Manhattan Melodrama Page #6
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- 1934
- 93 min
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- You're too late. You missed the boat.
What?
And so,
for the governorship
of the Empire State of New York,
for the chair of Theodore Roosevelt,
of Alfred E. Smith,
I place a nomination,
one whose integrity
is conceded by friend and foe alike.
James W. Wade!
- Good night, Governor.
- I can't tell you how much obliged I am.
- Good night. Good night.
- Good night.
Good night.
Well,
thank goodness that's over.
You know, I think those yes men would
go to bed with me if they had a chance.
Don't worry, darling,
they won't have a chance.
My, am I proud of myself.
Imagine me, the Governor's wife.
Hey, wait a minute.
I've only been nominated.
Well, I can't be worried about details.
I'd love you just as much, darling,
if you were
Vice President of the United States.
I'll bet you say that to all the boys.
Don't you?
Oh!
Well, hello, Snow.
How did you get in here?
They don't know downstairs yet
that you've soured on your assistant.
Allow me to congratulate you, Governor.
That can wait until November.
I've not been elected yet.
But you're a cinch. It's in the bag.
You haven't got me to weaken the ticket.
And you were going to make
them run me as district attorney.
You were going to put up a fight for me.
I'm sorry to say that I did put up a fight.
When I told them last night
that unless you were on the ticket,
that I never knew before.
Darling, would you mind? Please, dear.
Good night, Mr. Snow.
Snow, in all the years
I've worked with you,
I've disregarded the gossip about you.
I refused to believe
the Citizens' Nonpartisan outfit.
But last night, from our own people,
I got the proof.
You're nothing but a cheap,
chiseling grafter.
The party won't stand for you and I won't.
You not only don't go on the ticket
as district attorney,
but from tonight you're not even
my chief assistant any longer.
Well, that's just too bad.
Have you finished
your address to the jury?
Because, if you have, there are
a couple of points I would like to make.
It's a shame you're quitting the DA's office
with the Manny Arnold case unsolved.
I don't feel very happy about that.
I simply couldn't find the murderer,
that's all.
You couldn't find the murderer?
You didn't even try to find him.
You could have, by asking
in any speakeasy in New York City.
Everybody knows
That is, everybody except
our district attorney
whose best pal, Blackie Gallagher,
happened to be the killer.
Wait a minute.
You know as well as I do
we had no case against Blackie.
to trace that coat.
You made a lot of weak, futile gestures,
if that's what you mean by effort.
Why didn't you get
an indictment against Gallagher?
That's what the people
would like to know.
I'm not going to discuss it with you, Snow.
For reasons of my own,
and as district attorney,
I'm convinced that Blackie
had nothing to do with it.
Now, get out.
All right, but I'm gonna open
this case so wide
that the voters will run you out of town.
You'd better get another story,
because I don't think
they like the one you've got.
Perhaps they'd rather believe the one
that's going around, the one I'll tell,
that you wouldn't hold Gallagher because
you wouldn't prosecute your wife's ex...
You better get your nose
out of that program, Blackie.
Somebody's looking at you awfully hard.
Yeah? Who?
Somebody you used to know
a long time ago.
- Where is she?
- You find her.
- What am I running, a lonely hearts club?
- I'll be right back.
- Now, look here...
- I said I'd be right back.
Can I have a hot dog?
- Hello, Mrs. Governor.
- Hello, Blackie.
Where's the law and order?
He's supposed to meet me here,
but you know this business
of running for governor.
I'm going to have to sue that campaign
manager of his for alienation of affections.
What's on your mind?
Why nothing, nothing at all.
No trouble between you and Jim, I hope?
Nothing in the world could cause trouble
between Jim and me.
That goes for me, too.
But what's the trouble?
Something's wrong
and I want to know what it is.
I'm worried about Jim's campaign,
about the election.
Is that all?
Well, you can stop worrying right now
for the inauguration.
He's a cinch.
Manny Arnold? Why, what about it?
Jim insists that this won't hurt him,
but his campaign manager
tells me that the election
would have been close anyway
and that this will...
Turn to your programs, please.
Number one, Commander, the Billing's
entry, was scratched at the last moment.
Imagine that.
I had three bucks on that plug, and he ain't
gonna run now because he's scratched.
Imagine that.
and they won't let him run
because he's got a little scratch.
Say, who are these guys? Why, the dirty...
It's just one man, Snow.
He used to be Jim's assistant.
and he's waiting until just before election
to spring everything.
Yeah. Yeah, I remember him now.
I think I'll look him up,
have a little talk with him.
Now, Blackie.
Blackie, don't do anything foolish.
Blackie?
Did I ever do anything foolish?
They're off!
Come on, Beverly!
Look, look at 'em go. Look.
Over there, over there! Come on, baby!
Come on, baby! Keep that stride!
Hold that stride! Take them jumps steady!
- Take those jumps...
- Spuddie!
What do you want? What do you want?
If you'll give me a dime
I'll get that hot dog myself.
Look at him come. Look at him come.
Oh, boy!
Come on, Beverly! Come on, Beverly!
There he goes past Gallant Madam!
Come on, Beverly! Come on, Beverly!
a close second.
Now can I have a hot dog?
Eleanor, I wouldn't say anything
to Jim about...
Well, about what we've been talking.
You know, he wouldn't understand.
And anyway, it's just between us.
All right, I won't, Blackie.
But, Blackie, tell me,
what are you going to do?
I don't know. I'll find something.
Well, look, I gotta go collect
for that last race.
Last race?
Do you ever lose?
Yeah.
Every once in a while.
- Goodbye.
- Goodbye.
- Hello, Gallagher.
- Hello, Snow.
Well, what's on your mind?
Must be something pretty important,
getting me in here
in the middle of the game.
Never was anything
more important to you
in your life as being here right now.
Well, what is it?
Say, is there anybody here but us?
- Only us.
- What do you want?
I want to do a little favor for a friend.
Here, take it.
Okay, buddy, that's for luck.
- Good morning, darling.
- Good morning.
You look tired. Didn't you sleep well?
I haven't slept yet.
I've been at the office until now
with plenty to do.
Honey, Snow was murdered last night
Snow murdered!
My dear, I'm so sorry. I shouldn't have...
It mustn't be, it can't be, Jim!
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