1 00:02:21,987 --> 00:02:23,853 Every year, come spring... 2 00:02:23,956 --> 00:02:26,357 joyful news spreads up and down the land: 3 00:02:26,459 --> 00:02:28,621 "The circus is coming to town." 4 00:02:29,061 --> 00:02:32,964 From the gaily-colored train pour tons upon tons of equipment... 5 00:02:33,065 --> 00:02:36,524 hundreds of people and animals from all over the world. 6 00:02:39,271 --> 00:02:41,035 Camels from Egypt... 7 00:02:42,608 --> 00:02:44,406 horses from Arabia... 8 00:02:45,711 --> 00:02:47,646 elephants from Africa... 9 00:02:51,417 --> 00:02:53,215 and Ilamas from Peru. 10 00:02:53,953 --> 00:02:57,412 Ponies, lions, tigers, monkeys, and maybe kangaroos. 11 00:02:58,157 --> 00:03:01,594 Tons upon tons of food, for the circus gets hungry. 12 00:03:02,294 --> 00:03:04,991 Tons of meat, hay, grain... 13 00:03:05,164 --> 00:03:08,760 and mountains of peanuts, popcorn, Cracker Jack, hot dogs... 14 00:03:09,034 --> 00:03:11,503 and let's not forget pink lemonade. 15 00:03:19,845 --> 00:03:21,837 A corps of pressmen have been sent ahead... 16 00:03:21,947 --> 00:03:23,677 to ballyhoo the circus coming. 17 00:03:23,783 --> 00:03:27,481 And in a hundred different towns, the kids will be up early and working... 18 00:03:27,586 --> 00:03:30,715 setting up seats and hauling water for the elephants. 19 00:03:30,823 --> 00:03:34,021 The big top will rise, the deserted fairgrounds... 20 00:03:34,126 --> 00:03:36,618 the lonely parks and barren sandlots... 21 00:03:36,729 --> 00:03:40,757 will become, as if by magic, a place of laughter and thrills. 22 00:03:41,467 --> 00:03:45,529 Man and beast all have work to do to build a house of fun. 23 00:03:50,075 --> 00:03:52,510 The canvas boss and his roustabout crew... 24 00:03:52,611 --> 00:03:54,876 work hard till the job is done... 25 00:03:55,247 --> 00:03:58,376 while acrobats, jugglers, daredevils, freaks... 26 00:03:58,517 --> 00:04:00,713 pretty girls, trainers, clowns... 27 00:04:00,820 --> 00:04:04,120 make ready their acts of laughter and chills. 28 00:04:05,324 --> 00:04:09,819 Their job, to bring joy and happiness to the young and the old... 29 00:04:10,129 --> 00:04:13,156 the hopeful and despairing throughout the land. 30 00:04:27,580 --> 00:04:29,515 The circus is standing, the midway is filling... 31 00:04:29,615 --> 00:04:32,414 so strike up the band. Let the show go on. 32 00:04:32,618 --> 00:04:34,917 The animals are ready, the people are ready... 33 00:04:35,020 --> 00:04:38,422 ready to give all they've got, because they are, first and last... 34 00:04:38,591 --> 00:04:40,253 people of the circus... 35 00:04:40,359 --> 00:04:43,625 some of them fortunate, others living in a memory. 36 00:04:47,032 --> 00:04:51,299 I tell you, I'm not crazy, gentlemen. I'm as sane as any of you here. 37 00:04:52,938 --> 00:04:57,774 I know I did mad, strange things after I received this wound in Iwo Jima... 38 00:04:58,510 --> 00:05:01,412 but I'm normal now, normal as any man alive. 39 00:05:02,281 --> 00:05:04,648 You must realize that I am cured. 40 00:05:04,950 --> 00:05:07,943 You tell us so many different stories, and we check... 41 00:05:08,053 --> 00:05:10,045 and find you've told us a pack of lies. 42 00:05:10,155 --> 00:05:13,250 Perhaps you'd like to tell us something about this. 43 00:05:13,359 --> 00:05:16,989 The attendants have often observed you talking to this picture... 44 00:05:17,096 --> 00:05:19,088 a girl, circus performer. 45 00:05:25,437 --> 00:05:27,463 I beg your pardon, I.... 46 00:05:27,573 --> 00:05:30,168 You leave me so little privacy, I.... 47 00:05:31,677 --> 00:05:33,373 Yes, I talk to her. 48 00:05:34,246 --> 00:05:37,683 I often talk to her during the dull days and long nights. 49 00:05:38,784 --> 00:05:42,346 But, surely, I'm not the first man to want to remember a woman... 50 00:05:42,454 --> 00:05:44,980 and to wish to speak with her again? 51 00:05:45,791 --> 00:05:48,192 Now if this be lunacy, gentlemen... 52 00:05:48,394 --> 00:05:50,795 a fence would have to be built around the universe. 53 00:05:50,896 --> 00:05:53,730 Perhaps you'd like to talk to us about her. 54 00:05:54,967 --> 00:05:56,731 It's not a new story. 55 00:05:57,903 --> 00:05:59,269 I loved her... 56 00:06:00,306 --> 00:06:01,774 but she married another man. 57 00:06:01,874 --> 00:06:04,571 If you'd elaborate, perhaps we could help you. 58 00:06:04,677 --> 00:06:06,009 No, Doctor. 59 00:06:06,812 --> 00:06:09,213 No man can ever recapture a dream. 60 00:06:10,049 --> 00:06:12,143 You prefer not to elaborate? 61 00:06:17,756 --> 00:06:20,885 As usual, you've shown us very little cooperation. 62 00:06:21,393 --> 00:06:24,659 Lieutenant, you may escort the patient back to his room. 63 00:06:24,997 --> 00:06:28,024 A room? A cage! 64 00:06:29,335 --> 00:06:31,099 Thank you, gentlemen. 65 00:06:34,506 --> 00:06:38,307 - Your recommendation, Doctor? - No improvement, still hopeless. 66 00:06:39,111 --> 00:06:41,273 Maximum security recommended. 67 00:06:42,114 --> 00:06:43,810 Schizophrenic. 68 00:06:43,916 --> 00:06:47,080 Maximum security recommended, could be homicidal. 69 00:06:50,589 --> 00:06:53,388 Beautiful scenery from here. Once you're-- 70 00:07:26,825 --> 00:07:29,556 "All state police, all county municipal cars. 71 00:07:32,731 --> 00:07:35,530 "Escapee, driving a ton-and-a-half truck, painted green." 72 00:07:36,902 --> 00:07:39,667 "Approach with caution. Known to be dangerous." 73 00:08:29,788 --> 00:08:31,381 - Good evening. - Hi. 74 00:08:31,490 --> 00:08:32,822 This town is strange to me. 75 00:08:32,925 --> 00:08:34,393 Where is there a place around here... 76 00:08:34,493 --> 00:08:36,519 a man with a little money can get a decent meal? 77 00:08:36,628 --> 00:08:37,857 The Star, up on Main Street. 78 00:08:37,947 --> 00:08:39,298 I'm going up that way. I'll show you. 79 00:08:39,383 --> 00:08:40,438 Thank you very much. 80 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:42,790 Yeah, Star puts up a good blue plate for $1. 81 00:08:43,068 --> 00:08:44,366 Dandy. 82 00:09:10,262 --> 00:09:12,356 Steady and you're all right. 83 00:09:30,082 --> 00:09:32,642 And now for the late flash of local news. 84 00:09:32,751 --> 00:09:34,617 The mental patient, who yesterday morning... 85 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:38,657 escaped from the state institution, was found dead late last night... 86 00:09:38,757 --> 00:09:41,784 ground to bits under the wheels of a Transcontinental Limited... 87 00:09:41,894 --> 00:09:45,126 on which he was evidently attempting to steal a ride. 88 00:09:45,230 --> 00:09:47,631 This is Wendell Niles, saying good morning to you... 89 00:09:47,733 --> 00:09:50,066 after our before-dawn newscast. 90 00:09:50,769 --> 00:09:54,137 Gee, a guy would really have to be nuts to try to flip a Transcontinental. 91 00:09:54,239 --> 00:09:55,434 Ain't that the truth? 92 00:09:55,541 --> 00:09:57,942 Hey, mister, when does the Clyde Beatty Circus train get in? 93 00:09:58,043 --> 00:09:59,875 Pretty soon, one of the dispatchers just told me. 94 00:09:59,978 --> 00:10:01,674 You kids going to carry water for the elephants? 95 00:10:01,780 --> 00:10:03,806 - If we can get the job. - Sure, you'll get it. 96 00:10:03,916 --> 00:10:07,077 You know, I used to do that myself, once, when I was your size. 97 00:12:25,957 --> 00:12:27,949 - Why, it's.... - Yes, it is. 98 00:12:28,327 --> 00:12:31,729 - Been a long time, eh, Twitchy? - Yeah, it sure has. 99 00:12:32,931 --> 00:12:37,096 It's been a long time since you and I was drunk that night together. 100 00:12:38,136 --> 00:12:39,604 I remember that. 101 00:12:39,705 --> 00:12:42,937 That was the night that Clyde had to get that cat off of you. 102 00:12:43,275 --> 00:12:46,006 You know, I've been circusing a long time... 103 00:12:46,111 --> 00:12:50,344 and I think that's the most exciting thing that I have ever seen in my life. 104 00:12:50,582 --> 00:12:53,677 It was when you were crawling around on your hands and knees... 105 00:12:53,785 --> 00:12:55,481 and Clyde was holding the cat off... 106 00:12:55,587 --> 00:12:58,284 and he was laughing all at the same time. 107 00:12:59,791 --> 00:13:03,091 I'll never forget Beatty's laughter for as long as I live. 108 00:13:52,844 --> 00:13:56,872 What'd you do? Come back to try and get a job with the show? 109 00:13:56,982 --> 00:13:59,577 - Clyde does need a director. - No. 110 00:14:00,752 --> 00:14:03,449 No, I don't want a job, not just yet. 111 00:14:04,389 --> 00:14:06,153 Remember that night we were drunk... 112 00:14:06,258 --> 00:14:08,523 you told me how you hated Clyde? 113 00:14:08,827 --> 00:14:10,557 Well, I just couldn't figure that out... 114 00:14:10,662 --> 00:14:12,961 because I remember the time.... He saved your life, you know. 115 00:14:13,064 --> 00:14:15,727 People exchange confidences when they're drunk. 116 00:14:15,834 --> 00:14:18,201 You still dream of that dead girl? 117 00:14:18,870 --> 00:14:22,500 Dublin, you haven't told anybody about that, have you? 118 00:14:22,607 --> 00:14:24,098 Up to now, no. 119 00:14:24,576 --> 00:14:26,101 Listen, my friend... 120 00:14:26,211 --> 00:14:28,442 this cat gets loose tonight in the horse trailer. 121 00:14:28,547 --> 00:14:32,314 He gets loose, because you open the cage and you drive him in there. 122 00:14:32,417 --> 00:14:34,352 Well, you talk like a lunatic. 123 00:14:41,126 --> 00:14:43,994 I'll forgive you because you're illiterate. 124 00:14:45,096 --> 00:14:48,498 In the King's English, a lunatic is a person who acts without a motive. 125 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:50,660 I have a motive, my friend. 126 00:14:53,238 --> 00:14:55,469 Now get out of these clothes. We're going into town. 127 00:14:55,574 --> 00:14:57,509 I've got plans to discuss with you. 128 00:14:57,609 --> 00:15:00,670 - Get out of these clothes, and hurry! - But I tell you-- 129 00:15:11,923 --> 00:15:15,052 After Twitchy takes care of the training rope... 130 00:15:15,227 --> 00:15:18,527 you'll take care of Beatty. Huh, kitty-kitty? 131 00:15:32,043 --> 00:15:32,757 What's happened? 132 00:15:32,821 --> 00:15:34,871 Our kitty is loose in the horse trailer. 133 00:15:34,913 --> 00:15:37,781 - Shall I get Mr. Beatty? - Beatty's in town. Get a gun! 134 00:16:08,213 --> 00:16:11,775 - What are you doing? Swimming? - No, serenading. 135 00:16:12,083 --> 00:16:13,711 Looks good on you. 136 00:17:29,928 --> 00:17:31,853 That's beautiful, I think, Mrs. Valerie. 137 00:17:31,878 --> 00:17:32,581 Thank you. 138 00:17:32,664 --> 00:17:35,395 In Connecticut, I throw bounce in your net once... 139 00:17:35,500 --> 00:17:38,902 and for one month I go around with my neck like this. 140 00:17:39,204 --> 00:17:41,696 You've got to be careful playing in those nets, Gonzales. 141 00:17:41,806 --> 00:17:44,139 It takes lots of training and practice not to get hurt. 142 00:17:44,242 --> 00:17:46,074 - Hi, Mr. St. Dennis. - Hello, Pedro. How are you? 143 00:17:46,177 --> 00:17:46,974 Hello, darling. 144 00:17:47,078 --> 00:17:48,808 I see you got your talent back perfectly, huh? 145 00:17:48,913 --> 00:17:50,142 It's coming. 146 00:17:50,248 --> 00:17:52,444 Darling, do you want to fix the rigging for the matinee... 147 00:17:52,550 --> 00:17:55,418 and I'll go along and relieve the baby-sitter so she can eat, all right? 148 00:17:55,520 --> 00:17:56,818 - All right, sure. - Thank you. 149 00:17:56,921 --> 00:17:58,753 Take it easy, huh? Get a little rest. 150 00:17:58,857 --> 00:18:02,624 Your wife is very pretty and very nice, I think, Mr. St. Dennis. 151 00:18:02,727 --> 00:18:04,559 I think so, too, Pedro. 152 00:18:05,196 --> 00:18:06,664 Hey, Mr. Wallace? 153 00:18:06,765 --> 00:18:09,064 Could I have some more advance on my pay? 154 00:18:09,167 --> 00:18:11,659 What for? You'll only blow it on a dame, "I think." 155 00:18:11,770 --> 00:18:13,830 Well, that's what I mean. 156 00:18:13,938 --> 00:18:15,970 Put the rope on him, boys. 157 00:18:19,677 --> 00:18:21,578 You won't give up on that cat, will you Clyde? 158 00:18:21,679 --> 00:18:23,773 Going to work him a while on the training harness. 159 00:18:23,881 --> 00:18:26,407 - Kind of feel him out. - Now look... 160 00:18:26,517 --> 00:18:28,986 we can replace a cat on the show, we can't replace you. 161 00:18:29,087 --> 00:18:32,114 - That's a bad one, you know that. - All good ones are like that. 162 00:18:32,223 --> 00:18:33,953 I wouldn't give you a nickel for one without spunk. 163 00:18:34,058 --> 00:18:35,959 You wouldn't, now? Well, I would. 164 00:18:42,967 --> 00:18:44,526 Okay, Troy, let him in. 165 00:20:26,871 --> 00:20:27,998 Brother! 166 00:20:29,807 --> 00:20:32,174 What's the matter, Clyde? A bad rope? 167 00:20:32,476 --> 00:20:34,411 That rope was brand new. 168 00:20:40,952 --> 00:20:43,251 Hey, Mr. Wallace, you remember when I asked you... 169 00:20:43,354 --> 00:20:45,653 you should let me learn how to be a lion-tamer? 170 00:20:45,756 --> 00:20:47,520 - Yeah. - Well, I'll take it back. 171 00:20:48,259 --> 00:20:50,319 - Your IQ has gone up. - IQ? 172 00:20:50,661 --> 00:20:52,095 I don't know. 173 00:20:53,497 --> 00:20:55,762 I'll take it back, Mr. Wallace. 174 00:21:08,546 --> 00:21:10,208 Next time, Beatty. 175 00:22:15,646 --> 00:22:18,980 Still trying to make a trained dog out of a mutt, I see? 176 00:22:19,583 --> 00:22:22,747 I thought you wasn't ever gonna be seen on the lot again. 177 00:22:22,853 --> 00:22:25,049 Until now, Twitchy, until now. 178 00:22:26,991 --> 00:22:29,688 Couldn't you at least use a better brand? 179 00:22:30,628 --> 00:22:32,597 How's your money holding out? 180 00:22:32,697 --> 00:22:36,225 I wish you wouldn't make me do this. Clyde's my friend. 181 00:22:37,301 --> 00:22:39,930 A couple of times he paid for me to take the cure. 182 00:22:40,037 --> 00:22:42,905 - Pity it didn't work. - It wasn't his fault. 183 00:22:43,007 --> 00:22:44,942 Clyde's my friend, I tell you. 184 00:22:45,042 --> 00:22:48,911 He gave me a job when no other show in the country would have me. 185 00:22:49,013 --> 00:22:53,109 - He's my friend, a real friend. - I'm your real friend, too, Twitchy. 186 00:22:53,384 --> 00:22:55,979 Did I go to the police when I found out that you were wanted... 187 00:22:56,087 --> 00:22:58,249 and what you were wanted for? 188 00:23:20,277 --> 00:23:21,506 How's it going? 189 00:23:21,612 --> 00:23:23,513 All right up till now, but we're not through yet. 190 00:23:23,614 --> 00:23:25,515 What are you trying to do? Make something happen? 191 00:23:25,616 --> 00:23:27,676 I'm getting as jumpy as the rest of the troupe. 192 00:23:27,785 --> 00:23:31,688 Settle down. You're the ring director. Keep it going, we're running behind. 193 00:23:37,661 --> 00:23:40,130 There it is, girls, the jinx again. 194 00:23:40,231 --> 00:23:43,565 - Right in front of your eyes-- - All right, break it up! Out! 195 00:23:44,969 --> 00:23:47,438 - Listen, Tillie, cut out that mumbo. - Mumbo? 196 00:23:47,538 --> 00:23:50,406 Reading those cards, you're giving everybody the creeps, including me. 197 00:23:50,508 --> 00:23:53,034 - I sometimes give myself the creeps. - Well, cut it out. 198 00:23:53,144 --> 00:23:56,080 You're either the wardrobe mistress or an unemployed fortuneteller. 199 00:23:56,180 --> 00:23:57,773 Now make up your mind. 200 00:23:58,182 --> 00:24:01,243 Everything happened so quick you couldn't tell. 201 00:24:02,953 --> 00:24:04,444 What happened? 202 00:24:04,588 --> 00:24:07,820 I don't know. Some sort of a mix up, Mr. Wallace. 203 00:24:08,492 --> 00:24:10,324 We all seemed to get in each other's way... 204 00:24:10,428 --> 00:24:12,727 and there was a section of cage, fell right across his back. 205 00:24:12,830 --> 00:24:14,958 - Go get an ambulance. - Yeah. 206 00:24:15,599 --> 00:24:16,965 It's all right, Joe. 207 00:24:17,068 --> 00:24:19,503 Take it easy. We'll have you fixed up in no time. 208 00:24:19,904 --> 00:24:21,770 You tell me this show ain't jinxed? 209 00:24:21,872 --> 00:24:25,206 Wait a minute, you guys, what are you talking about? 210 00:24:25,309 --> 00:24:29,440 There is no jinx on this show. That was an accident, do you hear me? 211 00:24:29,713 --> 00:24:32,148 Just an accident is all. 212 00:24:33,884 --> 00:24:36,683 Twitchy must be hitting the bottle again. 213 00:25:44,622 --> 00:25:47,490 Sir, can you tell me where I can find Clyde Beatty? 214 00:25:47,591 --> 00:25:49,560 Go away, you bother me. 215 00:25:51,095 --> 00:25:52,757 How do you like that book? 216 00:25:52,863 --> 00:25:56,231 How do I like that book? Day and night, that's all-- 217 00:25:56,734 --> 00:25:57,895 Hey! 218 00:25:58,402 --> 00:26:00,861 - Ain't you Mickey Spillane? - Yeah, that's right. 219 00:26:01,172 --> 00:26:02,401 Well, that did it. 220 00:26:02,506 --> 00:26:05,340 I want to ask you a question. Why don't you like me? 221 00:26:05,442 --> 00:26:07,206 Never saw you before, did I? 222 00:26:07,311 --> 00:26:09,405 You want to know something? You ruined my life. 223 00:26:09,513 --> 00:26:12,244 I used to be a law-abiding citizen, minding my own business... 224 00:26:12,349 --> 00:26:14,181 good to my mother, good to my family... 225 00:26:14,285 --> 00:26:17,983 made the best coffee on the midway, then you come into my life. 226 00:26:18,255 --> 00:26:20,451 - What happened? - What happened? 227 00:26:20,558 --> 00:26:23,790 I'll show you what happened. This is what happened. 228 00:26:24,428 --> 00:26:26,761 That's all I ever do anymore, read the books. 229 00:26:26,864 --> 00:26:28,662 I don't even make coffee anymore. 230 00:26:28,899 --> 00:26:31,266 $42 I take in, in three months. 231 00:26:31,535 --> 00:26:33,299 I'll tell you what we'll do. 232 00:26:33,404 --> 00:26:36,203 Let's get you started on another author. Here's the latest. 233 00:26:36,473 --> 00:26:38,339 Fresh off the press. 234 00:26:38,676 --> 00:26:40,304 "Tonight, I Die." 235 00:26:41,011 --> 00:26:43,537 But, Mickey, I ain't even finished... 236 00:27:22,786 --> 00:27:25,654 Clyde doesn't want you worried about all the grief we've had lately. 237 00:27:25,756 --> 00:27:28,624 - Such as? - Well, I'll give you a short rundown. 238 00:27:28,726 --> 00:27:32,254 Like when we were in Frankfort, one of the cats got out... 239 00:27:32,363 --> 00:27:33,922 got into the horse car... 240 00:27:34,031 --> 00:27:36,500 clawed up about $10,000 worth of show horses. 241 00:27:37,101 --> 00:27:39,002 Clyde wasn't there to get the cat out. 242 00:27:39,103 --> 00:27:43,234 We had to shoot him, and there went a $10,000 tiger, just like that. 243 00:27:44,675 --> 00:27:46,610 Then we're going from Roanoke to Charlotte... 244 00:27:46,710 --> 00:27:50,147 fire breaks out, part of the trailer, $20,000 worth of equipment burned up. 245 00:27:50,247 --> 00:27:52,239 What, you think somebody's trying to sabotage you? 246 00:27:52,349 --> 00:27:54,944 Definitely. I'm going to show you why. 247 00:27:59,523 --> 00:28:02,083 It's part of a training harness for a cat. 248 00:28:02,192 --> 00:28:04,559 The other day in the cage, the rope broke. 249 00:28:04,662 --> 00:28:08,064 If Clyde hadn't been the top man in his field, he'd never have gotten out alive. 250 00:28:08,165 --> 00:28:10,259 Who do you think is the mainspring behind all of this? 251 00:28:10,567 --> 00:28:13,469 That's your racket. That's why we hollered for you. 252 00:29:49,533 --> 00:29:54,369 - Hey, kid. You going into town? - Yeah, get laundry for Mr. Wallace. 253 00:29:54,471 --> 00:29:56,372 Smuggle me in a jug, will you? 254 00:29:57,174 --> 00:29:59,905 No, anybody who gets you drunk gets fired. 255 00:30:00,010 --> 00:30:02,172 Here, you can keep the change. 256 00:30:02,279 --> 00:30:05,249 Here, this is a sawbuck. It'll make a fin for yourself. 257 00:30:05,349 --> 00:30:07,909 Come on. Please, kid, 'cause I'm dying. Come on. 258 00:30:08,018 --> 00:30:09,919 - Where you get the money? - Never mind that. 259 00:30:10,020 --> 00:30:12,148 Come on! Get me a jug, will you? 260 00:30:12,256 --> 00:30:15,283 You know, Mr. Beatty don't give you money until the end of the season. 261 00:30:15,392 --> 00:30:17,020 Mrs. Beatty, she even buy your clothes... 262 00:30:17,127 --> 00:30:19,426 because you took money to buy a pair of shoes... 263 00:30:19,530 --> 00:30:21,123 and you bought some gin. 264 00:30:21,231 --> 00:30:23,359 Shoes is better than gin, I think. 265 00:30:33,410 --> 00:30:37,575 I want $500 a week and second billing. 266 00:30:38,248 --> 00:30:41,741 $500? Who do you think you are, Lillian Leitzel? 267 00:30:41,852 --> 00:30:44,947 And I want a compartment that ain't over the wheels. 268 00:30:45,055 --> 00:30:46,717 Probably want your own privilege card, too. 269 00:30:46,824 --> 00:30:49,726 - Anything else, Your Majesty? - I want to bring my husband along. 270 00:30:49,827 --> 00:30:51,989 - Does the bum work? - Part of the time. 271 00:30:52,095 --> 00:30:53,996 He's a Santa Claus in a department store. 272 00:30:54,097 --> 00:30:56,464 - Well, that's a seasonal occupation-- - Hi, Tiny. 273 00:30:56,567 --> 00:30:58,126 - Hello, Clyde. - Hello, Mr. Beatty. 274 00:30:58,235 --> 00:30:59,794 Did you send her a telegram to join the show? 275 00:30:59,903 --> 00:31:02,236 - Yeah. - She's asking for a lot of money. 276 00:31:02,339 --> 00:31:03,204 She's worth it. 277 00:31:03,307 --> 00:31:05,367 How'd you like to stand on your head on a trapeze... 278 00:31:05,476 --> 00:31:07,502 50 feet above the ground, without a safety net? 279 00:31:07,611 --> 00:31:11,343 I wouldn't like to do without a hairnet. Looks like you're in the show, kid. 280 00:31:11,448 --> 00:31:12,472 See you. 281 00:31:13,417 --> 00:31:16,046 You'd think all the blood would rush to her head and get her dizzy. 282 00:31:16,153 --> 00:31:17,348 Well? 283 00:31:21,058 --> 00:31:23,050 Hello, Clyde. How are you? 284 00:31:23,427 --> 00:31:25,089 Dublin O'Malley. 285 00:31:25,195 --> 00:31:27,187 You remember me, Frank, don't you? 286 00:31:27,297 --> 00:31:28,959 With mixed emotions. 287 00:31:29,132 --> 00:31:32,625 Mickey Spillane, Dublin O'Malley. He used to be our ring director. 288 00:31:32,736 --> 00:31:35,831 Yes, you're the writer fellow, aren't you? I read some of your books. 289 00:31:35,939 --> 00:31:38,431 How clever of you to catch those criminals. 290 00:31:39,109 --> 00:31:42,375 Well, it's changed a lot in the six years I've been gone, Clyde. 291 00:31:42,479 --> 00:31:44,471 It's a great thrill to be back, though. 292 00:31:44,581 --> 00:31:46,209 I was passing through a town the other day... 293 00:31:46,316 --> 00:31:48,342 saw some of your papers standing on the billboards. 294 00:31:48,452 --> 00:31:50,421 - So I said to myself-- - You want a job? 295 00:31:50,721 --> 00:31:53,156 Well, now, Clyde, I'm doing pretty well by myself. 296 00:31:53,257 --> 00:31:56,523 But I suppose you never lose the smell of the circus in your blood, eh, Frank? 297 00:31:56,627 --> 00:31:59,290 We need a director. Do you want the job? 298 00:31:59,530 --> 00:32:01,226 You were always a great one for interruption-- 299 00:32:01,331 --> 00:32:04,233 Somebody has to. What is it, yes or no? 300 00:32:04,334 --> 00:32:06,462 Well, in a word, yes, Frank. 301 00:32:06,870 --> 00:32:08,839 Come over to the office, and I'll give you a contract. 302 00:32:08,939 --> 00:32:12,740 Okay. I'll see you, Frank. Nice to have met you, Mr. Spillane. 303 00:32:13,977 --> 00:32:18,039 - That's a windy character. - Yeah, he's windy, and he's a character. 304 00:32:18,148 --> 00:32:20,811 - You don't seem to like this guy much. - No, I don't. 305 00:32:20,918 --> 00:32:24,685 That's not the point. He used to be stuck on our top aerialist, still is. 306 00:32:24,788 --> 00:32:26,450 Now she's married to a jealous husband... 307 00:32:26,557 --> 00:32:29,152 - and there could be trouble. - Hold it. 308 00:32:36,266 --> 00:32:38,064 Here comes a beef. I can smell 'em. 309 00:32:38,168 --> 00:32:40,933 Mr. Wallace, that new polish they've been using on my swords... 310 00:32:41,038 --> 00:32:42,472 tastes just awful. 311 00:32:42,573 --> 00:32:44,565 Can I get some that tastes like peppermint? 312 00:32:44,675 --> 00:32:46,200 Okay, go to the prop department... 313 00:32:46,310 --> 00:32:48,006 tell them to give you some peppermint polish. 314 00:32:48,111 --> 00:32:50,273 - Thanks. - Honey, this is Mickey Spillane. 315 00:32:50,380 --> 00:32:52,940 Hello, Mr. Spillane. Are you married? 316 00:32:53,850 --> 00:32:57,048 Slips my mind at the moment. Nice to have met you. 317 00:32:59,790 --> 00:33:03,625 Slips his mind? Well, that's a new answer. 318 00:33:05,829 --> 00:33:06,990 - Hi. - Hi. 319 00:33:07,097 --> 00:33:09,225 - Hi, Frank. - Hi, chicks. 320 00:33:09,333 --> 00:33:10,926 - Mario. - Hello, Frank. 321 00:33:11,501 --> 00:33:14,665 Shreveport should've had that canvas standing three and a half minutes ago. 322 00:33:14,771 --> 00:33:16,501 Now, get that pressed, will you? 323 00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:18,868 Burnout in Barre and two tractors held us up. 324 00:33:18,976 --> 00:33:21,912 Some dope left the plugs out of the crankcase when they changed the oil. 325 00:33:22,012 --> 00:33:23,036 Be sure they're standing, boss. 326 00:33:23,146 --> 00:33:25,081 Your show, Mr. Director. Take over. 327 00:33:25,182 --> 00:33:28,016 Be sure it's not three and a half minutes late when you tear it down. 328 00:33:28,118 --> 00:33:31,088 - I'm gonna take a gander at the stands. - Okay, Frank. 329 00:33:31,388 --> 00:33:34,620 Hey, you. Spot that hay truck over behind the menagerie. 330 00:33:40,097 --> 00:33:43,693 What a beautiful child. What a beautiful mother, too. 331 00:33:43,867 --> 00:33:45,335 Dublin O'Malley. 332 00:33:45,435 --> 00:33:47,336 Back from the wars, ma'am. 333 00:33:47,437 --> 00:33:49,929 You've got a very beautiful daughter, Valerie. 334 00:33:50,207 --> 00:33:51,698 Yes, she is. 335 00:33:52,776 --> 00:33:54,745 Little lady, come here to me. 336 00:33:55,479 --> 00:33:58,381 People are always asking one of your size, "What's you're name?" 337 00:33:58,482 --> 00:34:01,816 Now, that must get very boring. So I tell you what I'll do. 338 00:34:01,918 --> 00:34:05,650 I'll give you a name, and we'll keep it just between ourselves. 339 00:34:05,756 --> 00:34:10,251 No matter what other people call you, I'll always call you Angel... 340 00:34:10,394 --> 00:34:13,660 - and you'll call me Dublin. - Hey, Dublin. 341 00:34:13,764 --> 00:34:16,165 - Hey, sweetheart. - Suzie, you come along with me... 342 00:34:16,266 --> 00:34:18,826 until your mother's through with the matinee. 343 00:34:19,803 --> 00:34:21,772 - Bye-bye, Angel. - Bye, Dublin. 344 00:34:21,872 --> 00:34:23,101 Bye-bye. 345 00:34:24,207 --> 00:34:27,371 - You're back with the show? - Yeah, ring director. 346 00:34:28,145 --> 00:34:31,047 You know, I always wanted a daughter. 347 00:34:31,515 --> 00:34:34,383 It's funny, because most men, when they think of children... 348 00:34:34,484 --> 00:34:37,318 they think of sons. How old is she, Valerie? 349 00:34:37,888 --> 00:34:39,789 Five, the 6th of June. 350 00:34:39,890 --> 00:34:42,985 I wonder if you ever knew my husband, Armand St. Dennis. 351 00:34:43,193 --> 00:34:45,822 He came with the troupe when Ben got arthritis. 352 00:34:45,929 --> 00:34:48,057 It was right after you went in the Army. 353 00:34:48,165 --> 00:34:50,157 Hey, get those gillies moving! 354 00:34:51,301 --> 00:34:53,463 Come on, I'll walk with you as far as the front of the show. 355 00:34:54,504 --> 00:34:56,564 It must be a wonderful thing to have your daughter... 356 00:34:56,673 --> 00:34:59,233 come bouncing into the bed in the morning, waking you up. 357 00:34:59,342 --> 00:35:02,676 - You, maybe, with a bit of a hangover. - I'm very happy. 358 00:35:03,013 --> 00:35:05,915 - My husband and I think that we're-- - Hey, you! 359 00:35:06,283 --> 00:35:09,014 If you ever cramp a cat cage in such a short turn again... 360 00:35:09,119 --> 00:35:10,587 I'll pay you off on two things. 361 00:35:10,687 --> 00:35:12,553 Now ease that wagon back into line again... 362 00:35:12,656 --> 00:35:14,124 like as if you were moving eggs. 363 00:35:14,224 --> 00:35:16,193 Often, when my husband and I are talking circus... 364 00:35:16,293 --> 00:35:18,853 I tell him you were the best circus director I ever knew. 365 00:35:18,962 --> 00:35:21,363 Do you ever think of me, Valerie? 366 00:35:22,899 --> 00:35:25,960 - I don't understand. - Of course you understand. 367 00:35:26,336 --> 00:35:29,238 I often thought of you out there on the foxholes. 368 00:35:29,339 --> 00:35:31,831 I thought a lot of things about you. 369 00:35:31,942 --> 00:35:35,208 That night when we played Buffalo and after the show, you remember? 370 00:35:35,312 --> 00:35:37,144 We took the rowboat, went out on the lake.... 371 00:35:37,247 --> 00:35:39,079 - Dublin. - Yes? 372 00:35:40,584 --> 00:35:43,645 My husband's a wonderful fellow, and we're happy. 373 00:35:44,755 --> 00:35:47,816 He's very much in love with me and with Suzette. 374 00:35:48,058 --> 00:35:51,187 - Well, I.... - What are you trying to tell me, Valerie? 375 00:35:51,461 --> 00:35:54,522 Please, don't make it so he finds out about us. 376 00:35:55,665 --> 00:35:57,327 He's very jealous. 377 00:35:57,434 --> 00:36:00,268 Because before he even met you another man found you entrancing? 378 00:36:00,370 --> 00:36:02,498 That's a very narrow way to look at things. 379 00:36:02,606 --> 00:36:04,302 I should think that no man would want a wife... 380 00:36:04,407 --> 00:36:06,774 that hadn't been found attractive to other men. 381 00:36:06,877 --> 00:36:09,244 Why, Valerie, you look as if you're on the verge of tears. 382 00:36:09,346 --> 00:36:11,611 Have I said something to make you unhappy? 383 00:36:11,715 --> 00:36:13,877 If so, I'm heartfelt sorry. 384 00:36:13,984 --> 00:36:16,044 It's just the way it was before... 385 00:36:16,153 --> 00:36:19,817 when we were together, before I was married. 386 00:36:21,291 --> 00:36:24,159 The words you say aren't the words you mean. 387 00:36:24,261 --> 00:36:28,528 - And you always kept me so tormented. - Tormented? 388 00:36:29,199 --> 00:36:32,829 I thought we were very happy when we, as you phrase it, "were together." 389 00:36:34,271 --> 00:36:35,796 Oh, fine. 390 00:36:37,340 --> 00:36:41,300 I'm very glad that you're happy with your handsome husband... 391 00:36:41,411 --> 00:36:43,573 and beautiful little daughter. 392 00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:45,410 All right, you joeys, step it up there. 393 00:36:45,515 --> 00:36:48,349 You're half a minute late in your entrance, already. 394 00:36:58,929 --> 00:37:00,124 Hello, Dublin. 395 00:37:00,230 --> 00:37:02,631 Don't take any extra bows, will you. We're a minute late already. 396 00:37:02,732 --> 00:37:04,394 Right. Dublin? 397 00:37:05,335 --> 00:37:08,271 I want you to meet my husband. Armand, Dublin O'Malley. 398 00:37:08,371 --> 00:37:10,602 - I'm very happy to meet you, sir. - How do you do? 399 00:37:10,707 --> 00:37:14,269 - You have a very beautiful daughter. - I'll have to agree with you on that. 400 00:37:14,377 --> 00:37:17,472 And if I may say so, a very beautiful wife, too. 401 00:37:17,914 --> 00:37:19,712 We see eye-to-eye again. 402 00:37:20,116 --> 00:37:22,483 - And if you'll excuse me. - Surely. 403 00:37:26,156 --> 00:37:28,751 And now, high above the center ring... 404 00:37:28,859 --> 00:37:31,829 the Clyde Beatty Circus proudly presents... 405 00:37:31,928 --> 00:37:34,989 the absolute acme in aerial artistry. 406 00:37:35,165 --> 00:37:38,658 Introducing: The Flying St. Dennis Troupe. 407 00:39:11,061 --> 00:39:12,620 Now, ladies and gentlemen... 408 00:39:12,762 --> 00:39:17,132 St. Dennis will attempt a feat that no other person has ever dared to do. 409 00:39:17,434 --> 00:39:21,565 A daring flip, catching the free-flying trapeze... 410 00:39:21,671 --> 00:39:26,507 and returning without the use of a net or a safety device of any kind. 411 00:39:27,711 --> 00:39:30,613 Let all eyes be on the great St. Dennis! 412 00:40:00,510 --> 00:40:02,103 Attention, please! 413 00:40:02,212 --> 00:40:05,944 Will all the vendors stop selling and retire to their seats? 414 00:40:07,417 --> 00:40:10,353 Now, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls... 415 00:40:10,453 --> 00:40:13,355 directing your attention to the big steel arena... 416 00:40:13,456 --> 00:40:15,391 where you're about to witness... 417 00:40:15,492 --> 00:40:19,657 one of the largest and finest group of jungle-bred, wild animals... 418 00:40:19,763 --> 00:40:21,925 ever to appear at one time. 419 00:40:22,032 --> 00:40:24,297 Black-maned African lions... 420 00:40:25,335 --> 00:40:27,736 trained, and now presented... 421 00:40:27,837 --> 00:40:30,636 by the world's greatest wild-animal trainer... 422 00:40:30,740 --> 00:40:33,869 the one, the only, Clyde Beatty! 423 00:45:51,394 --> 00:45:54,831 Clyde, you've been getting in that cage for 20 years. Doesn't it ever get boring? 424 00:45:54,931 --> 00:45:58,834 - Boring? It's always a kick. - I'll take my kicks out of Scotch. 425 00:45:59,102 --> 00:46:01,662 Hey, could you tell me where I could find Mr. Wallace? 426 00:46:01,771 --> 00:46:04,434 - You found him. - My name is Martin. 427 00:46:04,540 --> 00:46:08,307 I'm from Signet Books. I have a letter here from my editor. 428 00:46:08,611 --> 00:46:10,978 Glad to know you, Mr. Martin. This is Clyde Beatty. 429 00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:14,016 - That's a great show there, Mr. Beatty. - Mickey Spillane. 430 00:46:14,117 --> 00:46:16,177 - Are you the Mickey Spillane, the writer? - Yeah. 431 00:46:16,285 --> 00:46:17,412 I've read your stuff. 432 00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:20,012 - Quite a character you got there. - He sure is. 433 00:46:20,123 --> 00:46:22,217 Well, as I understand it, your magazine wants to run... 434 00:46:22,325 --> 00:46:24,123 a series of articles on our show. Is that it? 435 00:46:24,227 --> 00:46:26,992 Yeah. I'd like to travel right along with you and meet all the people. 436 00:46:27,096 --> 00:46:30,328 And, of course, my magazine will reimburse you for all my expenses. 437 00:46:30,433 --> 00:46:31,696 Won't be necessary. 438 00:46:31,801 --> 00:46:33,736 Moving and feeding one more person won't matter. 439 00:46:33,836 --> 00:46:36,032 On the other hand, his magazine can write out his expenses. 440 00:46:36,139 --> 00:46:37,835 Is that right, Mr. Martin? Quite an item, huh? 441 00:46:37,940 --> 00:46:39,533 Frank's a world's champion string-saver. 442 00:46:39,642 --> 00:46:41,975 If you want me to save any money, I've got to save something. 443 00:46:42,078 --> 00:46:43,444 Come on over to the office, Frank... 444 00:46:43,546 --> 00:46:45,947 and I'll sign those papers you've been hounding me about. 445 00:46:46,048 --> 00:46:47,744 Make yourself at home, Mr. Martin. 446 00:46:47,850 --> 00:46:49,876 - Sure thing. Thanks. - See you. 447 00:46:51,788 --> 00:46:53,416 Why don't you leave me alone, you bum? 448 00:46:53,523 --> 00:46:55,151 My letter get you all steamed up? 449 00:46:55,258 --> 00:46:56,920 I was real happy back at my desk... 450 00:46:57,026 --> 00:46:59,689 in the city with a raft of hired hands doing my detecting for me. 451 00:46:59,796 --> 00:47:01,822 Saygner give you all the credentials you needed? 452 00:47:01,931 --> 00:47:03,399 Yeah, just like you told him. 453 00:47:03,499 --> 00:47:05,764 Look, I've caught all the thieves and killers I'm going to. 454 00:47:05,868 --> 00:47:08,360 - From now on, I'm going to relax. - So relax. 455 00:47:08,938 --> 00:47:11,874 Dublin. Dublin O'Malley, this is Paul Martin. 456 00:47:11,974 --> 00:47:13,272 Dublin's the show's director. 457 00:47:13,376 --> 00:47:14,207 - Hi. - Glad to meet you. 458 00:47:14,310 --> 00:47:15,835 I'd like to have a few minutes of your time. 459 00:47:15,945 --> 00:47:17,379 I'm doing some articles on the circus. 460 00:47:17,432 --> 00:47:18,557 Sure. Anytime you say. 461 00:47:18,582 --> 00:47:20,573 Look, I gotta run now. I'll see you later. 462 00:47:21,684 --> 00:47:24,984 - You got any suspects? - Yeah, 'bout 300 of 'em. 463 00:47:25,221 --> 00:47:27,747 That's the number of people who travel with the show. 464 00:47:27,857 --> 00:47:30,258 - Fine. - That is, all except O'Malley. 465 00:47:30,359 --> 00:47:32,692 He joined up after the trouble had already started. 466 00:47:32,795 --> 00:47:33,888 That's just great. 467 00:47:33,996 --> 00:47:36,056 - One out of 300 eliminated. - Yeah. 468 00:47:36,632 --> 00:47:40,296 And now, ladies and gentlemen, above ring number three... 469 00:47:40,403 --> 00:47:44,704 Clyde Beatty presents the queen of balance and control... 470 00:47:44,841 --> 00:47:47,675 the lovely Maria Cutten! 471 00:49:04,420 --> 00:49:06,355 Here come the elephants. 472 00:49:32,648 --> 00:49:35,174 The Clyde Beatty Circus proudly presents... 473 00:49:35,451 --> 00:49:39,320 the only herd of hind-leg marching elephants in the world. 474 00:49:39,589 --> 00:49:41,751 Trained by Richard Shipley... 475 00:49:41,857 --> 00:49:44,984 and presented by Milonga Cline. 476 00:51:10,746 --> 00:51:13,807 I never saw so many 7s and 11s in my life. 477 00:51:14,216 --> 00:51:16,947 I draw so many 7s and 11s, I think. 478 00:51:17,753 --> 00:51:19,312 With a crap game, huh? 479 00:51:19,422 --> 00:51:22,017 Please, Mr. Wallace, I'm not a stoolpigeon. 480 00:51:22,491 --> 00:51:24,255 Mr. Wallace, do me a favor. 481 00:51:24,527 --> 00:51:26,860 - I wish to be rich. - Who don't? 482 00:51:27,363 --> 00:51:30,026 Here, Mr. Wallace, you save this for me. Please. 483 00:51:30,433 --> 00:51:31,901 - $1. - Yeah. 484 00:51:32,001 --> 00:51:35,165 I think I will be rich when I have $1 million. 485 00:51:35,471 --> 00:51:37,667 So every day I give you $1... 486 00:51:37,773 --> 00:51:40,436 and in one million days I will have $1 million. 487 00:51:40,543 --> 00:51:42,034 Do you know what a million days amounts to? 488 00:51:42,144 --> 00:51:43,168 No. 489 00:51:44,180 --> 00:51:45,580 Three hundred years... 490 00:51:47,416 --> 00:51:50,511 seven months, 48 days. 491 00:51:50,820 --> 00:51:54,154 That's a long time, I think, but I will be patient. 492 00:51:55,891 --> 00:51:57,223 That's it. 493 00:51:57,960 --> 00:51:59,861 - Good morning, Dublin. - Good morning. How are you? 494 00:51:59,962 --> 00:52:01,294 Good morning, Millie. 495 00:52:01,397 --> 00:52:03,525 Darling, you run along with Millie to the commissary. 496 00:52:03,632 --> 00:52:05,624 Your mama will come get you when you're through eating. 497 00:52:05,735 --> 00:52:06,998 - All right? - Okay. 498 00:52:07,503 --> 00:52:08,971 There you go. 499 00:52:09,205 --> 00:52:11,003 - Bye-bye, Angel. - Bye, Dublin. 500 00:52:11,107 --> 00:52:13,167 - Be good now. - Okay. 501 00:52:13,943 --> 00:52:17,072 I made the most beautiful shot of the child. 502 00:52:17,313 --> 00:52:19,475 Her darling little head framed by those clouds up there. 503 00:52:19,582 --> 00:52:22,108 When I develop it, I'll let you have a color print of it, Valerie. 504 00:52:22,218 --> 00:52:24,983 Thanks. You always were a genius with the camera. 505 00:52:25,087 --> 00:52:27,522 I used to wonder why you didn't go into it professionally. 506 00:52:27,623 --> 00:52:30,218 Leave the circus that I love, these people that I love? 507 00:52:30,326 --> 00:52:32,124 I couldn't do that, Valerie. 508 00:52:32,928 --> 00:52:35,329 You look wonderful this morning. 509 00:52:35,631 --> 00:52:38,760 Tell you what, let me make a picture of you, huh? 510 00:52:39,769 --> 00:52:42,898 Here, stand right over here. 511 00:52:44,306 --> 00:52:46,104 That's just fine now. 512 00:52:46,776 --> 00:52:50,304 A fine crosslight here. Let's see what we got here. 513 00:52:53,883 --> 00:52:55,818 You remember the study I made of you in Miami... 514 00:52:55,918 --> 00:52:57,819 on a pier in Biscayne Bay? 515 00:52:58,187 --> 00:53:02,591 The trade winds whipping around us. Your hair tossing in the breeze. 516 00:53:03,025 --> 00:53:06,757 Globes of spray on your cheek like small glistening pearls. 517 00:53:07,429 --> 00:53:09,728 - Do you remember that? - Yes, I remember. 518 00:53:10,099 --> 00:53:13,194 Hold that. That's the look I want. Right like that. 519 00:53:19,575 --> 00:53:22,841 No, I didn't like that one after all. Let me try another one, huh? 520 00:53:26,816 --> 00:53:30,253 Why don't you turn your body right around to me, like that? 521 00:53:30,352 --> 00:53:31,980 Yes, that's fine. 522 00:53:32,087 --> 00:53:35,182 You know, I've often thought of that study I made that day in Miami. 523 00:53:35,291 --> 00:53:38,625 If you let me have it back for a bit, I'll make myself a copy of it. 524 00:53:38,727 --> 00:53:41,856 - I.... It got lost. - Lost? 525 00:53:43,132 --> 00:53:46,102 - What a pity, Valerie. - Yes. I'm sorry. 526 00:53:47,169 --> 00:53:49,764 Look, Dublin, after we had that talk last week... 527 00:53:50,105 --> 00:53:52,665 I had a feeling of being frightened. 528 00:53:53,042 --> 00:53:55,841 But then I thought about us, you know, before... 529 00:53:55,945 --> 00:54:00,246 I realized I didn't have to be frightened, because after what was between us... 530 00:54:00,349 --> 00:54:02,215 you wouldn't do anything to hurt me. 531 00:54:02,318 --> 00:54:04,116 - Would you? - Hurt you? 532 00:54:05,621 --> 00:54:07,783 - Why, Valerie. - I knew it. 533 00:54:08,157 --> 00:54:12,561 I guess I was frightened because.... Well, I have everything I want now. 534 00:54:13,529 --> 00:54:15,293 I'm in love, Dublin. 535 00:54:15,631 --> 00:54:18,362 So much so, it's a little bit terrifying. 536 00:54:19,702 --> 00:54:21,671 My heart stops when Armand's in the air... 537 00:54:21,770 --> 00:54:24,296 and doesn't start again till he's made his catch. 538 00:54:24,473 --> 00:54:27,534 You know, Valerie, this is a man I envy. 539 00:54:27,643 --> 00:54:29,839 - Hi. - Hello, darling. 540 00:54:30,346 --> 00:54:31,746 Getting your picture taken? 541 00:54:32,882 --> 00:54:35,716 Couldn't find a prettier subject, could you, Dublin? 542 00:54:36,085 --> 00:54:39,021 Say, Dublin, why not take a picture of the two of us together? 543 00:54:39,121 --> 00:54:40,749 Yes, I'd be delighted to. 544 00:54:40,856 --> 00:54:43,087 You'll have to stand a little closer together, though. 545 00:54:43,192 --> 00:54:45,821 - How's this? Does this suit you? - Yes. 546 00:54:46,095 --> 00:54:47,961 It's a fine composition. 547 00:54:48,063 --> 00:54:50,623 You know, some fine philosopher once said... 548 00:54:50,733 --> 00:54:53,032 that lovers should always gaze upon each other... 549 00:54:53,135 --> 00:54:56,105 as if it was their last hour on earth. 550 00:54:58,140 --> 00:55:00,006 I hope the lens on this camera is good enough... 551 00:55:00,109 --> 00:55:03,511 to capture the looks on your faces, because it's there. 552 00:55:05,714 --> 00:55:08,878 Thank you, Dublin. Come on, honey, we have to go. 553 00:55:36,917 --> 00:55:39,546 - Hey. - You got me, huh? 554 00:55:40,554 --> 00:55:42,546 Look, I'll make a fair trade with you. 555 00:55:42,656 --> 00:55:44,591 I'll give you three passes for the big top... 556 00:55:44,692 --> 00:55:46,661 and three passes for the side show. Is that a deal? 557 00:55:46,761 --> 00:55:48,127 - Sure. - You got them. 558 00:55:48,229 --> 00:55:49,663 - Thanks! - Thanks! 559 00:55:51,098 --> 00:55:53,124 - Hello, Frank. - Hi, Dublin. 560 00:55:54,702 --> 00:55:57,331 I used to be great at this racket when I was a kid. 561 00:55:57,438 --> 00:55:59,669 Paymaster is looking for you. 562 00:56:02,843 --> 00:56:05,813 Looks like, with you and that cat, it's hate at first sight, isn't it? 563 00:56:05,913 --> 00:56:07,677 Yeah, it seems like it, doesn't it? 564 00:56:28,402 --> 00:56:32,396 Clyde see you doing that, he'll split your hair with a tent spike. 565 00:56:32,940 --> 00:56:35,136 Wish this was a high-powered rifle... 566 00:56:35,242 --> 00:56:38,974 'cause I'd have one right between those gleaming yellow eyes of his. 567 00:56:39,080 --> 00:56:42,573 Trouble with you is the cats prove to you you're yellow. 568 00:56:44,285 --> 00:56:46,516 If you had any teeth, you'd lose them right now. 569 00:56:46,620 --> 00:56:47,849 You don't scare me. 570 00:56:47,955 --> 00:56:49,947 I saw you screaming like a scared woman... 571 00:56:50,057 --> 00:56:53,653 the night that Clyde grabbed you out of that cage in time. 572 00:56:55,563 --> 00:56:57,327 Here comes Clyde now. 573 00:56:57,431 --> 00:57:00,424 Maybe you'd like to tell him you got a beef about me. 574 00:57:00,801 --> 00:57:02,667 I settle my own beefs. 575 00:57:04,572 --> 00:57:06,734 - Morning, Mickey. - Hi, Paul. 576 00:57:06,841 --> 00:57:08,810 It's about time we cleaned up on this thing, Clyde. 577 00:57:08,909 --> 00:57:10,673 His name isn't Paul. It's Jack Stang. 578 00:57:10,778 --> 00:57:13,270 He's a hotshot copper out of New York. 579 00:57:13,380 --> 00:57:15,110 - You don't mean-- - That's right. He's the one. 580 00:57:15,216 --> 00:57:16,741 I got something for you, Clyde. 581 00:57:16,851 --> 00:57:19,616 Ran your rope test through my lab back East. 582 00:57:19,720 --> 00:57:21,655 "Segment of rope put through Wilson test. 583 00:57:21,755 --> 00:57:25,556 "Fibers were weakened by saturation and hyposulphite of soda." 584 00:57:25,993 --> 00:57:29,555 - That's film developer. - Jack says it has 100 uses. 585 00:57:29,763 --> 00:57:33,200 We better go check the lockers. See if we can find some of this stuff. 586 00:57:33,300 --> 00:57:34,734 Shall we? 587 00:57:35,469 --> 00:57:37,734 You know, I've had 100 pictures made of Suzette. 588 00:57:37,838 --> 00:57:40,000 - This is the best ever. - Thank you very much. 589 00:57:40,107 --> 00:57:41,837 You know, an odd thing, did you notice... 590 00:57:41,942 --> 00:57:44,502 your nose is straight like a ruler? 591 00:57:44,712 --> 00:57:47,011 Valerie's nose is like a compass course... 592 00:57:47,114 --> 00:57:49,083 shortest distance between two points. 593 00:57:49,183 --> 00:57:52,210 But Angel's nose is.... Well, it's got a little tilt to it. 594 00:57:52,319 --> 00:57:54,117 You know, a cute little Irish tilt. 595 00:57:54,221 --> 00:57:57,248 You know he's right. Both of our noses are straight... 596 00:57:57,358 --> 00:58:00,817 and she does have a little tilt, a little pug nose. 597 00:58:00,928 --> 00:58:04,262 - You're very observant, Dublin. - It's a gift with me. I like to look at faces. 598 00:58:04,365 --> 00:58:06,800 Fortunately, nobody likes to look at mine. 599 00:58:06,901 --> 00:58:09,268 Can't get over that little tilt, though. 600 00:58:09,937 --> 00:58:13,066 - It is cute. - On a girl, but I don't think so on a man. 601 00:58:13,174 --> 00:58:14,540 I once had a girl... 602 00:58:14,642 --> 00:58:17,806 well, I shouldn't say I had her really, because she preferred another man... 603 00:58:17,912 --> 00:58:19,039 - but she-- - Excuse me. 604 00:58:19,146 --> 00:58:22,639 Mr. St. Dennis, you like to take a look at your trailer, see if it's spotted right? 605 00:58:22,750 --> 00:58:24,878 Okay. Excuse me a moment, honey. Thanks, Dublin. 606 00:58:24,985 --> 00:58:26,112 You're welcome. 607 00:58:26,220 --> 00:58:28,189 I'm gonna go ride by myself. 608 00:58:32,226 --> 00:58:35,958 Valerie, the look on your face, you'd think you were scared of me. 609 00:58:36,063 --> 00:58:39,659 Dublin, I don't want any more of those double-meaning remarks... 610 00:58:39,767 --> 00:58:41,235 with that vile inference. 611 00:58:41,335 --> 00:58:43,770 Vile inference? What do you mean, Valerie? 612 00:58:44,505 --> 00:58:46,974 Couldn't bring myself to put it into words... 613 00:58:47,074 --> 00:58:51,034 but if you ever made that plain to my husband, he might kill you. 614 00:59:19,006 --> 00:59:22,443 Hey, Mr. Wallace, I want you to watch this. 615 00:59:22,543 --> 00:59:25,843 - Maybe you can give me a raise. - Maybe I can. Let's see it. 616 00:59:37,992 --> 00:59:39,085 Foul! 617 00:59:39,493 --> 00:59:43,294 Pedro, tell the paymaster to give the kangaroo a raise. 618 00:59:43,797 --> 00:59:47,632 Two heads of lettuce a week. On this show, we only buy winners. 619 00:59:48,302 --> 00:59:52,262 I'm sorry about you. You ruined me after I love you so much. 620 00:59:56,644 --> 01:00:00,172 The very idea of beating such a sweet, harmless thing... 621 01:00:02,516 --> 01:00:04,144 serves you right. 622 01:00:04,852 --> 01:00:08,254 Mildred, you better start looking for somebody else... 623 01:00:08,355 --> 01:00:10,483 because I gonna divorce you. 624 01:00:23,904 --> 01:00:27,807 - I've been looking all over for you. - Yeah, plenty of places. 625 01:00:29,176 --> 01:00:32,806 - You mind if we talk a little business? - No, go ahead. What's up? 626 01:00:32,913 --> 01:00:36,350 Look, Mick, this routine of interviewing people for a magazine... 627 01:00:36,450 --> 01:00:39,352 - doesn't seem to get us any place. - I agree. 628 01:00:39,953 --> 01:00:41,649 Of all the people I've talked to... 629 01:00:41,755 --> 01:00:44,554 not one indicated any motive of wanting to cause trouble. 630 01:00:44,658 --> 01:00:47,093 - They all love Beatty. - Could be this rat you're looking for... 631 01:00:47,194 --> 01:00:49,459 knows you're on the prowl and is trying to cover up, huh? 632 01:00:49,563 --> 01:00:51,532 Well, he's doing a pretty good job of it. 633 01:00:51,632 --> 01:00:55,399 We're no further ahead in this case than we were a week ago. 634 01:01:02,643 --> 01:01:05,135 Did you have to interview him yet? 635 01:01:05,245 --> 01:01:07,578 He's one guy that you told me that wasn't a suspect. 636 01:01:07,681 --> 01:01:09,479 But I keep him on ice, anyway. 637 01:01:09,583 --> 01:01:11,848 You better thaw him out. Could be he's just our man. 638 01:01:11,952 --> 01:01:14,421 Yeah, just like it happens in the books, huh? 639 01:01:14,521 --> 01:01:15,580 Well, he's got a camera. 640 01:01:15,689 --> 01:01:17,783 He could have this hyposulphite of soda, too. 641 01:01:17,891 --> 01:01:20,884 He could also have a good reason for wanting to wreck the Beatty show. 642 01:01:20,994 --> 01:01:22,656 Sure, and so all we gotta do is... 643 01:01:22,763 --> 01:01:24,857 - prove these little items. - Prove these little items. 644 01:01:24,965 --> 01:01:27,730 - Come on, let's go see Little Boy Blue. - Right. 645 01:01:32,673 --> 01:01:35,199 After the war, I became a drifter of sorts. 646 01:01:35,309 --> 01:01:37,175 Like so many more of my type... 647 01:01:37,277 --> 01:01:40,577 I found it difficult to adjust to the ways of peace for a while. 648 01:01:40,681 --> 01:01:43,776 I went to sea, went halfway around the world... 649 01:01:44,017 --> 01:01:46,987 but always the truth of the old saying came back to me: 650 01:01:47,120 --> 01:01:49,487 "Once circus, always circus." 651 01:01:49,990 --> 01:01:53,017 I bet you never could give any blood to the Red Cross... 652 01:01:53,126 --> 01:01:54,788 too much sawdust in it. 653 01:01:55,762 --> 01:01:58,755 Hey, tell me. How does the circus stack up to the prewar days? 654 01:01:58,865 --> 01:02:01,994 There have been some improvements and some changes, naturally... 655 01:02:02,102 --> 01:02:04,071 but Clyde always has a good show. 656 01:02:04,171 --> 01:02:06,834 How is Clyde these days? He changed any? 657 01:02:06,940 --> 01:02:09,375 Apart from a few more scars, I'd say... 658 01:02:10,210 --> 01:02:12,805 no, not one speck. 659 01:02:14,081 --> 01:02:17,176 He seems like a pretty good Joe. Of course, I don't know him like you do. 660 01:02:17,284 --> 01:02:19,810 He is, as you say, "a pretty good Joe." 661 01:02:20,187 --> 01:02:23,851 You know, it's too bad that he's been having such a run of ill luck lately. 662 01:02:23,957 --> 01:02:26,256 A close call when that training rope broke. 663 01:02:26,360 --> 01:02:28,329 Yes, indeed. Wasn't that a frightful thing? 664 01:02:28,428 --> 01:02:32,297 Do you think that's more of that so-called jinx dogging the circus? 665 01:02:32,499 --> 01:02:36,698 - Is there any other explanation? - Yeah, it could have been rigged. 666 01:02:39,072 --> 01:02:40,404 Good heavens, man! 667 01:02:40,507 --> 01:02:44,103 You don't think anyone would do a thing like that deliberately? Not to Clyde? 668 01:02:44,211 --> 01:02:45,839 Does he think so? 669 01:02:46,113 --> 01:02:50,016 No. It was one of the ideas my friend Mr. Spillane cooked up. 670 01:02:50,117 --> 01:02:53,315 Right or wrong, that's the way it goes in my book. 671 01:02:55,155 --> 01:02:58,319 I heard you were here down gathering material for your new book. 672 01:02:58,425 --> 01:02:59,984 It's no secret. 673 01:03:00,093 --> 01:03:03,154 - We should get together, Michael. - I'd love to. 674 01:03:03,764 --> 01:03:06,495 Would you excuse me for a moment, please? 675 01:03:15,041 --> 01:03:18,068 Angel, come on over here. I got a birthday present for you. 676 01:03:18,178 --> 01:03:19,407 Come on. 677 01:03:25,452 --> 01:03:27,785 Turn your back. Close your eyes. 678 01:03:28,188 --> 01:03:30,885 - What is it, Dublin? - Well, open your eyes and you'll see. 679 01:03:30,991 --> 01:03:33,483 - A doll. - Yes, a doll. Do you like it? 680 01:03:33,593 --> 01:03:35,494 - Yes, I love it, Dublin. - Let's see. 681 01:03:35,595 --> 01:03:37,564 - Do you love me? - Yes, Dublin. 682 01:03:37,664 --> 01:03:40,429 How much? You're a sweetheart. I love-- 683 01:03:40,534 --> 01:03:42,503 - Hello, Valerie. - Hello. 684 01:03:43,870 --> 01:03:46,339 Look, Mama, for my birthday, from Dublin. 685 01:03:46,440 --> 01:03:47,669 It's lovely. 686 01:03:47,774 --> 01:03:50,642 - Did you thank Dublin? - Indeed, she did, with kisses. 687 01:03:50,877 --> 01:03:53,437 Perhaps you'd like to show your lovely doll to Millie. 688 01:03:53,547 --> 01:03:54,776 - Okay. - All right, darling. 689 01:03:54,881 --> 01:03:57,282 - Bye-bye, sweetheart. - Bye, Dublin. 690 01:03:58,752 --> 01:04:00,084 What's the matter, Valerie? 691 01:04:00,187 --> 01:04:03,954 Surely, you can't disapprove of a man giving a birthday present to a child? 692 01:04:04,057 --> 01:04:06,856 I do, but that wouldn't have stopped you. 693 01:04:07,794 --> 01:04:10,491 There's something I want to get straight, Dublin. 694 01:04:10,831 --> 01:04:13,630 This is a program from Baraboo, Wisconsin. 695 01:04:14,801 --> 01:04:17,396 It was the only time we ever played Baraboo. 696 01:04:17,504 --> 01:04:19,473 That was seven years ago... 697 01:04:19,606 --> 01:04:22,633 and you left between the matinee and the evening performance. 698 01:04:22,742 --> 01:04:25,644 Seven years ago, have you got that straight? 699 01:04:26,146 --> 01:04:29,014 There's an old saying, Valerie, and a true one, too: 700 01:04:29,115 --> 01:04:32,415 "Liars can figure and figures can lie." 701 01:04:33,887 --> 01:04:35,355 Hello, honey. 702 01:04:36,923 --> 01:04:38,949 - What's the matter? - There's nothing the matter. 703 01:04:39,059 --> 01:04:41,551 Oh, yeah? It's the second time I've seen tears in your eyes... 704 01:04:41,661 --> 01:04:43,687 - around this guy. - Please, Armand. 705 01:04:43,797 --> 01:04:47,234 Some nostalgic memories brought the tears to her eyes. 706 01:04:47,667 --> 01:04:48,635 Yeah? 707 01:04:57,677 --> 01:04:58,872 Dublin! 708 01:05:00,714 --> 01:05:03,411 I couldn't harm anything that you find precious. 709 01:05:03,717 --> 01:05:06,619 - Take me home, Armand. Please. - Okay. 710 01:05:12,225 --> 01:05:15,855 - I wonder what's the beef? - The guy's wife, probably. 711 01:05:16,530 --> 01:05:19,796 Wallace told me that she and O'Malley were old pals... 712 01:05:19,900 --> 01:05:21,368 or something. 713 01:05:27,040 --> 01:05:30,477 So this is where you've been hiding out between performances, huh? 714 01:05:30,911 --> 01:05:34,143 Well, it's secluded and smelly. 715 01:05:35,148 --> 01:05:37,413 You're going to poke your eyes out the way you're shaking. 716 01:05:37,517 --> 01:05:39,543 You must have a fine hangover. 717 01:05:40,453 --> 01:05:41,921 I feel awful. 718 01:05:42,489 --> 01:05:46,917 But it ain't just the hangover. It's what you made me do to Clyde. 719 01:05:58,772 --> 01:06:01,139 You used to be an aerialist, didn't you, Twitchy? 720 01:06:01,241 --> 01:06:02,641 - Yeah. - With the big shows? 721 01:06:02,742 --> 01:06:06,975 Yeah, The Flying Didjonomous. My two brothers and myself. 722 01:06:07,080 --> 01:06:09,879 - Until you lost your nerve, huh? - Yes, I did. 723 01:06:09,983 --> 01:06:12,817 And you still help rig the aerialist act, Twitchy? 724 01:06:12,919 --> 01:06:15,912 Yes. They all know that I'm hip to the rigging. 725 01:06:16,022 --> 01:06:16,990 Fine. 726 01:06:18,124 --> 01:06:20,184 At today's performance... 727 01:06:20,293 --> 01:06:22,228 St. Dennis' second catch-fall will break... 728 01:06:22,329 --> 01:06:24,924 right after he hits it from the trapeze. 729 01:06:25,031 --> 01:06:27,227 No, I ain't going to do that, now. 730 01:06:27,334 --> 01:06:30,031 San Jose, wasn't it? What you were telling me about? 731 01:06:30,136 --> 01:06:33,436 - San Jose is in California, isn't it? - I tell you, I ain't going to do it. 732 01:06:33,540 --> 01:06:36,977 California, the death penalty is cyanide gas. 733 01:06:37,777 --> 01:06:40,303 Put you in a small glass cubicle... 734 01:06:40,413 --> 01:06:42,882 and the witnesses are out there, watching you. 735 01:06:42,983 --> 01:06:46,647 And a machine drops these cyanide pellets into a tub of ammonia... 736 01:06:47,354 --> 01:06:49,880 and the fumes come up slowly, slowly. 737 01:06:49,990 --> 01:06:52,721 You try to hold your breath, because you know what's going to happen. 738 01:06:52,826 --> 01:06:54,920 All these long months, you've been thinking of it... 739 01:06:55,028 --> 01:06:57,395 but finally you have to breathe. 740 01:06:57,497 --> 01:07:00,592 - Look, Dublin. Dublin, will-- - Finally, you have to breathe. 741 01:07:01,601 --> 01:07:05,265 The cyanide fumes go deep down into your lungs... 742 01:07:05,372 --> 01:07:08,274 and the witnesses out there watch as your face turns blue. 743 01:07:08,375 --> 01:07:11,072 Your mouth opens wide to gasp for that oxygen... 744 01:07:11,177 --> 01:07:13,237 that might mean life to you. 745 01:07:13,346 --> 01:07:15,872 For the love of God, will you.... Dublin, will you quit? 746 01:07:15,982 --> 01:07:19,009 Dear Twitchy, I was only telling you what might happen. 747 01:07:19,185 --> 01:07:22,644 Dublin, he's a nice guy... 748 01:07:23,690 --> 01:07:27,320 and she's a mighty fine woman, and they have a pretty baby. 749 01:07:27,927 --> 01:07:32,092 - Yeah, but I don't want-- - Today's performance, eh, Twitchy? 750 01:07:34,467 --> 01:07:35,935 Dublin, I.... 751 01:07:46,146 --> 01:07:48,775 And now, high above the center ring... 752 01:07:48,882 --> 01:07:51,784 the Clyde Beatty Circus proudly presents... 753 01:07:52,018 --> 01:07:54,886 the absolute acme in aerial artistry. 754 01:07:55,255 --> 01:07:58,919 Introducing: The Flying St. Dennis Troupe. 755 01:09:06,793 --> 01:09:09,422 Now, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls... 756 01:09:09,529 --> 01:09:11,498 the great St. Dennis will attempt a feat... 757 01:09:11,598 --> 01:09:14,397 that no other person has ever dared to do. 758 01:09:14,667 --> 01:09:18,604 A daring flip, catching the free-swinging trapeze... 759 01:09:18,705 --> 01:09:23,200 and returning without the aid of a net or safety device of any kind. 760 01:09:23,676 --> 01:09:26,976 Let all eyes be on the great St. Dennis! 761 01:10:15,361 --> 01:10:17,557 - Are you hurt? - No, I don't think so. 762 01:10:17,664 --> 01:10:19,599 Just my hands are burned. 763 01:10:23,603 --> 01:10:26,300 That wasn't part of the act. He could have been killed. 764 01:10:26,406 --> 01:10:28,102 Who do you think that would make real happy? 765 01:10:28,208 --> 01:10:29,437 Come on. 766 01:10:36,916 --> 01:10:38,817 Listen, they think it's part of the act. 767 01:10:38,918 --> 01:10:41,945 Find whoever made the final check on that rig and then run 'em off. 768 01:10:42,055 --> 01:10:45,116 And add some words. If I do, I'll add knuckles. 769 01:10:46,059 --> 01:10:47,584 Twitchy checked the rigging. 770 01:10:47,694 --> 01:10:49,219 - Twitchy? - Yeah. 771 01:10:49,796 --> 01:10:53,130 We've gone as far as we could with him. Pay him off. 772 01:10:53,233 --> 01:10:54,826 - Pedro. - Yeah. 773 01:10:54,934 --> 01:10:56,402 - Find Twitchy for me. - Can I-- 774 01:10:56,502 --> 01:10:58,903 - I said, find him for me. - All right. 775 01:11:00,240 --> 01:11:03,677 I never saw it happen on this show or any other show that I know of. 776 01:11:03,776 --> 01:11:05,802 Those guy wires are checked six ways from Monday... 777 01:11:05,912 --> 01:11:07,642 by anyone who gets even a foot off the ground. 778 01:11:07,747 --> 01:11:09,079 Who had charge of the rigging? 779 01:11:09,182 --> 01:11:11,447 Twitchy, the little clown, he does all the rigging. 780 01:11:11,551 --> 01:11:13,543 He's done it enough to spot a defect in a second. 781 01:11:13,653 --> 01:11:16,350 - He missed one this time. - I don't know, Mickey. 782 01:11:16,856 --> 01:11:19,917 I'm beginning to think there's something in this jinx business, after all. 783 01:11:20,026 --> 01:11:22,518 Well, there is. Only, when we find it, we'll find two arms... 784 01:11:22,629 --> 01:11:23,824 two legs, two feet... 785 01:11:23,930 --> 01:11:26,991 maybe no teeth, because this jinx won't get taken easily. 786 01:11:27,100 --> 01:11:29,729 So let's see if our jinx wears a clown suit, okay? 787 01:11:29,836 --> 01:11:31,964 - See you later, Frank. - Yeah. 788 01:11:34,540 --> 01:11:37,271 If I had any class, I'd get another job. 789 01:12:08,675 --> 01:12:10,007 Dublin? 790 01:12:10,476 --> 01:12:13,105 I looked in the joeys' car for you. I waited for hours. 791 01:12:13,212 --> 01:12:15,204 Well, I've been hiding back there... 792 01:12:15,315 --> 01:12:18,581 because Mr. Wallace and Clyde, they've been hunting for me. 793 01:12:18,685 --> 01:12:21,086 - I brought you back a bottle. - Did you? 794 01:12:21,888 --> 01:12:24,983 I had a bottle back there, but it slipped and broke. 795 01:12:25,091 --> 01:12:27,322 It was awful, hiding back there in the dark... 796 01:12:27,427 --> 01:12:29,862 - with nothing to drink. - I know. 797 01:12:32,098 --> 01:12:34,067 But maybe you wouldn't want to give me a drink... 798 01:12:34,167 --> 01:12:36,295 after I tell you what I'm going to do. 799 01:12:36,402 --> 01:12:39,895 - What's that? - Well, I'm going to Clyde... 800 01:12:40,006 --> 01:12:42,999 and I'm going to tell him everything. 801 01:12:43,476 --> 01:12:47,208 - You got your mind made up about this? - Yes, my mind is made up... 802 01:12:47,313 --> 01:12:51,114 but I wanted to come to you first before I told Clyde... 803 01:12:51,217 --> 01:12:55,086 so that you could get a headstart, 'cause Clyde'd kill you. 804 01:12:55,188 --> 01:12:56,952 - He might. - He would. 805 01:12:57,590 --> 01:13:00,526 I don't want to see Clyde get in any kind of trouble. 806 01:13:00,827 --> 01:13:03,820 I thought it wasn't me you were worried about. 807 01:13:03,997 --> 01:13:06,728 You ain't going to give me a drink now, huh? 808 01:13:07,967 --> 01:13:10,436 - Sure. - Will you? Give it to me. 809 01:13:11,104 --> 01:13:13,232 I asked the man for the strongest stuff there is... 810 01:13:13,339 --> 01:13:15,001 a 160-proof rum. 811 01:13:16,042 --> 01:13:17,806 He said it'll knock your head right off. 812 01:13:17,910 --> 01:13:19,572 Do you mind if I go first? 813 01:13:19,679 --> 01:13:21,944 - No, you go right ahead. - Thank you. 814 01:13:26,552 --> 01:13:30,148 It's wonderful. It burns the mouth, though, a little bit. 815 01:13:34,293 --> 01:13:37,695 Fine filtered water for the precious cats. 816 01:13:40,867 --> 01:13:42,733 Now can I have mine, now? 817 01:13:42,835 --> 01:13:44,929 - Can I have-- - Sure, here. 818 01:13:45,038 --> 01:13:46,506 Much obliged. 819 01:13:51,110 --> 01:13:52,908 That is strong, ain't it? 820 01:13:53,012 --> 01:13:54,776 There's your chaser. 821 01:14:42,195 --> 01:14:46,030 What is this? Someone must pull the plug, I think. 822 01:14:47,433 --> 01:14:50,665 One little twist and I fix the little spigot. 823 01:14:52,605 --> 01:14:55,040 Mr. Wallace! Mr. Wallace! 824 01:14:58,177 --> 01:15:00,908 Looks like your jinx didn't wear a clown suit after all, pal. 825 01:15:01,013 --> 01:15:03,005 When is this going to stop? 826 01:15:03,382 --> 01:15:05,146 What else can happen? 827 01:15:05,251 --> 01:15:06,776 One thing more. 828 01:15:07,687 --> 01:15:10,020 Maybe we won't have to wait now. 829 01:15:10,156 --> 01:15:12,625 This top will fold up like a busted balloon. 830 01:15:12,725 --> 01:15:16,253 It's just horrible, Frank. I just heard about it outside. When did it happen? 831 01:15:16,362 --> 01:15:18,627 Postmortem will show that. 832 01:15:18,731 --> 01:15:20,495 I'd sooner know how it happened. 833 01:15:20,600 --> 01:15:21,795 Poor Twitchy. 834 01:15:21,901 --> 01:15:24,302 Poor little guy. He never even hurt a flea. 835 01:15:24,403 --> 01:15:27,134 - Well, he pretty near killed St. Dennis. - What? 836 01:15:28,040 --> 01:15:29,167 Twitchy. 837 01:15:29,275 --> 01:15:32,211 He rigged that kill swing, got paid off the hard way. 838 01:15:32,712 --> 01:15:35,409 - I wonder.... - Why? 839 01:15:36,215 --> 01:15:39,310 I just can't see him getting paid off like that. 840 01:15:39,819 --> 01:15:41,947 Who would kill anybody that way? 841 01:15:42,488 --> 01:15:44,252 Nobody but a madman. 842 01:15:45,558 --> 01:15:48,790 No, Twitchy might have rigged it, but Twitchy's a drinking man... 843 01:15:48,895 --> 01:15:52,491 and he'd have to be all gouged up with that joy juice to pull that stunt. 844 01:15:52,598 --> 01:15:54,362 That doesn't get him drowned, Mr. Wallace. 845 01:15:54,467 --> 01:15:58,029 I've seen him dunk his head in there many a time just to sober up. 846 01:16:01,140 --> 01:16:03,507 Was that faucet running when you come in here? 847 01:16:03,609 --> 01:16:06,738 Sí, all the way. The tank was over-fulling. 848 01:16:07,113 --> 01:16:09,708 I go turn it off, then I see Twitchy. 849 01:16:09,815 --> 01:16:12,444 I get scared and I run, like... 850 01:16:12,552 --> 01:16:14,145 for Mr. Wallace. 851 01:16:14,554 --> 01:16:16,989 Yeah, and he bent over too far. 852 01:16:17,323 --> 01:16:19,656 I wish we could be sure that he was drunk. 853 01:16:19,759 --> 01:16:21,057 We'll get the answers to that... 854 01:16:21,160 --> 01:16:24,221 when the medical examiner makes his postmortem. 855 01:16:24,997 --> 01:16:27,193 In the meantime, somebody with a nose for little details... 856 01:16:27,300 --> 01:16:29,235 can check up on movements, until Twitchy's death... 857 01:16:29,335 --> 01:16:30,564 starts to make a little sense. 858 01:16:30,670 --> 01:16:33,105 Yeah, well, that's not going to be so easy, not around here. 859 01:16:33,206 --> 01:16:36,074 - Why? - Did you ever watch people in a circus? 860 01:16:36,175 --> 01:16:37,700 What do you think they're looking at? 861 01:16:37,810 --> 01:16:40,780 Somebody sneaking in the side entrance? They're looking at the acts. 862 01:16:40,880 --> 01:16:42,781 I see what you mean. What about the acts themselves? 863 01:16:42,882 --> 01:16:44,748 No, they're too busy with their own specialties... 864 01:16:44,850 --> 01:16:47,752 warming up, making last minute adjustments and all that, you know. 865 01:16:47,853 --> 01:16:50,789 And here's what our little friend on the drink got over-primed on. 866 01:16:50,890 --> 01:16:52,153 Watch those prints. 867 01:16:52,258 --> 01:16:55,194 Looks like we're not going to need a postmortem. 868 01:16:55,294 --> 01:16:57,627 That's a little rich for Twitchy's blood, isn't it? 869 01:16:57,730 --> 01:16:59,790 I'll say it's a little rich for Twitchy's blood. 870 01:16:59,899 --> 01:17:01,390 That bottle belongs to me. 871 01:17:01,500 --> 01:17:04,732 There's isn't another soul on the lot drinks that brand, but me. 872 01:17:04,837 --> 01:17:06,169 Did you leave it here, fellow? 873 01:17:06,272 --> 01:17:08,935 No, Mr. Spillane, I haven't been in here all evening... 874 01:17:09,041 --> 01:17:11,567 but I bet I can guess how it got in here. 875 01:17:11,677 --> 01:17:13,509 Poor old Twitchy had a taste for this. 876 01:17:13,613 --> 01:17:15,775 I had a locker full of it in my trailer. 877 01:17:15,881 --> 01:17:17,907 I think I'd better get a call in to the police. 878 01:17:18,017 --> 01:17:20,316 I already did. They'll be here in a few minutes. 879 01:17:20,419 --> 01:17:21,819 So who left it here? 880 01:17:21,921 --> 01:17:24,356 The murdered? Or the murderer? 881 01:17:37,937 --> 01:17:39,200 Hi, Dublin. 882 01:17:39,305 --> 01:17:41,137 Gentlemen, I was just on my way to get the police. 883 01:17:41,240 --> 01:17:42,606 What gives? 884 01:17:45,411 --> 01:17:47,505 Wanted something in there and really tore it. 885 01:17:48,214 --> 01:17:51,048 The lock held, but the wood split around it. 886 01:17:51,250 --> 01:17:53,981 Did you find out what he used to do it with, O'Malley? 887 01:17:54,086 --> 01:17:55,748 No, I didn't find anything. 888 01:17:55,855 --> 01:17:57,915 Apparently, whatever he used, he took it away with him. 889 01:17:58,024 --> 01:17:59,549 Yeah, he'd do that, wouldn't he? 890 01:17:59,659 --> 01:18:03,596 Yeah, now, if you don't mind, I think I should tell the police about this. 891 01:18:04,430 --> 01:18:06,729 I think you should. Here. 892 01:18:07,533 --> 01:18:09,502 Make great watch charms. 893 01:18:09,869 --> 01:18:12,668 Great as long as you wear them outside your skin. 894 01:18:20,579 --> 01:18:22,343 I don't mind your moving, Mr. Wallace. 895 01:18:22,448 --> 01:18:25,077 I just want to be sure that you don't leave the State. 896 01:18:25,184 --> 01:18:28,416 Why don't you give him a certified copy of your itinerary, Mr. Wallace? 897 01:18:28,521 --> 01:18:31,286 - That'll satisfy the Commissioner. - Yeah, that's a good idea. 898 01:18:31,390 --> 01:18:34,326 I don't want to close the show just for a lack of motion. 899 01:18:34,694 --> 01:18:37,425 C'mon over to the office. We'll get the whole thing straightened out. 900 01:18:37,530 --> 01:18:39,499 - Coming? - No, I hate business. 901 01:18:39,598 --> 01:18:42,090 You go ahead. I'll sop up some sun. 902 01:18:47,473 --> 01:18:49,669 Something new happening in the case? 903 01:18:49,775 --> 01:18:52,677 Nope. All the uniforms want is to be sure we're where they can get to... 904 01:18:52,778 --> 01:18:56,442 - anytime they want us. - I see. I thought, perhaps-- 905 01:19:13,199 --> 01:19:15,498 Did you ever kill a man, Dublin? 906 01:19:51,036 --> 01:19:53,437 I'm looking for a killer, Dublin. 907 01:19:54,740 --> 01:19:56,971 Think you found him, Michael? 908 01:19:58,210 --> 01:20:00,042 I wouldn't be a bit surprised. 909 01:20:00,146 --> 01:20:02,741 - Me? - Yeah, Dublin, you. 910 01:20:04,049 --> 01:20:07,577 Dublin with the pretty speeches and the flavored tongue of the old side. 911 01:20:07,686 --> 01:20:09,621 This makes me a killer? 912 01:20:10,222 --> 01:20:13,021 There are a few other things called facts... 913 01:20:13,459 --> 01:20:15,826 and some other things called suspicions... 914 01:20:15,928 --> 01:20:18,864 and one other thing called intuition. 915 01:20:21,667 --> 01:20:24,432 - I think you're mad. - Me? 916 01:20:29,575 --> 01:20:32,568 All right, Michael, what are your facts? 917 01:20:33,712 --> 01:20:35,544 I guess you're entitled to hear them. 918 01:20:35,648 --> 01:20:38,208 Entitled to keep them on your mind right up to that minute... 919 01:20:38,317 --> 01:20:40,081 when you're trying to scream your last scream... 920 01:20:40,186 --> 01:20:42,951 and a rope around your neck won't let it come out. 921 01:20:43,055 --> 01:20:44,250 Facts, Dublin. 922 01:20:44,356 --> 01:20:47,258 The tiger's training rope saturated with hyposulphite of soda. 923 01:20:47,359 --> 01:20:49,089 Treated so it'd break and a man would be killed. 924 01:20:49,195 --> 01:20:51,096 This you have in your possession. 925 01:20:52,097 --> 01:20:53,463 The facts, Dublin. 926 01:20:53,632 --> 01:20:54,998 The day of Twitchy's death... 927 01:20:55,100 --> 01:20:58,298 that water tank had just been painted. It wasn't quite dry. 928 01:20:58,404 --> 01:21:00,703 The killer who held Twitchy under that water... 929 01:21:00,806 --> 01:21:03,037 leaned hard against that tank. Look. 930 01:21:08,414 --> 01:21:11,145 So, then your facts seem in order, Michael. 931 01:21:11,250 --> 01:21:13,776 May I ask what your suspicions are? 932 01:21:14,720 --> 01:21:17,713 A bottle of liquor lying beside a drowned clown. 933 01:21:18,123 --> 01:21:20,251 Who put it there? The clown, or the killer? 934 01:21:20,359 --> 01:21:22,225 - You yourself told-- - In my mind, I see... 935 01:21:22,328 --> 01:21:25,856 a fast-thinking killer with a quick tongue offering the explanation first... 936 01:21:25,965 --> 01:21:27,993 and posing the problem afterward. 937 01:21:28,100 --> 01:21:31,127 I see you prying that cabinet door open yourself, Dublin. 938 01:21:31,237 --> 01:21:33,103 Those are wonderful suspicions, Michael. 939 01:21:33,205 --> 01:21:34,673 Well thought out. 940 01:21:34,773 --> 01:21:36,036 But, of course, I forgot... 941 01:21:36,141 --> 01:21:38,337 you've a mind for those things, don't you? 942 01:21:38,444 --> 01:21:41,903 May I ask what your final point of analysis is? 943 01:21:42,381 --> 01:21:44,976 This thing that you call intuition? 944 01:21:46,018 --> 01:21:47,077 Yeah. 945 01:21:49,221 --> 01:21:50,883 Your eyes, Dublin... 946 01:21:51,991 --> 01:21:54,392 they belong to a homicidal maniac. 947 01:21:55,060 --> 01:21:59,191 And yours, Michael, yours belong to a blind man. 948 01:22:04,970 --> 01:22:07,371 Your intuitions, Mr. Spillane... 949 01:22:07,973 --> 01:22:10,966 purely re-thought-out facts. Intuitions? 950 01:22:11,076 --> 01:22:13,477 See what they've done for you now? See where they've got you? 951 01:22:13,579 --> 01:22:17,846 You stupid, blundering, unconscious idiot, you. 952 01:22:18,450 --> 01:22:19,679 - Hey, Frank? - Yeah. 953 01:22:19,785 --> 01:22:22,084 - Have you seen Mick? - A while ago. 954 01:22:22,187 --> 01:22:24,782 He wanted to know if you were back from town with that telegram. 955 01:22:24,890 --> 01:22:26,256 Here it is. 956 01:22:26,859 --> 01:22:29,522 Report on the prints on the rum bottle. 957 01:22:30,195 --> 01:22:33,495 - Holy cats! Dublin O'Malley. - Yep. 958 01:22:34,166 --> 01:22:36,397 Homicidal maniac on the loose. 959 01:22:38,070 --> 01:22:39,834 Better find Clyde. Mickey might be with him. 960 01:22:39,939 --> 01:22:41,771 You go. I'm going to tail O'Malley. 961 01:22:41,874 --> 01:22:43,467 They're probably in the big top! 962 01:22:44,643 --> 01:22:46,407 Don't move, Michael. 963 01:22:46,512 --> 01:22:50,415 Don't do any little thing that might make me have to kill you right now. 964 01:22:50,749 --> 01:22:53,480 See, I didn't mind your facts. I didn't even mind your suspicions... 965 01:22:53,586 --> 01:22:56,317 but it was your intuition that I hated. 966 01:23:01,994 --> 01:23:04,429 You saw it in my eyes, didn't you, Michael? 967 01:23:04,830 --> 01:23:08,267 Yes, I'm mad, but it was people like you that made me this way. 968 01:23:08,667 --> 01:23:10,761 Take one last good look at my eyes now... 969 01:23:10,869 --> 01:23:13,839 because it's the last thing you're ever going to see. 970 01:23:14,106 --> 01:23:16,974 You can lie there and hear yourself scream... 971 01:23:17,076 --> 01:23:19,307 as this acid bathes your eyes. 972 01:23:19,745 --> 01:23:23,307 And wish, perhaps, that you'd never come to a circus in your life. 973 01:23:24,183 --> 01:23:26,982 Take one last good look at my eyes... 974 01:23:28,053 --> 01:23:29,521 Mr. Spillane. 975 01:23:39,264 --> 01:23:41,199 Jack, get me out of this place! 976 01:23:44,303 --> 01:23:46,204 - You know what I ought to do? - Yeah, what? 977 01:23:46,305 --> 01:23:48,206 I ought to leave you here. 978 01:23:52,611 --> 01:23:54,341 Valerie, I'm sorry. 979 01:23:55,514 --> 01:23:58,746 We just got news that Dublin is a kill-heavy maniac. 980 01:23:58,851 --> 01:24:02,219 - What? - Dublin was our trouble, honey. 981 01:24:02,321 --> 01:24:05,655 All the time we thought he was away, he was in an institution. 982 01:24:05,824 --> 01:24:07,258 He's insane. 983 01:24:09,428 --> 01:24:11,920 - He killed? - That's right. He killed. 984 01:24:12,965 --> 01:24:15,867 We've got to stop him before he kills again. 985 01:24:23,175 --> 01:24:25,303 Armand. Armand. 986 01:24:27,913 --> 01:24:28,881 Armand! 987 01:24:37,356 --> 01:24:40,258 Armand, my darling, it's so good to be home. 988 01:24:40,726 --> 01:24:42,092 So safe. 989 01:24:44,196 --> 01:24:47,633 Did you hear about Dublin? He was mad. 990 01:24:49,668 --> 01:24:53,469 He was mad all the time. He killed. 991 01:24:54,606 --> 01:24:57,303 He killed people that he said he loved. 992 01:25:03,482 --> 01:25:05,883 You can still be safe, my lovely. 993 01:25:06,752 --> 01:25:09,017 One last kiss for old time. 994 01:25:09,621 --> 01:25:13,183 Or perhaps one that says everything is new again. 995 01:25:13,292 --> 01:25:15,955 For you there is no madness, my darling. 996 01:25:16,061 --> 01:25:18,553 No madness. Love. 997 01:25:20,065 --> 01:25:23,194 The kind of a love that no other man could ever give you. 998 01:25:24,536 --> 01:25:26,505 We had it once, Valerie. 999 01:25:26,605 --> 01:25:28,471 No. No. No! 1000 01:25:38,450 --> 01:25:40,783 If it's my guess, he's making tracks away from the lot. 1001 01:25:40,886 --> 01:25:43,321 We better be sure. It's you. 1002 01:25:43,422 --> 01:25:45,734 - Did you find Dublin? - We had him, but he got off the hook. 1003 01:25:45,758 --> 01:25:47,602 Cops'll be here in a minute. Let's go around the lot. 1004 01:25:47,626 --> 01:25:49,104 If he's holed up, we can dig him out. 1005 01:25:49,128 --> 01:25:52,326 We won't find him standing here. Let's fan out and start digging. 1006 01:26:27,933 --> 01:26:30,732 Mr. Beatty! Mr. Beatty! 1007 01:26:58,230 --> 01:26:59,664 Mr. Beatty! 1008 01:27:00,299 --> 01:27:03,758 Dublin, he's in the animal tent, and he's letting the big cat out. 1009 01:27:03,869 --> 01:27:05,132 We've got to get that cat. 1010 01:27:05,237 --> 01:27:08,230 If he gets out of that tent, God knows what'll happen. 1011 01:27:39,338 --> 01:27:40,931 Stay here and no one will get hurt. 1012 01:27:41,039 --> 01:27:43,508 I've got to get that cat back in the cage. 1013 01:28:48,974 --> 01:28:51,136 If that cat gets into town.... 1014 01:29:07,993 --> 01:29:09,461 There he goes. 1015 01:29:10,162 --> 01:29:13,690 Spread out and take it easy. Don't get too close to Clyde. 1016 01:29:55,173 --> 01:29:57,665 That baby has something on his mind. 1017 01:31:05,811 --> 01:31:07,336 - Mickey! - Yeah? 1018 01:31:07,479 --> 01:31:09,004 - You got your gun? - Yeah! 1019 01:31:09,114 --> 01:31:11,640 If you get a chance, maybe you better use it. 1020 01:31:11,750 --> 01:31:12,877 Okay. 1021 01:31:32,671 --> 01:31:34,367 Good boy, Clyde! 1022 01:31:35,273 --> 01:31:37,139 That was a close one. 1023 01:31:43,915 --> 01:31:46,908 Get back to the caboose. Tell them to stop that train! 1024 01:31:47,552 --> 01:31:48,679 Wait! 1025 01:31:56,094 --> 01:31:57,585 That's Dublin. 1026 01:32:02,033 --> 01:32:04,434 It couldn't happen to a nicer guy. 1027 01:32:25,957 --> 01:32:28,324 Come spring, the country will be greening up... 1028 01:32:28,426 --> 01:32:30,725 and there'll be a new crop of kids. 1029 01:32:30,829 --> 01:32:35,164 And the circus will roll again, because that's what the circus is for... 1030 01:32:35,367 --> 01:32:38,929 to make happy the hearts of the young and of the old.