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Oh. Anything doing?

Everything's pretty quiet.

Yeah. Jeez, kind of cold, ain't it?

About time for long coats.

Yeah, I'll say.

Oh, good evening, officer.

Evening? Why it's almost morning.

It is? What time is it?

12:30.

Say, don't you know it's against the law

to be sleeping and spooning around here in the park?

We didn't mean to break any law, officer.

And you, young woman, you should be home in bed

instead of lolling on this guy's shoulder.

Weren't you ever in love?

Yeah.

That's why I'm paying alimony.

He's got a nerve.

I got a notion to make him eat that wisecrack.

Shh!

Oh, gosh, the money.

Oh, is it there all right?

Oh!

Yeah, it's there.

Gosh, I should never have gone to sleep with all that money in my pocket.

$230 takes a long time to save.

Do you think $230 is enough to get married on?

Sure. Some people get married on nothing.

It doesn't seem possible that tomorrow at this time,

I'll be Mrs. Thomas Jonathan brown.

- Yeah. - Oh, squeeze me.

When you're my wife, Nancy, you better quit working

as soon as I get a raise.

Oh, I got a better idea.

Couldn't you get me a job at that apartment house where you work?

Then we could be together.

- Doing what? - Why, at the switchboard.

Well, I might arrange it.

He likes me.

He told me yesterday I was the best assistant he ever had.

Oh, that'd be grand.

It's one of the swellest apartment hotels in town.

- Isn't it? - Is it?

And among our tenants are some of the biggest financial men of New York.

- Really? - Yeah.

Why, there's one apartment on the tenth floor,

a man named frank smiley.

Well, I was in there one night fixing the radiator,

and they just finished playing poker.

And I saw one fella give another one $980 in cash

and a check for 7,200.

Where do they get so much money?

I wish I knew.

Here we've both been working hard every day for six months,

and all we have is $230.

Well, we're lucky to have that.

That's right too.

Oh, Tommy, I love you so much.

If anything happened to you, I'd jump in the river.

I couldn't stand the thought of any other fella having you.

Honey, there's something about you that's different.

Well, squeeze me.

Stick 'em up.

Stick 'em up and be quick about it, you want to keep all your parts together.

Oh, you're kidding me.

- Come across! - Let him have the money, Tommy.

He might kill you.

Oh, now we can't get married, Tommy.

Oh, stay single. You're a lot better off.

And you're money ahead.

And now not a yip out of either one of you.

Hold your hands up until I'm out of sight,

if you want to keep that schoolboy complexion.

Tommy, squeeze me.

You think I want to get shot?

You can put your hands down now. He's gone.

Oh, Tommy, you certainly were brave.

- Why, you even kidded with him. - I thought he was fooling.

Oh, Tommy, what are we going to do?

We're going to get married just as we planned.

I've got an idea.

You come with me.

Say, listen, as sure as my name is frank smiley,

if you treat them square they'll be square with you.

Oh, now I know why you gave us such a good dinner, frank.

He's in the market for some jewelry, cheap.

Ha! Now, Emory, you got me wrong.

I just wanted to give you folks a nice, good, home-cooked dinner.

And for every raisin in the pudding,

you expect a carat"s worth of diamonds for a nickel, huh?

Say, you know I'm giving you more than the value

for this stuff than you're giving me.

Then why don't you get it at a regular place?

Oh, I want to give you boys a chance.

This is Emory you're talking to.

Well, come on, let's sit down and finish the rubber.

Rocky's been detained a few minutes.

- He's on his way upstairs now. - Good, I hope gene gets here.

I want to get some sleep tonight.

My deal.

Can't get any sleep in this man's town in the daytime.

I guess I'm not a night-lifer.

Well, you won't get any sleep tonight either.

We've got a date at the club later.

We always have a date somewhere.

- Hello, Lola. - Mr. mosby.

- Everybody here? - Yes, sir.

- Hello, everybody. - Hello, rocky.

- Hello, rocky. - Hello, darling.

Who were you expecting? You.

You'd better be.

Gene here yet? =no.

Why didn't you come to dinner tonight, rocky?

Sorry I couldn't make it, frank.

Say, where is gene? It's nearly 1:00.

He's out stepping with some high hats. He phoned he'd be late.

I wonder what gene wants to see me about tonight, rocky.

How should I know?

You ought to. You're his right hand.

Listen, I'm both his hands, only he doesn't know it.

Someday I'll tell him, and he'll get a surprise.

Oh. So will you, maybe.

Now, don't do anything right away.

I think maybe gene has a business proposition

he wants to talk over with me tonight.

Don't be a silly old boy. You know I love you.

- Do you? - Well, don't you know it?

- You sure? - Don't you know it?

Gene ought to see that.

He'd love rocky more than ever.

Oh, gene doesn't care.

When a gentleman is finished with a lady,

if he is a gentleman, he'll provide a successor.

Huh, Frankie?

Yes, that sometimes reduces the pain of separation.

Oh, and the cost.

I wouldn't be surprised if gene gave us all the air one of these days.

- Whose play? - It's yours.

I think gene is getting ready to quit the game.

Oh, I wouldn't say that.

He couldn't be such a success if he didn't like it a little bit.

Well, come on, now. What's your play, Emory?

You know, I think gene likes to think of himself

as some sort of a modern Robin hood.

Did you ever notice he never pulls a job against a man

who isn't known to be crooked himself?

I wonder where he gets all... oh, pardon.

That romantic stuff.

When you're in a racket, you're in a racket.

Gene has too many scruples for his own good.

I heard take he was a brigadier general and I was a buck private.

Well, aren't you?

Gene's the brains of this outfit.

Yeah, well, listen, I can plan the breaks as well as he can.

And anytime he wants to take a long trip,

little me is all ready to take charge of this outfit.

Listen, how can I think how to play when you're all talking like that?

Why don't you play marbles, then?

The talk wouldn't annoy you.

Hello, gene. Come in.

Hello, frank.

Well, there you are.

Sorry I'm late, frank.

Don't let me disturb you, rocky.

You didn't disturb me. I got up to get a light.

- How are you, dotty? - Sleepy, thanks.

Is this gonna be a long session?

Not long. Why don't you run home to bed.

Well, boys, I've got something that's awfully good news.

Something you'll like, frank. Yeah?

I've decided that our friend, colman, the jeweler,

should part with some of his ill-gotten gains.

Colman? Colman?

Gene, if you clean out colman,

I promise to pay full value for the stuff.

Now, I promise.

Why is colman's stuff so valuable?

His jewelry's no better than anyone else's.

But he ran me out of business once by paying the boys ten to 15% more.

He broke me.

Boys, I'll give you 20% more for colman's stuff.

Well, we'll make that concession. Let him have it.

Oh, genie, you don't know what you're doing for me.

I've waited 25 years to see colman cleaned out.

He's been getting away with murder for years.

It's a bargain, frank.

A bargain? Sure, it's a bargain.

He's a dirty crook.

When do we pull the trick?

Oh, sometime next week.

I'll give you the layout in a few days.

I'll tell you what, boys, I've got something special

I'll open for this occasion to celebrate.

- Come on, rocky. - But, frank, we can't.

- Why not? - We've got a date at the royal.

I'm not going to the club.

Tell Pete I'll be there later.

I want to stick around and see what else gene has on his chest.

- Good-bye. - Good night.

- Good night, everybody. - Good night.

You haven't changed your mind about wanting to see me, have you?

No. What's the matter?

Isn't rocky all you expected him to be?

Oh, yes, yes, but I just hoped that you'd miss me, gene.

Well, I haven't.

You like rocky, you picked him, now you, uh, be happy.

Not butting in on anything, I hope.

Not at all.

Say, we're not going to have any trouble over dot, are we?

Trouble?

Why should we?

Well, you're sensible. I thought you might be jealous.

- Of you? - Mm-hmm.

Well, jealousy implies equality.

Oh, so you don't think I'm your equal, eh?

Not in the least, socially.

But that needn't interfere with our business relations.

If you knew as much as I do, you'd be running this outfit instead of me.

Maybe I will be, sooner than you think.

Oh, be quiet, rocky.

Oh, he doesn't know what he's saying, gene.

Oh, don't 1? Well, let me tell you something.

You're either for your swell society friends,

or you're for us.

The gang don't like it. They're getting fed up on you.

How would you know where there was

a million dollars' worth of jewelry lying around

or a half a million dollars' worth of bonds

if I wasn't mixing with a little class?

We've got our own crowd to find that out.

What are we paying finders for?

Dot, margy, and Emory, and a couple of dozen others?

And keeping up that royal club.

An idea of yours that costs us plenty.

For what?

So you can plant your ritzy friends.

Our payroll's big enough to crack a safe for.

You can't be in this racket and have a code of ethics.

I never got an invitation to the queen's reception,

but I know my business.

We want a leader with a couple of guns in his hands.

Like you?

Well, the gang like me, and that's good enough.

Well, let me tell you something.

I don't go in for murder, if that's what you mean.

And while I'm running this outfit, you'll lay off the gunplay.

Now we make a little poker, eh? What do you say?

You know, you trimmed me good last time.

All right, I'll let you win your money back, frank.

Come on, rocky. You don't mind, dot?

No.

No, I've got something exciting to do.

What?

I'm going into your room and take a nap.

Well, who's going to be banker?

Let frank be banker. It's his house.

Somebody else can be banker.

Every time I'm banker, I lay out more money than I take in.

Oh, go on, frank. Don't be a piker.

All right, but I want cash in advance.

No more checks.

Mr. smiley, are you insinuating?

I'm not insinuating nothing.

But I had a little trouble with a certain check two weeks ago.

I thought we were going to play for fun.

Sure we are. We're going to play for buttons, aren't we, frank?

Come on, now. What's everybody doing?

Somebody doing something?

Pass. Pass. Pass.

I raise it $50.

What do you mean, you raise it?

Nobody's opened yet.

You mean to say that nobody's opened the first pot?

Oh, now, look close. Look close. Somebody must have openers.

- No. - Oh, all right.

I said I'd never open on two little pair again, but I will.

I'll make it easy for you fellas.

I open it for two buttons.

Stick 'em up!

And be quick about it if you want to keep all your parts together.

Now, you guys all stand up and keep your hands in the air.

Well, I'm tired sitting anyway.

Now, stand over there and face the wall. Quick.

Come in, honey.

Go frisk them. Huh?

See if they got any guns and take them away from them.

- Frisk them. - Oh, frisk them.

- He hasn't got any. - Well, go onto the next one.

Go on, honey, don't be afraid.

You guys try to get funny and I'll shoot. I'm desperate and I mean it.

I wouldn't get funny, mister.

- Can I help you... - Put your hands up!

- What'll I do with them? - Bring them to me.

Gee, you guys must be soldiers.

Soldiers?

Hey, you big stiff, step out here.

- You mean me, buddy? - Put your hands in the air.

Come on. Be quick about it if you want to keep all your parts together.

Go through his pockets, honey, and get his roll.

Oh, he's got a lot.

Just peel off $230 and put the rest back.

Keep looking at the wall if you want to keep all your parts together.

He's got $410.

Just peel off 230 and put the rest back.

- That's all we want. - Thanks!

Now put ours in my coat pocket.

Don't you think we'd better take it all for our trouble?

No. Now, you big stiff, you go over and face the wall

with the rest of them guys.

We got all we want this evening. Go on.

Bring the guns along, honey. We'll leave them outside.

Now, not a move or a sound out of you guys for five minutes

if you want to keep those schoolboy complexions.

Come on...

Now, careful.

- Put on that light, frank. - Sure.

Now, just a second. Let's see who these birds are.

If you don't mind?

Not at all. I'm glad to get rid of it.

- Well, they're just a couple of kids. - Highway robbers.

Honest, mister, we're not professional crooks.

Why, you surprise me.

I'm going to notify the police.

Don't call the cops. I want to tell you something.

This guy here is a thief, and he stuck me up in the park...

Oh, don't give me that!

Go on, frank, call the cops.

Just a minute, frank. Wait a minute.

Before you call them let her get away, because it's all my fault.

I got her into this. I don't care what you do to me,

- but let her go... - Now take it easy, son.

Frank, will you tend to those guns?

Sure.

And have you the villainous-looking weapon that desperado held us up with?

Now, I'm going to let you go, young lady, but don't try any fast ones on us.

- No, sir. - All right.

You stay right here while I operate on this big Bertha.

There's nothing in it.

So there isn't. Heh.

You got to hand it to them. They got nerve.

I'll say they have.

- What are we going to do with them? - Hand them over to the cops.

The professional crooks in this town are getting too much competition.

What was the idea, son, only taking 230?

Well, because that was all he took from me,

and I just want to get my money back, that's all.

That guy's a thief, I tell you.

- No! - Yeah.

Say, give a look.

This kid works here in the house.

Yes, I remember. Came up one night to fix the radiator.

- Why, the nerve of that kid. - Do you work in the building?

Sure, I do.

Tommy was only taking his own money, 'cause that man took it from him.

Oh, tell that to the cops and give them a big laugh.

Just a minute.

What was the idea, sticking up those kids for their money?

Well, I was walking over here tonight through the park...

And I heard the kid talking about getting married,

and he saved up 230 bucks to go on a honeymoon

and tie the knot.

I thought I'd take it away from them, that was all.

It was just a gag.

Just naturally mean.

That's me, gene.

Well, I'm glad to see you're getting onto yourself.

Frank, you mind if I see these kids alone?

- No, not a bit. Come on, Emory. - Oh, sure.

- Perfectly all right. - Come on, rocky.

He's the freshest kid I ever knew.

Say, gene. Hmm?

Those kids almost pulled off a pretty neat job tonight.

They showed promise. Why not make friends with them?

You're all right, kid, but you've got a little dirt on your shoulder.

Go on, rocky.

Well, you two bandits must have had a strenuous evening,

holding up four men.

You tired?

Sit down.

Mister, you're not going to turn us over the cops.

Well, that all depends. How old are you?

Twenty.

How old are you?

Eighteen.

I suppose you've known each other for years.

You're old friends.

Well, we were going to get married tomorrow.

Well, don't your parents object to your getting married so young?

Well, you see, my folks live in Ohio, and I work at gimbels.

You don't commute?

Oh, no.

How much money do you earn at gimbels?

Fourteen dollars a week.

My job pays me 50 a month with my room and tips.

You have a position.

Where are your parents?

Oh, I haven't got any. Not for years.

No? =no.

My old man married a widow in danbury, Connecticut,

and he don't care anymore.

I see.

Well, you're both sort of, uh, orphans, aren't you?

Well, so am I.

We're kind of in the same boat.

You won't have us arrested, will you, mister?

- You won't have us arrested? - Now, now.

You committed a very serious offense coming in here tonight.

Holding up four men with a revolver.

That's highway robbery. That means 15 years in prison.

Oh, you wouldn't send us to prison for that...

Wait a minute. I like you.

I like you both.

How would you like to work for me?

Oh, we'd like it, wouldn't we, Nancy?

Well, I'd like to help you, and I...

I could pay you much more than you'd earn in your present jobs.

- What do you say? - Well, what do we have to do?

Well, I'll find out that when I see what you're best fitted for.

In the meantime, you'll go home with me tonight. I live alone.

It'd be nice to have you.

Sort of like a family.

What do you say?

Well, I... I guess it'll be all right.

What do you say, boss?

Oh, I say sure.

But before I go anyplace, I have to stop by Mrs. Dillon's.

- Mrs. Dillon? - I'll have to get my clothes.

Oh, well, don't worry about that.

I'll send for those.

Now in the meantime,

I'll say good night to my host and then we'll go.

He's awful nice, isn't he?

- Yeah, isn't he? - I think so.

For miss Nancy Porter.

Mousey, are these all for me?

Sure. The whole blessed lot.

Gee, Nancy, you look swell.

Isn't gene wonderful to buy us all these new clothes?

Well, he certainly has good taste.

Everything he bought us I'd have picked out myself.

I can't help but think of those poor girls down at gimbels.

Well, this life may be all right for a woman,

but a week of it's got me kind of restless.

I wish he'd put me to work.

He will, as soon as he finds out what we're to do.

You don't think it'll be something we can't do, do you, Nancy?

I think he's going to let us choose a profession and study it.

What would you like to be, Tommy?

Well, I wouldn't like to be a gambler.

- Tommy, you don't mean... - I don't know what I mean,

but I got suspicions.

Oh, Tommy, you're crazy.

I don't want you to mention those suspicions of yours again.

Gene is nice. He's been wonderful to us.

Oh, it's "gene" now, is it?

Oh, you're jealous and ungrateful, Tommy brown.

I admire Mr. fenmore, and I respect him.

You're just like all women. You're weak.

I hope you're not going to let a few fine clothes

make a demimonde out of you.

Why, Tommy brown, don't you call me a demimonde.

Well, maybe you're not... yet.

But I'm a man, and I know how these things start.

Oh, you know I'm not a demimonde.

Yes, honey.

Well, then squeeze me.

I know gene's a good man.

You know, a woman can tell whether a man's all right or not

with her intuition.

All right.

If your intuition says so, maybe he is.

Oh, mousey.

Has Mr. fenmore any more socks with holes in them?

I don't think so.

But I didn't look in his wastebasket yet this morning.

Oh, does he throw them away when they get holes?

Sure.

And a good thing it is for me that he does.

Well, here I am, back in the bosom of my family.

- How are you, Tommy? - I'm all right, Mr. fenmore.

How's the little girl been this morning?

I've never been so happy in my life.

I'm glad to hear it.

What are you doing with my shirt?

- Sewing on the buttons. - Well, now that's sweet of you.

- She's a darling, isn't she, Tommy? - Yeah.

You know, I never had anyone sew on my buttons.

How'd you keep up your pants? Sew them on yourself?

My tailor does that.

But I like to have Nancy do it.

I love to do it.

Yeah, well, just for that I'm going to give you a present.

Oh, gene!

- Another present. - Mm-hmm.

Something every day.

Well, it isn't...

I've had this for a long time.

I don't often come across a piece that I really like,

but when I do, I keep it for an occasion just such as this.

I hope you like bracelets.

Oh, it's diamonds!

Is it real?

Oh, genuinely, Tommy.

Oh, gene!

They're beautiful.

Tommy, isn't it lovely?

Oh, I never dreamed of having such a thing.

Oh, thank you.

Yeah, it is nice of Mr. fenmore.

Yes. Of course, I could tell you it belonged to my mother,

but it didn't.

And you may call me gene too, Tommy.

Thanks.

Oh, gene, why are you so good to us?

Well, just because I'm selfish, and it gives me great pleasure

to see you so happy and beautiful.

The car's waiting downstairs for the kids.

They'll be right down. Wait, I'll get your coat.

Won't you come with us?

Not today, dear.

Oh, gene, how can I ever thank you for everything?

Just by being the lovely little thing that you are.

Being my little Pearl.

It makes a new man of me.

I'll always try to be.

Coming, Nancy?

Yes, Tommy.

There you are, dear.

Done.

- Good-bye, gene. - Good-bye.

Tell Eddie not to drive too fast.

All right. Good-bye.

Good-bye.

So you've fallen for the little girl, eh?

I see it coming the first day she was here.

You see a lot, don't you?

Well, I see that she's more than half in love with you too.

Not in love at all.

She's just dazzled by a little luxury.

Ah, don't kid yourself, chief.

I'm not.

She's in love with that boy. She's in love with Tommy.

She may not be as sure as she was a couple of weeks ago, but I know.

You're awful simple sometimes for a guy with brains.

Maybe.

But for once in my life, I'm thinking of someone else.

I'd like to see that kid happy.

You could make a girl happy if you tried.

You know, it's my opinion you can't fight love.

It always licks you.

Now, don't you give up that kid if you really want her.

And don't get on too high ground with women, chief.

It doesn't pay.

I had a chance once when I was a young bucko.

I passed it up because I thought I wasn't good enough for her.

You're not sorry, are you?

You bet I'm sorry.

Made a bum out of me.

And later, she married a copper.

That was worth sacrificing myself for, I'll tell the world.

I wish I could get out of this racket.

Aye, you've been wishing that a long time, chief, but you can't do it.

Why, they'd never let you go running around the streets with all you know.

Don't I know it?

But you got out and you're still drawing your breath.

Yes. I got out because they all think I'm too old-fashioned

with my methods.

But I'm safe,

because they think I didn't want to get out.

But I take good care never to be seen

with any very respectable folks.

Running around with respectable people is liable to arouse suspicion.

Sure, it does.

Why, your own gang is kind of suspicious of you,

playing around with a lot of swells.

Well, I'm going to give them a good eyeful tonight.

I'm taking a rich banker and his party down to the club.

They've heard that it's a hangout for underworld characters.

You don't say so.

Well, I just breeze in

and give you and your richy friends the once-over.

Yeah, do that. Do that, mousey.

And we'll have a lot of laughs.

When I see you there, it'll be funny, won't it?

Tell me, are all these people underworld characters?

I doubt it. They don't look intelligent enough to be crooks to me.

You'd never take gene for the sort of person he is

to look at him, would you?

Why don't you look at somebody else for a change?

- I think you're still stuck on that guy. - Oh, don't be stupid.

He's head over heels in love with that girl, Nancy.

Yeah, well, at least she's got a brain that turns over occasionally.

That Tommy's a prize sap if I ever saw one.

He's a prize sap if he thinks he can keep his girl

with gene wanting her.

Well, it's about time for the gathering of the clan.

Yeah.

Our brigadier general knows it too.

He's getting ready to send his slumming party home.

Come on, Emory, let's go.

We'll meet you outside.

All right.

- Hello, frank. - Hello, rocky.

- Hello, rocky. - Hello, spat.

- Spat. - Rocky, where's gene?

He's outside, saying good-bye to some friends.

He'll be in in a minute.

- Cigarette? - No.

I wish he'd hurry. I'll be late.

He'll be right in.

I sort of expected to see a holdup or a shooting,

or something awful in this terrible place, Mr. fenmore.

Oh, I guess it's a dull night.

But I know it's one of the toughest places in New York,

because I have it straight from someone who knows.

Well, I told the ladies that.

I wouldn't let them wear their real jewels.

I made them take them off before starting out.

Very wise.

This jewelry we have on is real woolworth.

Yes, I noticed that.

But I hope you didn't leave your good things around

for some porch climber to pick-up.

Oh, no, I always keep mine in a sewing basket in my bedroom.

How original.

I hope you have as clever a hiding place for your things.

Oh, I always toss mine in an old hat box in the top of my closet.

A hat box. How perfectly naive.

Such a nuisance going to the safe so often.

But who'd ever think of a hat box? Nobody would ever suspect that.

Il must remember that...

- Good night. - Thank you so much.

- Can we drop you somewhere? - Thank you, no. I'm walking home.

- Good night. - Good night, Mr. fenmore.

Eliza, thank you. Good night, Mrs. feldman.

- Good night, old man. - Good night, Mr. fenmore.

- Glad you came along. - Thank you.

- Good night. - Good night, gene.

I want to thank you for a very interesting evening.

- Flattered. - Drop into the bank tomorrow.

- I'll come in in the morning. - Good-bye.

Good night.

This is the first time I've had you out, sister.

What do you think of the joint?

- Hello, boys. - Hello, gene.

- Have you got the things I asked for? - Here they are, chief.

Now, boys, you've been a little active lately.

Headquarters is getting annoyed.

Well, that's too bad.

This colman thing is sort of tricky.

My opinion, it would be wise to quiet down for a while.

He'll be in business next year.

- Next year. - That's a long way off.

How do we eat in the meantime?

- We'll get by all right. - We don't want to lay off, gene.

This colman job's a pipe. What are you so leery about?

It's a pipe, I'm telling you.

Nasty job, right off Broadway. It'll take a lot of planning.

I could crack that dump with my hands tied.

You're wonderful, rocky.

You must be. You admit it.

Pretty soft of you to sit there and plan these things.

We're the boys that have to do them.

My planning has been pretty successful up till now.

Now don't quarrel, boys.

The money's waiting for you as soon as you deliver the stuff.

Attaboy, Frankie.

And there's a tray of special stones

that colman always keeps in his safe.

He only shows it to certain customers.

Get me those, and I'll pay you 20,000 more.

Well, boys, you know your business better than I do,

so I'll be going.

Don't go through the restaurant, frank.

- Go the other way, if you don't mind. - All right. Good night, boys.

- Good night. - So long, frank.

And, rocky, don't forget to get that Pearl ring.

Because I've sold it already.

Okay, frank.

- So long, frank. - Good night, frank.

Say, I've got an idea how to get that tray of special shiners

out of colman's safe. How?

Send somebody down there that no one would ever suspect.

Who have we got that no one would suspect?

The kids, Tommy and Nancy.

No.

Those kids are not in this game.

They're straight, and I'm going to keep them that way.

Oh, so you're going to keep little mama pure for your own purposes, eh?

What do you mean by that?

Well, everybody knows you're stuck on the girl.

That's why you don't want to pull this colman job.

She's probably not used to a gangster sweetheart.

And you're going to go straight.

Now, look here,

maybe this organization is getting too small

to hold you and me.

Maybe one of us had better plan on getting out.

Well, then maybe it'd better be you.

If you're too yellow to go through with this colman job,

I'll do it myself.

I didn't say I wouldn't go through with it.

I said it was wiser to lay off.

If you boys are set on doing it now...

Yes. Come on, gene, let's do it and get it over with.

You know what you want to do better than I do.

Let me tell you, it's tricky.

But if you pull it clean, we get away with it.

And no bloodshed, you understand?

Say, gene, you going to be here for a while?

I'll be here for an hour or two.

Good. I want to see you before you leave.

- All right. - I'll be back. So long, fellas.

- So long, rocky. - So long, rocky.

You sure now that you got what I asked for?

Absolutely, chief.

It certainly was a beautiful show we saw tonight, wasn't it?

Yeah, it was swell.

The leading lady was just like you, only not so pretty.

Well, I'm going to bed.

Oh, don't go. Gene might come home any minute.

Why don't you wait up a while longer?

Oh, he never gets in before the crack of dawn.

I hear him every night.

He may change his way of living now he's got a family.

You mean us?

Oh, there he is now.

He doesn't ring the bell. He uses his latchkey.

Hello, kiddie. Is gene here yet?

No, he isn't.

Well, I guess I'll come in and wait for him.

You're just the lad I'm looking for.

What do you want of me?

You know, I feel I owe you something.

You know, I guess that was kind of a mean trick I played on you,

pretending to hold you up and take your money.

Pretending? You took it.

Yeah, but I knew who you were all the time.

Why, I was going to give it back to you the next day.

Oh, did you recognize me?

Why, of course. Just as you recognized me.

But just to show you how much I like you kids,

I've got the boys, you know, gene's friends.

Well, they're going to chip in and buy you and Nancy

a swell present.

Oh, Mr. rocky!

We know you kids want to be married, and you haven't got much money.

Have you got an engagement ring?

No. We were just going to have a wedding ring for a while.

Oh, well, you've got to have an engagement ring.

We're going to give you $2,000.

That'll buy a nice, big diamond engagement ring,

and a wedding ring besides.

Oh, did you hear that, Tommy?

Gee, rocky, I had you all wrong.

It's great of you and the boys to do this for us.

Oh, it's nothing at all. We owe it to you.

At least I do.

Now, I've got an idea.

Do you know where colman"s jewelry shop is, just off Broadway?

Yeah, I know colman's.

Well, he'll give you rock-bottom prices.

You go in there, oh, anytime tomorrow afternoon.

I'll drive you by if you like. I'll be going down there.

Oh, thanks.

You meet me downstairs.

Now, don't say a word to gene about this, will you?

Oh, no.

We'll surprise him, eh?

- All right. - Good.

Then we're pals?

Sure. Sure.

It's awfully nice of you to do this for us, rocky.

Oh, it's nothing at all.

It's almost closing time.

You go in and ask to see some diamond wedding rings

and some diamond engagement rings.

Don't buy the first ones he shows you, will you?

They'll be the bum ones.

Oh, we'll only buy the best blue-eyed stuff.

That's it.

Well, here.

Here's some money. Don't lose it, will you?

No, we won't.

I'm sorry I can't go with you, but I'll see you later.

All right, fine.

Is there something I can show you, madam?

We're looking for an engagement ring and a wedding ring.

Oh, I see.

Well, now here's some very lovely things that we have.

How do you do?

I am Mr. colman. Is there anything I can do for you?

We're looking for an engagement ring and a wedding ring.

Oh, I see.

These are very pretty.

I have some very, very nice ones over here.

Be just one second. I'll bring them right over.

What do you think of this one?

Stick 'em up!

Ha! There's a laugh.

They got a picture of lefty moon.

He's been dead five years.

Here's a bit of information.

"Sam wiseman, the clerk, proved himself a hero

in a desperate struggle with two of the robbers.”

Too bad you had to plug colman, rocky.

Oh, he's an old guy. He's seen everything.

You've got to hand it to gene.

He planned this layout like a general.

Listen, anybody can plan them. But we're the guys that pull them.

Listen. "Two young people,

miss Nancy Porter and Mr. Thomas brown

who were at the store at the time of the holdup,

are being held at the district attorney's office

as material witnesses."

I hope those kids don't tip off anything.

I wonder where gene is.

Hello? Hello? Who is this, please?

Stop playing those jabs, gene.

This is dot.

This isn't gene. This is rocky.

Hello, dot.

Say, come right over here to gene's, will you?

All right, I'll wait for you.

Well, mousey, aren't you going to congratulate the boys?

What for?

No trick to it.

No art in it.

Just machine work.

If that's young blood,

I'm glad I've got hardening of the arteries.

Too safe for any romance.

Safe, my eye.

Well, at that, it's the first real job

I've seen pulled off in 16 years.

Too bad you had to use your gat, rocky.

Forget it!

Colman's dead.

What's the big idea, chief?

I told you, I didn't want any butchery.

Now, you boys get out of here. I want to talk to rocky alone.

Well, what are you going to do when a guy starts squawking?

Stand there and wait for the cops?

You bumped colman off.

I did.

- You yellow, white-livered... - Oh, cut it!

He starts to holler, I told him to shut up.

- He reached for a gat, so I... - He didn't reach for a gat.

Well, he lowered his hands, and this baby isn't taking any chances.

Didn't my instructions mean anything to you?

What kind of a business do you think you're in? It's the game, isn't it?

You're yellow, rocky.

Well, I wasn't going to let 75 grand slip away from me for a worm like colman...

Now, wait a minute. Something else I want to talk over with you.

What did you mean by sending Nancy and Tommy in as decoys when I told you not to?

It didn't hurt 'em. We wanted somebody who wouldn't be recognized.

You picked the one person I didn't want mixed up in this business,

after I told you not to.

You didn't need any decoys.

You just wanted to hit at me where you knew it would hurt the most.

Now, I've stood for you for a long time, but this is the end.

Why, you dirty, low-down, yellow, white-livered...

Enough! You're not going to talk about me again!

Give me that gun. Look here, rocky...

Make a sap out of me?

There's trouble. Come on.

He's dead.

What did you do that for, gene?

Hello. Hello, mousey.

- Hello, everybody. - Hello, dot.

What I hear, it's been a very successful job.

Oh, now, don't be downhearted, gene, because colman got shot.

Remember, it's all in the game.

Yes, I guess getting shot is in the game.

Sure.

Oh, uh, where's rocky?

You!

You killed him, you dirty bully.

You were jealous of him because he took me away from you.

And what's more, you were afraid he was going to take the gang away from you too.

You knew rocky had your number and he was going to show you what right.

You and your mastermind.

Ha!

You and your orders of no shooting.

You crawling hypocrite.

You used a gat, all right,

and you killed the only boy I ever really loved.

You can't get away with that! I'll make you pay and pay good!

Il can do it too. You know I can do it.

I'll have you plugged for this.

So help me, I'll have you plugged for this!

Come on, dot...

All right, Frankie.

He can't get away with it!

Rocky was one of the gang. You'd no right to give it to him.

You'll have to answer to the gang for this.

You get the boys together and I'll be there at the club tonight.

On your word?

I'll be there at 1:00. My word.

All right.

- What are they gonna do to you? - I want you kids to go upstairs.

- We want to have a talk. - Not now. Later.

I didn't want you mixed up in that job today.

Oh, I know, but what are they going to do to you?

They mustn't. They can't.

Would it mean so much to you?

Oh, gene, I don't want anything to happen to you.

I feel as if you needed me.

Oh, I'd do anything to help you.

You can help me most by going upstairs now.

All right, gene.

Oh, whatever you are, you'll always be wonderful to me.

They're going to try you, eh?

They ain't going to bump you off like they did petey?

Well, I hope not.

Why don't you make a getaway, gene?

I'll go with you.

I'm ashamed of you, mousey.

Ah, you did the right thing in bumping that butcher off.

But you'll have a hard time making the gang believe it.

They liked rocky, so they did.

Well, I'll have to worry about that.

What about the kid?

Bring her down there tonight.

Bring them both down.

I'll beat this, mousey.

I've got to beat it now.

Hello.

Hi.

What's this meeting for?

I was keeping an important date when I got your sos.

This is the most important date you've had for a long time.

We're trying gene for the killing of rocky.

Listen here, mousey. What did you bring those kids here for?

The boss's orders.

Sit down.

Well, it's 1:00 and he isn't here yet.

Yeah. Had time to catch an outgoing train.

Yes, you would say that.

After all gene did for you and a lot of other guys...

- Now, listen here, mousey... - Oh, pipe down.

Don't you guys get nervous.

Gene'll be here, all right, all right.

See that guy over there?

Pokey gunn.

Spent six months digging his way out of sing sing.

And by a miscalculation, came up in the warden's office.

Yeah?

How are you?

I'm all right. How are you?

They're taking him for a ride tonight.

Thank you.

Well, I'm sorry I'm late.

Sit down, gene. Let's get to business.

No objection to my standing, is there?

Gene, we're going to give you a fair trial.

But if the gang decide against you, I guess you know what that means.

- I know. - Rocky was the most popular

and useful member of this gang.

You had no right to shoot him down in cold blood

just because you had a grudge against him.

Why don't you give him a dose of his own medicine?

Show him how a chunk of cold lead feels.

- Gene! - Now, just a minute.

You haven't given me a chance to talk.

Yeah, well, why should you speak?

You shot him, didn't you?

Wait a minute.

Well, let's hear what you have to say, gene.

Well, in opening...

I just want to say that after looking this crowd over...

New York is comparatively safe tonight.

Now, let me remind you...

That since I've been the head of this organization,

there's only been one man sent up.

Think that over.

And before I took hold of you and organized you,

if you don't mind my saying so, what were you?

Or possibly you've forgotten.

Well, may I inquire what that has to do with what we're here for?

It just has this to do with it.

My leadership has been competent. I may even say brilliant.

And I'll tell you why.

I've always insisted when you go on a job,

you come away with full hands but clean ones.

Not smeared with blood.

Rocky knew that I was absolutely against killing,

yet he did it uselessly, just because he was a butcher.

I've tried to make you use your brains.

Anybody can use a gat and burn for it.

We've always been successful because we respected human life

and thought faster than the other fella.

And most of that fast thinking has been on my part.

This nightclub is my idea.

I organized it, operated it, and showed a clean profit

besides giving us a safe meeting place.

But lately, as you all know,

I wanted to quit the game entirely.

There's something came into my life that...

Well, as the fiction writers put it, something made me want to go straight.

Oh, don't listen to him.

He'll try to talk you into believing rocky was a traitor.

He was. He was always a killer.

When I called him for disobeying orders, he pulled a gat on me.

Why, don't you realize that when he shot colman,

he put you all in the shadow of the chair?

You're lying. I was there.

You shot him down cold like a dog.

Ah, shut up. You wasn't there.

Steady, mouse. Now, just a minute.

I think we're getting away from the main issue,

which is, why did I shoot rocky?

Yes, why did you shoot him?

I shot him in self-defense.

You don't believe that, do you?

Watch that door...

Put on the lights. There's the switch.

- No one here. - Don"t let them get away.

Go after them, boys. Buster!

Go get them, boys, and report back to me on the outside.

What's the big idea?

Policemen.

Just a moment.

You ladies and gentlemen leave this restaurant

as quietly as possible.

- You boys clear out too. - Yes.

Well, there's nobody here we want.

The rest of the boys come in the back. They're looking around upstairs.

- Nobody here at all, sir. - They're not, huh?

Well, I'm going to look for myself.

Hello.

What are you doing here?

We didn't do anything. We were just here watching the...

Wait a minute!

Can you beat that?

They're the two kids we picked up at colman's place.

- Something wrong here. - Mm-hmm.

Take them downtown.

Well, I know we're on the right track now.

And if I can get that guy rocky mosby...

Here, boys. Take these two birds downtown.

All right, chief.

You wouldn't think a couple of kids like that

would be mixed up with a bunch of gunmen.

Well, they start young these days.

Some gang, all right.

They might as well be deaf and dumb for all you can get out of them.

Can't somebody get something out of those two kids?

Nothing any of them says is worth a hoot.

I want to land this bird fenmore for murder, and nothing less.

I thought I could make the old guy cough up...

Uh, what's his name?

- The mouse. - Yeah.

But he wouldn't spill.

He was cagier than any of them.

Well, bill's had the boy in there, trying to make him talk.

They know the truth, if we can get it out of them.

Well, all they'll admit is

that they were at colman"s before the holdup,

and they insist that they were looking for wedding rings,

and nobody sent them.

Bring that boy in here.

Sit down over there.

I can't stand it! I can't stand it!

I've told you everything I know!

Well, well, now, now.

You've got something you can tell the district attorney, haven't you?

You ready to tell me who sent you to colman's?

His name was rocky.

That's the only name we knew.

That's the fella we found dead in fenmore's apartment, isn't it?

Yes. You know gene fenmore?

No.

You know who killed colman?

Yes, it was rocky.

And who killed rocky?

Oh, I don't know!

Yes, you do too.

It was gene fenmore.

Your girlfriend there just said so.

No, I didn't. Don't believe him, Tommy.

This rocky was a member of gene fenmore's gang.

- Wasn't he? - I don't know.

Say, who took you to the club last night?

Tommy...

You didn't happen to see gene fenmore while you were there, did you?

No.

Then you wouldn't know him if you saw him.

No, no! I don't know him.

You do know that you're implicated in the colman murder, don't you?

You're accessories.

An accessory pays the penalty just the same as a murderer.

We didn't have anything to do with it, I tell you.

I know you tell me, but I don't believe you.

I didn't believe you when I had you down here after the holdup,

and I don't believe you now.

Now, listen here, you kids.

If you want to come clean with me and tell me who planned the colman holdup,

and the names of rocky's pals,

well, I'll promise to let you off easy.

Why, maybe I can get you off altogether.

All I know is rocky gave us money to buy an engagement and a wedding ring.

Oh, take them out of here!

Come on. Go ahead.

You're a couple of saps.

Going to the electric chair to protect a cheap crook

who will only be caught sooner or later anyway.

Go on, take them out!

- Did you get everything they said? - Everything.

Good. Hurry and get it out and get their signatures.

- We got him, inspector. - Where'd you find him?

In his apartment, taking a bath.

- Any signs about the place? - No, sir. No sign.

He's a cool guy.

He never batted an eye when we told him he was wanted for murder.

- Bring him in. - Yes, sir.

How do you do, Eugene?

Why so formal? Call me gene.

Thanks.

You know, eventually, I always meet the distinguished members of your profession.

Thanks for the compliment.

Just a moment.

Fenmore, I wonder if you happen to know these two youngsters.

No, I don't.

You're quite sure? You'd better take a closer look.

Positive.

Tommy, this is the gentleman I referred to, Mr. fenmore.

Look at him. Look at him!

That's him. Did you ever see him before?

No.

Never? =no.

Young lady, perhaps you know this gentleman.

No, sir.

Now, I want you two to fix your eyes on one another,

and perhaps you'll recall having met before.

All right, take them out.

Sit down, Mr. fenmore.

Thanks.

Just a minute.

You know, when two important men get together,

the things they say might startle the world.

I just want to see if there are any stenographers or dictaphones tucked away.

Yeah, very prudent of you.

Yes, important men must be cautious.

Would you mind taking those off?

I'd like to have a free hand in the conversation.

Charlie, we're going to have a nice little private talk.

- Sit down. - Thanks.

You know, I never saw you before tonight.

Yeah?

Thought you were funny, pulling that stunt on me, huh?

You mean tonight at the club?

- Yeah. - Yeah.

Well, I've got you, fenmore.

I'm going to send you to the chair.

Yeah?

Well, that's a nice prospect. How are you going to do it?

I've got the goods on you.

If you had the goods on me, you wouldn't be talking to me now.

- You planned the colman holdup. - What makes you think so?

It was so clever, gene, it took a brain like yours to plan it.

If that's the goods you have on me, I think you'll have to have something else.

You know, fenmore,

while you've been running around with a lot of nice people,

I've known all along that you were the leader

of the worst band of gorillas in the city.

I've been throwing lassos at you for some time.

I caught an arm. I caught a leg.

But what I wanted was your neck.

Somehow, these gorillas of yours wouldn't commit murder.

But this time, they did.

And so, you see, I've at last got your neck.

What are you driving at?

I want you to sign a confession that you planned the colman holdup.

Oh, is that all? =that's all.

Just a scratch of the pen, gene.

Just a scratch of the pen. Send myself to the chair.

Well, that is simple, isn't it?

You know, gene, the real tragedy is not rocky or colman,

but these two young people.

You mean the young people I saw here tonight?

Yeah. What about them?

Oh, quit stalling. You know all about them.

But I don't.

They're just as guilty of murder as your pal rocky, who did the actual shooting.

And I'm going to convict them.

Well, what jury would convict those two kids?

Well, the girl might get off with a stretch.

But the boy's going to the chair with you and the rest of the gangsters

we nabbed tonight, just as sure as shooting.

Do you know Dorothy Palmer?

Who?

Dorothy Palmer.

=-no. - No?

No.

Well, she was your girl once.

And she was pretty fond of your friend, rocky.

We found his body tonight in your apartment, after the raid.

You killed him, didn't you?

Well, if I did, I certainly don't remember it.

Well, don't worry.

The police department's already given you a vote of thanks for that.

But I'm going to convict you for the murder of colman too.

Well, how are you going to do it? What's your evidence?

Carloads.

Supplied by three star witnesses who have turned state's evidence.

- You don't mind if I don't believe you? - No, it's all right.

I'm going to prove it to you.

Just a moment.

One of the state's star witnesses, your former sweetheart.

I don't know the lady.

You don't know me, gene?

Ha, don't make me laugh.

Now, listen, I helped land you, and I'm glad of it.

And unless you have me bumped off,

I'll be reading what you ate for your last meal in sing sing, you good...

Oh, miss Palmer, miss Palmer. Please, that's enough. Thank you.

Well, good-bye, gene.

And when you see him, give my love to rocky.

Well, is that enough?

Well, you played it all right, but one Ace won't beat me.

All right, I'll play a trump Ace.

The kids have already admitted that rocky sent them on the job,

and that rocky killed colman.

They've signed a confession.

Do you mean to say those kids have confessed to being accessories?

Read it.

Maybe they didn't know what they were doing when they went to colman's.

Well, it'll be pretty hard to make a jury believe that.

Could I see them a minute? Sure.

Did you sign that confession?

- Yes. - Yes, we signed it.

I'll leave you folks alone to talk it over.

- You got us into this. Get us out of it. - Shh. The man is a stranger to us.

We've never seen him before.

- I'm very sorry. - Words won't do us any good.

Get us out of this, won't you? I'll try.

All you have to do is tell them we were innocent.

Tell them rocky put up a job on us.

Yes, gene, all you have to say is you knew rocky sent us into that store

without telling us there was going to be a holdup.

That wouldn't incriminate you any, would it?

Why, certainly not.

Oh, gene, they mustn't do anything to Tommy.

If they did, I couldn't live without him.

A little statement I've prepared for you, gene.

Read it.

What'd you go to all that trouble for? You know I won't sign it.

You won't sign it, huh?

Not unless you're able to offer me something very attractive.

And what do you want?

I want to see you alone.

Well, what is it?

I want the absolute, unconditional freedom of those two youngsters.

They're not even to be mentioned in the case.

They're going up, and so are you.

Oh, yes, I am.

I'll fight this till doomsday.

Jimmies and guns aren't the only weapons I have.

A lot of good lawyers in this town will keep me out of jail for 100,000 bucks.

Maybe you're right, but I'll take a chance on it.

I tell you what I'll do with you, Mr. district attorney.

I'll admit everything and take the rap if you let those kids go.

All right.

I'll give you a letter that'll guarantee their freedom,

that they're innocent victims,

if you'll sign that.

I'll sign it when I get your guarantee.

Okay.

Do you mind if I go in there and see the kids?

Well, it's all right. Charlie.

Don't worry. It'll be all right, Nancy.

Just a minute.

You always have good pens here.

Charlie, I want you to witness that.

Have you got mousey here?

Yes, he's just outside.

- Do you mind if I see him? - Hmm.

Put that in the vault and tell mousey to come in here.

Well, there's your freedom, kid.

You youngsters go on home now.

I'm going to keep an eye on you. I might need you.

You're not to leave the city, you understand?

Yes, sir.

Good-bye, gene.

Good-bye, Tommy.

Good-bye, gene.

Good-bye, Nancy.

Everything's all right now, isn't it?

Yes, of course it's all right.

Nothing will happen to you?

No, nothing's going to happen to me.

He knows you didn't have anything to do with it, doesn't he?

Why, of course he knows I have nothing to do with it.

Now, you go on home, and I'll call you up later at the house.

All right. Good-bye, gene.

Good-bye, Nancy.

I want you to do me a favor, mousey.

Anything, chief.

I want you to look after those kids for me.

Understand?

Sure, chief. But how can 1?

You're going out of here.

I'll fix it all up with my lawyer this morning.

But I want to know that they're well taken care of.

Aren't you going out too?

Not as soon as you are.

I know I can depend on you, mousey.

And it'll make me feel better if she's all right.

I got you, boy.

You can count on me...

Till they carry me out.

You're a pretty regular fella, gene.

Too bad you couldn't have done something better than lead a bunch of crooks.

You know, I've been connected with the police department for a number of years,

and I've seen the best of them come and go.

And you can't get away with it.

It's always a losing game.

Well, at least you owe my profession a debt of gratitude.

If it wasn't for men like me,

there wouldn't be any necessity for men like you.