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Step on it, slick, they're coming over the second hill now.

I'm hitting 80, and that's all I can do.

Well, get your rod ready,

'cause they're gonna overtake us in a couple of miles.

Can't you shoot the tires off when we get a little closer?

And have them turn a machine gun loose on us?

Not a chance.

If they unload us, we'll act innocent

and try to catch 'em napping.

You would pick on a hick town to start peddling.

Shut up, it was the boss's orders.

We gotta get new business, haven't we?

Yeah, we'll get the business, all right.

That was a close shave.

Bust anything big?

No, we're all right.

We gave those birds another good start.

Well, step on it!

You can catch 'em, all right!

They're not in sight.

That crazy truck driver must've slowed them up.

Listen, when you get over the hill,

there's a little eating house.

When you get there, slow down,

and I'll pile out with the stuff.

Gimme your gun.

Oh, what happened, are you hurt?

No, I'm all right, come inside, quick.

Well, what's it all about? Who are you?

Why, I'm a collector for an oil company,

and a bunch of hijacking racketeers were after this,

so I just gave 'em the slip.

But your driver, they'll catch him.

Well, they can't do anything to him,

he hasn't got anything.

Say, how about a little of that fried chicken you advertise?

It'll take about 20 minutes.

Oh, that's all right, it's cool, and dark, and romantic in here.

I think I'll enjoy the wait.

Just take any booth you like.

Thanks.

Come on, you, unload.

Whaddya mean?

Get out.

Where's your pal?

Pal?

I don't know what you mean.

-You're packing a rod? -No.

Search the car.

What's he gonna search my car for?

What is he looking for?

We're looking for a guy

that's been peddling dope to school kids,

and we had a hot tip that he was in this car.

In this car, why, there's a thousand cars

on the road like this one.

-Oh, yeah? -Yeah.

Well, if you were all right, why were you trying to get away?

Well, I thought you guys were a bunch of stick-up men.

Nothing in the car, chief.

Well, this guy doesn't fit the description

of the peddler anyway.

I can't understand yet how we lost that car.

Sorry, young fella.

-Come on, boys. -Thanks.

Would you like some wine?

We have muscatel, port, and--

No, no, thanks, I don't go for that sort of stuff.

Say, do you run this place all alone?

Oh, no, Mother and I run it together,

but she's in town today.

Business isn't very good.

Lonely on Saturdays and Sundays, but then it's quite busy.

It's a shame that a beautiful girl like you

should waste her time here.

You belong in the city.

[, um, I think your soup's ready now.

Here come those hijackers!

This way, quick!

What've you got to eat that you can give us quick?

Oh, I--I'm very sorry, sir,

but we only serve chicken dinners and, well,

that would take at least 30 or 40 minutes.

We can't wait that long.

Just bring us some beer.

Yes, sir.

Boy, ain't she a honey?

You notice how flustered she was?

Go on, you tell us, Bing.

I can't stand the suspense.

You guessed it.

They all thrill when they see me the first time.

I wish you had as much luck in your line of duty.

I can't understand how he slipped through our fingers

after all our careful planning.

I can't see why the chief

bothers with these small fry, anyhow.

Why not go after the big shots?

Well, we gotta pick off the collectors and the peddlers,

and be of sure of our gun not making a mistake.

That's right.

Well, we've gotta be on our way.

Here you are, miss.

Your beer was very good.

-Thank you. -Bye.

Gee, kid, you're a doll,

you sure handled that situation swell.

I don't know why I did it.

I don't believe those men were highwaymen.

They looked like officers.

Don't be that way, didn't you hear those men say

they had to pick off the collectors?

Well, anyway, your chicken must be ready.

That is, if it isn't already burned up.

You're a cinch in the city.

Oh, but I couldn't leave Mother.

You see, we're putting my brother through school.

Yeah, but you could earn so much more money in the city.

Say, I know a fella that could put you in a show right away.

What's a matter, got a headache?

Oh, no, really, it's nothing.

Just all the excitement, I guess.

Say, I can fix that right up.

Why, I got the grandest headache medicine

in the world.

Here.

What is that?

How do you take it, in water?

No, no, no, lemme show you.

Gimme your hand.

Sniff it.

-Sniff it? -Yeah.

How's that?

Why, that's marvelous!

I feel better already!

Oh, there you are.

Everything all right?

Well, I wished I'd have done the disappearing act.

Outside, you can wait for me.

Don't mind him, he's fresh but he's harmless.

Say, I'd like to talk to you again

about the city.

Suppose I drive out in a few days and see you?

Well, this is a public eating place, why not?

Fine.

Well, I'll be seeing you soon.

All right.

Oh, you know I wanna go, but...

I can't now, Mother needs me.

I need you, too.

I've got everything all fixed up.

You're not gonna sacrifice both yourself

and your career, are you?

Well, couldn't we wait just a little while

until Eddie finishes school?

Why wait? You love me, don't you?

Well, I'm not sure.

I hardly know you, Nick.

And yet, when I'm with you, I'm so happy, and...

Oh, I'm miserable and depressed when you're gone.

Ah, you're all nervous and upset.

Here, take one of these headache powders.

And everything'll look brighter.

How do you feel now?

I feel swell, now.

And you'll go with me next Thursday night

when we get to town?

We'll get married as soon as we get to town.

Yes.

Yes, Nick, I'll go with you.

If you really want me.

Oh, of course I want you, honey.

Oh, the city at last!

Oh, Nick, I'm so thrilled!

Yeah, honey, you're gonna get plenty of thrills

out of this town.

Okay, kid, here's where we unload.

Oh, but--but, Nick, this can't be the place.

Oh, no, you're just staying with friends of mine

until we get set.

We can't go to a first class hotel

until we're married, you know that.

-Oh, yes. -That's right.

What makes you so stubborn?

Why don't you listen to reason?

Well, he--he promised to marry me.

Marry?

That's a laugh.

They don't marry girls in this racket.

And you be thankful Nick likes you well enough

to want you to be his woman.

Otherwise...

Oh, I wanna get out of here!

I wanna go home!

You won't get outta here 'til they're ready to let you.

And then, you won't want to go home.

You'd die first.

Oh, I'm a--I'm a wreck.

Look--look,

will you give me another one of those headache powders?

Headache powder?

Oh, you poor sap.

Haven't you tumbled yet?

Those headache powders are dope.

Dope?

You mean I've been taking dope?

Yeah, dope.

Cocaine.

The kid catcher.

Heh, "kid catcher's" a swell name for it.

Certainly knocks you punks over.

Oh, Nick!

Nick, it isn't true!

You haven't been giving me dope?

Well, she-- she had to find out sometime.

So what?

Oh, I hate you.

I hate you!

Aw, you don't mean that.

You're just all upset again.

Here.

Try this.

Oh, Nick.

You didn't mean that about hating me, did you?

No, Nick, no, only give it to me.

And you'll listen to reason?

Yes, anything, Nick, only give it to me.

-Morning, Mrs. Perkins. -Morning.

Well, I've got quite a batch for you, see?

Oh, thanks, Jim.

There she is.

Waiting for me.

And I've got to give her the same answer.

Who?

-Oh, yes, Mrs. Bradford. -Yeah.

Still looking for a letter from her daughter Jane

who ran away.

Let's see...must've been over a year ago, wasn't it?

Fourteen months.

Her boy is working in the city now.

He writes her all the time.

But she's never heard from Jane at all.

That girl oughta be ashamed of herself,

treating her old mother like that.

Oh, I declare,

I just don't know what's getting in to girls these days.

'Tis hard to figure out.

Well, I've gotta be getting along.

But I sure would like to bring her that letter.

Well, goodbye, Mrs. Perkins.

Goodbye, Jim.

Goodbye!

Okay, boss.

Heh, yeah, I've been thinking the same thing myself, lately.

Well, better give her a day or two off

to get used to the idea, huh?

Okay, I'll take care of it.

(Lil??

Lt -Yeah, what?

Who was it?

That was the big boss.

I've got some bad news for you.

Bad news for me?

Whaddya mean?

Well, he thinks you need a change.

He's taking you out of the La Fonda show.

Taking me out of the La Fonda?

Then what?

Well, he's putting you in the Dead Rat for a while.

The Dead Rat?

Why, Nick-- Nick, that's the last stop

before the dives.

I won't go, do you hear?

I won't go.

Nick, you've got to protect me.

I'm your wife.

Ah, don't take it so hard.

You're different.

You'll come back, you're just in a slump.

You'll find out just how different I am.

You can't pull this on me, you rat!

Ah, ah, ah, don't get hysterical.

Now, the boss said to take a day or two off.

So get ready and come along with me,

I'm gonna make some deliveries.

How do you do?

Hello, good-looking.

I'll have a chocolate malt, and make it thick.

And you, sir?

Get me a glass of tomato juice.

Yes, sir.

I only come in here to see him, he's so good-looking.

You're always questing, aren't you, Dorothy?

Questing, Whaddya mean by that?

Oh, that's an old, seldom used word

that means "always looking, searching for something."

And the way you look over every man and boy, you see,

it reminds me of it.

But you oughta be careful, it might be dangerous.

Maybe I'm always looking for my prince to come along.

Jealous?

Yes, a little.

A little worried about you.

Oh, don't worry, Dan.

I just like to play around, but I'm all right.

All excited about the rich doll, Eddie?

Doll, of course not.

But boy, she is keen.

Well, watch your step.

Those dames are poison.

-I'll get it. -No, I'll get this one.

Special friend, eh?

Hi, kid, how's every little thing?

Swell.

Uh, who's that boy over there?

Oh, he's a new boy from somewhere up the country.

He's only been here a few weeks, name's Eddie Bradford.

Why?

Well, he's--he's rather good-looking, isn't he?

Heh, yeah, all the dames go for him.

Oh, I wasn't thinking of that, he...

he just reminds me of someone I used to know.

What're you gonna have?

Nothing, let's get out of here, let's go.

Okay, baby.

Another prospect?

You said it, boy, I could go for her.

Well, forget it, big boy.

That kind doesn't fall for men like you.

Yeah, they all fall when the old master starts to work.

And I feel like working now.

You certainly hate yourself, don't you?

You wanna be careful, Dorothy,

you'll get your wings singed someday.

Do you know who that bird is?

Mm-mm, who?

Well, he's Nick Provez,

he's front man for one of the toughest mobs in town.

And he's accused of-- well, many things.

Ooh, how thrilling!

Come on, let's get out of here.

Say, what's the rush, you ain't going any place in particular.

That boy in there is my brother.

-What? -Come on, let's get out of here

before he sees us.

Right.

Boy, you must have what it takes.

-Whaddya mean? -Well, they all fall for you.

I'm beginning to myself.

That gangster's moll was just asking about you.

-She used to be a swell looker. -Yeah?

Boy, she looks plenty tough now.

Any mail for me today?

No, Mrs. Bradford.

I'm sorry.

Gee!

-Did you have a good day today? -Oh, swell.

The whole week's been good.

After I give the boss his cut, I'll have over $40 left.

Gee, that is swell.

I only have about, oh, about 25.

Oh, dames don't tip like men.

They pay off in smiles instead of nickels and quarters.

Well, I'll be glad to have my 25.

You know, with all this money,

I feel like making whoopee tonight.

How 'bout you and me going Dutch treat

and taking in a night club?

-Whaddya say, Eddie? -Well, I don't know anything

about night clubs.

I've never even been in one.

'Sides, I'm... I'm kind of tired tonight.

Say.

I've got something that'll fix that up.

C'mere.

Now, don't look.

Take it like this, Eddie.

School'll be out in a few minutes.

Think I'll stick around and see if my kid customers

have got any money today.

Nothing's too low for you, is it?

You're doing pretty well yourself.

Before you're through, you'll be lower

than I ever was, or can be.

-Well, how do you feel now? - I feel great.

And you wanna make whoopee tonight?

You bet, I always did wanna see the inside of a night club.

All right, I'll meet you here at nine o'clock.

Everybody happy?

See who's at the door, Jack!

Hello, gang!

This is Eddie, my new boyfriend.

-Hello, Eddie! -Hi, kid.

I said "my" boyfriend.

Atta girl, Fanny, don't let 'em steal your boyfriend.

Oh, yeah?

I guess he could be had.

Maybe he will sometime.

Come on, Julie, you can top that, can't you?

Come on.

-Having a good time, Eddie? -Oh, gee!

I never knew you could have so much fun.

Who wants to play cards? Let's have some fun!

Hey!

I thought I told you to lay offa me.

Now I'm gonna teach you a lesson!

Oh, yeah?

No letters for me today, Jim?

I'm sorry, Mrs. Bradford, none today.

Maybe we'll have better luck tomorrow.

No letters.

Even Eddie hasn't written for six months.

He used to write every week.

Oh, shucks, you know how boys are

when the get to a city.

They're just too busy to write.

Or, maybe...

maybe he's figuring on walking in

and surprising you some day!

-Ah, I guess that's it. -Sure!

The boss wants to see ya.

You wanted to see me, Mr. Boss?

Yes, I'm very sorry, Fanny,

but we can't use you here any longer.

But--but why?

Well, your work has been rather unsatisfactory,

and you haven't been careful about your personal appearance,

like we like our girls to be.

But you know I haven't been feeling well lately,

I'll be all right in a few days.

And besides, we've been hearing rather ugly rumors about you.

We can't regulate the private affairs

of our employees, but we can and must

get rid of those whose personal conduct

doesn't please us, that's all.

You get fired, Fanny?

-Yeah, did you? -Yeah.

I wonder what we'll do now?

Well, there're plenty of jobs in this man's town.

we'll just have to have some new ones.

Yeah, that may not be so easy.

Oh, don't worry, they can't keep us down.

Come in.

Why, hello, Pater.

Don't "Pater" me.

I'm your father,

and sometimes not altogether proud of that honor.

All right, "Father."

And why the early morning call?

I heard you bid your friends goodnight last night,

and I heard you say you were going to arrange soon

to go down to the Dead Rat night club

and start something.

Eavesdropper.

You'd make a great detective, Father.

So what?

I don't want you fooling around such places.

I have heard the Dead Rat is tough.

Plenty tough.

Is that so?

Now ['ll just have to go down and see for myself.

Haven't you any pride or decency left?

You used to be sweet and clean.

Yes, and you used to waste a little time

and attention on me.

Now you're always away at your brokerage office,

and mother is forever off playing contract,

so what am I to do, sit around and weep by myself?

But I have to spend lots of time at the office.

You know the terrible condition

business is in all over the country.

Why don't you associate with nicer young folks?

The society crowd?

Because, with all your money,

we just don't seem to rate in society.

I don't know why.

Oh, Dad, don't worry about me.

I'm all right.

It's just that you're so respectable

and serious-minded about things.

You're way behind life as it's lived today.

Maybe you're right, but stay away from the Dead Rat.

I won't exactly promise,

but I'll give it respectful consideration.

Did you work today?

No.

No one seemed to need

even a part-time or relief girl.

But one the girls at the drive-in

-gave me these doughnuts. -Doughnuts?

Doughnuts?

I can't eat!

I don't want food!

I want a shot!

I've got to have a shot!

Hush, Eddie, please.

Why, good evening, Mrs. Grady.

Don't try to stall, you know what I want.

And if I don't get it, out you go in the morning.

Oh, please, I think I'm going to get a job tomorrow,

then I'll have the rent all paid up.

Why don't he go out and look for work?

Lying around here and skulking through alleys,

week after week.

And you, tramping the streets looking for stray jobs?

But he can't work, Mrs. Grady, he's sick.

Sick? Hm.

Looks to me more like a hop head.

Well, I'll give ya one more day.

Hophead?

Hophead?

Please, Eddie, don't go to pieces.

You've got to get hold of yourself.

I can't get a hold of myself!

I gotta have dope!

I'm a hophead!

I'd sell my soul for just one shot!

All right, Eddie.

If you need it that bad, I'll get it for you.

On your way, kid.

Don't hang around here.

Boy, that's the fastest ride I ever had in my--

Hey, get a load of this neighborhood, will ya?

-What a spot! -Dead Rat Inn.

The Dead Rat.

Come on, let's take a crack at it.

You kids go on in, I'll be along in a minute.

Okay.

Oh!

What's the matter?

Are ya sick?

Oh, no, it's just something, I don't know.

You startled me.

I thought I recognized you.

You're the drive-in girl,

the pretty boy's friend, aren't you?

Oh, please, I...

Oh, I know.

Things are breaking a little tough just now.

Here.

Good luck.

Oh, here's Dorothy.

Say, this is some place, isn't it?

Isn't it the spot?

-Well, shall we dance? -Nuh-uh, not me.

Want to take a chance, Dorothy?

-Sure, why not? -All right.

-Your funeral. -That's what you think.

Ram over to La Fonda

and tell Nick to come over here.

-Okay. -Make it snappy.

What's wrong, Fanny?

What's happened?

What's the matter?

No luck today?

Eddie...

Eddie, we've got to get off the dope.

We've got to go straight.

No.

No, it can't be.

It--it mustn't be.

Think of the disgrace.

My mother.

But, Eddie, think of me!

Think of you?

Why do I care about you?

Oh.

You love me, don't you?

No.

No, I never really loved you.

Now a baby born to a hophead in the stre--

Don't say it, Eddie.

Whatever I've done, it's because I loved you.

Aw.

Oh, you're all upset.

Here.

Take this and go down to Wong Lee's

and sleep it off.

Eddie...

You didn't mean what you said about not loving me ever,

did you?

Won't you kiss me?

Just once?

Bye, Eddie.

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen!

Presenting our very capable master of ceremonies

for this evening,

a genial and well-known gentleman,

Mr. Maury Peck,

who, in turn, will present the floor show

for this evening.

Mr. Maury Peck.

Hello, everybody!

We welcome you this evening,

and this time, it gives me pleasure

to present to you

the first edition of our floor show

as we open with our comedian of song, Nona Lee,

singing "All I Want Is You."

All I want is you.

Then I won't be blue.

If I only knew what I was to you,

maybe I would happy be.

Oh.

Give me a little kiss

for a little miss.

Just a little bliss for a little miss.

Just as happy as could be.

Oh, now won't you be nice to me,

and we will bill and coo.

Oh, baby, please put your loving arms around me

and, ooh, oh.

If you only knew

how I long for you.

Be a little kind.

Try to change your mind.

All I want is you.

Oh, all I want is you.

And I love you too.

Oh, if I only knew...

Oh, give me a little kiss

for a little miss.

Just a little bliss for a little miss.

Oh, won't you be nice to me, and we will bill and coo.

Oh, baby, please put your loving arms around me

and, ooh, oh.

Finally make up your mind, honey.

Oh.

All I want is you.

Oh, Paul Revere took a ride

just to have a look around the countryside.

All at once his horse got skittish.

Here come the British, boom, boom.

Now Washington at Valley Forge

tried to cross the river.

Look out, George!

All at once his boat got skittish.

Here come the British, boom, boom.

Oh, goodness me,

just take a look around no matter where.

Oh, gracious sakes,

you'll soon discover that the British are there.

Now Napoleon at Waterloo

writing little Josie a billet doux.

"So long, Josie, I've got to close it."

Close this epistle, there goes the whistle,

and here comes the British with a boom, boom.

Oh, Napoleon at Waterloo

writing little Josie a billet doux.

"So long, toots, got to close it."

Close this epistle, there goes the whistle.

And here comes the British with a boom, boom.

Boom, boom.

And now, ladies and gentlemen,

it gives me pleasure to present to you

our singing waiter, Frank Collins,

singing his own composition "Towsee Mongalay."

Towsee Mongalay, my dear.

You'll leave me someday, I fear.

Sailing far across the sea,

blue-eyed girl from Melikee.

If you love me, say you do.

If you leave me, no can do.

Me no cly.

Me only say,

"Towsee Mongalay."

Towsee Mongalay, my dear.

You'll leave me someday, I fear.

Sailing far across the sea,

blue-eyed girl from Melikee.

If you love me, say you do.

If you leave me, no can do.

Me no cly.

Me only say,

"Towsee Mongalay."

Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen.

And, now, in absence

of our genial master of ceremonies,

who is out answering a telephone call...

...it gives me great pleasure to present

that international star, Madame Petrovsky.

So you can't take it?

Ha! Attaboy, attaboy, attaboy.

Now two old maids in a folding bed,

one turned over to the other and said,

"I can't give you anything but love."

Two old maids in a folding bed,

one turned over to the other and said,

"I believe in miracles,

strange as it may seem."

Two old maids in a folding bed,

one turned over to the other and said,

"It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing."

Two old maids in a folding bed,

one turned over to the other and said,

"No! No! A thousand times no!

I'd rather die than say yes."

Don't explain it to him, lady.

Let him catch on for himself.

Two old maids in a folding bed,

one turned over to the other and said,

"Yes, we have no bananas!

We have no bananas today!"

I thought you'd never get here.

What's the trouble? Why'd ya send for me?

There's something over there

I thought you might be interested in.

Pour away.

-Gesundheit! -Ya!

I'll say I am.

Frank, see that little blond over there?

Soon as you can, you and Tony hone into the table

next to 'em, see?

When I give you the high sign, start the old phony fight.

Make it plenty tough and real.

See you don't hurt none of them punks, understand?

You don't mean to say you're gonna use

the strong-arm stuff on that, do ya?

Why not?

I had a long talk with the big chief last night.

He's getting soft.

He says booze was all right, but he's a little skittish

on the girl and dope rackets.

He wants to quit.

What?

He can't quit.

Nobody can quit the rackets and live.

Not when they're in it as steep as he is anyway.

Why don't you let him quit?

You'll be the big shot then.

I am the big shot now.

He only thinks he is.

I need him for a front for a while anyway.

Why the girl?

Chief's bugs about cute little blonds.

I'm gonna give it to him as bait.

That'll keep him quiet until I need him.

Hurry up, can't you?

Where?

Eddie!

Eddie!

Oh, Eddie!

Eddie, wake up!

No!

Oh, beat it, you.

This is my brother.

Eddie...

Jane!

No.

No, not Jane.

There isn't any more Jane.

I'm Lil, a gangster's discarded moll.

You understand that, Eddie?

No one must ever connect me with Jane Bradford.

Oh, but what are you doing here?

Why did you ever come to the city?

I came to find you and take you home.

You must get away,

back to the country and sunshine.

It isn't too late for you.

Yes.

Yes, yes, we'll go home now.

No.

No, it's too late for me.

Girls can't come back.

Oh, but you can, Eddie, you must!

Oh, no, I'm a--I'm a dope, I'm a hophead.

No, you're not!

You're just in the first stages.

You can snap out of it.

Eddie, you must, you've got to go home!

No, I can't go home, I have no way, no money.

I'll get you the money.

Lots of it.

Where do you live?

Mrs. Grady's rooming house on Charles Street.

Come on.

Come on, now you go home and wait for me.

You know you're not wanted anymore around here, Lil.

But I've got to see Nick.

They told me over at the La Fonda

-that he came here. -Well, you can't go in.

You know, they're pretty rough on girls

-they don't want around. -Oh, I don't care

what they do to me.

I must see Nick.

Listen, Lil...

You were pretty white when you were in the money,

so I'm gonna take a chance.

You know, they'd put me on the spot

if they ever found out.

Nick's down at the hideaway.

Just took a girl there.

Come on, you, beat it!

You can't hang around here!

I smelled gas in the hall,

so I opened the door and come in.

The place was fairly blue.

And there she lay just as she is now.

And so I sent for you and a doctor.

She won't need a doctor.

I'll send for the coroner.

You see that no one enters here

and disturbs anything until I get back.

Do you, uh...

think it was suicide?

No, Mrs. Grady.

I think we'd be justified in considering it accidental.

Poor kid.

Oh, now don't be so stubborn, dearie.

Why, if you'd only listen to reason.

Why don't you listen to reason?

My father is rich.

If you let me out of here,

I'll give you a thousand dollars.

Not for a million, dearie.

I want to live a little while.

Oh, what are they going to do with me?

Well, I heard Nick say the big chief is very fond

of cute little blonds.

They wouldn't dare do that to me.

My father would have them hung.

Yeah, by the time you're able to get word to your father,

you won't want to.

Why, you'd be ashamed to ever see him again.

Nick? Nick!

It's Lil, let me in, I've got to see you!

That's an old hophead.

Probably crazy for a shot.

Where's Nick? They told me he was here.

-I've got to see him. -Nick's gone

to call the big chief.

Couldn't call his number from this place.

Now you better not be here when he gets back.

I've got to see him, I've got to have some money,

-a lot of it. -Yes, you know

he wouldn't give you a cup of coffee.

He's through with you.

You say you need money?

All right, I'll give you money,

a thousand dollars if you'll get me out of here.

-A thousand dollars? -Shut up, you fool, and get...

Oh, stop it!

You say you'll give me a thousand dollars.

-You mean it? - I swear it.

-Give me that key. -They'll kill you for this.

I don't care what they do to me.

I'm going to earn that thousand dollars.

Now give me that key.

No, don't come.

We'd never get out of here alone.

I'll phone for help.

Give me the police.

Hello. Come to 76 Byron Street, quick!

It's life or death.

Nick! Tony, help!

You keep quiet.

Get hold of yourself, help's coming.

What's this?

What are you doing here?

-Stop, Nick, or I'll kill you! -You wouldn't dare.

Drop that gat.

That's the big chief, drop that gun

and get out of here before he gets here.

Stop, Nick, I swear, I'll kill you!

Dad!

Oh, Dad, I knew you'd come and get me.

Well, who did it?

I did.

Well, you ought to get a medal for it.

But they'll most likely hang you.

They can't, Dan.

She did it in self-defense.

Well...

I've been after you a long time,

but I didn't think I'd get the goods on ya this way.

-What do you mean? -You know what I mean.

You're rotten, Farley,

but I didn't think you'd drag her into this.

You're crazy, copper.

Nick grabbed this girl at the Dead Rat.

He had nothing to do with it.

Then what's he doing here?

Well, I phoned him just before I phoned you.

That's quick thinking, Lil, but it's no use.

-I'll have your job for this. -No, you won't, Farley.

All your... money is not gonna

cover you up this time.

We've got you dead to rights.

Are you accusing my father of being a criminal,

-a gangster? -I'm sorry, Dorothy,

but that's exactly what I'm doing.

Your father is the mysterious big shot and brains

behind all this rotten mess of rackets.

You lie, Dan.

I know that isn't true.

No, it isn't true.

He was the big shot.

She's just trying to make it easy for you, Dorothy,

but it's true all right.

Jack, take him outside.

That was a nice gesture, Lil.

I'll remember that at your trial.

It isn't true, Dad, it can't be!

Don't worry, Dorothy.

Everything will be all right.

Take the other woman as a material witness.

Hey, you can't pinch me!

You've got nothing on me. Let me go!

Keith, you won't let them take me!

-You'll protect me, won't you? -Shut up.

Go along quietly.

Then it is true.

You are a racketeer.

Where did you think the money was coming from

that you and your mother have been throwing away?

Oh, Bob, take him down to the wagon,

and be careful, he's plenty hard.

I'll see that Dorothy gets home all right.

So you've been making love to me all this time

just so you could spy on my father.

Well, that was the general idea in the beginning,

but, lately,

well, I've--I've fallen for you, Dorothy, hard.

So, you see, it's all in the line of duty.

Just who are you, Dan?

I'm lieutenant, in charge of the vice squad.

Maybe that explains why you're always so bossy.

Well, it explains why I'm always around

trying to keep silly little girls out of jams.

Please, Dan, don't scold me.

If I don't scold you, will you promise me one thing?

What?

That you'll stop this questing.

I don't need to go questing anymore.

I've found my prince.