When I start out to make a fool of myself, there's very little can stop me.
If I'd known where it would end, I'd have never let anything start.
If I had been in my right mind. That is.
But once I had seen her,
once I had seen her,
I was not in my right mind for quite some time.
Good evening. Said I thinking myself a very gay dog. Indeed.
But here was a beautiful girl all by yourself and me with plenty of time.
Nothing to do but get myself into trouble.
Some people can smell danger,
not me.
I asked her if she'd have a cigarette.
It's my last one. I'd be looking forward to it.
So please don't disappoint me, but I don't smoke.
That's how I found her.
And from that moment on,
I did not use my head very much
except to be thinking of her.
But in the park in those days,
the rough young fellas used to be staging hold ups and the like,
however these young fellas were not professionals.
And that's maybe the reason why I start out in this story a little bit like a
hero
which I most certainly have not.
The cab driver was waking up. He was ok.
So I borrowed his carriage to drive the lady home
in a short while. She recovered herself and brightened up.
What were the things I found to tell her to get her mind off the scare she had had,
you know, and to set her thinking as well of the brave fellow that had rescued her
porosity.
Fair Rosalie's
today. My Mac
Rosalie.
Why
not a gorgeous romantic little name entirely.
My name's
Mia. You're
nothing
more than a poor sailor man and him with the
princess of central park riding along at his side.
Princess Rosalie. I want to know
where does the princess come from?
I don't know why she should tell you, but,
well,
her parents were Russian. Quite Russian.
You never heard of the place where she comes from?
Would your highness care to gamble, gamble?
She's done it for a living.
I bet you a dollar. I've been to the place where you were born.
Chu, it's on the China coast.
Chu,
it's the second wickedest city of the world. What's the first Mako?
Wouldn't she say so? I would,
I worked there. You worked in Mako?
Here's your dollar.
How do you rate Shanghai? I work there too. Yeah. As a gambler.
Well, I hope you were luckier tonight.
You need more than luck in Shanghai.
Do you know what,
what?
I bet I could drive the car from down there? Inside with you.
There's a police car on the other road.
We best get out of the park.
The horse and car could make it too simple for the cops to be fighting.
You don't like them very much, do you? The cops?
They could struggle along without our, doing their work for him.
Watch where you're going, Mike. Get that nag out of here.
Now, the cops are bound to pick us up.
We'd best leave the cab here and walk.
You certainly don't like the police. I do not. My car's right there in the garage.
Anyway,
tell me Michael.
Is there some reason why the police don't like you?
Well, they never put me in jail in America.
You know, the nicest jails are in Australia. The worst are in Spain.
What law did you break in Spain?
Who killed a man
just now? You almost killed a girl.
Is there a law against that? Try it? You won't like the jails in America.
They put you in jail for murder in this country? I didn't think so.
There was a man killed his wife in Frisco last week.
She gone to the ice box for a British sufferer.
He thought she was a burglar. He said he shot her five times in the head.
He had a good lawyer. Exactly. I saw his picture of the newspaper bain produce
something. Banister.
Arthur banister. It said he's the world's greatest criminal lawyer.
In fact, the world's greatest criminal. Some people think he is
send the bill to my husband.
If you're a sailor, Michael, there's a job for you.
Would you like to work for me?
I'd like it.
I'm
shipping out tomorrow.
So are we to the west coast by way of the canal?
The shorter man on the crew,
I'll make it worth your while.
Could it be this? You're looking for?
He was smart to carry a gun traveling alone in the park.
But if you knew you had the gun in your bag, why throw away the bag?
I meant for you to find it.
I don't know how to shoot.
It's easy.
You just pull the trigger
some dame, ain't she? Yeah.
And some car
evening Mr Grisby
Mr Banister sent it all the way from San Francisco
just so she could have it here. Banister.
Arthur Banister himself. Gee,
some guys have all the luck.
Personally.
I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband.
If she'll fool a husband. I figure she'll fool me.
Now, New York is not as big a city as it pretends to be. So I spent the next day
in the hiring hall waiting for a ship
that way. Big boob that I am.
I thought I could escape her.
Excuse me?
I wonder if you could help me locate it,
Mr o'hara,
Michael o'hara, Mike o'hara.
You mean black Irish? The big heart to talk fancy? I don't know him myself.
Yeah, I know. Him.
Joe. Joe go, Mike o'hara. A guy here wants to see him,
Michael o'hara.
Please step to the bulletin board. A man wants to see you
shipmates. We was in Spain together.
They started calling him Black Irish after what he did to them finks back in 39.
Yeah, Mike's got a lot of blood
but he knows how to hurt a man when he gets mad.
You were asking for me
o
Carter,
you know what they call an able bodied seaman. That's what they call it.
You ever work on a yacht?
No,
I presume you can handle a speedboat.
Well, I presume, so
do you drink?
I beg your pardon?
I asked you if you drink
whatever's set in front of me doesn't have to be wholesome just so l
it's strong.
Do you drink habitually? May I ask Mr if you're extending the invitation?
Well,
I guess it might as well be.
Now Mr o'hara, if you'll show me to the nearest bar,
we will sit down together and discuss your coming to work for me.
My name is Banister
Banister.
Mhm.
Hey, boys represent Mr Arthur Banister, the world's greatest criminal lawyer.
He'll get you out of anything. It's Jake Bjornson
and
Goldie, right? A prime goldfish is the name. Glad
Banister's wife sent him to get me. Isn't that right? Mr Banister?
Now, Mr Banister is going to buy us all a few drinks.
Well, I entertained myself by
refusing to go to work for him.
You know,
Mike saved my wife's life.
Yeah.
Would you mind inciting these cranes? Number four?
That's all we'd like to hear.
Yeah,
Mike's quite a hero.
Quite a
tough guy.
Mister.
There ain't no such thing.
No such thing as
tough guy.
What's a tough guy?
I don't know
a guy with an edge.
What makes him sing better than me? Something in here. What makes it loud?
A microphone? That's his edge
edge. A gun or a knife, a nightstick or A R or something. The other guy ain't got,
yeah, a little extra reach on a punch, a set of brass knuckles, a stripe on the sleeve.
A badge that says cop on it. A rock in your hand or a bank roll in your pocket.
That's an edge brother
without an edge.
There ain't no tough guy.
You hear that black Irish?
Wow.
Be
it in my
oh
yeah. But what makes him sing prettier than you?
Naturally? Someone had to take Mr Banister home.
I told myself I couldn't leave a helpless man
lying unconscious in a saloon.
Well,
it was me that was unconscious
and he was exactly as helpless
as a sleeping rattlesnake.
Hey, it's nice of you, Michael would be so nice to me while I was so drunk.
That.
But
thank
you.
Well,
I wasn't sure you'd come,
I'm not staying.
You've got to stay.
Love it.
Gonna be a real nice cruise. Face, the Panama Canal. Done up the Mexican coast.
We need a boasting Danny boy. Ever done any sailing? A bit of it?
I saw you last night at the garage. It was somebody else Danny boy.
Not me.
Don't go.
She needs your pay.
You stay. Hey, Mike,
if you play your cards, right. I think we can get a job for the both of us.
I think we'll take it.
I,
and what was I, Mike o'hara do on a luxury yacht?
Pleasure cruising in the sunny Caribbean Sea.
But it's clear now I was chasing a married woman,
but that's not the way I wanted to look at it. No,
to be a real prize. Fat head like Mike o'hara,
you've got to swallow whole all the lies you can think of. To tell yourself
our little expedition spent some weeks in the West Indies dawdling around
seeing the sights, laying in supplies and
getting into more trouble.
I,
I on board the
Cersei.
You there?
Why don't you go swimming?
I beg your pardon?
I say, why don't you go swimming?
I didn't bring a swimming suit along on the job, sir.
You up to the next time there won't be a next time, sir. I'm quitting.
Well, my tongues out to fetch you, you find him in the locker in the cabin.
I suppose you're wondering who I am fella.
I think I saw you in New York. I flew in this morning by way of Havana.
I'm George. Grisby, you know,
Grisby and Banister.
What is everybody gone ashore or most
my partner too,
Mr Banister.
That's right.
And the lady,
oh,
Mr Banister tells me you once killed a man.
You are Michael, aren't you?
That's right.
I'm very interested in murders.
Forgive me if I seem inquisitive. But
where'd it happen? Said Mercer.
How'd you do it?
Now, let me guess
you did it with your hands, didn't you?
Does it ever bother you when you think about it?
What did you do with the yacht?
Nothing.
You just killed him for the fun of it. Hey,
he was a franco spy. There was a war on at the time
and it wasn't
murder, I suppose. Tell me,
would you do it again?
Would you mind killing another man?
He killed another franco spy.
I was on a pro Franco committee fella during the Spanish war.
Would you kill me if I gave you the chance?
I may give you the chance, Michael
Michael
before Lee went ashore. Did he make up some lunch for me? Yes, ma'am.
Is there enough for two?
I'm sure. I don't know, sir. Why don't you ask Mrs Bennis, sir?
You ask her, do you like a good paste in the eye, sir?
I wish you'd asked me to go swimming.
She'll ask you,
you wait and see.
Will you help pain?
Give me a cigarette.
I'm learning to smoke. Now,
ever since that night in the park, I,
I've been getting the habit
to our rich women play games like this
Colby Rosie.
I didn't think you would do it.
I didn't either.
You're scared, aren't you?
You were scared?
I'm scared too.
You think you needed me to help you?
You're not the kind sir.
If you need anything to help yourself, I'm not what you think I am.
I just try to be like that.
Keep on trying.
You might make
it.
Oh my God.
What are we scared of?
So
now he knows about it.
I wish I did.
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Michael.
Yes, sir.
Michael Mr Grisby has just told me something. I'm very sorry to hear
lover. This really concerns you more than anyone else. Don't take your arms
away.
According to George here,
Michael is anxious to quit comes a change in weather. Did you know about that lover?
Oh,
no, I didn't
shut up George. What's the matter? Michael? The hour's too long. No.
How about the money?
I don't care about that.
So, money doesn't interest you, Michael. Are you independently wealthy?
I'm independent of money.
Before you start that novel?
Elsa says you're going to write, you better learn something.
You've been traveling around the world too much to find out anything about it.
That's good. Arthur.
I've always found it very sanitary to be broke. That's good too. Arthur. Shut up.
George.
Money cannot bring you health and happiness, et cetera.
Is that it
without money? I'd be flat on my back in the wall of a county hospital.
Look at this yacht.
It once belonged to Jules Back Rack.
The great back rack who kept me out of
his club because my mother was a Manchester Greek.
I got him on perjury.
He died bankrupt.
And here I am George.
Each man has his own idea of happiness.
Of course, I haven't got a man but money is what all of us have in common.
Take Bessie here.
She used to work for back rack. I pay her more, don't I? Bessie? Yes, Mr Banister.
Her salary means happiness.
It means a home.
Three rooms for two families.
Bessie's a grandmother and a widow and only one of the boys is working.
Isn't that right? Bessie? Yes. Yes, of course it is.
So, Bessie goes to church every Sunday. She gets off and prays to God.
She'll never be too old to earn the salary. I pay her.
You call yourself independent.
Come around and see me five years from now.
Sing it for us again. Love.
Why do you stand for that? Bessy. I'm quittin. Why don't you? You heard him Mr Poet?
I need the money. Talk of money and murder. I must be insane.
All these people are lunatics. That's why I can't leave
that poor little child. He married, somebody's got to take care of her.
If
so take your arm
comes a change in the weather
comes a change of heart
and who knows when
rain
you will.
So I beg
you
when
to
love
me?
No,
then
turkey
and
for you.
Oh, are
you
right?
Uh
So LTO in your hair, keep glass.
So
lus
right?
Glo double
sol
us
to
is right? Gloo
luo.
So remember ladies use gloss O
LTO. Pleases your hair,
pleases the man you love.
Will you help me?
Hello?
Do you believe in love at all? Mrs Beni.
Give me the wheel.
I was taught to think about love in Chinese.
The way a Frenchman thinks about laughter in French.
The Chinese say
it is difficult for love to last long.
Therefore, one who loves passionately
is cured of love
in the end. That's a hard way of thinking. There's more to the problem,
human nature is eternal.
Therefore,
one who follows his nature
keeps his original nature
in the end
lover.
Yes.
Aren't you glad I talked Michael into coming along?
Love that
he must have changed his mind about me.
Faith Mr Banister. I've already told your wife,
I never make up my mind about anything at all
until it's over and done with.
I'd like to. But I can't deny that Mr Banister
did try to give his wife the things she wanted.
She'd said once that she liked picnics.
We were on our way up the Mexican coast when
he decided to stop and give her one
where
Mr Bran as to his picnic party was
most typical of him.
A lot of trouble and a great deal of money went into it, but
it was no more a picnic than
banister was a man.
Listen, when you hear what I got for you, you'll say you bought it. Shit.
We've worked a lot of cases together.
I'll be sorry if we have to make this one the last.
But listen, this is the plot against my life. Correct. I'm going to be murdered.
Isn't that the information you're peddling? I'm going to be killed.
Why Sid don't you think? I know about it all about it.
Now, leave me alone.
I want to enjoy myself.
I,
yeah,
Michael,
I found out about Prue Michael. I tried to tell you before. He isn't really a steward.
He isn't a good one that
detective Michael, my husband hires him to watch me.
He wants to fix it. So I'll never be able to divorce him. It means we can divorce you.
I am to send Michael. He wants to cut me off without
a, does that matter? So
partic he would,
I told you sweet. You don't know anything about the poor.
Well, lately I've been rounding out my education.
I'll say this much for you, Arthur. When you give a picnic, it's a picnic
time for another.
I
am for another.
You know what Michael still insists.
I beg your pardon?
I said what
Michael still insists on quitting.
Why shouldn't he?
Oh, no,
I think Arthur ought to try and make it if he wants to go.
But George likes to have him around lover, Michael's so big and strong,
makes a good bodyguard feel.
Isn't that what you said,
George? I don't need a,
not even a big strong bodyguard, like,
well an Irish brogue,
you know, George thinks Michael's falling for you.
And that makes me unhappy George hopes
but George is wrong again.
Now,
George
is, I didn't say anything about Michael,
another frisbee special coming up.
You know, you're a stupid fool George,
but you ought to realize, I don't mind it a bit. If Michael's in love with my wife,
he's young,
she's young,
he's strong.
She is beautiful
now, darling.
Where's your sense of humor?
I don't have to listen to you talk like that.
Oh, yes,
you do love
no, Arthur you, you leave
ours alone.
I'm just sick of it.
Why doesn't Michael want to work for us?
Why should he,
why should anyone want to live around us?
And where's his sense of adventure?
Broom
room?
Excuse me, sir. He's over there eating. Tell Michael to step over here for a moment.
Isa,
hey Mike,
they want to see you over there, Mr Banister and them.
Well, Michael,
well, Mr Banister,
my wife's lost his sense of humor, Michael and you've lost your sense of adventure.
I'll have a drink, give him a drink, joy
and don't look. So Ch
Michael may not be in the social register, but then neither are you
anymore.
Is this what you folks do for amusement in the evenings,
sit around toasting marshmallows and call each other names?
Sure. If you're so anxious for me to join the game, I'd be glad to,
I can think of a few names. I'd like to be calling you myself.
Oh, but Michael, that isn't fair.
You're bound to lose the contest.
We'll have to give you a handicap, Michael.
You should know what George knows about me.
For instance, if you really want to call me names
and Michael,
if you think George's story is interesting,
you want to hear the one about how else it got to be my wife.
Do you want me to tell him what you've got on the earth?
You know,
once
half the hump of Brazil,
I saw the ocean so darkened with blood.
It was black and the sun fainting away over the lip of the sky.
We put in it for
a laser
and a few of us had lines out for a bit of idle fishing.
It was me had the first strike
a shark. It was,
then there was another,
there's another shark again
to all about the sea was made of sharks
and more sharks still.
And the wash
is tall.
My shark had torn himself from the hook
and the center, maybe the stain. It wasn't him, bleeding his life away.
Drove the rest up mad.
Then the beasts took to eat in each other
in their frenzy.
They age at themselves.
You could feel the lust and murder like a wind sting in your eyes
and you could smell the death
reeking up out of the sea.
I never saw anything worse
until this little picnic tonight
and you know,
it wasn't one of them sharks and the whole crazy pack that survived.
I believe you. Now,
yours is the first time anyone ever thought enough of you to call you a shark.
You were a good lawyer. You'd be flattered.
Where is Mrs Banister? I'm sure. I don't know.
She adores it here in Acapulco. So do I. Yeah, it's nice and quaint.
But what I want to know is when are we going to get back to Frisco?
Mind walking with me fellow.
I know all the best places you might enjoy it.
I want to make you a proposition.
You know,
beautiful, isn't it?
The beach you mean? Or the tourists? Everything
that is a fair face to the lion. Surely. But you can't hide the hunger and guilt.
It's a bright guilty world.
Of
course you pay me.
What's your guess, Michael?
Think the world's coming to an end. There was a start to the world sometimes.
So I guess there'd be a stop,
it's coming, you know. Hm.
Oh, yeah.
Got to come
first. The big cities
and maybe even this,
it's just got to come.
I
prefer to be somewhere else than it does.
I will be.
That's what I need you for Michael
to see to it that I'm not around. How'd you like $5000?
That's what I said. $5000 fella.
And what do I have to do for it?
I'll fill in the details later. Meanwhile, think it over Michael
$5000.
It's yours.
All you have to do is kill somebody
who Mr Grisby, um,
particular who I murdered.
Good boy.
You know,
I wouldn't like to kill just anybody.
Is it someone I know.
Oh, yeah.
But you'll never guess
I give up.
It's me.
I'm perfectly sober. Michael.
I'm willing to pay $5000 if the job is well done.
This is a straightforward business proposition.
I want you to kill me.
It's all
on fella,
Elsa
Michael.
He is.
You talked to George yesterday?
I did,
did he say anything about us? He's afraid the world's gonna explode.
He talks about suicide.
I've thought of that sometimes.
Do you think it's wrong, Michael?
I don't know.
Would you kill yourself if you had to?
I don't know.
I have looked at those pills so many times.
The ones my husband takes to kill the pain
and wondered if enough of them would
kill my pain,
the pain of just being alive.
Mr Grisby wants to be cured of that pain. He wants me to cure him.
Mr Grisby wants me to kill Mr Grisby.
Sure he's out of his mind. He's not sane.
Neither is Arthur.
Your husband can take care of himself.
What do you watch? Beautiful moon,
nice night for it. Ain't Mr o'hara?
You didn't answer me, Mr o'hara.
You ought to speak when you're spoken to.
I'd hate to have to report you to the lady's husband.
I said it's a nice night for it.
Hey, Walt,
she cared is to dance with me.
Stop crying.
I can't stand for you to cry.
You know what Prue's been doing? He's spying,
spying on you.
I'm sure I'm gonna take you where there aren't any spies, Michael
where
a long way off. Some, one of the fire
places far
we're in one of them now, running away doesn't work. I tried it.
Everything's bad, Michael,
everything.
You can't escape it or fight it. You've got to get along with it. Deal with it.
Make terms.
You're such a foolish night out at Michael.
You're big and strong.
You just don't know how to take care of yourself.
So how could you take care of me,
Mike,
Mike.
Hey, Mike,
if you will. Pardon me? This intrusion?
There's a couple of police officers out here
c
I don't speak their language. See, and they want me to identify this guy.
What's the Spanish for? Drunken bum?
It was early October when we made San Francisco
and dropped anchor across the bay from the city in Sausalito.
It has been a most interesting cruise.
All very rich and rare and strange,
but I had, had no stomach for it
to begin with.
Living on a hook, takes away your appetite.
You have no taste for any pleasure at all. But the one that's burning in you,
but even without an appetite
I had learned, it's quite amazing how much a
fool like me can swallow.
Please, Michael. Be careful.
The car is down there.
Mr Banister's waiting to take you into the city
to San Francisco, but you're not going with him.
You're going with me,
Michael.
You think I can't take care of you?
You think I'd be after running off you to a desert island to eat
berries and goat's milk and I'd have to take in washing to support you.
Hello, kid,
there's George.
How would you say $5000
to get us started?
We've got a date with a couple of beers. Fella
Arthur was asking for you.
You wondered where you'd gone?
I won't tell him
you didn't answer my question.
$5000.
Can we start with that?
Would you have to take in washing on $5000?
Sit down.
I suppose you're wondering what's behind my little proposition.
None of your business actually.
But since we're what you might call partners in crime,
I might as well tell you that the firm of Banister
and Grisby is insured against the death of either partner.
That means if one of us dies, the other stands to get a lot of money.
Thanks.
Now, leave us alone. Here's
you
like some other people we both know. I'm not very happily married,
but another thing frankly,
I don't want to be within 1000 miles of that city
or any other city when they start dropping those bombs,
Michael.
There's been a suggestion. We drive you into town. You want a beer before you go.
I'll be waiting with Mrs Banister in the car.
Better meet me in my office.
Make it late tonight.
What? For $5000?
Thought I'd take a girl and a sailor on quite a nice little trip.
I'll meet you at your office. Do.
It's a little paper. I'd like you to sign.
There's nothing very
bing or important. Really?
Just a confession of murder.
Here's the crime.
No,
she said with you at the aquarium. Nine o'clock before many people there at the
aquarium.
Oh,
if you ever need a good lawyer, Michael,
let me know
I'm Michael
o'hare
in order to live in peace with my God to freely make the following confession
on the evening of August 9th.
That's tomorrow night fella.
I shot and killed Mr George Grisby. Placing his dead corpse in the Sausalito
Bay just a minute. Uh
What you reading there? Am I supposed to have written it?
It's your confession.
This is the easiest 5000 you're ever gonna earn fella.
Why don't you do it yourself? Commit suicide?
Me don't be silly. Suicide is against the law and
we're not going to break the law.
This is going to be murder
and it's going to be legal.
I want to live, but I want to vanish.
I want to go away and change my name and never be heard of again.
But that costs money
and it isn't easy. Nowadays,
if they're looking for you, they'll find you.
Unless they think you're dead,
he'll find you. Even on the smallest island in the South Seas,
that's what I'm going to be. Follow
on that smallest island.
I'll mail the arrest to you after
the murder.
But I want to live on that island in peace.
That won't be possible unless the world is satisfied. I don't exist.
You know, the law is a funny thing. Fella
the state of California will say I'm dead.
Officially dead.
Somebody will say they murdered me.
That's what I'm paying you for.
To murder. You say you did
or
what happens to you? Really? I disappear.
What happens to me?
Nothing.
That's the choker.
You swear you killed me but you can't be arrested.
That's the law. Look it up for yourself.
There's no such thing as homicide.
Unless they find a corpse.
It just doesn't murder. If they don't find a body.
According to the law,
I'm dead.
If you say you murdered me,
but you're not a murderer
unless I'm dead.
Silly, isn't it?
I've never seen an aquarium.
What you show me about.
I couldn't think where else we could meet.
Only tourists come here and school, Children and lovers. Oh my
fair ros you love me very much. I do. Do you still want to take me away with you?
Why do you ask me that? Tell me where we'll go, Michael?
Will you carry me off with you into the sunrise? Dr
Ament me? I'll take proper care of you. You won't start. I don't care where it is.
Michael.
Just take me there.
Take me quick,
take it.
Don't come on, Steve.
I don't want you to worry about us.
I make an arrangement,
the things you said yesterday about.
What about money?
You didn't sound like
like you,
you're not going to try anything foolish, are you?
I'm afraid so.
Something very foolish indeed.
I Michael o'hara in order to live in peace with my God,
do freely make the following confession.
Read the last part
that explains the whole of it.
We arrived at the boat landing at approximately 1020.
Mr Grisby said he heard a sound, something suspicious.
He said he was frightened to have a hold up and asked me to get the gun out
of the side pocket of the car just in case I reached in and got the gun,
but I had hardly taken hold of it when the gun went off by accident in my hand.
Then I saw that Mr Crispi was all covered with blood.
It took me a minute to realize that Mr Grisby was
dead to realize that I Michael o'hara had killed him,
but I don't understand Michael,
what were you doing with George? And
Sausalito says Mr Grisby wants to spend the night
on a yacht and ask me to drive him there
that would have killed him.
You see,
with a rough tide there is in the bay, they wouldn't recover the body if there was one.
You don't understand
Jan,
he isn't dead yet. Grisby is alive.
He won't be murdered till tonight. Is that foolish enough for you?
My husband wrote that thing and got you to sign it for him.
It's one of those famous banister tricks. No, it's Gris's idea. It seems,
it seems Mr Grisby
wants to disappear and this is a scheme of his
to get himself declared dead.
There's more to it than that Michael.
I don't know what, but there's more,
it's a trap of some kind.
You meet George tonight
just as you arranged. Go with him to so, so,
and,
and do whatever crazy nonsense he asks you to do as long as nobody gets hurt.
Don't let him out of your sight.
Maybe George isn't as big a fool as he seems to be. But
I'll swear my husband's buying this whole thing.
Oh my God.
Why did you let yourself get dragged into it? Sure.
Because I'm a fool, a deliberate intentional fool. That's the worst kind.
How didn't you know?
Yes. My beloved, my beloved fool.
I know.
I don't think there's anybody home
just Broome
Mr Banister's on the stadium. Mrs Banister, I think, went to the movies.
Gotta wait for me in the kitchen.
Like some coffee. We'll both need it.
I've got things to attend to.
Well,
I wonder, am I the only one that's on to you and
her? Oh,
nobody else seems to guess you're sweet on it.
That ought to be worth a little extra.
But I'll throw it in for the same price. What are you selling? I can shut up.
That's what I'm selling.
You see, I'm a snoopy kind of a guy.
I find things up.
I get around,
I got around one afternoon in Sausalito.
I overheard a little conversation down in Mexico.
I found out about a little plot of yours.
I guess you wouldn't want me to say nothing about how you're fixing to frame Michael.
Yeah. Frame him for a murder you're gonna commit.
Well, let's talk it over tomorrow, huh?
When you'll be playing dead and somebody else we both know is really dead.
No, thanks Mr Grisby. We'll settle our account right now.
All right, bro,
if you insist.
What are you doing? Oh, hello, Michael.
I'm sorry. You drive.
Are you shooting a gun?
Yeah, we're just doing a little target practice.
That's what you're gonna say, isn't it?
When you shoot the gun down by the boat landing,
people come out of the bar to see what happened.
You're gonna say I was just doing a little
talk at practice. Of
course. Really?
You're supposed to have shot me later when nobody's looking,
you're supposed to have thrown my carks into the bay.
What
happened back
there?
Anybody hurt,
kind of banged it up. Mr
I'm afraid here's my card. Let me know if there's any damage.
Looks like you got damaged.
Look
at
your hand.
It's
good night, Mr Grigsby.
Did he get a good look at
it?
A truck driver? I mean,
he'll make a good witness.
He saw us just before the murder,
please.
Are you ill?
I got some light in me
where it hurts.
I'll call a doctor did already.
The problem is
the doc will report to police.
Police will want to know who was the Satan party who shot me.
Don't worry he'll get his,
there's, there's gonna be a murder.
Ain't gonna be no fake murder. Not this time somebody's gonna be killed, you mean?
Yeah,
your husband, maybe he's the one that's gonna be knocked off. What could be?
You'd better get out of his office
if you want to do anything about it.
What are you doing? Getting blood all over the floor of the car?
My blood,
it's perfect.
If you shock me, there would be blood fellow. See,
when you get back to the garage, start washing out the gun stains.
You're trying to wipe out the evidence. See,
but be careful not to do such a good job that they can't analyze the stains.
He's not just trying to wash that out. Now, come on, get the guns in the glove.
Good. Come on. Now, let's go.
Now, be sure. And let the people in the bar in there get a good look at you.
They're bound to ask about the shooting.
Just say you're doing a little target practice.
Be sure and wait until you hear the speed boat. Get away.
Understand. Where are you going? Give me that cap.
What are you laughing at?
Wait and see.
Ok,
I
get the
more
here
somebody's in to hurt his shot.
Hey, what are you doing with that gun?
I was just doing a little target practice.
Where are you going with it now? Is he drunk? He's South
San Rafael,
San Raphael, please.
Hello? I want to speak to Mrs Banister.
What?
It's me?
Oh, get down to the office, Montgomery Street.
You was friend
Grisby didn't want it
disappear. He just wanted an alibi
and you're all right.
You're the fall
guy.
Grisby is gone down there to kill Banister now.
Hello?
No.
God bless.
No,
I too late.
What do you say Mr B?
Who,
who
are you?
Where
you
go,
Michael o'hara.
I
found,
I want to know about
Mr Banister.
I'm Michael o'hara. In order to live at peace with my God. Yes, Michael.
You were asking for me. Pardon me? Please?
You freely make the following confession. Passion on the evening of August 9th.
I shot and killed George Grisby
and it wasn't you? That was killed. It was him and Risby. Hello, darling.
Have you heard the news?
George has been murdered.
He was found here in the street with Michael's cap in his hand.
Michael is going to need a good lawyer.
Well, it's my own fault but that's how I got into it. Big boob that I am.
I began to ask myself, I wasn't out of my head entirely.
The wrong man was arrested.
The wrong man was shot.
Crispi was dead and so was Prue.
And what about Banister?
He was going to defend me in a trial for my life.
Let me charged with a couple of murders. I did not commit
either me or the rest of the whole world
is absolutely insane.
You know, my associate Mr Seeley Dear, he's arranged for your pass into the jail.
It's right here in the building. You want him to take you? I'd rather go by myself.
All right, Seeley. I'll join you in the office. Ok, Mr
Anistan.
Excuse me, Mrs
Banister.
So you want to be alone with Michael? It was your
idea. Morning Banister. Good morning. Judge.
That boy of yours still in the hospital? Been home since Tuesday? Well, that's fine.
Judge.
What's that lover?
Oh, I beg your pardon?
Wasn't it your idea?
Isn't it your idea to save from the gas chamber?
Banister is the only one of them?
What are you?
Hello, Galloway. Hi,
Banister?
How's tricks?
You know, our district attorney dear.
How do you do Mr
Banister?
Oh, Fass
Bender. I was the murdered man's partner. The other victim was my servant.
If I defend Michael,
any jury is going to figure I have reason to believe that he's innocent
and you have reason to believe that Michael is innocent.
I am.
I hear that Galloway is going to say that Michael
took George's corpse into the city in our speedboat.
But he didn't, we can prove prove George couldn't have taken it. Why not?
Well, how could he get back back where the yacht?
Naturally,
the speedboat couldn't have driven itself or maybe it was George's ghost.
Maybe the boat just drifted back.
No love.
Michael has got to plead excusable homicide,
but you can prove he didn't do it with his gun.
They already know it wasn't Michael's gun that killed George.
The gun that did kill George can't be found lover.
So we can't prove that Michael didn't shoot it
and it was Michael's gun that killed, bro.
No,
Michael is going to need everything that the
greatest living trial lawyer can do for him.
Our good district attorney over there has worked up a beautiful case,
the truck driver, the
fat saloon keeper down at the docks,
there'll be effective witnesses and he'll know how to handle them.
And then there's this uh crazy confession,
but Michael has an explanation,
explanation. You think it's funny funny?
You mean that story about how George hired Michael to kill George,
pretend to kill him.
Really?
Why would George want to disappear?
Michael said something about partnership insurance. What
partnership insurance which he George wanted to collect?
And he George wanted everybody to think he was dead
dead so that he could collect the insurance.
Well, if he was dead, how could he collect
no lover?
If your Irishman doesn't want to go to the gas chamber, he's going to have to trust me.
But you
do. You trust him?
I wouldn't trust him with my wife.
You want to make sure he doesn't get off, don't you?
I've never lost a case. Remember,
besides
my wife might think he was a martyr.
I've got to defend him.
I haven't any choice
and neither have you.
Hello?
It looks bad for me. Isn't that what your husband says?
Whatever else he is? Arthur's a marvelous lawyer.
You've got to trust him. Like, why, why should I trust? It's your only chance?
Because I want you to,
I
have to do it for a reason.
Michael.
Why did you kill Prue?
Ar? Don't be afraid to tell me, please. I just want to know
who Grisby kill Brue.
Chris.
What's going to murder your husband
could
possibly gain from it?
Well, for one thing, he couldn't get a divorce.
Yes,
it was the chief reason Grisby wanted people to think he
was dead so he could get away from his wife.
Why? But that's impossible why
George didn't have a wife.
He wasn't married.
You
can be fairly certain of the exact
Mrs Banister Hay. I saved a seat for you.
Would you gentlemen, please move over?
I just want to look at her
question. Calls for the operation of the officer's mind.
Just stay
very well in the interests of saving time. We'll proceed
as I'm sure Officer Peters is most anxious to go
home to his wife and family before returning to duty.
Now, then Officer Peters, except for the blood, the clothes were dropped,
they were dropped.
Yet the defendant stated in his confession that he threw the body into the bay.
Your honor, the district attorney isn't cross examining.
He's making speeches that simply isn't. So I
move for the decoration.
These
are,
the jury has been prejudiced. These are some of the great banisters trial tactics
in appeal for Symp
district attorney is beginning to get vicious when
you two gentlemen get over your argument.
Tell me who won.
Then I'll decide on the objection,
objection. Sustain
your witness. Mr Banister.
No questions
except
yes,
Officer Peters. Uh,
I don't wish to keep you from your wife and Children
any more than the
district attorney who was so concerned about them a moment ago.
But, uh,
I would like to ask you one question,
Officer Peters. Have you a wife and Children?
We all,
no.
Thank you.
You may step down
all your next witness.
I called
Arthur Banister.
It's certainly unusual. Your honor to put a defense attorney on the witness stand.
But I'm confident that my client will make no objection.
Hey, Galloway, can't make banister testify against his own client.
Screw you.
I wouldn't take this step if there were
any more effective means of establishing the evidence.
I wish to bring forward
with my client's express permission.
Mr Banister will take the stand.
I've never seen anything like that before. I always thought he was smart.
I don't come any smarter. You are to whom don't you?
What
I'm into?
You ain't kidding
you solemnly read the evidence you're about to give in this case, be the truth,
the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
So help the
state your name
all the banister
and
that
Mr Banister,
you are a member of the bar.
I am
just
playing
and have been
and have been for a number of years.
That is correct.
The,
the defendant Michael o'hara worked as a member of the crew of your yacht.
Yes.
Did he seem
happy in his job?
I beg your pardon?
You had your back turned I
happy reasonable.
Did you get that answer? I did reasonably.
So as a matter of fact, wasn't he threatening to quit?
Did you know Mr Banister? That right after the murder
right after the murders, we found the defendant's bags packed
and everything put away in readiness for an immediate departure.
Well, in your experience as an attorney, would this not indicate premeditation?
The district attorney is again making speech
and plan making speeches and drawing conclusions? I am
not,
you
are
conclusions
is asking improper questions in
order to influence
and I must ask
to declare a mistrial
overruled
exceptionally.
No further questions.
Would your honor kindly explain to the jury that
since the district attorney has placed me in the position of a witness
that I am permitted
as the defense attorney to cross examine myself.
These are more of the persuasive Mr Banister's file tact.
The
uh the jury is so instructed
question
Mr Banister. Did the defendant say anything as to why he had taken the job
answer?
Yes, Mr Banister,
he reminded Mr Banister that Mr Banister had to go to the seamen's hiring
hall and use his persuasive powers to convince the defendant to take the job
question.
Can you think of anything else Mr Banister that is relevant to this inquiry?
Well, I found this boy to be clean cut, courageous, resourceful, honest,
hard working question.
Now, now Mr Banister, please answer the question. Yes or no.
Can you think of anything else that is relevant to this issue?
Answer?
No,
very well.
Thank you, Mr Banister.
You may step down
your honor.
I have a subpoena for a witness who was present in the courtroom.
May I have the bailiff servant at this time?
Well,
so the subpoena
I called Mrs Arthur
Bist.
There's no law that says she doesn't take that. Is there,
sit
down and mind your own,
raise your right hand.
You sir, let me swear the evidence you're about to give will read the truth,
the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
So help you. God
state your name.
This is Arthur Dennis
Mrs Banister.
Did you ever have guards to police your house or
the yacht on which you've just made a cruise?
No.
Why
we never felt the need of it?
You have no Children had,
I have no Children. You have no Children.
So you were never concerned about kidnappers. Is that correct?
That is correct.
There was a man
employed in your house and on your husband's yacht named
Sidney Broom.
Yes,
you've known Mr Bloom for several years.
No. Would it surprise you if I were to tell you that the detective
hired by your husband in
divorce cases was Sydney broom,
the man who was employed in your house as a butler and
on your husband's job as a steward and who was subsequently murdered.
I
object does
deny the
overruled.
Does counsel deny that the butler broom or the
detective broom used by him in divorce cases?
Mrs Banister.
Can you think of any reason why your husband would want to hire a divorced
detective other than to watch you why objection sustained as a matter of fact,
didn't you and your husband have an argument
about your showing an infatuation for o'hara?
We did not. Isn't it a fact that the defendant o'hara made advances to you
and told you he was infatuated with you.
He was very respectful.
Speak up, Mrs Banister.
He was very respectful.
I died.
I think he was fond of just what is your definition of fond Mrs Banister?
As a matter of fact, you and Michael o'hara have kissed each other, haven't you
to name one occasion you were seen in the aquarium of the city kissing each other?
Do you deny that?
No,
no further questions.
You're a witness, Mr Banister?
No questions.
The State Department has refused any comment.
Meanwhile, here in San Francisco,
the fate of black Irish o'hara notorious waterfront agitator whose trial for
the murder of socialite George Grisby has held the front pages.
These recent weeks remains undecided as the jury already out.
Seven hours has still to return the verdict.
The whole Black Irish case according to well informed sources.
Mhm.
And
mhm.
How long do they take usually?
Can't ever tell about a ch
ok.
Excuse me, your honor.
Oh, yeah,
the jury's coming out now.
Oh, thank you,
Officer
Malte.
Look
at
that,
by the way,
what has Elsa been telling you?
Did you imagine that? I didn't know she's been coming to see you.
She asked me to trust you.
The jury has reached its verdict, Mr Management
because I know you wanted me to be convicted
now that it's too late for you to do anything about it. I might as well tell you,
this is one case I enjoy losing.
I'm coming to see you in the death house, Michael
every day.
Our little visits will be great fun.
I'm going to ask for a stay of execution.
I really hope to be granted.
I want you to live as long as possible before you die.
You're talking kind of tough, aren't you Mr Banister?
I've got an edge.
I know you're going to the gas chamber.
Don't be so sure.
I know the killer.
I know who murdered Risby
Michael.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. Have you arrived at a verdict? We
the jury?
Great.
Right.
Thank you.
Just talk to the doctor on the phone. He's coming right over to
some
pro all by myself the way I understand it, Mr Galloway. He'll be all right.
If we keep moving, I need help
as he goes to sleep. He's done for done
for.
Well, I need at least two of new officers to control the crowd in my court.
I'll try and get
to stay
here.
You do
Mr
Galloway
report.
You have to prepare a statement.
That's it. Bunny.
Keep him walking.
Mr
Galloway.
I,
I
don't
think,
I
don't think
now
stay close together now while I escort you out to dinner.
Sure. It's smart. What can we do? We got to think of something.
Hey, that's another jury.
I'm another trial to cross it.
Please do not.
Not the
case
outside of the jury room.
The judge hopes that you will arrive at a verdict as soon as possible.
Hey,
that way. Come on, let it go.
Oh, goodness my window. My,
the fish pie.
I expect a full report from you.
Get off the floor after the fish pie.
That woman's too nice looking to have stolen all that jewelry.
Jury duty is such a responsibility, don't you? Hey, you,
you were told not to talk about the case now, don't let it happen again. All right
people.
Ok,
Elsa,
I
watch,
I hate you.
I
can say on your point.
K
I
tried, didn't she?
I'm
to
pin
you
backstage.
How are you?
Oh, hi. How?
Oh,
can
I
go?
I'm Leong.
I won.
Yeah.
Hello.
Why did you do it, Mike? I didn't, I'm not guilty.
All of the peers. You mean the peers?
I saw you begging me to swallow and begging me with your eyes.
But you didn't mean for me to take them all. Of course.
So I had its own bag but not enough.
He took too many of the pews
I paint. And now what?
But I've got to find something. Don't, you know, they'll,
where do you think you can hide? Gun, gun?
What? I got to find the gun that killed Grisby at to prove I'm innocent.
Well, I phoned her,
our servant Leeway. We're trying to arrange something someplace to take. You
just wait here quietly and watch the plane
really
the police.
There you go much.
I
only
buy, you
put your arms around me.
Don't let talk.
Y'all homing here.
Legal line
doesn, doesn lie out.
I see you
there.
Don't
move.
Bye, Auntie.
Whoa,
don't you move?
I told you not to move. I mean it,
I found the gun.
You killed Crispi. Yes,
you're a killer.
Yeah.
He,
yeah,
I was right.
She was the killer. She killed grisby. Now she was going to kill me.
Her servant Lee and his friend smuggled me out in the
darkness and hid me where I'd be safe from the cops,
not safe from her.
One of the Chinese worked in an amusement park. It was closed for the season.
An empty amusement park makes a good hideout
and she wanted me hidden.
Well,
I came to
in the crazy house
and for a while there,
I thought it was me. That was crazy
after what I'd been through. Anything crazy at all seemed natural.
But now
I was saying on one subject, her,
I knew about her,
she planned to kill Banister.
She and Grisby.
Grisby was to do it for a share of banister's money.
That's what Grisby thought.
But of course she meant to kill Grisby too after he'd served his purpose.
Poor how an idiot he never even did that. He went and shot broom.
And that was not part of the plan.
Broome might have got to the police before he died.
And if the cops traced it to Grisby
and the cops made Grisby talk, he'd steal everything
and she'd be finished.
So she had to shut up Grisby. But quick.
And I was the for,
hey,
in here, we're less likely to be.
I think it was only your husband you ought to secure.
Why don't you try to understand
George was supposed to take care of Arthur,
but he lost his silly head and shot Broome.
After that, I knew I couldn't trust him.
He was mad.
He had to be shot.
And what about me?
We could have gone off together into the sunrise.
You and me? Who are you and Grisby?
I love you. One who follows his nature, keeps his original nature in the end.
But haven't you heard ever of something better to follow?
No,
I knew I'd find you two together.
If I hadn't held, sir,
I might have gone on playing it your way.
You didn't know that,
but you did plan for me to follow you. You've been drinking.
I presume you think that if you murder me here,
your sailor friend will get the blame. You'll be free to spend my money.
Well, dear, you aren't the only one who wants me to die.
Our good friend,
the district attorney is just itching to open a letter that I left with him.
The letter tells all about you lover.
So you would be foolish to fire that gun
with these mirrors. It's difficult to tell you are aiming at me, aren't you?
I'm aiming at you. Lover.
Of course, killing you is killing myself.
It's the same thing.
But, you know, I'm pretty tired of both of us.
You know, for a spot. Girl, you make a lot of mistakes.
You should have let me live.
You're gonna need a good lawyer
and George.
But no, me
like the sharks
mad with their own blood
chewing away at their own selves.
It's true.
I made a lot of mistakes.
He said the world's bad. We can't run away from the badness and you're right there.
But she said we can't fight it. We must deal with the badness, make terms
and didn't the badness deal with you
and make its own terms in the end. Surely
you can fight.
But what good is it?
Goodbye.
You mean we can't win?
No, we can't win.
Give my love to the sunrise.
Now. We can't lose either.
Only if we quit
and you're not going to
not again.
Oh my God.
I'm afraid.
Like
come back,
Michael,
please.
I don't want to die.
You wanna die?
I went to call the cops but I knew she'd be dead before they got there.
I'd be free. Banister's note to the D A to fix it. I'd be innocent officially.
But that's a big word. Innocent, stupid's more like
right out
everybody is somebody's fool.
The only way to stay out of trouble is to grow old. So I guess I'll concentrate on that.
Maybe I live so long that
I forget her.
Maybe I'll die.
Try him.