:50.230
This is more important. Did she
get the money from you? No, no.

01:09:50.305 --> 01:09:52.790
She left in a hurry. I'll take that
money, Hildy. All right, Bruce.

01:09:52.865 --> 01:09:53.290
Right there in my purse.

01:09:53.365 --> 01:09:55.010
I've decided I can handle
things around here,

01:09:55.085 --> 01:09:56.550
and I'll take that certified check, too.

01:09:56.625 --> 01:09:57.730
I'll give it to you, Bruce. Here.

01:09:57.805 --> 01:10:00.621
Here are the tickets, You'll find
your money in the wallet my wallet.

01:10:00.671 --> 01:10:05.485
This is my wallet Say there's something
funny going on. Yeah, what are you doing?

01:10:05.605 --> 01:10:07.169
Just wanted to look at it.

01:10:09.845 --> 01:10:13.645
Hildy, I'm taking the nine o'clock train.
Oh, oh... Did you hear what I said?

01:10:13.765 --> 01:10:16.329
I said I'm taking the nine o 'clock.

01:10:16.449 --> 01:10:18.205
Oh, Bruce, I put it in here.

01:10:20.445 --> 01:10:23.607
Let her alone, will you, buddy? Will you
do me a favor, Bruce, please? I just

01:10:23.648 --> 01:10:27.145
want you to answer me one question. You
don't want to come with me. I need that.

01:10:27.265 --> 01:10:29.745
Answer me, Hildy. You don't, do you? No.

01:10:29.865 --> 01:10:31.965
Take all those Miss America
pictures off page six.

01:10:32.085 --> 01:10:35.692
Hildy, tell me, please tell me the truth.
Oh, well. If you'll ever love me, Hildy.

01:10:35.742 --> 01:10:39.130
Now, look here, my good man. You shut up,
Burns. Now, how can I do anything to you?

01:10:39.205 --> 01:10:40.830
You're doing all this to her, I know that.

01:10:40.905 --> 01:10:42.190
She wanted to get away
from you and everything

01:10:42.265 --> 01:10:43.816
you stand for, but you were too smart.

01:10:43.866 --> 01:10:47.439
You caught her and changed her mind. Take
Hitler and stick him on the funny page.

01:10:47.489 --> 01:10:49.530
Now, let me ask you, Mr.
Whatever -Your -Name -Is.

01:10:49.605 --> 01:10:51.210
You're going to give up everything
for a man like him? No, I am not.

01:10:51.285 --> 01:10:53.811
But, Bruce, can't you see that something's
happened? Wait, I'll tell you everything.

01:10:53.861 --> 01:10:56.638
Tell him. You tell him nothing. He's
a spy, you fool. I'm not a spy.

01:10:56.688 --> 01:10:58.630
Come on, Hilly. You're
coming with me right now.

01:10:58.705 --> 01:11:00.150
Bruce, give me just a second, can't you?

01:11:00.225 --> 01:11:02.949
Don't you see this is the biggest thing
in my life? Keep quiet, Hilly. I see.

01:11:02.999 --> 01:11:05.465
I'll keep. I'm like something
in the icebox, aren't I? Yeah.

01:11:05.515 --> 01:11:07.370
You just don't love me.
Oh, now, that isn't true.

01:11:07.445 --> 01:11:09.010
Just because you won't listen,
you say I don't love you.

01:11:09.085 --> 01:11:10.430
Now, you know that isn't the point at all.

01:11:10.505 --> 01:11:13.689
The point is that you never intended to
be decent and live like a human being.

01:11:13.739 --> 01:11:15.017
What's that? All right, all right.

01:11:15.057 --> 01:11:17.225
That's the way you want to
be. Oh, Sebastian jumping.

01:11:17.300 --> 01:11:19.953
I'm trying to concentrate. You're
just like him and all the rest.

01:11:20.003 --> 01:11:23.807
Sure, sure, that's what I am. What? What?
No, no, leave the rooster story alone.

01:11:23.857 --> 01:11:26.510
That's human interest. Did you
get hold of Butch O'Connor yet?

01:11:26.585 --> 01:11:27.350
Look, if you don't need
sympathy or understanding,

01:11:27.425 --> 01:11:28.730
you don't understand
what I'm trying to do.

01:11:28.805 --> 01:11:30.310
I understand, all right. I understand.
Wait, wait, just a minute.

01:11:30.385 --> 01:11:33.609
There's only one question I want to know.
Walter. What? The mayor's first wife.

01:11:33.684 --> 01:11:35.990
What was her name? You mean the one
with the ward on her? Right. Fanny.

01:11:36.065 --> 01:11:38.963
What did you say, Duffy? Hilly, I
don't think you ever loved me at all.

01:11:39.038 --> 01:11:41.863
Oh, never mind that. You're not working
for the advertising department.

01:11:41.913 --> 01:11:45.065
If you change your mind, I'm leaving on
the 9 o 'clock train. Hold on, Duffy.

01:11:45.185 --> 01:11:46.170
Hold on, Duffy. Hold on.
You've got to take me as I am

01:11:46.245 --> 01:11:48.000
of trying to change me
into something else.

01:11:48.050 --> 01:11:51.285
I'm no suburban bridge player. I'm a
newspaper man. That's the stuff, Filthy.

01:11:51.405 --> 01:11:55.785
Keep it coming as fast as you can.
Get back in there, you mock turtle.

01:11:56.235 --> 01:11:58.925
Hello, Duffy. Did he tell Bush
and his gang to take a taxi?

01:11:59.003 --> 01:12:01.330
It's a matter of life and
death. Good. Stay on this wire.

01:12:01.405 --> 01:12:04.385
Butch is on his way over. All we've
got to do is hold out for 15 minutes.

01:12:04.435 --> 01:12:08.561
The boys will be back. They'll be coming
in here to phone. I'll handle them.

01:12:08.785 --> 01:12:10.285
Oh, now the moon's out.

01:12:14.575 --> 01:12:18.085
Fine, three taps is me. Don't forget.
How are you doing? Got enough air?

01:12:18.205 --> 01:12:21.334
Not very much. That better?
You're sitting pretty.

01:12:21.454 --> 01:12:24.365
How's it coming, honey? Oh, all
right, I guess. Where's Bruce? Bruce?

01:12:24.440 --> 01:12:26.790
Oh, he went out. Is he coming back
here? Certainly he's coming back.

01:12:26.865 --> 01:12:29.230
Didn't you hear him? What have
you got so far? Let me hear it.

01:12:29.305 --> 01:12:31.170
While hundreds of Sheriff
Hartwell's paid gunmen

01:12:31.245 --> 01:12:33.030
stalked through the city
shooting innocent bystanders,

01:12:33.105 --> 01:12:35.690
spreading their reign of terror, Earl
Williams was lurking less than 20 hours...

01:12:35.765 --> 01:12:37.370
Wait a minute, wait a minute. Aren't
you going to mention the post?

01:12:37.445 --> 01:12:38.290
Doesn't the paper get any credit?

01:12:38.365 --> 01:12:40.070
Oh, I did that right there
in the second paragraph.

01:12:40.145 --> 01:12:41.150
Well, who's going to read
the second paragraph?

01:12:41.225 --> 01:12:41.510
Listen, honey,

01:12:41.585 --> 01:12:43.350
for ten years I've been telling you
how to write a newspaper story,

01:12:43.425 --> 01:12:44.138
and that's what I get.

01:12:44.188 --> 01:12:44.805
Oh, I'm sorry.

01:12:48.545 --> 01:12:50.860
What's the idea of locking this door?

01:12:51.005 --> 01:12:54.730
Who's that? Bensinger, that's his
desk. Open the door, will you?

01:12:54.780 --> 01:12:59.285
Listen, what did you say his name was?
Benziger, the Tribune. Tribune, huh?

01:12:59.405 --> 01:13:00.305
Who's in there?

01:13:01.097 --> 01:13:05.665
There. Haven't you any better sense
than to, uh, hello. Hello, Mr. Burns.

01:13:05.785 --> 01:13:07.989
Well, quite an honor having
you come over here. Hello,

01:13:08.065 --> 01:13:09.585
Benziger. Oh, you know my...

01:13:09.705 --> 01:13:11.944
Excuse me, I just want to get my...

01:13:11.994 --> 01:13:12.770
You know, you know,

01:13:12.845 --> 01:13:15.170
it's quite a coincidence seeing
you tonight, isn't it, Hildy?

01:13:15.245 --> 01:13:16.306
Yes, yes. How do you mean?

01:13:16.381 --> 01:13:19.728
As a matter of fact, I was talking to our
Mr. Duffy about you just this afternoon.

01:13:19.778 --> 01:13:23.545
Really? Well, nothing detrimental, I
hope. On the contrary, on the contrary.

01:13:23.620 --> 01:13:26.069
There was one swell story you
had in the paper this morning.

01:13:26.119 --> 01:13:29.245
Oh, did you, uh, did you care for
the poem mr burns uh the poem

01:13:29.365 --> 01:13:31.985
The poem was great. I like
the ending especially.

01:13:32.105 --> 01:13:34.105
And all is well outside his cell.

01:13:34.225 --> 01:13:37.665
But in his heart, he hears the hangman
calling and the gallows falling

01:13:37.785 --> 01:13:41.465
and his white haired
mother's tears heartbreaking

01:13:41.585 --> 01:13:43.425
that's fine now how'd you like to come

01:13:43.545 --> 01:13:46.025
and work for me? What?
Yes, we can use a man like

01:13:46.145 --> 01:13:48.349
you. All we got now a lot of
lowbrows like Johnson here.

01:13:48.445 --> 01:13:52.665
Are you serious, Mr. Burns? Serious.
Wait a minute. Listen, Duffy. Duffy,

01:13:52.740 --> 01:13:55.311
I'm sending mr bunzinger over to
see you benzinger oh Oh, yeah.

01:13:55.361 --> 01:14:00.356
And Mervyn, isn't it? Yeah. No, Roy. Roy
V. Certainly. Roy V. Benzinger, the poet.

01:14:00.476 --> 01:14:02.045
Well, of course you wouldn't know.

01:14:02.165 --> 01:14:05.169
You probably never heard
of Shakespeare, either.

01:14:05.615 --> 01:14:08.785
Now, look, I want you to put Mr.
Benzinger on the staff right away.

01:14:08.860 --> 01:14:12.003
How much getting on the Tribune, Roy?
Ah, 75. I'll give you 100 and a byline.

01:14:12.065 --> 01:14:15.935
Now, you give him everything he wants,
you understand? Okay. Now, look, Roy.

01:14:15.985 --> 01:14:19.414
I want you to hustle and write me a story
from the point of view of the escaped man.

01:14:19.464 --> 01:14:21.845
He hides, cowering, afraid of
every sound, of every light.

01:14:21.920 --> 01:14:23.370
He hears footsteps, his
heart is going like

01:14:23.445 --> 01:14:25.159
that, and all the time they're closing in.

01:14:25.209 --> 01:14:28.285
Now get the sense of the animal at bay
sort of Jack London style exactly.

01:14:28.360 --> 01:14:31.340
I'll just get my rhyming. It doesn't
have to rhyme Doesn't have to rhyme.

01:14:31.390 --> 01:14:33.665
Oh, well, I'm deeply grateful. Mr. Burns.

01:14:33.785 --> 01:14:35.005
Good. It's very... Oh,

01:14:35.125 --> 01:14:37.965
oh if you should have an opening
for a war correspondent,

01:14:38.085 --> 01:14:39.545
I parlay a little French,

01:14:39.665 --> 01:14:43.357
you know. I'll keep you in mind.
Au revoir, mon capitaine. Bonjour.

01:14:46.875 --> 01:14:50.275
His white -haired mother's
tears That's the top, isn't it?

01:14:50.325 --> 01:14:53.305
Now, listen, that fella Bensinger's
on his way over to see you right now.

01:14:53.355 --> 01:14:54.377
Handle him with kid gloves.

01:14:54.417 --> 01:14:56.905
Put him to work writing poetry.
No, no, we don't want him.

01:14:56.980 --> 01:14:58.566
Just stall him along
until the extra's out,

01:14:58.616 --> 01:15:00.908
then tell him his poetry smells
and kick him downstairs.

01:15:00.958 --> 01:15:03.570
Double -crossing swine. You said
it. That'll teach him a lesson.

01:15:03.645 --> 01:15:06.625
He won't quit his paper without giving
notice after this. I mean you. Me?

01:15:06.675 --> 01:15:09.725
You can double -cross anybody. Wait
a minute. What? I just remembered.

01:15:09.800 --> 01:15:12.330
Bruce isn't coming back here. He said
he was taking the 9 o 'clock train.

01:15:12.405 --> 01:15:14.450
Oh, well, in that case, he's
gone by now. Come on, honey.

01:15:14.525 --> 01:15:16.763
Don't sit there like a frozen
robin. Get on with the story.

01:15:16.813 --> 01:15:19.605
We ought to have our plans all
finished by the time Butch gets here.

01:15:19.725 --> 01:15:23.505
Oh, you have messed up my life.
What am I going to do? Oh,

01:15:23.625 --> 01:15:24.566
the window's too small.

01:15:24.616 --> 01:15:25.890
We'll have to carry the desk out

01:15:25.965 --> 01:15:27.390
of the building. I'll be
on that train right now.

01:15:27.465 --> 01:15:30.430
What a sap I am, falling for your line.
They're gonna name streets after me.

01:15:30.505 --> 01:15:33.648
Johnson Street. Yes, yes. Well, you've
had a nice rest. Now get back to work.

01:15:33.698 --> 01:15:38.925
Well, I'm not going back to work. Who is
it? It's me, boss. It's Louie. Louie.

01:15:41.075 --> 01:15:42.347
Holy smokes. What's the matter

01:15:42.397 --> 01:15:44.066
with you? Where's Mrs. Baldwin? What'd
you do with her? What happened?

01:15:44.116 --> 01:15:45.805
You been in a fight? Down Weston Avenue.

01:15:45.925 --> 01:15:48.047
We was going 65 miles an
hour, you know what I mean?

01:15:48.122 --> 01:15:50.530
Take that mush out of your mouth. Where's
the old lady now? I'm telling you.

01:15:50.605 --> 01:15:52.165
We went smack into a police patrol,

01:15:52.240 --> 01:15:53.550
you know what I mean?
We busted it in half.

01:15:53.625 --> 01:15:55.110
Was she hurt? Look, where is she? Tell me.

01:15:55.185 --> 01:15:56.326
Can you imagine bumping into a load

01:15:56.376 --> 01:15:58.185
of cops? They come
rolling out like oranges.

01:15:58.260 --> 01:15:59.750
What did you do with her? Oh, catch me.

01:15:59.825 --> 01:16:03.049
When I come to, I was running down 34th
Street. You were with her, weren't you?

01:16:03.099 --> 01:16:06.305
Was I? You were in the taxi cab. The
driver got knocked cold. Butterfingers!

01:16:06.380 --> 01:16:08.690
I give you an old dame to take someone,
you hand her over to the cops.

01:16:08.765 --> 01:16:11.867
What do you mean I handed her? The cops
was on the wrong side of the street.

01:16:11.917 --> 01:16:12.985
Now everything's fine.

01:16:13.060 --> 01:16:14.630
She's probably squawking her
head off in the police station.

01:16:14.705 --> 01:16:17.845
I don't think she's squawking much.
You know what I mean? Don't tell me...

01:16:17.965 --> 01:16:20.225
Was she killed? Hey, was
she? Did you notice?

01:16:20.345 --> 01:16:23.445
Say, listen, me with a gun on the hip
and a kidnapped old lady on my hands,

01:16:23.520 --> 01:16:25.928
I'm gonna stick around asking
questions from a lot of cops.

01:16:25.978 --> 01:16:29.315
You know what I mean? Dead.
Dead. Oh, this is the end. Oh.

01:16:29.435 --> 01:16:34.065
Well, it's fate, Hildy. What will be,
will be. What am I gonna say to Bruce?

01:16:34.185 --> 01:16:35.015
What can I tell him?

01:16:35.065 --> 01:16:38.045
Look, honey, if he really loves you,
you won't have to tell him anything.

01:16:38.095 --> 01:16:38.745
Snap out of it.

01:16:38.820 --> 01:16:40.396
Would you rather have had
the old dame dragging

01:16:40.446 --> 01:16:42.265
the whole police force
in here I killed her.

01:16:42.385 --> 01:16:43.386
I'm responsible.

01:16:43.506 --> 01:16:47.445
What am I gonna do? How can I ever
face Bruce again? Look at me, Hildy.

01:16:47.565 --> 01:16:49.385
I am looking at you, you murderer.

01:16:49.505 --> 01:16:53.265
Oh, now, if it was my own grandmother, I'd
carry on. You know I would for the paper.

01:16:53.385 --> 01:16:55.075
Louie, where did it happen?

01:16:55.269 --> 01:17:00.088
Weston and 34th. I've got to get out of
here. We can do more here. Now, be calm.

01:17:00.208 --> 01:17:01.108
Listen.

01:17:02.925 --> 01:17:03.825
Hello?

01:17:04.045 --> 01:17:06.325
Hello? Hello? Maine, 4557. Who?

01:17:06.625 --> 01:17:08.164
Well, Butch, where are you? Oh,

01:17:08.214 --> 01:17:10.010
no, Mission Hospital
Receiving Room, please.

01:17:10.085 --> 01:17:12.650
Well, what are you doing there? Haven't
you even started? Hello, Eddie.

01:17:12.725 --> 01:17:15.019
Hildy Johnson. Was there an old lady
brought in there from an auto smash-up?

01:17:15.069 --> 01:17:18.345
Oh, for H. Sebastian, Butch. Listen,
it's a matter of life and death. Nobody?

01:17:18.465 --> 01:17:19.365
I can't hear.

01:17:20.285 --> 01:17:23.971
Morningside 2469. Speak up. A what?
Well, you can't stop for a day now.

01:17:24.021 --> 01:17:26.470
Community Hospital. Give
me the receiving room.

01:17:26.545 --> 01:17:28.290
I don't care if you've been
after her for six years, Butch.

01:17:28.365 --> 01:17:29.470
Our whole lives are at stake.

01:17:29.545 --> 01:17:30.910
Are you going to let a
woman come between us

01:17:30.985 --> 01:17:32.250
after all we've been through? Oh, Max.

01:17:32.325 --> 01:17:35.345
Hildy Johnson. Was there an old lady
brought in there in an oil smash -up?

01:17:35.395 --> 01:17:38.803
Butch, I'd put my arm in fire for you up
to here. Now, you can't double -cross me.

01:17:38.853 --> 01:17:41.645
Well, look around, will you, please?
Oh, she does? All right, put her on.

01:17:41.695 --> 01:17:42.409
I'll talk to her.

01:17:42.529 --> 01:17:46.185
Oh, good evening, madam. Now,
listen, you ten -cent glamour girl.

01:17:46.305 --> 01:17:48.685
You can't keep Butcher away
from his duty. What's that?

01:17:48.805 --> 01:17:51.905
You say that again, I'll come over
there and kick you in the teeth.

01:17:52.025 --> 01:17:55.655
Say, what kind of language is
that? Now, look here, you...

01:17:56.205 --> 01:17:57.957
She hung up. What did I say?

01:17:59.295 --> 01:18:02.885
Duffy! How do you like that? Mousing
around with some big... Duffy!

01:18:03.005 --> 01:18:06.325
Will you shut up? I'm trying to hear.
Duffy! It's cooperation. Nobody. Duffy!

01:18:06.445 --> 01:18:07.345
Duffy!

01:18:07.585 --> 01:18:08.899
Well, where is Duffy?

01:18:10.695 --> 01:18:14.165
Diabetes. I ought to know better
than to hire anybody with a disease.

01:18:14.285 --> 01:18:16.385
Well, give me Olympia 210, will you?

01:18:16.505 --> 01:18:19.702
Yes, boss. Louie, it's up to you.
Anything you say, boss. Beat it up.

01:18:19.752 --> 01:18:22.650
Get hold of some guys. Who do you
want? Anybody with hair on his chest.

01:18:22.725 --> 01:18:24.170
Get him off the street. Get him anywhere.

01:18:24.245 --> 01:18:26.550
Offer them anything, only get them.
We got to get that desk out of here.

01:18:26.625 --> 01:18:29.290
Is it important? Is it important? Listen,
Louie, you're the best friend I got.

01:18:29.365 --> 01:18:31.110
I like you too, boss. All
right, then don't fail me.

01:18:31.185 --> 01:18:34.042
Get enough people to move that desk.
Now, come on, I'm relying on you.

01:18:34.092 --> 01:18:37.325
You know me, boss. The shirt off my
back. Okay, don't bump into anything.

01:18:37.445 --> 01:18:39.965
That dumb immigrant will flop
on me as sure as you're born.

01:18:40.040 --> 01:18:41.690
Try it again at the hospital.
It's bound to happen.

01:18:41.765 --> 01:18:43.810
Well, if he's not back in five
minutes, we'll carry it out alone.

01:18:43.885 --> 01:18:46.230
Do anything you want. There's a
million ways we can start a fire.

01:18:46.305 --> 01:18:47.830
Have the firemen take it
out in the confusion.

01:18:47.905 --> 01:18:51.211
I don't give a darn what you do. Hey, come
here. See if we can lift it. Oh, what?

01:18:51.261 --> 01:18:54.063
Nobody? Oh, never mind. Are you
going to help me? No, I'm not.

01:18:54.113 --> 01:18:56.970
Do you want me to strain my back?
Yes, I'm going to find Mrs. Baldwin.

01:18:57.045 --> 01:18:59.110
Don't open that door. I'm going down to
the morgue and I'm going to find her.

01:18:59.185 --> 01:19:02.345
Wait, wait, wait, wait. What is this? Hey,
let go. What's the idea? What is this?

01:19:02.465 --> 01:19:08.145
What's your hurry? Now, look here,
Johnson. Hey, you. You mean me? Yes, you.

01:19:08.305 --> 01:19:11.559
What do you mean by breaking
in here like this? Hmm?

01:19:11.679 --> 01:19:15.026
You can't bluff me, Burns. I don't care
who you are or what paper you're editing.

01:19:15.101 --> 01:19:16.910
Look, let go of me, will you?
Hang on to her, boys. Oh, please.

01:19:16.985 --> 01:19:18.370
Look, fellas, something's
happened to my mother -in -law.

01:19:18.445 --> 01:19:20.390
We know what you're up to, Hildy.
They'll be going out to get Williams.

01:19:20.465 --> 01:19:23.030
She had the door locked. She and Molly
were in here talking. I know where he is.

01:19:23.105 --> 01:19:25.470
Oh, look, I don't know anything,
really, and there's been an accident.

01:19:25.545 --> 01:19:28.035
Johnson, there's something very,
very peculiar going on here.

01:19:28.085 --> 01:19:30.285
Now, see here, Johnson.
Just a moment, Hartwell.

01:19:30.405 --> 01:19:33.445
If you have any accusations to make,
make them in the proper manner.

01:19:33.565 --> 01:19:38.258
Otherwise, I'll have to ask you to get
out. You'll ask me to what? Get out.

01:19:38.378 --> 01:19:41.505
Oh, you will, eh? You keep that door
closed and don't let anybody in or out.

01:19:41.555 --> 01:19:44.250
Now, we'll see about this. Come on,
Pinky, give him the third degree.

01:19:44.325 --> 01:19:46.590
Yeah, I'm talking. You got Williams,
Pinky? Yes. Now, look here, Johnson.

01:19:46.665 --> 01:19:49.370
I'm going to get to the bottom of this.
Are you going to talk or aren't you?

01:19:49.445 --> 01:19:52.065
Well, what do you want me to say?
What do you know about Williams?

01:19:52.115 --> 01:19:54.325
What do you know about
Williams? Now, we're getting...

01:19:54.445 --> 01:19:56.865
All right, boys, take her out
of here. Oh, no, you don't.

01:19:56.985 --> 01:20:00.365
Don't you dare touch me or... Get
out! She's got a gun! Grab it!

01:20:00.485 --> 01:20:04.490
Oh, no, you don't. Walter! All
right, Burns, I'll take that gun.

01:20:04.540 --> 01:20:08.445
Where did you get this gun? I've got
a right to carry a gun if I want to.

01:20:08.565 --> 01:20:10.128
Not this gun. I can explain that hard.

01:20:10.178 --> 01:20:12.570
Well, when Hildy told me she was
going to interview Earl Williams,

01:20:12.645 --> 01:20:14.850
I thought it would be dangerous, so
I gave her a gun to defend herself.

01:20:14.925 --> 01:20:16.190
Oh, you did? Well,
that's very interesting.

01:20:16.265 --> 01:20:17.310
But this happens to be the gun

01:20:17.385 --> 01:20:19.222
that Williams used to
shoot his way out with.

01:20:19.272 --> 01:20:21.505
Why, good man, are you trying
to make me out a liar?

01:20:21.625 --> 01:20:25.145
I ought to know my own gun, oughtn't I?
Oh, so that's why Williams got the gun.

01:20:25.225 --> 01:20:26.490
Yeah, Hildy got it from Williams.

01:20:26.565 --> 01:20:28.310
Where is Earl Williams?
Where have you got him?

01:20:28.385 --> 01:20:29.910
You're barking up the
wrong tree, Hartwell.

01:20:29.985 --> 01:20:31.930
I'll give you three minutes
to tell me where he is.

01:20:32.005 --> 01:20:34.630
He went over to the hospital to
call on Professor Egelhofer. What?

01:20:34.680 --> 01:20:36.485
With a bag of marshmallows.
Where is he? Ask

01:20:36.605 --> 01:20:38.125
the mastermind what he's doing here.

01:20:38.245 --> 01:20:42.485
Speak up. Speak up. What do you know
about this? My dear fellow. Where is he?

01:20:42.605 --> 01:20:45.425
The morning post does not obstruct
justice or hide criminals.

01:20:45.545 --> 01:20:48.925
You ought to know that. Johnson, you're
under arrest. What? And you too, Burns.

01:20:49.045 --> 01:20:49.905
Who's under arrest?

01:20:50.025 --> 01:20:53.429
Listen, you insignificant, square
-toed, pimple -headed spy.

01:20:53.479 --> 01:20:56.050
Do you realize what you're doing?
I'll show you what I'm doing.

01:20:56.125 --> 01:20:58.586
Burns, you're obstructing justice,
and so is the Morning Post,

01:20:58.636 --> 01:21:00.605
and I'm going to see that
you're fined $10 ,000.

01:21:00.680 --> 01:21:01.945
You'll see nothing of the kind.

01:21:02.005 --> 01:21:05.631
And I'm going to begin by impounding the
Post property. Is this your desk? No. Yes.

01:21:05.681 --> 01:21:09.110
What are you afraid of, Hildy? I dare you
to move this desk out of here. Oh, you do?

01:21:09.185 --> 01:21:11.510
Yes, go ahead and try it. All right,
I will. Now, I'm warning you.

01:21:11.585 --> 01:21:14.110
You move this desk out of this
building, and I'll put you behind bars.

01:21:14.185 --> 01:21:17.205
He can do it, too. Is that so? Yes.
I'll see the Roosevelt hears about it.

01:21:17.255 --> 01:21:18.905
All right, tell him. Come on, boys.

01:21:18.994 --> 01:21:20.790
Confiscate this desk.
It's your last chance.

01:21:20.865 --> 01:21:23.273
This is a federal offense and
you fellas will be accessory.

01:21:23.323 --> 01:21:26.245
We'll take a chance on that.
Go ahead, boys. All right.

01:21:26.365 --> 01:21:27.491
Open up this door.

01:21:27.541 --> 01:21:31.645
Mother. Mother, I am glad to see
you. Are you all right? I've been...

01:21:31.765 --> 01:21:34.268
That's the man that did it. Right there.

01:21:35.895 --> 01:21:39.421
What's the idea here? This lady
claims she's been kidnapped. What?

01:21:39.471 --> 01:21:42.410
They dragged me all the way down the
stairs and put me... Just a minute.

01:21:42.485 --> 01:21:43.430
Did this man have anything

01:21:43.505 --> 01:21:45.791
to do with it? Why, he was in
charge of the whole thing.

01:21:45.841 --> 01:21:49.325
He told them to kidnap me. Excuse
me, madam. Are you referring to me?

01:21:49.445 --> 01:21:52.885
Well, you know you did. What about
this, Burns? Kidnapping, huh?

01:21:53.005 --> 01:21:56.745
Trying to frame me, huh? I never
saw this woman before in my life.

01:21:56.865 --> 01:21:58.013
Why, what a thing to say.

01:21:58.063 --> 01:22:01.410
I was standing right here when that girl
jumped out of the window. Call the mayor.

01:22:01.485 --> 01:22:04.056
Get him over here right away.
Now, look here, madam. Be honest.

01:22:04.106 --> 01:22:07.225
If you were out joyriding,
plastered, or got into some scrape,

01:22:07.345 --> 01:22:09.905
why don't you admit it instead
of accusing innocent people?

01:22:10.025 --> 01:22:12.385
You ruffian. How dare you talk like

01:22:12.453 --> 01:22:14.290
that to me? It's just a
little crazy, mother.

01:22:14.365 --> 01:22:17.059
And I can tell you something more.
I can tell you why they did it.

01:22:17.109 --> 01:22:20.565
They had some kind of a murderer in here,
and they were hiding it. Hiding it?

01:22:20.685 --> 01:22:25.425
In here. Madam, you're a
cockeyed liar, and you know it.

01:22:25.655 --> 01:22:30.805
What was that? He's in there. Give me the
desk. Give me that phone. What a prank.

01:22:30.925 --> 01:22:34.272
Stand back, everybody. Get your guns out.
He's harmless. Don't take any chances.

01:22:34.322 --> 01:22:37.628
Shoot right through the desk. I can't hurt
anybody. You've got his gun. Oh, dear.

01:22:37.678 --> 01:22:41.005
Oh, dear. Go on, you gray-haired old
weasel. Let me out. Get me out of here.

01:22:41.125 --> 01:22:44.345
Give me Jake. Mother. Close that door.
All over for you. What's happened?

01:22:44.465 --> 01:22:47.904
Hello, Jake. Hang on. Hildy, call Duffy.
No, you don't. You want to see a scoop?

01:22:47.954 --> 01:22:50.730
In a minute. Now, everybody. Hold
the wire. Aim right at the center.

01:22:50.805 --> 01:22:53.730
That's murder. All right. Carl, Frank,
what if you get on each end of the desk?

01:22:53.805 --> 01:22:56.048
Something coming up. We got you
covered, Williams. Have it in a minute.

01:22:56.098 --> 01:22:58.905
Don't try to move. Any time now.
I'll count three. It's hot. One.

01:22:59.025 --> 01:23:02.425
Ready for an emergency. Two. Any
second now. Three. Up with it.

01:23:02.545 --> 01:23:05.485
I got you, Williams. Williams, go
ahead, shoot me. Come on, will you?

01:23:05.560 --> 01:23:08.313
Earl Williams just captured in the press
room in the criminal courts building,

01:23:08.363 --> 01:23:10.725
hiding in a desk. Come on, on
your feet. Come out, boys.

01:23:10.800 --> 01:23:13.470
Don't try any funny stuff. Williams was
unconscious when they opened the desk.

01:23:13.545 --> 01:23:15.570
Williams put up a desperate struggle,
but the police overpowered him.

01:23:15.645 --> 01:23:16.310
He offered no resistance.

01:23:16.385 --> 01:23:17.990
He tried to shoot out with the
cops, but his gun wouldn't work.

01:23:18.065 --> 01:23:20.170
He could break through a whole court and
the police. Duffy, the Morning Post.

01:23:20.245 --> 01:23:21.790
Put me there. Turn Williams
over to the sheriff.

01:23:21.865 --> 01:23:22.710
Put the cops on these people.

01:23:22.785 --> 01:23:25.720
More later. An anonymous note received
by the sheriff led to Williams' capture.

01:23:25.770 --> 01:23:26.405
Hold on.

01:23:26.525 --> 01:23:28.566
The sheriff is tracing a
mysterious telephone call

01:23:28.641 --> 01:23:30.314
which gave way to Williams' hiding place.

01:23:30.364 --> 01:23:35.056
Where's the old lady? Where'd she go? No,
she went out! Out! Come back, come back.

01:23:42.435 --> 01:23:44.685
Hello, Gary. Give me the
warden's office, quick.

01:23:44.805 --> 01:23:47.925
Ah, well, you're going to wish
you'd never been born. Oh, am I?

01:23:48.045 --> 01:23:51.322
Hello, Fred. Well, fine work, Pete.
You certainly delivered the goods.

01:23:51.372 --> 01:23:54.270
I'm proud of you. Look kind of natural,
don't you? Sight for sore eyes.

01:23:54.345 --> 01:23:57.445
Aiding an escaped criminal and a little
charge of kidnapping. What's that?

01:23:57.520 --> 01:23:59.642
Well, that's the jail. There
must be somebody there.

01:23:59.705 --> 01:24:02.704
Well, it looks like about ten years
of peace for you two birds. Does it?

01:24:02.754 --> 01:24:04.810
Whenever you think you've
got the morning post licked,

01:24:04.885 --> 01:24:06.170
it's time for you to get out of town.

01:24:06.245 --> 01:24:08.490
Whistling in the dark. Well, that
isn't going to help you this time.

01:24:08.565 --> 01:24:11.605
You're through. Listen, the last man
who said that to me was Archie Leach,

01:24:11.680 --> 01:24:13.190
just a week before he cut his thread.

01:24:13.240 --> 01:24:17.005
Is that so? That's so. We've been in worse
jams than this, haven't we, Hildy? Nope.

01:24:17.125 --> 01:24:20.205
You forget the power that always
watches over the morning post, my lord.

01:24:20.280 --> 01:24:24.671
Well, I'm not with you now. Hello, this is
Hartwell. I've caught him. Yes, Williams.

01:24:24.791 --> 01:24:27.345
Single -handed. We'll proceed
with the hanging per schedule.

01:24:27.465 --> 01:24:29.625
You're going to be in office
exactly two days more.

01:24:29.700 --> 01:24:31.790
We're going to start pulling
your nose out of that feed bag.

01:24:31.865 --> 01:24:33.538
I'll tell you what you'll be doing. What?

01:24:33.588 --> 01:24:36.946
You'll be making rooms in the
state penitentiary. Hello, Joe.

01:24:36.996 --> 01:24:39.690
This is Hartwell. I want you to
come over to my office right away.

01:24:39.765 --> 01:24:41.750
Yes, I just captured a
couple of important birds,

01:24:41.825 --> 01:24:43.267
and I want you to take the confession.

01:24:43.317 --> 01:24:46.545
Don't forget Leibowitz. All the lawyers
in the world are going to help you now.

01:24:46.665 --> 01:24:50.465
Listen, you're talking to the morning
post. Oh, power of the press.

01:24:50.585 --> 01:24:54.585
Listen, bigger men than you have found
out what the power of the press is.

01:24:54.705 --> 01:24:58.465
President. King. Here's a reprieve.
Say you said get out of here.

01:24:58.585 --> 01:24:59.565
Oh, you can't bribe me.

01:24:59.685 --> 01:25:03.845
My wife's out of here you oh, no,
I won't here's the reprieve Oh,

01:25:03.965 --> 01:25:06.973
I don't want to be a city
sealer Throw him out frank.

01:25:07.023 --> 01:25:09.309
All right out you go. It's
just a minute. Wait a minute.

01:25:09.359 --> 01:25:11.905
Who's trying to bribe you they
wouldn't take this He's insane.

01:25:12.025 --> 01:25:13.926
What did I tell you an unseen power?

01:25:13.976 --> 01:25:16.914
What do you mean by coming in here
with a cock and bull story like that?

01:25:16.964 --> 01:25:19.325
Frame up he's an imposter
arrest him just a minute trying

01:25:19.445 --> 01:25:21.772
to hang an innocent man to win
an election That's murder.

01:25:21.865 --> 01:25:22.396
That's a lie.

01:25:22.446 --> 01:25:24.605
I never saw him before. Well,
if I was to tell my wife...

01:25:24.606 --> 01:25:25.665
What's your name? Pettibone.

01:25:25.785 --> 01:25:27.845
Joe Pettibone. When did
you deliver this first,

01:25:27.920 --> 01:25:29.267
Mr. Pettibone? Who'd you talk to?

01:25:29.317 --> 01:25:31.945
They started right in Bribingland.
Who's they? Those. Them.

01:25:32.065 --> 01:25:34.885
That's absurd on the face of it.
Walter, he's talking like a child.

01:25:35.005 --> 01:25:38.985
Out of the mouths of babes. Hi, babe.
He's insane. Drunk or something.

01:25:39.105 --> 01:25:40.731
Why, if this unfortunate man, Williams,

01:25:40.781 --> 01:25:43.110
has really been reprieved, I'm
personally tickled to death.

01:25:43.185 --> 01:25:45.590
Aren't you, Pete? Oh, go on. You'd hang
your own mother to be re -elected.

01:25:45.665 --> 01:25:48.073
That's a horrible thing to say
about anybody, Miss Johnson.

01:25:48.145 --> 01:25:51.685
Oh, you're marvelous. Take a look at
that, Walter. You're an intelligent man.

01:25:51.805 --> 01:25:54.925
Never mind that. Well, let's
have your story, Mr. Pettibone.

01:25:55.045 --> 01:25:57.664
Well, 19 years ago, I married
Mrs. Pettibone. Skip all that.

01:25:57.714 --> 01:25:58.979
Well, she wasn't Mrs. Pettibone

01:25:59.029 --> 01:26:01.045
then. No, no, no. She was
one of the Jones girls.

01:26:01.165 --> 01:26:04.425
Sheriff, this document is authentic.
And Earl Williams has been reprieved.

01:26:04.545 --> 01:26:08.305
And our commonwealth has been saved. The
painful necessity of shedding blood.

01:26:08.425 --> 01:26:11.080
You said it. Now, get off the
soapbox. Save that for the Tribune.

01:26:11.130 --> 01:26:13.470
Pete, take those handcuffs off,
my friend. I'm just going.

01:26:13.545 --> 01:26:16.116
I'm amazed that you're doing a
thing like that. Isn't he awful?

01:26:16.166 --> 01:26:18.265
Walter, you don't know
how badly I feel. No.

01:26:18.385 --> 01:26:20.565
No excuse at all for Pete
to fly off the handle.

01:26:20.640 --> 01:26:23.130
I was only doing my duty, nothing
personal. That's all right.

01:26:23.180 --> 01:26:25.685
What did you say your name was?
Pettibone, wasn't it? Yes.

01:26:25.805 --> 01:26:29.385
Here's a picture of my wife. A fine
-looking woman. You haven't seen her yet.

01:26:29.505 --> 01:26:33.405
She's all right. She's good enough
for me. If I was to tell my wife...

01:26:33.525 --> 01:26:36.962
I understand perfectly, Mr. Pettibone.
And as long as I'm mayor...

01:26:37.012 --> 01:26:38.930
It ought to be about three
more hours, I'd say.

01:26:39.005 --> 01:26:42.107
Just long enough for us to get out a
special edition asking for your recall.

01:26:42.157 --> 01:26:45.745
And your arrest. You little boys ought
to get about ten years apiece, I think.

01:26:45.865 --> 01:26:47.945
Don't make any hasty decisions, Mr. Burns.

01:26:48.065 --> 01:26:50.065
You might run into a
thumping big libel suit.

01:26:50.140 --> 01:26:51.691
You're going to run into the governor.

01:26:51.741 --> 01:26:54.965
Why, my old friend, the governor and
I understand each other perfectly.

01:26:55.085 --> 01:26:57.877
Yes, and so do I. So do
you watch, you hoodoo.

01:26:57.927 --> 01:27:00.090
And now, Mr. Pettibone, if
you'll come along with us,

01:27:00.165 --> 01:27:02.981
we'll take you over to the warden's
office and deliver this reprieve.

01:27:03.031 --> 01:27:06.255
Come along, Pete. Vows to tell
my wife. You won't have to.

01:27:06.305 --> 01:27:10.805
Wait till those two future jailbirds
read the morning post tomorrow.

01:27:10.920 --> 01:27:12.430
Tight squeeze, though. Give me Duffy.

01:27:12.505 --> 01:27:16.125
That's the worst jam we've been in a long
time. What? Well, where is he? Get him.

01:27:16.206 --> 01:27:17.430
Remember the time we stole old

01:27:17.505 --> 01:27:19.390
lady Haggerty's stomach off
the coroner's physician?

01:27:19.465 --> 01:27:21.830
Isn't that marvelous? Any time you
need this guy, he's never there.

01:27:21.905 --> 01:27:24.476
We proved she'd been poisoned,
though, didn't we, Walter? Yeah.

01:27:24.526 --> 01:27:27.499
He had to hide out for a
week. Do you remember that?

01:27:27.619 --> 01:27:30.785
Shoreham Hotel. That's
where... I mean, how we...

01:27:30.905 --> 01:27:34.105
Yeah, we could have gone to jail for
that, too. You know that. Oh, yes.

01:27:34.225 --> 01:27:36.145
Maybe you're right, Hildy.
It's a bad business.

01:27:36.265 --> 01:27:40.365
Well, you're gonna be better off. So
you'd better get going. Where will I go?

01:27:40.485 --> 01:27:42.112
Well, to Bruce, of course.

01:27:42.232 --> 01:27:45.305
But you know he's gone. He took the
9 o 'clock... Just send him a wire.

01:27:45.425 --> 01:27:48.245
He'll be waiting at the station
when you get into Albany. Go on.

01:27:48.295 --> 01:27:50.836
What? Look, why doesn't that guy have
a phone put in there? I don't know.

01:27:50.886 --> 01:27:53.765
Walter, maybe... Keep
going, Hildy. Keep going.

01:27:53.885 --> 01:27:58.704
What is that with you? Wait a minute.
Now, look, honey, can't you understand?

01:27:58.824 --> 01:28:00.987
I'm trying to do something
noble for once in my life.

01:28:01.062 --> 01:28:03.241
Now, get out of here before I change
my mind. Come on. Oh, Walter.

01:28:03.291 --> 01:28:05.905
This is tough enough now. Just a
minute. Send the fellow a wire.

01:28:06.008 --> 01:28:09.110
He'll be waiting when you get in. Who'll
write the story? I'll do it myself.

01:28:09.185 --> 01:28:11.429
Won't be half as good as you can do it.
What's the difference? It's my story.

01:28:11.479 --> 01:28:14.565
I'd kind of like to think that it...
Oh, at last, Duffy. I get it, Walter.

01:28:14.685 --> 01:28:16.005
The same old act, isn't it?

01:28:16.080 --> 01:28:19.100
Try to push me out of here thinking
I'll be stupid enough to want to stay.

01:28:19.150 --> 01:28:21.665
No, I know I deserve that,
Haley. Wait a minute, Duffy.

01:28:21.785 --> 01:28:23.345
But this is one time you're wrong.

01:28:23.465 --> 01:28:26.905
Look, honey, when you walk out that
door, part of me will go right with you.

01:28:27.025 --> 01:28:29.125
But a whole new world's
gonna open up for you.

01:28:29.245 --> 01:28:32.705
I made fun of Bruce and Albany and all
that kind of thing. You know why? Why?

01:28:32.825 --> 01:28:33.685
I was jealous.

01:28:33.805 --> 01:28:37.910
I was sore because he could offer you
the kind of life I can't give you.

01:28:37.960 --> 01:28:39.470
That's what you want, honey. I, uh...

01:28:39.545 --> 01:28:41.870
I could stay and do the story and take
the train in the morning. Oh, forget it.

01:28:41.945 --> 01:28:44.721
Come on, come on. It doesn't make
that much difference. Oh, come on.

01:28:44.771 --> 01:28:46.220
Goodbye, dear, and good luck.

01:28:50.225 --> 01:28:54.905
Oh, Duffy. Hello? Now, this is how
it goes so far. Oh, just a minute.

01:28:56.305 --> 01:29:01.545
Hello? Who? Hildy Johnson? No, she just
left. I'm still here. I can take it.

01:29:01.685 --> 01:29:02.749
Hang on a minute.

01:29:05.305 --> 01:29:06.744
Hildy Johnson speaking.

01:29:07.825 --> 01:29:11.345
The Fourth Precinct Police
Station? We'll put them on.

01:29:12.221 --> 01:29:15.411
Bruce, I thought you were
on your way to Albany.

01:29:15.531 --> 01:29:19.385
What for? For having counterfeit
money. Counterfeit money?

01:29:20.165 --> 01:29:24.765
Hold on a minute, Duffy. Well, where
did you get it? I gave it to you.

01:29:26.125 --> 01:29:29.225
All right, I'll try and
do something about it.

01:29:40.385 --> 01:29:41.285
Oh, honey.

01:29:42.705 --> 01:29:43.915
Honey, don't cry, please.

01:29:43.965 --> 01:29:47.741
Oh, come on, I didn't mean to make you
cry, honey. What's the matter with you?

01:29:47.791 --> 01:29:48.904
You never cried before.

01:29:50.025 --> 01:29:53.342
I thought you were really
sending me away with Bruce.

01:29:55.645 --> 01:29:57.898
I didn't know you had him locked up.

01:29:58.465 --> 01:30:01.172
I thought you were on
the level who once...

01:30:01.292 --> 01:30:05.447
I thought you were just standing
by and letting me go off with him

01:30:05.567 --> 01:30:07.565
and not doing a thing about it.

01:30:07.685 --> 01:30:10.725
Oh, come on, honey. Why do
you think I was a chump?

01:30:10.845 --> 01:30:16.005
I mean, I thought you didn't love me. What
were you thinking with? I don't know.

01:30:17.405 --> 01:30:21.705
Oh, what is Danny there gawking for?
We have to get him out of jail.

01:30:22.309 --> 01:30:25.125
Send Louie down with
some honest money and...

01:30:25.245 --> 01:30:28.562
Send him back to Albany where
he belongs. Sure, sure.

01:30:28.682 --> 01:30:31.493
Huh, Duffy, everything's
changed. Tell Louie to stand by.

01:30:31.543 --> 01:30:34.196
We're coming over to the office.
No, don't worry about the story.

01:30:34.246 --> 01:30:37.425
Hilda's gonna write it. Of course she's
not quitting. She never intended to.

01:30:37.545 --> 01:30:41.585
We're gonna get married. Oh, can we go
on a honeymoon this time, Walter? Sure.

01:30:41.705 --> 01:30:44.146
Hey, Duffy, you can be managing editor.

01:30:44.266 --> 01:30:47.885
No, no, not permanently, just for the
two weeks we're away on the honeymoon.

01:30:48.005 --> 01:30:51.865
Oh, what? I don't know where we're going.
Where are we going? Niagara Falls.

01:30:51.985 --> 01:30:56.741
Niagara Falls, Duffy. Two whole weeks,
Walter. Sure, you've earned it. What?

01:30:57.085 --> 01:30:57.985
What?

01:30:58.465 --> 01:30:59.785
Stripe? What stripe?

01:31:00.625 --> 01:31:01.525
Where?

01:31:02.165 --> 01:31:03.065
Albany?

01:31:03.185 --> 01:31:06.685
Well, I know it's on the way, Duffy, but I
can't ask you to... Honeymoon in Albany.

01:31:06.805 --> 01:31:07.705
Okay, Duffy.

01:31:07.755 --> 01:31:10.945
Well, isn't that a coincidence?
We're going to Albany.

01:31:11.065 --> 01:31:15.508
I wonder if Bruce can put us up. Why
don't you carry that in your hand?

01:31:16.475 --> 01:31:18.475
(music playing)

01:31:46.765 --> 01:31:48.165
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