:53:00
And look
what happened there.
:53:05
(Hopper)
Meanwhile,
the FBI was closing in
:53:07
on Deep Throat
and its distribution,
:53:10
They pinpointed
the Perainos' headquarters
in Fort Lauderdale
:53:14
and placed them
under surveillance,
:53:20
(Kelly)
One day,
I get a telephone call
:53:23
from a confidential source
:53:26
who will remain anonymous.
:53:31
And he says to me, uh,:
:53:32
''We've got so much cash
that we are having trouble
:53:36
''physically moving about
the office
:53:39
because the money
is gettin' in the way, ''
:53:42
l said, ''How much you got?''
He said, ''l don't know.
:53:44
we don't even
count it anymore.''
:53:47
l said, ''You don't count it?''
He said, ''No.''
:53:50
l said, ''what do you do?''
He said, ''we weigh it.''
:53:54
(Hopper)
To get around the law
:53:55
the mob set up
its own distribution system
:53:58
of checkers and sweepers
:53:59
who traveled the country
delivering prints
:54:02
and collecting the money
from theaters,
:54:04
At a certain time every day,
the checker or the sweeper
:54:07
would go to the manager
of the particular theater,
:54:11
and he would say,
''Our take is 50 percent,
:54:15
''And we want it now, in cash,
:54:18
Give us the money now,
or else.''
:54:22
(Peter Manouse)
I was on my way
down to Nashville,
:54:25
And the reason
l went to Nashville
:54:26
was l wanted to buy
these Goo Goo candy bars.
:54:29
Goo Goo, chew it,
taste it, sweet milk
:54:31
(Manouse)
I was gonna buy
a bunch of them
:54:33
and just, you know,
market them
:54:34
and see if
I could get it going,
:54:36
Well, on Saturday night,
I decided I'd just go out,
:54:38
And I met a couple of guys
from New Jersey,
:54:40
They were a couple of
ltalian guys.
:54:41
l happen to be a Greek,
:54:43
so ltalians and Greeks
are like cousins.
:54:44
I gotta have a Goo Goo,
how 'bout you?
Goo Goo
:54:48
They wanted me
to go to work for 'em
:54:50
uh, baby-sitting
Deep Throat,
:54:53
And they sent me over to
the Lamar Theater in Memphis,
:54:57
And that's where it all began,