1:23:02
I don't want 40 percent of anything.
1:23:04
- That's a lot of cabs, chief.
- Over 6000.
1:23:06
I'll tell you what. I'll give you
250 grand for the whole company.
1:23:09
Are you nuts? Those guys from Chicago
offered me two million three months ago.
1:23:13
Okay, then. Sell it to them.
1:23:14
But I can't get to them.
I need the money now.
1:23:16
You heard my offer: 250 grand.
Take it or leave it.
1:23:20
I'll take it.
1:23:22
Okay, it's a deal.
1:23:24
I'll tell you what I'm gonna do
for you, Eddie.
1:23:27
I ain't gonna take all your cabs away.
1:23:29
What's the hitch?
1:23:30
I'm gonna leave you one, just one...
1:23:33
...because you're going to need it, pal.
1:23:37
First to feel the effects of the economic
disaster which sweeps the country...
1:23:41
...are the nightclubs, the speakeasies,
and the bootleggers who serve them.
1:23:44
With the falling off of profits
in the illegal liquor industry...
1:23:47
...the mobsters have difficulty
in paying protection.
1:23:50
And the number of raids, arrests
and convictions double and quadruple.
1:23:54
Then in the depth of the economic despair
that has gripped the country...
1:23:57
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt
is elected president...
1:24:01
...partially on the basis of his promise
to end Prohibition.
1:24:04
In New York City, thousands of jubilant
citizens march in a great beer parade...
1:24:09
...and shortly, 3.2 beer becomes legal.
1:24:13
Finally comes the national
referendum on repeal.
1:24:16
Tired of years of violence, corruption,
and loss of personal liberty...
1:24:20
...Americans go to the polls
and overwhelmingly rout the dry forces.
1:24:24
After 13 years, Prohibition is dead...
1:24:28
...leaving in its wake a criminal element
used to wealth and power...
1:24:31
...but unable, for the most part,
to cope with the new determination...
1:24:34
...by an aroused public that
law and order should once more reign.
1:24:44
- Taxi.
- Hey, taxi.
1:24:50
- Where to, lady?
- 331 Quigley Place, Forest Hills.
1:24:54
331 Quigley Place, Forest Hills.