0000 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:10,000 YoubetCash.net Agen Judi Online Aman & Terpercaya 000 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:15,000 Bonus Cashback Bola 6% Bonus Rollingan 0,80% 00 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:20,000 Welcome Bonus Rp 25.000 Extra Bonus Tambahan Withdraw Rp 2.000.000 0 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:25,000 CashBack Mix Parlay 100% Bonus Ajak teman 45,2% 1 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:30,080 (moody piano music) 2 00:00:33,030 --> 00:00:36,197 - I always wanted to be in the movies. 3 00:00:40,849 --> 00:00:45,422 I was almost a star. (chuckles) 4 00:00:45,422 --> 00:00:46,255 Almost. 5 00:00:51,923 --> 00:00:55,473 Then something happened that took my dream away. 6 00:01:03,541 --> 00:01:06,541 (lively jazz music) 7 00:01:09,070 --> 00:01:13,193 - [Woman] I liked standing, I thought it was romantic. 8 00:01:14,320 --> 00:01:18,230 - If you think I was gonna let some guy run off with my girl 9 00:01:18,230 --> 00:01:21,230 while I fight a bunch of crabs, you must be dizzy. 10 00:01:21,230 --> 00:01:22,950 - Well, every gal wants a guy that's gonna 11 00:01:22,950 --> 00:01:26,150 sacrifice himself for her, it's romantic. 12 00:01:26,150 --> 00:01:27,970 - You see, that's the problem. 13 00:01:27,970 --> 00:01:30,920 Bogart used to play the tough guy, now he just plays a sap. 14 00:01:32,183 --> 00:01:34,163 - Well, you're my tough guy. 15 00:01:38,140 --> 00:01:40,210 - Hey, what're you doing in here? 16 00:01:40,210 --> 00:01:41,160 I'm talking to you. 17 00:01:42,995 --> 00:01:45,162 Get outta here, go on, go. 18 00:01:48,690 --> 00:01:50,303 - People gotta learn their place. 19 00:02:00,283 --> 00:02:03,116 (car door closes) 20 00:02:09,643 --> 00:02:12,990 - (chuckles) Hey, don't look now, but I think I see Mona 21 00:02:12,990 --> 00:02:15,280 Lane sitting over there in a booth drinking a milkshake. 22 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:17,154 - Where? - I said don't look. 23 00:02:17,154 --> 00:02:19,354 (chuckles) I don't want you to embarrass me. 24 00:02:22,573 --> 00:02:27,280 And I think I see Jimmy Stance over there with her. 25 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:29,130 I've read that those two are an item. 26 00:02:30,220 --> 00:02:31,120 I guess it's true. 27 00:02:32,090 --> 00:02:34,870 - Movie stars are people just like us, they've gotta 28 00:02:34,870 --> 00:02:37,420 put their pants on one leg at a time, just like me. 29 00:02:48,260 --> 00:02:50,460 - Hey, I told you to get outta here, boy. 30 00:02:50,460 --> 00:02:51,747 Oh, don't shoot. 31 00:02:54,540 --> 00:02:56,873 (gun fires) 32 00:02:59,290 --> 00:03:00,490 - [Narrator] That's how things went down 33 00:03:00,490 --> 00:03:01,950 at the Moonlight Cafe, 34 00:03:01,950 --> 00:03:04,890 the night Mona Lane got kidnapped by a gang of Negros. 35 00:03:04,890 --> 00:03:07,270 Or at least that's how the newspapers told it. 36 00:03:07,270 --> 00:03:09,400 But we got plenty of time to get to that. 37 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:13,929 This story is as much about me, as it is about her. 38 00:03:13,929 --> 00:03:16,529 (upbeat piano music) 39 00:03:16,529 --> 00:03:18,840 (gun fires) 40 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:21,630 As a kid, I could still remember goin' to the pictures, 41 00:03:21,630 --> 00:03:24,550 watchin' gangsters and cowboys on the big screen. 42 00:03:24,550 --> 00:03:27,090 I wanted to be up there, bigger than everyone. 43 00:03:27,090 --> 00:03:29,519 Bigger than life, on top of the world. 44 00:03:29,519 --> 00:03:31,852 (guns fire) 45 00:03:32,877 --> 00:03:35,220 I always liked pretending to be other people. 46 00:03:35,220 --> 00:03:37,230 That's me, Archie Glass. 47 00:03:37,230 --> 00:03:40,450 Just a few months from hoboing my way from Georgia. 48 00:03:40,450 --> 00:03:44,010 It wasn't long before I found myself on Central Av. 49 00:03:44,010 --> 00:03:46,690 The center of Negro life in Los Angeles. 50 00:03:46,690 --> 00:03:49,970 I fell in love with Los Angeles that night. 51 00:03:49,970 --> 00:03:52,257 I started busing tables, then worked my way up to doorman at 52 00:03:52,257 --> 00:03:55,480 the Dun Bar Club, which was the hottest spot in South LA. 53 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:56,920 Every night was like a party. 54 00:03:56,920 --> 00:03:58,560 You never knew who would walk in. 55 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:01,520 Leroy Tucker was a black man from Compton, 56 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:03,560 who had Indian in him from his momma's side. 57 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:05,460 It was enough for him to pass as Mexican, 58 00:04:05,460 --> 00:04:08,260 and get work as an outlaw bandit in westerns. 59 00:04:08,260 --> 00:04:10,930 Big Nadine Lomax worked a lot. 60 00:04:10,930 --> 00:04:13,200 Whenever the studios needed someone to play a maid, 61 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:14,760 they called Nadine. 62 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:16,460 She played maids in so many pictures, 63 00:04:16,460 --> 00:04:19,200 they gave her an Oscar for it. 64 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:20,237 These people? 65 00:04:20,237 --> 00:04:22,780 No one cared about them in Hollywood. 66 00:04:22,780 --> 00:04:26,220 They were overlooked, or they was just a butt of jokes. 67 00:04:26,220 --> 00:04:30,230 But down on Central Av, they were treated like stars. 68 00:04:30,230 --> 00:04:32,380 There was magic in every gesture they made. 69 00:04:33,490 --> 00:04:37,123 Every smile was a window into a new kind of freedom. 70 00:04:38,790 --> 00:04:40,190 And the biggest of them all? 71 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:42,770 Ennis Matthews. 72 00:04:42,770 --> 00:04:45,330 They called him the brown clown, he had a series of 73 00:04:45,330 --> 00:04:48,333 short films where he played America's favorite Negro clown. 74 00:04:49,250 --> 00:04:50,760 Ennis always dressed sharp, 75 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:52,963 and smoked these fancy cigars from Cuba. 76 00:04:54,250 --> 00:04:55,200 I looked up to him. 77 00:04:56,579 --> 00:04:57,963 I wanted to be just like him. 78 00:05:06,050 --> 00:05:07,250 - What's your name, kid? 79 00:05:08,330 --> 00:05:09,950 - [Archie] Archie. 80 00:05:09,950 --> 00:05:11,073 Archie Glass. 81 00:05:12,890 --> 00:05:14,063 - Well, Archie Glass. 82 00:05:16,166 --> 00:05:16,999 You don't look like a man 83 00:05:16,999 --> 00:05:18,620 who wants to be a doorman all his life. 84 00:05:19,756 --> 00:05:21,810 - I wanna be like you. 85 00:05:21,810 --> 00:05:23,083 I wanna be in the pictures. 86 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:27,673 - I got a hot tip for you, if you want it. 87 00:05:29,190 --> 00:05:30,160 - Sure, I mean... 88 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:32,610 Yes. 89 00:05:32,610 --> 00:05:33,840 - Go down to Central Casting. 90 00:05:33,840 --> 00:05:36,810 They got a new Negro office open. 91 00:05:36,810 --> 00:05:38,236 Tell 'em I sent you. 92 00:05:38,236 --> 00:05:40,586 They're lookin' to put colored folks in movies. 93 00:05:41,890 --> 00:05:43,040 - Thank you, thank you. 94 00:05:47,647 --> 00:05:50,480 I just need one break, mister. (moody jazz music) 95 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:53,736 One chance to do something big in this world. 96 00:05:53,736 --> 00:05:56,280 If you give me that chance, I promise you, 97 00:05:56,280 --> 00:05:58,003 I promise you, you won't be sorry. 98 00:05:59,157 --> 00:06:00,450 Wait. 99 00:06:00,450 --> 00:06:01,283 Is that a gun? 100 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:03,810 Why are you pointing a gun at me? 101 00:06:05,460 --> 00:06:06,910 Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang! 102 00:06:09,306 --> 00:06:12,277 (chuckles) Look at me, Ma, I made it! 103 00:06:12,277 --> 00:06:13,694 Top of the world! 104 00:06:14,576 --> 00:06:17,190 - Are you going to keep playing gangster in that mirror? 105 00:06:17,190 --> 00:06:20,403 Or are you gonna come over here and keep me warm? 106 00:06:29,139 --> 00:06:29,972 (chuckles) 107 00:06:29,972 --> 00:06:31,097 - [Archie] The first time I saw Sandra, 108 00:06:31,097 --> 00:06:33,433 was standin' outside the Dun Bar Hotel. 109 00:06:34,270 --> 00:06:36,720 She was like a peacock struttin' down the street. 110 00:06:37,900 --> 00:06:40,643 She sang four nights a week at the Foxtrot Cafe. 111 00:06:42,340 --> 00:06:43,840 I'm not sure what was sweeter. 112 00:06:45,060 --> 00:06:46,480 Her voice on stage... 113 00:06:48,180 --> 00:06:49,230 Or her kisses in bed. 114 00:07:05,820 --> 00:07:07,688 That was real fine, baby. 115 00:07:07,688 --> 00:07:11,440 You sure know how to make a fella feel good. 116 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:13,269 - You're a good sweet talker. 117 00:07:13,269 --> 00:07:14,659 - I'm a good actor. 118 00:07:14,659 --> 00:07:16,980 I mean, I'm a doorman right now, but, 119 00:07:16,980 --> 00:07:18,680 I'm gonna be in the pictures soon. 120 00:07:19,789 --> 00:07:23,078 - I can't believe I hopped in bed with an actor! 121 00:07:23,078 --> 00:07:24,320 (laughs) 122 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:26,233 My mama would whoop me good! 123 00:07:27,510 --> 00:07:29,800 - What's wrong with being an actor? 124 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:31,180 - Nothin'! 125 00:07:31,180 --> 00:07:35,030 If you're Clark Gable or Betty Davis. 126 00:07:35,030 --> 00:07:40,030 Then you could be a pirate or a princess, or even a cowboy. 127 00:07:42,259 --> 00:07:43,823 That come and save the day. 128 00:07:46,140 --> 00:07:48,103 But, if you are black, 129 00:07:51,250 --> 00:07:53,323 the movies is just like real life. 130 00:07:54,768 --> 00:07:57,810 You're just the maid or somebody's go-fetch boy. 131 00:07:57,810 --> 00:08:00,740 - I know there ain't a lot of work for a Negro man, 132 00:08:00,740 --> 00:08:02,753 but that's gonna change and when it does, 133 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:06,110 I wanna be the first. 134 00:08:07,207 --> 00:08:09,940 - You're gonna be waiting a long time for that. 135 00:08:09,940 --> 00:08:11,470 - Not for too long. 136 00:08:11,470 --> 00:08:13,933 I got me an audition at Victory Studio. 137 00:08:15,469 --> 00:08:17,440 They're lookin' for Negro actors. 138 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:20,027 Soon, you're gonna see my name at the Ricaknie. 139 00:08:20,027 --> 00:08:24,427 "Archie Glass, the greatest American actor alive." 140 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:29,343 (both chuckle) 141 00:08:47,715 --> 00:08:50,798 (jaunty piano music) 142 00:09:28,096 --> 00:09:29,330 (knocks) 143 00:09:29,330 --> 00:09:30,163 - Come in. 144 00:09:31,260 --> 00:09:32,093 Sit down. 145 00:09:34,810 --> 00:09:36,380 What's your name? 146 00:09:36,380 --> 00:09:37,700 - Glass, sir. 147 00:09:37,700 --> 00:09:39,143 Archie Glass. 148 00:09:41,150 --> 00:09:43,470 - How'd you hear about this job? 149 00:09:43,470 --> 00:09:46,190 - Fella I met in a bar said y'all was lookin' for black 150 00:09:46,190 --> 00:09:49,640 folks, so I figured I fit the description and came on over. 151 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:51,700 - So, here's the skinny, okay? 152 00:09:51,700 --> 00:09:55,670 The studio wants to start usin' Negro folk instead of 153 00:09:55,670 --> 00:09:59,140 white actors who are dressed up as Negros in makeup. 154 00:09:59,140 --> 00:10:02,760 Now, a lot of good white actors have lost their jobs 155 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:07,760 because of it, but, what the studio wants, the studio gets. 156 00:10:09,380 --> 00:10:11,020 All right? 157 00:10:11,020 --> 00:10:11,970 Turn to your right. 158 00:10:13,300 --> 00:10:14,900 Look up. 159 00:10:14,900 --> 00:10:15,773 The other side. 160 00:10:19,917 --> 00:10:24,260 Oh, okay, you look black enough to me to be a real Negro. 161 00:10:24,260 --> 00:10:26,570 - I'm a man, sir, and an actor. 162 00:10:26,570 --> 00:10:28,150 - Not a hothead, are you? - No, sir. 163 00:10:28,150 --> 00:10:29,703 - I don't need any hotheads. 164 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:32,673 No? Okay. 165 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:37,173 Okay, you ever been in front of the camera before? 166 00:10:39,085 --> 00:10:41,170 Have you ever acted? 167 00:10:41,170 --> 00:10:43,340 - A little, sir, one or two church plays. 168 00:10:43,340 --> 00:10:47,370 - Well, I've seen eight other guys just like you today. 169 00:10:47,370 --> 00:10:50,280 What makes you different than them? 170 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:51,370 - When I was a little young pup, 171 00:10:51,370 --> 00:10:55,130 I got myself in some trouble, wind up in jail. 172 00:10:55,130 --> 00:10:58,890 I was in there with grown men and I wanted to cry every day. 173 00:10:58,890 --> 00:11:01,363 I was afraid, but I couldn't let them see that. 174 00:11:02,500 --> 00:11:06,503 So, I guess, sir, I can say I've been actin' my whole life. 175 00:11:07,786 --> 00:11:09,380 - Yeah, well, you're not gonna be doin' any Shakespeare. 176 00:11:09,380 --> 00:11:10,213 All right? 177 00:11:10,213 --> 00:11:11,810 Just a line or two here and there, 178 00:11:11,810 --> 00:11:15,560 keep the story moving around, keep the audience laughin'. 179 00:11:15,560 --> 00:11:16,943 Got it? - Yes, sir. 180 00:11:17,805 --> 00:11:19,180 - You know how to read? 181 00:11:19,180 --> 00:11:20,700 - Yes, sir. 182 00:11:20,700 --> 00:11:21,863 - All right, read this. 183 00:11:26,750 --> 00:11:28,127 When you're ready. 184 00:11:28,127 --> 00:11:30,777 - "All the world is a stage, 185 00:11:30,777 --> 00:11:34,787 "and all the men and women, merely players. 186 00:11:34,787 --> 00:11:37,883 "They have their exits and an entrance. 187 00:11:40,507 --> 00:11:43,877 "And one man plays many parts." 188 00:11:50,380 --> 00:11:52,140 - Not bad for a colored. 189 00:11:52,140 --> 00:11:53,950 I mean, you've gotta hear the guys comin' here. 190 00:11:53,950 --> 00:11:56,300 I don't understand a damn thing they're sayin'. 191 00:11:58,036 --> 00:11:58,869 Okay. 192 00:12:03,410 --> 00:12:06,403 Take this slip down to wardrobe. 193 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:10,403 They're gonna get you fitted for a porter uniform. 194 00:12:11,510 --> 00:12:14,450 And then I want you to come back here, tomorrow. 195 00:12:14,450 --> 00:12:19,230 Stage seven at 6:30 AM. 196 00:12:19,230 --> 00:12:20,230 Got it? - Yes, sir. 197 00:12:24,212 --> 00:12:25,045 Thank you, sir. 198 00:12:25,045 --> 00:12:27,450 You won't regret it. - Oh, I know, go. 199 00:12:27,450 --> 00:12:28,498 Next. 200 00:12:28,498 --> 00:12:31,748 (peaceful piano music) 201 00:12:56,570 --> 00:12:57,403 - Cheers. 202 00:12:58,925 --> 00:13:01,758 (Sandra chuckles) 203 00:13:08,108 --> 00:13:09,850 - [Sandra] Oh, Donny! 204 00:13:09,850 --> 00:13:10,933 How are you? 205 00:13:11,839 --> 00:13:13,250 - I'm better now. 206 00:13:13,250 --> 00:13:15,188 Where have you been keeping yourself? 207 00:13:15,188 --> 00:13:17,260 I haven't seen you at the club in a week. 208 00:13:17,260 --> 00:13:18,620 - Oh, I've been around. 209 00:13:18,620 --> 00:13:20,833 Donny, this is Archie Glass. 210 00:13:22,010 --> 00:13:23,860 - Like I said, where have you been? 211 00:13:23,860 --> 00:13:27,110 I thought we had a good time the last time we went out. 212 00:13:27,110 --> 00:13:28,110 - Who is this clown? 213 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:31,090 - Keep your cool, nigga. 214 00:13:31,090 --> 00:13:33,763 This is a nice place, for nice folks. 215 00:13:35,095 --> 00:13:37,223 (Sandra chuckles) It's always my pleasure. 216 00:13:40,690 --> 00:13:42,940 (chuckles) 217 00:13:48,410 --> 00:13:50,000 - I said, who was that? 218 00:13:51,017 --> 00:13:53,322 - That's Donny Obrex. 219 00:13:53,322 --> 00:13:55,980 He leads the orchestra that I used to sing in. 220 00:13:55,980 --> 00:13:58,750 He's been wantin' me to get back with the band. 221 00:13:58,750 --> 00:14:00,450 - I think he wants more than that. 222 00:14:02,110 --> 00:14:03,310 - We were together once. 223 00:14:07,490 --> 00:14:08,590 Before you came along. 224 00:14:09,670 --> 00:14:12,483 So, tell me, how did you get the part? 225 00:14:14,130 --> 00:14:15,783 What did you do to beat all those other guys 226 00:14:15,783 --> 00:14:17,083 that were better than you? 227 00:14:19,079 --> 00:14:21,180 - I just told that fat cat casting director 228 00:14:21,180 --> 00:14:23,097 what he wanted to hear. 229 00:14:25,130 --> 00:14:26,797 - And what was that? 230 00:14:27,943 --> 00:14:31,570 - A sob story about having to pretend to be other people 231 00:14:31,570 --> 00:14:33,420 in order to survive when I was young. 232 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:35,530 - It wasn't true? 233 00:14:37,179 --> 00:14:38,012 - Sure it was. 234 00:14:39,482 --> 00:14:40,510 (chuckles) 235 00:14:40,510 --> 00:14:42,343 - You're awfully good at play acting. 236 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:45,560 But sometimes, I wonder. 237 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:49,903 Who is the real Archie Glass? 238 00:14:51,540 --> 00:14:52,373 - Hey. 239 00:14:54,005 --> 00:14:55,463 I see somebody at the bar I know. 240 00:14:58,605 --> 00:15:00,688 I'll be right back, baby. 241 00:15:03,940 --> 00:15:05,183 Hey, Ennis! 242 00:15:06,510 --> 00:15:08,253 Hey, I owe you a drink. 243 00:15:09,810 --> 00:15:11,770 That tip you gave me really paid off. 244 00:15:11,770 --> 00:15:12,803 I'm in a movie now. 245 00:15:12,803 --> 00:15:15,010 It's a small part, but it's a start. 246 00:15:15,010 --> 00:15:16,343 And I owe it all to you. 247 00:15:17,330 --> 00:15:18,233 - Congratulations. 248 00:15:20,210 --> 00:15:22,100 What's your name again? 249 00:15:22,100 --> 00:15:23,343 - Archie Glass. 250 00:15:25,540 --> 00:15:26,440 - To Archie Glass! 251 00:15:28,140 --> 00:15:31,787 The greatest actor, on Central Avenue. 252 00:15:40,570 --> 00:15:43,432 - Come on, Ennis, we gotta go do that thing. 253 00:15:43,432 --> 00:15:45,932 Man, get your stuff, let's go. 254 00:15:47,370 --> 00:15:50,953 (upbeat jazz guitar music) 255 00:16:13,437 --> 00:16:16,354 (jazz piano music) 256 00:16:38,903 --> 00:16:42,640 - All right, camera rolling? - Cameras are rolling! 257 00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:43,563 - Sound speeding? 258 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:46,553 Actor ready? 259 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:54,757 Okay, now listen, all you need to say is, uh, 260 00:16:54,757 --> 00:16:57,700 "I don't know, boss, I thinks this place is haunted!" 261 00:16:57,700 --> 00:16:58,533 Okay? 262 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:01,203 And action! 263 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:05,023 - I don't know, boss, I think this place is haunted. 264 00:17:06,020 --> 00:17:07,040 - Cut. 265 00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:08,630 All right, I think that was swell. 266 00:17:08,630 --> 00:17:10,550 Okay, let's try another one. 267 00:17:10,550 --> 00:17:12,387 This time, I want you to say, um, 268 00:17:12,387 --> 00:17:16,840 "I thinks this place is haunted and I'm afraid of ghosts!" 269 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:18,300 Action! 270 00:17:18,300 --> 00:17:21,343 - I thinks this place is haunted and I'm afraid of ghosts. 271 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:25,880 - All right, all right, that was great. 272 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:27,233 Now, try this one on. 273 00:17:28,147 --> 00:17:29,867 "I is afraid of ghosts. 274 00:17:29,867 --> 00:17:33,744 "I think I might get so scared, I may just turn white!" 275 00:17:33,744 --> 00:17:36,350 (chuckles) Give it all you got, all right? 276 00:17:36,350 --> 00:17:37,963 And action! 277 00:17:39,050 --> 00:17:40,480 - I is afraid of ghosts. 278 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:44,023 I get so scared, I think I may just turn as white. 279 00:17:45,395 --> 00:17:47,930 - (chuckles) And cut. 280 00:17:47,930 --> 00:17:49,820 Good, good, good, all right, all right. 281 00:17:49,820 --> 00:17:51,930 They definitely brought us the right boy for the job. 282 00:17:51,930 --> 00:17:53,240 You know, this is the first time not using 283 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:55,520 a white man with blackface. 284 00:17:55,520 --> 00:17:57,370 Think I like using a real Negro. 285 00:17:57,370 --> 00:17:58,540 All right, great. 286 00:17:58,540 --> 00:17:59,703 Next scene, okay. 287 00:18:05,875 --> 00:18:08,875 (jazzy piano music) 288 00:18:14,980 --> 00:18:15,813 - Hungry? 289 00:18:19,830 --> 00:18:22,080 (chuckles) 290 00:18:23,952 --> 00:18:25,290 That's all right. 291 00:18:25,290 --> 00:18:27,350 Tell me your favorite song. (chuckles) 292 00:18:27,350 --> 00:18:28,823 - What do you think you're doin' there, boy? 293 00:18:29,910 --> 00:18:32,221 - Get away from that gal. - I ain't done nothin', sir. 294 00:18:32,221 --> 00:18:34,230 Just me and the girl, we're just right here sharing a laugh. 295 00:18:34,230 --> 00:18:35,063 - I saw you-- 296 00:18:35,063 --> 00:18:37,060 - [Archie] I was just sharing a piece of fruit. 297 00:18:37,060 --> 00:18:39,960 - You callin' me a liar, boy? (lively percussion) 298 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:41,710 - [Archie] Punching a white man would get you hung 299 00:18:41,710 --> 00:18:44,540 in the South, and though I was far from home, 300 00:18:44,540 --> 00:18:46,660 if you stepped outta line in Hollywood, 301 00:18:46,660 --> 00:18:49,013 there would be somebody to put you back in place. 302 00:18:54,008 --> 00:18:56,091 (groans) 303 00:18:57,530 --> 00:18:59,180 Like Mr. McCoy. 304 00:18:59,180 --> 00:19:01,440 The singer who liked dark rum and white gals, 305 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:04,108 until he was found in bed with a producer's wife. 306 00:19:04,108 --> 00:19:04,941 (gun fires) 307 00:19:04,941 --> 00:19:06,270 Three days later, he was washed up 308 00:19:06,270 --> 00:19:07,820 on a beach with his throat cut. 309 00:19:10,110 --> 00:19:12,110 Then you had Lenore Carole, 310 00:19:12,110 --> 00:19:14,190 who was about to marry leading man Danny Faroe 311 00:19:14,190 --> 00:19:16,590 until he discovered his bride-to-be was half-black 312 00:19:16,590 --> 00:19:19,983 and crushed her skull with a golf club in their living room. 313 00:19:21,471 --> 00:19:23,421 The judge let him go on a technicality. 314 00:19:24,580 --> 00:19:27,530 But I was lucky, all they did was give me a beatin' 315 00:19:27,530 --> 00:19:28,780 and throw me off the lot. 316 00:19:29,750 --> 00:19:33,193 I had been blacklisted. (moody jazz music) 317 00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:54,580 - Mister, you got a light? 318 00:19:59,590 --> 00:20:00,423 - No. 319 00:20:01,627 --> 00:20:04,933 - Well, gee, it look like somebody done stole your lunch. 320 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:10,207 - Something like that. 321 00:20:11,506 --> 00:20:12,673 - How about... 322 00:20:13,630 --> 00:20:15,123 You buy Sugar a drink? 323 00:20:16,396 --> 00:20:19,563 And I'll help you forget all about it. 324 00:20:25,601 --> 00:20:28,268 (rooster crows) 325 00:20:29,231 --> 00:20:31,898 (rooster crows) 326 00:20:47,327 --> 00:20:49,994 (Archie groans) 327 00:21:03,710 --> 00:21:06,253 - This road you're going down is not an easy one. 328 00:21:07,300 --> 00:21:11,250 You have to show the world that you are a man, 329 00:21:11,250 --> 00:21:16,210 and that you have the humanity that can mirror all men. 330 00:21:16,210 --> 00:21:20,133 That is your job as an actor. 331 00:21:25,810 --> 00:21:27,003 You desire. 332 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:30,253 You sacrifice. 333 00:21:32,220 --> 00:21:33,353 You love. 334 00:21:34,750 --> 00:21:35,653 You hate. 335 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:38,283 You hurt. 336 00:21:39,730 --> 00:21:40,823 You bleed. 337 00:21:42,210 --> 00:21:43,313 You live. 338 00:21:45,250 --> 00:21:46,403 You die. 339 00:21:50,110 --> 00:21:54,643 Mr. Glass, would you like to share with the class today? 340 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:07,853 - We're all just here wasting our time, and you know it. 341 00:22:09,610 --> 00:22:11,863 They don't care about who we are. 342 00:22:14,340 --> 00:22:16,090 - [Teacher] Mr. Glass, don't leave. 343 00:22:19,804 --> 00:22:22,721 (moody jazz music) 344 00:22:44,104 --> 00:22:47,187 (upbeat piano music) 345 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:22,700 - [Radio Host] I hope you are enjoying another cool 346 00:23:22,700 --> 00:23:24,790 and sunny day in California. 347 00:23:24,790 --> 00:23:26,810 The US Army wants you to be vigilant. 348 00:23:26,810 --> 00:23:29,070 Japan has spies everywhere. 349 00:23:29,070 --> 00:23:32,630 Remember, if you see something, say something. 350 00:23:32,630 --> 00:23:35,360 In other news, don't count on seeing Hollywood starlet 351 00:23:35,360 --> 00:23:38,250 Mona Lane on the streets of Tinsel Town anytime soon. 352 00:23:38,250 --> 00:23:41,150 Victory Studios says she has eloped to Mexico. 353 00:23:41,150 --> 00:23:43,200 No word if it's with Bo Jimmy Stance, 354 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:44,823 who is she is often seen with. 355 00:23:45,700 --> 00:23:48,250 Support the war effort and buy bonds. 356 00:23:48,250 --> 00:23:49,943 - These streets are hard for a man. 357 00:23:51,310 --> 00:23:53,863 I thought you was gonna be a big movie star one day. 358 00:23:56,531 --> 00:23:57,698 What happened? 359 00:23:59,010 --> 00:24:00,833 Got tired of playin' the butler? 360 00:24:03,020 --> 00:24:04,370 I'll tell you what, though. 361 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:08,163 Everything you hear ain't true. 362 00:24:09,700 --> 00:24:12,423 They talkin' 'bout that girl Mona goin' to Mexico. 363 00:24:14,530 --> 00:24:16,830 She ain't in no Mexico, she got into trouble, 364 00:24:16,830 --> 00:24:20,863 messin' with them bad boys down on Central. 365 00:24:22,982 --> 00:24:25,090 If she kidnapped, I'll eat my shoe. 366 00:24:25,090 --> 00:24:27,320 - Whoa, whoa, wait, wait, wait, go back, go back. 367 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:28,920 What did you just say? 368 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:30,813 - I'll eat me shoe. - No. 369 00:24:32,310 --> 00:24:33,210 About the actress. 370 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:38,203 - That girl ain't in no Mexico. 371 00:24:39,360 --> 00:24:42,433 She got in a fix with some fellas I used to know. 372 00:24:44,523 --> 00:24:48,440 (suspenseful percussive music) 373 00:25:05,551 --> 00:25:07,968 (man coughs) 374 00:25:13,793 --> 00:25:16,210 (man coughs) 375 00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:23,400 - What's your name? 376 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:24,423 - Archie Glass. 377 00:25:25,590 --> 00:25:27,450 - [Man] You know who I am? 378 00:25:27,450 --> 00:25:30,530 - You're Jack Wingate, head of Victory Studios. 379 00:25:30,530 --> 00:25:31,793 I got something you want. 380 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:35,370 Something you're looking for. 381 00:25:37,090 --> 00:25:39,590 - I told you he's some sort of nut-job. 382 00:25:39,590 --> 00:25:40,630 Let me bust him up some more, 383 00:25:40,630 --> 00:25:42,600 and I'll go throw him down a hole in the desert. 384 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:45,213 - Do that, you'll never find Mona Lane. 385 00:25:46,070 --> 00:25:48,840 - And what do you know about Mona Lane? 386 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:51,693 - [Archie] I know she's not down in Mexico getting married. 387 00:25:53,832 --> 00:25:56,010 (Jack chuckles) 388 00:25:56,010 --> 00:25:57,310 - The town talks. 389 00:25:57,310 --> 00:25:58,460 - It's not just gossip. 390 00:26:00,973 --> 00:26:03,923 And you're hiding it from the press, but once word get out, 391 00:26:04,870 --> 00:26:06,020 everybody's gonna know. 392 00:26:07,821 --> 00:26:09,203 - And what is it that you want? 393 00:26:10,810 --> 00:26:11,673 - I'm an actor. 394 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:15,190 Or at least I was, until I got blacklisted. 395 00:26:16,830 --> 00:26:18,830 I need you to take me off the blacklist, 396 00:26:20,380 --> 00:26:22,130 so I can work again, or better yet, 397 00:26:23,530 --> 00:26:25,080 put me in one of your pictures. 398 00:26:26,130 --> 00:26:27,890 - Why would I wanna do that? 399 00:26:27,890 --> 00:26:29,440 - I can find Mona Lane for you. 400 00:26:32,260 --> 00:26:33,093 - Why the hell would I need you, 401 00:26:33,093 --> 00:26:34,833 when I have my own security staff? 402 00:26:36,090 --> 00:26:38,457 - Where you need to go, these big ugly white men 403 00:26:38,457 --> 00:26:40,463 are gonna stick out like a sore thumb. 404 00:26:41,670 --> 00:26:44,460 - [Jack] And where is it that I need to go? 405 00:26:44,460 --> 00:26:46,660 - Down in South Los Angeles. 406 00:26:46,660 --> 00:26:48,760 A place I'm pretty sure you've never been. 407 00:26:51,203 --> 00:26:52,700 - Can you read? 408 00:26:52,700 --> 00:26:54,293 - [Archie] Yes, sir, I can read. 409 00:26:56,490 --> 00:26:58,983 - [Jack] This was left on my doorstep last evening. 410 00:27:02,347 --> 00:27:03,500 - "If you are reading this, 411 00:27:03,500 --> 00:27:06,467 "then you already know that Mona Lane is missing. 412 00:27:06,467 --> 00:27:08,803 "We will kill her if we don't $10,000 413 00:27:08,803 --> 00:27:11,047 "by the day after tomorrow. 414 00:27:11,047 --> 00:27:13,917 "Leave the money in a brown paper bag at the bus stop 415 00:27:13,917 --> 00:27:17,507 "at Central and Jefferson, do not delay in payment, 416 00:27:17,507 --> 00:27:21,961 "if you want to see her alive again." 417 00:27:21,961 --> 00:27:23,060 (Jack coughs) 418 00:27:23,060 --> 00:27:27,180 - It seems that Miss Lane got herself 419 00:27:27,180 --> 00:27:29,513 into trouble frequenting jazz clubs. 420 00:27:30,390 --> 00:27:35,293 And Miss Lane likes a certain kind of company. 421 00:27:36,491 --> 00:27:39,010 (coughs) 422 00:27:39,010 --> 00:27:40,560 - I don't follow. 423 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:42,003 - She likes Negro men. 424 00:27:43,870 --> 00:27:48,270 Now, the studio has invested a lot of resources and money, 425 00:27:48,270 --> 00:27:50,023 into the image of Mona Lane. 426 00:27:51,220 --> 00:27:53,323 She's one of our up and rising stars. 427 00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:58,160 I can't risk her image to be tarnished 428 00:27:59,120 --> 00:28:01,463 by people thinking that she's a nigger lover. 429 00:28:03,810 --> 00:28:05,463 Do you follow me now, Mr. Glass? 430 00:28:06,329 --> 00:28:07,190 (coughs) 431 00:28:07,190 --> 00:28:08,840 - Yeah. 432 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:09,673 I guess I do. 433 00:28:12,001 --> 00:28:13,451 - If you can do what you say, 434 00:28:15,180 --> 00:28:16,013 I'll reward you. 435 00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:18,990 I'll take you off that blacklist, 436 00:28:18,990 --> 00:28:20,543 and I'll put you in one of my films. 437 00:28:23,718 --> 00:28:25,890 Now, you call when you find her, 438 00:28:25,890 --> 00:28:28,040 and O'Neal here will go and fetch her, 439 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:30,670 before some rogue reporter with an itch 440 00:28:30,670 --> 00:28:32,993 to make a name for himself can write about it. 441 00:28:34,900 --> 00:28:37,820 - Can I trust your word? (Jack chuckles) 442 00:28:37,820 --> 00:28:39,773 - That's a funny thing to ask a man. 443 00:28:42,100 --> 00:28:43,543 Yes, you can trust me. 444 00:28:48,009 --> 00:28:49,159 - Then you have a deal. 445 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:51,543 Just one thing. 446 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:53,573 - [Jack] Yeah, what's that? 447 00:28:54,790 --> 00:28:57,300 - Why don't you just pay the kidnappers? 448 00:28:57,300 --> 00:28:58,357 I'm pretty sure you can afford it, 449 00:28:58,357 --> 00:28:59,913 and you got plenty to spare. 450 00:29:02,790 --> 00:29:04,227 - Let me tell you something. 451 00:29:05,650 --> 00:29:08,930 I am not about to let some hoodling gang of Negros 452 00:29:08,930 --> 00:29:10,863 think that they can boss me around. 453 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,123 They won't get a wooden nickel out of me. 454 00:29:14,999 --> 00:29:16,599 Do you follow me now, Mr. Glass? 455 00:29:18,230 --> 00:29:19,063 - Yeah. 456 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:20,753 I guess I do. 457 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:29,153 - Glass. 458 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:34,680 You find the girl, I'll deal with the coked-up coons. 459 00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:38,000 - If you're so bad, why don't you just find her yourself? 460 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,090 - Just because the boss made you a promise, doesn't mean 461 00:29:40,090 --> 00:29:42,640 I won't knock out some of your teeth along the way. 462 00:29:43,931 --> 00:29:45,193 I'll be waiting for your call. 463 00:29:52,274 --> 00:29:54,369 (moody jazz music) 464 00:29:54,369 --> 00:29:56,849 ♪ Crazy ♪ 465 00:29:56,849 --> 00:30:00,011 ♪ I am ♪ 466 00:30:00,011 --> 00:30:05,011 ♪ For you ♪ 467 00:30:05,173 --> 00:30:10,172 ♪ You make me feel good ♪ 468 00:30:10,172 --> 00:30:15,172 ♪ Yet I am still blue ♪ 469 00:30:15,543 --> 00:30:18,392 ♪ I want ♪ 470 00:30:18,392 --> 00:30:21,741 ♪ More ♪ 471 00:30:21,741 --> 00:30:24,853 ♪ From ♪ 472 00:30:24,853 --> 00:30:26,686 ♪ You ♪ 473 00:30:30,939 --> 00:30:33,522 (Archie claps) 474 00:30:39,450 --> 00:30:40,970 Sam? 475 00:30:40,970 --> 00:30:41,803 Give me 10. 476 00:30:48,300 --> 00:30:49,300 Where have you been? 477 00:30:51,566 --> 00:30:53,140 You think you can just disappear on me 478 00:30:53,140 --> 00:30:54,833 and come back whenever you want? 479 00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:58,930 - I just been trying to figure some things out, that's it. 480 00:30:58,930 --> 00:31:00,680 - Oh, well why don't you go talk 481 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:03,040 to your girlfriend about your problems? 482 00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:04,463 - I don't have a girlfriend. 483 00:31:07,625 --> 00:31:09,960 I mean, you're the only one I wanna be with. 484 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:12,640 I think you're my girlfriend, I mean-- 485 00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,220 - You sound confused. 486 00:31:15,220 --> 00:31:16,563 Go get yourself a drink. 487 00:31:17,690 --> 00:31:19,410 - It just ain't fair what they did to me. 488 00:31:19,410 --> 00:31:22,410 - This world ain't fair. 489 00:31:22,410 --> 00:31:24,320 And you'd better get used to it. 490 00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:26,370 There ain't nothin' fair about this town. 491 00:31:29,161 --> 00:31:30,561 - I need to borrow your car. 492 00:31:31,670 --> 00:31:32,763 - My car? 493 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:35,233 For what? 494 00:31:36,300 --> 00:31:39,100 - I got a chance, a second chance, really. 495 00:31:39,100 --> 00:31:40,513 A shot at the big time. 496 00:31:41,890 --> 00:31:44,650 - [Sandra] What are you talkin' about, Archie? 497 00:31:44,650 --> 00:31:46,082 - I can't tell you everything right now, 498 00:31:46,082 --> 00:31:48,082 but I need to find this white gal. 499 00:31:48,082 --> 00:31:50,290 - (chuckles) A white girl? 500 00:31:50,290 --> 00:31:52,960 - When I was in lockup, there was this old black Joe, 501 00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:55,547 and I reckon he was some kind of actor or somethin'. 502 00:31:56,800 --> 00:32:01,423 'Cause at nighttime, he would recite these plays, 503 00:32:03,461 --> 00:32:06,527 and I would close my eyes and imagine all the people 504 00:32:06,527 --> 00:32:09,833 and the places this old buster used to talk about. 505 00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:15,463 So, when time come again and I'm free, 506 00:32:17,340 --> 00:32:19,740 I say I'm going to Hollywood to become an actor. 507 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:25,673 That's my dream. 508 00:32:27,140 --> 00:32:29,650 And if findin' this white gal for some old cracker's 509 00:32:29,650 --> 00:32:32,070 gonna get me closer to that dream, then damn it all. 510 00:32:32,070 --> 00:32:33,300 Damn it all. 511 00:32:33,300 --> 00:32:34,900 Who knows? 512 00:32:34,900 --> 00:32:36,000 I could become a star. 513 00:32:37,061 --> 00:32:39,380 (Sandra chuckles) 514 00:32:39,380 --> 00:32:40,213 - A star? 515 00:32:41,301 --> 00:32:43,580 (chuckles) Now I know you're dreamin'. 516 00:32:45,100 --> 00:32:47,700 - I'm just asking you just to trust me a little bit. 517 00:32:49,170 --> 00:32:52,560 - (chuckles) You are not the only one 518 00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:54,210 with their back against the wall. 519 00:32:55,950 --> 00:32:58,503 We all have hard choices that we have to make. 520 00:33:04,112 --> 00:33:06,112 (sighs) 521 00:33:13,350 --> 00:33:15,320 - I have to go. 522 00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:16,710 - [Sandra] I know. 523 00:33:16,710 --> 00:33:17,913 You're chasing a girl, 524 00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:20,990 when you have one standing in front of you. 525 00:33:34,809 --> 00:33:37,892 (upbeat piano music) 526 00:33:43,950 --> 00:33:46,070 - [Archie] Nadine was a gossip hound. 527 00:33:46,070 --> 00:33:49,270 She knew who was sleepin' with who, when and where. 528 00:33:49,270 --> 00:33:52,060 People liked tellin' her secrets, I was hopin' that 529 00:33:52,060 --> 00:33:54,860 someone had whispered in her ear about Mona. 530 00:33:54,860 --> 00:33:57,950 - How'd you get in here? - The gate was unlocked. 531 00:33:57,950 --> 00:33:59,890 I rang the bell, but no one answered. 532 00:33:59,890 --> 00:34:00,840 - Who are you? 533 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:03,240 - I'm Fattius Quickstep, I'm with the Hollywood Negro Press, 534 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:04,800 and I have some questions I wanna ask you 535 00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:06,250 about an article I'm writing. 536 00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:09,903 - An article! (chuckles) 537 00:34:12,620 --> 00:34:13,720 Why didn't you say so? 538 00:34:29,030 --> 00:34:31,490 You sayin' something about doing a story on me? 539 00:34:31,490 --> 00:34:32,870 - [Archie] A feature. 540 00:34:32,870 --> 00:34:34,330 - A feature! 541 00:34:34,330 --> 00:34:37,750 - Yes, we have some questions your fans would like to know. 542 00:34:37,750 --> 00:34:38,583 - Go on. 543 00:34:39,830 --> 00:34:41,780 - What's your favorite color? - Pink. 544 00:34:41,780 --> 00:34:45,943 But that's too racy, so let's just say yellow. 545 00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:49,860 - What's your favorite flower? 546 00:34:49,860 --> 00:34:51,910 - Roses, of course. 547 00:34:51,910 --> 00:34:53,430 Martini? - No, thank you. 548 00:34:53,430 --> 00:34:55,070 I never drink on the job. 549 00:34:55,070 --> 00:34:55,923 - Shame. 550 00:34:57,090 --> 00:34:59,273 - [Archie] Who is your favorite actor to work with? 551 00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:03,950 - I don't wanna get in any trouble, so, 552 00:35:03,950 --> 00:35:05,407 let's just say all of 'em. 553 00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:07,113 - That's fine. 554 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:10,600 So, tell us, what do you like to do 555 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,240 on your typical Friday night? 556 00:35:13,240 --> 00:35:16,450 - Well, me and my girls like to go out. 557 00:35:16,450 --> 00:35:17,800 - Hm. 558 00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:19,208 Where? 559 00:35:19,208 --> 00:35:20,660 - Over on Central Avenue. 560 00:35:20,660 --> 00:35:22,670 Dun Bar Hotel. 561 00:35:22,670 --> 00:35:24,183 That place really swings. 562 00:35:27,269 --> 00:35:30,720 - You've been seen with your gal pal, Mona Lane. 563 00:35:30,720 --> 00:35:33,140 Tell us about you guys' friendship. 564 00:35:33,140 --> 00:35:34,960 - I met Mona on a night out. 565 00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:38,763 She likes jazz and so do I, so we hit it off fine. 566 00:35:42,230 --> 00:35:45,700 - Mona Lane has not been seen out on the town lately. 567 00:35:45,700 --> 00:35:47,450 Do you happen to know where she is? 568 00:35:48,380 --> 00:35:51,280 - Say, I thought this story was supposed to be about me. 569 00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:53,040 - It is, Miss Lomax. 570 00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:55,830 We just have to answer questions for our readers. 571 00:35:55,830 --> 00:35:57,420 - You're no reporter. 572 00:35:57,420 --> 00:36:00,120 Hey, didn't you used to work the door down at Dun Bar? 573 00:36:03,460 --> 00:36:04,293 - Okay. 574 00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:07,353 I'm gonna shoot it to you straight. 575 00:36:08,850 --> 00:36:11,780 Mona Lane's gone missing, I've been hired to find her. 576 00:36:11,780 --> 00:36:13,400 - [Nadine] Missing? 577 00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:15,073 - We believe she's been kidnapped. 578 00:36:15,940 --> 00:36:17,843 - Who's "we?" - The studio. 579 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:22,233 - The studio hired a nigga to find a white girl? 580 00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:26,330 - They think she's been kidnapped by a trumpet player 581 00:36:26,330 --> 00:36:27,993 that plays down on Central Av. 582 00:36:29,689 --> 00:36:31,383 I thought you might know something about it. 583 00:36:32,620 --> 00:36:33,763 - You're kinda cute. 584 00:36:35,490 --> 00:36:37,693 I'll tell you what you wanna know for a kiss. 585 00:36:45,583 --> 00:36:47,583 (moans) 586 00:36:52,865 --> 00:36:55,670 (clears throat) 587 00:36:55,670 --> 00:36:56,503 - So... 588 00:36:58,820 --> 00:37:01,423 This trumpet player, what's his name? 589 00:37:03,620 --> 00:37:05,270 - Tweet Jackson. 590 00:37:05,270 --> 00:37:06,333 That's his name. 591 00:37:06,333 --> 00:37:08,630 He's from somewhere back east, but, 592 00:37:08,630 --> 00:37:10,230 who the hell isn't in this town? 593 00:37:11,530 --> 00:37:13,230 - That's all you know about him? 594 00:37:13,230 --> 00:37:14,180 Where does he live? 595 00:37:15,796 --> 00:37:17,230 (Nadine chuckles) 596 00:37:17,230 --> 00:37:19,653 - You wanna know more, Mr. Fattius Quickstep, 597 00:37:21,310 --> 00:37:23,393 you're gonna have to meet me in my bedroom. 598 00:37:28,256 --> 00:37:31,256 (jazzy piano music) 599 00:37:51,290 --> 00:37:53,693 All I know is that he play that horn so well, 600 00:37:54,540 --> 00:37:56,340 it's like he put a spell on a woman. 601 00:37:57,190 --> 00:37:59,090 He run with a rough crowd, though, so, 602 00:38:00,150 --> 00:38:04,700 he plays an angel, but he's still a nigga from the street. 603 00:38:04,700 --> 00:38:06,037 - [Archie] Is that all you got? 604 00:38:23,252 --> 00:38:24,252 - For you... 605 00:38:25,780 --> 00:38:27,050 I got a lot more. 606 00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:44,533 Come on, mister. 607 00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:49,083 Everybody want me to make them laugh, 608 00:38:50,290 --> 00:38:53,120 and make them forget about they troubles, 609 00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:56,163 forget about they pain in life, but what about me? 610 00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:00,163 I need somethin', too. 611 00:39:04,113 --> 00:39:05,800 I need to feel good, too. 612 00:39:18,291 --> 00:39:21,120 (doorbell rings) 613 00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:22,570 - [Man] Mona! 614 00:39:22,570 --> 00:39:24,101 - Who is that? 615 00:39:24,101 --> 00:39:24,934 - [Man] Mona! 616 00:39:24,934 --> 00:39:28,230 - Sounds like Jimmy Stance. (doorbell rings) 617 00:39:28,230 --> 00:39:31,070 He got a crush on Mona somethin' bad. 618 00:39:31,070 --> 00:39:34,810 The studio set 'em up on a date, just for publicity. 619 00:39:34,810 --> 00:39:37,620 Ever since then, he thinks Mona's really his girl. 620 00:39:37,620 --> 00:39:39,120 - Why the hell he come here? 621 00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:41,275 - He been lookin' all over town for her. 622 00:39:41,275 --> 00:39:42,421 - [Jimmy] Hey, Mona? 623 00:39:42,421 --> 00:39:43,640 - I guess he finally made it here. 624 00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:45,553 The boy's in love, I guess. 625 00:39:46,430 --> 00:39:47,580 - He must have really fallen for her. 626 00:39:47,580 --> 00:39:48,413 - [Jimmy] Mona? 627 00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:52,670 - I don't have the heart to tell him that it's not real. 628 00:39:52,670 --> 00:39:53,503 - Well you better tell him somethin', 629 00:39:53,503 --> 00:39:55,630 before he knock your gate down. 630 00:39:55,630 --> 00:39:58,646 - Mona, are you in here? - Please do somethin'. 631 00:39:58,646 --> 00:39:59,850 (suspenseful percussive music) 632 00:39:59,850 --> 00:40:00,683 - Mona. 633 00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:03,713 Mona. 634 00:40:05,456 --> 00:40:07,343 Hey, where is she, where's my Mona? 635 00:40:08,570 --> 00:40:09,880 I know you know where she is. 636 00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:11,453 - She ain't here. 637 00:40:14,835 --> 00:40:18,070 - I don't believe you, and you know what, boy? 638 00:40:18,070 --> 00:40:20,163 I'm not gonna leave until I find her. 639 00:40:21,300 --> 00:40:22,133 - Suit yourself. 640 00:40:24,566 --> 00:40:27,066 (Jimmy yelps) 641 00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:36,210 I left Nadine's house no better off than when I came in. 642 00:40:36,210 --> 00:40:39,760 Strike one, I had aimed high and missed. 643 00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:41,900 Now it was time to aim low. 644 00:40:41,900 --> 00:40:43,390 Blackie Philips was an old actor 645 00:40:43,390 --> 00:40:45,300 who came up through Vaudeville. 646 00:40:45,300 --> 00:40:47,980 He played every type of song and dance you could think of. 647 00:40:47,980 --> 00:40:50,420 In his day, he had starred in over a dozen movies. 648 00:40:50,420 --> 00:40:53,540 But when his knees went bad and he couldn't dance no more, 649 00:40:53,540 --> 00:40:55,620 his Hollywood career was over. 650 00:40:55,620 --> 00:40:57,700 Now in his old age, he kept a quiet card game 651 00:40:57,700 --> 00:40:59,900 in the back of his house behind the kitchen. 652 00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:02,966 - The only way I know to make some real money in this world 653 00:41:02,966 --> 00:41:05,930 is workin' on them trains, being a porter. 654 00:41:05,930 --> 00:41:06,830 That's good money. 655 00:41:09,110 --> 00:41:11,950 - I'd rather be a porter in pictures than to be one. 656 00:41:11,950 --> 00:41:14,900 Them white boys want a man to bend over too much. 657 00:41:14,900 --> 00:41:16,840 - Hell, I've been in 15 pictures. 658 00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:20,140 Been a busboy, a shoeshine boy, a train porter. 659 00:41:20,140 --> 00:41:22,237 Don't matter the part, I always say the same thing. 660 00:41:22,237 --> 00:41:23,567 "Yes, sir, boss. 661 00:41:23,567 --> 00:41:25,137 "You sure is right, boss. 662 00:41:25,137 --> 00:41:27,745 "I don't know, whatever you say, boss." 663 00:41:27,745 --> 00:41:29,600 - Cut the shit and give me a card. 664 00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:31,493 - I've been in all three Tarzan movies, 665 00:41:31,493 --> 00:41:33,840 and all I ever say is, "ooga booga booga." 666 00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:35,760 But me, I don't care. 667 00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:37,693 Damn monkey get more lines than I do. 668 00:41:37,693 --> 00:41:39,540 As long as they pay me at the end of the day. 669 00:41:39,540 --> 00:41:40,980 - Just make sure they don't pay you in bananas. 670 00:41:40,980 --> 00:41:43,130 'Cause you know, if they could, they would. 671 00:41:45,230 --> 00:41:49,010 - Damn, must be exciting being in the pictures. 672 00:41:49,010 --> 00:41:51,740 You fellas get to be right there with the movie stars. 673 00:41:51,740 --> 00:41:55,640 Tell me, what is it like workin' with James Cagney? 674 00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:56,730 - Cagney? 675 00:41:56,730 --> 00:41:57,900 Yeah, he's all right. 676 00:41:57,900 --> 00:41:59,200 Sold him some reefer once. 677 00:42:00,740 --> 00:42:02,850 - Where'd you say you was from again? 678 00:42:02,850 --> 00:42:05,800 - Just got off the bus from Walla Walla, Washington. 679 00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:07,870 Thought I'd see the ocean before I die. 680 00:42:07,870 --> 00:42:10,500 - How'd you hear about our card game here? 681 00:42:10,500 --> 00:42:13,270 Somebody in Walla Walla must have a big mouth. 682 00:42:13,270 --> 00:42:17,180 - No, fella I met named Tweet, forgot his last name. 683 00:42:17,180 --> 00:42:20,550 Oh, Jackson, that's it, Tweet Jackson. 684 00:42:20,550 --> 00:42:22,470 Man say he play the horn. 685 00:42:22,470 --> 00:42:24,530 Told me about this here card game. 686 00:42:24,530 --> 00:42:26,270 Thought I'd try my luck. 687 00:42:26,270 --> 00:42:29,473 - Yeah, well, your luck ain't so good today. 688 00:42:31,276 --> 00:42:33,526 (chuckles) 689 00:42:37,284 --> 00:42:39,540 - How about this horn player, Tweet Jackson? 690 00:42:39,540 --> 00:42:41,240 You fellas know where to find him? 691 00:42:42,540 --> 00:42:44,940 - You ask questions make people nervous. 692 00:42:44,940 --> 00:42:47,200 You sound like the police. 693 00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:50,480 - Just that he owe me money from a pool game, that's all. 694 00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:51,313 - That right? 695 00:42:52,430 --> 00:42:55,420 - I beat him three games out of five, last Tuesday. 696 00:42:55,420 --> 00:42:57,140 He owe me £23. 697 00:42:57,140 --> 00:42:57,973 - That's a lie. 698 00:42:57,973 --> 00:43:01,190 Tweet Jackson wouldn't be there last Tuesday, all day. 699 00:43:01,190 --> 00:43:03,600 - Then it must Wednesday I'm thinkin' of, yeah. (chuckles) 700 00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:04,763 - Try again, mister. 701 00:43:05,615 --> 00:43:07,490 - Aw, hell, I don't know what day it was. 702 00:43:07,490 --> 00:43:09,620 I just know the nigga owe me money. 703 00:43:09,620 --> 00:43:12,630 - Cut the bullshit, motherfucker, who the fuck are you? 704 00:43:12,630 --> 00:43:13,800 And don't tell me no tales, 705 00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:16,724 'cause you might just get your face blown off. 706 00:43:16,724 --> 00:43:18,113 - So you don't blow me face off. 707 00:43:19,610 --> 00:43:20,610 - Let him go, Slick. 708 00:43:22,500 --> 00:43:24,287 I ain't never had no man killed here before, 709 00:43:24,287 --> 00:43:25,913 and I ain't gonna start now. 710 00:43:26,980 --> 00:43:29,113 I keep a nice quiet card game. 711 00:43:30,250 --> 00:43:32,900 The last man who got shot in my place was shot by me. 712 00:43:34,890 --> 00:43:37,823 So, mister, you got some place to be, 713 00:43:38,660 --> 00:43:40,410 I'd be gettin' there, if I was you. 714 00:43:42,300 --> 00:43:43,133 - I'll leave. 715 00:43:45,770 --> 00:43:47,370 I just need a question answered. 716 00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:51,080 Have you seen Tweet Jackson? 717 00:43:52,610 --> 00:43:54,163 - You want somethin' from me? 718 00:43:55,010 --> 00:43:57,520 This world turns off everybody gettin' a piece. 719 00:43:57,520 --> 00:43:58,370 I gotta eat, too. 720 00:44:11,783 --> 00:44:14,903 The last time I seen Tweet, he was talkin' about 721 00:44:14,903 --> 00:44:18,180 makin' some money, said he had to go meet some white broad. 722 00:44:18,180 --> 00:44:19,313 He was acting crazy. 723 00:44:20,190 --> 00:44:22,293 - This white broad, you ever see her? 724 00:44:23,700 --> 00:44:25,730 - Yeah, this one time, she was in the car with him. 725 00:44:25,730 --> 00:44:28,443 Saw her from the across the street, she didn't get out. 726 00:44:31,390 --> 00:44:32,223 - This her? 727 00:44:33,350 --> 00:44:34,630 - Yeah, that's her. 728 00:44:34,630 --> 00:44:36,753 Pretty as hell, look like a movie star. 729 00:44:38,940 --> 00:44:41,763 - Where Tweet stay at? - I done said enough. 730 00:44:44,470 --> 00:44:47,200 All right, he always with another horn player 731 00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:49,330 at the Cadillac Club playin' pool. 732 00:44:49,330 --> 00:44:51,063 - Horn player, what horn player? 733 00:44:52,130 --> 00:44:53,393 - Nigga named Booker. 734 00:44:54,290 --> 00:44:56,343 He got a process and always wear yellow. 735 00:44:57,400 --> 00:44:58,720 - The Cadillac Club, huh? 736 00:44:58,720 --> 00:45:00,370 - Yeah, that's all I know. 737 00:45:02,220 --> 00:45:04,238 - [Blackie] Mister Walla Walla? 738 00:45:04,238 --> 00:45:05,490 - Mm-hm? 739 00:45:05,490 --> 00:45:07,360 - Your time is up. 740 00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:08,779 You got to go. 741 00:45:08,779 --> 00:45:12,196 (tense percussive music) 742 00:45:21,166 --> 00:45:24,370 - See y'all in the funny papers. 743 00:45:24,370 --> 00:45:25,570 Where Tweet stay at? 744 00:45:25,570 --> 00:45:27,380 - [Slick] He always with another horn player 745 00:45:27,380 --> 00:45:29,370 at the Cadillac Club, playin' pool. 746 00:45:29,370 --> 00:45:31,710 - What horn player? - Nigga named Booker. 747 00:45:31,710 --> 00:45:34,027 He got a process and always wear yellow. 748 00:46:04,590 --> 00:46:05,850 - What you following me for? 749 00:46:05,850 --> 00:46:07,550 - Hey, I'm Archie Glass. 750 00:46:07,550 --> 00:46:08,670 - [Man] Nigga, I don't know you. 751 00:46:08,670 --> 00:46:11,660 - Yes, well, I'm with the Samwel Insurance Company. 752 00:46:11,660 --> 00:46:12,493 - Insurance? 753 00:46:12,493 --> 00:46:14,820 - Yes, I'm in charge of finding family members who have 754 00:46:14,820 --> 00:46:17,240 money coming to them from recently-deceased relatives. 755 00:46:17,240 --> 00:46:18,660 - What the hell are you talkin' about, man? 756 00:46:18,660 --> 00:46:21,020 - I'm talkin' about a check, a check, 757 00:46:21,020 --> 00:46:24,290 which I'm tryin' to put into the hands of one Tweet Jackson. 758 00:46:24,290 --> 00:46:27,490 You see, Mr. Jackson's Aunt Buttercup has passed and she 759 00:46:27,490 --> 00:46:30,530 left him some money from an insurance policy she took out. 760 00:46:30,530 --> 00:46:33,560 So, you see, I'm tryin' to find Tweet Jackson. 761 00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:35,050 - A check? 762 00:46:35,050 --> 00:46:35,887 How much? 763 00:46:35,887 --> 00:46:39,800 - $300, to which I'm able to pay a finder's fee 764 00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:42,650 to anyone that can help me find Mr. Jackson. 765 00:46:42,650 --> 00:46:45,060 We're tryin' to get matters off our books. 766 00:46:45,060 --> 00:46:46,210 The sooner, the better. 767 00:46:47,512 --> 00:46:50,523 - I don't know, you don't look no insurance man to me. 768 00:46:51,870 --> 00:46:53,320 - Tell me where Mr. Jackson is, 769 00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:55,573 and you will receive a finder's fee of $5. 770 00:46:57,112 --> 00:46:59,780 - Shit, I make more than that giggin' 771 00:46:59,780 --> 00:47:02,130 at the Coconut Grove in one night! 772 00:47:02,130 --> 00:47:03,190 What's the name of the insurance company 773 00:47:03,190 --> 00:47:04,240 you say you work for? 774 00:47:05,210 --> 00:47:06,840 - Archwell. 775 00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:07,673 Doberman. 776 00:47:09,030 --> 00:47:10,280 - You lyin' motherfucker. 777 00:47:11,147 --> 00:47:13,230 (groans) 778 00:47:14,670 --> 00:47:15,920 - Where can I find Tweet? 779 00:47:16,931 --> 00:47:18,571 - I ain't no rat! 780 00:47:18,571 --> 00:47:19,633 - You play horn, right? 781 00:47:21,750 --> 00:47:24,340 How you gonna play horn with a busted lip? 782 00:47:24,340 --> 00:47:25,420 - All right, all right! 783 00:47:25,420 --> 00:47:28,420 There's a walk up at Hoover Street, over the liquor store. 784 00:47:28,420 --> 00:47:29,570 You can find him there. 785 00:47:33,338 --> 00:47:37,255 (suspenseful percussive music) 786 00:47:54,910 --> 00:47:57,020 - [Boy] Pow, pow. 787 00:47:57,020 --> 00:47:58,050 Pow, pow. 788 00:48:31,650 --> 00:48:33,210 Pow, pow. 789 00:48:33,210 --> 00:48:35,320 Pow, got you, mister. 790 00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:36,520 - Hey, kid. 791 00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:38,837 You see the man that live in the apartment up there? 792 00:48:38,837 --> 00:48:40,840 - No, but I see a lot of people 793 00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:44,998 go in and out of a garage in the back. 794 00:48:44,998 --> 00:48:46,280 - [Archie] Thanks, kid. 795 00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:48,613 (dog barks) 796 00:49:18,292 --> 00:49:19,940 (groans) 797 00:49:19,940 --> 00:49:20,773 Fuck. 798 00:49:20,773 --> 00:49:22,000 - Where is she? 799 00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:23,423 Where is she? 800 00:49:24,500 --> 00:49:27,250 - Who're you talkin' about? - Mona, damn it, where is she? 801 00:49:27,250 --> 00:49:28,710 You know, I asked around, 802 00:49:28,710 --> 00:49:30,773 until somebody told me that she come here. 803 00:49:31,890 --> 00:49:33,883 Now, why would she come here? 804 00:49:35,270 --> 00:49:37,860 Why would my Mona do that to me, hm? 805 00:49:37,860 --> 00:49:41,277 - Look, man, I don't know nothin' what you talkin' about. 806 00:49:41,277 --> 00:49:42,427 But you should ask him. 807 00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:45,401 - Who's he? 808 00:49:45,401 --> 00:49:46,900 - [Archie] I don't know, he ain't talking. 809 00:49:46,900 --> 00:49:49,070 - No, something's goin' on here, man. 810 00:49:49,070 --> 00:49:52,333 Somethin' that somebody ain't telling me! 811 00:49:53,500 --> 00:49:55,923 You know, Mona's my girl, my girl! 812 00:49:56,780 --> 00:50:00,720 And I love her and you better tell me where she is, 813 00:50:00,720 --> 00:50:04,063 right now, or you're gonna end up just as dead as he is! 814 00:50:05,780 --> 00:50:07,080 Better start talking, boy. 815 00:50:08,030 --> 00:50:10,393 You better start talk... 816 00:50:10,393 --> 00:50:12,476 (groans) 817 00:50:19,341 --> 00:50:21,258 (thud) 818 00:50:24,860 --> 00:50:25,710 - Thanks, mister. 819 00:50:27,350 --> 00:50:29,410 - You're lucky I'm a nosy reporter. 820 00:50:29,410 --> 00:50:30,930 If I hadn't got a lead on where Mona Lane likes 821 00:50:30,930 --> 00:50:33,823 to hang her stockings, you might be dead as Dillinger. 822 00:50:35,989 --> 00:50:38,360 - A reporter, huh, like for the paper? 823 00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:40,440 - Skip Slater with the LA Trumpet. 824 00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:42,763 Snoopin' around tryin' to get a lead on a story. 825 00:50:45,114 --> 00:50:46,064 - What kinda story? 826 00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:51,420 - Listen, bother, I'm hip to what's goin' on. 827 00:50:51,420 --> 00:50:53,290 I may not know everything, 828 00:50:53,290 --> 00:50:55,780 but I know Mona Lane isn't in Mexico. 829 00:50:55,780 --> 00:50:58,750 And she hasn't been in her penthouse for the last three days 830 00:50:58,750 --> 00:51:00,100 so where is she? 831 00:51:00,100 --> 00:51:01,210 - Look, I'm gonna tell you 832 00:51:01,210 --> 00:51:03,923 the same thing I told loverboy here, I don't know. 833 00:51:05,660 --> 00:51:07,664 - Huh, well, who are you then? 834 00:51:07,664 --> 00:51:09,320 What're you doin' here? 835 00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:10,923 - I was hired to find Mona. 836 00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:13,860 Seems like we all lookin' for the same person. 837 00:51:13,860 --> 00:51:15,340 - Well, half of Hollywood knows she's got the hots 838 00:51:15,340 --> 00:51:16,880 for colored jazz players. 839 00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:19,420 If an idiot like this guy can figure it out, you know 840 00:51:19,420 --> 00:51:22,290 the rest of Tinsel Town will soon be figuring out, too. 841 00:51:22,290 --> 00:51:24,730 I'm just tryin' to get ahead of the story, you know? 842 00:51:24,730 --> 00:51:25,563 Get the scoop. 843 00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:30,120 - Looks like we all come to a dead-end, huh? 844 00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:34,537 - I know you're not telling me somethin'. 845 00:51:35,552 --> 00:51:38,253 But if you change your mind, here's my number. 846 00:51:39,350 --> 00:51:41,150 Give me a call with some info, 847 00:51:41,150 --> 00:51:42,650 I'll make it worth your while. 848 00:51:48,330 --> 00:51:49,163 - Hey. 849 00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:51,450 What about these two? 850 00:51:52,900 --> 00:51:54,540 - Well, one's dead, 851 00:51:54,540 --> 00:51:56,690 the other's gonna come to in a few minutes, 852 00:51:57,800 --> 00:51:59,600 and I wouldn't be here when he does. 853 00:52:12,570 --> 00:52:15,333 - Nadine say Mona liked to look at famous dead folk. 854 00:52:16,450 --> 00:52:17,900 I figure I had nothin' to lose 855 00:52:17,900 --> 00:52:19,860 by killin' an hour at the local cemetery 856 00:52:19,860 --> 00:52:22,433 with dead movie stars layin' next to their fans. 857 00:52:51,260 --> 00:52:52,093 Mona? 858 00:52:53,830 --> 00:52:54,780 - I don't know you. 859 00:53:00,750 --> 00:53:01,703 - You Archie Glass? 860 00:53:02,990 --> 00:53:05,727 - Maybe, depends on who wants to know. 861 00:53:05,727 --> 00:53:07,676 - Somebody wants to see you. 862 00:53:07,676 --> 00:53:10,486 - Hey, I don't owe you fellas any money, do I? 863 00:53:10,486 --> 00:53:14,403 (suspenseful percussive music) 864 00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:22,583 No, no. 865 00:53:28,649 --> 00:53:31,660 - The world does not see you as a man. 866 00:53:31,660 --> 00:53:33,603 Hollywood does not see you as a man. 867 00:53:35,430 --> 00:53:38,933 That's why they call you boy, and son. 868 00:53:39,940 --> 00:53:43,643 They tell you to bug out your eyes and stick your lips out. 869 00:53:44,820 --> 00:53:45,970 See, they don't think you have a heart, 870 00:53:45,970 --> 00:53:47,320 or that you're intelligent. 871 00:53:48,490 --> 00:53:50,660 That your soul is the soul of God. 872 00:53:50,660 --> 00:53:54,010 - Cut the sermon, preach, why am I here? 873 00:53:54,010 --> 00:53:57,193 - You are here because you are working for the enemy. 874 00:53:58,380 --> 00:54:00,233 - [Archie] I'm workin' for Jack Wingate. 875 00:54:02,390 --> 00:54:04,973 - [Preacher] As I said, public enemy number one. 876 00:54:06,740 --> 00:54:08,090 - What's all of this about? 877 00:54:10,830 --> 00:54:13,633 - I am the leader of the United Negro Movie Coaliltion, 878 00:54:14,580 --> 00:54:16,423 and we want you to join us. 879 00:54:16,423 --> 00:54:19,580 - You got a hell of a way of recruitin' a fella. 880 00:54:19,580 --> 00:54:22,173 - Well, it's a rough world out there, Mr. Glass, and, 881 00:54:22,173 --> 00:54:24,363 a man must meet force with force. 882 00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:28,771 There's a revolution goin' on, 883 00:54:28,771 --> 00:54:31,760 and every black man must stand up for himself. 884 00:54:31,760 --> 00:54:35,430 You cannot fight these Jim Crow laws in these streets 885 00:54:35,430 --> 00:54:37,333 bein' a buffoon on that movie screen. 886 00:54:38,520 --> 00:54:41,483 Come and join us and help us change Hollywood. 887 00:54:42,569 --> 00:54:43,680 - How're you gonna do that? 888 00:54:43,680 --> 00:54:46,653 You ain't nothing but a bunch of angry church folk! 889 00:54:48,390 --> 00:54:52,040 - We have power, and if we boycott, 890 00:54:52,040 --> 00:54:55,710 and organize, we can bring this town to its knees. 891 00:54:55,710 --> 00:54:58,140 - Boycott? (chuckles) 892 00:54:58,140 --> 00:55:01,387 Nobody's gonna do that. 893 00:55:01,387 --> 00:55:04,413 You're a fool, preach, you're a fool. 894 00:55:05,590 --> 00:55:07,993 - Well, I'm sorry to hear you think so. 895 00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:10,990 What kind of black man are you? 896 00:55:12,598 --> 00:55:15,103 - I'm not a black man, just a man. 897 00:55:18,459 --> 00:55:21,459 (preacher chuckles) 898 00:55:27,699 --> 00:55:29,200 Wait, wait, wait, wait! 899 00:55:29,200 --> 00:55:31,083 Hey, I've already been circumcised! 900 00:55:32,340 --> 00:55:34,303 - Every revolution needs some blood. 901 00:55:38,100 --> 00:55:39,830 - [Archie] I was gettin' nowhere fast. 902 00:55:39,830 --> 00:55:41,460 Time to check in with O'Neal. 903 00:55:41,460 --> 00:55:44,303 I gave him a call from a payphone at Pico and Olympic. 904 00:55:45,970 --> 00:55:48,830 - Glass, where the hell have you been? 905 00:55:48,830 --> 00:55:51,300 You were supposed to check in with me over three hours ago. 906 00:55:51,300 --> 00:55:52,333 - This ain't like goin' around a country club, 907 00:55:52,333 --> 00:55:54,063 askin' for a tennis partner. 908 00:55:55,240 --> 00:55:57,010 - Watch your lip, boy. 909 00:55:57,010 --> 00:55:58,660 - Don't call me boy. 910 00:55:58,660 --> 00:56:00,810 - I've had about enough of your mouth, boy. 911 00:56:01,790 --> 00:56:04,910 (Archie grunts) 912 00:56:04,910 --> 00:56:07,577 (Archie groans) 913 00:56:13,090 --> 00:56:14,390 Now, tell me what you got. 914 00:56:15,740 --> 00:56:17,880 - Right now, nothin'. 915 00:56:17,880 --> 00:56:20,870 Just a dead body and whole bunch of people 916 00:56:20,870 --> 00:56:23,000 stickin' guns and knives in my face. 917 00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:24,610 - Well, that ain't enough. 918 00:56:24,610 --> 00:56:26,480 Let me remind you we're on a deadline. 919 00:56:26,480 --> 00:56:28,960 The tabloids are gonna be on this in a day or so. 920 00:56:28,960 --> 00:56:30,150 - Hey, that's another thing. 921 00:56:30,150 --> 00:56:32,190 I've been goin' around here, knockin' on people doors, 922 00:56:32,190 --> 00:56:34,550 which nothin' to back me but just a smile. 923 00:56:34,550 --> 00:56:35,700 I need some protection. 924 00:56:37,030 --> 00:56:38,700 - What the hell did you just say? 925 00:56:38,700 --> 00:56:39,693 - I need a gun. 926 00:56:42,360 --> 00:56:44,080 - [Archie] As a white man, the last thing you ever 927 00:56:44,080 --> 00:56:45,880 wanted to do was give a nigga a gun. 928 00:56:47,150 --> 00:56:49,610 It was against everything he stood for, 929 00:56:49,610 --> 00:56:53,460 but Jack Wingate was on his ass just like he was on mine. 930 00:56:53,460 --> 00:56:56,360 - Do you know how to use it? - Hey, don't worry about me. 931 00:56:57,290 --> 00:56:59,730 Just be ready next time I call you. 932 00:56:59,730 --> 00:57:01,663 I headed south then east to Englewood. 933 00:57:02,770 --> 00:57:04,773 I was on my way to see Ennis Matthews. 934 00:57:06,438 --> 00:57:10,355 (suspenseful percussive music) 935 00:57:21,295 --> 00:57:23,378 (knocks) 936 00:57:24,780 --> 00:57:25,613 - Archie? 937 00:57:31,946 --> 00:57:33,530 How do you know where I live? 938 00:57:33,530 --> 00:57:36,540 - You brag about this place all the time at the club. 939 00:57:36,540 --> 00:57:37,963 It wasn't too hard to find. 940 00:57:39,050 --> 00:57:41,400 - I'm sorry I pulled the pistol on you. 941 00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:43,637 I thought you were one of the neighbors come a-callin'. 942 00:57:48,610 --> 00:57:51,190 - What you doin' in the dark, Ennis? 943 00:57:51,190 --> 00:57:52,340 Your lights don't work? 944 00:57:53,280 --> 00:57:54,453 - They work fine. 945 00:57:55,670 --> 00:57:57,570 But I just keep 'em off just the same. 946 00:57:58,410 --> 00:58:00,010 That way, they can't see inside. 947 00:58:02,615 --> 00:58:04,725 I've been havin' some troubles. 948 00:58:04,725 --> 00:58:05,953 - [Archie] What kinda troubles? 949 00:58:08,480 --> 00:58:11,790 - When I bought this house, the man told me all about 950 00:58:11,790 --> 00:58:13,923 the wonderful friendly neighbors. 951 00:58:15,210 --> 00:58:18,270 I reckon they ain't so friendly when a colored man moves in. 952 00:58:18,270 --> 00:58:22,370 And I've had rocks thrown through my window. 953 00:58:22,370 --> 00:58:26,253 Mean letters put in my mailbox, and my wife, 954 00:58:27,407 --> 00:58:29,880 she took my boys back to New Orleans, 955 00:58:29,880 --> 00:58:31,180 after they killed the dog. 956 00:58:34,520 --> 00:58:35,770 So, I bought this pistol. 957 00:58:39,030 --> 00:58:40,483 I saved every cent I had, 958 00:58:42,750 --> 00:58:43,983 to buy this house. 959 00:58:50,430 --> 00:58:52,030 - I'm lookin' for a girl, Ennis. 960 00:58:55,510 --> 00:58:56,410 - Ain't none here. 961 00:58:59,520 --> 00:59:00,770 - You heard of Mona Lane? 962 00:59:02,710 --> 00:59:03,760 She's been kidnapped, 963 00:59:05,695 --> 00:59:08,333 by some trumpet-playin' Negro named Tweet Jackson. 964 00:59:10,607 --> 00:59:12,010 (Ennis chuckles) 965 00:59:12,010 --> 00:59:14,640 What were you doin' at Tweet's apartment today, Ennis? 966 00:59:14,640 --> 00:59:18,157 - What're you talkin' about? 967 00:59:18,157 --> 00:59:20,370 - You're the only Negro I know 968 00:59:20,370 --> 00:59:23,253 that can afford to smoke these fancy Cuban cigars. 969 00:59:24,720 --> 00:59:27,040 - [Ennis] You're crazy, plenty of folk smoke 'em. 970 00:59:27,040 --> 00:59:28,230 - Yeah? 971 00:59:28,230 --> 00:59:30,660 Well, that pistol you got in your hand is missin' a bullet. 972 00:59:30,660 --> 00:59:32,110 And I bet it's the same bullet 973 00:59:32,110 --> 00:59:34,160 that was in that dead body I found today. 974 00:59:41,870 --> 00:59:43,355 - I broke. 975 00:59:43,355 --> 00:59:45,260 (chuckles) 976 00:59:45,260 --> 00:59:47,043 As soon as I bought this house, 977 00:59:48,116 --> 00:59:50,343 the studio cut my contract. 978 00:59:52,160 --> 00:59:53,360 - Tell me what happened. 979 00:59:59,490 --> 01:00:00,890 - Some folks came to see me. 980 01:00:02,180 --> 01:00:06,193 Said, uh, they needed someone to pick her up. 981 01:00:07,720 --> 01:00:09,263 She knew me from the studio. 982 01:00:10,510 --> 01:00:13,360 They needed someone that she would feel comfortable with. 983 01:00:15,040 --> 01:00:20,040 They said it would be big money when it was over. 984 01:00:20,330 --> 01:00:23,163 So, I took her over to the apartment on Hoover. 985 01:00:25,030 --> 01:00:26,063 - Tweet's apartment. 986 01:00:28,170 --> 01:00:30,103 - When we got there, Tweet was missing. 987 01:00:33,813 --> 01:00:36,347 There was an argument about what to do next. 988 01:00:37,590 --> 01:00:42,123 Someone pulled a gun, I had mine, fired first. 989 01:00:45,340 --> 01:00:47,443 When I got up, Mona was gone. 990 01:00:49,192 --> 01:00:51,823 I just, I just hauled ass outta there. 991 01:00:54,960 --> 01:00:55,917 - Who hired you? 992 01:00:59,341 --> 01:01:01,508 - It don't matter, Archie. 993 01:01:02,410 --> 01:01:03,310 They beat me, man. 994 01:01:06,180 --> 01:01:09,430 When I was a boy in New Orleans, there was this restaurant 995 01:01:09,430 --> 01:01:11,880 that all the white folks would go to. 996 01:01:11,880 --> 01:01:15,170 It was real nice, Archie, I mean real nice. 997 01:01:15,170 --> 01:01:18,900 They had candles on the table, man. 998 01:01:18,900 --> 01:01:22,033 There was fancy, fancy pictures on the wall. 999 01:01:25,901 --> 01:01:28,547 They had this man who stood at the door. 1000 01:01:30,602 --> 01:01:31,793 With a brown paper bag. 1001 01:01:33,380 --> 01:01:37,333 He'd hold it up, and if you were darker than the bag, 1002 01:01:39,480 --> 01:01:40,480 you couldn't get in. 1003 01:01:44,440 --> 01:01:49,063 I promised myself I'd get into that place. 1004 01:01:54,241 --> 01:01:58,513 But now I know that no matter how rich, 1005 01:01:59,400 --> 01:02:02,603 or famous I get, (chuckles) 1006 01:02:05,221 --> 01:02:07,641 they ain't lettin' me in. 1007 01:02:07,641 --> 01:02:10,557 (clock chimes) 1008 01:02:10,557 --> 01:02:13,580 - Just tell me what happened, I gotta know. 1009 01:02:17,712 --> 01:02:20,295 (clock chimes) 1010 01:02:21,781 --> 01:02:25,698 - You can't help me, Archie, can't nobody help. 1011 01:02:26,601 --> 01:02:27,870 - Ennis, no! 1012 01:02:27,870 --> 01:02:30,203 (gun fires) 1013 01:02:31,213 --> 01:02:33,713 (body clunks) 1014 01:02:37,350 --> 01:02:39,353 Ennis was somebody I looked up to. 1015 01:02:40,612 --> 01:02:43,353 The truth was, I wanted to be just like him. 1016 01:02:45,040 --> 01:02:47,863 Whatever secret he had, he took with him to hell. 1017 01:02:51,900 --> 01:02:54,490 I thought about Ennis's neighbors havin' to wash the blood 1018 01:02:54,490 --> 01:02:58,167 off his walls, but it didn't make me feel any better. 1019 01:03:15,870 --> 01:03:17,580 - I was talkin' to this girl at the bar last night. 1020 01:03:17,580 --> 01:03:18,903 Skinny girl from Alabama. 1021 01:03:19,933 --> 01:03:23,005 She had on these glasses and hair in a little bun, 1022 01:03:23,005 --> 01:03:24,055 like a little poodle. 1023 01:03:25,540 --> 01:03:28,470 I was waitin' for her to bark, so I could buy her a drink. 1024 01:03:28,470 --> 01:03:30,645 Then I remembered I had a bone in my pocket. 1025 01:03:30,645 --> 01:03:32,200 (audience laughs) 1026 01:03:32,200 --> 01:03:36,030 That's a cheap date out here in California. (chuckles) 1027 01:03:36,864 --> 01:03:37,933 - Whatever it is, 1028 01:03:38,890 --> 01:03:40,113 it's gonna be all right. 1029 01:03:45,155 --> 01:03:49,890 - I'm just tryin' to be somebody, be a good man. 1030 01:03:49,890 --> 01:03:52,313 - You are a good man, Archie. 1031 01:03:54,633 --> 01:03:57,033 It's just, you're chasing a dream, 1032 01:03:59,013 --> 01:04:01,183 when the best thing in life is right in front of you. 1033 01:04:05,613 --> 01:04:07,196 I gotta go to work. 1034 01:04:12,833 --> 01:04:15,750 (moody jazz music) 1035 01:04:25,004 --> 01:04:29,671 - Look like you're havin' a rough time there, young bud. 1036 01:04:32,825 --> 01:04:35,625 You know about the three seats of power in this country? 1037 01:04:36,910 --> 01:04:37,743 There's three. 1038 01:04:38,950 --> 01:04:41,743 You got Wall Street, controls the money. 1039 01:04:44,090 --> 01:04:47,223 You got the White House, controls the military. 1040 01:04:49,510 --> 01:04:52,523 And you got those who control our images. 1041 01:04:54,687 --> 01:04:57,617 You know who controls the image? 1042 01:04:57,617 --> 01:04:58,450 Hollywood. 1043 01:05:00,036 --> 01:05:03,536 That's who controls your image, young bud. 1044 01:05:08,870 --> 01:05:13,240 - My man, Archie Glass. (chuckles) 1045 01:05:13,240 --> 01:05:15,554 How Hollywood treatin' you, baby? 1046 01:05:15,554 --> 01:05:16,727 - Not good. 1047 01:05:16,727 --> 01:05:19,330 But I'm still on my feet, you? 1048 01:05:19,330 --> 01:05:21,470 - Man, you know me, just giggin' around. 1049 01:05:21,470 --> 01:05:23,430 Was up in San Francisco last week. 1050 01:05:23,430 --> 01:05:25,640 Tomorrow, down in San Diego. 1051 01:05:25,640 --> 01:05:28,170 Tryin' to stay two steps ahead of that devil. 1052 01:05:28,170 --> 01:05:30,280 - Well, you better stay the hell away from me, 1053 01:05:30,280 --> 01:05:33,797 'cause he's nippin' at my ass. (friend laughs) 1054 01:05:35,100 --> 01:05:37,833 - [Friend] Archie, I heard you lookin' for Mona Lane. 1055 01:05:39,450 --> 01:05:40,530 - Yeah? 1056 01:05:40,530 --> 01:05:41,630 What about it? 1057 01:05:41,630 --> 01:05:46,174 - Man, I saw her in the back room and she is messed up. 1058 01:05:46,174 --> 01:05:47,503 At least, she looks that way. 1059 01:05:51,890 --> 01:05:52,973 Archie Glass. 1060 01:05:55,894 --> 01:05:58,477 (woman sniffs) 1061 01:06:05,965 --> 01:06:08,924 - [Archie] She was a dead ringer for Mona. 1062 01:06:08,924 --> 01:06:12,005 I know she had something to do with all of this. 1063 01:06:12,005 --> 01:06:14,095 (woman chuckles) 1064 01:06:14,095 --> 01:06:16,580 - A lot of people think I look like her. 1065 01:06:16,580 --> 01:06:17,413 - Where is she? 1066 01:06:20,415 --> 01:06:21,740 - He tried to kill me. 1067 01:06:21,740 --> 01:06:23,405 - Who? 1068 01:06:23,405 --> 01:06:24,605 - I don't know his name. 1069 01:06:26,080 --> 01:06:29,963 Just some fella I met last week at the High Hat Bar. 1070 01:06:30,950 --> 01:06:32,950 He wasn't as good-lookin' as you, daddy. 1071 01:06:35,490 --> 01:06:36,390 - What did he say? 1072 01:06:37,560 --> 01:06:40,560 - Said we were goin' to his friend's place, score some junk. 1073 01:06:41,730 --> 01:06:43,663 - [Archie] What happened when you got there? 1074 01:06:45,063 --> 01:06:48,663 - There was nobody there. (chuckles) 1075 01:06:48,663 --> 01:06:49,913 No friend, no junk. 1076 01:06:52,590 --> 01:06:54,840 Then he took a gun out and tried to shoot me. 1077 01:06:56,594 --> 01:06:59,680 I bit him on the hand and got out of there. 1078 01:06:59,680 --> 01:07:02,380 - This man that tried to kill you, where does he live? 1079 01:07:04,040 --> 01:07:05,453 - Took me into a house. 1080 01:07:07,450 --> 01:07:09,303 In Venice, close to the water. 1081 01:07:11,720 --> 01:07:13,933 Yeah, it had red shutters. 1082 01:07:15,237 --> 01:07:19,473 And a round window on the front door. 1083 01:07:20,580 --> 01:07:21,413 Like a ship. 1084 01:07:23,013 --> 01:07:25,096 (knocks) 1085 01:07:25,973 --> 01:07:28,056 (knocks) 1086 01:07:34,690 --> 01:07:35,890 - What you want, mister? 1087 01:07:37,660 --> 01:07:38,610 - Evenin', brother. 1088 01:07:39,810 --> 01:07:42,060 I'm Deacon Lovechild from the most holy 1089 01:07:42,060 --> 01:07:44,210 First Baptist Church of Compton. 1090 01:07:44,210 --> 01:07:45,170 Sorry to bother you. 1091 01:07:45,170 --> 01:07:48,690 I know you must have been helping yourself to some dinner, 1092 01:07:48,690 --> 01:07:51,653 but I wanna talk to you about the lord Jehovah. 1093 01:07:53,280 --> 01:07:55,577 - I don't know nothin' about that! 1094 01:07:55,577 --> 01:07:59,060 - I just wanna save your soul, brother. 1095 01:07:59,060 --> 01:08:01,097 - My soul don't need no savin', 1096 01:08:02,050 --> 01:08:04,500 but y'all's might, if you don't get off my porch! 1097 01:08:07,460 --> 01:08:11,690 - Perhaps it'd be better if I talked to lady of the house? 1098 01:08:11,690 --> 01:08:13,140 - Perhaps if you don't get the hell outta here, 1099 01:08:13,140 --> 01:08:14,163 before you get hurt. 1100 01:08:18,698 --> 01:08:21,115 (door slams) 1101 01:08:26,726 --> 01:08:29,726 (phone dial clicks) 1102 01:08:36,810 --> 01:08:39,000 - O'Neal, it's me. - Glass. 1103 01:08:39,000 --> 01:08:41,300 Damn it, where the hell have you been? 1104 01:08:41,300 --> 01:08:43,960 - Shut up and listen, I'm standin' across the street 1105 01:08:43,960 --> 01:08:47,430 from a house in Venice on Pacific Avenue. 1106 01:08:47,430 --> 01:08:50,440 I think Mona's on the inside. - Are you sure? 1107 01:08:50,440 --> 01:08:52,070 - No, I'm not sure. 1108 01:08:52,070 --> 01:08:55,850 But I tried to get a look on the inside, I didn't see much. 1109 01:08:55,850 --> 01:08:58,580 You better get down here now before they leave. 1110 01:08:58,580 --> 01:09:00,480 - [O'Neal] Don't let them out of your sight. 1111 01:09:00,480 --> 01:09:02,950 I don't care what Wingate may have promised you. 1112 01:09:02,950 --> 01:09:06,150 If you let them get away, I will bust you up bad. 1113 01:09:06,150 --> 01:09:07,633 I'll put you under the jail. 1114 01:09:09,869 --> 01:09:12,869 (phone dial clicks) 1115 01:09:21,270 --> 01:09:22,120 - [Sandra] Hello? 1116 01:09:24,580 --> 01:09:26,017 Archie? 1117 01:09:26,017 --> 01:09:28,017 (moody jazz music) Archie, is that you? 1118 01:09:34,956 --> 01:09:36,806 - I just wanna say I'm sorry, Sandra. 1119 01:09:38,420 --> 01:09:39,970 I should had done right by you. 1120 01:09:43,107 --> 01:09:45,257 - [Sandra] Archie. 1121 01:09:45,257 --> 01:09:46,747 - [Archie] Yeah. 1122 01:09:46,747 --> 01:09:50,160 - [Sandra] You never told me what you went to jail for. 1123 01:09:50,160 --> 01:09:51,620 - [Archie] Yeah, I did. 1124 01:09:51,620 --> 01:09:53,326 - [Sandra] No, you didn't. 1125 01:09:53,326 --> 01:09:54,159 Tell me. 1126 01:09:57,800 --> 01:09:58,650 - I killed a man. 1127 01:10:00,500 --> 01:10:02,100 The truth is, I was just a dumb nigga, 1128 01:10:02,100 --> 01:10:04,600 in the wrong place at the wrong time. 1129 01:10:04,600 --> 01:10:06,657 But that's not important. 1130 01:10:07,663 --> 01:10:09,463 - [Sandra] Tell me what's important. 1131 01:10:11,370 --> 01:10:12,270 - Makin' it, baby. 1132 01:10:13,200 --> 01:10:15,230 Seein' myself on the screen. 1133 01:10:15,230 --> 01:10:16,430 I want people to see me. 1134 01:10:17,683 --> 01:10:20,333 If I can't do that, then I'm just another dumb nigga. 1135 01:10:44,931 --> 01:10:48,848 (suspenseful percussive music) 1136 01:12:08,368 --> 01:12:10,285 (thud) 1137 01:13:02,766 --> 01:13:05,683 (moody horn music) 1138 01:14:04,597 --> 01:14:07,097 - I knew they'd send somebody. 1139 01:14:08,937 --> 01:14:10,387 What'd they offer you? 1140 01:14:15,237 --> 01:14:17,570 (gun fires) 1141 01:14:19,685 --> 01:14:22,602 (moody jazz music) 1142 01:14:27,207 --> 01:14:29,077 (gun fires) 1143 01:14:29,077 --> 01:14:31,410 (guns fire) 1144 01:14:42,515 --> 01:14:45,598 (guns cock and fire) 1145 01:15:05,803 --> 01:15:09,220 (dark atmospheric music) 1146 01:15:15,591 --> 01:15:17,924 I knew they'd send somebody. 1147 01:15:20,693 --> 01:15:25,693 What'd they offer you? (gun fires) 1148 01:15:26,511 --> 01:15:29,094 (Mona screams) 1149 01:15:59,498 --> 01:16:03,415 (suspenseful percussive music) 1150 01:16:20,978 --> 01:16:23,311 (dogs bark) 1151 01:16:29,356 --> 01:16:31,689 (gun fires) 1152 01:16:44,015 --> 01:16:46,348 (gun fires) 1153 01:16:59,448 --> 01:17:01,781 (gun fires) 1154 01:17:10,456 --> 01:17:11,623 - Don't do it. 1155 01:17:12,798 --> 01:17:13,798 Don't do it. 1156 01:17:17,256 --> 01:17:19,589 (gun fires) 1157 01:17:56,493 --> 01:17:58,493 I can't believe it. 1158 01:17:58,493 --> 01:18:00,480 I didn't think I would ever find you folk. 1159 01:18:00,480 --> 01:18:02,180 You'll be back at your penthouse in no time, 1160 01:18:02,180 --> 01:18:04,420 with all your Hollywood friends. 1161 01:18:04,420 --> 01:18:06,220 Nobody will ever know this happened. 1162 01:18:07,400 --> 01:18:10,660 You get to go home, I get to be back in the movies. 1163 01:18:10,660 --> 01:18:13,410 That's right, I'm an actor. 1164 01:18:13,410 --> 01:18:16,020 Nothin' like you, but who knows? 1165 01:18:16,020 --> 01:18:18,000 Maybe someday, someday... 1166 01:18:21,920 --> 01:18:23,210 Hey. 1167 01:18:23,210 --> 01:18:25,640 If I were you, I would be celebrating. 1168 01:18:25,640 --> 01:18:27,750 - Celebrating what? 1169 01:18:27,750 --> 01:18:29,550 You killed him. 1170 01:18:29,550 --> 01:18:31,270 You killed Tweet. 1171 01:18:31,270 --> 01:18:34,233 - Wingate said you were kidnapped, he showed me the letter. 1172 01:18:35,112 --> 01:18:36,923 - He showed you a letter? 1173 01:18:37,910 --> 01:18:39,963 You like to pretend to be other people? 1174 01:18:41,430 --> 01:18:42,263 Me too. 1175 01:18:45,030 --> 01:18:48,033 Growing up in Kansas, we were just poor white trash. 1176 01:18:49,413 --> 01:18:51,293 I would dream about getting away. 1177 01:18:52,230 --> 01:18:53,880 Guess that's how I wound up here. 1178 01:18:55,860 --> 01:18:58,873 But this town, it ain't right. 1179 01:18:59,720 --> 01:19:03,293 They wanted to use me and cut me up into a million pieces. 1180 01:19:04,600 --> 01:19:07,863 But Tweet, he was somehow different. 1181 01:19:09,250 --> 01:19:10,930 He was the first Negro... 1182 01:19:12,520 --> 01:19:15,323 The first man to treat me good. 1183 01:19:31,380 --> 01:19:33,680 - You and Tweet were together this whole time? 1184 01:19:34,880 --> 01:19:38,230 - We tried to keep it a secret, but I knew it wouldn't be 1185 01:19:38,230 --> 01:19:41,513 long before the studio found out, so we decided to run away. 1186 01:19:43,190 --> 01:19:46,080 - You were gonna run away from being a movie star? 1187 01:19:46,080 --> 01:19:47,190 - Crazy, huh? 1188 01:19:48,653 --> 01:19:50,123 All your hopes and dreams. 1189 01:19:51,170 --> 01:19:52,710 I guess your dreams don't mean much, 1190 01:19:52,710 --> 01:19:54,593 if you got nobody to share them with. 1191 01:19:57,550 --> 01:19:59,650 We were gonna take the money and go someplace 1192 01:19:59,650 --> 01:20:01,483 where it didn't matter who you were. 1193 01:20:04,300 --> 01:20:06,783 It was Tweet's idea to fake the kidnapping. 1194 01:20:08,070 --> 01:20:11,143 Make it look real so that Wingate would pay the ransom. 1195 01:20:12,870 --> 01:20:14,127 Instead, he sent you. 1196 01:20:30,194 --> 01:20:32,194 (gasps) 1197 01:20:55,090 --> 01:20:57,007 (sobs) 1198 01:20:57,997 --> 01:21:00,497 (Jack coughs) 1199 01:21:03,738 --> 01:21:04,988 - That's right. 1200 01:21:05,830 --> 01:21:07,163 I used you to get to her. 1201 01:21:08,588 --> 01:21:10,740 And I would do it again if I had to. 1202 01:21:10,740 --> 01:21:14,113 You see, when you sign a contract with a studio, we own you. 1203 01:21:16,247 --> 01:21:18,363 The studio decides what color your hair is. 1204 01:21:19,898 --> 01:21:21,898 The studio decides what movies you make. 1205 01:21:23,870 --> 01:21:26,520 And the studio decides who you're seen with in pubic. 1206 01:21:28,700 --> 01:21:31,223 All to sell the people an all-American image. 1207 01:21:34,070 --> 01:21:36,557 And America is not ready for a movie star 1208 01:21:36,557 --> 01:21:38,790 who is married to a nigger. 1209 01:21:38,790 --> 01:21:41,693 - You lied to me and told me she was in some kinda trouble. 1210 01:21:43,600 --> 01:21:47,470 - She was in trouble, and I saved her. 1211 01:21:47,470 --> 01:21:48,583 You saved her. 1212 01:21:50,350 --> 01:21:54,350 From a life of despair and disgrace. 1213 01:21:54,350 --> 01:21:55,800 - I don't like being lied to. 1214 01:21:57,700 --> 01:21:58,533 - What difference does it make 1215 01:21:58,533 --> 01:22:00,230 whether you knew the truth or not? 1216 01:22:01,240 --> 01:22:02,623 You came to me, remember? 1217 01:22:03,720 --> 01:22:05,233 You wanted to be a star. 1218 01:22:06,180 --> 01:22:07,080 Well, now you can. 1219 01:22:09,070 --> 01:22:10,603 And don't worry, Mr. Glass. 1220 01:22:11,860 --> 01:22:13,610 I intend to keep my promise to you. 1221 01:22:15,810 --> 01:22:17,510 For your remarkable service to me, 1222 01:22:21,060 --> 01:22:23,103 you've earned a part in one of my films. 1223 01:22:26,730 --> 01:22:27,733 And as for Mona, 1224 01:22:30,130 --> 01:22:32,920 who allowed herself to be dragged through the mud, 1225 01:22:32,920 --> 01:22:34,023 I'll clean her up. 1226 01:22:35,550 --> 01:22:37,700 Oh, and just in case you're, uh, 1227 01:22:37,700 --> 01:22:40,683 gettin' any ideas of changing the terms of our agreement, 1228 01:22:41,680 --> 01:22:42,513 forget it. 1229 01:22:43,690 --> 01:22:45,690 If I'm willin' to do this to her, 1230 01:22:45,690 --> 01:22:48,677 just think what I'd be willin' to do to you. 1231 01:22:51,554 --> 01:22:52,412 (bell tolls) 1232 01:22:52,412 --> 01:22:53,911 (coughs) 1233 01:22:53,911 --> 01:22:54,744 - No. 1234 01:22:55,783 --> 01:22:57,842 Get your hands off of me. 1235 01:22:57,842 --> 01:22:58,823 (slap) 1236 01:22:58,823 --> 01:23:03,823 (thud) (moody jazz music) 1237 01:23:04,263 --> 01:23:06,023 (gun fires) 1238 01:23:06,023 --> 01:23:10,106 (thuds) (groans) 1239 01:23:17,027 --> 01:23:19,886 (gun cocks) 1240 01:23:19,886 --> 01:23:24,886 Get away from him! (suspenseful music) 1241 01:23:24,945 --> 01:23:25,778 Get away. 1242 01:23:30,000 --> 01:23:31,960 - [Archie] I knew when I punched Jack Wingate, 1243 01:23:31,960 --> 01:23:34,460 I would never work as an actor in this town again. 1244 01:23:35,720 --> 01:23:38,560 It didn't matter, there are plenty of others left 1245 01:23:38,560 --> 01:23:40,143 to play Sambos in the movies. 1246 01:23:41,210 --> 01:23:42,450 Not me. 1247 01:23:42,450 --> 01:23:44,600 - There is no place in this town 1248 01:23:44,600 --> 01:23:46,250 that I won't be able to find you. 1249 01:23:48,000 --> 01:23:49,890 I own you. 1250 01:23:49,890 --> 01:23:51,573 I created Mona Lane. 1251 01:23:52,540 --> 01:23:54,210 You were nothing but a freckle-faced farm girl 1252 01:23:54,210 --> 01:23:55,473 when you came to me. 1253 01:23:56,850 --> 01:24:00,927 You go ahead and run, but I'll be right behind you. 1254 01:24:20,687 --> 01:24:22,655 (Archie sighs) 1255 01:24:22,655 --> 01:24:24,520 - Are you okay? - Yeah. 1256 01:24:24,520 --> 01:24:26,720 It ain't the first time I got my ass kicked. 1257 01:24:28,994 --> 01:24:30,994 (sighs) 1258 01:24:38,460 --> 01:24:39,860 You really loved Tweet, huh? 1259 01:24:41,836 --> 01:24:43,286 - I mean, you heard him play. 1260 01:24:44,400 --> 01:24:45,500 Of course I loved him. 1261 01:24:48,208 --> 01:24:49,890 (sighs) 1262 01:24:49,890 --> 01:24:51,290 Where are you gonna take me? 1263 01:24:54,880 --> 01:24:56,083 - Outta this damn town. 1264 01:25:09,630 --> 01:25:12,630 (moody piano music) 1265 01:25:24,623 --> 01:25:26,290 Thank you very much. 1266 01:25:29,050 --> 01:25:31,700 The next train to Kansas City leaves in half an hour. 1267 01:25:34,460 --> 01:25:35,410 - What will you do? 1268 01:25:38,240 --> 01:25:39,290 - Stay here, I guess. 1269 01:25:40,210 --> 01:25:41,560 I got no other place to go. 1270 01:25:49,290 --> 01:25:50,740 - My real name's Mary Hayden. 1271 01:25:58,070 --> 01:25:59,671 - Come on. 1272 01:25:59,671 --> 01:26:02,421 (train whistles) 1273 01:26:15,030 --> 01:26:15,863 - Are you Mona? 1274 01:26:15,863 --> 01:26:17,200 Can I have your autograph? 1275 01:26:17,200 --> 01:26:19,933 I saw your last picture, it was a real ride. 1276 01:26:20,798 --> 01:26:23,130 Thank you so much! 1277 01:26:23,130 --> 01:26:23,963 - Hey, Mona, where you been? 1278 01:26:23,963 --> 01:26:25,580 Everybody's been lookin' for ya. 1279 01:26:25,580 --> 01:26:27,780 Hey, oh, come on, Mona, what's the big deal? 1280 01:26:28,678 --> 01:26:30,198 - A nigger? 1281 01:26:30,198 --> 01:26:31,760 You've been sleeping with a nigger, Mona? 1282 01:26:31,760 --> 01:26:33,260 - Just let me get one more. 1283 01:26:33,260 --> 01:26:34,093 - Jimmy! 1284 01:26:34,980 --> 01:26:35,919 Jimmy, calm down. 1285 01:26:35,919 --> 01:26:36,752 - You want me to calm down, 1286 01:26:36,752 --> 01:26:37,787 when you've been sleeping with a nigger? 1287 01:26:37,787 --> 01:26:40,342 Go and play her. 1288 01:26:40,342 --> 01:26:45,342 (gun fires) (moody jazz music) 1289 01:27:16,911 --> 01:27:20,117 - I just stayed there, watching her bleed on the ground. 1290 01:27:21,060 --> 01:27:22,623 There was nothing I could do. 1291 01:27:30,303 --> 01:27:34,220 Just thought that somebody should tell the truth, 1292 01:27:34,220 --> 01:27:35,893 about what really happened. 1293 01:28:08,467 --> 01:28:10,835 ♪ Oh ♪ 1294 01:28:10,835 --> 01:28:15,684 ♪ You make ♪ 1295 01:28:15,684 --> 01:28:20,684 ♪ Me feel good ♪ 1296 01:28:22,785 --> 01:28:27,785 ♪ That I am ♪ 1297 01:28:28,513 --> 01:28:33,513 ♪ Still blue ♪ 1298 01:28:37,955 --> 01:28:42,955 ♪ I ♪ 1299 01:28:44,724 --> 01:28:49,724 ♪ Run ♪ 1300 01:28:51,293 --> 01:28:53,543 ♪ From you ♪ 1301 01:29:08,405 --> 01:29:11,405 (smooth jazz music) 1302 01:29:33,412 --> 01:29:36,495 (jaunty piano music) 1303 01:30:19,272 --> 01:30:22,689 (moody orchestral music) 1304 01:30:45,230 --> 01:30:46,063 - [Actor] Dad. 1305 01:30:47,309 --> 01:30:49,170 (chuckles) Dad. 1306 01:30:49,170 --> 01:30:50,003 I love you. 1307 01:30:50,970 --> 01:30:53,523 But you think of yourself as a black man, 1308 01:30:55,170 --> 01:30:58,463 and I, I think of myself as a man. 1309 01:31:11,881 --> 01:31:14,798 (jazz piano music) 1310 01:31:33,141 --> 01:31:38,141 ♪ Oh, crazy ♪ 1311 01:31:39,494 --> 01:31:44,494 ♪ I am ♪ 1312 01:31:46,422 --> 01:31:48,589 ♪ For you ♪ 1313 01:31:59,128 --> 01:32:01,498 ♪ Oh ♪ 1314 01:32:01,498 --> 01:32:06,320 ♪ You make ♪ 1315 01:32:06,320 --> 01:32:11,320 ♪ Me feel good ♪ 1316 01:32:13,472 --> 01:32:18,472 ♪ That I am ♪ 1317 01:32:19,090 --> 01:32:24,090 ♪ Still blue ♪ 1318 01:32:28,702 --> 01:32:33,702 ♪ I ♪ 1319 01:32:35,088 --> 01:32:40,088 ♪ Run ♪ 1320 01:32:41,850 --> 01:32:44,100 ♪ From you ♪ 1321 01:32:54,520 --> 01:32:59,520 ♪ Oh, pity ♪ 1322 01:33:01,031 --> 01:33:06,031 ♪ I am ♪ 1323 01:33:07,901 --> 01:33:10,068 ♪ For you ♪ 1324 01:33:20,948 --> 01:33:23,100 ♪ Oh ♪ 1325 01:33:23,100 --> 01:33:28,100 ♪ I love ♪ 1326 01:33:29,375 --> 01:33:34,375 ♪ When you say ♪ 1327 01:33:34,985 --> 01:33:39,985 ♪ That you ♪ 1328 01:33:40,935 --> 01:33:43,185 ♪ Don't do ♪