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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:23,712 --> 00:00:26,590 [ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof title music ] 2 00:02:18,660 --> 00:02:21,246 [ Ghostly stadium noises ] 3 00:02:24,708 --> 00:02:27,711 IMAGINARY FANS: [ Chanting ] We want Pollitt. Brick Pollitt. 4 00:02:27,794 --> 00:02:29,880 We want Pollitt. Brick Pollitt. 5 00:02:30,171 --> 00:02:32,257 [ Chanting continues ] 6 00:02:40,557 --> 00:02:44,185 [ Lmaginary fans applaud and cheer ] 7 00:03:00,869 --> 00:03:02,913 [ Lmaginary starter's pistol goes off ] 8 00:03:03,246 --> 00:03:05,957 [ Lmaginary fans applaud and cheer ] 9 00:03:11,630 --> 00:03:13,799 [ Lmaginary fans moan ] 10 00:03:25,852 --> 00:03:27,396 [ Brick moans ] 11 00:03:35,821 --> 00:03:38,615 [ Children play march music ] 12 00:04:04,015 --> 00:04:05,559 MAGGIE: Don't you do that! 13 00:04:06,101 --> 00:04:08,853 I'm warning you, Trixie. Gooper! 14 00:04:09,062 --> 00:04:12,399 Can't you stop your child from putting her hands in the ice cream? 15 00:04:12,524 --> 00:04:13,567 Trixie. 16 00:04:14,693 --> 00:04:15,736 Trixie! 17 00:04:16,820 --> 00:04:19,614 Couldn't you at least wash your hands before you did that? 18 00:04:22,325 --> 00:04:23,869 [ Maggie yelps ] 19 00:04:30,959 --> 00:04:32,168 MAE: Maggie! 20 00:04:32,377 --> 00:04:34,295 You stop that! 21 00:04:34,504 --> 00:04:36,965 How could you do that to a child? 22 00:04:37,507 --> 00:04:39,843 Like this, honey. 23 00:04:46,724 --> 00:04:47,768 MAE: Gooper! 24 00:04:48,435 --> 00:04:50,687 Did you see what she did? 25 00:04:50,896 --> 00:04:54,024 I told her to wash her hands first. 26 00:05:09,289 --> 00:05:12,960 One of those no-neck monsters hit me with some ice cream. 27 00:05:13,377 --> 00:05:16,421 BRICK: Why do you call Gooper's kiddies ''no-neck monsters''? 28 00:05:16,588 --> 00:05:19,591 Because your brother's children have got no necks. 29 00:05:20,675 --> 00:05:25,764 Their fat little heads sit on their fat bodies without a bit of connection. 30 00:05:25,931 --> 00:05:27,349 That's too bad. 31 00:05:27,557 --> 00:05:31,353 Especially 'cause, if they have no necks you can't wring them. Right, honey? 32 00:05:35,399 --> 00:05:36,650 GOOPER: Here we are! 33 00:05:36,733 --> 00:05:38,360 MAE: Come on, Buster, Sonny. 34 00:05:38,485 --> 00:05:40,695 Go get in the car. We're all going to go. 35 00:05:42,906 --> 00:05:45,909 Did you ever hear so many dog's names tagged on to children? 36 00:05:46,117 --> 00:05:49,621 They've got five monsters and number six coming up. 37 00:05:49,830 --> 00:05:53,667 They've brought the whole bunch here like animals to display at a county fair. 38 00:05:53,875 --> 00:05:56,211 It's so obvious, it's disgusting. 39 00:05:56,419 --> 00:05:58,129 It's obvious what they're up to. 40 00:05:58,671 --> 00:06:01,008 What are they up to, Maggie? 41 00:06:02,968 --> 00:06:05,554 I'll tell you what they're up to, boy of mine. 42 00:06:05,762 --> 00:06:09,015 They're up to cutting you out of your father's estate. 43 00:06:09,974 --> 00:06:12,144 Everybody knows Big Daddy's... 44 00:06:12,352 --> 00:06:14,062 ...dying of... 45 00:06:15,063 --> 00:06:18,566 MAGGIE: I ought to send Sister Woman a bill for a new pair of stockings. 46 00:06:19,234 --> 00:06:20,276 Do we? 47 00:06:20,527 --> 00:06:21,694 Do we what? 48 00:06:22,820 --> 00:06:25,824 Know that Big Daddy is dying of... 49 00:06:26,575 --> 00:06:28,243 Don't you believe it? 50 00:06:28,660 --> 00:06:30,495 You'll know soon enough. 51 00:06:30,704 --> 00:06:32,497 MAGGIE: Suppose he is? 52 00:06:32,705 --> 00:06:34,582 There's some things you've got to face. 53 00:06:34,666 --> 00:06:37,961 There's some things in this world you've simply got to face. 54 00:06:38,378 --> 00:06:41,423 Why was Big Daddy in that horrible clinic for six weeks... 55 00:06:41,506 --> 00:06:43,842 ...if the examination didn't show anything? 56 00:06:43,925 --> 00:06:48,097 Why did Brother Man bring his whole tribe down here in this sticky heat? 57 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:51,433 And why so many allusions to you and Rainbow Hill? 58 00:06:52,309 --> 00:06:53,935 You know what Rainbow Hill is? 59 00:06:54,060 --> 00:06:57,814 It's a place that's famous for treating famous alcoholics and dope fiends. 60 00:06:57,897 --> 00:06:59,023 I'm not famous. 61 00:06:59,149 --> 00:07:00,192 MAGGIE: No... 62 00:07:00,442 --> 00:07:02,110 ...and you don't take dope. 63 00:07:02,319 --> 00:07:04,988 Otherwise you'd be a perfect candidate for Rainbow Hill. 64 00:07:05,197 --> 00:07:08,450 That's where Brother Man's going to tell Big Daddy to ship you. 65 00:07:09,033 --> 00:07:10,994 Over my dead body! 66 00:07:11,537 --> 00:07:13,455 Rainbow Hill. 67 00:07:16,500 --> 00:07:19,544 With you out of the way, Gooper gets hold of the estate... 68 00:07:19,753 --> 00:07:23,173 ...signs the checks, and cuts off our credit whenever he wants. 69 00:07:23,382 --> 00:07:25,467 How'd you like that, baby? 70 00:07:25,842 --> 00:07:27,552 You're doing just about everything... 71 00:07:27,719 --> 00:07:31,473 ...to aid and abet them in grabbing control, after Big Daddy... 72 00:07:38,063 --> 00:07:39,481 Well, you are. 73 00:07:39,981 --> 00:07:42,817 Quitting work, devoting yourself to drinking! 74 00:07:43,026 --> 00:07:46,112 Breaking your ankle last night on the high school field. 75 00:07:47,406 --> 00:07:48,615 Brick? 76 00:07:49,866 --> 00:07:52,202 We've got one thing on our side. 77 00:07:52,702 --> 00:07:53,912 No, two things. 78 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:55,747 MAGGIE: Are my seams straight? 79 00:07:56,831 --> 00:07:58,708 Big Daddy dotes on you, honey. 80 00:07:58,916 --> 00:08:01,878 He just can't stand Brother Man and his wife... 81 00:08:02,087 --> 00:08:04,339 ...that fertility monster. She's odious to him. 82 00:08:04,631 --> 00:08:05,590 I can tell. 83 00:08:05,799 --> 00:08:08,176 Just like I can tell he likes me. 84 00:08:08,384 --> 00:08:11,221 That's the second thing we've got on our side. 85 00:08:16,601 --> 00:08:18,520 He likes me. 86 00:08:19,562 --> 00:08:23,400 The way he looks me up and down, and over... 87 00:08:24,443 --> 00:08:26,445 He's still got an eye for girls. 88 00:08:26,653 --> 00:08:28,738 That kind of talk is disgusting. 89 00:08:30,323 --> 00:08:33,826 Anybody ever tell you you were a back-aching Puritan? 90 00:08:34,202 --> 00:08:37,581 I think it's mighty fine how that old fellow, on death's doorstep... 91 00:08:37,664 --> 00:08:41,209 ...takes in my shape with what I consider deserved appreciation. 92 00:08:42,752 --> 00:08:47,466 Gooper still cherishes the illusion he took a giant step up the social ladder... 93 00:08:47,674 --> 00:08:51,094 ...when he married Mae Flynn of the no-neck Memphis Flynns... 94 00:08:51,303 --> 00:08:53,972 ...because she was queen of the Cotton Carnival. 95 00:08:54,180 --> 00:08:57,058 I can just see Gooper falling for Her Majesty... 96 00:08:57,267 --> 00:09:01,396 ...sitting on that brass throne, riding that tacky float down Main Street... 97 00:09:01,605 --> 00:09:06,526 ...smiling and bowing, and blowing kisses to all the trash on the street. 98 00:09:07,652 --> 00:09:09,696 You know what happened to her? 99 00:09:10,154 --> 00:09:11,657 No, what happened to her? 100 00:09:12,533 --> 00:09:15,577 Somebody spat tobacco juice in her face. 101 00:09:15,786 --> 00:09:19,372 Some drunk at the Hotel Gayoso leaned out the window and said: 102 00:09:19,581 --> 00:09:22,417 ''Hey, Queenie! '' 103 00:09:22,625 --> 00:09:26,046 Sister Mae looked up and smiled and waved... 104 00:09:26,254 --> 00:09:29,507 ...and that drunk shot a squirt of tobacco juice... 105 00:09:29,674 --> 00:09:31,718 ...right in her face. 106 00:09:31,843 --> 00:09:33,386 [ Maggie cackles ] 107 00:09:44,063 --> 00:09:45,940 Why are you looking at me like that? 108 00:09:47,025 --> 00:09:48,986 Like what? 109 00:09:49,486 --> 00:09:51,363 MAGGIE: Like you were just looking. 110 00:09:53,490 --> 00:09:55,867 BRICK: I wasn't conscious of looking at you. 111 00:10:00,164 --> 00:10:01,373 I was conscious of it. 112 00:10:11,925 --> 00:10:14,636 - Lf you were thinking the same thing... - No, Maggie! 113 00:10:14,845 --> 00:10:17,389 - Why not? - Will you please keep your voice down? 114 00:10:17,556 --> 00:10:18,932 No! 115 00:10:20,225 --> 00:10:22,226 I know you better than you think. 116 00:10:22,435 --> 00:10:24,313 I've seen that look before... 117 00:10:24,521 --> 00:10:26,356 ...and I know what it used to mean. 118 00:10:26,565 --> 00:10:31,111 - And it still means the same thing now. - You're not the same woman now, Maggie. 119 00:10:31,528 --> 00:10:33,821 Don't you think I know that? 120 00:10:33,947 --> 00:10:36,909 - Don't you think I know... - Know what, Maggie? 121 00:10:37,117 --> 00:10:40,287 That I've gone through this horrible transformation. 122 00:10:40,495 --> 00:10:42,747 I've become hard and frantic and cruel. 123 00:10:43,123 --> 00:10:46,501 BRICK: Are you planning on meeting Big Daddy's plane? 124 00:10:48,337 --> 00:10:50,088 [ Sighs ] Oh, Brick. 125 00:10:53,675 --> 00:10:55,635 I get so lonely. 126 00:10:56,094 --> 00:10:58,054 Everybody gets that. 127 00:11:00,098 --> 00:11:02,726 Living with somebody you love can be... 128 00:11:02,934 --> 00:11:05,770 ...lonelier than living entirely alone... 129 00:11:06,771 --> 00:11:09,107 ...when the one you love doesn't love you. 130 00:11:10,024 --> 00:11:12,611 [ Slow instrumental music ] 131 00:11:20,410 --> 00:11:23,455 You can't even stand drinking out of the same glass, can you? 132 00:11:23,622 --> 00:11:24,957 Would you like to live alone? 133 00:11:25,249 --> 00:11:26,208 [ Shouts ] No! 134 00:11:32,297 --> 00:11:34,215 [ Softly ] No, I wouldn't. 135 00:11:37,636 --> 00:11:40,180 Why can't you lose your good looks, Brick? 136 00:11:40,388 --> 00:11:42,474 Most drinking men lose theirs. 137 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:44,267 Why can't you? 138 00:11:45,143 --> 00:11:49,106 I think you've even got better looking since you went on the bottle. 139 00:11:52,275 --> 00:11:54,194 You were such a wonderful lover. 140 00:11:54,402 --> 00:11:56,112 You'll be late! 141 00:11:56,613 --> 00:11:59,198 MAGGIE: You were so exciting to be in love with. 142 00:11:59,283 --> 00:12:01,451 Mostly, I guess, because you were... 143 00:12:07,165 --> 00:12:08,958 If I thought you'd... 144 00:12:09,250 --> 00:12:12,129 ...never make love to me again... 145 00:12:15,257 --> 00:12:20,053 ...l'd find the longest, sharpest knife and stick it straight into my heart. 146 00:12:20,803 --> 00:12:22,638 I'd do that. 147 00:12:25,934 --> 00:12:27,269 [ Lmploringly ] Oh, Brick... 148 00:12:27,352 --> 00:12:30,689 How long does this have to go on, this punishment? 149 00:12:30,855 --> 00:12:33,691 Haven't I served my term? Can I get a pardon? 150 00:12:33,858 --> 00:12:38,864 Your finishing-school voice sounds like you were running upstairs to say, ''Fire! '' 151 00:12:40,740 --> 00:12:42,409 Is it any wonder? 152 00:12:43,284 --> 00:12:45,328 You know what I feel like? 153 00:12:45,536 --> 00:12:48,207 I feel all the time like a cat on a hot tin roof. 154 00:12:48,373 --> 00:12:50,042 Then jump off the roof, Maggie. 155 00:12:50,250 --> 00:12:53,878 Cats jump off roofs and land uninjured. Do it. Jump. 156 00:12:54,087 --> 00:12:55,046 Jump where? 157 00:12:55,255 --> 00:12:56,673 Into what? 158 00:12:56,881 --> 00:12:58,508 Take a lover. 159 00:13:00,802 --> 00:13:02,846 I don't deserve that! 160 00:13:03,346 --> 00:13:05,932 [ Slow instrumental music continues ] 161 00:13:09,227 --> 00:13:11,897 I can't see any man but you. 162 00:13:13,398 --> 00:13:16,818 Even with my eyes closed, I just see you. 163 00:13:21,739 --> 00:13:24,076 Why can't you get ugly, Brick? 164 00:13:24,243 --> 00:13:28,288 Why can't you get fat or ugly or something, so I can stand it? 165 00:13:29,539 --> 00:13:33,001 You'll make out fine. Your kind always does. 166 00:13:33,209 --> 00:13:35,253 I'm more determined than you think. 167 00:13:35,462 --> 00:13:37,339 I'll win all right. 168 00:13:37,547 --> 00:13:38,924 Win what? 169 00:13:40,050 --> 00:13:43,762 What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? 170 00:13:48,058 --> 00:13:50,602 Just staying on it, I guess... 171 00:13:50,769 --> 00:13:52,771 ...as long as she can. 172 00:14:02,989 --> 00:14:04,741 [ Children play march music ] 173 00:14:04,824 --> 00:14:07,786 MAE: Calm down. Not yet. Now wait a minute. 174 00:14:08,036 --> 00:14:09,287 Where are the flowers? 175 00:14:09,454 --> 00:14:11,957 Aren't you putting it on a little thick? 176 00:14:14,418 --> 00:14:15,752 [ Car horn honks ] 177 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:32,060 MAE: Get ready, now! 178 00:14:32,352 --> 00:14:34,937 Mama, she didn't bring anything for Big Daddy. 179 00:14:35,313 --> 00:14:38,692 Pretty seedy looking flowers for Big Daddy, huh, Gooper? 180 00:14:38,900 --> 00:14:40,193 I picked them myself. 181 00:14:40,402 --> 00:14:42,320 Looks like she picked them off a grave. 182 00:14:42,487 --> 00:14:46,824 Don't talk about graves when we don't know if Big Daddy's going to live or die. 183 00:14:51,913 --> 00:14:52,664 Get ready. 184 00:14:54,082 --> 00:14:56,251 [ Children play march music ] 185 00:14:58,669 --> 00:15:00,130 Hello, Mae. 186 00:15:00,339 --> 00:15:01,923 Hello, children. 187 00:15:16,062 --> 00:15:18,106 Doc, isn't it great? 188 00:15:23,529 --> 00:15:24,112 Kiss me! 189 00:15:25,572 --> 00:15:27,407 Kiss your grandmother. 190 00:15:27,991 --> 00:15:29,534 Darling Big Daddy! 191 00:15:29,701 --> 00:15:32,162 GOOPER: You look fine, Big Daddy. 192 00:15:32,453 --> 00:15:34,997 BIG DADDY: Doc, do you want to tell them the news? 193 00:15:35,373 --> 00:15:39,002 The exploratory operation proved there's nothing wrong with Big Daddy. 194 00:15:39,211 --> 00:15:40,378 Nothing at all! 195 00:15:40,921 --> 00:15:43,423 Just a spastic colon. And that's all. 196 00:15:43,631 --> 00:15:46,300 GOOPER: Great news! BIG MAMA: Isn't that great news? 197 00:15:46,426 --> 00:15:48,554 That's the best birthday present of all. 198 00:15:49,054 --> 00:15:50,138 Where's Brick? 199 00:15:50,347 --> 00:15:52,557 Uncle Brick got drunk and broke his leg. 200 00:15:52,766 --> 00:15:54,184 - How? - What's that? 201 00:15:54,392 --> 00:15:57,395 Got drunk again and tried to jump the high hurdles at 3:00 AM. 202 00:15:57,604 --> 00:15:59,898 That poor boy still thinks he's an athlete. 203 00:16:00,107 --> 00:16:02,067 Couldn't keep it out of the local paper. 204 00:16:02,150 --> 00:16:03,568 AP got hold of it too. 205 00:16:03,735 --> 00:16:05,362 Yeah, and UP... 206 00:16:05,570 --> 00:16:09,407 ...and thanks to your professional legal advice, every other P. 207 00:16:09,866 --> 00:16:11,159 Let's go home. 208 00:16:11,367 --> 00:16:13,537 Don't you want to ride with the children? 209 00:16:13,745 --> 00:16:15,080 [ Shouts ] No! 210 00:16:16,414 --> 00:16:19,250 He's his sassy old self again, all right! 211 00:16:19,459 --> 00:16:21,210 Be quiet, woman! 212 00:16:21,669 --> 00:16:23,755 [ Children play march music ] 213 00:16:29,511 --> 00:16:31,012 Hush up! 214 00:16:32,639 --> 00:16:33,556 Hush up! 215 00:16:41,648 --> 00:16:43,066 Welcome home, Cap'n Pollitt. 216 00:16:51,908 --> 00:16:54,869 I'm going to live, Maggie. I'm going to live. 217 00:16:55,411 --> 00:16:58,122 They had me real scared. 218 00:16:58,539 --> 00:17:00,125 I've wasted so much time. 219 00:17:00,334 --> 00:17:03,378 I've got a million different kinds of feelings left in me. 220 00:17:03,587 --> 00:17:07,340 And I'm going to use them. I'm going to use them all. 221 00:17:07,882 --> 00:17:09,425 [ Car horn honks ] 222 00:17:30,363 --> 00:17:32,448 [ Car horn honks ] 223 00:17:46,879 --> 00:17:50,384 Why did you and Brick suddenly drive up from New Orleans? 224 00:17:50,592 --> 00:17:52,302 For your birthday, what else? 225 00:17:52,511 --> 00:17:56,181 BIG DADDY: I had one last year and the year before. Didn't see you then. 226 00:17:56,389 --> 00:17:58,433 MAGGIE: You know how Brick is sometimes. 227 00:17:58,516 --> 00:18:01,770 BIG DADDY: Maybe he thought he was coming to my funeral instead. 228 00:18:01,979 --> 00:18:04,648 Brick loves you! He does! 229 00:18:06,566 --> 00:18:08,359 But does he love you? 230 00:18:09,569 --> 00:18:12,322 What do you want? Proof? 231 00:18:12,781 --> 00:18:15,075 BIG DADDY: If I was married to you three years... 232 00:18:15,158 --> 00:18:17,244 ...you'd have the living proof. 233 00:18:17,452 --> 00:18:19,913 You'd have three kids and a fourth in the oven. 234 00:18:20,038 --> 00:18:22,582 [ Children sing ] 235 00:18:22,707 --> 00:18:25,627 Get me out of this. I want to talk to Brick. 236 00:18:32,592 --> 00:18:35,344 He wants some more ice, Miss Margaret. 237 00:18:39,349 --> 00:18:41,476 CHILDREN: [ Sing ] ''We love you when we're with you 238 00:18:41,559 --> 00:18:43,144 ''And we love you out of sight 239 00:18:43,228 --> 00:18:45,313 ''Dimmerinky-dink-a-dink Dimmerinky-doo 240 00:18:46,356 --> 00:18:49,151 [ Sings ] ''Big Mama, too'' 241 00:19:01,955 --> 00:19:03,123 Brick... 242 00:19:03,248 --> 00:19:04,833 I've got news, honey! 243 00:19:05,041 --> 00:19:06,501 Big news. 244 00:19:06,751 --> 00:19:08,878 Big Daddy's going to live. 245 00:19:11,255 --> 00:19:13,800 MAGGIE: That's right, he's a well man. 246 00:19:14,009 --> 00:19:17,679 That's what Big Mama said and Dr. Baugh was right there with them. 247 00:19:17,971 --> 00:19:20,515 You should've seen Mae and Gooper's face. 248 00:19:21,057 --> 00:19:23,392 They almost dropped dead from shock themselves. 249 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:24,937 BRICK: He's all right? 250 00:19:25,062 --> 00:19:26,605 Feeling like 40... 251 00:19:26,772 --> 00:19:28,023 ... and talking like 20. 252 00:19:28,106 --> 00:19:30,191 And we can drive back to New Orleans tonight. 253 00:19:30,275 --> 00:19:32,485 MAGGIE: I'm taking no chances on moving you. 254 00:19:32,569 --> 00:19:33,611 I won't break. 255 00:19:33,695 --> 00:19:37,324 Or letting them poison Big Daddy's mind against you. 256 00:19:37,991 --> 00:19:42,120 I just want you to get dressed and come to Big Daddy's birthday party. 257 00:19:42,412 --> 00:19:45,748 First thing Big Daddy asked about was you. 258 00:19:45,957 --> 00:19:48,627 Big Daddy! Now what makes him so big? 259 00:19:49,294 --> 00:19:51,713 His big heart, his big belly... 260 00:19:51,922 --> 00:19:53,214 ...or his big money? 261 00:19:54,549 --> 00:19:56,801 MAGGIE: The heat has made you cross. 262 00:19:56,968 --> 00:19:58,594 Give me my crutch. 263 00:20:01,223 --> 00:20:03,642 Why don't you put on your silk pajamas, honey... 264 00:20:03,850 --> 00:20:05,852 ...and come on down to the party? 265 00:20:06,061 --> 00:20:08,354 There's a lovely cool breeze. 266 00:20:09,063 --> 00:20:10,982 Give me my crutch, Maggie. 267 00:20:12,192 --> 00:20:14,403 Lean on me, baby. 268 00:20:14,820 --> 00:20:16,905 [ Slow instrumental music ] 269 00:20:21,159 --> 00:20:23,912 You've got a nice smell about you. 270 00:20:25,664 --> 00:20:28,333 - Was your bathwater cool? - No. 271 00:20:30,085 --> 00:20:33,421 I know something that would make you cool and fresh. 272 00:20:34,338 --> 00:20:36,008 Alcohol rub. 273 00:20:36,675 --> 00:20:38,010 Cologne. 274 00:20:38,844 --> 00:20:40,387 No thanks. We'd smell alike. 275 00:20:40,470 --> 00:20:43,056 Like a couple of cats in the heat. 276 00:20:53,275 --> 00:20:55,026 It's cool on the lawn. 277 00:20:55,235 --> 00:20:59,489 I am not going down there. Not for you and not for Big Daddy! 278 00:21:02,367 --> 00:21:04,327 At least give him this present... 279 00:21:04,536 --> 00:21:08,081 ...that I remembered to buy for you, for his birthday. 280 00:21:08,706 --> 00:21:10,625 Just write a few words on this card. 281 00:21:10,833 --> 00:21:12,377 You write something. 282 00:21:12,586 --> 00:21:16,173 It's got to be your handwriting. It's your present. 283 00:21:16,381 --> 00:21:17,799 I didn't get him a present. 284 00:21:18,008 --> 00:21:19,300 What's the difference? 285 00:21:19,509 --> 00:21:21,678 If there's no difference, you write the card! 286 00:21:21,761 --> 00:21:24,723 - And have him know you didn't remember? - I didn't remember! 287 00:21:24,890 --> 00:21:26,933 You don't have to prove it to him! 288 00:21:27,142 --> 00:21:29,311 Just write, ''Love, Brick''... 289 00:21:29,519 --> 00:21:30,729 ...for heaven's sake! - No. 290 00:21:30,895 --> 00:21:33,898 - You've got to. - I don't have to do anything! 291 00:21:34,107 --> 00:21:37,361 You forget the conditions I agreed on to stay living with you! 292 00:21:37,444 --> 00:21:41,573 I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage, that's all! 293 00:21:42,907 --> 00:21:44,993 [ Slow instrumental music ] 294 00:21:49,915 --> 00:21:54,419 That's the first time you've raised your voice in a long time. 295 00:21:57,213 --> 00:21:58,714 A crack in the stone wall? 296 00:22:04,804 --> 00:22:07,599 MAGGIE: I think that's a fine sign. Mighty fine. 297 00:22:13,313 --> 00:22:14,564 What did you do that for? 298 00:22:18,610 --> 00:22:21,279 To give us a little privacy for a while. 299 00:22:22,405 --> 00:22:24,324 BRICK: Don't make a fool of yourself. 300 00:22:28,370 --> 00:22:31,122 I don't mind making a fool of myself over you. 301 00:22:31,289 --> 00:22:33,875 I mind. I feel embarrassed for you. 302 00:22:34,292 --> 00:22:35,711 Feel embarrassed! 303 00:22:36,628 --> 00:22:37,796 I can't live on this way. 304 00:22:37,963 --> 00:22:42,050 - You agreed to accept that condition! - I know I did, but I can't! 305 00:22:44,344 --> 00:22:45,553 BRICK: Let go. 306 00:22:51,977 --> 00:22:53,770 Let go, Maggie! 307 00:23:11,705 --> 00:23:12,998 BIG MAMA: Son! 308 00:23:15,584 --> 00:23:18,294 We've got the most wonderful news about Big Daddy! 309 00:23:18,461 --> 00:23:20,713 BIG MAMA: What's this door doing locked? 310 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:23,007 You think there's robbers in the house? 311 00:23:24,176 --> 00:23:26,136 Brick's getting dressed, Big Mama. 312 00:23:26,344 --> 00:23:27,679 He's still getting dressed. 313 00:23:27,846 --> 00:23:31,015 BIG MAMA: It won't be the first time I've seen Brick not dressed. 314 00:23:31,141 --> 00:23:32,475 Open this door. 315 00:23:33,893 --> 00:23:36,063 [ Banging on door ] 316 00:23:42,610 --> 00:23:44,028 BIG MAMA: Brick, honey! 317 00:23:44,195 --> 00:23:45,988 Sweetheart, how does your leg feel? 318 00:23:46,197 --> 00:23:49,368 Come out of there. I want to give you the news about Big Daddy. 319 00:23:49,534 --> 00:23:51,661 I told him already. 320 00:23:51,870 --> 00:23:53,872 I just hate locked doors in the house. 321 00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:57,667 MAGGIE: I know you do but people need privacy, don't they? 322 00:23:57,875 --> 00:24:00,045 No, ma'am, not in my house. 323 00:24:00,212 --> 00:24:03,423 What did you take this off for? It looked so sweet on you. 324 00:24:03,548 --> 00:24:06,301 MAGGIE: Not sweet enough for Big Daddy's birthday party. 325 00:24:06,426 --> 00:24:07,469 [ Whistle blows ] 326 00:24:07,844 --> 00:24:08,886 Out! 327 00:24:10,388 --> 00:24:11,556 Out, you little monster! 328 00:24:19,189 --> 00:24:22,567 Mae and Gooper are so touchy about their children. 329 00:24:22,733 --> 00:24:26,696 You hardly even dare suggest there's any room for improvement. 330 00:24:26,905 --> 00:24:28,448 Brick, hurry on out! 331 00:24:28,657 --> 00:24:31,576 Shoot, Maggie, you just don't like children. 332 00:24:31,784 --> 00:24:34,370 Why that's not true. I adore them. 333 00:24:34,579 --> 00:24:35,747 Well brought up. 334 00:24:35,914 --> 00:24:38,333 Why not have some, then, and bring them up well? 335 00:24:38,417 --> 00:24:41,378 BIG MAMA: Instead of picking on theirs? GOOPER: Big Mama! 336 00:24:41,586 --> 00:24:44,589 Hugh and Betsy have got to go. They're waiting to say goodbye. 337 00:24:44,672 --> 00:24:47,467 I'll be right down. Tell them to hold their horses. 338 00:24:49,094 --> 00:24:50,011 Where's Brick? 339 00:24:56,142 --> 00:24:57,685 Oh. 340 00:24:59,813 --> 00:25:02,607 What you said about having children... 341 00:25:02,774 --> 00:25:04,859 It's still kind of a secret, but... 342 00:25:06,486 --> 00:25:09,447 Shoot, Maggie! Stop playing so dumb. 343 00:25:09,739 --> 00:25:11,825 Is he still drinking this stuff much? 344 00:25:13,493 --> 00:25:16,454 - He may have had a little highball. - Don't laugh about it. 345 00:25:16,663 --> 00:25:19,707 Some men stop drinking when they marry. Others start. 346 00:25:19,916 --> 00:25:21,959 - He never drank before... - That's not fair! 347 00:25:22,043 --> 00:25:24,630 Fair or not, I want to ask you a question. 348 00:25:25,255 --> 00:25:26,715 Do you make Brick happy? 349 00:25:27,883 --> 00:25:29,259 Well? 350 00:25:31,219 --> 00:25:33,054 Why don't you ask if he makes me happy? 351 00:25:33,137 --> 00:25:34,389 BIG MAMA: I know... 352 00:25:34,472 --> 00:25:35,515 It works both ways. 353 00:25:35,598 --> 00:25:40,020 Something ain't right. You're childless and my son drinks. 354 00:25:40,228 --> 00:25:43,022 GOOPER: We're leaving, Big Mama. BIG MAMA: I'm coming! 355 00:25:43,273 --> 00:25:45,400 When a marriage goes on the rocks... 356 00:25:45,608 --> 00:25:48,320 ...the rocks are there, right there! 357 00:25:48,528 --> 00:25:49,988 MAN'S VOICE: Goodbye, Ida. 358 00:25:50,072 --> 00:25:51,698 I'm coming. 359 00:25:57,870 --> 00:25:59,957 That's not fair. 360 00:26:00,332 --> 00:26:02,250 All right, I'm coming. 361 00:26:05,086 --> 00:26:06,546 [ Knock on door ] 362 00:26:07,005 --> 00:26:08,756 DR. BAUGH: Is Brick here? 363 00:26:09,465 --> 00:26:11,844 I thought I'd check his ankle. 364 00:26:12,427 --> 00:26:13,845 Is it giving him much pain? 365 00:26:14,054 --> 00:26:17,515 You know how Brick is, Doc. He hardly ever complains. 366 00:26:17,682 --> 00:26:21,436 Even when he had that awful back injury in football. 367 00:26:21,561 --> 00:26:23,271 DR. BAUGH: Brick! 368 00:26:23,396 --> 00:26:25,899 Brick's birthday present for Big Daddy. 369 00:26:26,942 --> 00:26:29,652 I think they're fixing to sit down at the table. 370 00:26:34,282 --> 00:26:37,411 You forgot to write out the card, honey. 371 00:26:40,538 --> 00:26:41,623 Thanks, Doc. 372 00:26:49,006 --> 00:26:50,382 Can I get you something cool? 373 00:26:51,174 --> 00:26:52,217 No, thanks. 374 00:26:52,634 --> 00:26:54,427 How's the ankle? 375 00:26:57,221 --> 00:26:58,890 Ltches some. 376 00:26:59,724 --> 00:27:03,353 Funny, that's the same leg you tore a muscle in the... 377 00:27:03,770 --> 00:27:05,063 'Bama State. 378 00:27:05,271 --> 00:27:06,773 Twenty-one to... 379 00:27:06,981 --> 00:27:07,690 Nothing. 380 00:27:07,899 --> 00:27:10,151 You miss football, don't you? 381 00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:12,237 Hurt much when you put weight on it? 382 00:27:12,404 --> 00:27:13,447 Some. 383 00:27:13,655 --> 00:27:17,283 Yeah, you were quite a team, you and Skipper. 384 00:27:19,744 --> 00:27:21,412 What is it, Doc? 385 00:27:21,704 --> 00:27:25,125 You didn't leave that party to come up and discuss my health. 386 00:27:25,625 --> 00:27:26,376 That's right. 387 00:27:26,460 --> 00:27:29,838 BRICK: I've already heard the good news... DR. BAUGH: It's bad news. 388 00:27:29,921 --> 00:27:31,965 It's what we expected. 389 00:27:32,340 --> 00:27:34,550 It's malignant and it's terminal. 390 00:27:34,759 --> 00:27:36,720 He hasn't a chance. 391 00:27:36,928 --> 00:27:40,015 BRICK: But Maggie said, and Big Mama... DR. BAUGH: Lies. 392 00:27:40,599 --> 00:27:41,891 I lied to them. 393 00:27:42,851 --> 00:27:45,144 I lied to him, too. 394 00:27:46,479 --> 00:27:47,480 Professional ethics. 395 00:27:49,274 --> 00:27:49,816 Gooper? 396 00:27:50,025 --> 00:27:52,652 I told him the truth coming in from the airfield. 397 00:27:53,278 --> 00:27:54,487 He's going to die. 398 00:27:56,364 --> 00:27:57,907 He's going to die. 399 00:27:59,367 --> 00:28:02,079 [ Children singing ] 400 00:28:06,791 --> 00:28:09,961 CHILDREN: [ Sing ] ''Jesus wants me for a sunbeam'' 401 00:28:12,714 --> 00:28:15,133 What kind of truth is that? 402 00:28:34,485 --> 00:28:37,531 CHILDREN: [ Sing ] ''Jesus wants me for a sunbeam 403 00:28:37,739 --> 00:28:40,283 ''To shine for him each day 404 00:28:41,701 --> 00:28:44,829 ''ln every way try to please him 405 00:28:45,038 --> 00:28:47,665 ''At home, at school, at play 406 00:28:48,500 --> 00:28:50,001 "A sunbeam 407 00:28:52,254 --> 00:28:55,173 ''Jesus wants me for a sunbeam 408 00:28:55,673 --> 00:28:58,384 ''A sunbeam, a sunbeam 409 00:28:58,843 --> 00:29:01,680 ''I'll be a sunbeam for him'' 410 00:29:01,972 --> 00:29:03,348 DEACON: Amen! 411 00:29:03,473 --> 00:29:06,768 MAE: Did you like the singing? BIG DADDY: Pass the black-eyed peas. 412 00:29:06,893 --> 00:29:10,605 BIG MAMA: Look at Big Daddy eat! Ain't it something to thank your stars for? 413 00:29:10,772 --> 00:29:13,108 They've been practicing just for you. 414 00:29:13,191 --> 00:29:14,443 Tell them to sit and eat. 415 00:29:14,526 --> 00:29:16,486 - Children, come on. - Over there! 416 00:29:16,695 --> 00:29:18,696 Yeah. Over there. 417 00:29:19,572 --> 00:29:21,032 Look here. Telegrams! 418 00:29:21,115 --> 00:29:23,868 Hundreds of them from every corner of this great state... 419 00:29:23,994 --> 00:29:25,579 GOOPER: Wishing you happy birthday. 420 00:29:25,704 --> 00:29:27,664 BIG MAMA: Shall I read them? BIG DADDY: No! 421 00:29:27,747 --> 00:29:29,624 One from the governor and the senator... 422 00:29:29,708 --> 00:29:32,877 It must be getting on to election time, hey, Deacon? 423 00:29:33,044 --> 00:29:35,755 Let's remember, we're all lambs in the same pasture. 424 00:29:35,964 --> 00:29:39,885 Everybody, including Big Daddy, owes thanks to those in high places who... 425 00:29:40,093 --> 00:29:41,219 Gave us nothing! 426 00:29:41,386 --> 00:29:45,431 Every scrap on this table was raised right here on this place, Deacon. 427 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:50,020 I made a pastureland out of this place when it was nothing but a swamp. 428 00:29:50,228 --> 00:29:53,440 And it was done with the help of God, and not any governor. 429 00:29:53,523 --> 00:29:54,232 Amen. 430 00:29:54,315 --> 00:29:56,859 CHILDREN: [ Sing ] ''Boom, boom and it makes me crazy'' 431 00:29:56,943 --> 00:29:58,236 Great balls of fire! 432 00:29:58,444 --> 00:29:59,654 Surprise! 433 00:29:59,862 --> 00:30:02,908 - What are they up to now? - It's part of the entertainment. 434 00:30:03,074 --> 00:30:04,993 Don't they get any intermission? 435 00:30:05,201 --> 00:30:06,744 That's funny! 436 00:30:07,245 --> 00:30:08,663 GOOPER: That's very funny! 437 00:30:08,871 --> 00:30:11,123 He don't mean it, Sister Woman. 438 00:30:11,249 --> 00:30:13,960 BIG MAMA: He loves children! GOOPER: Of course he does! 439 00:30:14,086 --> 00:30:16,087 Will you put some honey on this? 440 00:30:16,296 --> 00:30:19,424 They're all Pollitts, I'm proud to say, every one of them. 441 00:30:19,632 --> 00:30:22,343 I know Big Daddy's just as proud as we are... 442 00:30:22,552 --> 00:30:24,763 ...that there's a flesh-and-blood dynasty... 443 00:30:24,930 --> 00:30:27,182 ...waiting to take over. 444 00:30:27,390 --> 00:30:29,476 That's no way to talk. 445 00:30:29,684 --> 00:30:30,518 What way? 446 00:30:30,727 --> 00:30:34,772 MAGGIE: ''Take over.'' When we all know... 447 00:30:34,981 --> 00:30:37,442 ...Big Daddy's going to live to be at least 100. 448 00:30:37,526 --> 00:30:39,152 I'll drink to that! 449 00:30:39,528 --> 00:30:41,696 Anytime, anyplace, anywhere! 450 00:30:41,905 --> 00:30:43,406 To Big Daddy! 451 00:30:43,489 --> 00:30:45,074 [ Children continue singing ] 452 00:30:45,158 --> 00:30:48,203 DEACON: In the name of every person in this county... 453 00:30:48,287 --> 00:30:51,831 ...in the name of the church and school board, the board of trustees... 454 00:30:51,915 --> 00:30:54,709 ...felicitations on your 65th birthday. 455 00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:58,212 Brick, honey, I brought you something to eat. 456 00:30:58,421 --> 00:30:59,965 BRICK: I'm not hungry. 457 00:31:03,468 --> 00:31:05,512 What's that supposed to mean? 458 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:06,971 BRICK: We're leaving. 459 00:31:07,096 --> 00:31:08,848 MAGGIE: We can't. BRICK: I can. 460 00:31:08,973 --> 00:31:12,603 - The party's coming up here to you. - I'll get one of the boys to drive me. 461 00:31:12,728 --> 00:31:16,523 You just can't walk out on Big Daddy's birthday party! 462 00:31:16,731 --> 00:31:18,441 Don't you care nothing about him? 463 00:31:18,525 --> 00:31:19,984 Get out of my way. 464 00:31:21,152 --> 00:31:23,529 Get out of my way, Maggie! 465 00:31:26,116 --> 00:31:27,993 You've got no cause to dislike him. 466 00:31:30,328 --> 00:31:31,704 Do I dislike him? 467 00:31:31,913 --> 00:31:35,958 It's obvious to everybody. Especially to him. 468 00:31:40,130 --> 00:31:41,756 What's he ever done to you? 469 00:31:41,965 --> 00:31:43,007 What? 470 00:31:43,216 --> 00:31:45,468 Why do you hate him so much? 471 00:31:45,843 --> 00:31:47,261 What's he ever done to you? 472 00:31:51,183 --> 00:31:51,933 Nothing. 473 00:31:53,518 --> 00:31:56,062 What was Dr. Baugh doing up here? 474 00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:59,190 What did he... 475 00:32:03,862 --> 00:32:06,156 That's right. Big Daddy is going to die. 476 00:32:09,409 --> 00:32:11,702 I don't believe that. 477 00:32:12,162 --> 00:32:15,123 Dr. Baugh wouldn't lie to Big Daddy. 478 00:32:15,332 --> 00:32:16,666 Wouldn't he, Maggie? 479 00:32:21,504 --> 00:32:23,548 Poor Big Daddy. 480 00:32:24,716 --> 00:32:26,635 I'm fond of him. 481 00:32:26,843 --> 00:32:29,554 I'm genuinely fond of that old man. 482 00:32:29,846 --> 00:32:31,806 I really am, you know. 483 00:32:33,307 --> 00:32:35,434 When he finds out... 484 00:32:36,436 --> 00:32:38,897 I wouldn't want to be the one to tell him. 485 00:32:41,274 --> 00:32:42,817 That's why you want to go now. 486 00:32:44,444 --> 00:32:47,029 Yeah, that's why I want to leave now. 487 00:32:49,741 --> 00:32:51,952 You've got to do this for me, Maggie. 488 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:54,579 And leave the field to Gooper and his wife? 489 00:32:54,746 --> 00:32:55,747 No, sir! 490 00:32:55,955 --> 00:32:57,540 Let's face facts, baby. 491 00:32:57,749 --> 00:32:59,500 You're a drinker. That takes money. 492 00:32:59,709 --> 00:33:01,044 I don't want his money! 493 00:33:01,253 --> 00:33:03,255 Are you ready to settle for ten-cent beer? 494 00:33:03,338 --> 00:33:06,508 That's what Gooper'll dole out to you when they freeze you out. 495 00:33:06,716 --> 00:33:08,968 They've got a plan, baby. 496 00:33:09,177 --> 00:33:13,682 You should've heard them laying it on to Big Daddy. A mile a minute! 497 00:33:13,890 --> 00:33:16,434 Big Mama's already on their side. 498 00:33:16,935 --> 00:33:20,063 You're a drinker and I'm childless. 499 00:33:20,772 --> 00:33:24,359 We've got to beat that plan, we've just got to! 500 00:33:27,404 --> 00:33:28,947 I've been so... 501 00:33:29,114 --> 00:33:32,283 ...disgustingly poor all my life. 502 00:33:32,909 --> 00:33:35,203 That's the truth, Brick. 503 00:33:36,330 --> 00:33:38,290 Have you, Maggie? 504 00:33:38,415 --> 00:33:40,292 [ Slow instrumental music ] 505 00:33:40,417 --> 00:33:42,293 You don't know what it's like to have to... 506 00:33:42,418 --> 00:33:45,797 ...suck up to people you can't stand, just because they have money. 507 00:33:46,881 --> 00:33:49,051 You don't know what it's like... 508 00:33:49,259 --> 00:33:51,386 ...never having any clothes. 509 00:33:52,387 --> 00:33:54,556 That dress I married you in... 510 00:33:54,764 --> 00:33:58,851 ...was a hand-me-down from a snotty, rich cousin I hated. 511 00:34:00,979 --> 00:34:03,315 You can be young without money. 512 00:34:04,482 --> 00:34:06,818 But you can't be old without it. 513 00:34:09,362 --> 00:34:11,531 Where did I fail you? 514 00:34:12,115 --> 00:34:14,451 Where did I make my mistake? 515 00:34:15,994 --> 00:34:18,329 Make that your last drink until after the party... 516 00:34:18,413 --> 00:34:19,914 ... please, honey. 517 00:34:26,838 --> 00:34:30,008 I think I made my mistake when I tried to tell you about Skipper. 518 00:34:30,341 --> 00:34:32,218 - That's my fatal error. - Maggie! 519 00:34:32,427 --> 00:34:34,637 - I never should... - Shut up about Skipper! 520 00:34:34,846 --> 00:34:36,723 I mean it! Shut up! 521 00:34:36,932 --> 00:34:39,601 The laws of silence won't work about that! 522 00:34:39,809 --> 00:34:41,728 Not about Skipper and us. 523 00:34:41,936 --> 00:34:45,815 It's like locking the door on a fire to forget the house is burning. 524 00:34:45,898 --> 00:34:47,316 BRICK: Hey, everybody! 525 00:34:47,441 --> 00:34:48,568 [ Thunder rumbles ] 526 00:34:48,694 --> 00:34:51,821 MAGGIE: But not looking at a fire doesn't put it out. 527 00:34:52,072 --> 00:34:56,909 This time I'm going to finish. That night in the hotel room, Skipper... 528 00:34:56,993 --> 00:34:58,578 I don't want to hear about it! 529 00:34:58,828 --> 00:35:01,540 Why won't you face the truth, just once... 530 00:35:01,706 --> 00:35:04,876 ...about Skipper, about me, about yourself? 531 00:35:04,959 --> 00:35:06,002 Hey, everybody! 532 00:35:06,127 --> 00:35:08,212 Are you bringing that party up here or not? 533 00:35:08,379 --> 00:35:10,256 BIG MAMA: Kit and caboodle, son. 534 00:35:10,465 --> 00:35:12,926 That won't do any good. I'm going to say this... 535 00:35:13,135 --> 00:35:16,054 ...and I don't care if it's in front of them. 536 00:35:17,806 --> 00:35:19,766 Do you want to be hit with this crutch? 537 00:35:19,849 --> 00:35:21,934 Are you still blaming me for Skipper's death? 538 00:35:22,018 --> 00:35:23,686 I could kill you with this crutch. 539 00:35:23,894 --> 00:35:26,148 Good Lord! Do you think I'd care? 540 00:35:26,356 --> 00:35:29,317 Skipper and I had a friendship. Why won't you let it alone? 541 00:35:29,401 --> 00:35:31,736 - It's got to be told! - I don't want to hear it! 542 00:35:31,945 --> 00:35:35,323 It's got to be told and you never let me tell it. I love you... 543 00:35:35,531 --> 00:35:38,285 ...and that's worth fighting for. Not Skipper! 544 00:35:38,493 --> 00:35:40,078 - Skipper was no good! - Maggie! 545 00:35:40,287 --> 00:35:41,704 Maybe I'm no good. 546 00:35:41,913 --> 00:35:43,122 Nobody's good. 547 00:35:43,331 --> 00:35:45,708 But Skipper is dead! 548 00:35:46,083 --> 00:35:47,919 MAGGIE: And I'm alive! BRICK: Maggie! 549 00:35:48,085 --> 00:35:50,046 Maggie the cat is alive! 550 00:35:50,255 --> 00:35:51,631 I'm alive! 551 00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:53,842 Why are you afraid of the truth? 552 00:35:54,050 --> 00:35:55,093 Truth? 553 00:36:02,851 --> 00:36:06,688 Little girl, somebody ought to teach you... 554 00:36:06,896 --> 00:36:09,690 ...to knock before you open a door. 555 00:36:09,899 --> 00:36:14,446 Otherwise, people might think you're lacking in good breeding. 556 00:36:15,905 --> 00:36:17,991 Nyah nyah nyah! 557 00:36:18,074 --> 00:36:21,077 DIXIE: What's Uncle Brick doing on the floor? 558 00:36:22,203 --> 00:36:24,456 I tried to kill your Aunt Maggie... 559 00:36:27,792 --> 00:36:29,127 ...but I failed... 560 00:36:29,878 --> 00:36:33,881 ...and I fell. Little girl, would you hand me my crutch, please? 561 00:36:39,095 --> 00:36:42,056 DIXIE: What were you jumping high hurdles for? 562 00:36:42,515 --> 00:36:46,394 Because I used to, and people like to do what they used to do... 563 00:36:47,103 --> 00:36:49,815 ...after they've stopped being able to do it. 564 00:36:49,981 --> 00:36:53,401 That's right. And that's your answer. 565 00:36:53,693 --> 00:36:54,861 Now go away. 566 00:36:56,279 --> 00:36:59,532 Stop that, you little no-neck monster! 567 00:36:59,740 --> 00:37:04,162 You're just jealous because you can't have babies. 568 00:37:13,338 --> 00:37:14,589 You see? 569 00:37:16,132 --> 00:37:20,094 Mae and Gooper gloat over us being childless... 570 00:37:21,429 --> 00:37:24,891 ...even in front of their little no-neck monsters. 571 00:37:30,522 --> 00:37:33,149 I went to a doctor in Memphis. 572 00:37:33,524 --> 00:37:35,693 A gynecologist. 573 00:37:36,862 --> 00:37:40,573 He says there's no reason why we can't have a child... 574 00:37:40,782 --> 00:37:42,784 ...whenever we want. 575 00:37:46,412 --> 00:37:47,496 Brick? 576 00:37:49,875 --> 00:37:53,378 - Are you listening? - Yes, Maggie, I hear you. 577 00:37:54,838 --> 00:37:58,216 But how in hell do you imagine you're going to have a child... 578 00:37:58,382 --> 00:38:01,011 ...by a man who cannot stand you? 579 00:38:09,102 --> 00:38:11,229 That, boy of mine... 580 00:38:12,522 --> 00:38:15,984 ...is a problem I'll just have to work out. 581 00:38:16,192 --> 00:38:18,695 Here comes that party, here we come! 582 00:38:18,903 --> 00:38:21,823 Here comes that birthday party! 583 00:38:22,115 --> 00:38:23,741 That's nice. 584 00:38:25,660 --> 00:38:27,329 DEACON: The preacher almost cried... 585 00:38:27,412 --> 00:38:30,165 ...when I told him I got a stained-glass memorial window. 586 00:38:30,248 --> 00:38:31,916 GOOPER: Who gave you that window? 587 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:35,294 DEACON: Clyde Fletcher's widow, a generous woman of fine character. 588 00:38:35,378 --> 00:38:38,131 What someone should give our church is a cooling system. 589 00:38:38,215 --> 00:38:39,674 Yes, sir. Exactly my thought. 590 00:38:39,758 --> 00:38:43,303 Let's see, they've had the typhoid shots and the tetanus shots... 591 00:38:43,511 --> 00:38:48,140 ...diphtheria shots, hepatitis shots, polio shots. 592 00:38:49,768 --> 00:38:52,812 MAE: Gooper, what have all the kiddies been shot for? 593 00:38:53,021 --> 00:38:55,189 Everything but stealing chickens. 594 00:38:55,273 --> 00:38:56,816 [ Laughter ] 595 00:39:02,822 --> 00:39:03,865 Well, Brick? 596 00:39:04,574 --> 00:39:06,868 Congratulations, Big Daddy, on your birthday. 597 00:39:07,076 --> 00:39:08,411 Bull! 598 00:39:08,494 --> 00:39:10,913 DEACON: Guess what memorial Gus's family gave? 599 00:39:11,122 --> 00:39:13,708 - A new house and basketball court... - Deacon! 600 00:39:14,626 --> 00:39:17,879 What's all this talk about memorial stained-glass windows? 601 00:39:18,087 --> 00:39:20,965 Figuring on somebody kicking off around here? 602 00:39:21,215 --> 00:39:24,970 How about some nice music to start the party off with? 603 00:39:25,053 --> 00:39:27,138 [ Classical music plays on radio ] 604 00:39:28,682 --> 00:39:30,934 Turn that damn thing off! 605 00:39:32,977 --> 00:39:34,687 Where's my Brick? 606 00:39:34,770 --> 00:39:37,524 - Where's my precious baby? - Sorry, turn it back on. 607 00:39:37,649 --> 00:39:39,901 BIG MAMA: How does your leg feel, honey? 608 00:39:39,985 --> 00:39:43,613 Your hand was made for holding something better! Put that liquor down. 609 00:39:43,821 --> 00:39:47,116 GOOPER: He is putting it down, all right! BIG MAMA: Turn that off! 610 00:39:47,199 --> 00:39:49,995 How about a birthday kiss, honey? 611 00:39:54,749 --> 00:39:59,629 Hey, everybody, you know the first time Big Daddy kissed me, I fainted. 612 00:39:59,837 --> 00:40:01,798 It's a fact. Ain't that so, honey? 613 00:40:02,507 --> 00:40:06,594 Do you all know how he proposed to me? I was four months swole with Gooper... 614 00:40:06,803 --> 00:40:09,972 ...and Big Daddy said, ''That's my kid, ain't it? '' 615 00:40:10,181 --> 00:40:12,517 It was kind of funny. I'd never had a beau... 616 00:40:12,684 --> 00:40:15,437 ... till I met your father. He said, "I want that kid. 617 00:40:15,645 --> 00:40:16,938 "I need him. 618 00:40:17,147 --> 00:40:21,526 ''He ain't going to have nobody else's name but mine. Let's get the preacher. 619 00:40:21,692 --> 00:40:24,236 ''That's what marriage is for. Family.'' 620 00:40:25,363 --> 00:40:28,199 Children were mighty important to Big Daddy, even then. 621 00:40:28,366 --> 00:40:30,702 BIG DADDY: Ida, will you stop that yammering? 622 00:40:30,827 --> 00:40:33,871 That's just his manner of talking. He don't mean it. 623 00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:36,833 I've been his one and only lover, haven't I, sweetheart? 624 00:40:37,292 --> 00:40:39,211 BIG DADDY: Ida, will you keep quiet? 625 00:40:40,170 --> 00:40:41,838 MAE: Children, come on! 626 00:40:41,963 --> 00:40:44,465 [ Children murmur with excitement ] 627 00:40:46,509 --> 00:40:49,638 BIG MAMA: Here comes Big Daddy's birthday! 628 00:40:52,599 --> 00:40:55,560 MAE and CHILDREN: [ Sing ] ''Big Daddy's a jolly good fellow 629 00:40:55,768 --> 00:40:58,187 "Big Daddy's a jolly good fellow 630 00:40:59,438 --> 00:41:02,025 ''And so is Big Mama, too 631 00:41:08,448 --> 00:41:11,909 ''Big Daddy's a jolly good fellow 632 00:41:13,036 --> 00:41:16,414 ''And so is Big Mama, too'' 633 00:41:18,500 --> 00:41:22,003 BIG DADDY: What's wrong with you? MAE: She's just so happy. 634 00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:27,342 I'm so happy. I've just got to cry or something. 635 00:41:28,259 --> 00:41:30,261 Big Daddy's 100 percent... 636 00:41:30,470 --> 00:41:31,596 ... healthy! 637 00:41:31,721 --> 00:41:33,181 Brick, honey... 638 00:41:33,556 --> 00:41:36,267 Aren't you going to give Big Daddy his birthday present? 639 00:41:40,814 --> 00:41:42,357 [ Children squeal ] 640 00:41:44,734 --> 00:41:47,194 BIG MAMA: You can open up your birthday present. 641 00:41:47,278 --> 00:41:50,448 You open it. I want to talk to Brick. Brick, come over here. 642 00:41:50,782 --> 00:41:53,034 Big Daddy's calling you. 643 00:41:53,243 --> 00:41:55,954 Big Mama, take them out for me. 644 00:41:56,162 --> 00:41:59,957 - It's a cashmere robe! - You sound surprised. 645 00:42:00,166 --> 00:42:04,504 - I've never seen a cashmere robe before. - That's funny! 646 00:42:05,255 --> 00:42:06,839 What's so funny about it? 647 00:42:07,465 --> 00:42:09,634 All my family ever had was family. 648 00:42:10,676 --> 00:42:11,802 Quiet! 649 00:42:12,011 --> 00:42:15,265 - You bought it yourself last Saturday. - I said quiet! 650 00:42:15,473 --> 00:42:19,727 The salesgirl that sold it to you waited on me and she told me about it. 651 00:42:19,936 --> 00:42:21,729 - Sister Woman! - Quiet! 652 00:42:21,938 --> 00:42:24,399 - Stork and the Grim Reaper, neck and neck. - Deacon! 653 00:42:24,483 --> 00:42:25,567 Deacon! 654 00:42:26,568 --> 00:42:31,114 I'm not butting in on more talk about memorial stained-glass windows, am I? 655 00:42:31,614 --> 00:42:33,157 DEACON: Not at all. 656 00:42:34,158 --> 00:42:36,953 What do you get out of this charity work, anyway? 657 00:42:37,871 --> 00:42:39,956 I love humanity. That's my reward. 658 00:42:40,165 --> 00:42:43,126 And if humanity returns your love, you might get elected... 659 00:42:43,209 --> 00:42:45,044 ...councilman or mayor, hey, Deacon? 660 00:42:45,253 --> 00:42:46,879 Don't start picking on Deacon. 661 00:42:46,963 --> 00:42:50,133 DEACON: That's all right. I was... BIG DADDY: Good night, Deacon. 662 00:42:50,217 --> 00:42:54,053 That's exactly what I was about to say. I better go before it starts raining. 663 00:42:54,137 --> 00:42:57,765 Good night, everybody. Bless each and every one in this place. 664 00:42:59,016 --> 00:43:02,354 They tell me you were indulging in some athletics last night. 665 00:43:02,562 --> 00:43:05,732 - I was trying to, yes, sir. - At 3:00 in the morning? 666 00:43:06,191 --> 00:43:10,111 BIG DADDY: What were you doing on the high school athletic field at 3:00 AM? 667 00:43:10,194 --> 00:43:14,991 I was running and jumping the hurdles. They've got too high for me now. 668 00:43:15,283 --> 00:43:17,160 BIG DADDY: Because you were drunk! 669 00:43:17,243 --> 00:43:20,330 Sober, I would not have tried to jump even the low ones. 670 00:43:20,705 --> 00:43:22,957 It's time to blow out the candles! 671 00:43:23,374 --> 00:43:25,919 MAGGIE: A toast to Big Daddy Pollitt... 672 00:43:26,127 --> 00:43:28,963 ...on his 65th birthday. 673 00:43:29,172 --> 00:43:32,717 - To the biggest cotton planter... - I told you, quit this bull! 674 00:43:32,842 --> 00:43:36,012 I won't let you talk this way, not even on your birthday. 675 00:43:36,095 --> 00:43:39,808 BIG DADDY: I'll talk like I want to on my birthday, or any other rotten day. 676 00:43:39,891 --> 00:43:42,810 Anybody don't like it, they know what they can do about it. 677 00:43:42,894 --> 00:43:46,022 - I know you don't mean that. - You don't know nothing, never did. 678 00:43:46,105 --> 00:43:49,776 BIG MAMA: You don't mean that. BIG DADDY: Yes, I do mean it. 679 00:43:51,111 --> 00:43:55,198 I've put up with a lot of bull around here because I thought I was dying. 680 00:43:55,406 --> 00:43:57,825 That's when you started taking over. 681 00:43:58,034 --> 00:44:02,414 Your loud voice and busybody butting in here and there and everywhere. 682 00:44:02,581 --> 00:44:06,459 Sashaying around here, making a big noise like a boss. 683 00:44:06,668 --> 00:44:09,170 I'm the only boss around here. 684 00:44:09,587 --> 00:44:12,591 I built this place with no help from you. 685 00:44:12,758 --> 00:44:15,760 And I'll run this place till the day I die. 686 00:44:15,969 --> 00:44:19,639 Is that plain to you, Ida? Is that perfectly clear to you? 687 00:44:19,847 --> 00:44:21,057 I ain't going to die. 688 00:44:21,599 --> 00:44:24,770 Ain't nothing wrong with me but a spastic colon! 689 00:44:25,353 --> 00:44:28,356 Made spastic, I reckon, by all the lies and liars... 690 00:44:28,565 --> 00:44:30,984 ...l've had to put up with around here. 691 00:44:31,192 --> 00:44:35,821 And all the hypocrisy I've had to live with these 40 years I've lived with you. 692 00:44:36,948 --> 00:44:38,950 Now blow out them candles. 693 00:44:39,951 --> 00:44:43,037 Go on. Blow out them candles on that stupid cake. 694 00:44:45,456 --> 00:44:47,541 [ Softly ] Oh, Big Daddy... 695 00:44:47,833 --> 00:44:52,505 In all these years you never believed I loved you. 696 00:44:55,216 --> 00:44:56,759 And I did. 697 00:44:58,302 --> 00:45:00,137 I did so much. 698 00:45:01,306 --> 00:45:02,849 I did love you. 699 00:45:04,309 --> 00:45:08,354 I even loved your hate and your hardness. 700 00:45:09,188 --> 00:45:10,940 [ Thunder rumbles ] 701 00:45:14,653 --> 00:45:17,822 - Big Daddy should make plans. - Lf he should die before... 702 00:45:18,615 --> 00:45:19,949 DR. BAUGH: Excuse me. 703 00:45:22,994 --> 00:45:24,538 BIG DADDY: Brick! 704 00:45:25,247 --> 00:45:26,540 Son! 705 00:45:30,752 --> 00:45:32,503 BIG DADDY: I was calling Brick. 706 00:45:33,671 --> 00:45:36,215 I was just delivering him to you. 707 00:45:48,310 --> 00:45:51,064 BIG DADDY: What did you do that for? BRICK: Do what? 708 00:45:52,524 --> 00:45:54,025 Wipe off her kiss? 709 00:45:57,278 --> 00:45:58,446 Did I? 710 00:45:58,571 --> 00:46:01,074 BIG DADDY: Your woman's got a better shape on her... 711 00:46:01,283 --> 00:46:02,867 ...than Gooper's got on his. 712 00:46:03,410 --> 00:46:07,789 - Is that the only difference you've noticed? - Difference in shape is pretty important. 713 00:46:07,997 --> 00:46:10,791 - But in a way, they're a lot alike. - How's that? 714 00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:14,004 They don't look peaceful. How's that? 715 00:46:14,296 --> 00:46:16,339 They're a couple of cats... 716 00:46:16,589 --> 00:46:20,843 ...sitting in the middle of 28,000 acres of land. That's a lot of land. 717 00:46:21,219 --> 00:46:25,682 They're both squaring off, determined to get a bigger piece whenever you let go. 718 00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:29,436 Yeah, well, I've got a surprise for them babies. 719 00:46:29,644 --> 00:46:33,106 I ain't letting go for a long time yet, if they're waiting for that. 720 00:46:33,189 --> 00:46:37,027 You just sit tight and let them scratch each other's eyes out. 721 00:46:37,235 --> 00:46:38,653 You bet your life. 722 00:46:39,237 --> 00:46:43,032 Gooper's wife, she's a good breeder. You'll have to admit she's fertile. 723 00:46:43,241 --> 00:46:45,743 Five head of them already and more coming. 724 00:46:47,078 --> 00:46:50,498 6- 0. She'll probably drop a litter next time. 725 00:46:52,709 --> 00:46:55,795 BIG DADDY: Are you stuck out there? MAE: I was just passing by. 726 00:46:55,878 --> 00:46:57,797 You were just sneaking and spying. 727 00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:01,676 Do I have to lock all the doors around here to have a private conversation? 728 00:47:01,885 --> 00:47:04,888 - Why hurt those that really love you? - Bull! 729 00:47:05,138 --> 00:47:07,598 I'm going to move you and Gooper out of that room. 730 00:47:07,765 --> 00:47:11,352 It's none of your business what goes on in here between Brick and Maggie. 731 00:47:11,560 --> 00:47:14,231 I hate sneaking and spying! It makes me puke! 732 00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:20,695 They listen, do they? 733 00:47:20,945 --> 00:47:22,780 Yeah, they listen. 734 00:47:22,989 --> 00:47:25,909 BIG DADDY: They run and tell Big Mama everything they hear. 735 00:47:26,034 --> 00:47:29,746 They say Maggie sleeps on the bed and you sleep on the sofa. Is that true? 736 00:47:30,163 --> 00:47:33,791 If you don't like Maggie, get rid of her! What are you doing now? 737 00:47:33,875 --> 00:47:35,584 BRICK: Freshening up my drink. 738 00:47:35,668 --> 00:47:38,713 BIG DADDY: You've a real liquor problem. BRICK: Yes, sir. 739 00:47:38,797 --> 00:47:41,549 BIG DADDY: Is that why you quit sports announcing? 740 00:47:41,633 --> 00:47:43,885 BRICK: I guess so. Yes, sir, that's it. 741 00:47:44,093 --> 00:47:46,053 Don't guess! It's too important! 742 00:47:46,596 --> 00:47:48,264 So you quit. 743 00:47:49,141 --> 00:47:51,935 - Some kind of a disappointment? - I don't know. Do you? 744 00:47:52,018 --> 00:47:54,812 I'm asking you. How should I know if you don't? 745 00:47:54,938 --> 00:47:56,481 [ Big Daddy coughs ] 746 00:47:59,317 --> 00:48:02,862 Do you think a shot of that whisky would injure my spastic condition? 747 00:48:05,115 --> 00:48:06,407 No, sir. 748 00:48:07,617 --> 00:48:09,535 It might do it some good. 749 00:48:17,001 --> 00:48:19,170 The sky is open again, boy. It's open! 750 00:48:19,379 --> 00:48:21,214 BRICK: That's the way to feel. 751 00:48:26,511 --> 00:48:28,304 I can breathe. 752 00:48:29,681 --> 00:48:32,475 All my life I've been like a doubled-up fist... 753 00:48:32,683 --> 00:48:35,519 ...pounding and smashing and driving! 754 00:48:36,187 --> 00:48:38,982 But now I'm going to take things easy with them. 755 00:48:40,859 --> 00:48:42,318 Do you know what I'm thinking? 756 00:48:42,402 --> 00:48:43,903 What's that, sir? 757 00:48:44,195 --> 00:48:45,363 Pleasure! 758 00:48:47,615 --> 00:48:51,244 I'll tell you, I still have a feeling for women, and I'm 65. 759 00:48:51,453 --> 00:48:53,913 - That's mighty remarkable. - Remarkable? 760 00:48:54,539 --> 00:48:55,540 Admirable. 761 00:48:55,748 --> 00:49:00,127 It's not only remarkable and admirable, it's downright satisfying. 762 00:49:00,336 --> 00:49:03,381 - I'm going to have me a ball. - A ball? 763 00:49:03,590 --> 00:49:05,383 I'm going to pick me a choice woman... 764 00:49:05,467 --> 00:49:09,345 ...and I'm going to smother her in minks and choke her with diamonds. 765 00:49:09,554 --> 00:49:11,347 I'm going to be happy! 766 00:49:13,683 --> 00:49:16,644 Why are you so restless? You got ants in your britches? 767 00:49:16,728 --> 00:49:18,271 - Yes, sir. - Why? 768 00:49:19,981 --> 00:49:22,567 - Something hasn't happened yet. - What's that? 769 00:49:22,775 --> 00:49:25,278 - A click in my head. - Did you say, ''click''? 770 00:49:25,403 --> 00:49:29,324 Yes, sir. That click in my head that makes me feel peaceful. 771 00:49:29,532 --> 00:49:31,701 Boy, sometimes you worry me. 772 00:49:33,077 --> 00:49:37,833 Like a switch clicking off in my head. Turns the hot light off and the cool one on. 773 00:49:37,916 --> 00:49:39,793 All of a sudden, there's peace. 774 00:49:42,295 --> 00:49:44,505 You're a real alcoholic! 775 00:49:45,923 --> 00:49:47,258 That is the truth. 776 00:49:47,466 --> 00:49:51,429 Yes, sir, I am an alcoholic. So, if you'll just excuse me. 777 00:49:51,554 --> 00:49:54,682 BIG DADDY: No, I won't! BRICK: I'm waiting for that click... 778 00:49:54,766 --> 00:49:58,686 ...and I don't get it unless I'm alone! I'm not talking. When it's quiet! 779 00:49:58,769 --> 00:50:02,983 You'll hear plenty of that in the grave. Right now we're going to talk. 780 00:50:03,191 --> 00:50:06,653 This talk is like all the others. It gets nowhere and it's painful! 781 00:50:07,654 --> 00:50:12,158 BIG DADDY: Let it be painful. BRICK: I can crawl and hop if I have to. 782 00:50:13,118 --> 00:50:18,414 If you aren't careful, you'll crawl out this family and be drinking on skid row. 783 00:50:18,498 --> 00:50:20,166 Yeah, that will come too. 784 00:50:20,750 --> 00:50:24,755 No. Now that I'm straightened out, I'm going to straighten you out. 785 00:50:24,838 --> 00:50:26,256 Sit down! 786 00:50:26,464 --> 00:50:30,385 It's no use. We talk in circles. We have nothing to say to each other! 787 00:50:36,975 --> 00:50:40,103 BIG DADDY: Where are you going? BRICK: To get another bottle. 788 00:50:40,311 --> 00:50:42,730 BIG DADDY: No, you're not, you drunken whelp! 789 00:50:44,565 --> 00:50:48,486 BIG MAMA: Why are you shouting? I can't stand it! 790 00:50:48,695 --> 00:50:51,948 BIG DADDY: Get out of here! Leave us alone! Why do you drink? 791 00:50:52,824 --> 00:50:55,743 BIG DADDY: You had better know why you drink or give it up! 792 00:50:56,369 --> 00:50:57,662 Give me my crutch. 793 00:50:57,870 --> 00:50:58,704 Why do you drink? 794 00:50:58,788 --> 00:51:00,916 I stepped on that foot and now I'm in pain. 795 00:51:01,124 --> 00:51:02,417 Good! 796 00:51:02,626 --> 00:51:04,377 [ Big Daddy moans ] 797 00:51:06,129 --> 00:51:07,797 [ Sound of breaking glass ] 798 00:51:08,548 --> 00:51:11,217 BIG DADDY: [ Groans ] At least you're not too numb... 799 00:51:11,300 --> 00:51:14,012 ...with liquor to feel pain. 800 00:51:15,930 --> 00:51:18,016 - Why do you drink? - Give me my crutch. 801 00:51:18,224 --> 00:51:21,394 - Tell me first. - No, give me a drink first. 802 00:51:21,519 --> 00:51:23,062 Tell me first. 803 00:51:24,021 --> 00:51:26,983 - First you've got to tell me! - All right! Disgust! 804 00:51:27,192 --> 00:51:30,320 - Disgust with what? - You strike a hard bargain. 805 00:51:30,528 --> 00:51:35,157 - Boy, do you want liquor that bad? - Yes, sir, I want liquor that bad. 806 00:51:35,283 --> 00:51:36,952 [ Phone rings ] 807 00:51:39,245 --> 00:51:41,456 What are you disgusted with? 808 00:51:42,248 --> 00:51:45,543 Mendacity! Do you know what that is? It's lies and liars! 809 00:51:45,710 --> 00:51:48,003 Who's been lying to you? Maggie? 810 00:51:48,212 --> 00:51:50,548 No, not one lie or one person. The whole thing. 811 00:51:50,715 --> 00:51:52,592 - You got a headache? - No, I'm trying... 812 00:51:52,801 --> 00:51:56,679 Trying to concentrate, but you can't because your brain is soaked with liquor. 813 00:51:56,888 --> 00:51:58,014 Wet brain! 814 00:51:59,056 --> 00:52:00,433 BIG DADDY: Mendacity! 815 00:52:00,641 --> 00:52:04,562 What do you know about mendacity? I could write a book on it. 816 00:52:04,771 --> 00:52:08,649 - It's your sister calling from Memphis. - To hell with her! Gooper? 817 00:52:08,733 --> 00:52:09,859 Get out of there! 818 00:52:10,234 --> 00:52:12,988 Go on. Close the door after you. 819 00:52:13,196 --> 00:52:14,072 Mendacity! 820 00:52:14,489 --> 00:52:19,369 Look at the lies I've got to put up with. Pretenses, hypocrisy! 821 00:52:19,577 --> 00:52:24,040 Pretending like I care for Big Mama. I haven't tolerated her in 40 years. 822 00:52:24,665 --> 00:52:28,503 Church! It bores me, but I go. 823 00:52:28,795 --> 00:52:33,257 All those swindling lodges, social clubs, and money-grabbing auxiliaries... 824 00:52:33,424 --> 00:52:35,926 ...that's got me on their number one sucker list. 825 00:52:36,093 --> 00:52:40,306 Boy, I've lived with mendacity. Why can't you live with it? 826 00:52:40,515 --> 00:52:45,394 You've got to. There's nothing to live with but mendacity. Is there? 827 00:52:46,437 --> 00:52:48,606 Yes, sir, you can live with this. 828 00:52:51,609 --> 00:52:52,652 That's not living. 829 00:52:54,153 --> 00:52:57,281 - That's dodging away from life. - I want to dodge away from it. 830 00:52:57,365 --> 00:52:58,950 Then why not kill yourself? 831 00:52:59,075 --> 00:53:00,744 BRICK: Because I like to drink. 832 00:53:00,869 --> 00:53:02,454 I can't talk to you! 833 00:53:02,662 --> 00:53:03,830 BRICK: I'm sorry. 834 00:53:03,955 --> 00:53:07,125 Do you expect me to turn over 28,000 acres of the richest land... 835 00:53:07,250 --> 00:53:09,961 ...this side of the Nile to a drunk fool? - No, sir. 836 00:53:10,127 --> 00:53:13,465 I like you, son, but why should I subsidize worthless behavior? 837 00:53:13,673 --> 00:53:15,508 BRICK: Give it to Gooper and Mae. 838 00:53:15,717 --> 00:53:19,595 BIG DADDY: I can't stand Gooper and Mae and those five screaming monkeys. 839 00:53:20,972 --> 00:53:23,724 I don't have to turn it over to any of you! 840 00:53:23,933 --> 00:53:28,021 To this day, I ain't made no will. Now I don't have to, the pressure's off. 841 00:53:28,229 --> 00:53:30,982 I can wait and see if you pull yourself together or not. 842 00:53:31,065 --> 00:53:32,316 BRICK: That's right. 843 00:53:32,859 --> 00:53:36,404 BIG DADDY: I'm not kidding. BRICK: No, sir, I know you're not kidding. 844 00:53:36,822 --> 00:53:37,906 You don't care? 845 00:53:38,114 --> 00:53:40,158 No, sir, I don't care. 846 00:53:41,409 --> 00:53:43,077 Tell Lacey to drive me to the station. 847 00:53:43,161 --> 00:53:46,038 BIG DADDY: Now wait a minute! BRICK: Or I'll drive myself. 848 00:53:46,122 --> 00:53:47,790 I'm going home tonight. Now! 849 00:53:47,915 --> 00:53:50,335 - This is your home. - Is it? Since when? 850 00:53:51,503 --> 00:53:53,505 Let's not leave it like this. 851 00:53:53,755 --> 00:53:56,340 Like all them other talks we've had. 852 00:53:56,549 --> 00:53:59,969 We always seem to talk around things. 853 00:54:00,344 --> 00:54:04,099 Seem to leave things unsaid and unspoken. 854 00:54:04,390 --> 00:54:07,935 - Now we've got to talk straight. - It's too late for talk. 855 00:54:08,144 --> 00:54:09,270 Why? 856 00:54:09,478 --> 00:54:11,355 What are you disgusted about? 857 00:54:11,814 --> 00:54:14,651 Because you can't play football anymore? 858 00:54:15,026 --> 00:54:18,363 Because you lost your job? I'll get it back for you! 859 00:54:18,488 --> 00:54:20,156 [ Brick laughs ] 860 00:54:24,368 --> 00:54:28,039 What? Sit in a glass box watching games that I can't play? 861 00:54:28,248 --> 00:54:31,709 Describing what I can't do while others do it? 862 00:54:32,919 --> 00:54:37,674 Filling my Coke with bourbon so I can stand it? You'll get that back for me? 863 00:54:38,091 --> 00:54:40,260 I think you're passing the buck. 864 00:54:40,385 --> 00:54:41,928 [ Thunder rumbles ] 865 00:54:43,179 --> 00:54:44,555 Do you know many drinking men? 866 00:54:44,722 --> 00:54:46,307 I've known a good number. 867 00:54:46,515 --> 00:54:48,684 Could any of them they tell you why they drank? 868 00:54:48,768 --> 00:54:50,478 You're passing the buck? 869 00:54:50,687 --> 00:54:54,524 You're passing the buck to things like disgust and mendacity. 870 00:54:54,732 --> 00:54:56,901 If you've got to use that kind of language... 871 00:54:57,068 --> 00:55:00,237 ...it's 90 proof bull and I ain't buying any! 872 00:55:00,404 --> 00:55:05,577 You started drinking with your friend Skipper's death. Ain't that the truth? 873 00:55:05,702 --> 00:55:07,662 [ Thunder rumbles ] 874 00:55:14,669 --> 00:55:16,004 What are you suggesting? 875 00:55:17,088 --> 00:55:18,089 Nothing. But... 876 00:55:18,298 --> 00:55:19,590 But what? 877 00:55:19,757 --> 00:55:20,800 Say your mind. 878 00:55:21,175 --> 00:55:22,385 BRICK: [ Shouts ] Say it! 879 00:55:22,468 --> 00:55:25,388 BIG DADDY: Why are you so excited? BRICK: Go ahead, say it! 880 00:55:25,514 --> 00:55:26,973 Why are you shouting like that? 881 00:55:27,057 --> 00:55:29,100 Skipper and I were friends, understand? 882 00:55:29,267 --> 00:55:30,768 Gooper said that Skipper was... 883 00:55:30,852 --> 00:55:33,813 Skipper is the only thing that I've got left to believe in! 884 00:55:33,896 --> 00:55:35,564 And you drag it through the gutter! 885 00:55:35,648 --> 00:55:38,276 - Just a minute! - You make it shameful and filthy! 886 00:55:48,244 --> 00:55:49,538 Give me your hand. 887 00:55:52,248 --> 00:55:55,668 I don't want your hand. To hell with all lies and liars! 888 00:55:56,294 --> 00:55:58,963 BRICK: Didn't you ever look up to anybody? 889 00:55:59,130 --> 00:56:00,924 Anybody at all in your whole life? 890 00:56:01,133 --> 00:56:03,968 Didn't you ever believe in anything, anybody? 891 00:56:05,303 --> 00:56:08,181 No, sir, I guess you didn't. 892 00:56:08,514 --> 00:56:11,767 Nothing and nobody except Big Daddy himself. 893 00:56:11,976 --> 00:56:14,062 You and Skipper played football together. 894 00:56:14,145 --> 00:56:16,815 Made a few touchdowns. Does that make him God Almighty? 895 00:56:16,940 --> 00:56:17,982 I could depend on him. 896 00:56:18,066 --> 00:56:21,485 BIG DADDY: On the football field! BRICK: Anytime, anywhere, anyplace! 897 00:56:21,569 --> 00:56:23,779 BIG DADDY: Are you sure of that? BRICK: Yes. 898 00:56:23,904 --> 00:56:25,115 Bull! 899 00:56:25,240 --> 00:56:28,576 BIG DADDY: Why did your big strong man fall apart? 900 00:56:29,160 --> 00:56:30,828 Why did Skipper crack up? 901 00:56:32,455 --> 00:56:33,748 All right. 902 00:56:34,915 --> 00:56:37,586 You're asking for it, we're going to have that talk. 903 00:56:38,670 --> 00:56:41,089 That straight, true talk. 904 00:56:41,339 --> 00:56:42,840 It's too late to stop now. 905 00:56:43,049 --> 00:56:44,550 Can you say it without a drink? 906 00:56:44,634 --> 00:56:47,303 I haven't heard that mechanical click yet. 907 00:56:47,511 --> 00:56:51,683 You need a lot of crutches, don't you? Clicks. Whisky. 908 00:56:51,891 --> 00:56:53,768 What else do you need? 909 00:56:53,977 --> 00:56:54,560 Skipper? 910 00:56:55,019 --> 00:56:57,522 BIG DADDY: He was a crutch for you too, wasn't he? 911 00:56:57,647 --> 00:56:58,689 Yes, sir. 912 00:56:58,856 --> 00:57:01,484 I could lean on him, in school and out of it. 913 00:57:02,277 --> 00:57:06,030 How did Maggie take this great and true friendship? 914 00:57:08,866 --> 00:57:09,742 Ask her. 915 00:57:09,951 --> 00:57:10,910 I'm asking you. 916 00:57:11,118 --> 00:57:14,623 If you want to know why Skipper cracked up, ask Maggie the cat. 917 00:57:14,748 --> 00:57:16,291 BIG DADDY: What did she do? 918 00:57:16,416 --> 00:57:19,711 Chase him out of the window of that Chicago hotel? 919 00:57:19,877 --> 00:57:23,506 Did that little bitty girl shove your big hero out all by herself? 920 00:57:24,173 --> 00:57:25,258 Why? 921 00:57:26,384 --> 00:57:28,553 What went on between Skipper and Maggie? 922 00:57:30,013 --> 00:57:30,930 Ask her. 923 00:57:32,807 --> 00:57:34,350 [ Thunder rumbles ] 924 00:57:36,102 --> 00:57:37,646 BIG DADDY: Maggie, come here. 925 00:57:37,729 --> 00:57:40,440 MAE: Can I be of assistance, Big Daddy? 926 00:57:44,026 --> 00:57:46,570 Trixie's ready to play the piano for you! 927 00:57:46,779 --> 00:57:49,032 Go ahead, play. 928 00:57:49,157 --> 00:57:51,242 [ Plays halting musical scale ] 929 00:57:57,039 --> 00:58:00,084 What was going on between you and Skipper? 930 00:58:02,087 --> 00:58:04,089 Well, you see, Big Daddy... 931 00:58:06,090 --> 00:58:07,300 Well? 932 00:58:08,551 --> 00:58:10,428 Come on, Maggie! 933 00:58:10,636 --> 00:58:12,763 You wanted to talk truth upstairs. 934 00:58:12,931 --> 00:58:14,432 Go ahead! 935 00:58:14,599 --> 00:58:17,268 Big Daddy wants to know. Tell him! 936 00:58:22,607 --> 00:58:24,358 MAGGIE: Skipper didn't like me. 937 00:58:24,567 --> 00:58:26,611 BRICK: Why didn't Skipper like you? 938 00:58:26,820 --> 00:58:29,489 - You know he was against our marriage. - Why? 939 00:58:29,697 --> 00:58:33,451 - Because it meant less freedom for you. - Freedom to do what? 940 00:58:33,618 --> 00:58:36,162 Freedom to run from town to town. 941 00:58:36,370 --> 00:58:38,623 Planes, trains, always running! 942 00:58:38,790 --> 00:58:43,086 - Football practice, dirty stories... - Nobody forced you to come along with us! 943 00:58:43,294 --> 00:58:47,173 I didn't expect to spend my honeymoon in the locker room with the boys. 944 00:58:47,381 --> 00:58:51,011 BRICK: Since when did a man's smell ever injure your sensitive feelings? 945 00:58:51,219 --> 00:58:52,720 Football, baby! 946 00:58:52,929 --> 00:58:55,306 The idea of football smelled. 947 00:58:55,473 --> 00:58:58,434 Especially the notions of a professional team. 948 00:58:58,643 --> 00:59:00,895 He didn't need any team of his own. 949 00:59:01,104 --> 00:59:04,607 He could've gotten a spot on any pro team in the country. 950 00:59:05,650 --> 00:59:08,152 You organized your own team on account of Skipper. 951 00:59:08,361 --> 00:59:09,654 BRICK: You're a liar! 952 00:59:09,737 --> 00:59:11,864 He wasn't good enough on his own. 953 00:59:12,073 --> 00:59:14,409 Professional football is a business... 954 00:59:14,618 --> 00:59:15,660 ...not a social club! 955 00:59:16,369 --> 00:59:18,413 You mean the business of making money? 956 00:59:18,621 --> 00:59:21,207 Yeah, money! The stuff your dreams are made of! 957 00:59:21,707 --> 00:59:24,502 The Dixie Stars never made a nickel! 958 00:59:24,668 --> 00:59:27,088 Not from the first day to the last. 959 00:59:27,297 --> 00:59:29,424 It wasn't the money, it was the cheers. 960 00:59:29,632 --> 00:59:31,092 He lapped them up. 961 00:59:31,300 --> 00:59:34,929 The cheers didn't mean anything to me. But they did to you! 962 00:59:35,137 --> 00:59:37,974 Because they shut you out and you hated that. 963 00:59:38,183 --> 00:59:40,477 Not by the crowds, baby, by you. 964 00:59:40,685 --> 00:59:42,478 By the man I worshiped. 965 00:59:42,687 --> 00:59:45,064 That's why I hated Skipper. 966 00:59:45,815 --> 00:59:49,486 You hated him so much you got him drunk and went to bed with him. 967 01:00:00,371 --> 01:00:02,207 Is that true? 968 01:00:07,336 --> 01:00:09,088 Oh, Big Daddy... 969 01:00:09,922 --> 01:00:13,802 You don't think I ravished a football hero? 970 01:00:17,055 --> 01:00:18,723 Skipper was drunk. 971 01:00:19,182 --> 01:00:21,184 So are you most of the time. 972 01:00:21,392 --> 01:00:24,145 I don't seem to make out so well with you. 973 01:00:25,730 --> 01:00:27,607 [ Lncredulously ] Are you... 974 01:00:28,316 --> 01:00:31,527 Are you saying nothing happened between you and Skipper? 975 01:00:31,652 --> 01:00:34,322 MAGGIE: You know what happened. BRICK: I don't know! 976 01:00:34,530 --> 01:00:36,365 I wasn't there. 977 01:00:36,574 --> 01:00:39,452 I couldn't play that Sunday. I wasn't in Chicago. 978 01:00:39,661 --> 01:00:41,704 - I was in the hospital... - Skipper played. 979 01:00:41,788 --> 01:00:43,206 He played all right! 980 01:00:43,414 --> 01:00:45,625 His first professional game without Brick. 981 01:00:47,668 --> 01:00:49,838 Tell Big Daddy what happened. 982 01:00:50,046 --> 01:00:51,548 Go on, tell him. 983 01:00:51,756 --> 01:00:53,675 You're a sports announcer. 984 01:00:53,883 --> 01:00:58,220 Give us a running account of the all-American bust. 985 01:00:58,429 --> 01:01:01,349 Tell him how many times Skipper fumbled... 986 01:01:01,558 --> 01:01:04,102 ...and stumbled and fell apart. 987 01:01:04,435 --> 01:01:08,481 On offensive he was useless. On defensive he was a coward. 988 01:01:08,689 --> 01:01:10,107 And it was all over: 989 01:01:10,274 --> 01:01:13,320 Chicago: 47, Dixie Stars: 0. 990 01:01:13,528 --> 01:01:15,155 Bad breaks. An off day. 991 01:01:15,238 --> 01:01:16,364 MAGGIE: No, baby. 992 01:01:16,781 --> 01:01:19,617 Without you, Skipper was nothing. 993 01:01:19,784 --> 01:01:21,953 Outside: Big, tough, confident. 994 01:01:22,119 --> 01:01:24,038 Inside: Pure jelly! 995 01:01:25,123 --> 01:01:27,584 You saw the game on TV. You saw what happened. 996 01:01:27,792 --> 01:01:30,503 But I didn't see what happened in Skipper's hotel room. 997 01:01:30,586 --> 01:01:32,505 That little episode was not on TV. 998 01:01:32,713 --> 01:01:35,925 Tell Big Daddy why you were in Skipper's room. 999 01:01:36,133 --> 01:01:37,510 He was sick. 1000 01:01:37,928 --> 01:01:39,387 Sick with drink. 1001 01:01:39,596 --> 01:01:40,889 He wouldn't come out. 1002 01:01:40,972 --> 01:01:42,348 He'd busted some furniture... 1003 01:01:42,432 --> 01:01:46,227 ...and the hotel manager said to stop him before he called the police. 1004 01:01:46,477 --> 01:01:48,771 So I went to his room. 1005 01:01:49,064 --> 01:01:51,775 I scratched on his door and begged him to let me in. 1006 01:01:51,983 --> 01:01:53,359 He was half crazy. 1007 01:01:53,568 --> 01:01:55,236 Violent and screaming one minute... 1008 01:01:55,445 --> 01:01:57,738 ...weak and crying the next. 1009 01:01:57,947 --> 01:02:01,451 And all the time, scared stiff about you. 1010 01:02:02,327 --> 01:02:06,164 So I said to him maybe it was time we forgot about football. 1011 01:02:06,664 --> 01:02:10,126 Maybe he ought to get a job and let me and Brick alone. 1012 01:02:11,293 --> 01:02:13,797 I thought he'd hit me. 1013 01:02:14,881 --> 01:02:16,799 He walked toward me... 1014 01:02:17,217 --> 01:02:21,095 ...with a funny sort of smile on his face. 1015 01:02:22,596 --> 01:02:25,100 Then he did the strangest thing. 1016 01:02:25,475 --> 01:02:27,268 He kissed me. 1017 01:02:27,936 --> 01:02:30,521 That was the first time he'd ever touched me. 1018 01:02:31,022 --> 01:02:33,107 And then I knew what I was going to do. 1019 01:02:33,316 --> 01:02:35,276 I'd get rid of Skipper. 1020 01:02:35,484 --> 01:02:39,239 I'd show Brick that their deep, true friendship was a big lie. 1021 01:02:39,948 --> 01:02:41,366 I'd prove it by showing... 1022 01:02:41,574 --> 01:02:45,161 ... that Skipper would make love to his best friend's wife. 1023 01:02:45,703 --> 01:02:47,496 He didn't need any coaxing. 1024 01:02:47,705 --> 01:02:49,666 He was more than willing. 1025 01:02:49,874 --> 01:02:52,210 He even seemed to have the same idea. 1026 01:02:53,253 --> 01:02:55,129 You're just trying to whitewash it. 1027 01:02:55,671 --> 01:02:56,547 I'm not! 1028 01:02:56,756 --> 01:02:58,549 I was trying to win back my husband. 1029 01:02:58,674 --> 01:03:01,761 It didn't matter how. I would've done anything. 1030 01:03:01,970 --> 01:03:03,972 Even that. 1031 01:03:05,056 --> 01:03:06,724 But at the last second... 1032 01:03:06,891 --> 01:03:08,643 ...I got panicky. 1033 01:03:09,769 --> 01:03:12,396 Supposing I lost you instead? 1034 01:03:13,231 --> 01:03:16,276 Supposing you'd hate me instead of Skipper? 1035 01:03:17,235 --> 01:03:19,070 So I ran. 1036 01:03:19,862 --> 01:03:21,197 Nothing happened! 1037 01:03:21,405 --> 01:03:24,325 I've tried to tell him a hundred times but he won't let me. 1038 01:03:24,950 --> 01:03:26,244 Nothing happened! 1039 01:03:26,453 --> 01:03:28,663 Hallelujah, St. Maggie. 1040 01:03:30,456 --> 01:03:32,917 I wanted to get rid of Skipper. 1041 01:03:33,793 --> 01:03:35,544 But not if it meant losing you. 1042 01:03:35,753 --> 01:03:38,089 He blames me for Skipper's death. 1043 01:03:39,007 --> 01:03:41,968 Maybe I got rid of Skipper. 1044 01:03:44,637 --> 01:03:47,181 Skipper won out anyway. 1045 01:03:49,517 --> 01:03:52,061 I didn't get rid of him at all. 1046 01:03:54,480 --> 01:03:57,608 [ Slow instrumental music ] 1047 01:03:59,860 --> 01:04:02,447 Isn't it an awful joke, honey? 1048 01:04:03,323 --> 01:04:05,450 I lost you anyway. 1049 01:04:08,119 --> 01:04:10,746 - You didn't talk to him again before he... - No. 1050 01:04:11,330 --> 01:04:13,875 MAGGIE: But Brick did. BIG DADDY: How do you know? 1051 01:04:13,959 --> 01:04:15,794 - Skipper told me. - When? 1052 01:04:16,002 --> 01:04:18,629 When they put his broken body in the ambulance. 1053 01:04:18,838 --> 01:04:20,840 I rode with him to the hospital. 1054 01:04:21,090 --> 01:04:25,262 He kept saying, ''Why did Brick hang up on me? '' 1055 01:04:26,638 --> 01:04:28,473 Why, Brick? 1056 01:04:43,863 --> 01:04:46,198 BIG DADDY: Where are you going? BRICK: Home. 1057 01:04:49,160 --> 01:04:51,913 - You can't drive. You're drunk. - Not yet, Big Daddy. 1058 01:04:51,996 --> 01:04:54,332 BRICK: Not yet. Now, give me that bottle. 1059 01:04:55,041 --> 01:04:56,709 [ Sound of breaking glass ] 1060 01:04:58,002 --> 01:04:59,795 What are you running away from? 1061 01:05:04,300 --> 01:05:07,512 Why did you hang up on Skipper when he called you? 1062 01:05:11,057 --> 01:05:12,349 Answer me! 1063 01:05:13,268 --> 01:05:16,104 What did he say? Was it about him and Maggie? 1064 01:05:16,312 --> 01:05:18,606 - He said they'd made love. - And you believed him? 1065 01:05:18,815 --> 01:05:19,899 Yes. 1066 01:05:20,775 --> 01:05:22,610 Then why haven't you thrown her out? 1067 01:05:23,152 --> 01:05:25,947 Something's missing here. Why did Skipper kill himself? 1068 01:05:26,698 --> 01:05:28,366 Because somebody let him down. 1069 01:05:33,079 --> 01:05:35,372 [ Slow instrumental music ] 1070 01:05:35,664 --> 01:05:37,375 I let him down. 1071 01:05:39,461 --> 01:05:41,462 When he called that night... 1072 01:05:44,507 --> 01:05:46,801 ...I couldn't make sense out of... 1073 01:05:47,426 --> 01:05:50,055 But there was one thing that was sure. 1074 01:05:52,265 --> 01:05:54,642 Skipper was scared. 1075 01:05:55,143 --> 01:05:56,853 Scared... 1076 01:05:58,229 --> 01:06:01,023 ...about what happened that day on the football field. 1077 01:06:01,233 --> 01:06:02,067 That I'd blame him. 1078 01:06:02,275 --> 01:06:05,486 Scared that I'd walk out on him. 1079 01:06:07,113 --> 01:06:10,366 Skipper afraid! I couldn't believe that. 1080 01:06:10,574 --> 01:06:14,037 I mean, inside he was real deep-down scared... 1081 01:06:14,746 --> 01:06:17,498 ... and he broke like a rotten stick. 1082 01:06:18,750 --> 01:06:21,002 He started crying: 1083 01:06:22,003 --> 01:06:23,921 ''I need you.'' 1084 01:06:24,130 --> 01:06:26,591 He kept babbling, ''Help me.'' 1085 01:06:28,009 --> 01:06:29,927 Me help him? 1086 01:06:31,596 --> 01:06:33,764 How does one drowning man... 1087 01:06:33,973 --> 01:06:35,599 ...help another drowning man? 1088 01:06:36,100 --> 01:06:38,019 So you hung up on him. 1089 01:06:39,771 --> 01:06:41,814 And then that phone... 1090 01:06:42,440 --> 01:06:44,442 ...started to ring again. 1091 01:06:46,068 --> 01:06:49,781 It rang and it rang and it wouldn't stop ringing. 1092 01:06:50,198 --> 01:06:55,244 And I lay in that hospital bed, unable to move or run from that sound. 1093 01:06:55,495 --> 01:06:58,039 It kept ringing louder and louder. 1094 01:06:58,456 --> 01:07:02,127 And the sound of that was like Skipper screaming for help. 1095 01:07:06,464 --> 01:07:08,799 And I couldn't pick it up. 1096 01:07:10,468 --> 01:07:13,053 So that's when he killed himself? 1097 01:07:17,558 --> 01:07:18,685 Yes. 1098 01:07:20,478 --> 01:07:22,605 Because I let him down. 1099 01:07:27,318 --> 01:07:31,823 So that disgust with mendacity is really disgust with myself. 1100 01:07:32,031 --> 01:07:36,368 When I hear that click I don't hear the sound of that phone ringing anymore. 1101 01:07:36,577 --> 01:07:38,663 And I can stop thinking. 1102 01:07:38,872 --> 01:07:40,498 I'm ashamed! 1103 01:07:40,707 --> 01:07:44,085 That's why I'm a drunk. When I'm drunk I can stand myself. 1104 01:07:44,544 --> 01:07:47,296 But the truth is always there in the morning, isn't it? 1105 01:07:48,255 --> 01:07:50,091 BIG DADDY: And it's here right now. 1106 01:07:51,509 --> 01:07:55,430 BIG DADDY: You're just feeling sorry for yourself. That's all it is. Self-pity! 1107 01:07:55,513 --> 01:07:57,848 You didn't kill Skipper. He killed himself. 1108 01:07:58,015 --> 01:08:01,143 You, Skipper and lots like you, living in a kid's world... 1109 01:08:01,353 --> 01:08:05,231 ...playing games, touchdowns, no worries, no responsibilities. 1110 01:08:05,523 --> 01:08:07,567 Life ain't no damn football game. 1111 01:08:07,775 --> 01:08:09,860 Life ain't just a bunch of high spots. 1112 01:08:11,278 --> 01:08:14,699 You're a 30-year-old kid. Soon you'll be a 50-year-old kid... 1113 01:08:15,158 --> 01:08:17,660 ...pretending you hear cheers when there ain't any. 1114 01:08:17,744 --> 01:08:20,037 Dreaming and drinking your life away. 1115 01:08:20,246 --> 01:08:21,622 Heroes in the real world... 1116 01:08:21,831 --> 01:08:25,335 ... live 24 hours a day, not just two hours in a game. 1117 01:08:26,002 --> 01:08:29,339 Mendacity! You won't... 1118 01:08:31,799 --> 01:08:35,386 [ Gasps ] You won't live with mendacity, but you're an expert at it. 1119 01:08:35,553 --> 01:08:37,681 The truth is pain and sweat... 1120 01:08:37,889 --> 01:08:42,143 ...paying bills and making love to a woman that you don't love anymore. 1121 01:08:42,352 --> 01:08:44,437 The truth is dreams that don't come true... 1122 01:08:44,562 --> 01:08:47,565 ...and nobody prints your name in the paper till you die. 1123 01:08:53,571 --> 01:08:55,073 Now, here. 1124 01:08:59,160 --> 01:09:01,161 The truth is you never growed up. 1125 01:09:01,371 --> 01:09:03,540 - Grown-ups don't hang up on friends. - Get away. 1126 01:09:03,623 --> 01:09:06,918 And they don't hang up on their wives. They don't hang up on life. 1127 01:09:07,085 --> 01:09:09,754 Now that's the truth that you can't face. 1128 01:09:09,962 --> 01:09:11,547 - Can you face the truth? - Try me. 1129 01:09:11,630 --> 01:09:13,341 BRICK: Sure, somebody else's truth! 1130 01:09:13,425 --> 01:09:15,176 - You're running again. - Yeah, I am. 1131 01:09:15,260 --> 01:09:17,887 Running from lies, like birthday congratulations... 1132 01:09:17,971 --> 01:09:21,557 ...and many happy returns of the day when there won't be any, and... 1133 01:09:33,236 --> 01:09:35,112 Please, let me go home. 1134 01:09:36,447 --> 01:09:38,241 - What did you say? - I don't remember. 1135 01:09:38,325 --> 01:09:41,577 - There won't be any happy returns? - Forget it. 1136 01:09:41,786 --> 01:09:44,330 Let me go home. Leave the place to Gooper and Mae. 1137 01:09:44,413 --> 01:09:47,792 Who said I was going to leave the place or anything? 1138 01:09:48,000 --> 01:09:49,544 I'll outlive you. 1139 01:09:49,753 --> 01:09:50,837 I'll bury you. 1140 01:09:51,046 --> 01:09:53,089 - I'll buy your coffin. - That's right. 1141 01:09:53,298 --> 01:09:55,299 Many happy returns. 1142 01:10:01,138 --> 01:10:02,932 They were lying... 1143 01:10:03,141 --> 01:10:04,517 ...weren't they, son... 1144 01:10:04,893 --> 01:10:07,145 ...about that report from the clinic? 1145 01:10:09,105 --> 01:10:10,648 This pain... 1146 01:10:10,815 --> 01:10:12,566 ...that keeps grabbing at me... 1147 01:10:13,735 --> 01:10:15,153 It's death... 1148 01:10:16,321 --> 01:10:17,488 ...ain't it? 1149 01:10:18,489 --> 01:10:19,991 Answer me! 1150 01:10:20,283 --> 01:10:21,784 The truth! 1151 01:10:22,910 --> 01:10:27,874 You said it yourself. Mendacity is a system we live in. 1152 01:10:45,683 --> 01:10:47,226 [ Thunder rumbles ] 1153 01:11:04,202 --> 01:11:05,161 Brick, wait! 1154 01:11:15,046 --> 01:11:16,923 [ Sound of splintering wood ] 1155 01:11:26,141 --> 01:11:27,517 [ Brick laughs ] 1156 01:11:28,059 --> 01:11:30,311 Look at us, Maggie. 1157 01:11:30,520 --> 01:11:33,022 The great Pollitt Enterprises... 1158 01:11:33,648 --> 01:11:35,608 ...stuck in the... 1159 01:11:36,775 --> 01:11:38,528 I hurt him, Maggie. 1160 01:11:42,240 --> 01:11:45,159 I hurt him really bad. 1161 01:11:45,368 --> 01:11:47,078 What's the matter? What's happened? 1162 01:11:47,286 --> 01:11:50,206 - Why is Big Daddy... - We've got to talk to you. 1163 01:11:50,457 --> 01:11:52,500 GOOPER: Get Dr. Baugh! MAE: Where is he? 1164 01:11:52,625 --> 01:11:54,544 I don't know, just find him. 1165 01:12:03,970 --> 01:12:04,888 Doc! 1166 01:12:06,597 --> 01:12:09,267 I wouldn't go down to him right now. 1167 01:12:09,517 --> 01:12:10,601 Sweetheart! 1168 01:12:11,936 --> 01:12:14,147 BIG MAMA: Big Daddy, can you hear me? 1169 01:12:15,732 --> 01:12:17,317 BIG MAMA: What are you doing? 1170 01:12:17,442 --> 01:12:19,068 I'm coming down. 1171 01:12:22,071 --> 01:12:25,157 DR. BAUGH: No need to, Ida. We'll be coming up in a minute. 1172 01:12:35,835 --> 01:12:37,754 If that pain gets too bad... 1173 01:12:38,797 --> 01:12:40,632 ...this is morphine... 1174 01:12:40,965 --> 01:12:42,800 ...and a syringe. 1175 01:12:43,384 --> 01:12:46,095 The instructions are written out. 1176 01:12:47,972 --> 01:12:50,350 It's no use pretending anymore. 1177 01:12:50,558 --> 01:12:53,186 When that pain hits, it'll hit hard. 1178 01:12:54,270 --> 01:12:56,439 Make it easy on yourself. 1179 01:12:58,899 --> 01:13:00,276 Here. 1180 01:13:00,818 --> 01:13:03,655 You'd better take off those wet clothes. 1181 01:13:04,489 --> 01:13:05,406 Why? 1182 01:13:05,615 --> 01:13:07,950 You afraid I might catch cold and die? 1183 01:13:24,758 --> 01:13:26,136 Why can't I go down to him? 1184 01:13:26,219 --> 01:13:27,762 Well, he's... 1185 01:13:30,139 --> 01:13:32,767 His stomach's upset, Ida. 1186 01:13:34,685 --> 01:13:36,562 All he needs is a peppermint. 1187 01:13:37,814 --> 01:13:39,816 GOOPER: It's time we had that talk, Doc. 1188 01:13:40,191 --> 01:13:43,111 - It'll be painful. - Painful things can't always be avoided. 1189 01:13:43,444 --> 01:13:45,613 So I've noticed. But there are times... 1190 01:13:45,905 --> 01:13:47,656 It's time we all had our talk. 1191 01:13:47,865 --> 01:13:50,160 What talk are you talking about? 1192 01:13:50,368 --> 01:13:53,955 GOOPER: What were they fighting about? DR. BAUGH: We didn't discuss it. 1193 01:13:54,038 --> 01:13:56,374 MAE: What's he doing in the cellar all alone? 1194 01:13:56,541 --> 01:13:58,000 Why can't Big Mama see him? 1195 01:13:58,209 --> 01:13:59,376 You heard why. 1196 01:13:59,585 --> 01:14:02,881 He's got the stomach upset. It's made him irritable. 1197 01:14:03,173 --> 01:14:06,801 When couples have been together as long as me and Big Daddy... 1198 01:14:07,009 --> 01:14:10,763 ...they get irritable with each other from too much devotion. 1199 01:14:11,931 --> 01:14:13,558 Isn't that so? 1200 01:14:14,851 --> 01:14:16,895 Of course that's so. 1201 01:14:17,729 --> 01:14:19,480 He loves his family. 1202 01:14:19,730 --> 01:14:22,358 He loves them around, but it strains his nerves. 1203 01:14:22,566 --> 01:14:25,319 He wasn't himself. I could tell he was all worked-up. 1204 01:14:25,402 --> 01:14:28,072 MAGGIE: It's the party and the excitement. 1205 01:14:28,281 --> 01:14:30,867 He's probably just a little worn out, that's all. 1206 01:14:31,075 --> 01:14:32,451 Did you notice how he ate? 1207 01:14:32,535 --> 01:14:34,829 He ate like a P-l-G hog. 1208 01:14:35,412 --> 01:14:37,414 GOOPER: I hope he doesn't regret it. 1209 01:14:37,791 --> 01:14:38,917 Who? 1210 01:14:39,209 --> 01:14:40,752 Big Daddy? 1211 01:14:41,377 --> 01:14:43,421 He helped himself twice to hopping John. 1212 01:14:43,921 --> 01:14:47,383 He just loves hopping John. We had a real country dinner. 1213 01:14:47,591 --> 01:14:49,093 BIG MAMA: And candied yams. 1214 01:14:49,511 --> 01:14:52,639 That man put away enough to stuff a field hand. 1215 01:14:53,348 --> 01:14:55,516 I hope he doesn't have to pay for it later on. 1216 01:14:55,725 --> 01:14:56,892 What's that? 1217 01:14:57,101 --> 01:14:58,394 Gooper say he hopes... 1218 01:14:58,602 --> 01:15:00,896 Shoot! Gooper says! 1219 01:15:01,105 --> 01:15:03,775 There ain't nothing wrong with Big Daddy but nerves. 1220 01:15:06,110 --> 01:15:07,028 Ain't that so? 1221 01:15:10,448 --> 01:15:13,033 He's as sound as a dollar. And now he knows he is. 1222 01:15:13,242 --> 01:15:17,538 That's why he ate such a supper. He had a load off his mind, knowing he... 1223 01:15:17,747 --> 01:15:20,416 ...he wasn't doomed to... 1224 01:15:21,083 --> 01:15:23,544 ...what he thought he was doomed to. 1225 01:15:26,089 --> 01:15:28,132 Nothing's going to hurt Big Daddy. 1226 01:15:28,299 --> 01:15:30,551 We won't allow anything to happen to him. 1227 01:15:31,094 --> 01:15:33,262 Doc, come here! 1228 01:15:33,346 --> 01:15:34,764 I don't need any doctor. 1229 01:15:34,847 --> 01:15:36,724 He's something to say about Big Daddy. 1230 01:15:36,807 --> 01:15:38,351 I want Brick. 1231 01:15:39,185 --> 01:15:41,104 He'll be down directly. 1232 01:15:41,312 --> 01:15:43,689 BIG MAMA: Sticky rain always makes me sick. 1233 01:15:44,732 --> 01:15:47,401 Give me something to wash this tablet down with. 1234 01:15:47,651 --> 01:15:50,739 BIG MAMA: What's wrong? You've all got such long faces. 1235 01:15:53,658 --> 01:15:54,909 Big Mama needs you. 1236 01:15:55,118 --> 01:15:56,744 They'll tell her without me. 1237 01:15:56,869 --> 01:15:58,412 Please, Brick. 1238 01:15:58,621 --> 01:16:01,332 I just can't stand the way that Mae and Gooper are... 1239 01:16:01,498 --> 01:16:04,043 What? Trying to grab this place for themselves? 1240 01:16:04,252 --> 01:16:06,379 Let them have it all. 1241 01:16:06,587 --> 01:16:09,006 If you want to fight for a piece of his carcass... 1242 01:16:09,090 --> 01:16:11,425 ...you go ahead, but you'll do it without me. 1243 01:16:11,509 --> 01:16:15,805 I deserved that. But not this time. This time you're wrong. 1244 01:16:16,014 --> 01:16:17,432 What I can't stand is... 1245 01:16:17,515 --> 01:16:20,685 It's not losing this place, it's Big Mama. 1246 01:16:21,644 --> 01:16:24,480 I know what it's like to lose somebody you love. 1247 01:16:24,688 --> 01:16:27,400 Careful, your claws are showing. 1248 01:16:30,695 --> 01:16:32,029 Close that door. 1249 01:16:32,238 --> 01:16:33,906 Don't close that door. 1250 01:16:34,865 --> 01:16:36,533 Let a little air circulate. 1251 01:16:37,242 --> 01:16:39,871 We shouldn't risk Big Daddy hearing this discussion. 1252 01:16:40,288 --> 01:16:41,873 What discussion of what? 1253 01:16:41,956 --> 01:16:44,667 BIG MAMA: Maggie, Brick! GOOPER: Now, now, Big Mama... 1254 01:16:44,750 --> 01:16:47,419 There won't be a word said in Big Daddy's house... 1255 01:16:47,503 --> 01:16:50,590 ...that he can't hear if he wants to. Brick, where are you? 1256 01:16:50,673 --> 01:16:53,051 Where do you think? Gone to pieces, that's where! 1257 01:16:53,259 --> 01:16:55,595 MAE: Doc, ain't there a cure for drinkers? 1258 01:16:55,803 --> 01:16:57,847 - He don't need no cure. - Of course not. 1259 01:16:57,930 --> 01:17:00,724 GOOPER: He'll just drink all the whisky in the state. 1260 01:17:00,808 --> 01:17:02,936 BIG MAMA: Stop that kind of talk! 1261 01:17:03,061 --> 01:17:06,773 Big Daddy takes a drink now and then. I don't trust a man who don't drink. 1262 01:17:06,981 --> 01:17:08,482 Good for you! 1263 01:17:09,150 --> 01:17:11,861 Sit down and hold Big Mama's hand while we talk. 1264 01:17:13,070 --> 01:17:15,406 BIG MAMA: What are you all surrounding me for? 1265 01:17:15,615 --> 01:17:17,492 I don't need anyone to hold my hand. 1266 01:17:17,700 --> 01:17:18,659 Are you all crazy? 1267 01:17:18,743 --> 01:17:22,121 - You calm yourself, sweetheart. - You calm yourself, Sister Woman! 1268 01:17:22,329 --> 01:17:23,664 How can I calm myself... 1269 01:17:23,747 --> 01:17:26,751 ... with everyone staring at me as if blood was on my face? 1270 01:17:28,753 --> 01:17:30,671 What's all this about? 1271 01:17:31,797 --> 01:17:32,965 Sit down, Mae. 1272 01:17:33,174 --> 01:17:36,051 Big Mama wants to know the truth about the clinic report. 1273 01:17:36,260 --> 01:17:37,637 Truth! 1274 01:17:38,555 --> 01:17:41,224 Everybody keeps hollering about the truth. 1275 01:17:41,432 --> 01:17:42,892 The truth is as dirty... 1276 01:17:43,101 --> 01:17:44,227 ...as lies! 1277 01:17:52,694 --> 01:17:54,612 Is there something I don't know, Doc? 1278 01:17:54,695 --> 01:17:56,155 DR. BAUGH: Well, Ida... 1279 01:17:56,239 --> 01:17:57,573 I want to know! 1280 01:18:01,243 --> 01:18:04,330 - Somebody must be lying. - Sit down, Mama, please. 1281 01:18:04,998 --> 01:18:06,791 I want to know about my husband. 1282 01:18:07,041 --> 01:18:10,711 He had the most thorough examination at the Oppenheim Clinic. 1283 01:18:10,920 --> 01:18:12,963 One of the best clinics in the country. 1284 01:18:13,047 --> 01:18:15,633 The best in the country, bar none. 1285 01:18:15,800 --> 01:18:18,469 They were 99.9 percent sure before they even started. 1286 01:18:18,719 --> 01:18:19,971 Right, Doc? 1287 01:18:20,096 --> 01:18:21,138 Sure of what? 1288 01:18:21,263 --> 01:18:23,474 MAGGIE: Not now! MAE: The test was positive! 1289 01:18:23,557 --> 01:18:24,642 Mae, shut up. 1290 01:18:30,481 --> 01:18:33,693 It's hopeless. He knows it, too. 1291 01:18:34,693 --> 01:18:35,736 Hopeless? 1292 01:18:35,945 --> 01:18:38,615 MAE: Now, now, darling. GOOPER: You had to know. 1293 01:18:39,824 --> 01:18:42,660 Why didn't they cut it out of him? 1294 01:18:43,995 --> 01:18:47,164 DR. BAUGH: It's gone past the knife. MAE: He's dying, Big Mama. 1295 01:18:47,373 --> 01:18:49,541 You get away from me, Mae! 1296 01:18:49,751 --> 01:18:50,585 I want Brick. 1297 01:18:50,668 --> 01:18:52,754 Where's my Brick? Where's my only son? 1298 01:18:55,548 --> 01:18:56,591 Brick! 1299 01:18:56,799 --> 01:18:58,050 Mama, please. 1300 01:18:58,134 --> 01:18:59,176 [ Big Mama sobs ] 1301 01:18:59,301 --> 01:19:02,097 GOOPER: I'm your son, too. MAE: Gooper's your firstborn. 1302 01:19:02,180 --> 01:19:04,307 GOOPER: Now, listen to me! BIG MAMA: No! 1303 01:19:04,724 --> 01:19:06,684 - He'll be in pain. - Gooper and I think... 1304 01:19:06,893 --> 01:19:08,311 GOOPER: Mae, shut up! 1305 01:19:08,519 --> 01:19:10,271 - Do you want to see him suffer? - No. 1306 01:19:10,354 --> 01:19:12,856 Then he's got to be started on morphine. 1307 01:19:13,023 --> 01:19:15,693 Nobody's going to give my husband morphine. 1308 01:19:15,985 --> 01:19:17,528 [ Gasps repeatedly ] No. 1309 01:19:23,075 --> 01:19:25,704 Why don't you give her a while to adjust to the idea? 1310 01:19:25,787 --> 01:19:27,622 It's Maggie who's upsetting her. 1311 01:19:27,705 --> 01:19:31,876 GOOPER: Instead of the needle, haven't you got a pill to make the pain disappear? 1312 01:19:32,043 --> 01:19:35,629 Sometimes I wish I had a pill to make people disappear. 1313 01:19:35,838 --> 01:19:39,134 GOOPER: Thanks for everything, Doc. We sure do appreciate... 1314 01:19:39,217 --> 01:19:40,468 [ Thunder rumbles ] 1315 01:19:55,733 --> 01:19:56,567 Does Brick know? 1316 01:20:10,748 --> 01:20:12,666 You know, honey... 1317 01:20:14,627 --> 01:20:17,046 ...we was never a very happy family. 1318 01:20:19,590 --> 01:20:21,967 There wasn't much joy in this house. 1319 01:20:22,176 --> 01:20:25,429 It wasn't Big Daddy's fault. It was just... 1320 01:20:25,930 --> 01:20:29,475 You know how some homes are happy. 1321 01:20:30,726 --> 01:20:35,272 I thought, coming home from the clinic today, ''Now we'll be happy here.'' 1322 01:20:35,898 --> 01:20:39,194 You and Brick will live with us and have your children here. 1323 01:20:39,402 --> 01:20:41,612 And we'll help each other be happy. 1324 01:20:46,909 --> 01:20:48,911 Nothing's ever the way you plan, is it? 1325 01:20:55,835 --> 01:20:57,169 Margaret, honey... 1326 01:20:57,378 --> 01:20:58,712 ...you've got to help Brick. 1327 01:20:58,796 --> 01:21:00,464 Make him pull himself together. 1328 01:21:00,673 --> 01:21:03,384 BIG MAMA: He'll take hold of things. MAE: What things? 1329 01:21:06,054 --> 01:21:06,971 The place. 1330 01:21:07,471 --> 01:21:09,181 Big Mama, you've had a shock. 1331 01:21:09,390 --> 01:21:10,683 We've all had a shock. 1332 01:21:10,766 --> 01:21:13,728 - Let's be realistic. - Big Daddy wouldn't be foolish enough... 1333 01:21:13,812 --> 01:21:17,065 He'd never put this place in irresponsible hands! 1334 01:21:17,148 --> 01:21:19,567 He ain't putting this place in anybody's hands. 1335 01:21:19,984 --> 01:21:22,361 My husband is not going to die! 1336 01:21:22,570 --> 01:21:24,989 I want you to get that in your heads. Both of you. 1337 01:21:25,072 --> 01:21:27,534 - We're hoping too. - We intend to pray for him. 1338 01:21:27,742 --> 01:21:29,827 I won't let you persuade Big Daddy to... 1339 01:21:29,911 --> 01:21:31,913 Gooper is your firstborn! 1340 01:21:32,121 --> 01:21:35,833 He's always had to carry a bigger load of the responsibilities than Brick. 1341 01:21:35,916 --> 01:21:39,712 Brick never carried a thing in his life but a football or a highball. 1342 01:21:39,921 --> 01:21:41,714 GOOPER: Will you let me talk, please? 1343 01:21:41,798 --> 01:21:43,257 Yes, of course. 1344 01:21:44,759 --> 01:21:47,636 A 28,000 acre plantation is a mighty big thing to run. 1345 01:21:47,845 --> 01:21:49,263 Almost single-handed. 1346 01:21:49,471 --> 01:21:53,017 You had your law practice in Memphis. When did you run this place? 1347 01:21:53,184 --> 01:21:55,728 Mama, let's be fair. 1348 01:21:56,437 --> 01:21:58,773 Ever since Big Daddy's health started failing... 1349 01:21:58,856 --> 01:22:01,358 ...Gooper's worked like a fool to keep this place up. 1350 01:22:01,442 --> 01:22:02,277 Mae... 1351 01:22:02,360 --> 01:22:04,904 Gooper won't admit it. He never thought of it as a duty. 1352 01:22:04,988 --> 01:22:05,863 Mae! 1353 01:22:06,155 --> 01:22:07,740 Big Daddy don't know what he owns. 1354 01:22:07,823 --> 01:22:11,911 GOOPER: The point is I won't see this place ruined by a drunken ex-football hero. 1355 01:22:12,119 --> 01:22:13,955 Shut up about my husband! 1356 01:22:14,164 --> 01:22:14,998 You shut up! 1357 01:22:15,081 --> 01:22:17,041 He has no right to slander... 1358 01:22:17,250 --> 01:22:19,919 I can discuss my brother with my family members... 1359 01:22:20,378 --> 01:22:22,671 ... which don't include you! 1360 01:22:23,797 --> 01:22:26,134 GOOPER: Why not go up and drink with Brick? 1361 01:22:26,217 --> 01:22:28,761 MAE: If the hero hadn't passed out already. 1362 01:22:28,970 --> 01:22:31,806 GOOPER: He may have to pass up the Sugar Bowl this year. 1363 01:22:31,889 --> 01:22:34,100 Or was it the Rose Bowl he made his run in? 1364 01:22:34,183 --> 01:22:35,851 It was the punch bowl, honey. 1365 01:22:35,935 --> 01:22:37,979 The cut-glass punch bowl. 1366 01:22:38,521 --> 01:22:40,607 I always get that boy's bowls mixed up. 1367 01:22:41,232 --> 01:22:44,819 I have never seen such malice toward a brother. 1368 01:22:45,027 --> 01:22:47,238 What about his malice toward Gooper? 1369 01:22:47,446 --> 01:22:50,867 GOOPER: He can't even stand being in the same room with me. 1370 01:22:52,327 --> 01:22:54,203 LACEY: Can I help you, Mr. Brick? 1371 01:22:54,287 --> 01:22:55,580 No, thank you, Lacey. 1372 01:22:55,663 --> 01:22:58,332 BRICK: Where's my father? LACEY: He's in the cellar. 1373 01:22:58,541 --> 01:23:00,417 And he's alone. 1374 01:23:00,793 --> 01:23:01,961 And he's... 1375 01:23:02,670 --> 01:23:04,297 Thank you, Lacey. 1376 01:23:04,797 --> 01:23:06,966 It's a deliberate campaign to ruin Brick. 1377 01:23:07,049 --> 01:23:08,426 MAE: He don't need help. 1378 01:23:08,509 --> 01:23:10,970 For the most disgusting, sordid reasons on earth. 1379 01:23:11,178 --> 01:23:12,137 Avarice. 1380 01:23:12,346 --> 01:23:14,849 Avarice and greed! 1381 01:23:15,058 --> 01:23:15,975 No, Margaret. 1382 01:23:16,184 --> 01:23:17,560 Don't cry. 1383 01:23:17,769 --> 01:23:20,104 - That takes the cake! - Mae. 1384 01:23:20,313 --> 01:23:22,064 Who are the tears for? 1385 01:23:22,940 --> 01:23:23,816 MAE: Brick? 1386 01:23:23,899 --> 01:23:24,984 Big Daddy? 1387 01:23:25,067 --> 01:23:26,194 - Or for yourself? - Mae! 1388 01:23:26,528 --> 01:23:28,446 Are you crying 'cause you're childless? 1389 01:23:28,529 --> 01:23:30,156 You know why she's got no kids? 1390 01:23:30,364 --> 01:23:33,701 MAE: Ask her big, beautiful husband. GOOPER: Mae! 1391 01:23:34,535 --> 01:23:37,246 You just won't let me do this the nice way, will you? 1392 01:23:39,249 --> 01:23:41,542 You always said I never loved Big Daddy. 1393 01:23:41,751 --> 01:23:43,252 How would you know? 1394 01:23:44,587 --> 01:23:45,880 How would he know? 1395 01:23:46,005 --> 01:23:47,965 Did he ever let anyone love him? 1396 01:23:48,173 --> 01:23:50,760 It was always Brick. From the day he was born... 1397 01:23:50,844 --> 01:23:53,471 ...he was always partial to Brick. Why? 1398 01:23:53,638 --> 01:23:56,307 Big Daddy wanted me to become a lawyer. I did. 1399 01:23:56,515 --> 01:23:57,892 He said get married. I did. 1400 01:23:58,100 --> 01:23:59,894 He said have kids. I did. 1401 01:24:00,102 --> 01:24:02,147 He said live in Memphis. I did. 1402 01:24:02,355 --> 01:24:04,983 Whatever he said to do, I did. 1403 01:24:06,234 --> 01:24:08,903 I don't give a damn whether Big Daddy likes me... 1404 01:24:09,111 --> 01:24:10,738 ...or did or never did... 1405 01:24:10,946 --> 01:24:13,073 ...or will or will never. 1406 01:24:14,409 --> 01:24:17,954 I've appealed for common decency and fair play. 1407 01:24:18,162 --> 01:24:19,872 Now I'm telling you! 1408 01:24:20,206 --> 01:24:22,166 I intend to protect my interests. 1409 01:24:22,333 --> 01:24:25,002 I'm not a corporation lawyer for nothing. 1410 01:24:25,711 --> 01:24:28,589 GOOPER: Go get my briefcase. MAE: Yes, honey. 1411 01:24:34,637 --> 01:24:36,263 It was... 1412 01:24:36,513 --> 01:24:39,225 It was the Cotton Bowl, Sister Woman. 1413 01:24:45,481 --> 01:24:48,609 [ Lively instrumental music plays on phonograph ] 1414 01:24:58,869 --> 01:25:00,037 Pa? 1415 01:25:22,601 --> 01:25:24,144 [ Big Daddy moans ] 1416 01:25:26,773 --> 01:25:27,899 Pa? 1417 01:25:40,912 --> 01:25:43,998 BRICK: Give me your hand. BIG DADDY: I don't want your hand! 1418 01:25:47,209 --> 01:25:49,294 [ Big Daddy gasps for breath ] 1419 01:26:37,509 --> 01:26:38,511 No. 1420 01:26:38,720 --> 01:26:40,138 It's my pain. 1421 01:26:40,305 --> 01:26:42,140 That makes it my business. 1422 01:26:42,473 --> 01:26:45,351 I thought you went and hid yourself. What do you want? 1423 01:26:45,601 --> 01:26:47,645 I came to apologize. 1424 01:26:49,146 --> 01:26:50,899 What for, telling me the truth? 1425 01:26:51,107 --> 01:26:54,444 - There must a dozen reasons. - Save them. 1426 01:26:54,652 --> 01:26:57,279 I hate apologies. Especially for the truth. 1427 01:26:57,488 --> 01:27:00,574 Whatever you did, don't apologize. Just don't do it again. 1428 01:27:00,783 --> 01:27:02,869 If you didn't do it, start doing it. 1429 01:27:03,077 --> 01:27:05,163 Start by getting me a cigar out of that coat. 1430 01:27:05,246 --> 01:27:07,873 - You think you ought to... - Get me the cigar, boy! 1431 01:27:13,796 --> 01:27:14,839 It's wet from rain. 1432 01:27:14,923 --> 01:27:18,968 You're all wet yourself. It's a lousy joke, but it's true. 1433 01:27:22,847 --> 01:27:24,848 Modern science! 1434 01:27:37,361 --> 01:27:38,905 Get me that... 1435 01:27:43,409 --> 01:27:44,285 ...that robe. 1436 01:27:56,172 --> 01:27:59,216 - There's a bottle in that desk. - I don't want a drink. 1437 01:27:59,425 --> 01:28:00,884 I do. 1438 01:28:01,051 --> 01:28:02,720 I want a drink. 1439 01:28:03,221 --> 01:28:05,890 I've got a million clicks in my guts. 1440 01:28:07,225 --> 01:28:09,727 Knives sharpening themselves. 1441 01:28:12,730 --> 01:28:14,941 BIG DADDY: You know about clicks, don't you? 1442 01:28:18,152 --> 01:28:20,488 So you bought me a birthday present, huh? 1443 01:28:21,822 --> 01:28:23,616 No, Maggie bought it. 1444 01:28:24,825 --> 01:28:28,579 BIG DADDY: She's got good taste that girl. BRICK: In some things, yes... 1445 01:28:28,788 --> 01:28:30,540 ...but not in men. 1446 01:28:33,459 --> 01:28:35,085 Nice soft material. 1447 01:28:35,502 --> 01:28:37,463 This is my soft birthday. 1448 01:28:37,671 --> 01:28:41,050 Not my gold or silver. This is my soft birthday. 1449 01:28:46,263 --> 01:28:47,932 Here's to my... 1450 01:28:48,098 --> 01:28:49,933 ...last birthday. 1451 01:28:51,269 --> 01:28:53,354 Aren't you drinking to that? 1452 01:28:55,606 --> 01:28:57,274 Clickety-click. 1453 01:29:08,744 --> 01:29:10,996 You know what I'm going to do before I die? 1454 01:29:12,289 --> 01:29:14,459 I'm going to open up all these boxes. 1455 01:29:16,794 --> 01:29:18,463 Will you look at this stuff? 1456 01:29:19,046 --> 01:29:20,214 Bought most of it... 1457 01:29:20,423 --> 01:29:23,050 ...when I took your mother to Europe on that tour. 1458 01:29:23,133 --> 01:29:25,969 Never had such a lousy time in my life. 1459 01:29:26,304 --> 01:29:29,140 That Europe is nothing but a great big auction. 1460 01:29:29,432 --> 01:29:33,144 Bunch of old worn-out places. It's just a big fire sale. 1461 01:29:33,352 --> 01:29:35,437 Big Mama went wild in it. 1462 01:29:35,646 --> 01:29:38,316 She just bought and bought. 1463 01:29:39,067 --> 01:29:42,069 She was lucky I'm a rich man. Yes, it sure is lucky. 1464 01:29:42,862 --> 01:29:45,990 Got any idea what I'm worth? Ask Gooper. 1465 01:29:46,198 --> 01:29:48,909 He knows to the penny unless I miss my guess. 1466 01:29:50,328 --> 01:29:53,998 Close on $10 million in cash and blue-chip stocks... 1467 01:29:54,207 --> 01:29:57,043 ...besides some 28,000 acres of the richest land... 1468 01:29:57,251 --> 01:29:59,086 ... this side of the Valley Nile. 1469 01:29:59,295 --> 01:30:01,505 That is pretty rich to be. 1470 01:30:04,300 --> 01:30:09,096 There's one thing you can't buy in a Europe fire sale... 1471 01:30:09,638 --> 01:30:11,890 ...or any other market on earth. 1472 01:30:12,516 --> 01:30:14,144 That's your life. 1473 01:30:16,813 --> 01:30:19,774 You can't buy back your life when it's finished. 1474 01:30:20,024 --> 01:30:21,901 No, sir. Nobody can do that. 1475 01:30:23,611 --> 01:30:25,070 Feeling sorry for me or you? 1476 01:30:29,700 --> 01:30:30,701 For you, Papa. 1477 01:30:30,868 --> 01:30:33,537 That's good, because you're going to miss me. 1478 01:30:35,664 --> 01:30:38,209 Why did you let Ma buy all this stuff? 1479 01:30:38,877 --> 01:30:42,839 The human animal is a beast that eventually has to die. 1480 01:30:43,214 --> 01:30:46,634 If he's got money, he buys and he buys. 1481 01:30:47,551 --> 01:30:50,388 The reason why he buys everything he can, is because... 1482 01:30:50,472 --> 01:30:54,475 ...of a crazy hope that one of the things he buys will be life everlasting... 1483 01:30:55,059 --> 01:30:56,977 ...which it never can be. 1484 01:30:57,395 --> 01:31:01,148 I've suddenly noticed you don't call me Big Daddy anymore. 1485 01:31:01,356 --> 01:31:04,360 If you needed a Big Daddy, why didn't you come to me? 1486 01:31:04,569 --> 01:31:08,572 If you wanted someone to lean on, why Skipper? Why not me? I'm your father. 1487 01:31:08,864 --> 01:31:11,659 You should've come to your kinfolk. Those who love you. 1488 01:31:11,742 --> 01:31:15,163 You don't know what love means. To you it's another four-letter word. 1489 01:31:15,246 --> 01:31:16,789 You've got a short memory. 1490 01:31:17,081 --> 01:31:20,960 - What did you want that I didn't buy? - You can't buy love! 1491 01:31:21,168 --> 01:31:24,546 You bought $1 million worth of junk! Does it love you? 1492 01:31:24,755 --> 01:31:28,134 Who do you think I bought it for? It's yours, the place, the money! 1493 01:31:28,343 --> 01:31:30,303 I don't want things! 1494 01:31:32,847 --> 01:31:34,557 We drew this up... 1495 01:31:34,640 --> 01:31:36,100 [ Crashing ] 1496 01:31:36,767 --> 01:31:40,229 - We drew this up with the advice... - Get out of the way. 1497 01:31:42,106 --> 01:31:44,442 - Get out of my way. - We're settling this first. 1498 01:31:44,525 --> 01:31:47,653 - I don't want to see it. - It's a sort of a plan. A preliminary. 1499 01:31:50,573 --> 01:31:52,659 [ Crashing and breaking glass ] 1500 01:31:55,453 --> 01:31:56,996 Waste! 1501 01:32:06,964 --> 01:32:08,382 Worthless! 1502 01:32:17,308 --> 01:32:18,809 Worthless! 1503 01:32:26,985 --> 01:32:28,736 [ Brick sobs ] 1504 01:32:40,790 --> 01:32:41,874 Don't, son. 1505 01:32:43,501 --> 01:32:45,002 Please don't cry. 1506 01:32:59,850 --> 01:33:01,351 BIG DADDY: That's funny. 1507 01:33:01,977 --> 01:33:05,565 I never saw you cry before. Did you ever cry as a kid? 1508 01:33:05,648 --> 01:33:10,194 Can't you understand? I never wanted your place or money. 1509 01:33:10,486 --> 01:33:12,696 I don't want to own anything! 1510 01:33:12,905 --> 01:33:16,200 All I wanted was a father, not a boss! 1511 01:33:16,701 --> 01:33:18,828 I wanted you to love me. 1512 01:33:19,036 --> 01:33:20,579 I did and I do. 1513 01:33:21,664 --> 01:33:24,208 Not me and not Gooper, and not even Mama. 1514 01:33:24,375 --> 01:33:25,751 That's a lie. 1515 01:33:25,959 --> 01:33:27,462 I loved her. I gave her... 1516 01:33:27,670 --> 01:33:30,756 Things, Papa, you gave her things. 1517 01:33:30,965 --> 01:33:33,509 A house, a trip to Europe, all this junk. 1518 01:33:33,717 --> 01:33:37,346 Some jewelry. You gave her things, not love. 1519 01:33:39,057 --> 01:33:40,933 I gave her an empire. 1520 01:33:41,142 --> 01:33:44,061 I've seen you out there on your empire... 1521 01:33:44,270 --> 01:33:47,439 ...with the men who run it for you. You don't know their names... 1522 01:33:47,648 --> 01:33:51,277 ...or if they've kids or are happy. You've never looked into their faces. 1523 01:33:51,361 --> 01:33:54,989 What are faces? You don't build an empire by remembering faces. 1524 01:33:55,239 --> 01:33:58,242 Next week, I'll start building that textile plant. 1525 01:33:58,450 --> 01:34:02,413 I'll not only grow my own cotton, I'll weave it and market it. 1526 01:34:02,580 --> 01:34:03,331 I'll tell you... 1527 01:34:03,539 --> 01:34:05,958 ... in a year or two from now... 1528 01:34:21,682 --> 01:34:25,936 The men who build empires die, and empires die too. 1529 01:34:26,604 --> 01:34:27,897 No, it won't. 1530 01:34:28,106 --> 01:34:30,107 That's why I've got you and Gooper. 1531 01:34:30,316 --> 01:34:31,567 Look at Gooper. 1532 01:34:31,776 --> 01:34:35,154 Look at what he's become. Is that what you wanted him to be? 1533 01:34:35,362 --> 01:34:36,864 Look at me. 1534 01:34:37,197 --> 01:34:41,411 You were right. I am a 30-year-old kid. And pretty soon I'll be a 50-year-old kid. 1535 01:34:41,619 --> 01:34:44,955 I don't know what to believe in. What's the good of living? 1536 01:34:45,164 --> 01:34:48,709 There's got to be some purpose in life, some meaning. 1537 01:34:49,334 --> 01:34:52,964 Look at me, for the sake of God, before it's too late! 1538 01:34:53,131 --> 01:34:56,008 For once, look at me as I really am. 1539 01:34:56,217 --> 01:34:57,510 Look at me! 1540 01:34:58,969 --> 01:35:00,554 I'm a failure. I'm a drunk. 1541 01:35:00,679 --> 01:35:04,309 On my own in the open market, I'm not worth the price of a decent burial. 1542 01:35:04,517 --> 01:35:09,063 - All of you blame me for everything, huh? - No, Papa. 1543 01:35:12,566 --> 01:35:15,612 We've known each other all my life and we're strangers. 1544 01:35:16,237 --> 01:35:20,783 You own 28,000 acres. You own $10 million. 1545 01:35:20,991 --> 01:35:25,370 You own a wife and two children. You own us, but you don't love us. 1546 01:35:26,372 --> 01:35:28,958 - In my own way... - No, sir. 1547 01:35:29,375 --> 01:35:31,460 You don't even like people. 1548 01:35:32,420 --> 01:35:35,756 You wanted Gooper and me to have kids. Why? 1549 01:35:36,924 --> 01:35:40,970 I want a part of me to keep living. I won't have it end with the grave. 1550 01:35:41,179 --> 01:35:42,388 Look! 1551 01:35:43,014 --> 01:35:45,558 This is what my father left me. 1552 01:35:45,766 --> 01:35:47,268 This lousy old suitcase! 1553 01:35:47,977 --> 01:35:50,271 On the inside was nothing... 1554 01:35:50,480 --> 01:35:54,192 ...but his uniform from the Spanish-American War. 1555 01:35:54,400 --> 01:35:56,736 This was his legacy to me. 1556 01:35:56,944 --> 01:35:58,612 Nothing at all! 1557 01:36:00,698 --> 01:36:03,618 And I built this place from nothing. 1558 01:36:04,494 --> 01:36:06,579 [ Slow instrumental music ] 1559 01:36:08,664 --> 01:36:10,833 And that's all he left you? 1560 01:36:11,208 --> 01:36:13,752 Yeah, he was a hobo. 1561 01:36:15,380 --> 01:36:18,257 Best-known tramp on the boxcar circuit. 1562 01:36:18,466 --> 01:36:22,011 He worked once in a while as a field hand. I'd tag along. 1563 01:36:22,636 --> 01:36:26,056 Sat on my bare bottom, in the dirt, waiting for him. 1564 01:36:27,558 --> 01:36:29,310 Outside of hunger... 1565 01:36:29,519 --> 01:36:31,979 ...first thing I could remember is shame. 1566 01:36:32,188 --> 01:36:35,024 I was ashamed of that miserable, old tramp. 1567 01:36:35,482 --> 01:36:39,821 I was riding boxcars when I was nine, something you never had to do. 1568 01:36:40,029 --> 01:36:43,407 And you'll never have to bury me like I did him. 1569 01:36:44,116 --> 01:36:47,411 I buried him in a meadow, alongside a railroad track. 1570 01:36:47,578 --> 01:36:50,999 We were running to catch a freight and his heart gave out. 1571 01:36:54,043 --> 01:36:55,503 You know something? 1572 01:36:56,837 --> 01:36:59,048 That lousy old tramp died laughing. 1573 01:36:59,256 --> 01:37:00,924 BRICK: Laughing at what? 1574 01:37:01,925 --> 01:37:03,803 Himself, I guess. 1575 01:37:04,012 --> 01:37:05,471 A hobo tramp... 1576 01:37:05,680 --> 01:37:09,558 ...not a nickel in his jeans. No future, no past. 1577 01:37:11,101 --> 01:37:14,939 Or maybe he was laughing because he was happy. 1578 01:37:15,857 --> 01:37:17,775 Happy at having you with him. 1579 01:37:17,942 --> 01:37:20,778 He took you everywhere and he kept you with him. 1580 01:37:22,613 --> 01:37:24,573 I don't want to talk about that. 1581 01:37:39,964 --> 01:37:41,757 Yeah, I loved him. 1582 01:37:45,803 --> 01:37:48,722 I reckon I never loved anything as much as that... 1583 01:37:48,931 --> 01:37:50,642 ...lousy old tramp. 1584 01:37:52,477 --> 01:37:53,895 BRICK: And you say... 1585 01:37:54,103 --> 01:37:56,522 ... he left you nothing but a suitcase... 1586 01:37:56,731 --> 01:38:00,234 ... with a uniform in it from the Spanish-American War? 1587 01:38:00,776 --> 01:38:02,487 And some memories. 1588 01:38:03,821 --> 01:38:05,073 And love. 1589 01:38:10,953 --> 01:38:13,330 Did I tell you all them stories about my old man? 1590 01:38:13,539 --> 01:38:15,124 About fifty times. 1591 01:38:24,008 --> 01:38:26,594 [ Big Daddy moans and screams ] 1592 01:38:29,347 --> 01:38:32,850 It's a plan to protect the Delta's biggest estate from irresponsibility. 1593 01:38:32,933 --> 01:38:33,934 You have to sign. 1594 01:38:34,059 --> 01:38:35,603 [ Big Daddy screams ] 1595 01:38:37,187 --> 01:38:38,982 BIG MAMA: Where is it? 1596 01:38:39,857 --> 01:38:40,525 What? 1597 01:38:40,650 --> 01:38:43,986 What the doctor left to make his pain easier. 1598 01:38:44,653 --> 01:38:48,365 Brick's down there with him. He'll help Big Daddy. 1599 01:38:48,574 --> 01:38:50,033 MAE: Help him? How? 1600 01:38:50,242 --> 01:38:52,328 - By running the 100-yard dash? - Shut up. 1601 01:38:52,537 --> 01:38:55,581 MAE: Maybe he'll cheer him up by kicking some field goals. 1602 01:38:55,873 --> 01:38:58,709 One more crack, Queenie... 1603 01:38:58,876 --> 01:39:03,298 ...and I will not only spit in your eye but I will punch it black and blue. 1604 01:39:03,381 --> 01:39:04,257 Hold on a minute! 1605 01:39:04,340 --> 01:39:06,968 - I'm not listening to any more... - Mae was only saying... 1606 01:39:07,051 --> 01:39:09,804 I know what she said, and I know exactly what she meant. 1607 01:39:09,887 --> 01:39:11,764 The only world that Brick knows... 1608 01:39:11,847 --> 01:39:14,099 MAGGIE: It's not a world he made. 1609 01:39:18,396 --> 01:39:19,313 Ladies! 1610 01:39:21,232 --> 01:39:23,692 - No. - Why won't you take it? 1611 01:39:24,693 --> 01:39:28,031 - It'll kill the pain, that's all. - It'll kill the senses, too. 1612 01:39:28,239 --> 01:39:30,992 When you've got pain at least you know you're alive. 1613 01:39:37,081 --> 01:39:38,875 It's easing somewhat now. 1614 01:39:39,042 --> 01:39:41,127 [ Slow instrumental music ] 1615 01:39:41,294 --> 01:39:42,837 When you've got pain... 1616 01:39:43,254 --> 01:39:46,298 ...it's better to judge yourself, a lot of things. 1617 01:39:46,507 --> 01:39:49,009 I'm not going to stupefy myself with that stuff. 1618 01:39:49,093 --> 01:39:50,762 I want to think clear. 1619 01:39:50,970 --> 01:39:53,473 I want to see everything and feel everything. 1620 01:39:53,681 --> 01:39:55,433 Then I won't mind going. 1621 01:39:56,600 --> 01:39:58,769 I've got the guts to die. 1622 01:39:58,978 --> 01:40:01,939 What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live? 1623 01:40:02,314 --> 01:40:03,775 BRICK: I don't know. 1624 01:40:05,109 --> 01:40:06,652 BIG DADDY: We can try. 1625 01:40:08,571 --> 01:40:11,615 We could start by helping each other up these stairs. 1626 01:40:24,128 --> 01:40:25,337 Yes, sir. 1627 01:40:28,508 --> 01:40:30,051 GOOPER: At least read them. 1628 01:40:30,176 --> 01:40:32,428 Put those papers away before I tear them up. 1629 01:40:32,636 --> 01:40:34,889 I don't want to know what's in them. 1630 01:40:35,097 --> 01:40:39,560 I'm talking in Big Daddy's language. I'm his wife, not his widow. His wife! 1631 01:40:39,936 --> 01:40:42,313 - What I've got here... - He said it's just a plan. 1632 01:40:42,396 --> 01:40:45,399 Plan basis. What I'll say to your plan is... 1633 01:40:47,443 --> 01:40:51,114 Maggie, what is it Big Daddy says when he's disgusted? 1634 01:40:51,197 --> 01:40:54,158 He says ''bull'' when he's disgusted. 1635 01:40:54,325 --> 01:40:57,036 That's right. I say ''bull'' like Big Daddy. 1636 01:40:57,244 --> 01:41:00,122 - Coarse language don't seem called for. - Bull! 1637 01:41:00,205 --> 01:41:02,332 GOOPER: I'm outraged by this kind of talk. 1638 01:41:02,416 --> 01:41:06,170 BIG MAMA: Then stop talking like your father's dead and me along with him. 1639 01:41:06,254 --> 01:41:08,506 What about her? She wants her share, too. 1640 01:41:08,923 --> 01:41:11,091 As far as Brick is concerned... 1641 01:41:11,300 --> 01:41:13,844 ...nobody's going to take nothing. 1642 01:41:14,052 --> 01:41:15,763 Not till Big Daddy lets go... 1643 01:41:15,972 --> 01:41:20,017 ...and maybe just possibly, not even then! 1644 01:41:20,351 --> 01:41:22,353 MAGGIE: No, Mama, not even then. 1645 01:41:26,524 --> 01:41:28,317 BIG DADDY: Hello, Bucky! 1646 01:41:31,195 --> 01:41:34,031 Looks like the wind took some liberties with this place. 1647 01:41:34,198 --> 01:41:35,949 - Evening, Cap'n! - Evening, Cap'n! 1648 01:41:36,033 --> 01:41:38,745 - Storm cross over the river? - Gone to Arkansas. 1649 01:41:38,953 --> 01:41:40,705 Rain do some good, Cap'n? 1650 01:41:40,872 --> 01:41:42,540 Some good, I reckon. 1651 01:41:44,542 --> 01:41:45,835 Some good. 1652 01:41:46,710 --> 01:41:48,420 GOOPER: You could at least read them. 1653 01:41:48,504 --> 01:41:52,300 BIG MAMA: Put them away before I tear them up. I don't know what's in them. 1654 01:41:52,383 --> 01:41:53,885 I don't want to know. 1655 01:41:55,469 --> 01:41:56,721 Can I come in? 1656 01:41:58,597 --> 01:42:01,308 Has the storm done any damage? 1657 01:42:01,517 --> 01:42:04,145 Which storm are you talking about? The one outside... 1658 01:42:04,228 --> 01:42:06,230 ... or that hullabaloo going on in here? 1659 01:42:14,948 --> 01:42:16,115 Excuse me, sir. 1660 01:42:16,449 --> 01:42:20,953 Heard some mighty loud talking. What's the powwow about? 1661 01:42:21,328 --> 01:42:24,373 MAE: Nothing, Big Daddy. Nothing at all. 1662 01:42:24,873 --> 01:42:28,002 What's in them important-looking documents you've got there? 1663 01:42:28,419 --> 01:42:31,088 GOOPER: Nothing. Nothing much of anything at all. 1664 01:42:31,380 --> 01:42:35,926 BIG DADDY: Then why are you and Sister Woman scurrying and scrounging around? 1665 01:42:36,552 --> 01:42:39,097 Looks like a whole lot of nothing to me. 1666 01:42:42,391 --> 01:42:44,518 What's that smell in this room? 1667 01:42:45,352 --> 01:42:47,104 Didn't you notice it, Brick? 1668 01:42:47,771 --> 01:42:51,567 Didn't you notice the powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity? 1669 01:42:55,112 --> 01:42:57,698 Yes, sir, I think I did. 1670 01:42:57,907 --> 01:43:01,285 Ain't nothing more powerful than the odor of mendacity. 1671 01:43:02,411 --> 01:43:04,872 - Didn't you notice it, Gooper? - What, sir? 1672 01:43:05,123 --> 01:43:07,166 What about you, Sister Woman? 1673 01:43:07,375 --> 01:43:11,045 Didn't you notice an unpleasant smell of mendacity in this room? 1674 01:43:11,545 --> 01:43:13,839 I don't even know what that is. 1675 01:43:14,047 --> 01:43:17,635 You can smell it. It smells like death. 1676 01:43:17,802 --> 01:43:19,762 [ Big Mama whimpers ] 1677 01:43:22,348 --> 01:43:24,683 BIG DADDY: What's the matter with that woman? 1678 01:43:24,767 --> 01:43:26,519 What's-your-name, what's wrong? 1679 01:43:26,686 --> 01:43:29,605 She just had a slight dizzy spell. 1680 01:43:29,814 --> 01:43:32,233 You'd better watch that. A stroke's a bad way to go. 1681 01:43:35,027 --> 01:43:38,698 Look, he's wearing Brick's birthday present. 1682 01:43:39,907 --> 01:43:43,494 I haven't given you my present yet but I will now. 1683 01:43:43,828 --> 01:43:45,579 I have an announcement. 1684 01:43:45,788 --> 01:43:47,623 What kind of an announcement? 1685 01:43:49,082 --> 01:43:51,294 An announcement of life beginning. 1686 01:43:53,838 --> 01:43:55,756 A child is coming... 1687 01:43:56,841 --> 01:43:59,385 ...sired by Brick out of Maggie the cat. 1688 01:44:03,348 --> 01:44:05,641 I have Brick's child in my body. 1689 01:44:06,517 --> 01:44:08,561 And that is my present to you. 1690 01:44:09,019 --> 01:44:12,815 Did you ever in your born days hear such a bald-faced lie? 1691 01:44:13,023 --> 01:44:14,191 Shut up. 1692 01:44:16,027 --> 01:44:17,403 Thank you. 1693 01:44:17,612 --> 01:44:19,405 Thank you very much. 1694 01:44:32,877 --> 01:44:36,672 Yes, indeed, this girl has life in her body. 1695 01:44:37,714 --> 01:44:39,384 And that's no lie. 1696 01:44:40,343 --> 01:44:43,763 I want my lawyer in the morning. My lawyer! 1697 01:44:45,389 --> 01:44:47,516 - Brick? - Yes, Big Daddy? 1698 01:44:50,269 --> 01:44:53,314 I'm going out to look this place over before I give it up. 1699 01:44:53,814 --> 01:44:55,941 The place and the people on it. 1700 01:44:58,360 --> 01:44:59,611 Ida? 1701 01:45:02,197 --> 01:45:03,658 You want to come with me? 1702 01:45:12,750 --> 01:45:14,209 GOOPER: Brick... 1703 01:45:17,588 --> 01:45:19,799 What were you two talking about down there? 1704 01:45:19,882 --> 01:45:20,800 Us. 1705 01:45:21,217 --> 01:45:22,384 Me, too? 1706 01:45:23,260 --> 01:45:23,927 Yeah. 1707 01:45:24,136 --> 01:45:26,889 You ripped your own brother apart. 1708 01:45:28,224 --> 01:45:29,892 Do you believe that, Gooper? 1709 01:45:34,063 --> 01:45:35,522 - No. - Well, I do! 1710 01:45:35,731 --> 01:45:36,690 Keep still. 1711 01:45:36,899 --> 01:45:41,195 A family crisis brings out the best and the worst in every member. 1712 01:45:41,529 --> 01:45:42,989 That's the truth. 1713 01:45:43,239 --> 01:45:44,448 Amen. 1714 01:45:45,449 --> 01:45:48,786 MAE: You want to talk about the truth? You're not pregnant. 1715 01:45:48,952 --> 01:45:50,495 - Be still, Mae. - She made it up. 1716 01:45:50,579 --> 01:45:53,833 - I said shut up. - Don't you try to kid us. 1717 01:45:55,334 --> 01:45:57,128 She's not kidding you. 1718 01:45:57,336 --> 01:46:00,756 How can she have a child by you, when you won't even... 1719 01:46:01,006 --> 01:46:02,090 GOOPER: Keep quiet! 1720 01:46:02,174 --> 01:46:05,845 MAE: We occupy the next room and the walls aren't soundproof. 1721 01:46:06,053 --> 01:46:10,557 We hear the nightly pleading and the nightly refusals! 1722 01:46:10,766 --> 01:46:13,852 Not everybody makes as much noise about love as you do. 1723 01:46:17,648 --> 01:46:20,818 I never thought you would stoop to her level! 1724 01:46:20,901 --> 01:46:24,655 BRICK: You heard what Big Daddy said, ''That girl's got life in her body.'' 1725 01:46:24,738 --> 01:46:26,448 - That's a lie! - No. 1726 01:46:27,909 --> 01:46:30,494 No, truth is something desperate, and Maggie's got it. 1727 01:46:30,578 --> 01:46:34,039 Believe me, it is desperate, and she has got it. 1728 01:46:35,708 --> 01:46:38,628 MAE: Why don't you say something, honey? 1729 01:46:39,170 --> 01:46:40,755 All right, honey. 1730 01:46:40,963 --> 01:46:42,048 Shut up! 1731 01:46:42,757 --> 01:46:44,008 Maggie? 1732 01:46:46,343 --> 01:46:47,511 Yes? 1733 01:46:47,678 --> 01:46:49,346 BRICK: Come on up here. 1734 01:46:50,640 --> 01:46:51,724 Yes, sir! 1735 01:47:01,650 --> 01:47:03,695 That girl's got life in her, all right. 1736 01:47:04,112 --> 01:47:06,197 [ Soft instrumental music ] 1737 01:47:06,781 --> 01:47:09,450 Thank you for keeping still. 1738 01:47:09,783 --> 01:47:11,994 For backing me up in my lie. 1739 01:47:12,453 --> 01:47:13,495 Maggie... 1740 01:47:14,121 --> 01:47:17,875 We are through with lies and liars in this house. 1741 01:47:19,669 --> 01:47:20,920 Lock the door. 1742 01:47:51,383 --> 01:48:01,368 Subtitles by ARAVIND B [by_agentsmith@yahoo.com] 131667