All language subtitles for 5 Ringside Maisie

after the end of the day.

That's okay. I got plenty of tickets,
honey.

Plenty of tickets?

You're in the groove, Maisie. Right in
the groove.

I'd like to lay down in a nice, cool
groove and just rest.

Sorry, honey punch. I guess I missed
that one. But you know how it is.

will happen. Yeah, so they tell me.

But that kind of accident happened to me
just once, brother.

Thanks, pal.

No, Maisie, don't be like that.

Look, I got all these tickets.

Fifty of them. Five bucks' worth.

Maisie, come on.

What's going on? I'm going out. Tell her
she's got to dance with me. That's what

she's here for, ain't it? You heard what
the gentleman said.

Look, you've seen what I've been going
through for the last ten minutes. You've

seen him throw me down just now. I
didn't mean to, Maisie.

Be that as it may, I hit the floor just
as hard as if you meant it. No, brother,

I'm through. Flesh and blood can stand
only so much. Look, if you walk off of

this dance floor and leave this
gentleman flat, you're fired. Oh.

Oh.

You mean either I go on with it here
waltz and mouse or I'm fired?

That's right.

I'm fired.

agency. Screen, stage, and radio talent.
Yeah.

Hello, Vic. This is Maisie Revere.

Guess what?

I know what.

I'm beginning to think that maybe you're
temperamental, Maisie. And for

temperament, I ain't got no use. What do
you mean temperamental? You don't know

what that taxi dancing's like, Vic. It's
cruel on your feet.

Gee, if it not, I had to walk home in my
hands.

You got anything for me, honey?

Well, I tell you. I got a wire just this
morning from a client.

Ricky Dupre. He's a dancer.

I booked him at the Shady Lawn Hotel up
on Cedar Lake, him and his partner.

Today I get a wire that this girl turned
her ankle, and this and that, and he

wants us to send him up a new partner.

Gee, Vig, it's like fate.

How much and where is this place,
anyhow?

Not so fast, honey. You'll have to go up
on a one -night tryout.

If he likes you and the customers like
you, you're in.

Forty dollars a week in groceries.

If they don't, you ain't. Oh, they're
like me. I don't want to brag, but you

know yourself, I got style and I pick up
a routine quick.

It's okay about the tryout. What kind of
wardrobe?

Huh? You can use her stuff.

He opens his act with an Apache dance.

Did you ever do an Apache dance?

Uh, woo, woo, woo, woo, or, um, la, la,
la, la, la, la, la, la, la.

Oh, that.

You mean what he throws around that
Paris cafe?

Sure, cinch.

Oh, and, um, look, Vic, um, could you
advance me the train fare?

Oh, you don't feel that you could, huh?

Well, how much is it about?

Eight bucks?

Gee, I only got nine.

But it'll be all right.

Thanks a million, Vicki, baby. I'm on my
way.

Bye.

Good morning.

Oh, hello, Mrs.

Muldowney. Here you're leaving.

Yes.

Yes, that's right. I got a swell job up
at the... Eight dollars and forty cents.

Oh, well, look, Mrs.

Muldowney, the fare is eight, see? So
how would it be if I gave you... Eight

dollars and forty cents.

But I gotta go way up to the Adirondack
Mountains and I can't give you the cent

I got nearly.

Eight forty or I'll hold your things.

Mrs. Modoni, before we say goodbye
forever, I want to give you a little

If you ever run short of rooms, you can
rent out that big empty space in your

chest where your heart ought to be.

But be sure you give them plenty of
blankets so they won't freeze to death.

One, two, three.

75,

80, 85, 90, 95, 500.

Your ticket, miss.

Pardon me?

Ticket.

Oh.

Well, you see, I had the money for the
ticket, okay, but some things came up

I... Ticket.

Oh, now, look, miss, don't get me wrong.
I'm not the type of a jip anybody, even

a railroad.

Ticket.

But I'm on my way to see you late.
There's a real good job waiting for me

and I'll send you that $8 .20 out of my
first week's check.

I'll make it $10. That's fair, isn't it?

$2 interest and...

Oh, look, mister, what are you planning
to do? This job means the world and all

to me. But I'm only asking you to trust
me for one week.

How would it cost them anything to let
me ride the train going this way anyhow?

Well, I absolutely got to get to Cedar
Lake. They're trying me out tonight.

Well, at least you might have the common
decency to tell me where this is and

which way to Cedar Lake.

Ask at the information booth in the
rotunda.

Just stand still.

What's the matter, miss?

Are you lost?

No.

Somebody chasing you?

This is road work.

I'll say. I've got to do 15 miles by
sundown. Come on.

Well, where are you going? Maybe we can
give you a lift.

How? Piggyback?

No, my train will be along in a minute
in the station wagon.

Well, thanks. If it wouldn't be too much
out of your way to drop me by the Shady

Lawn Hotel.

Why, sure. The camp's just over the hill
up ahead.

When I get back, I'm supposed to spar a
couple of rounds with shots he can take

you over. No trouble at all.

This is him now.

Well, I certainly do appreciate this,
Mr... My name's O 'Hara. I fight under

name of Young O 'Hara. Well, I'm sure
glad to meet you, Mr. O 'Hara.

My name's Mary O 'Connor, but I fight
under the name of Maisie Revere.

This is Peaches, my sparring partner.

Hello. How'd you do?

Shotzi, this is Miss Revere.

Hello. Hello.

She's going over to the Shady Lawn
Hotel, so you can drop me off and take

over. Sure thing.

Gee, I certainly do appreciate this.

I'm not so sure I could have made the
hotel.

Spending your vacation there?

Vacation?

Listen, where I come from, you spend
your summers on the fire escape watching

the L trains. That's just until you're
old enough to get your working paper.

No, I'm going into an act, a dancing
act, and I'm due there right now for

rehearsal. Gee, an actress.

Well, why do you know?

Maybe I'll get a chance to see you
later. I was planning on going home for

supper. My girlfriend comes up every
weekend.

I guess she's there right now. Came up
on the train.

Oh.

I was on the train, too, for a while.

You were?

Well, if you're on the train, what are
you doing? No ticket.

Not to put too fine a point on it, I'm
broke.

Oh, but once I get to that hotel, I'm
fine.

A real class act and a swell salary. I'm
set for Labor Day. That's great.

Hey, Terry, what's Skeets gonna say
about you riding back?

He's liable to be awful sore.

Oh, did I make trouble for you taking a
lift? No. Well, because if I did, you'd

let me out right now. Now, Skeets
McGuire's my manager. You've probably

him. Skeets is the best. He's the best
friend I got.

Terry's gonna be champion of the whole
world.

Well, I sure hope you make it.

I still got a long way to go.

So long, Miss Revere. I wish you lots of
luck with your dancing.

Say hello to my girlfriend, Cecilia
Reardon, if you get a chance. You bet I

will. Thank you, Mr.

Reardon. Okay.

What's the idea?

Hello, Skeets. Miss Revere, shake hands
with Skeets McGuire.

Hello, Mr. McGuire.

So you rode back, huh?

Only from the bottom of Pine Hill. I did
eight miles. I said ten.

You, Shotzi, what's the matter with you?
You're supposed to watch his road work.

I'll make up for it. Shotzi's going to
take Miss Revere over the whole time.

on your gloves and get that ring with
peaches here and go four rounds and

Riding in cars when you've got to sweat
up. What do you want to do, get lumbago?

You, Shotzi, get in there with them.
See, they keep moving.

But, Skeets, I promised Mr. Pierce...
Take enough yellow -haired mice when you

ought to be doing your road work.

Wait a minute, foul mouth.

I want a few things understood around
here.

I didn't thumb this rider ass forward in
any way at all.

I was walking along and he was doing his
running.

He offered me a lift in a gentlemanly
way and I took it.

But if I'd have known they keep a big
mongrel dog around here to bark at

strangers, I'd have declined with
thanks.

Better do like Papa tells you, boys, or
Papa will take a strap to you.

Well, you sure made me into it, Heal. I
told her Shotzi'd take her over to the

hotel. You know I don't allow women
around the training camp.

Listen, you got no complaints about me.
I always do what you tell me. But you

know nobody else is going to make me
Walsh on a promise. I'm going to bring

back.

Okay, but tell her to wait in the car.

Keep her away from the boys.

Hey, Miss Rivera.

Hey, wait up a minute.

Hey, don't be sore, will you? That was
just a little misunderstanding.

Shotzi will take you back to the hotel
just like I said, as soon as I finish

sparring. Just four rounds, inside a
half an hour. No, no, not after the way

carried on. I still got my pride.

No, don't be sore at me. Come on back.

I'm not sore at you. You've been more
than nice throughout.

But gargantuan is something else again.

Well, Skeets has always had a lot to say
about what I did, and I always listened

to him because he was right. But he was
wrong just now.

I said I was going to take you to the
hotel, and I want to make good on it.

Despite him?

No, just to prove him there are a couple
of things around my own boss.

Okay.

Hey, Peaches, remember what the boss
said. A good, fast workout.

Okay, boys, go to it.

Okay. Yellow -haired mice.

What are you doing in here?

I am having a drink of clear, cold
water.

I set for you to wait in the car.

Ah. And what you say goes around here,
huh? That's right.

When I have more time, I must tell you
about Abraham Lincoln.

He was a wonderful, wonderful man. And
guess what?

He freed the slaves.

Listen, sister.

This is your first visit to this camp
and your last.

So if you're getting any ideas, drop
them.

Now. Ideas of what?

You listen, tall, dark, and bad
-mannered. I got no designs on your

I have neither the time nor the
inclination to take up the part of

can't understand what a wren like you is
doing so far from the sidewalks of New

York. You take that back. Hold it now.
Take it easy there, velvet paws.

Just remember what I said, sister.

Stick to your act, whatever it is. Well,
you'll see what it is, and it's good,

too. Strictly class, big time.

Yeah, I'll bet.

Well, drop over to the Shady Lawn Hotel
and catch it sometime if you're sure it

won't sweep you off your feet being so
susceptible.

Managers don't train, baby.

I might drop over at that.

In a gilded cage A beautiful sight to
see

And her beauty was sold For an old

man's gold She's a bird

A beautiful sight, a beautiful sight, a
beautiful sight, a beautiful sight to

see. I said a beautiful sight to see.

You may think that she's happy and free
from all care.

She's not, though she seems to be, to
be, to be, to

be. Tis sad, tis sad, tis sad when you
think of her wasted.

to where she found them.

She's just a bird in a gilded cage.

She sold her soul for an old man's gold.

She found that youth could never make...

Stand up and let me see you in the
dress.

Say, they fixed it for you okay.

Why, you look better in it than the
other girl. Yeah, you fill it out more.

Yeah, I think it looks swell.

We're on in a minute.

You nervous?

Oh, well, you know.

Listen, you haven't a thing to worry
about. Not a thing. Why, you rehearse

great. Well, thanks. I'll try to do my
best.

This is going to be a wonderful summer,
kid.

Yeah, sure, we're going to be a great
team.

You click.

me the minute I saw you.

You know what I mean?

We've got rhythm, baby.

And how.

Oh, now look, Ricky, we've got a show to
give.

Oh, plenty of time. I never missed a cue
yet.

Well, you got the wrong cue this time.
Yeah, yeah. That's what you think. Oh,

now look, Ricky, I've got nothing
against you personally. I like you fine

the longer I've known you, but I just
don't play around.

What's the matter? I got a guy you're
stuck on? No, but there's a guy

someday I'm going to be stuck on.

Oh, well.

There are no strings to me. Oh, no,
Ricky.

Oh.

Not good enough, huh?

Come on, now, don't get sore.

And now, ladies and gentlemen, it is my
pleasure to introduce to you that

sensational Apache dancer, Ricky Dupre,
and his new partner, fresh from New

York, Miss Maisie Revere.

Ricky, Ricky, don't be sulky. I just
have to tell you, because that's how I

Yeah, well, here's how I am.

Dames who think they're the Queen of
America give me a pain.

Say, you're on. No, I'm not.

And I don't go on. This dame's the worst
I've ever seen, barring none.

But you're rehearsed fine. I saw her
myself. I saw her, too, and I say she's

finished. I'm getting a new partner up
from New York tomorrow.

And she goes back tonight.

And no expenses, either. Well, that's
the smallest thing I ever heard.

Letting a personal matter influence your
professional age. Scram.

Say, that's a shame. I thought you were
good.

Yeah, that's my trouble.

Miss Revere, young old Herr is out front
with some people. He wants you to join

them as soon as you're through.

Yeah, and I'm through right now.

Funny coincidence.

Hello? Oh, Miss Revere.

Won't you sit down?

Thanks.

This is my girlfriend, Miss Reardon.

Hello. Glad to make your acquaintance,
Miss Revere. I understand we are not

going to have the pleasure of seeing you
dance.

No, you're not going to have that
pleasure.

The reason is too personal to discuss.

Oh, gee, that's too bad.

You were kind of counting on this job,
too, weren't you?

That's right.

That's a shame.

Well, will you have some supper?

No, thanks. I ate. Worth luck.

Uh, Terry.

It's time for you to be getting back.

Okay. Sorry, sweet. It's got to be in
bed by ten, you know. Oh, that's all

right, dear.

I'm ready to retire myself.

I've had a difficult week.

The train trip always takes so much out
of one.

Yeah, here's one they took out of the
train.

I'll be right back, Miss Rivera. I'm
just going to take Sissy to the

Good night, Pete. Night.

Goodbye, Miss Rivera. I'm glad to have
met you. Good night, Miss Rivera.

You, uh, run through jobs kind of quick,
don't you?

All through before you can get started?

Haven't they got some kind of rules in
the fight game about hitting a man when

he's down?

Well, things changed since my Uncle Matt
went 23 rounds with John L. Sullivan.

Okay, okay.

I apologize.

Pardon me, Mr. McGuire. Yeah? Your call
to New York is through. Okay, thanks.

Will you excuse me, Miss Revere?

I'll be right back.

Don't hurry.

Where's Skeets?

Oh, um, he had a New York call.

Oh.

I, uh, guess you're feeling kind of low,
huh?

I could look a snake in the eye if I had
a pair of stilts.

Well, uh, what are you going to do?

I don't know.

Gee, I've been in jams before, but
there's some angles to this one that

the worst yet.

Gee, I'd like to help you.

Oh, don't you worry about me. I'll pull
through this, okay?

Would getting back to New York help any?

Oh, sure.

There's a lot of dust and blisters
between here and New York, and thumb and

just isn't a good idea.

I know.

Well... Oh, well, I say you're intended
as very pretty.

Oh, yeah, Cecilia's a fine girl.

But what I was thinking, I could drive
you down tomorrow.

Sunday's my day off.

I drive Sissy down every weekend. She
comes up. Then we stop to see my mother

for a couple of hours.

Oh, that sure would be a lifesaver.

But you sure I wouldn't be crowding you
or taking you out of your way? No, no. I

take the station wagon. There's all the
room in the world.

Then after I see Mom, I'll take you on
over to Manhattan.

You're not dreaming this up just to help
me out.

No.

Mom gets lonesome when I'm away like
this. She can't get out at all anymore.

She's in a wheelchair.

Got arthritis.

Had it pretty bad now for two years.

Gee, that's awful.

Well, that's all set then. You'll leave
with us in the morning. Yeah.

Now, here I was crying and carrying on,
and now it's all right.

Oh, uh... Uh, what about your room for
the night?

Are you all set?

Oh, sure.

Sure, that's under control.

Now, wait a minute. This afternoon you
told me you didn't even have train fare.

Oh, yeah, that.

Oh, but this hotel always treats an
artiste right, even if they fire her.

Now, you're dreaming something up,
aren't you?

I didn't tell that one so good, did I?
I'll fix it up with this.

You will?

You know, it sure means a lot meeting
someone like you.

Just when I was beginning to think the
wolves had taken over the world.

Thanks.

Uh, I just talked to Denny. He says the
seat sale for the fight's going swell.

Looks like this is going to be our
biggest gate. Well, come on. It's

late. Okay, I have to stop by the desk
for a minute. Huh?

What for?

Well, uh...

To pay for a room for me.

Harry offered to lend me the money, and
I accepted it in the spirit in which it

was meant.

Oh. Well, I'll stop by for you around
nine, then. I'll be ready.

Sleep well. See you in the morning. Good
night, Harry, and thanks again.

Come on, Skeets.

You go on back over to the camp, go to
bed, and tell Shotzi to come back and

pick me up. I've got some business I've
got to do. Okay. Good night, Maisie.

Night.

I want to talk to you.

About what?

Outside.

Well, what am I, under arrest?

What are you trying to pull?

I beg your pardon. I gotta hand it to
you, though. You sure work fast.

Roam in the hotel for the night, date
tomorrow.

What's the plan for tomorrow? Is he
gonna drive you around the car and show

the beautiful, beautiful countryside?

Thanks very much for your interest in my
business, Mr. McGuire, but... As far as

you're concerned, I'm interested in one
thing, Terry.

You see, he's a little more than a prize
fighter to me. He's kind of like a kid

brother. Oh. I picked him up when he was
17 years old, flat broke.

A good, clean kid with a knockout punch
in either hand and willing to learn.

Now I'm grooming him to be the champion
of the world, and nothing is going to

stand in his way.

Nothing. Nor no one.

Meaning what?

Look, sister, this isn't Terry, you
know.

This is McGuire you're talking to. Oh, I
know that. I can tell you a part easy.

You're the rude one. I'm the wise one,
and I'm wise to your game.

Big dough, easy pickings. Shut up! You
shut up.

These pickings aren't easy.

In the first place, the kid's engaged,
and you and none of your sisters could

get a tumble out of him. In the second
place, he couldn't spend any dough on

if he wanted to because I handle him.

So I guess it's no dice on a shakedown.
How dare you?

Oh, I dare.

I'm brave. I never heard such vile
talking all my life, and I've been

some people who were pretty low.

I'll bet in your racket. You close your
mouth!

I've been earning my living since I was
14 years old, and I never did a crooked

thing or took one cent I didn't earn.

If my own mother was to come back from
her grave today, I could look her right

in the eye and never be ashamed of
anything.

When do you get off talking about
shakedowns and rackets? I know the type,

sister. I've been around. Type? Type?
Who's the type? I'm me.

What are you trying to do, anyhow?

Blame me for what every cheap girl in
the world ever did?

I'll have you know, if I wanted to lower
my standards, I could be working right

here in this hotel until September.

Okay, sister.

Okay. Maybe I was wrong.

But you just try to pull anything and
you get it right across the knuckles

Poor

sissy

it's like this every trip we make she
gets to feeling car sick Then she has to

lie down on her back like that and try
and sleep

She's asleep.

Maisie, before we get to Mom, there's
something I gotta tell you.

Oh, Mr. Dirty Mind McGuire's been
talking, huh?

Skeets? No, he must have got Skeets all
wrong, Maisie.

You don't like him, do you?

No. You would if you knew him. He may
act tough, but he's all heart.

Yeah, well, maybe an x -ray would change
my mind.

What is it you wanted to tell me, Terry?

Oh, uh... Well, you see, Mom doesn't
know I'm a boxer.

She doesn't?

No, so don't make any slips, will you?

That's not my real name, you see. Young
O 'Hara.

That's only a ring name. My name's
Dolan. Terry Dolan.

I took the other so she wouldn't know.

Gee, if I was her, I wouldn't want to be
lied to.

Do you have to?

Well, I guess you must have thought it
all out, but it seems to me it's awful

risky business.

You know, looking back on it, I don't
think I ever told a lie in my life and

really got by with it.

Somehow, no matter how white the lie was
or how smart I thought I was about it,

it always snapped back and hurt someone.

Well, I sure hope this never hurts Mom.

She thinks prize fighting is for...
Well, they're animals to her.

Two guys in there punching each other
silly.

Well, it's a wonder to me you get by
with it. Right now, she thinks I'm a

salesman. Thinks I'm selling razor
blades. Like now when I'm training, I'm

supposed to be on the road.

So don't say anything, will you?

Oh, not me.

Thanks.

Terry. Yes, honey?

I think I could eat something.

Might settle my stomach.

Sure, darling. I'll stop right now.

Skeet says the camp cook put up a lunch
that won't break training.

Is mine separate?

Separate? No, it's all in one basket.
Enough for three of us. Why?

Oh, I thought maybe Mr. McGuire picked
me some mushrooms.

If we hadn't lost that grocery store,
I'd never been in that prize ring. Dad

left the business to Mom, see? She could
have had a swell income for life if

this guy hadn't come along selling stock
in some kind of an oil company.

Uh -oh.

Yeah. It was phony.

Is there any more of the chicken?

There's only a wing.

Oh, all right.

I prefer the white meat.

The dark meat's a little too rich when
you're not feeling just right.

Well, if you two will pardon me, I think
I'll go back to the wagon and lie down

for a little.

Sitting on the ground like this is hard
on your back if you're not robust.

All right, honey, can I help you? Oh,
no, thank you. I'll manage.

That mom told me we lost the store.

There were two guys that got in on this
deal, see, and I knew them. So I went

down to the office, they had to see him.
But they wouldn't see me.

Gave me the brush off. Just stepped out,
out of town.

So I laid for them.

There was a little restaurant over near
the Coliseum where they used to eat.

Well, I walked in there one night. Gee,
it's a mercy I didn't kill them, both of

them. That's how mad I was.

All I could think of was a store the old
man built up, and Mom alone in the

world without a cent. I just stepped
right into them. Bang, bang, just one

apiece. Right there in the restaurant?

Gee. Yeah, I knocked them stiff as
boards, out cold.

Then a lot of waiters grabbed me, and
someone called a cop.

They could have jailed me, I guess, but
I didn't care much.

Then I hear this guy say, hey, the kid's
a friend of mine, Joe, to the cops,

see? That was Skeets.

They had it coming, he says, the rats
from way back.

Well, the cop knows Skeets, so he kind
of laughs and says, all right, Skeeter,

but make him be doing his fighting in
the ring from now on.

Was that on a level about the McGuire
and you being friends?

No, he'd never laid eyes on me before in
his life. But then that's the way

Skeets is.

And the next thing you know, he signed
me to this contract.

And for two years, he wouldn't match me
with anybody.

Just kept bringing me along and training
me.

And 50 a week for Mom all the time
without him making a cent on me. Well, I

guess it was a pretty good investment.

Well, I'll be back in a store pretty
soon.

Got my eye on one already.

Take care of Mom.

Have a store free and clear.

Have a nice home for me and Sissy and a
couple of kids, maybe.

A nice home and some kids.

Sure sounds ideal.

That's the best daughter I've heard in
ten years.

Oh, it's an old one, honey. Well, it's
brand new to me.

Well, I gotta go, sweetheart.

Go? Well, the dust you kicked up coming
in's hardly settled yet. Must you go so

soon? Yeah, I gotta get back.

And how long will you be working in that
part of the world?

It seems to me that every man, woman,
and child in Utica and thereabouts must

have bought a razor blade off you by
this time.

Well, uh, it's an awful big territory,
Mom.

But week after next, I'm going to have
two weeks off, and I'm going to spend

them right here with you.

Isn't it wonderful? There's so much
money to be made out of a little thing

razor blades.

This lad's been coining money since Mr.
McGuire hired him. Well, I guess he's

plenty good.

Oh, he's no great shakes.

Hey, what's the idea of running me down
like that?

How's the pain, Lady Sweets? Any better?
It comes and goes.

Well, thanks a lot, Mrs. Dolan, for
letting me barge in on you like this. I

don't know when I've had a better time.
When you've had a better time.

Miss Revere, you're as good as a
wedding.

Tell me, when are you appearing next?

Maybe I could manage somehow or another
to get over to the theater to see you.

Well, the way things look right now, I'm
liable to be playing the supper show at

the Salvation Army shelter.

Oh, I didn't tell you, Mom.

Macy had a little bad luck. She's out of
a job.

Yeah. Now, how can that be?

And you're dripping talent from every
pore.

You're out of a job, and I'm out of
company.

Terry.

Oh, no.

It would be too dull for you altogether.

Say, I never thought of that.

Maisie, I've been looking for I don't
know how long for somebody to stay with

Mom, haven't I? Yes.

That girl out in the kitchen there is as
dull as ditch water, and I'm starved

nearly for someone lively to talk to.
How about it, Maisie? Will you stay on

be a companion to Mom?

Laughing like she did in there is better
than all the medicine in the world.

Twenty -five a week and all you can eat.
What do you say?

Well, gee, it sure sounds like heaven.
Well, if it's anything like heaven, it's

all settled.

Oh, but Mrs. Dolan, I don't... Please,
Maisie, see and stay.

Well, gee, sure.

I'll get your bag.

I'd like to see a certain party's face
when he hears about this.

the summer wind up ends, and we come to
the main event, a ten -round bout

between young O 'Hara, sensational young
heavyweight, and veteran Joe Gardia,

the Bayonne Panther.

There are many who predict that young O
'Hara will be the next heavyweight

champion of the world, but tonight's
goal is the most severe test O 'Hara has

yet faced.

Gee, if it was my men fighting, I'd be
nervous as a witch.

Doesn't the bottom of everything kind of
drop away from you seeing Terry fight?

Yes, it's a severe strain.

Is that boy who was selling the pop
anywhere around?

Oh, boy.

One's throat gets so dry.

A chocolate milk, please.

Hello,

Maisie. Hello, sweet. Hello.

How's Mom?

Oh, she's fast asleep. She thinks I'm at
a movie.

Good luck, honey. We'll be rooting for
you. Thanks, Maisie.

Oh, Maisie. Hello. Hello.

Hiya, Maisie. Hey, don't forget, I want
to hear that South Portland soprano of

yours leading those cheers.

That schemes, making you conspicuous
like that.

Why, I'm surprised at his being so
familiar.

You're surprised? I'm not for a loop.

I've been two weeks working up from hey,
you to hello there, and tonight I get

hi, Maisie.

Well, things are certainly picking up
around here.

I want you boys to fight until I tell
you to break. And when I do, I want you

break clean.

Careful of your low punches. In case of
a knockdown, go to a neutral corner.

Shake hands now and come out fighting.

Now, remember what I told you. Just take
it easy and seal him out. Let him come

to you. Sure, sir.

Here we go again, kid.

Arrow is a shadow.

A shadow with a pile driver's punch.

I'll give you a call next week as soon
as the Johnson door is all set. Thanks

for coming in. Hello, Duchess. Well,
kids, come on and get the next champion

the world, a nice big kid.

How about a picture with the ladies?
Nothing doing. You'll make no glamour

out of her hair. On your way, boy.

Keep them out, will you, Fred?

Hey, Terry. Here are your two girls.
Hello.

Oh,

I was proud of you here.

I'm sorry.

What do you say we go out someplace and
tie on the feed bag? I think you can

break training tonight. You're rated.
Well, let's go.

Us two? Sure. What about you girls?

Okay, all you girls outside while the
boys stand on the inside. We'll change

clothes and be right with you.

Honey,

are you going to eat that sausage?

I hate to see it go to waste. Help
yourself.

Do you know what the scribes used to
call Peaches when he was fighting?

No, Chauncey, what?

The Cherry Street Adonis.

Really? Yep, that's what the scribes
called him.

He was a Greek.

Adonis was.

Just a good -looking Greek.

Could never make out what they called me
then.

Why, Peaches, did you think you were
good -looking?

Oh, sure, sure, he was good -looking,
all right.

But he ain't no Greek.

Well, I think I should take my
departure.

I have to be at work so early in the
morning. All right, honey, I'm going to

home in time to see Mom anyway.

Ready, Maisie?

You take Sissy home, huh?

Come back for Maisie? No, no, don't
bother.

I'll take care of Maisie.

Well, haven't I got anything to say
about this?

No. Well, fine, then.

Skeets, how about spending the night
with us? Mom would like to see you.

No, thanks. I think I'd kind of like to
take a little ride and let the night

breeze blow through my hair.

Come on, Sissy.

Well, good night, everybody.

Good night, Sissy. Good night.

Good night.

Sure is one sweet fighter.

You fellas finished?

Sure.

You may be excused.

Huh?

Scram, will you?

Take a powder, my lads, take a powder.

Oh, I get it. I get it. He thinks we're
dumb. He wants us to go.

Good night, Mr. Vance. Good night, boss.

Good night, Peter. Good night, Kathy.

Good night.

Would you like a drink?

I told you once I don't drink.

Well, there must be something that you
do do.

How about a dance?

That's it.

You seem to have forgotten that nice
frank talk we had up at the Shady Lawn

Hotel. Yes, I have. I kind of wish you'd
forget it, too.

No, that's all right. Oh, come on. Let's
bury the act.

I just pegged you wrong, that's all.
Anybody can make a mistake.

Not that kind.

Look, I was wrong. I apologize.

See, a lot of things can happen to a
fighter, you know, and I kind of made up

mind that none of them are going to
happen to Terry.

I guess sometimes I lean over backwards.

You didn't lean over backwards that
night, brother. You fell flat in your

Say, what do you want me to do? Kiss
your foot? So I was wrong, so I

What changed your mind?

Oh, plenty of things.

Like what?

Well, like getting to know you better.

Well, plenty of things.

Say, what are you trying to do, get me
to hand you a load of compliments?

Sure.

And you're not doing so bad either for a
guy just up from the amateurs.

Why, you.

So, uh, the old hatchet's buried, huh,
Maisie?

It's buried.

But I'm leaving the earth kind of loose
on top of it just in case.

Now you boys know the rules.

I want you to break clean when I tell
you.

doing?

You can't stop here. This is the George
Washington Bridge.

You'll get pinched.

You shouldn't have done that without
asking me.

And what would you have said if I had
asked you?

Yes.

What's the name?

Francis X. McGuire.

Rivoli Hotel.

It was worth it, Chum.

Boy, it was worth it.

Yeah, yeah, I'm awake.

Can I come in a minute?

Sure, come in.

Hello, honey. Did you get home in time
to see Mama?

Yeah, yeah, I saw her.

How'd you think she was looking?

Oh, fine, fine. She looked fine. Glad to
see you, huh?

Yeah. Well, that's all I wanted to know.
I don't want to disturb you.

Good night, Terry. That sure was a sweet
fight.

Good night, Maisie. Thanks for coming
in.

don't look so good. Is something the
matter?

Matter? No, no, there's nothing the
matter.

Oh, come on now, there is something.

Well, I, uh, I just had kind of a
nightmare. You know, like you get them

sometimes. Oh, sure, I know how I get
them sometimes.

But the way you live, you shouldn't have
nightmares.

What is it, honey? Do you and Sissy ever
run in? Oh, no.

I'll be okay. I just felt kind of
restless, that's all. Like I wanted to

around. Well, maybe a glass of hot milk
would make you sleep better.

What do you say I fix you one?

No, no, thanks. Just the same.

Well, okay, then.

Night.

Macy, wait a minute.

Yeah?

I've been keeping something to myself
for four years now.

I never had anybody I could spill it to.

It's been eating at me for so long, it's
all bottled up inside of me. It's

driving me crazy.

Well, what is it, honey? You can tell me
anything.

You probably think I'm cracked.

Or yellow.

Maybe I am. I don't know anymore.

Yellow?

Listen, I know better. I saw you fight
tonight.

That's just it, Maisie. I got no
business fighting.

It's all wrong, me being in the ring. I
don't like it. I never did like it.

That's why I'm quick, I guess. Just to
get it over with.

Oh, I can fight all right when I'm mad
or for a reason. But just to stand up

there and slug somebody you got no
grudge against.

Run the chance of getting your brains
knocked loose or doing the same thing to

them.

Like Shotzi.

Jarred down on your heels and your head
going.

Oh, Terry, that's awful feeling like
that.

But there must be plenty of boys
fighting who never get hurt.

Bad, I mean.

Sure, but they're born fighters. When
they're in the ring, they're doing what

they were cut out to do. They love it.
They love the whole thing.

Money, the crowd.

I belong in a grocery store.

I like everything about it. How it
smells and waiting on the people.

That's the only reason I got into this
thing at the start. Just to make enough

money to buy a store.

Never for itself or to make a million or
be champion.

But just enough to take care of Mom.

Get married and have a couple of kids.

Here I am, going from one fight to
another and keeping on lying to Mom. I

you, it's got me crazy.

You think I'm nuts, don't you?

No.

If you haven't got your heart in
something, you shouldn't ought to be

You should quit.

Well, why don't you? Certainly by now
you've got enough money to buy the

No, I haven't. Not yet.

I need the Johnson fight.

That'll give me just enough.

Well, fine.

You'll fight Johnson and you'll win from
him too, Terry.

And then you can quit and buy the store.

It's not that easy.

I got a contract with Skeets.

Oh, and that's what's been worrying you.

He's got it all planned out. There's
Duffy after Johnson and then the champ.

set on me being the champion.

Well, only because he doesn't know how
you feel. Nobody could have guessed that

you've been keeping it all to yourself.

All you have to do is tell him.

Oh, Terry, you should hear how he talks
about you. You're like his own brother.

I'll bet the two of you never even had
an angry word.

Yeah, but I never crossed him.

Well, honey, you've known him longer
than me, but just lately, like tonight,

got pretty close and...

I think I could figure just about how
he'd take a thing like this, and I'm

telling you, he'd be swell about it. So
when the two of you get up to training

camp, just spill the whole thing to him.
Tell him you're quitting after the

Johnson fight. And once you put it to
him straight, he'll be the first one to

say you should quit.

You think so, Maisie? Oh, sweetie, I
know so.

Okay.

I feel better already.

Gee.

You're the best.

Thank you.

Gee, kid, I didn't mean to throw it
somewhere.

Well, sure, sure, Terry. It's okay.

It's all in a day's work. I must have
been nuts. I'm sorry.

Okay, let's go.

Oh, come on. Get her up.

Say, if he punches like that Friday
night... He'll punch like that Friday

or any other night he fights. He'll take
Johnson, then he'll take Duffy, and

then he'll take the champ.

Oh, boy, oh, boy, oh, boy, oh, boy. That
was okay, kid. Let's get that headgear

off there.

You go on and get inside before you cool
off.

Skeets, if you can shake the scribes,
there's something I want to talk to you

about. Say, what is this? For two months
now, that's all I've been hearing. I

want to talk to you and you haven't said
anything yet.

Well, there's something I've got to tell
you.

All right, you go on in. I'll be right
in.

Well, here I am. You wanted to talk?
Start talking. What's on your mind, kid?

Well, Skeeter, I... Come on, Shotzi,
come on. Don't let those muscles tighten

up, will you? He fights Friday, you
know.

Yeah, kid, what's the beef?

Oh, no beef.

I just been thinking over how much money
you spent on me the last four years.

The first two, it was all going out,
nothing coming in.

Well, it's coming in now, kid, and from
now on.

Lie down there, relax.

Yeah, yeah, I, uh... Well, I figure
you're just about even now.

The Gardia fight must be just about
even, Jeff.

Yeah, yeah, that's just about it. In
fact, I might be a little bit out in

So what?

Well, here's how it really is, Skeets.

You make a good bid on the Johnson
fight.

Maybe not enough considering it's four
years, but... Say, I never heard such a

line of devil talk in my whole life.

What, uh, what are you leading up to a
touch? Because if you are, you're a

cinch, you know that, kid? No, no, I
don't need any money. Well, I was

wondering. You got practically every
cent you ever made in the bank.

I ought to know.

I sock it in there for you. Keep going,
Shotzi. Sure, I'm fixed fine. I'm all

right. Well, uh, uh... No trouble
between you and Sissy, is there? Sissy?

no. Well, I didn't think so, but then
you can never tell.

Did I miss something? No, no. Just keep
working.

Well, come on, kid. Spit it out. What's
bothering you?

Well, only like I said, Skeeter.

Up to now, you've only laid out money on
me and... Well, what I've been trying

to tell you is I want to... You're
crying out loud. So that's what's been

you, huh?

You've been worried because I spent a
little money on you. Well, relax, kid.

Forget it.

The day we ran into each other was a
very lucky day.

For us, I've got big plans.

I'm going to wind up right on the top of
the fight racket.

And it's you who's going to put me
there.

I can remember when I was just a kid
fooling around the racket. I used to

at Tex Rickard, rest his soul.

And I used to think to myself, that's
where I'm going to be before I'm

Of course, then it was just a pipe
dream. You know, a kid dreaming big.

But no more.

It's no dream now.

I'm going to get there.

I'll make a nice piece of change on the
Johnson fight. Yeah, but Skeets, I ain't

even met Johnson yet.

Shut up.

Why, you'll take that Johnson just the
way you took Gardea. You're improving

the time, kid.

So will you quit moping because for a
couple of years I spent a little money

you? You're my one -way ticket to the
top of the heap, sonny boy.

Try and get that through that thick mick
head of yours, huh?

Now keep working on him, Shotzi.

You relax. I gotta get back to scribes.
I'll see you later.

Johnson will be able to do what none of
his eight other opponents have done,

land a solid blow on Skeets McGuire's
wonder boy.

Take hands now and come out playing.

Remember, kid, just like we talked, so
you got nothing to worry about. Just

it easy, take them whenever you're
ready.

Well, here we go again, kid.

Hey, come on, come on, where's that old
smile?

the short left intended for O 'Hara's
face. But in his characteristic fashion,

'Hara stepped aside.

Johnson seems to be trying to solve O
'Hara's style.

He throws a looping left, but it's
blocked by O 'Hara's arm.

Now the boys are in the center of the
ring.

O 'Hara lands a left. A right.

It's time for my medicine, don't you
think so, dear? Oh, yes, I'm sorry. I

forgot.

Thank you.

Um, is there any... Anything else I
can... Let's have a bit of that book

reading. It'll help pass the time till
Terry comes.

Oh, but honest, honey, you shouldn't
wait up for Terry. Oh, yes, now, Maisie.

The sight of him will do me more good
than a couple of hours of sleep.

Sure, I can sleep any time. And those
razor blades have kept my boy from me

two months nearly. But, Mommy, he said
he might not be home until after

midnight. Oh, go on. Read to me after
the book.

Where is it we're wearing now?

Oh, yes.

She'd gone to sleep in that grand tent
like.

Yeah, here it is.

opened her cornflower eyes and looked
about her. She had been dreaming that

was at home in the either -clad manor
house of her father, the Duke.

Then it came back to her in a rush.

She was held captive in the desert
kingdom of that half -savage, half

gentleman, that outlaw emperor, the
Falcon.

Mama Dolan, I'm a level. Do you like
this?

No, it's trash.

That kind of stuff's only good for women
who never had the luck to know the real

thing.

All right, Maisie, I'm for bed.

It's like you said, if I get my rest,
I'll be as fresh as a daisy to greet the

boy in the morning.

You know, I'd be glad to see Terry shut
up his razor blade business.

More like a grocery business, huh?
That's what I was thinking.

That's a business that even smells good.

The tea and the coffee and the cheeses,
and he'd be home all the time.

Well, let me tell you something.

A little bird whispered to me that after
tonight, Terry's washed up with the

razor blade game.

Skeets didn't fire him. Oh, no, no. But
he's had it in mind for a long time.

Quitting, I mean.

And, uh, here's something else that'll
make you happy.

He's got his eye on a grocery store.

Oh, Maisie, it's not true.

Crash my heart. If you must have given
me a million dollars, you couldn't give

me so much joy.

Oh, but when Terry tells you, act
surprised. I'll be the picture of

Kiss me goodnight, Mary Anastasia O
'Connor, alias Maisie Revere.

For I'm a happy woman this night.

Goodnight, dear. Sleep well. Goodnight,
darling.

I don't know what's keeping him on his
feet.

We're seeing a great display of fighting
heart here tonight, ladies and

gentlemen. This boy has absorbed seven
rounds of grueling punishment. Who are

you talking about? You're dope!

But Hank Johnson still stands on his
feet.

O 'Hara pours in with a smashing left to
the jaw, a right to the midsection.

and spend a couple of days. Mom would
like to see you. Say, I'd like to see

Mom. And I wouldn't mind going a couple
of rounds with the Brooklyn Bonfire.

Okay, swell.

In you go, champ.

How's the Duchess of Greenpoint? Hey,
hey, just a minute. I'm his manager, you

know. I'm supposed to get part of
whatever he gets. Okay, I feel so good

now. I don't care what I do.

Hey, you feel all right about
everything?

Sure, why not?

Well, Terry, where's the starboarder
parking suitcase?

Same old place? Same old place, Skeeter.

Maisie, how about roughing up some
groceries?

Oh, sure. I scramble a fine egg. How
wonderful.

I know you must be famished, Terry.

We'll all sleep the better for having
something on our stomachs.

Well, if you'll pardon me, I'll freshen
up a bit. Okay, Sissy, and then set the

table in the nook, huh?

Come on, Terry, give me a hand.

How's Mom?

Oh, never better. She can't wait to see
you.

Say, Skeet sure is high.

I'll bet he took it fine, just like I
said. He did, didn't he? He took it

huh?

I didn't tell him.

You didn't tell him?

Oh, I tried up there in camp, but then
he began telling me about all the plans

he has.

He's got his whole heart and soul on
that million -dollar gate.

I'll tell him, though. I got to.

Tomorrow, maybe, or the day after.

That's why I asked him out here.

Terry, you've got to tell him tonight.

I told your mother you were through
selling razor blades and you had a

store all picked out.

I wish you hadn't have said anything.

Oh, look, two months ago when you left
for camp, you told me you were going to

speak to him as soon as you got up
there.

Hon, I knew you'd stall it off all this
time.

Don't you think you'd better boil some
bacon, Miss Revere? I presume Skeets and

Terry would enjoy it.

Okay.

Well, whether I should or I shouldn't, I
told her.

So you'd better have your talk with
Skeets tonight.

Well, uh, what's up? What's the matter?

Oh, nothing, Skeets. We were just... Go
ahead, Terry.

Tell her.

Tell me what?

Skeets are something you don't know.

I don't like the fight game. I never did
like it.

Every minute I'm in there, I'm so scared
I'm sick.

Hey, what is this, a rib?

No, it's the truth, Skeets.

Yeah, it's the truth, all right.

When I first met you, I didn't know what
I wanted to do.

I only knew I wanted to kill those two
guys that robbed Mom.

But these last few years, I've been
thinking more and more about the store

used to have. That's the life for me.
Skeet's running a grocery store, not

fighting.

Oh, I never cracked to you because
you're always talking about me being the

champion.

And I figured maybe I could go on and
maybe win the title like you wanted me

But I can't.

That purse tonight gives me all the
dough I need to take care of Mom, buy a

store, and get married.

But, sweetheart, you won tonight.

You fight Duffy next.

Wait a minute. Wait a minute, sissy.

I want to get this straight.

You're scared of fighting, and you want
to buy a grocery store, and with

tonight's purse, you can do it.

Well, what's the plan?

I'm quitting, Skeets.

I fought my last fight.

You're quitting?

Did you ever stop to think you and I've
got a contract?

Yeah, sure, I know, but you're gonna let
me out of it, Skeets. I gotta quit,

that's all. Contract or no contract.

I don't like it. I don't like lying to
Mom, and I don't want to get punched

silly. Why, you sniveling little...
You're scared. You're gonna quit. You're

gonna buy a grocery store. Ha!

In a pig's ear you are. Oh, wait a
minute, Skeet. He's telling the truth.

out of this, Maisie. You're buying no
store, see?

You're doing what I tell you. You're
fighting Duffy, then you're fighting the

champ. When I tell you, where I tell
you, and how I tell you to fight. You

one move to Welch on me, and I'll take
the fillings right out of your teeth.

I'll sue you from here to Christmas.

I'll slap an attachment on every cent
you got in the world. When the log is

through, you'll be right back where I
found you.

On the bread line. But, Skeets, I got my
mom to look after. Oh, that's it, eh?

Well, I looked after you, Mom.

Fifty bucks worth every week for two
years and not a dime coming in. Now you

look after her by living up the contract
you signed your name to. And it'll

stand up in any court in the United
States.

I'm getting out of here.

You start training for your next fight
in two weeks up at the camp and be

Skeeter.

Skeeter, you didn't get what he said to
you. He was telling you the truth,

Skeets. That's straight.

You've got to let him go. You just
didn't understand. You never could ask

like that.

Oh. Oh, so I'm the only one that's
wrong, huh? Well, just because you

understand. For you, there's no two
sides.

He's 400 % right, and I'm a heel. I
understand that.

Well, I know it's an awful shock. You
know, I know it's a terrible

disappointment. I know that, honey.

But he's what he said is dead on the
level.

He's felt like this for four years now.

I saw him myself right after the guard
deer fight, and he was as white as a

sheet. He woke up in a cold sweat.

Oh, listen, if you love him like you
said, you can't make him go on. That

you, Skeet. Oh, isn't it? Guess again,
sweetheart.

Say, I had you right the first time up
at that hotel.

Yeah, I had you dead to rights. First
crack out of the box, then you mixed me

up. That guy I danced with, the one who
parked in the bridge.

Why, he's no more like you than the man
in the moon. This is you just the way I

had you pegged.

Well, I've guessed wrong before, but
this is an all -time low.

Thanks.

Never let him get set, see?

He's got dynamite in that right hook.
Keep moving away from it all the time.

You understand?

Well, do you understand or not? Say it
back to me like I just told you so I

you got it. I got it all right.

Maisie and Sister's outside.

Sister wants to see you, Terry.

Okay, I'll go on. You can finish this in
a minute, Sheriff. Hey, wait a minute.

Wait a minute. What's the idea? You know
you don't see anybody now. Peaches,

tell them to come back after the fight.
Look, I'm fighting just like my contract

says, see? But there's nothing in that
legal paper that says I can't talk to

I want when I want.

Terry, what's got into you?

What's happened between you two, anyhow?

Why, up in Tampa, you wasn't the same
fellow all ten steps... Ah, shut up!

Hello, darling. Hello, Maisie.

Hello, Parrish. What's up? Something
wrong with Mom? Oh, no, no. She's as

as silk. No, Miss Revere just wanted to
satisfy herself that you're all right,

knowing you've been so nervous.

Well, not that exactly, but I just
wanted to see you and find out how you

Oh, I'm okay. Thanks. I'm okay.

Last week up at camp, I thought you were
doing quite a bit of worrying.

And you mustn't, Terry. You mustn't.

Oh, you must have cut me on an off day
or something.

I'm in good shape, Maisie. Really, I'm
not worried about anything.

I'm fine, honest.

Sure you are. Sure you are, Terry.

I'll be shouting my lungs out for you.

Good luck.

Thanks, Maisie.

Best of luck, dear.

Just keep thinking to yourself, I'm
going to win.

Yeah. Yeah, thanks for coming in.

Goodbye. Good luck. Good luck, dear.

And here comes Jackie Boy Duffy.

Those cheers are for the woodchopper,
Jackie Boy Duffy, who is just entering

ring.

the new men know the rules.

This crowd expects a clean sportsman
-like contest, and I'm relying on you to

give it to them. You're going to break
clean when I tell you to. A low blow

means a loss in the round to one of you
that struck it. In the event of a

knockdown, go to a loopy corner.

I want you boys to shake hands now, and
when the bell sounds, come out fighting,

and may the best man win.

Remember, he's a great puncher. Watch
his right hand.

Good luck, kid.

Thanks, Pastor.

This is earlier, and O 'Hara seems slow,
as if a little uncertain of his death.

Something's screwy here. He was trying
to make you open up. They were stalling

that round, trying to make you rush him.
Now watch yourself and don't crowd him.

Cross me.

You throw this fight, you'll have a
tough one on your hands. What's the

with you?

What's happened to you, sir? What's
wrong?

I don't know. I can't get going.

My time is... No, sir. This is not the
same O 'Hara who fought Johnson here

two months ago.

Don't put him away. It's no stall.

He's all shot.

Okay, this is it.

your best, kid.

Anybody could have said you was doing
your best. You feel okay now?

Yeah, my head hurts so.

You hit that canvas pretty hard. You had
a slight concussion.

It was quiet for a week or so.

Well, they got me now.

What, back in your dressing room,
sweetheart?

Oh.

Well, you can turn on the lights now.
I'm okay.

Why is it dark?

It's not dark.

My eyes are open. The lights are on,
aren't they?

It's not dark here.

I can't see. That's what it is. I'm
blind.

Answer me. That's what it is, isn't it?
Easy, easy, boy. It's just the result of

the fall. It'll soon pass.

I'll get you right over to the hospital.

Sissy.

Sissy.

Take his hand.

Mom expects me home tonight.

You tell her.

Break it to her easy.

Oh, don't you worry, Terry. You'll be
perfectly okay by tomorrow.

Mama ought to know we shouldn't keep
this from her.

I'll tell her.

Thanks, Maisie.

I'll get her and bring her to the
hospital.

Don't worry.

Just rest and the doctors will fix you
up fine.

I never figured this.

With all the dread I had of it, I never
figured this.

Blind. Don't talk like that, Terry.

You just heard what the doctor said.

It'll be over in about an hour.

You'll be all right.

Isn't that right, doctor?

Yeah, that's right. We'll just get him
over to the hospital. All right, Doctor.

That doctor was lying.

You know that, don't you?

Well, I know it. It was written all over
his face.

He thinks Terry's blind for good.

Maybe he's right.

Maybe Terry is blind for good.

22 years old and Mom don't even know
he's a fighter.

Well, she'll know now.

I gotta tell her.

I got to tell her Terry wasn't a
salesman like you thought. He's been

for four years now.

Oh, he didn't have any heart for
fighting. He was so frightened he

sleep, but he had to keep on.

He had plenty of money. There wasn't any
reason for him to keep on. He could

have bought a grocery store like he
wanted to.

But he had to go in there and fight.

Because his best friend, the guy who
loved him like they were born of the

mother, wanted to make money on him.

Well, that's out now.

He won't have to fight anymore. Even Mr.
McGuire's legal contract that'll stand

up in any court can't make him fight now
because he's blind.

He don't know whether his night or day
of his eyes are open.

He's blind.

That's what I gotta tell that old lady.

Because of you, that's what I gotta...
Will you tell her?

I'll take you to the hospital, honey,
before I go to get Mama.

No, I can't go down there.

Oh, sure.

Sure you can, sissy.

Terry might call for you, and he wants
you to be right alongside of him. You're

his girl.

No.

Well, he may be blind for good.

You said that yourself.

He might always be blind.

I can't marry a blind man.

I want a real home, and someone will
take care of me.

Why do you have to lead him around and
put on his clothes like a baby?

kind of life is that for a girl?

Oh, Maisie. Maisie, you see how it is.
How could I marry him now?

How could I?

Why, you dirty, mean, cold, little nasty
slug. Don't you dare.

Is that my mother?

It is, son.

Mama.

I'll be right outside.

Stay here, dear.

Hello, Maisie.

Hello, honey.

Gee, Mama, it must have been an awful
shock for you.

I feel terrible you had to know.

I never meant for you to know at all,
least of all this way.

Does it hurt bad?

Now, I shouldn't have lied to you, Mom.

I guess it's true, Maisie. No good ever
comes out of a lie.

Forgive me, Mom.

Forgive? There's nothing to forgive.

What were you to do, so young and left
without your daddy to look after you?

The root of the whole thing was me being
greedy, wanted to make money fast.

You did it all for me, to keep me in
comfort.

Yeah, I... I didn't even succeed in
that.

Don't say that, Terry.

I'm living like a queen.

But now that... The doc says it's
something pressing on my brain that

me... Well, it's not the eyes. They're
okay. It's hitting on the back of my

like that.

There's a specialist coming from Boston.

A brain specialist.

There's only about three of them in the
country can do a job like this.

It'd be plenty expensive.

Paying them will just about clean me
out.

And what's money for?

Except to buy the best when you need it.

When will you get here?

This doctor that's going to put you
right.

In the morning.

Dr. Kramer, he's the commission doctor.
Went to Boston to get him.

But, Mom, maybe when he examines me, he
won't be able to do it. He'll do it.

Well, I don't want you to count on him,
Mom. He'll do it.

Mr. Duffy's outside.

Oh.

He's the fellow I fought tonight, Mom.

Oh?

Let him in

You

may come in

Hello

Terry, hello Jackie boy, this is my
mother and Miss Revere

Look, Terry, it's like they say, but you
can't see.

Yeah.

I said, look, kid, I soon had cut off my
arm.

I was six years in the ring, but I never
hurt no one.

I'm beyond a shiner, boy, a cut lip, but
nothing like this.

You probably got no use for me.

But you got it right.

All I can say is, I didn't mean to hurt
him.

But he had a good name in the ring.

Ask anybody.

I never stumped anybody, rabbit punched,
or hit low.

That's the truth.

Ain't it, Terry?

Sure, sure, Jackie boy.

Put it out of your mind. It wasn't your
fault.

He could have took the fight.

But I would have thrown the fight even
then to have this happen.

Don't reproach yourself boy.

Just say a little prayer for him. Yeah,
I will You bet I've been

doing it ever since he told me I'll keep
in touch kid

Thanks

Well

good night good night Jackie good

night

Gee.

And to think how I hated him tonight.

Oh, he's okay.

Sissy didn't come down, huh? I thought
maybe she'd be here... You might as well

know, son.

You've seen the last of Sissy.

Oh, Mama, you shouldn't have.

Oh.

The eyes.

I guess she figured I'd always be like
this.

Well, she didn't figure it all, Terry.
It's just... Well, like Mama says, the

least thing and she goes to pieces.

Yeah, it's funny.

Even as long as I've known her, I never
felt like I really knew Sissy.

Like I knew you, Maisie, right from the
start. Or Skeets.

Skeets hasn't been around.

Oh, he'll be around.

He's most likely known that you should
rest.

You really ought to sleep now, Mr.
Dolan.

Yes, son.

Do as the lady tells you.

Get a good rest.

We'll be back first thing in the
morning.

Good night now, darling.

God keep you.

Good night, Mom.

Good night, Maisie.

Thanks.

Don't cry, honey.

He'll be all right.

All

right,

son. We're going to do a bit of surgery
on you.

Gee,

it's funny. I can't get used to talking
to somebody when I can't see him.

I'm right here, just to your right.

Thanks.

Will you tell me straight, Doc, just
what my chances are?

You have a good chance, Terry.

But you're a sensible boy.

I won't lie to you. Or to you, Mrs.
Dolan.

Yeah, I want to know.

Without the operation, you would very
probably live for years, but... Blind.

Yes, son.

Okay.

I'll take my chance.

I'll do my best for you, Terry.

Prepare him for surgery.

Yes, Doctor.

I'm sorry, Mrs. Dolan, but you must wait
in the waiting room. I can't let you

stay here.

That's right, Mama. We shouldn't stay
here. They'll tell you when it's over.

But they'll have to come looking for me.
We'll find you.

They've had him in there such a long
time.

Well, the doctor said it'd take a long
time, Mama. They always do this kind of

an operation.

Everything's going fine.

Skeeter.

Hello, Mama.

Come over here to me.

Oh, you poor boy.

You look all worn out.

I guess none of us had much sleep last
night.

I'm surprised you're talking to me, Mama
Dolan.

You mean because it was you got Terry
into this prize -fighting business?

There's no help for that now.

And how were you to know it would end
like this?

If you did, you'd have been the first
one to stop him doing it.

Why, you're like his own brother,
Skeeter.

You thought you were acting for the
best.

I know that boy.

Thanks, darling.

They promised they'd come and tell me
it.

It's taken a cruel long time.

Yeah.

It's all over, Mrs. Dolan. He's going to
be perfectly well. Oh, praise God.

Praise God.

Maybe, maybe.

Can I go to him now? Well,

he's still unconscious.

Oh, let me be there when he comes to his
senses. He'll be asking for me. Very

well. Just Mrs. Dolan. I'll take it.

You didn't tell her about me, huh?

You didn't tell her what I did?

Boy's going to be all right now.

What I did to him has been patched up.

Well, I guess that's that.

I just want to say thanks for not
telling Mom the truth about me.

I know I don't rate it, but it means a
lot to me.

Work up the biggest branigan in town.

Well, so long, Maisie.

They don't come any better.

Hello, Terry.

Oh, Miss Revere, have you seen McGuire?

Yeah, he just left.

I see a man he's looking after. Did he
seem all right?

He could never seem all right to me,
thanks.

I worried about him last night. He sat
in that plane as if he'd carved out of

wood. What plane?

What? He sat in what plane last night?

On the way up to Boston to get Dr.
Taylor.

You mean you took him along with you?

Well, he took me along with him. He
charted the plane. I thought you knew

No. Well, he asked me who the best brain
man in the country was, and I told him

Stanley Taylor of Boston.

We were over in New Haven before I
caught my breath.

Lucky for me, the Taylor wasn't in
Shanghai.

And McGuire felt he'd have gone
anywhere.

He spent his last cent.

Nothing mattered to him except getting
Terry well and setting him up in the

grocery business.

Oh, and me kicking him when he was down.

Oh, can you perform a brain operation on
me?

What Thank you, is it like it told us
downstairs gonna be all right. Yes, it's

gonna be all better good. Go on. Maybe
you can see him

It's mr.

McGuire who's calling Look, Mrs.
Meredith, this is important.

Is he in?

Who is calling?

Okay, have it your way.

His wife.

314, please.

Yeah? Mr. McGuire.

There's a young lady calling.

Young lady?

Who? What's her name? She says she's
your wife.

My wife?

What does she look like?

A yellow -haired mouse.

Maisie! Oh, darling.