The Damned Don't Cry Page #10

Synopsis: The murder of gangster Nick Prenta touches off an investigation of mysterious socialite Lorna Hansen Forbes, who seems to have no past, and has now disappeared. In flashback, we see the woman's anonymous roots; her poor working-class marriage, which ends in tragedy and her determination to find "better things." Soon finding that sex appeal is her only salable commodity, she climbs from man to man toward the center of a nationwide crime syndicate...a very perilous position.
Director(s): Vincent Sherman
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
 
IMDB:
7.2
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Year:
1950
103 min
237 Views


Do you hear me? Let him in.

He has a key.

You pass out keys to all your friends?

I want to apologize for busting in

on you like this, Mrs. Forbes.

But a friend of yours, Eddie Hart,

said it would be okay.

He said Castleman might not like it...

but Ethel Whitehead

would go for anything.

Don't move, Nick.

I'm going to give you a lesson

in political science.

Revolutions are started by smart people...

but they're always finished

by smarter ones.

You always liked being in the headlines,

haven't you?

Well, this time, we're gonna move you

over to the obituary column.

Aren't we, Ethel?

You dirty tramp.

Where is she?

We'll have to dispose of him first.

And then I want her.

There's someone here to see you, Ethel.

You can't stay here any longer, Ethel.

Because of George?

You're unfinished business.

It's only a matter of time

before he gets here.

Excuse me.

Did you tell him where I live?

No. He's known that a long time.

I came here to help you.

Your only chance is to keep running,

keep hiding...

until the police arrest George.

The police? Do they know he killed Nick?

I told them.

- You told them? Why?

- It doesn't matter.

That means

you're unfinished business, too.

That doesn't matter, either.

You did that for me.

We do what we do because...

well, as you once said,

we can't help ourselves.

You better get your things.

Where will you go, Mr. Blackford?

Where can they go?

Where's Blackford?

I don't know.

I haven't seen him.

Now you're covering up for him.

If that's what you want to believe.

You were getting ready to leave.

Don't tell me you were waiting for me.

Strangely enough, George,

there was a time when I did wait for you...

and no one else.

But that's over now.

What did she have to do

with this Castleman guy?

Was she in love with him?

Was she working for him?

How'd she get the name

Lorna Hansen Forbes?

Whose idea was that?

Was she ever married

to a guy named Forbes?

Blackford, what's he got to do with it?

I don't know.

Where'd she get the money

to throw big parties?

- What'd she have to do with Prenta?

- Why'd she go out West?

Leave us alone. We told you all we know.

Mr. Whitehead,

you and your wife can come in now.

Let them through, boys.

- Can we talk to her?

- Later.

Well, it must be pretty tough

living in a place like this.

Tougher to get out. Think she'll try again?

Wouldn't you?

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