1. The ride was over.Copy !req
2. I was trapped.Copy !req
3. And I find out I owe
suddenly a fortune.Copy !req
4. We made a deal:
I work and pay back.Copy !req
5. They'll okay me,
I can keep twenty dollars a week.Copy !req
6. They'll let me know
when I'm paid up.Copy !req
7. Stick, kid. I know.Copy !req
8. Ruby, what did I do?Copy !req
9. What do they want?Copy !req
10. What did I do?Copy !req
11. They're sore I been cutting out
too much on the job?Copy !req
12. All right, so tell me how
they set me up, at least?Copy !req
13. Shooting craps, drunk...
that's the only thing they could've.Copy !req
14. Hey, how much they fix
I should lose?Copy !req
15. You can tell me that.Copy !req
16. What, five grand?Copy !req
17. Ten?Copy !req
18. Twenty?Copy !req
19. Tell me!Copy !req
20. No.Copy !req
21. But why?
What...?Copy !req
22. Was it the girl?Copy !req
23. I've been playing around this time
somebody's private stock?Copy !req
24. She ain't private any more.Copy !req
25. Who owns me?Copy !req
26. Ruby...Copy !req
27. Stick.Copy !req
28. You know,
I really was nuts about that girl.Copy !req
29. I couldn't be funny
even if my life depended on it...Copy !req
30. and it did.Copy !req
31. No! Where are you going?Copy !req
32. There's no place
you can hide from them!Copy !req
33. You'll have to be an animal!Copy !req
34. This Westside Chicago?Copy !req
35. then it's my guess, gentlemen.Copy !req
36. They brought his
ventilated body out here,Copy !req
37. transferred it to one of
the used car beautiesCopy !req
38. you see above you right now,Copy !req
39. and passed it
gently through the air.Copy !req
40. And somehow our boy just never
made it to court in the morningCopy !req
41. to testify about his
sources of revenue.Copy !req
42. Or anybody else's.Copy !req
43. Neat.Copy !req
44. Then they sent him through channels
to the steel furnaces.Copy !req
45. No mess, no body
for the family to scream over,Copy !req
46. or the papers to report on,Copy !req
47. or the police to identify.Copy !req
48. Total death.Copy !req
49. "Jeremiah was entered into"Copy !req
50. "the dungeon
and into the caverns,"Copy !req
51. "and Jeremiah had remained there
many days."Copy !req
52. "Then Zedekiah the King"Copy !req
53. "asked Jeremiah secretly
in his house and..."Copy !req
54. "... and said, 'Is there any word
from the Lord?"Copy !req
55. "And Jeremiah said..."Copy !req
56. Social Security card.Copy !req
57. Lumber handlers!Copy !req
58. Truck helpers!Copy !req
59. Miklós...Copy !req
60. Wunejeva.Copy !req
61. Your name's Mickey One.
Garbage.Copy !req
62. Watson.
Bernavsky.Copy !req
63. Mickey One.Copy !req
64. Gus.
Wright.Copy !req
65. Jackson.
Harlow.Copy !req
66. What are you looking?Copy !req
67. You.Copy !req
68. What are you thinking?Copy !req
69. Not about me.Copy !req
70. No...
What are you doing in a cafeteria?Copy !req
71. All right, let's cut it out?Copy !req
72. What are you something,
the FBI or something?Copy !req
73. I'm the king of the silent pictures.Copy !req
74. I'm hiding out till
talkies blow over.Copy !req
75. Will you let me alone?Copy !req
76. I gotta go.Copy !req
77. You're a nice girl.Copy !req
78. If you ever need me...Copy !req
79. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen,Copy !req
80. and I say that
from the bottom of my cups.Copy !req
81. I come to you, as all of you
readers of my mail already know,Copy !req
82. direct from the Starlit Roof of the
fabulous Ritz Gotham in New York.Copy !req
83. You see, they don't have a club
at the Ritz Gotham, just a Starlit Roof.Copy !req
84. I couldn't afford a room,
and it was a warm night...Copy !req
85. I used to be quite a fella...Copy !req
86. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.Copy !req
87. And I say that from
the bottom of my cups.Copy !req
88. Still there?Copy !req
89. Boy, you've got
an iron constitution.Copy !req
90. And if you don't watch it,
your constitution is going to rust.Copy !req
91. And speaking of constitutions,
I used to be quite a fighter.Copy !req
92. I really was.Copy !req
93. I'll never forget my first opponent.
He was also my last opponent.Copy !req
94. He was a little guy,
he only came up to my chin.Copy !req
95. Trouble was, he came up too often.Copy !req
96. Watch it, Buster.
You've heard of ground beef?Copy !req
97. I'll never forget
I had this opponent covered with blood.Copy !req
98. Yours.Copy !req
99. Kid, when you're working...Copy !req
100. do you come and
monkey around with my mop?Copy !req
101. Oh, I can see this kid
believes in justice...Copy !req
102. getting 'justice' drunk as he can.Copy !req
103. Waiter, let me mix
this man's next drink.Copy !req
104. Blessed are the pure in spirits.Copy !req
105. There's nothing wickeder
than a mixed drink.Copy !req
106. I wouldn't say this kid gets drunk,Copy !req
107. but they caught him last night
putting pennies in a parking meterCopy !req
108. and looking up at the clock
on the Wrigley BuildingCopy !req
109. to see how much he weighed.Copy !req
110. Brother Rat!Copy !req
111. Get him up here.Copy !req
112. Georgie, Georgie,
you're my baby agent.Copy !req
113. Come on now, talk to me.Copy !req
114. How do you do, gentlemen.
Welcome again to the Pickle Club.Copy !req
115. You all remember me,
the human tranquilliser.Copy !req
116. I'm the management's answer
to the cold shower.Copy !req
117. A tidal wave just wiped out
all sex in Chicago.Copy !req
118. Georgie, I figure I'll spend
another month or here about...Copy !req
119. Free band, nobody listening.
I'll work up the whole act,Copy !req
120. and you'll get me a booking
someplace human.Copy !req
121. Even all night, away the hell out
in a neighbourhood spot.Copy !req
122. But women in the audience,
at least.Copy !req
123. And guys living. They got in them
laughs I can get to you.Copy !req
124. And the eyes on them
closed sometimes.Copy !req
125. And they listen at least to me.
Not like that other place.Copy !req
126. If I can just last past the night.Copy !req
127. Did you talk to the fat guy yet,
tonight? No?Copy !req
128. Mickey, I think it's time. The band.Copy !req
129. Hey, boy!
Don't you know it's time?Copy !req
130. Hey!Copy !req
131. Going to have a little talk
with your agent here,Copy !req
132. see can we keep you over.Copy !req
133. You want to get paid?
How much? How much?Copy !req
134. I'll pay you poison!
You can take your head of lettuceCopy !req
135. and stuff it in the Drainage Canal.
I said get out of here!Copy !req
136. Hey, you got the wrong place.Copy !req
137. We don't use broads
here at the Big X.Copy !req
138. Well, no, Mr Fryer, please.
I got now a high class, a boy...Copy !req
139. a comic.
You wouldn't find it a finer.Copy !req
140. I don't care.
The Drake Hotel, the Waldorf Astoria,Copy !req
141. A Polish boy, a beauty.
Made for here, this club.Copy !req
142. Dance, plays, sings,
his own material, jokes.Copy !req
143. What's his name?Copy !req
144. His name?
Mickey One.Copy !req
145. You didn't heard yet,
but wait, he...Copy !req
146. Ed Castle's in complete charge here,
all this kind of stuff,Copy !req
147. I'm just the business.Copy !req
148. Ed, listen, that little period
flesh-peddler guy's out here.Copy !req
149. Maybe you can give him a minute?
Who knows?Copy !req
150. Fine, Larry, why not?
Show him in.Copy !req
151. Prince of a gentleman in there.
A king. Get in there.Copy !req
152. Hey, what do you little guys
do for women?Copy !req
153. I'll be with you in a moment.Copy !req
154. All organic foods.Copy !req
155. You know what organic means?Copy !req
156. Organic means goodness.Copy !req
157. Toward nature, toward ourselves,Copy !req
158. towards our fellow man.Copy !req
159. Goodness of spirit
that tones the bodyCopy !req
160. to absorb all the nutrients.Copy !req
161. Now tell me about your man.Copy !req
162. Mr Castle,
a golden talent, a comic.Copy !req
163. His own material.
He sings, dance...Copy !req
164. What's his background?Copy !req
165. - What?
- Where has he played?Copy !req
166. He plays now in a nice tavern
on the West Side.Copy !req
167. - No?
- No. I'm sorry.Copy !req
168. But come only to look.
Mr Castle, I promise you...Copy !req
169. No. I'm sorry.Copy !req
170. Hey listen, Ed, maybe...Copy !req
171. we could at least
go look at this guy. He looks...Copy !req
172. He could be a bargain.Copy !req
173. Course, I'm only the business end.
It's your say-so.Copy !req
174. nineteen dollars
and forty cents for my teeth.Copy !req
175. I'm coming, Virginia!Copy !req
176. Did you ever wonder
how an astronaut feels?Copy !req
177. How would you feel
sitting on 150,000 partsCopy !req
178. built by the lowest bidder?Copy !req
179. Mickey! We got it!Copy !req
180. The man gave it
just now the okay.Copy !req
181. - What are you talking about?
- Mickey, a booking downtown.Copy !req
182. A booking downtown?
I don't want a booking downtown.Copy !req
183. What are you pulling on me?Copy !req
184. Who's this guy?Copy !req
185. I am Ed Castle.Copy !req
186. I suppose Berson has told you.Copy !req
187. You open for me
the next bill at the Xanadu.Copy !req
188. On Rush Street.Copy !req
189. Splendid.Copy !req
190. Berson here will give you
all the particulars.Copy !req
191. Now who's that guy?
I'm not taking that booking.Copy !req
192. You can cancel me out of this place.
I'm through.Copy !req
193. I told you to stay out.Copy !req
194. What, are you bringing him
here where I live?Copy !req
195. It's all right, my boy.
It was my idea.Copy !req
196. I'm here to help you.Copy !req
197. What's happened to you,
Mickey, since Shaley's?Copy !req
198. Are you worried about
the sudden jump to Rush Street?Copy !req
199. All right.Copy !req
200. I'm going to New York tonight.
This is my offer:Copy !req
201. Seventy-five dollars a week
over what we discussedCopy !req
202. and we'll defray the cost of
any new arrangements.Copy !req
203. Run-throughs start the day I get back.
Sunday week.Copy !req
204. And any favours,
or extras that you find you need,Copy !req
205. we'll gladly absorb.
Now don't hesitate to ask me about...Copy !req
206. - Why?Copy !req
207. What you said.
I'm not ready for the jump.Copy !req
208. My boy, there is no jump.
Not for people like you.Copy !req
209. Your talent is a bridge.
You'll walk across.Copy !req
210. Mickey, the successful comic
is the king of show business.Copy !req
211. People, respectable strangers,Copy !req
212. they'll stop you on the street
just to touch out at you.Copy !req
213. Driving, you'll drive a
milk-white CadillacCopy !req
214. with a portable bar
and air conditioning.Copy !req
215. Your name across the pockets
of your custom silk pyjamas.Copy !req
216. You'll have everything
you ever prayed for.Copy !req
217. Money, clothes, success.Copy !req
218. Al Jolson had
a hundred and fifty overcoatsCopy !req
219. in his closets when he died.Copy !req
220. No, now wait, you can't...Copy !req
221. I want you!Copy !req
222. You're throwing away
an opportunity.Copy !req
223. Let me help you.Copy !req
224. All right, the hell out!
Come on, out!Copy !req
225. - She said you were being...
- You!Copy !req
226. that you knew.Copy !req
227. I just gave her
nearly all my money.Copy !req
228. It's dark out.
I can't...Copy !req
229. All right, the only thing
I can help you out...Copy !req
230. A little room in there,
you can sleep tonight.Copy !req
231. Then get your money back.Copy !req
232. It's got a lock on it.Copy !req
233. Listen, you don't
interest me sexually.Copy !req
234. Talk! What are you,
some kind of Mahatma Gandhi?Copy !req
235. All right.
We'll work something.Copy !req
236. I'll sleep there.Copy !req
237. Who told you to come?Copy !req
238. Ruby Lapp?
Lapland?Copy !req
239. Want the place clean?Copy !req
240. Cry.Copy !req
241. What'd ya have troubles at the
other place? You're gun-shy.Copy !req
242. Here you don't have to worry.
The only one here's the old man.Copy !req
243. But lucky, five years ago
he got smart, he got lumbago.Copy !req
244. Now she works, he sits all day, reads
the want ads in the Dziennik ChicagoskiCopy !req
245. in case some day
somebody happens to advertiseCopy !req
246. for an ignorant Polack with lumbago.Copy !req
247. To read the want ads
in the Dziennik...Copy !req
248. Chicagoski.Copy !req
249. You know you made a joke?Copy !req
250. You hungry?
I'll get you something to eat.Copy !req
251. Don't knock, come right in!
Bring a friend!Copy !req
252. It's a public place.
A comfort station.Copy !req
253. What?Copy !req
254. What?Copy !req
255. Your name's Genevieve Drayton.
Your family lives in Medford, Kansas.Copy !req
256. Jenny Drayton.Copy !req
257. The other's just
in case of accident.Copy !req
258. You told the truth, about the money.Copy !req
259. I thought you were lying.Copy !req
260. What kind of name is that, Drayton?
American something?Copy !req
261. I guess so.Copy !req
262. My brother found
some people in England,Copy !req
263. but I don't think we have
any family there.Copy !req
264. No, I don't think we have
any family there either. In England.Copy !req
265. We have family in Buffalo,
Calumet City, Hamtramck, Warsaw.Copy !req
266. Wherever particular
Polacks congregate.Copy !req
267. - Do you drink?
- No. Not really.Copy !req
268. - Smoke?Copy !req
269. What do you do?Copy !req
270. To the President...
Ignacy Paderewski.Copy !req
271. I always gotta have
a drink in the daytime.Copy !req
272. My old man must have been a lush.Copy !req
273. Is your father...?Copy !req
274. How would I know?Copy !req
275. My mother was a waitress
on a fast streetcar line.Copy !req
276. I don't want you to get
the wrong idea about her.Copy !req
277. She was a...
she was a tramp.Copy !req
278. Nah, I'm a wise guy:
She was all right.Copy !req
279. Listen, I was the only kid
in the neighbourhoodCopy !req
280. who had to go out in the street
to learn how to swear.Copy !req
281. She never talked dirty.Copy !req
282. Later on I found out:
The words they said, she did.Copy !req
283. Honest to God, like...Copy !req
284. She never...Copy !req
285. you know, shanty
or some fleabag hotel.Copy !req
286. I wanted I grow up like other kids.Copy !req
287. So I did. I grew up like any
red-blooded American kidCopy !req
288. with six different "misters"
for a fatherCopy !req
289. and a mother who's
on a honeymoon always.Copy !req
290. She never drank or smoked.Copy !req
291. And I bet you haven't gotten
a Drayton that's any better like that.Copy !req
292. Well, I...Copy !req
293. - I have a father...
- That's what I mean.Copy !req
294. - No, I didn't mean it like that.
- It's all right.Copy !req
295. Besides, it's different in English.Copy !req
296. So your old man's a rounder?Copy !req
297. I like to hear things like that.
About Protestants.Copy !req
298. I'm the only American who ever went
to Berlitz to learn American.Copy !req
299. "Do you make these
mistakes in English?"Copy !req
300. Their mistakes were better
than my English.Copy !req
301. Are you in the...
theatrical business?Copy !req
302. Why?Copy !req
303. Well, you're very quick.
That's all.Copy !req
304. I'm a comic.Copy !req
305. You... are you very good?
I'm sure you are.Copy !req
306. On stage I'm a
Polack Noël Coward.Copy !req
307. - Ever worked a stage?
- Oh no. No, I'd be terrified.Copy !req
308. Oh, I dunno.Copy !req
309. Sometimes it's the only place
in the whole world you're free.Copy !req
310. I mean a couple of hours
every night at least,Copy !req
311. you're out there on that floor,Copy !req
312. you're the best person in the world
you always wanted to be.Copy !req
313. Yourself.Copy !req
314. The one exactly
they want you to be.Copy !req
315. They clap for.Copy !req
316. The same.Copy !req
317. One.Copy !req
318. Where else?Copy !req
319. In your dreams.Copy !req
320. In bed.Copy !req
321. What?Copy !req
322. What is it?Copy !req
323. If I could...Copy !req
324. You don't know.
You never asked me my name even.Copy !req
325. Mickey.Copy !req
326. Again?Copy !req
327. Fellow comics of the Club Lapland,Copy !req
328. I see that you too have found outCopy !req
329. that the management here
is in the meat business.Copy !req
330. Prime ribs of comedian.Copy !req
331. Ruby, I can't.Copy !req
332. Three times a night go out
and make jokes on my own grave.Copy !req
333. I can't.Copy !req
334. Or maybe I can raise the money
and pay 'em up.Copy !req
335. You help me. Twenty thousand.
It ain't the end.Copy !req
336. Why not?Copy !req
337. How do you know it's
twenty thousand? I didn't say.Copy !req
338. How do you know it's only money?Copy !req
339. - Why, shooting craps. You said..
- You said.Copy !req
340. How do you know it's not
all the other crap gamesCopy !req
341. they tore up on ya?Copy !req
342. And the bookie slips.Copy !req
343. How do you know it's not the car
they gave you, you smashed up?Copy !req
344. And the liquor, and the
good times, and the apartment?Copy !req
345. And the clothes,
and Christmas, and birthdays,Copy !req
346. - and the rehearsal halls?
- These were favours.Copy !req
347. They're favours as long
as they want them to be favours.Copy !req
348. How do you know it isn't
all the trips they paid for,Copy !req
349. and the special material,
and the arrangements in music?Copy !req
350. The dentist.Copy !req
351. The lawsuits, the parties,
the "expenses"?Copy !req
352. Twenty thousand?
Twenty thousand's just a fraction.Copy !req
353. How do you know it's not the...
your whole life you're living.Copy !req
354. Big mouth in the steam baths,
four a.m.Copy !req
355. So they bought me.Copy !req
356. I'm tied up here
the rest of my life.Copy !req
357. Where are you going?Copy !req
358. There's no place
you can hide from them.Copy !req
359. You'll have to be an animal!Copy !req
360. Four and a half years I travelled,Copy !req
361. Up and down the back end
of the South. An animal.Copy !req
362. Tried two, three times to get
in touch with Ruby Lapp in Detroit.Copy !req
363. Nothing.Copy !req
364. Now today they're here
pressuring me.Copy !req
365. Do they know?Copy !req
366. I don't know for sure
they know who I am or not.Copy !req
367. Yet.Copy !req
368. But I haven't got that kind of guts
to stick around and find out.Copy !req
369. Couldn't you talk to someone?Copy !req
370. I talk to you.Copy !req
371. This you don't talk.
Nobody's going to talk to you.Copy !req
372. I don't understand.Copy !req
373. Anything. I mean,
hiding from you-don't-know-who,Copy !req
374. for a crime you're not
even sure you've committed.Copy !req
375. And the only thing I know:
I'm guilty.Copy !req
376. - Of what?
- You sure you don't want a drink?Copy !req
377. Of what are you guilty?Copy !req
378. Of not being innocent.
What am I, a lawyer?Copy !req
379. Ed?Copy !req
380. This kid, Mickey.Copy !req
381. Larry, I admire the boy
as much as you do.Copy !req
382. I phoned his agent
five days runningCopy !req
383. to get him down here.
When I get back...Copy !req
384. Would I be stepping out...Copy !req
385. Like, would I be stepping out of line
if I tried with him?Copy !req
386. No!
I'll get to him.Copy !req
387. I'll get to him.Copy !req
388. It's Mr Castle again.Copy !req
389. It's called 'Yes'.Copy !req
390. "Yes' will come alive
even while destroying itself."Copy !req
391. "Its greatest freedom will come out
of its greatest threat."Copy !req
392. "For 'Yes', courage is freedom."Copy !req
393. And beautiful music.Copy !req
394. That's my own jukebox.Copy !req
395. But they're pushing me.Copy !req
396. This mob guy comes in,Copy !req
397. put in their noisebox,
forty per cent off the top.Copy !req
398. No, sir. What for?Copy !req
399. Who told you to turn out the lights?Copy !req
400. You don't know these people.Copy !req
401. Get down.
I'll do your back again.Copy !req
402. No, you're tired.Copy !req
403. Boy, they got me now.
I'm scared to stay.Copy !req
404. I don't know if I can stand it
to go without you.Copy !req
405. Darling, don't go.Copy !req
406. Let's stay.Copy !req
407. To the run-through.Copy !req
408. One day. For me.Copy !req
409. You don't have to go.Copy !req
410. - It's not true.
- Shut up, you don't know...Copy !req
411. You distrust everybody.Copy !req
412. Who should I trust?Copy !req
413. - Mr Castle has phoned you...
- He's in with them.Copy !req
414. at least three times from New York.Copy !req
415. He's in with them.Copy !req
416. How do you know?Copy !req
417. Because I don't know that he isn't.Copy !req
418. - Your own agent brought him here.
- He's in with them.Copy !req
419. You're in with them.Copy !req
420. No, that's the way
you've got to be, to live.Copy !req
421. Now will you let me
the hell alone?Copy !req
422. Only to the run-through, darling.Copy !req
423. Just to be at the club
and to see what you're afraid of.Copy !req
424. To scale it down.
To make it real.Copy !req
425. Then the nightmare would be over.Copy !req
426. We could live.
With the lights out at night.Copy !req
427. We could make love in the dark.
We could...Copy !req
428. You had me worried there.Copy !req
429. Hey, that kid.
He's coming, isn't he?Copy !req
430. Yes, I should hope so.
You off to pick up your people now?Copy !req
431. Yeah. Hey, but no, this Mickey,
no kidding.Copy !req
432. What's the name of this
person you're picking up?Copy !req
433. I need that kid to be here today.
He's your responsibility.Copy !req
434. Of course he is. Gladly.Copy !req
435. I mean he's your responsibility.Copy !req
436. I mean, any extras
or specials on your trip,Copy !req
437. don't forget,
the company's pleasure.Copy !req
438. Well now, I picked up
some art pieces that cost...Copy !req
439. The company.Copy !req
440. Just hand in the
piece of paper, the receipt.Copy !req
441. The hell you're doing, anyways?
The library. The one day I need you.Copy !req
442. Sweetheart, I promise
I'll be at the club before you.Copy !req
443. I never went to a library Sunday
in my whole life.Copy !req
444. I'm supposed to go all week.Copy !req
445. You know [I've hardly
been to the office.Copy !req
446. Oh darling,
you give me everything.Copy !req
447. I love you. Believe.Copy !req
448. Hey, Ed. I only got a second.
I got the man with me.Copy !req
449. Did you hear from the kid?Copy !req
450. He'll be here.Copy !req
451. Now you're sure?Copy !req
452. What do you mean,
you've got them with you?Copy !req
453. Where are they?Copy !req
454. Up in the light booth.Copy !req
455. Larry, what's this all about?
I don't...Copy !req
456. You're sure that he's coming?Copy !req
457. I'm in touch with him right now.Copy !req
458. Good. Swell. Yeah.Copy !req
459. Hey...Copy !req
460. They'll call you when they're ready.Copy !req
461. C'mon, let's get outta here.Copy !req
462. I thought perhaps I'd
misunderstood you on the phone,Copy !req
463. but Mickey will be here,
is that right?Copy !req
464. Oh yes, but...Copy !req
465. Splendid boy.Copy !req
466. But just for the run-through so far.
You said...Copy !req
467. No, but you've double-checked
with him, haven't you?Copy !req
468. About being here today.Copy !req
469. You see, I have my people out there
rigging up a special audition for him.Copy !req
470. - Audition?
- Don't you see?Copy !req
471. He doesn't know.
Mickey trusts no-one.Copy !req
472. Why not?
Do you know?Copy !req
473. Do I?Copy !req
474. Well, yes.Copy !req
475. Actually, it's the reason I asked
to see you before he came.Copy !req
476. I'm not sure that he can even get by
this afternoon without your help.Copy !req
477. Oh, yeah, I...Copy !req
478. Oh swell, boy!Copy !req
479. Larry?Copy !req
480. What's Mickey's problem?Copy !req
481. That was four years ago,Copy !req
482. but he...Copy !req
483. he still has this obsessive idea
that he'll be "rubbed out", or...Copy !req
484. You're bleeding.Copy !req
485. Come in.Copy !req
486. Mr Castle.Copy !req
487. So how's it in New York?
Did you hurt yourself?Copy !req
488. Where is everybody,
the other acts?Copy !req
489. It's all right, my boy.
You've nothing to worry about.Copy !req
490. They're coming later.Copy !req
491. What do you mean?Copy !req
492. And they're futzing around
the lights out there.Copy !req
493. For a first run-through?Copy !req
494. Oh that, Mickey, they're just
experimenting, that's all.Copy !req
495. All right, Mickey.
Those lights are for you.Copy !req
496. It's a marvelous opportunity.Copy !req
497. I've arranged a special audition.Copy !req
498. - This could insure your career.
- What audition?Copy !req
499. You didn't...
I don't do any blind auditions.Copy !req
500. I promise you
there's nothing to fear.Copy !req
501. There's not...
not even a drummer.Copy !req
502. I can't.
Nobody knows my material.Copy !req
503. That doesn't matter to this man.Copy !req
504. Why not?Copy !req
505. Well, he...Copy !req
506. I don't know, he seems to think
he knows your work.Copy !req
507. From where?Copy !req
508. What's the name of the guy?Copy !req
509. What's his name?Copy !req
510. All right, Mickey,
the situation is this.Copy !req
511. This happens to be
Larry Fryer's project.Copy !req
512. - Now he's on the business side.
- But you said that you...Copy !req
513. I don't know the man's name.Copy !req
514. I just know he's connected with
some clubs here in the Midwest,Copy !req
515. and now he's here, and they want
to look you over for themselves.Copy !req
516. They?Copy !req
517. - He's here with an associate and a...
- Where?Copy !req
518. - What?
- Where are they?Copy !req
519. - What difference does that make?
- Where are they?Copy !req
520. Where are they?
Look, it isn't what...Copy !req
521. Mickey, they're back up in the
light booth, but that's not...Copy !req
522. The light booth.Copy !req
523. What'd you walk me into?Copy !req
524. It's not true.Copy !req
525. You're building your own monster.Copy !req
526. What's not true?Copy !req
527. Nothing.Copy !req
528. What?Copy !req
529. Nothing.Copy !req
530. I didn't mean it that way.Copy !req
531. What way?Copy !req
532. You told him?Copy !req
533. Mickey, I was sure that...Copy !req
534. You told him?Copy !req
535. - Castle.
- All right,Copy !req
536. send the piece of talent out here.
We're ready for him.Copy !req
537. Mickey, no!Copy !req
538. There's nothing to run from.
You run now, they will remember.Copy !req
539. Wait, just a moment.Copy !req
540. These men are in a position to
guarantee your future.Copy !req
541. They're businessmen.Copy !req
542. All right, just a second.
I'm coming out.Copy !req
543. My boy, we'll all of us be here
in the same room with you.Copy !req
544. - I was sure Mr Castle...
- I told you no.Copy !req
545. I told you my life
in your hands. No.Copy !req
546. What right you got to turn me inCopy !req
547. for some virgin idea
you're a god with my life?Copy !req
548. You're a slut with
a snake in your mouth.Copy !req
549. Die!Copy !req
550. No, but I have thisCopy !req
551. - replacement in mind, and I...
- I thought he was a single.Copy !req
552. She's a friend.
You know, but...Copy !req
553. And the little guy?Copy !req
554. The agent.Copy !req
555. But I have this other performer
in mind that I...Copy !req
556. And where have you been?Copy !req
557. All right, you ready now?Copy !req
558. I said, are you ready?Copy !req
559. - Yeah.
- Okay, then the rest of you out.Copy !req
560. I don't want any audience.
I'm the audience.Copy !req
561. I said the rest of you, out!Copy !req
562. - Now listen...
- Out!Copy !req
563. Mickey, we'll wait there
for you in the office.Copy !req
564. No, I'll be using the office myself.Copy !req
565. All right, next!Copy !req
566. Next!Copy !req
567. Hey!Copy !req
568. Okay, now turn out
the light by you.Copy !req
569. Murder, anybody?Copy !req
570. What, are you laughing or aiming?Copy !req
571. Who says I don't have
to do this for a living?Copy !req
572. I mean, I heard of tough audiences,
but I think this is illegal.Copy !req
573. I don't even know
if I'm in season.Copy !req
574. Or couldn't you just give me a gunCopy !req
575. and show me the way
to the men's room?Copy !req
576. Boy, if I'm lucky, I got
the greatest finish in show business.Copy !req
577. I only wish I could be there.Copy !req
578. There's gotta be somebody there!
There's a light on.Copy !req
579. This gives you an appetiteCopy !req
580. to live.Copy !req
581. Only a hundred and forty-nine
more overcoats I'd have been a star.Copy !req
582. My name up on pyjamas.Copy !req
583. I could have been
the King of Show Business.Copy !req
584. God save the King.Copy !req
585. The Queen.Copy !req
586. Nah, the most beautiful...Copy !req
587. Mickey?Copy !req
588. I can go with you.
I'll work.Copy !req
589. Nah. I got to go now different.Copy !req
590. Where's Georgie?Copy !req
591. Where are you going?Copy !req
592. I'm going.
To find somebody.Copy !req
593. To who owns me.Copy !req
594. Georgie. Find him.
Maybe he knows something.Copy !req
595. And tell him to stay out of it.Copy !req
596. I can't see where
he's my responsibility.Copy !req
597. I want him here tomorrow!Copy !req
598. As long as he's in this town
and you booked him,Copy !req
599. - he's your responsibility!
- But Larry...Copy !req
600. He's in this town,
he's your responsibility.Copy !req
601. I don't know. I don't know
what you're talking about.Copy !req
602. You told me yourself.
I was in here with that girl.Copy !req
603. Go on, get out of here.Copy !req
604. You said the mob guy
came in here...Copy !req
605. I don't remember.Copy !req
606. I'm in trouble.
I need help.Copy !req
607. You said the guy came here,Copy !req
608. he tried to get you
to use the mob jukebox.Copy !req
609. You told him you'd...Copy !req
610. Jeez, I can't get over it, you.Copy !req
611. Jesus, I can't get over it, you.Copy !req
612. Legal gambling.
I pay off every week.Copy !req
613. The guy comes around.Copy !req
614. Hey, how you happen
to come here, my place?Copy !req
615. All these years.Copy !req
616. I'm in trouble.Copy !req
617. I'm trying,
I can't give myself up.Copy !req
618. I gotta find out if the mob's
trying to kill me.Copy !req
619. I've been eight different places,
everybody. Now you.Copy !req
620. Now you.Copy !req
621. How do you turn yourself in?Copy !req
622. All right, just give me
the guy you pay off.Copy !req
623. You said before.Copy !req
624. Eddie, I need...Copy !req
625. Eddie?Copy !req
626. Niepowiem.Copy !req
627. Save me.
Pomóź mi.Copy !req
628. The only thing I know, the game.Copy !req
629. Their big open crap game.Copy !req
630. All their killers, the big shots go.Copy !req
631. Area City someplace.
That's all I know.Copy !req
632. No, Eddie, that's no good.Copy !req
633. They could kill you there.
I got to go sideways.Copy !req
634. Private. One guy.Copy !req
635. Eddie!Copy !req
636. No, beat it. I don't give handouts.
Here, go sell a calendar.Copy !req
637. Get yourself a drink someplace else.Copy !req
638. I don't want you.
Get out of here!Copy !req
639. Only one
in the whole city of ChicagoCopy !req
640. can tell me a gangster to go to.Copy !req
641. Next year, dammit, I vote!Copy !req
642. Turn around, please.Copy !req
643. You are on closed-circuit
television.Copy !req
644. You got the slip?Copy !req
645. You know, his shirt is on inside out.Copy !req
646. What is it?
Vegas, New Orleans, Cleveland or Detroit?Copy !req
647. - Detroit.
- Read it.Copy !req
648. But why is his shirt on inside out?Copy !req
649. Of course, open it. Read it.Copy !req
650. "Dear Lois,"Copy !req
651. Lois?Copy !req
652. They're sending the collection reports
to the secretaries now?Copy !req
653. - Come on, come on.
- "Give the bearer the quiet brush-off..."Copy !req
654. The what? Who sent you here?Copy !req
655. Why is his shirt on inside out?Copy !req
656. Get him out of here.Copy !req
657. No, we don't have a Mr Berson here.Copy !req
658. You must have been
calling someplace else.Copy !req
659. Excuse me, do you have
a Mr Berson here?Copy !req
660. No.Copy !req
661. So I owe the Syndicate, and I could
get killed. Now what can I do?Copy !req
662. Is it a gambling debt?Copy !req
663. All right, yeah.Copy !req
664. Forget it, you don't have to pay.Copy !req
665. Gambling's illegal in Illinois.Copy !req
666. Mickey!Copy !req
667. Eleven hundred dollars.
To get out of the business.Copy !req
668. Don't you understand?
I'm trying to help you.Copy !req
669. Then help me. Get me
a mob guy to talk to.Copy !req
670. Get out,
you're wasting your time.Copy !req
671. - You're too weak for a big room.
- That's all the help I want.Copy !req
672. - You'll spend your life in deadfalls.
- I don't care about that.Copy !req
673. You're a talented amateur.Copy !req
674. You're a Syndicate messenger boy.Copy !req
675. Get out of the business.
You're not strong enough.Copy !req
676. I'm strong enough.Copy !req
677. You just find somebody to clear me.
I'll show you.Copy !req
678. You ask anybody
knew me in Detroit.Copy !req
679. Ask Ruby Lapp.Copy !req
680. Ask Ruby Lapp.Copy !req
681. The manager, the Lapland.
Did she tell you Ruby Lapp?Copy !req
682. Ask him. You're a manager.
He'll tell you.Copy !req
683. - You're being a child.
- No, you... Long distance?Copy !req
684. - Put it down.
- Don't you understand?Copy !req
685. He'll tell you I'm
strong enough for a big room.Copy !req
686. - Put it down, Mickey.
- Operator, we're tryingCopy !req
687. to locate in Detroit a...
Here, you tell her.Copy !req
688. No.Copy !req
689. Lapp. Ruby Lapp.Copy !req
690. Ruby Lapp is dead.Copy !req
691. When?Copy !req
692. First with a broken bottle
in the face before they...Copy !req
693. Run.Copy !req
694. The game. Where's the game at?Copy !req
695. The big guys.
The gambling.Copy !req
696. - Run. Something new has been added.
- Outside of Area City someplace...Copy !req
697. They don't close the tidy
machine guns any more.Copy !req
698. It's the night of the bomb,
under the floorboard of your car,Copy !req
699. - your porch, your bed, it's a crushout.
- I don't care.Copy !req
700. If you know so much,
just tell me where the game is.Copy !req
701. You know you're in with them.Copy !req
702. I swear I'm not touched by them.Copy !req
703. I happen to work in a field they
control. I have the right to work.Copy !req
704. They don't control me. In the
real world, you have to be realistic.Copy !req
705. You have to make
certain compromises.Copy !req
706. - I don't care about...
- Mickey, you have no time.Copy !req
707. Take this, get out of this town.
I don't want to be responsible for you.Copy !req
708. You have no time.Copy !req
709. - Just tell me where the game is.
- I don't know where the game is.Copy !req
710. Now let me help you.Copy !req
711. You start work tomorrow.
First show eight thirty.Copy !req
712. Be there.Copy !req
713. The cab driver said you could tell me
where the game's at these days.Copy !req
714. - The big game.
- We've got games right here in the back.Copy !req
715. You wanna play?Copy !req
716. I mean the big game.Copy !req
717. Well, if you don't know
where to find the big game,Copy !req
718. we can't tell you.
You got to be invited.Copy !req
719. Georgie!Copy !req
720. Hey, Georgie!Copy !req
721. Pencils? Shoelaces?
Razor blades?Copy !req
722. Beat it, Eddie.Copy !req
723. I mean, it's a great act
you got there, but tell me,Copy !req
724. which one of you guys
is the straight man?Copy !req
725. I mean, I...Copy !req
726. Hey, don't I know you?
I do know you.Copy !req
727. You're in the business.Copy !req
728. What's your name?
I know you.Copy !req
729. Hey, get him!Copy !req
730. I can't get over it.Copy !req
731. Nobody in the whole world
you can confess?Copy !req
732. Who were those men in the booth?Copy !req
733. Why did Georgie run away?Copy !req
734. Nobody.Copy !req
735. Did they know?Copy !req
736. You can't give up.Copy !req
737. Then run!Copy !req
738. I don't understand
why you won't go.Copy !req
739. You still have a chance.Copy !req
740. Ruby Lapp.Copy !req
741. Nah, no more running away.Copy !req
742. I haven't got any more
the guts to live that scared.Copy !req
743. I gotta live the only way
I'm at least free.Copy !req
744. With you.Copy !req
745. Are you frightened, Mickey?Copy !req
746. As long as I live.Copy !req
747. Georgie?Copy !req
748. They still say he didn't
live there at the hotel?Copy !req
749. He lived there.Copy !req
750. Then he's got to be out front.Copy !req
751. And now, folks, I want you
to be nice to a boyCopy !req
752. who comes to us tonight
with no time at all for rehearsal.Copy !req
753. He wanted a spot on the show,
and we really put him on the spot.Copy !req
754. The big X.Copy !req
755. So I want you to give a big
Xanadu welcome to a new, freshCopy !req
756. and brave comedy talent.Copy !req
757. - The one and only Mickey One.
- Mickey, if something happened to...Copy !req
758. Maybe you shouldn't.Copy !req
759. Georgie.Copy !req
760. I played this room once before
under another face.Copy !req
761. Now, any of you seen a little agent
at your table named Georgie?Copy !req
762. No?Copy !req
763. Yeah, I played this room before.Copy !req
764. I ran out that time.
There was something I didn't likeCopy !req
765. about the audience.Copy !req
766. There wasn't any.Copy !req
767. George?Copy !req
768. No?Copy !req
769. I lost him, Georgie, last night.
I got...Copy !req
770. caught in a crap game
with the United Nations.Copy !req
771. And this game cost me
two teeth, six dollarsCopy !req
772. and a naturalised midget.Copy !req
773. The only thing I...
I don't know if it passed or faded.Copy !req
774. If I'm next...Copy !req
775. This time I ran out of running.Copy !req
776. This time I'm staying around
to see my finish.Copy !req
777. Now who's up there?Copy !req
778. Am I coming through?Copy !req
779. All right, then.
Let's talk about the weather tomorrow.Copy !req
780. Is there going to be any?Copy !req
781. Is there any word?Copy !req
782. Is there any word?Copy !req
783. So this is the word?Copy !req