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man

with a camera

starring charles bronson

i'm mike kovac freelance photographer

prize fighters and sports layouts are

not my specialty

but this joey savoyen interested me i

had known him well as a nice kid

on the east side but growing up seemed

to have turned him sour

suddenly he was belting newspaper men

around smashing up cameras

joey savoyen did turn into a regular

tiger so they said

but i meant to have a picture or two of

him with his claws out

if necessary you're here again mike

i thought you went back to new york not

till i get the shots i want

look mike i'll make it rough huh joey's

just getting a shot at the title now if

he wants his privacy

that's his business jasper you're joey's

manager

why don't you explain to him he's public

property now and as long as he's in the

news he's going to get his picture taken

one way or another mike joey don't want

any

he's even hired a pug to guard the gate

just so everybody gets the message

i mean it mike you're gonna get into

trouble

is that a threat jasper well that pug's

pretty tough

ass charlie this gorilla threw me over a

hedge about an hour ago mike

i thought i was gonna be the first man

put into an outer orbit

maybe you can say please charlie

what do you want i got a message for joy

civilian

he's an old neighborhood friend of mine

i don't take messages from photographers

mac

but i got one for you get out of here

get out of here

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what's the matter with you joe are you

trying to win a gold medal for being the

most hated man in the country

and watchdog you turned out to be sir

what'd you do take a bite out of

yourself

who do you think you are anyway all

right all right

all right go on take your muscles

outside i'll take care of my care

you're gonna knock him flat on his back

aren't you well i don't know that all

depends what do you think mike

i think you better grow a whole lot

bigger or go out and hire yourself a

squad of marines that's what i think and

i'll tell you something else

well you made good as a fighter the

whole neighborhood adopted you as her

all-time hero

then when the news story started to come

out about what a miserable heel you are

they're all ashamed of you no no no no

wait a minute

i was over the champions camp it took me

10 minutes to get a full series of shots

i come down here and i have to hold a

debate with your manager and wrestle

with this

ex pug here is that any way to treat a

friend

why don't you shut up because there's

nobody here big enough to make me shut

up least of all a punk like you

and i can lick you now just as i lick

you the day you're running errands with

my father

okay big mouth there's no shortage of

gloves

hey can i get a picture of you when

you're flat on your back

that meatball couldn't lick one side of

me the best day he ever saw

all right come on joy show me how tough

you are

all right let's see that big left joy

boy

hey boy let's go wanna go back to the

neighborhood and tell them how you eat

grown men alive joey

hey watch out for that guy he never

learned a fight like that in any ymca

what's the matter joey

come on come on you have to do better

than that

now look you can't go in there guys you

know the rules joey don't perform for no

public

don't you go have some more sandwiches

huh

come on let's have that big punch

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there he is hey joey what happens why

aren't you going to see for yourself

joey look let go will ya

don't wake him up get let's get our

pictures first

all right hercules you're in the wrong

league all out and change for the locals

we're proud of you boy i want to tell

you we're proud

with a picture like this we can all go

back to new york

is this a pro is this a dedicated man

i guess i went begging for it he's a

sweet guy isn't he

he's such a shrimp lamb he's going to

fill yankee stadium like a shoebox

just with people who want to see him get

murdered

well you can't win them all you're going

back to new york with us aren't you

until i get my pictures but we've got it

right here like i told you

mike kovac scores again this has to be

better than purple knocking dempsey

through the ropes

any one of the boys myself included will

be happy to make you up a nice set of

prints why don't you shut up help me off

with a glove

sure mike all jokes aside

you'll never get a picture of that young

gorilla unless you burn down the house

you got any matches

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good evening

what do you have i'd like this small

steak man why don't you try the spare

ribs

why they're pretty good and besides we

got an awful lot of them left over since

all those other newspaper fellas went

back to new york

uh you've been to the champs camp or

joey savoiance

i tried them both that joey oh boy

what about him he's a real killer rainy

how about that silly jerky belted out

today huh

what do you mean silly jerk some

newspaper photographer

i figured you must know him he goes and

puts on the gloves with joey savoyen

now i ask you what kind of a knucklehead

would pull a stunt like that huh

i love the spare ribs good one set of

ribs coming right up

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mike i'm dolly mcdermott i don't know

that you'll even remember me

dolly dolly from the old neighborhood

elizabeth street

thank you see i couldn't have been more

than 15 years old when we moved from

there

i guess girls grow up pretty fast yeah i

guess they do

how's your family oh they're fine how's

your dad

oh he's fine he still has that little

photo studio here remember

what are you doing way up here donny

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well joey phoned me so i bought a car

from a friend and drove up from new york

he had a feeling you'd be somewhere here

in the village joey civilian

a clinger like him and a girl like him

oh now wait a minute mike now just hold

it right there

all right all right forget it i guess

i'm not out to reform the world

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mike listen joey feels very badly about

what happened this afternoon i

bet he does he needs you what you want

to do belt me again

now listen to me dolly i was up there

today for hours he could have talked to

me then if he wanted to

so don't give me any of that dear old

pals routine

the next time i see dear joey boy only

be carrying a baseball bat

you of all people believing all these

ridiculous stories that are being

circulated about him

look all i can tell you is things are

not what they seem to be

well won't you even listen uh something

for the lady

have something to drink how about some

coffee okay coffee

okay he was saying

i don't know what i was saying except

that he's in trouble and he needs your

help

look joey phoned me today right after

he'd seen you this afternoon

and he said it just occurred to him how

you could help him out of all this mess

he's in

he wants you to come out to the camp

tonight after dark

that is if you're willing and he'll see

to it that the rear door of his cabin is

unlocked

what's all the cloak and dagger business

mike believe me i don't know the details

all i know

is that he begged me to have you come

out tonight to bring your camera and

just

listen to what he has to say

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tell me barbecue sauce has some very

good healing qualities

or would you rather i get you an ice bag

for your head

the late new york papers just came in

you were so modest about it why didn't

you tell me it was you

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oh my please don't let this keep you

from going back out please

i'll give it one more try but i'll tell

you right now i don't know what i need

most a picture to top this one or a new

set of brains

this is fine mike joey wanted us to park

a little way from the house where we

wouldn't be seen

well here goes good luck

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well joey hi mike i had dinner with

dolly

he said i was supposed to bring a camera

look i'm sorry about what happened this

afternoon

oh that's all right we get it come on

and sit down

thanks

[Applause]

it's not that easy to forget mike

look i hope you listen to me you know

all this killer boy talk

is making out like i walk around with a

bloody skull hanging under each arm it's

it's phony mike it's just all part of

the build-up

you believe me don't you well i don't

know yet

well i have to admit it wasn't hard to

make the act look good

i've always fought like a hoodlum in the

ring ever since the golden gloves it's

the only way i know how to fight

but all this talk about how i love to

hit photographers and reporters

well that's just as phony as everything

else that's happened to me

if only is everything else joy you

trying to say something

yeah i'm trying to say something and

i'm trying to tell you what i found out

just yesterday

look you know all these fights that i

had that made me into such a big

sensation

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they were fixed they were what

they were tank jobs joe shrine mill

mccormick auto paul all three of them

dove into that tank like seals after

sardine

well joy did you know anything about

this

no i didn't nothing at all like i

swear to you i didn't know a thing about

it why should jasper tell you now all of

a sudden

well there wasn't any reason to before i

was supposed to win the other ones

i didn't have to be in on them but this

time mike it's a little different

this one i'm supposed to lose but they

have to be sure

you see all these phony knockouts have

me going in there tomorrow night as a

favorite so

all they have to do is bet with the

champion and they'll clean up

what are you gonna do joey you're gonna

go along with him

we'll answer me either you're a crook

that's gonna play ball or you'll tell

him where to go

why is it so complicated because i'm not

just dealing with jasper this time or

sal benning or his manager

this time mike i'm dealing with willie

fletcher

he's behind the whole thing lily

fletcher wow

how scared are you julian

i'm real scared but i'm a lot more

scared about some people i care about

dolly for instance or my old man look

mike this time i'm up against the guy

who uses guns

yeah he uses a gun he's a big man in the

rackets now look joey

where do i fit

fletcher's coming over here tonight

jasper's gonna bring him here in about a

half an hour

he's coming here but why here well i

figure i'm a little green at this

larceny business and

i want to set up kind of a dress

rehearsal for the dive i'm supposed to

take

that's a nice social gathering a real

nice group

look mike i don't want to go through

with this fight but i've got some people

i've got to protect

now if i'm going to try and run out on

willie fletcher well i've got to have

some ammunition of my own

what do you mean ammunition i want a

picture of him i want a picture of him

and jasper and me

here in this room and then tomorrow

morning i want this picture and every

newspaper in the country tying around

with this fix

i want that thing spread so far and so

wide that he won't dare touch dolly or

my old man

now maybe you understand why i asked you

to come here

joey pictures of my business i was

wondering how long it was going to take

you to ask me

can you do it you'll give it a try if

you're willing to throw a hundred

thousand dollars down the drain of

course i'm willing to try

but i want this to be a picture no one

will ever forget now the champ he must

be in on this right

the great south benning the model

champion

look mike he was in on this thing from

the first day this fight was arranged

then i want him in the picture too i

want this wrapped up so clean and tight

and flat you'll spend the next 10 years

behind bars

yeah yeah but jasper didn't say anything

about bringing him along

hey where is jasper now well he's over

at the champs picking up fletcher

they're gonna give me a ring just before

they leave

well that's good when he call you tell

him you want the champ here oh no mike

no i don't think they'll buy that

well tell them they've gotta buy it tell

them you're a little bit nervous and

you don't want to leave anything to

chance you want to go over the whole

thing step by step

with sal oh look what if they get wise

come on answer it it hasn't got teeth

and tell them what i told you to tell me

hello jasper oh

no no no everything's fine you know i

except i've been thinking you know

i'm a little anxious about this thing

and i was wondering if we might try this

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all right they're here i could see him

from the porch does it look all right

looks okay to me are you sure we haven't

forgotten anything

i don't think now there so be enough

life

[Music]

everything okay so yeah okay i don't

like this burglar routine suppose

someone sees me here

nobody else see you why do we have to

bother drawing pictures for this clown

it's simple enough isn't it

he goes out in the sixth round and i hit

him on the chin champ

let's do exactly as you're told

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joey check me back right

joy how's it look it looks all right

yeah yeah that should work if you don't

make any noise

and if you live long enough

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what's the matter with you it's nothing

to matter with me

you look a little nervous maybe i'm just

the nervous type huh

too many lights

all right jasper this is your kind of

package tell them what you had in mind

all right sam hello joker

well the first thing i want you boys to

remember is you fight your regular kind

of fight

for the first five rounds i want no

mistakes like a guy

bringing up a punch from the socks and

belting the other guy out

come in the sixth

go on jasper get on with that

like i was saying we're in a six now now

joey

you got an aggressive style it's natural

for you to push the fight right

you're getting close to sal punching the

body like you always do see

oh here just about that time zayn the

sixth

sow flip out his mouthpiece like he

always does you know

he does it all the time it's like a uh

characteristic all right

it'll be no tip off to anybody but you

this is when you step in

with a big right hook like that see all

right you try it now slow motion

big right hook that's it great

now sal straight right inside the hook

if joey catches on the chin it's 100

all right let's go come on straight

right

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now

please don't let it be joy please

where'd it go

[Applause]

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well it would have made a good picture

willie

but i guess you can't win them all i

gotta make you eat it kovac

i ought to make you eat it like a billy

goat

boy you talk tough you scare me willie

how do you know i didn't phone the state

athletic commission hours ago huh

because you're a lousy liar

if you'd have phoned the commission

they'd be here already like a five-alarm

fire i don't suppose i have to tell you

that you're not going back to new york

until this fight's over

and maybe not then

you know too much even without the

picture

go to your room and remember what you've

learned

joey boy

the fight's going on tomorrow night

nothing's changed except that your

friend kovac here is in

pretty deep

well

no

no there isn't going to be a fight

tomorrow night fletcher

you can't drag a grown man into a ring

in front of 50 000 people can you

easy joey easy it's not worth it that's

worth it

no i'm certainly tired of crawling on

the floor like a dog for you fletcher

not for you or for him or for anybody

i'd rather be dead first

you will be joey i can guarantee that

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well

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oh

hold it come on try me you won

all right you want to try me come on

willy you want to try me

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joey joey are you all right yes yes it's

all right

yes dolly what made you throw the rock

what made me throw the rock well i

looked in the window and i was scared to

death

i'm sure glad you did easy sal

easy no

don't let him mike come on this will be

the only inner shot i'll ever get it

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wait joy don't support don't spoil it

this will make a lovely picture in

tomorrow's papers willie

maybe they can run alongside the one i

took of you earlier

the role i tore up that's no good

you don't think i'm that dumb do you i

switched film we were playing hide and

seek back there in the woods

[Music]

willie like a friend said to me this

afternoon i'll be happy to make you up a

whole set of prince

after i call the police

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