"Hey Jacoby!" " Fatso!" "Hold it down, will you?" "People try to work up here." "Screw you!" "No respect for the press." " You in or out?" " I'm in, I'm in." "Set, ante up." " Alright." "Why the hell don't we chip in and get some new cards?" "Don't look at me, I'm on the hands 'til you're pullin' low." "Check bet." " Nickel." "Call." "Possible straight, possible flush." "Jack, eight, pair of sevens." " Possible shit." "Pair of sevens, I bet a nickel." "Nickel is fickle I heard you guys." "I don't care what's what, we're both gamblers." "I raise you a dime." "It's a quarter for me, right?" "Now stick." " Call." "Can somebody answer the phone?" " It's Hildy's phone." "Seven, straight line." " Still flushing." "Criminal Courts, Press room." " Five and a seven." "No, Hildy Johnson isn't here." " Queen." "Hello Mr. Burns, no, Hildy hasn't come in yet." "Sure thing, Mr. Burns, I'll tell him that when he shows up, yeah." "It's the third time Walter Burns has called." "Where do you suppose Hildy is?" " Probably had a big night at Madame Chow's." " I hear she's got some new boarding from San Francisco." " I'd like to go for a little of that sweet and sour pork right now." " Come on cut that crap," "Jack's betting." " I checked with a chinese gourmet." "Two bits." " Call me a psychic." "This place smells like the city dump." "How can you breathe in here?" "Have you been seeing any news about the hanging?" "Did you talk to the Sheriff?" " Why don't you guys get your own stories?" "Who's been using my towel?" "And where is my toilet paper?" "How many times have I told you to..." " Temper temper." "For Christ's sake, why don't you bring your own toilet paper?" "Or use those rags you work for." "Two pair, Jacks high." " Weel and weep." "Three trays." " Beats me." "Heya, Bensinger." " Hey, blush him trink..." "Woo-oo, I only used four sheets, you better count them." "Bunch of god-damn gypsies." "Shuffle cards..." "This is Ben Singer." "Give me a rewrite, man." "Take your time, take your time." " O'Malley is that you?" "New lead on the Earl Williams hanging." "Yes, the execution is still set for seven o' clock in the morning." "The authorities are prepared for a general uprising of radicals at that time." " Murphy here, give me a rewrite." "Extra guards have just been thrown around the jail, the municipal building, railroad terminals, elevated stations." "Update on the Williams hanging." "Sheriff Hartman has just put 200 more relatives on the payroll to protect the city against the red army, which is leaving Moscow in a couple of minutes." "Check." " Bet a dime." "Now, this is what the condemned man ordered for his final meal." "Shrimp cocktail with thousand island dressing, rare roast beef, rustled sprouts, apple pie a la mode, ovaltine." "His last meal on wheels is getting a 95 cent blue plate special from the greasy corner 'cross the street." "At nine o' clock tonight, Williams will be examined by still another psychologist, Dr. Max J. Eggerhofer at the request of the Friends of" "American Liberty." "Eggerhofer..." "yes, he's from Vienna." "It's in my story this morning." "He wrote that book "Self-abuse and antisocial behaviour"" "Poor Basset's gonna swing in the morning if this big brain from Vienna won't say that Williams played with himself when he was five." "Pair of bullets." " More later." "Another five of my Irish friends." " Half a buck." "Wait a minute don't I get a call?" " I call." "Press room..." "No Mr. Burns, Hildy hasn't shown up yet." "No, we haven't heard a word god-damned son of a bitch bastard, who does he think he is?" "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to yell at you." "Look, if Hildy shows up would you be kind enough to tell that darn son of a bitch bastard to get his ass over here?" "Thank you." "Any luck?" "I've tried every speak-easy, every gambling joint." "I've tried the turkish bath, no Hildy." " Call the sanitation department, maybe they picked him up at some gutter." "I guess I better check the hospitals." " What a ward, he just liked that clown to die on me on the eve of the hanging." "How about those headlines?" "Which one do you like?" "They all stink." "Trouble is, there's not much you can do with a hanging." "Now if we had the electric chair in this state, that's something you can really sink your teeth into." "WILLIAMS GETS THE HOT SEAT!" "WILLIAMS FRIES!" "WILLIAMS ROASTED ALIVE!" "Oh, Hildy Johnson." "I'm so glad, Mr. Burns's been looking for you all over." "Congratulate me, the bride will shake my hand." "Hi Hildy..." "Look at those two tone shoes." "Congratulate me, I'm in love." " Where the hell have you been?" "Well let's see, I had a haircut, I got a manicure, I did a little shopping," "It had to be." " Yeah." "Now what the hell are you dressed up for?" "You're not covering a polo match, you're covering a hanging." " That's what I wanted to talk to you about." " Tomorrow you and I are gonna stand this town on its ear." " We are." "Every damn newspaper's gonna have the same damn story on that execution, but we're gonna scoop them all." "Because you know what goes in there?" "A picture of Williams swinging by the neck." " A picture?" "A photograph, for the first time anywhere, exclusive in the Examiner." "What are you talking about?" "That's against the law." "You can't bring a camera in there." " Who's gonna know?" "Here, I had this specially rigged up." "You put it to your ankle, you run the tube up your pant's leg." "Pick a hole in your pocket." "The minute Williams drops through that trap door you lift your pant's leg and squeeze the ball." "Got it?" " You sure come up with some juicies." "At 7 o'clock the guy kicks off." "At 7:03 you're out of the jailyard." "There's an ambulance waiting for you with a darkroom and a typewriter inside." "You take off with the sirens going." "While you're bailing out the story they're developing the negatives." "At 7:22 the picture gets to the engraver, we start setting off your copy." "At 7:56 we reprint the front page." "At 8:12 the presses start rolling and at 8:47 you're out on the street with an extra, all done!" "Walter you'll either get the Pulitzer Prize or you'll get a year in the clink." " You and me both we're in this together." "Now what I want's about 1200 words." "You know lots of atmosphere, with the cold grey dawn, and the boys in the death house singing swing low sweet chariot, and the body twisting slowly, slowly in the wind." "I don't have to tell you." " Anything else?" "Yah, we'll need some last words from Williams as he walks up those 13 steps." "Something with a punch to it, if necessary you make them up yourself." "Last words, you want some last words?" "I give you some last words:" "I quit." "A guy about to be hung?" "Nah, he wouldn't say that." "Not Williams, me, I quit." " What?" "I'm resigning, effective immediately." " It's those bozos from the" "Tribune, right?" "They've been trying to steal you away from me for years." "How much are they paying you?" " I'm not gonna work for the Tribune." "Damn right, nobody walks out of Warner-Birch." " Or any newspaper," "Walter, I'm getting married." " Getting married?" "What the hell for?" "You've already been married." "A fine marriage that was, I didn't even get to Niagara Falls, 'cause you made me get off the train at San Basque to cover that torch murder." "That's what makes you a first class reporter, Hildy." "You're always in the right place at the right time." "But never at home, Walter." "Not for Christmas, not for our anniversary, when she was sick in the hospital and nearly died, I was stuck in Tennessee, covering that god-damn monkey trial." "It's not gonna happen again Walter, not this time." " Okay okay Hildy, you wanna take the plunge again?" "Alright, tell you what we do." "First you cover the hanging, then you can get married." "Take a whole weekend off, you don't have to be back in the office until Monday." "Monday I'll be in Philadelphia." " Philadelphia?" "We're taking the midnight train, tomorrow afternoon we get married, with her family and everything and everybody and then Monday I start working for her on Collini Advertising Business." "The Advertising Business?" " You heard me, I'm going straight," "I'm quitting this racket." " You mean you're gonna be writing crap like "I'd walk a mile for a camel"?" "Or "Quick Henry, the Flic?"" " You bet, for one hundred and fifty bucks a week." " Jesus, Hildy you're a newspaper man, not some faggot writing poetry about brochures or laxatives." " It's all set, we got three hundred extra newsboys for tomorrow morning." "St. Paul's general school is gonna be playing hooky, we'll cover Chicago like a blizzard." "Good-bye Duffy, watch the diabetes." " All day." "It's been fun." "What does he mean by that?" " He's leaving us." "Gettin' married." "Yeah?" "That hostess at the Hatchy-Tatchy club?" "You're not even close, but this is a very classy date." "Philadelphia studied to be a concert pianist." "Where the hell would you meet a concert pianist?" "Well actually she's a widow." "Husband cracked up in a brand new pack, had only had 18 miles on it." "So to support herself she's playing the organ in the Balaban Katz Theatre." "Yeah, been dating 3 months." "She is surely, why didn't you tell me kid?" "I would have thrown you a little farewell." "Oh no no no, I know your farewell parties." "When Ben Ack was leaving for Hollywood you slipped a Mickey in his Gin Fizz and it took four of us to get him on the California Limited." " Well look at him now." "Sitting under those goddamn palm trees writing dialogue for Rin Tin Tin." "What's the matter with you guys?" "You're traitors, all of you!" "If it isn't Hollywood, it's Broadway, or Paris!" "Write the great American novel, be Scott Fitzgerald, Christ!" "And now you're gonna sell out." "The last real newspaper man" "I got on this sheet." " Don't give me that vaseline jargon." "When you did that interview with Earl Williams in the deadhouse our circulation went up 75.000!" "It's been your story, right from the beginning." "You can't run out now!" "Can't I?" "Watch me, because hot or cold, rain or shine," "I'm gonna be on the midnight train to Philadelphia." "Okay, you ungrateful son of a bitch, I picked you up when you were nothing, covering polac weddings on the south- side." "I taught you everything I knew." "And now, when I need you, you stab me in the back!" "Well, I can take the greenest cub out there and turn him into a better reporter than you ever were!" "Fix him another Beaumont?" "Get outta here, you lousy double crossing heel!" "Might just as well know how it's feeling." "You're really gonna let him go?" " In a pig's eye." "Marrying some dame that plays the organ from Philadelphia for Christ's sakes!" "Button up your overcoat when the wind is free." "Take good care of yourself you belong to me." "Eat an apple every day, get to bed by three." "Take good care of yourself you belong to me." "Be careful crossing streets, ooh-ooh, don' eat meats, ooh-ooh," "Cut out sweets, ooh-ooh, you'll get a pain and ruin your tum-tum!" "Keep away from bootleg hooch when you're on a spree," "Oh, take good care of yourself, you belong to me!" "On his return from the south pole, Commander Richard E. Byrd gets a tumultuous welcome in New York harbour." "Party boss Joseph Stalin reviews Russia's military might marching past Lenin's tomb in red square." "Ms. Grant?" " Yes." "Can I have a word with you?" "My name is Fishbine, Otto Fishbine." "If you're a booking agent, don't bother." "I am getting out of show business." " I'm really not that," "I'm a probation officer." " Probation officer?" "What's this all about?" " Well it's come to our attention that you're planning to marry one Hildebrand Johnson, also known as" ""Hildy" Johnson." " So?" "Well that's ok, but we understand you're planning to move to Philadelphia." " Is there anything wrong with that?" "Plenty, he can't leave Chicago, he has to report to us every week." "Why?" " Because he's on probation." "For what?" " You mean he didn't tell you?" "Well I can hardly blame him." " What are you talking about?" "Now don't get panicky, he's not really a criminal." "He's just sick." " Sick?" "Well not all the time, but every so often he gets this crazy urge." "Mr. Fishbine, I'm not a naive young thing." "I've been married before, now just, what did Hildy do?" " As long as he was doing it in dark alleys and deserted parks, well, we in the department have some compassion." "But this last time it happened in broad daylight." "In the Chicago Urn Institute." " For God's sake, what happened?" "Well, there were those 16 highschool girls on a tour and there he was at the top of the staircase, wearing a raincoat and it wasn't even raining." "Is that some sort of a crime?" " You know what he was wearing underneath?" "Shoes and socks." " And?" " That's it." "We get those exhibitionists all the time, hey lady, look!" "I don't believe it." "We got a file on him this thick." "Poor Hildy." " Poor Hildy." "He'd be in jail right now if it weren't for that editor of his, that Walter something..." " Walter Burns?" "That's it, pulled a lot of strings with the state's attorney and the judge." "That's what I call a real friend." "That'll be Hildy." "What can I say to him." " Save your breath, he'll just deny everything anyway." "If I were you, I'd go back to Philadelphia and forget all about him." " And not even say good-bye?" "Hello?" " Hi baby, this is your dreamlover, bright eyed and bushy tailed." "I just thought I check in." "Boy, have I had a busy afternoon." " Where were you?" "At the Art Museum?" " Art Museum?" "What Art Museum?" "I went up to the office and told Walter Burns he could take his job and..." "And then I picked up the rings and the train tickets and I've almost finished packing." "Did you remember to pack your raincoat?" "Who packs a raincoat?" "I'm gonna carry it over my arm." "Just in case." " Just in case?" "Hildy you don't need a wife, you need a doctor." "Look, I feel very sorry for you but I just couldn't live with that kind of a problem." " That's telling him." "Now just hang up." "Honey?" "What's the matter, I don't understand?" "What have I done?" "Your probation officer is right here with me." "Probation officer?" "I don't know any probation..." "He said what?" "Me?" "Oh, now wait a minute, honey." "Well, how'd you..." "Wait, wait, wait..." "What does this guy look like?" "Never mind, I'll describe him to you." "About six foot three, huge feet, mean little eyes and a nose like a pickle, right?" "You wanna know who that is?" "You're not gonna believe this, Walter Burns that good diving son of a..." "Well I better be running along now, I have a couple of other cases to look into." " Ah, just a minute." "Hildy would like to speak to you." " Not now, I have to check up on the Candyman." "We call him that because he hangs around schoolyards." "Here." "Hello, Fishbine speaking." " Fishbine, ha, listen, you lousy baboon, you better start wearing cast iron shorts, because the next time I see you, I'm gonna bury my shoe up your ass!" "So help me." " Come on Hildy you used to be able to take a joke before you went into the advertising business." "Of all of the low down stinky trait..." "You wreck my marriage just to keep me on that crumbly paper of yours, ah?" " Hildy, all I'm asking is that you postpone it for 24 hours, just cover this hanging for me." "Mr. Burns I wouldn't cover the last supper for you if they held it at the" "Pumprum or at the Ambassador East." "Now you get the hell off the phone and let me speak to my girl." " Alright, alright, the flasher wants to talk to you." " That was a rotten thing to do." "It was for your own good, believe me." "Marry an undertaker, marry a black jack dealer, marry a pickpocket, but never marry a newspaperman." "That's why I'm making him quit." " You can't make a leopard change his spots or hitch a fire horse to a milkwagon." "They'll be like a fish outta water." " We'll take our chances." "Now if you don't mind." " Just a friendly warning, that's my wedding present to you." "Darling I'm sorry, I should have known better but it's, he sounded so convincing." "I will finish my last show at 9:15, will you pick me up?" " Tell Hildy I wish him all the luck in the world, and I mean it, or my name isn't Otto Fishbine." "Dime." " Make it two bits." "I'm trying a quarter." " Too rich for me." "In." " Buy." "Can I clean up in here?" " Yes." " No!" "Queen, eight..." "I better win it in soon." " Listen I'm the big loser here." "Somebody must be winning." " Crack it for a dime." "Buy me." " Call." "I'm in." " And deuce, I can read it." "Pair of fours." " Pair of kings, bet you a quarter." "Good evening." "Excuse me, gentlemen." "Sorry to interrupt, but which is the Examiner desk?" "The what?" " This is the press room, isn't it?" "Well?" " I'm Rudy Keppler." "I'm here to cover the execution for the Examiner." "The Examiner?" " How come, what happened to Hildy?" "Mr. Johnson is no longer with the paper." "What do you mean?" " He resigned." "Is this my place?" "Resigned?" "You're joking." " From what I heard he's getting married and moving to Philadelphia." "Come on, not Hildy." " I thought he was married to Walter Burns." " He'll never give him a divorce." "This place won't be the same without Hildy." "Well, I would hope so." "I've always found him rowdy, ill mannered and irresponsible." " What a hell of a reporter." "No contest." "That's why I'm so nervous." "Following in his footsteps, being here with all you old pro's." " Hey, I bet you went to college" "School of journalism, hm?" " How'd you guess?" "University Wisconsin, class of '27." " Ah, that was a good year." "We could sure use some new blood around here." "Yeah, that's for sure." "Hey, you play poker?" "Cribbitch is my game and a little auction bridge." "Don't worry, we'll break you in." "That's very kind of you." "But right now, is there any paper around here?" "Hey Bensinger, why don't you give him some of that pink stuff?" "I think you're all being perfectly beastly to this nice young man." "I've been looking for you bums." "Hello sweetheart." " Well if it isn't Ms. Molly Malloy." "Nooky, nooky." " How's the old tomatoe can?" "Go on, laugh." "Damn you!" " Say Molly, those were pretty roses you sent Earl Williams." " What do you want done with them when he checks out?" " Yeah he left a 7 AM call." "Bunch of Wisenheimers, ain't ya?" "You know what I think of you?" "Are you gonna pay a call on your boyfriend?" "He's right across the courtyard, Molly." "I'm sure he'd rather spend his last night with you than with the chapian." "If you was worth breaking my fingernails on" "I'd tear your puss wide open." " Would someone mind introducing me to the lady?" " Lady?" "Ha, just get a whiff of that perfume." "Fluid of floozy." "Bastards, all of you!" " What are you sore about, hun?" "Wasn't that a swell ride up we gave you?" "I never said I loved Earl Williams and was willing to marry him on the gallows." "You made that up." "Now come on, you been stuck around that cuckoo ever since he's been in the deathhouse." " Everyone knows you're his soulmate." "That's a lot of bunk!" "Like all that other stuff you've been writing." "Call me an angel of the pavement, a midnight madonna, who you kiddin'" "I'm a two dollar whore from Division Street and you know it." "That's right, she shouldn't even be allowed in here." "What about that love Nasty had with Williams?" "That's a lie, he never even laid a hand on me." "You had that red in your bed for three days and three nights." "He had that kind of money." " Or did you make him a special price?" "Poor guy didn't have enough for a cup of coffee." "Used to hang around Division Street every night handing out leaflets." "Telling us how we were being exploited by capitalism and that we should organize." "So the pimps came around and beat him up." "And there he was, lying on the sidewalk, bleeding, with his glasses broken." "So I took him up to my place like any human being would." "That was a very charitable thing to do." "Yeah, meet Florence Nightingale." " Sure I took care of him and for three days and three nights he just talked to me." "Treated me decent, not like an animal." "Now you guys are trying to make a fool out of me." " Now, why didn't you adopt him?" "Instead of letting him run around shooting policemen?" "I told him to stay away from that corner, but when they sent a cop around to chase him away, he said it was his constitutional right." "So the cop pulled a gun out on him and he panicked." "He just grabbed for the gun and it went off, he didn't mean to kill him." "Now put that on a big shoulder record." " Suppose that covered been your own brother." " I wish to God it'd been one of you, you lousy punks." "What's that?" " Just testing." "Testing what?" " The affection of a pain in the neck for your boyfriend." "Maybe we oughta put a little talcum on the noose." "Make it slide easier." "Oh my God!" "Are you gonna claim the body, Molly?" "Or scatter his ashes over Division Street?" "I suppose all the hookers are going to the mourning." "Yeah, wear black underwear." "Shame on you!" "Shame!" "A poor little crazy fellow's sitting there alone with the angel of death beside him and you're cracking jokes." "It's a wonder a bolt of lightning don't come through the ceiling and strike you all dead." "That's enough of that." "Just go, cry somewhere else." "Yeah Molly, get your Keesha outta here." " This is the press room." "I'm four bucks behind." " Come on, come on, let's go." " Don't you..." "Hey lady, I'm on your side." "Gentlemen of the press..." "Hey Molly, what do you know, what do you say?" "Oh get lost, you're like all the rest of them bums." "...am I awake, or am I dreaming?" "Jennie, old girl, did anybody ever tell you, you got a terrific behind." "Not lately." " Well, a thing of beauty is a joy forever." " Cut the lying Mr. Johnson, what do you want now?" " I could use some ice and some club soda, maybe a couple of bottles of ginger ale." "Coming up." " Right." "And 7, 5, 3, 7, 9, 6, 5 and a 10." " Birthday cake." "Alright you guys, on your feet and reach for the ceiling, this joint's raided, see?" " Hey, Hildy!" "What's all this we hear?" " Is it on the label?" "You're really quitting?" " Get a load of that ...bridegroom wear." " Nobody moves to Philadelphia for Christ's sake." " The city's a..." "It's all true, fellows, two tickets to Philly and two wedding hoops." "18 carats, you are looking at Hildebrand Johnson, Esq." "Care of Waterbury and Adams, Advertising and Public Relations, Philadelphia, PA." "No shit." " Nobody but fairies goes into advertising." " Sour grapes." "How does Burns take the news?" " That knifing son of a bi... you know what he tried to... ah to hell with him, get some paper cups." "Look at that, that's the real stuff." " It's my farewell to the troops." "Hildy baby, when you go, you go first class." "Think it's worth it, 'cause I'll never have to look at those ugly punks of yours again." " Let's get rid of some of this crap." "Mr. Johnson?" "You probably don't remember me, but we once met in the men's room." "The men's room, where?" " At the Examiner." "I'm Rudy Keppler, Mr. Duffy sent me to take over for you." "Is that so?" "What were you doing before this?" "Oh a little bit of everything, social notes, book reviews, covered a couple of fires, this is my first hanging." "It's ok kid, it's William's first hanging, too." "I snatched the ice from the morgue." " Over here." "What do you have, Jennie?" " Maybe a little straight gin." "Careful you're getting the cards wet." " It's about time somebody washed." "I could go for some ginger ale." " Hey, Slick, join us." "Rock and Rye, please." " Here, kid." "Well Hildy, here's to you." " Lucky bastard." "Godspeed, Hildy." " May the wind at your back never be your own." "Alright..." "You sentimental slys before everybody gets fallen down drunk," "I got a few markers, here." "McHugh, you owe me 5 bucks." "I'll give you tomorrow." " I won't be here tomorrow." "I'll send it to you." " I bet it gets lost in the mail." "I'll bet." " Schwarz, 6,7,5." "For what?" " For being a lousy poker player, that's for what." " Hildy, about that 30 bucks, you'll just have to wait, it wasn't just my kid taken sick, my old lady..." "What 30 bucks, forget it." "I might have known I couldn't collect from you deadbeats, anyway it's just chicken feed." "Big time Charlie, eh?" "How much they paying you?" "Oh, you wouldn't wanna know it, it'd just make you green within." "Hey are you gonna have one of those offices with a rug on the floor and a stenographer on your lap?" " I don't think my wife would go for that." " I bet you get Saturdays and Sundays off." " And Christmas." "I can see it now, you're gonna join the country club, golf and Marjan." "Silk pyjamas with a monogram right across your whole chest." "Look who's talking, journalists." "Bunch of crazy Budinskys with dandruff on their shoulders and holes in their pants." "Peeking through keyholes, waking people up in the middle of the night asking them what they think about Amy Simple McPherson." "Stealing pictures of old ladies or their daughters that get raped in Oak Park." "And for what?" "So a million shop girls and motormen's wives can get their jollies." "And, the next day somebody wraps the front page around a dead mackarel, ah..." "Don't knock it Hildy." " How long do you think you're gonna last in that fancy job?" "Yeah, 6 months from now you may be out on your ass." "Never happen." "You know why?" "Because my girl's uncle, he owns that avertising agency, now tie that." " What do you know, high Hildy going into the nephew business." " A gigolo." "Where's your pride?" "Where's your integrity?" "What's the newspaper business ever done for me?" "See, I don't wanna end up like you guys will, on a copy desk." "Grey haired, hump backed, half blind, bumming cigarettes from arthur's boys." "I think I'll have a little more gin." "Ah, what's the idea, fellows?" "You know better than that, it's a government building." " Hi Sheriff." "What'll you have?" "I got a good base to have you all locked up." "The state's attourney wouldn't like it. 'Cause I bought that stuff from his brother." "If you gentlemen need more ice..." "Here are the tickets for the hanging." "Tribune, Journal of Commerce," "Post, only two." " I promised a couple of the guys in the circulation department." " What do you think we're putting on here?" "The World Series?" "Daily News, Examiner." "Here you are, Rudy." "The new man." " What happened?" "They finally fired you?" " I'm retiring to my country estate outside Philadelphia." " Well in that case" "I will have a drink." " No, you won't, not my liquor." "What shall I do with the second ticket?" "Sell it to a scavel like the Sheriff does." "I've had it with you Johnson." "When I think of all that malarc that you involved the birds that been picking about me, full of hearsay, innuendo and character assassination." " What do you mean?" "Don't we always refer to you as "Honest" Pete Hartman?" " Oh yeah, yeah." "And what about those things you always put around "Honest"?" "Journal." " Why can't we move up the hanging from 7 to 5, so we can make the city edition?" " Oh come on Murph, you can't hang a fellow in his sleep just to please the newspapers, that ain't nice." "No but you can reprieve him twice so that the hanging comes just before the election." "Ha?" "With you and the mayor running on a law and order ticket, that is nice." "I had nothing to do with it." "That was the Governor." "Yeah, how do we know there won't be another reprieve?" "No chance." " Yeah, suppose this Dr. Eggelhofer finds out that Williams is insane." " Come on boys, you know that's just a formality." "To shut up those pinkie troublemakers." "He's gonna examine him in my office in a few minutes, but I can tell you right now, Williams is as sane as I am." "Saner!" " Ah, come on fellows, he shot that cop as part of a bolshevic Anarchist conspiracy to subvert our democratic institution." " Baloney." "Williams isn't a red and you know it." "He's just a screwball, had the lousy luck to shoot a coloured cop in an election year." "Now I want you fellows to tell it loud and clear, that the death warrant for" "Earl Williams is a death warrant for all the radical elements in this town." "Not again, Pete." " I say, reform the reds with a rope!" "Can I quote you on that, Sheriff?" " Certainly my boy." "Sheriff Hartmann pledges to reform the reds with a rope." "That's worth a good 600.000 votes." " Yah, plus a couple of 100.000 coloured votes that were not baby drops through the trap, you guys have a shoe in." " Are you implying that the mayor and I are playing politics for the bad side?" "Boy am I glad to get out of this freakin' town." "That cuts both ways Johnson, both ways!" "American." "City Press." "See you around, fellows." "Good-bye, Sheriff." "Gonna miss you. "Honest"..." "Now gents, I gotta pick up my girl, we're gonna have dinner before we get on that train." " Let's have one for the road." "Mr. Johnson." "If you have any advice to give me." " Sure, kid." "Never end a sentence with a preposition, never draw to an inside straight." "And never, never get caught in the can with Bensinger." "So long Hildy." " Take care of yourself." "Drop us a postcard if you stoop on one." " Any of you ever get to Philadelphia for Christ's sake don't look me up, because from now on I'm not associating with riff-raff." " Cheers!" "Not a soul down on the corner, that's a pretty certain sign, that wedding bells are breaking up that old gang of mine." "All the boys are singing lovesongs, they forgot sweet apple wine." "Those wedding bells are breaking up that old gang of mine." "There goes Jack and there goes Jim..." "Could you help me again, please?" "I just can't seem to shake this cold." " Yeah, summer colds, they're the worst." "Alright, unlock the handcuffs." "Was the dinner okay?" " Yeah, it was fine but they forgot the ketchup." " That's just too bad." "In here." "Earl, this is Dr. Eggelhofer." "He's going to examine you." "Oh, oh, hi Doc." "Good evening, Sir." "Sit down please." "Are you gonna stick some pins into me and hit my knees with a hammer?" "That is very old fashioned." "I'm merely going to ask you a few questions." "Thank you." " Now, Mr. Williams are you aware of what is going to happen to you tomorrow?" "They're gonna hang me." " And how do you feel about that?" "Well, to tell the truth, I'll be glad to get out of that cell, it's so drafty." "See?" "I told you, he's 100% sane." " It says here that you are by profession a baker." " That's right, I'm a specialty baker, you know, pretzels and breadsticks and bagels." "You know, I worked for the same place for five years and then one day they just fired me." "For what reason?" " Because I put those things in the fortune cookies." " What things?" "Free Sacko and Vanzetti!" " Pretty stinky, those Bolshewiks." "Who's a Bolshewik?" " According to this, you were arrested 1925 for illegal possession of explosives." "Oh yes, well I don't know how you feel about Wall Street, Doctor, but I mailed a shoebox to J.P. Morgan with a timebomb in it and it came back because of insufficient postage, blew the whole roof off my boarding house." "We should send them all back where they came from." "I come from Fargo, North Dakota." "Tell me Mr. Williams, were you unhappy as a child?" "Not really, I had a perfectly normal childhood." "I see, you wanted to kill your father and sleep with your mother." "If he's gonna talk dirty..." " When you were in grammar school, did you practice self abuse?" " No Sir, I don't believe in it." "I would never abuse myself or anybody else, I love people." "I love all people." "I suppose that cop comitted suicide." "Let me get back to masturbation." "Did your father ever catch you in the act?" "Oh, my father was never home, he was a conductor on the Chicago North-Western." "Very significant, your father wore a uniform just like that policeman." "And when he pulled out the gun, an obvious phallic symbol, you thought he was your father and was going to use it to hurt your mother." "He's crazy." " Let us then try to reconstruct your thought process at the time of the crime." "May I borrow your gun, please." " Oh, sure thing." "Get up Mr. Williams." "Alright, you are standing on that corner with those leaflets." "I am the policeman, I come up to you and tell you to moe along." "You refuse, I draw my gun." "Now, I want you to tell me exactly what you thought and show me exactly what you did." "Exactly?" "Gee, I get that lonesome feeling, when I hear those church bells chime." "Those wedding bells are breaking up my old..." "What the hell was that?" "Maybe somebody else is throwing a party." "Must be a riot." "Or a jailbreak." "Hey, Jacoby, what's the matter?" " What's going on down there?" "Did somebody get away?" "Who was it?" " Hey Fatso, what happened?" "Just go." "Now spread out you guys." "Come on, watch your feet." "Somebody cover the west wall, the rest of you follow me." "Get away from those windows!" " What's the excitement?" "Earl Williams escaped." "Williams?" "Jesus!" "Earl Williams just busted out of the County Jail." "...cleared away..." " Cops all over the place." "Lots of shooting, don't know if it's from Williams or at Williams." "Like the 4th of July out there." "Careful, you roughnecks, watch where you're shooting." "Stand by." " Call you later." "The minute I get anything." " Hang on." "I'm off and running." "Hey Keppler..." "Sir?" "Aren't you gonna call into the office?" "Do you think it's safe?" " Those guys couldn't hit anything." "I'm afraid I did something bad, when the shooting started, in my pants." "I hope the camera didn't get wet." "Eh now, Rudy, the phone." " Oh yes." "What's our number?" " You got a direct line there." "Really?" "Hello." "Hello Mr. Duffy." "This is Keppler..." "Rudy Keppler." "Yes I'm in the Criminal Courts building but it looks like there's gonna be no hanging tomorrow." "No, no reprieve from the Governor as far as I know." "What?" "I can't hear you Mr. Duffy with all the shooting going on and the sirens." "Oh shit..." "Duffy, it's Hildy Johnson, get me Walter, quick, hu?" "Footside call in here, Willer." "It's Hildy." "I tell you, I knew the minute he saw we're replacing him with a snot-nose kid it would be such a blow to his ego." "Look Hildy, if you want your job back it's too late," "I got a first class guy covering that story." "Yeah just met him, full of piss and vinegar." "Now get this Walter," "Earl Williams just slammed outta jail." "That's right you heard me." "Holy smoke, hold everything in the composing room." "Well thanks for the call Hildy." "I know you're in a hurry to catch that train." "Christ, when I think what you could have done with this story." "Don't worry Walter, I'm right on top of it." "Anything I can do for you Mr. Johnson?" " Yeah, change your diapers." "What the hell happens?" "Can't we get out of that rotten jail of yours?" "Call the double tork!" " Any clue to his whereabouts?" "We gotta have a statement..." "I'll give you a statement!" "This maggot Williams shot his way out." "My men chased him up to the top floor but he got out through the skylight." "We searched the roof, nothing." "So, we figured he must have sled down the rainpipe to the street." " I'm still not straight on what happened in your office." " I told you, Dr. Eggelhofer was asking him some questions very polite, when all of a sudden" "Williams started firing." "One bullet hit the doctor well in the groin." "The psychoman went wild." "One of the shots just grazed my ear." "One more inch and, oh boy." " What we wanna know is, where did Williams get the gun?" " Yeah, yeah, well that's... that's what I'd like to know myself." " Was it smuggled into his cell?" "Maybe under the roast beef and the brussels sprouts?" "Are you sure that chaplain's a methodist and not a communist?" "Is this the work of outside agitators?" " Boys, boys, I assure you" "I'm following up every single lead." "Right now!" "My entire force plus 200 special deputies..." "Make way, make way, make way!" "What happened in there Doc?" " Would you care to give us your version?" " Is Williams sane or insane?" "Please gentlemen, no statements, no questions, I am in terrible pain after what he did to me, that fruitcake." "Stand back." "Let him through." " Where are they taking me?" "Passavant Hospital, just 5 minutes from here." "Oh no no no no no, I want to go to the Allgemeines" "Krankenhaus on Alsaßstraße." " Where is that?" "In Vienna, I do not trust American Doctors." "You'll never make it to Vienna." " In this case I want a big mirror and some instruments, I shall operate myself." "Is this your first trip to the United States, Doc?" "How do you like Chicago?" "Sprechen sie Jiddisch?" "Where did it get you Doc?" "Right in the old log bells?" "Hey Pete, you don't mind, there's a couple of things about that story that bother me." " Is that so?" "Well you're bothering me." "You don't have any more jobs," "I don't have to talk to you." "Jennie, will you mop up my floor, please?" "There's blood all over." " Right away Sheriff, as soon as I get a new bucket." "You know, I got my own ideas about the escape." "You do?" " Oh yeah, I think that you let" "Earl Williams out yourself so that he could vote for you next Tuesday." "Very funny." "Can I have your bucket, Jennie?" " He shouted." "Who shouted?" " That Earl Williams." "I was cleaning in the county assistant's office next door when it all happened." " You saw it?" "No, but I could hear what was going on." "What?" " I better keep my mouth shut." "'Cause he wouldn't like it." " Who?" " The Sheriff." "He'd fire me." " Hey Jennie, we've been friends for a long time." "When you told me that your husband could play "Nola"" "on his denture with a teaspoon, who got it on the air in "Show Hour"?" "Well I really shouldn't, but I..." "Attention all cars, attention." "Man matching Earl Williams description has been seen boarding southbound train toward college grove." "Please investigate." "Earl Williams has departed in the vicinity of Wrigley building." "Proceed there immediately." "Here's a late report:" "Earl Williams has just been spotted on a rowboat on Lake Michigan, disguised as a nun." "Nicht so schnell!" "Um Gottes Willen, nicht so schnell!" "Hilfe, die sind ja alle fruitcakes!" "Fruitcakes." "Fruitcakes." "Dr. Eggelhofer is on his way to Passavant Hospital, to operate on himself." "Hu, you heard me." "Yeah, the tightest dragnet in history of Chicago has been thrown around the North Side." "Sheriff Hartmann expects Williams to be recaptured any moment now." "Which means they don't have the slightest idea where he is." "Now here's a cute little sideliner, just spoke to the hangman:" "Whether they get Williams back or not, he collects his 50 bucks, it's play or pay." "Hold on, I have something coming in." "This is Schwartz, give a rewrite." " Mr. Schwartz, your wife brought this for you, stuffed cabbage." " Yuck!" "A teargas bomb went off accidentally in one of the Sheriff's cars, the following deputies needed emergency treatment:" "Ted Kowalsky," "Phillip Losgarden." " She said to be sure to bring home the pot." " Joe Madsburg, Wally Coogan," "William Gilholy..." " My comission has just offered a thousand Dollar reward for the capture of Williams." "No, nobody knows where the gun came from." "Maybe the reds dropped it in by parachute." " How're you doin'" "Any flashes?" "Any scoops?" "It's almost deadline time, you know?" "You still here?" " Just showin' the kid the ropes." "Now listen Rudy." " Yessir." "The mayor's car just drove up." "Go downstairs see if you can get a statement from him." "This is Hildy, get me Walter." " I forgot to tell you," "Mrs. Peggy Grant called." " Peggy?" "Oh my God I forgot." "Walter, listen..." "Will you get outta here." "Walter, I got the story." "It's a pip and I got it exclusive." " That's my Hildy, you see why I love you?" "Okay, let's have it." "It's the jailbreak of your dreams..." "No, no bolshewik plot, the whole thing was an inside job, and guess where he got the gun." "All loaded and ready to fire, hang on, will you?" "Yah?" "Yah, uh, Peggy!" "Hi baby, hi." "Yah I'm sorry, I know I'm late darling but it... no I'm not getting drunk, the party's already over." "It's just that something unexpected..." "Will you for God's sake wait a minute, Walter?" "We could save some time, instead of me coming all the way downtown why don't you grab a cab and you pick me up on the way, now how about that?" "You're a sweetheart." "Okay Walter, here we go:" "That profound thinker from Vienna" "Dr. Max J. Eggelhofer, in order to prove some manic theory, decides to re-enact the crime." "Naturally he needs a gun, ha?" "Who do you think supplied it?" " Don't tell me," "Sheriff Peter B. Hartman?" " That's right. "B" for brains." "That idiot hands his gun to the professor, the professor points it at Williams, Williams takes the gun away from the professor and shoots him." "Right where the money is..." "That's beautiful." "Where is Eggelhofer now?" "Okay, here's what I want you to do:" "Get over to the hospital, in the minute they operate get a hold of that bullet." "So if the Sheriff tries to deny the story..." "Hold it, eh Walter, not going to any hospital, not stealing any bullets." "Alright there may be further developments." "In the meantime" "I want you to bail me out a lead." "You know:" ""Sheriff Hartman" " Stooge of Stallon or simply stupid?"" "If we move fast we can make the early edition." "You don't understand Walter, I've quit!" "I gave you that story as a personal favour because you're such a warm, loveable human being, but that's it!" "Now my girl's picking me up in 15 minutes, so it's good-bye Chicago, good-bye Examiner, good-bye to you." "You maniac." "Listen you..." "Same to you, bastard." "How is this going to affect the election, your honour?" "Is it gonna cost you the colored vote?" "What about the law and order vote?" " No comment." "Come on your honour, are you just gonna stand there all night and give us that no comment crap?" " No comment." "The way we see it you got your ass in a sling, your honour." "Rubbish, the voters of Chicago will not let themselves be swayed by this unfortunate incident." "They have complete confidence in their mayor." "Just as I have complete faith in Sheriff Hartman." "And I'm sure you boys share that faith and confidence." "No comment." " Sorry to break in Sheriff, but we've located Williams, this time for real." "Where?" " On North Wabash at the offices of the friends of American Liberty." "One of our patrols spotted him in the alley." "Alright, get every available man, seal off the whole area, but remember, goddammit, I want him taken alive." "Check." " There's your story, boys." "Wait for us Fatso!" "Okay Pete, now I suppose you explain it to me." "How the hell can a guy escape with a double guard around the jail and 200 extra deputies?" " Well that yould happen to anybody." "Wouldn't have happened to Prohaska." "I knew I should have put him on the ticket instead of you." "You, you pissbrain." "Please Herbie, I've always been a good partyman, a teamplayer." "Jesus, what happened at the fund- raising dinner at the Palmer house?" "All the big money is there." "I'm about to make a pitch for campaign contributions and then I get news like this." "Calm down Herbie, it's all over now." "You've heard the latest, they've got Williams." "He can't get away." " What do you mean he can't get away?" "He got away, didn't he?" "Herbie, I personally guaran..." " Don't call me Herbie anymore!" "From now on it's your honour." "Yes, your honour." "I'm warning you Pete." "If you don't have Williams on that gallows by 7 in the morning, then God help you." "Because you might just as well go ahead and hang yourself." "Am I awake now or am I dreaming?" "Congratulate me..." "Excuse me, which way is the Sheriff's office?" "Right away..." "Sheriff Hartman?" " In here." "Oh, my name is Plunkett, just came up from Springfield" "I got something for you." " What?" "From the Governor." " What's from the Governor?" "It's a reprieve for Earl Williams." " For who?" "Earl Williams." "Boy what a hastle getting over here from the station, all those police cars on the wrong side of the street and running the red lights." " Is this a joke or something?" "Says here the Governor is appointing a special comission to consider last appeals for clemency." " He can't do that to us!" "There was a stack of mail this high and a telegram this long with four thousand signatures." " How do we know this isn't a fake?" "Yeah, could be some sort of a communist trick!" "Oh no, I was right there with the Governor when he signed it." "Pete, get the Governor on the phone." " No you can't." "What do you mean we can't?" " He's gone fishing, just him and a indian guide in a canoe, no phone no nothing." "Sure picked a hell of a time to go fishing." "Excuse me." "Just between us, it's not really fishing, because that indian guide is really a girl." "She isn't even indian, she's from New Jersey." "Yes, Jacobi." "What?" "You do?" "Are you sure?" "Herbie!" "Your honour!" "Hold on a minute." "It's Jacobi, they've got him trapped, they've surrounded the building." "Tell him to stay on the line." " Stay on the line." "Don't make a move until I say so." "Look Mr. Plunkett about this reprieve, we can't accept it." "Why not?" " Wouldn't be legal." "We don't have Earl Williams in our custody." "You don't?" "Well, where is he?" " He escaped, you saw those police cars, we're looking for him." "Oh dear, that is a problem." "I think I gotta phone the Governor." "You can't!" "He's off fishing, remember?" "So, why don't you come back tomorrow morning." "I'm sure by then we'll have him back in our jurisdiction." "You mean I spend the night in Chicago?" " Any objections?" "No no Siree." "Trouble is, I don't know anybody here." "You like Chinese food?" " Well I'm not really hungry," "I had a sandwich on the train." " But you didn't have a Chinese sandwich." " I never heard of it." "You'll never forget it." "Ask for Madame Chow." "Tell her the Green Hornet send you." " The Green Hornet?" "And just put everything on my tab." " Well that's very kind of you." "Not at all, not at all." "And you can use my chopsticks." "Thank you." "Good-bye Sheriff." "He's waiting for instructions." "What are we going to do?" "Tell him to shoot to kill." " What?" "Shoot to kill I said." " I don't know Herbie, what about the reprieve?" "If it ever comes out?" "Nobody reprieves the policeman he shot, there was no clemency either." "Do what I tell you!" "Jacobi, you there?" "Listen, shoot to kill!" "You heard me!" "Okay, okay Sheriff." "Only I thought you wanted him alive." "Anything you say." "We know you're up there Williams." "Now, this is your last chance." "Throw the gun out the window and come out with your hands up!" "Or we'll smoke you out." " New instructions:" "No bullhorn, no tear gas." "We go in there and we go in shooting." "All set!" "Let's go, men!" "There's a brave fellow with breath." " Your gonna damage the whole thing." "Stand back, stand back!" "Would you suppose there is a bathroom around here?" "The future Mrs. Johnson, I presume?" " Have you been waiting long, darling?" "Only my whole life." "I'm sorry I was tied up." "Uh, like all the orchids in the Bahamas." "What do you say we pick up the bags first and then we get something to eat at the station?" " Let's..." "Have you got the tickets?" "Have I got the tickets?" "A lower for you, an upper for me." "Oh no darling we'll take the nine." " I tell you what, why don't we both take the lower?" " What about the conductor?" "Yeah, he'll have the upper." " Where to, Mack?" "Uh-oh, oh, no place, just stay here." "God damned idiot." " Who?" "Me!" "I left the wedding rings in the press room." "I just hope the bums haven't stolen them." "I'll be back." "You don't mind waiting, do you?" "Why, it's a state of mind, the night is young, the orchids are smelling, the meter is running..." "just made another nickel." "Jesus Christ almighty." "Shut the door." "Ok, ok, Earl." "Just put the gun down." " I said shut the door!" "How the hell did you..." " I've been hanging in the air shaft." "But I couldn't hold on any longer." "They, they got me in the arm." "Don't move!" "You realize they're looking for you all over Chicago?" "You cops, you're all so dumb." "I'm not a cop, Earl." "You know me, Hildy Johnson," "I interviewed you in your cell." "Oh yeah, I remember, yeah I read every word, an outraged man paddling against the tides of injustice." "I liked that..." "Earl?" "Earl?" "Oh, wow!" "Duffy!" "This is Hildy, get me Walter." "I don't give a damn, just get him." "This is urgent." "Walter?" "Walter, listen, will you for Christ's sake listen?" "Now get this!" "I'm only gonna say it once, I've got Earl Williams." "What's the gag?" "You got him where?" "Honest to God?" "You swear?" "Jesus, Examiner captures Earl Williams, I'll be right over." "You better be, I don't know how long I can keep him sawed up." "There must be someone at the door." "Just a minute." "Hurry..." "Molly!" " Where is he?" "Who, who?" " Earl!" "I hear they got him trapped." "For God's sakes tell me where." " I know nothing about it, ask down at the Sheriff's office." " Those bastards wouldn't give me the time of the day." " There's nothing you can do about it here, Molly." "Why don't you just go home and wait?" "Wait?" "For what?" "The morning papers, so I can read how they shot him down like a dog, the yellow murderers?" "And who's gonna give a damn?" "Not you guys, 'cause all you care about is the stinkin' headline." " Hello, Molly." "Earl..." "Thank you for the roses." " Earl, what have they done to you?" "They were after me with search lights but I flew them." "We gotta get him to a doctor." " A doctor?" "He'd just turn him over to the cops, and we don't want that, so we?" "So I'll fool them again." "I'll bleed to death before they can hang me." "No Earl, you mustn't talk like that." " Hold it, hold it." "Stick your arm up." "Hey, this isn't my suit, you know?" "It's goverment property." "They'll be very sore." "Who's that?" " It's me, Peggy." "Peggy who?" "I'll be right with you." "Keep him quiet." "Peggy!" "What's on your mind?" " Oh nothing in particular" "I just happened to be in the neighbourhood." "I didn't forget." "The taxi, downstairs." " You might be interested to know the cab driver just proposed to me." "And as soon as the meter hits 10 Dollars I'm accepting." " Don't worry, I got the rings," "I just need a few more minutes." "I'm waiting for Walter to show up." "Hildy, you're not gonna get involved with that Walter Burns again?" "Of course not, God forbid." "It's just a dent of biking around here." "This hot potatoe dropped right in my lap and I can't just..." "Look, as soon as Walter gets here..." " Hildy, what is that?" "Nothing." " Is that a gun?" "Don't be silly!" "Now you just... take the cab and you pick up all the bags of yours and mine, you come back here, I'll meet you downstairs." "I wanna know what you're doing with the gun." "I'll explain it later honey!" "On the train, in that lower birth, hm?" "Hm?" "Okay?" " I can't wait." "You don't have to answer this, Molly, but is it true what they said in the papers?" "What'd they say?" "That you were willing to marry me on the gallows." "Well, if it's in the papers it must be true." "They wouldn't print a lie." " The funny thing is, the last night in your place, I was gonna propose to you, but I couldn't go through with it." " Of course you couldn't, because you know how I earn my living." " No it's not you Molly, you're the best person I know." "It's me, I just had nothing to offer you..." "Earl, hold still." " I wrote out a will, I gave it to the warden." "I'm leaving everything to you." "A pile of books, maybe you can get something for them second hand." "And a picture of my mother, in a silver frame and a souvenir pillow from Atlantic City." "Hey who locked the door?" "Anybody in there?" " Just a minute!" "Open up, will you?" " In here." "No that's not good." "You better climb out of the window." " Not with that arm." "What the hell is going on?" " Oh my God!" "The desk!" "For Christ's sake, Hildy we gotta get to the phone." "What's the trouble?" " Hildy's in there and he won't open the door." " Hey Hildy!" "What's the big idea?" "Hold your water, I'm coming!" " Be quite, don't even breath." "I'll be right here Earl, I won't leave you." "See Molly, you're swell." "What are you guys trying to do?" "Kick down the building?" "Is that some kind of game, Hildy?" " You don't own this office." "Shit man, we got work to do." " Watch your language." "I beg your pardon, Ma'am." " Kinda cozy here with the shades down." " What're you doing?" "Practicing for your honeymoon?" " Silly to ask." "What happened?" "Did they get Williams?" " They couldn't catch a fart in a rainbow." " Goddamn, there's Halloween going on out there?" " Murphy, you're ready?" "Sheriff's rifle squads stormed offices of Friends of American Liberty fired off 800 rounds of ammunition." "Casualties included a watercooler, two memograph machines and Rufus McBride, a deaf janitor." "During the shootout, Mrs. Phoebe Duvall, aged 33, watching from window across the street gave premature birth to a five and a half pound baby boy." "Sheriff's deputies immediately examined the infant to make sure that it wasn't Earl Williams who they knew he was hiding somewhere." " What a screwup!" "If I think that right now my boys are throwing a costume ball in St. Semyon, with Marian Davies and Ronald Coleman and Wilma Banky." "Ok, here it goes." "Special deputy Hermann Shelty, the Sheriff's brother-in-law, who was leading a search party to the Wrigley building has sent out a call for immediate help." "Somebody stole his policecar." "City desk, give me a rewrite." "The wounded janitor was taken to" "Passavant Hospital, where he joins Dr. Eggelhofer and the 6 deputies injured by tear gas." "They're opening up a special wing." "Yeah?" "There's no point talking to the Sheriff, he doesn't know shit from shinola." " Road blocks have been set up at all the main intersections." "So far, three police cars have smashed into them." "Here's the latest on the manhunt." "Police are checking on hot tips on the row boat on Lake Michigan." "Suspect turned out to be" "Sister Therese of the immaculate heart." "She's resting comfortably in the Jewish community hospital." " Boy you should have been there" "Mr. Johnson, you missed all the excitement." "Did I?" " Everybody's been so nice to me." "Coming back here they let me pay for the taxi." " Ah, you're on you're way, Slick." "I should have stayed here with the stuffed cabbage." "What are you doing in my chair?" "Go flap somewhere else." "Hey, she's not hurting anything." " Out out, go pell your goodies on Division Street." "If all men were like you, I'd starve to death." "If you don't mind, I'd like to call my office." "Got something good?" "I'll see an exclusive interview with that janitor who is shot." "If I were you I wouldn't use this phone, I'd gone down the hall." "Why?" " 'Cause you're the only legitimate newspaperman here, all these bums steal your stuff." " Oh let them, they don't have my style, the Bensinger touch." "Hold it!" "Don't move." " What's the matter?" "A- ha, nosebleed." "Put your head back." " Must be my blood pressure." "Or menopause or something." "Hey Slick, he needs help, take him in there." "There is a towel in my desk." " Never mind, get that ice, put it on the back of his neck." "Thank you, good boy." "Look, I'm pretending there ain't no Earl Williams, so good-bye." "He was seen where?" "Bullshit, I'm not going on any more wild goosechases." "What if a guy runs around Chicago with a gun, who gonna notice?" "Let's get back to work." "Deal the cards." "Who pulled down the shades?" "Hildy." " They were shooting at the window again." "I thought you were gonna catch a train." " Yeah, you were in such a god damn big hurry." " Slight change of plans," "I'm being picked up here." "You know fellows, I got a whole different theory about where Williams is." "You do?" " I don't think Williams is in any of those places they've been looking for him." " Well that's obvious." "There's no way he could have gotten out with all those guards around." "What are you drivin' at?" " If he was coming down the rainpipe he could have climbed into any of those windows along the way." "My hunch says he's somewhere in this building." "For sure he's hanging around like a duck in a shooting gallery." "The mastermind at work." " For sure, what correspondence school did you graduate from?" " Alright, alright." "But maybe it is, or I'm meschugge." " Maybe he climbed back into his cell and he's hiding under his bed." " Maybe he's stashed away in some filing cabinet under "F" for fruitcake." "He's probably just waiting 'til morning and then he's gonna come tapdancing down the stairs, singing "I surrender to you"." "Hey, wait a minute fellows, maybe Schwartz has got something." "I think we oughta search the building." " Us?" "Search the building?" "Remember he's got a gun." " Let the cops do it, it's their job." "Jesus, you got the story right under your noses, let's spread out." "Everybody take a floor, I'll stay here and cover for you." "Are you ill?" " Oh sure." "That's way to you." " Glad to do it." "You wouldn't by any chance be trying to throw us a curve?" "How'd you get that idea?" " 'Cause there's something funny going on." " We found him and Molly alone in the room." "Door locked and the shades down." " What the hell were you doing?" "What do you think we were doing?" "Playing Parchese?" "Okay fair, so now you know." "Guy's entitled to have a little fun, hm?" "Why, the night before you get married?" " Don't give us that crap." "Well I don't know about you guys but with the sirens wailing, the bullets flare, all hell breaking lose, I find that sort of stimulating." "Sexually, you know what I mean." " You and Molly?" "Come on, you got better taste than that." "Take that back or I'll belt you one." "You weren't screwing Molly, you were trying to screw us." "Like you did on that St. Valentine's day massacre." "Yeah, sending us to the wrong garage." " You think we forgot that?" "That's the business, dog eat dog." " What are you trying to pull now?" "Who?" "Me?" "I've quit." " One last stunt to make us look stupid." "That wouldn't be too hard." " Come on Hildy, give us a lowdown." "You're onto something, we know it." " Come coining." "You would hold out on your own..." " What kind of scoop is it this time?" "Alright, fellows, I was lying." "But I'm gonna level with you now." "You better." " The address of that garage is 2122 North Clarke Street..." "What are you doing to Mr. Johnson?" "What are they doing to my desk?" "Gentlemen, please, please." "You won't get away with it Hildy." " Not again!" "Hold on, Williams." " Where is he?" "Let's have it." " We'll kick your balls in!" "Leave him alone, he doesn't know anything." "Says who?" "Says me!" "I'm the only one who knows where Earl Williams is." "Yeah?" "Where?" "Why should I tell you anything you lousy crumbs." "Don't let her out." " Somebody close the door!" "You ain't going anywhere, Molly." " Where is he hiding?" "I never squealed on anybody in my life and I ain't squealing now!" "Come on you chick tart or we'll suck it out of you!" "Turn you to the cops." " Yeah, they'll make you talk." "Get your hands off me, you..." "Put that chair down..." "Oh no, you don't, you just keep away from me." "You shabby old..." "See the big guys, can't get up on a girl." "Let me know if you need any help." " You stay out of it, Hildy." "Now grab her." " You try and I break your goddam heads!" "Gentlemen, gentlemen!" "If you ask me, you're going about this in the wrong way." "Well, who asked you?" " Molly if you have any information we'd be willing to pay you for it." " Sure." "We'll all chip in." "We'll give you 20 bucks." " Yeah, I'm a whore, ain't I?" "I'll do anything for money." " We'll make it 50 Dollars." "You know how many customers that is?" " Save a lot of work turning your ass." "Why don't you all drop dead?" "Oh dear, must be my editor." "I'll see you in hellfire..." "Alright, you wanna know where Earl Williams is?" "I'll tell you where he is." "Just follow me." "Molly!" "Jesus!" "Holy God!" " She's killed herself for sure." "That's terrible." " You drove her to it." "I never thought she'd do anything like that." "What'd you expect?" "All whores are a little goofy." "Hey, she's not dead." "Look, look, she's moving." "Come on, let's go." "What a story." "Shady lady leaps for love." "Walter, did you see that?" "She jumped." "Yeah..." "Where is he?" "I think I'm gonna be sick." " Come on, come on, there is no time for that, where have you got Williams?" "Pull those shades." "Hi there Earl, how're you doing?" "Don't worry, I'm your friend." "Where is Molly?" "What happened?" "What'd they do to her?" "She's gonna be alright." "Let me out I can't stand this." " Just stay where you are, you're sitting pretty." "Now here, let's get organised." "Hello, Burns here, get me Duffy." "I don't hear that typewriter, Hildy." "Get your ass over there I want some of that old Johnson word magic." "What are you waiting for?" " I'm waiting for my girl, that's what I'm waiting for." "She's gonna pick me up." "Your girl!" "What are you?" "Some puking college boy?" "This is the hottest story since the Chicago fire." "We'll make monkeys out of all the other papers we'll kick city hall over like an apple cart." "Expose the best, exact?" " Expose them, we'll crucify 'em." "You and I will be running this town, they'll be naming streets after us." "Johnson Street, Burns Boulevard..." " How come you're a Boulvard and I'm only a street?" "Duffy?" "Where the hell is Duffy?" "Somebody answer me!" "Yes?" " Get your head back in there you god damn turtle." "Quit strolling, Hildy." "Get the machine and tear into it." "Now listen, Earl, when I rap three times, that means the coast is clear, understand?" "That's a boy." "How long you think you can hide him in there?" "No problem, we'll take him over to the Examiner, we keep him under aps 'til we can break the story exclusive." " How're you gonna get him outta here?" "There's cops crawling all over the joint." "They'll see him." "Not if he's inside the desk." " You're gonna move the whole desk?" "How?" " We'll lower it out of the window if necessary." "Duffy, Duffy!" "Where the hell have you been?" "Screw your diabetes, here's what I want you to do:" "Send over one of our delivery trucks right away with six gorillas from circulation department." "And tell them to bring the block and tackle." "Who is it?" " Rudy Keppler, Examiner." "Piss 'n vinegar." "Duffy, keep this line open and don't you leave the phone again." "It's a miracle, she only has a concussion and a broken leg." "Thank God." " They take her to Passavant Hospital." "All the reporters have gone with her." "You want me to go, too?" "No, we need you here." " Oh, Mr. Burns." "You got that camera?" " Yessir, right here." "Then let's have it." " Yessir!" "Earl, I need a picture of you." " Oh, I don't have one on me." "We're gonna take it now." "It's for the Examiner tomorrow, front page, ha?" "Oh, really?" "Hey, you know who that is?" " Oh, shut up!" "Let's have your collar, too." " My collar?" "It's still your own, isn't it?" "I'm calling the Sheriff a hyena, now what you like with it?" "Vile, corrupt, inscrupulous, depraved." " Yeah, in that order!" "He can sue the paper for a million Dollars." "Let him, we'll take it out of your salary." "Here, when I say "now", drop this in there, got it?" "Alright, ready?" "No Earl, no smile, give me that hunted look." "Cowering, fearful of every sound, of every footstep, like an animal at bay." "Hold it." "Now!" "That's it." "Take this over to the paper, have it developed immediately." "Yessir!" "Good-bye Mr. Williams." "How's it coming?" " Beat it!" "What are you gonna do with me?" "No!" " Just trust me." "Duffy?" "Listen!" "We're gonna rip out the whole front page." "Kid's on his way over with a photograph, wait 'til you see it." "Hildy is knocking out the story now." "Yes, I said Hildy." "He said he'd be waiting." " You want me to get him?" "Would you please?" "Third floor, press room." "A newspaperman?" "Don't tell me, those guys, you pick 'hem up late at night they pass out in the cab." "You schlep 'em upstairs, you undress 'em, you put 'em to bed and when you go through their pockets for the fare they start yelling for the cops!" "A shank, your newspaperman." " Never mind, I'll go myself." "To hell with the Nicaraguan earth- quake, I don't care if there's a hundred thousand dead." "The league of nations?" "Bank it." "No no no no, don't touch Commander Byrd and the penguins, that's human interest!" " About the mayor." "Can I mention his interest in that Chinese whorehouse?" "Pour it on kiddo, below the belt, there we punch!" "Duffy, has that delivery truck left yet with the block and tackle?" "Well goose 'em up, goddamit, every minute counts!" "Hildy?" "Hildy!" "Jesus, people walking in and outta here like it was a greyhound terminal." "Peggy, why I thought you were picking up the bags." "I did, they're downstairs in the cab." " Oh yeah?" "Well, we got plenty of time, sit down honey." " The Hoover speech?" "Shove it, if we want, it ends up in the orbituaries." "Wo-oh, this is the greatest thing that ever happened to me in my life." "Ha, I thought I was." " I didn't mean it that way, honey." "Honey..." "What is this?" "A student prince?" "We're working against a deadline." "So are we." " Let's hear what you got." "While hundreds of the Sheriff Hatman's paid gunmen stalk through Chicago, shooting innocent bystanders, spreading their reign of terror," "Earl Williams was lurking less than 200 feet from the Sheriff's office." "Hold it!" "Aren't you to mention the Examiner?" "Don't we take any credit?" "It's in the second paragraph." " Who the hell is gonna read the second paragraph?" "For 15 years I've been trying teach you how to write a lead." "Do I have to do everything myself?" "Get the story, write the story?" " Listen, saphead, I can blow a better story out of my a..., my nose than you can write." "Goddamm dilletant, maybe Philadelphia's where you belong, making up jingles for Burmarché." "Oh, really?" "Well now, who wrote the death bed confession of Three Finger Banducci, ha?" "Who wrote Roxy Hot's diary, ha?" "Wait, what about the Dayton flood when even the Telegraph operator was crying?" "Alright, make me cry now!" " Someday you're gonna do that Walter and I'm gonna sack you right in the snazz." "You are beautiful when you're angry." "Duffy, Duffy!" "DUFFY!" "That's what I get for hiring somebody with a disease." "I'm beginning to think all newspapermen have a disease." "Oh for Christ's sake, now the moon is out." "Is this so the thing you had in mind?" "Chicago Examiner once again rode to the rescue of the city last night in the darkest hour of her history." "Earl Williams, the bolshewik tiger who leaped snarling from the gallows upon the flanks of the unsuspecting city was captured by, now you're cooking!" " How many words do you want?" "Give me everything you got." "Because of this we're stepping into a new class!" "Hayward Brune, H.L. Mincon grafters and gangsters city's city blood in the gutters a rhapsody in red, ho-ho..." " Red, that's what we'll do, the headline in red ink." " 180 point type." "180 nothing, 360!" "It's like Lindbergh landing in Paris." "Cigarette me." "Hildy, you don't really want to give this up, do you?" "Keep down." " Honey, please, not now." "I'm going good." "Darling, where are the tickets?" " Right in there..." "I'm taking mine, there's no use in my sticking around." "Alright, yeah, you go on down to the station, check the bags in, I'll get there, don't you worry." "Good-bye, Hildy." "See ya." "I hope he saved the sale slip for the wedding rings." "No big deal, they'll make nice cufflinks." "Have enough air?" "Duffy?" "The kid showed up yet with the photo?" "Well I want it made up into a four column cut." "Tell Max from the circulation we're going for a million!" "Hey, open up in there!" "Oh shit!" " Who's that?" " Bensinger, Tribune that's his desk." "Help me on this, what'd you say his name was?" "Bensinger." "Kind of exclusive, aren't you Johnson?" "Hello, Bensinger." " Oh Mr. Burns, it's quite an hoour having you here." "You knowmy name?" " Do I know his name?" "Hildy and I were just talking about you." "That was one swell story you had in the Tribune this morning." " Oh, thank you Mr. Burns did you care for the poem?" " The poem?" "That's what made it." " I'm rather proud of the ending." "And all is well outside his cell." "But in his heart he hears the hangman calling and the gallows falling." "And his white haired mother's tears." "A classic." "Bensinger, how would you like to work for me?" "You mean that Mr. Burns?" " I'm not just whistling Dixie." "Duffy?" "I'm sending Bensinger over to see you." "Marvin isn't it?" "Oh no, no no, Roy, Roy V." " You sure?" "Roy Bensinger, the poet." "Put him right on the staff." "How much are you getting on the Tribune?" "Seventy five." " Give him a hundred and a pieline." "Is that truck on the way over yet?" "Good!" "They're coming to pick up your desk." " My desk?" "Yeah, you shouldn't be working a police beat," "I want you right at my elbow." "Now get over to the office and report to Duffy." "You mean right now?" "I couldn't quit the Tribune just like that, it wouldn't be ethical." "You don't owe them a damn thing." " Well they have been treating me rather shabbily." "The way they edit my copy, they just butcher it." "On the Examiner your copy will be sacred!" "Sacred, sacred..." "Roy, here's your first assignement:" "I want you to make up a prayer for the city of Chicago." "We'll carry it on the editorial page." ""Our father who art in heaven, last year there were four hundred and twenty one unsolved murders..." "All set up in bold faced gothic." "Okay, I'll just get my rhyming dictionary." "It doesn't have to rhyme." "Just give me the god damnest prayer anybody ever heard." "You want it old Testament or new Testament?" "Let's have it between the sermon on the mount and 23rd song." "That's easy..." "Duffy, that Tribune sleak is on the way over, yeah Bensinger, when he hands you his copy, tell him his prayer stinks and kick him down the stairs." "White haired mother's tears, for Christ's sake." "Where do you want these, Mr. Johnson?" " Anyplace." "The lady sent me..." " Alright..." "Those are my bags, what are they doing here?" "The lady sent 'em up." " Lady?" "Oh I don't know her name, but she sure was crying when that taxi drove off." "Okay, Okay." " Why, what did I do wrong?" "Nothing, those were tears of happiness." "She had a narrow escape and so did you." "But I don't want no escape, I'm nuts about her, I wanna marry her." "But I wouldn't expect you to understand a thing like that." "Now tell me about women." "Think that dame in Walt Keegan, chopped up her husband and flushed him down the drain." "On their honeymoon!" "He was nuts about her, too!" "And then Mrs. Haggerty, knocked off six husbands, by sprinkeling arsenic on their prune whip!" "That's marriage for you!" "You think you got it made, hu?" "No home, no family, no friends." "Eating cold beans out of tin cans, sleeping on your office couch five nights a week." "The only time you ever get it up is when you put the paper to bed." " Alright Hildy, you've had a nice rest, now put down that fairy wand and get back to work!" "Good-bye, Walter." " Hildy, this is desertion!" "If you were in the army you could be shot for." "Get out of my way!" "Not so fast, Johnson, where do you think you're going?" "To the station, to meet my fiancé." " Your fiancé, ha?" "What's her name, ha, Williams?" " Not Williams, you're crazy." "Get a hold of him." "He and Molly, they're in cahoots!" "Yeah, and now his boss shows up." " There's something fishy going on." "Okay Johnson, what are you two cooking up?" "Hartman, if you got any questions, address them directly to me." "Alright, Burns." "What are you doing here?" "None of your goddamn business." "Ever hear of the 1st Amendment?" "Guarantees freedom of the press, and the press room." "I must ask you to leave!" "You what?" " Or I'll have you arrested." "Don't let him bluff you, Pete." " Show him who's in charge." "Yeah, yeah, I'm in charge here." "I don't care what kind of a hot shot you are Burns, I can have you banned from this building." "That's right, you can." "Why don't you throw us out, both of us?" "Oh no, nobody's leaving until I get to the bottom of this." "For Christ's sake, Pete will you give me a break?" "My girl is gonna leave without me." "Now let go of me, let go!" "Watch out, watch out, he's got a gun!" " I'll take it." "Hopalong Johnson." " The drugstore cowboy." "Where'd you get this?" "I got a right to carry a gun if I wanna." "Not this gun." "I can explain that." "He was doing a piece on the Abott Dabber Gang and I gave it to him for self protection." "Oh yeah?" "That's very interesting, this happens to be the gun that" "Earl Williams shot his way out with." "Are you trying to make me out a liar?" " I know my own gun when I see it." "Your gun?" " So, that's it, I knew something stunk around here." " Ah come, Pete." "What's the story?" " Never mind that, where's Earl Williams?" "Where you got him?" "Are you implying that the Examiner would aid a criminal?" "You done tootin'" "Don't you know what it says on our masthead, right under the eagle?" "The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth." "Don't listen to that crap, Pete." " They're playing us for suckers." "In the third degree." " Leave it to me boys." "Johnson, if you're in such a goddamn hurry, I'll make you a deal." "You tell me where Williams is and I'll let you go." "Okay, it's a deal." " Where is he?" "He went over to the hospital to call on Dr. Eggelhofer." "What?" " With a bag of marshmellows." "For Christ's sake." " Wise guy!" "Hartman, you're a disgrace to your badge." "There's a killer on the lose and you're harrassing innocent citizens." "Excuse me." "Don't touch that!" "I'll answer it." "It may be Earl Williams." " I lay a six to five on that." "Hello?" "Who?" "Yes, this is Walter Burns." " Sorry to bother you Mr. Burns, but I have some bad news." "The photo- graph, I'm afraid it didn't come out." "Maybe the film was a little damp." " What photograph?" "Of Earl Williams?" "The one I took?" "Where?" "Goddamit don't tell me I should know, just remind me." "That does it, Burns." " Don't you know it's against the law impersonating a managing editor?" "I'll give you ten seconds to hand over Earl Williams!" "You can't even count to ten." "Dammit, I know he's around here someplace." "A- ha!" "Where did this come from?" " How the hell would I know?" "Does it belong to Earl Williams?" " Why don't you put an ad in the classifieds, maybe he'll come around to claim it." "By God, I'll find him if I have to tear this place apart brick by brick!" "Hi Mr. Burns, we got the truck here." " Not now Butch, go away." "Wait a minute." "What are you fellows here for?" "We're supposed to pick up something." " Is that so?" "Well, now we're getting someplace." "What were you supposed to pick up?" "I don't know." "Mr. Burns was gonna tell us." "Alright Mr. Burns, go ahead, tell 'em." " Sure." "Boys, take those two suitcases down the truck and wait for me." " Here you are fellows." "Who are you kidding Burns, five guys and a truck to pick up two suitcases?" "Go fight the teamsters union." "Forget it Moe, we won't need it." "Goddamit to hell, I wanna know what's going on around here." "If I have to beat it outta you with a hose." "Hartman, you're through, you're all washed up." "Who says so?" " The voters, come tuesday they're gonna kick you out on your big fat can." "You'll be selling pencils at the corner of State and Lake." "If you can get a permit from the new Sheriff." "Why does everybody got to pick on me?" "The mayor wants to take me off the ticket, my wife isn't speaking to me," "I got a gallows out there going to waste, I haven't a thing all day, it's just not fair." "Please, please tell me where Earl Williams is." "I'm the law, you gotta have a little respect." "Put yourself together Hartman." " Don't you understand?" "The Bolshewiks are everywhere!" "They're taking over!" "They're coming out of the sewers, like rats." "Climbing up our flagpole and gnaw away at our stars and stripes." "Better get him a straighjacket." " What do you say?" "You oughta be put away Hartman, 'cause you are sick, sick, sick." "You'll be sorry when I'm gone." "And you won't have any money to kick around anymore." "What's that?" " What's what?" "Holy god, he's in there!" " It's Williams." "He's in the desk!" "Stand back everybody." "Get your guns." " Dumb commie-schmock." "Don't take any chances, boys." " We're dealing with a wild animal." "Shoot right through the desk." " For God's sake, he's harmless!" "You've got his gun." " Aim right at the center." "That's cold blooded murder." "Pete I'm warning you, there's witnesses here." "Williams, we got you covered." "I'm gonna count to three, open up or we'll bust you." "One!" " Stand by." " Any second now." " Two!" " Hold on." " Comin' right up." "Three!" "Alright Williams, no funny business." "Just come on out." "Oh, oh..." "I can't, I can't, my legs are asleep." "Grab him boys!" " Hey hey, easy, easy now!" "Earl Williams was just captured in the press room in the criminal courts building." "Hiding in a desk." "Williams put up in desperate struggel, but Sheriff deputies overpowered him." "Williams tried to shoot it out with the cops but his gun jammed." "Williams was betrayed by an old sweet- heart who then attempted suicide." "Duffy, take this down:" "The Examiner, guardian and conscience of Chicago." "Having single handedly captured Earl Williams has just handed him over to Sheriff Whatshisname." "Now then, the hanging will go on as scheduled." "Seven AM, sharp." "Take him away boys." " The hanging is on." "Tell Molly not to cry, those 13 steps they don't lead up to the gallows they lead up to the stars." "That's it Hildy!" "Not to the gallows but up to the stars!" "There's your last words." "And on the front page we'll have a composit picture." "The stars, the steps and on top of the steps Marx and Lenin, waiting for Earl Williams." "How's that?" " Just dandy." "Put the handcuffs on them." " My pleasure." "What's the charge?" " Conspiracy to obstruct justice, harbouring a fugitive, possession of a stolen weapon, adds up to about ten years apiece for you Burns." "Operator get me Clarence Darell." "Not even Houdini could get you out of this." "Lousy you pimplehead." "When I'm finished with you, you'll wish you'd never been born." " We'll butter this town with your brains." " Whistling in the dark, eh?" "We've been entitled our spots in this haven't we Hildy?" "You remember that minister who had us thrown into jail?" "Yeah, reverend Gandolphin, because we printed he conducted sex orgies in the organ loft." "Well on the day of the trial he was on his way to the court with all his lawyers and witnesses." "Drowned by God, drowned in the river!" "With their automobile, their lawbooks and their goddamn Ether Davids." "And I had the same feeling right now, that I had before that accident." "You don't scare me Burns, lock 'em up." "Hello, get me extension 361." "I tell you Hartman, there is a divine providence that watches over the Examiner, an unseen power." " Out!" "What you say honey?" "That's impossible." "There's gotta be somebody there, it's the jail!" "Swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home." "Swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home." "I looked over jordan and what did I see?" "Coming for to carry me home." "Hey, knock it off, will you?" "What time have you got?" " Twenty off twelve, where the hell is Duffy with the bail?" " You have mixed up my whole life, that's what you have done." " Me?" " What a horse's ass" "I have turned out to be for one for a song and dance like that." "They'll be naming streets after me." "I'll never meet another girl like that." "She was one in a million." "Hildy, I didn't know it was anything that serious, why didn't you tell me?" "Why didn't I tell you?" " I would be the last person in the world to stand in the way of your happiness." "You hippocritical, dirty..." "Now that it's too late." "It's never too late, kid." "Because somebody up there..." "Don't give me that unseen power crap!" "You're making a big mistake, officer." "The mayor is a personal friend of mine" "Sure he is." " He's even let me use his chopsticks." "Get in there." "It was my one chance to get outta this ratrace and lead a normal life." "By this time tomorrow I could have been a gentleman." "Now instead of" "Philadelphia I'm going to Joliet." " Why Joliet, in the first place they'll never indict us." "In the second place no jury will ever convict us." "And in the third place we can always get a reprieve for the governor, listen, with all the dirt I've got on every big shot in this" "Funny you should mention that." " Mention what?" "The reprieve from the governor, I just happen to have one on me." "Get outta here, you're drunk." " No, I'd say it was this Chinese place, the mayor send me there." " You know the mayor, too?" "For sure, and the Sheriff." "Of course I don't know them as well as I know the governor." " Wait a minute." "If you got a reprieve, how come you're in jail?" "Oh it's not for me." " It isn't?" "You see, I came down from Springfield, Plunkett is the name." "Proud of you Pete, you did a terrific job." "All a night's work, your honour." " You can call me Herbie again." "Hey, look who's here." " That's the Green Hornet." "Hi Horny!" "What are those girls doing here?" " The Chin-broads?" "We just raided them" "On who's orders?" " We always lock off a few cathouses before election." "You know that." "To get the family going." " Nice work." "Thank you Herbie." "Here they are." "Looking kind of natural don't they?" "Behind bars." " That's a sight for sore eyes." "I reckon you boys are gonna be away from Chicago for a long time." "Yeah, making brooms and license plates." "Maybe I can fix it for you to work on a prison paper." "As copy boys." "Hot in here, isn't it Hildy?" " Yeah, why don't you put in some fans or ventilators?" "How about an air conditioning system?" "Scented with pine needles." "Chose yourself, 'cause tomorrow you guys are gonna be in this cell." "Big Joke." " Yeh, we were just laughing about it." "With our friend, Mr. Plunkett." " Plunkett?" "Hi mayor, hi Sheriff." "Who is this man?" " Never saw him before in my life." "I suppose you never saw this before either." "What is it?" " The reprieve for Earl Williams." "Hanging a man just to win an election, ha?" "Why, that's absurd." " I don't know what you're talking about." "Do we Herbie?" "Oh, such big lies." " Let me see that." "If this unfortunate man Williams has been reprieved I had personally had tickled it in." " Come on you'd hang your own mother for a couple of lousy votes." " That's a terrible thing to say" "Burns about anybody." "Sheriff, this document is authentic." "Earl Williams, thank God, has been reprieved." "And the Commonwealth of Chicago has been spared the painful necessity of taking a human life." "Save that for the Tribune." " Pete, I want you to release my friends, Walter Burns and Hildy Johnson." "Was about to, they're my friends, too." "Jacobi!" "Open up!" "Don't be too hard on Pete, boys, he gets a little low by..." "You goddamn Hoodoo." "What did I tell you?" "An unseen power." " Oh yeah, except by now" "I missed the train." " No you haven't." "Mayor, here's what I want you to do." " Anything, Wally." "There's a train leaving at midnight for Philadelphia." "Have them hold it for ten minutes." " You got it." "As for you Sheriff." " You've got it." "We need a police escort to take Hildy to Union Station." "How many you want?" "I have 200 men." " Hey what about me?" " Shut up!" "You goddam, Hoodoo!" "Hoodoo?" "Hildy!" "Hildy, you can't walk out on us, you can't leave your family!" "I need you, the children need you." " Daddy, daddy..." "What the?" " Alright Myrtle, that's enough, can it." "What's the matter, Mr. Burns?" "Didn't I do it right?" "You were perfect, here's five bucks, share them between you, bye!" "Now what was that all about?" " Just a little something I had up my sleeve in case of a tie, but it's not necessary now." "Well, good-bye Johnson." "Take good care of him Peggy, you're getting a great guy." " Never mind the Valentine's." "Mr. Burns, you may not like what I'm gonna say, but I don't believe you're as tough as you pretend to be." "Underneath it all I think you're a real softie." "Well, don't let it get around." "You crazy bastard, we'll sure miss you on the paper." " Well if I ever come back to the business, which I won't, there's only one man" "I'd ever work for, you know that, don't you?" "I'll kill you if you ever work for anybody else." "You hear that Peggy?" "That's my diploma." "All aboard!" "It's about time to get you a wedding present." "I know!" "But Walter, I couldn't take it." " I insist, it was a present from the big Chief himself." "And if you look at the inside, you'll find a little inscription. "To the best newspaperman I know"" "When you get to Philadelphia you can have my name scratched out and put yours in its place." "You know I wouldn't do that." "Good-bye Mr. Burns." "Best of luck you lovebunch!" "Good-bye you big Paluka." "That train that's just left, what's the first stop?" "Garry, Indiana." "Alright, send a message to the police chief of Garry Indiana:" "Tell him to mee the midnight train to Philadelphia and arrest one Hildy Johnson." " Hildy Johnson?" "Yeah, son of a bitch stole my watch."