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- Even with two chains as big as these,

the branch stores must not look like branch stores.

Now here's the mall, at this end, we have Thompson's.

And across the mall, like this Harry,

I want a wall of water, I'd say about a five story drop.

And at this end, we block in Hasting's,

moving sidewalks here and along here.

Now underneath the whole thing, a sunken garage.

And I want all out hospitality for motorists,

do you understand?

Have you got the ratios, Bill?

85%?

- The secret's in flexible interiors, Lee.

We can deliver Hasting's an 85% selling area

out of a total of 175 thousand square feet.

- That's the best news I've heard all day.

Now, over here on the east--

- [Secretary] Five minutes, Mr. Fisk.

- Oh, alright, tell Carl to turn 'em.

I'll be there in a minute.

- Your briefcase and overnight bag already aboard.

- Thank you.

Danny, you're the inventor on this team.

Why don't you invent us a clock stretcher, huh?

- [Danny] OK, Lee, one clock stretcher coming right up.

How many hours a day do you want?

- Well let's try a 28 hour day, maybe that'll do it, huh?

Bye, gentlemen.

- Oh, Miss Prentiss isn't in, Mister Fisk.

That motivation research project,

that you asked her to coordinate with personnel.

- Oh, well tell her I'll call her from Chicago tonight, huh?

- [Barbara] Have a safe flight, Mister Fisk.

- Thanks, Barbara.

(helicopter blades whirring)

(car horn honking)

(helicopter blades whirring)

(helicopter engine revs)

(jazz music)

- [Barbara] Oh Miss Prentiss, Mister Fisk just left

and he said he'd call you tonight.

- From Chicago, yes, thank you, Barbara.

Would you get Ben Hopkins on the phone for me

right away, please?

(gentle orchestral music)

(telephone rings)

Hello?

Ben, happy day, he bought the concept.

Uh huh, I caught him just before he was taking off.

Yeah sure, so now we can terminate

all that outside research program as of this minute,

10 AM, official Phoenix time.

We're going to get our back stop right here

within the organization, drain him on the job.

Oh and Ben, will you please throw out

all those old fashioned motivational research tests?

Honestly, I'm up to here with conformity.

Well what we need is somebody to stand up

to Mister David Leland Fisk.

Who?

Me?

Now Ben, that's awfully sweet of you,

but I don't really stand up to him

anymore than anybody else.

I try to be honest with him, and he's,

he's kind enough and flattering enough to indulge me,

but that's all.

OK Ben, you've got a green for go.

Golly Joe, absolutely, that's a free wreck.

Who?

Todd Stiles?

Yale.

Working as a laborer?

On the Mumsford Park project?

But why, Ben?

Why is a laborer...

Well, he certainly does sound like a non-conformist.

Yes, Ben, yes I would like to meet him.

Fine, thank you, Ben.

(uplifting orchestral music)

(uptempo orchestral music)

- No.

Thanks, Shane.

(uptempo orchestral music)

- Anything?

Your call?

- What call?

- From the front office.

- Oh,

I told 'em no.

Hot.

- Hot, and you're just the cat who can cool it.

- Really curious about that call, aren't you?

- Yes, I'm really curious about that call,

especially since the head office is like five miles away

and they don't even know we're alive.

I'm curious.

- You know, I think you should walk right into her office

and say, "Miss Terry Prentiss, my name is Buzz Murdock,

"and I work for the David Leland Fisk Company too,

"and that gives us something in common,

"you know, like a foundation, something to build on,

"so why don't we design a shopping center together,

"or a little project in the country?"

See, like that.

- That's crude, crude.

With a girl like this, you come on with style,

but don't worry, I'll think of something.

Now look, are you gonna tell me about the phone call or not?

- That was just the omnipotent hand of personnel

beckoning old dad.

They said, "Eli, bring your sheepskin and come on down.

"We wanna give you some tests."

- I know, but for what?

- I don't know, I told 'em I wasn't interested.

I had enough tests at Yale to last me a lifetime,

and I want to get my callouses standing, not sitting.

Yeah, that's not bad.

You know, that might work, that just might work.

- [Foreman] Alright boys, everybody hit it!

- Aren't you even interested?

- I don't think I can endure the strain of the suspense.

- Terry Prentiss, I just figured out a way

to get you to her, talk about style.

This has so much style, it's fantastic.

(quirky orchestral music)

(telephone rings)

- Yes?

Oh Todd Stiles, yes, please send him in.

(gentle orchestral music)

Mister Stiles?

Well you have a rather unconventional way

of entering an office, Mister Stiles.

Well that is, if you intend to enter.

Or are you just going to stand there

leaning against the wall?

- I'm far sided.

- Well in that case, we'll just have to

raise our voices, won't we?

Oh don't worry about the chairs, they're treated.

(lighter clicks)

Well,

the Yale shark net seems to have got a bit tattered.

Apparently things are getting through.

Here it is.

Graduated Magna Cum Laude three years ago.

What happened?

- Well it's

hardly the kind of thing that you talk about

in an office, you know?

- No, no I don't know, Mister Stiles, but I'd like to

very much.

- Well if we could be some place alone together.

You see, it's been a terrible three years, and

I'd like to talk about it, except that, you know,

it wells up in me.

- Please try to tell me, if you can.

- Maybe later when we know each other better.

- Well, I'm afraid that might be too late, Mister Stiles.

Do you know why we're giving these aptitude tests?

- Well, what I was told,

that you are looking at people in the company

and testing them because somebody is going to get

a special kind of job.

- The right person could make this

the most important job in the company,

except, of course, for Mister Fisk's position.

The vice president of our eastern division

is retiring this year.

We're looking for his replacement.

We want a dedicated person,

someone that we can start grooming now

so that when the year is up,

the vacancy can be filled expeditiously.

Now perhaps you're wondering

why we don't make this replacement

with one of our executives from the home office.

Well you see, these men are architects, Mister Stiles,

not businessmen.

Candy?

(paper rustling)

We're interested in your background

in business administration.

As a matter of fact, that was my major too,

Wharton School of Finance.

- Well, where would the world be

if nobody was home watching the shop, right?

- So,

I suggest if you're interested in competing with the others,

if you'd like to take this aptitude test I've designed,

which, in turn, will help us determine

your outstanding characteristics,

your possible breaking point under pressure,

your internal and external motivations,

your career potential, then perhaps it might not be

a bad idea for you to tell me

why it is you have become a laborer.

- When you chase yourself from one day to the next,

when you're both the pied piper

and the kid that digs the music,

the kid that follows all those way out notes,

you go where it takes you, no matter where, no matter what,

like now.

When I finish my little story,

you're gonna be back in that leather chair, and your eyes,

your eyes are gonna be as tough as that leather,

and you're gonna ring for the state militia

and have me tossed right out, right out of my job too,

but I don't care because it's been worth it,

and I'd do it again tomorrow if I could.

You see, from the first day I saw you,

three weeks ago on that project,

I almost fell off the 11th floor.

Until I walked in here a few minutes ago

and wondered to myself,

"She's the controller, I wonder what she controls.

"Just this company or herself too?"

From then

until now,

I've stayed up nights, I've missed meals,

just trying to figure out a way to meet you.

Why?

I really don't know why, that's the funny part about it.

I didn't even know what I was gonna say when we met.

It's just that now and then,

certain people have just got to get together,

and then, well, you just see, you just see.

Maybe somethin', maybe nothin', but the important thing is

that it has to be given a chance.

OK, so I've given it its chance, you know?

I'm sorry if I pushed things.

I'm not really Todd Stiles.

That's my buddy.

You see, he told me about the call and

well my name is Buzz, Buzz Murdock,

and don't push the panic button because I'm leaving.

- Mister Murdock?

(quirky orchestral music)

- I guess I got shot down before I was airborne.

- Even without the photo, you would have crashed.

I used to date boys from Yale.

(music swells)

Mister Murdock, we're giving these aptitude tests

this afternoon at three o'clock, main conference room.

Be there.

- No please?

- Please.

(cheerful orchestral music)

(jackhammer revs)

(loud orchestral music)

(soft orchestral music)

(jackhammer revs)

(loud orchestral music)

(soft orchestral music)

(jackhammer revs)

(loud orchestral music)

(soft orchestral music)

- Will you stop chattering and get dressed?

Pair of live ones like Beth and Bebe,

they're like wild geese flying by.

When you hear them honking, you have to be ready to fire.

- [Buzz] At the top of the test, it said they wanted

to find out what your idealized image of yourself is.

How come?

- That means what kind of a guy do you think you are.

That helps 'em decide what kind of a guy you really are.

- I didn't know what kind of guy I am.

- That's what you think.

They've got the tests all worked out,

zeroed in on the real you.

What about yourself do you esteem?

What do you disparage?

How are your reserves of security?

How well is your life justified,

not just in words, in dreams, but in actions.

Do you have any secret sources of shame?

Enduring regrets?

You remember her name is Bebe?

- Bebe, OK, Bebe.

- Once she runs your test results,

she'll have you bagged and tagged,

everything but fingerprints.

- Who, Bebe?

- No, Terry Prentiss.

Now what do you know about her?

- [Buzz] What do I gotta know?

- Well, enough to make it an even match.

- Oh well this is not serious.

(car honking)

- Hark, geese.

- What'd you say mine's name was?

- Bebe.

- What'd you say mine's name was?

- Buzz!

- Bebe and Buzz, Buzz and Bebe, Bebe Buzz, wow!

(car honking)

(car engine revs)

(gentle orchestral music)

- Buzz?

Buzz old friend?

(quirky orchestral music)

You wouldn't do that to me.

(car engine revs)

(quirky orchestral music)

See, he has this very sick mother, high temperature.

- High cheek bones, too.

- Oh no, that wasn't his mother, that was his sister.

His mother...

(car engine revs)

(quirky orchestral music)

(crickets chirping)

- Does the silence embarrass you?

- What silence?

I've been listening to you.

- But I didn't say anything.

- No?

- Your speed is all forward, isn't it?

(laughs)

- Well, if I had eyes in the back of my head,

I might go reverse sometimes,

but I can only see forward.

- Would you like to turn on some music?

- No, I don't need it.

Do you?

- You know, a person could learn to dislike you intensely.

- Well you didn't understand

what I meant about the music, did you?

- I understand you completely.

- You mean because of the test?

Let me ask you something, Miss Prentiss,

can you tell me by all those words that I marked today

what I meant when I said I didn't need music?

You bet you can't.

See, I don't need music when I'm happy,

and I'm happy with you.

Right now, sitting here, who knows where, who knows why,

and if you really listen,

you can hear all kinds of music in the air,

brass bands and summer excursion boats,

bongos from

Basin Street,

jazz from 42nd street, oh,

some stylish kid belting out a ballad

on a penthouse saloon.

Hi-fis from coast to coast, I can even hear saxophone cases

slamming shut at two AM,

and tired sidemen crossing parking lots,

wiping off the windshields,

and they're wet before they drive home.

So, who needs radios?

(crickets chirping)

(giggles)

(laughs)

- Now, would you like to kiss me again?

No, of course you wouldn't, I laughed at you,

but then I guess I can't expect

to ever find a man that well adjusted.

- Oh you mean this was all part of the test?

- Reserved solely for the man with the highest score,

you, Mister Murdock.

(keys jingling)

Hey!

- Why don't we play a little more

of the multiple choice jazz, OK?

Situation, you're in the desert in a car with a man,

and he throws your keys into the night.

Now which do you do?

Mark the appropriate box.

A, you look for the keys,

B, you walk 25 miles back home,

or C, you wait further developments.

(quirky orchestral music)

- Pull!

(gunshot)

(quirky orchestral music)

(gunshot)

(quirky orchestral music)

Pull!

(gunshot)

- Hi Lee. - Hi boys.

- Mister Fisk?

- Buzz Murdock? - Right.

- Lee Fisk.

- Glad to know you.

- Good, I thought we could get this out of the way

more comfortably here in the open than in the office.

Anyway, every Thursday at nine,

I always come out here to mess up my quota of clay birds.

It's about the only half hour

the office ever leaves me alone,

either they think I'm out here

getting rid of my hostilities,

or they know darn well if they came out here

and bothered me, I'd shoot 'em!

Did you ever shoot skeet?

- Tin ducks and clay pipes.

That's Coney Island.

Qualify me?

- Well I don't know, background like that,

you might make me look like an amateur.

Here, model 42.

It's a four 10 gauge, most of the guys shoot with a 12,

but I kinda like this, it's sporty.

Like to give it a try?

- It'll be a great day for the birds.

- Come on.

Over here.

- Mark.

(gunshot)

- Look,

What you wanna do is to start with your gun

pointed over toward the house there,

and then as the bird comes across, you swing with it.

Watch, like this.

Mark.

(gunshot)

See?

Whenever you're set.

- Mark!

(two gunshots)

- Terry says you scored some kinda all time record

in the aptitude test.

Says you're the most aggressive person she ever met.

Mark.

(gunshot)

(gunshot)

This, this candidate, and I'm quoting now,

"This candidate is volatile, earthy,

"intuitive, decision oriented."

- Mark!

(gunshot)

(gunshot)

- "A man of singularly strong views,

"unique in a time when most people prefer

"to be murky or moderate."

Sound like anybody you know?

Mark.

(gunshot)

(gunshot)

You know, for six months, I been combing the country

for somebody just like that.

Every graduating class from coast to coast.

Trouble is the ones I've met are already so

absorbed in the struggle to be thought well of,

to be accepted, that they're afraid to be incompatible.

Either that or they figure they're so far ahead of the game,

they can shuffle corporations around like a poker hand

and draw to an inside straight.

- Mark!

(two gunshots)

- What I need is somebody to take over from Smitty,

our vice president back east,

someone with enough drive to come after my job one day.

Mark!

(gunshot)

(gunshot)

Are you the man?

- What, what do you think I know about

advanced management techniques or urban planning

or architecture or mortgages or any of those other kind

of foreign words that Terry whispered in my ear?

- That's our job, to teach you.

Your call.

- Mark!

(two gunshots)

- Nice!

Nice leading.

- Look, Mister Fisk, I'm one of your laborers.

I've had 14 jobs in the last 16 months.

I get up in Duluth and go to bed in Detroit.

I've never made more than 122.50 a week.

When they pushed me out of high school

and put that diploma in my back pocket,

the bells rang from the Bowery to Riverside Church.

Nobody ever figured I'd make it, least of all me.

- Everybody gets born the same way.

Mark!

(gunshot)

(gunshot)

- What I'm trying to say very simply is that,

well, this whole deal's like gotten out of hand, I...

Mark!

(gunshot)

(gunshot)

I mean I, I saw a girl I wanted to get to know better,

so I got into her office under false pretenses.

The next thing I know, like there's a board meeting,

and I'm spending the morning at the gun club

with the president.

- You mean this all began as a pick up?

You and Terry?

- Right.

- Mark.

(gunshot)

(gunshot)

Every once in a while, one does manage to get away,

doesn't it?

- (laughs) Yeah.

- I've got a hunch about you, Buzz.

Fair enough.

500 dollars a week to start.

If you make it, your first boost'll take you

to 50 thousand a year.

After that, who knows, but don't let the numbers dazzle you.

Think before you reach because there's a price,

with me and with all my people,

the division between work and leisure,

between discipline and freedom, all gone,

erased, wiped out, no boundaries, no place to hide.

With this outfit, you don't build a life, you unbuild.

You strip down your private life, and you start fresh

as you must with any project, and then you go,

out and up.

If the native material is good enough, you stay up.

If it isn't, the whole project's a wash out.

You decide, Buzz.

(gentle orchestral music)

(gentle orchestral music)

(door opens)

- Wasn't I right?

Isn't he a find?

He's a bit raw, I grant you,

but so is copper before it hits the smelter.

- Did you and I, Terry, ever talk about cabbages?

Or only about kings?

- Well I, I never knew you were interested in cabbages.

- I remember the things my father used to tell me,

one thing in particular.

He said, "In this world, no one who's strong

"can expect to be liked.

"The most he can hope for is to be respected."

- Did something go wrong on your trip, Lee?

Is Evans trying to threaten us with a zoning change?

- Terry, do you know something?

You've never really, never really talked to me.

- Not more than 12 hours a day, seven days a week.

Did,

this young man,

Buzz,

did he tell you about last night?

- No.

He told me this all started because was interested in you.

- Oh.

(laughs)

Lee, you had me worried for a minute.

Well I couldn't understand what you were driving at.

You think I'm pushing him because I let him take me out.

Now Lee, honestly, I'm surprised at you.

You should know me better than that.

When have I ever let my personal life

interfere with my business life?

Or for that matter, what personal life do I have?

(phone buzzes)

- [Secretary] Mister Murdock is here to see you,

Mister Fisk.

- Ask him to come in, please.

Come on in, Buzz.

- I thought about your offer.

OK.

- Any doubts?

- Yeah.

How about you?

- Yes, yes I do.

- I'll try, try hard.

- We'll all try.

(gentle orchestral music)

(plucky orchestral music)

- You've been ducking the issue all evening, haven't you?

Alright,

we're alone now.

Why didn't you speak up in that meeting this afternoon?

(somber piano music)

For four weeks, you have sat in staff,

contributing absolutely nothing.

I could just see the computers working behind Lee's eyes.

Well he's beginning to question

the wisdom of my recommendation.

(jazz music)

Didn't we work out a whole new concept

for the south side of the mall?

Now I'm sure Lee would have been delighted and impressed.

- Well you see, there was only one thing wrong with that.

You see, it was your concept, not mine.

- What's the difference?

- Well then, why didn't you present it?

- Because, my darling, I wanted you to get the credit.

- Why?

(jazz music)

- Promise me the next meeting,

you'll speak up.

Darling?

- Yeah?

- Will you do it?

- No.

(jazz music)

- Handle this through the California division, Bill.

So much for something old and something blue,

anything new?

Any brainstorms, any

leads, tips, hunches, straws in the wind?

Anything from anybody on new projects?

Any private thinking?

- Well,

I've been looking at swamp land and,

and bottom land, and I think I've turned up with a track

just outside of Dorset, Florida.

It's 1200 acres that seems to be overlooked,

and I think it might make a profitable marina community

with water frontage for each lot,

and I didn't turn this over to development, Lee,

because, well, it's still in the speculative stages,

but, well, I've drawn a map there so you can see.

It doesn't look like much,

but you can see that it can be laid out with 70 canals.

Now the town of Dorset owns 400 acres of this track,

but they're in financial trouble, and

they're lookin' for revenue everywhere.

Now I'm told, although it's still supposed to be a secret,

that they'd be happy to let their acreage go

for 37 thousand dollars.

Now the state owns the rest of the track,

but they are on a mosquito control drive,

and I think if we move in there

behind a contract to fill that whole swamp,

we can probably negotiate an option

very easily in Tallahassee.

If we use a portable hydraulic pipeline dredge,

and we both widen and deepen that initial tide land there

and we pump the fill into the swamp,

I figure we need seven feet

for a basic foundation to build on.

Now, including labor, maintenance, itemization,

and depreciation on equipment,

I've got some duplicate figures for you, Lee.

The cost of the fill shouldn't run more

than 20 cents a cubic yard.

Now pre-development price, that's including the bulk heading

and the utilities can be bought in

for 70 dollars a front foot,

and we can sell 100 by 160 foot lots for

150 dollars a front foot.

Now that's 50 dollars below

the nearest marina community,

which is in a strip on the gulf,

which can't compare to this spot

for weather, view, or accessibility.

- Well you seem to have thought this over pretty fully.

Any idea what the profit might be?

- Five and a quarter million.

(bright orchestral music)

(bowling pins falling)

- I see mother let him out tonight.

(bowling pins falling)

- I'll be right back.

(bowling pins falling)

Well did you come here to join us

or just to observe us at play?

- Well, I got your message at the Executive House.

You got a problem?

- How about a drink?

- Well,

short one?

- Tight schedule? - Yeah.

(pool balls knocking)

(men muttering)

Lee and I fly to Tallahassee tonight.

- Yeah, I heard a rumor about that,

some kind of a big deal you cooked up?

Beer.

- Beer.

- How's it seem to live in the palace?

- Lee always pulls ya in to stay at his place

before you close a big deal,

it's staff policy.

- Like they say, policy is the best honesty.

- Look, whatever's buggin' you, why don't you just say it?

- Well I knew it was gonna be hard, Buzz,

but not this hard.

- Are you tryin' to tell me I've changed?

- Everybody's changed.

Remember Beth?

She hated bowling.

Well, you oughtta see her now.

Course we can never get rid of Bebe,

so she had no choice.

Beth had to take it up,

but she turned into an absolute fiend,

one lousy strike after another.

- You're trying to tell me I'm not the same, right?

- I'm tryin' to tell ya I'm leaving.

(jazz music)

Peanuts?

- No thanks.

Why?

- Why not?

We always knew someday you'd have to find a new boy

to drive you wherever you were going,

or I'd have to find a new passenger.

If that's not what we were traveling around the country for,

then what?

So, one day one of us or both of us would finally light.

You know, you drive around looking for truth,

and sooner or later you're going to find some.

So,

one for the road.

- Where you goin'?

- Oh, you oughtta know, just goin'.

- When?

- Tomorrow.

You've got a plane to catch, haven't you?

- Yeah.

Keep in touch, huh?

- Sure.

(jazz music)

(gentle orchestral music)

- Mister Murdock?

- We'll load it with the latest equipment,

and we'll tape the weather.

Run it on a loop, change it every 15 minutes,

that way any boatmen in the area can just dial

the up to the minute scoop on weather conditions.

Hi Buzz.

- I've gotta talk to you,

alone,

please.

- I'll call you in a few minutes, huh?

(door closes)

- I'm coming out of the storm cellar, Mister Fisk.

- Mister Fisk?

- The storm cellar I'm coming out of is my conscience.

I mean, what kind of architecture is that, a storm cellar?

A man's conscience should be clear, above the ground,

like one of those glass houses you build, right?

- Well people who build glass houses--

- Shouldn't wear a millstone around their neck.

Look, I'll try and make it as simple as possible.

I don't want my first million and I don't want my second,

I don't want my 25th.

In short, I quit, I pass.

- Drink?

- No thanks.

I made out this check to the company,

payable for 2600 dollars.

That's what I saved in the three months I've worked here.

I didn't earn it, so I can't keep it.

Look, I'm sorry if I came in like,

I mean it's not really your fault.

Actually, knowing you and being around you, I'm grateful.

Thanks for trying to teach me and for giving me the chance,

but the last voice you listen to in that big debate

about whether you're going to be yourself

or someone you don't like,

well that's got to be your own voice, doesn't it?

No one else's but your own.

- Will you ask Miss Prentiss to step in, Barbara, please?

- [Barbara] Yes, Mister Fisk.

- Look, I told you I didn't want to debate it.

Now look, nobody's gonna change my mind.

(door closes)

- Now don't tell me, let me guess.

You've just bought Albania

and paid for it with Russian ruples.

- I left a glass out for you, Terry.

- Thank you.

(ice clinking)

(liquid pouring)

(glass clinking)

Albania.

- His severance pay, only he's severing us.

- I'm sorry I missed the farewell address.

- Mmm, you're taking it hard.

- When did you find out?

- Well I didn't think that he could have dug up a deal

as brilliant as the Dorset Marina in just three months.

You had to be the one behind it, Terry.

Course I didn't really know 'til we got to Tallahassee,

too many pieces missing down there.

And without Terry, Buzz didn't have the answers.

- I left those pieces missing deliberately.

- Somebody want to tell me the name of the game?

- I want Smitty's job.

The eastern vice presidency, that's the name of the game.

For six months, I combed through

all those applications with you, nothing.

Well, I knew you wouldn't rest

until you had some kind of a straw man,

so I sold you the idea of promoting from within,

and that's when Buzz walked in, straight from heaven.

I worked with him, I built up your respect for him,

and then, when I thought he was ready,

I got him to present the Dorset plan to you

as though he had thought of it all by himself.

Credit Buzz for fighting me, but

debit him for not fighting too hard.

- Well why did you, why didn't you just

speak up for yourself at staff?

- Do you remember that merger I brought you last year?

You got cold feet.

Why?

Because I'm only supposed to control the money,

not create it.

And what about the year before, the Mitchell deal?

You stood to make at least two million dollars on that one,

but, because it came from me, a mere woman,

you hesitated just long enough

to let another company snap it up.

- Oh well Terry--

- You needed a lesson, Lee.

Well,

I gave you one

and made you five million dollars at the same time.

(giggles)

Buzz,

everything that happened,

all the times we spent together,

darling I never said or did anything that I didn't feel

or mean,

but don't you see that's just part of me,

part of what I am.

You never got beyond that.

You never found the most important part of my life.

If you had, if,

if you had had the insight to take that part prisoner too,

then you would have known all of me,

and then I would have forgotten everything,

my job, my ambitions,

everything but you.

- Well you're not alone, Buzz.

I've loved her for five years.

You know, there's never been anything that I wanted

that I couldn't have or didn't have simply by asking.

I know how ambitious you are, Terry,

and I know that if I'd asked you to marry me,

you'd have said yes,

simply because you couldn't afford to pass up

David Leland Fisk, the president.

Alright, today we're leveling,

maybe too much truth is better than no truth at all.

Terry, I want to marry you.

- Are you giving me a choice?

- What, between marrying me and Smitty's job?

- Uh huh.

- Yes, yes you have a choice.

- Smitty's job.

(laughs)

(gentle orchestral music)

- [Lee] Alright, you've got the job,

but the wraps are off, Terry.

I'm coming after you, and I'm gonna marry you

if it's the last thing I ever do.

- [Terry] And I'm coming after you, Lee, your job--

- So long, tigers.

- [Terry] And not by marrying you,

but by promoting you upstairs, chairman of the board,

if it's the last thing I ever do.

- [Lee] If you think you can take me upstairs

to chairman of the board, young lady,

you've got a thing or two coming.

- [Terry] Listen, the thing...

(music swells)

- 11 hours from Denver to Phoenix, that's not bad.

There's just one thing I'd like to know,

why did you send the wire collect?

- Well, suppose I'd paid for it.

- Yeah?

- Where's the urgency?

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(jazz music)

- [Announcer] This has been a Screen Gems film presentation

from Columbia Pictures,

Herbert B Leonard, executive producer.

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