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Phillips to launder the Nazi money, but Cravat learned of the exchange, pretended to be
Phillips, and took the money from Steele. Phillips found Steele empty-handed and shot him, believing that he had been cheated, but then noticed Cravat running away and deduced that Cravat had the money. Phillips also had Conroy killed and hired the gunman at the dock to follow Taylor. To protect Christy, Taylor offers to show Philips where the money is stashed and leads him to the soup kitchen. Once there, Kendall appears, having placed the soup kitchen under surveillance after receiving the suitcase, and shoots Phillips to disarm him. Phillips is hospitalized and makes a full confession to the police, and Anzelmo's crew is arrested. Taylor and Christy start a new life together.
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cash to the U.S. for safekeeping, but he was executed before he could escape
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in a U.S. military field hospital. As he recovers, he learns that he is George W. Taylor, a Marine. Among Taylor's personal items is an unsigned letter in which the writer curses him for an unspecified wrong. Taylor decides to hide his amnesia and uncover his original identity.
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by two thugs and evades them by hiding in the dressing room of singer Christy Smith. There, he finds a postcard directed to her from a woman named Mary announcing her impending marriage to Cravat. Taylor steals the postcard and slips out the window.
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