All language subtitles for All My Sons The Play Part One

- Where's you tobacco?
- I think I left it on the table

Gonna rain tonight

- Paper says so?
- Yeah, right here

Then it can't rain

- Hiya
- Hello, Frank. What's doing?

Nothing. Walking off my breakfast

- That beautiful? Not a cloud
- Yeah, nice

Every Sunday ought to be like this

- You want the paper?
- What's the difference, it's all bad news

- What's today's calamity?
- I don't know, I don't read the news part any more

- It's more interesting in the want ads
- Why, you trying to buy something?

No, I'm just interested
to see what people want, y'know?

For instance, here's a guy
is looking for two Newfoundland dogs

What's he going to do
with two Newfoundland dogs?

- That is funny
- Here's another one

Wanted.
Old Dictionaries. High prices paid

- Now what's a man going to do with an old dictionary?
- Why not? Probably a book collector

- You mean he'll make a living out of that?
- Sure, there's a lot of them

All the kind of business going on

In my day, either you were a lawyer
or a doctor, or you worked in a shop

- Now...
- Well, I was going to be a forester once

Well, that shows you.
In my day, there was no such thing

You look at a page like this
you realize how ignorant you are

Hey, what happened to your tree?

Ain't that awful?
The wind must've got it last night

- You heard the wind, didn't you?
- Yeah, I got a mess in my yard, too

What a pity. What did Kate say?

They're all asleep yet.
I'm just waiting for her to see it

- You know? It's funny
- What?

Larry was born in August. He'd have been
twenty-seven this month. And his tree blows down

I'm surprised you remember his birthday, Frank.
That's nice

Well, I'm working on his horoscope

How can you make him a horoscope?
That's for the future, ain't it?

Well, what I'm doing is this, see. Larry was
reported missing on November 25th, right?

- Yeah?
- Well, then...

...we assume that if he was killed
it was on November 25th

- Now, what Kate wants to know...
- Oh, Kate asked you to make a horoscope?

Yeah, what she wants to find out is whether
November 25th was a favourable day for Larry

What is that, a favourable day?

Well, a favourable day for a person
is a fortunate day, according to his stars

In other words, it would be practically impossible
for him to have died on his favourable day

- Well, was that his favourable day? November 25th?
- That's what I'm working on to find out. It takes time

See, the point is,
if November 25th was his favourable day...

...then it's completely possible he's alive
somewhere, because... I mean it's possible

I didn't even see you

Is he talking sense?

Him? He's all right.
He's completely out of his mind, that's all

- The trouble with you is, you don't believe in anything
- And your trouble is you believe in anything

- You didn't see my kid this morning, did you?
- No

Imagine? He walked off with his thermometer.
Right out of his bag

What a problem.
One look at a girl and he takes her temperature

That boy's going to be a real doctor, he's smart

Over my dead body he'll be a doctor.
A good beginning, too

- Why? It's an honourable profession
- Frank, will you stop talking like a civics book?

Why, I saw a movie a couple of weeks ago,
reminded me of you. There was a doctor in that picture...

- Don Ameche
- I think it was, yeah

And he worked in his basement discovering things

That's what you ought to do.
You could help humanity, instead of...

I would love to help humanity
on a Warner Brothers salary

That's very good, Jim

Well, where's this beautiful girl
was supposed to be here?

- Annie came?
- Sure, sleeping upstairs

We picked her up on the one o'clock train last night

Wonderful thing. Girl leaves here a scrawny kid.
Couple of years go by, she's a regular woman

I hardly recognized her, and she was
running in and out of this yard all her life

That was a very happy family
used to live in your house, Jim

Like to meet her.
The block could use a pretty girl

In the whole neighbourhood
there's not a damned thing to look at

Except my wife, of course

- Mrs Adams is on the phone, you dog
- Such is the condition which prevails

- My love, my light...
- Don't sniff around me

And give her a nasty answer.
I can smell her perfume over the phone

- What's the matter with her now?
- I don't know, dear

She sounds like she's in terrible pain,
unless her mouth is full of candy

- Why can't you just tell her to lay down?
- She enjoys it more when you tell her to lay down

- And when are you going to see Mr Hubbard?
- My dear, Mr Hubbard is not sick

And I have better things to do
than to sit there and hold his hand

It seems to me that for ten dollars
you could hold his hand

If your son wants to play golf,
tell him I'm ready

Or if he'd like to take a trip around the world
for about thirty years

Why do you needle him? He's a doctor,
women are supposed to call him up

All I said was Mrs Adams is on the phone

- Can I have some of your parsley?
- Yeah, sure

You were a nurse too long, Susie.
You're too... too realistic

Now you said it

- Frank, the toaster... Hiya
- Hello

The toaster is off again

- Well, plug it in, I just fixed it
- Please, dear, fix it back like it was before

I don't know why you can't learn
to turn on a simple thing like a toaster

- Thomas Edison
- Oh no, he's really very handy

Oh, did the wind get your tree?

- Yeah, last night
- Oh, what a pity

- Annie get in?
- Sleeping upstairs. She'll be down soon

Wait till you meet her, Sue, she's a knockout

I should've been a man.
People are always introducing me to beautiful women

Tell her to come over later. I imagine she'd like
to see what we did with her house. And thanks

- Is she still unhappy, Joe?
- Annie?

I don't suppose she goes around
dancing on her toes, but she seems to be over it

- She going to get married? Is there anybody...?
- I suppose

Say, it's a couple years,
she can't mourn a boy forever

It's so strange.
Annie's here and not even married

And I've got three babies.
I always thought it'd be the other way around

Well, that's what war does. I used to have two sons,
now I got one. It changed all the tallies

In my day when you had sons it was an honour.
Today a doctor could make a million dollars...

...if he could figure out a way to bring
a boy into the world without a trigger finger

You know, I was just reading...
Oh, hiya, Chris...

Lydia, come in here!
If you want the toaster to work...

...don't plug in the malted mixer
- Did I?

And the next time I fix something
don't tell me I'm crazy

- Now come in here
- I'll never hear the end of this one

So what's the difference?
Instead of toast have a malted

- You want the paper?
- That's all right, just the book section

You're always reading the book section
and you never buy a book

I like to keep abreast of my ignorance

- What is that, every week a new book comes out?
- A lot of new books

- All different?
- All different

- Annie up yet?
- Mother's giving her breakfast in the dining room

See what happened to the tree?

- Yeah
- What's Mother going to say?

- You're finally up
- Hey! Bert's here

Where's Tommy?
He's got his father's thermometer again

- He's taking a reading
- What?

- But it's only oral
- Oh, well, there's no harm in oral

- So what's new this morning, Bert?
- Nothing

Then you couldn't've made
a complete inspection of the block

In the beginning, when I made you a policeman
you used to come in every day with something new

- Now, nothing's ever new
- Except some kids from Thirtieth Street

They started kicking a can down the block,
but I made them go away because you were sleeping

Now you're talking, Bert. Now you're on the ball

First thing you know
I'm liable to make you a detective

- Can I see the jail now?
- Seeing the jail's not allowed, Bert. You know that

Aw, I betcha there isn't even a jail.
I don't see any bars on the cellar windows

Bert, on my word of honour,
there's a jail in the basement

- I showed you my gun, didn't I?
- But that's a hunting gun

- That's an arresting gun
- Then why don't you ever arrest anybody?

Tommy said another dirty word to Doris yesterday,
and you didn't even demote him

That's a dangerous character, that Tommy

- What word does he say?
- Oh, I can't say that

- Well, just give me an idea
- I can't. It's not a nice word

Just whisper it in my ear. I'll close my eyes.
Maybe I won't even hear it

- I can't say that, Mr Keller
- Don't make him do that

All right, Bert. I take you at your word

- Now go out, and peel both eyes
- For what?

For what? Bert, the whole neighbourhood is
depending on you. A policeman don't ask questions

- Now peel them eyes
- Okay

- And Bert... mum's the word
- About what?

- Just in general. Be very careful
- Okay

I got all the kids crazy

One of these days, they'll all come in here
and beat your brains out

What's she going to say?
Maybe we ought to tell her before she sees it

She saw it

How could she see it?
I was the first one up. She was still in bed

- She was out here when it broke
- When?

About four this morning. I heard it cracking
and I woke up and looked out

She was standing right here when it cracked

What was she doing out here at four in the morning?

I don't know. When it cracked she ran back
into the house and cried in the kitchen

- Did you talk to her?
- No, I figured the best thing was to leave her alone

- She cried hard?
- I could hear her right through the floor of my room

What was she doing out here at that hour?

She's dreaming about him again

- She's walking around at night
- I guess she is

She's getting just like after he died.
What's the meaning of that?

I don't know the meaning of it.
But I know one thing, Dad

- We've made a terrible mistake with Mother
- What?

Being dishonest with her. That kind of thing
always pays off, and now it's paying off

- What do you mean, dishonest?
- You know Larry's not coming back and I know it

Why do we allow her to go on thinking
that we believe with her?

- What do you want to do, argue with her?
- I don't want to argue with her

But it's time she realized
that nobody believes Larry is alive any more

Why shouldn't she dream of him,
walk the nights waiting for him?

Do we contradict her? Do we say straight out
that we have no hope any more?

That we haven't had any hope for years now?

- You don't want to say that to her
- We've got to say it to her

How are you going to prove it? Can you prove it?

For God's sake, three years!
Nobody comes back after three years

- It's insane
- To you it is, and to me. But not to her

You can talk yourself blue in the face, but there's
no body and there's no grave, so where are you?

Sit down, Dad. I want to talk to you

The trouble is the goddam newspapers.
Every month some boy turns up from nowhere...

- ...so the next one is going to be Larry, so...
- All right, all right, listen to me

- You know why I asked Annie here, don't you?
- Why?

- You know
- Well, I got an idea, but what's the story?

I'm going to ask her to marry me

- Well, that's only your business, Chris
- You know it's not only my business

What do you want me to do?
You're old enough to know your own mind

Then it's all right, I'll go ahead with it

- You want to be sure Mother isn't going to...
- Then it isn't just my business

- I'm just saying...
- Sometimes you infuriate me, you know that?

Isn't it your business too
if I tell this to Mother and she throws a fit about it?

- You have such a talent for ignoring things
- I ignore what I gotta ignore

- The girl is Larry's girl
- She's not Larry's girl

From Mother's point of view he's not dead
and you have no right to take his girl

You can go on from there if you know where to go,
but I don't know where to go

See? I don't know. Now what can I do for you?

I don't know why it is,
but every time I reach out for something I want...

...I have to pull back because other people will suffer.
My whole bloody life, time after time after time

You're a considerate fella,
there's nothing wrong in that

To hell with that

- Did you ask Annie yet?
- I wanted to get this settled first

How do you know she wants to marry you?
Maybe she feels the same way Mother does

Well, if she does, that's the end of it.
From her letters I think she's forgotten him

I'll find out.
Then we'll thrash it out with Mother, right?

Dad, don't avoid me

The trouble is, you don't see enough women.
You never did

So what? I'm not fast with women

- I don't see why it has to be Annie
- Because it is

That's a good answer,
but it don't answer anything

You haven't seen her since you went to war,
and that's five years

I can't help it. I know her best.
I was brought up next door to her

These years when I think of someone for my wife,
I think of Annie

- What do you want, a diagram?
- I don't want a diagram... I...

She thinks he's coming back.
You marry her and you're pronouncing him dead

What's going to happen to Mother?
Do you know? I don't

All right, then, Dad

- Give it some more thought
- I've given it three years of thought

I'd hoped that if I waited
Mother would forget Larry

And then we'd have a regular wedding
and everything happy

But if that can't happen here,
then I'll have to get out

- What the hell is this?
- I'll get out

I'll get married and live someplace else.
Maybe in New York

Are you crazy?

I've been a good son too long, a good sucker.
I'm through with it

- You'd leave the business? What the hell is this?
- The business! The business doesn't inspire me

- Must you be inspired?
- Yes. I like it an hour a day

If I have to grub for money all day long
at least at evening I want it beautiful

I want a family, I want some kids,
I want to build something I can give myself to

Annie is in the middle of that.
Now, where do I find it?

You mean... Tell me something,
you mean you'd leave the business?

Yes. On this I would

But... you don't want to think like that

- Then help me stay here
- All right, but don't think like that

Because what the hell did I work for? That's only
for you, the whole shooting-match is only for you

I know that, Dad. Just you help me stay here

- But don't think that way
- I am thinking that way

- I don't understand you, do I?
- No, you don't. I'm a pretty tough guy

Yeah. I can see that

- Joe?
- Hello, Mom

- Did you take a bag from under the sink?
- Yeah, I put it in the pail

- Well, get it out of the pail. That's my potatoes
- I thought it was garbage

Do me a favour, Joe. Don't be helpful

I can afford a new bag of potatoes

Minnie scoured that pail in boiling water last night.
It's cleaner than your teeth

And I don't see why, after I worked forty years
and I got a maid, why I have to take out the garbage

If you would make up your mind
that every bag in the kitchen isn't full of garbage...

...you wouldn't be throwing out my vegetables.
Last time it was the onions

- I don't like garbage in the house
- Then don't eat

- That settles you for today
- Yeah, I'm in last place again

I don't know, once upon a time I used to think that
when I got money again I would have a maid

And my wife could take it easy.
Now I got money, and I got a maid...

- ...and my wife is working for the maid
- It's her day off, what are you crabbing about?

- Isn't Annie finished eating?
- She'll be right out

That wind did some job on this place.
So much for that, thank God

Sit down, take it easy

- I've got such a funny pain on the top of my head
- Can I get you an aspirin?

No more roses

It's so funny,
everything decides to happen at the same time

This month is his birthday,
his tree blows down, Annie comes

Everything that happened seems to be coming back

I was just down the cellar, and what do I stumble over?
His baseball glove. I haven't seen it in a century

- Don't you think Annie looks well?
- Fine. No question about it, she's a beauty

I still don't know what brought her here.
Not that I'm not glad to see her

I just thought we'd all like to see each other again.
And I wanted to see her myself

The only thing is I think her nose got longer

But I will always love that girl

She's one that didn't jump into bed with
somebody else as soon as it happened with her fella

- Oh, what are you...?
- Never mind

Most of them didn't wait
till the telegrams were opened

I'm just glad she came, so you can see
I'm not completely out of my mind

Just because she isn't married
doesn't mean she's been mourning Larry

- Why then isn't she?
- Why, it could be any number of things

- Like what, for instance?
- I don't know. Whatever it is

- Can I get you an aspirin?
- It's not like a headache

You don't sleep, that's why. She's wearing out
more bedroom slippers than shoes

I had a terrible night last night.
I never had a night like that

What was it, Mom? Did you dream?

- More, more than a dream
- About Larry?

I was fast asleep, and...

You remember the way he used to fly low
past the house when he was in training?

When we used to see his face in the cockpit going by?
That's the way I saw him

Only high up. Way, way up, where the clouds are.
He was so real I could reach out and touch him

And suddenly he started to fall.
And crying, crying to me... Mom, Mom!

I could hear him like he was in the room.
Mom! It was his voice

And suddenly he started to fall.
And crying, crying to me... Mom, Mom!

I could hear him like he was in the room.
Mom! It was his voice

I knew if I could touch him I could stop him,
if I could only...

I woke up and it was so funny

The wind was like the roaring of his engine

I came out here, I must've still been half asleep.
I could hear that roaring like he was going by

The tree snapped right in front of me
and I like... came awake

See? We should never have planted that tree

I said so in the first place.
It was too soon to plant a tree for him

- Too soon?
- We rushed into it

Everybody was in such a hurry to bury him.
I said not to plant it yet

- I told you to...
- Mother, Mother!

The wind blew it down. What significance has that got?
What are you talking about?

Mother, please.
Don't go through it all again, will you?

It's no good,
it doesn't accomplish anything

I've been thinking, you know?
Maybe we ought to put our minds to forgetting him

That's the third time you've said that this week

Because it's not right.
We never took up our lives again

We're like at a railroad station
waiting for a train that never comes in

Get me that aspirin, huh?

Sure, and let's break out of this, hey Mom?

I thought the four of us might go out for dinner
a couple of nights, maybe go dancing out at the shore

- Fine. We can do it tonight
- Swell with me

Sure, let's have some fun.
You'll start with this aspirin

Why did he invite her here?

Why does that bother you?

She's been in New York three and a half years,
why all of a sudden?

- Well, maybe he just wanted to see her
- No one comes seven hundred miles 'just to see'

What do you mean? He lived next door to the girl
all his life, why shouldn't he want to see her again?

Don't look at me that way,
he didn't tell me any more than he told you

- He's not going to marry her
- How do you know he's even thinking of it?

It's got that about it

- Well so what?
- What's going on here, Joe?

- Now listen, kid...
- She's not his girl, she knows she's not

- You can't read her mind
- Why is she still single?

New York is full of men, why isn't she married?

Probably a hundred people
told her she's foolish, but she's waited

How do you know why she's waited?

She knows what I know, that's why.
She's faithful as a rock

In my worst moments, I think of her waiting,
and I know again that I'm right

Look, it's a nice day. What are we arguing for?

No one in this house dast take her faith away.
Strangers might. Not his father, not his brother

What do you want me to do?
What do you want?

I want you to act like he's coming back.
Both of you

Don't think I haven't noticed you since Chris invited her.
I won't stand for any nonsense

- But, Kate...
- Because if he's not coming back, I'll kill myself

Laugh at me. Laugh. But why did that happen
on the very night she came back?

Laugh, but there are meanings in such things. She goes
to sleep in his room and his memorial breaks into pieces

Look at it. Look, Joe

Calm yourself

- Believe with me, Joe. I can't stand all alone
- Calm yourself

Only last week a man turned up in Detroit,
missing even longer than Larry. You read it yourself

- All right, all right, calm yourself
- You above all have got to believe

- Why me above all?
- Just don't stop believing

What does that mean, me above all?

Mr Keller! Say, Mr Keller, Tommy just said it again

Said what...? Who...?

- The dirty word
- Oh well...

Gee, aren't you going to arrest him?
I warned him

- Stop it. Bert, go home. There's no jail here
- Kate...

There's no jail here.
I want you to stop that jail business

- He's right across the street
- Go home, Bert!

I want you to stop it, Joe.
This whole jail business

- Look at you, look at you shaking
- I can't help it

What have I got to hide?
What the hell is the matter with you?

I'm not saying you had anything to hide,
I'm just telling you to stop it. Now stop it

Hiya, Joe!

Take a breath of that air, kid.
You never get air like that in New York

Annie, where did you get that dress?

I couldn't resist. I'm taking it right off before
I ruin it. How's that for three weeks' salary?

Isn't she the most...? It's gorgeous, simply...

No kidding, now,
isn't she the prettiest gal you ever saw?

- You gained a little weight, didn't you, darling?
- It comes and goes

Look how nice her legs turned out

- Boy, the poplars got thick, didn't they?
- It's been three years, Annie. We're getting old, kid

How does Mom like New York?

- Why'd they take our hammock away?
- No, it broke. Couple of years ago

What broke? He had one of his light lunches
and flopped into it

- Oh, excuse me!
- How do you do?

She looks very intelligent

- Ann, this is Jim... Doctor Bayliss
- Oh sure, he writes a lot about you

Don't believe it. He likes everybody

- In the Battalion he was known as Mother McKeller
- I can believe it

You know? It's so strange seeing him come out
of that yard. I guess I never grew up

It almost seems that Mom and Pop are in there now

And you and my brother doing algebra,
and Larry trying to copy my home-work

Gosh, those dear dead days beyond recall

Well, I hope that doesn't mean
you want me to move out?

Jim, come in here!
Mr Hubbard is on the phone

- I told you I don't want...
- Please, dear. Please!

All right, Susie. All right, all right

I've only met you, Ann,
but if I may offer you a bit of advice

When you marry, never, even in your mind,
never count your husband's money

- Jim!
- At once! At once

I told her to take up the guitar. It'd be
a common interest for them. He loves the guitar

Let's eat at the shore tonight

Let's raise some hell around here,
like we used to before Larry went

You think of him!
You see? She thinks of him

What do you mean, Kate?

Nothing. Just that you remember him,
he's in your thoughts

That's a funny thing to say.
How could I help remembering him?

- Did you hang up your things?
- Yeah

Say, you've sure gone in for clothes.
I could hardly find room in the closet

No, don't you remember? That's Larry's room

You mean... they're Larry's?

- Didn't you recognize them?
- Well, it never occurred to me that...

- I mean the shoes are all shined
- Yes, dear

For so long I have been aching for a nice
conversation with you, Annie. So tell me something

- What?
- I don't know. Something nice

- She means, do you go out much?
- Oh, shut up

- And are any of them serious?
- Why don't you both choke?

Annie, you can't go into a restaurant
with that woman any more

In five minutes there's thirty-nine strange people
sitting at the table just telling her their life story

If I can't ask Annie a personal question...

Asking is all right, but don't beat her over the head.
You're beating her, you're beating her

Don't let them bulldoze you. Ask me anything you like.
What do you want to know, Kate?

- Come on, let's gossip
- She's the only one is got any sense

- Your mother... she's not getting a divorce, huh?
- No, she's calmed down about it now

I think when he gets out they'll probably live together.
In New York, of course

That's fine. Because your father is still...
I mean he's a decent man, after all is said and done

I don't care. She can take him back if she likes

- And you? You go out much?
- You mean am I still waiting for him?

No, I don't expect you to wait for him, but...

- But that's what you mean, isn't it?
- Well... yes

- Well, I'm not, Kate
- You're not?

- Isn't it ridiculous? You don't really imagine he's...?
- I know, dear

But don't say it's ridiculous,
because the papers were full of it

I don't know about New York,
but there was a half a page here...

...about a man missing even longer than Larry
who turned up from Burma

He couldn't have wanted
to come home very badly, Mom

Don't be so smart

- You can have a helluva time in Burma
- So I've heard

Mother, I'll bet you money you're the only woman
in the country who after three years is still...

- You're sure?
- Yes, I am

Well, if you're sure, you're sure

They don't say it on the radio but I'm sure
in the dark at night they're still waiting for their sons

- Mother, you are absolutely the only...
- Don't be so damned smart! Now stop it

There are just a few things you don't know.
All of you. And I'll tell you one of them, Annie

Deep, deep in your heart
you have always been waiting for him

- No, Kate
- But deep in your heart, Annie

- She ought to know, Shouldn't she?
- Don't let them tell you what to think

- Listen to your heart. Only your heart
- Why does your heart tell you he's alive?

- Because he has to be
- But why, Kate?

Because certain things have to be,
and certain things can never be

Like the sun has to rise, it has to be.
That's why there's God

Otherwise anything could happen.
But there's God, so certain things can never happen

I would know, Annie, just like I knew
the day he went into that terrible battle

Did he write me? Was it in the papers? No.
But that morning I couldn't raise my head off the pillow

Ask Joe. Suddenly, I knew. I knew!
And he was nearly killed that day

Ann, you know that I'm right

No, Kate

I have to have some tea

Annie! How are you, gee whiz!

Why, Frank, you're losing your hair

- He's got responsibility
- Gee whiz!

Without Frank
the stars wouldn't know when to come out

- You look more womanly. You've matured
- Take it easy, Frank, you're a married man

- You still haberdashering?
- Why not? Maybe I too can get to be president

- How's your brother? Got his degree, I hear
- George, he has his own office now

Don't say!
And your dad? Is he...?

Fine. I'll be in to see Lydia

- How about it, does Dad expect a parole soon?
- I really don't know

I mean because I feel, y'know, that if
an intelligent man like your father is put in prison...

...there ought to be a law that says either
you execute him, or let him go after a year

- Want a hand with that ladder, Frank?
- That's all right, I'll...

I'll finish that horoscope tonight, Kate

See you later, Ann, you look wonderful

Haven't they stopped talking about Dad?

- Nobody talks about him any more
- Gone and forgotten, kid

Tell me. Because I don't want to meet
anybody on the block if they're...

I don't want you to worry about it

Do they still remember the case, Joe?
Do they talk about you?

The only one who still talks about it is my wife

That's because you keep on
playing policeman with the kids

All their parents hear out of you
is jail, jail, jail

Actually what happened was that when I got home
from the penitentiary all the kids got interested in me

You know kids.
I was like the expert on the jail situation

And after a while they got it confused
and I ended up the detective

Only they didn't get it confused. He hands out
police badges from the Post Toasties boxes

- Gosh, it's wonderful to hear you laughing about it
- Why, what'd you expect?

The last thing I remember on this block
was one word, 'Murderers!'

You remember that, Kate? Mrs Hammond
standing in front of our house and yelling that word

- She's still around, I suppose?
- They're all still around

Don't listen to her. Every Saturday night
the whole gang is playing poker in this arbour

And all the ones who yelled murderer
are taking my money now

Don't, Joe, she's a sensitive girl, don't fool her

They all still remember about Dad.
It's different with him

He was exonerated, but your father's still there

That's why I wasn't so enthusiastic about you coming.
I know how sensitive you are, and I told Chris...

Listen, you do like I did and you'll be all right

The day I come home, I got out of my car.
But not in front of the house. On the corner

You should've been there, Annie,
and you too, Chris, you'd have seen something

Everybody knew I was getting out that day
and the porches were loaded. Picture it now

None of them believed I was innocent. The story was,
I pulled a fast one getting myself exonerated

So I get out of my car, and I walk down the street.
But very slow. And with a smile

I was the beast. The beast, the guy who sold
cracked cylinder heads to the Army Air Force

The guy who made twenty-one P-40's crash in Australia

Kid, walking down the street that day
I was guilty as hell

Except I wasn't, because there was a court paper in my
pocket to prove I wasn't, and I walked past the porches

The result? Fourteen months later...

...I got one of the best shops in the state again,
I'm a respected man again, bigger than ever

- Joe McGuts
- That's the only way you lick 'em is guts

The worst thing you ever did
was moving away from here

You made it tough for your father when he gets out

That's why I tell you, I'd like to see him
move back right on this block

- How can they move back?
- It ain't gonna end till they move back

Till people play cards with him again,
and they talk with him, and they smile with him

You play cards with a man,
you know he can't be a murderer

The next time you write him I like you to tell him
just what I said. You hear me?

- Don't you hold anything against him?
- I never believed in crucifying people

He was your partner,
he dragged you through the mud

Well, he ain't my sweetheart,
but you gotta forgive, don't you?

- You, either, Kate? Don't you feel any...?
- The next time you write Dad...

- I don't write him
- Well every now and then you...

No, I've never written to him.
Neither has my brother

- Say, do you feel this way, too?
- He murdered twenty-one pilots

- What the hell kinda talk is that?
- That's not a thing to say about a man

What else can you say?

When they took him away I followed him, I went to him
every visiting day. I was crying all the time

Until the news came about Larry

Then I realized. It's wrong to pity a man like that

Father or no father, there's only one way to look at him

He knowingly shipped out parts
that would crash an airplane

And how do you know Larry wasn't one of them?

I was waiting for that

Ann, as long as you're here,
I want to ask you to never say that again

You surprise me. I thought you'd be mad at him

What your father did had nothing to do with Larry.
Nothing.

- But we can't know that
- As long as you're here

- But, Kate...
- Put it out of your mind

- Because...
- That's all, that's enough

Come inside now
and have some tea with me

- The one thing you...
- He's not dead, so there's no argument

- Now come
- In a minute

- Look, Annie...
- All right, Dad, stop it

- No, she dasn't feel that way. Annie...
- I'm sick of the whole subject, now cut it out

You want her to go on like that?
Those cylinder heads went into P-40's only

What's the matter with you?
You know that Larry never flew a P-40

So who flew those P-40's, pigs?

The man was a fool,
don't make a murderer out of him

You got no sense?
Look what it does to her

You gotta appreciate what was doing
in that shop in the war. The both of you

It was a madhouse.
The Major calling for cylinder heads every half hour

They were whipping us with the telephone lines
and the trucks were hauling them off hot, damn near

I mean you gotta see it human, see it human

All of a sudden a batch comes out with a crack

That happens. That's the business.
It's a fine hairline crack

What does your father do? He's a little man

He's a little man, always scared of loud voices

What'll the Major say? Half a day's production shot.
What'll I say? You gotta see it human

So he takes out his tools and he covers over the cracks.
And that's bad, it's wrong

But that's what a little man does

If I could have gone there that day
I'd have told him, junk 'em, we can afford it

But alone, he was afraid

But I know he meant no harm.
He believed a hundred percent that they'd hold up

That's a mistake, but it ain't murder

And you mustn't ever feel that way about him.
You understand me? That's not right

Joe, let's forget it

Annie, the day we got the news about Larry
he was in the next cell to mine, Dad

- He cried, Annie. He cried half the night
- He should have cried all night

- Annie, I do not understand...
- Are you going to stop it?

Don't yell at him. He just wants everybody happy

- That's my sentiment. Can you stand steak?
- And champagne

Now you're operating! I'll call Swanson's for a table

- We got a big night tonight, Annie
- Can't scare me

I like this girl. Wrap her up.
You got nice legs, Annie

I want to see everybody drunk tonight

- Look at him, he's blushing
- Drink your tea, Casanova

- He's a great guy, isn't he?
- You're the only one I know who loves his parents

- I know. It went out of style, didn't it?
- It's all right. It's a good thing

It's lovely here. The air is sweet

- You're not sorry you came?
- Not sorry, no

- But I'm not going to stay
- Why?

In the first place,
your mother as much as told me to go

- Well...
- You saw that. And then you've been kind of...

- What?
- Well... kind of embarrassed ever since I got here

The trouble is I planned on kind of sneaking
up on you over a period of a week or so

- But they take it for granted that we're all set
- I knew they would. Your mother anyway

- How did you know?
- From her point of view, why else would I come?

Well... would you want to?

I guess you know that's why I asked you to come

I guess this is why I came

Ann, I love you

I love you a great deal.
I love you

I have no imagination,
that's all I know to tell you

I'm embarrassing you.
I didn't want to tell it to you here

I wanted some place we'd never been,
a place where we'd be brand new to each other

You feel it's wrong here, don't you?
This yard, this chair?

I want you to be ready for me.
I don't want to win you away from anything

Chris, I've been ready a long, long time

- Then he's gone forever. You're sure?
- I almost got married two years ago

- Why didn't you?
- You started to write to me

- You felt something that far back?
- Every day since

- Ann, why didn't you let me know?
- I was waiting for you, Chris. Till then you never wrote

And when you did, what did you say?
You sure can be ambiguous, you know

Ann, give me a kiss. Give me a...

God, I kissed you

Annie, I kissed Annie!
How long, how long I've been waiting to kiss you!

I'll never forgive you.
Why did you wait all these years?

All I've done is sit and wonder
if I was crazy for thinking of you

Annie, we're going to live now!
I'm going to make you so happy

Not like that, you're not

- I kissed you
- Like Larry's brother

Do it like you, Chris

What is it?

- Let's drive some place. I want to be alone with you
- No

- What is it, Chris, your mother?
- No, nothing like that

Then what's wrong?
Even in your letters there was something ashamed

- Yes, I suppose I have been. But it's going from me
- You've got to tell me

- I don't know how to start
- It wouldn't work this way

It's all mixed up with so many other things

You remember, overseas,
I was in command of a company?

- Yeah, sure
- Well...

I lost them

- How many?
- Just about all

It takes a little time to toss that off.
Because they weren't just men

For instance, one time it'd been raining several days
and this kid came to me...

...and gave me his last pair of dry socks.
He put them in my pocket

That's just a little thing,
but that's the kind of guys I had

They didn't die.
They killed themselves for each other

I mean that exactly.
A little more selfish and they'd have been here today

And I got an idea watching them go down

Everything was being destroyed, see, but it
seemed to me that one new thing was being made

A kind of responsibility.
Man for man. You understand me?

To show that, to bring that on to the earth again
like some kind of a monument

And everybody would feel it standing there,
behind him, and it would make a difference to him

And then I came home and it was incredible

I... there was no meaning in it here

The whole thing to them
was a kind of a bus accident

I went to work with Dad, and that rat-race again

I felt what you said... ashamed somehow.
Because nobody had changed at all

It seemed to make suckers out of a lot of guys

I felt wrong to be alive, to open the bank-book,
to drive the new car, to see the new refrigerator

I mean you can take those things out of a war,
but when you drive that car...

...you've got to know that it came out of the love
a man can have for another man

You've got to be a little better because of that

Otherwise what you have is really loot,
and there's blood on it

I didn't want to take any of it.
And I guess that included you

- And you still feel that way?
- I want you now, Ann

Because you mustn't feel that way any more.
Because you have a right to everything you have

Everything, Chris, do you understand that?
To me, too

And the money,
there's nothing wrong in your money

Your father put hundreds of planes in the air,
you should be proud

A man should be paid for that

Oh Annie, Annie...
I'm going to make a fortune for you!

What'll I do with a fortune?

Hello? Yeah sure

Hey, Ann, your brother...

- What is this, Labour Day?
- All right, all right...

- You shouldn't burst out like that
- Nobody told me it was Labour Day

- Where are the hot dogs?
- All right. You said it once

As long as I know it's Labour Day,
from now on I'll wear a bell around my neck

- He's so subtle!
- George Bernard Shaw as an elephant

George... Hey, you kissed it out of my head.
Annie, your brother's on the phone

- My brother?
- Yeah, George. Long distance

What's the matter, is anything wrong?

I don't know, Kate's talking to him.
You better hurry up, or she'll cost him five dollars

I wonder if we ought to tell your mother yet?
I mean I'm not very good in an argument

We'll wait till tonight. After dinner.
Now don't get tense, leave everything it to me

- What're you telling her?
- Go ahead, Ann

We're getting married, Dad

- Well, don't you say anything?
- I'm glad, Chris, I'm just...

- George is calling from Columbus
- Columbus?

Annie didn't say anything
about him going to visit his father, did she?

No, I don't think she knew anything about it

Chris, you think you know her pretty good?

- What kind of a question...?
- I'm just wondering, you know

All these years
George never went to visit his father

All of a sudden he goes, and she comes here

- Well, what about it?
- It's crazy, but it comes to my mind

- She don't hold nothing against me, does she?
- I don't know what you're talking about

I'm just talking. To his last day in court
the man blamed it all on me. And this is his daughter

- I mean, if she was sent here to find out something?
- Why? What is there to find out?

Why are you so excited, George?
What happened there?

I mean if they want to open up the case again,
for the nuisance value, to hurt us?

- Dad... how could you think that of her?
- But what did he tell you, for God's sake?

It couldn't be, huh. You know that

- Dad, you amaze me
- All right

Hey, Chris. I want a clean start for you

I want a new sign over the plant,
'Christopher Keller, Incorporated'

'J.O. Keller' is good enough

We'll talk about that. I'm going to build you
a house, stone, with a driveway from the road

I want you to spread out, Chris,
I want you to use what I made for you

- I mean, with joy. Without shame, with joy
- I will, Dad

- Say it
- Why?

Because sometimes I think
you're ashamed of the money

No, don't feel that

Because it's good money,
there's nothing wrong with that money

Dad, you don't need to tell me that

Look, Chris, I'm going to work on your mother.
We'll get her so drunk tonight we'll all get married

There's gonna be a wedding, kid, like there
never was seen! Champagne, tuxedos...

Simply because when you get excited
you don't control yourself

Well, what did he tell you, for God's sake?

All right, come then. Yes, they'll all be here.
Nobody's running away from you

And try to get hold of yourself, will you?
All right, all right. Goodbye

- Something happen?
- He's coming here?

On the seven o'clock. He's in Columbus.
I told him it would be all right

- Sure, fine. Your father took sick?
- No, George didn't say he was sick. I...

I don't know, I suppose it's something stupid,
you know my brother

- Let 's go for a drive, or something
- Sure. Dad, give me the keys

Drive through the park, it's beautiful now

Come on, Annie.
Be right back

- See you
- Take your time

What does George want?

He's been in Columbus since this morning with Steve.
He's gotta see Annie right away, he says

- What for?
- I don't know

He's a lawyer now, Joe. George is a lawyer

All these years he never even sent a postcard to Steve

- Since he got back from the war, not a postcard
- So what?

Suddenly he takes an airplane
from New York to see him. An airplane!

- Well? So?
- Why?

- I don't read minds. Do you?
- Why, Joe?

What has Steve suddenly got to tell him
that he takes an airplane to see him?

What do I care what Steve's got to tell him?

- You're sure, Joe?
- Yes, I'm sure

Be smart now, Joe.
The boy is coming. Be smart

Once and for all, did you hear what I said?
I said I'm sure

All right. Just be smart