1 00:00:03,503 --> 00:00:06,422 On December 1, 1935... 2 00:00:06,464 --> 00:00:10,175 Mrs. William Starkwell, the wife of a New Jersey handyman... 3 00:00:10,218 --> 00:00:12,970 gives birth to her first and only child. 4 00:00:13,179 --> 00:00:15,848 It is a boy, and they name it Virgil. 5 00:00:16,307 --> 00:00:20,060 He is an exceptionally cute baby, with a sweet disposition. 6 00:00:20,186 --> 00:00:25,107 Before he is 25 years old, he will be wanted by police in six states... 7 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:29,695 for assault, armed robbery, and illegal possession of a wart. 8 00:00:30,655 --> 00:00:32,364 Growing up in a slum neighborhood... 9 00:00:32,407 --> 00:00:35,993 where the crime rate is amongst the highest in the nation is not easy. 10 00:00:36,077 --> 00:00:40,914 Particularly for Virgil, who is small and frail compared to the other children. 11 00:01:08,234 --> 00:01:12,863 Virgil Starkwell attends this school where he scores well on an IQ test... 12 00:01:12,906 --> 00:01:15,866 although his behavior disturbs the teachers. 13 00:01:16,701 --> 00:01:21,205 We interviewed Mrs. Dorothy Lowry, a school teacher who remembered Virgil. 14 00:01:21,456 --> 00:01:24,792 I remember one time, he stole a fountain pen. 15 00:01:25,502 --> 00:01:27,753 I didn't want to embarrass him. 16 00:01:27,796 --> 00:01:30,130 You know, teachers have ways of doing things... 17 00:01:30,215 --> 00:01:34,301 so I said to the class, "We will all close our eyes..." 18 00:01:34,761 --> 00:01:38,180 "and will the one who took the pen please return it?" 19 00:01:38,515 --> 00:01:41,016 While our eyes were closed... 20 00:01:41,392 --> 00:01:43,143 he returned the pen. 21 00:01:43,812 --> 00:01:47,856 But he took the opportunity of feeling all the girls. 22 00:01:50,735 --> 00:01:52,402 Can I say "feel"? 23 00:01:53,029 --> 00:01:57,908 Spending most of his time in the streets, Virgil takes to crime at an early age. 24 00:02:00,245 --> 00:02:02,037 He is an immediate failure. 25 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:06,333 He barely manages to escape with a gumball machine stuck on his hand. 26 00:02:09,170 --> 00:02:12,005 With both parents working to make ends meet... 27 00:02:12,090 --> 00:02:15,050 Virgil becomes closest to his grandfather... 28 00:02:15,468 --> 00:02:17,553 a 60-year-old German immigrant... 29 00:02:17,637 --> 00:02:20,681 who takes the boy to movies and baseball games. 30 00:02:20,765 --> 00:02:22,724 Then tragedy strikes. 31 00:02:22,767 --> 00:02:24,351 At a Washington senators' game... 32 00:02:24,394 --> 00:02:28,105 Virgil's grandfather is struck in the head by a foul ball. 33 00:02:28,481 --> 00:02:31,191 The blow causes permanent injury to his mind... 34 00:02:31,276 --> 00:02:34,027 and he becomes convinced he is Kaiser Wilhelm. 35 00:02:34,070 --> 00:02:38,866 Here are some rare photos of him with other patients on the sanitarium grounds. 36 00:02:42,245 --> 00:02:46,874 When he is 15 years old, amidst the violence and poverty of the slums... 37 00:02:47,208 --> 00:02:49,668 Virgil receives a cello as a gift. 38 00:02:53,131 --> 00:02:55,215 He is fascinated by the instrument... 39 00:02:55,300 --> 00:02:59,136 and for the first time in the Starkwell house, music is heard. 40 00:03:07,478 --> 00:03:11,273 We spoke to Mr. Torgman, his first and only cello teacher. 41 00:03:11,774 --> 00:03:14,443 There is not very much to tell... 42 00:03:14,527 --> 00:03:18,280 because his cello playing was just terrible. 43 00:03:19,407 --> 00:03:20,824 He would... 44 00:03:21,201 --> 00:03:23,869 He had no idea about tone production. 45 00:03:24,454 --> 00:03:28,081 He would just saw it back and forth... 46 00:03:28,374 --> 00:03:31,752 just scratch the instrument to such a point... 47 00:03:32,629 --> 00:03:36,465 it would drive everyone who listened to it absolutely insane. 48 00:03:36,674 --> 00:03:39,384 He had no conception of the instrument. 49 00:03:39,802 --> 00:03:41,762 He was blowing into it. 50 00:03:48,269 --> 00:03:50,062 He loved his cello. 51 00:03:50,313 --> 00:03:53,523 And I think he stole to pay for his lessons... 52 00:03:53,566 --> 00:03:56,526 but he would not apply himself one iota. 53 00:03:59,739 --> 00:04:02,282 Virgil steals to pay for cello lessons... 54 00:04:02,325 --> 00:04:05,327 and although he does not achieve greatness on the instrument... 55 00:04:05,370 --> 00:04:08,455 he is soon good enough to play in a local band. 56 00:04:37,735 --> 00:04:40,529 A jungle, however, Is no place for a cellist... 57 00:04:40,613 --> 00:04:43,407 and Virgil soon learns the facts of life. 58 00:05:07,140 --> 00:05:09,725 At 18, Virgil is lonely and confused. 59 00:05:10,101 --> 00:05:14,062 Unable to concentrate In school, he has long since dropped out. 60 00:05:14,397 --> 00:05:18,275 He wants nothing more than to belong, if only to a street gang. 61 00:05:18,568 --> 00:05:21,778 It is here, he thinks, he will prove his manhood. 62 00:05:26,409 --> 00:05:28,702 Under constant economic pressure... 63 00:05:28,786 --> 00:05:32,873 Virgil turns to the local pool hall as a means of making a living. 64 00:05:32,999 --> 00:05:36,460 'Tm going to be a pool hustler," he tells his friends. 65 00:05:39,172 --> 00:05:40,672 Ball, please. 66 00:05:41,007 --> 00:05:42,215 Okay, thanks. 67 00:06:09,911 --> 00:06:12,996 Virgil tries to join the navy but is psychologically unfit. 68 00:06:14,290 --> 00:06:16,291 That looks to me like... 69 00:06:16,542 --> 00:06:18,210 two elephants... 70 00:06:18,544 --> 00:06:21,254 making love to a men's glee club. 71 00:06:22,256 --> 00:06:25,717 Mr. T.S. Foster, Virgil's first probation officer, remembers him vividly. 72 00:06:27,595 --> 00:06:30,263 He was a trustworthy kind of person. 73 00:06:30,306 --> 00:06:33,767 You had to remember certain idiosyncrasies that he had. 74 00:06:33,851 --> 00:06:35,185 Like what? 75 00:06:38,564 --> 00:06:41,024 Like not always telling the truth. 76 00:06:41,567 --> 00:06:43,652 He didn't always tell the truth. 77 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:48,198 Sometimes, he exaggerated the truth. 78 00:06:50,368 --> 00:06:53,620 Sometimes, you know, he just plain lies. 79 00:06:53,996 --> 00:06:56,665 He does have a criminal record, yes... 80 00:06:56,749 --> 00:06:59,251 but that doesn't mean that the boy was all bad. 81 00:06:59,752 --> 00:07:02,796 Unable to fit in with any aspect of his environment... 82 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:05,132 Virgil strikes out on his own. 83 00:09:38,327 --> 00:09:41,538 In an effort to shed some light on this period of his life... 84 00:09:41,622 --> 00:09:43,790 we spoke with his father and mother. 85 00:09:43,833 --> 00:09:48,128 They are ashamed of their son's criminal record and so wear disguises. 86 00:09:48,254 --> 00:09:49,963 He was a good boy. 87 00:09:50,089 --> 00:09:53,675 Come on, if he was a good boy, why are we wearing these? 88 00:09:54,343 --> 00:09:56,553 He's rotten, he's a gangster. 89 00:09:56,679 --> 00:10:01,016 How can you say that? He was so bright and he was so talented. 90 00:10:01,100 --> 00:10:03,268 - What "bright and talented"? - He loved music. 91 00:10:03,311 --> 00:10:06,146 - He was an atheist. - He could've been a musician. 92 00:10:06,188 --> 00:10:09,649 I tried to beat God into him but it was too tough. 93 00:10:09,734 --> 00:10:14,070 He was trying to get away from us, and be independent, make his own life. 94 00:10:14,113 --> 00:10:17,616 Be a human being on his own. I mean, you're a very dominating person. 95 00:10:17,700 --> 00:10:20,994 - What? - You are, and he was trying to find himself. 96 00:10:21,037 --> 00:10:22,162 - Me? I'm... - Yes. 97 00:10:22,204 --> 00:10:25,749 - I'll talk to you later about the whole thing. - What do you mean, "later"? 98 00:10:26,208 --> 00:10:28,793 Vowing that he will never serve his full term... 99 00:10:28,836 --> 00:10:33,423 Virgil plans an elaborate escape, using a bar of soap and some shoe polish. 100 00:10:47,855 --> 00:10:49,939 Guard! 101 00:10:51,609 --> 00:10:52,734 Yeah? 102 00:10:53,819 --> 00:10:55,779 You got to take me to the infirmary. 103 00:10:55,821 --> 00:10:58,073 - What's the matter? - Don't ask. 104 00:11:32,441 --> 00:11:35,527 Virgil's attempted escape is dealt with harshly. 105 00:11:35,569 --> 00:11:38,571 His sentence is extended an additional two years. 106 00:11:38,656 --> 00:11:41,908 1956 is a happy-go-lucky year for most people. 107 00:12:03,431 --> 00:12:06,307 Virgil sees none of it from his tiny cell. 108 00:12:06,684 --> 00:12:08,685 He marks time by reading. 109 00:12:08,769 --> 00:12:11,521 Until one day, a new opportunity arises. 110 00:12:11,814 --> 00:12:14,441 We need volunteers for an experiment. 111 00:12:15,693 --> 00:12:19,487 The doctors want someone to be inoculated with a new vaccine. 112 00:12:20,990 --> 00:12:23,324 It's never been tried on humans before... 113 00:12:23,409 --> 00:12:26,494 so we don't know what the side effects may be. 114 00:12:28,247 --> 00:12:29,789 To be honest... 115 00:12:30,332 --> 00:12:32,417 you'll be taking a chance. 116 00:12:33,586 --> 00:12:36,296 As reward, there's a parole. 117 00:12:37,715 --> 00:12:41,634 I'm sure there are some among you brave enough to take the risk. 118 00:12:41,719 --> 00:12:45,638 With parole as inducement, Virgil submits to the vaccine test. 119 00:12:46,098 --> 00:12:49,559 It is a success, except for one temporary side effect. 120 00:12:50,144 --> 00:12:52,854 For several hours, he is turned into a rabbi. 121 00:12:52,938 --> 00:12:56,900 And so, the reason we celebrate... 122 00:12:56,942 --> 00:13:01,279 the Passover holidays by eating the matzo... 123 00:13:01,614 --> 00:13:04,157 is to commemorate the time... 124 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:08,161 that Moses led the children of Israel... 125 00:13:08,662 --> 00:13:10,079 from Egypt- 126 00:13:24,470 --> 00:13:27,263 He has so many good qualities. I mean... 127 00:13:27,306 --> 00:13:29,015 Yeah, name 'em. 128 00:13:29,099 --> 00:13:33,186 He had all sorts of mechanical abilities, he was artistic. 129 00:13:33,479 --> 00:13:36,105 Remember the painting he did for you on your birthday? 130 00:13:36,148 --> 00:13:38,024 A no-good atheist was what he was. 131 00:13:38,108 --> 00:13:41,444 I used to hit him and try to teach him about God... 132 00:13:41,487 --> 00:13:42,946 but would he listen? No. 133 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:45,865 Virgil leaves prison, apprehensive... 134 00:13:46,075 --> 00:13:49,202 but with some hope that he can begin a new life. 135 00:13:49,328 --> 00:13:52,539 Instead, he finds a world difficult to cope with. 136 00:13:52,790 --> 00:13:55,750 Ashamed to go home, he rents a cheap room in a strange city. 137 00:15:29,053 --> 00:15:30,428 Desperate and broke... 138 00:15:30,471 --> 00:15:33,723 Virgil tries to support himself with small crimes. 139 00:15:33,974 --> 00:15:36,851 Here, he attempts to rob a local pet shop. 140 00:16:23,315 --> 00:16:26,818 I hope you haven't been watching me. I'm not very good. 141 00:16:28,779 --> 00:16:31,572 I was strolling down here just now... 142 00:16:31,657 --> 00:16:34,659 and I noticed that you were drawing something and I thought... 143 00:16:34,743 --> 00:16:36,786 - You can look at it if you want to. - Can I? 144 00:16:36,829 --> 00:16:38,621 It's not very good. 145 00:16:38,789 --> 00:16:42,959 I wouldn't say that. I think that it's wonderful. 146 00:16:45,671 --> 00:16:47,380 It's not very good. 147 00:16:48,882 --> 00:16:50,717 I think that it's very good, actually. 148 00:16:50,759 --> 00:16:53,428 I think you could probably make cash. 149 00:16:53,512 --> 00:16:56,889 - Are you an artist? - No, of course I'm not. 150 00:16:56,974 --> 00:16:58,683 I'm not an artist. 151 00:16:59,852 --> 00:17:01,352 What do you do? 152 00:17:01,395 --> 00:17:03,062 I'm a laundress. 153 00:17:06,066 --> 00:17:07,233 Laundry? 154 00:17:07,276 --> 00:17:11,571 Yeah, I wash clothes, primarily. 155 00:17:12,197 --> 00:17:13,698 That's great. 156 00:17:13,949 --> 00:17:15,408 No, it isn't. 157 00:17:15,534 --> 00:17:18,745 I like it, but it's not particularly interesting. 158 00:17:19,079 --> 00:17:21,164 - What's your name? - Louise. 159 00:17:22,666 --> 00:17:25,710 - What's yours? - Virgil Starkwell. 160 00:17:25,753 --> 00:17:27,295 What do you do? 161 00:17:27,379 --> 00:17:29,505 What do I do? 162 00:17:33,385 --> 00:17:34,552 I play the cello. 163 00:17:34,595 --> 00:17:37,346 - That's fantastic! - Yes, I'm a cellist. 164 00:17:38,557 --> 00:17:41,267 - It's a wonderful job. - Are you with the Philharmonic? 165 00:17:41,351 --> 00:17:43,895 - Yes, I am, actually. - That's fantastic. 166 00:17:43,937 --> 00:17:46,105 Yes, I'm with the Philharmonic group. 167 00:17:46,148 --> 00:17:48,232 Quite a good group. 168 00:17:48,525 --> 00:17:51,778 I dress like this because I'm just off work now. 169 00:17:53,739 --> 00:17:56,741 - Can I interest you in going for a walk at all? - Okay. 170 00:17:59,328 --> 00:18:01,120 I know I was in love. 171 00:18:01,371 --> 00:18:03,414 First of all, I was very nauseous. 172 00:18:03,457 --> 00:18:07,794 I had never met such a pretty girl, and I guess I'm sensitive... 173 00:18:07,878 --> 00:18:11,464 because real beauty makes me want to gag. 174 00:18:11,799 --> 00:18:14,008 Plus, I don't know how to act with girls. 175 00:18:14,051 --> 00:18:16,594 You know, I'm shy and I'm just nervous around women. 176 00:18:16,637 --> 00:18:18,846 I have a tendency to dribble. 177 00:18:20,766 --> 00:18:24,644 The only girl that! had known was a girl in my neighborhood... 178 00:18:25,312 --> 00:18:26,854 and was not an attractive girl. 179 00:18:26,939 --> 00:18:30,566 I used to make obscene phone calls to her collect... 180 00:18:30,859 --> 00:18:35,238 and she used to accept the charges all the time, but nothing ever happened. 181 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:37,448 And here I am lying through my teeth. 182 00:18:37,491 --> 00:18:41,202 I can't tel! Louise that I was in jail... 183 00:18:41,286 --> 00:18:45,414 and that I rob and steal, and never did an honest day's work in my life. 184 00:18:45,457 --> 00:18:48,417 A lot of people hold those things against you. 185 00:18:48,460 --> 00:18:51,504 She was so sweet. We just walked in the park... 186 00:18:51,547 --> 00:18:53,548 and I was so touched by her that... 187 00:18:53,632 --> 00:18:56,342 after 15 minutes, I wanted to marry her. 188 00:18:56,426 --> 00:19:00,638 And after a half hour, I completely gave up the idea of snatching her purse. 189 00:19:00,681 --> 00:19:03,808 I wanted to tell her that I wasn't with the Philharmonic... 190 00:19:03,851 --> 00:19:06,185 but she was so impressed by it. 191 00:19:06,270 --> 00:19:09,230 Once, she asked me some questions about Mozart... 192 00:19:09,273 --> 00:19:13,442 and she got suspicious because, for a minute, I couldn't place the name. 193 00:19:13,485 --> 00:19:15,486 Don't know, when it comes to women... 194 00:19:15,571 --> 00:19:20,533 In prison, I remember the psychiatrist asked me if! had a girl, and I said, "No." 195 00:19:20,576 --> 00:19:23,494 And he said, do I think that sex is dirty... 196 00:19:23,787 --> 00:19:26,581 and I said, 'Wt is, if you're doing it right." 197 00:19:26,665 --> 00:19:28,875 All I know is, my heart was really pounding... 198 00:19:28,959 --> 00:19:31,961 and I felt... I felt a funny tingling all over. 199 00:19:33,714 --> 00:19:36,883 I was either in love, or I had smallpox. 200 00:19:48,604 --> 00:19:51,397 - You wanna have dinner tonight? - Sure. 201 00:22:29,056 --> 00:22:31,891 You're very beautiful. I really mean that. 202 00:22:32,559 --> 00:22:35,227 Does it embarrass you when I say that? 203 00:22:36,855 --> 00:22:38,064 It does. 204 00:22:38,774 --> 00:22:40,649 That's a pretty hat. 205 00:22:41,777 --> 00:22:42,985 Thank you. 206 00:22:43,028 --> 00:22:45,446 - I see them all over town. - Do you? 207 00:22:45,530 --> 00:22:47,907 You know, feather and the white. 208 00:22:49,409 --> 00:22:52,536 - I haven't seen many. - They're on sale downtown. 209 00:22:52,913 --> 00:22:55,915 I passed them as I was walking around the streets. 210 00:22:55,999 --> 00:22:59,710 There are millions of them. You know, in one of those bins. 211 00:23:01,129 --> 00:23:02,546 Is that so? 212 00:23:04,257 --> 00:23:07,051 I could watch you eat all night. 213 00:23:08,762 --> 00:23:11,222 - But why? - I don't know. 214 00:23:12,057 --> 00:23:15,351 You're so pretty when you... 215 00:23:29,449 --> 00:23:31,867 After dinner, we went for a walk. 216 00:23:32,077 --> 00:23:34,578 I asked her for a lock of her hair. 217 00:23:35,414 --> 00:23:38,791 We didn't have a scissor, so I tried pulling it out. 218 00:23:38,834 --> 00:23:40,543 She was a good sport, I tell you. 219 00:23:40,585 --> 00:23:43,129 When she got excited, she stuttered. 220 00:23:44,381 --> 00:23:47,883 I think she was so cute that way. I like a girl who stutters. 221 00:23:47,926 --> 00:23:50,845 They tum red, they' re always gasping for breath. 222 00:23:50,929 --> 00:23:52,972 It's really sweet looking. 223 00:23:54,224 --> 00:23:57,393 She was an expert on laundry. She was fantastic. 224 00:23:57,477 --> 00:24:01,772 I offered to let her do my shorts, and she was very moved by that, I think. 225 00:24:01,815 --> 00:24:03,399 She knew everything about underwear. 226 00:24:03,483 --> 00:24:06,652 I never saw anybody who knew so much about socks and T-shirts. 227 00:24:06,736 --> 00:24:09,697 She was some kind of genius that way. 228 00:24:22,752 --> 00:24:26,255 Good night, Virgil. 229 00:24:32,971 --> 00:24:36,765 Continuing his deception, Virgil sees Louise more frequently. 230 00:24:36,850 --> 00:24:41,145 When she questions him about his cello playing, he avoids the subject. 231 00:24:42,647 --> 00:24:47,234 In order to better understand Louise, let us examine her background briefly. 232 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:51,697 Adopted at age two from a cruel and impoverished orphanage... 233 00:24:51,781 --> 00:24:54,450 by a career military man and his wife... 234 00:24:54,493 --> 00:24:57,620 she was subjected to an upbringing of extreme discipline... 235 00:24:57,662 --> 00:25:00,122 which left her shy and withdrawn. 236 00:25:00,373 --> 00:25:03,792 Never having a real home, she lived on army bases... 237 00:25:03,835 --> 00:25:06,754 while her father pursued a brilliant military career... 238 00:25:06,838 --> 00:25:10,549 that after 30 years catapulted him to the rank of corporal. 239 00:25:11,092 --> 00:25:14,595 Her mother, an alcoholic, turns to religion for comfort... 240 00:25:14,679 --> 00:25:16,597 and quickly becomes a fanatic. 241 00:25:16,681 --> 00:25:20,392 She responds to Louise's need for love by beating the child... 242 00:25:20,435 --> 00:25:22,937 and claims to have conversations with God... 243 00:25:23,021 --> 00:25:26,565 in which they discuss salvation and interior decorating. 244 00:25:28,109 --> 00:25:32,988 Destitute and in love, Virgil attempts to change his life with one bold stroke. 245 00:25:49,714 --> 00:25:52,258 And if you'll just take this to Window 9. 246 00:25:52,342 --> 00:25:53,676 Thank you. 247 00:26:00,392 --> 00:26:02,101 What does this say? 248 00:26:04,229 --> 00:26:05,813 Can't you read that? 249 00:26:05,897 --> 00:26:09,066 I can't read this. What's this, "act natural"? 250 00:26:10,902 --> 00:26:14,488 It says, "Please put $50,000 into this bag and act natural." 251 00:26:14,531 --> 00:26:16,615 It does say "act natural." 252 00:26:17,784 --> 00:26:20,452 "I am pointing a gun at you." 253 00:26:22,372 --> 00:26:24,873 That looks like "gub," that doesn't look like "gun." 254 00:26:24,916 --> 00:26:27,876 - No, it's "gun." - No, that's "gub." That's a 255 00:26:28,128 --> 00:26:31,213 No, that's an It's G-U-N. That's "gun." 256 00:26:33,091 --> 00:26:36,302 George, would you step over here a moment, please? 257 00:26:36,553 --> 00:26:38,304 What does this say? 258 00:26:39,931 --> 00:26:42,975 "Please put $50,000.." 259 00:26:43,310 --> 00:26:45,394 "Into this bag and abt natural." 260 00:26:45,437 --> 00:26:47,438 - What's "abt"? - It's "act." 261 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:50,649 Does this look like "gub" or "gun"? 262 00:26:52,193 --> 00:26:54,653 "Gun." But what's "abt" mean? 263 00:26:54,821 --> 00:26:56,530 It's "act." A-C-T. "Act natural." 264 00:26:56,573 --> 00:27:00,117 "Please put $50,000 into this bag and act natural." 265 00:27:01,995 --> 00:27:04,413 - I see. This is a hold-up. - Yes. 266 00:27:04,998 --> 00:27:06,749 May I see your gun? 267 00:27:11,796 --> 00:27:14,882 You'll have to have this note initialed by a vice president... 268 00:27:14,966 --> 00:27:17,343 before I can give you any money. 269 00:27:17,594 --> 00:27:18,844 I'm in a rush. 270 00:27:18,928 --> 00:27:20,512 - What? - I'm in a rush. 271 00:27:20,597 --> 00:27:23,015 I'm sorry, but that's our policy. 272 00:27:26,061 --> 00:27:28,437 The gentleman in the gray suit. 273 00:27:29,731 --> 00:27:33,692 - That's G-U-N. "I am pointing a gun at you." - But that's a That's "gub." 274 00:27:33,777 --> 00:27:34,902 That's G-U-N. 275 00:27:34,986 --> 00:27:37,946 - That's a That's "gub." - No, excuse me, that's 276 00:27:37,989 --> 00:27:38,989 Miss Frank. 277 00:27:39,199 --> 00:27:42,993 "I am pointing a gun at you, abt natural." 278 00:27:43,036 --> 00:27:44,953 - What is "abt"? - No, that's "act." 279 00:27:44,996 --> 00:27:47,206 It couldn't be. That's a plain 280 00:27:47,290 --> 00:27:51,085 No, I'm afraid not. That's "act natural" and "I'm pointing a gun at you." 281 00:27:51,169 --> 00:27:52,211 Mr. Miller! 282 00:27:52,337 --> 00:27:55,381 "I am pointing a gub..." 283 00:27:55,799 --> 00:27:57,633 No, that's "gun." That's G-U-N... 284 00:27:57,676 --> 00:28:00,344 That's "gun." "I am pointing a gun at you." 285 00:28:00,428 --> 00:28:02,554 It looks like a "b," but it's an 286 00:28:04,683 --> 00:28:07,184 - Of course it is. That's "gub." - No, it isn't. 287 00:28:09,354 --> 00:28:10,938 - It couldn't be. - It has to be. 288 00:28:11,022 --> 00:28:14,024 We discussed this inside, a short while ago. 289 00:28:21,574 --> 00:28:23,075 Hello, Louise? 290 00:28:24,035 --> 00:28:25,911 Listen, I can't make our date today. 291 00:28:25,995 --> 00:28:28,997 I've got to go up to Boston to give a concert. 292 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:32,042 Why don't I give you a call in about... 293 00:28:32,669 --> 00:28:34,211 About 10 years. 294 00:28:42,053 --> 00:28:45,556 Virgil Starkwell is apprehended in the act of bank robbery. 295 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:49,935 He is given 10 years at the state's strictest maximum-security prison. 296 00:28:50,645 --> 00:28:54,940 It is here that he mingles with hardened criminals for the first time. 297 00:29:03,992 --> 00:29:06,493 ""A prison has not been built that can hold me..." 298 00:29:06,536 --> 00:29:09,580 Virgil tells another inmate, "And I'll get out of this one..." 299 00:29:09,622 --> 00:29:12,541 "if it means spending my entire life here." 300 00:29:26,931 --> 00:29:31,518 After all, what a child becomes is according to what his environment is... 301 00:29:31,603 --> 00:29:35,022 what his background is. Let's face it, it was our fault. 302 00:29:35,106 --> 00:29:37,483 Would you let a man say a word or two? 303 00:29:37,525 --> 00:29:41,195 I knew. There was a day when I said, "This kid is rotten." 304 00:29:41,780 --> 00:29:45,032 You know the expression "a rotten kid"? That's what this kid is. 305 00:29:45,116 --> 00:29:47,201 - I knew when he was... - Whose genes did he have? 306 00:29:47,285 --> 00:29:49,495 - What genes? - And chromosomes? 307 00:29:49,662 --> 00:29:52,539 What? Don't talk fancy in front of the man... 308 00:29:52,624 --> 00:29:55,167 because, you know, you'll make an impression... 309 00:29:56,461 --> 00:29:58,629 The time passes slowly for Virgil... 310 00:29:58,671 --> 00:30:01,924 who works hard and tries to adjust to prison life. 311 00:30:02,050 --> 00:30:05,928 He becomes a model prisoner and is put to work in the laundry. 312 00:31:34,851 --> 00:31:37,269 - Visitor, Starkwell. - For me? 313 00:31:55,580 --> 00:31:57,789 I'm not with the Philharmonic. 314 00:31:59,208 --> 00:32:00,459 I know. 315 00:32:01,628 --> 00:32:04,463 - I'm sorry. - It's okay, Virgil. 316 00:32:05,506 --> 00:32:07,591 You don't mind that I came to see you, do you? 317 00:32:07,634 --> 00:32:10,218 No, I'm happy to see you. 318 00:32:10,595 --> 00:32:12,971 God, how'd you find out I was here? 319 00:32:13,014 --> 00:32:15,015 I called up your landlady. 320 00:32:15,099 --> 00:32:18,060 She told me where you were. She said that... 321 00:32:19,896 --> 00:32:21,897 Did you rob a bank? 322 00:32:22,815 --> 00:32:24,399 I did not rob a bank. 323 00:32:24,442 --> 00:32:26,985 If I had robbed a bank, everything would be great. 324 00:32:27,070 --> 00:32:31,114 - What did you do? - I tried to rob a bank, that's what happened. 325 00:32:31,282 --> 00:32:33,992 And they got me. I misspelled the note. 326 00:32:38,331 --> 00:32:39,831 Can you bake? 327 00:32:41,459 --> 00:32:42,668 Yeah? 328 00:32:43,127 --> 00:32:45,629 I need a cake. 329 00:32:46,798 --> 00:32:49,299 A big cake, like a chocolate layer cake. 330 00:32:49,342 --> 00:32:51,593 You're allergic to chocolate. 331 00:32:51,761 --> 00:32:53,929 I need a cake with a gun in it. 332 00:32:53,972 --> 00:32:56,431 I'll bake you a cake but I won't put the gun in. 333 00:32:56,474 --> 00:33:00,936 Then I'd like about a dozen chocolate-chip cookies with a bullet in each. 334 00:33:01,562 --> 00:33:04,064 How long are you going to be here? 335 00:33:04,357 --> 00:33:05,857 Well... 336 00:33:06,693 --> 00:33:09,653 I estimate in the neighborhood of... 337 00:33:11,155 --> 00:33:13,031 What's today, Monday? 338 00:33:13,741 --> 00:33:16,952 Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday... Ten years. 339 00:33:21,457 --> 00:33:24,209 Is it possible that you could wait for me? 340 00:33:24,252 --> 00:33:26,211 Yes. If you want me to. 341 00:33:28,756 --> 00:33:30,799 With Louise to inspire him... 342 00:33:30,842 --> 00:33:33,844 Virgil works hard and becomes more optimistic. 343 00:33:34,512 --> 00:33:37,514 She comes frequently for the next few months. 344 00:33:40,351 --> 00:33:44,479 He complains about the food, and she brings him home-cooked meals. 345 00:33:53,156 --> 00:33:57,492 Louise's impact on Virgil is discussed here by Dr. Julius Epstein... 346 00:33:57,535 --> 00:34:00,704 one-time prison psychiatrist who recalls Virgil. 347 00:34:01,456 --> 00:34:03,331 Louise meant a great deal to Virgil. 348 00:34:03,374 --> 00:34:05,834 From a psychiatric point of view... 349 00:34:05,877 --> 00:34:09,171 his love for her was the healthiest thing in his life. 350 00:34:09,213 --> 00:34:11,590 It was genuine and clean. 351 00:34:12,383 --> 00:34:14,718 Not like some patients I know. 352 00:34:15,845 --> 00:34:17,804 She ain't gonna wait, Virgil. 353 00:34:17,889 --> 00:34:20,599 They think they can, but they never do. 354 00:34:21,225 --> 00:34:24,394 You know, I become eligible for parole in a year and a half. 355 00:34:24,437 --> 00:34:26,021 Yeah? That's nice. 356 00:34:26,105 --> 00:34:29,357 With any luck, in maybe two or three years, you'll get out of here? 357 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:31,485 It could be a lot shorter. 358 00:34:32,361 --> 00:34:33,612 What do you mean? 359 00:34:33,654 --> 00:34:37,491 He means we got this proposition we wanna talk over with you. 360 00:34:37,700 --> 00:34:39,326 What kind of proposition? 361 00:34:39,410 --> 00:34:42,329 Like next week, five of us are gonna make it out of here. 362 00:34:42,371 --> 00:34:44,456 We need an extra man. 363 00:34:44,874 --> 00:34:48,627 It's all set. By next week, we could be miles away from this zoo. 364 00:34:48,711 --> 00:34:53,173 You guys have got to be kidding. We'd never get out of here, they'd kill us. 365 00:34:53,257 --> 00:34:58,011 - We got out of rougher places than this. - Why don't you just think about it? 366 00:34:58,054 --> 00:35:01,139 Ain't no broad gonna wait around for years for you. 367 00:35:01,182 --> 00:35:04,476 No matter what she tells you in that visiting hall. 368 00:35:07,063 --> 00:35:10,148 I think the conflict in this personality disorder... 369 00:35:10,233 --> 00:35:13,068 sort of started from his formative years. 370 00:35:13,277 --> 00:35:17,280 I think that it gave evidence in his choice of the cello, for instance. 371 00:35:17,323 --> 00:35:19,741 Studying the cello at the age of six. 372 00:35:19,784 --> 00:35:24,079 He was coming out of the formative years, but the conflict is there within the choice... 373 00:35:24,122 --> 00:35:27,916 because it's generally assumed that the cello is a phallic symbol. 374 00:35:27,959 --> 00:35:30,210 I mean, with the grasp... 375 00:35:30,378 --> 00:35:34,339 But the lower structural form is certainly feminine... 376 00:35:34,382 --> 00:35:36,383 and, if anything, motherly. 377 00:35:37,301 --> 00:35:41,304 In fact, the utilization of the bow, I would imagine... 378 00:35:42,140 --> 00:35:44,975 is the sublimation of stroking a torso. 379 00:35:45,852 --> 00:35:48,728 So, between the grasping of the phallic... 380 00:35:49,564 --> 00:35:52,566 and the stroking of the torso would create, I would imagine... 381 00:35:52,608 --> 00:35:55,235 great conflict even at the age of six. 382 00:36:05,371 --> 00:36:08,415 Virgil Starkwell becomes part of an escape plot. 383 00:36:08,499 --> 00:36:11,376 His every move becomes tense and strained. 384 00:36:47,663 --> 00:36:51,166 Take the guards on our floor with us, so be ready if there's trouble. 385 00:36:51,209 --> 00:36:53,919 I don't understand how we're gonna get past the main tower. 386 00:36:54,003 --> 00:36:56,171 We're gonna be dressed as guards. 387 00:36:56,214 --> 00:36:59,424 That's why Friday at noon, because you work in the laundry... 388 00:36:59,467 --> 00:37:02,719 - you're gonna steal the guard's underwear. - What? 389 00:37:02,929 --> 00:37:05,513 We already got some uniforms stashed in a dark room. 390 00:37:05,556 --> 00:37:08,850 I don't understand. Why do you need the underwear? 391 00:37:08,893 --> 00:37:11,394 We want to do this as realistically as possible. 392 00:37:11,437 --> 00:37:13,396 I'm known for my detailed work. 393 00:37:18,736 --> 00:37:20,362 Forward in twos! 394 00:37:54,605 --> 00:37:57,983 - Sir, we can't find our underwear. - I think something's up. 395 00:37:59,318 --> 00:38:01,569 We better keep our eyes open. 396 00:38:03,281 --> 00:38:06,491 The warden knows something is up. Better call off the break. 397 00:38:06,575 --> 00:38:07,701 What? 398 00:38:08,244 --> 00:38:12,163 I said the warden knows something's up, we better call off the break. 399 00:38:12,206 --> 00:38:13,623 It's all set for tonight. 400 00:38:13,666 --> 00:38:16,334 It's too risky. We can't take a chance. 401 00:38:18,546 --> 00:38:21,673 Tell Virgil. I'll tell the rest of these guys. 402 00:38:24,969 --> 00:38:29,764 The break's off. The Warden knows something's up. We'll try it again next week. 403 00:38:34,812 --> 00:38:36,479 The Warden wants to see you. 404 00:38:36,522 --> 00:38:38,273 - What for? - Come on! 405 00:38:43,279 --> 00:38:46,948 Michael Sullivan, an ex-convict and one of the leaders of the break... 406 00:38:46,991 --> 00:38:49,200 describes that fateful day. 407 00:38:49,368 --> 00:38:52,412 I told all the other guys that the break was off... 408 00:38:52,496 --> 00:38:54,539 but I forgot to tell Virgil. 409 00:38:55,708 --> 00:38:57,792 I don't know why I forgot. 410 00:38:59,003 --> 00:39:00,879 Nobody ever told him. 411 00:39:09,305 --> 00:39:11,306 - All ready. - What? 412 00:40:08,906 --> 00:40:12,784 There's a break in the north cell block. Notify the warden immediately. 413 00:40:26,132 --> 00:40:27,924 Where is everybody? 414 00:40:28,759 --> 00:40:30,969 We've called the break off! 415 00:40:31,053 --> 00:40:33,346 - You called the break off? - Yeah! 416 00:40:33,389 --> 00:40:35,140 Why didn't somebody tell me? 417 00:40:35,182 --> 00:40:38,059 Virgil's out there by himself! 418 00:40:42,481 --> 00:40:46,192 Could somebody possibly sneak downstairs and let me back in? 419 00:41:12,303 --> 00:41:16,764 - All right, Warden, I got your daughter! - Please hold your fire, men! 420 00:41:17,433 --> 00:41:19,434 Let me go, or she gets it! 421 00:41:19,518 --> 00:41:21,728 What is she doing down there? 422 00:41:22,313 --> 00:41:24,606 She was kissing Kowalski. 423 00:41:25,774 --> 00:41:28,860 - Is Kowalski a midget? - No! 424 00:41:29,570 --> 00:41:31,571 - He's not a midget. - What'd he say? 425 00:41:31,614 --> 00:41:32,614 He's not a midget. 426 00:41:51,258 --> 00:41:54,719 - Can I have a taxi, please? - First one in line's next. 427 00:42:41,100 --> 00:42:44,060 On July 11th, Virgil and Louise marry. 428 00:42:44,270 --> 00:42:47,355 It is a simple ceremony, following what he later described... 429 00:42:47,398 --> 00:42:49,691 as a deeply moving blood test. 430 00:42:50,442 --> 00:42:52,944 This was the happiest moment of my life. 431 00:42:53,028 --> 00:42:55,196 I just wish my parents could have been there. 432 00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:56,656 We weren't aware of it. 433 00:42:56,740 --> 00:42:59,117 Am I right? Say it, be honest. 434 00:42:59,868 --> 00:43:03,121 He turned out to be a punk. 435 00:43:04,081 --> 00:43:06,249 They take up residence in another state... 436 00:43:06,292 --> 00:43:08,876 and living on Louise's small savings... 437 00:43:08,919 --> 00:43:11,629 they move into a cheaply furnished flat. 438 00:43:11,714 --> 00:43:16,009 They are poor, but for the moment at least, safe from the law. 439 00:43:16,218 --> 00:43:18,386 When these innocent pictures were taken... 440 00:43:18,429 --> 00:43:21,556 they were both unaware of the incredible series of events... 441 00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:23,349 that were to come. 442 00:45:10,124 --> 00:45:14,127 - What's the matter, Virgil? - I got a cramp in the arch of my foot. 443 00:45:14,211 --> 00:45:15,253 What? 444 00:45:15,337 --> 00:45:18,047 A little hard ball came out in the arch of my foot. 445 00:45:18,090 --> 00:45:21,175 Why does that always happen every time we make love? 446 00:45:21,218 --> 00:45:22,468 Jesus. 447 00:45:24,012 --> 00:45:28,307 As a wanted criminal, Virgil finds it harder than ever to find employment. 448 00:45:28,392 --> 00:45:31,978 He secures a little work, selling encyclopedias door-to-door... 449 00:45:32,062 --> 00:45:34,605 but the job proves too much for him. 450 00:45:35,482 --> 00:45:37,859 He is forced to take to the streets... 451 00:45:37,901 --> 00:45:41,529 and for a while he earns a meager living selling meagers. 452 00:45:44,575 --> 00:45:46,701 We're going to have a baby. 453 00:45:48,579 --> 00:45:52,123 - Get out of here. - No, we're going to have a baby. 454 00:45:52,166 --> 00:45:55,126 I went to the doctor. We're going to have a baby. 455 00:45:55,169 --> 00:45:57,545 That's my present for Christmas. 456 00:45:59,923 --> 00:46:02,133 All I needed was a tie. 457 00:46:03,802 --> 00:46:05,470 Aren't you happy? 458 00:46:06,555 --> 00:46:08,848 - I don't believe it. - Virgil, really. 459 00:46:08,932 --> 00:46:10,641 How did it happen? 460 00:46:11,101 --> 00:46:13,686 What do you mean, how did it happen? 461 00:46:14,688 --> 00:46:16,522 You mean because... 462 00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:20,985 of that night when the two of us... 463 00:46:23,447 --> 00:46:25,490 And that's what happened? 464 00:46:27,034 --> 00:46:30,328 In the spring, Virgil and Louise are blessed with a son. 465 00:46:30,412 --> 00:46:34,665 They name the boy Jonathan Ralph Starkwell, after Virgil's mother. 466 00:46:53,769 --> 00:46:57,480 Virgil and Louise move to a new state and try to start over. 467 00:46:57,523 --> 00:47:00,358 Virgil has the usual trouble finding work. 468 00:47:00,442 --> 00:47:03,027 Finally he hears of an opening in an insurance office... 469 00:47:03,070 --> 00:47:05,112 and, his back against the wall... 470 00:47:05,155 --> 00:47:07,949 he attempts to lie his way into the job. 471 00:47:12,329 --> 00:47:13,955 Please sit down. 472 00:47:19,378 --> 00:47:20,878 Name, please? 473 00:47:22,381 --> 00:47:23,965 John Q. Public. 474 00:47:25,259 --> 00:47:27,051 That's P-U-B-L-I-C. 475 00:47:28,512 --> 00:47:33,057 Mr. Public, have you had any experience working in an office before? 476 00:47:33,725 --> 00:47:35,184 Yes, I have. 477 00:47:36,228 --> 00:47:38,396 What kind of office was it? 478 00:47:39,314 --> 00:47:40,773 Rectangular. 479 00:47:42,359 --> 00:47:45,069 Have you ever had any experience in running... 480 00:47:45,153 --> 00:47:48,030 a high-speed digital-electronic computer? 481 00:47:49,408 --> 00:47:50,908 Yes, I have. 482 00:47:52,369 --> 00:47:53,578 Where? 483 00:47:55,664 --> 00:47:57,290 My aunt has one. 484 00:47:57,749 --> 00:47:59,917 And what does your aunt do? 485 00:48:01,003 --> 00:48:02,712 I can't recall. 486 00:48:03,297 --> 00:48:05,840 You said before you worked in an office. 487 00:48:05,883 --> 00:48:09,093 - Did you deal in products or services? - Products. 488 00:48:10,721 --> 00:48:13,264 Is this something found in the home? 489 00:48:13,432 --> 00:48:16,309 No, it's not. It's one down and nine to go. 490 00:48:17,185 --> 00:48:19,145 Is this product edible? 491 00:48:19,229 --> 00:48:21,230 No, I'm afraid it wasn't. 492 00:48:21,982 --> 00:48:24,358 I think our time has run out... 493 00:48:24,401 --> 00:48:26,986 and I'm sorry to say you haven't guessed my occupation. 494 00:48:27,070 --> 00:48:30,239 So, I'm going to flip all the cards and tell you what I used to do. 495 00:48:30,282 --> 00:48:32,700 I used to manufacture escalator shoes... 496 00:48:32,743 --> 00:48:35,828 for people who were nauseous in elevator shoes. 497 00:48:35,871 --> 00:48:39,290 I'm sorry you didn't actually get my occupation... 498 00:48:39,333 --> 00:48:41,417 but you did win $10. 499 00:48:41,460 --> 00:48:45,796 I want to thank you very much. Better luck next time. You're a good sport. 500 00:48:47,090 --> 00:48:49,884 Hiding his past from his fellow employees... 501 00:48:49,927 --> 00:48:53,596 Virgil does well at his first decent job, the mail room. 502 00:48:54,473 --> 00:48:56,891 His past catches up with him, however... 503 00:48:56,975 --> 00:49:00,061 as a fellow employee learns of his criminal record. 504 00:49:00,103 --> 00:49:02,104 What are you doing for dinner, Mr. Public? 505 00:49:02,189 --> 00:49:05,232 Miss Blair! I'm having dinner with my wife. Why? 506 00:49:05,275 --> 00:49:07,652 We're having dinner, Mr. Public. 507 00:49:07,778 --> 00:49:10,279 No, I said I was having dinner with my wife. 508 00:49:10,322 --> 00:49:12,823 I found this picture in a magazine. 509 00:49:13,450 --> 00:49:17,119 One word from me, and you're back in prison. Okay? 510 00:49:18,205 --> 00:49:19,747 What do you feel like eating? 511 00:49:19,998 --> 00:49:23,417 Virgil Starkwell becomes the victim of a blackmail plot. 512 00:49:23,460 --> 00:49:26,170 Miss Blair, confident of her power to expose him... 513 00:49:26,213 --> 00:49:28,881 begins making small demands for money. 514 00:49:29,091 --> 00:49:31,258 These increase as time goes on. 515 00:49:32,010 --> 00:49:34,887 Everything that he holds dear to him is in jeopardy. 516 00:49:34,930 --> 00:49:38,599 His life and family hang on the whim of an unstable woman. 517 00:49:38,642 --> 00:49:40,559 He is driven to desperation... 518 00:49:40,644 --> 00:49:44,188 and with the responsibility of a wife and child to protect... 519 00:49:44,231 --> 00:49:47,441 Virgil Starkwell contemplates murder. 520 00:49:47,484 --> 00:49:49,735 What would you like to drink? 521 00:49:50,362 --> 00:49:52,071 What do you have? 522 00:49:52,906 --> 00:49:56,242 How about some sherry? I have some very fine sherry. 523 00:50:02,833 --> 00:50:04,542 What's the matter? 524 00:50:05,711 --> 00:50:07,670 Did you hurt your hand? 525 00:50:08,296 --> 00:50:09,547 Clumsy. 526 00:50:10,841 --> 00:50:12,508 I'll be right in. 527 00:50:15,345 --> 00:50:18,389 Disguising two sticks of dynamite as candles... 528 00:50:18,473 --> 00:50:21,142 he sends Miss Blair an anonymous gift. 529 00:50:25,188 --> 00:50:26,564 The plot fails, however... 530 00:50:26,648 --> 00:50:30,443 as he makes the dynamite too thick to fit into the candlesticks. 531 00:50:31,236 --> 00:50:34,071 Determined to rid himself of the blackmailer... 532 00:50:34,156 --> 00:50:37,116 he rents a car and attempts to run her over. 533 00:51:02,142 --> 00:51:04,769 I think somebody's trying to kill me. 534 00:51:05,062 --> 00:51:06,562 Don't be silly. 535 00:51:06,646 --> 00:51:10,232 When I came home from work last night, there was a car in my living room... 536 00:51:10,275 --> 00:51:11,776 and it tried to run me over. 537 00:51:11,860 --> 00:51:14,153 - It must be your imagination. - No. 538 00:51:14,237 --> 00:51:17,782 - Who'd try and kill you? - I don't know. I have no enemies. 539 00:51:17,866 --> 00:51:20,534 - You didn't tell anybody, did you? - No. 540 00:51:21,369 --> 00:51:23,329 You can do the carving. 541 00:51:38,261 --> 00:51:41,931 Can't you wait? I mean, you eat like an animal. 542 00:51:41,973 --> 00:51:43,349 It's delicious, really. 543 00:51:43,433 --> 00:51:46,519 I'll get the salad dressing, we'll make a toast... 544 00:51:46,603 --> 00:51:49,271 and then you start on that turkey leg. 545 00:52:14,756 --> 00:52:16,215 What are you doing in there? 546 00:52:16,299 --> 00:52:19,218 I'm just creating the proper atmosphere, dear. 547 00:52:19,261 --> 00:52:20,719 I'm a sucker for atmosphere. 548 00:52:20,762 --> 00:52:24,598 - Why don't you carve the turkey? - Yes, of course, my darling. 549 00:52:25,016 --> 00:52:27,852 Someone sent these as a gift, but they were too big to use... 550 00:52:27,894 --> 00:52:29,937 so I shaved off the bottom. 551 00:52:34,401 --> 00:52:37,194 With law enforcement agencies on his trail... 552 00:52:37,279 --> 00:52:39,822 Virgil takes his family and heads south. 553 00:52:39,906 --> 00:52:43,367 Here, they manage to secure cheap lodging temporarily. 554 00:52:45,996 --> 00:52:49,999 This was really a desperate time in my life. We had no money. 555 00:52:50,041 --> 00:52:54,545 I tried mugging old ladies, but I got hit in the groin with a crutch. 556 00:52:55,046 --> 00:52:58,507 Didn't know what to do. I tried counterfeiting for a while. 557 00:52:58,592 --> 00:53:01,468 I just got the plates all fouled up and everything... 558 00:53:01,511 --> 00:53:04,430 and Lincoln came out smoking a cigarette. 559 00:53:04,598 --> 00:53:07,725 I robbed a butcher shop. That was the best I could do. 560 00:53:07,809 --> 00:53:10,269 I got away with 116 veal cutlets. 561 00:53:10,478 --> 00:53:14,148 Then I had to go out and rob a tremendous amount of breeding. 562 00:53:26,077 --> 00:53:28,787 Their money gone, and with food scarce... 563 00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:31,874 the Starkwells live like hunted animals. 564 00:54:05,700 --> 00:54:09,495 - You weren't very happy then? - No, this was the low point of my existence. 565 00:54:09,579 --> 00:54:12,081 I was thinking of getting out of crime altogether... 566 00:54:12,123 --> 00:54:14,500 maybe becoming a singer or something. 567 00:54:14,584 --> 00:54:17,628 Must've been a very tough decision for you to make. 568 00:54:17,671 --> 00:54:20,005 Yeah, it was really tough... 569 00:54:20,090 --> 00:54:24,301 but my family was starving, and I had already filed for bankruptcy. 570 00:54:24,844 --> 00:54:26,053 I see. 571 00:54:27,013 --> 00:54:28,847 What prompted you to go on? 572 00:54:28,932 --> 00:54:33,560 I came up with an idea for a robbery that was so fantastic and so brilliant... 573 00:54:33,603 --> 00:54:36,563 that when it was over, it was considered a real work of art... 574 00:54:36,606 --> 00:54:38,524 by all the guys in my cell block. 575 00:54:38,608 --> 00:54:42,903 - They must've looked up to you. - Well, you know, these guys are mugs. 576 00:54:45,991 --> 00:54:48,993 I'm gonna rob a bank. 577 00:54:49,536 --> 00:54:51,537 No, Virgil, not again. 578 00:54:51,579 --> 00:54:53,372 Yes, I think so. 579 00:54:53,456 --> 00:54:56,417 I think that our only way out of this mess is for me to... 580 00:54:56,459 --> 00:54:59,128 There's a little dinky bank in Ross County... 581 00:54:59,170 --> 00:55:01,422 and I think if I can get two or three good men... 582 00:55:01,464 --> 00:55:02,840 I can get in there and get it... 583 00:55:02,882 --> 00:55:06,260 and we could go down to Mexico or up to Canada or... 584 00:55:08,054 --> 00:55:12,182 - But what if you got killed? - No, don't worry. I know how to use a gub. 585 00:55:12,225 --> 00:55:13,475 No, it's "gun," Virgil. 586 00:55:13,518 --> 00:55:15,686 - "Gun," I'm sorry. Did I say "gub" again? - Yes. 587 00:55:28,158 --> 00:55:29,867 Don't turn around. 588 00:55:31,077 --> 00:55:34,288 I wanna speak to you about a business proposition. 589 00:55:39,169 --> 00:55:40,836 It's a bank job. 590 00:55:42,255 --> 00:55:44,715 Couple of guys and myself are gonna get together... 591 00:55:44,758 --> 00:55:48,177 about four weeks from now. Quarter of a million dollars. 592 00:55:48,219 --> 00:55:50,679 We walk in and take it like that. 593 00:55:50,805 --> 00:55:53,724 It's an easy job. See, we just pull up... 594 00:55:54,726 --> 00:55:56,018 take it. 595 00:56:02,525 --> 00:56:05,486 How long have you been... 596 00:56:05,528 --> 00:56:08,280 Because I said the part about the bank. 597 00:56:12,869 --> 00:56:15,329 You guys are dressing alike again. 598 00:56:19,459 --> 00:56:21,168 I broke it myself. 599 00:56:22,045 --> 00:56:25,089 All the boys in the neighborhood went wrong. It wasn't his fault. 600 00:56:25,173 --> 00:56:27,633 We didn't have time for him. We were working. 601 00:56:27,675 --> 00:56:29,551 Would you like to see my stamp collection? 602 00:56:29,594 --> 00:56:32,596 - What do you mean? - I have a collection of stamps. 603 00:56:33,098 --> 00:56:35,557 First he selects an appropriate bank. 604 00:56:36,559 --> 00:56:39,478 Next, he cases the bank by cleverly concealing a camera... 605 00:56:39,521 --> 00:56:41,522 in an unsuspected place. 606 00:56:50,115 --> 00:56:52,282 That night, a meeting takes place. 607 00:56:52,325 --> 00:56:56,787 Among the ones chosen are some of the most sinister names in the underworld. 608 00:56:56,830 --> 00:57:00,374 William Ommers, wanted by the police for bank robbery... 609 00:57:00,542 --> 00:57:05,379 assault with a deadly weapon, murder, and getting naked in front of his in-laws. 610 00:57:08,341 --> 00:57:09,633 Frankie Wolf: 611 00:57:09,676 --> 00:57:13,262 wanted by Federal authorities for dancing with a mailman. 612 00:57:15,181 --> 00:57:16,807 Abie Armstrong: 613 00:57:16,850 --> 00:57:19,935 wanted all over the country for arson, robbery... 614 00:57:19,978 --> 00:57:23,230 assault with intent to kill, and marrying a horse. 615 00:57:30,321 --> 00:57:31,989 All right, boys. 616 00:57:32,490 --> 00:57:35,617 We're gonna talk about the Union Fidelity Bank. 617 00:57:36,077 --> 00:57:37,411 June 16... 618 00:57:38,580 --> 00:57:39,580 10 a.m. 619 00:57:39,622 --> 00:57:43,083 What you're about to see are films of the Union Fidelity Bank. 620 00:57:43,126 --> 00:57:45,085 We're gonna see them just once. 621 00:57:45,128 --> 00:57:48,130 Then, to destroy the evidence, we're gonna eat the film. 622 00:57:48,214 --> 00:57:51,675 It'll be buffet style and you can help yourself. Take plates. 623 00:57:51,759 --> 00:57:54,636 There's potato salad over there, and my wife made coffee. 624 00:57:54,679 --> 00:57:57,181 These films could save your lives. 625 00:58:08,651 --> 00:58:10,903 There's always a boring short. 626 00:58:12,155 --> 00:58:16,033 He'd have the gang over for meetings. 627 00:58:16,534 --> 00:58:19,995 I'd put out little trays of pretzels and bullets. 628 00:58:22,165 --> 00:58:23,624 I had to. He's my husband. 629 00:58:24,083 --> 00:58:26,084 We got this film camera. 630 00:58:26,336 --> 00:58:28,587 We got lights, we got a truck. 631 00:58:29,172 --> 00:58:33,800 The idea is we pull up in front of the bank and we look like we're making a movie. 632 00:58:33,843 --> 00:58:35,594 We play the actors. 633 00:58:35,678 --> 00:58:38,597 All we need is somebody to be the director. 634 00:58:39,849 --> 00:58:42,267 I got the perfect guy. 635 00:58:43,186 --> 00:58:48,106 An ex-con I did some time with by the name of... Fritz. 636 00:58:49,025 --> 00:58:50,817 I'll be the director. 637 00:58:51,986 --> 00:58:53,779 I once was a film director. 638 00:58:54,155 --> 00:58:56,740 Many years ago, before movies had sound. 639 00:58:56,824 --> 00:59:00,285 I worked with John Gilbert, Rudolph Valentino, and Ruth and Gehrig. 640 00:59:00,328 --> 00:59:02,037 Ruth and Gehrig were baseball players. 641 00:59:02,080 --> 00:59:06,041 I was also bat boy for the Yankees. 642 00:59:09,254 --> 00:59:13,590 The fools in Hollywood, they didn't recognize genius. 643 00:59:15,051 --> 00:59:19,471 But now, I shall wear the uniform of a director once again. 644 00:59:19,931 --> 00:59:22,933 And you will be my actor. 645 00:59:23,518 --> 00:59:27,771 You will enter the bank and say, "Up with your hands, this is a stickup." 646 00:59:27,814 --> 00:59:32,484 Thereby announcing our theme: men's greed. 647 00:59:32,860 --> 00:59:35,487 Now say it. Let me hear the line. 648 00:59:35,530 --> 00:59:39,616 - Up with your hands, this is a stickup. - No! More feeling. Again, now. 649 00:59:41,786 --> 00:59:46,331 - This is a bank robbery, not a movie. - Yes, of course. 650 00:59:46,624 --> 00:59:48,125 Forgive me. 651 00:59:48,668 --> 00:59:52,796 I will be fine when the time comes. Thank you all. 652 00:59:53,172 --> 00:59:55,132 Everybody, take five. 653 01:00:10,982 --> 01:00:13,567 Don't tell me you're gonna use the shower now. 654 01:00:13,651 --> 01:00:16,903 Why do you do this to me every morning? I just got in here. 655 01:00:16,946 --> 01:00:19,406 I'm gonna be late for the robbery. 656 01:00:19,574 --> 01:00:22,451 So you'll be five minutes late. They can start without you. 657 01:00:22,493 --> 01:00:24,745 They can't start without me. I'm the leader. 658 01:00:24,787 --> 01:00:28,123 - I made you some coffee. - Jesus! 659 01:00:28,791 --> 01:00:33,754 Everyday I have trouble getting in the bathroom. For crying out loud! 660 01:00:37,467 --> 01:00:40,594 - Honey, what shirt do you want to wear? - What'd you say? 661 01:00:40,928 --> 01:00:43,221 I said, what shirt do you want to wear? 662 01:00:43,306 --> 01:00:45,599 I'm gonna wear my light blue. 663 01:00:46,142 --> 01:00:49,686 No, you're not. It was dirty. I washed it last night. 664 01:00:49,729 --> 01:00:51,855 Why did you wash it? I was gonna wear it today. 665 01:00:51,898 --> 01:00:53,482 I washed it because it was dirty. 666 01:00:53,524 --> 01:00:55,233 So what? I'm just gonna rob a bank. 667 01:00:55,318 --> 01:00:57,527 I've ironed the beige one. Do you wanna wear that? 668 01:00:57,612 --> 01:00:59,863 - Not to a bank robbery. - Why not? 669 01:00:59,947 --> 01:01:02,115 Because it's light. I'll be an easy target. 670 01:01:02,158 --> 01:01:05,160 - I think it's a perfectly good shirt to wear. - No, it isn't. 671 01:01:05,203 --> 01:01:08,955 - Who wears beige to a bank robbery? - What are the other guys wearing? 672 01:01:08,998 --> 01:01:11,208 I don't know. For crying out loud. 673 01:01:11,292 --> 01:01:13,377 Why don't you call them up and ask them? 674 01:01:13,461 --> 01:01:17,714 Nobody's gonna be wearing beige to a bank robbery. It's in poor taste. 675 01:01:26,015 --> 01:01:29,851 June 16th, 9:00 a.m. The days of planning are over. 676 01:01:30,061 --> 01:01:32,896 Virgil and his accomplices depart from his hideout... 677 01:01:32,980 --> 01:01:35,565 and proceed toward their destination. 678 01:02:09,183 --> 01:02:12,269 Everybody get your hands up! This is a stickup. 679 01:02:19,235 --> 01:02:21,153 What are you doing here? 680 01:02:21,237 --> 01:02:23,697 - We're holding up the bank. - We're holding up the bank. 681 01:02:23,781 --> 01:02:27,242 - No, sorry, we're holding up the bank. - We are holding up the bank! 682 01:02:27,285 --> 01:02:28,952 No, we were here first. 683 01:02:28,995 --> 01:02:31,580 Could you come back tomorrow? We'll be finished by then. 684 01:02:31,622 --> 01:02:36,001 We've been planning this for months. We're not gonna have it ruined by a jackass! 685 01:02:36,169 --> 01:02:37,461 All right, we'll take a vote. 686 01:02:37,545 --> 01:02:40,964 How many people here would like to be held up by this group? 687 01:02:44,385 --> 01:02:48,096 Now, how many people would like to be held up by our group? 688 01:02:51,601 --> 01:02:53,310 Now beat it. 689 01:02:55,646 --> 01:02:58,190 You call this a bank robbery? 690 01:02:58,524 --> 01:03:02,652 I yelled "action" five minutes ago! 691 01:03:03,613 --> 01:03:05,947 Is this the way to pick up money? 692 01:03:09,368 --> 01:03:11,995 What's going on here? There's a million cops outside! 693 01:03:12,038 --> 01:03:13,663 Let's get out of here! 694 01:03:31,307 --> 01:03:35,018 Each member of the gang gets five years for his part in the crime. 695 01:03:35,061 --> 01:03:36,686 Virgil gets ten. 696 01:03:37,146 --> 01:03:40,774 He is taken, not to prison this time, but to a road gang... 697 01:03:40,858 --> 01:03:44,027 where his criminal behavior will cost him dearly. 698 01:03:45,071 --> 01:03:48,782 You men come here because you committed crimes... 699 01:03:49,158 --> 01:03:52,244 rendering you unfit to live in decent society. 700 01:03:52,620 --> 01:03:54,204 That's too bad. 701 01:03:54,330 --> 01:03:58,333 I think you're gonna find you made a mistake you're gonna regret. 702 01:03:59,335 --> 01:04:04,047 Our job, mine and the boys, is to see that you get some civilization in you... 703 01:04:04,131 --> 01:04:07,717 so that when you leave here, you're gonna think twice... 704 01:04:08,135 --> 01:04:11,263 about performing antisocial acts. 705 01:04:12,515 --> 01:04:14,516 My advice to you... 706 01:04:15,142 --> 01:04:17,352 is to obey the rules and do your job. 707 01:04:17,395 --> 01:04:18,895 You got any complaints, come to me. 708 01:04:18,980 --> 01:04:22,148 There ain't nobody on the outside gonna help you. 709 01:04:23,276 --> 01:04:27,195 We don't like complainers and we don't like troublemakers. 710 01:04:27,697 --> 01:04:30,991 If things get a little too rough for you in here... 711 01:04:32,201 --> 01:04:34,995 you're just free to take off for Florida. 712 01:04:36,831 --> 01:04:39,791 Show them which direction Florida is, boys. 713 01:04:47,049 --> 01:04:48,550 Any questions? 714 01:04:49,677 --> 01:04:52,304 Do you think a girl should pet on the first date? 715 01:04:52,388 --> 01:04:53,471 What? 716 01:04:53,973 --> 01:04:57,434 I mean, if both parties involved are mature and liberal. 717 01:06:28,818 --> 01:06:31,486 You think you got a good enough aim... 718 01:06:31,779 --> 01:06:34,239 for that hammer to knock these bracelets off me? 719 01:06:34,281 --> 01:06:36,533 Man, I don't want no trouble. 720 01:06:36,617 --> 01:06:39,577 Nothing's gonna happen. You think you can do it? 721 01:06:39,620 --> 01:06:42,914 - I've never missed yet. - All right, go ahead. 722 01:06:53,551 --> 01:06:55,468 Sorry, man. First time. 723 01:07:01,142 --> 01:07:04,477 Food on a chain gang is scarce and not very nourishing. 724 01:07:04,562 --> 01:07:07,856 The men get one hot meal a day: a bowl of steam. 725 01:07:15,322 --> 01:07:18,908 All right, boys, who didn't give me a good day's work? 726 01:07:27,543 --> 01:07:29,294 Come with us, Wilson! 727 01:07:44,643 --> 01:07:47,645 What's the matter, Starkwell? Can't you take it? 728 01:07:47,730 --> 01:07:51,524 I want you to see this so you'll know what you got to look forward to. 729 01:08:07,124 --> 01:08:10,043 Just what in the hell do you think you're doing? 730 01:08:10,127 --> 01:08:11,628 What do you mean? 731 01:08:11,670 --> 01:08:14,923 Don't beat the shadow, you damn fool! Beat him! 732 01:08:15,674 --> 01:08:17,050 Him! 733 01:08:18,260 --> 01:08:22,013 The time drags by in an endless grind of backbreaking labor. 734 01:08:24,475 --> 01:08:27,435 Brutal discipline is common under the hot sun. 735 01:08:27,478 --> 01:08:31,147 The men are not even permitted to faint without written permission. 736 01:08:31,232 --> 01:08:34,234 Virgil complains, and he is severely tortured. 737 01:08:34,610 --> 01:08:38,321 For several days, he is locked in a sweat box with an insurance salesman. 738 01:08:38,364 --> 01:08:42,784 Hello, I'm Joe Green, and I represent the Ajax-Witches Insurance company. 739 01:08:42,827 --> 01:08:46,204 I'd like to talk to you about your insurance. You're about 30, right? 740 01:08:46,288 --> 01:08:50,416 You know, I think the best thing to do is to get straight life, plus a little term. 741 01:08:50,459 --> 01:08:52,502 And how about dental and medical? 742 01:08:52,586 --> 01:08:54,671 We've got this major medical. It's a good deal. 743 01:08:58,092 --> 01:09:01,636 At the end of each day, the men are chained to each other by the ankle... 744 01:09:01,720 --> 01:09:05,098 in groups of six, making movement slow and painful... 745 01:09:05,432 --> 01:09:07,433 and escape impossible. 746 01:09:15,651 --> 01:09:18,778 Then, one day, the impossible is attempted. 747 01:09:25,703 --> 01:09:27,245 See that field? 748 01:09:27,329 --> 01:09:29,706 If we make it across that field, we'd be out of here. 749 01:09:29,790 --> 01:09:34,043 We can take them by surprise, if we all suddenly made a break for it. 750 01:09:34,211 --> 01:09:36,379 - You're crazy. - That's right. 751 01:09:36,547 --> 01:09:39,757 I'm a paranoid schizophrenic, but I say we try it. 752 01:09:40,801 --> 01:09:43,761 - Ain't that right, boys? - Yeah, you're right. 753 01:10:06,160 --> 01:10:08,703 I'm not with them! I wanted to stay! 754 01:10:08,829 --> 01:10:11,247 All right, everybody spread out! 755 01:12:00,691 --> 01:12:02,775 My car broke down. Can I use your phone? 756 01:12:02,818 --> 01:12:04,569 Of course. Come in. 757 01:12:24,298 --> 01:12:27,050 We're gonna get out of here. I know a guy in town... 758 01:12:27,134 --> 01:12:30,553 who's got enough tools to get us out of these chains. 759 01:12:32,431 --> 01:12:36,768 All right. You act natural and answer it or you're finished! 760 01:12:37,644 --> 01:12:38,978 Who is it? 761 01:12:39,146 --> 01:12:41,481 Patrolman Lynch. Can I come in? 762 01:12:41,857 --> 01:12:43,316 Well, not now. 763 01:12:43,484 --> 01:12:46,069 It's an emergency. I'm afraid I'll have to. 764 01:12:46,153 --> 01:12:47,528 You better untie her. 765 01:12:47,571 --> 01:12:51,032 Tell him we're your cousins visiting from out of town. 766 01:12:57,539 --> 01:13:00,249 One false move and you're finished. 767 01:13:04,046 --> 01:13:05,046 What is it? 768 01:13:05,130 --> 01:13:07,548 I hear there's been some trouble up at the prison. 769 01:13:07,591 --> 01:13:10,343 I'm checking the area for anything suspicious. 770 01:13:10,427 --> 01:13:14,305 These are my cousins. They're visiting me for the holiday. 771 01:13:14,807 --> 01:13:16,307 What holiday? 772 01:13:17,434 --> 01:13:20,561 - Did you ever hear of St. Abernathy's Day? - No. 773 01:13:21,146 --> 01:13:23,314 That's what we're here for. 774 01:13:23,899 --> 01:13:26,609 Come here, you. Come here! 775 01:13:33,534 --> 01:13:36,536 You think your cousin is safe living here all alone? 776 01:13:36,578 --> 01:13:38,788 Look how close we are to the prison. 777 01:13:38,872 --> 01:13:42,125 Look out here. It's just a few miles down the road. 778 01:13:43,127 --> 01:13:44,502 Come here. 779 01:13:48,090 --> 01:13:49,632 I don't know. 780 01:13:50,551 --> 01:13:54,011 You sure can't be sure when you live so close to a prison. 781 01:13:54,096 --> 01:13:55,721 Wait a minute. 782 01:13:56,098 --> 01:13:58,808 - Did I see something move out there? - You couldn't have. 783 01:13:58,892 --> 01:14:03,646 I'm sure I saw something move. Quick. Everybody take one window and check it. 784 01:14:03,856 --> 01:14:07,692 If there's somebody out there, we'll have a chance to see him. 785 01:14:13,240 --> 01:14:15,950 Guess it must have been my imagination. 786 01:14:18,620 --> 01:14:19,704 NOW? 787 01:14:21,415 --> 01:14:22,832 Excuse us. 788 01:14:37,806 --> 01:14:39,515 They're escaped convicts. 789 01:14:39,558 --> 01:14:41,559 - Really? - They've broken in. 790 01:14:41,602 --> 01:14:45,062 Didn't you notice how they all moved together closely? 791 01:14:45,189 --> 01:14:50,026 - They're chained together at the ankles. - I thought they were just a close family. 792 01:14:50,819 --> 01:14:53,321 Okay, boys, the game's up. 793 01:14:56,575 --> 01:14:58,701 The old lady must have told. 794 01:14:58,869 --> 01:15:03,206 You're going back to that prison and this time you're gonna stay there. 795 01:15:07,461 --> 01:15:08,961 Where we gonna go? We need tools. 796 01:15:09,004 --> 01:15:11,672 Let's get my wife. She'll help us out of this. 797 01:15:19,598 --> 01:15:23,059 Virgil, if you'd only listened to me and gone straight. 798 01:15:23,769 --> 01:15:26,854 Honey, we needed the money and I robbed a bank. 799 01:15:27,272 --> 01:15:29,398 When are you going to stop doing that? 800 01:15:29,441 --> 01:15:33,402 Don't you realize you're a father and you have responsibilities. 801 01:15:33,487 --> 01:15:35,488 If she was my wife, I'd belt her one. 802 01:15:35,531 --> 01:15:37,365 Do you mind keeping out of this, please? 803 01:15:37,407 --> 01:15:40,076 I don't wanna discuss it, unless we're alone. 804 01:15:40,160 --> 01:15:41,410 I wanna discuss it now. 805 01:15:41,495 --> 01:15:44,080 All right you don't wanna discuss it alone. Okay. 806 01:15:44,122 --> 01:15:45,122 Where are you going? 807 01:15:45,207 --> 01:15:47,625 I'm going to the next room, to talk about it right now. 808 01:15:47,668 --> 01:15:50,127 I can't come in alone! I'm chained to the... 809 01:15:50,212 --> 01:15:54,090 We can't be alone unless we go someplace where they got some tools or something. 810 01:15:54,132 --> 01:15:56,217 These guys are with me for good now. 811 01:15:56,260 --> 01:15:57,593 How do you think I feel? 812 01:15:57,636 --> 01:16:00,930 I'm a young woman, sleeping alone here every night. 813 01:16:02,349 --> 01:16:03,391 Darling, look... 814 01:16:03,433 --> 01:16:06,185 Don't you think that means something to me? 815 01:16:06,228 --> 01:16:09,021 I think back to the days when you were in the Philharmonic. 816 01:16:09,064 --> 01:16:11,148 I was never in the Philharmonic! 817 01:16:11,233 --> 01:16:14,026 We used to lie in bed and you used to make love to me. 818 01:16:14,069 --> 01:16:16,946 - And you used to recite poetry... - Poetry? 819 01:16:16,989 --> 01:16:20,449 - And play with that doll you got me. - Hey, Longfellow! 820 01:16:21,910 --> 01:16:23,452 Darling, look. 821 01:16:23,745 --> 01:16:25,621 You guys look away for a minute. 822 01:16:25,664 --> 01:16:27,957 Sweetheart, don't you know that whatever happens... 823 01:16:28,000 --> 01:16:30,751 you're always gonna mean the same to me. 824 01:16:31,086 --> 01:16:32,962 Will you stop giggling? 825 01:16:33,755 --> 01:16:37,466 You'll always mean the sun, and earth and the moon to me. 826 01:16:37,718 --> 01:16:39,635 Oh, Christ! 827 01:16:42,347 --> 01:16:45,933 With Louise's help, the chains are removed from Virgil's ankles. 828 01:16:45,976 --> 01:16:48,269 Once more the family takes flight... 829 01:16:48,312 --> 01:16:52,648 feeling guilty about their son's education. Louise tries tutoring him. 830 01:16:58,113 --> 01:17:00,156 He's been very depressed. 831 01:17:03,368 --> 01:17:06,412 I think if he had been a successful criminal... 832 01:17:06,455 --> 01:17:08,456 he would've felt better. 833 01:17:09,124 --> 01:17:12,460 You know, he never made the "Ten Most Wanted" list. 834 01:17:13,337 --> 01:17:16,380 It's very unfair voting. It's who you know. 835 01:17:16,590 --> 01:17:19,300 Virgil Starkwell embarks on a series of crimes... 836 01:17:19,343 --> 01:17:21,761 that make him a wanted desperado. 837 01:17:34,441 --> 01:17:36,609 Here, he attempts to rob the vault of a bank... 838 01:17:36,652 --> 01:17:39,779 but finds a family of Gypsies are living there. 839 01:17:42,532 --> 01:17:46,786 By the end of six months, the FBI regards Virgil as a menace. 840 01:17:47,579 --> 01:17:50,081 Although he does not make the "Ten Most Wanted" list... 841 01:17:50,165 --> 01:17:52,583 he does win 'Gangster of the Year" award... 842 01:17:52,626 --> 01:17:56,212 and is asked to speak at many luncheons and universities. 843 01:17:57,005 --> 01:17:59,799 For the end of this story, we spoke to Mr. Daniel Miller... 844 01:17:59,841 --> 01:18:03,386 an FBI agent and author of the book, Mother Was A Red. 845 01:18:03,637 --> 01:18:06,597 The FBI actually wanted Virgil very badly. 846 01:18:07,099 --> 01:18:11,435 Mr. Hoover was quite upset by Mr. Starkwell and his activities. 847 01:18:11,520 --> 01:18:14,855 In fact, he confided to me on several occasions. 848 01:18:15,399 --> 01:18:19,819 I can remember one very well, after a bowling match on Thursday night... 849 01:18:20,195 --> 01:18:24,532 on which he said he couldn't sleep nights, he was smoking a little too much... 850 01:18:24,574 --> 01:18:28,994 and he thought that this criminal... 851 01:18:29,204 --> 01:18:34,125 as he put it, might very well be part of a subversive plot. 852 01:18:35,836 --> 01:18:40,589 Obviously an atheist and a pinko... 853 01:18:41,216 --> 01:18:44,635 and trying in general to disturb our society. 854 01:18:46,179 --> 01:18:48,931 We finally traced him to a cheap neighborhood... 855 01:18:48,974 --> 01:18:51,559 down on the Lower East Side of New York... 856 01:18:51,601 --> 01:18:56,063 where he was living, at the time, in a very sleazy, rundown tenement house. 857 01:18:56,148 --> 01:18:59,817 Virge? I remember him. I used to live with him as a matter of fact. 858 01:18:59,901 --> 01:19:02,403 In the same rooming house, that is. 859 01:19:02,571 --> 01:19:05,281 One day, he told me he was a gynecologist. 860 01:19:05,365 --> 01:19:09,326 He couldn't speak no foreign languages. Who was he kidding? 861 01:19:10,579 --> 01:19:13,998 I thought I saw his picture on a post office... 862 01:19:14,541 --> 01:19:18,252 I didn't remember whether it was on the wall or on a stamp. 863 01:19:18,920 --> 01:19:21,422 - Do you remember Virgil? - Yeah. 864 01:19:21,465 --> 01:19:25,009 - What was he like? - I don't know. Now, I think he was brilliant. 865 01:19:25,093 --> 01:19:26,469 Just absolutely brilliant. 866 01:19:26,511 --> 01:19:30,306 When I found out that he was a criminal, I just couldn't believe It. 867 01:19:30,348 --> 01:19:33,976 I just thought I was gonna die... 868 01:19:34,019 --> 01:19:37,229 'cause he just was the best cover-up job I've ever seen in my life. 869 01:19:37,272 --> 01:19:39,023 I mean, unbelievable acting job. 870 01:19:39,107 --> 01:19:42,985 I actually believed that he was an idiot. I really believed it. 871 01:19:43,028 --> 01:19:45,821 And I wasn't the only one. Everybody thought so. 872 01:19:45,864 --> 01:19:49,116 Everyone thought he was a schlemiel, and turns out he's a criminal! 873 01:19:49,159 --> 01:19:52,703 Just to think that that idiot was a criminal! I just can't believe it. 874 01:19:52,746 --> 01:19:55,414 I mean, you never met anybody like this in your life. 875 01:19:55,457 --> 01:19:57,333 You've never met such a nothing. 876 01:19:57,375 --> 01:20:00,294 I can't believe it! That there was a mind working in there... 877 01:20:00,337 --> 01:20:03,506 that could rob banks! It's phenomenal! 878 01:20:03,548 --> 01:20:07,009 Do you know that once I said to him, "What do you do?" 879 01:20:07,135 --> 01:20:09,512 He said, "I rob banks." 880 01:20:09,554 --> 01:20:10,971 Go know? 881 01:20:12,182 --> 01:20:13,974 But we finally caught up to him. 882 01:20:14,017 --> 01:20:17,728 I think it was April 11th. We finally captured Virgil... 883 01:20:17,854 --> 01:20:20,856 under sort of very odd circumstances. 884 01:20:21,650 --> 01:20:24,944 An amateur photographer happened to be there at the time... 885 01:20:25,028 --> 01:20:28,739 and took the only known films of his capture. 886 01:20:29,616 --> 01:20:32,868 I was coming down here. This is the spot where it actually happened. 887 01:20:32,911 --> 01:20:33,994 You see. 888 01:20:34,037 --> 01:20:37,373 As a matter of fact, I had just brought my pants in to the cleaners... 889 01:20:37,457 --> 01:20:39,208 and I was sort of angry with them... 890 01:20:39,292 --> 01:20:42,962 because last time I asked them to sew a button on and they hadn't. 891 01:20:43,004 --> 01:20:45,047 Will you get to the point? 892 01:20:45,257 --> 01:20:47,049 Oh, yes. Well... 893 01:20:48,718 --> 01:20:52,304 I'll tell you exactly what happened this morning with me. 894 01:20:52,722 --> 01:20:57,560 And about the camera. Well, back to this thing in which I became known... 895 01:20:57,686 --> 01:21:00,187 merely because of what happened and I had the camera. 896 01:21:00,230 --> 01:21:02,398 I was having breakfast in the morning. 897 01:21:02,482 --> 01:21:05,484 I think it was two fried eggs, toast... 898 01:21:06,695 --> 01:21:10,614 and juice, I don't know whether it was orange or grapefruit. 899 01:21:11,575 --> 01:21:14,535 But at that time... It was orange juice, that's right. 900 01:21:14,578 --> 01:21:15,661 Will you get to the point? 901 01:21:16,079 --> 01:21:18,581 I've got them right here. I'd like to show them to you. 902 01:21:18,915 --> 01:21:20,457 The very last films... 903 01:21:20,542 --> 01:21:23,544 of Virgil Starkwell being captured by the FBI. 904 01:21:25,088 --> 01:21:27,756 All right, get your hands up. This is a stickup! 905 01:21:27,799 --> 01:21:31,427 I know you. Virgil Starkwell, that's right. 906 01:21:33,722 --> 01:21:36,432 - Eddie? What? Haynes? - That's right. 907 01:21:36,850 --> 01:21:39,685 We were in the marching band together, and you played a cello. 908 01:21:39,728 --> 01:21:41,937 I was trombone. First trombone. 909 01:21:41,980 --> 01:21:44,440 Isn't that funny? My God! 910 01:21:44,482 --> 01:21:47,443 - What are you doing? - I'm with the Philharmonic. 911 01:21:47,485 --> 01:21:50,195 No kidding. That's great. I was just talking to someone... 912 01:21:50,238 --> 01:21:53,574 Oscar Sunkin. About the great times we used to have together, remember? 913 01:21:53,658 --> 01:21:55,117 They were hilarious! 914 01:21:55,160 --> 01:21:57,453 Do you do you remember when we got caught... 915 01:21:57,495 --> 01:21:59,371 taking a shower in the girls' locker room? 916 01:21:59,414 --> 01:22:02,082 I do. You know, I never saw anybody so embarrassed. 917 01:22:02,125 --> 01:22:03,292 I'll never forget your face! 918 01:22:03,376 --> 01:22:05,127 My face! You dropped the towel! 919 01:22:05,211 --> 01:22:08,130 You dropped the towel, too! 920 01:22:08,173 --> 01:22:10,049 Let me have your watch, will you? 921 01:22:10,091 --> 01:22:11,592 Yes, sure. 922 01:22:12,636 --> 01:22:16,597 Remember that... We painted the car yellow. 923 01:22:16,640 --> 01:22:19,141 - Right, on Halloween. - That's right. It was Halloween. 924 01:22:19,184 --> 01:22:21,644 - It was really funny. - It was yellow stripes. 925 01:22:21,686 --> 01:22:23,812 That's right, like a barber pole. 926 01:22:23,855 --> 01:22:25,898 Keep your hands up or I'll have to shoot you. 927 01:22:25,982 --> 01:22:27,274 Yeah, sure. 928 01:22:27,317 --> 01:22:30,277 - Jesus, remember the football game? - You fumbled the last play! 929 01:22:30,320 --> 01:22:32,404 And you picked up the ball and ran with it. 930 01:22:32,447 --> 01:22:35,449 And then I ran the wrong way. Everybody was yelling, "Go back." 931 01:22:35,492 --> 01:22:37,076 And I thought they were cheering. 932 01:22:37,118 --> 01:22:38,911 You can't beat the good old days! 933 01:22:38,995 --> 01:22:41,830 No, or the good old nights. Shirley Sistrin. Remember? 934 01:22:42,999 --> 01:22:44,333 The wallet. 935 01:22:44,417 --> 01:22:46,669 I didn't hear you. 936 01:22:47,087 --> 01:22:49,755 It's been great speaking to you, really. 937 01:22:49,798 --> 01:22:52,675 - It's so nice to see you. - Yeah, you, too. Take it easy. 938 01:22:52,717 --> 01:22:55,678 - Maybe I'll see you again. - Best of luck to you. 939 01:22:56,137 --> 01:22:58,681 I just realized that I'm a cop. 940 01:22:58,974 --> 01:23:01,558 - No kidding. How's it going? - It's a great job. 941 01:23:01,643 --> 01:23:05,938 - I get a pension. - Do you remember when we... 942 01:23:06,564 --> 01:23:09,858 Virgil Starkwell is tried on 52 counts of robbery... 943 01:23:10,068 --> 01:23:13,278 and is sentenced to 800 years in federal prison. 944 01:23:13,822 --> 01:23:16,573 At the trial, he tells his lawyer confidently... 945 01:23:16,616 --> 01:23:19,952 that with good behavior, he can cut the sentence in half. 946 01:23:19,995 --> 01:23:23,914 Now that you're caught and you're facing a very long prison sentence... 947 01:23:23,957 --> 01:23:26,959 do you have any regrets about choosing a life of crime? 948 01:23:27,043 --> 01:23:29,378 I think that crime definitely pays... 949 01:23:29,421 --> 01:23:32,631 and that, you know, it's a great job. 950 01:23:32,674 --> 01:23:35,509 The hours are good, and you're your own boss... 951 01:23:35,552 --> 01:23:39,304 and you travel a lot and you get to meet interesting people. 952 01:23:39,806 --> 01:23:42,224 I just think it's a good job in general. 953 01:23:42,308 --> 01:23:45,728 What about your cohorts? What ever happened to them? 954 01:23:45,895 --> 01:23:48,897 All the guys you've been associated with in various gangs? 955 01:23:48,982 --> 01:23:53,736 A great many of them have become homosexuals... 956 01:23:54,112 --> 01:23:57,614 and some of them have entered into politics and sports. 957 01:23:57,699 --> 01:24:00,117 How do you manage to spend your time in prison? 958 01:24:00,160 --> 01:24:02,327 Do you have any hobbies or anything? 959 01:24:02,370 --> 01:24:04,079 I've been working on... 960 01:24:04,539 --> 01:24:08,125 I've been doing a lot of stuff in shop, actually... 961 01:24:08,209 --> 01:24:10,586 and I'm very skilled with my hands. 962 01:24:10,628 --> 01:24:12,963 Do you know if it's raining out?