In 1921 after the boys conceive and complete the job of smuggling liquor in through the harbor, they now have a huge amount of money in payment from rum runners that they keep in a brown leather case. They put the case in a safety box at the train station and later give the key to Fat Moe, who may or may not know whats in the case. The key can only be retrieved from Moe when all the gang is together. As the film moves through the years to 1933 then to 1968, several of the gang have been killed. After Max, Cockeye and Patsy are supposedly killed in the 1933 ambush, Noodles goes to the safety box to look for the money -- its not there. He spends 35 years in Buffalo trying to figure out what happened to it. In 1968 he is tracked down by Max, (who has the key and money and who was supposed to be dead), and goes to the safety box and finds the money in the same leather case.The issue with the key is that Fat Moe had it and after the deception of the 1933 murders Max could only have gotten it from Fat Moe. Noodles goes and checks for the money meaning he had to have gotten the key from Fat Moe but the money was already gone. Noodles later did suspect Moe of taking the money but found Moe living in poverty in 1968 in the same shop. All in all why did Noodles wait 35 years to get the notion of asking Fat Moe if he had given the key to anyone? Moe would've HAD to have known Max hadn't died in order to give the key to him. Moe shouldn't have had any motive to take the case 'cause he was supposed to not know what was in it.
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05/03/2025 alle ore 08:48