All right. Bill.
Can I meet
watch with you? And Betsy
couldn't be better.
Uh, look, did you say something to me the other day about wanting to make a change?
Oh,
I don't know exactly
what I said was that I like it at the foundation. Ok.
But I'm having a little trouble making both ends meet.
The reason I ask,
I hear there's a spot opening up in
public relations where I work in United Broadcasting.
What would it pay?
Oh, I don't know.
8, 10,000, I guess, something like that.
Well, I can certainly do with eight or 10,000
but I don't know anything about public relations. Who does
you got a clean shirt? You bathe every day and that's all. There's too,
no, I guess not.
Banks. Just the same.
You're probably right.
I don't think you'd be very happy in that
roaming jungle anyway.
Yeah,
Tommy.
Goodbye.
Well, how was your day?
Not too good. I'm afraid.
No.
For one thing, the washing machine finally conked out.
I can't have it fixed.
Not anymore. It's really gone this time.
How much does a new one cost?
About 250?
Wow.
And Barbara's got the chicken pox.
Oh, my
better stop at the drugstore.
I'll pick up a present for her.
How's she feeling?
Happiest little polka dotted girl in the state of Connecticut.
Ok.
Hey, Daddy.
Hi, Pete.
You know what? Daddy? What
Barra
got the chicken pox and we're all gonna get it. Oh, maybe not.
But mama promised it to mama. That's what the doctor says. Here we go.
We're all gonna get it and stay in bed all day.
I can just see you staying in bed all day.
Amy says he's gonna take the rock collection to bed with her.
You come with me and help mommy fix daddy's
dinner.
I'm gonna take Millie to bed with me.
Well, I got the smallpox chickenpox, honey. Don't make it any worse than it.
Are you sure you didn't paint those on there yourself? Honest, I didn't daddy.
Look, I've got em all over. Well, if you say you didn't,
hey, thank you, Daddy.
How are you, sweetheart?
Is she going to die? Of course not. People don't die from chickenpox.
Did you ever have chickenpox? I've had everything. How about you?
I've been trying to remember.
You won't have to try long. You'll know in a day or two. That's what's worrying me.
You can go on down. I'll be down in a minute.
I think she's going to die. Will you stop talking like that?
And you can mix one for me too because I can certainly use it tonight. I
think she's dying. Now.
What do you think you're gonna do with him? I
take him
with
me.
But he's filthy PD. I'm gonna wash
him
first.
Oh, do you
get
here?
One
thing
all you do is take things away from,
away from you
and you're never gonna see me again. A
million miles away.
And I don't care if you die. I don't care if
you,
you die 100 million times. I don't care.
Now, listen, PD, I don't care if you like to learn
right away from here. This very minute. Pie. Boy.
Have you forgotten that? You and I are buddies. I am not your buddy.
I want you to die too. I want everybody to die. Shut up.
What have we got around here? A bunch of necro
files. They are just a little fretful.
Yeah.
School.
Hello?
Oh, hello, Alfred.
I tried to get you on the phone at the office but you had just left.
It's about the estate.
I've just heard from the auditors and
the news is a little disappointing.
Was that final?
I see.
How?
Oh, thanks very much. Anyway,
good night Alfred.
You're gonna have to brace yourself for this one, honey.
Ok, let's have it.
That was Alfred.
He says there's nothing left in grandma's estate.
Nothing.
Nothing but that old barn of a house and there's a $10,000 mortgage on it.
What about the money grandpa left?
Apparently she lost it.
Well, that's certainly one on the button.
What about the house? What do you think we can get for it?
We've already had one over 20,000, 20,000.
That house must have cost 150,000 to build. That was 50 years ago.
Nobody wants an old rookery like that today.
Get the butter, will you.
It's one of the few houses in Connecticut that hasn't grown old gracefully.
You don't mean you're gonna let them have it for that.
What do you think we ought to do about it?
That's the best offer we can get about it.
Goodbye.
Goodbye, dear.
Send us a card when you get there.
Yeah,
I forgot my mittens.
I think we ought to hang on to it for a year or two anyway,
until we can figure out something better than that.
You know what it would cost to keep up a place like that,
something like 6000 a year
on a $7000 salary.
But you're not going to always be making 7000. That's what I mean.
I could be making less.
But you can't look at things like that. Tommy.
You've got to believe that things are going to get better
promotions opportunities,
some good breaks.
That's what life is. Hope and,
and the bricks,
you can't just accept the way things are now.
I
think we ought to sell it and put the money in the bank or some insurance.
Well,
did you ever stop to think what might happen to you if I should drop dead some morning,
I'd drop dead right there by you. What about the Children?
I don't even want to think about them.
What I wanna know is
you don't expect to be with the foundation forever, do you? Of course not.
But you've got to admit it's an absolutely safe spot.
All right. Then what about this?
We sell grandma's house and, and this house too and,
and we get, that's a nice house in a nice neighborhood. So here we go on that again.
But why not? If we can make maybe 15,000 on this one.
And with what we clear on grandma's. Look, honey, don't you understand?
I'm sorry, Tommy. You know how I hate this house but you don't know how much I hate it.
It's ugliness, it's depression,
but most of all it's defeat.
Don't you feel that at all?
Well, it's not exactly a palace, it's a graveyard, Tommy,
a graveyard of everything.
We used to talk about
happiness, fun
ambition.
And I want to get out of it.
But if we put it all in the bank and go on living here for the rest of our lives, Betsy,
maybe you don't know it.
But there are a lot of people in this world who are doing a lot worse than we are.
Oh, no, they're not. They may look like it but they're not
the thing about this house.
It's not a happy house. Tommy. I don't think that's true. But
ever since the war, will you stop harping on the war? It's been over for 10 years.
It's gone unforgotten,
kind of believe it.
Not for you anyway,
whether you know it or not.
All I know is that, I don't think this is any time to be taking chances.
Then if it wasn't the war, what has happened to you?
What do you mean what's happened to me?
I don't know,
except that you've lost your guts and all of a sudden, I'm ashamed of you.
Do you want another?
No, thank you.
How's that? Pal? Thanks. So, pop.
Good night.
Good night. Oh, pop.
Oh
God.
You go to sleep
about that spot at UVC.
If you're interested, I can set up an appointment for you.
You wouldn't mind.
No, not in the least.
Just let me know when
I'll call you
any time you say
for,
it's always
so
bad.
Still.
This the first man, a
big
one.
You see those goats. We better get back in the woods and cross the road further south.
We gotta get those coats.
Unites have got people all over this place. Come on, let's go. I'm freezing to death.
Donge
and Fuller Donges
Room.
How many do you see?
Two?
Well, if I don't get that goat,
I'm dead anyway.
Ok. Let's get him
if Malz
of
Tras
and Alison or
August.
Uh huh.
Fits.
Oh, wow.
Mate.
I,
where's your gun
behind the wall?
I'll get it.
If the
first pal
are
not too
far.
It's no,
neither cultism
and
there's part,
he's not dead. He makes some kind of a noise.
Finish him off, then use your knife. We gotta get out of here
without your document. Feeling
a gross of huns in here. Susan.
Come on, Tom. We gotta get out of here. All right. Get out of the way.
Ok.
There's no use trying. I just can't get used to it.
Here's to work
the idea of Brooklyn Dodgers as world champions,
right?
My guys will kill me.
I wonder how we could not tell him.
Why don't we take off captain?
It's all yours. Old Capitan.
We take off any day starting one week from today
and we're all packed captain,
but it's not for home.
Are you kidding, sir?
Seems we've got another little war out in the Pacific
and that's where we're going next.
Pacific.
So what's a *** been doing all this time?
I don't know anything more about it than you do my client. Now,
you know what us soldiers need at a time like this captain.
A
tiny little blast of vino.
Eat
a
lot
of
C
three.
Mhm.
One momento.
Wait a minute, honey.
Now you come right back here. You understand.
We don't want to have to start tearing this hogan apart.
I will come back to you. Baby.
Is the post already
a
little captain, you don't wanna go back to the post feeling like that.
I got a little something coming down.
Here's gonna take your mind off all that sort of thing.
I, I hope anyway, I want to go back to the post.
Look, Captain, we came out here to have a celebration. Do you remember
now? We don't want to go back to the post feeling worse off than when we came out. Do we?
Cuesta Maria
Esto
E Cesare.
Hey, Captain.
Not bad. Huh?
Shake hands with Maria Captain.
I wonder if I could interest you in a proposition to be my widow.
Will you do something very nice to me? You have only to name it my dear.
Will you not talk like that anymore tonight?
You're unwilling to face facts
after such a good
d with
wine and music
and we are riding together in the moonlight.
Is that what we should be talking about
that
you would prefer perhaps the subject of love?
Anything that does
very well then
I love you.
You mean you love me very much? No, I said I loved you. No,
not,
not so quickly.
Why not?
There's some sort of timetable on love in Italy?
No,
I only want something I can believe tonight.
Like if you said you liked me very much.
Well, that you thought I was pretty something I can believe for tonight anyway,
but of love.
Not just one day.
I like you very much. Maria.
You're more than pretty.
You're beautiful.
This was so wonderful that night
the later it gets, the more beautiful it becomes
three.
Take
off.
Not a very pretty place I'm afraid
and nothing works anymore.
I have a candle here.
Are you feeling all right?
Just thinking
I may instruct my attorneys to draw up a new will and leave my entire estate to you.
It's no good. It's too far away.
Oh, no,
please, please. You promise.
I'm sorry.
But I would like
what
something to eat.
Ok,
again,
not tonight
but if you could perhaps give me some spam
spare
if you could,
you mean you want to spam?
I would like something to eat tomorrow.
Who do you live with here in this place?
Gina and Gina's mother?
No man,
they're all dead.
What about your family? They are dead too.
Mm.
Just you. Three women
and Gina's little brother
and they all like spam
any kind of food and tens of boxes.
Ok. Let's go get some right now. No,
not
now.
But in the morning if you will,
what was it? Captain?
You said the party is over gentlemen.
When
well the plane's in already. We're pulling out of here tomorrow.
Uh
You know where for?
Well, I guess we got no beef coming captain.
I never heard of nobody else getting six weeks of freedom, especially in Rome.
You gonna tell Maria, sir? Of course.
But alone if you don't mind, captain, please, you think I got no delicacy at all.
No offense intended.
It says that Miss Montana and I wish to spend our last day together all by ourselves.
And where do you think I was gonna tell Gina? Goodbye in the Coliseum,
sir.
Come on, get out of there. I finally got that Jeep,
the Jeep.
It's going to rain, isn't it? Who cares? There's no law against a picnic in the rain.
Where's my sweater? Look behind the screen.
Call me.
All right, boy,
put it right down here. But you brought so much only last week.
Hurry back down and get the roast.
Can you get in there and get your clothes on?
You ought to see what
Gella got for Gina.
I don't wanna sound stuffy
but I think it's wrong to liberate that much.
When are we going?
Well, I can't tell you because I don't know myself.
Let's make it a mystery picnic, shall we?
We'll let the Jeep decide where we're gonna wind up
now. Really?
Who could ask for anything better than this rain on
the roof and a beautiful girl to keep me warm.
Does this bother you
probably will?
I don't object to that.
Not that either.
Can you sing?
No, I'm sorry.
Drive, can't you?
Yes, I can drive. All right. You drive and I'll say
it passed so well.
Alright,
that step on your toes.
There's nothing like a little singing in the rain.
Oh.
Which would you prefer? Boola?
Boola.
I'm a random wreck from Georgia Tech.
Uh,
the Rams and wrecks from Georgia. Taking a hell of an engine.
Hell of a, hell of a, hell of a, hell of a hell of an engineer.
I call Jonathan.
I drink my whiskey.
Go
back.
This is the last day. Yes.
Yes.
We're leaving tomorrow.
I knew it.
Everybody I know
Kaiser leaves me.
I was going to tell you tonight
the last night
and then I'll never see you again
and you won't remember for long.
You know, better than
that. How long
you're asking that? Seriously? You're still the moment you mean to me?
But say how long
as long as I live,
even when you're back with your wife?
Well, I wish I could forget you. It'd be better,
but I know I'll never be able to.
You don't still believe that
when you get out to the Pacific
not being killed. You don't believe that anymore.
I don't think like that anymore. I don't think anything at all about the future
or the past either.
Just what's now at
this minute.
And this man had worked.
It's a minute. I wouldn't take anything in the world for her
home. Fire
wind and the rain outside a good bottle of wine
and I'm with you.
I
don't think I could stand it if you went away and I thought you hadn't loved me really?
It would be like taking the light out of the room.
I wouldn't be able to see anything anymore.
But will you remember really
this minute first? What else?
You?
No, no. I mean, what are the minutes?
First minute I ever saw you?
Not too clearly
but enough.
Then the night
and all of a sudden I knew you meant it too.
And every minute with you since then
I was so lonely that
you have no idea.
You can know what it was to be as lonely as I was.
But now I think I'll never be lonely again.
I think I'm going to have someone on my own.
My child.
You're going to have a child?
Yes, I think so.
Do you want it?
I pray for it morning and night.
Even though there is no, even though about it,
I want my baby,
I want my baby to hold and love.
I love me.
I hope until I die.
Do you want me to set up that appointment today?
Why not?
What time
noon would be best for me?
Ok. I'll call Gordon Walker. He's head of public relations.
I'll let you know as soon as I find out.
Thanks very much, I'll be in my office all morning.
So.
Ok.
U
PC Legal Department
expressed to 25. Thank you,
U BC Public Relations Express the 36. Thank you.
How are you Mr Rath? Very well. Thank you. Sit here
friend, Bill Hawthorne gave you quite a build up.
I remember when Bill first came with us
about 10 years ago,
Bill style in the radio department.
And he moved up to the 19th floor,
then he went to copy
crazy. Isn't it
looks very comfortable.
My doctor tells me I need plenty of rest and this is one of the ways I have of doing it.
Why do you want to work for U BC?
Well, for one thing, I'd like to make more money.
Well, that's a wholesome and refreshing approach.
Also, I'd like to work in a place
where there's more opportunity for advancement than there is at the foundation.
Can you write?
Well, I, I do most of the writing at the foundation
reports to the trustees,
things of that sort.
Well, I tell you what I want you to do, then
I want you to go in that room there,
shut the door after you
and write me your autobiography in one hour.
Everything you can think about yourself in one hour
along any particular line.
Explain yourself for us,
examine your life. Tell us just what kind of person you are
and why we should hire you.
Ok.
And at the end, I want you to finish this sentence for me.
The most significant thing about me is
the most significant thing about me is. That's right.
It's now five minutes of 12.
Try to have it finished by one o'clock.
The results of course will be entirely confidential.
Yeah,
my man
go on the Green Lake,
your assembly
north west corner of the drop zone,
your object is the pass.
Say again,
hold it till the ground troops come up from the base
and my turn.
Let's go.
Come on, you guys,
let's go there. Let's go.
Hurry up. Let's go.
We don't get those one positions with DN.
All right.
Right.
But
the left
to
box
guard behind that tree and let go
go.
Two of you check that pillbox and hold it.
Those guys are first platoon men.
I wonder we Hankers
give me some smoke.
All right. Cover us.
You gotta be among those rocks somewhere.
Cover me,
Hank.
Um
Good thanks.
Drink.
Ready
TB.
Look at you.
We'll do that. Some boy,
nobody get a minute.
Hey, I like that
panic.
I
want you to take a look at this man
quick.
Put him over there. This man's dead captain. He's not dead. Take another look at him.
I'll put him over there, Captain
George. You touch him. I'll find a real doctor.
Hey, fellas, come here a minute.
You'd better take a rest captain.
That man is dead
until the doctor says. So I'm gonna have a real doctor. Take a look at him.
You better let him go. Doc
try to stop him. Somebody's gonna get hurt.
Can I help you? Captain?
I want a Reddick.
Well, there's a hospital boat coming in now.
Maybe you better let me carry him a little piece for you.
You'll cut a beat to me, sir.
Oh, that's all right. I'll take him.
Oh,
you better let me, Captain.
Yeah, this man's dead, captain.
He's not dead.
You're right, captain.
We ain't gonna take nobody's word for it until the doctor says so.
Yeah,
I could put him with today.
No siree. We ain't
gonna lay him right down here by your side
so you can look after him,
your own self so we can find out what's the best thing to do about him.
Uh
Will you watch over him while I go get somebody?
Will you do that for me? Captain?
That's a good captain.
Now you sit right here and look after your friend like he'd want you to
and I'll go get us the best doctor they got down there
just so we'll be good and sure.
Thank you, sergeant.
And
it's yourself
a little rest too, right? Captain.
Ok, Bill,
I'll send you a memo on it
all.
Is this all?
That's all.
But you've still got 12 minutes.
I've written all I think is necessary.
The most significant thing about me
so far as the United Broadcasting Corporation is concerned
is that I am applying for a position in its public relations department
and after a reasonable period of learning,
I believe I could do a good job.
I will be glad to answer any other
questions relevant to this application for employment.
But after giving it serious thought,
I am unable to convince myself that any further speculation on my importance
could be of any legitimate interest or
value to the United Broadcasting Corporation.
Anything else?
No,
we'll call you when we decide anything. Goodbye. Thank you.
Goodbye,
Bill Hawthorne told me about an opening at U BC yesterday.
I went over to see them about it this afternoon.
I'm awfully sorry about last night guy.
Maybe I had it coming to me.
What's the matter with us, Tom?
Is it me? There's nothing the matter with us.
We don't want to make too much out of a little blow off, do we?
We want to be pretty happy? Really?
Your job's plenty good enough.
We've got three nice kids
and we love each other.
Must be the house.
Yeah.
How much will that new job pay?
I don't know,
maybe eight or 10,000.
You know what I think would be nice. Now, just a minute there.
I haven't got this job yet. I know. But when you get it,
a trip somewhere together,
wouldn't you like that
if it works out that way?
Maybe that little shack in Vermont I was telling you about,
I think I'll call the agency tomorrow about that day woman to take care of the kids.
Now, look, honey,
let's not pack our bags yet.
Not until it's a little more than a possibility. Anyway,
if you're getting the money for the morning,
you know what I'd like? Really?
What
all I'd like really
is to do something. I don't care what
it will make you,
well,
a little proud of me. That's all.
I don't know what U BC wanted,
but that's significant enough for me
if you told them that.
Can you beat that?
Alright. Upstairs.
Oh
gee, you know better than this
turn. Let me not.
Did you hear what your mother said?
Did you ever have? But that one picture
just a minute.
What I don't understand is why he doesn't let you handle the job as usual
or why he insists on going outside the organization for somebody.
Is it possible he doesn't trust us anymore?
Yeah,
Mr Thomas Rath
Sentiment.
How are you, Tom? Good morning,
Bill Ogden. Mr Hopkins assistant.
How do you do Mr Ogden?
Well, thanks,
Mr Hopkins was quite impressed by the tone of your application.
Ralph Hopkins.
That's right.
Have meet him.
No, I never had,
but I've heard a lot about him. Of course,
to put you in the picture here.
I'll let Ralph fill it in for you.
This is a personal project of his
something. He's giving his own personal attention to
mental health
dearest,
some kind of a national campaign,
but he'll tell you about it himself.
Ralph.
Good morning guys.
We have Thomas Roth here with us, Ralph
and we were wondering
when it would be convenient for you to see us.
Come on up. Now, I'll be through this in just a minute or two.
It's up a little, not much, nothing to worry about.
And your heart sounds pretty good. I'm certainly glad to hear that.
But you've had a warning and if only to satisfy my own conscience,
I've got to tell you again, you've got to slow down.
I've been getting plenty of rest.
You ought to cut way down on your schedule. Sleep a little later,
come into the office around 1030 11 in the morning.
Get away around three or four
and put out these outside activities of yours.
Not of course that I expect you to pay the slightest attention to what I said,
but I will, I promise you and thanks so much for coming right in the middle of your day.
Not at all, sir.
Goodbye. Goodbye, doctor.
Yes, sir.
Will you ask Mr Rath Mr Walker and Mr Ogden to come in, please? Yes, sir.
Good morning fellas,
Mr
Mr Hopkins. This is awfully good of you. I know how busy you must be.
How are you Gordon?
Thank you
about that call, Bill. It's better now. Thanks. That's good.
I was worried about you. Really sounded quite bad. Did you have lunch with us? Mr
I'd be happy to. That's wonderful. I have so many engagements this afternoon.
Is he? Yes, sir. We're going in for lunch. Can you take a call for Mrs Hopkins first?
Hold it for just a moment, will you? Yes, sir.
Will you fellows go on in? I'll join you in five minutes. Of course.
I'm terribly sorry, Mr
it's just one of those things, you know, quite all right,
sir.
I'm sorry, dear. How are you?
Can you come out today?
I've got to talk to you right away about Susan.
What about her?
Many things? Really?
But she's just informed me that she has no intention of going to college and I,
I just don't know what to do about her anymore.
I'll be there this evening if that'll be convenient for you.
Don't fail
me,
Ralph.
I won't dear. And don't worry too much. I'm sure we can straighten it out.
I'll be looking for you.
Did you know that more hospital beds are occupied by the mentally ill
that all the cancer, heart and polio cases put together?
No,
I didn't know it was that I never dreamed it
was that bad until I talked to those doctors.
That's a very good idea about the research endowment.
What else?
Well, what about backing legislation
to get more state and federal funds for mental hospitals?
Yes, that could be done too. And then on the local level
you might look into the organization of
community clinics, psychiatric clinics,
sort of preventive measures.
How,
how, what,
how could we organize community clinics?
I can't answer that this minute.
You've got to remember. I just heard about this thing an hour ago,
but I'd certainly look into the possibility of local clinics.
I think we should do.
Very good idea.
It's a little too early actually to spell out any of these ideas in detail.
I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you gentlemen to excuse me.
I have a very important engagement,
Mr Arth. I can't tell you how much I appreciate your coming.
It's been a genuine pleasure as well as very useful. Indeed.
I hope we'll be able to see each other again soon. Goodbye,
rear
sir.
Wait here, please.
Oh,
this wouldn't be a very high paying job. You understand?
What kind would it be?
The figure we had in mind
was something around 7000?
Well, that's no good.
That's what I'm getting now.
I know.
What did you have in mind?
The job as I see, it should be worth at least $10,000.
I'm afraid that's out of the question
now. So is 7000. As far as I'm concerned,
we don't like to quibble over things like this.
We feel that if a man really wants to work for UB City,
it shouldn't be necessary.
Well, that's strictly up to you, of course, but
you can hardly expect me to switch jobs purely for the pleasure of working for
c
well, not that anything can be decided. Now, anyhow,
we just wanted to get a line on the way you were thinking.
Well, that's all right.
I'm in no hurry.
We'll call you then.
Thank you very much.
I wouldn't count too heavily on anything. You understand.
There's nothing very definite about any part of this idea. I understand.
Thanks for the lunch.
What do you figure?
Eight,
nine, I imagine
strictly. I split the difference, man.
Yes,
I'm Mr Hopkins.
Oh, excuse me, sir.
How long have you been here?
About two months?
Will you tell Mrs Hopkins? I'm here. Yes.
Ok.
Hello dear.
You are really a wonder.
I'm terribly worried.
Will you have a drink? No, thank you.
When did you last? See Susie?
About a month ago,
she's becoming a real beauty, isn't she?
Have you any idea of the, the kind of life that she's leading these days? At 18?
No, but I'm sure she lives in nightclubs
but at 18 don't all rather well to do. Girls go through that stage.
She's not rather well to do. She's very rich
and she's your daughter with your name.
She's a celebrity in that filthy crowd.
And I can't tell you how,
how unattractive it is in her,
a celebrity and the men she goes with never a boy of her own age or of,
of what should be her crowd
where the man she spends most of her time with now is,
is older than I am.
Who is he?
Byron Holgate? His name is,
he's an old leftover from the Scott Fitzgerald era. Still
marrying and divorcing women. A
pure horror. She's notorious. She's a public fool.
Even the gossip columnists know that.
What can she be thinking of running around with a clown like that?
I hate to say this,
but I think that what she's thinking of with him
is marriage.
I couldn't believe that for one second.
It's just
unthinkable.
The other one is a writer,
45 years old, three Children and a wife that he doesn't live with.
He took over the opening of one of his plays on Broadway last week
and an all night party afterward, waiting for the reviews to come out
at 18.
What's his name?
Patterson?
Michael Patterson? I know him too.
That can have been a very merry party when they read those reviews.
Why do you let her go out with such people?
How can I stop her? I can't lock her in her room.
Have you had a really serious talk with him? Of course,
mother, she says don't be medieval
and that
and then what?
And that, who am I to offer advice when my own marriage has been a failure?
That's hardly the whole truth.
That's not the point. Now, the point is that I can't do anything with her anymore.
Bar
will have to get a little tough with her.
I'll have a talk with her right away.
Not just a little talk, Ralph and then forget the whole thing.
You've got to do something.
This is the time for you to make up for all the things you've never done before.
She was such a darling little girl.
Both. She and Bobby was so good,
so sweet.
They were wonderful kids.
You never really knew Bobby.
Not really.
He had genuine character.
Always held high grades in college, never got himself into trouble.
He could have had a commission,
but he turned it down
and listed
because he thought that
was the right thing to do.
Did you ever know that?
Of course, darling,
he wasn't a complete stranger to me.
I just had lunch with a young man and reminded me of him.
Same eyes and mouth,
same kind of smile.
Oh, but Susan has me lipped
and I'm asking you to help me.
I haven't done that in
many years.
I've come to the end of my role.
I just don't know what else to do.
You don't have to succeed. I can't insist on that.
But you've got to make the effort.
She's your daughter too.
You've got to give her at least the same time and
thought and attention that you give to a business proposition,
a new station or
one of your Sunday night programs.
I'll do everything I can. Yeah,
I'll call her this evening and I'll talk to you tomorrow
if you don't wrap,
if you don't make this effort,
I'll never want to see you again.
I will die.
I promise you.
It's pretty close to 100.
I, Jenny's pats.
I've got one here
on my left leg.
Why couldn't I have had it when I was a child?
Like any reasonably intelligent person. Speaking of rich. What about our child?
I've heard a peep out of them this evening.
That's a day woman from the agency, Mrs Madder.
I had to get her for a day or two anyway.
And does she make him jump? You should have seen it.
Sit here for a minute, dear.
I think I've got it all worked out.
You've got what? All worked out.
We sell this house and move into grandma's now. Look, honey.
But no, tell me you've got to listen first. You can't say no until you've heard it.
All right. I'm sorry. Go on.
We move into grammar's but only for a little while
just until I can figure out something else. What else?
There are 23 beautiful acres in grandma's place.
And do you know what they're getting for just one acre lots around there?
$5000 a piece. Can't do it, Betsy, you can't slice it up.
There's a zoning law in South Bay, but zoning laws can be changed.
Tommy, they're being changed every day now,
but we can't do anything about that one unless we're residents of South Bay.
I see
if we can get that zoning law changed, we can chop the whole place up into lots,
borrow money from the banks and build houses on them
and the very least we can make is $100,000.
And just to think
only a week ago, we were facing the poorhouse.
I'm not kidding. Tommy.
Well, may I ask you just one question?
Go ahead
while we're living in that barn with all that money
going on while we're waiting for that 100 grand.
Would you mind telling me just what we're gonna eat on,
on your salary from
c but I haven't got a job
at C and I'm not gonna get one.
I told you that I have no intention of switching jobs without a raise.
And that's what it would have to be.
The man told me so, in so many words, but you can get a raise if you want it.
What do you mean if I want it,
you can get it because those two fellows wouldn't have been talking
to you about salary if Mr Hopkins hadn't said he wanted you.
And if Mr Hopkins said he wanted you,
Mr Hopkins is going to get you and for $10,000 if you've got the,
the nerve to hold out for it,
I'm going down the stairs to get a glass of milk.
Are your kids supposed to be in bed? Just a minute? Daddy
turn that thing off Barbara
his clinic.
Uh
Just a minute.
Did you like
that
part?
You kids?
If I catch you down here once more,
Mr
Mrs Manor, I'll have him straightened out in a day or two.
I've had eight kids of my own so I know how to handle them.
Once every last one of mine were down with the measles. Know what I did,
what
broke my leg
and my husband was away too.
What did you do?
What are you hollering for? I can hear. All right.
Sorry.
Never stop me for a minute.
I just put my knee on a chair, tied it that way and breathed along like a breeze.
I never did a better day's work in my life. Wonderful.
Good night.
Nothing ever scares you. Death.
Only you,
me
remember dad,
I'm very sick.
Pretty close to 100.
Go on. I won't hit you.
You have changed
since the war.
And I suppose I have in a way
that was what we have to have in our country. What they call a citizen soldier
one day a man's catching the A 26 and then suddenly he's killing people
and a few weeks later he's catching the A 26 again.
It could be a miracle if it didn't change him in some way,
the way. I mean, is you
sometimes now you, you seem so far away from me.
I'm not though,
ever
the way I think about marriage.
It, it ought to be
kind of secret between two people
just between them and nobody else in the world.
Sometimes. Now
I get the feeling that I'm not sharing all of ours.
That's not true. Sweetheart.
When that happened to you,
it's like the music stopped.
It scares me. Tom.
Don't, you know that I love you more than I've ever loved anybody in the world.
I do hope you do
because I love you more than I know how to tell you.
Even when I'm a little
on the cautious side.
Don't you ever say a thing like that again?
I know what kind of husband I've got and
I wouldn't change over anyone else in the world.
Did I ever say anything to make you feel like that again?
You hit me right across the head. Do you hear me?
Are you sure this is all right.
What's the chicken pox?
Mhm.
What do you care?
You had it?
We'll have your name here sometime this afternoon,
Miss Lawrence. This is Mr Rad.
Miss Lawrence will be your secretary.
How do you do, Miss Lawrence? Very glad to meet you,
Mr
We always give a new man.
The prettiest secretary keeps him happy during the breaking in.
Well, how do you like it?
It's not very much like the old foundation.
Glad to have you aboard, Tom.
Thank you, Gordon.
He is all yours bill.
We're going to list you as special assistant to the president,
but that won't apply in any way to company business only to this special project.
Nothing else.
I see there'll be a trial period of six months,
at least he'll be directly responsible to me.
That's all right. Now, the pitch is this,
there's a big convention of Doctors at Atlantic City on the 15th
of next month and Mr Hopkins has been asked to speak.
That's when we're gonna try to get this thing off the ground with this speech,
this is some stuff to get you into the picture.
You mean you want me to write this speech for him?
Nobody writes Mr Hopkins speeches. But Mr Hopkins,
we simply do the research,
kick around ideas with him and block out a rough preliminary form.
Mercy.
And if the speech is right,
it will not even mention a national mental health campaign.
But at the end of it,
the entire audience will rise as one man and demand
not only such a campaign be launched at once,
but that Mr Hopkins should head it.
Is that all?
And I shouldn't be facetious about it if I were you
all right,
start right from the beginning.
I want to hear everything that happened from the minute you all said. Hello. Hello.
Hello.
Well, my first assignment,
I'm writing a speech.
No, no, no, that's not
it. I might as well get used to this double talk from the beginning.
I'm not writing a speech for Mr Hopkins.
I'm providing the rough material
so that he can write his own speech. May I interrupt for a moment?
Of course,
that is not the way to start a new job.
God isn't
being so bright and cynical about it.
I wasn't being so bright and cynical.
That's the way it sounded and I'm tired of being bright and brittle and broke.
There's no way to tackle a new job or anything else. But honestly,
well, I'm gonna tackle it honestly.
But I have an idea that things are gonna
be a little more complicated than Madison Avenue.
Where are you going?
I thought we ought to run by grandma's house to have a little talk with Edward
because we're moving in there on Thursday.
What did you say?
A man came up this morning with an offer of 14,000
cash for our house if he could move in at once.
So I threw him down and took his money
and now we've got to move into dragon wick.
Yeah,
Wrath's folly.
You just wait
poor old fellow.
How long was he with her?
Ever since I can remember,
we're gonna have to find some way to look after her.
Here he is.
Hello Edward.
Hi Edward. Good evening, sir.
How's your knee?
All right. Thank you.
I'd like to have a little talk with you, Mr R.
Well,
it just so happens that that's what I want with you.
I'll go up and have a look at the bedrooms.
Let's go right in here.
What's on your mind?
I want to know why I haven't been permitted to see Mrs Rs.
Well,
or should you? You're not in it. I don't believe that
very well.
Go and take a look for yourself. It's on fire right here in South Bay
with the probate judge. What's his name? Bernstein? And the will's no good
because you told me I was in it.
Now. Look at her,
I don't know what's come over. You
and Mrs Wright was pretty confused toward the end and, you know, it,
she didn't even know what she had to leave.
But I can tell you that it wasn't much and I can show you figures to prove that too.
But I promised her that I'd look after you and I'm going to try to keep that promise.
I mean, for one thing, you'll always have a home in this house.
What do I want with your charity?
I've probably got more money than you have.
What I want is what she promised to me. And that's what I'm gonna get too.
You mean she promised you some sort of pension?
She promised me this house, this house.
That's pure nonsense and you know it, why else do you think I stayed on here
taking her crazy orders, cleaning dirt up after her?
Do you think? I love that old woman?
Don't speak like that about Mrs Rath again, Edward?
I'll sue, you know,
I've got money.
I get a lawyer.
I can get the best lawyer in New York.
Nobody's going to swindle me out of my rights.
The will leaves the house to me.
The only question now is whether you're gonna
be sensible about this and take what you can
get or whether you're gonna keep shooting your mouth
off and get thrown out of here tonight,
I'll get out. All right.
Don't you worry about that?
But I'll be back.
And don't you forget that either?
Either you're trying to cheat me or she did
that crazy old woman. She was
thy, she never begged
enough.
Now, get out of here,
go pack your bags. And
if you're not out of here in an hour, you want to be sad if
sexy if you want it. But don't come out of your room until it gets here.
All I've got to do is to show my proof and that's what I'm gonna do.
Proof of what?
Oh, that he owns this place?
He says grandma left it to him.
Is that possible? Of course not. He's just trying to get away with something.
Oh, Judge Bernstein, please
judge
Bernstein.
This is Thomas Rath.
Judge.
You remember my grandmother's will, Mrs Walter Wrath.
Yes, I remember. I'm very happy to meet you, Mr
What can I do for you?
Yes.
And is there any legal reason why I shouldn't move into this house
of
a man who used to work for my grandmother
claims she left it to him?
Well, is there any kind of evidence to support such a claim?
I
don't believe
so.
What's the name of the man
Ed
Schultz?
Oh, yes, I know him.
He was with her for quite a long time.
That's the one.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Not at all.
That was the young he
with the wrath of steep
trouble.
I'm afraid. So
first, the old man who took care of. The old lady will be in here to a man. Justice
and the young heir to the estate will come to
demand just as much justice as the old man.
If there's anything I hate, it's to demands
for justice.
Can you get me by car, please?
I like
that
very
much.
Hey, did you see that fellow who just went on?
Which one?
He was my seal in the army?
What if he's working here now?
I didn't see him
if he is working here. I'd sure like to see him about something.
Uh huh.
The greatest hurdle we've got in this situation, you know,
is to sell these doctors on the idea in the first place.
You know how some people think about people in our business,
hucksters and all that sort of thing or some kind of gimmick behind everything we do.
I can handle this, this campaign 15 times better than any banker or businessman,
ever born.
But I've got to fight 15 times harder than any banker or
businessman ever born just to get the chance to do it.
See what I mean? Of course,
and that's why this speech has got to be exactly right to
the opportunity.
Simply doesn't come along every day for a man to
be able to do something of such tremendous good.
But now by the grace of God, one has come to me,
she has to be a great help in a truly holy cause.
If only I can make these people believe me.
No, I did.
I had no idea it was that late. Excuse me,
sir.
How are you, darling? Just fine.
I hope this isn't interfering with something important this evening.
Oh, no,
I just want to have a little talk with my beautiful young daughter.
This is my daughter, Susan, Tom,
this is Tom Ride, darling.
One of our bright young men from the office.
How are you doing, Miss
Hopkins? How are you?
Would you mind? Very much? Not at all, sir.
You know how busy young ladies are these days?
Good back, Miss Hopkins. I'm very pleased to have met you.
Thank
you.
Goodbye.
I really have to catch you on the fly as it were.
I'll see you tomorrow, Tom
and I do want you to know how much I appreciate you coming up here tonight.
I know I shouldn't impose on your evenings like this, but I,
I'm just so anxious about this project.
I suppose I get a little frantic about it at times.
I think it's worth getting frantic about.
Thank you for saying that
makes me feel a little better about taking you away from your family.
That's perfectly all right.
Good night, sir. Good night, Tom.
Does that fellow remind you of somebody?
No,
who
doesn't matter.
I'm very happy about this, darling.
I suppose you're old enough.
Or would you rather have a cook?
I'll have bourbon on the rocks.
It
clears up that
point.
I suppose.
Mother told you,
I don't want to go to college and now you're gonna try to persuade me to go.
No,
I don't want you to go to college if you don't want to.
And what is it?
Well,
I'd like to know what you're thinking of doing
if you're not going to school any longer.
I'm not sure.
I'd like to get married
right away
soon. Maybe.
Who's the fella?
I'm not sure yet.
Just kind of like the idea, huh?
You think I'm too young? Not at all? I married your mother at 19.
And then after you married what?
I like to travel, I think
sounds like a very pleasant life.
But before you get launched on it, we have something of a problem we ought to discuss.
What kind of problem.
Well, you know, of course, that the
world has treated me very well
over the years, I've managed to accumulate something of a treasure
and the responsibilities that go with it.
Luckily
this treasure came to me gradually.
So I had time to find out how to handle the responsibilities.
That's what I wanted to talk to you about,
how you'll be able to handle them.
You mean the money?
Well, that's the basis of it. Of course, I'm not interested in money.
I think money's a bore.
No sane person is interested in money simply as money.
That's what I thought you were. Everybody says so.
Yeah, I'm sure they do.
What is a million dollars, Susie
define it for me. As you see it. A
million dollars is a lot of money.
You'd be surprised how little.
And actually it's saying, darling, it's different things.
About half of a small hospital.
It's the life earnings of six average men
every nickel they make during their entire life,
college education for about 100 boys,
a home of their own for perhaps 75 people,
one fighter plane for the army.
But one thing it is not,
it is not something that any intelligent person
could consider a bore.
If you mean it's power. I'm not interested in power either.
I have a bad heart, darling. Not very bad, but
it is conceivable that I could die at any time.
And frankly, darling,
leaving a lot of money to, you would be like giving a gun to a baby.
I'm sorry about your heart, dad. And I do hope nothing happens to you,
but I'm not gonna worry about the money.
I'm not gonna let money ruin my life the way it's ruined yours and mother's,
well, let's at least be accurate about that.
Whatever our lives have been your mother's and mine.
It was not because of money.
It's really stupid the way you live working all the time. Ever since I can remember,
you must have a guilt complex
or you're a masochist.
Which one of your friends is an amateur psychoanalyst, the playwright.
What did you ask me up here for anyway, if it's not about college, I've told you,
it's about the responsibility.
I can get lawyers to look out for that.
Is that all? Look darling.
I'm quite prepared to admit that I've made mistakes
and that there are a great, many things that are the matter with me.
Now,
I can do the past,
but I would like to be of more help to you in the future.
Oh,
well, that's what I hope we'll be able to work out together.
What did you have in mind?
Well, for one thing,
I thought it might be nice if you'd move into this apartment with
me for a while and we could get to see each other,
get to know each other better.
I can arrange a job for you. Something that would interest you.
So, we'd be
working together in a way.
Would you give a little thought to that? I don't want to work with you.
Well, then some other kind of a job, whatever you like. I don't want to work at all.
Well, I'm only
thinking of boys who are getting to know each other better.
Why don't you leave me alone?
Why this, all of a sudden you've never paid any attention to me before
because you,
you are still my little girl
and I love you.
Oh, what a hypocritical thing to say.
You've hardly bothered to see me since I was born. People love in different ways.
Darling. Why can't you be honest about it?
You don't love me and you don't love mother
to tell you the truth. I don't think you love anybody
and I don't want to be like that.
That's not true, Susie.
So is he,
so is he please
come back, Danny.
Let's try to be reasonable about it. I don't want to be reasonable.
I don't want to have anything to do with you.
That's the way you and mother have been all your lives reasonable.
And I don't want anything like that.
I'm gonna try something else
down.
My,
this is awful
worse than the others.
Aren't you interested in this project?
Are you asking that? Seriously?
This doesn't do it at all. Why doesn't it
just misses, that's all
if you don't mind my saying? So that's not a very helpful form of criticism.
Can't you tell me what's wrong with it? It's got no oomph.
No,
oomph. You know what I mean?
Why don't you let Mr Hopkins take a look at it, decide for himself, whether it's got
Oomph or not?
What are you trying to do? Be funny.
No, I'm only trying to get a little intelligible help on this assignment.
You mean you can't handle it by yourself? I haven't been asked to do that.
I was told to work with you, but
this is the fifth time I've been in here now and
the best I've been able to get out of you.
So far is no oomph
a meaningless piece of crud out of a movie ad 15 years ago.
I could get better than that out of my six year old son.
If you're not careful Mr Ar,
you may find yourself thinking about it out on Madison Avenue.
Oh, that's all right with me.
But first I'd like to see you break that word down into English.
I think you better drop the hero. Ma,
I'll do it myself.
Let me Charlie Merrick.
I'll hold one.
You mean I'm fired, Johnny.
What happened after I left?
Mhm.
He did,
didn't he?
He didn't?
I think he's crazy. I think it's awfully good.
Thank you, Polly.
There was a call from a judge Bernstein wants you to call him back in South Bay,
Judge Bernstein. That's what I understood.
All right. Call him back.
Hello, Judge Bernstein. Tom Wrath.
Not
far from it. Judge
about your grandmother's will. Mr Edward Schultz was in to see me this morning.
Oh, yes. That's the man I was telling you about.
I have
a
letter on
Mrs
to whom it may concern in exchange for his services for the rest of my life
and in place of paying him a regular salary for same from this day forward.
I hereby bequeath my entire possessions,
including my house and land to Edward F.
Schultz who has served me faithfully for more than 30 years.
It's type written date of January 18th, 1953.
Bears what purports to be Mrs Wrath's signature which appears to be genuine,
you know, anything about this document?
No,
and I can hardly believe it.
So that's something the court will have to decide.
Well, all I can say judge
is that I hope nobody else ever dies and leaves me anything.
Well,
I shouldn't say that Mr Rath,
but um,
look, I have an idea.
I wonder if you could stop in to see me tomorrow morning before going into town about
nine o'clock. Say
I suppose so.
That's
fine.
Thank you very
much.
Thank you. Judge.
He says he hopes nobody else ever dies and leaves him anything.
You must be quite a character.
Both of them try
real characters.
I'm gonna have to take another look into these two fellas.
I
answer.
I'm sorry about the other night to,
oh, there's nothing to be sorry about. I understood. She's in such
a and you know how young girls are
about the speech,
how you come along with it.
I'm not on it anymore.
Why not?
You'll have to ask Mr Organ about that.
I don't understand that.
But anyway, this is a kind of a tentative outline,
the boys and I have cooked up my contribution.
I can assure you being very minor.
I was wondering if you'd be good enough to read it and
give me any ideas you have about it.
You mean the same speech I've been working on
the Atlantic City speech.
We're all working on it.
I see.
What's another,
I just didn't understand it that way. That's all.
Could you read it for me tonight? Be glad
I'd appreciate it very much. I'll read it.
Thank you very much, Tom. I'll see you tomorrow any time you say so.
Yeah.
Did Tom Ro turn in anything on that speech?
Yes. But it was nothing.
I didn't want to waste your time with it.
Thank you, Bill.
Did you write this?
Never mind. Who wrote it?
What do you think of it?
I don't know very much about the subject, Tommy. So
my opinion wouldn't mean much one way or the other. Stop stalling. Will you,
you didn't write it? Did you?
You answer my question first?
All right. Then
I'm afraid, I think it's kind of boring
but then maybe that's me. Is that all just boring?
I hate to say it, darling. But I think some of it's a little silly to me.
No, I didn't write it.
Hopkins had a hand in it, but most of it I think is Ogden's.
I think he jumped mine and came up with one of his own.
But the point is Hopkins wants me to tell him what I think of it.
Well,
I think it's dreadful. That's what I meant.
And you tell him so too
well, aren't you?
I don't know.
What do you mean? You don't know.
This has turned out to be a very tricky business, honey.
And a lot of tricky angles to it.
Well, what's that got to do with your telling them what you think about this speech?
Well,
one thing I've learned already is that you've
got to protect yourself in the clinches.
The thing to do is sort of feel your way along.
I mean, when they call you in to give a report like this,
you begin with a lot of highly qualified contradictory statements and
watch your man's face to see which one pleases him.
For instance, you can begin.
I think there are some wonderful things in this speech
and you pause for a second or two.
If that seems to make him happy, then you go on
and I have only a few minor alterations to suggest.
But if he looks a little startled on the word, wonderful,
then you switch
and say, but on the whole,
I don't think it quite comes off.
If you've been smart enough about it,
you can wind up. I'm telling him exactly what he wants to hear,
but that's not what you're going to do, is it?
I don't know.
You don't know.
Well, I've got to protect myself, haven't I?
Well, I'll tell you what I think about it.
I think the whole idea is sickening.
Now. Just a minute.
What's the matter with you?
It's not, what's the matter with me?
It's what's the matter with you even thinking of such a slimy trick?
What do you think?
I ought to do go in there and tell the man his
speech is a fires and get thrown out of my ear.
How do you know you get thrown out on your ear? Is he that much against honesty?
Look, Betsy. You don't know this business?
Is he dishonest himself?
How do I know whether he's dishonest? That's exactly the point.
I haven't the faintest idea who's honest in there. Not
all I know is that he helped write this speech and it's his own personal baby.
I don't care whose baby it is.
This is a speech that can make or break
a very important health campaign for this country,
isn't it?
It could. And are you going to tell him the truth about it or not?
But how do you know that that's the truth.
How do you know that this isn't precisely the way to appeal to those people?
No, Tommy. You don't even believe that yourself.
It's exactly the sort of appeal that sells a billion
dollars worth of cars in this country every year.
That's entirely different. That's some kind of mass nonsense.
These are very intelligent men you'll be talking to, they'll throw up at that muck.
You don't know anything about it one way or the other.
All I know is that he's asked you for an honest opinion in a very important manner.
And I'd like awfully to know if he's going to get it or not.
Well, I could have told you that at the beginning.
He is,
you mean you're going to tell him, I'm gonna tell him exactly what I've told you that.
I honestly don't know,
but that this sort of approach has been successful in other sales campaigns
and I see no reason why it can't work in this one.
Are you trying to kid me? But that is the truth,
the exact truth. As a matter of fact,
I gotta go finish the dishes. I'll just a minute,
I've told you that this is a loaded situation and with all kinds of angles to it.
But there's another side to it which I think you must have overlooked
just so happens that I've landed in one of the neatest
positions in the whole organization right next to Hopkins himself.
It's a spot that three quarters of the people at U
BC would give their right arms for and he likes me.
I know it.
Now, will you try to remember what that could mean to us if I handle it carefully,
if you handle it carefully? And honestly, yes,
aren't you the one that wanted more money? New house?
No more worries every week I still do.
But that wasn't the real idea.
The real idea was that I wanted you to go out and fight for something again.
Like the fellow. I married.
Not to turn into a cheap,
slippery. Yes, man.
That's wonderful.
Hey, would you think about this for a minute or two?
When a man's got plenty of security
money in the bank.
Other jobs waiting for him,
it's a sense to be fearless and full of integrity.
But when he's got a wife and three Children to support
and his job's all he's got,
what do you think you ought to do about it? Then
I know what I do
and while we're about it,
there's another little thing I think you ought to think about.
We may not even own this house. What do you mean
Edward's come up with some kind of a letter from grandma leaving it to him?
Do you think that's possible?
It's not what I think it's what the court will decide.
Meanwhile,
I think you ought to keep that little situation in
mind while you're giving me this lecture on nobility.
All
you can try it.
But I don't think it will work.
Well, you just leave that to me.
I never wanted to get into this rat race, but now that I'm in it,
I think I'd be an idiot enough to play it the way everybody else plays it.
No, I mean, with you
because for a decent man, there's never any peace of mind without honesty.
And I've always thought of you as a decent man
right now.
It just makes me wonder how long it'll be before you decide
it'll be simpler and safer not to tell me the truth.
Morning, Mr,
all morning,
MRE.
Good morning, sir.
You know Mr Schultz. Of course,
I do.
I uh
I apologize for this way of going about things, but
I'd like to see if we can't solve this little problem without bringing it to the
strain and bitterness of a trial. I don't think any of us want anything like that.
Now, here are the two documents of the case. The probated will
the photo started contract between Mrs Wrath and Mr Schultz
bearing. Mrs Wrath's signature
doesn't a document like that need to be witnessed?
Not necessarily
not if the court decides it represents the intention of the deceased.
That's quite true.
Mr
Mr Schultz seems to have been doing a little research.
My lawyers told me
you did more or less everything for Mrs Wrath. I believe
everything
I was the only one she had in the world, take care of her shopping, cooking
everything. You also pay the monthly bills.
I made out the checks according to the bills and she signed them.
He had to her site was just was gone. Oh, she could sign her name. All right.
Look at the checks if you don't believe it,
I didn't say she couldn't.
Well, what did you do? Did you type them or write them?
I typed them.
Well,
now we come to the most distressing part of this case.
This is the part I'm sure none of us would like to see come out in open court.
I um
I regret to have to say this to you Mr Schulz.
But
you're a dishonest man.
I'm dishonest.
I'm afraid you are.
And the reason I say that is I have here a list of six South Bay tradesmen
who are prepared to swear that you asked them to pad Mrs
Wrath's monthly bill so that you could get a kick back.
I know that crowd,
they're all because I wouldn't give them a trade
and you wouldn't mind if we a
few
of these people, why should I
also, I was astonished to learn that what an enormous bank balance you have
on your salary.
I don't know what kind of monkey business you're up to,
but you can get that information from a bank.
It's against the law
$78,462.09.
Mr
A's account is just under $9000.01 deposit. Did the bank tell you that?
Well, you can't get that information from a bank.
You told me that yourself, if the bank told you that they told you a lie,
I haven't got anywhere near that much money
and I'm gonna find out from the bank just what they did tell you too.
You wouldn't mind having your accounts examined by the income tax people
any time they want to.
Uh, I
realize very well that I'm exceeding the prerogatives of my office, Mr Schultz. But
I assure you my only intention is to save you from making
a serious mistake if these particulars were brought out in a trial
as undoubtedly they would be.
And it was then suggested that Mrs Wrath was so old,
so near sighted that she would sign anything you put in front of her.
Don't you see what that could lead to?
But if you have a perfectly clear conscience about
this matter and I prepared to explain the circumstances,
uh, satisfactorily,
never mind telling me what I can do.
I've got lawyers that can handle that sort of thing.
And believe you me, they will handle it too.
You wait and see,
won't he be back?
I don't know if he's on the level he will
have not.
But that's what's so interesting about a small town.
You ask around about somebody who's lived there for a while and
you'd be surprised what all the people have found out about him.
If you're gonna be slick, the smart thing to be slick in the city.
They're dumber there.
Goodbye, sir.
Goodbye. Judge
and thank you.
Thank you very much indeed,
Miriam.
Yes, sir.
Bring the bicarb.
Now. This is awfully good of you, Tom. I know how busy you must be.
Not really,
I just can't get any work done at the office of too many interruptions.
Did you get a chance to read that outline?
Yes, I read it over a couple of times. That's wonderful. How about that?
No, I don't think so. Thank you.
How far did you get with your version, Tom?
I did five altogether. And Bill didn't like any of them. He
said he didn't,
well, I suppose they're all bending over backwards to get this thing right.
It's just got to be, you know,
but about this one,
all I did actually was to set the keynote the overall approach as it were.
No writing, of course,
what I wanted was a modest approach because of this broadcasting business.
You understand, I understand
the way I suggested.
I am simply a layman addressing an assemblage of scientists
and I make no pretense of being anything else.
That's where I think the boys are caught the note perfectly. Don't you?
Perfectly?
That's wonderful.
Oh, excuse me, please. I simply won't have maids around while I'm working.
Hello?
Yeah.
Right.
Associated press.
No, I, I didn't
but I couldn't be more delighted about it.
Both Mrs Hopkins and myself.
Where were they made?
I see.
No, no, no, not,
not at all. Surprised.
A little disappointed that they eloped. Of course,
we'd hope that we could give them a nice church wedding,
but I suppose they decided that that would
be too fussy and formal.
Oh,
yes.
Yes. For a great many years.
Mr Holgate is an old family friend.
Thank you very
much, Mr
Hopkins. Well,
you're quite welcome
and I thank you so much for calling.
Goodbye.
Long distance.
This is Ralph Hopkins Butterfield 85598. I want South Bay Connecticut 327.
Mrs Hopkins.
Hello. This is Mr Hopkins. Let me speak to Mrs Hopkins, please.
Hello, Helen.
Helen.
I know one of the newspapers just called me.
I'll be right out.
No, don't,
I don't want to see anybody. I just,
just want to go to bed
like,
I mean to stay, darling.
No,
I don't want you to r
I know you mean? Well,
I don't want to see you now.
May I call you tonight?
No,
not now.
I'll call you in a moment.
I don't want you to call me at all,
please.
That was the A P,
my daughter just got married. Well,
congratulations.
Thanks
and rascally Loped.
Now, that's the
romantic way. I guess
he didn't even phone me
too excited. Probably
she has a bull.
So, you like that approach? Hm.
No, I didn't
if you didn't.
No, sir.
But I thought, well, I didn't get a chance to finish what I was going to say.
I don't think that's the right approach at all.
You surprise me.
You're the sixth man. I've asked about it.
And the first that wasn't actually enthusiastic about
it. Well, I could be 100% wrong, of course. But
you asked me what I thought about it and
that's it.
Why don't you think it's right.
Well,
the one thing, more than half of it is an argument that
mental health is an important problem in this country,
which will hardly be news to an audience of doctors.
But the worst part of it to me is,
is a statement made over and over again. That would only make me sore
if I were one of those doctors because it's so obviously untrue
which statement is that,
that you're a very
simple,
uninformed man who
in effect doesn't really know what he's talking about.
Because if they believe that, why should they ask you to be head of this campaign?
But they'll know better. They're educated,
intelligent men and they'll know who and what you are
and that whole part of it will have a completely phony ring at the very moment when
sincerity is the, is the thing you're aiming at above everything else.
It doesn't leave very much that you do like and does it?
No, sir.
How would you do it?
Well,
if I were you,
I'd tackle these people on very practical grounds.
I would tell them what I was equipped to do better than anybody else in this country.
I would tell him that I have the machinery
to reach nearly every human being in the United States
and there was their advice and support.
I was prepared to give a reasonable amount of this machinery to a national campaign
for better mental health in this country.
You mean
take it or leave it
in somewhat more courteous terms. Yes.
You don't think that's a little arbitrary.
I don't know.
But where else are they going to get a deal like that?
Is that the way you are
just about.
That's a very interesting idea.
I appreciate it
very much.
I'm sorry
at
all.
Very helpful.
What are you doing?
If that's all I'll be getting on back to the office.
Oh,
yes, sir.
Would you mind having a drink with me before you go?
I'd be very happy to say
I won't tell the boss,
but yeah,
I'll fix it.
What do you have?
I'll have scotch on the rocks.
Where do you live? Tom?
South Bay, Connecticut.
That's where I live. I know
I
used to have a house there
so I don't get up there as often as I
like.
How many Children?
Oh, there's 32 girls and a boy. That's wonderful. How old are 10, 7 and six?
I had a boy too. You know, I know
Bobby, he was killed in the war.
Yes, I've heard
one thing about him though.
He left me with nothing but good memories. Wonderful memories.
For example, he could have got a commission. I could have arranged it,
but he enlisted,
you know why?
He just decided that that was the right thing to do.
That may not seem very important to some people.
But it pleases me just to think about it.
It's a very unusual decision.
That's what I mean. He's a very unusual boy
or he cut a little corner now and then on little things who doesn't.
But when it came to the big ones,
there's only one way to play it for him
straight.
You spend a lot of time with your kids.
Oh, yes,
we're on pretty good terms with each other.
Spend a lot of time with them whenever we can take him away from that television.
Kick the television in, if it takes up too much of that time, kick it in and stomp on it.
Don't let anything keep you away from your family.
Did you forget that? That was my idea. And that outline.
No,
I didn't forget
odd sort of way to be celebrating your daughter's marriage and
I suppose I'll be going through the same thing some day.
You know, where I made my mistake.
Yep.
Somebody's got to do it.
Somebody's got to dedicate himself to it.
Big successful businesses just aren't built by men like you
9 to 5 and home and family.
You live on them,
but you never build one
big successful businesses are built by men like me,
give everything you've got to it,
live it, body and soul.
Lift it up regardless of anybody or anything else.
And without men like me, there wouldn't be any big successful businesses.
My mistake was in being one of those men.
I'm terribly sorry. But
why don't we took this up at some other time?
Not at all.
Aren't you feeling well?
I'm all right.
It's been a rather long day.
I read some other engagements this evening.
I, I better lie down and get a little rest first.
Is there anything that I can do for you?
Thank you very much to
LA.
Thank you so much for coming up here.
Goodbye, sir.
Goodbye, Tom.
I'll talk to you tomorrow.
I
like that very
much
that
we got to tell
on purpose.
First stop. 36th floor.
Hi, Kevin.
Well, Sergeant,
how are you doing?
Ok. I guess
I give you a ring yesterday. Did you get it?
I did but I didn't know where to call you back.
Well, what I wanted, I was wondering if I could see you about something
anytime you say. Well,
how about when I get off work tonight? 5 35 30. It's kind of important captain.
If you know what I mean?
530 is ok with me. Where shall I meet you?
How about the bar downstairs?
Ok. It's a deal bar downstairs at 530.
You won't forget, will you?
No, I won't forget.
Hi, Captain.
No, we're working for the same management again.
That's right.
You know, I seen you the first day you come to work two or three weeks ago. I
thought maybe you was, uh, trying to high hat. Me
must have been that brush. When did you get that?
Oh,
that's Gina's idea.
Gina. Do
you still hear from her?
Hear from her?
I married him.
Well,
congratulations.
She's a wonderful girl. That's wonderful.
Give him my best. Will you
a waiter? Scotch and silver?
Make it a double, please.
How you like married? Life
all with Gina. I got no complaints whatsoever.
You ever hear anything from Maria?
That's what I want to talk to you about. Captain.
Ok.
Well,
Maria is Gina's cousin, you know?
Yeah, I remember.
Well, you knew she got married, didn't you?
No, I wrote to her but she didn't answer.
I haven't heard a word from her since the day we left there.
Well, you remember the lame fellow Louis Lapa?
Yeah.
Well, she married him
a
couple of months after we left
and then she had a little boy
a little while after that.
I guess you didn't know that either.
No.
Well, you see, things are still pretty tough over there, you know,
not easy like here.
So
we send Gina's old lady money all the time. You know,
I guess it's just some people who can't make it on their own
that will help
anyway. I
seen how he was doing ok. You know, and
Gina wrote her old lady and told her all about it and not to cause any trouble,
captain.
You understand. But
just remembering how we was all together in Rome,
you know, I understand
because
Maria
moved in with Gina's old lady.
Maria and the boys in.
So
now
we're supporting them too. Me and Gina.
What about her husband?
Oh, he got killed a couple of years ago and
some kind of a rival.
But the point is you see,
we don't mind sending Gina's old lady money but
oh,
Maria and the kid
aren't really part of our family. You see what I mean?
Yes, I see.
Well, yesterday this letter come from her for you.
I'm still sealed. You see,
dear Tom.
I do not like this
but I don't know what else to do
for myself. I do not need help
but anything you could do for the boy would be from heaven.
I'm ashamed to ask him,
but we were never proud with each other. So perhaps you will understand
the boy needs help.
He's a good boy.
He studies well,
I'm sending you this picture that we took last year.
Now, we are not trying to make trouble for you.
And if you cannot do anything, do not worry.
I leave this in the hands of God.
She says he's a real good kid.
We make a buck or two extra a week, shining shoes after school.
Can I have a little time to think this over? Oh, sure. Captain.
Nobody's pushing you.
I'm gonna do something about it
right this minute. I,
I just don't know how
I have to keep my wife from knowing. Of course.
How much do you think they'd need
to live decently?
100 a month?
Well, I'll send them something right away.
Oh,
I'll have to figure out what else I can do
anything you can do. Captain. It'll be like a godsend to him.
Good evening Children.
That's seven dead already.
Did you get your dinner.
Yes, I ate at the station.
I saw Mr Hopkins this afternoon
and
I told him I didn't think his speech was right
dying. I'm very glad.
And are we on relief now? No, not yet. Anyway.
But
there's something else that isn't going to be easy. Either.
Another little touch of honesty.
Ok.
Let's have it.
It's something that I have to tell you
because I know now that this is the only way
we're gonna get our lives straightened out.
What is it, Tommy?
Something did happen to me in the war.
Something I've never told you about.
I have another child, Betsy,
a son
in Rome.
Your child.
That's it.
I was never sure of it.
I've never heard from his mother since we left there.
But now she's written to me about it.
Where's the picture?
Who was she?
Somebody you picked up on the street?
No,
if that's of any importance
were you in love with?
I was then
the way things were.
I'm not now and I never have been since it's simply the way things were at the time.
And what do you want to do about this now?
I want to do something to help the boy.
I don't know yet just how I can do this, but that's what I want to do.
But more than anything else. I want some kind of understanding from you.
My blessing, Jimmy.
I don't know how to make you realize the way things were then
nobody knows who wasn't in the war.
I killed 17 men. I was actually looking at,
looking right straight at them,
not enemies at a distance that I couldn't see but persons,
persons like you see in the train
in the elevator,
I cut a German boy's throat to get his coat.
I killed my best friend with a grenade.
It was an accident but
he was blown open down the front. Just the same
was having a child worse than things like that.
I don't know.
Only the child has happened to me.
And when I met this girl,
I was sure that I'd never see you again. I,
I was certain that I'd be killed in the next action
and I was scared
more than you can imagine.
I can't tell you the terror
and the hopelessness I felt.
When was this
in 45?
When in 45? What part
in June? And part of July?
That was it?
I nearly went crazy that summer.
Not one letter, not one word from you for months
I got so I jumped every time the phone rang or,
or the doorbell because it might be the war department.
Now, there's nothing that she can do about this
and there's nothing that I have to do for her either.
She has no legal hold on me.
And if she should sue,
I could probably make out a pretty good case that she was a prostitute
or I could write to her and
say that I don't believe that the child is mine.
But how can I add another act of brutality to the miserable life?
She's already lived. I remember trying to write to you that summer.
You're trying to be cheerful so that you wouldn't know how worried I was
all about the jolly little bridge parties,
little jokes,
how much I missed you.
But it isn't easy to write when you're not getting any letters in it.
I never wrote once that I didn't cry because you might already be dead.
What did you do with my letters?
Read them to her and laugh. You know, better than that
was she prettier than I am?
No.
Did you have a better figure, Betsy, please?
Did she love you more than I do.
Were you happier when you loved her?
Why do you torture yourself with questions like that?
Because I,
do you think about now when you're kissing me?
It was 10 years ago, I tell you
it lasted while it lasted
and then it was over
and to think that for four years, I sat here and waited and
believed that love meant faithfulness.
Did you love me the way I loved you?
Whatever it might be for others. It could never be anybody else but you owe me.
You know what I believe that so deeply that I, I never even thought about it.
We have such a fool.
You always thinking about how wonderful.
It was going to be when it was all over, you were home again
but it hasn't been
and now I know why. But that's not true. It's not her. I'm thinking of. It's the child.
Can't you understand that
all the time? Getting worse and worse,
living without fun,
arguing without really caring,
making love without emotion.
It wasn't that way with her. Was it Betsy? Will you please stop?
You weren't always worrying about money with her. Were you?
I've worried about money because I love my wife and my
Children and I don't want them to be without it.
If I've worried too much, it's because I love you too much.
You told me to be honest and I'm being honest,
I've never loved you as much in my life
as I love you at this minute.
And I've never wanted anything so much in my whole life
because I want your understanding. I
can't you believe me? I want you to catch me.
I have anything to do with you.
Ma
Let's see.
Let me go, please.
Yeah,
you go on in the house,
leave me alone for a little while,
come back in the house.
I will.
But leave me alone now, please. If you'll come back in the house,
maybe I ought to go back to Italy and see her
and make up your mind. Then
I don't need to do that. I've made up my mind.
I made it up the first minute I ever saw you.
You gone in the house?
Thats it.
I want the polices please.
Police headquarters. Sergeant Miles speaking.
Have you had any report of any kind of accident?
Any automobile accident with a woman in it?
No, no accidents tonight.
Who's this speaking? Please?
I
me
t
I listen to my kids.
Hello?
Yes,
this is South Bay police headquarters. Sergeant Haggerty speaking.
We have Mrs Wrath here.
We picked her up walking on the Merritt Parkway.
Is she all right?
Yeah, she's all right. A little tired maybe. But
has she got an operator's license?
Yes, of course. I'll bring it right over. Can I speak to her? Please hold it.
He wants to speak to you.
Hello?
Yes, I'm all right. I just ran out of gas.
That's wonderful. Please. You're a liar.
I don't feel like it. I drove so long. I just don't feel like laughing.
How are the Children?
They're all right. I've got Mrs Mander here with them.
Is there any charge against you? Just tell him to bring the license?
No, there's no charge come quick. Will you?
I won't talk to you.
I'll be there in five minutes, darling.
What did I tell you? It happens in every family I ever worked for.
Hey,
yes,
did awaken.
No, I've been up for hours.
I can understand that. All right. I'm a pretty early riser myself.
What I called you about.
I am leaving for the coast tomorrow night. And I'd like very much to have you with me.
If you can be here at the apartment about 10 this evening,
I'll explain the situation to you and we can go
over some of the details together without being rushed.
Can you
make
it?
I'm afraid not, sir.
Oh, you won't have to follow by the train. I'll send you home my car.
Oh, no, that's not. It.
It's just that,
well, I
have to be home with my family this evening.
I wanted you to go and play, sir. Bill Ogden.
I understand.
I'd
like
to
have you
with me.
Well, I'd like it too.
It's a wonderful opportunity. Don't think I don't appreciate it.
But
will you remember those 9 to 5 fellow you were talking about?
Ok.
I'm afraid I'm one of them.
I see.
Sorry.
No, no need to be sorry. No need for anything like that at all.
We have to have both kinds, you know, one can't do anything without the other
and if I had my choice again, I have no idea. That's what I'd be 9 to 5. Home
family.
Well, that's my plan anyway.
I'm sure you're right, Tom,
disappointed, but I'm sure you're right.
But anyway, will you drop in and see me when you come in?
I'll do that. And thank you very much, sir,
and bring along your version of the speech.
We'll go over together and you can work on it while I'm away.
Thank you. Sir.
Good morning, sir.
Good morning.
Come right in
Mr Raff. Thank you, Judge.
This is Mrs Raff.
Judge Bernstein. How do you do Mrs R?
How do you do? Judge? Could you sit down, please?
May I close this door?
Well, I mean,
this is a rather personal matter
and I'm hoping that you'll be able to help us with it.
I'll try to.
The situation is this,
I have a child in Italy.
The mother is a girl I met in Rome during the war.
We were never married
and it was only a few days ago that I,
I learned for sure about the boy.
What I want to do now
is to send them some money
$100 a month
regularly and
directly without any personal correspondence.
The question is,
must I go to a bank for an arrangement like that?
Or could you handle it for me yourself?
Who wants this to be a permanent arrangement
in the course of time when we can afford it,
we would like to set up some kind of trust fund for the child.
Meanwhile, it will be permanent. As long as we have an income.
I'll be very happy indeed to handle such a matter myself.
I was hoping that you could,
I'll send you a check tonight for the first three months and the name and address
and I'll have it in the air mail to Rome by noon tomorrow.
Thank you very much judge.
Now, what will the charges be for that?
No charge.
We appreciate that. Thanks. Just the same.
This is very good of your judge.
Not at all Mrs Wrath.
It's a privilege to have met you.
Thank you, sir.
To buy it.
We're both very grateful to you, Judge
Mr Earth.
It must have been on such a day as this
that the poet was moved to sing God's in his heaven. All's right with the world.
Goodbye, sir,
to birth.
Would you mind if I tell you
I worship you?