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Roma wines present.

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Suspense.

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Roma wines made in California for enjoyment throughout the world.

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Roma wines toast the world.

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The wine for your table is Roma wine.

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Made in California for enjoyment throughout the world.

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This is the man in black here for the Roma wine company of Fresno, California.

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To introduce this weekly half hour of suspense.

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Tonight from Hollywood Roma wines bring you a star and old friend of these proceedings.

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Mr. Peter Laurie and a newcomer, Mr. Richard Condon.

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For their appearance tonight, Joe Isinger has written an original suspense play with sporting blood in its veins.

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And in which death has a ringside seat.

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Its title with apologies to Mr. Steinbeck is of Maestro and Man.

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And so with the performance of Peter Laurie as the Maestro and of Richard Condon as the Man.

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We again hope to keep you in suspense.

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And the number is eight.

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Ada from Decatur.

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Get aboard boys.

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Speculate so you can accumulate.

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Put down a handful, pick up a handful.

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And he throws a five.

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The money is eight.

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Make the point and break the joint.

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Seven to one the hard way.

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The man wants two fours.

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He'll make it the hard way.

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He's got a hunch.

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He bets a bunch.

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Get aboard boys.

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And the dice read.

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Days in the week.

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Seven and the man's down.

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Pass the dice and make some ice.

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Everybody plays and everybody wins.

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Lay it on the line.

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We pay it on the line.

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Three to two or six or an eight.

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Even money ten or four.

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I lay it and take it.

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Right or wrong I go along.

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Tough one to lose Maestro.

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Mr. Crepe.

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Did I frighten you?

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No, no, no.

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It's just that I didn't...

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Maybe your nerves need looking over Maestro.

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I think I'd have jitters too if I dropped a bundle like you did tonight.

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What time is it?

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Three in the a.m. Maestro.

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Too late to play again.

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Oh please another hour.

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I don't mean the time.

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I mean I think I got enough of your paper for one night.

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My stick man just handed me these tabs.

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15 G.

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You know that my IOU's are good Mr. Crepe.

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You know that.

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That's what I wanted to talk to you about.

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You ever see my private office Maestro?

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Right this way.

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Sit down Maestro.

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Well it's growing late and I...

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This will only take a minute.

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How's Ricky?

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Oh Ricky.

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He's in the mountains.

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He has a vacationer but a little rest.

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You know it's a great little welter that Ricky Martin.

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Punch like a heavy feet like a fly weight.

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Yeah fine boy to have in your stable.

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I don't have what you call a stable Mr. Crepe.

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Ricky Martin is all I've got.

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Yeah.

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All my life I dreamed of having a boy like Ricky Martin.

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Not for the money, not for what he'd bring just to own him.

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Like a fast horse carrying your colors.

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He leaves them all behind.

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You know I'd be willing to trade you any three of my boys for Ricky Martin.

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Well that's very generous of you Mr. Crepe.

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But I don't think...

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No I don't think you would.

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Well you're a lucky man Maestro finding a boy like that.

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Yes I am.

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I sometimes wonder how you did it.

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You haven't been in the fight game long in this town.

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I remember the first time I see you and your boy hanging around the garden.

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Yes that's right.

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The fighting profession is still a little strange to me.

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You see all my life I've been well in in Bressere you might say.

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In Paris, in Brussels, Vienna.

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Ballet, opera, plays.

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And when I came to this country and found Ricky I...

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Well I could see that he was a...

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Yeah you could see all right.

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Cigar?

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Thank you.

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There you are.

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I always say there's nothing like a good cigar to promote good feeling in a business talk.

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Business talk? What do you mean?

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A little matter of 32G.

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Oh.

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Seventeen you dropped last week and fifteen tonight.

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Yes my luck has been a little bitter.

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You know that's a very impressive signature you've got Maestro.

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Like a professor or something.

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All those curls and loops very impressive.

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Looks like a million bucks on these tabs.

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I'm sure it's good for 32G.

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Of course it is.

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Of course.

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I'm glad to hear you say that.

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Well if that's all Mr. Cripper.

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That's all Maestro.

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Well then good night Mr. Cripper.

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Just a minute my friend.

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You're leaving something behind.

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What?

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Your IOUs.

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I don't understand.

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I figure I got enough of your paper.

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I want my money now.

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I can't I...

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Then get it.

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I must have time.

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I run a cash business.

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But you gave me credit.

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You got assets?

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What?

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Ricky Martin.

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No.

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Then pay.

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No.

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I won't let you steal him from me.

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He's mine. Do you hear me? He's mine.

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I found him.

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I billed him.

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And you can't steal him from me.

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I want that boy.

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No.

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I love him like a brother.

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Not you swindle him on every fight.

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I won't give him up.

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Then you'll pay my collectors 32G.

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But it's a gambling that you can't collect.

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My collectors don't carry a summons.

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A barrel and 50 pounds of cement.

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All right Mr. Cripper.

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You leave me no arguments.

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And you've added greatly to my education.

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I don't think there's much I can teach you maestro.

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Only this time I'm out in front.

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I'll show you I'm a generous man.

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Honest John Cripper.

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Run an honest game and I make a square deal.

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50G for the boy.

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32 in tabs, 18 in cash.

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No beefs later.

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Thank you.

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I'm sure you'd be sensible about this maestro.

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I had the contract drawn up.

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Just put that impressive signature on the dotted line.

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May I use your pen?

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Sure.

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Thank you.

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There you are Mr. Cripper.

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Ricky Martin now belongs to me.

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Your pen writes very easily.

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You can keep it part of the deal.

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Thank you.

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I shall treasure it as the most expensive pen in the world.

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How soon will Ricky be back in town?

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I expect him in my office tomorrow.

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Good.

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You'll tell him he now belongs to Honest John Cripper.

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Yes I'll tell him.

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You know Mr. Cripper, I don't think Ricky Martin is going to like being owned by you.

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You just leave that worry to me maestro.

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I have a way of making people like me.

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Even if it kills them.

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Night for Suspense, Roma wines are bringing you the play called

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Of Maestro and Man.

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You have heard Peter Laurie in the prologue to this study in

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Suspense.

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And now for a moment, let's conjure up a scene of our own.

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Let's imagine ourselves in sun drenched Havana.

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Let's imagine that we're dining in the gay Club Momart.

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As you listen to the music, you put down your wine glass to tell our host how much you enjoy his hospitality.

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Part of the credit belongs to Cuba, he smilingly acknowledges, but part of the credit belongs also to your country.

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For producing this excellent wine which adds so much to our enjoyment.

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For this is Roma wine from California in your own USA.

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Now it is a fact that connoisseurs of many other lands know the excellence of Roma wines

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made in famous wineries located in the heart of the choice wine districts of California.

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But millions of Americans also know these things and have made Roma by far America's largest selling wine.

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Here at home, Roma wines are truly inexpensive, no duty, no overseas shipping costs to pay.

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And for only pennies a glass, your meals, your entertaining can have the added delight of superb Roma wines.

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You will find them a truly excellent flavor and character.

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Fine products of age-old winemaking skill perfected by modern quality controls and tests.

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Ask for R-O-M-A, Roma wines made in California for enjoyment throughout the world.

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And now it is with pleasure that we bring back to our sound stage Peter Laurie as the maestro

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and Richard Conte as Ricky Martin in A Maestro and Man.

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We'll well calculated to keep you in suspense.

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See Ricky hasn't come yet.

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Oh, oh no boss. I've been sitting here in your office like you told me but he ain't come and he ain't called.

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I don't understand it. I can't. His train arrived two hours ago and...

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Hello. Hello maestro, Sam.

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Ricky. Who have you?

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Maestro, this is Lynn Carter.

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How do you do?

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How do you do Miss Carter?

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And this is Sam Lynn. He was my trainer.

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Hello.

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Ricky has told me so much about you during the past two weeks that I feel like...

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You know how it is maestro. Out on a lake at night, the guy gets the rambling and...

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I found it all very colorful.

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Ricky, there's something I must tell you. Miss Carter will excuse us for it.

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But there's something I must tell you maestro.

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It's about Lynn and me. You see we...

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What is it Ricky?

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Well Lynn and me, we're gonna be married.

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Married?

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What?

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Yeah, we just will. When I met Lynn I... I don't know how to tell you this maestro.

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You know how I feel about you.

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Ricky, Ricky what are you trying to say? Tell me.

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It's just that I...

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Ricky is trying to tell you maestro that he's quitting the ring.

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Ricky's quitting the ring?

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Ricky quit?

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I must maestro. I'm going away with Lynn to South America. Her father owns a...

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He wants us to live down there. I'm going to wake for him.

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But Ricky... Ricky you can't. Not now. I just...

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I'm sorry maestro but don't make it tougher for me. You know I always wanted to quit.

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Always hated it. Now I have a good reason. We're taking a plane to Rio tonight.

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But you can't Ricky. You can't run out on me like this.

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I don't figure I'm running out on anybody.

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But you don't know what's happened Ricky. You can't quit. I sold you.

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What?

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To Crip.

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To Crip? To that? Why didn't you ask me first?

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I couldn't Ricky. I had to.

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Buying and selling me so much beef on the hoof is so much a pound.

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Buy me and sell me until I can't take any more punishment and there's no buyer.

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That's why I'm getting out. Lynn was right. Two, three years in the Crip stable.

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I'm a punching bag for the new boys. A gibbering idiot like poor Sam here.

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Who's that?

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I'm sorry Sam. I just... Don't call me. I'll kill you.

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Shut up Sam. So Lynn was right. I knew it was her fault.

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I knew it the minute she walked in here. Smelling of her perfume.

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Yes, it's all your fault. Why didn't you leave him alone?

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My fault.

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He's different from you. He's not your...

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Cut it.

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No, no. You like the way he looked in the sun in trunks. These muscles and that beautiful body.

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Cut it off.

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You, you just had to have him. You had to bring him back to show to your friends.

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Great catch. You, you scheming, conniving, five cent...

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Ricky, no. Sam, stop him. You'll kill him.

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Ricky.

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Ricky.

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Ricky.

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Ricky. Ricky, he's choking.

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All right. I'm all right now.

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Oh, Ricky. Ricky.

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I should have killed him for that. Come on, let's get out of here.

266
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Boss, you all right, boss?

267
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Yes, sir. I am.

268
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Well, he'll like to kill you then. Your face is a funny color.

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Come, Sam. Help me through the car, will you?

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Sure, boss. Sure.

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Hey, are you all right now, boys?

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Yes, sir. I'm all right now, Sam.

273
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You're a good boy, Sam.

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Sure. Sure, Sam's a good boy. Sam's no rat, but Ricky's a rat, huh? Huh, boss? Ricky's a rat.

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Sam, we... we must do something. Sam...

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Oh, sure, boss. That Ricky is a rat. He called me an idiot. I'll kill him, boss. Sam's a good boy.

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He don't like for Ricky to do the boss no hate. I'll kill him.

278
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No, no, no, no, no, no, Sam. Please, you must not get excited, Sam. We must think.

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Sure, boss. Let's think. Your lip is all with bleed, boy.

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Yes, you're a good boy. He called you an idiot, yes, but you're a good boy, Sam.

281
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I like when you pat me on the head like that, boy.

282
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We have a problem, Sam. Mr. Crip must not hear about Ricky quitting.

283
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Ricky quitting, boys?

284
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Something happened to Ricky. An accident. They happen every day, Sam.

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Oh, sure, accidents happen. When I was a little boy, it's true.

286
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I could go to Crip and say, it's a tragic thing, Mr. Crip. Fine boy like that. You're a boy, Mr. Crip.

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You were a $50,000 boy, Mr. Crip. It's a tragic thing, huh? Yes. Tragic finale to a promising career.

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Oh, yeah, boss. That would be some tragic, some... some finale, huh?

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It would be an accident, Sam. Mr. Crip must never be able to say it. You understand that, Sam?

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Sure, boy. When I was a little boy...

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Sam?

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Yeah, boys?

293
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Sam, in Lantern's gym. You know what a main steam valve for the steam room is?

294
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What, boys?

295
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The valve, Sam. The one that lets the life steam into the steam room.

296
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Oh, sure, boss. The gadget that the guy turns off and on the steam, right, huh?

297
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That's right, Sam.

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That's right, boys. It's under the stairs in the basement on the other side of the gym.

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You know, on the side where the pipe is.

300
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Yes, Sam, yes. Do you think you could get under the stairs into the basement?

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Oh, sure. Nobody cares if I go to the basement. Sometimes I go down...

302
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Yes, Sam. And do you think you could open the valve as wide as it'll go?

303
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Open the... for all the steam to go fast into the steam room?

304
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Yes, Sam.

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Oh, boy, that's some hot, all that steam, boys.

306
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You can't steam in there all that hot.

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The Jew was up the gym when poor Sharky got all the hot because the valve broke and the door was stuck.

308
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The Jew was there when they brung him out. Boy, that was some looking dead Sharky, all right?

309
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Yes, Sam. A very tragic accident.

310
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Some tragic, all right.

311
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Sam, come here. Take my watch. Can you read the time?

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Sure. What do you think? I'm a dumb...

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The little hand is on a two and the big hand is on a six.

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That's right.

315
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And that means a half past two, no?

316
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That's right, Sam. Now, look. When the little hand will be on a five, you see, and the big hand on a 12 here, it'll be...

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Five o'clock.

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That's right.

319
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You see, I'm no dumb. Five o'clock.

320
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Five o'clock, Sam, you must be in the basement at Langton's gym at a steam valve.

321
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And exactly five o'clock, Sam, you'll open the valve all the way.

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All the hot?

323
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Yes, Sam, all the hot.

324
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But you can't stay in... The Jew was up the gym one shot.

325
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Being a steam room, Sam, but Ricky will. Alone.

326
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Shortham Hotel.

327
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Ricky, Martin's apartment, please.

328
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One moment, please.

329
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Hello?

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Ricky? Hello, Ricky. This is...

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What do you want?

332
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Ricky, please, I don't know how to begin, but you've got... I've got to see you. There is so much I want to say to you.

333
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I'm sorry, maestro.

334
00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:35,000
Look, Ricky, please, just for a few minutes. Please, Ricky. Look, meet me at Langton's gymnasium, huh?

335
00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:40,000
Look, you have all your old boxing things in the locker room.

336
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I want you to give them to me. I want to keep them, Ricky, as a souvenir.

337
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Well, okay, maestro, just for a few minutes, though. I have to meet Linda at the airport at six.

338
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Oh, thank you, Ricky.

339
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Forget it. Meet you at Langton's in a half an hour.

340
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Fine. Goodbye, Ricky. You'll come.

341
00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:00,000
Ricky? And you'll get them in a steam room?

342
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Yes, Sam. Yes. I'll get him into the steam room. And I'll sit there with him and talk to him.

343
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And talk to him about this and about that. With a steam thick around us, hiding us from each other.

344
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And when I begin to feel the live heat, Sam, at five o'clock, Sam, at five o'clock, I'll be talking about old times.

345
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As I quietly slip out of the room and he'll be sitting there alone, thinking of old times.

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Not knowing I'm gone and that he's alone. Until it is too late.

347
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He will hear the sudden rush of steam and feel the scalding heat.

348
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And he'll run to the door, but it will not open.

349
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And he'll pound and scream in agony. But the door will stick.

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And his scream will draw burning steam into his lungs. And then they'll find him.

351
00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:07,000
But it'll be too late.

352
00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:11,000
Too late. It will be too late.

353
00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:30,000
Oh, hello, Ricky. Hello. I'm so glad you came. See, I was just going to take my steam bath.

354
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I had to wait until Lynn called me. I told her to meet us at the airport at six.

355
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Oh, good, good, good. Come, Ricky, let's go to the locker room, huh?

356
00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:42,000
Look, here is your old locker, Ricky. You have the key?

357
00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:44,000
Yes. Here, you open it.

358
00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:49,000
Thank you. But first, Ricky, please, I want to tell you how I feel.

359
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I've been so miserable because you should have killed me, Ricky.

360
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Maestro.

361
00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:59,000
Yes, Ricky, I deserved it. You see, I wasn't myself. You know that.

362
00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:02,000
Let's forget it, Maestro. Go ahead, open the locker.

363
00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:12,000
Thank you. See? Look. Your punching bag. Look, your trunks. Your gloves.

364
00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:18,000
And here, look here, Ricky, this pair. This pair you wore the night you beat Kit Foy.

365
00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:24,000
Wasn't that a fight, Ricky? How can we ever forget the third round?

366
00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:30,000
Remember what the newspaper said? Every word is burned into my memory.

367
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Last night, a new star of the ring was born. Ricky Martin. Sensational new welter.

368
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Cut it, Maestro. Here, sir. I'm sorry, Ricky. I know how you feel.

369
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Ricky, Ricky, are you sure? Isn't there one chance that you'll change your mind?

370
00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:55,000
No, Maestro. Not a prayer. What time is it?

371
00:20:55,000 --> 00:21:01,000
It's only about quarter to five. Come on, Ricky, don't you want to have your last team with the old Maestro?

372
00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:02,000
Well, I...

373
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Come.

374
00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:06,000
Well, okay, but remember, old Maestro, five o'clock's my deadline.

375
00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:09,000
Well, Ricky, that I guarantee you.

376
00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:12,000
Say, who's the runner this time of the day?

377
00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:14,000
Oh, you.

378
00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:16,000
Sam, I wanted to tell you how sorry I am.

379
00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:21,000
Oh, sure, I'm sorry, all right. Call me an idiot. Put on a boss of slugs.

380
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Come on, get going.

381
00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:26,000
Oh, boy, sure gonna be some hot sorry, all right.

382
00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,000
Sam, stop mumbling. Get going.

383
00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:30,000
Some hot tragic finale, all right.

384
00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:32,000
Get going.

385
00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:37,000
Oh, that poor guy. See, Maestro, that's why I'm getting out now.

386
00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:41,000
I don't want to look like that in five years. Here's your towel, Ricky.

387
00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:42,000
Are you ready?

388
00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:45,000
Yeah. I'm ready.

389
00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:47,000
How much time we got?

390
00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:53,000
Oh, it's just a couple of minutes before five. It's time for a quick steam and a shower, and then we meet Lynn.

391
00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:56,000
Okay.

392
00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:59,000
Ah, good old steam room.

393
00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,000
It really got that steam up today.

394
00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:03,000
Yeah, it's so thick you can't see your hand in front of you.

395
00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,000
Yeah, but it's good for you.

396
00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:10,000
Come on here. Feel your way over here, Ricky. Come sit here with me on a second chance.

397
00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:11,000
Here.

398
00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:13,000
Yeah, that's right.

399
00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:18,000
Just keep your head down and your eyes closed and relax like me.

400
00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:21,000
Yes. This feels fine.

401
00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:23,000
Yes.

402
00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:26,000
You'll begin to feel even better later.

403
00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:32,000
Tell me, Ricky. Tell me how you met Lynn.

404
00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:36,000
Well, she was staying at the same hotel with her mother and father.

405
00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:40,000
He came up on business. A right guy, Maestro. You'd like him.

406
00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:43,000
Yes, I'm sure I would.

407
00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:50,000
One night I just found myself dancing with her. I don't know yet how it happened, but there we were.

408
00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:55,000
And after that, well, it seemed like there was nobody else in the world but we two.

409
00:22:55,000 --> 00:23:01,000
I don't know, Maestro, but suddenly I realized that what I wanted most in the world was right there.

410
00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:08,000
Something I can't remember having. Something I wanted all the time and with all my heart.

411
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:14,000
I'm tired of hotel rooms and training camps and fight talk and knowing there's nothing to come home to.

412
00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:18,000
I love Lynn. I love her family. They love me.

413
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:23,000
That's all there is, Maestro. I guess that's the crop for any man.

414
00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:27,000
Hey, it's getting kind of hot, Maestro.

415
00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:31,000
Remember, Ricky, remember the day we first met?

416
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:36,000
Maestro, the steam is getting a little too much.

417
00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:40,000
Remember, it was backstage at the Met.

418
00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:43,000
He wanted to be a ballet dancer.

419
00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:47,000
I must laugh when I think of those days.

420
00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:54,000
You had muscle and you had grace and you had power, but you didn't know what to do with them.

421
00:23:54,000 --> 00:24:01,000
And I, I showed you. Not ballet. Years of sacrifice.

422
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:09,000
For what? I found you and I found the ring and I brought the two of you together.

423
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:12,000
One year you were near the top.

424
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:17,000
Yes, it was a long year, Ricky, but we went through it together.

425
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:26,000
Yes, I can't help feeling that your leaving is almost a tragic finale to a brilliant ring career.

426
00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:27,000
What?

427
00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:31,000
Yes, a tragic finale.

428
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:38,000
And then we got your first fight in New York.

429
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:41,000
How nervous you were.

430
00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,000
Your New York debut.

431
00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:50,000
Not at the Met to the music of, of Offenbach's Gaiete, Parisienne, no.

432
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:57,000
But at the Madison Square Garden to the roar of 15,000 trolls.

433
00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:04,000
And do you remember the last thing you said to me before you went into the ring?

434
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:07,000
Remember?

435
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:11,000
Hey, Ricky.

436
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:16,000
Ricky, where are you?

437
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:21,000
Ricky, where are you, Ricky?

438
00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:25,000
Ricky. Ricky.

439
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:30,000
Ricky, don't leave me here, Ricky.

440
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:36,000
Ricky, come back. Please come back, Ricky.

441
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:41,000
Open the door. Ricky.

442
00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:44,000
Don't leave me. Ricky.

443
00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:49,000
Ricky. Ricky. My, my life.

444
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,000
Ricky.

445
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:55,000
Ricky.

446
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:16,000
Attention please. Attention please. Will Colonel Joy please go to the reservation desk.

447
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:21,000
Colonel Joy. Attention please. Flight 17, Clipper to Rio, ready.

448
00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:28,000
Flight 17, ready. Mr. Gluskin, Miss Thompson, Captain J. Stevens, Mr. and Mrs. Ricky Martin.

449
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,000
Flight 17, board please.

450
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:33,000
Ricky. Ricky, here, hurry.

451
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:35,000
Hello, darling. Sorry I'm late.

452
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:37,000
Come on, we've only got, where's the maestro?

453
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:41,000
The maestro? I left him in the steam room at the gym.

454
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:46,000
Slipped out on a night. I couldn't take it. Poor guy's all broken up.

455
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:51,000
It feels like it's, well, what he'd call a tragic finale.

456
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:54,000
Mr. and Mrs. Ricky Martin, board Flight 17, please.

457
00:26:54,000 --> 00:27:14,000
Come on, darling, let's go.

458
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:24,000
And so closes up Maestro and Man, starring Peter Lorre with Richard Conte, Knight's Tale of Suspense.

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