The Long Shot story
Heavily indebted Charlie Raymond answers a newspaper ad placed by Walker Hendricks, who wants a companion for his road trip to San Francisco. During their journey, Charlie learns that Walker is on his way to claim an inheritance from a family that he has never met. Charlie kills Walker and takes his identity to present himself at the lawyer's office. There he is met by a policeman, who informs him that the real Walker Hendricks was killed much earlier, and the man that he had killed was English Jim, another con man who had also been after the inheritance. Directed by: Robert Stevenson. Story by: Harold Swanton.
8 total · 3 major · 5 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| con artistry | major | Charlie plotted to impersonate Walker in order to fraudently claim a $200,000 inheritance. |
| criminal fraud | major | Charlie plotted to impersonate Walker in order to fraudently claim a $200,000 inheritance. |
| murder | major | Charlie killed a conman impersonating Walker. Later we learned that the real Walker had been killed by the conman. |
| facing loan sharks | minor | Charlie was being coerced into paying a $4,200 gambling debt to some gangsters. |
| gambling | minor | Charlie had gambled himself deep into debt, $4,200 to be precise. |
| nostalgia | minor | Charlie and Walker discussed old memories of London and SoHo in particular. |
| problem gambling | minor | Charlie had run up a $4,200 gambling debt that he was hard pressed to pay off. |
| theft | minor | Charlie was about to pilfer a few hundred dollars from Walker's briefcase, but got wind of something better. |