♦Drive-In Classic♦ 'WHEN THE CLOCK STRIKES' (1961) James BROWN, Merry ANDERS

[Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Music] good morning teacher i'm not a teacher oh and i'm not a duck i'm the wettest cat in seven states look my car's over there i i stalled i must have dampened the motor when i hit a puddle would you mind giving me a push i wouldn't be safe on a stormy night like this look look out if i can't get a push would you mind giving me a lift sure it feels good in your car it was pointing the other direction too bad isn't it excuse me but if your car was heading down it seems odd that you would take a lift from a stranger heading up am i supposed to mind which way i'm going up or down were you lost to something aren't we all what was that big tree fell down behind us was a close one now we can't turn back if we wanted to oh they'll clear that tree author wrote pretty soon why does that frighten you the tree down behind us 10 miles ahead this road dwindles off and ends it's like a door closing behind you you have to go on all the way tree misters everything misses you if you're moving fast enough you don't mind moving fast i always have saves time i guess so of course other things people can use more than time what money you can't do much without money no matter how much time you have you can't do anything without time you sound like a guy heading for the electric chair aren't we you're trying to give me the creeps i'm sorry state prisons around here somewhere i'm just trying to make a joke we'll touch close to home where is the prison back past that tree that fell you're trying to find the prison no the warden's house the warden's house is up ahead about a mile past katie's lodge why are you going to the warden's house on a friday night for no reason that i know of you believe that look i'd like to stick around and find out that reason sam but the the lights up here i yeah it's katie's lodge i'll get out there you'll find the wardens estate about a mile up the road it's the only thing up there you can't miss it how about me bumming you for a cigarette mine that's slightly wet [Applause] you know a while ago you thought it was strange a girl heading down the road except me right from the stranger heading back up no no i did but there's always a reason for everything you see i'm staying here at uh katie's lodge so you brought me home you see it all makes sense yeah sure [Applause] except you me i'm going to the warden's house i'm not knowing why on a friday night at eight o'clock four hours before they hang frankie pierce [Applause] so long stranger well i didn't expect you back so soon my car stalled you didn't get too wet walk fire a man gave me a lift where'd he go how should i know he was in a hurry give me a double scotch on the rocks i have enjoyed the beer katie i can always depend on you sheriff rain or shine one glass of beer no cheer up you can always make a living off the specs you're quiet up here you're the only one staying here no one stays here in the winter i mean it's quiet i know what you mean quiet for a friday night quiet for an execution night incidentally the name you signed on the register ellie pierce that's not your real name is it that's the name i put down buster take it or leave it but you can't be his wife or a sister or even a cousin you don't act like a relative look can i help if my name happens to be ellie pierce it's a funny coincidence frankie pierce is the name of the one they're hanging tonight yeah it's a funny coincidence let us have a good laugh huh you know sometimes i can't figure the ones who come here on such friday nights take the man who gave you a lift why is he heading north there's nothing there but the wharton's place maybe he wants to see the warden is it open up there i don't see any lights past the gate listen that's the words house warden of the state prison now who are you i'm sam morgan i want to see him well i'm sheriff mitchell i can tell you right now you won't be able to see him not on friday night well i tried to phone him well i'll tell you again you won't be able to see him because he's already left for the prison there's a tree down across the road below he couldn't get to the prison well in that case he'll probably stop at katie's lodge and phone ahead and have it cleared away now he's got to get to the prison tonight yeah back up and follow me i'll show you so [Music] got the weirdest set of records on that jukebox i don't get much call for that cheery stuff up here you've come a long ways to get to this neck of the woods a long ways just for laughs some gag you don't act like a speck [Music] hello warden can you call the highway patrol for me certainly the wet night out real wet evening hello [ __ ] this is sam morgan he wants to talk to you the phone is dead warden warden i'm sorry mr morgan i have no time no time at all i've got to get back to my office at the prison i'll get out where the tree's over the road and i'll have to walk the rest of the way that's right you've got to be there tonight tonight i do any chance of a reprieve no no none at all but pierce might tell me something something vitally important warning then uh i don't suppose there's a chance for a stay of execution you have a reason well not exactly well if you had one you should have called the district attorney or pierce's lawyer or the governor i'm just a servant of the state uh [Applause] that's a good excuse [Applause] [Music] that was an unkind thing to say i didn't mean to be unkind sir but nothing at all i guess i have nothing more to say [Music] and what did you want to see me about mr morgan also my my reason sounds pretty weak but do you mean to tell me you drove all the way up here in this storm yes sir who are you i'm a grosser and i have a it's an odd hour but i have a feeling that that pierce isn't guilty no sir he's guilty all right [Music] maybe [Music] maybe what is it mr morgan hey you're sam morgan now i understand of course [Music] yes i'm sam morgan i remember now you're the one who gave the testimony what is it sam i don't know exactly how how to say it maybe i can say it for you you're a man with a conscience there aren't many left your testimony closed the door on frankie pierce and clothed it permanent that's what the paper said no doubts left sam oh i i told him what i saw on the stand i said i thought the man i saw running from the robbery looked like frankie pierce and that's all i could say and that's all i said i said yes sir i thought the man i saw running away looked like frankie pierce but i'm not sure and you told the truth uh excuse me warden if you're gonna walk far in this storm we'd better get started one moment please you still feel the same sam yes i still think he looked like frankie pierce i've never been sure well sure or not you close the door on frankie and close the tight the lawyers they took my words and they twisted them all around i i they seem to think my opinion was better than it was all my life nobody ever believed what i said until this trial then they said well this is a an honest and reliable businessman this sam morgan his opinion is good and valid then you're not reliable and honest i am sir but no more than anybody else i just said that i thought the man escaping look like frankie pierce then exactly what you want to see me about sam just that i'm not sure i've never been sure i never said i was sure the lawyers took my words and twisted them all around they took my opinion like i was a big shot or something a man with a conscience warden will you see him uh before they do it to him i will would you yes then would you tell him something for me what you're telling me i'm sorry well there was a lot of testimony i don't think he'll even remember who you are just let him remember that somebody sorry good night stan morgan good night looks to me like you just got a clear case of witness itis but it's not unusual for witnesses to feel like this on execution night mind if i give you a little advice don't stay around here why the owner hears a fanatic about his clock we all set our watches according to katie's clock he keeps it exact exact well can't very well get out with a tree down on the road you want to know exactly when frankie pierce gets it katie's clock will tell you do you want to know yes and i want to know why you'll find out so you came all the way up from the city why don't you go back i don't know tree down on a road looks like there won't be any more specs tonight specs spectators speculators the ones that come here on friday nights and stay until 12 12 they drop the trap over at the death house and my customers get up and leave [Music] don't be alarmed it only strikes 11 times this time [Music] well it looks like there won't be any more customers tonight i guess frankie pierce just didn't have enough relatives or friends to come [Applause] don't be startled that was for 11 30 on the house morgan testimony clinches piers case well you're a new one usually it's friends or relatives or even enemies that come up here on friday nights sometimes even a cop hoping to learn something from the condemned so he can come up with another condemned later on but you're the first witness can you beat it he's not even related to the guy just the witness that set him up what are you here for a couple of quiet drinks you won't have much longer to wait sam what really is your reason for coming up here is it that you think he's not guilty they judged him guilty the only thing i'm not sure of is my identification of it i was never sure i never said i was sure and what are you here for morgan did you come here to see the warden to change your testimony what if they hanged an innocent one tonight and what if we knew it kitty will you give us a moment's peace and guess you were pierce's wife if you weren't taking it this way you please go are you mrs frankie pierce do i look like the grieving wife no do i look like anybody's wife i guess not well i am i am his wife for another 26 minutes i guess there's nothing weird anyone can do now why why do they do it this way do you know why they do it this way can it do any good [Music] they say it makes a man think twice yet in the last war 10 million died who thought twice [Music] who cares who does care sam do you want to wait outside [Music] ellie stop it you can't stop it [Music] telephone [Music] the why is it down [Music] i did it i did it i paulo martinez i killed the policeman frankie pierce is innocent he is innocent i did it i paolo martinez it was i who did it [Music] frankie pierce is innocent i did it i paolo martinez i tried to call the warden i tried everything i get no reply i tried oh i tried [Music] mother's day you killed me i did it but iron man is innocent [Music] 9 10 11 12. [Music] did you put the tree down across the road before me why why do you feel [Applause] morning kate well i guess the rain's over it's cleared up mrs pierce in no chef well i'd better leave this here for them this is the last of frankie pierce even includes his clothes they've got him all laid out up there in the new suitcase for the state yeah that's the least the state could do too bad martinez didn't get there in time well he tried i'll say that for him yeah got him locked up in the cell down there now he's taking it real hard sam morgan's taking it real hard too is he still here yes he took a room last night it's been drinking quite a bit well i figured i guess a man with a conscience i don't blame morgan terrible thing that happened yeah one in a million why didn't martinez call the prison oh he had plenty of time to get the warden's house except for that tree across the road like i said he tried and you gotta give him credit for it could he have confessed to say frankie pierce no not a chance could he be a crank no as he was but put another drink on my bill katie help yourself morgan morning sam where do the bar sheriff to the bar and uh after that paul oh home dwight so nothing i hear you you had a grocery store did you sam now cut it out there's no sense in you taking it so hard mistakes will be made as long as there's men on earth here to make them so we're all human um how's miss appears taking it how do you think she's taking it sam what do you know about mr pearce nothing why should i you're gonna burn your fingers she came all the way up from jordan new mexico has a lot of miles and yet she doesn't seem to be taken as hard as you are how do you think she feels learning he was innocent huh sam i'm gonna tell you something for your own good frankie pierce was no angel he's given the police nothing but trouble for the last 15 years that's a reason to execute him no but he'd have made the rope sooner or later anyhow he was heading in that direction without any help sam frankie pierce was a known criminal and there's one thing i can't forgive him for two years ago he took a bank for a hundred and sixty thousand dollars yeah yeah i know you know we all know i'm only telling you this to ease your conscience the warden went to him five minutes before execution time he said frankie there's nothing can save you now so why don't you tell us where the money is hidden it's at least you can do and it might wipe some of those black marks off your soul before we hang it you think he'd do it no frankie pierce had to state just what he was right up to the end a mean vicious contemptible criminal here he was a man about to die but still he'd let that money rot someplace just for sheer meanness and spite so you see he deserved to be killed for a crime he didn't commit i didn't say that but that money belonged to the bank and i could never forgive frankie pierce for dying and not telling us where it was hidden that's the kind of a rat he was so stop blaming yourself you did the state of service believe me good morning mrs beard good morning sheriff i uh just now brought the things you requested uh katie mrs pierce's suitcase here it is sheriff thank you you said you were going for a walk i thought i'd bring it up to you when you came in [Music] i thought you checked out you look like you've been walking for four nights with your conscience uh hello i want to talk to you later sam i'm in kind of a hurry now huh [Music] well what happened a cyclone hit got cranky piercing stuff yes and i'm mrs pierce remember i've got a right to go through his things [Music] you're only looking for the money to what do you mean too who else is looking for it i was talking to the sheriff that's all he talked about a money what's wrong with money nothing did the um sheriff say anything else nope i suppose you want to help look too for a cut no if you don't mind just watch no i don't look for it might well let me watch from now on any sort of a secret safe with me yep the law and sam morgan will never be on speaking terms again [Music] trouble with you sam is the minute you stuck your nose out of that grocery store and into the world you got a clobbered [Music] you rip these up for me the world wasn't ready for your kind of conscience and you weren't ready for it he must have left some kind of a clue you take the scissors to open the scenes on this one [Music] see it no not one appears [Music] can a man have so much money hidden and not leave a clue as to where it is is that the only reason you came up here friday night the money if that bothers you you can walk out of here right now don't look at me like that just because they hanged a man who didn't deserve hanging in it it hit you in the face like a dish of cold spaghetti don't expect me to fall apart because of it get this straight sam i'm the lovely lady from play girls paradise it's a two-bit chip joint right down on delgado street just off skid row what's so funny you're going into this big line [Music] [Applause] [Music] what if i tell you where the money is cut it out sam we'll have to put through a phone call yeah it better be from my room sam you mean it we'll split 50 50 ellie man you catch on fast okay let's go [Music] well this brand of cigarettes these carnivals were discontinued two years ago the factory stopped making them i used to sell them in my store two years ago and that was when frankie pierce robbed that bank so what well between our wrappings here i found this key well it could have dropped in there like a coin or something it had to be put there before this brand was discontinued then it was hidden there yes two years ago when frankie pierce got away with a hundred and sixty thousand dollars it's a post office box key sam there must be a million post-op office boxes how about the one in jordan new mexico katie give me outside the operator operator i want to put a long distance call through to the post office in jordan new mexico you're shaking like a leaf hello uh i'd like some information about my post office box there please uh yes i have a key right here it's number 311. um there was a package to be sent to me there would you mind looking in 311 and see if it's there so now i've gotta make him tell me the name of that box holder yes yes uh it's there yes i know it's been there a long time that's what i wanted to ask you about uh would you check and see if my box rental has been paid up my secretary may have forgotten yes number 311 it's a package it's been there a long time how are we going to find out the name he used i got to make him see it it's the only way if he doesn't come back to the phone and say yes mr jones no mr smither yes yes of course this is frederick freeburger i see that she must have paid the box rental can you forward the package to me yes i will pay the forwarding postage airmail special delivery it should be here in about two days three at the most yes to frederick freeburger kara sam morgan katie's lodge route two well i'll be closing up shop that's early just 11. there won't be more customers tonight not this time of winter what about us you hope you sell to just put it on the bill i trust you oh and if the uh sheriff comes in for his one glass of beer would you mind giving it to him sure sam are you gonna are you sure you're not gonna want to get out of this at the last minute i mean forget you even heard about the money i won't want to get out this is as close as i'll ever be to that much money come on let's get the sickies no wait we don't dare bring it down yet not until we're sure the sheriff won't come in you know we talk too much about me never about you you told me quite a little bit about you this afternoon when you're at the ceiling i'd like to hear more about this uh delgado street playhouse or whatever it was you know there's also a delgado street in new york what do you mean also i thought you were from jordan new mexico oh well uh delgado street is there is a delgado street in jordan it's a mexican word and i didn't know there was one in new york too although i've been to new york sam how'd you lose your store just went broke lost my capital it was only eighteen hundred dollars but it cost me the store how can you lose your store on a crummy 1800 bucks forget it i just went broke businesses go broke not after 20 years come on over and sit down and tell me all [Applause] well when they started twisting my words at the trial i gave your husband's lawyer my money to help but it didn't help then first thing i knew all the bills came to you at once and i lost the store after 20 years this must sound pretty dumb to you oh no sam no it doesn't sound dumb now we're going to have money a ton of it and all we have to do is sit here and wait for them to deliver it smack into our laps here made a special delivery [Music] now would you like to tell me more about you i will tell you that once upon a time i thought i was doing all right alone until now i never knew what it was to trust a man or to share with anybody or to have someone with you with you all the way what are you trying to tell me that i like you sam very much [Music] you look tired [Music] want to take a nap i'll watch for the sheriff no i don't think he'll be by for his beer tonight anyway we better get the suitcase down here before that fire dies don't make any noise to wake katie i lock the main door [Music] oh i'd like a room please well uh mr katie's retired for the night oh well how do i call him well uh i don't think we ought to disturb him though i'll take care of it for you [Music] i'll show you for your room mrs uh mrs frank pierce jordan [Music] is anything wrong mrs frank pierce yes [Music] [Music] [Applause] are you all right oh excuse me but i thought i saw your hand shaking i know who you are your picture in the paper you're the man who testified against him [Music] i feel so sorry for you it seems to be troubling you [Music] you can come out now mrs pierce [Music] do you have to keep calling me mrs pierce maybe i shouldn't [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] i want to get katie away from the desk this oughta do it stand near the window and watch the mailman but sammy he's not bringing the package until tomorrow or maybe even the day after just watch for him let me know when he's coming i want to go down and let him know i'm a friend of frederick freeburgers sam yeah what about after we leave here we'll have to lay low till we're sure it's blown over what about my name to leave it like it is of course and when katie realizes i'm the wrong mrs pierce or or the sheriff realizes it well i'm afraid of katie you want to know who i'm afraid of who mrs frankie pierce yeah see invite her to dinner tonight tell her the foodie is no good we'll take her into town for dinner [Music] here comes a postman now look call katie get him up here to fix that pipe i loosen keep him up here for two or three minutes i'm sam morgan sorry i think we you well i'm expecting a package but not for a day or two well there's nothing yet it'll be sent for my friend frederick freeburger but sent care of me well uh it'll be a long one do you usually get here about the same time each day uh unless it's raining of course uh well i just thought maybe i'd plan to be here to sign for it and pay the post is due you see it's being forwarded on and there'll be postage due the hotel can pay for it and collect mule well in any event i just thought i'd i plan to be here if you get around here about the same time each day yeah uh unless it's stormy [Music] it's a little late for dinner but i guess it was worth waiting for like some more coffee no well it was certainly nice of you two to invite me for dinner well sam thought we did three of us staying at the lodge but maybe we ought to stick together you came quite a distance mrs pierce you know i would have thought that they could have sent you his things that's why you came of course to get his things no i thought maybe you came to pick up his clothes and luggage and all no you came because of me well why do you say that well there's no reason the cards can't lay face up on the table but what do you mean well surely katie's told you i've been staying at the lodge a week telling everybody i was frankie pierce's wife [Music] mr katie is a strange man [Music] why because he didn't tell me any such thing maybe you're a strange woman too you know i knew frankie used to come into a joint where i worked in new york we got friendly so why am i here i just dropped in to say goodbye to my friend frankie pierce before they hanged him only they wouldn't let me in so i told him i was his wife so i'd make him let me in to say goodbye it's as simple as that what isn't so simple is you taking it so calm aren't you jealous or anything no and you didn't come up here to get his things no sure there can only be one reason why she came this distance for his fiona of course of course look i'm sorry there's nothing to be sorry for well that is why you came up here though for the funeral no shall we go [Applause] check please [Music] you folks going to be staying here much longer no i'm going to be here next friday katie isn't it about time you got lost yeah you usually go to bed early yes i think i will it's late nice of you to check in mrs pierce last night morgan so what so business seems to be picking up around here i checked in another guest tonight while you're out to dinner another mr spears no the detective from the city turn down the lights when you're throwing whatever you drink just put it on your bills sam i'm scared if he is a detective frederick freeburger new york city sam now we gotta get out of here we've got to get out of here fast look you never even cared about the money until after what they did to frankie pierce we don't even need it now look you're getting panicky get hold of yourself i'm shaking like a leaf listen to me when that package gets here it would be put in freeburger's mailbox it's addressed to him jeremy but to him what do we do the postman knows me all i have to do is get to him before before he gives it to katie because katie would just hand it over to freeburger who is the detective why doesn't he show himself why is he here i wish you had the shakes i've got i wish you'd get out of here with me really i can't get out they changed me it changed me good sam give me a cigarette you know so i don't think there is a detective here what do you mean it can all be explained if the man in 219 isn't a detective man in 219 free burger if he is a cop that means he knows that frankie used the name of free burger to hide the money well then who is free burger i think we'll find that he's a former friend of frankie's uh uh new york hood maybe somebody who's after the money somebody who knew that frankie used the name free burger and who couldn't get into the post office box down in jordan simply because he didn't have the key they could have phoned them like you did now who would think of it who would realize that they would forward a package like that you thought of asking just a shot in the dark maybe the man in 219 phoned and they told him they were already forwarding it to him maybe why doesn't he show himself i don't know that's the part i don't like hi katie hi sheriff ready to shine one glass of beer regularly as clockwork asian the sheriff usually comes by at night take it easy maybe just drop by to get out of the rain i still want to get out of here in one piece not until that package comes sammy's taking all this slicker he's finished his beer but he's staying what if he's waiting for the postman to get all of yourself that money's coming here until it gets here we can't get out i better have another another one why not i heard katie say that you have one beer only rain or shine well that's usually the case but uh i just thought maybe mrs pierce and i could talk a little bitter over drink uh talk me that's what i'm here for i don't understand sure you and me talk well no don't tell me i drove all the way out here in the rain and broke a habit had two beers and no talk what do you mean uh hour three o'clock appointment with mrs pierce what appointment don't tell me you didn't call and ask me to meet you here sheriff i have the least idea what you're talking about well how do you like that a woman called and said this is mrs frankie pierce meet me at katie's lodge at three o'clock detergent here i am maybe it was the other mrs pearce sheriff the other mrs frankie pierce that's right sure i guess but it's only 2 30 now maybe you'd better wait until 3. now there goes the postman guess there's nothing for us today you two uh care to join me in a drink no thanks sheriff there's something i can't figure out katie sam morgan and mrs frankie pierce it's going to get harder to figure we'll just sit tight let him grab their best hole and see what they can do about it sam can be talking your room what's wrong with you now what all ready to get out a day early why katie asked me to change rooms that doesn't sound right but he did why katie had a very good reason for asking me to change rooms he has to call in a plumber to repair the pipes that you wrecked yesterday [Music] it's funny what a hundred and sixty thousand dollars can do to a man ellie i'm sorry sam did you think i'd want it all sam there's something i want you to do for me go down to mrs pierce's room and find out why she wanted to see the sheriff please i want you to can't stop being afraid can you sam please go see her and sam while you're there tell her tell her not to get me into any more trouble tell her that's all i've known since i was a kid huh now what else do you think i might ask her well the girl that i'm in love with uh she has her falsehood yes but like a lot of other people she was interested in the money your husband took from that bank my goodness mr morgan i'm afraid i would have to forgive anyone for almost anything if all that money was their goal well you have an appointment with sheriff mitchell yes i'd like to ask you a favor please don't get my girl into trouble i'll level with you she used your name posed as mrs frankie pierce to try to find out where he had that money to try and get it now when we got over these things this is all the money we found on him all of it you're a kind man here take it it's rightfully yours please mr morgan don't give me your money it isn't necessary but my girl and i we tried to find out where he hit the money you're a very kind man trying to help me is that what you really think yes and i won't get your girl in trouble now i have that appointment with the sheriff excuse me [Applause] [Music] where's ellie jones what do you mean gone checked out she was afraid she didn't look her friends she just checked out didn't she give you that package what package the package came for you she said the postman had passed i was wrong was a car that looked like his now he brought the package she was here when it came said she'd seen the postman through the window paid the postage to do and she said she'd take it up to you came down a minute later and checked out package sure what's wrong sam you come over here a minute i want you to hear this sit down mr morgan as i told you i did not come up here to get my husband's things off of the funeral i had to find out for sure whether martinez was telling the truth when he confessed and the sheriff has convinced me beyond any doubt that martinez was guilty and accordingly that your husband was innocent what's changed well after frank hid the money he was afraid to have any money afraid even to earn it or to spend it any money whatever for fear that the police would be sure he'd rob the bank you see his plan was to stay broke penniless i mean even hungry just anything to play this part of a poor man so he and mrs pierce moved in with her father oh my he and my father quarreled all the time frank hated my father one night he threatened to kill him and then the very next morning he seemed to be trying to patch it up by offering to go on a deer hunting trip with my father now you listen to this sam you listen well they left for that trip and uh several days later we found my father's body he'd been shot it was a bullet from frank's rifle you mean not it was no accident he was murdered frank murdered my father the police proved it they had the motive and everything until well the whole case just suddenly collapsed because frankie pierce was picked up in new york in jail for murder tried and convicted so this is not a case of an innocent man being executed well i've got to get up tell the warden how do you feel now sam right back where i started well we were wrong but only in the technicality weather smoke is fire i've got to hurry along here gotta drive slow on the storm mr morgan you seem so worried and afraid last night at dinner but there's nothing to be afraid of now is there no mr morgan i heard the good news you have sharp ears katie i suppose you'll be leaving it soon you sound anxious not at all you didn't answer my question get my bill ready [Music] i know it's only six o'clock but it's dark out already i don't mean to bother you so often it's just that i'm expecting a package i want to know if the postman is likely to knock off early and finish tomorrow good i thought a rural carrier might want to get it out of the rain thank you well took you quite a while are you in a hurry for me to leave katie it's just that checkout time is four o'clock i should charge you for an extra day but i think we'll overlook it this time 18 for rent 22 for beverages i'm about ten dollars short why don't you write out a check uh you see when i decided to come up here i drew out all my money paid in full let's just call it squaring there's your receipt paid in full fair enough thanks katie uh when ellie left did she say anything just checked out she left no message no message goodbye morgan [Music] can you breathe through that gag [Music] i can remove it now your boyfriend's gone [Music] too bad you two didn't scare away where is he he's gone checked out i'll see you later when the money comes why don't you kill me now if it doesn't come or if it isn't that package i might want to persuade you to tell me what went wrong and if it comes if it comes your troubles will be over [Music] [Music] yes i i forgot something in my room you better hurry why stole me again you're liable to find another tree down across the road behind you i happen to notice what you wrote on my bill paid in full morgan yeah but it's in the same handwriting freeburger used when he registered well you see i had to check him in there was a big fine the poor guy burned both his hands that's why he hasn't been down for his meals and drinks i hope you find what you left in 216. [Music] [Applause] [Music] mr morgan i see you've changed rooms no it's mr freeburger's room no such man how do you account for it i made a phone call once katie must have listened then mr morgan what's wrong can i help you i'm beginning to think maybe i haven't lost my girl ellie ellie all my customers checked out and i thought i'd close shop early unless you were coming down for your one glass of beer you can't too many this afternoon a sheriff that ought to teach you to stick to just one glass of beer one glass of beer rain or shine [Music] mr katie what's wrong i think that gun this is your mrs pierce in here [Applause] [Music] sam in here [Music] sam katie knew the money was coming he's been trying to frighten us away yeah yes would have been better had i succeeded and i'll have to kill you before the postman gets here [Music] first [Music] he's a hunter he must have other guns a bar [Music] it's been laying out in the mud in the rain do you suppose it'll fire [Music] so [Music] it works now there's a car pulling up outside it's the postman get over behind the desk go on get behind the desk kitty i don't show any sign that anything's wrong in here i got that package for free burgers and it's in your car mr margaret uh katie will you pay the postage do for me uh put it on my bill stand right here oh uh can katie sign for me i burn my hand oh sure sure that's a 280 dude pay the man katie thank you good night good night rip a little paper away [Applause] the money sam you better listen morgan you can't win as soon as you walk out that door i'll call the sheriff do you think he'd believe that an honest grocer a man with a conscience would steal and what if he does we're willing to run for it so what katie sometimes even an honest grosser can commit murder what do you mean mrs pierce is upstairs in the room dead her neck is broken now listen to me good how will it sound in court when i pick my word against yours you're the one running with the money your girl posed as mrs pierce i'll tell the cops when the real mrs pierce appeared unexpectedly what could you do but eliminator so they'll be after you for murder you know it's really funny for if ever two innocent people were headed for the gallows i'm looking at them now nothing can save you except me one thing can save us katie what's that grosser simplest thing in the world honesty ellie only sheriff tell him everything tell him the truth we're getting on the money it's the answer you're sure that's what you want sam yes let me think on it a minute thank god answers everything uh it hangs katie and how it turns us free to be married it answers everything honesty i don't have to think sam mrs pierce was my friend a kind gentlewoman you know i'm coming up here on a certain friday night and i'm gonna drink one not to your health but to the law and the rope that hangs you when i come up on that certain friday night and that clock strikes 12. i'm not gonna hate not this time not when they hang you hello sheriff you better get over to katie's lodge right away there's been a murder and we have the money the money frankie pierce stole [Applause] you had us katie you had us dead but you forgot and i did too for a minute one little word that can clean a man of all his troubles truth [Music] sam there's where my car hit the puddle installed yeah where we met up until that puddle my life was just like that night one big lousy continuing storm [Music] really things still aren't going to be easy well i don't want them to be easy sam i just want them to be worth the trouble you make them worthy [Music] hmm [Music] [Music] you

Channel: Rob W

Views: 360,348

Keywords: Drive-In, B-Movie, Film-Noir

Id: AENGGxNZQyw

Length: 71min 47sec (4307 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 13 2022