Ladies and gentlemen, members of the jury, citizens of Santa Rosa, we've just heard from...
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Reidenschneider:
Ladies and gentlemen, members of the jury, citizens of Santa Rosa, we've just heard from the district attorney a rather lurid description of a truly despicable man.
Ed Crane:
[voice-over]
I had to hand it to him. He tossed a lot of sand in their eyes. He talked about how I'd lost my place in the universe. How I was too ordinary to be the criminal mastermind the D.A. made me out to be, how there was some greater scheme at work that the state had yet to unravel. And he threw in some of the old truth stuff he hadn't had the chance to trot out for Doris.
Reidenschneider:
One may at first look at these lines and see only the chaos of a work of modern art.
Ed Crane:
He told them to look at me, look at me close. That the closer they looked, the less sense it would all make.
Reidenschneider:
Look closely at him. This human, this barber.
Ed Crane:
That I wasn't the kind of guy to kill a guy, that I was the barber, for Christ's sake. I was just like them, an ordinary man. Guilty of living in a world that had no place for me, yeah. Guilty of wanting to be a dry cleaner, sure. But not of murder.
Reidenschneider:
But most specifically, this is a barber's dilemma. For he is modern man.
Ed Crane:
He said I was modern man.
Reidenschneider:
He is your reflection.
Ed Crane:
And if they voted to convict me, they'd be practically cinching the noose around their own necks. He told them to look not at the facts, but at the meaning of the facts. And then he said the facts had no meaning. It was a pretty good speech. Even had me going, until Frankie interrupted it.
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Ladies and gentlemen
of the jury,
Your service is no longer needed...
And you are now discharge.
She's hanged herself.
I'd brought her a dress to wear to court,
and she'd used the belt.
At first I thought she'd figured
out somehow how I fit into it...
And couldn't stand it,
couldn't stand knowing.
But that wasn't it, I'd find out later.
For now, everything
just seemed ruined.
Freddy Riedenschneider
went back to Sacramento,
Still shaking his head,
saying it was the biggest disappointment
of his professional career.
Frankie fell to pieces.
I suspect he was drinking.
Anyway, he stopped
coming in to work.
That left me to keep the place going,
or the bank would've taken it.
I was the principal barber now.
I hired a new man
for the second chair.
I'd hired the guy who did the least gabbing
whie he came in for an interview,
But I guess the new man had only kept quiet
because he was nervous.
Once he had the job, he talked from the
minute I opened the shop in the morning...
Until I locked up at night.
For all I know, he talked to himself
on the way home.
When I walked home, it seemed like everyone
avoided looking at me,
As if I'd caught some disease.
This thing with Doris,
nobody wanted to talk about it.
It was like I was a ghost
walking down the street.
And when I got home now,
The place felt empty.
I sat in the house,
But there was nobody there.
I was a ghost.
I didn't see anyone.
No one saw me.
I was the barber.
Some bacon and potatoes,
which are supposed to come with it.
So I pay for it, and I put the change
in my pocket without really looking...
'Cause, gosh, who looks at the
change when you eat there every day?
Two blocks later I look at the change
she gave me. Golly, I'm two bits short.
So I walk back over to Linton's,
find this gal, big argument.
She doesn't even recall
the transaction.
Doesn't recall the transaction.
No recollections.
So I said, "Look, dear.
Go ahead. Look at the menu."
If you're in before 6:00,
it's the whatchamacallit...
- The early bird special.
- Yeah, the early riser.
Crane?
I'm Crane.
My name's Diedrickson,
county medical examiner.
Yeah?
I just came by
for an informal chat.
Why don't I buy you a drink?
Rye.
Just coffee.
You sure you don't want
something stiffer?
Coffee it is.
County M.E. does an autopsy
on anyone who dies in custody.
I don't know if you knew that.
It's routine.
Doesn't become a matter of public record
unless there's been foul play.
However,
I don't think I'm prohibited
from telling you this.
Of course, I'm not
obliged to either.
I just don't know.
But if I were the man,
I'd want to be told.
Told what?
I'm not here to add to your...
Thanks.
Clip duration: 284 seconds
Views: 297
Timestamp in movie: 00h 00m 00s
Uploaded: 12 December, 2020
Genres: crime, drama
Summary: A tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small California town, is dissatisfied with his life, but his wife Doris' infidelity and a mysterious opportunity presents him with a chance to change it.
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00:06 Your Honour
00:23 Not like most people you run into on this side
00:32 Did you pump it
00:07 Crap detail
00:25 I never want to see another blueberry pie
00:08 You're okay
00:09 It's a good trade
00:19 Doris and I went to church once a week
00:23 I was turning into Ann Nirdlinger
01:00 And it's part of us
00:14 Ed Sooner or later everyone needs a haircut
00:15 Was that a pass
00:09 Sometimes knowledge is a curse ed
00:06 Congratulations on your goddamn cherries
00:06 She was a phony just another gabber
01:14 In Germany
00:24 I don't know where I'm being taken
00:13 He told them to look not at the facts
00:23 The more you look
00:07 I don't know