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02:56.200 --> 02:57.200 Me? 02:57.200 --> 02:59.560 Why, why nothing, nothing at all. 02:59.560 --> 03:00.720 You've been following me. 03:00.720 --> 03:02.760 Oh no, I haven't been following you. 03:02.760 --> 03:05.040 What are you looking at me that way for? 03:05.040 --> 03:09.040 What are you looking at me and smiling that way for? 03:09.040 --> 03:11.200 I just smile at everybody, lady. 03:11.200 --> 03:13.720 Go away, don't come near me. 03:13.720 --> 03:14.720 Shut up. 03:14.720 --> 03:15.720 Hey. 03:15.720 --> 03:24.400 Shut up. 03:24.400 --> 03:27.680 That was when the cop grabbed me and they threw me into jail just because she lied about 03:27.680 --> 03:28.680 me. 03:28.680 --> 03:29.680 She said I was bothering her. 03:29.680 --> 03:30.680 She said I hit her. 03:30.680 --> 03:32.960 She said I was staring at her. 03:32.960 --> 03:35.680 She said I was following her, probably going to rob her. 03:35.680 --> 03:38.820 And they all believed it too. 03:38.820 --> 03:43.720 They didn't say so, but they were all thinking about those women that got killed lately. 03:43.720 --> 03:45.560 I know. 03:45.560 --> 03:50.480 So they believed the woman and about my hands. 03:50.480 --> 03:52.800 They didn't believe that either. 03:52.800 --> 03:58.680 They thought I was funny about my hands, about hands nobody understands. 03:58.680 --> 03:59.680 Nobody. 03:59.680 --> 04:04.760 The defendant will rise. 04:04.760 --> 04:10.560 Gerald Smythe, do you have anything to say before this court pronounces sentence? 04:10.560 --> 04:12.240 Well, I'm a decent man, Judge. 04:12.240 --> 04:13.240 I got a job. 04:13.240 --> 04:15.240 I'm a decent working man. 04:15.240 --> 04:16.240 I didn't follow her. 04:16.240 --> 04:17.240 I didn't hit her. 04:17.240 --> 04:18.800 I didn't do anything she says. 04:18.800 --> 04:21.120 The jury has disagreed with you, Mr. Smythe. 04:21.120 --> 04:23.240 You say you have a job? 04:23.240 --> 04:24.240 Yes, sir. 04:24.240 --> 04:25.360 What kind of a job? 04:25.360 --> 04:26.360 I'm a dishwasher. 04:26.360 --> 04:27.360 Dishwasher, huh? 04:27.360 --> 04:29.360 Let me see your hands. 04:29.360 --> 04:30.360 Oh, sure. 04:30.360 --> 04:32.000 Oh, they're nice. 04:32.000 --> 04:33.160 I keep them that way. 04:33.160 --> 04:35.160 Order, please, order. 04:35.160 --> 04:38.160 Yes, I see. 04:38.160 --> 04:40.400 They're long and smooth and white. 04:40.400 --> 04:42.080 I keep them this way. 04:42.080 --> 04:45.760 Mr. Smythe, you will find that lying does not help you in this court. 04:45.760 --> 04:49.520 Your hands may be indeed are everything you say, but they are certainly not the hands 04:49.520 --> 04:52.120 of a working man, least of all a dishwasher. 04:52.120 --> 05:04.480 I sentence you to two years and six months in the county prison. 05:04.480 --> 05:05.680 I didn't blame the judge. 05:05.680 --> 05:10.440 I was there in the first place because of the woman, only because of her, and I worked 05:10.440 --> 05:14.520 out my time with my hands. 05:14.520 --> 05:18.720 My hands are still long, but they're not smooth. 05:18.720 --> 05:21.180 They're not white. 05:21.180 --> 05:32.680 They're not pretty anymore. 05:32.680 --> 05:41.360 It was November when I got out, cold, cold outside, and I was cold inside. 05:41.360 --> 05:46.800 I had no place to go except back to the Busy Bee Cafe in Curly. 05:46.800 --> 05:50.160 All the way back to town, I thought of Curly. 05:50.160 --> 05:51.880 His hands weren't like mine. 05:51.880 --> 05:55.000 They were short and stubby, but golly, they were good. 05:55.000 --> 05:57.040 The way he used them, I mean. 05:57.040 --> 06:01.160 Whatever he was doing, slapping pie dough or handling a side of beef or choking the 06:01.160 --> 06:04.080 life out of a chicken, he was purely good. 06:04.080 --> 06:09.680 I walked into the kitchen, and there he was working. 06:09.680 --> 06:13.080 He didn't see me because I was behind him, but after a while he must have felt me because 06:13.080 --> 06:15.480 he jumped like he was shot. 06:15.480 --> 06:16.480 What do you want? 06:16.480 --> 06:17.480 I want my job back. 06:17.480 --> 06:18.480 What you j-? 06:18.480 --> 06:19.480 Smiley. 06:19.480 --> 06:20.480 Smiley. 06:20.480 --> 06:21.480 Smiley. 06:21.480 --> 06:22.680 Good Lord, man, I didn't know- 06:22.680 --> 06:24.600 Yeah, Curly, it's me. 06:24.600 --> 06:25.600 How about that job? 06:25.600 --> 06:29.160 Hey, you remember you ran out on me once. 06:29.160 --> 06:30.720 Yeah, I drew a blank. 06:30.720 --> 06:33.880 Yeah, yeah, you should do a big one. 06:33.880 --> 06:35.240 You look different somehow. 06:35.240 --> 06:37.240 Wait a minute. 06:37.240 --> 06:40.880 Your face, your eyes, they changed, Smiley. 06:40.880 --> 06:41.880 Well, what did you do? 06:41.880 --> 06:43.080 Quit laughing. 06:43.080 --> 06:45.120 You might say that. 06:45.120 --> 06:47.120 You purely might. 06:47.120 --> 06:48.760 I changed. 06:48.760 --> 06:49.760 My hands, too. 06:49.760 --> 06:50.760 See? 06:50.760 --> 06:51.760 They're better, huh? 06:51.760 --> 06:54.240 Yeah, they're not the same either. 06:54.240 --> 06:58.280 Hey, remember how you used to ride me about that hot water, and how I even bought rubber 06:58.280 --> 06:59.280 gloves once? 06:59.280 --> 07:02.280 Well, look. 07:02.280 --> 07:03.280 Look, Curly. 07:03.280 --> 07:04.280 Hot water. 07:04.280 --> 07:05.280 Now, that's hot. 07:05.280 --> 07:06.280 Now, watch. 07:06.280 --> 07:07.280 You fool, that's pure steam. 07:07.280 --> 07:09.360 Now, what are you trying to do, kid yourself? 07:09.360 --> 07:15.320 I'm just proving I'll keep the water hot. 07:15.320 --> 07:17.000 I don't need to worry about my hands now. 07:17.000 --> 07:20.240 Yeah, well, look, you better have something to eat, huh? 07:20.240 --> 07:22.240 We'll talk about hot water later. 07:22.240 --> 07:24.240 Say, Curly, where is it? 07:24.240 --> 07:26.920 Well, well, well, laughing boy is back. 07:26.920 --> 07:28.600 Where you been, honey? 07:28.600 --> 07:29.600 Off on the bum? 07:29.600 --> 07:32.600 What's the matter with your happy friend, Curly? 07:32.600 --> 07:36.240 One of us hateful women taking over the high road. 07:36.240 --> 07:39.680 Why don't you say something, one of you? 07:39.680 --> 07:41.280 Smiley don't feel good cooking. 07:41.280 --> 07:42.600 Now, you better get back in front. 07:42.600 --> 07:43.600 We might get a customer. 07:43.600 --> 07:44.600 You don't want me around. 07:44.600 --> 07:45.600 That's all right with me. 07:45.600 --> 07:48.520 Smiley, what's with you? 07:48.520 --> 07:50.360 You haven't changed that much, have you? 07:50.360 --> 07:51.800 You and Cookie used to be... 07:51.800 --> 07:53.160 She reminds me of a dame. 07:53.160 --> 07:54.160 Well, why not? 07:54.160 --> 07:55.160 She is a dame. 07:55.160 --> 07:57.760 I've been in jail, Curly. 07:57.760 --> 07:58.760 Oh? 07:58.760 --> 08:00.880 A dame sent me there. 08:00.880 --> 08:02.120 Yeah? 08:02.120 --> 08:04.760 I don't like dames, Curly. 08:04.760 --> 08:09.440 I don't like dames. 08:09.440 --> 08:16.880 I tried to tell him about it, but I knew I couldn't make him understand. 08:16.880 --> 08:19.160 Still, I couldn't get it out of my mind. 08:19.160 --> 08:23.360 It was still there while I was talking to him, while he was taking me up to his rooms 08:23.360 --> 08:24.560 to show me where I could stay. 08:24.560 --> 08:26.760 All the time, it was there for good now. 08:26.760 --> 08:28.760 I knew that. 08:28.760 --> 08:32.920 Well, here we are, fella. 08:32.920 --> 08:34.140 Home. 08:34.140 --> 08:36.640 And there's the extra bed I was telling you about. 08:36.640 --> 08:40.280 Yeah, be it ever, so humble, this is it. 08:40.280 --> 08:44.040 Ah, look, shit, look, you've had a rough ride, sure. 08:44.040 --> 08:47.400 Now, you stay here with me as long as you want. 08:47.400 --> 08:49.520 Get some rest, then we start fresh, huh? 08:49.520 --> 08:51.800 Hey, maybe you want to be a fry cook now. 08:51.800 --> 08:52.800 Oh, thanks. 08:52.800 --> 08:57.120 Hey, maybe if you could teach me to use your hands, I mean, the way you do, I mean, maybe 08:57.120 --> 08:58.680 I can learn to use them right. 08:58.680 --> 09:00.240 Yeah, you betcha. 09:00.240 --> 09:03.320 Look, you forget what's happened and we get to work. 09:03.320 --> 09:04.320 Check. 09:04.320 --> 09:05.520 It's all over. 09:05.520 --> 09:09.280 Maybe it is and maybe it isn't. 09:09.280 --> 09:12.120 Look here, out there on the street. 09:12.120 --> 09:14.880 Well, look, kid, this housing pitch is rough. 09:14.880 --> 09:17.920 If you're looking for scenery, you ain't going to get it here. 09:17.920 --> 09:18.920 What do you see out there? 09:18.920 --> 09:23.480 Eh, a view that's worth just about one-tenth what I paid for it. 09:23.480 --> 09:24.480 It stinks. 09:24.480 --> 09:27.120 I don't mean that. 09:27.120 --> 09:28.720 You see that, Dean? 09:28.720 --> 09:29.720 Yeah. 09:29.720 --> 09:32.520 You know something about her, Curly? 09:32.520 --> 09:33.760 She could get dead. 09:33.760 --> 09:34.760 Huh? 09:34.760 --> 09:38.400 There's maybe a thousand windows around here and a bullet from any one of them would get 09:38.400 --> 09:39.400 her dead. 09:39.400 --> 09:42.160 And it'd be pretty hard to find out who did it. 09:42.160 --> 09:46.120 Yeah, now look, kid, you don't like women and I don't blame you, but you can't go around 09:46.120 --> 09:48.280 putting slugs in people. 09:48.280 --> 09:49.280 Even dames are. 09:49.280 --> 09:52.840 That'd pay off like keeping your water too cool did. 09:52.840 --> 09:56.240 Only you'd get more than any two and a half years. 09:56.240 --> 09:57.240 Yeah. 09:57.240 --> 10:05.680 But all I'd have to do is raise the window, aim, and a dead dame. 10:05.680 --> 10:08.720 Get away from that window. 10:08.720 --> 10:10.880 I don't know about you. 10:10.880 --> 10:12.840 I just don't know. 10:12.840 --> 10:14.120 What's the matter with you smiling? 10:14.120 --> 10:15.120 I told you. 10:15.120 --> 10:22.920 I just don't like dames. 10:22.920 --> 10:25.640 Curly's face was as white as a clean apron. 10:25.640 --> 10:29.400 He was mad a little and scared, but I still couldn't explain to him what it took me two 10:29.400 --> 10:33.360 and a half years to figure that a man works hard. 10:33.360 --> 10:35.640 And when he works, he's got some pay coming. 10:35.640 --> 10:39.040 All the time I was in jail, I knew I wasn't about to get a nickel for all the work of 10:39.040 --> 10:41.520 digging and shoveling and laying concrete. 10:41.520 --> 10:47.840 And the one thing I was proud of was room, my hands. 10:47.840 --> 10:51.760 And I figured to collect some pay for that work if it was the last thing I ever did. 10:51.760 --> 10:54.480 And I figured it out good. 10:54.480 --> 10:57.160 Guess what the pay ought to be. 10:57.160 --> 11:04.960 One woman, one dead dame. 11:04.960 --> 11:06.480 I couldn't explain it to Curly. 11:06.480 --> 11:08.960 I guess I didn't have to. 11:08.960 --> 11:10.520 He thought I was nuts. 11:10.520 --> 11:14.200 Anyway, he drove me like a slave, but I didn't mind. 11:14.200 --> 11:15.200 I was learning. 11:15.200 --> 11:16.200 Let's see now. 11:16.200 --> 11:17.200 Two apple, one peach. 11:17.200 --> 11:18.200 Better make it two. 11:18.200 --> 11:19.200 Two coconut, one chocolate. 11:19.200 --> 11:26.560 Ah, well, what we got that ought to hold them. 11:26.560 --> 11:27.560 How many of those peaches, Smiley? 11:27.560 --> 11:28.560 Oh, sure, Curly. 11:28.560 --> 11:29.560 Here you are. 11:29.560 --> 11:30.560 Yeah, thanks. 11:30.560 --> 11:31.560 Boy, oh, boy. 11:31.560 --> 11:32.560 Gee, Curly, the way you handle things. 11:32.560 --> 11:33.560 What do you mean? 11:33.560 --> 11:41.600 Well, the way you pour fruit from that can and the way you're putting the rim on that 11:41.600 --> 11:44.480 pie crust and the way you knead the dough and... 11:44.480 --> 11:47.000 Oh, you know how to use your hands. 11:47.000 --> 11:51.840 Hey, Smiley, listen, your hands are the most important things you got in the kitchen. 11:51.840 --> 11:56.000 You've got to learn to squeeze hard and you've got to know just when to use the most delicate 11:56.000 --> 11:57.000 touch. 11:57.000 --> 11:58.000 Hands are important. 11:58.000 --> 12:02.480 Oh, I wish I could use mine the way you use yours, Curly. 12:02.480 --> 12:03.480 You're good. 12:03.480 --> 12:08.000 Yeah, well, it takes a long time, Smiley, but you'll learn. 12:08.000 --> 12:10.000 Your hands got strong when you were up there. 12:10.000 --> 12:13.000 Yeah, what I mean is you'll learn how to use them, kid. 12:13.000 --> 12:14.000 Yeah. 12:14.000 --> 12:16.600 I can get along all right, only... 12:16.600 --> 12:17.600 Only what? 12:17.600 --> 12:18.600 Cookie. 12:18.600 --> 12:20.760 Oh, you're letting that dame get you down? 12:20.760 --> 12:22.200 Oh, forget it. 12:22.200 --> 12:23.720 I wish she was gone, Curly. 12:23.720 --> 12:24.720 I'm afraid. 12:24.720 --> 12:25.720 Good morning, gentlemen. 12:25.720 --> 12:26.720 The world can now be fed. 12:26.720 --> 12:27.720 Lovely Cookie has arrived. 12:27.720 --> 12:28.720 Yeah, fine. 12:28.720 --> 12:32.520 Well, you better get that front end lined up, chicken. 12:32.520 --> 12:33.520 It's time to open. 12:33.520 --> 12:34.520 Sure. 12:34.520 --> 12:35.520 Oh, Smiley, honey. 12:35.520 --> 12:38.520 Smiley, say hello to the pretty lady. 12:38.520 --> 12:39.520 Beat it. 12:39.520 --> 12:40.520 Smiley. 12:40.520 --> 12:41.520 Okay, Cookie, take off. 12:41.520 --> 12:44.520 Oh, Curly, Smiley didn't say good morning. 12:44.520 --> 12:45.520 My day will be ruined. 12:45.520 --> 12:46.520 Oh, nuts. 12:46.520 --> 12:47.520 Brother, ain't that a whip? 12:47.520 --> 12:48.520 Hey, Cookie, why don't you leave the kid alone? 12:48.520 --> 12:49.520 He's had a tough time. 12:49.520 --> 12:50.520 He doesn't feel good. 12:50.520 --> 12:51.520 Well, why doesn't he smile anymore? 12:51.520 --> 12:52.520 That's all. 12:52.520 --> 12:53.520 Just let him smile. 12:53.520 --> 12:54.520 Well, the last time he smiled, the dame, he picked up a fistful of stretch at the county 12:54.520 --> 12:55.520 farm. 12:55.520 --> 12:56.520 Now, you remind him of her. 12:56.520 --> 12:57.520 He quit smiling. 12:57.520 --> 12:58.520 Oh, is that so? 12:58.520 --> 12:59.520 Well, I'm used to being treated like a human, see? 12:59.520 --> 13:00.520 And just because a guy's nuts... 13:00.520 --> 13:01.520 All right, all right, Cookie, get to work. 13:01.520 --> 13:02.520 Okay, but you just remember, one of these days we're gonna have a showdown and it'll 13:02.520 --> 13:03.520 be either him or her. 13:03.520 --> 13:04.520 Okay, but you just remember, one of these days we're gonna have a showdown and it'll 13:04.520 --> 13:05.520 be either him or her. 13:05.520 --> 13:16.520 Take it easy. 13:16.520 --> 13:26.360 You just remember, someday it'll be him or me. 13:26.360 --> 13:28.560 I heard what Cookie said. 13:28.560 --> 13:31.720 I stood right outside the door and heard her. 13:31.720 --> 13:34.160 Someday it'll be him or me. 13:34.160 --> 13:37.880 There was a weight like a two-story building in my stomach and my hands were going open 13:37.880 --> 13:39.880 and shut, open and shut. 13:39.880 --> 13:43.160 And I knew she was right. 13:43.160 --> 13:48.160 Me or her. 13:48.160 --> 13:59.880 For Suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you Donald O'Connor in Smiley. 13:59.880 --> 14:09.640 Roma Wines presentation tonight in Radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 14:09.640 --> 14:18.800 Suspense, Radio's outstanding theater of thrills is presented by Roma. 14:18.800 --> 14:27.640 That's R-O-M-A, Roma Wines, from the world's greatest reserves of fine wines. 14:27.640 --> 14:31.720 Have you ever thought how easy it is to turn a casual call by friends or neighbors into 14:31.720 --> 14:34.120 a delightful party? 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16:37.360 --> 16:42.160 I'm just squeezing mashed potatoes out of this bag, making designs like you do on cakes. 16:42.160 --> 16:43.840 That's great, great. 16:43.840 --> 16:46.680 What kind of design do you call that? 16:46.680 --> 16:48.720 It's just a hand, I guess. 16:48.720 --> 16:49.720 Hand? 16:49.720 --> 16:51.920 Oh, brother, that hand couldn't do much. 16:51.920 --> 16:54.080 Look how fat you got it up at the thumb. 16:54.080 --> 16:56.880 That I guess I squeezed too hard. 16:56.880 --> 16:59.960 Smiley, you'll be all right, kid. 16:59.960 --> 17:00.960 You stay with it. 17:00.960 --> 17:01.960 Well, laughing boys growing up. 17:01.960 --> 17:06.000 This little Smiley is going to be a pastry cook. 17:06.000 --> 17:07.640 Lay off the kid, Cookie. 17:07.640 --> 17:08.640 Lay off. 17:08.640 --> 17:09.640 I told you. 17:09.640 --> 17:10.640 I know, Curly, I know when I told you. 17:10.640 --> 17:11.960 Let the boy take care of himself. 17:11.960 --> 17:13.560 Yeah, Curly, take it easy. 17:13.560 --> 17:14.560 It's all right now. 17:14.560 --> 17:17.160 Well, how do you like that? 17:17.160 --> 17:18.160 It's all right. 17:18.160 --> 17:22.520 Gee, are we going to be friends now, Smiley? 17:22.520 --> 17:24.380 We can try. 17:24.380 --> 17:26.160 How do you like this design, Cookie? 17:26.160 --> 17:27.160 That? 17:27.160 --> 17:28.160 Oh, well, it's okay. 17:28.160 --> 17:29.160 What is it? 17:29.160 --> 17:30.160 It's a hand. 17:30.160 --> 17:31.160 A hand? 17:31.160 --> 17:33.160 Yeah, a hand, he calls it. 17:33.160 --> 17:34.160 Oh, sure. 17:34.160 --> 17:36.160 See, these are the fingers here. 17:36.160 --> 17:38.160 They're awful long for fingers. 17:38.160 --> 17:40.160 Oh, I don't know. 17:40.160 --> 17:42.160 See, look at my hand. 17:42.160 --> 17:44.160 My fingers are long. 17:44.160 --> 17:46.160 Yeah, yeah, they are. 17:46.160 --> 17:48.160 It's just that you don't notice. 17:48.160 --> 17:51.160 People don't notice dishwasher's hands. 17:51.160 --> 17:54.160 That's why I'm going to be a fry cook and a pastry cook. 17:54.160 --> 17:58.160 Then they won't be cracked and dirty like they are now. 17:58.160 --> 18:02.160 They'll stay soft and strong too as soon as I get to be a cook. 18:02.160 --> 18:04.160 Sure, sure they will, Smiley. 18:04.160 --> 18:09.160 Well, now that you two are very lovey-dovey, how about breaking it up, huh? 18:09.160 --> 18:10.160 I want to get home. 18:10.160 --> 18:13.160 You mean you really go home when you're through here? 18:13.160 --> 18:14.160 Of course I go home. 18:14.160 --> 18:15.160 Where do you go? 18:15.160 --> 18:17.160 Oh, lots of places. 18:17.160 --> 18:22.160 Tonight I got a date with Johnny Mac, the singing sensation out at the Natural Pass. 18:22.160 --> 18:24.160 I got to go out there and meet him. 18:24.160 --> 18:25.160 The Natural Pass? 18:25.160 --> 18:26.160 Yeah. 18:26.160 --> 18:29.160 That's the joint at 7-Eleven Greengrove. 18:29.160 --> 18:31.160 7-Eleven Natural Pass. 18:31.160 --> 18:32.160 I'll give you a... 18:32.160 --> 18:33.160 Get it? 18:33.160 --> 18:34.160 Yeah, yeah, get it. 18:34.160 --> 18:35.160 What kind of guy is he? 18:35.160 --> 18:36.160 You got to go to him. 18:36.160 --> 18:37.160 Oh, he's working. 18:37.160 --> 18:38.160 He can't come in here. 18:38.160 --> 18:39.160 He must have a peal. 18:39.160 --> 18:41.160 You ain't kidding, brother. 18:41.160 --> 18:43.160 How do you get out to this joint, you hitchhiker? 18:43.160 --> 18:44.160 You're kidding? 18:44.160 --> 18:49.160 I take a bus to the end of the line, call a cab from the drugstore and go on out. 18:49.160 --> 18:51.160 Class. 18:51.160 --> 18:53.160 How about that, Smiley, class? 18:53.160 --> 18:54.160 Yeah. 18:54.160 --> 18:56.160 I guess a crooner would rate it. 18:56.160 --> 18:57.160 Yeah, yeah. 18:57.160 --> 19:01.160 Well, you better get that front end cleaned up, Cookie, if you're going to meet this Johnny Songbird. 19:01.160 --> 19:03.160 I guess I better. 19:03.160 --> 19:06.160 Boy, on the day I quit slinging hash. 19:06.160 --> 19:08.160 Have a good time, Cookie. 19:08.160 --> 19:10.160 Have a good time. 19:15.160 --> 19:18.160 It would all depend on why you quit slinging hash. 19:18.160 --> 19:20.160 Being glad about it, I mean. 19:20.160 --> 19:26.160 When an idea puts a saddle on your brain and starts riding, and it's purely funny how many other ideas it picks up. 19:26.160 --> 19:29.160 Like Cookie going to the natural pass. 19:29.160 --> 19:31.160 It just fit in with everything. 19:31.160 --> 19:36.160 I quick finished my work and told Curly I had something to do and took off like a kid on the last day of school. 19:36.160 --> 19:39.160 You know, sort of slow until I got outside. 19:39.160 --> 19:44.160 And then I wanted to whoop and jump up and down like I had springs instead of muscles. 19:44.160 --> 19:48.160 I couldn't do all that, but I could walk fast, and I did. 19:48.160 --> 19:51.160 I went up to the room and got my money and changed clothes. 19:51.160 --> 19:56.160 And I went down and rented a car and drove out to the end of the bus line. 19:56.160 --> 19:58.160 I stopped and waited. 19:58.160 --> 20:04.160 I guess I waited an hour and a half watching all the buses hoping that that dame wouldn't cross me up. 20:04.160 --> 20:06.160 She didn't. 20:11.160 --> 20:13.160 Goodnight, honey. 20:13.160 --> 20:18.160 Goodnight. 20:20.160 --> 20:21.160 Cookie! 20:21.160 --> 20:22.160 Who is it? 20:22.160 --> 20:23.160 It's me, Smiley. 20:23.160 --> 20:26.160 Oh, what are you doing out here? 20:26.160 --> 20:31.160 Oh, I just wanted to get out of town for a while, so I rented a car. 20:31.160 --> 20:34.160 When I got out here, I remembered what you said about coming out. 20:34.160 --> 20:36.160 I thought I'd just wait for you. 20:36.160 --> 20:41.160 Oh, Smiley, honey, you've got more stalls than Santa Anita. 20:41.160 --> 20:43.160 You're a true planet, ain't you? 20:43.160 --> 20:46.160 You could be a sweet guy, you know that. 20:46.160 --> 20:49.160 Come on, I'll take you to the club. 20:49.160 --> 20:50.160 How far is it? 20:50.160 --> 20:51.160 About a mile and a half. 20:51.160 --> 20:53.160 Let's go. 20:57.160 --> 21:00.160 I guess you could be a sweet guy. 21:00.160 --> 21:03.160 I guess I added you up wrong. 21:03.160 --> 21:06.160 It's possible. 21:06.160 --> 21:08.160 You're a funny guy, Smiley. 21:08.160 --> 21:09.160 You think so? 21:09.160 --> 21:12.160 Yeah, I don't quite get you. 21:12.160 --> 21:13.160 You're making cracks again. 21:13.160 --> 21:15.160 No, I'm serious. Really, I am. 21:15.160 --> 21:19.160 You don't smile like you used to, and usually it seems to... 21:19.160 --> 21:22.160 Well, anyway, I didn't expect this from you. 21:22.160 --> 21:25.160 I lost the smile, I guess. Maybe for good. 21:25.160 --> 21:28.160 In the way you're always talking about your hands. 21:28.160 --> 21:29.160 What about my hands? 21:29.160 --> 21:32.160 You make like they're the most important things in the world. 21:32.160 --> 21:33.160 And they're not, is that it? 21:33.160 --> 21:37.160 Well, it's according to how you look at it, I guess. 21:37.160 --> 21:40.160 Now, look, Smiley, no passes. 21:40.160 --> 21:44.160 No, no passes. I wanted to hear this. You said... 21:44.160 --> 21:46.160 Why, I didn't say nothing just to touch your hands. 21:46.160 --> 21:49.160 I remember. You said they aren't important. 21:49.160 --> 21:52.160 Well, not exactly. They're kind of nice. 21:52.160 --> 21:54.160 They're form-good, if you know what I mean. 21:54.160 --> 21:57.160 But after all, they're just hands like anybody else's. 21:57.160 --> 21:59.160 No, uh-uh. They're good hands. 21:59.160 --> 22:02.160 And since I came back, I've learned how to use them right. 22:02.160 --> 22:04.160 Yeah, Smiley, yeah. 22:04.160 --> 22:08.160 They're more important things than hands. 22:08.160 --> 22:09.160 Yeah? 22:09.160 --> 22:13.160 Yeah. Women, for instance. 22:13.160 --> 22:16.160 Women. That's a laugh. 22:16.160 --> 22:19.160 Cookie, do you know why my hands are rough and red now? 22:19.160 --> 22:21.160 Do you know why I don't smile? Women. 22:21.160 --> 22:26.160 Oh, Smiley, I've been around. I know how you feel. 22:26.160 --> 22:30.160 Golly, if women aren't important, where are they? 22:30.160 --> 22:34.160 Cookie, there's only one way to find out if hands are more important, 22:34.160 --> 22:36.160 or if a woman is. 22:36.160 --> 22:39.160 You have to make the test, Cookie. 22:39.160 --> 22:40.160 What's more important? 22:40.160 --> 22:42.160 You said no passes, Smiley. 22:42.160 --> 22:46.160 I'm not passing, Cookie. I'm not passing. I mean this. 22:46.160 --> 22:53.160 Wait a minute. Take it easy. Smiley. Oh, Smiley. 22:53.160 --> 22:56.160 Women. Women. More important. 22:56.160 --> 23:00.160 I'll show you what's important. Women. 23:07.160 --> 23:12.160 Payday. For two years in jail, one dead day, the whole world changed. 23:12.160 --> 23:15.160 For a minute, my hands were going open and shut like this. 23:15.160 --> 23:18.160 My technique was perfect, absolutely perfect. 23:18.160 --> 23:21.160 They weren't satisfied with my hands, but they'd have to get used to it. 23:21.160 --> 23:26.160 All I wanted inside, like, was payday, and this was the day. 23:26.160 --> 23:28.160 I looked around to be sure no cars were coming. 23:28.160 --> 23:30.160 I took her out of the car and dragged her into the bushes, 23:30.160 --> 23:32.160 where she wouldn't be found for a while. 23:32.160 --> 23:38.160 I lifted her. I felt good, purely good, 23:38.160 --> 23:42.160 like I'd worked very hard for something and finally got paid. 23:42.160 --> 23:47.160 All debts were paid. Everybody, including Smiley, was even with the world. 23:47.160 --> 23:51.160 It was wonderful, just plain wonderful. 23:51.160 --> 23:53.160 The only thing was, I couldn't tell Curly, 23:53.160 --> 23:57.160 because even though he'd understood the technique part of it, 23:57.160 --> 24:01.160 the rest of it was something he wouldn't get. 24:01.160 --> 24:06.160 But could he have seen me use my hands, he'd have been proud. 24:06.160 --> 24:08.160 I know it. 24:08.160 --> 24:13.160 I took the car back to the U Drive, paid the man, collected my deposit, and went home. 24:13.160 --> 24:18.160 It was still early, and Curly was up. 24:18.160 --> 24:23.160 Oh, hi. Where'd you go, kid? 24:23.160 --> 24:27.160 Oh, just around. I got some fresh air. I didn't think you'd be up. 24:27.160 --> 24:30.160 Oh, sure. It ain't late. 24:30.160 --> 24:33.160 Maybe I'd better get to bed, though. Big day tomorrow. 24:33.160 --> 24:35.160 Okay, I'll be with you in a minute. 24:35.160 --> 24:37.160 Hey, you know, Smiley, I've been thinking. 24:37.160 --> 24:40.160 I've been thinking that you should maybe move over to this stove. 24:40.160 --> 24:43.160 Oh, swell. I won't have to work in hot water anymore. 24:43.160 --> 24:45.160 Is that? Oh, no, no, no. 24:45.160 --> 24:49.160 I'll get another pearl diver. You can come over with me. 24:49.160 --> 24:51.160 Hey, look at you. 24:51.160 --> 24:52.160 What's the matter with me? 24:52.160 --> 24:55.160 Oh, nothing. I just noticed you're making with the eyes again the way you used to. 24:55.160 --> 24:57.160 What happened, fella? 24:57.160 --> 25:01.160 I don't know. I didn't think about it. Why? 25:01.160 --> 25:03.160 Well, this is wonderful. Yeah. 25:03.160 --> 25:06.160 I'll bet Cookie will be surprised to see you. 25:06.160 --> 25:07.160 Cookie? 25:07.160 --> 25:12.160 Sure. One of her beefs is you don't smile. Danes don't like you to be grouchy. 25:12.160 --> 25:14.160 Wait till she sees you like this. Yeah. 25:14.160 --> 25:19.160 Who could that be this time of night? How do I know? 25:19.160 --> 25:23.160 Mr. Smithrift. Oh, you're here. Hello, Mr. Smith. 25:23.160 --> 25:24.160 Smythe, not Smith. 25:24.160 --> 25:28.160 I'm from the U Drive. When you brought the car back tonight, you left this pocketbook in it. 25:28.160 --> 25:31.160 Had 15 fish in it. Thought the lady might want it. 25:31.160 --> 25:34.160 Oh. Well, yeah. Thank you very much. 25:34.160 --> 25:37.160 Forget it. Come see us again. 25:37.160 --> 25:40.160 Hey, what's this? Are you a drive yet? A dame's purse. 25:40.160 --> 25:42.160 You were on the town, weren't you? 25:42.160 --> 25:45.160 Yeah, yeah. I guess so. I'll give it back tomorrow. 25:45.160 --> 25:48.160 Who is she? Do I know her? 25:48.160 --> 25:50.160 Just a dame. 25:50.160 --> 25:53.160 At least she could make you smile again. 25:53.160 --> 25:58.160 Oh, come on. I'll turn out the light next year. She'll sleep. 25:58.160 --> 26:01.160 Yes, Smythe. You're doing all right. 26:01.160 --> 26:04.160 You stick to your work and we'll make a real team. 26:04.160 --> 26:07.160 Remember the technique. Technique. 26:07.160 --> 26:09.160 Hey, Smythe, will you answer me something now? 26:09.160 --> 26:11.160 Sure, Curly. What is it? 26:11.160 --> 26:14.160 What happened to that crazy idea you had when you got out of the pokey? 26:14.160 --> 26:18.160 Remember you was telling me how you could put the blast on a dame? 26:18.160 --> 26:21.160 Hey, Smythe, look at me. Smythe, you didn't... 26:21.160 --> 26:24.160 Ah, that's crazy. 26:24.160 --> 26:25.160 What, Curly? 26:25.160 --> 26:30.160 I always said you had to be whacked up to get in the restaurant business. I'm just proving it. 26:30.160 --> 26:32.160 I thought for a minute you'd... 26:32.160 --> 26:35.160 Oh, I'm nuts. 26:35.160 --> 26:41.160 Oh, boy, this bed feels good. 26:41.160 --> 26:44.160 I really need to sleep. 26:44.160 --> 26:49.160 Imagine me thinking you'd be crazy enough to bump off a dame. 26:49.160 --> 26:51.160 Well, good night, Smythe. 26:51.160 --> 26:55.160 Good night, Curly. Good night. 26:55.160 --> 26:56.160 Good night, mate. 26:56.160 --> 26:57.160 Sweet dreams. 26:57.160 --> 26:59.160 Hey, what are you doing? 26:59.160 --> 27:02.160 Hey, Smythe, take your hands off my face. 27:02.160 --> 27:04.160 Stop it. 27:04.160 --> 27:06.160 Smythe, what are you... 27:06.160 --> 27:08.160 Smythe! 27:08.160 --> 27:10.160 I'm sorry. 27:17.160 --> 27:20.160 Oh, I didn't mean to do that. I hadn't planned on it at all. 27:20.160 --> 27:23.160 I didn't want to hurt Curly. He was my friend. 27:23.160 --> 27:25.160 We were going to go places together, him and me. 27:25.160 --> 27:29.160 I was learning his techniques, and then I got scared and did that. 27:29.160 --> 27:32.160 All on account of a woman. Every bit of it. 27:32.160 --> 27:34.160 It was a woman who started it. 27:34.160 --> 27:38.160 If it hadn't been for her, I wouldn't have had to show my hands to that judge, 27:38.160 --> 27:41.160 and he wouldn't have looked at them, and maybe he wouldn't have sent me up. 27:41.160 --> 27:46.160 My hands. Look at them. They're back in condition. 27:49.160 --> 27:53.160 I've had over six months to sit here and do nothing. 27:53.160 --> 27:57.160 Just watch Pop out there pace up and down. 27:57.160 --> 28:00.160 He's been keeping track of the days for me. 28:00.160 --> 28:02.160 He told me this morning, 28:02.160 --> 28:07.160 Two more days, son. Two more days. 28:07.160 --> 28:10.160 Just two more days. 28:10.160 --> 28:13.160 I wish it was longer. 28:13.160 --> 28:18.160 My hands are so pretty again, and now they're strong, 28:18.160 --> 28:21.160 and they've got a lot of technique. 28:21.160 --> 28:24.160 If I was out there, 28:24.160 --> 28:28.160 I would tell him what I could do with hands like these. 28:44.160 --> 28:46.160 Suspense! 28:46.160 --> 28:50.160 Smiley! Starring Donald O'Connor and brought to you by Roma Wines. 28:50.160 --> 28:57.160 That's R-O-M-A. Roma Wines. 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