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The Quitter (1934)
68 min | Drama | 5 February 1934 (USA)
When her husband, who founded the town's crusading local newspaper, doesn't come back from the French battlefields of World War I, a woman struggles to raise her two sons and keep the newspaper going. Matters are complicated by the fact that, several years later, one of the sons wants to turn the paper from its position as a hard-fighting champion of the working-class into an upscale society paper catering to the rich and powerful. Matters are complicated even further by rumors that their father was in fact NOT killed in France during the war but took another man's identity and is still living there.
Director: Richard Thorpe
Writer: Robert Ellis
Stars: Charley Grapewin, Emma Dunn, William Bakewell
68 min | Drama | 5 February 1934 (USA)
When her husband, who founded the town's crusading local newspaper, doesn't come back from the French battlefields of World War I, a woman struggles to raise her two sons and keep the newspaper going. Matters are complicated by the fact that, several years later, one of the sons wants to turn the paper from its position as a hard-fighting champion of the working-class into an upscale society paper catering to the rich and powerful. Matters are complicated even further by rumors that their father was in fact NOT killed in France during the war but took another man's identity and is still living there.
Director: Richard Thorpe
Writer: Robert Ellis
Stars: Charley Grapewin, Emma Dunn, William Bakewell
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00:00:00The End
00:00:30Oh, my God.
00:00:38Come on.
00:00:45Don't your blessings see what...
00:00:50Are you going to stand there sniffing them posies all night?
00:00:55I've always had a powerful liking for flowers, Anna.
00:00:58You know, smell left in it.
00:01:00It's hard, Mr. Traveler, like that.
00:01:02It's wonderful how he never forgets to send her flowers.
00:01:06And it's wonderful the way you always got to smell them.
00:01:10Give them to me.
00:01:11And I'll put them in a room.
00:01:16You can get out if you wanted to.
00:01:19Well, I haven't seen you in two days.
00:01:22Well, you always find time to go out with Bill Sterrett.
00:01:24You've been on that phone almost a hour.
00:01:26Wait a minute, wait a minute.
00:01:27Leave me alone.
00:01:29I've got to call up the market and get a pound of butter.
00:01:31Your mother and Russell will be home here soon expecting supper.
00:01:34Go away, will you?
00:01:35Those boys like you running after girls.
00:01:38Look to Marty's sick.
00:01:43Is that old pissed Hannah?
00:01:45Oh, Zach, go and put the car away for me, will you?
00:01:47The garage door will be closed and I left it in the driveway.
00:01:50Didn't Russell come home with you?
00:01:52No, Bill Sterrett's going to meet him at the country club with a new car.
00:01:55Now, he'll want to be buying that, I suppose.
00:01:59Can you tell me what's the matter with the old car?
00:02:01That's the answer, I guess.
00:02:03It's an old one.
00:02:04Better stay to supper, Zach.
00:02:06Oh, thank you.
00:02:08Mr. Travers left something at the office for you and I brought it up here.
00:02:12Zach, run down to Durkin's market and get me a pound of butter.
00:02:15Never get her to wait for Ernie to get away from that phone.
00:02:19He's been talking to some girl every minute since he came in.
00:02:23It's a wonderful invention, Hannah.
00:02:25And perfectly safe.
00:02:30Well, we could for a little while.
00:02:33Your mother wouldn't mind if we went out right after supper and I brought you home early.
00:02:38Maybe you don't want to go out with me.
00:02:41Maybe you got a date with somebody else.
00:02:44Now, don't be like that.
00:02:46That old car your mother's is all right in its day.
00:02:48But you're a college man.
00:02:50You stand for progress in this community and this is just what you need.
00:02:53Well, I'll drop around with mother in the morning and we'll see.
00:02:58I like those little lights on the fenders.
00:03:00We could say we went to a picture show.
00:03:03Oh, well, I'll come around your house after supper.
00:03:06Yeah.
00:03:07Well, goodbye.
00:03:09Why don't you invite her over?
00:03:11No one wants to mope around the house all night.
00:03:15Anyone I know?
00:03:16Mother, why do you have to go ask me a lot of questions?
00:03:19Don't you realize I'm not a baby anymore?
00:03:23Anyhow, there's some things I'd like to keep to myself.
00:03:27Of course, dear.
00:03:28You have a perfect right to keep your own little secrets.
00:03:32Well, I didn't mean to act sore, Mom.
00:03:34And I didn't mean to act inquisitive.
00:03:37I just wanted to know.
00:03:39So you're going to use the car tonight?
00:03:41No, but Russ may need it.
00:03:43I might have known that.
00:03:44It's perfectly natural that he should have first call on the car.
00:03:47He's older than you.
00:03:48And he doesn't ever let anyone forget it.
00:03:50All he does is boss me around.
00:03:52I'm not a baby anymore.
00:03:54I'm getting old.
00:03:54No one seems to realize that.
00:03:57Oh, yes.
00:03:59Your mother realizes it.
00:04:01She's getting older, too.
00:04:06I'm sorry, Mom.
00:04:08Gee, you look swell tonight.
00:04:10Do I?
00:04:12Guess you're about the best looking mother a fella ever had.
00:04:14Well, then we're still friends.
00:04:16Oh, sure.
00:04:18See, if Russ doesn't want the car, can I have it?
00:04:20Of course.
00:04:23Say, Mother, will you ask Canada to have dinner right away?
00:04:25You're the only one she'll take orders from.
00:04:27Yes, dear.
00:04:27Are you going to use the car tonight?
00:04:28Well, supposing I am.
00:04:29You've had it every night since you've been home.
00:04:31You might get somebody else a chance.
00:04:32A chance to what?
00:04:33Chase after Annabelle here?
00:04:34That's none of your business.
00:04:35That's why you're mistaken.
00:04:36I know what kind of a girl she is, and you keep away from her.
00:04:38You can't tell me what to do.
00:04:40Well, I am telling you what to do, and you'll do it or I'll beat some sense into you.
00:04:42Who, are you going to get to help you?
00:04:44Why don't you two get the boxing gloves and have it out?
00:04:46I'll referee.
00:04:48He won't box me anymore because he knows I can lick him.
00:04:50Listen, Mother, this kid's been chasing around after Annabelle Hibbs, and I told him to cut it out.
00:04:54Is that what you went to college for to learn to snitch?
00:04:55I'll smack you right in the face.
00:04:57Oh, yeah?
00:04:57If you can't handle them, Mother, someone else will have to.
00:05:00There are plenty of decent girls here without his chasing after some common...
00:05:03Don't you say anything about her you can't prove!
00:05:04Now, Russell, don't worry about that.
00:05:06I know Eddie wants me to meet the girl he's found of.
00:05:09That's right.
00:05:10Sign in with him.
00:05:11I'm nobody around here.
00:05:12He does everything he pleases.
00:05:14Well, I'm not a baby anymore, and I'm going to have my rights, too.
00:05:17Supper's ready.
00:05:18Come on, before it gets spoiled.
00:05:20I don't want anything to eat.
00:05:22I'm going out.
00:05:30Hello?
00:05:32Oh, yeah, just a minute.
00:05:37Mr. Travis, for you, Mom.
00:05:44Hello?
00:05:47Hold the phone just a minute, John.
00:05:52And put the rest of that butter in the icebox.
00:05:55There.
00:05:56Eddie's gone uptown.
00:05:58What's the matter with him?
00:05:59I just put the vittles on the table.
00:06:00I know, but he's all upset.
00:06:02Go on a walk with him, Zach, and see if you can't bring him back to supper.
00:06:05I'll bring him back.
00:06:08Need the good spanking.
00:06:10Boy, you'd do a thing like that.
00:06:16Awfully sorry, John.
00:06:18I had to attend to some household duties.
00:06:21No.
00:06:21No, we're just sitting down now.
00:06:24Why don't you come over a little later?
00:06:27All right.
00:06:28Goodbye.
00:06:32Seems like that fellow Travers is always hanging around.
00:06:37Well, he's the very oldest friend I have.
00:06:41And a dear one.
00:06:42That's obvious, since he spends most of the evenings here
00:06:45and the days at the shop anyone would think he was courting you.
00:06:49That isn't it, is it?
00:06:51Suppose it were.
00:06:53Mother, you're joking, aren't you?
00:06:55I suppose you think I'm too old and too passe
00:06:59for some young man to be interested in me?
00:07:01No, certainly not.
00:07:03But you're not thinking seriously of marriage, are you?
00:07:06Would you be shocked if I were?
00:07:08But why should you want to get married? What for?
00:07:12Well, you and Eddie will soon be leaving me for homes of your own.
00:07:16You want to live your lives your own way.
00:07:18Well, not right away.
00:07:19But you will sometime.
00:07:21Then what's to become of me?
00:07:24Gee, this wouldn't seem much like home anymore
00:07:26if some outsider were to suddenly barge in.
00:07:29It wouldn't be very easy to call a stranger father.
00:07:33That just doesn't sound right.
00:07:34It might have been alright when Eddie and I were kids, but not now.
00:07:37Oh, when you and Eddie were kids
00:07:38were the hardest and happiest years of my life.
00:07:42I wouldn't have shared you boys with anyone then.
00:07:45I don't know what to say.
00:07:47Well, I want you to say just what you feel.
00:07:50But try to realize, too, that my work is nearly done.
00:07:55And I've been looking forward to something that passed me by when I was younger.
00:07:59But I don't see what you want to get married for.
00:08:02I rather expected to look after the family and run the newspaper.
00:08:06In fact, I've spent four years with that in view.
00:08:08Then I spent the best years of my life worrying and working so that you'd be prepared to do it.
00:08:13You've forged ahead.
00:08:15You have a few more comforts than we started with.
00:08:18And I'm happy.
00:08:19I'd gladly do it all over again.
00:08:22But you're a man now, and I thought you'd understand.
00:08:28You'd be ungrateful.
00:08:29Oh, don't feel that way about it.
00:08:31You're just what I wanted you to be.
00:08:33And you're what your father would have wanted you to be if he'd been here.
00:08:39You'll forget all about it.
00:08:41And we'll carry on just as we've been.
00:08:44Till you make me a grandmother.
00:08:47Mother, don't be absurd.
00:08:49Oh, it does happen.
00:08:52Well, if you ain't gonna eat, I might as well put these vittles back on the stove.
00:08:58You'll have to excuse me, Mother. I'll just have time to get to the city.
00:09:01Your dinner's already staying. Have a bite.
00:09:03I won't have time. I've got to see some people I met at school.
00:09:05Don't wait up for me, dear.
00:09:06Good night.
00:09:15You gonna eat?
00:09:17No, no thank you, Hannah. I don't want anything.
00:09:22The person might just as well be in a lunatic asylum.
00:09:28Don't mind Russ.
00:09:30Because he's the oldest, he kinda wants to take your dad's place.
00:09:34Let him try and do it.
00:09:39You and my dad were pals, weren't you say?
00:09:41We were great friends when your family lived back in Newton.
00:09:46What was he like?
00:09:48Oh, he was a fine man.
00:09:50And a mighty smart man, too.
00:09:53Did he enlist or was he drafted?
00:09:56He enlisted.
00:09:58Well, that's good.
00:09:59That's what I'd have done.
00:10:01You know, someday I'm going over to France and I'm gonna see the place where he was killed.
00:10:08And it might not be so long either if Russ thinks he can give me the run around.
00:10:12Now, don't you get those ideas, Eddie.
00:10:14Your daddy was always talking about going places and traveling.
00:10:18But you mustn't leave your ma.
00:10:19She'd take it awfully bad if she lost you both over there.
00:10:27I'm going back to the house.
00:10:29You coming?
00:10:30No.
00:10:31I got some work to do with the print knowledge after I finish my coffee.
00:10:34Well, good night.
00:10:42Coffee and donuts.
00:10:44Just got off the freight?
00:10:45Yeah.
00:10:47And I have the money to pay for it.
00:10:50Pass the sugar, please.
00:10:55Yes, it's me, Zack.
00:10:57I thought you were dead.
00:11:00Everybody thought you were dead.
00:11:09What are you doing here?
00:11:11Traveling.
00:11:12You know, that was always my weakness.
00:11:15I never could stay in one place very long.
00:11:19Cordelia's here.
00:11:21She moved here about two years after you disappeared.
00:11:25She's running the newspaper.
00:11:32Yes.
00:11:34It's in the blood.
00:11:37We worked side by side in that little shop back in Newton.
00:11:42Are you aiming to let her know you're here?
00:11:46I don't know.
00:11:49The boys think you were killed being a soldier in France.
00:11:54Yes.
00:11:56They must be pretty big by now.
00:11:59Yes, Russ has graduated from college and Eddie's just about to start.
00:12:05Oh, they're grown up.
00:12:08Yes, they must be.
00:12:11I'd like to see them.
00:12:13That was, Eddie just went out as you came in.
00:12:16Yes.
00:12:16He's a fine boy.
00:12:18Takes after his mother.
00:12:20Russ is helping.
00:12:24If you ain't got any place to stay tonight, Ed, you'd be welcome to come and share my shack.
00:12:33Thanks.
00:12:48Who's your lady friend?
00:12:50Oh, Dad has a lot of junk like that around the house.
00:12:53You better look it all over and get used to it.
00:12:54You might inherit it someday.
00:12:56I'm an only daughter, you know.
00:12:58Now, you promised to let me do all the providing.
00:13:00You wouldn't hold my gold against me, would you?
00:13:02No, I...
00:13:03Anyhow, Dad's responsible for it.
00:13:05But just between you and me, I don't think he got it honestly.
00:13:09As long as you make good use of it.
00:13:10That's my motto.
00:13:11Dad, you remember Russ Tilford.
00:13:13Why, yes, of course.
00:13:14How are you, Tilford?
00:13:15How do you do?
00:13:15And this is your rival, Earl Easton.
00:13:17Mr. Easton?
00:13:19How are you?
00:13:19Fine.
00:13:20You'd relieve me of a great responsibility, Tilford.
00:13:23If you hadn't come along, I'd have had to marry the girl myself.
00:13:27Well, as a future father-in-law, I'd better show some marked interest in you, youngster.
00:13:32We spurn your crumbs, Dad.
00:13:33Russ is all set.
00:13:34He has his own newspaper and he's going to be editorial colossus of the wide-open spaces.
00:13:39Have a cigar.
00:13:40No, thanks.
00:13:41Where is your newspaper?
00:13:42Forest Park.
00:13:43Oh, that's a nice little suburb.
00:13:45That's the place I mentioned to you in regard to the water project, Earl.
00:13:48Oh, yes.
00:13:48If you talk shop, I'll scream.
00:13:51Russ knows how you made your ill-gotten wealth, your bridges and your aqueducts and your dams.
00:13:56Now drop it.
00:13:58As a newspaper man, you must be interested in local projects.
00:14:01What is your sheet?
00:14:02The free press.
00:14:03Do a little bragging, Russ.
00:14:05These worms will turn and bite you and give you a couple of kicks and tell you how clever they
00:14:09are.
00:14:10Oh, women don't belong in business.
00:14:12They won't understand.
00:14:13Great field newspaper work and you're in the right spot.
00:14:16It won't be long before the city annex is for a spot.
00:14:19Then you'll be right in line for the big city dailies.
00:14:22Yes, I've anticipated that.
00:14:23I intend to put the free press on a new basis.
00:14:25Make it a daily, install modern presses, get my share of national advertising and boost circulation.
00:14:31Now that's that.
00:14:32I said we wouldn't talk shop.
00:14:33We're going dancing.
00:14:35Let me help you with that.
00:14:37Have you got a car?
00:14:39Well, maybe you can call it a car.
00:14:41Never mind.
00:14:41We'll take mine.
00:14:44Well, I know all that stuff about Rolling Stones.
00:14:47But a Rolling Stone goes places and sees things.
00:14:49Well, your stomach's out of order.
00:14:51You'll be all right in the morning.
00:14:52In the morning.
00:14:53Tomorrow.
00:14:54They're all tomorrows and yesterdays.
00:14:56There are never any todays around here.
00:14:59Oh, I wish there was another war and then I could get away like Dad did.
00:15:04Honey, you don't know what you're saying.
00:15:11I shouldn't make you feel bad by talking like that.
00:15:18Guess I'll go upstairs and read.
00:15:20Night.
00:15:21Night.
00:15:26There's a man at the front door.
00:15:28Mr. Travers?
00:15:29No, he looks to me like a tramp.
00:15:31Did he say what his name was?
00:15:33No, he didn't.
00:15:33He said he was an old friend of yours.
00:15:35Well, show him in, Hannah.
00:15:53I can't say I'm glad to see you.
00:15:56No, I don't suppose you can, could he?
00:16:01It's been a long time, hasn't it?
00:16:04Yes, it has.
00:16:06Zach told me of how the boys had grown up and...
00:16:09I thought you wouldn't mind if I saw them.
00:16:20They can't mean anything to you.
00:16:23If they had, you couldn't have deserted them.
00:16:26I didn't mean to, Cordelia.
00:16:29Sounds foolish, I suppose, but it...
00:16:32It just happened that way.
00:16:35Have you ever stopped to think what might have happened to them while they waited for their father to come
00:16:40back?
00:16:41No, I guess I only thought of myself.
00:16:45You see, when the war was over, there was nothing for me to do and...
00:16:50I didn't want to come back to that little hole of a town and sink into that rut and the
00:16:56same thing over again.
00:16:58I had to stay in that little hole of a town, as you call it, and provide a home and
00:17:03food for your boys.
00:17:04Yes, I figured when I made a success of things, I could come back and they would be proud of
00:17:10me.
00:17:11They wouldn't be very proud of you now.
00:17:13No, I guess not.
00:17:15You didn't care.
00:17:17You didn't think of the disgrace and the gossip the boys and I had to face.
00:17:22Of all the years of struggle and poverty.
00:17:25Oh, yes, there were days when we went hungry.
00:17:28You didn't think of the loneliness and the heartbreak you caused me.
00:17:34Well, I struggled on to try to make something of them.
00:17:38Well, I've succeeded in making something of them and I'm proud of them.
00:17:43And I'm not going to let you interfere with their lives.
00:17:49Well, I'm glad to see you looking so well.
00:17:54Those flowers remind me of when you were a girl.
00:17:59You always had one tucked in your dress somewhere.
00:18:05Well, I guess that's about all I have to say.
00:18:10Good night.
00:18:28If you don't stay out of here, try to help me on and squeeze your ears and the atauers.
00:18:33Ha, you did this old threshing machine all apart.
00:18:35Get out, you little devil. I ain't got work to do.
00:18:38Alright, you to get Rust to help you.
00:18:39She's running the paper now.
00:18:41Now you go on and go stash.
00:18:42Okay.
00:18:50Well, hello, Annabelle.
00:18:51Where are you going?
00:18:52I have to take these to Mother's shop.
00:18:54Well, let me carry them for you.
00:18:56Oh, you needn't bother.
00:18:57You needn't bother at all.
00:19:00Gee, can you get out tonight?
00:19:02I don't know.
00:19:03I got fits for staying out so late the last time.
00:19:05Well, if I can get the car, we could go over to Oldport and dance.
00:19:08Get her quiet down.
00:19:09Here comes Sister Hooten.
00:19:11Good afternoon.
00:19:13Well.
00:19:14That old battle axe would walk a mile to stick her nose in somebody's business.
00:19:18She tells Mother everything I do.
00:19:22Ed still, will you?
00:19:24Yep.
00:19:26I always was kind of taken with Ed.
00:19:30I'm glad to have company who do me good.
00:19:36Reckon he's powerful sorry for everything that happened, Cordelia.
00:19:42You're the only one around here who knows anything about those days.
00:19:45You promised you'd never mention it.
00:19:48I wouldn't.
00:19:49I wouldn't.
00:19:50Not to anyone.
00:19:51I never have.
00:19:55Let me know when he needs anything.
00:19:57Oh, I got to get some stamps for the office.
00:20:00Well, give me my packaging.
00:20:01No.
00:20:02You wait here.
00:20:04Now, don't go away.
00:20:10Hello.
00:20:12Well, how's the young Helen of Troy?
00:20:14Oh, put your kidding.
00:20:15I'm not kidding.
00:20:17I mean it.
00:20:17You know yourself.
00:20:18You got the rest of the local stuff locked for the block for looks.
00:20:22You ought to go in the movies or something.
00:20:24Mother says I'm a good ad for her B-shop.
00:20:27You are, too.
00:20:30Hey, how about running up the city tonight in one of the new cars?
00:20:34Well, maybe.
00:20:36If I can get away without getting caught.
00:20:38I'll meet you at the drugstore at 7.30.
00:20:40Come on, Annabelle.
00:20:41Just a minute.
00:20:42I'm busy.
00:20:43No, you're not.
00:20:43Come on.
00:20:44Listen here, Silver.
00:20:45You're acting like a...
00:20:46I'm not talking to you.
00:20:47But you're talking to someone who's with me.
00:20:49Oh, pipe down, you big chiseler.
00:21:02You little snipe.
00:21:03You got to smash it in my head with that.
00:21:05I'll have you arrested.
00:21:06No, no, you won't.
00:21:07Perhaps you don't know the penalty for striking a minor.
00:21:09He started it.
00:21:10No, he didn't.
00:21:11I saw the whole thing from across the street.
00:21:13You say I...
00:21:13Come on, Eddie.
00:21:14Come on, get out of here now.
00:21:15Come on, do it.
00:21:16Come on, now.
00:21:17Listen to me.
00:21:18Oh, damn.
00:21:19Come on, Eddie.
00:21:20Come on, now.
00:21:22Well, thank you, Mrs. Delbert.
00:21:24That's a splendid arrangement for me.
00:21:25Now, just a minute, Mr. Durkin.
00:21:27Well, hello, Russell.
00:21:28You expect people to pay you money for your merchandise, don't you?
00:21:31Why, yes, of course.
00:21:32Well, running a newspaper is a business, too.
00:21:34We need money to operate.
00:21:36Now, I'm inaugurating a new policy here, and in the future, I'll expect you to pay cash for your ad.
00:21:40We'll pay cash for anything we get.
00:21:41Why?
00:21:42Now, let me handle this, Mother.
00:21:43Well, your mother and I have had that arrangement for the past ten years.
00:21:46I didn't think you'd feel that way about it, Russ.
00:21:48Well, Russell doesn't understand.
00:21:49Yes, I do understand, Mother.
00:21:51I understand that you need money to operate a newspaper.
00:21:53Well, that's all right, Mrs. Delbert.
00:21:55Don't you worry.
00:21:56Just cancel my ad, young fellow, and we'll call it square.
00:22:02You shouldn't have done that, Russ.
00:22:04Mother, the attic and the garage are stuck with junk that you've traded for space.
00:22:08You see, you allow yourself to be imposed upon.
00:22:30First run.
00:22:31I expect you'd like to see it.
00:22:37Now, Mother, I ask you.
00:22:39Mrs. Tobin, wife of our prominent dry goods merchant, has returned from the hospital.
00:22:43The twins are doing nicely.
00:22:45So they are.
00:22:45I saw them yesterday.
00:22:46I'm not speaking of the twins.
00:22:48Surely you don't expect me to give space to such old ladies' gossip as that.
00:22:52Printers' ink and pulp paper are the cheapest part of our newspaper, Russ.
00:22:55People like to see their names in print, and Mr. Tobin is our biggest advertiser for cash.
00:23:00But people aren't interested in Mr. Tobin's progeny.
00:23:02They want to know what's going on in the world.
00:23:04Well, this town isn't the world for most of the people living here.
00:23:06Oh, don't be archaic, Mother.
00:23:08It's only a matter of time before Forest Park will be annexed by the city.
00:23:11Then we'll be competing with all the big dailies we practically are now.
00:23:14I haven't heard anyone complaining about our newspaper.
00:23:19Well, I wouldn't be bringing bad news if it wasn't my bounding duty.
00:23:23Eddie got in the fist fight down to the post office with that Bill Sterrett.
00:23:26Did he win?
00:23:27Who started it?
00:23:27All on account of that brazen Annabelle Hibbs.
00:23:30There you are, Mother.
00:23:31I told you.
00:23:31Well, Eddie was knocked down.
00:23:33He threw a brick, and it went smack dab through the post office window.
00:23:36I never heard such a question glass in all my life.
00:23:39It made me think of the time that Grandma Hooten's preserve cover...
00:23:43What about Eddie?
00:23:44Oh, well, an old tramp dragged him out before the fight went any further.
00:23:47I reckon a police will be arresting the two of them for the disturbing of the peace.
00:23:51You stay here, Mother.
00:23:51I'll tend to this.
00:23:52No, you'll do nothing of a crime.
00:23:53I'm still ahead of the family, at least in the next edition, and the newspaper might need you.
00:23:57Ah, sir.
00:24:03What'd you drag me away for?
00:24:04I don't need anyone flooding in my business.
00:24:06You're one under your friend of Zack's.
00:24:10That's why I brought you here.
00:24:11If you'd stayed around there, you'd have been in a terrible mess.
00:24:14Here.
00:24:15Put this under your upper lip.
00:24:17And stop your nose from bleeding.
00:24:22You're a stranger out here, aren't you?
00:24:23Yes.
00:24:25I thought no one in this sneaky town would be helping me.
00:24:28What makes you say that?
00:24:30No, my brother's a big noise around here.
00:24:32He runs the newspaper and everything else.
00:24:36Now that they meant a jam one would just make it tougher for me.
00:24:39Oh, I don't think he would.
00:24:41No, you don't know him.
00:24:42Runs our whole family.
00:24:45I haven't got an old man.
00:24:47Went away to France with the army.
00:24:48He didn't ever come home.
00:24:51I wish he had.
00:24:53He was a regular guy.
00:24:55So Mom says.
00:24:57Do you want him to mind a little scrap?
00:24:59He went places and did things.
00:25:03Well, I know what I'm going to do.
00:25:05What?
00:25:06I'm not going to stick around this rotten place.
00:25:09I can take care of myself.
00:25:11No one needs to worry about me anymore.
00:25:14I'm going to hit the road.
00:25:15Oh, no, you're not.
00:25:16Why shouldn't I?
00:25:18Nobody cares what I do.
00:25:19Oh, yes, your mother cares.
00:25:22She'd want you to stick and see things through.
00:25:25You don't know anything about the spot I'm on.
00:25:28Well, I know you're going to be sorry if you run away.
00:25:31What are you worrying about me for?
00:25:33I'm thinking about your dad.
00:25:35You said he was a soldier.
00:25:37Supposing he'd run away.
00:25:39Suppose he was a quitter.
00:25:40Well, he wasn't.
00:25:43Well, he wouldn't want his son to be, would he?
00:25:47No?
00:25:49Well, I guess not.
00:25:52He'd want him to stick and fight.
00:25:56No matter how tough it seems.
00:26:00Don't you think he would?
00:26:04Incommon strength.
00:26:05What do you want me to do, you and your swell friends?
00:26:07Now, you'll have me, or else you'll have...
00:26:09For what, Russell?
00:26:10Well, there are schools where he can be taught to respect this...
00:26:13I think I'm still capable of deciding what's good for my family.
00:26:16Well, this brat's a splendid example of it.
00:26:19I'd rather live anywhere than under the same roof with you.
00:26:22I don't care if I set eyes on you again.
00:26:25What about me, dear?
00:26:27Well, it isn't you, Mom, but...
00:26:29Oh, I didn't mean to get in that scrap.
00:26:31I saw Starrett getting familiar with Annabelle.
00:26:34And I got sore.
00:26:35I understand, dear.
00:26:38I'll do anything you want me to do.
00:26:40All right, dear. We'll talk about it later.
00:26:42If you ask me...
00:26:43I'm going to ask you a few things.
00:26:46Who are the Winthrops?
00:26:48Well, I've told you that they were people I met at school.
00:26:51But you never told me their names before.
00:26:53Is it Stephen Winthrop's daughter?
00:26:56Yes, it is.
00:26:58You see, Mother, I've been meaning to tell you this.
00:27:01We're engaged.
00:27:04I hope you approve.
00:27:05I can't approve or condemn.
00:27:08I've never met her.
00:27:09I didn't want to bring her down here
00:27:11till I had things well started on the paper.
00:27:14To be quite frank, I...
00:27:15I was rather embarrassed.
00:27:18About what?
00:27:18Well, I didn't want her to know
00:27:20what a dinky little sheep we were running down here.
00:27:22You know, it's quite a come-down
00:27:23after editing the college paper.
00:27:25Is that why you didn't want me to meet the girl
00:27:28you're going to marry?
00:27:29Oh, now, Mother, please don't make this a personal thing.
00:27:31It isn't that, but you must realize
00:27:34that our paper is behind the times.
00:27:35It's passe.
00:27:37Is it?
00:27:38See, Mother, there's a great field in newspaper work,
00:27:40but the free press has got to be developed.
00:27:42And it can't be helped if you're going to cling
00:27:44to a lot of antiquated ideas.
00:27:46Do you think I'm interfering with your progress, Russ?
00:27:50Well, I can't be tied to your apron strings.
00:27:52This is a man's work.
00:27:54Being a woman, you probably can't understand
00:27:55some of the things that are expected of one
00:27:57in the business world.
00:27:59What do you suggest?
00:28:00Well, I'd like to expand.
00:28:03There's no reason why we shouldn't publish a daily sheet
00:28:06and be a paper we could be proud of.
00:28:08I don't think they'd stand that here, Russ.
00:28:10This is a small community,
00:28:12and they're intolerant of sudden changes.
00:28:14Well, then let's forget it.
00:28:16But you're the one who always urged me to be ambitious.
00:28:18All I've ever heard was about
00:28:20father and grandfather being newspaper men.
00:28:23But this isn't a matter of sentiment.
00:28:25It's business.
00:28:26I have to make a place for myself
00:28:28and the girl I'm going to marry.
00:28:30Would you be happy here, Russ,
00:28:33if you could do that?
00:28:34Well, that's what I've been talking about.
00:28:37All right.
00:28:40The free price is yours
00:28:42to do with as you please.
00:28:45Thanks, Mother.
00:28:47I didn't mean to be brusque,
00:28:48but we just had to have an understanding.
00:28:51Yes.
00:28:52Now we understand each other.
00:28:54Well, I'm going to get to the office now
00:28:56and do a little figuring.
00:29:16Yes?
00:29:18Good luck for calling you, Mr. Kelfitz.
00:29:21Oh.
00:29:25Hello, dear.
00:29:27Just saw the first edition.
00:29:28Local boy makes good.
00:29:30Congratulations.
00:29:32Thank you, darling.
00:29:33How did your father like it?
00:29:34I'll let him tell you.
00:29:37Well, Russell, it's quite an achievement.
00:29:39I wish you a lot of luck.
00:29:41Stop broadcasting.
00:29:42I called him up for my own special interest.
00:29:45Go away.
00:29:47Now let's talk about me.
00:29:49You're saving the 18th, aren't you?
00:29:51I'm saving every night.
00:29:53Why the 18th especially?
00:29:54I didn't think you'd forget that.
00:29:56It's the date I expect to announce
00:29:58you're taking me for better or worse.
00:30:00And why not bring your mother up?
00:30:03Well, we'll see.
00:30:06I'm coming up to enroll Eddie in school this evening
00:30:08and I'll drop in and see you.
00:30:11Are you sure you haven't forgotten anything?
00:30:13No, I got everything.
00:30:14You did not.
00:30:15You forgot your galoshes.
00:30:16Oh, fellas, don't worry those things at school anymore.
00:30:19You better take them with you, dear.
00:30:21You treat me like I was a baby.
00:30:23You still like your molasses and gingerbread
00:30:24the same as you did when you were a baby.
00:30:27Want to get pneumonia and cause your moral worries.
00:30:29Ain't your brother enough?
00:30:32Aren't you right up to school with me?
00:30:34No.
00:30:35You go along and pick up Russell at the office.
00:30:36He'll attend to everything.
00:30:38If I was with you, I might weep and disgrace you.
00:30:42Let me know if you need anything.
00:30:46It feels kind of funny walking out on you like this.
00:30:50Gee, it's the first time I've really been away from home.
00:30:54I guess I am still a baby.
00:30:58Yes, you're my baby.
00:31:00And I don't want you ever to grow up.
00:31:02Oh, now listen.
00:31:03Oh, I didn't expect you to understand it.
00:31:05But I wanted to say it just the same.
00:31:08I don't want you to grow up and get wiser and superior
00:31:12and feel that you don't need me.
00:31:14That's what mothers are for.
00:31:17Oh, cut it out.
00:31:18You know you're still my best girl.
00:31:24Well, bye.
00:31:25Bye.
00:31:39The little devil threw these out the window
00:31:40so he wouldn't have to take them.
00:31:43We'll be selling them to him later, Hannah.
00:31:45What's the matter with you lately?
00:31:47All you do is mope around the house and look sad.
00:31:49Why don't you get out somewhere?
00:31:51I will.
00:31:52I'll go and call on some of my friends tomorrow, Hannah.
00:32:06Oh, I thought you were asleep.
00:32:09Feeling any better?
00:32:10Oh, yes.
00:32:11I'm feeling a lot better.
00:32:13Sorry.
00:32:14What you been working on?
00:32:16Oh, just a little gadget for type-setting stick.
00:32:20You always were smart about those things.
00:32:25I never knowed nothing but setting tight and running a press.
00:32:32Won't even let me do that now.
00:32:35I guess the parade has passed me Tuesday.
00:32:39What are you going to do with your invention?
00:32:42Oh, nothing.
00:32:42They have machinery for everything now.
00:32:46I just work on it to keep my mind occupied.
00:32:51Can I make it to some more hot water?
00:32:56I guess you might.
00:33:10Oh, how's that?
00:33:12He says he's feeling better.
00:33:13Come on in, Eddie.
00:33:17Had to stop by to tell you goodbye.
00:33:19It's awfully nice of you to remember me.
00:33:21To tell you the truth, Zach, there's something I'd like you to do for me.
00:33:25Sure.
00:33:26Anything.
00:33:27I've got some money made by him.
00:33:29Oh, no, no.
00:33:30Nothing like that.
00:33:31Every only money can do this.
00:33:33What is it?
00:33:35Well, Russ is getting Mom to run around.
00:33:37He doesn't seem to have time for any more of what with his high-half newspaper and swell friends.
00:33:42But if he neglects her too much, I wish you'd write and tell me, will you?
00:33:46And I'll be back here plenty fast.
00:33:48Eddie, your mom wouldn't let any...
00:33:49Oh, I know she wouldn't let anybody know.
00:33:51She's too proud.
00:33:53But you'll know.
00:33:55Promise me you'll tip me off.
00:33:57I'm about all she's got now.
00:33:59Don't you worry, Eddie.
00:34:01I'll look after your mom.
00:34:02Oh, thanks, Zach.
00:34:04Well, I've got to be going.
00:34:06I hope you'll be up and kicking right soon, Zach.
00:34:09Thanks, son.
00:34:09I'll be all right.
00:34:12I hope you won't forget that little talk we had.
00:34:16Oh, sure.
00:34:17Oh, I know what you mean.
00:34:21Oh, Zach.
00:34:22I left my tennis racket and shoes down at the old office.
00:34:25I didn't have a key.
00:34:26Will you get them for me and send them to me?
00:34:28Sure, I will.
00:34:30Well, so long.
00:34:32Don't let me forget to do that, Ed.
00:34:34Oh, I'll do it for you the first thing in the morning, Zach.
00:34:39You gentlemen don't think I'd back an issue without giving it careful consideration, do you?
00:34:44That fear is that this community has suffered from ox cart administration long enough.
00:34:48Now, nothing personal, Mr. Trafford, but we're going to change all that.
00:34:51We're going to catch up with the bandwagon and be part of a march of progress.
00:34:55But this isn't progress.
00:34:56It's a plot to force added expense on the taxpayer.
00:34:59We've got more water than we know what to do with now.
00:35:02It's plain rough to be dealt out for the contractor and the politician.
00:35:05Oh, no.
00:35:06No, you're mistaken.
00:35:07I know the men who are sponsoring this project, and their integrity is beyond question.
00:35:11But your mother fought this for years.
00:35:12My mother isn't running this newspaper now.
00:35:15I am.
00:35:15And it isn't being run on sentiment.
00:35:17I've noticed that common sense seems to have departed with sentiment.
00:35:20Now, we won't discuss my family affairs.
00:35:22Let's have a definite understanding, Russell.
00:35:25Are you determined to support this water measure against the best interests of your fellow townshipmen?
00:35:29I'm convinced I'm right.
00:35:31I wish I'd had an understanding of your attitude before I financed the splurge of new quarters and presses.
00:35:36Now that we understand you, you can do without my advertising in the future.
00:35:40You're making a big mistake, Russell.
00:35:48Miss Hewlett, send back that editorial on Travers and the city council.
00:35:52I have something to add to it.
00:35:55We're here.
00:35:56Let's go.
00:35:56Let's go.
00:35:56Let's go.
00:36:37Hello, John.
00:36:39Come in.
00:36:42I was just leaving the bank when I saw you coming in here.
00:36:46I haven't seen much of you lately and thought this would be a good time to have a chat.
00:36:50Sit down.
00:36:54Well, are you going to sue Russell for defamation of character or fight him with you?
00:37:01Oh, I don't mind what he said about me, Cordelia.
00:37:03But he's on the wrong track.
00:37:06If he continues, he'll lose the support of the community and have no newspaper.
00:37:11She's a newspaper.
00:37:12He made that very clear to me.
00:37:13I won't fight him, you know that.
00:37:16I'd rather get out and let the younger fellas run things.
00:37:20Feeling low.
00:37:21I'd like to get away someplace.
00:37:23And I'd like to take you with me.
00:37:26That's the best offer to run away I've ever had, John.
00:37:29All you need to say is yes, and we leave right now.
00:37:34You've always understood me.
00:37:36And I want you to understand me now.
00:37:39There was a time when I thought I could find the end of the rainbow.
00:37:46But I've waited too long.
00:37:49The rainbow's gone.
00:37:50Well, that's nonsense, Cordelia.
00:37:53You've sacrificed yourself long enough.
00:37:55The boys are grown up now and can take care of themselves.
00:37:58Your mother never feels that way.
00:38:01She always hopes that they'll need her.
00:38:03That they'll come running to her as they did when they tore their kites or had splinters in their fingers.
00:38:09And while that feeling persists, I can't go away.
00:38:13Well, you've told me that often enough.
00:38:16I ought to begin understanding it after a while.
00:38:43Well, it's going to be a long winter.
00:38:46When the thermometer drops to 30 before Thanksgiving.
00:38:51Yes, I guess I'd better be leaving before the snow falls.
00:38:56Ed, you ain't thinking about leaving, are you?
00:38:59Yes, there's something important that I have to attend to.
00:39:03There's nothing more I can do around here.
00:39:06Don't go, Ed.
00:39:07I need you.
00:39:09I don't expect I'll see the winter out.
00:39:12Oh, Shat, don't be foolish.
00:39:15Why, you're all right.
00:39:18You'll be up soon and around a sticking type of the best of them.
00:39:21No, I've set my last line, Ed.
00:39:25I don't want you to go away even if I ain't here.
00:39:29It won't be long until you won't have anybody either.
00:39:33You want to be near your family.
00:39:35You'll be wanting them.
00:39:37And you'll be wanting them powerful bad.
00:39:40So what am I now, Shat?
00:39:42Want them more than anything in the world.
00:39:44Then don't go away, Ed.
00:39:46You can have this place.
00:39:48It's mine.
00:39:49I've saved some money.
00:39:51And you can start all over again.
00:39:54I've drawn up the paper.
00:39:56And it's with my bank book in the coffee can there in the cupboard.
00:40:08Good evening.
00:40:10Well, howdy, Brother Zachary.
00:40:12Why don't you sit down?
00:40:13Well, I just felt it my Christian duty to come by and cheer you up a bit.
00:40:17I wasn't expecting company.
00:40:19How are you feeling?
00:40:20Oh, I'm tolerable.
00:40:21Well, I'm glad to hear that.
00:40:23Now, you better be getting well mighty quick.
00:40:26Cause they're gonna need you down at that newspaper office the way things are going.
00:40:30Oh, I guess Russell can run his paper without any help.
00:40:33Well, I don't know so much about that.
00:40:36There's folks that don't think so.
00:40:38I'll tell you there ain't no normal people gonna subscribe to newspapers.
00:40:42What's chock-full of murders and politics and flying straight in the face of religion.
00:40:49Well, I didn't know that anybody had a copyright on religion.
00:40:52Why, exactly I did.
00:40:56I see nothing here to warrant my increasing your credit.
00:41:00I realize the report isn't very favorable, but you must appreciate that I've expanded and it takes money to get
00:41:06started.
00:41:07It didn't warrant it.
00:41:08Your advertising and circulation have dropped off even the last three months.
00:41:12Well, I need you that you're running to certain difficulties.
00:41:14Yeah, but you've multiplied yours.
00:41:17Now, I'm not criticizing just for the fun of butting in.
00:41:21But as your banker, I have the privilege of saying a few things.
00:41:24I financed your new deal because I knew your mother had the support of this community.
00:41:28And I expected the paper to remain under her guidance.
00:41:31That's a family matter, Mr. Graham.
00:41:33Well, it's too bad it didn't remain so.
00:41:35You've run this new sheet by yourself.
00:41:38You've run to the end of your rope.
00:41:40You've failed.
00:41:42You mean I'm not to expect any more support from you?
00:41:45You still have one solution.
00:41:47What?
00:41:48The old shop is standing idle.
00:41:50Go back to it.
00:41:51Start over again on a semi-weekly basis.
00:41:54And win back your townspeople by understanding them.
00:41:57Oh, no.
00:41:58No, I couldn't go back to the old shop.
00:42:00Well, that would mean a victory for everyone who's opposing me.
00:42:03Well, the victory is with yourself.
00:42:04Why, I'd be the first one to help you.
00:42:07No, I don't like that solution.
00:42:09Well, the only other one, then, is more credit.
00:42:11And I shall insist on more collateral if you get it from me.
00:42:18Well, give me a little time.
00:42:20I'll figure some way out of this.
00:42:25It's pretty cold here at school.
00:42:27So I guess you'd better send me my long woolen ones and the overshoes.
00:42:31If I can get high credits this month, I can leave to come home for your birthday.
00:42:36But maybe you'd better not expect me.
00:42:38Well, anyhow, I made the football squad.
00:42:41Football?
00:42:42Hmm.
00:42:42Might get his neck broken.
00:42:44Oh, I'd love to see him in his uniform.
00:42:46Looked the same as all the rest, I expect.
00:42:48If you saw them all together, you wouldn't know which one was your own.
00:42:51Ha!
00:42:52Ha!
00:42:52Ha!
00:42:52Ha!
00:42:53Now, who could be that barbarous this time of night?
00:43:01Oh, hello, Annabelle.
00:43:03Come in.
00:43:05Would you give this to Mrs. Kiltree?
00:43:07She's been so nice to me.
00:43:08I wanted to do something for her, and I couldn't think of anything else.
00:43:12Well, thank you, dear.
00:43:13She likes flowers.
00:43:15We haven't had any around here for such a long time.
00:43:18Why, Annabelle, how do you do?
00:43:20How do you do?
00:43:20How nice of you to come and call on me.
00:43:22She brought you this.
00:43:24Oh, auntie, lovely.
00:43:26How's your mother, dear?
00:43:27Just fine, thank you.
00:43:29Have you heard from Eddie lately?
00:43:31Yes.
00:43:32I had a letter to Gary.
00:43:34Did he mention me?
00:43:35I was hoping he might.
00:43:37Yes, he did.
00:43:38He said to be sure and give you his best.
00:43:41Oh, gee, did he?
00:43:43He didn't say nothing like that, did he, when you read it to me?
00:43:46Oh, that was a private part of the letter just for Miss Annabelle.
00:43:49I couldn't read that to you, Emma.
00:43:51I wish you'd tell Eddie when he liked it.
00:43:53I'm standing hard, and I'm going to be somebody.
00:43:56I didn't know how much I liked him.
00:43:58Yes, ma'am.
00:43:59It's the four of you right in telling yourself.
00:44:02Oh, I'm sorry.
00:44:06May I see you just a minute, mother?
00:44:08Well, I'll be going.
00:44:10Goodbye, dear.
00:44:11Come sometime if you stay and have a nice visit.
00:44:14All right, I will.
00:44:15Thank you so much for the flowers.
00:44:17Goodbye.
00:44:20What did she want?
00:44:22She stopped in on her way home from school to bring me some flowers.
00:44:25My school was over hours ago.
00:44:26Oh, but in the morning she helps her mother, and she's taking a business course at night.
00:44:32I like her very much.
00:44:34Now, dear, how can I help you?
00:44:37Graham has shut down on my credit.
00:44:39I don't think I understand.
00:44:40Well, I haven't much time to explain, but the newspaper hasn't been doing very well lately,
00:44:45and Graham and I don't agree about politics, so I'm afraid I'll have to ask you for a little help.
00:44:51All right, dear.
00:44:52I'll be glad to help you.
00:44:53I'll see Graham in the morning.
00:44:55Oh, no, no.
00:44:55I don't want you to do that.
00:44:57Then he'd know that he'd beaten me and that you were fighting my battles for me.
00:45:00Well, what can I do?
00:45:02I want you to endorse these papers.
00:45:05But, dear, my endorsement isn't any good.
00:45:07You see, you own this house, and Graham is willing to accept that as collateral.
00:45:12I wonder if you realize what you're saying.
00:45:15Well, it'd only be temporary.
00:45:17Of course, if you won't stand by me, all right.
00:45:19I don't want to argue with you.
00:45:21This is all I've got.
00:45:23It's a security I struggled for when you and Eddie were children.
00:45:26It's my accomplishment, my pride.
00:45:29Well, what about my pride?
00:45:31Do you want to see me humbled in front of everyone in this town?
00:45:34You know what it would mean if I failed.
00:45:36I just couldn't go on living here, that's all.
00:45:38No one will blame me for failing.
00:45:40If you're mad enough to start again, you could go back to the little shop.
00:45:45No, thanks.
00:45:46I'm looking forward to a better future than working for my bread and butter in that crow's nest.
00:45:51How bad is it, Russell?
00:45:54We'll have to suspend publication.
00:45:57You know, you can't run a paper without money.
00:46:00I did at times.
00:46:02For 12 years, the free press never missed an issue.
00:46:05Well, you'll see its obituary on the front page tomorrow.
00:46:08That is, unless you're willing to help.
00:46:18What do you want me to sign?
00:46:51Anybody know what kind of iron is used to make sausage?
00:46:54That answer wasn't in the book I studied.
00:46:56Well, I have the food.
00:46:57You might get mangled in the rush.
00:47:00Oh, and say, Benny wants to know what kind of iron you put in sausages.
00:47:03Any of you know?
00:47:05Pig iron.
00:47:06Oh, come on.
00:47:07You'll get a medal for that.
00:47:09Oh, come on.
00:47:15You'll love me?
00:47:16Mm-hmm.
00:47:17With all the answers, including yes.
00:47:20It's too bad your mother didn't come over so she can hear Dad broadcast, uh, Arby Trago.
00:47:25If any mother wants to know what sort of a siren is taking her boy, I know I shall.
00:47:29Well, you see, mother doesn't like parties very much.
00:47:31She's rather quiet.
00:47:32Well, then I'll go and visit her.
00:47:34I want her to tell me what a little brat you are, so I'll be prepared.
00:47:37Oh, well, now look here, Diana.
00:47:38Oh, I won't smoke or use slang.
00:47:40I want her to like me.
00:47:42Oh, mother doesn't like smoking or using slang.
00:47:43She's very modern.
00:47:44Well, then you should have brought her.
00:47:46Maybe she can teach me some new stuff.
00:47:48What's that doing alongside of Russell's place?
00:47:50A gift for him.
00:47:51What are you giving him a present for on your birthday?
00:47:55Hey, an exchange, Hannah.
00:47:56Well, I guess he ain't going to give you one, or he'd be here by now.
00:48:00Will he call the police?
00:48:01No.
00:48:01Of course not.
00:48:02He picks up a nice party for him, and he forgets all about it.
00:48:05Oh, no.
00:48:06He's been detained on something important somewhere.
00:48:08A supper's spoilt now.
00:48:12That ain't him.
00:48:13He always uses his key.
00:48:28It's that same old tramp that was here once before.
00:48:31He wants to see you.
00:48:39I'm sorry to bother you, Peter, but there's something I have to tell you.
00:48:44What is it, Ed?
00:48:45Zach just died an hour ago.
00:48:48Poor Zach.
00:48:51He was such a nice man.
00:48:53Yes, you are.
00:48:54I did everything I could.
00:48:56Would you mind taking care of the rest of the arrangements?
00:49:01Why, if you'd wish it to be me, sir?
00:49:03I know.
00:49:04He'd have liked it.
00:49:06I hope you don't mind if I wish you a happy birthday.
00:49:13Good night.
00:49:16Ed?
00:49:17Yes?
00:49:19Would you like to stay and have dinner with me?
00:49:24Why, yes, if it would be quite all right.
00:49:28Of course it would be all right.
00:49:30Take off your coat.
00:49:36Hannah, we've served dinner now.
00:49:38You gonna eat long?
00:49:39No, sir, for two.
00:49:51You sit there, in Russell's place.
00:49:55It's mighty sweet, I'd be to be.
00:50:20They're all together now, Dad.
00:50:22You might as well say a little speech and get it over with.
00:50:25Not now.
00:50:27You better do it now.
00:50:29Tighten up your courage.
00:50:32Quiet, you morons.
00:50:34Dad's gonna sing my swan song.
00:50:36Come here, Diana.
00:50:37You too, Rosie.
00:50:43My dear friends,
00:50:45this responsibility has been thrust on my aging shoulders.
00:50:49I didn't know how many candles to put on the cake.
00:50:52I thought you wouldn't want people to know your real age.
00:50:55The cake wouldn't be large enough for all the candles.
00:50:58We just used three.
00:51:02Now, who's that?
00:51:05One for Russell,
00:51:07one for Eddie,
00:51:07and one for...
00:51:11Well, hello, man.
00:51:13How are you, old Hatchetface?
00:51:15Where's Mom?
00:51:15She's in there.
00:51:17Hey, Mom!
00:51:20Hey, Mom, how's the old birthday?
00:51:23How did you get here?
00:51:24Secret.
00:51:25I'm supposed to be in bed at school.
00:51:27You didn't run away.
00:51:28Sure.
00:51:28I'm playing hooky.
00:51:29The other fellas will take care of that.
00:51:31One of them let me splitter, and I drove it here in three hours.
00:51:34Oh, you shouldn't have left like that.
00:51:35Oh, it's all right.
00:51:36I can get back and sneak up the fire escape before Reveley.
00:51:40No one will be the wiser except you and me.
00:51:42Had dinner yet?
00:51:43You must be hungry as a bear.
00:51:45Hannah, put the food on again.
00:51:46Take off your coat.
00:51:47Where's Russ?
00:51:48Oh, he...
00:51:49He detained on business.
00:51:51He couldn't get here tonight.
00:51:53Leave you here alone on your birthday?
00:51:58He couldn't help it.
00:52:00You might expect them to wash out like him.
00:52:08Oh, this is...
00:52:09Oh, I know him.
00:52:11Hiya, stranger.
00:52:12Fine, thanks.
00:52:13Not necessary to ask how you are.
00:52:15I'm fit as a fiddle and ready for groceries.
00:52:17I just stopped in to deliver a message to your mother about Sack.
00:52:21Oh, we'll tell him later.
00:52:23Thanks, sweetheart.
00:52:25Say, bring on the rest of the grub.
00:52:26The army's hungry.
00:52:27Land I got you.
00:52:29Anyone to think you're the general?
00:52:31Well, if you'll excuse me, I think I'll be getting alone.
00:52:33Sit down.
00:52:34Have some of Mom's birthday cake.
00:52:36Yes, draw up a chair.
00:52:39My, but you're getting grown up.
00:52:42Seems to me that school's good for you.
00:52:45Mom, it's swell.
00:52:48It's much like the little bitty candles.
00:52:50I like to see them burn.
00:52:55I don't think you ever told me your name, stranger.
00:52:59It's the same as yours.
00:53:02Ed?
00:53:03Well, what do you know about that?
00:53:05Maybe somebody named you after me.
00:53:09What's a good name, anyhow?
00:53:11Uh, when do you have to get back to school?
00:53:14I can't stay long.
00:53:16I've got to be back to the dormitory before daylight.
00:53:18But you should have some rest.
00:53:19Now, don't you worry about me.
00:53:21This is your birthday.
00:53:22Now, go on.
00:53:23Let me see you blow out all those candles at once.
00:53:25All right.
00:53:27Hey, wait a minute.
00:53:29Got to make a wish first.
00:53:30Oh.
00:53:31Now, wish for something you want most.
00:53:36Good going.
00:53:37What'd you wish for?
00:53:38Oh, I can't tell you.
00:53:39It might not come true.
00:53:40I'll tell you my second best wish.
00:53:42What's that?
00:53:43That I might always have my family with me on my birthday.
00:53:48I'll have to see what I can do about that.
00:53:55Hey, there.
00:53:56Hey, girl.
00:53:58Ah, there.
00:53:59If you don't mind, I think I'll run off to bed.
00:54:03I don't seem to be able to stay up as late as you youngsters.
00:54:07Good night, Mr. Winthrop.
00:54:08It's been a wonderful party and a very happy time.
00:54:10Time for me.
00:54:11Good night, my boy.
00:54:12Good night, Dad.
00:54:13Good night, dear.
00:54:19Pardon me, sir.
00:54:20There's someone here to see you, Mr. Tilford.
00:54:22See me?
00:54:23Yes, sir.
00:54:24Excuse me, dear.
00:54:25Well, I see who it is.
00:54:31What in the world have you come here for?
00:54:33I stayed outside for two hours waiting for you to come out.
00:54:36I couldn't wait any longer.
00:54:37I've got to get back to school.
00:54:38Why was it necessary to see me at all?
00:54:41Because I've got some things I'd like to say to you.
00:54:43This is hardly the place nor the time to start any heroics.
00:54:46It's all you seem to care about, about your fun.
00:54:48You never think of anybody else.
00:54:50Whatever you have on your mind, you'd better say it and get it over with.
00:54:53I'm only sorry your friends aren't here to hear what I've got to say.
00:54:56I'd like to tell them what a swell fellow you are and how you sneaked out and left Mom alone
00:55:01tonight.
00:55:02I'd like to tell them how she waited, expecting you to show up for a birthday dinner.
00:55:06I don't think my friends would be interested in our family affairs.
00:55:09Now, the best thing for you to do is to get out of here before you disgrace us both.
00:55:12You're ashamed of us.
00:55:13I know that.
00:55:14You're ashamed to have the meat mother in me because they might find out what a big poor flusher you
00:55:18are.
00:55:19They might find out the mother gave you all she had and what a mess you've made of it.
00:55:22And how unappreciative you are.
00:55:25And how rotten you've been treating her.
00:55:27Get out of here.
00:55:28You're afraid they'd find out what kind of a guy you are.
00:55:31Might spoil your chances to marry a rich girl.
00:55:34Well, don't worry.
00:55:35We don't need you.
00:55:36I can take care of Mother.
00:55:37And I don't want any part of you.
00:55:39I'm ashamed to call you my brother.
00:55:42You're a cheat.
00:55:43And a quitter.
00:55:44And you're yellow.
00:55:50Do it again if you like.
00:55:52Because it's the last chance you'll ever get.
00:55:55You sent me away to learn discipline.
00:55:57Well, I've learned it.
00:55:59And I've learned to be too much of a gentleman to start a fight in your friend's house.
00:56:02Come on, get out of here.
00:56:03We'll talk about our affairs later.
00:56:05You don't have to shove me out.
00:56:07I'll go.
00:56:08But if you cause Mother one more little heartache or trouble,
00:56:11I'll be back and I'll take it out of your hide.
00:56:14No, she won't tell me either.
00:56:16She's too square-shooter for that.
00:56:17But I'll find out.
00:56:33I hope you haven't been listening to that kid's hysterics.
00:56:36Is it true, Russ, that this is your mother's birthday?
00:56:40Yes, it is.
00:56:42But I can explain, ma'am.
00:56:43I didn't ask for an explanation.
00:56:44I don't want one.
00:56:46I'll have another party tomorrow and call the engagement off.
00:56:53Surely you don't believe what that kid said about my wanting you because of your family position.
00:56:57I wasn't thinking of my family.
00:56:59I'm thinking of yours.
00:57:00And a man who hasn't any affection for his mother certainly doesn't know what love means.
00:57:05No, Russ.
00:57:05I'll look for a man first, and then I'll look for a husband.
00:57:10Diana, you can't doubt that I love you.
00:57:13Yes, I can.
00:57:14I can hardly remember my mother, Russ, and I've been looking forward to knowing yours, and I will know her.
00:57:20I'll go and see her myself and apologize for the heartaches I've caused her.
00:57:24Good night.
00:57:38Well, it just serves him right.
00:57:40But I am sorry for his mother.
00:57:43Yes.
00:57:56What do you mean knocking like that out of the door?
00:57:58There's a bell on the house.
00:58:00What do you want?
00:58:01Well, I had to put that notice up.
00:58:03What do you mean tacking up your old advertisements on the front door?
00:58:06Hey, you can't do that.
00:58:08I've got a heap more important things to do than stand here listening to you.
00:58:10Get out of here.
00:58:11Come on.
00:58:11Get out of here.
00:58:12Come on, get.
00:58:18I suppose it'll be accepted as legal.
00:58:20It looks all right to me.
00:58:22What is it you want to do?
00:58:23Well, is there enough there to lift the paper on the old print shop and on Mrs. Tilford's home?
00:58:30Well, there isn't much against the old shop.
00:58:32Yes, it'll take care of that.
00:58:34But it won't clear the home.
00:58:37Well, as in hopes it would.
00:58:40So.
00:58:41Could you apply what there is left on the home and give me an extension or something?
00:58:46Yes, I guess I could arrange to do that all right.
00:58:49Glad to for Cordelia.
00:58:50That's fine.
00:58:52Of course, you know this is strictly confidential.
00:58:55No one will know.
00:58:56I'll handle it personally.
00:58:57What are you going to do with the old shop?
00:59:00Well, I...
00:59:02I haven't quite made up my mind yet.
00:59:14Well, here we are.
00:59:15What did you want?
00:59:17Well, I wanted to know if you were going to continue issuing the free press.
00:59:21What has that to do with you?
00:59:23Well, I had to know before I made my plans.
00:59:27I don't see what good it would do to try and carry on.
00:59:30The easiest thing to do would be just to drop it.
00:59:33That's the coward's way.
00:59:34It seems a pity to throw away what it took your mother twelve years to build up.
00:59:40What do you think, Mrs. Tilford?
00:59:42Well, the paper hasn't missed an issue in twelve, nearly thirteen years.
00:59:47Have you thought what that means?
00:59:49The work and the worry and the sacrifice it took to establish that record?
00:59:54Now, here's a chance to show what you were made of.
00:59:57You can either take off your coat and pitch in and get out an issue of the paper if it's
01:00:01only one page.
01:00:02Or you can take the easiest way and slide out and have the people say you're no good and a
01:00:08disgrace to your mother.
01:00:09I don't care what the people around here think of me.
01:00:12And I don't intend to stay here and be snubbed by them.
01:00:14You're the same people your mother dealt with before you took over the paper.
01:00:17The sooner I forget about them, the more satisfied I'll be.
01:00:20You quit now. You're going to be sorry the rest of your life.
01:00:23It takes courage to face obstacles.
01:00:25What right of you to lecture me?
01:00:27Well, I'd like to listen to me just the same.
01:00:31It's your battle, boy, and you can win it if you try.
01:00:33I know you can, because you have printer's ink in your blood.
01:00:36It's all over you. You can't wash it off.
01:00:38You're raving like a Sunday school teacher.
01:00:40You don't know what you're talking about.
01:00:41Oh, yes, I do.
01:00:43And I'm going to find out just how much of a man you are.
01:00:49I was setting type in our little shop, your mother's and mine, the night that you were born.
01:00:59She didn't whine and cry because I couldn't be with her.
01:01:03No.
01:01:04She knew how important it was to get that paper out on time to keep the record clean.
01:01:10She was the brave one.
01:01:11You'll have to know this, Russell.
01:01:14You'll have to know the truth.
01:01:17So you could see what taking the easier way out did for me.
01:01:22I had everything to work for.
01:01:25I didn't appreciate it.
01:01:28And I didn't want to see that weakness coming out in my own son.
01:01:41What do you want me to do?
01:01:42Get out the paper.
01:01:45I don't know how to start.
01:01:46I'll set up the headers and you get out the copy.
01:01:48I'd rather you get out the copy, Mother.
01:01:51Isn't there something else I can do?
01:01:53Yes.
01:01:54Clean and grease that old press.
01:01:55And dig out every old advertising cut you can find in the place.
01:01:59The neighbors are going to get some free copy.
01:02:01Now come on, let's get busy.
01:02:09I want to see Mrs. Tilton.
01:02:11She ain't here.
01:02:12She and Russell went down to the shop.
01:02:14Where is the shop?
01:02:15Anybody can tell you.
01:02:16It's right across from the bank on the main street.
01:02:19I'll be down there.
01:02:20You ain't a bill collector, are you?
01:02:21No, I'm not.
01:02:31Well, Russell, how are you coming?
01:02:33All right.
01:02:34You better check on me, though.
01:02:35Yeah.
01:02:37Say, can that linotype man that worked for you stick tight?
01:02:39I think so.
01:02:40He's an old-timer.
01:02:41Well, you better look him up.
01:02:42We're lying, but I need help.
01:02:43All right, I'll go get him.
01:02:45He's down at the hotel.
01:02:46Attaboy.
01:02:49Hurry up.
01:02:54Yes, Mrs. Tobin.
01:02:55Mrs. Tobin, she's the wife of the dry goods man.
01:03:00What, again?
01:03:02Twins?
01:03:04A boy and a girl.
01:03:06Fine.
01:03:08Well, tell her for me if you hear anything else.
01:03:10Goodbye.
01:03:11Goodbye.
01:03:13Goodbye.
01:03:13You're Mrs. Chilford, aren't you?
01:03:15Yes.
01:03:16I'm Diana Winter.
01:03:18How do you do?
01:03:19Won't you come in?
01:03:21Sorry we've never met before.
01:03:23I'm so glad to see you.
01:03:24I've wanted to see you, too.
01:03:26There's something I want to talk to you about.
01:03:28I think I understand.
01:03:30If Russell's been inattempted lately, you must forgive him.
01:03:33We've been having difficulty with the paper, and he's been awfully worried.
01:03:36He'll be back in a minute.
01:03:38We're trying hard to get the next issue out on time.
01:03:41Is Russell working here in the shop with you?
01:03:44Oh, yes.
01:03:46Gee, that's swell.
01:03:48We shan't be through until late, but we'd be so glad if he'd stay and have supper with us.
01:03:52I'd love to.
01:03:53If I ever get over the shock of Russell really working.
01:03:57Come out over here and take your coat off, and that'll tell you what you do.
01:04:04Grab yourself a stick and come over here, and I'll give you some coffee.
01:04:17Don't you use soap and water in the newspaper business?
01:04:20I don't know.
01:04:22I'm just a beginner.
01:04:24Well, why don't you say something?
01:04:27I don't know what to say.
01:04:29You big nanny.
01:04:31I forgot you'll get all brief.
01:04:31Shut up.
01:04:32It's my dress.
01:04:52It was nice of you to bring these flowers, although it makes more work for me.
01:04:58Can't complain, though.
01:05:00There's been no one under my feet to bother lately.
01:05:02I haven't seen much of Russell myself in the last two weeks.
01:05:06No.
01:05:06He and Cordelia spend all their time at the office now.
01:05:11After you marry him, maybe you'll wish you didn't have to see him any oftener than once every two weeks.
01:05:17Men folks can cause you a lot of worry.
01:05:20He may not always have to work so hard.
01:05:22Well, I ain't got time to stay here and entertain you.
01:05:25I've got to cook shortbread for supper.
01:05:26Can I go with you?
01:05:28Don't know what you'd want to be sitting around the kitchen for.
01:05:30I may want to know something about cooking someday.
01:05:33All right.
01:05:34Come along.
01:05:35I guess I'll be on my way again.
01:05:38I don't want you going and traveling around again, Ed.
01:05:42You might only be in the way.
01:05:45There's plenty of things around here you could do.
01:05:49Edie has three years more of school and Russell's been offered a position on Mr. Winthrop.
01:05:55Oh, don't let him take it, Cordelia.
01:05:57Russell would be better off sticking around here for a year.
01:06:00If I'm not around, perhaps he'd realize what he owes you.
01:06:09Wait a minute, Edie won't speak to me.
01:06:15Hello?
01:06:17Oh, yes.
01:06:18I did call you, Annabelle.
01:06:20I've had a letter from Eddie.
01:06:22He's coming home tomorrow for the holidays.
01:06:24And I want you to come over for dinner.
01:06:29I'm just as thrilled as you are.
01:06:32Why don't you come to the train with me?
01:06:34All right.
01:06:35I'll call for you.
01:06:36And I want you to help me plan a party so that you remember the rest of this term.
01:06:41No, dear, no.
01:06:43Well, Hannah's been fixing things ever since she heard he was coming home.
01:06:48Yes.
01:06:49Thank you, dear.
01:06:50Oh, I shall be so happy to have my little family together again.
01:06:56Yes.
01:06:57Good-bye.
01:06:59Good-bye.
01:07:00Good-bye.
01:07:06Good-bye.
01:07:07Good-bye.
01:07:08Good-bye.
01:07:08Good-bye.
01:07:09Good-bye.
01:07:10Good-bye.
01:07:10Good-bye.
01:07:10Good-bye.
01:07:10Good-bye.
01:07:10Good-bye.
01:07:10Good-bye.
01:07:11Good-bye.
01:07:11Good-bye.
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