WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:16.460 This is Robert Montgomery inviting you to join us for Love's Lovely Counterfeit, tonight's 00:16.460 --> 00:25.940 study in suspense. 00:25.940 --> 00:31.900 One hour of suspense, a full 60 minutes at this time, and with the distinguished actor 00:31.900 --> 00:35.240 director Mr. Robert Montgomery as your host. 00:35.240 --> 00:41.200 Tonight, our star in one of his rare radio appearances, Mr. James Cagney. 00:41.200 --> 00:44.080 Our author guest, Mr. James M. Cain. 00:44.080 --> 00:49.920 Our story, Mr. Cain's Love's Lovely Counterfeit, a suspense play produced, edited and directed 00:49.920 --> 00:56.720 by William Spear. 00:56.720 --> 00:59.360 Mr. Montgomery. 00:59.360 --> 01:05.760 Funny thing about a gun, nobody likes to have a gun pointed at him, and yet it gives you 01:05.760 --> 01:10.880 sort of a phony sense of power to hold one in your hand, to do the pointing. 01:10.880 --> 01:13.800 A gun itself is cold steel. 01:13.800 --> 01:19.680 Its message is written in hot lead, and the death it brings is cold again. 01:19.680 --> 01:23.560 I still don't know anyone who thinks a gun going off makes a pleasant sound. 01:23.560 --> 01:29.600 I suppose a lot depends on knowing why the guy who points it wants to fire it, and what 01:29.600 --> 01:31.920 kind of a gun it is. 01:31.920 --> 01:32.920 Guns have personalities. 01:32.920 --> 01:38.280 A fat blue revolver is a lot different character from the first slim rifle you get when you're 01:38.280 --> 01:39.280 a kid. 01:39.280 --> 01:44.400 You take a rifle like that, they look clean, they are clean. 01:44.400 --> 01:48.920 But did you ever take a good look at an automatic, a 45? 01:48.920 --> 01:51.640 Nothing healthy looking about those babies. 01:51.640 --> 01:52.960 Uh-uh. 01:52.960 --> 01:55.880 Something very final about an automatic. 01:55.880 --> 01:58.200 There for the tough boys. 01:58.200 --> 02:02.120 Probably you haven't known any tough boys personally, but you've read about them and 02:02.120 --> 02:06.760 heard about them, and high caliber actors like James Cagney have made them live for 02:06.760 --> 02:07.760 you on the screen. 02:07.760 --> 02:11.200 You want to know how it is to meet a tough boy? 02:11.200 --> 02:13.200 We've got one for you. 02:13.200 --> 02:19.160 He's Ben Grace, and Jim Cagney's portrayal of him tonight reflects an important ingredient 02:19.160 --> 02:21.100 of suspense. 02:21.100 --> 02:26.100 Because of the character as James M. Cain drew it, and because of the masterful interpretation 02:26.100 --> 02:28.040 you are about to hear. 02:28.040 --> 02:34.920 A respected actor and my friend, James Cagney as Ben Grace in Love's Lovely Counterfeit. 02:34.920 --> 02:52.840 I'm writing this lying in a nice clean bed with the sunlight coming in the window. 02:52.840 --> 02:57.440 And nothing to do but look out at the people walking along the streets and the kids playing 02:57.440 --> 02:58.960 in the park. 02:58.960 --> 03:02.560 And any little thing I want, all I have to do is ask. 03:02.560 --> 03:08.160 To a lot of poor guys nowadays, that probably sounds like the softest spot in the world. 03:08.160 --> 03:13.080 But with me, there are a couple of slight disadvantages. 03:13.080 --> 03:15.280 I think you'll see what I mean. 03:15.280 --> 03:20.400 How I got here, that begins when I went to work driving for Saul Casper. 03:20.400 --> 03:25.520 You haven't been in Lake City, chances are you've never even heard of Saul Casper. 03:25.520 --> 03:29.840 But Saul is the kind of a boy who would have got plenty of headlines if he'd operated in 03:29.840 --> 03:31.500 the big city. 03:31.500 --> 03:35.160 He had the bookies, dope, gambling, everything. 03:35.160 --> 03:39.400 And he owned the best commercial hotel in town as a front. 03:39.400 --> 03:44.120 The only trouble with Saul was he was mean and he was greedy. 03:44.120 --> 03:50.180 But I never had any real kick coming until that Friday morning last June that I'm going 03:50.180 --> 03:51.960 to tell you about. 03:51.960 --> 03:57.400 I got in a call and I went up to Saul's private office in the hotel. 03:57.400 --> 04:03.280 I knocked on the door and a minute the slot opened up and it was lefty gouse. 04:03.280 --> 04:06.400 Looking out through the slot to give me the once over. 04:06.400 --> 04:10.760 Oh, oh it's you, huh? 04:10.760 --> 04:15.680 Here, come on in. 04:15.680 --> 04:16.680 Saul here yet? 04:16.680 --> 04:18.480 No, no, not yet. 04:18.480 --> 04:20.520 He ought to be pretty soon though. 04:20.520 --> 04:21.840 What's he got on his mind? 04:21.840 --> 04:24.080 I wouldn't know, Ben. 04:24.080 --> 04:25.640 This is supposed to be my day off. 04:25.640 --> 04:28.880 Well, I hope you didn't make any heavy dates. 04:28.880 --> 04:32.720 Oh, so you don't know a thing about it, huh? 04:32.720 --> 04:35.720 Not enough to tell you, Ben. 04:35.720 --> 04:36.720 Okay. 04:36.720 --> 04:37.720 Hey. 04:37.720 --> 04:38.720 What's that? 04:38.720 --> 04:39.720 Oh, that must be those poor suckers the Citizens League have in the political parade. 04:39.720 --> 04:40.720 Yeah, there they are. 04:40.720 --> 04:41.720 You can see them through the window just coming into Main Street. 04:41.720 --> 04:42.720 Tell me about it. 04:42.720 --> 04:59.120 That must be Jansen, huh? 04:59.120 --> 05:00.760 The guy there running for mayor. 05:00.760 --> 05:02.560 Yeah, that's right. 05:02.560 --> 05:04.840 In the back seat of the big open packet. 05:04.840 --> 05:07.920 Oh, who's the doll riding with him? 05:07.920 --> 05:10.200 What's the matter, Ben? 05:10.200 --> 05:12.200 Don't you read the papers? 05:12.200 --> 05:13.200 Sure. 05:13.200 --> 05:15.360 I read a little, haven't I? 05:15.360 --> 05:16.360 Who's that, Daisy Mae? 05:16.360 --> 05:19.920 Her name is June Lyons. 05:19.920 --> 05:22.640 She's his new secretary or something. 05:22.640 --> 05:25.440 But everybody says she's the brains of his campaign. 05:25.440 --> 05:26.440 Yeah? 05:26.440 --> 05:28.960 I can use a little brains like that myself. 05:28.960 --> 05:32.160 No, no, not that kind you couldn't. 05:32.160 --> 05:34.360 Not that missionary kind. 05:34.360 --> 05:38.040 What, what about this Jansen? 05:38.040 --> 05:41.400 Ah, never chance. 05:41.400 --> 05:42.400 He's getting a lot of publicity. 05:42.400 --> 05:44.440 He must have some dough behind him. 05:44.440 --> 05:48.760 Ah, you can't elect a reform ticket in the town like this. 05:48.760 --> 05:51.360 The machine's too strong, Ben. 05:51.360 --> 05:57.400 Not unless you got some dirt, some real dirty dirt that stinks so bad people just can't ignore 05:57.400 --> 05:58.400 it. 05:58.400 --> 06:02.280 Then the machine boys can't put the pressure on. 06:02.280 --> 06:03.600 But otherwise... 06:03.600 --> 06:05.920 Everybody knows Saul is backing Maddox. 06:05.920 --> 06:07.920 Even brags about it in the papers. 06:07.920 --> 06:08.920 Yeah, sure. 06:08.920 --> 06:13.040 You can't forget anything on Saul with half the police force on his payroll. 06:13.040 --> 06:16.040 Saul isn't even worried, huh? 06:16.040 --> 06:17.720 Why should he be? 06:17.720 --> 06:26.400 Saul puts up the dough, Maddox wins again, and Saul keeps on running the town. 06:26.400 --> 06:29.760 Yeah. 06:29.760 --> 06:34.920 Yeah, that must be Saul now. 06:34.920 --> 06:36.920 Hi, Lipsy. 06:36.920 --> 06:38.480 Hi, Benny. 06:38.480 --> 06:39.720 You're as muscle-bound. 06:39.720 --> 06:41.800 How are those big broad shoulders, eh? 06:41.800 --> 06:43.840 I haven't built right into my suit. 06:43.840 --> 06:45.760 You ought to try that, Saul. 06:45.760 --> 06:47.080 Might make you look like a man. 06:47.080 --> 06:49.040 What's that crack supposed to mean? 06:49.040 --> 06:50.400 What's the matter, fellas? 06:50.400 --> 06:51.400 Can't you take a joke? 06:51.400 --> 06:54.400 Sure I can take a joke. 06:54.400 --> 06:55.400 So can I. 06:55.400 --> 06:57.920 What you got on this afternoon, Benny? 06:57.920 --> 06:58.920 I guess you forgot. 06:58.920 --> 06:59.920 This is my day off. 06:59.920 --> 07:03.320 I said what you got on this afternoon. 07:03.320 --> 07:04.880 Nothing that I can remember now. 07:04.880 --> 07:05.880 Why? 07:05.880 --> 07:07.260 A little job. 07:07.260 --> 07:08.260 What kind of a job? 07:08.260 --> 07:11.000 I got a tips and friends of mine may be in a little trouble. 07:11.000 --> 07:12.720 Something about a bank. 07:12.720 --> 07:14.920 Why don't you stick to the bookies and the gambling, Saul? 07:14.920 --> 07:15.920 You'll be safer. 07:15.920 --> 07:19.760 Listen, Benny, any time you think you're big enough to run this business, just let me know. 07:19.760 --> 07:22.200 I'll be glad to work something out for you. 07:22.200 --> 07:23.440 What's the job? 07:23.440 --> 07:27.960 These kids are going to crack the castle in First National just after closing time. 07:27.960 --> 07:28.960 It's loaded on Fridays. 07:28.960 --> 07:30.600 It ought to be a big haul. 07:30.600 --> 07:35.280 Hey, hey, they got a room here in this hotel, room 480. 07:35.280 --> 07:38.360 They'll be back here about 330. 07:38.360 --> 07:43.840 Now, you see, I own this hotel and I want you to go up and collect the room rent. 07:43.840 --> 07:48.920 I'm giving them pretty good protection, so I figure it'll come to about 20 grand. 07:48.920 --> 07:49.920 Yeah? 07:49.920 --> 07:53.080 Well, figure on some, getting somebody else to collect it. 07:53.080 --> 07:54.080 What? 07:54.080 --> 07:55.480 I said get somebody else. 07:55.480 --> 07:58.360 I don't like guns and I don't like guns and you know it. 07:58.360 --> 07:59.640 Listen, listen, you punk. 07:59.640 --> 08:01.680 You think you're a big guy, don't you? 08:01.680 --> 08:02.680 A big guy with muscles. 08:02.680 --> 08:04.240 And I'm just a little guy. 08:04.240 --> 08:05.240 That's what you think, isn't it? 08:05.240 --> 08:06.240 Isn't it? 08:06.240 --> 08:10.920 But if you try to cross me, I'll have you crawling me on your hands and knees. 08:10.920 --> 08:14.840 When I get through with you, you'll beg me to use a gun on you because you're yellow. 08:14.840 --> 08:16.840 Aren't you? 08:16.840 --> 08:18.920 Aren't you? 08:18.920 --> 08:20.920 What's the room number? 08:20.920 --> 08:21.920 480. 08:21.920 --> 08:24.920 Come on, Lifty. 08:24.920 --> 08:26.640 Okay. 08:26.640 --> 08:33.760 That was lousy, skipp it. 08:33.760 --> 08:36.480 You're gonna do it though, aren't you? 08:36.480 --> 08:37.480 Sure. 08:37.480 --> 08:38.480 I'll see you up there. 08:38.480 --> 08:39.480 315. 08:39.480 --> 08:43.400 By the way, why did you say that dame's name was? 08:43.400 --> 08:44.400 What dame? 08:44.400 --> 08:45.400 That dame with Janssen. 08:45.400 --> 08:47.520 That brains of the opposition. 08:47.520 --> 08:49.280 You mean June Lyons? 08:49.280 --> 08:50.280 Yeah, that's it. 08:50.280 --> 08:51.280 Now, now, wait a minute, Ben. 08:51.280 --> 08:52.280 Wait a minute. 08:52.280 --> 08:53.280 You know, that's poison. 08:53.280 --> 08:55.160 I've sorely even thought you had... 08:55.160 --> 08:58.960 You know, Lifty, Miss Lyons interests me in more ways than one. 08:58.960 --> 09:13.800 An election for mayor in a place like Lake City can be a pretty tight little situation, 09:13.800 --> 09:18.080 particularly if the town has been run for years by a mobster like Saul Casper. 09:18.080 --> 09:22.200 And I knew that with me working for Saul, playing around with the opposition wasn't 09:22.200 --> 09:24.520 exactly the healthiest pastime in the world. 09:24.520 --> 09:29.680 But when I saw that June Lyons doll that was running their campaign, there was something 09:29.680 --> 09:32.000 about her that gave me an idea. 09:32.000 --> 09:33.000 That's why I phoned her. 09:33.000 --> 09:36.640 And she said, okay. 09:36.640 --> 09:40.340 I met her at an instant section a little ways out from the main part of town. 09:40.340 --> 09:43.320 She described the car and given me the license number. 09:43.320 --> 09:47.600 She drove up as though she had stopped for the light, just like I had told her. 09:47.600 --> 09:50.920 I got in and the light changed. 09:50.920 --> 09:51.920 She drove on. 09:51.920 --> 09:54.320 For a minute we just sat there and nobody said anything. 09:54.320 --> 09:55.320 What then? 09:55.320 --> 10:00.720 The least I expected was a blue chin and a broken nose. 10:00.720 --> 10:01.720 You disappointed? 10:01.720 --> 10:04.720 A little. 10:04.720 --> 10:07.200 What's this hot tip you told me about over the phone? 10:07.200 --> 10:08.680 I don't have much time. 10:08.680 --> 10:09.680 What's the matter? 10:09.680 --> 10:10.680 You worried? 10:10.680 --> 10:11.680 Not particularly. 10:11.680 --> 10:13.680 You don't have to be. 10:13.680 --> 10:15.720 I'm not interested in you. 10:15.720 --> 10:18.320 Where are we going? 10:18.320 --> 10:21.120 Just keep driving around, but keep out of the main part of town. 10:21.120 --> 10:23.480 Is it as melodramatic as all that? 10:23.480 --> 10:26.640 It could be for me. 10:26.640 --> 10:28.480 Why do you want to see Jansen elected? 10:28.480 --> 10:29.480 I don't. 10:29.480 --> 10:30.480 Oh. 10:30.480 --> 10:32.200 Well, then why did... 10:32.200 --> 10:33.760 Suppose you let me ask the question. 10:33.760 --> 10:34.760 All right. 10:34.760 --> 10:36.600 I'll ask you the same one. 10:36.600 --> 10:39.640 Why are you working for Jansen? 10:39.640 --> 10:43.040 I'm just one of those crazy idealists, I guess. 10:43.040 --> 10:44.040 Just a missionary, huh? 10:44.040 --> 10:47.920 Well, Jansen may not be the best man in the world, but at least he isn't hooked up with 10:47.920 --> 10:50.840 a racketeer like Saul Casper. 10:50.840 --> 10:52.840 The way Maddox is. 10:52.840 --> 10:55.800 Oh, it's June now, is it? 10:55.800 --> 10:56.800 What's your name? 10:56.800 --> 10:59.520 Maybe I'll tell you that later, and maybe I won't. 10:59.520 --> 11:00.520 Listen, June. 11:00.520 --> 11:04.320 If you were one of those earnest kids who stand around on street corners handing out 11:04.320 --> 11:08.560 leaflets, I might believe you wanted to reform the world, but you're not. 11:08.560 --> 11:12.840 I know that you know that electing Jansen isn't going to reform the world or even reform 11:12.840 --> 11:13.840 Lake City. 11:13.840 --> 11:15.560 It just doesn't make that much difference. 11:15.560 --> 11:18.360 Oh, well, it does to me. 11:18.360 --> 11:20.360 Let me out of the next corner, will you? 11:20.360 --> 11:21.360 Why? 11:21.360 --> 11:23.120 Well, if you're like that, I don't know how to deal with you. 11:23.120 --> 11:25.360 And if you're lying, I don't trust you. 11:25.360 --> 11:26.920 But I'm not lying. 11:26.920 --> 11:27.920 I'll get out here. 11:27.920 --> 11:28.920 Wait a minute. 11:28.920 --> 11:29.920 What? 11:29.920 --> 11:33.480 Listen, it's partly that, but there is something else, too. 11:33.480 --> 11:34.560 Like what? 11:34.560 --> 11:37.920 If Jansen wins, of course I'll get a city job out of it, a good one. 11:37.920 --> 11:39.120 That's more like it. 11:39.120 --> 11:42.080 Yeah, but I want to explain why I want it. 11:42.080 --> 11:43.280 You don't have to explain anything. 11:43.280 --> 11:45.200 But I want to. 11:45.200 --> 11:46.200 I'm a lawyer. 11:46.200 --> 11:50.520 At least I've got a degree from law school and I want to be a good lawyer. 11:50.520 --> 11:52.920 If you start on your own, it can take years. 11:52.920 --> 11:58.240 But with the right job at City Hall, you can build up a practice in no time. 11:58.240 --> 12:00.160 The other is partly true, but this is... 12:00.160 --> 12:01.680 This is about 90 percent of it. 12:01.680 --> 12:06.680 OK, as long as it's the dough you're thinking about, we can do business. 12:06.680 --> 12:07.680 It isn't just money. 12:07.680 --> 12:08.680 I know, I know. 12:08.680 --> 12:15.320 Now listen, if I give some dirt on Saul Casper, I will send them up for 10 years or so. 12:15.320 --> 12:18.600 Jansen wins, right? 12:18.600 --> 12:20.200 If you can prove it. 12:20.200 --> 12:22.920 You're going to prove it. 12:22.920 --> 12:27.620 Three punks from Chicago are sticking up the Castleton First National Bank at about three 12:27.620 --> 12:29.360 this afternoon. 12:29.360 --> 12:34.280 Saul Casper is hiding them out at his hotel, room 480. 12:34.280 --> 12:39.920 If there's any shooting at the bank and anybody gets killed, it'll be that much better. 12:39.920 --> 12:43.960 You'll have them for accessory to murder. 12:43.960 --> 12:46.280 Have your people there at four o'clock. 12:46.280 --> 12:49.640 I'll take care of the rest. 12:49.640 --> 12:51.240 You must have been to college, too. 12:51.240 --> 12:52.240 What? 12:52.240 --> 12:53.960 To think up one like that. 12:53.960 --> 12:57.960 In the first place, who's going to arrest Saul Casper in Lake City? 12:57.960 --> 13:02.440 The second place that we come out with is, and it can't be proved, it's criminal libel. 13:02.440 --> 13:04.720 And that's all Jansen needs to really lose. 13:04.720 --> 13:07.480 So, what do you think? 13:07.480 --> 13:10.400 I think you're working for Maddox and Casper. 13:10.400 --> 13:13.280 Hmm, that could be. 13:13.280 --> 13:15.760 But at least I know my law. 13:15.760 --> 13:17.560 What law? 13:17.560 --> 13:20.000 The Castleton Bank is insured by the government. 13:20.000 --> 13:22.040 That makes the stick up a federal wrap. 13:22.040 --> 13:25.560 If you want the number of the FBI, I'll give it to you. 13:25.560 --> 13:26.560 Oh. 13:26.560 --> 13:31.280 As for the second place, have you ever heard of a guy named Ben Grace? 13:31.280 --> 13:32.280 Ben Grace? 13:32.280 --> 13:35.360 He's one of Saul Casper's gang, isn't he? 13:35.360 --> 13:36.360 That's right. 13:36.360 --> 13:38.880 He has my driver's license with a picture on it. 13:38.880 --> 13:42.480 Not a very good one, but there is a resemblance. 13:42.480 --> 13:44.760 The name is Bennett J. Grace. 13:44.760 --> 13:46.160 Oh. 13:46.160 --> 13:48.120 You can turn left here. 13:48.120 --> 13:49.600 All right. 13:49.600 --> 13:52.560 Does that make any difference? 13:52.560 --> 13:53.560 What? 13:53.560 --> 13:55.600 That I work for Saul Casper? 13:55.600 --> 13:57.960 No, it doesn't. 13:57.960 --> 14:00.160 Well, it should. 14:00.160 --> 14:05.840 Because, A, I've put myself on the spot giving you this, but plenty. 14:05.840 --> 14:10.480 And B, I'm not a guy who's in a very good position to go around giving phony tips to 14:10.480 --> 14:13.000 the FBI. 14:13.000 --> 14:14.280 You can pull up right here. 14:14.280 --> 14:15.280 Hmm? 14:15.280 --> 14:16.280 Where is this? 14:16.280 --> 14:18.920 This is where I live. 14:18.920 --> 14:19.920 Oh. 14:19.920 --> 14:22.320 Anything else? 14:22.320 --> 14:23.320 Yes. 14:23.320 --> 14:27.520 Just, why are you doing this? 14:27.520 --> 14:33.400 Because I just decided that Saul Casper's an old meanie, and I don't like him. 14:33.400 --> 14:34.680 Is that enough? 14:34.680 --> 14:37.480 If you say so. 14:37.480 --> 14:39.880 Room 480 at 4 o'clock. 14:39.880 --> 14:40.880 Ben. 14:40.880 --> 14:41.880 Yeah? 14:41.880 --> 14:44.000 Will I see you afterwards? 14:44.000 --> 14:47.160 Don't worry, baby. 14:47.160 --> 14:58.880 You'll see me. 14:58.880 --> 15:01.320 I was back at the hotel by 315. 15:01.320 --> 15:02.320 Things were going pretty good. 15:02.320 --> 15:06.920 The one thing I was afraid of, that she'd want to call in the pedals before the stickup, 15:06.920 --> 15:08.720 she never even mentioned. 15:08.720 --> 15:12.280 I knew she was my kind the minute she began to talk about the dough. 15:12.280 --> 15:19.360 When I got up to room 480, Lefty was already there, lying on the bed, reading the paper. 15:19.360 --> 15:21.040 Oh, hello, Ben. 15:21.040 --> 15:22.400 How you been? 15:22.400 --> 15:24.440 So this is room 480, huh? 15:24.440 --> 15:26.720 It looks just like room 481. 15:26.720 --> 15:29.120 How are you, Lefty? 15:29.120 --> 15:30.120 Oh, okay. 15:30.120 --> 15:31.120 Sit down. 15:31.120 --> 15:33.120 Want a bottle of beer? 15:33.120 --> 15:34.120 Nope. 15:34.120 --> 15:38.160 You, uh, you didn't take it too hard, what Sally said, did you? 15:38.160 --> 15:39.160 Can't say I liked it. 15:39.160 --> 15:40.160 What time is it? 15:40.160 --> 15:42.560 Well, a couple minutes before. 15:42.560 --> 15:43.560 Yeah. 15:43.560 --> 15:47.800 It's too bad about you, Ben. 15:47.800 --> 15:48.800 What's too bad? 15:48.800 --> 15:51.760 Ah, the way I got you figured, Ben. 15:51.760 --> 15:53.920 You're a chiseler. 15:53.920 --> 15:54.920 Then what? 15:54.920 --> 15:57.080 That's all. 15:57.080 --> 15:59.420 Sounds like there might be more. 15:59.420 --> 16:01.680 Not unless you ask for it. 16:01.680 --> 16:02.680 Okay. 16:02.680 --> 16:04.800 I'm asking for it, Lefty. 16:04.800 --> 16:07.480 Well Ben, a chiseler's like this. 16:07.480 --> 16:10.760 He isn't crooked and he isn't straight either. 16:10.760 --> 16:14.320 He's, uh, he's just in between. 16:14.320 --> 16:17.320 But above all, he doesn't like trouble. 16:17.320 --> 16:18.320 Maybe he's just smart. 16:18.320 --> 16:19.800 I don't say he isn't. 16:19.800 --> 16:25.440 Oh, he'll always make pretty good dough and he'll die in a nice clean bed with a doctor's 16:25.440 --> 16:28.760 certificate instead of a colonist. 16:28.760 --> 16:31.240 But he'll never be a big operator. 16:31.240 --> 16:32.240 No? 16:32.240 --> 16:33.240 Uh-uh. 16:33.240 --> 16:34.240 No. 16:34.240 --> 16:37.440 A big operator, he runs it or he doesn't operate. 16:37.440 --> 16:40.960 And that means he doesn't mind a little trouble once in a while. 16:40.960 --> 16:42.840 I guess that's right. 16:42.840 --> 16:46.840 And that's too bad, Ben, because you got brains. 16:46.840 --> 16:50.120 Now me, well, I'm different. 16:50.120 --> 16:51.720 How's that? 16:51.720 --> 16:56.120 Because I, I don't mind the trouble, but I don't have the brains. 16:56.120 --> 16:59.360 Oh, I wouldn't. 16:59.360 --> 17:00.360 Who told you that? 17:00.360 --> 17:01.600 I know, I know. 17:01.600 --> 17:05.000 Ten years in stir off and on didn't help any. 17:05.000 --> 17:08.240 And I didn't have much to begin with. 17:08.240 --> 17:13.880 Did I ever tell you how I started, Ben? 17:13.880 --> 17:15.040 No. 17:15.040 --> 17:18.280 Ben, I was a preacher. 17:18.280 --> 17:20.400 A what? 17:20.400 --> 17:21.400 Do you expect me to? 17:21.400 --> 17:22.620 Yes, a preacher. 17:22.620 --> 17:24.360 So help me, I was. 17:24.360 --> 17:25.960 By rights, I still am. 17:25.960 --> 17:31.360 Look, here, I got the license right here in my wallet. 17:31.360 --> 17:37.040 It was one of those hillbilly outfits and the bishop, as he called himself, he was so 17:37.040 --> 17:41.640 far away from where I was that he never even heard about me, I guess. 17:41.640 --> 17:44.960 Anyway, he never canceled the license. 17:44.960 --> 17:50.680 The Reverend Richard Jose Gause. 17:50.680 --> 17:52.200 That's one for the books, lefty. 17:52.200 --> 17:54.980 Yeah, I was just a kid. 17:54.980 --> 17:57.880 But I got hooked up with one of those big time evangelists. 17:57.880 --> 18:01.500 And if I stuck with it, I could have hit the big time myself. 18:01.500 --> 18:05.040 And there's plenty of dough in that racket. 18:05.040 --> 18:08.640 But you know what I did? 18:08.640 --> 18:13.600 First time we really make a big take, I tie a handkerchief over my face and get me a rod 18:13.600 --> 18:18.120 and stick up the cash box. 18:18.120 --> 18:19.720 And they caught me. 18:19.720 --> 18:24.240 Yeah, that's how I know I haven't got the brains. 18:24.240 --> 18:25.720 I wouldn't let her worry you, lefty. 18:25.720 --> 18:28.200 That's not what's worrying me now, Ben. 18:28.200 --> 18:29.200 What is? 18:29.200 --> 18:30.200 What is? 18:30.200 --> 18:34.080 What's going to be happening in here in a couple of minutes. 18:34.080 --> 18:37.200 You ever sat in on a divvy before, Ben? 18:37.200 --> 18:38.200 No. 18:38.200 --> 18:41.560 And I wouldn't be now, except for the manpower shortage. 18:41.560 --> 18:44.320 These are three wild kids, Ben. 18:44.320 --> 18:48.480 Chances are they'll be coped to the ears and slobbering at the mouth with half being half 18:48.480 --> 18:53.960 scared to death and half crazy with excitement thinking how much dough they got and what 18:53.960 --> 18:56.900 big shot public enemies they are. 18:56.900 --> 19:02.040 And we, you and I, we got to walk up and take 20 grand away from them. 19:02.040 --> 19:03.040 All right. 19:03.040 --> 19:04.040 They know that. 19:04.040 --> 19:05.040 Yeah, no. 19:05.040 --> 19:07.200 And it's one thing kicking in with it's another. 19:07.200 --> 19:10.720 And suppose Solly's double crossed us. 19:10.720 --> 19:11.800 How? 19:11.800 --> 19:15.960 Suppose he didn't tell the kids how much his cut was. 19:15.960 --> 19:19.080 Suppose he left it for us to break the news. 19:19.080 --> 19:24.340 Maybe they just come from maybe killing a couple of people for 40 grand. 19:24.340 --> 19:28.520 Maybe they just as soon kill a couple of more to keep the 20. 19:28.520 --> 19:29.520 Maybe. 19:29.520 --> 19:31.960 So now we're going to find out. 19:31.960 --> 19:32.960 Come on, Marty. 19:32.960 --> 19:33.960 Get him in here. 19:33.960 --> 19:34.960 Sure. 19:34.960 --> 19:35.960 Okay. 19:35.960 --> 19:36.960 Johnny, don't leave me. 19:36.960 --> 19:37.960 Will you, Johnny? 19:37.960 --> 19:38.960 All right, get him over to the... 19:38.960 --> 19:39.960 Who are you? 19:39.960 --> 19:42.000 I'm the man that collects the room rent. 19:42.000 --> 19:43.000 Yeah? 19:43.000 --> 19:44.000 Stick him up. 19:44.000 --> 19:45.000 Fresco, Marty. 19:45.000 --> 19:46.000 Okay, Johnny. 19:46.000 --> 19:48.600 I don't need a rot to handle punks like you. 19:48.600 --> 19:49.600 This guy's clean, Johnny. 19:49.600 --> 19:50.600 What about the other one? 19:50.600 --> 19:53.040 He's with me and he's got a gun. 19:53.040 --> 19:57.020 And don't try to take it away from him because it's an old family heirloom and he's very 19:57.020 --> 19:58.020 fond of it. 19:58.020 --> 19:59.020 Yeah? 19:59.020 --> 20:00.020 Oh, yeah? 20:00.020 --> 20:03.080 Okay, stop acting like something you've seen in the movies and put that cannon away. 20:03.080 --> 20:05.200 You might drop it and break somebody's foot. 20:05.200 --> 20:07.840 What's the matter with your pal here? 20:07.840 --> 20:08.840 He got shot. 20:08.840 --> 20:09.840 Anybody else? 20:09.840 --> 20:12.080 No, the guard shot him when we were pulling up. 20:12.080 --> 20:14.080 Better get him over on the bed. 20:14.080 --> 20:16.080 Johnny, we're going too fast. 20:16.080 --> 20:17.080 We're going too fast. 20:17.080 --> 20:18.080 He's out of his head. 20:18.080 --> 20:19.080 Yeah. 20:19.080 --> 20:20.200 Did you get the dough? 20:20.200 --> 20:21.880 Did we get the dough? 20:21.880 --> 20:23.320 Look at this wise guy. 20:23.320 --> 20:25.440 40 grand, maybe more. 20:25.440 --> 20:26.440 Look at it. 20:26.440 --> 20:27.440 Touch it. 20:27.440 --> 20:28.440 Taste it. 20:28.440 --> 20:29.440 Smell it. 20:29.440 --> 20:30.440 What about it, sucker? 20:30.440 --> 20:32.200 You ever see so much dough before in your life? 20:32.200 --> 20:33.200 Sure. 20:33.200 --> 20:34.200 I work in the mint. 20:34.200 --> 20:36.760 Do you know how much this room is costing you? 20:36.760 --> 20:37.760 How much? 20:37.760 --> 20:38.760 20 grand. 20:38.760 --> 20:39.760 20 grand? 20:39.760 --> 20:40.760 That's right. 20:40.760 --> 20:43.160 I'll be back after a while to collect it. 20:43.160 --> 20:46.160 What are you going to do with your pal there with the holes in him? 20:46.160 --> 20:47.160 I don't know. 20:47.160 --> 20:48.960 Johnny, Johnny. 20:48.960 --> 20:50.440 You know that's bad, don't you? 20:50.440 --> 20:51.440 Why? 20:51.440 --> 20:52.440 The kid's out of his head already. 20:52.440 --> 20:54.800 Suppose he makes trouble, starts screaming or something. 20:54.800 --> 20:56.440 You got doctors, haven't you? 20:56.440 --> 20:57.440 Sure. 20:57.440 --> 21:01.000 With that kind of a doctor, that's one more guy that'll have to get a cut. 21:01.000 --> 21:03.120 Pretty soon you guys won't have anything left but small chains. 21:03.120 --> 21:04.120 Yeah, that's what you think. 21:04.120 --> 21:06.560 But of course, maybe the kid will die. 21:06.560 --> 21:07.560 Yeah? 21:07.560 --> 21:08.560 And then what do we do? 21:08.560 --> 21:09.560 That's even worse. 21:09.560 --> 21:10.560 Johnny, Johnny. 21:10.560 --> 21:11.560 Oh, no, no. 21:11.560 --> 21:12.560 That would be easy. 21:12.560 --> 21:15.920 Then we just take him out of here at night and dump him someplace. 21:15.920 --> 21:16.920 Oh. 21:16.920 --> 21:21.600 And if the kid was to die, that would be one less guy who had to get a cut, wouldn't it? 21:21.600 --> 21:22.600 Huh? 21:22.600 --> 21:23.600 Yeah. 21:23.600 --> 21:25.600 Well, come on, Lefty. 21:25.600 --> 21:26.600 Okay. 21:26.600 --> 21:28.600 He'll be saying, you... 21:28.600 --> 21:29.600 Yeah. 21:29.600 --> 21:32.280 I hope you know what you're doing, Ben. 21:32.280 --> 21:33.280 I don't know. 21:33.280 --> 21:34.280 What do you think? 21:34.280 --> 21:35.280 I think so. 21:35.280 --> 21:36.280 Come on. 21:36.280 --> 21:40.920 I got the room next door. 21:40.920 --> 21:45.440 You know you're just as good as signed that kid's death warrant, don't you? 21:45.440 --> 21:46.440 That's right. 21:46.440 --> 21:50.000 The other two will knock him off now before we got time to get the... 21:50.000 --> 21:51.000 Johnny, Johnny. 21:51.000 --> 21:52.000 Miss, miss, miss, miss. 21:52.000 --> 21:53.000 Johnny, no! 21:53.000 --> 21:54.000 No! 21:54.000 --> 21:55.000 No! 21:55.000 --> 21:56.000 They did it. 21:56.000 --> 21:57.000 Yeah. 21:57.000 --> 22:00.600 Maybe we better call Saul, huh? 22:00.600 --> 22:03.000 I hope you know what you're doing. 22:03.000 --> 22:05.040 Order, please. 22:05.040 --> 22:08.800 Give me Mr. Casper's room. 22:08.800 --> 22:09.800 Yeah. 22:09.800 --> 22:10.800 Uh, Saul? 22:10.800 --> 22:11.800 Yeah, who's this? 22:11.800 --> 22:16.840 Ben, you better come up to room 480, Saul. 22:16.840 --> 22:17.840 Why? 22:17.840 --> 22:18.840 They want to see you personally. 22:18.840 --> 22:19.840 Why? 22:19.840 --> 22:21.840 I said they want to see you personally. 22:21.840 --> 22:23.520 I still want to know why. 22:23.520 --> 22:25.560 Do you want your dough or don't you? 22:25.560 --> 22:29.640 You're supposed to be the guy with the big muscles. 22:29.640 --> 22:31.840 I'm not going to wrestle those punks for your purse. 22:31.840 --> 22:32.840 Okay, Charles Atlas. 22:32.840 --> 22:35.840 I'll be right up and show you how it's done. 22:35.840 --> 22:37.840 You'll be right up. 22:37.840 --> 22:38.840 Then what? 22:38.840 --> 22:42.840 What do you mean, then what? 22:42.840 --> 22:43.840 Ben. 22:43.840 --> 22:44.840 Yeah? 22:44.840 --> 22:49.840 If you got any little plans, you know I'm all for them, don't you? 22:49.840 --> 22:50.840 Sure. 22:50.840 --> 22:54.120 And you know I hope they come off, don't you? 22:54.120 --> 22:55.120 Sure. 22:55.120 --> 23:00.760 But if they don't come off, you know where I stand on that too, don't you? 23:00.760 --> 23:01.760 I know. 23:01.760 --> 23:04.880 You stand right behind me with a gun on my back. 23:04.880 --> 23:07.160 Just so you know, Ben. 23:07.160 --> 23:10.120 I can see how you'd have made a preacher. 23:10.120 --> 23:14.080 Lefty, you've got a terrible streak of honesty in you. 23:14.080 --> 23:16.120 Just so you know. 23:16.120 --> 23:17.120 What's going on here? 23:17.120 --> 23:18.120 Listen, listen, there he is. 23:18.120 --> 23:19.120 I'm Sal Casper. 23:19.120 --> 23:20.120 What's going on here? 23:20.120 --> 23:25.120 Oh, Mr. Casper, there's been a little trouble, Mr. Casper. 23:25.120 --> 23:26.120 A little kind of trouble. 23:26.120 --> 23:28.120 The arch here, he just died. 23:28.120 --> 23:29.120 Died? 23:29.120 --> 23:30.120 He was shot. 23:30.120 --> 23:31.120 Yeah. 23:31.120 --> 23:32.120 All right, so we'll get him out of here tonight. 23:32.120 --> 23:33.120 You got the dough? 23:33.120 --> 23:34.120 Sure, sure, we got it. 23:34.120 --> 23:35.120 Let's see it. 23:35.120 --> 23:36.120 Here. 23:36.120 --> 23:37.120 All right, put up your hands. 23:37.120 --> 23:38.120 What's this? 23:38.120 --> 23:39.120 Department of Justice. 23:39.120 --> 23:40.120 We're all under arrest. 23:40.120 --> 23:41.120 That's all, pal. 23:41.120 --> 23:44.120 Hey, Ben, where are you going? 23:44.120 --> 24:00.520 I got a date with a missionary. 24:00.520 --> 24:04.520 In tonight's full hour of suspense, James Cagney is our star. 24:04.520 --> 24:10.240 Mr. Cagney appears as Ben Grace with Kathy Lewis as June Lyons and Wally Mayer as Lefty 24:10.240 --> 24:19.360 Gause in William Spears' production of Love's Lovely Counterfeit, tonight's study in suspense. 24:19.360 --> 24:29.400 In just a moment, we will return with Act Two of Suspense. 24:29.400 --> 24:32.880 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System. 24:32.880 --> 24:44.680 This is Robert Montgomery again. 24:44.680 --> 24:49.160 When such incompatible words as lovely and counterfeit found themselves together in the 24:49.160 --> 24:54.560 title of tonight's story by James Cain, they said a lot not only about the story, but about 24:54.560 --> 24:57.960 the man, Ben Grace, as well. 24:57.960 --> 25:00.140 Elements of both words crowded through him. 25:00.140 --> 25:04.720 On the one side, for example, was his dislike for meanness and greed. 25:04.720 --> 25:09.920 And on the other side, something forged, fictitious, false. 25:09.920 --> 25:13.520 That was a smooth operation he pulled, and he was going to get even smoother as he went 25:13.520 --> 25:14.520 along. 25:14.520 --> 25:18.080 But it never got Ben Grace anything but trouble. 25:18.080 --> 25:23.760 Because the smoother he got, the further he got away from the true Ben Grace, a real lost 25:23.760 --> 25:27.280 guy trying to find North. 25:27.280 --> 25:30.920 Then maybe for him, June Lyons could be North. 25:30.920 --> 25:34.040 But Ben wouldn't stop long enough to take a reading. 25:34.040 --> 25:39.600 As James Cain described them in the novel, whatever it was June needed in life, Ben had 25:39.600 --> 25:40.760 it for her. 25:40.760 --> 25:44.880 And when she was with him and she acted with that complete abandon of a novice having her 25:44.880 --> 25:48.640 first drink, constantly he watched her. 25:48.640 --> 25:53.400 He studied her as though he were trying to make up his mind about something or to figure 25:53.400 --> 25:55.920 out something into which she definitely fitted. 25:55.920 --> 25:59.320 And then he began to really look at her. 25:59.320 --> 26:03.340 It was the first time he had really studied this girl who had started such a chain of 26:03.340 --> 26:07.360 circumstances in his life, and he looked with lively interest. 26:07.360 --> 26:11.900 It was all the more lively since he was unable to connect this face with all that he had 26:11.900 --> 26:13.760 learned about its owner. 26:13.760 --> 26:18.160 It was in anybody's contest, an extremely beautiful face. 26:18.160 --> 26:21.120 It was perfectly chiseled in profile at least. 26:21.120 --> 26:26.320 It slightly droopy lines reminding him of pictures he had seen of ancient sculpture. 26:26.320 --> 26:29.320 There was some exquisite invitation about the mouth. 26:29.320 --> 26:32.320 It pursed a little with an expression of expectancy. 26:32.320 --> 26:35.760 The skin was soft with just a brush of bloom on it. 26:35.760 --> 26:37.720 The figure was lovely too. 26:37.720 --> 26:42.080 Not too tall, but slender, soft and willowy. 26:42.080 --> 26:46.520 He had the dizzy half-norsiated feeling of a man who has been rocked to his heels by 26:46.520 --> 26:50.800 a woman and knows it. 26:50.800 --> 26:56.920 And so continues the history of Ben Grace in James M. Kane's Love's Lovely Counterfeit, 26:56.920 --> 27:13.800 played out for us by James Cagney in a narrative well calculated to keep you in suspense. 27:13.800 --> 27:17.920 After that, the action moved along just the way I'd seen the play in my mind. 27:17.920 --> 27:21.400 Sal might have had a 6'2'' even chance of beating the rap of having the T-loaded kids 27:21.400 --> 27:25.920 in the hotel, but when the guns were checked against the wounds in the stiff, the beef 27:25.920 --> 27:26.920 was murdered. 27:26.920 --> 27:30.080 And that was one beef Sal couldn't square. 27:30.080 --> 27:35.800 Janssen walked into the city hall on a bread-plush carpet and June, she got the job she was after. 27:35.800 --> 27:39.240 Janssen's first day in the driver's seat was celebrated with a cocktail party at June's 27:39.240 --> 27:40.240 house. 27:40.240 --> 27:43.920 All the loyal party workers were invited to receive the thanks of his honor. 27:43.920 --> 27:46.160 I called June on the phone when I heard about it. 27:46.160 --> 27:50.720 She hammed and pored around a little and then she finally asked me if I'd like to come. 27:50.720 --> 27:54.600 I didn't seem too anxious, but I wasn't going to miss this chance to meet the mayor. 27:54.600 --> 27:57.280 She told me I could bring a friend if I liked. 27:57.280 --> 27:58.760 I said I would. 27:58.760 --> 28:03.400 I suddenly realized that I didn't have any friends. 28:03.400 --> 28:04.400 I brought Lefty. 28:04.400 --> 28:09.280 It was a corny house, a depressing pile of wood and stucco with four-tired walls reening 28:09.280 --> 28:11.520 in against the sagging roof for support. 28:11.520 --> 28:13.400 June was nervous when she saw me. 28:13.400 --> 28:14.400 I introduced her to Lefty. 28:14.400 --> 28:15.400 Hello. 28:15.400 --> 28:16.400 How do you do? 28:16.400 --> 28:17.400 I'm glad you could come. 28:17.400 --> 28:18.400 How you been? 28:18.400 --> 28:19.400 Nice house. 28:19.400 --> 28:20.400 Thank you. 28:20.400 --> 28:24.120 You know everyone here, Ben? 28:24.120 --> 28:25.120 Everyone I want to know. 28:25.120 --> 28:29.040 Well, there's a bar in the alcove over there. 28:29.040 --> 28:30.040 You got any beer? 28:30.040 --> 28:31.040 All you can drink, Mr. Goss. 28:31.040 --> 28:34.040 You want to make a book? 28:34.040 --> 28:36.800 Ben, you'll excuse me while I speak to you. 28:36.800 --> 28:37.800 Oh, sure, sure. 28:37.800 --> 28:39.440 You just go right ahead and host us like crazy. 28:39.440 --> 28:40.440 I'll just drift around. 28:40.440 --> 28:41.440 Thank you, Ben. 28:41.440 --> 28:42.440 I'll see you later. 28:42.440 --> 28:43.440 Class, Ben. 28:43.440 --> 28:44.440 Real class. 28:44.440 --> 28:45.440 Educated, too. 28:45.440 --> 28:46.440 That she is, Lefty. 28:46.440 --> 28:47.440 That she is. 28:47.440 --> 28:48.440 Well, how about the suds, Benny? 28:48.440 --> 28:49.440 Then we'll go pay our respects to his honor. 28:49.440 --> 28:50.440 How do you do? 28:50.440 --> 28:51.440 I'm Mrs. Lyons, June Zand. 28:51.440 --> 28:52.440 How do you? 28:52.440 --> 28:53.440 How do you do, Mrs. Lyons? 28:53.440 --> 28:54.440 My name is Grace. 28:54.440 --> 28:55.440 This is Mr. Goss. 28:55.440 --> 28:56.440 I'm so glad you're here, Mr. 28:56.440 --> 28:57.440 My name is Goss, Lefty Goss. 28:57.440 --> 28:58.440 Oh, I'm sorry. 28:58.440 --> 28:59.440 I don't hear very well. 28:59.440 --> 29:00.440 Oh, excuse me. 29:00.440 --> 29:01.440 You'll find me in the suds, Ben. 29:01.440 --> 29:02.440 Excuse me. 29:02.440 --> 29:03.440 What do you want? 29:03.440 --> 29:04.440 I'm sorry. 29:04.440 --> 29:05.440 I'm sorry. 29:05.440 --> 29:06.440 I'm sorry. 29:06.440 --> 29:07.440 I'm sorry. 29:07.440 --> 29:08.440 I'm sorry. 29:08.440 --> 29:09.440 I'm sorry. 29:09.440 --> 29:10.440 I'm sorry. 29:10.440 --> 29:14.440 I'm sorry. 29:14.440 --> 29:15.440 Excuse me. 29:15.440 --> 29:16.440 You'll find me in the suds, Ben. 29:16.440 --> 29:17.440 Excuse me. 29:17.440 --> 29:18.440 Have you met Mr. Janssen yet? 29:18.440 --> 29:19.440 No, I'm looking forward to that. 29:19.440 --> 29:20.440 Oh, he's a wonderful man. 29:20.440 --> 29:21.440 Just a wonderful man. 29:21.440 --> 29:22.440 Nice and settled and with a wonderful future. 29:22.440 --> 29:23.440 Don't you think so? 29:23.440 --> 29:26.440 I think I'll be able to tell more about his future after I've talked to him. 29:26.440 --> 29:27.440 Exactly. 29:27.440 --> 29:28.440 My very words to June. 29:28.440 --> 29:29.440 I can see things like that. 29:29.440 --> 29:30.440 I beg your pardon? 29:30.440 --> 29:31.440 Then you agree with me? 29:31.440 --> 29:32.440 Oh, of course you do. 29:32.440 --> 29:33.440 You look like a very good man. 29:33.440 --> 29:34.440 I'm sorry. 29:34.440 --> 29:35.440 I'm sorry. 29:35.440 --> 29:36.440 I'm sorry. 29:36.440 --> 29:37.440 I'm sorry. 29:37.440 --> 29:38.440 I'm sorry. 29:38.440 --> 29:39.440 I'm sorry. 29:39.440 --> 29:42.440 You look like a very intelligent young man. 29:42.440 --> 29:45.440 Mrs. Lyons, you don't make much sense. 29:45.440 --> 29:46.440 Exactly what I've been telling June. 29:46.440 --> 29:47.440 But she just says, oh, be quiet. 29:47.440 --> 29:51.440 Oh, for heaven's sake, Auntie, be quiet. 29:51.440 --> 29:52.440 I can understand that. 29:52.440 --> 29:55.440 Oh, if you really would encourage him, Mr. Grace. 29:55.440 --> 29:58.440 You see, she never tells me a thing. 29:58.440 --> 29:59.440 Never. 29:59.440 --> 30:00.440 Thinks I'm dumb. 30:00.440 --> 30:01.440 Treats me as though I don't have good sense. 30:01.440 --> 30:02.440 But I see things. 30:02.440 --> 30:03.440 I can tell you. 30:03.440 --> 30:04.440 Why, he's so crazy about her that all she'd have to do is lift her little finger to match 30:04.440 --> 30:05.440 it. 30:05.440 --> 30:10.440 Just a little finger. 30:10.440 --> 30:11.440 Mary? 30:11.440 --> 30:12.440 Mary who? 30:12.440 --> 30:13.440 Yes. 30:13.440 --> 30:18.440 And it would be such a fine match for June. 30:18.440 --> 30:21.440 Mrs. Olaf Jansen, wife of the mayor. 30:21.440 --> 30:26.440 Oh, goodness, I get dizzy when I just think of it. 30:26.440 --> 30:27.440 Yeah. 30:27.440 --> 30:29.440 And I know what you mean there, too. 30:29.440 --> 30:30.440 Oh, oh, there, there. 30:30.440 --> 30:31.440 Oh, Mr. Mayor. 30:31.440 --> 30:32.440 Mr. Jansen. 30:32.440 --> 30:33.440 Well, how are you, Mrs. Lyons? 30:33.440 --> 30:34.440 Yes. 30:34.440 --> 30:35.440 Mr. Jansen. 30:35.440 --> 30:36.440 This is Mr. 30:36.440 --> 30:37.440 Mr. 30:37.440 --> 30:38.440 The name is Grace. 30:38.440 --> 30:39.440 Ben Grace. 30:39.440 --> 30:40.440 Ben Grace, eh? 30:40.440 --> 30:41.440 That's right, Your Honor. 30:41.440 --> 30:42.440 June, Miss Lyons tells me that you've been very busy. 30:42.440 --> 30:43.440 May I congratulate you, Your Honor. 30:43.440 --> 30:44.440 Thank you. 30:44.440 --> 30:45.440 I was about to say that Miss Lyons tells me that you worked to help make my election possible. 30:45.440 --> 30:46.440 How very clever of you, Mr. Jansen. 30:46.440 --> 30:47.440 I did what I could, Your Honor. 30:47.440 --> 30:48.440 Please accept my sincere thanks. 30:48.440 --> 30:49.440 Thank you. 30:49.440 --> 30:50.440 Thank you. 30:50.440 --> 30:51.440 Thank you. 30:51.440 --> 30:52.440 Thank you. 30:52.440 --> 30:53.440 Thank you. 30:53.440 --> 30:54.440 Thank you. 30:54.440 --> 30:55.440 Thank you. 30:55.440 --> 30:56.440 Thank you. 30:56.440 --> 30:57.440 Thank you. 30:57.440 --> 30:58.440 Thank you. 30:58.440 --> 30:59.440 Thank you. 30:59.440 --> 31:00.440 Thank you. 31:00.440 --> 31:01.440 Thank you. 31:01.440 --> 31:02.440 Thank you. 31:02.440 --> 31:03.440 Thank you. 31:03.440 --> 31:04.440 Thank you. 31:04.440 --> 31:05.440 Thank you. 31:05.440 --> 31:06.440 I'm very sincere thanks, Mr. Grace. 31:06.440 --> 31:10.480 It's highly encouraging to find young men fighting for good, clean government. 31:10.480 --> 31:13.040 Good, clean government is my hobby, Your Honor. 31:13.040 --> 31:14.040 Really? 31:14.040 --> 31:15.040 Mm-hmm. 31:15.040 --> 31:17.640 And, uh, if I might make a suggestion. 31:17.640 --> 31:18.640 Of course. 31:18.640 --> 31:20.680 This town needs a cleaning from attic to cellar. 31:20.680 --> 31:22.760 There we agree, Mr. Grace. 31:22.760 --> 31:25.920 And you'll need the right man as chief of police to help you do that. 31:25.920 --> 31:29.040 Are you, uh, ambitious for a police career now? 31:29.040 --> 31:30.040 Oh, no. 31:30.040 --> 31:31.040 No, no, Your Honor. 31:31.040 --> 31:32.040 Myself, I have no ambitions. 31:32.040 --> 31:34.800 But I think I can suggest the man you need. 31:34.800 --> 31:35.800 Cantrell. 31:35.800 --> 31:36.800 Joseph Cantrell. 31:36.800 --> 31:37.800 Cantrell? 31:37.800 --> 31:38.800 That's the man. 31:38.800 --> 31:41.000 But I've just thrown him out. 31:41.000 --> 31:43.680 He was one of Saul Casper's rats. 31:43.680 --> 31:44.680 I... 31:44.680 --> 31:47.480 I'm sorry to use words like that. 31:47.480 --> 31:50.080 You worked for Saul yourself, didn't you, Mr. Grace? 31:50.080 --> 31:53.320 You, uh, you mustn't get emotional about these things, Your Honor. 31:53.320 --> 31:57.080 I'm sorry, sir, but I fail to follow your reasoning or your emotions. 31:57.080 --> 31:59.200 You said you wanted to clean up this town. 31:59.200 --> 32:01.960 You'll have to appoint the best available man to do that for you. 32:01.960 --> 32:05.680 If you go through the list, you'll find that Cantrell is the best officer on the force. 32:05.680 --> 32:08.000 He's got more copper in him than a ton of pennies. 32:08.000 --> 32:11.760 It wasn't his fault that a crook got elected and he had to play along. 32:11.760 --> 32:14.920 Give him half a break, and he's the best law enforcement officer in the country. 32:14.920 --> 32:17.760 And a good officer is what you'll have to have if you're going to deliver what you promised 32:17.760 --> 32:18.920 the voters. 32:18.920 --> 32:20.640 You can't deliver with jerks and thugs. 32:20.640 --> 32:21.640 Now, let me tell you something. 32:21.640 --> 32:23.320 Oh, you silly man. 32:23.320 --> 32:26.080 Let me make this very clear, Mr. Grace. 32:26.080 --> 32:28.960 When the people of Lake City voted for me, I promised them that I would clean up... 32:28.960 --> 32:29.960 Save your breath. 32:29.960 --> 32:33.200 Your Honor, I heard all your campaign speeches. 32:33.200 --> 32:36.240 Mrs. Lyons, may I take you to the bar for a ginger ale? 32:36.240 --> 32:38.240 Are they really, Mr. Jansen? 32:38.240 --> 32:41.240 Yes, we've been waiting a long time for them. 32:41.240 --> 32:42.240 Oh, you're right. 32:42.240 --> 32:43.240 It's all right. 32:43.240 --> 32:44.240 Ben? 32:44.240 --> 32:46.800 Ben, you're leaving so soon? 32:46.800 --> 32:49.000 Now that you mention it, I guess I am. 32:49.000 --> 32:51.600 Oh, well, I... 32:51.600 --> 32:52.600 Have you met Mr. Jansen? 32:52.600 --> 32:53.600 I met him. 32:53.600 --> 32:55.680 What do you think of him? 32:55.680 --> 32:58.080 I think he's a very educated gentleman. 32:58.080 --> 32:59.080 But he'll learn. 32:59.080 --> 33:00.080 He'll learn. 33:00.080 --> 33:04.240 Do you know what? 33:04.240 --> 33:08.480 I think I'm in love with you. 33:08.480 --> 33:19.920 I think I love you, too. 33:19.920 --> 33:24.840 For the next couple of weeks while Casper was waiting for trial, I let everything coaxed. 33:24.840 --> 33:26.800 Everything, that is, but June. 33:26.800 --> 33:28.120 There I kept the motor running. 33:28.120 --> 33:34.800 And finally the night arrived when it was time for me to step on the gas. 33:34.800 --> 33:37.240 Pretty. 33:37.240 --> 33:41.000 Very pretty. 33:41.000 --> 33:45.160 My secret bike. 33:45.160 --> 33:48.160 The piano and... 33:48.160 --> 33:49.160 And? 33:49.160 --> 33:50.160 You. 33:50.160 --> 33:51.160 Less keys to punch on me. 33:51.160 --> 33:52.160 Less keys, but more music. 33:52.160 --> 33:53.160 June? 33:53.160 --> 33:54.160 Uh-huh. 33:54.160 --> 34:00.440 He's stuck on you, isn't he? 34:00.440 --> 34:01.440 Who? 34:01.440 --> 34:02.440 Jansen. 34:02.440 --> 34:03.440 Jansen? 34:03.440 --> 34:06.440 That's the man's name. 34:06.440 --> 34:10.680 His honor, the mayor. 34:10.680 --> 34:13.800 Sure you don't generate a little amperage for him? 34:13.800 --> 34:16.000 Oh, Ben, you. 34:16.000 --> 34:17.000 You can ask that. 34:17.000 --> 34:18.000 Fix me another drink. 34:18.000 --> 34:19.000 All right. 34:19.000 --> 34:20.000 Yes. 34:20.000 --> 34:24.080 Nice little apartment you have here. 34:24.080 --> 34:27.000 Makes that home you lived in before the election look like a flea bag. 34:27.000 --> 34:29.720 Well, I earn a little better. 34:29.720 --> 34:31.720 I live a little better. 34:31.720 --> 34:32.720 Sure. 34:32.720 --> 34:33.720 Ben? 34:33.720 --> 34:34.720 Yeah? 34:34.720 --> 34:36.800 Why'd you ask me that? 34:36.800 --> 34:37.800 Ask you what? 34:37.800 --> 34:38.800 About Jansen. 34:38.800 --> 34:39.800 Skip it. 34:39.800 --> 34:40.800 No, no. 34:40.800 --> 34:41.800 Ben, I want to know. 34:41.800 --> 34:46.640 Oh, I kind of got that notion from the way he always shows up here after I bring you 34:46.640 --> 34:50.080 home at night and stays for a while. 34:50.080 --> 34:52.040 You're wrong, Ben. 34:52.040 --> 34:54.160 Don't give me a razzle-dazzle, Angel. 34:54.160 --> 34:55.960 I've clocked him in and out. 34:55.960 --> 34:57.360 You know me better than that, Ben. 34:57.360 --> 35:00.720 He has no personal interest in me, honest. 35:00.720 --> 35:01.720 It's just business. 35:01.720 --> 35:04.960 It's things we have to talk over. 35:04.960 --> 35:07.320 Not enough hours in the city hall day, huh? 35:07.320 --> 35:09.800 He gets lonely sometimes in the evening. 35:09.800 --> 35:11.320 You know his wife just died and he... 35:11.320 --> 35:12.320 That's what I mean. 35:12.320 --> 35:16.160 All right, then. 35:16.160 --> 35:18.360 He likes me. 35:18.360 --> 35:20.760 And I just feel sorry for him. 35:20.760 --> 35:24.920 And honest, he's so grateful if I just let him come in and just sit for an hour and talk. 35:24.920 --> 35:25.920 Grateful. 35:25.920 --> 35:27.960 Oh, Ben, please. 35:27.960 --> 35:31.000 You probably got him jumping through hoops. 35:31.000 --> 35:33.200 I'd rather have you jumping through hoops. 35:33.200 --> 35:40.160 You know, when I was a kid, my old man used to say, Ben, he'd say, don't ever jump through 35:40.160 --> 35:41.160 a hoop. 35:41.160 --> 35:45.240 Of course, from the hoop, it's only a hop to the halter. 35:45.240 --> 35:49.120 And then you drop the H, and what are you left with? 35:49.120 --> 35:50.120 The altar. 35:50.120 --> 35:52.200 Oh, man, where'd you hear that? 35:52.200 --> 35:53.960 Jensen coming here again tonight? 35:53.960 --> 35:56.080 Oh, not if you object. 35:56.080 --> 35:58.120 Oh, I don't object. 35:58.120 --> 35:59.320 That's better, Ben. 35:59.320 --> 36:02.000 There's nothing to be jealous of. 36:02.000 --> 36:04.960 You could ask him a favor, though, Junie. 36:04.960 --> 36:05.960 All right. 36:05.960 --> 36:07.800 Anything you say. 36:07.800 --> 36:10.320 Ask him to appoint Cantrell, chief of police. 36:10.320 --> 36:12.480 Appoint Cant... 36:12.480 --> 36:14.320 Whom did you say? 36:14.320 --> 36:15.320 You heard me. 36:15.320 --> 36:18.360 Ben, what on earth are you talking about? 36:18.360 --> 36:19.360 Cantrell. 36:19.360 --> 36:21.760 But he's a crook. 36:21.760 --> 36:26.160 Well, he was hand in glove with Saul Casper. 36:26.160 --> 36:28.640 How could Jensen appoint Cantrell? 36:28.640 --> 36:31.320 It'd make a laughing stock of the whole campaign. 36:31.320 --> 36:35.360 Oh, Ben, he can't appoint Cantrell. 36:35.360 --> 36:36.360 Okay. 36:36.360 --> 36:37.360 Ben? 36:37.360 --> 36:40.360 Ben, where are you going? 36:40.360 --> 36:41.360 Home. 36:41.360 --> 36:42.360 To bed. 36:42.360 --> 36:45.360 I've got to make an early train in the morning. 36:45.360 --> 36:46.360 Train? 36:46.360 --> 36:47.360 Where to? 36:47.360 --> 36:48.360 New York. 36:48.360 --> 36:49.360 You're going away, Ben. 36:49.360 --> 36:51.200 Guy's got to think about his future. 36:51.200 --> 36:52.360 Nothing for me in this town. 36:52.360 --> 36:55.360 That's the way you played it. 36:55.360 --> 36:58.360 Get rid of Saul Casper and go after me. 36:58.360 --> 37:03.360 And then when you found out that Jensen's in love with me, you thought you had him. 37:03.360 --> 37:06.360 That through me, you could make him do whatever you want. 37:06.360 --> 37:11.360 Get Cantrell made the chief and then you can run this town just the way Casper did. 37:11.360 --> 37:12.360 Well, you won't. 37:12.360 --> 37:13.360 No. 37:13.360 --> 37:14.360 Goodbye, Angel. 37:14.360 --> 37:22.360 Don't forget to dust in the corners, lock your door at night, and peek under the bed. 37:22.360 --> 37:23.360 Ben? 37:23.360 --> 37:24.360 Yes? 37:24.360 --> 37:25.360 Ben. 37:25.360 --> 37:26.360 Close the door, Ben. 37:26.360 --> 37:27.360 From the inside. 37:27.360 --> 37:53.360 It was a question of who would break first, June or Ben Grace. 37:53.360 --> 37:58.360 And she broke maybe seconds before I would have turned back to her with all my hard boiled 37:58.360 --> 38:03.360 off the arm toughness, melted away in little pools at her feet. 38:03.360 --> 38:08.360 But that was something I couldn't ever let her know. 38:08.360 --> 38:12.360 The next morning, I found Lefty in the blue bottle, blowing the head off his glass of 38:12.360 --> 38:13.360 breakfast. 38:13.360 --> 38:15.360 Ah, hiya, Ben. 38:15.360 --> 38:17.360 Sit. 38:17.360 --> 38:20.360 Lefty, how much it's I'll pay you. 38:20.360 --> 38:23.360 The truth, Ben, 35. 38:23.360 --> 38:24.360 What? 38:24.360 --> 38:25.360 A week? 38:25.360 --> 38:28.360 So go ahead, Lefty. 38:28.360 --> 38:31.360 Let's see you left. 38:31.360 --> 38:37.360 For all I did, gambling my neck every other day, 35 a week. 38:37.360 --> 38:39.360 And I took it. 38:39.360 --> 38:41.360 That's the funny part. 38:41.360 --> 38:42.360 I took it. 38:42.360 --> 38:44.360 You can start tomorrow at 50. 38:44.360 --> 38:45.360 Who for? 38:45.360 --> 38:48.360 From now on, I'm running it. 38:48.360 --> 38:50.360 Ah, so it was you. 38:50.360 --> 38:53.360 All the way down the line, you with the tip step. 38:53.360 --> 38:54.360 So what? 38:54.360 --> 38:58.360 Nothing, Ben, nothing. 38:58.360 --> 39:00.360 What is it, Lefty, what is it? 39:00.360 --> 39:01.360 Only this, Benny. 39:01.360 --> 39:05.360 You see, I call you Benny, that's because I like you. 39:05.360 --> 39:07.360 Yeah, I like you. 39:07.360 --> 39:11.360 And that's maybe why your great success makes me a little sad. 39:11.360 --> 39:17.360 Listen, Reverend Jose, the only revival I'm interested in is reviving the fortunes of 39:17.360 --> 39:18.360 Ben Grace. 39:18.360 --> 39:21.360 You got anything else to say? 39:21.360 --> 39:22.360 Not a thing. 39:22.360 --> 39:25.360 I got not a word to say. 39:25.360 --> 39:30.360 Pals, two beers, Ben, and they're on you. 39:30.360 --> 39:39.360 So I took over where Saul Casper dropped out. 39:39.360 --> 39:43.360 We moved things around a little to make it look respectable, but the bookies and the gambling 39:43.360 --> 39:46.360 joints and so on kept right on in business. 39:46.360 --> 39:47.360 And I collected. 39:47.360 --> 39:49.360 It wasn't hay. 39:49.360 --> 39:51.360 Things were fine, just fine. 39:51.360 --> 39:56.360 My evenings were filled with June and my days with putting the automatic pump on the town. 39:56.360 --> 40:02.360 Like the day I finally got around to the office of Bleeker and Yates, the lawyers. 40:02.360 --> 40:06.360 Oliver Bleeker had been elected district attorney along with Jansen, so it was Mr. Yates, the 40:06.360 --> 40:09.360 junior partner that I wanted to see. 40:09.360 --> 40:11.360 And what do you want with me? 40:11.360 --> 40:14.360 You know anything about pinball, Mr. Yates? 40:14.360 --> 40:17.360 Why, I've played the machines once in a while, I guess. 40:17.360 --> 40:19.360 I mean the hookup. 40:19.360 --> 40:21.360 Well, not exactly. 40:21.360 --> 40:23.360 You reform guys. 40:23.360 --> 40:24.360 You don't know much, do you? 40:24.360 --> 40:26.360 Is it important? 40:26.360 --> 40:31.360 Listen closely, Mr. Yates, because I'm only going around once. 40:31.360 --> 40:38.360 There are 5,000 pinball machines in Lake City, and they're owned by a few hundred scrimy jerks. 40:38.360 --> 40:41.360 You know what those machines take in a month? 40:41.360 --> 40:44.360 More than a hundred thousand dollars. 40:44.360 --> 40:45.360 I beg your pardon. 40:45.360 --> 40:47.360 That's what I said, one hundred thousand dollars. 40:47.360 --> 40:54.360 They're still going strong, but what happens to them in the very near future depends on your partner, Mr. Bleeker, the new DA. 40:54.360 --> 40:56.360 I can't tell you what he's going to do. 40:56.360 --> 40:58.360 Well, I've got a flash for you. 40:58.360 --> 41:02.360 I say that as far as Lake City is concerned, pinball is finished. 41:02.360 --> 41:03.360 Why? 41:03.360 --> 41:05.360 Because it's gambling and it's wrong. 41:05.360 --> 41:09.360 But to the extent that it's a game of skill, it's good clean recreation. 41:09.360 --> 41:11.360 And that's not against the law. 41:11.360 --> 41:16.360 I'm going to bring a new kind of machine into Lake City, if, as, and when the old ones are tossed out. 41:16.360 --> 41:21.360 But this much I've got to know before I bring 5,000 machines in. 41:21.360 --> 41:23.360 Will mine be legal? 41:23.360 --> 41:27.360 No gambling, no payoff, only a certificate if you make a home run. 41:27.360 --> 41:31.360 Now, you know Bleeker, you can put a certain legal question to him. 41:31.360 --> 41:32.360 No? 41:32.360 --> 41:34.360 Well, I don't know. 41:34.360 --> 41:38.360 The next thing is to protect the interests of the little storekeepers who use my machines. 41:38.360 --> 41:41.360 I'm going to organize an association. 41:41.360 --> 41:43.360 The association will need an attorney. 41:43.360 --> 41:48.360 The attorney will get a very respectable retainer by the year. 41:48.360 --> 41:52.360 Yep, those machines will do $100,000 a month. 41:52.360 --> 41:56.360 And I want you to be the lawyer for the association. 41:56.360 --> 42:00.360 Well, there's a little question of ethics here that... 42:00.360 --> 42:03.360 I figure the attorney should get to 5% of the take. 42:03.360 --> 42:05.360 You see, Mr., I'm Bleeker's partner. 42:05.360 --> 42:07.360 Maybe even as much as 10%. 42:07.360 --> 42:10.360 But you see, the ethics of the situation... 42:10.360 --> 42:13.360 Well, if you're busy, you're busy studying ethics, 42:13.360 --> 42:16.360 maybe you wouldn't have time to handle this job, Mr. Yates. 42:16.360 --> 42:18.360 No hard feelings? 42:18.360 --> 42:20.360 I'll just look for another man. 42:20.360 --> 42:22.360 No, no, no, just a minute. 42:22.360 --> 42:24.360 I would like to think it over a bit. 42:24.360 --> 42:26.360 Sure, perhaps to talk to Mr. Bleeker about it, 42:26.360 --> 42:29.360 see what he thinks of the propriety of my accepting such an... 42:29.360 --> 42:31.360 No, I get it. 42:31.360 --> 42:35.360 Well, shall we meet again, say, next week? 42:35.360 --> 42:37.360 Next week is fine. 42:37.360 --> 42:45.360 MUSIC 42:45.360 --> 42:47.360 And next week was fine. 42:47.360 --> 42:50.360 Joey Cantrell was appointed chief of police. 42:50.360 --> 42:53.360 The D.A. listened to the legal advice of his partner, Mr. Yates, 42:53.360 --> 42:55.360 and decided it was for the good of the community 42:55.360 --> 42:59.360 to yank all those hard, nasty pinball machines 42:59.360 --> 43:02.360 and save the citizens from the temptations of gambling. 43:02.360 --> 43:05.360 Chief Cantrell's first official job was to supervise 43:05.360 --> 43:08.360 the smashing of the machines which had been condemned. 43:08.360 --> 43:10.360 I went around to see how he was getting on 43:10.360 --> 43:12.360 before he could smash too many. 43:12.360 --> 43:15.360 Why have you got it all wrong yet, a slave? 43:15.360 --> 43:17.360 We're up to the hips to kill all machines here. 43:17.360 --> 43:19.360 Okay, Chief. 43:19.360 --> 43:22.360 Come on, you muggies, lay those hammers into those machines. 43:22.360 --> 43:25.360 And don't forget if any nickels roll out, they belong to the city. 43:25.360 --> 43:29.360 Say, uh, may I have a word with you, Chief Cantrell? 43:29.360 --> 43:33.360 Huh? Oh, well. What's new, Ben? 43:33.360 --> 43:36.360 Say, uh, tell him to hold up a minute, will you? 43:36.360 --> 43:38.360 Huh? Tell him to hold up. Oh, yeah, yeah. 43:38.360 --> 43:40.360 Hey, you guys, quit it, will you? 43:40.360 --> 43:43.360 Hold up there, will you? There's too much noise. 43:43.360 --> 43:46.360 Come on, hold up the condemnation of those machines a minute. 43:46.360 --> 43:48.360 Okay. 43:48.360 --> 43:51.360 Joe, have you ever been abroad? 43:51.360 --> 43:53.360 No. Neither have I. 43:53.360 --> 43:55.360 But I have been to Mexico. 43:55.360 --> 43:57.360 Mexico. South of the Rio Grande. 43:57.360 --> 43:59.360 Juarez, across the river from El Paso. 43:59.360 --> 44:03.360 Well, when I came back, I thought I'd bring in some perfume. 44:03.360 --> 44:05.360 Yeah. So what? 44:05.360 --> 44:09.360 So, this. On some of that perfume, they got a rule that the customs officer 44:09.360 --> 44:12.360 has to destroy the label before it's brought in. 44:12.360 --> 44:14.360 You got that? 44:14.360 --> 44:15.360 Still listening. 44:15.360 --> 44:17.360 You know how he destroyed it? 44:17.360 --> 44:19.360 No, but I'm dying to hear. 44:19.360 --> 44:21.360 He drew a blue pencil across it. 44:21.360 --> 44:25.360 He made one blue mark, and that legally destroyed it. 44:25.360 --> 44:28.360 The man put a blue pencil right through it. 44:28.360 --> 44:35.360 If one blue mark will destroy a label, why won't it destroy a pinball machine? 44:35.360 --> 44:39.360 Oh. Say, you sure do think of things, don't you? 44:39.360 --> 44:41.360 I do my best. 44:41.360 --> 44:43.360 You mean destroy it legally? 44:43.360 --> 44:44.360 Legally. 44:44.360 --> 44:46.360 Got a blue pencil? I could try. 44:46.360 --> 44:49.360 I just happen to have one with me. 44:49.360 --> 44:51.360 Then we'll see. 44:51.360 --> 44:55.360 Look at that. I just destroyed it. 44:55.360 --> 44:58.360 See? Now, another thing, Joe. 44:58.360 --> 44:59.360 Yeah? 44:59.360 --> 45:01.360 You'll want those trucks again, huh? 45:01.360 --> 45:05.360 To haul the destroyed machines over to the reservoir, street dump. 45:05.360 --> 45:07.360 Well, I guess they gotta be put someplace. 45:07.360 --> 45:10.360 All right. I'll have them here tonight. 45:10.360 --> 45:13.360 Funny how a blue pencil ruins stuff, isn't it? 45:13.360 --> 45:14.360 Oh, and another thing. 45:14.360 --> 45:15.360 Yeah, just one? 45:15.360 --> 45:16.360 Sign those vouchers. 45:16.360 --> 45:17.360 For what? 45:17.360 --> 45:18.360 For the trucks. 45:18.360 --> 45:23.360 The trucks I furnished the city yesterday to haul these various gambling devices from various and sundry addresses 45:23.360 --> 45:25.360 here to the 9th Street Police Warehouse. 45:25.360 --> 45:27.360 3,000 bucks in all. 45:27.360 --> 45:29.360 Slow up, boy. Slow up. 45:29.360 --> 45:31.360 Costs money to clean up a town, Joe. 45:31.360 --> 45:33.360 Okay, but don't run a good thing to death. 45:33.360 --> 45:35.360 It's the people's will. 45:35.360 --> 45:36.360 Huh? 45:36.360 --> 45:39.360 You forgot that mandate to cleanliness. 45:39.360 --> 45:48.360 Sign. 45:48.360 --> 45:50.360 And that's the way it went. 45:50.360 --> 45:54.360 And with a little remodeling, those pinball machines were back at their old stands. 45:54.360 --> 45:56.360 But now they were working for Ben Grace. 45:56.360 --> 46:02.360 Yep. Whatever I touched turned green, with pictures of presidents on it. 46:02.360 --> 46:05.360 Things were going so good, I started to worry. 46:05.360 --> 46:08.360 But I knew that the real worry was going to be June. 46:08.360 --> 46:11.360 I knew she was going to spring in on me sooner or later. 46:11.360 --> 46:13.360 And it was. 46:13.360 --> 46:18.360 It was last night when I was out at her new place that she decided to get it off her chest. 46:18.360 --> 46:19.360 Ben. 46:19.360 --> 46:20.360 Yeah? 46:20.360 --> 46:22.360 Ben, I want to talk to you. 46:22.360 --> 46:23.360 What about? 46:23.360 --> 46:25.360 Don't you know? 46:25.360 --> 46:27.360 Yeah, I guess maybe I do. 46:27.360 --> 46:29.360 We can't go on like this, Ben. It isn't right. 46:29.360 --> 46:32.360 It isn't fair to Jansen. It isn't fair to... 46:32.360 --> 46:34.360 It isn't fair to me. 46:34.360 --> 46:36.360 What? What's so unfair about it? 46:36.360 --> 46:39.360 Oh, Ben, you know what's unfair about it. 46:39.360 --> 46:44.360 Mr. Jansen promised the people of Lake City that if he got elected, he'd clean up the town. 46:44.360 --> 46:47.360 Huh? All right. Why doesn't he do it? He's at six months. 46:47.360 --> 46:49.360 Because he doesn't even know what's going on. 46:49.360 --> 46:51.360 Great. Then watch the beef. 46:51.360 --> 46:53.360 I know what's going on. 46:53.360 --> 46:59.360 The horse racing places, the gambling places, all the other places are just as open as they ever were. 46:59.360 --> 47:00.360 Mm-hmm. 47:00.360 --> 47:02.360 And I know who's keeping them open. 47:02.360 --> 47:03.360 Of course you do. I am. 47:03.360 --> 47:07.360 Listen, honey, if I wasn't bossing the organization, someone else would be. 47:07.360 --> 47:09.360 People like to bet. People like to gamble. 47:09.360 --> 47:12.360 Oh, Ben, don't you see, I'm a city official. 47:12.360 --> 47:17.360 I have an obligation to the people of this community, to the people who elected Jansen because they believe that he... 47:17.360 --> 47:19.360 Still a missionary, huh? 47:19.360 --> 47:21.360 Well, I'm not a racketeer. 47:21.360 --> 47:25.360 Maybe not. But you're the next thing to it. 47:25.360 --> 47:26.360 What do you mean? 47:26.360 --> 47:30.360 Where do you think the dough came from for that car I got you? 47:30.360 --> 47:33.360 And the fur coat. And this place. 47:33.360 --> 47:34.360 You never told me. 47:34.360 --> 47:38.360 Did I have to? You knew I didn't get it from a long-lost uncle. 47:38.360 --> 47:42.360 Why don't you admit it, baby, you're a chiseler. 47:42.360 --> 47:43.360 Am I? 47:43.360 --> 47:47.360 Sure. Just like me. Only I'm honest about it. You're not. 47:47.360 --> 47:52.360 Then I will be. I will be starting now. Starting right tonight. 47:52.360 --> 47:53.360 What are you gonna do? Turn me in? 47:53.360 --> 47:55.360 Oh, Ben. 47:55.360 --> 47:58.360 Maybe your big mistake was falling in love with me, baby. 47:58.360 --> 48:00.360 Now there isn't much you can do about it, is there? 48:00.360 --> 48:04.360 Oh, Ben, quit it. Get out of it, please. 48:04.360 --> 48:08.360 For my sake. Just because I don't like it. Just because I hate it. 48:08.360 --> 48:11.360 Maybe I don't like it either. It's all I know how to do. 48:11.360 --> 48:13.360 Ben, what was... 48:13.360 --> 48:15.360 Hiya, Benny. 48:15.360 --> 48:16.360 So? 48:16.360 --> 48:18.360 Surprise? 48:18.360 --> 48:20.360 Kind of. Did you break out? 48:20.360 --> 48:24.360 Yeah. Yeah, just to see you, Benny. Put up your hands. 48:24.360 --> 48:26.360 You know I never carry a rod. 48:26.360 --> 48:30.360 Yeah, maybe you sort of wish you did now, huh? Muscles? 48:30.360 --> 48:32.360 Not that you have a chance to use it. 48:32.360 --> 48:33.360 What are you gonna do? 48:33.360 --> 48:35.360 I'm gonna kill your boyfriend, sweetheart. 48:35.360 --> 48:36.360 No. 48:36.360 --> 48:38.360 When I've done that, I think I'll think of something real nice to do to you. 48:38.360 --> 48:39.360 Ben. 48:39.360 --> 48:41.360 You sit right there where you are, sweetheart. 48:41.360 --> 48:44.360 Benny, you start backing up to that door, slow. 48:44.360 --> 48:45.360 It's a bathroom, isn't it? 48:45.360 --> 48:46.360 Yeah. 48:46.360 --> 48:49.360 I think I'll kill you in the bathtub, Benny. 48:49.360 --> 48:52.360 That way it'll be nice and quiet and there won't be so much mess. 48:52.360 --> 48:55.360 I'll reach behind you real careful and open the door. 48:55.360 --> 48:58.360 And when I tell you to start backing in, you back in. 48:58.360 --> 49:00.360 All right. Start backing. 49:07.360 --> 49:09.360 June. 49:09.360 --> 49:12.360 Is... is he dead? 49:14.360 --> 49:16.360 Yeah. 49:16.360 --> 49:19.360 Since when have you been carrying a gun? 49:19.360 --> 49:21.360 Just lately. 49:21.360 --> 49:24.360 Ben, are you all right? 49:24.360 --> 49:26.360 I just want to sit down a minute. 49:26.360 --> 49:28.360 Oh, Ben. 49:28.360 --> 49:30.360 We gotta get out of here, baby. 49:30.360 --> 49:32.360 Oh, yes, Ben, we'll go away. 49:32.360 --> 49:34.360 We'll get out of the country. We'll go to Canada. 49:34.360 --> 49:35.360 Sure. 49:35.360 --> 49:37.360 And we can get married there. 49:37.360 --> 49:39.360 You do want to marry me, don't you, Ben? 49:39.360 --> 49:40.360 You know I do, baby. 49:40.360 --> 49:43.360 And you can get work up there, Ben. I'll do something, too. 49:43.360 --> 49:45.360 And we'll do something decent with our lives. 49:45.360 --> 49:49.360 Darling, I know it's been partly my fault. I know I've just been weak. 49:49.360 --> 49:53.360 But it isn't too late to begin again, is it? Is it? 49:53.360 --> 49:55.360 Maybe not. 49:55.360 --> 49:59.360 But your aim on that second shot wasn't too good, baby. 49:59.360 --> 50:00.360 Ben? 50:00.360 --> 50:04.360 So, there's just one thing that's stopping us. 50:04.360 --> 50:06.360 Ben? 50:06.360 --> 50:08.360 What? 50:08.360 --> 50:11.360 The bullet hole in my belly. 50:11.360 --> 50:13.360 Oh, no! 50:22.360 --> 50:27.360 So that's how I came to wake up in this nice, clean bed with nothing to do but look out the window 50:27.360 --> 50:29.360 at the kids playing in the park. 50:29.360 --> 50:31.360 It's a hospital. 50:31.360 --> 50:33.360 And there was a big cop here with me, 50:33.360 --> 50:37.360 with his chair tilted up against the wall, reading the paper. 50:38.360 --> 50:39.360 Hey, Flatfoot! 50:39.360 --> 50:43.360 Why, hello, Big Shot. You've been in the land of Nod, haven't you? 50:43.360 --> 50:45.360 What are you doing here? 50:45.360 --> 50:47.360 Reading the funny papers. Can't you tell? 50:47.360 --> 50:49.360 Why can't you read them at home? 50:49.360 --> 50:53.360 Because there's been a little thing that we policemen call murder, Big Shot. 50:53.360 --> 50:56.360 And you're what we call a material witness. 50:56.360 --> 50:58.360 Where's June? June Lyons? 50:58.360 --> 51:00.360 She's in a nice, cozy cell, Big Shot. 51:00.360 --> 51:08.360 When she comes to trial, your statement will probably send her up for five or ten years to another nice, cozy cell. 51:08.360 --> 51:10.360 What statement? 51:10.360 --> 51:12.360 Oh, you'll talk. 51:12.360 --> 51:13.360 Yeah? 51:13.360 --> 51:15.360 You know what you got, Big Shot? 51:15.360 --> 51:18.360 Mm-hmm. I got ventilated with a lead slug. 51:18.360 --> 51:22.360 But that's not all, Big Shot. You got pertinitis. 51:22.360 --> 51:25.360 I have. So what? 51:25.360 --> 51:28.360 So? I've seen guys with pertinitis before. 51:28.360 --> 51:32.360 You know what happens? First they start getting a fever. 51:32.360 --> 51:34.360 Then they get kind of lightheaded. 51:34.360 --> 51:37.360 Then they get thirsty. Terribly thirsty. 51:37.360 --> 51:43.360 And after a while, they get so you can make them talk without they hardly know that they're talking. 51:43.360 --> 51:46.360 Oh, you'll talk all right. 51:46.360 --> 51:48.360 You think so? 51:48.360 --> 51:50.360 I know so. 51:50.360 --> 51:52.360 Get Chief Cantrell on the phone. 51:52.360 --> 51:57.360 Chief Cantrell ain't chief anymore as a result of these unfortunate series of events. 51:57.360 --> 52:01.360 Seems Mayor Janson began to wonder about him. 52:01.360 --> 52:03.360 Where's Lefty Gouse? 52:03.360 --> 52:06.360 You mean your faithful servant? Right outside. 52:06.360 --> 52:08.360 Can I talk to him? Alone? 52:08.360 --> 52:10.360 Sure. Why not? 52:15.360 --> 52:17.360 How is he, nurse? 52:17.360 --> 52:18.360 It's hard to say, yes. 52:18.360 --> 52:21.360 Hey, putty nose. Your boss wants to see you. 52:21.360 --> 52:24.360 Thanks, you funny, funny fella. 52:24.360 --> 52:26.360 Hiya, Benny. How you feeling? 52:26.360 --> 52:28.360 Not too good. 52:28.360 --> 52:31.360 Well, it just goes to show you, don't it? They're all alike. 52:31.360 --> 52:32.360 Who are all alike? 52:32.360 --> 52:37.360 These big shots that make a lot of dough for a while and then, bingo. What goods have done it? 52:37.360 --> 52:39.360 He seems like a nice man, though. 52:39.360 --> 52:44.360 Who, Ben? Sure, he's nice enough against. I got nothing against him. 52:44.360 --> 52:50.360 I just say it's a sucker's racket, that's all. Me, I want to live to be a grandfather. 52:50.360 --> 52:55.360 Oh, my grandfather. You got to start by being a father, you know. 52:55.360 --> 52:59.360 I know. My daddy told me all about that just the other day. 52:59.360 --> 53:02.360 Well, I'm going back in. 53:02.360 --> 53:06.360 Have you got it all, Lefty? Hello, Flatfoot. 53:06.360 --> 53:08.360 What do you have now, big shot? 53:08.360 --> 53:12.360 Ahem. You say the D.A. wants me to talk, huh? 53:12.360 --> 53:14.360 Maybe he was just pretending. 53:14.360 --> 53:17.360 Well, suppose I had some conditions. 53:17.360 --> 53:18.360 Like what? 53:18.360 --> 53:22.360 Oh, like I only talk in the apartment where it happened. 53:22.360 --> 53:26.360 June Lyons' apartment. And June Lyons has got to be there. 53:26.360 --> 53:30.360 And Lefty here, Lefty here, too, to back up some things that I might say. 53:30.360 --> 53:31.360 That might be arranged? 53:31.360 --> 53:35.360 Fine. Now, you think the D.A. might forget a couple of those little things, 53:35.360 --> 53:37.360 even holding against me if I talk? 53:37.360 --> 53:39.360 That'd be the general idea. 53:39.360 --> 53:42.360 All right. You can close the door as you go out 53:42.360 --> 53:47.360 and tell the D.A. to be around in about an hour. 53:47.360 --> 53:59.360 In about an hour, I'll talk. 53:59.360 --> 54:01.360 That cop was right. 54:01.360 --> 54:04.360 I'm beginning to feel a little wacky already. 54:04.360 --> 54:06.360 But the D.A. said he'd do it. 54:06.360 --> 54:09.360 They're going to take me out there on an ambulance tonight 54:09.360 --> 54:11.360 if June only catches on. 54:11.360 --> 54:14.360 But she's smart. She's a lawyer. 54:14.360 --> 54:17.360 This may be the last chance I'll have to write. 54:17.360 --> 54:19.360 But don't worry. 54:19.360 --> 54:28.360 Whichever way it comes out, you can read all about it in the papers. 54:28.360 --> 54:32.360 Well, now, all I'm saying is that I won't be responsible 54:32.360 --> 54:34.360 dragging a man in his condition way out here in an ambulance, 54:34.360 --> 54:37.360 lugging him up three flights of stairs on a stretcher. 54:37.360 --> 54:40.360 Doc, that's the way he wanted it, and that's the way it's going to be now. 54:40.360 --> 54:42.360 All right, all right. Everybody here? 54:42.360 --> 54:44.360 Miss Lyons? Let me go. 54:44.360 --> 54:45.360 Yes, yes. 54:45.360 --> 54:47.360 All right. How is he, doctor? 54:47.360 --> 54:50.360 I've already told you, but he can talk. 54:50.360 --> 54:53.360 Stop worrying about me, Mr. D.A. 54:53.360 --> 54:55.360 You're breaking my heart. 54:55.360 --> 54:58.360 Are you ready to start, Ben? 54:58.360 --> 55:01.360 Yes, I'm ready. 55:01.360 --> 55:05.360 Do you, Ben, take this woman, June, to be thy lawful wedded wife, 55:05.360 --> 55:11.360 to love and to cherish, for better, for worse, till death do you part? 55:11.360 --> 55:12.360 I do. 55:12.360 --> 55:17.360 Do you, June, take this man, Ben, to be thy lawful wedded husband, 55:17.360 --> 55:22.360 to love and to cherish, for better, for worse, till death do you part? 55:22.360 --> 55:23.360 I do. 55:23.360 --> 55:24.360 I pronounce... 55:24.360 --> 55:25.360 No, you don't. 55:25.360 --> 55:27.360 Oh, yes, I do. I'm a licensed preacher, 55:27.360 --> 55:30.360 and this apartment is outside the city jurisdiction. 55:30.360 --> 55:34.360 It's in the county, and this marriage license was taken out 55:34.360 --> 55:38.360 at the county courthouse one minute before they closed today. 55:38.360 --> 55:42.360 When I sign it, brother, it's legal. 55:46.360 --> 55:49.360 I pronounce you man and wife. 55:49.360 --> 55:55.360 I suppose you've heard that a man can't testify against his wife, Mr. D.A. 55:55.360 --> 55:56.360 Yeah, I know. 55:56.360 --> 56:01.360 By the way, do you mind if I kiss the bride? 56:01.360 --> 56:04.360 Go ahead. 56:04.360 --> 56:09.360 Oh, Ben, honey, that was the finest thing. 56:09.360 --> 56:10.360 Shh. 56:12.360 --> 56:14.360 That was nice. 56:14.360 --> 56:18.360 Oh, Ben, your face is so hot. 56:18.360 --> 56:21.360 Yeah, I thought maybe I was going to make it, baby, 56:21.360 --> 56:24.360 but I guess I'm not. 56:24.360 --> 56:29.360 Ben, Ben, doctor, quick, doctor, quick. 56:29.360 --> 56:34.360 It's a long missionary, Mrs. Missionary. 56:34.360 --> 56:38.360 Ben, no, Ben. 56:38.360 --> 56:46.360 Oh, Lord, we pray thee to receive the spirit of our dearly departed 56:46.360 --> 56:50.360 and to forgive him his trespasses 56:50.360 --> 57:09.360 as we forgive those who trespass against us. 57:09.360 --> 57:12.360 Suspense. 57:12.360 --> 57:14.360 Mr. Montgomery. 57:14.360 --> 57:17.360 I'm sure you'll agree with me when I say that it has been completely wonderful 57:17.360 --> 57:20.360 to hear a performance like the one we've just heard. 57:20.360 --> 57:24.360 I say like the one we've just heard, but that's a futile phrase 57:24.360 --> 57:27.360 because there's no one like Jim Cagney. 57:27.360 --> 57:32.360 For the benefit of latecomers, our star tonight on Suspense was the one and only Mr. Cagney. 57:32.360 --> 57:34.360 Our deepest appreciation, Jim. 57:34.360 --> 57:35.360 Thank you, Bob. 57:35.360 --> 57:37.360 For the great part, I enjoyed doing it. 57:37.360 --> 57:41.360 Which brings us properly and with gratitude to the author who conceived it, 57:41.360 --> 57:46.360 Mr. James M. Kane, who does us further honor by appearing here with us now. 57:46.360 --> 57:50.360 And who wishes he had a fresh choice of superlatives handy, Bob. 57:50.360 --> 57:52.360 Briefly, I thought it was excellent. 57:52.360 --> 57:55.360 Of course, it isn't exactly startling to learn all over again 57:55.360 --> 57:58.360 that Jim Cagney is a splendid dramatic actor. 57:58.360 --> 58:02.360 You know, Bob, I can tell you what I think is the particular element 58:02.360 --> 58:07.360 that makes Kane the most powerful writer of true suspense fiction in America. 58:07.360 --> 58:10.360 You interest me, Jim. 58:10.360 --> 58:13.360 He's always got a man and a woman. 58:13.360 --> 58:17.360 The crime, the violence, murder is an inevitable climax, 58:17.360 --> 58:21.360 an explosion of the energy that is two people generate from being in love. 58:21.360 --> 58:25.360 Boy meets girl, boy wants girl, boy kills on account of it if he has to, eh? 58:25.360 --> 58:30.360 Well, any author hates to think he is a formula man, no matter how good the formula is. 58:30.360 --> 58:34.360 But I suppose, broadly speaking, my crimes are crimes of passion. 58:34.360 --> 58:37.360 And successful, suspenseful stories, all of them. 58:37.360 --> 58:42.360 The Postman always rings twice, double indemnity, Mildred Pierce, Serenade. 58:42.360 --> 58:46.360 Not to mention Love's lovely counterfeit, or rather to mention it again, 58:46.360 --> 58:49.360 long enough for me to applaud two fine performances by Kathy Lewis, 58:49.360 --> 58:53.360 who played June tonight, and Wally Mayer, who was lefty. 58:53.360 --> 58:56.360 To the supporting players, my thanks. You're a great company. 58:56.360 --> 59:01.360 And a special bow in the direction of Bill Spear, your producer, director, deluxe. 59:01.360 --> 59:06.360 You've beaten me to the draw, Jim, but my congratulations, too, to all concerned. 59:06.360 --> 59:10.360 And may I ask who did the writing of the radio play adapted from my novel? 59:10.360 --> 59:14.360 Two of radio's finest writers, Robert Richards and Jason James. 59:14.360 --> 59:41.360 I think the adaptation was excellent.