Boston Blackie - The Larry Brown Case

0:00ДИНАМИЧНАЯ МУЗЫКА Поехали. Hi. What are you doing? Two eggs, scrambles, coffees. Give me a couple of rolls. Number two! Beat up! Rocks on the side. I'm just looking at a game last night. I didn't see it. I had it some game. So what? So nothing, I guess. How about some service? What do you have? Coffee, black. Rock on the back. All right, all right. That's a lot. Remember you don't know me. Relax. Everything's gonna be okay. It's easy for you to say. You do what I ask you. Think I'd be nuts enough, not to?

1:00I'm your pal. Yeah, yeah, but a bunch of guys aren't. Who just came in? Relax. Well, you're lary. It's nobody. It's just a guy. Do you look at me? Are you sure? Sure, I'm sure. It's harmless. Yeah, yeah. Maybe the guy after me looks harmless, too. I tell you I'm going nuts waiting. Relax. Well, you'll never find me. Maybe he's already found me. I don't know what he looks like. Well, he doesn't know what you look like, so you're leaving. Why don't you make that call? Yeah, I guess I might as well. Where's the phone? Are you? Where's the telephone? In the back. On the left. Thanks. What's the door? Cheers. Hello. I want to talk to Boston Blackie.

2:00This is Boston Blackie. Oh, this is Larry Brown. Remember me? Sure. $100 worth. You always work with a joke, Blackie. But you aren't quick with paying your debts. Well, I got the whole $100 for you now, Blackie. In an envelope in my name, at the Williams Hotel. The whole 100. What am I supposed to do about it? Well, pick it up anytime you want. All right, Larry, we're square. What's the reason for the sudden payoff? Well, I'm leaving town, Blackie. And now that you mention it, it's the kind of payoff I like. Now meet Richard Kalmer's Boston Blackie. Enemy to those who make him an enemy. Friend to those who have no friends. Hey, Monahan. If the commissioner calls, tell him I'm on my way to his office now. Inspector Faraday, Inspector. Well, look who's come out of the sunlight. Gee, I hoped you'd remember me, Inspector.

3:01You know what I mean? Okay, Wilson, what do you want? A little information, Inspector. It's early in return for the information I gave you about the Johnson-Marbless. Sure, sure. What is it? I'm in a hurry. Well, it's kind of important, Inspector. I've been waiting out here a couple of hours. You know what I mean? Sure, I know what you mean. What do you want? Where can I get in touch with Boston's Blackie? Where's he live now? What do you want him for? There's quite no reason. There's nothing. You know what I mean? There's nothing you'd be interested in. Okay, it better not be. Blackie lives at 51 Sunset Parkway. The dormant will give you the apartment number. Oh, thanks. Thanks for the information, Inspector Faraday. I'll do the same for you someday, you know what I mean? Yeah, I know what you mean. Fine thing. I give information to the underworld. On of a sudden, I'm a stool pigeon to a stool pigeon. Who is it? It's my Blackie. Shorty. Why all of a sudden formality? Come on in. Oh, it's not a door was open. Come on in. But be careful.

4:01The floors have just been washed and the scatter rug's skinned. Yeah, sure. Hey, they sure look slick. Look, I'm sorry I've been gone so long, boss. Anything wrong? Oh, no, no, not exactly, boss. Did you go to the bank for me? Oh, sure, Blackie. I got to the bank, all right. But not exactly soon enough. And by not exactly soon enough, you mean too late. Well, sort of. And by sort of, you mean yes? Shorty, can't I trust you? Well, a simpler thing is going to the bank for me. You left two hours ago. I went straight to the bank, boss. How straight? Well, straight down sunset park. Way to River Boulevard. And what do I bump into with Pete Matthews? So you went somewhere with Matthews, huh? Yeah, but that was all right, boss, because Pete said, if I walk over to Eastside with him, he'd get his brother Bonnie to drive me down his motorcycle. And I figured right in that Bonnie's cycle was faster than walking. Then you didn't go straight to the bank. Well, sure I did, boss. Straight to the Eastside. And then straight to the bank on Bonnie's motorcycle. All the time, it was straight to the bank. Only, uh, something happened when Bonnie and me was riding the motorcycle. Don't tell me I know you took this shortcut. Gee, how'd you know, boss? Never mind.

5:01Because you didn't get to the bank in time. I have a date with Mary in one hour. And all I have in my pocket is 98 cents in a paperclip. Well, boss, there's that hundred Larry Brown left for any envelope at the Williams Hotel. No, that's way up town. It's like an hour to get there. And Mary's in no mood to wait. Well, boss, I sure am sorry, but if Bonnie and me hadn't bumped into Joey, hadn't... Never mind, never mind. I'll catch a check at Martin's tonight, which is probably what I should have done. Oh, that's that slaggy Thomas. On the way to the bank, I bumped into him too and told him to meet me here. Fine, fine. Let him in. Thanks, boss. Come on in, let's... Yeah, I'm looking for Boston Blackie, you know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah, sure, come on in. Hey, boss, sit down, Lachy. Who is it, Johnny? Some guy to see you. Yeah, it's made Blackie. Wow! You know, floor slick, you know what I mean? Yeah, a little over-ambitious waxing. Careful, especially on the scanner rug. Yeah. Well, what is it this time, Wilson? I can't... You guys tell me your favorite, Blackie. How much favor? Well, I took one to ask this kind of thing from anybody, Blackie.

6:01But I'm so up against it, you know what I mean? All I have in the pocket is 98 cents. I'll split it with it. Oh, gee. Well, thanks, Blackie. But that ain't enough, you know what I mean? I'm sorry, Wilson. I just don't happen to... Say, I can let you have $100 if you go to the trouble to get it. Oh, no trouble at all, Blackie. All right, go to the Williams Hotel uptown. Ask for the desk... Uh, at the desk, rather, for an envelope and Larry Brown's name. Brown left it for me. There's $100 in it. I go to the Williams Hotel uptown, huh? Ask for an envelope for Larry Brown, huh? And I'll have a hundred bucks, huh? Yeah, huh. Gee, I'll be there right up there. And thanks, Blackie. Thank you. A million, you know what I mean? Yeah, I know what you mean, Wilson. And thanks, a hundred. Okay, you keep walking. Say, no, what a fist when you're back. You got the wrong guy, but the wrong guy. You know what I mean? I ain't done nothing. Walk. Yeah, sure, sure.

7:01Look, I didn't rat in Johnson's mom on purpose. I had it. Get in the car here. What I had it to about the Johnson's mom. I was framed in the building of the cops, you know what I mean? Get in the car. Put that gun away. Let's talk this over. You know what I mean? Don't get in. Don't push. Don't push. All right. You got me all along this budget. Shut up. Get moving to the shack on a riverfront, Joe. No, wait a minute. And don't go to any red lights. We don't want this guy picked up by the cops too soon. Keep that air pump going. And dive it on. There's no salmon. That makes you think we'll find the body in this section of the river, Captain? On the effect of Faraday, your witness said they saw the body dumped in off 86th street, so he started looking from there. In case the body was planted in concrete. All right. The chances are the current wouldn't affect it then. Hey, that light's flashing on and off. Where's that mean? My diver's found something. Give me the phone time. He found something, huh? All right down there. Go ahead.

8:04And the body, Captain. Good work, Jake. You bring it up yourself. Now the feet are in a block of cement. Send down the grapple. Come on right down, Jake. Stand by. Okay. You found your body for you, Inspector Faraday. Good, good. How long before you get it up? In a minute. Okay, man. Over the side of the grapple. Let it go. And by Inspector Faraday, we'll have your body for you no time. Stop calling it my body, will you? Sorry. Jake, do you hear me? Grab. The grapple's on its way down. Yeah, I see it. Lower it another part of it. Lower one farther. Hold it. Jake, it. All right. How's it now, Jake? Swing it to starboard, eight feet. Eight feet to starboard. Hold it. Jake, it. Got it, Jake. Okay, Captain. You suck down, hold it up. Draw it, boys. Draw it.

9:05Hey, fish me top side out of the spot hole. Will you, Captain, I ain't nobody. Okay. Stand by. Jake. Here comes your body, Inspector Faraday. Will you stop calling it my body? Well, it isn't mine. Bring it over to the deck, boys. Bring it over to the deck. Come on, horse, get clearly going. Bring it over to the deck. Lower to the deck. Come on, lower it. Lower it. Well, that witness knew what he was talking about. It's the body of a man, all right? Lower it. Lower it. Okay, letter is. It hasn't been in the water long. Want to have a look for identification, Inspector? Yeah, I might as well start now. It's murder, all right? Look at that block of cement he's wearing for shoes. Yeah, it's murder. Inspector, you look like you know him. No, sure, I know him. That's Pete Wilson, a stool pigeon. And this morning he asked me for the address of Boston Blackie. You think Boston Blackie killed him? How do I know?

10:05All I know is that as soon as he found out where Blackie lived, he died. Hello? Blackie? Yeah? And a shorty? Yes, shorty. Did Lachy Thomas get there yet? No, he hasn't. Well, look, boss, when he gets there, tell him to come over to Skate's Laramus place, will you? But when you left here, I thought you were going to Bonnie's. I was, boss, but on the way I met Skinny Atkinson. Me and him decided to go to Bonnie's by way of Joe's. Then why aren't you, Joe's? Well, on a way to Joe's, we stopped at Skate's. And will you tell Lachy? I'll tell him. Thanks for a spry. Bye, shorty. Come in. Hello, Blackie. Well, Inspector Faraday, we're an unpleasant surprise. Too bad you can't stay. Yeah. Don't try to slam that door. Don't move another step, Blackie. Shall I say so? Faraday. Your gun is showing. Like I said, don't move. Oh, right, Inspector.

11:05What have I done this time? Hit a home run for a grocery store window. It's murder, Blackie. You are so right, Inspector. It's murder. I know the time, the place, the motive, everything. Don't tell me you even know the victim. Pete Wilson. Pete Wilson. He came up here to see you this morning. I know that because I gave him your address. Oh, thanks so much, Inspector. That little controversy. Yeah, rather that little courtesy of yours cost me $100. And it cost Pete Wilson his life. He came up here to make a deal with you. You went in with him? Then killed him for his share of the take. The take yesterday was $100. My $100. Well, the take right now is you, down a headquarters. And I'm the guy who can do it. Look, Faraday. Did it ever occur to you? I said, come on. And no tricks. You did say, come on, but you didn't say no tricks. Well, I'm saying it now. No tricks. Come on. Just a minute, Inspector. You're coming right now. As soon as I tie my shoe, do you mind? Leave it untied. Maybe you'll trip and break your neck. I wouldn't give you that much pleasure. May I say it? Hi, my shoe lace. All right, tie it. Thanks. Say, what's this on the rug? Never mind what's on the rug.

12:05I do mind. You're on the rug. So maybe if I pull it... Plaggy! When you drop, you drop everything, Faraday. Even your gun. Plaggy! So help yourself, Inspector. Oh, and Faraday, I mustn't forget my manners. Please don't get up. I was just leaving anyhow. Oh, what a fatal blow. Our story began when Larry Brown teleformed Blacky to inform him that the $100 brown of Blacky was waiting for Blacky in an envelope in the William's hotel in Larry Brown's name. Когда Пик Уильсин, в Уильсин, came to Blacky to borrow money, Blacky sent him to the William's hotel to pick up the envelope. Уильсин is not seen again until he's fished out of the river, murdered. Inspect the parody of the police's convinced Blacky killed Wilson. It calls earlier that day he himself had given Wilson Blacky's address. When parody attempts to arrest Blacky, Blacky is usual escape. To continue our story, we return to the waterfront restaurant.

13:05Уильсин, Larry Browns, one-time gangster, walks in and takes a peek at the counter. Afternoon. Hey. How do you have? Two legs scrambled, coffee, and give me a couple of rolls. Number two, beat up! Rocks on the side. What do you think of the game this afternoon? Didn't say it. Well, that was some game. So what? Well, nothing, I guess. How about some service? What do you have? Coffee, Blacky. Well, one in the dark. Hi, Larry. Don't let this kind of man see you talking to me. Relax. I can't. I'm not off the spot yet. How do you know? Well, I don't know. I'm sure I'm mixed up. Wouldn't you be mixed up, too? Every time you took a step, it might be your last step. Turn on your lens. One more crack like that, Sam and I'm sorry, Larry. I didn't mean anything. You bet enough. What have you been? Out driving around. I didn't see you drive up. I parked at the street a little. I have a fight over when you saw tell. Yeah. Go in. You think I'm crazy? Relax. I have a plan, wake yourself. You don't have nothing to worry about.

14:06Wait your paper. I'll see you later. Okay. It's in the light to read when you have company, Larry. What? Well, Samada. Never? No. No, nothing, Samada, Blacky. Now, how are you? I don't know. What are you doing down here? You're just looking. Oh, shorty. Yeah, boss. Watch down the street as well as up. I saw one of Faraday's cars in the neighborhood. Yeah, but it didn't spot it. Just the same. Be on the lookout. You in trouble with the cops, Blacky? No more than usual. It's a hideout you want. I just want some information. I don't know anything. Do you know Pete Wilson? Wilson? Pete Wilson? No. You know he's been murdered? No. I've been making my business not to know much of anything these days. Reason? Knowing things is always healthy. Look, Larry. I'm not trying to involve you in anything. Yeah. Why should I? You mean everything between us is okay? In a manner of speaking.

15:06You got that envelope I left for you and everything? No, Larry. I didn't. But now that you mention it, Pete Wilson got it. Oh, Wilson got the letter. And he got everything, too. You sure this guy Wilson picked up that envelope? According to the clerk at the hotel. As far as I can find out, that's the last time he was seen alive. You making that crack for a reason? No, except that well. I thought maybe you could tell me whether or not there's a possible connection between that envelope and Wilson's death. How should I know? I'll see you around the liking. Oh, wait a minute. I'm not through. Oh, but I am. I got an appointment. Well, look. Where can I get in touch with you? Who knows? I don't. I'll be moving around here and there. How long? Come on, Shorty. I might as well go to him. Okay, give me a sec. Come on. All right. See? Blackie, you know. We know better off than we was before we found this guy from. We may be shorty. It's possible that Brown engineered Wilson's killing? You think so, boss? I'm not as well think so. I haven't any other ideas. Come on, there's Brown getting into his car up the street. Let's get mine and follow him.

16:06Sure, sure, boss. Show me a long shot, but I have an idea. Hey! Look, Shorty. Brown's car's a wreck. All right. Looks like it's been fun. It was, Shorty. When Brown stepped on the starter. Come on, let's have a look. Yeah, come on. Gee, boss. I ain't much left of anything. Nobody will ever be able to prove the guy to the name of Larry Brown was in this car. Gosh, no. I think I know why this happened, too. Excuse me, an idea. Shorty, give me a wallet. Oh, sure, sure, boss here. Okay. Hey, boss, what's the idea to own my wallet in a wreck? I'll tell you later, let's go. Gosh, boss. When Faraday gets here and finds my wallet, I think I was knocked off in a block. Yeah, Shorty. I imagine Inspector Faraday will think you've gone all the pieces. Come on, we're going to your place. Well, Blacky, why are we using my place as a high note? I didn't expect to figure something out who would come run it down here for sure. That's what I wanted to do, Shorty.

17:07Boss, either you're too smart or I'm too dumb for this kind of thing and I don't know which. Look, Shorty, I think I know why Larry Brown was killed and it was no accident. Do you mean that explosion was supposed to bump? Mm-hmm. And I want his killers to think he escaped. That's why I threw your wallet into Brown's car. The police will identify the body, he's yours. She's... I'm sure glad my poor old mother can't read. She'd feel awful bad about me getting blown up. Don't worry, Shorty. She even hears about it, we'll go down and figure things out right away. All I want is Faraday to release a story to the newspapers that you and not Brown was killed in that explosion. Look, I don't mind playing dead voices. But why don't you want nobody to know Brown's guy? It's very simple, Shorty. When... At last, he doesn't expect the Faraday. Anybody in there? Sure, anybody out there? Break the Faraday of the police. Who's in there? Let's play this guessing game a little longer, Faraday.

18:08It's fun. Blangie, it's you. Let me in or I'll break down the door. Don't go to the trouble of bruising your baby's skin. Sweetheart, I'll let you in. Shorty. Eh? Stand with Faraday. Can't see you right away. And let's give him a little surprise. Oh, sure, boy. Get back in there, Blangie. Faraday, you're a good bloodhound. You don't get away from me for long, do you? Oh, I wasn't talking about your ability to find me, Faraday. I... I was looking for ears. Hello, Monahan. All right, don't talk. You do enough talking to the whole force, don't you, Faraday? Okay, you've been funny long enough. Now you're coming quietly, or am I...? Shorty. I thought you were dead. Hi, Inspector Faraday. Right after noon, huh? What are you doing here? I got right here. This is my job. What you're supposed to be dead, killed in that automobile explosion of time. That wasn't Shorty's body, Inspector. No, no, honey, my wallet. I, uh, hope you're prungent. Well, if that wasn't your body in that car, what was your wallet doing there? I put it there, Inspector. You did, Blaky. Why?

19:08I didn't want you or anybody else. You know the name of the real victim until I talk to you. But if you were at the scene of the explosion, you probably had something to do with it. Who'd you kill this time? The man's name was Larry Brown. Oh, I didn't kill him, Inspector. If you didn't kill him, how do you know his name? I know the name of lots of dead people. Look, I don't want me to wise, Crank. I just want you. Faraday, this is so sudden, really. And also boring. Put that gun away. Will you? I'll put you away. Your way ahead of yourself. How can you arrest me for the murder of Larry Brown when you haven't even found out who killed Pete Wilson? Wilson was killed because somebody thought he was Larry Brown. So what? Larry Brown was being shattered by an out-of-town triggerman, hired to kill him. Unfortunately, this triggerman didn't know what Brown looked like. Brown knew that. And we've got a very clever scheme to duck as a assassin. Yeah, that's pretty good now. In short, it is. Brown knew his only hope of getting away from the killer for good was to have the killer shoot someone else. Brown owed me money. So he put it in a non-volopinous name at his hotel.

20:10He phoned me to come to the hotel and ask for it. Was that so? Well, aren't you dead? Because I sent Pete Wilson to that envelope. He went into the hotel and asked for an envelope for Larry Brown. The killer picked him up, took him for a little joyride, and you know what. Okay. But then why was Brown killed? The killer realized his mistake. Oh, the man who hired him noticed it. So as not to make a mistake again, they wired Brown's car for sound. Well, that's the best one you've ever told, Blanky. But it doesn't get me my killer. Do me a favor, Faraday. I wouldn't do anything for you. Then do it for yourself. Did you release a story to the newspaper that Shorty was killed in the explosion? Yeah, but I can stop it. No. No, don't stop it. But it goes through. Add to it a story that Larry Brown was the intended victim. But escaped and has returned to his room at the Williams Hotel. Are you crazy? I'm crazy enough to get out from under a murder rap. Release that story to the newspaper and then give me six hours. I wouldn't give you six seconds if I had any sense. Oh, don't feel so badly about it, Faraday.

21:12We can't all be smart. I oughta lock you up and never listen to you again. Go ahead, get out of here. Thanks, Faraday. Come on, Joey. Sure, Blanky. Remember now, Faraday, for six hours, leave me alone. Get that one ahead. I'm supposed to leave him alone six hours. I'm not letting him out of my sight. Six seconds. Come on. This is Room 511. Thanks. You're expecting loads, too? Later, I'll bring it up with him. Anything else, sir? No, that'll be all. It's a good problem. Thank you, sir. Come in. Hi, Blanky. Well, what took you so long this time, Joey? A little force. You gave me a tough job. I've been all over time. Did you do what I am? Sure it did, boss. My pals call every Morgan Kigman. And now, everyone in town thinks that Larry Brown got out of that explosion, okay? And it's right here in Room 511 of the William's hotel all alone.

22:13Good work, Shorty. Now, it's time. I've got to wait for a guy who's coming up here to kill me. You have to make so much noise. It's dark in the morning. It's dark in the morning, can't you? Yeah, but somebody in the hall might be awake. Are you putting on your face? Lock yourself up. All right, open the door. Let's go in. Don't get excited. Don't be quiet. But I'm nice for this job. Good. All right. You're not doing well for the talking. And we got a right to clear this. Someone in the bed. Yeah. I'm not going to make any noise, baby. They're going to make sure we kill her right there. Okay. Come on, hold it in front. Nice and light, straight to the eyes. It'll be so blind that I'll miss you.

23:13So maybe I better turn on the light. I'll get them. No, you don't. Don't bother to get begun, pal. I think it's like a Friday. We'd like to do that himself. Hey, Friday, come on in. You've been in the next room for hours. I know it. I don't think so. I didn't leave you alone. Well, you know it. You had not shut this guy. Maybe you'd have been glad. I'm glad anyhow, Friday. You heard this guy here say he wasn't going to make him a safe. He killed a long guy again. I heard everything. We're going to the next room for hours. Well, um, incidentally, on your way down to headquarters, and practically had a sweet together Friday, it's supposed to stop and pay the bill. Hello? A blackie. This is Shorty. Say, say, Shorty, where are you? Latvian has been here twice looking for you. Oh, gosh, boss. Did you tell him I was at the gate? No. No, I didn't.

24:13You said you were going straight to Skete, so I thought I'd play a safe and send him to Joe's. Oh, I see. Where are you? Well, boss, let me tell you. I was going straight to Skete's, when a funny thing happened. You want to hurry? No, no, boss. I went straight to Skete's. Here I am. And am I surprised?

26:58Yes, boss. Yes, boss. Yes, boss. Yes, boss.