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help in there

glide you okay

you went a bit off track

we'll go again going again studio save

the

what the hell's the red with him is

perfectly simple straightforward

take five

oh it's lovely

right

mr boyd a bit off calories he

hope it's not flu

i saw him when he came in and i said

shirley don't look right

there you go

this is the studio where it's all

happening

oh there's sydney stewart the director

i'll try and get you a quick word

uh see

this is joan escape she's writing that

article i told you about oh yes

uh magazine pleased to meet you it's

about the film minister british state

off

i know one more what are you titling it

down the plugger oh well this looks

lively enough in here oh we're all right

jack i mean joe sorry the prosperous bit

mind you this is the first dummy film

for two years returned by popularly

demand mainly japanese oh they like him

he's very big with the japs wouldn't he

be

they're really high on him

in simple english they love him

that over there

a thing of beauty it's the violence

and that's my cue to stir up some more

see you

yeah excuse me

see um see i think what she'd really

like is a chat with clyde just a short

no

a short interview i promise it's not on

coming later he's got a heavy day

i'll say later say what'd you like

how's it coming back

let's press on right here

no chemical blood it oozes better

i've just been fixing up your interview

with clyde boyd oh thanks bit later on

meanwhile

a ringside seat

how many have they been

dummy films

six

dummy

horror of the dummy death of the dummy

return of the dummy no no

and uh dummy and the devil

dread of the dummy this one's a revenge

touch obvious in my view

okay everybody positions please

how does he see

through the mouth

hey that reminds me i put out an

infallible title suggestion

jaws of the dummy do you get it

no they wouldn't listen to a mere

publicity boy

quiet studio

let's have a read up

turn over

running

it one three one take five

action

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what was it what stopped him

quick we'll go again back to starting

positions going again studio

smoke gone out all right save it

save the red

cried for god's sake what's the matter

with you what are you doing to me well

what are you doing to me hey

peter bloody wager what

peter wager over there

you don't like him

forget him it's a small part are you

engaged him what's it matter what don't

you know

look let's get this scene shot okay

please

right hurry up boys is this take six

who is that actor so do

oh peter wager plays the captain in the

guard do you want to meet him no no no

no i saw him in a play once i didn't

like him no he's not very big

you'd do better with our knight oh sir

ramsey sir ramsay giving us his guest

appearance as the monsaner

well he's around somewhere i i just want

him

yeah well what is he exactly

the dummy what is it meant to be

a monster

well the monster mixture of animal

vegetable mineral immortal bulletproof

indestructible i mean customers don't

really care

it looks as if it's sleek and cozy yeah

that's not easy to get right hey vic

vic

this is vic special effects johnny skate

writer vic made those hands they're

terrifying steel joints fully

articulated

spring-loaded better than human

real crashes he's got to be careful

okay studio settle down

right here we go again

all right turn over running

mark it

one three one take six

action

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cut where the hell is it going

no wonder who did it who threw that

laugh peter waiter

you what do you mean by it i'm sorry of

all the unprofessional i couldn't help

it sending up a fellow artist right

sorry i've never seen anything so

disgraceful i know i know you'll

apologize to him apologize so he should

colin get bunny down you right away kill

him as a crisis explain no just that

quick right

i couldn't help it

he looked so funny

was that really why

clyde

now the hands oh hold on

look he's going to apologize to you he's

going to crawl to you for that if i have

to drag him in here and jump on it no i

made it very clear

i don't want to see him in writing

take this off

glad you've been in the business long

enough you you meet them idiots they

don't know any better why did you engage

him

well he uh

he wasn't the first choice i should hope

not

he was very much a substitute in fact

we had that uh young fella what's his

name line up for the part but

well he fell out at the last minute so

it had to be wages but why

why him what did you do it for

well whatever you may think he's not a

bad actor i mean you did a season of the

old bit you small parts aren't you i

don't mean that

you just don't like him

you could say that

something personal

didn't you know

know what

you mean you really didn't

touch it

no client

no bastards run off with my wife

where are they

in the dressing room

oh there's bunny nettleton producing the

film or derek nettle done actually but

everybody calls him bunny of course

bonnie

did you know what clyde's wife he's left

him gone off with the wager

you did know i heard a few days ago that

song i thought you were thick with him

well i used to be close friends you lose

touch you know how it is wager was

booked when i found out it was too late

he might have told me

he uh blew up

maybe blew this film

now what is going on oh sarenzi uh may i

introduce miss joni skate so ramsay

mcfadden was if i really needed to

now what are they playing at oh you're

just sorting out probably lost an

eyeball in the back of their guts well

no don't accept a part here my dear

unless you've got a strong stomach

man be careful where you sit down and on

what the local butcher must have made a

fortune they're in the prop room there

they're chopping up hearts and livers

and kidneys i don't think bloody kids

well i'm off to bahamas in the morning

they can't do a thing if they don't

shoot my scene today they can take my

name off their nasty posters

she's been living with him for three

months

clyde i'm sorry i had no idea hadn't you

no

i felt that everybody knew well i should

i should of course i should i blame

myself any producer worth his thought

would be aware where are these any

friend

yeah well that's just it you see of all

our friends you and sheila seemed the

least likely you were so close

i remember remarking to jillian the last

time you came around now when was it 18

months ago oh never it is long ago is

that uh let me see uh the last dummy

film the dread off

over two years now so it is i got

clobbered for tax

income tax

you didn't know that either i think you

did once so it's been bad bunny

really bad

clyde we've got a lot to talk about

and i want to hear it all there's

nothing i want more than to sit down

with you i mean in greater comfort than

this and catch up on everything that's

what i want

but at the moment let's face it we've

got a problem and it's rather urgent i

hit bottom

i i was right down i'd never been there

before

but overclocked

nobody wanted to know

and i i i wrote to them all but they

didn't reply

it's been a bad plan but it wasn't just

don't ring us will renew

they didn't know me

i was just the man that played the dummy

inside this

the man in the rubber suit i mean i i

wrote a bunny here bunny bunny you you

remember yeah i mean what prospects for

another dummy picture well that time

there weren't any

i was

sick

oh my god

listen clyde i needed her

i never thought i'd need any living

person to hold on to like that but i did

then

do you know what the [ __ ] did

well you do now

she walked out

cleared off in the night just like that

i can't stand you any longer she said

she found herself a real man

that bastard out there

wasn't just an affair i mean nothing

secret she just

hit me straight between the eyes with it

went off and shacked up with him

and

and she

took my kid

little um

karen

she's she's nearly 12 now

karen's very loving you see she wanted

to be with her mother but she loves both

of us you see she's with them i mean i i

get let us from a dearest daddy take it

easy

easy

what are we gonna do one thing is clear

we've gotta help clyde through this uh

let's talk about how yes yes

clyde

you take a short rest

and listen do me a personal favor

don't hit that stuff

okay

god almighty if i've had any notion he

shouldn't be here i don't know where he

should be but somewhere else not here

if we can just get him together just

long enough a real humpty dumpty joker

said it's the whole film i mean what can

we do we write she randomly shed you

there's no time he's got his big scene

with a monster in here today that's

gonna be shocked we loser ramsay can't

hold him can we no

sit down can we put somebody else in the

dummy suit

dump clyde well we've got every right

you shouldn't have signed his contract

in that state of health we can't why not

funny we can't it's his part he created

it it's his starring role nobody would

ever guess he's just said so himself

nobody knows him you never see who's

inside it wouldn't work why not it was a

shoot mainly stunned it was built for

clyde so it was molded specially to fit

him him

every measurement

balance weight

hand control designed to fit him and

nobody else a man the same size it's not

just that in the dummies of character

see a complete character must be

realistic it is

i don't know if you've noticed it but

there's a lot of clyde in it

he acts it

i direct it at least i think i do

perhaps nobody's noticed that oh

so you're refusing to try it

if you want to dump somebody

you dump peter wager

i'll keep him off the bottle

i'm a great believer in women's lib

liberating them from work

from their ghastly husbands and kids

particularly husbands do all i can in

that direction

you better not put that bit in in the

circumstances why are you shy

what are these dead exactly

put it all in it's good for the old

randy in it

did you break them up

is that how you see it

yeah

got in there showed her what she was

missing she was alive she's all woman as

they said this she was stuck with that

are you seeing it well you haven't seen

it

but inside all that rubbish there is

even more rubbish which is old clyde

hey the gibberellness has she put up

with him all this time i simply can't

helia

have you met um

our producer

this is miss sir

well she's a writer she's writing about

me so i love her journey skate a

feminine magazine

can i um have a word

yeah

i'm just giving her

my side of the story so now what

story me and the monster

be careful

well

the pronouns are all flynn

our poor woman

oh

uh what's happening

i don't know

you're getting more lines to say

or no lines at all oh

do you know when they're gonna shoot

myself i'm sorry it's not i do hope i

made it perfectly clear so ramsay about

this bahamas tomorrow you know

for the sake of the film

i'm appealing to you

you'll get paid the full amount for

doing nothing you won't lose a thing oh

yes i would the one the part

we'll put out a story to the press we'll

make it look good for you i promise i'll

call the publicity man over now we'll

work something out no

i want to take the part

it's not very big

i like it it's me it's showy it's good

for my career

you'll get a bonus a substantial bonus

philosophy

i want the part

i'm here ready and willing to perform it

you will have to break my contract throw

me out

fire me on a morality issue and these

days mr littleton

just try

i'll sue you for damage to my

professional career

oh such damages

professional that's not a word you

should use from what i've heard of your

behavior here this morning why don't you

get rid of him

clyde he's washed up chuck him out

anybody could do that job

act inside a rubber suit anybody

if you think that i would contemplate

clyde boyd is my friend

what did you mean

hmm you said be careful just now careful

about god

oh

of what you might write anything that

might be a defamatory for instance oh

especially ah look um you obviously

gathered there's a clash of

personalities that's tricky to handle of

course very tricky indeed

uh what uh what do you think i mean

masks

mr nettleton i bought a nice cuppa i

made a fresh brew i thought we're all

gonna need it thanks pat uh

two please um sugar nothing uh one

without and lots for me of course i know

what do you mean masks

that's what all this is about isn't it

the dummy a man that clyde boyd i i

wanted to speak to him because i wanted

to discuss not just at the moment

oh thanks pat

he must be into masks in a big way i

mean that's what he's always done

performed inside a giant mouth uh well

he's specialized well you know what i

mean we must do the psychological thing

go on

in primitive tribes they wear these huge

ceremonial masks oh big wooden head and

crown skirting but completely covered in

total disguise

trap gets in the side one of those and

he's away the tribe thinks it's alive

i must hurry no it's not like that at

all it's not a disguise

they know the man's inside but it

doesn't matter

they believe the mask itself is alive

always all the time the man is just

helping

it's very deep stuff

so i thought if by any chance you meant

something like that then

no no of course it didn't

uh

i think you want it i'm coming excuse me

now that magazine she's bright you know

brighter than you'd think oh good

mr nettleton's one of the kindest people

i know he always says a word for me now

what do they make this out of you think

that's droppings and mummy dust

they should serve it in green goblets

you know so ramsay

do you know clyde boyd

who

your co-star

ah oh oh yes oh yes yes

they tell me he's very promising

there is

daddy

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listen to this dearest daddy don't hurt

him listen listen i i i want bunny to

hear it i i miss

i miss you very much

we went for a picnic yesterday but i

didn't like it

mummy got crossed and shouted

we only went where peter wanted to go

he talks all the time

but he has stupid ideas i hate peter

kids work themselves but that's not kids

that's my little girl i mean she hates

him he he runs their

lives god's sake

i need one too uh are there any more

glasses

bunny you're a real friend

he saved my life

you know that

oh

with this job

i

i was on the point of making a finish

calling it quit

i'm really doing it i've got all the

pills and then

and bunny came through

glad he said what about giving the dummy

another spin

he's a he's a good friend

you didn't know that bunny but

that's how it was

end of a notable career it would have

been

yes

listen to him

honey

i know what i'm doing

when i was young i thought i was great

stuff

stayed struck you know like we all are

do you know what they said about me

never mind

he lacks

presence

no that's terrible

it doesn't matter if you're a bin man or

an

electrician or something but

if you're an actor

and you lack presence

it means nobody knows you were there

quit the stage mr boyd

a lot of people would like

all over the world

they love you hate me

i frighten them it's the same thing

fans

well you've got a lot of them clyde

a huge loyal following

and you've had it ever since the first

dummy pick

a big international public from iceland

to borneo to japan they can all

understand grants

well let's put it this way

you get across to them

yes i do

have it would you would you rather be

like peter wager

he's got presses on her just watch him

use it flashing the big charm eyes

jaw shoulders

he graves in his stage

punching about on his own echo trip

until he's as old and crazy as the

ramsey out there they think they're

magic just because they can learn the

lines

in hamlet

is that what you wanted

that's them that's all they are

but you're something different clyde

i don't think you've ever known yourself

i've tried

you work

in another dimension all together what

do you mean

we never thought about it we just let it

happen we've never talked about it but

we felt it

so did all those other people all over

the world yes they must have you don't

need lines

written down by other men

other people's thoughts to repeat that's

not the way it works it happens

somewhere deep down like

going down into the sea

where

words don't function anymore

the rules are different

pressure

receptivity

awareness

and on that level

you reach us

clyde

where's mr boyd's dresser

ah george it's george get in there right

away

listen

don't say anything just get it all on

him

get everybody in position we're going to

shoot the scene the graveyard scene now

right

okay studio stand by we're going on the

graveyard scene

what are you supposed to have done to

him

that stuff they use on race horses

syringe full of it

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starting clyde

can't you feel it

power in you

vic i can't have any hold up for that

now look sid if you want a proper job i

don't i just want to get this scene shot

so when he comes out slurps him over him

okay i don't know just put it down to me

i make it fast

colin yeah and board this one right

stand by everybody

it'll be turnover then action board on

end right

this is it

this is a part i can hardly watch

oh my god i never wanted to see this

i never wanted to be in this room when

you

become

the dummy

i can feel it

i can feel it

taking over

standby

right

let's go

i did it

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speed

action

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uh

um

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god

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into security

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thank god for that first time who's in

charge here uh mr nettleton's a producer

where is he is he in charge when he is

the producer

i'm directing the film i believe there's

a man dead sir he may be don't you know

i gotta look at him i think he's next

broken if you just let me a second

longer you'd have gone the same way yeah

all right

is the animal still in there

animal that did it

with any luck we can get a hold of it

with this it's not an animal

no the message i've got it said try to

make it clear some kind of danger just

trying to explain from a zoo some kind

of way don't you understand then what is

it

have you ever seen a dummy film

what the hell have you got in there

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probably doesn't realize what he's doing

i think he's had a mental breakdown

sudden as that without warning

it uh

just happened

i'm not gonna look at him any windows no

anywhere to talk to him no direct way

well there's a phone i think he's likely

to answer it look it's soundproof and

lightproof that's the way a film studio

is made it's got to be what about the

doors well they're all locked

you've got everybody out yeah are you

sure well yes apart from the body

where's the ramsay

anybody seen it not just before oh my

god

sir rosie

ramsey

he's not out here

so ramsay

are they calling me

hmm i was just having 40 wings is it my

scene

no no sir

well all this shouting it's quite

unnecessary i can hear the call boy it

isn't that at all

i i never missed an entrance i never

have

tell him

a man's been killed

oh

good gracious

i'm afraid so

that's unlucky you know

now he did it with his hands he's not

armed

well it is the hands

what do you mean

is victor

special effects

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well if they don't shoot my scene today

i'm off

and i'm in it

i think

you get back please

right unlock the doors look out for

those hands

don't worry

i can thread him off with this

i'll just take a look

right grotesque

i told him but would he listen

ryan

baby

you all right

he's so big well you found out you

wouldn't listen to me leave him alone

it's not a man you're dealing with he's

raving mad he's been on the edge of it

for a year and now he's gone over and

you did it

what are you driving her

what do you mean

he took boyd's wife away from that's a

lie that's what he told me and he

believes it his wife where is she now

with me she couldn't stand him any

longer she had enough and his child yes

i'm looking after them both can you get

her here what his wife bringing here let

her talk to him oh no

it might help i'm not going to let her

get involved with this she's been

through enough with him and you've got

no righteous man has been killed just

the same i want you to cooperate

how long would it take to fetch her i

don't know 20 minutes please do it

listen

i won't have her put at any risk is that

clearly understood i won't allow a lady

here sir quick as you can

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what's going on they're working out

children why didn't they get more people

more police wouldn't help

you'd better tell

him i had no idea

i was just having my little nap

and suddenly everybody started screaming

ramsay ah there's nobody what's the

score it's not good we can't go on oh

yeah i've done everything i could have

smaller than them

i'll have to release you

show business

i'd like to be on your way

right well i may as well go and get my

piggies stuck into those sun-drenched

sands

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yes but i just um slip out of these

things

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the film

here we are

something hot and sweet

about it mr nettleton

hello pat trust her i always say no

matter how bad things are they could be

worse

one for you mr ricky ah yes certainly

certainly

what did you do

i don't see why i shoot

i um

go talk to him that's all we had a to go

to what did he talk about

his family problems

was that old

what else would they be he was desperate

on the edge i talked him back again

that's all i

that's what i did to do

went wrong

no

look client's problem was that in a

sense

it wasn't anybody at all

you used that didn't you

this is lloyd

what the hell is that for she's going in

there

i thought you said leave this to me sir

i put that thing away now

lock it up

there'll be no shooting

what do you want me to do

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we'll open two doors at the same moment

on opposite sides

i'm going in through one to try and

recover the body while your voice

distracts him at the other i don't

choose a voice

shove it out speak you talk through that

what should i say

well bunny what can i don't ask me

but he's gone mad

we're not sure about that

we've killed that man hasn't he

but there is no aggression in clyde

there never was that was the trouble

i could never move him

when when things got bad he just curled

up and gave him

i couldn't stand it sid all the weeping

torments

because i realized even then that

wasn't right

we left him she had to was tearing it up

bits it wasn't only me it was karen

listening to it all

do you know she got so thinned her

school ran me up to find out why

where is her daughter

neighbor

look look i i'll do it just

tell me what

well the point is to get him quieted

down

bring him back to himself

tell him what he wants to hear

what it has to be

he feels he's lost everything

tell him he's going to get it back you

mean her but she's going back to him oh

no i said tell him that's right so long

as you believe it it doesn't have to be

true

just take his attention for half a

minute

yes

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he said so many things said to him today

i don't think he's hearing anymore he's

gone isn't there

something else is in there that's enough

what's he on

look if you're talking about his state

of mind i know his mind better than

anyone else all right leave it at that

leave it at that give her a chance

let's do it

my queen's down there

they'll give you a signal i'll be down

the next passage

all right mr stewart

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oh

listen to me

are you listening

i want

and your wife clyde i can help you

perhaps after all it isn't too late for

us clyde

i want you to listen to me now

it's not too late it never is too late

you understand that

it was all my fault

what if it was

i want you to forgive me

i want to help you guys i know i can't

this is

where are you

are you there

oh my dear

what's happened

um

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she's in there it's gonna

she's in there

oh that's too slow that's all there is

she's gonna be all right he was nearly

dead you killed him

you did

you'll be honest

oh

ah

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hmm

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good grief

who is that

the dummy

you