text: Chicago, Illinois in the early fall of 1919. A couple of kids get tickets and run to go see the White Sox play the final pennant game to get into the World Series. In the press box, sports writers Ring Lardner (Director John Sayles) and Hugh Fullerton (Writer Studs Terkel) are passing around comments to one another about the players. Entering the room is "The Old Roman", Charles Comiskey (Clifton James), the owner of the White Sox along with a group of sports writers and press agents into a nice banquet room with hors d'oevre's and champagne with Comiskey bragging about his ballplayers and them winning. While he is talking about them, we get glimpses of the star players of the White Sox on the field, to include Chick Gandil (Michael Rooker), pitcher Eddie Ciccotte (David Strathairn), Eddie Collins (Bill Irwin), Swede Risberg (Don Harvey), Hap Felsch (Charlie Sheen in a small role), Buck Weaver (John Cusack), Ray Schaalk (Gordon Clapp), and the legendary Shoeless Joe Jackson (D.B. Sweeney). While the game is going on, small-time gamblers Sleepy Bill Burns (Christopher Lloyd) and Billy Maharg (Richard Edson) are in the stands evaluating players who they think could be part of a plot to throw the World Series for some cash, since Comiskey grossly underpays most of his ballplayers compared to most other teams. They do not want Eddie Collins or Ray Schaalk to be part of it, since Collins is a college-educated man that gets paid well and Schaalk is too temperamental to even be considered part of it. Eddie Ciccotte is the key player they want because of his pitching record and nearing retirement in his late 30's.The White Sox win the pennant with Hap Felsch having caught the ball of the player in the outfield. The team wins and enters the locker room with Comiskey's secretary Harry Grabiner (Jack Merrill) giving them champagne for having won. They are delighted at having it, but it turns out the champagne is their bonus for having won instead of cash and all the team are disappointed. Their manager Kid Gleason (John Mahoney), tries to encourage them, but cut off and assured he's not part of their beef. Even more disappointing is the champagne turns out to be flat. Whereas Comiskey and the press agents are enjoying expensive champagne and hors doevre's giving him cheers. The team all poses for a group photograph.That night, many of the players are celebrating in a local gin mill. The illiterate Joe Jackson is having his wife read the paper to him about the day, Felsch, Risberg, Weaver, and utility player Fred McMullen (Perry Lang) are hanging around the bar area, and Chick Gandil is hanging out with a couple of ladies and a shady gambler, Sport Sullivan (Kevin Tighe), explaining his ordeal and Sullivan assures him he could get 6-7 men in to throw the World Series, but doesn't believe Gandil could engineer it, but Gandil reminds him of the cheapskate they work for. Burns and Maharg are also in the gin mill overseeing the conversation between the two with Burns believing Sullivan is just trying to get inside information about them.Gandil and Risberg are in the men's room using the urinals with Gandil explaining what he wants to do and McMullen overhears their conversation. Fearing exposure, Risberg lets him in on the projected fix the men will have on the World Series. After leaving the men's room, Burns and Maharg approach Gandil wanting to have a part in the bet presumably unaware that Sullivan already beat them to it. Gandil doesn't want to have more than one party, but Risberg facetiously asks "what will they do, call the cops"?, if they have all of them.Back at his home, Ciccotte is having his wife rub balm on his arm to help get it prepared for the World Series. And Buck Weaver is going home from the gin mill with local boys wanting to play a little catch with him.Ciccotte is dismissing Gandil's idea about throwing the World Series that he has a secure income, but Gandil insists his time is running out. Ciccotte goes to visit Comiskey for his $10,000 bonus for winning 30 games, but Comiskey denies it to him that he won only 29, even though he was benched for 2 weeks. Ciccotte approaches Gandil at a depot requesting $10,000 in cash before the first game and Gandil is delighted he's in on the fix.At horse race tracks in New York City, Burns and Maharg approach former boxing Champion Featherweight, Abe Attell (Michael Mantell), since he's an alleged messenger for powerful gangster Arnold Rothstein. Abe brushes them off at first thinking they're just small-timers.Risberg is at pitcher Lefty Williams' (James Read) home trying to convince him to join the fix to throw the World Series, since they now have Ciccotte, and he concurs.We are introduced to Arnold Rothstein, a shrewd, aloof, impersonal businessman and one of the most powerful mobster figures in the country. Attell is at his home trying to convince Rothstein to be the man for the fix to throw the World Series, but he denies he's interested without hesitation because he knows how these people work and how this type of people tried to bring him down when he was a kid. Attell leaves and Rothstein gets an operator on the phone to get someone to come see him.Attell lies and tells Burns and Maharg at a bar that Rothstein is interested, but not to let any of the information to leak out unless they want the deal off.Rothstein is having dinner at his lavish home and Sport Sullivan enters telling Rothstein that he can get eight men in on the fix, to include Ciccotte, but Rothstein tells him to just wait and not say or ask anything more for the time being. Sullivan leaves.Sullivan is at a train depot telling Jimmy (Phillip Murphy) an employee of his, about Rothstein's home. An employee of Rothstein's, Monk (Stephen Mendillo), steps in and tells Jimmy to leave. Monk drops $80,000 in cash telling him that the fix is on, Rothstein is in and Ciccotte is to hit the first ballplayer at bat to signal that the fix is on. He's also instructed to not in any way connect Rothstein to the fix. Sullivan wants Jimmy to take some of the cash and place bets elsewhere and that some of the players will get money, nevertheless.The ballplayers and sportswriters Lardner and Fullerton are all on a train to Cincinnati for the first game. Hap Felsch is now being summoned to be part of the fix, but refuses unless Joe Jackson gets in. Buck Weaver overhears the conversation and is outraged that the men are talking about a fix. Sullivan is on board as well offering them a drink of champagne. Risberg visits Jackson in his dark quarters with Jackson doing an old wives tale of staring at a candle with one eye covered to make his batting eye better. Risberg tells him about the fix and the simple-minded Jackson can't understand why they're doing it or want him part of it, but he's intimidated by Risberg and concurs. Weaver is troubled by the men's arrangement in this proposed scandal.The men are now in Cincinnati and Gandil is visiting Attell with other ballplayers thinking the man is a bluff in it because of the lack of cash. Ciccotte is secretly asking Gandil about the cash and he's told to just look under his pillow, compliments of Sullivan.Buck Weaver is at the empty ballpark practicing for the series and Kid Gleason approaches him. He almost decides to tell Gleason about what he's heard, but declines.Ciccotte is looking out his hotel room at the commotion of a street crowd opposing the White Sox. He then goes to his bed and finds $10,000 in cash under his pillow.The first game is about to begin. Kid Gleason tells Lardner and Sullivan that he hears rumors all the time about a fix and denies his players would be part of it. They pretend to believe him and both secretly agree to keep separate score cards for any player they feel is not performing up to par and to compare afterwards. Jackson, feeling guilty about what he now knows, tells Gleason he doesn't want to play, but Gleason angrily tells him he will. Gleason gives a lecture to his club before the game to give it all they have.Game One begins. Arnold Rothstein is at a conference room in New York where the game is being transmitted into Morse Code for the audience. Ciccotte hits the first player with his ball and Rothstein leaves the room knowing the fix is on. Cicotte's pitching is not up to par, catcher Ray Schaalk is frustrated at Ciccotte, the Red's keep scoring, and Buck Weaver is giving 100% into the game. At the end of the game, the Red's have won. Risberg approaches Weaver inquiring about his playing abilities and Weaver tells him he will have no part in the fix and take no money.Cicotte visits Lardner in his hotel room with Lardner trying to tactfully question him if there is anything going on or a fix, but Ciccotte denies it and Lardner reluctantly believes him.Joe Jackson is sitting on the bed in his hotel room with McMullen entering and placing a small sum of cash on the dresser drawer. Jackson simply accepts it and does not get up.Game 2. Lefty Williams is pitching. He is messing up constantly and Schaalk even more outraged than the previous game. A small aeroplane drops a dummy onto the field mocking the ballplayers. Game 2 has been lost and Schaalk angrily attacks Williams for his incompetence on the field with Gleason and Weaver breaking them up. Gandil is laughing and joking with other players and Gleason is angered at his jovial attitude thinking he's trying to deliberately lose and attacks him being broken away.Outside the ballplayers hotel, an effigy of the White Sox is being burned by fans of the Reds and there are numerous trips being made in between hotel rooms. Comiskey is awoken by Gleason to come to another room to straighten out the situation and Burns and Maharg go to Attell's room demanding cash to bet on the third game and given $10,000. They are being stiffed, but have no other way. Newcomer Dickie Kerr is being summoned to be the pitcher for the third game.Game 3 of the World Series. Chick Gandil gets to first base, but another player makes a hit and he deliberately slows down to get thrown out at second base and the sportswriters know right away he did it on purpose. Dickie Kerr (Jace Alexander) makes his first pitch and throughout the entire game pitching a no-hitter. Burns and Maharg are very upset, since all the $10,000 was placed on them losing the game.Buck Weaver is sitting on the front porch of his home with his wife (Barbara Garrick) coming out to talk to him. He tells her of the fix and tells her he wanted no part of it, but she supports him for what he's doing on his part.Game 4 is poorly played once again with Weaver upset at Ciccotte's bad pitching.Games 5 and 6 of the World Series the players are performing up to par again, but the gamblers are all outraged, despite their disappearance in the fix and Gandil being unable to contact them. Feeling they've now been abandoned, the ballplayers go back to their top performance. Arnold Rothstein is informed by an employee of his while he's at the barber shop at the end of game 5. At game 6, Monk pays a visit to Sport Sullivan in the stands for failure to live up to the gamblers expectations. Kid Gleason is being interviewed and insisting that all along his players all gave their best. Sullivan, by the orders of Monk and Rothstein, has a man dispatched that threatens to have Lefty Williams' wife killed if he does not lose the 7th game.Williams pitches a pathetic and painfully bad first inning and taken out of the the series by Kid Gleason. Joe Jackson hits a home run, but it does nothing to alleviate the losing score of the White Sox' game. They lose the 7th and final game of the World Series. By the end, Fullerton has five of the players circled on his list, with only Jackson, McMullen (who played only briefly at bat) and Weaver.Within the next year, sportswriters Lardner and Fullerton have interviewed Schaalk, Maharg, and maybe others about an alleged fix and now there is a $1,000 reward being offered by Comiskey for any alleged gambling. Weaver and Jackson are made aware of what's going on through the newspapers.Eddie Collins visits Comiskey at his office telling him he believes there might have been a fix, but does not want any reward money. Comiskey begrudgingly accepts Collins' suggestion and tells his secretary Grabiner to get his lawyer on the phone.Comiskey's lawyer, Alfred Austrian (Michael Laskin), tells Comiskey he wants to help him clean up the game, but business reasons will not help the players be found guilty in a court of law if they are guilty of gambling.Comiskey enlists a federal judge, Kenesaw Mountain Landis (John Anderson, the used car salesman in Psycho), to act exclusively in the interest of baseball and to be the Commissioner of Baseball to clean up the gambling elements of the sport, announcing it to a group of powerful lawyers and sportswriters Lardner and Fullerton of his enlistment of the man.Arnold Rothstein and Sport Sullivan are leaving the country by boat and train to flee the trial and Abe Attell is shown at a train station with a broken nose trying to read a newspaper in Spanish.Ciccotte is with lawyer Austrian at the Cook Co. courthouse to testify before a grand jury and waiver of immunity tearfully regretting his crookedness at what's happened. Jackson does the same too, not knowing what's going on, but assured that they just want to get rid of the gamblers and not the ballplayers. He reluctantly signs an "X" mark. Joe leaves the courthouse with a child in the crowd pleading "Say it ain't so Joe". Lardner now circles Joe as one of the suspects in the fix.Austrian tells the eight indicted players to simply cooperate and that they have the best lawyers to defend them. Weaver dismisses him that he's being paid off in this, but Austrian tells him as long as he doesn't know what's going on, he's better off.Austrian meets with Rothstein's lawyer that Comiskey and Rothstein both indirectly, but mutually agree to do away with the signed confessions.The ballplayers have their first day in court. Fullerton and Lardner are present with Fullerton telling Lardner it depends on where the ball rolls on what the verdict will be. They are all told before the testimonies they have conspired to commit a confidence game from a Charles Nims, possibly a pseudonym for Arnold Rothstein.Comiskey testifies that he only suspected them throwing the game, Burns testifies he was approached and did not profit at all from the fix, and Maharg testifies all of the players associated with the exception of Jackson, due to his confession before the grand jury. The judge (Dick Cusack, John's father), asks it to be brought forward, but the confessions were "stolen", more than likely paid off by Rothstein or Comiskey from the meeting their lawyers had.Ciccotte is home with his wife (Maggie Renzi) that night telling her his plans for her and the kids if he goes to jail and tells her of all the injustice with the powers that be and that they are the conspiracy.The next hearing, Collins takes the stand telling the lawyer he didn't know about it because of his limited association with the players due to personal differences, but only suspected it, and Weaver has an outburst with the judge because he refused to take part of the scandal and gave it his all.in the games.Jackson is with his wife at his home telling her he just wants to go back and play baseball and doesn't know what he'll do if he doesn't.At the next hearing, their manager Kid Gleason testifies his years in baseball defending them that people make mistakes in life and are human, but declares his ballplayers are the best he's ever had.Buck Weaver is out hanging around the brownstones in his neighborhood with the local kids and tells them not to be so hard on the players and about how hard life gets when you're older assuring them he will be on the field next year playing his heart out.At the final hearing, the ballplayers are all found not guilty in court. They all cheer, but Comiskey is outraged that he will make them pay for all this. That night, they have a lavish welcoming dinner for them at a hotel.Judge Landis is making a statement before the sportswriters, to include Lardner and Fullerton, that no ballplayer that gambles or hears anything about gambling and doesn't inform anybody, will never play baseball again. This is a private sector decision made the courts are not able to do anything about.In New Jersey in 1925, a young trio of baseball fans watching a minor league team are sitting in the stands wondering who this guy Brown is who's playing so well. It's Shoeless Joe Jackson and one of them knows it's him, but one denies it and another one doesn't know who Joe Jackson is. Buck Weaver is in the stands watching as well and tells them Joe Jackson was the best ever, but that's not the man on the field.After "Brown" being cheered for his playing, it's announced on the screen that Joe Jackson and the other banned players never played professional baseball again and that Buck Weaver tried to clear his name until his death with his appeals denied.

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text: an

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text: killed

text: if

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text: does

text: not

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text: ballplayers

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text: mark

text: Joe

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text: but

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text: signed

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text: day

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text: Lardner

text: are

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text: with

text: Fullerton

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text: Rothstein

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text: game

text: Burns

text: testifies

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text: fix

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text: Maharg

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text: all

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text: players

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text: of

text: Jackson

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text: confession

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text: grand

text: jury

text: The

text: judge

text: Dick

text: Cusack

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text: lawyers

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text: with

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text: wife

text: Maggie

text: Renzi

text: that

text: night

text: telling

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text: his

text: plans

text: for

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text: conspiracy

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text: stand

text: telling

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text: lawyer

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text: about

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text: players

text: due

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text: home

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text: best

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text: in

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text: neighborhood

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text: local

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text: players

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text: playing

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text: final

text: hearing

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text: all

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text: not

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text: in

text: court

text: They

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text: outraged

text: that

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text: will

text: make

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text: pay

text: for

text: all

text: this

text: That

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text: have

text: a

text: lavish

text: welcoming

text: dinner

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text: at

text: a

text: hotel

text: Judge

text: Landis

text: is

text: making

text: a

text: statement

text: before

text: the

text: sportswriters

text: to

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text: Lardner

text: and

text: Fullerton

text: that

text: no

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text: that

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text: or

text: hears

text: anything

text: about

text: gambling

text: and

text: does

text: n't

text: inform

text: anybody

text: will

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text: play

text: baseball

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text: a

text: private

text: sector

text: decision

text: made

text: the

text: courts

text: are

text: not

text: able

text: to

text: do

text: anything

text: about

text: In

text: New

text: Jersey

text: in

text: a

text: young

text: trio

text: of

text: baseball

text: fans

text: watching

text: a

text: minor

text: league

text: team

text: are

text: sitting

text: in

text: the

text: stands

text: wondering

text: who

text: this

text: guy

text: Brown

text: is

text: who

text: 's

text: playing

text: so

text: well

text: It

text: 's

text: Shoeless

text: Joe

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text: one

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text: them

text: knows

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text: 's

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text: and

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text: know

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text: Joe

text: Jackson

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text: Buck

text: Weaver

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text: stands

text: watching

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text: well

text: and

text: tells

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text: Joe

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text: best

text: ever

text: but

text: that

text: 's

text: not

text: the

text: man

text: on

text: the

text: field

text: After

text: Brown

text: being

text: cheered

text: for

text: his

text: playing

text: it

text: 's

text: announced

text: on

text: the

text: screen

text: that

text: Joe

text: Jackson

text: and

text: the

text: other

text: banned

text: players

text: never

text: played

text: professional

text: baseball

text: again

text: and

text: that

text: Buck

text: Weaver

text: tried

text: to

text: clear

text: his

text: name

text: until

text: his

text: death

text: with

text: his

text: appeals

text: denied

question: Who was Cicotte signaling by hitting Morrie Rath with the pitch?

answer: Arnold Rothstein

text: Arnold Rothstein

text: Arnold Rothstein

text: Arnold Rothstein

text: Arnold Rothstein

text: Arnold Rothstein

text: Arnold Rothstein

question: What does Weaver continued to deny being in on?

answer: in on the fix

aliases:
being in on the fix
part of the fixed games

text: in on the fix

text: in on the fix

question: who is the sox star knuckleball pitcher?

answer: Eddie Cicotte

question: How many others are included beside Buck Weaver?

answer: 8

question: who was nearing the milestone?

answer: Cicotte

text: Cicotte

text: Cicotte

question: How is Jackson depicted?

answer: legendary Shoeless Joe Jackson and illiterate

question: Which year did Cicotte and Jackson admit that a fix existed?

answer: 1920

question: How many runs does Cicotte give up in the 4th inning?

answer: 5

question: By what margin does Cincinnati wins the series?

answer: 5 games to 3

question: Who wins Game 3 for the Sox?

answer: Dickey Kerr

text: Dickie Kerr

text: Dickie Kerr

question: Who does Cicotte hit deliberately with a pitch?

answer: Reds

text: Reds

question: Who is not banned for life, by the newly appointed commissioner?

answer: Buck Weaver

text: Buck Weaver

text: Buck Weaver

text: Buck Weaver

text: Buck Weaver

text: Buck Weaver

text: Buck Weaver

text: Buck Weaver

text: Buck Weaver

text: Buck Weaver

text: Jackson

text: Jackson

text: Jackson

text: Jackson

text: Jackson

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text: Jackson

text: Jackson

text: Jackson

text: Jackson

text: Jackson

text: Jackson

text: Jackson

text: Jackson

text: Jackson

text: Jackson

text: Jackson

text: Jackson

text: Jackson

question: What are Ring Lardner and Hugh Fullerton's jobs?

answer: sportswriters

text: sportswriters

text: sportswriters

text: sportswriters

text: sportswriters

text: sportswriters

text: sports writers

text: sports writers

question: who gets wind of the players' discontent?

answer: Gamblers "Sleepy" Bill Burns and Billy Maharg

aliases: gamblers "Sleepy" Bill Burns and Billy Maharg

text: Fullerton

text: Fullerton

text: Fullerton

text: Fullerton

text: Fullerton

text: Fullerton

text: Fullerton

text: Fullerton

question: In 1919, what team is considered to be the greatest team in baseball?

answer: Chicago White Sox

question: Who owns the Chicago White Sox?

answer: Charles Comiskey

text: Charles Comiskey

question: Who loses the final game?

answer: Sox

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text: Sox

text: Sox

text: Sox

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text: The film opens with a droll series of silent bits as a constable at night on his bicycle discovers a man with his hands on a rope with a strangled woman -- Margaret McGinty -- attached. As it happens Miss Marple (Margaret Rutherford) is on the jury in the succeeding murder trial. She forces a mistrial as the only one to hold out in a seemingly open and shut case because she views the evidence as circumstantial. She then enlists the aid of her friend Mr. Stringer (Stringer Davis, Rutherford's actual husband) to follow the evidence in support of her theory to find the real murderer. She is harassed by Detective Inspector Craddock (Charles "Bud" Tingwell) who wants her to get out of the way of the Police. She traces the evidence to a low-rent theatre troupe run by H. Driffold Cosgood (Ron Moody), and manages to infiltrate the acting company with a whirling rendition of The Shooting of Dan McGrew, and intimating that she may be willing to financially subsidize the company.No sooner does she secure a place as an actress, than one of the actors, George, drops dead from poisoning and Detective Inspector Craddock shows up again to try to get her to give up her hunt, but does also work with her to discover the killer. She suggests that Craddock investigate bank accounts of all the actors to see who, if any, recently withdrew 100 pounds -- the amount of cash found surrounding the body of Mrs. McGinty and now believed to be a pay off for black mail. Back at the boarding house where all the actors are staying, Miss Marple continues to ferret out clues and finds a note outside her door telling her to meet someone at 1AM in the kitchen if she wants to find out more. As she is sneaking down the stairs, she sees middle-aged actress Dorothy sneaking down just ahead of her and follows. When she opens the closed kitchen door, Dorothy is dead on the floor and Mrs. Marple, smelling bitter almonds indicating cyanide, throws open the outside door and windows. When the inspector arrives, she explains that the murder was done in a complicated way involving an on/off stove timer, a pot containing candle wax and a cyanide capsule but says this was the murder method of the play that they are opening with the following week ("Out of the Stewpot"), so all the actors would know how to do this. Meanwhile, Mr. Stringer arrives and tells her that the police have learned that one of the actors DID withdraw 100 pounds recently, but it was the recently-murdered George. Inspector Craddock theorizes that George had been blackmailing Margaret McGinty, which is why he withdrew the 100 pounds from his account, and then, in a fit of remorse, killed himself, but Mrs. Marple thinks otherwise.Mrs. Marple visits a theatrical agent who tells her that Margaret McGinty was in a 1951 play, "Forever September", written by Mr. Cosgood, along with a Rose Kane, who had a child about eleven. The agent says that Rose Kane was hanged for poisoning her husband, and Margaret McGinty, took the child in for awhile but that eventually it was sent on to an orphanage. He can't remember the sex of the child, but does recall the name, "Evelyn" pronounced "EEvelyn". This child would now be about the age of the four younger members of the acting troupe, Eva, Bill, Sheila, and Arthur.As the play opens the next week, the police are on hand to protect Mrs. Marple, but Eva comes into her dressing room with a knife and together they go below stage where Mrs. Marple learns that Eva thinks that Mrs. Marple was involved in killing George, who, it turns out, was her lover. Just as Mrs. Marple talks Eva out of her ill-conceived murder plan, the real murderer comes out of the shadows causing Eva to drop her knife and run away in fear. The shadowy figure is revealed to be Bill Hanson. Bill explains that in the play he is in a closet and he has used the stage trap door to come down and will be able to murder Mrs. Marple, and return to his closet before his scene takes place in 3 minutes. Bill, is actually Evelyn Kane, and he murdered Margaret McGinty because she was going to reveal to his soon-to-be father-in-law Bill's mother's sordid past. He picks up Eva's knife (he had intended to strangle Mrs. Marple) but Mrs. Marple draws the revolver that is to be used in the play (she had replaced it with a banana), and points it at Bill explaining she has replaced the blanks with real ammunition. She announces she was a former pistol champion at Bisley but he still advances on her so she shoots in two a prop rope causing a heavy wooden wheel to fall and knock out Bill, but also Inspector Craddock who had rushed downstairs. At the same time, Mr. Cosgood steps into the open stage door and comes crashing down. As she looks around at the three unconscious men, she says "Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear". The movie ends with her visiting Cosgood and Inspector Craddock in hospital, where he announced he has been promoted to Chief Inspector. Cosgood tries to get her to fund his play, but she says that she is "no angel". Mr. Stringer picks her up in a horse-drawn cart and they ride away.

title: Murder Most Foul

title: Murder

title: Most

title: Foul

text: The

text: film

text: opens

text: with

text: a

text: droll

text: series

text: of

text: silent

text: bits

text: as

text: a

text: constable

text: at

text: night

text: on

text: his

text: bicycle

text: discovers

text: a

text: man

text: with

text: his

text: hands

text: on

text: a

text: rope

text: with

text: a

text: strangled

text: woman

text: Margaret

text: McGinty

text: attached

text: As

text: it

text: happens

text: Miss

text: Marple

text: Margaret

text: Rutherford

text: is

text: on

text: the

text: jury

text: in

text: the

text: succeeding

text: murder

text: trial

text: She

text: forces

text: a

text: mistrial

text: as

text: the

text: only

text: one

text: to

text: hold

text: out

text: in

text: a

text: seemingly

text: open

text: and

text: shut

text: case

text: because

text: she

text: views

text: the

text: evidence

text: as

text: circumstantial

text: She

text: then

text: enlists

text: the

text: aid

text: of

text: her

text: friend

text: Mr.

text: Stringer

text: Stringer

text: Davis

text: Rutherford

text: 's

text: actual

text: husband

text: to

text: follow

text: the

text: evidence

text: in

text: support

text: of

text: her

text: theory

text: to

text: find

text: the

text: real

text: murderer

text: She

text: is

text: harassed

text: by

text: Detective

text: Inspector

text: Craddock

text: Charles

text: Bud

text: Tingwell

text: who

text: wants

text: her

text: to

text: get

text: out

text: of

text: the

text: way

text: of

text: the

text: Police

text: She

text: traces

text: the

text: evidence

text: to

text: a

text: low

text: rent

text: theatre

text: troupe

text: run

text: by

text: H.

text: Driffold

text: Cosgood

text: Ron

text: Moody

text: and

text: manages

text: to

text: infiltrate

text: the

text: acting

text: company

text: with

text: a

text: whirling

text: rendition

text: of

text: The

text: Shooting

text: of

text: Dan

text: McGrew

text: and

text: intimating

text: that

text: she

text: may

text: be

text: willing

text: to

text: financially

text: subsidize

text: the

text: company

text: No

text: sooner

text: does

text: she

text: secure

text: a

text: place

text: as

text: an

text: actress

text: than

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: actors

text: George

text: drops

text: dead

text: from

text: poisoning

text: and

text: Detective

text: Inspector

text: Craddock

text: shows

text: up

text: again

text: to

text: try

text: to

text: get

text: her

text: to

text: give

text: up

text: her

text: hunt

text: but

text: does

text: also

text: work

text: with

text: her

text: to

text: discover

text: the

text: killer

text: She

text: suggests

text: that

text: Craddock

text: investigate

text: bank

text: accounts

text: of

text: all

text: the

text: actors

text: to

text: see

text: who

text: if

text: any

text: recently

text: withdrew

text: pounds

text: the

text: amount

text: of

text: cash

text: found

text: surrounding

text: the

text: body

text: of

text: Mrs.

text: McGinty

text: and

text: now

text: believed

text: to

text: be

text: a

text: pay

text: off

text: for

text: black

text: mail

text: Back

text: at

text: the

text: boarding

text: house

text: where

text: all

text: the

text: actors

text: are

text: staying

text: Miss

text: Marple

text: continues

text: to

text: ferret

text: out

text: clues

text: and

text: finds

text: a

text: note

text: outside

text: her

text: door

text: telling

text: her

text: to

text: meet

text: someone

text: at

text: in

text: the

text: kitchen

text: if

text: she

text: wants

text: to

text: find

text: out

text: more

text: As

text: she

text: is

text: sneaking

text: down

text: the

text: stairs

text: she

text: sees

text: middle

text: aged

text: actress

text: Dorothy

text: sneaking

text: down

text: just

text: ahead

text: of

text: her

text: and

text: follows

text: When

text: she

text: opens

text: the

text: closed

text: kitchen

text: door

text: Dorothy

text: is

text: dead

text: on

text: the

text: floor

text: and

text: Mrs.

text: Marple

text: smelling

text: bitter

text: almonds

text: indicating

text: cyanide

text: throws

text: open

text: the

text: outside

text: door

text: and

text: windows

text: When

text: the

text: inspector

text: arrives

text: she

text: explains

text: that

text: the

text: murder

text: was

text: done

text: in

text: a

text: complicated

text: way

text: involving

text: an

text: on

text: off

text: stove

text: timer

text: a

text: pot

text: containing

text: candle

text: wax

text: and

text: a

text: cyanide

text: capsule

text: but

text: says

text: this

text: was

text: the

text: murder

text: method

text: of

text: the

text: play

text: that

text: they

text: are

text: opening

text: with

text: the

text: following

text: week

text: Out

text: of

text: the

text: Stewpot

text: so

text: all

text: the

text: actors

text: would

text: know

text: how

text: to

text: do

text: this

text: Meanwhile

text: Mr.

text: Stringer

text: arrives

text: and

text: tells

text: her

text: that

text: the

text: police

text: have

text: learned

text: that

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: actors

text: DID

text: withdraw

text: pounds

text: recently

text: but

text: it

text: was

text: the

text: recently

text: murdered

text: George

text: Inspector

text: Craddock

text: theorizes

text: that

text: George

text: had

text: been

text: blackmailing

text: Margaret

text: McGinty

text: which

text: is

text: why

text: he

text: withdrew

text: the

text: pounds

text: from

text: his

text: account

text: and

text: then

text: in

text: a

text: fit

text: of

text: remorse

text: killed

text: himself

text: but

text: Mrs.

text: Marple

text: thinks

text: otherwise

text: Mrs

text: Marple

text: visits

text: a

text: theatrical

text: agent

text: who

text: tells

text: her

text: that

text: Margaret

text: McGinty

text: was

text: in

text: a

text: play

text: Forever

text: September

text: written

text: by

text: Mr.

text: Cosgood

text: along

text: with

text: a

text: Rose

text: Kane

text: who

text: had

text: a

text: child

text: about

text: eleven

text: The

text: agent

text: says

text: that

text: Rose

text: Kane

text: was

text: hanged

text: for

text: poisoning

text: her

text: husband

text: and

text: Margaret

text: McGinty

text: took

text: the

text: child

text: in

text: for

text: awhile

text: but

text: that

text: eventually

text: it

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question: What is the name of the play that Cosgood leaves in the bedroom?

answer: Remember September

question: Who unmasks the killer?

answer: Miss Marple

text: Miss Marple

text: Miss Marple

question: Why is Harold Taylor thought to be guilty?

answer: a barmaid and former actress, is found hanged

question: Who plays Inspector Craddock?

answer: Bud Tingwell

text: Bud Tingwell

question: What is Harold Taylor in relation to Margaret McGinty?

answer: her lodger

question: What is Miss Marple's relation to Harold Taylor?

answer: Lawyer

question: What does Miss Marple's holdout lead to?

answer: to a mistrial

question: What is the name fo the repertory theatre players?

answer: Cosgood Players

question: What was Margaret McGinty's former occupation?

answer: actress

text: actress

text: actress

question: What was Margaret McGinty's current occupation?

answer: on the jury

text: on the jury

question: Who decides to delve into the case?

answer: Miss Marple

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text: Miss Marple