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so

so

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so

it's all right kid

let me get in my my wind

hello

boy are you pushed

what were you running from

the cops

hey chez

what did you do

don't be as scared a little brother

i give him the older crisscross

anybody see you

maybe we ought to arrange for an alibi

look at that little huh

not even a college yetting already you

took like a lawyer

hey tony

look

wow

how much you got a 200 bucks

here tommy

go down and give it to mama

now papa don't have to have enough

baby's funeral and get buried in a sack

and tony

tell mama to get him a nicer coffin

with the silver handles

here

take it

if you want to buy papa coffee with one

of you robbed

how else are we going to do it huh

tony don't worry i got it off a drunk or

was it easy harley put up a fight at all

she said

you seem puffy care about a coffin

only everyone's supposed to be decent to

have something to eat

hey he wanted me to be a doctor huh

he wanted me to help people

not to rob them

do you think he cared about a coffin

with

silver handles well i care

me cesare rahman i care how my old man

is buried i don't want the neighbors to

laugh and we couldn't even give the old

man a decent funeral

cabish we needed the money so i got it

it don't matter how no it matters

it matters to papa

hey how many times you tell us i see you

say a man who lives by violence he dies

the same way yeah

papa he was a full of those away saiyans

you know what i think i think papa was a

jerk

huh a two-bit jerk what a pop ever get

out of life huh he's a lion down there

dead uh with a busted gut of 42 years

old for a while from a haul in a cold in

the winter and a nice enough summer six

of flights of stairs for a while for

sensor huh four cents a trip great hunt

huh

but our papa a papa he was a full of

those hawaii saints

he who lives up high of violence got to

die by a violence

well i got a wise saying too

he who takes gets

and it don't matter how just so he's

just smart right lou

you just take and a take and it don't no

matter how cause one day you end up a mr

b and the people don't care how you got

your money

and that's gonna be me

cesare romano

mr b

three boys from the slum

one wanted to be a doctor one wanted to

be a lawyer and the third he just wanted

to be

mr big

all three achieve their ambitions with

surprising results

as sure as my name is boris karloff

they are the guilty men

and that's the name of our story

our principal players are mr everett

sloan

mr jc flippin

and mr frank silvera

that sound you hear is a heartbeat

a heartbeat that held together a

fantastically powerful organization

dedicated to big business

the big business of crime

let me assure you my friends this is a

thriller

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1923

cesare romano gets suspended sentence

and protection racket slugging

1928

witnesses disappear

jesse romano alias charlie roman

released on hijacking charge

1931

roman denies control

fed stymied in liquor rackets

1940

ex-bootleggers organized gambling

procuring dope on nationwide scale

1960

industrialist charles roman subpoenaed

testify shipping the hotel oil interests

of syndicate strictly legit

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wait

wait wait wait

show me one combine not only in this

country anywhere in the world has had a

better year

so once a half a million dollars it to

us

so long as it's gonna prevent one kid

from becoming a delinquent it's a half a

million dollars that's what it is

we're not in business to raise money for

charity

you seem to be missing that little point

charlie i don't miss nothing harry not

to one thing i make it to my business

ask luke ask lou eh

boy i don't want to ask lou

he'll say what you told him to say

look harry don't make me mad hey i got a

badge to take i'm not supposed to get

mad what do you want from me charlie

you want me to listen to the mouthpiece

i hardly think that was necessary gans

referring to me as a mouthpiece

all right

let's hear what the philadelphia lawyer

has to say

well there's uh

there's very little to say

you've all heard what charlie wants and

uh i think we should go along with him

well i don't

i don't look at it don't push me

don't push me i don't care what the

doctors say not first

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well how is he

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is he all right tony

all right this time you're not going

tony he's your brother talk to him

why did you come if you're not going to

talk to him what kind of a brother are

you what kind of a doctor are you i'm a

good doctor when you called me i came

i've done all i can for him as a doctor

the rest is up to him no it's up to you

too

in the old country a brother is a

brother

in the old country a brother will kill

for his brother if he has to

where are you going i'm going to the

hospital people are waiting for me there

poor people what do you want from me

tony huh

what am i gonna do

today i nearly killed myself fighting to

get money to do good to help people and

all the time i knew it wasn't enough for

you no it isn't

no matter what you do

you're scum charlie and you know it

what about all those young boys who come

to my office every day

what about all those narcotics cases

sure you don't sell them the stuff

but it comes in on your ships it's

unloaded on your docks what good is

tearing down the slums if you keep

bringing in narcotics

what does it prove let me know

not my brother

i know a lot of things have changed but

it's not enough if the worst remains

don't you see that

i'm sorry i hit you tony

sorry i said what i did

i

guess i better be going

bye cheshire

hello

remember

rest

no more meetings

next time you might not be so lucky

right go ahead what are you thinking go

ahead say it say it

i'm thinking that that i'm your wife

and that i love you

you think tony's arriving

what am i gonna do

you think maybe if i do something about

the narcotics

you're gonna love me again

think tony's right lou

well

you know that i'm

i'm always with you charles

but uh there is no denying that tony's

got a point i mean if we're going into

something like donating playgrounds we

ought to go the whole way

i suggest that we uh we dropped the

narcotics operation

hey what do you think the other fellows

are gonna stand for that

well they might if it were put to them

properly

if it were made clear to them that this

is the only remaining thing that they

can get us on that the rest of the

operation is clean

i suppose we'd have some trouble with

gans but

i think we should try it charles

we can explain to them why we want to do

it and put it to a vote at the meeting

tomorrow don't let him go to any more

meetings you heard what tony said all

right anna

she's right charles

you shouldn't take the chance

i'll handle it

even harry guns

yeah

you know i don't know what i'd do

without you lou

if it wasn't for you i think maybe i

have harry gans killed a long time ago

you know out the side of my wife

you're the only friend i got and i'm

appreciate lou i appreciate you always

behind me

i know you do

oh uh you don't have to show me out anna

and

don't worry

i'll see there are no more upsets like

this

thank you lou i know you love my

chessery thank you very very much

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yes get me home as fast as you can

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so

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night

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hello lois

oh hello dear

you needn't have wait it up i want to

how was your meeting

oh you know how these

board of directors meetings are they're

always pretty tiring you have a visitor

mr ganz

what where is he

in the living room

would you excuse me dear i'll uh i'll

try and make it short of course dear

i love i'll be up as soon as i can

quite a fancy joint you got here

mouthpiece

what are you doing here gans

i came to see you

what kept you

the long way to philadelphia

you're right

it's a long way i can do without your

innuendos gans

my guests usually come by invitation i

don't recall inviting you what are you

doing here

i came to find out about poor old

charlie

how's he feeling

now i know you didn't come all the way

out here to philadelphia with just

charles's health on your mind oh that's

where you're wrong

i've been doing a lot of thinking about

poor old charlie lately

i think somebody else ought to head up

the organization and old charlie be put

out to pasture

out to pasture or in cement in a marsh

in jersey oh no i didn't say charlie had

to get hit did i

you know we don't do that anymore don't

pay

i just think he should step down and be

forced down before he breaks us all

the money for that playground is chicken

feed that's not what's disturbing you

why don't you come right out with it why

don't you come out and say that you want

to be mr big

all right

i want it

and i'm gonna get it

are you gonna get in my way

i will if you try to break up this

organization with a lot of internaciene

warfare

i don't understand them big words

mouthpiece

save them for the supreme court

and don't walk away from me i don't like

it

that's too bad

now look lou you watch your step

there's more lawyers in this town than

you can count and don't you forget that

look don't play it tough with me

you know as well as i do that whether

you or charles runs this organization it

can't survive without me

so you keep telling us

and maybe you're right

but it works the other way around too

lawyer boy

i don't think you could be the big bull

on the stock market or the big spender

at the racetracks and what you make as a

public defender

so let's you let up on the tough talk

too huh

oh what

or i might just bring out a few items

i've got in my safe deposit box

just one of them would stink you up so

bad they couldn't stand the smell of you

even in philadelphia

just because you're mr lewis adams with

a social register wife

don't think i couldn't stink you up good

all the way down the main line

so that's what you have in mind

that's what i've got in mind

and remember that the next time is a

show of hands like a tomorrow's meeting

i'll think about it don't think about it

make up your mind you're gonna do it

at tomorrow's meeting

charlie won't be there

you're gonna vote with me

and charlie's gonna be out

because if you don't i said i'd think

about it good night

good night mouthpiece

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hello uh hello anna

uh this is lou

may i speak to charles please no lou no

more tonight you heard tony say he must

rest yes i know but uh this is important

so is his life

please it's all right

hey hello

how are you oh

well the important thing charles is how

are you

i'm a fine

what's up i was just thinking about what

we talked about before you know about uh

the meeting tomorrow

and uh what's the matter

something happened

i can tell from your voice no no

nothing's happened uh uh it's just that

i i had some second thoughts on the

matter and

would you mind coming to the meeting

tomorrow

no i don't mind

but uh

we promised anna and you know what tony

said though you could handle this alone

oh i will i will i just uh

i mean i just thought we could swing it

easier if you were there all right

all right i'll be there no chaser

thanks charles very much

i'll see you there

okay

goodbye

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well it's

eight to four

in favor of the playground

i guess that does again the playground

is in

that's fine

thanks fellas

yeah i got something else on my mind i'd

like to talk to you about

at least i want you to think about it

for next month's meeting

it's about the dock traffic

the stuff

i've been thinking how maybe we ought to

drop that business

it's worth millions a year

it's a big proposition getting bigger

have you gone off your nut let me finish

harry you might let me finish if we

listen to you we'll all be finished

for two years we've been masterminding

the dock walkouts so we can control all

the stuff coming in

we've got it so nicely and neatly

wrapped up the narcotic boys can't even

nibble around the edges and he wants us

to drop it

i just don't follow you charlie i just

don't follow you you mean you don't want

i can't if you let me finish maybe you

could oh i've heard enough

you're walking out what does it look

like wait a minute harry i said i'm

going and i mean it

i'll be in my office five minutes if

anybody wants to come with me they can

charles

we've got to get him back now let him go

if he thinks he can get along without

the rest of the organization let him try

me johnny momo you voted with him you

want to walk out too may i interrupt for

just a moment please sure

go ahead

charles

i know what's on your mind even if the

other boys don't

and uh well i'm perfectly willing to go

along with you but

there's no sense in breaking up the

entire organization just because a

couple of tempers have fled

no i think we've uh

we've just got to try and be reasonable

about this

what do you want me to do you want me to

go down on my knees to harry games

no i don't think you'll have to do that

he knows what's at stake

i suggest that we go in and talk to him

you're going to talk to him

if he wants it to come back

all right

but don't expect me to go now

look charles

we'll get nowhere this way and you know

it

you two have got to get together

now the best way to accomplish that as

far as i can see

is for the boys to get out of here

so that you and i can talk to him alone

all right

all right boys okay little boy you're

good

johnny

hello

you uh

you go in and get gams

don't you think you'll come back in

yes i think he will if you tell him that

charles and i are here alone

surely

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all right i'm here

now what

well uh

first of all i would like to thank you

for

coming back gans

i hope you know what you're doing

mouthpiece

what's on your mind

well i'll tell the both of you if you

listen

now you know as well as i do that this

syndicate can't survive if this break

takes place the way he's going it won't

last anyhow you never listened to my

reasons

i told you before i've heard enough

now look harry at least let's be fair

i mean you ought to hear charles out i

think we all should before any decision

is made lou's right harry

all right

start talking go ahead charms

just like that

it's not so easy just like that

tell you the truth i don't understand

how it got started even

you remember lou

all the fights we used to have when you

first started talking about the

legitimate to legitimate to legitimate

i thought you had holes in your head

then i begin to see the handwriting on

the wall

just like you said it was gonna be

when bootlegging went out and the feds

started cracking down and i went along

yeah

i took a trip to the old country

remember all right i didn't like it

there i like it here

i like being a big businessman

and all the time i talked to my wife

anna how nice it would be we had some

children like you got to johnny but i

ain't i don't got no children i only got

my wife anna and my kid brother tony

you know what tony thinks of me

you know what he said to me last night

he said charlie roman is scum

scum

my kid brother doesn't allow for me you

understand me

since you're 29 he hates me

because of those little kids that was

killed accidental the day we had it it

sucks him alone

maybe you don't have a kid a brother

hates you but told me

told me

and those are little kids

they get under my skin more and more

every day

why do you think this means so much to

me

it's because of those little kids

the district is also lousy with with the

bushes that are pushing the stuff we

bring over in the boats

what's it doing down there

it's going to the kids harry the stuff

is going to the kids it's lousing them

up worse than ever before look

we're making enough money legit that's

the drop of the stuff

and let somebody else move in nobody's

gonna move in

who is there to come in somebody will

some of those little brooklyn punks will

come in

and the first thing you know they'll be

bucking the organization and they'll

have the money to do it and we'll be

dead

no they won't have you bet they won't

but you can't stop them because you're

getting soft jolly i don't know what

you're talking about i'll tell you what

i'm talking about

you're getting out now because i'm

moving in

ain't no brooklyn punk gonna take over

that drug action and now you want to cut

off the whole supply and walk around

like a saint

well not me

i'm stepping in no no you won't gans

you're doing nothing of the kind

who's going to stop me

are you going gonna stop me no i'm gonna

stop you charlie roman not so

charlie roman

there's no such character around anymore

charlie roman was a tough baby in his

day

but now all we got is poor old sick papa

romano

stewing in his beer about a bunch of

no-good apple stealing delinquents on

the east side

get out of my way where are you

daddy

you told me you hated his guts you said

you wanted him dead

told me he always treated you like a

correlation well he won't anymore

and if it bothers you too much

don't look

what's the matter mouthpiece

weak stomach

you

said you promised i said we wouldn't hit

him and we didn't he did it himself

didn't he

johnny denny

i guess you know

all right i know

i don't know anything of the kind

you don't huh

look mouthpiece you're in this as deep

as anybody else deeper you brought him

in here

i

know you don't have to remind me i'm

just reminding you in case you decide to

do any talking

i got something else i want to remind

you about too my safe deposit box

johnny

tell your sister and that brother his

and you

tell the boys

tell them right

tell them everything's going to be just

the same

business as usual

and mouthpiece

tell them it's not charlie roman talking

it's harry gans

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who's that for

charlie roman

who's he

charlie roman

he was a big man

he dreamed big

he lived big

up until the very moment of his

untimely death

his every thought

his every action

was being

and

so that you mrs roman i know

so that the world may know the

the honor we bear him

we have voted

not the half million dollars that he had

asked for but even more

for the betterment

of its people

we ask you mrs roman

to accept from us his

friends and associates

this gift

given with love and

everlasting gratitude

anna it's what charles wanted

anna why should i take it

i want nothing from you from any of you

did i ever ask for anything

all i ever wanted was my man

anna don't please go

tony

tony

you were his brother

this means something to you

if anyone is to take it you should take

it

very well anna

in the name of my dead brother i accept

it

on the condition that it be given in the

name of cesare rolando i accept this

and from all of you his friends i accept

this and i thank you for what you have

done

and now for chez romano i will read this

what is it

we found this in his papers

to be read in the event of his death

couldn't be called a will

a will could not legally dispose of that

which was illegally gained

what was his last testament

shall i read it

to the

boys

lou harry

johnny orgy danny

buttsy heimi momo and all the rest who

was with me all these years

now i'm dead

all i ask is to keep up the organization

and if you want to know what i think

let lou handle it because there is no

one you can trust better than him

i would trust him with my life

no what's the matter lou

nothing

now when it comes to my cut

i want to tell you it's no use to try

and give it to my wife anna or my

brother tony because i know they won't

take it

the money i'd like to be split up down

the line to your children

like angela johnny

when she marries

let me pay for the wedding since i never

had a daughter

same with you orkey and your boy waller

and harry

your kids

and oh yes

i don't want to forget the parish when i

live in the old days

if it's not for me the poor box will

always be empty

fill it up every week and you'll be

doing the best thing you can for your

old friend

cheshire romano

cesare romano was killed that's a lie

let me finish harry don't jump to

conclusions

he was killed by the society that

created jolly roman

and he lived as they created him

in evil

out of evil

now the charlie roman is dead

says that romano has been returned to us

him we love and him we say

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anna why are you acting like this

you murdered him

you ruined my husband

it wasn't me shut up

shut your mouth before you say something

no one wants to hear

you may go now all of you

go out of you go get out of here

i know what you're going to say to me

just done

so let it be

no and it is not all done not yet

but let it be let it be

soon they will eat each other alive

look hannah

look it is far from town

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you better get down to fill it up and

put a tap on the lawyer's phone

i want a report on everybody he talks to

i don't like the way that johnny longo's

acting stay on his tail

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now look lawyer

just cause charlie leaves you his vote

that doesn't mean we're gonna let you

run the organization i'm not trying to

run it

i'm trying to keep it running

and the way to keep it running is to do

exactly as charles wanted to do and

that's to drop the traffic in narcotics

oh wait a moment wait a moment please

i know what's involved here in the way

of money and power

but the time is wrong

right now there's a congressional

committee sitting in washington digging

into this very thing

and except for the dope action we're

clean

do you understand what that means clean

clean

the public is aroused about this

narcotics thing you can't fight the

public it's too big

the public the public will stand for

anything they can't be bothered

like bootlegging laws are no laws they

wanted their hooch they paid their money

they took their chances

i'll tell you the public is as rotten as

anybody

look ants don't make the mistake of

thinking that the public is rotten

oh yes the public has been cheated

they've been led by the nose they've

been sweet talked and double-crossed but

don't tell me that the public is rotten

oh sure sure

we didn't make a killing in bootlegging

we're not cleaning up now on the big

stuff

all right

you've had your say now i'll tell you

where i stand

that legit stuff is okay

as long as it's paying off

but when it comes to dope and the big

paying stuff

i say go all the way

and if there's any trouble anywhere down

the line

we'll let him have it now

what do you say

you're gonna get tough

are you gonna mooch along with a

mouthpiece like charlie did

well

what's it gonna be i'll go along with

lou you will huh

now wait a minute you can't take a vote

johnny isn't here johnny will vote my

way i've got five and johnny makes six

that's all i need

the organization runs my way

all right

and i'm out

you guys have voted with him are you out

too

we're pulling out too

all right but your districts don't go

with you

the districts stay with a syndicate and

anybody that tries to change that will

find out something they won't like

you can't take over this way harry this

isn't like the old days

these are legitimate businesses you

can't just throw out the stockholders

i can't huh

you think i can't mouthpiece

maybe you'd better go talk to johnny

johnny

yeah

we had a little discussion with johnny

this morning

he came up with some crazy ideas too

mouthpiece we changed his mind

i think you ought to go talk to him

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philadelphia sir yes

no uh drive me to johnny longo's first

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johnny

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johnny

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louis is that you

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martha darling i have to talk to you is

it because of this lewis

they say that you were involved with the

syndicate is that true lois

well obviously i'm too late

yes mother yes it's true but how long

have you been a part of this roughly

since i've been a lawyer

charles roman paid for my law school i

was indebted oh i'm sick of making

excuses i really have none i knew what i

was doing

but why lewis you don't need these men

you're a good lawyer

martha

i don't think that a person like you

with your background could ever

understand but why didn't you tell me

lewis after all these years

i was afraid

i thought i'd lose you

now it'll all come out

this investigation

martha you must believe that i came home

tonight to tell you this whole dirty

story louis don't this man longer he

didn't commit suicide he was killed

and charles he was murdered too he died

of a heart attack

murdered but

but not you lois

that's what i tried to tell myself

i didn't actually do it but

it's the things i didn't do that make me

guilty of all their crimes

as guilty as any of them

louis i don't understand any of this

no you wouldn't martha but i have to

tell you

these others

they didn't know any other way they grew

up in a jungle

the only way they knew to survive was by

violence but

i i knew better

i was the educated one

i swore an oath to uphold the law

yes

they committed the crimes but

i was the guiltiest and i know now

what i have to do

i'm only sorry

for what it'll do to you

please forgive me

i love you louis

this other man that you've been talking

about

i've never known him

thank you then

hello

hello operator

yes i want to place a call to mr freeman

chase

lincoln72791

that's washington dc

yes i'll wait

hello mr chase

yes this is louis adams

i uh

i've decided to testify before your

committee

well i'm sorry to disturb you tonight

but if i don't see you at once i

well it may be difficult for me

yes

yes i can do that

well i

i could leave here in about two hours

and that means i'd get there about 11

o'clock

i better get harry right away

yes i'll have the necessary documents

with me

oh i understand mr chase

no i

i'm not expecting any deal

well

let's just say

there comes a time

goodbye

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so

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goodbye mother

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that's him

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get the briefcase

come on come on come on get out of here

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so

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you