Johnny Cool (1963) - full transcript

- Giordano!

Really think he'll be here?

Well, everybody say so.

He's to be best man at the wedding.

Everybody else knows he'll be here,

then the police ought to know it, too.

They do, all the way
up to the chief of police,

who gets paid more from Giordano

than he does from the government.

- Million lira reward and the
man enjoys a wedding feast.

- Sure, but it's only for the living.



The man who tried to collect that reward

wouldn't live an hour.

Giordano's like a king here,

beloved by all his subjects.

Why not?

He steal from the rich
and he give to the poor.

- You really believe that?

- Look at the feast he prepares for them.

They'll remember this day,
and talk about it for years.

All this land, they remember for lifetime,

and for generations after.

Of course, to Girodano,
the people own the land.

Like Robin Hood?

Is he there?



- The one with the chief of police.

- Get a picture of both of them.

, you're crazy.

- Welcome to Monte Piazza, SenorAnderson.

I'm honored to have you here.

- How did you know my name?

- I tell you what you had for breakfast,

or name of a good chambermaid, if you like.

Mr. Giordano, do you mind if I?

- No, you go ahead, use
your machine, it's okay.

Thank you, I didn't know

that you spoke English so well.

- Your American GIs in
war, I learned from them.

In Sicily, always like that.

From each invader, we take something.

My mother could sing in Greek, French.

Always invaded.

My grandfather, he could sing

the songs of the Arabs and Moors.

All of them dead now.

From German, we get this.

- How?

How did you get it?

- Same like GIs, killed Germans.

- You're saying that you
fought with the Americans

against the Germans?

- No, in war, you fight for
yourself, for your own people,

nobody else.

- But the war is over.

- As long as people are
hungry, there will be war.

- I have high honor of
first dance with bride.

- Army troops in helicopters.

Listen, you can hear them.

Halt.

4:30 this afternoon, local time,

a special task force of government troops

cornered and killed the
legendary Sicilian bandit chieftain

Salvatore Giordano.

In order to overcome any superstitions

the peasants might
have about his mortality,

Giordano's riddled body
and that of his chief lieutenant

are being displayed
in the mountain villages

of this primitive area,

to prove conclusively to his own people

Salvatore Giordano is, in fact,

dead.

- Any problems?

- Everything went as you planned.

- Captain Volga, you've done your job well.

I will see you are promoted to major.

The great Giordano?

The wild king of the hills.

- I'm Johnny Colini.

- Colini?

- We are in Rome, safe,

the way only a dead man could be safe.

The world thinks Giordano is dead.

We left a man in your place that looks

very much, well, enough like you,

especially when he
has very little face left.

The only way I can get you
out of the hands of the army.

- Why?

Because you're.

I have a particular use
for your kind of violence.

Tomorrow, they bury you, Giordano.

There are not very many men who can weep

at their own funeral?

Don't you say thanks for saving your life?

- You say how much you want, and I pay you.

- For what?

In I have...

In you have nothing!

You're dead.

What do they say in your village

when they speak of Colini?

- That he's like a king in America,

a king of murderers.

No more, no more.

For over a year now, I've been in Rome.

You know what deported means?

What would you do if one of your men

informed to the police.

- That could not be.

- But if it did happen?

- That man would be found and killed

if it took a whole lifetime

and the sons had to do it after.

- I have many children.

I do not know the names of most of them

or what happened to them,

but I have no son I would show as my son.

- What do you want of me?

- Here, you will live and live well.

Come.

While you are here, you
will go through a process

of polishing designed
to make you civilized,

a little, not too much,

on the surface, not inside.

When I decide you're
ready, you'll do a job for me,

a job no other man could do.

I want you to go to those who betrayed me,

take back what they
stole to make them dead.

Do that and what is mine is yours.

You will be my son.

- I am no son of Colini.

You disgraced us in America.

- There is a streak of decency in you.

We've got to get rid of that streak.

- They teach you to murder in Chicago

and then they send you back to us.

- And you, who taught you to murder?

- I am no criminal.

I never murder for money.

All I have done, I have done for my people.

- Yes, I'm a criminal, I know it.

I am not kind, I know that.

I'm not even a generous man.

I go to church and lie to God.

What's mine is mine because
I'm selfish, mean, and cruel.

There's no one I can point to and say,

this is the reason why
Colini is a murderer,

but you, you have the people,

poor people.

Listen, Giordano,
you're a liar to yourself.

The people, the poor people,

aren't you weary of taking vows?

You ate well, you've stolen
everything you wanted.

When your belly was full,
you gave the rest away.

I know you, my young friend.

- I am no friend of yours.

- You will be, you have no other choice.

I'll put you in the streets,

you'll be dead within the hour,

or you'll do the job I picked for you,

and you'll become rich!

More money and wealth
than a peasant can dream.

- Tell me in lira.

- You are not to understand
a number that big,

but you'll learn.

Take you a long time, but I will teach you,

I'll teach you America,

the clothes, how to walk, how to act,

who has the money, where it comes from,

which are the important
names and where the power lies,

and when I've finished,

you'll be one of three men in the world

who knows it all.

This I'll teach you but, in the end,

what will count is what's in here.

In your hills, you have
been a glorious success.

We'll now see what you do with a mountain,

America.

You prove you can be the son of Colini,

in a few years when I am gone,

you will inherit my kingdom.

I don't know how long I'll be, just wait.

- Yes, sir.

- Good evening, sir.

- Good evening, sir.

Your table's ready now, sir.

I'll have the drinks sent over.

Follow me, please.

Sidecar.

Imported brandy, make it half sour.

- Yes, sir.

- What do you say we have another drink?

It's empty.

- No, nothing for me, thank you, Adrian,

and I think you've had enough.

- Do I know you?

- No.

- Then what are you looking at?

- I'm looking for the action.

I hear you know where it is.

- I'm afraid you've got
the wrong impression.

I'm in guided missiles, myself,

and my friend is in shopping centers.

- Yeah, and I recognize the bartender.

He's Al Capone's sister.

- George.

George, give me a ♪&B on the rocks.

Make it a double.

- I'm sorry, Mr. Guiness, I told you,

no more service this evening.

Come on, what are you playing with, kids?

- Look, buster, you heard the man, blow.

I beg your pardon?

- I said blow.

- Come on, honey, let's
get out of here, shall we?

This place is rapidly deteriorating.

Miss, may I have a check, please?

- You go ahead, Adrian,
I'll call you tomorrow.

All right, if that's the way you want it.

You sure?

- Sure.

Well, how 'bout it?

- Look, I don't know you.

- My name's Colini, Johnny Colini.

- You any relation?

Why?

- Because if you're using
the name and you're not,

you got pus for brains.

- Brother, you better get
out of here while you still can.

Okay, have one on me.

It'll probably be your last.

- I hope all of that wasn't
because of something

Adrian might have said.

- Adrian, you mean the beard?

No.

- Are you always so vicious?

- Are you a fight fan?

- Why do you say that?

- You look like you enjoyed watching it.

- Well, it was something to see.

My name's Dare Guiness.

Won't you tell me your name?

- Sure.

Johnny Colini.

- Johnny Colini was that
man they had on television

during the crime investigations.

The one they call Johnny Cool.

- There's a lot of Colinis.

- Your name really Johnny Colini?

Okay, we got a bad start,
where you from, Chicago?

- I'm there.

- You know anyone?

- A few people.

Russ, Frank, Vito.

- Who do you know in Florida?

- Steimann boys.

You want more names?

- You know mine?

- Jerry March.

- That's right.

Well, you made quite an impression.

My friend's hurt pretty bad.

- You hurt a man's
friend, you hurt the man.

- But that's old country talk.

- I went to school in Rome, two years.

- About the action, I'll let you know.

Where do I get in touch?

- I'm out at the track.

I'm out there every day.

- You're not waiting to
see how your friend is.

- Well, there's nothing I can do for him.

I'm not a doctor.

- You don't really care if
you know me or not, do you?

- Honey, I'm not buying.

- You couldn't.

- Then it's easy.

Just forget it.

Take me to Jilly's.

After I heard Colini, I called right away.

There were hotel records
in Vegas and Miami,

but nobody knew him, nobody.

He's tough, he's got money.

He knows all kinds of things he shouldn't.

Look, Mr. Santangelo,
you give me the green light

and I'll put him where
the fish will eat him.

- You, you, Mr. Kromlein,

you're so big in your mouth?

A man comes into a bar, makes trouble.

Don't you know enough to walk away?

When are you gonna learn,
nothing happens in public!

- Look, Mr. Santangelo...

- Stop with the Mr. Santangelo!

When things are running smooth, it's Vince,

and when it's a little
trouble, it's Mr. Santangelo.

You go to the movies, we wanna talk.

The horses are nearing the starting gate.

Number six, 10 times.

Number six, 10 times.

Hi.

- Well, it can't be a coincidence.

- No.

I heard you say that you
were going to be here.

I wanted you to know
that I thought it over,

and you can buy me

a drink.

- Why not?

Right over here.

And there they go.

Lucky Judy right behind Tom Turkey.

- We don't really have to have a drink

if you want to watch the race.

- What will you have?

I don't know, anything,
whatever you're having.

- Whisky and water, two.

- That was the $100 window.

Yes.

- What horses?

Number six.

- Are you that rich or are
you just that sure of yourself?

- You want to try for both?

- He's at the bar with
a sharp-looking broad.

He must have a couple of
thousand on the six horse.

- You stay with him, find out who she is.

- I'm 27,

I grew up in Scarsdale
with all the advantages,

braces, dancing school, riding lessons,

the whole bit.

I've been divorced for about a year

from a boy who grew up the same way.

He, well,

you've seen Adrian.

Yes, so what do you do for kicks now?

- There haven't been many,

until last night.

I want to know you.

All men look like men,
but so few really are.

What kind of work do you do?

- I'm a missionary.

- Oh, you want a mission now?

- Why all the questions?

- Are you a gambler?

Well, what do you do?

- I do my best.

- Who got it?

Six horse won all by himself.

- Six, that's your horse.

- Let's get out of here.

I can cash these in tomorrow.

Bartender, it's been a lucky day.

- 100 bucks?

Hey, what did the six horse pay?

- It's not up yet.

All I know, he was 10 to
one, and I didn't have him.

Give me a double martini.

- Here, start with this, pal.

I gotta see a man about a horse.

- Hello, Jerry.

I checked all over.

In Vegas, there was a Johnny Colini,

registered at the Sands.

He calls himself Johnny Cool.

The name made their ears go up.

Yeah, big tipper.

A lot of money, all cash.

He troubled nobody.

They said there's a million like him.

He's traveled all over, left his mark,

everybody remembers him,

but nobody knows him.

Boy, that fettuccine is the wildest

I've had in a long time.

How 'bout the?

Sicily, that's where you're from, isn't it?

Good night, Dare.

- Johnny Cool, that's what
they ought to call you.

- Late date?

- No, it's probably Adrian.

Come on in.

Hello?

Well, yes, he is.

It's for you.

- Hello?

Yeah.

Now, sure.

Berner Garage, Northside, Andrews 18.

Okay, I'll be there.

- How would anyone know you'd be here?

- I don't know, do you?

Shall I wait?

- Forget it.

You clean?

- Yeah.

Rules of the house, I
have to check you, okay?

- Okay.

Okay, go in.

Red's the loser.

Here we go, let's go, come on, Jones.

200 lines.

300 line.

Glad you could make it.

- You fellas operate in style.

- This is a permanent game.

We own this garage and the hotel above it.

Come to the table?

Game is open craps.

Make the book.

Here we go, boys.

And it's seven. - And he's seven.

So, another winner.

Here we go, let's go, come on, Jones.

200 line.

- 300 line. - 300 line.

300, he's covered

200 more with them.

200 here.

Got it covered, here's the bet.

That's five, that's five, all right, shoot,

new point again.

Come on, dice, let's go, dice.

Why'd you come here?

- Take your cover. - 200 on the cuff.

Two more hundred on the cuff.

Now I know you'll shoot that, right?

- Shoot. - 200 coming.

- 200 coming. - Right, here we go.

Seven, a winner.

- 200. - 200 more to come.

He's a good shooter.

- 1000 he's wrong.

- You got another thousand, boy?

- Boy.

That's 200 here, no more bets,

let's shoot, let's go, guys.

- Seven one time.

Craps, a loser.

Johnny?

Police.

You Dare Guiness?

- Yes.

What's wrong?

It's about Johnny Colini.

You may know him as Johnny Cool.

Could we come in, please?

- Yes, of course.

Is he in some kind of trouble?

- He sure is, lady.

How well do you know him?

- Barely at all, I only met him yesterday.

- What did he tell you about himself?

- Not much, really.

- Where's he from?

- Italy, I think.

- What makes you think that?

- Well, we went to a
little Sicilian place and...

- He told you he was from Sicily?

- Well, no, not exactly.

- Miss Guiness, if you know something

you're not telling us... - I don't.

- What's he doing in New York?

- I don't know.

- Suppose I tell you.

- Save your breath.

Can't you see he's got here lined up, too?

- What do you mean?

That's right, that's what he does.

Besides girls, he pushes dope.

- I don't believe that.

- You better get in here for a while.

Why should I?

- If you don't tell us anything,

then we don't tell you anything.

Now go on, get in there!

Go on!

All right, we've got a new shooter.

Put your bets down.

- 500 line. - $500.

- I got 2,500 says he's right.

- Yeah, 2,500 says he's right.

- Covered.

All bets are down, shoot.

Let's go dice, one time, baby.

Eight, the point is eight.

- Let's make that 500 more.

- Okay, George, my pleasure.

Okay, now let's go, dice.

You can do it.

Seven, you lose.

- Well, that taps me out.

- Yeah, that taps us out.

- Say, you're pretty lucky, boy.

New shooter.

The dice are mine.

Next shooter.

- Educated, the dice are
yours, if you want them.

- Yeah, that's something else.

The dice are mine.

Ain't that terrific?

My dice.

- Okay, we got a new shooter coming out.

What do you want?

- Two he's wrong.

- 1,000 he's right.

- Covered.

And,

five for me.

- No, allow me.

Seven, a winner.

- Sure, we've been perfect
gentlemen as cops go.

No, not a thing.

Strictly legit, she works
for some designing house.

There's eight checks here, made out to her

from this guy Guiness, all uncashed,

alimony I guess.

- Are you sure you're getting everything?

- I don't know, she could be holding out.

- Muscle her and find out.

- How much muscle?

- I don't care.

Leave her something to remember you by.

- It'll be a pleasure.

Says we should leave her something

to remember us by.

All right, Miss Guiness,
you can come out now.

Miss Guiness.

You needn't be afraid,
we're not going to hurt you.

Seven, a winner.

Seven.

- You're a good mechanic.

I enjoy watching you work.

I got 8,000 left, want it?

- Why not?

I figure Educated's gonna stay lucky.

- Now we swing.

11, a winner, 11.

- Amazing.

- Yeah, ain't it?

- How much do you want?

Scared money never made money.

You want the 16?

- Nothing, I'm sitting this one out.

- Yeah, well save a
dance for me, pretty boy.

- How 'bout it, Johnny, you got your sister

booked busy tonight?

Laugh it up, we'll each owe you two bits.

Now we're going to play a different game.

- Come on, help them out.

- All right, let's finish the game.

I got a little left over.

6,000.

Only this time, I'm
betting the shooter wins.

Open craps, like you said,
I can bet win or lose, right?

Pick them up.

- You better know what
you're doing, friend.

- Not only what but to who.

When you asked me names,
you didn't ask me New York,

but I'll give you a name, Don Vincenzo,

only you call him Mr. Santangelo.

Shoot, little man.

And stay lucky, hear?

- You never can tell what
the dice are going to do.

- Roll two fives back to back.

- He can't roll two fives back to back,

gun or no gun.

- You're wrong, Mr. March.

Right now, at this moment,

the only number I can't roll is one.

I'll work on it.

- Cover me.

10, two fives.

- Five, five, nice conventional start.

10, a winner.

Two fives.

- My, you are talented.

The 12 rides.

Come on, Kromlein,
get a piece of the action.

Something tells me to stay with him.

Seven, a winner.

- Monotonous.

- Anytime you get bored,
we can quit, Mr. Colini.

- Well, Educated hasn't
given us the full show yet.

One roll, and we call it a night.

24,000, that's what's lying there.

Let's see an 11.

- You wouldn't settle
for a seven, would you?

- No, baby.

- 11.

11, winner.

- Hey,

hey, guys, you know, you
win some, you lose some?

Craps, a loser.

- You know, I could think of
worse ways to spend the night.

- No!

- Who did this to you?

Was it because of me?

- I didn't know anything to tell them.

That's all for tonight,
see you in the morning.

- I'll wait for your call, sir.

- Good night. - Good night, sir.

- Want to stop for breakfast?
- Yeah, I'm starved.

I'm buying.

- Hey, mac.

You forgot something
at the girl's apartment.

What girl?

Either you can handle

your own people or you can't.

The boy hurt them, Vince.

- Well, take care of it.

Don't come to me.

What's so important?

The boy comes here and uses a name,

and uses a gun at a crap table.

- The gun he used was a berretta,

and he called you Don Vincenzo,

and here in the papers
where they say mutilated,

the men were marked.

- And they made tricks with her,

and that's why the boy marked them?

- No, no, no, he couldn't
have done it, Vince.

He didn't know who they were,

he didn't know where they were.

He couldn't be in two places at once.

Now, Vince, that's what worries me.

How do we know how many
people this Colini has with him?

- Don't use that name!

There's only one Johnny Colini,

and that's an old man in Rome.

- Vince, I never turn my back on instinct.

Now what if Cool sent him?

You know how he feels about things,

how he feels about you.

We'd better have a
meeting, I'm telling you.

- No!

I'm telling you,

you bring this boy to me.

- That's what he wants, I'm sure.

- Very nice.

That's very nice.

So we give him what he wants.

You don't look like him.

How are you related.

- I'm not.

- You're his man.

- I'm no one's man.

I'm Johnny Colini.

- You want in.

- I already am.

- You're a stranger to it.

- Not anymore.

Not after the last few days.

- Very violent.

He chose you well.

All right, we'll use you.

It'll do us all some good.

I'm not here for a job.

- You're like we were in the beginning.

We drink on it?

- I'm here to take it all.

- All of what?

I thought you knew something.

- Your names, places.

How about I give you the
locations in Turkey and Mexico

where it's grown,

or the name of the importer in Marseilles,

and which of his ships brings it in,

the pharmaceutical houses in Milano

that process it into H,

or, if that's all too far away,

how about the name of the wholesale jobber

over in Jersey who handles

over a ton of benzedrine a month.

- You talk like a mystery story.

Here, we're a legitimate business,

everything legal.

- I know,

that's why I want the unissued stock

in the six corporations, all of it,

signed over to me.

The New York contracting interests,

the Vegas setup,

the post store you can keep, if you retire.

- And if I don't?

- Then I take that, too.

- You won't get what you
want by using violence with us.

You got yours with a gun.

- Way back in the beginning, yes.

- Then I'll get mine as you got yours.

I'm giving you 24 hours to deliver

the unissued stock to the trust department

of the Chase National Bank

in my name.

- If I lift my hand, you die,

here in this room, right now.

- What difference would that make?

You think I'm here alone?

- He is from Cool, isn't he?

- I want Rome, Italy. - Yes, sir?

- 2-4-0-0-4-1.

Yes, sir.

- By tonight, we'll have a man here

who'll tell us for sure.

Meantime, I want you to
arrange to pick up the girl.

- But I told you, she
doesn't know anything.

- He cares for her,

or he wouldn't have done what he did.

- Yeah, and what about him?

- Well, he'll be here
for at least 24 hours.

He promised.

- The men who did this to you are dead.

I killed them with a knife
I took from your kitchen.

- Who are you?

- I'll tell you my real name

even though it won't mean anything to you.

I'll tell you why I'm here
and what I'm going to do.

And after I've told you these things,

I want you to come with me.

Will you come?

Apartment 334, right around the corner.

- How's she going to open up

if she already took the pills?

Miss Guiness, open up, Miss Guiness.

- You better use your passkey.

You're just wasting time.

- They came to get me, didn't they?

It's true,

all those crazy things you told me.

Johnny, what do you expect to do alone

against all this?

They'll kill you.

- No, I'm the one who'll do the killing

all over this country in the next 48 hours,

and, when I'm finished, they'll think

they've been hit by an army.

Everything depends on time now.

You know what you have to do.

- I may never see you again.

We'll be together by noon tomorrow.

Okay, driver, the airport.

United Airlines, flight 819.

- That's your mainliner
flight they're calling now,

Mrs. Miller.

Your husband's ticket will be
ready for him when he arrives.

- Thank you.

- I tel you, you cannot
afford to miss these bargains.

We are not selling cars today,
we are giving them away.

We are overstocked.

I tell you, come down
here, take any freeway,

but get down here.

If you're cooking, stop cooking,

if you're on the couch, get off that couch

and come down and see these bargains.

I won't be responsible
if you get down here,

there's no cars left.

These are the bargains, I tell you.

You come down here and you deal with me.

You will find that I will give you,

you don't need anything at all,

no references, no
credit, just an honest face.

Bring your honest face right
down here to the lot today,

and now back to our movie.

- Very good, Mr. Holmes, let me unplug you.

Be a half hour to the next spot?

- Thank you.

I'm sorry I kept you waiting.

- We do these TV commercials.
- That's all right.

- You really gotta drive it in.

It's not like something
where you go out and just talk,

you know, you gotta sell these cars,

and you'd be surprised how many people

recognize me just from
doing these TV commercials.

They think I'm a TV star or something,

but all I am is a used car salesman.

Now this is the car that
you have picked out,

is that right, Miss Goodman?

- Yes, that's right. - May I tell you

you are a very lucky girl.

You will love this car, and
drive with the roof down,

and have you ever
driven in California before?

Yes, no... - You haven't, well then

listen to me, because
the California drivers here

are just like maniacs.

They're driving those
sports cars, they come

zooming by right through the right,

you'll never even know they're there.

- Now you have my personal check.

- Oh yes, yes, ma'am.
- I signed this, please.

- Yes, ma'am, if you'll
just sign right here,

Miss Goodman.

That's it, that makes
it a consummated deal.

- Yes, thank you, thank you.

- Have a nice time and enjoy yourself.

I'll put the sticker in
and you can drive away.

- Oh, um. - Yes?

There you are, Miss
Goodman, you are all set.

Any trouble at all, don't forget,

you contact me and not the mechanic.

- Yes, of course, oh, could you tell me

the quickest way to the Beverly Hilton?

- Beverly Hilton?

Is that where you're going
to be staying, Miss Goodman?

At the Beverly Hilton?

Just asking.

Just asking.

This is a very goo attache case

in top grain cowhide.

- That's the one I want.

- Fine, the price is $65.

Will that be cash or charge?

- Cash.

I can have this monogrammed right away?

- Of course.

May I have your name, please?

- Lawrence Martin.

The initials?

- Just I.M.

- So, either we begin pouring concrete

at eight o'clock Monday morning

or we're liable for penalties.

$40,000 a day, gentlemen.

- The councilman's committee
is public service, Lou.

Your problem is with the building code.

- Pouring delays have
put us behind schedule

at least a month.

Now, 31 days at 40,000 per,

that's a million and a
quarter down the drain.

Now, we went over the city charter.

No attorneys, just Miss
Connolly and myself.

But we found something I
think that might interest you.

- Section three, paragraph 7A.

- That's the section on
condemnation procedure.

You're not suggesting
that 300 feet of public street

be condemned?

- According to city charter,

it's the council's duty to condemn.

- When it's in the public interest.

- Exactly.

- But how do you consider
this the public interest?

- Mr. Murphy raises a
very interesting point.

It's worthy of consideration.

- Thank you very much, Mr. Councilman.

That's all we ask.

Can't tell you how much we appreciate

you taking time off from
a very busy schedule.

- That's what we're here for.

- Can I buy you a drink before you leave?

- No thanks, I don't believe so.

Good day, Miss Connolly.

I have an appointment at the office.

- Say, did you hear the
story about the Democrat

and Republican went in the Turkish bath

and the rubber had cold hands.

Oh, it's precious.

That's it.

Put it back in.

- Do you think it's all set, Lou?

- Honey, if there's one
thing that old hack knows

is that he couldn't get elected dog catcher

without Santangelo.

Can't hardly find campaign contributions,

all cash, undeclared, unrecorded anymore.

- That reminds me.

What were those calls from Vince today?

- Some fishing expedition.

He thinks the man from Rome is behind it.

- Colini?

- It's nothing.

The way I put old Col out, he'll stay out.

- But Vince never calls unless
he's worried about something.

- He's getting old, they all are.

- Except you, you old goat.

- Peter, you're well named.

The angel of mercy himself.

- Thank you, Mr. Murphy.

- As the drunk said,
you don't eat the stems,

they're the best part.

Here's another sinner, needing your help.

Snatch a little salvation,
my boy, while you can,

you understand?

- Thank you.

- What'll it be?

- Martini, please.

Such small time for wee pleasures,

and the little lady's waiting
in the station wagon.

Here you are, Peter, get yourself a woman.

Thank you, Mr. Murphy.

- Thank you, my boy, very nice of you.

You married?

- No.

Play it smart.

Well, keep charging, yeah, that's it.

Put it back.

- Hey, hey, look, I'm sorry.

I gave you the wrong briefcase by mistake.

You've got mine.

- Oh no, no, no, son, this is mine.

You see, it's got my initials on it.

- I.M., those are my initials, too.

- Yeah, well that's a coincidence,

but I'm sure this is mine, I can tell you.

- No, you're wrong, I'm telling you.

Look, let me open mine, I'll show you.

- Yeah, but you better hurry, see,

I don't want to miss that train

and the little lady with the station wagon.

The martinis will get hot.

Dare?

- Johnny, where are you?

- I'm at Idlewild now.

I'm leaving in a few minutes.

- The car is a 1957
two-toned Ford convertible.

It's parked on the roof level of the garage

at the Hilton hotel.

Fine.

- What happened?

- Everything went all right.

- The camera and everything you need

is on the front seat of the car.

When you get here, will you come up?

- I'll come up if I have time.

- Johnny, what happened?

- You'll read about it.

To be called away from Rome without time

to invent a proper excuse for Colini?

My army commission, my whole
position there could be ruined.

- Your position?

Well it's given you enough
so you could grow rich.

You had a job.

Tell us about Colini, see.

- How's an old man?

He lives on his hill

like a retired citizen,

and every day has his vitamins

and hormone injections to make him young.

And every night there is a new girl,

never is the same one.

- And how about this young man he sent?

What young man?

I know nothing about any young man.

- We will see.

- Hello?

Oby Hinds, please.

I warn you, Mr. Hinds,

if you don't open that
door and let me out of here

this instant, I'll...

- You'll what?

- I don't think you quite realize

whom you're dealing with, Mr. Hinds.

- Oh, I think I do.

Margaret Huntington, Santa Barbara, right?

- Quite right.

- I've got here four checks,

totaling $1,250,

signed Margaret Huntington.

They're no good.

- That's impossible.

There must be some mistake.

- Yeah.

- It's for you, Mr. Hinds.

- Hello, what is it?

Where from?

- From Rome.

From Johnny Colini.

I've got to talk to you and Ben Morrow.

Colini wants to make a deal.

- There's nothing to talk about.

- I think you're wrong,
there's a lot to talk about,

like what happened to Louie Murphy.

- I'll get Ben, you come right up.

- Well, you better make
it about 15 minutes.

I'm calling from downtown.

It'll take me that long
to get to your joint.

- All right.

Someone's coming up to
see me in about 15 minutes.

I don't know who it is, so check him good

at the elevator.

- Yes, sir.

- I can make those checks good.

- Yes, I think you can.

- All right, I have some
jewelry in my room.

- It's beautiful glass.

And that Jaguar you've got
parked out there is rented.

I hate grifters.

They live in your rooms,
they eat your food,

they buck your tables,
and then they don't pay.

Well, you're going to
make those checks good.

1,000 in 100s.

No 50s.

- 2,000 back in 100s.

- 300 in 20s.

- Mr. Morrow, Mr. Hinds
would like to see you

in his suite as soon as you can, please.

- Just a few minutes.

Thanks, Pete.

- 300 is right in 20s.

- Come on, dice.

Come on, dice!

That's it, I'm through.

I'm a born loser and I know it,

so I'm going home.

- Hold it, pal.

I'm a winner, and I'm
popping for a couple of belts.

- I'll never say no to that.

- And look at these two chicks.

We're not gonna let them go to waste.

How about a couple of drinks?

- Well, that sounds
like a pretty good idea.

- You sit right over here.

You sit right over here.

- I'll take the blonde.

The brunette reminds me of my wife.

- All right, what will it be?

Hi, Ben.

Mike Singer, remember?

Yeah, yeah sure, Mike, how are you?

In the old days in Detroit.

- Yeah, yeah, how's it going?

- Well, not so good, you know.

No, no, Ben, this is no touch.

I just wanted to say hello.

- Yeah, I understand.

I appreciate it.

Forget it, I'll see you.

- Thanks, Ben.

There's one of the sweetest
guys you'll ever want to meet.

You know, the is right.

They don't make them
like Ben Morrow anymore.

- I'll be back before you finish these.

- And hurry, I left my
money at the crap table.

- Are you the gentleman
that come to see Mr. Hinds?

- That's me, there's a special pocket

on the inside of my
jacket on the left-hand side,

permit's in my wallet.

- I'm sorry, but I'll have
to keep this anyway.

You can pick it up at
the desk on the way out.

- Anything you say.

Can I go in now?

- Yes, Mr. Hinds is expecting you.

Checked him out and he's okay.

- Thank you, Pete.

Don't you trust your own security men?

They just went over me outside.

- Oby, please, we just wanna talk.

- Go ahead, talk.

- Not this way.

- Stand still, you.

- There's no need for trouble.

Let's find out who this gentleman is.

Then, if necessary, we can call the police.

- What's your name, boy?

- Johnny Colini.

- You hear that, Ben?

This is the one we got the call about.

The new Johnny Cool.

Why are you here, what do you want?

- What you took from Colini.

- What we took?

- Stand aside, Ben.

All right, I'll give it to you for him,

both barrels right in the belly.

- Oby, no.

I've tried to live in such a way

that no man could have reason to hate me.

- I know, I've heard
about what a saint you are.

- No, I've done plenty wrong,

but I've tried to make up for it.

- How do you make up for informing?

- Oh, so that's it.

Vendetta.

He told you I betrayed
him so I could steal.

Colini lied.

- You lie.

- Johnny Cool, he gave you his name.

Did he also tell you you would be his son?

Me, he told I would be his brother.

But in the 20 years, all he did was use me,

like he's using you now.

You are only his delivery boy.

And when you are finished killing for him,

he will pay you as he is paying me now.

I won't be alive to pay off,

but I'll lay you even money I'm right.

And I'll give you a price on
how long before he gets you,

six to five, three days.

- Hi, we all set to leave?

- Any minute, sport.

How'd you do?

I got some wonderful pictures.

- Did you win any money?

- I don't gamble, it's against my religion.

- Oh, I wish it was against mine.

I wouldn't have to push this bus.

Get in the end of the line.

- I could buy this bus.

Boy, I murdered them here.

How did you do?

- I did all right.

Hold it, Larry, hold it.

- Hey, what's wrong?

I got my usual line of chickens here.

- Well, somebody really rocked the town.

- Yeah? - Yeah, got Obi Hinds

and Ben Morrow.

- Well, when you gotta go, you gotta go.

Well, I'll have to check out your people.

- Are you kidding?

Larry, those are my orders.

Now don't kibbitz, we're not playing poker.

- I'm not kibbitzing.

Get a load of that line.

I'm used to farmers and hayseeds,

but these guys take the cake.

Get a load of Charlie Camera over there.

He don't gamble, he's got religion.

Frisk him, maybe you'll
come up with a Bible.

And, while you're at
it, search that Indian.

- I'm very sorry, folks,

but this is a necessary delay.

You, is that a Nikon?

- It's something like it,
except for the rangefinder.

- You know, it looks just like a Nikon.

Everybody's imitating everybody.

You, you're too good to be true, come here.

- Wait a minute, wait.
- Never mind, cowboy.

Wait a minute,

- you're making a mistake.
- I want to talk to you.

Now just come along.

Now don't give me any trouble.

Larry, take the rest of
the good people home.

They all look a little bushed.

- Yeah. - Wait a minute.

Please, will you get in there, please.

- How you been, those things happen,

you can't help it, you know, hiya, kid,

you're looking great, yes.

Oh, Pop, you're fine, you're good,

you're in great shape,

you got wampum.

That's it, yeah, okay, you all set?

Everybody all set, all right, here we go.

- No, don't leave me.

Don't leave me!

No, don't leave me alone, no.

Don't leave me alone.

All right, all right.

- Johnny!

I dreamed, I dreamed you wouldn't be back.

I dreamed they killed you.

Listen to me!

When I saw you down there last night

and you didn't come up, I died.

All night, waiting!

I didn't know I could
even think such things.

Johnny, it doesn't matter what you do.

Nothing's real anymore
except you, do you understand?

What is it, what's the matter?

- I've got to go away.

I'll get dressed, it
won't take me a minute.

- No, I'm going alone.

Where?

- Mexico, and then back to Sicily.

- Johnny, you didn't hear me.

You can't leave me, I'm
nothing without you.

- We are both nothing.

- Tell me what happened, tell me!

- Less than nothing.

That's what he called me when I killed him.

- What does it mean?

- Colini's delivery boy of death.

- It doesn't matter what he said!

- You should've seen what
he looked like when he died.

I believe him, Colini lied, he used me.

All he wanted was for me to do for him

what he couldn't do for himself.

- Johnny, you have to take me with you.

- I was Giordano!

I'll go back to Sicily.

- In Sicily, Giordano is dead.

Running there is not going
to bring him back to life.

Here, be Giordano here.

- What the hell do you know about anything?

- Intelligence is not confined to men!

Three days ago, my life was concerned

with getting to the beauty parlor on time,

getting my laundry ready for the cleaners,

making my mind up about
a new shade of lipstick.

Well, there was something hidden deep in me

that I didn't even know existed.

Whatever it was, you freed it,

and now my life is yours,

and I'm telling you, Giordano,

that you've got to finish what you started.

Not for the man in Rome, but for yourself.

Johnny Cool is a name, Giordano was a man!

Be Giordano again.

Do what he would do.

- Why not?

Why not?

- Johnny, I need you, I need you right now.

- Giordano we'll find,

but there'll always be another Giordano.

A different face, a different name?

The only way to make sure that a thing ends

is to dispose of the principal.

- That's impossible!

I was in Rome last year.

Colini's villa is like Fort Knox.

- Anything can be done!

Three men are dead, and
the decision is very, very clear.

The man in Rome dies or we die.

All right, let's see what he wants.

He knows the rule, let's
see if he takes the warning.

- Do you know what it
means to be very rich?

- Hello, Vince, how are you?

How's the family?

- Hey, Johnny, I haven't got
too much time to talk to you.

I gotta get out to Vegas.

Murrow and Hinds, you know.

- Yeah, I know.

- You heard about poor Louis?

I can't understand what's happening there.

Ben didn't have an enemy in the world.

- Well, that young man from Sicily,

you know, the one who's dead.

Well, Johnny, he's here,

and he says that you sent him.

- Me, no.

- We thought that you could tell us

what the young man wanted, Johnny.

- How, Vince?

I'm here, how would I know?

- We're meeting, Johnny,

and we've decided that this can't go on.

- Of course, Vince, I
agree, do what you have to,

and right away.

- You understand we
had to check with you first.

- I understand everything,
and I'll say it, Vince.

And by the way, Vince,

give my best to Virgo?

- Yeah.

You heard him.

Now are you sure?

- First, Giordano.

- I checked the suitcase
a couple of months ago

in a hotel on Kuanga.

We'll have to pick it up.

- Johnny, about the car,

you know I had to use
my own license to rent it.

- I told you, it doesn't matter.

We'll be back in New York when it happens.

- The FBI's been checking,
but so far, that's all we know.

What you see is a group
of interlocking corporations.

Garment manufacturing, construction,

oil, soft drink distribution,

vending machines, import, export,

and metal processing.

The attorney general's
office has been watching

this complex grow since
the end of World War II,

but so far, that's all we've
been able to do, watch.

The corporate and tax structure
is the model of legitimacy.

But now, with these murders,
Louis Murphy in New York,

Oscar B. Hinds and Benjamin
Morrow here in Las Vegas,

is the break we've been waiting for.

It means, gentlemen, that war's broken out,

a war for the control
of syndicate dominated

legitimate business.

And the general directing
the attack is the one we want.

He goes by the interesting
and familiar name

of Johnny Colini or Johnny Cool.

- For the individual described, we find

no fingerprints on file,
no draft registration,

no record of previous military service,

no record of arrests, no hunting, fishing,

driver's license issued ever,

no social security number.

- Maybe there's no such man.

- There is, and he's not alone.

- That's all we have, gentlemen.

Not a hell of a lot, but
we've got to find Johnny Cool.

- You drive.

- Why upside down?

The dynamite in this
suitcase would take out

half the block if opened right side up

by the wrong person.

It's three o'clock now.

14 hours will make it five in the morning.

When it goes off, we'll be in NewYork

having an eight o'clock
breakfast at Reuben's.

- What's he like, Johnny?

- Among other things,
he's in the oil business.

That's all I know.

- Have you ever seen him?

- We got two miles to go to Sunset.

I'll tell you when to turn.

- What's his name?

- What difference does it make?

Crandall, Lennart Crandall, okay?

- Why don't you try
telling the truth just once?

You know you came out because you thought

I wasn't home.

- Len, I swear to you, all I
want is to see the children

for a half an hour.

- You have no visiting privileges

except those the court designated.

Oh, Len, please.

- Now look, you were supposed
to have them all of August.

Now, it's not my fault you were in Madrid.

Say, incidentally, how'd the picture go?

- There was no picture, you know that.

- Well, that's too bad.

However, that's show
business, as you people say.

- Oh, is that what it is?

Don't you think I know all about

your oil interests over there?

Len, I want my children.

- Well, they're mine, too.

Or do I presume too much?

- Len,

they need their mother.

- Unfortunately, the court decided

that their mother was unfit.

- Yes, you arranged that
very nicely, didn't you?

- Yes, I did, didn't I?

- Daddy, Daddy, is Mommy here?

Timmy said he heard Mommy.

- I'm so sorry, Mr. Crandall, I was...

- It's all right, Miss Stewart.

Well, you can see for yourselves, boys,

she isn't here.

- Come on, boys, you better take a nap now.

- That's quite all right, Miss Stewart.

Say, instead of a nap, boys,
why don't we take a swim?

Now go in the bathhouse and get your suits.

Come on.

Hey, boys, I'll go in the
garage and get the boat, okay?

- Come on, please, you
know how mad he gets.

Hurry up.

- Come on, love, you're so tense.

We're just tourists looking at the view.

Over there, Beverly Hills,
home of the movie stars.

And I'll plant it right down there

so the cliff holds the blast in.

Tomorrow, they'll hear it clear back

in that penthouse in New York.

- What if somebody sees you?

- They won't.

- Johnny, is that him?

Come on.

- No, Johnny, not now.

- Now is sure, later is maybe.

Drive up the canyon about 100 yards,

make a U-turn and come
right back down to here.

Keep the motor running,
and leave it in drive.

Get in.

Get in.

Hurry up, boys, I'm waiting.

Timmy, Bobby, I want you
out here right this minute.

- We'll be right there!

Come on, boys, on the double.

Hey, Timmy, Bob, come on, boys.

- Get down!

Slow down.

More.

That's good.

Now just keep on like this
until we get to Mulholland.

I'll get out there.

- You... - Watch the road!

Now, listen, I'll get a
cab in front of the hotel.

You drive into Beverly
Hills and park the car

for a few hours.

- Where will I go, what will I do?

- Go shopping, get your hair done.

Don't bring the car
back til after five o'clock.

Check out of the hotel
and take a cab to the airport.

Buy a ticket on the
first flight to New York.

- Johnny, please let me go with you.

I'm afraid to be alone.

- I'll meet you at the Real Tony's

tomorrow at seven o'clock.

- Please, Johnny!

Pull over and stop,
not here, at the corner!

- I'm sorry, Johnny.

It's all right.

Tomorrow night, seven
o'clock, the Real Tony's.

- That would work out
if you want a manicure.

Oh, that would be perfect.

Okay, all right, Miss Johnson, thank you.

Yes, may I help you?

- Yes, please, my hair shampoo and set.

Oh, the name, please?

You do have an appointment?

- No.

Oh, the earliest we
could take you would be...

- Oh, no, no, it's not
important, thank you,

thank you very much. - All right.

- Dare!

Dare Guiness.

- Suzy.

- Oh, isn't this marvelous?

When did you get into town?

No one said anything about your coming.

Is anything the matter?

No, just tired, I guess.

I just got in this morning.

- That makes it perfect, you can drive

back down to Newport
with me this afternoon.

- Well, it all sounds
wonderful, but I can't.

- Why not, Bill's got the boat down there.

The whole crowd's going to
come down for the weekend,

Tess and Rory and the Burfords.

Can't you postpone
whatever it is and come down?

- I told you, Suzy,
it's impossible, I can't!

- Okay.

We'll be back in town
on Monday, will you call?

Yes.

- Would you like me to make an appointment?

- No, no,

thank you, thank you very much.

Bye bye, Suzy.

- Bye, Dare.

- Same time next week?

- Can I give you a lift?

- You still want me to go?

- To Newport?

- Yeah.

- Bill will be so surprised.

Come on, my car is right down here.

- I have a confirmed
reservation to New York

on flight 818, the name is Johnson.

It's in Wilke Hall.

- Oh, here we are, Mr. Johnson.

- Thank you.

- They're boarding in
area 75, you better hurry.

- Thank you. - I'll phone and tell them

you're on your way.

- She sure isn't feeling any pain.

Did she tell anything?

- Not a word.

- Dare, honey, it's time to twist with me.

Well you play it again and I will.

- Oh, watch it.

- A most attractive man over there

has just asked me to
dance and I may just oblige

as soon as he recharges the record.

- Well, now, don't you
think we should sit and talk?

We haven't a chance to.

Oh, Billy boy, Billy boy, charming Billy,

I've got nothing to say,

except being here with
you has saved my life,

and that's the truth, believe it or not.

- Come on, honey, lets' twist, come on.

- I've got a run on a
1961 gray Ford convertible

that answers the description
on the want urgent.

Under the front seat, I found,

I don't know exactly describe it,

but it looks like some
kind of explosive device.

Hi, we all set?

- If the building public relations man

hadn't already okayed this,

I couldn't go for it.

How long you going to be up there?

- I don't know, it depends on the light.

- Well, if you could wait
til tomorrow morning,

I'd have a man free to go up with you.

- I wish I could, but I got a deadline.

- You'll have to sign this release.

This clears the building of responsibility

in case of accident.

- Say, we're not disturbing anyone?

- Oh no, no, the window's are all sealed.

The offices are completely soundproof.

- Good.

Can I take that freight elevator up?

Sure.

Thank you.

He'll come, he said he would.

- He said?

What is he, a boy scout,
always keeps his word?

This one is.

But he's done everything he said, Vince.

He was at the bank, right on the minute.

Four men dead, all in one day.

One man who walked in
the sight of 1,000 people,

he's dead.

Two men who waited
to kill this Johnny Cool,

they're dead.

And another man died in the
privacy of his swimming pool.

Get out?

What good are you doing me in here?

- Age 27, height five feet six, weight 117.

Color of the hair is light
brown, color of eyes, blue.

The description is from a
New York driver's license

issued in the name of Dare Guiness.

Spelling on that is
ID-A-R-E G-U-I-N-E double S.

- There will be no more
24 hour waiting periods.

The time for you to choose is right now.

Either you act with
sense or wherever you go,

wherever you hide, my
people will find each one of you,

like they found Murphy,
Hinds, Morrow, Crandall,

Santangelo.

- Tell us, what do you want of us?

- What's mine, what I've taken.

- But you are Colini's man.

If we let you keep for yourself

what he sent you to get for him,

there will never be
peace as long as he lives.

- With one phone call, he dies.

Tomorrow, when the great Colini

gets his usual injection of hormones,

there will be a bubble
of air in the needle,

and when that bubble reaches his heart,

he will die peacefully, quietly.

- Hi there.

Anybody out here?

It's alive.

- Yeah, well, just barely.

- Look here, have this.

Bill made it this morning for everybody,

guaranteed to bring
you back among the living.

- Yeah, sure it is.

- That's a rather fetching outfit.

I'll get you some clothes.

- Suzy,

was I awful last night?

- No, it's good for you to unwind.

- What did I say?

Nothing, darling.

Be patient with me, baby?

You're the first sane
people I've been with in...

My God, can it only be three days?

- Dare, we don't to pry,

but if you're in any kind of trouble,

please let us help you.

Pair of shorts be okay?

Isn't it terrible?

You wonder what kind of a
person could do a thing like that.

It's sick.

It's a miracle those
little boys weren't killed.

- What little boys?

- These little boys right here.

I didn't see any little.

Dare!

Dare, what's wrong?

- Dare Guiness.

Suzy, do you have any idea

what goes on out there?

Well, you couldn't.

Underworld, I always thought
it was a word for the movies.

Well, it's not, it exists

right out there, just
below what you can see.

A whole world full of monsters.

Dare, I don't know what
you're talking about.

- I met a man

three days ago.

I was with him 10 hours, maybe.

I had just left him
after he killed Crandall

when I ran into you yesterday.

I drove him up the hill with the dynamite,

and now the police have the car.

I'm going to get Bill.

- No!

- Bill will know what to do.

- Maybe, if it weren't for him.

There's nothing anyone can do.

When he wants to, he'll find me.

Not that I really want him to,

it's just that I know

that if he walked through
that door right now,

I'd want him so badly, I'd crawl to him.

- I'm going to get Bill.

Operator, may I help you?

- Hello, operator.

Yes.

- I'd like to call New York,

long distance, person to
person to Mr. Louis Murphy.

Yes, I know Mr. Murphy is deceased.

To whom am I speaking?

This is Miss Connolly.

I was Mr. Murphy's personal secretary.

- All right, if you want
the man who killed him,

he'll be in a restaurant
called the Real Tony's

at seven o'clock tomorrow night.

The Real Tony's?

- And tell them he'll be alone.

Who is this, please?

- He's always been alone.

Please, who is this?

Hello!

- How long, Mr. Cool?

- Not long, wait for me.

- Good evening, Mr. Cool.

- Good evening, Mr. Cool.

The young lady's waiting in the back.

- Thank you.

Put some champagne on ice.

The best you've got.

- For this, you'll die,

every one of you.

In 24 hours, me men will kill you!

- You have no men, Giordano.

You are alone.

- I have an army out there!

- Yes, an army of ghosts.

We know.

The same we knew where to find you.

Your woman told us.

- You will not die.

We have special plans for you.

- I'm the only one left who knows it all!

Without me, you can do nothing!

- True, but you will tell us.

- I will tell you nothing, I'm Giordano!

- You will tell us.

It will take time, but there's
a way even for Giordano.

Poor Verdo, a city man, weak,

but you're strong.

I will tell you nothing!

- We'll lock you up here in the morgue

without food or water,

and we'll beat you, hard, day after day.

- And when you're hungry
enough to eat even goat droppings,

we'll give you salt fish.

- When you're met with thirst,

we will give you wine,

sweet wine, a drop of wine

for each word of truth,

and then you will tell us,

and then you will join the living dead.

- Glass of booze here.

Cocktail never hurt anybody.

Well, looks like we have company.

- A police car just drove up.

Now, we know what we're going to say.

You've been with us for the past four days.

Now, let me do all the talking.

Drink up, drink up.

Yes, sir?

- Mr. Blakely?

That's right, what can I do for you?

- I'd like to see a Dare Guiness.

Miss Guiness is aboard.

Why, what's this all about?

- Well, it seems she
rented a car yesterday and...

- Oh, yes, she told me about that.

Well, you see, she met my
wife in the beauty parlor

in Beverly Hills and they
came right down here

and she left the car
parked at the beauty parlor.

It must have seven tickets on it by now.

- Well, it seems that car was involved

in the killing of Lennart
Crandall yesterday

in Beverly Hills.

Oh, that's terrible, it
must've been stolen.

- Probably.

But I would like to talk to Miss Guiness

about a certain Johnny
Colini or Johnny Cool.

- Johnny Colini, no, I...

- Bill.

It's no use, Bill.

The man you're looking for, he's dead.

I killed him.

- I think you better come with us.

We'll wait while you change your clothes.

- No, let's go now.