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HOWARD'S MOTHER: Q-U-A-R-
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A-N-T-
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I-N-E.
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HOWARD: Quarantine.
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Q-U-A-R-
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A-N-T-
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I-N-E.
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Quarantine.
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-You know the cholera?
-Yes, Mother.
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You've seen the signs on the houses
where the coloreds live?
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Yes, Mother.
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-You know the typhus?
-I do, Mother.
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You know what they can do to you?
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Yes, Mother.
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You are not safe.
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(AIRPLANE ENGINE BUZZING)
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FRANK: You may be directing
this movie, Howard,
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but what you are asking, we can't do it.
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HOWARD: Don't tell me I can't do it.
Don't tell me it can't be done.
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The gyro forces are too much here.
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You send these planes
into simultaneous barrel rolls
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-and they won't make it.
-It's the goddamn climax
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of the picture, Frank.
All right? You make it work.
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Look, decrease the vertical trajectory
if you have to.
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A Le Rhone rotary won't stall
at 60 degrees. I've done it.
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Howard, we're still short two cameras.
We need to cut that sequence
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-down to...
-We're not cutting anything, all right?
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I'll get those extra cameras.
Set up for rehearsals in five.
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Mr. Hughes. I'm Noah Dietrich.
Your office said I might find you here.
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Dietrich. You're a man on the come.
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I read your résumé
and talked to your references.
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You know what I'm looking for?
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As I understand it, you're looking for a
second-in-command at Hughes Tools,
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someone to oversee
the financial aspects of the business.
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Yeah. I'm looking for somebody
to run it and do a damn good job.
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Look, there's only one thing
you've got to know.
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My folks, they're gone now.
So it's my money.
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Now, what I choose to do
with that money may seem crazy
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to those sons of bitches in Houston,
and I'm sure as hell it does.
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But it all makes good sense to me.
You got that?
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-Got it.
-Good.
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Now you made what,
$5,200 a year on your last job?
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I'll pay you $10,000.
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I guess I'll be working twice as hard.
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You'll be working four times as hard.
I just got you at half price, Mr. Dietrich.
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-Welcome aboard.
-Thank you.
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You're my voice now.
Make them understand that.
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Look, some of those fine folks
down there still call me "Junior."
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-You tell them it's "Mr. Hughes" now.
-You bet.
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-So when do we go to Houston?
-We don't. Cholera epidemic in 1913.
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Two thousand dead. Whole place
is nothing but pestilential swamp.
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Typhus, malaria, cholera, yellow fever.
You name it, they got it.
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Do you see that, Mr. Dietrich?
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You are looking at the largest
private air force in the entire world.
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What do you think of that now?
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It's your money.
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Start them up!
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(MEN WHISTLING)
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(BAND PLAYING I'LL BUILD
A STAIRWAY TO PARADISE)
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(SINGING)
I'll build a stairway to Paradise
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With a new step every day!
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I'm gonna get there at any price
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Stand aside, I'm on my way!
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I've got the blues
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And up above it's so fair
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Shoes, go on and carry me there!
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I'll build a stairway to Paradise
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With a new step every day
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(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
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I'll build a stairway to Paradise
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MAYER: I just saw the rough cut
of the new Tod Browning movie,
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London After Midnight.
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Lon Chaney is incredible.
It's his best performance in a long time.
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And it's going to be a big hit.
The cards are great.
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Hello, Mr. Mayer.
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I don't know if you remember me.
My name is Howard Hughes.
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I was wondering
if I could have a moment of your time.
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-Oh, yeah, Howard Hughes.
-Yeah.
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-The airplane picture, right?
-Exactly.
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-Yeah, I remember.
-Hell's Angels. You heard of it. Good.
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Yes.
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Listen, I was wondering
if I could have a moment of your time.
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I need a few cameras.
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Yeah?
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-Yeah. Two to be exact.
-Mmm-hmm.
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I already bought
every camera I could find,
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but we're shooting
our big dogfight sequence this week,
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and I need two more, desperately.
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Do you think MGM could help me out?
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-With what?
-Cameras.
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Oh, with the actual camera...
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Well, we're not usually in the practice
of helping out the competition.
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Oh.
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So how many cameras
do you have now?
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Twenty-four.
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(COUGHING)
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You... (LAUGHING) Wait a minute.
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(INAUDIBLE)
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-You have 24 cameras?
-That's right.
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-And you need two more?
-Yeah.
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-You don't think you got it with 24?
-No. No, sir.
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You know, I think we've got them all...
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Don't we have them all...
They're all used, right?
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-All 26 of them.
-I only need two, sir.
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-Jesus Christ, sonny.
-Howard.
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Howard, let me give you a little advice.
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-Why don't you take your oil money...
-Drill bits.
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All right, take your drill-bit money,
and why don't you put it in the bank?
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Uh-huh.
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Because if you continue
making the movie the way that you are,
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there isn't gonna be a distributor
who'll want to distribute it,
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you're not going to find anybody
who wants to see the movie,
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and you're not going to have
any more oil money.
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Mmm.
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So, welcome to Hollywood.
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Yeah, well, I'll be sure
to remember that, Mr. Mayer.
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-Good luck.
-All right.
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MAYER: He needs 26 to make it work?
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He's out of his mind.
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(BAND PLAYING SHAKE THAT THING)
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I looked down at my pants.
It was a strange situation.
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Boss.
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Scram, Ioveboat. Let's go.
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Another soda. You know what I mean.
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Milk, please, in the bottle.
With the cap still on.
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Okay, Howard,
what did His Highness say?
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The son of a bitch won't part
with a single goddamn camera.
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-Can you believe it?
-Howard,
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why don't you try and make do
with what you have? Huh?
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What I have isn't enough, John.
Not for how I see it.
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My name depends on this picture.
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If it doesn't work, I'm back to Houston
with my tail between my legs,
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making goddamn drill bits
for the rest of my life.
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Couldn't you find a way to
do with the cameras you have?
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I mean, jeez, you ought to hear
about what's going on
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with DeMiIIe over at Paramount.
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He's shooting this Bible picture, right?
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He's got to do a crucifixion,
but he's doing it in Fresno.
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-So all of a sudden there's...
-Johnny! Johnny!
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-...a bunch of goddamn tractors...
-Johnny!
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-You're a press agent. Are you not?
-Yeah. Yeah.
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And you're supposed to know
all little ins and outs of Hollywood?
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Yeah, absolutely.
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-Do you?
-Yeah, absolutely.
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Then you leave the big ideas
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-to me.
-Well, yeah, of course, boss.
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Cigar, cigarettes, Sen-Sen?
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Shake that thing
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Thelma, I thought you were over
at the Brown Derby with Trixie.
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-No, Theresa.
-Margaret. Yeah.
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Margaret, exactly.
What happened to Margaret?
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-She lost her shoes...
-Thank God that's settled.
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I'm sorry.
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Thelma, this is Howard Hughes.
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Howard and I were just discussing
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how he wants me
to pull a camera out of my ass.
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Cigarette?
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Oh, no, thanks. I don't smoke.
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(EXCLAIMS) Boy, you are just hitting
on all six cylinders, aren't you?
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My God.
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Would you do me a favor?
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Would you just smile for me one time,
just once?
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Yeah, yeah.
You see, you got a short upper lip.
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Makes for a much nicer smile.
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(LAUGHING)
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See, I wonder what gives
a beautiful woman like you pleasure.
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Say you're just standing there, right?
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And I just touch you, just like this,
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through my fingertips. Do you like that?
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Do you?
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See, I want to learn what pleases you.
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I want to learn everything about you.
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Would you let me do that?
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Would you give me that job?
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I'm off in a half an hour.
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-Well, I'm in room...
-217.
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217.
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See you there.
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(LAUGHING)
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Johnny, get on the horn
to Universal and Warners.
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I need two more cameras by Saturday.
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Rent them if you can.
Steal them if you have to.
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Absotively, boss. Absotively.
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RADIO ANNOUNCER:
Rumors coming from
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a lonely airstrip out in Van Nuys.
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Sources whisper that young
Texas industrialist Howard Hughes
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just won't stop pouring money
into his war epic.
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And do we mean epic!
137 pilots, 87 airplanes,
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35 cameramen, 2,000 extras.
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How long will it be
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before this picture ends up
costing as much as the real war?
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God damn it.
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Why the hell do they look so slow?
This isn't what it was like up there.
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They look like
a bunch of goddamn models!
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(SIGHING)
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HOWARD: Son of a bitch.
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Howard?
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Without something standing still
behind the planes,
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we've got no idea
of how fast we're moving.
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We got no sense of relative motion.
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Call over to UCLA.
Get me the best meteorologist they got.
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You get him here in an hour, all right?
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Hey. You want the good news
or the bad news?
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-The bad news, always.
-All right.
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We installed the 450 radial,
but the struts won't take the vibration.
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The minute we fire her up, the struts
start cracking at the attach points.
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-What's the good news?
-There isn't any.
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God damn it, Odie. If the 450's too big,
we just gotta figure something else out.
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We've done everything.
We've rebuilt her from top to toe.
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Now, if we drain the fuel tank
for a couple of runs,
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she might make 180 miles per hour.
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I want minimum 200, all right?
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Yeah, well, I want a date
with Theda Bara,
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but that ain't gonna happen either.
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Now, don't be so sure.
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So, if the struts won't sustain
the engine we need,
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we gotta get rid of the struts.
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No, then the top wing falls off.
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Then let it.
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What?
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Who says we need atop wing?
Who says we need anything?
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-A monoplane.
-A cantilevered monoplane, right?
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I mean, they're doing it in France.
To hell with the top wing and the struts.
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-Put in a 550 Wasp engine.
-100 octane fuel.
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That'd give us
a top horsepower of what?
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Seven hundred.
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We squeeze that to 1,000 and
we've got the fastest plane ever built.
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(LAUGHING)
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You know, I've just got to say,
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we've already spent over $200,000
rebuilding this plane.
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To hell with it.
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Tear it up, Odie. Go on.
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Well,
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the cumulonimbus formations
about which you speak,
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that look like...
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Giant breasts full of milk.
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I want clouds, damn it.
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Yes, clouds that look like
"giant breasts full of milk"
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cannot exactly be guaranteed
for any particular location.
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So you might have
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to wait.
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Then we'll wait.
243
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Look, whatever they pay you at UCLA,
I'm doubling it, all right?
244
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You work for me now.
Find some clouds.
245
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Find some clouds.
246
00:13:51,497 --> 00:13:53,374
Find me some clouds.
247
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Welcome to Hell's Angels.
248
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Thank you.
249
00:14:00,381 --> 00:14:02,717
(FIREWORKS PLAYING)
250
00:14:09,098 --> 00:14:12,643
We have been to Chatsworth,
Santa Cruz, Encino, San Diego,
251
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Riverside, Van Nuys, and Bakersfield.
252
00:14:14,896 --> 00:14:18,524
It has been eight months!
Where are my goddamn clouds?
253
00:14:18,608 --> 00:14:20,860
FITZ: They move, Mr. Hughes!
254
00:14:20,943 --> 00:14:24,572
Clouds move! That's what they do!
They move!
255
00:14:24,655 --> 00:14:28,951
You see that?
It is costing me $5,271 a day
256
00:14:29,035 --> 00:14:30,536
to keep those planes on the ground!
257
00:14:30,620 --> 00:14:33,081
You find me some goddamn clouds.
258
00:14:40,963 --> 00:14:42,298
Nice day.
259
00:14:42,882 --> 00:14:44,217
Yeah, very funny.
260
00:14:44,884 --> 00:14:46,344
Listen, I got a call from Houston.
261
00:14:46,427 --> 00:14:47,845
They're getting real nervous
about all this.
262
00:14:47,929 --> 00:14:50,014
Stop showing them
the damn bills, Noah.
263
00:14:50,098 --> 00:14:51,516
That would be illegal, Howard.
264
00:14:51,599 --> 00:14:53,935
Shit, no. Maybe it's a little bit naughty.
265
00:14:54,018 --> 00:14:58,231
Hughes Tool is incorporated in Texas.
They have to see the bills.
266
00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:02,944
Incorporate a new division out here.
All right? We'll call it Hughes Aircraft.
267
00:15:03,027 --> 00:15:05,571
Odie, do we need these rivets
on the cowling?
268
00:15:05,655 --> 00:15:07,573
Yeah, or the reverse thrust
would rip it off.
269
00:15:07,657 --> 00:15:10,243
They're gonna give me drag.
Do something about that, okay?
270
00:15:10,326 --> 00:15:12,745
-Wind resistance on the rivets?
-Yeah, I want her slippery.
271
00:15:12,829 --> 00:15:14,539
Howard, there are
serious tax consequences
272
00:15:14,622 --> 00:15:15,832
to incorporating in California.
273
00:15:15,915 --> 00:15:18,876
-Just take care of it, would you?
-Mr. Hughes! Mr. Hughes!
274
00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:20,920
Oakland!
275
00:15:21,003 --> 00:15:23,339
We have clouds in Oakland!
276
00:15:23,423 --> 00:15:25,633
-You mean it this time?
-Yes.
277
00:15:25,842 --> 00:15:28,886
God damn it, yes. I can promise you.
278
00:15:29,053 --> 00:15:30,888
-Clouds in Oakland.
-All right, all right.
279
00:15:30,972 --> 00:15:32,598
Don't get all jittery now.
280
00:15:32,682 --> 00:15:34,016
Oakland!
281
00:15:35,017 --> 00:15:36,185
Oakland!
282
00:15:36,811 --> 00:15:39,272
We're going to Oakland!
283
00:15:39,439 --> 00:15:40,648
Oakland!
284
00:15:40,857 --> 00:15:42,525
(FIREWORKS CONTINUES PLAYING)
285
00:15:48,281 --> 00:15:50,950
(TOCCA TA AND FUGUE IN D-MINOR
PLAYING)
286
00:16:16,267 --> 00:16:18,144
Down and to the left!
287
00:16:41,959 --> 00:16:43,753
That was perfect!
288
00:16:47,089 --> 00:16:48,925
(YELLOW DOG BLUES PLAYING)
289
00:16:50,635 --> 00:16:52,386
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
290
00:16:52,470 --> 00:16:55,014
RADIO ANNOUNCER: Yes,
young Howard Hughes has pulled it off.
291
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After two years, Hell's Angels
has finally finished filming.
292
00:16:58,768 --> 00:17:01,812
There's gonna be one heck of
a wrap party in Hollywood tonight.
293
00:17:01,896 --> 00:17:04,857
The price tag, a staggering $2 million.
294
00:17:04,941 --> 00:17:07,443
So if every human being in America
buys a ticket,
295
00:17:07,527 --> 00:17:09,904
heck, he might even make a profit.
296
00:17:09,987 --> 00:17:11,531
(PEOPLE LAUGHING)
297
00:17:14,492 --> 00:17:17,286
First the clouds don't come,
then the planes break down,
298
00:17:17,370 --> 00:17:19,330
then the planes crash.
299
00:17:19,956 --> 00:17:23,084
We've had everything but
a damn plague of locusts on this thing.
300
00:17:23,167 --> 00:17:24,585
I mean, you have to admit it.
301
00:17:24,669 --> 00:17:29,173
Now, honestly, did you ever think
you'd actually finish the damn thing?
302
00:17:30,967 --> 00:17:32,468
Come with me.
303
00:17:34,220 --> 00:17:37,515
Momma, darling,
if I'm a success in this show,
304
00:17:37,932 --> 00:17:39,600
well, we're gonna move from here.
305
00:17:39,976 --> 00:17:42,019
Yes, we're gonna move up
in the Bronx.
306
00:17:42,103 --> 00:17:44,564
A lot of nice green grass up there
and a whole lot of people you know.
307
00:17:44,647 --> 00:17:47,066
There's the Ginsbergs,
the Guttenbergs, and the Goldbergs.
308
00:17:47,149 --> 00:17:48,985
A whole lot of Bergs.
I don't know them all.
309
00:17:49,068 --> 00:17:50,403
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
310
00:17:50,486 --> 00:17:54,532
You see, this is what the people want.
Silent pictures are yesterday's news.
311
00:17:54,615 --> 00:17:58,202
So I figure we gotta re-shoot
Hell's Angels for sound.
312
00:17:59,829 --> 00:18:02,498
-How much of it?
-All of it.
313
00:18:02,665 --> 00:18:04,208
But before you even ask, I'll tell you.
314
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An additional $1.7 million.
We got that much?
315
00:18:08,004 --> 00:18:09,130
No.
316
00:18:09,213 --> 00:18:11,090
Well, we'll make it.
317
00:18:11,465 --> 00:18:13,175
Take care of that, would you?
318
00:18:13,467 --> 00:18:14,760
Now get this.
319
00:18:14,844 --> 00:18:17,930
(SINGING) Blue skies smiling at me
Me, me, me
320
00:18:18,014 --> 00:18:21,100
Nothing but little blue skies do I see
321
00:18:23,185 --> 00:18:24,854
(SOMEBODY STOLE MY GAL
PLAYING)
322
00:18:24,937 --> 00:18:26,856
RADIO ANNOUNCER:
In the halls of 7000 Romaine,
323
00:18:26,939 --> 00:18:29,275
it goes on day after day,
month after month.
324
00:18:29,358 --> 00:18:33,195
Howard Hughes is now editing
some 25 miles of film.
325
00:18:34,905 --> 00:18:39,535
Heck, I say, release it now and give
the world its first 560-hour movie.
326
00:18:39,619 --> 00:18:43,789
WOMAN: Pat, Mr. Hughes needs this
reel in the projection room right now.
327
00:18:44,707 --> 00:18:46,500
RADIO ANNOUNCER:
Enough is enough, Mr. Hughes.
328
00:18:46,584 --> 00:18:49,670
Are you ever gonna let us actually
see this little epic of yours?
329
00:18:49,754 --> 00:18:51,130
Hurry up!
330
00:18:56,052 --> 00:18:58,554
(SOMEBODY STOLE MY GAL
CONTINUES PLAYING)
331
00:19:12,401 --> 00:19:13,653
-Who is it?
-Noah.
332
00:19:13,736 --> 00:19:15,154
Come on in.
333
00:19:17,281 --> 00:19:19,575
I've been on the phone to Houston
for three solid hours.
334
00:19:19,659 --> 00:19:21,535
We're fixing
every goddamn book we have.
335
00:19:21,619 --> 00:19:23,329
Wait, wait, wait.
336
00:19:23,913 --> 00:19:27,416
Yeah. Run Reel 10 again.
I think we're duplicating a shot here.
337
00:19:27,500 --> 00:19:31,295
And tell Jimmy I want
10 chocolate chip cookies, all right?
338
00:19:31,379 --> 00:19:34,423
Medium chips,
none too close to the outside.
339
00:19:34,507 --> 00:19:35,758
Got it?
340
00:19:36,175 --> 00:19:38,678
Do you remember
that goddamn shot from Reel 10?
341
00:19:38,761 --> 00:19:41,389
No. I don't remember anything
from Reel 10.
342
00:19:41,472 --> 00:19:43,724
I don't know what Reel 10 is.
343
00:19:43,808 --> 00:19:46,769
I'm a businessman, Howard,
and so are you.
344
00:19:47,269 --> 00:19:50,439
Now, look, this has been a great ride.
345
00:19:50,773 --> 00:19:53,025
We've had a hell of a lot of fun.
346
00:19:53,109 --> 00:19:56,487
But you're losing $25,000 a day
doing this.
347
00:19:57,196 --> 00:19:58,614
Every day.
348
00:20:04,787 --> 00:20:07,456
So, what are my options?
349
00:20:08,999 --> 00:20:11,961
Well, this time, I don't know
that you have any. (SIGHING)
350
00:20:12,044 --> 00:20:14,588
I'm afraid you got to close it down.
351
00:20:14,964 --> 00:20:16,549
Dig your way out.
352
00:20:23,431 --> 00:20:25,182
I'm sorry, Howard.
353
00:20:25,891 --> 00:20:27,351
I truly am.
354
00:20:28,477 --> 00:20:29,729
(EXHALING)
355
00:20:35,067 --> 00:20:36,819
PROJECTIONIST: Reel 10, Mr. Hughes.
356
00:20:37,737 --> 00:20:39,488
(PROJECTOR WHIRRING)
357
00:20:42,825 --> 00:20:44,493
Mortgage Toolco.
358
00:20:45,745 --> 00:20:47,204
Every asset. (CLEARING THROAT)
359
00:20:48,038 --> 00:20:49,081
You heard me.
360
00:20:49,165 --> 00:20:50,624
If you do that,
you could lose everything.
361
00:20:50,708 --> 00:20:52,209
Well, I won't.
362
00:20:55,755 --> 00:20:57,089
I won't.
363
00:20:58,674 --> 00:21:00,092
All right.
364
00:21:01,594 --> 00:21:03,262
I'll get into it.
365
00:21:04,722 --> 00:21:06,223
Thanks, Noah.
366
00:21:39,298 --> 00:21:41,175
(PEOPLE CHEERING)
367
00:21:41,258 --> 00:21:42,802
ANNOUNCER 1:
More than half a million good souls
368
00:21:42,885 --> 00:21:45,054
lining the kerb
of Hollywood Boulevard.
369
00:21:45,137 --> 00:21:46,972
Look at the automobiles,
ladies and gentlemen.
370
00:21:47,056 --> 00:21:49,225
There are at least 45,000 cars here,
371
00:21:49,308 --> 00:21:50,893
making it the greatest traffic jam
ever seen.
372
00:21:50,976 --> 00:21:53,479
ANNOUNCER 2: Howard Hughes must
have quite a lump in his throat tonight.
373
00:21:53,562 --> 00:21:55,606
Six months
after the stock market crashes
374
00:21:55,689 --> 00:21:57,650
and after the death
of three of his pilots,
375
00:21:57,733 --> 00:22:00,694
he's finally unveiling
his $4 million baby doll.
376
00:22:00,778 --> 00:22:02,988
ANNOUNCER 3: It's the most
expensive movie ever made.
377
00:22:03,072 --> 00:22:05,449
Nothing five-and-dime
for our Mr. Hughes.
378
00:22:05,533 --> 00:22:07,535
Nothing like tonight
has ever been seen before,
379
00:22:07,618 --> 00:22:10,704
and I can certainly say
it will never be seen again.
380
00:22:10,788 --> 00:22:11,789
ANNOUNCER 4:
Five-hundred thousand people
381
00:22:11,872 --> 00:22:12,873
are crowding the streets
382
00:22:12,957 --> 00:22:15,042
to get a glimpse
of the stars and celebrities.
383
00:22:15,125 --> 00:22:17,294
Three companies of Marines
were called
384
00:22:17,378 --> 00:22:19,630
to assist the 250 special police
385
00:22:19,713 --> 00:22:21,173
who are handling
this enormous crowd.
386
00:22:21,257 --> 00:22:22,967
ANNOUNCER 5: This is
an industry town, my friends,
387
00:22:23,092 --> 00:22:26,262
and nobody but nobody
makes a movie outside a studio.
388
00:22:26,345 --> 00:22:29,181
Sure, some Hollywood insiders over
at the Brown Derby may be laughing…
389
00:22:29,265 --> 00:22:31,267
ANNOUNCER 6: And now,
ladies and gentlemen, I think…
390
00:22:31,350 --> 00:22:34,395
Yes. Yes, I can just see
Mr. Hughes' car arriving now.
391
00:22:34,478 --> 00:22:38,148
Mr. Hughes escorts
the lovely starlet Jean Harlow tonight.
392
00:22:38,357 --> 00:22:39,817
He discovered her for this picture,
393
00:22:39,900 --> 00:22:43,696
and we think her platinum-blond locks
and hot-jazz-baby-doll style
394
00:22:43,779 --> 00:22:46,323
are going to make her a big star.
395
00:22:54,957 --> 00:22:56,458
(EXCLAIMING)
396
00:23:11,599 --> 00:23:13,058
-Mr. Hughes!
-This way, boss.
397
00:23:13,142 --> 00:23:15,436
Mr. Hughes, how about a word?
398
00:23:16,812 --> 00:23:19,148
Big night for you, Mr. Hughes.
399
00:23:21,150 --> 00:23:23,319
Big night for you tonight.
400
00:23:24,236 --> 00:23:26,196
Very big. Very big.
401
00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:29,825
Tell us what it was like
making this fabulous picture.
402
00:23:31,994 --> 00:23:33,162
Yes.
403
00:23:34,413 --> 00:23:35,414
Yeah…
404
00:23:35,497 --> 00:23:38,250
So, four million clams
from your own pocket.
405
00:23:38,334 --> 00:23:40,669
Nervous how the flick will fly?
406
00:23:43,422 --> 00:23:46,091
Big night. You enjoy the show.
407
00:23:47,343 --> 00:23:49,678
Yes, well, let me present
408
00:23:49,762 --> 00:23:52,848
the feminine star of this spectacle,
Hell's Angels,
409
00:23:52,932 --> 00:23:55,309
-Miss Jean Harlow.
-Thank you.
410
00:23:55,392 --> 00:23:58,646
I would like to use this occasion
to publicly thank Mr. Hughes
411
00:23:58,729 --> 00:24:01,690
for the opportunity he gave me.
Thank you.
412
00:24:02,441 --> 00:24:03,817
-Thank you.
-Thank you.
413
00:24:03,901 --> 00:24:08,864
Oh, now I'd like to ask Roscoe Arbuckle
to introduce his pet lion cub, Gilmore.
414
00:24:08,948 --> 00:24:11,617
What the hell's the matter with you?
Can't you remember my name?
415
00:24:11,700 --> 00:24:15,537
I'm sorry. Roscoe Turner.
And this would be Gilmore.
416
00:24:16,372 --> 00:24:18,374
(HELL'S ANGELS THEME PLAYING)
417
00:24:40,813 --> 00:24:42,439
(GUNFIRE ON SCREEN)
418
00:24:45,234 --> 00:24:46,402
Fire!
419
00:24:58,789 --> 00:25:00,332
-We've got him!
-We've got him!
420
00:25:02,084 --> 00:25:05,295
Murder! That's what
this dirty rotten politician war is!
421
00:25:05,421 --> 00:25:07,214
Murder! You know as well as I do!
422
00:25:18,976 --> 00:25:20,561
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
423
00:25:40,622 --> 00:25:42,041
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
424
00:25:42,583 --> 00:25:43,834
(GIGGLES)
425
00:25:45,044 --> 00:25:47,296
Stand up, slim, take a bow.
426
00:25:55,137 --> 00:25:56,597
(PEOPLE WHISTLING)
427
00:26:00,142 --> 00:26:02,394
And reel 4 played way too long.
Too many coughs.
428
00:26:02,478 --> 00:26:03,896
Get Harry and the team out of the party.
429
00:26:03,979 --> 00:26:06,899
Get them over to the office.
I wanna cut a few shots tonight. Oh.
430
00:26:06,982 --> 00:26:08,067
Find Glenn Odekirk.
431
00:26:08,150 --> 00:26:10,611
Somebody write this down.
Flush rivets. You got that?
432
00:26:10,694 --> 00:26:11,945
-Flush rivets.
-Flush rivets.
433
00:26:12,029 --> 00:26:13,822
Lickety split, boss.
434
00:26:13,989 --> 00:26:15,282
MAN: There he is. There he is.
435
00:26:15,365 --> 00:26:17,576
(CROWD CHEERING LOUDLY)
436
00:26:17,659 --> 00:26:19,244
REVIEWER 1:
Variety says, "This one won't miss."
437
00:26:19,328 --> 00:26:20,496
REVIEWER 2:
New York Herald Tribune, "Thrilling."
438
00:26:20,579 --> 00:26:21,705
REVIEWER 3:
"Magnificently photographed."
439
00:26:21,789 --> 00:26:22,790
REVIEWER 4:
"Awesome beyond description."
440
00:26:22,873 --> 00:26:24,291
REVIEWER 5: "Scenes that have
never been approached."
441
00:26:24,374 --> 00:26:25,501
REVIEWER 6:
"The most extraordinary output
442
00:26:25,584 --> 00:26:26,877
"ever to emerge
from the motion picture studios."
443
00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:29,254
REVIEWER 7: "Not for a long time
have I seen anything as enthralling."
444
00:26:29,338 --> 00:26:30,422
REVIEWER 8: "A sensational success."
445
00:26:30,506 --> 00:26:32,758
REVIEWER 9: "It cost $4 million
and it has four million thrills."
446
00:26:32,841 --> 00:26:34,343
REVIEWER 10:
"Majestically produced."
447
00:26:34,635 --> 00:26:36,095
(THANKS PLAYING)
448
00:26:38,639 --> 00:26:43,352
And thanks for unforgettable nights
449
00:26:44,853 --> 00:26:47,564
I never can replace
450
00:26:49,024 --> 00:26:54,696
And memories that linger
like a haunting tune
451
00:26:57,366 --> 00:27:02,371
It is better to have loved you, dear,
and lost
452
00:27:02,704 --> 00:27:05,666
Than never to have loved at all
453
00:27:06,875 --> 00:27:11,421
Yes, it's better,
for no matter what the cost
454
00:27:11,505 --> 00:27:16,135
I held the world in sway
An emperor for a day
455
00:27:16,218 --> 00:27:20,139
And thanks again
456
00:27:20,222 --> 00:27:26,395
For taking me on the road to paradise
457
00:27:27,271 --> 00:27:32,609
We lost our way
But still I must convey my thanks
458
00:27:32,693 --> 00:27:34,736
(WOMEN CHATTERING)
459
00:27:37,906 --> 00:27:41,743
HOWARD: I read in the magazines
that you play golf.
460
00:27:42,161 --> 00:27:43,662
On occasion.
461
00:27:43,829 --> 00:27:45,998
Well, how about nine holes?
462
00:27:48,250 --> 00:27:49,918
Now, Mr. Hughes?
463
00:27:50,961 --> 00:27:53,839
If it would be convenient,
Miss Hepburn.
464
00:27:57,634 --> 00:28:00,053
(AVALON PLAYING)
465
00:28:16,278 --> 00:28:19,865
You're not extending enough
on your follow-through.
466
00:28:19,948 --> 00:28:23,076
Follow-through is everything in golf,
just like life. (LAUGHING)
467
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:24,453
Don't you find?
468
00:28:24,536 --> 00:28:26,622
Saw your Scarface picture.
469
00:28:26,705 --> 00:28:28,040
-Violent.
Realistic.
470
00:28:28,123 --> 00:28:30,709
Movies are movies, Howard, not life.
471
00:28:30,792 --> 00:28:33,921
Now, the stage... The stage is real.
472
00:28:34,004 --> 00:28:37,925
Real flesh-and-blood human beings
right out there in front of you, buster.
473
00:28:38,008 --> 00:28:41,261
Can't look away. Can't munch popcorn.
That would be rude.
474
00:28:41,345 --> 00:28:43,680
-Do you like the theatre?
-No.
475
00:28:43,805 --> 00:28:46,934
Oh. I adore the theatre.
Only alive onstage.
476
00:28:47,017 --> 00:28:49,061
I'II teach you. We'll see some Ibsen
477
00:28:49,144 --> 00:28:51,939
if the Republicans haven't outlawed him
by now. (LAUGHS)
478
00:28:52,022 --> 00:28:53,941
You're not a Republican, are you?
Couldn't abide that.
479
00:28:54,024 --> 00:28:55,609
-How did you vote in '32?
-Well, I didn't.
480
00:28:55,692 --> 00:28:58,362
You must. It's your sacred franchise.
481
00:29:02,324 --> 00:29:05,410
Heard you were wooing Ginger Rogers.
What about that?
482
00:29:05,494 --> 00:29:07,162
She's just a friend.
483
00:29:07,246 --> 00:29:09,915
(SCOFFS) Men can't be friends
with women, Howard.
484
00:29:09,998 --> 00:29:11,750
They must possess them
or leave them be.
485
00:29:11,833 --> 00:29:14,086
It's a primitive urge
from the caveman days.
486
00:29:14,169 --> 00:29:17,339
It's all in Darwin. Hunt the flesh,
kill the flesh, eat the flesh.
487
00:29:17,422 --> 00:29:20,509
That's the male sex all over.
488
00:29:21,343 --> 00:29:22,678
Excuse me?
489
00:29:23,595 --> 00:29:26,723
Well, if you're deaf,
you must own up to it.
490
00:29:27,015 --> 00:29:29,101
Get a hearing aid, or see my father.
491
00:29:29,184 --> 00:29:32,396
He's a urologist but it's all tied up
inside the body, don't you find?
492
00:29:32,479 --> 00:29:34,356
-Mmm.
-Me, I keep healthy.
493
00:29:34,439 --> 00:29:36,733
I take seven showers a day
to keep clean.
494
00:29:36,858 --> 00:29:40,237
Also because I am what's so vulgarly
referred to as outdoorsy.
495
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:44,074
Well, I'm not outdoorsy.
I'm athletic. I sweat.
496
00:29:44,408 --> 00:29:47,327
There it is.
Now we both know the sordid truth.
497
00:29:47,411 --> 00:29:49,538
I sweat and you're deaf.
498
00:29:50,038 --> 00:29:52,582
Aren't we a fine pair of misfits?
499
00:29:56,670 --> 00:29:57,838
Three.
500
00:30:05,929 --> 00:30:07,431
Noble effort.
501
00:30:10,100 --> 00:30:12,686
So I suppose you're wooing me now?
502
00:30:13,395 --> 00:30:14,771
Oh, well.
503
00:30:34,374 --> 00:30:35,751
Not enough.
504
00:30:36,793 --> 00:30:39,713
Not enough. These rivets have to be
completely flush.
505
00:30:39,796 --> 00:30:42,716
I want every screw and joint
countersunk.
506
00:30:43,091 --> 00:30:45,844
I want no wind resistance
on the fuselage.
507
00:30:45,927 --> 00:30:48,096
She has got to be clean, Odie.
508
00:30:48,430 --> 00:30:50,140
-Clean. Understand?
-Okay, Howard.
509
00:30:50,223 --> 00:30:52,392
HOWARD: I don't know
what else to tell you.
510
00:30:53,101 --> 00:30:54,186
What have you got for me?
511
00:30:54,269 --> 00:30:57,814
JACK: The thing is, TWA needs
a new plane, a modern plane.
512
00:30:57,898 --> 00:30:59,524
Oh, yeah? What kind of plane?
513
00:30:59,608 --> 00:31:03,737
Okay. The DC-3 has 21 daytime seats
and 14 overnight berths.
514
00:31:03,820 --> 00:31:04,863
Something bigger.
515
00:31:04,946 --> 00:31:08,116
Try 50 seats
with a ceiling of 12,000 feet.
516
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:09,201
No.
517
00:31:09,284 --> 00:31:13,455
No, 20,000. Think about it, Jack.
What does 20,000 feet give you?
518
00:31:13,538 --> 00:31:15,874
-Less turbulence.
-Right, because it's above the weather.
519
00:31:15,957 --> 00:31:18,293
Jack, we wanna fly above the weather.
520
00:31:18,377 --> 00:31:20,128
Only 1% of the American population
521
00:31:20,212 --> 00:31:22,172
has ever set foot
on a commercial airliner.
522
00:31:22,255 --> 00:31:25,217
Why? Because they're scared to death,
Jack. And they should be.
523
00:31:25,300 --> 00:31:28,095
I mean, 7,000 feet is bumpy as shit.
You know that.
524
00:31:28,178 --> 00:31:30,597
We build a plane
that flies above the weather,
525
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:33,058
we could get every man, woman,
and child in this country
526
00:31:33,141 --> 00:31:34,726
to feel safe up there.
527
00:31:34,810 --> 00:31:37,896
An airplane with the ability to fly
into the substratosphere
528
00:31:37,979 --> 00:31:40,732
across the country, across the world.
529
00:31:41,316 --> 00:31:43,151
Now that is the future.
530
00:31:43,693 --> 00:31:45,070
-You with me?
-Yeah.
531
00:31:45,153 --> 00:31:47,239
Shoot straight with me now,
'cause I don't wanna get into all this
532
00:31:47,322 --> 00:31:49,282
if your board doesn't have
the balls for it.
533
00:31:49,366 --> 00:31:52,035
-Would they support us?
-I don't know. They're tight bastards.
534
00:31:52,119 --> 00:31:54,037
-Well, what's your financial picture?
-Not great.
535
00:31:54,121 --> 00:31:56,289
-Last year's deficit?
-$770,000.
536
00:31:56,373 --> 00:31:59,084
-What's it selling at?
-About $8 a share.
537
00:31:59,167 --> 00:32:01,503
That's the lowest it's been, huh?
538
00:32:03,171 --> 00:32:04,756
I could do that.
539
00:32:04,965 --> 00:32:06,591
-Do what?
-Buy it.
540
00:32:06,675 --> 00:32:07,884
You wanna buy the airline?
541
00:32:07,968 --> 00:32:10,929
For crying out loud, Jack, we don't want
a bunch of damn pencil-pushers
542
00:32:11,012 --> 00:32:13,348
getting in the way of us
making our plane, do we?
543
00:32:13,432 --> 00:32:14,933
Give me brass tacks now.
544
00:32:15,016 --> 00:32:18,061
What does controlling interest
in TWA cost me?
545
00:32:18,353 --> 00:32:19,688
Call it $15 million.
546
00:32:19,771 --> 00:32:21,022
(WHISTLES)
547
00:32:22,065 --> 00:32:24,484
That is a chunk of change, huh?
548
00:32:27,863 --> 00:32:31,324
You call Noah Dietrich.
You have him start buying.
549
00:32:32,033 --> 00:32:34,453
Howard, hold on. Are you sure?
550
00:32:34,911 --> 00:32:36,288
You want to think about it
for five minutes?
551
00:32:36,371 --> 00:32:40,083
Hell, Jack, I got a tiger by the tail here.
I ain't gonna let it go.
552
00:32:40,792 --> 00:32:42,502
(BAND PLAYING HAPPY FEET)
553
00:32:49,217 --> 00:32:50,927
PETE: Good evening, Mr. Hughes.
554
00:32:51,011 --> 00:32:53,263
Welcome. Your table is ready.
555
00:32:54,556 --> 00:32:56,183
How goes the aviation, Mr. Hughes?
556
00:32:56,266 --> 00:32:58,685
-HOWARD: Just fine, Pete.
-I'm so glad.
557
00:33:01,605 --> 00:33:02,814
Good evening, Mr. Hughes.
558
00:33:02,898 --> 00:33:04,232
-Madame.
-It's Miss.
559
00:33:04,316 --> 00:33:05,317
Miss.
560
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,777
-The usual, Mr. Hughes?
-Please, yeah.
561
00:33:07,861 --> 00:33:09,362
WAITER: And may I recommend
for the lady
562
00:33:09,446 --> 00:33:12,866
our Clementine soup followed
by roast wild duck with currant glaze
563
00:33:12,949 --> 00:33:16,119
and poached pears in rose sauce.
It's truly divine.
564
00:33:16,203 --> 00:33:18,205
Yeah. That sounds fine.
565
00:33:19,915 --> 00:33:22,042
Your kind of joint, is it?
566
00:33:23,752 --> 00:33:25,003
Wouldn't have thought.
567
00:33:25,086 --> 00:33:26,213
Yeah, well, they're open late.
568
00:33:26,296 --> 00:33:28,507
You know, I go to a hot dog stand
on La Cienega, too.
569
00:33:28,590 --> 00:33:30,509
They're open till about 4:00.
570
00:33:30,592 --> 00:33:31,927
Are they?
571
00:33:33,261 --> 00:33:35,096
How marvelous.
572
00:33:41,686 --> 00:33:44,940
Happy feet
I've got those happy feet
573
00:33:45,023 --> 00:33:49,277
Give them a lowdown beat
And they begin dancing
574
00:33:50,946 --> 00:33:52,531
Howard! Howard!
575
00:33:53,907 --> 00:33:55,033
Hi.
576
00:33:55,116 --> 00:33:56,618
Son of a gun.
577
00:33:56,701 --> 00:33:58,370
Kate, this is Johnny Meyer.
578
00:33:58,453 --> 00:34:00,539
I suppose you could call him
my press agent.
579
00:34:00,622 --> 00:34:01,915
Pleased to meet you.
Loved you in Alice Adams.
580
00:34:01,998 --> 00:34:03,041
You're too kind.
581
00:34:03,124 --> 00:34:04,209
I'm sure you know Errol, right?
582
00:34:04,292 --> 00:34:06,211
-Mr. Flynn. Yes.
-Kate.
583
00:34:06,628 --> 00:34:11,341
Kate of the clenched-jawed Hepburns.
Enchanting as always.
584
00:34:11,424 --> 00:34:13,927
You should use Lux on your hands,
by the way. I do.
585
00:34:14,010 --> 00:34:16,054
Katie, sweetie, you and Howard
ought to cook up a picture.
586
00:34:16,137 --> 00:34:17,264
-Co-star with Errol.
-Hey, my chair!
587
00:34:17,347 --> 00:34:19,391
-JOHNNY: I could sell that in spades.
-That would be marvelous.
588
00:34:19,474 --> 00:34:20,475
(LAUGHING)
589
00:34:20,559 --> 00:34:21,560
Howard?
590
00:34:21,851 --> 00:34:23,353
I think not.
591
00:34:23,478 --> 00:34:27,566
Don't you read Variety, Mr. Meyer?
Why, I'm box-office poison.
592
00:34:27,649 --> 00:34:30,110
I'm on the outs, the skids,
the doldrums, washed up,
593
00:34:30,193 --> 00:34:33,280
day-old fish not worth the eating,
so they (SIGHING) tell me.
594
00:34:33,363 --> 00:34:36,908
Hell with them. Hell with them, my dear.
Soulless pricks to a man, right?
595
00:34:36,992 --> 00:34:40,829
Johnny tells me you're thinking about
doing a Western of all goddamn things.
596
00:34:45,292 --> 00:34:47,794
Are you making a Western, Howard?
597
00:34:48,211 --> 00:34:51,089
Yeah, making a Western.
I'm gonna call it The Outlaw.
598
00:34:51,172 --> 00:34:55,594
And you know what it's about?
S-E-X. It's all about S-E-X.
599
00:34:55,677 --> 00:34:56,761
It's a Western.
600
00:34:56,845 --> 00:34:59,389
Oh, no. You can't have fornication
in a Western. It isn't done, old boy.
601
00:34:59,514 --> 00:35:01,433
It's not real sex, skinny. It's movie sex.
602
00:35:01,516 --> 00:35:03,351
What Scarface did
for the gangster picture,
603
00:35:03,435 --> 00:35:04,936
The Outlaw's gonna do for the Western.
604
00:35:05,020 --> 00:35:07,105
Put the sex and guts and blood
right up there on the screen.
605
00:35:07,188 --> 00:35:08,231
(ALL CHATTERING)
606
00:35:08,315 --> 00:35:10,108
-Have any cigarettes, Johnny?
-Don't mind us.
607
00:35:10,191 --> 00:35:13,528
WAITER: New York cut steak, 12 peas,
bottle of milk with the cap on.
608
00:35:13,612 --> 00:35:14,613
You're the only star I know
609
00:35:14,696 --> 00:35:15,947
who can't afford
his own goddamn cigarettes.
610
00:35:16,031 --> 00:35:17,782
-Jack has all my money.
-I trust you gentlemen have ordered.
611
00:35:17,866 --> 00:35:21,828
I hope your food isn't getting cold
at your table somewhere or something.
612
00:35:21,911 --> 00:35:23,913
No, no, no.
We're here all night. Don't worry.
613
00:35:24,873 --> 00:35:27,751
-JOHNNY: Thank you.
-Now, Howard, Howard,
614
00:35:27,876 --> 00:35:31,338
if you're seriously talking about putting
carnality back on the silver screen,
615
00:35:31,421 --> 00:35:34,799
you must swear to let me in
on the casting sessions.
616
00:35:37,927 --> 00:35:39,304
I have somewhat of an eye.
617
00:35:39,387 --> 00:35:41,306
An eye for talent.
Isn't that right, Johnny?
618
00:35:41,389 --> 00:35:43,725
You ought to give up that
prancing in tights and be a talent scout.
619
00:35:43,808 --> 00:35:46,478
Yeah, that prancing in tights
paid for my new yacht.
620
00:35:46,561 --> 00:35:48,104
You must all come sailing with me.
621
00:35:48,188 --> 00:35:50,023
Catalina, this weekend.
What do you say?
622
00:35:50,106 --> 00:35:52,192
-Catalina. Sounds grand. Yeah.
-Let's have some fun.
623
00:35:52,275 --> 00:35:54,986
I've even managed to coax
the luscious Miss de Havilland
624
00:35:55,070 --> 00:35:57,280
and her equally luscious sister
to accompany me,
625
00:35:57,364 --> 00:35:59,658
though I fear their mother
will insist on coming along
626
00:35:59,741 --> 00:36:02,285
to preserve their questionable virtue.
627
00:36:02,369 --> 00:36:03,995
We shall assault
these twin monuments
628
00:36:04,079 --> 00:36:06,956
of pristine Britannic beauty
nonetheless.
629
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:08,541
What do you say, Howard?
630
00:36:08,625 --> 00:36:10,335
-Yeah?
-Yeah.
631
00:36:10,418 --> 00:36:11,753
-Yeah?
-Yeah.
632
00:36:12,420 --> 00:36:13,922
(HOWARD CLEARS THROAT)
633
00:36:16,174 --> 00:36:17,676
I gotta go.
634
00:36:18,134 --> 00:36:21,721
If you'll excuse us,
we have to be somewhere.
635
00:36:22,180 --> 00:36:24,641
You are somewhere, Howard,
you madman.
636
00:36:24,724 --> 00:36:27,602
-Somewhere else. Excuse us.
-KATHARINE: Charmed, gentlemen.
637
00:36:27,727 --> 00:36:31,272
Do help yourself to the poached pears.
I hear they're divine.
638
00:36:33,149 --> 00:36:35,652
Howard Hughes, ladies and gentlemen.
639
00:36:35,735 --> 00:36:36,736
Was that meant for me?
640
00:36:36,820 --> 00:36:40,824
My hero. God, all that Hollywood talk
bores me silly.
641
00:36:40,907 --> 00:36:43,993
As if there aren't more important
things in the world. Mussolini, for one.
642
00:36:44,077 --> 00:36:46,037
Where are we going, by the way?
643
00:36:46,121 --> 00:36:47,914
Do you feel like a little adventure?
644
00:36:47,997 --> 00:36:49,958
Do your worst, Mr. Hughes.
645
00:36:50,041 --> 00:36:51,543
MAN: You think you own this place,
you limey bastard?
646
00:36:51,626 --> 00:36:54,212
ERROL: I'm a Tasmanian bastard,
you ignorant prick.
647
00:36:54,295 --> 00:36:56,256
JOHNNY: Out of the way, Errol.
648
00:36:59,050 --> 00:37:00,677
(GLASS SHATTERING)
649
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:03,138
(PLAYING AFTER YOU'VE GONE)
650
00:37:12,939 --> 00:37:15,024
(MOON GLOW PLAYING)
651
00:37:30,415 --> 00:37:33,168
That's Mr. Mayer's house, right there.
652
00:37:33,376 --> 00:37:35,253
Do you know where Jack Warner lives?
653
00:37:35,336 --> 00:37:36,504
(LAUGHING)
654
00:37:44,637 --> 00:37:47,265
What's that on the steering wheel?
655
00:37:47,348 --> 00:37:48,516
Cellophane.
656
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:53,021
If you had any idea of the crap that
people carry around on their hands.
657
00:37:53,104 --> 00:37:54,856
What kind of crap?
658
00:37:55,482 --> 00:37:57,358
You don't wanna know.
659
00:38:02,113 --> 00:38:03,448
Hold on to the wheel for a bit.
660
00:38:03,531 --> 00:38:04,824
(EXCLAIMING)
661
00:38:05,533 --> 00:38:06,910
(LAUGHING)
662
00:38:12,248 --> 00:38:14,626
That's too hard. Relax your hand.
Relax your hand.
663
00:38:14,709 --> 00:38:15,919
Oh.
664
00:38:21,174 --> 00:38:25,720
See, you gotta feel the vibration
of the engine through your fingertips.
665
00:38:26,221 --> 00:38:27,680
Feel that?
666
00:38:27,931 --> 00:38:29,098
Yes.
667
00:38:31,851 --> 00:38:33,228
That's good.
668
00:38:34,187 --> 00:38:35,396
Golly.
669
00:38:40,401 --> 00:38:42,237
Well, she's all yours.
670
00:38:42,445 --> 00:38:46,282
-Where are you going?
-I think there's some milk back here.
671
00:38:47,033 --> 00:38:49,661
-Just keep us steady now.
-All right.
672
00:39:08,972 --> 00:39:10,723
-Howard.
-Yeah?
673
00:39:10,807 --> 00:39:13,393
There's a rather alarming mountain
heading our way.
674
00:39:13,476 --> 00:39:16,271
Pull back on the wheel a smidge.
Go on.
675
00:39:21,067 --> 00:39:22,735
Golly!
676
00:39:22,819 --> 00:39:24,362
(BOTH LAUGHING)
677
00:39:29,284 --> 00:39:31,286
You know, I don't think
I've ever met someone
678
00:39:31,369 --> 00:39:33,955
who actually uses the word "golly."
679
00:39:41,546 --> 00:39:44,048
You all right?
Do you want me to take over?
680
00:39:44,132 --> 00:39:46,801
Just when I'm getting the hang of it?
681
00:39:52,932 --> 00:39:55,184
-You want some milk?
-Please.
682
00:39:58,897 --> 00:40:00,940
(LAUGHING)
683
00:40:17,206 --> 00:40:18,458
Utterly smashing.
684
00:40:18,541 --> 00:40:20,919
We'll do it again. I'm free Wednesday.
685
00:40:21,002 --> 00:40:22,754
It's a little early for golf though,
don't you think?
686
00:40:22,837 --> 00:40:24,964
-Oh, no, no. I live right there.
-Oh.
687
00:40:25,757 --> 00:40:28,259
-Feel like a drink?
-Lead on.
688
00:40:29,510 --> 00:40:31,763
Now that makes
for a challenging par four.
689
00:40:31,846 --> 00:40:33,056
(BOTH LAUGHING)
690
00:40:33,139 --> 00:40:36,559
My decorator picked out
the wallpaper and such.
691
00:40:37,310 --> 00:40:39,312
He's queer as a bed bug
692
00:40:39,395 --> 00:40:41,814
but I just hate this room.
693
00:40:42,607 --> 00:40:44,776
Gives me the willies. (GROANING)
694
00:40:44,859 --> 00:40:49,364
Like I'm about to be swallowed up by
the latest issue of Town and Country.
695
00:40:57,538 --> 00:40:59,457
What room do you like?
696
00:41:00,750 --> 00:41:02,085
My study.
697
00:41:04,587 --> 00:41:06,214
Take me there.
698
00:41:06,756 --> 00:41:09,592
(I CAN'T GIVE YOU ANYTHING
BUT LOVE PLAYING)
699
00:41:22,438 --> 00:41:25,608
You are the tallest woman I know.
700
00:41:26,526 --> 00:41:28,903
And all sharp elbows and knees.
701
00:41:29,237 --> 00:41:30,488
Beware.
702
00:41:53,177 --> 00:41:56,097
Will you fly me to work tomorrow?
703
00:41:58,808 --> 00:42:00,601
It is tomorrow.
704
00:42:00,768 --> 00:42:03,563
I can't give you anything but love,
oh, baby
705
00:42:04,230 --> 00:42:07,275
That's the only thing I've plenty of,
oh, baby
706
00:42:12,113 --> 00:42:16,576
Dream a while, scheme a while
707
00:42:16,659 --> 00:42:20,329
We're sure to find, baby
708
00:42:20,413 --> 00:42:24,125
Happiness, and I guess
709
00:42:29,380 --> 00:42:36,304
Gee, I'd like to see you looking swell,
baby, oh
710
00:42:37,430 --> 00:42:42,060
Diamond bracelets
Woolworth's doesn't sell
711
00:42:42,143 --> 00:42:44,062
My pretty baby
712
00:42:45,646 --> 00:42:49,859
Till that lucky day
Oh, you lucky day
713
00:42:49,942 --> 00:42:53,780
You know darn well, oh, baby
714
00:42:53,863 --> 00:42:55,239
Keep your eye on the fuel gauge.
715
00:42:55,323 --> 00:42:57,575
She's got a minimum of fuel
to keep her weight down.
716
00:42:57,658 --> 00:42:59,077
Two runs. That's it.
717
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:02,246
After that, you're flying on vapors,
and then you crash and then you die.
718
00:43:02,330 --> 00:43:03,748
-Right.
-Just give her easy flying.
719
00:43:03,831 --> 00:43:06,959
Don't worry about speed
and don't think about the record today.
720
00:43:07,043 --> 00:43:08,753
I wish to God
you'd let someone else take her up.
721
00:43:08,836 --> 00:43:10,421
You've got 20 damn test pilots
working for you.
722
00:43:10,505 --> 00:43:13,424
Hell, why should I let someone else
have all the fun?
723
00:43:13,508 --> 00:43:15,259
See you in a bit.
724
00:43:36,197 --> 00:43:37,532
HOWARD: Contact!
725
00:44:38,134 --> 00:44:40,803
(ALL EXCLAIMING)
726
00:45:05,620 --> 00:45:06,746
(WHOOPING)
727
00:45:07,747 --> 00:45:08,873
TIMER: 339.
728
00:45:11,042 --> 00:45:12,293
Goddamn!
729
00:45:30,978 --> 00:45:32,271
(TICKING)
730
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:35,566
347.
731
00:45:36,567 --> 00:45:38,819
(GASPING)
Son of a bitch.
732
00:46:11,352 --> 00:46:13,312
-352.
-352!
733
00:46:13,396 --> 00:46:14,939
(ALL CHEERING)
734
00:46:15,022 --> 00:46:16,440
Good girl.
735
00:46:20,736 --> 00:46:22,363
(ENGINE STALLING)
736
00:46:26,075 --> 00:46:27,368
Damn it!
737
00:46:31,497 --> 00:46:33,207
God damn it!
738
00:46:34,041 --> 00:46:36,377
-Oh, God!
-There goes our meal ticket.
739
00:46:36,502 --> 00:46:37,795
ODEKIRK: Come on!
740
00:47:06,532 --> 00:47:08,075
(SIREN WAILING)
741
00:47:18,252 --> 00:47:20,296
Howard! Howard!
742
00:47:20,588 --> 00:47:22,131
How did we do?
743
00:47:23,090 --> 00:47:24,925
352 on the last run.
744
00:47:25,926 --> 00:47:26,969
(LAUGHING)
745
00:47:27,053 --> 00:47:28,429
She'll go faster.
746
00:47:29,430 --> 00:47:31,015
Country Mouse!
747
00:47:31,807 --> 00:47:33,184
Kate! Katie!
748
00:47:33,267 --> 00:47:35,227
KATHARINE: Upstairs, City Mouse.
749
00:47:38,272 --> 00:47:39,440
Hello.
750
00:47:39,523 --> 00:47:41,984
-Good Lord, what happened to you?
-Oh, nothing.
751
00:47:42,234 --> 00:47:45,363
-A hard landing. I cut my foot.
-Sit down. I'll take care of it.
752
00:47:45,446 --> 00:47:46,781
Now you tell me everything.
753
00:47:46,906 --> 00:47:48,824
You cannot imagine
what it was like, Katie.
754
00:47:48,908 --> 00:47:50,618
You cannot imagine the speed.
755
00:47:50,743 --> 00:47:54,038
-She was like a winged bullet up there.
-What did she make?
756
00:47:54,163 --> 00:47:55,706
Around
757
00:47:56,957 --> 00:47:58,125
352.
758
00:48:05,299 --> 00:48:06,801
You did it.
759
00:48:08,302 --> 00:48:09,887
Fastest man on the planet.
760
00:48:09,970 --> 00:48:13,474
Hot dog! I'm so proud of you.
761
00:48:13,724 --> 00:48:15,643
-She did it, baby.
-You knew she would.
762
00:48:15,726 --> 00:48:18,145
She was fine. She was just fine.
763
00:48:18,229 --> 00:48:19,897
(SIGHS)
764
00:48:19,980 --> 00:48:21,899
Now let me see your foot.
765
00:48:23,901 --> 00:48:25,736
Good God, you're covered in blood.
766
00:48:25,820 --> 00:48:28,697
No, no, that's just beet juice.
I crashed into a beet field.
767
00:48:28,781 --> 00:48:31,826
-What?
-Yeah, I crashed in a beet field.
768
00:48:31,909 --> 00:48:33,494
(BOTH LAUGHING)
769
00:48:35,371 --> 00:48:37,498
Let me get you cleaned up.
770
00:48:38,374 --> 00:48:40,584
Heavens, what is this? Electrical tape?
771
00:48:40,668 --> 00:48:43,546
Yeah. Odie just sort of
slammed it on there.
772
00:48:43,963 --> 00:48:46,257
But all I could think about was
773
00:48:47,091 --> 00:48:49,176
getting home to see you.
774
00:48:53,764 --> 00:48:56,267
I am so proud of you.
775
00:49:01,230 --> 00:49:02,940
Now this is going to sting a little bit.
776
00:49:03,023 --> 00:49:03,983
(GROANS)
777
00:49:04,066 --> 00:49:05,734
Oh, this is useless.
778
00:49:06,026 --> 00:49:07,319
Come to the bathroom.
779
00:49:08,737 --> 00:49:11,615
-Don't get beet juice on the carpet.
-Yeah, I won't, I won't.
780
00:49:11,699 --> 00:49:13,868
-Ah! Too hot.
-Don't be a baby.
781
00:49:16,036 --> 00:49:18,622
Was the press there?
782
00:49:19,790 --> 00:49:20,958
Some.
783
00:49:23,127 --> 00:49:26,797
But they're calling everyone.
Should be on the wires by now.
784
00:49:35,055 --> 00:49:36,474
What is it?
785
00:49:39,435 --> 00:49:40,603
Kate?
786
00:49:44,231 --> 00:49:47,067
I've been famous, for better or worse,
787
00:49:47,776 --> 00:49:50,279
for a long time now.
788
00:49:52,156 --> 00:49:56,076
I wonder if you know
what it really means.
789
00:49:57,912 --> 00:50:01,207
Yeah, I had my fair share
of press on Hell's Angels.
790
00:50:01,707 --> 00:50:03,250
(LAUGHS) I'm used to it.
791
00:50:05,544 --> 00:50:06,795
Are you?
792
00:50:11,008 --> 00:50:12,635
Howard, we're...
793
00:50:15,429 --> 00:50:17,765
We're not like everyone else.
794
00:50:20,059 --> 00:50:24,855
Too many acute angles.
Too many eccentricities.
795
00:50:25,606 --> 00:50:27,942
We have to be very careful
796
00:50:29,902 --> 00:50:33,405
not to let people in,
or they'll make us into freaks.
797
00:50:35,032 --> 00:50:36,116
Kate.
798
00:50:36,951 --> 00:50:40,287
-They can't get in here. We're safe.
-Oh...
799
00:50:41,288 --> 00:50:42,998
Oh, they can always get in.
800
00:50:45,292 --> 00:50:48,254
When my brother killed himself,
801
00:50:49,797 --> 00:50:52,633
there were photographers
at the funeral.
802
00:50:53,634 --> 00:50:55,719
There's no decency to it.
803
00:51:07,064 --> 00:51:08,232
(CLEARING THROAT)
804
00:51:08,315 --> 00:51:10,401
You know, sometimes I...
805
00:51:14,154 --> 00:51:16,282
I get these feelings, Katie.
806
00:51:21,245 --> 00:51:23,080
I get these ideas,
807
00:51:26,625 --> 00:51:28,752
these crazy ideas about
808
00:51:29,003 --> 00:51:30,504
(CLEARING THROAT)
809
00:51:31,797 --> 00:51:33,674
things that may not...
810
00:51:35,384 --> 00:51:38,012
Things that may not really be there.
811
00:51:38,596 --> 00:51:39,680
Yeah.
812
00:51:46,979 --> 00:51:49,565
Sometimes I truly fear that
813
00:51:51,859 --> 00:51:53,611
I'm losing my mind.
814
00:52:01,410 --> 00:52:03,495
And if I did, it would...
815
00:52:06,540 --> 00:52:08,667
It'd be like flying blind.
816
00:52:16,842 --> 00:52:18,385
You understand?
817
00:52:22,723 --> 00:52:25,017
You taught me to fly, Howard.
818
00:52:28,604 --> 00:52:30,439
I'll take the wheel.
819
00:52:46,372 --> 00:52:47,539
RADIO ANNOUNCER:
Smashing all records,
820
00:52:47,623 --> 00:52:50,751
Howard Hughes outdoes
Jules Verne's wildest dreams.
821
00:52:50,834 --> 00:52:54,088
Around the world from New York
to New York in four days,
822
00:52:54,171 --> 00:52:57,091
even beating Wiley Post's mark
by over three days.
823
00:52:57,174 --> 00:52:59,051
New aviation history is written
824
00:52:59,134 --> 00:53:02,680
when his Lockheed monoplane
returns swiftly and safely.
825
00:53:02,763 --> 00:53:06,809
A daring aviator,
a true pioneer of the world's airways.
826
00:53:06,892 --> 00:53:09,812
From New York to Paris,
he cuts Lindbergh's time in half.
827
00:53:09,895 --> 00:53:11,188
Then on to Moscow.
828
00:53:11,271 --> 00:53:15,859
35 hours out of New York, he roars
across Siberia's trackless wastes.
829
00:53:15,943 --> 00:53:17,319
60 hours out of New York,
830
00:53:17,403 --> 00:53:20,447
he heads for Alaska,
most hazardous hop of all.
831
00:53:20,531 --> 00:53:23,075
Continuing the terrific pace,
he comes home,
832
00:53:23,158 --> 00:53:25,869
bringing new laurels
to American aviation.
833
00:53:25,953 --> 00:53:28,455
Howard Hughes and his crew
may find more worlds to…
834
00:53:30,290 --> 00:53:31,583
(SIGHING)
835
00:53:37,089 --> 00:53:39,133
You're not gonna believe this.
It just came across the wires.
836
00:53:39,216 --> 00:53:41,468
Howard Hughes
has bought control of TWA.
837
00:53:44,304 --> 00:53:47,433
I thought Mr. Hughes
was flying around the world.
838
00:53:47,516 --> 00:53:51,228
Apparently, he did it
while he was flying. Over the radio.
839
00:53:58,152 --> 00:54:01,697
I have heard some disquieting rumors
about Mr. Hughes.
840
00:54:02,823 --> 00:54:06,577
I'd like to know everything
there is to know about Mr. Hughes.
841
00:54:08,787 --> 00:54:11,123
I'd like you to attend to that for me.
842
00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:13,417
Thoroughly.
843
00:54:14,251 --> 00:54:16,378
RADIO ANNOUNCER:
The Pantages is glittering tonight.
844
00:54:16,462 --> 00:54:18,922
REPORTER 1: Right over here,
Mr. Hughes. This way, over to the left.
845
00:54:19,006 --> 00:54:21,175
REPORTER 2: Mr. Hughes, Mr. Hughes,
how was your flight?
846
00:54:21,258 --> 00:54:22,259
REPORTER 3:
Miss Hepburn, Miss Hepburn,
847
00:54:22,342 --> 00:54:23,343
when are you gonna name the day?
848
00:54:23,427 --> 00:54:24,428
REPORTER 4:
Right over here, Mr. Hughes.
849
00:54:24,511 --> 00:54:25,554
Could you raise your head a little?
850
00:54:25,637 --> 00:54:28,015
REPORTER 5: What's your next movie,
Howard? Come on. Give us the scoop.
851
00:54:28,098 --> 00:54:29,933
REPORTER 6: How many more records
are you gonna set?
852
00:54:30,017 --> 00:54:31,018
(ALL CLAMORING)
853
00:54:31,101 --> 00:54:33,437
REPORTER 7: Come on, Howard,
give us a smile. It won't kill you.
854
00:54:33,520 --> 00:54:35,022
REPORTER 8: This way.
REPORTER 9: Beautiful.
855
00:54:35,105 --> 00:54:37,566
REPORTER 10: Raise your head a little.
REPORTER 11: Over here, Mr. Hughes.
856
00:54:37,649 --> 00:54:38,901
Don't forget this side. To the left.
857
00:54:38,984 --> 00:54:41,236
REPORTER 12: Mr. Hughes, when are
you gonna fly around the world again?
858
00:54:41,320 --> 00:54:42,529
REPORTER 13:
You going to fly with Kate next time?
859
00:54:42,613 --> 00:54:44,198
-Did you get lonely without her?
-REPORTER 14: What about
860
00:54:44,281 --> 00:54:46,241
-flying with Amelia Earhart, huh?
REPORTER 15: Hey, Howard, did
861
00:54:46,325 --> 00:54:48,035
you talk to Lindbergh
about your round-the-world flight yet?
862
00:54:48,118 --> 00:54:49,578
REPORTER 16: Mr. Hughes,
where is Linda Darnell tonight?
863
00:54:49,661 --> 00:54:50,788
REPORTER 17:
Another shot, please, Mr. Hughes.
864
00:54:50,871 --> 00:54:53,123
-Howard, right here.
-Right here, Mr. Hughes. That's it.
865
00:54:53,207 --> 00:54:55,209
REPORTER 18: Are you trying to be
more famous than Lindbergh?
866
00:54:56,585 --> 00:55:00,088
You know,
fame is supposed to be my turf.
867
00:55:02,549 --> 00:55:03,759
L.B.
868
00:55:06,804 --> 00:55:10,057
If you don't get more distinguished
every time I see you.
869
00:55:10,140 --> 00:55:12,059
Oh, you look so beautiful.
870
00:55:19,775 --> 00:55:21,276
(LAUGHING)
871
00:55:30,661 --> 00:55:34,456
Don't worry about it, Howard.
She's just working the room.
872
00:55:34,540 --> 00:55:36,333
It's her job, baby.
873
00:55:38,710 --> 00:55:41,338
RADIO ANNOUNCER:
Sultry southern tigress Ava Gardner
874
00:55:41,421 --> 00:55:42,965
dazzles the room tonight.
875
00:55:43,048 --> 00:55:46,885
She's the newest star in
the MGM galaxy, and believe you me…
876
00:55:47,553 --> 00:55:49,179
(CAMERAS CLICKING)
877
00:55:51,598 --> 00:55:56,395
KATHARINE: Well, Jane Eyre has been
selling popcorn for over 100 years, L.B.
878
00:55:56,478 --> 00:55:57,604
(SIGHING)
879
00:56:10,284 --> 00:56:11,660
(TOILET FLUSHING)
880
00:56:37,853 --> 00:56:39,104
Hello.
881
00:56:47,654 --> 00:56:49,865
Could you reach me a towel?
882
00:56:58,123 --> 00:56:59,124
I…
883
00:57:00,834 --> 00:57:03,712
I really can't do that.
884
00:57:05,797 --> 00:57:07,174
I'm sorry.
885
00:57:16,350 --> 00:57:17,684
(INHALING SHARPLY)
886
00:57:28,737 --> 00:57:31,198
(EXHALING)
887
00:57:32,157 --> 00:57:36,161
I'm an idiot.
I'm a complete idiot, and I'm sorry.
888
00:57:36,787 --> 00:57:37,829
-(EXHALING) Forget it.
-No, no.
889
00:57:37,913 --> 00:57:42,167
I'm a vain, preening ass
without a single redeeming feature.
890
00:57:42,250 --> 00:57:44,962
That's not true.
You have very good teeth.
891
00:57:45,045 --> 00:57:46,046
(LAUGHING)
892
00:57:46,129 --> 00:57:47,422
Come on.
893
00:57:48,423 --> 00:57:52,719
I've got a better idea. Take me flying.
Or better yet, I'll take you flying.
894
00:57:52,803 --> 00:57:54,554
Do your worst, Miss Hepburn.
895
00:57:55,138 --> 00:57:57,182
(SOME OF THESE DAYS PLAYING)
896
00:57:57,891 --> 00:58:00,978
Some of these days
you're gonna miss me, honey
897
00:58:01,061 --> 00:58:03,105
Some of these days
898
00:58:03,188 --> 00:58:05,482
KATHARINE:
Don't be so squirmy, Howard.
899
00:58:05,565 --> 00:58:07,567
You're gonna get on famously
with Father and Mother.
900
00:58:07,651 --> 00:58:11,405
And I'm sure they'll like you, too,
once they get to know you.
901
00:58:11,488 --> 00:58:14,324
You'll be so sorry when I'm away
902
00:58:14,408 --> 00:58:19,371
Now you're gonna be lonely
just for me only
903
00:58:19,454 --> 00:58:21,206
Hello! Hello!
904
00:58:21,289 --> 00:58:23,500
-Hi, pinup.
-Kathy!
905
00:58:25,085 --> 00:58:26,878
(KATHARINE LAUGHING)
906
00:58:27,379 --> 00:58:29,172
Sweetheart, who's that
with the camera right there?
907
00:58:29,256 --> 00:58:30,882
Oh, that's my ex-husband, Ludlow.
908
00:58:30,966 --> 00:58:33,427
Father and Mother
are just mad about Luddie.
909
00:58:33,510 --> 00:58:35,762
What the hell is he doing here?
910
00:58:35,971 --> 00:58:38,015
Oh, he's here all the time.
911
00:58:38,557 --> 00:58:39,766
Hello!
912
00:58:41,935 --> 00:58:43,020
Sorry we're late.
913
00:58:43,103 --> 00:58:44,271
-Hello, darling.
-Mom.
914
00:58:44,771 --> 00:58:45,772
(EXCLAIMING)
915
00:58:45,856 --> 00:58:47,524
-Dad.
-Darling.
916
00:58:47,691 --> 00:58:49,234
KATHARINE: Uncle Willy.
917
00:58:49,609 --> 00:58:52,487
Who've we got here?
Don't feel self-conscious.
918
00:58:52,571 --> 00:58:55,490
Hepburns. Hepburns, attention, please.
919
00:58:55,824 --> 00:58:57,659
This is Howard.
920
00:58:58,243 --> 00:59:00,328
Howard, welcome.
921
00:59:01,413 --> 00:59:03,582
Don't worry, he's had his lunch.
922
00:59:03,665 --> 00:59:04,916
(ALL LAUGHING)
923
00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:07,085
LUDLOW: He likes you. That's unusual.
924
00:59:07,169 --> 00:59:10,547
We pay our devotion to the arts here,
a colony we created.
925
00:59:10,630 --> 00:59:13,258
Julian's a painter. Abstract, of course.
926
00:59:13,341 --> 00:59:15,177
What the hell's the point
of painting something real
927
00:59:15,260 --> 00:59:18,263
when you can take a picture nowadays.
Don't you agree?
928
00:59:18,346 --> 00:59:21,183
Where do you stand on politics,
Mr. Hughes?
929
00:59:21,266 --> 00:59:23,435
-Excuse me?
-We're all socialists here.
930
00:59:23,518 --> 00:59:26,229
-Oh, we are not.
-Mmm-hmm.
931
00:59:26,313 --> 00:59:29,316
You've met Mr. Roosevelt.
What make you of him?
932
00:59:31,026 --> 00:59:32,360
(HOWARD CLEARING TH ROAT)
933
00:59:32,444 --> 00:59:34,362
What are you sniggering at?
934
00:59:34,446 --> 00:59:35,947
What? What was that?
935
00:59:36,031 --> 00:59:37,616
You just sniggered.
936
00:59:37,699 --> 00:59:40,744
No, no. The dog,
it seems to be crushing my feet.
937
00:59:40,827 --> 00:59:42,746
-Oh, my God.
-KATHARINE: Buster!
938
00:59:44,331 --> 00:59:45,582
(BOTH LAUGHING)
939
00:59:45,665 --> 00:59:47,042
Don't you like dogs?
940
00:59:47,125 --> 00:59:48,794
Young man,
I will not have you sniggering
941
00:59:48,877 --> 00:59:50,712
at Mr. Roosevelt at my table.
Please leave.
942
00:59:50,796 --> 00:59:52,964
-No, no, no. I wasn't.
-I thought everybody liked dogs.
943
00:59:53,048 --> 00:59:54,925
Well, perhaps he had a bad experience
as a child.
944
00:59:55,008 --> 00:59:56,343
So, Kathy, does it stick in your craw
945
00:59:56,426 --> 00:59:57,803
that Howard here
gets more press than you do?
946
00:59:57,886 --> 01:00:00,972
-A bad experience? With a dog?
-No. No.
947
01:00:01,056 --> 01:00:02,849
You are such a shy creature,
aren't you?
948
01:00:02,933 --> 01:00:04,059
MRS HEPBURN:
Perhaps it was a very large dog.
949
01:00:04,142 --> 01:00:05,268
KATHARINE:
All very well for you to make fun,
950
01:00:05,352 --> 01:00:06,937
but the press can be
a damned nuisance
951
01:00:07,020 --> 01:00:08,688
-when all you wanna do is your job.
-Was it a Doberman?
952
01:00:08,772 --> 01:00:09,773
KATHARINE: It burns my goat!
953
01:00:09,856 --> 01:00:12,025
A Doberman, Mr. Hughes,
or a dachshund?
954
01:00:12,109 --> 01:00:14,903
-Neither, sir.
Dachshunds are little dogs, Hep dear.
955
01:00:14,986 --> 01:00:17,572
LUDLOW: They should all be lined up
against the wall and shot.
956
01:00:17,656 --> 01:00:20,742
-What's that Spanish painting...
-KATHARINE: The Goya.
957
01:00:20,826 --> 01:00:23,203
Goya. Of course, yes.
958
01:00:24,412 --> 01:00:27,124
-Mexicans. Poor lambs.
-What was that called?
959
01:00:27,207 --> 01:00:29,376
Anyway, that's the vulgar press,
I'm sure.
960
01:00:29,459 --> 01:00:31,586
Do you read much, Mr. Hughes?
961
01:00:32,045 --> 01:00:33,255
(CLEARING THROAT)
962
01:00:33,338 --> 01:00:35,966
I try to stay up to snuff
on the trade journals.
963
01:00:36,049 --> 01:00:37,300
Snuff?
964
01:00:37,384 --> 01:00:39,803
MRS HEPBURN:
These would be flying magazines?
965
01:00:41,638 --> 01:00:43,140
What? What was that?
966
01:00:43,223 --> 01:00:44,266
He's a little deaf.
967
01:00:44,349 --> 01:00:45,600
JULIAN: Pass the goddamn butter,
I beg you.
968
01:00:45,684 --> 01:00:47,352
-You read flying magazines?
-Take the butter.
969
01:00:47,435 --> 01:00:50,689
Trade journals.
On engineering, aviation.
970
01:00:50,772 --> 01:00:52,482
-We read books.
-Mmm-hmm.
971
01:00:53,233 --> 01:00:55,318
Well, Howard has to read
the trade pieces, Mom,
972
01:00:55,402 --> 01:00:57,279
because he's designing
a new airplane.
973
01:00:57,362 --> 01:00:59,030
Really? Do tell.
974
01:01:02,742 --> 01:01:03,910
Well...
975
01:01:05,996 --> 01:01:10,292
It's quite exciting, actually.
It's a spy plane for the Air Corps.
976
01:01:10,542 --> 01:01:12,878
A twin-engine plane with some...
977
01:01:13,128 --> 01:01:16,089
I must admit,
some rather unique design features.
978
01:01:16,173 --> 01:01:19,009
You see, it has these two booms
at the back...
979
01:01:19,092 --> 01:01:21,511
Luddie built a birdhouse once.
You remember that, clear?
980
01:01:21,595 --> 01:01:22,679
(ALL LAUGHING)
981
01:01:22,762 --> 01:01:25,515
-Yes, well, a mere trifle, darling.
-LINDA: Oh, I remember the painting.
982
01:01:25,599 --> 01:01:28,351
The painting,
it's called May Eighteen-O-Something.
983
01:01:28,435 --> 01:01:30,020
Anyway, Goya's vastly overrated.
984
01:01:30,103 --> 01:01:32,689
-All the Spaniards are.
-Nonsense. Picasso is sacred.
985
01:01:32,772 --> 01:01:34,357
I'm a urologist.
986
01:01:34,441 --> 01:01:35,859
MRS HEPBURN:
It was quite aesthetic, really.
987
01:01:35,942 --> 01:01:37,986
A sacred monster,
that's what Picasso is.
988
01:01:38,111 --> 01:01:40,488
The birds didn't care for it much,
but the bats do.
989
01:01:40,614 --> 01:01:42,407
-I'II bet.
-That's such bum!
990
01:01:42,490 --> 01:01:43,783
Do speak up, dear.
991
01:01:43,867 --> 01:01:45,952
Nothing. Nothing, Mrs Hepburn.
Nothing.
992
01:01:46,036 --> 01:01:47,454
Then why did you speak?
993
01:01:47,537 --> 01:01:50,207
I can't abide people who speak
but have nothing to say.
994
01:01:50,290 --> 01:01:53,877
Did you go to mechanic school to learn
all this, you know, airplane guff?
995
01:01:53,960 --> 01:01:55,378
No, no, I didn't, Luddie. No.
996
01:01:55,462 --> 01:01:58,215
Well, Howard just flew
around the world in three days.
997
01:01:58,298 --> 01:02:00,217
I think we've heard enough
about airplanes.
998
01:02:00,300 --> 01:02:01,551
DR HEPBURN: And dogs, apparently...
999
01:02:01,635 --> 01:02:03,470
Then how did you make all that money?
1000
01:02:03,553 --> 01:02:05,305
We don't care about money here,
Mr. Hughes.
1001
01:02:05,388 --> 01:02:07,515
That's because you have it.
1002
01:02:11,686 --> 01:02:13,563
Would you repeat that?
1003
01:02:14,481 --> 01:02:17,400
You don't care about money
because you've always had it.
1004
01:02:17,484 --> 01:02:20,445
-But then how did you make...
-Excuse me, I'm speaking.
1005
01:02:20,528 --> 01:02:22,822
-Okay. All right.
-HOWARD: Thank you.
1006
01:02:23,990 --> 01:02:26,409
Some of us choose to work for a living.
1007
01:02:26,493 --> 01:02:31,373
Speaking of which, I have more
of that "airplane guff" to attend to.
1008
01:02:32,666 --> 01:02:34,000
Excuse me.
1009
01:02:41,800 --> 01:02:44,511
LUDLOW: Well,
seems a rather high-strung chap.
1010
01:02:44,844 --> 01:02:47,931
You're a fine bunch of bullies,
aren't you?
1011
01:02:48,098 --> 01:02:51,434
Have you talked to Mr. Mayer
about letting you do Jane Eyre?
1012
01:02:51,518 --> 01:02:55,063
Oh, the old philistine won't budge.
Too arty, don't you know.
1013
01:02:55,146 --> 01:02:57,107
Daddy, I'm convinced the man
hasn't read anything longer
1014
01:02:57,190 --> 01:02:59,317
than the Sunday Katzenjammer Kids
in his life.
1015
01:03:01,486 --> 01:03:04,489
No fair kicking.
You have to use the mallet.
1016
01:03:06,825 --> 01:03:10,328
Really, though, darling, you can't retire
from the field of battle like that,
1017
01:03:10,412 --> 01:03:14,082
-or they'll never respect you.
-Katie, I don't understand.
1018
01:03:14,416 --> 01:03:17,210
You were like a different person
in there.
1019
01:03:17,711 --> 01:03:20,380
They just expect me
to be a certain way.
1020
01:03:22,340 --> 01:03:24,384
There's only one real Kate,
1021
01:03:24,884 --> 01:03:26,803
and that's your Kate.
1022
01:03:30,140 --> 01:03:31,141
RADIO ANNOUNCER:
And over in Hollywood,
1023
01:03:31,224 --> 01:03:34,811
aviation tycoon Howard Hughes
seems to be cooking up something big.
1024
01:03:34,894 --> 01:03:37,147
Even as he edits
his newest motion picture,
1025
01:03:37,230 --> 01:03:39,524
he's been secretly meeting
with the US Air Corps.
1026
01:03:39,607 --> 01:03:41,151
We applaud his patriotism
1027
01:03:41,234 --> 01:03:43,236
and look forward
to his newest mechanical marvel.
1028
01:03:43,320 --> 01:03:44,988
Do you know how many Allied ships
we lost this year
1029
01:03:45,071 --> 01:03:46,990
-because of U-boat attacks?
-No.
1030
01:03:47,073 --> 01:03:50,535
Six hundred and eighty-one ships,
just this year so far.
1031
01:03:50,618 --> 01:03:53,830
Now, the Army needs a new airplane
to fly the troops over to Europe.
1032
01:03:53,913 --> 01:03:57,625
These ships, they're sitting ducks.
They're sitting ducks for the U-boats.
1033
01:03:57,709 --> 01:03:59,502
You want to build a troop-carrier plane.
1034
01:03:59,586 --> 01:04:01,087
Stop thinking like an insect, Odie.
1035
01:04:01,171 --> 01:04:04,507
Not just a plane to carry the troops.
A plane to carry everything.
1036
01:04:04,591 --> 01:04:08,762
The troops and the jeeps and the tanks
and whatnot. Here, take a look.
1037
01:04:10,388 --> 01:04:11,931
No, other side.
1038
01:04:13,641 --> 01:04:14,684
(ODEKIRK EXCLAIMING)
1039
01:04:14,768 --> 01:04:16,936
I figure around 200 feet
from nose to tail.
1040
01:04:17,020 --> 01:04:18,688
Wing span around 300.
1041
01:04:18,772 --> 01:04:21,232
We're gonna need
about 24,000 horsepower.
1042
01:04:21,316 --> 01:04:22,567
(LAUGHING)
1043
01:04:22,650 --> 01:04:25,695
Now this, this is just what
Kaiser and the army are looking for.
1044
01:04:25,779 --> 01:04:27,155
And don't worry,
they're gonna pay for it this time.
1045
01:04:27,238 --> 01:04:30,533
-Christ! What are you getting us into?
-It's a big plane.
1046
01:04:30,617 --> 01:04:32,869
So I'm calling it the Hercules.
1047
01:04:32,952 --> 01:04:34,621
Swell name, isn't it?
1048
01:04:34,704 --> 01:04:36,539
How heavy do you imagine
this thing is?
1049
01:04:36,623 --> 01:04:38,458
Say around 200 tons.
1050
01:04:41,211 --> 01:04:43,922
What? I didn't say
it was going to be easy.
1051
01:04:44,005 --> 01:04:47,425
All right, boys, I want you
to rig up something like this.
1052
01:04:47,509 --> 01:04:49,427
Should give the proper uplift ratios,
1053
01:04:49,511 --> 01:04:52,347
while reducing the need for additional
torque support on the front.
1054
01:04:52,430 --> 01:04:55,558
We are not getting enough production
out of Jane Russell's breasts, all right.
1055
01:04:55,642 --> 01:04:58,812
I want smooth titties, gentlemen.
Smooth titties.
1056
01:05:01,314 --> 01:05:03,441
It's all in engineering, isn't it, Odie?
1057
01:05:03,525 --> 01:05:06,236
Howard, do you really think
they're gonna let you
1058
01:05:06,319 --> 01:05:08,279
put out a whole movie just about tits?
1059
01:05:09,823 --> 01:05:12,158
Sure. Who doesn't like tits?
1060
01:05:23,253 --> 01:05:26,423
Good afternoon, gentlemen.
Sorry I'm late.
1061
01:05:26,506 --> 01:05:29,426
Will the secretary please record
that Mr. Hughes has arrived,
1062
01:05:29,509 --> 01:05:31,511
and that this session
is now called to order?
1063
01:05:31,636 --> 01:05:32,804
I yield the floor to Mr. Breen.
1064
01:05:32,887 --> 01:05:35,098
Mr. Hughes,
members of the committee,
1065
01:05:35,181 --> 01:05:38,268
I have reviewed Mr. Hughes'
photoplay entitled The Outlaw,
1066
01:05:38,351 --> 01:05:42,188
and I can state categorically that l have
never seen anything so unacceptable
1067
01:05:42,272 --> 01:05:45,942
as the shots of the mammaries
of the character named Rio.
1068
01:05:46,609 --> 01:05:48,069
For almost half the picture,
1069
01:05:48,153 --> 01:05:52,490
the girl's mammaries,
which are quite large and prominent,
1070
01:05:52,574 --> 01:05:54,701
are shockingly uncovered.
1071
01:05:54,868 --> 01:05:56,619
For this reason, I have concluded,
1072
01:05:56,703 --> 01:06:00,832
the picture appeals only to prurient
interests, and should be denied
1073
01:06:00,915 --> 01:06:04,210
the Motion Picture Association's
seal of approval.
1074
01:06:04,377 --> 01:06:06,212
Really, Mr. Hughes.
1075
01:06:06,671 --> 01:06:08,923
Thank you, Mr. Breen. Mr. Hughes.
1076
01:06:09,007 --> 01:06:10,967
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
1077
01:06:11,050 --> 01:06:12,844
Mr. Breen, it's good to see you again.
1078
01:06:12,927 --> 01:06:15,305
I haven't seen you all
since that situation
1079
01:06:15,388 --> 01:06:17,640
with all the violence in Scarface.
1080
01:06:17,724 --> 01:06:20,643
The situation here seems to revolve
around Miss Russell's mammaries.
1081
01:06:20,727 --> 01:06:23,396
Mr. Breen feels that
they are too prominent, yes?
1082
01:06:23,480 --> 01:06:27,025
More prominent than other mammaries
have been, up on the screen?
1083
01:06:27,108 --> 01:06:29,944
Well, I hope to dispel that notion.
1084
01:06:33,364 --> 01:06:34,824
Jean Harlow.
1085
01:06:36,701 --> 01:06:38,244
Ann Sheridan.
1086
01:06:39,787 --> 01:06:41,206
Irene Dunne.
1087
01:06:41,289 --> 01:06:43,082
Claudette Colbert.
1088
01:06:43,666 --> 01:06:45,210
Rita Hayworth.
1089
01:06:45,752 --> 01:06:46,794
Betty Grable.
1090
01:06:46,878 --> 01:06:50,173
And the lovely Miss Jane Russell.
1091
01:06:50,256 --> 01:06:53,343
Now, all these shots,
save for Miss Russell,
1092
01:06:53,426 --> 01:06:57,680
were enlarged from pictures that
received Mr. Breen's seal of approval.
1093
01:06:58,598 --> 01:07:02,936
As you have probably noticed by now,
they all contain mammaries.
1094
01:07:04,729 --> 01:07:06,564
I will ask my associate to join me now.
1095
01:07:06,648 --> 01:07:10,443
May I introduce Dr Ludlow Branson
of Columbia University?
1096
01:07:12,779 --> 01:07:17,909
Dr Branson is a mathematician
of some note.
1097
01:07:19,035 --> 01:07:20,078
Yes.
1098
01:07:20,161 --> 01:07:25,124
And he will now demonstrate
that, in fact, Miss Russell's mammaries
1099
01:07:25,792 --> 01:07:29,629
are no more prominent
than any of these other fine ladies'.
1100
01:07:32,757 --> 01:07:33,967
Doctor.
1101
01:07:35,468 --> 01:07:36,636
Doctor.
1102
01:07:38,012 --> 01:07:40,139
You forgot your calipers.
1103
01:07:41,641 --> 01:07:42,642
Oh.
1104
01:07:45,645 --> 01:07:49,274
(STAMMERS) Gentlemen. Mr. Hughes.
1105
01:07:52,819 --> 01:07:55,822
Let us commence by calling this
1106
01:07:56,364 --> 01:07:58,533
Mammary Exhibit Number One.
1107
01:07:58,783 --> 01:08:03,788
Now you'll see that
the length of the actual cleavage,
1108
01:08:05,331 --> 01:08:07,542
if I may, is
1109
01:08:09,544 --> 01:08:11,546
five inches and a quarter.
1110
01:08:11,963 --> 01:08:13,631
Now, if we move to...
1111
01:08:13,715 --> 01:08:15,216
RADIO ANNOUNCER:
Dateline Hollywoodland.
1112
01:08:15,300 --> 01:08:18,928
Movie tycoon Howard Hughes
must have the greatest job in the land.
1113
01:08:19,012 --> 01:08:21,389
Each and every night,
the lucky guy has to escort
1114
01:08:21,472 --> 01:08:24,309
a different beautiful woman
to a different dazzling event.
1115
01:08:24,392 --> 01:08:26,894
The TWA king
always talks up his airline
1116
01:08:26,978 --> 01:08:30,231
as he escorts a succession
of eye-catching women in the world.
1117
01:08:30,315 --> 01:08:31,733
(BUGLE PLAYING)
1118
01:08:31,816 --> 01:08:35,528
ANNOUNCER: The Hercules,
ladies and gentlemen, the Hercules.
1119
01:08:35,612 --> 01:08:39,490
A plane, a boat, a flying city.
1120
01:08:39,741 --> 01:08:41,659
Now, don't forget.
Every bill comes to me.
1121
01:08:41,743 --> 01:08:43,119
They don't pay for anything.
1122
01:08:43,202 --> 01:08:45,371
Look, those men decide
whether or not to fund the plane.
1123
01:08:45,455 --> 01:08:47,123
So I need them real happy.
1124
01:08:47,206 --> 01:08:49,792
-You do what it takes.
-JOHNNY: You betcha, boss.
1125
01:08:49,876 --> 01:08:52,253
What about the girls?
How are they in the bomb department?
1126
01:08:52,337 --> 01:08:55,715
Well, let's put it this way.
It'll be a regular boob buffet.
1127
01:08:56,215 --> 01:08:58,009
I don't think the gentlemen
from the Air Corps
1128
01:08:58,092 --> 01:08:59,594
will have any trouble scoring tonight.
1129
01:08:59,677 --> 01:09:03,306
ANNOUNCER: Inside,
700 brave American soldiers,
1130
01:09:03,389 --> 01:09:05,475
a dozen Sherman tanks,
1131
01:09:05,558 --> 01:09:07,894
all winging their way over the Atlantic,
1132
01:09:07,977 --> 01:09:10,647
free from the threats
of the U-boats below.
1133
01:09:10,730 --> 01:09:15,151
Could Jules Verne himself have ever
imagined anything so magnificent?
1134
01:09:15,234 --> 01:09:17,654
Could he have imagined
her mammoth wingspan
1135
01:09:17,737 --> 01:09:18,738
longer than a football field?
1136
01:09:19,072 --> 01:09:20,990
Don't you see how this demeans me?
1137
01:09:21,074 --> 01:09:23,326
Since when do you care
about the scandal rags, huh?
1138
01:09:23,409 --> 01:09:25,495
Every time there's a picture of you
with another woman,
1139
01:09:25,578 --> 01:09:28,373
it's like a slap in the face.
Don't you understand that?
1140
01:09:28,456 --> 01:09:30,500
(CLEARING THROAT)
That's overstating it just a bit.
1141
01:09:30,583 --> 01:09:33,836
Joan Crawford, Ginger Rogers,
Linda Darnell, Joan Fontaine,
1142
01:09:33,920 --> 01:09:36,547
and now Bette Davis, for God's sake!
1143
01:09:38,716 --> 01:09:41,886
Look, they're Cracker Jack candy,
honey.
1144
01:09:41,969 --> 01:09:43,888
They don't mean anything to me.
1145
01:09:43,971 --> 01:09:45,932
Oh, very nice.
1146
01:09:48,559 --> 01:09:51,604
Well, you're the one that said
that all men are predators, right?
1147
01:09:51,688 --> 01:09:54,816
I mean, it's all in Darwin. Remember?
1148
01:09:54,899 --> 01:09:58,695
And am I to expect this behavior
to continue after the wedding?
1149
01:09:58,778 --> 01:10:03,366
What is really bothering you, Kate?
Is it the women? Or the publicity, huh?
1150
01:10:09,455 --> 01:10:12,750
Can't you eat ice cream from a bowl
like everyone else in the world?
1151
01:10:12,834 --> 01:10:14,085
(PHONE RINGING)
1152
01:10:20,883 --> 01:10:23,553
Don't you dare.
1153
01:10:36,065 --> 01:10:37,150
Yeah.
1154
01:10:38,484 --> 01:10:41,654
(CLEARING THROAT) No. Odie,
this is not a good time.
1155
01:10:42,321 --> 01:10:44,198
For Christ's sake,
we can't make the Hercules
1156
01:10:44,282 --> 01:10:46,492
if we don't have any aluminum.
1157
01:10:46,576 --> 01:10:47,744
Wait.
1158
01:10:48,161 --> 01:10:49,746
No, no. I can hear you better now.
1159
01:10:49,829 --> 01:10:51,581
Look, you tell
the War Production Board
1160
01:10:51,664 --> 01:10:54,792
that this is an essential
strategic operation.
1161
01:10:54,876 --> 01:10:57,378
Odie, if they're giving aluminum
to Douglas, Northrop, and Boeing,
1162
01:10:57,462 --> 01:10:59,672
they sure as hell can give some
to Hughes Aircraft.
1163
01:10:59,756 --> 01:11:02,967
Don't set the ice cream...
1164
01:11:03,050 --> 01:11:04,677
Meantime we've got to think
of something else.
1165
01:11:04,761 --> 01:11:07,680
If we can't get any aluminum,
we'll have to find another way.
1166
01:11:07,805 --> 01:11:09,015
Christ, I don't know. You tell me.
1167
01:11:09,098 --> 01:11:11,851
We'll find some alloy
that works just as well. Right.
1168
01:11:12,643 --> 01:11:13,978
Look...
1169
01:11:14,061 --> 01:11:16,189
If we can't get any aluminum,
we'll just have to use wood.
1170
01:11:16,272 --> 01:11:18,357
ODEKIRK: You can't make
a 200-ton plane out of wood.
1171
01:11:18,441 --> 01:11:21,110
Why the hell not?
The damn thing is a flying boat, right?
1172
01:11:21,194 --> 01:11:22,445
What do they use
to make boats out of?
1173
01:11:22,528 --> 01:11:24,280
-Oak.
-Think of the Hercules
1174
01:11:24,363 --> 01:11:26,282
like a flying Spanish galleon.
1175
01:11:26,365 --> 01:11:28,868
Spanish galleons weigh 1,200 tons.
1176
01:11:29,869 --> 01:11:31,704
Good luck today, huh?
1177
01:11:32,288 --> 01:11:34,081
HOWARD: We just have to find
the right kind of wood.
1178
01:11:34,165 --> 01:11:35,666
Something light but strong.
1179
01:11:35,750 --> 01:11:37,877
-Morning, Kate.
-ODEKIRK: Pine, cedar, maybe birch.
1180
01:11:49,222 --> 01:11:50,389
MAN: Catch.
1181
01:11:54,685 --> 01:11:56,187
From my farm.
1182
01:11:57,063 --> 01:11:59,565
If you like it, I can get you a bushel.
1183
01:12:12,453 --> 01:12:13,996
Trouble with Mr. Hughes?
1184
01:12:14,080 --> 01:12:15,248
(SCOFFS)
1185
01:12:20,253 --> 01:12:24,090
There's too much Howard Hughes
in Howard Hughes.
1186
01:12:26,592 --> 01:12:28,344
That's the trouble.
1187
01:12:38,563 --> 01:12:40,273
(BOO WOO PLAYING ON RADIO)
1188
01:12:41,858 --> 01:12:43,234
JACK: Beautiful.
1189
01:12:45,736 --> 01:12:47,321
Don't you even take Christmas off?
1190
01:12:48,447 --> 01:12:51,200
Nice to see you, Bob.
Sorry, I got grease on my hands.
1191
01:12:51,284 --> 01:12:53,703
Have we got something to show you.
1192
01:12:53,786 --> 01:12:55,746
(INCREASING VOLUME)
1193
01:12:57,957 --> 01:12:59,125
Take a look.
1194
01:12:59,208 --> 01:13:03,212
She's the XF-11 reconnaissance flier.
Spy plane, really.
1195
01:13:03,963 --> 01:13:06,465
Designed every inch of her myself.
1196
01:13:06,591 --> 01:13:08,718
She's got a top speed of 450,
1197
01:13:08,801 --> 01:13:11,637
which means she can outrun
anything they throw against her.
1198
01:13:11,721 --> 01:13:14,974
After the Japs stole my H-1 design
for their goddamn Zeros,
1199
01:13:15,057 --> 01:13:17,476
I figured I needed to do them
one better, right?
1200
01:13:18,394 --> 01:13:21,647
Yeah. She's my Buck Rogers ship.
1201
01:13:21,731 --> 01:13:23,316
She's a looker.
1202
01:13:23,983 --> 01:13:25,985
Okay, what have you got for me?
1203
01:13:33,326 --> 01:13:34,619
Jiminy Cricket!
1204
01:13:34,702 --> 01:13:35,745
(ALL LAUGHING)
1205
01:13:35,828 --> 01:13:39,332
Seating capacity for 60,
wingspan 123 feet.
1206
01:13:39,415 --> 01:13:43,002
Four double Cyclone engines.
Her ceiling's 25,000 feet.
1207
01:13:43,169 --> 01:13:46,672
-Gross weight?
-86,000, wing loading of 41 pounds.
1208
01:13:46,797 --> 01:13:49,425
So less drag on the plane in thinner air.
1209
01:13:49,508 --> 01:13:52,970
So at high cruise power, you're looking
at a top speed of around 340.
1210
01:13:54,096 --> 01:13:56,891
Giving her a range
of about 3,000 miles.
1211
01:13:58,851 --> 01:14:00,937
-Cross-country.
-Nonstop. (LAUGHS)
1212
01:14:02,688 --> 01:14:06,442
Bob, you know something?
You are a son of a bitch.
1213
01:14:06,525 --> 01:14:08,319
(ALL LAUGHING)
1214
01:14:16,953 --> 01:14:18,454
(CLEARING THROAT)
1215
01:14:18,537 --> 01:14:19,538
Yeah.
1216
01:14:19,622 --> 01:14:22,041
Bob, you got something on your suit.
1217
01:14:23,626 --> 01:14:24,710
Yeah.
1218
01:14:25,378 --> 01:14:28,881
On your lapel there.
You got something on your lapel.
1219
01:14:30,925 --> 01:14:32,635
Right there, Bob.
1220
01:14:34,720 --> 01:14:36,889
You missed it. Right there.
1221
01:14:38,599 --> 01:14:40,059
Clean it off, would you?
1222
01:14:40,559 --> 01:14:42,728
Here. Thanks.
1223
01:14:46,273 --> 01:14:47,900
Now throw it away.
1224
01:14:51,904 --> 01:14:53,489
No, over there.
1225
01:14:59,745 --> 01:15:01,038
Thanks.
1226
01:15:02,206 --> 01:15:03,833
So what do you call her?
1227
01:15:03,916 --> 01:15:06,002
The Constellation.
But we can change that.
1228
01:15:06,085 --> 01:15:07,461
No, no, no.
1229
01:15:07,962 --> 01:15:10,047
It's pretty. I like her.
1230
01:15:11,841 --> 01:15:15,928
So what kind of deal can you give me?
What kind of deal can you give me?
1231
01:15:16,012 --> 01:15:18,389
We'll give you the first 40 planes
off the assembly line.
1232
01:15:18,472 --> 01:15:21,183
That should give us about
two years exclusivity with her.
1233
01:15:21,267 --> 01:15:22,643
Hell, more than that.
1234
01:15:22,727 --> 01:15:26,856
United and American don't have
the imagination for a plane like this.
1235
01:15:26,939 --> 01:15:29,608
JACK: Two years ahead
of Juan Trippe then.
1236
01:15:34,613 --> 01:15:35,906
How much?
1237
01:15:35,990 --> 01:15:37,658
$450,000 each.
1238
01:15:38,951 --> 01:15:41,537
That's $18 million for the first 40.
1239
01:15:42,747 --> 01:15:46,584
Hell, TWA can't afford that.
The damn airline's flat broke.
1240
01:15:47,835 --> 01:15:49,128
(SIGHING)
1241
01:15:50,046 --> 01:15:52,548
Guess I'll just have to
pay for them myself.
1242
01:15:53,424 --> 01:15:56,594
Build them, Bob.
Send the bill to Noah Dietrich.
1243
01:15:56,677 --> 01:15:57,928
Oh, and thank you.
1244
01:16:01,974 --> 01:16:03,517
Merry Christmas.
1245
01:16:04,143 --> 01:16:06,604
NOAH ON PHONE: You have just
placed the largest order for airplanes
1246
01:16:06,687 --> 01:16:08,481
in the history
of the damn planet, Howard.
1247
01:16:08,564 --> 01:16:10,399
Lockheed just sent us a bill
for $18 million!
1248
01:16:10,483 --> 01:16:12,985
Now, now, don't you get
all hysterical on me, Noah.
1249
01:16:13,069 --> 01:16:14,195
It isn't good for you.
1250
01:16:14,278 --> 01:16:16,030
This is a lot of money
for some planes, Howard.
1251
01:16:16,113 --> 01:16:17,740
Yes. Yes, I know it's a lot of money.
1252
01:16:17,823 --> 01:16:20,743
It's too damn much. You think
I've just got $18 million in petty cash?
1253
01:16:20,826 --> 01:16:23,829
Look, I should have told you earlier.
It slipped my mind.
1254
01:16:23,913 --> 01:16:24,914
Slipped your mind?
For God's sake!
1255
01:16:24,997 --> 01:16:25,998
Right.
1256
01:16:26,082 --> 01:16:27,166
But look, I'll get back to you then.
1257
01:16:27,249 --> 01:16:28,751
How could $18 million slip your mind?
1258
01:16:28,834 --> 01:16:30,252
Goodbye now.
1259
01:16:30,336 --> 01:16:32,922
Hi, honey. (CLEARING THROAT)
What are you doing home?
1260
01:16:38,010 --> 01:16:40,930
You're not one for tears, and, well,
1261
01:16:41,013 --> 01:16:45,226
neither am I.
So it's best to come out with it.
1262
01:16:48,395 --> 01:16:52,149
I've met someone.
I've fallen in love and I'm moving out.
1263
01:16:55,194 --> 01:16:59,448
If I could make it any more gentle,
I would.
1264
01:17:00,074 --> 01:17:02,660
But I can't.
1265
01:17:05,204 --> 01:17:07,123
So, there we both are.
1266
01:17:10,709 --> 01:17:12,378
Let's be honest.
1267
01:17:12,711 --> 01:17:16,799
It's all been a grand adventure,
but it couldn't possibly last.
1268
01:17:17,383 --> 01:17:19,552
We're too alike, you and I.
1269
01:17:23,389 --> 01:17:24,849
You met someone?
1270
01:17:24,932 --> 01:17:28,144
Someone more appropriate.
To me, I mean.
1271
01:17:31,522 --> 01:17:34,275
What does that mean?
"More appropriate."
1272
01:17:34,984 --> 01:17:38,320
Someone more attuned to my needs.
1273
01:17:39,613 --> 01:17:41,407
Look at me, Katie.
1274
01:17:41,740 --> 01:17:43,117
Stop acting.
1275
01:17:43,242 --> 01:17:46,203
(EXCLAIMING)
I'm not acting.
1276
01:17:51,417 --> 01:17:54,003
I wonder if you even know any more.
1277
01:17:58,924 --> 01:18:00,593
Don't be unkind.
1278
01:18:03,846 --> 01:18:05,639
You... (CLEARING THROAT)
1279
01:18:06,891 --> 01:18:08,475
You want to go?
1280
01:18:11,937 --> 01:18:13,105
Go on.
1281
01:18:14,106 --> 01:18:17,109
Actresses are cheap
in this town, darling.
1282
01:18:17,401 --> 01:18:18,819
-I got a lot of money.
-Howard.
1283
01:18:18,903 --> 01:18:22,698
-Please, this is beneath you.
-No, no. This is exactly me.
1284
01:18:22,781 --> 01:18:25,534
You come in here out of the blue and
tell me you're leaving me just like that,
1285
01:18:25,618 --> 01:18:28,329
and you have the nerve
to expect graciousness?
1286
01:18:28,412 --> 01:18:30,497
I expect a little maturity.
1287
01:18:30,581 --> 01:18:33,459
I expect you to face the situation
like an adult...
1288
01:18:33,542 --> 01:18:37,504
Don't talk down to me!
Don't you ever talk down to me.
1289
01:18:37,588 --> 01:18:40,216
You are a movie star, nothing more.
1290
01:18:54,647 --> 01:18:55,731
(CHUCKLES DRYLY)
1291
01:19:02,821 --> 01:19:04,114
(DOOR SLAMMING)
1292
01:19:04,198 --> 01:19:06,408
(NIGHTMARE PLAYING)
1293
01:19:51,370 --> 01:19:52,788
(PHONE RINGING)
1294
01:19:52,871 --> 01:19:54,498
NOAH'S WIFE: Don't answer it.
1295
01:19:57,710 --> 01:19:59,503
What is it, Howard?
1296
01:19:59,586 --> 01:20:00,963
HOWARD: Hey, Noah.
1297
01:20:01,964 --> 01:20:05,092
I need you to get over to Penney's
and buy me some new clothes.
1298
01:20:05,175 --> 01:20:07,261
-Penney's isn't open.
-Oh, shit!
1299
01:20:07,344 --> 01:20:10,389
-It's 2:00 in the morning.
-Yeah, that's right.
1300
01:20:11,598 --> 01:20:13,183
First thing tomorrow then, all right?
1301
01:20:13,267 --> 01:20:16,353
I need two new suits off the rack.
One light and one dark.
1302
01:20:16,437 --> 01:20:19,773
Three white shirts and three pairs
of white tennis shoes. You got that?
1303
01:20:19,857 --> 01:20:21,400
-Yeah.
-No. No.
1304
01:20:21,900 --> 01:20:23,819
-Make it Woolworth's.
-Woolworth's.
1305
01:20:23,902 --> 01:20:26,572
No, no. Penney's. Penney's.
1306
01:20:26,655 --> 01:20:28,073
All right, then.
1307
01:20:28,949 --> 01:20:31,910
I'll get into it as soon as I can, Howard.
1308
01:20:32,244 --> 01:20:34,580
Noah, do you have a recorder?
1309
01:20:35,539 --> 01:20:38,292
-No.
-Are you recording this conversation?
1310
01:20:38,917 --> 01:20:40,252
-Okay.
1311
01:20:41,503 --> 01:20:42,963
I trust you.
1312
01:20:44,298 --> 01:20:45,924
-Howard...
-Listen, I need those suits
1313
01:20:46,008 --> 01:20:47,760
first thing tomorrow, all right?
1314
01:20:47,843 --> 01:20:49,011
-All right.
-Wait, wait.
1315
01:20:49,094 --> 01:20:51,472
Did I say Penney's or Woolworth's?
1316
01:20:51,555 --> 01:20:53,974
-Penney's.
-Better make it Sears.
1317
01:20:54,266 --> 01:20:56,310
All right, then. Sears.
1318
01:20:59,688 --> 01:21:01,440
I'm sorry, honey.
1319
01:21:03,025 --> 01:21:05,486
If I don't answer, he'll just call back.
1320
01:21:27,049 --> 01:21:29,760
HOWARD: Stop there,
if you please, Miss Domergue.
1321
01:21:36,100 --> 01:21:38,769
Have you had surgery,
Miss Domergue?
1322
01:21:39,853 --> 01:21:40,938
No.
1323
01:21:42,064 --> 01:21:44,733
Do you have scars of any kind?
1324
01:21:46,652 --> 01:21:47,694
No.
1325
01:21:47,778 --> 01:21:48,987
(CLEARS THROAT)
1326
01:21:49,822 --> 01:21:51,865
Wipe off your lipstick.
1327
01:21:56,578 --> 01:21:58,414
That's much better.
1328
01:21:59,415 --> 01:22:03,001
Now, you understand
that you'd be under contract to me?
1329
01:22:03,252 --> 01:22:04,670
Personally.
1330
01:22:05,295 --> 01:22:07,548
Do you know what that means?
1331
01:22:15,848 --> 01:22:17,558
Turn around for me.
1332
01:22:25,649 --> 01:22:27,025
Very nice.
1333
01:22:28,360 --> 01:22:29,945
You move well.
1334
01:22:33,031 --> 01:22:34,992
You live with your family, do you?
1335
01:22:37,244 --> 01:22:39,079
(CLEARING THROAT) Yes. Yes.
1336
01:22:39,163 --> 01:22:40,622
That's nice.
1337
01:22:42,124 --> 01:22:43,876
Tell me something.
1338
01:22:45,294 --> 01:22:47,671
How old are you, Miss Domergue?
1339
01:22:50,674 --> 01:22:51,925
Fifteen.
1340
01:22:55,721 --> 01:22:57,556
Holy Mother of God.
1341
01:23:01,852 --> 01:23:03,687
(BAND PLAYING BRAZIL)
1342
01:23:16,408 --> 01:23:20,329
Well, a car picks me up
every morning at 8:00 and off I go.
1343
01:23:20,412 --> 01:23:22,915
I'm getting my high-school diploma.
1344
01:23:23,457 --> 01:23:25,834
Howard thinks
that education is important.
1345
01:23:25,918 --> 01:23:27,044
That's right.
1346
01:23:27,127 --> 01:23:28,921
And then after classes,
1347
01:23:29,004 --> 01:23:32,799
I'm off for elocution, and grooming,
and fittings.
1348
01:23:32,883 --> 01:23:34,426
Blow me down.
1349
01:23:35,844 --> 01:23:38,096
Don't tell me Pan Am's working
out of the Cocoanut Grove now?
1350
01:23:38,180 --> 01:23:40,182
-Hello, Jack.
-Hello, Juan.
1351
01:23:40,265 --> 01:23:42,142
Helen, good to see you.
1352
01:23:42,226 --> 01:23:44,770
-How are you, Howard?
-Good. Thanks.
1353
01:23:44,853 --> 01:23:46,688
-This is Miss Faith Domergue.
-Sit down.
1354
01:23:46,772 --> 01:23:48,607
-Pleasure.
-What the hell are you doing out here?
1355
01:23:48,690 --> 01:23:51,652
Well, I'm out this way to meet
with Douglas about the DC-4.
1356
01:23:51,777 --> 01:23:55,739
That's our new plane and it is going
to be a pip, let me tell you.
1357
01:23:55,822 --> 01:23:57,491
How's the Constellation coming?
1358
01:23:57,574 --> 01:23:58,784
Good.
1359
01:23:59,535 --> 01:24:00,744
Great.
1360
01:24:01,995 --> 01:24:04,039
So how about letting me steal a peek?
1361
01:24:04,122 --> 01:24:05,666
(ALL LAUGHING)
1362
01:24:06,375 --> 01:24:08,126
I don't think so.
1363
01:24:08,627 --> 01:24:12,130
You know, I should be cross with you.
You stole Ray Loewy from us.
1364
01:24:12,214 --> 01:24:14,299
He's doing our interior design.
That's right.
1365
01:24:14,383 --> 01:24:16,009
He was doing ours.
1366
01:24:18,512 --> 01:24:22,474
-So, what are your colors?
-Stop fishing.
1367
01:24:22,558 --> 01:24:23,976
(ALL LAUGHING)
1368
01:24:24,977 --> 01:24:26,979
So, you have buttons
1369
01:24:27,646 --> 01:24:28,939
or zippers?
1370
01:24:29,648 --> 01:24:31,108
I'm sorry?
1371
01:24:32,734 --> 01:24:36,530
Buttons or zippers?
For the drapes on the sleeping berths.
1372
01:24:40,158 --> 01:24:41,368
Zippers.
1373
01:24:43,287 --> 01:24:44,538
Oh.
1374
01:24:50,752 --> 01:24:52,004
Buttons?
1375
01:24:56,341 --> 01:24:57,593
Uh-huh.
1376
01:25:02,014 --> 01:25:05,267
So, I suppose you'll be expanding
on down to Mexico?
1377
01:25:05,350 --> 01:25:08,937
-JACK: Why do you say that?
-Well, your range is 3,000 miles.
1378
01:25:09,021 --> 01:25:11,315
I would imagine you'd expand
from Los Angeles to Mexico,
1379
01:25:11,398 --> 01:25:13,358
or maybe on down to South America.
1380
01:25:13,442 --> 01:25:15,694
That's a good idea. Anyone got a pen?
1381
01:25:15,777 --> 01:25:17,779
Or across the Atlantic.
1382
01:25:20,198 --> 01:25:23,035
Now, honey,
you've had enough of this ice cream.
1383
01:25:23,118 --> 01:25:24,161
You give me that spoon.
1384
01:25:24,244 --> 01:25:27,247
You don't want to get
your gloves all sticky.
1385
01:25:28,457 --> 01:25:30,250
Isn't that too far?
1386
01:25:35,505 --> 01:25:38,717
New York to Newfoundland
1387
01:25:40,302 --> 01:25:41,803
to Ireland
1388
01:25:46,600 --> 01:25:47,976
to Paris.
1389
01:25:55,567 --> 01:25:58,654
Well, Pan Am welcomes you.
1390
01:25:59,988 --> 01:26:01,948
We're overbooked as it is.
1391
01:26:02,032 --> 01:26:05,702
It's such a burden doing it all on your
own, (LAUGHING) let me tell you.
1392
01:26:05,786 --> 01:26:07,871
So when's the Connie gonna be ready?
1393
01:26:07,954 --> 01:26:09,790
Next year, maybe. DC-4?
1394
01:26:09,873 --> 01:26:10,874
Next year.
1395
01:26:10,957 --> 01:26:13,627
Well, we look forward to her then.
1396
01:26:14,419 --> 01:26:16,129
And I to the Connie.
1397
01:26:18,090 --> 01:26:21,009
I've ordered the next 40 after you.
1398
01:26:21,927 --> 01:26:23,178
It's Miss...
1399
01:26:23,261 --> 01:26:24,930
-Domergue.
-Domergue, yes, of course.
1400
01:26:25,013 --> 01:26:27,432
Was that a rumba or a samba
you were doing out there, my dear?
1401
01:26:27,516 --> 01:26:30,227
-It was a samba.
-A samba, yes.
1402
01:26:30,644 --> 01:26:33,605
Howard, I never knew
you were such a good dancer.
1403
01:26:34,940 --> 01:26:36,274
Helen. Jack.
1404
01:26:38,318 --> 01:26:39,403
Good going, boss.
1405
01:26:39,486 --> 01:26:41,571
You just gave away
our entire post-war strategy.
1406
01:26:41,655 --> 01:26:43,073
Ah, he can't stop us.
1407
01:26:43,156 --> 01:26:45,951
He's Pan Am, Howard.
He can stop anything!
1408
01:26:47,953 --> 01:26:49,955
Waiter, give me
the largest Scotch you've got.
1409
01:26:50,038 --> 01:26:53,625
I don't know what in the hell you're
so goddamn giddy about. Excuse me.
1410
01:27:27,242 --> 01:27:28,618
(CLICKING TONGUE)
1411
01:28:40,899 --> 01:28:42,567
(SINGING I'LL BE SEEING YOU)
1412
01:28:45,654 --> 01:28:47,823
Jack. All right.
1413
01:28:47,906 --> 01:28:49,825
I want you to get in touch
with Mr. Joyce and Mr. Berg.
1414
01:28:49,908 --> 01:28:51,076
Those are my boys in Washington.
1415
01:28:51,159 --> 01:28:52,452
Set up a meeting with Jesse Jones.
1416
01:28:52,536 --> 01:28:54,746
He's the Secretary of Commerce,
old golfing buddy.
1417
01:28:54,830 --> 01:28:55,872
Whoa! Slow down. Slow down.
1418
01:28:55,956 --> 01:28:57,666
We're gonna need terminals
in both Ireland and France.
1419
01:28:57,749 --> 01:28:59,167
And I want to get some tax breaks
from them.
1420
01:28:59,251 --> 01:29:02,462
If that shitass thinks he owns
the entire goddamn world,
1421
01:29:02,546 --> 01:29:04,798
-he's got another thing coming.
-Pan Am owns Europe. He's smart.
1422
01:29:04,881 --> 01:29:07,259
-We ought to think about Mexico.
-To hell with Mexico, Jack!
1423
01:29:07,342 --> 01:29:10,345
No one airline should have a monopoly
on flying the Atlantic.
1424
01:29:10,428 --> 01:29:12,097
For Christ's sake, it just isn't fair. Look.
1425
01:29:12,180 --> 01:29:15,267
He owns Pan Am, he owns Congress,
he owns the Civil Aeronautics Board.
1426
01:29:15,350 --> 01:29:17,936
But he does not own the sky.
1427
01:29:18,019 --> 01:29:19,938
We're are in a street fight
with that son of a bitch now,
1428
01:29:20,021 --> 01:29:21,356
and I'm not gonna lose.
I've been fighting
1429
01:29:21,439 --> 01:29:24,568
high-hat Ivy League pricks like him
my whole goddamn life.
1430
01:29:24,651 --> 01:29:26,361
And listen, fire Ray Loewy.
1431
01:29:26,444 --> 01:29:28,321
You goddamn heard me?
Fire Ray Loewy.
1432
01:29:28,405 --> 01:29:31,908
He's spying for Trippe. That shitheel
knew all about the goddamn buttons.
1433
01:29:31,992 --> 01:29:34,035
Spies in my midst, Jack.
(CLEARING THROAT)
1434
01:29:34,286 --> 01:29:36,121
Spies in my midst.
1435
01:29:36,788 --> 01:29:39,207
I'll be looking at the moon
1436
01:29:39,291 --> 01:29:41,793
But I'll be seeing you
1437
01:29:50,927 --> 01:29:53,096
-Hello, Howard.
-Roland.
1438
01:29:55,807 --> 01:29:58,476
So, what can I do for you?
1439
01:30:02,272 --> 01:30:03,732
HOWARD:
I want all the pictures you have
1440
01:30:03,815 --> 01:30:06,318
of Kate Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.
1441
01:30:06,401 --> 01:30:07,694
All the negatives.
1442
01:30:07,777 --> 01:30:09,821
And I want you to kill the story.
1443
01:30:10,155 --> 01:30:13,199
Howard, he's a married man.
He's a Catholic.
1444
01:30:13,617 --> 01:30:15,994
They're both movie stars.
Fair game all around.
1445
01:30:24,336 --> 01:30:26,838
My office knows where I am, Howard.
1446
01:30:27,547 --> 01:30:30,008
I'm not gonna to kill you, Roland.
1447
01:30:30,592 --> 01:30:32,260
I don't do that.
1448
01:30:37,265 --> 01:30:38,642
How much?
1449
01:30:38,808 --> 01:30:39,851
Not for sale.
1450
01:30:43,188 --> 01:30:44,522
HOWARD: How much?
1451
01:30:45,398 --> 01:30:47,859
Not for sale.
1452
01:30:52,072 --> 01:30:55,825
You ever cheat on your wife, Roland?
Hmm?
1453
01:30:55,909 --> 01:30:58,328
You ever screw a colored girl?
1454
01:30:59,162 --> 01:31:02,123
You ever steal anything?
You ever hurt anyone?
1455
01:31:04,334 --> 01:31:06,086
Good night, Howard.
1456
01:31:06,711 --> 01:31:09,506
You ever go to a Communist Party
meeting, Roland?
1457
01:31:19,391 --> 01:31:20,767
TWA stock.
1458
01:31:22,769 --> 01:31:24,104
How much?
1459
01:31:25,397 --> 01:31:27,023
50,000 shares.
1460
01:31:27,649 --> 01:31:28,775
Ten.
1461
01:31:32,070 --> 01:31:33,405
All right.
1462
01:31:36,658 --> 01:31:38,618
BREWSTER: This isn't
going to be that easy.
1463
01:31:38,785 --> 01:31:42,205
He's been making big contributions
on both sides of the aisle.
1464
01:31:42,288 --> 01:31:45,625
And Jack Frye is out there
lobbying everybody in town.
1465
01:31:46,042 --> 01:31:49,045
The French and British ambassadors
are all lined up on his side now.
1466
01:31:50,171 --> 01:31:53,717
I'm telling you, TWA is serious
about going international.
1467
01:31:53,800 --> 01:31:54,801
Okay.
1468
01:31:55,593 --> 01:31:57,303
Point, Mr. Hughes.
1469
01:31:57,887 --> 01:31:59,055
Very well. You know what I think?
1470
01:31:59,139 --> 01:32:01,850
I think it's time for you to introduce
the Community Airline Bill
1471
01:32:01,933 --> 01:32:04,185
on the floor of the Senate.
1472
01:32:04,269 --> 01:32:07,188
-ls it done?
-My people are finishing it right now.
1473
01:32:07,272 --> 01:32:11,192
I also have to get you on the committee
investigating the national defense.
1474
01:32:14,279 --> 01:32:16,614
On the committee, or chairman?
1475
01:32:17,615 --> 01:32:20,410
You know, I think I'd be
much more effective as chairman.
1476
01:32:20,493 --> 01:32:24,205
It's a great public platform.
You know, it generates a lot of press.
1477
01:32:24,289 --> 01:32:25,957
Wasn't Truman
chairman of that committee?
1478
01:32:26,041 --> 01:32:27,500
Yeah, right. Look,
1479
01:32:28,084 --> 01:32:30,336
now he's Vice President.
Look what he did with it.
1480
01:32:30,420 --> 01:32:32,005
No, I think...
1481
01:32:33,339 --> 01:32:35,091
I think chairman.
1482
01:32:35,967 --> 01:32:37,135
What do you think?
1483
01:32:39,429 --> 01:32:41,681
-Chairman. That is interesting.
-Yeah.
1484
01:32:41,765 --> 01:32:45,518
Let me show you these specs
for the DC-4.
1485
01:32:45,852 --> 01:32:49,397
HOWARD: Ava, what do you think
about Trans World Airlines?
1486
01:32:49,647 --> 01:32:52,067
Transcontinental and Western
just doesn't fit any more.
1487
01:32:52,150 --> 01:32:55,070
Now that we're going international,
we need a name that reflects that.
1488
01:32:55,153 --> 01:32:57,781
Trans World is good. Kind of peppy.
1489
01:32:58,239 --> 01:33:00,867
TWA, right?
1490
01:33:00,950 --> 01:33:02,494
Keep the same initials.
That way, you don't need to
1491
01:33:02,577 --> 01:33:03,661
repaint the any of the planes.
1492
01:33:03,745 --> 01:33:06,372
That's you. Always pinching pennies.
1493
01:33:07,165 --> 01:33:08,833
Hand me my wrap.
1494
01:33:09,042 --> 01:33:11,336
(COW COW BOOGIE
PLAYING ON RADIO)
1495
01:33:23,264 --> 01:33:24,766
Knock it off.
1496
01:33:31,648 --> 01:33:33,691
I have something for you.
1497
01:33:35,193 --> 01:33:36,569
Stay here.
1498
01:33:42,575 --> 01:33:44,119
What the hell is this?
1499
01:33:44,202 --> 01:33:46,538
It's a present. Go on, open it.
1500
01:33:48,665 --> 01:33:51,918
Oh. A box of trash. You shouldn't have.
1501
01:33:52,001 --> 01:33:54,170
Keep looking. Keep looking.
1502
01:33:58,716 --> 01:34:00,927
It's a Kashmiri sapphire.
1503
01:34:01,010 --> 01:34:04,180
Best in the world. I had my boys
all over the damn globe looking for this.
1504
01:34:04,264 --> 01:34:05,390
Why?
1505
01:34:05,598 --> 01:34:08,101
Because, look,
1506
01:34:08,893 --> 01:34:10,728
it matches your eyes.
1507
01:34:11,229 --> 01:34:13,481
I am not for sale.
1508
01:34:13,565 --> 01:34:15,859
For Christ's sake,
Ava, it's just a present.
1509
01:34:15,942 --> 01:34:18,903
You can't buy me, Howard.
So stop trying.
1510
01:34:19,320 --> 01:34:21,614
Don't buy me any more
diamonds or sapphires
1511
01:34:21,698 --> 01:34:22,991
or any other goddamn thing.
1512
01:34:23,074 --> 01:34:25,702
You can buy me dinner.
How about that?
1513
01:34:26,077 --> 01:34:27,287
Jesus, Ava.
1514
01:34:28,413 --> 01:34:31,666
AVA: It's bad enough I have to endure
those filthy gym shoes of yours,
1515
01:34:31,749 --> 01:34:36,045
but then I get all dolled up and we have
to go in this old jalopy without a hood.
1516
01:34:36,880 --> 01:34:41,259
-Ava, will you marry me?
-No, Howard.
1517
01:34:41,593 --> 01:34:43,011
Well, why not, for heaven's sake?
1518
01:34:43,094 --> 01:34:45,597
In the first place, I don't love you.
1519
01:34:45,680 --> 01:34:48,016
In the second place, I'm still married.
1520
01:34:48,099 --> 01:34:50,560
Look, you got girls
stashed all over town.
1521
01:34:50,643 --> 01:34:53,021
You got a damn harem
just at the Bel-Air.
1522
01:34:53,104 --> 01:34:54,939
Why don't you marry
one of your bungalow girls?
1523
01:34:55,023 --> 01:34:57,442
Those are employees.
I'm not gonna marry an employee.
1524
01:34:57,567 --> 01:34:58,943
Jesus Christ, how would that look?
1525
01:34:59,235 --> 01:35:00,987
(DO I WORRY? PLAYING ON RADIO)
1526
01:35:05,450 --> 01:35:06,618
(CRASHING)
1527
01:35:07,452 --> 01:35:09,078
What's going on?
1528
01:35:11,789 --> 01:35:13,124
Oh, my God!
1529
01:35:13,249 --> 01:35:14,751
God damn it!
1530
01:35:16,002 --> 01:35:17,170
Faith!
1531
01:35:18,129 --> 01:35:20,215
-Faith! What the hell?
-AVA: Look out!
1532
01:35:20,298 --> 01:35:23,009
Goddamn, what the hell are you doing?
1533
01:35:25,511 --> 01:35:26,554
MAN: Are you okay, lady?
1534
01:35:26,638 --> 01:35:28,723
FAITH: (CRYING)
What are you doing with her?
1535
01:35:28,806 --> 01:35:31,559
We are going to dinner, that's all.
Now get out of there.
1536
01:35:31,643 --> 01:35:33,978
Get that crazy bitch away from me!
1537
01:35:34,062 --> 01:35:35,480
Don't you love me any more?
1538
01:35:35,563 --> 01:35:36,981
Of course I love you, pork chop.
1539
01:35:37,106 --> 01:35:38,483
PHOTOGRAPHER: Ava,
look over here. Howard.
1540
01:35:39,984 --> 01:35:41,319
Hey!
1541
01:35:44,697 --> 01:35:47,325
JACK: Juan Trippe is working with that
goddamn Senator Brewster now.
1542
01:35:47,408 --> 01:35:48,660
They're after you, Howard.
1543
01:35:48,743 --> 01:35:51,829
If the Community Airline Bill becomes
law, we are finished, my friend.
1544
01:35:51,913 --> 01:35:54,415
Pan Am will have a legal monopoly
on international travel.
1545
01:35:54,499 --> 01:35:56,918
How can they justify it, Jack?
It's un-American.
1546
01:35:57,001 --> 01:35:59,212
Senator Brewster's saying
that nationalized foreign carriers
1547
01:35:59,295 --> 01:36:02,048
like Air France and Lufthansa
can offer lower rates,
1548
01:36:02,131 --> 01:36:03,675
'cause they don't have
to compete, right?
1549
01:36:03,758 --> 01:36:05,927
So, hey, let's get rid
of all that messy competition
1550
01:36:06,010 --> 01:36:07,720
and have our own nationalized airline
of our own.
1551
01:36:07,804 --> 01:36:08,972
And why don't we make it Pan Am?
1552
01:36:09,055 --> 01:36:11,099
I'm not kowtowing to Washington
or anyone else.
1553
01:36:11,182 --> 01:36:13,268
-ODEKIRK: Howard, I need you up here.
-One sec, Odie.
1554
01:36:13,351 --> 01:36:16,020
Look, we are Trans World Airlines,
all right.
1555
01:36:16,104 --> 01:36:18,106
Get me something
with a circle or a globe
1556
01:36:18,189 --> 01:36:20,275
or something round, for God's sake.
1557
01:36:20,358 --> 01:36:21,526
Speak up.
1558
01:36:21,609 --> 01:36:24,862
I don't give a rat's ass what he says.
I'm not making a single cut.
1559
01:36:24,946 --> 01:36:26,406
Tell him I'll release it without a seal.
1560
01:36:26,489 --> 01:36:27,991
All right. We got to go public with this.
1561
01:36:28,074 --> 01:36:30,034
I'm gonna talk to Hearst,
see what kind of press he can give me.
1562
01:36:30,118 --> 01:36:32,203
But sooner or later, it's gonna
come down to a vote in the Senate.
1563
01:36:32,287 --> 01:36:33,746
So we gotta get senators on our side.
1564
01:36:33,830 --> 01:36:36,082
-What do you want me to do?
-Do what Trippe does, for Christ's sake.
1565
01:36:36,165 --> 01:36:37,709
Set up off-shore operations.
1566
01:36:37,792 --> 01:36:40,128
See who's up for re-election.
Let's start making donations.
1567
01:36:40,211 --> 01:36:41,963
So you want me to bribe senators?
1568
01:36:42,046 --> 01:36:43,631
I don't want them bribed, Jack.
1569
01:36:43,715 --> 01:36:46,259
I want it done legally.
I want them bought.
1570
01:36:46,342 --> 01:36:48,469
And put a team of investigators
on Senator Brewster.
1571
01:36:48,553 --> 01:36:50,930
I need to know everything
there is to know about that shitbag.
1572
01:36:51,014 --> 01:36:53,975
Where he goes, what he says,
and who he screws.
1573
01:36:54,058 --> 01:36:56,728
-Get into it right now, Jack.
-You got it.
1574
01:37:03,276 --> 01:37:05,236
(SIGHING) Just give me a second.
1575
01:37:07,363 --> 01:37:10,616
-All right, what do you need?
-Rudder and elevators.
1576
01:37:11,075 --> 01:37:13,119
No. These are fine.
1577
01:37:13,202 --> 01:37:15,997
But have Simon and Pete get back
to me on the hydraulic assemblies.
1578
01:37:16,080 --> 01:37:18,499
-We need a secondary system here.
-Okay.
1579
01:37:19,917 --> 01:37:22,670
And listen, we need to take
another look at the wheel.
1580
01:37:22,754 --> 01:37:25,173
-Jesus, the damn wheel?
-Yeah.
1581
01:37:25,757 --> 01:37:27,258
It just doesn't feel right.
1582
01:37:27,383 --> 01:37:30,011
Christ almighty,
you've seen 8,000 goddamn wheels.
1583
01:37:30,094 --> 01:37:32,930
Choose one. Please, just one of them.
1584
01:37:33,014 --> 01:37:34,515
-I know. I know.
-This one?
1585
01:37:34,599 --> 01:37:35,600
This one...
1586
01:37:36,059 --> 01:37:38,811
This one's pretty close. Pretty close.
1587
01:38:15,515 --> 01:38:17,100
-(CLEARING THROAT) Odie.
-Mmm?
1588
01:38:18,434 --> 01:38:20,853
That man sweeping up over there.
1589
01:38:21,062 --> 01:38:22,814
Does he work for me?
1590
01:38:22,939 --> 01:38:27,235
-I mean, have you seen him before?
-Name's Nick. Something like that.
1591
01:38:29,195 --> 01:38:31,239
Why is he looking at me?
1592
01:38:33,157 --> 01:38:34,659
I don't know.
1593
01:38:36,702 --> 01:38:38,079
Fire him.
1594
01:38:38,162 --> 01:38:40,081
And make sure
they use damp brooms from now on.
1595
01:38:40,164 --> 01:38:41,499
Respiratory diseases are expensive,
1596
01:38:41,582 --> 01:38:43,543
and I don't want
a bunch of damn lawsuits.
1597
01:38:43,626 --> 01:38:46,546
Okay, but can we at least proceed with
the instrument panel we discussed?
1598
01:38:46,629 --> 01:38:49,215
-The tool shop's ready...
-No, I wanna see the blueprints again.
1599
01:38:49,298 --> 01:38:52,260
Howard, the deadline
is now completely unrealistic.
1600
01:38:52,343 --> 01:38:55,054
At this rate, the war is gonna be over
by the time she's done.
1601
01:38:55,138 --> 01:38:57,682
Now, I need you here to help consult
on vital decisions,
1602
01:38:57,765 --> 01:38:59,350
and you're off dealing with movies.
1603
01:38:59,475 --> 01:39:01,102
You got a thousand goddamn workers
1604
01:39:01,185 --> 01:39:02,645
waiting for you
to make a decision here.
1605
01:39:02,728 --> 01:39:04,230
Hey, Odie!
1606
01:39:04,313 --> 01:39:06,441
Take it easy, all right?
1607
01:39:06,524 --> 01:39:07,942
I understand
you're under a lot of pressure.
1608
01:39:08,025 --> 01:39:11,946
But it's gonna do me no good if you
crack up on me like that, all right?
1609
01:39:12,029 --> 01:39:15,450
Look, take a couple of hours off,
all right?
1610
01:39:15,533 --> 01:39:17,785
-You just relax a little.
-Okay.
1611
01:39:17,869 --> 01:39:19,620
-See your wife.
-Okay.
1612
01:39:22,707 --> 01:39:25,710
-Be sure to show me all the blueprints.
-All right.
1613
01:39:27,211 --> 01:39:29,380
Show me all the blueprints.
1614
01:39:32,341 --> 01:39:35,344
I'm serious now.
Show me all the blueprints.
1615
01:39:37,638 --> 01:39:39,390
Show me all the blue...
Show me all the blueprints.
1616
01:39:39,474 --> 01:39:42,185
-Howard...
-Show me all the blueprints.
1617
01:39:42,477 --> 01:39:45,938
Show me all the blueprints.
Show me all the blueprints.
1618
01:39:46,314 --> 01:39:48,316
Show me all the blueprints.
1619
01:39:48,399 --> 01:39:49,609
(CLEARING THROAT)
I want to get this done right,
1620
01:39:49,692 --> 01:39:51,402
so show me all the blueprints.
1621
01:39:51,486 --> 01:39:52,945
Show me all the blueprints.
1622
01:39:53,029 --> 01:39:54,822
Show me all the blueprints.
Show me all the blueprints.
1623
01:39:54,906 --> 01:39:56,324
Show me all the blueprints.
1624
01:39:56,407 --> 01:39:59,035
Show me all the blueprints.
Show me all the blueprints.
1625
01:39:59,118 --> 01:40:00,119
-Show me all the blueprints.
-Howard.
1626
01:40:00,244 --> 01:40:03,748
Show me all the blueprints.
Show me all the blueprints.
1627
01:40:03,831 --> 01:40:05,583
(REPEATING)
1628
01:40:18,095 --> 01:40:20,223
(GRUNTING)
1629
01:40:25,102 --> 01:40:26,270
(SIGHING)
1630
01:40:27,688 --> 01:40:29,273
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
1631
01:40:32,151 --> 01:40:33,569
Quarantine.
1632
01:40:35,571 --> 01:40:40,868
Q-U-A-
1633
01:40:42,495 --> 01:40:47,917
R-A- N -
1634
01:40:49,252 --> 01:40:54,131
T-I-N-
1635
01:40:59,929 --> 01:41:00,972
E.
1636
01:41:04,600 --> 01:41:06,018
Quarantine.
1637
01:41:08,020 --> 01:41:09,188
(SPARKING)
1638
01:41:13,150 --> 01:41:14,277
(LAUGHS)
1639
01:41:17,488 --> 01:41:21,242
(SYMPHONY NO. 6 IN B MINOR
PLAYING)
1640
01:41:44,724 --> 01:41:45,891
General McEwan.
1641
01:41:45,975 --> 01:41:48,019
Colonel Bertrang,
thanks for coming down.
1642
01:41:48,102 --> 01:41:50,062
Odie, you reading me okay?
1643
01:41:50,354 --> 01:41:52,273
Yeah, Howard, you're A-okay.
1644
01:41:57,236 --> 01:42:00,740
All right, flight controls are active.
She's all yours.
1645
01:42:09,081 --> 01:42:11,626
She's spotless, Odie.
No wiggle on the wheel or throttle.
1646
01:42:11,709 --> 01:42:13,210
ODEKIRK: Take it easy.
1647
01:42:30,686 --> 01:42:31,771
How does she sound, Howard?
1648
01:42:32,521 --> 01:42:34,023
She's whispering to me, buddy.
1649
01:42:34,106 --> 01:42:35,232
All right, make her sing.
1650
01:42:57,380 --> 01:43:00,466
Well, Odie, she can fly.
Congratulations.
1651
01:43:00,716 --> 01:43:01,717
I'm glad to hear it.
1652
01:43:01,801 --> 01:43:05,971
Retract landing gear and climb
to 5,000 feet on a heading of 2-7-0.
1653
01:43:06,055 --> 01:43:08,683
HOWARD: Retracting landing gear
and climbing to 5,000 feet
1654
01:43:08,766 --> 01:43:11,310
on a heading 2-7-0.
1655
01:43:16,232 --> 01:43:17,566
Jesus, she's fast!
1656
01:43:17,650 --> 01:43:20,152
-What's your air speed, Howard?
-292.
1657
01:43:20,653 --> 01:43:22,405
ODEKIRK: All right,
take her back to 200.
1658
01:43:22,488 --> 01:43:23,948
No damn way.
1659
01:43:49,932 --> 01:43:51,726
All right, Howard.
We gotta bring her home.
1660
01:43:51,809 --> 01:43:54,061
Scheduled time of 1 hour
and 45 minutes has elapsed.
1661
01:43:54,145 --> 01:43:55,604
So set course for 0-9-0. ..
1662
01:43:55,688 --> 01:43:57,481
Give me 10 more minutes. Roger that.
1663
01:43:57,565 --> 01:44:00,401
ODEKIRK: Negative, Howard.
Bring her home.
1664
01:44:00,609 --> 01:44:02,903
Okay, okay. Setting course for
1665
01:44:03,696 --> 01:44:06,073
0-9-0.
1666
01:44:06,866 --> 01:44:08,075
Preparing to descend.
1667
01:44:08,159 --> 01:44:09,493
(ENGINE SPUTTERING)
1668
01:44:12,705 --> 01:44:13,873
Jesus!
1669
01:44:13,998 --> 01:44:15,750
ODEKIRK: What is it, Howard?
1670
01:44:17,001 --> 01:44:20,671
The right wing just dipped.
I'm losing starboard engine.
1671
01:44:21,005 --> 01:44:23,507
Increasing power to 2,800 rpm.
1672
01:44:24,091 --> 01:44:25,468
Cutting back.
1673
01:44:25,551 --> 01:44:28,053
Increasing starboard engine only.
1674
01:44:28,721 --> 01:44:31,599
Cutting back. I'm losing altitude.
1675
01:44:31,682 --> 01:44:33,642
Howard, check starboard engine
manifold pressure.
1676
01:44:35,352 --> 01:44:36,896
It's good, but rpm's are low.
1677
01:44:36,979 --> 01:44:38,856
ODEKIRK:
Are both starboard props turning?
1678
01:44:38,939 --> 01:44:40,232
Hold on.
1679
01:44:40,858 --> 01:44:43,819
It looks like they are, but she's
pulling me back and starboard, Odie.
1680
01:44:43,903 --> 01:44:45,362
How bad is your cross control?
1681
01:44:45,446 --> 01:44:50,075
I'm at full left rudder and full left aileron,
but she won't stay level! God damn it!
1682
01:44:50,159 --> 01:44:51,619
Howard, give us your position.
1683
01:44:51,702 --> 01:44:55,498
2,000 feet over...
Oh, Christ, I don't know. Beverly Hills.
1684
01:44:55,581 --> 01:44:59,460
1,500 feet! We're going down!
1685
01:45:00,377 --> 01:45:02,296
I'm gonna try
for the Wilshire Country Club.
1686
01:45:02,379 --> 01:45:03,923
Ninth hole. You reading me?
1687
01:45:04,006 --> 01:45:08,177
ODEKIRK: Wilshire Country Club. Copy
that. Howard, reduce engines to 1,000.
1688
01:45:08,677 --> 01:45:09,678
(SCREAMING)
1689
01:45:09,762 --> 01:45:13,557
I'm going down!
I'm not going to make it, buddy!
1690
01:45:20,064 --> 01:45:21,524
God damn it!
1691
01:45:31,992 --> 01:45:33,077
(SCREAMING)
1692
01:45:36,997 --> 01:45:38,207
(GRUNTING)
1693
01:45:51,178 --> 01:45:52,805
(SCREAMING)
1694
01:46:09,780 --> 01:46:10,906
(GROANS)
1695
01:46:26,046 --> 01:46:27,298
(SCREAMING)
1696
01:46:30,259 --> 01:46:31,635
(COUGHING)
1697
01:46:35,097 --> 01:46:36,307
(SCREAMING)
1698
01:46:58,996 --> 01:47:00,873
(SIRENS WAILING)
1699
01:47:24,271 --> 01:47:26,315
Is there anyone else inside?
1700
01:47:26,398 --> 01:47:29,068
-Is there anyone else?
-No.
1701
01:47:33,405 --> 01:47:36,408
I'm Howard Hughes, the aviator.
1702
01:47:36,492 --> 01:47:37,993
(WOMAN SCREAMING)
1703
01:47:42,873 --> 01:47:43,874
(SCREAMING)
1704
01:47:49,129 --> 01:47:51,548
DOCTOR:
He has burns to 78% of his body.
1705
01:47:52,007 --> 01:47:54,885
Nine ribs are shattered.
Not broken, shattered.
1706
01:47:55,135 --> 01:47:57,221
As are his nose, his chin, his cheek,
1707
01:47:57,304 --> 01:47:59,682
his left knee, his left elbow.
1708
01:47:59,765 --> 01:48:02,851
There are 60 lacerations
on his face to the bone.
1709
01:48:02,935 --> 01:48:05,688
His chest was crushed,
so his left lung has collapsed,
1710
01:48:05,771 --> 01:48:10,192
and his heart has shifted entirely
to the right side of his chest cavity.
1711
01:48:10,567 --> 01:48:12,069
Jesus, God.
1712
01:48:12,736 --> 01:48:15,698
He's getting
blood transfusions now, but...
1713
01:48:15,990 --> 01:48:17,491
Whose blood?
1714
01:48:17,992 --> 01:48:19,201
I'm sorry?
1715
01:48:19,284 --> 01:48:21,578
-Whose blood?
-From our stock.
1716
01:48:23,080 --> 01:48:24,707
Oh, he's not going to like that.
1717
01:48:24,790 --> 01:48:29,420
Mr. Dietrich, I doubt he is ever
going to like or dislike anything again.
1718
01:48:30,796 --> 01:48:32,589
I'm terribly sorry.
1719
01:48:40,514 --> 01:48:41,724
(SIGHING)
1720
01:49:01,410 --> 01:49:02,786
HOWARD: Orange juice.
1721
01:49:06,415 --> 01:49:09,251
It's not fresh from the kitchen,
1722
01:49:10,502 --> 01:49:14,840
so I have them make it here,
so I can see.
1723
01:49:19,762 --> 01:49:21,180
Look at me.
1724
01:49:24,266 --> 01:49:25,809
I'm a monster.
1725
01:49:26,810 --> 01:49:27,978
Yeah.
1726
01:49:28,145 --> 01:49:30,773
Orange juice has nutritional value.
1727
01:49:34,026 --> 01:49:36,904
There's some flies
outside my window though.
1728
01:49:42,117 --> 01:49:44,036
So, little Howard likes
1729
01:49:46,121 --> 01:49:47,372
citrus.
1730
01:49:54,046 --> 01:49:55,380
Tell me.
1731
01:49:57,633 --> 01:50:01,095
An oil seal ripped off
the starboard rear propeller.
1732
01:50:01,553 --> 01:50:05,015
When the pressure dropped,
the prop reversed pitch.
1733
01:50:05,516 --> 01:50:07,392
Do you understand me?
1734
01:50:07,851 --> 01:50:11,188
Howard, I'm sorry
to have to tell you this now,
1735
01:50:11,647 --> 01:50:13,148
but there's something else.
1736
01:50:13,232 --> 01:50:15,317
-You following me?
-Yeah.
1737
01:50:17,194 --> 01:50:20,697
The Air Force cancelled the contract
on the Hercules.
1738
01:50:23,075 --> 01:50:27,663
The war's over now and they say
they don't need it any more.
1739
01:50:29,039 --> 01:50:33,252
I have to know what you want me to do.
Should I release the staff?
1740
01:50:33,710 --> 01:50:35,045
How far
1741
01:50:37,548 --> 01:50:39,174
from finishing?
1742
01:50:40,217 --> 01:50:42,094
-About six months.
-No.
1743
01:50:43,053 --> 01:50:44,388
In money.
1744
01:50:48,267 --> 01:50:49,852
$7 million.
1745
01:50:50,936 --> 01:50:52,271
Maybe more.
1746
01:50:57,776 --> 01:50:59,111
Build it.
1747
01:51:01,113 --> 01:51:02,739
Build it, Odie.
1748
01:51:04,908 --> 01:51:06,076
NOAH: Howard.
1749
01:51:07,077 --> 01:51:10,622
A Constellation crashed
outside Reading, Pennsylvania.
1750
01:51:11,582 --> 01:51:14,835
The Civil Aeronautics Board
has grounded the whole fleet.
1751
01:51:17,337 --> 01:51:18,505
(LAUGHS)
1752
01:51:24,928 --> 01:51:26,305
You know,
1753
01:51:27,764 --> 01:51:29,975
Juan Trippe sent me flowers.
1754
01:51:32,853 --> 01:51:34,354
Take a look.
1755
01:51:38,817 --> 01:51:40,402
NOAH: What did you do
with all the others?
1756
01:51:40,485 --> 01:51:42,946
Oh, I had them taken out.
1757
01:51:43,697 --> 01:51:46,325
They... They attract aphids.
1758
01:51:47,993 --> 01:51:51,496
Aphids are...
They're just awful little creatures.
1759
01:51:57,628 --> 01:51:59,338
But these ones,
1760
01:52:00,756 --> 01:52:03,467
I wanted to see these ones every day.
1761
01:52:11,808 --> 01:52:13,518
RADIO ANNOUNCER:
Can white elephants really fly?
1762
01:52:13,602 --> 01:52:15,145
That's everybody's question.
1763
01:52:15,229 --> 01:52:17,689
It's the hull of the world's
mightiest airplane.
1764
01:52:17,814 --> 01:52:20,442
A flying boat built by Howard Hughes.
1765
01:52:20,525 --> 01:52:24,655
220 feet long, it towers higher
than a five-story building.
1766
01:52:24,780 --> 01:52:27,241
Power lines have to be cut
as it starts the trip
1767
01:52:27,324 --> 01:52:30,953
from Culver City, California
to the Pacific 30 miles away.
1768
01:52:31,036 --> 01:52:34,498
Moving the 60-ton load
is quite an engineering problem.
1769
01:52:34,623 --> 01:52:38,585
But you gotta ask, was anything
this big ever supposed to fly?
1770
01:52:38,669 --> 01:52:43,006
There goes one wing section, 160 feet
long with four engine housings.
1771
01:52:43,340 --> 01:52:46,218
Double that, and you've got some idea
of the wing spread.
1772
01:52:46,343 --> 01:52:49,888
An airplane that challenges
a mountain for sheer size.
1773
01:52:57,562 --> 01:52:59,982
How long can they keep us grounded?
1774
01:53:00,065 --> 01:53:02,401
Until they finish investigating
the Reading crash.
1775
01:53:02,484 --> 01:53:03,652
Could be months.
1776
01:53:03,735 --> 01:53:07,239
Jesus. You're already running
a $14 million deficit.
1777
01:53:07,322 --> 01:53:09,283
How you gonna afford
to keep them out of service a week...
1778
01:53:09,366 --> 01:53:10,659
When we go international,
we'll make it up.
1779
01:53:10,742 --> 01:53:13,453
Look, Brewster's CAB bill
just isn't going away.
1780
01:53:13,537 --> 01:53:16,081
That bill passes and you've bought
these goddamn planes for nothing.
1781
01:53:16,164 --> 01:53:17,207
We're fighting the CAB bill.
1782
01:53:17,291 --> 01:53:20,002
Yeah. Meanwhile, how do you suggest
we keep TWA flying?
1783
01:53:20,085 --> 01:53:21,795
And don't say,
"Just go to Toolco" this time.
1784
01:53:21,878 --> 01:53:24,339
As it is we're pumping every cent
we have into the Hercules,
1785
01:53:24,423 --> 01:53:27,551
which I might add, the Air Force
doesn't even want any more.
1786
01:53:27,634 --> 01:53:29,970
Now, look, Howard,
I'm glad Jack here is feeling so sunny
1787
01:53:30,053 --> 01:53:31,847
about things, but I've seen the books.
1788
01:53:31,930 --> 01:53:34,349
I'm telling it to you straight.
I'm not just crying wolf this time.
1789
01:53:34,433 --> 01:53:37,728
We're in serious trouble.
You've got to make a choice.
1790
01:53:37,811 --> 01:53:40,814
You want to be bankrupted
by the big plane
1791
01:53:40,897 --> 01:53:42,774
or by the big airline?
1792
01:53:45,777 --> 01:53:46,903
(CLEARING THROAT)
1793
01:53:50,240 --> 01:53:53,744
Go see Thomas Parkinson
at the Equitable in New York.
1794
01:53:53,952 --> 01:53:57,456
Get a loan against
all the TWA equipment and capital.
1795
01:53:57,748 --> 01:53:59,541
Use the planes as collateral.
1796
01:53:59,624 --> 01:54:03,420
Hell, use the desks, use the pens,
use everything we got.
1797
01:54:03,587 --> 01:54:05,130
Try to get me $40 million.
1798
01:54:05,255 --> 01:54:07,632
And if TWA defaults on the loan?
1799
01:54:08,467 --> 01:54:10,886
Then Juan Trippe buys us cheap.
1800
01:54:13,764 --> 01:54:14,973
Under my bed!
1801
01:54:15,057 --> 01:54:17,184
You put a goddamn microphone
under my bed!
1802
01:54:17,267 --> 01:54:19,353
Listen to me.
I am concerned about you, baby.
1803
01:54:19,436 --> 01:54:21,188
I just want to make sure you're okay.
That's all.
1804
01:54:21,271 --> 01:54:23,023
And who is in that car?
1805
01:54:23,106 --> 01:54:25,400
That goddamn car has been with me
24 hours a day!
1806
01:54:25,484 --> 01:54:27,527
That car is there for your protection!
1807
01:54:27,611 --> 01:54:31,073
The only one I need protection from
is you, you sick bastard.
1808
01:54:31,156 --> 01:54:32,699
You don't own me, Howard.
1809
01:54:32,783 --> 01:54:35,994
I'm not one of your teenage whores,
and I'm not some damn airplane!
1810
01:54:36,078 --> 01:54:38,038
Now, look, honey,
I'll have them take all the bugs out.
1811
01:54:38,121 --> 01:54:40,540
You just have to understand
that I need to know where you are.
1812
01:54:40,624 --> 01:54:43,085
-Why?
-Because I worry about you, that's why!
1813
01:54:43,168 --> 01:54:44,586
Bullshit!
1814
01:54:47,964 --> 01:54:50,467
What do you mean, "all the bugs"?
1815
01:54:53,804 --> 01:54:54,930
(CLEARING THROAT)
1816
01:54:56,139 --> 01:54:58,725
What do you mean, "all the bugs"?
1817
01:55:01,144 --> 01:55:02,646
There's more.
1818
01:55:03,188 --> 01:55:04,523
How many?
1819
01:55:05,357 --> 01:55:08,276
I don't know. Twelve. Twelve, maybe.
1820
01:55:09,319 --> 01:55:11,154
And on the telephones.
1821
01:55:12,197 --> 01:55:14,866
Oh, Christ, Howard, on the telephone?
1822
01:55:15,867 --> 01:55:17,369
You listen to my phone calls?
1823
01:55:17,494 --> 01:55:21,289
No, no, no, honey.
I would never do that. I'd never do that.
1824
01:55:21,665 --> 01:55:24,501
I just read the transcripts, that's all.
1825
01:55:29,339 --> 01:55:31,258
What do you want to know, Howard?
1826
01:55:31,341 --> 01:55:33,844
Was I screwing Artie Shaw last night?
1827
01:55:33,969 --> 01:55:36,680
Was I screwing Sinatra
the night before? You bet!
1828
01:55:36,763 --> 01:55:39,433
Everyone told me you were
a goddamn lunatic, but I didn't listen.
1829
01:55:39,516 --> 01:55:42,394
It's no wonder Kate Hepburn
dumped your demented ass!
1830
01:55:42,477 --> 01:55:44,354
Shut your goddamn mouth!
1831
01:55:49,359 --> 01:55:52,028
Get out, you pathetic freak!
1832
01:55:52,404 --> 01:55:54,364
(PANTING)
1833
01:56:00,036 --> 01:56:01,371
Get out!
1834
01:56:02,205 --> 01:56:04,207
Is everything all right, sir?
1835
01:56:04,332 --> 01:56:06,209
Take out all the bugs.
1836
01:56:08,670 --> 01:56:10,922
Except for the one
on the bedroom phone.
1837
01:56:11,047 --> 01:56:13,383
Sir, the FBI are at the house.
1838
01:56:14,551 --> 01:56:16,636
This is outrageous!
Everything in these offices
1839
01:56:16,720 --> 01:56:19,306
is the private property
of Hughes Productions.
1840
01:56:19,389 --> 01:56:21,099
My legal counsel is on the way.
1841
01:56:21,183 --> 01:56:23,894
Federal warrant.
Don't interfere with this search, sir.
1842
01:56:44,289 --> 01:56:45,665
RADIO ANNOUNCER:
Dateline Los Angeles.
1843
01:56:45,749 --> 01:56:47,626
Howard Hughes
has a new houseguest.
1844
01:56:47,751 --> 01:56:51,338
No, it's not another beautiful starlet,
this time it's the FBI.
1845
01:56:51,421 --> 01:56:53,173
HOWARD: Noah,
you have got to help, all right?
1846
01:56:53,256 --> 01:56:55,717
This is the tenth goddamn time
they have been here.
1847
01:56:55,800 --> 01:56:57,177
RADIO ANNOUNCER:
Rumor has it that federal agents
1848
01:56:57,260 --> 01:56:59,221
working for
Senator Ralph Owen Brewster
1849
01:56:59,304 --> 01:57:03,391
have practically taken up residence in
the aviation mogul's Hollywood home.
1850
01:57:03,475 --> 01:57:05,727
Look, I mean, they are touching things.
1851
01:57:05,810 --> 01:57:08,104
Noah, Noah, they are touching things.
1852
01:57:08,230 --> 01:57:09,189
NOAH: Just keep yourself calm
1853
01:57:09,272 --> 01:57:11,816
and I'll be down there
as soon as I can, Howard.
1854
01:57:12,192 --> 01:57:13,360
Howard?
1855
01:57:14,194 --> 01:57:15,362
Howard?
1856
01:57:36,883 --> 01:57:38,260
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
1857
01:57:40,470 --> 01:57:42,013
BREWSTER: Howard. Hello.
1858
01:57:42,514 --> 01:57:44,641
-Owen, nice to see you again.
-Good to see you again.
1859
01:57:44,724 --> 01:57:45,892
Come on inside.
1860
01:57:45,976 --> 01:57:49,145
-Emma, you can start up the lunch now.
-Yes, sir.
1861
01:57:50,146 --> 01:57:53,316
Really lovely room.
It's nicely decorated.
1862
01:57:53,441 --> 01:57:55,485
Thank you. Here, have a seat.
1863
01:57:55,735 --> 01:57:56,861
Thanks for coming by.
1864
01:57:56,945 --> 01:57:59,990
I just thought you and I
should have a chance to talk privately.
1865
01:58:00,115 --> 01:58:01,992
You know, outside the office.
1866
01:58:05,870 --> 01:58:07,539
I appreciate that, Owen.
1867
01:58:15,213 --> 01:58:18,967
So, you're coming out pretty strong
against the CAB bill.
1868
01:58:20,969 --> 01:58:22,804
You're coming on pretty strong for it.
1869
01:58:22,887 --> 01:58:25,557
Well, it's my bill, Howard, you know.
1870
01:58:26,224 --> 01:58:28,768
Look, I believe sincerely
1871
01:58:28,852 --> 01:58:32,772
that America cannot afford to have
more than one international carrier.
1872
01:58:35,066 --> 01:58:39,112
Mmm. So, I mean, do you think it's fair
that one airline should have
1873
01:58:39,195 --> 01:58:43,199
-a monopoly on international travel?
-A monopoly? No. No, no, no.
1874
01:58:43,908 --> 01:58:48,413
No, I think one airline could do it better,
see, without competition.
1875
01:58:49,539 --> 01:58:51,166
All I'm thinking about are the interests,
you know,
1876
01:58:51,249 --> 01:58:53,835
the needs of the American passenger.
1877
01:58:54,377 --> 01:58:57,047
That's just beautiful. What is that?
1878
01:59:01,593 --> 01:59:03,428
What is that? Is that a...
1879
01:59:04,054 --> 01:59:05,597
Is that a yak?
1880
01:59:05,930 --> 01:59:08,892
-Some kind of a yak?
-No, that's a llama.
1881
01:59:08,975 --> 01:59:11,269
My wife picked that up
when we were in Peru a year ago.
1882
01:59:11,353 --> 01:59:12,854
Son of a gun.
1883
01:59:13,730 --> 01:59:15,231
A real llama.
1884
01:59:17,275 --> 01:59:18,693
From Peru?
1885
01:59:18,943 --> 01:59:22,238
Yeah, a year ago.
It was about a year ago.
1886
01:59:22,739 --> 01:59:24,324
Lunch is sewed, Senator.
1887
01:59:24,407 --> 01:59:26,493
Good. Okay, come on,
let's go have some lunch.
1888
01:59:26,576 --> 01:59:27,744
(CLEARING THROAT)
1889
01:59:28,662 --> 01:59:30,163
Now, did you...
1890
01:59:30,455 --> 01:59:32,791
Did you actually get to see any llamas?
1891
01:59:32,916 --> 01:59:35,335
No. No. My wife just liked the painting.
1892
01:59:35,418 --> 01:59:37,671
It's a hell of an interesting animal.
1893
01:59:37,754 --> 01:59:40,715
I'll have to read up on those.
How do you spell that?
1894
01:59:40,799 --> 01:59:42,717
Like Fernando Lamas?
1895
01:59:43,551 --> 01:59:45,053
No, no. It's...
1896
01:59:46,096 --> 01:59:49,224
It's the animal, it's got two "L's."
Come on, have a seat.
1897
01:59:59,275 --> 02:00:01,611
It's brook trout. Hope you like fish.
1898
02:00:04,280 --> 02:00:05,615
I love it.
1899
02:00:06,116 --> 02:00:07,409
Thanks.
1900
02:00:23,007 --> 02:00:27,011
I know you're not a drinking man,
so I hope water is okay.
1901
02:00:40,024 --> 02:00:41,317
Thanks.
1902
02:00:47,699 --> 02:00:51,161
All right, let's get down to business.
Let's talk turkey.
1903
02:00:54,873 --> 02:00:57,959
My investigators have turned up
a lot of dirt.
1904
02:00:58,209 --> 02:01:01,713
It could be really embarrassing
if this stuff got out.
1905
02:01:02,213 --> 02:01:04,632
I'd like to save you
from that embarrassment.
1906
02:01:06,176 --> 02:01:08,094
That's very kind of you, Owen.
1907
02:01:11,222 --> 02:01:14,684
My committee has the power
to hold public hearings.
1908
02:01:16,686 --> 02:01:18,855
I'd like to spare you that.
1909
02:01:19,230 --> 02:01:20,857
Would you now?
1910
02:01:21,858 --> 02:01:27,655
Look, do you wanna go down in history
as a war profiteer, Howard?
1911
02:01:28,239 --> 02:01:29,657
Is that what you want?
1912
02:01:32,076 --> 02:01:34,078
What do you want, Owen?
1913
02:01:35,914 --> 02:01:39,334
You agree to support my CAB bill
1914
02:01:40,001 --> 02:01:42,253
and I won't hold public hearings.
1915
02:01:42,378 --> 02:01:44,005
-I can't do that.
-Why not?
1916
02:01:44,088 --> 02:01:47,383
I can't do that, Owen.
The CAB would kill TWA.
1917
02:01:47,884 --> 02:01:50,053
Sell TWA to Pan Am.
1918
02:01:51,679 --> 02:01:55,850
You'll get a good price.
You'll get a fair price, I'm telling you.
1919
02:01:55,934 --> 02:01:59,187
-And then you won't go public?
-Right. That's right.
1920
02:01:59,270 --> 02:02:02,398
The investigation's closed.
Nobody knows a thing.
1921
02:02:03,191 --> 02:02:05,443
It's better for everybody.
1922
02:02:10,698 --> 02:02:12,242
You know, Owen,
1923
02:02:13,076 --> 02:02:15,036
-I'm still wondering one thing.
-What's that?
1924
02:02:15,119 --> 02:02:17,956
You know the picture of the llama
you got last year?
1925
02:02:18,498 --> 02:02:19,666
Yeah.
1926
02:02:19,749 --> 02:02:21,709
Where'd you sail from?
1927
02:02:21,918 --> 02:02:23,920
We didn't sail. We flew.
1928
02:02:25,255 --> 02:02:26,923
-You flew?
-Yeah.
1929
02:02:28,258 --> 02:02:29,425
Oh.
1930
02:02:35,265 --> 02:02:38,059
Are you sure
you want to do this, Owen?
1931
02:02:39,310 --> 02:02:41,187
You want to go to war with me?
1932
02:02:46,568 --> 02:02:50,154
It isn't me, Howard.
It's the United States government.
1933
02:02:51,823 --> 02:02:54,117
We just beat Germany and Japan.
1934
02:02:54,951 --> 02:02:56,744
Who the hell are you?
1935
02:03:03,668 --> 02:03:06,588
You tell Juan Trippe something for me,
all right?
1936
02:03:07,505 --> 02:03:09,966
Tell him thanks for the flowers.
1937
02:03:10,675 --> 02:03:15,305
And he can kiss both sides of my ass.
1938
02:03:19,893 --> 02:03:21,269
(PANTING)
1939
02:03:23,021 --> 02:03:24,230
(GRUNTING)
1940
02:03:39,996 --> 02:03:44,083
BREWSTER: Well, we have a long list
of particulars. Chief among them
1941
02:03:44,167 --> 02:03:48,504
is that he defrauded the American
government of $56 million
1942
02:03:48,588 --> 02:03:50,590
while we were at war,
when we could least afford it.
1943
02:03:50,673 --> 02:03:53,760
While brave men were dying
on the beaches of Normandy,
1944
02:03:53,843 --> 02:03:56,679
Mr. Hughes was picking the pocket
of the American taxpayer.
1945
02:03:57,347 --> 02:03:58,681
I sleep
1946
02:03:59,641 --> 02:04:01,225
in this room
1947
02:04:03,561 --> 02:04:04,979
in the dark.
1948
02:04:05,063 --> 02:04:08,232
I'll have him dragged here
to Washington, if I have to.
1949
02:04:08,358 --> 02:04:10,360
I want to see the whites of his lies.
1950
02:04:10,735 --> 02:04:12,487
I have a place
1951
02:04:13,529 --> 02:04:14,864
to sleep.
1952
02:04:14,948 --> 02:04:17,325
BREWSTER: He has a lot of questions
to answer, son.
1953
02:04:17,408 --> 02:04:18,534
I have a chair.
1954
02:04:18,618 --> 02:04:21,955
Particularly about
that monstrous boondoggle of his.
1955
02:04:23,456 --> 02:04:27,043
That model airplane he's building,
that flying lumberyard,
1956
02:04:27,126 --> 02:04:28,127
(ALL LAUGHING)
1957
02:04:28,211 --> 02:04:29,671
that Spruce Goose.
1958
02:04:31,464 --> 02:04:32,715
No, we will get him here.
1959
02:04:36,260 --> 02:04:39,389
HOWARD: (EXHALING)
That's just beautiful.
1960
02:04:41,474 --> 02:04:43,226
I like the desert.
1961
02:04:45,353 --> 02:04:48,523
It's hot there in the desert,
but it's clean.
1962
02:04:49,732 --> 02:04:51,192
It's clean.
1963
02:04:52,902 --> 02:04:54,570
I need to sleep. (CLEARING THROAT)
1964
02:04:56,406 --> 02:04:57,907
(PROJECTOR WHIRRING)
1965
02:04:57,991 --> 02:05:00,368
I should drink something first.
1966
02:05:04,831 --> 02:05:06,582
I should drink something first.
1967
02:05:10,878 --> 02:05:12,422
Wait a minute.
1968
02:05:14,257 --> 02:05:16,426
What if that milk is sour?
1969
02:05:17,051 --> 02:05:18,928
If that milk is bad,
1970
02:05:19,679 --> 02:05:24,267
I shouldn't pick up the bottle of milk
with my right hand.
1971
02:05:24,892 --> 02:05:26,602
I shouldn't take
1972
02:05:27,353 --> 02:05:30,690
the top off with my left hand,
1973
02:05:32,025 --> 02:05:34,944
put it in my pocket,
1974
02:05:35,445 --> 02:05:37,071
my left pocket.
1975
02:05:50,460 --> 02:05:51,794
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
1976
02:05:54,797 --> 02:05:58,468
Howard, it's Kate.
I need to talk to you.
1977
02:06:00,261 --> 02:06:01,929
Can you hear me?
1978
02:06:04,766 --> 02:06:06,059
I'm coming in.
1979
02:06:06,142 --> 02:06:07,602
(DOOR RATTLING)
1980
02:06:07,935 --> 02:06:09,145
(SIGHING)
1981
02:06:11,564 --> 02:06:14,067
Howard, unlock this door immediately.
1982
02:06:22,825 --> 02:06:24,577
I can't, sweetie.
1983
02:06:28,247 --> 02:06:29,999
You mean you won't.
1984
02:06:31,918 --> 02:06:35,088
Howard, please let me see you.
1985
02:06:35,755 --> 02:06:37,465
I haven't shaved.
1986
02:06:37,840 --> 02:06:39,759
Well, neither have I.
1987
02:06:40,843 --> 02:06:42,095
(LAUGHS)
1988
02:06:43,971 --> 02:06:45,264
Come on.
1989
02:06:47,850 --> 02:06:49,352
You let me in.
1990
02:06:55,983 --> 02:06:57,860
I can hear you, Katie.
1991
02:06:59,862 --> 02:07:04,534
I could always hear you.
Even in the cockpit with the engines on.
1992
02:07:06,035 --> 02:07:08,621
(LAUGHS) That's because
I'm so goddamn loud.
1993
02:07:14,127 --> 02:07:15,711
Howard, I...
1994
02:07:18,214 --> 02:07:20,049
I came to thank you.
1995
02:07:21,384 --> 02:07:24,387
I found out what you did
for Spence and me.
1996
02:07:24,846 --> 02:07:27,056
Buying those awful pictures.
1997
02:07:32,728 --> 02:07:34,230
You love him.
1998
02:07:41,154 --> 02:07:43,156
He's everything I have.
1999
02:07:46,909 --> 02:07:48,369
(SCRAPING)
2000
02:07:51,789 --> 02:07:52,957
Howard.
2001
02:07:54,750 --> 02:07:56,752
I'm glad for you, Kate.
2002
02:07:58,546 --> 02:08:00,923
Go away now. Would you do that?
2003
02:08:02,383 --> 02:08:03,843
Howard, please.
2004
02:08:03,926 --> 02:08:05,261
Go away.
2005
02:08:05,928 --> 02:08:08,556
Just for now. I'll see you soon.
2006
02:08:09,515 --> 02:08:11,809
-We'll go flying together.
-Yes.
2007
02:08:11,893 --> 02:08:14,604
Yes, please. You take me flying again.
2008
02:08:14,979 --> 02:08:17,315
Howard, I can take the wheel.
2009
02:08:23,696 --> 02:08:24,864
Howard?
2010
02:08:31,787 --> 02:08:33,748
Howard, are you there?
2011
02:08:39,587 --> 02:08:40,755
Howard?
2012
02:08:42,924 --> 02:08:44,800
Howard, are you there?
2013
02:08:47,428 --> 02:08:49,096
Come on, Howard.
2014
02:09:20,336 --> 02:09:22,672
Come in with the milk.
Come in with the milk.
2015
02:09:22,755 --> 02:09:25,091
Come in with the milk.
Come in with the milk.
2016
02:09:25,174 --> 02:09:27,593
Come in with the milk.
Come in with the milk.
2017
02:09:27,677 --> 02:09:30,846
He is to open the bag
with his right hand
2018
02:09:30,930 --> 02:09:34,183
and hold the bag out to me
at a 45-degree angle
2019
02:09:34,308 --> 02:09:37,019
so I may reach into the bag
2020
02:09:39,522 --> 02:09:41,691
(CLEARING THROAT)
without touching the paper.
2021
02:09:46,821 --> 02:09:50,658
Repeated from the beginning.
Repeated from the beginning.
2022
02:09:52,368 --> 02:09:54,537
Repeated from the beginning.
2023
02:10:04,880 --> 02:10:08,718
If there is any variation
of these instructions,
2024
02:10:09,552 --> 02:10:11,887
even to the smallest degree,
2025
02:10:12,513 --> 02:10:14,390
the entire process
2026
02:10:15,182 --> 02:10:18,394
must be repeated from the beginning.
2027
02:10:18,561 --> 02:10:20,563
-Come in with the milk.
-HOWARD: Repeated…
2028
02:10:20,646 --> 02:10:23,190
-Come in with the milk.
-HOWARD: …from the beginning.
2029
02:10:30,406 --> 02:10:31,657
Q-
2030
02:10:34,243 --> 02:10:35,494
R-
2031
02:10:36,037 --> 02:10:37,204
N-
2032
02:10:37,288 --> 02:10:38,581
(URINATING)
2033
02:10:39,498 --> 02:10:40,708
T…
2034
02:10:41,751 --> 02:10:43,002
Q-
2035
02:10:45,004 --> 02:10:46,213
U…
2036
02:10:48,716 --> 02:10:49,925
E…
2037
02:10:51,844 --> 02:10:53,095
I…
2038
02:10:54,347 --> 02:10:55,598
T…
2039
02:10:57,350 --> 02:10:58,559
I…
2040
02:10:59,352 --> 02:11:00,561
N…
2041
02:11:02,188 --> 02:11:03,397
E…
2042
02:11:04,774 --> 02:11:05,941
N…
2043
02:11:07,693 --> 02:11:09,945
E-E...
2044
02:11:11,614 --> 02:11:12,782
I…
2045
02:11:14,700 --> 02:11:16,410
(PANTING)
2046
02:11:24,210 --> 02:11:25,378
JUAN: Howard.
2047
02:11:28,214 --> 02:11:29,423
Hello?
2048
02:11:32,093 --> 02:11:33,469
Who is it?
2049
02:11:33,636 --> 02:11:35,388
Howard, it's Juan.
2050
02:11:43,312 --> 02:11:44,814
(CLEARING THROAT) Juan.
2051
02:11:46,649 --> 02:11:48,109
Juan, right.
2052
02:11:49,110 --> 02:11:51,654
We had an appointment, right? Yeah.
2053
02:11:52,446 --> 02:11:54,156
I remember that. Look.
2054
02:11:54,990 --> 02:11:56,826
I've got a hell of a cold in here.
2055
02:11:56,951 --> 02:11:59,995
A hell of a cold. So why don't you just
take a seat out there 'cause, you know,
2056
02:12:00,121 --> 02:12:01,747
I don't want to get you sick.
2057
02:12:01,831 --> 02:12:03,749
I'd never forgive myself if I got you sick.
2058
02:12:03,833 --> 02:12:07,002
You know, I don't want to get you sick.
I don't want to...
2059
02:12:14,009 --> 02:12:15,344
Thank you.
2060
02:12:18,639 --> 02:12:20,307
Okay, Howard, I'm sitting.
2061
02:12:20,933 --> 02:12:23,144
I've brought along our accountings.
2062
02:12:24,270 --> 02:12:27,440
Now, Pan Am is trading
at thirteen and five-eighths
2063
02:12:27,523 --> 02:12:31,527
-TWA at four and a quarter...
-HOWARD: Oh, come on!
2064
02:12:31,902 --> 02:12:34,530
Come on, come on, come on, come on.
2065
02:12:34,613 --> 02:12:37,366
We both know
I'm not going to sell TWA!
2066
02:12:37,450 --> 02:12:39,618
Besides, you couldn't
afford her anyway!
2067
02:12:39,702 --> 02:12:43,539
Our domestic routes alone
are worth more than twice Pan Am!
2068
02:12:44,457 --> 02:12:47,084
Considering our stock is trading
at three times yours,
2069
02:12:47,168 --> 02:12:50,212
I find that a dubious claim, Howard.
2070
02:12:54,300 --> 02:12:58,888
What I mean is, you have
no domestic routes, all right?
2071
02:12:58,971 --> 02:13:01,223
I mean, you get TWA,
you span the globe.
2072
02:13:01,348 --> 02:13:04,393
Now I'm not gonna sell,
and you know I'm not gonna sell.
2073
02:13:04,477 --> 02:13:06,061
Here's the point.
2074
02:13:06,187 --> 02:13:08,689
Owen Brewster works for you!
2075
02:13:09,231 --> 02:13:11,358
Howard, I didn't elect Senator Brewster.
2076
02:13:11,442 --> 02:13:14,236
We can thank the voters
of Maine for that.
2077
02:13:24,330 --> 02:13:27,833
If I appear at his hearings, Juan,
it could get nasty.
2078
02:13:27,917 --> 02:13:30,044
(CLEARING THROAT)
Real nasty for all of us.
2079
02:13:30,586 --> 02:13:34,298
Well, I think considerably
more so for you.
2080
02:13:35,341 --> 02:13:38,427
While the good people of America
were losing sons at Anzio,
2081
02:13:38,552 --> 02:13:42,515
you produced a dirty movie
and built airplanes that don't fly.
2082
02:13:42,598 --> 02:13:45,017
HOWARD: Well, that's just not fair, is it?
2083
02:13:45,100 --> 02:13:49,146
I mean, the XF-11 flew quite well
for an hour and 45 minutes!
2084
02:13:49,230 --> 02:13:53,359
I mean, I wish you were up there
with me, Juan. It was exhilarating!
2085
02:13:54,443 --> 02:13:58,113
Be that as it may, you still have
to answer for the Spruce Goose.
2086
02:13:58,739 --> 02:14:00,866
It's called the Hercules!
2087
02:14:01,283 --> 02:14:03,619
And it will fly, god damn it!
2088
02:14:04,119 --> 02:14:05,204
I certainly hope so.
2089
02:14:05,287 --> 02:14:08,541
The American people deserve
something for their $13 million.
2090
02:14:08,624 --> 02:14:11,752
I won't sell TWA!
2091
02:14:12,086 --> 02:14:13,379
I won't!
2092
02:14:18,259 --> 02:14:20,094
I know that, Howard.
2093
02:14:21,095 --> 02:14:22,596
I know that.
2094
02:14:24,557 --> 02:14:26,809
But I'm going to get it anyway.
2095
02:14:28,185 --> 02:14:30,312
You're going to default
on your loan from Equitable
2096
02:14:30,396 --> 02:14:32,982
after Senator Brewster
destroys your reputation,
2097
02:14:33,065 --> 02:14:36,527
and you can't find additional capital
for the airline.
2098
02:14:36,610 --> 02:14:39,029
The hearings will also show
Hughes Aircraft
2099
02:14:39,113 --> 02:14:41,907
to be mismanaged and incompetent
2100
02:14:41,991 --> 02:14:44,159
and it will go bankrupt, too.
2101
02:14:44,243 --> 02:14:47,663
But you won't be insolvent.
You'll still have Toolco.
2102
02:14:47,997 --> 02:14:51,917
Perhaps you'll head back to Houston
to rebuild your empire.
2103
02:14:52,084 --> 02:14:53,961
I rather hope you do.
2104
02:14:54,670 --> 02:14:57,673
By that time,
Pan Am will have bought TWA
2105
02:14:58,090 --> 02:15:01,844
and painted all those
magnificent Connies blue and white.
2106
02:15:02,344 --> 02:15:06,181
So when you do return,
it will be on a Pan Am plane.
2107
02:15:10,853 --> 02:15:12,021
Well...
2108
02:15:14,356 --> 02:15:17,359
You seem to have me
in a corner here, buddy.
2109
02:15:18,444 --> 02:15:21,530
Not a position
in which I'm very comfortable.
2110
02:15:23,032 --> 02:15:24,283
I think you're going to be
less comfortable
2111
02:15:24,366 --> 02:15:26,702
at Senator Brewster's hearings.
2112
02:15:28,162 --> 02:15:29,622
Very public, Howard.
2113
02:15:32,458 --> 02:15:35,044
Lots of cameras and newsmen.
2114
02:15:36,211 --> 02:15:39,673
I understand you're not
particularly fond of crowds.
2115
02:15:41,842 --> 02:15:44,345
Perhaps we should spare you that.
2116
02:15:46,889 --> 02:15:51,185
Well, thank you for your concern, Juan.
2117
02:15:51,894 --> 02:15:53,479
I find that
2118
02:15:55,064 --> 02:15:56,565
very moving.
2119
02:15:57,900 --> 02:16:00,027
It's been a real pleasure.
2120
02:16:01,695 --> 02:16:04,573
Noah will see you back
to the airport now.
2121
02:16:05,908 --> 02:16:07,493
You fly safe.
2122
02:16:11,080 --> 02:16:12,581
You fly safe.
2123
02:16:18,087 --> 02:16:20,172
Thank you, Howard,
and you take care of that cold.
2124
02:16:20,255 --> 02:16:21,924
Oh, don't you worry.
2125
02:16:23,092 --> 02:16:24,760
I certainly will.
2126
02:16:26,220 --> 02:16:27,554
Bye-bye.
2127
02:16:27,805 --> 02:16:29,014
(JUAN SIGHS)
2128
02:16:32,518 --> 02:16:34,436
If you let him appear at those hearings,
2129
02:16:34,561 --> 02:16:37,439
the whole world will see
what he's become.
2130
02:16:37,564 --> 02:16:40,275
People should remember him
as he was.
2131
02:16:45,698 --> 02:16:49,201
He'll have a subpoena in three days
to appear in Washington.
2132
02:16:50,452 --> 02:16:53,288
If you can get him out of there by then.
2133
02:16:58,460 --> 02:16:59,753
(SCREAMING)
2134
02:17:12,224 --> 02:17:13,976
(GROANING)
2135
02:17:34,496 --> 02:17:35,748
(DOOR OPENING)
2136
02:17:35,831 --> 02:17:37,082
(GASPING)
2137
02:17:42,671 --> 02:17:44,173
Mr. Hughes?
2138
02:17:49,428 --> 02:17:52,598
(SIGHING)
I don't have any shoes.
2139
02:17:54,850 --> 02:17:57,102
Could you get me some shoes?
2140
02:17:57,186 --> 02:17:59,104
-Shoes.
-Yeah.
2141
02:18:25,547 --> 02:18:27,841
How nice of you to dress for me.
2142
02:18:31,220 --> 02:18:32,805
Can I come in?
2143
02:18:34,264 --> 02:18:37,559
Yeah, you can come in.
2144
02:18:45,526 --> 02:18:47,402
Thank you for coming.
2145
02:18:59,665 --> 02:19:01,917
Now, let's get a drink.
2146
02:19:02,167 --> 02:19:06,255
Wait, wait, wait. Honey,
you can't move. You're safe here.
2147
02:19:06,380 --> 02:19:09,508
You're in the germ-free zone now.
You understand?
2148
02:19:09,591 --> 02:19:11,426
I'll take my chances.
2149
02:19:11,760 --> 02:19:14,179
No, no, honey. Wait, wait, wait.
2150
02:19:14,638 --> 02:19:15,889
(CLEARING THROAT)
2151
02:19:28,277 --> 02:19:30,946
Love what you've done with the place.
2152
02:19:37,494 --> 02:19:40,956
Now, let me look at you.
2153
02:19:46,295 --> 02:19:48,589
When do you go to Washington?
2154
02:19:49,089 --> 02:19:50,382
A week.
2155
02:19:51,258 --> 02:19:54,136
No, just under a week.
2156
02:19:54,219 --> 02:19:57,556
I don't know the date today,
but I have to be...
2157
02:19:58,640 --> 02:20:00,642
All right, take it easy.
2158
02:20:07,858 --> 02:20:09,234
(TINKLING)
2159
02:20:14,281 --> 02:20:16,617
There's nothing there, Howard.
2160
02:20:18,660 --> 02:20:19,828
Mmm.
2161
02:20:25,918 --> 02:20:27,419
I see things.
2162
02:20:28,295 --> 02:20:29,838
I know, baby.
2163
02:20:31,423 --> 02:20:33,467
Rinse your face off now.
2164
02:20:42,601 --> 02:20:45,103
Put your hands in the water
and wash off the soap.
2165
02:20:45,187 --> 02:20:47,981
I'm right here. I'm not going anywhere.
2166
02:20:53,028 --> 02:20:56,448
-Does that look clean to you?
-Nothing's clean, Howard.
2167
02:20:56,531 --> 02:20:58,659
But we do our best, right?
2168
02:21:00,452 --> 02:21:01,453
Yeah.
2169
02:21:21,473 --> 02:21:23,225
What do you think?
2170
02:21:23,308 --> 02:21:25,894
-I look all right.
-You look great.
2171
02:21:26,812 --> 02:21:28,563
Will you marry me?
2172
02:21:28,772 --> 02:21:30,857
You're too crazy for me.
2173
02:21:32,985 --> 02:21:34,736
I got to go, baby.
2174
02:21:36,279 --> 02:21:37,447
Okay.
2175
02:21:38,615 --> 02:21:39,866
Thanks.
2176
02:21:46,373 --> 02:21:48,208
You'd do it for me.
2177
02:21:54,840 --> 02:21:56,925
REPORTER:
Hi, Howard. How you doing?
2178
02:21:57,342 --> 02:21:59,636
(PEOPLE MURMURING)
2179
02:22:36,631 --> 02:22:37,632
(BREWSTER BANGING GAVEL)
2180
02:22:37,716 --> 02:22:40,218
The Committee will come to order.
2181
02:22:40,719 --> 02:22:41,803
Ladies and gentlemen,
2182
02:22:41,887 --> 02:22:45,432
I must insist that we maintain quiet
during the proceedings.
2183
02:22:45,640 --> 02:22:48,977
All right, Mr. Hughes,
will you stand and be sworn?
2184
02:22:50,937 --> 02:22:52,230
Do you solemnly swear
2185
02:22:52,314 --> 02:22:54,608
that in the matter
now pending before this committee,
2186
02:22:54,691 --> 02:22:57,694
you will tell the truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth,
2187
02:22:57,778 --> 02:23:00,322
-so help you God?
-I do.
2188
02:23:00,405 --> 02:23:01,698
Pardon me for speaking loudly.
2189
02:23:01,782 --> 02:23:04,159
But I understand
you have some difficulty hearing.
2190
02:23:04,242 --> 02:23:06,244
That's quite all right.
2191
02:23:06,328 --> 02:23:09,122
I mean, everybody knows I'm deaf.
I'm not gonna try to hide it.
2192
02:23:09,206 --> 02:23:10,957
(ALL LAUGHING)
2193
02:23:12,250 --> 02:23:15,087
Mr. Hughes,
it is the intention of this committee...
2194
02:23:15,170 --> 02:23:17,339
Mr. Hughes has a statement.
2195
02:23:18,131 --> 02:23:23,136
All right, you may proceed
with this statement, Mr. Hughes.
2196
02:23:30,268 --> 02:23:32,896
Mr. Hughes, do you have a statement?
2197
02:23:39,861 --> 02:23:43,907
I'm going to attempt to be honest here.
2198
02:23:44,950 --> 02:23:46,618
I mean, my reputation's
being destroyed,
2199
02:23:46,701 --> 02:23:49,454
so I may as well lay the cards
on the table.
2200
02:23:50,580 --> 02:23:54,960
Senator Brewster,
if you hadn't gone too far overboard,
2201
02:23:55,043 --> 02:23:57,504
if you hadn't put the red hot iron
in my side,
2202
02:23:57,587 --> 02:23:59,923
I might've been willing
to take a shellacking
2203
02:24:00,048 --> 02:24:02,467
in this publicity spree of yours.
2204
02:24:02,551 --> 02:24:05,846
l might've been willing to sit back
and take a certain amount of abuse
2205
02:24:05,929 --> 02:24:07,931
simply because, well,
2206
02:24:08,807 --> 02:24:11,143
I am only a private citizen,
2207
02:24:11,560 --> 02:24:16,064
whereas you are a senator,
with all sorts of powers.
2208
02:24:17,566 --> 02:24:20,861
But I think this goddamn circus
has gone on long enough!
2209
02:24:20,944 --> 02:24:21,987
(BANGING GAVEL)
That's quite sufficient...
2210
02:24:22,070 --> 02:24:24,698
You have called me a liar, sir,
in the press.
2211
02:24:24,781 --> 02:24:27,826
You have called me a liar and a thief
and a war profiteer!
2212
02:24:27,909 --> 02:24:29,578
The witness will restrain
his comments...
2213
02:24:29,661 --> 02:24:31,913
Why not tell the truth
for once, Senator?
2214
02:24:31,997 --> 02:24:35,417
Why not tell the truth that
this investigation was really born
2215
02:24:35,500 --> 02:24:38,503
on the day that TWA
first decided to fly to Europe?
2216
02:24:38,587 --> 02:24:41,840
On the day that TWA
first invaded Juan Trippe's territory.
2217
02:24:41,923 --> 02:24:43,175
(BANGING GAVEL)
Sit down, Mr. Hughes.
2218
02:24:43,258 --> 02:24:46,928
On the day that TWA first challenged
the generally accepted theory
2219
02:24:47,012 --> 02:24:49,764
that only Juan Trippe's
great Pan American Airways
2220
02:24:49,848 --> 02:24:51,766
had the sacred right to fly the Atlantic!
2221
02:24:51,850 --> 02:24:53,518
You are not here to make a speech.
2222
02:24:53,602 --> 02:24:54,603
(ALL MURMURING)
2223
02:24:54,686 --> 02:24:56,521
I asked for silence!
2224
02:24:56,605 --> 02:24:59,649
I asked for quiet in this room,
and we're going to have quiet.
2225
02:24:59,733 --> 02:25:03,737
We have in our possession
receipts in the amount of $170,000
2226
02:25:03,820 --> 02:25:05,655
acquired from Mr. John Meyer.
2227
02:25:05,739 --> 02:25:08,200
Mr. Meyer works for you, does he not?
2228
02:25:08,283 --> 02:25:09,576
He does.
2229
02:25:09,910 --> 02:25:12,078
And what is his official title?
2230
02:25:14,414 --> 02:25:17,417
I don't exactly know, Senator.
A lot of people work for me.
2231
02:25:17,500 --> 02:25:20,754
Can you explain why your press agent
would pay out
2232
02:25:20,837 --> 02:25:25,258
more than $170,000 to representatives
of the United States Air Force?
2233
02:25:25,342 --> 02:25:28,303
Well, I don't know. I suppose
you'd have to ask him, Senator.
2234
02:25:28,386 --> 02:25:30,555
Well, would you produce him?
2235
02:25:30,805 --> 02:25:33,934
-Produce him?
-Will you cause him to appear?
2236
02:25:34,017 --> 02:25:37,395
Senator, you had John Meyer
on the stand for three days last week.
2237
02:25:37,479 --> 02:25:40,523
Well, be that as it may,
we would like him to reappear here.
2238
02:25:40,649 --> 02:25:43,777
Would you ask him to return?
2239
02:25:49,991 --> 02:25:51,826
No, I don't think I will.
2240
02:25:52,160 --> 02:25:53,703
(ALL MURMURING)
2241
02:25:53,787 --> 02:25:56,164
Will you try to have him return?
2242
02:25:59,125 --> 02:26:00,794
No, I don't think I'll try.
2243
02:26:00,877 --> 02:26:02,921
You don't think you'll try?
2244
02:26:04,547 --> 02:26:06,591
No. I don't think so.
2245
02:26:06,675 --> 02:26:07,884
(ALL LAUGHING)
2246
02:26:07,968 --> 02:26:12,514
BREWSTER: The $170,000 paid out to
the Air Force, in the form of hotel suites,
2247
02:26:12,639 --> 02:26:16,518
TWA stock, female companionship.
2248
02:26:17,852 --> 02:26:22,023
Now is it possible
that these could be considered bribes?
2249
02:26:22,732 --> 02:26:25,652
I suppose you could call them that, yes.
2250
02:26:26,486 --> 02:26:28,363
Would you repeat that?
2251
02:26:28,697 --> 02:26:32,367
I said I suppose you could
consider them bribes, yes.
2252
02:26:35,120 --> 02:26:38,039
Would you like to explain that,
Mr. Hughes?
2253
02:26:39,791 --> 02:26:44,045
I'm afraid you don't know how
the aviation business works, Senator.
2254
02:26:44,170 --> 02:26:48,633
See, wining and dining Air Force
dignitaries is common in our business.
2255
02:26:48,717 --> 02:26:50,593
It's because we all want
the big contracts.
2256
02:26:50,677 --> 02:26:53,805
All the major aircraft companies do it.
2257
02:26:53,888 --> 02:26:55,724
Now, I don't know
whether it's a good system or not.
2258
02:26:55,807 --> 02:26:57,267
I just know it is not illegal.
2259
02:26:57,350 --> 02:26:59,894
You, Senator, you are the lawmaker.
2260
02:27:00,520 --> 02:27:05,317
If you pass a law that states no one can
entertain Air Force officers, well, hell,
2261
02:27:05,400 --> 02:27:07,652
I'd be happy to abide by it.
2262
02:27:07,736 --> 02:27:09,154
(ALL LAUGHING)
2263
02:27:09,237 --> 02:27:11,614
Senator Brewster,
your story is a pack of lies,
2264
02:27:11,698 --> 02:27:13,575
and I can tear it apart
if allowed to cross examine you.
2265
02:27:13,658 --> 02:27:16,244
We're not going to have this
bickering back and forth.
2266
02:27:16,369 --> 02:27:19,581
Somewhere between 200 and 500,
if you'll just let me get started...
2267
02:27:19,706 --> 02:27:22,751
If you believe that because of
your great wealth and power
2268
02:27:22,876 --> 02:27:25,170
you can intimidate
any member of this committee,
2269
02:27:25,253 --> 02:27:28,423
I want to advise you that you're
mistaken. Now, submit your questions.
2270
02:27:28,548 --> 02:27:31,343
HOWARD: Now, I'll put this very simply.
On February 12,
2271
02:27:31,426 --> 02:27:35,930
at the Mayflower Hotel,
did you or did you not tell me
2272
02:27:36,014 --> 02:27:38,933
that if I were to sell TWA to Pan Am
2273
02:27:39,017 --> 02:27:41,519
that this entire investigation
would be called off?
2274
02:27:41,603 --> 02:27:42,687
No, I did not.
2275
02:27:42,771 --> 02:27:45,857
And I have asked you repeatedly
to submit your questions in writing.
2276
02:27:45,940 --> 02:27:47,233
How long have you
known Juan Trippe, Senator?
2277
02:27:47,317 --> 02:27:51,029
I've known Mr. Trippe
for some time now and...
2278
02:27:51,112 --> 02:27:56,034
Is it not true that Juan Trippe donated
$20,000 to your last campaign?
2279
02:27:56,117 --> 02:27:58,328
I mean, he spoke to me
as if you worked for him.
2280
02:27:58,411 --> 02:28:00,288
(ALL EXCLAIMING)
2281
02:28:03,208 --> 02:28:05,210
l have a personal friendship
with Mr. Trippe...
2282
02:28:05,293 --> 02:28:07,504
Is it not true that you accept
free tickets from Pan Am
2283
02:28:07,587 --> 02:28:10,298
so you can circle the globe
in support of your CAB bill?
2284
02:28:10,382 --> 02:28:12,842
-BREWSTER: No, it is not true.
-Who wrote that bill?
2285
02:28:12,926 --> 02:28:14,052
BREWSTER:
We're asking the questions...
2286
02:28:14,135 --> 02:28:16,221
Who actually wrote the CAB bill?
2287
02:28:16,304 --> 02:28:18,556
The actual words in the bill.
Did you write them?
2288
02:28:18,640 --> 02:28:21,393
This is not how these hearings
are going to be conducted, Mr. Hughes.
2289
02:28:21,476 --> 02:28:24,562
I have it right here.
Maybe it'll refresh your memory.
2290
02:28:24,646 --> 02:28:28,483
"Bill S987 to amend
the Civil Aeronautics Act."
2291
02:28:29,442 --> 02:28:32,237
Now, you introduced this bill
to the Senate.
2292
02:28:34,739 --> 02:28:36,574
A lot of words.
2293
02:28:37,158 --> 02:28:39,119
You write all of them?
2294
02:28:39,744 --> 02:28:42,789
-Did you write any of them, Senator?
-Now look, Mr. Hughes...
2295
02:28:42,872 --> 02:28:45,917
Now this entire bill was written
by Pan Am executives
2296
02:28:46,000 --> 02:28:50,380
and designed to give that airline
a monopoly on international travel.
2297
02:28:50,463 --> 02:28:53,591
And you've been flogging this bill
all around the world on their behalf,
2298
02:28:53,675 --> 02:28:55,051
have you not?
2299
02:28:55,135 --> 02:28:58,930
I have duties that take me
all over the world, Mr. Hughes.
2300
02:28:59,013 --> 02:29:03,476
Well, what the hell does a Senator
from Maine need to visit Peru for?
2301
02:29:04,769 --> 02:29:08,940
I was seeking outlets
for our trade goods.
2302
02:29:09,023 --> 02:29:10,400
Ah.
2303
02:29:10,483 --> 02:29:12,402
Buy a lot of lobsters down there,
do they?
2304
02:29:12,485 --> 02:29:14,112
(ALL LAUGHING)
2305
02:29:15,947 --> 02:29:19,075
Senator Brewster, how many times
have you visited Juan Trippe's office
2306
02:29:19,159 --> 02:29:21,870
in New York in the last three months?
2307
02:29:25,039 --> 02:29:27,834
Would you like me to tell you, Senator?
2308
02:29:28,418 --> 02:29:31,963
All right, this has gone on long enough.
Juan Trippe is a great American.
2309
02:29:32,046 --> 02:29:33,882
His airline has advanced the cause
2310
02:29:33,965 --> 02:29:36,468
of commercial aviation
in this country for decades.
2311
02:29:36,551 --> 02:29:38,178
Juan Trippe is a patriot.
2312
02:29:38,261 --> 02:29:41,389
Juan Trippe is not a man
who is interested in making money.
2313
02:29:41,556 --> 02:29:42,724
HOWARD: Hmm.
2314
02:29:43,099 --> 02:29:46,060
Well, I'm sure his stockholders
will be happy to hear that.
2315
02:29:46,144 --> 02:29:47,479
(ALL LAUGHING)
2316
02:29:48,354 --> 02:29:49,814
BREWSTER: I'm telling you,
we're gonna clear this room.
2317
02:29:50,482 --> 02:29:51,900
ON RADIO: This is James McNamara,
2318
02:29:51,983 --> 02:29:55,278
speaking to you from aboard the
Howard Hughes 200-ton flying boat,
2319
02:29:55,361 --> 02:29:57,280
the world's largest aircraft.
2320
02:29:57,363 --> 02:29:59,991
This is the sky giant
which has prompted Congress
2321
02:30:00,074 --> 02:30:02,535
to investigate the war contracts
with Mr. Hughes.
2322
02:30:02,619 --> 02:30:05,538
Today, before boarding the craft,
Mr. Hughes told newsmen
2323
02:30:05,622 --> 02:30:08,416
that this test would be
solely a taxi experiment.
2324
02:30:08,500 --> 02:30:10,502
He said he didn't know
what might happen.
2325
02:30:10,585 --> 02:30:13,338
He pointed out
that the mammoth flying plywood shell
2326
02:30:13,421 --> 02:30:16,341
might ship some water
under high-speed taxi pressure.
2327
02:30:16,424 --> 02:30:17,842
He said definitely, however,
2328
02:30:17,926 --> 02:30:21,012
that he would not take the craft
into the air until next spring.
2329
02:30:21,095 --> 02:30:22,430
The thin man from Culver City
2330
02:30:22,514 --> 02:30:24,516
pronounced the craft
an unknown quantity.
2331
02:30:24,599 --> 02:30:25,558
Hi, boys.
2332
02:30:25,642 --> 02:30:26,893
McNAMARA: He has an idea
what the plane can do…
2333
02:30:26,976 --> 02:30:28,853
None of that now. None of that.
2334
02:30:28,937 --> 02:30:29,938
McNAMARA:
As we speak to you,
2335
02:30:30,021 --> 02:30:32,106
we are about five feet
in back of Mr. Hughes.
2336
02:30:32,190 --> 02:30:35,568
And we are looking through
one of the side windows in the cockpit.
2337
02:30:35,902 --> 02:30:38,863
Professor, why don't you
come on up front here?
2338
02:30:38,947 --> 02:30:41,950
McNAMARA: In other words,
we are 30 feet high in this aircraft.
2339
02:30:42,033 --> 02:30:45,495
Strap yourself in right there.
You ought to be able to see just great.
2340
02:30:45,578 --> 02:30:47,956
McNAMARA: …visualize
just how gigantic this ship is.
2341
02:30:48,039 --> 02:30:51,292
Huge crowds jammed the surrounding
shoreline this morning…
2342
02:30:51,376 --> 02:30:53,044
All right, boys.
2343
02:30:53,586 --> 02:30:55,296
Let's fire it up.
2344
02:30:58,550 --> 02:30:59,801
One's good.
2345
02:30:59,884 --> 02:31:00,969
(PROPELLERS REVVING)
2346
02:31:01,052 --> 02:31:02,470
Two's good.
2347
02:31:03,388 --> 02:31:04,931
Three's good.
2348
02:31:05,223 --> 02:31:06,683
Four's good.
2349
02:31:07,517 --> 02:31:09,018
Five's good.
2350
02:31:09,269 --> 02:31:10,728
Six is good.
2351
02:31:11,145 --> 02:31:12,522
Seven's good.
2352
02:31:12,605 --> 02:31:14,107
Eight's good.
2353
02:31:15,400 --> 02:31:18,361
-Advancing master throttles.
-Advancing master throttles.
2354
02:31:20,488 --> 02:31:22,156
McNAMARA:
As you probably know by now,
2355
02:31:22,240 --> 02:31:25,743
l have to do a great deal of screaming
here into our microphone.
2356
02:31:25,827 --> 02:31:26,828
Understood.
2357
02:31:26,953 --> 02:31:30,498
-Lowering 15 degrees of flaps.
-Lowering 15 degrees of flaps.
2358
02:31:31,165 --> 02:31:34,752
Howard, she's got to hit 70
to have any kind of chance.
2359
02:31:35,128 --> 02:31:36,963
Yeah, I know. I know.
2360
02:31:37,046 --> 02:31:38,506
McNAMARA: I might add
that it's a beautiful day
2361
02:31:38,590 --> 02:31:40,717
over here off the coast
of Southern California.
2362
02:31:40,800 --> 02:31:43,511
Crystal blue skies, warm sun…
2363
02:31:43,595 --> 02:31:45,722
25 miles per hour.
2364
02:31:45,805 --> 02:31:47,390
McNAMARA:
…and a relatively calm sea.
2365
02:31:47,473 --> 02:31:48,600
30.
2366
02:31:49,350 --> 02:31:50,476
35.
2367
02:31:50,560 --> 02:31:52,895
McNAMARA: One would think
that these eight power plants
2368
02:31:53,021 --> 02:31:55,106
might shake the mighty craft to pieces.
2369
02:31:55,189 --> 02:31:57,066
Take it easy, Howard.
2370
02:31:57,150 --> 02:31:59,235
McNAMARA:
…it certainly is holding up…
2371
02:31:59,319 --> 02:32:02,447
-ODEKIRK: Forty.
-Throttling back for starboard turn 180.
2372
02:32:03,072 --> 02:32:05,867
ODEKIRK:
Throttling back for starboard turn 180.
2373
02:32:10,747 --> 02:32:13,333
McNAMARA: The flight crew itself
consists of four men.
2374
02:32:13,416 --> 02:32:15,793
Mr. Hughes, however,
has added 11 maintenance men
2375
02:32:15,877 --> 02:32:17,545
to this maiden taxi test,
2376
02:32:17,629 --> 02:32:20,089
stationed at various places
throughout the ship,
2377
02:32:20,173 --> 02:32:22,967
checking points of stress and strain.
2378
02:32:25,720 --> 02:32:27,805
How does she sound, Odie?
2379
02:32:28,264 --> 02:32:30,141
Sounds good, Howard.
2380
02:32:33,519 --> 02:32:35,730
-Professor.
-Yes?
2381
02:32:35,813 --> 02:32:37,857
Do me a favor?
2382
02:32:38,316 --> 02:32:39,567
Would you take a look out
that window there
2383
02:32:39,651 --> 02:32:42,278
and tell me what the wind is doing?
2384
02:32:47,367 --> 02:32:50,495
I would say that we have
a 15-knot wind.
2385
02:32:51,454 --> 02:32:55,208
Would you call that
a headwind, Professor?
2386
02:32:55,875 --> 02:32:57,585
I would, Mr. Hughes.
2387
02:32:57,669 --> 02:32:59,587
BREWSTER: Must insist that
we maintain silence.
2388
02:32:59,671 --> 02:33:01,756
We must have quiet
during these proceedings.
2389
02:33:02,048 --> 02:33:04,676
All right, Mr. Hughes,
will you stand and be sworn?
2390
02:33:04,759 --> 02:33:08,346
Mr. Hughes, did you receive $43 million
2391
02:33:08,429 --> 02:33:13,726
to manufacture 100 XF-11 spy planes
for the United States Air Force?
2392
02:33:14,852 --> 02:33:16,104
I did.
2393
02:33:16,354 --> 02:33:20,525
How many functional planes did you
deliver to the United States Air Force?
2394
02:33:20,608 --> 02:33:21,776
None.
2395
02:33:21,859 --> 02:33:25,113
Would you lean a little closer
to the microphones, sir?
2396
02:33:25,613 --> 02:33:26,781
None.
2397
02:33:26,948 --> 02:33:29,450
Did you receive $13 million
2398
02:33:29,534 --> 02:33:33,788
to manufacture
a prototype of a flying boat
2399
02:33:33,871 --> 02:33:35,832
known as the Hercules?
2400
02:33:36,499 --> 02:33:38,084
(CLEARING THROAT) I did.
2401
02:33:38,835 --> 02:33:41,212
And did you deliver that plane?
2402
02:33:41,838 --> 02:33:43,214
I did not.
2403
02:33:44,173 --> 02:33:47,635
So by your admission in this chamber,
Mr. Hughes,
2404
02:33:47,719 --> 02:33:52,390
you have received $56 million
from the United States government
2405
02:33:53,141 --> 02:33:55,476
for planes you never delivered.
2406
02:33:55,977 --> 02:33:57,645
That is correct.
2407
02:33:57,729 --> 02:34:00,106
(ALL MURMURING)
2408
02:34:00,189 --> 02:34:03,276
Well, excuse me for asking,
Mr. Hughes,
2409
02:34:03,359 --> 02:34:05,528
but where did all that money go?
2410
02:34:05,653 --> 02:34:09,323
Well, it went into the planes, Senator.
And a lot more.
2411
02:34:10,241 --> 02:34:11,409
More? (CHUCKLING)
2412
02:34:11,492 --> 02:34:15,079
Do tell, Mr. Hughes,
what other larcenies did you commit?
2413
02:34:15,163 --> 02:34:18,833
I mean, I put my money
into the planes, Senator.
2414
02:34:19,375 --> 02:34:20,710
My money.
2415
02:34:23,045 --> 02:34:25,131
See, the thing is, that I care...
2416
02:34:25,214 --> 02:34:27,800
Mr. Hughes,
your personal finances are not...
2417
02:34:27,884 --> 02:34:29,427
Let him speak.
2418
02:34:33,890 --> 02:34:35,349
Proceed, Mr. Hughes.
2419
02:34:37,435 --> 02:34:41,689
See, the thing is,
I care very much about aviation.
2420
02:34:42,899 --> 02:34:44,734
It has been the great joy of my life.
2421
02:34:44,859 --> 02:34:47,361
That's why I put my own money
into these planes.
2422
02:34:47,445 --> 02:34:49,238
And I've lost millions,
Senator Brewster,
2423
02:34:49,322 --> 02:34:51,032
and I'll go on losing millions.
2424
02:34:51,115 --> 02:34:53,409
It's just what I do.
2425
02:34:54,702 --> 02:34:58,289
Now if I've lost a lot of the government's
money during the war,
2426
02:34:58,372 --> 02:35:01,042
I hope folks will put that
into perspective.
2427
02:35:01,751 --> 02:35:03,878
You see,
more than 60 other airplanes
2428
02:35:03,961 --> 02:35:07,423
ordered from such firms as Lockheed,
Douglas, Northrop, and Boeing
2429
02:35:07,548 --> 02:35:09,383
never saw action, either.
2430
02:35:09,467 --> 02:35:12,845
In all, more than $800 million
2431
02:35:12,929 --> 02:35:16,098
was spent during the war
on planes that never flew.
2432
02:35:16,224 --> 02:35:20,520
Over $6 billion on other weapons
that were never delivered.
2433
02:35:20,603 --> 02:35:25,274
Yet, Hughes Aircraft
with her $56 million
2434
02:35:26,067 --> 02:35:28,611
is the only firm
under investigation here today.
2435
02:35:28,736 --> 02:35:31,989
Now, I cannot help but think
that has a little more to do with TWA
2436
02:35:32,073 --> 02:35:33,991
than planes that did not fly.
2437
02:35:34,075 --> 02:35:35,993
I think you've made your point,
Mr. Hughes.
2438
02:35:36,077 --> 02:35:38,788
One second.
Senator Brewster I have one more thing
2439
02:35:38,871 --> 02:35:41,123
to say here to this committee.
2440
02:35:41,290 --> 02:35:44,043
And that has to do with the Hercules.
2441
02:35:44,460 --> 02:35:48,798
Now I am supposed to be many things
which are not complimentary.
2442
02:35:49,924 --> 02:35:52,009
I am supposed to be capricious.
2443
02:35:52,093 --> 02:35:56,222
I have been called a playboy.
I've even been called an eccentric.
2444
02:35:56,305 --> 02:36:00,059
But I do not believe that I have
the reputation of being a liar.
2445
02:36:01,435 --> 02:36:04,897
Needless to say, the Hercules
was a monumental undertaking.
2446
02:36:04,981 --> 02:36:07,775
It is the largest plane ever built.
2447
02:36:07,859 --> 02:36:09,193
It is over five stories tall,
2448
02:36:09,277 --> 02:36:11,487
with a wingspan
longer than a football field.
2449
02:36:11,571 --> 02:36:13,865
That's more than a city block.
2450
02:36:13,948 --> 02:36:15,867
Now, I put the sweat of my life
into this thing.
2451
02:36:15,950 --> 02:36:18,411
I got my reputation all rolled up in it.
2452
02:36:18,494 --> 02:36:22,039
And I have stated several times
that if the Hercules failed to fly,
2453
02:36:22,123 --> 02:36:24,750
I will leave this country
and never come back.
2454
02:36:24,834 --> 02:36:26,377
And I mean it.
2455
02:36:26,460 --> 02:36:27,670
(ALL MURMURING)
2456
02:36:27,753 --> 02:36:29,839
Now, Senator Brewster,
2457
02:36:29,922 --> 02:36:32,508
you can subpoena me,
you can arrest me,
2458
02:36:32,633 --> 02:36:36,679
you can even claim that I've folded up
and taken a run-out powder,
2459
02:36:36,762 --> 02:36:41,225
but, well, I've had just about enough
of this nonsense. Good afternoon.
2460
02:36:41,309 --> 02:36:43,728
(ALL APPLAUDING)
2461
02:36:43,811 --> 02:36:45,646
-Mr. Hughes.
-Mr. Hughes.
2462
02:36:47,690 --> 02:36:49,859
I'd love to see the Hercules in the air.
2463
02:36:50,526 --> 02:36:51,986
Thank you.
2464
02:36:54,822 --> 02:36:57,158
NOAH: Excuse us.
Excuse us please. Thank you.
2465
02:37:01,829 --> 02:37:02,997
Switch it off.
2466
02:37:03,122 --> 02:37:06,208
-The hearings aren't over yet.
-The hearings are over.
2467
02:37:08,836 --> 02:37:11,672
The airline bill will be defeated
in the Senate.
2468
02:37:11,797 --> 02:37:14,884
TWA will begin flights
from New York to Paris
2469
02:37:15,009 --> 02:37:18,137
then on to Moscow,
to Japan, to Hawaii,
2470
02:37:18,638 --> 02:37:20,348
to Los Angeles,
2471
02:37:23,017 --> 02:37:24,393
to New York.
2472
02:37:28,856 --> 02:37:30,024
Fuck.
2473
02:37:34,362 --> 02:37:37,281
-Power coming up!
-ODEKIRK: Power coming up!
2474
02:37:41,661 --> 02:37:43,871
McNAMARA ON RADIO:
Howard Hughes has just alerted us.
2475
02:37:43,955 --> 02:37:45,873
He's asked everyone to hold on.
2476
02:37:45,998 --> 02:37:48,209
Tremendous horsepower picking up.
2477
02:37:50,211 --> 02:37:53,339
-Let me hear it, Odie!
-Twenty-five miles per hour.
2478
02:37:54,006 --> 02:37:55,049
Thirty.
2479
02:37:55,716 --> 02:37:57,176
McNAMARA: Here we go.
2480
02:37:57,885 --> 02:37:59,053
ODEKIRK: 35.
2481
02:37:59,178 --> 02:38:03,808
McNAMARA: The airspeed indicator
has moved up to 25. 30.
2482
02:38:04,392 --> 02:38:05,893
-35.
-ODEKIRK: 40.
2483
02:38:06,018 --> 02:38:08,562
McNAMARA:
And he pushes the throttle. It's 40.
2484
02:38:08,688 --> 02:38:10,147
-45.
-McNAMARA: 45.
2485
02:38:10,231 --> 02:38:11,983
More throttle.
2486
02:38:12,066 --> 02:38:13,734
-45. 50.
-ODEKIRK: 50.
2487
02:38:14,902 --> 02:38:16,153
McNAMARA: It's 50 over a choppy sea.
2488
02:38:16,237 --> 02:38:17,363
ODEKIRK: 55.
2489
02:38:17,446 --> 02:38:20,074
MCNAMARA: It's 55. 55.
2490
02:38:20,157 --> 02:38:21,242
-60.
-McNAMARA: More throttle.
2491
02:38:23,077 --> 02:38:24,245
ODEKIRK: 65.
2492
02:38:29,083 --> 02:38:30,835
-70.
-MCNAMARA: It's 70.
2493
02:38:30,918 --> 02:38:32,753
ODEKIRK: 75.
MCNAMARA: It's 75.
2494
02:38:41,387 --> 02:38:44,432
And something momentarily cut out,
2495
02:38:44,557 --> 02:38:46,600
but at least we are airborne.
2496
02:38:46,684 --> 02:38:48,936
We are airborne,
ladies and gentlemen.
2497
02:38:49,020 --> 02:38:51,856
And I don't believe that
Howard Hughes meant this to be.
2498
02:38:51,939 --> 02:38:53,107
(ALL CHEERING)
2499
02:38:55,192 --> 02:38:57,695
And we were really up in the air.
2500
02:38:57,778 --> 02:39:00,114
We were really up in the air.
2501
02:39:05,202 --> 02:39:08,539
Ladies and gentlemen,
the Hughes mammoth aircraft
2502
02:39:08,622 --> 02:39:12,752
has flown this afternoon
in Los Angeles Harbor.
2503
02:39:13,461 --> 02:39:15,463
It certainly looks, at this moment
2504
02:39:15,546 --> 02:39:18,799
that Howard Hughes
will be around the United States
2505
02:39:18,924 --> 02:39:21,135
for quite some time to come.
2506
02:39:33,314 --> 02:39:34,398
HOWARD: You must understand,
2507
02:39:34,482 --> 02:39:36,734
technologies like these
are the way of the future.
2508
02:39:36,817 --> 02:39:37,985
That's enough questions.
2509
02:39:38,110 --> 02:39:40,071
JACK: TWA and Hughes Aircraft
are delighted
2510
02:39:40,154 --> 02:39:42,823
to have you come here
and witness this wonderful sight.
2511
02:39:43,991 --> 02:39:46,243
-Excuse us for just a second.
-Sorry.
2512
02:39:46,327 --> 02:39:48,662
-So you feel like going to Paris?
-Now?
2513
02:39:48,788 --> 02:39:50,748
TWA is starting up flights to Europe.
2514
02:39:50,831 --> 02:39:54,293
Thought I might pilot the first one
myself. Ought to be some fun.
2515
02:39:54,376 --> 02:39:57,254
-Lots of good shopping in Paris.
-HeII, I'll buy you anything you want.
2516
02:39:57,338 --> 02:40:00,132
You can buy me dinner.
How about that?
2517
02:40:02,551 --> 02:40:04,970
Dinner then. We got a date?
2518
02:40:05,054 --> 02:40:07,223
Okay, baby, you got a date.
2519
02:40:09,225 --> 02:40:13,020
I'll be back in a second.
Don't you go anywhere now. I mean it.
2520
02:40:13,104 --> 02:40:15,189
All right, listen, boys. Something new.
2521
02:40:15,272 --> 02:40:17,274
Jet airplanes.
You know anything about jets?
2522
02:40:17,358 --> 02:40:18,734
No, but it sounds expensive.
2523
02:40:18,818 --> 02:40:21,028
It will be. But we gotta get started.
2524
02:40:22,988 --> 02:40:24,907
Come on, walk with me.
2525
02:40:25,908 --> 02:40:28,202
Whoever can start utilizing
jet technology
2526
02:40:28,285 --> 02:40:30,830
on commercial airliners is gonna win
all the marbles. You understand?
2527
02:40:30,913 --> 02:40:32,331
Odie, what do you know
about the science?
2528
02:40:32,414 --> 02:40:33,541
I know a little.
2529
02:40:33,624 --> 02:40:36,794
I can work something to show you.
Basic turbine stuff.
2530
02:40:41,298 --> 02:40:44,802
Noah, who are those fellows?
2531
02:40:46,345 --> 02:40:48,180
Do they work for me?
2532
02:40:49,473 --> 02:40:51,892
Everybody works for you, Howard.
2533
02:40:58,524 --> 02:40:59,984
Lockheed worked on the F-80.
2534
02:41:00,067 --> 02:41:02,278
So let's get Bob Gross on the phone
and see if he can help us out.
2535
02:41:02,361 --> 02:41:03,362
Okay.
2536
02:41:03,445 --> 02:41:05,698
-What, now?
-Of course now.
2537
02:41:05,781 --> 02:41:08,993
We got to get into it. Jets are going
to be the way of the future.
2538
02:41:09,076 --> 02:41:11,579
-It's 4:30.
-NOAH: I talked to Bob last week.
2539
02:41:11,662 --> 02:41:14,707
-He's in New York, so it's 7:30.
-ODEKIRK: He won't be in the office.
2540
02:41:14,790 --> 02:41:16,500
We'll get Nancy to figure out
what hotel he's at.
2541
02:41:16,584 --> 02:41:18,377
Question is,
do you want a telephone call
2542
02:41:18,460 --> 02:41:20,337
or you want some kind
of meeting right away?
2543
02:41:20,421 --> 02:41:22,089
We want a meeting, don't we, Howard?
2544
02:41:22,173 --> 02:41:24,466
Want me to bring him here
tomorrow then, Howard?
2545
02:41:26,468 --> 02:41:28,971
-The way of the future.
-NOAH: Howard?
2546
02:41:29,054 --> 02:41:31,098
-ODEKIRK: Howard?
-The way of the future.
2547
02:41:32,224 --> 02:41:35,186
-The way of the future.
-Let's take a walk, Howard.
2548
02:41:35,269 --> 02:41:38,355
-The way of the future.
-Give me a hand here, will you, Glenn?
2549
02:41:38,439 --> 02:41:40,482
The way of the future.
(CLEARING THROAT)
2550
02:41:40,566 --> 02:41:43,611
(REPEATING)
The way of the future.
2551
02:41:54,121 --> 02:41:58,292
NOAH: All right, stay here. I'll be right
back. You understand, Howard?
2552
02:42:00,127 --> 02:42:03,088
Guard the door. I'll get a doctor.
No one sees him like this.
2553
02:42:07,426 --> 02:42:08,594
(CLEARING THROAT)
2554
02:42:08,677 --> 02:42:12,139
The way of the future.
The way of the future.
2555
02:42:24,151 --> 02:42:25,861
HOWARD'S MOTHER:
You are not safe.
2556
02:42:34,954 --> 02:42:36,622
YOUNG HOWARD: When I grow up
2557
02:42:36,830 --> 02:42:39,792
I'm going to fly
the fastest planes ever built,
2558
02:42:39,875 --> 02:42:42,294
make the biggest movies ever,
2559
02:42:42,544 --> 02:42:45,172
and be the richest man in the world.
2560
02:42:58,894 --> 02:43:00,854
(WHISPERING) The way of the future.
2561
02:43:08,904 --> 02:43:10,739
The way of the future.
2562
02:43:19,164 --> 02:43:21,000
The way of the future.
2563
02:43:24,461 --> 02:43:26,297
The way of the future.
2564
02:43:28,382 --> 02:43:30,217
The way of the future.
2565
02:43:31,927 --> 02:43:33,470
(ECHOING) The way of the future.
2566
02:43:36,640 --> 02:43:39,393
(MOONLIGHT SERENADE PLAYING)
2567
02:48:48,368 --> 02:48:49,703
(HOWARD HUGHES PLAYING)
2568
02:48:49,786 --> 02:48:52,956
Everybody, let me tell you about speed
2569
02:48:54,708 --> 02:48:57,544
In a time of need
2570
02:48:58,545 --> 02:49:01,965
Get up in the morning
and put on your shoes
2571
02:49:02,549 --> 02:49:07,387
And you can read
about Howard Hughes, oh, Lord
2572
02:49:08,889 --> 02:49:11,600
Read about Howard Hughes
2573
02:49:12,517 --> 02:49:15,562
Get up in the morning,
read about Howard Hughes
2574
02:49:17,898 --> 02:49:20,817
Howard Hughes was a millionaire
2575
02:49:20,901 --> 02:49:24,446
He said, "I'm gonna take a little trip
up in the air"
2576
02:49:24,529 --> 02:49:27,824
He take a trip all around this world
2577
02:49:27,908 --> 02:49:31,745
Try to beat the record
of the great Lindbergh, oh, Lord
2578
02:49:33,997 --> 02:49:35,874
Of the great Lindbergh
2579
02:49:35,957 --> 02:49:38,919
Try to beat the record
of the great Lindbergh
2580
02:49:41,380 --> 02:49:44,424
Katharine Hepburn was at home
on her knees
2581
02:49:44,758 --> 02:49:48,011
Howard Hughes was in the air
He was fighting with speed
2582
02:49:48,095 --> 02:49:50,764
Howard Hughes got back home
and he fell on the air
2583
02:49:50,847 --> 02:49:55,268
He's looking at girls
going to that fair, oh, Lord
2584
02:49:56,603 --> 02:49:59,189
Going to that fair
2585
02:49:59,272 --> 02:50:02,317
Just looking at girls going to that fair