Illegal Page #8

Synopsis: Ambitious D.A. Victor Scott zealously prosecutes Ed Clary for a woman's murder. But as Clary walks "the last mile" to the electric chair, Scott receives evidence that exonerates the condemned man. Realizing that he's made a terrible mistake he tries to stop the execution but is too late. Humbled by his grievous misjudgement, Scott resigns as a prosecutor. Entering private practice, he employs the same cunning that made his reputation and draws the attention of mob kingpin, Frank Garland. The mobster succeeds in bribing Scott into representing one of his stooges on a murder rap and Scott, in a grand display of courtroom theatrics, wins the case. But soon Scott finds himself embroiled in dirty mob politics. The situation becomes intolerable when his former protege in the D.A.'s office is charged with a murder that seems to implicate her as an informant to the Garland mob. Can Victor defend the woman he secretly loves and also keep his life?
Director(s): Lewis Allen
Production: Warner Bros.
 
IMDB:
7.0
APPROVED
Year:
1955
88 min
213 Views


643

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he mentioned this morning.

644

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42:57,725 -- 00:43:00,125

Oh, of course, right away.

645

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43:01,262 -- 00:43:04,857

- Well, it was nice meeting you, Mr. Scott.

- Thank you.

646

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43:05,766 -- 00:43:07,256

Mr. Scott to see you.

647

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43:07,334 -- 00:43:09,063

Tell him to wait a moment.

648

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43:10,004 -- 00:43:13,030

Friend of yours, Ray.

You better use the other door.

649

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43:13,107 -- 00:43:14,631

So long, Mr. Garland.

650

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43:17,077 -- 00:43:19,545

You're doing great. See you.

651

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43:20,581 -- 00:43:21,980

Send Mr. Scott in.

652

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43:24,218 -- 00:43:25,845

Play me another chorus.

653

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43:43,137 -- 00:43:45,469

You stole $10,000 of my money.

654

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43:46,173 -- 00:43:48,334

Bigtime for a cheap finagler like you.

655

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43:48,409 -- 00:43:49,433

Sour note.

656

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43:49,510 -- 00:43:52,570

Were you really stupid enough to think

that you could knife Frank Garland?

657

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43:52,646 -- 00:43:56,377

Get up that $10,000 or you won't be

chasing ambulances anymore.

658

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43:56,450 -- 00:43:58,077

They'll be chasing you.

659

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43:59,019 -- 00:44:00,577

Go right on, honey.

660

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44:00,688 -- 00:44:02,417

The name is Angel O'Hara.

661

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44:02,856 -- 00:44:05,256

- Listen to me, Scott.

- You know, Angel...

662

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44:09,063 -- 00:44:12,590

Go to Ben Rice at the Club Continental.

Tell him you're hired.

663

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44:13,033 -- 00:44:15,593

Leave your private telephone number

with my secretary.

664

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44:15,669 -- 00:44:18,467

- Thank you, Mr. Garland.

- Later.

665

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44:26,213 -- 00:44:27,680

Interesting girl.

666

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44:28,482 -- 00:44:30,643

Lives and breathes music.

667

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44:32,553 -- 00:44:33,542

Well!

668

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44:35,222 -- 00:44:38,385

I always knew that you were

a man of far-flung interests...

669

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44:40,994 -- 00:44:41,983

Degas.

670

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44:45,499 -- 00:44:47,160

Isn't that a Gauguin?

671

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44:50,204 -- 00:44:53,071

I've always had to content myself

with reproductions.

672

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44:53,140 -- 00:44:56,473

When you were District Attorney,

how much did you know about me?

673

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44:56,543 -- 00:44:59,376

Oh, quite a lot.

I'd have indicted you in time.

674

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44:59,680 -- 00:45:02,877

No, because 90/ of my interests

675

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45:03,450 -- 00:45:06,476

are as genuine and respectable

as those paintings.

676

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45:06,720 -- 00:45:09,689

Trucking companies,

investment houses, canneries,

677

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45:09,757 -- 00:45:12,521

credit jewelry, 38 stores.

678

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45:13,060 -- 00:45:16,928

- Very impressive.

- So's the way you took my man Smith.

679

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45:17,464 -- 00:45:19,728

You have legal knowledge and nerve.

680

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45:19,800 -- 00:45:21,199

I can use both.

681

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45:22,603 -- 00:45:23,865

No, thanks.

682

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45:23,937 -- 00:45:25,928

Could be very profitable.

683

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45:26,006 -- 00:45:28,236

Make that 10,000 look like peanuts.

684

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45:28,976 -- 00:45:31,171

You're like me, you gotta be on top.

685

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45:31,578 -- 00:45:33,045

What do you say?

686

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45:34,181 -- 00:45:37,412

You don't need a criminal lawyer

for your legitimate interests.

687

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45:37,484 -- 00:45:39,475

You want me for your rackets.

688

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45:39,620 -- 00:45:42,145

For your gambling and vice

that pays the freight.

689

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45:43,090 -- 00:45:46,753

- Am I to believe you have scruples?

- No, no, no, none whatever.

690

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45:46,827 -- 00:45:49,387

- Then there's no problem.

- And no deal.

691

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45:55,436 -- 00:45:58,803

Know why I could never indict you?

Because nobody would talk.

692

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45:59,273 -- 00:46:02,709

Why wouldn't they?

Because you own them, body and soul.

693

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46:03,544 -- 00:46:06,342

Well, you're not gonna own me. Nobody is.

694

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46:34,875 -- 00:46:35,967

(GUN FIRES)

695

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46:36,376 -- 00:46:37,707

(WOMAN SCREAMING)

696

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46:45,652 -- 00:46:49,418

- 15-2, 15-4.

- 15-2, 15-4.

697

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46:50,057 -- 00:46:51,581

Well, your game.

698

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46:51,992 -- 00:46:53,619

This is your lucky day.

699

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46:54,061 -- 00:46:56,859

I understand you won

that oil rights case, too.

700

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46:56,930 -- 00:46:59,626

One of the junior partners

did most of the work.

701

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46:59,700 -- 00:47:02,760

Nothing like having bright young men

around the office.

702

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47:03,003 -- 00:47:05,130

You weren't so lucky in that Carol thing.

703

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47:05,205 -- 00:47:06,331

Who's Carol?

704

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47:06,406 -- 00:47:09,432

Fellow named Al Carol and

his business partner wanted to split up.

705

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47:09,510 -- 00:47:11,637

We were handling the legal details.

706

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47:12,446 -- 00:47:15,279

Right in the middle of it,

his partner died. Suddenly.

707

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47:15,349 -- 00:47:16,441

RAY:
Too suddenly.

708

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47:16,517 -- 00:47:20,453

We're indicting Carol for slipping

his former associate a little poison.

709

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47:21,154 -- 00:47:24,123

Well, that's one way

of dissolving a partnership.

710

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47:24,591 -- 00:47:26,320

You going to defend him, Steve?

711

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47:26,393 -- 00:47:29,362

Well, he wants us to, but it's not our line.

712

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47:29,429 -- 00:47:32,728

Say, how about you

handling the trial work for us?

713

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47:33,233 -- 00:47:36,168

- Is he guilty?

- Our clients are never guilty.

714

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47:36,236 -- 00:47:37,828

Especially with a kibitzer present.

715

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47:37,905 -- 00:47:40,100

Oh, don't worry about me.

I've got to get home to dinner.

716

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47:40,173 -- 00:47:43,700

Say, do I! Ellen will murder me

if I keep that roast waiting.

717

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47:43,777 -- 00:47:46,746

- How's the cooking?

- Why don't you come and find out?

718

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47:46,813 -- 00:47:49,782

- One of these days. That's a promise.

- Good.

719

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47:51,318 -- 00:47:54,685

Well? How about it?

Are you going to handle the trial for us?

720

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47:55,455 -- 00:47:59,323

- Lf the fee is big enough.

- Bigger than I can say out loud.

721

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48:02,996 -- 00:48:05,897

Louis, another drink for Mr. Harper.

722

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48:08,602 -- 00:48:13,096

Actually, ladies and gentlemen,

this is a very, very simple case.

723

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48:14,107 -- 00:48:16,837

The prosecution charges

that the defendant committed murder

724

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48:16,910 -- 00:48:18,969

by administering poison.

725

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48:20,180 -- 00:48:22,580

The prosecution has tried to show you

726

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48:23,350 -- 00:48:28,378

that Mr. Carol's business partner

finally became a business rival,

727

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48:28,922 -- 00:48:33,086

and for that reason he was,

shall we say, eliminated.

728

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48:36,063 -- 00:48:39,089

Now, the law provides much simpler

and less risky ways

729

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48:39,166 -- 00:48:41,396

of dissolving partnerships.

730

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48:42,369 -- 00:48:44,496

Murder seems a little unnecessary.

731

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48:44,771 -- 00:48:46,363

A little overemphatic.

732

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48:47,374 -- 00:48:50,775

But the prosecution had to find

some alleged motive.

733

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48:52,613 -- 00:48:55,343

Also, the prosecution is trying to

introduce evidence

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