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Hey, good shot, Weary.

Your shot, Kenny.

Thanks a lot.

Come on, sit.

There you go.

Watch the cloth, Riley.

How long we got to sit here?

Until Studs gets here, that's how long.

You're shot, Polly. Watch the cloth, Haggerty.

Polly, I thought you said we were going dancing.

When are we going dancing?

You heard what Weary said. We're waiting for Studs, so keep your trap shut.

Studs, that's the guy that's supposed to be taking me out tonight.

He's your date.

Where is he, then?

He's out with a nice girl. Get to you later.

When I'm with Lucy, I feel I could run 100 yards for a touchdown.

I could hit a homer with the bases loaded.

I could high jump clear over the moon.

Bill, it's way past midnight.

I promised Mother I'd be home early.

I... I don't understand, Lucy.

Does your mother think you're Cinderella?

Still the other night.

Well, there, Lucy.

Bill, please take me home.

One more.

Just one more dance.

This was our last dance.

Hey, Lucy, don't keep running away.

It's a new year, ain't it?

Lucy!

Lucy!

1920. Can't ever be 1919 again.

Not in a hundred million years.

So what? Where are you going in 1920, studs?

What are you going to do?

The world ain't a year older tomorrow. It's just one day older.

One more day.

A day that's good for nothing.

Who is it, please?

It's William Lonegan, Miss Miller.

William, what in the world?

I gotta talk to you, Miss Miller.

to late, huh?

I guess I shouldn't have come.

Why did you?

I came because... because when I was in high school, in your class, you

said one time... Would you like to sit down?

How are you, mother and father?

Okay. And Lucy?

Oh, it is still Lucy, isn't it?

Yeah.

Yeah, I still see her every once in a while.

What's the matter?

Nothing. I don't know.

At 18, you're not supposed to know everything.

You've got a nice figure.

Anyone ever tell you that?

No.

Well, you have.

I guess I shouldn't say that.

It's always nice to receive compliments.

William, give yourself some time.

You've got your whole life ahead of you.

And you'll find it can be beautiful.

But if life is so beautiful, what are you doing sitting here alone on New

Year's Eve?

I missed out, William.

I missed out.

You're shot, Kenny.

New Year's resolution to shoot better pool? It gets me mad.

Hey,

stop.

Happy New Year, Kenny Killarney.

Only the gang calls me stuff and that's good.

That's because broads like you don't leave me alone Lucy and

everybody else calls me William or Bill You're still thinking about that

nice girl First is first and

second is nobody

Thank you.

Do you want to wake up a whole neighborhood?

Do you know what time it is? It's 1920.

I love you, Lucy. Shh, be quiet, Bill.

I love you, Lucy.

Bill Lonergan, you're drunk. You go home.

I have to go in now. I don't want to wake up my parents.

Now you go home.

I love you, Lucy.

I always have.

I always will.

To my dying day, I'll love you.

Look at you.

Look at you, out boozing when your mother and I spend half the night

waiting. It's New Year's Eve, Patrick. He said he might be out late.

Where were you, William?

With the other guys.

The other guys. The other guys. A bunch of bums know better than he is.

Get off my back, will you?

I couldn't afford to stay out late. You know why?

Every night, the same old record.

Sir Clayton on a scaffold, 12, 24 hours a day.

What's the matter?

Ah, no. Another county heard from. What do you want?

There's so much noise, I can't sleep.

Yeah, I hope you're satisfied.

Turn off the controller.

You're the one that's doing the shouting, Patrick.

Go on back to bed, Francis.

Wait a minute. I'm not finished with you. Let him go, Patrick. He's tired.

You go in and get undressed, and I'll come and kiss you goodnight.

I don't even feel like I belong to this damn family.

Maybe I got switched at the hospital.

Maybe I belong to somebody else.

It could happen.

How would you ever know?

You're too hard on the boy, Patrick.

Not hard enough.

He should be thinking about what he's going to do with his life and about

marrying a decent girl.

The boy's not ready for marriage. You know that, Patrick.

When I was his age.

I was married and started a family.

Well, maybe William won't have a family.

What do you mean by that?

I say a rosary every night, and I make a daily holy communion, and I make

novenas that God will give him the call.

Priest, is it?

If that boy has the makings of a priest, I have the makings of a shriner.

Not what I know, Patrick. It's what God knows.

And if God wants a boy or a girl for his holy work, and that boy or that girl

turns his back on the will of Almighty God, he or she won't never be happy.

And they stand in grave danger of losing their immortal souls.

This last year sure was a crock.

Well, I got my whole life ahead of me.

Like the lady says, life can be beautiful.

No, no. What?

No, Bill.

Hello.

Hello, Lucy.

Card, Lucy.

Let's get a drink.

Here comes Nellie.

Nellie was a tramp when State Street was a prairie.

That guy's going to get an irony of carrying all his books.

Yeah.

I'll be waiting right here.

Yeah, sure, honey.

Honey.

Right now?

Oh, gee, honey, I'm with the guys.

Of course I do.

You know I do.

Look, Arlene, I can't talk now.

Yeah.

Yeah, I'll meet you near the boathouse.

I got an idea.

Let's get a drink.

This don't look like no speakeasy to me.

Kenny, a speak ain't supposed to look like a speak.

There's your brain.

Belt all around.

You would like to order tea?

Yeah, four teas.

Hey, I'd sleep in beauty.

Give her your oh-so-beautiful treat.

Say,

Glamour, ain't I seen you someplace before?

Ah, you ain't never met her before.

She's out of your class.

When was the last time you've seen a girl as beautiful as she is?

Not since the last time I was at the judge of beauty contest.

Girl like you don't need no lipstick, no powder. Nature gives you everything you

need.

Are you kidding, Buster?

Not only beautiful, but modest. Walks into a joint, knocks him dead, and don't

even know it.

What I like is the sound of her voice.

Please, lady, say something.

How about a drink?

Say, Glamour, ain't I met you someplace before?

You already said that, Larry. Yeah, yeah, I know, but I'm just trying to

place the face in the figure.

I got it.

You've got a regular beat on State Street. I saw the cops pick her up for

hustling. Oh, that's terrible. Cops don't know a lady when they see one. How

long did they give you?

30 days. There ain't no justice in the world. Way to say, you guys.

A lady like you should be living in a nice apartment on Lakeshore Drive.

What do you say, fellas? Let's get together and ship and help her live in

style like she should, huh? Yeah, I'll do that.

Me too. What do you say, lady?

If... If you boys ain't kidding... Oh, of course we ain't kidding. Then after

we get you in the apartment, we'll get you steady. Maybe one of us.

Which...

Another year, 1922.

Even God can't make it 1921 again, I guess.

What's wrong?

What's the matter?

What's wrong?

You're sore.

You're sore, aren't you?

No, Bill, I'm not sore.

Look, Lucy, maybe I'm dumb or something.

Maybe, maybe you've got to spell it out.

But I don't, I don't understand what you have to go to college for.

I told you, Bill, I want to meet new friends.

I don't see what's so difficult or complicated in understanding that.

You mean your old friends ain't good enough?

Well, that's it, ain't it?

Go on, say it.

You're tired of your old friends, and you're fed up with the neighborhood.

I used to like the neighborhood.

Now it's all changed.

Maybe you're the one that's changed, Lucy.

All right, I'm changed.

Is that so terrible?

But I can't understand why you have to pick a college so far away. You know,

they got good colleges in Chicago.

I know that, but I'm tired of Chicago.

What's wrong with Chicago?

Nothing's wrong with it.

It's just a place that I've lived in all of my life.

Now I'm getting out.

So you're walking out on me again, Lucy, Cinderella, Scanlon.

Only you ain't leaving no little glass slipper, because you got big feet, just

like all the rest.

Look, Polly, it's either you or Harry. What do you mean, me or Harry? We ain't

the same guy.

Who do you like the best?

I like Harry.

I love you.

But Harry's got the ring and he wants me to marry him. What do you want to get

married for?

Look, Polly, my sister's going to have another baby and they're going to move

me off the couch.

I've got to have another place to sleep.

Yeah, I guess so.

Oh, I know so.

All right, you know so.

Look, we could figure something out.

told me about this guy, Harry.

How long you known him?

Three months. Three months?

You're thinking of marrying him, huh?

Well, I know three months isn't very long, but, Polly, he's got the ring. The

ring, the ring, the ring. Polly, don't get mad. You make me mad.

Polly, aren't you at least going to tell Stag? I mean, it isn't something that

happens every day, you know.

Well,

are you going to tell him or aren't you?

Tell him yourself. You ain't humpback.

Polly, that's not a nice thing to say to a girl you just said you love.

Besides, I think it should come from you.

Unless you're ashamed or something.

You aren't ashamed, are you? No, I ain't ashamed.

It's just...

Hey, Stud.

Meet the future Mrs. Polly Haggerty.

Polly must be out of his ever-loving mind.

Congratulations.

Thank you, Stud.

Sure, she looks okay now.

And having her waiting for you every night wouldn't be hard to take.

But having her sink her hooks into you and handcuff your dough.

Still, if it was me and Lucy...

I'm

supposed to be your father.

And as such, try to make something out of you.

Make you to be a decent citizen.

Are you listening to me?

Yeah, I'm listening.

All right.

Now, you children are all your mother and I have got.

And we worked hard for you. And we don't want to feel that we did it for nothing.

Hey, Mom, you got a dollar?

Not a dollar.

Every night dressing up like some two-bit gigolo.

Somebody ought to give you the lantern you deserve.

Bust that pretty nose of yours. Maybe it's settle down, get a job, and make a

living. And then you wouldn't have to ask your mother for a dollar every time

you wanted to take out some chippy. Patrick. I've been looking for a job.

You've been looking down a pool queue. That's where you've been looking. Lay

off, will you?

A pool room bum.

That's what you are.

You've been giving it to me for 20 minutes now.

I ain't no pool room bum.

No, he isn't, Patrick, and it's unfair to say so. That's for me. I'll get that

you stay where you are.

Yes, Lucy.

No, no, I'm sorry. He's busy now. I can't. Get out of here.

I'll give him the message. What is it?

All right.

It's the idea.

What'd you do that for? Shut up. He's right, Fabric. You shouldn't have done

that. Now, look.

This is my home, and nobody is going to tell me what I should do or should not

do in it.

You don't have to look like it was the end of the world.

Lucy just wanted to tell you that she couldn't keep her engagement with you

tonight.

Now look, I ain't want you at the shop the first thing in the morning. You had

no right.

You had no right to hang up on her. Damn you!

Patrick!

First thing in the morning, do you hear me?

Now get on out of here before I give you the ladder you deserve.

I am getting out.

I'll hit him again.

The ungrateful little pup.

After all I've done for him, defying me.

William, don't go.

Patrick Lannigan, how dare you?

Strike at my son, my own flesh and blood. Drive at my precious first-born

baby. Mary!

He's not a baby anymore.

He's supposed to be a man.

Someday.

Someday, damn it, if I don't make the lousy world take back everything it's

doing to me, someday I'm gonna make the world and plenty of the punks in it eat

what I gotta eat.

Someday I'm gonna bust loose like hell on wheels, and when I do...

Hello, Stads.

Give me a shot.

Who are them guys over there?

I ain't seen them in here before.

They're my protection.

From the mob, huh?

Don't be.

Could I talk to you guys private?

My name is Lonegan. I'm from Detroit.

I just got into town and I want to make a connection.

I want to go to work.

I can do anything.

You got guts.

Who be?

Yeah, I got guts.

Sit down.

Okay, I got a job for you.

When?

Right now.

I'm expecting somebody soon, huh?

Gino, give me a heater.

you gotta do.

There's a point and a squeeze.

What time is it?

Midnight. On the nose.

Benito isn't usually late.

Hey, see you over there.

Hey, hey, over there.

You'll be coming down them stairs.

All you have to do is a point and a squeeze.

to come home now.

One thing's for sure.

I ain't going to work for the old man.

That's my idea and nothing.

Become a dental technician. Free job placement in America's fastest growing

profession.

Learn to play the saxophone.

America's favorite instrument.

Play for dances, records, radio.

Big money.

Lead your own band.

For free information...

Now pet.

And how is your voice falling?

Ah,

your father's mustache.

Maybe I'll be damn important someday.

A politician or something.

I know I got luck.

Four aces stacked for me in the cards.

Well, I do.

I got to.

You guys are out of your minds looking for jobs in weather like this.

Freeze it!

Here's one.

Traveling salesman for the Pittsburgh area.

Yeah. Yeah, Pittsburgh. How about that? I was in Pittsburgh once.

You find yourself washing your hands all the time, you know.

I wouldn't take no job there if I was you.

I'm going to go into business for myself.

Yeah? Yeah. How?

How? All I got to do is rent a store.

How are you going to pay the rent?

Yeah.

Yeah, that's no good. Hey, here's one.

Wanted. Uh, experienced mechanic.

You an experienced mechanic, Paulie? Hey, Paulie, look again, huh? Maybe

there's an ad there that says wanted.

An experienced pool shark.

Salesman, chauffeur, electrical engineer.

I get a good idea.

Let's get a drink.

Give it a minute to cool.

Want me to take your clothes?

Listen to that storm.

I'm glad you got here before it started.

I wonder if the rain really does cool things down.

It's just our imagination.

The sound of the rain outside makes home feel so warm and comfortable.

Why don't you try drinking the coffee?

I bought a new Mozart recording for my music appreciation class.

Mozart has always been one of my favorite composers.

I enjoyed listening to almost everything he ever wrote.

Would you like to hear it?

I played it for the class today.

They loved it.

One of the wonderful groups is here.

So interested in everything I play for them.

Listen to this open passage.

Isn't it lovely?

I've been reading a new biography of his.

He was such a genius.

Imagine, he began to compose music when he was a young child.

Later, of course, life became very difficult for him, despite his genius.

Never enough money, sometimes not even enough food.

Still, he continued to write his glorious music.

I am heartily sorry for having offended thee and I detest all my sins because I

dread the loss of heaven and the pains of hell but most of all because I have

offended thee O God who art all good and deserving of all my love I firmly

resolve with the help of thy grace to confess my sins to do penance and to

amend my life Amen God bless you son God bless you father

You've got to be a house painter.

You've got to be a saxophone player.

So I buy it.

Eighty-three dollars.

Forty-six for lessons.

And then you go hock the thing.

And don't tell me you didn't. Don't tell me. Because I found it. I found the pawn

ticket right in there.

Well, I'm satisfied being a house painter.

And I don't know what gave her the idea that you're better than me and I don't

care.

If you don't want to do what I do, all right.

But I know this.

You've got to do something.

Got to get a job.

Got to get a job.

There are great dental technicians, just like there are great violinists.

A dentist can make a good pair of false teeth, or he can make a pair that feel

like the Brooklyn Bridge inside a man's mouth.

All a question of talent.

You see this instrument?

Let me see you pick it up.

Ah, a man with talent, obviously.

You did that very nicely, son.

Employing no more than your index finger and thumb.

Congratulations. You have the touch.

When do you think you're going to put me to work?

Nine o'clock Monday morning.

And so we can start right in Monday, I want you to take a set of these home

tonight. Here is one I'm making for Colonel McCormick.

Every mouth has 32 teeth.

Learn their positions and how to identify them.

Shouldn't take you more than a couple of hours.

Lucy, I have to talk to you.

Lucy, didn't you hear what I said? I have to talk to you. Just a moment.

That's all right, George.

I'll be right with you.

Lucy, I've gone and done it.

This man says I got talent.

It's just like playing the violin.

Bill, I don't know what on earth you're talking about.

Look. Look, Lucy.

You see these?

Well, the man says I got the touch.

Everybody's got 34 of them, and tonight I'm going to learn to identify them in

the mouth.

Who's Mel?

Bill, you're drunk again.

No, Lucy.

I'm not drunk. I swear I ain't. I'm just trying to tell you what this man told

me.

Miss Gatlin, we're going to be late.

I'll be right there, Mr. Winant.

Bill, put those terrible-looking things away.

They ain't terrible-looking, Lucy. They belong to Colonel McCormick. This man

says I got the touch, and he says if I work real hard, and if I concentrate,

and if I study every night...

I'm sorry Bill, we're late already.

Lucy, this is a big break for me.

You can see that, can't you?

Something good's gotta happen. I ain't getting any younger. I ain't a kid no

more.

Sometimes I don't even know what I'm waiting for.

Hey, Stud.

How come you ain't drinking?

Weekdays, I'm up at six.

Paulie starts hacking at six. That ain't stopping him. Paulie didn't almost fall

off a scaffold that Monday.

Well, ain't your old man got insurance?

Yeah.

I'm so glad you're working now.

Your father must be very proud of you.

Yeah. Yeah, and you know what?

He even gave me a raise last week.

Yeah? Well, what, uh... What'd she have to say?

Well, she just wanted to know if you were still living in the neighborhood.

What's the matter?

Did I say or do something wrong tonight?

Is it Lucy?

You saw her before you came here tonight, that's it, isn't it?

But you heard she was back in town.

It's always so difficult to know how we really feel, isn't it?

No, it's not so difficult.

Lucy may be in town.

That don't mean I got to see her.

Yes, it does.

Because even when you aren't seeing her, you'll be thinking about her.

But you have been tonight.

When you first came in, I knew something was wrong.

I just hoped that you'd talk about it.

You usually do.

When you didn't, I...

I knew it was Lucy.

Okay.

Maybe Lucy is in town.

Maybe I'll see her.

But that don't mean things have got to change between you and me.

Doesn't it?

When you first came to see me, You were always intoxicated.

I knew you would be, and yet I look forward to your visits.

I thought I could help you.

And help myself.

I was so lonely.

And I hope... I hope for what happened.

Even though I knew it was wrong.

Not wrong because you still love Lucy.

Wrong because of the difference in our ages.

Wrong to have to hide how we felt from other people.

Being so ashamed.

Wrong to have to confine our lives together to this one little room.

Look, I'm sorry about tonight.

I think I'd better go.

Right now?

I got a real long day tomorrow.

Otherwise, I wouldn't be clearing out so early.

I'll be around again tomorrow night, the same time.

Give it to me.

I was going to put it outside, where it always is.

Give it to me.

Then we won't see each other tomorrow night.

This is it, huh?

We're always getting drunk.

Here we are, boys.

From Mother Josephine's private stock.

Good for corns, sinuses, and pinning one on.

Let me see. That'll be $3 for the set-up, $2 for the whiskey, $5

altogether.

$5? I didn't ask you for a lease on your joint.

You wouldn't want me to break the law for less, would you?

Must not. Come here.

Hey, Studs, we've been looking at every joint in town for you.

The studs come in right in there and sit down, have a drink, and shake Paulie's

hand. Hey, Paulie, you tell our friend what we have in mind, huh? Yeah, come

on, Paulie, tell him. Yeah, tell him. Hey, Paulie. Yeah, yeah, okay.

Tell him.

Okay, first you ought to meet with his uncle and then get a drink.

Studs, this is Jim Doyle. Hey, hey, Mother Josephine, bring Studs a glass.

Hiya, Studs.

I ain't seen you in quite a while. Oh, come on. Good stuff, boys. Come on,

Paulie. Don't forget we're going to need Studs. Need me for what?

You all said Studs.

Then get this.

We're all going into business together.

We can open a nightclub.

Where are we going to get the dough?

Show it to them, Paulie.

5,000 smackers.

Signed by my father-in-law.

He gave it to me this afternoon to get a medallion and buy my own cab.

Foley Foley ain't gonna buy no cab.

Tomorrow, my Uncle Jim is gonna take him down to the lawyers and they're gonna

draw up the papers for a nightclub.

The way we figure it, Prohibition is here to stay.

So why not make some jack out of it like everybody else?

Kenny here will be the bartender and Mr.

Doyle here is gonna see that we get the necessary protection.

Well, how's the Santa, studs?

Where do I come in on this?

You're going to furnish the alcohol.

I am, huh?

You're in the paint business, ain't you? The paint business uses alcohol, don't

it? Weary, what's my old man going to say? Why, your old man, you do the

buying, don't you?

So buy a little more.

We got it made, Scott. Hey, Scott.

We got it made.

Let's have another drink on it, eh?

Eileen is going to be proud of me for a change.

No more hacking.

No more crazy hours. I'm going to start living like a human being.

I'm deeply sorry for your destruction.

Thank you.

Excuse me.

I saw

him at church last Sunday. He didn't swell and dressed up like a lighthouse.

Prettier than ever. I'd like to ask her for a date.

He's friends to see him alive, Monaghan.

Must have happened when you left Mother Josephine's alone last night.

Still had a check on him for 5,000.

Too bad he couldn't have waited to be clipped by that truck.

Yeah, I said the Republicans, they went and stole the election from Cox by

crookedness. Well, where did you get all that insight?

Hello,

Lucy.

Hello, Bill.

Isn't it terrible?

Poor Paolo.

How are you, Lizzie?

Right now I feel like I'm being crushed to death.

It's, um... It's good to see you again, Lizzie.

It's good to see you, Bill.

It's a divine warning to all of us.

We're here on this earth for only a short time.

Poor Arlene.

Why did it have to be Paulie?

Why couldn't it have been one of them?

Why couldn't it have been one of his brats?

thinking friends.

Don't listen to him, Lucy.

He's no good.

None of them are any good.

Oh, he's dead now.

But he loved me.

Only they made him ashamed of loving me.

I was a woman, not abroad.

And a woman was someone who set traps.

According to them, marrying me was a trap.

Having the baby was a trap.

Shoot another game of pool, Polly. Have another drink, Polly.

They didn't have anybody.

So they didn't want him to have anybody either.

They didn't want him to love me.

But he did.

At times, we were alone together.

He loved me when he wasn't listening to them.

He loved me.

At night, alone, together.

He loved me.

He loved the baby, too.

He loved the baby.

Oh, you should have... You should have seen him with the baby.

You should have seen him with the baby.

Bill, I've dreamt of a sign like that since before you were born.

Quite a guy.

Yes, sir, quite a guy.

And now I got the right to see Lucy.

Ain't had a drink since Paulie died.

1,200 bucks in the bank.

She moved away.

Lucy moved.

And she never even told me.

Nobody told me.

What was I thinking?

That she'd sit home and wait for me?

That when she decided to move, she'd blow a bugle?

Yes? Oh, I'll come back some other time.

No.

Please stay.

This is my niece, Catherine Banahan.

This is William Lonergan.

Hello, William.

Catherine, would you take his coat, please?

You been in Chicago long?

Just a week.

You're gonna stay?

I hope so.

That's... That's real good.

My, uh... Coming here so late, you see... You see, your aunt and me,

we're... We're old friends.

Yes, I've told her all about you.

And Lucy.

How is she?

I wouldn't know.

Haven't you seen her lately?

Not since Polly Haggerty died.

The least she could have done was tell me.

Tell you what?

That she was moving away.

Oh, where?

How do I know?

You want a ring?

Now, I got a better idea.

I'll... I'll give it to her.

Oh, no, really. I couldn't. Sure you could. Go on. It's a present. No, no,

really. I couldn't. Sure you could.

Now, give it back for a second.

Now, put out your hand.

Come on. Come on. Put it out.

There.

There.

Welcome to Chicago.

And I want to thank all my good friends and my constituents.

for re-electing me as your alderman.

If there's anything in my power that I can do to help any one of you in any

situation, please call me.

Who'd you vote for, Lonergan?

You?

And from now on, I expect things in this ward to get better.

I'm sure they will be.

Hello, Stan.

Things are getting better already.

So I see.

Let's all have the drinks on me.

Hey.

Don't say I'm no lady.

I didn't say he was no lady. I thought you were some kid.

Yeah?

Well, don't say I'm no lady.

It's okay baby, you asked it.

to be, young fella. You ain't got nothing on me.

That's what you think.

What are you talking about?

Francis Riley, you have been charged and found guilty of the crime of rape.

For this, I sentence you to ten years in the state penitentiary at Joliet.

Paulie's dead.

And where he'd be better off dead, Lucy's married.

Out of town somewhere.

Just Kenny and me now.

What am I doing here? I had to stand her up and go shoot a game of pool with

Kenny, maybe take in a movie.

Ah, what the devil.

I'm here and she's waiting.

You're a nice girl, Catherine.

I love you, Bill.

Yeah.

Yeah, I know that.

No, you don't.

Or else you realize how very much I want you to be happy.

And how good I know you really are.

Nobody ever called me good before.

Maybe that's because nobody ever loved you like I do.

I know you're moody.

Sometimes it's hard for me to remember that it's not me you're mad at, but

yourself.

do such crazy things.

What crazy things?

Oh, like giving me Lucy's ring the first time we met.

Yeah.

Yeah, I guess that was kind of crazy.

First I hated that ring.

Then I was glad because it...

It meant that we'd be done without any secrets.

I don't know what happened to Aunt Julia.

She ought to be home by now.

Probably got stuck in the rain somewhere.

Would you like a cup of coffee?

Ever notice something?

A certain kind of woman is always the same.

My mother, your Aunt Julia, you.

They never know what to say next, so... So they offer you a cup of coffee.

Coffee would be good.

Coffee will be ready in a minute, Bill.

Now what?

Nothing.

I wish I got it were nothing.

What do you mean?

There seem to be so many things you hate.

Like what?

Me sometimes.

I only knew why.

When I was a kid.

I went to parochial school. I took a streetcar every morning.

No matter how early I got up, I'd get to the corner just as it was pulling away.

So I'd run after it.

It never went so fast that I'd lose sight of it.

But it would never go slow enough that I could catch it.

Now everything... Everything seems like that.

But you're not a kid anymore, Bill.

You don't have to run.

And you don't have to hate.

You can just stop now and look around.

Hello?

Yes.

That was Aunt Julia.

It's raining so hard she decided to stay downtown and take in a show.

Oh, it's Studs.

I met a pig last night.

How's your look like?

I don't know.

Catch it in the wee wee.

We drink a lot of coffee.

How's your work going?

It's going okay.

My boss hardly gets anything done. He's so busy playing the stock market.

She's scared.

That's why she talks so much.

She loves me.

And she puts out for me.

She's scared.

I feel sorry for her.

I wish I could tell her. Bill, you haven't heard a word I've said.

What?

But when I'm with her, I feel all alone.

Like I've never even seen her before.

Not like I used to feel with Lucy and the gang.

What are you looking for, Bill?

What do you want?

I don't know.

What do you want?

A husband?

Home? Children?

I guess that sounds pretty bad to you, doesn't it?

No.

Sounds like my mother and father.

Funny, but I can never remember them having any fun.

What's your idea of fun? Never growing up?

You sound like your Aunt Julia.

But who the hell am I, wanting so much and thinking she ain't enough for me?

Our lunch is served.

Maybe I ain't good enough for her.

Go ahead and eat it. I'm not hungry.

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I want to say it's certainly great to

stand up here on this stage, look out there, and see this beautiful vast ocean

of smiling faces.

Kenny finally got a job.

He should have stayed in the pool hall.

The jokes were better then.

Everything was better then.

Oh, I'm not going to use the gun because we're going to have fun.

Will you freeze it, Kenny?

I got a friend of mine. A friend of mine is in a hospital. He's been all shot up.

He's got about 25 bullet holes in him. What happened?

Bill, please don't drink anymore.

Will you stop nagging?

I got a friend of mine.

So stupid, he thinks Pickle Harry gotta be reported to the dry squad.

Well, it ain't funny, Kenny.

You're acting like a slob, a clown, a foul ball.

He said,

look, I'll make a deal with you.

I'll ask you a question. If you can't answer it... You've got to pay me $25

because you're so smart with all those books. Please, Bill.

Why don't you leave me alone?

Do you really want me to go?

It doesn't lay eggs.

The salesman thinks and he says, I don't know. You've got me. Here's your $25.

What's the answer? My friend says, I don't know. Here's your $5.

Kenny been in tonight, Charlie?

Kenny's in Toledo, then Detroit.

There's a postcard came from a couple days ago. It's around here someplace.

Hi, Charlie.

Detroit next, then Louisville, then wherever else they pay to hear the

jokes. The guns to yourself and the mug, Lonegan.

Kenny.

Seems like I never got a break.

I always figured something big was gonna happen.

But every time I look around, it's another couple of years.

One of these days, I'll be 30.

And no place to go but down.

I called you a couple of times.

Did you?

Yeah.

But I didn't get any answers, so I thought I'd drop around and see how you

were.

What have you been doing with yourself?

Oh, just working.

I would have come around sooner, only we've been kind of busy at the shop.

What's the matter, Catherine?

Aren't you glad to see me?

Bill I'm going to have a baby.

What did the report say?

It's negative.

That means, Catherine, ain't that she was wrong?

That everything's all right?

That means she's pregnant.

Well, ain't they supposed to have some kind of pills?

Something that would...

So would you know, Doc?

Look, regardless of what you've read or been told, there are no pills.

Well, there's supposed to be other ways.

No way I'd be interested in.

Okay, okay, forget it.

No, why get sore in me?

How much for the test? Put it back, keep it.

Look, Bill, I assume that what happened wasn't the result of just a single

evening together.

Then why don't you want to marry her?

I don't know.

Is it because you're afraid of feeling boxed in?

Yeah.

Why do the guys fight against that?

Yeah, I guess that's a part of it.

What's your mother think? Is that a part of it, too?

My mother?

My mother would be against any girl I wanted to marry.

How old are you, 27?

28.

Isn't that a little old to be living at home?

Wait. She's always waiting.

Don't she ever give up?

Why don't she go home?

And the governor is quoted as saying that despite the stock market crash,

business could look forward to the coming year with greater assurance.

But at this very moment, a line of anxious depositors stretches for five

blocks up State Street to the doors of the National Exchange Bank.

The station has been personally informed by the bank's office.

Charlie.

Sorry, Studs.

Closing up.

Charlie, where are you going?

I've got to get to the bank before it closes. Get out the money, otherwise

I'll be wiped out.

Already lots of people lose their shirts. Come on, Studs.

you going to do, Dad?

Well, I can always scratch out a living painting, except now there ain't going

to be room for two.

So from today on, Bill, you're going to be on your own.

We'll see men out of work.

Why?

Because of the machine.

The machine has got to go.

The men have got to start working with their hands again.

The good book says so.

Men shall work by the...

Take women off their high heels, put them back in the kitchen, and you'll

start eating properly.

Gene, bad food coming out of cans.

That's what's destroying this country.

Everything's going too fast.

Everybody's driving. Nobody's walking.

Everybody's sitting behind a wheel.

Nobody's just sitting.

William, you surprised me.

We had a heavy wind last night. It broke one of our windows.

I'm trying to find all the pieces so I can have it mended.

Father, I have to talk to you. Of course, William.

By the foot there, there's another piece.

They're not making glass like that anymore.

What's wrong, William?

Everything.

You know, it's my own fault that window's broken.

I knew it was loose. I could often hear it rattle.

Yes, it's foolish not to fix a thing in need of mending.

Father.

Father, I didn't come here to talk about windows. William.

Do you know where you're going, son?

No, Father.

I don't know where I'm going.

Well, as long as you don't know where you're going, why don't you sit down a

minute? I try, and I try.

But nothing happens.

What do you want to happen?

I don't know.

What are you afraid of, William?

I ain't afraid.

I haven't seen you in quite some time.

I think the last time was at Paulie Haggerty's funeral.

You were drinking with Paulie the night he was killed.

You were drinking with Weary the night he raped the girl.

Has it ever occurred to you, William, that under the influence of alcohol, you

could have been Weary or Paulie?

God spared you, William.

And now you're afraid he won't spare you again.

Isn't that why you're here?

I'm different than Paulie.

And I'm different from Weary.

You're in pain, William.

This is your trial and tribulation.

This is a time when you need someone close to you to help you.

Is there anyone you love, William?

My mother. Why don't you talk to her?

Everything I do wrong, she blames on someone else.

It was different when I was with the gang. Now Polly's gone. Weary's gone.

Kenny's gone. Do you love your father?

I guess I do. Why don't you talk to him? I just saw him. He needs someone to talk

to himself.

What do you want out of life, William?

I want Lucy Scanlon.

Remember her?

I baptized you both.

Her family moved away years ago. Do you still see her?

Lucy wanted me to be important.

Well, I ain't never going to be important.

Why not?

Because I just ain't got what it takes.

Because when they were passing out brains, I didn't get my share.

Do you think it's just a matter of brains?

What else?

I'm asking you.

Well, ain't it?

Jesus didn't think so.

When he chose his disciples, he didn't go among the very learned and wise.

He chose simple people.

Fishermen, the pure in heart.

Men who are able to give love.

I don't understand what that has to do with me, Father.

You've got love in you.

And that's what you're afraid of, William.

Why are you afraid?

That somebody will take advantage of you?

That people won't think you're as shrewd and as smart and as tough as the next

person?

Do you know what happened in the world today?

fortunes wiped out, savings lost, people full of grief because they've lost their

money.

The real tragedy is that too many people feel about love as they do about money.

They think love is something you buy with gifts and presents, something you

own.

They do not realize that love is a giving of yourself, of sharing.

They do not realize that the greatest single thing in this world is to love

someone. And to be loved.

All my life, I loved Lucy.

It didn't do me no good, Father.

Are you sure it was love?

How well did you know Lucy?

What did you ever share with her?

And was she ever for one moment interested in you?

Or was Lucy just a vain hope?

One more projection of ambitions you never expected to realize.

You're right, William.

You are different than Weary and Paulie.

They never knew anything was wrong.

You know.

But you won't take the next step.

What?

What is that, Father?

Catherine Banahan came to see me yesterday.

She told me about the child.

What else did she tell you?

That she loves you.

Catherine.

Catherine.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry about everything.

I love you, Catherine.

Go away, Bill.

Catherine, I love you.

Go back to your gang.

There ain't no gang.

Then go somewhere else.

Catherine, listen to me, please.

You've got to listen to me.

It's too late, Bill.

You still love me, don't you?

Not anymore.

You told Father Goholy you did.

Because I thought you were good.

Someone who'd love me and love our baby.

But I know you never will.

Yes, I will.

I've got to love you.

I've got to love you.