In the Palm of Your Hand Page #2

Synopsis: Jaime Karin is an astrologer, fortune teller and a scam artist, who uses his wife who works in an elegant beauty salon, to find out information on future wealthy clients, through her he learns that a millionaire Vittorio Romano died shortly after learning of his wife's infidelity. Karin befriends the woman and learns that she and her lover murdered her husband, now the woman claims to love the astrologer and wants him to help her get rid of her lover.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Roberto Gavaldón
Production: Mier y Brooks S.A.
  8 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Year:
1951
90 min
34 Views


You are shooting him on the chest!

Come on, Manolin, do it!

That's right! Very nice!

Let's see... Now...

Very good... take them out...

Another one...

Very good!

Here you have your future, Sir!

Get closer, ladies and gentlemen, don't

miss your opportunity to know your future!

- Good night, Professor Karin!

- Good night, Ma'am!

It wouldn't bother you if I ask

you a question? Not in any way!

I would like to make a bet in

tomorrow's races, if you could maybe...

My dearest Mrs., if I could make that kind

of predictions, I'll be rotten in money.

Disinterest is a condition for my trade.

The supernatural forces that assist us...

would take revenge if we took advantage

of the divine spark inside us.

That is what charlatans do.

Please, forgive me Professor,

I thought...

May I bring you something

or you rather wait for the miss.

I'll wait for the miss.

Maestro...

Your song...

You are sad, Clara...

What is wrong...

I am nauseated, Karin.

I am revolted by everything

that happens arround us.

In life, not everything

is good, Clara.

But we have to live...

Look! I got you something!

- Here it is!

- Karin!

If it wasn't for you...

What is it!

Even I don't know! Our destiny!

Given to me by the birds! Only the birds

know the secrets of Love and Life!

"Love begins when you want to

and ends when you don't want to".

This little bird knows his business!

Love begins when you

want to, that's true.

If I hadn't gone that morning to

our date in Champs Elysees...

we would never had

found each other again.

What do yours say?

You don't do all you can...

and you do all you shouldn't.

This is indeed extraordinary!

I don't do all I can, but

I do all I shouldn't...

I can do so many things...

I have so many dreams...

And, nonetheless, I devote my life to

hysteric ladies that believe my predictions.

If it wasn't for them...

By the way!

What you asked for about Mrs. del Valle...

I found out from her own mouth.

She is thinking of

having a plastic surgery.

Removal of her neck adiposities.

When she visits you, you'll

have to be courteous to her.

One of your phrases, that speaks

about a 'beautiful neck'.

For example:
Your neck, Mrs. del Valle, only

distinguishes from that of Anne Boleyn's,

in that there's not been any Henry VIII to

separate it from your beautiful head

I can assure you she

won't understand a thing.

What else did you find out?

Something that stupefied me.

But that doesn't affects us.

What could that be?

Vittorio Romano died today.

So, at last he died.

It seems unbelievable.

I don't see why...

Vittorio Romano would never accepted

the truth without killing himself.

Everybody agrees on that.

I think no one knew

Vittorio Romano that well...

He loved his stupid wife too much.

I don't like to pity nobody.

But the ones who make me feel it...

are guys like Vittorio Romano.

I only saw him three days ago.

That's why his death shakens me.

The thing about his wife,

accelerated things up.

So, at last he knew...

How strange life is...

It always has a final blow...

And how did you find that out?

That day I was at his apartment...

You never told me...

That looks like a Lesa Chiromancy crime.

And I might never had told you if

it wasn't because Vittorio Romano...

died long before

even himself expected to.

A diabolic play by destiny.

I'm dying of curiosity!

What was that play?

I arrived that day, as usual,

to service him at home...

And if you now know,

I don't care...

You should be grateful for my work

at keeping you in ignorance.

That was a kindly act

that you didn't deserved.

That I didn't deserved?

The man that picked you up from the trash?

The one that did everything

to make you happy?

I don't know what to mean.

Do you think I could love you?

That I would waste my life

with a man that could be my father?

That has no attractiveness?

That is always sick?

Shut up!

Do you think I can't defend myself?

That I won't fight back?

Now, hear me!

I will divorce from you!

Understand?

But I'll do something that

would hurt you more...

I'll change my will.

You and Leon will live in poverty.

You'll be hungry together...

That is simply unbelieveable!

A monstruous fate.

Fate doesn't exist.

Good Clara Stein may believe

in it, but not me.

It's moving that you

haven't dared to think...

of any hypothesis or get

to any conclusion about...

a matter so simple as this.

I hope you don't

expect to use this, Karin.

I tolerate you divinations,

your fantasies...

But some things I can't stomach.

My little one...

My scrupulous Clara Stein...

In Paris or Vienna we

had the black market...

Here we only got my superior

gifts of divination.

Karin, disciple of the Great

Ben Ali Krishna Rama...

the Greatest Sage of India.

Oh, my dear Teacher...

I remember your last words

when we said goodby in

you beautiful garden in New Delhi.

Karin! You forget you have

never been in India.

That doesn't matter, what

happens inside me...

may as well happen in real life.

Well, that nonexistant afternoon

in the beautiful gardens

in New Delhi...

The Great Sage Ben Ali Krishna Rama

let me hear his golden words...

Let me repeat them for you...

Never stay in the middle of the road

always reach the end of it.

To the very end of it.

To the bottom.

Only coward spirits stay

in the surface.

I don't understand what would be to go

to the end in the Romano's affair...

Go to the end, my darling, would

be to go to where his millions are.

I don't know the way,

but there must be one.

Does Professor Karin has a preference

for any musical piece?

Theres the thing...

Finding the way

to the millions.

What did you said, Professor?

The Millions, Maestro,

Arlechin's Millions.

Right away, Professor!

The Millions!

I hope you won't do

something foolish, Karin.

What you want to do

has a bad name.

It's known as "Blackmail".

My God, Clara,

You are supposed to be

a delicate spirited woman.

Why call that way a

legitimate business?

In this case I represent

an honorable character

I'll be the Sword of Virtue,

the Finger of Justice,

the Angel of Revenge.

This night I'll be late

but sleep well.

Where are you going?

To follow a sacred precept

of the Old Sages of Egypt.

Pay my respects to the dead.

"Alcazar Funeral Home"

I've been trying to give you

my condolences, Mrs. Romano.

Thank you.

It's so unfortunate, specially

because he loved life so much.

He hoped he still had some years left.

But, as you see, nobody

owns his own destiny

I'm sorry, Sr., I don't

remember you visiting us...

I'm not good with faces, you know, and

today I'm so distressed... you understand.

It's your husband, he was the

one that visited me.

During these last months he

considered me as a kind of confidant.

Once or twice a month

he visited my office.

Are you a doctor?

In a way, yes.

A Spiritual Doctor.

Visiting me brings peace to people

who have reasons to be nervous.

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Luis Spota

Luis Mario Cayetano Spota Saavedra Ruotti Castañares (13 July 1925, Mexico City — 20 January 1985) was a Mexican writer, journalist, boxing official and film director. Although he never finished primary school, Spota became a highly successful author and journalist in his lifetime, appearing frequently on TV and radio. He was also a busy screenwriter for the Mexican film industry. He was a close friend of the Mexican president Miguel Aleman Valdes. He was the first President of the World Boxing Council (WBC) (February 1963 - September 1968). He died of pancreatic cancer in Mexico City. more…

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