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(moody piano music)
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- I always wanted to be in the movies.
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I was almost a star. (chuckles)
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Almost.
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Then something happened
that took my dream away.
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(lively jazz music)
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- [Woman] I liked standing,
I thought it was romantic.
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- If you think I was gonna let
some guy run off with my girl
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while I fight a bunch of
crabs, you must be dizzy.
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- Well, every gal wants a guy that's gonna
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sacrifice himself for her, it's romantic.
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- You see, that's the problem.
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Bogart used to play the tough
guy, now he just plays a sap.
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- Well, you're my tough guy.
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- Hey, what're you doing in here?
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I'm talking to you.
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Get outta here, go on, go.
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- People gotta learn their place.
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(car door closes)
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- (chuckles) Hey, don't look
now, but I think I see Mona
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Lane sitting over there in a
booth drinking a milkshake.
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- Where?
- I said don't look.
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(chuckles) I don't want
you to embarrass me.
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And I think I see Jimmy
Stance over there with her.
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I've read that those two are an item.
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I guess it's true.
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- Movie stars are people
just like us, they've gotta
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put their pants on one leg
at a time, just like me.
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- Hey, I told you to get outta here, boy.
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Oh, don't shoot.
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(gun fires)
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- [Narrator] That's how things went down
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at the Moonlight Cafe,
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the night Mona Lane got
kidnapped by a gang of Negros.
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Or at least that's how
the newspapers told it.
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But we got plenty of time to get to that.
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This story is as much about
me, as it is about her.
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(upbeat piano music)
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(gun fires)
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As a kid, I could still
remember goin' to the pictures,
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watchin' gangsters and
cowboys on the big screen.
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I wanted to be up there,
bigger than everyone.
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Bigger than life, on top of the world.
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(guns fire)
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I always liked pretending
to be other people.
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That's me, Archie Glass.
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Just a few months from
hoboing my way from Georgia.
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It wasn't long before I
found myself on Central Av.
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The center of Negro life in Los Angeles.
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I fell in love with
Los Angeles that night.
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I started busing tables, then
worked my way up to doorman at
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the Dun Bar Club, which was
the hottest spot in South LA.
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Every night was like a party.
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You never knew who would walk in.
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Leroy Tucker was a black man from Compton,
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who had Indian in him
from his momma's side.
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It was enough for him to pass as Mexican,
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and get work as an outlaw
bandit in westerns.
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Big Nadine Lomax worked a lot.
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Whenever the studios needed
someone to play a maid,
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they called Nadine.
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She played maids in so many pictures,
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they gave her an Oscar for it.
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These people?
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No one cared about them in Hollywood.
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They were overlooked, or they
was just a butt of jokes.
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But down on Central Av, they
were treated like stars.
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There was magic in
every gesture they made.
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Every smile was a window
into a new kind of freedom.
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And the biggest of them all?
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Ennis Matthews.
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They called him the brown
clown, he had a series of
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short films where he played
America's favorite Negro clown.
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Ennis always dressed sharp,
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and smoked these fancy cigars from Cuba.
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I looked up to him.
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I wanted to be just like him.
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- What's your name, kid?
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- [Archie] Archie.
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Archie Glass.
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- Well, Archie Glass.
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You don't look like a man
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who wants to be a doorman all his life.
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- I wanna be like you.
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I wanna be in the pictures.
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- I got a hot tip for you, if you want it.
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- Sure, I mean...
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Yes.
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- Go down to Central Casting.
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They got a new Negro office open.
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Tell 'em I sent you.
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They're lookin' to put
colored folks in movies.
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- Thank you, thank you.
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I just need one break, mister.
(moody jazz music)
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One chance to do something
big in this world.
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If you give me that chance, I promise you,
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I promise you, you won't be sorry.
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Wait.
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Is that a gun?
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Why are you pointing a gun at me?
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Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!
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(chuckles) Look at me, Ma, I made it!
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Top of the world!
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- Are you going to keep playing
gangster in that mirror?
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Or are you gonna come over
here and keep me warm?
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(chuckles)
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- [Archie] The first time I saw Sandra,
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was standin' outside the Dun Bar Hotel.
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She was like a peacock
struttin' down the street.
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She sang four nights a
week at the Foxtrot Cafe.
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I'm not sure what was sweeter.
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Her voice on stage...
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Or her kisses in bed.
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That was real fine, baby.
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You sure know how to
make a fella feel good.
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- You're a good sweet talker.
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- I'm a good actor.
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I mean, I'm a doorman right now, but,
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I'm gonna be in the pictures soon.
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- I can't believe I hopped
in bed with an actor!
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(laughs)
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My mama would whoop me good!
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- What's wrong with being an actor?
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- Nothin'!
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If you're Clark Gable or Betty Davis.
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Then you could be a pirate or
a princess, or even a cowboy.
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That come and save the day.
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But, if you are black,
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the movies is just like real life.
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You're just the maid or
somebody's go-fetch boy.
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- I know there ain't a lot
of work for a Negro man,
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but that's gonna change and when it does,
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I wanna be the first.
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- You're gonna be waiting
a long time for that.
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- Not for too long.
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I got me an audition at Victory Studio.
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They're lookin' for Negro actors.
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Soon, you're gonna see
my name at the Ricaknie.
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"Archie Glass, the greatest
American actor alive."
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(both chuckle)
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(jaunty piano music)
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(knocks)
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- Come in.
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Sit down.
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What's your name?
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- Glass, sir.
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Archie Glass.
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- How'd you hear about this job?
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- Fella I met in a bar said
y'all was lookin' for black
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folks, so I figured I fit the
description and came on over.
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- So, here's the skinny, okay?
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The studio wants to start
usin' Negro folk instead of
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white actors who are dressed
up as Negros in makeup.
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Now, a lot of good white
actors have lost their jobs
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because of it, but, what the
studio wants, the studio gets.
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All right?
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Turn to your right.
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Look up.
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The other side.
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Oh, okay, you look black enough
to me to be a real Negro.
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- I'm a man, sir, and an actor.
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- Not a hothead, are you?
- No, sir.
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- I don't need any hotheads.
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No? Okay.
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Okay, you ever been in
front of the camera before?
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Have you ever acted?
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- A little, sir, one or two church plays.
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- Well, I've seen eight other
guys just like you today.
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What makes you different than them?
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- When I was a little young pup,
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I got myself in some
trouble, wind up in jail.
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I was in there with grown men
and I wanted to cry every day.
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I was afraid, but I
couldn't let them see that.
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So, I guess, sir, I can say
I've been actin' my whole life.
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- Yeah, well, you're not gonna
be doin' any Shakespeare.
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All right?
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Just a line or two here and there,
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keep the story moving around,
keep the audience laughin'.
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Got it?
- Yes, sir.
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- You know how to read?
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- Yes, sir.
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- All right, read this.
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When you're ready.
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- "All the world is a stage,
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"and all the men and
women, merely players.
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"They have their exits and an entrance.
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"And one man plays many parts."
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- Not bad for a colored.
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I mean, you've gotta hear
the guys comin' here.
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I don't understand a damn
thing they're sayin'.
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Okay.
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Take this slip down to wardrobe.
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They're gonna get you
fitted for a porter uniform.
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And then I want you to
come back here, tomorrow.
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Stage seven at 6:30 AM.
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Got it?
- Yes, sir.
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Thank you, sir.
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You won't regret it.
- Oh, I know, go.
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Next.
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(peaceful piano music)
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- Cheers.
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(Sandra chuckles)
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- [Sandra] Oh, Donny!
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How are you?
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- I'm better now.
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Where have you been keeping yourself?
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I haven't seen you at the club in a week.
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- Oh, I've been around.
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Donny, this is Archie Glass.
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- Like I said, where have you been?
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I thought we had a good time
the last time we went out.
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- Who is this clown?
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- Keep your cool, nigga.
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This is a nice place, for nice folks.
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(Sandra chuckles)
It's always my pleasure.
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(chuckles)
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- I said, who was that?
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- That's Donny Obrex.
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He leads the orchestra
that I used to sing in.
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He's been wantin' me to
get back with the band.
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- I think he wants more than that.
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- We were together once.
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Before you came along.
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So, tell me, how did you get the part?
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What did you do to beat
all those other guys
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that were better than you?
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- I just told that fat
cat casting director
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what he wanted to hear.
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- And what was that?
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- A sob story about having
to pretend to be other people
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in order to survive when I was young.
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- It wasn't true?
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- Sure it was.
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(chuckles)
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- You're awfully good at play acting.
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But sometimes, I wonder.
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Who is the real Archie Glass?
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- Hey.
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I see somebody at the bar I know.
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I'll be right back, baby.
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Hey, Ennis!
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Hey, I owe you a drink.
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That tip you gave me really paid off.
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I'm in a movie now.
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It's a small part, but it's a start.
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And I owe it all to you.
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- Congratulations.
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What's your name again?
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- Archie Glass.
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- To Archie Glass!
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The greatest actor, on Central Avenue.
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- Come on, Ennis, we
gotta go do that thing.
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Man, get your stuff, let's go.
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(upbeat jazz guitar music)
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(jazz piano music)
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- All right, camera rolling?
- Cameras are rolling!
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- Sound speeding?
258
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Actor ready?
259
00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:54,757
Okay, now listen, all
you need to say is, uh,
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"I don't know, boss, I thinks
this place is haunted!"
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Okay?
262
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And action!
263
00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:05,023
- I don't know, boss, I
think this place is haunted.
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- Cut.
265
00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:08,630
All right, I think that was swell.
266
00:17:08,630 --> 00:17:10,550
Okay, let's try another one.
267
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This time, I want you to say, um,
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"I thinks this place is haunted
and I'm afraid of ghosts!"
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Action!
270
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- I thinks this place is haunted
and I'm afraid of ghosts.
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- All right, all right, that was great.
272
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Now, try this one on.
273
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"I is afraid of ghosts.
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"I think I might get so
scared, I may just turn white!"
275
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(chuckles) Give it all you got, all right?
276
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And action!
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- I is afraid of ghosts.
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I get so scared, I think
I may just turn as white.
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- (chuckles) And cut.
280
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Good, good, good, all right, all right.
281
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They definitely brought us
the right boy for the job.
282
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You know, this is the first time not using
283
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a white man with blackface.
284
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Think I like using a real Negro.
285
00:17:57,370 --> 00:17:58,540
All right, great.
286
00:17:58,540 --> 00:17:59,703
Next scene, okay.
287
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(jazzy piano music)
288
00:18:14,980 --> 00:18:15,813
- Hungry?
289
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(chuckles)
290
00:18:23,952 --> 00:18:25,290
That's all right.
291
00:18:25,290 --> 00:18:27,350
Tell me your favorite song. (chuckles)
292
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- What do you think
you're doin' there, boy?
293
00:18:29,910 --> 00:18:32,221
- Get away from that gal.
- I ain't done nothin', sir.
294
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Just me and the girl, we're
just right here sharing a laugh.
295
00:18:34,230 --> 00:18:35,063
- I saw you--
296
00:18:35,063 --> 00:18:37,060
- [Archie] I was just
sharing a piece of fruit.
297
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- You callin' me a liar, boy?
(lively percussion)
298
00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:41,710
- [Archie] Punching a white
man would get you hung
299
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in the South, and though
I was far from home,
300
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if you stepped outta line in Hollywood,
301
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there would be somebody
to put you back in place.
302
00:18:54,008 --> 00:18:56,091
(groans)
303
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Like Mr. McCoy.
304
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The singer who liked
dark rum and white gals,
305
00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:04,108
until he was found in bed
with a producer's wife.
306
00:19:04,108 --> 00:19:04,941
(gun fires)
307
00:19:04,941 --> 00:19:06,270
Three days later, he was washed up
308
00:19:06,270 --> 00:19:07,820
on a beach with his throat cut.
309
00:19:10,110 --> 00:19:12,110
Then you had Lenore Carole,
310
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who was about to marry
leading man Danny Faroe
311
00:19:14,190 --> 00:19:16,590
until he discovered his
bride-to-be was half-black
312
00:19:16,590 --> 00:19:19,983
and crushed her skull with a
golf club in their living room.
313
00:19:21,471 --> 00:19:23,421
The judge let him go on a technicality.
314
00:19:24,580 --> 00:19:27,530
But I was lucky, all they
did was give me a beatin'
315
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and throw me off the lot.
316
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I had been blacklisted.
(moody jazz music)
317
00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:54,580
- Mister, you got a light?
318
00:19:59,590 --> 00:20:00,423
- No.
319
00:20:01,627 --> 00:20:04,933
- Well, gee, it look like
somebody done stole your lunch.
320
00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:10,207
- Something like that.
321
00:20:11,506 --> 00:20:12,673
- How about...
322
00:20:13,630 --> 00:20:15,123
You buy Sugar a drink?
323
00:20:16,396 --> 00:20:19,563
And I'll help you forget all about it.
324
00:20:25,601 --> 00:20:28,268
(rooster crows)
325
00:20:29,231 --> 00:20:31,898
(rooster crows)
326
00:20:47,327 --> 00:20:49,994
(Archie groans)
327
00:21:03,710 --> 00:21:06,253
- This road you're going
down is not an easy one.
328
00:21:07,300 --> 00:21:11,250
You have to show the
world that you are a man,
329
00:21:11,250 --> 00:21:16,210
and that you have the humanity
that can mirror all men.
330
00:21:16,210 --> 00:21:20,133
That is your job as an actor.
331
00:21:25,810 --> 00:21:27,003
You desire.
332
00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:30,253
You sacrifice.
333
00:21:32,220 --> 00:21:33,353
You love.
334
00:21:34,750 --> 00:21:35,653
You hate.
335
00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:38,283
You hurt.
336
00:21:39,730 --> 00:21:40,823
You bleed.
337
00:21:42,210 --> 00:21:43,313
You live.
338
00:21:45,250 --> 00:21:46,403
You die.
339
00:21:50,110 --> 00:21:54,643
Mr. Glass, would you like to
share with the class today?
340
00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:07,853
- We're all just here wasting
our time, and you know it.
341
00:22:09,610 --> 00:22:11,863
They don't care about who we are.
342
00:22:14,340 --> 00:22:16,090
- [Teacher] Mr. Glass, don't leave.
343
00:22:19,804 --> 00:22:22,721
(moody jazz music)
344
00:22:44,104 --> 00:22:47,187
(upbeat piano music)
345
00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:22,700
- [Radio Host] I hope you
are enjoying another cool
346
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and sunny day in California.
347
00:23:24,790 --> 00:23:26,810
The US Army wants you to be vigilant.
348
00:23:26,810 --> 00:23:29,070
Japan has spies everywhere.
349
00:23:29,070 --> 00:23:32,630
Remember, if you see
something, say something.
350
00:23:32,630 --> 00:23:35,360
In other news, don't count
on seeing Hollywood starlet
351
00:23:35,360 --> 00:23:38,250
Mona Lane on the streets of
Tinsel Town anytime soon.
352
00:23:38,250 --> 00:23:41,150
Victory Studios says she
has eloped to Mexico.
353
00:23:41,150 --> 00:23:43,200
No word if it's with Bo Jimmy Stance,
354
00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:44,823
who is she is often seen with.
355
00:23:45,700 --> 00:23:48,250
Support the war effort and buy bonds.
356
00:23:48,250 --> 00:23:49,943
- These streets are hard for a man.
357
00:23:51,310 --> 00:23:53,863
I thought you was gonna be
a big movie star one day.
358
00:23:56,531 --> 00:23:57,698
What happened?
359
00:23:59,010 --> 00:24:00,833
Got tired of playin' the butler?
360
00:24:03,020 --> 00:24:04,370
I'll tell you what, though.
361
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:08,163
Everything you hear ain't true.
362
00:24:09,700 --> 00:24:12,423
They talkin' 'bout that
girl Mona goin' to Mexico.
363
00:24:14,530 --> 00:24:16,830
She ain't in no Mexico,
she got into trouble,
364
00:24:16,830 --> 00:24:20,863
messin' with them bad
boys down on Central.
365
00:24:22,982 --> 00:24:25,090
If she kidnapped, I'll eat my shoe.
366
00:24:25,090 --> 00:24:27,320
- Whoa, whoa, wait, wait,
wait, go back, go back.
367
00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:28,920
What did you just say?
368
00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:30,813
- I'll eat me shoe.
- No.
369
00:24:32,310 --> 00:24:33,210
About the actress.
370
00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:38,203
- That girl ain't in no Mexico.
371
00:24:39,360 --> 00:24:42,433
She got in a fix with some
fellas I used to know.
372
00:24:44,523 --> 00:24:48,440
(suspenseful percussive music)
373
00:25:05,551 --> 00:25:07,968
(man coughs)
374
00:25:13,793 --> 00:25:16,210
(man coughs)
375
00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:23,400
- What's your name?
376
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:24,423
- Archie Glass.
377
00:25:25,590 --> 00:25:27,450
- [Man] You know who I am?
378
00:25:27,450 --> 00:25:30,530
- You're Jack Wingate,
head of Victory Studios.
379
00:25:30,530 --> 00:25:31,793
I got something you want.
380
00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:35,370
Something you're looking for.
381
00:25:37,090 --> 00:25:39,590
- I told you he's some sort of nut-job.
382
00:25:39,590 --> 00:25:40,630
Let me bust him up some more,
383
00:25:40,630 --> 00:25:42,600
and I'll go throw him
down a hole in the desert.
384
00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:45,213
- Do that, you'll never find Mona Lane.
385
00:25:46,070 --> 00:25:48,840
- And what do you know about Mona Lane?
386
00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:51,693
- [Archie] I know she's not
down in Mexico getting married.
387
00:25:53,832 --> 00:25:56,010
(Jack chuckles)
388
00:25:56,010 --> 00:25:57,310
- The town talks.
389
00:25:57,310 --> 00:25:58,460
- It's not just gossip.
390
00:26:00,973 --> 00:26:03,923
And you're hiding it from the
press, but once word get out,
391
00:26:04,870 --> 00:26:06,020
everybody's gonna know.
392
00:26:07,821 --> 00:26:09,203
- And what is it that you want?
393
00:26:10,810 --> 00:26:11,673
- I'm an actor.
394
00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:15,190
Or at least I was,
until I got blacklisted.
395
00:26:16,830 --> 00:26:18,830
I need you to take me off the blacklist,
396
00:26:20,380 --> 00:26:22,130
so I can work again, or better yet,
397
00:26:23,530 --> 00:26:25,080
put me in one of your pictures.
398
00:26:26,130 --> 00:26:27,890
- Why would I wanna do that?
399
00:26:27,890 --> 00:26:29,440
- I can find Mona Lane for you.
400
00:26:32,260 --> 00:26:33,093
- Why the hell would I need you,
401
00:26:33,093 --> 00:26:34,833
when I have my own security staff?
402
00:26:36,090 --> 00:26:38,457
- Where you need to go,
these big ugly white men
403
00:26:38,457 --> 00:26:40,463
are gonna stick out like a sore thumb.
404
00:26:41,670 --> 00:26:44,460
- [Jack] And where is
it that I need to go?
405
00:26:44,460 --> 00:26:46,660
- Down in South Los Angeles.
406
00:26:46,660 --> 00:26:48,760
A place I'm pretty sure you've never been.
407
00:26:51,203 --> 00:26:52,700
- Can you read?
408
00:26:52,700 --> 00:26:54,293
- [Archie] Yes, sir, I can read.
409
00:26:56,490 --> 00:26:58,983
- [Jack] This was left on
my doorstep last evening.
410
00:27:02,347 --> 00:27:03,500
- "If you are reading this,
411
00:27:03,500 --> 00:27:06,467
"then you already know
that Mona Lane is missing.
412
00:27:06,467 --> 00:27:08,803
"We will kill her if we don't $10,000
413
00:27:08,803 --> 00:27:11,047
"by the day after tomorrow.
414
00:27:11,047 --> 00:27:13,917
"Leave the money in a brown
paper bag at the bus stop
415
00:27:13,917 --> 00:27:17,507
"at Central and Jefferson,
do not delay in payment,
416
00:27:17,507 --> 00:27:21,961
"if you want to see her alive again."
417
00:27:21,961 --> 00:27:23,060
(Jack coughs)
418
00:27:23,060 --> 00:27:27,180
- It seems that Miss Lane got herself
419
00:27:27,180 --> 00:27:29,513
into trouble frequenting jazz clubs.
420
00:27:30,390 --> 00:27:35,293
And Miss Lane likes a
certain kind of company.
421
00:27:36,491 --> 00:27:39,010
(coughs)
422
00:27:39,010 --> 00:27:40,560
- I don't follow.
423
00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:42,003
- She likes Negro men.
424
00:27:43,870 --> 00:27:48,270
Now, the studio has invested
a lot of resources and money,
425
00:27:48,270 --> 00:27:50,023
into the image of Mona Lane.
426
00:27:51,220 --> 00:27:53,323
She's one of our up and rising stars.
427
00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:58,160
I can't risk her image to be tarnished
428
00:27:59,120 --> 00:28:01,463
by people thinking that
she's a nigger lover.
429
00:28:03,810 --> 00:28:05,463
Do you follow me now, Mr. Glass?
430
00:28:06,329 --> 00:28:07,190
(coughs)
431
00:28:07,190 --> 00:28:08,840
- Yeah.
432
00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:09,673
I guess I do.
433
00:28:12,001 --> 00:28:13,451
- If you can do what you say,
434
00:28:15,180 --> 00:28:16,013
I'll reward you.
435
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:18,990
I'll take you off that blacklist,
436
00:28:18,990 --> 00:28:20,543
and I'll put you in one of my films.
437
00:28:23,718 --> 00:28:25,890
Now, you call when you find her,
438
00:28:25,890 --> 00:28:28,040
and O'Neal here will go and fetch her,
439
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:30,670
before some rogue reporter with an itch
440
00:28:30,670 --> 00:28:32,993
to make a name for himself
can write about it.
441
00:28:34,900 --> 00:28:37,820
- Can I trust your word?
(Jack chuckles)
442
00:28:37,820 --> 00:28:39,773
- That's a funny thing to ask a man.
443
00:28:42,100 --> 00:28:43,543
Yes, you can trust me.
444
00:28:48,009 --> 00:28:49,159
- Then you have a deal.
445
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:51,543
Just one thing.
446
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:53,573
- [Jack] Yeah, what's that?
447
00:28:54,790 --> 00:28:57,300
- Why don't you just pay the kidnappers?
448
00:28:57,300 --> 00:28:58,357
I'm pretty sure you can afford it,
449
00:28:58,357 --> 00:28:59,913
and you got plenty to spare.
450
00:29:02,790 --> 00:29:04,227
- Let me tell you something.
451
00:29:05,650 --> 00:29:08,930
I am not about to let some
hoodling gang of Negros
452
00:29:08,930 --> 00:29:10,863
think that they can boss me around.
453
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,123
They won't get a wooden nickel out of me.
454
00:29:14,999 --> 00:29:16,599
Do you follow me now, Mr. Glass?
455
00:29:18,230 --> 00:29:19,063
- Yeah.
456
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:20,753
I guess I do.
457
00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:29,153
- Glass.
458
00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:34,680
You find the girl, I'll deal
with the coked-up coons.
459
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:38,000
- If you're so bad, why don't
you just find her yourself?
460
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,090
- Just because the boss made
you a promise, doesn't mean
461
00:29:40,090 --> 00:29:42,640
I won't knock out some of
your teeth along the way.
462
00:29:43,931 --> 00:29:45,193
I'll be waiting for your call.
463
00:29:52,274 --> 00:29:54,369
(moody jazz music)
464
00:29:54,369 --> 00:29:56,849
♪ Crazy ♪
465
00:29:56,849 --> 00:30:00,011
♪ I am ♪
466
00:30:00,011 --> 00:30:05,011
♪ For you ♪
467
00:30:05,173 --> 00:30:10,172
♪ You make me feel good ♪
468
00:30:10,172 --> 00:30:15,172
♪ Yet I am still blue ♪
469
00:30:15,543 --> 00:30:18,392
♪ I want ♪
470
00:30:18,392 --> 00:30:21,741
♪ More ♪
471
00:30:21,741 --> 00:30:24,853
♪ From ♪
472
00:30:24,853 --> 00:30:26,686
♪ You ♪
473
00:30:30,939 --> 00:30:33,522
(Archie claps)
474
00:30:39,450 --> 00:30:40,970
Sam?
475
00:30:40,970 --> 00:30:41,803
Give me 10.
476
00:30:48,300 --> 00:30:49,300
Where have you been?
477
00:30:51,566 --> 00:30:53,140
You think you can just disappear on me
478
00:30:53,140 --> 00:30:54,833
and come back whenever you want?
479
00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:58,930
- I just been trying to figure
some things out, that's it.
480
00:30:58,930 --> 00:31:00,680
- Oh, well why don't you go talk
481
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:03,040
to your girlfriend about your problems?
482
00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:04,463
- I don't have a girlfriend.
483
00:31:07,625 --> 00:31:09,960
I mean, you're the only
one I wanna be with.
484
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:12,640
I think you're my girlfriend, I mean--
485
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,220
- You sound confused.
486
00:31:15,220 --> 00:31:16,563
Go get yourself a drink.
487
00:31:17,690 --> 00:31:19,410
- It just ain't fair what they did to me.
488
00:31:19,410 --> 00:31:22,410
- This world ain't fair.
489
00:31:22,410 --> 00:31:24,320
And you'd better get used to it.
490
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:26,370
There ain't nothin' fair about this town.
491
00:31:29,161 --> 00:31:30,561
- I need to borrow your car.
492
00:31:31,670 --> 00:31:32,763
- My car?
493
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:35,233
For what?
494
00:31:36,300 --> 00:31:39,100
- I got a chance, a second chance, really.
495
00:31:39,100 --> 00:31:40,513
A shot at the big time.
496
00:31:41,890 --> 00:31:44,650
- [Sandra] What are you
talkin' about, Archie?
497
00:31:44,650 --> 00:31:46,082
- I can't tell you everything right now,
498
00:31:46,082 --> 00:31:48,082
but I need to find this white gal.
499
00:31:48,082 --> 00:31:50,290
- (chuckles) A white girl?
500
00:31:50,290 --> 00:31:52,960
- When I was in lockup,
there was this old black Joe,
501
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:55,547
and I reckon he was some
kind of actor or somethin'.
502
00:31:56,800 --> 00:32:01,423
'Cause at nighttime, he
would recite these plays,
503
00:32:03,461 --> 00:32:06,527
and I would close my eyes
and imagine all the people
504
00:32:06,527 --> 00:32:09,833
and the places this old
buster used to talk about.
505
00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:15,463
So, when time come again and I'm free,
506
00:32:17,340 --> 00:32:19,740
I say I'm going to Hollywood
to become an actor.
507
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:25,673
That's my dream.
508
00:32:27,140 --> 00:32:29,650
And if findin' this white
gal for some old cracker's
509
00:32:29,650 --> 00:32:32,070
gonna get me closer to that
dream, then damn it all.
510
00:32:32,070 --> 00:32:33,300
Damn it all.
511
00:32:33,300 --> 00:32:34,900
Who knows?
512
00:32:34,900 --> 00:32:36,000
I could become a star.
513
00:32:37,061 --> 00:32:39,380
(Sandra chuckles)
514
00:32:39,380 --> 00:32:40,213
- A star?
515
00:32:41,301 --> 00:32:43,580
(chuckles) Now I know you're dreamin'.
516
00:32:45,100 --> 00:32:47,700
- I'm just asking you just
to trust me a little bit.
517
00:32:49,170 --> 00:32:52,560
- (chuckles) You are not the only one
518
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:54,210
with their back against the wall.
519
00:32:55,950 --> 00:32:58,503
We all have hard choices
that we have to make.
520
00:33:04,112 --> 00:33:06,112
(sighs)
521
00:33:13,350 --> 00:33:15,320
- I have to go.
522
00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:16,710
- [Sandra] I know.
523
00:33:16,710 --> 00:33:17,913
You're chasing a girl,
524
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:20,990
when you have one
standing in front of you.
525
00:33:34,809 --> 00:33:37,892
(upbeat piano music)
526
00:33:43,950 --> 00:33:46,070
- [Archie] Nadine was a gossip hound.
527
00:33:46,070 --> 00:33:49,270
She knew who was sleepin'
with who, when and where.
528
00:33:49,270 --> 00:33:52,060
People liked tellin' her
secrets, I was hopin' that
529
00:33:52,060 --> 00:33:54,860
someone had whispered
in her ear about Mona.
530
00:33:54,860 --> 00:33:57,950
- How'd you get in here?
- The gate was unlocked.
531
00:33:57,950 --> 00:33:59,890
I rang the bell, but no one answered.
532
00:33:59,890 --> 00:34:00,840
- Who are you?
533
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:03,240
- I'm Fattius Quickstep, I'm
with the Hollywood Negro Press,
534
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:04,800
and I have some questions I wanna ask you
535
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:06,250
about an article I'm writing.
536
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:09,903
- An article! (chuckles)
537
00:34:12,620 --> 00:34:13,720
Why didn't you say so?
538
00:34:29,030 --> 00:34:31,490
You sayin' something
about doing a story on me?
539
00:34:31,490 --> 00:34:32,870
- [Archie] A feature.
540
00:34:32,870 --> 00:34:34,330
- A feature!
541
00:34:34,330 --> 00:34:37,750
- Yes, we have some questions
your fans would like to know.
542
00:34:37,750 --> 00:34:38,583
- Go on.
543
00:34:39,830 --> 00:34:41,780
- What's your favorite color?
- Pink.
544
00:34:41,780 --> 00:34:45,943
But that's too racy, so
let's just say yellow.
545
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:49,860
- What's your favorite flower?
546
00:34:49,860 --> 00:34:51,910
- Roses, of course.
547
00:34:51,910 --> 00:34:53,430
Martini?
- No, thank you.
548
00:34:53,430 --> 00:34:55,070
I never drink on the job.
549
00:34:55,070 --> 00:34:55,923
- Shame.
550
00:34:57,090 --> 00:34:59,273
- [Archie] Who is your
favorite actor to work with?
551
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:03,950
- I don't wanna get in any trouble, so,
552
00:35:03,950 --> 00:35:05,407
let's just say all of 'em.
553
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:07,113
- That's fine.
554
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:10,600
So, tell us, what do you like to do
555
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,240
on your typical Friday night?
556
00:35:13,240 --> 00:35:16,450
- Well, me and my girls like to go out.
557
00:35:16,450 --> 00:35:17,800
- Hm.
558
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:19,208
Where?
559
00:35:19,208 --> 00:35:20,660
- Over on Central Avenue.
560
00:35:20,660 --> 00:35:22,670
Dun Bar Hotel.
561
00:35:22,670 --> 00:35:24,183
That place really swings.
562
00:35:27,269 --> 00:35:30,720
- You've been seen with
your gal pal, Mona Lane.
563
00:35:30,720 --> 00:35:33,140
Tell us about you guys' friendship.
564
00:35:33,140 --> 00:35:34,960
- I met Mona on a night out.
565
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:38,763
She likes jazz and so do
I, so we hit it off fine.
566
00:35:42,230 --> 00:35:45,700
- Mona Lane has not been
seen out on the town lately.
567
00:35:45,700 --> 00:35:47,450
Do you happen to know where she is?
568
00:35:48,380 --> 00:35:51,280
- Say, I thought this story
was supposed to be about me.
569
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:53,040
- It is, Miss Lomax.
570
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:55,830
We just have to answer
questions for our readers.
571
00:35:55,830 --> 00:35:57,420
- You're no reporter.
572
00:35:57,420 --> 00:36:00,120
Hey, didn't you used to work
the door down at Dun Bar?
573
00:36:03,460 --> 00:36:04,293
- Okay.
574
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:07,353
I'm gonna shoot it to you straight.
575
00:36:08,850 --> 00:36:11,780
Mona Lane's gone missing,
I've been hired to find her.
576
00:36:11,780 --> 00:36:13,400
- [Nadine] Missing?
577
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:15,073
- We believe she's been kidnapped.
578
00:36:15,940 --> 00:36:17,843
- Who's "we?"
- The studio.
579
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:22,233
- The studio hired a nigga
to find a white girl?
580
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:26,330
- They think she's been
kidnapped by a trumpet player
581
00:36:26,330 --> 00:36:27,993
that plays down on Central Av.
582
00:36:29,689 --> 00:36:31,383
I thought you might
know something about it.
583
00:36:32,620 --> 00:36:33,763
- You're kinda cute.
584
00:36:35,490 --> 00:36:37,693
I'll tell you what you
wanna know for a kiss.
585
00:36:45,583 --> 00:36:47,583
(moans)
586
00:36:52,865 --> 00:36:55,670
(clears throat)
587
00:36:55,670 --> 00:36:56,503
- So...
588
00:36:58,820 --> 00:37:01,423
This trumpet player, what's his name?
589
00:37:03,620 --> 00:37:05,270
- Tweet Jackson.
590
00:37:05,270 --> 00:37:06,333
That's his name.
591
00:37:06,333 --> 00:37:08,630
He's from somewhere back east, but,
592
00:37:08,630 --> 00:37:10,230
who the hell isn't in this town?
593
00:37:11,530 --> 00:37:13,230
- That's all you know about him?
594
00:37:13,230 --> 00:37:14,180
Where does he live?
595
00:37:15,796 --> 00:37:17,230
(Nadine chuckles)
596
00:37:17,230 --> 00:37:19,653
- You wanna know more,
Mr. Fattius Quickstep,
597
00:37:21,310 --> 00:37:23,393
you're gonna have to
meet me in my bedroom.
598
00:37:28,256 --> 00:37:31,256
(jazzy piano music)
599
00:37:51,290 --> 00:37:53,693
All I know is that he
play that horn so well,
600
00:37:54,540 --> 00:37:56,340
it's like he put a spell on a woman.
601
00:37:57,190 --> 00:37:59,090
He run with a rough crowd, though, so,
602
00:38:00,150 --> 00:38:04,700
he plays an angel, but he's
still a nigga from the street.
603
00:38:04,700 --> 00:38:06,037
- [Archie] Is that all you got?
604
00:38:23,252 --> 00:38:24,252
- For you...
605
00:38:25,780 --> 00:38:27,050
I got a lot more.
606
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:44,533
Come on, mister.
607
00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:49,083
Everybody want me to make them laugh,
608
00:38:50,290 --> 00:38:53,120
and make them forget about they troubles,
609
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:56,163
forget about they pain in
life, but what about me?
610
00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:00,163
I need somethin', too.
611
00:39:04,113 --> 00:39:05,800
I need to feel good, too.
612
00:39:18,291 --> 00:39:21,120
(doorbell rings)
613
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:22,570
- [Man] Mona!
614
00:39:22,570 --> 00:39:24,101
- Who is that?
615
00:39:24,101 --> 00:39:24,934
- [Man] Mona!
616
00:39:24,934 --> 00:39:28,230
- Sounds like Jimmy Stance.
(doorbell rings)
617
00:39:28,230 --> 00:39:31,070
He got a crush on Mona somethin' bad.
618
00:39:31,070 --> 00:39:34,810
The studio set 'em up on a
date, just for publicity.
619
00:39:34,810 --> 00:39:37,620
Ever since then, he thinks
Mona's really his girl.
620
00:39:37,620 --> 00:39:39,120
- Why the hell he come here?
621
00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:41,275
- He been lookin' all over town for her.
622
00:39:41,275 --> 00:39:42,421
- [Jimmy] Hey, Mona?
623
00:39:42,421 --> 00:39:43,640
- I guess he finally made it here.
624
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:45,553
The boy's in love, I guess.
625
00:39:46,430 --> 00:39:47,580
- He must have really fallen for her.
626
00:39:47,580 --> 00:39:48,413
- [Jimmy] Mona?
627
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:52,670
- I don't have the heart to
tell him that it's not real.
628
00:39:52,670 --> 00:39:53,503
- Well you better tell him somethin',
629
00:39:53,503 --> 00:39:55,630
before he knock your gate down.
630
00:39:55,630 --> 00:39:58,646
- Mona, are you in here?
- Please do somethin'.
631
00:39:58,646 --> 00:39:59,850
(suspenseful percussive music)
632
00:39:59,850 --> 00:40:00,683
- Mona.
633
00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:03,713
Mona.
634
00:40:05,456 --> 00:40:07,343
Hey, where is she, where's my Mona?
635
00:40:08,570 --> 00:40:09,880
I know you know where she is.
636
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:11,453
- She ain't here.
637
00:40:14,835 --> 00:40:18,070
- I don't believe you,
and you know what, boy?
638
00:40:18,070 --> 00:40:20,163
I'm not gonna leave until I find her.
639
00:40:21,300 --> 00:40:22,133
- Suit yourself.
640
00:40:24,566 --> 00:40:27,066
(Jimmy yelps)
641
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:36,210
I left Nadine's house no
better off than when I came in.
642
00:40:36,210 --> 00:40:39,760
Strike one, I had aimed high and missed.
643
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:41,900
Now it was time to aim low.
644
00:40:41,900 --> 00:40:43,390
Blackie Philips was an old actor
645
00:40:43,390 --> 00:40:45,300
who came up through Vaudeville.
646
00:40:45,300 --> 00:40:47,980
He played every type of song
and dance you could think of.
647
00:40:47,980 --> 00:40:50,420
In his day, he had starred
in over a dozen movies.
648
00:40:50,420 --> 00:40:53,540
But when his knees went bad
and he couldn't dance no more,
649
00:40:53,540 --> 00:40:55,620
his Hollywood career was over.
650
00:40:55,620 --> 00:40:57,700
Now in his old age, he
kept a quiet card game
651
00:40:57,700 --> 00:40:59,900
in the back of his house
behind the kitchen.
652
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:02,966
- The only way I know to make
some real money in this world
653
00:41:02,966 --> 00:41:05,930
is workin' on them trains, being a porter.
654
00:41:05,930 --> 00:41:06,830
That's good money.
655
00:41:09,110 --> 00:41:11,950
- I'd rather be a porter
in pictures than to be one.
656
00:41:11,950 --> 00:41:14,900
Them white boys want a
man to bend over too much.
657
00:41:14,900 --> 00:41:16,840
- Hell, I've been in 15 pictures.
658
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:20,140
Been a busboy, a shoeshine
boy, a train porter.
659
00:41:20,140 --> 00:41:22,237
Don't matter the part, I
always say the same thing.
660
00:41:22,237 --> 00:41:23,567
"Yes, sir, boss.
661
00:41:23,567 --> 00:41:25,137
"You sure is right, boss.
662
00:41:25,137 --> 00:41:27,745
"I don't know, whatever you say, boss."
663
00:41:27,745 --> 00:41:29,600
- Cut the shit and give me a card.
664
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:31,493
- I've been in all three Tarzan movies,
665
00:41:31,493 --> 00:41:33,840
and all I ever say is, "ooga booga booga."
666
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:35,760
But me, I don't care.
667
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:37,693
Damn monkey get more lines than I do.
668
00:41:37,693 --> 00:41:39,540
As long as they pay me
at the end of the day.
669
00:41:39,540 --> 00:41:40,980
- Just make sure they
don't pay you in bananas.
670
00:41:40,980 --> 00:41:43,130
'Cause you know, if
they could, they would.
671
00:41:45,230 --> 00:41:49,010
- Damn, must be exciting
being in the pictures.
672
00:41:49,010 --> 00:41:51,740
You fellas get to be right
there with the movie stars.
673
00:41:51,740 --> 00:41:55,640
Tell me, what is it like
workin' with James Cagney?
674
00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:56,730
- Cagney?
675
00:41:56,730 --> 00:41:57,900
Yeah, he's all right.
676
00:41:57,900 --> 00:41:59,200
Sold him some reefer once.
677
00:42:00,740 --> 00:42:02,850
- Where'd you say you was from again?
678
00:42:02,850 --> 00:42:05,800
- Just got off the bus from
Walla Walla, Washington.
679
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:07,870
Thought I'd see the ocean before I die.
680
00:42:07,870 --> 00:42:10,500
- How'd you hear about our card game here?
681
00:42:10,500 --> 00:42:13,270
Somebody in Walla Walla
must have a big mouth.
682
00:42:13,270 --> 00:42:17,180
- No, fella I met named
Tweet, forgot his last name.
683
00:42:17,180 --> 00:42:20,550
Oh, Jackson, that's it, Tweet Jackson.
684
00:42:20,550 --> 00:42:22,470
Man say he play the horn.
685
00:42:22,470 --> 00:42:24,530
Told me about this here card game.
686
00:42:24,530 --> 00:42:26,270
Thought I'd try my luck.
687
00:42:26,270 --> 00:42:29,473
- Yeah, well, your luck
ain't so good today.
688
00:42:31,276 --> 00:42:33,526
(chuckles)
689
00:42:37,284 --> 00:42:39,540
- How about this horn
player, Tweet Jackson?
690
00:42:39,540 --> 00:42:41,240
You fellas know where to find him?
691
00:42:42,540 --> 00:42:44,940
- You ask questions make people nervous.
692
00:42:44,940 --> 00:42:47,200
You sound like the police.
693
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:50,480
- Just that he owe me money
from a pool game, that's all.
694
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:51,313
- That right?
695
00:42:52,430 --> 00:42:55,420
- I beat him three games
out of five, last Tuesday.
696
00:42:55,420 --> 00:42:57,140
He owe me £23.
697
00:42:57,140 --> 00:42:57,973
- That's a lie.
698
00:42:57,973 --> 00:43:01,190
Tweet Jackson wouldn't be
there last Tuesday, all day.
699
00:43:01,190 --> 00:43:03,600
- Then it must Wednesday I'm
thinkin' of, yeah. (chuckles)
700
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:04,763
- Try again, mister.
701
00:43:05,615 --> 00:43:07,490
- Aw, hell, I don't know what day it was.
702
00:43:07,490 --> 00:43:09,620
I just know the nigga owe me money.
703
00:43:09,620 --> 00:43:12,630
- Cut the bullshit, motherfucker,
who the fuck are you?
704
00:43:12,630 --> 00:43:13,800
And don't tell me no tales,
705
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:16,724
'cause you might just
get your face blown off.
706
00:43:16,724 --> 00:43:18,113
- So you don't blow me face off.
707
00:43:19,610 --> 00:43:20,610
- Let him go, Slick.
708
00:43:22,500 --> 00:43:24,287
I ain't never had no
man killed here before,
709
00:43:24,287 --> 00:43:25,913
and I ain't gonna start now.
710
00:43:26,980 --> 00:43:29,113
I keep a nice quiet card game.
711
00:43:30,250 --> 00:43:32,900
The last man who got shot
in my place was shot by me.
712
00:43:34,890 --> 00:43:37,823
So, mister, you got some place to be,
713
00:43:38,660 --> 00:43:40,410
I'd be gettin' there, if I was you.
714
00:43:42,300 --> 00:43:43,133
- I'll leave.
715
00:43:45,770 --> 00:43:47,370
I just need a question answered.
716
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:51,080
Have you seen Tweet Jackson?
717
00:43:52,610 --> 00:43:54,163
- You want somethin' from me?
718
00:43:55,010 --> 00:43:57,520
This world turns off
everybody gettin' a piece.
719
00:43:57,520 --> 00:43:58,370
I gotta eat, too.
720
00:44:11,783 --> 00:44:14,903
The last time I seen
Tweet, he was talkin' about
721
00:44:14,903 --> 00:44:18,180
makin' some money, said he had
to go meet some white broad.
722
00:44:18,180 --> 00:44:19,313
He was acting crazy.
723
00:44:20,190 --> 00:44:22,293
- This white broad, you ever see her?
724
00:44:23,700 --> 00:44:25,730
- Yeah, this one time, she
was in the car with him.
725
00:44:25,730 --> 00:44:28,443
Saw her from the across the
street, she didn't get out.
726
00:44:31,390 --> 00:44:32,223
- This her?
727
00:44:33,350 --> 00:44:34,630
- Yeah, that's her.
728
00:44:34,630 --> 00:44:36,753
Pretty as hell, look like a movie star.
729
00:44:38,940 --> 00:44:41,763
- Where Tweet stay at?
- I done said enough.
730
00:44:44,470 --> 00:44:47,200
All right, he always
with another horn player
731
00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:49,330
at the Cadillac Club playin' pool.
732
00:44:49,330 --> 00:44:51,063
- Horn player, what horn player?
733
00:44:52,130 --> 00:44:53,393
- Nigga named Booker.
734
00:44:54,290 --> 00:44:56,343
He got a process and always wear yellow.
735
00:44:57,400 --> 00:44:58,720
- The Cadillac Club, huh?
736
00:44:58,720 --> 00:45:00,370
- Yeah, that's all I know.
737
00:45:02,220 --> 00:45:04,238
- [Blackie] Mister Walla Walla?
738
00:45:04,238 --> 00:45:05,490
- Mm-hm?
739
00:45:05,490 --> 00:45:07,360
- Your time is up.
740
00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:08,779
You got to go.
741
00:45:08,779 --> 00:45:12,196
(tense percussive music)
742
00:45:21,166 --> 00:45:24,370
- See y'all in the funny papers.
743
00:45:24,370 --> 00:45:25,570
Where Tweet stay at?
744
00:45:25,570 --> 00:45:27,380
- [Slick] He always
with another horn player
745
00:45:27,380 --> 00:45:29,370
at the Cadillac Club, playin' pool.
746
00:45:29,370 --> 00:45:31,710
- What horn player?
- Nigga named Booker.
747
00:45:31,710 --> 00:45:34,027
He got a process and always wear yellow.
748
00:46:04,590 --> 00:46:05,850
- What you following me for?
749
00:46:05,850 --> 00:46:07,550
- Hey, I'm Archie Glass.
750
00:46:07,550 --> 00:46:08,670
- [Man] Nigga, I don't know you.
751
00:46:08,670 --> 00:46:11,660
- Yes, well, I'm with the
Samwel Insurance Company.
752
00:46:11,660 --> 00:46:12,493
- Insurance?
753
00:46:12,493 --> 00:46:14,820
- Yes, I'm in charge of
finding family members who have
754
00:46:14,820 --> 00:46:17,240
money coming to them from
recently-deceased relatives.
755
00:46:17,240 --> 00:46:18,660
- What the hell are
you talkin' about, man?
756
00:46:18,660 --> 00:46:21,020
- I'm talkin' about a check, a check,
757
00:46:21,020 --> 00:46:24,290
which I'm tryin' to put into
the hands of one Tweet Jackson.
758
00:46:24,290 --> 00:46:27,490
You see, Mr. Jackson's Aunt
Buttercup has passed and she
759
00:46:27,490 --> 00:46:30,530
left him some money from an
insurance policy she took out.
760
00:46:30,530 --> 00:46:33,560
So, you see, I'm tryin'
to find Tweet Jackson.
761
00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:35,050
- A check?
762
00:46:35,050 --> 00:46:35,887
How much?
763
00:46:35,887 --> 00:46:39,800
- $300, to which I'm able
to pay a finder's fee
764
00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:42,650
to anyone that can help
me find Mr. Jackson.
765
00:46:42,650 --> 00:46:45,060
We're tryin' to get matters off our books.
766
00:46:45,060 --> 00:46:46,210
The sooner, the better.
767
00:46:47,512 --> 00:46:50,523
- I don't know, you don't
look no insurance man to me.
768
00:46:51,870 --> 00:46:53,320
- Tell me where Mr. Jackson is,
769
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:55,573
and you will receive a finder's fee of $5.
770
00:46:57,112 --> 00:46:59,780
- Shit, I make more than that giggin'
771
00:46:59,780 --> 00:47:02,130
at the Coconut Grove in one night!
772
00:47:02,130 --> 00:47:03,190
What's the name of the insurance company
773
00:47:03,190 --> 00:47:04,240
you say you work for?
774
00:47:05,210 --> 00:47:06,840
- Archwell.
775
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:07,673
Doberman.
776
00:47:09,030 --> 00:47:10,280
- You lyin' motherfucker.
777
00:47:11,147 --> 00:47:13,230
(groans)
778
00:47:14,670 --> 00:47:15,920
- Where can I find Tweet?
779
00:47:16,931 --> 00:47:18,571
- I ain't no rat!
780
00:47:18,571 --> 00:47:19,633
- You play horn, right?
781
00:47:21,750 --> 00:47:24,340
How you gonna play horn with a busted lip?
782
00:47:24,340 --> 00:47:25,420
- All right, all right!
783
00:47:25,420 --> 00:47:28,420
There's a walk up at Hoover
Street, over the liquor store.
784
00:47:28,420 --> 00:47:29,570
You can find him there.
785
00:47:33,338 --> 00:47:37,255
(suspenseful percussive music)
786
00:47:54,910 --> 00:47:57,020
- [Boy] Pow, pow.
787
00:47:57,020 --> 00:47:58,050
Pow, pow.
788
00:48:31,650 --> 00:48:33,210
Pow, pow.
789
00:48:33,210 --> 00:48:35,320
Pow, got you, mister.
790
00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:36,520
- Hey, kid.
791
00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:38,837
You see the man that live
in the apartment up there?
792
00:48:38,837 --> 00:48:40,840
- No, but I see a lot of people
793
00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:44,998
go in and out of a garage in the back.
794
00:48:44,998 --> 00:48:46,280
- [Archie] Thanks, kid.
795
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:48,613
(dog barks)
796
00:49:18,292 --> 00:49:19,940
(groans)
797
00:49:19,940 --> 00:49:20,773
Fuck.
798
00:49:20,773 --> 00:49:22,000
- Where is she?
799
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:23,423
Where is she?
800
00:49:24,500 --> 00:49:27,250
- Who're you talkin' about?
- Mona, damn it, where is she?
801
00:49:27,250 --> 00:49:28,710
You know, I asked around,
802
00:49:28,710 --> 00:49:30,773
until somebody told me that she come here.
803
00:49:31,890 --> 00:49:33,883
Now, why would she come here?
804
00:49:35,270 --> 00:49:37,860
Why would my Mona do that to me, hm?
805
00:49:37,860 --> 00:49:41,277
- Look, man, I don't know
nothin' what you talkin' about.
806
00:49:41,277 --> 00:49:42,427
But you should ask him.
807
00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:45,401
- Who's he?
808
00:49:45,401 --> 00:49:46,900
- [Archie] I don't know, he ain't talking.
809
00:49:46,900 --> 00:49:49,070
- No, something's goin' on here, man.
810
00:49:49,070 --> 00:49:52,333
Somethin' that somebody ain't telling me!
811
00:49:53,500 --> 00:49:55,923
You know, Mona's my girl, my girl!
812
00:49:56,780 --> 00:50:00,720
And I love her and you
better tell me where she is,
813
00:50:00,720 --> 00:50:04,063
right now, or you're gonna
end up just as dead as he is!
814
00:50:05,780 --> 00:50:07,080
Better start talking, boy.
815
00:50:08,030 --> 00:50:10,393
You better start talk...
816
00:50:10,393 --> 00:50:12,476
(groans)
817
00:50:19,341 --> 00:50:21,258
(thud)
818
00:50:24,860 --> 00:50:25,710
- Thanks, mister.
819
00:50:27,350 --> 00:50:29,410
- You're lucky I'm a nosy reporter.
820
00:50:29,410 --> 00:50:30,930
If I hadn't got a lead
on where Mona Lane likes
821
00:50:30,930 --> 00:50:33,823
to hang her stockings, you
might be dead as Dillinger.
822
00:50:35,989 --> 00:50:38,360
- A reporter, huh, like for the paper?
823
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:40,440
- Skip Slater with the LA Trumpet.
824
00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:42,763
Snoopin' around tryin'
to get a lead on a story.
825
00:50:45,114 --> 00:50:46,064
- What kinda story?
826
00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:51,420
- Listen, bother, I'm
hip to what's goin' on.
827
00:50:51,420 --> 00:50:53,290
I may not know everything,
828
00:50:53,290 --> 00:50:55,780
but I know Mona Lane isn't in Mexico.
829
00:50:55,780 --> 00:50:58,750
And she hasn't been in her
penthouse for the last three days
830
00:50:58,750 --> 00:51:00,100
so where is she?
831
00:51:00,100 --> 00:51:01,210
- Look, I'm gonna tell you
832
00:51:01,210 --> 00:51:03,923
the same thing I told
loverboy here, I don't know.
833
00:51:05,660 --> 00:51:07,664
- Huh, well, who are you then?
834
00:51:07,664 --> 00:51:09,320
What're you doin' here?
835
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:10,923
- I was hired to find Mona.
836
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:13,860
Seems like we all lookin'
for the same person.
837
00:51:13,860 --> 00:51:15,340
- Well, half of Hollywood
knows she's got the hots
838
00:51:15,340 --> 00:51:16,880
for colored jazz players.
839
00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:19,420
If an idiot like this guy
can figure it out, you know
840
00:51:19,420 --> 00:51:22,290
the rest of Tinsel Town will
soon be figuring out, too.
841
00:51:22,290 --> 00:51:24,730
I'm just tryin' to get ahead
of the story, you know?
842
00:51:24,730 --> 00:51:25,563
Get the scoop.
843
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:30,120
- Looks like we all
come to a dead-end, huh?
844
00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:34,537
- I know you're not telling me somethin'.
845
00:51:35,552 --> 00:51:38,253
But if you change your
mind, here's my number.
846
00:51:39,350 --> 00:51:41,150
Give me a call with some info,
847
00:51:41,150 --> 00:51:42,650
I'll make it worth your while.
848
00:51:48,330 --> 00:51:49,163
- Hey.
849
00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:51,450
What about these two?
850
00:51:52,900 --> 00:51:54,540
- Well, one's dead,
851
00:51:54,540 --> 00:51:56,690
the other's gonna come
to in a few minutes,
852
00:51:57,800 --> 00:51:59,600
and I wouldn't be here when he does.
853
00:52:12,570 --> 00:52:15,333
- Nadine say Mona liked to
look at famous dead folk.
854
00:52:16,450 --> 00:52:17,900
I figure I had nothin' to lose
855
00:52:17,900 --> 00:52:19,860
by killin' an hour at the local cemetery
856
00:52:19,860 --> 00:52:22,433
with dead movie stars
layin' next to their fans.
857
00:52:51,260 --> 00:52:52,093
Mona?
858
00:52:53,830 --> 00:52:54,780
- I don't know you.
859
00:53:00,750 --> 00:53:01,703
- You Archie Glass?
860
00:53:02,990 --> 00:53:05,727
- Maybe, depends on who wants to know.
861
00:53:05,727 --> 00:53:07,676
- Somebody wants to see you.
862
00:53:07,676 --> 00:53:10,486
- Hey, I don't owe you
fellas any money, do I?
863
00:53:10,486 --> 00:53:14,403
(suspenseful percussive music)
864
00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:22,583
No, no.
865
00:53:28,649 --> 00:53:31,660
- The world does not see you as a man.
866
00:53:31,660 --> 00:53:33,603
Hollywood does not see you as a man.
867
00:53:35,430 --> 00:53:38,933
That's why they call you boy, and son.
868
00:53:39,940 --> 00:53:43,643
They tell you to bug out your
eyes and stick your lips out.
869
00:53:44,820 --> 00:53:45,970
See, they don't think you have a heart,
870
00:53:45,970 --> 00:53:47,320
or that you're intelligent.
871
00:53:48,490 --> 00:53:50,660
That your soul is the soul of God.
872
00:53:50,660 --> 00:53:54,010
- Cut the sermon, preach, why am I here?
873
00:53:54,010 --> 00:53:57,193
- You are here because you
are working for the enemy.
874
00:53:58,380 --> 00:54:00,233
- [Archie] I'm workin' for Jack Wingate.
875
00:54:02,390 --> 00:54:04,973
- [Preacher] As I said,
public enemy number one.
876
00:54:06,740 --> 00:54:08,090
- What's all of this about?
877
00:54:10,830 --> 00:54:13,633
- I am the leader of the
United Negro Movie Coaliltion,
878
00:54:14,580 --> 00:54:16,423
and we want you to join us.
879
00:54:16,423 --> 00:54:19,580
- You got a hell of a way
of recruitin' a fella.
880
00:54:19,580 --> 00:54:22,173
- Well, it's a rough world
out there, Mr. Glass, and,
881
00:54:22,173 --> 00:54:24,363
a man must meet force with force.
882
00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:28,771
There's a revolution goin' on,
883
00:54:28,771 --> 00:54:31,760
and every black man must
stand up for himself.
884
00:54:31,760 --> 00:54:35,430
You cannot fight these Jim
Crow laws in these streets
885
00:54:35,430 --> 00:54:37,333
bein' a buffoon on that movie screen.
886
00:54:38,520 --> 00:54:41,483
Come and join us and
help us change Hollywood.
887
00:54:42,569 --> 00:54:43,680
- How're you gonna do that?
888
00:54:43,680 --> 00:54:46,653
You ain't nothing but a
bunch of angry church folk!
889
00:54:48,390 --> 00:54:52,040
- We have power, and if we boycott,
890
00:54:52,040 --> 00:54:55,710
and organize, we can bring
this town to its knees.
891
00:54:55,710 --> 00:54:58,140
- Boycott? (chuckles)
892
00:54:58,140 --> 00:55:01,387
Nobody's gonna do that.
893
00:55:01,387 --> 00:55:04,413
You're a fool, preach, you're a fool.
894
00:55:05,590 --> 00:55:07,993
- Well, I'm sorry to hear you think so.
895
00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:10,990
What kind of black man are you?
896
00:55:12,598 --> 00:55:15,103
- I'm not a black man, just a man.
897
00:55:18,459 --> 00:55:21,459
(preacher chuckles)
898
00:55:27,699 --> 00:55:29,200
Wait, wait, wait, wait!
899
00:55:29,200 --> 00:55:31,083
Hey, I've already been circumcised!
900
00:55:32,340 --> 00:55:34,303
- Every revolution needs some blood.
901
00:55:38,100 --> 00:55:39,830
- [Archie] I was gettin' nowhere fast.
902
00:55:39,830 --> 00:55:41,460
Time to check in with O'Neal.
903
00:55:41,460 --> 00:55:44,303
I gave him a call from a
payphone at Pico and Olympic.
904
00:55:45,970 --> 00:55:48,830
- Glass, where the hell have you been?
905
00:55:48,830 --> 00:55:51,300
You were supposed to check in
with me over three hours ago.
906
00:55:51,300 --> 00:55:52,333
- This ain't like goin'
around a country club,
907
00:55:52,333 --> 00:55:54,063
askin' for a tennis partner.
908
00:55:55,240 --> 00:55:57,010
- Watch your lip, boy.
909
00:55:57,010 --> 00:55:58,660
- Don't call me boy.
910
00:55:58,660 --> 00:56:00,810
- I've had about enough
of your mouth, boy.
911
00:56:01,790 --> 00:56:04,910
(Archie grunts)
912
00:56:04,910 --> 00:56:07,577
(Archie groans)
913
00:56:13,090 --> 00:56:14,390
Now, tell me what you got.
914
00:56:15,740 --> 00:56:17,880
- Right now, nothin'.
915
00:56:17,880 --> 00:56:20,870
Just a dead body and whole bunch of people
916
00:56:20,870 --> 00:56:23,000
stickin' guns and knives in my face.
917
00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:24,610
- Well, that ain't enough.
918
00:56:24,610 --> 00:56:26,480
Let me remind you we're on a deadline.
919
00:56:26,480 --> 00:56:28,960
The tabloids are gonna be
on this in a day or so.
920
00:56:28,960 --> 00:56:30,150
- Hey, that's another thing.
921
00:56:30,150 --> 00:56:32,190
I've been goin' around here,
knockin' on people doors,
922
00:56:32,190 --> 00:56:34,550
which nothin' to back me but just a smile.
923
00:56:34,550 --> 00:56:35,700
I need some protection.
924
00:56:37,030 --> 00:56:38,700
- What the hell did you just say?
925
00:56:38,700 --> 00:56:39,693
- I need a gun.
926
00:56:42,360 --> 00:56:44,080
- [Archie] As a white man,
the last thing you ever
927
00:56:44,080 --> 00:56:45,880
wanted to do was give a nigga a gun.
928
00:56:47,150 --> 00:56:49,610
It was against everything he stood for,
929
00:56:49,610 --> 00:56:53,460
but Jack Wingate was on his
ass just like he was on mine.
930
00:56:53,460 --> 00:56:56,360
- Do you know how to use it?
- Hey, don't worry about me.
931
00:56:57,290 --> 00:56:59,730
Just be ready next time I call you.
932
00:56:59,730 --> 00:57:01,663
I headed south then east to Englewood.
933
00:57:02,770 --> 00:57:04,773
I was on my way to see Ennis Matthews.
934
00:57:06,438 --> 00:57:10,355
(suspenseful percussive music)
935
00:57:21,295 --> 00:57:23,378
(knocks)
936
00:57:24,780 --> 00:57:25,613
- Archie?
937
00:57:31,946 --> 00:57:33,530
How do you know where I live?
938
00:57:33,530 --> 00:57:36,540
- You brag about this place
all the time at the club.
939
00:57:36,540 --> 00:57:37,963
It wasn't too hard to find.
940
00:57:39,050 --> 00:57:41,400
- I'm sorry I pulled the pistol on you.
941
00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:43,637
I thought you were one of
the neighbors come a-callin'.
942
00:57:48,610 --> 00:57:51,190
- What you doin' in the dark, Ennis?
943
00:57:51,190 --> 00:57:52,340
Your lights don't work?
944
00:57:53,280 --> 00:57:54,453
- They work fine.
945
00:57:55,670 --> 00:57:57,570
But I just keep 'em off just the same.
946
00:57:58,410 --> 00:58:00,010
That way, they can't see inside.
947
00:58:02,615 --> 00:58:04,725
I've been havin' some troubles.
948
00:58:04,725 --> 00:58:05,953
- [Archie] What kinda troubles?
949
00:58:08,480 --> 00:58:11,790
- When I bought this house,
the man told me all about
950
00:58:11,790 --> 00:58:13,923
the wonderful friendly neighbors.
951
00:58:15,210 --> 00:58:18,270
I reckon they ain't so friendly
when a colored man moves in.
952
00:58:18,270 --> 00:58:22,370
And I've had rocks
thrown through my window.
953
00:58:22,370 --> 00:58:26,253
Mean letters put in my
mailbox, and my wife,
954
00:58:27,407 --> 00:58:29,880
she took my boys back to New Orleans,
955
00:58:29,880 --> 00:58:31,180
after they killed the dog.
956
00:58:34,520 --> 00:58:35,770
So, I bought this pistol.
957
00:58:39,030 --> 00:58:40,483
I saved every cent I had,
958
00:58:42,750 --> 00:58:43,983
to buy this house.
959
00:58:50,430 --> 00:58:52,030
- I'm lookin' for a girl, Ennis.
960
00:58:55,510 --> 00:58:56,410
- Ain't none here.
961
00:58:59,520 --> 00:59:00,770
- You heard of Mona Lane?
962
00:59:02,710 --> 00:59:03,760
She's been kidnapped,
963
00:59:05,695 --> 00:59:08,333
by some trumpet-playin'
Negro named Tweet Jackson.
964
00:59:10,607 --> 00:59:12,010
(Ennis chuckles)
965
00:59:12,010 --> 00:59:14,640
What were you doin' at Tweet's
apartment today, Ennis?
966
00:59:14,640 --> 00:59:18,157
- What're you talkin' about?
967
00:59:18,157 --> 00:59:20,370
- You're the only Negro I know
968
00:59:20,370 --> 00:59:23,253
that can afford to smoke
these fancy Cuban cigars.
969
00:59:24,720 --> 00:59:27,040
- [Ennis] You're crazy,
plenty of folk smoke 'em.
970
00:59:27,040 --> 00:59:28,230
- Yeah?
971
00:59:28,230 --> 00:59:30,660
Well, that pistol you got in
your hand is missin' a bullet.
972
00:59:30,660 --> 00:59:32,110
And I bet it's the same bullet
973
00:59:32,110 --> 00:59:34,160
that was in that dead body I found today.
974
00:59:41,870 --> 00:59:43,355
- I broke.
975
00:59:43,355 --> 00:59:45,260
(chuckles)
976
00:59:45,260 --> 00:59:47,043
As soon as I bought this house,
977
00:59:48,116 --> 00:59:50,343
the studio cut my contract.
978
00:59:52,160 --> 00:59:53,360
- Tell me what happened.
979
00:59:59,490 --> 01:00:00,890
- Some folks came to see me.
980
01:00:02,180 --> 01:00:06,193
Said, uh, they needed
someone to pick her up.
981
01:00:07,720 --> 01:00:09,263
She knew me from the studio.
982
01:00:10,510 --> 01:00:13,360
They needed someone that she
would feel comfortable with.
983
01:00:15,040 --> 01:00:20,040
They said it would be big
money when it was over.
984
01:00:20,330 --> 01:00:23,163
So, I took her over to
the apartment on Hoover.
985
01:00:25,030 --> 01:00:26,063
- Tweet's apartment.
986
01:00:28,170 --> 01:00:30,103
- When we got there, Tweet was missing.
987
01:00:33,813 --> 01:00:36,347
There was an argument
about what to do next.
988
01:00:37,590 --> 01:00:42,123
Someone pulled a gun, I
had mine, fired first.
989
01:00:45,340 --> 01:00:47,443
When I got up, Mona was gone.
990
01:00:49,192 --> 01:00:51,823
I just, I just hauled ass outta there.
991
01:00:54,960 --> 01:00:55,917
- Who hired you?
992
01:00:59,341 --> 01:01:01,508
- It don't matter, Archie.
993
01:01:02,410 --> 01:01:03,310
They beat me, man.
994
01:01:06,180 --> 01:01:09,430
When I was a boy in New Orleans,
there was this restaurant
995
01:01:09,430 --> 01:01:11,880
that all the white folks would go to.
996
01:01:11,880 --> 01:01:15,170
It was real nice,
Archie, I mean real nice.
997
01:01:15,170 --> 01:01:18,900
They had candles on the table, man.
998
01:01:18,900 --> 01:01:22,033
There was fancy, fancy
pictures on the wall.
999
01:01:25,901 --> 01:01:28,547
They had this man who stood at the door.
1000
01:01:30,602 --> 01:01:31,793
With a brown paper bag.
1001
01:01:33,380 --> 01:01:37,333
He'd hold it up, and if you
were darker than the bag,
1002
01:01:39,480 --> 01:01:40,480
you couldn't get in.
1003
01:01:44,440 --> 01:01:49,063
I promised myself I'd get into that place.
1004
01:01:54,241 --> 01:01:58,513
But now I know that no matter how rich,
1005
01:01:59,400 --> 01:02:02,603
or famous I get, (chuckles)
1006
01:02:05,221 --> 01:02:07,641
they ain't lettin' me in.
1007
01:02:07,641 --> 01:02:10,557
(clock chimes)
1008
01:02:10,557 --> 01:02:13,580
- Just tell me what
happened, I gotta know.
1009
01:02:17,712 --> 01:02:20,295
(clock chimes)
1010
01:02:21,781 --> 01:02:25,698
- You can't help me,
Archie, can't nobody help.
1011
01:02:26,601 --> 01:02:27,870
- Ennis, no!
1012
01:02:27,870 --> 01:02:30,203
(gun fires)
1013
01:02:31,213 --> 01:02:33,713
(body clunks)
1014
01:02:37,350 --> 01:02:39,353
Ennis was somebody I looked up to.
1015
01:02:40,612 --> 01:02:43,353
The truth was, I wanted
to be just like him.
1016
01:02:45,040 --> 01:02:47,863
Whatever secret he had,
he took with him to hell.
1017
01:02:51,900 --> 01:02:54,490
I thought about Ennis's neighbors
havin' to wash the blood
1018
01:02:54,490 --> 01:02:58,167
off his walls, but it didn't
make me feel any better.
1019
01:03:15,870 --> 01:03:17,580
- I was talkin' to this
girl at the bar last night.
1020
01:03:17,580 --> 01:03:18,903
Skinny girl from Alabama.
1021
01:03:19,933 --> 01:03:23,005
She had on these glasses
and hair in a little bun,
1022
01:03:23,005 --> 01:03:24,055
like a little poodle.
1023
01:03:25,540 --> 01:03:28,470
I was waitin' for her to bark,
so I could buy her a drink.
1024
01:03:28,470 --> 01:03:30,645
Then I remembered I had
a bone in my pocket.
1025
01:03:30,645 --> 01:03:32,200
(audience laughs)
1026
01:03:32,200 --> 01:03:36,030
That's a cheap date out here
in California. (chuckles)
1027
01:03:36,864 --> 01:03:37,933
- Whatever it is,
1028
01:03:38,890 --> 01:03:40,113
it's gonna be all right.
1029
01:03:45,155 --> 01:03:49,890
- I'm just tryin' to be
somebody, be a good man.
1030
01:03:49,890 --> 01:03:52,313
- You are a good man, Archie.
1031
01:03:54,633 --> 01:03:57,033
It's just, you're chasing a dream,
1032
01:03:59,013 --> 01:04:01,183
when the best thing in life
is right in front of you.
1033
01:04:05,613 --> 01:04:07,196
I gotta go to work.
1034
01:04:12,833 --> 01:04:15,750
(moody jazz music)
1035
01:04:25,004 --> 01:04:29,671
- Look like you're havin' a
rough time there, young bud.
1036
01:04:32,825 --> 01:04:35,625
You know about the three seats
of power in this country?
1037
01:04:36,910 --> 01:04:37,743
There's three.
1038
01:04:38,950 --> 01:04:41,743
You got Wall Street, controls the money.
1039
01:04:44,090 --> 01:04:47,223
You got the White House,
controls the military.
1040
01:04:49,510 --> 01:04:52,523
And you got those who control our images.
1041
01:04:54,687 --> 01:04:57,617
You know who controls the image?
1042
01:04:57,617 --> 01:04:58,450
Hollywood.
1043
01:05:00,036 --> 01:05:03,536
That's who controls your image, young bud.
1044
01:05:08,870 --> 01:05:13,240
- My man, Archie Glass. (chuckles)
1045
01:05:13,240 --> 01:05:15,554
How Hollywood treatin' you, baby?
1046
01:05:15,554 --> 01:05:16,727
- Not good.
1047
01:05:16,727 --> 01:05:19,330
But I'm still on my feet, you?
1048
01:05:19,330 --> 01:05:21,470
- Man, you know me, just giggin' around.
1049
01:05:21,470 --> 01:05:23,430
Was up in San Francisco last week.
1050
01:05:23,430 --> 01:05:25,640
Tomorrow, down in San Diego.
1051
01:05:25,640 --> 01:05:28,170
Tryin' to stay two steps
ahead of that devil.
1052
01:05:28,170 --> 01:05:30,280
- Well, you better stay
the hell away from me,
1053
01:05:30,280 --> 01:05:33,797
'cause he's nippin' at my ass.
(friend laughs)
1054
01:05:35,100 --> 01:05:37,833
- [Friend] Archie, I heard
you lookin' for Mona Lane.
1055
01:05:39,450 --> 01:05:40,530
- Yeah?
1056
01:05:40,530 --> 01:05:41,630
What about it?
1057
01:05:41,630 --> 01:05:46,174
- Man, I saw her in the back
room and she is messed up.
1058
01:05:46,174 --> 01:05:47,503
At least, she looks that way.
1059
01:05:51,890 --> 01:05:52,973
Archie Glass.
1060
01:05:55,894 --> 01:05:58,477
(woman sniffs)
1061
01:06:05,965 --> 01:06:08,924
- [Archie] She was a dead ringer for Mona.
1062
01:06:08,924 --> 01:06:12,005
I know she had something
to do with all of this.
1063
01:06:12,005 --> 01:06:14,095
(woman chuckles)
1064
01:06:14,095 --> 01:06:16,580
- A lot of people think I look like her.
1065
01:06:16,580 --> 01:06:17,413
- Where is she?
1066
01:06:20,415 --> 01:06:21,740
- He tried to kill me.
1067
01:06:21,740 --> 01:06:23,405
- Who?
1068
01:06:23,405 --> 01:06:24,605
- I don't know his name.
1069
01:06:26,080 --> 01:06:29,963
Just some fella I met last
week at the High Hat Bar.
1070
01:06:30,950 --> 01:06:32,950
He wasn't as good-lookin' as you, daddy.
1071
01:06:35,490 --> 01:06:36,390
- What did he say?
1072
01:06:37,560 --> 01:06:40,560
- Said we were goin' to his
friend's place, score some junk.
1073
01:06:41,730 --> 01:06:43,663
- [Archie] What happened
when you got there?
1074
01:06:45,063 --> 01:06:48,663
- There was nobody there. (chuckles)
1075
01:06:48,663 --> 01:06:49,913
No friend, no junk.
1076
01:06:52,590 --> 01:06:54,840
Then he took a gun out
and tried to shoot me.
1077
01:06:56,594 --> 01:06:59,680
I bit him on the hand
and got out of there.
1078
01:06:59,680 --> 01:07:02,380
- This man that tried to
kill you, where does he live?
1079
01:07:04,040 --> 01:07:05,453
- Took me into a house.
1080
01:07:07,450 --> 01:07:09,303
In Venice, close to the water.
1081
01:07:11,720 --> 01:07:13,933
Yeah, it had red shutters.
1082
01:07:15,237 --> 01:07:19,473
And a round window on the front door.
1083
01:07:20,580 --> 01:07:21,413
Like a ship.
1084
01:07:23,013 --> 01:07:25,096
(knocks)
1085
01:07:25,973 --> 01:07:28,056
(knocks)
1086
01:07:34,690 --> 01:07:35,890
- What you want, mister?
1087
01:07:37,660 --> 01:07:38,610
- Evenin', brother.
1088
01:07:39,810 --> 01:07:42,060
I'm Deacon Lovechild from the most holy
1089
01:07:42,060 --> 01:07:44,210
First Baptist Church of Compton.
1090
01:07:44,210 --> 01:07:45,170
Sorry to bother you.
1091
01:07:45,170 --> 01:07:48,690
I know you must have been
helping yourself to some dinner,
1092
01:07:48,690 --> 01:07:51,653
but I wanna talk to you
about the lord Jehovah.
1093
01:07:53,280 --> 01:07:55,577
- I don't know nothin' about that!
1094
01:07:55,577 --> 01:07:59,060
- I just wanna save your soul, brother.
1095
01:07:59,060 --> 01:08:01,097
- My soul don't need no savin',
1096
01:08:02,050 --> 01:08:04,500
but y'all's might, if you
don't get off my porch!
1097
01:08:07,460 --> 01:08:11,690
- Perhaps it'd be better if I
talked to lady of the house?
1098
01:08:11,690 --> 01:08:13,140
- Perhaps if you don't
get the hell outta here,
1099
01:08:13,140 --> 01:08:14,163
before you get hurt.
1100
01:08:18,698 --> 01:08:21,115
(door slams)
1101
01:08:26,726 --> 01:08:29,726
(phone dial clicks)
1102
01:08:36,810 --> 01:08:39,000
- O'Neal, it's me.
- Glass.
1103
01:08:39,000 --> 01:08:41,300
Damn it, where the hell have you been?
1104
01:08:41,300 --> 01:08:43,960
- Shut up and listen, I'm
standin' across the street
1105
01:08:43,960 --> 01:08:47,430
from a house in Venice on Pacific Avenue.
1106
01:08:47,430 --> 01:08:50,440
I think Mona's on the inside.
- Are you sure?
1107
01:08:50,440 --> 01:08:52,070
- No, I'm not sure.
1108
01:08:52,070 --> 01:08:55,850
But I tried to get a look on
the inside, I didn't see much.
1109
01:08:55,850 --> 01:08:58,580
You better get down here
now before they leave.
1110
01:08:58,580 --> 01:09:00,480
- [O'Neal] Don't let
them out of your sight.
1111
01:09:00,480 --> 01:09:02,950
I don't care what Wingate
may have promised you.
1112
01:09:02,950 --> 01:09:06,150
If you let them get away,
I will bust you up bad.
1113
01:09:06,150 --> 01:09:07,633
I'll put you under the jail.
1114
01:09:09,869 --> 01:09:12,869
(phone dial clicks)
1115
01:09:21,270 --> 01:09:22,120
- [Sandra] Hello?
1116
01:09:24,580 --> 01:09:26,017
Archie?
1117
01:09:26,017 --> 01:09:28,017
(moody jazz music)
Archie, is that you?
1118
01:09:34,956 --> 01:09:36,806
- I just wanna say I'm sorry, Sandra.
1119
01:09:38,420 --> 01:09:39,970
I should had done right by you.
1120
01:09:43,107 --> 01:09:45,257
- [Sandra] Archie.
1121
01:09:45,257 --> 01:09:46,747
- [Archie] Yeah.
1122
01:09:46,747 --> 01:09:50,160
- [Sandra] You never told me
what you went to jail for.
1123
01:09:50,160 --> 01:09:51,620
- [Archie] Yeah, I did.
1124
01:09:51,620 --> 01:09:53,326
- [Sandra] No, you didn't.
1125
01:09:53,326 --> 01:09:54,159
Tell me.
1126
01:09:57,800 --> 01:09:58,650
- I killed a man.
1127
01:10:00,500 --> 01:10:02,100
The truth is, I was just a dumb nigga,
1128
01:10:02,100 --> 01:10:04,600
in the wrong place at the wrong time.
1129
01:10:04,600 --> 01:10:06,657
But that's not important.
1130
01:10:07,663 --> 01:10:09,463
- [Sandra] Tell me what's important.
1131
01:10:11,370 --> 01:10:12,270
- Makin' it, baby.
1132
01:10:13,200 --> 01:10:15,230
Seein' myself on the screen.
1133
01:10:15,230 --> 01:10:16,430
I want people to see me.
1134
01:10:17,683 --> 01:10:20,333
If I can't do that, then
I'm just another dumb nigga.
1135
01:10:44,931 --> 01:10:48,848
(suspenseful percussive music)
1136
01:12:08,368 --> 01:12:10,285
(thud)
1137
01:13:02,766 --> 01:13:05,683
(moody horn music)
1138
01:14:04,597 --> 01:14:07,097
- I knew they'd send somebody.
1139
01:14:08,937 --> 01:14:10,387
What'd they offer you?
1140
01:14:15,237 --> 01:14:17,570
(gun fires)
1141
01:14:19,685 --> 01:14:22,602
(moody jazz music)
1142
01:14:27,207 --> 01:14:29,077
(gun fires)
1143
01:14:29,077 --> 01:14:31,410
(guns fire)
1144
01:14:42,515 --> 01:14:45,598
(guns cock and fire)
1145
01:15:05,803 --> 01:15:09,220
(dark atmospheric music)
1146
01:15:15,591 --> 01:15:17,924
I knew they'd send somebody.
1147
01:15:20,693 --> 01:15:25,693
What'd they offer you?
(gun fires)
1148
01:15:26,511 --> 01:15:29,094
(Mona screams)
1149
01:15:59,498 --> 01:16:03,415
(suspenseful percussive music)
1150
01:16:20,978 --> 01:16:23,311
(dogs bark)
1151
01:16:29,356 --> 01:16:31,689
(gun fires)
1152
01:16:44,015 --> 01:16:46,348
(gun fires)
1153
01:16:59,448 --> 01:17:01,781
(gun fires)
1154
01:17:10,456 --> 01:17:11,623
- Don't do it.
1155
01:17:12,798 --> 01:17:13,798
Don't do it.
1156
01:17:17,256 --> 01:17:19,589
(gun fires)
1157
01:17:56,493 --> 01:17:58,493
I can't believe it.
1158
01:17:58,493 --> 01:18:00,480
I didn't think I would ever find you folk.
1159
01:18:00,480 --> 01:18:02,180
You'll be back at your
penthouse in no time,
1160
01:18:02,180 --> 01:18:04,420
with all your Hollywood friends.
1161
01:18:04,420 --> 01:18:06,220
Nobody will ever know this happened.
1162
01:18:07,400 --> 01:18:10,660
You get to go home, I get
to be back in the movies.
1163
01:18:10,660 --> 01:18:13,410
That's right, I'm an actor.
1164
01:18:13,410 --> 01:18:16,020
Nothin' like you, but who knows?
1165
01:18:16,020 --> 01:18:18,000
Maybe someday, someday...
1166
01:18:21,920 --> 01:18:23,210
Hey.
1167
01:18:23,210 --> 01:18:25,640
If I were you, I would be celebrating.
1168
01:18:25,640 --> 01:18:27,750
- Celebrating what?
1169
01:18:27,750 --> 01:18:29,550
You killed him.
1170
01:18:29,550 --> 01:18:31,270
You killed Tweet.
1171
01:18:31,270 --> 01:18:34,233
- Wingate said you were kidnapped,
he showed me the letter.
1172
01:18:35,112 --> 01:18:36,923
- He showed you a letter?
1173
01:18:37,910 --> 01:18:39,963
You like to pretend to be other people?
1174
01:18:41,430 --> 01:18:42,263
Me too.
1175
01:18:45,030 --> 01:18:48,033
Growing up in Kansas, we
were just poor white trash.
1176
01:18:49,413 --> 01:18:51,293
I would dream about getting away.
1177
01:18:52,230 --> 01:18:53,880
Guess that's how I wound up here.
1178
01:18:55,860 --> 01:18:58,873
But this town, it ain't right.
1179
01:18:59,720 --> 01:19:03,293
They wanted to use me and cut
me up into a million pieces.
1180
01:19:04,600 --> 01:19:07,863
But Tweet, he was somehow different.
1181
01:19:09,250 --> 01:19:10,930
He was the first Negro...
1182
01:19:12,520 --> 01:19:15,323
The first man to treat me good.
1183
01:19:31,380 --> 01:19:33,680
- You and Tweet were
together this whole time?
1184
01:19:34,880 --> 01:19:38,230
- We tried to keep it a secret,
but I knew it wouldn't be
1185
01:19:38,230 --> 01:19:41,513
long before the studio found
out, so we decided to run away.
1186
01:19:43,190 --> 01:19:46,080
- You were gonna run away
from being a movie star?
1187
01:19:46,080 --> 01:19:47,190
- Crazy, huh?
1188
01:19:48,653 --> 01:19:50,123
All your hopes and dreams.
1189
01:19:51,170 --> 01:19:52,710
I guess your dreams don't mean much,
1190
01:19:52,710 --> 01:19:54,593
if you got nobody to share them with.
1191
01:19:57,550 --> 01:19:59,650
We were gonna take the
money and go someplace
1192
01:19:59,650 --> 01:20:01,483
where it didn't matter who you were.
1193
01:20:04,300 --> 01:20:06,783
It was Tweet's idea to
fake the kidnapping.
1194
01:20:08,070 --> 01:20:11,143
Make it look real so that
Wingate would pay the ransom.
1195
01:20:12,870 --> 01:20:14,127
Instead, he sent you.
1196
01:20:30,194 --> 01:20:32,194
(gasps)
1197
01:20:55,090 --> 01:20:57,007
(sobs)
1198
01:20:57,997 --> 01:21:00,497
(Jack coughs)
1199
01:21:03,738 --> 01:21:04,988
- That's right.
1200
01:21:05,830 --> 01:21:07,163
I used you to get to her.
1201
01:21:08,588 --> 01:21:10,740
And I would do it again if I had to.
1202
01:21:10,740 --> 01:21:14,113
You see, when you sign a contract
with a studio, we own you.
1203
01:21:16,247 --> 01:21:18,363
The studio decides what
color your hair is.
1204
01:21:19,898 --> 01:21:21,898
The studio decides what movies you make.
1205
01:21:23,870 --> 01:21:26,520
And the studio decides who
you're seen with in pubic.
1206
01:21:28,700 --> 01:21:31,223
All to sell the people
an all-American image.
1207
01:21:34,070 --> 01:21:36,557
And America is not ready for a movie star
1208
01:21:36,557 --> 01:21:38,790
who is married to a nigger.
1209
01:21:38,790 --> 01:21:41,693
- You lied to me and told me
she was in some kinda trouble.
1210
01:21:43,600 --> 01:21:47,470
- She was in trouble, and I saved her.
1211
01:21:47,470 --> 01:21:48,583
You saved her.
1212
01:21:50,350 --> 01:21:54,350
From a life of despair and disgrace.
1213
01:21:54,350 --> 01:21:55,800
- I don't like being lied to.
1214
01:21:57,700 --> 01:21:58,533
- What difference does it make
1215
01:21:58,533 --> 01:22:00,230
whether you knew the truth or not?
1216
01:22:01,240 --> 01:22:02,623
You came to me, remember?
1217
01:22:03,720 --> 01:22:05,233
You wanted to be a star.
1218
01:22:06,180 --> 01:22:07,080
Well, now you can.
1219
01:22:09,070 --> 01:22:10,603
And don't worry, Mr. Glass.
1220
01:22:11,860 --> 01:22:13,610
I intend to keep my promise to you.
1221
01:22:15,810 --> 01:22:17,510
For your remarkable service to me,
1222
01:22:21,060 --> 01:22:23,103
you've earned a part in one of my films.
1223
01:22:26,730 --> 01:22:27,733
And as for Mona,
1224
01:22:30,130 --> 01:22:32,920
who allowed herself to be
dragged through the mud,
1225
01:22:32,920 --> 01:22:34,023
I'll clean her up.
1226
01:22:35,550 --> 01:22:37,700
Oh, and just in case you're, uh,
1227
01:22:37,700 --> 01:22:40,683
gettin' any ideas of changing
the terms of our agreement,
1228
01:22:41,680 --> 01:22:42,513
forget it.
1229
01:22:43,690 --> 01:22:45,690
If I'm willin' to do this to her,
1230
01:22:45,690 --> 01:22:48,677
just think what I'd be
willin' to do to you.
1231
01:22:51,554 --> 01:22:52,412
(bell tolls)
1232
01:22:52,412 --> 01:22:53,911
(coughs)
1233
01:22:53,911 --> 01:22:54,744
- No.
1234
01:22:55,783 --> 01:22:57,842
Get your hands off of me.
1235
01:22:57,842 --> 01:22:58,823
(slap)
1236
01:22:58,823 --> 01:23:03,823
(thud)
(moody jazz music)
1237
01:23:04,263 --> 01:23:06,023
(gun fires)
1238
01:23:06,023 --> 01:23:10,106
(thuds)
(groans)
1239
01:23:17,027 --> 01:23:19,886
(gun cocks)
1240
01:23:19,886 --> 01:23:24,886
Get away from him!
(suspenseful music)
1241
01:23:24,945 --> 01:23:25,778
Get away.
1242
01:23:30,000 --> 01:23:31,960
- [Archie] I knew when
I punched Jack Wingate,
1243
01:23:31,960 --> 01:23:34,460
I would never work as an
actor in this town again.
1244
01:23:35,720 --> 01:23:38,560
It didn't matter, there
are plenty of others left
1245
01:23:38,560 --> 01:23:40,143
to play Sambos in the movies.
1246
01:23:41,210 --> 01:23:42,450
Not me.
1247
01:23:42,450 --> 01:23:44,600
- There is no place in this town
1248
01:23:44,600 --> 01:23:46,250
that I won't be able to find you.
1249
01:23:48,000 --> 01:23:49,890
I own you.
1250
01:23:49,890 --> 01:23:51,573
I created Mona Lane.
1251
01:23:52,540 --> 01:23:54,210
You were nothing but a
freckle-faced farm girl
1252
01:23:54,210 --> 01:23:55,473
when you came to me.
1253
01:23:56,850 --> 01:24:00,927
You go ahead and run, but
I'll be right behind you.
1254
01:24:20,687 --> 01:24:22,655
(Archie sighs)
1255
01:24:22,655 --> 01:24:24,520
- Are you okay?
- Yeah.
1256
01:24:24,520 --> 01:24:26,720
It ain't the first time
I got my ass kicked.
1257
01:24:28,994 --> 01:24:30,994
(sighs)
1258
01:24:38,460 --> 01:24:39,860
You really loved Tweet, huh?
1259
01:24:41,836 --> 01:24:43,286
- I mean, you heard him play.
1260
01:24:44,400 --> 01:24:45,500
Of course I loved him.
1261
01:24:48,208 --> 01:24:49,890
(sighs)
1262
01:24:49,890 --> 01:24:51,290
Where are you gonna take me?
1263
01:24:54,880 --> 01:24:56,083
- Outta this damn town.
1264
01:25:09,630 --> 01:25:12,630
(moody piano music)
1265
01:25:24,623 --> 01:25:26,290
Thank you very much.
1266
01:25:29,050 --> 01:25:31,700
The next train to Kansas
City leaves in half an hour.
1267
01:25:34,460 --> 01:25:35,410
- What will you do?
1268
01:25:38,240 --> 01:25:39,290
- Stay here, I guess.
1269
01:25:40,210 --> 01:25:41,560
I got no other place to go.
1270
01:25:49,290 --> 01:25:50,740
- My real name's Mary Hayden.
1271
01:25:58,070 --> 01:25:59,671
- Come on.
1272
01:25:59,671 --> 01:26:02,421
(train whistles)
1273
01:26:15,030 --> 01:26:15,863
- Are you Mona?
1274
01:26:15,863 --> 01:26:17,200
Can I have your autograph?
1275
01:26:17,200 --> 01:26:19,933
I saw your last picture,
it was a real ride.
1276
01:26:20,798 --> 01:26:23,130
Thank you so much!
1277
01:26:23,130 --> 01:26:23,963
- Hey, Mona, where you been?
1278
01:26:23,963 --> 01:26:25,580
Everybody's been lookin' for ya.
1279
01:26:25,580 --> 01:26:27,780
Hey, oh, come on, Mona,
what's the big deal?
1280
01:26:28,678 --> 01:26:30,198
- A nigger?
1281
01:26:30,198 --> 01:26:31,760
You've been sleeping with a nigger, Mona?
1282
01:26:31,760 --> 01:26:33,260
- Just let me get one more.
1283
01:26:33,260 --> 01:26:34,093
- Jimmy!
1284
01:26:34,980 --> 01:26:35,919
Jimmy, calm down.
1285
01:26:35,919 --> 01:26:36,752
- You want me to calm down,
1286
01:26:36,752 --> 01:26:37,787
when you've been sleeping with a nigger?
1287
01:26:37,787 --> 01:26:40,342
Go and play her.
1288
01:26:40,342 --> 01:26:45,342
(gun fires)
(moody jazz music)
1289
01:27:16,911 --> 01:27:20,117
- I just stayed there, watching
her bleed on the ground.
1290
01:27:21,060 --> 01:27:22,623
There was nothing I could do.
1291
01:27:30,303 --> 01:27:34,220
Just thought that somebody
should tell the truth,
1292
01:27:34,220 --> 01:27:35,893
about what really happened.
1293
01:28:08,467 --> 01:28:10,835
♪ Oh ♪
1294
01:28:10,835 --> 01:28:15,684
♪ You make ♪
1295
01:28:15,684 --> 01:28:20,684
♪ Me feel good ♪
1296
01:28:22,785 --> 01:28:27,785
♪ That I am ♪
1297
01:28:28,513 --> 01:28:33,513
♪ Still blue ♪
1298
01:28:37,955 --> 01:28:42,955
♪ I ♪
1299
01:28:44,724 --> 01:28:49,724
♪ Run ♪
1300
01:28:51,293 --> 01:28:53,543
♪ From you ♪
1301
01:29:08,405 --> 01:29:11,405
(smooth jazz music)
1302
01:29:33,412 --> 01:29:36,495
(jaunty piano music)
1303
01:30:19,272 --> 01:30:22,689
(moody orchestral music)
1304
01:30:45,230 --> 01:30:46,063
- [Actor] Dad.
1305
01:30:47,309 --> 01:30:49,170
(chuckles) Dad.
1306
01:30:49,170 --> 01:30:50,003
I love you.
1307
01:30:50,970 --> 01:30:53,523
But you think of yourself as a black man,
1308
01:30:55,170 --> 01:30:58,463
and I, I think of myself as a man.
1309
01:31:11,881 --> 01:31:14,798
(jazz piano music)
1310
01:31:33,141 --> 01:31:38,141
♪ Oh, crazy ♪
1311
01:31:39,494 --> 01:31:44,494
♪ I am ♪
1312
01:31:46,422 --> 01:31:48,589
♪ For you ♪
1313
01:31:59,128 --> 01:32:01,498
♪ Oh ♪
1314
01:32:01,498 --> 01:32:06,320
♪ You make ♪
1315
01:32:06,320 --> 01:32:11,320
♪ Me feel good ♪
1316
01:32:13,472 --> 01:32:18,472
♪ That I am ♪
1317
01:32:19,090 --> 01:32:24,090
♪ Still blue ♪
1318
01:32:28,702 --> 01:32:33,702
♪ I ♪
1319
01:32:35,088 --> 01:32:40,088
♪ Run ♪
1320
01:32:41,850 --> 01:32:44,100
♪ From you ♪
1321
01:32:54,520 --> 01:32:59,520
♪ Oh, pity ♪
1322
01:33:01,031 --> 01:33:06,031
♪ I am ♪
1323
01:33:07,901 --> 01:33:10,068
♪ For you ♪
1324
01:33:20,948 --> 01:33:23,100
♪ Oh ♪
1325
01:33:23,100 --> 01:33:28,100
♪ I love ♪
1326
01:33:29,375 --> 01:33:34,375
♪ When you say ♪
1327
01:33:34,985 --> 01:33:39,985
♪ That you ♪
1328
01:33:40,935 --> 01:33:43,185
♪ Don't do ♪
95987
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