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- Subtitles - Luís Filipe Bernardes

That's the house.

Supposing Slick don't choose to come.

Are you kidding? How generous do you think Marsha is?

That makes you feel good?

It don't make me feel nothing.

Well, if you think I'm getting a charge out of it, you're wrong, Slick.

You asked for it.

And what are you asking for?

Singing to the DA.

Nobody likes a pigeon.

Not even cops.

The syndicate's moving in and it's goodbye to Reno and all the rest of those bums.

Then meet Mr. Big.

Glad to know you while you're still alive.

Mr. Big.

That kind of remark is bad luck.

Do we have to do this job personally?

Personally.

That answer your question, Axe?

Well, why can't Maxie's mouthpiece put the fix in?

He's a lush, that's why.

- But, Joe... - Shut up!

Nobody puts the finger on Joe Reno and gets away with it.

And don't you ever forget it.

Duncan.

Reno.

Ain't it a coincidence, I was just talking to Marsha about you guys.

You must be getting lots of experience talking about is.

Look, Reno, Marsha's a hep dame.

Why, she's got a mouth like a steel trap.

We know, Slick.

Don't! Don't! Let me go!

I'll give you anything!

Don't!

Hello, operator, give me the police quick.

Huh? Oh, It's Hollywood 76311

Hello? Listen.

I'm in a parking lot in the corner of, uh...

Buena...

It's in back of the Empire Theater.

I just saw a man killed.

Yes, sir, we'll get a patrol car down there immediately.

Your name, please.

Your name, please.

For a minute there I was all set to scream.

Waking up and finding a man in my bedroom.

Then I remembered it's my husband.

Two years.

I still think it's pretty wonderful.

You've set an all-time record.

Came down here to get into pictures and ended up marrying a high school teacher.

- Are you sorry? - Sure.

If I had held out, I might have nabbed a college professor.

Oh, sometimes I wish I'd been born with two heads,

then I good get rid of the one that gets the migraines all the time.

I'm a big help sitting around here with the medicine in my pocket.

I'll get some water.

Well, that isn't helping our water bill any.

Where are the pills?

Oh, in the jacket.

I guess I left them in the drugstore.

Get up in the middle of the night,

rush out to get medicine for my wife and then forget it.

That shows you the advantages of a high IQ.

Never mind my headache, dear. What's yours?

Oh, I never had a headache in my life.

- Not enough brains. - Alan.

I'd better get down back to that hot water bag employee and pick up your pills.

Edie.

I saw something coming home tonight.

Something that kind of upset me.

Oh, it wasn't very important.

The way you're acting I'd say it was very important.

Edie, it's too late for psychoanalysis.

I'll pick up the pills and be back in ten minutes.

All right, Alan.

Are you Alan Avery?

Yes.

Here are your pills.

Them ain't cops at all!

I spotted them right off, the phonus balonus.

Ah, that's that St. Valentine's Massacre back in Chicago

You see, baby?

I got a photographic memory, just like a hawk.

Uh-huh.

Do I have to keep on reading, Maxie?

How many pages you finished?

I'll keep on reading.

Oh, what creeps!

They talk about the good old days, ha-ha!

What are you getting all steamed up about?

It all practically happened before we were born.

It's a professional interest I got, baby.

I don't like to see bad workmanship.

besides which, knocking off seven guys at once!

That's lousy public relations.

Well, why ain't you reading?

You and me have been together for almost two years.

You've asked me to do a lot of things.

But you never asked me to read before.

Look, I got a lawyer. I pay him a hundred grand a year.

He says we gotta get real coaching.

Otherwise our neighbors ain't never gonna speak to us.

Let alone knock on our doors.

Yeah.

How are you gonna get any of the culture if I do all the reading?

Look, cookie, we're a team.

You read the book, fill me in on the score.

Ha! What phonies!

What's so special about culture?

You gotta learn things, Marie.

That goes for everybody, male and female.

I learned a lot of things without no books.

Yeah.

And if you use any one of them with anybody but me, I'll break both your legs.

The stuff I'm talking about is strictly social.

What I'm talking about is strictly social too.

What?

I'm reading.

Get rid of the book.

Pardon me, I'm in the middle of a paragraph.

Yeah!

I can't make up my mind.

This is Joe. We just suffered a sad loss.???

Your canary died.

Yeah. We're out here near Waterfield or someplace.

I told you last time it was absolutely the last time.

Sure, boss, a very healthy climate.

Dry.

Are you guys living it up?

No, boss, it ain't that kind of a place.

Okay.

He was with me up until an hour from now.

Excuse the slight interruption.

I finished the paragraph.

You know what that book's all about?

No.

The Greeks.

You mean somebody wrote a whole book about Nick and his cousins?

Somebody wrote a whole book about the Greeks in Greece.

- Oh, them. Greek Greeks. - Yeah.

And these ones are all dead.

Well, that's life.

That's culture.

Look, baby, you can tell me all about it in the morning.

- I'm liable to forget. - So you forget.

So who made me read the book?

Alright.

Tell me about them Greeks.

Blood.

Nobody bleeds that much and lives.

Now, you say somebody did see a murder committed.

- That was you. - Well, why me?

We found your pills in that phone booth.

You've seen my wife.

She doesn't belong in a firing line anywhere.

And me, well, teachers just don't make very convincing heroes.

They make good witnesses.

Ernie, Lt. Johnson wants to see Avery at the station.

All right. Here we go.

I read the papers, I go to the movies, I watch television.

I've seen the innocent bystander who finds himself in the middle.

He's the key witness who becomes the bright and shiny target...

...unless he keeps his mouth shut.

You know, lieutenant, that description could fit me.

And why should I open my mouth?

That was a gang killing. What have I got to do with gangsters?

Did you ever get your suit cleaned, Mr. Avery?

Sure.

Well, whatever you paid, about 20 or 30% wound up in Maxie Meadows' pocket.

You buy milk, vegetables, drugs?

Isn't that a police job?

We've pulled Meadows in a dozen times, maybe more,

we've put cuffs on his lieutenants, rousted his men.

We've never been able to make a charge stick.

Why not, lieutenant?

Isn't that a question you should be asking yourself, Mr. Avery?

You teach kids.

How much do you know about juvenile delinquency?

A little.

It's increasing.

You mentioned your wife.

That she's gonna have a kid.

Don't you care about the world it's going to grow up in?

I think your wife would, Mr. Avery.

All right.

The car they used was a...

...black sedan.

The license number was, uh...

JPF... 393.

The pig bled all over the trunk.

I read some place once how much blood a guy's got in him.

- You won't believe it. - No?

How much?

I don't remember.

Go get a pail of water and some rags and clean this mess up thorough.

Right away, Joe pal.

Axe!

The plates on the car.

Thought I told you to change them.

They're registered to me.

Look... don't worry, Joe. I mean...

Slick ain't gonna press charges.

Slick ain't all you got to worry about.

Yeah.

Well, I'll get the water and stuff, huh?

Joe!

Hold it right where it is, Reno!

Now, let's see your hands.

Come over here.

Bring the Axe up across.

- ??? - Yeah, handcuff them.

Thirty years on the force and that's all you got to be a sergeant.

A hundred bucks a week sergeant.

It isn't the money that keeps me working, it's the people I hate.

You're gonna need a lot more when you're out pounding the beat.

I wonder how your flat feet will like that.

Get going.

"Okay now. Turn and face front."

"I said face front!"

"Get your hands down, you're not looking for anybody."

"You're here to be looked at."

"Now."

"First man on the line."

"That's right, you."

"What's your name, address, and occupation?"

- My name is Jones. "Can't hear you, speak up."

Billy Jones.

I got no address right this minute.

I'm a construction worker.

All right, Mr. Avery, take plenty of time. Look these men over carefully.

I don't need any more time.

I'll not be able to forget either of those men as long as I live.

Identify them.

It's the third man and the fifth man, and the fifth man did the actual killing.

- Are you sure, Mr. Avery? - I'm sure.

Sure enough to testify in court, Mr. Avery?

- Yes. - This is Capt. Finch.

Yes, Captain.

Turn it off, Murphy.

That's all men, get moving.

You're a brave man, Mr. Avery.

- Is that statement correct, Mr. Avery? - Yes.

Will you sign it, please?

Would you witness that?

Mr. Avery, Reno and Duncan, along with a man named Slick Connor,

had been indicted on a narcotics charge.

Connor had agreed to turn state's evidence.

Your description of the murdered man fits, but we want to be sure.

Any one of these is the photograph of the murdered man?

He's the one.

That's Connor.

- See that Mr. Avery gets home. - Okay, lieutenant.

There's one point I want to make clear, Mr. Avery.

The statement you've just signed is not going to be enough.

You're going to have yo testify in court when the time comes.

I'll be there.

One other thing, Mr. Avery.

Up to this point, no one but the police you were an eyewitness to the murder.

Better keep it that way for your own safety.

I'm perfectly willing to say that it's for our case too.

Good night, Mr. Avery.

Let's get going.

There's been a leak, the hall is full of reporters.

Get him out the other way.

It's been ringing quite a while.

- Why don't you answer it? - It's 2 o'clock in the morning, Bryce.

That makes it a business call.

You don't want any part of my business, do you?

No, I don't.

A hundred thousand dollars a year and...

...you're proud.

No, ashamed.

Yeah.

Yeah, this is Bryce Barker, counselor at law and honor student.

(inaudible)

Maxie Meadows' boy Freddie.

What's your problem?

"Alright, governor, go do your business."

Yeah.

Another errand for Maxie's boy?

I understand you're holding one of my clients.

Joseph Reno and Bernard Duncan.

Oh, you must mean the Axe.

- Thank you. - They were booked here.

- May I see them? - They're not here.

But you said they...

I said that I booked them, I didn't say they were being held here.

Then where are they being held?

You know, nobody bothered to tell me.

- Would you happen to know? - Say, nobody didn't tell me either.

If you force me, I could awaken Judge MacLaine and get a writ.

I bet you could at that. But where would you serve it?

That's not the way to the front door.

Good night.

You got here pretty fast.

Hello, Finch.

Where are Reno and Duncan?

But not fast enough.

They're taking the grand tour.

In and out of every precinct in town.

You won't get to them for at least two days.

Maxie wants them out right away.

On a murder charge?

The charge can be changed.

Not when you have an eyewitness.

Or anyone willing and able to testify.

Eyewitness? Who?

A schoolteacher named Avery.

I tipped the papers.

His picture will be in the front page of every paper in town in the morning.

Alan.

You should have waked me sooner, honey.

Now I won't have time to fix you a decent breakfast.

Oh, I already fixed it.

Is that what you call breakfast?

Well, I wasn't very hungry.

Where's the paper?

I guess it didn't come this morning. I'll bring one home with me.

But I heard the paper boy's car.

Must have been some other jalopy.

Was there something about... you in the paper this morning, and the murder?

How should I know?

Where is the paper, Alan?

Alan!

What you saw wasn't just hoodlums, it was something more important.

Well, don't let it upset you, Edie.

???somebody else in the Headline.

It says here that one of the men you identified...

...was Joe Reno,

second-in-command to Maxie Meadows...

head of organized crime in the city.

Why have the police involved you in all this?

I saw two thugs kill a man...

I identified them in the police line-up.

and I'll testify against them when the time comes.

But now they know who you are and what you look like.

Alan, in cases like this, sometimes...

...witnesses have been killed.

Oh, Edie.

For two years in the career...

...there was a whole army on the other side trying to kill me.

They didn't even come close.

Maybe you could take a leave-of-absence from school, we could go some place.

And hide?

Edie, I'm the wrong type for that.

I'm just a mule-headed math teacher.

And besides,

if I quit my job, who's gonna keep you and it out of hock?

Well, we have some money put aside.

Alan, I'm so afraid for you.

Oh, there's the bell.

Now, please don't be upset, and don't worry too much.

See you tonight.

Listen, counselor,

I don't need to learn about the facts of life out of a newspaper.

When I phoned you last night, Maxie,

I told you then that Joe and the Axe were being held on a murder charge.

But I told you then to get them out!

There's no bail on a murder charge.

A hundred grand a year I pay you for information like that.

Why, any punk just out of law school is that smart.

That's what I was when you hired me, a punk out of law school.

Hah! I don't need a course in ancient history.

Maxie, stop screaming, it ain't good for your vocal cords.

- Look, honey, you lay off my vocal cords. Besides, it ain't cultured.

I'll teach you something about culture.

Shut up!

Put the drink down.

If I want brains pickled in alcohol,

I'll buy it in a medical lab.

You understand?

Chester! Better shut off that overgrown sewing machine now.

Chester!

Sure, boss, anything, you say!

Listen, counselor,

You ain't the one who found out about Joe and the Axe last night.

While they was being booked, you was home in bed...

...with your hearing aid turned off, right?

So was Captain Finch.

That sterling member of the police force who got the information to you.

How many gees has he cost you, Maxie?

He's worth everything I pay him.

I told you before they're being booked on a murder charge.

The police have an eyewitness.

Alright, counselor.

Then buy me his eyes.

He's a schoolteacher, Maxie.

So he's a schoolteacher.

Gets paid peanuts. That should be an easy buy.

What I meant was...

...a man like that might not sell at all.

Could be someone with principles.

Could be honest.

Yeah.

Everybody's got principles.

Everybody's honest.

Till the price is right.

I want Reno out of jail.

The syndicate is moving into town.

They're trying to set up their own wire services.

If they do,

That'll be the end of Maxie Meadows.

And I'm not going to let him get away with it.

That's why I need Reno.

Alright, counselor, go make your pitch.

I'll do the best I can, Maxie.

No, you'll do better than that.

You've been swimming in scotch all year and I don't like it.

You louse this up and...

...maybe you'll drown.

Hey, Chester, come here!

Yeah, boss.

I feel lousy.

Whatever you say, boss.

Hey, Chester, you remember your title fight?

Poor Punch-Drunk Pug.???

Maybe it's a good thing you don't remember.

You'd never get close to him.

You know?

It was just like he had knives for boxing gloves.

Yeah. Yeah, I can remember that.

Well, look, just, uh...

I want you to do me a favor.

We gotta buy some insurance.

This guy Avery, he's married. He's a schoolteacher.

The address, everything, the whole bit, it's right there.

He's on his job now, so his wife's all alone.

I want you to go there and slap her around a bit.

Slap her around a bit.

Now, Chester, don't hurt her too much.

I just want that schoolteacher to get the right idea.

Yeah, boss.

Alright, get going.

Marie!

I don't feel so good, honey.

That's it.

Hurry up, baby.

Beautiful city, beautiful setting.

Beautiful scenery, Johnny.

Beautiful, Mr. Tomkins.

What a shame so lovely a city had to be run for so long...

by a slob like Maxie Meadows.

Well, that's why we're here, ain't it?

I mean, isn't it, Mr. Tomkins?

Precisely.

Once we install our wire service,

Maxie will, I think, gracefully retire to obscurity.

Supposing he don't want to retire?

He's got troops.

Not as many as he once had, it would appear.

Besides, the syndicate's got troops too, ain't they? I mean, hasn't they?

What a pity Joe Reno can't enjoy the scenery.

Reno?

- He's Maxie's right hand. - I've always been very fond of Joe.

He worked for me on the coast some years ago.

Murder Incorporated.

I've told you never to use that expression.

I find it both sensational and vulgar.

Sorry, Mr. Tomkins.

Johnny.

Make some weak excuse and leave.

You haven't touched your drink, Mr. Avery.

I'm not going to touch any part of your proposition either.

You're a young man.

Married, starting your own family.

It's no secret schoolteachers don't get paid a lot.

It's no secret.

Why think of my suggestion as a shady proposition.

My principal authorized me to see that you are financially rewarded.

I think he might even finance a trip abroad.

I've been abroad.

Korea. I didn't especially enjoy the experience.

Just who is your principal?

I can't see that that matters.

Well, maybe not.

But I know it's dirty money I'm being offered, I was just wondering how dirty.

That doesn't sound like you're going to be reasonable, Mr. Avery.

Well, if you mean it doesn't sound like I'm going to change my testimony,

you're right.

You mentioned Korea.

You know,

That sounds like a much better place to be a hero in.

I'm not trying to be a hero.

And I could use the money.

But I'm afraid I'd keep seeing the blood on it.

Edie!

Hey, Edie!

Edie! Edie!

Edie.

You know something?

Some of the best ideas I got I got sitting in a barber's chair.

Moving in on the dry-cleaning rackets.

Oh, that's been years ago now.

I decided on that...

...sitting in a barber's chair at Lefty's downtown.

A real brain that Lefty, but he...

...couldn't keep his hands off the other guy's dolls.

You remember his funeral?

Everybody was there. Even the Black Hand sent him a wreath.

There was so many dolls leaking out the eyes the footing got muddy.

Yeah.

- Well, be my guest. - Whatever you say, boss.

Did you take care of that schoolteacher's wife?

I slapped her around a bit.

Didn't overdo it, did you: - No.

She passed out almost right away.

Dames ain't very strong.

Don't give long odds on that.

I haven't heard from Barker yet.

Maybe that schoolteacher's playing hard to get.

Hey, Marie, get off the dime, huh?

Alright, alright.

Four twenty.

Keep the change.

Car 16.

I just dropped a fare at the 600 block of Doheny.

He had a rod. Looks like he plans to use it.

Hey, Marie, hurry up, will you? I'm starving to death.

I'm coming, I'm coming.

Why, you've been starving ever since I met you.

Can I help it, baby, if I have big appetites?

You know, Maxie, you look real distingué.

You too, baby.

The only thing I can't figure out...

...you get all dressed up just to eat dinner in your own back yard.

Garden. 150 grand it's a back yard.

- Over 150 grand it's a... - Yeah, I know. It's a garden.

You know, it's like them Englishmen in the jungle.

Don't they always get dressed up for dinner?

To set a good example for the natives.

Where did the natives get dinner clothes?

You know, baby, sometimes I think you ain't absolutely stupid.

Ah, Maxie.

Eddie!

Cabbie spotted a gun. Has an idea you'd be here.

Guess the war's over.

Hey, what's going on here?

Oh, wait a minute, I recognize him.

His picture was in the paper.

He's that schoolteacher Avery, ain't he?

- He's Avery. - What are you men holding him for?

Because if we didn't hold him, he'd kill you.

- For what? - His wife is dead!

Oh, wait a minute, uh...

I didn't have nothing to do with that.

- And who's gun is that? - Mine.

Since when do cops carry automatics?

Hey, what gives here?

The guy comes gunning for me, and the police sergeant covers for him.

Look, I'm gonna proffer charges.

Charges of what?

He's a trespasser!

Okay, that's good enough for me.

Get him out of here.

- I'm gonna kill you. - Get out of here!

Threats against a private citizen's life, who does he think he is?

He's a man whose wife was murdered a couple of hours ago.

She's been carrying a kid for eight months.

He thinks one of your hoods did it.

I think so too.

Sergeant, you got no proofs.

Not yet, Maxie. But I will have.

All I asked you was to slap her around a bit!

But, boss...

We're booking Alan Avery on a trespassing charge

- Who's proffering charges? - Maxie Meadows.

Maxie Meadows.

Okay, Ernie, he's booked.

- Want me to put him in a cell? - Not yet.

Mr. Avery, please come with me.

Sit down, son.

He was out there all right.

He almost killed Maxie. I almost hated to stop him.

Did Maxie get into the act?

Oh, sure, he proffered charges against him.

- I just booked him. - Assault with intent to kill, huh?

No, trespassing.

The assault evidence got lost.

Anything on the murder?

So far nothing.

Cigarette?

I hate seeming critical of the police.

But aren't you arresting the wrong man?

We don't have any evidence against Meadows.

We're booking him on his charge...

...because it simplifies matters. I was gonna pull you in anyway.

Why? Because I was stupid enough to let my wife be murdered?

Because you're the only weapon we have against Meadows.

Your evidence is going to put Joe Reno and the Axe in the gas chamber.

We're hoping they panic and implicate Meadows.

We'll get him, Allan, I promise you.

You hope.

Now where's that cell you got all picked out for me?

Come on, son.

Good morning, darling.

Do I detect a chill in the air this morning?

I don't like the news this morning.

That law school you went to.

Did they give classes in murder too?

Diane, I didn't know anything about this.

All I did was meet Avery and make him an offer.

All right, so I... so I tried to bribe him.

But Maxie didn't tell me anything about...

Is there anything you know that Maxie didn't tell you?

- Maybe he told you to marry me too. - Ann!

I married you because I loved you.

I do too.

But not anymore.

Save it for Maxie.

Boss wants to see you upstairs.

Good morning, counselor.

Why didn't you tell me you were going to have Avery's wife murdered?

It was an accident.

The dame was in lousy shape, that's all.

Oh, forget it, we've got more important things to worry about.

Not me. How important can the life of a woman be?

Don't get high tone with me, pal.

I might take away that 100 thousand gees I give you.

Without it you wouldn't be able to buy batteries for that hearing aid!

Let's keep you up here!

Joe Reno and the Axe are in jail on a murder charge, right?

The eyewitness wouldn't buy. The cops got him in the clink too.

Looks bad, don't it, huh?

Could look better.

Cops never did find Slick Connor's body, did they?

No, but they can get a murder conviction without it.

Not if the body shows up alive.

It's a real pleasure to be invited over to your house, Maxie.

This is Mike Scipio.

He's one of my bookies.

He's been holding out on me recently. Thinks I didn't know it.

Maxie, I wouldn't do a thing like that to you.

Aw, shut up!

Take a good look at the bum.

He looks a lot like Slick Connor, don't he?

Sort of.

In a dark park at night he could easily be mistaken for Slick, couldn't he?

Possibly.

Scipio.

How would you like to do me a favor?

Anything, Maxie, just name it.

That's fine.

You cooperate real good now...

...and I'll forget all about the dough you took out of the damper.

As a matter of fact, I'll throw in a gee or so beside.

Oh, you don't have to do that, Maxie.

It'll be my pleasure.

All you gotta do is go to the cops.

Tell them you was the guy who was having an argument...

...with Joe Reno in the accident the parking lot.

- I'm on my way, boss. - Not yet!

I don't get it, Maxie.

You will.

Think it'll work.

It's subornation for perjury.

Don't give me the law books, counselor, I asked you a question.

Do you think it'll work?

No.

The resemblance isn't close enough to shake Avery's testimony.

Specially in view of the fact that Reno and...

...the Axe must have given Slick a pretty good going over before they killed him.

Scipio looks too healthy.

He won't.

Barker.

Barker!

The concert's over.

Keep your volume up and have a look at your witness.

He looks a lot more like Slick now, don't he?

I was the fellow who had the argument with Joe Reno and the Axe that night.

They threw me into the trunk of the Lincoln...

...because I was bleeding so much.

Then they take me home.

I'm gonna charge them with assault and battery.

My name is Mike Scipio.

- I live at 200 South Park St... - All right, turn it off.

Well, Avery?

No.

That's all.

Are you sure you're not mistaken?

The man I saw was dead.

The parking lot was dark, it was night.

- The dead man had no accent. - Your word against Scipio's.

We have no body to produce and they do, and their body's alive.

No, wait a minute.

Just what kind of a game is this?

The murder charge against Reno and Duncan was changed to simple assault.

Bail was provided and they were released from city jail an hour ago.

Well, how about me?

Meadows never signed a complaint.

You're free and safe.

And no murder charge against anyone, you're a witness to nothing.

Reno, Axe, I feel good now.

Real good.

With you guys out of jail, this is kinda like a...

...class reunion.

California State Reformatory.

Come again.

What is it the Greeks had a word for?

Reno.

With you and me and the Axe together again,

with a sharp mouthpiece like the counselor's here.

Gentlemen!

This is our finest hour!

The syndicate ain't gonna be no problem.

I don't mind admitting.

For a recent while things have been kinda lousy, but now...

Hey, boss.

- What do you want? - Them operators you sent for is here.

I want a hit on that schoolteacher.

He's getting out tonight.

You know where his house is? I don't want any slip-ups.

If he's there, we'll take care of him.

Why did you send those hoods after Avery?

There's nothing against Reno and the Axe anymore.

Oh, there ain't, huh?

Supposing the cops break down Scipio.

All of a sudden they're back in the clink.

No. I want him dead, see?

Especially now I want him dead.

You know why, because he's got a gun.

You know who he wants to use that gun on? Me!

No.

I'm not gonna move out of this house till they've got him.

That guy's a raving maniac. You can't protect against a nut like that.

Hey!

Where are you going, pal?

Out.

Out of this house, out of 100 thousand dollars a year.

And out of all the blood and filth I've live with the last ten years.

All on account of a schoolteacher?

All on account of myself... and my wife.

And whatever's left for me.

That does it.

I want a hit on him too!

Tonight's the end, I told him, right to his face.

Tomorrow morning...

I want to tell my little wife.

"baby, we got all the time in the world."

The whole world, see?

You're early... Oh!

I thought you were the porter.

I'm not early at all?

Are you satisfied he isn't here, Mr. Avery?

Well, I'll just wait for him.

I think I understand a little of what you're suffering.

I lost someone I loved too.

But I lost him a long time ago.

Please don't hurt him.

I did love him once.

- It's all very touching.

The trouble is I keep remembering Edie.

Oh, Bryce.

Here, let me help you.

Mr. Barker, I came up here to talk to you.

He can't hear a word you're saying.

Something's happened to his hearing aid.

Looks like there's something wrong with him.

He's been shot.

Shot.

Emergency.

Will you call me an ambulance, please?

- Avery! - Don't try to talk.

Avery.

Every gun in town's got orders to kill you.

Better hide.

Okay.

It's Christmas Eve.

Maxie's giving a big party.

I have a gun.

You might have a chance...

...to get him.

They're sending an ambulance right away.

You'd better go, I think.

Oh, Bryce.

Diane.

I told... I told Maxie tonight.

Bryce Barker, attorney-at-law is...

...leaving.

Leaving... leaving to find the man he was...

...ten years ago.

No good anyway, huh?

Oh, Bryce.

Took me...

Took me ten years to...

...to blow out your love for me.

I certainly managed... managed that all right, didn't I?

That's not true.

I was going to leave you.

But Bryce, darling, I... I love you.

It used to make me so proud when he told me I was brilliant.

Yeah... I was brilliant all right.

A brilliant... a brilliant loser.

Who lost...

...self-respect.

And lost...

Lost you.

Look, Maxie.

- "Noel Noel", what's that for? - Decoration.

Decoration, are you nuts? This is a Christmas Eve party.

It's French.

French? Ha!

How cultural are you getting, anyway?

Do you think anybody's going to show up tonight, Maxie?

Sure they're going to show up.

When Maxie Meadows throws a Christmas Party, every bum in town shows up.

Yeah, but it's after 11, where are they?

They're gonna show.

When Maxie Meadows says they come to the house, they come.

You see, what did I tell you?

I'll tell Chester to start popping the corks.

Alright,you two, start on your dough.

And don't stop.

Play You'll Never Know.

♫ You'll never know ♫

♫ Just how much I miss you ♫

♫ You'll never know just how much ♫

♫ I care ♫

♫ And if I try... ♫

You take care of that schoolteacher?

Then what are you doing here?

When I put a dime on a job I expect you to stay on it until you act it out!

I took them off of that job, Maxie.

One of my boys?

No, Maxie, you don't have any more boys.

They're all on the syndicate's payroll now.

Except for Reno and the Axe, of course.

What about them?

Oh, they're back in the Bastille.

On a murder charge, the same murder charge.

What happened to Scipio?

Oh, we persuaded Mr. Scipio that there was no future in perjury.

Besides, it ain't truthful.

- Here it is, boss. - Shut up!

You expect me to take this laying down?

Lying or standing, Maxie, you're through.

Of course you can always subscribe to our wire service.

No!

♫ ...I don't know ♫

♫ You'll never know just how much ♫

♫ I miss you ♫

♫ You'll never know just how much ♫

♫ I care ♫

♫ And if I tried ♫

♫ I still couldn't hide my love for you ♫

♫ You ought to know ♫ ♫ Cause haven't I told you so ♫

♫ A million or more times ♫

♫ You went away and my heart ♫ ♫ Went with you ♫ ♫

♫ I speak your name in my every prayer ♫

♫ If there is some other way ♫ ♫ To prove that I love you ♫

Stop that noise! Get out of here!

Captain Finch!

Listen, mug!

They're sending a gyp to put the muscle on me.

Where was you when Reno and the Axe were sprung?

Captain Finch is no longer with the police department, Maxie.

Get going.

Why did they have to do this with Chester?

He's the only friend I've got.

- You still got me, Maxie. - Well, you're a dame.

Dames there's dimes a dozen.

Raise yourself another dime.

Wait a minute, baby, you're not running out on me.

After all them rocks I give you and that mink either?

Minks don't look good with bullet holes.

I bought you!

The sale's been canceled.

Don't, baby, I still got a lot of dough.

Dead men got no dough.

Meadows.

Meadows!

Marie.

- Subtitles - Luís Filipe Bernardes