Nightfall (1956)

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- Chicago sir?
- Evanston.

No, no call for Evanston.

♪ Nightfall and you... ♪

♪ Lovely you, underneath a
wreath of heaven's pale blue. ♪

♪ You are poetry, you are melody. ♪

♪ You're a prayer that's granted. ♪

♪ I'm enchanted. Nightfall and dreams. ♪

♪ Lovely dreams, underneath
a wreath of golden moonbeams. ♪

♪ In those hours
small, you're my all in all. ♪

♪ You're my poem of nightfall dear. ♪

- A light?
- Yeah, here.

Thank you.

Ah, those busses always
run late at this hour, traffic.

- It's going to be a hot one tonight, eh?
- Yeah.

- I wonder how they stand it in the tropics.
- Born into it.

Yeah, yeah, I guess that
does make the difference.

That's for me though, you know, the tropics?

- Have you been there?
- During the w*r.

I didn't make it, bum ticker.

- See much action?
- Little.

- Where were you?
- Okinawa.

The furthest I ever got off
Hollywood Boulevard was Yosemite.

We used to go up there in the summers
you know, before things got tough.

- Hard going, eh?
- Ah, lately.

- What do you do for a living?
- Research, I'd better be getting home.

My wife will think I stopped
off to get a couple of shots, thanks.

- This one free?
- She's alone, if that's what you mean.

- Vodka on the rocks with a lemon twist.
- A little twist or a big twist?

You look like the big twist type.

What would you think if I asked
you to loan me five dollars?

- That's what I thought.
- What makes you think I've got five?

Smell like you just
came from a barbershop.

Man doesn't go to the
barbershop when he's down and out.

You very bright.

I'm in a silly spot, that's what I am.

Look, I forgot my wallet
or I lost it, I don't know.

But I do know that man is
going to want his money.

I can't sit here all
night with a warm Martini.

I understand, how about
letting me buy you a cold one?

From that last remark I
can see you don't understand.

I'll send it to you in the morning.

Why, you sound as if you mean it.

Here's my license, you can
copy the serial number down.

Marie Gardner. 807 North Normandy.

The serial number is usually here
in the upper right hand corner.

So it is.

- Please.
- Oh, everybody seems pretty busy.

- Check please.
- Seventy, out of five.

- Wait a minute, can I buy you a drink?
- No girl ever has.

What's that you're drinking?

- Vodka.
- I'll have another Martini.

You mind if I just look?

- See anything familiar?
- Familiar looks very different.

Do you make it a habit
of rescuing girls in bars?

Only girls who drink
Martinis on empty purses.

How come you're in here in the first place?

My girlfriend stood me up for
dinner, I didn't want to eat alone.

Oh, it's all right to drink alone.

I was hoping I'd run into
somebody nice to talk to.

A girl like you?

The men I usually run into don't want to talk
to anybody but their wives or secretaries.

They seem to think
conversation is old-fashioned.

- You sound bitter.
- Case hardened.

Guys have probably been swarming around you
ever since your second teeth came through.

Maybe you're disillusioned, I don't know...

but I don't think to the point where
you're ready to throw all men aside.

- Do I hear a click?
- Yes.

I like to skip all the jockeying
around, it saves a lot of grief later on.

What makes you think
there's going to be a later on?

I mean like a dinner, maybe?

- As long as we understand each other.
- I'd certainly appreciate it.

- You sound like a man with a problem.
- Vanning, Jim Vanning is my name.

Yeah, I got problems, who hasn't?

- Would you like a booth?
- Yes please.

- Hello Mrs. Fraser.
- Hello Mr. Fraser.

- Tired?
- Yeah, a little, yeah.

- Anything new?
- Still checking.

- Vanning still there?
- Yeah, I talked to him tonight.

You talked to him?

Well, you know, I went up
and asked him for a light.

- Did he say anything?
- Nothing I could use, my, it's a tough one.

I took your brown
suit to the cleaner's today.

- You could use another pair of shoes.
- Well, I'll wait for the sales.

- You never buy yourself anything.
- I do all right.

You do fine, someday you'll be important.

Honey, there's nothing important
about being an insurance investigator.

- Boy, I wish this one was over.
- You'll handle it.

Thanks.

He didn't get much work done, you know,
he just kept walking up and down his room.

Kept looking at a calendar he's got
tacked up on the back of the closet door.

- You think he knows he's being watched?
- I had the glasses on him.

He kind of grows on you, you know
what I mean Laura? It's almost...

Well, almost like he needs protection.

What you need is a drink
and some lamb stew, come on.

Ok.

You know, I still don't understand it.

A lot of nice people get
together in bars and restaurants.

Yeah, to cry on each other's shoulders.

And to go back to
their wives the next morning.

Is that a question?

Do I look like a married man?

You told me so little about yourself
you might be any one of several people.

- Or the creature from 20,000 Fathoms.
- Was just curious.

- Thanks, what time is it?
- Early.

I have an 8 o'clock sitting in the
morning and a 12 o'clock fashion show.

- You're a model?
- How do you think I pay the rent?

Well, I should've figured.
Your being a model, I mean.

- Believe it or not, I'm an artist.
- Soup cans or sunsets?

Soup cans toothpaste,
automobiles and girls once in a while.

- I bet you must be good at it.
- I freelance, work at my own place.

I do all right, I have a
rush job for a magazine story.

- You wouldn't pose for me, would you?
- I'm expensive.

But for you, I waive the fee.

You're actually smiling.

Back there at the bar, you acted as though
you had some big trouble on your shoulders.

They come and they go.

- Troubles?
- Smiles.

Would you write your phone number
and address for me? I forget things.

Not important things, I hope.

How about tomorrow?

All right, pick me up at
Robinson's, Beverly Hills.

I should be finished around 2 o'clock.

Is this the later on you were talking about?

The first part, any
questions about the rest of it?

You mean the later, later on? No questions.

- Providing you don't ask any.
- Ok.

All right Rayburn.

Thanks Miss, you can go now, did a nice
job getting our friend here so relaxed.

- Why you...
- You do your talking later.

You run along home now and
forget you ever saw this character.

- You're not going to run anymore, are you?
- Don't.

Come on, we'll all go down to
the beach and get some breeze.

We're going to need clear heads.

You've been giving us a bad time Rayburn.

Or what are you calling yourself these days?

Anyway, you cost us a lot
of money trying to find you.

- It ain't deductible either.
- You shut up?

I don't mind that, like
the way you handled yourself.

- One, you didn't go to the police.
- Fat chance.

And two, you didn't make trouble,
you just disappeared, I like that too.

Only it's a little too
soon for you to disappear.

And now all you got to do is
tell us what we want to know and...

we'll let you out and you can go home.

We're not even to tell the cops.

I got a picture of that.

You're going to tell us sooner or later.

It's something I can't do.

That's because you tough.

But after we get you where
you're not so tough anymore...

you're going to tell us, you'll
say anything we want you to say.

I'm not trying to get
hurt, if I knew, I'd tell you.

That's in the hearts and flowers department.

- You know where that'll get you.
- Nowhere.

We'll all be nowhere.

He's too tough John, a lot too tough.

- What do you say John?
- I say he's too tough.

- I'm not tough, I'm scared stiff.
- Oh, now he's been funny.

You want to drive John and
let me sit back there with him?

No, you take it easy Red.

Hold on a little while,
you can have your fun later.

Fun?

♪ The tougher they
are, the more fun they are. ♪

- Feel better?
- Yeah.

Look Red, tonight is his night.

Might be a short one, might be a long one.

But he's going to keep breathing until
we get an answer out of him, you got that?

- Oh John, you got a soft spot.
- Like the top of your head.

That's your whole trouble, you know that?

The top of your head never
closed up when you were a kid.

Neither did your mouth.

Smart boy, no identification, no address.

That way, if he's got it where he's
living, we don't know where he's living at.

What about laundry tags?

Now, what if you found a mark on his
collar? What would you do with it, eh?

Well, now the police are always
tracing guys with laundry tags.

Eh? Well, well, well.

Marie Gardner, 807 North, Normandy.

Must be the one he was with tonight.

Welcome back friend.

Why don't you get it over with?

That's a switch, what you
think I'm going to do, k*ll you?

Yeah, yeah, I think you going to k*ll me.

Could've been any time
since last winter, so it's tonight.

- He's acting pretty cool.
- Why not?

With 350,000 clams, why couldn't he be cool?

I guess it's the money, eh?
Gives you that nice, easy feeling?

I don't know where the money is.

Now say that again.

Say it over to yourself and
see how ridiculous that sounds.

- Don't know where the 350 thousand is.
- That's the way it is.

- Nice suit.
- I like it.

- Pick it out yourself?
- Yes.

- Expensive?
- Not bad.

Not the kind of suit I'd buy if I had
all that money you're talking about.

Now listen, you got a
fair amount of intelligence.

You're on one side, I'm on the other.
So we'll take it from there, eh?

Now, if you want to stay alive...

in order for you to have a
nice, long, happy middle age...

you're going to tell us
where you put that cash.

Then we're going to keep
you here until we get it.

Then we'll let you go, make sense?

Makes wonderful sense, but I can't...

tell you where the money
is because I don't know where it is.

- Does that make sense?
- No, no, it doesn't.

I can see a man misplacing
a tenner or maybe even 100.

But just don't tabulate he's
going to let a big boodle like that...

slip through his fingers.

And that brings us to another angle.

You lost that loot, you lost it up in
Wyoming in the Jackson Hole country.

And that means you wouldn't be here.

Because if you didn't have it, you'd
be up there looking for it, right?

- Wyoming is a big place.
- 350,000, big money.

Most people I know would be
up there with a magnifying glass...

going over every inch of the state.

- We're getting nowhere.
- Now put yourself in my place.

I'm real hungry for that cash.

I'm so hungry for it, I'm even
liable to cut you in for a slice.

50,000, how's that sound?

Sounds great but I tell
you I don't know where it is.

That final?

As far as I'm concerned,
there his final words.

No, not yet, not final.

Get up.

And don't get any ideas about night watchmen.

You got all the company you're
going to get right now, come on.

Ben?

- It's ok honey, go back to sleep.
- Can I get you something?

No, no, thanks.

What is it? Why can't you sleep?

- Oh angles, angles I can't figure.
- You'll work it out.

Yeah, with what I've got now,
I could take him in tomorrow.

With what they've got on him in Chicago,
it's 100 to one he'd get the chair...

and the money would still be missing,
that's why it's hard to go to sleep.

- Well, that's what he deserves.
- If...

Is there an if?

Like you know I talk to him, really though.

You know, get him to tell
me just what happened.

- Ben, you're doing all you can.
- Yeah, that's what's driving me crazy.

The best shadow job I've ever done.

I know every move
he makes, it's gotten the point...

I can drop him at night and
pick him up again in the morning.

I know he likes split pea soup for lunch.

Leaves a dime tip when, you know,
sometimes he should've left 15 cents.

He washes his own socks at night.
He goes to sleep with the radio on.

Oh, incidentally, he's got
a bum tube, static is terrible.

Yeah, I know everything about
him except what I need to know.

He's clever then, living the way
he does and hiding the money.

- Maybe or maybe he's innocent.
- You keep feeling that, don't you?

He can't be alone in this, there's got
to be more than a single in the picture.

Been walking in his footsteps for three
months, day after day, hour after hour.

Been through his room when he
was out, living his life practically.

You know, I feel as if I understand
this man, as if I really know him.

I'm glad you followed me
Ben, 11 years ago, really glad.

Yeah and you'd be even gladder
if we could get back to sleep, eh?

Oh honey, look at the time.

Once every five seconds, watch.

One, two, three, four, five.

How's your memory now friend?

Now think back, You're out camping...

Wyoming, just you
and your pal the doc, right?

And maybe you'll remember
what you did with the money.

Our money.

Could give the area its
first below freezing night.

The highways are expected to
become icy and very dangerous.

Special bulletin from the
ranger station in this area.

Campers are advised
to leave as soon as possible...

to avoid the danger of being snowed in.

Now turning to the international scene...

We'd better pack up and get out of here.

Temperature is dropping below freezing.

The weather station reports a snow fall of
eight inches in the mountains & more coming.

They're closing down
the highway north of here.

If that cold front moves in
on us, we're really in trouble.

Cold or no cold Doc, right now we're going to
eat trout, fried the only way to fry them.

- Plenty of butter and bread crumbs.
- Yes.

Well, I've always been a cornmeal man myself.

Doc, you stick to the
medicine, I'll stick to the cooking.

That's a deal.

Well, what you think we ought to do?

Do what the man says.

Take the road south,
first thing in the morning.

We haven't even had two weeks of
this and I could use two months.

No deadlines to meet, no art directors
calling in the middle of the morning.

How about you? You ready for surgery?

Far from it.

Anyway, we came to do some hunting.

What's it going to look like if we get
back to Chicago without a set of horns?

How about that big buck we saw
yesterday morning across the valley?

- Standing there like the Statue of Liberty.
- Beauty, wasn't he?

- Why didn't you sh**t?
- Why didn't you?

Hey, you know, I think you're right, the
bread crumbs are better than the cornmeal.

Great coffee, eh? Better
than I ever got in the Navy.

You know, you'll make
some gal a good husband.

Oh, yeah.

- She just hasn't come along yet, is that it?
- Yeah, I guess that's it.

Well, you'll know it when she does.

Just like I knew Eva was right for me.

Of course, I suppose 20
years does make a lot of difference.

Probably a lot of people figure that I
should've married someone more my own age.

Oh, what's 20 years?

- Has she ever said anything about it to you?
- No, why should she?

Well, you're our best friend.

You know, I've been wanting to talk
about this ever since we got up here.

I figured that up here, away
from everything and everybody.

- I could tell you how much I appreciate...
- Doc?

Your strength of character.

Eva is still young and she
hasn't shaken herself down yet.

And some other man might've...

It's been a good 10 days, good for all of us.

Look.

It's going to go over.

- You got the car keys?
- They're in the car.

You two are pretty
lucky, anybody else down there?

No.

Come up here, let me have a look at that arm.

This coat off.

Careful now.

Come on, it's all
right, this goes with my job.

Up go, now let's see here.

Well that, that feels
just like a simple fracture.

I'll put a temporary splint on it.

Say, you're really lucky, this
could've be a lot worse.

Well, you got a point there.

Ah, get me a couple of flat sticks.

- The man here says we're lucky.
- Yeah, we're loaded with luck.

- Here Doc, those are fine.
- Here, put this one here.

All right, all right, come on, come on.

- Snap it up.
- Will you shut up?

Trying to think of what we got to do.

We'll take you into Moose, it's
only about seven miles from here.

- I want some X rays of this arm.
- Oh, that's all we need.

There.

I'll have to take your tie.

It won't make much of a
sling but it'll do temporarily.

Let me fix the sling Doc.

Whose car is that?

- Mine.
- Give me your wallet.

Come on, give me your wallet.

I'll need your
registration and driver's license.

I wouldn't drive anyplace without that.

Here?

Too public.

The snow will cover them over,
the roads will be closed, nobody will...

- coming in here until spring.
- I said it was too public Red.

You guys camped around here?

Don't make me use my head, will you?

Let's go.

Look, why don't you just
take the car and leave us here?

We don't know who you
are or anything about you.

Well, you've had plenty of time to think.

How about it, coming back?

Well, maybe we can get this thing
straightened out, everything will be fine.

- And dandy, don't forget the dandy.
- Oh yeah, dandy.

What do you say John?

This is what they call the
point of no return friend.

Suppose you knew you were going to get
k*lled if you didn't talk, wouldn't you talk?

- Would I talk? I'd be a one man filibuster.
- You think I wouldn't?

I think you're sore, I think you're
sore because we caught up with you.

Either that or you're one
of those birdbrains figures it's a...

trend to be brave or something.

- All I can tell you, it's still up there.
- Where up there?

I don't know.

Well, just let me put one of
his feet in John, just one.

He's not fooling.

When Red was a kid, they didn't have enough
playgrounds, he sort of an adult delinquent.

I've seen him in action.

How are you at belly shots Red?

Or you only sh**t at backs?

Red.

Go ahead Red, pull the trigger.

- Yes?
- Vanning.

- Go away.
- Please.

- What you want?
- Few honest words.

- From you?
- There's an explanation due.

I don't want to hear it.

The only thing you'll hear is
yourself talking, start now.

You need a doctor.

Nice place, I'll try not
to bleed over everything.

There might be one doctor I
know I might reach at this hour.

Skip the milk of human kindness routine.

Remember me? I've already
been set up in Alley One.

I'm back from the wars honey, I'm a vet.

How you get tied up with those two?

You don't belong in the picture with
them and you know it as well as I do.

Money?

Sure, that's why you did
it, you did it for money.

- You always answer your own questions?
- Then why did you help them?

I wasn't helping them.

And so what if I had been,
what difference would it make?

You did something
wrong, you were running away.

You were bound to be caught, that's
all I know, that's all I want to know.

Are you being clever with me again?

I'm not the clever type Jim.
It is Jim, isn't it? Give me a light.

What did you do? How you
get yourself involved with the police?

Police? You thought they were police?

- Weren't they?
- That's why you took off so fast.

I came here, I came
like a homing pigeon, I...

didn't even look up your address.

Must've remembered it from the
bar, from your driver's license.

The piece of paper you gave me...

they must've it.

And they'll figure I came back here.

Look, you can't stay here,
put something on and pack a bag.

Or you thinking nice people don't run?
They stay, call the police.

That's exactly what they do.

Right now two men are coming
over here to pull you out of your...

respectable little world so fast
you won't know what hit you.

So call the police.

Maybe you'll be all right tonight but what
about a week from tonight or next month?

Why me?

I used to ask myself
the same question, why me?

Because you were unlucky
enough to talk to me tonight.

You got to trust me.

I'm trying to, believe me I'm trying.

It would be easier if I knew about the men.

I'll tell you about them when you dressed.

Leave the door open a
little so you can hear me.

I am waiting.

- Can you hear me now?
- Not too well.

Any better?

Much better.

Was in Wyoming last winter.

Doc Gurston, a friend, a good friend
and I were helping these two men.

Their car had gone off the road.

Better k*ll those bedroom lights.

- I won't be able to see.
- Pack in the dark.

You were saying their
car had gone off the road.

And they made us take them back to our camp.

Ok.

Ok, over there, over there by the fire.

Sure.

- Sure, why not?
- Why not what?

sh**ting, then suicide.

- That way, it keeps us clear.
- You surprise me.

Just mountain air, I always think better.

I like it Red, that's neat. Real neat.

I don't know what you two have
done that makes you so desperate.

- Are you scared Doc?
- I should be.

But I can't believe this is happening.

Why, we haven't even had
our second cup of coffee.

Oh?

I'm scheduled to perform an
operation in Chicago, Monday.

We were driving into Moose tonight...

to call my wife and tell her
we were leaving in the morning.

It's no use Ed.

We were only trying to help you.

Oh, this is very sad, this strictly downhill.

Shut up Red, you got a
point friend, you're entitled.

A man shouldn't die unless
he knows he's got a reason.

And you boys got the best.

See Red here and me pulled a bank job,
real sweet, no prints, no identification.

No previous criminal record.

We got to protect that, see?
We wouldn't want to get a bad rep.

We got about 300 grand right here.

So try to see it our way, will you?

Ok Doc,

I'm going to count to five.

You run.

When I get to five, I'm going to sh**t.

You got the picture?

Hold it.

One, two.

Three.

I never could count past three.

Oh?

You didn't get your second
cup of coffee either, did you?

Go ahead.

Well, don't say I didn't ask you.

- Is your car paid for?
- I just got it.

Oh, you're lucky.

You won't have to make any more payments.

Give it to him.

Turn around.

Sit down.

Don't look back here,
just look straight ahead.

Now, here's the action.

I'm going to toss you a shell. Now, you
pick up the shell, put it in the chamber.

Then you pick up the r*fle,
you look straight in the eye...,

then you push the trigger.
How do you like that?

I give you the perfect suicide.

I won't do it.

I'll tell you why you going to do it.

If I have to work you over from back
here, I figure it's going to take me...

five, maybe six rounds to finish the job.

So, make it easy
on yourself, see? Clean, quick.

Come on Red, quit playing around.

You decide.

Want me to start counting like for the doc?

I'll be in the car.

Why are you holding us up buster?

Oh?

You're thinking maybe a
quick try with the r*fle, eh?

You want to try?

Well, go ahead.

Go ahead, try.

Give me a minute to get
used to the idea, will you?

Oh no, it's too long.

Half a minute.

Ok.

Come on Red.

Red's shot bounced a
piece of rock off my skull.

Looked like I was a goner, at
least they thought so, they drove off.

Hey, you got a back door?

Marie Gardner.

- Afraid of a girl?
- Maybe Vanning is inside.

He's not that stupid.

You're taking things too
easy to suit me, I don't like it.

Oh, a model, eh?

Yeah, they all carry these portfolio things.

Compton Model Agency, Dunkirk,
7-3-8-9-9. That's all we need.

Oh, you're smooth John, real smooth.

- Yeah, I got a soft side.
- A guy can't have everything, can he?

No, I don't suppose he can.

- Hello.
- Ben?

- Yeah.
- You're, you're not here.

No, well, you fell asleep honey, so I
got dressed and I came over here...

it's lucky thing that I did.

- Ben, what time is it?
- Now, about 4 A. M. Talk about intuition.

I told you he's getting ready to make a move.

- Still there?
- Yeah, yeah, there's a girl with him Laura.

My hunch is beginning to pay off.

I told you I didn't figure
him to be in this thing alone.

Look honey...

you'd better stick
around the apartment today see...

in case I have to call you in a rush...

you know and get you to pack a
suitcase and bring it to me over here.

- Where you going?
- I don't know Laura but...

I'd like a hunch it's going to be cold.

Look, you pack a bag for me honey, eh?
And then go back to sleep.

You still have enough coffee in
that penthouse you're renting?

Yeah, yeah, sure, coffee,
dancing girls, everything.

Ok, night honey.

- There.
- Thanks.

You should've met a nurse tonight, not me.

- Is that the...
- Oh, I'll take it.

My laundry.

- What on earth are those?
- Sock stretchers.

You mean talk about women.

You say you had an early call tomorrow?

I'll get you some sheets, this will be yours.

You can't imagine how many times
I've stood here and watched it get dark.

I know how every shadow falls, the telephone
pole, rooming house across the street...

that old iron fence down there.

Every night, I got that much closer to
tomorrow, my chances got that much better.

What's tomorrow Jim?

Mind if I? Tomorrow?

Maybe the next day...

they open up the roads
to the spot where we camped.

Snowplows have been up there two weeks now.

I've been waiting for weeks for that date.

I get within one day of it and
bingo, I got to run into those two.

Maybe you've forgotten.

Organized society has a department
for your kind of complaint.

P - O - L - I - C - E.

Ok, let's say you're the police.

I tell you two strange men have a wreck.

The doc and I run out to help them.

They sh**t the doc...

wipe the prints off the r*fle,
try to make me k*ll myself.

It sounds like a nice
routine case, doesn't it?

An everyday occurrence?

Things that really happen are
always difficult to explain.

You haven't heard anything yet.

There I was.

Coming out of, I don't know how long.

No motion, no nothing.

And then I, I remembered.

I went to get Doc's bag,
so I could patch myself up.

Patch myself up?

Here was a way out.

Somehow they'd taken the wrong bag,
taken Doc's bag and left the money behind.

I could drop this satchel
on any police desk and say...

find the men who stole this and you'll
find the men who k*lled the doc.

Hey...

I know I had the bag with me.

I must've dropped it
someplace, maybe near that shack.

- Can't you remember?
- No, started to snow pretty hard.

I got into Moose by morning.

A ranger already found
Doc's body and my r*fle.

Were looking for me.

Right then and there you should've
told them the whole story.

Doesn't check, what?
Boogeyman with a bag full of money?

- They must've left footprints.
- Snowfall covered them.

You should've shown them the
wrecked car, the car they were driving..

That still doesn't put
them on the spot with me.

No Marie, I needed a
witness, something that could talk.

You know, something like
that satchel full of money.

And there was another little detail.
Doc Gurston had a young wife.

She'd written me some indiscreet letters, the
Chicago Police found them in my apartment.

Look.

My prints checked
out with those on the r*fle.

- Did you love her?
- Doc and I were old friends.

Is that an answer?

Somehow I find it very important
that you believe this, right now.

I might've been looking but she was shopping.

And it never went any
further than that, believe me.

I believe you.

I rode freights south to New Orleans...

got a job on the waterfront,
changed my name to Wilson.

Then I went west to Dallas,
drove a truck there for a while.

Finally, I came out here, bought myself
some paints and holed up right here.

Changed my name to Vanning.

Finally, after about a
month I got my first assignment.

You know, the payoff,

Eva, that's the doc's wife,
she puts up a reward for my arrest.

I guess she could
afford it, she inherited a...

quarter of a million
without ever leaving Chicago.

You said you were going to Wyoming as soon
as the roads were cleared to find the money.

- Why does it have to be tonight?
- Because they got to me.

But you got away.

They get to you once, they get to you again.

Anyway, I'm scared.

You don't know what it is to live
with your back against the wall Marie.

Inside, you change.

You really change.

I'll get those sheets.

I'm always meeting the wrong man.

It's a talent.,

Forming what the psychiatrists
call doomed relationships.

Meaning me?

- You won't quit?
- I can't, they caught up to me tonight.

Sometime, I'd like you to meet my girlfriend.
The one who stood me up for dinner tonight.

They tell me I can get a bus
through to Moose, Wyoming.

We're expecting a clearance on
that run along about 9 or 10 tonight.

- How much?
- One way?

- No, round trip.
- $39.11. One?

- Two please.
- Gate three, 11:05 tonight.

Hey, I just started.

Oh, excuse me, I wondered if
my buddy been here yet?

A young fellow about six feet
tall, a gray suit and a blond hair?

- Yeah, you just missed him.
- Oh, did he pick up the tickets?

Yeah.

I think you can still catch him.
He's probably still in baggage.

Oh, right, what time
does the bus leave tonight?

- Gate Three, 11:05.
- Right thanks, thanks very much.

Underneath, a handkerchief linen chemise top.

The new look of back interest...

and the open effect toward the back
of the coat, around the decolletage.

Her violet cloak gives the
new heavenly flowered effect.

One eighty nine, who's wearing 189?

- I am.
- Out you go honey.

Our next mannequin is wearing one of the
new slim sheaths in pale, pale beige linen.

It has a double
breasted button effect in the front...

the back panel is slightly contoured,
buttoning just under the knee.

The perky little white
pique bow under her chin...

sets off a large brim sailor of rough straw.

She is been beautifully
accessorized in tones of pale beige.

Notice her gloves and slim shoes.

Go.

Over there honey.
The beige chiffon, number 372.

- What time is it?
- 1:30.

- How many more changes have I got?
- Three.

- Can't he wait till 2 o'clock?
- It's just I told him to meet me here at 2.

Oh, we'll be finished by then honey,
you know me, never off one second.

Aren't you ready yet? Hurry,
hurry, you're on right away.

This next lovely little dress...

suitable for a summer afternoon is in
the tones of soft, soft peach and beige.

Has three quarter sleeves, a high neck...

and a beautifully, softly flowing
skirt of tiers and tiers of chiffon.

Go.

Number 18, Loretta will help you into it.

Oh, your company is here, they
were asking when you finish.

They?

Frankly honey, it's none of my
business but a girl like you?

- These two look like unmatched bookends.
- Where did they go?

They said to stay around.

- Mrs. Lipton please send me in right away.
- Well, fast as you can, skin in number 18.

Our mannequin's dress is a ball
gown of electric blue starched chiffon.

The gown has the very new look
of high in front, low in the back.

The uneven hem line is been
brought back from the '20s.

Her midriff is
wrapped in electric blue velvet.

Our mannequin is wearing a ball
gown designed by Jean Louis.

The gown is a slender
sheath of mauve sequins...

worn with one of the very
new Capris collared capes...

of yards and yards of multicolored organza.

A beautiful symphony in shades of
mauve and pink and deeper cerise.

- Ok.
- Yeah.

Let's go.

But didn't you say 1 dollar and 30 cents?

No ma'am, 1 dollar and 40 cents,
it's on the receipt you hand.

- Let's go.
- Oh, oh yes, here it is.

- My apologies young man.
- Just head out, I'll tell you where to go.

Last night, you said I should've met a nurse.

What you just did back there
was pretty effective first aid.

Mrs. Lipton must be furious.

She runs the show, meet one
of her favorites, number 18.

650 dollars worth of sequins.

Mrs. Lipton is never seen what
a.45 can do to a set of sequins.

I want to stop at a
surplus store and pick up a...

pair of jeans and a
jacket and some field boots.

It's going to be pretty
cold where we're going.

Yesterday, my biggest
problem was how I was...

going to break a date
with a fellow I knew for tonight.

Of course, I could call him
up and tell him I can't make it.

I'm on my way to Wyoming in a pair of field
boots with a man that's wanted for m*rder.

If I left you here
they'd find you in no time.

Even if they didn't, I'd
still want to go with you.

You're the most wanted man I know.

Good morning ladies and gentlemen, we'll
be stopping for breakfast in a few minutes.

It'll be a 30-minute stop, I hope
you all had a good night's rest.

I'm glad I'm not a man and
have to face that every morning.

That's where you're
wrong, you going to have...

to face that every
morning of the rest of your life.

Is that a proposal sir?

I don't have any real
right to ask you, I guess.

Do you think I'd let you get away now?

After spending two of the most
unusual nights of my life with you?

Hey, haven't I seen you someplace before?

- I was just thinking the same thing.
- Yeah?

Got it,

couple of nights ago on Hollywood Blvd in las
Palmas, remember? I asked you for a light.

Oh, yeah, yeah, you waiting for a
bus and we talked about the tropics.

Sure, sure, that's it.
Oh, what you doing here?

- I was just going to ask you the same thing.
- Oh?

I'm on my way up to Butte,
Montana, to see about a job.

- I didn't notice you, you on the same bus?
- Guess so, I didn't see you either.

Hey, you'd better snap it up
if you want some breakfast.

You know, these boys stick right
to schedule. I'll see you, eh?

We'll be in Moose in a little while now.

You got your driver's license with you?

Serial number still in
the upper right hand corner?

When we get off, I want you
to go to Charley's, a garage.

- He's got cars for rent, right?
- Where will you be?

There's a church at the edge of town,
I'll be hanging around there somewhere.

Just honk the horn.

I'm glad we got rid of those two characters.

Yeah, what makes you think we did?

The next stop is Moose, Wyoming.
We'll be there in about 10 minutes.

You can get a fine view of the
mountains from this little town.

The Alps of America, that's
what they're known as...

rising vertically 7,000 feet
above the valley floor.

The highest peak is 13,766 feet.

- What do you want?
- Does the name Rayburn do anything for you?

- Is supposed to?
- Hey, let's take a little walk, eh?

- Who are you?
- Well, my name is Fraser, Ben Fraser.

So what?

I work with the police.

Oh? Well, what do we do now?

Well we, you know,
walk a little, talk a little.

- About what? You're taking me in?
- No, there's more to it than that.

- And you're the doc.
- That's funny you should say that.

You know, I always wanted to be a
doctor, always wanted to help people.

- You picked a great way to do it.
- Anyway, now I want you to help me.

Look, just take me in, will you? Take me in.

- Come on, we'll walk.
- I'm tired.

To tell you the truth, I'm glad
you finally caught up with me.

Now will you please just take me in?

You're getting a little monotonous
with that take me in routine.

Hey, come on.

You know, I've had my eye
on you quite some time.

- Where's the girl?
- She's not in this.

- Oh, how do I know?
- I just met her.

Oh, how do I know that? You
might've known her before.

Well, something I do know...

A man with 350,000 dollars
doesn't sit up all night with a...

set of watercolors
to meet an agency deadline.

And I watched you ordering dinner.

Picking out the hamburger
instead of the filet mignon.

It must be kind of tough to
pass up those shrimp c*ck.

- What kind of a cop are you?
- I didn't say I was a cop.

Did you ever hear of Bankers Blanket Bonds?

- No.
- Well look, suppose you knock off a bank.

The bank don't lose the money, they're
covered by a bond, my company does.

- They've got to pay back every penny.
- Insurance, eh?

When I started up in Seattle, the only
trail I had was a sequence of stolen cars.

I finally found the last one.
It had Washington plates.

Back the road up there a ways.

Then a little further up, the rangers
discovered the body of a doctor.

They claimed a man by the name of Rayburn,
a commercial artist from Chicago, k*lled him.

- But I figured it otherwise.
- You figured otherwise?

How come?

- Know these are?
- Ejects.

That's right, from a 38 automatic.

I picked up these two
up there by the campfire.

Only, the doctor was k*lled
by a b*llet from a 30-30 r*fle, so...

these don't figure,
except, except for one thing.

One of the bandits up in Seattle
was carrying a 38 automatic.

Yeah, Red.

And one of the men that
followed you out of Robinson's.

Well, then somebody must
have seen him in Seattle.

You see, when they stuck up the bank, he...

he pegged a shot at one of the
tellers who started to go after him.

Well, he missed the teller
but I picked this up in Seattle.

The mark of the firing pin on this one...

is the same as the two I
picked up there by the campfire.

All right.

Start talking, I'm ready to
listen, I want to hear everything.

Every move, the whole
business, right from the beginning.

Well, maybe we can put each
other on the starting line now, eh?

- The money?
- It's out there somewhere.

Incidentally, what
should I call you? Art or Jim?

Might as well make it Jim.
I get to like it better all the time.

Are you going to come with us,
or are we going to go with you?

Well, I'll go with you under one condition.
We charge off the car on my expense account.

Ok.

Cutback is just up there.

- You have a g*n?
- No, we never use them.

That's why we pay taxes,
so the police can carry them for us.

Let's go.

I remember climbing a fence
like this and crossing a pasture.

Look at those prints.

Can't be anybody but them.
You better stay here honey.

That's got to be the shack over there.

Might be around here someplace,
I remember I stopped and rested.

It's all here, I just counted it.

You're unlucky
fella, you're not lucky at all.

A little soggy but
it's going to dry out, I guess.

One more minute, two maybe at the most...

- We have been gone.
- Oh, yeah.

- You got a bad sense of timing.
- Who are you?

- A friend of Vanning's.
- Boy, that makes you unlucky too.

Well, we'll tie them up and leave them here.

Don't get worried, there's snowplows around
here, there'll be a road g*ng in by night.

- But my way is sure.
- And noisy.

Hear a shot for 10 miles here.

We'll tie them inside,
it's rope there, come on.

Come on, come on, come on.

- Hear a shot in the mountains.
- So what?

- But it could be some kid hunting squirrels.
- Go on in.

Vanning too.

He ain't paid his bill yet.

You going to do like I tell you Red?

Ok. Ok, one thing at a time.

Put your hands behind your back.

I worked for a
guy one time, he owned a yacht.

He used to sit out in the stern of that
thing, smoking cigars, soaking up the sun.

He was a big man, real big.

As for me, a Pacific.

Say, about a 40 footer,
diesel power plant on it.

Go around from island to
island, look them all over.

And I pick one out for myself.

- All for me.
- You wouldn't stay there.

You'd start thinking about another
bank, another 350,000 dollars.

Not me, I wouldn't come back.

What you going to do with
your end of the money Red?

Going to set up a scholarship in Harlem.

- Ok sweetheart, here she comes.
- Put away Red.

You still soft on Vanning?

Come on, finish tying them up, all of them.

You don't like me, do you?

I had all I can take of you Red.

After we split up this loot, I don't
have to look at you anymore.

Why don't you like me?

Don't crowd it.

Well, I, I got to know.

I got to know real bad.

I'd feel better if you'd put that r*fle down.

Maybe.

How about you put yours away
first, eh? What you say, Red?

Got a mind to make you an extra belly button.

The g*n Red, come on.

- Well, you're asking for it.
- I'm in an asking position.

You know, we could stay like this all day.

Or else we can start something, eh?
See how we make out, how you like that?

All right, you play it
your way, I'll play it mine.

Tell you what I'll do Red.

Remember when you shot
the doc, how you counted?

Going to do that now,
I'll count to three. See?

You don't put that away by the time
I get to three, going to k*ll you.

Right?

- One, two...
- Ok.

Ok boss.

- I give you two minutes, three at the most.
- Not going to take me that long friend.

It won't take the federal agents any
longer than that to move in here.

Now let me tell you a funny story.

Hold it, Red.

I could k*ll you easy now, couldn't I Red?

You don't know how many
times I've thought about this.

Every time I thought
about, I pulled the trigger.

But I'm not going to unless you move.

Stop.

I'm surprised those federal
men of yours haven't shown up.

I'd be very surprised if they did.
See, I forgot to call them.

That bag full of money looks
kind of small out there.

Sitting out there, all by itself.

It does now, let's go keep it company.