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Morning, Joe. Another one? In or out?
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Out. Rip Smith, Institute of Public Opinion.
Going bust.
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Rip Smith. 18th floor, inside office.
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Tall man, brown shoes, dark polished
three times a week. 25 cents tip.
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Too bad. Nice man.
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No wonder he's going bust. Getting public
opinions is a screwy way to make living.
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It's not screwy.
Lots of guys clean up. Look at Gallup.
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Big corporations pay money
to find out what we think.
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- They do?
- Sure. Take this cigar.
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People stop buying it. Sales fall.
Manufacturer wants to know why.
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I can tell him why in one word.
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George, is it true about Rip Smith?
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Yes. I saw them moving the furniture out.
Isn't it swell?
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Did you hear about Rip?
Mac cancelled his contract.
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- Morning.
- They're moving the furniture.
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He talked to me about jobs
for some of his people.
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What about himself?
Let's grab him before Gallup.
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- We've been discussing it.
- What's to discuss?
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Henry think we'd be foolish.
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- He's the hottest piece of manpower...
- Yes, he's brilliant.
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But too much of a dreamer to suit me.
To hear him talk, we're all idiots.
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Our method of polling public opinion
is ridiculous.
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We're wasting money polling people
all over the country.
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- He can do polls at a tenth of the cost.
- Maybe he can.
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He's working on a new scheme -
his mathematical miracle -
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how to question 50-100 people
perhaps in one town
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and find out how
the whole country's thinking.
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- If it could be done, he'd make a fortune.
- Lf? He's out of business.
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- Because he operated on a shoestring.
- Poppycock.
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What makes you think he'd come with us?
He's determined to go it alone.
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We'll get him, don't worry.
In his present condition, he's a cinch.
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Yes, sir.
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Like I said to my wife,
asking too many questions don't pay off.
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"When I got your letter, I tested public
opinion on the subject you suggested
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"and here's the result - in favour, 69.1,
not in favour, 22.6, don't knows, 8.3..."
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We just laid one egg, what are
you hatching now? What are they about?
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- Who's that from, Mr Twiddle?
- You're awake?
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Frederick Hoopendecker. A schoolteacher.
Shall I go on?
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Sergeant Hoopendecker. What a man.
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- Handled a bazooka like a toy pistol.
- Shall I go on?
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Getting a bunch of ex-doughfeet
to canvas their home towns!
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What for?
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I'm still hunting for that short cut, Ike.
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- Mathematical miracle.
- Shall I go on?
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No. I thought I had an idea. File that
with the rest of them, Mr Twiddle.
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- Everybody get paid off?
- Uh-huh.
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Why don't you give up?
Stop chasing rainbows.
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- Go to work for somebody.
- We could put a bowling alley in here.
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A lot of good guys got kicked around.
They're not out to capture the world.
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A dancing academy maybe. May I?
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- Stop it. This is no time to...
- It's good for the soul.
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(HE WHISTLES A WALTZ)
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- What do you think you're doing?
- Mr Stringer.
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- Thank you.
- Thank you.
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I've got a proposition, Rip. There might
be an opening in our outfit for you
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if you'll accept a reasonable salary
and 10% of the profits.
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- You can bring Ike and Mr... er...
- Twiddle.
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- Twiddle.
- Thanks, Charlie. I'll think about it.
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Think about it?
Rip, you're in no position to be fussy.
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You and your mathematical miracles.
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Look at the job you did for Mac.
No wonder he cancelled.
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We released our figures today.
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Look at it. You weren't even close.
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You can't do polls without national
coverage and that takes a lot of money.
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There are no short cuts.
Why are you grinning?
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Charlie, I love you.
With all my heart, I love you!
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But the answer's no.
Yup, it's no. See you around.
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Give me that.
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- Get off that desk!
- What?
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Lock that door.
If I can just find this letter.
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Here it is. This might be it, Ike.
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My short cut. Look at Hoopendecker's
letter and Stringer's figures.
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Stringer canvassed thousands of people,
Hoopendecker only a handful in one town.
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Look at the results. 69.1... 69.1.
They're identical!
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This might be it. One small town
that thinks exactly the way the nation does.
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- You're talking about Utopia.
- Maybe. We'll find out now.
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Get me the almanac... No, I'll get it.
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Call up the Census Bureau
and get Hoopendecker.
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No, no. I can get the national figures
from the almanac, I want Grandview.
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How about the sex ratio?
Males to females?
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- Prohibition?
- About 1,400. I got it.
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OK. Democrats? Republicans?
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I knew it! I knew
there was a town like this.
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Even the population breaks down
like the country.
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The same percentage of males, females,
Democrats, Republicans, everything!
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Hello? Yeah, I'm still here.
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We'll have to poll the same people
over and over.
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It'll be good for years, but sooner or later
they'll get self-conscious.
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They can't know what we're doing there.
We need a cover.
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We're three insurance salesmen
from Hartford.
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Insurance? Oh, my. Talking to a man
about when he's going to die.
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Hello? That's what I said, Mac.
I can deliver too.
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Stringer's been doing a poll for you
on progressive education for months.
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Suppose I start now
and finish ahead of him?
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It IS possible!
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I'll come within one per cent.
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I'm not going to tell you how.
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No other outfit is gonna find out.
I can make a million bucks on this.
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What? Yeah.
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Let me understand this. If this thing goes
over, you'll renew my contract, right?
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That's all I want to know. OK, Mac. Thanks.
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Grandview, you good old mathematical
miracle, here we come!
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Hi, Grandview.
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The moment Columbus sighted land
must have been like this.
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- Would you mind moving?
- Excuse me.
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Bus for Moody's Mansion House
leaving right away!
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- Moody's Mansion House?
- The hotel.
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That's a perfect name for the hotel.
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00:10:02,584 --> 00:10:05,965
Maybe it is and maybe it ain't.
You wanna go there?
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00:10:06,133 --> 00:10:11,937
Yeah. See that fellow over there with the
bags, looks like he popped out of Dickens?
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- Can you tell him to check in for us?
- Yes, sir.
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Moody's Mansion House. Wonderful.
Moody's Mansion House.
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How do you do?
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It's wonderful to be around a town
that you know like an old family album.
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Look at that fellow. I know all about him.
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He's married. He has 1.7 children.
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Out of his income, 11.2 is rent, 23.5 food,
17.2 for clothing...
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Poor guy is a series of fractions. He
ought to stop acting like a human being.
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Hello...
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- Glad to see you again.
- Glad to see you!
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- How have you been?
- Fine. And you?
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- Can't complain. You're looking well.
- Thanks. You seem fit yourself.
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Not bad for an old man.
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- How have you been?
- Can't complain. And you?
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Fine, fine.
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- Glad to have seen you again.
- Glad to have seen you.
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Who was that?
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- Who's that?
- I don't know.
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- Sure you don't know him?
- No, I don't.
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- If he knows who you are, we're sunk.
- He was just being friendly.
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- Where's Professor Hoopendecker?
- I don't know. He ain't down here.
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- Wise guy!
- Thanks.
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- Wow!
- Did you see that?
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- All the way from there.
- That was really something.
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Company, atten-shun! Hit the dirt!
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Rip! Rip Smith!
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Good old Sergeant Hoopendecker.
Hi, dirty face.
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Mon capitaine, je vous aime!
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Ratted.
It took me years to build up dignity.
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Rip Smith? So that's who he is.
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Sorry I couldn't meet you.
We're having exams.
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The survey I did was good, huh?
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- Right on the nose for the nation.
- You don't say?
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- What about this insurance thing?
- We can sell insurance if we have to.
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- Is that him, Mr Hoopendecker?
- Sure. That's he.
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- Jeepers. Rip Smith.
- Mr Hoopendecker said you were coming.
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We read about you
in the basketball guide.
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I'm coaching them. Here's my assistant.
The mascot of the team.
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- Hi.
- Hi, Rip.
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What's going on down there?
It's a nickel a look.
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- (BELL RINGS)
- That's the bell. Move along, boys.
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- Bye, Rip.
- Bye.
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- Have you seen anyone yet?
- No. I'm seeing the mayor now.
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Meet me after school.
I'll introduce you to folks.
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OK. So long, dirty face.
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How do you do?
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- The very idea!
- Imagine doing such a thing!
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- Wait here, please.
- Thank you.
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Where'd you go to?
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Dropped in on my pal Hoopendecker.
Why, what goes on here?
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00:15:06,797 --> 00:15:09,594
His Honour the Mayor's in conference.
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Ah. What a town. We put the decimal
points in the right place and we're home.
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Yes. Let's pray these good people
stay average and don't change.
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They haven't changed in 50 years.
Forget it.
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These changes will make this town.
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The park and playground will be here.
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The hospital and the nursery here.
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The library here and the high school here.
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As mayor I'm neutral - a servant of
the people - but this plan's preposterous.
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- Isn't it preposterous, Richard?
- I'm tired of it.
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She's been coming before the council
for years.
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It's like a filibuster.
There ought to be a law against...
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Now, Lou, the girl has a right
to speak her piece.
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All right.
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Thanks, Mr Nickleby. And I'll exercise
that right at every council meeting
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until you realise Grandview
needs a new civic centre.
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- It's all right, Mr Mayor. You're excused.
- Excuse me.
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What is it? You said it was important.
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My name's Lawrence Smith.
This is Mr Sloan.
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- We thought you could help us out...
- Just a moment.
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Notes for visitors' diary.
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At 9.46, a gentleman by the name
of Lawrence Smith came in.
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"Visitors are welcome," I said.
"What can I do for you?"
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What can I do for you?
Speak up, young man, speak up.
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We want to open an insurance office.
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We thought you could recommend
a real estate agent.
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Mr Smith requested that I recommend
a real estate agent.
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"You place me in a difficult position,"
I said. "A mayor cannot show partiality."
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Just a minute. I'll get Lou Dickens
out here. Best real estate man in town.
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Rest of them aren't worth a hoot.
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What about the upkeep?
That means more watchacallit... taxes.
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Excuse me.
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Why not approve the plan
and let the voters decide?
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Mr Nickleby's being very unselfish about this.
As the leading contractor, he'd benefit.
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- We can't afford anything so ambitious.
- Improvements will attract new people,
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new wealth, so we could afford it.
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Glad to be of watchacallit... service.
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Like a fella says... thank you.
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Change this, change that.
How big a town do you want?
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Of course I want changes. It's about time
we made it a decent place to live in.
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Changes.
There goes your mathematical miracle.
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- This is a very fine community!
- It's a beautiful community!
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I beg your pardon. I didn't mean to butt in.
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That's all right. Come in.
What do you think of Grandview?
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Think of it?! I've been searching
for a town like this for years.
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You like it? Speak up, young man.
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When I got off that train,
I said to myself, "This is it."
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I've just walked through your town
with its shade trees and lovely parks.
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I stood before your impressive buildings
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and thought, "Here's a challenge
to the evils of the modern era."
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I watched your people on the street
and felt their vitality and sense of security.
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- All in less than one hour.
- Hmm?
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Your children are happy. Happy.
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You can see it in their dear faces
and hear it in their wholesome talk.
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Oh, there's beauty here.
It's almost indescribable.
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You're used to it. You take it for granted.
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To me, it's a hope and a dream
of a lifetime.
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I too want to become a part of it.
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Please don't change it.
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I'm very sorry. I didn't mean to intrude.
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He's right. Absolutely right.
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That makes me proud.
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00:20:05,959 --> 00:20:11,178
- That's the kind of man this town needs.
- I move to forget this nonsense.
224
00:20:11,345 --> 00:20:14,016
- All those in favour?
- Aye!
225
00:20:14,184 --> 00:20:17,732
- Meeting adjourned.
- A stranger made us see sense.
226
00:20:17,900 --> 00:20:20,739
Let's hear no more about this civic centre.
227
00:20:20,906 --> 00:20:22,784
You fascinate me.
228
00:20:22,952 --> 00:20:25,790
We nearly fell for that scheme of Mary's.
229
00:20:31,261 --> 00:20:34,851
Ed Schwarz, I want you to meet
Laurence Smith.
230
00:20:35,018 --> 00:20:37,315
- How do you do?
- Mel Hanley.
231
00:20:37,483 --> 00:20:39,570
How do you do?
232
00:20:39,737 --> 00:20:45,248
Hey, fellas. I want you to meet my friend
Laurence Smith. Insurance.
233
00:20:45,416 --> 00:20:49,298
- Welcome to Grandview.
- Any friend of Hoopendecker's welcome.
234
00:20:49,465 --> 00:20:51,301
Thank you.
235
00:20:51,469 --> 00:20:55,978
Everything takes place here -
political rallies, concerts, dances.
236
00:20:56,146 --> 00:20:58,233
Hey, there it is.
237
00:21:04,038 --> 00:21:07,795
Great American institution -
the pot-bellied stove.
238
00:21:07,962 --> 00:21:13,181
That one's been there for over 100 years.
Folks wouldn't throw it away.
239
00:21:13,349 --> 00:21:16,688
Sit round it and find out
what Grandview's thinking.
240
00:21:16,855 --> 00:21:20,069
- And what the country's thinking.
- Yeah.
241
00:21:20,237 --> 00:21:23,452
If you want to find our Senator...
242
00:21:24,162 --> 00:21:28,837
Yup. I'm right. Senator Wilton,
meet my friend Laurence Smith.
243
00:21:30,467 --> 00:21:33,013
- Glad to see you.
- Glad to see you.
244
00:21:33,181 --> 00:21:35,017
Oh, yes!
245
00:21:37,982 --> 00:21:41,615
This is Senator Wilton.
United States Senator Wilton.
246
00:21:41,782 --> 00:21:44,829
No wonder your face was familiar!
247
00:21:44,997 --> 00:21:49,548
The Senator was brought up in Grandview.
Comes back to visit.
248
00:21:49,715 --> 00:21:54,265
Pressure in Washington gets strong,
easy to lose your perspective.
249
00:21:54,433 --> 00:21:58,984
- Issues become very simple in this room.
- I imagine so.
250
00:21:59,152 --> 00:22:02,408
There's something in the paper about you.
251
00:22:02,575 --> 00:22:04,663
Here, Senator.
252
00:22:06,584 --> 00:22:09,214
They don't seem to like you.
253
00:22:09,381 --> 00:22:12,261
- Here, under Town Tidbits.
- Here?
254
00:22:13,473 --> 00:22:19,902
"The incident at the council meeting
indicates a complete lack of grace."
255
00:22:22,826 --> 00:22:28,545
"On his first day here, Mr Smith managed
to poke his unwelcome proboscis
256
00:22:28,712 --> 00:22:31,718
"into local affairs." That's pretty cute.
257
00:22:31,886 --> 00:22:35,017
"If you're here to sell insurance, Mr Smith,
258
00:22:35,184 --> 00:22:39,400
"you'd do well to start building goodwill
and confidence."
259
00:22:39,568 --> 00:22:42,574
Where's the slaughterhouse
that does this?
260
00:22:42,742 --> 00:22:47,042
- Down the street. I'll go with you.
- I'll handle it. Excuse me.
261
00:22:47,209 --> 00:22:52,094
- Take it easy. They're a tough crew.
- I can be tough myself.
262
00:23:08,671 --> 00:23:12,678
I want to see the editor
of this imitation newspaper!
263
00:23:34,349 --> 00:23:36,478
Please say that again.
264
00:23:36,645 --> 00:23:41,529
- I want to know...
- No. The same words in the same way.
265
00:23:41,698 --> 00:23:46,624
You can bang the counter if you wish.
Please?
266
00:23:49,004 --> 00:23:53,305
I want to see the editor
of this imitation newspaper!
267
00:23:54,641 --> 00:23:56,060
Thank you.
268
00:24:09,714 --> 00:24:12,427
What's this all about?
269
00:24:12,594 --> 00:24:15,808
Your voice. It's the spitting image of his.
270
00:24:15,976 --> 00:24:18,899
- Never heard the likes of it.
- Never did.
271
00:24:19,067 --> 00:24:22,239
- Spitting image of who?
- He said the same thing.
272
00:24:22,406 --> 00:24:26,206
- And bang on the counter too.
- Every morning.
273
00:24:26,373 --> 00:24:30,130
- That was his little joke.
- Whose joke?
274
00:24:39,024 --> 00:24:41,320
- Who's he?
- Lou Peterman.
275
00:24:41,487 --> 00:24:43,240
- Her husband.
- The editor.
276
00:24:43,409 --> 00:24:46,164
That's the fella I want. Where's he?
277
00:24:46,331 --> 00:24:50,756
Lou got a little tired about ten years ago,
almost 11.
278
00:24:50,924 --> 00:24:53,972
- Just about.
- The year I got my new uppers.
279
00:24:54,139 --> 00:24:57,186
Went out on the porch to take a nap...
280
00:24:57,354 --> 00:25:02,030
- He was more tired than he thought.
- It was a wonderful funeral.
281
00:25:02,198 --> 00:25:05,537
- Everybody in town came.
- And from out of town.
282
00:25:05,704 --> 00:25:10,547
- Lem Simpson was a pallbearer.
- Stayed sober all day.
283
00:25:10,715 --> 00:25:12,677
Just out of respect.
284
00:25:12,844 --> 00:25:15,557
Your voice is the spitting image.
285
00:25:19,692 --> 00:25:24,660
Well, young man, what is it?
You came in to make a complaint.
286
00:25:26,873 --> 00:25:29,504
This story about me. Have you seen it?
287
00:25:29,671 --> 00:25:31,591
- Yes.
- What's the idea?
288
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:34,346
- Are the facts incorrect?
- No.
289
00:25:34,514 --> 00:25:36,685
- Is your name spelt wrong?
- No.
290
00:25:36,853 --> 00:25:40,276
- Then what's your complaint?
- It's snide.
291
00:25:40,443 --> 00:25:45,370
Taking advantage of an innocent stranger.
What kind of hospitality is that?
292
00:25:45,537 --> 00:25:49,336
Those nasty little digs.
No decent newspaper...
293
00:25:49,504 --> 00:25:54,514
If you want to attack our policy,
write us a letter and we'll print it.
294
00:25:54,681 --> 00:26:00,484
In the meantime, you can complain
to the acting editor who wrote the story.
295
00:26:00,651 --> 00:26:04,117
OK. I'll talk to the acting acting editor.
296
00:26:04,285 --> 00:26:07,123
I've got it! A three-position signal.
297
00:26:07,290 --> 00:26:09,377
Ouch and McOuch.
298
00:26:27,707 --> 00:26:30,171
Jiggle it. Try jiggling it.
299
00:26:35,432 --> 00:26:38,397
Sometimes they start
when you jiggle them.
300
00:26:41,820 --> 00:26:44,324
(TRAIN WHISTLES)
301
00:26:45,619 --> 00:26:47,456
See?
302
00:26:56,267 --> 00:26:57,978
- Nice?
- Very nice.
303
00:26:58,146 --> 00:26:59,523
- Lovely.
- Beautiful.
304
00:26:59,691 --> 00:27:01,486
Pass me Panther.
305
00:27:02,363 --> 00:27:03,907
Sweetie.
306
00:27:21,485 --> 00:27:23,656
You wished to see me?
307
00:27:23,824 --> 00:27:27,456
Yes. I wanted to thank you
for that nice story you wrote.
308
00:27:27,623 --> 00:27:31,965
- I thought you came in to complain.
- Me? Not at all.
309
00:27:32,133 --> 00:27:35,806
There's one thing worse
than being talked about...
310
00:27:35,974 --> 00:27:38,812
(BOTH) And that's not being talked about.
311
00:27:40,192 --> 00:27:44,366
- Then you won't mind my second story.
- Not at all.
312
00:27:44,533 --> 00:27:46,912
Not at all...
313
00:27:48,625 --> 00:27:51,631
No use looking. This isn't it.
314
00:27:52,383 --> 00:27:59,063
As a matter of fact, I was just admiring
how your hair sweeps up from your neck.
315
00:28:03,823 --> 00:28:06,119
My, my, a real sharpie.
316
00:28:07,331 --> 00:28:11,505
Now, look. Look at this story
you wrote about me.
317
00:28:11,673 --> 00:28:14,762
Look, it says here...
318
00:28:22,821 --> 00:28:27,038
Quote - "If you're really here
to sell insurance, Mr Smith,
319
00:28:27,205 --> 00:28:31,797
"you'd do well..." And so on. Why that?
That creates suspicion.
320
00:28:31,965 --> 00:28:36,934
Grandview is already overcrowded
with insurance agents.
321
00:28:37,101 --> 00:28:41,192
A clever man like you would stay away.
Simple.
322
00:28:41,359 --> 00:28:45,534
A clever man like me doesn't mind
competition. He has ideas.
323
00:28:45,702 --> 00:28:48,582
He sees insurance as long range.
324
00:28:48,750 --> 00:28:53,802
He doesn't care if he never sells
a policy... for six months or a year.
325
00:28:53,969 --> 00:28:56,766
Would you like to write a little retraction?
326
00:28:56,933 --> 00:29:02,737
Say you were a bit hasty and Smith's
a charming fellow. Would you do that?
327
00:29:08,249 --> 00:29:10,670
No, I guess you wouldn't.
328
00:29:13,342 --> 00:29:16,765
I'm going to get a soda. You take Panther.
329
00:29:17,810 --> 00:29:20,774
Sis, I got a scoop. Who do you think's in town?
330
00:29:20,942 --> 00:29:24,281
I met him too. Rip Smith.
He was over at school...
331
00:29:24,448 --> 00:29:27,454
- Hi, Bob.
- Hello, Mr Smith.
332
00:29:27,622 --> 00:29:31,087
We were just going to the hotel to see you.
333
00:29:31,254 --> 00:29:36,431
Mr Hoopendecker said it was all right. He
says you're the greatest guy in the world.
334
00:29:36,599 --> 00:29:40,398
- I think he exaggerates.
- He said you'd do it.
335
00:29:40,565 --> 00:29:43,530
- Do what?
- Coach the basketball team.
336
00:29:43,697 --> 00:29:47,036
- Would you, Mr Smith?
- I'll leave you two.
337
00:29:47,204 --> 00:29:52,715
- Would you?
- Sure. I want to talk to your sister first.
338
00:29:52,883 --> 00:29:56,431
(ROMANTIC BIG BAND MUSIC PLAYS)
339
00:29:57,726 --> 00:29:59,813
Make that two, will you?
340
00:30:01,443 --> 00:30:04,615
- I ordered a headache powder.
- Just what I need.
341
00:30:04,782 --> 00:30:11,170
Don't go. I expect to be around here for
quite a spell. You have to get used to me.
342
00:30:12,089 --> 00:30:17,140
Perhaps you're right. I've got used to
the other weird goblins in this town.
343
00:30:17,851 --> 00:30:21,525
Goblin, huh? How does that go?
344
00:30:21,693 --> 00:30:25,366
"You better mind your parents
and your teachers fond and dear
345
00:30:25,533 --> 00:30:29,541
"And cherish them that loves you
and dry the orphan's tear
346
00:30:29,709 --> 00:30:32,589
"Help the poor and needy ones
clustered all about
347
00:30:32,757 --> 00:30:35,971
"Or the goblins will get you
if you don't watch out."
348
00:30:36,139 --> 00:30:39,855
That's "The Goblins Will Get You
If You Don't Watch Out."
349
00:30:40,022 --> 00:30:42,735
That's "Little Orphan Annie."
350
00:30:43,445 --> 00:30:49,457
By golly, that's right.
Oh, headache powder. Chocolate flavour.
351
00:30:59,938 --> 00:31:03,905
- Tell me about this civic centre of yours.
- Why?
352
00:31:05,032 --> 00:31:07,119
I'm just interested.
353
00:31:07,287 --> 00:31:10,125
After the way you shot your big mouth off?
354
00:31:11,211 --> 00:31:15,887
Not knowing anything about it either.
I hope it didn't do any harm.
355
00:31:16,055 --> 00:31:20,898
- Only set progress back a few years.
- It did?
356
00:31:21,066 --> 00:31:26,326
I'm sorry. Maybe I can make up for it.
Help in some way.
357
00:31:26,493 --> 00:31:29,039
Tell me about it.
358
00:31:32,005 --> 00:31:35,010
- Why did you do it?
- What?
359
00:31:35,178 --> 00:31:37,307
Butt into the meeting.
360
00:31:37,474 --> 00:31:40,480
I was just busting with good spirits.
361
00:31:40,648 --> 00:31:44,113
The town looked perfect
so why would you change it?
362
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:47,161
Sure there wasn't some other reason?
363
00:31:49,207 --> 00:31:51,962
If there was, it escapes me at the moment.
364
00:31:55,052 --> 00:32:00,396
Some of the fellas have got to go home
and we thought maybe for a starter
365
00:32:00,564 --> 00:32:03,319
you could explain the back pass dilemma.
366
00:32:03,486 --> 00:32:07,912
- It says Rip Smith used it to perfection.
- It does?
367
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:12,254
- The what dilemma?
- Quiet, please. This is technical talk.
368
00:32:12,421 --> 00:32:16,805
Sure. I can show you. It's very simple.
Anybody got a pencil?
369
00:32:18,142 --> 00:32:20,312
Get up around here.
370
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:24,655
We're on the attacking team.
I have the ball.
371
00:32:24,823 --> 00:32:28,580
Here I am. Here's my guard. Here you are.
372
00:32:28,747 --> 00:32:30,876
There's your guard.
373
00:32:31,043 --> 00:32:35,761
I pass to you and move in your direction.
My guard crosses to cover me.
374
00:32:35,929 --> 00:32:41,482
Then I fall in behind you like that. That
brings the two guards close together.
375
00:32:41,649 --> 00:32:44,362
You back pass to me and cut like that.
376
00:32:44,530 --> 00:32:50,668
Your guard crosses, bumps into his
own man and you've got an easy layout.
377
00:32:54,217 --> 00:32:56,262
See?
378
00:33:03,277 --> 00:33:07,995
There's nothing to it.
Give me the ball. I'll demonstrate.
379
00:33:09,039 --> 00:33:11,168
That's the best part.
380
00:33:11,335 --> 00:33:14,299
You be his guard, you be my guard.
381
00:33:19,686 --> 00:33:23,276
Follow me, men. All out here.
382
00:33:23,443 --> 00:33:28,787
We'll use that tree for a basket.
We'll line up a defence right here.
383
00:33:28,955 --> 00:33:32,754
You be his guard
and you be his guard, right?
384
00:33:32,922 --> 00:33:36,345
Remember what I told you.
Pass, follow the pass,
385
00:33:36,513 --> 00:33:38,892
back pass, loop pass, boomeroom.
386
00:33:39,059 --> 00:33:41,480
You check on this.
387
00:33:43,611 --> 00:33:47,201
- Over here, Shorty.
- Pass it!
388
00:33:47,368 --> 00:33:49,998
Come on, Bob. Let me have it.
389
00:33:53,172 --> 00:33:58,098
That wasn't bad. All but the boomeroom.
Let's try some baskets.
390
00:34:01,398 --> 00:34:03,026
Oh-oh.
391
00:34:07,410 --> 00:34:10,667
Someone's gonna have to climb a tree.
392
00:34:11,878 --> 00:34:14,591
Shorty, come here.
393
00:34:14,758 --> 00:34:16,302
Allez-oop!
394
00:34:20,270 --> 00:34:22,148
Can you reach it?
395
00:34:28,955 --> 00:34:31,000
(DOG BARKS)
396
00:34:37,806 --> 00:34:42,398
It's easy, Ike.
You start gabbing about insurance
397
00:34:42,566 --> 00:34:47,201
and then very gradually,
you sneak up on your subjects.
398
00:34:47,368 --> 00:34:53,380
Talk about his life expectancy, but find out
what he thinks of progressive education.
399
00:34:53,548 --> 00:34:55,635
Right. Here we go.
400
00:34:55,802 --> 00:34:59,308
(MUSIC SWELLS)
401
00:35:51,041 --> 00:35:56,678
What did I tell you? Isn't this beautiful?
You can see the whole town from here.
402
00:35:56,845 --> 00:35:59,683
If I get to New York,
I'll show you the sights.
403
00:35:59,851 --> 00:36:02,815
I brought the kids up here.
Good for their legs.
404
00:36:02,983 --> 00:36:06,197
I don't expect to make the basketball team.
405
00:36:06,365 --> 00:36:09,454
Don't be such an old whiney worm.
406
00:36:09,621 --> 00:36:14,506
- A what?
- Whiney worm. Always whining.
407
00:36:14,674 --> 00:36:20,519
Just relax. When you come face to face
with sheer beauty, just...
408
00:36:22,607 --> 00:36:24,736
...let go.
409
00:36:28,660 --> 00:36:32,167
- Whose idea was it? Yours?
- What?
410
00:36:32,335 --> 00:36:35,466
The plan. The civic centre.
411
00:36:35,633 --> 00:36:38,514
That was a legacy from my father.
412
00:36:39,809 --> 00:36:43,775
He worked on it for years.
Never could put it over.
413
00:36:43,942 --> 00:36:47,282
- But you will.
- You bet.
414
00:36:47,450 --> 00:36:51,082
You set me back a bit, but I'll put it over.
415
00:36:51,249 --> 00:36:54,380
It's the only thing my father left
when he died.
416
00:36:54,547 --> 00:37:00,392
"It's my one possession," he said.
"A worthwhile job to do. It's yours.
417
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:03,440
"Consider yourself rich."
418
00:37:05,822 --> 00:37:08,243
I thought he left you the newspaper.
419
00:37:09,161 --> 00:37:12,626
No. We just work there.
Ben Moody owns it.
420
00:37:12,794 --> 00:37:15,592
Oh. Moody's Mansion House.
421
00:37:17,846 --> 00:37:23,858
You call yourself acting editor.
Who's the editor? Mr Moody?
422
00:37:24,026 --> 00:37:28,367
No. Papa. There can only be
one editor for that paper.
423
00:37:28,535 --> 00:37:31,374
He still runs it, sort of.
424
00:37:32,585 --> 00:37:36,050
- I like that.
- You sound like him.
425
00:37:37,303 --> 00:37:40,226
Sometimes you even look like him.
426
00:37:41,270 --> 00:37:43,983
But you're not like him at all.
427
00:37:44,151 --> 00:37:50,414
Papa wasn't so desperate. What
are you desperate for? Money? Power?
428
00:37:51,583 --> 00:37:55,173
You been reading the bumps on my head?
429
00:37:55,340 --> 00:37:59,849
The air becomes charged with electricity
around desperate men.
430
00:38:00,017 --> 00:38:03,315
I always feel it when I'm near Nickleby.
431
00:38:03,482 --> 00:38:06,697
I feel it now. Strong.
432
00:38:08,535 --> 00:38:11,791
- Having fun?
- Mm. Do you mind?
433
00:38:11,958 --> 00:38:13,753
No.
434
00:38:15,424 --> 00:38:18,429
What is that? Let me see it.
435
00:38:18,597 --> 00:38:21,018
MT14 rheostat.
436
00:38:21,185 --> 00:38:24,525
Controls the speed of that train
in the window.
437
00:38:26,238 --> 00:38:28,826
Was your childhood terribly ugly?
438
00:38:30,538 --> 00:38:34,171
That model train is a very professional job.
439
00:38:34,338 --> 00:38:37,427
- Girl mechanic.
- Was it?
440
00:38:38,471 --> 00:38:44,442
It was cloistered - Swiss governess,
Lord Fauntleroy suits, that type of thing.
441
00:38:44,609 --> 00:38:47,614
There's one thing that doesn't add up.
442
00:38:47,782 --> 00:38:51,540
Electric currents
and selling insurance in Grandview.
443
00:38:53,294 --> 00:38:58,763
- Maybe you need a new crystal ball.
- My old one's all right.
444
00:38:59,891 --> 00:39:02,479
Want to know what I see in it?
445
00:39:04,024 --> 00:39:07,948
Before you're through,
you'll run for mayor of this town.
446
00:39:12,459 --> 00:39:15,840
The awful part is
I'll probably vote for you.
447
00:39:35,423 --> 00:39:37,552
He and his brother were river rats.
448
00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:41,601
People would throw coins
and they'd dive for them.
449
00:39:41,769 --> 00:39:44,191
It meant food for the family.
450
00:39:45,736 --> 00:39:49,075
He wants security, sure, in his fist.
451
00:39:49,243 --> 00:39:51,330
Yes, of course.
452
00:39:51,497 --> 00:39:55,881
- Hey, sis, gonna watch us practise?
- No, darling. I have a meeting.
453
00:39:56,049 --> 00:39:57,677
So long.
454
00:40:02,730 --> 00:40:05,652
- What else, Hoop?
- That's all I know.
455
00:40:05,819 --> 00:40:11,122
I've gotta go. I've got papers to mark.
Night, Mary. Thanks for dinner.
456
00:40:14,671 --> 00:40:17,843
- Ladies' meeting over yet?
- Just about.
457
00:40:18,011 --> 00:40:20,266
Yup. Just about.
458
00:40:20,433 --> 00:40:25,192
- Goodnight, Mary. Wonderful meeting.
- Goodnight.
459
00:40:25,359 --> 00:40:30,703
The basketball dance will be held a week
Saturday at the Town Meeting Hall.
460
00:40:30,871 --> 00:40:34,670
That's plush.
That's the night of the Waverley game.
461
00:40:34,837 --> 00:40:37,676
- We'll pin their ears back.
- Goodnight.
462
00:40:37,844 --> 00:40:39,388
Goodnight.
463
00:40:41,017 --> 00:40:42,895
- Hi.
- Hi.
464
00:40:44,774 --> 00:40:47,906
- How did it go tonight?
- Good.
465
00:40:48,073 --> 00:40:52,581
Good, good, good.
Did you go to school here?
466
00:40:52,749 --> 00:40:56,590
- Mmm.
- These are graduation pictures?
467
00:40:56,758 --> 00:41:02,352
I'll be darned. Look at that.
Wonderful. Are you here?
468
00:41:02,519 --> 00:41:05,859
- Yeah.
- Wait a minute. Don't show me.
469
00:41:06,027 --> 00:41:09,617
There. I knew you right off.
470
00:41:09,785 --> 00:41:12,165
Go on. I showed you.
471
00:41:12,332 --> 00:41:17,508
No, you didn't. It's simple.
You got the same...
472
00:41:17,676 --> 00:41:19,888
Same this.
473
00:41:21,017 --> 00:41:26,319
Same firecracker eyes.
You were pretty then too.
474
00:41:27,363 --> 00:41:30,202
- Think so?
- Yeah.
475
00:41:31,205 --> 00:41:33,041
Very pretty.
476
00:41:34,210 --> 00:41:39,554
Well, that's Helen Kleinspiegel.
This is me over here.
477
00:41:46,151 --> 00:41:48,406
Wise guy, huh?
478
00:41:50,578 --> 00:41:56,340
That's amazing. That grew up to be you?
479
00:42:02,936 --> 00:42:05,358
What an age we're living in.
480
00:42:09,450 --> 00:42:14,210
There's a smell about a classroom
that always gets me.
481
00:42:14,377 --> 00:42:19,428
You went to school here, huh?
What do you know?
482
00:42:19,596 --> 00:42:21,892
- In this very classroom?
- Uh-huh.
483
00:42:22,059 --> 00:42:24,147
I'll be darned.
484
00:42:24,315 --> 00:42:26,986
- Where did you sit?
- Over there.
485
00:42:27,153 --> 00:42:29,282
In the front row?
486
00:42:29,450 --> 00:42:32,289
You had to stay awake all the time.
487
00:42:33,667 --> 00:42:38,008
I always had trouble
with these legs of mine.
488
00:42:38,176 --> 00:42:43,312
Always stuck out in the aisle like this.
People kept tripping over them.
489
00:42:43,479 --> 00:42:48,572
One day, the teacher was walking
down the aisle and went kerplunk.
490
00:42:48,739 --> 00:42:52,205
- Oh-oh.
- She accused me of doing it deliberately.
491
00:42:52,372 --> 00:42:56,546
- You didn't, of course?
- I might have helped a little.
492
00:42:56,714 --> 00:43:01,265
- And you sat there?
- This seat had an awful squeak...
493
00:43:01,433 --> 00:43:03,854
(LOUD SQUEAK)
494
00:43:04,021 --> 00:43:06,652
Yup. This is where I sat.
495
00:43:09,324 --> 00:43:11,912
- Did you have pigtails?
- Mmm.
496
00:43:13,082 --> 00:43:15,963
Anybody special to pull them?
497
00:43:16,130 --> 00:43:21,724
Bertie. Senator Wilton's son.
He was a terror.
498
00:43:22,810 --> 00:43:26,985
They moved to Washington
and I was heartbroken.
499
00:43:27,153 --> 00:43:29,156
You were?
500
00:43:30,201 --> 00:43:33,040
- For how long?
- Ages.
501
00:43:33,207 --> 00:43:35,294
Almost a week.
502
00:43:37,132 --> 00:43:40,722
Oh, look. "Hiawatha."
503
00:43:42,184 --> 00:43:45,315
"By the shores of Gitche Gumee, by the..."
504
00:43:45,482 --> 00:43:49,448
- Always thought it was Gitche Gooey.
- It is gooey.
505
00:43:49,616 --> 00:43:54,292
I was always exclusively
a "Charge Of The Light Brigade" fella.
506
00:43:54,459 --> 00:43:57,506
- I love Hiawatha.
- Charge of the Light Brigade.
507
00:43:57,674 --> 00:44:01,641
- Half a league, half a league...
- By the shores of Gitche Gumee...
508
00:44:01,808 --> 00:44:04,521
(BOTH RECITE THEIR POEM)
509
00:44:04,689 --> 00:44:09,240
"Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!" he said!
510
00:44:09,407 --> 00:44:11,744
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
511
00:44:11,912 --> 00:44:14,542
"Forward the Light Brigade!"
Was there a man dismay'd?
512
00:44:14,709 --> 00:44:17,131
Not tho' the soldier knew
Some one had blunder'd.
513
00:44:17,299 --> 00:44:21,390
Their's not to make reply,
Their's not to reason why,
514
00:44:21,557 --> 00:44:23,644
Their's was to do and die!
515
00:44:23,812 --> 00:44:25,774
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
516
00:44:25,942 --> 00:44:28,238
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them...
517
00:44:28,405 --> 00:44:32,454
- Volley'd and thunder'd...
- "Ewa-yeah! My little owlet!"
518
00:44:32,621 --> 00:44:37,590
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell!
519
00:44:37,758 --> 00:44:39,636
"Ewa-yeah! My little owlet."
520
00:44:39,803 --> 00:44:41,514
Rode the six hundred!
521
00:44:41,682 --> 00:44:45,690
Flash'd all their sabres bare,
Flash'd as they turn'd in air...
522
00:44:45,858 --> 00:44:49,364
Many things Nokomis taught him
Of the stars that shine in heaven,
523
00:44:49,532 --> 00:44:52,664
Showed him Ishkoodah the comet,
Ishkoodah with fiery tresses...
524
00:44:52,831 --> 00:44:56,421
Right thro' the line they broke,
Cossacks and Russian
525
00:44:56,588 --> 00:45:00,053
Reeling from the sabre stroke,
Shatter'd and sunder'd...
526
00:45:00,220 --> 00:45:02,976
In the frost nights of Winter,
Showed the broad white road in heaven,
527
00:45:03,144 --> 00:45:07,068
Crowded with the ghosts, the shadows,
At the door sat the little Hiawatha...
528
00:45:07,235 --> 00:45:10,450
"Forward the Light Brigade!"
Was there a man dismay'd?
529
00:45:10,618 --> 00:45:12,914
Not tho' the soldier knew
some one had blunder'd.
530
00:45:13,081 --> 00:45:15,585
Their's not to make reply,
Their's...
531
00:45:15,753 --> 00:45:21,097
But, soft, what light
through yonder window breaks?
532
00:45:21,264 --> 00:45:24,854
It is the east and Juliet is the sun.
533
00:45:25,022 --> 00:45:30,199
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon
534
00:45:30,367 --> 00:45:33,665
who is already pale and sick with grief...
535
00:45:43,727 --> 00:45:46,024
Open up, Twiddle. It's me.
536
00:45:51,410 --> 00:45:53,873
Not in yet, huh?
537
00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:56,629
- Did you get them?
- Yeah.
538
00:45:58,216 --> 00:46:01,347
Three "Yes" and one "Don't know".
539
00:46:02,683 --> 00:46:04,938
Good. That completes the list.
540
00:46:05,105 --> 00:46:11,325
He needs to make that plane. He told
Mac he'd have the results tomorrow.
541
00:46:11,493 --> 00:46:15,460
They're playing Preston tonight.
A very important game.
542
00:46:15,627 --> 00:46:18,925
(KNOCKING)
It's me.
543
00:46:19,092 --> 00:46:22,057
Hi, boys. Sorry I'm late.
544
00:46:22,224 --> 00:46:24,895
- How does it look?
- It's all blocked out.
545
00:46:25,063 --> 00:46:29,572
- Just give me the basic figures.
- It'll take one second. Who won?
546
00:46:29,740 --> 00:46:34,165
Who won?! Don't be comical. 46 to 12.
We slaughtered them.
547
00:46:34,332 --> 00:46:39,718
- That's peachy!
- It'll be peachy if you get it finished.
548
00:46:39,886 --> 00:46:45,062
- Come on, Mr Twiddle. Stop stalling.
- Stalling? I said one second.
549
00:46:45,229 --> 00:46:48,361
I hope these figures
are close to Stringer's.
550
00:46:48,529 --> 00:46:50,825
- All you have to do...
- I know!
551
00:46:50,992 --> 00:46:54,958
Put the decimal points
in their proper places.
552
00:46:55,125 --> 00:47:00,135
- There. I've done it.
- Give me that. There she is, boys.
553
00:47:00,303 --> 00:47:06,608
This was done in two weeks.
We can do them in 24 hours if necessary.
554
00:47:06,775 --> 00:47:11,743
Wait till Mac sees this. Here you are, Ike.
If you hurry, you'll catch that plane.
555
00:47:11,910 --> 00:47:16,837
If Mac starts asking you questions,
just turn your baby blues on.
556
00:47:17,004 --> 00:47:18,882
I'd like to see his face.
557
00:47:19,050 --> 00:47:24,478
You can accomplish that with alacrity.
Why don't you go and see him yourself?
558
00:47:24,645 --> 00:47:27,984
- I can't. We play Waverley tomorrow.
- Oh?
559
00:47:28,152 --> 00:47:31,701
- There's a dance after.
- Oh.
560
00:47:31,868 --> 00:47:35,040
My handling this team
has worked beautifully.
561
00:47:35,208 --> 00:47:39,633
It'll look awful funny if I just disappear.
Here you are.
562
00:47:39,801 --> 00:47:43,976
That was a beautiful job, Mr Twiddle.
Excellent.
563
00:47:44,143 --> 00:47:47,148
How would you like to kick this deal over?
564
00:47:47,316 --> 00:47:50,782
- Kick it over?
- It'll be all right with me and Mr Twiddle.
565
00:47:50,949 --> 00:47:53,328
- What?
- Yes.
566
00:47:53,496 --> 00:47:57,755
- Don't keep going on our account...
- Save it!
567
00:48:00,135 --> 00:48:04,643
Kick it over? What's the matter with you?
What are you talking about?
568
00:48:04,811 --> 00:48:09,863
I've been working all my life for this.
Kick it over? What for?
569
00:48:10,030 --> 00:48:14,455
What kind of a lame brain
do you think I am?
570
00:48:14,623 --> 00:48:20,009
- OK. OK. I guess I was way off the beam.
- I guess you were!
571
00:48:20,176 --> 00:48:22,263
(HORN HONKS)
572
00:48:23,224 --> 00:48:27,065
Well... I gotta go now.
573
00:48:28,611 --> 00:48:33,037
Ike, tell Mac that we can take
three or four jobs at one time.
574
00:48:33,204 --> 00:48:37,420
Maybe more than that.
Call me as soon as you've finished.
575
00:48:43,767 --> 00:48:46,898
Ike? You call me.
576
00:48:48,485 --> 00:48:50,572
(HORN HONKS)
577
00:48:59,215 --> 00:49:01,637
Did you ever do the Samba, Mr Quincy?
578
00:49:01,805 --> 00:49:06,272
- No. I can't say I did.
- I just had a two-hour demonstration.
579
00:49:06,439 --> 00:49:09,404
- Know what a back pass dilemma is?
- No.
580
00:49:09,571 --> 00:49:12,159
I'm going to get a demonstration of that.
581
00:49:17,295 --> 00:49:19,716
Back pass dilemma.
582
00:49:21,261 --> 00:49:23,348
This I gotta see.
583
00:49:24,267 --> 00:49:26,814
OK. I'm gonna pass to you.
584
00:49:28,401 --> 00:49:31,448
Throw the ball! Don't make love to it.
585
00:49:35,959 --> 00:49:41,219
That's no way to throw a ball.
It's more of a snap forward like that.
586
00:49:42,722 --> 00:49:47,273
No, no. Suppose there's a wolf
on the make. What do you do?
587
00:49:47,441 --> 00:49:49,528
You mean like this?
588
00:49:58,254 --> 00:50:00,550
Yeah. Like that.
589
00:50:00,718 --> 00:50:03,307
Let's try something else, shall we?
590
00:50:03,474 --> 00:50:08,358
We'll try the lay up shot.
No rough stuff now.
591
00:50:08,526 --> 00:50:13,829
The principle of this shot is to stretch
yourself out as far as you can
592
00:50:13,996 --> 00:50:16,250
and lay the ball in the basket.
593
00:50:16,417 --> 00:50:20,091
So stretch up and lay the ball in there.
OK. You try.
594
00:50:20,259 --> 00:50:25,352
Get over there. Remember,
you've got to stretch yourself way up.
595
00:50:25,519 --> 00:50:28,651
Just lay the ball up there. I'll help you.
596
00:50:32,910 --> 00:50:35,331
Look. It got stuck up there.
597
00:50:47,106 --> 00:50:49,819
Back pass dilemma, eh?
598
00:51:29,359 --> 00:51:31,823
(APPLAUSE)
599
00:51:31,991 --> 00:51:35,497
(DANCE MUSIC PLAYS)
600
00:51:59,381 --> 00:52:02,553
Ever asked yourself why they call me Rip?
601
00:52:02,720 --> 00:52:06,060
Is it something to do with Rip Van Winkle?
602
00:52:06,228 --> 00:52:09,526
I fall asleep at the drop of an eyelid.
603
00:52:10,946 --> 00:52:16,624
I think I'll drop an eyelid on that lovely
shoulder of yours and never leave.
604
00:52:16,792 --> 00:52:20,382
- Ooh!
- Oh, I'm sorry.
605
00:52:21,801 --> 00:52:23,931
I'm so sorry.
606
00:52:24,099 --> 00:52:26,269
You live and learn.
607
00:52:33,577 --> 00:52:37,334
- Sorry to cut in. You promised.
- Certainly. This is your night.
608
00:52:37,501 --> 00:52:39,588
- Mind, Rip?
- No, no.
609
00:52:39,755 --> 00:52:42,887
Watch it.
She's carrying concealed weapons.
610
00:52:44,808 --> 00:52:48,983
Good work, son. You licked those kids
into a fighting machine.
611
00:52:49,151 --> 00:52:52,616
It's the first time we beat Waverley
in ten years.
612
00:52:52,783 --> 00:52:54,661
Hi, Sergeant.
613
00:53:05,935 --> 00:53:11,154
- Are you tussling with your conscience?
- Don't worry about my conscience.
614
00:53:11,321 --> 00:53:14,744
Hey, Bob. Remember,
stay far away from her.
615
00:53:14,911 --> 00:53:19,337
Difficult to drop that girl in a bracket.
She won't stay there.
616
00:53:21,133 --> 00:53:23,637
(CHOIR) # I keep a book within my heart
617
00:53:23,805 --> 00:53:25,893
Our school song.
618
00:53:26,812 --> 00:53:32,573
# Where all my fondest memories art
619
00:53:32,740 --> 00:53:37,583
# The temple bells on Christmas Eve
620
00:53:37,751 --> 00:53:43,680
# The wishes on a falling star
621
00:53:43,847 --> 00:53:49,399
# The lonely sound across the night
622
00:53:49,567 --> 00:53:55,329
# The trains that always hurry through
623
00:53:55,496 --> 00:54:00,632
# The patterns on the frosted pane
624
00:54:00,799 --> 00:54:07,144
# The magic lands they took me to
625
00:54:07,312 --> 00:54:13,491
# These are not only idle dreams
626
00:54:13,659 --> 00:54:19,838
# That time will some day dim for me
627
00:54:20,005 --> 00:54:26,518
# They're pages that I've put away
628
00:54:26,686 --> 00:54:35,537
# Here into my book of memory
629
00:54:35,705 --> 00:54:40,339
# The fun around the swimming hole
630
00:54:40,506 --> 00:54:45,600
# The gang around the campus green
631
00:54:45,767 --> 00:54:51,444
# The laughter of an April Fool
632
00:54:51,612 --> 00:54:57,875
# The ghost that walks on Halloween
633
00:54:58,042 --> 00:55:03,428
# The little hand I held in mine
634
00:55:03,596 --> 00:55:10,025
# While walking through a secret lane
635
00:55:10,193 --> 00:55:15,954
# The rainbow on a neighbour's lawn
636
00:55:16,121 --> 00:55:22,217
# That sparkles after summer rain
637
00:55:22,927 --> 00:55:29,023
# These are not only idle dreams
638
00:55:29,190 --> 00:55:35,786
# That time will some day dim for me
639
00:55:36,413 --> 00:55:43,511
# They're pages that I've put away
640
00:55:43,678 --> 00:55:56,830
# Here into my book of memory #
641
00:56:02,634 --> 00:56:05,849
Attention, please! Thank you.
642
00:56:06,017 --> 00:56:09,983
Folks, Mrs Peterman
wishes to say a few words.
643
00:56:20,756 --> 00:56:24,763
The "Dispatch", you know,
rarely retracts a story.
644
00:56:24,931 --> 00:56:29,105
Obviously because the "Dispatch"
rarely makes mistakes.
645
00:56:30,025 --> 00:56:35,452
Tomorrow, however, you will read the
retraction of an item that appeared recently
646
00:56:35,619 --> 00:56:38,249
about Mr Lawrence Smith.
647
00:56:39,920 --> 00:56:46,933
The "Dispatch" wishes to erase any doubt
it created as to Mr Smith's integrity.
648
00:56:48,104 --> 00:56:51,109
Mary and I have seen a lot of Rip.
649
00:56:51,277 --> 00:56:57,373
It's only been a short time,
yet already he seems an old friend,
650
00:56:57,540 --> 00:56:59,418
and that's a good sign.
651
00:56:59,586 --> 00:57:02,717
He's taken an interest in our civic affairs
652
00:57:02,884 --> 00:57:05,723
and his devotion to the basketball team...
653
00:57:05,891 --> 00:57:09,815
Everybody must admit
he performed a miracle!
654
00:57:09,982 --> 00:57:11,693
(APPLAUSE)
655
00:57:11,861 --> 00:57:13,530
But...
656
00:57:14,659 --> 00:57:18,291
it took hard work at all hours
657
00:57:18,458 --> 00:57:22,090
and I'm sure he neglected
his own business to do it.
658
00:57:22,257 --> 00:57:26,808
We're very lucky
to acquire such a fine citizen,
659
00:57:26,976 --> 00:57:32,821
and I thought this was the occasion to
apologise and to tell him how we feel.
660
00:57:34,366 --> 00:57:38,582
Rip, we're all very happy and grateful
661
00:57:38,750 --> 00:57:41,882
that in your search
for a permanent anchorage,
662
00:57:42,049 --> 00:57:48,019
you chose to throw in your lot with us
and to grow with Grandview.
663
00:57:48,186 --> 00:57:51,944
- (APPLAUSE)
- Speech! Speech!
664
00:58:09,188 --> 00:58:10,899
I... er...
665
00:58:12,612 --> 00:58:17,330
I wish Mrs Peterman hadn't said
all those nice things about me.
666
00:58:17,497 --> 00:58:20,753
I doubt whether I can live up to them.
667
00:58:23,551 --> 00:58:29,062
I prefer that you reserve judgment
until you... Well...
668
00:58:29,981 --> 00:58:35,701
...until you got to know me better.
Much better. Thank you.
669
00:59:11,234 --> 00:59:14,573
How can people go around
making speeches?
670
00:59:16,661 --> 00:59:22,089
I remember once in Italy, a bunch of us
got to talking about home and Ma.
671
00:59:23,342 --> 00:59:30,022
The pipsqueak started, then the other
fellas. They were all from small towns.
672
00:59:30,189 --> 00:59:32,944
You were the only city slicker there.
673
00:59:34,281 --> 00:59:37,413
You let your guard down that night, Rip.
674
00:59:41,922 --> 00:59:45,054
You envy those guys. You said that.
675
00:59:45,221 --> 00:59:51,107
You never knew what it was to have
neighbours, to have a sense of belonging.
676
00:59:52,276 --> 00:59:55,909
What Ma said goes for all of them.
677
00:59:56,076 --> 00:59:59,290
Just give me one year.
678
00:59:59,458 --> 01:00:01,588
Just one year.
679
01:00:01,755 --> 01:00:07,015
You've made a lot of friends here.
That's security, Rip. The surest kind.
680
01:00:09,145 --> 01:00:13,863
No. No! Look up there.
That light's in my office.
681
01:00:14,030 --> 01:00:17,161
It's there for the calls coming in.
682
01:00:17,328 --> 01:00:20,835
It may be a rat race, but I'm out in front!
683
01:00:29,855 --> 01:00:31,984
He hasn't come back yet?
684
01:00:33,069 --> 01:00:36,785
- I can't imagine that anything I said...
- Ma.
685
01:00:36,953 --> 01:00:39,750
When Papa acted like a goon,
686
01:00:39,917 --> 01:00:44,384
you didn't let him hide in the corner
and lick his wounds, did you?
687
01:00:44,551 --> 01:00:46,639
Of course I didn't.
688
01:00:50,481 --> 01:00:55,992
I promised Ben Moody I'd dance with him.
I hope he's in the groove. I'm not.
689
01:01:07,474 --> 01:01:12,735
- It's the perfect job.
- What did I tell you? How close was it?
690
01:01:12,902 --> 01:01:15,448
- What?
- How close was it to Stringer?
691
01:01:15,616 --> 01:01:18,914
- Right on the nose.
- No kidding?
692
01:01:23,341 --> 01:01:26,263
(FAINT VOICE)
693
01:01:38,037 --> 01:01:40,208
What did old Mac say?
694
01:01:40,376 --> 01:01:43,298
Said he was flabbergasted.
695
01:01:44,175 --> 01:01:45,719
This is it, Ike.
696
01:02:53,861 --> 01:02:58,036
Henrichs? Yeah.
Tell him we'll take that Henrichs deal.
697
01:02:58,204 --> 01:03:00,834
And Keeley sounds pretty good.
698
01:03:16,241 --> 01:03:21,960
- We're home, Ike.
- If that Peterman girl doesn't grab it.
699
01:03:22,128 --> 01:03:27,264
- She won't grab anything.
- She's hooked on changing the town.
700
01:03:27,431 --> 01:03:32,440
- If she ever puts that civic centre over.
- I'll handle the Peterman girl.
701
01:03:32,608 --> 01:03:36,783
- Guess you will. You're an artist, my boy.
- Cut it outl
702
01:03:36,951 --> 01:03:42,128
Nothing interferes with the job.
I told you that. See you in a few days.
703
01:03:46,595 --> 01:03:48,473
Yes, sir.
704
01:03:50,311 --> 01:03:55,739
I came here to do a job.
Anything else is just a blind alley.
705
01:04:15,655 --> 01:04:21,375
Trouble with a newspaper background
is it develops an instinct for snooping.
706
01:04:25,592 --> 01:04:29,684
You must have found Ma's speech
very funny.
707
01:04:29,852 --> 01:04:35,614
We had to work secretly.
Nobody's been hurt by it, have they?
708
01:04:41,793 --> 01:04:46,636
- That's right. Nobody.
- What are you going to do?
709
01:04:48,641 --> 01:04:51,646
You couldn't stand any changes.
710
01:04:53,067 --> 01:04:55,154
Could you?
711
01:04:55,321 --> 01:05:01,542
By all means hold back progress. Mr Smith
has to make an extra dollar for himself.
712
01:05:03,046 --> 01:05:06,970
I certainly think that's stooping very low.
713
01:05:38,828 --> 01:05:41,416
I want to make a deal with you.
714
01:05:43,921 --> 01:05:49,558
You kill that story and I'll never
show my face around here again.
715
01:05:52,898 --> 01:05:57,115
This isn't for myself, Mary,
it's for the people here.
716
01:05:57,283 --> 01:06:00,414
I wouldn't like to see them get confused.
717
01:06:00,581 --> 01:06:05,383
What I was doing couldn't do them
any harm, but if they read that...
718
01:06:05,550 --> 01:06:08,973
I don't know. They're human.
719
01:06:09,934 --> 01:06:14,569
You can't tell people they're special.
That's deadly.
720
01:06:14,736 --> 01:06:17,658
If you love them, Mary, don't do it.
721
01:06:21,083 --> 01:06:24,422
Stop pounding that machine
and listen to me.
722
01:06:26,259 --> 01:06:32,605
I suppose you think I've got an angle.
I don't know how to convince you, Mary.
723
01:06:33,733 --> 01:06:36,321
You'll just have to take my word.
724
01:06:47,763 --> 01:06:50,434
Set this story up, Mr Dingle.
725
01:07:40,789 --> 01:07:43,377
This looks hot. Send Harry down.
726
01:07:43,545 --> 01:07:46,717
- Cover this.
- Right.
727
01:07:46,885 --> 01:07:50,559
So that's it. What a guy!
728
01:07:50,726 --> 01:07:55,067
- We want sound.
- Find out what the typical American wears.
729
01:07:55,235 --> 01:07:57,113
Daily sidewalk interviews.
730
01:07:57,281 --> 01:08:00,162
It's the barometer of national opinion.
731
01:08:00,330 --> 01:08:05,548
This story was given to the world by Mary
Peterman of the Grandview Dispatch.
732
01:08:05,715 --> 01:08:12,646
In a week's time, I wouldn't give the wart
off my nose for anybody's opinion here.
733
01:08:18,617 --> 01:08:22,416
(LOUDHAILER) OK.
You're typical Americans. Act like it.
734
01:08:22,583 --> 01:08:25,506
Afraid we've opened the cave of dynamite.
735
01:08:25,674 --> 01:08:28,554
I hadn't counted on arousing
the whole world.
736
01:08:30,809 --> 01:08:34,233
Hey, sis, some bigshot reporters
to see you.
737
01:08:34,400 --> 01:08:37,364
- Sorry to barge in on you.
- It's all right.
738
01:08:37,531 --> 01:08:41,747
- We'd like some information.
- How did you find out about the survey?
739
01:08:41,915 --> 01:08:46,466
Mr Smith completed his poll...
He just handed me the story.
740
01:08:46,634 --> 01:08:49,890
Do you know his plans? We can't see him.
741
01:08:50,057 --> 01:08:54,065
- He won't see anyone.
- He's leaving this afternoon.
742
01:08:54,233 --> 01:08:59,535
It's a lie! I don't believe it.
Rip wouldn't walk out on us now.
743
01:08:59,703 --> 01:09:02,750
Not with the Freehole game coming up.
744
01:09:02,917 --> 01:09:06,632
Had 50 calls from families
wanting to move to Grandview.
745
01:09:08,303 --> 01:09:10,015
Kids!
746
01:09:10,642 --> 01:09:12,729
Mary, we're ready!
747
01:09:14,274 --> 01:09:18,324
- Bob said you wouldn't.
- Not before the Freehole game.
748
01:09:18,492 --> 01:09:21,623
- Nothing more important than that.
- You bet.
749
01:09:22,833 --> 01:09:28,553
Lived here all my life. Never knew we were
so terrific. It's a veritable landslide.
750
01:09:28,721 --> 01:09:31,518
There's Rip, our great discoverer.
751
01:09:31,685 --> 01:09:35,276
Insurance business, huh?
That sure was slick.
752
01:09:35,443 --> 01:09:37,613
Rip's coaching us for the game.
753
01:09:37,781 --> 01:09:42,206
Watch this town grow. We can
take advantage of the opportunity.
754
01:09:42,374 --> 01:09:47,718
You will. It's in the air.
All those electric currents. Come on, Bob.
755
01:09:47,886 --> 01:09:52,604
Electric currents?
What's he talking about? It's a clear day.
756
01:09:53,898 --> 01:09:58,072
- We're known coast to coast.
- People coming in on every train.
757
01:09:58,240 --> 01:10:02,499
By car too and by bus.
Even on watchacallit... on foot.
758
01:10:02,666 --> 01:10:05,463
Who wouldn't want to live
in the perfect town?
759
01:10:05,631 --> 01:10:07,801
I'll have to build another hotel.
760
01:10:07,968 --> 01:10:11,058
Shouldn't we plan?
Things are moving so fast.
761
01:10:11,226 --> 01:10:14,273
Certainly. We want you to handle publicity.
762
01:10:14,440 --> 01:10:18,239
The slogan is "Grow with Grandview."
I have some ideas.
763
01:10:18,407 --> 01:10:23,584
A company wants to build a plant. They
want "Made in a typical American city."
764
01:10:23,751 --> 01:10:27,968
They'll all be looking for building sites.
Where do we find them?
765
01:10:28,136 --> 01:10:31,225
Just watch real estate values go up.
766
01:10:35,651 --> 01:10:39,952
Say, I've got a lunch date. I almost forgot.
767
01:10:40,119 --> 01:10:44,920
- Can you just drop me at the hotel?
- See you later.
768
01:10:45,087 --> 01:10:47,592
I gotta get back to the office.
769
01:10:47,760 --> 01:10:51,726
- Call from Chicago, Mr Mayor.
- Another one?
770
01:10:52,603 --> 01:10:57,739
Leaving in five minutes! See the people!
Get an opinion on any subject!
771
01:10:57,906 --> 01:11:00,243
Typical Tour of the Typical Town!
772
01:11:00,411 --> 01:11:04,586
(BAND MUSIC
PLAYS THROUGH SPEAKERS)
773
01:11:12,102 --> 01:11:17,153
- Railroad frontage is the stuff to buy.
- 20,000? I offered him 30.
774
01:11:17,321 --> 01:11:21,037
A boom has certainly hit this town
with a boom.
775
01:11:21,204 --> 01:11:25,921
The shoeshine man is making money
hand over fist. That rag's red-hot.
776
01:11:26,089 --> 01:11:29,136
He can also supply a place to live.
777
01:11:29,303 --> 01:11:33,771
Here's something.
Grandview sells its opinions.
778
01:11:33,938 --> 01:11:37,486
They're putting up polling booths.
Maybe I'm crazy.
779
01:11:37,654 --> 01:11:40,243
These are spread around the city.
780
01:11:40,411 --> 01:11:46,005
You'll each occupy one.
A reference library goes with every booth.
781
01:11:46,172 --> 01:11:49,512
We want to make sure folks are thinking right.
782
01:11:49,680 --> 01:11:54,272
- Take plenty of blank forms along...
- Wait a minute.
783
01:11:54,439 --> 01:11:58,489
What's this all about?
Who's the idiot who dreamed this up?
784
01:11:58,657 --> 01:12:02,289
I am... I mean, what's the matter with it?
785
01:12:02,456 --> 01:12:06,590
- It was approved by the board.
- You're conducting your own polls?
786
01:12:06,757 --> 01:12:11,892
Our opinions are our chief export.
We're through giving them away.
787
01:12:12,059 --> 01:12:14,898
- We're selling them.
- I've seen everything.
788
01:12:15,066 --> 01:12:19,240
Everybody will be instructed
not to give opinions to outsiders,
789
01:12:19,408 --> 01:12:23,416
only to our own official poll takers.
Excuse me.
790
01:12:23,583 --> 01:12:29,219
All right. Go to it. May the best man
and woman bring back the best answers.
791
01:12:29,386 --> 01:12:34,062
Bring the microphone over here.
I'll do a few sidewalk interviews.
792
01:12:34,230 --> 01:12:37,569
This couple look as if they've just arrived.
793
01:12:37,737 --> 01:12:42,372
- Why did you come here?
- On account of my wife.
794
01:12:42,539 --> 01:12:47,966
Her sister... Her sister in New York has
always kidded her about being a hick.
795
01:12:48,133 --> 01:12:52,893
Now we can say we live in Grandview.
That'll shut her big mouth.
796
01:12:53,061 --> 01:12:55,231
Yes. I'm sure it will, sir.
797
01:12:55,399 --> 01:12:59,157
Here's a gentleman.
Would you like to say a few?
798
01:12:59,324 --> 01:13:03,331
Yeah, I'll say something.
Give me that microphone. I'll...
799
01:13:03,499 --> 01:13:07,173
The gentleman's too shy.
Here's an attractive lady...
800
01:13:07,341 --> 01:13:09,845
I can talk on the radio.
801
01:13:10,013 --> 01:13:15,022
Come on, Rip. I told Stringer I'd phone
as soon as I have a talk with you.
802
01:13:15,189 --> 01:13:17,110
Waiter!
803
01:13:17,278 --> 01:13:19,949
He said his proposition's still open.
804
01:13:22,288 --> 01:13:25,628
It ain't a bad seat. Ringside!
805
01:13:25,796 --> 01:13:30,471
No use hanging around.
You can't do this town any good. Not now.
806
01:13:30,638 --> 01:13:34,521
Ringside seats for a three-ringed circus.
807
01:13:34,689 --> 01:13:38,237
- Bring on your baboon!
- Take it easy.
808
01:13:38,405 --> 01:13:41,494
Yeah, yeah. Gotta be quiet.
809
01:13:41,661 --> 01:13:46,546
Ike, I helped put on this show here.
You did too!
810
01:13:46,713 --> 01:13:49,718
You helped put on this show. Old Ike.
811
01:13:51,683 --> 01:13:59,030
Mr Ike Sloan, the great insapario...
impresario. Come on, take a bow.
812
01:13:59,699 --> 01:14:02,579
Come on. Take a bow.
813
01:14:02,747 --> 01:14:08,049
Ladies and gentlemen, introducing
Mr Impresario, the famous Ike!
814
01:14:08,216 --> 01:14:12,642
- Take a bow.
- All right. Sit down.
815
01:14:12,809 --> 01:14:17,109
Sit down. Sshh. Why? Sshh!
816
01:14:18,530 --> 01:14:20,241
Sshh!
817
01:14:22,788 --> 01:14:24,499
Sshh!
818
01:14:30,137 --> 01:14:31,973
Waiter!
819
01:14:40,157 --> 01:14:43,455
Give me business property every time.
820
01:14:43,623 --> 01:14:48,759
This is terrific. Made 15,000 this week.
We'll get those new printing presses yet.
821
01:14:48,926 --> 01:14:55,398
- It's all paper profit, Ben. Be careful.
- Don't worry. I wasn't born yesterday.
822
01:14:58,738 --> 01:15:01,911
Let's get some black coffee
and phone Stringer.
823
01:15:02,078 --> 01:15:04,040
Good idea.
824
01:15:04,208 --> 01:15:08,090
Should a man bring his pay envelope
home to his wife or?
825
01:15:08,257 --> 01:15:13,727
- Who do you represent?
- Nobody. I'm just naturally nosy.
826
01:15:13,894 --> 01:15:17,359
Isn't all this just too, too divine?
827
01:15:17,526 --> 01:15:21,660
- That's me, just naturally nosy.
- Sure, I know. Come on.
828
01:15:31,180 --> 01:15:34,102
How do you like your town now?
829
01:15:35,731 --> 01:15:41,075
How do you like your fancy beautiful
circus of a town now, huh?
830
01:16:06,378 --> 01:16:13,977
(MARY) # I keep a book within my heart
831
01:16:14,896 --> 01:16:21,451
# Where all my fondest memories are... #
832
01:16:30,846 --> 01:16:33,810
Mr Twiddle took the earlier train.
833
01:16:33,977 --> 01:16:35,688
All aboard!
834
01:16:36,816 --> 01:16:42,453
But we were not satisfied. We've added
one half million dollars to the project.
835
01:16:42,620 --> 01:16:46,168
Yes, sir! One half million dollars.
836
01:16:46,335 --> 01:16:48,924
Pretty good for little old Grandview.
837
01:16:51,805 --> 01:16:57,901
I still think we're bats. The size of this
thing! At least Mary's plan made sense.
838
01:16:58,069 --> 01:17:02,619
- We're moving with the tide, Jim.
- This is no time for penny-pinching.
839
01:17:02,786 --> 01:17:07,421
The high school, for instance.
Her plan called for 40 classrooms.
840
01:17:07,588 --> 01:17:13,851
Not enough, we say.
150! 150 is what we'll have!
841
01:17:14,018 --> 01:17:18,819
The bond issue hasn't been underwritten.
What if something goes wrong?
842
01:17:18,986 --> 01:17:23,203
My friend, you're one of our new citizens,
aren't you?
843
01:17:23,371 --> 01:17:25,750
You don't know us.
844
01:17:25,918 --> 01:17:31,930
In 1890, our grandparents built
our city hall with their own hands!
845
01:17:32,097 --> 01:17:36,438
Yes, sir! If it comes to it,
we can do the same thing.
846
01:17:36,606 --> 01:17:39,570
That's the kind of people we are!
847
01:17:43,872 --> 01:17:46,543
Look, Mary. Isn't it wonderful?
848
01:17:46,710 --> 01:17:52,096
- Kill it. Set up a front page with news.
- But, Mary...
849
01:17:52,264 --> 01:17:55,896
I said that none of the madness
should be printed.
850
01:17:56,063 --> 01:18:00,739
I know, darling, but the centre
is something you wanted, Papa wanted.
851
01:18:00,907 --> 01:18:02,994
Yes, I know.
852
01:18:04,414 --> 01:18:07,212
Last day. Cast your opinion today.
853
01:18:07,379 --> 01:18:10,927
Would you vote for a woman
for President of the United States?
854
01:18:11,095 --> 01:18:15,269
Cast your opinion right away.
855
01:18:24,079 --> 01:18:27,419
It's cockeyed.
Where are the "Don't knows"?
856
01:18:27,587 --> 01:18:32,847
Ask people if they beat their grandmothers
and you'll get some "Don't knows".
857
01:18:34,143 --> 01:18:38,484
Please, Mr Stringer...
He'd rather be alone. He's thinking.
858
01:18:38,651 --> 01:18:44,705
You mean sleeping! How long is this
going on? He slept through the conference.
859
01:18:44,873 --> 01:18:50,049
He woke up and said, "I hope they
remember the back pass dilemma"!
860
01:18:54,977 --> 01:18:59,444
- Makes a lot of noise, doesn't he?
- I've been waiting to see you.
861
01:18:59,611 --> 01:19:01,699
The first Grandview poll is out.
862
01:19:06,793 --> 01:19:11,720
Gallup released their results -
almost opposite.
863
01:19:14,684 --> 01:19:17,272
They'll be laughed out of existence.
864
01:19:17,441 --> 01:19:20,780
The radio and newspapers
have been at it all day.
865
01:19:20,948 --> 01:19:26,041
- What are they saying?
- They're getting their teeth kicked in.
866
01:19:30,676 --> 01:19:35,519
What that boy needs is a good dose
of sulphur and molasses.
867
01:19:35,687 --> 01:19:38,525
- Grandview sulphur and molasses!
- Yes.
868
01:19:38,693 --> 01:19:43,243
(BIG BAND MUSIC ON RADIO)
869
01:19:43,410 --> 01:19:49,882
So this little town that's always been right
turned out to be ridiculously wrong.
870
01:19:50,049 --> 01:19:52,972
They were so out of tune with the country,
871
01:19:53,140 --> 01:19:56,772
people are beginning to wonder
where Grandview is.
872
01:19:56,939 --> 01:20:01,824
It can't be in the United States.
There should be a moral in this.
873
01:20:01,991 --> 01:20:05,205
No one can assume they know it all.
874
01:20:05,373 --> 01:20:09,673
What this little town of Grandview lost
was humility,
875
01:20:09,840 --> 01:20:14,266
and when you've lost that, my friends,
you've lost everything.
876
01:20:14,433 --> 01:20:19,235
Poor Grandview - they're becoming
a subject of ridicule.
877
01:20:19,402 --> 01:20:22,240
Bet you had to study hard
to become a moron.
878
01:20:22,408 --> 01:20:24,787
No. I lived in Grandview!
879
01:20:26,124 --> 01:20:29,130
(LAUGHTER RINGS OUT)
880
01:21:16,479 --> 01:21:21,489
This is my last broadcast
from this ghost town, and ghost town it is.
881
01:21:21,656 --> 01:21:26,039
The people are ashamed
of their ludicrous behaviour.
882
01:21:26,207 --> 01:21:28,878
No community action is being taken.
883
01:21:29,046 --> 01:21:31,343
Here comes a gentleman.
884
01:21:31,510 --> 01:21:36,018
- Pardon me. May I have your opinion?
- I have no opinion.
885
01:23:05,329 --> 01:23:10,298
- It's kind of deserted, isn't it?
- They don't come here anymore.
886
01:23:12,135 --> 01:23:15,099
Won't even talk to each other anymore.
887
01:23:18,022 --> 01:23:22,196
That's no good.
People ought to talk to each other.
888
01:23:24,536 --> 01:23:28,752
- How's Ma?
- Oh, Ma's the same.
889
01:23:30,214 --> 01:23:35,183
Senator Wilton dropped in on me
the other day from Washington.
890
01:23:35,350 --> 01:23:39,065
He walked out
on the Foreign Affairs Committee.
891
01:23:39,232 --> 01:23:43,574
He seemed restless, kinda lost.
892
01:23:43,742 --> 01:23:46,664
- He used to come here.
- Yeah.
893
01:23:49,837 --> 01:23:56,100
Mary, I had to come back. I had to.
I couldn't work, I couldn't think.
894
01:23:56,852 --> 01:23:58,939
I couldn't...
895
01:24:00,151 --> 01:24:02,572
I love you, Mary.
896
01:24:09,629 --> 01:24:12,342
The nights I lay awake...
897
01:24:14,305 --> 01:24:17,269
hearing you say that.
898
01:24:36,393 --> 01:24:40,776
The hinge on that door's
been broken for years.
899
01:24:40,944 --> 01:24:43,992
Nobody seems to want to fix it.
900
01:24:44,952 --> 01:24:47,582
I love you, Mary.
901
01:24:51,883 --> 01:24:54,263
(DOOR CLICKS)
902
01:24:55,307 --> 01:24:57,603
There was a story...
903
01:24:59,941 --> 01:25:03,908
We ran a news story
the other day - usual one...
904
01:25:04,994 --> 01:25:08,960
a married woman
who fell in love with another man.
905
01:25:09,127 --> 01:25:13,094
Her husband stood in their way,
so they killed him.
906
01:25:14,179 --> 01:25:16,767
They thought they were free.
907
01:25:18,897 --> 01:25:22,488
But their crime created a war between them...
908
01:25:23,991 --> 01:25:27,247
till they destroyed each other.
909
01:25:27,415 --> 01:25:31,006
We murdered a town, Rip - you and I.
910
01:25:32,425 --> 01:25:36,015
Killed an idea my father
devoted a lifetime to.
911
01:25:40,484 --> 01:25:45,285
- (DOOR CLICKS)
- Miss Mary! I've looked every place.
912
01:25:45,452 --> 01:25:48,625
Your mama say, go get her.
913
01:25:48,793 --> 01:25:50,922
It's that Mr Birch.
914
01:25:51,089 --> 01:25:55,097
Your mama just heard he got the freehold
to run things here.
915
01:25:55,265 --> 01:26:01,235
I guess that means Grandview is finished.
It's a shame and nobody cares.
916
01:26:01,402 --> 01:26:03,740
Your mama say come right away.
917
01:26:03,908 --> 01:26:07,039
- All right, Helga.
- Glad to see you, Mr Smith.
918
01:26:07,206 --> 01:26:10,044
Goodbye, Rip.
919
01:26:28,458 --> 01:26:32,926
Been all over town talking to everyone,
trying to get 'em together.
920
01:26:33,093 --> 01:26:36,558
Old man Hawkins
slammed the door in his face.
921
01:26:36,725 --> 01:26:38,813
- Morning, Rip.
- Morning.
922
01:26:38,980 --> 01:26:41,568
- How's it going?
- Fine.
923
01:26:44,909 --> 01:26:49,669
Well, snow or rain, boom or bust,
the mail's got to be delivered.
924
01:26:51,339 --> 01:26:55,346
They need a leader, Mr Nickleby.
They've always followed you.
925
01:26:55,514 --> 01:26:59,898
They need something to arouse
the admiration of the country,
926
01:27:00,065 --> 01:27:04,657
to give them that bounce again,
bolster up their confidence.
927
01:27:04,825 --> 01:27:08,875
Why don't you get them
to start building the high school again?
928
01:27:09,042 --> 01:27:12,674
- With what? This town's broke.
- With taxes.
929
01:27:12,841 --> 01:27:17,016
Pay taxes at such a fantastic rate,
it'll be the talk of the country.
930
01:27:17,184 --> 01:27:20,732
Sacrifice everything
for the sake of the community.
931
01:27:20,900 --> 01:27:25,994
- You're crazy.
- It needs something crazy to wake 'em up.
932
01:27:27,622 --> 01:27:32,925
Senator Wilton's in town.
He's willing to do anything to help.
933
01:27:33,092 --> 01:27:39,062
If he and I get a group to do
the initial financing, will you take charge?
934
01:27:40,148 --> 01:27:42,361
Try it and I'll stop it.
935
01:27:43,739 --> 01:27:47,287
Excuse me.
I have my own problems to work out.
936
01:27:50,462 --> 01:27:55,430
I realise your own problems are very
serious, but what about this town?
937
01:27:55,597 --> 01:28:01,484
This was a great team and you were
an important member. You're walking out.
938
01:28:01,651 --> 01:28:07,455
The team's through. Anybody with
any brains would know that. Excuse me.
939
01:28:07,622 --> 01:28:10,210
- But, Mr...
- Do you mind?
940
01:28:11,964 --> 01:28:14,677
No, I don't mind.
941
01:28:14,845 --> 01:28:18,018
Attend to your personal affairs.
942
01:28:19,480 --> 01:28:21,567
So long, Hank.
943
01:28:22,820 --> 01:28:24,908
So long.
944
01:28:26,119 --> 01:28:28,289
Mr Birch, please.
945
01:28:29,166 --> 01:28:33,340
Ben is signing a contract this afternoon.
Mary and I are out of a job.
946
01:28:33,509 --> 01:28:37,433
Have a muffin before you drown
in your own tears. Go on.
947
01:28:37,601 --> 01:28:42,653
- It's my own recipe.
- I know. I think I'll take toast.
948
01:28:42,820 --> 01:28:45,951
- It's Mr Smith, ma'am.
- Come in, Rip.
949
01:28:46,118 --> 01:28:48,998
- Sorry I'm late.
- We didn't wait for you.
950
01:28:49,166 --> 01:28:52,214
- Hello, Ma.
- Hello, Rip. It's good to see you.
951
01:28:52,382 --> 01:28:54,970
- Good to see you.
- We missed you terribly.
952
01:28:55,137 --> 01:28:59,395
Stop that fiddle faddle
and let the boy have his lunch.
953
01:28:59,562 --> 01:29:02,151
Stop that fiddle faddle.
954
01:29:04,323 --> 01:29:06,953
What happened, Rip? Any luck?
955
01:29:08,958 --> 01:29:11,629
Ever find yourself swinging at windmills?
956
01:29:11,797 --> 01:29:15,971
That sums up the senator's career.
Take a muffin. I made them.
957
01:29:16,138 --> 01:29:19,812
- I've heard about your muffins.
- Take one anyway.
958
01:29:19,980 --> 01:29:21,524
Thank you.
959
01:29:24,155 --> 01:29:27,370
Did you talk about the high school?
960
01:29:27,538 --> 01:29:30,752
Yeah. Thought I was crazy.
961
01:29:30,919 --> 01:29:35,846
The high school. I remember
those big statements at the dedication.
962
01:29:36,014 --> 01:29:42,318
"We'll build it with our own hands."
Hah! Inflated with their puny success.
963
01:29:42,485 --> 01:29:45,825
I believed them. Had it on the front page.
964
01:29:45,993 --> 01:29:48,748
- You would.
- Mary killed the story.
965
01:29:48,915 --> 01:29:52,672
Excuse me. It's Mr Nickleby's boy.
He wants to see Mr Smith.
966
01:29:52,840 --> 01:29:56,597
- Let him in, Sarah.
- Excuse me, Mrs Wilton.
967
01:29:56,765 --> 01:30:00,438
- Hello, Hank.
- Is it private, boy?
968
01:30:00,605 --> 01:30:03,570
Private? No, I guess not.
969
01:30:04,823 --> 01:30:10,585
Rip, when you were talking to my father,
he wasn't playing square with you.
970
01:30:10,752 --> 01:30:13,048
He's selling the civic centre.
971
01:30:13,216 --> 01:30:15,887
- He's selling it?
- Yes, ma'am.
972
01:30:16,054 --> 01:30:22,025
The council gave him a mortgage.
After you left, he called Mr Birch,
973
01:30:22,192 --> 01:30:25,448
told him to work fast
if he wanted the property.
974
01:30:25,616 --> 01:30:29,666
- Why are you telling me this?
- I figured you could...
975
01:30:31,837 --> 01:30:34,675
I don't know what I figured.
976
01:30:39,061 --> 01:30:43,653
I guess I shouldn't be doing this.
I guess it's all wrong.
977
01:30:44,906 --> 01:30:48,163
I love my father. He's a swell guy, but...
978
01:30:49,415 --> 01:30:52,086
It's not the high school that matters...
979
01:30:53,841 --> 01:30:58,183
A guy shouldn't be walking out on the team.
980
01:30:58,351 --> 01:31:03,988
I don't like to see Pop do it.
I begged him not to.
981
01:31:04,990 --> 01:31:08,622
This certainly turned out to be a dopey town.
982
01:31:11,586 --> 01:31:15,553
(SENATOR) Took a lot
to make that boy do that.
983
01:31:15,720 --> 01:31:19,352
This town better start undoping itself quickly.
984
01:31:19,519 --> 01:31:23,235
(SENATOR) What are we going to do, Rip?
985
01:31:23,403 --> 01:31:25,281
Say, Ma...
986
01:31:26,492 --> 01:31:32,254
That front page with the story about
the high school - the one Mary killed.
987
01:31:32,421 --> 01:31:35,927
- Is there a copy of that around?
- I think so.
988
01:31:36,095 --> 01:31:39,394
- What time do you go to press today?
- About 1.30.
989
01:31:40,814 --> 01:31:46,157
- 1.30. Senator, can I use your telephone?
- There's one right there.
990
01:31:47,536 --> 01:31:52,671
- What are you going to do?
- Get Nickleby back on that team.
991
01:31:52,838 --> 01:31:58,057
Nickleby and everybody else.
We're going to print this story today.
992
01:31:58,225 --> 01:32:01,815
Quote all that big talk and fancy statements.
993
01:32:01,982 --> 01:32:06,742
- Quote them as if they were just made?
- As if they were just made.
994
01:32:06,909 --> 01:32:09,706
But that happened weeks ago, Rip.
995
01:32:09,874 --> 01:32:13,172
Mislaid the story. Let 'em sue us.
996
01:32:13,339 --> 01:32:16,512
That's ramming it down their gullets.
997
01:32:16,680 --> 01:32:20,145
- Miss Peterman, please.
- What will this accomplish?
998
01:32:20,312 --> 01:32:22,608
It'll wake these people up.
999
01:32:22,775 --> 01:32:28,453
It might even get them talking
to each other - arguing, choosing sides.
1000
01:32:28,621 --> 01:32:32,003
- This sounds wonderful, Rip!
- That's part of it.
1001
01:32:32,170 --> 01:32:34,132
- There's more?
- You bet.
1002
01:32:34,299 --> 01:32:39,016
We need national publicity. We'll give it
to the wire services, the radio.
1003
01:32:39,184 --> 01:32:41,856
Then they'll have to do something.
1004
01:32:42,024 --> 01:32:48,411
- They'll string us to the nearest pole.
- OK. So they string us to the nearest pole.
1005
01:32:48,578 --> 01:32:51,918
At least they'll be doing it together.
Hello?
1006
01:32:54,174 --> 01:32:57,388
Mary? Has the paper gone to press yet?
1007
01:32:57,555 --> 01:33:02,816
Good. Ma and I will be right over.
Will you wait? I want to try something that...
1008
01:33:02,984 --> 01:33:08,036
Mary, this town isn't dead yet.
We have a good chance of saving it.
1009
01:33:08,203 --> 01:33:12,085
That's if you're crazy enough
to go along with...
1010
01:33:12,879 --> 01:33:14,548
Huh?
1011
01:33:16,679 --> 01:33:19,350
That's swell.
1012
01:33:19,518 --> 01:33:22,356
That's all I want to know.
1013
01:33:23,067 --> 01:33:24,904
Mary...
1014
01:33:30,165 --> 01:33:33,087
Thank you, Mary. We'll be right over.
1015
01:33:37,221 --> 01:33:41,103
- Come on, gorgeous. Thanks for lunch.
- Pray for us, Doris!
1016
01:33:41,271 --> 01:33:45,864
Heavens! I'm so excited,
I nearly ate one of my own muffins.
1017
01:33:47,409 --> 01:33:54,131
It's your kind of story. This normal town
becomes a laughing stock. Humiliated.
1018
01:33:54,298 --> 01:33:57,512
They should fold up, but not these people.
1019
01:33:57,680 --> 01:34:01,855
Instead, they hitch up their britches
and start swinging.
1020
01:34:16,594 --> 01:34:18,807
Look at this, boss.
1021
01:34:20,144 --> 01:34:22,565
You just sold me that property.
1022
01:34:25,696 --> 01:34:28,285
Here comes another bunch.
1023
01:34:28,453 --> 01:34:32,419
It's working. We'll have the whole town
around that stove.
1024
01:34:32,586 --> 01:34:34,715
OK. Do your stuff.
1025
01:34:39,392 --> 01:34:42,147
- Where's Mrs Peterman?
- Where's Mary?
1026
01:34:42,314 --> 01:34:44,986
- They're not in.
- Playing chequers.
1027
01:34:45,154 --> 01:34:47,825
- At the meeting hall.
- Are they crazy?
1028
01:34:47,993 --> 01:34:50,748
They can't get away with this.
1029
01:34:51,541 --> 01:34:53,420
OK, boys.
1030
01:34:55,759 --> 01:34:57,929
(MURMUR OF VOICES)
1031
01:34:58,097 --> 01:35:03,567
- This town can't afford it!
- We demand the story be retracted!
1032
01:35:03,734 --> 01:35:07,240
- It's a pack of lies.
- We'll sue for libel.
1033
01:35:09,287 --> 01:35:14,381
- Anybody not been properly quoted?
- It was under different circumstances!
1034
01:35:19,015 --> 01:35:21,520
What insolence! Somebody get Nickleby.
1035
01:35:21,688 --> 01:35:24,610
Yes. Nickleby will know what to do.
1036
01:35:24,777 --> 01:35:27,323
These people are cuckoo.
1037
01:35:27,491 --> 01:35:31,040
I can't find Rip anywhere.
1038
01:35:31,207 --> 01:35:33,586
Here comes Mr Nickleby now.
1039
01:35:43,566 --> 01:35:48,242
I thought you were a sensible girl, Mary.
Is this your idea of a joke?
1040
01:35:48,410 --> 01:35:53,545
If you're interested in practical jokes,
read some of your own statements.
1041
01:35:53,712 --> 01:36:00,267
Very funny. All of us have a case
against you and against that fella Smith.
1042
01:36:00,434 --> 01:36:02,312
He's behind this.
1043
01:36:02,480 --> 01:36:08,659
These magnificent people have a project
to be envied by every community planner.
1044
01:36:08,827 --> 01:36:12,125
- Shut that off!
- Just a moment. I want to hear it.
1045
01:36:12,293 --> 01:36:15,215
They're going ahead with a civic centre
1046
01:36:15,382 --> 01:36:20,475
even though it may mean sacrifice
by every person in the community.
1047
01:36:20,643 --> 01:36:25,278
Before I sign off, I want to say,
more power to you, Grandview.
1048
01:36:25,445 --> 01:36:29,536
In your circumstances,
it takes a heap of courage
1049
01:36:29,703 --> 01:36:32,208
to tackle a programme of such magnitude.
1050
01:36:32,376 --> 01:36:34,880
It certainly does.
1051
01:36:35,048 --> 01:36:37,845
Some of you may go crazy, but not me.
1052
01:36:38,012 --> 01:36:41,937
No radio commentator
is going to talk me into bankruptcy.
1053
01:36:42,104 --> 01:36:48,617
You should all go home and forget this.
We'll deal with these people in court.
1054
01:37:00,601 --> 01:37:02,604
It's Rip!
1055
01:37:22,062 --> 01:37:26,989
- What's this all about, son?
- We were promised a new high school...
1056
01:37:27,156 --> 01:37:29,243
and we want it.
1057
01:37:29,410 --> 01:37:31,707
Hank, come home this minute.
1058
01:37:33,085 --> 01:37:35,756
- Do you hear me?
- Yes, sir.
1059
01:37:44,483 --> 01:37:50,495
We talked it over. We decided if you
quit the team, we're gonna quit too.
1060
01:37:50,663 --> 01:37:53,209
We don't want a town we're ashamed of.
1061
01:37:53,377 --> 01:37:59,306
They're saying swell things about us now.
If you don't do it, we'll be laughed at.
1062
01:37:59,473 --> 01:38:02,729
We don't want a town
that's always being razzed.
1063
01:38:02,897 --> 01:38:06,737
Are we going to let
a bunch of brats tell us what to do?
1064
01:38:06,904 --> 01:38:11,831
We're not trying to, Pop.
We just want you to stick by the team.
1065
01:38:11,999 --> 01:38:14,128
You and everybody else.
1066
01:38:14,295 --> 01:38:19,639
Rip says you're all wonderful people,
but you just lost your nerve.
1067
01:38:19,807 --> 01:38:23,981
Listen, folks! Why not? Why can't we do it?
1068
01:38:24,148 --> 01:38:29,242
Your grandfathers didn't quit if they were
in a jam. They started to fight.
1069
01:38:29,410 --> 01:38:33,460
What they did is part of our history.
What's wrong with us?
1070
01:38:33,627 --> 01:38:36,424
It takes money! Where's it coming from?
1071
01:38:36,592 --> 01:38:39,305
Let me read a statement of yours, Mr Mayor.
1072
01:38:39,472 --> 01:38:44,148
"If necessary, we'll build it
with our own two hands." What about that?
1073
01:38:44,316 --> 01:38:47,363
Are you suggesting that we do that?
1074
01:38:47,531 --> 01:38:51,247
Build it ourselves?
Contribute our services?
1075
01:38:51,414 --> 01:38:53,000
Certainly!
1076
01:38:54,879 --> 01:38:58,928
- If everybody helped, Ed...
- This is idiotic!
1077
01:38:59,096 --> 01:39:02,061
It's been sold. The council approved it.
1078
01:39:02,228 --> 01:39:05,025
- Approved it?
- First I heard of it.
1079
01:39:05,192 --> 01:39:07,905
(WHISPERS) Hey. Hey, Mike.
1080
01:39:11,080 --> 01:39:15,380
Mom, you're on the council.
Rip says you had no right to approve it.
1081
01:39:15,547 --> 01:39:19,722
- I don't know, darling. I...
- It's got to be put to the voters.
1082
01:39:21,935 --> 01:39:24,523
Of course it's got to be put to the voters.
1083
01:39:24,691 --> 01:39:27,948
- That's city property.
- What about that?
1084
01:39:28,115 --> 01:39:33,041
We were going to do that. We intended
to go through with the formality.
1085
01:39:33,208 --> 01:39:35,338
We assumed you wouldn't care.
1086
01:39:35,506 --> 01:39:39,388
- Wouldn't care?
- (ANGRY MURMURING)
1087
01:39:39,555 --> 01:39:42,018
Ed, this is terrible.
1088
01:39:42,185 --> 01:39:45,818
Rip Smith is right. We just lost our nerve.
1089
01:39:45,985 --> 01:39:51,871
Listen, everybody. I don't know about you,
but I don't like the sound of this.
1090
01:39:52,039 --> 01:39:56,799
It's tough to admit you've been a fool,
but look at us.
1091
01:39:57,759 --> 01:40:04,481
Mr Nickleby assumed we wouldn't care.
Wouldn't care if we didn't get to vote.
1092
01:40:04,649 --> 01:40:10,452
When I get to that point, I'm going to find
a nice comfortable hole and crawl in.
1093
01:40:10,620 --> 01:40:15,128
I'm not ready for that yet,
in spite of Mr Nickleby.
1094
01:40:15,296 --> 01:40:22,018
Maybe whether a town lives or dies isn't
important to some people, but it is to me.
1095
01:40:23,062 --> 01:40:26,652
I feel as if my own family's breaking up.
1096
01:40:27,696 --> 01:40:33,416
I don't like it, and if building a high
school can save it, I'm for it at any price.
1097
01:40:33,584 --> 01:40:37,843
I'll organise every man in town
that can handle a tool
1098
01:40:38,010 --> 01:40:40,389
and guarantee first-class plumbing.
1099
01:40:40,557 --> 01:40:44,606
- Good for you, Pop!
- I'm with you. I'll get the carpenters.
1100
01:40:44,773 --> 01:40:47,988
- I'll do the lighting.
- You can count on my boys.
1101
01:40:48,156 --> 01:40:53,124
- I'll line up the painters.
- I'll close my office to supervise the job!
1102
01:40:53,291 --> 01:40:57,049
- That's swell, Pop.
- Is everybody willing to help?
1103
01:40:57,216 --> 01:40:59,846
(AFFIRMATIVE YELLS)
1104
01:41:13,751 --> 01:41:17,717
- I can mix mortar.
- Hand me a paintbrush and stand back.
1105
01:41:17,884 --> 01:41:21,183
- This will take years.
- So what? What's the hurry?
1106
01:41:38,928 --> 01:41:40,514
Rip!
1107
01:41:43,186 --> 01:41:44,814
Rip!
1108
01:41:52,873 --> 01:41:56,129
Hey, that's Senator Wilton!
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