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Good morning, Rock.

Good morning, Lawrence.

Smiles, everyone, smiles.

I had no idea the staff of Funtime Toys was so engaging, sir.

Yes, Lawrence, delightful, aren't they?

But as you know, things are not always as they appear, even for such lovely

ladies.

For example, Miss Barbara Jessop has always been afraid that she's not as

as she should be.

Miss Sandy Hoffman suffers from the fact that she doesn't have the courage to

stand up for her convictions.

And Miss Nora Leonard has the most serious problem of all. She feels that

has lost the capacity to love.

Courage, a brain, and a heart.

Does that remind you at all of the Wizard of Oz, sir?

Now that you mention it, Lawrence, I wonder who's going to be the wizard.

Now, there's a gentleman who looks determined to enjoy his fantasy.

Mr. Daniel Custer of Washington, D .C., intends to do just that.

But his enjoyment will really come from what he's giving his wife and two

children. Very commendable, sir. Oh, indeed.

You see, his fantasy is for his family to experience the rewards of money and

position that he has never been able to give them.

Very noble.

But he seems to have forgotten to bring his family along.

On the contrary, Lawrence.

In his anxiety to please them, he sent his family on a few days ahead so they

could fully savor what he calls the sweet life.

As you so often say, sir, splendid.

And then they all go home together, a happy and satisfied family.

Unfortunately, I am not at all sure that Mr. Custer will go home again.

Ever.

My dear guests, I am Mr. Rourke, your host.

Welcome to Fantasy Island.

Mr. Rourke, do you think it's dumb that I'm hoping you can find me some brains?

Oh, no, not at all.

Yours is an unusual request, but Miss Jessup on Fantasy Island, everything is

possible.

Except what I want, Mr. Rourke.

Listen, I know I have some great ideas for ad campaigns, but I start telling

boss that they're not very good before he has a chance to tell me. Oh, why

you simply wait and let him decide for himself?

Because I'm chicken.

Is there any way you can give me some courage?

Allow me to work on it, Miss Hoffman.

In the meantime, your employer, Mr. Wagner, is waiting for you both right

the toy trade show. I suggest you hurry.

Great.

Bye. Bye.

We haven't even discussed your fantasy yet, Miss Leonard.

I don't have one.

I don't believe in fantasy, Mr. Rourke.

The designer of such wondrous toys doesn't believe in fantasy.

You suffered a tragic loss two years ago, Miss Leonard.

Is that the reason for your skepticism?

These past two years, I seem to be living without a heart.

And that is something not even you can give me, Mr. Rourke.

don't know what this means to me, Mr. Rourke. This is the only really big

I'll ever be able to do for my family.

Well, I'm pleased you're happy, Mr. Custer, but in the many years of your

marriage, are you sure that your wife and your son and your daughter feel that

way about you? Look, my wife is a beautiful woman, and she could have done

better than me, and I know it. The only thing I've got in common with my kids is

we all know I'm a failure.

Mr. Custer, this is the first day of your fantasy.

Whether it's all you expect it to be depends on you.

Now, please try to enjoy it. Look around you.

Look at the beauty of nature. Feel the peace and tranquility.

Forget your worries.

You're right.

Oh, look at this place.

Mildred must have fallen in love at first sight. And what about my kids,

and Natalie? They're living it up, right?

Why don't you go inside and find out for yourself?

Just what I'm going to do.

Hey, Mildred!

I'm here!

I do hope things turn out as he expects them.

Perhaps his enthusiasm will, as they say, rub off on the others, Lawrence.

Perhaps. But it so often seems that those who totally rely on others to

appreciate their efforts are doomed to disappointment.

Very true.

And Mr. Custer is a man trying to cope with what he considers to be his failure

in life.

And what is that, sir?

Seeing others promoted past him in his work.

Watching others grow rich while he scrambles frantically just to stay even.

Surely his family understood?

They tried, but even more tragically, the stress, the anxiety has taken its

on him physically.

Oh, no, sir.

You mean something serious, of course.

Yes.

A strained and badly weakened heart.

which he has kept secret from everyone, and which sadly could retire him

permanently at any moment.

And it encourages children to develop their coordination and their

Which they won't need if they grow up to be as cute as you are.

Even cute people need brains.

This campaign for over the wall is going to be dynamite.

Don't you think so?

I'm not sure I see it, Sandy.

Courage.

But I really think that it's going to work.

Put this away.

In this business, thieves are everywhere.

We'll talk about it later.

I wish we had something like Molly in our line. She's a dream.

Thank you.

I think so, too.

What do you think about lunch?

I'm really awfully busy.

I'd like that.

One o 'clock.

One o 'clock.

Where is everybody?

Dan? Oh, Dan, I thought I heard someone coming.

Oh, Dan, I'm so glad you're here.

Oh, boy, this is what I dreamed of.

Natty, hello.

Oh, you look as though you were born on this elegant terrace. Oh, I feel like

it, Dad.

And wait till I tell you about somebody I've met. I know you'll like him. Of

course he will, darling. Let your father have some lunch first.

Well, Raymond.

What do you think?

Terrific, I guess.

Come on, kid.

Dad?

Huh?

His name is Lance Hale, and he's filthy rich.

He owns all kinds of warehouses or something. I don't know. Who cares?

Anyway, I told him you were a tycoon, too.

And was he impressed?

You did what?

Well, how else am I supposed to explain this mansion and everything?

I mean, we are here to live a fantasy, right?

I thought you'd be pleased.

I am pleased, darling.

No, no, really pleased.

Matter of fact, I'm happy as hell.

I really have to get back now.

How about tonight, then?

I work all the time, Stephen.

It's my whole life.

I hope it's not too rude to ask, but have you ever really let yourself go?

Fallen in love?

Thought about sharing your life with someone else?

I've been in love, Stephen.

And I've shared my life with two wonderful people.

My husband and my daughter.

I lost them both in a car accident two years ago.

I don't talk about it much because there's nothing much to say.

Molly was only three.

Molly.

You're a beautiful baby doll.

So, now you know more about me than most people do.

I've worked it all out with Mr. Rourke.

We are going to top off our fantasy with the fanciest white tie shindig you can

imagine. Oh, Dan, couldn't we enjoy ourselves in a quieter way? Honey, we've

always done that.

Lived in a quiet little house in a quiet little street.

Made do with a quiet little income. This is our chance to do it big and loud.

I like what we had. Oh, honey.

You have been darn good about it. Yeah.

Sometimes I think of all those, you know, those sales pitches that I used to

make to you when we were going together.

About making it big and traveling all over the world. Oh, Dan.

Everybody dreams like that. Yes, but, Mildred, I meant it.

You, the most beautiful girl in Alexandria, Virginia.

Probably in the whole state. You could have had your pick of a husband.

Well, from any of those rich, old families.

Well, maybe.

But I fell in love with you.

Now, you stop this, Dan.

You just stop it.

I don't care what it might have been.

You never think about what it might have been like with another man, a guy with

position, power, money.

You never want the things that I can't give you?

I don't even want to talk about it.

If you don't know how I feel by now, you never will.

And that is the only thing I am sorry about.

Mr.

Custer, are you all right?

It's nothing.

Nothing. A little too much sun, I guess.

I'll call the doctor at once.

No, no.

I'm all right now.

Mr. Custer, you should see a doctor.

And your wife should be with you. No.

No.

I give you my word.

I'm...

I'm all right.

And you've got to promise me that you won't say a word to Mildred about this.

She'll worry herself sick.

Don't want a little too much sun to spoil things for my family.

It's not the sun.

We both know that, don't we?

Well, whatever it is.

It can't be changed.

Understand?

It's just the way things are.

All my life I've been a loser, Mr. Rourke.

Let me win this one, will you?

Good evening, Mr. Roy. Good evening. Well, it's uncommon on the island to see

many beautiful women enjoying themselves without male companionship.

Well, you can fix that. Sit down.

Thank you. I've turned down 17 invitations already, Mr. Roy. Oh?

don't know how smart that was of me. Heaven knows how many orders they would

have led to.

Talking about turning over a new leaf.

Isn't she doing great?

Oh, she's doing very well indeed.

Why, thank you.

Sandy's not doing badly either.

Oh, well, thank you very much. But you know darn well I'm still afraid to open

my mouth.

If I really had any guts, I'd go over and make a pitch to the boss right now.

You must have faith, Miss Hoffman, in yourself and in your talent. In fact,

courage is a great deal like talent. The more you use it, the stronger it gets.

You're right.

Oh, what have I got to lose?

A popularity contest?

Good. Go get him.

Excuse me. Of course.

Nora, a dance.

Yes, of course.

Well, Mr. Rourke, I guess you're stuck with me.

Oh, on the contrary, Miss Jessop. I'm extremely flattered.

Why, thank you.

But you saw the market research on Over the Wall.

I know, but I don't know if it's the kind of thing we want to be doing now.

But it is.

Good idea. And I think that we should be doing it now.

I don't want to tell you again.

You're wrong.

I don't want to tell you again.

You are wrong.

Then let me tell you something you haven't heard before.

You're fired.

Senior mother?

Yeah, she said to tell you she had some errands to run so she could look

beautiful for your party or something Well good for her and Natalie She's in

house somewhere with her new boyfriend Lance. What's his name?

Would you tell me something if I can sure There's a Ferrari in the garage

in the stables An island full of beautiful girls just waiting to be

And a hundred other fantastic choices of what you could be doing with your time.

Would you please tell me what the heck you're doing writing a letter?

It's not a letter.

It's a poem.

Damn it, son.

There isn't any money writing poetry.

Well, you forgot to mention that when you used to read them to me when I was a

kid. Remember?

When you were little was different.

I didn't mean to turn you into some dumb mama's boy.

Will you face it, Dad? I'm never going to be the financial success that you

always wanted to be.

It isn't just that. Don't you understand?

It's knowing you haven't got it.

That you're trapped like I am.

I don't want that to happen to you.

I promise you it won't.

Daddy, you all right? Oh, sure.

Sure, sure.

Don't worry about me.

Just what the hell goes on here?

Nothing, Daddy.

It's not what it looks like.

Well, then, what is it?

Let's just keep it calm, Mr. Coster.

I've been looking forward to meeting you.

Maybe we could do a little business together.

Natalie's told me a lot about you. Did she tell you I've got this thing about

strangers making love to her in my living room?

Just take it easy. There's no problem here.

Get out of here, you... Daddy!

Daddy, please!

Why don't you keep him in a cage?

What is wrong with you?

Lance and I love each other.

Oh, Natty, in two days.

What has time got to do with it?

I went with my husband for two years and that didn't guarantee a damn thing.

Mark was a flop at everything he did. And you approved of Mark.

At least Lance amounts to something.

He's already made it. He's rich.

What's money got to do with it?

My God.

Everything.

Mr. Rourke, Mr. Rourke, look, I took full advantage of my fantasy, but it got

fired.

What are you going to do about it? What am I going to do about it?

Miss Hoffman, you are in the perfect place to get yourself a new job. Look

around you.

Why don't you use your newfound courage to do some good for yourself this time?

Mine was named Butter.

Sandy, you can start work for me right away, as far as I'm concerned. Okay,

great. I have a new campaign I'd like you to work on. A new video game. Uh

Over the Wall.

Over the Wall?

Mm -hmm. That's Nora's new game.

Sometimes she owns that.

I'm going to borrow it.

Actually, since you're now part of my creative team...

You're gonna do it for me. You're gonna steal it for me.

Like hell I am.

You wanna lose two jobs in one weekend?

I fainted. Yes.

Your wife found you unconscious on stairs last night.

And she had the servants coming up here. The doctor said to give you the

sedative when you woke up.

Everything seems to work.

Thank you.

I can see a little numb.

But I'll manage.

Doctor?

What did he tell Mildred?

Please. What did you tell him?

There was no need to tell her anything, Mr. Coster.

She's known all about the little bottles of glycerin tablets for some time.

I'm afraid you underestimate her in many ways.

Story of my life, isn't it?

What about the kids?

They know you fainted.

That's all.

Can we keep it like that?

Right now, I just couldn't take a double dose of fake concern, you know what I

mean?

You may be underestimating your children just as you have your wife.

I suggest you carefully examine your relationship with all of them.

All right, I'll do that.

Thanks for trying.

You know something, Mr. Rourke?

So far.

This has been a lousy fantasy.

I'm sorry, Mr. Custer.

But I've only provided you with what you asked. All the accoutrements of wealth.

The understanding, the peace, the happiness must come from yourself.

Fred, we've known each other for a long time.

And it'd be nice for a change if you would treat me as if I had a brain

my head.

It's what's below your head that interests me, Barb.

And that's why I'm going to double my order this year.

Barbara. Barbara, we have to talk.

Oh, okay. I'll leave you to your girlfriend.

Thanks. But I'll see you later, sweetheart.

What is it with these guys?

They think with their pants.

Where's Nora?

She's out sailing with Steven.

You know, I really think she's falling for him. Oh, in that case, we really

a problem.

Steven plans to steal over the wall.

What?

How can you work for a guy like that?

I can't. He just fired me.

Well, we'd just better go tell Mr. Rourke. We can't do that.

Think how humiliated Nora would be to have everyone think that Steven was

romancing her just to steal a video game.

Then what?

leave that to you.

You're the one who came to get some brain.

Let's try it out.

Ah, don't you look pretty.

Never mind that. What are you doing out of bed?

Thirty years with the company, and I never lost a day's work being sick.

And I'm for darn sure not going to miss an hour of my time playing the tycoon.

Will you help me with this, honey?

Daddy?

Daddy, I'm sorry about what happened.

Wait, forget about that.

I just, I thought that Lance was the type of man that you would admire.

Funny.

The same thing was said about Mark before you married him.

Did I say that?

Yep. Matter of fact, you said that he had a lot of my qualities.

That was part of what attracted you to him.

Remember?

I guess I do.

Unfortunately.

The main quality of mind that he developed was being a loser.

Oh, Dad, please. Did we have to?

Sorry. Sorry, Natty. Sorry.

Say, how's it going?

How's the preparations going for the party? They're decorating the ballroom.

Ballroom? How about that? The Koster family ballroom. Has a nice sound,

it? Come on, now. Let's go and take a look. Oh, should you?

Sure. I'll bet you.

Somebody's got to supervise. You know how it is with servants these days.

Would you look at this place?

Oh, not bad, is it?

It's nice.

Nice.

Nice enough maybe to snap Raymond out of his poetic reveries or whatever you

call them.

Let's tease him, shall we?

You go ahead, Dad.

Oh, sure.

Bye. Natty.

Hey, are you supposed to be up?

I looked in on you 30 minutes ago. Oh, fast healer, fast healer.

What happened, Dad?

Oh, nothing to worry about. No, no, I guess you might call it a case of

accumulated fatigue.

Well, now, what about this?

What do you think of this now?

Hmm? No danger of claustrophobia. Oh.

On the arts out of this world. Uh -huh.

Picasso, Matisse, Clay.

I mean, there's a major art gallery in there.

Well, I guess my taste in art would run to something like a picture of a couple

of fighters hanging in a bar somewhere.

I thought you were into poetry.

I write poetry. I look at paintings.

These poems.

Your mother ever see any of them?

All of them.

You don't, I suppose, happen to have one there that would be simple enough for

your old man to understand.

Fresh off the ancient quill pen.

Oh.

Thank you, son.

Let me know what you think.

Yeah.

May I help you, sir?

Yeah, would you get me to my room, please? Of course, sir.

Listen, I better... I better get back and mind my store, you know?

Let's get together tonight, though. What do you say?

Okay. Okay.

I should probably change and go and mind my own store for a while, too.

Okay. You go ahead. I'll let myself out.

All right.

Yeah.

That's right.

Yeah.

No, no, no, no. Look, look, look, I've got it. The question is, if I get it on

the night flight, will you be able to copy it?

Hi.

All right, then.

I'll call you later.

Goodbye.

What can I do for you?

Well, um... Actually, I need a favor.

Kind of a big one.

I need a job.

How come?

Well, because I want to work for a company where I can use my brains

my looks.

Unfortunately, Mr. Wagner doesn't seem to see things that way.

Well, I've always thought of you as a...

Pretty intelligent person.

Why, thank you.

I knew that I'd come to the right place.

And, uh... Actually, I don't want you to think that I'm giving you a line or

something, but... I've always admired you.

You have?

Oh, yes.

That's prototypes.

Probably a short circuit in here somewhere.

You're just like all the rest, coming on to me when I'm trying to talk business.

Well, just forget it.

What?

That's what they all say.

If I didn't know I was too tough to kill, I'd be scared.

I'm scared, Dan.

Honey.

Honey.

The one thing I was smart enough to get was lots of insurance.

Dan.

I didn't mean that.

I'm afraid that something will happen to one of us without you realizing the

truth.

That's the problem. I do. No, no. No, you don't.

You lost your ability to see the truth a long time ago. Miller, please.

Oh, Dan, darling.

It's not your fault. Who knows what you might have been.

If you'd taken chances, gambled on the future.

But you took a job you didn't like.

Because it meant security for me and the children.

Any man would have done that. Well, I don't know about any man.

I only know about you.

You never missed a birthday.

You never missed a graduation.

If someone was sick, you never left their bedside.

Knocking yourself out, playing the clown.

Those were the good days, weren't they? Yes, darling.

They were.

You gave of yourself.

You gave your love.

You gave me and the children 110 % of what you had to give Dad.

And you still do, but... But?

You never allow us to give you anything back, Dan.

At least not very much.

Oh, Dan.

We all love you, too.

But you never allow us to get past that wall of frustration you've built up

between yourself and the rest of us.

There isn't much more left.

Isn't it too late, is it?

Oh, Dan.

It's never too late for love.

It's probably Mr. Rourke. I asked him to come over.

Honey.

I'll always love you.

Oh, Dan.

Always.

Dan, I'll always love you, too.

How do you feel, Mr. Custer?

Ready for the big party.

I... I have been a foolish man.

Only fools think they are wise, Mr. Custer.

The wise man is almost certainly a fool.

My son wrote this.

Where did you get it?

I asked him for it.

It says something about me, I think.

I'm going to ask you a favor.

Anything you wish, Mr. Custer, of course.

Read it, please.

I'm sorry I'm late.

Lawrence? Sir?

If you'll excuse me.

I didn't mean to keep you waiting.

Something came up.

I know.

I'm going to do my best to explain this so that you understand.

I'm listening.

My business is going under.

I need a surefire winner. That's what you've created with Over the Wall.

It's as simple as that.

You made a fool of me, Stephen.

And what's worse, you've broken my heart.

And I swore I'd never let that happen again.

I didn't mean for that to happen.

Nora, I... I care about you.

But you were never interested until this weekend.

I haven't cried since.

Rob and Molly were killed.

And I can't believe that I'm crying now over someone like you.

One good thing.

I found out I had a heart the minute I felt it breaking.

It's all my fault. I should never have interfered. No, you did the smart thing.

There's no telling how much damage Stephen could have done to me and

you hadn't stepped in.

Well, I guess that makes me the big loser, huh?

Well, you got your brains, you got your heart.

I got fired twice.

Sandy.

Sandy, I want to talk to you. And I want to talk to you.

First, you're firing me with a big mistake. I know this company. I know

advertising. And I know who our customers are. And your not knowing good

when it's right under your nose does not diminish my abilities one darn bit.

Are you finished?

No.

I don't like you, Todd.

Then I guess you don't want your job back.

Now are you like we're talking?

So you got your job back.

Now we all have our fantasies.

Dad would say this is one hell of a party.

I gotta hand it to him.

I've been doing a lot of thinking, Ray.

And we gotta hand Dad a lot more than that.

And it's about time we start.

When was the last time you told Dad you loved him?

I don't know.

But he doesn't exactly make himself lovable anymore, does he?

Have we?

We thought you were a movie star. You look wonderful, Mother.

I have to tell you something.

Perhaps we should go someplace less crowded.

No, no.

No, I think we all belong here at Dan's party.

It was what he wanted.

Mother, what's happened?

It was his heart.

It finally just stopped.

He wanted you both to know how proud he was of you and how much he loved you.

In fact, those were his very last words.

Oh, my God.

We had something very special that we wanted to tell him.

Oh, Daddy.

That you loved him.

Oh, he knew that.

Your mother explained it all so beautifully to him.

He understood at last that what he gave each of you had a value all the money in

the world couldn't buy.

He asked a special favor of me that I read this to you because he said

it caught the essence of his life.

And so it should, perhaps, since his own son wrote it.

A foolish man found the rainbow's end

and stood with his feet in gold but cast his eyes on the gleaming light that

soared up to heaven's fold.

Oh, that earth was sweet and warm with life.

Its delights were never far.

But the man who stood with his feet in gold

could see only the spectrum star.

Then the rainbow vanished as rainbows do.

And the gleaming light turned cold.

So the lucky man dropped to his knees and

dipped his heart.

Mr. Rourke, we can't thank you enough.

Yeah, and we all got exactly what we came for. Ladies, it has been a

but I'm afraid all of your fantasies were a bit of a sham.

Oh, yes.

You all had those very qualities that you came searching for long before we

I'm afraid the error you made was in letting other people judge them for you.

Thank you very much, Mr. Rourke.

You're very welcome.

Thank you. Miss Landers, Mr. Carney left this for you.

He was a most unhappy man.

Miss Leonard, now that you have opened your heart again, you'll be free to love

when the time is right. And I hope that will be very soon.

Thank you.

I am so sorry if it had to be such a sight.

It was what Dan wanted.

And he did find what he'd lost for so long.

The knowledge of his own value.

Especially for that.

We're grateful.

What greater gift hath man than that he is loved and loves?

It's pretty good, Lawrence.

Do you write poetry?

Not on this island.

Come back one day. all of you.

And I promise to make your most cherished fantasy come true.