The House on Carroll Street

This hearing will come to order.

The witness will please state her full name.

Emily Crane.

- Where do you reside, Miss Crane? - New York City.

Would you mind speaking into the microphone?

Excuse me. New York City.

- Where are you employed? - Assistant picture editor at Life magazine.

Miss Crane,

are you a member of the board of an organisation called Liberty Watch?

- Yes. - Does your subpoena direct you

to bring here all books, ledgers, records and papers

- relating to that organisation? - Yes, it does.

Did you bring them?

- I have a statement... - Please answer the question.

Your questions will be answered...

We will consider your statement in due time, Miss Crane.

"We are an organisation devoted to civil liberties..."

- We know about your... Miss Crane. - "We make no political..."

We know about your organisation. That is why you are here.

- "We have no religious qualifications..." - Do you deny...

Do you deny... Miss Crane!

Do you deny the committee the materials requested in your subpoena?

In our files are the names of people we've helped or who've helped us.

- I won't be a part of getting them... - A great publication.

Life magazine. You agree?

Yes.

A circulation of millions.

Each week a picture view of worid events

and you select those pictures. I'm impressed.

- I don't decide what goes in the magazine. - But you can suggest.

The witness' work at Life magazine is irrelevant.

I fail to see how any of this relates.

Do you recognise these petitions -

the Stockholm peace petition, Worid Disarmament, Ban The Bomb?

Your signature on all of them. You write a lovely hand.

- These are your signatures? - None of this is relevant to the inquiry.

You got others to sign them, didn't you?

Did they know what they were signing?

I never lied to anyone!

How did you persuade them, a beautiful woman such as yourself?

I object to this line of questioning!

- These questions are hardly germane. - The witness is in a position

to distort information received by millions of Americans.

That's ridiculous!

She's refused to surrender her files

to this committee as ordered in her subpoena.

Miss Crane, you know we have a legal right to those records.

You want to smear people.

Then you withhold materials requested in your subpoena.

I will not give you their names.

I believe a citation is called for.

I don't want to do this, Miss Crane,

but you don't leave us much choice.

The law is very clear.

You're sure you won't reconsider?

I'm truly sorry.

I move we cite this witness as being in contempt of Congress

and take steps to bring this to the Senate floor. All in favour.

Motion carried.

This hearing is adjourned.

Everybody, please...

Senator Byington.

Get some shots of the family.

Here she comes.

They call this spring, I'm freezin' to death.

It doesn't feel cold to me.

Where you come from, 20 below is a heat wave.

Where I come from, people aren't colder than the weather.

It's a dry cold. It doesn't feel the same.

So your nose drops off.

I'm puttin' on the heat.

That'll look suspicious - motor running, not moving.

What are they gonna do, call the cops?

These are for you.

- Payday. - Thanks, Tommy.

It's four times what I make, Warren.

- Think of it as a bonus. - It's not a bonus, is it?

You weren't supposed to get that before you were told.

So tell me now.

It wasn't my decisión.

We're reorganising your department, cutting back.

- You know how they get upstairs... - Warren.

We've always been honest with each other.

They can't afford to offend public opinion.

They make public opinion.

Why the hell couldn't you cooperate?

Your goddamn testimony. What's the big deal?

Don't you know the climate? You had a future here.

Thanks for the truth.

If you quote me, I'll deny it.

Miss Crane, Special Agent Cochran, FBI.

We'd like to talk to you, please.

I have nothing to say.

Legs are still holdin' up.

Oh, excuse me.

Excuse me. Could you tell me where this street is, please?

It's same like this street. You know? Like this.

- Parallel? - Yes, parallel.

You go around corner. On the left, first street.

Thank you.

- Yes? - Good afternoon.

- I've come about the ad. - You're too early. The ad said 3:00.

Please?

All right.

Thank you.

Well.

At least you've got spunk, coming early.

- You're not afraid of being turned away. - I need the job.

Come along.

Read this to me.

"But there was no one there,

"no one to see the slight, small girl just turned 19,

"whose hair was blacker than the wing feathers of a rain crow,

"and whose eyes, oddly, were the exact colour

"of the evening sky come harvest time."

That will be enough.

I think you'll do.

Your voice has a certain cultivation.

- Have you been to college? - Yes.

- Graduated? - Yes.

- Cum laude. - My eyes have begun to fail.

I require someone to read to me.

Your hours will be decided by how I feel.

- The salary will be $50 a week. - That's not very much.

The door is right behind you.

You will also be fed.

"...l'll take nothing with me except a few clothes.

"I'm leaving you everything,

"even the child you've taught to hate me.

"'Lynn doesn't... ' Court began, but the door flew open

"and Lynn came into the room. 'Let her go, Daddy,' she cried,

"'I do hate her. I do! I do!"'

... approximately two weeks.

Under no circumstances does he go outside.

Dr Teperson said it's too dangerous.

He has been here long enough.

- He wishes to know about his assistants. - Tell Dr Teperson they're coming.

Rome wasn't built in a day. Tell him what I said.

The assistants will be here.

I guarantee it.

There's a little problem getting them out.

All fixed now.

Very good?

- You didn't tell me about this group. - A favour for important people.

- I certified they were genuine refugees. - 100% genuine, from the old country.

- What are they, rocket scientists? - There's none left. These are doctors.

- What kind? - Research. That's all.

What kind of research? Where?

Rest assured.

- These are only technicians. - Meaning?

Test tubes, blood samples. Think I didn't make sure?

- These men are clean. - Then why the secrecy? The false names?

They're technicians in an area vital to national security. Simple as that.

I've trusted you, Ray.

Would I abuse that trust? This won't harm your reputation.

We're not talking about my reputation.

We're talking about a presidential hopeful the country's taken to its heart.

You have a noble ambition, Senator. I'm helping you reach the pinnacle.

This other thing is of small importance.

But if these men are war criminals...

They're not. I assure you of that.

Hello. We met the other day.

Remember? I asked you for an address.

- Parallel. - Oh, yes.

I found the house. Thank you.

Do you live in the neighbourhood?

I was looking for a job at that address when we met.

- Reading. - You're a reader?

Uh-huh.

I read aloud. Not this book. This is for my own pleasure.

May I see?

Certainly.

- "Dickinson." Dickinson? - Hmm.

- Should I know about this Dickinson? - She's a wonderful poet.

I'm named after her.

- You're named after Dickinson? - No. My first name. Emily.

Emily Crane.

Do you know Mr Edgar Allan Poe?

Uh-huh.

I practise my English with his poems, for the sound.

"To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells

"From the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells."

- I think that's very beautiful. - Yes, it's very beautiful.

- Where did you learn to speak English? - Many places.

- During the war? - During, after.

Do you translate? Is that what you do?

Why do you think that?

I heard you translating, the other day.

I couldn't help it. The window was open. The other man was yelling...

- What man? - Dr Teperson.

- He's a tall man... - You saw him.

- I didn't mean... - Do you know German?

- No, no. I... - Do you know this name, Teperson?

No. Should I?

Thank you for your Dickinson.

- Do you translate for Mr Salwen? - I do not know...

- But I saw you... - You're making a mistake.

Excuse me, please. Goodbye.

- I know nothing of her. - You talked long enough.

We talked of poems. She's reader.