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- Good evening.

I am organizing a key club.

It seems to be the thing to do.

For the uninitiated, a key club
is one

which members can enter
only if they possess a key.

These clubs are terribly
exclusive,

since membership is limited to
men.

My club is completely
different, it is for women.

Inside the club is everything

a woman could want, including
me.

You see, I am the club's only
bunny,

but enough of my troubles.

This evening's story has little
to do with keys or clubs.

It is about gambling and is
called "A Piece of the Action."

However, before we proceed
with that part of our show,

we bring you this paid
announcement.

- Money in.

- I open.

- Smiley?

- Fold.

- Duke?

- A opens for two, bump it two.

- In.

Are you in, Ed?

- You know, you're the kinda guy
I love.

Beater sits cozy for two
races and then sandbags.

- I call.

Call, Nate?

- Pass.

- Card, Duke?

- One.

- One.

- Give me three.

- Dealer takes two.

- Nice trick.

You should have practiced more.

I was wondering why he won
the last four hands he dealt.

- Ah!

- Cash me in.

- You okayed this chiseler.

- Sure, the same way I okayed
you on a credit rating.

That was stupid of you, Allie,
and clumsy.

Now, if you're gonna deal
from the bottom of the deck,

do it like this.

18,000.

- Now go easy, Duke.

- You go with all of us!
- Ugh!

What are you gonna do?

Duke, it's the first time, I
swear.

I'll pay off.

Duke, tell 'em, you know me.

- I do now.

- Where do you think you're
going?

- To the office.

- Duke, talk to them, talk to
them!

- Why don't you let him go, Ed.

- Yeah, I heard that before.

"Let him go, Ed."

I'm not that charitable.

- I lost all the other times.

- Yeah, but this time you
tried to win, the hard way.

- Please, Duke, please.

- I'm sorry, Allie, there's
nothing I can do about it.

You dealt the hand, play it.

Good morning, Danny.

- I've been waiting two days
to hear you say that, boss.

What day is it?

- Monday.

- 60 hours, never left the hotel
room.

How's the track?

- Clear and fast.

- Hm, keep away from the rail.

- Now you tell me.

- Did you call the house?

- Yeah.

- What did my wife say?

- That's it, she didn't
say nothing, just hung up.

Um, maybe you ought to stop off
some place

and buy a little something, hey
Duke?

- Mm, later.

The office first.

- Mm-hmm.

- Good morning, Miss Kelly.

- Do you want coffee, a pill, or
the mail?

- Anything important?

- A letter from your brother
Chuck

and wires from two businessmen

asking for consultation,
you know what I mean.

- Did you check their credit
rating?

- They're both A-1.

Why don't those guys go to Vegas

and lose their money
like the common people?

- Some businessmen can't
afford public places.

It makes their stockholders
nervous.

- I got something here that's
gonna make you nervous:

Looks like John B. Marsden,
the investment counselor,

may be needing a marriage
counselor.

Rumor has it that Mrs. Marsden,

formally sociality Alice
Stoneham, is packing for Reno.

- Hm.

- When were you home last?

- Friday.

- It is now Monday
morning.

- Yeah.

- I'm surprised all she
wanted to do was see a lawyer.

I'd have been as the
Missing Persons Bureau.

- You don't quit on a winning
streak.

- You're always on a winning
streak.

She's waited a long time, Duke.

What is it, four years?

- Friday will be our 5th
anniversary.

Don't worry, I'll square it.

- With what, a full-length mink?

She's had full-length mink
ever since she was born.

And what do I do if some
reporter

calls about that item?

- Deny it.

I want to make a phone call,
then bring your book in.

- Timo, this is Mr. Marsden.

Is Mrs. Marsden home?

- Oh yes, sir, Mr.
Marsden.

- Tell her I'd like to speak to
her.

- Mrs. Marsden say
not to speak anybody today.

- Well, where is she?

- She taking sun
bath, down by the pool.

- Oh, Timo, if she should ask,

tell her I'm stopping off at the
club

for a shave and a steam,
then I'm coming home.

Thank you.

- This is household.

- Oh.

- She still there, or did
she go to Anchorage, Alaska?

- Oh, she's sunbathing.

I want to send a wire of
congratulations

to Chuck on his prospects.

- No money order?

- No, I sent one last
month when he graduated.

- How much ought to go on the
books?

- 10,000.

Well, he's just out of law
school,

and if he's gonna practice law

I want him to look like
a successful lawyer,

gonna need a little money.

- You've been saying that
ever since I can remember.

"Chuck needs a little money."

- Well, who should I give
it to if not my kid brother?

- Don't look now, but
that kid is 24 years old.

- What do you want him to do,

get a pick and shovel job?

- It's been done.

- He graduated with honors.

He's gonna be a crackerjack
lawyer.

He swore he'd work hard and he
did,

now what do you want from him,
blood?

- You're worried, aren't you,
Duke?

- About what?

- Well, some day he could find
out

that you're a professional
gambler.

- Oh, he's never heard of Duke
Marsden, and he never will.

Just send the wire.

- Well, you're the boss,
but if I had a brother.

- Be glad you had a father.

Hm.

Hiya, Duchess.

- I've asked you not to call me
that.

- Every Duke needs one.

- I hadn't noticed lately.

Don't, the Marsden charm
doesn't work anymore.

- Ah, you've been reading those
ridiculous newspaper rumors

about our getting a divorce.

- I'm perfectly serious, Duke.

- Perfect, yes.

Serious, no.

Hey!

Can you get out of the
fish bowl and talk to me?

All right baby, I know
you're a poker widow.

I haven't been home in three
days,

but what's the hurry with the
lawyer bit?

What are you, a seal?

Do I have to jump in this
bathtub to make you listen?

Okay.

- Duke!

You clown.

Ah!

You know you can't swim.

- I know, but you wouldn't
listen.

I had to gamble that you
wouldn't let me drown,

because that's what I
would do without you.

- Oh, Duke, how long?

- How long what?

- Do I have to wait for you
to keep your promise and quit?

- You knew what I
was, and you married me.

- Sure, I was still a
starry-eyed debutante.

You were exciting, but I
can't live alone, Duke.

I'm afraid.

- Afraid of what?

- Of how easy it gets
to mix too many martinis

when you don't come home.

A lot of lonely women who know a
place,

a quiet out of the way bar

where a lot of nice men stop for
a drink.

Oh Duke, don't make me jump
into a pool I can't swim in.

- Just broke the bank
in Monte Carlo, baby.

- You mean that?

You'll quit?

- I just did.

- Then take me away some place.

- Name it.

- Hawaii.
- Hawaii.

- When?
- How about Friday?

That's our anniversary.

Hey wait a minute, Friday's the
13th.

- Oh, it'll be the
luckiest day of our lives.

But be here, Duke.

- I'll be here.

I'll be here this time.

I'll be here for you.

You ought to try eating a salad
some time.

- What am I, a rabbit?

- Ed, what did you do with Allie
Saxon?

- Never heard of him.

How much did you pay for the
suit?

- This?

A couple of hundred, why?

- Paid 300 for this sack.

How come it don't look a hundred
bucks

better on me than it does on
you?

- Well, maybe we have different
tailors.

- Say what you mean,
it's ain't the tailor.

I get the best, shark skin,
Italian silk.

It don't matter.

I still look like I come from
the dock.

And you know something, Marsden?

I come from the dock.

- Hm.

You don't like me, do you, Ed?

- How come I never get
lucky like you, Duke?

- You know something, Krutcher?

You take losing too personally.

It eats you like an ulcer.

That's not good for a gambler.

- Yeah, what time we playing
tomorrow?

- We're not, that's what I
came to talk to you about.

I'm quitting.

- You just took me for 30 Gs.

- Well, that's poker, Ed.

You pay to learn.

Friday's my anniversary, my
wife and I are going to Hawaii.

- On my dough.

- At the moment, it's mine.

- Ready for
dessert, Mr. Krutcher?

- Put it down.

I want a chance to get even,
Duke.

- You'll never get even, Ed.

You're a pigeon.

- Do you know how much
a plaster cast can itch?

Especially in a warm climate
like Hawaii?

- I haven't been scared since I
was

in a haunted house at Coney
Island, Ed.

I was five years old at the
time.

Name your game.

Any time, any place, tomorrow
afternoon.

I'll take every nickel you bring
with you.

But remember, I'm quitting.

This is your last chance at me.

- We'll shoot craps.

The billiard room, my house, one
o'clock.

- I'll see you then, pigeon.

Here we are.

- Eight, looking for a 10.

- See who that is, Monty.

- Maybe it's your old lady.

- She's at the beauty parlor.

- How long can that take?

- You ever see my wife?

She'll be there 'til midnight.

- Hm.

- Nah, it's Nate or Frankie
Portugal.

- Hey, Frankie.

- Hi.

You guys seen this?

They found Allie Saxon, shot.

- Sell Frankie some chips,
Smiley.

- Where'd they find him?

- In front of the Rescue
Mission.

And what was Allie doing in
front of the Rescue Mission?

- Maybe he was waiting to be
saved.

Shoot, your point's 10.

- Scotch and water.

Just got in from the east.

- A lot of rain back there.

- No, no, not in Florida.

- Ah.

- I was on sort of a vacation.

- Must have been nice.

- I got lucky.

- Dames, huh?

- No, cards.

- Well, that's life.

I never even learned to play
checkers.

- Fellow in Florida
told me that if I wanted

to get in on some west coast
action,

this was the place to look for
it.

- Look Mack,
all I know about Florida

is they ship grapefruits.

- You're careful,
huh?

I like that.

No, I do, really.

What are the chances of
my getting in on a game?

- Slim and none.

- I've got a bundle that says

that I can beat anybody in town.

- Uh-uh, you might lose.

- It'd be my hard luck.

- No, it'd be mine.

Then you wouldn't like me
anymore.

Hardly anybody does,

so let's quit while we
still like each other.

- Okay, friend.

It's your deal, but I'm staying

at the Hotel Windsor, room 312.

- Mrs. Marsden.

- Hello, Mr. Marsden.

Come with me.

- Well, can I have a drink
first?

- Mm-mm, I've got a surprise.

- Huh?

- You'll see.

- Hello, big brother.

- Chuck!

Ha ha, frat brother.

Why didn't you tell us?

- Oh, I just thought I'd slip in
quietly

and try to steal your wife.

- Oh, fat chance, fat chance.

Let's see what they turned
out at your law school.

- All right?

- Yeah, that's good enough
for the Supreme Court.

- Well, I'll let you and the
Chief Justice

get reacquainted while
I brief Timo on dinner.

- Oh, ask Danny to bring
out a couple drinks,

will you, please?

- What would you like?

- Whiskey sour?

- Fine.

- Did you fly out?
- Well, I see you're still--

- Let's talk about the law
business.

- Oh.

- What about that firm in
Boston you wrote about?

- Oh yeah, Leland, Ward &
Merrick.

- Yeah, that's the one.

- Yep, I contacted them after
graduation.

They offered me a job.

- That's what I was hoping for.

- Listen, Jack, I'm really
grateful

about the 10,000 you sent.

- Ah, forget it.

When do you start?

- Uh, I haven't made up my mind
yet.

- Why not?

- Well see, I meant Leland
through his daughter.

Jack, she's a fabulous girl,
fabulous.

She's like Alice, you know what
I mean?

- Yeah, I'm trying.

- Well, she's
used to things like this.

Jack, a law clerk job
sounds like the beginning

of a long, long road.

- Yeah, what are you trying to
tell me?

That she's interested in you
only if you've got money?

- I didn't say that.

- It sounds like it.

Look, Chuck, you've got an
education

that's worth more than money.

If I were you, I'd find
out exactly what this girl

is thinking before I
made any definite plans.

- Look, Jack, I owe you a lot,

but I can make my own decisions.

- You can what?

- I said I can--
- Psst.

- Wait here.

What is it, Danny?

- Would you come inside for a
second?

- Oh, can't it wait?

- Something important come up,
let's go.

- I'll be right out.

What is it, Danny?

You're interrupting a family
reunion.

- That guy you're talking
to come into Pete's.

- Couldn't have, he's my
brother.

- Yeah?

He said he was from
Florida looking for a game.

He's got a bundle.

- You're sure?

- I'm sure.

- Your local stations have been
clamoring

for a piece of the action,
so we are rewarding them

with the follow segment
to identify themselves.

This should be enough
time, unless some of them

have extraordinarily long call
letters.

- Jack, I'm sorry I
snapped at you like that.

- So am I.
- But I'm not a kid anymore.

I've got to live my own life.

- You put it right on the line,
don't you?

- Yes.

- Just like you did with
the money I sent you.

That's a nice tan you've got.

Did you get it in Boston, or
Florida?

- You've
been having me followed?

- No.

- You sent me $10,000, Jack.

I didn't know there were
any strings attached.

- Keep your voice down.

- All right, all right.

I took the money, and I went to
Florida.

And I sat in on a game, a big
game.

- They're all big games, right
from the first little one.

- And I made a big score, Jack,
50 grand.

- And they're all big scores,

right from the first easy buck.

- Don't lecture me!

- I'm not lecturing!

- Everybody gambles, Jack.

Your business, investments.

It's legal, it's slow,
respectable,

but it's gambling and you know
it.

- Who's talking about my
business?

- Oh Jack, Jack, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, but we're just
different, that's all.

We always were.

You're like Mom, a worrier.

I'm more like the old man.

- What do you know about the old
man?

You were seven years old when he
died.

- I know he knew how to live.

- And he killed everything
around him, including Mom.

She's the one who kept us alive.

- I should have known
better than to come here.

- You listen to me, punk.

Maybe you were too young
to know, or too dumb,

the way we used to get thrown
out of

one cheap dump after the other?

- You sang that to me in high
school.

- I never went to high school.

I had a shoe shine box when I
was 10,

because the old man threw all
of his dough away gambling.

But you don't remember that.

You only remember the few times
he won,

the trips to Coney
Island, the cotton candy,

the ferris wheel.

- I like Coney Island, Jack, sue
me.

- You'd better get outta here,

before I do something
we'll both be sorry for.

- Now you're just
forgetting one little thing.

The old man was a born loser,
but I'm not.

- Then quit while you're ahead.

All gamblers die broke.

- My apologies to Alice for the
dinner.

- Can a lady get a drink here
unescorted?

- A lady can get anything she
wants here

if she's unescorted.

- Oh, right.

Where's Chuck, changing for
dinner?

- He had to leave.

- But he said he'd,

what happened, John?

- We had a little row, that's
all.

- About what?

Did he find out about you?

- No, he didn't find out about
me.

It's an old family thing.

- I'm family, the name's
Marsden, and I like it that way.

What was it, darling?

- About his plans, that's all.

Do you mind if we don't talk
about it?

- All right.

- Hiya, Duchess.

Here's to Friday, to Hawaii.

To us.

- Oh, am I gonna keep you
busy tomorrow, mister.

You're gonna make like a
husband.

- Tomorrow?

- Mm-hmm, we've got shopping.

Last minute things.

- I should go to town for a
while.

- Not the office.

- I have to close that too,
don't I?

Get the plane tickets.

Square things with Chuck.

- Oh?

What's our flight time Friday?

- One o'clock.

- Then we'll have to leave
for the airport by noon.

- Mm, I can hardly wait.

There you are.

- Until noon Friday.

- I'll be here.

Hello, Al.

- Your secretary said 10
minutes, it's been 20.

- Yeah.

Game still on for tonight?

- Yeah.

- Ed, I know it's July,

but I want to give you
a Christmas present.

- Like what?

- Well, there's a young
kid in from Florida

looking for a game.

I want him cleaned.

- What's in it?

- About 50,000.

- How come you're so good to me,
Duke?

- Well, you're the heavy loser.

I thought I'd throw it your way.

- Why don't you give
him the bath yourself?

- I'll be busy packing.

- What's your piece of the
action?

- Nothing, I'll probably be
gone before the game's over.

- Yeah, gone.

You know, this fish is beginning

to have a little odor to it.

- This fish is so fresh, it's
pathetic.

- How do I get in touch with
this guy?

- Windsor Hotel, Room 312,
but Pete'll steer you to him.

- We're set up at the
Colonial Arms, 10 o'clock.

- Keep the change, Al.

It's on me, Ed.

- Are you catching a train,
darling?

- Hm?

- Your watch, you keep looking
at it.

- Oh, the band is loose.

- What time is it?

- Almost 10.

- Shall we have our coffee
inside?

- Mm.

- Or out here at the bottom of
the pool?

- Fine.

- Oh, honey.

You might as well be in China.

- Oh, sorry, baby.

I'm back now.

- I'll get the coffee.

- No, don't go.

- This is a new and funny
feeling.

- What?

- Asking me to stay.

This is the hour you were
always anxious to leave me.

- Nobody's ever gonna leave
anybody again.

Everybody stays just like
this, where they belong.

- Straight to the king.

That does it.

- Who is it?
- Florida.

- Come on in, kid.

My name's Ed.

- Okay here?

- Grab it, that's the hot seat.

- It will be.

- What do they play on
this, here in Florida?

- This isn't Florida.

- We play dealer's choice.

- For money, 20,000, first buy.

White's a hundred, red's
five, and blue's a thousand.

- Hello?

- Hello, Duke, Ed Krutcher.

- Wait a minute.

I told you not to call my home,

especially not in the middle of
the night.

- Well it's the middle
of the night here, too,

and you'd better get over here
in a hurry

and I'm not kidding.

- I told you I'm quitting.

- I don't care about you.

It's that fish you sent us,
Dukie boy.

It's beginning to stink.

He's taken us 60 grand in four
hours.

- You don't know how to pluck a
chicken

when it's handed to you.

- No, but I know how to stuff
one,

and your Christmas present may
just end up

at the Rescue Mission.

- Danny, get the car out and
meet me

by the side of the house, right
away.

- Look, I thought I
came here to play cards.

- Play solitaire.

- I might try quitting.

- That I wouldn't try.

- Well, what are waiting for?

Let's play cards.

- We're waiting for fresh blood.

- Who?

- The guy who steered you here,
Duke.

- I told you, I don't
know anybody named Duke.

He's the one who phoned me.

- Little boy blue, he don't know
anything.

- I knew a guy like that once,
innocent.

Diamonds up to here.

- 15 minutes, pretty quick.

- Ed, Chuck.

- Well, what is this?

Big brother watching over me?

- I thought you didn't know him.

- Like he said, I'm his brother.

- Hm, well you forgot
to mention that, Duke.

- Duke?

You?

- You heard the man.

- Uh-huh, a fish from Florida,
he said.

- Is that what you told him,
Duke?

- You being funny?

- No, I'm just waiting for the
lecture.

- Give me a stack.

- There's no lecture on the
evils of gambling, big brother?

- No lecture, just a lesson.

- My big,
square, successful brother.

Now, you're a bigger phony
than the old man ever was.

- You gonna talk, or play?

- With you, I wouldn't miss it.

- I smell a frame.

- If this was a frame, I
wouldn't be here.

This is between him and me.

- Yeah, on our money.

- I'll get it back for you.

- Couldn't take it away
from me with a gun.

- Oh?

- I could.

- You're playing on a--
- You gonna trust him?

- I trust everybody, especially
brothers.

- Ed, play or get out.

- Yeah, well I'll be watching
you.

- All you'll see is what you
pay to see when you call.

- Ante.

Jacks are better.

- Investment, well
gee.

- You were my investment.

- You're high.

- Check to the possible flush.

- Five blues.

- Five.

And five again.

- Three shy.

- Hm, cash?

- I haven't got any more on me.

- Well, I owe you 10 grand,
remember?

- You'd better save those.

- Don't seem to need them
anymore, Duke.

- Call.

- Ace.

- Hold it, how do you know
he ain't got the flush?

- Because he didn't raise.

- Now, we'll see.

- Don't ever do that again, Ed.

- I just wanted to make sure you
weren't

folding the flush to him.

- Nobody sees my cards
unless they pay for them.

- No wonder you're giving
lessons tonight.

- How would you like a rap in
the mouth?

- Oh, big brother
wouldn't let you do that.

- Come on, knock it off!

We need some food and a couple
of fresh decks of cards.

These are getting soggy from
handling.

- No room service between
midnight and seven.

- Danny's waiting in my car.

The desk can send someone out to
tell him.

Can get the cards at
the all night drugstore

and the food at Tiny's.

I'm gonna take a shower.

- Why shower?

You're still taking a bath.

- Desk, there's a chauffeur
waiting outside in a car.

Would you ask him to come
in to the phone, please?

- Mr. Marsden's office.

Oh no, Mrs. Marsden.

No, I just got in myself.

It's just nine o'clock.

- Will you have him call me if
he does?

Or Danny if you hear from him.

- Call.

- Two, and three more.

You're slowing down.

- Fold.

Last cut.

- Bet the kings.

- I check.

- Check.

- Five grand.

- Fold.

- Five again.

- Fold.

- Let's try that again.

Your five, and up you 10.

- All right, I call you.

- Three nines.

- I knew you'd improve.

- And I knew you knew,

but you just didn't know how
much.

That hurt, didn't it?

- Just shut up and deal.

- Oh, getting emotional,
that means scared.

- Do you mind if the rest of us
play?

- No.

Lowball.

- You know I hate the game.

- Ed, you're not dealing.

- Smiley?

- Nine pat, you drew two.

- That's right.

I come out betting.

Five thousand.

- Right into that pat hand.

- Have to get rid of the
amateurs.

- I call.

- Five, and raise five.

- Fold.

- Call.

- Your five, 10 better.

- Good idea.

10, and I'll raise it 20.

$20,000 to call.

- Call.

- I've only got 18.

- Save it.

I'll take it from you next hand.

- Bluffing, I can read you.

I call 18.

Two shy.

- Ed, I'll make you a side bet,

just in case his dumb luck comes
back.

Okay.

- I'm in, kings full.

- Well, let me see here, hm?

Four little deucies.

Looks like you came in
third, little brother.

Do you want another stack?

I've got plenty.

- I'm broke and you know it.

- You wouldn't listen.

You thought it was all cotton
candy and Coney Island.

Open the door, Smiley.

Now get out!

I've gotta go.

You can keep the money,
split it any way you like.

- You're a big man, Duke, why?

- It was a great act.

I've been waiting a long
time for the finish.

- I'm glad you enjoyed it.

- I didn't, I just said it was
great.

Eight of diamonds.

Jack of spades.

- Oh, a marked deck.

- I sent you a pigeon,
you couldn't take him.

I had to cure him in a hurry.

Didn't cost you anything.

- Not this time.

- There were a couple of other
pigeons

that didn't pay off for us like
this one.

- Yeah, I'm thinking about that.

Maybe it's because of your
brother,

you making this generous
gesture.

- You sent your driver for the
cards

the night we played at the
Grosvenor.

- Yeah, and you won big that
night, Duke.

And those other nights,
all those other nights.

- All those games were on the
level.

- Were they?

- Look Ed, I don't care what you
think.

And I'm not Allie Saxon,

you're not leading me
out of here like a lamb.

So get out of my way,
I got a plane to catch.

- Go ahead, see what you catch.

- You ring for me?

- Oh yes, Timo, bring my
car around to the front

and put my luggage in
the trunk, just mine.

- Mr. Marsden car just come up
drive.

- Do as I say, please.

- Hello, Mrs. Marsden.

- Goodbye.

- You said noon, it's just noon.

- Whatever the time is, it's too
late.

- I'm sorry, baby, I couldn't
help it.

- We're always sorry.

You know, I think that's
what I'm the most tired of,

a world full of sorry people.

I'm leaving without you, Duke.

Duke.

What is it, darling?

What's happened?

- They must have--

- Just shut up, Danny.

I had a little accident with a
gun.

- Call a doctor quickly Danny,
get help.

You'll be all right, darling.

I know you will.

- Bet.

I'll lay ya 10 to one.

- Oh, Duke.

- Don't be a chump.

Those are good odds.

- Bet.

- I figure just making
it to the old folks home

was enough of a gamble.

Hiya, Duchess.

- Duke?

Oh, no.

- Never said a word, just
get him home by noon.

- In tonight's play,
everyone learned a lesson.

Ed and the boys learned that one
shouldn't

go about shooting people.

The police took a hand
in teaching them that.

Chuck learned that you shouldn't
gamble.

Duke learned you shouldn't cheat
at cards.

And Alice learned that you
shouldn't

marry an investment counselor.

There is also sad news
about my new key club.

It has become even more
exclusive than we planned.

The sheriff is now our only
member, we've been padlocked.

I shall be back next
week with another drama,

scenes of which will
appear in just a moment.