:43:01
Phooey. All you guys do is ring doorbells
and dish out a smooth line of monkey talk.
:43:06
- What's troubling you is that 50 buck cut, isn't it?
- That'd trouble anybody!
:43:09
Look, Walter. The job I'm talking about
takes brains and integrity.
:43:12
It takes more guts
than there is in 50 salesman.
:43:14
It's the hottest job in the business.
:43:16
It's still a desk job.
I don't want to be nailed to a desk.
:43:18
A desk job. Is that all you can see in it?
:43:21
Just a hard chair to park your pants on
from nine to five.
:43:24
Just a pile of papers to shuffle around...
:43:25
and five sharp pencils
and a scratch pad to make figures on
:43:29
maybe a little doodling on the side.
:43:31
That's not the way I see it, Walter.
:43:33
To me a claims man is a surgeon
:43:36
and that desk is an operating table,
and those pencils are scalpels and bone chisels.
:43:40
And those papers are not just forms
and statistics and claims for compensation.
:43:44
They're alive!
:43:46
They're packed with drama!
With twisted hopes and crooked dreams.
:43:50
A claims man, Walter,
is a doctor and a blood-hound and a....
:43:55
Who?
:43:56
Okay, hold on a minute.
:43:58
A claims man is a doctor and
a blood-hound and a cop and a judge
:44:00
and a jury and a father confessor,
all in one.
:44:03
And you want to tell me you're not interested.
You don't want to work with your brains.
:44:05
All you want to work with
is your finger on a doorbell.
:44:07
For a few bucks more a week.
:44:09
There's a dame on your phone.
:44:11
Walter Neff speaking.
:44:13
I had to call you, Walter.
It's terribly urgent.
:44:15
- Are you with somebody?
- Yes I am. Can't I call you back... Margie?
:44:21
I've only got a minute. It can't wait.
:44:24
Listen. He's going tonight. On the train.
:44:26
- Are you listening? Walter!
- Yeah I'm listening, Margie.
:44:31
Only uh... make it snappy will you?
:44:33
He's on crutches.
The doctor says he can go if he's careful.
:44:35
The change will do him good.
:44:36
It's wonderful, Walter.
Just the way you wanted it. On the train.
:44:39
- Only with the crutches
it's ever so much better, isn't it?
- Yeah!
:44:43
One hundred percent better.
:44:46
Hold the line, will you?
:44:48
Keyes, suppose I join you in your office
:44:49
It's alright. I'll wait.
Only tell her not to take all day.
:44:55
- Go ahead.
- It's the 10:15 from Glendale. I'm driving him.
:44:59
Is it still that same dark street, isn't it?
The signal is three honks on the horn.