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No, no, no!
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You have no step
unless you get your leg up.
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All right, come on, watch.
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Give me that dicer.
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Hit it, the last 16 bars. Now, watch.
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- What time you got?
- Ten to 3.
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Take over, Eve. Last chorus.
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All right, well, pick up.
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Hello, Jerry. Bix.
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Ran out, huh?
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Well, look, give me a $20 parlay...
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...from Laughing Boy in the seventh
to Happy Eve in the eighth.
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You heel.
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Can't even pay a hotel bill.
In debt up to your ears, and it's horses.
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Horses every second you're awake.
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Horses, horses, horses.
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I don't drink or smoke.
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You, Elwin Bixby, a man of talent,
a genius of Broadway.
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The brightest future of anybody
in show business.
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Take five, kids.
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Had hit after hit, season after season...
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...now beating out a time step
in this broken-down saloon.
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Take 10, sweetheart.
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Take 10?
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I've been taking 10
ever since I've known you.
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Watching you fight your way
to the bottom.
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- I don't fight, baby. I'm a lover.
- Don't change the subject.
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You fought with Ziegfeld, Harris,
Hammerstein, Eberhart, always battling.
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But you know who you're really fighting?
Yourself.
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Where do we go from here?
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We'll land right on our feet,
and when we do:
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That tune went off my hit parade
long ago.
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Sorry, but here goes the bride.
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Eve, Eve, you haven't heard
the whole story.
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Heard it? I could put it to music.
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"Meet me at the city hall. This is it.
We'll have our honeymoon in Bermuda."
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"Had to postpone it."
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- Something happened to the money.
- Something always happened to the money.
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Answer it. It's probably your bookie
with another sure thing.
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- Hello.
- Bix, old boy. How are you, fella?
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I've been combing the town for you.
Where you been? How do you feel?
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When did you start being interested
in the state of my health?
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Oh, now, Bix.
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You know I've always been interested
in how you're doing.
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Listen, I've got a proposition for you.
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Go blow your brains out, you thief.
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Eberhart.
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- Harry Eberhart?
- Yes, offered me a job.
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You fool.
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The only producer in town
who'll give you a job and you insult him?
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I wouldn't work for that chiseler
if you put a gun in my back.
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Well, that does it.
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Pick up the phone when you roll out of bed
around 2 tomorrow afternoon.
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Call my two-room,
cross-ventilated basement.
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Ask for Eve.
She won't live there anymore.
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Oh, now...
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Sit down, sit down, sweetheart.
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You're overheated.
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- Bix, I'm leaving.
- Yeah, sure, sure.
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I've been offered a job to do a single
and help stage the dances...
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...at a hotel in Las Vegas.
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Eve, you can't do that.
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You're my feet, you're my memory.
I couldn't work without you.
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You better start getting used to it.
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All right, Eve, Eve.
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So help me, word of honor, word of honor,
no more horses.
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- Word of honor?
- Yeah.
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You don't know what it means.
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Sorry, Bix. I gotta pack.
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- I'll be up to your place as soon as I finish.
- Won't do any good.
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Save yourself the bus fare.
You might need it.
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Bix, every year at West Point,
the cadets put on a musical...
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...the 100th Night Show.
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They call it that
because it's a kind of a celebration.
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The winter's over,
only a hundred days till June.
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Well, I made a special trip up there
to look over the show.
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It's wonderful what those kids have done.
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Of course, some of the material
was amateurish.
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But I've seen a lot worse on Broadway.
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Bix...
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...l'm gonna help those boys.
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That's why I sent for you.
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- Did you say something?
- I didn't say anything.
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You know, Bix, you and I have done
a lot of shows together.
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I can't think of a man
with more on the ball.
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That's why I gave you such a big build-up
with those cadets.
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Don't you talk to me about West Point.
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That is the greatest collection...
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...of big-headed, salute-happy,
station-house characters in any man's army.
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I took it for four years from those muzzlers
from Camp Dix to the Rhine.
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And all the way, nothing but trouble.
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And how do they get that way?
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They have a special factory up there
for putting square heads into brass hats.
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West Point?
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But, Bix, I'm asking this
as a personal favor.
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Why should I do you any favors?
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Bix, I've got a nephew up there,
Tom Fletcher.
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The kid's written the music
and he's putting on the show.
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He's my only sister's boy.
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The kid's dad died when he was 3.
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There isn't anything in this world
I wouldn't do for that boy.
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As a friend, go on up there
and whip that show into shape.
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Now, suppose...
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...you tell me the real story.
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All right.
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I've got a big musical for the fall.
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Can I put it on?
Not without a leading man.
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And where am I gonna find
a good-looking guy that can sing?
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Don't tell me, don't tell me.
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- West Point.
- Exactly.
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My own nephew, Tom.
Oh, a tremendous voice.
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Believe me, and the chump
wants to be an Army officer.
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Now, what kind of a career is that?
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I tell you, I've tried every angle
to get that kid out of there.
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Now, come on, Bix, go on up there.
Give them that stuff.
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Let that kid get a taste of applause.
Get under his skin.
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You can make him listen.
He'll make us a fortune.
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- Who'll wind up with it?
- We will.
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Harry, you got your start
robbing a blind man.
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Six years, you sat on
the broad end of your back...
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...collected the dough, took the bows
for hits that I made for you.
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You fired me and had me blackballed
with every producer in town.
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And now, when you need me...
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Now, wait just a minute, Bix.
Just one minute.
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- What did you do to me?
- Do to you?
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- Jan Wilson?
- Yes, Jan Wilson.
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You stole her out of my own show,
right from under my very nose.
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Stole her? I found her.
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Now, Bix, Bix, you stole her.
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You signed her to a personal contract
and then sold to the pictures.
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- Of course I did, to give her a break.
- And never even cut me in.
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Cut you in?
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You chiseler.
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- You had her buried in the chorus.
- Now, all right.
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Let's let bygones be bygones, shall we?
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Now, I know that you've been
having a little trouble lately...
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...so here's my proposition:
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I'll give you 5000 as an advance
against 2 percent of the gross.
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- If you'll get the b...
- No, there is no if.
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I will not steal your nephew
out of West Point.
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Get yourself another boy.
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- Oh, Bix?
- Yes?
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- How's Eve? Seen her lately?
- Yeah, why?
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Nice girl. I heard she'd been having
kind of a hard time.
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You know, a friend of mine
owns a hotel in Las Vegas.
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Las Vegas?
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Friend of yours?
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That's throwing them in there
pretty low, even for you.
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Five thousand against 2 percent
of the gross if you deliver that boy.
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- Ten thousand.
- Seventy-five hundred.
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That should straighten out
a lot of troubles for you and Eve.
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You got a deal.
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Detail.
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Forward, hut.
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Isn't this wonderful?
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Think of this place,
its history, its tradition.
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Think of all the great men
who came from here.
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General Grant, Eisenhower, Pershing.
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Benedict Arnold. He tried hard
to give this joint to the British.
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I think he should
have his case reviewed.
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Look at that scenery, those buildings.
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Alcatraz on the Hudson.
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And get a load of this weather. Cold enough
to freeze the medals off a brass general.
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Oh, Bix, stop beefing.
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Say, buddy,
how do we get to the Army theater?
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To reach your objective,
proceed through that entryway...
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...between the academic building
and the barracks.
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Walk west on Jefferson Road,
past Thayer Monument...
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...opposite Washington Hall.
That, sir, is our cadet mess hall.
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Turn left on Scott Place.
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Proceed until you approach
a yellow brick building.
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That's our gymnasium.
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Proceed to the northeast corner,
where you will see nine doors.
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Enter any of these doors,
proceed to the second floor.
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There you will find the Army theater.
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Couldn't you just point?
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That way, sir.
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- Thanks.
- Pardon me.
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Are all those men
walking just for the exercise?
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No, they're walking punishment tours.
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They broke rules or regulations.
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See that? Wasting shoe leather.
Who pays for it? Taxpayers, me.
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Taxpayer? You wouldn't know
a tax return from a racing form.
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Wait for your laugh.
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- Where do you think you were going?
- Extra instruction, sir. French, sir.
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Don't you know that even when you're late,
you don't use Diagonal Walk?
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- That's reserved for upperclassmen.
- Yes, sir.
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Now, I'm going to make
a soldier out of you...
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...from the top of your head
to your toes.
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First thing, put that hat on properly.
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Pull in that chin. Lots of wrinkles.
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Get those slimy green eyes off me.
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Now let's see you pop that chest up.
Touch my hand.
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You heard me. Pop up that chest.
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Suck up that horrible gut.
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You can't run around with that
stomach dragging on the pavement.
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Get those knees together.
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Report to my room, 1423, immediately
after extra instruction. Got that?
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Drive on.
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Pop up that chest! Touch my hand!
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You don't have to break it off.
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If you don't like this place
and you don't like Eberhart...
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...why did you get on that train
at 125th Street...
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...drag me off
and sell me a bill of goods...
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...about coming up
to do an amateur show?
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Just for you, sweetheart. Just for you.
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First classmen waitFor the dance to come
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With all the joys they bring
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So join us and sing
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One hundred days till June
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June will come soon
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Lieutenants we will be
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With the shining bars of gold
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On our Army OD
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We'll cast one glanceAt these old gray walls
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We'll bid a fond farewell
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Oh, join and sing
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Of 100 days till June
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Oh, join and sing
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Of 100 days till June
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Is that coming out of him?
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- Mr. Bixby?
- Yes.
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I'm Colonel Martin. Glad to see you.
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Mr. Eberhart's told me so much about you.
Welcome to West Point.
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Thank you. Eve Dillon, my assistant.
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- How do you do.
- How do you do, miss.
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- Oh, Mr. Fletcher.
- Sir?
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- Mr. Bixby.
- Fletcher.
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My uncle phoned me
you were coming, sir.
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- This is Colonel Martin, our faculty adviser.
- Met the colonel.
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- Hal Courtland.
- How do you do, sir.
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Eve Dillon, my assistant.
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- How do you do.
- How do you do, Miss Dillon.
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This is Bull Gilbert, sir.
He's our princess in the show.
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Too bad you couldn't find a big one.
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"Honey Blond, Red Head, Ash Blond,
Strawberry Blond, Auburn."
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"Brownette..." Somebody can't spell.
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"Blond, Brunette."
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00:15:34,950 --> 00:15:37,885
Now, these characters with the signs on,
what are they?
240
00:15:38,053 --> 00:15:40,419
Our chorus girls, sir.
241
00:15:40,589 --> 00:15:41,613
No women in the show?
242
00:15:41,790 --> 00:15:44,281
This isn't Broadway, Mr. Bixby.
This is West Point.
243
00:15:44,460 --> 00:15:48,123
You see, sir, all our girls are men.
But every one's a lady.
244
00:15:48,697 --> 00:15:49,994
That makes it cozy.
245
00:15:50,165 --> 00:15:53,794
Something Rodgers and Hammerstein never
thought, a musical show without women.
246
00:15:54,203 --> 00:15:56,194
We're about to do
one of our numbers, sir.
247
00:15:56,372 --> 00:15:58,602
- Suppose we do it for you?
- That'd be fine.
248
00:15:58,774 --> 00:16:01,868
Now, you'll have to imagine
that this is Flirtation Walk.
249
00:16:02,044 --> 00:16:05,275
And that chair is the Kissing Rock.
Bull here is the princess.
250
00:16:05,681 --> 00:16:07,979
This the Flirtation Walk,
that the Kissing Rock...
251
00:16:08,150 --> 00:16:11,017
...and this is the princess.
252
00:16:14,957 --> 00:16:18,825
You've been kissed, I knowIn the very last row
253
00:16:18,994 --> 00:16:22,657
When the love scene is onAt the movie show
254
00:16:22,831 --> 00:16:26,289
But wait until tonightAnd you'll be kissed but right
255
00:16:26,468 --> 00:16:30,404
By the Kissing Rock
256
00:16:30,572 --> 00:16:34,303
It's a lovely spotAnd believe it or not
257
00:16:34,476 --> 00:16:38,003
If you'll just care a littleYou'll care a lot
258
00:16:38,180 --> 00:16:41,843
So let's dispense with talkAnd take a little walk
259
00:16:42,017 --> 00:16:46,010
By the Kissing Rock
260
00:16:46,188 --> 00:16:49,749
A girl once refused to kiss a lad
261
00:16:50,025 --> 00:16:53,722
The lad was a man of honor
262
00:16:53,896 --> 00:16:57,354
He warned herShe'd make the rock real mad
263
00:16:57,533 --> 00:17:00,798
And the legend is the rock fell upon her
264
00:17:01,170 --> 00:17:04,833
That was years agoAnd it must have been so
265
00:17:05,007 --> 00:17:08,534
'Cause from that day to thisNot a girl said no
266
00:17:08,711 --> 00:17:12,340
And that's the story ofWhoever falls in love
267
00:17:12,514 --> 00:17:16,575
By the Kissing Rock
268
00:17:19,722 --> 00:17:21,280
How'd you like it, sir?
269
00:17:23,092 --> 00:17:25,890
Wouldn't hiss and wouldn't cheer.
Got a copy of the lyrics?
270
00:17:26,061 --> 00:17:27,858
Right here, sir.
271
00:17:28,297 --> 00:17:30,094
Colonel, you mind if I go to work?
272
00:17:30,265 --> 00:17:32,256
- Not at all. Go ahead.
- Thank you, colonel.
273
00:17:32,434 --> 00:17:35,232
- Tom, would you come down here?
- Yes, sir.
274
00:17:35,771 --> 00:17:38,865
Son, don't give it everything
you have in the first eight bars.
275
00:17:39,041 --> 00:17:41,202
Don't belt it at them, like this:
276
00:17:41,376 --> 00:17:43,970
You've been kissed, I know
277
00:17:44,146 --> 00:17:45,374
No, it's no good.
278
00:17:45,547 --> 00:17:47,538
Singing a song is like a horse race.
279
00:17:47,716 --> 00:17:50,241
You don't ride a horse from wire to wire,
you rate him.
280
00:17:50,419 --> 00:17:54,446
Now, rule one: Like your audience.
They're all nice people.
281
00:17:54,623 --> 00:17:56,955
They bought tickets,
they want to hear your story.
282
00:17:57,126 --> 00:17:59,185
Tell it to them simply, sweetly, warmly.
283
00:17:59,361 --> 00:18:01,522
You like them and they like you.
284
00:18:01,697 --> 00:18:03,961
Hit it. Eve.
285
00:18:07,402 --> 00:18:10,963
You've been kissed, I knowIn the very last row
286
00:18:11,140 --> 00:18:14,268
When the love scene is onAt the movie show
287
00:18:14,543 --> 00:18:18,172
But wait until tonightAnd you'll be... but right
288
00:18:18,347 --> 00:18:21,612
By the Kissing Rock
289
00:18:21,784 --> 00:18:25,447
It's a lovely spotAnd believe it or not
290
00:18:25,621 --> 00:18:28,920
If you just care a littleYou'll care a lot
291
00:18:29,091 --> 00:18:30,854
So let's dispense with talk
292
00:18:31,026 --> 00:18:32,357
And take a little walk
293
00:18:32,594 --> 00:18:35,791
By the Kissing Rock
294
00:18:36,498 --> 00:18:39,763
A girl once refused to kiss a lad
295
00:18:40,102 --> 00:18:44,163
- And the lad was a man of honor
- You'd know.
296
00:18:44,339 --> 00:18:47,467
He warned herShe'd make the rock real mad
297
00:18:47,643 --> 00:18:51,010
And the legend is the rock fell upon her
298
00:18:51,180 --> 00:18:54,809
That was years agoAnd it must have been so
299
00:18:54,983 --> 00:18:58,180
'Cause from that day to thisNot a girl said no
300
00:18:58,353 --> 00:19:02,346
- That's the story of whoever falls in love- That's the story of whoever falls in love
301
00:19:02,524 --> 00:19:05,049
- By the Kissing Rock- By the Kissing Rock
302
00:19:39,528 --> 00:19:41,155
Ham.
303
00:19:42,164 --> 00:19:43,722
Well, there's an idea.
304
00:19:43,899 --> 00:19:46,527
- It was great.
- I could've done it better with two legs.
305
00:19:46,702 --> 00:19:48,363
We'll open in one, go to full stage.
306
00:19:48,537 --> 00:19:51,995
Now... Well, bring on the rest of your
dancers and we'll see what we've got.
307
00:19:52,174 --> 00:19:53,971
We won't have any more time today, sir.
308
00:19:54,142 --> 00:19:56,508
No more time?
I wanna hear the rest of your score.
309
00:19:56,678 --> 00:19:59,613
You see, we have to spoon up
for mess or we'll get slugged.
310
00:19:59,781 --> 00:20:01,942
But meet us tomorrow
at the Boodlers at 1600...
311
00:20:02,117 --> 00:20:04,517
...why, we can have a drink...
- Cherry phosphate.
312
00:20:04,686 --> 00:20:06,677
- We'll play the whole score
for you then.
313
00:20:06,855 --> 00:20:08,755
See you tomorrow, sir.
314
00:20:11,326 --> 00:20:13,123
Did I hear him right?
315
00:20:13,295 --> 00:20:17,095
Let me translate. He means they won't
be off again until tomorrow at 4.
316
00:20:17,266 --> 00:20:19,598
Fletcher and his roommate
can meet at the Boodlers.
317
00:20:19,768 --> 00:20:21,963
Now they've got to stand formation
for supper.
318
00:20:22,137 --> 00:20:24,833
Whoever heard of breaking
into rehearsals for supper?
319
00:20:25,007 --> 00:20:27,168
West Point, Mr. Bixby.
Rules and regulations.
320
00:20:27,342 --> 00:20:29,367
Oh, rules and regulations.
321
00:20:29,544 --> 00:20:32,445
Well, they'll have to take a tuck
on the rules and regulations.
322
00:20:32,614 --> 00:20:33,842
Make a note of that, Eve.
323
00:20:44,459 --> 00:20:50,455
Long before I knew you
324
00:20:51,033 --> 00:20:57,233
I knew you'd be as you are
325
00:20:58,607 --> 00:21:01,371
How did I know?
326
00:21:01,543 --> 00:21:04,944
Don't ask me to explain
327
00:21:05,113 --> 00:21:11,382
Do you suppose the budding roseWould question summer rain?
328
00:21:11,553 --> 00:21:18,049
My heart led me right to you
329
00:21:18,226 --> 00:21:24,722
Or was it my lucky star?
330
00:21:25,467 --> 00:21:31,667
I don't know if youBelieve that dreams come true
331
00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:35,003
But long before I kissed you
332
00:21:35,177 --> 00:21:39,079
I knew
333
00:21:42,517 --> 00:21:44,985
- This is going to be fun.
- You think we have a show?
334
00:21:45,153 --> 00:21:48,316
You got a few good jokes, a few
good songs, but a show, I don't know.
335
00:21:48,490 --> 00:21:50,617
It's gonna be a lot of hard work. Hal?
336
00:21:50,792 --> 00:21:52,783
- Yes, sir?
- I like your dancing. Nice style.
337
00:21:52,961 --> 00:21:55,691
- Thank you, sir.
- Don't let the Army flatten those arches.
338
00:21:55,864 --> 00:21:59,231
You got a lot of voice.
Lot of voice. Like to talk about it sometime.
339
00:21:59,401 --> 00:22:01,869
Good jokes, songs.
You did the material yourselves?
340
00:22:02,037 --> 00:22:03,163
Yes, sir, Hal and I.
341
00:22:03,338 --> 00:22:05,272
What happens to the show
when it closes?
342
00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:07,237
- Nothing.
- They put it in the archives.
343
00:22:07,409 --> 00:22:10,901
- Any chance of a fella getting it?
- Not a chance, it's West Point property.
344
00:22:11,079 --> 00:22:13,411
- How about buying it?
- It's not for sale, sir.
345
00:22:13,582 --> 00:22:15,982
I'm afraid I gonna have to call time
on you again.
346
00:22:16,151 --> 00:22:17,914
- First call for supper.
- More supper.
347
00:22:18,086 --> 00:22:21,522
I want you guys at the gymnasium
promptly at 4:00 tomorrow. Four o'clock.
348
00:22:21,690 --> 00:22:24,386
In the Army, sir, it's 1600.
349
00:22:24,559 --> 00:22:27,551
Sixteen hundred, 1650,
I won't give you a cent more.
350
00:22:27,729 --> 00:22:29,196
Be there at 4:00.
351
00:22:30,098 --> 00:22:32,566
After reading this book
and hearing this score...
352
00:22:32,734 --> 00:22:35,168
...I think these kids
have really got something.
353
00:22:35,837 --> 00:22:37,737
You know, this story is charming.
354
00:22:37,906 --> 00:22:40,534
A Brooklyn GI in Europe
falling in love with a girl...
355
00:22:40,709 --> 00:22:42,939
...who turns out to be a royal princess.
356
00:22:43,111 --> 00:22:44,738
Romantic, isn't it?
357
00:22:44,913 --> 00:22:46,210
Sets me on fire.
358
00:22:46,381 --> 00:22:48,941
And that Bull Gilbert
is such a fascinating wench.
359
00:22:49,117 --> 00:22:51,642
Then the princess comes to America,
to West Point...
360
00:22:51,820 --> 00:22:53,788
...to see her GI, who is now a cadet.
361
00:22:54,156 --> 00:22:56,556
But because she's a princess
and he's a commoner...
362
00:22:56,725 --> 00:22:58,886
...the romance gets the cadet
into trouble.
363
00:22:59,061 --> 00:23:03,498
However, being royalty,
she asks for amnesty and gets it.
364
00:23:03,665 --> 00:23:05,098
Right out on the stage?
365
00:23:05,267 --> 00:23:08,964
- Amnesty means a pardon.
- No.
366
00:23:09,137 --> 00:23:12,368
Then she gives up being a princess,
moves to Brooklyn with her GI...
367
00:23:12,541 --> 00:23:15,135
...and lives happily ever after. Cute?
368
00:23:15,977 --> 00:23:18,969
If you ask me,
the whole plot needs amnesty.
369
00:23:19,147 --> 00:23:21,411
He gets out of trouble
because she's a princess.
370
00:23:21,583 --> 00:23:23,744
What gimmick is that?
Nobody's gonna believe it.
371
00:23:23,919 --> 00:23:26,854
The tunes are good and that boy Tom...
Tom's great.
372
00:23:27,022 --> 00:23:30,321
That Gilbert is a cute hunk of cadet,
but he's no princess.
373
00:23:30,492 --> 00:23:32,687
Why not use a real girl? A local.
374
00:23:32,861 --> 00:23:35,659
A daughter of one of the officers, maybe,
to play the part?
375
00:23:38,266 --> 00:23:41,463
There are to be no females
in this show.
376
00:23:41,636 --> 00:23:43,467
One woman couldn't hurt.
377
00:23:43,638 --> 00:23:46,505
That's what Adam said, Eve.
378
00:23:53,815 --> 00:23:56,283
No, no, no!
379
00:23:56,451 --> 00:23:57,679
No!
380
00:23:57,853 --> 00:24:01,311
How many times you guys have to be told?
This is a march tempo.
381
00:24:01,490 --> 00:24:05,620
Don't you guys know how to march?
All right, come on, give me a pickup.
382
00:24:07,562 --> 00:24:09,359
And go.
383
00:24:11,099 --> 00:24:12,327
And go!
384
00:24:12,501 --> 00:24:13,729
Now, you got the idea?
385
00:24:13,902 --> 00:24:15,733
Try it. Once more.
386
00:24:15,904 --> 00:24:17,462
Hit it.
387
00:24:34,489 --> 00:24:35,751
Sorry we were late, sir.
388
00:24:35,924 --> 00:24:38,722
It's about time you prima donnas
got here. What's the excuse?
389
00:24:38,894 --> 00:24:41,624
- Lacrosse practice, tried to get here.
- I had mathematics.
390
00:24:41,796 --> 00:24:44,731
I was attending intercollegiate
student forum on geopolitics.
391
00:24:44,900 --> 00:24:47,266
- You see, sir...
- Don't "sir" me. I'm a civilian.
392
00:24:47,435 --> 00:24:49,335
And you, princess, the beauty parlor?
393
00:24:49,504 --> 00:24:51,267
Problem in fluid mechanics, sir.
394
00:24:51,439 --> 00:24:54,772
The 300-ohm resistors and the venturi tubes
are giving me trouble.
395
00:24:55,043 --> 00:24:57,910
- That's a new one.
- Mr. Bixby, I'd like to explain, sir.
396
00:24:58,079 --> 00:25:00,240
We have to do this show
on our spare time.
397
00:25:00,415 --> 00:25:02,713
- Rules and regulations.
- Rules and regulations.
398
00:25:02,884 --> 00:25:05,352
All I wanna do is get a show on
and get out of here.
399
00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:07,954
All right, girls, places.
400
00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:14,490
Fast, fast. Come on.
401
00:25:15,197 --> 00:25:16,755
Hit it.
402
00:25:24,973 --> 00:25:27,874
No, no, no!
403
00:25:28,043 --> 00:25:30,807
Quiet. Quiet. Quiet!
404
00:25:34,482 --> 00:25:36,677
This is murder!
405
00:25:37,118 --> 00:25:38,380
Murder.
406
00:25:38,553 --> 00:25:41,113
Call a rehearsal and 50 percent
of the company's absent.
407
00:25:41,489 --> 00:25:43,684
Punishment chores, studying for a quiz...
408
00:25:43,858 --> 00:25:45,553
...lacrosse, venturi tubes.
409
00:25:45,727 --> 00:25:48,696
I've heard a great deal
about the discipline in this joint.
410
00:25:48,863 --> 00:25:51,229
You're supposed to be famous for it.
411
00:25:51,399 --> 00:25:54,300
Well, I haven't seen a sign of it
in connection with this show.
412
00:25:54,469 --> 00:25:57,233
There's more discipline
in a broken-down burlesque troupe...
413
00:25:57,405 --> 00:26:01,341
...than you have up here with all your
salutes, your "Yes, sir"s, your "No, sir"s...
414
00:26:01,509 --> 00:26:03,841
...your fancy uniforms and parades.
415
00:26:04,012 --> 00:26:06,606
Discipline in the theater
means being on time.
416
00:26:06,781 --> 00:26:08,510
Getting the job done.
417
00:26:08,683 --> 00:26:11,311
Rehearsal is called for 2:00,
it's not 2:01 or 2:02.
418
00:26:11,586 --> 00:26:14,487
If an actor is late, he apologizes
to the entire company.
419
00:26:14,956 --> 00:26:17,220
If he's late a second time, he's fired.
420
00:26:17,792 --> 00:26:22,286
Now, two of you men have taken
the trouble to put together a good show.
421
00:26:22,464 --> 00:26:24,796
A show worthy of Broadway.
422
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,901
Well, if it's worth doing at all,
it's worth doing well.
423
00:26:28,203 --> 00:26:29,602
And if it weren't...
424
00:26:29,771 --> 00:26:32,672
...I wouldn't have stayed here 24 hours.
425
00:26:33,742 --> 00:26:35,039
So from here in...
426
00:26:35,210 --> 00:26:38,611
...punishment chores can wait,
studies can wait, lacrosse can wait.
427
00:26:38,780 --> 00:26:40,975
And we'll throw out
some rules and regulations.
428
00:26:41,149 --> 00:26:43,140
Rehearsal is called, you'll be on time.
429
00:26:43,318 --> 00:26:45,809
You'll know your words
and you'll know your routines.
430
00:26:45,987 --> 00:26:48,353
You're gonna work harder
than you've ever worked.
431
00:26:48,590 --> 00:26:50,353
I'll show you what discipline is.
432
00:26:50,525 --> 00:26:54,222
Because I don't like this brass-hat factory,
and I never expect to like it.
433
00:26:57,799 --> 00:26:59,858
Tell him not to go away mad,
just go away.
434
00:27:00,035 --> 00:27:02,094
Quiet. Quiet!
435
00:27:02,270 --> 00:27:05,296
The next guy that opens his kisser
gets thrown out of the theater.
436
00:27:05,473 --> 00:27:07,873
That's final.
That goes for each and every one of you.
437
00:27:08,043 --> 00:27:11,240
- Is he always this violent?
- The Army did it to him.
438
00:27:11,479 --> 00:27:14,243
It started when he asked
for a size 8 shoe...
439
00:27:14,416 --> 00:27:16,111
...and they gave him a 12.
440
00:27:16,284 --> 00:27:18,479
Never been the same since.
441
00:27:18,653 --> 00:27:19,881
Catch me on this.
442
00:27:20,055 --> 00:27:23,081
And, princess,
you and the rest of the girls watch.
443
00:27:39,074 --> 00:27:40,564
We'll take that again.
444
00:27:57,225 --> 00:27:58,522
See what I mean?
445
00:27:58,693 --> 00:27:59,921
Discipline.
446
00:28:01,663 --> 00:28:04,826
Gentlemen, this conduct of Mr. Bixby's
cannot be tolerated.
447
00:28:05,066 --> 00:28:09,560
But, sir, the men don't seem to feel
it's entirely Mr. Bixby's fault.
448
00:28:09,738 --> 00:28:13,504
It takes time for an outsider
to get to know West Point.
449
00:28:13,675 --> 00:28:16,906
That I can understand,
but this request is very unusual.
450
00:28:17,078 --> 00:28:19,569
Unusual, yes, colonel,
but not without precedent.
451
00:28:19,748 --> 00:28:22,216
George M. Cohan did it
to get material for a play.
452
00:28:22,384 --> 00:28:24,249
Damon Runyon
for some newspaper stories...
453
00:28:24,419 --> 00:28:30,449
Gentlemen, I'd like to read you some excerpts
from Mr. Bixby's record in the Army.
454
00:28:31,559 --> 00:28:35,620
"During four years of active service,
Elwin Bixby fought two wars...
455
00:28:35,797 --> 00:28:39,028
...one against the enemy
and one against the Army.
456
00:28:39,467 --> 00:28:41,264
He'd gripe from reveille to taps.
457
00:28:41,436 --> 00:28:43,267
He was insubordinate to all ranks...
458
00:28:43,438 --> 00:28:47,499
...and he went AWOL so many times,
it was impossible to keep count.
459
00:28:49,244 --> 00:28:54,375
In Africa, he sold a B17 to an Arab
for a crate of eggs.
460
00:28:54,549 --> 00:28:57,712
He swiped mattress covers
and pillowcases from QM supplies...
461
00:28:57,886 --> 00:29:01,151
...and sold them to Arabs
for Sunday suits.
462
00:29:01,623 --> 00:29:06,754
And after being missing for two weeks,
he was found in residence in a harem."
463
00:29:07,395 --> 00:29:09,363
This was quite a man.
464
00:29:09,531 --> 00:29:14,332
"He was ordered court-martialed five times,
always bluffed his way out.
465
00:29:15,937 --> 00:29:19,236
But his courage was incredible.
In Italy, he saved his company...
466
00:29:19,407 --> 00:29:21,773
...from being trapped
by superior enemy forces.
467
00:29:21,943 --> 00:29:24,776
In France, when action became dull,
he went AWOL...
468
00:29:24,946 --> 00:29:27,210
...and joined the French underground.
469
00:29:27,382 --> 00:29:28,849
He was wounded twice.
470
00:29:29,017 --> 00:29:31,247
He was awarded
the Distinguished Service Cross...
471
00:29:31,419 --> 00:29:34,877
...the Silver Star
and the M�daille Militaire.
472
00:29:35,056 --> 00:29:37,422
He was finally promoted
to the rank of sergeant...
473
00:29:37,592 --> 00:29:40,618
...but for an infraction of a rule,
was broken back to private...
474
00:29:40,795 --> 00:29:43,389
...on the day of his discharge."
475
00:29:43,565 --> 00:29:45,465
A very interesting career.
476
00:29:50,004 --> 00:29:52,302
You are at the
United States Military Academy.
477
00:29:52,474 --> 00:29:53,805
You take a sock at a cadet...
478
00:29:53,975 --> 00:29:56,739
...you're taking a sock
at the United States government.
479
00:29:56,911 --> 00:29:59,175
Now you're barred from the post.
480
00:29:59,347 --> 00:30:00,939
Come in.
481
00:30:04,486 --> 00:30:07,114
- I have news for you.
- What did they say?
482
00:30:07,288 --> 00:30:10,052
- Are they gonna let him stay?
- That depends.
483
00:30:10,225 --> 00:30:12,750
They took the case
to the commandant's office.
484
00:30:13,595 --> 00:30:15,825
He was pretty reasonable about it.
485
00:30:15,997 --> 00:30:20,400
He realizes that punch-happy over there
isn't the first civilian to come up here...
486
00:30:20,568 --> 00:30:22,092
...with a chip on his shoulder.
487
00:30:22,537 --> 00:30:25,631
And he's willing to give Bix
another chance.
488
00:30:26,307 --> 00:30:28,639
Well, they figure
if Bix got to know them better...
489
00:30:28,810 --> 00:30:31,005
...he might get to like them better.
490
00:30:31,179 --> 00:30:34,012
Who wants to like them better?
491
00:30:34,782 --> 00:30:36,943
You see, Harry, it's no use.
That ham always...
492
00:30:37,118 --> 00:30:39,712
Shut up. Yeah, what else, doll?
493
00:30:39,888 --> 00:30:43,255
Well, on one condition
would they allow him to stay:
494
00:30:43,424 --> 00:30:46,120
They have invited him
to become one of them.
495
00:30:46,461 --> 00:30:49,259
- I told them he'd do it.
- You told them what?
496
00:30:49,664 --> 00:30:53,293
I accepted their invitation for you
to become a cadet.
497
00:30:53,735 --> 00:30:55,032
You what?
498
00:30:55,203 --> 00:30:56,795
You heard me.
499
00:30:56,971 --> 00:31:00,737
And I just accepted an invitation for you
to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
500
00:31:00,909 --> 00:31:02,308
Now, who goes first?
501
00:31:02,477 --> 00:31:04,445
Eve, darling, you're wonderful.
I love you.
502
00:31:04,612 --> 00:31:05,840
Look, Bix, this is great.
503
00:31:06,014 --> 00:31:07,948
You move right in,
you become one of them.
504
00:31:08,116 --> 00:31:09,344
Go to work on the boy...
505
00:31:09,517 --> 00:31:12,213
...the boy discovers what he's got,
what we can do for him.
506
00:31:12,387 --> 00:31:13,752
- Work on what boy?
- What?
507
00:31:13,922 --> 00:31:18,154
Oh, well, you know, Hal and Tom.
508
00:31:18,326 --> 00:31:20,123
You know, to make them good
in the show.
509
00:31:20,295 --> 00:31:22,695
Oh, Bix, you'll become a cadet.
What do you say?
510
00:31:22,864 --> 00:31:24,354
What do I say?
511
00:31:24,532 --> 00:31:26,193
No!
512
00:31:27,035 --> 00:31:28,866
No, he says.
513
00:31:29,671 --> 00:31:31,502
Oh, Eve, why do you put up with him?
514
00:31:31,673 --> 00:31:35,165
Harry, you think that job in Las Vegas
is still open?
515
00:31:35,343 --> 00:31:37,106
If it isn't, I'll open it.
516
00:31:38,980 --> 00:31:41,278
Stop off if you're passing through
Las Vegas.
517
00:31:41,449 --> 00:31:45,510
I'll put in a good word for you
if they need an extra busboy.
518
00:31:46,087 --> 00:31:48,317
Now, Eve. Eve...
519
00:31:49,257 --> 00:31:51,020
Las Vegas.
520
00:31:53,161 --> 00:31:56,062
You reached way out into left field
for that one, didn't you?
521
00:31:56,230 --> 00:31:59,097
And now I should become
a West Point cadet.
522
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:01,027
I think it's a great idea.
523
00:32:01,202 --> 00:32:04,365
Really, a great idea.
524
00:32:09,944 --> 00:32:11,502
We still got a deal.
525
00:33:02,296 --> 00:33:03,991
Bixby. Hey, Bixby.
526
00:33:04,165 --> 00:33:07,032
- Reveille.
- Cut it out. Cut it out. Cut it out.
527
00:33:07,201 --> 00:33:10,898
Reveille, Bix, you have to be
in formation by the two-minute bell.
528
00:33:11,472 --> 00:33:13,736
The middle of the night.
529
00:33:19,947 --> 00:33:22,882
Out of the sack, Mr. Dumbjohn.
You don't sleep all day.
530
00:33:23,051 --> 00:33:25,042
- Gee whiz, now, fellas...
- Close your window.
531
00:33:25,219 --> 00:33:27,449
- Yeah, sure.
- This way.
532
00:33:29,590 --> 00:33:31,888
Come on, mister, move.
533
00:33:37,899 --> 00:33:39,992
This your gear? Come on.
534
00:33:54,982 --> 00:33:57,610
Hut, two, three, four.
Hut, two, three, four.
535
00:33:57,785 --> 00:34:00,015
Hut, two, three, four.
536
00:34:00,188 --> 00:34:01,985
Attention.
537
00:34:02,156 --> 00:34:03,987
A company present and accounted for.
538
00:34:04,158 --> 00:34:06,922
What are you,
the tail gunner, Mr. Do-willy?
539
00:34:07,095 --> 00:34:09,256
About-face.
540
00:34:09,530 --> 00:34:11,896
About-face.
541
00:34:14,035 --> 00:34:15,798
Now, let me see you function.
542
00:34:15,970 --> 00:34:18,837
Put a brace on those shoulders,
Mr. Ducro.
543
00:34:19,006 --> 00:34:21,133
Stretch up from the top of the head.
544
00:34:21,309 --> 00:34:23,174
Touch my hand.
545
00:34:23,845 --> 00:34:25,244
Break forward.
546
00:34:26,114 --> 00:34:27,342
Pull in that chin.
547
00:34:27,515 --> 00:34:29,710
More. More.
548
00:34:30,752 --> 00:34:32,743
Why can't you pull in that chin?
549
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:35,150
- Don't taste nice.
- Don't answer me.
550
00:34:35,323 --> 00:34:37,223
Now, look military, Mr. Dumbjohn.
551
00:34:37,458 --> 00:34:39,016
Suck up that gut.
552
00:34:39,193 --> 00:34:40,558
Pop that chest up in the air.
553
00:34:40,728 --> 00:34:43,595
Lift it up. Lift it up.
554
00:34:44,198 --> 00:34:46,098
Straighten that cap.
555
00:34:50,138 --> 00:34:53,039
You were instructed to get a haircut.
See that it's done.
556
00:34:53,207 --> 00:34:56,142
Report to my quarters after recall.
557
00:35:02,750 --> 00:35:05,014
Do you keep those clippers on the ice?
558
00:35:08,189 --> 00:35:10,316
It's all part of a plebe's life, Bix.
559
00:35:10,491 --> 00:35:11,719
Anyhow, it'll be over...
560
00:35:11,893 --> 00:35:14,487
...when upperclassmen shake your hand
and recognize you.
561
00:35:14,662 --> 00:35:17,722
- How many lights in Cullum Hall?
- Three hundred and forty, sir.
562
00:35:17,899 --> 00:35:20,026
Next, how many gallons
in Lusk Reservoir?
563
00:35:20,201 --> 00:35:23,329
Ninety-two and 210 million gallons,
when water's over the spillway.
564
00:35:23,504 --> 00:35:24,835
What do plebes rank?
565
00:35:25,006 --> 00:35:27,975
The plebe rank, the commandant's dog,
the superintendent's cat...
566
00:35:28,142 --> 00:35:31,873
...the hellcats and all the admirals
in the cockeyed Navy.
567
00:35:35,383 --> 00:35:39,183
A 12:00 boy in a 9:00 town,
that's me.
568
00:35:40,988 --> 00:35:43,456
There's another thing
I don't like about this place.
569
00:35:43,624 --> 00:35:45,319
Too much buttoning and unbuttoning.
570
00:35:45,493 --> 00:35:48,291
- All right, 641?
- All right, sir.
571
00:35:48,663 --> 00:35:51,598
- All right, 642?
- All right, sir.
572
00:35:51,933 --> 00:35:53,594
- Hey...
- All right, 643?
573
00:35:53,768 --> 00:35:55,998
- All right, sir.
- Everybody in a rut around here?
574
00:35:56,170 --> 00:35:59,162
- What is this "all right" business?
- Oh, it's a bed check.
575
00:35:59,340 --> 00:36:02,036
When you answer "all right,"
that means everyone's present.
576
00:36:02,343 --> 00:36:04,777
- They take your word for it?
- Certainly.
577
00:36:04,946 --> 00:36:07,540
At West Point, your word is your honor.
578
00:36:08,549 --> 00:36:12,076
Now, the definition of leather,
they'll be sure to ask you that one.
579
00:36:12,253 --> 00:36:13,948
And put some soul in it.
580
00:36:14,121 --> 00:36:15,418
The definition of leather.
581
00:36:15,990 --> 00:36:19,016
And put some soul into it, right.
582
00:36:19,193 --> 00:36:23,027
If the fresh skin of an animal,
cleaned and divested of all hairs...
583
00:36:23,197 --> 00:36:25,165
...fat and other extraneous matter...
584
00:36:25,333 --> 00:36:30,100
...be immersed in a dilute solution of
tannic acid, a chemical compound ensues.
585
00:36:30,271 --> 00:36:32,330
The gelatinous tissue is converted...
586
00:36:32,506 --> 00:36:36,909
...into a non-putrescible substance
impervious to and insoluble in water.
587
00:36:37,078 --> 00:36:39,308
This, sir, is leather.
588
00:38:54,448 --> 00:38:56,712
Beautifully done, Hal, beautifully done.
589
00:38:56,884 --> 00:38:58,181
Only one thing wrong.
590
00:38:58,352 --> 00:39:00,411
Not enough straw hats.
591
00:39:02,223 --> 00:39:03,986
Harder.
592
00:39:05,126 --> 00:39:07,617
Although I am a princess,
I'll be happy to marry you...
593
00:39:07,795 --> 00:39:10,093
Let's hear it. Let's hear it. Come on.
594
00:39:10,264 --> 00:39:13,062
This whole business
will follow me for the rest of my life.
595
00:39:13,234 --> 00:39:16,203
- I can't say that.
- Put a "sir" on it, understand?
596
00:39:16,370 --> 00:39:18,338
- Yes, sir.
- You are a princess.
597
00:39:18,506 --> 00:39:20,235
A princess, and he's a GI.
598
00:39:20,408 --> 00:39:23,468
You met in Europe and fell in love.
Why, I don't know. Don't know.
599
00:39:23,644 --> 00:39:25,908
He's asked you to marry him
and live in Brooklyn.
600
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:28,947
You hear? Now, get up.
601
00:39:29,650 --> 00:39:31,413
Suck up that royal gut.
602
00:39:31,585 --> 00:39:34,247
Extend that lovely little pinky.
603
00:39:34,422 --> 00:39:38,324
Attaboy. Now, give us a lovely,
lovely smile with those pearly-white teeth.
604
00:39:40,828 --> 00:39:43,296
You're a doll. A doll.
605
00:39:43,464 --> 00:39:46,024
All right. From the beginning.
I wanna talk to you, Tom.
606
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:48,964
Why, Hal, that's sweet of you to ask me.
607
00:39:49,136 --> 00:39:50,398
I'd love to.
608
00:39:50,571 --> 00:39:52,630
Doing a little research, doll face?
609
00:39:53,908 --> 00:39:56,308
Look, son.
I've been wanting to talk to you.
610
00:39:56,477 --> 00:39:59,139
- Yes, sir.
- Talk to you about your future.
611
00:39:59,313 --> 00:40:01,577
I think you should give it
careful consideration.
612
00:40:01,749 --> 00:40:04,877
Just something that you don't,
you know, pass over lightly.
613
00:40:14,995 --> 00:40:17,828
I wanna know, what are you
gonna do with that voice of yours?
614
00:40:17,998 --> 00:40:19,829
Sing the regiment to sleep?
615
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:21,126
What do you mean?
616
00:40:21,302 --> 00:40:23,031
You have an annuity in your throat.
617
00:40:23,204 --> 00:40:26,230
Why don't you cash in on it?
Go into show business.
618
00:40:26,407 --> 00:40:28,739
My uncle been talking to you?
619
00:40:29,110 --> 00:40:30,338
Only from the floor.
620
00:40:30,511 --> 00:40:33,036
Look, son, I've been working
with talent all my life.
621
00:40:33,214 --> 00:40:36,183
All I've got to do is listen once
and I know. Now, you've got it.
622
00:40:36,350 --> 00:40:38,079
Where you got it, how,
don't know.
623
00:40:38,252 --> 00:40:39,981
But what are you gonna do with it?
624
00:40:40,154 --> 00:40:42,918
Are you gonna waste that voice
on a parade ground singing:
625
00:40:43,090 --> 00:40:45,490
"To the rear, harch.
To the rear, harch."
626
00:40:46,594 --> 00:40:50,155
- Bix, do you like your profession?
- Sure.
627
00:40:50,865 --> 00:40:52,696
Well, I like mine.
628
00:40:52,867 --> 00:40:56,064
Ever since I was an enlisted man,
I considered the Army a profession.
629
00:40:56,237 --> 00:40:57,727
Just like law or medicine.
630
00:40:57,905 --> 00:41:01,864
And that's the thing that people like you
and my uncle refuse to understand.
631
00:41:02,042 --> 00:41:04,169
He wanted me to go to work for him.
632
00:41:04,345 --> 00:41:07,405
Well, maybe you should have listened
to your uncle.
633
00:41:07,581 --> 00:41:11,483
I wouldn't have listened even if
I'd liked him, which I don't.
634
00:41:11,652 --> 00:41:13,745
Neither do I, that thief.
635
00:41:13,921 --> 00:41:15,616
Now, look...
636
00:41:21,729 --> 00:41:25,460
What I'm about to say to you
is just between us.
637
00:41:25,633 --> 00:41:27,157
You and me.
638
00:41:27,334 --> 00:41:30,064
What I wanna do is sign you
to a personal contract.
639
00:41:30,237 --> 00:41:32,137
Bixby exclusive.
640
00:41:32,306 --> 00:41:34,900
You'll be working for me
and I'll be working for you.
641
00:41:35,075 --> 00:41:38,567
I'll teach you everything I know.
Take a couple of years to bring you along.
642
00:41:38,746 --> 00:41:42,147
Then I'll set you in a Broadway show.
Good part. Good part.
643
00:41:42,816 --> 00:41:45,944
And you'll wind up with a lousy fortune.
644
00:41:47,188 --> 00:41:50,282
- Thanks, Bix, no sale.
- No?
645
00:41:50,524 --> 00:41:53,857
When I graduate from here in June,
I've an obligation to the government.
646
00:41:54,028 --> 00:41:57,464
But you could quit. People have been
known to change their agents.
647
00:41:57,965 --> 00:42:02,061
But you don't quit West Point, Bix.
You don't even get busted out.
648
00:42:02,236 --> 00:42:04,670
Unless you break some strict rule
or regulation.
649
00:42:04,838 --> 00:42:08,296
Like violating honor,
or getting found in your studies...
650
00:42:08,475 --> 00:42:09,703
...or getting married.
651
00:42:09,877 --> 00:42:13,836
You see, Bix, what the gentleman
is trying to tell you is no.
652
00:42:14,648 --> 00:42:16,912
Well, think it over,
you might change your mind.
653
00:42:17,084 --> 00:42:19,518
No, not a chance.
654
00:42:19,687 --> 00:42:21,951
But don't think I'm not grateful.
655
00:42:24,925 --> 00:42:27,485
Well, that wasn't only a brush.
656
00:42:27,695 --> 00:42:30,493
He threw in the comb and mirror.
657
00:42:30,664 --> 00:42:33,326
I like that kid. I like them both.
658
00:42:33,500 --> 00:42:36,697
I heard you.
I saw that huddle you were in with Hal.
659
00:42:36,870 --> 00:42:39,361
- Yes.
- He's going to drag me.
660
00:42:40,507 --> 00:42:41,531
By what?
661
00:42:42,309 --> 00:42:46,712
He's taking me to the hop.
I'm gonna be his little old drag.
662
00:42:47,114 --> 00:42:51,744
- And where do you suppose I'll be?
- Plebes aren't allowed to attend hops.
663
00:42:51,919 --> 00:42:55,377
And you're just a little old plebe.
664
00:42:55,556 --> 00:43:00,186
Little old plebe just got an ideaLittle old plebe just got an idea
665
00:43:00,361 --> 00:43:03,387
Little old plebe just got an idea
666
00:43:09,236 --> 00:43:10,726
Come in.
667
00:43:12,072 --> 00:43:13,835
Well, Mr. Dumbsquat,
what do you want?
668
00:43:14,008 --> 00:43:18,308
- Cadet Bixby reporting to ask a question.
- Proceed, Mr. Bixby.
669
00:43:20,481 --> 00:43:22,779
Well, sir, I was just wondering...
670
00:43:22,950 --> 00:43:25,714
...if you were dragging anyone
to the hop Saturday night.
671
00:43:25,886 --> 00:43:27,183
Why? You got any ideas?
672
00:43:29,757 --> 00:43:31,691
Ever hear of Jan Wilson?
673
00:43:31,859 --> 00:43:33,156
The movie star?
674
00:43:33,327 --> 00:43:35,852
- Why, sure, who hasn't?
- Friend of mine.
675
00:43:37,298 --> 00:43:40,131
That's the kind of friendship
I'd like to make.
676
00:43:40,301 --> 00:43:41,768
At ease, Mr. Bixby.
677
00:43:42,102 --> 00:43:45,333
Well, sir, you see, I kind of
helped her up the golden ladder.
678
00:43:45,506 --> 00:43:49,636
She's in New York.
I might be able to coax her up here.
679
00:43:53,981 --> 00:43:55,710
As my drag?
680
00:43:55,883 --> 00:43:57,214
I could try.
681
00:43:57,384 --> 00:44:01,047
And you might persuade her
to play the princess in the show.
682
00:44:01,989 --> 00:44:05,584
Wouldn't you rather make love to her
than Bully Boy Gilbert?
683
00:44:09,863 --> 00:44:12,798
Start persuading, Mr. Bixby.
684
00:44:18,038 --> 00:44:20,836
I didn't sleep again last night
685
00:44:21,008 --> 00:44:23,806
And I'd like to discuss the matter
686
00:44:23,977 --> 00:44:27,413
The nerves to which I'm strung are tight
687
00:44:27,581 --> 00:44:31,039
And I'm as beat as a bowl of batter
688
00:44:31,218 --> 00:44:35,211
If old man Rip Van WinkleThought his long sleep was a curse
689
00:44:35,389 --> 00:44:38,415
I know how the old man felt
690
00:44:38,592 --> 00:44:43,620
Because I've got his problem in reverse
691
00:44:43,797 --> 00:44:47,494
Ten thousandFour hundred and thirty-two sheep
692
00:44:47,668 --> 00:44:51,069
How long can I toss like this?
693
00:44:51,238 --> 00:44:54,503
Ten thousandFour hundred and thirty-three sheep
694
00:44:55,175 --> 00:44:58,008
What did you put in that kiss?
695
00:44:58,178 --> 00:45:00,772
I've tried all the remedies
696
00:45:00,948 --> 00:45:03,007
The well-known good advice
697
00:45:03,183 --> 00:45:05,913
Took a hot tub and an alcohol rub
698
00:45:06,086 --> 00:45:08,680
Did the alphabet backwards twice
699
00:45:08,856 --> 00:45:12,053
Ten thousandFour hundred and thirty-four sheep
700
00:45:12,493 --> 00:45:15,656
We'd better get married soon
701
00:45:15,829 --> 00:45:19,595
Ten thousandFour hundred and thirty-five sheep
702
00:45:19,767 --> 00:45:23,328
I'll never hold out till June
703
00:45:23,504 --> 00:45:27,600
How much do I love you?Just in case you didn't know
704
00:45:27,775 --> 00:45:32,109
You get a mental kissWith every sheep I count
705
00:45:32,279 --> 00:45:36,238
And I've still got a million sheep to go
706
00:45:36,917 --> 00:45:39,044
- Did you ever try seeing a doctor?
- A doctor?
707
00:45:39,553 --> 00:45:44,149
I went to see a noted doctorWho's a famous analyst
708
00:45:44,324 --> 00:45:46,019
And he led me to the couch
709
00:45:46,193 --> 00:45:48,627
And he gently took my wrist
710
00:45:48,796 --> 00:45:50,161
I paid him $50
711
00:45:50,330 --> 00:45:53,766
- Well, that sounds pretty cheap.
- Cheap? I should have paid him nothing.
712
00:45:53,934 --> 00:45:58,166
'Cause I still can't sleep
713
00:45:58,338 --> 00:46:00,397
Ten thousand four hundred
714
00:46:00,574 --> 00:46:01,871
And 36 sheep
715
00:46:02,042 --> 00:46:03,839
And one sheep that got away
716
00:46:04,011 --> 00:46:05,478
He took it on the lamb.
717
00:46:05,646 --> 00:46:08,843
- Ten thousand four hundred- And 38 sheep
718
00:46:09,283 --> 00:46:11,080
Won't night ever turn to day?
719
00:46:11,251 --> 00:46:15,654
Oh, what a fool I am
720
00:46:15,823 --> 00:46:19,589
How much do I love you?
721
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:24,720
Just in case you didn't know
722
00:46:24,898 --> 00:46:28,026
You get a mental kissWith every sheep I count
723
00:46:28,202 --> 00:46:30,796
Add them all togetherThat's a large amount
724
00:46:30,971 --> 00:46:33,940
- 'Cause I've counted a trillion sheep
- How many?
725
00:46:34,107 --> 00:46:36,940
- I've counted a billion sheep
- How many?
726
00:46:37,110 --> 00:46:40,546
Well, at least a million sheep, I know
727
00:46:40,714 --> 00:46:42,113
How the numbers grow
728
00:46:42,282 --> 00:46:46,719
And I got about a million more to go
729
00:46:46,887 --> 00:46:49,651
Ten thousand, 9000Eight thousand
730
00:46:49,823 --> 00:46:52,383
Seven thousandSix thousand, 5000
731
00:46:52,559 --> 00:46:54,322
Four thousand, 3000
732
00:46:54,495 --> 00:46:55,860
Sheep.
733
00:46:58,732 --> 00:47:00,996
Hey, Steve,
will you get the door, please?
734
00:47:06,006 --> 00:47:08,668
- Thanks, boy.
- Bix!
735
00:47:10,677 --> 00:47:12,304
- Well...
- Of all people...
736
00:47:12,479 --> 00:47:14,743
- Hello.
- I'm so glad to see you.
737
00:47:14,915 --> 00:47:16,143
What's this uniform?
738
00:47:16,316 --> 00:47:18,307
- Are you the doorman here?
- Lower than that.
739
00:47:18,485 --> 00:47:21,852
Superintendent's dog, commandant's cat,
hellcats and all the admirals.
740
00:47:22,022 --> 00:47:23,785
- What?
- All right, boys, everybody out.
741
00:47:23,957 --> 00:47:26,790
Walk, don't run to the nearest exit.
Women and children first.
742
00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:30,555
I'm rehearsing for a record date tonight.
All these men are from the press.
743
00:47:30,731 --> 00:47:33,700
Leave your names.
Anything comes up, we will call you.
744
00:47:33,867 --> 00:47:36,267
Wait, I'm handling things here.
I'm the press agent.
745
00:47:36,436 --> 00:47:39,234
Your secret is safe.
Now, join the others like a good boy.
746
00:47:39,406 --> 00:47:42,034
- But wait a minute...
- Yes, all right, fine.
747
00:47:42,209 --> 00:47:44,609
I'll do the same for you sometime.
748
00:47:45,746 --> 00:47:48,306
Jan Wilson, Jan Wilson.
749
00:47:48,482 --> 00:47:51,315
Hollywood hasn't done a thing,
not a thing...
750
00:47:51,485 --> 00:47:53,476
...to tarnish that unspoiled loveliness.
751
00:47:53,654 --> 00:47:55,713
Oh, that haircut.
752
00:47:55,889 --> 00:47:59,120
This you'll have to sit down for.
Sweetheart, you're in for a shock.
753
00:47:59,293 --> 00:48:01,784
- What?
- Yup. I...
754
00:48:01,962 --> 00:48:05,056
- Oh, no.
- Oh, yes, yes.
755
00:48:05,232 --> 00:48:06,824
I'm a West Point cadet.
756
00:48:07,100 --> 00:48:08,692
- You're a what?
- Yeah.
757
00:48:08,869 --> 00:48:11,497
If things are bad,
I'd better unload my government bonds.
758
00:48:11,672 --> 00:48:14,266
I had to get in the act.
I'm putting a show on for them.
759
00:48:14,441 --> 00:48:16,807
The place will never be the same,
old boy.
760
00:48:18,912 --> 00:48:20,846
I had to bring you the news.
761
00:48:21,014 --> 00:48:23,778
I took a poll up there to find out
who's the top favorite...
762
00:48:23,951 --> 00:48:25,919
...of the movie stars
among all the cadets.
763
00:48:26,086 --> 00:48:30,318
All 2500 of them.
And who do you think they picked?
764
00:48:30,791 --> 00:48:32,281
Who?
765
00:48:32,459 --> 00:48:35,724
- You, Jan Wilson.
- Really? Oh, isn't that nice?
766
00:48:35,896 --> 00:48:39,798
- Vindicated my judgment.
- What's your angle?
767
00:48:40,467 --> 00:48:42,901
- What's your angle?
- Angle?
768
00:48:43,070 --> 00:48:45,197
You've always got one. What is it?
769
00:48:46,173 --> 00:48:48,266
Oh, now, Jannie.
770
00:48:48,442 --> 00:48:50,069
All right, all right.
771
00:48:50,243 --> 00:48:51,733
I do need a favor.
772
00:48:51,912 --> 00:48:54,642
They're giving a hop for the cast
next Saturday night.
773
00:48:54,815 --> 00:48:56,612
All great kids, great kids.
774
00:48:56,783 --> 00:48:59,274
- And I made them a promise.
- What?
775
00:48:59,453 --> 00:49:02,149
- I promised you'd appear.
- I've got two recording dates...
776
00:49:02,322 --> 00:49:05,086
...three personal appearances,
radio broadcasts, interviews.
777
00:49:05,258 --> 00:49:07,590
- I can't do it.
- Can't do it, huh?
778
00:49:07,761 --> 00:49:10,229
Well, I can't find the time to do it.
779
00:49:12,566 --> 00:49:14,124
All right.
780
00:49:15,235 --> 00:49:16,463
All right.
781
00:49:16,637 --> 00:49:20,198
- But, Bix...
- Oh, it's all right, it's all right.
782
00:49:20,374 --> 00:49:21,898
Just don't worry about a thing.
783
00:49:22,209 --> 00:49:24,439
Bix, I'm sorry.
784
00:49:24,611 --> 00:49:29,446
Oh, I said it was all right.
All right. I gave it the old college try.
785
00:49:29,616 --> 00:49:32,608
But just think of me
when you're counting your money.
786
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:36,218
But I said I was sorry.
787
00:49:36,390 --> 00:49:38,290
Oh, well.
788
00:49:38,458 --> 00:49:43,157
Look, sweet, I thought
you might as well have these.
789
00:49:43,430 --> 00:49:47,924
The dancing shoes you wore
the day I took you out of the chorus.
790
00:49:49,503 --> 00:49:51,266
You didn't tell me you saved these.
791
00:49:51,438 --> 00:49:55,135
Oh, well, how many stars
can a guy make in a lifetime?
792
00:49:57,377 --> 00:50:00,244
But you can't blame a fella
for being sentimental.
793
00:50:02,349 --> 00:50:04,943
I went without lunch
a whole month to buy them.
794
00:50:05,118 --> 00:50:07,018
Then you didn't know
what to do with them.
795
00:50:07,187 --> 00:50:09,621
Remember that first time step
I showed you?
796
00:50:09,790 --> 00:50:12,224
- Air taps.
- Oh, don't tell me I looked like that.
797
00:50:12,392 --> 00:50:15,657
That was on your good day.
Now, here was one you never could do:
798
00:50:17,898 --> 00:50:20,594
Move over, old boy, watch this:
799
00:50:26,239 --> 00:50:28,002
- Oh, now, look, sweetie.
- What?
800
00:50:28,308 --> 00:50:31,800
Life isn't all taking. There comes a time
when you gotta do a little giving.
801
00:50:31,978 --> 00:50:34,139
It isn't as though
we were absolute strangers.
802
00:50:34,314 --> 00:50:36,509
You just can't let old friendships
go unheeded.
803
00:50:36,683 --> 00:50:40,449
And, pal, I do need a favor.
804
00:50:44,558 --> 00:50:46,025
All right, I'll do it.
805
00:50:48,095 --> 00:50:51,360
There's my girl, my girl.
806
00:50:51,531 --> 00:50:53,692
Knew all the time
you wouldn't let old Bix down.
807
00:50:53,867 --> 00:50:55,129
Knew it all the time.
808
00:50:55,902 --> 00:50:58,632
My studio's gonna blow a fuse.
809
00:51:00,407 --> 00:51:03,308
It'll be more fun
than making a living anyway.
810
00:51:08,949 --> 00:51:13,909
Why, you phony, no-good,
two-timing character.
811
00:51:16,790 --> 00:51:21,159
- Oh, Bix, it's just like old times.
- Oh, no. Your aim is better.
812
00:51:32,037 --> 00:51:33,470
I can't believe it.
813
00:51:33,639 --> 00:51:37,302
Somewhere along the line,
I must have been a very good boy.
814
00:51:37,476 --> 00:51:39,944
Now that I'm here,
couldn't we dance together?
815
00:51:40,112 --> 00:51:42,444
Someone may walk between us,
you know.
816
00:51:45,551 --> 00:51:49,954
- Buttons, they're guided missiles.
- I see what you mean.
817
00:51:56,295 --> 00:51:58,490
Changing the guard, sir.
818
00:52:04,770 --> 00:52:07,204
Every time I see you in that uniform,
I break up.
819
00:52:07,373 --> 00:52:09,238
Cute, don't you think?
820
00:52:10,009 --> 00:52:11,567
What cooks?
821
00:52:11,744 --> 00:52:14,474
You didn't bring me up here
just for laughs.
822
00:52:16,348 --> 00:52:18,509
Step into my office.
823
00:52:22,254 --> 00:52:23,619
Now, look, sweet.
824
00:52:23,789 --> 00:52:28,988
That cadet
you were just dancing with, Tom?
825
00:52:29,461 --> 00:52:33,659
- That is Harry Eberhart's nephew.
- He is?
826
00:52:33,832 --> 00:52:36,027
Now, I'm gonna bust that kid
out of this joint.
827
00:52:36,201 --> 00:52:38,795
But when I do, he's not gonna sign
with his Uncle Harry.
828
00:52:38,971 --> 00:52:41,235
He's gonna sign with Bixby.
829
00:52:41,607 --> 00:52:43,666
And what felony
do you want me to commit?
830
00:52:44,643 --> 00:52:47,271
I want you to give the kid a taste
of show business.
831
00:52:47,446 --> 00:52:50,574
She's here, all right, but why?
832
00:52:50,749 --> 00:52:53,217
- Well, didn't you know?
- No.
833
00:52:53,385 --> 00:52:55,910
Well, Bix got her to come up
as a blind drag for Tom...
834
00:52:56,088 --> 00:52:59,057
...and Tom got Bix special permission
to come to the hop.
835
00:53:00,826 --> 00:53:03,192
Now, tonight, he's gonna ask you
to be in the show.
836
00:53:03,362 --> 00:53:04,693
I told him to do it.
837
00:53:04,863 --> 00:53:09,266
And when he starts selling,
baby, you start buying.
838
00:53:09,435 --> 00:53:12,996
I came up here for one night,
not to make a career out of this.
839
00:53:13,172 --> 00:53:16,141
Now, didn't we say
that this was time for a little giving?
840
00:53:16,608 --> 00:53:18,769
And just think, just think...
841
00:53:18,944 --> 00:53:22,812
...the first dame
ever to be in a West Point show.
842
00:53:23,749 --> 00:53:25,046
Do you think I can swing it?
843
00:53:26,852 --> 00:53:29,013
With what you have to swing?
844
00:53:31,723 --> 00:53:33,554
Start swinging.
845
00:53:33,725 --> 00:53:36,455
I thought you might enjoy
a little refreshment.
846
00:53:37,629 --> 00:53:41,497
Say, that's nice. For you.
847
00:53:41,667 --> 00:53:43,430
After you, sir.
848
00:54:03,021 --> 00:54:05,421
- Do your boys have this?
- Yes.
849
00:54:05,591 --> 00:54:07,923
When she comes up here,
give her an introduction...
850
00:54:08,093 --> 00:54:10,823
...and send her right into it, huh?
- Right.
851
00:54:27,179 --> 00:54:30,410
You did a number in your last picture,
the "Military Polka."
852
00:54:30,582 --> 00:54:32,311
- We liked it up here.
- Oh, thank you.
853
00:54:32,484 --> 00:54:35,885
- How about doing it for us now?
- Oh, really, I don't want to sing now.
854
00:54:36,054 --> 00:54:38,682
- Come on, they'd enjoy it.
- But I didn't bring my music.
855
00:54:38,857 --> 00:54:40,449
Please.
856
00:54:44,463 --> 00:54:46,260
- All set?
- All ready.
857
00:54:50,002 --> 00:54:53,267
Put your arms around her shoulderWhen the order's "Shoulder arms"
858
00:54:53,438 --> 00:54:56,805
Take a full, firm gripOf the lady and her charms
859
00:54:56,975 --> 00:55:00,206
If her heart is your objectiveYou can win it right away
860
00:55:00,379 --> 00:55:03,177
When they play the "Military Polka"
861
00:55:03,849 --> 00:55:07,751
"To the right flank" is the orderAnd the dancers gaily twirl
862
00:55:07,920 --> 00:55:09,148
- Then it's:- Left about-face
863
00:55:09,321 --> 00:55:10,788
So you face your neighbor's girl
864
00:55:10,956 --> 00:55:14,221
But you turn back to attentionLove's the order of the day
865
00:55:14,393 --> 00:55:17,294
When they play the "Military Polka"
866
00:55:18,330 --> 00:55:21,822
Hut, two, three, fourHut, two, three, four
867
00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:24,901
Hut, two, three, four, here they go
868
00:55:25,070 --> 00:55:28,301
See those military men in line
869
00:55:28,473 --> 00:55:31,840
See their uniformsTheir buttons all a-shine
870
00:55:32,010 --> 00:55:35,309
It's amazing how erect they stand
871
00:55:35,480 --> 00:55:37,778
And your heart begins to beat
872
00:55:37,950 --> 00:55:40,441
Begins to beat to beat the band
873
00:55:40,719 --> 00:55:44,120
And the band's terrificIt's positively great
874
00:55:44,289 --> 00:55:47,588
When they play for marchingAnd when they syncopate
875
00:55:47,759 --> 00:55:49,317
Get set
876
00:55:49,494 --> 00:55:51,519
Fall in
877
00:55:51,697 --> 00:55:54,666
They're all set to begin
878
00:56:23,228 --> 00:56:26,595
Hut, two, three, fourHut, two, three, four
879
00:56:26,765 --> 00:56:29,563
Hut, two, three, four
880
00:56:29,868 --> 00:56:33,235
Put your arms around her shoulderWhen the order's "Shoulder arms"
881
00:56:33,405 --> 00:56:36,738
Take a full, firm gripOf the lady and her charms
882
00:56:36,908 --> 00:56:40,241
If her heart is your objectiveYou can win it right away
883
00:56:40,412 --> 00:56:43,745
When they play the "Military Polka"
884
00:56:43,915 --> 00:56:47,248
"To the right flank" is the orderAnd the dancers gaily twirl
885
00:56:47,419 --> 00:56:49,046
- Then it's:- Left about-face
886
00:56:49,221 --> 00:56:50,779
So you face your neighbor's girl
887
00:56:50,956 --> 00:56:54,255
But you turn back to attentionLove's the order of the day
888
00:56:54,426 --> 00:56:58,886
When they play the "Military Polka"
889
00:57:04,903 --> 00:57:08,304
See the dancers marching forwardStraight across the ballroom floor
890
00:57:08,473 --> 00:57:11,806
If he steals a kissAll is fair in love and war
891
00:57:11,977 --> 00:57:16,004
From now on there's no retreating'Cause you'll fall in love to stay
892
00:57:16,181 --> 00:57:19,708
You can bet your bootsYou'll all be recruits
893
00:57:19,885 --> 00:57:22,615
When they play the mil...Military
894
00:57:22,788 --> 00:57:29,193
The "Military Polka"
895
00:58:21,913 --> 00:58:25,110
- Would you like a little air?
- Fine.
896
00:58:30,288 --> 00:58:32,882
You see, up here, every spring,
we put on our show.
897
00:58:33,058 --> 00:58:35,583
- Well, that's the musical without girls.
- That's right.
898
00:58:35,761 --> 00:58:39,094
- Not much fun in that, is there?
- Well, we have to break out sometime.
899
00:58:39,264 --> 00:58:42,165
Sort of celebrate
the end of the gloom period.
900
00:58:44,636 --> 00:58:48,128
Look what I've done.
I'm all thumbs.
901
00:58:48,306 --> 00:58:49,796
I'll get it.
902
00:58:59,785 --> 00:59:02,151
What's the name of that song
they're playing?
903
00:59:02,320 --> 00:59:05,619
- Oh, that's the ballad from our show.
- Is it? Sing it for me.
904
00:59:05,791 --> 00:59:09,522
No, no, I'm out of my class.
You're used to professionals.
905
00:59:09,694 --> 00:59:12,788
Oh, come on. Tonight you may lose
your amateur standing.
906
00:59:20,605 --> 00:59:24,564
You love me
907
00:59:25,444 --> 00:59:31,178
The miracle of miracles
908
00:59:31,349 --> 00:59:34,182
You love me
909
00:59:35,153 --> 00:59:37,053
In every dream
910
00:59:37,222 --> 00:59:43,457
You seem so unattainable
911
00:59:43,628 --> 00:59:47,860
It's not explainable
912
00:59:48,867 --> 00:59:51,631
And yet you're mine
913
00:59:51,803 --> 00:59:53,668
You're mine
914
00:59:54,239 --> 00:59:59,541
Believe me
915
00:59:59,711 --> 01:00:03,044
Believe me
916
01:00:03,682 --> 01:00:07,743
I'm sure this heart of mine
917
01:00:07,919 --> 01:00:12,856
Would not deceive me
918
01:00:13,658 --> 01:00:19,358
And even if you never say it
919
01:00:19,531 --> 01:00:23,297
This I know is true
920
01:00:23,468 --> 01:00:25,493
You love me
921
01:00:25,670 --> 01:00:32,166
Just as I love you
922
01:00:36,982 --> 01:00:39,109
Tom, that was just wonderful.
923
01:00:39,284 --> 01:00:41,377
Oh, and I love that song.
924
01:00:41,686 --> 01:00:44,052
Really, your voice just thrilled me so...
925
01:00:44,222 --> 01:00:47,248
Here. Don't spill it.
926
01:00:51,963 --> 01:00:53,157
Kiss her.
927
01:00:54,466 --> 01:00:56,195
Kiss her!
928
01:00:58,036 --> 01:01:00,732
Not on the hand. No.On the mouth.
929
01:01:02,641 --> 01:01:04,131
Look.
930
01:01:05,477 --> 01:01:06,466
Like that.
931
01:01:23,562 --> 01:01:26,622
- What's that?
- That's "Army Blue."
932
01:01:26,798 --> 01:01:30,495
It means we have exactly one hour
to get back to barracks before taps.
933
01:01:46,051 --> 01:01:48,542
Will you please tell me
what this is all about?
934
01:01:48,720 --> 01:01:51,655
You know that idea you had
about the local playing the princess?
935
01:01:51,823 --> 01:01:53,882
I've thought it over. It's positively great.
936
01:01:54,059 --> 01:01:56,653
That's not a local, that's a movie star.
937
01:01:56,828 --> 01:01:58,125
And she's cadet-happy.
938
01:01:58,296 --> 01:02:01,322
And the cadet is movie-star-happy.
And in about five minutes...
939
01:02:01,499 --> 01:02:03,126
...they'll be on Flirtation Walk.
940
01:02:03,768 --> 01:02:06,100
Doesn't that make you wish
you were young again?
941
01:02:11,543 --> 01:02:14,535
I suppose you know
this crooked little path is famous.
942
01:02:14,713 --> 01:02:17,807
This isn't the road
that's paved with bad intentions, is it?
943
01:02:20,585 --> 01:02:23,315
- Rocks in your shoes?
- Feels like a whole quarry.
944
01:02:23,488 --> 01:02:25,080
I'll get it.
945
01:02:28,560 --> 01:02:30,653
Wonderful little pebbles.
946
01:02:30,829 --> 01:02:33,730
Scattered in the most convenient places.
947
01:02:33,898 --> 01:02:35,559
Slows down the enemy...
948
01:02:35,734 --> 01:02:37,292
...and brings her into range.
949
01:02:37,469 --> 01:02:40,632
Something tells me
I'll be safer as a moving target.
950
01:02:40,805 --> 01:02:43,467
Warn you: Flirtation Walk gets darker.
951
01:02:43,642 --> 01:02:45,701
Also previously arranged?
952
01:02:45,877 --> 01:02:48,869
You know, the girls
sometimes call this Temptation Walk.
953
01:02:49,848 --> 01:02:53,409
Tom, you know,
you really have a beautiful voice.
954
01:02:53,585 --> 01:02:55,576
What are you gonna do with it?
955
01:02:55,754 --> 01:02:57,654
You know my uncle too?
956
01:02:57,822 --> 01:03:01,189
Well, yes, but you can't throw away
talent like yours.
957
01:03:01,359 --> 01:03:04,760
You could have a great career.
You could be a star.
958
01:03:05,196 --> 01:03:09,098
Well, right now I'm concentrating
on a star on my shoulder.
959
01:03:10,669 --> 01:03:13,502
Incidentally, Tom,
it was nice of you to ask me.
960
01:03:13,805 --> 01:03:15,705
It was wonderful of you to come.
961
01:03:15,874 --> 01:03:17,842
Oh, I mean about the show.
962
01:03:18,510 --> 01:03:21,104
- Do you really want me?
- Want you?
963
01:03:22,047 --> 01:03:24,811
Well, I mean, if you do,
I could arrange my schedule.
964
01:03:24,983 --> 01:03:26,848
That'll be wonderful.
965
01:03:27,018 --> 01:03:30,545
- And what a lovely princess you'll make.
- Thank you.
966
01:03:31,990 --> 01:03:33,480
Well, what do you know.
967
01:03:33,658 --> 01:03:37,025
By a fortunate coincidence,
we're under the Kissing Rock.
968
01:03:40,031 --> 01:03:42,056
Nice maneuvering, general.
969
01:03:42,567 --> 01:03:44,558
- Now what?
- Well...
970
01:03:44,736 --> 01:03:48,467
You've been kissed, I knowIn the very last row
971
01:03:48,640 --> 01:03:52,406
When the love scene is onAt the movie show
972
01:03:52,577 --> 01:03:56,377
But wait until tonightAnd you'll be kissed but right
973
01:03:56,548 --> 01:04:00,109
By the Kissing Rock
974
01:04:00,285 --> 01:04:04,153
It's a lovely spotAnd believe it or not
975
01:04:04,322 --> 01:04:07,951
If you just care a littleYou'll care a lot
976
01:04:08,126 --> 01:04:12,062
So let's dispense with talkAnd take Flirtation Walk
977
01:04:12,230 --> 01:04:15,028
To the Kissing Rock
978
01:04:15,867 --> 01:04:20,031
Now, a girl once refused to kiss a lad
979
01:04:20,205 --> 01:04:24,039
And the lad was a man of honor
980
01:04:24,209 --> 01:04:27,906
He warned her she'd makeThe rock real mad
981
01:04:28,079 --> 01:04:31,640
And the legend is the rock fell upon her
982
01:04:31,816 --> 01:04:35,752
That was years agoAnd it must have been so
983
01:04:35,920 --> 01:04:39,412
'Cause from that day to thisNot a girl said no
984
01:04:39,591 --> 01:04:43,391
- And that's the story of- Whoever falls in love
985
01:04:43,561 --> 01:04:46,394
By the Kissing Rock
986
01:04:48,633 --> 01:04:50,794
- What's this for?
- You're supposed to put it on.
987
01:04:52,837 --> 01:04:57,706
And now, so the rock won't fall down
and kill us both...
988
01:05:04,082 --> 01:05:05,913
It's just a legend.
989
01:05:06,417 --> 01:05:08,578
Oh, it's a lovely legend.
990
01:05:08,753 --> 01:05:11,244
And a wonderful timesaver.
991
01:05:13,191 --> 01:05:15,887
Would you stop making
a Supreme Court case out of nothing?
992
01:05:16,060 --> 01:05:17,687
- Out of nothing?
- Yes.
993
01:05:17,862 --> 01:05:21,855
How much did Eberhart promise you
to come up here?
994
01:05:22,433 --> 01:05:25,561
Now, look, sweetheart,
I've been doing this all for you.
995
01:05:25,737 --> 01:05:26,931
- For me?
- Yes.
996
01:05:27,105 --> 01:05:29,300
Why do you suppose
I'm in this usher's outfit?
997
01:05:29,474 --> 01:05:31,135
Because I like to play soldiers? No.
998
01:05:31,309 --> 01:05:33,709
All right, I'm gonna get the kid
busted out of here.
999
01:05:33,878 --> 01:05:36,540
Does he know what he's got?
No. But you know, and so do I.
1000
01:05:36,714 --> 01:05:38,306
There's gold in them thar tonsils.
1001
01:05:38,483 --> 01:05:41,145
After I've had him a while,
we'll own a hunk of the mint.
1002
01:05:41,319 --> 01:05:44,083
He doesn't want a hunk of the mint.
1003
01:05:44,289 --> 01:05:45,756
I do.
1004
01:05:45,924 --> 01:05:48,449
And to get it, you're willing
to upset this boy's life.
1005
01:05:48,626 --> 01:05:50,821
All his hopes, plans, happiness.
1006
01:05:50,995 --> 01:05:53,327
And you brought me along to help you.
1007
01:05:53,498 --> 01:05:56,194
- I've got your future to think of.
- Not mine, you haven't.
1008
01:05:56,367 --> 01:05:59,825
Of all the miserable, rotten,
contemptible tricks.
1009
01:06:00,004 --> 01:06:02,234
Even for you, this is a new low.
1010
01:06:02,407 --> 01:06:05,069
- Oh, now, sweetheart...
- Don't "sweetheart" me.
1011
01:06:05,243 --> 01:06:07,370
This time, I thought
you might be on the level.
1012
01:06:07,545 --> 01:06:08,773
Well, you're hopeless.
1013
01:06:08,947 --> 01:06:12,041
Making you one of the crowd
hasn't changed you a single bit.
1014
01:06:12,217 --> 01:06:15,880
I'd stick around if I thought I could
stop you from ruining that boy's life.
1015
01:06:16,054 --> 01:06:18,181
But I can't compete with movie stars.
1016
01:06:18,356 --> 01:06:20,221
- Let's go inside and talk it over.
- No.
1017
01:06:20,391 --> 01:06:23,724
I'm going inside, and tomorrow
I'm going back to New York.
1018
01:06:23,895 --> 01:06:25,920
Go back to your barracks
before you're late.
1019
01:06:26,097 --> 01:06:27,860
If you don't, they'll throw you out...
1020
01:06:28,032 --> 01:06:31,661
...and you won't get your boy,
nor your hunk of the mint.
1021
01:06:31,836 --> 01:06:33,667
Oh, Eve.
1022
01:06:41,846 --> 01:06:43,837
Mr. Bixby.
1023
01:06:50,588 --> 01:06:51,816
Yes?
1024
01:06:51,990 --> 01:06:54,117
What are you doing
out of your room after taps?
1025
01:06:54,292 --> 01:06:56,055
Have you a pass?
1026
01:06:57,095 --> 01:06:58,995
All right.
1027
01:07:03,635 --> 01:07:05,830
"All right"?
He shouldn't be saying "all right."
1028
01:07:06,004 --> 01:07:07,801
He hasn't got a pass.
1029
01:07:12,243 --> 01:07:14,040
At ease, Mr. Bixby.
1030
01:07:14,212 --> 01:07:16,544
Mr. Bixby, we've got trouble.
1031
01:07:16,714 --> 01:07:19,114
My girl is walking out on me
and you've got trouble.
1032
01:07:19,284 --> 01:07:20,774
You gave your word.
1033
01:07:20,952 --> 01:07:24,149
You said "all right" when you came in,
and you had no right to say it.
1034
01:07:24,322 --> 01:07:26,313
You weren't authorized
to be out after taps.
1035
01:07:26,491 --> 01:07:29,517
So I said "all right." What are you
gonna do, shoot me at sunrise?
1036
01:07:29,694 --> 01:07:31,685
I don't get up that early.
1037
01:07:32,363 --> 01:07:35,890
Mr. Bixby, not so long ago,
I heard you talking about your theater.
1038
01:07:36,668 --> 01:07:38,499
Its discipline and traditions.
1039
01:07:38,670 --> 01:07:41,730
Well, at West Point, we have ours too.
1040
01:07:41,906 --> 01:07:44,033
The heart of it is the honor system.
1041
01:07:44,208 --> 01:07:46,335
You give your word, we take it.
1042
01:07:47,045 --> 01:07:50,845
But by what you did tonight,
you dismissed it as unimportant.
1043
01:07:51,349 --> 01:07:53,442
Now, that may not mean anything to you.
1044
01:07:53,618 --> 01:07:56,883
Now, look, son.
There was no intention of hurting anybody.
1045
01:07:57,055 --> 01:07:59,148
But you did, you hurt us.
1046
01:07:59,724 --> 01:08:03,421
We vouched for you. We went out
on a limb for you and you sawed it off.
1047
01:08:03,594 --> 01:08:06,495
You mean to say that you two
personally vouched for me?
1048
01:08:06,664 --> 01:08:08,723
That's right, Tom and I.
1049
01:08:09,200 --> 01:08:10,792
By special permission, Mr. Bixby...
1050
01:08:10,969 --> 01:08:13,870
...you were allowed to become a member
of the corps of cadets.
1051
01:08:14,038 --> 01:08:17,030
That's a privilege
rarely granted to an outsider.
1052
01:08:17,375 --> 01:08:20,435
But you were absent without authority
and you lied about it.
1053
01:08:20,611 --> 01:08:24,274
That's unforgivable up here,
and we can't let you get away with it.
1054
01:08:24,983 --> 01:08:26,507
Nobody knows better than we do...
1055
01:08:26,684 --> 01:08:29,482
...how much you've done for our show,
and we appreciate it.
1056
01:08:29,954 --> 01:08:32,115
But since you can't live here
as we live here...
1057
01:08:32,290 --> 01:08:33,985
...then we can't have you.
1058
01:08:34,158 --> 01:08:36,626
West Point has no need for you.
1059
01:08:41,065 --> 01:08:43,056
I see what you mean.
1060
01:08:49,540 --> 01:08:50,939
Sir...
1061
01:08:51,743 --> 01:08:55,270
...Cadet Bixby reports himself
late from hop without authority.
1062
01:08:55,446 --> 01:08:57,914
Okay, Mr. Bixby.
1063
01:09:03,688 --> 01:09:08,284
There he is.
Elwin Bixby, walking punishment tours.
1064
01:09:12,497 --> 01:09:14,397
He's on the level.
1065
01:09:14,565 --> 01:09:17,295
We have a way of knowing up here.
1066
01:09:18,403 --> 01:09:20,200
Look, Eve...
1067
01:09:20,371 --> 01:09:23,238
...we need him
almost as much as he needs you.
1068
01:09:23,408 --> 01:09:26,707
If you walk out on him,
you walk out on us too.
1069
01:09:26,878 --> 01:09:28,243
How about it?
1070
01:09:29,147 --> 01:09:30,739
Hey, Bix.
1071
01:09:31,883 --> 01:09:34,283
I think she's gonna stay.
1072
01:09:40,558 --> 01:09:43,322
All right. Okay, fine, take five.
1073
01:09:43,494 --> 01:09:45,428
Hal, I wanna talk to you.
1074
01:09:52,804 --> 01:09:54,863
Up to here, show's good and solid.
1075
01:09:55,039 --> 01:09:56,336
A lot of good entertainment.
1076
01:09:56,507 --> 01:09:59,601
But I think, right about this time,
we need a change of pace.
1077
01:10:00,011 --> 01:10:03,913
Now, audiences don't only see and hear.
They feel.
1078
01:10:04,082 --> 01:10:06,550
Really feel, and that's where
we're letting them down.
1079
01:10:06,717 --> 01:10:10,244
Now, they should hear your songs.
They should feel what West Point means.
1080
01:10:10,421 --> 01:10:12,651
Its history, its tradition, its great men.
1081
01:10:12,824 --> 01:10:15,850
- You wanna do that in one number?
- They can't shoot us for trying.
1082
01:10:16,027 --> 01:10:18,359
We've got the material,
the songs and the poems.
1083
01:10:18,529 --> 01:10:19,894
I'll tell you what we'll do.
1084
01:10:20,064 --> 01:10:22,532
We'll open with the glee club
singing "The Corps."
1085
01:10:22,700 --> 01:10:25,999
The corps, the corps
1086
01:10:26,504 --> 01:10:28,995
The corps
1087
01:10:29,707 --> 01:10:33,768
To the long gray line of West Point,
to its gallant companies.
1088
01:10:33,945 --> 01:10:37,779
The corps bareheaded, salute it
1089
01:10:37,949 --> 01:10:41,817
With eyes up thanking our God
1090
01:10:41,986 --> 01:10:45,478
That we of the corps are treading
1091
01:10:45,656 --> 01:10:50,025
Where they of the corps have trod
1092
01:10:50,495 --> 01:10:54,329
In the beginning, as in all things,
it was only a dream.
1093
01:10:54,499 --> 01:10:57,935
But the dreamers had names,
like Washington...
1094
01:10:58,102 --> 01:11:00,866
...Hamilton, Jefferson.
1095
01:11:01,172 --> 01:11:05,575
They stood on a point of land
on the west bank of the Hudson...
1096
01:11:05,743 --> 01:11:09,702
...and planned that this fortress
that guarded our newborn nation...
1097
01:11:09,881 --> 01:11:13,078
...should become our military academy.
1098
01:11:13,751 --> 01:11:15,241
The corps was founded...
1099
01:11:15,419 --> 01:11:18,980
...and the father of our country
became the father of a legend.
1100
01:11:19,157 --> 01:11:21,022
A tradition.
1101
01:11:21,626 --> 01:11:26,757
What made this dream become
the magnificent reality that is West Point?
1102
01:11:26,931 --> 01:11:33,359
Duty, honor, country
1103
01:11:33,538 --> 01:11:37,372
For a cadet to become an officer,
he must have an understanding of duty.
1104
01:11:37,542 --> 01:11:38,770
Duty
1105
01:11:38,943 --> 01:11:41,844
He must have respect for honor.
1106
01:11:42,013 --> 01:11:43,241
Honor
1107
01:11:43,414 --> 01:11:45,905
But for all his duty and all his honor...
1108
01:11:46,083 --> 01:11:49,610
...a soldier fights not only because
he is told to fight...
1109
01:11:49,787 --> 01:11:52,881
...but because
there is something to fight for.
1110
01:11:53,057 --> 01:11:54,684
His country.
1111
01:11:54,859 --> 01:11:57,327
Country
1112
01:11:57,495 --> 01:12:00,555
Duty, honor, country.
1113
01:12:00,865 --> 01:12:05,165
This is why the dream materialized
into the stone and steel...
1114
01:12:05,336 --> 01:12:08,430
...and spirit that is West Point.
1115
01:12:08,606 --> 01:12:11,336
A dream that can be measured
by the names of its giants...
1116
01:12:11,509 --> 01:12:14,637
...striding through the pages
of American history.
1117
01:12:14,812 --> 01:12:20,148
Giants whose voices rang so loud
that the entire world trembled...
1118
01:12:20,418 --> 01:12:26,015
...yet who once were cadets,
marching nervously across the plain.
1119
01:12:26,290 --> 01:12:29,851
Cadets like Lee, Grant...
1120
01:12:30,027 --> 01:12:35,021
...Pershing, MacArthur,
Wainwright, Arnold...
1121
01:12:35,199 --> 01:12:39,533
...Patton, Bradley, Eisenhower.
1122
01:12:39,904 --> 01:12:42,839
And thousands of others who left
this point on the Hudson...
1123
01:12:43,007 --> 01:12:48,001
...to end their earthly lives
in the dirt and mud of foreign lands.
1124
01:12:49,113 --> 01:12:53,482
Men who didn't want wars
and didn't make wars.
1125
01:12:53,651 --> 01:12:55,710
But simply fought them...
1126
01:12:55,886 --> 01:13:00,482
...because they had the understanding
and the courage to want a free America.
1127
01:13:01,292 --> 01:13:04,921
Because, like Washington,
Hamilton, Jefferson...
1128
01:13:05,096 --> 01:13:09,294
...they believed in a dream
that is West Point.
1129
01:13:09,634 --> 01:13:16,130
A legend, a tradition,
one of the great guardians of human liberty.
1130
01:13:17,675 --> 01:13:23,841
Please, God, may we always keep faith
with them, as they have with us.
1131
01:13:24,015 --> 01:13:28,714
For duty, for honor, for country.
1132
01:13:29,787 --> 01:13:36,283
Let duty be well performed
1133
01:13:38,429 --> 01:13:46,268
Honor be ever untarn'
1134
01:13:47,238 --> 01:13:55,976
Country be ever armed
1135
01:13:56,147 --> 01:14:00,550
West Point
1136
01:14:00,718 --> 01:14:07,214
By thee
1137
01:14:13,764 --> 01:14:15,925
Fine, fine.
1138
01:14:16,100 --> 01:14:18,034
Couldn't ask that you do it any better.
1139
01:14:18,202 --> 01:14:20,136
It was fine, thanks.
1140
01:14:21,472 --> 01:14:24,134
Just a minute, Mr. Dumbjohn.
1141
01:14:24,542 --> 01:14:28,774
- Mr. Gilbert, do your duty.
- On-stage, Mr. Dooley, on-stage.
1142
01:14:29,513 --> 01:14:31,208
Come on, boys. What goes, what goes?
1143
01:14:31,382 --> 01:14:33,543
Take me into your confidence. What is it?
1144
01:14:33,718 --> 01:14:37,154
Mr. Bixby, every year up here
after graduation parade...
1145
01:14:37,321 --> 01:14:39,983
...the plebes are recognized
by all the upperclassmen.
1146
01:14:40,224 --> 01:14:43,751
But since you won't be here,
we'd like to recognize you now.
1147
01:14:44,261 --> 01:14:46,161
You've taken everything
we could give you.
1148
01:14:46,330 --> 01:14:47,661
And you were great.
1149
01:14:47,832 --> 01:14:50,198
So from now on,
you're no longer Mr. Dumbjohn.
1150
01:14:50,368 --> 01:14:53,496
You're just plain Bix.
1151
01:14:53,904 --> 01:14:55,132
We're proud to know you.
1152
01:14:55,306 --> 01:14:58,571
Proud to know you, Bix.
Shake hands, boys.
1153
01:14:59,510 --> 01:15:01,307
Good boy.
1154
01:15:01,812 --> 01:15:04,872
Wait a minute. Wait a minute, fellas.
1155
01:15:05,116 --> 01:15:07,141
I've got a speech too.
1156
01:15:08,719 --> 01:15:12,177
Bix, in deep appreciation
for everything you've done...
1157
01:15:12,890 --> 01:15:16,155
...the fellas in the cast
have whipped up this little token.
1158
01:15:16,327 --> 01:15:18,659
It's something
you'll hold dear to your heart...
1159
01:15:18,829 --> 01:15:21,855
...because of your deep affection
for all that it implies.
1160
01:15:28,773 --> 01:15:31,765
Oh, no, no, no.
1161
01:15:33,210 --> 01:15:35,235
Lookie here, now, lookie here.
1162
01:15:35,413 --> 01:15:39,213
Well, I'm very happy to see
you got one large enough.
1163
01:15:39,884 --> 01:15:42,079
From here in,
I won't be able to blow my top.
1164
01:15:42,253 --> 01:15:46,519
Come on, now, Bix, don't let the shine on
that brass hat put a halo around your head.
1165
01:15:46,690 --> 01:15:48,715
Yeah, mighty pretty, mighty pretty.
1166
01:15:48,893 --> 01:15:52,522
But I would just like to call
your attention to one thing.
1167
01:15:52,696 --> 01:15:54,493
Only six stars.
1168
01:15:55,299 --> 01:15:58,462
Well, fellas, as a general thing,
I'm not at a loss for words.
1169
01:15:58,636 --> 01:16:03,198
But at a time like this,
I can never think of anything to say.
1170
01:16:03,641 --> 01:16:07,407
I just want you to know
that you've hit me right in the center.
1171
01:16:07,578 --> 01:16:09,205
You really have.
1172
01:16:10,047 --> 01:16:14,177
Makes me think of a little guy
I used to know out in Brooklyn years ago.
1173
01:16:14,351 --> 01:16:16,512
Curious little fella and...
1174
01:16:17,621 --> 01:16:21,751
Oh, look, you'll have to excuse me.
1175
01:16:21,926 --> 01:16:23,359
My nose gets awfully red.
1176
01:16:33,337 --> 01:16:35,328
What are you crying about?
1177
01:16:39,176 --> 01:16:41,542
- What's the matter, Bix?
- I'm worried about Tom.
1178
01:16:41,712 --> 01:16:46,081
Jan calls him every day. He persuaded her
to be princess in the show.
1179
01:16:46,250 --> 01:16:48,775
You should have seen his face
when he told me about it.
1180
01:16:48,953 --> 01:16:51,717
- Kid's on his heels.
- Wasn't that your idea?
1181
01:16:51,889 --> 01:16:55,017
Yes, yes, but she's leaving
for California on the train tonight.
1182
01:16:55,192 --> 01:16:57,217
- Sure, unless...
- Unless what?
1183
01:16:57,394 --> 01:17:00,386
- Unless she's fallen in love.
- Not enough time.
1184
01:17:00,564 --> 01:17:02,759
It doesn't take very long.
1185
01:17:02,933 --> 01:17:07,029
Remind me sometime
to tell you about boys and girls.
1186
01:17:20,384 --> 01:17:24,377
But wait until tonightAnd you'll be kissed but right
1187
01:17:24,555 --> 01:17:28,047
By the Kissing Rock
1188
01:17:28,225 --> 01:17:30,785
- What's all this for?
- Flirtation Walk.
1189
01:17:30,961 --> 01:17:34,761
The rock, the Kissing Rock.
1190
01:17:36,967 --> 01:17:41,631
- See? That's the way it's done up here.
- Oh, is that so?
1191
01:17:41,805 --> 01:17:44,535
Now, how do you know
that that's the way it's done up here?
1192
01:17:45,242 --> 01:17:47,107
I've been up here four weeks.
1193
01:17:47,278 --> 01:17:48,506
Oh, I see.
1194
01:17:48,679 --> 01:17:52,080
Well, beginning tomorrow,
I'm putting you on a short leash.
1195
01:17:53,717 --> 01:17:55,651
Well, there it is.
1196
01:17:56,220 --> 01:17:57,778
West Point.
1197
01:17:58,055 --> 01:18:01,047
There's the chapel. There's Cullum Hall.
1198
01:18:01,225 --> 01:18:03,022
And that's the Hudson, of course.
1199
01:18:03,193 --> 01:18:04,751
Oh, it's just beautiful.
1200
01:18:05,563 --> 01:18:06,962
And this is Fort Putnam.
1201
01:18:07,131 --> 01:18:10,658
Built in 1778 to keep away the British.
1202
01:18:10,834 --> 01:18:13,803
But it serves
a more useful purpose today:
1203
01:18:14,104 --> 01:18:16,595
To keep away Mr. Bixby.
1204
01:18:20,911 --> 01:18:23,379
Tom, do you know
what they're saying in New York?
1205
01:18:23,547 --> 01:18:27,278
- What?
- "Jan Wilson has blown her top.
1206
01:18:27,451 --> 01:18:30,352
She goes up the Hudson
like the Albany night boat...
1207
01:18:30,521 --> 01:18:31,783
...to see a soldier."
1208
01:18:32,790 --> 01:18:35,156
- No.
- Yes.
1209
01:18:36,994 --> 01:18:40,088
Bix, I have the most wonderful news.
1210
01:18:40,264 --> 01:18:42,926
Tom asked me to marry him. Look.
1211
01:18:43,100 --> 01:18:45,933
Congratulations, Jan. I envy you.
1212
01:18:46,103 --> 01:18:47,866
That is not news, that's calamity.
1213
01:18:48,038 --> 01:18:50,973
- We love each other, Bix.
- Marriage was not part of the deal.
1214
01:18:51,141 --> 01:18:53,302
Tom is at West Point,
wives are not standard.
1215
01:18:53,477 --> 01:18:55,672
Remember, Cupid...
1216
01:18:55,946 --> 01:18:57,174
...you shot the arrow.
1217
01:18:57,348 --> 01:19:00,476
He doesn't know what he's doing.
But I'm blowing the whistle on you.
1218
01:19:00,651 --> 01:19:04,417
- You're going back to New York tonight.
- How come you're giving out orders?
1219
01:19:04,588 --> 01:19:07,819
Do you own
a piece of the Academy now?
1220
01:19:09,393 --> 01:19:10,587
- Hello?
- Hollywood...
1221
01:19:10,761 --> 01:19:12,820
Miss Wilson? Yeah, she's here, hold on.
1222
01:19:12,997 --> 01:19:14,624
California.
1223
01:19:19,003 --> 01:19:19,992
Hello?
1224
01:19:20,170 --> 01:19:21,569
- Jan.
- Speaking.
1225
01:19:21,739 --> 01:19:24,435
Jan, what's the matter with you?
Have you lost your head?
1226
01:19:24,608 --> 01:19:26,940
Who told you to cancel
your personal appearances?
1227
01:19:27,111 --> 01:19:29,705
But the New York office approved it,
Mr. Jocelyn.
1228
01:19:29,880 --> 01:19:34,374
Did the New York office okay your making
a fool of yourself with a West Point cadet?
1229
01:19:34,785 --> 01:19:37,049
Now, just a minute, Jan,
I'll do the talking.
1230
01:19:37,221 --> 01:19:40,156
I'll tell you about your personal life:
You haven't got one.
1231
01:19:40,324 --> 01:19:41,552
You've got a contract.
1232
01:19:41,725 --> 01:19:44,626
This studio spent a lot of money
to make Jan Wilson a star.
1233
01:19:44,795 --> 01:19:47,958
You think we did that
just so she could marry an Army officer?
1234
01:19:48,132 --> 01:19:50,657
He might get shipped to Okinawa
and take you with him.
1235
01:19:50,834 --> 01:19:52,893
And we don't make pictures on Okinawa.
1236
01:19:53,070 --> 01:19:56,597
I want you back here on the Coast.
You start a new picture in two weeks.
1237
01:19:56,774 --> 01:19:59,174
Now, a company car
will take you back to New York.
1238
01:19:59,343 --> 01:20:02,710
No, no, no excuses.
You leave West Point immediately.
1239
01:20:02,913 --> 01:20:04,437
Goodbye.
1240
01:20:05,949 --> 01:20:07,712
Bix...
1241
01:20:08,585 --> 01:20:10,849
...l'll never forgive you for that.
1242
01:20:25,736 --> 01:20:28,398
- Someday she'll thank me.
- What for?
1243
01:20:28,572 --> 01:20:30,665
For bringing her up here,
messing up her life?
1244
01:20:30,841 --> 01:20:33,105
- She's young, she'll get over it.
- She's a woman.
1245
01:20:33,277 --> 01:20:36,303
She met someone real and wonderful
for the first time in her life.
1246
01:20:36,480 --> 01:20:38,380
- Oh, shut up!
- Don't tell me to shut up!
1247
01:20:38,549 --> 01:20:40,312
Why not?
1248
01:22:25,622 --> 01:22:28,750
Fine, Hal, fine.
Come here, I wanna talk to you.
1249
01:22:29,593 --> 01:22:33,552
Look, son, can you arrange to send a car
in to New York to get a costume for Eve?
1250
01:22:33,730 --> 01:22:35,129
Sure, why?
1251
01:22:35,299 --> 01:22:38,325
I went up to the commandant's office
and got permission for her...
1252
01:22:38,502 --> 01:22:40,265
...to do the Brooklyn number with you.
1253
01:22:40,437 --> 01:22:42,701
Hey, that's wonderful!
How did you ever work that?
1254
01:22:42,873 --> 01:22:45,671
Oh, he just kept talking
and wore the poor man down.
1255
01:22:45,843 --> 01:22:47,674
Which, may I say, was not easy.
1256
01:22:47,845 --> 01:22:49,710
Bix.
1257
01:22:49,880 --> 01:22:51,211
Can I talk to you a minute?
1258
01:22:51,381 --> 01:22:53,440
- Tom's checked out.
- He's what?
1259
01:22:53,617 --> 01:22:55,517
I found him talking crazy.
Jan walked out.
1260
01:22:55,686 --> 01:22:58,280
He's desperate. He's going after her
with all his things.
1261
01:22:58,455 --> 01:22:59,683
I'm going after him.
1262
01:22:59,857 --> 01:23:01,757
- Can you get leave?
- No, I'll get slugged.
1263
01:23:01,925 --> 01:23:04,723
- It'll be worth it if I can get him.
- Wait, I'll go get him.
1264
01:23:04,895 --> 01:23:07,796
- You may need me.
- All right. Eve, take over.
1265
01:23:10,467 --> 01:23:13,834
It isn't as simple as making a choice
between marriage and a career.
1266
01:23:14,004 --> 01:23:16,234
We have obligations.
1267
01:23:16,406 --> 01:23:20,137
I understand your life, darling.
Please try to understand mine.
1268
01:23:20,310 --> 01:23:22,904
- But I do understand.
- Tom.
1269
01:23:23,080 --> 01:23:25,605
At 15, I was singing in a band.
1270
01:23:25,782 --> 01:23:30,276
Making one-night stands when other girls
were going to high school dances.
1271
01:23:30,454 --> 01:23:33,252
At 17, I had a Hollywood contract.
1272
01:23:33,824 --> 01:23:36,759
I'm a commodity now, I'm not a woman.
1273
01:23:39,663 --> 01:23:42,029
You know something, Tom?
1274
01:23:43,400 --> 01:23:46,563
All my life, I've never known
a boy like you.
1275
01:23:48,438 --> 01:23:50,963
I guess I never had time.
1276
01:23:54,711 --> 01:23:56,702
I've had plenty of time
to think things out.
1277
01:23:56,880 --> 01:23:59,678
Somehow, being a soldier
doesn't seem so important anymore.
1278
01:23:59,850 --> 01:24:02,045
Tom, you can't give up your career.
1279
01:24:02,219 --> 01:24:05,382
Plenty of people, even you,
said I could earn a living in a theater.
1280
01:24:05,555 --> 01:24:07,352
- Bixby wants me.
- Bix?
1281
01:24:07,524 --> 01:24:11,119
He can't do anything for you, darling.
He can't even get a job for himself.
1282
01:24:11,295 --> 01:24:14,594
My uncle wants me for a show.
I'll get a job.
1283
01:24:15,132 --> 01:24:19,125
Jan, will you marry me?
1284
01:24:20,737 --> 01:24:22,796
I can't, Tom.
1285
01:24:23,473 --> 01:24:25,464
I can't.
1286
01:24:39,623 --> 01:24:41,386
All there is?
1287
01:24:43,360 --> 01:24:46,329
Please go back before it's too late.
1288
01:24:54,538 --> 01:24:57,803
- Thought I told you to go to Hollywood.
- Are you out of your mind?
1289
01:24:57,975 --> 01:25:00,307
Why are you here?
You're AWOL, you'll get slugged.
1290
01:25:00,477 --> 01:25:03,105
- They'll bust you out on your ear.
- Not me. I resigned.
1291
01:25:03,280 --> 01:25:05,373
- Resigned?
- You can't resign.
1292
01:25:05,549 --> 01:25:08,109
I sent a letter to the superintendent,
through channels.
1293
01:25:08,285 --> 01:25:10,549
Subject: Resignation. Intention: Marriage.
1294
01:25:10,721 --> 01:25:12,245
We've gotta get that letter back.
1295
01:25:12,422 --> 01:25:14,413
- You can't, it's too late.
- Oh, no.
1296
01:25:14,591 --> 01:25:18,220
Through channels, it takes time
to get to the superintendent's desk.
1297
01:25:18,395 --> 01:25:19,726
You are coming with us.
1298
01:25:22,733 --> 01:25:26,669
There's a plane leaving for California at 9.
You be on it.
1299
01:25:29,740 --> 01:25:32,504
Fletcher, Courtland.
1300
01:25:36,980 --> 01:25:39,778
- Yes?
- I've got some bad news for you, Fletcher.
1301
01:25:39,950 --> 01:25:42,578
I've got an order
from the commandant's office.
1302
01:25:42,753 --> 01:25:44,983
You and Courtland are to return
to your quarters.
1303
01:25:45,155 --> 01:25:46,918
You're under arrest.
1304
01:25:47,090 --> 01:25:48,717
Okay.
1305
01:25:56,133 --> 01:26:00,763
Battalion.
1306
01:26:00,937 --> 01:26:04,100
Attention.
1307
01:26:05,242 --> 01:26:07,107
"Attention to orders.
1308
01:26:07,277 --> 01:26:08,938
By direction of the commandant...
1309
01:26:09,112 --> 01:26:11,740
...the 100th Night Show
is herewith cancelled."
1310
01:26:11,915 --> 01:26:13,177
I say again:
1311
01:26:13,350 --> 01:26:15,011
"By direction of the commandant...
1312
01:26:15,185 --> 01:26:17,983
...the 100th Night Show
is herewith cancelled."
1313
01:26:24,661 --> 01:26:26,094
Oh, how are Tom and Hal?
1314
01:26:26,263 --> 01:26:30,324
I just talked to them.
They're both pretty low, especially Tom.
1315
01:26:30,500 --> 01:26:34,027
Bix, we appreciate your effort to square
matters with the commandant.
1316
01:26:34,204 --> 01:26:38,106
Too bad it didn't work.
Oh, you know, it's great, really great.
1317
01:26:38,275 --> 01:26:41,176
For over a hundred years,
this show has always gone on.
1318
01:26:41,344 --> 01:26:45,371
Civil War, Spanish American War,
World War I, World War II.
1319
01:26:45,549 --> 01:26:46,777
Nothing could stop it.
1320
01:26:46,950 --> 01:26:49,282
Bixby comes to West Point:
1321
01:26:49,886 --> 01:26:51,114
Forget it.
1322
01:26:51,288 --> 01:26:54,223
How about next year? Will you come up
again and put on the show?
1323
01:26:54,391 --> 01:26:56,018
Too far off, son.
1324
01:26:56,426 --> 01:26:57,825
Where is Eve?
1325
01:26:57,994 --> 01:27:00,428
I spend half my life
waiting for that dame.
1326
01:27:00,597 --> 01:27:02,064
We're gonna miss that train.
1327
01:27:03,333 --> 01:27:05,028
Eve, come on!
1328
01:27:05,836 --> 01:27:08,828
Come on! You wanna miss the train?
1329
01:27:09,306 --> 01:27:10,671
Where you been?
1330
01:27:10,841 --> 01:27:12,536
I've been doing a little research.
1331
01:27:12,709 --> 01:27:15,303
- You what?
- Here, read this.
1332
01:27:15,479 --> 01:27:19,006
"U.S. To fete French premier.
General Marcell Donet arrives in New York."
1333
01:27:19,182 --> 01:27:21,650
So a Frenchman comes to town.
What can he do?
1334
01:27:21,818 --> 01:27:23,752
Plenty. Listen to this:
1335
01:27:23,920 --> 01:27:27,981
"The shah of Iran at West Point.
Secures amnesty for cadets."
1336
01:27:28,391 --> 01:27:30,757
You see, Bix,
amnesty is a famous custom up here.
1337
01:27:30,927 --> 01:27:33,487
Royalty, heads of state,
kings, queens, all diplomats...
1338
01:27:33,663 --> 01:27:35,756
...when visiting West Point
are given reviews.
1339
01:27:35,932 --> 01:27:39,390
They lay out the red carpet,
and in return, they can request amnesty.
1340
01:27:39,569 --> 01:27:43,096
A pardon, remember?
Just like the princess bit in the show.
1341
01:27:43,273 --> 01:27:45,798
Sure. Last fall, the shah of Iran.
1342
01:27:45,976 --> 01:27:48,672
A lot of us were slugged,
couldn't go the Army-Navy game...
1343
01:27:48,845 --> 01:27:50,437
...he came and got us off the hook.
1344
01:27:50,614 --> 01:27:53,412
Well, if Donet can do that for us,
I'll have him up here...
1345
01:27:53,583 --> 01:27:55,915
...if I have to carry him
all the way on my back.
1346
01:27:56,086 --> 01:27:58,987
Now, trick is, how to get in to see him?
Who do we know?
1347
01:27:59,156 --> 01:28:01,283
My girl's mother knows
the secretary of state.
1348
01:28:01,458 --> 01:28:04,393
- My uncle knows Gen. Eisenhower.
- My father knows Gen. Bradley.
1349
01:28:04,561 --> 01:28:06,586
- I know Touture.
- One of our best officers.
1350
01:28:06,763 --> 01:28:08,492
How many of you
have weekend leave?
1351
01:28:08,665 --> 01:28:10,599
- All of us.
- Well, then, pile in. Come on.
1352
01:28:10,767 --> 01:28:15,795
And you, sweetheart, hold the fort
and I'll bring you a Frenchman.
1353
01:28:22,312 --> 01:28:24,746
But, David, the whole idea
is absolutely impossible.
1354
01:28:24,915 --> 01:28:30,046
But, Dad, if you can't do this little favor,
what's the use of your being a senator?
1355
01:28:30,220 --> 01:28:32,552
Sometimes I wonder.
1356
01:28:32,923 --> 01:28:34,481
I wonder myself.
1357
01:28:36,393 --> 01:28:37,621
Yes.
1358
01:28:37,794 --> 01:28:40,388
Yes, sir. I know, sir...
1359
01:28:40,564 --> 01:28:44,796
But will you at least mention it
to the honorable secretary of state?
1360
01:28:45,602 --> 01:28:47,126
He's in Europe?
1361
01:28:47,304 --> 01:28:48,703
Well, whereabouts in Europe?
1362
01:28:53,410 --> 01:28:55,970
You can't just brush this off.
This is really important.
1363
01:28:56,146 --> 01:28:59,912
- And you tell me you can do nothing.
- I've tried my best, Mr. Bixby.
1364
01:29:00,083 --> 01:29:02,916
But the premier is locked up
in conference with the president.
1365
01:29:03,086 --> 01:29:06,112
He said he's very sorry,
but it is impossible for him to see you.
1366
01:29:07,324 --> 01:29:10,487
A fine way to treat a taxpayer. Come on.
1367
01:29:11,294 --> 01:29:12,761
Hello?
1368
01:29:14,564 --> 01:29:17,158
Charlie and I waited outside
the French Embassy all day.
1369
01:29:17,334 --> 01:29:20,167
We find out the premier went
from the White House to New York.
1370
01:29:20,337 --> 01:29:21,565
Then we go to New York.
1371
01:29:21,738 --> 01:29:23,330
- Take us to the airport.
- Yes, sir.
1372
01:29:55,538 --> 01:29:57,335
This is very tragic, monsieur.
1373
01:29:57,507 --> 01:29:59,873
But it is impossible
for His Excellency to see you.
1374
01:30:00,043 --> 01:30:02,034
He's very busy.
1375
01:30:07,951 --> 01:30:11,216
- I speak English, monsieur.
- Then you know what this mission is about?
1376
01:30:11,388 --> 01:30:14,289
Yes, and it leaves me
in the most embarrassing position.
1377
01:30:14,457 --> 01:30:17,051
Well, Your Excellency,
I don't wanna take up your time...
1378
01:30:17,227 --> 01:30:20,060
...to tell you about the Gls
and cadets up at West Point...
1379
01:30:20,230 --> 01:30:24,291
...who fought to help liberate France
and their friendship with the French people.
1380
01:30:24,467 --> 01:30:26,025
Yes, but how come, monsieur?
1381
01:30:26,202 --> 01:30:27,794
- I'm a guest of your country.
- Yeah.
1382
01:30:27,971 --> 01:30:30,405
Your State Department
has made plans for me.
1383
01:30:30,573 --> 01:30:34,065
I know, Excellency.
But these cadets need liberation now.
1384
01:30:34,244 --> 01:30:37,839
And you are the one man in the country
who can ask for amnesty and get it.
1385
01:30:38,014 --> 01:30:39,379
You just can't refuse.
1386
01:30:39,983 --> 01:30:44,249
If the French people hear about this...
These things do have a way of getting back.
1387
01:30:44,421 --> 01:30:48,881
Monsieur, I'm very sorry,
but it is absolutely impossible.
1388
01:30:49,059 --> 01:30:50,686
Impossible?
1389
01:30:50,860 --> 01:30:52,919
Well, didn't wanna do this...
1390
01:30:53,096 --> 01:30:56,554
...and I'm very sorry
to have to flash that on you.
1391
01:31:16,886 --> 01:31:19,582
This is our highest decoration.
1392
01:31:34,604 --> 01:31:37,038
Some way or another, monsieur,
it will be arranged.
1393
01:31:37,207 --> 01:31:39,334
I shall be very glad to be of service.
1394
01:31:45,949 --> 01:31:47,382
I didn't know you spoke French.
1395
01:31:47,550 --> 01:31:50,485
Picked it up from a chick
at the Folies Berg�re.
1396
01:32:35,198 --> 01:32:37,530
Your request for amnesty
shall be granted.
1397
01:32:48,244 --> 01:32:51,304
You saved them. Bix, you saved them.
1398
01:32:52,782 --> 01:32:56,775
You know, I like kissing you much better
than I do the premier.
1399
01:33:07,130 --> 01:33:09,064
Do I have to curtsy?
1400
01:33:09,232 --> 01:33:12,099
My girl's out there.
My father and mother are out there too.
1401
01:33:12,268 --> 01:33:13,792
I'll never live this down.
1402
01:33:13,970 --> 01:33:16,495
- Couldn't I just bow?
- And destroy the whole illusion?
1403
01:33:16,673 --> 01:33:20,905
Come on, chin up, princess,
and suck up that royal gut.
1404
01:33:43,099 --> 01:33:46,159
Sir, the princess has arrived.
1405
01:33:57,247 --> 01:34:01,377
You love me
1406
01:34:01,551 --> 01:34:05,612
You love me
1407
01:34:05,788 --> 01:34:10,521
The miracle of miracles
1408
01:34:10,693 --> 01:34:13,992
You love me
1409
01:34:14,163 --> 01:34:15,494
In every dream
1410
01:34:15,665 --> 01:34:21,126
You seem so unattainable
1411
01:34:21,304 --> 01:34:25,206
- It's not...- It's not explainable
1412
01:34:25,375 --> 01:34:28,105
And yet you're mine
1413
01:34:28,278 --> 01:34:30,542
You're mine
1414
01:34:30,713 --> 01:34:32,112
Believe me
1415
01:34:32,282 --> 01:34:34,011
- Jan's back.
- Yeah.
1416
01:34:34,183 --> 01:34:36,481
Relax, princess, you got a reprieve.
1417
01:34:38,655 --> 01:34:42,022
I'm sure this heart of mine
1418
01:34:42,191 --> 01:34:46,059
Would not deceive me
1419
01:34:46,930 --> 01:34:52,527
And even if you never say it
1420
01:34:52,702 --> 01:34:55,967
This I know is true
1421
01:34:56,506 --> 01:34:59,304
- You love me- You love me
1422
01:34:59,475 --> 01:35:05,971
- Just as I love you- Just as I love you
1423
01:35:10,253 --> 01:35:11,845
Just think.
1424
01:35:12,021 --> 01:35:15,923
If we were only opening with this show
on Broadway tonight.
1425
01:35:16,092 --> 01:35:19,960
It isn't going to open on Broadway,
and never will.
1426
01:35:20,129 --> 01:35:23,724
When that curtain goes down tonight,
they'll stick it in the archives.
1427
01:35:23,900 --> 01:35:27,392
And for all the future I have,
they might just as well stick me with it.
1428
01:35:27,904 --> 01:35:30,031
How do you like it, Bix, huh?
1429
01:35:30,273 --> 01:35:33,003
You look fine, son. Fine.
Don't go far away.
1430
01:35:33,176 --> 01:35:36,077
- You'll be on in a few minutes.
- Okay, Bix.
1431
01:35:40,750 --> 01:35:43,947
Eve, I've been mulling this thing over.
1432
01:35:44,120 --> 01:35:47,248
If that job in Las Vegas is still open...
1433
01:35:47,423 --> 01:35:49,414
...I suggest you grab it.
1434
01:35:49,592 --> 01:35:51,423
Las Vegas?
1435
01:35:51,594 --> 01:35:53,118
Bix, I'm your memory.
1436
01:35:53,296 --> 01:35:54,854
I'm your feet.
1437
01:35:55,031 --> 01:35:56,896
You can't work without me.
1438
01:35:57,066 --> 01:35:58,556
Work?
1439
01:35:59,268 --> 01:36:01,463
In a few minutes,
I'm gonna be out of a job.
1440
01:36:01,638 --> 01:36:04,607
And jobs are gonna be awfully scarce
on Broadway.
1441
01:36:04,774 --> 01:36:08,266
- Especially for me.
- You can say that again.
1442
01:36:08,678 --> 01:36:10,578
You double-crossed me again.
1443
01:36:10,747 --> 01:36:14,683
Tom was almost busted out of this place
and you got him back in. Now, why?
1444
01:36:14,851 --> 01:36:17,285
Because the kid wants to graduate
from West Point.
1445
01:36:17,453 --> 01:36:20,581
Being in the Army means more to him
than anything else in the world.
1446
01:36:20,757 --> 01:36:22,349
Didn't wanna see his career ruined.
1447
01:36:22,525 --> 01:36:24,925
- Couldn't have it on my conscience.
- Your conscience?
1448
01:36:25,094 --> 01:36:26,755
Oh, that's a laugh.
1449
01:36:26,929 --> 01:36:28,726
Now, let me tell you something.
1450
01:36:28,898 --> 01:36:32,095
I asked them to give me this play
to do on Broadway. I'm gonna get it.
1451
01:36:32,268 --> 01:36:34,930
But you're not going to do it.
And do you know why?
1452
01:36:35,104 --> 01:36:38,505
Because you've double-crossed me
for the last time.
1453
01:36:38,675 --> 01:36:41,269
You're through, you're dead,
you're washed up.
1454
01:36:41,511 --> 01:36:44,309
You'll never work in show business again
as long as you live.
1455
01:36:44,480 --> 01:36:46,072
I'll see to that.
1456
01:36:46,249 --> 01:36:48,877
- I'm through, I'm all washed up.
- For good!
1457
01:36:49,052 --> 01:36:51,452
Well, in that case,
I've got nothing to lose.
1458
01:37:01,197 --> 01:37:03,097
- Hal.
- Hal.
1459
01:37:03,266 --> 01:37:04,790
Hal.
1460
01:37:04,967 --> 01:37:06,525
Hal.
1461
01:37:07,070 --> 01:37:10,233
Are you hurt, huh? Get out.
1462
01:37:10,940 --> 01:37:14,239
- How are you?
- I guess I forgot to duck.
1463
01:37:14,410 --> 01:37:16,503
How do you feel?
Do you think you could go on?
1464
01:37:16,679 --> 01:37:18,169
- All right, I think.
- You think?
1465
01:37:18,347 --> 01:37:20,747
Well, get on your feet
and see how you are.
1466
01:37:21,884 --> 01:37:23,112
- What is it?
- My knee.
1467
01:37:23,286 --> 01:37:24,514
Your knee?
1468
01:37:24,687 --> 01:37:27,884
Well, punch-happy, what do we do now?
1469
01:37:28,057 --> 01:37:29,888
Go get ready.
1470
01:37:41,637 --> 01:37:44,401
Attention.
You there, where are you from?
1471
01:37:44,574 --> 01:37:45,802
San Francisco, sir.
1472
01:37:45,975 --> 01:37:48,341
- You?
- Well, I'm from Texas.
1473
01:37:48,511 --> 01:37:50,536
- How about you?
- Los Angeles.
1474
01:37:50,713 --> 01:37:52,305
- You?
- I'm from Boston.
1475
01:37:52,482 --> 01:37:55,679
I suppose you're not interested in hearing
where I come from.
1476
01:37:55,852 --> 01:37:57,080
- What?
- I said:
1477
01:37:57,253 --> 01:38:00,154
"I suppose you're not interested
in hearing where I come from."
1478
01:38:00,323 --> 01:38:03,087
- All right, where are you from?
- Me?
1479
01:38:03,259 --> 01:38:04,487
I'm from:
1480
01:38:04,660 --> 01:38:09,962
B- postrophe, K-no-postrophe, L-Y-N
1481
01:38:10,133 --> 01:38:15,196
They know my shieldFrom Ebbets Field to Cheyenne
1482
01:38:15,371 --> 01:38:18,033
You can keep those other places
1483
01:38:18,207 --> 01:38:20,869
Just give me that oasis
1484
01:38:21,043 --> 01:38:23,671
Where it's "erl," not "oil"And a girl's a goil
1485
01:38:23,846 --> 01:38:26,940
And goils are goils at 28 paces
1486
01:38:27,116 --> 01:38:30,847
B- postrophe, K-no-postrophe, L-Y-N
1487
01:38:31,020 --> 01:38:32,612
That's the place I make me home in.
1488
01:38:32,789 --> 01:38:36,452
They know my shieldFrom Ebbets Field to Cheyenne
1489
01:38:36,626 --> 01:38:37,957
That's a spot out in Wyoming.
1490
01:38:38,127 --> 01:38:41,062
The Manhattanites don't want us
1491
01:38:41,230 --> 01:38:43,664
Heap abuse upon us
1492
01:38:43,833 --> 01:38:46,267
They will gladly yell we are not Chanel
1493
01:38:46,435 --> 01:38:49,563
But Chanel don't smellQuite like the Gowanus
1494
01:38:49,739 --> 01:38:53,573
B- postrophe, K-no-postrophe, L-Y-N
1495
01:38:53,743 --> 01:38:55,233
Your mother wears suspenders.
1496
01:38:55,411 --> 01:39:00,815
Agree or notWe're just as hot as cayenne
1497
01:39:00,983 --> 01:39:03,474
And when they ask"Are you going my way?"
1498
01:39:03,653 --> 01:39:06,645
They're asking youTo take a walk up King's Highway
1499
01:39:06,823 --> 01:39:12,557
B- postrophe, K-no-postrophe, L-Y-N
1500
01:39:25,141 --> 01:39:28,008
It could only happen in Brooklyn
1501
01:39:29,045 --> 01:39:32,014
On a street called Avenue D
1502
01:39:33,082 --> 01:39:36,279
If you've never been thereYou'll tell me it can't
1503
01:39:36,452 --> 01:39:39,853
You'll tell me it's fantasy
1504
01:39:40,823 --> 01:39:43,587
But this happened to me
1505
01:39:44,927 --> 01:39:46,918
I was walking down to the subway
1506
01:39:48,698 --> 01:39:52,065
Yeah, I travel by BMT
1507
01:39:52,835 --> 01:39:55,998
When I bumpedRight into a fabulous wench
1508
01:39:56,172 --> 01:39:59,573
From some other century
1509
01:40:00,843 --> 01:40:03,573
Yes, this happened to me
1510
01:40:04,780 --> 01:40:09,740
What a lucky breakThat she was going my way
1511
01:40:09,919 --> 01:40:13,320
'Cause we strolled downKing's Highway
1512
01:40:13,789 --> 01:40:15,723
She murmured:
1513
01:40:17,927 --> 01:40:19,792
And I asked her:
1514
01:40:19,962 --> 01:40:23,762
"Are you sure?"It could only happen in Brooklyn
1515
01:40:24,901 --> 01:40:27,699
When a he meets up with a she
1516
01:40:28,838 --> 01:40:32,035
They get hitchedAnd after the honeymoon, bam
1517
01:40:32,208 --> 01:40:35,541
They're raising a family
1518
01:40:36,746 --> 01:40:39,715
This should happen to me
1519
01:42:10,172 --> 01:42:15,576
B- postrophe, K-no-postrophe, L-Y-N
1520
01:42:15,745 --> 01:42:21,081
They know my shieldFrom Ebbets Field to Cheyenne
1521
01:42:21,250 --> 01:42:24,242
You can keep those other places
1522
01:42:24,420 --> 01:42:26,479
Give me that oasis
1523
01:42:26,889 --> 01:42:29,517
Where it's "erl," not "oil"And a girl's a goil
1524
01:42:29,692 --> 01:42:32,718
And goils are goils at 28 paces
1525
01:42:32,895 --> 01:42:38,458
B- postrophe, K-no-postrophe, L-Y-N
1526
01:42:38,634 --> 01:42:43,594
Agree or notIt's just as hot as cayenne
1527
01:42:43,773 --> 01:42:46,003
It matters notWhat stuff you've been reading
1528
01:42:46,976 --> 01:42:49,809
Brooklyn is the U.S.A. 'sGarden of Eden
1529
01:42:49,979 --> 01:42:52,379
B- postrophe, K-no-postrophe...
1530
01:42:52,548 --> 01:42:53,913
- Manhattan!
- What?
1531
01:42:54,083 --> 01:42:55,311
- Listen!
- Who said that?
1532
01:42:55,484 --> 01:42:56,712
- We!
- No.
1533
01:42:56,886 --> 01:42:58,114
Canarsie!
1534
01:42:58,387 --> 01:43:03,222
B- postrophe, K-no-postrophe, L-Y-N
1535
01:43:03,392 --> 01:43:08,091
My home
1536
01:43:08,264 --> 01:43:10,459
Brooklyn!
1537
01:43:25,815 --> 01:43:28,784
Wonderful, Eve.
Oh, Bix, you were great, terrific.
1538
01:43:28,951 --> 01:43:30,384
- Thanks. How do you feel?
- Fine.
1539
01:43:30,553 --> 01:43:31,781
- Leg all right?
- Sure.
1540
01:43:31,954 --> 01:43:34,115
- You able to do the finale?
- Right. Thanks.
1541
01:43:34,290 --> 01:43:36,224
Don't thank him. The ham loved it.
1542
01:43:36,392 --> 01:43:37,882
Bix.
1543
01:43:38,427 --> 01:43:40,361
- All is well?
- Oh, better than that.
1544
01:43:40,529 --> 01:43:44,431
- That's fine, princess, fine.
- Just call me Mrs. Second Lieutenant.
1545
01:43:44,600 --> 01:43:47,296
- I think we'll be stationed in Brooklyn.
- Still better.
1546
01:43:47,470 --> 01:43:50,405
Miss Eve Dillon and Mr. Elwin Bixby.
1547
01:43:56,645 --> 01:44:00,172
Eve, Bix, we really wanna thank you.
1548
01:44:00,349 --> 01:44:01,816
West Point wants to thank you.
1549
01:44:02,384 --> 01:44:05,581
You once said you'd like
to produce this show on Broadway.
1550
01:44:05,754 --> 01:44:08,314
Well, on behalf of the
United States Military Academy...
1551
01:44:08,491 --> 01:44:10,516
...we'd like to present you
with the book...
1552
01:44:11,293 --> 01:44:12,692
Rudy?
1553
01:44:13,429 --> 01:44:15,659
- And the songs
from this 100th Night Show.
1554
01:44:16,532 --> 01:44:18,363
It's yours.
1555
01:44:18,601 --> 01:44:23,766
- Take it with you and make it a hit.
- Well, I just wanna say that...
1556
01:44:23,939 --> 01:44:26,339
...nothing like this
has ever happened to me before.
1557
01:44:26,509 --> 01:44:30,138
But then, ever since I've been up here...
1558
01:44:30,312 --> 01:44:32,507
...every day's been Christmas for me.
1559
01:44:33,249 --> 01:44:36,707
Makes me think of a little fella
I used to know in show business years ago.
1560
01:44:36,886 --> 01:44:38,854
A curious little guy, and...
1561
01:44:40,723 --> 01:44:45,820
What I'm trying to say is
I'm deeply, deeply grateful.
1562
01:44:55,938 --> 01:44:58,668
This is the finale
1563
01:44:58,841 --> 01:45:01,867
We have finally come to that time
1564
01:45:02,044 --> 01:45:05,536
Better known as coat-and-hat time
1565
01:45:05,714 --> 01:45:09,582
Here's the placeWe get to face your cheers or hisses
1566
01:45:10,452 --> 01:45:13,683
This is the finale
1567
01:45:14,890 --> 01:45:17,916
It's where the whole cast freezes
1568
01:45:18,093 --> 01:45:21,221
Which means reprises are coming up
1569
01:45:21,397 --> 01:45:25,026
A reprise is a thing that we sneak in with
1570
01:45:25,201 --> 01:45:28,967
We repeat the songsYou hated to begin with
1571
01:45:29,138 --> 01:45:32,437
By the Kissing RockBy the Kissing Rock
1572
01:45:32,608 --> 01:45:35,543
Either night or dayAll around the clock
1573
01:45:35,711 --> 01:45:37,110
You can depend on this
1574
01:45:37,279 --> 01:45:38,871
It's always time to kiss
1575
01:45:39,048 --> 01:45:41,482
- By the Kissing Rock- By the Kissing Rock
1576
01:45:42,351 --> 01:45:45,718
See the dancers marching forwardStraight across the ballroom floor
1577
01:45:45,888 --> 01:45:49,346
If he steals a kissAll is fair in love and war
1578
01:45:49,525 --> 01:45:52,983
From now on there's no retreating'Cause you'll fall in love to stay
1579
01:45:53,162 --> 01:45:55,926
When they play the "Military Polka"
1580
01:45:56,198 --> 01:46:00,726
He's from B-postropheK- no-postrophe, L-Y-N
1581
01:46:01,103 --> 01:46:02,798
That's the place I make me home in.
1582
01:46:02,972 --> 01:46:05,634
B- postrophe, K-no-postrophe
1583
01:46:05,808 --> 01:46:08,538
L- Y-N
1584
01:46:08,711 --> 01:46:11,544
And now that it's over...
1585
01:46:11,714 --> 01:46:14,547
...l'll sure miss the going to classes.
1586
01:46:14,717 --> 01:46:17,481
Miss you cadets, yes, the brasses.
1587
01:46:17,653 --> 01:46:21,749
So take my thanks to all the ranks,
with love and kisses.
1588
01:46:22,625 --> 01:46:27,961
This is the finale
1589
01:46:28,130 --> 01:46:34,626
The end
1590
01:46:51,120 --> 01:46:53,111
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