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Synopsis: The murder of gangster Nick Prenta touches off an investigation of mysterious socialite Lorna Hansen Forbes, who seems to have no past, and has now disappeared. In flashback, we see the woman's anonymous roots; her poor working-class marriage, which ends in tragedy and her determination to find "better things." Soon finding that sex appeal is her only salable commodity, she climbs from man to man toward the center of a nationwide crime syndicate...a very perilous position.
Director(s): Vincent Sherman
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
 
IMDB:
7.2
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Year:
1950
103 min
216 Views


just to keep us going...

without wasting it on a silly bike.

- It's not silly. It's important.

- What's important about it?

Is it more important than my insurance?

Yes. I don't care about your insurance.

You hear that? She don't care.

Well, I do. That bike's going back.

Roy, you can't take it away from him now.

I'll go without something myself.

- That coat you promised me.

- What's that got to do with it?

If anything happens to me,

I want that kid taken care of.

Then take care of him now, why don't you?

He's just a kid.

He don't know about insurance.

That's in the future. He can't see that far.

And I don't want him to see that far.

Don't make it

so that all he's got to look forward to...

is something happening to you.

What's she complaining about now?

Same old thing. I don't do enough for her.

You'll never do enough for her.

I'm beginning to think you're right.

Tommy! Come here!

You're not gonna do it.

Come back here

and bring that bicycle back!

I gotta go now.

Okay, you take it away from him.

But that's the last thing

you'll ever take away from him.

I'm not gonna stand by

and watch him bury his hopes one by one.

You're not gonna do that to him.

He's gonna have a bike

if I have to go out and steal it.

Tommy, look out!

Ethel, where are you going?

I'm leaving you, Roy.

You can't hold him responsible

for what happened.

It was God's will.

A 6-year-old boy.

It's not for us to question.

I don't believe that.

- I don't believe God works that way.

- Then you do blame me.

- That's why you're leaving.

- No.

I'm leaving because I haven't anything

to hold me here anymore.

I would have left a long time ago

if it hadn't been for Tommy.

Why don't you think it over, Ethel?

Things will look better in the morning.

How many mornings

have you lived, Mom?

And how many of those mornings

have things looked better?

But you got to keep hoping, keep trying.

That's what I've been doing.

That's all I been living on.

Don't you see, Mom?

I'm not a kid any longer.

I've gotta do something about it now,

while I've still got a chance.

But there's still a chance here.

It can work out. We can start over.

Don't you understand anything about me?

How can we start over?

We can. We can plan it different.

Have another kid.

- What have we got to give another kid?

- Whatever you want.

I'll show you. I promise you.

That's what you said

when we were married.

It's what you said when Tommy was born.

It's what you said every year since.

But it's still the same.

- With you, it'll always be the same.

- I've done the best I could.

Well, it ain't good enough.

Let her go. She'll be back.

She'll find out what it's like.

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