The Wild One (1953) - full transcript

It begins here for
me on this road.

How the whole mess
happened, I don't know.

But I know it couldn't happen
again in a million years.

Maybe I could have
stopped it early.

But once the trouble was on its
way, I was just going with it.

Mostly I remember the girl.

I can't explain it,
sad chick like that.

But something changed
in me. She got to me.

But that's later, anyway. This
is where it begins for me.

Right on this road.

Come on, get off the track.



What are you doing? Get over
there. Come on, all of you.

Now they're approaching the
turn for the last lap.

Let's see, Riley and some...

Hillman taking a tumble. And Jones
doing very well to avoid him too.

This is the final lap coming
up and still anybody's race.

That's Conners in the hay. It's a
bad break for Charlie Conners.

And they'll go into the last lap.
Last time around coming up.

They're all hot today.
It's anybody's race.

They're in that order now,
but anything can happen.

Maybe a record...

Come on, Al. Come on. Come
on. Thattaboy. Come on.

Hey, get off the track.
Get off the track.

Please don't cross the track.

Please don't cross
the track. Don't get



hurt. Blood makes
everything slippery.

What's the matter with
you chowder heads?

You in such a big hurry to die?

Those words mean anything to you,

squirrels? Are you
looking for trouble?

These outlaw outfits
always want to

foul things up for everybody else.

Hey, what kind of outfits?
Say that again.

Outlaw outfits, like yours.

Okay, square, right now.

You want to drag Johnny here 100
yards for beers, or you chicken?

- The square's chicken.
- They're all chicken.

You want to see something?
You wanna see Johnny go?

He can really go. He can
really screw it on.

What do you get when you win
one of these scrambles? $5000?

Boy, I'd sure like
to win me $5000.

Hey, you dummy, come here.

If you win, they give you one of
these beautiful gold statues.

- Solid gold.
- Pure solid gold. Dipped.

- What do you do with it?
- Take it home to your mother.

Yeah, then you throw it away.

Break it up, break
it up. Put these

trophies back. All
of you, stand back.

Hey, where can I get me
one of these jazzy suits?

I want to look like a
street cleaner too.

Hey, who are you?
What are you doing

here? You a cop or something?

Come on.

- Don't push anybody.
- Okay, okay, break it up.

We got enough entertainment
around here.

I've seen enough of you
guys to last me forever.

Now, hit the road. I mean
right now. Get going.

We want to watch the
thrilling races, daddy.

One more cute remark and you
won't be riding any cycles.

I'll put the bunch of
you away for a month.

Now, get going.

Hey, fellas, come here.
Look what Johnny won.

Hey, what's the matter
with you? Second place?

So Johnny only won
second place, huh?

What do you mean? First
place was two feet high.

Hey, Johnny, look.

These squares are
having a dance in

Carbonville tonight.
We'll go, huh?

- No, man. That's nowhere.
- Come on. We can clobber it.

Come on, Johnny.
Let's go some place.

Let's get out of here. Every time
you look around, there's cops.

All right, let's get rolling.

This way.

- Where's that bunch from?
- I don't know, everywhere.

I don't even think they
know where they're going.

Termites. Nutty.

Ten guys like that give
people the idea everybody...

that drives a motorcycle is crazy.
What are they trying to prove?

Beats me. Looking for somebody
to push them around...

so they can get sore and
show how tough they are.

They usually find it some
place, sooner or later.

Hey, Johnny, where are we going?

- Let's get gas.
- Yeah, give us some gas.

Hey, gas man.

Ben, business before pleasure.

Jimmy, better put some
more beer on ice.

What is this joint?
What war do you

suppose this joint
was left over from?

Hey, fellas, drag for beers.
Who wants to drag for beers?

Last guy in the door of
that joint buys beers.

Last guy in buys.

Hey, who is it? Who is it?

Art, you all right?
It's Art Kleiner.

Come on.

- Hey, help this man out.
- Hey, help this man out.

Help the man out.
Help the man out.

Put me down. Put me down.

Help the man out.
Help the man out.

- What is all this?
- We're just dragging for beers.

And this guy...

- He doesn't know how to drive.
- Yeah.

There's a boy hurt here.

It's his ankle. Looks pretty bad.

What's all that, Kathy? What's
all that? Somebody killed?

Hey, Crazy, you can't
sleep in the street.

Man, look at this cycle. You
really stacked up this thing.

I'll call Dr Ziegler. Get your
pickup, we'll take him over.

Harry, you seen how it happened.

Those motorcycles were
coming straight at me.

I swung my wheel over
as hard as I could,

but they... Take a look at that.

- What about this, Harry?
- It was an accident. I saw it.

Mark got excited, that's all.

Aren't you going
to arrest anybody?

Take it easy, Art. Take it easy.

I'm not excited. I'm just
telling you what happened.

I tried to miss him,
then he hit me.

My car's a wreck and
somebody has to

pay for the damages,
and I mean it.

Okay. You the big cop in the town?

Next time, tell him
to look where he's

going. He don't know how to drive.

I mean, he ought
to turn one way or

the other. You know what I mean?

There was guys all over the
street trying to miss him.

Now, just a minute...

He's all right, but
my boy's busted up.

- Look here, Harry...
- Forget it, Art. Forget it.

- Some cop, huh?
- See Johnny back him down?

Yeah. What a screwball town.

Art Kleiner's too old to
be driving an automobile.

Where was he going, anyway?

Always going some place.
Crazy, excited.

Taking a lot of vitamin pills,
drinking. Over-stimulated.

Ought to arrest the
whole lot of them.

Call the militia.

- Do you want something?
- Yeah. I'd like a bottle of beer.

- The beer's just in the bar.
- Alrighty.

Why, thank you.

Look, Harry. The fender's
scraping in the tyre.

Wait a minute.

There you are. It won't scrape no
more. Good as the rest of them.

Oh, no. Harry, aren't you going
to do something about this?

- Well, what do you expect me...?
- What do you want Harry to do?

Arrest all these boys? All 30 or
40 of them and whatever there is?

It's the principle.
You let something

like this go by and anything goes.

That's right. Make
your complaint, Art.

I sure will.

That's silly. Your car
is okay, you're okay.

And it's lucky, the way you drive.

- Say, you live here all the time?
- All my life.

We've been over to
Carbonville, at the meet.

Bunch of motorcycles came
through this way yesterday.

They didn't stop. Is
that what they give

you in those races for
killing yourself?

That's right.

You want it?

- No.
- Well, go on, take it. Go ahead.

- No.
- Go on.

You can't do that. You won it.

You have to get your
name engraved on

it, whatever you do.
It's important.

You don't give something like
that away just like that.

Not unless you knew a girl
real well and you liked her.

Hey, Johnny.

About this town, they've
got a doc here.

They'll rewire Crazy.
What are we going

to do? Sit around and
scratch ourselves?

Are we going to wait
for Crazy, or are

we going to get out of this dump?

We're going to wait for Crazy.

Go.

Go, go.

Hey, you guys. Johnny
says we're going

to hang around and wait for Crazy.

They're going to fix him up.

What do we do here?

Give me a swig of this, will you?

Don't fight, boys.
Plenty more where

this came from. It's ice-cold too.

- Hey, doc.
- Yeah.

Hey, where do we eat?

Right there. Bleeker's Cafe.
We'll take good care of you.

- You got some steaks?
- Kansas City steaks?

Well, we serve good meat.

- Where's the motel?
- The hotel is right over there.

Hey, they've got a hotel here.

Hey, come on, lead
me to that brew.

Hey, check the hot rod.

Hey, the fire went out.

How are you doing, blondie?
Hey, baby. Where you going?

Well, look who's here.

- What'll you have, girls?
- Yeah, what will it be, girls?

The usual.

The usual. All right,
just one minute.

And hit us with a couple of beers.

Jimmy, put a couple
more cases on ice.

Kathy said you
wanted some glasses.

That was an hour ago. Never
mind. I'll do it myself.

- Take over here, will you, Jimmy?
- Come on, Jimmy.

I'm dying of thirst.
I'm dying of thirst.

Please stop mumbling.

Jimmy, what do you hicks
do around here for kicks?

What time is it?

Hey, what do you do around
here? Anything ever happen?

- Oh, yes.
- Like what?

- Roses grow.
- Oh, roses grow.

- People get married.
- Married.

Crazy as any place else.

Bugs get on them, cause
trouble sometimes...

that is, if you don't spray good.

Yeah.

- There's no bugs on you, Jim?
- I mind my own business.

That's the way to be, Jim.

I listen to the radio. Music, that

is. News is no good,
excites people.

Hey, Jim, what about
TV? You like TV?

What?

New thing, Jim. Television.

- Oh, pictures.
- Yeah.

No, no pictures. Everything
these days is pictures.

Pictures and a lot of noise.

Nobody even knows how to talk,
just grunt at each other.

- Where you been?
- Working.

Listen, what's happening later?
What are you going to do later?

I work.

You've got to goof off, don't you?

What?

You're not going to
work forever, are you?

It feels like it sometimes.

I'm talking about tonight,
after you finish up?

I have to stay here as
long as we're busy.

It sounds like we'll be
busy until you leave here.

Where are you going
when you leave here?

Don't you know?

Man, we're just going to go.

Just trying to make conversation.
It means nothing to me.

On the weekends we go
out and have a ball.

What do you do? I mean, do
you just ride around...

or do you go on some
sort of a picnic?

A picnic? Man, you are too square.
I'll have to straighten you out.

Listen, you don't go
any one special place.

That's cornball
style. You just go.

A bunch gets together
after all week, it

builds up. The idea
is to have a ball.

If you're going to stay
cool, you've got to wail.

You've got to put something down.

You got to make some jive.
Know what I'm talking about?

- Yeah, I know what you mean.
- Well, that's all I'm saying.

My father was going to take me on
a fishing trip to Canada once.

Yeah?

- We didn't go.
- Crazy.

Solid.

Hey, pops, give me one of those
crazy beers, will you, man?

- Man, that was real cool.
- Thanks, daddy-o.

That's fine old playing.
We've got to get this beer.

Thank you, pops.

Bop me, dad.

I bopped you, dad. Pops, thumb me.

Come on. That's it. Thumb me.

Now, give me some
skin. Ooze it out.

Ooze it out.

- Just nice and... Ooze it out.
- Thattaboy, ooze it.

Now, elbow us. Just elbow us.

Pops, do you pick up on this jive?

What?

Pick up on this jive?
This crazy music.

- Did you dig the rebop?
- What?

The rebop, dad. The rebop.

He's a square. Don't you get this?

You take the brew
on the side and the

time, and you take this bottle...

Drink and...

Go, go, go.

How about a dance? Come on.

How about you? You
want to struggle?

- Let's try.
- Thattagirl. You're a daring one.

Hey, can I help you?

Hey, these are keen. Johnny,
get a load of this.

- They're real bells.
- Aren't they cute?

Crazy.

Somebody tell me what that means.
"BRMC." What does it mean?

- Black Rebels Motorcycle Club.
- Isn't that cute?

Johnny, what are you
rebelling against?

What have you got?

Kathy, aren't they wonderful?
Did you hear what I said?

I said, "What does 'BRMC' mean?"

He said, "Black Rebels
Motorcycle Club."

I asked, "What are you
rebelling against, Johnny?"

And he said, "What have you
got?" "What have you got?"

What's the matter? Don't
you like to dance?

Well, I don't dance very well.

The squares are having a dance in
Carbonville. You want to make it?

Aren't you Miss...?
Taken about that.

- Oh, my.
- Coffee, please.

Two coffees, please.

- You want to go?
- I can't.

How come?

Well, I can't.
Besides, it's silly.

You just came from Carbonville.

So what? We'll just
go back over there.

Hey.

Hey, you gentlemen
ordered some coffee.

I think you ordered some coffee.
The young lady's waiting for you.

That's a good boy.

What's with him?

You won yourself
something, did you?

Well, that's a nice
souvenir to have.

Look, Johnny, out there I think
you got me a little wrong.

I've got a job to do, but I'm
not hard to get along with.

It's generally just a
misunderstanding...

but looks like anything that might
develop into real trouble...

It can be decided if folks just
sit down and talk it over.

Dad.

Would you like me to fix you
a steak sandwich or...?

No.

Why did you do that for? Why
are you trying to be so rude?

I don't like cops.

Let's get out of here.

Come on.

Did you get lined
up with that chick?

No, man. Her old man
is that itchy cop.

Let's get out of this town.

I'd like to get me
a cop's daughter.

Some deal, Dinky?

One beer, and a sidecar
for my friend.

He got his clutch overhauled.

- Crazy, how's the foot?
- I got it.

Dig that cat, daddy-o.

What are you doing tonight?

Hey, the Rebels are here.
Hey, the Rebels. Come on.

It looks like Johnny's here.

- Come on. Let's get out of here.
- Johnny, this joint's wide open.

What's the matter? This is a bar.

Let's get out of here.

No, it's a drag. Come on.

Hi, sweetheart. What
are you doing in

this miserable gully,
Johnny, my love?

I love you, Johnny.

I've been looking for
you in every ditch...

from Fresno to here,
hoping you was dead.

Chino's giving him the needle, and
your boyfriend don't go for that.

You've been having yourself
a time, huh, Johnny?

You do look pale. Have you
been taking care of yourself?

You been staying out
too late at night?

That's mine, Chino. Take it off.

Don't do that.

That's better, Johnny.

I missed you. Ever since the
club split up, I missed you.

We all missed you.
Did you miss him?

Yeah.

The Beetles missed you. All
the Beetles missed you.

Come on, Johnny, let's go
inside, have a beer...

and I'll beat the living
Christmas out of you.

Johnny, for old times' sake.

Don't take that away from
Chino. It's so beautiful.

Chino needs it. It makes Chino
feel like a big, strong man.

Yeah, Chino wants to be a big
racetrack hero. All these girls.

I didn't win it. I
just gleebed it.

But I gleebed it off a guy
that didn't win it either.

Look, Johnny, you want one?

How about you go gleeb one
some place for yourself, huh?

Wait a minute. Wait a
minute. Wait a minute.

This is the main event.

Ladies and gentlemen...

This lovely young
lady over here...

shall hold this beautiful object
signifying absolutely nothing.

Watch closely. See how the
timid maiden of the hill...

clutches the gold to her breast.

And see how she fights
back a tear while

her hero bleeds to
death in the street.

Come on, get up, you big hero.

- What are they fighting about?
- I don't know.

Don't know themselves, probably.

Stop this. I've seen
hoodlums like this before.

If you don't get
tough with them the

minute they get out
of line, you're sunk.

You are the cop. If
you can't boot these

jerks out, we'll have
to bust a few heads.

- That won't help matters.
- Take it easy, Charlie.

Nothing but talk.
Talk. I'll see if

everything is all right at home.

Chino, come on, get up, boy. Don't
let him make a fool out of you.

Go get him, Chino. Come on, go
get him. Go get him, Chino.

Johnny, I love you.

Johnny, how about you and
me, we'll go and have a...

Shut up. Let's you and me have a
beer, Johnny. Shut up, I said.

- Get out of the way. I want out.
- What's the big idea?

Shut up.

- You know how to drive?
- Come on, I want out of here.

- You're awful noisy, ain't you?
- Now, look, you get away from me.

- What did he do?
- Tried to run Meatball over.

Come on, up and over.

Heave, ho. Heave, ho.

Break it up. Break
it up. Break it up.

Chief, he tried to
run Meatball over.

Nobody ran anybody over.

He ran his motorcycle
in front of my car.

Yeah? And then I suppose
his cycle crawled...

under your front wheel
all by its lone self?

I want this man arrested.

He wants me arrested?
You hear that?

He hit me.

Well, hit me back,
you coward. Go on.

All right, quiet.
I'm going to take

you both down and lock you up.

- Both of us?
- Yes.

So we can all talk without
everybody yelling. Quiet.

Whether I'll hold
anybody or not depends

on just how badly this
boy here is hurt.

See, I'm with the chief.

- Are you hurt, man?
- He don't feel a thing.

- Harry.
- What?

Let me talk to you.

All right, break
it up. Move along.

- Do you know what you're doing?
- Of course I know what I'm doing.

Let's get these guys out of town.

Sure. We have to
make a living here.

If you arrest Charlie Thomas,
he'll never forgive you.

Well, okay.

- Okay, come on. Come on.
- What about him?

Frogface, dear friend,
we are being parted.

Our love is being
nipped in the bud.

Wait a second. What did this boy
do that frogface didn't do?

Johnny, I want to
talk to you a minute.

I've given you a
couple of chances.

I don't know what you're after...

Chief, let me tell
you about Johnny.

Shut up.

I'm in a spot here. You
can do me a favour.

You take your boys and go on,
and the other bunch too.

- Can I go too, chief?
- Yeah, and he goes too.

I made a deal with a cop once.

Let me tell you about
Johnny, daddy-o.

He's okay, but you
don't get on his

back. He don't like
nobody on his back.

We had the same club once, and the

Beetles got on his
back all the time.

He didn't like that.

Then you don't wanna
do what I say?

Save me, Johnny. I'm
going to the can.

Yes or no?

I don't make no deal with no cop.

Okay. Come on.

Hey, Johnny, write my mother a

letter and tell her
I'm in the can.

Johnny, you going to let that
phoney cop get away with this.

Hey, write my mother a letter...

tell her to send me a case of
beer. Oh, the shame of it all.

Oh, the shame of it all.

Let's give this joint the needle.

What time is it?

Where's that chick
that's got my gold?

She was standing right over there.

Hi, Johnny.

Thank you.

Hey, Johnny.

Don't you remember? Britches.

You remember. The last weekend
we went out scrambling.

- Before the club split up.
- Oh, yeah. Yeah.

- How have you been?
- I'm still swinging.

I didn't know what
happened to you.

It's been a year I didn't see you.

- I thought about you.
- I'll see you later, okay?

Where's my gold? I'm going
to blow this joint.

Fine. Go some place
else and cause trouble.

Listen, he put Chino
in the can. Why

didn't he put that
frogface in the can?

He was afraid of making a mistake.
He's afraid of losing his job.

He's the town joke and
I'm stuck with him.

He hasn't got any
business being a cop.

No more than you have with that.

He's a fake, like you.

Well, you've impressed everybody
now, big motorcycle racer.

Take that back so they can give
it to somebody who really won it.

Say what?

Who are you, some girl who
makes sandwiches or something?

Your father wears a hat says
he's a big, important man.

You start telling me what to do?

Nobody tells me what to do.

You keep needling
me, if I want to,

I'm going to take
this joint apart.

You're not going to
know what hits you.

Hey, beer.

Johnny, what's the
pitch? We leaving?

Not just yet.

Hey, Johnny.

Johnny, come on, let's
go spring Chino.

Yeah, one phoney cop.

Let's get him out of there.

Hey, we've got this
town on the ropes.

- Come on.
- All right, let's go.

Hello, Dorothy, get me the
sheriff's office in Elsburgh.

I'll see if I can get
through for you, Harry.

Hey, look what's in
here. Hello, baby.

- How does this work?
- Can I get my mother on this?

- This is Dorothy. Help.
- Hello?

- Hello, baby.
- How does this work?

Goodbye, Dorothy. Go on,
take the day off, Dorothy.

What is this?

What are you doing here? Get off
my lawn. Come on, get out of here.

Listen, you hooligans, you've
caused enough trouble.

- Hey, Chino.
- Hey, Chino.

- Hey, Chino.
- Get up, Chino.

Come on, Chino.

Let's open it up.

Hey, you guys. Look,
I've got the key.

- Where'd you get the keys?
- I see it.

- I wore gloves. No fingerprints.
- Good.

Hurry up. Hurry up.

Hey, Chino, wake up.

In you go. Get in there.

Hey, Chino. Chino,
come on, get up.

- There you go.
- Come on, Chino.

Leave him alone. Let
him sleep it off.

Hey, you want room service?
We'll leave a call for you.

Sleep well, Chino.

Chino will be surprised
when he wakes up.

Johnny, what happened to that cop?
Let's go give him a bad time.

Yeah, I'll take the
cop's daughter.

- Okay, okay, I was smiling.
- Maybe she's got a sister for me.

Johnny, where are you going?

Hello. Hello, hello.

Hello.

What's the matter?
Don't they answer?

Did you get them?

The phone is dead. Better send
somebody for the militia.

That's silly. Let me try.
Hello, operator. Operator.

Dorothy. I guess you're right.

Kathy, go see if you can find your

dad. Tell him I need
him right away.

You better go home and stay there.

Come on.

Come on, Bleeker.

Now, wait a minute.

- Hi, Johnny. Where have you been?
- What do you want?

Talk to me, Johnny.
Sing me a song.

- Buy me a beer.
- You've got a beer.

I want to know how
you've been, Johnny.

I'm singing tonight, Johnny.
I'm really singing.

I'm on the Christmas tree.

- You got a date?
- Yeah, I got a date.

Johnny.

Remember the night...?
The first time I

went out scrambling
with the Rebels.

Remember?

That was the first time I ever saw
you. I haven't seen you since.

We really got ourselves hung on
the Christmas tree, didn't we?

Boy, was I green.
Was I really green.

I thought I was really
living it up. I had

me a guy and we were
really going to go.

But we had a lot of yaks
anyway, didn't we, Johnny?

Well, say it. Can't
you say something?

Please, Johnny. I won't
get on your back.

I wouldn't do that.

But we had a lot of
yaks anyway, didn't we?

What do you want me to do,
send you some flowers?

Where's that girl?
Where's that Kathy?

The bar's closed, counter's
closed, everything is closed.

Hey, Johnny, can't you stop this?

Where's that Kathy?
I'm looking for her.

I don't know. If you
can stop this...

I don't stop nothing, man.

- They're wrecking my place.
- You're doing all right, man.

Oh, no. Please.

- You all right?
- Let's get to work on these boys.

- Anybody bring a gun for me?
- Here.

- Wait a minute.
- Wait till somebody gets killed?

I don't go all the way
with Charlie either.

But we've got to
protect ourselves.

But two wrongs never
made anything right.

When you start using guns...

I'm going to use it,
one end or the other.

Anybody who wants to stay
and talk some more...

can have an ice cream
social with Bill.

Anybody don't, can come with me.

If you find him, bring him to the

back of the store.
We'll meet there.

We'll do what we can.
Let's get hold

of this Johnny before
the others do.

Hey, Crazy, man, go, go, go.

That Mildred gives the
craziest permanents.

- Marina, honey, let's dance.
- I've been tapped.

Hey, baby.

Go, go, go.

Come on, Leroy. Come
on, Johnny, go.

Hey, guys, look. New
talent. Hey, fellas.

- Well...
- That's a good one.

Let's get her.

Please don't do
this. Please don't.

It's too expensive. Please.

Mildred, honey, where you
been? Let's dance, sweetie.

- Hey. The chick.
- Johnny's girl. Let's get her.

Get on.

Get up.

I'm sorry, I can't fight back.

I'm too tired. It would be better,

wouldn't it? Then
you could hit me.

You think you're too good for
me. Nobody is too good for me.

Anybody who thinks they're
too good for me...

I make sure I knock
them over sometime.

I can slap you around to
show you how good you are...

and tomorrow I'm
some place else and

I don't even know you or nothing.

Do you want to?

I wouldn't waste my
time on a square like

you. What I wanna
knock myself out for?

I'll take you back
and dump you. Come.

Johnny.

Quit that.

It's crazy, isn't it?
You're afraid of me.

I don't know why, but I'm
not afraid of you now.

You're afraid of me.

I'm afraid of you? Are you
cracked? Come on, get on.

I wanted to touch you. I
wanted to try, anyway.

Try what?

I don't know.

I wanted to make it
the way I always

thought it would be sometime...

with somebody.

The way I always
thought it might be.

You're still fighting, aren't
you? You're always fighting.

Why do you hate everybody?

I've never ridden on a motorcycle
before. It's fast. It scared me.

But I forgot everything. It
felt good. Is that what you do?

I'm going to leave. That's what
you want me to do, isn't it?

You know what I used
to think about?

I used to think about it a
lot after my mother died.

That somebody would come here and
stop at Uncle Frank's place...

and buy a cup of
coffee or something...

and he'd like me right away
and he'd take me with him.

Johnny, you were going
to give me that

statue. Will you
give it to me now?

Why?

I don't know.

I just wondered if
you still wanted

to give it to me, that's all.

It's crazy.

Where did you want
this guy to take you?

This guy that had a cup of coffee.

I don't know. Wherever
he was going, I guess.

I'm shaky.

I wish I was going some place.

I wish you were going some
place. We could go together.

Johnny, Johnny.

Hey.

Hey. Quit it.

What's the matter, Kathy?
I was only trying to...

Chino, how did you
get out of the can?

Johnny, I love you.

Let's you and me have
a beer, and I'll

beat the living
Christmas out of you.

Come on, get everybody together.

- We're going to get out of here.
- Storm the Bastille.

There he comes. That's him.

That's him. He's the one who...

Dad, they've got Johnny.
They're taking him...

You've just been sitting here?
Aren't you going to do anything?

There isn't anything to do, Kathy.

We have to help him. They took him
in a car, Mr Thomas and some men.

He wasn't doing anything.

He was trying to stop it.
He was going to leave.

- How are things at Frank's?
- Fight started. I don't know.

I came to look for you.

- Uncle Frank is very upset.
- Well, he got what he wanted.

Business before pleasure.

Listen, they've gone
crazy. Everybody.

They've got Johnny.
You've got to help

him. They're going to beat him up.

I tried to talk to him.

- Don't you even care?
- What can I do?

Nothing, I guess.

But if you don't do something,
you're worse than any of them.

They brought it on
themselves. I saw

it coming, but what could I do?

Charlie Thomas is a bully. He
was a bully in the third grade.

What am I supposed to
do, shoot somebody?

Charlie, let me talk to the boy.

Bill, stay out of this.
Get out of our way.

My old man used to hit
harder than that.

Shut up.

Hold on, there.

Get away from that boy. Get back.

This has got nothing
to do with you.

We've got a little job to do.

- This is my job.
- You won't have it long.

We're doing something
that should've

been taken care of before this:

Pounding a little
respect for law and

authority into this
guy's thick skull.

That's not the way to do it.

You got a better way? You've
had a lot of time to try it.

Harry, look, you're
too soft-hearted.

This is no time for kindness.

- It's as good a time as any.
- We're doing this our way.

We're going to make
good and sure he

doesn't try anything
like this soon again.

I don't know what
he's tried or hasn't

tried. This boy's in my custody.

If he's done anything to deserve
punishment, he'll get it...

but in the right
way, not from you.

Now, now, Harry. Take it easy.
After all, we're all old friends.

Let's be calm and talk
it over. Come on.

Yeah, let's talk this over, Harry.

Hey.

There he comes. That's him.

What's all that? What's all
the noise? What's going on?

- Get him up.
- We'll really fix him for this.

- I'm going to break your neck.
- Finally killed a man, huh?

Okay, come on. Leave him alone.

What's the idea?

Let's go.

Harry, how did all this
get started anyway?

We had this man, we
had this whole thing

stopped when he stuck his nose it.

There's a little more
to it than that.

All right. We'll find
out what happened.

Round up everybody
on a motorcycle.

Pick up all the
witnesses you can find.

The old man is dead. A
dishwasher down the street.

That makes it a manslaughter
charge, doesn't it?

We'll see. We'll
see. Let's pick up

everything and sort it out inside.

Twenty years is too good for him.

I spotted him for the ringleader
the first five minutes.

I knew somebody was
going to get killed.

I couldn't get anybody
to listen to me.

You killed Jimmy with
a lot of talk, as

sure as he killed him
with a motorcycle.

Wait a minute.

All right, okay, okay. That's
enough. Now, stop it. That's all.

Well, son, you've got
yourself something here.

Real important trouble.

It just shows you what a boy
can do if he'll work at it.

Well?

Haven't you anything to say?

I didn't kill nobody.
Those guys were

after me and I just
took off. That's all.

Maybe something hit my cycle.
I don't know what happened.

Then I went out, and
that's... That's all.

Yeah.

Well...

Let's go.

I located my daughter. She went
home. Do you want to talk to her?

- No. Bring her in later.
- You'd better talk to her now.

You do? Well, I don't.

I've been up half the night.

I've got a long drive home before
I can get this joker booked.

- But she was with the boy.
- He knows that. Art Kleiner is...

Shut up, Frank.

All right. Come in, sit down.

That'll be all.

Kathy's my niece. I
have a right to stay.

All right, but keep quiet.

- Well?
- It's crazy.

Yeah, I know.

I've got one fact. A man's dead,
and our boy here is stuck with it.

I don't think it was his fault.

Do you know one way or the other?

No.

You haven't fallen for
this fellow, have you?

No. No, I couldn't.

Let's go.

They beat him up. I saw them.
He wasn't doing anything.

I know he was leaving.

- He just wanted to go when...
- Yes, I know.

Sheriff, listen.

Sheriff, wait, please.

She's upset. She didn't mean that.

But regardless of what
happened to old Jimmy...

that boy deserves
everything he gets.

Art here saw her fighting him off.

No, Uncle Frank is
wrong. He helped me.

They were after me and...

She was crying, trying
to get away from him.

I wasn't trying to
get away from him.

I was just trying to get away.

Maybe we better tell him, Frank.

Tell me what?

Why, the...

Art and I were coming
up the street.

Now, we didn't see who threw it...

but a tyre iron either hit the boy

or the motorcycle,
and it went wild.

- Who threw what?
- A tyre iron. You know, it's a...

The thing to take the
tyre off the rim.

Yeah. Somebody threw it and
it landed at our feet.

Why didn't you say so before?

Sit down.

John Strabler.

You got any friends, Johnny?

You picked up a few around here
last night, strange as it seems.

A couple anyway.

They got you off the
hook for a while.

I don't get you.

I don't get your act at all. And
I don't think you do, either.

I don't think you know what you're
trying to do, or how to do it.

I think you're stupid. Real
stupid and real lucky.

Last night you scraped
by, just barely.

But a man's dead on account of
something you let get started...

even though you didn't start it.

I don't know if there
is any good in you. I

don't know if there's
anything in you...

but I'm going to take
a big, fat chance...

and let you go.

There'll be a hearing
on this tyre-iron

business. You'll get a summons.

And you'd better show up.

Put him on the road.

- Is that yours?
- Yeah.

Go ahead.

Don't you want to say
anything to these people?

What's the matter? You been
hit over the head so often...

you don't know when you're getting
a break? At least say thank you.

It's all right. He
doesn't know how.

Okay, hotshots, the fun is over.

Every one of you
monkeys is down in my

book, and all the damage
will be paid for.

You've got 10 minutes
to clear out.

Just stick your nose back in
this county, any of you...

and you'll never see daylight
again as long as you live.

Now, get.

Some coffee.