All language subtitles for The Wayward Bus (1)(1957)

Pimples!

Pimples!

Pimples! Coming, Mr. Chicoy.

Sorry I was a little bit late this
morning, Mr. Chicoy. Okay, you want to

inside and start her up?

Why do you suppose he got her up this
morning?

Some kind of trouble like this. Come on,
pimples, wake up, huh?

Always I'm kind of this way this early.

I know.

All right, try her once.

Go on.

Want me to clean the plugs, maybe?

I did an hour ago.

Gee, I'm sorry, Mr. Chicoy.

Anything I can do?

I'd like you to put on a clean shirt,
though. Mrs. Chakoy don't like to see

in a shirt like that.

Sunday, especially.

Yeah, but you know what I think?

She don't like me clean shirt or dirty.

No, that ain't it. A lot of passengers
coming through this time of year.

She got a lot in her mind.

All right, try it again.

Chico won't have to worry about me.

School starts.

What are you going to do with the bus
when the Great Fox Company takes over

run, Mr. Chico?

Sell her and go back to Mexico?

Mexico is not for my wife.

Hold still, can't you?

Because if you're aiming to sell her,
sweetheart, there ain't much sense

a whole lot of work back into her.

You never did own a horse, did you?
Animal any kind.

Oh, that's different.

Animals got feelings.

Pimples, you drive the same bus ten
years. It's got feelings, too.

Mr. Chicoy.

What?

Mr. Chicoy, could we fix it? I mean,
could you fix it so you don't call me

Pimples anymore?

What's your name?

First name.

Ed. Ed Carson.

When my old man was alive, he always
told how we were distant relatives of

Carson.

That's so.

Okay, switch her off now.

Before I got all these pimples in
grammar school, they used to call me

Better load up the tire chains and rope
before the grave box gets in.

Might need them.

Form is up.

Okay, Kit Carson, grab yourself some
coffee. Load up later.

Mr. Chicoy. Is Mr. Chicoy up yet?

I guess.

I'll fix my hair as soon as the coffee's
ready.

Hey, Norma, see if you can get through
the day without breaking a dish.

Don't do it on purpose.

Makes me nervous, that's all.

Hi.

Hi.

A piece of chocolate cake, please.

Cake for breakfast?

Bet Mr.

Robert Wagner doesn't start his day
wolfing down chocolate cake.

How come you never woke me up?

I think a Sunday's a pretty busy day for
you.

Use the sleep.

Sleep? Are you kidding? I should have
been in there an hour ago.

When I woke up, I missed you.

Didn't even hear you get out of bed.

You got a good rest. You look good.

I'd like to see you that way.

If I looked good all the time, there'd
be nothing done.

Come on.

Well, it's Sunday, and it's going to be
a nice day.

Okay?

Okay. Nice day.

Good morning.

I was going to come back and wake you
up.

Are you working outside?

Pretty much. Be a while before the gray
fox gets in the house. Yeah, like five

minutes. Take ten.

The clock is fast at that. Give me a
kiss. You're awful.

Come to think of it, you always are.
What did you expect from an Irish

Nice day, remember?

Okay.

Nice day.

One of these days, Mr. Chicoy, you're
going to kiss us right out of house and

home. Takes two to do it, though.

Don't. Come here.

Mrs. Chicoy!

What is it now?

Mrs. Chicoy, is it okay if Pimple...

Let him have it. Wait a minute. No!

It had a fly in it.

Come on, honey, forget it!

Where's the fly?

You had a fly in your cake yesterday. I
think you carry flies in your pocket.

Why is it you never find a fly until the
cake's half eaten already?

Okay, give him another piece. It's your
idea, not mine.

It is not.

You're like me, Mrs. Chicoy.

We sure hate flies.

Who doesn't?

Other flies, I guess.

I thought I told you to wash those
windows.

Well, it's going to rain. They'll get
dirty again.

If they get dirty again, we'll wash them
again.

People don't eat in dirty places.

Johnny?

Johnny?

Johnny?

That stuff ain't medicine, you know.

It's supposed to be fun.

With you, it ain't fun no more.

It's those kids.

That Norma and pimples.

Name is kid. K -I -T.

You keep on saying I don't look good
anymore.

I said you did look good just a couple
of minutes ago. I said it.

What happened to our day, huh?

The nice one.

We still got it.

It's still here.

No, it ain't.

It's shot.

It and a lot just like it.

Johnny, I don't feel very good today.

Then start feeling good.

You pull that one on me once too often.

Don't run it into the ground.

Get that straight.

Johnny.

Well, I'd be glad when you don't have to
drive that bus into San Juan every day.

Oh, by the time I get there, I'm looking
forward to coming back.

It'll be better when the new highway's
open.

Four buttloads of greyhounds to feed
every day, and you here to help. Yeah,

standing behind the cash register with a
big belly.

You'll never get back.

Listen, you're too good -looking to be
off by yourself without me.

Just remember, nothing ever happens on a
50 -mile bus ride to be jealous of.

It's famous.

The same.

I married you to be with you.

Because I couldn't keep my hands off
you.

I still can, Johnny.

I'd die if you ever walked out on me.

Matter of fact, you wouldn't die.

You'd go looking for somebody else to
pump gas and fill that cigar box of

with more money.

No!

I wonder if there'll be any important
people on the bus today.

Important people don't ride buses.

I happen to know Marlon Brando does.

Incognito. That way he can study people.

Helps his acting. Marlon Brando.

Hey, you better get those curlers out of
your hair.

Start trying to get a crush on a guy you
actually know one time.

It's more fun.

Sorry, Mr. Chicoy.

It's the bus.

Johnny, I gotta go. Let him wait a
minute. Let Norma look after him. Honey,

gotta get in the kitchen. I gotta get
dressed.

You brought me to the end of the world,
all right, didn't you, Mother?

Is that it? We're going to ride 50 miles
in that?

Oh, it'll be fun.

Why, it's an adventure.

Let's leave the complaining to Mildred.

Hey, how about the luggage? Just a
minute.

Hey, hey, Miss.

Is there one to get off here?

Rebel Corners for San Juan?

Oh.

No, thanks.

Mama!

Mama!

What can I get? Juice, sir, fresh orange
juice.

Fresh frozen?

Well, California one, don't expect.

Whatever might I just take black coffee.
Me too, and toast and fresh frozen

orange juice.

You'd better come fresh enough.

You look terrible.

Who to?

I wish you'd let me handle those things
for you. Thanks. Can't afford a tip.

Oh, here. Let me help you.

Noticed you last night on the bus.

Didn't have you figured for the side
trip, though.

Are you going to Mexico, too?

San Juan.

Oh, another tourist, eh?

No. I hear this mission at San Juan is
very colorful. That's why we're taking

the side trip. Yes.

You know, I have the feeling I've met
you someplace before.

I don't think so.

I've been living in Chicago.

Well, that's it. Must have been in
Chicago.

What line of work are you in? Show
business?

I used to do some things around a dental
clinic.

Like, say, a receptionist, maybe?

No, no more like saying, spit out,
please.

Hello, kiddo.

Hello. Something for you?

Just coffee. Black, please.

You're like me.

I like it black, too. Me, too.

With bacon and hotcakes.

Could it have been Dr. Lynch's office?

No? Oh, well, it'll come back to me
sooner or later.

Elliot.

Come, darling. We'll sit over here.

You were kidding him about being from
Chicago, weren't you?

All those Los Angeles labels.

No. L .A. is kind of my base of
operations.

Oh, are you in the movie?

I know.

Now I'm not.

Television, then, I bet, huh?

Hey, miss.

I bet you've had all kinds of offers and
turned them down, though, huh?

That's kind of true. Hey, miss! I got a
friend who works in one of the big

studios in Hollywood.

Really? Is he influential?

He gets coffee.

I'm sorry.

I hate to interrupt your career, Miss
Trapman, but that cup goes to number

I'm sorry.

This gentleman's a coffee, bacon, and
hot cake.

No hot cake, sorry.

Too much to do before you got here.

Mind if I move up?

With free seat?

Thank you.

My name's Ernest Horton.

Easy name to remember because it sort of
fits my personality.

Frank and Ernest. Do you get it? Frank,
Ernest.

You're Miss, uh... Oaks. Miss Oaks.

Well, Miss Oaks, you and I are strangers
at the moment.

Perfect strangers meeting in this desert
cross place, right?

Sort of.

You'd be surprised how unlike strangers
strangers can be when they aren't

strangers anymore, right?

Probably. Well, now, I've got a long way
to go today, so who knows what might

happen. Mr. Horton, everybody knows what
might happen. So for the 50 miles,

let's see if we can't just stay
acquaintances.

Hmm? Think we could?

Well, now, you just might be surprised.

I always am.

The joy of my life.

Sorry.

Here, let me get you another cup of
coffee. No, that's all right.

I've got to check the bus.

You the driver?

Yeah.

Mildred.

Yes, Mother.

Father and I are sitting over here,
Mildred. You look good there.

Will you leave her alone, Bernice?

We've done enough as it is.

You know why she was talking to that bus
driver, don't you? Because she spilled

his coffee. She was doing it to test us,
to see if we care about her.

She's still a child looking for her
father.

Then she'd better put on her bifocals
because I'm right here. I'm quoting her

psychoanalyst.

Poppycock. Now, will you stop nagging
and let her enjoy the trip? Heaven knows

it isn't easy.

Because you aren't making it easy.

Oh, when we get to Mexico, I'll sing,
I'll dance, I'll weave hot tamales in my

hair. You'll see.

All this is for her sake, not mine.

She's the one who was getting herself
talked about by that basketball coach.

Okay, okay, so we didn't like the
basketball coach.

But the fact is the world is full of
basketball coaches, even in Mexico. And

you don't know it, she'll prove it to
you. Here is another bulletin on weather

conditions as they affect the extreme
southern tip of California.

The following highways have been placed
on the danger list.

Cabrillo, Ate, and San Juan.

Only emergency travel is recommended.

Bureau forecasts intermittent rain
throughout the day.

The low -pressure area is moving slowly
with clearing skies.

Look, when you get to San Juan, you
better load up and head straight back.

You fool around too long, you won't have
any passengers to make the trip back.

Not when that rain catches up with you.
Make a nickel, make a dime, make a

dollar. It's not a dollar. It's 15, 20
bucks.

For the gas.

Hey, you popcorn poop!

Chicoy!

Yes, Mr. Van Brunt.

Listen to me, Chicoy.

I've got to be in the county registrar's
office no later than three o 'clock,

understand? Well, if the river ain't too
high beyond Breach Junction, you'll get

there by two.

Well, suppose it is too high. What do
you do then?

Oh, I might turn around and come back
again.

Don't try getting funny with me, Chicoy.

If we don't get to San Juan by three o
'clock, I'll be in trouble.

So will you.

I'll change my clothes now, Mr. Chicoy.

I don't know what to do.

Somebody was supposed to meet me at San
Juan at one.

Oh, can I use your phone?

Go ahead.

I wonder what a girl like that wants to
go to a crummy place like San Juan for.

I wouldn't want to discommodate you any,
but... I mean, I'd hate to be a bother,

but would you do me a real big favor?

Take an envelope and give it to that
friend of yours at the studio

Oh, gee, honey, he's very busy.

A break like that, please.

It wouldn't work.

It wouldn't change anything.

Okay, go get me the letter. It won't
make any difference. Believe me.

Hello, Mr. Stanton.

This is Camille Lokes.

How do you do?

I hate to bother you at your office, but
my bus doesn't get in till two.

Well, I'll be looking for you then at
the bus station.

Hmm?

Well...

Friends want music and colored lights
and that stuff. That's entirely up to

them.

What magazine?

Which number?

No, I didn't.

I'm glad you thought so.

That? That was strictly a frame -up.

Yeah, I'll see you later.

a word from our partner.

Why not lump all your debts in two?

What are you doing, Norma?

Oh, I just forgot something in my room.

Your invitation to the Academy Awards,
maybe?

It ain't none of your business, Mrs.
Chico. Are you supposed to want my

customers to think I've got a bunch of
goons waiting on them?

Norma Trapp.

Bus 34, waist 22.

What am I running here, a girly show or
something?

You can get that picture back or else.
Don't you threaten me, Miss Movie Queen.

And just do your work and quit
pretending you're somebody you're not.

You've got to stop making fun of me.
Just do one honest hour's work. That's

I ask. Just one hour.

Don't you push me, Mrs. Chicoy. I'm
going.

Ever since I came to work for you,
you've been picking on me because you're

jealous. Not because of work, but
because you're jealous.

Jealous? Of you, of me, and every other
young girl who came to work here.

And frankly, Mrs. Chicoy, I can't blame
you for being jealous one little bit.

Why, you... Cut it out.

You got the donuts. You got the
customers. That's what you want.

Johnny?

I wonder if I sit with you, honey.

Oh, you want to be helped, but why don't
you put these suitcases down there?

It's a privilege and a pleasure.

Sorry, was I bothering you?

If I was, I certainly didn't mean to.

A whistling girl and a crowing hen
always come to some bad end.

That's what they taught me.

Okay.

You been driving this bus long?

Since you was in fifth grade, anyways.

I skipped fifth grade. I was smart.

Billy!

Mother, please.

You must get awfully tired driving this
road every day.

Elliot, I wonder if you have any insight
as to what your daughter's up to. I'd

say she's going full speed to the bus
driver's stage.

Oh, you can be ugly sometimes.

I know. And you put things so prettily
always.

Young lady, it's against the law to talk
to the bus driver.

Mildred, the gentleman's quite right,
Mildred.

When we flew to Honolulu last summer,
you weren't allowed to talk to that

in the cabin, were you?

No, I waited.

What are you going to San Juan for?

Not if you want to see me there.

I sure wish you were taking the Gray Fox
straight through to L .A. tonight.

I'm going to try and get a job at a
drive -in.

I know you could just help me an awful
lot.

The things I could help you with
wouldn't do you any good at a drive -in,

You know those red velvet trousers they
make you wear?

And do they stretch among time?

Do you pay for them?

Oh, no.

They'll lend you a pair. One size too
small.

Gee, I'd hate that.

Even if I did get discovered.

Well, I'll tell you. There are two ways
of getting discovered, honey. The coming

and going.

You better figure them both.

Maybe we could meet after you get to
Hollywood.

And if it didn't work out for me at the
drive -in, maybe I could learn to do the

same thing you do.

What do you mean, the same thing I do?

I don't mean at the same place. I'd work
at a different den.

We could sort of share experiences.

Well, we'll see how it goes.

Are you married?

No. Never?

How come you never married?

The right guys had the wrong ideas.

How about if the right guy had the right
idea?

This is none of your business, Mr.
Horton. You don't even know my business,

you? Salesman.

And yours?

Miss Oaks is a dental nurse.

What do you sell besides you, Mr.
Horton?

Oh, I travel on a very dignified line.

Move!

Would you mind sitting on that?

Careful!

What's going on?

It's a bestseller. Bought to get one for
your mother -in -law.

What's that black satin? This? Oh,
that's not a joke. That's an invention

own. It's a slipcover.

Fits over the lapel of a man's suit.
Makes it into a tuxedo.

Hey, that's kind of a cute idea.

Ingenious. Yeah, now I got another line
here. Let me get that. Oh, here.

I've got it.

It's okay. I've got it. Do you mind if I
borrow this?

No, go right ahead.

Now I have a little article here which
is truly one of the wonders of the

Would you like to take a guess what it
is?

Go ahead.

Elephant? No.

Hurt reconvertible?

Nope. Racehorse?

No. But something that even the Queen of
Sheba herself might envy.

And what's it made of? The platinum of
today.

Plastic. Just as clear as a crystal and
shiny as a diamond.

And I would like you to have it, my
dear, with my compliments.

No, thank you.

Well, how about you, Norma?

No, I couldn't. Oh, go ahead, honey.
Take it. He wants you to have it.

me, he does.

Why, sure she can tell when a guy's on
the level, can't she, honey?

Oh, look, it's raining in here.

Forgot to tell you about that seat.

Better move to another seat, baby.

Let's see what he gave you, Norma.

Huh. Worth about 69 cents.

You.

I was reading where a man can take a
correspondence course in electronics and

make $600 a month after.

I guess it can be done.

If you would date with me, and when I
get into electronics, I'd buy you one of

those things made of silver.

Coming to Breed's General Store.

Comfort stop if necessary.

Keep on going. Nobody wants to stop.

Do you?

Anybody under pressure?

Well, I'll sacrifice myself to the
general good.

Atta girl.

Elliot, we're never going to get there.
Wherever it is, we're going.

This is how you wanted it. Off the
beaten path.

Driver, are we on schedule?

Schedule? Mister, this ain't the
champagne flight to Chicago.

Do you know where that wind's coming
from?

Southwest. Do you know where those
clouds are coming from?

Southwest.

Do you know where all our rain comes
from, mostly?

Northeast? Yes, Doctor. No!

Southwest. Hey, why don't you take your
own advice and shut up for a while, huh?

I wasn't talking to you, Chicoy.

I was addressing my fellow passengers.

I got the right.

I paid my fare.

Speaking about the weather, how about me
buying you a nice wet drink and we get

to the end of the line?

You know, it was real nice of you giving
the kid that comfort.

Well, I am nice.

And smart, too, I suppose.

If I was smart, I'd be settled down in
marriage instead of peddling stuff

like this.

Hey, how about that? Harriet, you and
me, huh?

Well, it's original, no question about
it.

Simple as ABC.

S -E -X, you mean.

Look, you're a salesman, so am I.

We both know what the score is, it's
even. So why don't we call it that and

quit, okay?

I didn't know you were a salesman.

Well, I am, and a good one.

How about that drink?

I don't drink.

All right, then I'll have two drinks.
I'll drink to the both of us.

Fine, you do that. Now, why don't you
leave me alone so I can catch up on

been happening to the rest of the world?

You know, as a salesman, you'll learn.
See that, Chicoy?

I see it.

That helicopter belongs to the highway
department, folks.

We're in trouble.

I was done!

Fox, you bet we've seen it. We've got to
get that road blocked off.

Are you crazy, man? I was telling you to
go back.

Is that the only slide?

There's about three more up above. It'll
be a week before the road's clear.

Now look, Chicoy, I got business in the
county courthouse before three o 'clock

today. Not a chance then, Brunt.

Wait a minute. How about that old
washboard road down the canyon?

Is that still open? Nobody uses that no
more except Old Joe and a couple of

sheep herders. Well, it's wide enough
for the bus.

It's a good 15 -mile detour.

Nothing in your franchise says you have
to make the run, Johnny. Not with

conditions bad like this. I know there
ain't, Hal.

Is the phone line still open to the
corners?

Don't know. I haven't tried it.

Operator, get me through to Rebel
Corners, will you?

I'm not facing too hard, am I?

Yeah, I love it, love it, love it.

You take care of you all right?

Just fine.

Got a kind of burn out of this doll. All
you need is a purple heart.

Got some mercurochrome in here
somewhere.

Oh, no, honey, I don't want any
mercurochrome.

My face is all red. Give me a Band -Aid.
If you've got some brandy, my wife's

pretty badly shaken.

No liquor license.

I got some bourbon.

My case, will you, honey?

I sure appreciate this, young fellow.
You're welcome.

You ought to stay still.

Say, do you carry any novelies here?

Like what?

Here, look.

You like candy?

Would you keep trying, please?

Johnny? I was okay.

How about yourself?

Look, I... I had not a love like that.

I was too rough on you.

I'm sorry, honey.

Well, you know, Johnny, sometimes we do
things out of love that don't seem like

love at all.

You know what I mean?

It's all right, because I love you, even
when you act like a stinker.

Even when I act like a stinker, that
takes some doing.

So you just turn the old bus around and
come back here double quick?

Yeah.

And you better cut down on that drinking
double quick, too.

Why don't you go to bed, honey? Go to
bed and take it easy today.

Look, I'll go to bed when... Hey, when
are you coming back anyway?

Well, that's what I was calling about.
There was a landslide and the road is

closed and I was... We was just... No,
I... get it. What do you mean?

I mean all of a sudden the road is
closed and you've got no place to go

back to mama.

Honey, that ain't it.

Gotta come back anyway so you make it
sound like a pretty good deal.

Like you're sorry and I'm sorry and all
those Danes are sorry and Norma's sorry.

I called you because I was gonna see
you. And I was glad I was gonna see you.

And if you wasn't so drunk you'd know it
was the truth.

Poor Johnny.

He tried to get away and couldn't make
it.

Now you can't even cry on a blunt
shoulder.

See you, Johnny.

I'll have some beans cooking or
something. You don't have to worry about

dinner or any of that.

All right, everybody.

I'm taking the bus over the old road to
San Juan.

What kind of a road is that?

It's a good road.

A washboard road.

Mister, if you don't want to come, you
don't have to.

While the sheriff's off to San Juan to
report those flights.

Mildred, your mother and I think we'd
better hire someone to drive us back to

the main highway right away.

Lieutenant, we've come all this way to
see the San Juan mission. No one ever

really wanted to see it anyway.

Elliot, how could you tell us such a
thing?

I do want to see it. I've been told 21
times that it's for the good of my soul.

Too big.

Did you bring the shearer?

Here.

One thing's sure. I'm not going to spend
one night under Mrs.

Cheekoy's roof again ever.

Can I ride next to you this time?

All the way, I mean.

Well, I don't know if I get a chance to
be next to Miss Oaks, that's for sure.

She's not getting so old, she ain't been
to Ditcher in the Mountains someplace.

You know, you was listening.

Alice can be an awful fool sometimes.

She ain't no fool.

She just don't care enough.

Not about me, anyhow.

You got a lot of woman here.

Better think twice, Johnny.

Charge this, same as usual?

Yep. Alice can pay for it.

Sweetheart, one tank full of gas.

That's all I'm taking.

Sounds like the G -coys was busting up.

Sure does.

Let's say we go back down the road a
piece. Put up a couple of road closed

or rebel corners. We might even get a
slice of pie from Alice.

What do you say?

Long since you had a permanent slob.

Look at that blouse.

It's clean.

And since you rubbed some delicious,
exotic beauty cream

on that silly face of yours.

It costs too much.

So bad dog.

Because you got gas.

You got chicken.

You started funding and saving and penny
-pinching.

Maybe it ain't too late, Johnny.

That landslide, you know.

Gotta come back.

Johnny, you've got to come back.

You've got to come back.

Watford Road.

Now I know what they mean.

Driver, how far is it this bad?

When we get to the bridge, how far is
that?

Driver, I said, how far is that?

About eight miles.

Holy cow.

Do you know what you were saying about
not spending another night under her

roof, Mrs. Chicoy's? And I meant it.

I know, but I've got a feeling Mr.
Chicoy isn't going to spend another

under her roof either, ever.

I wouldn't if I was him.

I know, but I was thinking, if I was to
marry someone, I don't see how

I'd be able to forget him.

Ever. Not once I loved him. Not even
Mrs. Chicoy?

Well, what I want in a wife is to be
true.

And Mrs. Chicoy is that all right.

How about you? You plan to be true, too?

Oh, sure.

If she's the right kind of wife, I will.

Suppose she isn't.

Well, then I'd show her a thing or two.

I'd show her two could play that game.

Like Cary Grant done in that movie.

You and Cary Grant.

Ha! Hey.

Yes, Mr. Chicoy? My eyes are shook
loose. Get it out of here, will you?

Oh, I'm sorry.

Wasn't your fault.

Here, want one?

Oh, no, thanks.

I give up smoking.

Long ago.

How about you?

I could use one.

Here, I'll light it for you. Your hands
are kind of busy.

Little lipstick on it. Hope you don't
mind. I don't mind.

Who's that?

What? On the dial.

It's the Virgin.

Virgin Guadalupe.

What does she do?

When you ain't sure about something, you
ask her.

And then she tells you?

Then you tell yourself.

You're Mexican?

My mother was Irish.

Handsome people, both sides.

No wonder you're not so bad.

And how old are you?

So old, I like being nice.

Make you feel better?

Nope.

I'm going to drop you off on the San
Juan bus station in about 40 minutes.

A pity.

You'll never know.

Elliot, I'm afraid I'm going to be car
sick.

You suppose they have any of those
little cardboard containers that they

airplanes? Of course they don't.

Maybe if you'd close your eyes and try
to relax, you'd feel better.

Elliot. Huh?

I can hear your teeth.

Don't you think you ought to take out
your dentures? No.

You... Lean back. You'll be all right.

You know, I hope this bouncing doesn't
open up your cusp.

Honey, forget it. It's nothing.

Camille, are you in love?

Huh? I mean, with anybody?

No.

You feel like being in love?

I don't know. I really don't quite know.

Wouldn't it be fantastic if we, what I
mean, if you and I sort of possibly

wind up? Ernest, I'd like to ask you a
highly personal question.

Sure, go ahead.

Quite honestly, why do you want me?

Oh, because you're a thrifty or a good
cook and you hemstitch wirelessly.

No, I mean honestly.

Honestly?

Because you are probably the most
fabulously attractive girl I have ever

to.

And?

And on the other hand, I'm a man who
never spoke to Ava Gardner.

Well, that's honest.

You sure had me pegged for a fresh guy
to make this morning, didn't you? I

I did.

And you know something?

You were absolutely right.

Scratch the surface just a little.
You'll find out I'm really not just a

guy.

I have depth. I think I have.

Want to scratch the surface a little?

Mm -hmm.

Oh, boy.

Nice.

I haven't felt this good in years.

I mean, it's been years, too.

Well, I see you two are getting pretty
chummy.

Young fella, you and I have some serious
talking to do.

You're obviously a man of considerable
talent. And that's something I like to

see in a young fella.

Look, I come to L .A. quite a few times
a year.

You've got an apartment, haven't you?
That's right.

I wouldn't be surprised if we could do
some business together.

How's that?

But now look, Horton, I'm always on the
look... I'm always on the lookout for

fellows with initiative who know the way
around, you know?

Well, I have been giving some thought to
settling down the regular job with a

proper firm. You may have come to the
right man, my boy.

Maybe we can all get together in L .A.
sometime and have some fun. Who knows,

huh?

There's the bridge, folks.

Hey,

keep on.

What did you bust weigh?

About 6 ,500 empty.

She was, isn't she?

Yeah, 1922.

All right, everybody has to go across on
foot. Help me cross, kid.

Come on, Mother.

I can carry you, Norma. You watch out
for yourself.

What about you, Batbrun?

Oh, quit showing off. That bridge is
good and you know it.

I've got to be in San Juan by three o
'clock. Now quit talking and get moving.

All right, you ask for a ride. You're
going to get it.

Let's go.

Okay, kid.

Timber just cracked, but it's behind us.

Got him!

Hurry up!

We'll keep going.

Get out!

Get out!

Jump!

Hold my hand right for me.

You're crazy!

I'm still Johnny, thanks to you, Mr.
Carson.

Didn't throw your ticket away, did you?

Don't worry, I'll get you to San Juan.
I'll get you there today.

There should have been more. Here.

Why don't you go down the road and put
up the sign?

After that, you might do some work in
your engine.

And, Bud, take your time.

You want to go eat that pie all by
yourself?

That's right.

Okay, Bud.

I'll get you a cup of coffee afterwards.

After what?

Oh, calm down.

What are you taking a bath for in the
middle of the day, anyhow? Get out!

Didn't answer my question.

Why a bath this time of day?

If you must know, I'm getting myself
boiled out before Johnny gets back.

And what makes you think Johnny's coming
back?

What are you talking about?

There's been a landslide. He had to.

When last seen, he and the bus were
heading south over the old road.

That's why I'm here.

I thought you might need a good shoulder
to cry on.

He said he was coming back.

You and him are no good for each other
anyway.

I'll let you know about it.

Let him sweat it out.

He'll be back one day.

Back and sorry.

I don't want him sorry.

That's not the way I want him.

I'm the one that's sorry.

Get off that bed!

Get out!

Don't get me wrong, Alice.

I like Johnny.

Just stopped by for coffee and donuts.

Like fun you did.

Okay, then get out to the lunchroom.

Oh, Elliot, I'm frightened.

He's some kind of foreigner or
something. Tell him not to drive so

man's had enough trouble for one day.
Well, don't be afraid of what people

of you all the time. Go on, tell him.
No.

What did you say? I said no.

Say it.

Open the brake hole.

There's something burning.

It's the brakes.

I say stop about it! Stop, do you hear?

Let the man drive, will you? Drive, have
you gone crazy?

Sorry, folks.

Sorry?

By the purest luck, we didn't turn
turtle.

Could have killed all of us.

I had you figured for a better man,
Chief.

Better drive right away. Raffle?

He drove good, mister.

You drive that good with water in the
brake drums. Why didn't you get him

Bringing us over this road was criminal
negligence. It certainly was.

It isn't the road.

It's the equipment.

This old bus ought to have been
condemned long ago.

The one ought to have been condemned is
that fool bus driver. Yeah, it's a hard

way. You didn't have to come along. I
told you that. We should have known

better, considering you weren't even
born in this country.

Mother! There doesn't have to be a
native son to get his brakes relined.

didn't he?

A very full report of this whole thing
is going to be made to the Highway

Commission. Believe me.

Where do you think you're going?

Down the road.

Farmhouse about two miles away.

Get a tractor.

Hey, Chicoy!

Look here. You can't leave us just like
that. That's not how I say so.

Not in the middle of a mud hole.

Elliot!

Want me to come see Johnny?

No, kid.

Stay and watch after the customers.

I broke his strap. Oh, get yourself a
lawyer and sue.

Now he won't get there till dawn. I
don't know what I'm going to do.

I wish you had your troubles.

There's a slip showing.

Thank you.

I had no idea Alice would take it so
hard. One man dame.

She'll get over it.

Like he turns on the gas. Huh?

What are you talking about?

You're going up!

Up and over!

Do you mean it, Hal?

Do you really mean it?

You're gonna be what, scared? Probably
throw up?

Get going!

Cowards!

I took a walk.

Usually wear these when the light isn't
too good.

Sure.

Helps you see better.

I'm sorry.

About coming here?

No, about all those people.

My mother and my father, too.

I mean, the way they turned on you,
you'd think that what happened was your

fault or something.

You come here to tell me that?

No.

I took a walk.

I saw your footprints and it was
raining.

Yeah. Your coat's all wet.

Why don't you take it off?

So are my shoes and my stockings.

Pretty lonely type girl, ain't you?

What makes you say that?

I got eyes back on my neck.

You and your folks are not so good, huh?

Right, not so good.

Seems like kind of a nice trip they're
giving you.

Giving me?

They're hauling me away from something
they don't approve of.

What was wrong with him?

He's male.

My mother doesn't approve of males.

Kind of tough on your father.

Father stopped being a mail a long time
ago. He's just a good provider.

Something I don't understand.

Why'd you come along?

They challenged me.

Said I didn't know my own mind.

Looks like they had a point.

I guess I always have to let them make
their point.

Someday they're going to be sorry.

Someday?

Could be today.

Aren't you going to have one?

No.

Then I don't want any.

What do you want?

I don't know.

I guess right this second just to be
here with you.

Aren't you going to make a pass at me?

You mean I'd fall into your lap anyway,
so why bother?

I'll bother when you get through arguing
with yourself.

Will you laugh at me? Do you care?

I do very much.

I talk too much.

I bet right at this second you're
probably laughing at yourself saying,

doesn't she stop talking? Why don't you?

No place to land.

Oh, but you've got to land.

We'll land you a piece of pack.

Hey! I've got one.

I'll pay you $30.

Hey! He can't hear you, mister.

Hey!

Hey!

Thanks,

cousin.

I'm not going to worry about this.

Just walking in the rain gives some
people what they call a Freudian

Oh, Bernice, face is back. She's
probably with that bus driver right now.

Then I wish she was dead.

I don't.

I'm as ashamed of this as you are, but I
don't put the blame on Mildred.

But we've done everything, haven't we?

You're a pure white angel, Bernice.

I think you hate it if I so much as
touch your hand.

Always have. Elliot, how can you...
Brought up in an atmosphere like that,

could Mildred develop any right human
values?

Why, Elliot, we have the sweetest,
cleanest marriage I know.

Yes, Denise, yes.

See if you can't get 40 weeks.

Look, that isn't poison ivy.

California holly. What?

California holly.

I grew up in Salinas.

I wish I'd known you then. I missed a
lot of stops along the way.

They don't know me at all, they missed.

They don't know anything about me.

I don't have to know anymore about you.

Everything I said, I meant.

Did you really?

Can you doubt the word of a traveling
salesman?

I was only kidding, sweetie.

Always make more than jokes, that's me.

It helps when you lack physical appeal.

What are you talking about?

I never won a beauty contest.

Why not?

Did you know those shoes you were going
to lend me?

You know, when my vacation is over, we
ought to get together.

I'd like to.

I've been watching you operate all along
on this trip. I like your style of

approach.

How do you mean?

Well, for a guy in my position, those
kind of dames are pretty tough to meet.

And even then, you're never sure which
way they're going to jump.

I mean, you're professionals. You're b
-girls. You're chorus -line blondes.

What professionals? What are you talking
about?

You know, he's never even asked me one
single thing about myself.

Why should he?

Remember when he said, why shouldn't we
get married? Just kidding.

Well, he said it again.

For serious.

Really and truly.

Are you going to?

He's got a little apartment.

Spanish type.

And he's going to buy me the latest
model self -timing electric stove. All

do is set it and when the steak's done,
it plays tenderly. Oh, Camille.

Camille? Are you crazy?

Who's crazy?

You.

Just because a girl's got blonde hair
and got a build on her, guys like you

think all you gotta do... Is that so?
Well, I've got news for you, my pure

friend. Not only in the magazine, but
I've seen her doing her act.

What magazine?

You... Pritchard, you never saw that
girl before in your entire life. Don't

me. You know where it was?

It was at a convention in Chicago last
fall, sitting in a big glass of

champagne. I knew I'd seen... Hey, are
you kidding? Why, it was in your

magazine. That's when it came back to
me.

What are you talking about?

You mean you didn't see it?

I thought that's why you were handing
her that line of wool.

Thanks.

Hi.

Hi.

Gee, these are swell shoes. They must
cost a fortune.

I think you're the lucky... Skip it,
Norma.

I'll talk to you later.

All set?

No. What's the matter?

Oh, I lost one darn old earring.

Hey!

What you doing in my barn? I drive the
bus from Rebel Corners. We're stuck down

the road a mile or so. Need your
tractor.

It'll cost you.

Oh.

On quite a detour, ain't you, son?

Yep.

Move that, will you?

You're thinking so hard, Johnny, I can
almost hear you. Don't listen.

Thinking about your wife?

Yeah.

I thought you loved her.

I did.

But as soon as I drop this busload in
San Juan, I'm going to hightail it back

fast. You really love her?

Nobody else does.

Maybe that's why I do.

She drinks too much. She's money hungry.

But you know something?

When I'm in her arms, I'm the only guy
in the world.

We've got to make this bus as light as
we can. You ladies are just excess

weight. Come on out.

Hi, folks.

Mrs. Chicoy.

How did you get here?

By air.

Me? I get dizzy on the stepladder.

Where's Johnny?

Uh, he, uh, he... Went after the
tractor.

Uh, leave this home if you could.

We... We had a little trouble.

The steward did.

Where's the blonde?

Right here.

Hi. Hi.

Hey,

Johnny. Is the driver coming up?

They're coming up. Soon as she finds her
earring or some darn thing.

Who's she?

Girl with her.

What if you lose her earring?

In the barn.

Mildred, please.

I'm so humiliated. Let my daughter have
her own regrets.

Mood sailing from now on.

Alice, I want to talk to you.

I've got to talk to you.

Oh, Chicoy, talk in your own time. Get
us to San Juan pronto.

There's nothing to be said, Johnny.

How long are you going to stay in San
Juan tonight?

All night.

Meaning what?

Exactly what you think it means.

I ever tell you I was a school teacher?

You could have told me about the
magazine.

Fresh out of a pokey.

I wasn't trying to hide anything from
you. I was going to break it to you

gradually.

What do you want me to do? Wear a sign
on my back?

I'd still like to see you when we get to
L .A.

For old times' sake.

Okay? Let me just give you a buzz
sometime.

Who knows?

Mind if I sit here?

None of my business, but mind if I tell
you what I did to a guy I was in love

with once?

Broke a chair over his head after I
caught him kissing some dame at a party.

I didn't ever try that again.

Don't know. Never saw him after that.

But he's married.

Happily married.

And I make a living.

Believe me, breaking a chair over a
guy's head can sure work miracles.

The kind of miracles that will laugh up
your whole life.

Here we are, folks. Into the line.

We'll hit sign one in a couple of
minutes.

Hand me that bag, will you, please? I
hope she kept that county clerk's office

open. Who?

A lady of my acquaintance. We're going
to get married.

Well, kitty fool.

You're three hours late.

Well, it rains so hard.

Bye, John.

Huh? Oh.

All right.

Norma?

You forgot your Saturday and Sunday.

Thanks, Mrs. Chicoy.

There's an extra ten in there for... I'm
sorry, Norma.

Thanks a lot.

Alice, where are you going?

None of your business, Johnny. You've
got to listen to me.

It's all over, Johnny.

Thanks for a nice long ride.

Alice! Hey, Chicoy!

Get moving!

You're blocking number six.

Get on your loading spot.

Reno, one -way single.

Out of ten?

There will be a short delay for the six.

Please listen for the announcement.
Hello.

Chairman of our little entertainment
committee.

Welcome. Thank you.

And I hope you're not too exhausted.

I'm ready to work, Mr. Stanley. Well, I
was coming to that. You see, the actual

occasion, this little show we hired you
for, isn't until tomorrow night after

all. So I thought we could... I see.

So you thought we might get together for
a little talk, hmm?

Did you see my wife?

Yeah, she's over there.

Alice!

The change of the 40 cents... Alice!
Alice, honey!

Listen!

The key range of the issued CV has been
found.

Please inquire at the information desk.

That's an awfully long telegram,
Mildred.

Look, when you tell a man that you're
not only coming back, you should also

to marry him.

Yeah, I have.

It takes more than ten words.

You've gone into particulars in a
telegram?

What do you expect?

Hospital San Diego, leaving at door
number one.

All aboard, please. Elliot!

Just a minute for me. Hospital San
Diego, leaving at door number one. There

are. All aboard, please.

You know, you should be grateful to me,
Horton. I saved you from a bad mistake.

Where do those girls usually wind up? I
mean, in the end.

You mean who marries them?

Yeah. Who knows?

What's more, who cares? I sort of do.

Are you kidding?

No, I'm not.

Nice.

Kind, even -tempered.

Sweet.

About the most attractive person I ever
spoke to.

And you know something?

Physical attraction is a very important
thing.

I do my act tonight or I take the first
bus back to L .A. Camille, but we can't

tonight. Then you better start looking
around for another gal for tomorrow

night, Mrs. Stanton.

But a night, too. But, Miss Oaks.

Can I speak to you for just a minute? It
really is important.

Okay, it sure better be.

About our electric stove.

Electric stove?

For our new apartment?

Young man, are you picketing this place?

Norma!

Yes, Mr. Chicoy?

Alice is still in there.

Tell her if she don't come out, I go in.

Sure, Mr. Chicoy.

Knowing you.

Mrs. Chicoy.

Reno bus leaving from door number three.

Mrs. Chicoy.

Nobody else in here, dearie.

She's not there. There's another door.

Reno bus leaving from door number three.
I'll bet that's her bus.

For where?

Reno.

The bus for Reno? Here it is. Good.

Alice?

What are you doing here?

It was the bus to Rebel Corners.