Original subtitles

Alegre e Feliz 1937

Subtitles: (AI) Translation Of The English Language

The golden voice and the twinkling toes, is

my daughter Once a pale and sickly child

Weak in the limbs and hardly able to

walk Until she started to take Indian Wizard

Oil Show me Hitchcock Kelly And

now you might ask What brings a physician

of my reputation Away out here to Western

Pennsylvania?

These visavors don't look like they're going to

spend a dime Oh, they'll spend all right

when Paul gets wound up Paul gets a

white pants to a coal miner At any

cost, just the same I'm going to see

that each and every one of you Can

enjoy the benefits of this remarkable oil I'm

going to pass out sample bottles absolutely free

My daughter, my little daughter Will go among

you like a ministering angel Give it away,

Sally, give it away From now on, folks,

you've got no cause To go around dragging

one foot after the other Laugh right back

at life Be as light on your feet

as a young gazelle Thanks You know, you're

the best-looking ministering angel I've seen in

a long time And one up here, young

woman, as long as it's free Thank you

And now Chief Yellow Cloud will pass among

you And collect a small sum of 25

cents Not for the oil, mind you Merely

to cover the cost of the bottle Keep

good Big Chief says so Keep good Hey,

just a moment, sir This compound of yours

is nothing but plain, ordinary rock oil Why,

this stuff comes from here, seeps right through

our ground Young man, you don't know what

you're talking about I know rock oil when

I smell it You wouldn't know the sight

of a bar unless it hit you Who

told you you were smarter than the Indians?

It's got nothing to do with the Indians

It's got nothing to do with the Indians?

Did you ever see a white man turn

a flip-flop at the age of 84?

You just saw Chief Yellow Cloud do it,

didn't you, smart aleck?

And now I'm going to ask Chief Yellow

Cloud to give me another exhibition of his

strength I'm going to ask him to take

you by the nap of the neck And

throw you off this square Don't hurt him,

Peter Hurt him?

Chief!

Chief!

Chief!

Chief!

Chief!

Chief!

Chief!

Where are you?

Stop, Sally!

You're from Jeepers!

Talk like an Indian, you fool!

Let me down!

Let me down!

He said it was good for anything.

Got some place to put your horse?

We ain't even got some place to put

ourselves.

The girl could sleep on the sofa in

the parlor, and the two men could lie

up in the stable.

Well, well, this is a great kindness, madame.

But you'll have to leave right after breakfast.

I ain't running a hotel.

We ain't asking for charity, Pop.

Jump in.

We'll take the girl in front.

With pleasure, with pleasure.

Pop, out of the...

Oh, I could get in by myself if

I wanted to.

You mean to say you're going to accept

favors from a man who said your medicine

was rock oil?

Shut up.

It is rock oil.

Oh, you're up.

Good morning.

Who's this?

That's my mother, Peter's great-grandmother.

I was married in that dress, too.

I wish I had my mother's wedding dress.

Oh, you've got so many pretty things.

I guess a house is a good thing

to have, isn't it?

Don't you think it's time you was getting

dressed?

Oh, is this late?

It's going on seven o'clock.

Morning's half over.

Oh, it's just like a picture book out

there.

Cows and sheep and pretty white doves.

A farm's hard work from sun up to

dark.

What's that thing?

Looks like a window without sails.

Ain't nothing that sensible.

It's something they call a derrick.

And my grandson's out there fooling with it,

and he ought to be clear in the

north meadow.

He's digging way down in the ground for

rock oil.

I thought he was a farmer.

He is, but he's got this crazy notion

about oil now.

Says he's gonna keep the poor man warm

and light up every little shack in the

country.

Oh, die.

The most beautiful woman in the world just

kissed me.

She's been in and out of this hayloft

all night.

Here's your things.

Oh, I'm gonna look at you.

Thank you, Mrs. Cortland.

You better hurry up and get dressed now.

I'm gonna give you and your father and

that other fellow your breakfast, and then I'll

have done my Christian duty.

From then on, you must ship for yourselves.

Yes, ma'am.

Hello, Oscar.

Want your breakfast?

Yes.

Tweet, tweet, tweet.

High, wide and handsome I'm riding wide and

high Run, little horsey, run Just so you

can play High, wide and handsome I'm riding

wide and high Run, little horsey, run Just

so you can play Good for you.

You pick up a tune quick.

Always did have a good ear.

You got a mighty pretty voice too, Mrs.

Cortland.

Mighty pretty.

Are you trying to get around me?

Because if you are, don't do your mighty

good.

You can tell me I had a voice

like an Italian prima donna.

You'd still have to be out of this

house within the hour.

I know.

I'm riding wide and high Run, little horsey,

run I'm

riding wide and high Run, little horsey, run

High, wide and handsome I'm riding wide and

high How far are you now?

About 30 feet.

And you can skim all the rock oil

you need right off the top of the

crib.

Not all I want.

I ain't trying to get it all just

for myself.

Who are you trying to get it for,

Peter?

Maybe for people in Philadelphia.

Philadelphia?

Yeah, and Boston, and Baltimore, and Pekin, and

Constantinople.

Awful lot of people in them places.

I suppose you'll have to be getting more

help pretty soon, I reckon.

That's what I figure.

Sober up, Davey.

Get on that bow wheel, Lamb, and lower

away.

All right, Peter.

Zee, come in here and give me a

hand.

Guide that drill.

I bet they hit China before they hit

oil.

Watch that drill hole, Shorty.

There's likely to be a bunch of little

Chinese girls pop out of there any minute.

You put the other clamp in.

All right, now go ahead.

Go ahead.

That's it.

What's the matter?

That's it.

Come on.

Steady.

Steady, Lamb.

Put you on your toes.

We're all set, Peter.

Hey, Gabby, get on that control.

All right, Peter.

Lamb, kick it over.

Come on!

You made it work.

Yep, looks like it'll do all right.

It'll be quicker than the old foot drill.

I don't like to bother you, but I've

got a message from your grandma.

She says you've got an old hay wagon

maybe you don't need.

Yeah, I've got an old broken wagon, that's

all.

Well, I was thinking maybe if you don't

need it, Pa could fix it up for

us to use.

You see, we ain't got a wagon or

nothing now.

It'll take some time to make anything out

of that old wagon, won't it?

A couple of weeks, Pa, I think.

I could help your grandma in the kitchen.

She says it's all right with her if

we stay, so long as it's all right

with you.

Yeah, it's all right with me.

Enjoyed your dancing last night, Miss Patterson.

Wasn't surprised to hear the wagon catch fire.

Almost busting the flames myself.

See, you're kind of smart, ain't you?

I ain't as smart as Cortland there.

You know what he's doing?

He's digging up enough oil for all the

people in the world.

Well, maybe that's a pretty good thing to

do.

Well, I don't think all the people in

the world has got rheumatism or jaundice, or

whatever your pop said rock oil was good

for.

Some of us don't need it.

Blockheads don't know what it's good for, maybe.

Blockheads ain't figured out that maybe you can

light lamps and make stoves go with rock

oil.

That's good.

Lighten all the lamps in Philadelphia and Peking,

China, with rock oil from Peter Cortland's farm.

Get out of here, Red.

Yeah, I guess maybe I better, before I

start getting queer IDs myself.

See you later, Miss Watterson, on the other

side of the fence.

Who told you?

Tell me what?

About this, what I'm aiming at.

Oh, I just kind of figured it out

for myself.

You've been talking to Grandma.

Maybe.

Come to think about it, she did say

something about you having a daffy notion in

your head.

You think it's daffy?

Yes, I think it's daffy, pretty daffy.

Looks like it might be a good idea

for everybody to get back to work instead

of wasting a lot of time over a

lot of silly jabbering.

And if you're going to earn your keep

by helping Grandma, why don't you go and

start in?

You can't talk bossy to me like that,

Mr. Cortland.

I ain't used to it.

And I ain't used to being told I'm

daffy.

You ain't?

Well, it's about time somebody told you.

Right snippy little piece, ain't she?

She is kind of snippy.

To fool a simple maiden Whose heart with

love was laden To fool a simple maiden

Whose heart, whose heart with love Her lust

was laden Then she runs off the stage

crying.

And is that the end?

No, he marries her at the end.

Oh, I like comic opera.

I loved the one I saw.

Lamb's sake, look at that sun.

Red as a tomato and right on top

of the hill.

Peter hasn't fed the stock yet.

I'll feed him.

You think you can?

Of course I can.

All right.

Now that's for the chickens and that's for

the horse.

Right.

You just throw it to them, don't you?

That's all.

Hello, chickens.

I'm bringing you your dinner today.

What's the matter?

What are you running away for?

Mercy me.

I said throw it to them, not at

them.

Ah.

Why did you come to the well every

morning If not to laugh at me?

Oh, no, Suzetta.

I would not laugh at you.

Oh, the love you need, oh, oh, oh

Are you not to see how easy it

was To buy a container?

Mommy!

First time I've ever seen a pig have

music with his nails.

I reckon you don't know much about pigs.

No, but I'm learning.

Well, hi, White and handsome.

How are you coming along, Pop?

Oh, we'll have her finished on time.

You work too hard.

I'll bet Sally would be glad to get

away from here.

Do you think so, Mac?

Sure.

She's always fighting with that Cortland fella.

She hates the sight of him.

You know human nature, don't you, Mac?

From A to Z.

You must have skipped W.

Women come under W.

Well, why did you come up this side

today?

I went by the barn to see how

Pop was getting along.

You're late this morning.

Well, I peed around a half hour earlier

than usual.

Seem like you're awful late.

Here's your vinegar, Slang.

Thanks.

Good.

You going Friday?

Yes.

Pop says the wagon will be ready by

then.

Oh, I love it up here on this

hill.

Just the same, I bet you're hankering to

get back on the road.

Oh, I don't know.

It's been kind of fun living in a

house and cooking in a real kitchen.

I surely will miss your grandma.

Oh, I've got to get back too.

She'll be mad and I'll get out if

I don't.

Oh, don't go yet.

I want to ask you something.

It's about Thursday night.

They're having a kind of jamboree over duck

lip and cuts and...

Oh, yes, your grandma told me.

I was thinking, I don't know, it might

not be very exciting for you.

But I was wondering whether...

You want me to go to the dance

with you?

Yeah, that's what I'd like.

Well, I'd love to go, Peter.

Will you?

Of course I will.

Well, I've got to get back to work

now.

The picture.

Now, listen to those birds sing.

They don't usually sing this time of day.

Don't they?

No.

Well, goodbye.

First couple out to the right and swing.

All other couples keep walking in a ring.

Balance ain't an old age thing.

One fellow man and a right-hand man.

Swing your swing, let's swing another game.

I like your dress.

Grandma made most of it.

I'll see how you did all that work

in one day.

Oh, it took four days.

But I didn't ask you until yesterday.

I'm sorry to see that the tone of

this here gathering ain't as high as we

like to keep it in our socials around

here.

Oh, you mean Red Scanlon.

Well, as long as he behaves himself.

No, I'm referring to that medicine show gal

your grandson brought here, Mrs. Cortland.

By the way, Mr. Stark, what do you

hear from that brother of yours at the

penitentiary?

His term for horse stealing's about up by

now, ain't it?

Everybody up for the kissing game?

King William was King James' son And love

that royal race he sprung He wore a

star upon his breast To show that he

was royal best He wore a star upon

his breast To show that he was best

Go choose your east, go choose your west

Go choose the one that you like best

If he's not here to take your heart

Go choose another, go choose another Go choose

another with all your heart It's only a

game, Peter.

It's only a game, Peter.

What's the fuss about?

She's been kissed before, ain't she?

Wasn't she with the medicine show?

Looks like we're going to have some fun.

Somebody pull him apart!

Peter, look out!

Peter, look out!

Give me a sign in the air, Peter!

That's the way to do it!

Let me go.

Let's finish this fight fair.

That's what I want to do.

Take him to the house and hold him

there till Peter goes.

Do you want to send the girl away,

too?

Easy, Red!

We ain't tore this yet, Cortland.

Remember that.

I don't leave no fights unfinished.

All right, Cortland, all right.

We'll have to ask you to leave, Peter.

Let him go, boys.

Come over and apologize to Mrs. Lippincott tomorrow,

Peter.

That was a good one you gave me.

This is a shortcut home.

Oh, it's beautiful here.

Yep.

Apples.

I got kind of scared when you were

fighting.

I thought he was hurting you.

Thanks for getting scared.

Oh, I love it here.

Can we sit here and talk a while?

Uh-huh.

The air smells so sweet.

I...

I think you're sweet.

Let's go on.

We'll get to the sea, maybe.

Are you going tomorrow for sure?

Uh-huh.

It's been nice having you here.

Your pa always cracking jokes and you singing

songs and everything.

Oh, we like being here.

Oh, I...

I guess you'll be glad to get back

on the road.

First thing you know, you'll forget all about

us.

Maybe.

Think you'll forget about us?

Maybe.

In a couple of years.

Shut your eyes.

And feel the moonlight.

It's like you were drowning in silver.

And once we walked in a moonlit dream.

Can I forget you?

Or will my heart remind me How sweet

you made the moonlight feel?

Feel the glory of your kindness.

And moonlight bathed in a veil of rain.

But I want you back again.

I'll take this.

It's not heavy.

You...

You know what we said about forgetting in

a couple of years?

Well, I don't think I'll ever forget you.

I'll take this.

Goodbye.

Goodbye.

And there was something I wanted to tell

her.

Then why didn't you?

Why don't you?

Go away!

Hey, come on!

Get off!

Get off!

Just a moment, won't take long.

Let's see from here.

No, I don't like that.

Oh, there it is.

I like that much better.

Yes, that's the one.

Now, smile as though you were happy.

Lovely.

Now, don't move.

Steady.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,

nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen,

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,

nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen.

That's it!

Thank you!

Mariah, I'll have no shilly-shallying.

Mariah, don't wait until tomorrow.

Mariah, but get dressed up with your bombazine

and go to the church in the village

green.

Mariah, I can't wait to marry you.

Will you make my apple red beat?

Will you take my song to the bar?

Don't forget that you're a handyman around the

bar.

I'll have no shilly-shallying.

Mariah, I'll have no shilly-shallying.

Mariah, don't wait until tomorrow.

Mariah, but get dressed up with your bombazine

and go to the church in the village

green.

Mariah, I can't wait to marry you.

Where are we going?

I want to show you something.

We shouldn't go off like this.

Why don't you start arguing with me right

off the bat?

I'm out of breath.

Good, then I can do all the talking.

Do you want to know what I brought

you up to show you?

Yes, what?

It's going to be right here.

What's going to be right here?

The house I'm building for you.

Peter!

It can be painted white.

If you like white houses, I hope you

do.

Oh, I love white houses.

And I love you for wanting to build

it for me up here on our hill.

But darling, you've got a house.

Oh, Grandma's staying in that one.

She says a young couple ought to be

along.

Come on, sit down.

I'll tell you about it.

I was up here this morning staking the

whole thing out.

Where's it from Portugal, I mean?

Oh, it's going to be a beauty.

Runs across here, thirty feet, and faces south.

Oh, Peter.

We'll make changes as any family will But

we will always be called The folks who

live on the hill Ah, Veranda will command

the view of meadows green The sort of

view that seems to want to be seen

And when the kids grow up and leave

us We'll sit and look at that same

old view Just we two, Darby and John

Who used to be Jeff and Jill The

folks who like to be called What they

have always been called The folks who live

on the hill What's

this?

What is that?

Look at it!

You are welcome.

Look at it gushing.

It wasn't so crazy after all.

Men, run and look down the road.

Wow, Peter.

Come on.

This pouring all over our property?

I don't know what this mad part's saying.

Mrs. Cortland, I am sure it would have

met with his approval.

That'll go sky high.

I'll be rich, perfect.

Why is this lazy plan?

Look at him run!

There'll be a fine spell over land options

now, Mrs. Cortland.

What?

Oh, try to get rich quick.

Hey, Sally!

Sally!

Sally!

Oh, Sally, darling!

Darling, looks like you brought me good luck.

Everything's going to be different from what we

figured.

Peter, look what you've done.

Oh, never mind that.

You can have anything you want now.

But I've got everything I want.

Right here.

Look at it.

MOCUSSAMA This

oil business very

definitely concerns us.

It concerns here in Philadelphia.

Our Wall Street friends in New York.

Our other associates in Cleveland and St. Louis.

In fact, clear out to San Francisco.

They all agree this may be one of

the big industries of the future.

So, I think It's high time we went

to Western Pennsylvania and took control of it.

Getting control of an industry, Mr. Brennan, takes

time and a lot of money.

It certainly does, yes.

That is, unless someone thinks of a shortcut.

Meaning?

Well, these oil fields are owned by a

group of hard-headed farmers.

They won't sell out.

But their oil is no good unless it's

refined.

They can't get it to the refineries unless

they use our railroads.

So, if we keep raising the freight rates,

we lower their profits to a vanishing point.

Well, you gentlemen have certainly heard of a

little game called freeze-out.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Same thing every day.

Paying a lot of men to come up

here and do nothing.

We can't start building your house less than

we know front from back.

We just got started working with Mr. Cortland

and then he had to go.

Said it was something awful important.

My husband's a very busy man these days.

I guess you better tell your men to

go on home.

Guess that's all we can do, Miss Cortland.

I'm sorry.

Come on, boy.

Hey, Lem.

Lem!

Have you sorted all that correspondence on the

railroad rates?

Yes, here it is.

And I want everything else from the Brennan

offices in Philadelphia.

Oh, you ain't human, Peter.

Look at that clock.

The roosters will be crowing soon.

Never mind.

Now get me what I'm asking for.

Then you can go home.

I gotta have my facts dead straight before

I tackle Mr. Walt Brennan and company.

And that's the worst of the evils these

strangers have brought with them.

The shanty boat.

It's time the God-fearing people of this

county took action.

These gamblers and women and whiskey sellers are

gonna be driven off the creek.

Get out!

There, that's for you, son.

Thank you, honey.

So this is the sporting life in Titusville.

Here's the fellow I was telling you about,

Peter Cortland.

The one who's been making all the trouble.

Mr. Brennan, my name's Cortland.

We had an appointment.

Sure, sure.

Sit down, Cortland.

Mr. Brennan, we gotta have an understanding about...

Wait until the little lady finishes her song.

have another chorus.

Look, Brennan, I didn't come here to listen

to singing.

I'm talking for a group of men who

ship...

4,000 barrels of oil a day on

one of your railroads.

4,000 barrels, huh?

My, my, my.

Think of that.

How this business is growing.

Growing fast enough to be interested in big

business, men.

Yes, Mr. Cortland.

Well, I think it's time men with some

important capital...

came in and organized it.

What about the men who started it?

Put their savings in it, put their hearts

in it...

and built it up to what it is.

I admire them.

What courage.

What adventure.

Have another drink, gentlemen?

Yes, sir, Mr. Cortland, you can well feel

proud of yourselves.

Why, do you know that you're giving your

country a new industry?

You like it, do you?

You like it so well, you want to

add it to your collection.

You've got things a little mixed up.

I'm only interested in railroads.

Yeah, I heard you were.

You're the one who's raising freight rates so

high...

we'll have to shut down our wells.

Why not raise the price of oil?

Because our life and the life of our

industry...

depends on putting out refined oil cheap...

so as the poor man can buy it.

The poor man.

Oh, I see.

Well, Cortland, what's your solution to it all?

Lower your rates.

Let me fill your glass.

Never mind that.

You listen to me, Brennan.

Your rates have got to be lowered.

Well, I'm sorry, Mr. Cortland...

but you must permit me to run my

own business.

That's final, is it?

I'm to go back and tell them you

refuse to change the rates.

No, no, don't tell them that.

I'm going to change them.

I'm going to raise them again tomorrow.

Oh, Sally, that cake's a beauty.

It don't look so bad for a first

cake, does it?

Why, no.

You'll think he'll like my dress, Grandma.

Well, it's ruffled, ain't it?

All you have to do to catch a

man's eye...

is tack on a ruffle somewhere.

Now, when he comes in...

I'll be singing and playing...

and you have the candles all lit.

You think he'll like the cake?

Why, of course he will.

He can't do that.

Does Mr. Brennan own the world?

He thinks he does, him and all his

friends in Philadelphia.

They think the United States of America...

is just a big pie...

for him to cut up and pass around

among themselves.

Ain't it time somebody stopped him?

Ain't it time somebody stood up to him?

We've got to stop him!

We've got to stop him!

I'm glad to hear you feel that way.

I know for myself I expect to be

fighting Brennan...

and people like him to the end.

And I'm glad I don't have to fight

him alone.

Peter.

I'm awfully sorry, honey.

Something extra special came up tonight...

and I couldn't get away.

Waiting, waiting, I must have dropped off to

sleep.

Peter Digger.

Seems there's always something extra special lately.

I know, honey.

I feel terrible about it...

being away so much...

and especially tonight...

you baking that nice cake and everything.

It don't look so good as it did.

I bet it tastes good.

Can we have some now?

Of course you can.

I'll light the candles all over again...

and we'll open the presents and have a

real party.

Oh, you poor thing.

Bet you're so tired you can hardly see.

Oh, I wish you'd give those railroad men

a good licking...

and send them about their business.

Then maybe we could settle down to living.

Maybe we could get started on the house.

I was up on the hill today.

My, it was beautiful.

I don't suppose there's a spot in the

whole world...

where I'd rather build a house.

Can we start it soon, Peter?

Peter.

Now, you thieves...

corruptors and evil-doers...

get off this rotten raft...

and take your women with you.

Get a tour.

Go to the county...

and don't you ever set foot back...

in this land of decent people.

Stop.

Leave me alone.

Get that woman.

I ain't got one job.

Leave me alone.

I ain't got one job.

Peter.

Take her out of there.

Get out.

Get her.

Come on!

Come on!

Come on!

Come on!

Come on!

Come on!

Come on!

All right!

Now you'll drive this carrion over the county

line.

Come on, get a move on!

You can't do that!

This girl can't walk!

Make that Jezebel walk!

Drag her by the hair!

Drag her by the heel!

Come on!

Come on!

Come on!

Come on!

Come on!

Come on!

Come on!

Come on!

Come on!

Peter!

Peter!

Shut up and walk!

Oh, let go!

What is this, Doc?

That woman's off the shanty boat.

We raided them, the rats.

I'm driving them over to Petroleum City, over

the line.

Peter, come on, take her inside.

You can't take her into your house.

A wench off a shanty boat.

Who's telling us who we can take into

our house?

The girl's hurt, she's nearly dead.

She's gonna be taken in here and nursed

until she's well again.

If it ain't too late.

She's got to go across the county line

tonight.

You ain't the law.

Nobody made you judge a right and wrong.

Nobody but yourself.

Bring her in, Peter.

I reckon you don't know what you're doing,

Peter Cortland.

Get your men off of my property stock

and get them off quick.

You're taking this on yourself.

Remember that.

I'm holding you responsible to every church-born

citizen of county.

Put her on the sofa, honey.

And run upstairs and get those two heavy

green blankets in the hall closet.

Mercy!

Who is she?

Where'd she come from?

She's off a shanty boat.

A shanty boat woman?

In my parlor?

She's hurt and she's soaked through to the

skin.

Guess I better heat some water.

High, wide and handsome, a yellow moon above.

Why am I riding high?

Cause I'm riding to my love.

And this is the hat that went with

it, see?

Oh, it's awful pretty.

Do you ever miss all that excitement?

Ain't you ever a little homesick?

I got a home.

I got a husband to think about.

But all you can do is think about

him.

You don't see him very much.

The whole two weeks I've been here he's

been out every day from morning till night.

He's having business troubles.

He's fighting the railroad.

That Mr. Stark.

He's been bothering him too, ain't he?

What do you know about him?

Oh, I heard all the fuss yesterday.

The door was open.

The elders of the church and all coming

up and telling you to throw me out.

Well, don't you worry.

You ain't leaving this house till I say

you're strong enough to go.

That won't be long.

Oh, Sally, you've been so wonderful to me.

I'll never forget you.

Stop talking rubbish.

Here, open your mouth.

I've been thinking about getting a job for

you.

There's a carnival show coming along this route

pretty soon.

I know the man that runs it.

Pop Barge.

He's a friend of Pa's.

But I'd be no good with a carnival

show.

All I can do is sing sad songs

and make people cry after they've had a

few drinks.

But you could learn something, Lovely.

I could teach it to you.

That's my line.

No allegheny, Al.

Uh-uh.

Who's that rascal there?

Who's that steamboat dandy?

Allegheny, Al.

Allegheny, Al.

Fair grease on his hair makes him shine

like candy.

Allegheny, Al.

Is that her?

Is that the woman off the shanty boat?

No, it sounds like Sally's voice.

You mean that's your daughter-in-law up

there singing and dancing to that woman?

Well.

Mercy, I'm late.

I promised Miss Henderson I'd drop in on

her this morning.

Bye, Wilhelmina.

Bye, Miss Ramage.

Penelope.

Be sure and tell Mrs. Henderson and all

the rest of the gossips about the terrible

scandal.

Tell them the Courtlands are practically running a

shanty boat on land.

Wilhelmina.

And the next time I see any of

them, I'll tell them about something I know

that happened on a certain hayride.

That time we all went up to Hidetown.

Just before you met your husband, you was

carrying on with Alf Cotton.

The photographer?

Well, that was more than 30 years ago.

It'd still make a spicy story.

We seem to be hurting ourselves more than

we're hurting the railroads.

We are.

You think so?

You go take a look at the empty

cars off on the railroad side and figure

out what the other side's losing.

Beamer here says they've got so much money

they can hold out from now to doomsday.

That's right.

Now, look here, man.

Just because a couple of...

Mr. Courtland, a porter just come from the

market house.

Says Mr. Brennan wants to see you right

away.

You hear that?

Maybe Brennan's a little tired of fighting, too.

Maybe he don't like his cars being empty

anymore and we like our pumps being idle.

Go over and see him now, Peter.

We'll wait for you here.

All right?

I got an idea.

I'll bring back some good news.

Now, just between you and me, why don't

you give your business to the central refineries

in Pittsburgh?

Your railroad owns that, don't it?

Exactly.

You deal with our refinery and there'll be

certain favors that you'll get to make up

for their high freight rates.

Oh, and the rates wouldn't be hurting me.

They'd just be freezing out the rest of

the fellas.

Say, you catch on quick.

You've got a good head for business.

Well, we didn't know how to figure out.

All it amounts to is plain everyday stealing.

A few men stealing what belongs to a

lot of men.

That happens to be a pretty good definition

of business.

We can't change it, so why try?

Sooner or later, oil's got to be controlled

by a small group of strong men.

Well, might as well be us.

Who do you think this oil belongs to

by rights?

Ones who grab it first.

It belongs to the world.

It's for everybody to benefit by.

You can't tie it up and make it

any price you like.

But I can, and I will.

Not while I've got any breath left in

my body to fight you.

Fight me?

Don't be a fool.

What could you do without the railroads?

How would you get your oil to the

refineries?

Carry it in your hat or roll it

there?

I don't know who you think you're bluffing,

but I do know you can't live without

the railroads.

Fight me, huh?

Well, go ahead and fight.

I will.

John!

John!

What's the matter?

Something wonderful.

Did Brennan give in?

Come in.

What do you see?

Bad weather?

No.

That pipe.

See that rain pipe?

Yes.

See the water flowing through that pipe?

Yes.

Well, it isn't water.

It's oil.

It's oil flowing through a pipe.

Peter, have you been drinking?

Here, sit down.

You think I'm out of my head, John?

Well, I am.

I am from pain and excitement.

I got pipes on the brain.

Iron pipes.

Miles and miles of them.

Carrying our oil.

Clear across the state, right spike into the

refineries.

You mean...

I mean we'll tell the railroads to go

to blazes.

And give Brennan a great big laugh right

in his face.

Gee hoss of that, Peter.

You have thought of something.

Now, Mr. Engineer.

Come on.

Get busy.

Get busy.

Wait a minute.

What's the matter?

What about the cost?

Have you thought of that?

Not to mention the price of the pipe

itself.

Iron isn't butter, you know.

I know that, John.

You begin to draw this pipe on paper.

I'll do the rest.

Peter, you realize that this thing is going

to take every penny you farmers have got.

Maybe more.

Can you afford to take that gamble?

John, we can't afford not to.

Get busy, man.

Get busy.

Wait a minute.

What?

I have to have my map.

Map?

I thought the house was coming down.

Will you slam that front door?

What is that you're bringing up here?

Stars.

What's the matter with you, Peter?

Oh, I must self-deny, Grandma.

I'm King Solomon, wisest of men.

I'm Alexander the Great.

Peter.

Shh.

Peter, stop it.

Look at you.

You're soaked.

Where have you been?

Away from you.

But I'm back.

See?

Back where I want to be all my

days.

Here's the brightest light I ever saw.

Here's the sweetest thing in the world.

Honey, you've had good news.

Things are going your way.

Something's happened, something wonderful.

Something wonderful happened the day you was born.

Where'd you get the apple blossoms?

Oh, they just busted out on me.

I was hurrying home to you, and I

just busted in the bloom.

Tell me, what has happened?

Don't bother me, just be quiet.

Just stay like this for a month of

Sundays, till Judgment Day.

Like this with me.

Close, honey, close.

When you can laugh and be gay, everything's

right for me.

Everything's all right again.

Everything's going to be right from now on.

That's easy.

You just look at me the way you're

doing.

Mr. Cortland!

Mr. Cortland!

Who's that?

I'm from Mr. Thompson's office.

He's got to see you.

Tell John he'll have to wait till tomorrow.

He says he'll lose the whole day unless

you come to see him tonight.

He's got things to ask you.

Says it's important.

Oh.

All right.

Why does John Thompson have to ask you

questions at this hour?

It's about what's happened.

We've thought of a way to beat Brennan.

John and me figured out something.

A way to carry the...

I can't help it, honey.

I've got to go.

There's other men in this thing, and every

day we save means something.

Goodbye, honey.

You get some sleep.

It seems like throwing good money after bad,

Mr. Cortland.

I wish you luck.

Thank you.

That closes out your account, Mr. Stackpole.

Yes, I know.

I'll have all mine.

Not bad.

They said they were going to lay pipe

all the way to their refineries, and I'm

darned if they haven't started it.

That's not funny.

Nothing to laugh at, Mr. Brennan.

Suppose they finish it.

Oh, but they won't, Mr. Marble.

I'll show you something.

This line is the pipe.

Well, why is it broken here?

Well, that, gentlemen, is where Mr. Cortland and

his farmer friends might find the pipe.

Funny if someone bought that entire strip, wasn't

it?

You mean to say Brennan's bought every section

in that 20-mile strip?

All except this one piece, 18.

Who owns that?

Joe Verez, the Greek over at Petroleum City.

The fellow who runs the Hunky Dory.

He wouldn't sell to Brennan.

Says he won't sell to anybody.

He's as smart as they make him.

I wonder what he's after.

Let's go over and find out.

We gotta have that.

Jim Lamb, come along with us.

Let's go.

Well, what do you want from me?

What do you want for your land?

It's like this.

Mr. Brennan say whatever you offer, he pay

more.

Put you in a nice position, don't it,

Joe?

Yeah.

Elegant.

You both got to have it, so somebody's

got to give Joe anything he ask.

Well?

Well, Joe is a gambler.

Willing to give up cash from Brennan if

you give good gambling chance.

You got a fine oil land, Mr. Cortland.

You want my oil wells?

You got a fine land where you never

put the wells.

You mean your hill?

Yeah.

I hear that's a fine property for prospecting.

So I take that in trade for my

land.

You think Joe is smart?

You can't have that hill.

Too bad.

Too bad for pipeline.

Too bad for you farmers lose all you

got.

Look, Joe, that hill means something special to

me.

I promised my wife we'd build our home

there.

Oh, you got a wife.

Well, I know how you feel.

I had a wife once.

She was a wonderful woman.

You better ask for something else, Joe.

Don't bother Joe no more.

Don't like the bargains.

Just make it a yes or no.

Nothing in between, please.

He's got us, Peter.

He can't do that to me.

It's crazy.

He's got the only thing that can save

us.

We don't get his land, we have no

pipeline.

That's right, Peter.

Well, I could offer him a couple of

wells.

He won't take that.

He's too smart for that.

You see, he's an old friend of mine.

It's very important I find him.

Well, it won't do you no good to

see Mr. Bowers now.

We'll be all moved and packing in two

days.

Ten minutes.

But where is he?

Well, he's over having a drink at that

hunky-dory place.

Right over there.

Come on, Patricia.

This is an awful place for you to

come.

Don't you worry about me.

I'm going to get you this job.

There's Pop Bars.

Pop!

Pop Bars!

Sally!

I'm so glad to see you.

I saw your father a few days ago.

He's going to join my show in a

couple of weeks, you know.

Yes, I know.

He tells me you're married and happy.

Say, what are you doing in a place

like this?

I'm looking for you.

I was owed your pitch and they told

me I'd find you here.

Well, it's lucky you found me.

We were just getting ready to leave town.

Pop, this is Molly Fuller.

How do you do?

I'm awful anxious to get a job for

Molly.

We haven't got what you call an opening

with a show.

Oh, well, she'd take anything.

She sings awful pretty.

Let's hear you.

You mean here?

Sure.

Nothing like singing in front of an audience.

Hey, George.

Play something for this lady.

Come on.

He don't like me.

Sure he does.

Can you play Allegheny, Al?

Sure.

Good.

You can play it, honey.

Go on now.

Give it to him.

Steamboat round the bend Round the river bend

Sing louder.

I can't hear you.

Make it a little brighter, Molly.

Play a little faster, will you?

Steamboat round the bend Round the river bend

Brings a scandalous gamblin' man With lots of

money to spend He's a howlin' swell Rare

and tearin' swell Highfalutin' and hard to please

And rough on women as well Who's that

rascal there?

Who's that steamboat dandy?

Allegheny, Al Allegheny, Al That grease on his

hair Makes him shine like candy Allegheny, Al

Allegheny, Al With a white diamond White diamond

Blinkin' on his throat And a sunflower Sunflower

Stinkin' up his coat As a quick kisser

A slick kisser He gets the ladies votin'

Don't you let your gal Meet that steamboat

dandy Allegheny, Al Allegheny, Al Ain't

she great, Pop?

Play it through again, will ya?

We'll make everybody sing Who's that rascal there?

Who's that steamboat dandy?

Allegheny, Al Allegheny, Al That grease on his

hair Makes him shine like candy Allegheny, Al

Meet that steamboat dandy the

contract.

Right now we can get transfer of deed

before everything close up.

Put an ink over here, please.

Just a short letter.

Just say you give Joe the hill and

he give you the land.

What hill is he talking about?

It isn't anything about our hill, is it?

I got to let it go, Sally.

Let it go?

Our hill?

Oh, no, Peter.

No, you can't do that.

There ain't no other way.

I already gave my word.

But our house, Peter.

It's already started.

There are other people to think of, honey.

We've got to have that pipeline.

Pipeline?

Oil wells?

You've thrown away everything for them.

All right.

If it don't mean anything to you, it

don't mean anything to me, then.

Nothing does.

Nothing matters.

Nothing in the whole world.

You better come across the street to attend

the transfer.

She'll feel much better when we come back.

You understand women.

I figure I'm up just a little bit.

Come on!

All is well, Peter.

Brandt's gang shows up.

Fire your gun to signal us.

Who goes there?

Hold on.

Who's that?

Is it you, Peter?

What are you doing with that gun?

Well, Joe Williams was on guard and he

got took with the chill, so I'm taking

his place.

Grandma, next time, ask who goes there.

I did.

Yes, but you shot first and then asked.

It should be the other way around, Mrs.

Cortland.

Oh, all right.

Grandma, I'll have somebody come and take your

place.

Good week's work, Scanlon.

Thanks, General.

Tonight I want to hit them where it

counts.

Do you know the junction where all the

pipes go into one big one?

Down by the bridge.

Yeah, well, if that were busted, it wouldn't

be so easy to put together, would it?

Ain't gonna be so easy to bust.

That's a heavy pipe.

I think maybe I can help you with

this one.

How?

THE CONNER Come

on, come on!

Hurry it up!

Come on, get that chain around that place.

And you fellas over in the brush and

tie him up!

And get that hook around that elbow.

Come on, come on, put some beef into

him!

Come on, it's all right.

Get away from it, get away.

Hurry up, get on there.

All right, Jim.

Get out of the way.

Well, boys, back to work.

When I forget you, whenever...

Who's that?

It's only me, Peter.

Why don't you go to bed?

I don't sleep so well when I do

go to bed.

You could think it was your grandpa sitting

there.

The two stubbornest men I ever knew.

You just won't do the thing you're dying

to do.

Nothing could persuade you to go and get

that girl back.

Mrs. Dr. Lippincott came back from Harrisburg today

and she had news of Sally.

Well?

Seems there's a show in Harrisburg called Bower's

Carnival and Sally's singing in it.

Well?

Well, the whole town's talking about her.

Say she's getting to be the most popular

singer east and west of the Alleghenies.

Why, a man told Mrs. Lippincott...

All right, Grandma, I'm going to bed now.

Going to bed?

You'd better go and get her before she

finds out she can get along without you.

Good night, Grandma.

Good night.

Good night, boy.

Well, gentlemen, suppose we drink to our new

agreement and may we all prosper.

Why don't you drink your champagne, Mr. Lippincott?

I don't feel altogether right.

We promised Peter to see the governor and...

Oh, I wouldn't worry about Peter Cortland.

You've stuck with him long enough.

And what have we got?

Nothing.

What side do you want to play?

On the smart side or the dumb side?

Well, I know what you mean.

And I've got my family to thank for

everything.

Oh, now, Mr. Lippincott, you're talking sense.

Molly, fill Mr. Lippincott's glass.

But, Mr. Brennan, what's going to happen to

the others?

The ones who don't come over to your

Pittsburgh refinery?

They'll be out.

Out in the cold.

What about Peter Cortland?

Peter Cortland's got to be smashed.

As a matter of fact, he's going to

be smashed.

Perhaps you ought to explain that to the

gentleman, Mr. Brennan.

Well, he's got to get his pipe to

the refinery within a time limit.

That's the contract, isn't it?

But the refinery's granted him an extension.

Ah, but suppose their bank doesn't consent to

that extension.

Suppose, for instance, that I'd bought that bank.

Exactly.

Well, that would leave him two days to

complete three miles of pipe.

That would be quite a trick to do,

wouldn't it?

It certainly would.

Quite a trick to do.

THE FOURTH DAY Look, Mr. Brennan.

That's him, all right.

Ladies and gentlemen, again we are about to

offer to you the pride of the Bowers

Carnival, the little lady who has already conquered

your hearts with her flood of golden songs.

I have the honor of presenting to you

once more the Pennsylvania Meadowlark, You've

got five minutes to get dressed and start

from the train.

I'll have a hat at the entrance.

Go get your clothes on.

Scoot.

Hurry up, Sal.

Molly.

Sally, my darling.

It's good to see you.

Sally, I've got some news for you.

What news, Molly?

Your husband, he's in trouble.

Peter?

In trouble?

Your daughter isn't much of a quick-change

artist, is she?

I'll see what's keeping her.

You, Mr. Bonham?

Of course I am.

I got a message for you.

She ain't coming.

Who ain't coming?

Sally, Miss Watterson.

She had to go somewhere else.

What are you talking about, young woman?

She's driving to Titusville.

By herself?

Why, that takes all night.

Titusville?

Why in blazes is she going to Titusville?

Is the girl crazy, throwing away a future

like I just offered her?

Can anybody give her a future in Titusville?

Maybe somebody can.

Maybe somebody.

TITUSVILLE Good

afternoon,

Colonel.

How are you, Peter?

What do you think of the time we're

making?

I tell you, in one week we'll have...

Bad news.

You haven't got a week.

You've only got until tomorrow.

But, Colonel, you know it ain't humanly possible

to finish by tomorrow.

It's three miles around this cliff.

And besides, you promised me the extension.

I know.

It's the bank.

They threatened to call in my mortgage if

I gave you the extension.

But, Colonel, that was...

You see, the bank has a new owner.

Brennan?

Yes.

I'm sorry it ended like this, boys.

I wanted to see you win.

But I guess it just isn't in the

cards.

Sorry, boys.

That means I call the men off, don't

it?

No.

Put them back to work.

Make them work like devils.

Even devils couldn't lay that pipe to the

refinery in less than a week.

You do as I tell you.

That's what you're being paid for.

The trouble is we ain't being paid, Peter.

These men have been paid nothing for the

past two weeks.

They've been working because they've been promised pay

when the pipe started to earn money.

It ain't gonna earn money now.

I guess we all know that.

It's no use, Peter.

There's nothing more we can do.

Why is I'm going back to work?

Who's with me?

All right, we're all licked.

Let's crawl home like a pack of licked

curdogs.

There ain't going to be any pipeline.

Just a lot of iron rusting and rotting

in the earth.

It's too bad we don't lie down ourselves

and rot.

We ain't men, we ain't nothing.

What was I trying to do anyway?

Who did I think I was?

Who cares?

Peter!

Peter!

Sally, how did you get here?

I came down for Mary.

I came to warn you.

They're going to hold you to your time

limit.

Yes, I know.

Look.

You're men quitting?

That's where we're all quitting.

Not you, Peter.

You don't know what it is to quit.

I'm beginning to learn.

But the pipeline.

You've given up everything for it.

That's why I made a fool of myself.

You knew I was a fool, too.

Oh, no, Peter.

You showed me what you thought of me

and my notions, didn't you?

And you were right, too.

No, Peter, I was wrong.

Anybody's wrong who runs away from things.

I can't bear to think of you running

away.

I'd expect you to fight until you dropped,

until you didn't have enough strength in your

body to move, not to turn tail and

run home.

Look, that ain't like you, Peter.

Well, what do you want me to do?

What have you got to do?

It's three miles around that cliff to the

refinery.

It'd be a miracle if there ain't that

much pipe in less than a week.

They tell me I gotta do it in

a day.

I can't do it, you understand?

Nobody can do it.

I can't make the pipes fly over that

cliff or climb over.

I can't.

I...

Climb over.

If the rock would hold, we could pump

it up.

You thought of something.

Can't talk to you now, Sally.

Hey, Phil!

Phil!

Get out of Spike and Hammer.

We're hanging the pipe to the cliff.

Hang it straight over the hill.

It's worth a try, boys.

Come on!

Peter, I'm going with you.

No, no, Sally, you stay here.

I can't take you.

Come on, guys!

Come on, boys!

Come on!

Bring out Spike and Hammer.

Right in here.

Snap that hammer.

Tie that crevice.

That'll hold it all right.

Yeah.

Phil, we could rig up a block and

tackle and pull the men up so they

can drive in these spikes and run the

pipes clamped to the top.

That's a pretty high cliff to climb.

I know that, but we can make it.

Only...

Only we need more men.

We do that.

And where are we going to get them?

How many more men do you need, Peter?

At least as many more as we have

now.

I know.

I know where I could get them.

Where, Sally?

Never mind.

You put your men to work.

I'll get you some help.

All right, boys, let's get started.

All right, come on, boys!

Bring your equipment over.

All your spikes.

Now bring him down.

Come on, come on!

Come on, come on!

Hey, take care of his teeth.

Bye.

Where's Mr. Brennan?

What is it, Scanlon?

Portland's up to something we ain't counted on.

I thought we'd counted on everything.

Not this.

Just by Adam's Bluff.

You know down there by the pass?

Yes.

They're pushing the pipe right up over it.

Over the top?

Yeah.

Red, we've got to stop that.

You better get your men to get it.

All right, you better come too, Mr. Brennan.

All right.

Hey, Jack, Jerry, get in here.

Where are you going, Red?

Adam's Bluff.

Portland again.

Oh!

Come on, let's go!

All right, boys!

Get your bow whips!

Come on, get going!

Come on, get that team out of here!

Come on, boys, get going!

Hey!

Hey, look!

To the

other side.

Protect this pipe.

Every pipe.

Come on!

Come on!

Get up that cliff from them pipes already!

It was a great fight, but we still got work to

do.

We've got to finish that pipeline!

Come on!

Well, your time's nearly up.

Well, it isn't 12 o'clock yet.

You see,

the pipe here isn't what he's after.

He's got to have oil in his tank.

You can't make it, Portland.

You've only got two minutes.

Start your pumps!

Start the pumps!

Start the pumps!

You can't make it.

You see?

Your pipe doesn't help you.

Gotta be oil.

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